December 9, 2025 • 41 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for December 8, 2025.
0:30 We get into a constitutional showdown that cuts right to the bone of American power — not just trade policy, but the question of who actually runs the country. With President Trump urging the Supreme Court to uphold his emergency tariff authority, we break down why this case isn’t some dry legal dispute, but a hinge moment for the entire republic. If the justices strip the president of the ability to hit hostile nations with swift economic pressure, America walks into the world stage handcuffed — with military force as its only leverage. But if the Court sides with the president, it reaffirms the very core of national sovereignty.
9:30 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- The Department of Homeland Security announced they have found 62,000 immigrant children who had gone missing during the Biden Administration.
- Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate in Texas.
- Paramount is trying to take over Netflix's takeover of Warner Brothers.
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13:00 We dive into the latest ideological curveball out of New York City, where the incoming socialist mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, is suddenly promising sweeping, pro–small business reforms — at least on paper. Cutting taxes, slashing fees and fines by 50%, speeding up permits, even creating a “mom-and-pop czar” to bulldoze red tape. Sounds great, right? Maybe a little too great.
16:00 American Mamas Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burleson tackle a question that hits right at the heart of the season: what’s the best way to give at Christmastime? And their answers go way beyond the glossy charity commercials and big-name nonprofits. From real-time giving where you see a need and fill it on the spot, to the quiet, behind-the-scenes acts of service that make a community run, the Mamas lay out the kinds of generosity that really matter — the kind that isn’t swallowed up by million-dollar CEO salaries or bloated overhead.
If you'd like to ask our American Mamas a question, go to our website, AmericanGroundRadio.com/mamas and click on the Ask the Mamas button.
23:00 This story takes us to Ireland, where one priest is saying the quiet part out loud — and saying it every single Sunday. Father Brendan Kilcoin, an Irish Catholic priest, isn’t tiptoeing, isn’t hedging, isn’t hiding behind vague language. He’s warning his country that Ireland isn’t simply drifting from Christianity… it’s being pulled apart from both ends. On one side, aggressive secularism. On the other, mass immigration from cultures shaped not by the Gospels, but by entirely different religious traditions. And Father Kilcoin isn’t offering the kind of soft, non-committal commentary you usually hear from clergy. He’s calling for something bolder — legal immigration, yes, but explicitly Christian immigration. Not to shock, not to provoke, but because he believes Ireland is losing the very foundation that once held its culture together.
26:00 We Dig Deep into a new Harvard–HarrisX poll — yes, that Harvard–HarrisX, the one that’s been off by five, sometimes ten points to the left for three straight election cycles — and even they can’t hide what voters are saying. Strip the Trump name off the policies, and suddenly Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of every major plank the president is pushing. Border security, deporting illegal immigrants — even all illegal immigrants — tariffs, military action against cartels, banning men from women’s sports, ending racial preferences, freezing foreign aid, the whole thing. Policy after policy, Americans are on board. And yet? The same voters give Trump middling approval numbers. We break down how the media machine, the “no-kings” narrative, and years of Trump-is-Hitler hysteria have created a bizarre split-brain politics where people love the ideas but think they’re supposed to hate the guy proposing them.
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We choose to go to.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
The moon and do the other thing, not because they
are easy, but because they are on.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
It is time for us to realize that we're too
great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I have a dream that one day this nation will
rise up live out the true meaning of its dream.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
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Speaker 6 (01:01):
Me just say something, folks, we are in the midst
of a constitutional showdown that is nothing short of foundational.
And it's not just about trade, but it's about who
runs America. The people elected President Trump, the President of
the United States of America, right yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:21):
And if the Supreme.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Court of the United States strips the President of the
power to impose emergency tariffs, I mean we're looking at
a transformed republic. I think, one where our global adversaries
know that the president is handcuffed and the only leverage
for America is is what military action because if the
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Court stands with the president, right, and this is what
the Supreme Court is is currently considering, right, if the
Justice is affirmed that the President of the United States
has the authority to levy these tariffs, then we're upholding
national sovereignty, economic strength, a powerful, powerful deterrent to military action.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
And so that's why it matters.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
And President Trump just last week or actually over the weekend,
publicly urged the Supreme Court of the United States to
uphold his tariff regime.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It really would be cataastroy It would be catastrophic to
foreign policy for the Supreme Court to strike down Trump's
tariff authority, which I do believe Congress seded to Trump
in that nineteen seventies law, because it does say that
president can declare an emergency and then he can cut
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off trade with any other country. And the Supreme Court
justice has asked about this. They said, wait, if he
has the power to eliminate trade altogether, why wouldn't he
also have the power and the ability to simply regulate
trade through tariffs. And remember why Donald Trump is doing
all these tariff moves. It's not because he just hates
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other countries. It's because they have been imposing tariffs on us,
which has been creating a disruption in our balance of trade.
We run trade deficits with almost every other country on
the earth, and part of the reason why we do
is because they have imposed higher tariffs on goods coming
from the United States than we've imposed on them. So
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there's an imbalance. It's cheaper to sell stuff into the
US than it is for US stuff to be sold
into any other country on the planet. That's not fair,
that's not right, that's not free trade. We've been sold
to bill of goods since the nineteen nineties about free trade.
We've never actually had real free trade with any other country.
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The NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement, right, remember that
back in the nineteen nineties, Bill Clinton pushed that in
Ross Poros is gonna be a giant sucking sound. The
free trade agreement did not eliminate all terriffs from Mexico
or Canada.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
It didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So how can you call it a free trade agreement
when they still are putting tariffs on our lumber, When
they're still putting tariffs on our beef, on our pork,
on our dairy on our products going to their country.
They still have tariffs on us. Now we got rid
of all of our tariffs on them.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Well, look, here's the other part. President Trump says.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Look, I've solved all of these wars, right, or I've
ended many wars. That's why he's referred to as the
peace President.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But he used the threat of tariffs to bring countries
to the negotiating table when they hate each other, but
they love being able to sell stuff to the US.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
And look, there are other legal tools, as President Trump
pointed out, you can impose restrictions under existing trade law.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Right, you can use traditional.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Congressional trade actions, you know, like hearings, and but those
are slow by design. Those are slow where you've got,
you know, all the lobbying, and by the time of
decision finally gets through, the harm has been done well.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And foreign lobbying. Don't forget about that. There's foreign lobbying
that goes on. So these countries that the Congress will
be proposing to put tariffs on, they will be pouring
money into the campaign coffers of people running for office,
or they're going to be doing backroom deals or whatever.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Image is already done they'll flood your market, they'll flood
your industries, and then they'll rely on this sluggish, dysfunctional
Congress to react.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
We almost have at all, We almost completely lost our
steel industry in this country without tariffs that Donald Trump
was placing on China in his first administration, that, by
the way, Joe Biden kept in place. You notice this,
Joe Biden kept in place all the teriffs that Donald
Trump put on China from his first administration. Joe Biden
kept those in place. And if they're so unconstitutional, why
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did the Democrat president who ran saying that everything Donald
Trump does is evil keep his tariffs in place?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
But for four years. Let's let's put it out there though.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Okay, you have a nation, and I'll say misbehaves or
doing something obviously that is not in America's best interest.
When a nation is like they steal intellectual properties, yes,
when they cheat or they dump cheap steel to destroy
American industry, or when they manipulate their currency. Are we
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just talking about China, No, But I mean there's lots
of other examples. But my point is when a nation misbehaves,
maybe they have moved into your hemisphere.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So we're still talking about China. You get so China's
a pretty bad actor. They're a pretty bad actors all
those things.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
But nevertheless, you have two choices. You can either well, okay,
let's back up. Let's talk about North Korea. Okay, right,
I mean you can either they misbehave right, they've resumed
nuclear testing.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, but we don't do any trade with North Korea.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
They are rattling their sabers, so to speak.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yeah, you've got two choices when someone misbehaves here in
this instance, you can either fire or you can raise tariffs.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Now, I mean you post sanctions, but a lot of
countries have basically become sanctioned proof.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
But tariffs punish bad behavior now economically instead of militarily.
So you hit their industries and their exports and their elites,
and you don't put your soldiers in harm's way in
the process.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Look at look at history.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Nations don't go to war when the costs are too
high and the consequence is too immediate. But that's exactly
what tariffs do. They pose consequences.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Wait, wait, wait, I think you have to argue that
nations went to war in World War One and the
costs were too high and nations went to war in
World War Two.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Eventually, no, eventually, but miscalculation, miscalculating, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Huge miscalculations at the beginning of those wars.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
But again, when you make the consequences immediate, Yes, when
folks see, oh this is not going to turn out
well for us economically, we're gonna there, We're going to
end up starving our nation, then you're gonna think twice.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
About whatever it is that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
But we've never well, actually, I don't think we've ever
had since maybe the Roman Empire. We haven't had one
nation that was as dominant in commerce, as dominant in
trade as the United States has been since the end
of World War Two. And so the United States has
got a lot more power than any other nation, and
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we just haven't used it since the end of World
War Two. With the whole Marshall Plan, instead of using
our economic power as a weapon, we decided to use
our economic power in a benevolent way to build up
all these other countries. And then they just expected us
to continue doing that, even though they became rich and
wealthy countries in the wake of World War Two, and
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we've just kept doing it.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
I understand, But This isn't a new concept.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Alexander Hamilton literally wrote that tariffs are a tool to
protect the American economy against hostile foreign powers. Reagan used
trade pressure, Trump used tariffs and got China in line
without launching any missiles. Nobody wants war, but peace requires power,
and tariffs are peaceful power. And that's why it's so
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important that the United States Supreme Court support the presidency
of the executive power to levy them.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Let's get to the top of the things that you
know before the mom first thing you meeble for the
Home Department of Homeland Security anown say, I have found
sixty two thousand immigrant children who had gone missing during
the Biden administration. That's out of a total three hundred
thousand children who came into the country illegally and were
lost track of by Biden government officials. Borders are Tom
(09:45):
Holman announced those numbers this weekend on Fox and Friends.
Of the vast majority the children were discovered so far,
we're in safe environments, usually with family members, but thousands
of kids had to be rescued from sex trafficking rings
coast to coast. Some were also enforced labor in danger
jobs Holman says President Trump committed on day one that
we will do everything we can to find every one
of these children.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
All right, So there's outrage of putting children in cages, right,
but losing the children all together.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So that they can be sex trafficked ways.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
That's perfectly fine with Democrats.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, second thing you needed from tomorrow. Democrat congress Woman
Jasmine Crockett announced she's running for Senate in Texas. Crockett
filed her paperwork to enter the primary today, just hours
before the filing deadline. She will be challenging State Rep.
James tall Rico. Tall Rico has already a masked campaign
fun of more than six million dollars. Fellow Democrat Colin
all Red dropped out of the Senate race earlier today.
Allred was the Democrat Senate nominee for Texas in twenty
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twenty four, losing to Ted Cruz in the general election.
There are three Republicans of the race for Senate, including
incumbent Senator John Cornyn, State Attorney General Kin Paxton, and
Congressman Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
You know, the nicest thing I heard all day was
from Governor Abbott. Okay, he said, maybe for her sake.
What's her name, j Jasmine Crockett's sake, She'll get a
job on the view.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It's possible. And the third thing you need with for
a while, Paramount is trying to take over Netflix takeover
of Warner Brothers. Last week, Warner Brothers Discovery announced they
had accepted a bid from Netflix to buy This Stork
Media Company for seventy two billion dollars, But over the weekend,
Paramount presented a larger buyout offer directly to shareholders in
Warner Brothers. Paramount's hostile takeover bid includes one hundred and
eight billion dollars in cash or thirty dollars a share.
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Paramount is arguing that keeping Warner Brothers whole and separate
from Netflix is essential to the future of the entertainment industry.
Over the weekend, President Trump seemed to be skeptical of
the Netflix WB merger, saying he would have to take
a look at the proposal before it gets approved.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
No, I think Paramount actually is on point here. I
think it's important, especially for competition sake.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
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We're talking with the American Mamas. When we return.
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We choose to go to the moon and do the
other thing, not because they are emy, but because.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
They are on.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It is time for us to realize that we're too
great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I have a dream, but one day this nation will
rise up, live out the true meaning.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Of its tree.
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Speaker 6 (13:07):
All right, So zooran Mam Dana yeap the New York
Mayor elect, New York City mayor elect.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Yes, the social rands.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Socialist mayor elect of New York City.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
And so he made a video about small businesses and
he said.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
To crush them all.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
No, no, no, he actually is promising the sweeping reforms
to help small businesses in New York City.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
He's talking about producing.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It's gonna cut taxes, he's gonna reduce regulation.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Hold on, hold on, let me let me get this out.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
He wants to cut fees and finds that's good by
fifty percent. He wants to expedite permits and licensing.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That's great.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
He wants to even appoint a mom and pop czar
to help fight bureaucratic delays, increase funding for small businesses.
I mean, in short, he wants to make it faster, cheaper,
and easier to open and keep small businesses alive in
New York City.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's great. I'm just a little nervous when a socialist starts.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Up exactly exactly now.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Had he appointed in an on budsman. Okay, I get that.
If you've got somebody whose job is specifically to fight
for the rights of small business owners through city hall
and to reduce red tape and to point out bureaucrats
who are being unnecessarily obstructionist and getting those folks fired. Yeah,
if you had an on budsman, that's fine. No, but
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what a czar.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Don't buy into this, okay, because what he's actually doing,
it's not.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
This isn't a genuine effort to help small businesses per se.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Because it's a redistribution scheme aimed at Mam Danny's supporters.
In other words, he wants to eliminate the licensing, the
restrictions on licensing, or how strict the licensing process is.
He wants to reduce the fees. Basically, he wants to
make it easier for immigrants to this country, especially those
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that are here illegally, to start small businesses without meeting
all of the same requirements that existing legacy small businesses
in New York City, so this happened to be made,
have had to meet and actually comply with.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So this isn't just about helping small businesses. This is
simply about helping.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
New small business businesses so that you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Well, that's not capitalism because you haven't created an equal
opportunity playing field. That likes to talk a lot about equity,
but when you're screwing over people who are already in
business to help people who just got here out. That's
not equal. It's not equal.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
It sounds pro business, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
We got a question for our American mama's. Dear mama's
what's your favorite way of charitable giving at Christmas?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Well, let's ask are American mama's mama.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
She said, and joining us now our American mama's tern
Edville and Kiberly Burlison. You know, we talked earlier this week,
last week, last week, or whatever it was about the
Dell donation, the Michael and Susan Dell giving six point
two five billion dollars. Now, I don't think that was
necessarily a Christmas gift, but it is kind of Christmas
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time when they've announced it. What is your favorite form
of charitable giving, especially this time of year?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Well, my favorite way of giving is seeing a need,
like seeing a need and then giving it, so it's
like in real time, you know, seeing the result of that.
I used to have a nonprofit, so I know how
crucial it is to receive donations because you rely on them.
The difference in my nonprofit is every penny went to
what we were doing for military families.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
My mom did that too. During the Gulf War. Oh yeah,
she sewed, she said, gift baskets over to troops over
in the Middle East, and she sewed neck coolers where
you just get them way and they would cool people
down in the desert. She sewed those by hand. Every
single penny she received for that charity, which straight Overseas.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
So we did.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
Yeah. You know, I've said many times that I love
watching Magnum p I every single night on we TV.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Really you've said that many times, many times, huh.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
And every night. So they have the long commercials for
like Saint Jude's and for the ASPCA, the pet things
they get me, they get me every time.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, Sarah McLaughlin will make your cray absolutely.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
So I actually used to give to Saint Judes every month.
It just came out of my checking account for years. Okay,
So out of the blow because the commercials are five
minutes long, I decided to do a search on what
the CEO of ASPCA makes a year. Okay, one point
two million dollars Matthew Berkshaker, Wow my god.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So then I thought that's three times what the president make.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Yeah, I thought, what the hail Okay, So then I
looked up the on charity Watch, you can see City
of Hope in affiliates like all these cancer institutes. Yeah,
two point four million, five point four more, four Milligan
five point seven million, Saint Jude one point eight million,
Red Cross one point three million. I was one person,
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one person a year, the CEO of those those nonprofits,
and that was it for me. I was like, I
will never ever give money to any of those charities
ever again. It made me say, that's gluttonous and disgusting.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
To me, especially for a group that's trying to that
says they're doing charity exactly when you.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
Think about the people who are donating, they're thinking their
money is going to go to the cause when they
don't realize their money is going also to this person
a lot of it. I'm baffled that is.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
This five point seven million.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
That's unbelievable. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Is he?
Speaker 9 (18:48):
What is he?
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Or she did?
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Well?
Speaker 8 (18:49):
I think about you know, Red Cross for instance, and
you and people standing there ringing the bell and these kids,
these commercials are taking their lemonade stand money and pouring
it in the pot, and you're just you feel this,
oh my gosh, and then you see the ceo sitting
in his mansion with his unbelievable cars and his yacht,
and I've thought I can never give to them again.
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For that reason, I looked at the nonprofits like Wounded
Warrior and USO because those are the ones that were
closest to my heart. And they averaged half a million
to seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the CEOs
for the CEOs, which you know, for me, it's a lot. Still,
that's a lot. That's a big salary, you know, with
people giving you money and that kind of thing, and
(19:31):
I don't understand why you need that much. But I'm
also all about being a capitalist. But these are nonprofits,
these aren't just companies. There's a big difference to me.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And you know, my favorite way of giving is through service,
that is through time. I mean, i'd work for theaters,
I worked for the church just donating time. And I think,
I think there's something about that for me that I
get more out of that than donating money. And maybe
it's because by donating my time, I actually see the
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result of what I'm doing.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
You receive the blessing and.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
It's not like somebody's making a profit off of my time.
When I'm working.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Yeah, well, what I love to do is kind of
year round. There's a lot of kids in my life
that are going through school and whenever they have whether
it's for their team or for their church group or whatever,
if they send me a thing asking me for money
or to you know, even if it's buying whatever it
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is they're selling. Like Coach Kaz reached out to me,
he's the Air Force baseball coach on Giving Tuesday, and
he was like, hey, you want to give And I
was like, hey, yeah, to America's team, the Air Force Boys.
Of course I will. But when people reach out to
me and it's something that I think I want to
help this kid or I want to help Coach Kaz
or whatever, I'm going to do it. I'm going to
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do that more so than I would if it was
like given to you know some of those places is
that you said, I'm gonna have.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
To give you my nephew.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
I'll get a bunch of I'll get a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Text now for tracking orchestra and all this.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Especially if you're if you're selling something for your school
and there's like if I sell twenty of these, I
get to have, right, Oh, yeah, I got I'll get
nineteen right now.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
But the blessing is seeing that child, yes, because they
get so excited. And really that's why you're giving it,
not for the whatever they're selling, but for that kid,
you know, and that excitement they have.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
If you like ask for American Mamas a question, go
to our website America Ready dot com slash mamas and
click on the ask the Mama's button turned out of
Kibri Brothers and thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Thanks and coming up.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
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Speaker 6 (22:34):
You know there's an Irish priest, father Brendan Killcoin, Okay,
and he is saying something that not a lot of
men of the cloth or of the clergy are willing
to say. Basically, as far as Ireland is concerned, he
says Ireland, and he says this in his homilies week
(22:54):
after week. He says, Ireland isn't simply drifting away from Christianity,
it's being pulled apart from both ends. Now both ends.
There are two forces basically attacking. One is secular is
in our country. Secular ism, boy, that's a that's a mouthful.
But nevertheless, it's also immigration in Ireland. And he says
(23:21):
that there is a massive influx of people in Ireland.
And this is the part that no one wants to
say out loud, but it's happening in many other countries,
not just Ireland. But he says there's a massive influx
of people whose values do not come from Christianity at all,
but entirely different religious traditions. And what he is calling for,
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and again this is that Catholic priest, he is calling
for not just legal immigration, but only legal Christianity immigration.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
So he's basically.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Calling only or the immigration of Christians into Ireland, into Ireland.
Because he said, look, this is once a culture that
took for granted the Gospels. The Gospels were part of
Ireland's culture, Irish culture.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And moreover, it informs how people in the culture interact
with one another. If you are in a society that
is predominantly Christian, there is a way people tend to
interact with one another that is different than when you're
in a society that's predominantly Muslim, or when you were
in societies that are predominantly atheists. There is simply a
difference in the way that people interact and the way
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that people will communicate. People go to the South and
when you're checking out of a grocery store, you're much
more likely to hear people say have a blessed day
than you are in other parts of the country. No, right,
it's part of the cultural interaction. Have a blessed day.
It's just different than have a nice day.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
But I don't think he's called for this, you know,
for only Christians to be allowed into Ireland trying to
be provocative for shock value. I think he's calling for
it for civilization maintenance. He's saying that a country that
forgets what shaped it will soon forget itself all together. Yes,
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And I think that's across many Western countries. Nay, you
just keep pretending that Christianity is just one lifestyle choice
among many. Soon what was once christian will be something
very different and unrecognizable.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Ronald Reagan said, if we don't know what we did,
we won't know who we are. We were founded by
people who came here so that they could worship freely,
worship Jesus freely. That's who came here. That's who started
this country. If we forget that, we won't know who
we are.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
I mean, we're watching a slow motion civilization replacement.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Otherwise, let's dig deep.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Going.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
So there's a new pull out by Harvard Harris AX.
And look, anytime we talk about Harvard Harris AX, we
have to acknowledge they had one of the worst performances
of any polling outfit the last three election cycles. They
are regularly off by more than five percent favoring Democrats.
Is that a fair statement of them?
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Absolutely? Always Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So that's part of why I thought this was a
particularly interesting survey. They asked people if they supported or
opposed a series of policy proposals. On every policy that's
being pushed by the Trump administration, more voters support the
idea than oppose it. And again, this is a poll
that is traditionally biased left word.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Wait wait, wait, wait, more voters support Donald Trump's policies
than oppose his policy, so did they Now generally they
would oversample Democrats more so than Republicans.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
So what did they do here?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, for example, well, it's their same type of polling group. Okay,
and this same polling group gave Donald Trump b only
a forty five percent approval rating. So it's not like
this is a bunch of people that say they love
Donald Trump, but when it comes to policies they love those,
for example, lowering prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients and
low incompatience. This is with something that Donald Trump's proposed.
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The people like this idea eighty six percent in favor,
only fourteen percent against.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Well, yeah, I mean, who wants to choose between paying
for your medicines and paying for groceries?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I mean deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have
committed crimes. Eighty percent are in favor, only twenty percent
are against. If you watch the news, you'd think most
Americans opposed to porting criminal illegal aliens. But even if
you ask about deporting all immigrants who are here illegally,
not just the criminal illegal aliens. Fifty four percent support that,
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only forty six percent opposed. And remember this is a
poll that is regularly off between five and ten percent.
President's other border in immigration policies are also supported. Closing
the border with added security policies that discourage illegal crossings
seventy seventy and favor thirty percent of post. Using the
US military to target cartel drug smugglers in Latin America
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fifty eight percent in favor, only forty two percent opposed.
Using the military to prevent illegal immigration into the US
fifty six percent approve, forty four percent opposed.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Okay, well, then twenty twenty six will be a red way.
I mean, why would it not be?
Speaker 7 (28:27):
So?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
It sounds like to me, folks support what President Trump
his ines do. Is the Democrats stand diametrically opposed.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
To all of those things. Here's why it might not,
because again, Donald Trump's approval rating is only at forty
three percent forty five percent when all of his policies
are just presented just as policy. You don't mention Donald
Trump's name the policies, people go, yeah, that's actually a
good idea.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
So personally, you know what, I think the Democrats may
have done a very effective job with that whole no
Key's movement, and and they've made him out to look
like he's some kind of a monster. But yet the
policies that the monster is initiating the Yeah, so can
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you be a monster if you're only doing the things
that the people want you to do?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
But it's because the media, social media, big media and
the Democrat Party have done a very good job of
convincing people that Trump.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
How do you hold those two thoughts in your head?
He's a monster? They've hidden I like everything the monster
is doing, they're hiding.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
The fact that that's what he's doing. And most people
simply don't pay enough attention.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
But Paul, obviously in this polly, they paid enough attention
to be able to respond favorably about these policies.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I like that policy. But if you go do you
like Trump's policy of this? I'm not sure it have
the same result because of trump derangement syndrome, look undertaking
full scale effort.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I don't understand how you can hold those two thoughts
in your head at the same time.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
All the details what because you're not paying attention to
all the details, undertaking a full effort to find and
eliminate fraud and waste in government expenditures. Basically, this is
DOE contendering DOGE. Seventy seven percent support, twenty three percent
of oppose. Eliminating all preferences by race and the hiring
an awarding of government contracts. Sixty six percent approve of this,
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freezing and reevaluating all foreign aid expenditures and the department
that handle them. Sixty two percent approve of that. How
about gender policies banning men who've undergone operations and hormones
to become women from girl sports. Sixty five percent approve,
banning that raise fitness and readiness standards in the military
on a gender neutral basis. Sixty four percent approve of that,
(30:41):
declaring there are only two genders, male and female, and
all government forms and programs sixty one percent approve of that.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Okay, but again, this doesn't make any sense because the
Democrat Party stands diametrically opposed to every one of these policies. Yes, so,
I mean there's no middle ground. It's not like the
Democrat Party can stand on that stage and say, oh yeah,
We're in favor of this a little bit, but you know,
with a little tweaking, I mean seriously, they are completely
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opposed to these these policies.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Placing tariffs on foreign countries. Sixty approve. Even on placing
tariffs on Mexico and Canada fifty two percent approve. People
approve you using the National Guard to stop crime in cities.
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Speaker 6 (32:12):
Stephen Palmer, all right, so the statistics are are quite
sobering when you look at this with respect to crisis
pregnancy centers or pregnancy centers nationwide that help women sustain
their decision for life. And I put it that way
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because research shows that sixty percent of women who have
had abortions would have preferred to choose life if they
had more financial security or emotional support. And that's what
pregnancy centers and life affirming organizations across the country do
every day.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Sixty percent. Now here's here's where this whole abortion thing
becomes a trap. And it's a it's a trap that's
been set up by society because society has told men
the abortion is the woman's decision, my body, my choice.
You're the man, you shut up and you don't say anything,
all right, So the woman will say I'm thinking about
having an abortion, and the man says, hey, it's your decision.
(33:16):
And what the woman really wanted to hear was I
will support you and that baby because they want they
felt like they had more support than they would have
the baby. But the men have been told you shut
your mouth, this isn't about you, when what the woman
really needs to hear in that moment is the man
say I'm gonna step up and I'm going to be
the best father that child's ever had, and I won't
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want you to have an abortion.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
No, no, no.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
And that's why I bring all of this up because
the United States Supreme Court right now is taking up
a new Jersey law that would force pregnancy resource centers
and pro life organization right to hand over their donor
lists to the state now and the State of New
Jersey has actually admitted that when they went in to
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get the donor list from these pregnancy crisis centers, they
hadn't actually done anything wrong. They were on a phishing
expedition to get names and addresses and potentially to harass
those donors.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Clarence Thomas was asking about this because this went before
the Supreme Court, and Clarence Thomas said, did you have
any complaints about these sinners? No, but but we thought
we thought maybe they might be saying things that were
not true. Did anybody complain? Did anybody say that they
had been harmed by these pregnancy centers before you began
your investigation? Well, that's why we began our investigation to
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see if somebody been harmed.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
Well, at least it at least they admitted the truth
about that part.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
They were still trying to lie about their far before
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
At that time, they were still.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Trying to say, well, we had we had good reason.
No you didn't. Nobody complained.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Somebody complained.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
If the court upholds this new Jersey law, donors to
these pregnancy crisis centers will be intimidated. The funding for
these sinners could collapse. I think clinics could close. So
it's very important and we keep a very close eye
on this Supreme Court decision coming out of the United
States Supreme Court regarding this new Jersey law.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Okay, let's get to a brid spot real quick.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I'm doing all right, getting this grace.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
You just so, I gotta sha So the actress Jennifer
Lawrence did an interview with The New York Times last week,
and I think this was a bit of a brid spot.
She was asked why she has decided not to be
as politically outspoken as she was during President Trump's first
term in office. Here she is talking with the lawyer
(35:39):
with the interviewer for the New York Times. Take a listen.
Speaker 10 (35:42):
But as we've learned, election after elections, celebrities do not
make a difference whatsoever and who people vote for. And
so then what am I doing? I'm just sharing my
opinion on something. It's kind of just add fuel to
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a fire that's ripping the country apart. I mean, we
are so divided.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
There you go, she's learning, and she's one of the
most influential people in Hollywood these days. She's a huge star,
she has her own production company, she doesn't leave the
house for less than twenty million dollars, right, and yet
she's finally realized that when it comes to politics, her
influence isn't near as large as she once thought, and worse,
her politics could destroy her film career. So she's keeping
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those political opinions to herself.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Well, I mean, and look, I guess there's some professions
that lend itself more towards expressing your political opinion. Well,
like having a political talk show, yeah, exactly, or being
a politician.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Right.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
But I think when you're a celebrity and you're an entertainer, right, you.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Need to be entertaining everybody, otherwise you're cutting your audience
in half.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
I mean, the question is your entertainment value centered on
your political opinion? Now, some folks, there are some folks
out there whose entertainment value is their political ideology.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
You get some stand up Bill mahersh one of those.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Exactly, and so that's perfectly legitimate. But if you're someone
that is on the big screen, like a Tom Hanks
for example, right, I mean you're playing every man, you
are everyman? Right, then maybe you should be every man
and just hold your opinions to yourself.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
And it's Tom Hanks could make some movies if he
wanted to. For example, he's been a big fan of
supporting the troops with the World War Two films, the
World War Two projects he's did. He was also in
favor of some gay rights, is why he did the
movie Philadelphia, and he won an Oscar for that.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
But let me rephrase that Tom Hanks can do whatever
he wants to do. He just has to understand that
he's going to lose a percentage of his fans.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Yes, because of that.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
And Jennifer Lawrence is right here. She has learned that
she could lose half of her audience and that people
won't go see her art, as she puts it, because
they don't like her politics. Celebrities are not going to
change elections, but they could destroy their own careers or worse,
they could inspire people to commit political violence. Jennifer Lawrence
(38:23):
talked about that she doesn't want to be a part
of creating a bigger divide. So I think this is
a bright spot that Jennifer Lawrence does not decided to
be a part of that anymore. The sad part was
if you watch the interview in the New York Times,
interviewer Jennifer Lawrence says, I don't want to be a
part of that, and the interviewer goes hmm.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
M.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Suspicious of that as well, because apparently the New York
Times want celebrities to be part of the political device.
It's like, what are you think, Well, do you have
back Instagram?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
You are listening to American ground Radio.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Welcome back to American ground Radio, Stephen Power of luisar Avalona.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
I mean, she would not be the most intellectually challenged
United States Senator that this country has ever seen, of course,
or member of Congress. No, and I'm talking about Jasmine Crockett,
who is now running for the United States Senate from Texas.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Now, I think al Green's maybe currently the most mentally
challenged person in Congress.
Speaker 7 (39:35):
She has done, she has said some really ridiculous things, So.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
She's up there, but she didn't ask if a troop
built up in Okinawa would cause the island to flip.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
On no, no, but she did. At a human rights
campaign events, she referred to disabled or wheelchair bound Governor
Greg Abbott as governor hot wheels. She did do that
on a podcast recently. She claimed the role of law
enforcement is to solve crime, not prevent crime. Now that's
(40:03):
absurd on its face.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Because if you actually prevent crime, then you don't have
to solve them.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Let's see, uh, I mean, she's built part of her
social media theatrics like TikTok I mean, viral TikTok videos
shouting matches. She said, let's speak truth to Maga. I mean,
that's basically what her fine campaign.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Maga wants truth. What Maga doesn't appreciate is the gaslighting
we've been receiving since twenty fifteen. That's what we don't want,
but she does. Would be a nice change of page.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Truth is fine, but how about some solutions. If you're
gonna call Republicans, you're gonna call Maga out as vile
and all of this dramatic alliteration, what is the policy,
what is your vision?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Just noise, It's just whoa whoa.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
When I say whoa, ah.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
I mean whoa. This week was the anniversary of the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which led the United States
into World War II two thousand and four. Und Three
Americans were killed that day during the surprise attack. Thousands
more survived the attack and have gathered at Pearl Harbor
on December seventh every year since except this year. You see,
there are now only twelve people still alive who survived
the attack that day back in nineteen forty one. All
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twelve or more than one hundred years old, and none
were fit enough to travel to Hawaii for the ceremonies. However,
a group called the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor
Survivors still give speeches and presentations about Pearl Harbor year
round to honor the sacrifices of their fathers. Ddre Kelly,
the group's president, told CNN, when they're all gone, we're
still going to be here, and it's our intent to
keep the memory alive as long as we're alive. Now,
(41:43):
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American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avaloni and Stephen Parr
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Speaker 6 (01:01):
Me just say something, folks, we are in the midst
of a constitutional showdown that is nothing short of foundational.
And it's not just about trade, but it's about who
runs America. The people elected President Trump, the President of
the United States of America, right yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:21):
And if the Supreme.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Court of the United States strips the President of the
power to impose emergency tariffs, I mean we're looking at
a transformed republic. I think, one where our global adversaries
know that the president is handcuffed and the only leverage
for America is is what military action because if the
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Court stands with the president, right, and this is what
the Supreme Court is is currently considering, right, if the
Justice is affirmed that the President of the United States
has the authority to levy these tariffs, then we're upholding
national sovereignty, economic strength, a powerful, powerful deterrent to military action.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
And so that's why it matters.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
And President Trump just last week or actually over the weekend,
publicly urged the Supreme Court of the United States to
uphold his tariff regime.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It really would be cataastroy It would be catastrophic to
foreign policy for the Supreme Court to strike down Trump's
tariff authority, which I do believe Congress seded to Trump
in that nineteen seventies law, because it does say that
president can declare an emergency and then he can cut
(02:42):
off trade with any other country. And the Supreme Court
justice has asked about this. They said, wait, if he
has the power to eliminate trade altogether, why wouldn't he
also have the power and the ability to simply regulate
trade through tariffs. And remember why Donald Trump is doing
all these tariff moves. It's not because he just hates
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other countries. It's because they have been imposing tariffs on us,
which has been creating a disruption in our balance of trade.
We run trade deficits with almost every other country on
the earth, and part of the reason why we do
is because they have imposed higher tariffs on goods coming
from the United States than we've imposed on them. So
(03:24):
there's an imbalance. It's cheaper to sell stuff into the
US than it is for US stuff to be sold
into any other country on the planet. That's not fair,
that's not right, that's not free trade. We've been sold
to bill of goods since the nineteen nineties about free trade.
We've never actually had real free trade with any other country.
(03:44):
The NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement, right, remember that
back in the nineteen nineties, Bill Clinton pushed that in
Ross Poros is gonna be a giant sucking sound. The
free trade agreement did not eliminate all terriffs from Mexico
or Canada.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
It didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So how can you call it a free trade agreement
when they still are putting tariffs on our lumber, When
they're still putting tariffs on our beef, on our pork,
on our dairy on our products going to their country.
They still have tariffs on us. Now we got rid
of all of our tariffs on them.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Well, look, here's the other part. President Trump says.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Look, I've solved all of these wars, right, or I've
ended many wars. That's why he's referred to as the
peace President.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
But he used the threat of tariffs to bring countries
to the negotiating table when they hate each other, but
they love being able to sell stuff to the US.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
And look, there are other legal tools, as President Trump
pointed out, you can impose restrictions under existing trade law.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Right, you can use traditional.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Congressional trade actions, you know, like hearings, and but those
are slow by design. Those are slow where you've got,
you know, all the lobbying, and by the time of
decision finally gets through, the harm has been done well.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And foreign lobbying. Don't forget about that. There's foreign lobbying
that goes on. So these countries that the Congress will
be proposing to put tariffs on, they will be pouring
money into the campaign coffers of people running for office,
or they're going to be doing backroom deals or whatever.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Image is already done they'll flood your market, they'll flood
your industries, and then they'll rely on this sluggish, dysfunctional
Congress to react.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
We almost have at all, We almost completely lost our
steel industry in this country without tariffs that Donald Trump
was placing on China in his first administration, that, by
the way, Joe Biden kept in place. You notice this,
Joe Biden kept in place all the teriffs that Donald
Trump put on China from his first administration. Joe Biden
kept those in place. And if they're so unconstitutional, why
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did the Democrat president who ran saying that everything Donald
Trump does is evil keep his tariffs in place?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
But for four years. Let's let's put it out there though.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Okay, you have a nation, and I'll say misbehaves or
doing something obviously that is not in America's best interest.
When a nation is like they steal intellectual properties, yes,
when they cheat or they dump cheap steel to destroy
American industry, or when they manipulate their currency. Are we
(06:20):
just talking about China, No, But I mean there's lots
of other examples. But my point is when a nation misbehaves,
maybe they have moved into your hemisphere.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So we're still talking about China. You get so China's
a pretty bad actor. They're a pretty bad actors all
those things.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
But nevertheless, you have two choices. You can either well, okay,
let's back up. Let's talk about North Korea. Okay, right,
I mean you can either they misbehave right, they've resumed
nuclear testing.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, but we don't do any trade with North Korea.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
They are rattling their sabers, so to speak.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yeah, you've got two choices when someone misbehaves here in
this instance, you can either fire or you can raise tariffs.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Now, I mean you post sanctions, but a lot of
countries have basically become sanctioned proof.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
But tariffs punish bad behavior now economically instead of militarily.
So you hit their industries and their exports and their elites,
and you don't put your soldiers in harm's way in
the process.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Look at look at history.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Nations don't go to war when the costs are too
high and the consequence is too immediate. But that's exactly
what tariffs do. They pose consequences.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Wait, wait, wait, I think you have to argue that
nations went to war in World War One and the
costs were too high and nations went to war in
World War Two.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Eventually, no, eventually, but miscalculation, miscalculating, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Huge miscalculations at the beginning of those wars.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
But again, when you make the consequences immediate, Yes, when
folks see, oh this is not going to turn out
well for us economically, we're gonna there, We're going to
end up starving our nation, then you're gonna think twice.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
About whatever it is that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
But we've never well, actually, I don't think we've ever
had since maybe the Roman Empire. We haven't had one
nation that was as dominant in commerce, as dominant in
trade as the United States has been since the end
of World War Two. And so the United States has
got a lot more power than any other nation, and
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we just haven't used it since the end of World
War Two. With the whole Marshall Plan, instead of using
our economic power as a weapon, we decided to use
our economic power in a benevolent way to build up
all these other countries. And then they just expected us
to continue doing that, even though they became rich and
wealthy countries in the wake of World War Two, and
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we've just kept doing it.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
I understand, But This isn't a new concept.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Alexander Hamilton literally wrote that tariffs are a tool to
protect the American economy against hostile foreign powers. Reagan used
trade pressure, Trump used tariffs and got China in line
without launching any missiles. Nobody wants war, but peace requires power,
and tariffs are peaceful power. And that's why it's so
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important that the United States Supreme Court support the presidency
of the executive power to levy them.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Let's get to the top of the things that you
know before the mom first thing you meeble for the
Home Department of Homeland Security anown say, I have found
sixty two thousand immigrant children who had gone missing during
the Biden administration. That's out of a total three hundred
thousand children who came into the country illegally and were
lost track of by Biden government officials. Borders are Tom
(09:45):
Holman announced those numbers this weekend on Fox and Friends.
Of the vast majority the children were discovered so far,
we're in safe environments, usually with family members, but thousands
of kids had to be rescued from sex trafficking rings
coast to coast. Some were also enforced labor in danger
jobs Holman says President Trump committed on day one that
we will do everything we can to find every one
of these children.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
All right, So there's outrage of putting children in cages, right,
but losing the children all together.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So that they can be sex trafficked ways.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
That's perfectly fine with Democrats.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, second thing you needed from tomorrow. Democrat congress Woman
Jasmine Crockett announced she's running for Senate in Texas. Crockett
filed her paperwork to enter the primary today, just hours
before the filing deadline. She will be challenging State Rep.
James tall Rico. Tall Rico has already a masked campaign
fun of more than six million dollars. Fellow Democrat Colin
all Red dropped out of the Senate race earlier today.
Allred was the Democrat Senate nominee for Texas in twenty
(10:40):
twenty four, losing to Ted Cruz in the general election.
There are three Republicans of the race for Senate, including
incumbent Senator John Cornyn, State Attorney General Kin Paxton, and
Congressman Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
You know, the nicest thing I heard all day was
from Governor Abbott. Okay, he said, maybe for her sake.
What's her name, j Jasmine Crockett's sake, She'll get a
job on the view.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It's possible. And the third thing you need with for
a while, Paramount is trying to take over Netflix takeover
of Warner Brothers. Last week, Warner Brothers Discovery announced they
had accepted a bid from Netflix to buy This Stork
Media Company for seventy two billion dollars, But over the weekend,
Paramount presented a larger buyout offer directly to shareholders in
Warner Brothers. Paramount's hostile takeover bid includes one hundred and
eight billion dollars in cash or thirty dollars a share.
(11:24):
Paramount is arguing that keeping Warner Brothers whole and separate
from Netflix is essential to the future of the entertainment industry.
Over the weekend, President Trump seemed to be skeptical of
the Netflix WB merger, saying he would have to take
a look at the proposal before it gets approved.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
No, I think Paramount actually is on point here. I
think it's important, especially for competition sake.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
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We're talking with the American Mamas. When we return.
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Speaker 6 (13:07):
All right, So zooran Mam Dana yeap the New York
Mayor elect, New York City mayor elect.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Yes, the social rands.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Socialist mayor elect of New York City.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
And so he made a video about small businesses and
he said.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
To crush them all.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
No, no, no, he actually is promising the sweeping reforms
to help small businesses in New York City.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
He's talking about producing.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It's gonna cut taxes, he's gonna reduce regulation.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Hold on, hold on, let me let me get this out.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
He wants to cut fees and finds that's good by
fifty percent. He wants to expedite permits and licensing.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That's great.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
He wants to even appoint a mom and pop czar
to help fight bureaucratic delays, increase funding for small businesses.
I mean, in short, he wants to make it faster, cheaper,
and easier to open and keep small businesses alive in
New York City.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's great. I'm just a little nervous when a socialist starts.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Up exactly exactly now.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Had he appointed in an on budsman. Okay, I get that.
If you've got somebody whose job is specifically to fight
for the rights of small business owners through city hall
and to reduce red tape and to point out bureaucrats
who are being unnecessarily obstructionist and getting those folks fired. Yeah,
if you had an on budsman, that's fine. No, but
(14:35):
what a czar.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Don't buy into this, okay, because what he's actually doing,
it's not.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
This isn't a genuine effort to help small businesses per se.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Because it's a redistribution scheme aimed at Mam Danny's supporters.
In other words, he wants to eliminate the licensing, the
restrictions on licensing, or how strict the licensing process is.
He wants to reduce the fees. Basically, he wants to
make it easier for immigrants to this country, especially those
(15:09):
that are here illegally, to start small businesses without meeting
all of the same requirements that existing legacy small businesses
in New York City, so this happened to be made,
have had to meet and actually comply with.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So this isn't just about helping small businesses. This is
simply about helping.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
New small business businesses so that you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Well, that's not capitalism because you haven't created an equal
opportunity playing field. That likes to talk a lot about equity,
but when you're screwing over people who are already in
business to help people who just got here out. That's
not equal. It's not equal.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
It sounds pro business, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
We got a question for our American mama's. Dear mama's
what's your favorite way of charitable giving at Christmas?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Well, let's ask are American mama's mama.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
She said, and joining us now our American mama's tern
Edville and Kiberly Burlison. You know, we talked earlier this week,
last week, last week, or whatever it was about the
Dell donation, the Michael and Susan Dell giving six point
two five billion dollars. Now, I don't think that was
necessarily a Christmas gift, but it is kind of Christmas
(16:25):
time when they've announced it. What is your favorite form
of charitable giving, especially this time of year?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Well, my favorite way of giving is seeing a need,
like seeing a need and then giving it, so it's
like in real time, you know, seeing the result of that.
I used to have a nonprofit, so I know how
crucial it is to receive donations because you rely on them.
The difference in my nonprofit is every penny went to
what we were doing for military families.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
My mom did that too. During the Gulf War. Oh yeah,
she sewed, she said, gift baskets over to troops over
in the Middle East, and she sewed neck coolers where
you just get them way and they would cool people
down in the desert. She sewed those by hand. Every
single penny she received for that charity, which straight Overseas.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
So we did.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
Yeah. You know, I've said many times that I love
watching Magnum p I every single night on we TV.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Really you've said that many times, many times, huh.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
And every night. So they have the long commercials for
like Saint Jude's and for the ASPCA, the pet things
they get me, they get me every time.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, Sarah McLaughlin will make your cray absolutely.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
So I actually used to give to Saint Judes every month.
It just came out of my checking account for years. Okay,
So out of the blow because the commercials are five
minutes long, I decided to do a search on what
the CEO of ASPCA makes a year. Okay, one point
two million dollars Matthew Berkshaker, Wow my god.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So then I thought that's three times what the president make.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Yeah, I thought, what the hail Okay, So then I
looked up the on charity Watch, you can see City
of Hope in affiliates like all these cancer institutes. Yeah,
two point four million, five point four more, four Milligan
five point seven million, Saint Jude one point eight million,
Red Cross one point three million. I was one person,
(18:13):
one person a year, the CEO of those those nonprofits,
and that was it for me. I was like, I
will never ever give money to any of those charities
ever again. It made me say, that's gluttonous and disgusting.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
To me, especially for a group that's trying to that
says they're doing charity exactly when you.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
Think about the people who are donating, they're thinking their
money is going to go to the cause when they
don't realize their money is going also to this person
a lot of it. I'm baffled that is.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
This five point seven million.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
That's unbelievable. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Is he?
Speaker 9 (18:48):
What is he?
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Or she did?
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Well?
Speaker 8 (18:49):
I think about you know, Red Cross for instance, and
you and people standing there ringing the bell and these kids,
these commercials are taking their lemonade stand money and pouring
it in the pot, and you're just you feel this,
oh my gosh, and then you see the ceo sitting
in his mansion with his unbelievable cars and his yacht,
and I've thought I can never give to them again.
(19:11):
For that reason, I looked at the nonprofits like Wounded
Warrior and USO because those are the ones that were
closest to my heart. And they averaged half a million
to seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the CEOs
for the CEOs, which you know, for me, it's a lot. Still,
that's a lot. That's a big salary, you know, with
people giving you money and that kind of thing, and
(19:31):
I don't understand why you need that much. But I'm
also all about being a capitalist. But these are nonprofits,
these aren't just companies. There's a big difference to me.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
And you know, my favorite way of giving is through service,
that is through time. I mean, i'd work for theaters,
I worked for the church just donating time. And I think,
I think there's something about that for me that I
get more out of that than donating money. And maybe
it's because by donating my time, I actually see the
(20:04):
result of what I'm doing.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
You receive the blessing and.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
It's not like somebody's making a profit off of my time.
When I'm working.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
Yeah, well, what I love to do is kind of
year round. There's a lot of kids in my life
that are going through school and whenever they have whether
it's for their team or for their church group or whatever,
if they send me a thing asking me for money
or to you know, even if it's buying whatever it
(20:32):
is they're selling. Like Coach Kaz reached out to me,
he's the Air Force baseball coach on Giving Tuesday, and
he was like, hey, you want to give And I
was like, hey, yeah, to America's team, the Air Force Boys.
Of course I will. But when people reach out to
me and it's something that I think I want to
help this kid or I want to help Coach Kaz
or whatever, I'm going to do it. I'm going to
(20:54):
do that more so than I would if it was
like given to you know some of those places is
that you said, I'm gonna have.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
To give you my nephew.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
I'll get a bunch of I'll get a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Text now for tracking orchestra and all this.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Especially if you're if you're selling something for your school
and there's like if I sell twenty of these, I
get to have, right, Oh, yeah, I got I'll get
nineteen right now.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
But the blessing is seeing that child, yes, because they
get so excited. And really that's why you're giving it,
not for the whatever they're selling, but for that kid,
you know, and that excitement they have.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
If you like ask for American Mamas a question, go
to our website America Ready dot com slash mamas and
click on the ask the Mama's button turned out of
Kibri Brothers and thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Thanks and coming up.
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Speaker 6 (22:34):
You know there's an Irish priest, father Brendan Killcoin, Okay,
and he is saying something that not a lot of
men of the cloth or of the clergy are willing
to say. Basically, as far as Ireland is concerned, he
says Ireland, and he says this in his homilies week
(22:54):
after week. He says, Ireland isn't simply drifting away from Christianity,
it's being pulled apart from both ends. Now both ends.
There are two forces basically attacking. One is secular is
in our country. Secular ism, boy, that's a that's a mouthful.
But nevertheless, it's also immigration in Ireland. And he says
(23:21):
that there is a massive influx of people in Ireland.
And this is the part that no one wants to
say out loud, but it's happening in many other countries,
not just Ireland. But he says there's a massive influx
of people whose values do not come from Christianity at all,
but entirely different religious traditions. And what he is calling for,
(23:44):
and again this is that Catholic priest, he is calling
for not just legal immigration, but only legal Christianity immigration.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
So he's basically.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Calling only or the immigration of Christians into Ireland, into Ireland.
Because he said, look, this is once a culture that
took for granted the Gospels. The Gospels were part of
Ireland's culture, Irish culture.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And moreover, it informs how people in the culture interact
with one another. If you are in a society that
is predominantly Christian, there is a way people tend to
interact with one another that is different than when you're
in a society that's predominantly Muslim, or when you were
in societies that are predominantly atheists. There is simply a
difference in the way that people interact and the way
(24:35):
that people will communicate. People go to the South and
when you're checking out of a grocery store, you're much
more likely to hear people say have a blessed day
than you are in other parts of the country. No, right,
it's part of the cultural interaction. Have a blessed day.
It's just different than have a nice day.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
But I don't think he's called for this, you know,
for only Christians to be allowed into Ireland trying to
be provocative for shock value. I think he's calling for
it for civilization maintenance. He's saying that a country that
forgets what shaped it will soon forget itself all together. Yes,
(25:20):
And I think that's across many Western countries. Nay, you
just keep pretending that Christianity is just one lifestyle choice
among many. Soon what was once christian will be something
very different and unrecognizable.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Ronald Reagan said, if we don't know what we did,
we won't know who we are. We were founded by
people who came here so that they could worship freely,
worship Jesus freely. That's who came here. That's who started
this country. If we forget that, we won't know who
we are.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
I mean, we're watching a slow motion civilization replacement.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Otherwise, let's dig deep.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Going.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
So there's a new pull out by Harvard Harris AX.
And look, anytime we talk about Harvard Harris AX, we
have to acknowledge they had one of the worst performances
of any polling outfit the last three election cycles. They
are regularly off by more than five percent favoring Democrats.
Is that a fair statement of them?
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Absolutely? Always Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So that's part of why I thought this was a
particularly interesting survey. They asked people if they supported or
opposed a series of policy proposals. On every policy that's
being pushed by the Trump administration, more voters support the
idea than oppose it. And again, this is a poll
that is traditionally biased left word.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Wait wait, wait, wait, more voters support Donald Trump's policies
than oppose his policy, so did they Now generally they
would oversample Democrats more so than Republicans.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
So what did they do here?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, for example, well, it's their same type of polling group. Okay,
and this same polling group gave Donald Trump b only
a forty five percent approval rating. So it's not like
this is a bunch of people that say they love
Donald Trump, but when it comes to policies they love those,
for example, lowering prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients and
low incompatience. This is with something that Donald Trump's proposed.
(27:17):
The people like this idea eighty six percent in favor,
only fourteen percent against.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Well, yeah, I mean, who wants to choose between paying
for your medicines and paying for groceries?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I mean deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have
committed crimes. Eighty percent are in favor, only twenty percent
are against. If you watch the news, you'd think most
Americans opposed to porting criminal illegal aliens. But even if
you ask about deporting all immigrants who are here illegally,
not just the criminal illegal aliens. Fifty four percent support that,
(27:47):
only forty six percent opposed. And remember this is a
poll that is regularly off between five and ten percent.
President's other border in immigration policies are also supported. Closing
the border with added security policies that discourage illegal crossings
seventy seventy and favor thirty percent of post. Using the
US military to target cartel drug smugglers in Latin America
(28:11):
fifty eight percent in favor, only forty two percent opposed.
Using the military to prevent illegal immigration into the US
fifty six percent approve, forty four percent opposed.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Okay, well, then twenty twenty six will be a red way.
I mean, why would it not be?
Speaker 7 (28:27):
So?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
It sounds like to me, folks support what President Trump
his ines do. Is the Democrats stand diametrically opposed.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
To all of those things. Here's why it might not,
because again, Donald Trump's approval rating is only at forty
three percent forty five percent when all of his policies
are just presented just as policy. You don't mention Donald
Trump's name the policies, people go, yeah, that's actually a
good idea.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
So personally, you know what, I think the Democrats may
have done a very effective job with that whole no
Key's movement, and and they've made him out to look
like he's some kind of a monster. But yet the
policies that the monster is initiating the Yeah, so can
(29:12):
you be a monster if you're only doing the things
that the people want you to do?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
But it's because the media, social media, big media and
the Democrat Party have done a very good job of
convincing people that Trump.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
How do you hold those two thoughts in your head?
He's a monster? They've hidden I like everything the monster
is doing, they're hiding.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
The fact that that's what he's doing. And most people
simply don't pay enough attention.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
But Paul, obviously in this polly, they paid enough attention
to be able to respond favorably about these policies.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I like that policy. But if you go do you
like Trump's policy of this? I'm not sure it have
the same result because of trump derangement syndrome, look undertaking
full scale effort.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I don't understand how you can hold those two thoughts
in your head at the same time.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
All the details what because you're not paying attention to
all the details, undertaking a full effort to find and
eliminate fraud and waste in government expenditures. Basically, this is
DOE contendering DOGE. Seventy seven percent support, twenty three percent
of oppose. Eliminating all preferences by race and the hiring
an awarding of government contracts. Sixty six percent approve of this,
(30:20):
freezing and reevaluating all foreign aid expenditures and the department
that handle them. Sixty two percent approve of that. How
about gender policies banning men who've undergone operations and hormones
to become women from girl sports. Sixty five percent approve,
banning that raise fitness and readiness standards in the military
on a gender neutral basis. Sixty four percent approve of that,
(30:41):
declaring there are only two genders, male and female, and
all government forms and programs sixty one percent approve of that.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Okay, but again, this doesn't make any sense because the
Democrat Party stands diametrically opposed to every one of these policies. Yes, so,
I mean there's no middle ground. It's not like the
Democrat Party can stand on that stage and say, oh yeah,
We're in favor of this a little bit, but you know,
with a little tweaking, I mean seriously, they are completely
(31:10):
opposed to these these policies.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Placing tariffs on foreign countries. Sixty approve. Even on placing
tariffs on Mexico and Canada fifty two percent approve. People
approve you using the National Guard to stop crime in cities.
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Speaker 6 (32:12):
Stephen Palmer, all right, so the statistics are are quite
sobering when you look at this with respect to crisis
pregnancy centers or pregnancy centers nationwide that help women sustain
their decision for life. And I put it that way
(32:33):
because research shows that sixty percent of women who have
had abortions would have preferred to choose life if they
had more financial security or emotional support. And that's what
pregnancy centers and life affirming organizations across the country do
every day.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Sixty percent. Now here's here's where this whole abortion thing
becomes a trap. And it's a it's a trap that's
been set up by society because society has told men
the abortion is the woman's decision, my body, my choice.
You're the man, you shut up and you don't say anything,
all right, So the woman will say I'm thinking about
having an abortion, and the man says, hey, it's your decision.
(33:16):
And what the woman really wanted to hear was I
will support you and that baby because they want they
felt like they had more support than they would have
the baby. But the men have been told you shut
your mouth, this isn't about you, when what the woman
really needs to hear in that moment is the man
say I'm gonna step up and I'm going to be
the best father that child's ever had, and I won't
(33:37):
want you to have an abortion.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
No, no, no.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
And that's why I bring all of this up because
the United States Supreme Court right now is taking up
a new Jersey law that would force pregnancy resource centers
and pro life organization right to hand over their donor
lists to the state now and the State of New
Jersey has actually admitted that when they went in to
(34:02):
get the donor list from these pregnancy crisis centers, they
hadn't actually done anything wrong. They were on a phishing
expedition to get names and addresses and potentially to harass
those donors.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Clarence Thomas was asking about this because this went before
the Supreme Court, and Clarence Thomas said, did you have
any complaints about these sinners? No, but but we thought
we thought maybe they might be saying things that were
not true. Did anybody complain? Did anybody say that they
had been harmed by these pregnancy centers before you began
your investigation? Well, that's why we began our investigation to
(34:37):
see if somebody been harmed.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
Well, at least it at least they admitted the truth
about that part.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
They were still trying to lie about their far before
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
At that time, they were still.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Trying to say, well, we had we had good reason.
No you didn't. Nobody complained.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Somebody complained.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
If the court upholds this new Jersey law, donors to
these pregnancy crisis centers will be intimidated. The funding for
these sinners could collapse. I think clinics could close. So
it's very important and we keep a very close eye
on this Supreme Court decision coming out of the United
States Supreme Court regarding this new Jersey law.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Okay, let's get to a brid spot real quick.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I'm doing all right, getting this grace.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
You just so, I gotta sha So the actress Jennifer
Lawrence did an interview with The New York Times last week,
and I think this was a bit of a brid spot.
She was asked why she has decided not to be
as politically outspoken as she was during President Trump's first
term in office. Here she is talking with the lawyer
(35:39):
with the interviewer for the New York Times. Take a listen.
Speaker 10 (35:42):
But as we've learned, election after elections, celebrities do not
make a difference whatsoever and who people vote for. And
so then what am I doing? I'm just sharing my
opinion on something. It's kind of just add fuel to
(36:03):
a fire that's ripping the country apart. I mean, we
are so divided.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
There you go, she's learning, and she's one of the
most influential people in Hollywood these days. She's a huge star,
she has her own production company, she doesn't leave the
house for less than twenty million dollars, right, and yet
she's finally realized that when it comes to politics, her
influence isn't near as large as she once thought, and worse,
her politics could destroy her film career. So she's keeping
(36:31):
those political opinions to herself.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Well, I mean, and look, I guess there's some professions
that lend itself more towards expressing your political opinion. Well,
like having a political talk show, yeah, exactly, or being
a politician.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Right.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
But I think when you're a celebrity and you're an entertainer, right, you.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Need to be entertaining everybody, otherwise you're cutting your audience
in half.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
I mean, the question is your entertainment value centered on
your political opinion? Now, some folks, there are some folks
out there whose entertainment value is their political ideology.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
You get some stand up Bill mahersh one of those.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Exactly, and so that's perfectly legitimate. But if you're someone
that is on the big screen, like a Tom Hanks
for example, right, I mean you're playing every man, you
are everyman? Right, then maybe you should be every man
and just hold your opinions to yourself.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
And it's Tom Hanks could make some movies if he
wanted to. For example, he's been a big fan of
supporting the troops with the World War Two films, the
World War Two projects he's did. He was also in
favor of some gay rights, is why he did the
movie Philadelphia, and he won an Oscar for that.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
But let me rephrase that Tom Hanks can do whatever
he wants to do. He just has to understand that
he's going to lose a percentage of his fans.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Yes, because of that.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
And Jennifer Lawrence is right here. She has learned that
she could lose half of her audience and that people
won't go see her art, as she puts it, because
they don't like her politics. Celebrities are not going to
change elections, but they could destroy their own careers or worse,
they could inspire people to commit political violence. Jennifer Lawrence
(38:23):
talked about that she doesn't want to be a part
of creating a bigger divide. So I think this is
a bright spot that Jennifer Lawrence does not decided to
be a part of that anymore. The sad part was
if you watch the interview in the New York Times,
interviewer Jennifer Lawrence says, I don't want to be a
part of that, and the interviewer goes hmm.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
M.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Suspicious of that as well, because apparently the New York
Times want celebrities to be part of the political device.
It's like, what are you think, Well, do you have
back Instagram?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
You are listening to American ground Radio.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Welcome back to American ground Radio, Stephen Power of luisar Avalona.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
I mean, she would not be the most intellectually challenged
United States Senator that this country has ever seen, of course,
or member of Congress. No, and I'm talking about Jasmine Crockett,
who is now running for the United States Senate from Texas.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Now, I think al Green's maybe currently the most mentally
challenged person in Congress.
Speaker 7 (39:35):
She has done, she has said some really ridiculous things, So.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
She's up there, but she didn't ask if a troop
built up in Okinawa would cause the island to flip.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
On no, no, but she did. At a human rights
campaign events, she referred to disabled or wheelchair bound Governor
Greg Abbott as governor hot wheels. She did do that
on a podcast recently. She claimed the role of law
enforcement is to solve crime, not prevent crime. Now that's
(40:03):
absurd on its face.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Because if you actually prevent crime, then you don't have
to solve them.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Let's see, uh, I mean, she's built part of her
social media theatrics like TikTok I mean, viral TikTok videos
shouting matches. She said, let's speak truth to Maga. I mean,
that's basically what her fine campaign.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Maga wants truth. What Maga doesn't appreciate is the gaslighting
we've been receiving since twenty fifteen. That's what we don't want,
but she does. Would be a nice change of page.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Truth is fine, but how about some solutions. If you're
gonna call Republicans, you're gonna call Maga out as vile
and all of this dramatic alliteration, what is the policy,
what is your vision?
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Just noise, It's just whoa whoa.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
When I say whoa, ah.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
I mean whoa. This week was the anniversary of the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which led the United States
into World War II two thousand and four. Und Three
Americans were killed that day during the surprise attack. Thousands
more survived the attack and have gathered at Pearl Harbor
on December seventh every year since except this year. You see,
there are now only twelve people still alive who survived
the attack that day back in nineteen forty one. All
(41:19):
twelve or more than one hundred years old, and none
were fit enough to travel to Hawaii for the ceremonies. However,
a group called the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor
Survivors still give speeches and presentations about Pearl Harbor year
round to honor the sacrifices of their fathers. Ddre Kelly,
the group's president, told CNN, when they're all gone, we're
still going to be here, and it's our intent to
keep the memory alive as long as we're alive. Now,
(41:43):
your pursuit of happiness bring you joy,
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