THE BRIAN RUST SHOW 12-17-25 w/ Mark Mix

Conservative talk show waking up America with a Knock-it-off attitude, live from the freedom stated of Florida.  Mark Mix National Right To Work joins for a conversation on government unions

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Brian Russe's name.

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You know the brand.

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Liming up the airways in this ing melting snow face
with a fiery head talking truth.

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You can't always stand fast tone.

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Show from Coast to Coast.

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Got the facts, but it ain't no boast.

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Can't give up the change and give it a toast
to the man who roasts the moose.

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Knock it off. It's rust on me.

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Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, good morning and welcome back to the show. How
you doing today?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:44):
What is today? Because we missed something? We missed We
missed Taco Tuesday. Damn it. I mean I didn't miss
Taco Tuesday because I had tacos. Well, we did miss
the show yesterday. Here's what's up. Michael, Good morning to you.
Thank you. I am feeling better. Ricky over there, and Kelli,
thank you so much. Good morning to you, my man.
Thank you for checking us out today. I'm feeling a

(02:06):
little bit better today. Eh, I mean yesterday, I woke
up at at my normal three am and I, you know,
it's kind of one of those things where it hits you,
you go, oh crap, I don't I don't really feel
that good. All right, Maybe if I just lay here
for a second, I'll be okay. No. I laid there

(02:28):
for a couple of seconds and realized, yeah, I'm not
doing well today. So then I started to talk to
to Charlie and Lucky because I felt the scratchy and
the voice, and then I heard the voice and I'm like, nope,
there's no show today, but we are back today. Thank
you so much for making this part of your day.
We do appreciate it. As always, we got tons to
talk about today. I don't even know where to go,

(02:50):
where to begin with this, because we've got everything from
the Somali's, we've got the the Rob Reiner situation. Apparently
now there might be information too about what Somali's have
done for this great nation. We'll get into that, plus
Hamas stepping up and making some noise as well. And

(03:12):
later on this morning, Mark Mix is going to be
joining us from the National Right to Work. We're going
to talk with him about the the latest collective bargaining
deal that's going on to the government and that battle
and some more. We always have great conversations with Mark. Also,
there is some new unemployment numbers that are out. We'll
dive into those a little bit later on too. In
the meantime, where do we Where do we start? I mean,

(03:35):
I guess you can start with one of the big
things that's going on, and that is meathead and we're
talking Rob Reiner and his son now beneficially charged. Is
it is that I'm confused by this? Is that his
son or his transgender son daughter thing? What I don't
I don't even know, to be honest with you. All
I know is based on everything that I have read

(03:57):
about Rob Reiner's son, Nick, who is now being charged
with the murder of his two parents. This kid had
some problems, major league problems. And of course the the
other uproar that is going on right now in in Uh.
You know, basically the world of media about the Rob

(04:17):
Reiner situation is obviously the the Donald Trump statement, the
the Donald Jesus Christ. I just sorry, I'm you know what,
I in the process of the middle of talking, I
just popped open a my X page because I'm a
little bit behind this morning, and uh it came up
in this. Uh. I'm trying to I'm trying to try

(04:41):
to be nice. There's ugly half with her sign I
don't date Maga. First off, there there's no no Magan
way in the world that any Maga is going to
date you anyhowse so hunt it is, okay. Just these
poor people, these poor delusional people who are one just

(05:04):
not specimens of dating material. I'm gonna try and put
this as as politely as I can be. You don't
have to worry about telling us that you won't date Maga,
because I just gotta tell you, Maga won't date you.
You are not anything but any bless her heart, that

(05:24):
poor little thing. But anyhow, what was I saying? Oh uh, oh, squirrel,
there's probably gonna be a lot of that today. I'm
just gonna I'm gonna forewarn you now there'll probably be
a lot of o squirrel moments because I'm about to
take my first sip of coffee. I'm still a little
kind of from yesterday, but we're getting there. But the
whole thing with the Rob Reiner situation, and obviously a

(05:46):
lot of the left is upset about the comments that
that Donald Trump had made. And you know, when you
look at the comments that Donald Trump had made, you know, look, yes,
you can say that that maybe the the comment that
Trump had made were maybe inappropriate for the moment, maybe
inappropriate for the President of the United States to say,

(06:09):
regardless to all the stuff, and it was a little brutal.
I'm not gonna lie about that little on the brutal side.
But we also have to stop and think about this.
And I'm not defending Donald Trump on his statement, but
I'm also not really criticizing his statement because, let's face it,

(06:32):
the way that the Left has been towards Donald Trump
for the past nine ten years, the incredibly brutal lies,
the attacks on a regular basis against Donald Trump, and
we're not talking about attacks that simply was just oh,

(06:52):
I don't agree with you, which is fine. There's things
I don't agree with Donald Trump on, but It doesn't
mean that you have to hate the man. It doesn't
mean you have to come out and say the things
that you do, make up the lies that you do.
That again, doesn't affect Donald Trump, other than it probably
gets him a little riled up. But it doesn't affect
his life. It doesn't affect the mission that he's on.

(07:13):
He's doing his mission. The only thing that it does
when you see the Left get out there and do
all of these hoaxes and the constant rhetoric towards Donald Trump,
is it pisses people off, and it gives people a
false narrative of what's really truly going on, and it
gets people worked up on the left. Now, meathead hands

(07:38):
down was worked up over Donald Trump, a man who
you would hope considering his creativity level. And I will
divide Rob Briner into two people. I will divide him
into the actor producer, which, let's face it, got admit it.
He's produced and directed a lot of great movies that

(08:01):
entertained us very well. And then there's the man who
was a dumbass. He was a meathead. He was what
Archie Bunker had called him throughout the entire series. That
was Rob Brner, the man, Rob Briner, the man I
could do without because the man was a moron. But
you look at all the things that Rob Reiner had
said about Donald Trump, over and over and over and

(08:24):
over again. The hatred. You know that, that hatred, it
often doesn't just stick with the one individual. When when
you when you get into a situation like this where
the hatred is over and over and over again, you
know it. It'll leak into your family, it will leak
into your friends, it will leak into your surroundings. And

(08:47):
Rob Reiner again, you you go back and you see
the stuff that he wrote about Donald Trump, the things
that he continued to say about Donald Trump even though
it was proven to not be true. You can't blame
Donald Trump for really not giving a shit about what
he says about Rob b Reiner. You really don't. And

(09:08):
of course Donald Trump also he doubled up on his
unapologetic response to Rob Briner's death, and he was He
issued a statement on social media in response to Rob
Brier's death, which again he did point out he wasn't
a fan at all, which is fine, But he also

(09:33):
was taking some press questions on Monday, and Trump was
asked about the truth social post which he stated that
Reiner had a crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome.
Now there are people on the left that laugh at that.
They're like, oh, Donald Trump thinks tonya, But it is real.
There are people. And while there's only been a couple

(09:57):
of states that have actually and there have been some
states that have actually pass some laws that have called
the TDS a real thing, there has not been a real,
true medical defining of Trump derangement syndrome. But anybody with
a little bit of common sense can see that when
you are so messed up in the head, so messed

(10:19):
up in the head that you are deranged with everything Trump,
that no matter what happens, Trump comes out and says,
I just cured cancer, and you get pissed off about
it because Donald Trump did it. Your house was on fire,
Donald Trump grabbed the fire hose, put the fire out,

(10:40):
saved your entire house, your family, your pets, and you're
mad that Donald Trump saved your house. Like, no matter
what Donald Trump does, no matter what Donald Trump says,
you're upset with it. You hear the name Trump, you
get upset with it. You see a luxury hotel with
his name on it. You get upset with it. This
is a real problem, and I think that that somebody

(11:04):
on the left, really, I think at this point needs
to step up and say maybe we should look into this,
because you look at the violence that comes about you,
You look at the the lives that are just completely
a mess based upon TDS. You know it, if you

(11:26):
want to put it into some comparisons, it's kind of
like you know that that relationship that you break up
with somebody, that you are just madly in love with them,
madly in love with them, and that now that that
person is no longer there, everything revolves around that person.
You get upset about that person. It's ruining your life
because that person is not there anymore. That you don't sleep,

(11:48):
you don't eat, all you can think about is that person.
It's the same effect. And you see what it does
on people's lives when when they become so obsessed with
an individual that that they just they can't live their
life and their mental health declines more and more and more.
And this is what we're seeing with the Trump de

(12:08):
arrangement syndrome. But Donald Trump responded when he was asked
about the statement that he said. You know, a reporter
had asked, mister President, a number of Republicans have denounced
your statement on true social after the murder of Rob Reiner,
do you stand by the post? And he said, well,
I wasn't a fan at all. He was a deranged person.

(12:29):
As far as a as Trump is concerned, he knew
it was false. In fact, it's the exact opposite that
I was a friend of Russia controlled by Russia, the
Russia hoax. He was one of the people behind it.
And I think he hurt himself career wise. I don't
think he hurt himself career wise, though honestly, I think

(12:51):
he hurt himself mentally because he got so upset. And
we see this all the time, and you know, you
look at and again on a human level, no matter
how much you hate somebody like Rob Reiner. And I
couldn't stand the man. I mean, I like his work,
I didn't like him. Nobody deserves that type of a treatment,

(13:15):
to be murdered brutally by a knife, and especially by
someone who is your own offspring. Nobody deserves that. All right,
let me rephrase that there's probably some terrorists that probably
deserve that, but no normal person deserves that. So yes,
it is sad to see that Rob Reiner and his
wife's life had come to an end because of a

(13:38):
deranged child. But again, here's the thing with the left.
The left refuses to look into mental health. And I
am absolutely a huge proponent of mental health treatment because
there's so many different levels. There's so many different level

(14:00):
of mental health treatment that are out there for many
many reasons. Some are just minor, some are worse than that.
But when there is a need for mental health to
be addressed, it should be addressed. And like I said,
there's all kinds of things. Men's mental health today is
an absolute mess. And I can admit, and I totally

(14:23):
fully will admit to it, that there are days where
my mental health is a little on the air because
there's so many things that are going on in my
life personally and other things. And and you know what
I will also be very very forthright on this is
that you know, even I do from time to time
see somebody to talk about my own mental health to

(14:44):
keep myself in check. I know when things are not right,
but it's not that level of something that you'd have
to worry about I don't worry that, you know, one
day I'm gonna, you know, just decide to off myself
or off somebody else. It's not that level, but you
do get things that bother you. And men we are
the absolute worst when it comes to this at being

(15:06):
able to seek mental health, and we have to because
there's a lot of problems with men's mental health and
we have to address those things. But it also goes
to further levels, like the violence. You know, you look
at all of the mass shootings that happen, you look
at the situation with Rob Reiner. This isn't just somebody

(15:27):
out committing violence. These are all people with mental health issues,
and the left refuses to ever address the fact that
that needs to be looked at. In a lot of ways,
I think that the left they love the fact that
there's mental health issues because it creates all these problems,
which gives them something to talk about. But clearly there

(15:48):
was a problem with Rob Reiner's son. The reports now
coming out that Rob Reiner and his son were arguing
the night before, and of course now we could also
roll the conspiracy theories as well that Barack Obama and
Michelle Obama were supposed to meet with with Rob Briner

(16:08):
the day that he got killed. So there's a lot
of things to uh to to unpack when it comes
to the mental health and the left that they need
to they need to fix some things. By the way,
funny meme or funny uh funny message. It came to
a friend of mine the other day because uh, you know,
obviously there's there's the and I don't know for sure

(16:30):
if Rob Briner's son is or is not trans. I
really don't know. I I honestly don't ever really pay
that much attention to the Rob Brier family, So I
don't know. I I tried to look it up. There's
conflicting stories and everything. But send me the hashtag stop
trans violence. You know, in a lot of ways, that

(16:52):
is a that is a hashtag that almost needs to
come to life. Hashtag stop trans violence, not not violence
against trans but trans doing the violence. I mean, how
much of this is we seen With all the school
shootings that have happened, there were several of them in
a row, all conducted by somebody who was transgender. You've
got the Charlie Kirk shooting, who, while that individual was

(17:16):
not transgender, was at least involved with a transgender There
is a lot of mental health issues that are going
on in this country. And to be perfectly honest with you,
I think the left is doing nothing more than making
things worse. Shoes he is not, So Nick is not
transgender right now? Isn't there another kid that is? I

(17:36):
don't to be honest with you, I don't know, because
Hollywood I don't give a shit about I really don't,
and digging into their families, I don't really care. But clearly,
you know, there was a problem with the with the
kid that probably should have been addressed. But there's a
lot of other problems that are going on in the
in the in the world right now. And you know,

(17:57):
let me go down this road because I saw something
twenty two times in rehab. Jesus. You know this is
another thing too when it comes to the wealthy and
the people over there on the left, is that the
way they raise their children. I mean, how often do
you actually see children of Hollywood come out and be

(18:24):
halfway normal? I mean, they're never normal. There's so many
problems with these kids, it's ridiculous. But something else that
I saw today, which is interesting because you know, the
whole dating world. And this again goes back into men's
mental health. You know, there's studies out now that are

(18:45):
showing that about eighty percent of today's young men do
not want to date. They don't want to date because
of primarily of women. And there's a lot of older
men also that are kind of getting down in that
road that they don't want to date because of the
way the society is now portraying women. And this is

(19:10):
a dangerous thing. This is a very dangerous thing, and
I honestly think this is one of the things that
was you know, concocted by the left when it comes
to women here in America. I mean, obviously you look
at a lot of conservative women and most conservative women,
which this show, you know, based on the statistics, it's

(19:30):
fifty to fifty, fifty to fifty ish when it comes
to women. I've got amazing women that that watched the show,
that participate in the show, that you know, I interact
with all the time. And I love my female audience.
You guys are awesome, and you guys are the exception
to this rule that that that we're kind of talking about.
But the left has really gotten into this thing of

(19:54):
I mean, it's it's the Marxist agenda in so many ways,
but the way that they have brainwashed, you know, women
for not just recently, but for for quite some time.
With the brainwashing of women, and it also really kind
of started with the feminist movement that was that was
kind of where it started, and now it's it's gone
even further and you see the way and again, the Left,

(20:17):
they're not as dumb as we want to actually make
them out to be, or at least the people that
are controlling the Left are not as dumb as we
would like to make them out to be when you
look at what they have done with society, with the
way that they have brainwashed young women. And this is
one of the reasons again why eighty percent of young
men do not want to date, Like there's there's absolutely

(20:41):
no desire to want to date because they see the
stuff that is going on, and you see these young
women that are being filled with with with this just
bizarre mentality of how relations have got to be and
their relationships that men just don't want to deal with.
And the the worst parts about these are coming in

(21:02):
the gen Z and millennial. Gen Z and Millennial is
the worst area when it comes to that, and you
see women that are that are taking on opinions in
attitudes that men just don't want to deal with. And
this is why we're seeing such a drop in the
rate of dating, which again is a dangerous thing because

(21:25):
if you don't date, then you don't you know. And
when you don't you know, then we have a smaller population.
Which remember, when there's a smaller population, they're a lot
easier to control. This is all something that the Left
has done. But there's this new trend that is starting
to pick up now in this hang on a second

(21:46):
or write note apply for new passport. There's a new
trend that is out. It's called passport bros. Now, to
give you an idea of what passport bros Are. Passport
bros Is a new way that men are now starting

(22:08):
to date. And it's not well, I mean basically, what
it is is men have finally gotten to a point
where they said, I can't deal with American women anymore.
I'm going to go find a woman in another country. Yeah,
that is the new trend now when it comes to
men dating women that they would rather go and find

(22:32):
a woman in another country than date a gen z
or millennial woman here in America. And again, this is
the brainwashing damage that we see from the left. They
have done this, and they've done this intentionally because there's

(22:53):
no better way to destroy the nuclear family to reduce
the population then stopping people from dating to begin with.
And this is what the left has done to society.
If people actually step back for a second, take a big,

(23:14):
gigantic breath, deep breath, take all politics aside, and just
look at things with logic, and you see what the
left has done to this country. And again, yes, I
know that's political because it's the left, but they're the
ones who are doing it. You have to step back
and really kind of look at the big pictures, stop

(23:36):
looking at the center of the screen, but looking on
the edges of the screen too, in the background, and
see what it's done between the education system, brainwashing our
kids with the education system. And you see where that
has led now where we have not all teachers, but
many teachers nowadays and many educational leaders are brainwashed with
this mentality. You have the dating situation, the relationships situation

(24:01):
as a whole, You have the race relations how the
left went in and essentially destroyed the black Nuclear family,
the Black nuclear family, that was very tight, that was
very good for a very long time. And then in
the sixties seventies roughly in that area, they went in

(24:22):
and nuked it. And you see all of the problems
that happened now in the black community since the time
of the left getting rid of them, getting rid of
the nuclear family. You see the crime rate going up,
you see the poverty rate going up, You see so
many things that have gone wrong, and then you see
the way that they go after everybody else. The left

(24:44):
mentality is simply pure evil, and that's all it is.
It's evil, and this is something that we on the
right and even in the center need to fight against
and we need to stop it. We need to figure

(25:04):
out a way to reverse it, because it's not good.
This is how they control and they do a damn
good job at it. All Right, We got to take
a quick break. Coming up later on on the show,
Mark Mixure, the National Right to Work is going to
be joining us plus Hamas sticking their ugly head up.
We're gonna talk about that coming up in a bit.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back to the

(25:47):
Brian Rush Show.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Happy We or Wednesday, wasn't that shawn yup his time
for a spike it up coffee? Oh at Bailey's do I?
Heck no, I don't. I gotta go to worklater on too,
So regular coffee it is today, however, it is the

(26:09):
way whiskey aged barrel coffee. So a little teas there.
And on top of that, this morning's breakfast has been
dark chocolates. That's That's what I've been eating for breakfast
this morning. Don't give me a hard time.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
I was.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
I was filling myself with all all kinds of healthy
stuff yesterday, so that's what I get today. Glad to mention.
Dark chocolate is actually good for you. I mean, it's
proven it's good for you. And again I say this
every time we come out of breaks, and I never
do it. You know, I never do it. I gotta
stop watching social media like I'm flipping through and I

(26:44):
came across another photo and I'll tell you what I'm thinking.
A what a burger Wednesday? Oh ooh, the the sweet
and sour spicy bacon burger that they got it? Yep.
I'm just saying if I had time to get that,
I would totally get that anyhow, who score woman. Scrolling

(27:07):
through the social media on X today, I come across
a photo in these photos I love this because the
left will put this up. And this one is is
two men I'm gonna say late twenties, early thirties, both
got beards, looks like they're laying in the hospital and

(27:30):
one of the guys is there with a newborn baby
underneath the little thing there, and the caption reads, what
is the first thought that comes to mind when you
see this? Now I know what they're doing with this photo.
It is one of these transgendered has it go? Transgender man? Yeah,

(27:51):
transgender man when you're a woman and you become a
man who ended up getting pregnant and had the baby.
So the first thing that came to mind, I mean
is I figured out what they were doing. But the
first thing that came to my mind, because I'm sick
and twisted and warped, is I can only imagine the
reaction of the delivery doctor, you know, who maybe was

(28:12):
not the one that was expecting this. When you know,
the doctor's coming in and getting all cleaned up and
walks into the gloves in the hand in the air
and walks up to the table and goes, where's the
pregnant woman? That that's a bearded dude.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
Where's hang on? Something doesn't match here? That and this
they don't.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
I can only imagine what that would be like. That
was my first thought when I when I looked at
this photo, I know, there's something seriously wrong with me.
But I guess they were celebrating ween Wednesday, A different
kind of winger Wednesday, I guess is what they were
They were actually celebrating. So yeah, I don't know. Again,
I got I gotta stop scrolling through social media because
sometimes I see things that just it makes my warped

(29:11):
ask brain, uh kind of work in some weird kind
of ways. So will Be Goldberg, she's getting all upset again.
I know this is this is ah. This is a
big shocker to everybody that it is U that is
this way. But on Monday's show on the View, will
Be Goldberg said the President Trump's comments about the death

(29:32):
of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were shameless.
Sadny Haustin's tried to to jump in on this and
said that I hate to put a downer on it
and make it political, but President Trump text yesterday and
set a very and Goldberg cut her off and said,
don't read it, just tell me that it's there. But
Haustin continued on, saying that he talked about Trump, that

(29:56):
he that he died because of Trump derangement syndrome. I
just don't think that that's something that we should be
hearing about. And I think that we should be saddened
by the gun violence that we are seeing. I mean, yeah,

(30:17):
there was there's gut. Are we are we having two
different conversations here? Is that what we're doing? Okay? Because
sometimes with these these women edge it got to try
and figure out what they're talking about. But Goldberg comes
back in it just says, if we could wrap our
minds around the awfulness of these things, then we can
open our hearts to all the people who have had

(30:39):
to deal with this, all the women, all the men,
all the people of color, all the Jews, all the
folks who have had to deal with this struggle. I
don't understand the man in the White House because he
talks so much about Charlie Kirk and caring and suddenly
this is what he puts out. She adds on to it,
saying that have you no shame, no shame at all.

(31:00):
This is can you get any lower? I don't think so.
And what do you have to say about what's happening
around the world? Where where's the voice of Americans? Somebody
has got to speak up for us when our hearts
are breaking through this Throw Rob what's happening through Rob?
And what's happening at Bondi Beach? What happened to Brown?

(31:23):
And you can't find the time to say, as Americans,
we hate what's happening. You ain't my president, man, you're not,
by the way, you're not my president. You some proper
English woman. But you know what, let's talk a little
bit about that. Whoopee. You know, you look at the

(31:44):
way that the left addresses things. You look the way
Rob Ryder addresses to things, the way that you say
things over and over again. What have we on the
right set over and over and over again. We brought
up the issues, but all you do is attack us.
Let's look into the the Bondi Beach situation over there

(32:05):
in Australia. What was that? What is what is going
on there? Well? You had Muslims who now the Muslim
world is on there, their their worldwide shihad to kill
everybody who does not believe in Islam. So you had
these two Muslims who stood there and essentially executed Jews

(32:27):
who were at a Hanukkah celebration. What is it that
the the Trump administration, what is it that the maga,
the horrible Maga people have said over and over again
that the Hamas terrorists and the the Islamic terrorists that
are out there, they have to be stopped because this

(32:47):
is the type of stuff that they want to do.
They want to kill all these people. And what do
we get pushed back from the right, We get pushed
back from them about how we're being Islamophobic. Really, why
don't you go talk to the third something people that
are now laying in hospitals or dead because people who
are pushing an international jihad went and shot and killed people.

(33:10):
Go ahead and explain that to them. And now Hamas
is coming out and they're talking about the the Sydney attacks,
which is again one of these things that you know,
the left really truly kind of needs to step up
and pay very close attention to, because again, it's it's
stuff that we've been saying over and over again, and
this is Harmas that is saying this. This isn't just

(33:33):
you know, regular Islamic extremists that are coming out, it's Hamas.
And there's a leader with Hamas who's the political bureau member,
Mohammed Nazil. It is now claiming that the massacre of
innocent Jewish families in Australia was justified because of the
fake genocide in Gaza, which is how he described the

(33:56):
Israeli striking the terrorist attacks, and in attempt to defend itself
from repeated terrorist assaults, he went out and said what
happened in Sydney reflects the scope of hatred that has
been generated by the Zionist occupation everywhere on Earth. And
the sad part about a statement like that is that

(34:18):
you're gonna get people like Whoopi Goldberg and others on
the left that are gonna be like, see, see, you
don't understand these Muslims that are throwing gay people off
the buildings and shooting the Jews and are promising to
come out and kill all Americans. They just it's all
because of the Zionist occupation everywhere on Earth. And if

(34:38):
it wasn't for the Zionists like Donald Trump, then the
world would be a safer place. I don't understand how
people can be this freaking stupid. I really don't the
inability of those on the left right fake genocide. I

(34:59):
don't know what's fake about it, I really don't. But
apparently that's how how mass is looking at it that way.
It was a fake genocide, you know, like what October
seventh didn't happen. But again, these are things. They will
come out and they will say these words, and the
left will get upset about it, and they won't step

(35:19):
back and say, well, geez huh, when you when you,
when you really break it down, look at how all
the Muslims are the ones that are always doing all
of this violence. Maybe maybe maybe it's it's not us,
it's maybe it's maybe it's them. Did you ever think
about that? But the left, they have the inability to

(35:40):
be able to to look at the situations going on
in the world and understand that the Islamic extremists are
out to destroy everything that is not Islam. This is
also something that is not a theory, This is not

(36:01):
a hypothetical, This is not a oh that's just your opinion,
that's what they say. And as we're seeing some of
these things going on around the world. We have to
start to worry about and be concerned about our own
country and our American politicians who refuse, who absolutely refuse

(36:26):
to address the problem of the extreme Islamic problem that
we have in this world. They are coming for us.
They have told us that they're coming for us. We
have found their training camps. We know that there's over
a thousand a thousand sleeper cells, which, by the way,

(36:48):
just so you can put this into comprehension, when you
talk about a sleeper cell, you're not talking about an individual,
You're talking about multiple individuals. So when you say one
thousand sleeper cells, that could be ten thousand, fifteen thousand,
twenty thousand people that are ready to commit more October

(37:12):
seventh to commit more of the Bondi beaches. Thankfully, here
in America we still have the ability to defend ourselves
and we can put some of these people down when
it starts. But can you imagine if we fell into
the trap of what the rest of the world has
done with this whole gun control thing, how fast could

(37:34):
it have been stopped in Australia if somebody was able
to just shoot somebody like, when these two guys got
up there with these rifles and they start shooting at people,
how fast could it have been where somebody could have said, nope, gagna,
pop top and be done with it. Instead, you had

(37:54):
to have a man who ended up getting shot himself,
had to bum rush somebody to take gun away from him. Now.
I don't know if if the gun was out of
ammunition or not, or the man was just, you know,
not willing to do it. But I can tell you
this much. If I was that guy that tackled the
gunman and took the gun away from him, I wouldn't

(38:16):
have just held him at gunpoint. I would have blown
his frickin head right off. I would have absolutely removed
his head from his shoulders. The Left, they continue to
try and push this whole gun control and being nice
and all this other stuff, But what they refuse to

(38:39):
admit is that there are people in this world that
are violent, that are vicious, that have no moral values whatsoever.
And they are looking at the Left in America specifically
and going, man, these people don't get it. Ninety four
percent of all of the mass shootings and killings that
happened in this country happened in gun free zone in

(39:03):
gun free zones, and why because the bad guys know
that if I go shoot up a place where there's guns,
there's a really good chance I'm gonna get stopped and
I'm not gonna be able to complete my mission. And
when my mission is to get out there and kill
as many Americans as I possibly can, I'm not gonna
do it where somebody can stop me. And you know

(39:28):
that these terrorists are looking at this and they are
just drooling. They're just drooling and ready for it, knowing
that these leftists can't stop. Okay, so you take the
guns away, Fine, well, I'll drive through your Christmas parade
down the sidewalk and kill you and your family. I

(39:51):
can get through at least one hundred people before before
finally being stopped by maybe a police officer that might
be able to get there in time, versus an area
like I don't know. Here in Florida. They this is
probably one of the worst places for them to try
any terrorist stuff because here in Florida, you try that,

(40:12):
we're gonna drop you. You might get a few shots off,
you might be able to drive the car down a
little bit, but we're gonna drop you. We will remove
your head from your shoulders because we don't care. We
will protect our fellow citizens, we will protect our neighbors,
we will protect our families, we will protect ourselves. But
you look at these leftists out here, they're opening themselves

(40:34):
up for it. And again, ninety four percent of all
of the gun violence in this country, these mass murders
that happened, happen in areas that are gun for his zones,
and the left continues to push this narrative, and they're
stupid when it comes to pushing the narrative. Tim wats
now coming out just days after the the Brown University attack,

(40:56):
which we got to get into that too in a second,
but he's now wishing the assault weapons ban. Now, when
when you hear the word assault weapons, I mean, unfortunately,
we are now being trained to understand what that means,
and that means anything that is an AR fifteen or
an AR fifteen style, which I fucking hate that word.

(41:17):
It's either an AR fifteen or it's not. It's a
long rifle in different names, is what it is. Just
get the phrasing correct. But they can't do that because
assault weapons sounds scarier. But Tim Wallace. He ended up
posting to x and he actually didn't even define what
constitutes an assault weapon because first off, the Left, they

(41:39):
just they simply can't do it. They have no idea
what an assault weapon is except for an AR fifteen
style gun. If it's an air fifteen style gun and
a military style gun, then then it's bad and it's scary.
But he goes off and he he's talking about how
we need to have the more gun control, you know,

(42:03):
more gun control. After and we hear this all the
time too, transgenders go and shoot up a place. Okay, really, huh,
Let's think about that for a second, because when we
look at the transgender world, medical studies are showing upwards
of eighty percent eighty percent eight zero of those that
go down the transgender road end up having severe mental

(42:27):
health issues to the point of suicide, violence, and all
kinds of other things. So there's a problem clearly with
the transgender thing. But nope, we have a whole bunch
of transgenders that get in shoot up some schools. So
we gotta pan guns, we gotta take the guns away
from people. Kim Wallas is now trying to secure more

(42:49):
gun control by pushing for a special legislative gun control
session and even floating the idea of an assault weapons
ban via an amendment to the state constitution. And of
course he doesn't know what an assault weapons is. I mean,
it's for them. It's always, oh, it's the AR fifteen
or something like that. But let's talk about the Brown University,

(43:10):
because once again the Brown University, like so many other
mass shootings that we have had in schools, specifically where
we as soon as it happens, we get all these
leftist politicians that are like, we need to ban the
AR fifteens. Nobody should have an AR fifteen with a

(43:30):
thirty round clip in it because they can't say magazine.
They gotta say clip because I don't know how they
had brainwashing that one, but whatever. So, first off, if
you don't know what the hell you're talking about, you
probably should just, I don't know, shut up. But they
go out and they're like, oh, we got to ban
the AR fifteens, all right, But you do realize that
most of the shootings that are being done is being

(43:51):
done by a handgun. Right, Brown University, this was not
an AR fifteen. This wasn't some kind of a machine gun.
There's a handgun. We've seen multiple shootings, school shootings where yes,
there may be a long rifle that is involved with

(44:14):
the person, but all the shootings were done with a handgun,
and the left never comes out and says, oh, we
need to ban all the handguns too. No, it's the
assault weapons. Well, those scary little assault weapons. They have
no idea, none whatsoever of what they are actually talking
about when it comes to gun control. And if you

(44:35):
want to really truly start looking into stopping all of
this violence, look at the root cause of the violence.
Who's doing it, why are they doing it. But the
idea of taking all of our weapons away from us,
it's only going to do one thing. Greg, good morning
to you. It's going to do one thing. It's going

(44:56):
to make us vulnerable. It's going to be another Bondie
Bee where terrorists who will sneak weapons into this country
will find weapons of mass destruction of some sort and
they will go off and try to kill you. And
what will we be. We're gonna have to wait for
the one person that has the bravery to charge them

(45:20):
and try and stop them, full well knowing that just
a quick turn and boone you can shoot them. How
many deaths will happen in America if there is not
a threat to you being stopped as the bad guy.
And again the statistics, when you look at the statistics,

(45:42):
there is upwards of a million, yes, a million incidents
a year in America where a good guy with a
gun stops a bad guy from doing something bad. Now,
when you deep dive into those statistics of things, it
ranges everywhere from somebody with a vehicle, somebody with a

(46:06):
you know, just a blunt object, a hammer, a pipe,
or whatever it might be. Guns. I mean, there's a
whole variety of things of what people are using to
commit the violence or attempt to commit the violence. But
they're always stopped by a good guy with a gun.
And what do you see from mass shootings? Now, every
every single death, an innocent death, is a horrible thing

(46:29):
and not even one should happen. But let's look at
things on a comparative basis. Here you have the mass
shootings in a school, okay, maybe fourteen, fifteen, fourteen, five,
ten to every single one is horrible. But when you
look at how many mass shootings that we have in

(46:52):
this country where that is the case, there may be
ten fifteen people that are injured, a few that are
that are fatal. When you add all of that up
and then you compare it to the number of incidents
that have been stopped, it's a small number. And now
think about the fact that ninety four percent of all

(47:15):
of the mass shootings that happen in this in mass
violence that happens in this country, are in gun free zones.
How safe would the world be if in ninety four
percent of those examples where things have happened in these
gunfree zones, if there was somebody there that was armed

(47:35):
to stop it, where would those violent numbers be? And see,
here's the problem. The answer to the question is that
they would be reduced, let's realistically say reduced in half,
if not a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
So.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
The problem with that is, now, I have nothing to
scare you with. If the if, if you know that
a good guy with a gun would be able to
stop somebody from shooting up a playground, shooting up a school,
you're not going to be as afraid as if you

(48:16):
don't realize what's going to be next. When's the next
time that my my kids school is gonna get shot up?
When when am I going to get that phone call
that there's a shooting at my kids school. When am
I going to get that phone call that my husband
is not coming home, My wife is not coming home,
my kids are not coming home because of a mass shooting.

(48:36):
When's that going to happen? This is scary. I don't
want it to happen. Well, don't you worry about it,
because we politicians, us Democrats, what we're going to do
is we're gonna ban these things to make sure it
doesn't happen. Oh, thank god, now I can. Now I
can feel better because the Democrats are out there saying
that they're gonna they're gonna ban this from happening. So

(48:58):
therefore I'm out. The chances of me getting that phone
call or ever slim. But what happens, it's the opposite
of that. All this bullshit talk about gun control and
all this other stuff, all we ever see is gun violence.
Ever since we started going down the road of doing

(49:20):
the gun free zones back in the early nineties, that's
when you saw the spike in violence. Again, it's a
very simple thing to look at numbers. You look at
the research, you look at the numbers. That's the statistics
of where things happen, just like education all happened, by
the way, in the same general area. In the early nineties,
that is when somebody on the left said, oh my god,

(49:41):
if we just put up a sign that said no
guns over here, then like the bad guys are going
to be like, oh my god, I was all going
to go there and shoot the place off. But now,
and that's when we started seeing it. Sure, in the
seventies we saw the occasional school shooting, and when you
look at the information behind those school shootings, they all

(50:05):
revolved around pretty much the same thing. In the seventies,
there was a handful of shootings at schools, and from
what I can remember, I think almost all of them.
There may have been one that was not, but pretty
much all of them were because Bobby stole my girlfriend
and I was mad about it, so I got revenge

(50:27):
for stealing my girlfriend. There was always some sort of
a love triangle in the handful and I'm talking about
a hand like one hand handful of shootings that happened
in the seventies. Then when you get into the eighties,
pretty much kind of the same thing. It wasn't as bad,
And then you got into the late eighties and the

(50:47):
earnerly nineties, and then they did this whole one, the
mental health thing, where they stopped with mental health health,
where they shut down the hospitals and they frowned upon
ever going to find any sort of mental health. If
you're not doing well, don't worry about it, get over it,
brush it off. Then we saw the mass shooting start happening.
We saw the hatred, We saw the gun free zones

(51:10):
and all the gun free zones is where you saw
people go in and start doing all these shootings. And
again it happened at the same time that we stop
looking at mental health. By the way, it also happened
correlating with the gun free zones, the lack of mental health,

(51:32):
and then the educational system, when the educational system started
to stop doing things like gun safety in the schools,
stop doing that, stop doing basic training, basic teaching, when

(51:53):
you started taking the pledge of allegiance and religion and
everything else out of school, all of these things, it
all started happening at the same time. And look at
the result that we're at now, where we see these
mass shootings, where we see all these problems and the
left's idea still is to just take the guns away.

(52:13):
If you'd take the guns away and ban the guns,
then we won't have this problem. Well, explain this to me, lefties.
Why was it that in my generation and my parents' generation,
and probably even my grandparents' generation, that you could walk
the parking lot of your high school and see in

(52:37):
trucks like crazy gun racks with a gun sitting in
the truck. And those of either remember, they were not
secure gun racks at all. They were like the same
gun rack that you would have on your wall in
the den where you just take the gun and you
put it up on top of it had like the
little felt like loops. Those are the gun racks that

(52:59):
we saw in the back of trucks with all the
guns that we actually physically saw walking through the parking
lot of our school. Go, there's a gun, there's a gun.
There's a gun, there's a gun. Who knows that there's
handguns as well in those But we're looking at the rifles,
you know, those horrible assault rifles that are in the
windows of our trucks, and yet we didn't have mass shootings,

(53:24):
just things that make you go hmmm, all you gotta
do is look back and see where where did things change?
What did we do when we started changing? Simple as that.
But the Left won't do it because of the simple reason.
It is about power. It is about control, that is it.

(53:46):
There's many other facets that go in it. You know,
the less people that there are, the easier it is
to control. So popping off a whole bunch, you know,
that helps with the mission of being able to control
the people because there's less of them to do it.
The Left is evil. Prove me wrong that they are
not evil. Right, Sean used to have your shotgun and

(54:08):
you're twenty two in the back window, so you can
go hunting right after school or before school for that matter. Hell,
I remember there was a kid, redneck kid by the way,
Can I also point this out for all my Florida friends.
And we were just talking about this the other day.
I hear this all the time about people. Although I'm
so redneck and you know, I'm so country, and this

(54:30):
is absolutely no offense to my Florida family, because I
love my Florida family. But I was talking with a
female friend of mine and she was because look, I
self admit that I'm kind of bougie about a lot
of things. Totally admit it. I stay at bougie hotels,
I drink fou fou coffee. I'm kind of bougie about

(54:51):
a lot of things. I like the finer things. But
we were talking about, you know, country being country, and
I looked at her and I said, you do realize
that I'm a lot more country than you realize, And
she's like you, It's like, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
So.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
It's like, you don't even know cowboy boots. You don't
have a you know, you drive a truck, but you
don't drive like a big, big old truck. You don't
go hunting. You know, you don't listen to country music.
You're not country. And I'm like, listen, first off, listening
to country music driving a truck wearing a flannel shirt

(55:26):
that doesn't make you country. That I had to tell them,
I'm like, listen, I can guarantee you that you can
bring all of your friends together, all of your country
friends together, and out of all of them, I can
guarantee you that I have shoveled more cowshit and thrown

(55:47):
more hay bales than any of them have. I can
also probably tell you that in my childhood time span.
Compared to all of theirs, I've spent more time in
the woods, riding snowmobiles, doing all that type of stuff
than any of them have. I'm like, I am way
more country than most of the people here in the

(56:10):
Florida that claim to be country, just a fact of life.
Just because I'd come across the little on the bougie side,
which I do totally admit, it doesn't mean I'm not
a country I mean, I grew up in an area
that was mountain and country, so yeah. But I actually
went to school with a lot of the even more

(56:33):
country kids, redneckish kids, And there was one that I remember,
and I forget what his name was, though I could
totally picture him in my face. He drove a Ford
f one fifty with a wooden bed on it, beat
up to hell. He had an American flag on one
side and believe it or not, the rebel flag on

(56:53):
the other side. And this is back in the late
eighties when I was in high school. And he also
always had hunting rifles in his back window, like almost
every day, and there would be times where he would
actually go hunting the night before or in that morning,
and he would have a deer laying in the back

(57:14):
of his truck in the parking lot, and nobody cared.
Nobody noticed. We were just like, oh, what do he got?
And by the way, deer in Massachusetts compared to deer
here in Florida, no comparison. It's like a full grown
deer here is like a dove, like a little dough
up there in the north. So I always kind of

(57:35):
get I get the giggles out of that too, because
I'm not a hunter, I believe it. I'm kind of
more of an animal lover than anything. So I'm not
big into hunting animals, not to mention I'm not into
the gaming meet so just doesn't do anything for me.
But I see people that'll be like, oh my god,
we went out and we got this deer. And I
look over and I'm like, really, like, I mean, that's

(58:00):
that's what you're proud of. I'm like, I bet you
threw that up over your shoulders and carried it out too,
didn't you. By the way, that's not impressive, you know
when you when you see some of the deer, like
my grandfather, Hey, he had deer head that were stuffed
in in his in his den and you look at
those things and those were deer, like just the head,

(58:22):
the neck in the head itself was bigger than some
of the deer that I see people here in Florida
be like, yeah, I got this big deer. It's like
you didn't. You didn't get a big deer. Sorry. By
the way, if I offended anybody here in the Florida
area that thought that they were super country, you're just
not as country as you thought. Uh, what's that? Greg?

(58:42):
You were raised in the heartland of Indiana, farm country,
and it doesn't matter. It doesn't make you country by
listening to music or what you pickup truck you drive.
It's a lifestyle you live and that's what makes you
what you are. That's true, That is very true. Anyhow,
you gotta take a quick break. We'll be right back.
This is the Brian Rush Show. Good morning, all right,

(59:19):
welcome back to the Brian Rush Show. Thank you so
much for making this part of your day. By the way,
can I just say hello to all of the new
people that I'm seeing chat in the rumble, chat a
lot of new names seeing there are a lot of
great conversations too. I love watching what you guys have
to say about what we're talking about, and what's that lurely?

(59:42):
I know I probably said it wrong. You guys realize
nuclear weapons are more of an insurance and shotguns, right, yep.
They are the difference between being a country and being redneck.
There is a big difference on that. By the way,
Can I also throw that one last quick story about
me not being as bougie as some people think, because
when I first came to Panama City, what I came

(01:00:05):
in as as the manager of the programming aspect of
the radio stations that I was working for at the time.
I came in and you know, a bunch of the
guys that again called themselves country rednecks. They invited me
and they were all staff that worked for me. They're like, hey,
you want to go to a turkey shoot? And I'm
like what? And I think the way that I hit

(01:00:26):
it because I wasn't really paying attention when they said hey,
you want to go? I was like what. And they're like, oh,
he does a turkey shoot. And I'm like, yeah, sure,
why not, Let's go ahead and do it. So I
did it, and I went with these guys and they're
all like super confident about how great they're going to
be and how they're going to show me up, because
you know, you know, bougie manager that just rolled in

(01:00:47):
doesn't know much about guns. And I just decided I'm
going to play the stupid role with this one. And
I did. And it was great because you know, if
you've never done the Turkey shoots, first off, it's not
shooting at Turkey's targets, and then you win a turkey.
It was it was a thing for the UH. It
was like the Navy Auxiliary I think was doing it.
So it was one of these things where they were

(01:01:09):
raising money for the naval families to be able to
provide holiday meals for them. And we get out there
and and and one of the guys that I was with,
he looks at me, one of my employees, and he says,
don't worry about it. This guy here, he'll show you
what to do, and he'll load the gun for you
and everything. And I'm like, oh, okay, sure, let's let's go. Okay,
what do we do? And I step up there and
the guy loads the weapon and and he's handing it

(01:01:29):
to me and before he lets go of and he's
given me kind of the safety brief. I'm like, uh huh, okay,
and then he goes, okay, now what you want to
do is aim down there, and you see you aim
through here, and then you aimed at the target down there,
and I'm like okay. And I come up and I'm like,
which one are we shooting at? And he goes, You're
at number five whatever the hell it was, and I'm
like okay, and boom bullseye, like dead freaking center bullseye.

(01:01:53):
And of course everybody I was with was like, what
how did he? Oh beginner's luck, you know, it was
so lucky. I'm like, yeah, that was amazing. Hey, can
I do it again? Here's more money. And of course
you know, I won the turkey or ham or whatever
it was, and it gives me the gun and I
come back up and boom bullseye again. I did this

(01:02:13):
like eight or nine times in a row. By the
time I was done. The guys that worked for me
that were all cocky and confident about how this bougie
ass kid was not going to be able, they're now
sitting over there going I can't believe because they also
went up and shot and missed. By the way, every
single one of those turkeys and hams that I ended

(01:02:35):
up winning on that I donated to the navy families.
I didn't even take any of them because the satisfaction
of watching those guys just being deflated entirely it was.
It was joyful. So yeah, bougie, you know what that is.
For those that are new to that word, bougie, it's uh,
you know, you're always into you know, the the the

(01:02:56):
upper you know, like the the fancier things life kind of.
I think that's the easiest way of putting it. Like me,
I was first live, first class, drink, food, food of coffee,
you know, that type of stuff. At the same time, though,
I'm also not afraid to throw on some shit kickers
and get out there and get dirty. Just don't see
that very often. I don't have much time to do that.

(01:03:17):
I miss doing that, to be honest with you. I
miss throwing on a pair of boots and just going
out and getting dirty. There's just something about that. It's
very manly, Like growing up as a kid. I'm telling you,
if you ever need a if you ever need like
a river or a brook or something diverted, I'm your man.
We used to do that when I was a kid
all the time. If people only knew the stuff we did. Mom,

(01:03:41):
by the way, turn away, you don't want to know
about half the stuff that half the stuff that we
did as kids. But yeah, you know, just saying, so
let's take a dip into the wonderful world of the
lefties and the governor of Massachusetts. This woman is not bright.

(01:04:03):
I mean this over and over and over again. Every
time you turn around, this woman is showing another example
of how she's not smart. You know, starting going back
a little bit when when Texas was gonna do it's redistricting.
Texas was gonna do its redistricting, and you know, you
heard all the other the liberal states coming out going,
oh my god, we got to counter what they're doing.
We're gonna do it too. And then Massachusetts chimes in

(01:04:27):
and the governor, Governor Healy, she goes, we're gonna do
it too here in Massachusetts. And I think pretty much
everybody that knew anything about politics turned around and looked
at Massachusetts and was like, what, governor, do you do
you understand what it means to redistrict and why you

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would redistrict. You redraw the lines so that you can
have a political favor in those lines. The state of
Massachusetts has not elected a Republican to Congress since the
nineties because of the fact that every single district that
is drawn in Massachusetts is done to be a heavily Democrat.

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So why would you redo your lines. By the way,
if Massachusetts was to redo their lives anywhere, it would
probably actually favor the Republicans more than it would be
the Democrats. But this woman continues on with the level
of stupid all the time. You know, one of the
things that she's proposed to do is to give migrants,
illegal migrants, what was it, like thirty something thousand dollars,

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some ridiculous amount of money two migrants to be able
to get a home. Illegals, by the way, not in
Massachusetts residents, not to people that are living in poor
neighborhoods that have been you know, born and raised in Massachusetts.
No illegals came here illegally. We're gonna give them like
thirty grand to buy a house. And then on top
of that, we're ass gonna give them four thousand dollars

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a month to be able to survive off of wouldn't
you want to take care of the people of your
state better than that. And the latest thing that's come
up with Governor Moore heally she's now calling in the
Department of Homeland Security in the US Immigrations and Customs
Enforcement to stop using handscom Field Airport for private deportation flights.

(01:06:20):
She sent a letter to the Homeland Security Secretary of
Christy Nome and the acting director of ICE, todd Lyons,
on Friday after she learned that ICE had been chartering
planes that are being used to quickly remove residents and
sever them from their friends and family and counsel without
due process of the law. They're exiting them out of

(01:06:43):
Massachusetts out of this and she's now writing to demand
that ICE immediately stop using any Massachusetts airports and private
jets to deport residents and obstruct the due process and
to halt this practice across the country. Now, first off,
let's start with Hanscomb. That's an air Force base, that

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is federal property, federal air Force base, and you, the governor,
are going to demand that that the federal government stop
using a federal airstrip to remove illegals here in the country.
That it is the responsibility of the federal government to

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prevent coming into the country to begin with, and now
they're trying to take them out of there. Meanwhile, here
you are dumping hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars
into these people when you have a lot of poor
people in Massachusetts that could really use some of that money.

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And shut up Massachusetts. I don't I don't you know
what I hate saying that I'm from Massachusetts. I really
do when I see the type of stuff that goes
on all the time. My fellow Massholes, how do you,
with good conscience go to the voting booth and go, oh,

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Mora Heally, this without a doubt. I'm gonna I'm gonna
fill in that. So I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna
trace the outside of that circle. I'm gonna fill it in.
Can I fill in a little more? Got another pen?
I want to make sure that this is I want
to really make sure that I vote for somebody as
smart as more A Heally. And then you have Michelle
Wu in Boston. Holy hell, that woman. I mean, I

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know that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover,
but you simply look at Michelle Wu and there's nobody home.
I mean, there's there's simply nobody home. And I what
I don't understand is how voters, leftist voters can look

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at somebody who looks like a bobblehead because there's very
little clues going on up in there, and go, that's
the person I want to run my city. Let alone
listen to the things that they have to say. But
you just simply look at him and go no. But
in Massachusetts, they have elected Boriheely the governor, the woman

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as dumb as a brick, Michelle wou the mayor of Boston.
And she literally she's bobblehead. Duh, that's what she looks
like all the time, comes up with dumb things, wants
to actually take care of all the illegals and not
take care of the residents of Massachusetts. Boston's got a
crime problem that's jumping up through the roof. And then

(01:09:44):
you have Focahontas. You have Focahontas that they keep re
electing as their senator, Elizabeth Warren. And then you've gotten
to Ed Markey, who's the other senator in the state
of Massachusetts, who again one always lightened his loafers and
two just dumb as a Brick. I don't understand how

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liberals do that. I mean I would I would love
to see a study that that that is based upon
how liberals decide to vote like Gavin Newsom. How do
you how do you look at Gavin Newsom, especially with
his track record in San Francisco, and go, yeah, this
is the guy I want to run my entire state.

(01:10:27):
How do you look at Kamala Harris? You can do
it with your own eyes. Can I have a drink
and look at Kamala Harris and be like, Oh, that's
the woman I want to be the most powerful person
on the planet. How do they do this? That's what
I don't get. Brandon Johnson in Chicago and then there's

(01:10:52):
a speaking of that the idiot in uh in Georgia
what's his name there? The the Guam guy. If we
were too overpopulate Guam, would it tip over? And people

(01:11:13):
are like, yay, this is our representative. I'm sorry if
any of my representatives stood up there and said something
as dumb as that man did from Georgia. The congressman
and what's its Hank something isn't it Hank dip wod?
I just I would I would lose my mind, I'd
be like, no, look, I'm friends with congressmen done, and

(01:11:39):
I don't agree with everything that he does. I simply don't.
Even though we're friends, I don't agree with everything that
he does. I think he's done a good job. I
know that the stuff that he does in the background,
which again I criticize him all the time about the
fact that he doesn't tell more people about about this
stuff that he does. But you remember the whole, the
whole TikTok hearing that they had. I mean, I actually

(01:12:01):
looked at him and I was like, who the fuck
prepared you for that? I'm like, that was that was
some of the dumbest stuff that I have ever heard.
And I like the guy. I'm friends with the guy,
and I still had to look at him and be like, look,
I voted for you and everything, but that was the
dumbest things I've ever heard. I just I don't understand

(01:12:22):
how politicians can convince it's the retards of America. Ricky.
I think you're right, and you're living in California, so
you you gotta have a good grip on that one.
It's just it's amazing to me to watch what the
left does what they vote for, and then you know,

(01:12:43):
watching them, like I love watching Harry Sisson, and this
kid is like I don't know if he's a glutton
for punishment or if he is just so oblivious to
the fact that he gets himself handed to him every
single time. He went on again on Pierce Morgan's show.
And then the idiot goes off and he actually like
he he posts the video of him on there trying

(01:13:06):
to actually miss the big tough guy, and the four
people that are on there with him just destroys him.
But he gets on there all the time, and you
just I don't get it. The level of stupid. It
just it's mind boggling to me how they can do it.
It really does. And then you get you get the

(01:13:29):
people that going on the transgender thing, which this is
the latest thing on social media. Just as I was
scrolling a little bit, I saw this one. Trans women
are biological women. Trans women are biological women. No, trans
men are biological women. You guys are getting that wrong.
You know what it's like when you when you look
at basic science and you just you don't understand what's

(01:13:52):
going on there. What's that we need to make a
road trip to tampon Tim's house. I gotta yell retard
through a bullhorn, Sean, that would be a great road
trip there really would. And then then there's Tim Walls.
Tim Walls, how and and and there's two questions here,

(01:14:15):
one for I guess maybe Tim Walls, how are you
this dumb? Really? How did you have eight billion dollars
disappear under your watch? And nobody saw this? By the way,
how did you also not go, hey, how did how

(01:14:38):
did one of our state, one of our representatives in
Congress go from being a net worth of about sixty
thousand dollars to being worth thirty million dollars last year
at ironically the same time that the eight billion dollars
was disappearing into the Somali community, and you didn't go

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like nobody thought that something was a little odd there
for elon Omar, who was worth, you know, sixty thousand
dollars according to her financials one year, sixty thousand. Again
the next year then she was worth like maybe one
hundred and fifty or so one thousand, and then last
year elon Omar did her her finances, her financial reports

(01:15:24):
that you have to do as as elected member of Congress,
and she went from being worth one hundred and fifty
thousand to thirty million, and nobody went, how'd you do that?
I mean, I can understand that you luck out, that
you find a good piece of property and you buy

(01:15:44):
it at a really good price and maybe fix it
up a little bit, and you sell it for a million,
and you're like sweet, and then I buy another property
with that million. You kind of turn your money over
a little bit and you get But how do you
go from one hundred And I really truly want to
know this, like for my own I mean, look and paper,
I mean, I'm ready to learn. How do you go
from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars that you are

(01:16:06):
valued at to being now worth thirty thirty three zero
thirty million dollars? Because to me, that's that's freaking amazing.
And I want to know. I want to know your
secret of how you are able to do that. And
I want to know how somebody like Tim Waaltz is
not capable of going how the hell did that happen?

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How did that happen? Because I want it. I want
to know. That's like Nancy Pelosi, So how did how
did you all of a sudden become worth like, you know,
quarter of a billion dollars, Just just curious. But then
how do the the elected people? This is the other thing,
because as a conservative, I'm kind of angry that other

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people's representatives have all of a sudden shot through the roof.
And look, there's Republicans too, like Dan kran I like
Dan Crenshaw when he first came out of the scene.
But right now, Dan, you've got some splaining to do too.
Where'd the money come from? Now? Again, I don't I
don't care if they came out and said, look, you
know what, I invested in some stock, at which point

(01:17:16):
we could turn around and go, really, how did you
get that information? But I mean these have just come
out and say, yeah, I invested in some stock or
I took a risk on this, and this is how
you know I got it. They never do that. It's
just one of those Hey, how did you become a millionaire?
A multimillionaire on one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars
a year? And they just go and walk away, like

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elon Omar was being questioned about her all of a
sudden being worth thirty million dollars and she just stares off.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Bye.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
Just if I don't acknowledge you, then I don't hear you.
The corruption that we got going on in Washington, DC
is unreal. But again, my other question, squirrel, My other
question is how do voters not see this? How do
voters not get up set? How do they not get
upset when they are struggling? And we see this in

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in a lot of Minnesota, a lot of Minnesota of
residents are struggling. Close to ninety percent of the Section
eight housing that is going on in Minnesota is by
the way, going to Somali's. There was a guy who
was doing a video and I was watching this, and

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he is a handyman, and he was talking about how
a lot of the work that he does is on
Section eight housing to keep the housing you know, up
and going and everything. He says, what amazes me is
that I go in there and again, ninety percent is
all Somalians living in this Section eight housing, and they're
all driving brand new cars. And this guy goes on

(01:18:49):
to how I'm busting my ass. I am working my
ass off every single day to afford the house that
I have, and I'm driving around beat up truck and
these Allians who come in here who don't have jobs,
are living in Section eight housing and driving expensive cars.
How does this happen? And this is the thing about voters,

(01:19:13):
when you see this, this is the type of stuff
that you should be up in arms about. You should
be going to your representatives in Minnesota and saying, hey,
I'm struggling, how is this possible? They're not even Americans.
And then to find out the information about how eight

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billion dollars has been funneled through the Somalians and all
of these Somalians are benefiting. And here I am a
struggling Minnesota who would really just I would love to
have a good house and maybe provide a good Christmas
for my kids this year and be able to have
good food on the table all the time. I would
love that. But the Somalians are driving around brand new,

(01:19:56):
nice cars and living in Section eight housing. Why aren't
you upset? I mean, this is the type of stuff
that really should make the voters grab pitchforks and torches
and storm the capitol buildings. But people are just like,
he really sucks. It's not fair. You know what's not

(01:20:20):
gonna be fair either, is when these people come in
and completely take over your country. Now Here in the
state of Florida, we are standing up against this Muslim infiltration.
We have Ronda Santis who are now being sued, which

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one word discovery was not a good idea from Care
to turn around and ensue the State of Florida because
now we're gonna be able to do some discovery and
we're gonna be able to look into more and more
of the things that you're doing. But Care and the
Muslim Brotherhood, which has already been designated on a national
level from Trump as being terrorist organizations, but we did

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it here in Florida. So now they're suing. Well, you
know what, instead of suing, prove us wrong, prove us
wrong that you're not a terrorist organization, prove us wrong
that you're not supporting the behavior that we're seeing. As
a matter of fact, where is Care to step up?
And that's c Ai are Care? Where are you to

(01:21:26):
step up and denounce these Somali videos that are being
done in Minnesota where you have Somalians who are in
their natural language or their native language talking about how
they're here to take over America. We're not here to assimilate.
We're here to take over America. Where is care to

(01:21:46):
stand up and say, look, where the what is it?
The council, council is something with Islamic relations, American Islamic relations,
whatever the hell it is. Where are they to step
up and say, look, guys, Somalians, that's not why we're here.
We're here in America because this is an amazing country
and we want to have a better life and we

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want to be part of the American dream. Where is
that they're not there? They don't get out and say
that stuff, and you wonder why we're all like, wait
a second, and then you get upset because Rona Santis
calls you a terrorist group. Denounce what they're doing. Prove
to us that you are not a terrorist organization, that

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you don't support it all. They don't because they do,
and that's a problem. We got to take a quick break.
We'll be right back. This is the Brian Rush Show.
Good morning, and thanks so much for being part of
us today. All right, welcome back to the Brian Rush Show.

(01:22:56):
Happy Wien or Wednesday. So unemployment number came out yesterday
for November, which were slightly delayed because of the government shutdown,
and the Left is jumping at this one and foaming
at the mouth. See, we told you Donald Trump is
destroying the economy. The unemployment rate did jump up a bit,

(01:23:17):
up to four point four percent in November, and of
course the left going crazy. Jojoe from Jura's unemployment just
hit a four year high. But Trump gives the economy
an a plus plus. And I guess we know why
he had to pay someone to take his SATs. First off, Jojoe,
do us all a favor, sit down and shut up.

(01:23:39):
But we have to look at the numbers because again,
this is one of the problems that we have with
the left, is that they don't like to look at
cause effect. They don't like to look at at the
deep dive of anything. They just want to see what's bad.
And sure does is four point four percent little high. Yep,

(01:23:59):
that's a little high. As it got up a little bit. Yep,
it's gone up a little bit. But let's talk about why,
because you remember, there's when you look at the statistics
for unemployment, there's breakdowns on how this happens. And keep
in mind that going in through October and into November,

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there was a lot of government people that are out
of work a lot of them out of work, and
there's some things that they the left won't take into consideration.
And when you see the job numbers, and honestly, in December,
you're probably going to see not a great improvement in

(01:24:45):
December or really January, when it comes to a lot
of the job numbers, it'll probably be kind of a
kind of all over the place, kind of flat and
not looking fantastic. But it'll improve once we get into
the year a little bit. But you have to look
at all the government employees that have gone. I mean,
you look at the number of government people. There's about
it was at one hundred and sixty two thousand plus

(01:25:09):
government federal government jobs that were lost due to either
the deferment or the resignations or the buyouts. So how
many of those people ended up filing for the unemployment
because they're no longer working. So that is one of
the things there when you have all of these federal jobs,
because Donald Trump has been trimming the federal government down

(01:25:32):
like crazy, and that is going to reflect in the
negative numbers in the in the job numbers. The left
doesn't want to talk about that. And when you break
it down, the government jobs contributed negatively to the overall
growth of our numbers. And again when you look back

(01:25:55):
at some of the Biden error tays, there's a lot
of numbers, especially for his last year, that had to
be revised because they were incorrect. Now I understand that again,
there is this time of the year when when jobs
come down. Because look, being here in the Panhandle of Florida,

(01:26:18):
we have for many, many years. Jesus, my stomach just grumbled,
so a lot of it fell like they're an earthquake.
The hell's anymore chocolate, That's what I need. Here in
the Panhandle of Florida, we are a or at least
in Panama City Beach, we're kind of a heavy tourist area.
You have Pensacola that's also a heavy tourist destinies of
a tourist area. You got Orlando those tourists, Tampa this

(01:26:42):
tourist so you've got a lot of tourists. But there's
seasonal tourism. So in November you're going to start seeing
a lot of numbers start to drop off. You look
at all of the other tourism related industries that are
summer tourism that are out there, and yes, those numbers
naturally during this time of the year drop off and

(01:27:04):
you start to see those unemployment numbers pop up in
October November. It happens because it's just the natural progression
of things. But the other thing is the trimming down
of the federal government. The last won't look at it
that way. Instead, it's all how bad Donald jump is

(01:27:24):
how many illegal aliens are unemployed? All of them technically
all of them have to be unemployed, because if you
were to to check them on that, then then there's
then there's problems even though there's a lot of them
that are employed. But there's also things like the workforce

(01:27:46):
participation numbers, which also changes all kinds of things. But again,
when when you look at what's that Knoxville, Tennessee and
the tourism season is horrendous. Yeah, I mean, look, this
is the thing that we're seeing right now is a
lot of the tourism industry has dropped down. But there's
also been a negative in the government growth of jobs

(01:28:10):
because we've gotten rid of jobs. And under Joe Biden
there was a huge increase of jobs. But in the
private sector there has been significant growth or at least
a modest growth that's going on. We've seen in according
to some of the numbers that came out, about sixty
nine thousand jobs added, primarily in the healthcare and or

(01:28:34):
healthcare at about forty six thousand, and other private sector
about sixty nine thousand, and then construction went up about
twenty eight thousand, which we know the construction was actually
a lot more than that because well, Greg, as you
point out, illegals, a lot of them are doing construction,
but they can't officially count them. But again, this is
one of these things where the left they love to

(01:28:55):
just jump on things when they see the numbers and
not understand what makes them up. Now, I'm not trying
to justify and say, oh, well it's not that bad,
because look, four point four percent, that's bad. But what
caused it? You remember that the most important word in
our language. Why why is that? And again, because you

(01:29:18):
look at the government jobs that have been trimmed out,
gotten rid of, and you also look at the government shutdown.
How many people are in the government shutdown as it
approached its very depths of it? When screw this and
I'm filing the for unemployment, and what will the numbers
reflect later on in December now that the government's back

(01:29:38):
up and running, so we'll see. But then you also
get the the argument that's coming from the left about
the Affordable Care Act came Jefferes out of talking about
the Affordable Care Act. Tax credits expired this month. Tens
of millions of Americans will lose their health insurance. House
Republicans have created this healthcare crisis because they don't give

(01:29:58):
a damn about you, lies, acheme.

Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
Lies.

Speaker 1 (01:30:06):
First off, let's start off with the name affordable healthcare.
If it's affordable healthcare, it shouldn't need the tax subsidies
to be able to survive. And to make it so
that people can host that word again, afford it and
I love how he and it's always the words they use.
Tens of millions of Americans could lose their health insurance.

(01:30:28):
And what they're talking about is about twenty million Americans
that are expected to lose health insurance because they're being
kicked off of things like Medicaid and Medicare. And by
the way, not Grandma and grandpa, but no able bodied
workers are being kicked off of that illegals. The one

(01:30:48):
point four million or plus are being kicked off of
that and when you talk about the healthcare crisis, this
is not something that the Republicans created. This is something
that honestly both have created, but even more so Democrats created.

(01:31:09):
What's that, Greg, You are an over the road trucker,
and you can see the economy improvement across the country.
By the middle of twenty twenty six, we will clearly
see the difference between the declining years and the Golden Age. Yeah,
you know, Greg, somebody like you being an over the
road trucker, you know, you're getting a very unique perspective

(01:31:30):
of the economy when you're able to drive around and
see it all because what we do see from the
left all the time. And I love this because the
left will be out there going. Donald Trump said he
was going to lower the gas prices, and gas prices
are really high. Of course now gas prices are expected
to be at a four year low or five year

(01:31:51):
low this Christmas. But yeah, gas prices are high in
blue states where they have ridiculous regulations that are creating
a higher price. And Greg, being an over the road trucker,
I can bet that you probably go from an area
that is more conservative and see the lower price of

(01:32:12):
fuel to areas that are not so conservative and see,
I higher price in fuel. And that's what you see
when you look at the national gas prices. You know,
you see how it has gone down. It's not the
level that Donald Trump said he wanted it to be
at during the campaign. I mean, he he gave us
the number and said I wanted to get down this low.
But there's a reality when it comes to the gas prices.

(01:32:37):
What's that you'll be purchasing the diesel two dollars and
sixty six cents. See, that's actually pretty good. Bet you
go to California though, you're not going to get that.
California diesel prices they're not that low. But we've seen this,
We've seen where the prices are, the difference between Red

(01:33:01):
states and Blue states. Groceries, you know, groceries are different
in the Red States and the Blue states. And you
have people that just don't get outside of their bubble.
And Greg, I think you're a perfect example of somebody who,
you know, there's not even a bubble. You know, you're
you're so outside of it and to be able to
see what's going around in the country and realize shoes

(01:33:27):
did you just say you paid two dollars a gallon yesterday,
Gay California and Pennsylvania the worst. Pennsylvania's worst. That actually
kind of surprises me a little bit that it would
rank them right up there with California as the worst.
Yet it's right, Greg, you live in reality, and there
is a reality. I mean, I understand that we all
live in our bubble and most people don't, you know,

(01:33:49):
exceed getting out of their areas. But there's a simple
thing where all you have to do is look and
go by the way, I mean, simp, where's my phone?
Simple things like this where you can you can pick
up your phone and you can just you can ask
your phone. You can ask your phone. Hey, what's the
price of diesel in California?

Speaker 7 (01:34:12):
Let's see The average diesel price in California is currently
between four dollars and ninety nine cents and five dollars
and four cents per gallon. Keep in mind that price
has changed daily, so it's best great.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
What's the price of diesel in Florida? See how easy
this is?

Speaker 7 (01:34:29):
The average diesel price in Florida is around three dollars
and sixty five cents per gallon, but it can vary.

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
See how easy it is to do a little bit
of research, and yet the Left won't do it. Instead,
you'll hear them complain, oh my god, oh my god,
it's so expensive here. Well, why is it so expensive
in California but not expensive in Florida. They have no
answer to that. They don't know because they refuse to
look outside of their bubble. This is one of the

(01:35:01):
problems to the left is that they just they're so
brainwashed and they'll just believe whatever it is that they're told.
It's all Donald Trump's fault. But Donald Trump with the
Trump Effect, what they're calling it, the Christmas Day gas
prices are expected to drop to the lowest level in
about five years. In President Trump's energy policies are pretty
much what's delivering what is expected to be the lowest

(01:35:23):
national average, you know, Christmas Day prices that we've had
since twenty twenty, which was his last full year in office.
Gas Buddy is now projecting that on Christmas Day, the
average gas price nationally will be two dollars and seventy
nine cents a gallon, which is down from the two
to ninety five per gallon last year under Joe Biden.

(01:35:46):
Now remember that one of the problems that Donald Trump
has when it comes to getting the price of fuel
down even more is the fact that under the Biden administration,
one of the things that they did was continuously force
these petroleum companies to close. We were talking about this

(01:36:07):
on Monday. When it comes to the the gas prices
in in California and what's gonna happen over there, And
it's gonna be bad in California. Uh not, potentially it's
going to be because all of this stuff is already
into effect. You have gas companies that are cheez that're
trying to heat on in here. Holy cow, it got hot.

(01:36:28):
Hang on, turn that thing off. Good God. So yeah,
in California, we're gonna see some huge prices of fuel
jump up, and for people like you, Greg, it's gonna
be ridiculously expensive when it comes to uh, you know,
gas in California, it's gonna be bad. What's that? You

(01:36:51):
have no idea how to inbox me and rumble, But
you'll inbox me on the other one to show you
the overall nation. You know what if you ever guys,
by the way, I know sometimes it's hard to send
me some like direct messages and rumble and Wimken Uh,
the Brian russhow dot com. There is a contact thing
there where you could always send me messages there as well,
and of course on Facebook as well. Just look for

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me on Facebook and you can do that. But we're
going to see some increases in some gas prices, but
this is because of the the policies that the Biden
administration and the left have instituted, people like Gavin Newsom
where they've done some horrific things with the gas policies
in the state of California and they're now forcing the
gas companies to leave. They're they're just getting up in there.

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They're shutting down petroleum refineries and everything and and they're
moving everything to to Texas. But when you start shutting
down that stuff, then that's going to reduce the supply,
but the demand's not going to change. So we're gonna
see some problems coming up with the with the with
fuel and and the cost and the supply here soon

(01:37:57):
because of what California is doing. And it'd be interesting
to see how Donald Trump's energy policies alter this and
change it and make it so that we can start
producing more and again. Under Joe Biden and Look, we
got to be honest with numbers. Under the last year

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or two of Joe Biden, we were actually doing record
production of fuel, but we couldn't catch up. And because
of the fact that there's the supply and demand factor,
they were trying to supply, but the demand was higher
and they couldn't supply as much because of the policies
under the Biden administration where they have made it to

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the petroleum companies, they're not able to produce as much
because they've had to change some of their factories to
make other things. Because remember, gas is going to go away.
Everybody was going to be buying electric cars, whether you
liked it or not, and now well we're shutting down
electric car plans because nobody wanted them. So now there

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is a supply issue, and you know, it's going to
be a little bit of time for that to all
take up and take to get back up to weigh
it should be. So it's going to be a little while,
and don't be surprised if we do actually end up
seeing a little bit of a spike in the gas prices.
But look, it's better than it was under Biden. But

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because of the fact that it hasn't reached the level
that Donald Trump said it would be at. Then it
doesn't matter that it's cheaper now than before. It's not
what Donald Trump said it was going to be. So therefore,
Donald Trump bad and gas prices are too high and
he's the worst, and we should get rid of them.

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It's got to be tough being a liberal. I can't
imagine how tough being a liberal truly is. All Right,
we got to take another quick break. Coming up after
the top of the hour, Mark Mix is going to
be joining us from the National Right to Work. We're
talking with him about this new collective bargaining deal now
with the federal government and a few other things. But
we will be right back. This is the Brian rush Shall.
Thank you so much for making us part of your day.

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
All right, welcome back to the bride Rushelle.

Speaker 1 (01:40:32):
Thank you so much for letting us be part of
your day today on this wiener Wednesday. It's trying to
go get some hot dogs today. By the way, what's
the weather gonna be like? It's been it's been in
cold spell And for those who are around the country,
around the world listening, I'm gonna tell you the weather
you would be like, what your bitchin h forty seven

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degrees right now? Today today is gonna be a high
of a sixty six, maybe a little bit of rain,
which is better than what it had been, because you
know what, here in the state of Florida, when we
get down into that cold, it got a little chilli.
I mean we were down there with the winchill factor
down in the low twenties the past couple of days.
But you know, this is what I like to call

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the the bipolar winters of the Panhandle of Florida. If
you don't like it, hangout a second. It's gonna change
because Mother Nature she drunk. She's she's pre spring break drinking,
and she doesn't realize what she's doing. She'd be like, oh, wait,
I hate on all the fuck this too much? Oh yeah,
I say I'll call it down a little bit. Wait,
oh that's too much take out. Let me we're gonna

(01:41:35):
hit back up. It's what happens every year at this
time of the year. So if you're new to the
Panhandle of Florida and you're just kind of wondering yourself,
what the hell's going on? Who is in charge of
the weather, It's Mother nature. She's drunk. She's she's getting
ready for spring break. It was it was a long summer.
Now she's getting ready for spring break and she's she's
a little tipsy. So that's that's what's going on. It's
being a tipsy Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi was coming out.

(01:41:59):
She did it, and she now says that she believes
that the United States will eventually elect a woman president. Well, yeah,
I mean that's not some sort of you know, breaking news. Eventually,
it's gonna happen. I mean, honestly, it won't happen until
we stop putting up the worst of the worst, like

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Kamala Harris.

Speaker 8 (01:42:25):
I can be the president of the United States America
with the pigions to the bar of the the not
as as America.

Speaker 1 (01:42:36):
I'm the president if we stop putting up some absolutely
crabtastic women, which is all we seem to be doing
when it comes to this. Because I know that there
are some amazing women that are out there that would
make great presidents. But here's the thing, they're too smart.
And that's the reason for why it'll be a while
before we actually get a really good woman president here

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in America is because the good women that would make
a great president and who could get elected. They're too
smart to do it. They're like, I want nothing to
do with that crap show. Huh uh, not happening. But
Nancy Pelosi did say that, you know it'll happen, but
not during her lifetime. Well, I mean that's also kind

(01:43:19):
of a logical statement, because you're already like one hundred
and fifty years old. You know, your health is declining.
Right now, there's still three more years of Donald Trump.
As far as twenty twenty eight goes. Aside from Kamala Harris, yes.

Speaker 5 (01:43:33):
Me, I'm gonna run for president again.

Speaker 1 (01:43:36):
They sober up. There's no other woman out there right
now that is standing in the wings as a potential
twenty twenty eight candidate, you know, because again, the good
women that would make a great president, they are too
smart to get involved in all this stuff. They really are.
You know, maybe a Telsey Gabbert maybe, and I like Telsey,

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but I don't know if that's a possibility. And other
than that, right now, on the Republican side, there's a
lot of women that I think are doing a great
job in congressional roles, governor roles, but there's there's none
that I can think of right now that stand out
as somebody who would be able to win right now.

(01:44:24):
So for Nancy a Plosi to say not in her
lifetime that they think that's some that's that's a reasonable
prediction that she she won't be around to see the
first woman president. But it's gonna happen eventually. We eventually
we're gonna run out of dumb men, because that seems
to be the only thing where we put up most
of the time, especially on the the left side. But

(01:44:46):
then again, I mean, we could always get a Democrat
president who's a man who then turns to identify as
a woman. It's just I don't know, Greg excellent point,
he says, let me ask, what different does it make

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what the gender is, And it really doesn't. I mean,
what we really truly need is just a fantastic leader.
And I mean I go into the what does it
matter a lot of times with a lot of different things,
but yeah, what does this really matter? I mean, we
just need to get a really good candidate up there.
And you know, here's one of the problems that we

(01:45:29):
have in politics. And you know, for those of you
that don't know I am running for office as well
here in Bay County and running for county commissioner here,
and all of my friends that are big in the
political world, they're all looking to be going, what the
hell are you doing? Why would you want to get
involved in that? And believe me, there's times where I go,

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but you know, there's a reason for why I want
to do it. I want to do it because there
are some things that need to change with the way
that we do stuff and stop being so goddamn stupid
all the time. And that's what we've gotten with the politics.
And you look at so many of the politicians that
are getting in there to run for office, and they're
just dumb. Eric Swalwell, here's another one that's dumb. Eric

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Walwell is is running me to the next governor of California.
And there's a there's a lot of problems with this too,
because there's questions as to whether or not he's even
a California resident anymore, even though he's the representative from there.
But here's a question for Eric, and this this comes
to job performance. Why should we vote for you if

(01:46:35):
you're in California for the governor of Cali when you
don't show up to do your job. On top of that,
you're also facing a federal criminal referral because of the
fact that you did some mortgage fraud. Which you look
at that and say, okay, for all of the people
that are that are trying to you know, buy a

(01:46:58):
home and and and and get buy and here you
are being brought up on charges of mortgage fraud and
tax fraud and you were trying to buy like a
one point four million dollar home for the job that
you're supposed to be representing the people, and you're buying
Come on, Eric. But Eric Swalwell, now, according to some

(01:47:21):
of the new numbers that has come out, has missed
forty five All right, let me rephrase it. He's missed
ninety five votes out of out of the committee hearings
that he has been in, ninety five of them out
of the total of three hundred and forty two for
the roll call this year. And he's continuously not showing

(01:47:41):
up for work. But these are the type of politicians
that constantly get elected, you know, and we got to
change things up. It's one of the reasons why I
am running. Maybe, I mean, good chance I'll probably get
beaten by one of the people who probably shouldn't be
in office. We'll see, we'll see what happens. Either way,
I got to take one final quake before we get

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Mark Mix on. When he comes back from this break,
we'll have Mark on. We will talk with him about
the collective bargaining and a few other things. That's right,
he was spending time with Fang Fang. That's exactly why that.
And may be wiping himself after farting on TV all
the time. I don't know. Hey, God, we'll be right back,

(01:48:37):
all right, Welcome back to Brian Rushall. Thanks so much
for making us part of your day. We do appreciate
it and want to welcome back to the show. Mark
Mix from the National Right to Work. Mark, good morning,
and welcome back to the show. How are you, my friend.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
I'm doing fine, Brian. It's good to be on with
you again. And there's lots, obviously lots to talk about.
And when it comes to you, you've already talked about
government employment this morning, so let's talk a little bit
more about what happened in Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (01:49:04):
Last week. Yeah, let's talk about that, and of course
we even brought up my own potential government employment, which
I know, I don't know what I'm thinking, but you know,
we'll carry on. We'll figure that out as we go.
But yeah, the unemployment numbers that came out, was it
four point four percent or four point six percent? I
saw both numbers, but I think it was four point
four percent. It was the unemployment, and of course a

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lot of the numbers being government employees. And one of
the big things that we've talked about over and over
again is in this collective bargaining deal that we've been
watching with the the government unions, which I think a
lot of us can almost say government doesn't need a unions.
Matter of fact, we need a lot less government. But
there was an executive order that Donald Trump had done.

(01:49:47):
It was Executive Order fourteen to two five one, which
kind of essentially neutered a lot of the the union bosses.
But now there's some changes going up. So what's the
latest thing going on there?

Speaker 2 (01:49:57):
Mark, Yeah, Brian, President Trump issued that executive order that
you spoke of. But this is not anything that was
unique to President Trump. Going back to nineteen seventy eight,
when the United States Congress passed the Federal Labor Relations Act,
it basically gave union officials the power to bargain over
terms and conditions of employment. There's a few things that
are limited in that regard, but basically it gave union's

(01:50:19):
monopoly power over the federal bureaucracy. Every president since Jimmy
Carter has done exactly well. They have used their power
to basically exempt certain agencies from unionizing and bargaining over
conditions of employment because they have a national security profile
or directly involved in national security. So Carter did it,
Reagan did it, Bush one did it, Obama did it,

(01:50:41):
Bush two did it, Biden actually even did it. And
now President Trump's come in and like President Trump what
wants to do, He does it a little more than
everyone else has done it, and I think that's kind
of his nature. And he did sign an executive order
that said, look, we're going to take back control of
the executive branch of the agencies the federal agency that
are under control of the Chief executive Officer of the

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government under Article two of the Constitution, and said we're
going to roll back the union power. And of course
that got that with its kicking a hornet snash for
government union officials. And so there's fourteen lawsuits pending. There's
just by one union, lots of other lawsuits, but basically
what's happens. He said, Look, we're going to basically run
the government the way we promised the American people we would.

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And to your point, Brian, you mentioned the decline in
federal employment, civilian unemployment. Excuse me, it's not unemployment, the
civilian employment. And basically he's done that and now it's
the heal and cry is unbelievable. The litigation and now Congress, unfortunately,
with the help of Republicans, have basically passed a bill
in the House. They originally introduced a what's called a

(01:51:45):
discharge petition meeting. We want to get two hundred and
eighteen signatures to pull this bill out and get it
on the forefront and get it voted out of the
House floor. Thirteen Republicans joined with all the Democrats to
get the bill out of and under the Senate House floor.
On Thursday last week, they voted for the motion to
bring it to the floor. On Friday, they voted to

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pass it, with twenty two Republicans voting to basically overturn
the president's executive order, saying that it's not valid and therefore,
the unions will be negotiating again for these agencies. That's
kind of what happened. Now the bill moves to the
Senate and the battle will be waged there.

Speaker 1 (01:52:21):
Yeah, fun can't wait to watch that battle. And I'm
sure Chuck Sureman will have a lot to say about
that one, because he loves himself from the unions. But Mark,
let me ask this when it comes to this collective bargaining,
I mean, what is the cold hard fact of the
danger or the benefit of allowing this collective bargaining in

(01:52:41):
our federal government? So people really have an understanding.

Speaker 2 (01:52:45):
Well, Brian, let me just go back to the nineteen
thirties when Franklin Roosevelt was passing the imposition of government
unionization excuse me, of unionization on the private sector during
the Great Depression or whatever we call that, his New
Deal policies, and basically he was asked about whether or
not he just unionized the government employees too, and he said,

(01:53:06):
it's impractical that we would do that. You can't do that.
In fact, George Meenie, the president of the afl CIO,
was asked a question like they said, no, you just can't.
It's not the same as the private sector, and just
to dig down a little deeper their bind. Basically, in
the private sector, if you're going to give unions of
monopoly control over a business, that business will now be
in competition with other businesses that may provide the same widget,

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if you will, and if unions abuse their power and
basically take control of this business, say we're not going
to work unless you give us this, this, and this,
somebody replaces that product in the marketplace. From a government standpoint, Brian,
there is no substitute. I believe there is now that
government's grown so big. But the idea is that there's
no substitute for what the government provides the American people.

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And so when you say you're going to give a
monopoly to a union over what is a monopoly the government,
it causes all kinds of problems. And so there are
a lot of politicis to say, yeah, you know, allow
government employees to unionize, but let's not force the government
to negotiate with them over how we run the government.
And that's the seminal question here about what's happening now

(01:54:12):
with President Trump saying, look, I'm the Article two power here,
I'm going to control the executive branch. Article one has
their power, the legislative power. Article three as the judicial power.
But when it comes to running the federal government, I'm
going to take responsibility for that because he's the one
person we hold accountable. And to your point, maybe it'll
be a see someday, but she or he is responsible
for how you run the federal government. So this is

(01:54:34):
a question of whether or not you're going to apply
what is a private sector model of unionization to the
public sector. They've done that, and now states are waking
up to the damage that's them. Like Scott Walker in
twenty eleven Act Keen when he basically reformed the government
union power in Wisconsin, which was the first state to
adopt it back in nineteen fifty nine. The damage it

(01:54:54):
did to the state's budget and the control over how
taxpayers were, you know, we're funding the go government, and
how union officials were demanding things They basically in Wisconsin
and most sources indicate that they saved over thirty billion
dollars since reforming the government union status in Wisconsin. Trump's
trying to do the same thing and now there's a pushback.
Every no surprise to you, Bryan, Every Democrats in favor

(01:55:16):
of giving the union boss back their power, and unfortunately
a bunch of Republicans are too.

Speaker 1 (01:55:21):
Yeah. Yeah, that's the sad part of seeing that Republicans
are jumping in on that. But essentially to a degree
to even break this down a little bit more, when
we allow the mob bosses union boss the same thing
to control this type of stuff and to be able
to control the government, doesn't that essentially kind of just

(01:55:41):
take away the power of we the people to have
representatives to control our government if a union is going
to be deciding how government is run and not we
the people.

Speaker 2 (01:55:52):
Yeah, I think it does, Brian. And that's the whole,
you know, kind of the philosophical point about this. And
when you think about you know, we the people, and
you think about this grand experiment and self government, you know,
under Article one, we get a chance every two years
to look at what our quote unquote representative does and
we get to hold them accountable. We get a third
of the Senate every two years, and every six years

(01:56:13):
we get a chance to hold our senator accountable under
and probably that's a mistake too, going back to the
seventeenth Amendment, But we don't need to go there. Yeah,
But the president is basically the representative of the Article
two section of our constitution, that would be the federal
government and the executive agencies. And the only way we
can hold him accountable is if the government's running properly.
But now there's this outside party that basicals has we

(01:56:36):
control the government, and that's a violation I think of
kind of how the government should be operating and our
ability to hold that branch accountable as well. So when
the Department of Labor or the Department of Veteran Affairs
spends two hundred million dollars on union official time, basically
giving you know, taxpayer money to union officials who are
not doing federal work but are employed by the federal

(01:56:57):
government doing union only work, you begin to see the
scope with the problem. President Trump has seen that and
he's trying to roll that back, and I think he's
on the right path. But the size and scope of
the federal bureaucracy and the political power that unions have
both in the private sector and the public sector, that
really is out of proportion to their numbers, frankly, is

(01:57:17):
something that is on the lord of politicians.

Speaker 1 (01:57:19):
Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:57:20):
You know, these politicians are they're scared. They're scared of
the money, and they're scared of the power of the
federal government. Unions. I think they I don't think they
should be scared about it. But I think most Americans
proved in the twenty twenty four election that the president's
agenda of reducing the size of government, reducing the regulatory
power that the government has, reducing taxes is something that
they supported. And so I would say tally ho to

(01:57:42):
the president. But obviously we have we have a government
that basically is saying, you know what, we're going to
try to reign the president and the courts. You know,
we talk about the federal the federal judges from California,
you know, imposing injunctions on the president's work, et cetera.
So there's a lot still going on here and it's
a big battle. But to your point, getting back to
the higher level, why do we have a private organization

(01:58:02):
inside telling us how we should run our government?

Speaker 1 (01:58:05):
Yeah, I mean not that we don't already elan omar.
Can we talk about your now we won't. We want
our AOC. How do you guys get some damn rich
Just curious, But yeah, I mean when when you look
at the private stuff that that keeps getting in there.
And obviously there's there's a lot that's going on in
government with with with corruption and and basically the the

(01:58:25):
corporate sponsors of our of our representatives. But with this,
you know, obviously it's going to go over to the Senate.
What do you think the chances are the Senate is
going to pass this?

Speaker 2 (01:58:36):
Well, obviously they it's regular order under Senate procedure, so
they've got to get through to sixty votes because there
can be this is an issue where there can be
extended debate to use a eupidmism for a filibuster, and
that's that's kind of an important thing. I mean, we've
seen that while the uh, you know, the House or
Representatives is the is the chaos of quote unquote democracy,

(01:58:57):
the passions of Americans cool when it gets to the Senate.
And I think, you know, in this case, it'll be hard,
but I think they're going to try. And there's Republicans
now buying you and I've talked about before, like Susan
Collins and Lisa Murkowski and even Josh Holly from Missouri.
They're targeting them to get them to be kind of
the proponents and push this bill forward. And so we'll see,

(01:59:17):
we've we've got to stay vigilant, we've got to stay informed,
and we've got to stay active on this because otherwise
the power of the presidency in this case, to control
how the Article two branch of government operates is in jeopardy.
And this goes back to the unitary theory of power,
executive power, those other questions that are constitutional, and I
think ultimately the Court will be involved in this too.

(01:59:38):
It's a separation of powers issue specifically. And what this
bill that passed the House doesn't do. It doesn't change
the statute. It just overrides at the executive or saying
let's go back to where we were and saying the
president doesn't have the power to do this. So we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:59:51):
Yeah, well, of course, in the end, when if the
Senate decides to pass it, you know, Donald Trump can
always veto it and send it back for some more
more chaos and mess and see if you know, if
that happens. Obviously he's got to get you know, the
Congress to to to do what is it two thirds
to to override the veto.

Speaker 2 (02:00:11):
Well sixty votes now it used to be two thirds
now it was sixty votes, Yeah, or to override the veto.
I'm sorry, I think you're right with that.

Speaker 1 (02:00:17):
Yeah, sorry, Yeah, So, I mean who knows at this point,
because the level of corruption that's going on to Washington,
d C. Is just out of control. And you know,
this is really another example of how we the people
are losing control of our government and how this deep
state is really just taking control. I mean, you look
at the stuff that the unions are doing, and who

(02:00:38):
are they going to be answering to, you know, once
they get their their claws on this, and it just overall,
it just sounds like a really bad idea for the
for them to be doing this.

Speaker 8 (02:00:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:00:49):
Indeed, and like I said, I mean every president since
Carter in seventy eight has seventy nine when he did it,
have done this by saying, look, these agencies, the sub
agencies have this national security profile, and lord knows, we
don't want to be negotiating over you know, when we
have a national emergency and when there's a national security
issue saying hey, how are we going to solve this problem?

(02:01:09):
And we got to go to the unions and negotiate
it in the contract? I don't think that makes any
sense at all.

Speaker 1 (02:01:14):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, It absolutely doesn't. Mark what else
is going on in the wonderful world of jobs and
unions and everything else, because obviously this is a big
one and we're going to have to wait and see
what goes down with this. What what else is happening.

Speaker 2 (02:01:29):
Well, they're still pushing for extending their power and increasing
their power over private sectory workers as well, and some
of the issues that are there buying we've talked about before.
You know, there's a bill that basically the Democrats have
supported during the Obama years and during the Biden years
that basically repeal all the right to work laws across
the country, including Florida's and the twenty five other states

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that have right to work laws that simply protect the
worker's right to choose whether or not the financial support
of labor union as a condition of getting or keeping
a job, believe it or not. Going back to the
nineteen thirties, Congress said you could be forced to quote
unquote formally join a private organization in order to work
in the private sector. The Supreme Court fixed that in
nineteen sixty three, saying, wow, you don't have to be
a formal member, but you can still be forced to

(02:02:10):
pay up to one hundred percent of dues or fees
to keep your job. In America, obviously, we believe that
unions that are worth their salt people will join them voluntarily,
but unfortunately they rely on compulsion. And there's a couple
of bills that are really really scary that have unfortunately
Republican support, that would dramatically increase union power in the
private sector as well, notwithstanding what's going on in the

(02:02:33):
public sector in the government sector, So we're keeping our
eye on that. The state legislators are getting ready to
come back in in January, so there'll be literally thousands
of bills that will be tracking and helping to keep
taxpayers and citizens informed of what's going on in their government,
whether it be in Alaska or whether it be in Washington, DC.
We track that stuff. We try to keep people informed
and pay attention to when governments trying to grant new

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powers and privileges to union officials. And that's important and
we just need to keep fighting for that stuff across
the country. So we'll be doing that as we move forward.

Speaker 1 (02:03:05):
Yeah, absolutely, we got to keep fighting it, and it's
really it's amazing to see how unions have changed over
the uh, you know, the past one hundred years. At
one point, it was really truly out there to help
keep you know, the worker safe and really unsafe conditions,
and a lot of these factories with a lot of
the the robin bearers that we had back in the

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day to now where it's it's almost like a mob
mentality slash government takeover kind of mentality that's going on.
And I guess one can even look at this as
being what a great way to be able to take
over the government by unionizing it.

Speaker 2 (02:03:45):
Right, that's a great point because you know this idea
and you articulated very well the idea that you know,
they were unsafe workplaces and the employer was abusive, and
that was the rationale for quote unquote passing the federal
legislation that gave employees power and balance the power and
the work place. Well, if we take that that, we
postulate that theory and we move it forward into government.
What we're saying now that the private sector is only

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five point nine percent unionized, but yet the government sector
is thirty two percent unized. So you tell me what's
the worst place in America to work today based on
that theory, Yeah, the safest place, the most abusive place
is actually the government, right according to their theory. So yeah,
it's kind of an interesting thought when you think about it, y'all,
we've got to have the unions and government employment to

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balance the power because of the unjust power of the employer,
the or the abuse or the unsafe working conditions. I mean,
that's a ridiculous argument, and it's an argument that is
ridiculous even to Franklin Roosevelt and ridiculous to the former
afl CIO president when asked about unionizing government employees.

Speaker 1 (02:04:46):
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what is so dangerous
about being a government employee. I mean, I just I
can't think of any Well, you get a paper cut,
you know, what's the deal. I mean, we've got so
many laws use that protect employees at this point that
I can't think of a single reason for why government

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needs to be unionized.

Speaker 2 (02:05:10):
Yeah, except for the fact that there's a money pit there,
and it's a great sense of power to your point,
I mean, this is a natural extension of power and
an actually intension of kind of controlling the political structure
and the governmental structure in the country. I call it
the you know, as William Shatner if Star Trek was
a it's the final frontier for unions. And what a
great place to plant your flag in an institution that

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literally funds itself and if there's not enough money, they
just go out and borrowed or printed or whatever. In
a private sector pe you do that. If you squeeze
the neck of the golden goose in the private sector,
you potentially may lose your job exactly. But government doesn't
go away. And so what a novel idea that you
would go there and exercise your power and flex your
muscles and control that aspect that institution. It's a pretty

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good idea. You know, in the Bible, Elijah every time
he woke up when he was exiled, he was out
up there. Every time you woke up, the oil jar
would have just enough to make food for the day.
And government's kind of similar. I mean that oil jar
fills up mysteriously, right yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:06:09):
Yeah, And like I said, this, this is almost a
silent coup of our government, a very quiet, under the
radar kind of coup to watch. You know, the unions
come in and you know, once they get power, you know,
they'll they'll want more, and they'll they'll probably retain more
and more and more. At what point do you have
to ask would the union power stop under federal government?

(02:06:33):
I mean, you said thirty percent right now. You know,
if it was to go further, how dangerous could that
really truly be? I think that's one of the questions
we'd have to ask.

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
Yeah, indeed, and that numbers coming down, and you made
the point earlier in the show that you did federal
employments coming down under Donald Trump. I think you know,
we we had our apex moment of federal employment back
in what nineteen ninety or something, when three point four
million federal employees earllion employees. It's come down now to
your point, what one hundred and sixty thousand in October

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and another six thousand in November. That's really where the
job losses were when you come to the economic data.
But yeah, I think that's important. I think many states
are looking at it now. States that have handed over
this type of power to union officials to negotiate how
government operates is something that they're looking at saying we
can't sustain this anymore. And you look at the states
with the highest union density in their state employment, like

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New York, California, Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey. I mean, those
are literally basket cases fiscally, and there's going to be
a breaking point at some point in the future and
we'll see what that is. And I think part of
that rationale is that the power that you union officially
have we do. Just look at the NA, the National
Education Association, their last seminar on behalf of neo pronouns

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or whatever that was, I mean probably followed UTU. But
this is the type of thing we get. Yeah, when
we have government involvement in the government school system and
we give union officials the power to dictate kind of
happens in our government school system, we see the results
of it. Educational excellence diminishes, and the number of employees increases,
the number of students is decreasing. But yet we continue

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to fund the system that is breaking and not serving
you know, the American people as it should.

Speaker 1 (02:08:16):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, And all have some of the
comments that I get all unions do is keep crappy
workers employed, which is kind of true in a lot
of ways. Mark makes I got one other question I
got ask because you know, every time we talk about this,
I've got to get the follow up on it because
I love this story because it proves so many points.
But the Starbucks barista union thing, where is that at?

(02:08:37):
I mean, this is one of these for those that
don't understand this deal. It's basically the example of you know,
be careful what you ask for because you're going to
realize it wasn't as good. But where's this story at
at this point?

Speaker 2 (02:08:49):
Yeah, it's an ongoing story, Brian. I mean, just to
give you some context and perspective, I think there are
something over sixteen thousand Starbucks entities or businesses in the
United States States. I think nine thousand of them are corporate,
and right now, I think the latest statu shows that
about five hundred a little maybe more than five five
hundred and fifty actually Starbucks units that have voted to bring

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a union in That goes back to twenty twenty one,
twenty twenty two, and the first one did it in Buffalo.
Obviously there's litigation over it. We the Nationalite Work Foundation,
are representing baristas in several over a dozen dozen and
a half I think almost twenty now units that are
trying to decertify the union to get the union out,
but there's been no kind of conclusive finish to it

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because Starbucks stood up and said, look, we were willing
to negotiate the union that is demanding things that don't
make Starbucks competitive. And so there's ongoing litigation right now
at the National League Relations Board and nothing's final. The
union filed unfair labor practice charges against Starbucks, and Starbucks
has basically said, will negotiate with you. It's just a

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mess right now, but there's been no kind of final
contract or anything. They're looking for a nation contract to
apply across all the Starbucks units, and that's not probably
going to happen because you made the point earlier in
the show about the difference between costs and red states
and blue states, and cost of obliging it makes it difference.
So there's a lot going on there. Still a lot
of baristas are having a second look at what they

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did and thinking this is not good. But then again,
their right to unionize under is protect under federal law,
and they can continue to do that, there's no question
about that. But it's an ongoing battle, and one of
the things that has to happen is the National Labor
Relations Board, which is the board that adjudicates private secret
labor management issues, is not functioning right now. I think

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there'll be a vote today on getting a group of
nominees the General Counsel for the MRB and two members
on the National ablations were getting them confirmed by the Senate,
and then the agency will be functioning again and we'll
start to get some closure on some of these cases
relating to Starbucks and lots of other issues for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:10:55):
Yeah, and hopefully people are actually learning their lesson from
the Starbucks' situation. I mean, you really do you need
it in Starbucks? I mean, how unsafe is the working conditions?
You got hot coffee and some steam, which should be
parently and simple. Don't stick your face into it, don't
spill it on yourself. So the idea of that is

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just it. I don't think it's done any positive for
any of the people that have joined it at this point.
You know, it's taking money away from your paycheck. You're
not making that much. And you know, even though I admit,
even though knocking off coffee is the official coffee of
the show, I'll grab a Starbucks every once in a
great while, But that price I'm not willing to pay
much more for than I am now and more more

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Union is going to bring that price up without a doubt.

Speaker 2 (02:11:40):
Yeah, indeed. And that's one of the things. I mean,
I think one of the demands that's out there is
a twenty five dollars an hour rate for bristas. I mean, yeah,
I Brient, you understand economics, and I think your listeners
do as well. If twenty five dollars an hour is
going to be the cost of a brista, the cost
of a coffee is going to go out. Yeah. You
talk about supply and demand, and yeah, those those things

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really work in the real world, don't they.

Speaker 1 (02:12:04):
Yeah, yeah, that's not so much. And considering how many
other places like here in Panama City, we just had
a Dutch Boys open up or Dutch Brothers. And it's
funny because it it just happens to be located in
between two Starbucks locations, and you know, I haven't gone
there yet because the line is too long every time

(02:12:24):
I go by there, and it's not at either one
of the two Starbucks. So careful what you do, because
you can you can find yourself in some trouble. And
if it's going to be cheaper for me to go
to a Dutch Brothers or just make another knock it
off coffee at home before going out. Starbucks might find
themselves out of business and people be out of work.
Won't be a good thing, negative results.

Speaker 2 (02:12:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, indeed.

Speaker 1 (02:12:48):
So, Mark, how how could people follow you along and
then get more information about what you guys do and
to keep up on the actions that are happening right now.

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
Yeah, you can find information about legislation's going on across
the country at NRTWC dot org NRTWC dot orright, that's
the committee's website. And then if you have questions about
your legal rights in the workplace, you can go to
our foundation that's nrtw dot org and there's lots of
information there about your rights in the workplace. And again,
your rights to join a union organized union are intact.

(02:13:18):
They're protected by federal law. But when the union says
you can't work if you don't pay us, that's when
things get really interesting, you know. And the other thing, Brian,
is the disconnect between union officials and rank and file
workers in the country. That's another issue that's really important
is the political views that union union officials are taking
that are contrary to the views of the rank and
file workers, and hopefully we give the ability of workers

(02:13:40):
to hold union officials accountable by withholding their money if
they're doing crazy political stuff. That's the other big issue
that obviously is important to us when it comes to
empowering employees to hold their union officials accountable, right.

Speaker 1 (02:13:54):
And we definitely saw the evidence of that in this
last presidential election where it got to the point where
so many of the union members said no, we want
to support Donald Trump, and the union was like, I
don't know what to do. Okay, we won't do anything.
So they're they're they're feeling that pressure and hopefully we
can continue putting that pressure on them because we got
to do it. The unions they had their their their space.

(02:14:17):
That's kind of questionable as whether or not they're they're
all that needed anymore these days. But thankfully you guys,
Mark are doing some some fantastic work on behalf of
all the workers of our country because we got to
do it. We got to make sure that we we
don't let these the mobsters take control too much.

Speaker 2 (02:14:33):
Thanks Brian for the opportunity to talk absolutely anytime.

Speaker 1 (02:14:36):
Mark mixed from the National Right to Work Mark, we'll
chat with you soon again. Have a fantastic Christmas if
we don't talk to you before that. But yeah, the
the idea of so many of these these unions and
some of the stuff going on, and and the the
idea of government becoming unionized, it's not a good idea.
It could be some serious, serious problems. What's that great

(02:15:00):
or fifth generation U A W. Chrysler Corporation now retired
of private sector. Union is only as strong as the
people take personal responsibility to control their leadership. Leaders know
differently than your federal government. That's true. Gotta gotta be
gotta be involved in that. But unfortunately, one of the

(02:15:20):
problems that we're seeing, especially with the unions like the
Starbucks union, which again they were sleazy with the way
that they got into this. You know, people are getting
into it and it's it's just not good. But people
have got to learn and understand. You gotta stand up.
You gotta stand up and defend yourself. That is that
is one of the important things. All Right, we got
to take another quick break. We'll be right back. This

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is the Brian Rush Show. Good morning, all right, welcome back.
To the Brian Rush Show and our wiener Wednesday set

(02:16:03):
a visitor in the studio Charlie. All right, buddy, I
don't think Charlie is feeling well. I think I'm gonna
have to get a little homeboy an appointment with the
hot Vet, which I'm not opposed to that I really
am not kind of let's do it, buddy, you want

(02:16:23):
to go see the hot Vet? Yeah, I know you do.
All right, Idiholl, welcome back to the show. Thanks so
much for making as part of your day, and big
thanks to Mark Mix from the National Right to Work.
Be interesting to watch the government union deal to see
where this ends up going and see how the Senate
ends up voting for it andite we know that the
Democrats are going to vote across the board forward, but

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to be interested to see which Republicans decide that they're
going to cross the isle. Thirteen of them in the
House already did cross the line on that to essentially
give the mob bosses, the union bosses, the control over
things that they shouldn't be controlling. You know, the government
should be under the control of we the people. And

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that's all there is to it. This idea of giving
power and control to the Union, a private organization to
be able to dictate what we the people want our
government to run. There's a problem with that, and I
think easily to call this a silent or a slight

(02:17:27):
bit of aque of a coup is definitely something that
could happen. Was that Greg given animals need a boost
of viteam and see every now and then. Yeah, I mean,
and he does get a lot, but you know what,
I think the weather right now has gotten a little
in there. He's probably feeling little under the weather. But
you know, it's an excuse for me to go see

(02:17:47):
the hot vet. She's hot too, just pointing that out there.
She's hot. So we'll see see what happens. So one
of the other problems that's going on now is something
that I predicted a long time go, when when Donald
Trump was was becoming the president of the United States,
that we saw all of these Republicans that were stepping
up and being like, Okay, yeah, I'm pro maga, here,

(02:18:10):
give me a hat. I'm gonna put the hat on,
I'm gonna wear the hat. Yay. Donald Trump loved Donald Trump,
and it was only gonna be a matter of time
before it got to a point where those same Republicans
that are total rhinos would start losing their support for
Donald Trump and would go back to the way that
they're doing. I mean, we're seeing it now with the
Republicans that are starting to side a little bit when
we're Democrats that are starting to get a little bit

(02:18:31):
more on the anti Donald Trump's side because their rhinos
to begin with, and they don't believe in what Donald
Trump's mission is. And Donald Trump's mission is to take
back the government from the deep state and give it
back to the damned people, and they don't like it
because it takes away their power and their control. And
we're watching things. There's perfect examples of how you know,

(02:18:52):
the corruption that's going on in DC with AOC. You know,
AOC now being worth a ridiculous amount of millions of dollars,
elon Omar now coming out being worth thirty million dollars
after only being worth one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year before, which that is one hell of a
boost I'm just saying. And ironically, at the same time
that eight billion dollars went missing from the funds in Minnesota.

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But then you even get Dan Crenshaw, the Republican Dan Crenshaw,
who everybody was kind of excited about it initially when
he came onto the scene, and now we're showing that
he is just as bad as the rest of them.
And how many others are becoming this way. Well, Marjorie
Taylor Green, she was on CNN yesterday and she was
talking about how she thinks that Donald Trump's losing control

(02:19:38):
over the Republican Party. And I don't think it's that
he's losing control over the Republican Party. I think it
is more of the factor of exactly what I'm talking about.
Those rhinos that clung on to Donald Trump for their
ability to get elected or reelected into Congress in the Senate,
those are the ones that are starting to go away.

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Of course, the other thing that we're seeing is there's
a new people, like Marjorie Taylor Green being one of
them as an example, who she kind of jumped onto
the bandwagon of Donald Trump to be the maga person
to get into office and to win that. And when
Donald Trump realized that she wasn't fully on board with

(02:20:20):
some of the stuff, he went, yeah, you know what,
we're kind of kind of done with you. We're gonna
put you over there, and she got butt hurt over it.
And every time that you see somebody that leaves the
Trump administration that goes off and starts to slam on
Donald Trump on how bad he is, they're generally the employees,
the workers that did a craptastic job and got butt

(02:20:42):
hurt because Donald Trump called him out for it. Well,
Margie Taylor Green now coming out and saying that I'd
like to point something out she said just last week,
and I think the dam is breaking. Many Republicans may
not have called him out, but last week, thirteen Republicans
voted with Democrats to overturn one of the President Trump's
executive orders which enabled him to fire federal workers. Well,

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and that, by the way, that's the thing we're just
talking about with with Mark mix. Here's the thing, though,
is that we the people, we voted Donald Trump in
to do exactly that. So the problem here is not
the fact that Donald Trump wanted to reduce the federal
workers and he wants to fire all these federal workers.

(02:21:28):
We the people, Marjorie Taylor Green, you know, the voters,
the one who's supposed to be our country that you're
all supposed to represent us. We are the ones who said,
stop it. Reduce the size of government, stop the spending,
stop getting into our everyday lives all the time, knock
it off. We are the ones that said that. We
are the ones that voted Donald Trump and others who

(02:21:51):
jumped onto the Donald Trump bandwagon and said, yeah, we're
gonna do exactly what the people said we're gonna do.
We're gonna clean up government. And then you get thirteen
of them vote to overturn that executive order, which is
essentially what the American people told And I say American
people because remember Donald Trump won the popular vote, and
he won the Electoral College, and he won the Rust Belt.

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That means Donald Trump won a lot of Democrats and
independence as well. This is not just a Republican thing.
These are people who came out and said, I don't
like Donald Trump, but damn it, you know what He's
going to do what I need to have done, so
I'm going to vote for him. And for Marjorie Taylor
Green to come out and to even say this, and
those thirteen Republicans to come out and do it, this

(02:22:37):
is a problem. And she also goes to point out
that she says, we also saw Indiana Republicans vote against
redistricting and didn't call any of them traders and called
for primaries against them. But I would like to say
that that is a sign where we're seeing Republicans. They're
entering the campaign phase of twenty twenty six, which is

(02:22:59):
a large signal that lame duck season has begun and
the Republicans will go all in for themselves in order
to save their own re elections. Kristen Collins had chimed
in on us, asking you think the damn is breaking
in terms of the president's iron grip of support when
it comes to the party, and she said absolutely. Those

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thirteen Republicans that voted to take down his executive order
last week, literally that same evening put on their tuxedos
and their evening ball gowns and went to the White
House Christmas party. That's pretty bold. It's not bold, it's cowardly,
That's what it is. And it's one of the problems
that we've had with so many of these rhinos that

(02:23:41):
jumped on board the Donald Trump bandwagon. Was like, yay, here,
I've got my make America Great hat. I'm not gonna
put it on all the way because it's gonn mess
it my hair. But there we go, yay Donald Trump,
is he looking?

Speaker 8 (02:23:53):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:23:54):
Okay, goodna, I'm gonna throw that hat over there. That's
exactly what it is. And with the republic can voters
need to do is they need to look at these
thirteen Republicans and go, what the hell did you do?
We told you we want you and the president in
there to reduce the size of government. We want to

(02:24:16):
reduce the spending. We're at thirty eight and a half
almost thirty nine trillion dollars in debt, and you go
against what it was that we said. So, yes, the
American people should be looking at the politicians that did
vote against Donald Trump and then turned around and kissed
his ass. And they did it because you know that

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they're going to take the photos. They're gonna have the
photo to put on their website. That's gonna be like,
look here I am with Donald Trump. We're all thumbs up. Yay,
it's Donald Trump, me mago all the way. But then
you vote against the stuff that he wanted, and yeah,
he's primary them. Get them out. You know. Unfortunately, you

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don't always have to go with the leadership. And and honestly,
I think there should be some things that the Republican
Party stands up to Donald Trump on and says, hey,
but when it's the things that we the people have
literally come out and said, this is why we're putting
you into office. And you didn't betray Donald Trump. You

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betrayed us, We the people. We're the ones that put
the faith in you to go to Washington, d C.
To fix the corrupt problems that are there, to get
rid of all of the deep state and make it
so that we the people have better control over our country.

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And this is what we get. John Corn. Yeah, he's
a worthless rhino too. But you know what worries me
about John Corn, that's the one that Jasmine Crockett is
going after his seat. I'm concerned about that. Uh and
and to a degree, and it's probably a little bit
too late at this point. The Republican Party probably should

(02:26:08):
have either primaried him or just simply got somebody else
to run and got him to retire. I'm concerned that
that Jasmine Crockett might actually win that seat, and that
won't be good because John Corn, he's also a member

(02:26:28):
of the leadership in the Republican Party in the in
the Senate, which I mean in a way, it's it's
kind of okay to to kind of recycle that out,
you know. I as much as as I want to say,
term limits should be something. And Donald Trump, by the way,
is now pushing harder for the term limit thing. I
think the the area that we need to start with

(02:26:48):
term limits is in the leadership. The leadership that I
think that there should be a a level of of
of limit of how long you can be in the
leadership role in the party. But again, this is a
difficult thing because technically the parties are also private parties,
So how do you force that upon them. It's it's

(02:27:12):
a tricky little thing. But I think that what we
need to start doing is is letting the people know
that are in charge that you can't be in leadership forever,
because we see this over and over again with the
leaders of our party, that they garner too much power,
too much strength, and that goes to your head. You

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look at AOC and Jasmine Crockett, perfect examples of power
that have gone to their head. Now, there are some
people that can handle power. They know how to control that,
they know how to use it properly. AOC Jasmine Crockett
are two examples of people that don't know how to
do that. You know, AOC now under a great deal

(02:27:57):
of scrutiny because of her fifty thousand dollars luxury weekend
that she did, where everybody's stepping up and going, you
make one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars a year,
you just spend fifty thousand dollars on a weekend, and
you keep saying you're not worth a lot of money,
but we keep seeing that you're worth millions. What's going on?

(02:28:20):
And again the example of the hypocrisy, you know, AOC
along with Bernie that's right, we went out and we
told the American people the danger of the oligarchs, you know,
the oligarchs who who make their millions of dollars off
the American people and the taxpayers. And just like me

(02:28:41):
with my multiple million dollar houses and my sports cars
and my millions that I have, AOC, she has millions now.
And it's not fair to criticize her because the two
of them went off on their tour talking about how
we had to stop the oligarchies. Under Donald Trump, what
are the two are you doing? How is it a

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man who has never held a job in his life,
who has lived off the government dime his entire life,
all of a sudden writes a book now worth millions
and millions of dollars, has multiple million dollar houses, and

(02:29:24):
we got to take it from him that we have
to abolish the oligarch AOC who comes out and does
the same thing and then does a lavish fifty thousand
dollars weekend where she hires bad Bunny to perform rent
Down's an entire facility for this to happen. And you
want to get out there, and you want to tell

(02:29:45):
us about all the oligarchies that are out there and
all the all of the bad stuff. You're the one
doing it. You're doing exactly what it is that you're
trying to say. Is the problem?

Speaker 3 (02:30:01):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:30:01):
What's that? Get rid of the congressional staffers and make
the reps and senators do their own jobs. You know what,
Ballbeard and Mailman I, I generally agree with you and
a lot of things. That's one thing I won't the staffers.
They first off, they don't make that much money, and
they do a great deal of work, and and they

(02:30:23):
do a lot of stuff for us, and it's not
the staffers, the congressional staffers that are the problems. The
problems that we have are all the departments, with all
of the departments that we have out there, and and
people that that get into the into the system that
that that end up garnering power, the people that can
actually look at the very staffers that you and I

(02:30:46):
will reach out to, because the reality is that there's
no way that a congressman or senator could do the
job without the staffers. I mean, I know a lot
of staffers. I know what they do, and they're the
ones that we reach out to, whether it be the
media reaching out to them or you reaching out to
them to be a problem. But here's the issue is
that when these staffers reach out to the VA, there

(02:31:10):
are staffers in the VA who have been there for
so long and have so much knowledge and information about
things and power over things that if they don't want
to do what they want to do for you, then
they just won't. And that's where the big problem is
coming up in government is all these different departments, and
a lot of departments are not even necessary. You know,

(02:31:33):
we're getting rid of the Department of Education, which is
far past due for that to happen. But you look
at all the other agencies that have caused problems for us.
And when you do have staffers that you will call
and say, hey, I got a problem with my VA. Well,
the staffers in the congressman's office, we'll reach out to them,
to the VA and they have to deal with these

(02:31:54):
deep staters. Where are you calling from. You're calling from
Congres Dunn's office here in the Panhandle of Florida. Ah, yeah,
that heavy Republican area, those people that support Ron de Santis. Yeah, okay,
so yeah, what's what's the problem. Okay, Yeah, we'll uh,

(02:32:14):
we'll we'll look into it. We'll see what we can do,
and then it becomes a problem. So yeah, that's that's
an issue that we need to get rid of. And
of course, if we get it so that they're unionized
even more, who's going to stop them from doing whatever
the hell they want to do. And it's it's a problem,
and this is the deep state, and we need to
get rid of it. We need to stop it from
doing what it's doing, and the unionizing of it. That's

(02:32:37):
a bad idea, an absolutely bad idea, but we also
need to address some of the corruption in Washington. And
and at this point I don't have an answer for
you on how we stop it? How do we stop it?
Pam Bondy ain't doing shit. She's not doing a single
thing up there to really truly fight the issues of

(02:32:59):
of the fraud and everything else that's going on. We're
seeing it's being laid out to us. And again Helen
Keller can turn around and look at it and say, hey,
I say say fraud. She would do it because she
could see it. You can't tell me that you are
somebody like elon Omar, who's who you put down? I'm

(02:33:20):
only worth sixty thousand, Okay, I'm only wor one hundred
and fifty thousand, and then the very next year you're
worth thirty million dollars. How the hell does that happen
without corruption? Where's the investigation?

Speaker 3 (02:33:34):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:33:34):
We hear it that you know, Oh, we're gonna we're
gonna look into it. Look, I know that you in
order to really go after somebody for fraud, you really
have to have the hardcore evidence to be able to
present it, to show the trail of how they did it,
where they did it where the money went to, where

(02:33:56):
it came from. You need all that evidence to convince.
But from the surface, without you and I seeing the
paper trail, without you and I seeing the evidence of
this million dollars came from here, or AOC made all
of this money off of this stock that she was

(02:34:18):
involved in a committee, We're not seeing all of this evidence.
We're looking at it from the surface and going you
make one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars a year,
and you went from being worth one hundred and fifty
to thirty million dollars. Don't piss on my leg and
tell me that it's raining. We know what's going on,

(02:34:39):
so let's get to it. Let's find out what's going
on and stop being so afraid. But this is what
the Justice Department is. They're afraid. I mean, what is
it that somebody's got over at Pambondi Because I don't
think and I've already seen this probably at least a
dozen times between the multiple chats right now of people
saying I want to see a yes, I want to

(02:35:00):
see the purp walks, I want to see these people
in cuffs. Nothing. I mean, we can get upset like
crazy about the the AOC thing and about the the
elon Omar thing and all the other stuff that's going on,
and it doesn't matter because we also know nothing's gonna happen.

(02:35:21):
And this is so frustrating. And then to see things like,
you know, the the union aspect, where it's gonna make
it even tougher to go after these people. It needs
to change because we can't continue on as a government
this way. It's only going to lead to a collapse.

(02:35:41):
And like Market pointed out in the last segment that
when you have the difference between the government unions and
the private sector unions, where the private sector, you know,
a company can go all union and they could do
everything that they're doing, the costs are going to go
up and everything else, and then the other guy is
going to go, we're not going to union. What I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna take care of you guys.

(02:36:03):
Let's be badass employees, let's deliver a badass product, and
we're gonna put them out of business. And that's what happens.
Look the automotive industry. The automotive industry where I actually
had a good friend whose son and son in law
had worked for the union, worked for one of the
auto dealers or manufacturers, and literally made It was like,

(02:36:25):
and this is a while back, it was like thirty
five forty dollars an hour. And his only job was
to take a plastic piece along with a pneumatic tool
and put it up in the place which, by the way,
there's a diagram it shows exactly what to do. Took
that and went and that was it. That's what he did.

(02:36:48):
And then you and I are paying seventy thousand dollars
for that car. That there's all these people that are
just going at making thirty thirty five forty dollars an
hour at and you wonder why the autom motive industry
in America is failed and why so many automotive companies
went outside of the country to manufacture. It's that reason.

(02:37:11):
You look at the more successful car manufacturers right now
in America, they're all the non union ones. And the
idea of having a government with a union with no
alternative for us to go to because the union's causing problems,
think of how in depth of an issue that will

(02:37:34):
be for America and for our future, and we the people,
we've got to start fighting We've got to start putting
our foot down. We got to start calling our representatives
and letting them know to knock it off. We put
you there for a reason. Do the reason for why
we sent you there, or get the hell out. Let
somebody else do it. You know, in a lot of ways,

(02:37:56):
it's one of the reasons why why I'm running for office.
I'm running for office because of the fact that we
need to change the attitude of how we do things now.
I'm not running against an incumbent, you know, the incumbent
which I'm friends with and I thought he's done a
good job. But we need to still change the attitude

(02:38:17):
of how we do government. And that's why I'm running
because we have to get more jobs, we have to
get more competition, we have to take care of our people,
and we got to stop looking at the dumb stuff.
Stop wasting money on stupid things. Let's look into the future.
That's what we got to do. And if we don't

(02:38:38):
stand up now and make a difference, we're going to
lose the country. We have so many problems in this
country right now. Aside from the corruption in government, you know,
we have the Islamic situation in this country and what
is government doing to stop this nothing? You see what
is obviously a problem with the Somalians in Minnesota. What's

(02:39:01):
going on there? We're having an investigation. How long does
it take you to do the investigation? And if it's
already been exposed, then that means well, there's an investigation
that's already been done, so you should be able to
step it up a little bit. We want to see
people in cuffs. We want to see examples of how

(02:39:25):
the fraud and everything else has been committed in Minneapolis.
In Minnesota, we want to see it happen. We want
to see results. That's what we want. And Pam BONDI,
if you can't start getting we the people some more results,
it is time for you to get out. We need
to have an aggressive attorney general, an absolutely aggressive attack

(02:39:49):
dog get it done prosecutor is what we need. We
need see abody who's going to look at the rest
of the justice reproblem, who may be investigating and going, look,
you got ntil Friday to get this done. Find the
evidence by Friday, execute the search warrants, go through all
of these things. Find this stuff. Because sitting back here
looking at it, I can see there's a problem, So

(02:40:12):
get us that evidence to formulate the case against these people.
But sadly government protects themselves and they're not willing to
go after one another because it's amazing what money can buy,
really is. All right, thanks so much for checking us
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