What Happens When Virtue Runs The System

They keep telling you it’s all normal: routine airstrikes, routine primaries, routine machine failures, routine “public health” scares. We don’t buy it. We start with a quick Iran and oil check, then jump straight into Texas where the Cornyn vs Paxton result looks less like a squeaker and more like a political reset, complete with last minute smears and the question voters always answer differently than pundits expect: what actually matters on Election Day?

From there we dig into election integrity after Fort Bend County’s voting systems go down because the wrong file gets uploaded and officials talk about a remote fix while polls are open. We talk provisional ballots, internet-connected processes, and why transparency is the only way to keep legitimacy intact. Then we widen the lens to turnout math, Trump endorsement momentum, and why both parties are adjusting their candidates and messaging even when they pretend they aren’t.

The back half connects the dots between socialism and government control: New York City housing rhetoric about “transferring ownership,” Oregon’s push to ban killing animals for food, and California regulations that quietly shrink what you can buy and raise what you pay. We also cover the JD Vance fraud task force and Stephen Miller’s argument that welfare systems built on the honor system get exploited at scale, plus Washington’s income tax maneuvering and a Benghazi revisit framed around pure bureaucratic inertia. If you like sharp commentary on Texas politics, election security, property rights, government fraud, and climate change debate, you’ll have plenty to argue with here. Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review with the one moment you think people need to hear.

Transcript

Cold Open And Morning Banter

SPEAKER_16 0:44

Peasants, man. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those little movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. We're glad you made it out here today. So last night I slept on my back, which meant I snored all night long. Have you ever done that?

SPEAKER_25 1:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 1:09

And then you wake up and you're like back of your throat has like Yeah. That's how I feel this morning. Oh. So if I feel kind of nasally, it's because I was snoring all night long. Now my doula um blagata is like all stretched out and swollen or something. Brazer, good morning from Boise. Glad you made it. John Attackis on YouTube. Nice day to work for the man. That's right. And always working for someone else. Bony Boy 3255. Good morning. And bye-bye, Corning. Oh yeah. Corning is bye-bye gone. Modern easel. Good morning, Taylor and Ron. Oh, glad you guys made it. Good morning. While you guys are all piling in. Carlitz, good morning. Glad you made it. We've got a good show

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SPEAKER_16 1:48

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SPEAKER_16 4:08

Brilliant. It's one of the best. Oh man, there's so many good little one-liners in there. I love it so much. All right, Carlitz and Tiffany. How do y'all? Rainy days here in Texas. You guys probably need the rain to wash away Corny's tears. Of course. All right, before we get going too far, let's check in on Iran.

Iran Update And Oil Prices

SPEAKER_16 4:31

Seems important over there. Cost of a barrel of oil is down to like $88 or $85 a barrel. So that's good. Prices seem to be coming down as we are on the verge of peace, except we were launching some missiles last night.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

Iran reportedly putting a price tag on peace. State media claiming the regime wants $24 billion in frozen funds released as part of any deal with the U.S. Our chief foreign correspondent Trey Yinks is reporting live out of Tel Aviv for us at this hour. He's got the latest. Trey.

SPEAKER_23 5:01

Yes, Andrew. Good afternoon. Iranian state media says the regime is demanding billions of dollars worth of frozen funds released as part of any sort of agreement with the United States. Now, officials in Washington say that's not going to happen, and any sort of financial relief for the Iranians will only come if they uphold their end of the bargain. This comes as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remains in effect, and U.S. Central Command says more than a hundred vessels have been redirected as the Trump administration works to tighten economic pressure on the Iranian regime. Overnight, the United States conducted airstrikes against southern Iran near the Strait of Hormuz. CENCCOM says the strikes were defensive in nature and targeted minelane vessels along with a surface-to-air missile position. These were the first U.S. strikes that have targeted Iran since early May.

SPEAKER_16 5:50

First time we've fired shots since early May. Guess we got a couple weeks off. Um so we just kicked the can down the road another day. Guess we'll see if there's a peace deal tomorrow. If not tomorrow, the day after that. But all right, check in tomorrow. Man, you've been on some of those boats for weeks on a time. Could you imagine sitting on one of those boats now? What is it, going on almost three months?

SPEAKER_25 6:12

Just hanging out. I can't imagine. It's pretty I'm sorry, you people on those boats. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_16 6:21

It's pretty bad. And it's hot too over there. It's not like, you know, it's hot. It's probably not very fun.

Texas Senate Runoff Shockwave

SPEAKER_16 6:29

All right. So shifting over to Texas. Yes, it was a bad day for John Cornyn yesterday. In fact, there were bad news bears running all over his campaign headquarters yesterday as they were getting ready to count the vote. This is CNN reporting.

SPEAKER_27 6:42

A lot of concern, Anderson, nervousness that this could be the end of a career that has spanned decades here in Texas that led to Cornyn holding a Senate seat since 2002, ascending to the top ranks of the Senate Republican leadership, but could see it come to an abrupt halt, all in be in large part because of the president's late decision to get behind Kent Paxton in this critical race that could determine the next Senate majority. I talked to Senator Corny earlier today, and he bluntly warned Republicans against nominating Paxton, continue to attack him up until the final days of the campaign. I asked him, why not back off this these attacks, given that Paxton himself has called on the party to unite, call on the party to have a positive message and to focus on James Tolrico instead. But Corny just defended his decision to go, continue to go negative, saying that voters deserve to hold Paxton accountable.

SPEAKER_06 7:37

It's just emboldened him to the point of recklessness and now to the point of self-destructiveness, especially with regard to his own family. I just think you cannot trust Ken Paxton. Trump has had similar allegations against him.

SPEAKER_16 7:49

So what they're talking about here is they're playing dirty. Ken Paxton had an affair and his wife ended their marriage on biblical grounds. Okay. Okay. And so that's that's their wedge now, right? That's where Mono's like, well, Trump's had similar accusations. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 8:04

Do you give the same concerns about Trump? I think it's a totally different different scenario. And I'm running against uh Ken Paxton. And uh so that's why we're making the case because I think voters have a right to know. Yeah, the attacks that you have waged against them, is he going to be damaged in November if he's a nominee? Well, I have every confidence that the Democrats would be able to find that same information and use it. And um, and so uh, but I think it's important to the electorate to be informed, well informed.

SPEAKER_16 8:33

Wow. Up to the last minute, smearing your smearing your opponent. Now, didn't help him much. This is Emma Emma's now reporting from his his campaign watch headquarters.

SPEAKER_33 8:44

Because it's a very small room. You can see that there are political signs. Um sorry, excuse me, and there are more than a dozen cameras here. You can take a look. There's room for about 50 chairs in the podium where Cornan is expected to speak later today. But again, it's very tight. It does not scream Texas party. It does not scream texise room, Simone. Um, but but then again, here we have a little more air conditioning. Um, I did ask the senator's campaign if there was a different room where perhaps supporters are waiting for the senator or where the senator is going to be mingling with supporters. I was told that he is going to be um uh waiting for the results privately. So again, this is where we're expected uh to hear from Senator Cornyn as soon as the results come in. Again, Simone, it was a little tight in there, not screaming Texas.

SPEAKER_16 9:42

AKA Corny expected to lose.

SPEAKER_25 9:45

Loser.

SPEAKER_16 9:46

This is exactly what happened last night. This is as the results are rolling in. And then in the election day vote, I have Paxton 87 over Cornyn 13. Goodness. Did you hear that? Election day vote. It was coming in for Ken Paxton, 87 to 13. Ouch. And the man in the background goes, oh my goodness. Now, in the early voting, it was 64 Paxson, 36 Cornyn. Okay. So, right.

SPEAKER_19 10:11

Six in the early vote in this county at Stonewall County, Adam's talking about 28 points is the margin for Paxton over Cornyn. And now we're starting to get election day. But we said this would be the more Cornen friendly was the expectation. The election day vote, everyone election day, presumably full knowledge of that Trump endorsement. Paxton had already done better with the election day vote back in the preliminary. Wow. A 70 uh uh 74 point margin, 28 to 74. So um, if that if that's a harbinger, what we're seeing in that one small county, um, then where you see Paxton red right here, it's gonna get deeper and deeper Paxton.

SPEAKER_16 10:51

Deeper and deeper Paxton. Oh man. Cornyn had a bad night last night. Bad night. Here was his a portion of his acceptance speech, which I thought was pretty good.

SPEAKER_13 11:01

I'll support President John Trump's America First Agenda and finally secure our nation's elections by passing the same America. I've taken on big food and big pharma as attorney general. And I'm going to continue doing that in the Senate because making America healthy again is critical for our nation's future. As Attorney General, I've seen some of the largest companies in the world like Netflix, Snapchat, and Roblox, we're taking advantage of our kids by exposing them to dangerous addictive material. In Washington, I will not stop fighting to protect Texas children from big tech hurting our kids. I'll support President Jones.

SPEAKER_16 11:52

I actually really appreciated his speech. And when I started thinking about it as Attorney General, he did take on some really big fights. So it'll be interesting to see how he carries those into the Senate and uh does that. So Corny has a couple weak spots, obviously. He just got trounced, but Paxson does too. Namely, his quote unquote affair with his wife is probably the angle that they're going to take to try to shove a wedge, you know, in this general season. Now, Tallerico isn't exactly, I think he's gay. So it's not exactly like, you know, you have uh uh a uh Sunday school student on one end and then you've got Paxon on the other. It's kind of like you know, you're kind of picking between two morally questionable decisions, if that's your perspective and your paradigm here. So CNN kind of sets the stage. They're talking about this really trouncing that Paxson did over Corning here. This is this is like Cassidy finishing third. This is a big deal. Like you just unseated another incumbent senator. This is the first time this has happened in uh over a hundred years, and it just happened twice in one primary season.

SPEAKER_22 13:02

It's sort of the differences between what a Corner or a Paxan would look like here. I'm thinking about the differences between Talo Rico and literally every other Texan. Don't know any Texans who believe in six genders other than Talo Rico. Don't know any Texans who said it's immoral to eat meat other than Talo Rico. Don't know any Texans who walk around saying things, you know, God is non-binary. You all are both Texans. Do you know any other Texan who even talks like that? Issues aside, who says these things out loud? When this gets when this gets adjudicated, all that money coming in from California and New York, it'll be well spent in Texas. You know what I'm smelling, Scott? Fear.

SPEAKER_21 13:39

Oh you guys on this gender. You are on this, he's he's more popular than Trump in Texas. Can you explain his position? He he cited a biological study, it's not his position. He cited a study. So you're for so you believe in you know what I'm not for? I'm not for six dollars eighty-nine cents hamburger. James actually eats beef, okay? But he can afford to. Most Texans can't anymore. Now, Ken Paxton can, because on a government salary, he's become a millionaire. How does that happen? He can afford hamburger. This is what's gonna be about. This is what you want it to be about woke. I want it to be about woke. I'm not gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_25 14:13

Is this the Democrat asshole? Yep, yep, yep. That's pretty rich.

SPEAKER_30 14:19

What I will say is Scott is melting down, but that's that is like the Republican Party right now.

SPEAKER_25 14:27

No, all Paxson has to do to win is go to uh barbecue. That's all he has to do.

SPEAKER_30 14:34

Let me let me make my point. He is an eighth-generation white Texas male who loves meat and appeals, talks about the cost of living in the state, is appealed to it appealing to a moderate electorate, including Republicans who don't want to vote for Paxon, and Republicans are running completely.

SPEAKER_16 14:54

I think you just proved that most Republicans are gonna vote for Paxson. Okay. And uh this idea that Talo Rico is going to appeal to the Texas white man, I don't know. And I don't know that he's gonna appeal to the Hispanic voters either. And I think that is what I'm saying. But I will say that.

SPEAKER_30 15:12

But I wonder when I when I when we're talking about morality and like, you know, values and stuff like that, you have Taxton here, who was married for almost 40 years, and his wife who knows him the best ended their marriage on biblical grounds. What does that mean?

SPEAKER_15 15:29

I'm a Catholic.

SPEAKER_30 15:30

I will say that either means you cheated on your spouse with a man or woman, or you went ahead and abused your spouse. I will say that is when you're talking about judgment, a woman who knows that has known that man for 40 years, that is judgment.

SPEAKER_16 15:45

Well, Scott, can I Okay, so that's gonna be the issue.

SPEAKER_25 15:47

So is that the only reason that people get divorced?

SPEAKER_16 15:50

The well, on biblical grounds, I don't know.

SPEAKER_25 15:53

I guess if they're in politics, it is, but yeah, they're politics.

SPEAKER_16 15:56

Horatial says Paxon had a whistleblower accusation, sued for firing them, investigated by the FBI over corruption, then impeached from Republican Texas House and beat it all. Yeah, and the Texas House member that was impeaching him was drunk on the floor of the House.

SPEAKER_25 16:12

So if you the only other one thing that I'd like to note is the the the chick that was like, you know, when you're talking about morality and things like that, it's like people that talk about morality like that, yeah, do they even know what morality is?

SPEAKER_16 16:27

And here's the thing the Republicans aren't really having it. So CNN had people at Paxon's watch party, or maybe it was at Cornyn's party, I can't remember here, but they were asking them, Do these do these things concern you? Do the alleged affair and the moral the moral concerns about Paxson concern you? And the answer coming from a MAGA supporter was pretty simple.

SPEAKER_04 16:49

Here at this event this evening about some of Senator Cornyn's arguments that uh Paxon's scandals could be a liability for Republicans come November. Uh, she is seen here wearing this MAGA, uh, this make Texas a great again uh jacket. And she told me of these uh criticisms of her uh Paxton scandals. Quote, I'm not marrying him. He isn't my pastor, he isn't my spiritual advisor, but he's a very good attorney general. And that is a sentiment that we hear from a lot of Paxon supporters heading into this runoff. The big question is whether that is something that general election voters might be uh willing to overlook if he becomes a GOP nominee and faces off against Democratic nominee James Halarico in November.

SPEAKER_16 17:31

I think it's super rich when Democrats try to pull the moral card on someone. It's like, let's go back in time. JFK and Marilyn Monroe. Okay, let's go back in time. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. How many women do we need to walk out here? If I'm not mistaken, Trump, after the Access Hollywood tape leak, literally brought four women who accused Bill Clinton of rape to the debate. Go talk to those women. Front row. Yeah, Monica Lewinsky, hello, household name for a reason. How about Obama? Oh, you mean Mr. Gay himself? I mean, are have you know a lot of people haven't heard about the gentleman that rode around in the limousine with him? Uh Sinclair is his last name, right? Tucker Carlson interviewed him. Very credible when you actually boil it down to it. So it's really rich when it's like, well, you don't want to have that guy, that heterosexual weirdo. And you've seen our lineup of weirdos over here. Like, oh my goodness, it's rich. And so it's pretty appropriate for a Republican supporter to be like, listen, I ain't marrying him, but I'm not voting for Black Jesus. I mean, he's riding around the car with dudes and crack pipes. Oh man. Allegedly, allegedly, just so we don't get in trouble here. So, one thing that I have noticed last year and the year before, Republicans were losing a lot of these special elections. And maybe it's just because it's the primary season and it's Republicans versus Republicans, but I'm seeing a pretty significant shift. I mean, we've seen a couple elections now where Trump got more votes for his endorsed candidate than he did in the last election cycles. You're starting to see maybe, maybe there's there's a little bit tighter controls on the elections themselves, like the counting of the ballots. Something's going on that's making these elections, you know, seem to be more legitimate.

Fort Bend Voting Machines Fail

SPEAKER_16 19:32

But then I saw this last night in Fort Bend, Texas.

SPEAKER_40 19:37

Their machines broke down in Fort Bend County, voting temporarily halted due to a bug in the system.

SPEAKER_29 19:44

A clerical uh user error in our office. Uh, the standard procedures for updating our poll books at the polling locations is to export essentially a file that gets remotely transmitted to the locations. Export essentially a file that gets remotely transmitted to the locations.

SPEAKER_16 20:02

Now, when I was going to prison for protesting a stolen election, that couldn't happen. That couldn't happen. That was outside the realm of possibility, stop asking, young man. Okay, that's the response I got. That's outside the realm of possibility, stop asking, young man. The idea that these election machines are not air gapped, that they even need access to the internet, that's a wives tale. Where did you get that myth? What, Cindy Powell, the wacko? Okay, and yet here we have another breakdown in an election. Oh, sorry, we couldn't remotely transport the information like we always be transmitted over the internet at all. Did we mention that these machines aren't connected to the internet? We just need the internet to make them work.

SPEAKER_29 20:49

Total insanity. The purpose of this is to update voter registration, voter statuses for those uh voters that are showing up at the polls. Unfortunately, when this upload was completed today, the incorrect file was chosen.

SPEAKER_12 21:03

This happened late this afternoon. Maria Aguilera, live at the county's election headquarters with the very latest on what's happening. Maria.

SPEAKER_32 21:12

Yeah, Lennon Mia, we're learning that the issues here in Fort Bend County started around 3 40 this afternoon. Election officials are saying this was due to a bad file uploaded into the system. Now, that issue is what caused the voting machines countywide to go down, preventing voters from properly checking in. Now, officials say they are working on a remote fix, but there's still no clear timeline for when the a remote fix.

SPEAKER_16 21:36

Election officials are working on a remote fix and upload in the middle of the freaking day to upload election files and statuses, not the day before, not before voting starts, during the voting. During the voting. Provisional ballots or elements provisional ballots don't have any problems, especially when it's in mass. You know, it's one thing if your local elementary school has five provisional ballots because five people weren't in the poll books and we're gonna go figure it out later. No, the whole county is now voting on provisional ballots.

SPEAKER_32 22:17

Election officials also say that this issue has been reported to the state and that they the the votes cast before the outage remain secure. Now, new tonight, Congressman Christian Menefee's campaign is calling for extended poll hours, saying that voters should not lose times because of a technical failure that is out of their control. Officials are still encouraging people to head to the polls while they work to restore those machines and get them back up and running. Obviously, polls close at 7 p.m. It is unclear at this time if that time will change tonight, but of course, we'll continue to monitor this and bring you the latest as soon as the information becomes available. But for now, live in Fort Bend County, Maria Aguilera, K-H-O-U 11 East, back to you.

SPEAKER_12 23:02

Things happening. They're trying to get it fixed so folks can vote. Maria, thank you.

SPEAKER_29 23:06

Hey, clerical uh user error in our office. Uh, the standard procedures for updating our poll books at the polling locations is to export essentially a file that gets remotely transmitted to the locations. The purpose of this is to update voter registration, voter statuses for those uh voters that are showing up at the polls.

SPEAKER_16 23:25

Dude, this is just classic. Now, the good news is we're hearing about it. Yeah. Because when it happened in Georgia and Arizona, they didn't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it. Don't want to talk about it.

SPEAKER_25 23:38

So at least we're hearing about it. You know that one reporter gentleman was saying, Well, we just had to fix the system so that it would vote properly. And I was like, huh, you could hear that two different ways.

SPEAKER_16 23:50

Yes, you could. Now, another person we lost, bless his heart, bless his heart, old Chip Roy. Remember Chip Roy? Yeah. From from clips like this. You know, sometimes it's hard to. There's a there's a lot of these people here that really put on the MAGA cloak, but when it really boiled down to it, they weren't MAGA at all. Chip Roy was one of those people, right? He came across as tough, hard-nosed Republican, part of the Freedom Caucus or whatever it was.

SPEAKER_18 24:15

But at the end of the day, and I was just at multiple events with Ron DeSantis where he's shaking their hands and looking them in the eye while Donald Trump hangs out in his basement in Florida, afraid to actually debate. What's he afraid of? I'm you know, look, I'm happy to debate him if he wants to anywhere. I'm just a little old congressman. Why won't he debate Ron DeSantis or any of the other candidates? I think he should.

SPEAKER_04 24:34

Why do you think he won't get on the debate stage with the other Republicans?

SPEAKER_18 24:39

Well, I mean, like I can tell you what Ron from Ron DeSantis's perspective is because he would clean his clock. I mean, if you compare the records, they're not comparable. Oh, okay. So Ron DeSantis and Trump aren't comparable.

SPEAKER_16 24:50

Okay. Yeah, yeah, that's that's that seems factual.

Down Ballot Races And Turnout

SPEAKER_16 24:54

All right. So Ken or Chip Roy was running for attorney general to replace Ken Paxson. And I honestly thought Chip Roy was probably gonna win. I hadn't followed this race very closely. Nope, he got blown out too. So Maze Middleton got the nomination for or the Republican endorsement, whatever, got on the ballot with 57.2% of the vote when Chip Roy pulling in only 42.8% of the vote. So that's a pretty good spread.

SPEAKER_25 25:18

Dang, look at the numbers though.

SPEAKER_16 25:20

That's what I wanted to draw your attention to. So on the Democrat side, their their winner, Nathan Johnson, got 60% of their votes with a total of 163,348 voice. Right. Mays Middleton got 398,000 votes. 400,000. That's over double the amount of votes. In fact, these guys totaled together, Democrats in this primary, only just shy of 200,000, 400,000 people voted.

SPEAKER_25 25:49

So what's the narrative here where Democrats are gonna somehow win? I mean, how do you even pull those numbers together?

SPEAKER_16 25:57

Again, this is a primary, so you've got kind of a motivated Republican party here. Sure. Although you'd think the Democrats would be motivated too, but they definitely didn't show up in this one. So, I mean, you've got 200,000, 300,000 extra primary votes that the GOP cast over the Democrats.

SPEAKER_25 26:15

But but we don't think that these GOP votes are gonna voters are gonna not vote in the primary, though. I mean, come on, they're gonna vote.

SPEAKER_16 26:23

Based on these numbers, let's say only primary voters voted and all the votes consolidated on the Democrat side, sure. And Chip Roy votes all just went to a third-party riding candidate.

SPEAKER_25 26:33

Sure.

SPEAKER_16 26:34

Uh Maze Middleton still wins.

SPEAKER_25 26:35

Yeah, it still crushes it.

SPEAKER_16 26:37

Crushes it. Yeah. That that doesn't look like it's going to be a close race. No, which will make it interesting if people think the Talo Rico and Paxson race is going to be close, then you'd think the down ballot races would be close too. I just I don't know, man. Like, I tend to agree with a pretty mainstream Republican commentator. Like, listen, Talo Rico, six genders, God's non-binary. I I have to confront my whiteness, meat's bad. Uh, I love the transgender kids, they're so special to me. I don't see any of that going anywhere. No, I see it as kind of dead on arrival. Shantini, good morning, peasants. New cheeseburger this morning. Man, you guys chop out cheeseburgers like every day. Holy cow. You guys roll out more cheeseburgers than McDonald's. Cheeseburgers is a uh code for baby calf, by the way. Okay, Carlitz, we used to work out in Fort Ben. They have gone full woke lip tart over there. Well, no wonder they can't figure out their machines. It's probably what they're trying to do with steel accounting. So Laura Ingram had a couple commentators on, Matt Towney's in specific, and they were talking about the message to the Republican Party after this, after tonight and after this entire primary season is dead clear.

MAGA Momentum And Endorsement Wins

SPEAKER_16 27:48

Rhinos, obstructionist to Donald Trump's agenda, get out of the way.

SPEAKER_09 27:52

Let's get Matt into this. Matt, look, the the fact of the matter is, if Cornyn wanted to be more popular with the Trump voters, it wasn't that hard to do over the last couple of years, was it? I mean, he could have really lobbied for that Save America Act. He could have pushed to get rid of the filibuster. He could have been a warrior on these issues. I mean, other Republicans have straddled that line with Trump, but he didn't do it.

SPEAKER_24 28:16

Well, Laura, we predicted that Paxton was going to win this thing a couple of months on your show months ago. And it's because the MAGA vote is just so intense. And the country club Republicans are shrinking and going away in the suburban areas. He could have done a lot of things. I mean, this whole world of Tillis and McConnell and unfortunately Cornyn and others, it's they're killing themselves because they are, they do not realize the Democrats are going to nuke the filibuster. They're telling you that right now. They are going to try to expand the Supreme Court. So why do they not want to be proactive, follow Trump, support him, allow him to get his some of his policies passed now so we don't have to hold everything on the midterms? I don't understand it. I don't think the president understands it, and I don't think Republican voters understand it, which is why Paxton is going to win tonight.

SPEAKER_16 29:05

It's because the Republicans have been immune to politics by playing too many politics. They think their positions are protected by the Democrats themselves, that they can just be the loyal opposition about that's good enough for them. The reality is Trump wants to lead. He's an executive, he's not a politician. He doesn't want to have a bunch of people owing him favors on his way out of office. He's going to expend everything he has. Like he just sees this as a different game. He's clearly not in it to, you know, oh, you've been around since 2002, John Cornyn. Let's see if we can get another 12 years for you.

SPEAKER_25 29:40

It feels like this time that he's running the tables.

SPEAKER_16 29:42

It's run, and that's this is what Bill Himmer covered on Fox News. This campaign, I mean, Trump's always had 97% success on his endorsements, but uh he's he's better than Babe Root this year.

SPEAKER_17 29:55

Well, eight times he won eight. Trump endorsed on the U.S. House level one on one times, he's won 101 times. Trump endorsed U.S. Senate, he's won eight times, and we're about to find out tonight whether or not that will be number nine, Lara.

SPEAKER_16 30:09

So ended up being 100%.

SPEAKER_25 30:14

Doesn't look like there's anything to argue about.

SPEAKER_16 30:16

100%. Now, even on the Democrat side, the performance artists, and we've had a couple of them, Corey Bush, we had uh the other black guy that pulled the fire, Jamal Bowman. We've had a whole handful of Democrats who have been part of the squad or squad adjacent who have been adamantly opposed to Donald Trump, and they've made mockeries of themselves. Cohen just lost his seat in Tennessee. It got written out. We're who knows where South Carolina's gonna go, but it sounds like uh old black guy, what's his name? Uh he's the one who helped get uh Biden, his nomination in South Carolina. Uh his name will come to me. Anyways, he's his seat may or may not get written out, and then on top of that, you've had multiple people who have been voted out. Last night, Al Green in New Mexico got trounced on the Democrat side. Now, who's Al Green? He's the guy who's probably written more articles of impeachment against Trump in his first term and now his second term.

SPEAKER_25 31:19

Jermaine Johnson Jermaine Johnson.

SPEAKER_16 31:22

No, uh it starts with a C, I think. Right there. That's his picture right there on the far right. On the far right, that's his picture. This guy down here on the video with the accent. Up, up, that's the guy right there. Can't remember his name.

SPEAKER_07 31:41

Slow.

SPEAKER_16 31:43

Okay, so, anyways, Al Green, who stood up at the State of the Union to protest Trump.

SPEAKER_19 31:48

Well, he got blown out yesterday. A jarring one to see, I think, just in terms of where expectations were. Green won for Bend in a landslide in the preliminary, getting crushed by uh by Mennefee here in his home base. And again, that's Harris County. And so our decision desk is saying that long time incumbent, long time Democratic incumbent Al Green. Uh he did among other things. If you watch the State of the Union address uh every year, he's he's often prominent there uh for a variety of reasons, but but Al Green um losing here to Christian Menefee. Um so one incumbent had to go. Our decision desk says Al Green will be that incumbent.

SPEAKER_16 32:28

Uh okay. Why is this significant? I think the Democrat Party is breaking right. I think that's what that means. They're breaking right here locally, North Kittsup County, the Democrats are about to run someone for State House that walks around with a pocket constitution in his pocket. The Democrat Party. The guy knows what a constitution is.

SPEAKER_25 32:47

I guess they know what time it is.

SPEAKER_16 32:49

Yeah, I think you're starting to see a little bit of this break right kind of thing. The constituency is getting sick of the communism, they're getting sick of having to defend a candidate who says there's six genders or loves trans kids. That's like, listen, we all have a bleeding heart, but can we win an election without being weirdos?

SPEAKER_25 33:08

So they're gonna abandon their their platform without even explaining it. They're just gonna explain. What's the narrative here now?

SPEAKER_16 33:17

Explain. They don't need a narrative, they just need to win, right? And the only way they're gonna win is what I call probable believability. Here's a little thing. This is a chart, and I I can't really fact check this, but this comes from Stop Seattle Dems, and this has to do with the election in Seattle for Katie Wilson. So there's a late ballot turn-ins. So on November 5th, when we had the election for Seattle's mayor, Bruce Harrell was leading at 53.6 percent, which is a pretty decisive win.

SPEAKER_15 33:49

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_16 33:50

And then uh fast forward, November 10th, we started to have uh ballots coming in, and the Harrell on by the time November 11th happened was at 53.7 percent lead.

SPEAKER_25 34:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 34:03

Okay, so his lead went up.

SPEAKER_25 34:05

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_16 34:05

Okay. And then November 12th, there was a suspicious surge over to Katie Wilson with some dubious, questionable reporting from the Seattle Times. And then on November 13th, eight days after the election, Katie Wilson suddenly won by 2,000 votes with 50.19%. There's a dramatic shift. Harold was seven points ahead, and by the time they stopped counting, over a week later, Katie Wilson ended up with 2,000 extra votes.

SPEAKER_25 34:32

Just right down below your cursor. What does that say? Hashtag stop mail and cheating.

SPEAKER_16 34:39

Stop mailing cheating.

SPEAKER_25 34:41

Huh.

SPEAKER_16 34:43

You know, sometimes these little AI-generated flyers they misspell like stupid little words. I had one yesterday someone sent me with or uh with Washington State fraud points, and all the locations were right. There was another flyer that was made later that cleaned up, but it had like Bellingham where Tacoma is, it had Tacoma over my spoken. It was like, dude, this AI map is off. The numbers seem to all be right, but somebody went in later and cleaned up the map part of it. So, anyways, again, election integrity matters, folks. Anywhere you can clean up these elections, you're gonna see a huge swing to the right. It's just the way this stuff's gonna end up working. What do you got for us, Ron?

unknown 35:24

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_16 35:26

Whenever you click over, I'm ready to go. And they all freeze up on me.

SPEAKER_25 35:29

I don't click over there. There's nothing there. Okay.

New York Housing And Property Seizure

SPEAKER_16 35:33

So jumping over to New York City, yesterday we talked a little bit about socialism. It's kind of been our theme this week, and that was our opener, right? Go go take care of a socialist. So in these in our major cities, New York, LA, Chicago, or uh Chicago as well, and Seattle and Portland, they're really being run by people who are pretty open about their support for socialism and communism. All right, Ron, looks like we got one.

SPEAKER_25 36:00

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SPEAKER_16 36:46

And you're gonna want to stick around for premium. I forgot this thing in the back of my throat. You're gonna want to stick around for premium today because we're gonna be talking about Donald Trump's health, which, if you're a Democrat, is waning rapidly. Oh, uh oh. I mean, Trump's gonna be pulling out the auto pin pretty soon. He's so bad. So bad.

SPEAKER_25 37:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 37:04

Okay, so Bandami up in New York, everybody knows he's a socialist. He kind of has that nice cheesy smile. He's won over a lot of the youth. I remember on that airplane ride I went where I sat between the two Zoomer Waffins, the one gal who was Jewish but supported Palestine, but had some real issues there. There was some cognitive dissonance happening. Okay, but she supported Bandami, really loved his wife, who's very anti-Semitic, has lots of negative things that she's posted over the years, right? Very again, the cognitive dissonance is already there for her, and it's just gonna get thicker and thicker and thicker as time goes on.

SPEAKER_25 37:36

If you're already confused, don't be.

SPEAKER_16 37:38

Yeah, don't be. She's gonna be more confused before her cycle ends. Because clearly she's in love with Mandami's wife, probably unaware of Mandami's prejudice against the Israelis. So, anyways, Mandami put people around him on his staff, and one of the people he put around him is this woman here. Her name is Sia Weaver, S-E-A Weaver, and she is currently serving as New York City's tenant director. So she's in charge of housing. Okay. When Bandami was campaigning, she did a little Zoom call and talking about the policies they're working on, anticipating they were gonna win. This is what she said.

SPEAKER_00 38:18

I think the reality is that for centuries, we've really treated um property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are gonna try and transitioning to treating it as um a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that um families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, um, are gonna have a different relationship to property than than than the one that we currently have.

SPEAKER_16 38:55

What is she saying there? We viewed property as an individual thing, like you know, you own it to, you know, white property owners and even some people of color property owners, they're gonna have to have a different relationship with their housing.

SPEAKER_15 39:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 39:08

They're gonna have a different relationship. Okay, essentially talking about socialization, collectivization of property ownership. Or stealing classic communist agenda stuff, right? Take from the haves and give to the have-nots until the have-nots have, and then the former haves, the whole social order gets flipped on its head. Well, this is Bandami yesterday in a stump speech, making good on his promise.

SPEAKER_28 39:32

Through our new citywide campaign, Fix the City, we will focus on the worst landlords in New York City. When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers. And for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, nonprofits, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.

SPEAKER_16 40:18

Well, there you go, Ron. You're looking at that like just baffled.

SPEAKER_25 40:21

Yeah. I maybe you should have taken a picture of me. Let me try to recreate it.

SPEAKER_16 40:33

Okay. So we're here. We're here, we're at this point. The mayor of New York is talking about confiscating private property and giving it to nonprofits, which, if you've been following the non-profit scandals around the country, that's problematic. Land trusts, aka public conservatories, uh conservatories, and uh, what was the other one? To the tenants themselves. Now, if you're familiar with New York real estate, a lot of these landlords that have neglected their properties, are the landlords, they got suckered into being uh fixed rent. What is it, what is it called? Rent caps, what do they call it, where they they don't raise the um you have rent like basically freeze the rents and rent controls. So they freeze the rents. And what that does is it puts the the landlord in a position where he can pay his mortgage and he has a little bit of extra money. And in the beginning, that little bit extra money actually has some purchasing power. But fast forward 15 years, and that little cash flow, that extra 20 bucks, 100 bucks a month that they're getting on that rent, they don't fix the broken sink anymore.

SPEAKER_25 41:42

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_16 41:42

The sink of the faucet doesn't cost 20 bucks and the labor 80 bucks. It's like now the faucet costs 120 bucks and the labor's 200 bucks.

SPEAKER_25 41:50

And never mind that you know they still have to pay taxes. Taxes, so they get squose hard.

SPEAKER_16 41:57

Yeah, Sarah Sings asked, How many people in that crowd will lose their homes? In that crowd, probably none of them. They're probably given probably nobody, right? Because clearly I didn't see anybody in a suit back there, any landlord-looking people. But again, it matters, it's incredibly important who we elect into these positions. Okay, it's incredibly important who we elect into

Oregon Ballot Push Against Meat

SPEAKER_16 42:18

these positions. Oregon, another one of these states that's kind of given itself over to leftists. I'm Angelica Thor, has a wild proposition that is headed for the ballot in October, in November. Excuse me. Listen to this reporting out of out of Oregon. Again, guys, Mandami's people talked about getting rid of private property ownership, and now they're taking the first legitimate steps to do that. It's happening. Okay. Oregon, they've been influenced by environmentalists for decades now, and they've gotten to the point where they're gonna get this on the this thing that they're gonna talk about here on the ballot. And if it wins, there's going to be this plausible believability behind it.

SPEAKER_34 43:01

I'm Angelica Thornton, and this is your K2 morning minute. And this may sound like rage bait to many of you, but it is real. A petition to outlaw killing animals for food in Oregon is one step closer to the November ballot. The proposal would also ban hunting, fishing, and some forms of pest control. The Secretary of State's office still needs to verify the signatures before it can qualify. Portland City Councilors will vote today on whether to rename Cesar Chavez Boulevard. Councilor Loretta Smith wants to change it to Campesinos Boulevard, Spanish for farm workers. She introduced the idea after civil rights advocate Dolores Huerta accused Chavez of rape. Critics argue changing the street name would cost too much and cause confusion. A mystery out of Canada may now have a Pacific Northwest connection.

SPEAKER_16 43:52

So getting rid of hunting, fishing, and killing uh uh nuisance animals.

SPEAKER_25 43:58

That's just an American.

SPEAKER_16 44:00

I know. It's un-Oregonian either. Like I had an FBI agent one time from Oregon tell me, I don't know if Oregon's as blue as people think. It's a lot of pickups and shotguns. Yeah. That's what he told me. He's a lot of pickups and shotguns. It's like outside of Portland or downtown Eugene, it's not as blue as you'd think. Again, a lot of people will get into the blue zeitgeist, right? They get blue.

SPEAKER_25 44:23

I think a lot of that's because of Fred Armison in Portlandia.

unknown 44:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 44:27

A lot of people will get into the zeitgeist, but when you really boil it down to them, boil it down to it, people believe in private property. Well, that's my stuff, right? That's my stuff. Okay, well, you believe in private property. Yeah. Well, but I just don't want the corporations to make a ton of money. Well, which corporations? Because the ones that make the most money are the nonprofits. The rest of them are hiring people, they're selling product, goods, or services. That's a cash flow game, right? So go get in the flow of the get get in the flow of the cash flow, and you'll be better for it than fighting against it and blaming Amazon for being so rich. It's like, yeah, they're rich because they employ millions of people. And you know, these nonprofits, now they, on the other hand, have some interesting, you know, books. But also the restriction on personal freedoms, right? The ability to buy what you want, what serves you and your property or what you want isn't a big deal. California's been doing this for decades as well, as more and more Democrats have, I mean, they've been under Democratic leadership for 20 years. And I don't even know if you could call the Arnold Schwarzenegger governorship time period as Republican leadership. It was kind of like they slowed down the bleeding for just a little

California Rules And Daily Life Limits

SPEAKER_16 45:34

bit. But here's Steve Hilton at a local Ace Hardware store in California talking about how the state of California's policies and regulations affects what you, the consumer, can have on the shelf.

SPEAKER_10 45:46

We are in Oceanside, San Diego County. This is Logan, who's done incredibly well. You're how old 26 years old owns two Ace Hardwares.

SPEAKER_11 45:53

What's going on in California that's making your life difficult? We get a giant list every month of new products that we can no longer sell. There's tons of paint products that California restricts, turpentine and denatured alcohol. And it could be as simple as it doesn't have a label on it that California requires. And so what do people do? A lot of people go to Arizona. It's insane. So these are California compliant umbrellas. California banned the sale of our old umbrellas because they had PFAS in them. PFAS is found in literally everything else. Okay. It's a forever chemical, it's meant for waterproofing. Now the vendor has to make California specific ones without these restrictions, which increases our price, which therefore increases the consumer price. What are we looking at here? Yeah, this is all battery products, which should be gas-powered items. Like California's banned the sale of gas-powered equipment. They work great, but obviously the issue is your battery runs out and it's not like you can just dump more battery in it. And it also takes away other business, you know, gas engine repair businesses. But you had once. Correct. And they're killing it. Correct.

SPEAKER_10 46:46

Thanks a lot, Gavin Houston.

SPEAKER_16 46:48

They're gonna take your houses, they're gonna take your hunting licenses, they've taken your lawnmowers and your weed whackers. You can't get freaking turpentine. Got weird umbrellas, probably aren't even waterproof. It's all happening. Now, uh, Tom Steyr, who's a billionaire, my understanding is he's made he made his money in the oil industry. And as an act of self-flatulation and guilt, he's now become super environmental and all that kind of stuff, you know. Classic, right? Don't blame me. Don't blame me. Look at all the money I give to charity, even though he made all the money in the oil industry. I could be wrong on that. I think that's Tom Steyr. So he was on with Jennifer Welch, who is an absolute hater. We've played clips of her in the past. He was on with Jennifer Welch, and he's talking about trans kids. And again, do you think you can win a statewide election or a federal election with this type of a platform?

SPEAKER_14 47:42

You talked about trans people. I'm totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. I I think when you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid, and you understand that almost half of them try to commit suicide. Yeah, and then you think we're gonna punish those kids, we're gonna cut them off from team sports, we're gonna cut them off from participating in the community, we're gonna cut them off from fun. It's like, no, we're not. No, we're not. And you know, as someone who played sports my whole life and loves sports and love playing sports, there are more important things than whether you start on your high school basketball team, and that is standing up for people who are under threat of death. You talked about trans people.

SPEAKER_16 48:28

It's more important to stand up for the 0.1% of trans kids, it's more important to stand up for the deer rolling around the Oregon forest, it's more important to stand up to your gas-powered lawnmower, you know, stand up for the weeds.

SPEAKER_25 48:42

I'm sorry, dude.

SPEAKER_16 48:43

Yep, uh makes you wonder, huh? You can see why the Democrats didn't have a great turnout in these last couple primaries, and you can see why they're starting to run some some center candidates to write a little bit. But unfortunately, where is Karen Bass admitting that LA was once a great city and it's now a crappy city, and she's not done anything about it?

SPEAKER_39 49:06

Well, the LA that I grew up in, first of all, was a lot cleaner. There were not people sleeping on our streets. The city was actually affordable. You could rent an apartment, work part-time, and go to school. So what'd you do? It was a lot different. And I am so hopeful, though, because our city has grown to be such an international city, and I love that. Everybody in the world lives here, and our city is much more diverse than it was before. Many more people, but unfortunately, the city isn't affordable now, and we do have people sleeping on our streets, which is exactly why I ran for mayor, because I know how our city can be, and we're gonna get there again.

SPEAKER_16 49:49

Oh, she just took a few detours, and she said, Well, I didn't realize how much the resistance inside my office would be. Yeah, because your res your office is full of communists. So are you, by the way. Um, Representative Nicole Maliotakis, who I always thought was Greek, because you know, Jonathan, Maliotakis, is like, oh, hey, look, she probably married a Greek guy because she's actually Cuban, turns out. But she was on with Fox Business and she was talking about one of the challenges we have is the communist government of Cuba, through its intelligence and its indoctrination of people that it's got tentacles in all these educational systems and actors in our government through different nonprofit organizations like Neville Singham and Code Pink have actually funded and facilitated the rise of communism and Marxism within our government and within these different politicians. And some of them, like Karen Bass, who you have just heard from, have had direct training and funding from Cuba.

SPEAKER_31 51:02

This is an organization where its leaders have not only met with the communist regime in Cuba, but with the Iranian regime. They've also even met with the leaders of Hamas. They're funded by billionaires associated with the Communist Party in China. They're here to undermine our country, to act as agitators and disruptors. And so we need to take organizations like that serious and follow the money. And on that note, Congress people like uh Jayopal and Johnson, who went to Cuba just last month, when this administration is trying to do what it's trying to do with Cuba to take them away as a as a remove them as a national security threat. To me, they should be investigated for treason. It is unacceptable. The US dollars funded that trip. And the speaker has to cut off any type of trip like that to communist Cuba going forward.

SPEAKER_16 51:51

Well, look, actually went down to Cuba. Actually went down to Cuba to get trained. Now, Code Pink is around here. Have you seen the Code Pink van?

SPEAKER_25 52:03

I sure have.

SPEAKER_16 52:04

Yep, Code Pink van thrives around Code Pink all over it. So Code Pink, along with Indivisible Washington, has been organizing the No King rallies that we're seeing here in Pulsbo and up in Kingston where I'm at. And it's interesting, right? It's all boomers, it's all white hair people, and they've got their code pink van. He's always there, you know, with the protest. Code Pink pays them, they get paid.

SPEAKER_25 52:26

Oh, wow, really?

SPEAKER_16 52:28

Yeah, they get paid. Those protesters that are out there, even the older ones, there might be a few that are just there for a good time volunteering, but a good chunk of them are getting minimum wage to go stand out and do those no-key protests. Yeah, totally. Okay, now fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud,

Fraud Task Force And Honor System

SPEAKER_16 52:47

fraud. JD Vance and Stephen Miller had a press conference, and as you know, JD Vance is uh the the fraud czar. He's in charge of getting rid of the fraud in the United States. And he opened up this hearing. This fraud commission that they have is unlike anything we've ever seen before. They are moving at light speed. Normally you set up a commission, they spend a year kind of getting it set up, and then it just takes forever. And then in five years, they released some reports saying there was some fraud five years ago. But that's typically how it goes. But they've taken a completely different attack. They've taken a whole of government approach and they have cut off huge, huge sums of money that was going out the door to fraudulent programs.

SPEAKER_36 53:26

Now, let me just recap for uh the benefit of our friends of the media. Uh, in just two months, we exposed billions of dollars in benefits that have been stolen from the American people. We've referred over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans back to the Treasury for collection. We've deferred more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements uh that were coming from various states, particularly California. We put a six-month hold on enrollments for new hospice and home health care providers because so many of the newer hospice providers were not actually providing hospice services, but were just uh focused on fraud. So we're gonna cut that out for a little bit and try to get to a place where we can actually certify that the people providing hospice services are actually providing those very necessary and important services. We've recovered taxpayer funds from the $135 billion stolen after the floodgates were opened in the immediate aftermath of COVID. We have found $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent government contracts, which were mostly awarded during the last administration, and that has stopped. And finally, we've blocked $16 million in student aid fraud that should have gone to young people trying to get an education, but instead we're going to fraudsters. And I think the theme here of the anti-fraud task force up to this point has really been that we're protecting two classes of victims here. We're protecting the American taxpayers who shouldn't have their money stolen by fraudsters, and of course, we're protecting the people who need these services. Now let me just recap now.

SPEAKER_16 54:54

This is uh this is pretty significant here. We've showed the last couple uh we've showed twice now on the show the difference between in money that the RNC has and the DNC has.

SPEAKER_17 55:05

Yep.

SPEAKER_16 55:05

The DNC is negative, their their net is negative, got 17 million cash, 13 or 14 million in debt. They've got a negative number there.

SPEAKER_25 55:12

They're running on fumes, run it on fumes.

SPEAKER_16 55:14

So you cut off all of the aid. Okay, so where's the donations? Act Blue's under investigation, still raising money, but they're doing it the right way because they got a microscope under them. Where's the money? Where are the big donors?

SPEAKER_25 55:28

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_16 55:28

Okay, so okay, they can fund a pack or whatever, but um the party? No one's gonna donate to the party.

SPEAKER_25 55:36

Where's the money, Ron? I don't know. Kind of makes you wonder. There's been a lot of grift money in the past, it seems like, filling these coffers.

SPEAKER_16 55:45

Feels like smoking mirrors, doesn't it? Yeah, feels like smoking mirrors. Where's the money? Where's the voters? Why do the machines keep going down? Right? That I think that we need to put on our big boy pants. Those of us that are involved in the Republican Party, we have to stop playing like we're losing. Right? We lost the war. The ground is now ceded to a socialist base, but it can be changed. They haven't proven their point. Housing is unaffordable, social services are fraudulent and scammy, people who need the services can't get them, people who shouldn't deserve the services get taken to the front of the line, right? Every single element you look at problems, and all of it comes back to the socialist aspect of it. We've got to return to a true capitalist system. Yep, we've got to have control over our politicians. And the ones that make the most sense are the Republicans. Even the Democrats are gonna start running some sane people here pretty soon because in a marketplace of ideas, they're actually gonna have to compete. Okay. So this is Stephen Miller at the same press conference talking about how dramatic the overspending and the fraud is. They suspect that everywhere they've looked, it's been worse than they expected. Worse than what they expected. There's enough fraud that Stephen Miller believes we could balance the budget.

SPEAKER_26 57:04

What we've learned, which is not surprising to those of us who spent some time in this area, is that fraud is every bit as bad as President Trump said it was, and even worse. So, in other words, everything we found either confirms our worst fears or exceeds them. That's the bad news. Good news is that the best team in government, under the leadership of Vice President Vance, has been assembled to deal with it. And of course, one of those men who you'll hear from in a second is sitting to my right here, the Associate Attorney General for fraud enforcement, Colin McDonald. But before I yield the floor, I do want to just touch on one of the points that Andrew hit on in his remarks. All of the systems in our country, whether you're talking about voting, whether you're talking about entitlements, whether you're talking about welfare benefits, were set up based on the honor system. They're set up based on the idea that you could trust the average person through their own morality to abide by the rules and comply with the law. And so the way most welfare works, I want to point this out.

SPEAKER_16 58:05

When I say phrases like they weaponize your virtue, use your virtue against you. Yep, the system is set up for a virtuous people, the honor system.

SPEAKER_25 58:15

Yep.

SPEAKER_16 58:16

That you're not gonna outright lie, you're not gonna take advantage of your neighbor. The system is set up on the honor system. And when you hold that mirror up and you go, Well, I would never lie on an application, I would never ask for money that I wasn't rightfully entitled to, I would never do these things. You then cast that that you project that virtue onto the people around you. You put you project that virtue onto the immigrant, you project that virtue onto everybody.

SPEAKER_25 58:44

Yeah, and you say to yourself, Well, I wouldn't do it, and I don't know anybody who would, so nobody else will do it either.

SPEAKER_16 58:51

Because we were all raised with the idea, do unto others as you would have them do to you. I don't want to be cheated, so I won't cheat you. Yeah, that's your virtue. The system is set up in such a way that other people can weaponize your virtue. The fact that you just wouldn't do that when they do it, and we just look at them and go, Well, they probably didn't lie because I wouldn't have lied. That's your virtue being weaponized against you. So now let's continue to hear this.

SPEAKER_26 59:19

So most states and most places is we take your word for it. If you thought a piece of paper and you say your kids are hungry, you are going to get food stamps. We don't check as a country if you even have kids. In fact, as basic as that, we don't even check if you even have children. You will just start getting the checks. And so what's happened to our country is we became a society, as we've seen with the Somali refugee problem in Minnesota, where you have a large number of people that are not following the honor system, they're not playing by the rules, they're not abiding by our laws, and the amount that has been fleeced from us is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. I believe, based on what I've seen and what I've heard, is that we could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them. And that ultimately is going to be what we have to do as a country. In the meantime, because of the vice president's leadership, you are seeing the most muscular, robust, aggressive, dedicated, determined, and speedy effort to shut down criminal fraud that has not only ever occurred in the history of this country, but in any developed nation. So thank you.

SPEAKER_16 1:00:31

They've weaponized our virtue against us.

Washington Income Tax Court Plot

SPEAKER_16 1:00:34

We want to take care of the poor. Here, more taxes. We want to take care of these programs. Look, the need is so great. Look at all the homeless people. More money, more money. Washington state's in this pickle, right? Our budget far exceeds what we can bring in. And so, what is the duty of the legislature? Bring in more money. And so they passed a new statewide income tax for millionaires, which applies to everybody. They're just going to lower that exemption eventually. And it turns out, through a uh through a Freedom of Information Act, we found out that the Attorney General of Washington, which they're not supposed to be able to do this, the Washington Attorney General and Democratic leaders plotted, literally plotted, how to overturn a nearly century-old decision that banned income taxes in the state writing. They want to force the state Supreme Court to reconsider its 1933 decision. Nearly a thousand pages of public records obtained by the Center Square show. That's from TJ Martinelli, the Center Square. So they basically have done everything they can in plotting with the attorney general to block the initiative of signatures of people to overturn it. They called it an emergency act, an emergency order, which prevents the referendum, allows it to go into law. They crafted the legislation in such a way that it puts the uh Supreme Court in a position to basically waive the exemption because that's the unconstitutional part. And that means we're all going to get taxes now, care of the Supreme Court. So all of this stuff is socialist, communist, colluding against we the people without doing any type of follow-up. They don't want NGOs to have less money, they benefit from it. They don't want to find out where the fraud is, they're on the take. How else would they get campaign donations? Right? Their ideas are not popular, they don't work. You're not going to go into any elementary school in America. And I promise this, I put money on it. You could go into any elementary school in America. And if you did a blind survey of all the parents and said how many of you want boys to go into the bathrooms with your girls, zero. Even in the most liberal of areas, you're not going to get more than 10% of parents. And you're going to find out half those parents have transgender kids themselves. Right? You're not going to find a majority of people that want to do that. So very interesting there. Okay.

Benghazi Revisited And Inertia

SPEAKER_16 1:02:49

We are going to jump over into private now, but before we do that, we're going to play one last little clip. This is from Janine Shapiro. She's the DC attorney. She's in charge of the District of Columbia. And she's been fighting street crime in the District of Columbia, but she's also been revisiting some old cases like Benghazi. And she says something here that I think is super significant. She talks about the inertia of things.

SPEAKER_37 1:03:18

And I don't know if you recall, but in 2012, we were all talking about Benghazi, and unfortunately, uh, you know, the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and the other three uh uh operatives who were there, the CIA uh uh at the CIA at the compound there. The truth is that we fought talking about whether or not it was a peaceful uh uh uh uh protest that went awry, or whether it was, you know, people just went there to burn down the embassy. And when I got into the office, I said, pull the Benghazi file. And so we pulled it and we had drones, Dan. We knew what was going on. And I looked at these drones, and it was clear to me, Dan, that there was no peaceful protest. There was no one who got there and said, you know, we object to the United States being here. These MOs, their MFers, they came in with rocket propel grenades because they knew what they were going to do. And when they couldn't break into the ambassador's residence, they went out and they got fuel to burn him out. And I remember saying to the prosecutors in the room, Dan, well, the the nation and Hillary Clinton, you know, we were all fighting it was a peaceful protest. No, it wasn't. Yes, it was. No, it wasn't. We know for a fact that it was not a peaceful protest. The drones made it clear they came there to tear the place down. And I remember saying to the prosecutors, did you know the whole country was going crazy about whether or not this is a peaceful protest or it was just a brigade that came in to tear us down? And they said, Well, yeah. I said, Well, why didn't you guys say something? And they would they said, it's not our job. And I said, you know what? You're right. It wasn't your job. But now that I'm here, I'm gonna make it clear what it was. The truth is, they came there to kill people. There was no question about it. And so at that point, I got an indictment for the ringleader, Bakush. And with you guys, with you and Cash, we were going to get over there, and I can't say where to bring him back. And I was at the F doc at the transfer of control, and then and uh Cash and I were the first ones on the plane. I wanted to look at this guy, but yeah, it's incredible unless you go in there and say, I want this done, inertia rules.

SPEAKER_16 1:05:46

And I couldn't allow inertia rules. If you don't put a stop to it, this just keeps going. We moved on from Benghazi. It's been conspiracy theorists all this time keeping it alive. And guess what? They knew the whole Whole time. They knew the whole time it wasn't a peaceful. Yep. But thank goodness Trump's administration is looking under some of these rocks. The inertia of things, the plausible believability, just keep the next day, office of pres vice office of president-elect Joe Biden. We're just going to keep move, we're just going to fall forward and just keep doing thing after thing, crisis after crisis, media storm after media storm, until we all forget. Well, chickens are coming home to roost finally.

SPEAKER_25 1:06:36

I was just going to say that I have forgotten all the details surrounding Benghazi, and this is perfect because having forgotten, can you remind me if you can remember what was the um what was the feeling around Hillary Clinton uh with this Benghazi trouble?

SPEAKER_16 1:06:56

Because Hillary Clinton stayed asleep and didn't respond to this thing or authorize a reaction force until it was way too late.

SPEAKER_25 1:07:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 1:07:03

And there's a lot of suspicions that there was some arms trafficking and guns trafficking going through that embassy, and Chris Stevens, the ambassador, was not happy with that. Gonna blow the lid. I mean, there's a lot of stuff. General Flynn had some issues with it too. And thank goodness this issue hasn't been forgotten.

SPEAKER_25 1:07:21

My my recollection of this is that Hillary Clinton let this shit happen so that those people would die, so that her crimes would be covered up.

SPEAKER_16 1:07:32

That's the impression most people come from.

SPEAKER_25 1:07:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:07:35

In fact, I had an episode. Just making sure I remember it right. I had an episode in season one call said saying it all started in Libya, that this incident in Libya is what set off this massive divide. Because remember, General Flynn was the director of national intelligence for Barack Obama. And when this happened, that was the schism. That's when General Flynn swore that Obama and his gang and Hillary Clinton were the mortal enemy. They were Democrats.

SPEAKER_25 1:08:00

Well, the reason I'm bringing this up is because now that Janine Pinero has announced some of these details, uh, why is she not talking about Hillary Clinton?

SPEAKER_16 1:08:10

I my only thing is it'll come when it comes.

SPEAKER_25 1:08:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:08:13

There's a timing to this stuff. Okay. First and foremost, it wasn't peaceful. Okay, well, who said it wasn't peaceful? Hillary Clinton. Why did she say that? Here's the reasons why. There's a there's a strategic release of this information, but you're getting a little preview here that she's saying, hey, we we knew all along, but there's an inertia to these things.

SPEAKER_25 1:08:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:08:32

There's an inertia, right? And this is like everything. If you let the communists in, there's an inertia. You put enough of them inside of your city, city building, right, working in bureaucratic positions, and now you can't change policy because they're gonna hold it up. There's an inertia, they're gonna wait you out.

SPEAKER_25 1:08:48

Uh well, it I think it is great that Janine Pirot is doing this, and what it says to me is that um I'm I'm hopeful because I had forgotten, basically had forgotten about Benghazi, and now that this is being brought back up, I'm very hopeful uh that we'll actually get some truth out of this. I'm really hopeful about that.

SPEAKER_16 1:09:10

If I have my suspicion is Trump is committed to getting as much out as he possibly can and let let the the world figure out the pieces, but they've indicted the leaders of that, right? Just like we went and got Maduro, now we've right indicted Raul Castro. Like they're going after these war crimes people one by one. And you're gonna what you're gonna see is you're gonna clean them a lot up with the foreign people, they're gonna come back, they're gonna sing like canaries, and then then that opens the door to come after the enablers inside of our country. All right, whereas the enemy within, as Trump says. All right, guys, that's it for the the public today. We're gonna jump over to private. We're gonna talk about Donald Trump's health and global warming. Uh see you in a second.

Trump Health Narrative And Media

SPEAKER_16 1:09:50

Okay, so Donald Trump yesterday, Donald Trump yesterday, or two days ago, had his uh checkup at Walter Reed Medical. And the Democrats, they're projecting, they're projecting he's not well, Ron.

SPEAKER_41 1:10:04

Washington now, President Trump heading to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center this morning for what the White House calls a medical and dental checkup. It's his third visit in 13 months and puts the spotlight on the president's health ahead of his 80th birthday next month. NBC's Chief White House correspondent Garrett Haig has more. Garrett, good morning.

SPEAKER_35 1:10:23

Hey, Savannah, good morning. Look, the White House says this is just a routine doctor's visit for President Trump, but as he approaches that 80th birthday, his physical and mental health are under a growing spotlight. Now, the president has had some visible health issues that he and his doctors say are minor. He's been seen with bruising on his hand, which he says is from aspirin usage and too many hard handshakes, and there's swelling on his lower legs, which his doctors say comes from a common vein condition. He has also appeared to doze off in some recent White House events, which he and the White House say are not actually what we see. The president receives regular medical care here at the White House, but some specialized testing, like the CT scan conducted on his heart and on his abdomen last October, can only be done when he's off-site. Now, this all comes as recent polling from the Washington Post and ABC shows that 40% of Americans believe the president has the mental sharpness to do what is one of the world's toughest jobs. That's a seven-point drop from September. And in terms of his physical capacity, that number stands at 44%. That's a 10-point drop from eight months ago. For his part, the president said back in February that he feels decades younger than his 79 years. Savannah?

SPEAKER_41 1:11:33

Garrett Hake at the White House, thank you.

SPEAKER_16 1:11:35

And as we proved during the Biden administration, if you just don't talk about it, Americans aren't aware of it. But every time they run a piece like that pointing out a couple of, you know, his medical issues, oh yeah, he's can't he can't be doing very well. Fortunately, CNN had one of their guys, again, this is one of their guys, that happened to get an interview with Donald Trump's doctors.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:55

One thing I can say is true about uh Donald Trump's health is that his doctors do say that he's very healthy. I had this surreal interview in the Oval Office with Donald Trump uh and two of his doctors from Walter Reed. Uh, this is in late December, and I did ask the question of the doctors, one of whom said that uh he saw Barack Obama when Obama was president. I asked, Well, who is healthier? And the doctor did say to me, without skipping a beat, even though I mean the president was staring at him, he had a little bit of pressure on him, but he did say President Trump is healthier. I'm not saying that President Trump is healthier than Barack Obama uh was when he was president, but it is true that the doctors are saying that. And so either the doctors are under Donald Trump's thumb or they're saying something that uh is pretty miraculous, let's put it that way.

SPEAKER_16 1:12:41

One thing I could think What you're seeing is Barack Obama who, you know.

SPEAKER_25 1:12:46

Well, what you're seeing is Barack Obama who smokes. Barack Obama who smokes.

SPEAKER_16 1:12:50

And these guys are grasping at straws, and and may or may not have had bad sexual habits. Right. Right? It's probably a little uh little less healthy than Michael Trump.

SPEAKER_25 1:13:00

He probably has some burns on his lips.

SPEAKER_16 1:13:02

I always think Memet Oz, where he's like, guys got the testosterone of a 17-year-old. I've never seen testosterone that high and a man that old. It's pretty interesting.

Climate Alarm Claims Put On Trial

SPEAKER_16 1:13:11

All right, we're gonna jump over to climate change and the fraud that is. This is a great piece from John Stossel, and I think this is just wonderful. So we're gonna wrap up with this.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:19

Environmental catastrophe bearing down on us.

SPEAKER_20 1:13:22

I keep hearing that we're killing the earth.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:24

How dare you! You have stolen my dreams, my childhood.

SPEAKER_16 1:13:30

But when we talk about inertia, the inertia of things, climate change has inertia.

SPEAKER_20 1:13:36

Hey, I've been a consumer reporter for years. I've covered so many scares. Plague, famine, and perpetual war will kill us. We're gonna run out of oil. Nuclear power will give us cancer, killer bees swarm ever closer, bird food, breath-eating bacteria. The list of terrible things that were gonna get us is long. And yet we're living longer than ever. None of those scares turned out to be as frightening as the warnings. But I'm told global warming is different.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:09

Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.

SPEAKER_20 1:14:16

The alarmists have evidence that supports their fear. Temperature is rising. The UN predicts that it'll rise another two to five degrees. But does that justify the fear? Does it justify this claim? We have twelve years to act. We have twelve years. Twelve years before the effects are irreversible. Really? Twelve years?

SPEAKER_07 1:14:42

It's warmed up around one degree Celsius since 1900, and life expectancy doubled the industrialized democracies, and and yet that temperature ticks up another half a degree, and the entire system crashes.

SPEAKER_20 1:14:56

That's the most absurd belief. I recently moderated this debate on climate change at the Heartland Institute. Well, not a debate because the alarmists who were invited didn't show. Heartland invited many.

SPEAKER_38 1:15:10

Please come over here and sit next to that place and let's have a discussion. There are a lot more people who want to hear what you have to say.

SPEAKER_20 1:15:19

Climate alarmists never agree to debate. We'd love to offer you the airtime. We will give it to you. I'll give you a special phone number that goes to this phone. I invited Al Gore on my show often, but he would never come. In order to solve the climate crisis, he makes a lot of speeches, but won't respond to people who disagree. It's too bad that the alarmists won't debate because so much of what they say deserves debate.

SPEAKER_30 1:15:44

The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:48

12 years. Well, and in 12 years, it'll be 12 more years.

SPEAKER_20 1:15:52

David Legates is a professor of climatology at the University of Delaware. Pat Michaels is former president of the American Association of State Climatologists. Well, as soon as he is an astrophysicist. This group pointed out that even if the planet warms by five degrees, humans can adjust, as people in Holland did years ago.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:20

They said, We're going to adapt to the fact that we're a low-lying country and we're going to build these dikes and we're going to build these pumps. Are you telling me that the people in Miami are so dumb that they're just going to sit there and drown?

SPEAKER_20 1:16:32

You acknowledge though the water is rising.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:36

Yes. Water has been rising for approximately 20,000 years and probably will continue to be. But we can adapt, like Holland has.

SPEAKER_20 1:16:45

The alarmists say hurricanes and other storms are getting worse. It's getting stronger and stronger. The winds are getting harder and harder.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:52

No, they aren't. You can take a look at all the hurricanes that around the planet. We can see them since 1970 because we got global satellite covers. And we can measure their power and we can add up their power. And there is no significant increase whatsoever. There is no relationship between hurricane activity and the surface temperature of the planet.

SPEAKER_20 1:17:14

The claim that hurricanes are getting worse and the 12-year deadline were two of four myths. I heard the Heartland panel convincingly debunked. Myth number three was that government action today will save us.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:27

We have to act now. The Obama administration's model projects that the amount of global warming that would be saved for going to zero emissions tomorrow. You don't know how to do that.

SPEAKER_20 1:17:46

So no real effect on the climate.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:48

But you'll sure have an impoverished dark country, won't you?

SPEAKER_20 1:17:52

Myth number four, the idea that carbon dioxide is carbon pollution that just does harm and threatens the food supply.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:00

There are places on earth where it is just greening up like crazy.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:04

So if you're really concerned about the plants, more carbon dioxide makes them not just grow faster, but also makes them more water efficient.

SPEAKER_20 1:18:13

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, but it also helps feed the world.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:18

A lot of people pretend to know about climate, pretend to have studied it, pretend to come up with these answers, and then make these proclamations to scare you so that you'll do what we want you to do.

SPEAKER_20 1:18:27

But if what the alarmists say is not true, why would the International Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations, go along with the exaggerations?

SPEAKER_05 1:18:37

Governments like control. Most governments want to keep control, and most governments get bigger and bigger over time.

SPEAKER_20 1:18:42

IPCC does stand for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:48

Carbon dioxide becomes that molecule by which we can take control of your lives, of your efforts, and everything that goes on.

SPEAKER_20 1:18:55

Are they right? It's confusing when there are so many serious people who are so worried. I wish there were a real debate. Why won't the other side debate?

SPEAKER_16 1:19:08

Because they rely on inertia and your virtue. You would never lie to someone, so why would you why would they lie to you? So you take them at face value.

Wrap Up And Sign Off

SPEAKER_16 1:19:17

All right, guys, that's it for today. We will talk to you again tomorrow, but you're heading out on a raid. Do it, Ron!

SPEAKER_15 1:19:23

All right.

SPEAKER_16 1:19:24

We're gonna go watch Donald Duck. That's have fun, you guys. That'll be great. Carlit says Hillary has got to be in Gitmo. The new Hillary looks nothing like the old one. Yeah, that is that is one conspiracy. All right, we'll talk to you guys again tomorrow. Bye.

Monty Python Peasants Clip

SPEAKER_10 1:20:06

What the comments? I'm twenty-seven. I'm twenty-seven. I'm not all. Well, I can't just call you Matt. You could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. I did say something about the old woman, but from behind you. Did you get that? Hanging on to our stated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. Is there ever going to be any progress? How do you do, good lady? Um king of the Britons. Whose castle is that? The Britons. We all are we are all Britons. And I am your king. No, you're the king. We thought we're an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictator. Stop perpetuating autocracy in which the working class is. That's what it's all about. Please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? Who lives in that cast? Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turn to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of pure internal affairs. I order you to be quiet. I'm your king. The lady of the lake. Signifying by the cabin excaliber. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women, not an importance. Distributive thoughts is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some classical aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to worry about supreme executive power. Just because some watery part for authority. Just because some motion beast loves the similarity.