We Question The Numbers And Follow The Incentives

A whole neighborhood can burn, a suspect can be arrested for arson, and we still end up arguing about whether we’re watching reality or a carefully edited highlight reel. We start with the Spokane wildfires in Washington State and the uncomfortable mix of hard evidence, online rumors, and the simple fact that people lose everything while the rest of us scroll past it.

Then we pivot to national power and perception: Trump’s safety scares, the way serious threats get triaged every day, and how quickly the news can turn scattered incidents into a single storyline. From there we dig into polling and approval ratings, how “aggregates” get built, what “meets standards” really means, and why so many Americans feel like they’re flying blind when they try to measure public opinion ahead of the midterms.

We also get into the stuff that hits wallets and neighborhoods: DOJ announced healthcare fraud on a massive scale, and we talk about what happens when public programs run on an honor system that bad actors learn to game. That leads straight into crime policy, theft thresholds, and why communities feel dirtier and less stable when enforcement disappears. We close by zooming out to election integrity oversight, Iran negotiations and the Strait of Hormuz, and the bigger question Glenn Beck raises: is there an actual long term strategy behind the chaos, and do we have the discipline to rebuild instead of just rage?

If this one makes you think, subscribe, share it with a friend who disagrees, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What’s the single issue that most broke your trust in the system?

Transcript

Cold Open And Morning Ritual

SPEAKER_09 0:01

And when I went to the screen! Who's up to check that no thread? Do you know what screen?

SPEAKER_30 0:17

Every time we turn around, we're getting screwed. The revolution's gonna be podcasting for sure. That's the way it's the little guys, the little guys that take the butt of everything. It's gotta stop. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. Oh, it feels so good when I hit start stream and it's all zeros on my bar of viewers. And then slowly but surely the first person shows up. Carlito and Tiffany, Buenos Diaz Patriot Patriotos. Patriotos? Patriotos? Uh, I don't know. Carlitz, good morning on Rumble. Glad to see you guys. That's two days in a row. We've had a YouTube chat first. That's amazing. Glad to have you guys here. Hope you guys are enjoying your Wednesday. I can't believe it. You know, sometimes I just feel like the weeks fly by. I look at the calendar and I'm like, are we like a week into the month? Oh, yes, the fifth. It's round up to a week, right? Ferrazor, good morning from Boise, Idaho. We're up before the politicians, so we can earn the money they'll spend later today. That's right. You get to keep all the money you earn from when you wake up till 10 a.m. They get everything after that. Ha ha! So wake up early! Early bird gets the worm. There's an old Chinese proverb that says, if a man rises before the sun, he cannot help but make his family healthy, wealthy, and wise. So I try to get up early. And thank you guys for joining me. And I know why you get up bright and early. You're here for the simultaneous sip. So join me now for that, for the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tanker to chalice a stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind, and fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee, and join me now for the unparalleled the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better for the simultaneous sip, and it starts right now. Sometimes that's how it feels having a podcast. It's fun. It's not always as fun as you would think. Oh, last night I got to spend the evening at a um election watch party. We had our primaries here in Washington State. So I went and joined a whole bunch of great fun Republicans and a handful of campaigns for an election party. We had dinner, we heard a bunch of speeches. And I will say this about at least my local Republican Party. If I wasn't the youngest person there, I wasn't far off by number by more than a few years. There were maybe two or three of us in our 40s. Everyone else was in there like 60s, 70s, and 80s. It was kind of interesting. Anyways, a lot of fun. For those of you that were there and are listening and you're in your 50s, I apologize. I must not have made eye contact with you. Or I just don't know your age. Uh Pony Boy uh Markin says, Hi, Jonathan, good morning. Pony Boy says good morning. And John Atis, no sound. Sorry. No sound. What do you mean, no sound? No sound. No sound. Sorry. You're gonna have to tell me what that is all about. Because I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to. No one else has said no sound. Looks like all my microphones are on. So not exactly sure what's going on there. All right, well, let's go ahead and

Spokane Wildfires And Arson Arrest

SPEAKER_30 3:54

jump into this. So obviously, Washington State, Spokane's close to home. It's just a couple hours to the east of me. I've got quite a few friends there, a handful of whom were affected by these evacuations and these fires. And as I mentioned yesterday, they do have a suspect under arrest. So let's check in with that and follow up on that story.

SPEAKER_12 4:25

Sarah Lagray reporting live from Spokane, Washington, for us on that. Sarah?

SPEAKER_26 4:32

Hi there, Sandra. I mean, what you're seeing here is just a fraction of what was destroyed by the old trails fire. It broke out Saturday afternoon, and it's the fire investigators now believe was intentionally set. Take a look here. I want to show you more of this area. You're just seeing home after home left in ruins, and it's one of several neighborhoods in northwest Spokane within city limits that looks like this. Here's the man investigators say started it. He's 37-year-old Aaron Farinacci. He's a Spokane resident and now charged with first-degree arson. He's being held in the Spokane County Jail on a $1 million bond. The sheriff confirming yesterday he has a dangerous criminal background out of Arizona.

SPEAKER_05 5:13

Mr. Farnachi is uh a convicted felon out of the state of Arizona. Um he has a felony conviction for manslaughter and uh and a preceding arrest in the same case um in premeditated murder in the state of Arizona.

SPEAKER_26 5:31

Investigators arrested him Monday afternoon after serving a warrant at Ferna Farinacci's house. They found a lighter and waterproof matches while detaining and searching him. Now investigators have not yet linked the suspect here to the two other active wildfires burning here in Spokane County, and we do expect him to make his first court appearance from jail within the next few hours.

SPEAKER_30 6:23

So there's a total of three forest fires that are affecting Spokane County, and one of them at least was started by an arson of some sorts. Wow. That stinks stinks super bad. It is it is not looking good over there in Spokane. I've seen some of the aerial footage, and it's just like whole neighborhoods taken out, you know. It's just like what I don't know. You know, for those of you that have been around a little while, maybe jump into the chats and let me know. Over the course of your life, have you ever seen wildfires in such close proximity? I mean, we had, you know, California has a couple wildfires every year, but where whole neighborhoods are burnt. Like we had Hawaii, we've had Washington, we've had California. I mean, this seems to happen every year. There seems to be some area where it's not a couple houses, it's not a few houses right on the fringe up against the foothills or something like that. It's like a whole neighborhood, like any type of barrier that other houses place between you and the the wild, you know, the dry grasslands. There seems to be no barrier. And uh so tell me, do you do you guys remember seeing stuff like this or hearing about stuff like this in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s? Is this is this a phenomenon that's just been going on the last five years? Is this I remember CNN saying the next big thing, the hysteria, is going to be over climate change, right? They were they literally had the COVID ticker up and they were counting off to deaths. Remember the purple screen, it was really fear-based. And simultaneously to they're doing that, James O'Keeffe has an undercover video with a CNN producer saying the next thing's gonna be climate change, we're gonna use fear for climate change to drive ratings. Is this part of that? You know, is it is it that they're highlighting the stories they used to happen and now we don't hear them? Or is it is this like a more common phenomena? Uh, never seen wildfires like this. When we replace our roof in a two in a year or two, we're going to get a FEMA blue shingles. That's perfect. United Nations blue. That's what you want. United Nations Blue. Okay, another thing

Trump Safety Scares And Blue Roofs

SPEAKER_30 8:24

going on. This is really interesting. Uh, Donald Trump had his life put at risk twice yesterday. This is kind of wild. So, first was on Marine One.

SPEAKER_24 8:33

Investigating an apparent air traffic safety incident involving Marine One yesterday. The helicopter, which was carrying President Trump, departed the White House for joint base Andrews, but commercial air traffic at nearby Reagan Airport was not halted before Marine One took off. Thankfully, the FAA says there was no dangerous close call. The White House releasing a statement saying, quote, Marine One flights are piloted by some of the best aviators in the world, and at no point was the president in harm's way. Investigating apparent air traffic safety incidents.

SPEAKER_30 9:05

I was just thinking about Carlit's comment about getting FEMA blue shingles, and I thought, you know, there might be some people here in on the watching the show that don't know what he's referencing, the joke. I'm sure half of you did, but there might be a few that are like, oh, what's what's the point of the blue? Okay, when the Hawaii fires hit and the California fires, both of them had this thing going on. There were videos that circulated around the internet where there looked to be some sort of directed energy beam or weapon of some sort coming from the sky, directed down onto houses and things, and it would light them on fire. And so this was what allegedly explained why you would have a house and a car burnt down to their the ground, and right next to it, you'd have a tree that was still green. Now, personally, I believe that's because those trees are designed to survive forest fires because that's how their seeds spread and stuff like that. But putting that aside, it is kind of questioning. So then there were also incidents where you know you do a flyover of some area that's just burnt to the ground, and anything that was blue survived, it just didn't burn. And so it was this idea that blue somehow refracts this energy weapon light. So that's the blue roofs, or paint things blue, and you'll avoid the energy weapon. So interesting. Marine one had to be had to be redirected, and the FAA has now got to investigate something. There was a uh near miss. Now I remember, I think it was my first week that I was in prison. Uh, there was a a wreck in DC over the Potomac between a military helicopter and a commercial flight. So this definitely is a problem. It is a busy traffic zone, and there's lots of low-flying helicopters in the area. So that's interesting. And then Trump makes his way to uh he makes his way to his destination, which was his golf course. And while he's there, he has another almost attempted assassination that happens to him. And I gotta reshare the screen. Give me just a moment. Isn't this fun? Okay, so here he is. He has another attempted assassination. This gentleman tried to impersonate security personnel to get in to Trump's location.

SPEAKER_11 11:04

Throughout the grounds, taking photos and videos, and after searching his pockets, found a loaded magazine with hollow point bullets. Feds say when he was approached, the man claimed he was working for the State Department and was part of a security detail. Agents then searched his vehicle, which was parked in the golf course parking lot, and recovered a loaded pistol and another loaded magazine. Deputies also later searched his home, finding an illegally modified AR-style rifle, along with a 45-caliber pistol, body armor, high capacity magazines, ammo, and multiple notebooks containing concerning statements. He's now facing four state charges and a federal charge of possession of an unregistered rifle.

Threat Matrix And Poll Skepticism

SPEAKER_03 12:10

Well, the only thing I get a little solace from is they say only consequential presidents. And I am definitely consequential.

SPEAKER_30 12:21

He is definitely consequential, that is for sure. So the interesting thing about this, so I think that these threats against Trump, now the FAA thing, that seems to be easy to just chalk up to uh uh you know, air traffic control error. I I don't know. Maybe if you we had some kind of metric, how often do these mistakes happen? It just happened to be today, it was with Marine One. I don't know. So it's har it's really hard to know, you know, if that one's some attempt on Trump's life. Obviously, there was something funky going on with Air Force One a few weeks ago, but the fact that this person's going to a place where Trump's gonna be, taking pictures, being super suspicious, it is pretty hairy. And then of course, when they go back to his house, what do they find? Illegal stuff. Now, in fairness, I have a few friends that if you search their house, you might find, you know, unregistered guns and things like that. Now, unregistered guns because they were heirlooms passed down through generations, not because you know they took off any serial numbers or anything, but nonetheless, it's kind of it's like, man, you know, note to self, don't go act suspicious and then claim to be a State Department security guard when you get caught. That's pretty rough. So now uh the the thing that I'm suspicious about is this is this um are these different incidents? Because you have to imagine if a president's on the move a lot, and I've heard Dan Bongino mention this in the past, there's kind of constant, continuous security threats, right? Every day there's threats made online, every day there's emails sent to the White House, every day there's phone calls made, every day there's bomb threats and things like that. And then the, you know, they have to go through a triage, assess the threat, assess the capacity of this person to go through with it. Is this a crime that they've committed by making this threat, or is this somehow fall under protected speech? They have to go through this threat matrix, right? And then, of course, you have the things that just pop up, like the guy who shows up taking pictures at an event, or the person who just drives across the country and then shows up at a uh correspondence dinner and rushes in. You know, like they miss that stuff because it's not germinated online, it's not, they're not forecasting what they're going to do, at least not directly. You know, they might post an ex post. Anyways, so you can see how like there's a possibility that every single day there are these minor little incidents, like this gentleman being arrested at the golf club. This could have happened, gone on, and not a single news report could have been given. It could have just been, you know, on a court docket somewhere and nobody's paying attention. So I don't know. I don't know how often this happens, but let's assume it happens more frequently than we the American people believe. Let's pretend it's a frequency of once every week or two, some serious incident arises where someone has to get arrested, right? The threat is that big. So if that's the case, you could easily see how the news media might scoop up these stories and turn around and package them into a narrative that Trump is extremely unpopular. Now the jury's out on this. Is Trump popular or unpopular? Do we believe the polls or not believe the polls? Are elections pretty close to the Americans' population consensus? Or is there two, five, ten, twenty, fifty percent cheating in the elections? Nobody knows, right? Nobody trusts surveys. All we can really trust is boots on the ground. And that's very geographically based. Depending on where you live, the zeitgeist might be one way or the other. But CNN is, and and one thing you'll hear Trump mention all the time is his poll numbers are great. My poll numbers are great, my poll numbers are great. Well, CNN and Harry Anton yesterday cast some serious doubt on that. Let's check this out. Who knows if Trump is as popular as he thinks he is?

SPEAKER_18 15:54

Trump thinks his own polls are good. He is simply put not on planet Earth. He is on some planet far, far, far away and a galaxy far, far, far away. I mean, just look at this. It has been a steady decline, like a slide going into the sea. You know, you go back January 2025, plus six, May of 2025, minus seven, September of 2025, minus eight, December of 2025, minus 13, April of 2026, minus 17. And now in an average of polls, he is 21 points underwater. This is the lowest he has been in term number two. The bottom line is this Trump is at record lows for himself in term number two. He is very much underwater despite whatever he is claiming up in his head of his.

SPEAKER_19 16:43

Uh a slide going into the sea. Evocative imagery there from Harry. When did this slide begin? When did this slide begin? When did Trump slide into the sea we get on?

SPEAKER_30 16:53

All right, I want to show you this. Here's something. So if we're looking on the screen, if you guys, you guys can probably barely read it, but it says source, so it's Trump's net approval rating, right? Now, Harry Enton, he's on TV, he's a credible authority figure when it comes to assessing polls, maybe even doing polls. I have no idea what his bona fides is. But here I'm looking at source and it says Enton's aggregate. So Harry Enton created this, and this is what uh I don't even know his name. This CNN, you know, anchor is mentioning. Oh, you just put this together just now, which is what makes me think reading between the lines just a little bit, in fairness, is this narrative casting? Is this you know selectively grabbing the polls that are negative to kind of pull this rating down to go along with this narrative? Remember, just the other day we had a guy at the GOP get up and you know, Trump's extremely unpopular, Iran. And I'm like, I don't I don't know. I mean, I haven't talked to people and I haven't felt that, but maybe it's the case. Polling's reflecting that allegedly, but I'm just looking here and I'm going, is this narrative casting? Are they getting ready for a midterm? Is this the free media that the Republicans are always accusing the Democrats of doing? You know, Trump had 93, 97 negative stories when it came to legacy media. Is this part of that narrative casting?

SPEAKER_18 18:04

I mean, just take a look here. I mean, you know, it'd be one thing, again, if we were talking about just one poll, but we're talking about the average polls. But when we're talking about one poll, is there any poll that has Trump anywhere close to positive territory? Take a look here. Trump's negative net approval rating. Every single poll that meets CNN standards for publication has had Donald Trump underwater in the negative since March 29th of 2025. Days in a row, it is 494, nearly 500 days in which Donald Trump has had a negative net approval rating.

SPEAKER_30 18:38

He's not any so he said polls that meet CNN's standards to be published. I don't know that CN publishes Rasmussen polls, Rasmussen polls, right? I started thinking about that. I was like, what does that mean? Does it mean that it has the bias they want? Like, what does that mean? I understand, oh, these people aren't scientific or they're doing internet polls. I get that. Easy write-off. But if I was to look at their list of polling companies, is Rasmussen included in that? You know, or is this pretty much limited to the biased left polling companies that seem to be more about influencing public opinion rather than documenting it? Super sus. We're close to positive. The Lou Gehrig of presidents and the government.

SPEAKER_19 19:20

Oh, and but people would say, hey, look, you know, the president had low approval ratings in his first term, also.

SPEAKER_18 19:25

Not this low, not this low. Take a look here. Trump's not approval rating at this point. And term one at this point, he was 12 points underwater. He is now broken the 20-point barrier in the negative, minus 20 points. And you know, I always love a little nugget here, goes from minus eight to minus 47 points with independents who are driving this.

SPEAKER_19 19:43

And what do the product prediction markets say this means about his chances of maintaining control of the house?

SPEAKER_18 19:47

Yeah, okay. If you're have a negative 21 net approval rating, no way your party controls the house if this holds until election day. Chance to win the house. Democrats now up to an 84% chance, up from 73% just a few months ago. Republicans now with just a 16% chance according to the cash prediction markets. Trump's negative net approval rating is driving this.

SPEAKER_19 20:06

Harry Ann, the viewers will never know how hard you had to work to get this on the screen at the last minute. Programming the data right before we came on air. We appreciate you. We'll watch you on this morning. We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_30 20:17

That's kind of funny. It makes me wonder if he was, you know, this is the result I need. Or was he just compile, you know, making the slides? I get that. I'm a presenter. I have to make slides sometimes up until the last second. Okay. So again, we don't trust the polling companies, but then when the polls are in our favor, you know, I'm more than happy to play a clip. So what's what's the deal here? I don't know, man. I really don't know. That's one of the things that I have recognized for many, many years now, is it's really hard to have a metric of what's really going on out there. America is extremely divided, and it's it's divided in kind of a weird way. It's it is a bell curve. 100%. The vast majority of people are right in the middle, agree on 90% of stuff, and there are your kind of margins. And there are some litmus test type issues that, depending on your answer to certain questions, like abortion questions, or you know, is taxation theft? Like sometimes your opinion on those is gonna shape. If you have an opinion that taxation is theft, you're never going to think taxation's a good idea, right? But if you have an opinion that taxation is not theft, it's your patriotic duty, you might be on the left. Okay. So, anyways, there are some litmus test issues where you can at least decide which side of the center line people are on, but most people are gonna fill in around the bell curve. Not that much difference between well, actually, no, there is a lot different between John Fetterman and I. But most Americans, you know, not that much difference. But I have seen the bell curves, right? I I've met with I've met with Republicans and Democrats that when I mention I'm a J Sixer, it's met with kind of a oh well, that's unfortunate, you know, what happened? Very middle of the ground response. Let me get the story. And I've met with people who are on the far right, and they're not that far right, but you know, they're on the far right. Right. Mention I'm a J6er. Now, I could have been a bad J6er. I could have been one of the J6ers that broke stuff or really hurt people. Right, Doug, who's in the chats? He said good morning earlier. There were some J6ers that are not like me. We are not all the same. Okay. And they first thing, you're a patriot, you're an American hero. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, you don't know my story. I could be Ray Epps for all you know, right? And then the second thing is in the same day, I've had people come up and find out I'm J6 and basically tell me I'm a traitor, treasonous, and I'm should rot and spend the rest of my life in jail. Same day, same building, you know, totally different responses. So it is possible that depending on the polling, you get one side or the other. And that's where I have no idea. I have a I have a strong impression, and I think it's backed by you know valid evidence that conservatives and Christians are the vast majority of people in this country. And if they actually showed up to vote, we could overwhelm any kind of cheating. But the fact that there is cheating and the fact that there is a natural state of apathy when times are good, which in America, times are still good compared to where they could be, there's a lot of apathy. And people don't wake up until they wake up, right? Now, when it comes to government spending, you know, when it comes to everything that our government's been up to, one of the things that happened uh yesterday is out in Philadelphia, there was a press conference by the DOJ where they announced new charges with regards to social uh healthcare fraud.

Healthcare Fraud And The Honor System

SPEAKER_30 23:29

And this is a jaw-dropping amount of fraud, and this is right in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. So it's going to involve 19 defendants. I think the total amount of money is fairly significant. Let's listen to the Fox News reporting on this.

SPEAKER_22 24:11

Now, Fox News has been told a little bit about some of these cases. I mean, this includes a home health aide who was billing for uh providing services while in jail. Another who investigators say claimed to be a person who was in need but was caught by federal investigators working a construction job. Home health care funds are intended to provide a lifeline for aging or disabled patients, and it can allow a family member to provide that care if that's what fits best. But it's also, like I said, a really vulnerable system. It relies on the honor system. There's no direct supervision. The Justice Department, CMS, State Attorney Generals, they're now involved in uh making sure there's more oversight interests where need bait.

SPEAKER_24 24:48

All right, Alex Hoff. Thank you.

SPEAKER_30 24:50

So now he I think that's oops, sorry, I think that's such an interesting thing, right? So they're like so at the beginning, it said it was like 6,200 defendants nationwide, $45 billion worth of fraud so far. 6,200 defendants. In Philadelphia alone, there's going to be the 19 defendants. Some of them were billing the government while spending time in jail for services clearly not rendered, right? Some of them were on construction sites claiming to be unable to work. I've actually seen that kind of fraud in person. Uh some of them were on vacation, like, and it was an astronomical amount of money. They systematized that kind of fraud. And a government that allows that to happen, what's what's going on there is this is the weaponization of virtue. She also mentioned it was on the honor system, right? When you're a good person and you wouldn't lie and you sign a form that says perjury, right? If you sign it wrong, you take it serious and you put the truth on there and you assume everyone else does. And as long as everybody puts the truth, whoever's reviewing it, they don't need to go review anything because why would you lie? Your incentive isn't there. If we catch you, it'd be so much worse for you. Well, then enter mal educados, as they say in Brazil, badly educated, badly raised, poorly, you know, socialized people who are like, well, it's not a lie if I don't get caught. And so they'll lie on those forms. And then pretty soon you have the illegal immigrant population who then straight up take advantage of the form because they have no respect for our laws or the honor system. Okay. And so it ends up being completely bloated. Yesterday we ran the story. 50%, 50% of the people receiving Medicaid or Medicare or Social Security, whatever Obamacare is the way I interpreted the whole story. It was kind of the basket of services. But 50% of the people on Obamacare don't qualify. That's the honor code. That's weaponization of the people's virtue to cast a wide open door so anybody in need can come and get help. And with no spot checking, eventually people will take advantage of it. If you can get free health care by simply lying on a form and save yourself a thousand dollars a month on a premium, why wouldn't you do it? If there's no consequences, why wouldn't you do it? And this is the thing. Every collectivist country wants this. Why do they not punish the people that are on Obamacare? Because they're grateful that they're on Obamacare. The other thing, too, is if they have any self-awareness, they know they're cheating the system. So they don't want to put people in in charge that are going to do exactly what Trump's doing. Go through and clean up the fraud. Okay, they're not going to want to do that because it could expose themselves andor they're unknowing, but they know that the Republicans are going to downsize these programs of which you're benefiting. The Democrats have always focused on benefactors, a constituency that owes you one. Republicans have always focused on volunteerism and doing what's right in principle, and you get the loyalty that is more uh a principled loyalty or the loyalty you'd have to a pastor than it is the loyalty you would have to an employer who pays you. That's the difference. Hence, the Democrat is a plantation party because they're providing room and board. And without them, you won't survive. That's the way they present things. Thundering Oak says, I know a guy who is disabled and gets disability who built a barn for his wife himself, no contractor, no hired workers. Exactly. Fully capable. If he can build a barn for himself, he could build a barn for someone else and go into business. Why is he on public assistance? Right? That's the kind of stuff that is a real

When Theft Goes Unpunished

SPEAKER_30 28:28

a real challenge. So Donald Trump was interviewed last night in a little one-on-one, and he was being asked about communists, socialists, collectivists, the Democrats, right? Everything they touch throughout time has always had the same result.

SPEAKER_03 28:43

I think it's crazy because they're going to ruin our country. They want to, I don't know if they want to. I think either they're very naive or they actually want to ruin the country. Uh, no matter where you look, go back a thousand years with different names. Anybody doing what they're doing and what they're espousing, uh, everything turns out to ashes and junk and filth. You know, one thing I said the other day for the first time ever. Never thought of it. But you go to these cities that are taken over by the socialists and the communists, they're always filthy, dirty. They're disgusting. They're always dirty. And you know, I'm a clean person, and people I know are clean. They like to, and you are. I know you very well. You're very clean. But these aside from crime, aside from all of the other problems, no jobs, no anything, no money, they're always filthy, disgusting, dirty. And that's what you'll get. I think it's crazy because you're gonna ruin our country. They want to, I don't know if they want to.

SPEAKER_30 29:36

Everywhere a collectivist is in charge is always filthy, disgusting, and dirty. I'm gonna turn up my I'm gonna turn up my microphone just a little bit. Does that help at all? I think it's better. I'm not getting as much feedback as I would like. And I don't want to make it sound like I'm in a big open room or a garage or anything weird like that. Okay, so so Trump's everything turns filthy, right? Everything the collectivists, the Democrats, everything they touch and they're given time to run, starts to turn filthy. Where I live, one of the local cities, Bremerton, just announced their prosecutor announced that they're not prosecuting any any theft crimes under $500. That's not as bad as $1,000 in California, but $500, that's an open pass. I mean, I immediately, when I was told that new policy at our meeting, I was I was like, I'm going shopping and I'm going to Walmart and Bremerton, you know, I'm a first $500 free. You can make it to your car, you know. It's like, how ridiculous is that? One time I was in a Harbor Freight, which is a tool store. Okay, many of you are probably familiar with it. I was in a Harbor Freight, I was on the clock, right? I was working, I was down there buying wrenches or whatever I needed for some job or probably an excavator problem. I needed a specific, you know, oil filter or something. Anyways, so I'm at Harbor Freight and it's the middle of the day, it's like 10, 11 a.m., something like that. I'm standing in line to buy my stuff and I'm swiping my debit card. And I'm like one of two people in the store plus one or two clerks. Okay, so one clerk apparently is in the back, the other clerk's at the cash register helping me, and I'm I'm like in the process of swiping my card. And as I'm doing that, somebody, the other person walking in the store, has tons of stuff. I mean, we're talking like a box, a bag, like walks out holding, you know, arms out holding stuff, like way more than what I just bought, and just walks out. And the cashier, who happened to be transgender, was like, Sir, sir, uh, uh, did it again. He goes, He did it again. What do you mean he did it again? Oh, he just went out, he just shoplifted. And I'm like, Okay. And she finishes ringing me out. She, he, whatever, you know, finishes ringing me out. And I'm I'm just like, okay, like you didn't chase after him, you haven't picked up the phone to call 911. I'm more than willing to wait. Like that guy just walked out with a couple hundred dollars worth of goods at least, right? And who knows? I mean, it could have been a thousand dollars depending on what he had in those bags or boxes. And this guy's like, uh, okay. And I'm like, are you gonna call the police? He's like, no, he's done it before, and there's really nothing they can do about it. So am I the idiot? Is is paying voluntary now for stuff? Like, should I have just walked out with him? Like, you're you're not even gonna call the police to get a report because they won't do anything about it. This was in Port Angeles, Washington, by the way. And I'm like, why why did I just spend $45 on tools? I could have just walked out. Like, it was the most asinine thing I've ever seen. And Washington State, right? The only thing wrong with this state is the people who run the place. That's it. It's one of the most beautiful states in the union, period. It is gorgeous. You know, people come here and they're like, you live where people go to vacation. I know it's amazing. It's where the oceans touch the mountains, you know, or the mountains touch the sea, as they say. It is a great place. But the people who run this place are nuts, right? Just like Donald Trump said, everything they touch turns to crap. It turns dirty, ugly. And that is what's happening here in Washington state. We've even had documentaries like Seattle is dying, right? We've had two former Democrat governors saying we don't have an income problem, we have a spending problem. Everything we're doing is a problem. This is a Democrat state representative, okay? This is someone who's in Olympia shaping policy for a state. And we have the Democrat trifecta. We have almost a supermajority. I think we're one or two votes away from a supermajority for Democrats in the Senate and the House. We've got a Democrat governor, and we have a Democrat majority supreme court. They have the trifecta, they have everything they need to do what they want. There's a tiny smidgen amount of resistance from Republicans and a smidgen amount of resistance from centrist, level-headed Democrats.

Defund Police Politics On The Left

SPEAKER_30 33:42

This woman right here is on the DSA side of things, and she's talking about some of the policies that have been passed. She attacks the Democrat governor for being too soft. See, this is the this is the thing. There is no middle ground with these people. She's she's at a chicken uh chicken wing eating contest, which I think a little bit of the spicy food got her unhinged.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

Natasha, can I get you to bite that spiciest wing? How are you feeling after the habanero? Honestly, you're not weeping. During your first term in the legislature, you passed a budget that included a $100 million increase for police recruitment, the largest police staffing increase in legislative history. How do you square that with your 2020 statement that quote police were created to return people escaping from slavery back to slave masters are complicit in the worst gang this country has ever seen and need to be defunded?

SPEAKER_21 34:44

You can't, it's a contradiction. When you enter this house in your caucus on the Democratic side. Okay.

SPEAKER_30 34:51

So she's a total defund the police advocate because the history of policing is to return slaves to the masters. No, it's not. Police have existed as long as there has been civilization. There's always been some form of law enforcement. Sometimes they call themselves an army, sometimes they call themselves the King's Court or Soldiers, the King's Guard, the Petorian Guard, the you know, civil service, blah blah blah, the bomb, the police. I mean, there's a million words for it. It's just law enforcement, policy officers, peace officers, sheriffs, deputies. There's a billion words for law enforcement. She's just defunded all because you know it has at some point law enforcement was used to round up slaves, so you know, epso facto bad. Huh. Do you see why everything turns to crap?

SPEAKER_21 35:35

And you sign up for a team. What we did on that hundred million dollars that Bob Ferguson shoved down our throats in order to play nice with the opposition, which is why I say take such a big issue with playing nice with the opposition.

SPEAKER_30 35:48

Whoa. Whoa. Bob Ferguson, who just shoved a millionaire tax, which is going to become a general income tax down the people of Washington state's throats. She's saying, well, he shoved a police funding bill down our throats. She's not wrong. There's no negotiating with these people.

SPEAKER_21 36:08

I'm not trying to move toward fascism. If they want to hold shit down with fascism and salute Nazis, that's not, there's no center anymore. I need more progressives in the House, so we don't have to take votes that we don't want to take. So I can be honest, not a vote I wanted to take, took it for the team. But we put guardrails around it. So what can you use it for? You have to do all this public health and safety stuff. You have to raise taxes in your community. You're not just getting free money from the government. We're going to monitor and regulate it, law enforcement. Why? Because we know your history of slave patrols.

SPEAKER_30 36:40

Whoa. So you're not just getting free money, we're going to monitor and regulate it. Okay. Like, yeah, I thought that was part of the deal. Like, if we're given the money, we should monitor and regulate it. Oh, but the way that system operates is the honor system, and we really want to take advantage of you because all communists are totally committed to the revolution, which means destroy the state by any means necessary so we can rise from the ashes. That's exactly what she just said. We want the free money without the accountability. Free money without the accountability. But Bob Ferguson wants some accountability. Oh my gosh, are you going to make me defend Bob Ferguson?

SPEAKER_21 37:15

And that's why they're using ICE right now to round up immigrants to deport them so they can bring in a new batch and do more slavery. How are they doing that? H2A1 visas where they're going to provide federal subsidized housing. They're going to displace the folks who are already in our on our uh already working on our farms. They're going to move out families like Tony's that have been here, and that's not okay. And so I'm going to stand up for that. And I'm going to make sure whatever money goes to law enforcement I community, that I stand right there to hold them accountable. And I'm going to ask all of you to stand with me. All right. So we need to elect the most progressive candidates. Elect Luke. Elect me.

SPEAKER_30 37:55

Elect Aaron. Wow. I think that habanero sauce got her going a little spicy. So she's basically saying, sure, we're going to fund law enforcement, but we're going to turn around and hold law enforcement accountable to not hold the people accountable of who we're giving out free money to because they have a history of, you know, doing bad things with it, which is what she's referring to. And that harkens back to the plantation. So you can't trust us, but the system's an honor system. And when you break the honor system, then we can't trust you. And that's what we're seeing, right? Uh wow. Yeah, there is no middle ground anymore. Not if that's what the supermajority is, not if that's what

Cancel Culture And Litmus Tests

SPEAKER_30 38:32

we're dealing with. Now, Bernie Sanders was on CNN and he was being asked by a different Democrat socialist candidate up in. Oop, hold on a second. Hold on. Bernie Sanders was on CNN and he was given a chance to comment about a more controversial candidate that we have coming up. And this is Hassan or not Hassan uh Hassan Piker. He's not a candidate, excuse me. He is a pundit on the left. He is just a commentator, kind of like me, but a little bit bigger following, not as not as good looking, um, way more radical, not as entertaining. Uh, you know, Hassan Piker. Anyways, Hassan Piker has made some absolutely grotesque statements. I mean, even if you're a 9-11 truther, you still don't say America deserved 9-11, right? Stuff like that. So Bernie Sanders is asked if he would disavow Hassan Piker. Now, this is the same Hassan Piker that caused uh James Carville to say he couldn't be in the same party as Hassan Piker. One of them has to leave. So this is Bernie Sanders kind of being posed with that situation.

SPEAKER_20 39:31

To give you an example, one of the more controversial ones is that Piker has said America deserved 9-11. Are you comfortable with that association?

SPEAKER_08 39:40

No, I am not. I think that's a dumb statement. On the other hand, he has a whole lot of followers, and there's a lot of things that he's saying that are making sense to a lot of people. I think, you know, we have to get above cancel culture. You know, when you're doing radio, whatever they do, podcasts three hours a day, you say dumb things. I suspect if you go back over your career, there may be one or two things that you said that you may have regretted.

SPEAKER_30 40:02

Okay. In fairness, yes, I agree. And I'll actually grant that grace because I need a fair share of it myself, right? Say some dumb things. Especially if you're like taking clips, right? I get it. I've I've watched the uh United States government take clips and snippets of things I've said and make them into something that they really weren't. Okay. I get it. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_08 40:21

Fair enough. But I think what we have got to do is look at the totality of where people are coming from uh and go forward.

SPEAKER_20 40:29

So when someone like James Carvel says he doesn't want to be in the same political party as Hassan Piker, which one are you gonna take?

SPEAKER_08 40:40

Well, that's not much of a choice. If Mr. Carvel doesn't want to be in my party, the party that I belong to, that Pika, that L Sayyed belongs to, he can start his own party. But I think we need a big tent, and I think people like Pika should be welcome into that, certainly.

SPEAKER_30 40:56

Okay, remember how I said there's a dividing line, right? Most people are in the bell curve. They're all pretty close to each other. You know, you know, you imagine a bell curve, but there is a dividing line, and there's some litmus test questions, right? You can ask an abortion question that's going to determine if you're on the right side or left side. You can ask a is taxation theft question that's gonna determine if you're on the left side or the right side. You can ask, is Israel a net good or a net negative? And you know, you could maybe, ah, that's probably a bad question to ask, but either way, right? Point being here, there are some things that are litmus test. And for example, saying things like America deserved 9-11, the litmus test isn't if you're a 9-11 truther, you think Tower 7 was a little suspicious, or maybe the Bushes were behind it, right? There's all kinds of conspiracies you can go down. None of them necessarily end with America deserved it. If you answer the question, yeah, America deserved it, you're on the left, you're on the side that's with the people over there that are like advocating burning it down completely. Okay, that's you're over there. So that is a concern. And I think that's what James Carville's saying, and I think that's what others like John Fetterman have been saying as well. Is it's like, hey, listen, that when it comes to that litness test, I got to pick my side. So I might be a lefty, and maybe the the right-left spectrum is sliding right now, but I'm going to be on this side of the fence when it comes to that issue, right? When it comes to the bell curve, I'm gonna side with the people that are more, you know, something different than what I'm used to when it comes to talking tax policy. That is an important thing. So this primary season, which is kind of wrapping up right now, has been a real test to see if these far left candidates, these democratic socialist candidates, can prevail over more moderate Democrat candidates. The Republican Party has been going through this as

Primaries Test The Party Edges

SPEAKER_30 42:31

well. Can the far-right MAGA candidates prevail over more moderate, centrist establishment Republican candidates? And here's the thing it's it's a mixed bag, at least on the right. You get some MAGA candidates, you get some establishment. Last night we had a MAGA candidate, not the best candidate, I think has some shortcomings, but he was way more aligned with, you know, some of the more strong stanced Trump policies than the other candidate. But the other candidate is definitely a little bit more moderate, definitely a little bit more of a conventional type politician, and she ran away with it. Okay, so out here, moderate, way better. Don't need to run with a MAGA flag out here to win. But in some places, you do need to run with a MAGA flag. So I don't know. But Michigan is one of those states that's an interesting one. It's a it's got a significant divide between urban and rural. And I got quite a few listeners for Shantini, Thundering Oak, quite a few listeners up in the Michigan area. It's it's a divided state, not totally dissimilar to Washington. Um, it's got rural areas and it has city areas. And the city areas have been dominated historically by manufacturing, lots of union type jobs, which have a lot of union Democrats. So even when America was relatively sane, Michigan was a state that would frequently go blue because of the union influence. Well, over the years, the unions and the Democrat Party have been open to immigration, and now you have Democrats in Michigan, like the dearborn population, that are not, you know, Democrat because they're blue dog. Union workers, they're Democrat because they're on the take. They owe their ability to be there to loose immigration policies, on and on and on it goes. So, Michigan, if you're a Michigander and you're in a you know legacy Michigander, there's a good chance you're a conservative, if or or a blue dog, right? But if you're a newer member or one of these urban people, it can be pretty split. So Michigan's going through one of these learning curves right now. Is this a rural state or is this a urban state? Is this a blue state or is this a red state? It also has some of the worst election laws. Between 2020 and 2024, Michigan is the only state that actually went backwards in election security. Every other state made some progress on election security. Even states like California and Washington, despite all the issues they did have, surprisingly enough, there were some areas where they tightened up. Not Michigan. They went the opposite direction. They had, you know, signature verification, they got rid of it. They had all these halfway decent policies, they got rid of all of them. So everybody's kind of got eyes on Michigan right now because there's a race between an establishment Democrat and a uh far left DSA Democrat. And so we're all watching to see what's going on here. And again, it's very localized.

SPEAKER_31 45:16

Any race in the Wolverine state, the Democratic primary for Senate, remains too close to call. Far left candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leading establishment back Haley Stevens by a little more than a percentage point. Both believe they'll each emerge victorious.

SPEAKER_04 45:31

Whatever happens tonight, we have a responsibility to assure that we unite to make sure that Mike Rogers never sees the inside of the U.S. Senate.

SPEAKER_23 45:44

If we are going to win this thing, which we are, we are going to have we are gonna have to get ready and show Mike Rogers what a little sticket to him looks like.

SPEAKER_30 45:58

She is the most Michigan woman I have ever met.

SPEAKER_31 46:02

Although the race has not yet been called, State Senator Mallory McMurrow is already congratulating and endorsing El Sayed. McMurrow's name appeared on the ballot yesterday, even though she withdrew last month.

SPEAKER_30 46:14

So in Michigan, it's too close to call as of this morning. We've got another race that has been called. This one's down in Missouri. And again, you know, it very much matters geographically where you're at. Michigan's a state in the middle. Is it urban or rural? Missouri is still a rural state. It has St. Louis and it has Kansas City, both big, big cities. But for the most part, Michigan, uh, Missouri is still a rural state. Corey Bush, you might remember her. She was one of the squad members. She's out of St. Louis, the very liberal, a very liberal part of Missouri. Well, she ran. She lost her election last cycle. She ran again. She ran on a DSA platform, you know, uh anti-Israel platform. She ran, she got trounced last night.

SPEAKER_13 46:56

Uh, what happened? We said, could Corey Bush counter in St. Louis City what Wesley Bell got out of St. Louis County, which was about as good as he did out of St. Louis County. The short answer is she didn't. She's losing by 26 points in St. Louis City. So now we've seen it across the dividing line, and we have called this race. NBC News has declared that Wesley Bell, freshman Democrat from Missouri's first congressional district, has won renomination. He has defeated former Congresswoman Corey Bush, who uh sought a rematch after losing her seat to Bell in 2024. This one's decisive. This one's decisive. Again, what you're looking at is, you know, early vote in both these places. The election day vote may make this closer for Bush, but uh you've seen it now replicated across this divide here between the city and the county loomed very large in 2024. But in both places, again, we knew Bell would do well there. He's even up 26 in the early vote there.

SPEAKER_30 47:51

So that's pretty significant, right? In the battle for the heart and soul of the Democrat Party, it looks like it's pretty undivided. I don't really know which direction it's gonna go. Good news though, when it does come to elections, and you know, we take our we take our wins and increments, is there's more eyes on this than ever

DOJ Observers And Election Oversight

SPEAKER_30 48:09

before. After Trump's press conference, after everything Hermit Dylan's been doing, after everything that's been going on the last six years since 2020 to address election integrity issues, this is pretty significant. The DOJ sent observers into Michigan to observe the election uh counting process. Now, this is, in my opinion, everything you do to deal with election fraud is on the margins because everything happening in election fraud is one of 15 things, and there's no one single solution that stops all election fraud. But, you know, to the extent that you can prevent Ruby Freeman situations or broken water mains or you know, stopping counting and ballots showing up after counting started, stuff like that. This is the very observable things, which we know for a fact happened in 2020, and probably in every election since and before that, right? Having observers, legal observers there would be a big thing. They did that up in Michigan. This is great news. Again, we take our wins in increments.

SPEAKER_28 49:12

Just before we go very quickly, the Department of Justice is here. They have said, uh, you tell me, what do you know about the Department of Justice that's been sent by the Trump administration this year? What are they doing? What are they saying? What do you know about the people that are here monitoring elections?

SPEAKER_00 49:24

Real simple. Uh, we got a letter from the Department of Justice about a couple of months ago saying that they were going to be here at the Department of Elections during the August 4th election. We met with them. They said they were sending four teams of two. They were here today. They visited about five sites, and there were no issues. There were no issues in terms of provisional voting, or there were no issues in voter-assisted terminals. What did they do? No interactions whatsoever. They monitored, they observed. Uh they did not interact with any of our voters. Uh they introduced themselves to our poll workers. They signed in in accordance to the agreement that we made with the Department of Justice a couple of days ago uh when we met them via Zoom. So there weren't any issues. There were no controversies or confrontations. Uh they did their job, we did our job, and we're moving forward.

SPEAKER_30 50:15

That's great. They did their job, they did their job, we did our job, we're moving forward. That's great. Just let them in, let them observe, no issues. Remember Philadelphia when uh uh uh Pam Bondy and Corey Lewandowski couldn't get in and they had a court order and the sheriff said take a hike? Stunning. Stunning. Okay, stunning. Sheriff's like, nope, not listening to the judge. You can't come and observe the ballot counting, stunning thing. To the extent that Donald Trump's uh support has waned.

Iran Talks And Oil Whiplash

SPEAKER_30 50:48

My suspicion is this is primarily centered around the issue with Iran, right? The promise of no new wars, and then all of a sudden we go in and strike first on Iran. Now, we didn't really strike first, but you get the point, right? There's that that's in the zeitgeist. Just like my friend in the GOP was talking about support for Trump waning, just like we saw Harry Anton say, to the extent that there really is a lack of support. I almost completely 100% believe it's totally centered around the anti-war faction of the Republican Party and the anti-Israel faction of the Republican Party, both having fits and you know, hits and fit fits, hisses and fits and hisses, hisses and fits over the Iran issue. So incredibly important politically, super important geopolitically, and potentially a huge turning point in the history of the world, right? That's kind of everything that's going on here. Up till now, I believe the count is nine times that we've had a you know a decapitating civilization ending strike. Hey, let's go talk, ceasefire. Okay, we're back to fighting, okay. You know, we're talking again with nine times, on, off, on, off, nine times. Now, that's actually pretty good. In five months to have five capitulations of some sort, it's actually not the worst. But here's Trey Yanks giving us an update on what's been happening with Iran. Because again, this is literally like day by day.

SPEAKER_27 52:07

President Trump indicated that a deal with Iran could happen as early as today. In an interview with Fox News, the president said talks took place all day on Tuesday and that very good things are happening. He told Trace Gallagher what would happen if Iran backs out of this agreement.

SPEAKER_03 52:33

If they back out again, are they done? Well, if they back out again, they're gonna get hit really hard. You know, they know that. They understand that. Uh I have no choice. They can't have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple.

SPEAKER_27 52:45

The focus remains on the Strait of Hormuz, a critical international waterway that handles roughly 20% of the world's oil and LNG trade. CENTCCOM released a statement saying the southern route through the Strait of Hormuz remains free and open for all commercial vessels seeking to transit the international waterway. The statement goes on to say over the past three months, U.S. forces have assisted more than 1,000 vessels in successfully transiting the strait despite unwarranted Iranian aggression, and these transits continue today. Right now, talks are ongoing between Iran and Oman, aimed at reaching an understanding on control of the strait. The issue remains a primary objective for all parties, even as the Iranians make conflicting public statements.

SPEAKER_14 53:26

They can never have nuclear weapons. So the denuclearization of Iran is the ultimate deal. I think the immediate deal, but one that you're seeing a lot of focus on, is the straits. The straits is, you know, there are ships moving through the straits. There are oil, there's oil moving right now through the straits. So the straits are open. Uh, nonetheless, um, I think that there's a conversation and negotiation that we are involved in between Oman and Iran on how more ships can be able to go through there safely in the short term.

SPEAKER_27 53:58

We're also tracking reports of an attack on a vessel off the coast of Yemen, likely conducted by the Iran-backed Houthis.

SPEAKER_30 54:06

So oil prices went up over the weekend, then oil prices came down on these announcements. So it is a lot of whiplash, whiplash, whishlash. Gosh, the prices at the pump don't change fast enough, do they? They do not change fast enough. Here's Trump in that interview. This is a different part of it where he's talking about what's going to happen when this Iran thing resolves. Guess what, guys? He's pretty sure gas prices will come down.

SPEAKER_03 54:28

When the strait has opened up, they can't they'll never have a nuclear weapon. But if the strait opens up and it's partially opened anyway, and as you know, we control the strait totally through the blockade. But if we have uh no friction, then oil will go down to I think it'll go down to two and a half dollars a gallon, two and a half dollars. You know, it was down to 185 before I had to make this little journey to the Islamic Republic of of Iran. I had to make it. Uh we had the best numbers that anybody's ever seen. But now you take a look with that going on. We have the you just hit to get today, I think it's number 79, 79 days. We hit an all-time stock market high. Yep. 401ks are the highest they've ever been by double and triple. Yep. And then I read where we're doing badly on the economy. I just, by the way, job numbers. We have more people working in the United States today than ever in history. We're doing an unbelievable job where the straight has opened up.

SPEAKER_30 55:29

You know, one of the challenges with the position he's in is we probably are doing really great in certain metrics. Problem is, is nobody can trust any of the numbers, right? We know inflation numbers are funky, we know employment voting numbers are funky, or they're still making adjustments up or down, which means they're never getting it right. Uh, so it was probably good. I mean, he's probably looking at some sheet and he's going, yep, more, you know, nord uh naturalized Americans are working, less immigrants are working. You know, he's like seeing all the good numbers. But if you're just a normal person, like a lot of this is localized. Are you near a factory? Are you working in construction? Like a lot of people are still struggling. And unfortunately, once inflation happens, it doesn't go back down. You know, there's a couple things like you know, foodstuffs can kind of go up and down in price, like gasoline can, but for the most part, you know, once a two by four costs what a two by four costs, it costs what it costs. Once certain things are priced, prices really don't come down. Have you ever seen a restaurant lower their prices when they do a menu update? I haven't. So once prices go up, they stay up, and it hurts people a lot. Hurts people a lot. So yeah, very, very good stuff there. There's uh there's another thing that popped up yesterday that I did not see coming.

Max Miller Divorce Allegations Explode

SPEAKER_30 56:41

It came out of nowhere, and this is a situation between Bernie Moreno and Max representative Max Miller. So, for a little bit of context here, Max Miller was married to Bernie Moreno's daughter, and they have they are currently going through a fairly nasty divorce proceeding of some sort, or they've they are divorced and it's it's just nasty. So between Max Miller, representative Max Miller, and Bernie Moreno, there's very bad blood. I was totally unaware of this. I didn't even know that they were related that way. So Max Miller married Bernie Moreno's son, a daughter. Okay, they've gone through a nasty divorce. So yesterday, I saw this whole drama pop up on my feed. So let's take a listen. This is kind of the order in which I discovered this.

SPEAKER_06 57:30

So I meet him at the Bay Village Police Station. What was he talking about? Because that's the place that we have to go to meet, because I don't know what this guy's capable of.

SPEAKER_30 57:41

When I first heard this, I assumed he was talking about some stalker or something like that. He's talking about a United States congressman.

SPEAKER_06 57:50

She comes over, gets in our car, we drive away, and if anybody was a parent, she has a little blue bunny that she sleeps with. What? Max would not hand over the little blue bunny, literally held it hostage for 48 hours. This girl is crying at night because she can't sleep without her little blue bunny. And his answer is, I'm just not gonna give it to you. So finally, yesterday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, yesterday, he lets the little blue bunny go. This is the level of total and complete depravity.

SPEAKER_30 58:26

So I so I was like, Blue bunny max? What meeting at a police station? What is what is he talking about? Like I said, this clip popped up. I was like, what? What's going on here? So I had to do a little digging. I was like, this is the weirdest story I've ever seen. So then it continues on. I see I find another clip like this, and again, my my eyebrows are like, What is going on here?

SPEAKER_06 58:49

When he went out and did what he did, including releasing photos of my granddaughter completely naked, but now you have hundreds of thousands of psychotic human beings that have that, and to say, oops, is grotesque. My personal opinion is that this is a felony, and that every single human being that touched that photo and transmitted it electronically should go to jail because it is illegal to do that.

SPEAKER_30 59:19

When he went out and did what he did, not only did he keep the little girl's bunny, and apparently that was on a custody swap. They had to do the custody swap at a police station because they can't trust the congressman. He kept the bunny as a vindictive act. And then apparently he released some information that included in it a completely nude photo of his granddaughter of his of Max's daughter. And now that's out there on the internet. I was like, holy cow! So I went through and listened to the rest of this, and essentially it is it's just a nasty divorce, and just like many nasty divorces, there's a custody challenge, the kids are being used as leverage. Bernie Moreno's daughter fears Max Blumenthal, not like an acute, he's gonna come shoot me right now, fear, but he's emotionally, he's physically, he's he's he's abusive. He's just an abusive person to her, and that's what you know she alleges. Now, Max Miller ended up getting on CNN with Jake Tapper, and they had a good little confrontation here. And it's one of those things where it's like, okay, you be the judge of this story, you be the judge of the character. Because obviously, we can't trust everything a judge decides, or a divorce lawyer, or you know, especially when you've got power involved here with elected officials, and you've got too powerful a senator and a congressman duking it out. That it this is this is crazy stuff. But this is this is Max on with CNN because, of course, as a congressman, he's running for re-election every two years, so he's up for re-election right now. And now there's pressure on him to step down because the house ethics committee has opened an investigation on him from the suspected child abuse incident in February involving your daughter, and that report details of the child. So now, again, this story I didn't see coming. It popped up for me. I was like, whoa, this thing like came out of nowhere. Totally didn't see it coming. So, Max Blumenthal, right, there's domestic violence allegations. That's more than just keeping a little blue bunny over the weekend.

SPEAKER_17 1:01:20

Unquote. Now, your ex-wife stated to police that your child told her in the days leading up to the discovery of the injury, quote, Daddy, kill you. And your ex-wife also said your child had said, Daddy angry, and daddy's house is scary. Now, according to your wife, your daughter articulated these statements to children in family services. So, can you explain why your child may have said those things?

SPEAKER_16 1:01:43

Jake, I I wish you could talk to my beautiful baby girl. She can't string together sentences like that. She's two and a half years old. She doesn't have the ability to articulate any of what you just said. That is an entire fabrication of the truth. I have actual video, actual documentation. But didn't you just tell me that two investigations?

SPEAKER_17 1:02:05

You just told me that she had said that she was scared to go to mommy's house. She is, and I have video of it. But now you're saying that she's not capable of saying daddy kill you? I mean, it it seems like she's either able to say one but not the other. That doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_16 1:02:20

Jake, to be very direct, this is incredibly disturbing. I am not going to my child to say daddy kill you. You have to look at the timing of everything that is taking place, right? What about due process? I have already been through these investigations, and I know that I've said that now three times, and we're kind of just blowing past this. But these are individuals who do their jobs to protect kids. And the main job of the court and the main job of child protective family services, and the main job of our judge who has been appointed to our divorce case is to make sure that our daughter is safe. And every single one of those individuals has agreed with me. I have full shared.

SPEAKER_30 1:03:02

Okay. So obviously he's correct. Uh up till now the judges have allowed the calf custody and all that stuff. So they're not the judges haven't deemed it a big enough threat. Do we trust the judges? Do we trust anything? That's the crazy thing about all this. We I mean, we you can either cry or you can laugh because tragedy and comedy are so close together. But it is, it's a tragedy, so let's laugh at it. It's like we can't trust anything here, right? We don't know if the best interest of anybody is being protected at all. This is so political. And uh, like I said, this story popped out of nowhere, some really bad blood in the Republican Party. So, because I'm sure people pick sides between you know these two guys here. Wow. Uh, so then Max Miller was on Finn uh Finnerty's show, and Finnerty really put him to the fire here. He he wanted him to step aside.

SPEAKER_16 1:03:51

The most is somebody who is resilient. And can I tell you something? Innocent people don't run from these battles, and that's why I'm not running. And that's I agree with you there.

SPEAKER_15 1:04:00

I agree with you there. But that was Donald Trump was running for president. This is a totally different station. You're not Donald Trump. Uh, and if we're talking about I think you said 2016, that's the Access Hollywood tape. I'm not gonna those are just words. We're talking about what possible physical abuse. They're not the same. That that's a yes, you're staying in this race. Nothing's gonna if the president called you tonight and asked you to drop out, you're staying in this race.

SPEAKER_16 1:04:21

Yes, there's no chance that I'm removing myself from this race. Okay. I went on Jake Tapper earlier. I said the same thing to him. Okay, I need to read it out from the rooftops to let everybody know.

SPEAKER_15 1:04:30

Yeah, I I Congressman, I have to ask. I have to ask, and I wish you the best of the luck, uh, best of luck, and I appreciate all your time. Max Miller, thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_30 1:04:38

So he's not stepping down, and I I honestly believe he's gonna lose his race. He's gonna lose his race because stuff like this is usually what syncs races, right? It's the allegation that you can't really get around. Like uh up in Maine, Platiner. I mean, he could get around allegation after allegation, but the moment there was one with a little bit of teeth, the rape allegation, he pulled out. This max this max situation, he's gonna have a lot of pressure. I bet we find out very, very quickly if he pulls out or not, gives the Republicans a chance to slide someone else in there. But if he keeps his name on the ballot, the Republicans are gonna lose that seat. You're just not gonna get Republicans out to vote for a guy like that. The the Democrats are just gonna pound him with this. Pound him with

Trump On Vandal Case And Time Change

SPEAKER_30 1:05:18

it. Yesterday Trump was on the tarmac and he was being asked about this uh vandal that had his case dropped by Janine Pirot in DC. This is the uh uh reflecting pool vandal. So Trump was asked about Jean Pyrroth and if he was upset with her, and then he was asked if he if she was safe, like as if he was gonna fire or not.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:39

And everybody saw the vandalism. All you have to do is look at the tape. If you look at the tape, once we have a witness or two witnesses, let's go the vandalism. So certainly when there was vandalism, it was actually, in my opinion, there was major vandalism. And I told her what's not happening. Determination.

SPEAKER_30 1:06:02

Is she safe or are you going to keep you in the position? Ooh. Now, I actually on this one I don't know about Janine Pierrot, okay? But at the same time, remember, Trump got her in. We were gonna have uh Ed Martin. Ed Martin got pushed aside. Janine got in. If Janine leaves, are we gonna have the same problem we've had with like Todd Blanche and the other nominations? Is Trump gonna be able to put someone that we really like, or is it gonna be more middle? I don't know. So I'm not sure that we wanted her to go, but I think I think her legal hands were tied. The contractor had repair work, therefore they were going to have to fix what was later vandalized regardless. So cut or not, that liner at that section apparently was coming out regardless. And so that is the legal issue she was up against. I agree with Trump. They vandalized it. Punish him. The problem is, from a legal standpoint, if it was already broken, can you be charged for breaking something that's already broken? I'm surprised they didn't just hit him with like trespassing or public nuisance or, you know, any number of charges. But yeah, Trump's not ups, Trump's not happy about it. Another thing, Trump changing the world. Changing the world. Guess what? Daylight savings time, it's probably about to become a thing of the past. For many years, the vast majority of Americans have asked to make daylight savings time permanent, but no administration has been able to get it done until now. I am proud to announce that the House of Representatives have passed the bill and have has now gone to the Senate for final approval. People are sick and tired of having to change their clocks twice a year. It is a foolish, inconvenient and in some cases very costly. For cities and states with watchtowers and hard-to-reach places, it costs millions of dollars. A recent case was made that it was also bad for your health. And in the anxiety it creates, leading medical and economic studies have shown that ceasing the biannual time change, giving us one extra hour of natural sunlight in the evenings, will help decrease robbery and murder rates, reduce car accidents, especially those involving pedestrians, lower risk for cardiac disease, stroke, and seasonal depression, make it safer for children to walk home from school, increase your time with family, strongly support extracurricular activities, boost the sports, fitness, tourism, retail, and restaurant industries, and more, and save energy on energy bills because everyone will be enjoying an extra hour of daylight. In other words, leave it as it is now and never change it again. This is an issue that Republicans, Democrats, and Independents can unite behind. I am asking Republican senators to release their holds and allow the hotline to clear on the Republican side. Let's pass the Sunshine Protection Act, ASAP. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Now, I've asked this question before. I don't know exactly why daylight saving time was instituted. I've been told it had something to do with farmers and getting up early and kids going to school. I don't know. But nonetheless, that's good news. Okay. Another one came out yesterday from Trump. These are policy changes. They're, you know, significant enough. For too long, radical climate activists attempted to hold our great country hostage by drastically and unreasonably expanding the intended scope of the Endangered Species Act. This is very true. This was complete and total regulatory overreach by unelected bureaucrats. They treated Americans very unfairly by stiffing the production of important resources like oil, natural gas, and timber by blocking the construction of family homes and critical infrastructure. Even our military couldn't train on land that was deemed off limits to protect a little rodent. Now my administration has returned the Endangered Species Act to how it was intended to be, just as the great Justice Anton Scalia has explained in previous cases. While responsibly protecting our beautiful country, the United States of America is going to build again. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. So going putting the putting the uh putting the Endangered Species Act in check. Can't hate that one. Can't hate that

Intel Claims On Cuba Venezuela China

SPEAKER_30 1:09:45

one. Another thing, this is an interview between Emerald Robin, who Robinson, who I quite love. I think she's a very on the front reporter. She's been all over the election integrity stuff. And is this Dr. This isn't Dr. Phil. This is uh Dr. Drew and Dr. Drew. So they were she was on Dr. Drew's show, but this is being broadcast on Emerald Robinson's show. And this is an important clip. Dr. Drew has a reach that kind of goes into the Maha world. These are the people that are not primarily concerned with election integrity and things like that. These are people that are kind of on the medical side, they're anti-COVID. So it's a good group to go talk about kind of the bigger election geopolitical power plays that are happening in there because when Maha's upset because something's not happening, it might be because there's a compromise with the bigger picture. So let's take a couple minutes and let's listen to Emerald Robinson talk to Dr. Drew about everything that's been going on with Minnesota, election integrity, and intelligence infiltration into our government.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:43

I'm also hearing that Cuba has been really involved in all the DSA stuff and getting uh you're smiling when I say that. Tell me what you know.

SPEAKER_25 1:10:54

Yeah, and this is something that hasn't been widely reported either, and that I do know that the Trump administration is looking into. Uh, you got to remember that there, so a lot of people don't know this, but there was a pivot away from the Western hemisphere. And that was not by accident, that was by design. And that was enacted by John Brennan during his time at the CIA. He had he had told uh station chiefs and the CIA and Latin America that they were gonna pivot away from Cuban and Venezuelan intelligence. Okay, so they were turning a blind eye on purpose for years now in regards to the activity from Cuba and Venezuela. And they turned many of our officials. We actually have names. We have names because a Venezuelan, a former high-ranking Venezuelan official who is now in custody, okay, he is cooperating with our government because he was brought in on money laundering and drug trafficking charges. He was about to go to trial this summer before they finally got a deal with him, a plea deal, and they made him a cooperating witness, you know, for favor um in sentencing. His name is Hugo Carvajal. He has given names. He says he witnessed and he himself paid off U.S. officials. So we have that. We have officials who have been compromised by Cuba and Venezuela. And I, you know, I just want to say, Dr. Drew, your characterization of our intelligence community's actions in regards to China is more accurate. That is the way to describe it. They were collaborating with China. Not only are they collaborating with China, they're collect collaborating with Cuba and Venezuela as a part of this. Now, what I think and what I'm being.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:31

Hang on, slow your thoughts. So really quick before you make that conclusion. And then let's let's slide on over to COVID, where China, uh, whatever China said, we followed, right? Those Chinese scientists, they're the best. Look what they did in Wuhan. They got a zero COVID outbreak. We need zero COVID. What did they do? Let's follow their demands. It's crazy how and how it wasn't even a collaborative relationship with China. It was almost a uh like a uh we were zombies. You know, we were like, we were like just we were in their thrall and didn't really know it, it seems to me. And we're pulling away from it and going, oh my God, kind of waking up. Look what we did. But finish your thought about Cuba and Venezuela.

SPEAKER_25 1:13:14

Well, and I will just say to that, that was another example of where the intelligence community covered up for China, right? Yes. They tried their best to cover up the origins of the COVID lab.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:24

It's all like a it's all uh it's it's all seems very listen. I I was in the scientific world at the time, and we were absolutely, I heard these words all the time. You know, the center of gravity of biological research has moved to China, so we gotta get, you know, let's let's work with those guys. We're always working with them. Never a thought to there being a governmental sort of uh, you know, that the People's Liberation Army was had their finger on the on the scale or anything else, or were watching us. It's just, oh, there's good science. Here we go. And they were in the epidemic business. They were, they were, they were the core of the epidemic, uh, what was that trial run, the war game they did with that with the epidemic? That was highly attended by China.

SPEAKER_25 1:14:10

Yeah, that was in October of uh 2019. Um they did, they gamed out a novel coronavirus that would cause a widespread global pandemic and how they would do lockdowns, right? They war gamed it. They knew what they were doing. And then our intelligence community was was covering for them, like they did in the 2020 election and with what we're seeing now as it relates to election crimes and election fraud. What you have to have to understand is it's not just China. They are obviously Venezuela and Cuba have been our, have been Iran and China's, you know, nexus into the Western hemisphere. That's where they all kind of meet together, and you have Chinese influence that is greatly or China's greatly influential in Venezuela. And that brings us to the voting machines, if you'd like to look at, you know, how they factor into this. And that's where I am being told you're gonna see come next from the administration. Now, sometimes you're told these things and they don't happen. They might just be trying to tell me what I want to hear, but I am told we're gonna see more intelligence related to that. But honestly, there's a lot of open source information that you didn't even have to, you know, release the underlying intelligence. So there's a lot of it.

SPEAKER_30 1:15:25

There's a lot of it, and we've covered a lot of it on this show. That is great news. I'm excited. Hopefully, that is the next thing we hear about. So, as you can see, that that's a pretty significant, you know. You can't underestimate these guys like Dr. Drew that have 250,000 people every day that listen to their show. They're not the biggest show out there, they're no Joe Rogan, but they know everybody. They're networked. Everybody knows Dr. Drew, the love doctor, right? That's him right there. And so 250,000 people who probably don't follow election integrity issues very closely because they're more on the COVID interest or Maha interest, they just heard something they may have never heard before. All of a sudden, now what we're doing in Iran and Venezuela starts to make more sense. It's a big deal. And like we mentioned all the time, right?

Is There A Bigger Strategy

SPEAKER_30 1:16:11

Trump is changing the world. Glenn Beck yesterday, in discussing Trump's agenda with Liz Wheeler, uh, presented something that I thought was really interesting. I think this is a really good uh explanation of what's trying to accomplish. But Glenn Beck acknowledges something that we also have to acknowledge. The end is not predetermined, right? We have a say in this, and we have a say in how things are going.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:41

Donald Trump is changing the new world order entirely, and it won't be fully understood for probably another five to ten years. That on top of the he says it's over twenty trillion dollars of investment. Let's just say it's ten trillion. Ten trillion dollars in building new factories here at home. So we are making things again with AI, with the rebuilding of factories, with the dominance of energy and oil. I'm sorry, gang, but the world doesn't work without real energy, without gas, LP, and oil. Um, with controlling the choke points, getting out of the Middle East, hopefully, if this works, he's completely redesigned the entire world. He has made a bigger impact than any other president, maybe since Lincoln. He becomes one of the most impactful presidents of all time if it works. That jury is still out. But if it works, he changes the entire course of the world. Everything that he has done is 100% America first. The problem is nobody in the media will explain it. Nobody, everybody wants to look at everything he does as a one-off. And you know what? If I hadn't been traveling with him um during the election, I don't know if I would have seen it as quickly as I did. This guy has been thinking this through forever. People try to make him look like a bumbling idiot, uh, and they don't realize there is genius behind this. There is real strategy. He tried to fix America's economy. What happened? The next guy comes in, destroys it all. He's trying to fix it. So by fixing the bigger problems, the structural problems that start overseas with the WEF and all of our trade agreements and tariffs and everything else, by fixing those, he believes I can fix the economy long term. If you can get there, we save the world, not just the nation, we save the world.

SPEAKER_29 1:18:48

Why do you think that people don't uh see the strategy?

SPEAKER_07 1:18:52

They've fallen into the trap. The enemy is Donald Trump, the enemy is the pedophile government, whatever the enemy is. And if you make if you if you just say that's the enemy, you can get all of these people who believe all these different things to stand together. And it's imperative that for those of us who actually believe in the country, we don't engage in the grievance. We engage instead on we hold these truths to be self-evident. This is what we need to fix and rebuild. Not what we're going to destroy, what we're going to rebuild.

SPEAKER_30 1:19:27

Yep. What are we going to rebuild? And that is the difference with Donald Trump. He's going out and correcting the systemic problems. I hope I do a halfway decent job of bringing these issues to light, of surfacing these issues so that you guys can see him as peasants. We have to live here. We have to think long-term. We have to think about our children's futures 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years from now. Obviously, this is a daily news show with commentary. You know, this Max Miller thing and Bernie Moreno thing, not gonna affect us here, though. It could blow up, it could be big mainstream news, will not affect the price of lettuce one penny. But the stuff that Donald Trump's doing could change the trajectory of the whole world. And the people that oppose him could also change the trajectory of the whole world. The buses will be free. How we get there, that's up to

Wrap Up And Ways To Help

SPEAKER_30 1:20:17

us. All right, guys, that's it for me today. Thank you so much for joining me. Please don't forget to check leftbehindwithout.org, 1776 live.us, political remodel.com, and take back my county. We all need your help and you can do it. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.