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wallet was lightened considerably. But you know, just having that you know when when you when you press that button and you send them off and I did the electronic filing. It's sad to see that, uh, that check. You know, that that amount of money, uh, you know, the drift away and you know it'll it'll never see the light

of day again. But it's a it's a it's a relief, and I imagine there's a lot of people listening to this show this morning they are feeling that same sense of relief that that their taxes have been taken care of. You got that behind you, and I'm swearing next year, I'm not gonna wait until the last minute. Yeah, we

will see, we will see what happens. But no, I said, I said, there, I do mine on the turbo tax and when you send it in, you get a you get an update when the federal government accepts your tax, RED says, you get a little email, you get a little text message, and it says, good news, Dan, your

federal tax return has been accepted. And so the the early evening was waning on last night, and I had not received an update about my state taxes, and I went back and before I could put my head down, I went and made sure that my state taxes were indeed filed, but I had not had an update that my taxes were accepted. Literally two minutes ago, right as we came on the air with the newscast, I got an update that my state return had been accepted. So I'm in good shape. So I don't have that hanging

over my head. What am I going to talk about today? It is that the show prep yesterday for this show and the show prep that I did this morning. It was one of those days where I had to tell myself it's time to stop it is. It is time to stop because there are so many things that are going on. To talk about. One of the things that we're going to do. In one hour from now, I'm going to be joined by a guest. First time I've

had this guy on. His name is Charlton Allen. Charlton Allen is an attorney, former Chief Executive of Officer and Chief Judicial Officer of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. He is the founder of the Madison Center for Law and Liberty. He is the editor of The American Salient and the host of the Modern Federalist podcast. And Charlton Allen about a week or ten days ago wrote a piece and

American Thinker. And American Thinker is a great website. I go there and enjoy some of the commentary, and sometimes I just flat out read him on the air because some of the commentary that you get there is just so outstanding. And I've been looking for I am not an expert when it comes to tariffs, when it comes to the economy, when it comes to international trade, things

like that, So I look for the opinions. I look for information of others provided by others to round out my thinking on these ideas, and Charlton Allen wrote a piece entitled we didn't start the trade war, we finally

joined it. And he goes on to talk about and make clear how other countries have had a leg up on the United States when it comes to trade policy, when it comes to terrors, when it comes to things like that, and he talks about how far America is behind in certain areas that are going to wind up being extremely important and should have been important for the United States and have been neglected for so for so long.

Let's see, he writes this. Trump's teriffic tariffs expose the lie at the heart of the globalist dogma that trade liberalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats. It does not. This is particularly true when so called free trade is in fact one sided. The bitter truth is that our nation, or our national trade structure, has lifted luxury yachts in Shanghai, luxury sedans in Bavaria, while hallowing out steel mills machine shops in Ohio and Missouri factory towns.

The larger context is even more damming. The United States no longer makes what it needs. We offshore our factories, outsource our supply chains, surrender our economy's core sectors to competitors and adversaries. China controls eighty percent of rare earth mineral processing, and there's news this morning about that actually broke yesterday about China and rareer So we will talk

to him about that. Let me let me get to the let me get to the part where he talks about manufacturing and here in the United States, Where did that go? Where did that go? Let me know if I had it up here just a second. Of course, you know when you're when you're scrolling through and and you think you want to find something, But then in

any case, the guy is going to be here. And I'm really looking forward to this conversation because he just has a way of writing about it and uh and laying it out that I think makes a lot of sense to everybody. And you know, I'll ask him to explain his position on some of these issues that he talks about. So I'm looking forward to that. It's unusual that I don't record a lot of interviews ahead of time.

Every once in a while i'll record an interview and use it during the case during the course of the show. But this one is going to be live after the news at six, and so I invite you to to stay around. Stick around for that. Yeah, here's what he writes about the other countries. Germany taxes US automobiles at four times the rate we impose on THEIRS. France blocks

US agricultural products through protectionist quotas and byzantine regulations. South Korea, despite a free trade degree, it maintains tariff and non tariff barriers on US beef, pork, and automotive parts. These aren't historical artifacts of little significance. They are systemic disadvantages designed to extract concessions from America while giving little or

nothing in return. And so this is the sort of trade imbalance that that's the one sort of thing that the Trump looks at that I think drives him, you know, drives him crazy, almost more than anything else that they have all you know, all these other countries. I think China is a separate case, but all these other countries they have all this access to American markets and we do not have the same sort of access to THEIRS. And when you boil it down, I think that's really

that's really the nut of the whole thing. Another guest is going to be Daniel Turner. That'll be in the eight o'clock hour. Power of the Future. Just a great commentary, great insight on all things happening, political, economic, and otherwise. And Daniel Turner is just a super smart guy. He's a regular. See he's a regular on Fox News, Fox Business News, and he's been a regular guest of mine on the other shows that I do. And he's going to be here at eight and then Ken Cober, the FOP.

I talked a little bit about this when I had James Bogan on yesterday and we were talking about this young man, the twenty five year old father of two killed in Coryville over the weekend, and some information started coming out late what Monday into Tuesday about this fifteen year old who is accused of gunning this guy down and the teenager who was arrested by Cincinnati police. It

has now the information has come out. Fox nineteen has had a look at the at the court records of this kid, and it turns out this guy's got a lengthy juvenile history. Several months ago, in November of twenty four, court records show the fifteen year old was accused of firing a gun. Ken kober says, if the teen had not been let out of juvenile attention for the November crime, myrack or Mirick, I'm sorry, it would still be alive.

Who didn't see this coming. You look at his criminal record, you see more charges than he has years on this earth. Court documents show this team has sixteen previous charges starting from when he was just thirteen years old. So between the age thirteen and the age when he finally killed someone at fifteen, sixteen previous charges. And what's the use?

What's the use if Cincinnati police go out and arrest these people, arrest these juveniles and they simply go through the revolving door in the court system here in Hamilton County and they're back out on the street, hanging out late at night. I don't know how late it was, but hanging out at night in possession of a gun,

assaulting people, attacking people, and ultimately killing people. These judges that run the juvenile court over there, I'm tired of hearing about how there's you know, there's nothing they can do. I'm tired of it. You get so you get a kid with thirteen contacts with the juveniles system between the age of thirteen and fifteen. You got to do something. You gotta do something. I'm sure there are some kids

out there that deserve a second chance. Some kids out there that I guess, depending on their situation, can put these sorts of things behind them, move on have a decent life. But some kids cannot be helped. I don't know the history of this kid. I don't know what his parental situation is, but at some point, responsible adults have to step in and protect the community. And that certainly appears that that did not happen in this particular case, and now a family is mourning the loss of a

twenty five year old father. Five sixteen, We've got to get to a break. Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas. Fifty five krc DE talks the.

we'll talk to him about that. Absolutely horrible. What are some of the headlines we've got today were rare earth minerals affected by China export ban, used in ebes, green energy, military at tech and apparently the United States has plenty of rare earth minerals, we just don't refine it, and so we need to get up to speed on that. And there's some thinking out there that that can happen rather quickly, and I would like to see that happen.

This thing between Trump and Harvard getting very serious. Trump administration is freezing two point three billion in Harvard funding. Why does Harvard need two point three billion in funding from American taxpayers? Anyone got a good explanation for that? I don't see Harvard winning that one. Trump suggests that Harvard lose its tax exempt status because they they're not

really going to do they. I guess they want to give some lip service when it comes to anti Semitic activity happening on the campus and Jewish students there in a constant state of danger. They're giving lips first to that. But probably not really looking to do anything serious about it. So the Trump administration is cutting off the money. We'll see how that goes. Let's see. You know, Harvard says that we'll not comply with the Trump administration is demands.

So they're digging in and they've got a fifty three billion dollar endowment they don't need. They do not need any money from the federal government. They don't need it. I mean, if the endowment, what do what if if you know, the these schools have these endowments, We've got all this money socked away, what do they use that for? What's it there for? If? Is it a rainy day fund?

these events. But he is not going to be part of that, and I don't I really, I gave up watching those things a long time ago. Let's see Kamala Harris still thinking about her political future. Absolute Joe Joe Biden was out making some speeches or made a speech last night, and there was a lot of build up to this. Who in their right mind would go to a Joe Biden speech, But I guess he was in Chicago.

I didn't see any video of the size of the crowd, but it sounded just based on the applause that I heard, it sounded sparse. It sounded like there was a lot of a lot of empty space in that room. Hard to tell when you can't you don't have pictures or video of the size of the crowd, But just based on what the applause sounded like, it didn't sound like

there were a whole lot of people there. So we've got a couple of cuts of Joe Biden and the speech got off to a pretty rough start, so we'll roll some of that as the as the program rolls on today. But right now we got to get to a little break and we'll check traffic and weather. Well, we had traffic coming up in a little bit, but we'll check the weather at least a little news at the bottom of the hour. Now we don't that's the wrong station. We don't have we had searm Man. We

don't have news at the bottom of the hour. Do negative you know I've been here for three days now you think I would I would know that. But a whole lot more to get to and we hope you can stick around for it.

stock market. Landsman, who represents Cincinnati, and his wife sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stocks in March, though the exact amount is unclear. An analysis by The Journal News found that the sales combined are valued between three hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars and one point four four million dollars. So congratulations to Greg Landsman cashing

in on the stock market. It's fantastic. In the fall of twenty four Landsman failed to disclose trading activities on time, it reached illegal requirements under the twenty twelve Stock Act. The law requires members of Congress to and certain family members to file reports within thirty to four five days after receiving notice of a transaction exceeding one thousand dollars.

Several members of Congress from Ohio, both passed and president, are Stock Act violators, according to The Journal News, among them A Warren Davidson, Marcy Captor, Steve Shabbitt, and David Joyce of Bainbridge Township. The twenty twelve Stock Act really had one major purpose, which was to prevent members of Congress from insider trading, said David Nivin. You see political science professor insider trading. Hard to imagine that Greg Landsman

has anything to do with that, isn't it. Landsman co sponsoring the Trust Act in Congress, which, if an active, would require Congress to an select family members to place investments in a blind trust to avoid potential conflicts of interests. But for now he's Uh, he's moving socks around and benefiting mightily, and good for him. That is a great news. Let's see what else do we have. Wah wah is open, Sean McMahon, you've been to a wah wah yet? No, But I've been to a BUCkies. I've been. He's been

to I've been to a BUCkies. I have not been to a wah wah. The doors are open, and let's see, this is a Liberty Township, Ohio.

Remember when the Krispy Creams would open around here, there would always be a lining outside, people wanting to be the first one to get in the Krispy Creme that we the other there was some other I think the chick fil As. When the Chick fil As first started coming into the Tri State area, there would always be

that line out there. And I guess that if at least with the Chick fil A, I think what you got was a year's worth of Chick fil A. I think you could go in there and get one or two sandwiches a day something like that for a year. So that's not a bad that's not a bad thing to have. I don't know if I would eat a Chick fil A every single day. I like Chick fil A. I don't know that I would eat one every single day, but you know, having that, having that in your back

pocket is not a bad thing. But I still would not wait in line. But I guess apparently there are people waiting in line at the wall. If you've been to the wah Wah in Liberty Township. Fill us in, let us know what what you got there. The East Coach Stained unveiled its breakfast sandwiches, Coffee Hogy type sandwiches. So the wah Walls are opening in Greater Cincinnati. That is very cool. I have been to a BUCkies and

it took me a while. I remember the first couple of times we saw one and we said, okay, we're going to stop in there, and then the line to get the cars that were waiting to go to the BUCkies that were backed off the ramp and onto the highway, so that if you actually had to come to a stop on the highway to get on the ramp to get off the ramp to go to the BUCkies. I said, no,

I'm not doing that. So we waited and several weeks passed, and then we had a chance to go to another BUCkies, and this time we were able to actually pull into the parking lot there, find a place to park, and then walk on him. But I am not waiting. I am not waiting, especially I'm not parking on the on the highway waiting to get off the ramp to go to a BUCkies or any establishment for that matter. Five point thirty five Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas fifty five KRC.

forty one, Von P. Drake. According to Pacific Historic Parks, Drake, who was twenty three at the time, was serving in the US Army and he helped to build the barracks at the Kenoe Naval Air Station on the east side of O Wahoo. His job was to run a temporary power plant so the carpenters and had electricity for their equipment. We were getting ready to go to breakfast and we heard all these planes flying over, making a lot of noise, Drake said during an interview with the Lexington Herald Leader

in twenty sixteen. At first they thought it was the Army Air Corps doing maneuvers. They didn't pay much attention except to comment that they were putting on a good show. Then an officer told them that the island was under attack and they saw a bomb hit one of their buildings. He says, we knew by then that we had a real attack, Drake said. During the war he continued to serve with the Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, including Saipan and the Marines of the Marianeras Campaign or

the Marianas Campaign, I should say. When the war ended, Drake, who was from Winchester, returned to Kentucky, had a family, worked with General Telephone of Kentucky, was an engineer until retirement. His wife of sixty five Yearslina Wilson Drake, passed away in December of twenty eleven, survived by his son Sam,

two grandsons, three great grandchildren. Drake was a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers National Society of Professional Engineers, charter member and past president of the Bluegrass Chapter of the Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, former member of the Society of American Military Engineers, a member of

the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. He was a lifetime member of the University of Kentucky Alumni Association and a life member of the Pearl Harbor's Survivor Association. So Vaughn P. Drake and to his family, we thank that good man for his service. Passed away at the age of one hundred and six, one hundred and six years old, oldest known survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. And that closes a chapter in this country that will that

will likely never never be seen again. So we thank him for his service and wish him godspeed on his journey one hundred and six years on this earth. And God bless that good man. What else do we have going on? What else do we have going on? Let me see new documents. All new documents proved that Rushiagate was a hoax all along. But Letitia James is facing

some difficulties now. This story broke last night. The Attorney General of New York, Latitia James, who managed to secure the guilty verdict against Donald Trump in February of twenty four for allegedly inflating the value of the Trump organization. Everyone remembers that, right we had this judge say that mar Lago was worth only eighteen million dollars when it's

in fact worth closer to two hundred and fifty million dollars. Wow, you know, Letitia James out there looking out for the small people, because according to her, that you know when you know, when a big bad organization like the Trump organization falsely puts out the value of their property that they're using to secure a loan, well, that means there's

less for everybody else. Never Mind that the bank did its own due diligence, never mind that there was no victim in this, never mind that anyone lost a dime in this whole procedure, But no, she pursued those criminal charges. Anyway, when the powerful break the law and take more than their fair share, there are fewer resources available for working people,

small businesses, families. Everyday, Americans cannot lie to a bank about how much money they have in order to get a mortgage to buy a home, and if they did, the government should throw the book at them. That's what Latitia James said. Will Now, there's a little trouble for Latitia James because she has been referred for prosecution over the exact same type of crimes that accused Trump. Of the exact same type of crimes. Let's see where do we? Uh, I got to get to a break here, We'll do that.

We'll get to a break, and then I'll lay out what the what the crimes that miss James is facing or will or has been referred to to the Justice Department. Absolutely amazing. How many times have we said it? When you have liberals or Democrats accusing people of doing things, it usually turns out they are doing the exact same things themselves. And we'll get into some of these details. And right after this on fifty five k r C the talk station, fifty five k the talk station when

You're some pump fifty five krc DE Talk station. Well left off talking about the Tisha James, the New York Attorney General who brought the flimsy at the Flimsy cases against Donald Trump. And now it appears that she's had been referred to for prosecution on some of the exact same charges that she went after Trump for. If the allegations are accurate, and this is according to the Western Journal, the woman who went after Trump engaged in some very

real property fraud of her own. According to a report that came out Wednesday night, the US Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Poulte referred James to Attorney General Pam Bondi for irregularities in a series of loans that James obtained on two properties in the course of exercising US Federal Housing authority under the Federal Housing Enterprise, Financial Safety

and Soundness Act. The US Federal Housing has identified matters that are appropriate for referral to the Department of Justice. Poulti wrote his letter to Bondi based on reports Leticia James has in multiple instances falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government back backed assistance and loans for

more favorable terms. This has potentially included one falsifying residence status for a Norfolk, Virginia based home in order to secure a lower mortgage rate, and two misrepresenting property descriptions to meet stringent requirements for government backed loans and government assistants. In the case of the Virginia home. The more clear cut of the allegations, which is likely to represent a serious impediment to james continued rise through the Democrat ranks.

The New York Attorney General reportedly listed it as her primary residence to banks and twenty twenty three documents in order to get a better deal on loans. Where have we heard that before? Despite being a statewide public officeholder in the state of New York at the same time and primarily residing in the state of New York. So she lives, works, and resides in the state of New York, but says that this home in Virginia is her primary residence.

Primary residence mortgages receive more favorable loan terms, including lower interest rates, than secondary residence mortgages. Lenders view secondary residence mortgages as significantly riskier, as a borrower is more likely to continue paying off a primary residence during any financial hardship. Interest rates on secondary residence mortgages are typically between zero point two five and point five zero percent higher than

their primary residence counterparts. So here's Letitia James telling the bank, Hey, look this home in Virginia. That's my primary home. Also, she could save a quarter to half a point on an interest loan. At the time of the twenty twenty three Norfolk, Virginia Property Purchase and mortgage, Miss James was the sitting Attorney General of New York and required by law to have her primary residence in the state of

New York. Even though her mortgage applications list her intent to have the Norfolk, Virginia property as her primary home. It appears Miss James property and mortgage mortgage related misrepresentations may have continued to her recent twenty twenty three Norfolk, Virginia property purchase in order to secure a lower interest rate and more favorable loan terms. How about that? So it looks like there's a lot of evidence out there

referred to prosecution. Sorry, Letitia James sucks to be you, as Brian Thomas might say, But you know she she talked about white collar crime, white collar financial crime, not victimless. When the powerful break the law and take more than their fair share, there are fewer resources available for working people. That applied to Donald Trump. Now it's time to see if the same applies to the Attorney General of New York.

Letitia James five fifty five on fifty five KRC, The Talk Station fifty five KRC, the Talk Station six oh five On this Wednesday morning, I'm Dan Carroll. Brian Thomas taking the week off, so it's my pleasure to be here for him. I get to do it one more day tomorrow, So I'm looking forward to that and also looking forward to speaking with our next guest, and our first guest in the morning is Charlton Allen. Charlton Allen

is an attorney. He is the former chief executive officer of the North Carolina Industrial Commission, the founder of the Madison Center for Law and Liberty, and the host of the Modern Federalist podcast. And he also is a regular contributor to American Thinker, which is a great website where that I look at just about every single day. And it is because of a piece that he wrote there that I reached out to him and asked him to

be on the show this morning. And here he is, and Charlton Allen, thank you so much for being here, and good morning. It's great to have you on fifty five KRC. How are you today.

real context. I think they have the ability to provide context, but they simply choose not to provide context and really wind up just parroting the talking points that come from the DNC and other organizations who are opposed to this administration. I think this is a heavy.

rest of America. And I think there is a deep philosophical and cultural divide that you know, is a schism between those media elites and the rest of us in this country. And I think as a major factor as well.

balance when it comes to dealing with China. I think a lot of Americans might have been surprised though, to recognize the amount of tariffs that and then really how unli level the playing field is when it when you talk about the rest of the world, when you when you look at all the other tariffs that all these countries impose on the United States, and the United States for so long essentially had had little or no tariffs

on many of these other countries. And I think when you when you look at a guy like Trump, it is that sort of imbalance that that really bothers him more than anything else. That you know, we have all this access for all these other countries into our markets, but yet we don't have the same access to theirs.

barriers upon barriers to trade. In China, they have things such as Golden chairs, which give the Chinese Communist Party control over entities in China into corporations that you know, frankly did the fact that that is the case and those companies are dealing in securities in the United States is long overdue for the SEC to be involved.

There's no way they rely on us to provide security. Same with Europe, and yet there are barriers to our penetration of both of those markets, in particular Europe, where if the United States company wants to sell a car they're slacked with a ten percent tariffone on our cars, and then europe christ foul when we demand reciprocity. For decades since World War Two, we have subsidized European comfort with American sacrifice. And that era is over.

is a major producer of rare earth minerals. It's just that the refining process is shipped overseas, shipped over to China where those minerals are refined, and then they are sent back to the United States and to other parts of the world as well. And I think I think Trump has a pretty good handle on this. And so when you look at or at least when I look at what I perceive to be the bargaining position that Trump wants to put this country into when it comes

to tariffs. It's not only to level the playing field, but to reinvigorate these manufacturing processes, and so we are able to self sustain ourselves here in the United States and no longer be reliant on places like China for pharmaceuticals, for rare earth, for things like this that American consumers need on a daily basis.

what you discussed. And we need to cut through the barriers here in our own country so that we cannot only mine rare earth minerals that we need in just about every facet and modern electric and electronic computing and AI. We need to cut those barriers down so that we are not only competitive, but that we are surpassing China in those key factors. Because if we do not have control of pharmaceuticals, we do not control our own energy future. We do not control our access to rare earth minerals.

We will not be an independent nation much longer. You know, China is You know, this is something epic. Is one of the greatest failures of American policy makers over the past fifty years. Despite its deep market penetration in the United States, China has remained a one party state, and

that party is the Chinese Communist Party. And one of those great failures about our policy makers and politicians was they misread China's economic opening in the nineteen seventies as a repudiation or rejection of Marxism.

the United States to the People's Republic. It's been wrapped into seductive packaging of cheap consumer goods, but the core transaction is unmistakable. We sit them our industries or supply chains and our leverage, and in return we've got plastic trinkets and mounting death.

We'll do a quick little traffic in weather and then we'll continue on with Charlton Allen from the great state of North Carolina. So we appreciate him being here on fifty five KRC the talk station.

the media would have you believe. But I think there's I think there's some legitimate criticism and especially when people look at their savings, when they look at their four oh one k's, when they look at their retirement accounts, their stock market investment portfolios, things like that, that that there has been a lot of volatility there. There's been you know, so at least some some temporary damage done to these to these things, and I think people have

genuine concerns about that. When when you get asked or people want to talk about that, what is your response to them about the game, the pain that is associated with the with the policies, and and what what Trump is trying to accomplish here.

President's job is to act. And I think President Trump's doctrine may rattle some of the hedge funge managers, but it reassures the factory floors, and that's where the real strength of this country's always been. And you know, I will also say that a lot of the companies that are traded on the public exchanges, the equities, they are very much leveraged into trade with China. And I will

also point I've discussed this in an article last week. Uh, you know, or Treasury Secretary has made a very strong point of this, just how much of a schism there is within the United States the people who actually.

just a trade issue. They have infiltrated our economy in a very parasitic manner. One of the largest employers in North Carolina is smith phil Foods, which is owned by China. They have purchased a lot of agribusiness. They are heavily leveraged in the pharmaceutical industry, which is another big employer

in the state of North Carolina. So decoupling from China is going to be a very long term process, but it is going to be necessary for our sovereignty because if China controls through Rare Earth and Other Technology or National Security Center, if they control our pharmaceutical sector, if they control consumer and business electronics, and then they're making a strong play in AI. Where is our future, not just in terms of our economy, but our national security.

It's very much in doubt when you have a geopolitical adversary rolling all the key sectors of the economy and they want to subdue the United States.

which they have not been. They are won the worst performing nations in NATO and have been for generations, and they have not taken their obligations under NATO seriously. They are stuck at about one point three percent of their GDP contributing to their own national security when NATO has set a goal, and it's not an unreasonable goal two percent. But it's not just Canada that we have to watch. In terms of China, Mexico is a very big deal

as well. Mexico has been used as a basically a trojan horse for China to get their goods assembled in Mexico and then enter the United States tara free, and that has calls a spike in the Mexican trade surplus with the United States. Last year between twenty four it sored to nearly one hundred and seventy two billion dollars. A big reason for that was Chinese goods assembled to Mexico and then shipped to the United States.

aid office doesn't come without any consequences. So I think it's something that needs to be done, and you know, long term, I think it's going to be wind up being a good thing for the United States. But Charleston Allen, we have to run. I want to thank you for the time today and the Madison Center for Law and Liberty and the Modern Federalist podcast. Where can people find that podcast, The Modern Federalist?

And look, I don't know how all this is going to play out, but I think we've got the upper hand in a lot of these situations. And so are we doing You got to go on a little bit of faith here, I think so. So if you want to talk about that, five PET three seven, four, nine fifty five hundred the number to call if you want

to get on board. DOGE has been busy. Haven't seen really seen a lot from DOGE in the last couple of days, but they they put some stuff out and they talk about virtually every member, every staff member of the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service is resigning as Doge cleans stage, is replacing the team far left Silicon Valley tech ees dubbed the SWAT Team of Nerds and heading their duties over to the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office under

pressure from Elon Musk. The Elon Musk led Department of Government Efficiency nearly all staff at the Defense Digital Service, the Pentagon's fast tracked tech development arm, are resigning in the coming month. According to the director of three current members of the office granted anonymity to discuss their job status. The resignations will effectively shut down the decade old program

at the end of April. The Defense Digital Service was created in twenty fifteen to help the Pentagon adopt fast tech fixes during national security crises and push Silicon Valley style innovations inside the Pentagon. It built rapid response tools for the military during the Afghanistan withdrawal? How well did

that work out? Databases to transfer Ukrainian military and humanitarian aid drone detection technologies are more Without the program, some key efforts to streamline the DODS tech talent pipeline and counter adversarial drones will be sunseted. One soon to be former employee said, or once dubbed the Pentagon Swat Team of nerds. D DS was one of the department's earliest efforts to inject Silicon Valley ethos into its massive bureaucracy.

And I don't know if Silicon Valley ethos is the thing that we really want winding its way through the Department of Defense. Speaking of the Department of Defense, an advisor for Secretary Pete Hegseth has been put on lead if Dan Caldwell escorted from the Pentagon for an unauthorized disclosure. According to Ruters, details of the unauthorized disclosure are unclear.

According to Ruters, this comes after our March twenty first memo ordering a Pentagon investigation into leaks, ordered by Pete Hegsath, chief of Staff. So this guy was a senior advisor to the Defense Secretary and it turned out that you know, there some some of the leaking may involve have involved him. So they kicked him out. Didn't wait around, found out this guy was maybe not to be trusted. Who knows.

Dan Caldwell was included in the Mike Wallas Hoody chat and will be interesting to see how this removal is tied to that campaign. So get him out of there, and don't wait around. You find out someone's not following the rules. Pete he Seth says, kick him out, and

I don't have any problem with that at all. Six thirty seven fifty five KRC The Talk Station fifty five KRC the Talk Station get Ready for Spring and have your roof gutters segment sixty one on this Wednesday morning, fifty five KRC and talking about Doge and what they've been up to. Got a bunch of far left Silicon Valley techies out of the Pentagon. I love this. The State Department has acted over two hundred million and foreign

grants funded by taxpayer dollars. The Secretary of State Marco Rubio slashed about two hundred and fourteen million from one hundred and thirty nine grants, which focused on foreign assistant programs, including a media sustainability program for Moldova. A media sustainability program for Moldova. It costs fourteen and a half million dollars fourteen point six million, media sustainability for Moldova. What is that? Why is the United States concerned about media

sustainability in Moldova? Is that just someone there collecting money, fourteen million and a half dollars worth of American money, doing god knows what with it. That's what it sounds like to me. Let's see, we've got a five point two million dollar Diversity in Media grant for the United Kingdom. The State Department was apparently concerned about media issues, but yeah,

they had to have. I guess the UK was suffering from a lack of diversity in media, and so the State Department saw fit to spend five point two million dollars on it. But Marco Rubio says, no, I don't think so. No more. Let's see five hundred thousand dollars to Armenia for environmental resilience, just one of one grant among many others. According to the Washington Free Beacon, can anyone can anyone tell me what environmental resilience mean? The cuts were made with the aid of the Department of

Government Efficiency, so thank god to that. American taxpayers should not be funding misguided programs like building migrant domestic worker led movement in Lebanon or get the trolls out in the United Kingdom. Marco Rubio said, we are cleaning up the mess of the previous administration and rebuilding an agency that is focused on putting America first. Shouldn't that what the State the State Department, Shouldn't that be what their

major concern is, America first. You know, they're there to implement the foreign policy of the President of the United States, and Donald Trump wants to put America first. So that's what the State Department should be about, not sending money to Moldova for god knows what reason, or five hundred thousand dollars to Armenia for environmental resilience Elsewhere in the DOGE world. They've are continuing with their program to audit and get rid of unused and unneeded credit cards in

the federal government. They thirty different agencies. After seven weeks, about four hundred seventy thousand cards have been deactivated, four hundred seventy thousand credit cards. Sean McMahon, does that sound like a lot, four hundred and seventy thousand credit cards deactivated? Well, four hundred seventy thousand cards is really just a drop

in the bucket those rights. As a reminder, at the start of the audit there were four point six million active cards, credit cards and accounts, so they say there is still more work to do. Yes, four hundred seventy thousand credit cards sounds like a lot. You've got thirty agencies there. I don't know you, but you divide thirty into four hundred and seventy what do you get? But it turns out there's more than four and a half million. When they started this active credit cards and they are

shutting them down. The story a few weeks ago when they were talking about cutting some of these credit cards and a federal judge said you can't do that. So they came back and they changed the amount on the credit card that they were only good for a dollar. So that was a clever way to get around that judges ruling. And we've got more from Doache, so we'll talk about that on the other side of this fifty five krs.

guy's just terrific. Yeah, the interviews he's been doing as approach to fiscal policy, as approached to the markets and everything else, I think has really been very sensible, especially when you compare what he talks about the Janet yelling and Scott Pissent writes this, the IRS has removed non technical people from technical leadership roles in engineering and replaced them with experienced engineers. Going forward, skilled engineers will drive

technical decisions. The IRS has its fair share of software talent. These men and women will have long served the IRS. They need to be empowered to make decisions. Then he talks about the IRS has successfully saved two billion dollars without any operational disruptions by eliminating wasteful contracts such as auto renewed licenses unused for years. So all these spending cuts far from the doom and gloom that those on the other side, not Republicans but Democrats. What have you believed?

And really the wasteful spending is really just complete junk, just junk, get.

then they come up with a program. And in a lot of cases, these programs are in foreign countries, and you know, they talk about, well, you know, there's really inequity when it comes to women working in Malaysia or

Indonesia or some foreign country like this. So they go there, they set up essentially a post office box, and then they've got a friend in Congress who's able to you know, carve out a ten million dollar grant, a twenty million dollar grant, or in the case of Stacy Abrams, two billion dollars so she can put you know, you know, new appliances in in in homes across the country using

two billion federal taxpayer dollars. So it's it's it's just one huge grift and it has spread so far and wide, and it went on unchecked for so many years, and that's why, you know, it's it's so much low hanging fruit that they found. You know, when it comes to the overall size of the budget, it's you know, I

think less than one percent or about one percent. But when it comes to putting money in an individual's pocket, you know, five hundred grand or one point two million doesn't make a lot of difference to the federal budget. But William, if someone put that kind of money in your pocket, would that make a difference to you?

hundred the number to call, just to wrap up. While I was talking about with the Department of Government Efficiency and the Secretary of Rubio posted this some of the wasteful grants that they got rid of one point four million for the preventing Internet fragmentation in Brazil. Preventing Internet fragmentation in Brazil one point four million dollars to that.

And like I was talking to the to the caller I had right before the break, you know, there's probably some NNGO, some nonprofit organization that you know, has looked at the Internet in Brazil and said, wow, for you know, for just a little bit of money, we can really help out these people get on the Internet in Brazil. Really is the Internet the answer to anyone's problem? Obviously it has its useful purposes. But if people in Brazil

want the Internet, shouldn't that be on them? Why should it be up to the United States to spend one point four million dollars to prevent Internet fragmation fragmentation? I don't even know what that means. Sean McMahon. You're you're younger guy than me. You you're up on all the Internet stuff. What does internet fragmentation mean? I could not

tell you. He doesn't know. And it's saying nobody knows, nobody knows what any of this stuffy I mean, if you're really being honest about it, nobody knows what most of this stuff even means. But we but we spend money on it anyway, And again it is absolute chump change. When you look at the size of the federal budget, but when that money lands in the pocket of an individual who's on the grift, it's life changing, absolutely life changing.

And we're bringing all this stuff is well, I would I'm probably premature to say that we're going to bring it all to a stop, but at least some of it. We're bringing it to a stop because I have no doubt there's a lot more out there that we haven't even come close to finding yet. A million dollars for building trust and keeping hope alive in Sri Lanka? What the heck does that mean? Building trust and keeping hope alive in Sri Lanka? Keeping hope alive? Is that an

Obama thing? Obviously there's some friend of Obama that's in Sri Lanka. I know they've had their issues there with civil war and the like. But building trust and keeping hope alive in Sri Lanka? Really a million dollars for that? The State Department, they said, no, how about two million dollars for advancing democratic culture in America or I I'm sorry, not America but Armenia. If our media wants a democratic culture, then that's up to them to advance and promote that

not the United States. And then a five point two million to Media Diversity for programs like get the Trolls Out, an anti disinformation program in the United Kingdom. It may serve you a useful purpose. I don't know, but you know, five million from the federal government that needs to come to an end. Let's go to Tim and Batesville and Tim seven hundred, not seven hundred, but fifty five KRC. How are you.

you got rid of it. Now, you couldn't use it for like regular purchases, you know, but in travel, you know, buying your plane ticket, you're you know, authorized travel could use it. And if you did, if you did use the credit card for your own personal uses, it was upon you to pay it off. If you didn't sure, you know, then the command got involved. The other credit card I had was also in the the process of

my job. It was for purchasing, and you know, at a command they cut out a lot of the contracting for things so that the commands themselves could purchase items, you know, to complete the command's mission. You know, you had various resources to go to to purchase items, and you know, you could go on the open market if it was cheaper. And a case in point, to buy a ceiling fan from the Navy stock system it was about two and twenty five dollars just regular ceiling fans.

To go to dan Fan City, it was twenty five dollars to buy it. So which way do you think that I would have went to purchase the ceiling fan. I would have went thee Dan Fan City and I could use that credit card to purchase it once I was authorized to use it. Well, you know why there's a lot of credit cards.

even for the most simplest of things. I think for for a long time, there was a there was some sort of ingrained ideology that if if you were going to make a purchase or a military unit was going to make a purchase for I mean, you know, just about anything under the sun, that it had to go through a very strict and regimented process. And so at that time, I know they were trying to break out

of that. But when you look at the overall size of the and I think that you know, there are there are probably some perfectly acceptable times and and and perfectly good reasons for individuals within the federal government to

have access to credit cards. But when I look at the DOGE talking about four and a half million active credit card accounts within the federal government, that uh and and who knows what kind of abuses because look, you know, Tim that if people have access to these credit cards, and we and if we went and looked, we could find story after story after story of someone who's using a government credit card to make it rain at the

strip club. You know, who's buying a sports car. You know, they're paying for their daughter's prom, paying for a wedding, stuff like that. You know, that kind of stuff has happened. And so when you've got four and a half million credit cards out there, that to me sounds like a really big number and that needs to uh at least at the very least be checked and reined in at some point.

anything like that. It was just kind of like, uh, you know, government backed, but the government didn't pay for it. You paid for it. And if you didn't pay it, then you paid it anyway because they would take the money from you. Well, uh, that's that's how travel card works.

I think there is. But when you just look at the I mean, ever since Dode started putting all this stuff out, when you look at just the nonsense we are paying for. Sean mcman, do we have that cup from yesterday? This is Marjorie Tailor Green. Marjorie Tailer Green's been holding a lot of different hearings on wasteful spending and the dough and here's one item that she came up with the other day. And Sean, do we have

that cup from yesterday? Let's go ahead and roll that Marjorie Tailor Green and listen to what she's talking about here.

high end furniture to redecorate the EPE office? No, and then two hundred and eighty four thousand and Herman Miller furniture for femas headquarters, conference center and appropriate use of taxpayer dollars, I would argue not. I'm definitely over time. So thank you, gentlemen, Herman Miller furniture.

for about half the price. I'll be glad. I'll be glad to crank out two or three or four of those a week. That'd be for that money, that'd be fantastic. Seven seventeen late for a break on fifty five KRC the talk station.

Former president called social Security a sacred promised how died his administration's efforts to cut Social Security fraud. Really, I don't remember talking about that. I don't remember the Biden administration going after any fraud at all. He mock claims by the Trump administration that scores of implausibly old people

are collecting payments. It's not what the it's not what not what they said when Elon Musk came out with that about Social Security, they talked about how they had all these people were over one hundred years old, some older. I think there was one person who was older than the country itself, but tens of thousands of people who were between the ages of one hundred and thirty and one hundred and fifty who were still active on the database at Social Security Now, he never said that these

people were receiving checks. He said that they were still active as far as Social Security was concerned. That these people say, as far as Social Security was concerned, these people were still alive and capable of getting checks. So they went back in and they looked at it, and they found out that some of these checks are still not to all of them, but to some of them. And Biden says, by the way, those three hundred y old folks getting Social Security, I want to meet them.

Hell man, the hell of a thing. Man, I'm looking for longevity. But I've got a couple of audios sound bites from the the Biden speech last night. And let's start with uh Sean, let's start with cut number one and the uh and and you're gonna hear you'll hear some music here, and then you'll hear very faintly Biden in the background because he started talking before the music stopped, so he got off to a rough start. This is what that sounded like. Cut one.

stage and they point to people like I know you. So, yeah, I got off to a little bit of a rough start. I got a couple of more soundbites. I'll get to here in just a minute, but we'll do a little take a little break here quickly, and then we'll get into that. On fifty five KRC, the talk station.

Look his hair looked you know, someone else is doing his hair now. His hair looked a little bit different than it did before. But Joe was walking down memory Lane for some reason and decided to tell a just a heartwarming tale of the first time he saw black people. And that's your cut number two.

around Scranton. There haven't we heard multiple tales of Joe Biden, you know, moving freely between all these great ethnic communities. And then he talks about being in the fourth grade. How old are you when you were in the fourth grade, ten, eleven, twelve, not exactly sure, maybe ten, I don't know. Eight. I think you're older than eight, maybe nine, somewhere around there.

But he always tells the story about how he was a kid and that was his upbringing, how he's brought up in the Hispanic community and really raised by the black folks. Tells all those stories about that, and even after all this time, still feels the need. He must have seen some black people in the audience, and he still feels the need to try and convince them that he is one of them. I am one of you. Saw black people on a bus when I was in

the fourth grade. First time. Terrific tale. And then he went on to talk about social security or something here. Not exactly sure what you tell me? Cut number three there, Sean.

is the richest guy on the planet. He you know, Joe Biden can't even escape the the day to day fully wang that that is put out by the Democrat Party when it comes to describing this administration and the you know, the one narrative that never ever ever changes is they want tax cuts. They want you know, they they want to give tax cuts to their rich friends and have the you know, the the regular work in

schleps pay for it. That never changes. And you heard the applause there aring that extremely weak applause line, Did it sound like that was a packed house? Did it sound like, you know, he he filled that room with enthusiastic supporters. I don't think so. But you know who is drawing big, fairly big crowds is Okasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders. And I've got a sound bite from Bernie Sanders coming up. We'll roll that after this on fifty five KRCV talk station fifty five KRC cyber returned fifty

five KRC the talk station seven forty. You know, we were talking a little while ago about Paul rolled some of the sound bites from that really compelling speech given by Joe Biden at whatever event he was at yesterday. I believe it was in Chicago. But you know who

has been drawing noticeable crowds. And look, I really I am not I am not interested at this point of trying to handicap the race for twenty twenty eight, the presidential race, whether it's jade E Vance or a Vague or Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis, I am not interested in that. I still think, at least to my way of thinking, it's way too early for that. But Bernie Sanders,

I thinks this is the great time to strike. Bernie Sanders has been touring the country on his no OLIGACKI now we're gone going to be a country of oligox oligocic. I saw a video of him the other day and it goes back to I think it starts about twenty twelve, and then it goes twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, all the way up to twenty twenty five, and he is talking about Oligarch's oligarch. So he's been

he's been. Bernie Sanders got to give him credit. He was ahead of the curve when it comes to warning about the oligarchs taking over the United States, and so all the way from the earliest one of those clips it's him talking about oligarchs, and then it goes all the way up to twenty twenty five and he says, I think the oligarchy is here. So he's been warning.

Bernie sand I'll give him credit for that. He's been warning about the oeb oligarchy for a long long time, and he was out there talking about it again at Coachella. I didn't even know what Coachella was, Sean, do you know what Coachella is? Yeah, I've had friends who go to that contge. Yeah, it's an annual arts and music

festival held in Indio, California. I've been to Indio, California, and I guess it's, you know, kind of a I don't know if it's a woodstock like thing, but you know, you get to one a bunch of hippies and drug users out there, and they they have some singing and festival activities and things like that, and they also have Bernie Sanders. And Bernie is out there making a speech in Coachella. I would I would dare say Bernie Sanders had more people listening to him speak than Joe Biden did.

And at the same time he's doing all this, he's paling around with Ocasio Cortes. I saw a headline today that Ocasio Cortes has already raised more than nine million dollars and not really for a presidential run, but for a run to possibly challenge Chuck Schumer. So that'll be interesting. But again, I am not getting into handicapping the presidential race. But here's what Bernie Sanders had to say at Coachella the other day. Cut four Oh, we.

on what the economy is already doing under Trump. This guy is absolutely amazing. And listen to these fools just eating this stuff up. Do we have a little bit of that sound bite? Left?

not paying. I'm not paying between seven and eight hundred bucks for a ticket, especially if Bernie Sanders is going to show up. Absolutely not. But Lady Gaga was there too, so I guess that was something. Now I'm not I am not paying, and I would not pay. I don't think i'd pay eighty dollars to see Lady Gaga. I don't think so. I think she's a talented singer, but not my cup of tea. What else? What else means so many things? I've got let me see, I got don't have time. I think I got time for one

more SoundBite. Here. A lot's been made in the media lately about this guy that you know got you know, the Maryland Father, the Maryland Man. The guy's he's a he's a gangbanger, he's the MS thirteen transferred to the prison down there in El Salvador. L Salvador's president was at the White House the other day, and the media is making a big deal about this. No, there have been two separate judges that have found this guy is in the country, not only in the country illegally, but

also an MS thirteen gang member. And Caroline Levitt was dealing with that because the media still wants to push this narrative that the Trump administration is unlawfully sending people like this out of the country, and Caroline Levitt wasn't having it at the White House, so she spelled it out for all the media morons. Let's hear cut number.

Father of the Year. That's because unfortunately many in this country care more about this quote unquote Maryland father, a legal alien MS thirteen gang member, then a Maryland mother, and an American citizen who was brutally murdered at the hands of a different illegal alien. Of course, I am referring to Rachel Morin And if you didn't see, yesterday, a Maryland jury found illegal alien victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez guilty of murdering Rachel Moren in August.

sex trafficked, human trafficked, all the all the rest. They never want to talk about the human toll of all this. They just want to cry crocodile tears over some dude who's who's a gangbanger, but he's got he's got an expensive lawyer saying how he shouldn't be in that prison. In El Salvador seven fifty five Dan Carrol for Brian Thomas, fifty five kr SE the talk station, all right, fifty

five KRC the talk station eight or nine. We finally have our act together and Daniel Turner is joining us now from Power the Future and Daniel Turner, I saw where you were on a podcast the other day with Don Junior. How about that.

last time we've had a serious conversation about taxes? President Trump's tried to talk about it, but he gets glossed over because the media wants to talk about trans athletes, so they want to talk about you know, those are important issues, don't get me wrong, But for the most Americans would much rather talk about a fair tax code than the ongoing saga of the trans community.

best you have, This is the best you can offer. So, you know, it's unsurprising the Democrats don't have a winning message on anything, because that's why they've lost their last couple of elections and why they continue to be pouring so poorly. You know, they can bash President Trump all they want for whatever his tax proposals are, but boy, they have to do some internal reckoning because they're they're trending a little bit lower than than than explosive diarrhea

right now. So they have a lot of problems as a party.

or bump out Chuck Schumer. But the fact that that she I'm frankly a little surprised that Acasio Cortez is able to to raise that kind of money right now, yeah.

meaninglessening concert Quinchel. When he had the chance to affect change, Bernie took the buyout and dropped out of the presidential race because they offered him a lot of money and he disappeared and he bought more houses with it. So during these rallies, now what end? They make Bernie feel good? Right, They make Bernie feel good the way some idiot lighting

at Tesla on fire makes him feel good. But they really are for someone who says that he wants to be in charge and he wants the reigns of powers, he really doesn't. He just wants to make noise. So the Bernie rallies for me right now are absolutely emblematic of forty years of Bernie Sanders babbling about absolutely nothing with no consequence. He's never authored significant legislation, he's never

held a significant hearing. The things he can do as a senator, and senators have a lot of power, He's done nothing. All he does is make noise. So I am just so sick and tired of the Bernie's AOC. You know, she's a force to be reckoned with. It doesn't surprise me that she draws a crowd, she's an

inflammatory speaker, et cetera, et cetera. I will go on record confidently saying there is no way in hell she is going to beat Chuck Schumer in New York City and New York Chuck Schumer has been in New York politics longer than I've been alive. And I was born in seventy four. Chuck Schumer has been an elected official longer than I have been alive. He is not giving up his seat to absolutely anyone, let alone someone he has very little respect for.

a pop were it not for the fossil fuel industry. And it's you know, it's so, it's so I think entertaining to listen to these people rail against the fossil fuel industry, but you know, none of the things that they are able to do, you know, Bernie fly in first class all over the country would exist but for the fossil fuel industry.

Joe Biden tinkered right, and he put in green mandates, and he stopped the drilling permits, and he cut off land access, and he made it impossible really for the fossil fuel industry to operate at its at what was its car pace in twenty twenty one, and where did we end up after four years? Everything was thirty percent more expensive. We talk about brownouts and blackouts. We made our enemies obviously a heck of a lot richer Russia

and Iran, China as well. So it's this is an industry that if you want to maintain where you are as an American at this price point, then you have to let it flourish. And they hide behind the climate change, the global warming again, the fear mongering for all of our life as well. And you know, you can go back to the early eighties and nineties and see Bernie talking about how the end is nigh from climate You know, you just get so tired of hearing this crap year

after year. This is it, We're all going to die from climate change. Gore has been saying this for thirty years.

digs up plenty of rare earth minerals. But when it comes to refining rare earth minerals and and you know, turning them into useful products, that is where we fall a little bit short, and maybe a lot short on rare earth minerals. And I guess we haven't had the political will because of the environmental lobby, to to build these facilities that can refine these materials and make them useful. I was reading a piece a day or so ago talking about how that really could be changed in short order.

And and rare earth minerals are you know, they're the flavor of the month right now. And if if the United States gets its act to get on that end of the deal, I don't know how China really has that much more to hold over us to you.

them in abundance here in America. And just for your reader's edification and care you listeners edification, I guess they don't know they're only cold rare earth, not because they themselves are rare, but because they're found in trace amounts

when you do other type of mining. Right, So you don't mind for rare earth, you mind for gold, ors inc, or copper or lithium, And in that mining process, what is extracted or trace amounts of these other I believe nineteen elements that are essential for technology, for military weaponry, et cetera. Dean Paing fifty years ago said, you know the world, the West has oil, but China has rare earths. And he predicted this, and he knew they were going to capitalize on it. And far be it from me

from being an awful Christian. But I was the other day on social media and I called out the dead senator Dianne Feinstein and reminded the American people that as Senator, she led the charge to stop rare earth mining in the United States because of course climate change. Diane Feinstein also had a Chinese spy on her stats for twenty years, and she's at her death was worth around one hundred

million dollars. So Diane Feinstein may have escaped the I think jail, which would have been appropriate for someone who betrayed her country. Maybe she will not escape God's judgment for what she did. But people like Diane Feinstein led the charge to stop rare earth mining refining here in America. They hid behind CLI time a change, but somehow they became very rich in the process, and our number one enemy,

China benefited as a result. I think that's the type of investigation that I would like to see more of by this current Department of Justice.

make iPhones. John Carl said, what are we going to do? Become a nation of cobblers and make Nike shoes. So here's the Democrat Party and those on the left who for decades have told us that, you know, it's it's concerned servatives and Republicans who denigrate work, who look down

upon those. But here they are saying that the types of jobs that Donald Trump wants to bring back are really, you know, jobs that are for other people, and the you know, they're sort of beneath the dignity of Americans to go to work in places like this.

and really degrading. To put all of manufacturing and the millions of factories across America that just five, ten, fifteen years ago had started to have continue need to disappear. To reduce all of American manufacturing to menial toiling labor

is embarrassing. But you know what, even if that is absolutely right, what the hell do you care if someone is happy to work eight hours in a factory putting widget A on widget B, if they get paid a fair wage, if they can support their family, if they can build their community they want to live in their little small town outside of Akron, Ohio or whatever other rust belts, What the hell do you cool? This is that class of angels who think they have the right

to order society. Who the hell do you think you are to determine what other people's labor should be. And in that process of saying I am going to save you from the menial task and give you a grand, glorious job in the new green economy or in the tech world, all you've done is taken away their livelihood and plunge them into poverty. Green jobs never came, the text jobs never came. The few tech jobs we have We'd rather have h one b visas from India and

fill them with those jobs. So I just find that line. We can hear the anger in my voice. This is the disdain that our elite have for regular working class Americans, and our elite are some of the worst people in this country. And Bernie Sanders is an absolute elite, right, John Kerry is an elite, and yet the multi billionaires who are in this administration, Donald Trump and Elon Musk

are not. And I find that absolutely marveling that these people who are rich and wealthy and with gold accents and the Oval Office, yet have more respect for the working class than any president I've seen in my lifetime.

Harvard looks like it's getting serious. Trump says he's going to freeze two point three billion dollars in funding for Harvard, and why on earth does Harvard need two point three billion of our taxpayer dollars when they have an endowment that is fifty three or fifty four billion dollars. Why does Harvard need want penny from the American taxpayer.

Harvard again? These these elites, these anointed as you said, that great quote from Thomas Soul, these universities do an awful lot of damage because they think they are above the American people, that think they are above the American ethos.

And you know, they gleefully want to persecute Jewish students and they want to think that's okay, and they want to think it's okay that hamas sympathizers are allowed to lock down buildings and scare the crap out of Jewish students, or they think it's okay that some guy decides to put on a skirt and say, look now I'm on the field on the girls field hockey team and beat the crap out of female athletes. If Harvard wants to play that role, they can absolutely, but I would make

their life miserable. I'm at this stage that people worried Donald Trump would be, which he hasn't be, and I don't think he ever will. I am at the stage of absolute unleashing the Kraken. I want revenge on all of these awful people, these awful institutions that have done tremendous damage, and places like Harvard and people like John Kerry. Their come up and has arrived, and I hope they go hard on Harvard and other universities that continue to

foment unrest in our country. Remember there is a quote in the Constitution aligning the Constitution about the president's responsibility of preserving domestic tranquility, and this is his job. Harvard is fomenting the opposite, and it is the President's job to kick these people out of the country and kick those people out of the school if they're going to continue to make cause civil strife and unrest.

and Ken Kober, thanks for being here. Always appreciate your time.

old Kyle Merrick, who attempted to run away. Turned out he had a weapon of his own turned in fire, and then he in turn was shot by this fifteen year old. Now he's dead, his family is in mourning, and Ken Kober, it certainly appears that this fifteen year old had no business being on the streets whatsoever, without a doubt.

her to do. Quote, in juvenile court, we focus on rehabilitation, which is to include consideration of how do we make sure the kid doesn't do this again, how do we make sure we protect the community. You know, Chen Kober, It's one thing to have a judge say something like that. It is another thing when, to my way of thinking, it is well within her power and her ability to

prevent these sorts of things from happening. But she doesn't lift a finger to make any of that happen, simply have these kids come in and then right back out the revolving door. And in this case, for teenagers who beat up a woman on a metro bus, they're out on the street the exact same day.

the age of thirteen. Let's see, he was placed on probation. He was let's see, he was found guilty of attempted grand theft. He was on the property of Procter and Gamble running from police. He was is stay at the Ohio Department of Youth Services was suspended as long as he fought. He was supposed to follow these court orders until he turned twenty one, but a few months later, in November twenty four, arrested again accused of receiving stolen property.

He was on probation for the previous twenty twenty three offense. Was in the Hamilton County juvenile system. Also in November last year, in a case that is still pending, he was charged with aggravated assault while in possession of a gun and improperly discharging a firearm So here's a kid that is obviously showing all sorts of signs of trouble, unable to follow the rules, obviously has no parental supervision, and they find this guy is eligible to be released

and placed on GPS monitoring. Is how many cases are like this in the juvenile system right now? Do you have any idea?

can start seeing some results. But for some reason, whatever's going on in the juvenile system, and you've got these kids who are serious offenders at the age of fifteen, if you're you know, involved in stolen property and discharge a firearm and things like that, that to me seems like a serious thing. But yeah, we just sort of, you know, to turn our heads at that and say, uh, yeah, put them on a GPS monitor. Does a GPS monitoring

system really serve any purpose at all? Does it really do any good at all?

the next election. You find out what judges, you know, specifically these juvenile court judges, which ones are going to support law and order, which ones are going to take the safety of the community seriously, and those are who you have to vote for.

If you value safety in Hamilton County, you're going to have to vote for a judge that supports law in order and that that really, really is the bottom line is you have to pay attention to who these people are, what they stand for, and make sure that you know they align with safety in Hamilton County.

serious things. And now this kid is again ino is it until proven guilty, But you've seen the video, looks like like he actually, you know, is wound up being involved and is charged with murder now of a twenty five year old guy. Father and Kyle Merrick. It can only imagine the hell their family is going through, and all because of some judge or some magistrate who is just looking at this in the completely wrong way. We got to get to a break, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas.

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the tariffs and economic issues and Ken Kober talking. I'll just say, I'm really bent out of shape about this kid, this fifteen year old kid who's on the street with a gun. After all this you know, criminal history with the juvenile system, and it's just the way we deal with these kids. Something really has to change. I understand the impulse to want to, you know, rehabilitate kids, to want to correct them from the error of their ways.

I really think I understand all that stuff. But at some point, and if you've got you know, between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, if you've got sixteen contacts with the juvenile courts system, that doesn't happen by mistake. It doesn't happen just because that kid was in the wrong place at the wrong time, doesn't happen just because they were hanging out with the wrong crowd. Doesn't happen,

you know, a good kid caught up in a bad circumstance. No, maybe once, maybe a couple of times, I don't, you know, But sixteen times in the span of less than two years, I don't think so. And when you're talking about, you know, unlawful discharge of a firearm, receiving stolen property, some of the other some of the other things that this this kid was involved in, and then you can see fit to have this kid out on the streets in possession

of a gun again. Now, of course, the court had no way of knowing this kid was in possession of a gun once again. But if they were in possession of a gun wet one time, what would make you think that they wouldn't do it again? Cutting off the ankle, monitor, all that kind of stuff. Let it slide, Let it slide, let it slide, and then someone winds up paying the

ultimate price with their life. It just really it just when I saw this story, I thought to myself, and it was a fifteen year old kid that you know, we are going to find out that this kid already had a history and I hate it when I'm right about these kind of things. It is time for me to go.