On Demand - Show Highlights 03-11-25

around that forty degree mark for most. Got that big problem out on twenty, as Tumbleweed has mentioned, so we'll be keeping an eye on that this morning. Heads up twenty travelers northeast side of town got some issues to deal with. We'll get another update from him here in just a couple of minutes. And one nice day ahead today is Todlers have mentioned highs back to the seventies. How about eighty tomorrow? Oh yeah, loving that? Huh? After

what a dreadful day yesterday? Wow, my goodness, all right, let's get into it, because there's a lot going on the run down the big stories of the hot topics. Just just to mention here, we had mentioned this story yesterday morning, but we got more details on the two men who drowned over in Kershaw County and the watery river.

This was to rescue a teenage boys you probably heard by now that's a that's a very swift running river there, and a teenager fell in, slipped off the rocks, and two men, one a retired military veteran, jumped into to save him. Apparently several people did. The boy's life was saved, but those two men, Balentine Quiros and Lonnie Hancock, lost their lives, two heroes. As Lee Bone, the sheriff ovin Kershaw County says, wow, okay, it ain't enough. They want more.

D O t telling us that well, you know what, yeah, we we raised a lot of money with that gas tax thing, which we we've maxed it out now, by the way, So unless uh, unless the state House decides to up the ante on that, they've gotten all they they've they've squeezed all the all the blood out of that turn up. But still Dot says Uh, yeah, we've you know, we got things we need to get done. We've got to rethink how we do this. Well, right now we are paying an extra twenty eight cents a

gallon our gas. Yeah remember remember that, Remember that one we didn't have this increased gas tax, remember the good old days. Well, this is raising about a billion dollars annually for DOT. And I'm not talking about you know,

trying to squeeze more out of us there. But if you drive an electric vehicle, be on the lookout because EV drivers are paying a flat one hundred and twenty bucks every other year, whereas if you're driving something that's not an EV, well you're out an additional about two hundred plus every year. So they're looking at well, DOT at least is suggesting maybe some changes need to be made for this flat fee that EV drivers are paying on our state. Gas prices meantime, have draped for the

second straight week. Average was two sixty seven a gallon as of yesterday here in South Carolina. But we're getting into that season now, so expect prices to probably jump up a bit as we get into the spring and early summer driving seasons. But compared the prices right now about close to seventeen cents again and lower than a month ago, and forty two cents gallon cheaper than a year ago. So there's those good news on that front. Sled charging a Lexington man with threatening a public official.

Tyler Helms charged with threatening the life of a public official. Now we're not exactly sure. I don't think who the public official was, but this all happened at a restaurant where Knox Avid drive in Casey back on Valentine's Day when well, there was an argument that ensued. The man arrested complained that this public official was belligerent drunk. That's

all we know. Helms apparently discharged a firearm inside the restaurant. Wow, huh okay, again, don't know who the public official was there. They're looking at a possible sexual assault at the Avons Land Detention Center, isn't it. It took place a couple of days actually yesterday about midnight Sunday night early Monday morning or the details have been released. Things have been fairly

quiet recently at the ASG. They're working to fix the Columbia Canal, the canal which ruptured back during the Great Flood of twenty fifteen, the thousand year storm that we all remember way too well, it's been ten years and it's finally getting fixed. But that is going to be some disruption if you like to frequent the riverfront park area, that trail usually accessible on Laurel and River Streets, Well for the next couple of months you won't be able to do that because of that work. So a small

price to pay. I suppose the governor is going to be holding court and how can they at the south By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. Huh what? Well, yes, it's it's best known for music and film and such, but they also have a lot of talks and well, well, the governor will be there talking about this. Interesting enough, we just mentioned electric vehicles. Okay. Also at south By Southwest we'll bump into some pretty famous people. Ben Affleck,

Blake Lively, be careful there. Kevin Bacon and Seth Rogan also set to peer up here at south By Southwest. All right, well, so did you check your four oh one K and your investments or did you stick your head in the sand and say we're going to ride this thing out. Stocks dropping precipitously again, Yesterday, tariff fears, recession concerns. The S and P was down three percent, almost three percent. That's was it nine percent below US

all time high that was set just last month. The Dow dropped close to nine hundred points, was an eight hundred ninety points this morning. Trying to clost some of that back in pre market training, but got a long way to go down. Futures are up about ninety five points right now, and the tariffwards and threats and such continue. Ontario slapping a twenty five percent increase on electricity they're exporting to parts of the US. The parts that this

concerns Minnesota, New York and Michigan. So again we're yeah, they're importing that, they're importing electricity from Canada. Maybe they should build some more power stations in those states. So twenty five percent more. This affects one and a half million homes. This is Ontario's response to the trade war. This was kind of cute. The brewery in Canada, Moosehead Breweries, is now selling what they call the Presidential Pack. It's a crate of one thousand, four hundred and sixty one

cans of Canadian lagger. The idea behind it is to provide a beer a day for four years, just enough to get through a full presidential term. Okay, novel idea hand that to him. Marco Rubio announcing yesterday that the White House has slashed eighty three percent of USAID programs. Eighty three percent. Wow. USAID spends forty billion plus of

taxpayer dollars to fund foreign age aid. That is this cory to doze back in January, and we've kind of gone through some of the crazy things, crazy amounts of money they're giving out to foreign countries for such Now Musk is again targeting cuts for Social Security, claiming massive fraud in the program. And again, anytime you talk about Social Security, people do get freaked out that he apologized.

A White House official says, yes, he did. A special envoy the Trump administration saying that Vladimir Zelensky has apologized. In a letter to Trump, he called this progress towards a minerals deal. We know that again, Zelensky has been kind of backtracking ever since that blow up in the Oval office a week Aldgo Friday. Yeah, a big change to the app that Biden was using the Biden Hairris administration,

the app to legally allow illegals into this country. Well, now the CBP one app has been redesigned for other purposes by the Trump administration to get people well out of the country. By the way, Tom Homan telling Congress soon run out of money for deportations, so uh, well this is that was part of why they wanted to try to again, you know, not to not cap deficit spending. And well that's still going on. And we our country has been added to a human rights list potential human

rights threats. Why, well we think we know why because you know, Trump and the the American people elected him to remove illegals from this country. And yeah, the international humanitarian watchers don't much like that idea. We got that. We got more coming up on this the Tuesday edition of Columbia's Morning News. Always great to have you with us.

out there. That's going to be for unfortunately, and guessing will probably a while to come, but we'll keep you posting right here. All right. So let's uh, let's follow up on a story we were mentioning yesterday. This is about the autopen. It was revealed late last week by the Heritage Foundation, their oversight project executive director, saying they had to come across numerous executive orders signed by Joe

Biden using the autopen. Okay, now, auto pen. You maybe have never heard that that particular phrase, but you probably use one. You ever done a docu sign thing anything like that. You know, you just say yeah, except the signature doesn't look like yours, it's not yours, but you say yeah. You can use it and boom, there it is, so that that's you know, my definitely, that's an autopen Okay. Now, whether or not this is exactly the same thing, and I don't know, but still it's it's it's a computer

generated signature, all right. Well, this apparently happened a lot during the Biden years. And what they have found that every document they could find with Joe Biden's signature, with the exception of one, and that one being the announcement that he was dropping out of the presidential race, every other document signed by Biden during his four years used the same autopin signature. And again executive orders, pardons, other

documents of great national consequence. And by the way, some of these pardons signed by the autopin were signed while Joe Biden was on vacation. Now, again, technology being what it is, being on vacation does mean that you know, if it was if it was Joe who was clicking the little box that says yes, sign it for me, Okay, that could have happened. But okay, this is this is

just a little bothersome here. The question is this again it raises the question of who was actually signing these things did Joe where things signed, where executive orders were pardons or other documents of national consequence signed by somebody else other than Joe Biden?

Did whoever control the auto pen control the presidency and was it controlled by Joe Biden or not? Wow? This is more than just speculation here. There's an investigation. At least. The Attorney General Missouri, Andrew Bailey, right into the DJ last week, wants a full investigation into the legality of these presidential actions, especially in light of his apparent mental decline.

Will an investigation show that how knew who knows how many documents important documents were signed by somebody other than Joe bid Wow? And this raises the question too, if in fact that was the case, what are these even legal? Do they stand? But we have a we have a process if a president is incapacitated, well we have, you know, a process by which we deal with that. It doesn't

include an autopen who was signing these things. We uh, probably haven't heard the last of this unbelievable presidential pardons signed using the auto pen while Biden was on vacation. Yeah, I mean he could have done him with a laptop sitting out by the beach in Delaware on any given weekend during his presidency. But did he? I mean really.

Good for you. Huh. If you're out that that neck of the woods now, my wife will ed will tell you I'm that guy, although I'm becoming less and less of that guy. We can be going. I don't care where we are. Well, usually in our little neck of the woods, I'm that person when you drive by a gas station, I always pay attention to the price of gas. I don't know why. Yeah, I'm that guy who will drive out of my way to pay two cents cheaper a gallon, even though I probably burned more gas to

do so and come out on the losing end. But you know, that's just me. I'm getting better at it, though, I think. And you know, for the last couple of months, I happen to notice my wife got tired of hearing it from me. I know, but it seemed like man. Places were oscitating like crazy. They're down twenty cents one day, up twenty cents two days later. Just why I don't anyway, Well, gas prices in our state have been falling, and they

fell three tenths of percent uper gallon last week. So the average is two sixty seven a gallon state wide. Now you'll find it lower than that and more expensive that depend on where you are. This is close to seventeen cents a gallon cheaper than a month ago, and almost forty three cents a gallon cheaper than it was a year ago at this time gas. But he found somewhere in South Carolina, We're wow, gas was two twenty

one a gallon. Where is that somewhere? I'm going Now, our price didn't fall as much as the national average. We fell half what six tenths of us and it fell nationally. So with all the concerns, you know, with Wall Street freaking out right now over the tariffs and recession fears and all that, all that is actually good news for gas prices. You know, all the tariff talk

and the uncertainty leads to lower gas prices. And as we mentioned a week or two back, although it went pretty much unnoticed by the rest of the media, is that OPUK plus has agreed to ramp up oil production. So all that's good news when it comes to the price of a gallon of gas. Certainly, interestingly enough, we haven't seen the average price of a gallon of gas be this low in this month, in the month of March,

since twenty twenty one. You know that was during the pandemic, and we could remember back in what twenty twenty I guess it was, you could pretty much. Yeah, we went through a period where when oil was shipped into the US, the cost of the barrel was more expensive than the cost of the oil that it contained. You know, the running joke was, yeah, you know, gases you know, below two bucks a gallon. I mean, it's you pretty much

just pumping for free, but you can't go anywhere. Well, we're seeing the lowest prices in March since we've seen since about that time, believe it or not. Now keep this in mind too, at an average of two sixty seven a gallon as of yesterday, if we backed up, say five years, six years, that two sixty seven a gallon around here would have been more like two thirty

nine a gallon. It's two sixty seven a gallon, because you know, we saw our what was I guess it was five years right where each year the gas tax went up in here in our state. So we've we've we've topped out now at twenty eight cents a gallon. Yeah, we were paying state tax on gas before then, sure, but we had well that was one of the lowest taxes in the nation. But DOT needed money, We needed

our roads fixed. And they've they've gotten at least according to DOT, that extra twenty eight cents a gallon we're paying right now, twenty eight cents a gallon is bringing in about one billion dollars annually, a billion with a B. But DOT says, you know it ain't enough. DOT says, those dollars don't go as far as they used to. Yeah, we know all about that, and with the the growing

population in our state, it's just not enough to keep up. Now, you can make the argument that in some cases, not all, but in some cases, if DOT could have finished projects quicker, they could have saved us money. Some of these projects just tend to go on forever and ever and ever, all Hardscrabble Road, the I twenty interchange at US one, Lexington County, I mean, you name it. And of course the longer they go on as to get more expensive,

but the inflation kicks in and everything else. Okay, all right, well, what's the solution though, Please tell me they're not suggesting that we jack up the gas tax any higher than it already is. Well, Justin Powell, the Secretary of Transportation in our state, telling members of the state House that he thinks there could be a potential solution here that's to revisit the twenty seventeen law that brought all this about, but not raising the gas tax, but taking a look

at the fee that EV drivers are paying. Now, if you drive an electric vehicle, you know this. The rest of us probably don't realize it. Okay, So on EV, you're not using tax in gas, so you're not paying a gas tax. You're not helping the rest of us out here in fixing the current condition of our roads or expanding them and proving them whatever. Well you are,

But here's what's going on right now. Under current state law, EV drivers, they are paying money in It's a flat fee of one hundred and twenty dollars, not every year, but every other year, so sixty bucks a year. Now, if you're driving a gas powered vehicle, all gas, hybrid, whatever, if you're using gas, the average South Carolinian is paying about two hundred dollars, at least two hundred plus in

gas taxes every year. So you drive a regular car, a traditional vehicle, two hundred plus every year in gas taxes, EV drivers sixty bucks a year. But they're using the same roads that the rest of us are, and Powell says it's about his idea is to them to make sure that everybody's paying their fair share into the system. Yeah, I agree. No, obviously, if you're driving a very you know, gas efficient car, you're not paying what you know, somebody driving a big old suv, Well that was your choice.

You're still paying in whether you're driving a gas guzzler or not. But the idea that you know, a fuel efficient car, you're not saving that much more money. You're saving money over somebody driving and gas calls are certainly gas taxes, but you're not getting off as cheap as the EV drivers are, and they're using the car the roads as much as we are. They're not as many. I get it, but still it should be an issue

of fairness. So yeah, by the way, most other states in our area the southeast are setting rates for EV drivers much closer to what people are paying for the regular the gas cars in taxes. It makes sense, but it can't be done without the legislature weighing in. So for South Carolina again the recap driving electric vehicle, you're paying sixty bucks a year. You're paying one twenty every two years, So sixty bucks a year Georgia for example,

annually now every year two hundred and ten bucks. North Carolina every year one hundred and eighty South Carolina sixty. Yeah, there's a problem here now whether they get on it this year or not of other state. He I sincerely doubt what everything else going on, but this should be getting a good, long, hard look on the.

them legal entrance. Well yeah, it was all about affording the bad optics. Do you remember how this worked. You set up an appointment. We not you, But then legal immigrants set up an appointment in Mexico and they were allowed to enter legally through any port of entry, and it was used by about a million people to come into this country before Donald Trump said yeah, no, shut down the appointment feature. Well, now the Trump administration has taken that same CBP one app and has redesigned it

and it's now called CBP Home. So the app which previously let illegal immigrants register themselves is now can be used by these illegals to provide proof that they've left the United States and avoid the penalties had come with being deported by the federal government. Yeah, if you're deported by the federal government, there are penalies involved. No whether

they actually get paid or not sold another story. But so now folks with that with what used to be the CBP one app is now the CBP Home App, and they can use to let us know, yeah, we've left the country. Yeah, that that app. By the way, when Biden rolled that thing out, people can only quote unquote legally enter this country. But they're also allowed to get on planes, despite concerns that security checks were not

conducted before their release, that they were not adequate. Now the redesigned CBP Home app also allows registered users to board flights, but only for one way back to wherever they came from. The brilliant Now, Tom Holman, the Borders are saying yesterday that the federal government is will soon run out of money that's here marked for deportations, and the Congress needs to provide more funds. And you know,

we knew this coming in. It had been talked about quite a bit that in order to reach the goal of you know, millions of deportations every year, it was going to require somewhere north of eighty billion dollars. One of the biggest problems they've got is the shortage of bed space while they're processing illegal migrants for deportation. Homan says that we'll be running out of beds in two weeks, and when that happens, we have to stop interior operations.

This was again one of the reasons why Trump wanted to remove the ceiling on the national debt and on deficit spending. I don't know if Congress is willing to do that or not. I guess we'll be finding out here soon. And then there's this little side note to the whole illegal immigration issue in various and sundry assorted things, the House has passed a bill aimed at cracking down on Mexican cartel's use of tunnels underneath the southwestern border.

We know they exist, we know there are lots of them, and they're smuggling in human beings and fentanyl and everything else through these tunnels. So the House took up a bill and passed it to crack down on this. Well, but basically what it does is it directs border patrol to submit a report yearly to Congress about the use of tunnels by the cartel and how law enforcement is looking to combat that. This bill passed with overwhelming by partisan support. As a matter of fact, only one person

voted against it. Yeah, you actually had a sitting US congress person vote against this. I give you one guess as to what group she represents, Well, yeah, Democrats, sure, yeah, the squad. Yeah. Rashida Talib. Her office did not comment on why she voted against it, but I don't care what her excuse is. It won't hold water. Yeah, attempts to crack down on these tunnels from Mexico into our country, smuggling individuals, fentanyl and who knows whatever else, and Rashida

tale voted against it. I don't know. I got no clue what people in Detroit are thinking. It is a Detroit area, This is Michigan. I think the Detroit area by sitting this woman back to Congress every year, maybe next time around they won't.

poor down two point seven percent yesterday. You wonder how dramatic that is, how dramatic it's been that closed by the S and P yesterday is nine percent below it's all time high. Uh, it's all time high was just set last month. So yeah, it's it's not been pretty. At one point, the S and P five hundred yesterday was down three over three and a half percent, which would have been its worst day since twenty twenty two, which is when we saw the highest inflation rates. You know,

we've seen it in a long long time. So you know all this. You know, Wall Street is very jitteryan you look at what the VIX index is, that's the measure of volatility, but it's high now down. Futures this morning are up about one hundred and sixty points, but got a long way to go, not just the loss of eight hundred and ninety points yesterday, but what about two thousand points or so in the last week or two.

It's it's difficult. We talked about this at some length yesterday the fears of recession, and as we mentioned, Trump over the weekend in an interview with Maria Bartiromo didn't rule out that we would see recession in twenty twenty five. Larry Summers often cited economic guru putting the recession odds at fifty to fifty. He says, now of the tariffs, the tariff wars, they've got Wall Street very concerned. Right now, this is what Wall Street reacts. Man, You talking about

knee jerk reactions, herd mentality. You see this all the time. But the fears are you know, are understandable. Certainly now you give Trump credit. Now, now, would Trump have done this in his first term and he didn't? Why not? Well, number one, we weren't. Economy was humming along, and it hummed along even even greater during Trump's first four years up until we hit you know, the pandemic that nobody could have bargained for and was well, it could have

been somebody's fault, but it wasn't Trump's fault. So inheriting a bad situation thanks to Bidenomics, something had to be done, something drastic, something dramatic, and yeah, you could sorry, well you know, well, Trump is, you know, a lame duck from the day he took office. He's a lame duck. He's got four more four years and then that'll be it. Well, yeah, there are some that are thinking maybe we could do it again, but we'll put that discussion off the side

for right now. You got four years, really got two years, right, you know, up until the midterms. If if you want to keep control of Congress, you got to show great results in the first two years. And here, not quite two months in, people are going, wait, whoa dude, what are you doing. Trump understands that something drastic has to happen to change things, and that's what we're in the middle of right now. And as we this guys yesterday is going to be painful in the short term, Yes

it will. It is. We're seeing it right now. And who knows how long this is going to last. But at this point in time, if you have money invested for retirement or for whatever purpose, you know, we all know you're in it for the long haul, not the short term. And the hope is is that over the long haul this is all going to be Trump said this yesterday, with these territors. No, then we rays we're gonna be so rich. We all know what we spend all this money on. Well, let's hope that's the case.

But for now, it's it's, it's it's it's gonna be a bit painful. Stock markets in this country lost four trillion dollars. We've lost four trillion value that was just for the S and P s. It's at peaked last month, four trillion dollars. It's a bunch of money that's not quite a national debt type money. That's thirty six trillion dollars. And a lot of billionaires are on paper losing a ton of money. Some of these same billionaires I guess

who supported Trump. They can afford to lose a lot of money, they know, but at the end they don't want to. But these are people who got These are not people who got to where they are because they were concerned about what would happen tomorrow. Right, got to

take the long view here, gotta take it now. The trade and tariff wars latest here is the Premiere of Ontario, which is Canada's most populous province, made the announcement that, effective yesterday, and this had been threatened, they were charging twenty five percent more for electricity to one and a half million American homes and businesses in response to this trade war. What yeah, we have three states that import

electricity from Ontario. This is another one reasons why we talk so much about around here in other states too, But around here our greatest point of concern that did we become get ourselves to a point where we can produce the kind of energy that we need. This is a This is a big topic of the state House right now. How do we generate enough electricity for our own consumption here as we These are by the way, these are not states that are that are growing in population.

They are losing in population. But they're getting electricity from Canada. So at twenty five percent tariff, this is affecting more than a one and a half million homes in businesses. It's not all of them, it's not all three states. It's all they get to know. Minnesota says they think that this terrible, have a minimal impact. They only get a small share of the electricity from Ontario. But of course Tim Walls, the former vice president, want to be

criticizing Trump over all this. It's easy right now, the Democrats are going to take their shots. That's the easy thing to do. It's easy for the media to take their shots. Where will they be if all this does work out as the intention is. There are no guarantees, but the intention is. What happens if, like Trump just said yesterday, we're going to have so much money, we won't know well, I would be so rich, we won't know where we spend it? All Trump is he's rolled

the dice. You would not see a you typical politician do this. Then your typical politician is not a business person. He's gonna roll dice on this one because he knows something has to be done. But there are and I don't know to what extent he's listening to them, but they are very smart people around him when it comes to this. Scott Bessen, you know, South Carolinia Treasury secretary, brilliant guy. He's holding on this short term pain, long

term gain, right, just like going to the gym. If you're right, if it doesn't hurt, you're not doing something right. Time's gonna tell. So we'll keep a tally of all the criticism now and we'll go through it, and we're all gonna feel this. Pad I'm feeling it, you're feeling it. What will things look like a year two years from now? And if this is successful. If this is successful, man, Republicans going to rule the Rust for some time to come. It's tall task. Somebody has to do it.

But the man's charged with threatening the life of a public official, an unnamed public official who apparently were at the inside Vella's restaurant Locks Habit Drive, one of my one of my favorite hants over there, but I wasn't there. Then there was some sort of argument going on and uh Slid. Agents say that the man, Tyler Helms, was

armed with a pistol. During the argument, reported complained that the public unnamed public official was too belligerent drunk to represent the entity again him Slid, declining to name whom or well. About an hour later, agency Helms was arrested for discharging a firearm in a public place, which was the parking lot of the establishment, reportedly telling an officer, if I had a gun, could I have shot him? Well, apparently he did have a gun standing grown, he says,

I should have shot and killed him. That's SC's code of laws standred ground. If I'd shot one of them, it would have been wow. Okay, time a step back and take a chill pill. Here we're ten years removed, well not quite, but ten years since the thousand Year storm, the flood, hopefully the flood of our lifetime. We don't see one of those again, and the damage it's done is still being worked on. Specifically here the Columbia City Canal, which is kind of important. It provides water at about

half of the City of Columbia's or water customers. But it's taken ten years to get it fixed. But that fix starting and it is going to be some disruption to some folks if you like to go to Riverfront Park and that trail on the canal well only be one access point open starting this St. Patrick's Day, it'll be the Laurel Street access both sides of the riverfront

to walk. Just outstanding. And again now they're working on another plan to develop that riverfront area, which should have happened a long time ago, and maybe will one of these days before I die know if that's going to happen, but we'll see. So there will be some interruption there, but that just for two months. Got to get that fixed. I think we've all come to the realization that if your name is Donald Trump and you order something to happen,

there's gonna be some Democrat judge out there. I was going to say, no, you can't do that, Okay. Well, the word that DHS and they confirmed this over the weekend that ICE had obtained or detained Mackmood Khalil. Khalil a Syrian born activist leader of a pro Hamas group tied to the violent prot tests at Columbia University last year. Khalil, known as a prominent Palestinian activist, and his arrest the first of what I says, and DHS has his many

to come. Well, DHS was like, okay, we've we've we've got this guy. He's a former grad student of Columbia, supposed to be in court tomorrow morning. He was Trump administrator says, we're sending this guy out of here. Okay, he's a Green card holder, but he's you know again, DHS says responsible. He was the leader of of of of that that violent uprising at Columbia University. So they said he's got to go. Yeah. Well, the words had not finished reverberating out of their mouths yet before a

federal judge stepped in yesterday to block that. Yeah, that's typical if you're the Trump administration, whatever you want to do, there's gonna be a Democrat judge out there was gonna say no, you can't do that. This is the problem for a lot of people, and rightfully so I noticed this yesterday morning when it came on the air. Of course, I was also, like everybody else, dealing with the whole

time change thing, and I got off. That's the worst show I've done in years, man, anyway, But I did notice this early on that I couldn't get my X feet update. Well, it turns out there was a cyber attack on the platform. Now a pro Homos group is claiming responsibility. It was very coordinated. Now, so Musk is under fire no matter where you turn, whether it's the

X platform, his his Tesla line of automobiles. Musk is now accusing number of left wing groups of funding the violent attacks on his company's dealerships across the country, going as far as claiming that George Soros and at Act Blue and other liberal figures are behind all this, funding the destruction, the violence that's going on on his dealerships. This is America. Marco Rubio announcing yesterday the Secretary of State that the administration now has slashed eighty three percent

of USAID's programs. Eighty three percent. Wow. Doze back in January writing that USAID spends forty billion plus of taxpayer dollars every year to fund foreign aid. It's crazy what there's spending this money on. You know what, I know it. You could also argue, and what have we gotten for it? Quite honestly, so eighty three percent of these programs, Rubios has been slashed. Did you see the video track and field where a runner bashed her opponent's head with a baton.

Have you seen that? This is a state championship race. The runner who got bashed in the head of the baton suffered a concussion made possibly a skull fracture. Now the uh, the runner who was the bashee or the basheer I guess, claims it was all accidental, and in an interview, she's crying not for the accident victim is she claims, this person is, this young woman is, but she's all upset for herself. Yeah. I know there was some physical stuff, but what about my emotional stuff now

and dealing with this? Everybody has feelings, she said, So you're physically hurt, but you're not thinking of my mental Okay, Well you know if you've seen that and you think it was an accident, well yeah, there's there's a bridge we want to sell you. Jordan Sernaka, a teacher of English, had sued his school district back last July after his contract was not renewed. UH. He says it was because he refused to use students students pronoun a pronoun, pronouns,

whichever they are. I still don't get all the pronoun stuff. He was just one of a settlement about that things are looking up right and in all the trade, tariff war talk and everything going on. Now, this is this is funny Moosehead Breweries in Canada selling what they call the Presidential Pack. This is a crate of one thousand, four hundred and sixty one cans of Canadian lager. The cost to cool two thousand, four hundred and seventy eight dollars.

I guess that's Canadian. Because it's only available to people who live in certain Canadian provinces. You can do the rough currency translation if you want to. The idea behind this is, say, is to provide one beer per day for four years, just enough to get through a full presidential term, this with all the tariff stuff going on. Okay, yeah, what it it's a it's a cute idea. The Presidential Pack one thousand, four hundred and sixty one cans of Canadian lagger got to spread out of you will