Ep. 5286: Grant Allen back as designated host

going to be a great show. Preston again is taking some time off and I got the chance to fill in. There's no shortage of news from over the weekend. Everything that's been popping off in Syria that's kind of dominated the news headlines. I'm gonna try and diversify the news story that that's definitely the big one, that just about

everything everyone is talking about right now. But I'm going to try my best in selecting stories to talk this morning that are still kind of top of mind, especially heading into the Christmas season, especially, you know, news during this time tends to slow down a little bit, but no shortage of things, at least today. It's just us today, No guess, just myself, Jose over there in Studio one A. I'm in Studio one B. And we've got loads of things to talk about. But first we have to start

off with start off with scripture. And this is from John, chapter fifteen, verse five and verse eight. These are Christ's words. I am the vine. You are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in Him, He it is that bears much fruit. For apart from me, you can do nothing. There's something to be said for good works, and not in the justification sense, but good works and kind of what they are. The Bible describes all of our even good works, outside of Christ to be but filthy rags.

And that's what this passage from John fifteen is talking about. For a part from me, you can do nothing. There's It's not just that that God orchestrates every breath that we breathe, and every drop of blood that pumps through our veins is upheld by Him and his power, but that all that we could do with our own own earthly strength is fraught unless it be in him. Christ is the true vine, the true olive tree. From old

to new, it's been one olive tree. It was christ the entire time, ten minutes after the hour history segment coming up next. I'm Grant Allen, and this is the Morning Show. This is my first time getting to host the show with Christmas themes. I haven't gotten to do that yet. This is a special tree. Jose's got the Santa hat and another item he's wearing that we're gonna talk about later because I told him we got to talk about this Christmas sweater here. But first, this day

in history from the American Patriots Almanac. This is kind of tech news actually, as with many recent innovations, This day Monday, December ninth. As with many recent innovations, the genesis of the Internet lies in US technology developed during the Cold War, in the days when the United States and USSR were racing to the moon. The DoD created the Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA to spearhead cutting edge

military research. Scientists at ARPA wanted to find a way to connect computers located hundreds of thousands of miles from each other. In nineteen sixty nine, the ARPA Neet was born, linking for computers at universities in California and Utah. So yeah, it's interesting you had computers, but they weren't on what we would now consider a network where they would be able to communicate with each other. Now everything's linked through

the Internet. The ARPINET slowly grew during the seventies. By nineteen eighty one, more than two hundred computers were linked to this network. By that time is no longer limited to military projects. The Defense Department and the National Science Foundation opened access to the broader scientific and academic community. Then came along the personal computer. In the eighties and nineties,

millions of PCs appeared in homes and offices. In nineteen eighty nine, British computer scientist Tom berners Lee led the development of a system that allows people to navigate the Internet using pages of text and images on a computer screen, a creation that he dubbed the World Wide Web. Corporations

got busy connecting computers around the globe. By the dawn of the twenty first century, and estimated three hundred and sixty million people had access to the Internet, and by two thousand and nine that number had reached to one point seven billion. And I imagine in the last fifteen years that number of connectivity total devices is I don't even know what the number would be if it was one point seven billion in two thousand and nine. I don't know is is is half the world connected now?

Like how many people are in the in the world eight billion? Are we to four? Maybe between three and four billion? I don't know that. That's my guess because it's been an exponential increase. Do you remember did you ever have I remember having a I was I had a computer room. I remember that being a big deal or you know, like it was like the office, but they would call it the computer room. Did you have anything like that?

On this day in seventeen seventy five, Patriot forces defeat a British and Loyalist forced force at Great Bridge, Virginia during the British out driving the British out of Virginia for the earliest part of the First War for Independence. In eighteen thirty five, a Texan army captures San Antonio and their war for independence from Mexico. In nineteen oh seven, Christmas Seals go on sale in Wilmington, Delaware to help

fight tuberculosis. That's a wild story. And in this day in nineteen ninety three, the military blows up the first five hundred minute Man two missiles designated for destruction under an arms control treaty. That was the scale down in the post Cold War era. Feels like, you know, a different time, especially in light of the news over the weekend and armaments and things like that. Feels a timely reflection on history. Sixteen minutes after the hour, we're gonna

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donations end of your giving to Humble Houseministries dot org. Yesterday, the college football playoff bracket was announced and it I had to sit on it for a little while. Right, So this isn't a sports show, but when you have something like this, it's the first twelve team playoff bracket that was released. I kind of feel obligated to, you know, bring it up because it's, you know, it's big news.

committee kind of did exactly what I expected them to do. However, personally, I wasn't sure what the method that they would take this year. What I mean is I personally thought that they were going to give that final slot to Alabama instead of SMU. I was actually really surprised to see SMU there. But Alabama having a pretty significant loss and

SMU having no significant losses. I mean, yeah, they're not they're not perfect, but they didn't have a an incredibly poor loss to a team that they weren't supposed to beat. SMU kind of just had, you know, they beat their teams that they were favored to win, and that's it. There wasn't It was just kind of an expected schedule

for SMU. But SMU got that final slot and it's kind of it's just wild to see, you know, a team as low ranked as Clemson, who's sixteen in the final College Football Playoff rankings, make it in as the twelve seed. They're the lowest seed, So what this tells us is that they clearly favor wanted to concoct some sort of method that made conference championship games still work,

still be valid. However, even then, Oregon, even though they're undefeated, number one overall seed, the gauntlet that they're likely going to have to endure in order to win a championship is incredibly challenging. Meanwhile, Penn State, who doesn't really have a marquee win on their schedule, they beat all the teams that they were supposed to beat, and in the

top matchups they lost. But Penn State gets this ideal position as the sixth seed where they play SMU and then they'll play a bowl game neutral site against Boise State. Are they kind of like a lock for a semi final for the final four? Feels like it. And they lost their conference championship game. That was the reward for losing. And then Oregon gets the winner of Ohio State Tennessee in the Rose Bowl, which many people are thinking Ohio State and Ohio State is a natural fit for the

Rose Bowl. You know, the Big Ten fan bases are used to going to the Rose Bowl. It's a traditional matchup there. And then they would have to potentially play Texas in Dallas and then I don't know, Georgia in Atlanta in the National championship game. That's the reward that Oregon had been dealt for going undefeated. It's not the committee's fault. This is just a format problem. But what

happens with the inevitability. It feels like that if you just seed the field, if you just seed the twelve teams, inevitably, conference championship games are going to be diminished. Now, Alabama fans and Georgia fans are always going to care about winning the Big Ten title or excuse me, SEC title game. Ohio State and Penn State fans, Michigan fans are always going to care about winning the Big Ten title game because it's close in proximity, it's regional, it's part of

the part of the tradition. But it feels like an inevitability that we're just running towards this, you know, loss of like what made college football, college football conferences and regional ties and localities. It just feels kind of sad. It's a flawed format, and I think this is probably

just a one year rental. Twenty minutes after the hour, here on the Morning Show, thirty six minutes after the hour, I'm Grant Allen filling in for Preston here on the Morning Show in Studio one B, Jose and Studio one A, and it's time for the big story in the press box. I've kind of gone back and forth. There were two big ones that I saw trending, and this is the one that I kind of wanted to hit. The two big ones really were and they'll come up throughout the

show repeatedly. And it was Trump's interview with Meet the Press over the weekend and talking about immigration, border security, mass deportations. That was a big story. And then the other one was what happened over the weekend in Syria, rebels taking over the capital city of Damascus, driving Asad, his family and the Assad regime out. So the Assad regime has fallen in Syria. That was the other big story. I'm gonna get to that one, the Siria story, because

it's a little more I don't know. I'm much more interested personally in discussing the domestic issues, like of what Trump was talking about with mass migration, mass deportations. Those interest me much more just from a from a natural philosophical level. It's closest in proximity. We're Americans, this is these are our issues that we're currently facing. I feel less inclined to always feel like I have to comment

on something you know, from half a world away. Like I admittedly the the whole story of South Korea that was under martial law and then it wasn't under martial law. That whole story kind of went in one ear out the other. Not because I don't want to stay informed to what's going on, but I'm really trying to live out to this idea, this kind of localist ideal. Of the things that I spend the most time thinking about are the things that directly impact me by close proximity.

I don't want to be like, here's what the left does. The left they throw the Ukraine flag in their bio and you know, they feel the need to become this expert in foreign policy in Ukraine in the history of the russ people, and how then the russ you know, in the the nineteenth century split from the Russians and then the Ukrainians and then the two languages diverge. But under I don't feel the need to necessary talk about

that all the time because it's not very close in proximity. However, the current power brokers in Washington are currently making it our issue. So I talk about it. But here's Donald Trump. I'll I'll play this and then we'll go to commercial break and break it down a little more. Here's Donald Trump on Meet the Press.

like NCIS or something like that? Because it was wild. Anyway, what I said, I was going to discuss Trump's video from last segment that I played of his comments and his his analysis of how he interacts with these members of the press is really brilliant. I'm surprised that he gave the interview. I wouldn't. I just maybe you feel like an obligation is like, Okay, I'm going to be president again, so I should probably at least talk to

NBC News. But I wouldn't want to. But his his answer there of like, oh, are you going to do it through exact executive actions? It doesn't. Actually, in this case, the outcome is way more important. The mass deportations and ending this in birthright citizenship is that is the outcome that is much needed. The way we get there, I guess we'll figure out. I have no preference. I just want to see it happen. But his answer of you

know where the only country that has it? You know, you step one foot It's I've seen like or In McIntyre. He's one of my favorite podcasters. I'm going to mention an article that he talked that he wrote and he penned over at the Blaze. But he says this all the time on his streams that I have listened to. He was like, if you kiss the magic dirt, you can become an American. You ask the question what is an American? It's everyone in the whole world that just

hasn't shown up yet. It's like, hold on, no, the Founders. I know, everyone wants to invoke the Founding Fathers and claim them as part of their argumentation. In this case, I truly believe what they say in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Who did they say that they were undergoing this kind of project of independence and this American project? Who did they say they were doing it for?

To ourselves and our posterity? What is posterity? It meant their descendants that there is this kind of general understanding that did take place in America, of kind of an ethnogenesis. There was a new kind of forged struggle and American experience that forged previously antagonistic populations. You know, you had some Germans, you had some Swedes, you had some English,

you had some Scots. But by and large all of those different people groups, those old allegiances and those old world conflicts did fall away a little bit in part of this new struggle, this new common goal as being an American. So there is an assimilating feature, of course, but by and large, asking the question what is an American, there's usually a much clearer answer. There's a closeness in proximity, and then the further you get out, the less it becomes.

Because there are some that are inheritors of a political tradition. Our rights are inherited as part of a historic English common law tradition. And so with Donald Trump saying that if you just step one foot, you become an American, just like that, it's like, well, you can have a nationality, you can have a citizenship, but it doesn't answer the question of like what is an American? What does it mean to become an American? There's always an assimilating feature.

There is a host culture. There are cultures that are from around the world that ideally when they do come to the United States, there's an assimilating feature that goes on here that causes the new identity to become the thing that guides them that they are in this new land. The old identities pass away, and the common culture is

the overarching culture that dominates. Basically social cohesion. We're allowed to have high trust society because we generally all assent to these kinds of things that we all kind of come from a certain way of life, background, whatever, And there's this peace and harmony that comes from having even yes, outside populations be able to come in and enjoin to

the norms. But that's the important part is that when there is immigration and assimilation, they have to assimilate into some sort of norm You can't just have an entire one, guided, one unitary state like we have now with who knows however, this isn't the difference is This is like the difference between you know, one vastly different Western canonized tradition and all the other traditions that have no commonality with them like that. How does that work? How does a nation

function that way? And we're seeing now in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty four that by and large it doesn't work that well. Forty seven minutes after the hour final segment in our number one here at the Bran Show, Preston left me this note here on the dash on the board as a reminder to let you all know that Monday night and Tuesday night at seven pm, admission is free at Childs for Great Holiday Concert. The band, orchestra, choruses and guitar ensemble will be performing, and so if

you want to hear the sounds of the season. I want to go here some wonderful music. You can do that tonight and tomorrow night, seven pm. Childs in the auditorium. It's impossible, impossible to miss. It's right there at the entrance at the front of the school. So wanted to let you know about that coming up. And so you know, there are gonna be lots of things like that coming around.

You know, you'll have Christmas ballets and Christmas concerts and those are always fun things if you're looking for something to do, you know, those are those are local events that you can absolutely support. It would be a good time. So I mentioned in the Big Stories that the other major story from the weekend that needs to be discussed is obviously the fall of the Assad regime. Allegedly, Assad and his family have landed in Moscow that they are

seeking asylum. There's a lot going on here. It's kind of hard where to begin. Well, I'll start here. Actually. President Biden said this on Sunday afternoon press conference. This is the Fox News article that says President Biden states that the United States will support Syria's and neighboring nations and help bolster stability in the region after dictator Bashar al Assad fled the country amid in ongoing civil war, Biden said, quote, at long last, the Assad regime has fallen.

This regime brutalized and tortured and killed literally one hundreds of thousands of insocant Syrians. A fall of the regime is a fundamental act of justice. It's a moment of historic opportunity for long suffering people of Syria to build a better future for their proud country. It's also a moment of risk and uncertainty. End quote. So which is it? Because everyone knew that the rebel forces that were attempting to push Asad and his regime out of Syria were

al Qaeda adjacent? Or isis adjacent? Right? Is this better? And what role have we as the United States played in in destabilizing another regime? Now, let me first say I don't think that Asad is really all that great of a guy, but it just makes you wonder if you replace one guy and the immediate vacuum that gets filled is al Qaeda? What what what is our purpose now with United States foreign policy? Are we just the

region destabilizers? Because that's what happened in Iraq soa'm Hussein goes out and then within a decade isis comes in. You just something fills the vacuum, and it's always the most extreme thing that fills that vacuum. I don't know this. This is this is com Chrismas Tree, seven five Eastern, six five Central. I'm Grant Allen, and welcome to The Morning Show without Preston Scott, episode number ten. Here on Monday, December ninth. Jose over there having a good time talking

about the news of the day. More news and this is from Fox News. Donald Trump says that he will pardon January six ers on day one, acting very quickly. Trump also said that the people on the J six committee belong in jail. Now we're talking. Now, we're making progress. President elect Donald Trump told NBC's Kristen Welker, as part of the I Guess extended interview that he gave to NBC that I played a clip from last Hour as

part of the Big story in the press Box. In the same interview, he said he wanted to pardon the JA sixers on the first day of his ADMIN and said that people on the J six Committee in Congress belonged to jail. I'm gonna look at everything. We'll look at individual cases, Trump told Welker. But I'm going to be acting very quickly. First day. I'm looking first day. These people have been there. How long is it three

four years? They've been in there for years. They're in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn't even be allowed to be open. Welker also asked about President Biden considering issuing preemptive pardons to some of Trump's opponents, like Liz Cheney or Senator elect Adam Shift. Well, what did Liz Cheney do? Why would President Biden need to issue any pardon to Liz preemptive pardon to Liz Cheney? What did she do? I saw the same thing about with Fauci. Well, what

issuing a pardon to Anthony Fauci preemptively? I saw that article floating around. Well, what did Anthony Fauci do?

as a justification for all kinds of crackdown. It was twenty twenty one, and so we were still in the throes of COVID, still dealing with that at that time, and you could call it weaponization. I know that term gets kind of floated around quite a bit, but I can't think of a better word to describe how every apparatus of the federal regime, whether it be the FBI cracking down on the J sixers, these political prisoners that

they are. I kind of understand President Trump's point two of just wanting to move on that justice is actually the retribution that he talked about. So that's actually part of the article that I want to share from oron McIntyre coming up and has something to do with that. I thought it was really astute how he pointed it out.

Part of the calculus is like from twenty sixteen, right when President Trump first got elected and he joked with Hillary Clinton on stage, you'd go to jail and you know, never did you know there was nothing that ended up coming of that. There's a calculus is it? Is it worth it? I waffle back and forth sometimes I guess I land somewhere on the if you can, if you can pin him to something, do it. But there's there's a whole new series of focus that needs to come

into play with a Trump administration. Like we've got like every apparatus that we've got to save, we've got to overhaul every federal department or abolish them wholesale. That would be my But if you don't abolish them, you have to overhaul them to your ends. In a way, Donald Trump is going to have to be a type of right wing Roosevelt. FDR. FDR and his New Deal, his sweeping bureaucratic regime, completely shifted the way American life changed

toward the left. In a way, Donald Trump may have to be a type of right wing Roosevelt, or you purge the bad actors and you get our guys installed. Easier said than done, because there's lots of middle management that have been career bureaucrats living in Fairfax County, Virginia that are the you know, these middle manager types that are going to be without jobs, and if you just how do you keep the train running with positions unfilled?

I think you can. Obviously you don't have to refill all of them, but that's part of the task at hand. Multiple theories going around about what to do. How much do you abolish? I think you can do quite a bit of the things that you keep around. How do you ensure that they are in fact our guys and not subversives? Eleven minutes after the hour here in the

morning short comet enjoy. I've been rather disappointed actually in the comments that I saw by Senator Ran Paul News last week that was going viral a little bit in the Twitter world and the ex world related to this story. I've got on my screen in front of me illegal aliens already so deporting in anticipation of second Trump presidency.

Let's go with less than two months before President elected Donald Trump returns to the White House, a number of illegal aliens attempting enter to the United States are already abandoning their attempts to cross the border and are returning to their home countries. This is originally reported by Fox News up to one hundred. That's not a very big number,

but we'll go with it. Up to one hundred illegal aliens in Mexico have requested voluntary return to their countries of origin, according to Mexican officials, You would hope that even though it's in the what millions of people who have streamed across our border, that though one hundred is a small number, you hope that that's like the tip of the iceberg, that it's just kind of like a

microcosm of a larger trend. The illegals in question are either paying the costs of return out of their own pocket or seeking state funds to do so, which is ironic Mexico's already paying for it. Many of the illegals specifically cided Trump's impending return to office and his plans to crack down on immigration. So apparently this is a quote from an illegal. I cry every day and ask God to take me back. I don't want to be here anymore. This is horrible. That's the kind of America

I want to live in. I want to live in the kind of America where the illegals are praying to God that they would leave, that they would be delivered that's the kind of America I want to live in. But I was really disappointed last week when I saw this thing going viral about Senator rand Paul. Was all of a sudden, and I like him. I like Rand. I think he's one of the most consistent. Him and Thomas Massey, they got a good thing going in Kentucky. Yes they are Libertarians, but this is my This is

actually exactly why I am not one. Rand Paul said that he was a against or maybe it was a formal vote, and it wasn't a formal vote. It couldn't have been anyway. He had come out and said that he is against using the United States military to follow through on the mass deportation plan. And I'm like, why, give me one good reason. And they always say, well, it's it might be used against Yeah, no kidding, it could be used against us. You're kidding me, right, Yeah,

of course it could. But that's done. And that's not the point here. The point is politics. Politics is really

boiled down to friend enemy. In the United States military, if there's any one purpose of having a standing army, which is already outside the bounds of what is traditionally understood in English common law usually and I said this last time when I hosted the show in English common law Civilizations for a long time until the eighteen hundreds, anytime the United States, because we are downstream from English

common law, we are a part of that tradition. When there's war, you would muster the troops and then you would disband the troops upon the end of the conflict. But if you're going to justify any kind of standing army, of which we have one, we've had one for basically one hundred years plus, so there's not really going back to that old tradition. The cat. You can't get that

toothpaste back in the tube, is what I'm saying. So if you're gonna have one, and we do, if you're gonna have a standing army, what purpose do they serve other than the protection and mass deportations are absolutely a part of that. This is why I can't be a libertarian. They get in their own way so much because of Listen, it's fine to have your principles, but I would to win. Like you could say, oh, we're not gonna do this, hey,

then like get out of the way. This is what Sam France has called in his book Kind of like in the nineties, or maybe it was in the two thousands. Much of the American right, this includes the GOP, they are beautiful losers. They love to say we're sticking to our principles as America continues down a progressive hellhole for decades since absolutely since the sixties, and there's no been substantive formative right wing that has actually driven the left

out of power. I'm late, seventeen minutes after the hour. I gotta keep myself tight. Is getting out of hand. President Trump is sticking by Pete Hegseth is from the Federalist President ELEC. Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for Pete hagg Seth's nomination to become the next Sect Deaf on Friday, putting any GOP senator seeking to tank the Army veterans confirmation on notice. Trump wrote on truth Social that Pete

hegg Seth is doing very well. His support is strong and deep, much more so than the fake news you would believe. He was a great student Princeton, Harvard ed educated with the military state of mind, he will be fantastic, high energy Sect deaf one who leads with Charisman skill. Pete is a winner there's nothing that can be done to change that. So this comes as the rumors were

speculating that Governor Ron DeSantis was being floated. I think if heg Seth isn't confirmed and DeSantis becomes Secretary of Defense, I think the cascading effect of how that affects Florida politics obviously would be catastrophics not the right word, but like impactful is kind of an understatement, right, I don't know what Florida politics quite looks like in a post descientist governor ship. I don't, I don't. I don't think anybody.

I mean, I'm sure there are some people that have an inclination, but it just doesn't feel like that there is a successor. Right with Donald Trump selecting JD. Vance as his vice presidential pick. Trump's also close encounter with meeting Christ himself escaping a bullet, you know, that close from his head probably causes you to realize, oh, I need to think past, you know, big picture, what's gonna

happen after I'm gone? And so that that feels like what the Vance pick was and I and Florida doesn't seem to have that right now. I don't necessarily think maybe I don't know, Maybe it doesn't need it. Maybe an open kind of free for all is kind of where we're going. Where Jeanette Nunez and Ashley Moody and you know, various other state lawmakers viye for the Republican bid for governor after DeSantis has gone, if he were to take the post at sec DEEF, I don't know.

But the Pete Hegseth thing is real interesting because I saw Wade Stotts, he's a commentator I follow on Twitter. He said, there's three main tactics that the left has, the Kennedy, the Kavanaugh, and then there's one more other thing, oh, the Nixon. That's right, It was the Kennedy, the Kavanaugh, and the Nixon. Those are the three tactics that are usually employed against right wing men of power. Kennedy kind of obvious. Cavanaugh is currently what Pete Hegseath is going through.

Not saying that he didn't have a skeptical past of kind of less than ideal behavior. Right, He's admitted this. I watched his interview on the Megan Kelly podcast on YouTube. I watched his interview. He's repentant for all intents and purposes. I think everyone that's coming to his defense believes that he's truly a different man, and I believe him. But the accusation against him our Kavanaugh esque. We remember the

twenty eighteen Supreme Court Justice confirmation hearings. And then you've got the other irity for oh, the Nixon, the impeachment method and by the way, all three of those, the Nixon, the Kavanaugh, and I keep forgetting them. They've tried with the Kennedy. They've tried all of them against President Trump. Just interesting when you think about it that way. But they're trying to do the Kavanaugh hashtag me too th

for Pete Hegseth, and it's not working. This is another example I feel like cancel culture is kind of on its way out. Twenty seven minutes after the hour here on the Morning Show, We're halfway done.

the school, you know, ugly Christmas sweater competition. It wasn't that. I've never really had one. I should find one that's like, you know, kind of up my alley. I don't know. But anyway, big story in the press box, Trump aims to end birthright citizenship, saying that American citizens, so called American citizens who are here under I guess you call that like anchor baby whatever, those with family here illegally

may be deported. And this is this is obviously the it's good to see President Trump who's not like backing down from this. Adds to the thought that this President Trump is a different President Trump compared to you know, when he took office the first time took office the first go around, and you know, you're you're new to the whole thing, and you're like, oh wow, there's so much that I don't know. I guess I'm gonna not

so much of this time. Really feels like that this is kind of man on a mission after like next year, by the way, is twenty Like in a few weeks. It's twenty twenty five, and it was July of twenty fifteen when Trump came down that escalator. So for the last ten years, pretty much of the man's life, he's faced pretty much a daily constant onslaught from his own party, from the left, yeah, from the entire federal regime.

feel like. Pat Buchanan. Sure, yeah, Pat Buchanan. I've read a lot of Pat Buchanan since, you know, his presidential campaign in the nineties and then he had his career in media, you know, since then, and but by and large, I really do feel like America First reflects Americans. Forty one minutes after the hour here in the Morning Show, here's another clip from President trumpet in that same interview with NBCs Meet the Press, talking about annexing Mexico and Canada.

greet us as liberators. It would pretty much be only Alberta in Saskatchewan that we could turn them into North Montana and North North Dakota, or we just turn uh Saskatchewan into North Dakota and then we combine the two

Dakota's here into Megakota. Just an option, you know. So he's he's so right though when it comes to these this trade and I mean, there was the joke last presidential administration that Trump was gonna buy Greenland, And it's so funny because now like you look online and like there's actually like legitimate momentum for like, uh can we like can we uh uh? I know it's kind of taboo, but I I'm I like the joke, right, But Mexico would have to be kept. Okay, let's let's work through

the thought experiment. At least I would grant full statehood to Alberta and Saskatchewan. They're the most right wing conservative Canadian provinces. Ontario is going to have to be like only partially admitted right so they're in the American dominion, but they don't have seats in the Senate. No, no, no, where there we are. This is this is a ninety day free trial here, and we would have to do the same thing for the entire country of Mexico. Ninety

day free trial. Because I don't know if like, like I know, President Trump jokes and I don't like, there's no way that anyone is actually serious about this. But it's actually kind of funny to just work through the thought experiment. Because in the eighteen forties, for example, there like James K. Polk I think, was a president that kind of had a manifest destiny kind of vision that incorporated most of North America, that would include Canada and Mexico.

And there were numerous thises this concept that happened in the eighteen forties called filibustering, where kind of these just gun slingers, these well to do gun slingers Americans, they were primarily Southerners. They would land, they would take this battalion of I think one of the most famous billibusters was William Walker, who attempted to make one of those Central American countries like an American colony. And so it's

funny because the memes are historical related. Now it's all in good fun, But wouldn't that be wild, you know, just by Greenland, make Mexico a part of the American territories and then admit Canada and all of their provinces. That'd be hau hilarious. Absolutely, That's at least one way you deal with the left in Canada. Forty seven minutes after the hour, here are the Morning Show. We got more coming up. Did you see the story about the Pope Mobile. Yes, that's next.

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planet from climate change. You know what it reminds me of. It reminds me of that scene in the movie Cars, or maybe it was Cars two or Cars three. I lost track of how many cars movies there are, and then they the Planes movie. I've lost track. I'm now

waiting for Trains as the next feature film. But it's like that one scene where like there's there's a pope car, like they they cut to this scene and then the Pope who's depicted as a car is like out in the middle of the crowd shaking hands, kissing babies or whatever, and that's what it looks like. It looks like that scene from Cars. Pope Francis gets first all electric Pope mobile.

They took an all new, all electric g wagon and shaped it into a Pope mobile because he is a pope that has been incredibly known for pushing climate related issues. The car's conversion to electric come as the Pope has repeatedly urged people worldwide to accept the science of climate change and work to protect the environment. The Vatican says it plans to convert all of its vehicles to emission free options by twenty thirty. This isn't really a Catholic Protestant.

It's not really because you'll find like if the Episcopal Church or like the Protestant Church had a pope, they would absolutely do something like this, but probably something to the nth degree that was like way worse. This isn't like a religious discussion. The reason I brought this up but is primarily a reminder to serve that most of our institutions, including the Top Brass, are wildly, wildly bought

in to the ethos of the day. Always remember that our number three here on episode number ten of The Morning Show without Preston Scott, I'm Grant Alan here on Monday, December ninth. You'll hear me say you probably already have if you've listened to me, as I've filled in for Preston twice in November, once now in December. Currently. I often use the term the regime to describe what is in essence the federal government, because it's not just like

the federal government. Using the word federal doesn't actually explain what's going on here. When you use the word federal, you have to like, if you're going to get technical with the term federal, that means that there is important power that is delineated from the top to the bottom. Right. There's yes, we still have our state governors, state legislators are state government apparatus. Of course we know this, we're

in Tallahassee. But federal doesn't really describe the totalizing because federal sounds limited to me, and that's not what we have. Federal sounds like a proper central government that knows its limits and knows when to stop. I remember hearing I was listening to a podcast and they were explaining just the success of Thomas Jefferson and his presidency when he

was running for reelection in eighteen oh four. One of the big calling cards of the Jeffersonians as they eventually became was they did essential work and then they did nothing. That was legitimately how they sold the vision for reelection to the people, broadly speaking, was we didn't do anything that's actually, and they thought that was fantastic. Can you imagine living in such a society where you're like, prove to me all the things you didn't do, of whether

or not I will vote for you. Again, that's amazing. That's kind of the ideal. Actually, So I don't use the term federal unless I have to be technical, and you know, clear the air if you will. I much rather prefer to use the term regime or the total state, or any other set of terms that you can come up with. But regime rolls off the tongue nicely. It's easy to remember. The status of the regime has long been known, and now it's gotten a little worse in

this respect. The EPA has weapons. Now. This is also from not the be Biden's EPA just made its first ever climate change arrest. This is a crazy quote. This is an excerpt. The EPA worked to implement the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, which requires the agency to reduce hydroflural carbons, a synthetic compound commonly used for refrigeration or air conditioning, by eighty five percent by the year twenty

thirty six. The AIM Act led to the arrest of Michael Hart of San Diego in March on charges related to smuggling potent greenhouse gases. Highlighted in the EPA report. The charges marked the first ever greenhouse gas related arrest issued under the AIM Act, but, according to an EPA press release from earlier this year, not the best says

in bold typeface, it will not be the last. Do you believe that this was out of time when it was a you may recall from over the summer that part of the Democrat campaign and the next you know, after the inauguration, if the Democrats were going to win, that not only was the IRS going to be expanded and have an increased budget, but they were allocating resources in the budget for weaponry for the IRS. So this means the EPA, the EPA is now a law enforcement

agency with armed patrolmen. I guess you could say that are actively making arrests. Now they make one and they say there are more to come. This is the kind of thing that has to be gutted and like you can't. The EPA could very well be one guy with a laptop. I know he was a joke about the IRS, right, you know, like the flat tax, you know, doing it on Ted Cruz would say that when he was running for president in sixteen, you know, if you could do

your taxes on a postcard. Yes, of course that's brilliant, Yes, absolutely, but it kind of became a joke of like, you know, one guy with a laptop, no legit. There are federal agencies that could absolutely be one guy with a laptop and he doesn't even need to go into the office. Dude could be a remote worker and that's all you need. The EPA is now making arrests ten eleven minutes after the hour, here are the morning show. That is the size of the regime. You've heard me mention the name

or in McIntyre before. He's one of the guys that I rely on for good writing over at the Blaze, and his podcast is one that I enjoy, and he penned this article. I mentioned it in the Through the First Year second hour talking about there's different theories as to what President Trump should do regarding the current actors that have attempted to railroad him. Does he actively seek to prosecute those who have targeted or does he say I have a new mission. These people are irrelevant to me,

They're nothing to me. I'm not going to waste my breath on him. This article from Orin McIntyre kind of helps answer that question. Without consequences, the rule of law dies. The subtext healing and unity and a true restoration of law and order can only happen after the lefts entrenched influence in the American system is rooted out. The series of absurdities that have enfolded this week to undermine the rule of law are so convoluted that it would be

hilarious that the topic were not so grave. McIntyre says. The Biden administration has demonstrated consistent corruption, bringing out outrageous charges against political opponents, intimidating concerned parents, remember saying that parent groups were basically domestic extremists who were concerned about what was being taught in the school system, remember that from a couple of years ago, and targeting professing Christians.

Progressives have gone to extreme lengths, including attempted assassination to stop Donald Trump from returning to the White House. Fearing the consequences of their actions, and now President Joe Biden has issued a sweeping party in for a son hunter and has reportedly considering additional preemptive pardons to shield his allies, President Trump must reject calls for surrender from both the establishment left and the establishment right, while ensuring that Democrats

are held accountable for their abuse of power. If he fails to act, the left will likely become its legal campaigns the moment Democrats regain power. So here's how he highlights. And this is why I mentioned the Sam France's Beautiful Losers quote last hour, because National Review and Politico both published pieces urging President Trump to avoid retaliatory actions if he returns to office. Now, McIntyre asserts that the word retaliation is in and of itself a manipulative term, but

the correct word is justice. And McIntyre continues saying without justice, not only will those wronged go without satisfaction, but the incentives will encourage Democrats to resume their incredibly corr This is the minute they regain power. We can no longer think that the left is just going to go like quietly into the night. The left is going to have to be delegitimized and put out of power in a very similar way. At the federal government level. There you

go me using the word federal again. In Washington. The left is going to have to be put away and caused to be without power. In the same way that Florida has basically rendered the Florida Democrat Party obsolete. Florida has continued to govern and trend right and threw strong executive power and executive leadership from the governor and then the Washington equivalent to the governor would be the President

of the United States. When there's strong leadership at that position of power, the rest tends to fall in line. Now that doesn't always happen. We saw President Trump's first administration go horribly wrong with backstabbers and rhinos. But the point is is that Florida, which was once a purple state, can be a model of completely overhauling an entire state

from within. Washington has to be that too. It has to be gutted, it has to be completely undone and installed, have people installed that are ready to work, that are committed to MAGA, that are committed to America first. And that's why I've said previously that for a moment, side table, you know, put to the side of the idea of the meritocracy. Now we're people of the rights. We believe we want to put people who are most capable in

a good job. We believe that in this moment, in this time, just for a second, maybe we should primarily give loyalty for a good look rather than just who is most qualified, because the people who are usually most qualified, say for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth is not technically the most qualified, but he's not from the general class, and that is the point. For a moment, Let's go with loyalty as the primary barometer as we staff in administration.

Seventeen minutes after the hour, here are the morning Joe. I've mentioned that it feels like with some of the cabinet selections that Trump has made, drawing heavily from Florida, and Governor DeSantis himself being kind of like a rumored Secretary of Defense pick if the heg Seth pick doesn't go through, right, I was talking to my wife and I've talked to other people about it. The Trump DeSantis

wars of twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three. You know, you had you had the the pro DeSantis guys on Twitter, and you had the pro Trump guys on Twitter, and they were feuding all throughout the presidential primary when DeSantis was running, and it feels like that since Trump is drawing so much from Florida, and I mentioned already today that it feels like there's a certain degree of uncertainty

of what Florida's leadership looks like. In a posted DeSantis world, I it feels like there's an inevitability of twenty twenty two being rehashed coming back that the DeSantis camp and then the Trump camp are probably gonna have their own picks for who runs for governor. You know, Trump is obviously we still have to fit a fill a Senate seat, by the way, because Marco Rubio has been tapped for

Secretary of State. And this from Fox News, Laura Trump announces that she is stepping down as RNC co chair amidst talk that she may be up for the Florida Senate seat. I don't know that's This is the Fox News article. She announced on x that she would be

stepping down as co chair of the RNC. She started her journey as co chair of the RNC in March of twenty four and has been widely discussed that she is considering her potential options as father in law president Like Donald Trump, once again, we'll take the reins of the White House, so different positions are are available now, and there has been that she may be considered as

a replacement for Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Last month, she apparently told Sean Hannity that she would love to serve the people of Florida and would love to consider filling the seat if asked. Sounds like conversations may have already been had the question becomes has Governor Desant has been a part of those conversations. I don't know, I don't know, but these are I don't want this feud. I don't

like it. I didn't like it in twenty twenty two because DeSantis was far and away the best executive at the state level in the country, far and away. He taught other governors, other red state governors, how to lead. And Donald Trump is clearly the guy for president. So you know, as a Floridian, you hate to see the fighting and it hates you hate to see kind of what it feels like is coming down the pike. But the big news over the weekend too, and I'll it's not the big story in the press box. I was

talking more. Immigration is the big story in the press box. But kind of hard to avoid the conflict in Syria, Asad has escaped, allegedly found refuge in Moscow, and now Israel has captured Syrian territory after the Assad regime collapsed and the is in Israel notified the United States in advance about its operation to take control of the buffer zone and the border with Syria and several other key locations on the Syrian side.

right wing account on Twitter. Michael Knowles, can someone explain to me why we're supposed to celebrate Bashar Alasade's replacement by a member of al Qaeda. I'm not like, let's be clear, and here's jd Vance. As President Trump said, this is not our fight and we should stay out of it. Aside from that, the opinions that he's responding to a quote tweet. The quote tweet said Syria is free, the rebels won, the people liberated themselves from tyranny, freedom won,

and JD. Vance says, the comments like this make me nervous. The last time this guy was celebrating events in Syria, we saw the mass slaughter of Christians and a refugee crisis that destabilized Europe. Right right, I'm highly skeptical of people who are just flat out sane. Syria is free. In what fills the vacuum? There's always something that fills at and it's actually probably worse than a sad twenty eight minutes after the hour.

on American soil, and boom, you become an American. And then he goes on to say something to the effect of that's ridiculous. We have to put a stop to it. There, there's gonna be degrees of pain and by like, here's what I mean, right, whether it be massive deportations or whether it be revoking birthright citizenship, it's going to be hard because as of right now, the mass media is

where still most of us get our news from. And even though we may like to think that we don't get our news from the mass media, I mean, I don't watch the news. I don't I don't watch I don't have cable, I don't watch network, you know, news shows. I just I don't do it. However, those of us still check our news feeds, you know, by going to

foxnews dot com or CNN dot com or whatever. The reality is, even though we don't want to be dictated by mass media, the propaganda arm of the regime still basically informs of us what topics we're gonna think about. Even if we come out on the same conclusion, a different conclusion than what the mass media is telling us. We ought to believe. We're still thinking about the topic so completely. Being unplugged is almost like an impossibility in

a way. That's the effect of propaganda. But the point of me mentioning that is because a real effort for mass deportations and a real effort for ending birthright citizenship is going to be stymied by the propaganda mass media.

Do we have the stomachs to be able to for example, when the mass media sends starts posting photos and videos of families being deported right, and those images some associated press photojournalist is going to capture a tear running down the cheek of an individual who being deported, do we have the stomach to look at that and say, no, what's happening here needs to be done mass deportations. Do we have the stomach to endure that. I have my

doubts whether most of the American Right. I mean, I meet people, you know, in my day to day and I'm like, well, maybe we do. But then at times I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. The American right is so used to losing It's almost like we don't know how to win. We've forgotten how to win, and we're gonna have to have really, really strong stomachs in order to withstand a propaganda onslaught, Like what's going to happen if mass deportations and ending birthright citizenship really

does happen? Forty one minutes after the hour Oh Christmas, in the spirit of the music and many of our favorite time of year, I wanted to ask the question, is woke being put away at Christmas time? Now? Generally speaking, I don't think that they do this themselves. They don't necessarily moderate, but facing a fair amount of social pressure, you start to see some changes when you are out and about in town. For example, I went to a store.

It was, you know, box store, just getting some items, and I was noticing and this particular store, this chain of stores, has been rather not for things like Pride Month, platforming Pride Month and like youth pride apparel prominently displayed at the front of the store. There was even a like demonic kind of T shirt that they were selling at this store. So if you're understanding my context clues,

you're figuring out what I'm talking about. But I went to this store because after backlash, they made some changes. I think it's important in a way that when there's such a backlash that you can send a message patronize them based on timing. Right, So there's a certain inevitability. You have to get your groceries from somewhere. You got

to get your items from somewhere. So we're all going to be buying our items at places that we would prefer to not buy them if we really look at the corporate business practices and the political initiatives that many

of these places support, were generally not fans. However, in these moments where there's huge social pressure from wokeness everywhere, and there's a backlash by the public, and then these corporations issue some sort of retraction, maybe no even formal retraction, but they start to see some things, you know, they pull it off the shelves or like okay, yeah that was a mistake, then okay, I will I will patron it. Thank you for correcting your inappropriate behavior. I shall patronize

you again. Especially because at the store, like it's not there's not happy holidays displayed everywhere. It's just straight up merry Christmas, like that's there, like just Merry Christmas. And I know it feels like I'm asking for a lot or actually the inverse I said that in correctly, it feels like I'm I'm asking for peanuts here. I'm scrambling for something to look for and you know, oh, look at that, they're they're finally you know, recognizing Christmas. Blah

blah blah. I maybe there's something there, maybe there's nothing there, but is the woke being put away at Christmas? I saw it, and I'm I'm gonna try and observe. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. Feel free to write me Grant Allen at w f L a FM dot com. Does it feel like it definitely felt like this year? Pride Month in June was definitely muted. It wasn't so severe. It feels like a little bit more Christmas y out in the stores unless happy holiday Z. Does that make sense?

I don't know. If it feels like it's just a little more outright and it's refreshing to see forty six minutes after the hour.

go live this morning from Newsmax. Mitch McConnell trashes america First isolationism in some Reagan dinner speech. Apparently, he said, within the Party of Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasing increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leader ship he modeled is no longer America's place that was in the eighties. Mitch. The Cold War's over, that's what That's what Buchanan said, Like, okay, the Berlin Wall has fallen. Let's now like relook at what our

place in the world is. This is this when I mentioned beautiful Losers San Francis's essays a couple times, this is this is Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell is actually the right word, most arm of the left. That's what Mitch McConnell is and all of the stereotypical actors are very, very concerned that America very might well be America first.

This is America First movement, maggot, whatever you call it, is actually the most hopeful kind of internal movement on the right, truly for America first, for Americans and Americans like as like for us and our people and our heritage and and our way of life. H it's hard to express how much disdain I have for those kinds of comments. And yes, Reagan was absolutely capable. The guy had some flaws too. He signed some bad legislation when

he was president and when he was governor. So you have to look at his leadership, you know, truthfully, with eyes wide open and and and you know, but by and large right when you're in the Cold War and communism is on on the doorstep, which, by the way, I don't know if we even technically won the Cold War. The Russians may have transitioned from the Soviets to now Russians, but communism is alive and well, so it's hard to even say, like what did we even did we even

win it? When all of our institutions have been seized by the very thing we were hoping to defeat at a global scale. I don't know. I have absolute disdain for Mitch McConnell.

And it's a good thing, you know. I didn't do this show like yesterday because you really really should, you know, sleep on these kinds of things if you're gonna talk about it on the airwaves. We talked about Trump pardoning j sixers. Pete Hegseth is insistent and President Trump has given him a basically stamp of approval to keep fighting. They're doing the Kavanaugh method of trying to smear him through various illicit acts, and they just are entirely not true.

Is the woke being put away for Christmas? What is the size of the federal regime? All this and more on the podcast. Have a good one.