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to be getting into tax season now too. On today's report, a terrorist act carried out by a former US Army sergeant with Beaumont connections allegedly carried out an act of terrorism in New Orleans on a crowded Bourbon street on New Year's Eve. His name is Jamar and he is Uh. He lives in Houston. He lives in Houston now. So we're going to have more on Sergeant Jabbar or former Sergeant Chamad Jabbar in the show this morning. Also, while I'm opening the program up, I want to remind everyone

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so let's get started. Obviously, the big the big news this weekend is that terrorist act over in New Orleans by the former army sergeant who, according to press reports, grew up in Beaumont, Texas, he joined the Army and now he lives in Houston. Well, anyhow, the long long of the story of it is Chamad d Jabbar, a forty two year old former US Army staff sergeant. He drove through a crowd in New Orleans on Bourbon Street and he ran down pedestrians celebrating the new year. The

police gunned him down. He took the lives of over a dozen people, from what I understand, And in any event, he's gone now and they're still looking for his accomplices at this moment. Today's thirty Little Secret wants to look back at the hypocrisy of the mainstream American news media and how the pro left wing media distorts the news

to aid left wing causes. We're going to have that report for you later in the show, and also want to remind you in our solution segment that it's a brand new year and many expect the financial markets to do well in twenty twenty five, and we're going to have more on that subject during today's report. But hello, everyone everywhere, Welcome to our first report of twenty twenty five.

Time shore flies when you're having fun. And in a few weeks, Donald Trump's going to be back in the White House, and I'm sure it won't take long before the fur begins to fly there too. With only about two weeks before mister Trump once again takes the oath of office as President of the United States once again, Biden's misery will slowly fade, folks. It's going to go away, and Trump's optimism is going to begin for the American people with the deportation of illegals and securing the US border.

That's gonna be his first among his first actions at first ordered business, and of course, despite holding majorities in the House and Senate, the Republicans began the new term fighting over who they wanted to put in there as Speaker of the House, so that that little deal's occurring right now. It goes without saying the Democrats have no

intention of giving incoming President Trump any honeymoon. That's the Democrats, and it looks like the Republicans aren't either as far as that goes that look, the Democrats are going to do all they can to disrupt a smooth transition from Biden to Trump. I listen to me, this time around, we will have a wiser political navigator and President Trump, I'm sure we will. He knows the ropes this time. He was a neophyte president when he went in the

first time. He sees what it's really like now and how the Democrats can really be a bunch of the can get pretty vicious sometimes, and he learned that in his first ten years president. Let's face that experience can

make a big difference for him. As President Trump returns to the presidency and this time around, full well understands the snake pit of congressional politics that he's once again going to be going to be entangled with once again be encouraging upon arriving in Washington, d C. And the challenge of making America great again. Rights what it's all about. It's really sad in a way as to how many elected officials actually put their political party ahead of the

genuine needs of the American people at large. But let's face it, this time around, mister Trump will know full well the truchery of political parties. I'm telling you he should have the wherewithal in dealing with it. As I said, this time he will also have it have to deal with Democrat judges. You know, those Democrat judges, many of whom make their rulings the favor politics rather than justice.

And Trump assumes office, you can better believe Trump's political enemies are already standing in line to interfere with mister Trump being able to get off to a fast start and complete his agenda. But at least this time around, Trump is now more keen aware of the trustery of partisan politics than he was the first time around. And what kind of a miracle would it take for Democrats and Republicans to work together for the benefit of the American people as all, rather than just for the sake

of their respective parties. I guess if, well, I suppose it can happen. I want you to stick around because we've got to go to our first break. So don't go away, because we've got a lot more.

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the immigration mess. And that's going to be the first order of business. And we know incoming President Trump is serious about sending those who came here illegally back to where they came from. Now, I expect the news media will do all it can to portray this coming event as something negative, and they're going to use it to help Democrats appear to be righteous as righteous as possible for allowing millions to enter the United States illegally. Well,

there's nothing righteous about that. That's breaking the law right, But common sense dictates the United States says every right in the world to control who is allowed to come here. If it's not done, then it will simply be an invasion of undesirables and help Democrats do what they want, and that is to eliminate the American middle class and accomplish their goal of creating a two class society of

the haves and the have nots. You better listen to me when I tell you this, because that's what this massive illegal immigration is all really about. The left would prefer a two class society of the haves and the have nots. Those counted among the haves will run things, and the have nots will become a growing underclass of uneducated individuals dependent upon the largesse of their upper class superiors.

That's not a desirable situation, ladies and gentlemen, and all it will accomplish is more and more class warfare and of course become harder and harder to control and eventually

just collapse the nation into chaos. For reasons unknown to most of us, this seems to be the strategy the modern left wing advocates prefer Fortunately, our incoming President Donald Trump understands the chaos such a society will bring to bear, especially upon the middle class, which, if allowed, would simply hasten the Left's creation of its much desired to tier society. They want to get rid of the middle class. That's

the bottom line. If we take the time to look at history, we see such societies end up collapsing into dictatorships or communism, which, by the way, is what the left wants for you and for your children as well. What is called a society of the haves and the have nots. Yes, that's what they want. Those illegals pouring into the United States are looking for lives unavailable to them in their native lands. They come here for better lives, but once they arrive, they soon find out those better

lives end up being beyond their reach. For anyone who has undertaken a serious study of history, you soon will learn this is what has destroyed previous societies. In the past, there were always new rivers to cross and continents to discover.

But the world as we once knew it continues to shrink, and by that I mean populations of poor people continue to grow and eventually overwhelmed those nations foolish enough to control the expansion of a needy underclass to avoid eventual and total collapse, to be a bigger and bigger challenge, and this just detrives to only more chaos and destruction. But you know what can we do about it? All

we have to do is study history. For beginners, we study history, we see this mess repeating and repeating itself century after century, masses of poverty, breed, crime, chaos, Everything breaks down, Society breaks down, the controls God, the civilization comes apart. Now if you don't believe me, If you don't believe this, take the time to read history and

the fall of great civilizations of time gone by. Scary when you really think about the odds ofwthstanding, what so many others who came before us ended up, and why they ended up in the scrap heap of history. There's a lot to be desired and yet very difficult to accomplish. We modern Americans are moving to the point that prior civilizations have gone, but those that came before us failed

to preserve what they had achieved. And now it's our turn, as modern day Americans, not only achieve it, but to also maintain a higher standard of living for ourselves, and of course as Christians, to share the knowledge, if possible, as to what got us to this station in life in the first place. For the moment, we have the right leader in Donald Trump. I need to be aware that leaders come and go, some good, others not so good. At least for now, at least now, for the for

a few years ahead. That we have the confidence that our lives will improve and stuble the lives of others, and so that we can be very thankful for as we move ahead in twenty twenty five. But we have to be aware of the future. And all you have to do is look back to look ahead, and you see what's going to happen. I say this as a friendly reminder that great countries rise and fall. That's been the history of mankind. Now we got a chance to put our country back together once we do. We want

to keep it there, don't we. We want it to be a great country. We want it to last a long time. We want we don't want it to go down into the scrap heap of history too soon, do we?

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through a crowd of New Orleans. He ran down pedestrians that were there celebrating the New Year, taking lives, and then eventually being gunned down by the police himself. That was the Hole twenty twenty five begin. And now it's time with the segment of the show called The Dirty Little Secret. And I want to share this with you because I think it has value and I think there's information in this that'll bring us all up to date

and really give us cause to think. When former President Richard Nixon got caught up in the Watergate scanndal, he told the American people that their president, meaning himself, is not a crook. President Nixon, as many of you may recall, resigned the presidency of the United States after it became a parent. He was covering up for the Watergate Office Complex building break in, where pro Nixon operatives were able to break into Democrat headquarters there in Washington, d C.

Sold private documents belonging to the Democrat Party. Nixon didn't break into the Democrat headquarters, but people associated with his administration did, and they were able to gather information about how Democrats were planning to run against Nixon. Nixon, however, was re elected in nineteen seventy two, but the investigation of the crime suggested Nixon knew about it and that he eventually it forced him. Because he knew about it, it forced him, that forced him to resign in nineteen

seventy four. Remember those days, some of you do if you're old enough. So did Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, which brought about the appointment of Gerald Ford to vice president, and eventually Ford was appointed president after Nixon resigned. Nixon's knowledge of the crime made him complicit in the crime. He didn't participate in the crime, but he knew about it, and that made him complicit, and he resigned the presidency

of the United States when all that was exposed. Nixon had nothing to do with the break in, but he apparently learned about it and participated in the cover up and eventually agreed to resign the presidency in a few weeks. Now, listen to me carefully. In a few weeks, Joe Biden will step down from the presidency of the United States

and go off to retire in dignity and wealth. Biden, like Nixon, knew of illegalities occurring during his presidency, but was excused from prosecution, So mister Biden, unlike mister Nixon, will simply go back home to his property in Delaware and live out a quiet, comfortable retirement with full pension and all the accolades of a retired American president. Something doesn't seem right with that, doesn't I'd like Nixon, who allegedly heard about the Watergate break in and gave cover

to those who committed the crime. Biden was much more, much more a participant in many crimes, including mostly accepting bribes from America's enemies, as well as rising himself through systems of money laundering in attempts to cover his tracks. Funny when we think of presidents, how differently the news media treats crooked Democrats such as Joe Biden, but pursues

to the point of exhaustion misfeeds by Republicans. In the case of Donald Trump and his trials, Trump was accused, but as far as we know, never did anything that warranted him being indicted and put on trial in the first place. And this, my friends, is a double standard and something we as Americans should hold our elected officials to account for. At least that's how I see it as an observer. And part time reporter on the radio. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

It's something we have all heard spoken of. Why is it that the news media covers for crooked Democrats while they pursue Republicans to the nth degree? Why to former presidents like Bill Clinton get away with adultery and possibly rape and still retains respect by the media and we the American people, look the other way while hearsay evidence without proof brings about convictions on Republicans like Donald Trump. Double standards simply double standards. Yes, you had better believe

they're double standards. The media laughs at the indiscretions of Democrats, after all, boys will be boys, while attempting to throw the book at Republicans based on hearsay evidence or just plain gossip. No one likes a double standard, and we certainly have enough of them in our present day society, and it should end and end quickly. When prominent individuals and leaders commit acts and impropriety, or go so far as to commit crimes, they should be held accountable. But

how often are they when they're Democrats? I would say hardly, ever, maybe never. That things are probably going to start getting better. I predict that the Wallstreet's going to recover handily, I hope, and the year is going to be a good year. So there's going to be opportunities, there's going to be more people going back to work and think we're going to have a little bit of prosperity for a change,

and I hope I'm right. But at the same time, you've got half of the country trying to bring it down. And that's not right either, is it. We've got the Democrats working against making progress. Okay, I'm just letting you know what to expect. The fighting and the flying of the fur is not over. We've got to take a break,

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We're going to have a little bit of political turmoil. It's going to continue. It's not gonna all be smooth because the Democrats are you know, they're gonna mess to do as much as they can to interfere with the

smooth transition and have things going smoothly. And then we also have to deal with Democrats that are not in Congress, that are judges and things like that, that they're out there and they're going to interfere with the Donald Trump's plans to get things going again and bring down prices and just give the country a good boost. So manyhow we have that to look forward in the new year. But at least we've got we've got Trump up there

instead of Joe Biden. And you know, the Republicans, there's always a few turncoat Republicans in the Congress, and they're not going to make it any easier either. They mouths well, I don't know why they they side with why they call themselves Republicans whenever they might as well be part of the opposition party, right, But listen to me carefully. This is a solution segment, and there is a solution.

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lot of prosperity with the incoming Trump administration. I'm serious. I think a lot more people are going to go back to work. He's he's not going to be doing crazy things. He's not going to destroy the economy, and he's in it for us, for we the people. And I firmly believe that. And I want to wish everybody a happy new year. God bless you, God bless your families. We need some peace of mind, we need some prosperity, and I believe we'll get a little tastes. That's it

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