Obama's Obstruction

Buck Sexton, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, great to have you with me. My, oh my. We have a lot to get into today. We will discuss all the latest on the FBI, FISA abuse, the Mueller probe, the memos, the Dueling memos, all that stuff. We'll get into quite a bit of that. We'll also talk about how it looks like the government's funded. There will be no the final shutdown in it. That was off, I was, I was a little I was sharp and flat at the same time. That was just not good. But the

final shutdown will not happen. Most most of you have heard right the final countdown from when you're at sports stadiums. They always play that at the end, So we will talk about what that means. We'll talk about Nancy Pelosi's marathon, DACA Grandstanding seven hours, and we'll get in to that. But and then finally I'll tell you about a an unexpected showdown between a Women's March participant and a kind and selfless Trump voter that she bumped into on the

side of the road. It's going to be quite a story. We'll get to that later on the show. Good to Heavens. I think he's a Trump voter, Yes, indeed, So we will get into all of that. I need to start though, with this the latest of latest info Info deep dive on the FBI probe. The Mueller situated all this stuff, right, I still there's so many different facets to it that it's hard to find a single way to describe all of it. But here's where we know, here's what matters.

Here's why you're listening in to the show so we can get into this. First of all, this guy struck uh spelled stock but we say struck he um. It's even worse than we thought. More text messages have been released. We now know more about who this guy was and what he thought about Trump. And now here's what uh, here's what we know. This is the Senate investigators have released this. It turns out that Struck is a oh, who's gonna be shocked here, a social justice warrior, That

he has self righteous and deeply ignorant views on politics. Um, that he is full of disdain for Republicans. Even referred to those in in in Louden County as Hillbillies, I believe, which is interesting cause I think Loudon County is one of the five wealthiest per capita counties in the entire United States. So yeah, a lot of a lot of Banjoe's played with the toes in Louden County. They're Struck. Um. So we we've seen more of who this guy is. And remember, he helped this is not just we're not

just picking on some random FBI agent. As you know, he helped craft of the language for the Comy exoneration of Hillary Clinton's email crimes, because that's what they were. He has been involved that keynotes of the Hillary email investigation and the Russia probe. He was I think Deputy chief of Counterintelligence the FBI. So he's a he's a senior guy. He's not just someone that we're We're not.

We're not finding the guy in charge of you know, refilling the printer in cartridges and saying, oh, look at his political opinions. Right, this is a guy who's ideas and biases matter. So we find out more about him. We find out that he says there are a lot of dumb white men in the FBI. We you know, he says a lot of nasty stuff. Um. He said

that he would rather his son. Remember this is somebody that we are we are told to trust in his professionalism, folks, that he would never try to stack the deck in favor of Hillary, and he would ever tried a deep six Trump's chances, right, just trusting his professionalism. Oh, he's very professional. But Peter Struck joked in these text messages released by sending investigators today that he would rather his

son be homeless than support Ted Cruz. He joked that the government should maybe shut down a pro life march. That's really funny for a federal agent to joke about. By the way, So so he's snide, he's a partisan, and he's an idiot. By the way, left quite a

trail here using government devices to write this stuff. Folks, I've been there, right, I had an NYPD Intelligence Division issued uh phone smartphone, and I assure you I was not writing to my colleagues saying crazy political stuff or how I wanted to stack an investigation one way or another, because I mean, yeah, put it aside. Just this guy's obvious bias and lack of ethics. What an idiot this was that? Can we just talk about this for a second, everybody.

This is the number two guy and FBI counter intelligence. This is who gets that job you want to talk about undermining institutions. I'm sorry, but he doesn't think that any of this information could be subpoena. He never stopped to think that maybe I shouldn't be saying all this stuff. Remember this is not like we went through his private right I'd feel differently about this. This isn't like we are releasing transcripts of private phone calls on his own time,

on his own dime with his mistress. No, no no, no, this is what he was writing on his government issued devices he has. He is a senior counter intelligence FBI investigator. This is like, you know, a rocket scientist who can't get the DVD player to work. I mean, come on, yet, here we are. Now you're saying Buck, well, okay, you're telling me more about this. We know this guy's a dirt bag and all that, but let's you know, why

do we really care? Oh, don't really care? Because some of the other stuff that was in these text messages, most notably that the president of the United States President United States wanted to be briefed on everything they were dealing with. And that was right be That was a couple of months before the election POTUS president United States President Obama at the time, Why would Obama want to

know everything the FBI is doing? And the assumption here is surrounding the Clinton email probe, Well, I think that's a that's a fair question, isn't it. He wanted updates. Obama wanted updates from the FBI. Know, this is weird and a red flag for a number of reasons, But let me put out there that it is also weird because Obama very explicitly claimed that he would never get involved in anything having to do with an FBI investigation.

Can you guarantee to the American people, can you direct the Justice Department to say Hillary Clinton will be treated as the evidence goes, she will not be in any way protected. I can guarantee that, and I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General Lynch a directive that is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the Attorney General about pending investigations. I

do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. The we have a strict line and always have maintained it previs President just a button this up. I guarantee it. I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice part for the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case. And she will be full stop, period, and she will be treated

no guaranteed, full stop. Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because even if she ends up as the Democratic And how a many time do you have to say, Chris, guarantee guaranteed now, But see, I've got a little problem here. Why why, oh why is an FBI agent texting is mistress that Obama wants a full update on this. And it's the same guy who added the extremely careless language into the COMI exoneration letter for Hillary Clinton. I just want to know how

that's possible. I need someone to explain that to me. How you could have the President of the United States who says, guaranteer, our guaranteered christ how much our guaranteer, how many times we have to go through this, But yet here we have to look at what we've seen based on these FBI texts, and the President wants an update on everything we're doing, having having through the Hillary email investigation, that would be m hmm. It's almost like

maybe Obama was lying in that interview. And given that the Attorney General at the time basically de facto had to recuse herself from the investigation to Hillary Clinton's emails because of her misconduct everyone, not just because she didn't recuse herself in advance of it. Loretta Lynch had to step back. She never formally recused herself, but she had to step back or Comey had to step in for her. Oh isn't that Comey just just showing up right in

the nick of time? That had to happen because of Loretta Lynch's misconduct for Barack Obama's Attorney generals misconduct by by meeting with Bill Clinton right when Hillary Clinton is not just under investigation, but a decision is going to be announced to the American public. And now we find out that some FBI not just some FBI agent and FBI agent who was intimately involved in the Hillary email investigation and the Russia probe. Is that is saying that

the president wants updates on this. What are we to make of that? Folks? You know, we're gonna start putting sort of pressuring Trump to answer questions under oath, which he should not do, by the way, but if we i'd like to bring in uh former President Barack Obama asked him some questions while we're at it. President Obama, did you did you actually ever get briefed on the because then we're also gonna bring in some FBI folks, because then, you know, we know this game is played.

Let's see how they like it. Did you ever let President Obama? Did you ever have a discussion with President Obama? Peter Struck, James Comey, go down the list, McCabe, Sally Yates at d o J have you ever talked to Obama about Hillary's email investigation? If we were to check the visitor's log, would you be able to account for all the different conversations in front of uh Senate, Senate committee or House committee investigating this matter. Would you really

be able to do that? I'm gonna guess the answers probably No. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe what we're starting to figure out, or we're starting to be able to prove, is that the fix wasn't in from the d o J folks, the fix was in from President Obama. Well, we wouldn't that make a lot more sense now that we remember Obama was going on TV saying that Hillary didn't do

anything wrong while the investigation was going on. We want to talk about people saying, oh, obstruction of justice with Trump, right, they forget that. Obama is like, yeah, you know, what she did is overblown, no big deal, no harm, no foul. Obama's the president. This is the actual sitting president United States is saying the Democrat content under for the presidency, who did violate classified protocols over a hundred times on our on our server, destroyed evidence, lied about it. I mean,

it was a disaster. But with all of that, with all of that, we never hear about Obama's obstruction of justice. I think we deserve some answers, folks. I think we should all be allowed to know. We have a right to know what was Obama's hand in all this Hillary's emails, maybe even the Russia probe. How often was he briefed on the Russia probe? What did he know about the Russia?

You know, look, I understand the game, right, Hill exert executive privilege and the but let's start asking some questions here, because now what we've se what we've seen with what's been released today, is that we've been talking about this scandal. We've been talking about this massive anti Trump conspiracy and the deep state and the anti trumpers, as though the the pinnacle of the conspiracy, the top of the conspiracy

is at the Department of Justice. But I'm pretty sure the Department of Justice is under the purview of the executive branch, which means that the very very top is the president, and the president who would have been presiding over that d o J for the entire period we're looking at here with regard to Hillary's emails and leading into the change of power with the Trump presidency was former President Barack Obama. The if you like your plan,

you can keep your plan. That paragon of truth and virtue, So I like a little more information on that one. I'm starting to think that the buck stops with Obama on this one, if you will. Um, maybe this is much higher up than we had even imagined beforehand. Because if President Obama was getting briefed on these emails, these lined the American people about it and having discussions about what's going to happen, that is a big deal. And I have not even gotten into the Ashley memo. Uh,

the Democrats tend pager that's coming out. We've got We've got a lot more to talk about all the stuff here, but we will be a right back stay there too. The President wants to know what they're doing to try to stop Trump, because that's clearly from all the other text messages, that's what they were working on. That's what they cared about. We need to get to the bottom of this and find out what the president knew and

when he knew. Clearly, the FBI covered for Hillary Clinton, the d o J covered for Hillary Clinton, and we have got to get the facts out. Congress from Gomer, it's right, we have to get the facts out. And yes, the d o J did cover for Hillary Clinton. And we've all seen now the way that d o J investigators, prosecutors, how they act when they want to get somebody i e. The Mueller probe versus how they act when they want to do everything they can to make sure that the

problem goes away. Which is really just a description of the Hillary email investigation by the Department of Justice. Uh, it's it's troubling. But here we are, my friends. It is troubling to see how disparate the treatment is of Democrats and Republicans by the Department of Justice. But I'd rather us be living in reality and deal with the truth than allow these false narratives to just continue on

un challenged. Um, the notion of Obama getting brief by this FBI guy Struck is well, we need to find out, like I said, and we need more information. Speaking of information, you've got a Democrat memo that's supposed to come out relatively soon or or is on schedule, I should say, to come out relatively soon. And those of you who listen to show every day, remember that yesterday I said to you that the Democrats might play games with redactions

and as of today the Washington Examiner. Remember I said that they will include lots of classified stuff, so they can just in their memo, right, supersecret squirrel, supersecret squirrel. And then the debt Republicans lied about this other thing, and then supersecret squirrel, supersecret squirrel. Just keep repeating stuff that they know will will not get through because it

is actually sensitive, it is actually classified. And then whatever redactions exist in the document, whatever blocked outlines there are, they can just say whatever they want publicly about how oh the Republicans are being are being so unfair they don't want the truth to get out. See all these redactions. Well, guess what I said that yesterday. This is the Washington Washington Examiner today. Quote. The Democratic memo Republicans say is

very different from theirs. It's full of sources and methods, said one lawmaker, referring to highly fight information. It includes material they clearly cannot release. It's nothing but sources and methods, said a third, uh second, and a third even to the footnotes. And then, in case you were wondering, you have Adam Schiff wing in. We want to make sure that the White House does not redact our memo for political purposes. And obviously that's a deep concern. Let's think

about this for a second. If the White House is redacting, what what would be the circumstances under which the White House would want less information to get out there? Right, there's this whole conspiracy against Trump, there's there. I can't conceive of anything that would go into the Carter Page visor warrant that would hurt Trump, because if something existed in the Carter Page visa warrant that would hurt Trump, we would have already heard about it. Everybody, we would

have already heard about So here's what I'll say. I hope Republicans, um, I hope Republicans call their bluff on this one. If Schiff and the other Democrats decide that their approach is going to be to try and put redaction land mines in this document, I think that we should, you know, the Republicans should say all right, go for it, meaning that they should say, no, no, well we'll clear this. And now I know people say, oh, the sources and methods.

You know, if some guy said some of the some guy about Carter Page at some point is that, you know, we we gotta see who we're talking about here. I mean, I'm theorizing because I don't know what the sources and methods are, but it's a very important issue. Sometimes you gotta let the truth be known, folks. And I think we're there. I think Republicans if if Democrats are willing to let it, if they're willing to put it on paper and say this is what we want to release,

I say go for it. The more transparency the better, because I can't see how more information hurts Trump. He's

holding the line for America. Buck Sexton is back. This movie, Declassified Criminal Referral, released by Senators Grassley and Graham, shows the FBI relied heavily on the Trump dossier to secure these surveillance warrants and that Clinton associates were feeding information to the former British by Christopher Steele as he compiled the dossier, and it reads in part, the report was information that came from a foreign subsource who was in touch with redacted, a contact of redacted, a friend of

the Clinton's who passed it to redacted. There are indications that the blacked out sections referred to a longtime Clinton ally and friend, Sidney Blumenthal, who you'll remember provided intelligence reports to then Secretary of State Clinton through her unsecured personal server used exclusively for government business. When you hear who the source one of the sources of that information is, You're gonna think, oh my gosh, I've heard that name

somewhere before. Where could it possibly have been? And the domestic source? And I'm trying to think how Secretary Clinton to find him. I think she said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time. That'd be really warm, really warm, drag out, he says, really not track outa Remember Cyndey Bloomenthal from the whole Benghazi situation, because Secretary of State at the time, Hillary Clinton, you will call, from the Benghazi investigations, was reaching out to

Sydney Bloomenthal. That's some kind of expert on Libya. Just before we get deeper into this conversation, who's Sydney Bloomenthal? Think of him as one of the Clinton's chief hatchetmen.

He was a White House advisor under Bill Clinton. And when Bill Clinton was engaged in his philandering and harassing and lying and scheming and conspiring, Sidney Blumenthal was like the first guy to always tell the rest of the White House, you know, we gotta we gotta get out there on the front line to defend Bill's reputation and has since then been something of a well a guy who does stuff for the Clintons and including spreading. He

was a journalist for a while. He's written books, I think, including spreading conspiracies, all to the all for the benefit of the Clintons. He'll plant stories in the media. He is a political operative and opportunist, very close ties to the Clinton's hiller. When you're when you're emailing directly the Secretary of State or an issue like Libya and sheet cares what you have to say about it, clearly you've

got some influence. So wouldn't this be interesting? Now we've been questioning here the whole fis a process around the Carter page warrant and what went into it and everything else. Now we're starting to get some very league signals. I mean, it's not definite yet again, some signals that a close Clinton hatchetman, right Sydney Bloomenthal, may have been passing along information to steal who was passing along information to the

Phis Accord. My friends, this would this is like a step removed from finding out that one of the sources for the information used in the dossier to get a PHISES surveillance warrant on an American citizen. Was Hillary Clinton. Okay, this is really and I know that sounds crazy, but this is not that far, you know. This is this is somebody who has close and continuing contact and access to Hillary and she Secretary of State and has a

decades long relationship with her. And now it looks like it's possible that some of the information steal got came from a hill re, a Hillary supporting really a Hillary acolyte and a political hitman of sorts, somebody who goes out there and goes after the opponents of the Clintons. That's what this guy does. That's one of his roles, right, He kind of he puts on the black hat and he goes out there and spreads the rumors and does

all that stuff. If that isn't undermining whatever faith and trust that we should or could have in this visa process at this point, I don't know, guys, how much worse is it gonna get. Today we found out that the FBI, or at the top level, an FBI agent involved in Hillary's emails may have been updating Obama despite his very clear and definitive claims to the contrary on Hillary's email investigation, which brings up some questions about that.

And we found out that at most likely a close friend of Hillary Clinton's, who was Trump's opponent at the time, everybody in the presidential race, a close friend of Hillary's, may have been one of the ones feeding information into the dossier. I mean, this guy still just put together a gossip compendium, and that's what this was. This was just a compilation of gossip, no real verification, no nothing.

And I remember reading when BuzzFeed first published it, I guess in January, thinking the stuff with the Russian hookers and all that was. Come on, guys, doesn't even you know that that's the part of the movie. We're like, I'm gonna walk out. This doesn't make any sense. This is this is garbage, you know. But these are people that supposedly we should trust. That's that were that were worth the FBI trusting. Now I'm stuck, and I wonder

what you think about this. I'm stuck going back and forth on on a file on the following issue that affects everything we're talking about here. On the one hand, I think that there was a clear effort to be to abuse power at the at the Department of Justice

against Trump and in Hillary's favor. Stretching back through all the all the things we talked about, the Russia collusion probe and Hillary's emails, I think that there was a clearer But then I also feel like, was there a Trump derangement syndrome that had already spread among these individuals such that they did they did they really believe this stuff or was it a convenient pretext to go after Trump?

You see what I'm saying. Did they actually think that there was a a plot of foot because they're so psychotically anti Trump, or were they conjuring the plot entirely knowing it was completely bow this just because it was

a way of trying to take Trump down. I go back and forth on this because when you look at the the evidence, and it's also hard to to assess all this new evidence and information when so many of these different actors that we're seeing, particularly like Struck at the FBI and others, assume that this would never come out. So we've got to take that into account as well. Right, they were taking actions that they figured would never come to the light of day, which means that you know that.

That's when I start to lean towards you know what. They knew that this was nonsense, but they figured that, hey, we can get away with it, right, we can. This gives us an excuse two surveil some of Trump's people and to start leaking stories about this to the media. Because there's another thing. If remember Obama was told about the Russia interference in the election. We knew that, right, and and the obaministration chose not to make it a

bigger deal. Maybe this was offered up to Obama on a silver platter, so to speak, by the FBI, by the d o J. And had he chosen to he could have made the Russia collusion narrative a much bigger pre election story. But he might have figured out, you know what this is, This could backfire. And I think by the way, I would have you know, because there were some news reports were already coming out about this. There were some efforts in the media to get that

story going, but Obama was not. And you had all these officials to write Brennan Formacy I Director and others saying hold on, you know, we should have been more aggressive about Russia collusion. We should have come out sooner on the story, Well, why didn't they when we think that went through together, folks, I think it's much more likely that they had they had come up with Essentially, they didn't take action on conspiracy that they had concocted

before the election. What I mean by that is, why do they have, you know, the the leaks about the Trump and Russia and their surveillance and all the things that we started to hear. Maybe it was all being presented by some of these pro Hillary deep staters to Obama, to Loretta Lynch, you know, to Comey, to McCabe, etcetera, and or I'm sorry by them to Obama. Uh, and they just decided it's too risky to try to run

with this. I see that as a real possibility here, because they have they have told us that they chose at the highest level not to make Russia a bigger issue in advance of that Russian meddling was not going to be made a bigger issue in advance of the election. Why why do you think that is given all that they given their psychotic fixation on it. Now out, I'm starting to think that maybe they put all this together and that they had that this was all in place

to be the ultimate October surprise. And there's other we look at some of the way the news stories when you can see it, but Obama just couldn't quite bring himself to to do it before the allige. You know, look he put the sanctions on rush afterwards, right, I mean, you see there's all this stuff. I feel like they didn't They built this machine and then they did not fully let it loose the Russia collusion narrative right before the election, because it would have looked a little too convenient,

a little too much like a construct. And so that explains some of the sloppiness with all this too, in the way that this comes together. I'm hoping that this that you see what I'm what I'm saying here. I know we're we're getting down deep into the weeds here. So my basic premise is that the FBI guys all the stuff we're seeing now is that they were trying

to pull together the fires award on carter page. They were trying to create something that they wanted to make public and the Abdministration could make public, and it was gonna basically be Russia wants to get what Russia wants to elect Trump Trump people are working with the Russians and I've been talking to the Russians about how to elect Trump. They dropped that story in October. It cost

Trump the election. Hillary wins and all those people struck McCabe calling me the rest of them, they're all heroes above suspicion. That's how I see it. This is how I see it all coming together. You could. You can call me crazy, but that's what I see. We've got every Linelets let's get into some calls. I'll be back right after this break. All right, let's get into a team. Got lines lit, Let's do it. We have Brian and Woos the Massachusetts in line. Hey Brian, Hey Buck. You

know what I was thinking. If the demo Tress packed this memo full of sources and methods in order to force redactions by the GOP and cause a whole bunch of confusion, and I make people wonder why they if they're hiding anything, why not just give the Democrats complete control over what they can redact, because I don't think they're gonna expose their own sources and methods. And it

completely takes away from from a GOP. You know, as far as you know, I think Brian, that they have to I think that the Republicans and Committee would have to vote in favor of release. So I don't think there's a way that that, you know what I'm saying, Like it's it's based on the vote. So I don't think that they're They're probably just have to vote yea or nay. They're not otherwise it doesn't go anywhere. So

I don't think that would work. But now we're getting pretty down into the processes, and I look, I've never been in Congress, so I don't know exactly how it goes. I thought that the already voted on releasing it, or is that just the Intelligence Council. Yeah, No, that that's the the House Intelligence Committee voted on release. But now it goes is too. It goes through the exact same process that Republican memo did. So now it goes to Uh, there's like a period of a few days or I

figure out five days. The White House is looking at it, Uh, the FBI in talent community can also weigh in on it, and then I think it goes back to the House after that, and then there's left final sort of a final release. I think that's how it goes. But again, there's there's games that are being played with the process, and and I would like to see just more information coming out. So I don't think, I don't know, let me look into that, Brian. Maybe your plan would work.

I have a feeling though, that the Republicans wouldn't be in a position where they can just wash their hands of it, right. But then again, you get to the whole thing about well, why have any redactions at all? Why not just if everyone agrees that you can't say certain stuff, what's the point of leaving it in with

the blacked outlines. Although I didn't even talk about the grass Lee referral about Christopher Steel that was released today, and there's a lot of blacked out stuff in that, a lot of redactions, which race some questions for me. So we're working in some some gray areas of blacked out information, Brian. But I do appreciate you calling in Shields. Hi, thanks for thanks for holding Let's get uh. Gretchen in Long Beach, Mississippi. Hey, Gretchen, Hey, how are you. I'm good?

Thank you for your call. Good good good? Yeah. Well, my my thought is along the same long kind of as Brian. Um. I kind of wish, in my opinion, if it's safe enough, I would give the Democrats. Here you go, here's your twenty four hours. Um, this is your paper, your document. You you wanna, I'm gonna release it in twenty four hours because that's what you want. You've requested it. Just to shift has made it quite clear. Here you go back, make your whatever you want to

do with it, put it in their court. And if it doesn't have to go back to Congress, which it probably is, to go to committee, the vote will go down party lines like I did before. Protect the people that need to be protect. Could I mean, they already know who that is, but let it out, it's already got to come out. And then it's there. It's there,

It's it's their thing. They own it. And my own question was, since they wrote this document and they want to reveal these sources and methods it's stuff, isn't that revealing Since they wrote it, they own it. Do they not only also own perhaps the release of classified information if they do not redact it themselves, which would be illegal. I'm wondering how that, you know, I know, we're kind of getting into the long world of you know, down

in the weeds. But I'm wondering, then if if they've written it, it's their document, then should they also own any of the repercussions legally? Well, but if they go through the process, then the information is effectively declassified. Right. So so nothing that can come out of this process would be legally actionable as classified information because if Congress approves the release, it is it is, it is declass sified, right, So it doesn't make Yeah, it doesn't maintain its classified

status after the Congress does this. So that's what's really what's really interesting is in classification, and this is i think, uh, just a worthwhile addition to this conversation. Corretch and classification is always a little bit of a little bit of an art, not a science. Uh. And the truth is what is and is not sensitive government information? The government just always says, well, yeah, it's classified. I mean, if there's any hint of it's classified, they say, yes, it's classified.

They always air on the side of that to the point where it's actually silly. I mean they they will classify you know what I had for lunch yesterday. I mean it's insane. But the uh, you know, the other side of this is that you have to always have a balancing of our right to know and Congress is obligations for oversight to the executive branch's ability to conduct some of its some of what it does in secret, particularly on kind of intelligence investigations, any intelligence related matter,

and all the rest of it. So it's a very complicated. Go ahead, Gretchen, Okay, Well, I don't know how you know, I have a I have a son who's deployed, so we can't talk about We can talk about the weather, you know, but there's a lot that we don't talk about, like I have his dog. Your dog is doing great, you know, and superficial really kind of thing, and I don't ask. And I mean there's military parents and wives and stuff. We all know these things, you know, so

we all kind of know. So Hillary apparently doesn't know, by the way, but you know, well apparently not. But you know, you have to think about even the smallest little thing, um can make a big difference, you just do. You never really know, so you know, we kind of understand. And maybe some of his parents were wives. It's all maybe a little overboard and being whatever. It's kind of awkward. It's a little hard, but it's just part of the deal. So I don't understand, uh, you know, well that the

Hillary emails and all that kind of stuff. It's it's just, um, I think it shows an arrogance of power. Oh absolutely absolutely no, I mean and and also a lack of accountability and at a double standard in the justice is um gretch and tell your tell your son that we here in the freedom of sending our regards and our thanks for his service. All right, thank you very much for calling in team. We're going to roll into this break the top of the hour coming up. Second hour

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To everybody. Hour two. That was your favorite. Nancy Pelosi, she gaven eight our speech today on the House floor. She went on for eight hours about dreamers. Now, there's a lot that I want to see here. Let me start with this. Democrats have a weird obsession with this issue. You'll notice this. There's a lot of other stuff going on in the country, a lot of other things that matter to Americans, and yet this has become the primary

policy concerned, primary policy fight for the Democrat Party. They are using their powers in elected office to advocate for illegal aliens, which is what dreamers are. It's not a that that's not to impugne each and every one of them as individuals. It's just a factual statement about their legal or in this case illegal status. This is issue

number one for Democrats. I wonder why. And yet at the same time, you had a very interesting phenomenon today one that I think did not get nearly enough attention. You had Nancy Pelosi to speak for hate. Hey hours and hey have had dreamers. I mean Nancy progressive private Jet Pelosi. She's out there talking about dreamers and how

much she wants to help, you know, these patriots. And by the way, if we're gonna start saying thing think they're patriotic, that I also want to look at okay, um, what are really the numbers on dreamers in terms of high school graduation, employment rate, criminal background. Let's really get into it. Then don't tell me that that's mean and nasty. If we're gonna start being told, oh, well, they're all great, so therefore we should change the law for them, which

what Pelosi is saying. But what you saw happen today was was very instructive. Not Pelosi blathering on for eight hours of that jammers. Um. But you had Chuck Schumer being very pleased about the budget deal. Now that they raised the debt ceiling, right, they got a budget deal. Allows so oh they're gonna on the big fight the shutdown. Nope,

they didn't. The reason they didn't have the fight is because the last one they lost, and there they think they can use this brinksmanship over the debt ceiling, the federal government's debt ceiling, as a way of getting the public to support their is and more Republicans will look bad. The American people will start to say, Yeah, Democrats, dreamers, that's what we're all really focused on. So they got a budget deal, It just happened yesterday, funding the government

until March. Right, that's what they've decided to do. And yet Chuck Schumer is saying this is a good thing. Nancy Pelosi is giving an eight hour speech about dreamers, which is no one really cares about. But it's a lot of grand standing. Right, So what's really happening here. Why is the Senate minority leader saying, yeah, let's move on from this and let's let's just get a budget deal done, when the House minority leaders like, yeah, this

is terrible, we need to talk about it for eight hours. Well, here's a hint. The Morning Consult a polling company that's been growing very rapidly in recent years, doing very well as a poll with the following the GOP. This is just out today. GOP has a thirteen point edge over Democrats on National Party a nine point edge over Democrats on the economy, a six point edge over Democrats on jobs,

and a six point edge over Democrats on immigration. But wait a second, I thought the American people think that that the dreamers are just the heart and soul of America because they're just dreaming about a better future. That's what the media would lead us to believe. They will tell us that the American people are on the side of the Democrats on this issue, and yet no, No. In fact, Trump highlighting the costs of illegal immigration, highlighting

the criminality that is a very serious consideration. Whenever we talk about illegal immigration gangs like ms ther Team, which we spent quite a bit of time talking about yesterday. He's showing that there's another, there's a whole another side to this discussion. In fact, there are many sides of this just gushion, and the American people are not in

favor of an amnesty. They are just not. Pelosi can tell us all day that the House will vote for it, and this is the right thing to do and everything else, but the American people do not want an amnesty and the Democrats do not want to deal. That's why Chuck Schumer is happy to move along see Pelosi, she knows that she can get away with saying whatever she wants on dreamers, and she can just grandstand on it. That's

what she's doing, eight hours of grandstanding today. But Schumer in the Senate, he's gonna have to deal with a more complicated set of circumstances on the possibility of an amnesty and on dreamers and everything else going on here because Trump has made quite an offer to them as an as an opening bid one point eight million. If dreamers are so important to the Democrat party, why are they not willing to meet the Trump administration halfway on border security, on e Verify, on a wall and all

these other issues. If Dreamers are an issue of such great importance to Democrats that Pelosi needs to stand up and talk about them for eight hours, there's no way that the Democrats could walk away from a very serious and I would offer generous first opening bid from the from the Trump side on this. So they'd rather just move on because they don't want to. They don't want to actually get into this fight. They just want to

keep talking about it. They want to keep talking about it in the hopes that they can use this as an issue in the midterms, and that at some point they'll just be able to fundraise off this, and or that they will be able to fundraise off this and just continue on pretending that they have the moral not just the moral high ground, which they will never stop pretending. But also the American people are with them on this, They just frankly are not. But there's another component here,

one that is not getting nearly attention. And this one is a bit of a bummer everyone, Right, Pelosi rambling on for eight hours semi coherently, uh in a way that it's just meant to draw attention to her and how great she is, who cares. But there's also a problem here about what's going on with the budget and spending in this country. And I know that it's not it's not hip, it's not cool these days to discuss the debt, to discuss the deficit. But I'm starting to

get a little worried. One of the issues that those who actually know about the markets, and I'm not pretending to be one of them, but I do read people who know about the markets, and I know people who are very knowledgeable about macro trends in the economy, and I asked them questions as one does, and one wants to learn that the possibility of inflation is looming quite large and much of what's going on in the economy right now because that that that is one issue um

and also raising interest rates right, raising interest rates, which would mean that are servicing of the debt, and this goes back to our Tea party day, folks, are servicing of the debt becomes a much bigger concern, a much bigger part of the outlay that we currently have a

federal spending. Now, this is not going to be the most you know, knock your socks off exciting, sexy topic we ever discussed on the show, but I do after the break, I do want to talk to you a little bit about what's going on with spending right now, because we're not worried about spending on a parade, whether you like parades or not, but there's other stuff out there that should get some attention here and we will get into it, and I would love to hear your

thoughts on list. What do you think about just extending the extending the debt ceiling here funding the government for another whatever it is, six weeks or so, and why Pelosi and Schumer have this dissonance in their messaging. Something's going on, folks, what is that funky smell? Something? Something smells funky here. We should figure out what it is, um and we will be right back. Yeah. If you believe that we are all God's creation, as I do, as people of faith do, and I do believe faith

as a gift that everyone doesn't have. So you may not have that same perspective. Getting a little lecture on faith from Catholic politician not Nancy Pelosi, who is an abortion extremist who believes an abortion for nine months of her pregnancy. That's interesting, isn't it. Anyway? Uh, Pelosi gave her speech today on immigration. We're starting to see that

Democrats are un serious on the issue. They really just want to use it for fundraising and as a as a cudgel, as a weapon against Republicans, to say that they're racist, to say that they're bad people, and to just as much as possible, play the race card against Republicans. That's what the immigration issue really boils down to for now for Democrats, in the hopes that eventually they can mobilize that sentiment into victory at the polls and then

they'll just have a mass amnesty. And what the country looks like with that mass amnesty. Just in terms of the politics, we become a single party state, folks, it'll be Democrats and Democrat like some of your like buck, we already have that. But that's a discussion maybe that we'll hold off on for now. But here's my problem. What's going on with the GOP right now? Folks? That's right. I'm not just gonna sit here like everything is isn't it?

Isn't that the Lego Lego song Everything is awesome? Right? Yeah? I can't be the Lego theme song guy for the GOP here in the Freedom hud because while some things are awesome, and Trump has been impressing me with the first year and what he's been doing the first now a couple of months of this year. Um, but Trump is in a good job the GOP overall, though, I've got some problems with it, Like, for example, Uh, they've bust They've busted through the spending cap by three billion dollars.

They've been raising the debt limit time and again. There's no cuts that are being made anywhere. Um. They will not cut entitlements, they will not deal with Medicare, Medicaitor, social Security, they've actually thought about getting earmarks back, and they're spending a lot of money. I mean, I think, are we gonna sp what's it, what's it a trillion dollars on track to spend a trillion dollars in the whole, I mean, not a trill not not total, a trillion

dollars more than we take in. So that's a problem, um, And I think what's unfairers That Obama racked up insane debt in his eight years, as we know, but with the artificially low interest rates because of FED policy, the debt, the servicing of that debt was not quite the uh the punishment that it could have otherwise been for all of us. And this is really just racking up debts

the future generations will have to pay. But in the meantime, if interest rates rise, you're gonna have a problem because if you've got whatever it is now, I forget what the percentage of our percentage of our outlays goes towards servicing the debt we already have, which is twenty trillion dollars. But as that percentage ticks up, you start spending a lot of money just on keeping up with the money

you've already spent. Right, It's like if you've got a credit card and you you've got a ten thousand dollar outstanding balance and it goes from all right, well now you're paying Uh we're talking credit cards here, So the a p R is really high, right, I mean, fortunately, servicing the debt is not that I but you know, if you go from a five to a p R and your credit card, that's gonna hurt because now money you're gonna use spending for groceries, he's gonna go to

paying down the debt you've already run up on that credit card because of the rays in the percentage, the annual percentage, Right, the A p R. Government kind of functions a similar way here. If interest rates rise and we have to pay back interest on the debt that we've already accrued, it starts to crowd out other government

spending and now we start to feel it. And by the way, government spending I think it was Milton Friedman right, government spending is just just another form of taxation, folks. So while we can cut taxes on one side, if we don't cut spending and keep going deeper and deeper into debt. The interest rates that we will be paying on that debt are gonna be rising, and that means we're gonna be paying off even more. And this is how this is how things gets scary for the economy

because here's what I can tell you. Nobody knows when this debt go when the debt thing goes bad. No one knows when the debt bomb goes off, no one, no one, no one knows what I've heard. Everybody who's talked about this whose knowledge, but they don't know. They can't say a trillion or a thirty trillion all of a sudden it all comes crumbling down. But here's what the people who watch this ken all you. At some point it does I don't know when, but the music

will stop. It will be a very big problem. And how that looks for the future of this country is something that nobody can really answer. Nobody really knows. So I think we have to start being realistic about what the GOP is doing here. Look, if the decision is we're just gonna party and do what we can and hope the future generations figure it out somehow, well that's one way to go. But that's kind of what we're doing right now without admitting that's what's going on. It's

not a good thing. I know, I know everything is not awesome. I wish I could say it was. But that is a concern. I will raise it occasionally here on the show. I will not I will not be labor the point, hopefully right Carl in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Hey, Hey, what's up, buddy. Hey, Now I got a solution for all these all the woes that we're talking about. It

it's called a fair at tax. You get to keep all the money you may call your income tax, and all the people that live here get to pay um uh consumption tax, which means like a quarter for every dollar you spend goes to the government. And it's been figured out that that will pay all the government bills and it will take care of all the doctor problems, all the immigration problems. But more people here will have more more people consuming and paying our national debt. Off

is that simple. There's no reason to play politics with my income tax money. And and that's all manthey, polics who wants to do you can tell her to shut up. But you know, if I'm not if I don't have a diamond diamond area. I'm not paying any income tax. I don't care how many people's here. I mean, I get to keep from my whole paycheck. That's my That's what makes me happy. Yeah, look, I would love a fair at tax. I mean, I think taxes are still

way too high. It's hard to celebrate that much when you just had a little bit of a cut in what is already I think, in unfair and confiscatory taxation system. But to keep in mind that the entitlement state that we currently have, and this is look at the expenditures of the federal government really just come down to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That's where the money is. And Social Security is a very popular program. People want to keep it.

That's manageable. Social Security is manageable. It's Medicare and Medicaid that are the beasts that can eat up the entirety of not entirety, but eat up way too much of government outlets and government spending. And it's just not popular to tell people that someone's not gonna pay for most of their health care when they're old. And it's not popular to tell people that they're not going to get government sponsored healthcare if they are below a certain income threshold.

Right that that's just and neither political party wants to touch it. And it's an unfortunate circumstance. But I'm with you on a fair tax. I think there'll be a way better way to go. And you know, there's there's a whole other discussion about how the notion of a federal income tax that is the same across the whole country when cost of living is very different across the country is It's just inherently unfair what goes on right now. But Carl, thank you for calling in from North Carolina.

Anthony out on the eastern shore of Maryland. What's up, Anthony, Yes, sir, how are you doing? Bucks you? Uh, there's issue going on with the spending and all that. I was kind of watching the news on TV a little bit with a couple of this agreements with with the UH spending

and all that, and agree and not agree. Uh. My issue is domestic has been put in the last eight or ten years um with with the absorbent and spending over the Obama administration, and then all of a sudden, you know, we got President Trump and thenarratives trying to help us out, and and um, I think, uh, give it a year or so with these tax breaks and all. I think, Uh, in my personal opinion, just like the d in years, things will start mellowing out. But in

the meantime, you know, let's get something going. Let's get something going. But you think interest rates need to go up. I see here, I say, I'm thinking for it's all day. Well yeah, I'm not not no eight time percent, but uh we're we're at out or down like two. Yeah. Look, I mean for savers, the situation, there's really been a transfer of wealth that's going on away away from savers. So that's been and that's a function of government monetary

policy stretching back now for many years. And that's a problem, right, And it's one of the reasons there's so much money chasing yields in the stock market. I think it needs to be a little bit stronger to get the dollar stronger, which which is I've heard President Trump say that. You know, Look, I like to have the stronger dollar. Right now it's weak. Um, with with everything else going on and everything getting on together, I think everything's going to come together and start flying, right,

I hope. So, my friend Anthony, thanks for calling from Maryland. Shield time, my friend, Um, I uh, I gotta talk to you about some other stuff comeing out of here. Oh yeah, the military parade that Trump talked about. All the media's all freaking out. Trump is a dictator. He wants to have a parade that honors our military. Oh no, talk about that and more coming up right after the break, stay with other shows. Just talk at you in the

Freedom hud. We have a mission. We fight for the truth in a team effort, and buck us back with our next play. So before I talk about how democrats, some of them, not a lot of them, are acting like Trump's suggestion about a military parade is the equivalent of when the what is it the the Cubans and the Chinese invade in Red Dawn? I always get the

remake confused, isn't it? Oh no, sorry, the Soviets and the Cubans invade in the original Red Dawn, And then I think it's the North Koreans and the Chinese and the remake of Red Dawn. They're acting though, like it's that scary Trump. Am I right? Yeah, I'm right. That's that's how I roll But before we get into that, I just wanted to take some time here to hand out some buckslaps. Oh yeah, one more, give me one more, give me a buck slab. There we go. I don't

know why. I don't know why we make a karate noise with a buck slap, but it adds a little bit of the you know, and we really know what's going on. So alright, first up for the bucks lap, We've got John Heilman, the guy over at MSNBC. Who are I always confused with the other guy who lost his job because he was like a harassing predator predator type.

But John Heilman said the following about the White House Chief of Staff Chief staff walked into the way House briefing room few months ago and attacked the African American rish woman. I can tell you that there are all a lot of African Americans who who detected racial animals in the way in which that played out. And so I think there's a pattern here that where we're on these issues the touch culture and touch race, where the chief of Staff is not that far away from m

Donald Trump. Heileman saying that that that three star General Kelly lost his son in combat uh, say he's a racist. That's this. This is how the Democrats, this is how they analyze that was on Morning Joe. I could tell just from Mika big Oh my gosh, Um, that's just a slur. I mean, that's so unacceptable from Heilman. And I would note that, you know, in a previous administration, if you made such a such a baseless and scirless charge against the White House Chief of Staff, you wouldn't

be allowed on the different TV networks. Really, you know, you would be told, oh no, you can't do that. But going after John Kelly saying he is a racists also just not here that this is one of the games of Democrats love to play. They'll say, well, and they'll name a bunch of minorities and women that Trump has attacked, or that one of Trump's people, one of his top advisors, has you know, publicly tangled with in

some way. And I just want to note, Okay, if there's one thing we all know, it's a trumpell tangle with anybody, all right, Trump Trump is he's given out. Trump slaps left and right. I mean, he does not discriminate. He will throw down with anyone. And it's just so pathetic that they try to fit into this this narrative, into this mold that somehow Trump is only picking on her. In this case, John Kelly, his wife, his chief of staff, is only picking on minorities and women. Therefore he's a

misogynist and a racist. Like there's just no basis, and this is this is a symptom of Trump arrangement syndrome, because it's an argument that can't stand up to five minutes of scrutiny. Right, it is just Trump's arrangement syndrome, pure and simple. I just noticed I saw a commercial secning with a statue of Liberty on an island, and

I've never been to the statue of liberty. For a guy who loves freedom and America so much and literally lives in New York City and used to have, you know, a window where you could see when I would go to work, could see the statue of Liberty. I feel like that's unacceptable. I feel like I'm gonna have to remedy this, and you need to buck slap yourself. I think I do need to buck slap myself. That needs to get okay, alright, alright, that easily remedied. Next up, here.

There's a few different clips that got It's to the Highlman. One he's just being a punk. He gets a buck slap, and then you get Couch and Nelly versus Navarro now and a. Navarro is a CNN favorite because she says she's a Republican, but all she does is trash Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, and gets away with saying just a long slew a series of idiotic and nasty things on television. They love her over there though, because she is great.

She's a Republican quote unquote who's great at trashing Republicans, never has really a terse word for a Democrat, but loves to. And she speaks for the Latino community at some level, right, That's that's part of She'll say, oh we know Latinos this, and Latinos that, she'll speak for

Latino community. She is among and I can tell you this from my own experience over there, among the least insightful, least well read, least polite, and least worthwhile commentators on TV at CNN period, among the very very worst, which I will say that's saying something. She's going up against Ken Cucinelli, who I'm sure you're a familiar with from his long career in uh in Republican politics. But they got into the DOCCA thing and things got a little nasty.

We haven't gotten to the heart of this problem at all. The President is willing to have a showdown with the Democrats again, that's where the shutdown comment came from, because

he knows how it's gonna end. And my last comment is that since the last shutdown, only one side has given any ground on this, and that is President Trump has gone from the six nine thousand actual dock and number to a hypothetical number of one point eight million that we aren't even sure of before those people have made contact of the So the words of General Kelly, they don't concern you at all. Look, the guy's a military man. He started off what you all have characterized

him saying, is everybody's lazy. That isn't what he said. He started off, and you played the quote some people think that they might have been scared and so they didn't signet might have come. He said, get off your that's disrespectful. And I don't think, of course to pretend, of course people who cares. I care that people are breaking the law, that over people who can that people who care, who are gonna get no, I'll tell you who cares. Let me tell you who cares? Can I mean,

let me explain to you who cares? Damn question about who cares? That people who care are the immigrants who are special. And she just keeps going on and talking over them and talking over that. That's what That's what an overro does, ever see an end to talk over people yell and scream and trump and racist and so mean to immigrants that it's all about immigrants all the time.

I would know that one of the one of the tricks that you may have if you could watch that whole clip, which I wouldn't recommend, but it went on for like six minutes. We played a little bit of it there for you, is that they say that the segment is ending, and so that means that you know

they're they're wrapping it up. And then though when one of the two Democrat guests it was three on one Don Lemon Democrat, Van Jones Democrat, and a Navar Democrat, and then when they're saying we'll give you the last world will go, then they top and they let Navarro just go on this this tirade about you know how Trump and racism and immigrants and blah blah blah blah blah and just just the usual blather, the usual verbal vomit that comes out of her on CNN, and they

extend the segment magically, it just gets longer all of a sudden, Oh no, let her go, let her go. Okay, she's uh, she's slamming him, she's smearing him, She's she's destroying his argument, she's attacking the president. She well, she's just really attacking Cucinelli to uh, and then it's time to go to commercial break CNN. This is CNN. Uh. They all deserve bucks laps over there these days. But we'll be back with more. Stay with me the Center.

John Heilman here. Um, the President apparently would like to throw himself a parade, military parade, um troops and tanks and all that kind of stuff, And there's some planning now underwear at least dates are being considered. What say you, I say it's a fantastic waste of money to amuse the president. I don't think a show of military might. It reminds you of what the Soviets do and what

the Chinese do uh. And we need to honor our men and women in uniform, and but I think we ought to do so in a way that does not necessarily appear bellicoasts are threatening to the rest of the world. We want to be peacemakers, not warmakers. It also, uh can be perceived as jinguists in some respects uh, saber rattling in some respects. There you have a bunch of Democrats who, no surprise, all of a sudden, are concerned

about government spending. Oh my gosh, a parade. And this is one of the first times I think I've ever heard Democrats in elected office argue against any parade that I'm familiar with. I mean, we got we got parades

going on for everything these days, folks. I mean, I live in New York City, and let me tell you, it's you know, uh, this week it's the Army you know, not really, but you know, it's the Armenian Parade, and next week it's the Bulgarian Parade, and next week it's the Bolivian Parade, and next week it's you know, the Southern County Kerry of Ireland Parade. And it's like just parade after parade, parades all the time. All right, Darvon's having parades. I will tell you, as a general rule,

i'm kind of anti parade. This will not surprise any of you. I think that parades are overrated. Now, I'm not anti them as that I begrudge anyone who likes them or thinks that they should all end or something. I just find the parades or it's like, oh yeah, that's loud, the floats. You're like, Okay, I gotta wait a few more minutes. It's gonna be another it's gonna be a you know, another bunch of are I I can hear some drums. Let's give it a few minutes.

You know, they're gonna, they're walking, they're coming. I mean, it's just not the most exciting spectator spectator sport I've every Yeah, I know, I'm hate it right now. Oh yeah you agree. Oh you're with me all right. Producer Mike is giving me the thumbs down on parades, the thumbs up on parades or not. You know, like sports teams have parades. Although your Eagles fans had their own parade by friend, I saw that. But yeah, you know, look, I'm not a parade. I wanna have a parade of

a parade. Here's the thing though, The one time when I'm like, you know what, I like, I think that this is important and you need to show up is like Veterans Day. Yeah, Veterans Day parade, Memorial Day parade. Those are parades that matter. Right. So anything that involves respect for the armed forces in the military, I think goes into a different category of parade. And this notion that Democrats have that it's so crazy that we would take some time to celebrate. You notice none of these

people like, what's the Women's March about? What the heck are they complaining about? Right? I mean, and by the way, you want to you want to get into the cost of some of these things that the Women's marching terms of Oh, that's right, city services over time, clean up, the clean up for some of the parades in New York City, it looks like a hurricane slash, tornado slash, you know, bombing raid went through downtown Manhattan. I mean,

it's crazy what happens after these parades. So it is very expensive, uh, in a city budgetary sense, I mean, in a national budget having a parade, I think it's pretty minor. But the point is there's cross associated with all this stuff. But we're gonna get We're gonna get cheap all of a sudden. We're gonna want to pend uh, pinch pennies, pinch pennies. Uh, We're gonna want to pinch pennies when it comes to honor in the military. Let's just take a little step back here for a second. Uh.

And and we're gonna start saying it's jingoistic. You know, we're not North Korea, Dick Durbin. We're not saying that, Hey, look at these big missiles, We're gonna fire them at you. I mean, that's not the point. It's just for us to celebrate our own military. And I wouldn't. We've got a few million active duty and recently uh recently separated from the service veterans who I fought wars in Iraq, Afghanistan,

deployed all over the world. They defeated the Taliban, they defeated Saddam Hussein, ousted him from power, defeated the Al Qaeda in Iraq insurgency, handed Iraq back over to the Iraqis. And I mean, I'm just going off the top of my head. By the way, I'm not trying to forget or leave out anything, but has they've done a tremendous amount of good work for the world, and we all owe them, as the American people a debt of gratitude will never be able to pay. And so if we

have a parade, why why is that? This reminds me of when Democrats right after Not eleven, we're kind of like, man, I don't know about flags, you know, all the flag waving. Maybe everyone was like, I'm sorry, what's that. You got a problem with the American flag? Now elected officials and media pundits, because that's weird now all of a sudden, because Trump is for a military parade, there against it.

So maybe I should give them the benefit of the doubt and assume here that what's really at work is just their Trump derangement syndrome, and that they don't have a problem with a parade for the military as a concept. They're just pretending to because they hate Trump so much. I just hate Trump. They just get so upset about all of this. But I recall, you know, after World War Two, for example, some really timeless and inspiring photos of our our boys coming back from overseas, so to speak,

our men and women in uniform. Coming back to the States, ticker tape parade, the whole thing. What's what's wrong with that? I would need some of these Democrats to explain, Oh, yeah, they're worried about the budget, right, sure, that's what it's about. I mean, that's the biggest crock of nonsense. But they're opposed to the optics of this. They think that the perception of a parade would somehow what antagonized North Korea?

Do we care about antagonizing North Korea? I think I think a little more antagonism against North Korea is probably a good thing. That's you know, the assaumble. And by the way, anyone who says that we should uh, we are not or we are overestimating the furer and opposition to this doesn't pay attention to what's going on in the world around them. You've got a guy named Arne men Coney who is a former a former US Senate candidate.

I have a feeling he probably got a grand total of uh, you know, five votes, But he says, we quote, we already have thirteen people who have signed up to lay down in front of the tanks. If Trump brings out a military parade. This is not a military authoritarian state. We will you join us hashtag Trump parade. These people think that this is like Tianamen Square, you know that they're standing up the Trump, the dictator. It's like, no,

this would be U. S. Military. You know, it would be a parade where we're celebrating the military and thank you very much. This should be a big thank you for your service day. Right, So what's what's the issue. Isn't it so interesting Democrats? You know, I know they all say things like, oh, we support the troops. You know, that's bipartisan. A lot of Democrats they got some questions

about the troops. Be honest with you. A lot of Democrats in places they don't talk about at parties, they wonder, you know, why didn't they have the I'm talking about Democrat elected politicians now, but they wonder, you know, they didn't have the the fortitude to do it. And look, I know there are other Democrats who are in Congress who served honorably and are great and all that too. But if you're looking for disdain for the military and

political circles, even it might be slightly closeted disdain. But if you're looking for it's always among Democrats. You never find Republicans that are like, yeah, military, I'm kind of iffy on it. There are some Democrats that are like, man, I'm a little iffy on the whole US military thing. It's a it's just the way it is. I mean, it's the way that they're ideology lines up on a whole bunch of things, um not, not the least of which is that we are the cause of problems in

the world. Right that's a classic leftist Democrat talking point, that we cause, that our military causes problems all over the world. And the Gnome Chomsky view, if you will, on the military, that's a Democrat issue, that's not a Republican one. So like I I don't like parades, but I'd be down for a parade for a military And I think that Trump's onto onto something here, if nothing else. Once again, he manages to expose that Democrats just always seem to have a little bit of a well Trump

arrangement syndrome clouds their judgment on everything. But also when it comes to military, it's like, why aren't you guys on board for this a little bit sooner? A little strange, isn't it. I want to tell you about a Trump voter and a March for Women person that they had quite they had quite a little a little sit down. I'm gonna not sit down, but all an interaction. This is gonna come up. You've got to hear this. It is illuminating about the way that coastal blue Democrat voters

view Trump. Trump is um and people who vote for either of those things. Um, I think we're gonna have some fun with it. So what happens when when somebody from the Women's March is having car trouble and is in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the wilds of Virginia confronted with that always ah, always terrifying situation of a Trump voter who comes to her aid on the side of the highway. Oh, we will discuss that and much more, my friends coming up in the

next hour. Stay with me. Welcome back to our three of the buck Sections show. Everybody, Thank you so much for being here with me. So, there was a column that came out recently, and I feel like it was such an excellent, excellent exploration of the Trump derangement syndrome. It's almost like a clinical study in Trump arrangement syndrome. And the piece was in the Tampa Bay Times, so

there you have it. And it was just published a couple of days ago or a day or two ago, and the title was I detest Trump, but a redneck fixed the redneck fixed my prius with zip ties. Now for us to really written by a woman named Ruth mayer Um. So I wanted to share with you some of what's in this piece because if you wanted understanding for what Trump derangement syndrome does to people, I think

this article is a really excellent exploration of it. This is the you know, this is the progressive latte drinker coming face to face with an American with like just like an everyday American. It's terrifying something you are, like, I know, Buck, those latte drinkers are really scary. So here you go. I went to this. These are her words. I'm reading to you from her peace. I went to the Women's March in Washington, d C. And I arrived home feeling heartbroken. It was the last way I expected

to feel. I had spent the morning sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with my sixteen year old daughter, whose silent tears on election night in ten had marked the beginning of this national nightmare for me. She had insisted we drive from Charlotte to d C this year so that we could quote protests in front of the President's house. We heard all of the inspiring speakers. We relish the creativity of the posters and slogans, but I guess not the hats, because I got rid of those.

Being among so many like minded people was comforting. I heard one woman say, I love being here today. It makes me feel less alone. I wanted to be with people who shared my anger because I have been so angry about Donald Trump this past year. I have been angry at my country for electing this man, Angry at my neighbors who support him, Angry at the wealthy who sacrificed our country and its goodness for tax breaks. Angry

at the coal miners who believed his promises. All right, ed quote, I gotta I gotta take I gotta take a step back from this for a second. Here. I'm gonna go out on limb and say, this woman is angry. I'm I'm just gonna put that out. I'm sensing some anger from her. I think it's maybe clouding her judgment a little bit. I also think she may have internalized national politics a little too much. You know, it's really not all about you. It's okay, you don't have to

cry at night. I also would note that, Okay, her daughters sixteen, so at least she can have some idea of what's going on. She didn't pull the favorite progressive trick of the first six months or so, which was my four year old came up to me and said, what are we gonna do about the change in marginal

progressive tax rights for millionaires and billionaires? It's like, I don't think your four year old ask you that question, actually, And I'm talking about journalists, by the way, like people that have careers and in the media and and in writing and supposedly spreading truth. They're like, my eight year old came up to me and said, I don't understand how the president can withhold further action on deferred action for childhood arrivals. It's like, no, your six year old

son did not ask that question. But it's cute that you like to use that as a trope to show how outraged you are. But anyways, sixteen, fine, sixteen, you're allowed to be upset about politics. Crying about politicists at sixteen strikes me as a little bit, uh, a little bit too much. But then again, some sixteen year old girls cry when the mall closes too early, or sixteen year old guys cry when they lose a video game, right, So okay, so people cry, fine, fair enough. Whatever you

can tell though she's a little angry. You can tell she's a little upset. And this is part of the mentality that we see time and again when it comes to the anti trumpers um that they do take this so very very personally. People ask me all the time, how do you live in New York City, and you're all these people, I just I just live my life,

you know. Uh. It's you know when in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jonah Jonah Hill, who has a CD that he's made, goes up to Russell Brand, who's supposed to be a rock star, and he's like, hey, I just wondering if you've got a chance to listen to my CD, and Russell Brand's like, no, I just went on living my life. And that's actually my approach to living around a whole bunch of progressives in New York City.

When I'm not actually working, right, when I'm not writing or on radio or TV or something, I just I don't engage, right do I? In my in my pre in my pre pre black Rifle coffee days, for example, what I go to the anarchist coffee shop that's right near me, and and and here they're they're terrible music. And I'm sure try to avoid looking at all the all the posters about the next Women's march. Yeah, you know, before I knew about better options. Sure, I just try

to ignore this stuff. But the anti trumpers can't ignore. They can't separate it out. It's all so intertwined in their identity and in their sense of self. And that's also why they aren't impervious to new information, new facts, good faith arguments, because to change their mind about much of the reasons are many of the reasons they have for hating Trump is to change their mind about how

righteous and brilliant and wonderful they are. It's not about Hey, this is about this is public policy, which is complicated, and here's a different approach to this, and maybe you should think about it. It's I'm a good person. I voted for Hillary. You guys, are still mean you voted for Trump? So she went to the women's march. Fine, what are they marching about? Not really clear to me, although not for unborn babies. But that's another discussion for

another time. Uh. Anyway, she went back to my fury. We gotta keep going here. So and she's mad at hole miners. I would note I'm guessing of whom she has met zero, But she's mad at coal miners for believing Trump. She's mad at everybody. I mean, you could really say this is the quintessential Remember how Pajama Boy was like the ultimate Obama voter. This woman in this article comes across as the quintessential Hillary voter. She's just so angry that Hillary didn't shatter that glass ceiling. I

will read you some more of her piece here. My fury has been bottomless. I drink my cup. I drink my morning coffee from a cup that says I hate to wake up when Donald Trump is president. I swear I'm not making this up. Guys. The constancy of my outrage has been exhausting, yet I have not found a way to quell it. Nearly each day has brought our new reason to stoke the fire, but a day with my daughter communing with the angryly aggrieved seemed a good

way to try. Oh man, she actually drinks coffee out of a cup every day. That says, I hate waking up with Donald Trump. First of all, where does you where does she even get that? I'm assuming she went online for like I hate Trump merch and found this. But you know, talk about a self reinforcing message, like, you know, turne it down a little bit, maybe get like a you know, a little image of a puppy or something for your coffee mug. You know, maybe just

take a step back, lady. Anyway, So then she goes on too, and this is what this is what we're going to get into a second. Then she goes on to tell about the rest of her day and the unexpected happened after protesting and exuding and really reveling in wallowing in her hatred and fury against Trump and all the Trump voters and all the Oh, they're just those in the like like Peter's, like Peter Struck from the FBI, you know, those those hillbillies, right. Oh, she's so disgusted

by them. But then fate intervenes and the woman who's any about how she's just so angry. She can't find enough outlets for her anti Trump anger. It doesn't work in politics, from what I understand, Like this is, uh, she comes across an actual Trump voter, No, she and she has no choice. She has no choice but to to stand there, and she doesn't want to make any sudden movements. She doesn't want to give the Trump voter

an excuse to charge. You know, you don't want to make too much eye contact either with the Trump voter, because the Trump voter might might take that as a as a signal for you vying for dominance, you know, but you don't want to run away from the Trump voter because then the Trump voter may think your prey. So this pro Hillary, anti Trump voter had to face her greatest fear. She had to actually have a conversation with the Trump voter. I will tell you about it

right after this break welcome back. When I last left you, we had a priest driving women's marsh attending ang gree Hillary voter who is not just never ever Trump, she is I hate Trump so much, and she was squaring off against that most dangerous, that most dangerous of opponents in every day Trump voter terrifying I know. Let me read to you from her account. She survived it, so we can all be thankful for that, the Trump voter and her did not. This did not end with tragedy.

Here is what happened. Quote. Before I could do anything but park my gray Prius. Of course it's a Gray Prius, a man rushed over. I heard you coming down that road, he said. Before I could say much, he started surveying the situation. You said she had car trouble. Oh, she had car trouble. She thought she had blown out a tire, and she had to pull off at the nearest exit. There was a popping sound followed by a screeching, and she was worried she might be driving on metal, very dangerous.

So she stuck there. And in this moment of need, in this terrifying ordeal, who comes along with somebody that she clearly identifies as a Trump voter. So he says, I heard you coming down that road, and she said that. He didn't so much offer to help as get right to work. Quote it turned out that I hadn't blown a tire. A huge piece of plastic under the front bumper had come loose, causing the screeching as it scraped

along the road. After determining that he couldn't cut the plastic off, he ran over to his car to grab some zip ties so he could secure the piece back in place. He did all of this so quickly that I didn't have time to grab the prominent resist of course sticker on the side of my Prius, which suddenly felt needlessly alienating. You don't say. As this man lay on the ground under my car with his miracle zip ties, I asked if he thought they would hold for four

more hours of driving. Just ask any redneck like me what you can do with zip ties. Well, zip ties and duct tape. You can solve almost any problem. You'll get home safe, turned to his teenage son standing nearby. You can say that again. His son agreed. The whole interaction lasted ten minutes. Tops Catherine and I that's the name of her daughter, made it home safely, survived. She survived the Trump voter. He didn't. He didn't take her hostage, he didn't kidnap her. He just was really nice and

fixed her car right away. And yeah, she was ninety minutes south of d C. That's way outside of Beltway territory, folks, that's like the wilderness. I mean, you're practically in more door when you go ninety minutes south of d C, because that's actually real Virginia. It's not the Northern Virginia part that has now been taken into d C and the Metroplex right ninety minutes is like, I mean, you're

gonna hit Charlottesville before long. It's Virginia, Virginia. And sure enough she she was approached by a Trump voter in her great prius because of course that's what she drives. And he just ran over there helped her out, didn't didn't you know? It's weird the and she just I will also know it with all this, she just identifies him as a Trump voter. I am assuming that this gentleman was I don't know, did he have like a

mullet trucker hat and a Maga T shirt on? I mean, what she gives no no explanation of this from what I'm trying to How does she even know that he's Maybe she's just like, oh my gosh, strikes me as a Trump He was wearing a car heart jacket. Strikes me as a Trump voter. Good gosh. Um, he looked like his hands had done heavy labor recently. He must be a Trump voter. It's like, I'm not. I mean, I'm giving you more detail than she did. I don't know how she knew. I'm she's driving a great Prius,

she has a resist bumper sticker on. I can tell you there's a lot of stuff. There is a preponderance of cats at home most likely. Yes, that's right, not like one or two. That's cool. Cats are fine. Like anyway, she she doesn't. She says, this guy's a Trump voter. How she knows, I don't know. Um maybe because he said like ma'am and was polite and friendly and helpful to her and wasn't like, oh my gosh, we have to call Triple A right away. Like he's like, I

got some zip tiz, let's fix it. So here's what she She goes on though, And I will say the story has a happy ending, folks. I'd like to tell you stories with happy endings. When I can't, A story goes on like this. This is our author here, Ruth. She is a oh, she's a communications consultant. Mm hmm. Interesting. So it's like communications consultants, social media manager these you know, you tend to have a lot of a lot of Bernie Bros. And Bernie's sisters in in that in those categories.

But here's what she says in her piece, Our encounter changed the day for me. When I tried to dive back into my liberal podcast, my mind kept being pulled back to the gas station. I couldn't stop thinking about the man who called himself a redneck. She couldn't stop thinking about that. I mean, look, you know redneck. You know some of this guy's got some manly appeal. Probably I'm just putting that out there. Who came to our rescue.

I sized him up as a Trump voter again based on the fact that he's good with his hands and fixed a car. But there you go, Trump voters, you should feel good about that one, just as he likely drew inferences from my prius and resist sicker. You know what's so funny, I'm obviously not quoting her anymore. I guarantee this guy wasn't like, oh wow, there's a Hillary voter.

I'm gonna go help her with my zip dies. He was just like, a woman needs help with car, will help her, because right but she's like, he must have sized me up. He probably knew right away. I just come from the Hillary March or whatever they're calling it. All right, back to what she says. For a moment, we were just two people and the exchange was kindness his and gratitude mine. As I drove home, I felt the full extent to which Trump has actually diminished my

desire to be kind. He is keeping me so outraged that I hold ill will towards others on a daily basis. Trump is not just ruining our nation, he is ruining me. By the end of the drive, I felt heartbroken. All right, So go there, let's you see what I said. It's a happy ending. I mean, it's like there's a silver lining. I'm not sure we could say it's a totally happy ending, because here's what's going on. This woman has the self

awareness to realize that once she's super judge. If MS Molly was here, she'd be like, oh, that's very judgy to say that this guy's a Trump vote her with no. I mean it's not like he hadn't I don't. I didn't hear anything about a Trump bumper sticker on his car or something. He was driving a pickup truck and he had workman's boots on. It was terrified, Like, what's the problem I was? I guess as she figured she was in rural Virginia and there's a decent chance that

sure enough you know this guy anyway. Uh. But instead of taking the lesson she should take from this is maybe I need to rethink how much I internalize politics and how much I have been fed this steady diet of real hatred for Trump, as though he's the Antichrist. He's he's basically he's like basically Hitler, I mean all

that stuff. Instead of thinking again about all of that, she's actually like, you know what, I feel bad that I'm mean and and nasty to some people, at least in my in my head, that's my first inclination because of Trump. Therefore, you'll see where I'm going here. Her meanness is not a function of the progressive brainwashing that she's had from the media and everything else. Her meanness is Trump's fault. And I kind of wish I could

sit down with miss miss Mayor or Meyer Mayor. However, he said, I wish I could sit down with Ruth. Can I call your Ruth? No, you may not, sir um, and just say to her, you know, maybe a better approach to this would be to just treat everybody like you would want to be treated, which is what they tell us all starting in around kindergarten, I think, and

just be cool and like, have your beliefs and politics. Look, you want to go march in the Women's March, that's great, do your thing, but don't come to all kinds of judgments about somebody. I mean, you don't have about judging him. She's you know, just because he calls himself a redneck. I'm sure there's some rednecks that voted for Hillary. You know, they're like probably four or five somewhere in the country.

But no, seriously, like, like, just because he called himself a redneck doesn't mean that she knows all that much about him. She doesn't, you know, she doesn't know him. She doesn't understand what he what he's been through, and what he's dealt with. And so just be a nice person instead and stop thinking that politics is the defining characteristic of who you are day in and day out. That should be I mean, then we'd get to a happy ending, right then we would be in a better

position here. Um, she says at the end, it felt like a sign that maybe if we treat one another with kindness, ingratitude, putting our most loving selves for or, this moment can transform into something more bearable. But how do we hold onto the fire fueling our resistance to the cruelty Trump unleashes, but also embraced the world with love. I wish I knew she sees she's getting close to the answer, but I'm gonna have to give her a red X on the paper here because she's not getting

the answer right. Yeah, don't be such a judgmental weirdo about people because you differ with them politically. Don't think that your own politics define who you are. But also don't get so wrapped up in the national political situation that it's affecting your day to day life. Lady, if you're drinking from an I Hate Trump monk every day, you got a problem. It's time to admit you have a problem. So I hope she comes to that at some point. But she survived her encounter with the redneck

self described she she's okay, She's okay, everybody. She might have learned something, and that guy sounds awesome. By the way, I'd like to have some gluten free tequila with him at some point, and we're rolling a quick break, we'll be back with Selena Zito telling us about russ Bell Democrats. Perfect transition here, stay with me. Well, you know, there's a lot of political stories going on right now, and some of them aren't getting nearly enough attention because of

all the Russia memo collusion Muller nonsense. But we've got a national political reporter with us now to bring us up to speed on the mess in Pennsylvania. Our friends Selena Zero is with us now. She's written in the Washington Washington Examiner on this and she wants to tell us about what's going on. Selena, great to have you back, always great to be on the show. Thank you so much. So tell me what's going on in in Pennsylvania with and there's redistricting and the Democrats are having a big

rough time. What's happening. So we've got a couple of things going on in Pennsylvania. Let's start with the with

the congressional map uh tow or yeah to know. About ten days ago, as the state Supreme Court ruled that the current congressional map as drawn was illegal, unconstitutional, unconstitutional under the state, and that has to be thrown out, redrawn by the state legislature, which is a majority Republican, and then signed by the Democratic governor and put in place intended, which is crazy, right, Like can you just imagine imagine redrawing eighteen congressional districts intendees and then um

changing them, and then people have to have their petitions in so they can run, and people will then have to figure out who where they live because it's going to change. So the Republicans balked at it, and they took it back to the state Supreme Court and asked them to put a stay on their own ruling, which of course they were never going to do. So then they took it to the U. S. Supreme Court and uh sam Alito said he's not going to at touch this.

So now we're back to all of the eighteen congressional districts having to be redrawn. Of those eighteen seats, thirteen of them are held by Republicans, five by Democrats. Of those thirteen republicans, five have decided not to run. Whether there are um like a lot of them, Like Schuster, you know, his chairmanship and transportation expires, and these guys don't like to go from being in leadership to one of four hundred and thirty five members, So a lot

of them are retiring. And um, so that's in a nutshell where this is so and they lost their leadership or step down. The Democratic Party in Pennsylvania, yes, oh yes, And there's also the state Democratic chairman, Marcel Grons, who

is was a very respected state party chair leader. He was one of the first sort of Democrats to make it allowable for more moderate and centrist Democrats to you know, get on the slate and run, something that hasn't been able to happen for Democrats in this state since two thousand and eight. So it opened up the possibility that some Democrats could win in some state legislative state or congressional seats and you know, maybe have an impact in

where the majority is in either of those bodies. Uh. He made some controversial mistake or uh, controversial opinions last week. I'm not sure where they were because it was within an interview with the Philadelphia Enquirer and show the the Democratic Governor Tom Wolffe asked him to leave. And now they without a state party chairman until June. We're speaking

of Nazito. She is a political analyist and columnists with Washington Examiner national political reporter Selena tell me about your piece, Rise of the Rush Belt Democrats. So that was my interview with UH Congressman Tim Ryan. Jim Ryan. If you remember, in two thousand and sixteen, right after the Democrats lost not only the presidency but lost more seats in the House and the majority their minority became even smaller, UH

challenge Nancy Pelosi to UH for her minority leader's seat. Now, Ryan has for the most part been a back venture UH and and so his quest was chaotic at best. He didn't win, but he did give her a run for the money. And what he did do was give a more forceful voice for moderate Democrats that has been allowed again since about two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine. He has now been asked to go to New Hampshire and more than any other Democrat considering running

for Democrats for president in two thousand and twenty. So it's interesting to see a more moderate UH politician getting a voice in in a sort of upper echelon of the Democratic grassroots activism than you have seen a sense about since so, my goodness, since the time Al Gore ran in two thousand, Selena, is that part of the Democrat strategy to try to win, to get some pickups in the mid terms, they're gonna return to the old

blue dog Democrat, gun toton Democrat playbook. We'll see everybody talks about that, But honest to goodness, it's there's sort of no self awareness among the Democrats. As I watched Nancy Pelosi today give a six our were she called it a filibuster, and what the House doesn't do a filibuster, but her six hour speech on the House floor, and I said, and I thought, you know, this does not

help swing state Democrat candidates. Yeah, even if they wanted to return to that old playbook, it seems to me like being a gun total Bible loving Southern Democrat or you know whatever, brust belt Democrat. Uh, That to me is is tough to do when you're also advocating for legal alien rights all the time and transgender bathroom issues. So I think that they're gonna have a tough I think the national Democrat Party is gonna have a tough sell with that. But we'll see what happens. Selena, where's

people go for? Where's your website? We gotta go in a second. Oh, Selina Zito F A L E N A S D I T O. That has everything that I write for the Examiner in the New York pust fantastic. Check it out at Selena Zito dot com. Selena, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate and have a great one. Thanks you too. Alright, team, we're gonna do some roll call on the flip side of this BA we get to hear from all of you. Will

be right back. Centator John Hallman here. Um, the president apparently I would like to throw himself a parade, military parade, um troops and tanks and all that kind of stuff. Uh. And there's some planning now underwear or at least states are being considered. What say you? I say that it's a fantastic waste of money to amuse the president. I don't think a show of military might have reminds you

of what the Soviets do and what the Chinese do. Uh. And we need to honor our men and women in uniform, and but I think we ought to do so in a way that does not necessarily appear bellicoasts are threatening to the rest of the world. We want to be peacemakers, not warmakers. It also uh can be perceived as jinguists in some respects uh, saber rattling in some respects. There you have a bunch of Democrats who, no surprise, all of a sudden, are concerned about government spending. Oh my gosh,

a parade. And this is one of the first times I think I've ever heard Democrats in elected office argue against any parade that I'm familiar with. I mean, we got we got parades going on for everything these days, folks. I mean, I live in New York City, and let me tell you, it's you know, uh, this week it's the Army you know, not really, but you know, it's

the Armenian Parade. And next week it's the Bulgarian Parade, and next week it's the Bolivian Parade, and next week it's you know, the Southern County Kerry of Ireland Parade. And it's like just parade after parade, parades all the time. All right, Devon's having parades. I will tell you, as a general rule, I'm kind of anti parade. This will not surprise any of you. I think that parades are overrated.

Now I'm not anti them as that I begrudge anyone who likes them or thinks that they should all end or something. I just find the parades or it's like, oh yeah, that's loud, the floats. You're like, Okay, I gotta wait a few more minutes. It's gonna be another. It's gonna be a you know, another bunch of are I I can hear some drums. Let's give you a few minutes. You know they're gonna they're walking, they're coming.

I mean, it's just not the most exciting spectator spectator sport I've every Yeah, I know I'm a hater right now. Oh yeah you agree. Oh you're with me all right, Producer Mike is giving me the thumbs down on parades, the thumbs up on parades or not. You know, look, sports teams have parades. Although your Eagles fans had their own parade by friend, I saw that. But yeah, you know, look, I'm not a parade. You wanna have a pray to

a parade. Here's the thing, though, the one time when I'm like, you know what, I like, I think that this is important and you need to show up. Is like Veterans Day, you Veterans Day parade, Memorial Day parade, those are parades that matter. Right, So anything that involves respect for the armed forces in the military, I think goes into a different category of parade. And this notion that Democrats have that it's so crazy z that we would take some time to celebrate. You notice none of

these people like, what's the Women's March about? What the heck are they complaining about? Right? I mean, and by the way, you want to you want to get into the costs of some of these things that the Women's march in terms of oh, that's right, city services, over time, clean up to clean up for some of the parades. In New York City, it looks like a hurricane slash, tornado slash, you know, bombing raid went through downtown Manhattan.

I mean, it's crazy what happens after these parades. So it is very expensive, uh, in a city budgetary sense, I mean, in a national budget having a parade, I think it's pretty minor. But the point is there's cross associated with all this stuff. But we're gonna get We're gonna get cheap. All of a sudden, we're gonna want to pen uh, pinch pennies, pinch pennies. Uh, we're gonna want to pinch pennies when it comes to honor in the military. Let's just take a little step back here

for a second. Uh. And and we're gonna start saying it's jingoistic. You know, we're not North Korea, Dick Durbin. We're not saying that, Hey, look at these big missiles, We're gonna fire them at you. I mean, that's not the point. It's just for us to celebrate our own military. And I would don't. We've got a few million active duty and recently uh recently separated from the service veterans who I fought wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, deployed all over

the world. They defeated the Taliban, they defeated Saddam Hussein, ousted him from power, defeated the Al Qaeda in Iraq insurgency, handed Iraq back over to the Iraqis. And I mean, I'm just going off the top of my head. By the way, I'm not trying to forget or leave out anything, but has they've done a tremendous amount of good work for the world, and we all owe them, as the American people a debt of gratitude will never be able to pay. And so if we have a prey, why

why is that? This reminds me of when Democrats right after Not eleven we're kind of like, man, I don't know about flags, you know, all the flag waving maybe, and everyone was like, I'm sorry, what's that. You got a problem with the American flag? Now elected officials and media pundits, because that's weird now all of a sudden, because Trump is for a military parade, there against it.

So maybe I should give them the benefit of the doubt and assume here that what's really at work is just their Trump derangement syndrome and that they don't have a problem with a parade for the military as a concept. They're just pretending to because they hate Trump so much. I just hate Trump. They just get so upset about

all of this. But I recall, you know, after World War Two, for example, some really timeless and inspiring photos of our our boys coming back from overseas, so to speak, are men and women in uniform coming back to the States, ticker tape parade, the whole thing. What's what's wrong with that. I would need some of these Democrats to explain. Oh, yeah, they're worried about the budget, right, sure, that's what it's about. I mean, that's the biggest crock of nonsense. But they're

opposed to the optics of this. They think that the perception of a parade would somehow what antagonized North Korea. Do we care about antagonizing North Korea? I think I think a little more antagonism against North Korea is probably a good thing. But that's you know, the assamble. And by the way, anyone who says that we should uh we are not or or we are overestimating the furer and opposition to this doesn't pay attention to what's going

on in the world around them. You've got a guy named Arne men Coni who is a former a former US Senate candidate. I have a feeling he probably got a grand total of uh, you know, five votes. But he says, we quote, we already have thirteen people who have signed up to lay down in front of the tanks. If Trump brings out a military parade. This is not a military authoritarian state, we will you join us. Hashtag

Trump parade. These people think that this is like Tianamen Square, you know that they're standing up the Trump, the dictator. It's like, no, this would be U. S. Military. You know, it would be a parade where we're celebrating the military and thank you very much. This should be a big thank you for your service day. Right, So what's what's the issue? Isn't it so interesting Democrats? You know, I know they all say things like, oh, we support the troops.

You know, that's bipartisan. A lot of Democrats they got some questions about the troops. To be honest with you, a lot of Democrats in places they don't talk about at parties, they wonder, you know, why didn't they have the I'm talking about Democrat elected politicians now, but they wonder, you know, they didn't have the the fortitude to do it. And look, I know there are other Democrats who are in Congress who served honorably and are great and all

that too. But if you're looking for disdain for the military and political circles, even it might be slightly closeted disdain, but you're looking for it's always among Democrats. You never find Republicans that are like, yeah, military, I'm kind of iffy on it. There are some Democrats that are like, man, I'm a little iffy on the whole U. S. Military thing.

It's a it's just the way it is. I mean, it's the way that their ideology lines up on a whole bunch of things, um not, not the least of which is that we are the cause of problems in the world. Right, that's a classic leftist Democrat talking point, that we cause, that our military causes problems all over the world. And the Gnome Chomsky view, if you will, on the military, that's a Democrat issue, that's not a

Republican one. So like, I don't like parades, but I'd be down for a parade for a military And I think that Trump's onto onto something here, if nothing else. Once again, he manages to expose that Democrats just always seem to have a little bit of a well Trump de arrangement syndrome clouds their judgment on everything. But also when it comes to military, it's like, why aren't you guys on board for this a little bit sooner? A

little strange, isn't it. I want to tell you about a Trump voter and a March for Women person that they had quite they had quite a little a little sit down. I'm gonna not sit down, but an interaction. This is gonna come up. You've got to hear this. It is illuminating about the way that coastal blue Democrat voters view Trump. Trump is um and people who vote for either of those things. Um, I think we're gonna

have some fun with it. So what happens when when somebody from the Women's March is having car trouble and is in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the wilds of Virginia confronted with that always ah, always terrifying situation of a Trump voter who comes to her aid on the side of the highway. Oh, we will discuss that and much more. My friend's coming up in the next hour. Stay with me.