Take a look behind the curtain with a real whistleblower and American patriot. Prepare to embrace the uncomfortable truth because this program has no time for comforting lies. Here is civil liberties enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI agent Kyle Seraphin. Hello my friends, and welcome to the Kyle Serfin Show. Today is Tuesday, it is the 26th of August and thank you so much for being here.
We're a little bit late this morning because the thing that's never happened before decided to happen just now and the podcast wasn't going to stream. So that's always interesting. And you know what, I read something about this the other day that I'm going to share. So we're going to lead off with a, a statement and A, and a maybe an explanation from a guy named Bill Taylor. He did a podcast with Judicial
Watch recently. He goes by at RETFBI over on X and I spoke with him yesterday and I'm going to be speaking with him today. Interestingly enough, we're going to be doing a Sunday sit down interview to talk about being an FBI whistle blower and what that does to you and what it's done to the folks that have done it.
And he articulated it in a way that I think you should hear because it explains a lot of the negativity, It explains a lot of the generally pessimistic outlook and attitude, and it actually explains a little bit about what happened this morning. Whether or not it makes any sense, I'll just shit sit, share this right up front. I've never had this issue before and we've done almost 650
podcasts. So we're either constantly finding out new limits and new problems that exist in a computer system that's been running for two years, or weird
things are happening. The downside of trying to rush back into it after getting it fixed is that I'm going to be doing a grab bag and digging through my my video clips for you guys today because it's not going to be nearly as polished because the entire system had to be crashed down and then rebuilt back up. So it's kind of interesting to feel that it's kind of interesting to to see it.
And even worse, one of the things that I had queued up for you guys was a scroll screen of a couple of different browser windows and I want to share with them. So it's going to take me a second to grab them. Well, before we get into that, let's do let's do a read for one of our sponsors. These are the kind of people
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as much. You want to make sure that you're a harder target than than you could be. All right, we're going to get into today's program. It's going to be a little bit a little bit more rocky since we were fighting uphill against technology issues. I'm going to read you something very shortly. All right, my friends. So I'm going to have to capture a screen here real quickly. And as I do so, oh, look, there it is. There's screen capture and it
might even be there. All right, we're going to have to resize. So bear with me as I resize a screen that I want to read from you. This is coming from Bill Taylor's Twitter feed. And it's something that happened on the heels of a little meeting that went down in Chuck Grassley's office.
And there was some reactions to it and what we found, unlike this audience maybe, or maybe like some of the people in this audience, there are some folks that are really not pleased with the way that I conduct myself on X. And I want to explain to you guys something because there is a myth, a method to the madness. There is a purpose for the way that I actually do business over there. And it may not be obvious because I'm not very nice.
If you guys noticed, I'm a lot different in real life. And people who've met me this weekend got to find that out, you know, pretty personable guy. I'm just like everybody else. I'll talk to you. We'll have a nice conversation on top of that, You know, you watch the podcast and you're like, yeah, this guy is vitriolic over on X Yeah,
there's a reason. And what I'm doing over there is I'm grabbing attention in a very mean way because somebody has to lay down on the barbed wire so that the folks who need to be made whole, my friends, Garrett O Boyle, Steve Friend, people like Zach Schostall. There's others whose names are not necessarily public but should be. Robin Gray's is another one. You know, Robin and I don't necessarily see eye to eye on a lot of things.
And yet she went head to head against some really evil people, including the folks that helped weaponize our FBI. So she should be made whole. Somebody's got to lay on the barbed wire so these people can get over the top of it.
Somebody needs to continue to make noise and hurt the feelings of not just the other team, the Chris Rays and the Paula Bates and so on. Someone needs to piss off Cash Patel and explain to him that he in his little sort of dictatorship over there and flying off to Scotland like he did yesterday to go play golf or whatever the hell he does. He needs to go and make it right for these people.
I'm going to read you something that that Bill Taylor wrote a couple days ago and it's really stuck with me. This is only about four days old now. I'm going to read directly quote, retaliation from the FBI is meant to be personally destructive. A whistleblower will be ostracized, gathlet and ultimately betrayed by colleagues and the institution
supposedly devoted to justice. Being a whistleblower will financially ruin you, strain or destroy your relationships with family, and cause significant depression. You will develop paranoia because you know the FBI surveillance and the investigative tactics first hands neighbors that suddenly treat you differently. You'll think it's because the FBI interviewed them.
A work truck with a box storage that you've never seen before parked across the street for your home as a stationary surveillance van glitches in your home network. All the FBI, your ability to trust is completely destroyed. I have goosebumps from all this stuff because this is so. It's so interesting to see somebody else's thoughts mirror your own, he said. I'll never criticize the way a whistle blower reacts to the retaliation.
They have every right to call for the abolition of the FBI and they have every right to venomously hate the FBI. That actually goes government wide folks. Every piece of the government that comes after somebody should make you hate that group of the government they have. They have betrayed the one thing that they exist to do, which is to protect the American people from force and fraud to help us
live our lives more free. And yesterday I got into a back and forth discussion with someone who's clearly a leftist and clearly doesn't know anything and said no, no, no, the government grants US rights under the Constitution and Bill of Rights. This failure of our education system is so obvious that when you start interacting with people who don't agree with you politically, they don't even know the right answers. They're not even basing their opinions based on historical fact.
They don't know that the people that founded this country were Christians and Deists and believed in a in a right that pre existed Our government to the purpose of the government is to make sure that it protects those rights. And the Bill of Rights is that leash. The Constitution is a limit and a check on what can and cannot exist. And when we've experienced it and those of us who have know exactly what I'm talking about.
When it fails to do its basic purposes, which is protect you from those around you, because otherwise the alternative is posse justice. It's anarchy, it's vigilantism.
That's the trade off, right? We outsource vengeance, we outsource violence to the government of this country at the state and the federal level so that we don't have to engage in it ourselves because we'd like to see it take some of the emotion out of it. We want to take some of the passion away from how angry we are when someone does this
wrong. And then you have this opportunity where a lot of people end up forgiving and they end up being like wildly Christian in spite of the fact that they feel animosity and anger towards those who have wronged them, who have killed a family member, who've stolen their life savings, who have defrauded their loved ones or something. And then we outsource it to a theoretically an impartial jury of our peers.
That system is basically over right now because it has been so over politicized at the state and the federal level, where all of our systems of justice are not functioning as we expect them to. So we can't expect real justice and we cannot expect even the systems that are supposed to be apolitical and just play a role in making sure that things work smoothly because they all want to weigh in.
When you talk to people inside of these agencies and you realize that their thumb is on the scale that they are looking for outcomes and not fair process, then you know it's over. And that is a part of of being like an institution based whistleblower. If you come forward and you say, hey, I worked for fill in the
blank agency. I worked at the Department of Homeland Security and I saw them using surveillance tactics on planes to surveil political foes, people who just disagreed with us but represented no threat. And we spent 10s of thousands of dollars a day, millions of dollars a year on nothing. Yesterday, I had a clip queued
up from a spokesperson from DHS. Interestingly enough, as usual, it's this like young female person who's a spokesperson and, and doesn't know what she's talking about, but she's saying the right thing. She just never experienced it. And then you see what the actual message was. And it was that Tulsi Gabbard is essentially has said, we are now weighing in on what should be done at DHS and we are getting rid of quiet skies. We've actually covered quiet
size here. I may be able to pull this clip up in real time. Like I said, I'm going to be kind of kind of producing at a little bit of a slower pace right now. I want to actually play this lady from yesterday. She has no first hand experience and I can tell just because I'm listening to her talk and she's not outraged. Here you go.
The Quiet Skies program is gone. The people who experienced weaponized government come after them are the right people to reform it. It turns out if your only goal was to call out your victimhood in order to make money and not to achieve an end, then you're not my person. You're not the person that I thought you were. That's what we've seen in the current FBI director. It's expected because, you know, people like the deputy director, Dan Bongino, he never experienced the government
coming after him. Not not in a meaningful way. Not like Gerardo Boyle's family. Did you know he didn't watch his little girls not be able to access their coats in the middle of the Wisconsin winter because a evil group of people that worked behind the scenes in human resources or an inspection division over at the Bureau decided that they were going to F him over. Their words, not mine, but Tulsi Gabbard did get to see that. And then she got to see the
documents. And when you understand what that portrayal is like, I work for this organization. I hold a position of trust, right? She was a, she was a what, Lieutenant Colonel in the National Guard. So a position of trust as an officer with people that have to look up to her and salute her and do what they, what she says, lawful orders. And then you find out that your own government, which put you in that position, was also stalking you.
As you moved across the states, as you flew somewhere, you'd find that there was a surveillance team that was in tow 2 to 6 people. And they could have been going after terrorists. They could have been watching somebody who was dangerous. What they found out with this Quiet Skies program is that it never actually did the thing that it was supposed to do. It resulted in 0 terrorists identified or or zero terrorist arrests. So nobody ever experienced like justice from it.
It just it like inevitably became a weaponized program. Here's a childish sounding spokesperson saying the right things. But again, I'm almost irritated as much by the message or the messenger of the message, because she clearly has no idea how visceral this is for those of us who lived it. It's gone for good, Dagnit. Good riddance. Because that program quiets guys under the guise of national security.
What it really did was weaponize national security against those less favored political opponents and to benefit their political friends. So the Biden administration, for example, went after Tulsi Gabbard. But as well, they used the program to benefit their friends, like Senator Sheehan out of New Hampshire. Her husband was traveling with a known or suspected terrorist
Three times. He was put on quiet skies because of this, but then was immediately taken off because the senator made a call to the TSA administrator. So this program was completely broken, was completely corrupted. And this is just more of the exploitation and the corruption that we found that was in our government and under the guise of national security. Dagon. Tricia, the program's over, but what about all the people that were caught up in this?
What's next for them? We've had some firings. We'll continue to have some firings. But, David, it is absolutely egregious the fact that this program was costing US taxpayers $200 million per year, and yet not since its existence, which it started in 2012 under President Obama, there hasn't been a single terrorist caught under this program or a single terrorist attack prevented from this program. It's Tricia McLaughlin. She is the DHS assistant secretary for public affairs.
She's not particularly coherent. She's not a good communicator. She doesn't have a particularly enjoyable voice to hear. She's not a great messenger for that message. Steve Friend needs a job. He's a great communicator. You look at some of these people that are in these positions, you're like, why? She's moderately pretty. So Steve Friend, by the way, he's kind of kind of a pretty guy. Shaved, I don't get it. She's talking about $200 million a year on not catching any
terrorists. That should piss you off. This should piss you off. This is a website that I constantly reference here and I've done it since the beginning of the podcast. It's something I started scrolling and being aware of when I when I was working on surveillance. If you want to know the scope of the problem, you go look and find out people who have the data. Just the simple, the simple facts, they have no emotions, they're just numbers.
And heyjackass.com is one of those great websites. I started looking at this years ago. Again, this is at least since like 20-19 maybe. I was watching the murder statistics and the criminal shooting statistics that happened in Chicago as a microcosm for Democrat failures. It's a city that's been run by Democrats for 100 years and it is one of the major stories
that's going to be out there. So when we start talking about protecting from force and fraud and we start talking, this is a this is a city government under state authorities. For those of you that are listening, we're looking at the website right now. One of the most poignant things they have is their average clock for the year. As of Thursday, 8/24, a person is shot every four hours and 23 minutes on average in the city of Chicago.
And somebody is murdered every 20 hours and 22 minutes on average in the city of Chicago. There's an average of more than one murder per 24 hour period. And then you look at the August statistics and of course it lines up the number of people that have been shot and killed in Chicago up into the date that they have on here, August up to date. And it's usually like within a day or two, it might be a day or two behind. Shot and killed 27 people, shot
and wounded 164 people. The total number of casualties is 191 with 29 total homicides. Not all of them are are firearms, but most of them are the number of people shot and killed in the week of 20 of of 817 to 823. So our our last week that just closed out was 88 total homicides and it was down 11% because on average they averaged slightly more again than one per day. That represents a failure of government. They do all kinds of weird stuff here.
Shot placement where people are getting hit 85 shots in the head. These are torso. These are just like weird statistical things. You can look by neighborhood if you look over here on this page here, this is the neighborhood layout. You can see it actually concentrate in certain areas. There's parts of Chicago that have zero crime in the same way that there's parts of Washington DC 0 crime, none totally safe.
And then there's there's some where you see that there are this this dark blood red area, this Austin neighborhood, 25 plus every single time that you see a red dot on the screen, that's that's triple homicides. It's regular to find double homicides. There's a lot of stuff on here that's pretty unsettling. This is your trends of how it
works out. This was particularly unsettling to me today because right now there's a discussion and CNN ran their main story on it. Every single web page or every single Web news site is actually talking about how there's this massive problem with sending in the National Guard. Donald Trump is doing something unprecedented by discussing sending in National Guard. And then you tell me that this
isn't an actual emergency. What you're seeing in front of you are the trend lines and they are the year on year fatality rates. The crazy thing is, is that the highest year on year fatality rate thus far is this year. Sorry, it's 2020. I, I actually misread that. There you go. They have it up there. It's 18.5% right now. The difference is, is like less than 1% between that and like the worst years.
You're looking at the total number of people that have been shot and wounded versus the number of people that are shot and killed. So far this year, 204 people have been murdered in Chicago is what they're claiming, and they've been worst. You know, they've been far worse as far as total numbers. But the insanity that we're just going to say like a couple 100 people murdered in a city like Chicago, which I think has like a population of 2 million the last time I checked. It's crazy.
The surrounding areas around Austin, TX have two million. I think they had like 40 homicides. This thing is 56X that. So there's something different there. This is the joke that Hey Jackass always makes. If you guys look at the the main part of the website illustrating Chicago values, they say that tongue in cheek. It's truly egregious. And since we talked about race yesterday, I want to talk about this because this is something I've been watching for about 8
years, maybe nine years. Look at the race of the victims. Now turns out statistically in this country that people who are most likely to kill you to engage in violent crime against you are the people that actually share the same race as you. And that's just based on the way that people look and the people that are around you. Most people that are involved in violent crime actually tend to know the victims or they're
pretty close to them. It gets less and less sensible, but it's neighborhood driven, it's location driven, it's access driven, right? 78.3% of the victims are black, 4.8 are white or other. That's usually like Asians, whatever. Hispanics is actually growing. It's a growing chunk. It's been as bad as in like the 90 percentile range of the victims being black. I'm talking about the victims here. They don't always have a perpetrator listed by race.
A lot of these go unsolved. We could probably see where the unsolved rate is too. They usually have a case clearance rate somewhere on this as well. And they have all these other little quirky things like how many people shot themselves in the ass or how many people shot themselves in the junk and how many people shot themselves in general that were involved in this kind of thing.
They have, you know, the number of police involved shootings this year, it's like 7. It's very low with six of them turning out into be a justifiable homicides or likely justifiable. So the police are less and less involved. That's almost always the case. Homicide trends, they were far worse.
Like the highest numbers that I remember were in 2016 under Obama, the last year there 512, it looks like you had actually a worse one under under Brandon. Joe Biden had one in 2021 of a 566 homicides that actually beat beat Obama's sort of record. And is it necessarily the president that's involved in these things? Not necessarily. But there is kind of a national policy and trend.
And when you have a, you know, a Democrat city that basically lives on Democrat ideas, it makes some sense to me that that's what we're talking about. We're talking about an overall policy of a party that doesn't mind there being real problems in their city. And if you try to come in and fix it, you're the problem. So we're going to we're going to play the governor of that state. He's a very heavyset man. He refers to Donald Trump as a small man or a little man.
I think it's kind of funny because he's a big fat guy. So probably most people are in fact smaller than him, even people who are heavyset, which Donald Trump is not exactly svelte or lean. But JB Pritzker is a fat self entitled billionaire that's going to tell you that these are his people. You know, that kind of Democrat thing where they really want to go and lean into that, that that's, that's sort of old, that old slavery mentality.
I feel like that plantation mentality that these are his people. Here we go. Any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous. We are watching and we are taking days. This country has survived darker periods than the one that we're going through right now. And eventually the pendulum will swing back, maybe even next
year. Donald Trump has already shown himself to have little regard for the many acolytes that he has encouraged to commit crimes on his behalf. You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from fighting you. Eventually, if you hurt by people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional law. Got it. OK, so my people, my people. Very religious sounding, isn't it?
Isn't it funny that we always try to make this, this equation balanced out? People on the right believe that there's a God. They believe that that God is the the creator that instilled us with certain inalienable rights. Government's purpose is to protect those rights, to limit its own power, to limit our fellow man from going out and doing their worst instincts. And then you've got these other folks that think that we're in charge of the government and you're ours.
You're our citizens, you're our constituents, you're our people. We're going to act like that. We're not going to be good legislate, you know, administrators of that authority, though. Now, I would do that to get this story. Donald Trump, he's the problem, obviously. This is from NPR. Donald Trump says the National Guard is ready, but it hedges on Chicago plans or he's hedging on Chicago plans, rather Not quite ready to go in there and crack down on it again.
I will tell you that I think that the federal service, the federal system is the worst possible solution to every problem, including when it's the only solution to the problem. I just don't like it. I don't like using anything that's federal because it's too far and disconnected from the people, but the folks that are closest to the people who have the most responsibility to solve these problems.
Again, there's this social contract that we all enter into, whether you like it or not, you're born into this country, you're part of it. And you said I'm willing to table my desire for violence and retribution and revenge because that's a lot of what we, when we think about justice, a lot of our human instincts get involved in that. That's the emotional end of it, revenge.
So I'm willing to table that. And I'm going to push it out to a governmental group that should be less emotional, less personally involved, but wants the right thing for everybody, the best outcome. And what happens when they, you usurp that or they, they completely just disregard their requirement to, to, to fulfill that duty? What do we do with them? This is what it looks like. We played it in DCI, played it in Cincinnati. I told you it's happened in Saint Louis.
It happens in almost every East Coast city. This is a video from, I think it's BG on the scene that puts this one out. And this is Chicago. This it, it continues to happen. This is broken window pane policing where you let small things go and those people realize, hey, nobody's coming if you commit small crimes and nobody responds to it, and crime is something that you are inclined towards doing for whatever reason. Bad socialization, low morals, temptation devil made me do it.
Doesn't make a real big difference if you're not willing to police yourself and you find out that nobody else is going to do it either. This is the the given inch. And people start taking a mile situation anyway. Here's here's Chicago, the exact same sound you heard from Washington, DC, cutting in and out of traffic surrounding vehicles. Yeah, maybe they're just blowing off some steam. They're trying to have a good
time. Sure they are, but also realize that when you're sitting there in a minivan when you got your kids in there, like now, you have a a swarm of of a dozen military age males. And who knows what kind of ideas they have because they already don't care about the basic things like abiding by traffic rules. They don't have to stop at stop signs.
They don't stop at red lights. They don't obey things on like a staying off the sidewalk on their mechanized vehicles, Right. So once that starts happening, how long till that line goes to something else? They see something they want, they take it. Most of these people, and I'm just telling you because I've experienced it and I've done the investigations on the other end of it, least in Washington, DC, many of them do not buy these things. They go and steal them.
They drive out in the neighborhoods in somebody's vehicle and they take the stuff. They take an ATV or they take a dirt bike and they go stash in their backyard. And when it breaks, they go get another one. Anyway, at least your governor in in Illinois really cares, right? Finally, to the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme. To the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man.
To any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous. We are watching, and we are taking names. This country has survived darker periods than the one that we're going through right now, and eventually the pendulum will swing back, maybe even next year. Donald Trump has already shown himself to have little regard for the many acolytes that he has encouraged to commit crimes on his behalf.
You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually if. The mayor's not any better, by the way. The mayor of Chicago, Yeah, that's the same kind of story. I just want to give you a wider shot. He's a wide man. He needs a little bit more. What about what about the mayor? Is he getting it better? And so, you know, look, we're going to remain firm.
We'll take legal action. But the people of this city are accustomed to rising up against tyranny. And if that's necessary, I believe that the people of Chicago will stand firm alongside of me as I work every single day to protect the people of this city. So they're going to stand up with you and they're going to try to make sure that we have safety and security, right? But dig into my grab bag here. I got another clip.
One of the things that that actually kind of always shocks me is that these guys think that everyone stands behind them or believes in what they're going to say simply because they're the ones saying it at that moment. But it turns out some people actually do want to live in peace, safety. I've had multiple folks from DC tell me that it is better now in Washington, DC that the National Guard has stepped up. Just the just the instinct to go
do something. And again, you guys will hear me say it over and over again, I don't want a federal solution. It is certainly isn't a long term option. You don't federalize that area. What they ought to do is still cede it to the states. Why? Why do you say that, Kyle? Because that's the way that I think about things. I think that the government should be closer to you. And there is no government further than us than the federal government.
It doesn't mean that in the short term they can't make a difference. And it's not making a difference. I've had someone who who I talked to on a regular basis, takes the bus, lives in, you know, in DC public transportation and said, yeah, there's a noticeable difference. This lady saw the same thing. This lady theoretically be would be 1 of JB Pritzker's people.
One of the folks that you hear the the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson talking about, she's a black lady talking about, hey, D CS better, you know, in the short term, you may actually now should you be infringing on civil liberties. That's the real problem. You're going to take people who are not trained in that. They're a hammer. They're looking for the nail, the nails. It's everywhere and it's all crime.
But you still got to do it the right way if you want to live in America. And I don't think we should cede our our civil liberties because of it. I don't think we should see the Bill of Rights simply because of that. That stuff scary to me. So we're in a balancing act right now. And this is a real important moment because a lot of people are fed up and the instinct is almost always he talked about a
pendulum in there. It swings the the left and the right boundaries of that pendulum are are a problem. The middle is where you want to live, where we're getting the the best out of it one way or another. You could be a little bit on the left, little bit on the right. Either one of those things will get a better option Anyway, This lady saying, you know, people are starting to tell the story.
It needed to be done. It's actually pretty dope to see people make videos from the DC area sharing how peaceful it is now says Trump cleaned up the streets. It's really dope to see in witness. And it's like all over DC, not just the nice areas in the Washington DC area. When I shared on my Facebook page and my IG how there's a lot of people who are really happy with the streets being cleaned up.
Oh, a lot of people that I know where I'm from, which is PG county, they are like, no, it's unnecessary. No, it's this is that. And it's just, you know, for anyone that thinks that this isn't necessary, it really does set in my heart for people who think like that. It's like you just want to think the worst of the worst. Just a negative, negative, nasty, nasty mindset.
And like a lot of these people that have moved like this, they claim they're Christians. They claim they are believers of Christ Jesus and they are moving like that. Literally go on by what the media says, claim these same reports. I've read articles too, and a lot of those articles that I've read about what's going on in DC are very biased and all they are doing is just promoting fear. No one has been racially profiled in DC.
No one has. And I'm not sure where people are getting these reports from besides false media. You know, I'm so glad I became a free thinker, and I'm so glad I have used critical thinking. Yeah. Because if I didn't start doing this, I would have been like everybody else from my hometown because I used to think like that. But the Lord delivered me and I'm so glad that he did. I was carnal minded, I was Luke, I was a lukewarm Christian because of the area where I'm
from. Because when you're living up there, folks just think you just go to church, say Hallelujah, praise the Lord, speak in tongues. But I could go to concerts, I could do this and do that, whatever. It causes confusion within the mind like, and that doesn't please God. So again, I know I just went and left my conversation, but my whole point is I'm happy for everyone in the DMV that feels safe because y'all y'all deserve to feel safe too.
And on the real, that's one of the reasons why I moved away from home. I'm. Gonna cut it there. Isn't that interesting? She immediately went into a faith argument and and what it looked like. How interesting is that? Something about behavior and values being in alignment and then being able to critically evaluate information the minute that you stop. Like, I don't know, worshipping a different God and that God could be government.
That's what I heard. I heard that I used to just accept other opinions and I needed to accept them because that's what was asked of me. She said critical thinking. She's almost there. It doesn't mean that she's 100% there. There are legitimate concerns.
There is a legitimate worry, no questions asked, because when you start saying we're going to start creating National Guard units, we're going to start using military units to stop civil unrest, you're now seeing people trying to solve the problem that existed in 2020. And I think Donald Trump sees it. At least I, I recognize that this is what that looks like. If I had been president in 2020 and I was living here in 2025, I would also see that, you know,
American citizens got activated. They were set up by agents provocateur, and they started acting in ways that were not good. The tool to use is not National Guard units, at least not to me. That sounds scary as hell. That's the wrong tool. I've told you the federal tool is the worst tool. That's my belief. I worked in the federal government. I was in the military. We know that people in the military will follow orders, including unlawful orders,
regardless of being trained. How do we know that? Because we lived through COVID, because we saw what they did in 2020 and 21 and 22 as they continue to kick out people simply for questioning something that they had a right to question for saying you can't force me to take this on, you know, this unapproved medical test. Forget the shots. Let's just go straight down to the the emergency use authorization testing protocols. You were supposed to have a requirement of being able to do
informed consent. President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the Pentagon to create a National Guard unit in Washington, DC, and across the country that would be designated to tamp down on civil protest and ensure public safety, a job historically and legally belongs to civilian law enforcement. This is not good. It's not great. I'll show you what it looks like in a second because all of this stuff can go the other way really quickly.
Critics called Trump's desire to build a kind of rapid reaction force for civil unrest alarming. It is alarming, and that's true. Two things can be true at once. We can recognize that there is a significant problem, and we can also recognize that the answer that is easiest may not be the answer that is best or American.
He wants to push the legal boundaries for the National Guard and Auxiliary Force, whose mission is to help fight foreign enemies abroad or aid Americans in times of extraordinary crisis like hurricanes and floods. What happens when the system that's supposed to do that, groups like FEMA, are not effective? What happens when they're used politically? How about all the people in North Carolina that got left simply because they were likely Trump voters in areas that were likely to vote red?
And they got completely abandoned? And it had to be that private citizens came in despite paying their tax dollars in to try to create this FEMA system. And they found out that there was going to be billions and billions of dollars given in foreign aid, a bunch of money given to countries that are in war, that are not America. And then you go, oh, shoot, we're supposed to trust the federal government to come in and do this. It's already showed us that it's betrayed us.
It showed us in things like the Quiet Skies program, they were created for a totally reasonable idea. Terrorists could get on planes. Terrorists could do bad things. We should try to make sure that we can keep an eye on them. People go, yeah, that sounds good. And then they went, you know who else we don't like? Colcie Gabbard. She's really mean to Obama. She said things that were not nice about Hillary. She thought that Joe Biden was not a great option for
president. Now we got a problem with her. Let's follow her. Let's also follow Kyle Seraphin to El Paso as he goes and drives out to go pick up all of his stuff. Whistleblowers were talking about the Quiet Skies program going back to 2014. My buddy, buddy Peter Johnson has been on this program couple Times Now. It talks about terrorism.
He trains cops for free. He gets paid by companies that make gear for cops so that he can go out there and train cops for free and they can become better shooters, better tactifists, better people who are able to go and do the thing, protect you from force and fraud. Yeah. And what did he say? Yeah. He doesn't work as the federal government's hench men anymore. He left because he saw what they
were doing. And he was like, I'm going to bring this to Congress. They're not going to fix it. I'm not going to participate. I have a similar experience in an executive order signed on Monday.
That was yesterday. Trump called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to designate Army and our Air National Guard members in each state who could rapidly deploy to help federal, state and local government in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate as appropriate under the law. That's the real big key here. Under the law. What, how small is that wiggle room and how likely is it to be abused? My concern is, is it's fairly
likely. And it looks something like this. When it goes wrong, kill the volume. This is a man who's standing in shorts and AT shirt, a dress shirt, whatever, with a phone. He's acting as a quote UN quote citizen journalist. But there is no definition of what a journalist is in the Constitution and certainly not under the Bill of Rights. The word is press. People who publish things are members of the press. And he's being arrested because he's filming now. Was he asked to be stand a few
feet away? Is there some sort of reasonable distance that it should be? Maybe this was on August 23rd at Georgia and Emerson Northwest, that is in Washington, DC. That's what happens when you have an overactive national police force. That's what happens when you use federal tools for a thing that they're not set up to do. Now, DC Metro PD, as I've told you guys, I don't think they're a very good police force and I think they should be completely
gutted and fixed. They're pretty decent at stopping. Here you go. There's another person filming this after. The trials are held. You will all be in jail. You in order. To get on the sidewalk on the. Street and you do not get on the sidewalk and fuck you serious. Am I on the sidewalk? Do you see what's going on there? He's outraged because he expects the system to actually work. He thinks that the system should
work the way it was designed. And that's kind of what I told you about what Bill Taylor had to say. The minute you realize that it doesn't in some small instance or great instance, everything then starts changing. Had a conversation at the pool yesterday with a with a mom. We're talking, she's got a little baby floating around in the pool. I got my little 1-2 years old.
We're floating around in the pool and we were discussing the possibility of there being a serial killer in Austin, TX because we've been told there's not. There's this whole story. If you guys want to get into it and you're a true crime kind of person, go read about the Rainy St. Ripper. I don't know if it's true or not, but what I do know is that a lot of people are asking questions and there is an
official story. No serial killer in Austin, TX, even though you have a bunch of young men in a very particular band of age that are turning up in a very small section of geography, dead from similar circumstances.
Almost all of them being either involved in being at Rainy St. which is a little bar district, or being found in the river right next to Rainy Street. So different circumstances and there's a lot of bodies for an Austin, TX thing in the last couple years, we're like almost 30 bodies. I want to say if turned up in about 3 years. That's a lot in a small area. So normally you'd go, well, what did the police say? The police said the official statement is there's no serial killer.
And then you realize that the police don't want a serial killer and they can't have a serial killer. It's really bad for them. And so anything to say that is not the case and allow the businesses to continue onward and the mayor and the police chief to go ahead and and act like this is all fine. It might be that there's no serial killer, but we don't have trust or faith in our institutions because people have sat there and seen it and they go, oh, got it. We got a real problem here.
We have a loss of public trust and faith in the system. It's gone. So we're having a moment right now. And the moment is all the things that you've done to shame us and tell us that we can't talk about a problem. We're going to do it. I've used the word unscoldable of late. You can tell me that, Oh, you can't say that or like be careful, like don't say things like that. I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm not going to worry about it. I'm going to say things that I
know are true. I know that the people that are on AT VS and they're on dirt bikes in all the cities that were listed yesterday and some of them that we just showed today, they're all young black men. That's not a coincidence. It just turns out to be factually accurate. The joke is, if you wanted me to go give those guys something, they dropped it. What kind of people would I be looking for? Like what? What human beings would I go and
find? Oh, they'd all be between the ages of 15 and 35, and they'd all be black males living in a certain subset of the city. In the same way I can show you the areas where people go get killed in Chicago. There's areas where you're not going to get killed. Statistically, it's not going to happen. And there's areas where you really might be.
It's real. I think that Americans are getting sick of it. They're being, they're sick of being told what they can and can't say, and they're sick of being scolded by people that are wrong. I've got this really fun little clip from CNN. Sometimes CNN has some really good stuff. There's this concept of jumping the shark. It's when you've gone so far that you're now going to do things that are so illogical and so crazy, right?
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And for him to purport lies from the Oval Office as a white supremacist, I don't know. It should be pointed out it's recording. I I want to address what he's. Everything about that was nonsensical. So black woman I agree with, Black woman I don't agree with. It doesn't make a difference when you say things that are crazy. Like it is an objective fact that Stephen Miller is a white supremacist. Is it though? And then you have another person who's sitting there in a white suit.
Do you know anybody that wears a white suit, a little purple handkerchief? Like these people are all doing theater, which we all see. It reminds me more and more of the ridiculous satire moment that happens in the the movie Starship Troopers. It's like Federal News Network. Do you want to know more? Do you want to know more? I'm doing my part, quite frankly, a bug that thinks is offensive, right? You have these fake conflicts and you have these fake experts that go out there and shriek
about things. Stephen Miller is a white supremacist, and it is not journalistic integrity to talk about it. People are tired of that. I think that the scolding has gone so far as to basically just it's, it's made itself unimportant. People cannot take these folks seriously, not in any meaningful way. How could you? How could you look at them and go like, oh, yeah, that's what
it's about? And for whatever reason, because we're talking about Chicago, we're talking about crime, which means we're talking about a black crime. Black people involved in crime, By the way, as I showed you on the hay Jackass, overwhelmingly it's Black people as the victims of said crimes as well, right? We know that. Where's the numbers? Let me pull it up real quick. I'm just going to show it again. There it is.
Boom. OK, 78.3% of the homicide victims in Chicago, Black, overwhelmingly 4 to one men. So the same people, the same subset of folks that are likely to be the offenders are also the ones who are going to be the most damaged by it. It's not good. It's not good for them. It's not good for society, but we have to have because we can't say it. You can't have Laura Ingraham with her, with her face. Go out there. Laura Ingraham who's like a single mom in her 60s at what did she do?
She like adopted like a number of kids, not particularly conservative move, by the way, to be a like, what about the kids? Don't they need a dad? Laura Ingraham, She can't say this. So she'll bring on someone who can. So I'll bring on someone who can. But then I'm going to say what I say anyway. We are not thinking about Pritzker or Brandon Johnson. We just had four mass shootings in a span of one month, 14 people got shot and four dead. We just had senior citizens lane
shot, bleeding in the streets. And let's not forget the gentleman who we saw who was on Facebook Live get robbed and shot while he was sitting in his car. So we don't care about anything these people are saying. Tell Brendan Johnson and Pritzker if Chicago is so safe with Brendan Johnson especially get away to get let's leave his 150 police detail, fire them and walk around with no police
detail and Prisker no security. Come in my community, the South side of Chicago, come over there and let's see you say how safe it is. You can't even sit in your car loan. If you sit in your car, you know that it's a chance you're going to get carjacked, robbed or shot. So tell him to come around in my neck of the woods and talk that she's sitting in a Fox News studio. I just know because I've done that. I've been that person.
You go to a remote studio somewhere and then they beam you in and they put a camera in front of you and they get a backdrop behind you. And there's a hair lady there and a makeup lady. And they come in and they, they touch you up and they make sure you look good on camera and all that. So she did all those things. She's not particularly articulate. Her qualifications are Chicago resident. She's not an expert in anything. She's an aggrieved person.
I'm not mad at what she said. I'm sure she's correct. But they're afraid to say it, aren't they? They're afraid to just have a reporter on the street saying these are the facts. God forbid it be like a white male reporter talking about things that are not particularly racial. They are simply demographic information and they are really obviously true. Boom, there it is. Go look at the hard numbers.
She's right. We did see that video of a guy who got carjacked and shot in the chest over a freaking gold chain for doing a TikTok video in his in his car. He didn't seem particularly educated. He was dropping the N bombs on whatever his stream was to nobody because he wants to be a famous TikTok creator instead of having a job productive. But he should be able to sit in his freaking car, shouldn't he? And have a conversation with nobody. I mean, I'm doing it right now.
You should be able to do this without having someone put a gun in your face. There's another side of it as usual, and this is the best part of it. Then the media has played this up. They've they've, they've jazzed up the feud, the political feud. It could be a major national crisis. It's not a major national crisis. There is just one major sort of question that Americans need to ask. How much of your freedom are you willing to give up to this national authority?
And why did you allow your states to fail so dramatically? That should be the question. Why are you in a situation where your state government calls you my people and it acts like it has ownership, but it doesn't actually have any ability to go and do the thing that you have the social contract with them to do, force and fraud. It's the entire purpose. The federal government's got to have limits. It's supposed to have limits and it regularly does not.
This is why it's not a problem. This is a problem why it is a problem. This is the problem. When you start using the wrong tool. Here's the wrong tool. This is a judge Jeanine, whatever her name is. Pirro is covered by NPRI. Agree with NPR on this. The most illegal search judge pushes back on DC criminal charges. A couple things are true about the story at once.
Veteran defense attorneys and law enforcement experts are warning about the potential for overreach with the government involved and muscling its way in. Policing decisions in the nation's Capitol started 3 weeks ago. They were inside the courthouse on Monday and the tensions broke open. In open court, A judge dismissed a weapons case against a man who's being held in DC Jail for a week, including that he was the subject of an unlawful search.
I wish this judge also understood the unlawful searches that were being done by the FBI right next door. The DC courthouse, the federal courthouse is adjacent to, It's one block away from where the FB is office sits where they do FISA searches all day long that are also illegal searches. It's one of the whistleblower activities I started going back to 2017, the judge says. This is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life.
I could probably top that, just saying, the Magistrate Judge named Zia Farook said. I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this is an illegal search. Maybe, but you've got National Guard troops who only have to have a high school education and high school education is not what it was. I'm just saying. And most people, it turns out, don't have any idea what the Bill of Rights means or what it does. Here's the story.
The judge says that Torres Riley appeared to have been single out because he's a black Capital B Makes me want to puke. No reason. Black man who carried a backpack that looked heavy. Law enforcement officers said in the court papers that they found two weapons in his crossbody bag and he'd previously been convicted of a weapons charge.
So you got 2 problems here. You've got a guy that thinks that he can roll around after being removed from the population and not allowed to carry a gun and he's carrying one. So now you have a felon in possession charge. That's what they're they're, they're dancing around it because it's NPR. But it's a felon in possession charge. And the arrest and the decision to abandon the federal case come at a time when there's heightened scrutiny on police
and prosecutors. Couple things are true. Washington, DC has a serious problem with this dismissing felon in possession charges. My first arrest, my first day out of the Academy for the FBI. It was December 12th of 2016. I'll still remember it. I went into a man's house early
in the morning. He was alleged to have been involved in APCP distribution and production ring, and we found all of the accoutrements that involved the production of PCP in his house, just like the search warrant expected. He was also a felon, convicted all the way back in the early 80s. He had been basically convicted of felonies for as long as I'd been on the planet. And we went in there, and when we searched him and I put the cuffs on him, I asked him, do you have any other weapons?
He said yes. Where are the weapons? They're in my bed. Which one is your bed? It's down the stairs to the left. It's the one that you just, you know, pulled me out of. OK, where am I going to find these weapons? They're in a bag at the foot of the bed, and one of them is under the pillow. Straight description. And then we went and found the guns that he talked about.
DC kicked that case. We did a arrest based on probable cause because he admitted to being a felon in possession of firearms, that they were his in his possession in his home in an unlawful way. I'll tell you more about that in a second cuz I got more problems with that. But just on the plain strokes of the law, the guy was a felon in possession and he was booked on that.
And then they kicked him because we didn't do adna swab to confirm with DNA evidence that the guns that he claimed were his and identified to us as his and told us where they were in his room, in his house, in his bed. We didn't tie them to him with DNA. So the DC Circuit kicked it. I'm sorry, it's the DC Superior Court because it was actually done in the the Superior Court. That's the local version of DC crime. The District is the is the federal version.
They kicked it. It was a lawful search warrant. It was a place where we were lawfully able to be and we lawfully determined through a search incident to arrest and his admission that he was a felon in possession and he got away with it. That seems problematic. It fell right through. So that guy's running around. But here's the other problem, because you guys know I don't, I don't ever just cut right down the middle and say, well, felons, felon, shouldn't have guns.
I actually think that if you're a felon and you served your time, you should be able to own a gun. Either you are safe enough to be a human being and a citizen in this country and not in jail, or you're not. I don't understand how the Second Amendment doesn't apply to you. There's no carve out there that says, well, if you previously have been convicted of a serious crime, then you are now no longer able to do it.
Either you are safe enough to be a citizen, you should be able to vote, you should be able to carry a gun, or you shouldn't be free in our sentences should reflect that. But that's not the world we live in because our government no longer does the thing that it was designed to do. It doesn't protect you from force and fraud. It's sort of serves some half assed purpose and more. What it does is it serves the purpose of government.
When we talk about a self licking ice cream cone and it can apply to any level of government. When we talk about a self licking ice cream cone, we're talking about something that doesn't exist for the purpose that it was created. Why do we make ice cream? Because it tastes delicious and we want to give it to our children and we want to give them a treat or reward when it's hot outside. Ice cream is awesome.
But what if ice cream only existed for its own sake or for the sake of the damn cone that it was on? You're like, why do we make ice cream? Well, we go, why do we go through the process of churning milk and and cream and and sugar and and salt? Why do we put that all through this process to come up with something and you go, oh, well, it's because it looks really good on top of the cone and the cone really likes it. And then the ice cream really likes the cone.
What the purpose of government right now often times comes back to something really simple. It actually just does the job for its sake of itself and it doesn't serve its original purpose. When you have task and purpose divorce from each other, you got a real problem and we have a real problem in this country. So this is the alternative.
Jeanine Pirro is the is the United States Attorney for the District of DC And theoretically she's the one who sort of like allowed this case to move forward. This should be a Terry. This should be a Terry type decision. You've got it thrown out. And and the judge, I don't think is wrong, says he spent a dozen years as a prosecutor from the same office that brought those charges and says we don't just charge people criminally and
then say, oops, my bad. I'm at a loss at how the United States Attorney's office thought it was appropriate to charge this in any court, let alone in a federal court. And then you've got the United States Attorney hero saying something that's also true. This judge has a long history of bending over backwards to release dangerous felons in
possession of firearms. And frequently, on occasions, he has downplayed the seriousness of the felons in possession of firearms and the danger they pose to our community. Those are not mutually exclusive categories, people. We're in a moment when people are actually recognizing, hey, two things could be true at once. Our justice system is not doing justice in the way that it's supposed to. And also like it needs to, it actually needs to go and do that thing.
And that's why I think so many people are backing out of this stuff and just going like, what is the right answer? I assure you, it's not the federal government coming in and doing it. But in a short term manner, it might actually be needed. And yet it needs to be constrained by the Constitution. And that's how you're going to find out. That the National Guard is not the right answer because they're not trained for that.
If you take a tool that is designed for something, it will do the thing it's designed to do. The military is not designed to go do law enforcement, and it never has been outside of the small number of units that actually do. And even military justice is different. I'm seeing interesting stuff in our chat talking about how gun ownership is a privilege. Don't give me that. It's really explicit. I know that some people don't want to just listen to English,
but it's there. All right, And lighter news, the biggest story that actually was punched out. And I'm going to end with a couple of stories here that that got punched out. Actually, let's take a quick break and do the Spotify commercial that's just going to take one or two seconds here. So there we go. The, the amusing thing for me is that the biggest story across all of the news sites, it wasn't this Trump Pritzker thing outside of CNN who's trying to drum up controversy.
The biggest story is that Donald Trump said he's fired the Federal Reserve chair board member. This is one of the the Board of Governors, a woman named Lisa Cook. That's the biggest thing. And they are all outraged. You know why? Because she's a black female. How dare he. Now she's a black female that is credibly accused of mortgage fraud. So there's that. She hasn't been adjudicated as such, but I could see why that would be a problem for an administration.
She was appointed by Biden. She's supposed to be in office until 2038. She was appointed in 2022. And this is his latest, like a mix up with the Federal Reserve. The funny thing is, I was having this discussion yesterday with my wife. Everybody says if they had a time machine, this is like the classic Lib thing. We we actually played a Babel on B thing about it, right? If you had a time machine, would you go back and kill Hitler
'cause he was so bad? And the answer might be, I think if you're on the political right and you've been paying attention to what's going on, I think Woodrow Wilson was the real villain, like way before Hitler was a villain.
I'd go back earlier. That's just me because the Federal Reserve and the passing of the 16th and the 17th and then eventually the 18th and 19th, like all these amendments that were that were passed during that time period before World War One and going into like right at right at World War 2. Those are the those are the destruction of our Republic. And I think we've been living in whatever the the the the next stage is right. We had a some sort of like pre Civil war America.
Yeah, that's true post Civil War America. And then once you hit that World War One era, there's this like a real strange period in there where everything went off the rails and the American Republic is no longer what it was designed to be. It's far more democratic than it was meant to be. And the system doesn't work as a democratic system. It was meant to work as a Republic, as representative, but not in the same way.
Not to wreck representation. In any case, they're very upset that Lisa Cook has been reserved from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Remember, that's not in the Constitution either. That was an act of Congress in 1913. Oh, another 1913 problem. Yes, 16th, 17th. We'll read it in a second here.
The president announced Cook's removal from the federal, from the federal board, or the Fed board rather, in a letter posted to True Social, which is probably not great, and accused Cook of making false statements on mortgage documents. Said they were gross negligence, potentially criminal. There's been a referral over there by 1 of Trump's whatever agencies that is looking into this kind of thing. I mean, he should pretty much be buttoned up on this.
But I was kind of interested because they're very upset because she's a black woman who was removed from this. And he and everybody has to be real careful about how they talk about it. But I want to be real specific when we look at it because we've had some dusts up with Jerome Powell in the Trump administration as well. And so I was real curious. I was like, who is Lisa Cook, who is Jerome Powell? Let's go to a left-leaning site and figure out what they're all about.
What is it? What is their story? Well, Lisa Cook is an American economist who was sworn in as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2022. She's the first Black woman to sit on the board. We have to get that up front. Got to let him know she's the first Black woman ever. So exciting.
As if that mattered. She was previously a professor of economics and international relations at Michigan State University, very prestigious school, Michigan State University. She was a member of the American Economic Association of Executive Committee. She's an authority, an authority on international economics, especially the Russian economy. That's why she's in charge of
dealing with the Fed, I'm sure. And she was asked to advise the Obama administration in the Nigerian and Rwandan government issues. Her research is the intersection of macroeconomics and economic history with recent work in African American history and innovation economics. She's regarded as one of the few prominent black female economists and has attracted attention within academia for efforts in mentoring black women. Everything about what I just heard says you're probably not
competent. So I think, well, at least she probably works for some investment banks and knows how money works, right? She didn't just spend her entire time in academia, did she? Oh, wait. She was a visiting professor at the Kennedy School at Harvard. From 97 to 2002, She was the deputy director of Africa research in Harvard's Center for International Development to 2000 to 2001, she was a senior advisor on finance for the United States Treasury Council on Foreign Relations National
fellow. She spent her whole time she she advised the Nigerian government in banking reforms in 2005. That's actually what I'm hoping that the United States can take after Nigeria. If we could just get what the Nigerians are up to, we'd be great. In O 5, she joined Michigan State and she's been an A assistant professor, a tenured professor ever since she started Obama's administration Council of Economic Advisers. She makes her living in academia.
Now, I'm no big fan of Jerome Powell, but let's let's talk about Jerome Powell for a second because it's really easy. He's a lawyer, doesn't have a PhD in economics. And it turns out that as a lawyer, he spent most of his time working in investment banking, you know, moving money around from 84 to 90 to 1990. He was working at an investment bank called Dylan Reed, which is now running by UBS. He concentrated on finance, banking, mergers, acquisitions.
He was a vice president. He worked for the Treasury for a couple years and he went back, he worked for, he involved some investigation, I'm sorry, he had some negotiations with Warren Buffett, Salomon Brothers, just scanning through this, he was a managing director of Bankers Trust and he got involved some sort of like scam, some derivative transactions went back to Dylan Reed. He was at The Carlyle Group, he's at the Carlisle US buyout fund.
He worked in private equity for a group that was called Global Environment Fund. He was at a think tank for a little bit. You know, like he worked in the business. Not a big fan of the Fed in general. Not a big fan of people who want to move around and, and do quantitative easing and then print off a bunch of dollars to be able to like solve their their economic problems with their with political background. But at least he worked around money.
He spent all of his time around it as opposed to a lady who just wrote about it. All the papers, by the way, that you find from Lisa Cook, pretty much useless. They all kind of have that same look. I love it. The chat says she looks like Latissa James. Yeah, she really does. Looks a lot like her. In any case, that was the big story that hit ABCCBSA handful of other outlets, NBC, They were all really, really upset that the first black woman ever was
removed. Nothing about whether or not she was doing a good job. Nothing about whether the the accusations that were about, you know, that were made about her were credible or anything else. It's hard to take it all seriously. There she is CBS story. So it goes down to this problem that I see overwhelmingly across all these agencies. I'm going to sum up my thoughts having had a weird morning start up. This is the meme. All right, y'all, The meme looks
like this reform, right? Clean up that look. There we go. Reform, but with the same guys. Hear me out. That's Don Draper, right? He's a famous character. He's Jon Hamm doing the Mad Men routine. He's pitching the advertisement. We're going to do reform of government, of the way the National Guard works, of the DoD, of the DOJ, of the DHS, but we're going to use all the same people in it. Do you remember? I read you previously that Machiavelli actually talked about this.
Exile or execution are really the only ways that you can turn over in government if you actually want to fix it. Anybody that that like opposes what you were going to do and believes in the old way and continues on to the next regime is just going to wait you out. It doesn't matter whether we're talking about quote UN quote, administrative or deep state folks that are working in the FBI, the folks that are at the DOJ that are going to go out there and bring bad prosecutions
to embarrass you. It doesn't matter if it's the folks that are going to put the pilot in front of the FBI director who used to previously investigate the current president of the United States with Jack Smith and special counsel. Like can we? Can we just agree that you cannot do reform with the same people? It doesn't work. And that's going to be the biggest problem that you're going to see the Trump administration do it because we don't actually have the ability to go gut government.
But we've already proven under multiple different regimes, multiple administrations have proven to us, the government is not serving the interest of the people that voted for it. Even for the folks that cry about democracy, it serves the interest of the government that keeps doing it. In the private sector, there's actually consequences for being bad at your job. Generally speaking, that doesn't exist when we talk about what goes on in the in the public
sector. So I want to end with a couple funny little thoughts here because the other story that continues to make a bunch of headlines is the story of the Cracker Barrel changing their freaking look and their logo. And you're not supposed to be able to talk about it.
But I think the same idea where you got to go find a black lady from South side of Chicago to be able to talk about crime on the South side of Chicago, that you have to have certain types of people have to look a certain way to be able to have an authorized opinion. I think Americans are getting sick of it. And I think that the loss of dollars from the Cracker Barrel rebrand, which is the dumbest thing in the world, I can't stand Cracker Barrel.
I think their food is terrible. Like, why would you go to Cracker Barrel in a world that has Waffle House? I don't get it. But I will tell you that this sort of like frustration that people had, it is a real specific moment. And I think it's I think it's important for us to recognize what it is. And we should also recognize it in a funny way because if we just sit here and just like mope, it's too much. So let's laugh about this guy's take on Cracker Barrel.
I think we can all sort of see it and it is a a moment when people in America are becoming unscoldable. You can't tell me that that 90s thing about political correctness, like that's an opinion that may be true and it may be funny, but you can't say it. For some reason. We're done with it. Yesterday I said, I think that Donald Trump was one of the people that actually ended up killing white guilt.
It's only because he he more, more than likely he actually recognized that white guilt needs to be dead. And the lady from CNN claiming that Stephen Miller with no particular facts, just her opinion, saying that it's a fact that Stephen Miller is a white supremacist because she doesn't like what he has to say. That time's over you, you have no power here anymore. We're not.
We're not interested. And what needs to happen then is that you hiring managers and you people that own companies, you need to just realize that human beings should be human beings and they shouldn't be tiptoeing around their damn words simply because someone who's incompetent has the job around them. They should be able to say it. Yeah, you should be able to say things that are true as long as they're true and they're not said specifically to hurt the
feelings of someone. They should be said because they are, in fact, factly accurate. Like 78.3% of the people that are shot and killed in Chicago are black men. Factual, that's a thing we should be able to say, who kills them? Overwhelmingly other black men. That should be something that we can talk about. Does it matter that they're black? It kind of does to the people that are getting killed, I think, because they kind of have a warning of what it looks like.
And so you can't scold me over that and I won't take it. I'm not going to be like, you know, told that, that we need to whitewash the entire society. And I do hate Cracker Barrel. That's the best part about having my my folks sitting in their chat this morning. Let me play you something funny. Let's have a laugh about it. All right?
This guy's got it down. We want, we want some nostalgia about and, and this is not nostalgia about like slavery, racism, Jim Crow, or any of that other nonsense. It's about like having a sense of humor and realizing that the world is unjust and there's a lot of bad things and we can still have friends and neighbors and get along and have a good time. Let's have some good times. Here it is. Sauce on the Internet.
Dude said he ate in a remodeled Cracker Barrel and he hated it, and I want to join in on the hate. If the Cracker Barrel don't look like the Jim Crow SI, can't eat there. You got to have the racism aesthetic. You got to have the rocking chairs and the hint of segregation in the air. If I don't feel like I'm on the set of sinners, then how do I know I'm in a Cracker Barrel? This, this is a gentrified Cracker Barrel. They don't took all the character out of it. And I know the edges of the
pancake ain't burnt. I got to feel like somebody wants to say good morning, boy, when I go in with respect and no and no respect at all. I feel like they want me to work there, but they don't want to pay me ever, and I've got to live there. That's Cracker Barrel's thing. If you take that away, what is it at Denny's? IHOP, a place I don't want to be at? I asked this question. I think I probably know the
answer. What if all the customers are coming at you hard enough about the look of the restaurant and they want to go back to the old way? Would you do it? Honestly, the feedback's been overwhelmingly positive that people like what we're doing. I'll give you another sound bite. I actually happened to be in Orlando last week with all of our managers. We bring them together and once every other year. And the number one question that I got asked Michael was how can I get a remodel?
When can I get a remodel? How do I get on the list? So because the, the feedback and the buzz is so good, not only from our customers, but from our team members, they want to work in a in a wonderful restaurant. So we're doing everything for our guests and our team members. We're doing Messina. It's wonderful to have you here. Thank you for answering those questions for all the Cracker Barrel fans out there. Yeah, yeah. That's a woman that's never had
anyone tell her the truth. That's that's what that was. that Lady looks just like the FBI executive that canceled me and canceled Phil Kennedy and canceled Gerardo Boyle and canceled Steve Friend and canceled Marcus Allen and canceled a dozen other people whose names you don't know. Same exact look. They all look the same. Why is it because no one ever told them that? They got scolded and they realized that they weren't actually able to say the truth? They're awful.
You guys in the chat know what it is. Affluent, white, female, liberal. Awful. Nobody ever told her the truth, $100 million of their of their, their market cap gone. Dropped. Stock prices tanked. Because you suck, Because people want whatever that is, like people like Cracker Barrel for whatever reason. All right, that's the show. I gave you a pal cleanse. I'm going to give you 2 because today was kind of heavy.
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He's not allowed to go and poke fun at black women. He's certainly not allowed to fire 1 without getting national headlines everywhere. But there is a group of men that can actually go back and it's a man that looks like this. You guys can hear from his voice what he looks like. You can hear from his impression of the woman that he's talking about what she looks like and you can't see her. This is one of my favorite little routines that I've seen
of late. This is a man who, if you first looked at him, you might judge a book by his cover. He has a he has a doctorate degree in pharmacy. He's a pharmacist and he's still got like sleeve tattoos. He reminds me of like my buddy Dave. Dave looks like a dude. You'd be like that guy probably
could be real problematic. And he turns out to be introspective and talented and, and articulate and he ends up having the same values as me. But if you look at me like, oh, he might be one of those dudes that would be riding, you know, like a motorcycle through, through Baltimore, doing it, doing wheelies at 12:00. We don't have to judge the book by the way it looks. But we should also not ignore
some of these other things. Here's some fun about what happens when you can actually tell more about the way they talk. And you tell me if when a woman comes in asking for her subscriptions at the pharmacy, I know we're already going to have a problem. I walk in the pharmacy, open up the pharmacy. There's this lady standing there with her arms crossed. She goes, You work here? I said. No, I'm just back here stealing some. How can I help you? What a attitude.
She's like who you is, but I had to be professional because I'm the pharmacist. So I said, ma'am, I is the pharmacist. How can I help you? I'm here to pick up my subscription, I said. So which magazine? She's like, I don't want no magazine, I want my medicine. I said. Oh, prescription. She's like same thing. I. Was like, not really, I said, ma'am, what's your date of birth? Why? So I could plan you a birthday party? What do you mean? Why? I'm trying to find your
prescription. When's your birthday? In a couple of weeks, I said. Ma'am, forget it. What's your name? She's like Tequasia brown, I said. Spell it like the color. Ma'am. I have a doctor degree. I know how to spell brown. How do you spell Tequasia? She's like capital T, Lower a dash. Capital QUSHIA. I'm thinking to myself, did she give me her name on her Wi-Fi password? I said OK, ma'am, I looked. I can't find anything.
Do you sure they sent it here? She's like, well, the doctor sent it to CVS, but this was closer. I walk in the pharmacy, open up the pharmacy. There's this lady standing there with her arms crossed. That's the loop. His name is Lavar Walker. LAVAR Lavar Walker. And he does have a PhD in pharmacy. I don't know. I just needed that today. Sometimes you just need it.
That guy's in my tribe. But if I looked at him right off the bat and I saw that he had neck tattoos and, like, sleeves, I'd be like, oh, got to watch out. I learned sometimes, like, people that surprise you, you know, so that's fine. There are plenty of people out there that defy the stereotypes, but there's a reason why we have
them. I don't think anybody would, anybody that I know that has neck tattoos, that has become a friend of mine would never once begrudge me for looking at somebody with neck tattoos because they also look at people with neck tattoos and go, oh, that's an interesting choice you've made. Are you a felon? Are you a undercover cop? Or you just really love your wife so much that you needed like foreign script across your neck and the guy who that's about knows who I'm talking
about. All right, folks, thanks for joining us. If you stick around here, I'll give you guys over to the American Radicals podcast. You can go join a couple of FBI whistleblowers who also understand, who have their own take on things, specifically
frustrated and look forward. If you're not following this channel, you're going to miss out on that interview with Bill Taylor. And I think you need to hear it because you should hear it from somebody who retired, who made it to the end of the line at the FBI and still feels the same way and thinks maybe we shut that thing down. We're at a special moment in this country. I hope that we take advantage of it.
I hope we do it in a Safeway that doesn't involve the government coming in and killing us all, because that's also a real possibility. And God bless you regardless of what goes on. Looks forward to seeing you again tomorrow. It's going to be a big week, I think for the suspendables and luckily Cash Patel's hanging out in in Scotland for that. So all right, we'll see you again very soon. Have a fantastic day.
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