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Thoughts, questions, feedback, you know the routine and always include that adoration and praise. You can also reach out via text three one seven two one zero twenty eight thirty three one seven two one zero two eight three zero. So here we are. It's Wednesday. The reports are that Governor Ron De Santis later today. In fact, I think I saw in an article at Fox News let's see here, that De Santis is going to announce his
candidacy for president. That's the anticipation here via well with Elon Musk. I think on Twitter is that what I'm let me read the headline here for to Governor Rond de Santis to announce candidacy for president. Wednesday on Twitter. According to sources at Fox News. Take from that what you will, but that is what is being reported. And so here we go. Now we have a real campaign. I suppose on our on our hands. Now I've been clear what I think should happen, and I want to be clear that you
know why I think that I'm not. You know, there's people out there that prefer Trump over to Santis. There are people out there that prefer the Santis over Trump. There are people who look at this Republican presidential nomination process and they think, well, this candidate is more appealing to the masses, or this candidate is more serious on these particular issues, or you get the idea. There's five hundred ways of getting to an opinion on this. And
so I know that opinions and emotions can run strong. I will say what I think, and I when I say think, I mean think with my rain this. You know, one of the biggest fears when you do something like this program is to be is to be misunderstood. I have to tell you, I don't UM the good bad guy. He's the he pulls clips and puts puts them on social media. UM, and he does a great job by the way I want to be clearly does a great job. But there's a part of me, a part of me that doesn't like doesn't like
a clip to be used because and I gotta get over this. I understand we live in a sound bite society, but there's a part of me that doesn't like a sound bite or a clip because it is not within its full
context. Before we aired the program today, I was reading some some verses to oz Heres, Biblical verses, and you got to be careful anytime you even read a verse from the Bible, because context is it matters a lot, right, And so we have to be we have to be careful from interpreting something without the proper context of the larger picture of what's of what is being of what is being said. So I want to make sure that you understand the full context I when I say, and I've said this, and
I stand by this. At this particular point in time, I believe that the best thing that could happen is for there to be a second term for Trump, and there to be two consecutive terms for the Santis following the second year of the second term, I guess of Trump, that's what I think and there's reasons. I think this, there's reasons. Now do those reasons are they etched in stone? No? I don't think that they're etched in stone. You've also heard me come in here and say that I think de
Santis. I think that this is a strategic mistake. I think that Trump will win the nomination. But we've got a nomination process, a primary process to go through, and that is not to be I do not want to be misunderstood here. That is not to be any interpreted as any sort of slight toward Rhonda Santis. I mean, we are my son says he is an honorary How does he say that as an honorary Floridian? Is that what he says? He says. We've been down here now for I don't know,
three months or so. He says he's an honorary Floridian. And we got to feel that way, and in spite of what the NAACP says, which we went through that earlier this week, where they said Florida is hostile to Black Americans or black visitors or people of you know, minority status, the LGBTQ community and all this other garbage that's being espoused over there. In spite of that fantasy world rhetoric, this is a state. There is a state that's well run. It is. It's not perfect. There's no such
thing as a perfect state. That's why, again, the Founders wrote in the Constitution in order to form a more perfect union. We have never achieved perfection. We're trying to become closer to the ideal, but we'll never achieve that this side of heaven because of human nature. The Founders understood that as well. So, but we've got context that matters here. And the context
is I think the worst. I think there's nothing that the left, there's nothing that the bureaucratic state, the deep state, the swamp, whatever you want to call it. There's nothing they fear more than a second term of Trump. Now, I don't mean that to be misunderstood, and I don't want you to think that I'm saying they are not afraid of the santasy. That's not my point. But I mean Trump has had well four he will have had four years to stew over this, four years to plan about this,
four years of it of living in a world. If you listen to his version of what he thinks happened in twenty twenty four years after he will have told you he has had an election stolen from him. Now you don't agree or disagree with that, I'm just trying to paint the picture that we are going to have Trump hit the ground. I think running, and I think that is an absolute necessity. I think if you come into DC and
I'm not. Again, I'm not implying that De Santis thinks this. I think De Santis is quite aware of what we are facing in this country today. But I also think that there is no matter no matter how much you're aware of that, folks, let me just use myself to remove the emotions. Pause. Not that I have any interest in doing this, no interest in running for any office. I'm just inserting myself to take the emotions out because I want this to be seen Logically, if I were elected to go
into Washington, DC as president, be a darn good president. By the way, have no interest. I'm just having fun here. But if I went in, I would not have any idea. I have an idea of the types of corruption and evil that exists within our government. But on the other hand, I still think it would blow my mind. In another sense,
I think Trump is immune to that part of it. And you only get a four year term, and if you're a first year president, you start campaign, you're gonna start campaigning just a little over the midway point for the second term, and in many instances or you know, just past that midway point. Although we're waiting, has Biden launched his campaign or not. I've seen I've seen that they've announced it, but just kind of I'm not
really sure what what's going on with Biden. Of course I never am to be quite candid, but normally this is I mean, we're in the time frame where people begin to announce. We're squaring up for you know, in what eight months is that right? Eight months? We're going to start the primary process early in twenty twenty four, which is here we are at the end of May. So anyhow, so we've got We've got this. I think it's important that we have a president that's ready, and I mean ready,
ready day one. Again, I do not want to be misunderstood. I'm not saying to Santis isn't ready. I think Trump's experience, it's having walked in the shoes as the president, does matter. I think it does. Now again, I think DeSantis would be fine as well. I know some of you have problems with DeSantis. You're concerned about some of the people who have coalesced around the Santis um and I understand that concern, and I think we should all be wary when we see some of the Paul Ryan types
um kind of congregating around a candidate. But we also have to think in terms of they hate Trump an awful lot. So if they think DeSantis is the only person that can beat him, which I think that is the case, I think I think this is Trump's to win, or I should say Trump's to lose, it's his, it's I think. I think if Trump runs a good campaign, I think it's his to win. I think that DeSantis can also beat him, but I think he's got a little bit of
a harder path. I think these other folks that are jumping into the race, the Tim Scots, the Nicky Haley's, the Pence I think I've seen he's he's going to run, and so forth. I think that their goal, their objective is to maybe be there in case there's a complete blood bath between Trump and the Santis metaphorical of course, for the sensitive leftists who may
have been tuned in today. I'm not meaning that literally, just the metaphorical political blood bath that may happen between these two big personality and big personality.
It's going to be entertaining, to say the least. So I think there are some people who think if they beat the snot out of each other enough, maybe there's an opportunity or maybe just the national recognition will get them a seat at the you know, in one of the whether it's the Trump administration, either one god willing, the Trump or De Santis administration, maybe have a seat at that table, or just you know, have have a new
position. I think I think that there's some of that going on as well, because there's just no way, there's no way if you're in the Nicky Hayley camp, to Tim Scott camp, the Mike Pence camp, short of divine intervention, for any one of these folks, that that is a that they will be the president, or that even the nominee for that matter, it will beat Trump or to Santis. I suppose there's a slim chance that the scenario I painted that they beat the ever loving heck out of each other,
that can happen. But again that I think is a long shot. I do think that there are some openings that Trump has given to De Santis. I did see that Trump was attacking the six week abortion ban, and Trump, excuse me, de Santis stands up for that. I think that that is a real issue for many conservatives, many Republicans, many pro life folks in the Republican Party that could get their attention. Trump thinks that that's way too early. To Santis defends it. You know, Trump calls De
Santis to sanctimonious. I think that that's a bad idea. But then again, I mean, this is what Trump does and who Trump is, so that's going to probably continue. But you look at polling and Trump is massively ahead of De Santis. Now I understand again that Trump's name recognition, the energy behind him, the way that he fills stadiums and these speeches and so forth, when he does his little dances up on stage or whatever else that he does. This is a big thing, right. I mean, there's
a lot of energy and momentum. In some ways, we are watching before our very eyes with Trump, something that is a once in a lifetime political sort of situation where he's remained so popular among his base to where I mean, he just basically continued right through twenty twenty or twenty twenty one when Biden assumed office. I mean, Trump's been in the spotlight ever since. I was at this convention down here in Orlando. Um, I guess it would
have been Monday. Monday. It was Monday, and there was a group there. I think it's just the news. I think that was the group. If I'm wrong, that's not my intent. But they had a you know, a little boot out there in the four year outside of this conference. It was set up day. They were broadcasting live from the event and they had Trump. Now Trump wasn't there, but Trump called in presumably I
guess from from Marlago. I don't know where Trump was. But the point is, you know that that sort of thing doesn't happen to presidents whom It didn't happen to George HW. Bush when he was president. It didn't happen with Jimmy Carr, well he was a one term president. Didn't happened with Jimmy Carter after he lost the nineteen eighty election to Ronald Reagan. It didn't happen, right, So these are we're living in politically interesting times, to
say the least. I've got more thoughts about this, but I do think Trump has opened the crack in the door for De Santis to potentially take care of it. As far as winning the nomination, I still think it's a long shot. Again, this is not I don't even want you to read into my preferences, meaning which one I like better. I just think strategically in my head, I think that it makes more sense to try to get twelve years out of this. And because the Santis is young, Trump is
there to finish what he started. He's going to be ready. Oh, I got some thoughts about it. I'll talk Sharon on the other side of the break, but the time out is in order. My friends, you're listening here to conservative not better talk. I am your host, the one, the only toad half back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. I gotta tell you I was talking with Oz during the break as
she comes back into the studio here. I thought Oz was gonna would disagree with my assessment that I laid out there in the first the first segment. I thought Oz was gonna say De Santis is the person that we need and the truth is. I think I think she and I see it the same way. It's not. Again, it doesn't mean that we I'll speak for myself that I prefer Trump personally or whatever, or that I preferred to Santis.
The issue, to me is really strategic. I think it needs to be made in the head and there's a case to be made for de Santists almost understand me. And if the Santis is the nominee, count me in. I mean, I'm in with this. I'm not going to be tremendously upset or something. I just I do think that makes more strategic sense for Trump. That being said, he's also left opportunities. He's he's left the door cracked, and I think one of them was this comment about abortion,
the six week ban on abortion. Another is his term his using the name
to sanctimonious. I just think it worked in twenty sixteen in large part because I think that there's a there's a group of people out there, and I would include myself in this, and I'm guessing many some many most of you I don't know exactly the breakdown, who have been watching politics for a long time and you understand or you have the same opinion that I have, which is there's two problems with Republicans. One they're either not conservative enough, or
two they are just a bunch of whimps. So they pretend to be conservative, but then when push comes to shove, they are not. This is where people like met Romney come into play. In the past, people like John McCain in the past, or currently people like Todd Young Senator in my state, people like Eric Holcombe who still hunkered down as far as I know,
governor of Indiana. And there's a lot of moderate type of folks, and of course campaign season comes around, and I mean they're they're pounding their chest, they're acting like they're the most conservative and principled people on the face of planet Earth. But they just want to be reelected and have the position and all this sort of stuff. Yeah, I would at least I would respect these folks more if they just said, you know what, I'm just
not as conservative. I don't think, you know, I think this about this issue. I at least have a respect for Bernie Sanders. I do. I think I think Bernie Sanders is convinced of the lunacy that runs around in his head that socialism or as he would put at democratic socialism is better, but I at least respect that. Tell me what you think. Don't
play games, don't be a professional deceiver, don't be as sophist. Don't be someone that campaigns to get vote, you know, just to get the votes to secure your position, and then do nothing that you're going that you told us you were going to do. It's one of the sickening parts of politics, no matter the party, no matter the candidate. I mean, well, I guess it matters the candidate, but a lot of times it doesn't a lot of It's the way that it is for a lot of these
these candidates. So um, but I think, what what I don't know that Trump. Trump's a very savvy guy, right, He's a very savvy guy, but I don't know if he fully appreciates the concept. See he came in as and he's not ideological, which was I think one of the reasons why many conservatives were late to the game with Trump. And by the way, folks, I don't want to comment on I don't really comment on what other people who have platforms say, consume conservatives are so called conservatives say.
But it's amazing to me how a certain there's a lot of folks that were never Trumpers in twenty sixteen. They eventually came around in twenty twenty, and here they are talking about twenty twenty four. And again I'm not saying, you know that they're wrong on saying to Santis is the right pick, But I still think it's a little because they don't understand Trump, or understand
what he does, or don't like his style. And again I'm understanding to a point, but I think if you're too picky on that, it demonstrates the possibility that you should rethink just how serious this fight is that we're facing. Because we aren't in a fight for the survival of the republic, not in the way that Biden and the left talk about, not because white supremacists are running out there trying to overthrow the government and stage a coup, a
tar or whatever, an insurrection on January sixth. But instead, we have an ongoing, methodical process that is basically designed to well destroy the the the the morality I guess of this country. That's why things like Hollywood and education, that that's why there's an all out assault on reason, on decency. This is where the trans movement comes from This is where the and I'm telling
you these are these are spiritually based sorts of things. These are you know, the Bible says we don't wage against our battles against flesh and blood. These are There's there's that applies today. Now there are some things that are disagreements about politics, but there are there's also a battle, a battle for the hearts, minds, and souls of of Americans, and that that leads into a lot of these fights, a whole lot of these fights today.
That's why I think a lot of churches of churches they've they've basically decided they're not going to get involved in politics. And I respect the idea of what not getting involved in true politics, but politics has hijacked everything. Politics has actually taken over things at the Bible and that people of faith actually have should have opinions on from a spiritual perspective, and they should be able to voice those their perspective and so forth, and but they haven't. They haven't because
they've been intimidated or whatever. And now we've got this cultural ride everywhere, even up to and including and even many or some or many of our churches anyway. But I don't think so that's all going on in the background. And so there are people that have seen this. They don't like this, they're bothered by this, and they saw Trump come onto the scene, and they may have been skeptical at first. Then when he first came down the escalator, I gotta be honest, I was a little bit like, oh
boy, this is gonna be something else. But it didn't take long for me to start listening to what he said and then to realize I see the fight necessary to see it through. And so while he's not an ideological person like most conservatives are, he ends up on the conservative sides of a conservative side of issues many times because he kind of operates from a common sense,
business sort of perspective. I think there are some principles he still needs to get a better grasp of, but he's not ideological, and as such, I think he has how do I say this? I think maybe he clearly understands that he has a personal movement, but it's greater. It's even greater than him at this point. And that's why I would say to him, mister President, And if I was in that room, I would be very careful in the way that I attacked the Santis because DeSantis is part of this
movement. Now, the right way to look at this is to say, you know what, De Santis followed my lead, and he can, by extension, he can be good at following my lead in twenty twenty eight as well. I think that's the way to deal with this because I think that's what many of us. Many of us see De Santis has adopted many of the mannerisms, the hand gestures, the way that he deals with the reporters.
Now he has a fiery side too, And I don't want to say that it's all something that he's emulated from Trump, but Folks, some of these things that he's some of the movements and the cadence that he has adopted over the course of time, I think can directly be traced to what he witnessed from Trump. And I'm okay with that. I am. I'm not meaning that critically. I'm just saying the right way for the larger movement is
to not cause World War three metaphorically between Trump and the Santas. It's for Trump to be able, and that's why I wish the Santas honestly wouldn't wouldn't run right now, even though I'm okay with him one and if that makes sense to you, But if he's gonna run, um, I just I think that that could potentially hurt him in twenty twenty eight because there's so many people that once they run into that buzz saw of Donald J. Trump politically
speaking, of course, they've it's hard to it's hard to rebound from that. It really is Marco Rubio small hands or little little Marco. Isn't that what he called him? I mean, he just has a way of doing this, and it may be juven I'm not defending it. I'm just saying
he's a buzz saw. And where many people are willing to look past a lot of that because they understand that you have to have a fighter who's principled, who understands that there are people and systems and hold departments in the government that really need to be either eliminated or completely revamped from from the top down, and so having that fight, having that willingness to take those things head on from day one, I would even say before day one. That's that's
where I think Trump has the advantage. But he only has it. I think he begins to lose some of it if he makes it him versus the Santas, because really the truth I know it is for the primary if the Santa stows his name in today as he says he's going to, or as it is reported, and as we presume he will. But it's really a movement, a movement now, and Trump wouldn't like me saying this, but it's greater than Trump, folks. It is this, greater than Trump.
That's why we need other people. We need people like I'm filling the blank. I don't want to throw names out, but I will say to Santa since he's in in this particular conversation. So those are my thoughts on that. Timeouts in order, my friends. When we get back, I want to talk about why US senators maybe getting issued satellite phones. This could be something of interest to you. I think you'll want to hear it. We'll talk about it on the other side of the break, my friends. Sittight
back here in just a minute. Back, my friends, So before the break, I alluded to a story that you may or may not have seen. I'm looking at it here in the Western Journal dot com headline US senators are being issued satellite phones and preparation or quote, a disruptive event. I think at the time that this article was published, let's see I think I saw let's look here signing numerous of people familiar with the matter. CBS News
reported all one hundred senators were recently offered the phones. More than fifty took Senate Sergeant at Arms Karen Gibson up on the offer. The network reported that Gibson, she's the sergeant of Arms, said the phones were offered last month as a means to quote ensure a redundant and secure means of communication during a disruptive event. So one could say, Okay, is this just something that they have been thinking about and you know, this is just the latest step,
or or oh is there a reason for them? Or does this, I guess, indicate the possibility that there is a problem that they're not telling us about, which I mean, of course, when have we ever seen this, by the way, where they haven't told us the story, or they told us misinformation or they tried to coerce us, right, I mean, we have reasons to be skeptical here without being termed conspiracy theorists. The conspiracy theorists are right more and more by the day, but without you know,
some some don't want that label applied to them. But folks, it is very reasonable given what we have been through with COVID in particular. But it's not just COVID COVID the way that we shut the government down during COVID, or the way that they shut it down, the way that they went way out of control and shut every facet of life down. Remember that, I know you, remember that you live that you lived that for a couple of years. Some people are still I was driving, I was driving through
on our trip back from Orlando Monday night. There's a toll road. We run, I pull over and we pay with cash, and one of the ladies in there in a toll booth all by yourself. And most people go through because they have the whatever the Florida passes. They don't even pull over. And you know she had she had a mask and gloves on. I bet, I mean, I was the only one in line, and most people they told me that it costs more. I'm a little bit of a
tight wad and stuff like this. I guess you can get the bill mailed to you, even out of state, if they get you, if you if you go if you stay on the road, but you save money, I guess from what maybe they're lying to me, I don't know, possibly, but if you pull over anyway, So, these these things have taken over people's lives to where it's radically transformed the way that they've they've lived.
But it's not just COVID, it's definitions of words. What is a woman who can um who can compete in NC double A sports and on on in the women's division, right, it's um some some misinformation we've been given during or through critical race theory. It's there's a number number of things. Remember when the FBI was looking into parents at school board meetings. Now we're being told the biggest threat domestically in the United States is white supremacy. And here
I am and probably you as well. We're wondering, then, are these senators being given sat phones because because the white supremacists are gonna do something? Or is there something else that's potentially on the horizon here? And by the way, that reminds me. This all reminds me, and I was thinking about this as I was getting ready for for the program today. But experts say that China is holding a massive amount of food. And soon they're gonna
have over two thirds of the globes globes corn reserves. They're gonna have over half of its rice, they're gonna have over half of its wheat. And when they're asked about it, of course, China, like our government, by the way, in many instances, they lie. There's China. One China expert said that, of course they'll never admit to doing something like that.
So when you think about that and you look at just China hoarding the food, when you look at sat phones, when you look at the reality that China is the number the number one food importer in the world, and you begin to see what they're doing, you begin to see some of these indications that maybe there's reasons to be prepared, right, reasons to at least pay attention and to think about being prepared. And that could extend even to
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note of the things that are happening in the world. And there's a difference between being being paranoid and being prepared. But definitely when we go back to this story with what's happening here with the senators being issued satellite phones just in case there's a disruptive events, I mean, it makes you wonder, right, And then of course you see what China does with the food supply, you see what the left does when they're in positions of power, and there's
reasons to be prepared and engaged in this world today. Time out is in order, my friends. You're listening here to conservative not better talk back here in there we go find the right tab my friends. Back in just a minute, my friends. Not a lot of time remaining here, But I wanted to get to this story as well. Target. You may have seen Target, and well, let me back up next week, a week from my guess it would be tomorrow. Week from tomorrow kicks off Pride Month,
LGBTQ, all the rest of the letters. You know what I'm talking about. And this of course includes the tea the transgender community. So Target has a whole that they have these displays. If you've been to Target, I think it depends where you are in the country where these displays are being set up. I'm sorry, I'm looking at a tag here. I'm sorry if there's young heirs cover them. But this I'm looking at Swim where it says the tuck it has tuck friendly construction, extra crotch coverage. I just I
can't, folks, I just can't. But anyway, I'm just telling you what's going on. Well, Target, there's been a lot of people that have kind of shined the light on what is going on here. And there's also like onesies and kids T shirts that are talking about I don't know,
gender fluidity and I just the whole gender stuff for kids. So it gets it brings that issue to the surface as well, and people are upset about this, and rightfully so so Target apparently, according to headline here at Fox News, they held an emergency meeting over the LGBTQ merchandise in some stores to avoid a quote bud Light situation, referring to the bud Light situation with Dylan mulvaney, and it says, here's some southern location move that pride displays and
apparel away from the front of the store. So there you go. Maybe some of you have seen these, maybe some of you have taken pictures of this stuff. I don't know. Share it with me. I'd love to see what you're seeing out there. I don't go to I don't go to Target. I still an ODS during the break I think I bought a iPhone plug to charge, you know, connect my chord to there. But that's about it anyway, just sharing, folks. Got to take a break back
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