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once in a lifetime opportunity blown, absolutely blown. You never have a second chance, my friends, to make a first impression. But it's good to be here today. I want to start today. I want to start today. Well, I first of all, First of all, I want to share. I want to share a where'd that go? I have something in the stack that I want to share with you? Off the top, There
we go. Biden has reportedly apologized to Muslim American leaders for questioning the numbers of Palestinian deaths that Hamas has relea least excuse me to the public that Hamas has said is to uh, well, that is the real and actual number. And of course why would we have any reason to believe that, Why would we think that Hamas is actually telling us real numbers? Remember they told us that they did not have they did not use places like hospitals as military
command and control centers. Yet we've found that they used the hospital. They built their a huge tunnel complex directly under the hospital in Gaza. There's, of course we should question the numbers given by Hamas, but Biden has apparently reportedly apologize for questioning these numbers. You know, all this stuff leads to the legitimizing of Hamas. Hamas is not legitimate. Hamas is not Hamas should be taken seriously as a threat, as a terroristic threat, but they should
not be given the appropriate respect as a governing What is this? What world are we living in and it begs the question to me. I'm just telling oz this before the break. The whole the whole concept of how we've gotten to where we are here with Israel and Hamas and these hostages has really kind of rubbed me the wrong way of it a lot, because it's just it's
foreign to me to think that this is this is reality. Where you you go in, you're Hamas, you launch a terror attack, you take while you murder Israeli citizens, you take two hundred and fifty roughly hostages, You go back, you prepare for battle. You know Israel's trying to do is
going to respond. By the way Hamas has admitted so much as you can believe these jokers and clowns, Hamas has admitted that they expected, or that they had hoped, that this would basically trigger a larger war between Israel and the Muslim world in that part of the world. And it didn't. It
didn't happen. I mean, it's certainly happened to a degree with what's transpired, and of course Hesbola jumping into the mix, Iran all this sort of mess, But the bottom line is it didn't happen to the degree that they had hoped, and so they take the hostages. Hamas does. Israel comes in, they start fighting tooth and nail to a radic hate these tunnels and so forth. Anyway, Hamas finally has apparently had enough. They need a break, so they call time out. They say they're going to negotiate now
for the hostages. Now I just now, look, I know that the ultimate objective here, at least in the short term, is to get as many of these hostages, get them, you know, have them be released, and for them to be able to be safe return safely. So the Israel's giving up three times as many Palestinian prisoners as they are getting back in the in the form of hostages that have been taken. And on top of that, on top of that, Hamas isn't giving all the hostages up.
They beg and plead for a ceasefire. They get their ceasefire, and then they say, let me tell you how this is gonna work, Israel. We're going to give you one hostage for every three that you give of our well of those individual that you have imprisoned, which is far from the same thing as a hostage being taken. This whole thing just is ludicrous to me, and I know, I know it's it's complicated, it's messy, there's pressure, they're trying to save lives. It's just you cannot negotiate with these
clowns. You just cannot do it. They have to be I know, it is not play. I don't want to say this. I mean, it's just reality. As a human being. I hate to have to say this, but the only way to stop this, the only way to stop this is what Israel was saying early on, which is the unconditional surrender of himas meaning no conditions, no, no, we'll give you one hostage in return for three prisoners that you have taken that are Palestinians. None of that
stuff, none of this they run the show, none of that. It's either unconditional surrender, immediate release of hostages, or we're going to go in and we're going to destroy every person and hold them accountable and bring them to justice, every single person who is endorsed and made possible. This silly, ridiculous nonsense. Anyway, So there you go with that. What I really want to talk about that that's important. I know we just spent yesterday's episode
talking a lot about a lot about this. We talked a lot about Israel, Hamas everything else. So I want to share with you today. I want to share with you today, and I'm gonna have to set this up this segment and then I will play it for you next segment because it's a couple of minutes. I was watching what I saw on X look at that. I didn't say Twitter, I said on X or saw on X that
Fox News. Fox News was interviewing a representative from the US Air Marshals and they had brought this individual on to talk about how there are currently no air marshals. You may or may not know this, no air marshals on US flights. Instead, they have been deployed to the southern border. Now, some might say, well, it's good that we're finally sending someone to the southern border, But then you think, well, who's protecting us in the
skies? Is that suddenly not necessary? Is it necessary? And we're just ignoring it? What's going on here? But it appears to be it appears to be a something that should concern the average citizen since we don't have air marshals in the sky. But it's not even that. It's not just that they're being sent to the southern border, which is bad enough. But according to this conversation Fox News, which I'll play next next segment. According to
this interview on Fox News, the US Air Marshals. Now, by the way, this is the director of the Air Marshal National Council. Her name is Sonia Labosco. So again, Air Marshal National Council. She's the director of that organization. She says, I'm gonna play it for you. I'm gonna play it for you next segment. But she says that the air Marshals, in addition to that, right, they're being redirected off of aircraft,
protecting people who are flying off of aircraft. Some have been sent to the southern border, but in addition to that, some have been assigned to basically investigate and follow people are ready for this now. In some ways this won't surprise you if you haven't heard this. In other ways, it will surprise you. I think it should. It's absolutely crazy, another example of the
weaponization of our government. She says that US air Marshals have been assigned a list of people to follow, slash investigate for basically the past two years. Anyone now, listen, to this, anyone who flew into Washington, DC on or around January sixth of twenty twenty one, even if you didn't go to the Capitol, you didn't and you didn't storm the Capitol, you didn't go to Trump's speech, you might have been there, as she says in the interview, for a job interview, or to visit family, or as
one individual was, to attend uneral. These individuals have been placed simply for flying in to Washington, d C. They've been put on a terror list as it pertains to flying around this country, and so they've been investigating these
folks, following these folks. If you flew into DC. According to mss Sonia labasco director of the Air Marshall National Council, she says that if you flew in, you're on a list, a terror watch list, which now means if you try to board an aircraft today or any time since you were put on that list, you had to go through enhanced security. She also said that you were followed through or escorted or followed throughout each leg of your
journey when you were taking flights across the United States of America. That is what according to this individual against Sonny Labosco, Air Marshall National Council Director. That's what she says. So I'm going to play a bit of that on the other side of the break, but time out is in order. My friends, you're listening here to conservative not bitter talk. I am your host, tot Huff back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friend. So further ado, I want to play this SoundBite now. This is Carly
Shimkus, I believe on Fox and Fox News. I think this was over the weekend. I just saw this yesterday on x retweeted by a gentleman named Colin Rugg. And of course Carly Shimkis thinks that she's interviewing Sonia Labosco here to talk about why tia, excuse me, why air marshals not tsagents, Why air marshals have been reassigned to the border instead of actually doing their job
on aircraft, on airplanes. And so during the course of this interview, and you'll hear it in Carly's voice, she's like, wait, wait a minute, what do you mean they're being used to follow January sixth, not even people who attended, which again, whatever you think about it, I'm not even talking about attendees. I'm not talking about people who kicked windows in at the Capitol or anything like that. I'm not even getting into that. I'm talking about you. They flew in, flew into Washington, DC.
I don't know if this is just at National Airport. I don't know if this includes dulls. I have no Does it include BWI, Baltimore, Washington? I have no idea. This is kind of a developing story. But just listen to this interview. Listen to the shock in Carly Shimkis's voice, which it should be shocking, but at the same time, none of this
stuff should shock us anymore. None of the stuff should shock us. Again, this is the Air Marshal National Council Director Sonya Labosco telling us that the problems with how air marshals are being used or not used is actually even much worse than we originally thought. Here's this conversation. How many air marshals are on planes right now and how many do you think there should be to get to a safe level. Well, Carly, we're not flying right now.
The only missions that we're doing are Quiet Sky's missions, and those are missions that are following the January twenty twenty one people. So we're either on the border for illegal immigrants or we're following folks from January twenty twenty one. We're not doing our regular missions where out there looking for the bad guys. So right now on most lights, you're not going to have air marshals. What do you mean by that you're following January twenty twenty one people, What does
that mean? That means our primary mission is a little group called Quiet Skies. It's a mission called Quiet Skuys that we're following people that flew into the National Capital Region in January twenty twenty one. You did not have to go to the capitol or the rally, and you've been put on a specific list that TSA now has assigned air marshals to follow these people who have not had any type of criminal investigation. They haven't committed a crime. But yet three
years later, we're following the same individuals day in and day out. So you're saying that air marshals are now following people that were at the capitol on January sixth, and they're not tracking terrorists at all. Well, they didn't even have to be at the capitol, Carly, they could have just flown into the national capital region. So if anybody was there for a job interview, to visit family. We even had a gentleman that was there for a
funeral. They put put on this domestic terrorists list just because of their geographic location to Washington, d C. So these people did not even commit a crime. They weren't even at the capitol. What do those people know that they're on this list? Some of them do because when they go to the airport, they get the quatics on their boarding pass and then they have to go through enhance security. Then they're followed by teams of air marshals on any
lego flight that they have. So yes, a lot of them do know that they're being followed. Yet they haven't been vetted and they have not committed a crime. And three years later, we're still doing the same duty and we followed the same people over and over for three years who are no threat to this country. Oh my goodness. Okay, So if you are an average passenger on a plane, how concerned should you realistically be? I think
you should be very concerned. When you're born in the aircraft, you need to look around to see who you might be able to ask to help you. Now she gets into really what the initial interview was supposed to be about, which was well, I could play it. But basically what she says is, hey, if you're flying right now, don't expect anyone to help you if there's trouble. That's what she says, if you're flying right now.
In fact, she says that right whereight cut that off. She says, Look, if you're flying, you get seated on your aircraft, find the emergency exit. Look around, you know, just kind of get a glimpse of people who are on the plane. Look up there and say, that guy looks like he's a pretty tough guy. Something goes down. He and I are going to tag team this and take control I guess the aircraft or whatever. This is what she literally says. This is what she's telling
you to look around everybody. Which, by the way, I don't want to bring too many modern current issues into the fold here, but this is exactly this is exactly why you know, again, I'm not, don't miss I'm not. This is a exactly why we have a Second Amendment. When we're living our lives, people act as though well the law enforcement are there to protect you. Well, they're not there though, they're there to respond to a crime that has already happened, unfortunately in the skies in the skies
there. And I'm not saying that we should. I'm not even talking about carrying a weapon on the aircraft. I'm saying it's the same and it's the same idea, which is we're all actually our first line of defense anyway. But it's just weird to hear the government, or you know, someone who's speaking on behalf of a group of government employees to say that this is really the reality. You're your own first line of defense. Look around there,
see who you can trust. Maybe get a couple of warm up exercise in ask anybody, is anybody on here a tie fighter? Anybody on here a black belt in ju Brazilian jiu jitsu? Anyone on here a cage fighter? Do I have any football players? Rugby players? What have we got here? Anybody pump iron on a regular basis. I'm just making sure that I know, prior to take off, if there's anyone on this plane that can
help me should something go down on this aircraft. So Carly is going back to the original interview questions, but the part of this that I want to focus on, which this is bad enough. Right, You've heard me say, You've heard me say before that the government abdicates its responsibility on things that it's supposed to be doing. Protecting citizens is at the top of the list, right, This is the fundamental starting point of a government protecting its citizens.
Our government should protect its citizens from I mean, they can't provide twenty four to seven surveillance, but is to provide some sort of semblance of law and order in a society, and justice and a level of some type of protect We want there to be law and order. We want there to be relative safety. We want people who are inflicting harm upon others to be to face justice. This is what the government should be trying to do. Not
that there can be absolute security and safety. That's not what I'm saying. But they should be doing this long before they should start trying to teach your kids about the genders how many fifty eight or whatever it is genders that they
say that exist. Long before they should start telling you that if you don't use pronouns or better yet, if you're a border patrol agent, as I mentioned yesterday, if you're a border patrol agent, and you do not use personal pronouns of choice of illegal immigrants that you're somehow creating some sort of a hate crime against an individual. Long before we have any of those ridiculous conversations, we should be focusing on the safety and security of people in this country.
Of legitimate government role, the legitimate role of government, the legitimate function of your government, which is not which is not to re educate you, which is not to hoodwink you into believing some woke nonsense, some leftist garbage. The government should exist to create law and order, to protect citizens, to protect their liberty. These are the basic sorts of things that a government should be doing. Ours is not doing that. Ours is instead being weaponized.
Let this sink in. If you flew in, she said to the region, I don't even know what does that mean, I jokingly said at the beginning, Is it also dullest? Well? I think it is, Is it BWI? Maybe I'd have to look at my son knows airports. Although he wants to be a pilot, he studies this stuff. I may have to ask him how many airports are we talking? How many locations did you could someone have flown into in or around January sixth of twenty twenty one,
and somehow ended up on this list. Oz asked me during the break, does it what if people drove in? Honestly, I don't know. I mean, it's a little bit harder, although I put nothing past the surveillance state, it's a little bit harder to find out people who drove in. But is it impossible? I know, No, it's not. No, it's not. With facial recognition software and cameras everywhere. Who knows how many pictures of license plates have been taken? I don't know. I'm not
saying that it does. It would include people that drove in. And then beyond that, how close did you have to get? How close did you have to get to the Capitol to Washington, d C? To end up on the list? Could you have been in Springfield, Virginia? Could you have been in somewhere in Maryland around the DC metro area? Where does this dragnet stop and start? They're on a terror watch list for simply flying in.
Think about that, flying in to Washington, d This is this is the greatest, what do you want, most inflated issue in the history of America. This I've stated clearly for the record multiple times, there were people who broke the law on January sixth. They need to be held to account. There were plenty of people who didn't. They should not be the target of US air marshals. They should not be on a terror watch list. If this is not the weaponization of government, I don't know what is.
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ten percent. So going back to this where we left off last segment, the weaponization of government, the weaponization of government is absolutely unequivocally something that should never happen in a free society. It's really it is a terrifying thing to
behold, and it should be terrifying. And this is where this is where I this is where a lot of them, well a much larger percentage of Americans would start to disagree with me here than they ever should, because this is absolutely true and critically important to believe in, what to understand and to believe. But it doesn't matter the political ideology or how the person voted.
It doesn't matter anything else about the person, what the religion is, what their races, what their gender is, whether they're binary or non binaria, or whatever else we get going on. It shouldn't matter. They're a human being. They could believe zero percent of the things that I believe, and they should not be targeted by our government. Absolutely positively, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars this idea that the government should be
weapons should be stopped firmly in its tracks. But my friends, this is where the convergence of this discussion with the twenty twenty four campaign, which we are in the midst of the beginning of. But we're in the midst of that campaign. There are actually calls And I said this yesterday, and I'm going to say this repeatedly between now and this election. I'm going to say this repeatedly between now and the end of my time on planet Earth, because
I think it's absolutely true. This well, first and foremost, this election, This election is critically important. We all know that we have two diametrically opposed directions. We have the direction of the statusts, the direction of the socialists. The directors are the direction of the lovers of big government, the direction of the radical left, taking us away from liberty towards centralized control, towards silencing political opposition, because that's a tactic that is necessary for them to
win. They cannot win this election. They cannot win this election in an environment where free speech and the freedom to discourse as we choose is allowed to happen without any sort of interference from some of the well one or more of the seven pillars of propaganda, whether it's woke business, whether it's the media, whether it's the government, someone has to step in to make it quote
unquote fair, a fair fight. Remember Rush used to say. Rush used to say, how do he say it's something fighting with half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair. That's what he used to say on his program. I love that. By the way, maybe we'll say that from time to time, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make make it fair. This is what the media, the government,
the seven pillars are propaganda. These these facets of our society that have been taken over by radicals, have been taken over by leftists, have been taken over by statists in order to further to weaponize their particular lever of power
to further the cause of the status. The leftists and whoever else, those who are in opposition to liberty, the founding of this country, and they the only way to quote unquote make it fair to give the left, the statists, the socialists, a fair chance in this fight is for them to come in and to interfere. Is for them to come in and weaponize the government is for them to come in and use tactics that silence the voices of the opposition. Is for them to come in and to charge Donald J.
Trump with ninety one federal crimes. I should say ninety one felonies. There we go. That's the only way to do this, the only chance they have that and terrifying the average American citizen. So all that stuff is going to continue to happen. It is their only option at this point. It's their only option short of admitting defeat. And they are not going to do that. Folks. They will not see I said this back in twenty sixteen. I believe the left will not see one metaphorical inch of what they have
gained over the past several decades. They will not see that without one heck of a fight. Now I mean this metaphorically, Well it's not just metaphor. There is a fight that needs to be had, but it's an ideological fight. It's not physical yet hopefully it never is. But this is that they're prepared to take it there. That's and that's we have to be prepared for that. We have to accept that, we have to understand who the
true domestic adversary is and I don't care. Folks can have different political ideas, different beliefs, different worldviews. But when you hate this country and you are prepared to do whatever it takes to remake this country into something that you like. As a statist, as a leftist, as a socialist, as a communist, as a hater of liberty and a lover of big government, you have made yourselves an enemy of freedom loving people, and your ideas must
be defeated soundly. And that is where we are today, my friends. That's where we are. They're tracking people who simply were in the area on or about January sixth of twenty twenty one. There is no excuse for this. There is literally zero, zero, zip, zero, nada, zulch. Nothing can excuse this type of behavior. You can't accept this from your government. It's not the way it was supposed to be. It's not the way that it has to be, but it is the way it will be
if we sit on our duffs and do nothing. Quick time out, my friends, back in a minute. Welcome back, my friends. You not want to say. I want to say something here, because as we were talking at the end of last segment, it just reminded me of something. One day, I was thinking about this. I was thinking about how important it is for the average folks. A lot of people want you to believe
that your opinion doesn't matter. You need to turn that over to the technocrafts, to the bureaucrats, to the so called experts to tell you what to think about something. And I've thought about something. I jotted something down that I just want to share with you. You know, I may be wrong about an issue. Buckle up for that. You didn't expect that right, But it's highly unlikely, but it's theoretically impossible. But I'm always amazed by
those who criticize someone for simply having an opinion. I remember, as do you, probably, when Lebron James, basketball player for the now Los Angeles Lakers, was told by a certain conservative radio talk show host that he should quote, shut up and dribble. And I remember specifically at the time saying
that I did not agree with that sentiment. I mean, you and I. The American public can choose to listen or not listen to a basketball player talk about politics, and I personally don't like hearing players talk about politics because I want to get away from those things for a while when I watch a sporting event. But I can't say that I don't want to hear their opinions because they're simply an athlete and not an expert, not someone in the know
or whatever. They can still choose to share whatever opinions they have, and I have a choice as to whether or not I'm going to listen to it or turn it off. But to say that they can't do it or that they should shut up, is that something that I agree with? No, it's not. And folks, this applies to the average person. You, your friends, your family, you as well. The underlying premise here is that the only the experts can have opinions. But that's not the recipe for
a healthy republic. We need everyone to have. Here's the key word, and informed opinion, informed again being the operative and important word. I'm not an expert on every issue. I've never claimed to be. I mean, I may appear to be an expert because I'm almost always right, as Rush would say, nine to nine point seven percent of the time, but I've never claimed to be an expert. In fact, if you listen to this show, I often openly mock the idea that we're somehow subjected to these opinions
of experts. In fact, you've heard me say things like The most common headlines often begin with the words experts are wrong. No, friends, I'm not an expert. I am a thinker. I have principles. I believe in truth, and I believe that anyone can learn truth if they care to learn it. It's not reserved for the experts. In fact, it's often overlooked by those experts. Think COVID, the economy, the federal death, the border wall, the fight over Speaker of the House, Think Titanic,
Think Henry Ford, think the American Revolution, Think Jesus. My job, as I often tell you, is to run the day's events through the truth that we have had revealed to us, and then tell you what I think about it, with that truth as the foundation or my opinion based upon my interpretation of things. If we agree, great, If we don't disagree, fine, but let's do so on principle. Let's make sure that we disagree on principle and thoughtfully articulate why it's never ever personal to me. Never.
I mean, I use metaphors, hyperboly, sarcasm, exaggeration, parables. I do mock crazy ideas. I engage in a little playful theater, and I may even come up with nicknames for individuals who put themselves in the political fight. But the bottom line is, if you think I'm correct or incorrect, then challenge me, call me out, use your speech to get the attention of others so that they know that my ideas are wrong. That's what adults do. My friends, I got more to say on this, but
I'm out of time. Quick time out. That applies to every American citizen, by the way, back in just a minute. Welcome back to my friends. Your opinion matters. The average, every day, thoughtful opinion of Americans matter, and it matters tremendously right now. It matters tremendously right now because we are on the precipice of something that we've never had to deal with in modern times, in our lifetimes. Two diametrically opposed worldviews and ideologies are
on display. It's going to be intense. They're going to try to fear monger, they are going to weaponize the God. I hate to say it. These things are going to happen. They have happened. They will continue to happen. We have to stop them. My friends, your opinion matters. Just make sure it's thoughtful, as I know that it is. Folks. I've got to go have a great day. Thanks for listening, SDG