Fake and Lame Dems: Must-See Video Sums It All Up | Episode 198

28:06Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump, Trump, President of the United States. so this ultimately you know we talk about you know what's an america first foreign policy it's a foreign policy that not only resolves the current conflicts that we have but it also ensures the long-term longevity of our country what conflicts do we have well i don't know we're locked in a full-blown in cold war in some cases hot war with china where i don't know depending on how you classify the death of over 100 000 americans a year due to fentanyl that comes from China, you might say that's kind of a hot war, wouldn't you?

28:43China is a crystal clear adversary of the United States. Do we have a complicated relationship with them? Are we still buying products from China? Absolutely, no question. And we should do everything we can to mitigate an actual exchange of fire between our two countries. But in the process, what we should do is get them out of the Western Hemisphere. Stop giving them a ready supply of energy that they can used to power a war machine. Let's stop all of that garbage. That's a really big deal. And to that point, I want to show you one last thing on this subject, then we're going to get to our great guest, Amber Duke.

29:23There's a piece this morning in the publication, The American Mind. It's called The Don Roe Doctrine in Action. The Don Roe Doctrine in Action. And in it, J. Michael Waller, who wrote this wonderful piece. He talks about what Russia is in this scenario. And he says Russia is China's largest foreign oil supplier. Russia is. So that's an issue for us right now. China, though, has also been buying between 60 and 90 percent of all of Venezuela's heavy crude and 85 and 90 percent of Iran's light crude. This sanctioned oil is cheap twice over for Beijing. First, China gets it at the pirate discount.

30:05And second, it generally pays not in American petrodollars, but in printable Chinese yuan. Depending on the figures and factoring in Venezuelan oil shipped to China under a false flag like Malaysia, Venezuela and Iran together provide as much as 30 to 35 percent of all of China's oil imports. Arab countries who are responsive to U.S. concerns provide another 40 percent. So with pro-American governments expected to run Venezuela and Iran soon, says J. Michael Wall, they're talking about the unrest that's happening in Iran right now. Trump will be able to regulate a good 70 percent of communist China's present day oil needs.

30:44Russia, by contrast, supplies about 18 to 20 percent of China's oil imports. So at the moment, President Trump is moving pieces on the chessboard. in order to disempower China. It will diminish China's hand and its ability to even wage war, including in the South China Sea, against Taiwan, or any of these other places.

31:10This is an amazing moment we're living through, and it's clear that President Trump has a plan in mind. We are watching it play out in very real time, and we're going to keep a close eye on it. You know, this is, you know, you like President Trump to fight for American interests. Here it is. And I see one of the things that people keep saying is like, oh, he's just going after the oil. Why shouldn't he? Why, what, the, if you want to, if you want to affect international foreign policy, go straight to the power source. In this case, literally the power source. What's powering all of this? Illicit oil.

31:50Where's it coming from? Venezuela and Iran. What is he tackling? Those two countries. Worth keeping an eye on. Amber Duke going to join us in just a moment. Before we get there, I want to thank Brickhouse Nutrition for being a great sponsor of this program. Doctors call it weight cycling. You know about weight cycling? Half of Americans do that. It's when you lose 10 or more pounds and then you put some weight back on plus a couple more. This can be tough on your body and it probably leaves you very frustrated. And the bottom line is simple. Most people need help losing weight, and here's a great way to do it.

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34:14Thank you to American Financing. And thank you to my next guest, the great Amber Duke is here. She's an editor over at The Daily Caller, and she joins us. Now, Amber, good to have you with us as always. Hi, Vince. Thanks for having me. Okay, let's just kind of talk about what President Trump seems to be pulling off in Venezuela right now. This morning, they captured two more tankers who are trying to evade our blockade of those oil tankers leaving the country. He has taken possession of some 30 to 50 million barrels of oil. He is now going to handle the sale of that. And it looks like it's going to go directly to the Venezuelan people and not to the commies who've been stealing it in the first place, leaving the rest of the Venezuelans to eat zoo animals.

34:55I'm struggling to figure out what the downside is here. Yeah, I think what's leaving people feeling a bit concerned is what is the long-term plan? How long is the U.S. going to be involved with helping to run the country? And what does that mean in terms of regime change? But I think overall, the argument for taking out Maduro has nothing but upside in the short term, right? Because you have millions of Venezuelans who have left the country, 8 million over the past 10 years, plus the people who weren't able to leave, who are celebrating his ouster and are thrilled that they finally have their country back from this dictator.

35:35You also have, of course, the strategic reasons for taking Venezuela. You mentioned the oil, but also just generally the security and safety of the Western Hemisphere should be of utmost importance to the American people. This is the classic Monroe Doctrine, which now is the Donroe Doctrine, right, according to the president. And I think most importantly, though, what this does is it recreates a relationship with Venezuela that were previously they were more in bed with China and Russia. And I saw Rahim Kassam put this really well in a comment to Axios where he said, if Venezuela is going to be a puppet, wouldn't we rather them be a puppet for the United States than for Russia and China?

36:22You know, I think what's happening, one of the obvious things that's been happening on the right is, and as I was talking to Michael Knowles about yesterday, we have become very pessimistic about the use of the American military by the establishment in Washington. Very pessimistic, and for good reason, because we've engaged in all sorts of foreign policy adventurism that led to massive losses of American life, the enrichment of the military industrial complex with very little strategic upside to the United States, and in fact, perhaps a lot of liability. So people become skeptical of watching the military be used in any other country.

37:01But as a result, I do think that we've reached a level where, you know, the left kind of is always preaching self-loathing of our country. And people have forgotten what it means to wield strategic influence in our interest in the world. And President Trump is kind of restoring that, no? I think that's exactly right. And on this point about the military, it's so important because when we saw the Afghanistan withdrawal, we saw Lloyd Austin breaking the chain of command and disappearing, wearing a Darth Vader mask during COVID, the firings due to the vax mandates, the DEI, the transgender troops.

37:38All of this led to severely diminished confidence in our ability to exercise military might. And under Trump, we have seen two operations that have been just unabashed successes and also incredibly impressive. I mean, first, the B-2 stealth bombers flying 37-hour missions to drop bunker busters on Iran's nuclear facilities. And then this Venezuela operation, which was just incredible. I mean, you have the military going in, taking control of the Venezuelan airspace, and in just a couple of hours, getting Delta Force on the ground, raiding Maduro's residents, and getting to the president before he's even able to get to his steel shelter, which they had prepared for.

38:25They had blowtorches with them just in case. And I think this should be an indication to the American people that the U.S. military is still great. The problem that we had previously was poor leadership and poorly defined goals. But so long as the leadership is very clear about what the strategic benefit is to using the military and also is focused on quick and efficient results, this is the type of thing that we can still accomplish as the United States of America. Yeah, well, it's amazing to see. So we'll keep tracking it. But it looks like President Trump has control of Venezuela's oil now.

39:02And China's got to be rattled as hell about this because the Chinese war machine, just like the Russian war machine, it's all energy dependent. I mean, they need energy, especially China. That's why they're building so many coal plants all the time. And President Trump just cut them off and kicked their power cord out. That's exactly right. And that's the sort of underrated part of this move is how it triangulates China and its relationship with Venezuela. They have been taking Venezuelan oil, getting around U.S. sanctions for years. So when Trump started seizing those oil tankers, it wasn't just to punish Venezuela, but also to send a message to China that we are certainly not going to accept you breaking the rules of international engagement, breaking sanctions in order to try to gain leverage over the United States.

39:47But we're especially not going to let you do it in our hemisphere. This is ours. We're the superpower over here. You don't get to come over into the Caribbean and take what should be ours. Let me ask you about these ridiculous Democrats who started the show showing them walk out with plastic candles to hold a phony, phony candlelight vigil for January 6th. In your view, Amber, why is January 6th continuing to be such a high holy day for the Democrats? Well, it's probably the only example that they have in modern political history of someone on the right or a group of people on the right doing anything even close to violence.

40:28And they want to distract from the fact that their own people literally creating autonomous zones within cities that they were trying to run as a quasi government in order to effectuate political ends. I mean, these people were engaging in straight up terrorism. And January 6th, you know, having a candlelight vigil, the only person who died, of course, was someone who was actually participating. Where are the candlelight vigils for the shop owners that were murdered during the BLM riots of the summer of 2020 or the people who died in Chaz or Chopp because ambulances couldn't get through the Antifa controlled areas?

41:09They would never have those. And Senator Rand Paul Vince, you might have seen this, just released new documents about the witch hunts that took place post J6, including one of a Catholic school teacher, a woman who was falsely identified from a quote unquote former friend as being at the Capitol that day. She was not there. She provided evidence to the FBI that she wasn't there, but they continued to surveil her house and even put her on the no fly list for years, all because of this misidentification. So, so many people were swept up in this fervor that had nothing to do what happened that day.

41:46And it's because ultimately what they wanted was they wanted to be able to pin this on Donald Trump. They wanted an excuse to impeach him. They wanted to accuse him of being an insurrectionist because he said the word fight during a speech on the ellipse. The whole thing really was was ridiculous on its face. But it was because they needed an excuse to try to take out the president. it well also it's so brazen and incoherent too because it's an event where only trump supporters were killed right and they're holding a candlelight vigil and they're pretending like the trump supporters are the bad guys so it's all so crazy uh additionally you talk about what what are we living through in this current moment um amber as you know the left has an assassination culture huge numbers of people on the american left are perfectly comfortable with assassination as a remedy for their political differences.

42:40And ICE agents in particular are under attack right now by the left, including by like American businesses, left-wing American businesses, like a random Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis who's refusing to allow ICE agents to even spend the night there to have a place to lay their head down because the left has so demonized the people who are dedicated to restoring law and order and following the constitution. And then they show up and pretend like they're great defenders of it. And they have the audacity to sing God bless America like they're on the side of the angels when they're serving something I think is demonic.

43:16That's absolutely unbelievable and so correct. And it's not just ICE, it's also the police. We have progressive prosecutors elected around this country who do not allow the police to do their jobs. They arrest criminals and the prosecutors say, ah, too bad, they're going back out on the street where I live in Fairfax County. I mean, I'm not sure if you're in Fairfax too, Vince, but we've had multiple cases over the past couple of years of Steve Descano releasing criminals back into the community who went on to kill people. But somehow they're the good guys because they believe in what social justice reform and criminal justice reform.

43:53We've got Mom Donnie in New York City who wants to send social workers in to take on domestic violence calls. domestic violence calls are some of the most dangerous calls that police will ever go on because those situations are already very high tension you have a victim that you're trying to protect and a violent aggressor who oftentimes turns that aggression onto the police but we want to send in someone who has a psychiatry degree a psychology degree and not expect that anything bad is going to happen they are going to get people killed yeah which is another reason why This is like this year, midterms, there's a lot on the line and there's just way too many people on the left, though they're out of power at the national level.

44:34But boy, they've they've got some real footholds that are very dangerous, including in New York City. Tell me why you think Minnesota Minnesota Governor Tim Walls just dropped out of the race. What is your theory of why he dropped out? I think there's two things. One is that he got back some polling and it didn't look good. And the second is that I think he's genuinely concerned that the law enforcement proceedings that are taking place in Minnesota are going to find some kind of connection between him and the Somali fraud. He has received campaign donations from the Somali community. He was rushing to defend them, saying that calling out fraud was akin to white supremacy.

45:17You only do that if you're worried about what they're going to find in your own backyard. And there have already been several whistleblowers who have insinuated that Tim Walz did not pursue the fraud sooner because he was worried about political backlash from the Somali community. And so I think where there's smoke, there's fire. But ultimately, the reality is that a lot of Democrats will not give up power, even if they are facing some kind of criminal investigation or jail time because they're so obsessed with power. I think the bigger thing for him was probably the polling that showed he couldn't win re-election and the Democrats might have pushed him to step aside so that they could have someone like Amy Klobuchar run who has fewer ties to the Somalians in Minnesota.

46:04Well, I have a way of proving that it's not white supremacy. Prosecute that white goober. Like, go after him. Like, you know, he deserves it. He definitely deserves it. And I hope you're right. I really hope that criminal consequences are coming for him and he knows it. I hope that's what this is about, because yesterday he finally did a press conference and he was bitching and moaning about the U.S. attorney in the state. Yeah, who is actually the one who's exposing all of this fraud and digging into it. When you hear that number, 18 billion dollars, that number comes from that U.S. attorney who said that over half so far of the math that they've looked at is fraudulent.

46:39Of the of the money that's gone out from taxpayers is fraudulent and it could be as high as 18 billion dollars. So we're dealing with historic levels of money here all on Tim Walz's watch. And it certainly looks like, you know, with his consent. And it's not going to end with Tim Walz. This fraud from the Somalians has happened in other states, too. I mean, there was a whistleblower in Maine who came forward who said that there was a company called Gateway Community Services that built millions of dollars from taxpayers. by basically creating fake documents saying that they had served disabled patients when they had not, even manipulating time cards and things of that nature.

47:19And amazingly, Vince, there are three Somali Americans serving in the main state house. All three of them signed a letter going after Donald Trump for calling some Somalian refugees garbage, which, I mean, let's call a spade a spade. two of the three of those who signed that letter worked with or for Gateway Community Services. So again, it's, you know, the person who is doing the bad behavior cries out when it gets struck. One of the individuals who was indicted in Minnesota was also buying property in Kentucky and apparently trying to make inroads with the Somalians in Kentucky. So they are trying to spread this operation, this influence around the United States.

48:06So Minnesota, I think, is really just the tip of the iceberg. Okay, so that gets to my next question. President Trump announced this week that there are investigations underway into Gavin Newsom in California, which seems to me like a very target-rich environment for left-wing fraud. So what's your message here for what the Trump administration should be doing? Because it does seem like they've got a moment of opportunity here. There's public appetite to fix all of this. So what needs to be done? Well, I think, first of all, what they've already done in terms of pausing a lot of these payments to the child care facilities and the Medicaid recipients is a good first step.

48:44There needs to be massive investigations, but it can't just be we're going through the Nick Shirley video and looking at the places that were identified there. This is far more widespread than just one YouTube video. And I know that people are going to feel icky about the idea of looking at Somalian-owned daycares and Medicaid facilities and healthcare facilities and things of that nature. But the reality is this is a country, their home country that traffics in fraud and piracy and all kinds of immoral behavior. And I don't think it's that insane to say that if large numbers of people come from a country where those behaviors are normal, that they have this massive welfare state to take advantage of.

49:33For them, fraud is not a bad thing. It's a matter of course in their home country. That's where the targets have to be set. Sorry. This was when the New York Times wrote its big, splashy piece on this subject in November. I think it was November. They said they actually consulted a Somali-American expert who said that it is a feature of Somali culture to steal from the government. Yes. It was literally in the New York Times piece. It was used as an excuse for what we were seeing. I was like, well, if it's a part of your culture, don't bring it here. I'm not interested. I'm not interested at all.

50:05Wild. All right. Well, Amber, as always, thank you. Thank you for your assessment. And I hope you have a very happy New Year. Thanks, Vince. Happy New Year. Good to see you. That's Amber Duke over at The Daily Caller. She's excellent. Always good to have her stop by. Hey, okay. So I mentioned with Amber just now, Tim Walls finally did a real press conference yesterday, but he was angry that he had to answer any kind of questions, which was super funny. Because the day before, when he announced he was dropping out, it was like, yeah, I'm not answering questions today. Maybe I'll take questions tomorrow.

50:38And as soon as he started taking questions on Tuesday, he instantly started spazzing out. Here is Tim Walz being asked whether or not he decided to drop out of the race on his own or other Democrats gave him the Biden treatment, the heave ho. Watch. This is a decision that I make and make with my family. And certainly, I think, as I said, it's the right decision. I'll note, I think it's appropriate we're here today. The war that's being waged against Minnesota, you're seeing it. We have a ridiculous surge of apparently 2 ,000 people not coordinating with us that are for a show of the cameras. I'm going to note to all of you, today is January 6th.

51:16There's no debate what happened. The president of the United States got an insurrection against a fair election to try and overturn that. And, you know, report both sides of this. Well, he, you know, he said he really didn't. And courts convicted 400 of them and he pardoned them. No, he did that. What? By the way, the question was, did you end your campaign by yourself or did you receive pressure from Democrat allies? And his answer was January 6th, January 6th, January 6th. It was like, all right. All right, buddy. You're a psychopath and a terrible dodger, by the way. The answer to this question is, yeah, that's the answer.

51:58So if you can't even answer it, the answer is yeah. The answer is yeah. They gave him the hook. They gave him the hook. which, by the way, is also election rigging. Democrats do this all the time. They rig elections. Guys running for governor, they don't want him in the seat anymore. The establishment gets rid of him because they see him as a liability. Boom, they got rid of him. Wham, bam, thank you, ma 'am. So how do Democrats win elections? They rig them. That's how. How do they handle the Democrat primaries? They throw Bernie Sanders out. Every time he got close to winning in the Democrat primary, they figured out a way to rig the election to stop him from winning amongst their voters.

52:36yes Bernie Sanders is a psycho of course but he was going to actually win the votes of their base so they rig it to get rid of him they did it against Hillary they did it against Biden they just keep doing it what do they do on ballots they get rid of RFK Jr. when he was running in the Democrat primary he doesn't get to appear on the ballot what do they do on ballots with Donald Trump they get rid of him in Maine and Colorado they make they try and stop him from appearing on the ballot. The Democrat Party is a never ending election rigging operation. It's why they're zealously guarding ballot harvesting wherever they can do it.

53:11It's why they've got in Minnesota like election registration vouching. They have a vouching law, which basically makes it so that if you own a building with a thousand Somalis in it, you can register all of them without any proof of ID. What? That's your system in Minnesota? That seems like it's right for fraud. Yeah, it is. That's how Democrats win elections. Fraudulently. How do they get extra members of Congress? By rigging the census using illegal aliens. How do they get extra electoral college votes? By rigging the census using illegal aliens. How many more examples do you need here of they rig elections?

53:49That's why they're doing it to Tim Walls. They're throwing him out of the party because he's a political liability. Get out. and he does. Aye, aye. Click. He's gone. But there he was yesterday spazzing out over the very question. It's about January 6th. Uh-huh. He's also mad in particular at the U.S. attorney who is digging into all of this. Tim Walls is furious at Joe Thompson. Joe Thompson. I want to show this to you. I don't know if we have this clip, fellas. Is it clip five? Do you have that, Justin? checking with you. Okay, good. Here's clip five. Tim Walls mad at the U.S. attorney. Watch.

54:31Why 2 ,000 folks? What are they coming? Do they want to coordinate with us? You saw a U.S. attorney stand up, which was been released by, would have been let go by any other administration, speculating about things with no factual information. That's defamation. I mean, And that's coming from the U.S. journey. We are under assault like no other time in our state's history because of a petty, vile administration that doesn't care about the well-being of Minnesotans. My job is to protect the well-being of Minnesotans. So the good news on this is Republicans are sure they're going to lose the governor's race dramatically.

55:11That's fine by me. I don't care who sits in this seat as long as it's not one of them who hurt Minnesotans. I care that it's somebody who understands and respects this. One of them who hurt Minnesota, listen to this putz. It's completely incoherent. Whose watch was it on that$18 billion was stolen? It was Tim Walz where that happened. Who has acknowledged that there's immense fraud in this state? That would be Tim Walz. He said, oh, there's all sorts of fraud. You're right. That's true. We're trying to tackle it. He lies. And then he's like, you know, who's really getting in the way? The U.S. attorney?

55:42The U.S. attorney? Joe Thompson, the guy is doing his job. Thank God we have that U.S. attorney in Minnesota. He's calling for Thompson to be fired. He's angry that Thompson's hot on his trail. That's what he's ticked about. And here's Thompson just a month or so ago saying we've got a lot of fraud going on in Minnesota, at least half of the$18 billion in suspicious payments. Fraud. Here's Thompson. Watch. I don't make these generalizations in a hasty way. So when I say a significant amount, I'm talking in the order of half or more. But we'll see. When I look at the claims data and the providers, I see more red flags than I see legitimate providers.

56:24And overwhelmingly so. So you're saying, I'm saying that's very possible, yes. Yeah, yeah, more than half. Probably a lot more than half. It's a scam allowed to be continued by Tim Walls, Keith Ellison, Jacob Frey, Ilhan Omar, and the rest of these schools who've been running Minnesota. And so should a Republican win there? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Democrats should not only lose, they should be in prison for what they did. To the people of our country and the people of Minnesota, and we shouldn't stop in Minnesota. Minnesota, as we were just talking about with Amber, is just the beginning.

57:06It's just the appetizer. It's just to get your appetite going. Right. Because guess where we have to go next. We got to go places like New York and Illinois in California. Keep this barreling forward. I don't know about you, but we're thirty eight trillion dollars in debt. And if we can claw that back, if we can cut off all of this fraud. How many years have we been talking about waste, fraud and abuse? Washington loves running its talk about waste, fraud and abuse. We've got to tackle waste, fraud and abuse. Hello. We found it. It's it's there at epic levels. Let's cut it off. Let's deport anybody we can who needs to be deported.

57:41Let's denaturalize anyone who's been just – who came in and became a citizen and then took advantage of our generosity. And let's imprison the bad guys. And that doesn't mean just the Somalis. That means the criminals in our government who made that happen. All right, big national radio show coming up today, The Vince Show. You can get your local listings, thevincshow.com. We've got a lot for you there. Or you can watch that, rumble.com slash vince. We'll have that with the big chat. uh going on rumble uh speaking of rumble big news today 6 p.m this evening the evening scroll with hayley caronia that's where you'll see dan bongino he's gonna stop by the program rumble.com slash hayley rumble.com slash h-a-y-l-e-y to check out what dan's up to it's gonna be a big day and i'll be back with you tomorrow can't wait to do it thanks for being here the best audience anywhere see you soon