If You See It, Will It Change Your Mind? (Ep. 2582)

26:03If you don't have children, you can certainly process the tragedy here. But when you have children, it's just different. You hear about these things and the first thing you think of is your kids. You get to, you know, pop a bear, mama bear, impulse. Like you just can't imagine what kind of evil would take to do that to your own, to any kid, your own, but your own, your own children. I first, I just want to thank Spencer Pratt again for not just losing and disability. Hey man, I ran for office. Didn't work out. I didn't disappear. I was like, well, what's next? How do we fix the country? Maybe being a politician wasn't it.

26:38Maybe talking about it. Well, I don't know. Maybe going back and serving in the FBI. I'm always looking at new things. I really applaud him for not running away from the political scene and using his massive microphone and megaphone, which he earned with a great campaign for L.A. mayor to highlight how, you know, the Internet is making people, warping people's minds. Folks, when you hear that, does it change your mind? I saw this clip yesterday that I don't know what viral or I use a different viral nuclear, like it's nuclear above fire. It doesn't even matter. But this was all over X and TikTok and elsewhere yesterday.

27:17There was a woman on this news channel debating this guy about this Lindsay Clancy case. and I just want you to see what happens again when you see and hear what happened like that and people describe what happened. This is typically the reaction you get from people and this is why I'm encouraging you, whether it's this case, any other case or any issue, you have to ask yourself a question. Am I on the right side of this? If I see it and I need to have a meltdown, am I on the right side of it, supporting the it I see that caused the meltdown? If you haven't seen this clip, this is what happens when you're confronted with an awful reality.

27:58You support. Check this out. These are man-hating women that are standing outside. This is what it's about. They think the husband did it. They're crazy. They've lost their mind. They're waving for a murderer. Do you know why the woman is in a wheelchair? Did you even notice that she's in a wheelchair? I couldn't care less. She's a murderer. Because she jumped out the window after this happened. So she should have. I'd have pushed her. They say that Lindsay was in psychosis. I think these women are suffering from psychosis. psychosis they've been watching too many true crime netflix dramas you know this was a incredibly privileged woman incredibly wealthy she had a nanny and she's still complaining that she needed help she could not have got more help from the system that she already had received this is a murderer who strangled her children one by one one of the boys ran away and she chased him down and killed him laurie watkins what you just said was absolutely disgusting thank you should be ashamed of yourself and you can hear that he's not okay because it's true you clearly don't care so pipe down okay and by the way men watching this if you have a woman standing next to you on the sofa who is defending this murderer you got to think deeply about this i've seen weddings talk to your women and find out what are they thinking they're defending this woman it's i don't think anybody's defending what she did but you can have empathy for what she went through and how she i know many women that this has happened to no they did not kill their children but they also what you failed to well they should be because they did i've had it with you oh my god she's a murderer

29:33notice how she states the obvious and doesn't realize she stated the obvious against her own case what you just said was absolutely disgusting yes all he did was describe what happened in this murder. That's all. Yeah, it is disgusting. Folks, again, I'm going to do you a favor like I tried to do the Democrats a favor to rescue the country from Islamo fanatics and communists. I'm going to do you a favor right now before you let the concrete settle. If you are dating, thinking about dating, what are those dating websites that you swipe on or something? If you're on any of those, And they have a sign in there or a photo.

30:18I support Lindsay. I love Lindsay. Donate to Lindsay. Or ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to tell you, even if it is your spouse,

30:30think and deliberate long and hard about where you are right now.

30:42Folks, listen, I've talked about this before. on the air and I'm not shy about it. It's not some victim thing or boo-hoo thing.

30:53Depression is, it runs in my family. It's a long story I'll say for another time. Generationally. And I'm not talking about depression like upset. I'm talking about major depressive disorder like a DSM diagnosable disorder. The difference between depression and just being upset about something is depression this black cloud that follows you everywhere is typically divorced from any real world event you know you lose a job people feel bad that's not dsm diagnosable depression it can turn into it an environmental stressor can trigger it but you're just depressed and feel bad all the time regardless you could have just gotten a promotion to work the greatest job of your life and you're still depressed for those of you who've suffered through this and have that gene or combination of genes and environmental stressors, it's a horrible thing.

31:42It is not an excuse to go out and murder people. There is no scenario by which that's acceptable. None. Word of caution. Whatever it is, the swipe left or I don't know how the hell that would swipe past any sign. I support. No, no, no. That is a You want to talk about a red flag That's not even like A red That's like a black flag

32:14No That's disgusting What you just said He just described what happened Yes it's disgusting Apparently you agree with him Folks There's a larger picture I've been painting for you During the show Again back to some of my Critical questions you need to ask friends and neighbors going forward. If you see it, will it change your mind? And why does it change your mind? Why are you bothered by signs that show what an abortion looks like? Why are you bothered? A lot of red flags in the chat now. Why are you bothered by, you know, losing your health care plan if you support Democrats who want to take your health care plan?

32:52If you see it, will it change your mind? Does, as we asked yesterday, does the policy, the politics, the party you're supporting, do they survive first contact with reality? The answer for the modern Democrat party is no, they do not. First contact with reality always ends poorly for the Democrats. We don't need to do that. We don't need to hide. Quite the opposite for this new MAGA-led Republican party. This is just things that happened this week. We're showing it to you. We're not hiding. We're like, here it is. Why? Because we're proud of it. We're not embarrassed like this lady. That was disgusting.

33:36Why? He just said what happened. We're not embarrassed by it. Here's what happened just this week. The White House messaging, President Trump's White House, their messaging on why you should vote for Republicans over Democrats. I've always told you Republicans are not the solution to all your problems. The problem is Democrats are the cause of all your problems. That's why they hide it. The White House messaging is clear I'm getting exhausted By Republicans leaking To liberal outlets Anonymously Not leaking but just speaking Just put your name on it They don't want to do it Because they don't want to get laughed at We got no message for the midterms No you have no message for the midterms The White House is trying to help you Put up their post on X The White House At White House It's a verified account Now, crushing drug cartels, securing our borders, arresting drug traffickers, these all result in a safer country.

34:31The Trump administration has piloted a historic decrease in fentanyl deaths, saving American lives. This is another one. I made the message easy for you. Thank you. 22 % drop in fentanyl deaths. Total drug overdose deaths. I know you get doomers. Nobody cares. Parents care. They don't want their kids to die because they took what they thought was a Xanax that turned out to be fentanyl, and they didn't have a Narcan around. Don't tell me people don't care. You don't care because you're a doomer. You know what? Throw up that AF Post one. I know I was going to put it up a little later. But here's another one.

35:07Notice no one in the Republican Party who knows what they're talking about, including the White House, is running from this at all. We're advertising it. Here it is. We're not trying to hide it, sweep it under the rug. At AF Post, Trump has effectively decimated the drug trade, Massively reducing drug overdose deaths, chiefly reducing fentanyl overdoses by 54 % from its peak prior to his inauguration. Prior to Trump's inauguration, overdoses seem poised to continue rising. Ladies and gentlemen, this alone would be a campaign platform I would run on. If I was in a high crime area in a Republican Party that had some high crime area in my district, I would put this on every bumper sticker.

35:48I support President Trump's destruction of the drug trade. It's right here. He's giving you a message. What are you whining about? We're showing it. We're not hiding anything. You're hiding it. Because you're just intellectually lazy. And I hate this Republican on Republican crap. And by the way, I'm doing my best now to clean a lot of this stuff up and just get a unified party going forward. A lot of time I agree with you is being wasted on all this stuff. We've got a real fight with these socialist nutbags. You've got kids. I mean, kids, real kids, not Cabbage Patch dolls. They go out there, they think they're taking a Percocet they got on some social media platform.

36:29They take a fentanyl, the kid's dead. I promise you, like, people care. The Trump administration did things about this. You have any idea how many meetings we had at the FBI with our leadership team in China and elsewhere about getting some of these precursor drugs listed so we could interdict them more easily? This was a President Trump administration thing. I know you don't want to give him credit for anything. I don't care. I was there. It happened. Here's another one, a list of things that happened just this week at Christian Heinz. It's just a series of generational wins after another. Generational wins.

37:10But here's the thing. This was just this week. Nothing's happening. Trump confirms ICE proceedings against Ilhan Omar over alleged fraud. The Supreme Court allows Trump's mail-in ballot restrictions to go forward. The Trump admin to revoke the visas of up to 200 ,000 asylum seekers. Ninth Circuit says district courts can't block ICE operations over past harms. ICE arrested 1 ,328 illegals in Virginia and Maryland in just 14 days. I thought nothing was happening. I thought nothing was happening.

37:48Do you look for what's happening? I mean, it's kind of your job to look, right? Not you in the listening audience. If you're a politician running for office under our Republican brand, our umbrella, you're not running under your own brand, Joey Bag of Donuts Party, the wigs. You're running under the Republican brand. Oh, I don't know. I don't know what's happening. It's your job to know what's happening. It's your freaking job. Your job is to know what's happening. Are you, I mean, seriously, like, are you, I'm not trying to be a jerk. Are you stupid? Do you not go into office every day and say, hey, man, I'm running for re-election.

38:21Maybe I should look at some things our party did. You're running with the party, man. Here's another one. All the doomerism over the straight. Again, I can't believe it. President Trump, no plan ever. Has everything gone swimmingly in Iran? No, war is unpredictable. President Trump on true social. You notice any time good news comes out, they all ignore it. I've been informed by the U.S. Navy that all mines have been removed or detonated from the international waters in the strait. Iran's been notified any ship or boat placing new mines will be immediately and systematically destroyed. Space Force watching every inch of the strait, watching Pickaxe Mountain as well.

39:03They already destroyed three other nuclear sites. There's zero tolerance policy on mine placement in full force and effect. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. I am not mad at you from covering things when they don't go bad at all. Why would I be? It's good to cover reality in the real world and keep everybody fresh and frosty. That's a good thing. But are we going to cover some of the good news too? There's a site. Put this up, the expose. Tanker Tracker. That tracks tanker. Tankertrackers.com. They have a Twitter account too. At Tanker Tracker is plural. They note a busy day in the Gulf of Oman.

39:39where there are at least 15 sets of STS transfers taking place. We count 25 million barrels of crude oil plus some refined products. The oil originates from most every country in the region minus Iran. The Gulf of Oman and the side there. This is... I mean, are we interested in the good news or are Republicans going to continue to run for office? They even got some handy photos for you. We got nothing to talk about. We got no... No, you have nothing to talk about because you're not doing your homework. By the way, how many people, be honest, I'm asking you to be honest, I'm sorry, but I'm asking you all to be honest.

40:15How many people fell for the, we're not deporting anyone anymore, the Trump administration's not interested in mass deportation? How many people fell for that? It's okay. It's hard on, I told you, there's a lot of foreign money going into dissuading you from voting in the midterms. and I saw the op a couple weeks ago. Come on, tell me who said that. Bourbon, taste-offs, not me. Good, not me either. Because I applied the Bongino rule. I said, well, I'm just going to wait for the numbers to come out about deportations because I'm not interested in some random anonymous account probably started in Pakistan or somewhere else or Lebanon that says, don't show up and vote.

40:58Donald Trump's not the point of view. Donald Trump's not the point of view. Does that sound sane? look at this guy nice justin's like this is the associated press big fans of donald trump of course you sense the dripping sarcasm from my fangs the associated press hates donald trump you think they want to give him a victory uh here's a headline if you just waited you would see that quote look at the date by the way uh dan this is where you from last year or something no It's August 25th, 2026. I think that was yesterday. ICE arrest jumped to nearly 50 ,000 in July, the highest monthly total of Trump's second term.

41:45Folks, I saw it. This happened to us. I'm just trying to help you. I promise. I promise you, on every shred of integrity in my sometimes broken soul here, I warned you when I came out six months ago that there is a very organized, sophisticated effort to get you to believe things that aren't true so that you'll get upset about the Trump administration. And there's two reasons. They want you to lose in the midterm so they can say, see, we told you so. Trump sucks. and then their 2028 candidate, who's going to be completely antithetical to any Republican values at all, is going to come out and go, you see what happens?

42:31Those four years under President Trump were trash. They're waiting for him to exit the political scene so they can do nothing but relentlessly attack him. They're already turning on Vice President Vance now. Follow my X feed this morning. You'll see what I mean. Everything I told you was going to happen is happening. That was an op. That was an op. President Trump and Stephen Miller don't care about deportations. Are you insane? Stephen Miller. Not only are deportations, ICE arrests, through the roof, they're hitting records. Again, I'm really sorry if you fell for it. I tried to help you. I'm not mad at you.

43:08It's hard. You go on X all the time. Sometimes you just don't know. But if something sounds crazy, and by the way, I'm not telling you every piece of negative information about the administration was fake. That's not what I'm saying at all. So don't put words in my mouth. I'm simply telling you something sounds crazy. You know, Tom Homan, Steve Miller, they're not interested in deportations anymore. President Trump, that sounds crazy, correct? Then it probably is. I saw this. And Bungina's the deep state. Yeah, yes, you're correct. You got me there, guys. Do you know how dumb that sounds? The show continues to expand.

43:52I think you see nobody bought that. It's just stupid. You just have to wait. Again, folks, we don't have to hide from our record. One thing I'm proud of as a conservative, as a supporter of the administration, and the incredible landmarks we've reached after just a year and a half, is we don't have to hide this stuff at all. We don't have to hide it. We want you to see it. because we know it will change your mind in our direction. The Democrats have taken the exact opposite approach. Run on peace, love, and happiness. You know, I've been watching, I don't want to get off track here, but any of you guys watch documentaries out there?

44:33I'm sure a lot of you do, but I'm obsessed with documentary. I don't know. I'm not trying to be like a wonky. I just am. I don't like to waste time. You know, time is your most valuable asset. And if you can learn a little something every day, I'm fascinated by human psychology. So I'm looking around the streaming out list the other day, and I see this, Bob, the three-part episode on Charlie Manson. Remember the murders, the Charlie Manson murders? Some of you are younger. You probably heard the name, but you don't know the details of it. It is one of the most fascinating documentaries I've ever seen because I'm really obsessed with how this guy, this guy, Charlie Manson, an insane sociopath, was able to convince, like, high school cheerleaders who had left to become part of the Manson family to go out and commit the most personal type of murder possible.

45:22And I mean at a qualitatively evil way. Not just to shoot people, but to take a buck knife and stab them hundreds of times. Do you know how evil you have to be to do that? To take a buck knife and over and over. Do you have any idea the type of demons that have to possess your soul. So I clicked on, I'm almost done. I got like 20 minutes left in episode three. And something hit me last night watching this episode. Again, I'm like, eyes are, I'm fascinated by how he did this. The ranch they were at that he took all these young females and a couple of guys, by the way, and kept them there and started talking about the race war and the Beatles' White Album and the Pigs and how you were going to be imprisoned by black America in a race war.

46:19The reason these young ladies bought it, so much to the point they went out and murdered innocent people violently. Not that murders anybody, violently murdered innocent people. One of the key reasons that keeps coming up in the show was he isolated them. you see how when you recommend policies like communism that led to the extermination of not just a few innocent people, but hundreds of millions, how you can get people who are cheerleaders or anything else to believe insane ideas, you just isolate them from the truth. You keep them in little pockets, no different than the ranch Charlie Manson kept his people on.

47:08It may not be a physical wrench, but it's an intellectual one. To gaslight people, you have to lie like Charlie did. Charlie was a con man, Charlie Manson. You have to lie often. Oh, he lied often every day. You have to lie confidently. You hear these people who are Manson family members, these ladies in the documentary saying he was so convincing. But the one part that continues to come up, the fourth component of gaslighting, is he isolated them from their families and everyone else so they could never see the truth. It is no different than the Democrats isolating you from the truth now. They don't want you to see what they're going to do because they want to keep you on that intellectual ranch where you can never see the devastation that's about to happen.

47:56I forget what it's called. It's like the untold Charlie Manson, the untold story. I should know, but it just kind of popped into my head. just listen for that part all the time it comes up throughout every hour of this three-part series how when you isolate people from the truth and they never see reality ladies and gentlemen you can get them to believe and do almost anything almost anything and then you see them get back to reality these women and they're almost completely normal as if they hadn't taken part in a conspiracy to murder innocent people with buck knives the eye opening was incredible folks we don't need to hide from our ideas and hide from people it's the left that's constantly let anyone see that by the way a good analogy dan with charlie manson lynn and jeff i've been and jeff we love lynn and jeff i feel like you're part of my family i never met lynn or jeff but i feel like i know you guys already it it is a good analogy because it's true we don't have to isolate people from anything.

48:55We talk openly about just what happened this week because we don't need to isolate you from reality because I don't want you to do bad things like go out and commit ideological murder out there and recommend things that are going to get people killed. I want you to do what's best for you and your family. That's why we always say on the show, by the way, this is edutainment, educational entertainment, hat tip BDB. We always say do your own homework. Don't believe anyone. Fact check us on the show. If we're wrong, send us over the data. that's why we put clips like this out there that are not from yesterday not from a decade ago but from years ago because they're still instructive today you've got a group of people running as socialists isolating you from the truth telling you that the key to prosperity in the future is the government taking control of the entire economy taking your money taking your kids taking your health care and taking your schooling they're saying that they hate free enterprise they hate free markets they hate the fact that you can own a home by yourself and the government isn't involved Milton Friedman's been explaining this to years for people.

49:55This is one of the best one minute, 20 second clips you're ever going to see. If you haven't seen it, hat tip Rob Snyder on X. He had this out in his X account this morning. That's why I saw it. We played this before on the show. But there's this young kid, again, who's been isolated from the truth, gets up and asks Friedman a question. Well, there's poor people out there. So clearly free enterprises failed as if there were never poor people before there were free enterprise either. Governments don't fail. People in government fail. That's why we want to restrict people's power over our lives, because people will always let you down unless you contain their power to ruin your life, too.

50:27You want an argument for free enterprise? Even the poorest people have never been wealthier than under a free enterprise system. Check this out. My question is, is regarding how free are the poor, how free are the unemployed and how free are those people who are disadvantaged? And so in reference to that, what is government's role? First of all, I'm glad to see one vote for the poor. First of all, the government doesn't have any responsibility. People have responsibility. This building doesn't have responsibility. You and I have responsibility. People have responsibility. Second, the question is how can we as people exercise our responsibility toward our fellow man most effectively?

51:10That's the problem. So far as poverty is concerned, there has never in history been a more effective machine for eliminating poverty than the free enterprise system and the free market. The period in which you had the greatest improvement in the lot of the ordinary man was a period of the 19th and early 20th century. Those of us in this room are the heirs of that. We benefited from the way in which our parents and our grandparents were able to come here. And by virtue of the freedom that was offered to them, were able to make a better life for themselves and them and us. But next, if you look at the real problems of poverty and denial of freedom to people in this country, almost every single one of them is a result of government action and would be eliminated if you eliminated the bad government failures.

51:56Let me be precise and specific. Why do we have so high an unemployment rate among black teenagers? It's a disgrace and a scandal. Why do we have so high an unemployment rate? First of all, because we give them lousy schooling through governmental schools, which make them unqualified to hold decent jobs. And second of all, we require employers to discriminate against them by not hiring them unless their productivity is enough to justify a minimum wage. You see how when you exist in this college environment, folks, this video is decades old. Decades. It looks like it's from the 60s or 70s. It doesn't matter.

52:38It's decades old. The point of this is young college impressionable kids who've been isolated from the truth on a college campus teaching cult-like ideas like communism is wonderful, who never see the real world, whose ideas never face first contact because they're not in contact with the real world. They're in contact with the college world. You go to the college mess hall. You eat your food. Your professor tells you communism is wonderful. You got a beautiful new gym facility. You don't actually have to do any work other than schoolwork. No one's asked you to clean the toilet bowls. Then you go out in the real world with first contact and you're like, oh my gosh, wow, all of a sudden these communes, they don't look so great.

53:15We don't have that problem. All you have to do is ask yourself, how is it that one of the poorest states in the union, Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the union. And I use that term relatively because Mississippi's, their school choice program is amazing. I'm not knocking them. It's just they've had some hurdles through the years. One of the poorest states in the union, the average citizen, their average usable income every year is greater than like the average, you know, Western European who all these people want to be. That's the poorest state in the union. I always kind of laugh mockingly about that poll.

53:51They asked a bunch of, you know, UK citizens, where's the United Kingdom? You're the average wealth of a UK citizen. Where is it compared to states in the United States? And the answers were like overwhelmingly California, New York, UK. That's not it. The UK was like 48 or something like that. You live in the wealthiest country on earth because they practice free enterprise. This is not hard. These people are totally isolated from reality. That's why they think like they do. All I'm asking you, man, and I got Mike Davis coming up in a few minutes. Don't miss this interview. Mike always cuts through the noise and gets to the signal.

54:30I played for you a while back an interview Kevin O 'Leary from Shark Tank. You know, Mr. Wonderful, you've probably seen him. He had done this interview where he was talking about working with, I think it was Steve Jobs, I'm pretty sure. And he was saying that the reason he thought Steve Jobs was so effective is that Steve Jobs has the ability to cut through noise and get to signal. that a lot of what you see out there is noise meant to confuse you or just will confuse you from its very existence and that really good managers and leaders cut right through that. They get to the truth. They're not isolated.

55:08They seek inputs. They get right to the signal. They don't waste time on the noise. The Democrats are experts at polluting the political environment with noise. What this show's aim has been from the beginning until now, and now with the launch of the morning radio show nationwide, the afternoon radio show, the podcast, the addition of Sean, Vince, and Haley, has always been to get straight to Signal. I say that because people write things, especially in editorial, even on our side and our outlets, people will write things that are assumed to be fact just because you see them in print. I'm going to do this in reverse first.

55:47Because one of the arguments that drives me absolutely bananas by these socialists is, Listen, we've got this massive$40 trillion national debt that's causing us real problems right now with interest payments because we just don't tax people enough. It's a stupid noise-based argument that has no single signal at all. Ladies and gentlemen, we taxed the snot out of the United States citizenry. And the wealthiest people in the United States pay the overwhelming majority of taxes. The top 1 % pays 40%. The top 10 % pays 70%. That's just a fact. That's the signal. So I saw this piece in the journal.

56:28Hold on it for a second. By William Galston. And I like his word. I'm not knocking him personally. It's not a personal thing. But he says something in his piece that, again, is just accepted as fact amongst the Democrats that we have a national debt problem because we just need to raise more taxes and tax hikes will do it. So I asked a simple question. I went to Grok and I said, Grok, adjust for inflation and tell me how many years the U.S. government's total tax revenue has gone down from the year before. Because if you're making an argument that we have a national debt and annual deficit problem because tax revenue keeps going down, then how many years did this happen from the year before?

57:03Well, the answer is only in 15 years in the last 50. And why is it gone? There it is right there, adjusted for inflation. Why have they gone down tax revenue? Typically because of a recession. Tax revenue has gone up 35 out of the last 50 years. So your argument that tax revenue is the problem, not spending, is mathematically inaccurate. It is nothing more than isolating from the truth. It is nothing more than noise, not signal. I say it because, again, I read this guy's work. He's definitely not a MAGA guy, but that's fine. I enjoy reading The Other Side because, as I said at the beginning of the show, I want to see what the other side is thinking, but I just don't know why they keep saying this.

57:51Here's a piece I read that folks really annoyed the hell out of me. America's spiraling, excuse me, debt crisis by William Galston. He notes after four years of budget surpluses. Okay, that's not true in 2000. There was no budget surplus. There was no budget surplus. I can prove this to you. Keep this up, please. Easily, William Galston and others. If there was a budget surplus for four straight years from 2001 to 2005, 2006 and on, right? There was any budget surplus. How come the national debt went up every year? If I was running a surplus, how does my debt go up? That's just not true. It's an accounting gimmick.

58:34You know, the CBO released a 10-year forecast projecting that the national debt would be eliminated by 2009. It didn't happen. But here, here's the line. Combined with slower than expected economic growth The Bush tax cuts reduced economic tax receipts Oh, income tax receipts From a projected$1.8 trillion in 2011 To$1.2 trillion There we go Blaming the Bush tax cuts Just like they blame the Reagan tax cuts Now I've just showed you that that's not true That 35 out of 50 years Tax revenue has gone up An overwhelming majority of the time And when it goes down It's typically not tax policy It's a recession So then I thought Maybe I'll pull up this So we used to use this article all the time Here's an old school article from Don Dwyer From 10 years ago in the Washington Times Is that true?

59:19The Bush tax cuts cost the government money? No, it's not true The real jolt for tax cutting opponents Was that the 03 Bush tax cuts Generated a massive increase in federal tax receipts From 2004 to 2007 Notice he leaves these years out Federal tax revenues increased by $785 billion The largest four-year increase in American history. Folks, it's all noise, man. Learn to get to the signal. You want to solve the problem of our$40 trillion debts and our trillion dollar annual deficits? Higher taxes are not the solution because the evidence and the signal says otherwise. You'll generate more tax revenue By cost effective And growth inducing tax cuts The evidence is everywhere You can look it up you know There's a whole big scandal right now About Stanley Druckenmiller Wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal That he says he used AI for He's like yeah I used AI I don't know what's the problem I don't care if you use AI or not But you can actually use AI to think for you If you don't want to think for yourself That's just not true it's just all noise all right I had a lot more but I really I'm in a mood today sorry of course we pick our comment of the day every day Josh just popped out of the studio he got a fresh haircut going on here he's like we got a lot of good entries today for the comment of the day it's our 1776 club once a week we give out $1 ,776 to a listener of the show or a viewer of the show, either one, because we really want you.

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1:01:39Good job. All right, quick break. I'm going to get to one of your favorite guests, the great Mike Davis. We do not have this guy on enough. He's fantastic. We're going to get a thorough explanation of this President Trump-led effort to secure free and fair elections going forward. Hey, we're still a couple months out, but the midterms are fast approaching. and make no mistake, if the house flips, it's a big deal for our economy. That uncertainty is one of the reasons I'm diversified with gold from Birch Gold Group, and I'm not the only one. In the three months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, the spot price of gold jumped over 12%.

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1:02:56Welcoming back to the show. I say back because he was a regular guest on our radio show. And yes, I know all the supporters and viewers and listeners love him. Mike Davis from the Article 3 Project. Mike, thanks for your time today. We appreciate it. Thank you, Dan. Welcome back. It's good to be back. And let me just extend a note of really sincere and deep gratitude. You know, when we were at the FBI, Cash and I Cash obviously still being there. It was really nice having someone on the outside who could explain what was happening. why some things could happen right away and why they didn't. It was nice to have a sane voice.

1:03:30Again, you know, we did not coordinate messaging or anything like that. It was just nice to hear someone say, hey, here's why this stuff happened. So we really appreciate that. Now you're seeing some of the results of that. I want to get to this first. Again, you have a really unique ability to explain complex legal issues to people. The voting by mail Supreme Court decision that worked out for President Trump But it's not the end of the line about these changes President Trump wants to make to the voting by mail system to the post office. Can you explain what happened and what it looks like, the legal path ahead to clean up the system?

1:04:08President Trump issued an executive order ordering his attorney general, his secretary of homeland security, and his postmaster general to work together to come up with a plan to combat voter fraud through our postal service. Voter fraud through mail is mail fraud, which is a federal crime, as you know, Dan, from your time at the FBI. And so President Trump did this. Of course, Democrats don't like that because Democrats rely on non-citizens as their new court constituency to illegally rig and vote in our elections. And so 23 Democrat governors, along with the Democrat mayor of D.C., sued in Boston.

1:04:56They knew that would be a favorable left-wing district for them. And this left-wing crazy Biden judge up there issued this injunction on the president of the United States, telling the president that he can't even have his executive branch officials come up with a plan. Not act on the plan, not do anything that affects the states, just come up with the plan. And so the First Circuit, filled with other left-wing activists, the appeals court affirms this whack job, Obama judge in Boston. It got sent up to the Supreme Court on the emergency docket because it's an injunction. It's not a case on the merits.

1:05:38So it would go up to the emergency docket. And it's important here because you have an injunction on the president of the United States where he can't have his cabinet officials and others come up with a plan. Pretty obviously illegal. So the Supreme Court said the same. It was six to three because the three Democrat women on the Supreme Court are also whack jobs. It was it should have been nine to nothing. and the Supreme Court simply said these 23 governors and the D.C. mayor, all these Democrat politicians, do not have standing to sue the president here. And the reason they don't have standing is because they aren't injured.

1:06:13They're not injured plaintiffs. And under Article 3 of the Constitution, in order to sue in federal court, you have to have Article 3 standing. You have to be injured, injury in fact, right? Not hypothetical injury, not potential injury, not, you know, It has to be possible injury. It has to be injury. In fact, it has to be concrete and specific, and it's not here. So the Supreme Court got rid of the injunction. The same whack job Boston judge appointed by Obama issued another injunction on another case that was like the mirror image of what the Supreme Court just lifted. it. The injunction of the Supreme Court just lifted.

1:06:54So she's just a radical left-wing activist. That will get litigated again. The Postal Service, DHS, Homeland Security, they're going to have to come up with final rules. Those final rules, according to President Trump's executive order, include using a citizenship list from DHS, making sure that we're comparing that citizen list to these states voter rules like california and other blue state hell holes where they clearly are putting non-citizens on these rules in mass numbers and letting them vote in mass numbers that's why the democrats oppose the save america acts even though it has 80 of support of americans including a super majority of democrats a super majority of minorities and a super majority of black americans who democrats pretend are too stupid to get a voter id and prove that they're American citizens so they can vote, when in reality, the Democrats just want illegal aliens to vote.

1:07:52Look, it's pretty obvious now between how the Democrats are reacting to the Save America Act and how they're reacting to the Supreme Court lifting this unlawful injunction by this Obama judge that Democrats, their game plan, their business plan is for illegal aliens to get imported into this country, load them up with welfare, bribe them, send them ballots and get them to vote for Democrats illegally. It is illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. And that's exactly what Democrats are doing. To wrap this up, I would say this, these U.S. attorneys around the country, and Dan, you had to work with them.

1:08:32Some of them are good. Some of them are politicians. They need to step up because if you are inspiring to use our postal service to commit election fraud, you could be charged with federal conspiracy along with mail fraud. And so the U.S. attorneys need to step up and start doing something. We're talking to Mike Davis from the Article 3 project. Mike, that was a really thorough analysis of the EO there, the presidential EO. But just to follow up on this, because, excuse me, you, me and many others have been mourning for a long time about what you just said, that the Democrats' strategy for winning future elections from the House of Representatives, I'm talking just federal side, there's obviously state stuff too, but House of Representatives, U.S.

1:09:18Senate, and the presidency is not to pitch good ideas. There is no large constituency for open borders, for defunding the police, for confiscatory taxes. There just isn't. You can't win on that idea. It's just a fact. Look at the polls, okay? So their strategy appears to be, even though they know voting by mail is prone to fraud. I can prove it. There's a 2012 New York Times article by Adam Liptack, I cite all the time, when seniors were voting by mail in Florida and military folks who largely vote Republican back in 2012 before its widespread use, the New York Times hated it and wrote about rejection rates and fraud being twice as large as in-person voting.

1:09:57So they just acknowledged it's a huge problem and they cite data. So their plan appears to make this ballot harvesting and vote by mail go national import a bunch of folks into the country illegally get them somehow registered use them to replenish the population loss in blue states. So you can hold on to your House of Representatives members and your electoral votes in the Electoral College for the presidency and basically hijack and steal elections. I mean they're not hiding it. This is their only plan. It's certainly not a battle of ideas. Yeah. And they're not hiding it. it's not only their plan, it's what they just did in New York City, right?

1:10:34They changed the election laws to allow non-citizens to vote, right? It's just that that is their game plan. If you look at Mandami, he doesn't have the support of American citizens. He has the support of illegals. He has the support of non-citizens. And that's what the Democrats are trying to do. The Democrat Party knows that they are no longer the party of American voters. They are the party of Islamists. They are the party of third worlders. They are the party of Marxist. They are the party of communist. And they're getting pretty brazen about the fact that they are very much relying on illegals, non-citizens to illegally vote in our elections.

1:11:17They're replacing American voters. The replacement theory, as Democrats used to call it, is becoming the replacement reality. Right. It's their, Mike, it's their theory. It's not ours. The demographic destiny slash replacement theory argument is a Democrat battle plan. Us talking about it doesn't make us own it. It's yours. We're just talking about what's in your house, not what's in ours. I'm glad you brought that up because that drives me crazy. Crazy Republicans talking about racist replacement. We're not talking about it. You are. We're just highlighting you idiots talking about it. So yeah, you're right they talk about it openly let me uh change topics a bit because again another topic you've been vocal about on your twitter feed follow mike davis article three project he's fantastic is this myth of department of justice fbi u.s marshals dea whatever it is independence as if it's a separate branch of government mike this is used by the left for a couple of tactical reasons when a democrats in office and government in the presidency i mean and governments weaponize like it was under Obama and Biden, they use it to say like, no, no, no, those decisions weren't made by Obama and Biden.

1:12:31That was an independent FBI and DOJ. And then when a Republican's in office, they use it to encourage fake whistleblowers to come out and not enact the president's agenda. The attorney general is selected by the president, confirmed by the United States Senate. The attorney general and that heads the DOJ, the FBI is underneath the DOJ. None of these entities are independent of the will of the people in the executive branch. It is a liberal myth. Yeah, let me just say this to these Democrat reporters who pretend that the Department of Justice is independent of the duly elected president of the United States.

1:13:10Every federal agent, every federal prosecutor in America reports to the deputy attorney general who reports to the attorney general who reports to the president of the United States who was elected by all Americans. And for Democrats to argue otherwise, when they do that, they simply prove there is a deep state, which they pretend is a conspiracy theory. We don't have another branch of government. I guess the Supreme Court did say that the Federal Reserve is somehow independent, which is a shocking case. But federal law, think about this. If you don't have the attorney general and the rest of the Justice Department reporting to the duly elected president of the United States, that is the recipe for tyranny that Democrats pretend they're trying to protect against.

1:14:09Remember, it was Barack Obama who had his wingman, Eric Holder, politicize and weaponize the Justice Department against his political enemies. It was Joe Biden who did that on steroids. It was Jonathan Suh, Biden's deputy White House counsel, who waived President Trump's claim of executive privilege, which led to the Mar-a-Lago raid and four unprecedented Republican indictments against President Trump, including Jack Smith as a special counsel, a partisan slut missile, right, who got overturned unanimously by the Supreme Court in a prior prosecution of Virginia. governor bob mcdonald and they brought jack smith back it was uh matthew colangelo who got deployed from the number three office in the justice department to alvin bragg's office in new york manhattan da democrat da alvin bragg to bring the first indictment of a president ever uh it was it was tish james uh who coordinated with the biden white house to bring criminal civil charges against President Trump.

1:15:22It was big Fannie Willis down in Fulton County, Georgia, who hired her dumb, unqualified boyfriends who billed 16 hours of his time, $4 ,000 or$8 ,000, I believe it was, to meet with the Biden White House, including the Biden White House counsel before they brought charges against President Trump. He was obviously billing on the Trump case because that was the only case on which he was a special counsel. So he was coordinating with the Biden White House to bring charges against Trump. I don't remember the Democrats during that those three years of unprecedented Republican Republican in lawfare by Biden against Trump through it, through Biden's Justice Department and through these Democrat DAs.

1:16:04I don't remember Democrats, including Democrat reporters, complaining about the independence of the Justice Department. Then they only care about the independence of the Justice Department when we have Republican presidents. Oh, it's so obvious. It's just that they're not it's as transparent as scotch tape. I mean, you can see right through these idiots. And like you said, are you you're making an argument that the deep state that can be easily corrupted with no accountability is real. I don't know how you think you're helping your case with this fictitious, nonsensical argument. Anyone who has a basic understanding of the Constitution sees right through it.

1:16:42Let me move on to another topic as well, we've got midterm elections coming up. Obviously, presidential midterms for the opposing party are typically a good run, bad run for the party in the White House. There's nothing unique about that happens all the time. However, I think we could both argue that during the Biden disastrous administration, a lot of people were predicting a huge, enormous red wave. That didn't happen. It wasn't a horrible election, but it wasn't the best election ever either. I think that's got a lot to do with gerrymandering. It's got a lot to do with polarization of the electorate.

1:17:15It's not a lot of split ticket voting that happens anymore. So what I'm getting at is that works for us too, though. Anyone saying, oh my gosh, listen, we're so unpopular, which is nonsense. You know, we don't have a message to run on and you're on the GOP side leaking to playbook this stuff. There's no message. This is exhausting. Okay. It's just nonsense. We have had an incredible year and a half run, Mike. The GOP message is simple. Borders closed, crime crushed, we're building things again. Yes, there are issues. There's still a lot of, you know, inflation's not under control. We're still dealing with what Biden did with the spending blowout.

1:17:50Obviously, you know, Iran has been ongoing and unpredictable, even though I think we have a good control over the strait now. But saying we don't have a message, despite the borders being controlled, crime at historic lows, and building things again in America, high-tech, quality materials, that's just, you're pretending it's a fait accompli. It's just because you're you're you're just lazy. Yeah, this election is a clear choice for American voters. Do we want to continue President Trump's path of securing our border, expelling illegal aliens who are trying to replace our population and loot our welfare systems, systems, including the most dangerous criminals in the world, like Trendy Aragua, MS-13, Islamist, jihadist, other third world worlders?

1:18:40Do we want to continue President Trump's crackdown on crime? I don't think that Dan takes enough credit for this, but Cash and Dan were instrumental in reducing crime in America, particularly violent crime in big cities. And so Dan will not, he's too modest to take a bow, so I will force him to take a bow here. Do we want to continue to have a secure border to secure our sovereignty as we the people, the sovereign citizens of America, to secure our neighborhoods, to secure our families? Or do we want to go down the Islamist path, the third world path, the communist path, where you have these dangerous radicals like Mindhami, like this Democrat Senate candidates, like these other radicals who are running for office.

1:19:32And Chuck Schumer's not going to stop these guys if they take over the Senate. Hakeem Jeffries is going to lead the charge for these guys if they take over the House. And they are going to destroy our border. They're going to try to defund ICE. If they went in the midterm elections, they will spend two years destroying President Trump and his presidency. They'll try to win the trifecta in 2028, the White House, the House and the Senate. And I'm warning the viewers, that is game over America if that happens. They will nuke the legislative filibuster, meaning 60 votes to 50 votes plus the vice president and the Senate.

1:20:13They will pack the Supreme Court with left-wing radicals, so from nine seats to 13, 15, who knows the number of seats with left-wing radicals like Ketanji Brown-Jackson, they will strip us of our God-given rights as guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, our rights to speak, worship, associate, to protect ourselves. And then when they take away our ability to protect ourselves, our Second Amendment right, which protects us from government tyranny and government anarchy, that's when the Islamist, communist, Marxist play really becomes front and center. They are going to destroy our country.

1:20:57They hate America. They hate the West. And they're not even hiding it anymore because these are not today's, today's Democrats are not our parents or grandparents Democrats. These are not people who love America and just disagree with us on the best way to get there. They hate America. They hate the West. They're very open about it. They don't believe in free speech. They believe in censorship. They don't believe in equality. They believe in equity, DEI, CRT, race-based division. They don't believe in due process of law, equal protection law. They believe in politicized and weaponized justice systems.

1:21:34That is your choice going into November. So don't be complacent. Don't be angry because Trump's only done 95 % of what you want and he hasn't done 100 % of what you want. You have a choice in this election. You need to vote like responsible adults and not petulant children. Right. And one of the things I admire about President Trump's leadership in the administration is he does president trump is very sensitive to what the base needs now mike you know you've been around politicians so have i most of them let's just be honest as if they're if they're lame ducks and they're not running again or maybe their polls are bad and they were just forced out you know reluctantly but they don't run again they generally go into like figmo eff it got my orders and they just don't care you you can see it it's the examples we could go over hundreds of him.

1:22:26President Trump's not running again. He's wealthy. He's got a great family, great wife. I mean, he really doesn't need this, but he still is extremely sensitive to the base, the people who got him there. And he never forgot that. He, you know, he dances with who brought him to the party and he always has. But one of the things I don't think he gets enough credit for, and I say this to both the liberal media, the communists, the hacks, the Democrats, and the doomers on our side who just want to constantly crap on him for what didn't happen yet, but may still happen, because again, he's very sensitive to the base, is President Trump's creative use of things that the media just ignores.

1:23:05Like you had mentioned the historic drop in crime, and I really deeply appreciate your words. We focus strongly on that, especially violent crime and how we could help. But I want to bring in another angle to this, which you understand. President Trump was the first president in modern history to creatively use Title VIII for immigration. In other words, why are we allowing these people we arrest for crimes in the United States who are here illegally to stay in the country? The old theory was, well, you know, maybe they can be useful in other crimes or like we don't want to go through the whole immigration thing.

1:23:39President Trump, I remember him saying this to us, why are we wasting United States attorneys' time, state jail space, federal jail space, all the money it takes to incarcerate these people? if we can just get them the hell out of the country, if they're not going to be like Sammy the Bull and provide information on the mob, then get them out. And this was a hugely impactful decision, which I think is, I don't know, 30%, 40 % of the drop in crime may be more attributable to that alone. Yeah, and here's the problem. Even if you prosecute these people, these left-wing judges are going to make it nearly impossible to put them in jail.

1:24:16So I'm all about sending these illegals back to their home countries. And when they pretend like they're persecuted back in their home countries, even though they go back to their home countries to visit during their illegal stay in America, then, OK, you don't want to go back to your home country. How does the Central African Republic sound or Uganda sound? Because that's where you're going. Right. And that is where President Trump has been so effective. And frankly, where President Trump's Justice Department team, led by Todd Blanch now, by Pam Bondi before, Cash, you, Dan, John Sauer, the solicitor general, so many others, they have won monumental victories at the Supreme Court, particularly on immigration, but more broadly on the President's Article II executive power.

1:25:05And he has really laid the groundwork where we can ramp up deportations on a mass scale after going through a year of Democrat judicial sabotage after four years, eight years, nine years of election interference, of weaponization of intel agencies and law enforcement. President Trump and his team are firing on all cylinders. And I would say this, that if you are here, I used to be pretty soft on immigration about 10 years ago. Not anymore. After Joe Biden let in 20 plus million illegals into our country, including the worst of the worst, the most vicious murderers, robbers, rapists, other violent criminals.

1:25:51after the Supreme Court in one of their most egregious rulings ever said that illegal aliens, Chinese birth tourist, friend de Iraq was somehow at birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. I have zero compassion now. We need to get illegal aliens the hell out of our country. They are all criminals, every one of them. Of course, we have to prioritize because we have resources. We have to use the resources we have, but we need to get them the hell out of our country. We could not have our population replaced. I come from immigrants. I come from Irish immigrants. The Italians married into my Irish family like the Moors.

1:26:31And so I have Italian cousins. We come from a diverse country, but you need to assimilate. You need to want to become part of America. And we have Islamists and other third worlders who do not want to assimilate. They're not here to assimilate. They're here to conquer. They're here to steal our welfare, to defraud our country and destroy our country. We can't let these people in our country and we need to get them the hell out of our country. If you do not share our Western, our American values, we do not want you here. Yeah, indeed, brother, indeed. Now you see why we love him, folks. Give him a follow on X, Mike Davis from the Article 3 Project.

1:27:14I'll tell you one of my favorite, if not my favorite commentator out there. Very sober analysis. He's not a cheerleader, but he's not a doomer. I promise you he's going to give you the lowdown on what all this stuff means. Now you've got an explanation on EO, Title 8, all this stuff. Mike Davis, you're always welcome back to the show, a fan favorite of the audience. Thank you so much for spending some time with us today. We appreciate it. Thank you, Dan. And thank you for what you did for our country at the FBI. Yes, sir. You're very welcome. Thank you. Mike Davis, folks. I've been a follower of Mike Davis on social media platforms for a long time.

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