The Biggest Fraud in D.C. (Ep. 2485)

29:29Vance and Margaret Brennan? Margaret Brennan's only saying that because this is starting to kick them in the nads. These media people travel a lot. A lot of them don't even live near the studios. That's the only reason. This may seem like a simple point, but I wanted to give you some hope. We used to have that shirt, Is It Bad Enough Yet? I love that shirt. We should bring that one back. Is it bad enough yet? I wear it sometimes to work out. It was before Trump got elected. It was meant to make a point that when you hit maximum political depression at the bottom of that valley, when you think everything is terrible is ironically when it's the most likely to turn around.

30:12Folks, I lived it. I promise you. I saw it in New York and I saw it in Maryland. Things got so bad in New York with 2 ,000 plus homicides a year in the five boroughs. 2 ,000 plus homicides in one city alone. People's cars getting stolen. Their kids getting kidnapped and assaulted and mugged that when it got so bad, that's when the turnaround, I saw a turnaround happen. I saw it in Maryland too. Maryland, another deep blue state. They started taxing the rain, the freaking rain. Go look it up. Maryland rain tax. You think I'm making this up? If you had a, it was based on impervious services. Bottom line, if you had a business with a flat roof, you got this enormous tax bill.

30:58All of a sudden, these Democrat lawmakers were like, man, this is a great idea. of this rain tax. Democrats who actually lived in Maryland were like, well, that's kind of bullshit. I ain't paying a tax on the rain. And what happened? They got a two-term Republican governor. They'd have been the best Republican. Everybody's better than the Democrats. Folks, just when you think this stuff is hitting the bottom of the valley, don't give up. Don't give up. I promise you people in the end understand that they're getting kicked in the nads by bad policy. Sometimes it just takes a while. I mean, think about this.

31:31What does it take? You know, I'm a contributor over at Fox. Had a show there. Been on and off there for the last 10 years. I love being there. The people there are great. One of the nicest people at Fox, everyone will tell you this, you put a beer in anyone at Fox, I'll tell you the same thing, is Dana Perino. You can't get under Dana Perino's skin. She's always smiling. She's exactly like she is, off the air, on the air. She's just the most pleasant person to be around. Do you know what it takes to get Dana Perino pissed off on the five? Here is Dana and Jessica Tarlov. Dana's like, Jessica, come on.

32:01You really trying to blame this TSA, DHS shutdown on Republicans? Like, nobody actually believes that. That's how bad this argument is. Dana's like, come on, man. Really? Check this out. The Democrats are playing a very dangerous game. But Jessica thinks that everyone believes that this is the Republicans' fault is not true. Why didn't Mike Johnson just bring the bill back to the floor? There can be politics, but everybody knows. And especially, that's actually pretty disingenuous to suggest that it's the Republicans' fault. The Democrats are the ones who wanted this in the first place, Jessica.

32:33They wanted to change it. Voted 11 times. And they got the changes that they asked for. The secretary of Homeland Security got fired. They put Tom Homan in. They've like, OK, you know what? We'll do this. We'll take this. We'll put the numbers on the badge. We'll just we'll do anything. Body cameras. Yes, we'll do that, too. We'll do all of these things so that there's an intramural squabble about how you ultimately get it done. We all know the reason that it actually happened. And it's because Chuck Schumer does not want to be primaried. okay, this is really important, this segment. I know I say that a lot.

33:06Stop what you're doing and listen to this. I'm going to tie all this together now about the Save America Act and the filibuster. What does that have to do with any of this? Folks, I just told you that I have lived through this twice in my, I've only been alive 51 years, okay? I'm not that old, old enough, but not that old. I have lived through this twice. This meaning political revolutions from blue states that elect Republicans. I've lived through it twice. Giuliani and Governor George Pataki, Republicans in New York, Larry Hogan in Maryland. I have seen it twice where Democrats eventually get so tired of Democrat policies because their wallets shrink, their kids get mugged, that they throw their own Democrats out and vote for Republicans.

33:55I have seen this twice. How does that tie into the Save America Act and the filibuster? Folks, the arguments against scrapping the filibuster now are, listen, the Senate's the cooling chamber. The Democrats are better at big government. I understand all those arguments. However, the Save America Act, which would implement voter integrity nationwide, will only pass if we either scrap the filibuster or if we implement the talking filibuster where they actually have to talk through it and can't just cast a vote. the Democrats have already hoisted upon our back the anchor of big government, folks.

34:35The Republican establishment that is against scrapping the filibuster is making this argument like, well, Democrats are better at big government as if we've been in any way successful at stopping them. Outside of the BCA and the Tea Party Revolution, the Budget Control Act, the sequester in the Obama years, we've had almost no successes at all. We've had a lot of tax successes, the Reagan tax cuts. Even Clinton cut some taxes. But we have had almost zero success outside of President Trump and Doge and the shrinking of the federal workforce. Pre-Trump, we've had almost zero success fighting them.

35:13My point is this. If there is going to be a revolt against Democrat politics eventually, because it always kicks people in the balls, because Democrat politics have a 100 % success rate of failing every time. They won't work because they can't work. Stealing people's money, running their health care, telling people to go to shitty schools. People hate this stuff. Why not just expedite the process? Why not just expedite the process? Hear me out. At least we can paint a contrast between the two parties. We can't do that now. What happens now? We have the White House We have the House of Representatives And we have majorities in the Senate That's what a lot of people in the public Why aren't you Republicans doing anything?

36:05Because majorities Don't win in the Senate You need to get over The 60 vote threshold Not just It's 100 members Majority is 51 or 50 plus the vice president Why not Dump the filibuster let the majority rule and let when the Democrats win they're going to scrap it anyway let them do their thing let them show America how bad it sucks and then we can come in and at least now lawmakers votes will count where we can actually enact like a 12 point or 20 point plan and actually do it folks I promised I'm not some extremist on this the Democrats are going to scrap this thing anyway they've already told us that and when they do it you'll remember this conversation.

36:54We might as well get as much done beforehand so that they can see the result of successful Republican politics when we have a majority and we don't need the filibuster and then see the Democrats dismantle it all so they can see what A versus B looks like in a simple statistical analysis, A-B analysis. This is why I support Mike Lee on this from Utah, Senator from Utah. Here he is laying out on Fox News with the Save America Act, which would save our elections and America by implementing basic voter ID rules, basic voter ID rules. He says we have a few paths on this with regards to the filibuster.

37:31Check this out. We have exactly two options. We can either, one, start enforcing our rules as they're written and require filibustering senators to speak and exhaust them and stay on a bill that is critical to our agenda until it passes. Or if we're not willing to do that, because that involves hard work, We have to nuke the filibuster. Now, I would strongly prefer the first. I think it's better to do it with the rules that we've got, because the rules that we've got actually ensure and protect robust debate. But what we can't have is this hybrid. We can't try to walk a middle ground between those two, saying, yeah, we're going to stick with the filibuster, with the 60-vote cloture standard, and then not do the work to get to cloture.

38:13That is a problem. So we've got a choice to make. If we don't make one of those two choices, use the talking filibuster or nuke the filibuster, we're going to be in big trouble in November. Listen, can I tell you something on a personal note? I've known Senator Lee for a very long time. There's no one up on the Hill I have more respect for. There was a hit piece out on him about a week ago, something suggesting like this is some grandstanding thing. That's some serious bullshit. This guy has never, ever been a grandstander, ever, ever. He is a principled constitutional conservative, which I align with and the issues he takes a stand on strongly.

38:50And what he said there is valid. The talking filibuster, there's no rule change needed. You want to clog up this legislation in the Senate to save America from voter fraud? Then go defend it on the floor and talk about it. Guys, we need to create this contrast. The problem is there's way too much gray on the margins now. A Democrat gets in, you've got, you know, a Democrat House and a Democrat majority in the Senate, but not enough to overcome the filibuster. The media blames Republicans. They go, look, Republicans are blocking things in the Senate. And then we lose the other way. Republican in the White House, Republican Senate, Republican House, but not enough to overcome the filibuster.

39:30Then the media says, well, the Republicans are in charge. They're not doing anything. They make the exact opposite argument. What victories have we had? outside of Trump's first excuse me, first year outside of that tell me what victories the GOP, the party in general tell me what victories we've had we lost healthcare we're still stuck with Obamacare sunk by McCain of all people government spending is still out of control thank God the federal workforce is shrinking but again, forget the Trump first term his first year What victories have we had? Explain to me, using reason and logic, how the filibuster, not stop specific legislation, has stopped the United States from this bankruptcy trajectory, from individual control of health care, from a bankruptcy of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.

40:27I just make the case. Folks, I'm at the point now where if large swaths of America want to vote for this big government garbage and want to see how it affects their lives and there's nothing we're going to do to stop it let them feel it let them see their wallets shrink maybe we'll see what we saw in New York City with Rudy Giuliani and a Republican governor where people just got tired of it and New York underwent a renaissance yeah I backtracked, but we bought time. That's what a lot of this is about. Folks, you got guys like Bernie Sanders out there now, like a devout communist, talking about a wealth tax.

41:13I brought this up yesterday. A wealth tax? Do you understand what a wealth tax is? Listen to how he talks about this, or read what he talks about here in this tweet. Bernie Sanders. This is like economic ignorance on testosterone. He goes, let me clear things up for you. It is Bernie Sinsman. Let me clear things up for you. If my 5 % wealth tax on billionaires was enacted, you'd owe$135 million more in taxes, and a family of four making$150 ,000 or less would receive a$12 ,000 payment. Oh, and you'd still be worth more than$2.5 billion. Seems pretty fair to me. Split screen now. Can you put that up on a split screen for me?

41:54Now, if you read that, and you're economically illiterate, you say to yourself, well, that sounds fair. Who's he responding to? Jamie Dimon? Right? We'll take a lot of this billionaire's money. He's no worse for the wear. And a family of four would get a$12 ,000 payment from Jamie's wallet. And you think to yourself, come on, tell me, even conservatives, as you're reading this, you go, oh, that doesn't sound so bad. What are you laughing at? Oh, you like that? Me direct. Split screen, VOs, rich cameras, go to cameras. I know. Let these guys do their work. Thank you. Thank you. When you start asking even basic questions about Bernie Sanders, what he puts forth here, like how is Jamie going to get the$135 million?

42:48The whole thing falls apart. You guys see where I'm going with this?

42:57Jamie likely doesn't have his money in a passbook bank account at the Ridgewood Savings Bank. That's where I grew up in Glendale Ridgewood. They had the Ridgewood Savings Bank. My brother had a passbook. You go in, you put$25. Right, I stay up at$25. How is Jamie going to get the money? Anyone in the chat? Let's take his$135 million. He's going to have to sell stock Because they don't keep this stuff in a freaking bank account Bernie Sanders, you moron Well, if you instituted a wealth tax, guys Across the entire country And everybody had to liquidate their stock In order to pay someone not to work And give them a, quote,$12 ,000 payment Do you guys have any idea what would happen to the stock market If everybody liquidated the same time?

43:44Oh, they're down But go down like a lot like the late 1920s but worse but you're like well that's my 401k and my retirement fund my annuities invested in an etf you're telling me the whole thing would crash and the 12 000 payment i got from raiding jamie's wallet actually would i'd probably lose twice as much on my stock holdings in my retirement that's exactly what i'm telling you how much is your salary that's even if you keep your job as these companies, the public companies start to collapse and start to fire people to preserve market cap that's assuming by the way they don't leave the country that's assuming they don't, if you do it in the states, leave the states that's assuming they don't liquidate their assets before it passes and put it in some trust fund these are the morons you're dealing with the gaze of harmoose a wealth tax how are you going to get the money oh we're just going to liquidate the stock market i'm going to liquidate the stock market for a twelve thousand dollar check as a middle class american and i'm going to lose like thirty thousand out of my retirement how the does that work for me do you see how stupid these people are.

45:09Folks, but did I mention, by the way, the tweet about the midterms, the polls, and it says don't give up on the midterms. Did I mention that when we did the rundown? I may have skipped that one. Don't give up on the midterms. There was a tweet I saw yesterday. I sent it, but I forgot to bring it up at the guy's pre-show. Don't give up on the midterms. Listen, it's going to be tough, okay? I'm not going to gaslight you on that. It's going to be tough. The media pressure. Trump's had to make some really hard decisions in Iran and elsewhere that understandably a lot of people have sincere political disagreements with.

45:43I get it. The midterms are going to be tough and a challenge. But these people, Bernie Sanders and the gaze of Hormuz lady and others, are so ridiculous that even Democrats fear other Democrats. Sane Democrats. There was a poll that popped. I saw it on Twitter yesterday that even though the GOP may not be the most popular party right now that Democrats are afraid of other Democrats too. Do not be a doomer on this front. Don't give up. I mean, let's not be ridiculous. You know, red wave stuff and all that crap. We got to get out and do the hard work. If the Democrats had anything to run on, folks, they would have already done it.

46:29Trump, by the way, is racking up wins, not just on the EO front from our military, but he's also racking up some wins at the Supreme Court. I'm going to get to in a second what's going on right now. The case on birthright citizenship comes down to one thing. Don't let the left fool you. However, there was another big win at the Supreme Court yesterday on conversion therapy. An unquestioned attack on the First Amendment rights of people who want to render mental health care to people who may be struggling with gender issues. There's zero question about it. So much so it was an 8-1 ruling in the Supreme Court.

47:07Listen to Kerry Urban, who's excellent, talk about this on Fox. This is a really, really big victory. Check this out. This is Jackson's dissent. And she said to do anything else opens up a dangerous can of worms. It threatens to impair states' ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect. It extends the Constitution into uncharted territory in an utterly irrational fashion. And it ultimately risks grave harm to Americans' health and well-being. And she read that from the bench. And I think that sort of signals that she was really, really intent on what she was trying to say.

47:39Yeah, she feels very strongly about it. That's what justices do when they feel strongly and passionately about something. They read their dissent from the bench. But, you know, again, this was an 8-1 decision. So not only is she out of step with the rest of her colleagues, I would argue she's out of step with the country and really the world at this point. Eight one. And who's the only zero who disagrees? Kentonji Brown Jackson, who, by the way, doesn't even know what a woman is. She does. She does. She has said in her confirmation hearing, she doesn't know what a woman is. So how can she object to conversion therapy?

48:13People trying to convert from men to women and mental health professionals trying to discuss these gender issues if she doesn't even know what a woman is. Has anyone asked her this question, guys? Anyone? She doesn't know what a woman is. There's nothing to convert to. She doesn't know.

48:338-1. Put up that tweet on this. SCOTUS Wire. This was another huge win. The doom and gloom class is just I mean every single day The war is lost The economy is collapsing We just had retail sales by the way come back Pretty great numbers Everything is doom and gloom all the time

48:54Here's the good news I like to break up the show a little bit I think that turning point is coming I do I really do I think the cultural Forget about the politics for a minute and the Giuliani-Maryland argument I made. I think the cultural turning point on a lot of this identity politics, DEI, BS, you see, this detachment from faith, this idea the left is jammed down our throat, that you should have faith in government institutions, forget your church and your community. I think that's changing. Okay, bring some receipts. Okay, I will. Washington Examiner piece. Folks, a lot of this, a significant number of our younger generation kids are tired of the emptiness of social media and the bullshit.

49:44Listen, I'm not trying to be freaking Plato here or wax poetic. It's empty. Selena Zito, great article in Washington Examiner, faith among young people surges, providing a missing anchor. Folks, I'm not your preacher, but can you imagine how empty your life is if you believe this rock we call earth is it and your life is social media and Instagram reels all day? How many likes you got? Who you ratioed with your bot army? Can you imagine how devoid of a soul you have to be that that's your entire life? How about time with your kids? Time in church? We were in church this weekend. It was great. We had a blast.

50:26You heard I left early. Yeah, I had to. Yeah, there's a... no yeah i saw justin no i just want to know justin walked in late you're gonna call me out you walked in late don't say you didn't he walked in late i'm just saying folks he's five minutes late i saw him right there he and by the way justin's like seven feet tall everybody yeah yes andrew's like did he make a scene here's the thing about justin too because he's what are you six four he's really tall. 6 '3". Well, he's tall, like really tall. He doesn't even wait for people to stand up. They're all sitting down and he walks in late. So like that's big news.

51:07Even Father Marty noticed. I saw him. I saw him look at you. You got called out.

51:17It happened. All right, put up that tweet with this. Let's get back to this. I want to make the point here too that this big government model will always fail. Create a contrast, dump the filibuster, let the American people see the contrast between big government liberal Bernie Sanders bullshit and small limited government Tea Party constitutional conservative and I promise you they'll make the right choice. DeSantis put this tweet up about bureaucracies run amok. I've tried to make this point over and over again and in this tweet thread you'll see it from Governor DeSantis down here in Florida.

51:48Do any of you find it odd at all to the liberals in the audience listening, do any of you find it odd at all that the two spaces liberals constantly complain about, costs getting out of control, are both spaces largely controlled by the U.S. government? Does that bother you at all? Healthcare and education, the government has a massive footprint, correct? They don't have a massive footprint in TV monitors like we have up here. maybe some regulation but it's not a huge footprint health care between medicare medicaid public schools state school funding the government has an enormous footprint so why is it if you look at this chart that those are the two areas that costs are out of control it's precisely because the government's the third party payer they're not the student they're not the school the government winds up paying so the student doesn't care about the price and the school doesn't care about charging you more either because they know you're not paying.

52:48Put up that chart. When I was running for office in Maryland, I'll never forget. I met with this guy. I forget his name. It was a public meeting, but it was in Prince George's County, which is a, it's a really very significant, wealthy black county in Maryland. And I went down there and I was really interested in knocking on doors to see how black voters in Maryland felt about Republican candidates. See if we had a shot. We obviously didn't perform traditionally well there in Maryland. But I meet with this guy and he pointed out what's in this chart is absolutely true. He said, Dan, the reason liberals will never give up funding public schools is not because it has anything to do with education.

53:25He said to me, I'll never forget it. He said, Dan, it's a jobs program. Public schools are a jobs program. Look at this. The growth in bureaucracy and administrative staff far exceeding money dedicated to students and education. It's a jobs program. So is the healthcare space for the government. I'm glad Governor DeSantis pointed this out. This is a huge scam. The liberal argument that government's the most efficient way to do business falls apart on its face when you point out that the biggest business they're in, healthcare and education, you freaking liberals are complaining all the time about it, How costs are out of control as you finance an explosion in a government jobs program disguised as education and health care?

54:15It's a scam and you know it. It's always been a scam. Ask your liberal friends that. If government is so good at controlling costs and quality, how come where the government has the biggest footprint, health care and education, you're constantly bitching about cost and quality? I'm just asking questions. That's what we're doing now. We're told to ask questions, right, guys? We're just asking questions, correct?

54:43All right, I got to get this. I got Ed Galrine coming up in just a little bit. Kentucky District 4 candidate in the Republican primary. The birthright citizenship case is being heard before the Supreme Court right now. Ladies and gentlemen, this is an enormous case. The goal of this show from the beginning has always been to give you digestible nuggets. You all work for a living. you don't have time to be reading 30-page white papers and legal briefs. You're busy taking care of your kids and building this country. And thank you for doing it. The purpose of this show is to sum up issues quickly so you know the takeaway.

55:19The birthright citizenship debate, and it is a debate. Don't listen to the liberals who tell you this was settled in the courts. It was not. That is bullshit. If it was settled in the courts, why is it in the Supreme Court right now?

55:35Now, we have a very serious problem with this anchor baby problem. You have people entering the country illegally, not here legally, illegally, having children who get U.S. citizenship. It is not only an issue for a magnet that creates an open border problem because it draws people here because then they're entitled to the full portfolio of citizenship benefits. It is also a national security issue as well. The second part. Because foreign enemies of the United States know this. They can fly people in, have a child here, and all of a sudden, people who are not our friends have a citizen in their family.

56:12This is common sense. Liberals want to tell you, oh, this has already been litigated. You're born here, you're automatically a citizen, and it's a... Well, that is the case now, but this has not fully been litigated. Wall Street Journal has a great piece about this. There is one line that this all comes down to. This is Randy Barnett. Trump is right on birthright citizenship. They note that the clause grants citizenship to persons who meet two conditions. Birth in the U.S. and being subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. The dispute is over the meaning of the latter term. Talking about the 14th Amendment.

56:56subject to the jurisdiction thereof, folks, has never been fully litigated. This is not an overly wonky topic. There are two potential meanings to this in the legal space. Do they mean people born here who are subject to the political jurisdiction of the United States? Or is it simply a matter of territorial jurisdiction? Very simply stated, if you are an illegal invader from another country, hear illegally and have children. It's a, all that matters is territorial jurisdiction. In other words, you're born to US soil, no questions asked. That's the leftist argument, territorial jurisdiction. You understand?

57:38Trump's argument is that's bullshit. That's not what it means. It meant subject to the political jurisdiction thereof. And those people are not subject to the political jurisdiction of the United States. They are citizens of another country.

57:54Donald Trump is right on this issue And folks I don't know what's going to happen in the Supreme Court In the case, I'm not the Stygian witches Give me the eye, I have no idea What's going to happen Supreme Court is hit or miss Amy Coney Barrett has been totally Unreliable on these things But there is zero doubt that this has not fully been litigated A lot of these cases they cite Pre-existed A lot of immigration laws that are even in question How could they be talking about a law that didn't even exist yet?

58:26Trump's had another big victory yesterday, too. We'll see what happens with this case. Again, I don't know. This is a toss-up in the Supreme Court. However, there was another big victory yesterday. Did you see the Oval Office briefing with our Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick? Donald Trump put out an EO using existing law to tighten up vote-by-mail, which we know is a fraud problem. We put that New York Times article up from 2012, probably 100 times error and fraud at issue as absentee voting rises. The New York Times wrote about the problem of fraud and rejection rates in mail-in voting in 2012.

59:05For the liberals having a hard time with math, that's over 10 years ago. The New York Times wrote this piece, double the rejection rate. Mail-in voting has a problem. Donald Trump, using existing law, put out an EO yesterday. Howard Lutnick describes it, how they're going to tighten up the Postal Service system to make sure that people who request these mail-in ballots actually get the mail-in ballots and not 20 other different people having nothing to do with the person who actually registered. Check this out. States, right, run these elections. They will, if they want to use the U.S. mail, the U.S.

59:35Postal Service, they're going to get a code, a barcode from the U.S. Postal Service. And they're going to put that on the envelope. And we will have one envelope per vote. None of this time where we have no idea, there's no observers to mail, there's no envelopes, there's no certainty. That's all going to go away. And what the president is doing today is he's going to make sure that mail-in ballots are safe, secure and accurate and will have a clear distinction. If you voted by mail, you will have it on the envelope, obviously not on the ballot, but on the envelope. So we will know a million mail-in ballots.

1:00:12there'll be a million envelopes and you'll be able to know exactly correctly that citizens voted now proving to you what frauds democrats are the lawsuits are already piling up of course because the democrats don't want strict custody in the mail system of votes they want to ship out mail-in ballots to everyone in the state of california whether you requested it or not they want a ballot harvester to go get it and return it whether they fill it out or the person fills it out, the Democrats don't care as long as the box says Democrat. This sounds like a pretty common sense thing, and the Democrats are all over X crashing out again over this.

1:00:52Everything President Trump does is this immediate, like, word vomit that comes out on the left. I'm going to get to Ed Galrine running for Kentucky 4 coming up in just a few minutes. But I always like to leave you with some good news. Hold on, Brandon Gill. We got to play this. I just saw this yesterday. So I know this is probably a little bit old from a few weeks ago. But speaking of candidates, Brandon Gill is running for reelection. He's a congressman. He's fantastic. He's been on the show. They had the NPR, liberal NPR CEO up on Capitol Hill. And folks, when you're up on Capitol Hill, like you just you better be prepared.

1:01:33OK, I've been up there a couple of times. You better be prepared. This lady is totally unprepared when she's asked basic questions. This is NPR, taxpayer-funded NPR, about even basic things. I play this because this guy has the just perfect temperament for a Republican member of Congress when questioning these liberal lunatics and all their nonsense. Check this out. Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy? I believe that I tweeted that. And as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade. It has evolved. Why did you tweet that? I don't recall the exact context sir, so I wouldn't be able to say.

1:02:13Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy? I don't believe that sir. You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time apparently, The Case for Reparations. I don't think I've ever read that book sir. You tweeted about it. you said you took a day off to fully read the case for reparations. You put that on Twitter in January of 2020. Do you think that white people should pay reparations? I have never said that, sir. Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted, yes, the North. Yes, all of us. Yes, America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt.

1:02:52Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day. I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir. What kind of reparations was it a reference to? I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us. That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay, how much reparations have you personally paid? Sir, I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations. Okay, just for everybody else. I'm not asking anyone. Seems to be what you're suggesting. I love this guy. Fantastic. Now, why am I putting that before the interview with Ed here on the commentary segment?

1:03:33Because on a very serious note, I told you that it is time to create a contrast. The left will never change their behavior, their communist socialist aggregation of the means of production in government hands impulses until those policies kick them in the nuts. so let's go for it you want to see the country under leftist tyranny versus freedom and liberty maybe when you see the difference you'll vote like the cuban community does in florida that's actually seen tyranny you see the contrast the other side what we're dealing with how we're going to constantly have this bleed towards totalitarianism if we don't have the ability to change things and change them quickly these are the kind of people we're going to be dealing with reparations and wealth tax open borders theft in elections you're folks it's it's going to be over they are going to dump the filibuster and these are the people you're going to be dealing with on the other side it's they've already said it just listen to their own words all right quick break and we'll get to our guests you know that feeling when spring rolls in you suddenly want to fix everything in your house.

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1:06:20I'm really happy to welcome to the show today a congressional candidate. It's got a lot of excitement behind his campaign nationwide. Ed Galrine running for Kentucky, running for District 4 in Kentucky. Ed, welcome to the show. It's really great to have you. Good morning, Agent Bongino. Good morning to the viewers. Thanks for having me on. It takes, you know, listen, it takes a lot of guts to run. So, you know, win or lose, I congratulate you putting your name on a ballot in such a public manner. You know, good for you. That's the process. So, first, first. Yeah. Motto of the 2-2 SAS, who dares wins.

1:06:53You got to take a chance. I mean, sitting in the side of the ring throwing popcorn at the two boxers is, you know, the kind of the cheap seat stuff. And I don't like that. Get in the action or not. So, Ed, you're running for the seat. It's garnered national attention. You're running against Tom Massey, a multi-term congressman in a Republican primary. You know, why are you running? Tell us who you are, your experience, and why the voters should pick you. Well, thank you for the question. It's really pretty simple. The president asked me to meet with him on 17 October, and he basically made a challenge to me to serve my nation again.

1:07:26When I signed up in 1983, when President Reagan was rebuilding our nation after the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter, these were the words in my head, faith, family, freedom, duty, honor, country. And Dan, I took a look at what was going on around the world and I evaluated what is the way I could have the most impact for our nation's national security. And it was to be a Navy SEAL officer. There were no books or movies. There was no goings to join. I entered via Officer Candidate School into the leadership program and I served seven SEAL teams and units, include twice a silking six for a career spanning three decades.

1:08:05Now to turn the page, when the president met with me on 17 October, Dan, he had my record, TSSCI, and you understand that language. He knew where I'd been. He knew what I'd done. He knew my commitment. He knew my commitment to faith, family freedom, and duty, honor, country. He asked me to go home, think about it, pray about it, talk to my family. And he said he was going to endorse me in life and whatever I did, and I declared four days later on the 21st of October to be a champion for my party, my nation and my district. Thank you for the question, Dan. Yeah, listen, I want the voters to know who you are, not just what you stand for.

1:08:46And speaking of what you stand for, you know, Republicans generally agree on the Big Ten issues, taxes, healthcare, school choice, we get it. So I've got 20 minutes with you. I want to get to the issues that typically people vote on in the Republican primary can kind of be a red line between candidate A or candidate B. How do you feel? I know you're a strong Second Amendment supporter. I've seen your campaign material. But how do you feel about constitutional carry? It's a big issue down here in Florida. Thankfully, it's spreading nationwide, just like it did down in the South. How do you feel about that?

1:09:19Well, as you look at that symbology behind me, it speaks for itself. I am a thousand percent behind it. I'm a lifetime member of the NRA. And I hear people talking about two-gun shooter, three-gun shooter. I was a 13-gun shooter, you know, when I was a SEAL Team 6. I lost track of how many weapons were assigned to me. All that to say it is non-negotiable. So with respect to that, I'll be a champion for that. Lifetime member of the NRA, rifle and pistol instructor. But all that to say I will support and defend that. Yeah, well, good, because that's an enormous issue with me. I mean, the Second Amendment is pretty clear, despite the left's attempts to, you know, dissect punctuation and other things there.

1:09:58and it is a nationwide issue. I don't want you to assume because it exists or doesn't in your state that it's not a nationwide issue. You'll be a federal legislator if you win. So this is important for everyone listening. The second thing that's in the news today, obviously, is a Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship. Now, this is not a particularly complicated case. It basically comes down to two arguments, subject to the jurisdiction thereof, meaning if you are a person in this country and have a child, are you subject to the jurisdiction thereof and therefore your child, if they are born here in the United States would get citizenship.

1:10:30However, Donald Trump is making a very sound argument, along with a lot of Supreme Court analysts and legal experts, that political jurisdiction and territorial jurisdiction are not the same thing. In other words, just because you're on our territory, potentially illegally and have a baby, that does not mean you are subject to the jurisdiction thereof. You're a citizen of another country here illegally. Where do you stand on this? which framed the anchor baby problem by many. If I could use a phrase we've used here in Kentucky, this is a no-brainer. It is clear that the intent was for those subject to the jurisdiction.

1:11:09We have to be very wary in this nation of the intentions of our adversaries. It's a disruption operation to bring folks in illegally and then to grow that population to diffuse our nation and basically undermine it. This is as plain as the nose on your face. Absolutely not. That anchor baby, the birthright citizenship was never the intent of our founding fathers, nor the legislation. Absolutely not. The president is on solid ground here. And my prediction, although that's a hard thing to do, as Yogi Berra say, especially about the future, is this case will carry in his favor. And God bless him for advocating this on our behalf, we the conservatives of this nation.

1:11:49Well, you know, I agree with you on a point you made here. This creates a really perilous national security problem, too. You know, I think folks have to remember that global travel was not as easy when many of these civil rights amendments and some of these citizenship laws were passed. You know, air travel was in some cases non-existent, many cases non-existent. Air travel even later on was basically rudimentary compared to as it is now. You did not have the ability to go back and forth. The world, the global wasn't as mobile as it is now. You can come over here from a country that's an enemy of the United States as a covert agent, have a child and basically, you know, from the country, infiltrate from the inside.

1:12:37I mean, this is a very real problem. And I think I hope the Supreme Court takes that into consideration. Yes. And again, the president is on more than solid ground on this. And it's in the interest of our nation. If you're going to have a nation, as I understand it, we're the only major power in the world that allows such. It is nonsensical. And all that to say, the Supreme Court will find in his favor on solid ground. I hope so. I mean, this could be a real game changing moment. The Supreme Court, for all its faults amongst some of the members, has taken some bold stances on Chevron deference and others.

1:13:14So they have taken some pretty bold stances, especially on the second hand and all the infiltrations. We've got to give credit to the president who set the conditions for that in his first term. And so folks need to remember that. He played some amazing chess to get us where we are now to get back to constitutional rule. But he's still fighting that battle on our behalf. Yeah, no, he certainly is. Given your military experience, Ed, what is your stance on NATO right now? This has come up. It's in the news today. President Trump is, I think, understandably starting to question these global alliances that have stood for decades.

1:13:49I mean, many would argue it's the most successful military alliance in history. Fine. But there is simply no doubt, Ed, that some of the NATO allies, many of them, as a matter of fact, maybe outside of Poland and Lithuania, are not even attempting to meet their basic commitments to percentage GDP spent in your military. In other words, they're not funding their military and they're saying there are. They are. And they're waiting for the United States to come in and be basically the bouncer in the bar. This is really unfair to us. And I think it's it's it's the right time for a president of the United States like President Trump with the cojones to do it to say, hey, listen, if it's going to be an alliance, then, you know, meet your basic requirements for the freaking alliance.

1:14:28It's not hard. Yeah, you are spot on there. It is more than time to reevaluate that and reset the understanding so they do abide by what their commitments are because they have been free riders. And what I'm going to use is my lens as a graduate of War College and also with my master's in operational intelligence. They have succumbed to what I would call nearly a method to infiltrate them. And what we see is the social programs over there, the leaning towards liberalism, being soft on defense. And so they become free riders on our ability to potentially defend them. And they're not doing their part.

1:15:07It should certainly be reevaluated. And if it needs to be changed and adjusted, as was illuminated here recently when we were denied the opportunity to use our bases for the operations that really helped them in the Mideast versus Iran, one of the four horsemen apocalypse. Absolutely. It's time to revisit that and what the rules are of the road or what they have to do to be a part of that. Otherwise, they'll continue to be free riders and put us all at risk. ed i want you to get out your website if people want to support you i have another question for you i'm not going anywhere i just want to make sure you get that out ed galron running for kentucky for what's the website edgalron.com you'll see that i'm a fifth generation farmer we've been farming in kentucky for over 100 years greetings from the farm here where you're standing between me and farm work i'll be getting after here a bit more today but can't thank you enough for edgalron.com.

1:16:01Edgalron.com. So a final question. And again, given your extensive military background here, what does success look like right now in Iran? I was reading a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal I had mentioned yesterday, and given your experience in the war theater spaces, how combat for centuries, obviously millennia, was from the outside inside. You wanted to siege a castle, you had to siege the castle from the outside and get in, whether it was a Trojan horse or whatever. You didn't just start on the inside. The point of the piece was that military technology, as you know, has evolved so much from precision targeting and stealth technology from the air that we can now hit targets from the inside out.

1:16:49And the piece was basically saying that if I'm China right now, I'm watching what we did in this decapitation exercise in Iran, and I'm not happy. I'm thinking to myself, you know what? These guys aren't effing around, pardon the language here, that if they wanted to hit us from Beijing out, they may very well be able to do that. So my simple question is, what does success look like in Iran? Do we just at this point turn over some of the straight to international partners and say, hey, buck up, fellas, and let's go and then consider it a success, which I think it would be? Or do we stay there long term?

1:17:27Well, again, look post-Fort War II, just for an example of where we've been long term for peace and prosperity, which is paid dividends. All that to say, I would offer that the in-state the president's after is, first of all, no nuclear weapon whatsoever, nor any capability to develop that by the Iranians. The second part is remove their strategic weapons program. I mean, now we're seeing that they actually had missiles that were far greater range than was previously known. And they were devising those clearly to be an aggressor as one of the horsemen in the apocalypse right now, including China, North Korea and Russia.

1:18:03To your point about China, a key outcome of what's going on that you cannot ignore is the president and his leadership team have doubled the deterrence poker chips on the table with Beijing, Moscow and North Korea. Not only is the president unpredictable of what he's going to do when, but also we are fighting a 21st century war in the 21st century. And they are seeing that on full display, to your point, of the intricacies of what we're able to do on the battlefield. Now, to turn the page of what it looks like there going forward, I would argue success is going to look like peace and prosperity being brought back to the Mideast.

1:18:43Those conditions require the elimination of an aggressive regime that's hostile to the world there in Iran, which was their full intent, which was funded by the Obama administration to the tune of$1.7 billion in unmarked currency. So they turn that country back over to the very folks that rose up a few weeks ago. We've got to set the conditions to get that narrow element out of there of extremists. Because as I said on the media a number of times, Ayatollah was a suicide bomber looking for a new full stop. And we see that on full display right now with the weaponry they have. The other good news here, Dan, is now no longer the Russian China have that endless supplies of those high tech, high quality drones where Iran has had their manufacturing crushed by the U.S.

1:19:35strikes. So turning the page, we'll see a new era with Iran coming back into the fold of the modern world with peace and prosperity trade, eliminate that threat. And that allows us to shift and continue to focus on China, Russia and North Korea and defeat them by deterrence, as Reagan did, not have to conduct combat operations. But if we have to fight, you can see that we will have gotten some training under our belt and we know our capabilities and they're going to be dismayed as they watch this unfold further. And if you don't mind, I'm going to steal that. The Ayatollah was a suicide bomber looking for a nuke.

1:20:14Was because he was we're down to Ayatollah number seven now as he wipes out the baseball cards each time. But I'll footnote it. I promise it's that's very well summed up. And listen, thanks a lot for putting your name on a ballot. But, you know, I know it's tough. You know, I've been there myself. Campaigns are ugly sometimes. You know, it's just the nature of politics. But putting your name on a ballot takes a lot of guts. Your website again is? EdGalron.com. Check them out, folks, if you want to support Mr. Galron, runner for Congress in Kentucky 4. Ed, thanks a lot for your time today and best of luck.

1:20:50I really appreciate it. Okay, thank you, Dan. Thank you to the viewers. Folks, listen, it's up to you in Kentucky. You pick who you want. I'm getting this candidate out there. I ran myself a number of times and it's a fascinating process. I actually strongly encourage you to do it at some point. You don't have to run for Congress or the Senate, maybe run for state rep, maybe run for city council. I really encourage you to do it. I've been encouraging some friends locally. I have a friend who ran in Maryland, wound up running. He's a multi-term delegate up there now in Anne Arundel County. It's definitely worth your time to see the process.

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