Trump Forces A Choice Between FISA And Election Rules

Power doesn’t usually announce itself with a press release, it shows up as “must-pass” bills, rushed confirmations, and sudden panic about who gets access to the files. We unpack the political chess match around FISA renewal and why Trump is trying to force Congress to pair it with the Save America Act, including voter ID, proof of citizenship, tighter election rules, and the kind of changes that would actually touch everyday civic life. When Senate leaders say the “math” isn’t there, we ask the obvious question: whose math, and whose interests?

We also zoom out to the pressure everyone feels: affordability, inflation, gas prices, and the way oil swings in the Middle East can hit groceries and rent back home. From the Strait of Hormuz to the long tail of energy policy, we connect the headlines to the cost of living people actually experience. Then we shift into media and messaging, reacting to JD Vance’s one-day blitz across major shows and what his best moments reveal about narrative framing, clean communication, and the traps built into loaded questions.

The second half gets more local and more personal: a push to turn an elected sheriff into an appointed role, a developing county scandal that’s spreading online faster than institutions will cover it, and a hard-earned warning about online speech. We break down how prosecutors can turn a slogan or a clipped rant into “intent,” and why adding context in real time can matter later. We wrap with a news hit on a strategic Bitcoin reserve and why digital assets keep creeping into federal policy.

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Transcript

Peasants Intro And Simultaneous Sip

SPEAKER_03 0:32

It's the little guy. The little guys take the everything. It's got peasants, ma'am. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those old movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of the peasants' perspectives. Yes. Yes, we are live, ready to go. Let's see. We got anybody in the chats yet today? Yeah. Gotta click the button, Ron. Oh, good morning, Carlitz. Good morning, y'all. Pray the Rosary Daily. Make it a good Wednesday for Razier. Good day from Boise. Glad you guys have all made it in. Man, yesterday was a weird day.

SPEAKER_08 1:25

When you said uh something about the chats, I was like, of course they're in the chats. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 1:31

It's like, oh, you can't see him. I can't see him. Uh, yesterday was a weird day. JD Vance was everywhere. He went on like The View, he went on Mateon Kelly, he went on Gutfeld, he went on maybe one other show. Oh, he was making the media tour yesterday. It was wild. Yeah. So that was like the biggest news of the day yesterday, other than a couple funny things that Trump did. I missed all that. Yeah, well, it's easy to miss, but it was fun. Anyways, I know why you guys pile in bright and early every single morning. Pony boy, buenos mañanas. Welcome, welcome. You guys are here for the simultaneous sip. And all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind, and fill it with your favorite beverage. This morning I like diet coke. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's the simultaneous sip, and it starts right now. Oh, we're gonna have to redo the simultaneous sip.

SPEAKER_25 2:29

Hold on just a second.

SPEAKER_03 2:31

Gotta do the thing I do, you know, make another sound. What a pain. All right, here we go. The simultaneous sip and it starts right now.

SPEAKER_13 2:43

Well, let's start with this.

Inflation Talking Points Get Roasted

SPEAKER_00 2:51

And families and individuals are dealing with the realities of that bread costs more than gas costs. And we have to understand what that means. That's about the cost of living that's going up. That's about having to stress and stretch limited resources. That's about a source of stress for families that is not only economic, but is on a daily level, something that is a heavy weight to carry. So it is something that we take very seriously. Very seriously. And we know from the history of this issue in the United States that we're going to see these prices go up. It has a direct impact on the quality of life for all people in our country. So it's a big issue, and we take it seriously. And it is a priority, therefore.

SPEAKER_03 3:44

And what's inflation? It sucks. Uh prices go up, and we take it seriously.

SPEAKER_08 3:53

Do you are you old enough to remember? Are you old enough to remember something called the Electric Company? No. Oh, this was like a Saturday morning on cartoon thing. Okay. And when you played this clip, that's what I thought of it. If you're old enough, you probably would identify with what I'm talking about. Your dad probably knows what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_03 4:14

The electric company? Yeah. What they just raise prices all the time. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_08 4:20

It was a Saturday morning cartoon thing. Okay. You'd have to be a kid. But it was like a kid show. Yeah. That's what she was doing. It was like a kid show. It's crazy. It was like, hey kids, check it out. Power's, you know, important.

SPEAKER_03 4:37

Come on. What's inflation? Well, exactly. When the prices of things go up. It's the money supply. Brandum broad, it's the money supply.

SPEAKER_08 4:46

Well, kids, when things go up in prices, they get more expensive. And we have to stretch. And we have to understand what that means. Okay, five-year-olds, back to class.

SPEAKER_03 4:57

It reminds me of John Madden. There's a guy that when he jumps, both feet come off the ground. Have you ever listened to some of the mad and funny bloopers? Oh, it's stuff like that. There's a guy that when he when he runs fast, he goes quickly. There's a guy when he jumps, both feet come off the ground. It's like, okay.

Trump Walks In As Boss

SPEAKER_03 5:20

All right. So in kind of just goofy funny news, because Donald Trump does everything kind of funny. He showed up at the G7 summit yesterday. Who what's the G7? It's the seven largest economies in the world that get together and you know plot the world economy. And he walks in and listened to this.

SPEAKER_10 5:37

Well no, I'm the boss. I'm the boss.

SPEAKER_03 5:51

Amongst prime ministers and presidents.

SPEAKER_08 5:53

I'm the boss. Somebody with the meme coins needs to get out there and put uh you know the uh shades and the cigarette on that one. Yeah, I'm the boss coins.

SPEAKER_03 6:02

Like a boss. John Attack and Saturday mornings used to teach each uh each of us reading with the electric company. Today the electric company just teaches us about budget management. If you can even manage that budget. Oh man, it's pretty pretty crazy. Donald Trump pulled what's that what's that move in Star Trek? The Kobayashi move or whatever. Some move, you know, like the You're asking the wrong guy.

SPEAKER_08 6:28

I got Star Wars and Star Trek mixed up.

SPEAKER_03 6:30

I can't remember. It's the one that Spock works out. It's like the Captain Kirk, it's like the Kobayashi move where you have to like sacrifice yourself to win, you know, or something like that.

SPEAKER_08 6:39

Sounds legit.

FISA Tied To The Save Act

SPEAKER_03 6:40

So Trump pulled a Kobayashi move. He's got he's got the Save America Act, FISA, Bill Poulte over at ODNI, and Jay Clayton, who's who was gonna get confirmed to ODNI. He got these moving pieces, and and Donald Trump just figured out a way to play like legislative politics with this stuff.

SPEAKER_18 7:01

President Trump has delayed today's Senate confirmation hearing for DI nominee Jay Clayton. Trump says he's hitting the pause button until Jamie McDonald is approved to be U.S. attorney. This is all part of the president's push to get Congress to take action on the Save America Act, which is a voter ID bill. For the time being, Bill Poulti will remain as the acting director of national intelligence. The president posting, quote, I don't want to take Jay Clayton away from the great job he is doing until Jamie is in place. Therefore, to add a slight bit of intrigue, but for the good of the nation and the people of our country, I will not approve FISA without the Save America Act going along with it. In a major shakeup, President President Trump.

SPEAKER_03 7:44

I find this to be hilarious. Okay. So the FISA bill, apparently, the deep state thinks they need it. Right. Gotta have FISA. We have to be able to spy on foreigners, and maybe some of you. Maybe some of you, to the tune of 300,000 queries on American citizens over the last few years. So they want to be able to spy. There's a small group of Democrats who think that this is a bad idea, and there's a small group of Republicans who think this is a bad idea. And between the two of them, there's enough to block the Save America Act along party lines. So this has to be a uniparty action. You've got to have some Democrats, the majority of the Republicans, that'll get FISA passed. It's a must-pass piece of legislation, but it's been being used as a barter chip. The Democrats know that the Republicans have to pass it because you know the deep state bidders all want it. And so they they've volunteered to have a couple people vote for it, but we got to hurry up with this Jay Clayton nomination because apparently Jay Clayton is enough deep state adjacent that he's better than Bill Polte, who they are terrified at at ODI. And so there was this game that okay, well, let's get Jay Clayton in, and then we're going to get Bill Pulte out and we'll pass FISA. The problem with that, of course, is Jay Clayton's coming from the Southern District of New York. And so Donald Trump would like to replace him with his attorney and not just some you know office Democrat promoted for the time being, and then watch the Democrats sit on that nomination and drag that thing out like forever, right? Because Donald Trump still does not have all of his U.S. attorneys in place. So Donald Trump, Donald Trump posted this. He said, Republicans agreed with Democrats to remove a very fair and talented William Polte. This was the rush on the Jay Clayton nomination. This week, today, he was going to have a hearing. Like uh there's still people waiting six months to have their hearings, and suddenly you fast-track Jay Clayton. So clearly, whatever Bill Polte they think he's going to be doing over to ODNI, it's they're moving heaven and earth. They found some floor time, the key to the realm to get him a nomination hearing. However, Republicans move so fast with the hearings, so they they agreed to do that to keep uh keep William Pulte from serving his acting DI in return for getting FISA reproved by the Democrats. However, the Republicans moved so fast with the hearings of the great Jay Clayton, current U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, that Pulte would be gone before the Democrats would vote on FISA. Now the Democrats are saying they will vote against FISA. So now they're still using it as leverage. Now that Jay Clayton was like, check him off the list, they're like, oh, well, we still aren't comfortable with FIFA. So the Republicans wound up having fulfilled their commitment, but the Democrats broke the deal. This has happened so many times. I'm sure there's some deal. Hey, we won't get rid of the filibuster, but you guys won't, right? Right? Democrats are like, yeah, of course we won't, be the first thing they do. In addition, the newly nominated U.S. attorney Jamie McDonald must be confirmed and blue slipped, which means you have to have Democrat approval from New York. Who's this going to be? Schumer and Gildebrand. Blue slip approval. Democrats are often willing to nix it. I may not be able to get the extraordinary or I may not, if the Democrats don't nix it, I may not be able to get the extraordinary Sullivan and Cromwell partner Jamie approved, but I don't want to take take Jay Clayton away from the great job he is doing until Jamie is in place. Therefore, to add a slight bit of intrigue, but for the good of the nation and the people of our country, I will not approve FISA without the Save America Act. So we've tied it in. Going along with it, not complicated, actually, for the Republicans, fell into a trap regarding the approval of our great patriot Jay Clayton. We are canceling the Senate hearing today in response to DI today will not be going forward until Jamie McDonald is approved to be the U.S. attorney. In the meantime, Bill Polte will remain as the acting director of national intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. So Donald Trump is maneuvering these guys. I mean, we'll I would love to see here's the way I view FISA. You know, I've already seen it. It's already come to my house. I've already had it applied against me. Right. So, you know, I mean, I'm already on the list. I figure if they want to surveil me, I've I'm on some list somewhere, and the FISA Act isn't going to save me. So it's kind of been baked into the cake, right? We've had FISA for a number of years now. So if they pass some extension on FISA, your life isn't going to change dramatically. You know, most likely. But passing the Save America Act, your life could change dramatically. Right. This is how we take our country back is things like fixing the election structure itself, eliminating mail-in ballots at mass, uh, making sure there's voter identification to qualify, keeping the voter rolls clean. All of those things are a huge benefit. The other thing that is attached to the Save America Act is no boys and girls bathrooms. No transgender for all, as Donald Trump says. So he's really maneuvered that pretty well. I mean, he's he's like FISA has to go with the Save America Act. This puts the deep state in a weird spot. The tool that keeps us in power versus the tool that could get us out of power. You know, it's like these guys are absolutely in a pickle. So we'll see how it goes. Now we know whatever Bill Poulte is doing over at ODI has got the establishment, and we'll just call it deep state, in quite the flurry. Listen to Elizabeth

Why Washington Fears Pulte

SPEAKER_03 13:20

Warren talk about Bill Poulte over at ODI. And good morning, Doug Wyatt. Glad you made it.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

The question of going forward expeditiously on Jay Clayton is a question about making sure that Mr. Poulting never sets foot inside the DNS building and never gets a look at all of our national security secrets. Uh, and I think that is a worthy goal.

SPEAKER_03 13:47

The question of going what are those national security secrets? What are those national security secrets that he can't take a look at? That is one of those clips where you go, huh? What secrets do we have? Are we talking like the aliens and the reptilians? Or are we talking like flat Earth? Or are we talking, are we talking like, you know, the Wiener laptop is sitting over the OD and I'm like, what are we talking about here? He cannot look at America's secrets. So John Thune was on with Brett Baer on Fox News, and he was addressing kind of this whole Save America Act issue. And I'll tell you what, I don't get it, man. I don't understand how you have an issue that pulls in the 70 to 80 percent with Democrats, 80 high 80s to 90 plus percent with Republicans, and yet they just can't seem to find the votes.

SPEAKER_04 14:40

Well, on conversations with him, yeah, how does this go over? Because the way he types it in his true social posts, it's pretty aggressive.

SPEAKER_20 14:48

He thinks you should be doing more. And he's passionate about it, and um, we are doing everything that we can, um, but it is a function of math. I mean, we are bound by arithmetic in the United States Senate. Um, the votes currently aren't there. We will continue to put the Democrats on the record and and uh insist on votes on this. But if you tried to attach it, for example, to FISA, it would tank FISA. And so, you know, we will we will move once we get Clayton done, we'll move to FISA, try to get the uh again, the Democrat coalition back together so we can actually pass that and put it on the president's desk. But um, you know, and we will look for votes, additional opportunities to get votes on the Save Act. What about housing?

SPEAKER_03 15:27

You've got a deal potentially a buy. We're gonna try to put the Democrats on the record. We know they're going against it. We want to know what Republicans are voting against it. How is it that you keep having these 50-person votes? It's like, why don't you pull JD Vance in to break the tie? It's like it doesn't make any sense. Chantini, good morning. Welcome, welcome. So, you know, he's acting like, well, we just don't have the arithmetic. You have the majority. What are we missing? You know, I mean, are you telling me these state Republicans that are absolutely adamant to get FISA pact passed? Because remember, the ones that want FISA passed are not the same ones that want the Save America Act passed. Like Representative Anapolina Luna is a vote no on FISA, but she's a vote yes on Save America Act. And like Representative Mike Lee would be a vote no on FISA, and he's a vote yes on the Save America Act. So who are the Republicans that will vote yes on FISA, but no on Save America Act? Who are they? Right? And how and where does their loyalty lie more to? Clearly, the Save America Act is not a deep state initiative. Clearly, right? However, FISA seems to be a deep state initiative. Like they can get some of these rhinos and middle of the growth Democrats, these these you know national security people, the the neocons, whether it's the neocon uh republican or the neo-lib liberal, right? They will vote for the FISA Act. So does Trump have them in a corner here? I wonder if there's a strong Democrat, like a Democrat that thinks that they might actually be able to win their district or their state. I wonder if any of them will break on the Save America Act. What do you think?

SPEAKER_08 17:09

I have no idea about any of this. I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

I have my doubts that they're gonna do anything. I just don't think they're gonna budge. So in the same interview with Brett Bear, it continued.

SPEAKER_04 17:18

So your relationship with the president is now. He seems to be working a lot with Speaker Johnson. Um, how would you characterize it?

SPEAKER_20 17:25

It's strong. It's good. I mean, we we have our um we have our pointed conversations. Uh I express my views, he expresses his. Sometimes those get a little bit testy and heated, but uh, in the end, uh, we have a job to do and we have an alignment of incentives. Uh, there are times when, for reasons of how the Senate functions, uh, the answer isn't always yes to the things that he wants to do. But um we we do everything we can to work constructively with him and his team to ensure that we are moving the country forward in a way that uh achieves those objectives.

SPEAKER_04 17:56

Senator McConnell, your relationship.

SPEAKER_08 17:58

Can you read just remind me who this thune character is? I'm sorry, I really don't pay attention.

SPEAKER_03 18:03

I love it so much, Ron.

SPEAKER_08 18:04

So I know that he's a Democrat, right?

SPEAKER_03 18:07

But no, no, he's the Republican majority leader. He's got Mancy Pala, he's got Mitch McConnell's old job. Yeah, he's important. He's pretty important.

SPEAKER_08 18:20

He runs the Senate. Well, this is gonna maybe even be more um of a cogent comment then, because I get so confused when these people get up and start talking, and especially like this dude, Tune. He's like, we don't have the numbers, but we gotta, we're we're bound by math. What the hell are you talking about? Can you get more confusing?

SPEAKER_03 18:43

Inflation is this thing where our bills passed 50% plus one, but sometimes we need 60, and sometimes we just need a nice circle-term handshake. You know what I mean? Right. Like, and every now and then we just need you know, some incentives, like a bridge named after us, or you know, funding for our favorite wife's non-profit. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, yeah, where are these people? The math doesn't work. You have 54 senators, like you have enough.

SPEAKER_08 19:12

I don't know. The only thing that I'm really confused about right now is how come Chelsea Clinton doesn't have more power? You know?

Strait Of Hormuz And Oil Prices

SPEAKER_03 19:21

Oh, in other news, over to the Middle East. In the Middle East, the Strait of Iran, the Strait of Hormuz has been officially opened up, and even Iran got a tanker ship out yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Just Iranian oil tanker crossing what had been a U.S. blockade line in the Strait of Hormuz today.

SPEAKER_17 19:37

But major questions remain. Israel still vowing to defend against threats from Hezbollah in Lebanon, while Iran insists any lasting peace deal must include an Israeli withdrawal. President Trump today turning up the heat on Benjamin Netanyahu to keep the deal in place.

SPEAKER_03 19:52

Iranian oil tanker crossed uh God's Army Brett says you are beyond FISA, but people should know how that works and how simply listening to you cover what is going on could affect them. I know it affects me. Um basically FISA, just don't assume any of your communications are private or secret. They're all being listened to, they're all being recorded and can be pulled back at their convenience to throw back in your face at some point. So, good news. Look at this, Ron, on the screen. Guess what? Oil prices are at $76 a gallon. Wow. I remember in college watching ticker on Fox News and watching oil up around $70, $80, $90 a gallon. And that was 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_08 20:35

Yeah. How much was gas per gallon?

SPEAKER_03 20:38

Uh back then it was like two bucks a gallon. Yeah. And I remember thinking that was insane. I I like left on my mission and gas was like a buck 19, a buck a gallon. I came back and it was two bucks. Crazy. And it stayed there.

SPEAKER_08 20:51

I know. It seems like though, gas at you know, six bucks a gallon or whatever. It seems like a barrel of crude should be like a thousand bucks.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

You'd think it's not. Anyway, 76 dollars. That's pretty significant. That is down quite a bit from where it was. Let's see. Yeah, yeah, I'd say we're okay. So when the war broke out, somewhere back here, we were at 765.

SPEAKER_14 21:14

There we go.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

Okay, and then we got all the way up to 111. We've been floating well above 80, 90, 100. Now we're back down to 74.

SPEAKER_08 21:24

That's so crazy.

SPEAKER_03 21:25

So we'll see. I mean, what if we get back down to like the $58 price point?

SPEAKER_08 21:29

That's so crazy. That's so crazy how the price just doesn't go up over the decades. Yeah, it's weird.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

Actually, it was way more expensive back in uh 2022. Oh, look, when Biden was in office, $118 a barrel. A hundred and okay, so let's just go back in time here.

SPEAKER_08 21:51

So yeah, max it's $71.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

This was mid summer 2021. So Biden had been in office. Okay, let's we can go. Oh, let's There's like $140 a barrel. So let's see. Let's go to okay. So January 20th, we're at $52 a barrel. Trump leaves office. Biden comes in, gets rid of the Keystone XL pipeline. And look at this run. We go all the way up to $107, $114 per $15. That Keystone pipeline didn't do anything, did it?

SPEAKER_08 22:26

They never turned it on. I know, but look at how the graph goes straight up.

SPEAKER_03 22:31

At that, though, look at that. $119 a barrel, $115, $118, $119 a barrel. So even during the Siran conflict, we didn't peak that high. Even during the Siran conflict, we didn't peak that high. I'll tell you what, the the the re the Democrats have no leg to stand on when they're talking about gasoline. They shoved that price point, which makes its way into everything. The cost of everything you have at the grocery store, everything you have at Walmart is affected by fuel prices. A lot of things are made out of petrochemicals, plastics and whatnot, rubbers. I know the cost for pipe, for sewer pipe, went up like quadruple during the Biden administration. Like our takeoffs for a septic system was $3,500, $3,800 in parts. It effectively doubled, if not almost tripled for the same septic systems. But you know, when you're buying hundreds of feet of HDPE, high density polyethylene, polyurethane or whatever, right? Ethylene pipes, it's extremely expensive. It's like purely, it's like directly related to oil prices. That's that's wow, pretty big deal. So people have been asking, is the Save America not the Save America Act, is the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and what's going on over there going to be lasting? And Donald Trump was asked about this. What if the Iranians don't play nice? Well, Donald Trump has been at least, if not consistent.

SPEAKER_12 23:59

No, it's not final. It's a memorandum of understanding. And if I don't like it, we'll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head. If I don't like it, if they don't behave, we'll go right back to dropping bombs, right smack in the middle of their head. Okay? Because they misbehaved for 47 years. All right? But nobody could have made this deal. I mean, the JCPOA done by Obama, he handed them a billion seven in cash, gave them hundreds of millions of dollars, gave them billions and billions of dollars, but he gave them 1.7 billion dollars in cash, green cash from banks, into a Boeing 757 and flew it into Iran. And they stood at the plane. I have pictures of it, like, oh my, look at this money he's giving us. He tried to bribe his way out. I didn't do that. Nobody mentions that. 1.7 billion and hundreds of millions of dollars. They tried to bribe their way out of it. And you know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch.

SPEAKER_03 25:13

I can't wait for when I'm sitting with my great-grandkids and I've got some memory book of Donald Trump's presidency with all of his quotes. And we pull out this quote that's you know written on nice thick paper with a nice, beautiful picture in the background. And it's framed underwall. Donald Trump saying, if they don't do what I want, I'll stop dropping bobs on their heads. It's like it's some of his, I'm the boss. I love it so much. He's going to have, you know, when I go back and look at like Teddy Roosevelt quotes, you know, look at this strong, progressive Teddy Roosevelt, and look at you know, and he's got some quote, you know, like the man in the arena or something like that. And we're gonna come back and we're gonna read these quotes from Trump, and we're gonna be like, he talks to certain world leaders like they were two-year-olds. You're fired. You're fired. I'm the boss. I'm gonna drop bombs on your head if they don't behave. Oh, I love it so much. Oh man, that's a lot of fun. God's Army Brett says, and the Save America Act, isn't it Thune's job to get the numbers? As Rs and D's want this, and he is on Brett's show telling us exactly who he is. I know it, you know, Brett Thune Thune was like a McConnell. Trump just recently said Thune did a lot of work for Mitch McConnell. He was his he was his lackey, he was his bag boy. And when Thune got the nod to be the the leader of the the uh Senate, he believes that McConnell has sabotaged Thune. You know, McConnell, whatever he's got on Thune or relationship they have has been leveraged to make it to Thune is kind of like, I don't have the numbers, he deflects to the parliamentarian, he you know, he won't he won't expose who the Republicans are that are not wanting to go along with the Save America Act. And he's yeah, he's running cover for the Republican caucus, but at the same time, you know, Trump seems to like him, but he thinks that Mitch McConnell is the dead weight. So I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_08 27:05

Mitch McConnell maybe that's why I get confused about him.

SPEAKER_03 27:08

Yeah, I mean, he's been for the most part ineffective. I mean, he's given a couple fiery speeches. I don't know what more we have to do. You have to call him up, you have to break the filibuster. Like just let him do the filibuster, just stand and talk until they capitulate. Like these guys aren't gonna keep going forever. Although, I don't know, the Democrats might be so afraid of actually, you know, having to duke it out in an election in the marketplace of ideas and actually have to convince real living people that are gonna show up and vote, they might be, you know, they might actually run the filibuster and never stop talking. They might be so afraid of that. Who knows? One of my favorite quotes, he died like a dog. He died like a dog.

SPEAKER_08 27:48

Yeah. My favorite is uh uh what's his head's telling the story about it.

SPEAKER_03 27:55

Yeah, Jangillis. He died like a dog. Died like a dog. Oh man, let's see if I can let's see if I can define that really fast.

SPEAKER_08 28:04

Oh shoot.

SPEAKER_03 28:05

I bet I can. Ron, you want to read what's on the screen right there?

Elected Sheriff Versus Appointed Power

SPEAKER_08 28:10

Oh what is on the screen?

SPEAKER_03 28:12

It's Sheriff Keith Swank.

SPEAKER_08 28:14

Oh let's check it out. I can't read that for sure. Last night the Pierce County uh something. Can you read that?

SPEAKER_03 28:27

Yeah, I can read it. Last night the Pierce County Charter Review, so this is in Pierce County, Washington, this is the Tacoma area, voted to put amendment C1 on the ballot this November. This is an amendment to change the sheriff from an elected position to an appointed position. If it passes, the county executive will appoint the sheriff with county council approval.

SPEAKER_08 28:46

No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 28:47

We can't do this. We didn't know was the commissioner Justin Leighton, a very rude and misogynistic man, would add an amendment to the amendment. This added amendment makes C1 effective 1127, at which time it will remove me from office with two years of my four-year term still left. This is the equivalent of a recall without having to do any of the steps for a recall. Petition a judge that I committed malfeasance, gather signatures, put it on the ballot, etc. The Democrats and Socialists on the charter review are saying, F you voters, we don't care what that you elected swank, we are going to remove him from office. Have you had enough yet? I hope this pisses you off. If it does, you should show up in person or online tomorrow and tell the commission what you think. So if you're anywhere in the Pierce County area, you're affected by Pierce County politics, and he is your sheriff, please show up online. If possible, show up in person and let them know that you don't support this.

SPEAKER_08 29:40

Yeah, this is not good.

SPEAKER_03 29:42

At a base base level, sheriffs should be elected.

SPEAKER_08 29:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:46

This just kind of goes along with this theme. The Democrats, the socialists, the communists, they're trying to take away your elections.

SPEAKER_08 29:52

Yeah, they're trying to consolidate power and wrap this into the rest of their power base. This is not not good.

SPEAKER_03 29:58

Yes, and the sheriff is your last line of defense. Remember, this goes back to the whole Magna Carta. One of the big changes when the Barons held their knives to the king's throat was we are going to elect a sheriff that's whole purpose is to protect us from you.

SPEAKER_08 30:13

Yeah, and we don't want a Republican sheriff either. We want an independent sheriff.

SPEAKER_03 30:17

We just want a sheriff that understands he works for the people. Yeah. Right? I don't care what their party is.

SPEAKER_08 30:22

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

Right? It doesn't have to be party politics. Enforce the law. Ron, what do we got?

SPEAKER_08 30:28

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SPEAKER_03 31:13

Phew! Woo-hoo! Alright, so we're gonna take a little comedy break and we're gonna hear about dying like a dog as told by Chen

Shane Gillis On Trump’s Trash Talk

SPEAKER_03 31:20

Gillis.

SPEAKER_09 31:20

It's the Trump speeches. Trump gave what I think was probably one of the greatest speeches of world leaders giving. You know, it's gotta be up there with like Churchill, Gettysburg Address. Anyway. For real though, it was my favorite speech I've ever seen a president give. It was the night the night the United States killed the leader of ISIS. Trump comes out of the situation room at like midnight in the White House and he walks down that fucking tunnel like he's gives a press conference. Like he's given a post-game NBA just killed a guy press conference.

SPEAKER_10 31:53

He walks up in front of the entire world at midnight and just goes, Bigar, Albag Daddy is dead. He died like a dog.

SPEAKER_09 32:08

That's all here, dude. I will change one word of that. That's what he opened with. And then he did 40 minutes. The speech is 40 minutes. For no reason. It wasn't a prepared speech. He freestyle 40 straight. Not even a speech, just mean shit talk for 40 straight. The meanest shit talk you've ever heard in front of the whole world.

SPEAKER_10 32:30

Abu. We can hear him crying, I said. Abu don't cry. Let me tell you something. Abu cried, he cried quite a bit. I wouldn't have cried. Cry baby back, Daddy, that's what we were all called.

SPEAKER_09 32:49

I love everything about that speech. I love thinking about Trump in the situation room, surrounded by generals watching a live military, watching special forces, watching those cocksucking Navy SEALs.

SPEAKER_03 33:07

He died like a dog. A boo, a bagnati. I love that so much. Oh yeah, the Shea Gillis, he memorialized that for everybody. He just wanted out. He just freestyles for 40 minutes.

JD Vance Runs The Media Gauntlet

SPEAKER_03 33:20

All right. So JD Vance really made the media. I mean, I was impressed. I didn't, I mean, apparently, this there's some serious media studios all within walking distance of each other. Like The View, Megan Kelly, Gutfeld, and I think one other. It was like he made it made his way on a four shows yesterday, like back to back to back. It was interesting over the day. And I'm I'm not on X as much as you'd think I would be for preparing the show. But you know, I scroll through it every now and then as the workday goes on. And uh it was just interesting. It's like, oh, he's on the view. Oh, he's on Megan Kelly. Oh, he's on it. Like clips popping up over and over again. We're gonna watch a couple clips from the view. This is this is Anna Navarro trying to argue that that that Venezuela did not open up their prisons and jails to let people come to the United States. And JD Vance kind of puts this to bet, right? I mean, she's trying to she's trying to she's trying to nuance one of these arguments into well, you said something that's too generic to be true. It's like never say never, you know what I mean? Like never say always because sometimes there's an exception and it doesn't happen, or never say never because sometimes it does happen. It's like one of those stupid things. It's like, come on, you understand what I'm saying. You know what I mean? Yeah, I can say always, and 99% of the time qualifies as always. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, lightning doesn't ever strike me.

SPEAKER_08 34:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

Knock on wood, you know, you said a false statement. Lightning strike me. So that's kind of what this was.

SPEAKER_07 34:46

I would say fundamentally that one of the things I underappreciated about Donald Trump is that so many of the things that people said about him weren't actually true. Again, you talk about humility. Okay, so I see Donald Trump, I see a clip of him, or I see even not even a clip of him, but reporting about something that he said, and I take it at face value. For example, let's just go back to one of the most controversial things Donald Trump said during the first term that I was wrong during the first campaign, is that I was led to believe by the stories. I read stories that said Donald Trump said that all Mexicans were rapists. He never said that. What he said, what he said is that the certain South American countries, Central American countries were releasing criminals into our country, including Mexico. By the way, that was objectively true. So it's not so much Christians.

SPEAKER_22 35:32

No, but El Castro did that in 1980 with a Marielle boat lift. There have been many, many journalists, including CNN, where you used to work and be my colleague, that have tried to find evidence of that. There is no evidence that Maduro was releasing people from insane asylums or jails. But El Castro did do. This was made up, and we just can't, you know, accept it without pushing back.

SPEAKER_07 35:54

And we know that there were people who were released from prisons who were encouraged to come into the United States.

SPEAKER_22 36:03

Open up the jails, open up the insane asylums, and let people flood Florida. I think that in Miami.

SPEAKER_07 36:08

If you go, it may not have been like Marielle, but if you go back to the caravans that were happening in 22, 22, 23, we know that those things were funded. They were in some ways supported by the government. But I don't know how you define support or not support, but if people are encouraged to come into our country after having spent time in prison by their own governments, I think that's a problem.

SPEAKER_03 36:29

Yeah, I think it's hilarious. There's no evidence of that, really. You should go spend some time in the Chow Hall at prison. There's plenty of evidence of that. Like these guys, this isn't their first rodeo in prison. In fact, they were very complimentary of the American prison system. They were like, Oh, this is way better than Venezuela. You know, how do you know? Oh, because I spent five years in prison in Venezuela. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, okay, okay. So he had another clip here where he's talking about affordability.

SPEAKER_07 36:59

Decide whether we've done a good job or not, and that's how they're gonna vote.

SPEAKER_21 37:02

Okay. So um President Trump has called affordability a hoax. He said that, not me. Uh he's pouring money into this ballroom of his on the reflecting pool. Oh, don't forget the Arch de Trumpe, I call it. And a White House cage, a White House cage match. All these things, why is he doing them when when you you you just everybody knows that Americans are struggling? What is he spending all this money for?

SPEAKER_07 37:27

Well, I got to defend the president on the hoax point. What the president said is the idea that Republicans cause the affordability problem is a hoax. And I think that's true. If you go back to the Biden administration, uh inflation got up to 9% under the Biden administration. Okay. Right now it's at 3.5%. By the way, too high. We're doing everything that we can to bring it back down to 2.5%, which is where most people would like to see it. But we inherited an affordability problem. We're doing a lot to make it better. It's gonna take a little bit of time. There's a lot more work to do, but the president knows that a lot of Americans are struggling. In fact, he ran on that. He talked about it, and we've done some things and made some good progress on that point.

SPEAKER_22 38:06

He just said he loves the inflation.

SPEAKER_07 38:08

What he said, Anna, what he said is that he loves the fact that the inflation is gonna come down when this war is over. That's that's what he said. That wasn't a direct.

SPEAKER_21 38:18

Wait, are you his interpreter or are you his vice president?

SPEAKER_07 38:23

Well, look, look, I I I what the president said, people were asking about the inflation. They were asking about the affordability problem, which again is very real. And what he said is I love the inflation because it's gonna come down when the war is over. And now, again, we already see gas prices, gas prices today, $4.06 a gallon, too high, but way down from where they were just a couple of weeks ago. So there's a lot, again, there's a lot we got to do, but I think that we're doing as much as we can. We're gonna keep on working at it. And again, the American people are gonna make their verdict. But I think that we have a very credible case to run on that we brought a lot of new investment. We're building the factories, that is gonna pay serious dividends for the American people over the long haul.

SPEAKER_21 39:02

When?

SPEAKER_07 39:03

Well, Joy, if if you look at if you look at manufacturing jobs, okay, those those jobs are increasing at a large number. Construction jobs are doing a little bit better. So what happens is the construction jobs to build the factories and then the manufacturing workers go back to work. That also leads to rising wages. That's one of the things that I'm very proud of. Because if you look at the the amount that wages are going up now compared to, say, 2022, they're going up way faster. That's a good thing. The affordability problem, again, gas way too high right now. Certain things way too high. You know, rents have been either flat or down for 12 months now. So there are things that are showing signs of life, things that are showing signs of progress. My view, I'm sure you guys don't agree with it, is that we inherited a mess and we're fixing it. But sometimes it takes a long time to fix a mess.

SPEAKER_22 39:48

Sunny.

SPEAKER_03 39:49

Okay. Um, Mr. Vice President, according to a new report from the New York Times. So that's a pretty good take on affordability. And that's just the way it is, right? Listen, we inherited a mess. Gas prices are way too high. Where were the Democrats saying that the last four years? Gas prices are way too high. They weren't anywhere. But then again, you know, a lot of the Democrat states weren't gouging you with that extra dollar of gas tax, right? Because we got to keep our prices around four dollars a gallon. So if gas is floating around $250, I think Washington State's a buck 60 a gallon for gas taxes, right?

SPEAKER_08 40:21

At least it's really high.

SPEAKER_03 40:28

Jessica Tarlove sounded like an idiot, also on Hannity. Yeah, like I said, he made the rounds yesterday. So here's another one where he's talking about the mandates that they had when they got elected.

SPEAKER_07 40:40

Well, I think that's ultimately up to the voters, right? I think voters have every right to expect as much as possible out of their elected representatives. We certainly know that we were elected on a number of mandates. One was to close the border, which I think we've done successfully, exceeded expectations there. Number two was to lower prices, and there's a lot of work to do, in part, in large part because of what's happened over the last few months in the Middle East. But as you said, oil, which got up to $120 a barrel, now is at $80 a barrel. That's going to be reflected in lower fuel, lower food, lower energy prices. But there's a lot more work to do. The thing that I'm proudest about most, because it was, as some of you may know, I grew up in one of these towns that was forgotten by the leaders in Washington and both parties, is that you're seeing that's Middletown, Ohio. That's my hometown in southwestern Ohio. It was a proud steel town. I was raised by a grandfather who was a union steel worker, is that those jobs disappeared. Those factories closed down. The thing that I'm most excited about is you do see a large amount of capital investment coming into our country. Factories being built, construction jobs are way up, manufacturing jobs are starting to catch up. So there's a lot more work to do. I think that we're making progress, but ultimately we're going to make our pitch to the voters in November, and they're the ones who get to decide whether we've done a good job or not, and that's how they're going to vote.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

You know, I think that's ultimately have nothing on him. If you watch the view, if you're one of those random people out there that actually watches the view every day, having JD Vance on there, you know, every clip I've seen of this, he's masterful. He takes what they say, validates it, and then addresses it appropriately to what they're actually trying to do to fix these problems. And it feels tangible. The way he's talking about this feels tangible. I I think JD Vance is just one of the most gifted politicians and one of the most gifted communicators we have ever seen. He's a good talker. You know, he's not like Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a wizard, as John Adams used to say. Build the wall. That phrase encapsulates everything. It encapsulates the immigration problem, it encapsulates the law enforcement problem. Build a wall.

SPEAKER_08 42:38

And it's just a simple positive statement.

SPEAKER_03 42:41

Exactly. Trump Trump is the king of these little one-sentence memes that put something into the zeitgeist that is they're eating the cats and dogs. The immigrants, what immigrants? The Haitians they let in on temporary status. How many of them? 20,000. Where? Springfield, Ohio. How many people live in Springfield? Well, it used to be 40,000 people. They doubled the size of the city with Haitian immigrants. Yeah. And they're eating the cats and dogs in the parks, right? That one sentence leads you on a thought train that just opens up the whole problem. And the Democrats are like, well, they're not actually eating the dogs. And you're like, but they're eating the cats. Well, there's a little bit of evidence of that. It's like you guys miss the whole meme.

SPEAKER_14 43:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:24

They miss the whole meme. What JD Vance is he deconstructs it so masterfully. One of the most gifted communicators we have ever, ever had. The other thing that came up here was the Epstein stuff. And JD Vance on the view in front of all these democratic suburban ladies who are get passing up on their soap operas to watch the view. They got to hear from the horse's mouth Donald Trump and Epstein are kind of enemies.

SPEAKER_07 43:53

But you know, one of the things you see in the Epstein emails is that Jeffrey Epstein hated Donald Trump, right? And that Donald Trump. Trump literally reported Jeffrey Epstein to the police. That's one of the things that came out of the case.

SPEAKER_22 44:04

They were best friends for about a decade. And remember, he signed that Transparency Act under duress when some Republican women, Congresswomen like Lauren Boebert, like Marjorie Taylor Green, did not give in to his pressure of not signing. He brought Lauren Boebert into the situation room to pressure her into paving on not voting for that bill.

SPEAKER_07 44:24

So let me respond to that. So it's all true. Let me respond to that. So number one is yes, Donald Trump, he said this. He knew Jeffrey Epstein back in the 1980s. He also threw Jeffrey Epstein out of his club when he found out he was a creep and reported him to the police. That's something that the media often misses when it reports the story. They tell the fact that they knew each other in the 80s, which the president himself admits. They ignore the fact that he narked on him to the police and led ultimately to Jeffrey Epstein's downfall. To that point, Anna, you know the Republican Party. Well, it's one of the things that led to the law enforcement investigation.

SPEAKER_22 44:55

But on the point that you made it was allegedly over a real estate deal that they had into uh got into a fight over.

SPEAKER_07 45:01

But the email says, the email says actually.

SPEAKER_03 45:05

That whole real estate deal thing that that was one of the points of conflict they had between each other. Where it really got sour was when he threw him out of the club because he found out he was a creep. Like the real estate deal was actually over Mar-Lago. Epstein and Trump were both bitters on Mar-Lago. That happened way before he found out he was a creep. So when she's like, Well, it's because of the because of the real estate deal. Well, that's what soured their kind of not professional, but you know, semi-professional, like the doors always open opportunity. Yeah. But at that point, it just became we're we'll never be business partners. We're but socially, you know, we're both in Palm Beach. And it was when he found out he was a creep threw him out of Mar Lago. And then, of course, that led to Trump talking to the police, which opened up the initial investigation. Trump wasn't in power then, right? The the the Acosta deal that he got was the Bush administration that pulled that off. And then, of course, it was continued to be covered up by the um by the Obama and then Biden administrations during Trump's first term is when Epstein got arrested the second time. And it led to his uh suicide?

SPEAKER_08 46:11

We forget all the convenience.

SPEAKER_03 46:12

Yeah, led to his suicide. All right, let's continue here.

SPEAKER_22 46:14

Just be truthful and transparent here. They didn't just know each other, they were incredibly close friends.

SPEAKER_07 46:20

He reported him to the police. That's what I'm saying. That is objective. That is objective.

SPEAKER_03 46:23

You know, it's interesting. They were incredibly close friends. That's what besties do. And Bill Clinton. And Bill Clinton? Yeah. Like, okay.

SPEAKER_07 46:35

Annie made another point that I think I would be if I may, Anna made a very important point. This question about did Donald Trump release these files only under duress from Republicans? And Anna, you know the Republican Party probably better than I do. The idea that Donald Trump runs around afraid of Republican congressmen as opposed to the other way around is kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_03 46:59

The guy walks into the G7 and goes, I'm the boss. Yeah. I don't think he's afraid of uh, you know, Mitch McConnell or uh Lindsey Graham or anything like that. Like it's not happening. Like the idea that Trump is running around afraid of him is crazy. The other one of the other things that Scott Adams said about Donald Trump, aside from him being a wizard in general, was that Donald Trump is extremely good at using verbal incentives, right? He causes pain when you cross him and he causes pleasure when you go along with him. He maximizes the two spectrums. If you're a problem for him, he unleashes the war dogs. He just verbally assaults you, puts you in a position where you're constantly on defense. If you go along with him, you're the greatest, you're amazing, I love you, right? He makes the there's no middle ground, yeah, onboard or offboard. And that is a very specific relationship management tool, right? It's no different than when you feed a dog a treat when he does a good thing, and then you give him a reprimand when he does a bad thing. It's the exact same thing. He uses it as a communication tool. And so with a lot of pundits, right? This is the Tucker Carlson's the Megan Kelly's and others that have become critical of Trump. Trump unleashes on low IQ, idiots, blah, blah, blah. And it takes away from their audience, they lose their base of support, right? It creates a lot of pain and criticism. Well, I was kind of a little surprised to see that J.D. Vance went on Megan Kelly's show. But just like Scott Adams called it from observation, JD

Trump Incentives And Coalition Discipline

SPEAKER_03 48:30

Vance sees on the inside that this is Trump's modus operandi.

SPEAKER_15 48:35

And then we're told, and I quote, those who speak ill of Mark Levin are not MAGA.

SPEAKER_07 48:41

Well, the president, as he does, is pushing back at a criticism of yours that he thought was unfair.

SPEAKER_16 48:48

Not just me. I mean, a lot of non-interventionalists.

SPEAKER_07 48:50

But I talked to him last night and I said, Mr. President, I'm gonna go on Megan Kelly's show and I'm gonna defend the administration's policies. Absolutely, I love that. Because again, good. Tell him he can do it next. He engages and he's gonna criticize you when he agrees with or disagrees with you. I don't mind his own. He's gonna say nice things about you when he agrees with you. But that's what I actually love about the president is he's not he's not like viewing these debates from the outside, he's participating in them himself. And again, Megan, the frustration that I've had with you know the non-interventionist side has been that the attitude seems to be we disagree with the president on this policy. Look, we can have that debate, but fine. Okay, you disagree with the president on this particular policy, that doesn't mean you can give up on the entire enterprise. Yeah, no, I agree. And the reason, Megan, the reason why neocons are so much more effective in politics than the people on the other side in our coalition is because they play the game.

SPEAKER_03 49:47

Play the game. That's pretty good. He sees it just like Scott Adams sees it. If you agree, he says nice things. If you disagree, he's gonna say mean things. So, you know, decide if it's worth saying disagreeing with Donald Trump. There's a price to pay. God's Army says, how many do you think watch that? TDS is real and powerful, and the eating the cats and dogs should have started the conversation about people of other countries not having our values. I think it did for a lot of people. I think it did for a lot of people. The Democrats, I in fact, I think I wrote you about this. I think you probably published it, God's Army brought in your uh Breakfast Club newsletter. But I talked about one of the biggest political miscalculations they had was making fun of the whole thing, they're eating the cats and dogs thing, because it was a viral meme. You had a video of someone barbecuing a cat and it became very obvious, like it led to a series of questions. Where are these people? Springfield, Ohio. Tell me about the town. 40,000 people. Who's doing this? 20,000 Haitian immigrants. Whoa. Anyone, if we suddenly had 125,000 foreigners dropped in our county right here, half the population of the it would it would shock us to our core. Imagine being in Springfield, Ohio. And the thing that was so unique about Springfield, Ohio, there's a Springfield in every state. It's the every town, right? You know, one, two, three, anywhere USA. That is Springfield.

SPEAKER_08 51:05

Well, that's that's why uh Bart Simpson lived in Springfield.

SPEAKER_03 51:08

There's a Springfield in every state, there's one around the corner from you right now, right? And so it made it was just the symbolism of that was incredible. And they totally botched that. They they were they wanted to argue about the nuance. Well, they're eating the cats, but there's no evidence they're eating dogs. Wait, pump the brakes. Hold on. Who's eating what here? Right? It leads to questions. That one phrase and and their criticism of it, even if you're trying to debunk him, you walk away going, okay, so the president was a little hyperbolic, but there's a problem in Springfield, Ohio. And there's probably a problem in Springfield in your town. What are you doing with the sound, Ron?

SPEAKER_08 51:45

I'm trying to fix it. It just all of a sudden went whacked.

SPEAKER_03 51:48

Oh, yeah, we were sounding okay for a second

Kitsap County Scandal And Missing Coverage

SPEAKER_03 51:50

there. Okay, look, another little interesting tidbit. This is kind of adding on to the shows we've had that have been separate from this stream, talking about this scandal over Daryl Dogs here in Kitsap County. Yeah, the chief deputy auditor for Kitsap County didn't show up to work yesterday. His wife didn't show up to work. So there's more video that's been released of uh Alex Rosen at the door of Daryl Dogs, kind of in denial. And then as soon as he closes the door, he sits there and they have him on camera, just deleting, deleting, deleting, deleting, deleting. And Alex Rosen says through the door, you know, that's not what an innocent person does. They don't stand there and just you know, blow their phone up like immediately, deleting everything they can. Uh, we have confirmed that BPD did, you know, take his phone and are this is now an active investigation. Okay. And so other people are jumping in. So M Adams from Adams Unchained, which by the way, M Adams, you have an open invitation to come on my show. Somebody needs to message him and let him know that I've been I've been following him and sharing his information. But he's a local, he says, developing. He called up 911, wanted to do uh or he emailed 911. Per multiple request searches were completed. This is what he got back from Kitsapp 911. All events were Daryl Dogs or Leslie Dogs were the caller. All event all event comments mentioning Daryl Dogs or Leslie Dogs, and all events to one four. Well, that's the address. Okay, from these searches, they have located in the last six years. There have been 93 911 phone calls to 911 from the dogs. What 93 phone calls?

SPEAKER_08 53:30

What uh hold on, I mean, that's a story right there. Yeah, what the hell are they calling 911 90 plus times for?

SPEAKER_03 53:38

Now they've got 50, they've had 54 foster kids in and out of the house. I don't know the time frame of that, but you know, kids be kids. Sometimes you gotta call 911. I've called 911 a total of like three times in my life, right? So, but in six years, 93 events seems that's like 20 times a year. That's calling them like every other week.

SPEAKER_08 53:59

Is that like calling tech support?

SPEAKER_03 54:01

What's hey, my kid has a sliver. What do I do? I I don't know. So, anyways, sounds like uh there's some effort to kind of try to find out what those 911 phone calls were about. So, pretty interesting. So, that's just a little tidbit. We're probably gonna have more information on this story on Friday. There's some people out there doing quite a bit of digging, some friends of the show that want to kind of put this whole thing together completely. Um, I got a I got a message yesterday saying, you know, this whole story has kind of gone into conspiracy mode. And why is that? Because it's not being reported by any mainstream media here in Kitseth County. The sun hasn't run a story on it, none of the local papers have. Nobody's running any stories on this. I wonder why that is. It's going viral online, you know, Kitset County groups, those Alex Rosen videos and and M. Adams videos, but the institutional media groups are not reporting on this at all.

SPEAKER_08 54:54

Which again is crazy because it isn't this normally like a hot topic item for most people. Most people care about kids, don't they?

SPEAKER_03 55:01

Oh my gosh. If this was Phil Cook, the county assessor who's a Republican, this story would be front page on the kids episode. It'd be national news. It'd be national news. But because it's a Democrat and you know, there's just no appetite to go after Democrats for any of their crimes. This is gonna have to force it national. This is the result, yeah, exactly. So more to more on that story, you know. I I kind of have realized going through this story that I don't know that I'm a journalist, I'm a pundit, I'm an opinion guy, right? I don't know that I really like I don't know that I make the greatest reporter. Like, I want to report on the conspiracy, which is probably appropriate that we label ourselves a conspiracy show. But as as we've proven time and time again, some of our conspiracies are just the news a couple years early, right? It's just the news a couple years early. Another

Pipe Bomber Doubts And Polygraphs

SPEAKER_03 55:50

interesting thing that happened yesterday, and we don't need to play this whole clip, but this was Jay uh Brian Cole Jr., so he's the alleged pipe bomber who's been arrested. This is his lawyer. He came on Megan Kelly's show. Now remember this story when Steve Baker, who who's really pointed the finger at someone else being the pipe bomber, he went and and spoke with Megan Kelly and they didn't air the episode. Oh, they got the letters from the deep state law firms, you know, do not air that episode. It's like, why are what is going on here? Well, the attorney for Brian Cole came on, and this we'll just listen to a couple, couple, a minute of this.

SPEAKER_25 56:28

The bottom line on for as far as suspects are concerned, you had a law enforcement officer who failed two polygraph tests. And you probably read about this because it was part of some motion practice in the case. Simple questions. Are you the person on this video planning these devices? No, failed. There are other suspects, but I can't get too far into this because we're trying to figure out the different avenues and different suspects that were in this case and why those those basically those investigations were shut down. But to just say, here's a video, we have ping evidence from the cell phone, and and we're 100% sure it's it's Brian Cole Jr. When you actually had other suspects, you're fighting us as far as revealing the information and documentation to examine that situation. We're far from from determining and saying that that was Brian Cole Jr.

SPEAKER_16 57:22

The person to whom you are referring is Shawnee Kirkhoff. She was a uh Capitol Hill police officer on January 5th and 6th. She now works for the CIA.

SPEAKER_25 57:33

That's right.

SPEAKER_16 57:34

And we first learned from a motion you filed in this case in defense of Brian, that she had allegedly been given a polygraph by the FBI and allegedly failed it and um had been investigated by the FBI even prior to Brian Cole uh coming on their radar. She um she was also named by the Blaze as somebody who may have done this uh type bomb.

SPEAKER_25 58:00

I believe she sued him.

SPEAKER_16 58:02

And so, yes, so that's what I'm getting at. I want to make sure we're super fair to Shawnee Kirkoff. She's now sued the Blaze and Steve Baker, who's the reporter who wrote the piece. Um The Blaze has retracted the article. Steve Baker says he stands by the article. Um it has officially been, quote, debunked because the the Blaze says they don't stand by it, and that the thing that's in there as their chief evidence against her is like gate analysis, like an analysis of how she walks, which is not scientific and it's not that's not reliable in court. And Steve Baker has not produced the name of the person he claims he relied upon for that. However, Shawnee Kirchhoff, in her now she's filed this defamation lawsuit, in her complaint, she herself says, I was given a polygraph by the FBI and I was told that I failed it. So I mean, we no longer have to rely on anybody other than Shawnee for this information. Now, in her complaint, she outlines how how she alleges she's be seems to be suggesting this is not a good poly because the examiner referred to some problems that were he was having with the um communication wires and was sending mixed messages to her, and that she was, of course, very nervous just being given a polygraph by the FBI. That'll all play out. But it is interesting that she's now admitting that she was on the FBI's radar and that she was told that she failed a polygraph. Now the FBI says it's not her. They've moved on from her, they've closed the case on her, it was not Shawnee Kirkoff, and that she has an alibi tape that on which we can at least hear her voice dealing with her dog on the night in question when the bombs were being planted. So why are you still focused on that?

SPEAKER_25 59:46

This is what I'll say. I didn't mention her name, so I would I you brought the name into the play, so I just want to make sure she doesn't think that I'm trying to, you know, put her name out there. But the issue is not necessarily all the evidence that, for example, the gate analysis. Well, initially we were told a gate analysis was done and it pointed to our guy. So the FBI said that, or that's what they told us. They did a gate analysis. Okay. And and and that that helps support their case for our guy. Okay. So now she's saying the gate analysis was off, and and so now we're throwing the gate analysis out the window. My issue with with with Miss Ms. Kirchhoff is her name, right? Is hey, look, there's other people out there that you all suspected, and that we're trying to figure it out as to why you closed those investigations and what's the evidence around it.

SPEAKER_16 1:00:35

Let me ask you this: would that typically be something you'd have access to? Like when the government goes investigating three other suspects before or around arresting the one suspect, is it usually fair game to have all everything they know about?

SPEAKER_25 1:00:48

Absolutely. Beyond a reasonable doubt exists for a reason. And the way you create be reasonable doubt is to understand what other suspects were involved in the credibility of the persons of interest. Yeah, persons of interest.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:59

So they're definitely gonna go down the route of basically saying there's possibly another criminal, and that creates doubt in Brian Cole. I'm full of doubt. Put me on the jury, boss. I'll I'll go quit. I'm full of doubt on that one. I don't think I'd quality.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:15

I'm full of doubt that Shawnee didn't do it.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:17

Yeah, yeah. I'm not ready to say Brian Cole's size 12 shoe did it. It is it is amazing. Shoe size doesn't match. Now, if you wear a size 12, let me know if you can squeeze into a size nine.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:32

Yeah, you know, he made a really good point there. Oh, how can we use the gate analysis if it's not a thing? And then, well, that's what they use to make yeah, gate analysis pointed at your client.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:42

Oh, the gate analysis might gate analysis isn't accurate, right? Oh, so hold on, hold on. No, and this is common. I found this amongst inmates all the time. It's like the stuff that convicted them needed it, stuff that acquitted them, totally irrelevant. It's like it's very convenient. Now, the FBI took a nice little victory lap yesterday because they they thwarted a terror plot against the UFC, a drone terror plot. So, of course, we get some of the details yesterday as the it as the statement of facts comes out. So, listen to this. So, this is from the court, the the court filings. During the interview, Thomas, who's one of the ones indicated, stated that he saw himself as the planner and advisor for the group. And while he was not, he was not willing to take action himself, wanted to guide and instruct others on how to carry out the attacks. Okay. Thomas expressed frustration that some members of the group seemed non-committal and used excuses as to why they could not take action, particularly with the planned attack on the UFC Freedom 250 event. Thomas said that the aim of so basically you had a this sounds to me so much like the Proud Boys. Drinking buddies talk a lot of crap online, but when it really boils down to it, they don't want to do anything but run security for Ann Coulter. You know what I mean? Like they're really not into it. Oh man, what a what a joke that is there. What a joke. So, speaking

Antifa Indictment And Speech As Evidence

SPEAKER_03 1:03:10

of Antifa. So yesterday there was an indictment that was issued on 15 members of Antifa up in Minnesota.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:17

Oh, today a federal indictment was unsealed, charging 15 defendants with conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers and other charges related to efforts of two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups that violently opposed the enforcement of federal law in our state. Today a federal indictment was unsealed.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:40

Which for us, right, we think that that's just great. I want to show you something here that is a tactic that prosecutors use. And this is one of those things where I have very mixed feelings because I absolutely understand that Antifa and other violent groups out there say not just say rhetoric, but they mean it. And the what they mean with it can be very nefarious. Unfortunately, some of these platitudes, these catchphrases that get said are shared with the libertarian people. Okay. They're shared with the libertarian people. And anything you say online can and will be taken out of context from the time you said it, and it will be applied in the worst possible way you can imagine. This is one of the reasons why I have kind of PTSD when it comes to like clipping the show and finding the most incendiary things that we say and highlighting that. This is why I struggle with online posting and and you know, trolling, so to speak, is because what you think is a joke can be turned around and thrown against you. I will never forget sitting in my trial, watching the prosecution put up a fire emoji, it down, so burn it down in response as I quote tweeted a post about with a picture of the District of Columbia with fires rising up above the city, smoke rising up above the city during the BLM riots. And it was the residents of DC that were lighting the city on fire, torching stuff in the streets, causing smoke to rise. And I quote-tweeted, fire emoji, it down, burn it down, right? Now, what am I expressing? I'm expressing my frustration as an American citizen of the several 50 states and the frustration with the Imperial Capitol and how that their governance doesn't seem to reflect appropriately out to the normal America, it's frustration with the politicians, it's frustration with the whole thing. Burn it down, right? Hyperbolic rhetoric. I'm far away, I can't burn it down. But I'm basically like, you reap what you sow. That's the sentiment.

SPEAKER_08 1:05:46

So, but but then people started calling you what an arsonist.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:50

Well, what happened was when I went to DC, they said this is evidence that you always intended to come to DC and do harm. Okay. And I was like, Well, that's not what happened. So let's Listen to this as the attorney reads out some of the statements that were made online. Now, I think that these guys meant what they meant. All right. I tend to agree with the prosecution's assessment, but I want you to be very aware, everybody that listens to the show, you have to be really careful about how you write things. The details and the nuance get lost.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:19

You see here a Facebook post from one of the defendants, Cameron Kennedy, writing, quote, we need to become ungovernable.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:29

That right there. Oh boy. How many times have we said that? Be ungovernable, right? And what are we saying? Be sovereign, have your own food storage, make your own job, create value, be ungovernable, be someone that they can't take things away from.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:43

Self-reliant.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:44

Be self-reliant. But if you just write be ungovernable, and then you get caught up in one of these things, they'll take that and go, Oh, look, you're against uh enforcement of the laws.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:57

As the name suggests, Direct Action Minnesota is an orgate is an organization dedicated to direct action against federal law and immigration enforcement. This action is not peaceful, it's obstructive, disruptive, and unlawful. The organization trains its members in the aggressive use of shields against law enforcement, surveillance, operational planning, and rapid mobilization against law enforcement actions. Though investigations are ongoing, what we know now is that Direct Action Minnesota is comprised of members of subgroups. For example, the Black Hat Workers Collective. The Black Hat Workers Collective is a Minneapolis-based antifa affinity group, which advocates, promotes, and utilizes militant tactics and violence. Here you can see that their Facebook cover pages that their Facebook cover page shows as a banner the burning down of the Minneapolis Police Department's third precinct. One of the leaders of Direct Action Minnesota, Lieutenant Kyle Wagner, identifies himself as Antifa and he doesn't shy away from it.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:18

My name is Kyle. I'm Antifa and fellow for an engineer. It doesn't matter if you're not here and you're not caught up. You missed the fucking player. If you are, it's time to shoot up. Nicholas and fucking uh 26th. My house is four blocks away. Anywhere between Franklin and Nicholas and 26th and Nicholas. Show up ready to go. No, no, not talking about peaceful protests anymore. We're not talking about having polite conversations anymore. I am talking specifically to my fucking followers. This is everything I have fucking talked about, and this is exactly what I said was gonna happen. This is exactly what I said was gonna fucking come, but we didn't fucking go and march on fucking with hold with guns. Sorry, but welcome to America 2026, where Second Amendment is the only thing that's gonna come to fucking protected from literal fucking Nazi gunmen that are killing innocent people uh in the street with impunity. This is not a fucking joke. There is nothing fun to chance about it.

SPEAKER_13 1:09:28

You're fucking guns and stop these fucking people.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:35

So the sad thing about this, obviously, he went on to infiltrate the church with Don Lemon, and he was a lot at a lot of these, you know, stop Antifa or stop the BL Stop ICE rallies. This is in his house, he's raging. I can't tell you how many J6ers had videos just like this.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:55

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:56

Right. They played clips of me walking to the Capitol and from the Capitol, giving my analysis to you, the listeners, what I thought would eventually be uploaded and made into clips and shared with my podcast audience. You know, maybe we'll bang the doors down. Okay. You know, hey, if the politicians had come outside, we would have killed them. I was saying we, there was a lot of rage in the crowd. If Nancy Pelosi had walked out there, she probably wouldn't have had a good day, right? I said killed, shouldn't have said killed. Should not have said killed. To me, it was a throwaway, rhetorical. You know, of course we're not gonna kill them, but you know, it'd have a rough day. Wrong of me to do. Yeah, right. It made me much more conscientious. So I saw I saw that all the time. You know, we have a lot of frustration with the system. Be very careful in how you articulate it and be very hesitant to record your rants, right? This was something that happened to Guy Reffitt. Super sad. His son wore a wire in the house and recorded his dad drinking, ranting about Nancy Pelosi and politics and the Capitol and the election. We could all do it, right? Just be be careful. Not saying you need to censor your speech in any way, but you know, always say it's rhetorical and throw some clarifiers in there so it's on the transcript. Because otherwise, I promise you, you know, if political wins swing, you could find yourself having your worst moments repeated to you.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:15

Um Mr. Cole's attorney when he was like, Oh, that gal, what's her name? That's her name, right? Like he didn't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:22

Yeah, uh you brought her name up, not me. Like, I don't need that, I don't need their heat. I'm already trying to defend Brian Cole Jr. But yeah, super, super interesting. All right, guys, it's time for us to jump over into private

Bitcoin Reserve Clip And Sign Off

SPEAKER_03 1:11:35

and uh we'll see you over there. But we're gonna leave you with this today. This is Senator Cynthia Loomis today. President Trump has signed an executive order in support of the strategic Bitcoin reserve. The legislation behind it acquire a million Bitcoin over five years. The U.S. is either about to make the most important asset asset purchase in modern history or Congress blinks. One of those things happens next. There is nothing but tailwinds for Bitcoin, nothing but tailwinds, man. If it's a huge opportunity for people right now, so can't encourage it enough. All right, we'll jump over to private, we'll talk to the rest of you guys tomorrow, and we'll see the unoffendables in the private chat. All right, all right, we got the unoffendables. Yes. So here's the thing I don't have any more videos.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:25

That's okay. We can still chat.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:30

Here's one right here. This is uh this is Senator Kennedy talking about this Bill Poulte nomination.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:36

All right.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:37

And uh let's see what he has to say.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:43

The president dropped this on True Social. The Republicans agreed with Democrats to remove very fair and talented William Poulte from serving as acting DI in return for getting Pfizer approved by the Democrats. I will not approve FISA without the Save America Act going along with it. That means that Jay Clayton's hearing apparently was suspended. Tom Cotton went to X 10 minutes ago and said that hearing will go forward. Based on what you know, what is the status of this nomination and this hearing and where we are on it, Senator?

SPEAKER_24 1:13:16

Well, at the moment, uh it's a multiple vehicle power. Uh the president is aggressively unpredictable. Uh we thought we had things worked out. Uh, we don't. Uh these are the president's nominees. He's entitled to pull them or go forward with them, as is his pleasure. Um, I'm not particularly surprised. I I don't know if you remember that movie Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross, but there's a line in there where the protagonist says he's a salesman. He said, always be selling, always be selling, always be selling. Well, that's President Trump. He's got two speeds, you know, uh zero and a thousand miles an hour. And the president's upset. He wants Bill Poulty in there. Uh the Congress is pushed back, uh, and he wants Poulty, and and we're gonna have to deal with it. Um, and it is what it is. All right, Senator, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:18

President Trump is there to speak that's a multiple car pile-up. And as they were mentioned right there at the end, Donald Trump is is in India with uh Modi, prime or president. Is he prime minister? Prime Minister of India, or is he president of India? I don't know.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:33

Anyways, and he's asked about this thing that as long as it takes to get everybody else approved. I mean, they were doing a rush act, and we didn't get anything for it. Look, he's a very legitimate guy, he's very smart, he's a brilliant guy. Look at the job he did at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. I mean, it's worth probably a trillion dollars right now. So we put him there, but all of a sudden it was like a rush act by the Democrats, and they said they were going to approve Pfizer. And I said, but we want Pfizer approved, but we want the Save America Act approved. Voter ID, proof of citizenship, no mail-in ballots, with exceptions, like for the military sick, you're sick, uh, you're traveling, disabled, very, you know, open and generous. We also want no men playing in women's sports, and we want no transgender mutilation of our children. None. Those are five things that are 99%. I mean, that's all we want. It's not a lot. The Save America Act. And that can be passed any way they want to pass it, but I'm not going to sign Pfizer unless it's this was like a rush act. And it was a rush act by the Democrats. All of a sudden they want to get why are they afraid of this guy? I mean, they're so afraid of him. They'll do anything not to have Poulte go in there. He's a very capable guy, and they're worried about that.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:58

Yeah, they're super worried about Pulte. So funny. All right, so we talked about gas prices under Joe Biden. Joe Biden admitted it. He knows exactly what he did. They got gas prices to go up. Here he is driving with Jay Leno.

SPEAKER_23 1:16:12

Well, the other thing I was able to do, I made sure there could be no oil drilling off the east coast or west coast, and uh 150 miles off the Gulf of Mexico. He's doing it with all that protection, too. No more windmills. Yeah, because they kill birds. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:31

Give me a you know what's funny? The no more windmills because they kill birds. Go talk to the Bundies. No more ranching because there's a tortoise out here. Give me a freaking break, right? The attitude's the same. It's only an excuse. It's only an excuse. Yes, right. When it's you and it's convenient for you and you want windmills because you want to destroy the American oil industry and price Americans out of travel and out of their commodities, their goods, then oh, it's just birds, right? But yet, what did you do? You killed all the oil drilling off the east and west coast and 150 miles off the Gulf of America. Good job. Totally did it, man. What a dirtbag. All right, guys, that's enough for us today. We will talk to you again tomorrow. Bye.

Monty Python Peasants Tag

SPEAKER_19 1:17:55

I did say something about the old woman, but from behind you. If you automatically treat me like an imperialist, well, I am king. Oh king, how do you get that, eh? By floating the workers by hanging on to an outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress, how do you do? How do you do, good lady? I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the Britons. The Britons. The Britons. We all are. We are all Britons. I am your king. No, we have a king. We thought we're an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class is. There you go. That's what it's all about. Only people will be pleased, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives in that castle. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of pure internal affairs. But by a two-thirds majority in the case of quack. Order you to be quacked. I'm your king. The lady of the lake. Her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite. Held a loft excaliber from the bottom of the water. Signifying by divine providence. I asked Mostuk Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in poems, distributive thoughts is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some philosophy or aquatic phenomenon. But you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery popular sort of went round saying I was an emperor. Just because some moist and bitch loved the symmetry at me, they put me away.