WEBVTT - The Jay Weber Podcast #0013 5-19-26 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:05.080 That j Weber Podcast is presented by Creative Planning, helping 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:09.760 clients simplify their journey to financial wellness, one personalized plan 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.520 at a time. That j Weber Podcast is a production 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.920 of iHeartRadio Podcasts. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.600 Well J Webber Podcast. We'll talk about how President Trump 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.400 is the first president in US history, first in history 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:23.680 to have a truly secure Southern War, and how the 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.800 Democrats who cheered Biden's flood of illegals are now pretending 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.200 it was an unintentional mistake. You're going to try to 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.360 save face on that. I want to talk about Cammi's brainstorming. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.280 The Democrats have decided that they need to destroy democracy 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.519 in order to save it. I have more stories of 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.040 newly uncovered and major fraud in their federal programs, and 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.040 it might be the ultimate test of Trump's power for 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.519 the party today. Can he shove the perpetually impossible Thomas 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:50.080 Massey out of his house seat in Kentucky. That's all ahead, 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.240 But first I want producer Gregory John to talk about 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.520 the really important stuff with me. Greg you grew up 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.560 in the up I grew up in South YEP. I 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.920 grew up in southeastern Wisconsin. We're both rough the same age. 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.000 I don't know about you and your group of friends, 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.119 but as sad as it is to see the brewing 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.800 of Schlitz beer come to an end after one hundred 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.000 and seventy five years, I can't say that we ever 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.160 drank it among my circle of friends, did you? 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.319 We didn't. Up there, it was it was more of 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.920 a Papst kind of thing. Stros. We drank Stros, and 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.760 we drank Schmidt beer out of Minnesota. Do you remember 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:20.520 Schmidt beer? 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.959 You remember Schmidt beer? Yes, Stros, wasn't that a Colorado product? 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:30.399 Actually? Stros, I think Stros came from was a Detroit beer, wasn't. 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.080 But what was to go to beer up there in 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.000 Hurley in the seventies and eighties. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.600 Well, you know, you'd go for the cheap stuff, the Hams. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.000 You know, Hams was always good. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.160 It was mostly I think Miller down here or whatever 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.560 was cheapest, old Milwaukee old style Hams. Those I think 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.800 were the three. But mostly if you know, in high 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.040 school it was cheapest. Obviously in college it was the 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.000 think thing, mostly Miller high life. I'm almost embarrassed to 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.160 admit that as a lifelong Wisconsinate I've probably over only 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.040 ever had ten Schlitz beers in my entire life. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.760 Now, it was like about ten years ago they brought 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.200 back the nineteen sixties formula. I can't remember. It was 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.520 some company out of Chicago that actually brewed it, and 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.560 it was a big thing, and I got a couple 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.360 of six packs of it. It tasted fine. But other 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.880 than that, no, I never really was a Schlitz kind 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:17.320 of guy. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.280 But we're still losing all of that history. You have 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:24.040 a jingle there right, that's a prototypical Schlitz jingle. I 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.200 remember Hams was the beer refreshing Hams, the beer refreshing Hams. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.120 I remember that. I remember the Schlitz jingles. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:30.800 Though, Well, it's so great about Schlitz. And I used 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.720 to work you know, remember Tom Collins, he used to 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:37.120 be actually be He was a sportscaster for Marquette. He 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.320 was the brewers before even Yuker, and he worked with 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.040 me at Wok. Why but before all that he was 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.079 working for Schlitz. And he would tell me stories about it. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.959 Back in the day. In Schlitz, you know, the workers 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.200 actually could drink on the job, so at their lunch breaks, 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.280 they they would get hammered. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.400 All those reasons they could take home short fills, and 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.760 they could take home a certain number of cases every month. 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.960 There was pretty I had a neighbor who worked for Miller, 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.919 and his whole garage was just filled with Miller cans 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.160 and bottles full stuff. This was just what he got 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.519 to bring home over the years. It was really something. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.680 I remember now. Schlitz. It's the beer that made Milwaukee famous. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.760 Slitz, dear disaster out of beer Schlitz. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.200 There we go, remember, I do remember that. And this, 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.000 of course is a double edged sword when it comes 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.799 to things like this, historical places or products that some 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.960 people want to step in and the save from sliding 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.880 into history. Well, if more people had been drinking Schlitz 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.480 all along, it wouldn't need to be discontinued right there, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.440 It wouldn't need saving. But yeah, who's going to start 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.440 drinking it to save it? Is the thing? You know 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.120 what I mean? It's it's it's sad to see one 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.480 of the big three beers that built Wisconsin and built 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.440 Milwaukee officially slide into history, because by my recollection, it 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.200 was Miller, Paps and Schlitz that really made Milwaukee famous 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.040 for beer. Sad to see one hundred and seventy five 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.240 years of history, and like this for Schlitz, I'm not 0:03:58.280 --> 0:03:59.560 going to drink it in order to save it. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.960 No, it's funny too because Paps actually was the one 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.520 that was brewing Schlitz beer for the last fifteen years anyway, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.280 so it was really just the name. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.400 Yep. So listen to this transition, Greg, I'm not really 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.440 going to drink Schlitz in order to save it. I 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.240 am enjoying an early retirement though, thanks Creative Planning. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.200 I like that. That's really good. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.040 Have you heard of Creative Planning. 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I don't know if 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.120 anything has changed this morning, but as of Monday, the 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.200 word was out that Mom Donnie, after doing that damaging 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.560 video vilifying Griffin and all other billionaires who are creating 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.919 most of the jobs in New York, is now trying 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.000 to smooth things over. The Mayor's people claim that Zorn 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.080 has been trying to schedule a private sit down with 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.919 Ken Griffin because Griffin's reaction was perfect. It was just 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:29.240 perfect to the socialist attack on capitalism and prosperity. Griffin said, basically, 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.200 if New York doesn't want Citadel and all of the jobs, 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.239 success and prosperity that comes with it, we'll just add 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.719 more jobs in Miami. After all, Griffin moved his Citadel 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.800 headquarters out of Chicago due to high taxes and billionaire 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.360 abuse in that state. Why not leave New York too 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.320 if you and your company aren't appreciated there. And so 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.360 Griffin reacted to Mom Donnie's attack by promising to move 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.520 even more of Citadel's jobs to Miami and threatened to 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.839 stop an expansion on Park Avenue that's in the works 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.440 in New York, and every important CEO and business leader 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.520 who today's socialists are attacking and trashing should do the 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.360 same thing. We are well beyond the time in which 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:10.640 America's producers, entrepreneurs, risk takers, job creators should sit silently 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.479 or feel the need to be diplomatic when they and 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.240 their companies are attacked. I want all billionaires and business 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.840 leaders to react to this growing socialist bull crap the 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.680 way that Ken Griffin did. It had nearly every other 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.599 Democrat leader in New York State, including Kathy Hochal and 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.440 former Mayor Eric Adams, calling on Mayor Mondannie to stop 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.719 his billionaire bullying and end this nonsense. The rest of 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.200 them all have a socialist streak in them two, but 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.320 they at least know how stupid it is to attack 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.240 New York's job creators and big taxpayers. They know that 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.200 it's a combination of the corporate taxes on those businesses, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.000 as well as the high personal income and property taxes 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.520 that these billionaires and their workers are paying that are 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.880 what's funding a huge chunk of New York State and 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.880 New York City's budgets, And so a few weeks later, 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.679 now there's already a worry in the New York business 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.800 community that Mom Donni's at actions in Griffin's reaction have 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.440 already fostered a sort of quiet quitting among some other 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.760 important New York and Manhattan companies, with these New York 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.040 business leaders and Democrat politicians pushing Mam Donnie to do 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.880 something quick to make it right with Citadel and Griffin. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.960 So far, Griffin has refused to even schedule a meeting 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.760 with this arrogant little socialist ahole, and I say, good, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.320 let Mom Donnie sweat. I assume that the too will 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.600 meet at some point. But as of yesterday, Griffin's people 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.120 said Ken still isn't feeling a great need to meet 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.760 with Mom Donnie. Not until he's ready to have adult, 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.320 serious conversations that can grow the city's economy and create 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.040 more opportunity for New Yorkers, is how they put it, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.600 speaking of making people sweat. Next topic, squishy Republican Louisiana 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.280 Senator Bill Cassidy losing in a primary race, whow not 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.520 only is a sitting senator being run out of office 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.520 here by his constituents in Louisiana, but he lost in 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.160 the first round of the voting. Bill Cassidy didn't even 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.800 win a primary race for his party's nomination. This after 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.720 serving in Congress for decades, Cassidy was the definition of 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.560 a senator with a lifetime congressional seat if he wanted it, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.160 or at least he thought so. As you know by now, 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.800 what changed is that Cassidy arrogantly bucked President Trump, and 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.960 Trump targeted him for removal as a result. And as 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.920 I posted on x, most Americans have no idea how 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.240 powerful incumbency really is in the US Senate. If you 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.160 can manage to win a seat in the US Senate, 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.960 the reality of this modern era of politics is you 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.080 will have it until you either don't want it anymore 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.200 or you retire or die. There's so much money and 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.760 influence and power in control that come with the US 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:39.360 Senate seat, no average challenger can compete the competition. The 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.600 field of competition when you run for reelection is so 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.640 tilted and slanted in your favor you really can't lose 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:50.440 your seat. Sitting senators will start an election season with three, five, ten, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.640 twenty five million dollars in their war chest, and any 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.640 challenger is normally starting from zero trying to put together 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.760 a campaign, fundraise, scrap some money together. The sitting senator 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.040 will have all sorts of special interest groups and K 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.880 Street lobbyists and powerful friends and donors backing them so 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.400 they can pound on and pound on and pound on 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.200 any potential challenger. This is what Bill Cassidy did in Louisiana. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.680 By the way, he had a huge cast advantage and 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.280 spent millions of dollars trashing the woman who won that primary, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.440 Julia Letlow. Trashed her every way his campaign could, called 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.439 her a liberal, smeared her as a lefty. She still 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.520 beat him, with Cassidy coming in third. She beat him 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:36.200 with Trump's endorsement. Folks, Senator incumbans don't lose before Cassidy here, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.679 there hadn't been a sitting US Senator to have his 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.440 or her seat taken away from them in fourteen years. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.600 There is zero doubt that Trump is the reason Bill 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.360 Cassidy was shown the door by his voters. Cassidy's loss 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.520 of his Senate seat comes just a few weeks after 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.240 five Republican state senators in Indiana lost their seats after 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.800 Trump asked Indiana voters to kick them out of office 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.960 because they displeased him. If they didn't have the stones 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.400 to play to win and agree to redraw Indiana's congressional map, 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.200 they were useless to the party. Trump said, defeat them. 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:10.920 Trump instructed Indiana voters, and the Indiana voters complied. Now 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.520 we see a repeat of that in Louisiana with Bill Cassidy, 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.920 and we might see another example of it later today 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.960 after a primary in Kentucky has concluded. A famously anti 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:24.120 Trump and famously impossible congressman named Thomas Massey is being 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.040 primary today. He's another one whom Trump has asked the 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.880 voters of his district to kick out of office. And 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.520 to me, Massey might be the ultimate litmus test on 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.200 how much power Donald Trump continues to hold over today's 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.320 Republican Party, because Massey seems to define that politician that 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.520 his people back home just love. We've seen President Trump 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.760 and many of the careers of lawmakers who decided to 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.360 take him on more directly Liz Cheney, Marjorie Taylor Green, etc. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.200 But if Thomas Massey doesn't survive the day with his 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.760 House seat intact, it will mean something. Massey seems to 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.040 be the perfect example of how the people back home 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.600 just love me because I'm voting the way they want 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.480 me to vote, and I'm really representing their interests in Congress, 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.080 and they view me as mavericky and anti Washington. That's 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.920 how Thomas Massey would explain why he's kept his House 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.640 seats for so long, even though he's been a notoriously 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.199 difficult waste of skin inside the Republican Caucus for years. 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.000 I don't have anything against Thomas Massey in particular, but 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.600 I've described him to my listeners over the years as 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.760 someone who thinks it's his job to be mavericky and 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.400 difficult and impossible, and a perpetual thorn in the side 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.640 of his own parties leaders in Congress. Thomas Massey has 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.280 done as much to stop the conservative agenda as Chuck 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.480 Schumer has over the recent past. Thomas Massey famously votes 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.720 no on virtually all spending legislation because he thinks spending 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.520 overall is too high. Okay, good point. I can see 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.640 voting that way when you're new to Congress and you're 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.160 trying to make your point, but at some point, it's 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.920 just being mindless and stupid. So you're really not going 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.079 to vote in favor of rebuilding our military when there's 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:02.640 a desperate need. No, I'm being a dick, being a dick. Okay, 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.959 this is Thomas Massey's tenure in DC. He's never helpful. Ever, 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.000 when his voters really needed to pass something important or 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.600 advance the Republican or conservative agenda, he always has to 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.679 be the grand standard jerk. And don't take my word 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.640 for it. One Kentucky Republican who's always voted for Thomas 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.120 Massey said this week, I understand him trying to stick 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.520 to his guns. This guy doesn't like how Massey has 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.440 opposed his own party all the time. Sometimes you have 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.600 to think about the greater good and say, I have 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.760 to take one for the team here. So this salesman 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.199 fifty nine year old to Tim Brock, is voting for 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.439 Massey's opponent this time. But to this point, Massey's constituents 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.640 back home in Kentucky have loved him, and so if 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.120 I had to predict an outcome, I'd predict he narrowly 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.240 survives today and isn't pushed out in that Kentucky primary. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.720 But with angry Trump voters showing other Republicans the door 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.120 when they thought they were safe. You never know, and 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:57.240 President Trump really wants Massey's scalp. Trump recently flew to 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.320 Kentucky to do an event and specifically calm man see 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.120 a quote complete and total disaster who needs to be 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.040 shoved out of office. This time around, the President's team 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.920 recruited a former Navy seal to run against him, who's 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.360 run a good campaign and has kept the polling close, 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:12.959 and I think in the last few polls it was 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.480 either tied or the opponent was leading a little bit. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.480 Trump also had some of his billionaire friends dump a 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.280 bunch of money into defeating Thomas Massey, making this what 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.520 might be the most expensive primary race in congressional history. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:29.040 When it's over, Trump wants Massy out, regardless of what 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.040 today's outcome is in Kentucky. There's no doubt that I 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.640 was correct on last week's podcast when I explained how 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.800 and why Donald Trump's influence over the Republican Party is 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.520 actually getting stronger toward the end of his second term 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.360 at a time in which history says normal presidents should 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:44.920 be losing influence and becoming lame. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:45.320 Ducks. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.600 The average president at the end of term two is 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.320 seeing his own party members abandon him. They're starting to 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.680 look out for themselves. They know that president can't run again, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.079 but they can and they want to keep their jobs. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.679 So this is normally the time that any two term 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.760 president and is abandoned and or ignored by the fellow 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.640 elected leaders and power brokers in his own party. Not Trump. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.240 The reason is that Donald Trump's support within the Republican 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.679 Party itself was so soft at the start. Donald Trump 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.600 came down that escalator and into office with a significant 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.640 chunk of Republican voters not liking him and not wanting 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.600 him to be president. And so basically Trump spent nearly 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.960 all of his first term trying to convince members of 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.000 his own party that he was a good leader and 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.720 was worth their support. Then, after the disastrous four years 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.840 of Biden, which worked as a vivid contrast to Trump's 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.640 first four years of competence. After Biden, more Republicans than 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.880 ever said, yeah, we support Donald Trump. Then he wins 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.680 a second term and really shocks the world by coming 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:47.240 into office extremely prepared. He is a man and a mission. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.960 He's a man with clear and aggressive plans laid out 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.680 on virtually everything. We are going to do a doge 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.160 outit of the entire federal government, and I'm going to 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.400 put the smartest man in the country on that task. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.240 We're going to destroy the longtime Democrat machine. We're going 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.960 to snuff out climate change nonsense and DEI bullying and 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.560 trans bullying. And he had a plan for all of this. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.120 Trump and his second term team have been stellar, just 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.880 stellar in dealing with national international affairs, and so, of 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.000 course Donald Trump has far more loyalty from Republican voters 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.960 than he did in term one. And I know the 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.840 mainstream media members spin the exact opposite in all of this. 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.920 They're wrong. That's not what's really going on. His incredible 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.880 displays of competency when it comes to Iran and Venezuela 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.480 and China, etc. Have his popularity peaking among his own 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.640 party members at a time in which it's supposed to 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.640 be waning. And I know it goes against the prevailing 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:43.000 liberal narrative completely Trump's weak, his party's abandoning him, bullplop. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.520 They're wrong on that. It's wishful thinking from Trump adversaries 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.040 and not what's really going on within the Republican Party 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.480 and taking out Senator Cassidy at the knees is even 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.200 more proof of this. If Massey's opponent ekes out a 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.680 win in Kentucky tonight, there will be no more doubt 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.280 among GOP insiders. If you'll want to be in good 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:05.680 standing with the party's grassroots, don't cross Trump. Meanwhile, Trump's 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.160 playing for keeps. I mean, he clearly knows the power 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.760 that his endorsement carries. And Trump is clearly on a 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.240 mission to get as much accomplished in the way of 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.720 restoring America as he possibly can before he leaves office. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.680 So Trump's expanding his list of targets. The latest is 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.400 the ever annoying Lauren Bobert of Colorado. She pulled to 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.120 Marjorie Taylor Green. Basically, she decided to turn on Trump 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.760 and even went so far as to campaign for Thomas Massey. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.720 And so Lauren Bobert's on Trump's hit list. Now He's 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.000 calling for someone that he can get behind to primary 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.240 her as someone who is simply an observer on all 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.960 of this. I'm hoping that Thomas Massey has bounced out 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.920 of his House seat today. I hope the voters of 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.320 Kentucky realize just how little Massey has actually helped them, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:50.960 helped the Party, helped America with his always Maverickie, always difficult, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.840 always a dick stick, as Joe Consha correctly put it 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.720 over at the Washington Examiner. As for Massie's accomplishments, none exist. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.800 The congressman never offered anything resembling solutions or alternatives he 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.520 helped to House former Speaker Kevin McCarthy when a solid 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.639 majority of House members approved of his performance, leaving Republicans 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.000 scrambling for months. Then Massey's plan with Mike Johnson was 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.840 the same as it was with McCarthy. Forced Johnson out 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.360 or force his resignation, just to be difficult, conscious says, 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.920 despite Massey pretending to care so much, he's never offered 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.560 himself up as speaker. In fact, he never offered anyone 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.480 as an alternative to McCarthy or Johnson, because that would 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:30.120 require living in reality and understanding how Congress works, Joe 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.480 concac concludes, But for Massey, the possible consequences of his 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.000 actions aren't the point. It's all about fundraising and retaining power. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.960 If he ask me, Thomas Massey has been worse than 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.000 a quiet backbencher who gets nothing done and only cashes 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.720 the paycheck. Massey has worked to make things more difficult 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.000 for his own party, and his own leaders, and his 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.760 own alleged conservative side of the Aisle. I hope he 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:56.160 is unemployed as of January. If you missed it, it's 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.439 now official. President Trump's team has delivered twelve months, a 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.760 full year of zero illegals released into our country after 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.399 they've been caught or presented at the southern border. The 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.120 way they categorize this is how many people were caught 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.639 sneaking over the border who then had an excuse or 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.760 a claim that allowed them to come into the country. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.680 The Department of Homeland Security says, for a full year 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.720 now that number has been zero. Border patrol has allowed 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.160 zero crossers into the country. That is a remarkable statistic 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.919 and an even more remarkable achievement. First of all, we 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.480 have far, far, far fewer illegal crossers. We've got more 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.600 fence than ever, We've got more drones in the air. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.159 We have an administration that's sending the right message to 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.840 the globe. Do not try to sneak in illegally. We 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.479 will stop you, and you will then never be allowed in. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.840 And We've got the most secure southern border in American 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.919 history by far. There is simply no other era or 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.879 presidency to compare this to. Twelve straight months of zero 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.679 releases at the border would have been thought impossible up 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.399 to this point, folks, it really would have. As the 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.720 new DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen puts it, the days 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.280 of catch and release are over. We're enforcing the nation's 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.240 laws and send the illegal aliens back to their home countries. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.000 Mullen noted two years ago, Biden and his turd of 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.800 a border secretary, Alejandro Mayorcis were letting illegals flood into 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.439 the country like crazy, and as an official number, they 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.480 released sixty eight thousand border crossers into the country after 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.320 they'd been captured at the border trying to cross. They 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.680 talked their way into being allowed to stay. Now at zero, 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.679 if you're caught sneaking into this country, there are zero excuses. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.200 You can't claim asylum or talk your way out of removal. 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.440 You're going to be removed from this country. No more 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.200 catch and release. That is a massive win for the country. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.320 Secure borders for really the first time in my lifetime, 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:39.040 and for all real purposes, The first time Historically, the 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.879 DHS says they're now averaging less than three hundred people 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.359 per day trying to sneak across our southern border, and 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.080 the Biden era, nearly four hundred illegals crossed our border 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:51.400 each hour. According to the Border Patrol, about fifty five 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.080 thousand people have tried to cross our southern border illegally 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.600 since the start of the fiscal year that's October first. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.399 That sounds like a big number. Fifty five thousand illegal 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:03.120 crossings eight months and they were all turned back. That's 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:04.960 a far cry from the one hundred and thirty five 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.520 thousand illegals that Joe Biden and his team were letting 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.119 into the country every month toward the end of his term. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.960