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Speaker 2: Welcome to the j Weber Podcast, where we consider all
Speaker 2: things great and small pretty good, living off of my
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Speaker 2: is here. I've been thinking a lot about the brioche bun.
Speaker 2: Have you noticed how the brioche bud that came out
Speaker 2: of nowhere on us?
Speaker 3: You are sitting in the wood shop thinking about brioche buns?
Speaker 2: Is that what you're doing now? I am, because enough
Speaker 2: of them have fallen apart on me now that I'm
Speaker 2: thinking that this is just a dirty trick that is
Speaker 2: being hold on us by the French. Oh is that
Speaker 2: what that we were? Suddenly We're supposed to get excited
Speaker 2: about our burgers or our chicken sandwiches coming on a
Speaker 2: brioche bud. It's a half pound patty with bacon and
Speaker 2: swiss onmbrioge Brioche.
Speaker 3: Well, I was I was looking, I had to actually
Speaker 3: look it up because I didn't really know what a
Speaker 3: brioche bun is. And then I saw, oh, I get
Speaker 3: these all the time. Now I kind of know. I
Speaker 3: had thought it was like some special pretzel bun or
Speaker 3: something like that, which I detest. I don't like a
Speaker 3: pretzel bun.
Speaker 2: But first it's it's more I'm agnostic on the pretzel bun.
Speaker 2: I would rather not have one than to have one.
Speaker 2: But it's it's basically a white bun with some egg.
Speaker 2: You know, it's an egg bakery or something. I think
Speaker 2: they're getting They're trying to get closer to those like
Speaker 2: kings Hawaiian buns or something. I have a stronger opinion
Speaker 2: on this than I should have, because I think the
Speaker 2: brio bun is just a piece of crap that has
Speaker 2: the sandwich falling apart in your hand before you can
Speaker 2: eat it.
Speaker 3: I talked I talked to ben yaout about this earlier,
Speaker 3: about the Brioche bun, and he goes, oh, but it
Speaker 3: makes fabulous French toast ask for the brioche bun for
Speaker 3: the French.
Speaker 2: I mean, he goes, you know, he is that I
Speaker 2: wouldn't do that. I wouldn't that I wouldn't doubt. This
Speaker 2: to me is all marketing campaign. The next time you're
Speaker 2: out with the family and the burger or the chicken
Speaker 2: sandwich comes on a brioche bun. I want you to
Speaker 2: notice how quickly the whole thing just crumble into your hand.
Speaker 2: It's on right after the first bite.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right. It's basically it just you take a
Speaker 3: fifteen dollars hamburger and you make it seventeen because it
Speaker 3: says brioche bun on it, right.
Speaker 2: I think that's that's what's going on. It has no
Speaker 2: sandwich integrity. It's not going to hold it shape long
Speaker 2: enough for you to get three bites into this so much.
Speaker 2: In fact, I think brioche means evil trick in French,
Speaker 2: doesn't it all?
Speaker 3: Right? Enough of that?
Speaker 2: What's coming up on the podcast? Oh you want more
Speaker 2: on the podcast? Well, let me see. We have all
Speaker 2: sorts of things we I think we do need protests
Speaker 2: and congressional hearings into the brioche bun though rfk Junion
Speaker 2: needs to take on big Brioche. We're going to be
Speaker 2: talking about the nonlinear nature of this Iran war and
Speaker 2: remind people that when you're dealing with evil mollahs, And
Speaker 2: when you're dealing with Donald Trump, you can't expect anything
Speaker 2: to move in a straight line here, so the overreactions
Speaker 2: to every little move or every little update on that
Speaker 2: is interesting to me. I've got some thoughts on the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight election as it relates to the future
Speaker 2: of the Republican Party and all sorts of things. But
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Speaker 2: grew up in the nineteen seventies feel old. Alan Osman,
Speaker 2: the oldest of the Osman brothers died Monday at the
Speaker 2: age of seventy six. He'd been diagnosed with MS way
Speaker 2: back in nineteen eighty seven, apparently, but there's no official
Speaker 2: cause of death. Given the older you get the younger,
Speaker 2: seventy six years old sounds and it's sad to hear.
Speaker 2: By the way, Alan Osman had a fifty year marriage
Speaker 2: and eight sons. Eight sons, so he leaves a legacy.
Speaker 2: But for those keeping track at home, this means two
Speaker 2: of the four Osman's dead because the second oldest, Wayne,
Speaker 2: died last year at the age of seventy three. And
Speaker 2: even more depressing to some of us, all of the
Speaker 2: bee Gees are dead. I guess we gen xers really
Speaker 2: are getting old. Oh and on a more serious note,
Speaker 2: who among us who grew up in the fifties, sixties,
Speaker 2: seventies or eighties would have thought we'd see a day
Speaker 2: when the Democratic Party of America was the party of
Speaker 2: Islamic extremism and anti Semitic hate. I've been warning my
Speaker 2: morning show listeners about this for some time now because
Speaker 2: people who are paying attention could see it coming. But
Speaker 2: when famous constitutionalist and lifelong Democrat Alan Dershowitz is leaving
Speaker 2: the Democrat Party over this. It signifies a milestone. This
Speaker 2: started small, The anti semitism within the Democrat Party started
Speaker 2: smaller with yesterday's young and extreme socialists finding a kinship
Speaker 2: with Islamic terrorists and any group of people who claim
Speaker 2: grievances against the United States of America. This is intersectionality.
Speaker 2: Remember this is the intersectionality bull crap that the rabid
Speaker 2: leftists of this era preach. It's basically that anyone who
Speaker 2: was wronged or abused by America, the white man the
Speaker 2: Western world, needs to ban together in kinship and fight
Speaker 2: back against them. This is what links the gay agenda
Speaker 2: to the Islamic terror agenda, to their pro abortion agenda,
Speaker 2: to the trans agenda, etc. Intersectionality, and it has led
Speaker 2: to today's Democrat Party being taken over by socialists and
Speaker 2: anti semites. I mean no exaggeration. The loudest voices in
Speaker 2: today's Democrat Party are the America haters and angry kooks
Speaker 2: who used to be on the fringes of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 2: But as I explained to my radio audience over the
Speaker 2: last twenty years or so, when Barack Obama and Nancy
Speaker 2: Pelosi and the Democrats managed to get back into power
Speaker 2: after the George Bush era. Instead of keeping the Kuk
Speaker 2: fringe at bay, as every other Democrat leader had been
Speaker 2: doing for decades, Obama and Pelosi in that group of
Speaker 2: lefty leaders in the early two thousands, was worried about
Speaker 2: continuing to win national elections because they had already driven
Speaker 2: so much of the working class out of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 2: And so they invited the biggest kooks, America haters, and
Speaker 2: grievance mongers to have a seat at the big table.
Speaker 2: And you can now see the result. This is what
Speaker 2: I was talking about way back in that day. The
Speaker 2: Democrat Party is now controlled by what used to be
Speaker 2: the extremist Kook fringe, and that includes rabbit anti Semites
Speaker 2: and supporters of Islamist terror groups like Hamas and has Blah.
Speaker 2: It's incredible, but this is where we are. It includes
Speaker 2: all sorts of leaders and activists who are rooting for
Speaker 2: Iran's evil mulas to defeat Donald Trump's effort to finally
Speaker 2: deal with that evil regime. And it has a man
Speaker 2: who's been a significant and influential voice in Democrat and
Speaker 2: American politics over the last forty years, saying that he's
Speaker 2: leaving the Democrat Party and registering as a Republican. Former
Speaker 2: Harvard Law professor influential constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz has
Speaker 2: written an op ed to The Wall Street Journal saying
Speaker 2: I'm done with the Democrat Party and I'm becoming a Republican.
Speaker 2: He makes it clear he's becoming a Republican reluctantly, but
Speaker 2: his party has abandoned and betrayed him. Among the things
Speaker 2: Dershowitz right, he says, I first registered as a Democrat
Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty nine. I'm a lifelong Democrat. I started
Speaker 2: campaigning for the party's local candidates as a teenager in Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: New York. Have been a registered Democrat for sixty seven years.
Speaker 2: But he says the Democrat Party has become the most
Speaker 2: anti Israel party in US history. There's no denying that
Speaker 2: the hard left anti Israel wing of the Democratic Party
Speaker 2: has moved from the fringe to the mainstream. Until recently,
Speaker 2: there was an age gap, with younger voters more strongly
Speaker 2: opposing Israel, but recent polls suggests the trend now includes
Speaker 2: Democrats of all ages. He says Republicans have their own
Speaker 2: antisemitic fringe, but for now, it remains a fringe. Dershwisz continues,
Speaker 2: I believe the Democrat Party's hostility to Israel represents a
Speaker 2: deeper and more dangerous shift away from the center and
Speaker 2: toward a radical approach that's bad for America and the
Speaker 2: free world. So, he says, I intend to work hard
Speaker 2: to prevent the Democrats from gaining control of the House
Speaker 2: and Senate, and I urge those who share my concerns
Speaker 2: about the increasing influence of radicalism in the Democrat Party
Speaker 2: to vote, campaign and contribute for continued republic control of Congress.
Speaker 2: He says, I will contribute money to Republican candidates, campaign
Speaker 2: for them, make speeches at Republican events, and urge pro
Speaker 2: Israel Americans to change party affiliation or at least vote
Speaker 2: against Democrats until something changes. Dershowitz concludes, I will vote
Speaker 2: Republican for representative, Senator, and president. This is a diehard
Speaker 2: Democrat like Alan Dershowitz finally acknowledging that he simply cannot
Speaker 2: support today's Democrat Party. It's simply not the party that
Speaker 2: it was in the seventies, eighties, or nineties. It's now
Speaker 2: clearly being run by elected officials and activists who increasingly
Speaker 2: and openly hate this country and what it stands for,
Speaker 2: what our founders and generations of Americans have stood for.
Speaker 2: It's not hyperbole anymore to say that today's Democrat Party
Speaker 2: leaders want to destroy this country so that they can
Speaker 2: turn it into something that they can support and most
Speaker 2: importantly rule over. Another ominous harbinger of things to come.
Speaker 2: If having someone like Alan Dershowitz leave the party isn't
Speaker 2: enough for you, is the outrageous statement we got from
Speaker 2: James Carville. This is an angry old trump deranged fart
Speaker 2: who's lost all ability to edit himself. Yes, I've suggested
Speaker 2: that someone in his family needs to really seriously pull
Speaker 2: him out of public life because he can no longer
Speaker 2: do anything without embarrassing himself. But Carvill also conducted a
Speaker 2: public service the other day when he blurted out what
Speaker 2: the modern day agenda of the Democrat Party really is. This, too,
Speaker 2: is something that I've been warning listeners about for quite
Speaker 2: some time. The true agenda of today's Democrat Party leaders,
Speaker 2: if they ever have the opening to force it onto
Speaker 2: the American people, is mortifying, and the opening, of course,
Speaker 2: would be the next time they get full control back
Speaker 2: in Washington, d C control of the House, Senate and presidency.
Speaker 2: This is their agenda and it's just a precursor to
Speaker 2: them and their party leaders moving to take permanent control
Speaker 2: of this country and never let it go. This is
Speaker 2: the plan. Most of the moves Carville was spouting off
Speaker 2: about have been on the longtime wish lists of Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 2: Barack Obama, Eric Holder, etc. Others have been added by
Speaker 2: today's young, angry se socialists. But if you missed it,
Speaker 2: Carvill said, if Democrats win the trifecta of control in
Speaker 2: DC in twenty twenty eight, they should simply impose their
Speaker 2: dictatorship onto the American people. He said, if the Democrats
Speaker 2: win the presidency in both houses of Congress, I think
Speaker 2: on day one they should make Puerto Rico and DC estate,
Speaker 2: and they should expand the Supreme Court to thirteen effet
Speaker 2: eat our dust. He also called for reopening the US
Speaker 2: Mexico border and granting mass amnesty to every single illegal
Speaker 2: alien currently in the US. His advice to Democrat politicians
Speaker 2: was don't run on it, don't talk about it, just
Speaker 2: do it as in surprise everyone, and just ram at
Speaker 2: home when you have the chance you know, other right
Speaker 2: wing pundits immediately labeled carvill as unhinged over this. But people,
Speaker 2: this is the intentional agenda that I've been talking about
Speaker 2: for some time. Some of these things date back to
Speaker 2: Teddy Kennedy in his era. They've had plans on how
Speaker 2: we can take permanent control of Washington, DC and flooding
Speaker 2: this country with illegal aliens and then turning them into
Speaker 2: Democrat voters after you've put them on the welfare rolls
Speaker 2: has been a big part of that plan. Joe Biden
Speaker 2: did his part in really trying to accomplish that and
Speaker 2: make it a reality. This is the intentional agenda of
Speaker 2: the Democrat Party, with the exception of reopening the border.
Speaker 2: These are the moves that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama
Speaker 2: in this era's top Democrats have been talking about forcing
Speaker 2: onto the American people for the last twenty years. They
Speaker 2: just haven't gotten the chance. And you know, if leaders
Speaker 2: like Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin only spoke about killing
Speaker 2: off the Senate filibuster in order to ram this agenda
Speaker 2: home in whispers over the past decade or so, they're
Speaker 2: now saying it out loud. Two crowds. They're now promising
Speaker 2: their voters exactly this when they speak in front of
Speaker 2: crowds these days. Chuck Schumer now has ending the filibuster
Speaker 2: in imposing their will onto America as an applause line
Speaker 2: in his speeches. No one's whispering anymore. They are certain
Speaker 2: they'll soon have full control of Washington, DC and will
Speaker 2: finally have their opening, and their excuse will be Trump
Speaker 2: was so extreme, we got to be extreme. Their convenient
Speaker 2: excuse is going to be to blame Donald Trump and
Speaker 2: claim that he did all sorts of extreme things so
Speaker 2: they can end the filibuster and do these really extreme
Speaker 2: things to try to get America back on track. And
Speaker 2: by the way, if you're wondering how outrageous and how
Speaker 2: dangerous this really is for the health of America, you
Speaker 2: have longtime Democrat Senator Joe Manchin. So certain the Democrats
Speaker 2: are going to do this if they get the chance.
Speaker 2: He said this week he's rooting for Republicans to keep
Speaker 2: control of the Senate. Manchin is retired now, but he
Speaker 2: was one of just two Democrats who kept Schumer and
Speaker 2: Harry Reid from ending the filibuster and forcing the dictatorship
Speaker 2: onto America in the Biden era. Folks, Joe Manchin was
Speaker 2: on the inside for years. He sat in all of
Speaker 2: those Democrat Caucus meetings through the Biden and Trump eras.
Speaker 2: And if he says the Democrats will destroy the filibuster
Speaker 2: and impose their twisted will onto the American people the
Speaker 2: first chance they get, we should believe him. And that's
Speaker 2: what he's saying. These are highly motivated America haters a
Speaker 2: top this modern day Democrat Party and what they stand
Speaker 2: for has every Democrat who has become before them spinning
Speaker 2: in their graves. The cliche is, well, this isn't Jfka's
Speaker 2: party anymore. Look, this isn't JFK's Democrat Party. It's not
Speaker 2: lbj's or Jimmy Carter's Democrat Party. And for those younger
Speaker 2: listeners who didn't live through it, this isn't even close
Speaker 2: to Bill Clinton's Democrat Party. Today's Democrat Party is being
Speaker 2: controlled by America haters, socialists, grievance mongers, extremists. Today's Democrat
Speaker 2: Party has become its longtime kook fringe. The kooks, the haters,
Speaker 2: and the extremists are no longer fringe. They're controlling the party.
Speaker 2: And increasingly from the top down. Yeah, it's a scary
Speaker 2: inflection point for this country. Okay, next topic, Iran. I
Speaker 2: assume that if you listen to this podcast, you know
Speaker 2: the latest when it comes to Iran. People want a
Speaker 2: very linear, simple end to this conflict, and you're simply
Speaker 2: not going to get it, and you shouldn't expect it.
Speaker 2: I'm annoyed by and sort of getting a kick out
Speaker 2: of it at the same time, how everyone's living and
Speaker 2: dying by every pronouncement and every change going on related
Speaker 2: to the Iran War. In the best of situations, war
Speaker 2: is unpredictable. How both sides are going to react in
Speaker 2: the moment is unpredictable, always right. But when you've got
Speaker 2: the duplicitous and evil Iranians on one side and Donald
Speaker 2: Trump on the other, why would anyone believe that whatever
Speaker 2: we're being told in the moment is accurate. It was
Speaker 2: great to hear the Iranian leaders claiming they were reopening
Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz and their waters last week, and
Speaker 2: it was of course very great and positive to have
Speaker 2: President Trump announced the initial parameters of a peace deal.
Speaker 2: But who didn't expect that to change within hours? I
Speaker 2: know I did, folks. The best thing we can do
Speaker 2: here is cheer any potential progress toward resolving this thing
Speaker 2: without getting too caught up in the details, because they're
Speaker 2: going to change. Some on the left were rolling their
Speaker 2: eyes and blasting Trump again when the Iranians declared their
Speaker 2: waters open on Thursday or Friday, only to have their
Speaker 2: military menacing ships again on Saturday, Well, it was to
Speaker 2: be expected. The Trump haters wanted to blame this Iranian
Speaker 2: one eighty on Trump too, obviously, because they just want
Speaker 2: to blame everything on Trump. But what happened last week
Speaker 2: is this. The more moderate factions of whatever semblance of
Speaker 2: leadership is now leading Iran. They cleared those waters open
Speaker 2: because they do want to move forward and at least
Speaker 2: retain the little power that they do have in their
Speaker 2: remaining regime. This had the hardline leaders of the Iranian
Speaker 2: military saying bull crap, rejecting that and keeping menacing those
Speaker 2: commercial ships on their waters. The so called Iranian Revolutionary Guard,
Speaker 2: this is the Mulla's personal army. They fired on two
Speaker 2: ships on Saturday and escalated things and they made it
Speaker 2: clear that there will be no reopening of the waters
Speaker 2: that they control. You have to back up and realize
Speaker 2: that what really happened here is that the US and
Speaker 2: Israeli militaries have wiped out several layers of Iranian leadership now,
Speaker 2: and they've done so so effectively that no one in
Speaker 2: Iran really knows who's ultimately in charge. The global news
Speaker 2: media's acting as if there's a clear government that's still
Speaker 2: in place in Iran, with a set group of men
Speaker 2: making these calls. Apparently it's not the case. There's far
Speaker 2: more disagreement over who's in charge, as the military leaders
Speaker 2: who remain in charge of that Revolutionary Guard flex their
Speaker 2: muscle and act as if they're running things instead of
Speaker 2: the Mullas who aren't dead yet. This is what happened
Speaker 2: late last week. This was an outward display of the
Speaker 2: sort of chaos and struggle for power that's going on
Speaker 2: behind the scenes in Iran. There's no clear chain of
Speaker 2: command anymore, and that's going to complicate things when it
Speaker 2: comes to any final agreement or wrapping this thing up.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be wrapped up cleanly. Donald Trump
Speaker 2: and Ben Netanyahu's attacks have wiped out the first two
Speaker 2: or three layers of leadership in that regime, and now
Speaker 2: their diplomats are trying to negotiate with whoever is left over,
Speaker 2: which is under the heading of the Iranian Foreign Ministry,
Speaker 2: but the political leaders in that ministry don't agree with
Speaker 2: and can control what the remaining hardliners and the government
Speaker 2: and the military are going to do, and they just
Speaker 2: want revenge on the West for everyone who's been killed
Speaker 2: over the last few months. Apparently, some longtime pragmatist and
Speaker 2: veteran Iranian diplomat is the one who pronounced Iran's war
Speaker 2: reopened on Friday, only to have the head of the
Speaker 2: Revolutionary Guard order his military to ignore that order and
Speaker 2: keep patrolling those waters. Meanwhile, President trump ceasefire expires tomorrow.
Speaker 2: If these Iranian leftovers can't credibly agree to a deal
Speaker 2: and give their nuclear materials and other concessions, the West
Speaker 2: needs to see the details changed daily with several people
Speaker 2: insisting they're in charge on the Iranian side and President
Speaker 2: Trump in charge on the other side. And he, of
Speaker 2: course is playing this game of three D chess or
Speaker 2: whatever you want to term it, where he intentionally keeps
Speaker 2: people off balance and all of us. Trump often says
Speaker 2: things that are less than credible or that are only
Speaker 2: meant to confuse the media or our global enemies even more.
Speaker 2: And so no, there hasn't been a wealth of reliable
Speaker 2: information day to day coming out of this conflict or
Speaker 2: in terms of when it's going to resolve or how.
Speaker 2: But the important bottom line is the blockade is clearly working.
Speaker 2: Iran's economy is said to be losing about half a
Speaker 2: billion dollars each day, of which, by the way, way,
Speaker 2: half of that is said to go to the Revolutionary Guard,
Speaker 2: and so Trump's also bleeding Iran's military funding as he's
Speaker 2: harming its larger economy. This blockade is working, and everyone
Speaker 2: globally seems to agree. The international observers seem to agree
Speaker 2: with this. The Iranians are really feeling the pressure. That
Speaker 2: much is clear. And so in short, the president and
Speaker 2: his administration have played this brilliantly. And I have no
Speaker 2: doubt that Trump's willing to order additional bobbing and the
Speaker 2: resumption of air attacks if he feels necessary, and to
Speaker 2: what extent he feels necessary. I also have no doubt
Speaker 2: that he's quite willing to extend the naval blockade to
Speaker 2: keep harming Iran's economy if these leaders on the other
Speaker 2: side cannot get their act together and agree to something.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend, President Trump said that the economic blockade
Speaker 2: might be working even better than the military campaign did
Speaker 2: to force these Iranian leaders to capitulate. And he's probably right.
Speaker 2: We talked about this on a podcast two weeks ago. Now,
Speaker 2: how if Trump and Bbe play this right, and the
Speaker 2: Iranian regime simply refuses regime change, then we can cripple
Speaker 2: their economy for decades as a final step before easing
Speaker 2: back off of this effort and really put them back
Speaker 2: in the stone ages, so to speak. But I'm getting
Speaker 2: a kick out of all the naysayers and all the
Speaker 2: yipping dogs and the media on both sides of the isle,
Speaker 2: who have done nothing other than trash the Erronian effort
Speaker 2: and insist Trump was losing it, etc. Only to do
Speaker 2: a one point eighty last week. Now, if you notice,
Speaker 2: most of them are saying Trump can't take his foot
Speaker 2: off the gas. This blockade is working, he'd be stupid
Speaker 2: to end it. But these are the very people who
Speaker 2: are trashing Trump and offering all sorts of terrible advice
Speaker 2: over the last two months or so. And they just
Speaker 2: keep offering their unsolicited advice, of course, based on what
Speaker 2: they think puts them on the right side of this
Speaker 2: issue or harms Trump the most. It's also annoying Trump
Speaker 2: and Netanya, who have now so clearly won this though,
Speaker 2: that the Trump haters and the pundits, both here and
Speaker 2: in Europe are now pretending as if they have something
Speaker 2: to offer. In the final days of this campaign, these
Speaker 2: people went from Trump stupid and never should have gone
Speaker 2: in there to He's stupid if he lets up on
Speaker 2: our own. Now it just proves that advice from the
Speaker 2: cheap seats here hasn't been helpful, and it proves that,
Speaker 2: as has been the case through two administrations of Trump, now,
Speaker 2: the other Western leaders and influencers have been completely useless
Speaker 2: as this president and his administrations have have gone about
Speaker 2: their business. I'm sure you've seen here's Starmer of Britain
Speaker 2: and French leaders, et cetera, suddenly all on board now
Speaker 2: that it's clear Trump and bb have this thing largely won,
Speaker 2: and now that all the hard hard work has been done.
Speaker 2: Now these little weenies and turds are stepping up and
Speaker 2: A they're trying to take some credit for the wins,
Speaker 2: and b they're talking as if they're boldly participating in
Speaker 2: this effort and have been all along here. Starmer was
Speaker 2: simply embarrassing on Friday as he insisted Britain and the
Speaker 2: other leaders of the European Coalition, we're going to lead
Speaker 2: the way in securing the Strait of horr Harmus for commerce, etc.
Speaker 2: I mean, what a clown. This is over and he
Speaker 2: comes in at the end to try to grab some glory.
Speaker 2: Columnist David Strom hit on it when he said Iran
Speaker 2: is still giving mixed signals, but the euar Uropeans are
Speaker 2: now talking tough and pretending they contributed to a win.
Speaker 2: So the US must have won this. I think that's
Speaker 2: a perfect way to put it. When all of Trump's
Speaker 2: critics on both sides of the political aisle have shifted
Speaker 2: from what a stupid thing to do? Trump started World
Speaker 2: War three? God, this is going terribly to he'd better
Speaker 2: not let up now and pretending that they're now ahead
Speaker 2: of the strategic game on him. I mean, yeah, it
Speaker 2: means Trump must have won this. There's all sorts of
Speaker 2: misinformation over what Iran's remaining mulas might have agreed to
Speaker 2: and how big a victory this is going to be
Speaker 2: for Trump. But we've won this, and I'm sure you've
Speaker 2: seen it all over the media of the last few days,
Speaker 2: especially on social media, these claims that Trump has agreed
Speaker 2: to only a twenty year pause in Iran's nuclear ambitions,
Speaker 2: and there's a claim that Trump has agreed to unfreezing
Speaker 2: twenty billion dollars in Iranian assets in return for a deal, etc.
Speaker 2: We have no idea whether any of this is true.
Speaker 2: It appears that it's not. It's likely the narratives that
Speaker 2: the lefties invented to try to trash Trump's success as
Speaker 2: we go along here, but if President Trump can get
Speaker 2: them to turn over the remaining uranium and agree to
Speaker 2: not restart any nuclear programs, that's a major win. And
Speaker 2: as for the money, as for the suggestion that Trump
Speaker 2: is buying compliance or somehow capitulating if he agrees to
Speaker 2: unfreeze Iranian assets in return for a deal, that's complete crap.
Speaker 2: What bullplop. The left trying to make a big deal
Speaker 2: out of this on social media, even going so far
Speaker 2: as to say, well, at least Obama only gave iron
Speaker 2: four hundred million dollars to get the hostages back, Trump's
Speaker 2: giving them twenty billion. I have two responses to these dimwits. First,
Speaker 2: Barack Obama literally bought the hostages back, which has been
Speaker 2: a long time no no when it comes to Americans
Speaker 2: being extorted by terrorists around the globe. Barack Obama literally
Speaker 2: flew palate loads of cash in US currency and euros
Speaker 2: over to Iran to buy our hostages back. Trump isn't
Speaker 2: giving them additional money. Trump would only be giving the
Speaker 2: Iranians some of their own money back if this is
Speaker 2: part of any long term agreement, and by the way,
Speaker 2: it would be rational and reason if it were. Trump
Speaker 2: would only be giving the Iranians some of their own
Speaker 2: money back if he's unfreezing funds that are irons anyway.
Speaker 2: These are funds they haven't been able to access. Moreover,
Speaker 2: unfreezing that money in return for the uranium in a
Speaker 2: more peaceful Middle East is not a stupid or a
Speaker 2: weak idea. It's actually a pretty good idea. It would
Speaker 2: be completely reasonable. In return for the yellow cake and
Speaker 2: you agreeing to never pursue nuclear weapons again, we will
Speaker 2: unfreeze twenty billion dollars of your own assets that you
Speaker 2: can then use to help rebuild your country. How is
Speaker 2: that a bad or a weak deal? Sounds pretty good. Actually,
Speaker 2: my point is, even if Trump does release some of
Speaker 2: these funds or unfree some of these funds as a
Speaker 2: part of a settlement here, it's not something to be criticized.
Speaker 2: It would actually be a pretty smart and reasonable concession.
Speaker 2: But if you have Trump arrangement syndrome, you aren't looking
Speaker 2: for actual reasons to criticize Trump. You're just lashing out
Speaker 2: any way you can. I believe it was the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal editors who said Trump's naval blockade was a
Speaker 2: master stroke and a triggered more infighting and divisions within
Speaker 2: what remains of Iran's regime. It has them unsettled on
Speaker 2: the Mulla's side of this equation and reopened the Strait
Speaker 2: to most commerce, including oil tankers from those other Persian countries,
Speaker 2: and so Iran's really struggling with its own little drama here,
Speaker 2: as Trump can sit back and manage the larger picture.
Speaker 2: But if the extremely useless and socialistic European leaders are
Speaker 2: now puffing up their feathers and insisting that they're going
Speaker 2: to get involved and secure the Strait after Trump has
Speaker 2: already done that, well, then this conflict must be close
Speaker 2: to being over and at least or at least they
Speaker 2: perceive it that way. And now the Trump and Netanya,
Speaker 2: who have done all the heavy lifting. Over the last
Speaker 2: few days, our US military has been using underwater drones
Speaker 2: to help locate and deal with the mines that the
Speaker 2: Iranians had placed in those waterways, so we're going to
Speaker 2: leave them better off. These are being called sea drones.
Speaker 2: Are pretty cool. Actually, some work above the water as
Speaker 2: surface vessels. They're just unmanned boats of that sort. And
Speaker 2: then the others are underwater. They're using sonar to sweep
Speaker 2: for minds without putting American lives at risk. Pre cool,
Speaker 2: and this is literally mop up duty on what has
Speaker 2: been a super successful military campaign thus far. Today's rabid
Speaker 2: leftists and Trump haters will never admit it, but the
Speaker 2: historians will probably get it right. This has been a
Speaker 2: brilliantly managed military and diplomatic campaign by Trump and Beebe
Speaker 2: against a very difficult and duplicitous enemy. Last segment we
Speaker 2: were talking about the pile on. Now that the president
Speaker 2: has clearly won the Iranian conflict, no one should be
Speaker 2: surprised at this because it's become a long time standard
Speaker 2: across both Trump administrations. Donald Trump makes a strong move
Speaker 2: or a strong pronouncement. The Democrats, their accomplice media, the
Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson, Candice Owen's nutjob wing on the right all
Speaker 2: freak out about it, only to have Trump's move be
Speaker 2: successful or his claim turned out to be true a
Speaker 2: few hours or a few days later, and so everyone
Speaker 2: just moves on. All the critics just move on. President
Speaker 2: Trump's never given credit for his outside the box thinking.
Speaker 2: He's never given credit for being right or for bringing
Speaker 2: about a win. It's a frustrating standard. Trump does something bold,
Speaker 2: his critics freak out and predict armageddon. It then works out.
Speaker 2: Everyone pretends there was no freak out and refuses to
Speaker 2: admit Trump was right or give him credit, and then
Speaker 2: they all just go back to their crouch, ready to
Speaker 2: spring forward with the next freakout attack on Trump. It's
Speaker 2: just become tiring, and it has me convinced that if
Speaker 2: we had a more honest media, we'd be seeing this
Speaker 2: country pulling more fully behind Donald Trump. Yes he's bombastic,
Speaker 2: Yes he can be annoying and irksome. Yes he has
Speaker 2: a strong and abrasive personality that turns people off, But
Speaker 2: in truth, he's been a very good president. Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has this country passed Joe Biden's runaway inflation, Our economy
Speaker 2: is stronger since he retook office for the first time
Speaker 2: in nearly five decades. He's projecting America's global strength again
Speaker 2: and highlighting America's greatness, and somehow all we get is
Speaker 2: relentless negativity. Folks. We're living through a very strong and
Speaker 2: positive era right now, and instead of acknowledging it, the
Speaker 2: American people in our Western allies only hear doom and negativity.
Speaker 2: We've been told at least twice a week since January
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five that Donald Trump's poll numbers are down.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Trump's poll numbers keep dropping. He's lost
Speaker 2: the support of the American people. Even those who voted
Speaker 2: for him don't support him or like him anymore, etc.
Speaker 2: Nothing could be further from the truth, folks. President Trump's
Speaker 2: poll numbers are actually better than the poll numbers of
Speaker 2: any of his modern day predecessors in their second term
Speaker 2: at this time in their presidency. Donald Trump, no one
Speaker 2: knows us. Donald Trump is still polling higher than Barack
Speaker 2: Obama or George Bush were in year five, and he's
Speaker 2: pulling far better than Joe Biden did for three out
Speaker 2: of the four years of Biden's presidency. This is the truth. Yes,
Speaker 2: most polls show Trump with only about forty three to
Speaker 2: forty five percent approval, but that's still marginally better than
Speaker 2: where Bush and Obama hung out throughout most of their presidencies.
Speaker 2: And that's using the polls being done by left leaning
Speaker 2: pollsters for the networks in the university polling firms. Of course,
Speaker 2: Rasmussen Reports, which is the only outfit that even does
Speaker 2: a daily rolling average poll on the presidential approval anymore,
Speaker 2: they have consistently had Trump around forty five to forty
Speaker 2: six percent approval for a second term. It might not
Speaker 2: sound like it to the average person, but that's actually
Speaker 2: a very positive figure for any president since Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 2: We're a very divided country. This is a very divided country,
Speaker 2: and Trump's approval ratings are actually higher than any of
Speaker 2: the last three or four presidents going back decades. But
Speaker 2: none of the liberal pundits are going to put it
Speaker 2: in those terms, are they? Twice a week, Trump's poll
Speaker 2: numbers are falling. Trump's poll numbers are falling. No one
Speaker 2: likes this man anymore. Actually they're not. They've actually stayed
Speaker 2: roughly where they have been forever on this guy. If
Speaker 2: they'd fallen nearly as much as the pundits and the
Speaker 2: pollster's claim, Donald Trump would have a fifteen percent approval rating. Instead,
Speaker 2: he's running ahead of where his numbers were in term one,
Speaker 2: and he's outclassing the last three presidents at least, But
Speaker 2: no one wants to tell you that. It's one reason
Speaker 2: that I'm not convinced Republicans are in for a wipeout
Speaker 2: and fall. And it's also evidence that if Trump wasn't
Speaker 2: such an abrasive person by the way, he'd be lauded
Speaker 2: as bringing up and a new patriotism back to this country.
Speaker 2: I'm also certain it's evidence of that, and I think
Speaker 2: he is just not nearly as much as he could be,
Speaker 2: especially with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
Speaker 2: country falling on his watch. If Donald Trump was simply
Speaker 2: more reaganesque and positive in his outlook and his messaging,
Speaker 2: I really think we'd be seeing a more obvious nationwide renaissance.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm sure of it. I am, because sixty
Speaker 2: five to seventy percent of the American people are with
Speaker 2: Trump and the Republicans on nearly every important issue and
Speaker 2: challenge facing this country. I don't think it's a mistake
Speaker 2: that Marco Rubio is suddenly so popular again. It's not
Speaker 2: just that he's been doing a great job as our
Speaker 2: Secretary of State. It's that he's been incredibly good at
Speaker 2: presenting a clear and forceful and optimistic message whenever he speaks.
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio has elevated himself to being Reaganesque in this position,
Speaker 2: being clear and forceful and optimistic. Trump's forceful, yeah, but
Speaker 2: he's not all that clear or optimistic on most things.
Speaker 2: It isn't a mistake that all sorts of people in
Speaker 2: the Republican Party in across the country are talking about
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio being our twenty twenty eight standard bearer and
Speaker 2: the real heir to the Trump legacy rather than JD. Vance.
Speaker 2: And I have nothing against JD. Vance. I just like
Speaker 2: Rubio's more consistent conservatism and overall demeanor better. But it's
Speaker 2: his clarity, his optimism, and his rhetoric related to the
Speaker 2: greatness of America that makes Marco Rubio appealing to so
Speaker 2: many Americans. That's why his twenty twenty eight stock is skyrocketing.
Speaker 2: As Clinton Polster Mark Penn put it recently, You've got
Speaker 2: a whole generation that came of age in an era
Speaker 2: of doom and gloom, and they aren't seeing the reasons
Speaker 2: for optimism right now. This is Bill Clinton's polster saying, quote,
Speaker 2: there's ample cause for optimism about America. Last week, the
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal reported that more middle class Americans are
Speaker 2: moving toward upper middle class. We've sent astronauts to the
Speaker 2: Moon for the first time in more than half a century,
Speaker 2: and a daring expoint. We recovered a lost pilot behind
Speaker 2: enemy lines, where the global leader in artificial intelligence. The
Speaker 2: economy is growing, We're approaching our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
Speaker 2: and we are still the envy of the world. Everyone
Speaker 2: wants to live in America, except it seems the people
Speaker 2: who are already here. Penn says this is an opportunity
Speaker 2: for President Trump. He can lead America out of the
Speaker 2: cycle of pessimism if he can focus on what makes
Speaker 2: America great and how we can become even greater. He says,
Speaker 2: the biggest challenge for Trump would be to set aside
Speaker 2: his political grievances and the most divisive parts of his message.
Speaker 2: If he can do that, the greatest legacy he can
Speaker 2: leave on America's anniversary is restoring America's optimism about its
Speaker 2: future and the next generation. I agree with that completely,
Speaker 2: and a positive and optimistic message is going to be
Speaker 2: more important than anything comes summer in fall. The prevailing
Speaker 2: left wing narrative is that Republicans are going to get
Speaker 2: crushed in fall and will lose control of the House
Speaker 2: and maybe even the Senate. That is the outcome that
Speaker 2: would follow a historical pattern, But I'm not convinced of
Speaker 2: this yet. This isn't a normal political climate, and today's
Speaker 2: young voters in particular aren't following the normal historical patterns.
Speaker 2: And as for the post Trump GOP, there's something pretty
Speaker 2: interesting happening. We've been talking a lot about this here
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, obviously since the terrible result in the spring
Speaker 2: Supreme Court race. But as for the post Trump GOP,
Speaker 2: we need today's young people to step up and help
Speaker 2: guide the party forward. And even that is not as
Speaker 2: straightforward or as easy as it has been in the past.
Speaker 2: As one recent analysis put it, the post boomer GOP
Speaker 2: is coming in twenty twenty eight is probably the election
Speaker 2: that will define it. This party is clearly in the
Speaker 2: midst of a transitional period from the so called boomer
Speaker 2: and gen X era to the younger era. It's been
Speaker 2: particularly visible here in Wisconsin as every major player from
Speaker 2: the Thompson and Walker era seems to have aged out
Speaker 2: and or is losing interest at the same time, and
Speaker 2: it's time for the other younger people to step up.
Speaker 2: Tommy's group gave us a good fifteen year run of
Speaker 2: Republicanism in Wisconsin, Scott Walker's group has given us a
Speaker 2: good twelve year run, etc. But we're aging out. So
Speaker 2: who's next and what will the Wisconsin and National Republican
Speaker 2: Party look like after this period of transition. Well, one
Speaker 2: statement I made early on and in the first Trump
Speaker 2: term is this party is not going to be simply
Speaker 2: returning to the past. The twenty thirty Republican Party is
Speaker 2: not going to look anything like the Party of George W.
Speaker 2: Bush because Trump's gone now. No, we're not going back
Speaker 2: to that. And the fact that Donald Trump got a
Speaker 2: second act after four years of Joe Biden ensures that
Speaker 2: the Republican Party is never going back to that era
Speaker 2: of Bush style conservatism. You can bemoan that fact or
Speaker 2: you can cheer that fact, but it's the truth. Tomorrow's
Speaker 2: Republican Party isn't going to be driven by that brand
Speaker 2: of conservatism, and it probably won't be driven by Trump's
Speaker 2: brand of undisciplined populism either. It'll probably be some blend
Speaker 2: of the two. And what makes this even more interesting
Speaker 2: is that today's young people are not sticking to the
Speaker 2: historical norm. You can't just assume that they're all liberals now.
Speaker 2: For many years, the Democrats and the so called political
Speaker 2: experts were certain that the millennials were going to be
Speaker 2: a permanently leftist block of voters. It hasn't turned out
Speaker 2: that way. Instead, the millennials seem to be more disillusioned
Speaker 2: than any other group of young voters. They seem to
Speaker 2: have split into two factions. Those on the left are
Speaker 2: more socialist progressive than ever. Yes, but there are far
Speaker 2: more millennials than there were expected to be on the
Speaker 2: right and getting into more traditional values, getting back to religion,
Speaker 2: intact families. They want lower taxes, less government, etc. Then
Speaker 2: there's a huge pool, a huge pool of millennials that
Speaker 2: don't really like either party and reject any attempt to
Speaker 2: recruit them at all. So I think you can see
Speaker 2: how twenty twenty eight is going to look far different
Speaker 2: than expected when it comes to a presidential race, and
Speaker 2: then what these parties look like moving forward. And then
Speaker 2: you've got the twenty thirty census, which is expected to
Speaker 2: have Democrats losing somewhere between nine and thirteen congressional seats
Speaker 2: due to the shift in population that we've seen to
Speaker 2: the Red States. As a recent analysis piece puts at
Speaker 2: gen Z voters, particularly young men, but increasing the young women.
Speaker 2: Are not drifting toward Conservatism by accident. They came of
Speaker 2: age during pandemic lockdowns, historic inflation, and record housing costs.
Speaker 2: Their political consciousness formed amid debates over free speech, meritocracy,
Speaker 2: and the proper role of government in everyday life. For many,
Speaker 2: the Republican message of economic growth, secure borders, and national
Speaker 2: confidence resonates less ideology and more as practicality. The coalition
Speaker 2: that carried President Trump is not simply a replay of
Speaker 2: Republican victories of the past. It's a once in a
Speaker 2: generation alignment of working class voters across racial lines, small
Speaker 2: business owners squeezed by inflation, parents alarmed by the direction
Speaker 2: of the education policy, and younger Americans disillusion with elite institutions.
Speaker 2: This author says, with millennials, the underlying drivers were economic anxiety,
Speaker 2: border security concerns, energy independence, and a broader frustration with
Speaker 2: bureaucratic and cultural overreach. And so the next presidential election
Speaker 2: will not simply be a routine succession. It'll be a
Speaker 2: moment when the Republican Party either cements the coalition that
Speaker 2: returned Trump to the White House or proves it was
Speaker 2: a singular political event. Who will determine whether the GOP
Speaker 2: can convert populist momentum into a durable generational governing majority
Speaker 2: or not. Yep, this author concludes, right leaning young voters
Speaker 2: are not asking for a diluted platform. They're asking for
Speaker 2: clarity and competence. For millennials and gen z alike, stability
Speaker 2: is not abstract its own, economic, social, and national I
Speaker 2: agree with that. With the boomers and the gen xers
Speaker 2: aging out, a new political era is on the horizon
Speaker 2: and it's going to determine what the next twenty to
Speaker 2: fifty years will look like, just like the Reagan generation did.
Speaker 2: And it's going to be very interesting to watch. My
Speaker 2: friend's President Trump's second term is reminding me of his
Speaker 2: first term. In one particular way. Yet again, so much
Speaker 2: is going on behind the scenes and or not being
Speaker 2: reported by the leftist media that we've got the Trump
Speaker 2: team racking up wins that will never be fully known
Speaker 2: or appreciated by most Americans. I understand why Donald Trump
Speaker 2: is perpetually frustrated that he's not getting the credit that
Speaker 2: he deserves. At an event last week, the President highlighted
Speaker 2: some of the wins in just year one of his
Speaker 2: second term, and it was an impressive list. He said
Speaker 2: that he's ended eight wars, said we had zero illegal
Speaker 2: immigrants crossing our southern border for eleven straight months now.
Speaker 2: He claimed the murder rate is at its lowest level
Speaker 2: in more than one hundred and twenty five years, and
Speaker 2: it might be I haven't run across that stat The
Speaker 2: president said drug trafficking by sea is down ninety seven
Speaker 2: percent and the flow of fentanyl into the country is
Speaker 2: down by sixty percent. Trump said he's banned child mutilation
Speaker 2: and reconfirmed that there are only two genders. He's gotten
Speaker 2: men out of women's sports, and he said DEI and
Speaker 2: critical race theory are gone, and our merit based systems
Speaker 2: have been restored. Folks, that's a great list. It's also
Speaker 2: an accurate list. Even if you think Trump exaggerated on
Speaker 2: some of the items, and he did, the left will
Speaker 2: try to pick apart each of these wins with nuance.
Speaker 2: Of course, well, DEI isn't completely did that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: But even if you think Trump is exaggerating on some
Speaker 2: of these, that's a hell of a list. And it's
Speaker 2: unlike any list I've seen out of a president in
Speaker 2: my lifetime. Over the past six presidencies, at least if
Speaker 2: a president and his team managed to get one big
Speaker 2: thing accomplished or keep one big campaign promise, that was
Speaker 2: a successful president. Sincerely, the political classes and voters were
Speaker 2: subject to the standard that if a president got one
Speaker 2: or two big wins over the course of his entire presidency,
Speaker 2: my god put them on Rounte Rushmore. Trump, especially in
Speaker 2: his second term, has been stellar, just super effective by
Speaker 2: any honest standard and by the standards of a normal presidency.
Speaker 2: I think you've got to rank Donald Trump as the
Speaker 2: most successful president ever in actually getting his agenda accomplished.
Speaker 2: Whether or not you like that agenda, he has gotten
Speaker 2: a lot of it accomplished. Looking at that list again,
Speaker 2: I can only see one or two items that I'd
Speaker 2: quibble with really the generic claim that he's ended eight wars.
Speaker 2: We never get a list on them. I don't know
Speaker 2: what he's actually counting in that. Another he ended DEI
Speaker 2: in critical race theory. Trump hasn't ended those and they're
Speaker 2: two ingrained in different levels of society that one man,
Speaker 2: even a president, can't declare that he has ended them
Speaker 2: and just end them. Our presidents and our government can't
Speaker 2: by decree force their will onto private organizations and universities.
Speaker 2: That's the problem with DEI and CRT. But Trump and
Speaker 2: his fans can honestly say that Trump and his team
Speaker 2: have crippled DEI and CRT and have them on the run.
Speaker 2: Something significant happened at the end of last week. The
Speaker 2: Trump's team got no attention and credit for. As last week,
Speaker 2: the Trump administration has officially killed off all efforts by
Speaker 2: our federal agencies to bully school districts on the questions
Speaker 2: of gender identity. If you remember, both Obama and Biden
Speaker 2: used and abused Title nine laws in particular to try
Speaker 2: to force the country school districts into accepting boys in
Speaker 2: girls sports, in into girls locker rooms. Biden's regime went
Speaker 2: so far as to launch numerous lawsuits against school districts
Speaker 2: whose leaders refused to comply with them. Well, Title nine
Speaker 2: laws never included or never covered, never intended to cover
Speaker 2: gender identity, and so this was an illegitimate abuse of
Speaker 2: Title nine powers. But hey, the Biden team and the
Speaker 2: leftist didn't care, you know, anything to force their extreme
Speaker 2: and kooky agenda onto the rest of US. Right, Trump's
Speaker 2: team has killed off all of those lawsuits and legal
Speaker 2: actions over the last year or so. Hazza hazza. Moreover,
Speaker 2: in doing so, Lynda McMahon, Trump's Education secretary, made it
Speaker 2: clear that the federal government has no authority to force
Speaker 2: gender ideology onto schools across the country, and the average
Speaker 2: American doesn't realize it. But amongst the bureaucratic crowd, this
Speaker 2: move is getting some buzz. Apparently, no one can remember
Speaker 2: any other instance in which a top down mandate that
Speaker 2: was forced onto the American people by the Education Department
Speaker 2: has ever been rescinded. Isn't that something These bureaucrat drones
Speaker 2: in DC believe that once the Education Department speaks, it
Speaker 2: has been decided. Once the Education Department speaks, this is
Speaker 2: how it's going to be and they're shocked that Trump
Speaker 2: and McMahon went so far as to revoke so called
Speaker 2: resolution agreements forced onto these school districts. By the way,
Speaker 2: these bullying mandates on gender by the Biden administration were
Speaker 2: the classic sort of top down bullying that is the
Speaker 2: hallmark of all socialist and communist regimes. It's where today's
Speaker 2: leftists really want to take the country. It signifies a
Speaker 2: scary future for a country if they ever get their way,
Speaker 2: and so it's great to see sanity and freedoms restored,
Speaker 2: even if it's in a smaller way here. This is
Speaker 2: an important win for President Trump and the American people.
Speaker 2: On its face, it's an important win historically. If Trump's
Speaker 2: move manages to end this government imposed gender bullying long term,
Speaker 2: it could end up being a historically significant win. I
Speaker 2: wish we could say the same for the Trump administration's
Speaker 2: efforts to kill off DEI. We already know generically that
Speaker 2: all sorts of universities and government agencies that were ordered
Speaker 2: to end their DEI programs haven't. They've simply renamed them,
Speaker 2: shuffled around, some staffers, changed a few nameplates on doors,
Speaker 2: and many of us on the right expected that to happen.
Speaker 2: We knew the rabid left wingers who are ingrained at
Speaker 2: the top positions at these universities and government agencies were
Speaker 2: not going to give it up easily. After Trump's presidential order,
Speaker 2: I told my audience, now, the enforcement is up to
Speaker 2: the smaller government groups and the people affected by DEI suing.
Speaker 2: In order to force the actual death of DEI, there
Speaker 2: was going to have to be an enforcement mechanism here
Speaker 2: that came from outside of government and came into play.
Speaker 2: And in many instances we've seen that happen. But I said,
Speaker 2: it's going to be word of mouth and lawsuits that
Speaker 2: are going to be needed in order to really force
Speaker 2: most of these universities and government agencies to give up
Speaker 2: their DEI offices and programs, which means it's going to
Speaker 2: take time to id the cheaters, force them into compliance,
Speaker 2: and really kill off DEI and CRT. It's why I
Speaker 2: hope this story sparks some action. National Review is reporting
Speaker 2: that diversity, equity and inclusion is still alive and well
Speaker 2: at the University of Michigan. In particular, that school, more
Speaker 2: than any other, had leaders who just changed the names
Speaker 2: of their DEI programs and just kept discriminating. They aren't
Speaker 2: the only university that's done it, obviously, but they're among
Speaker 2: the most blatant, apparently. National review says the University of
Speaker 2: Michigan announced in twenty twenty five that it would shut
Speaker 2: down various offices and programs in response to the Trump
Speaker 2: administration's crusade against DEI, but new research shows that a
Speaker 2: majority of its de staff remain employed while the school's
Speaker 2: DEI initiatives have simply been rebranded. They say, of the
Speaker 2: two hundred and forty eight paid DEI staff at the
Speaker 2: University of Michigan for the twenty four to twenty five
Speaker 2: academic year, one hundred and eight of those employees, eighty
Speaker 2: four percent are still working full time at the university,
Speaker 2: and only forty DEI employees have left that university or retired.
Speaker 2: They say that represents a staff turnover rate of sixteen percent,
Speaker 2: which is consistent with their normal turnover rate at that university.
Speaker 2: That means this is likely more a result of natural
Speaker 2: staff turnover and not the result of any intentional downsizing
Speaker 2: that the University of Michigan did to its program. In
Speaker 2: March of twenty five, they say, the u of M
Speaker 2: announced that two offices focused on DEI would close with
Speaker 2: the university wide DEI strategic Plan discontinued. Well, they haven't
Speaker 2: changed a thing. Instead, this report says, it appears the
Speaker 2: university has actually expanded its commitment to DEI and increased
Speaker 2: the amount that they're spending on salaries for employees in
Speaker 2: DEI related roles and offices. They say one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty eight employees in the twenty four to twenty five
Speaker 2: academic year was the level of employment. Now they have
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two employees. There have been no
Speaker 2: staff layoffs and actually a few additions related to DEI
Speaker 2: at the University of Michigan. The way this looks moreover,
Speaker 2: the University of Michigan appears to have simply renamed its
Speaker 2: DEI initiatives and kept moving. For example, the Ross School
Speaker 2: Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is now the Ross
Speaker 2: School Office of Community Culture and Belonging. It has also
Speaker 2: retained five of the six employees from last year. According
Speaker 2: to this report, the staff was simply given different job titles.
Speaker 2: The university administration across different schools apparently just took the
Speaker 2: words diversity, equity and inclusion out of any work titles
Speaker 2: and then just kept going. They didn't fire any staffers,
Speaker 2: that didn't change any job descriptions. It's literally DEI under
Speaker 2: different labeling at the University of Michigan. And so now
Speaker 2: the big question is who's going to sue over it,
Speaker 2: because that's the only way that we're going to force
Speaker 2: the change at that school and at others. And it's
Speaker 2: not only DEI. Ever since Trump got back into office
Speaker 2: and started demanding accountability and exposing fraud and extremism at
Speaker 2: both the federal instate than the state levels of government,
Speaker 2: I've noticed America's Democrats and leftists have been scrambling to
Speaker 2: hide what they've been doing and have been doing for
Speaker 2: decades in terms of abusing these programs. One example is
Speaker 2: how Governor Ebers, our own governor here in Wisconsin, and
Speaker 2: the blue state governors are refusing to turn over any
Speaker 2: data related to their food stamp or welfare programs. These
Speaker 2: Democrats who have been running the Blue states know that
Speaker 2: they have been cheating and gaming federal taxpayers for decades
Speaker 2: with these programs. Minnesota's leaders famously knew how and how
Speaker 2: much the members of the Somali community up there were
Speaker 2: defrauding the federal programs, and they even help them do it.
Speaker 2: And now Trump is demanding accountability, and these Democrats are
Speaker 2: panicking right now. In California, state lawmakers are passing a
Speaker 2: bill that punishes any medical provider who dares to comply
Speaker 2: with a federal request for their data. This is a
Speaker 2: blatantly naked move by Gavin Newsom in California officials to
Speaker 2: hide all of the abuse and fraud that they've allowed
Speaker 2: and even engineered in their health care and their welfare.
Speaker 2: Price if you can rip off the federal taxpayers, rip
Speaker 2: them off. The Trump administration has been issuing subpoenas to
Speaker 2: medical providers in California, looking for information on gender affirming
Speaker 2: care and abortions, and looking for fraud. So the Democrats
Speaker 2: in California introduced a bill that would require the recipient
Speaker 2: of the federal subpoena to notify the state attorney general
Speaker 2: within seven days of getting the request for the data.
Speaker 2: The attorney general then has thirty days to review that
Speaker 2: subpoena before the hospital or business can even comply with it.
Speaker 2: They say providers must also notify the involved patients and
Speaker 2: doctors that their records have been requested. Failure to do
Speaker 2: so may result in a fifteen thousand dollars fine. This
Speaker 2: is the Trump administration finally moving to crackdown on rampant
Speaker 2: health care fraud in California, and California's lawmakers moving to
Speaker 2: stop the crackdown and preserve the fraud. Isn't that scummy,
Speaker 2: But that's today's Democrats. They're genuine extremists, liars, and grifters.
Speaker 2: This is today's Democrat Party. They're moving to stop the
Speaker 2: enforcement of all sorts of our nation's laws because they've
Speaker 2: been knowingly and intentionally breaking those laws for decades now,
Speaker 2: and that lawbreaking has just become part of their routine
Speaker 2: over these decades. I mean, somewhere along the line with
Speaker 2: the NGOs, the non government agencies, and with the bureaucratic
Speaker 2: takeover a virtually all levels of government, these democrats in
Speaker 2: the American Left, they simply started to tip the system
Speaker 2: heavily in their favor. And part of that included the
Speaker 2: routine the frauding of all sorts of government programs to
Speaker 2: their benefit and redirect the money into their efforts and
Speaker 2: into their campaigns.
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