Speaker 1: All right, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
Speaker 1: of you for being with us. Right down our toll
Speaker 1: free telephone number. It's eight hundred and ninety four one
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Speaker 1: And Happy New Year to you and to your families.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't imagine coming back if Kamala Harris from
Speaker 1: a long vacation and Kamala Harris had won the election.
Speaker 1: But some things haven't changed. I noticed that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: forgot the words while singing Happy Birthday to a White
Speaker 1: House guest, and Kamala Harris botched the pledge of allegiance.
Speaker 1: You can't make any of this up, but it's all true.
Speaker 1: And Joe Biden cursing out reporters one of the truest
Speaker 1: signs of somebody in cognitive decline, quick to anger. I
Speaker 1: know more world leaders than you've met in your whole
Speaker 1: ged life. I'm like Biden. It was a genuine threat
Speaker 1: to so it might be the oldest president. I know
Speaker 1: more world leaders than any one of you ever met
Speaker 1: in your home life. Ouch. And of course Joe sabotaging
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. We're going to go through this in great
Speaker 1: specificity in detail. I love Trump's ideas as it relates
Speaker 1: to Greenland, and we see little justin out of Canada.
Speaker 1: Maybe it would be a fifty first state. Maybe worth
Speaker 1: thinking about the Panama Canal when you look at the
Speaker 1: history of it. Jimmy Carter, God rest his soul. Sorry
Speaker 1: to his family, our deepest sympathy, so on his passing.
Speaker 1: He was a great post president. He was a horrible president,
Speaker 1: but he did so much good work with Habitat for
Speaker 1: Humanity and things like that. But the deal that was
Speaker 1: ratified them by the Senate in nineteen seventy eight in
Speaker 1: terms of handing over control when it was American ingenuity,
Speaker 1: ingenuity and American engineers that built the Panama Canal and
Speaker 1: we've paid maybe millions of dollars to maintain it is insane.
Speaker 1: We got all this sabotage happening. My biggest worry in
Speaker 1: concern is is terrorists and you know an FBI has
Speaker 1: been focused on all the wrong things weaponization against Trump
Speaker 1: and you know, moms and dads at school board meetings
Speaker 1: and peaceful pro life protesters. Is you know, now America's
Speaker 1: chickens are coming home to roost and it's probably only
Speaker 1: gonna get worse as time goes on. Oh they did. Finally,
Speaker 1: the National Archives did release pictures and photos of Joe
Speaker 1: Biden hobnobbing with Hunter's Chinese communist business partners. A little late.
Speaker 1: They might may have wanted to release that before the election,
Speaker 1: but they released these photos showing again the Biden family syndicate,
Speaker 1: proving the president flat out lied about not interacting with
Speaker 1: his family's photos. These photos released long after the potential
Speaker 1: political you know, legitimacy and relevancy, days before Biden retires.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's see what these last minute preemptive
Speaker 1: partners are about. I know a lot of you are angry,
Speaker 1: rightly so, about these metals given out to Soros and
Speaker 1: Cheney and Hillary Clinton and others. It's not though way
Speaker 1: I want to start today. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: but there's something about a long vacation. You get out
Speaker 1: of your day to day grind, and you begin to
Speaker 1: slow down, and you begin to get objectivity, and it
Speaker 1: gives you perspective. I end up. You know, you get centered,
Speaker 1: I get focused, I get more prayerful. I just believe,
Speaker 1: and you reevaluate what is important in your life, God, family, country,
Speaker 1: and that objectivity is hard to maintain in anybody's day
Speaker 1: to day grind. All of us work hard. I don't
Speaker 1: know anybody that works an eight hour day. Everybody I
Speaker 1: know is working really hard. If you have kids, you're
Speaker 1: work and even twice as hard because you still got
Speaker 1: to get up early, get your kids out to school,
Speaker 1: help them study, prepare a meal, get them to bed.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard. Life is. Everyone has a grind
Speaker 1: in their life. I don't know anybody that grew up
Speaker 1: with a silver spoon in their mouth. So everybody I
Speaker 1: know in my life works really hard. And then I
Speaker 1: begin to get my thoughts together about the year ahead
Speaker 1: and what it means. And by the time my vacation
Speaker 1: comes to it and I'm chomping at the bit to
Speaker 1: get back here. And my staff will tell you that
Speaker 1: they know that to be a fact. They're wondering at
Speaker 1: some point if I'm going to call and say I'm
Speaker 1: coming back sooner than I said I would. But I
Speaker 1: didn't this year. But if we go back one year ago,
Speaker 1: my first show back on the year for the year
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, after vacation, I did predict exactly
Speaker 1: how twenty twenty four would unfold in terms of the election.
Speaker 1: I didn't make the prediction of how it would end
Speaker 1: because that power did not lie with me. That was
Speaker 1: that was in the hands of all of you and
Speaker 1: the country. And thank god you brought this country back
Speaker 1: from an inflection point. I'm not sure if we ever
Speaker 1: would have recovered if Kamala Harris had won this election.
Speaker 1: Nobody knew what the ultimate outcome would be when we
Speaker 1: started one year ago. You know, what was certain was
Speaker 1: that this election mattered. What was certain is that Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris would have been a disaster. They would have viewed
Speaker 1: this this year and that election and that result as
Speaker 1: a mandate for open borders. That would mean more terrorists,
Speaker 1: more murderers, more criminals, cartel gang members entering our country unvetted.
Speaker 1: That would be more defund dismantle no bail laws. That
Speaker 1: would mean higher tees for every American. That would mean
Speaker 1: higher energy prices in perpetuity. That would mean government mandates
Speaker 1: on your cars, your stoves, your washers, your dryers, your
Speaker 1: air conditioners. That would mean woke education would be the future,
Speaker 1: not the fundamentals reading, writing, math, science, history, et cetera.
Speaker 1: It would mean, yeah, taxpayer funded sex change operations and
Speaker 1: pre college for illegals and gender affirming care without parental
Speaker 1: consent would be a big narrative in a Harris administration.
Speaker 1: Thank god that didn't happen. And weakness on the world stage.
Speaker 1: It is unimaginable to think about to me, especially in
Speaker 1: light of the threat where America frankly has a lot
Speaker 1: of work to do in terms of its military. And
Speaker 1: I'll get into some detail about that in a second.
Speaker 1: So it was the biggest choice election and legacy media
Speaker 1: in spite of nine years of smears and slander, they died.
Speaker 1: They did everything they could do to put cinder blocks
Speaker 1: on the scales of this election. And I start out
Speaker 1: with a thank you because this would be a very
Speaker 1: different year had you not engaged. With that said, I'm
Speaker 1: telling all of you right now, you're going to have
Speaker 1: to stay engaged. This is not oh I voted for Trump,
Speaker 1: I did my part. I'm done because they have a
Speaker 1: very slim majority. We saw this unfold last week with
Speaker 1: the vote for speaker and Donald Trump supported Mike Johnson. Okay,
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson says he's going to support the President's agenda.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where the fifteen hundred page bill came
Speaker 1: from We discussed that before I went on vacation. But
Speaker 1: America now has an opportunity to return to constitutional order
Speaker 1: we really have and this is something that it's like
Speaker 1: no other time in our light in my lifetime that
Speaker 1: I can think about. And I predicted last year. I said,
Speaker 1: let me tell you how this campaign's going to run
Speaker 1: play out. They are going to run on Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic,
Speaker 1: they want dirty air and water, and they want to
Speaker 1: throw grandma and grandpa off a cliff. They did exactly that.
Speaker 1: I said. They would run on Donald Trump as evil.
Speaker 1: He's the devil. He's evil, He's more evil, he's horrible.
Speaker 1: They would run on January sixth. They're still talking about
Speaker 1: it today, never ends. They lied about the economy, they
Speaker 1: lied about borders, they lied about Joe's cognitive state. I
Speaker 1: told you they would do all the above, and Legacy
Speaker 1: Medias now paid the ultimate price. I don't think they
Speaker 1: can recover because they're never going to face the real
Speaker 1: truth about why it is that people didn't listen to
Speaker 1: their narrative and their lies and their smears about Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: They never told the truth about any of the things
Speaker 1: that were being done to Donald Trump. They never told
Speaker 1: the valuation of Mara a Lago. How can you avoid that.
Speaker 1: They never told the truth about the fifty one former
Speaker 1: Intel officials, They never told the truth about FAISA abuse.
Speaker 1: They never told the truth or explained in detail the
Speaker 1: double standard, unequal justice under the law, unequal application of
Speaker 1: our laws when it came to top secret classified information.
Speaker 1: They just cared about helping Democrats regardless of what the
Speaker 1: issue was. And that's why the Media Research Center had
Speaker 1: you know, Kamala in the high nineties in terms of
Speaker 1: positive coverage and Donald Trump at ninety percent negative coverage.
Speaker 1: They did everything they can do, and what they lost
Speaker 1: in the process is their credibility. But this is like
Speaker 1: an opportunity, and this is what I've concluded that we
Speaker 1: may only get once every hundred hundred and fifty years
Speaker 1: in this country. This to me, is the greatest opportunity
Speaker 1: to return to the original vision, purpose, constitutional order that
Speaker 1: our framers and our founders wanted to return to a
Speaker 1: republic government by of and for the people, not just
Speaker 1: words limited government. We say it all the time, do
Speaker 1: we really want limited government? Because you're going to get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to have limited government and greater freedom. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump needed your help in twenty four He will need
Speaker 1: your help to achieve what is a very ambitious agenda,
Speaker 1: especially with a slim majority in Congress. You have four
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five members, one hundred senators. They all
Speaker 1: have their own agenda. You know, MAGA has their own
Speaker 1: infighting going on. I was paying attention to over the holidays.
Speaker 1: You know, Reagan said, if you eighty percent, if we're
Speaker 1: an eighty percent on an agreement, you're not my enemy,
Speaker 1: You're my friend. And Republicans must understand with their slim majority,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump won this election. They didn't win a lot
Speaker 1: of them got carried over the finish line because of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. And that's the agenda that the American people
Speaker 1: in mass voted for. That's the mandate that they wanted.
Speaker 1: It was an eighty percent prediction that Democrats would retake
Speaker 1: control of Congress. And I see that these intramural battles brewing,
Speaker 1: you know, conflict over Elon Musk. Elon Musk helped Donald
Speaker 1: Trump win. He's not America's enemy here, and I know
Speaker 1: there'll be differences, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I would say that going to be the president that
Speaker 1: lays out what the agenda is, that's going to be
Speaker 1: the winning agenda for the country. You know, some people,
Speaker 1: you know have an issue with H one B one visas,
Speaker 1: someone's zero legal immigration. I'm not in that camp. I'm
Speaker 1: in the camp that if we vet well first, we
Speaker 1: need to prioritize first. You need to secure the border.
Speaker 1: That's the first priority. Priority too is get rid of
Speaker 1: the terrorists, the murderers, the rapists, the cartel members, the
Speaker 1: gang members. That's priority two, priority three. If you're going
Speaker 1: to have a legal immigration system, you can be very
Speaker 1: selective and I want the best, brightest, smartest people that apply,
Speaker 1: that are fully vetted that we'd even consider letting into
Speaker 1: the country. In other words, the best, the brightest engineers, doctors,
Speaker 1: business people, business minds, people that will invest hundreds of millions,
Speaker 1: if not billions of dollars in our country and that
Speaker 1: will help American workers, that will help us develop the
Speaker 1: next generation of warfare. We're falling behind China, we're falling
Speaker 1: behind Russia. And it's not just hypersonic missile technology that
Speaker 1: we don't have that they have. And we better catch
Speaker 1: up soon, and we better prepare for the next generation
Speaker 1: of warfare, which is not going to be fought on
Speaker 1: a battlefield, but in a conditioned offices. You know, I've
Speaker 1: even heard some Trump supporters say there, but they want
Speaker 1: to soak the rich. You sound like Bernie Sanders. You
Speaker 1: want to soak the rich. When I didn't have any
Speaker 1: money and I was a contractor, I never got hired
Speaker 1: by a poor person. In my ten years in the
Speaker 1: restaurant business. I never got a tip from a poor person. No,
Speaker 1: I want a thriving economy where Americans have high paying
Speaker 1: career jobs. And you got to focus on the basics.
Speaker 1: To cure the border, remove illegal immigrant criminals first and
Speaker 1: those that didn't respect our laws, borders and sovereignty. Get
Speaker 1: the economy moving again. Make the tax cuts permanence, permanent,
Speaker 1: no tax on tips, no tax on overtime of Social Security,
Speaker 1: the President has said, and he needs to immediately open
Speaker 1: up American energy dominance in spite of Joe Biden's sabotage. Today,
Speaker 1: give long term leases to energy companies that can't be
Speaker 1: canceled so they can quickly tap into America. His greatest
Speaker 1: well produced producing potential will be an energy rich country,
Speaker 1: restore law and order, fix America's military, which is falling
Speaker 1: behind technologically, you know, clean up the deep state, make
Speaker 1: doze real, get rid of two trillion in spending, and
Speaker 1: then we've got a lot of other issues to tackle.
Speaker 1: This is not going to be an easy lift. And
Speaker 1: at times who will come to you with a phone
Speaker 1: number to call your congressman or woman and your senators
Speaker 1: because they Donald Trump will need your help if you
Speaker 1: want to really make this a transformational presidency, which it
Speaker 1: has all the potential to be. That's my hope for
Speaker 1: the new year. By the way, as it relates to
Speaker 1: the Panama Canal, it was American ingenuity that made this happen.
Speaker 1: American engineers, American planners. They did have laborers from other countries,
Speaker 1: but America. Basically it doesn't exist but for American ingenuity
Speaker 1: and anyway, they opened up in nineteen fourteen to traffic.
Speaker 1: US begins administering the Panama Canal Zone, encompassing the entire
Speaker 1: canal ten miles on either side, part of the US
Speaker 1: run by a governor appointed by the president. US troops
Speaker 1: were stationed there to secure the canal that wouldn't exist
Speaker 1: but for US and John McCain. By the way, he
Speaker 1: was born there while his father is one of them.
Speaker 1: He was a US citizen. He could run for president
Speaker 1: naturalized citizen because he was born on what was then
Speaker 1: US soil. I don't know why. And God rest Jimmy
Speaker 1: Carter Sall wished the best in all our sympathies to
Speaker 1: his family. He was a great post president, had a
Speaker 1: lot of great work, habitat for humanity. His policies were
Speaker 1: god awful. And I said that with all due respect.
Speaker 1: I think he was a nice man, but he's just naive.
Speaker 1: But the work that he did in his post presidency
Speaker 1: was beyond admirable. He's pretty actually anyway. So he negotiates
Speaker 1: this treaty with the President of Panama to return the
Speaker 1: canal to Panama over the course of twenty years. For
Speaker 1: some idiotic reason, Democratic Senate ratifies that treaty with a
Speaker 1: bare two third majority vote sixty eight thirty two. In
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, that treaty took effect. Now we did
Speaker 1: have the invasion of Panama under George Herbert Walker Bush.
Speaker 1: This is back in what eighty nine to ninety, and
Speaker 1: Manuel Noriego was taken out and anyway, in January of
Speaker 1: two thousand, the treaty was no longer in effect, the
Speaker 1: canal belonged to Panama. There's a lot of people that
Speaker 1: believe we sold it to them for a dollar. That's
Speaker 1: not what happened. There's not a provision that the canal
Speaker 1: can be returned to the US. However, we do give
Speaker 1: Panama seventy four million dollars in foreign aid. That's what
Speaker 1: we gave them in fiscal year twenty twenty three. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of money. So Donald Trump sees the communist
Speaker 1: Chinese exerting their influence over the canal rightly, is saying,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we built it, we're helping to maintain it.
Speaker 1: You want money from us to maintain it, and if
Speaker 1: that's the case, we should be in charge of it.
Speaker 1: And I tend to agree with him. Probably one of
Speaker 1: the dumbest deals ever. It's interesting to see the Prime
Speaker 1: Minister of Greenland now saying that he wants the people
Speaker 1: of Greenland, the population of about fifty eight thousand people,
Speaker 1: that's it, you know, have a vote on what their
Speaker 1: future is going to be and their independence. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's autonomous in terms of its ruling. They have their
Speaker 1: own parliament, but they're part of Denmark and about the
Speaker 1: size that you know, the population size is tiny. If
Speaker 1: you look at the World fact that says the island
Speaker 1: is dependent on Danish financial support, even for whaling and
Speaker 1: sealing industries, a big part of how they make their money.
Speaker 1: The US does not give any foreign aid to Denmark,
Speaker 1: but Denmark is one of the twelve founding members of NATO,
Speaker 1: so technically one of our strongest allies. Now on the
Speaker 1: Canada question, with little justin now out the door, we
Speaker 1: import fifty three billion dollars more in goods and services
Speaker 1: from Canada every year than we export to them. That's
Speaker 1: a trade deficit. And Canada charges tariffs on imports of
Speaker 1: US dairy and poultry products. That hurts people in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: That hurts you know, farmers in this country. And anyway,
Speaker 1: Canadian regulations also prevent some US seeds from being imported,
Speaker 1: which I don't think should happen. And Canada has not
Speaker 1: secured their border with the US, and we've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of illegal immigration coming across the northern border. And anyway,
Speaker 1: if you look at the actual numbers, the Board of
Speaker 1: Patrol Chief in one sector said that agents apprehended nearly
Speaker 1: twenty thousand illegal immigrants from ninety seven different countries in
Speaker 1: fiscal year twenty twenty four. Now that is higher than
Speaker 1: the prior seventeen years combined, unheard of for the northern border.
Speaker 1: And we give them millions of dollars in foreign assistance,
Speaker 1: and frankly, we're going to be honest about it. We
Speaker 1: are a big part of their national security strategies. Without us,
Speaker 1: they'd be in a lot of trouble. Let me move
Speaker 1: on to some big issue that is really beginning to
Speaker 1: bother me, and that is Joe Biden's sabotage. And it's
Speaker 1: getting worse by the day. And you know, besides the
Speaker 1: fact that he can't sing Happy Birthday and Kamala can
Speaker 1: sing that, you can't say the Pledge of allegiance. But
Speaker 1: they are now trashing, purposely ashing the country. On the
Speaker 1: way out the door, they're going, you know, guns blazing,
Speaker 1: full fury, full anger, full resentment. The American people be
Speaker 1: damned along the way. And if you look at the
Speaker 1: laundry list of Biden or whoever's actually making the decisions,
Speaker 1: nobody really knows that he has rammed through in his
Speaker 1: final days here with more bands on drilling for oil
Speaker 1: and gas in vast areas ahead of Donald Trump's team.
Speaker 1: They know Donald Trump ran on drill, baby drill, They
Speaker 1: know he ran on a platform of energy dominance. This
Speaker 1: is just designed to sabotage Donald Trump. Now if it takes,
Speaker 1: you know, a court battle that is protracted to unleash
Speaker 1: America's biggest wealth potential, which is energy, which the American
Speaker 1: people voted for. And it's going to be the American
Speaker 1: people that suffer. And they've been petty, and they've done
Speaker 1: this on a whole bunch of other issue US as well.
Speaker 1: You know, more bands on drilling for oil and gas.
Speaker 1: Even moved to squeeze natural gas exports. You know, that
Speaker 1: is the administration agreed to you at another inane, insane
Speaker 1: Paris Accord climate goal to drive down US emissions by
Speaker 1: close to seventy percent by twenty thirty five. Remember in
Speaker 1: those Paris Accords, China and India are classified as developing nations.
Speaker 1: How stupid a deal is that in not developing nations.
Speaker 1: That is just for the US to foot the bill
Speaker 1: for this climate alarmist insanity. The White House loosened visa
Speaker 1: requirements for foreign workers while inking a labor deal with
Speaker 1: federal Union that's allowing forty thousand Social Security Administration employees
Speaker 1: to work from home. I'm sorry, that's not the plan
Speaker 1: of Avake Ramaswami and Elon Musk. And don't forget the
Speaker 1: four point two eight billion dollars in student loan debt
Speaker 1: relief that Biden okayed just before Christmas. The present what
Speaker 1: for the affluent for the people that go to have
Speaker 1: it and Princeton and Yale and graduate school and law
Speaker 1: school and medical school. They have another drive from the
Speaker 1: White House to throw all of the billions from the
Speaker 1: Chips Act and and other boondoggles out the door and windows.
Speaker 1: Why they can you know, or the veto of the
Speaker 1: bipartisan bill to expand the Federal Judiciary, and you know,
Speaker 1: it just goes on and on and on. Biden, is
Speaker 1: you know now will it? Will it be harder for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to implement his agenda? Yeah? Of course. Why
Speaker 1: was Biden selling off in the final hours of his administration?
Speaker 1: Why is he selling off parts of the border wall
Speaker 1: that we paid for, that you paid for that we
Speaker 1: know that Donald Trump would use on day one for
Speaker 1: pennies on the dollar. Is it really hurting Donald trum Trump.
Speaker 1: Is it sabotaging Donald Trump in a way? It is,
Speaker 1: but who is it really hurting. It's hurting the American
Speaker 1: taxpayers because Donald Trump's going to buy new wall and
Speaker 1: he would be able to use that material that we
Speaker 1: had already paid for as part of his promise that
Speaker 1: he was that he will fulfill to build the wall.
Speaker 1: Offering commutations including multiple child murderers and mass murderers. It's insane.
Speaker 1: Later on we have Nancy Mace on the program. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's hard to understand this insanity, but you're one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty eight Democrats that voted against deporting illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: who committed sex crimes. This is insane. That was introduced
Speaker 1: late last week and Democrats voted against it. Then we
Speaker 1: have Biden administration did little to act on the intelligence
Speaker 1: about the Iranians receiving illicit oil cash. The Free Beacon
Speaker 1: reported that they identified Iraq as central to the the
Speaker 1: Iranian oil and fuel smuggling operation that expanded in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. Iran generates a billion dollars a year from
Speaker 1: this smuggling scheme annually, and that's money that is directly
Speaker 1: funding the number one state sponsor of terror. They were
Speaker 1: given a briefing on this just months after the terror
Speaker 1: attack backed by Iran by Hamas that they fund on
Speaker 1: October the seventh, in their attack their proxy, one of
Speaker 1: their proxy wars against Israel. That's all gonna come to
Speaker 1: an end. Biden approving you know, California's plan to ban
Speaker 1: the sale of gas only vehicles. Okay, why is he
Speaker 1: doing that? Because he knows things are going to change.
Speaker 1: I'm not against hybrid vehicles, I'm not against electric vehicles.
Speaker 1: I'm pro all of the above. But these last actions
Speaker 1: that they're taking is just to try and sabotage Trump.
Speaker 1: They've been trying to fill all these judge ships. They've
Speaker 1: been trying to fill any vacant jobs at the DOJ
Speaker 1: to kind of Trump proof the DOJ. Their words, not mine.
Speaker 1: They put a hot water heater ban, Well, what's that
Speaker 1: going to do? Right administration? Now they're move in these
Speaker 1: final days, you know, to take non condensing natural gas
Speaker 1: fired water heaters off the shelves by twenty twenty nine
Speaker 1: vote to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. How about all of
Speaker 1: them pledge to never get in their private jets again
Speaker 1: because there's more greenhouse gas emissions from one flight than
Speaker 1: anybody's going to have in any ten year period with
Speaker 1: their hot water heater, probably in a lifetime. For crying
Speaker 1: out loud, new rules require that new tankless gas water
Speaker 1: heaters to use about thirteen percent less energy than today's
Speaker 1: less efficient tankless models. Well, who's going to pay the
Speaker 1: price for this? Well, who's going to be impacted the
Speaker 1: most by this? Probably the poor, the middle class, working
Speaker 1: Americans going to drive up their cost. Seniors, they're going
Speaker 1: to get hit with all. This is onslaught of regulation
Speaker 1: that they're shoving down our throat. Is just one example,
Speaker 1: tabotaging Trump by banning all future oil gas drilling. Okay,
Speaker 1: what what day is today? Today is the sixth Okay,
Speaker 1: in two weeks. Donald Trump is the president, and it's
Speaker 1: just done out of spite. I don't have a problem.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter was a former president. Jimmy Carter deserves all
Speaker 1: the honors that every former president would get, and he's
Speaker 1: receiving all of that, including lowering the US flag half
Speaker 1: staff in Washington on starting on January second, is when
Speaker 1: it started, but then not putting it up on inauguration Day.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter is going to be long buried by that point.
Speaker 1: They're honoring him this week, as they appropriately should. He
Speaker 1: was a duly elected US president. He died he was
Speaker 1: one hundred years old from Plains, Georgia. According did the
Speaker 1: US Flag Code, the death of a sitting or former
Speaker 1: president observed by flying the American flag at half staff
Speaker 1: for thirty days from the date of death on all
Speaker 1: public buildings, grounds, et cetera, et cetera. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: you do that on the day of inauguration. That seems
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. Donald Trump can get in and
Speaker 1: fix that. Things are so bad. I mean, I was
Speaker 1: reading this over the holiday, and I'm thinking coffee prices
Speaker 1: are expected to hit twelve dollars a cup, twelve dollars
Speaker 1: a cup this coming year. It was an article in
Speaker 1: the Telegraph why the American dream of owning property is dying.
Speaker 1: Remember I highlight I did last year the Washington Post saying, well,
Speaker 1: maybe instead of getting a house with a backyard and
Speaker 1: a pool or whatever you want back there, Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: you should settle for a townhouse. This is insane. Biden's
Speaker 1: scolding reporters. I know more world leaders, and you've known
Speaker 1: your whole gd lives. Nikki Henley said that trump inauguration
Speaker 1: can't come soon enough after watching Biden give George Soros
Speaker 1: Liz Cheney the Medal of Freedom. It's a slap in
Speaker 1: the face. So true. But that's how petty, angry, bitter
Speaker 1: Democrats are. You know, It's interesting some Democrats are trying
Speaker 1: to trying to wrap their minds around what happened. Later on,
Speaker 1: we'll play James Carble and he doesn't get after fifty
Speaker 1: years of being in politics, how he could be so
Speaker 1: wrong about Kamala Harris. And then is trying to encourage
Speaker 1: Democrats to go back to populism and go back to
Speaker 1: an entirely different message. Whether that happens as yet to
Speaker 1: be seen. I don't think the party is capable of
Speaker 1: it anymore. You're going to see the real Democrats once
Speaker 1: the hearings begin, you know, for Pete Hegseth and Cash
Speaker 1: Battel and Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr. You'll see the real Democrats.
Speaker 1: Trust me, they're there.