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Speaker 1: Now, I must admit.
Speaker 2: I was pretty skeptical that it would work over the weekend,
but apparently it did. It totally worked. We don't have
any more kings anymore. I am as surprised as you.
I thought I would, you know, wake up and it
would just be normal, a regular Monday, bunch of kings everywhere.
Speaker 1: But no, it worked.
Speaker 2: Thank you Democrats for your momentous events, your rallies, your bravery,
your courage. Dan rather might say, you have saved us
from all the kings. Again, I was skeptical, but here
we are. Look around, do you see any kings? I
don't either, so it obviously worked. Now, there was a
royal wedding, or what passes for royalty in America, which
is George Soros. Well, his son Alex got married to
Huma Abodeen. I guess her name is now going to
be Huma Soros Humasaurus, which sounds almost like a dinosaur species.
You know that you learn about humasros. But anyway, Yeah,
top Democrats were out celebrating the lavish wedding of former
Hillary Clinton aide Uma Aberdeen and Alex Soros, the son
of left wing mega donor George Soros.
Speaker 1: Among those in attendance.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, Chuck Schuma, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton is She
even delivered remarks at the wedding. It was held at
a Soros family estate in the Hamptons, which is the
very wealthy, upscale area of Long Island, New York, out
at the east end of the island. Guests at the
opulent affair dined on I don't even know what this is.
I probably will mispronounce it, but truffle agnolotti, agno loti.
I have no idea what that is. I don't even
think I know what a truffle is. I mean, I
see the word and I've like, I've heard of truffle oil.
I've probably eaten some of it, but I just is
it like a is it a mushroom?
Speaker 1: I think? Anyway.
Speaker 2: They also had chilled p soup. That's pea soup, by
the way, pea soup. That sounds horrific. Yeah, but well
I got texture issues with pea soup. It's just it
looks like a bowl of boogers, you know. And I
just I'm not a fan. I like peas, but and
I like soup, but I pea soup can't do it.
And then you made it even worse by having it chilled.
Speaker 3: Ugh.
Speaker 2: So it's basically it's a p smoothie, right, that's what
That's what you've made. You just put it in a
bowl and you're calling it soup. This is how the
wealthy dyed. Oh, I don't know what this word is
either wagu bavette, b a ve e tte, sports car,
I don't know, wagu bavette, and grilled prawns. New York
Times labeled it as something of a political royal wedding
on the No King's Day.
Speaker 1: They had this wedding on the.
Speaker 2: Same day that they were protesting the kings. The Democrats
were literally at a royal wedding. The No King's protests
were organized in part by the Sorrows funded activist group Indivisible.
One such demonstration titled shut Down Billionaire's Lane, No Kings.
That's the name of the event that was scheduled on
Saturday in Southampton, which is where they were. That's the name,
shut Down Billionaire's Lane, No Kings.
Speaker 1: I don't but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like right down the street from where the
Sorrows Aberdeen wedding took place and people flew in on
their private jets. Is that Billionaire's Lane? I don't know,
do they. I've never heard of this thing called Billionaire's Lane.
Maybe it's a place in the Hamptons where all the
billionaires live.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But there's just something rich no pun intended, Actually yes,
pun intended. There's something rich about a No King's protest
attacking billionaires in the Hamptons. Give me a break, you're
the Hamptons, guys. The Board of Open Society Foundations, a
major Soros philanthropic organization, elected Alex Soros as chairman in
December twenty twenty two. Alex describes himself as quote more
political than his father, George Soros, said that his younger
son earned the chairmanship. The younger Soros has met with
numerous high profile Democrats to discuss issues that the Foundation
is involved in. Yes, and he takes photos of every
Democrat that you know makes the pilgrimage to Alex's penthouse, skyscraper,
apartment or condo, and he takes pictures of him and
posts him up like you would, you know, gain trophies
on the wall that you you know, you took down
this seventy point buck or something and you put his
head on your wall, so like he's collecting Democrat trophies.
Alex Soros and Aberdeen announced their engagement in July twenty
twenty four. Abdeen was previously married to Anthony Weener, that's right,
whose political career ended after he sent explicit photos to
a minor from Gaston County. That's from the Daily Caller
News Foundation piece by Harold Hutchison, headline, Democrat big wigs
hobnob at Ritzy Soros wedding on No King's Day. Yeah,
like just the irony alone did not anybody? Well, I
guess they probably had the date planned for a long time.
They chose Flag Day. It's very odd, but yeah, just
sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Speaker 1: Now I could not.
Speaker 2: Tell if the parade that was held up in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1: With all of the.
Speaker 2: Military you know, personnel and equipment and all that and vehicles,
maybe that's what got rid of the Kings. Maybe there
was such a strong show of force from our military
that maybe it didn't have anything to do with all
of the you know, seventy year old white liberals reliving
you know, the sixties Woodstock era or something like. Maybe
they didn't actually get rid of the Kings for us.
Maybe it was the show. Oh of course. Now I
can't tell if the left wanted our troops to be
doing like goose stepping like the Nazis, because they seemed
very disappointed that they weren't, like they were predicting that
this would be terrible and that they were going to
be like jack booted thugs walking the streets and all
of this. And then when it was actually held, the
parade was done, and then I saw this criticism from
lefties online that were like, oh, that was pretty lousy,
that was that was pitiful, and they didn't even know
how to march in line together, like they were just
like attacking the troops as not being Nazi like, so,
I'm I was just unclear. Did we want them to
be like the Nazis or did we not lefties? And
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John says, I did not hear about the royal wedding.
I was busy ticking off the vast majority of my
friends in the arts community because I don't agree that
everybody needs to bow to the angry rioters and mob
ah over the week. And that's John's up in New Jersey,
so he's surrounded up there. So the parade Byron York says,
it was a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: I was not offended by the parade. It's the Army's
two hundred and fiftieth birthday, right, I'm fine with all
of that not a big deal, and so Byron York writes,
He's here's the first thing to say about Saturday's military
parade in Washington, d C. Honoring the army two hundred
and fiftieth birthday. It was a good thing to do.
It wasn't a vanity production for President Donald Trump's birthday.
It wasn't an authoritarian flex. It wasn't a threat to
the American people or to the democracy. It was instead
a dignified celebration of one of the great institutions of
American life as it and the US marks its two
hundred and fiftieth year of existence. Trump was right to
highlight the Army's birthday as the beginning of America two fifty.
That's the brand, by the way, that's America two fifty
all one word. That's the brand. The marketing thing like
hashtag in it, you know, for for the July fourth celebration.
It was also a good parade, Byron York says, and
then he talks about, you know, all of the various
pieces of equipment, how it told the story. You know,
it starts with the r the beginning of the Army's history,
and then like horses, the fife and drum Corps, and
it kind of works its way towards the modern.
Speaker 1: You know, modern.
Speaker 2: Equipment, modern forces, all of that. The crowd seemed pretty big,
but not huge, and it was spread across an extended
area because it was a parade.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: White House spokesman Stephen Chung tweeted, amazing, despite the threat
of rain, over two hundred and fifty thousand patriots showed
up to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the US Army. God Bless the USA. And that's the
White House line.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: All of Trump's opponents and the Democrat Party and the media,
but I repeat myself and elsewhere, they'll all say it
was far less right. And here's the thing, no way,
there's no way to know with any certainty because many
years ago, you may recall, the National Park Service got
out of the business of estimating crowd sizes. Do you
remember why, Well, they came out and gave a crowd
estimate after the million man March that was put on
by the Nation of Islam, and they pointed out that
there wasn't a million people there. Now, they didn't do
it meanly or you know, they were just saying, you know,
national Park Service estimate was, you know, one hundred thousand
people or whatever. Still had a good turnout, a decent
sized turn I mean, that's a lot of people to
attend any one event, right, And so they had this
million man march and they did not get a million men,
and outrage ensued, and so they were like, you know what,
We're not going to do estimates anymore. So it's hard
to know how many. There is one important thing to
also remember about crowd size right Spyron York. There is
a partisan component here. Trump wants to hold big, beautiful
events in Washington because the setting is so magnificent, but
the district of Columbia and the surrounding counties in Maryland
and Virginia are heavily heavily democrat. So even with the
high military presence in some areas, anybody within easy driving
distance or public transportation distance to the parade was likely
a Democrat. And that's just the way it is. It
was true in twenty seventeen when Trump insisted that his
inauguration crowd was bigger than it was, and it's true
now for a Republican it's not really something to worry about. Though,
like you, if you are a Republican, you're not going
to be able to throw a massive rally or parade
in Washington, d C. Because the Democrats won't go to it.
They could have gone to this, right, they could have gone,
but they they wanted to depose kings. So now there
were some protesters, and Byron York writes about that too,
And no they were not like hauled away and thrown
in jail as all you know kingdoms do to the dissenters. No,
they just were allowed to hold signs and do their
chance and whatever. No violence broke out. So it was
entirely peaceful. There was no like mostly peaceful. It was
entirely peaceful. It was just a parade. Of course, you'd
have to be pretty stupid to you know, act foolish
like that and start violence when you've got you know,
the military there with all of their weaponry. One more thing,
he writes, the idea behind the nationwide movement was to
create a narrative that Trump's opposition dwarfs his support, and
that opposition is growing as everyday Americans are shocked by
Trump's actions. Organizers will say, just look at the demonstrations
across the country, millions of people coming out to protest Trump,
and then compare that to his puny parade in Washington.
We are the real majority, right, That's what the No
King's messaging is supposed to convey among many of the
messages because they're kind of all over the place on
the messages they've got, like, yeah, there's a lot of
different messages. It really wasn't a great branding effort. But
the whole point is to like give this idea that
you know, Trump's not popular, we're the majority, and you
know we are going to rise up for democracy, which
we literally just had. We we just did the democracy
like eight months ago and and Trump won.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: That's really what it was about, right, This is this
is why it's a tough case for the left to make.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: They're they're working hard to make it, but it's a
tough case to make because we just did a democracy
and Trump won, and so you're no Kings. Things seems
a lot more just like TDS, Trump derangement syndrome and
like whining and sore losing. That's what it kind of
looks like to me. All Right, if you're listening to
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immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democrat run cities, a
move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles
and other major cities against the Trump administration's immigration policies.
This is according to I Am Eror mad Hanni Madonni
Inie Anyway, the Associated Press. So is it possible that
the cities that are being targeted La, Chicago, New York?
Could it be that those cities have implemented sanctuary city
policies that then drew in a large number of illegal
aliens over the past you know, decade. Hence the need
to focus your efforts on those cities. It's not that
they are Democrat cities that they are because they obviously
did the policies right. But the policies drew in large numbers,
and so that's why you would focus your efforts on
those cities. Are we supposed to ignore the cities? Also, Trump,
in a social media posting, called on US Immigration and
Customs enforcement officials to quote do all in their power
to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single
largest mass deportation program in history end quote. He also
added that to reach the goal, officials quote must expand
efforts to detain and deport illegal aliens in America's largest cities,
such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where millions
upon millions of illegal aliens reside. Right It's like the
old line, you know, they ask who has a billy
the kid? Why'd you rob the bank? And well, that's
where they have the money. Trump's declaration comes after weeks
of increased enforcement and after Stephen Miller, White House Deputy
chief of staff and main architect of Trump's immigration policies,
said ICE officers would target at least three thousand arrests
a day, which would be an increase from the six
hundred and fifty per day during the first five months
of Trump's second term, which makes sense because you go
from like no enforcement under Biden and then you got
to kind of ramp it up. And that's why they're,
you know, signing all of these Oh I heard driving
in today, you know, I pop around the dial and
I pull up the the NPR station and I I'm
always curious, like, oh, what do they think is the
news today? And Jen White from one A, that's the
program one A. I think it's first Amendment, but it
could also be like Section one a of the newspaper.
But do they even have sections of newspapers anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't like.
Speaker 2: They're all just basically like one one chunk now, except
for like on Sundays, I guess. Anyway, they were talking
about this immigration enforcement stuff, and she had on a
couple of legal experts and lawyers, and there was a
guy on from I think he was out of Emery University,
and he's talking about the expansion of the two eighty
seven G program. I've talked about two eighty seven G
for twenty years because the quick recap is that it's
a federal Statute two eighty seven parentheses G, and it
allows local law enforcement agents to be essentially deputized, so
they get access into the database that ICE uses so
when people are coming into your jail. Sheriff's offices around
the country were using two eighty seven G to identify
if people are illegal aliens or not. And our former
Sheriff of Mecklenberg County, Jim Pendergraph, actually implemented it here.
He was one of the very first in the country
and then proceeded to go all around the country instructing
other sheriff's offices how to use two eighty seven G
because he got hired to do that as a consultant
basically for the Bush administration. And then, of course, you know,
the left rises up against this program and they start
scrapping it. Our sheriff scrapped cooperation with ICE, scrapped the
two eighty seven G program in Mecklamberg County when he
was first elected, and this has gone on in you know,
Asheville as well Durham. So the left does not like
the two eighty seven G program. And listening to this
guy talk about the two eighty seven G, he never
tells the audience what it is, but he's very concerned
at all of the agreements they're up to now like
they had. I think he said something like there were
one hundred two eighty seven G agreements in place when
Trump was sworn in, and now they're at like six
hundred and fifty and this is very alarming. It's militarizing
everybody and what something or I don't even know. I
couldn't even follow his logic on why this is so
terrible to have other agencies enter into the agreement so
they can help identify illegal aliens that they may have
in custody or that they take into custody or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I just thought, how odd.
Speaker 2: You're catastrophizing the two eighty seven G to an audience,
to this NPR audience, and you never explained to them
what the program does. Anyway, the Trump administration has directed
immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants, and hotels.
Speaker 1: Did y'all hear this?
Speaker 2: Trump expressed alarm about the impact aggressive enforcement is having
on those industries, according to a US official familiar with
the matter, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. So
we're stopping the enforcement at farms, restaurants, and hotels. I
don't think that's a great idea, but I do have
some audio here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This was a thick framed glasses wearing awful, affluent, white
female liberal from California who posted a short video with
the title bleep ice no human is invisible, which I
don't even understand what that means. But yeah, here's what
you said.
Speaker 3: So I'm in my beautiful city, LA, and I have
friends texting me like all morning, my gardner didn't show up,
my housekeeper didn't show up. Oh my farmer's market was closed.
Everyone's scared. Well, this is not going to just happen
in LA and you one percenters that only voted for
Trump because of money. Guess what You're gonna have to
do your own dishes or clean your own house or
mowing your own lawn and owe that wonderful produce, the
organic produce you get for your brunches at all. Gone, Yeah,
you're going to actually have to do some work around
your house. These people are important.
Speaker 2: Okay, she was directing that message to one percenter's billionaires.
I'm assuming, right, the top one percent of wagejourners or
the wealthiest one percent. Maybe, Yeah, they're still not going
to be doing their own dishes and mowing their yards.
They're billionaires. They have so much money they can actually
afford to pay the wages required of us by US citizens. Right,
you guys, this is not a winning message, right, Lobbying
to keep your indentured servants so you can pay them,
you know, off the books, under the table, less than
the job actually would pay if they were legal. Like,
this is not a good look. This is not a
good argument, but they're they're.
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Dot com producer Nick looked it up because he was
curious about what wagou bevet is. It was served at
the Alex Soros uma Abadeen wedding that just so happened
to take place the same day as the No Kings
protesting the closest thing to a royal wedding, know in
the Democrat party over there up at the Hampton's East
end of Long Island, and I read through what they
served aside from the gross chilled pea soup. But pea soup,
but the wagoo babette babett is apparently, well, I will
let Nick, you should do this. You should, you should
announce what exactly wagoo babette is.
Speaker 1: It's flap or flank steak. So it's flank steak, but
with a with a fancy name, fancy name.
Speaker 3: It's for the Hamptons.
Speaker 1: It's like.
Speaker 2: It's like the Patagonia toothfish. You can't call it that.
That's its name, though, but you can't call it that
on a menu. Nobody will order a toothfish. Call it
sea bass, Chilean sea bass, and boom, everyone's favorite fish. Now, yeah,
babet is a flank steak.
Speaker 1: There you go. So did you know that? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, Randy Weingarten was not at the Soros wedding. I
don't believe because she was out at one of the
No King's protests, and to be fair, her union, the
American Federation of Teachers, they were some of the prime
organizers of these marches, so she I do have actually
hang on a second, let me play the clip here.
But did you know that she's she's been on the
Democrat National Committee for like twenty something years. Did you
know that she's been Like why is the teacher union
president on the DNC.
Speaker 4: You are the community to this president's chaos, and together
we build a future of opportunity and justice for all.
Home over fear, aspiration over anger, the promise of America
for each.
Speaker 1: And every American.
Speaker 4: That is what we are fighting for today.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I could not.
Speaker 2: I could not listen to an entire speech like that.
And the whole time she's like hopping up and down,
and it's kind of comical because she's very short, and
so like the shot front the camera is like below
the lectern, and so you just see her head's like
kind of jumping up and down behind the lectern as
she's But what is this aspiration over anger? That's not true?
You guys like you can't just say that this is
what you're about, and when you're not actually about that,
we can all see it's all about anger. You guys
are just really, really angry all the time. Even her,
the way she's delivering the speech is anger. But anyway,
she she's a longtime powerhouse member of the Democratic National Committee,
but not anymore. She's leaving the da And see, she
has been a member of the DNC for twenty three years,
and she wrote a letter to the DNC chair Ken
Martin that she had fundamental disagreements with him. Quote, I
appear to be out of step with the leadership you
are forging. This was a letter dated June fifth. And
I do not want to be the one who keeps
questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively
trying to engage more of our communities. Her departure is
the latest sign that the party is still embroiled in
factional disputes, and it is likely to only further finger
pointing and intensify criticism among Democrats. She's not the only one,
by the way. She backed Ken Martin's opponent in the
election of the chair, but so did Lee Saunders. Lee
Saunders of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
the other union. He left the DNC too. They both quit.
They both sent letters and said it was because of
Ken Martin's leadership and that they're not expanding. The DNC
is not expanding its coalition. This comes on the heels
of David Hogg just getting kicked out of his position
as vice chair of the party for basically being the
wrong gender and race. All right, that'll do it for
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