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radio show. Here a news Talk eleven ten nine nine
three WBT and around up down a couple steps, so
catching my breath there chat outams your guest sot here
seven o four five seven eleven ten. As we head
through the end of week two of July twenty twenty five,
it's just flying by. It's just amazing beautiful weather out
there today, so take advantage of it if you can.
It doesn't seem to be anything bad lurking out there yet.
Let's hope it remains that way. But thank you for
being a part of the broadcast. I was talking about
AI as we went to the break and it's impact
and technology on our lives, not to mention our politics.
It plays or will not necessarily how policy looks at
AI and I think it's government. It's always about. I
think as technology increases in complexity and ability, government's ability
to react to it continues at about the same pace.
I think probably in the forties, fifties, sixties, government could
keep pace with change in society, and about the seventies
eighties that started lagging further behind. And then by the
nineties policies were really lagging because things were moving. And
now if you were to go through your city or
county's regulations and look at the read through them sometimes
because there's their onerous there's thousands of them, you would
find many that are outdated. With respect to ride Away's cars.
There so many different things, building codes and just things
get outdated and it's hard to update. It's hard to
constantly update, very costly to do so. Software, by the way,
the software that your local governments use to collect taxes,
issue finds, or even to promote its meetings and stuff.
Depending on which county or city you're in, it's very
very costly difficult to keep that modernized. Even the building
systems the way counties do building, or the way town
and cities do building. It's constantly in need of upheaval,
even your cars that are on the streets. You know,
cities and counties that they're smart have some kind of
strategic plan and they're probably replacing about twenty percent of
the vehicles on any given year, so they get about
five years worth of good utilization out of a vehicle.
It'd be nice if they could get six to ten,
but generally they wear them out. It's kind of the
way you treat rental cars, isn't it. They just don't
tend to last. Plus, the tech change is so dramatically
in cars these days. They're very outdated at five or
ten years. I look at the stuff that was in
a like a twenty ten Aguar that makes it into
a cheap car by twenty twenty. You know, the cheapest
cars have some of the greatest and amazing, most amazing
technology built in them. It's the nature of where we
find ourselves these days. And uh, I don't know, I
don't know where it all ends up. But you know, well,
I'm fearful. I tend to get fearful. I don't mean
to be fearful, but I don't know that I trust.
I'm not a big believer in government's ability to deal
with things. I like us. I think a smaller, more
limited government has a great deal more alacrity. I think
the smaller and more tactical a government is that the
better able it is to adjust to things. You know,
if you have an onerous, large bureaucracy, things slip through
the cracks. And that's where that's what Medicaid has become.
Medicaid has become huge, It's become lethargic, it's become you know,
not even necessarily reactive. It just moves so slow, and
the people that want to scam it move much more quickly. So,
I mean credit card credit card theft has become something
that I think from a security standpoint, more and more
people are getting better at the companies are getting better
at identifying fraud, getting something done quickly, going after things
more quickly. There's still a lot of fraud, but it's
a lot better than the Leviathan that his government now
on that front. On the medicaid front, you heard what
Tom Tillis opposed, the Big beautiful deal. A lot of
it was on Medicaid. A lot of the Democrats. I
even heard Hakeem Jeffery's the minority leader, say hey, we're
we're the Republicans. We're not going to let them get
away with this. We're going to stop the big ugly bill.
We're going to stop it because some of the worst
parts of it don't go into effect until after the midterms.
And we got to make people aware of how horrible
it is. You know, looking at that, I'm just you know, okay,
that's the Democrats tactic this time around. And I was
looking at what josh Stein had to say about it,
and josh Stein was saying, you know, similar things that
we worked so hard. But what is fascinating what what
josh Stein had to say was that he said, we
need to not let them kind of get away with this.
He said, North Carolina is facing real risk to the
health of hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians and the
financial stability of our rural hospitals. Do the reconciliation law.
And when you read what Stein says, you know, we
came together to expand Medicaid, we must now come together
to defend it. What is interesting about Keem Jeffries Joshdine
in North Carolina Democrats across the nation that are decrying this.
They did not offer an alternative. They did not offer
a vision, they did not offer an idea, They did
not offer any way to be responsible about these big
government programs. Instead, what they decided to do genius maneuver
was to just stand back and throw darts at whatever
anybody else did. They had no intention of providing leadership,
even at Josh Stein. I don't think that I think
that Joshtin will look at things that come across his desk,
But I'm not seeing from this particular governor solutions to problems.
It'll and the class warfare that's constantly there. You know,
you're going to tax cuts for the wealthy. Oh my god,
that's so tired. That's like the worst re tread ever.
They're putting square tires on cars with this stuff or
Anothery're not. That's just simply not true. So when I
looked at the Medicaid stuff, because a lot of people
bandied it about, and so Paragon Health Institute has a
really good newsletter out there that's talking about some of
the things about Medicaid that are again, so much of
this stuff is droll and boring and not sexy. But
what I think, what I'd like to try to do
is add a little bit of levity to it by
going through some of this because it is, it can
be complicated. It doesn't need to be, but it has.
So what does the what does the new bill do?
The reality of this? You know, the critics of it
are saying it's going to cause seventeen million Americans to
lose their health coverage, you know, and what does that mean?
Where does it come from? So what we're gonna do,
tell you what we're going to do. If PAM will
allow us to do this. I'm kind of setting her
up here. If PAM will allow us, I'm going to
go to her a little slightly earlier than normal so
we can check on traffic, and then I'll come back
and I'm going to go through some of these medicaid
myths so that when you hear them, at least you'll
be able to, in casual conversation say that's not true.
And here's why the critics are claiming that this is
going to put Americans out, kick them out of their
health insurance. It's going to be a terrible thing, And
that's just not true because of who it's affecting and
how it's affecting things, and also what's going to happen?
What about ineligible people and how do we count those?
The Congressional Office is pretty bad at predicting these kinds
of things, and we'll talk about why they're wrong on
this now.
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Speaker 3: But us, yes today, glad to have you with us
this afternoon, this beautiful, beautiful July day as it were.
Speaker 2: And when I went to break, I was talking about it.
It's oh God, I can't it's boring to me. I
don't even want to talk about it.
Speaker 3: But it's going to be a subject matter that comes up,
and I just want to give you a little bit
of a high at least one highlight.
Speaker 2: So what you're going to hear is what you heard
Tom tillis what you heard the Democrats. They're all screaming
about how terrible this bill is. It's gonna Josh diin,
it's going to destroy our hospitals, is going to destroy
healthcare for seventeen million Americans. But if you dig deeper
into this bill and the people who help write it
are actually the ones coming out now and defending it
saying this is just not true. And you'll remember in
the debate about numbers of deficit, the way the deficit's
going to grow or not grow, depending on taxes. The
Congressional Budget Office took a lot of hits, and it should.
Their way of scoring bills has been notoriously bad for decades.
I don't know why. It's like no one ever does
anything about it. They're just terrible at what they do,
and so they're the ones who's scoring. Is what the
Democrats and Tom Tillis and others are screaming about. But
they have a terrible track record. So let's go beyond
the Congressional Budget Office. The number that that seventeen million
Americans that are going to lose health coverage comes from
is The number includes ineligible enrollies in Medicaid and Obamacare exchanges,
in eligible enrolies, people who do not meet the community
engagement requirements, and even those affected by the expiration of
temporary COVID Era subsidies that Congress already chose to get
rid of. In fact, many of the individuals counted in
this figure were never eligible for coverage to begin with,
such as unauthorized immigrants or those who misrepresented their income
to qualified. In other words, they made more money, and
they said oh, we don't make enough, but they actually did.
So CBO's track record, I'll looking at that was very bad.
It vastly overstated the number of people who would lose
coverage when the individual mandate penalty was eliminated. It was
not fully accounted for more than ten million ineligible enrollies
currently receiving coverage and exchanges in Medicaid. So this new
bill restores program integrity by ensuring eligibility is verified. So
that's just one of the many misrepresentation of what's going
on in the bill. I just wanted to pass that along.
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go off the rail sometimes that can be funny too.
But I did want to pass along one thing I
was looking through. So remember we started the show talking
about the immigrant situation in California and how when they
did the ray they were confronted by protesters who were
throwing rocks at them. One guy pulled out a gun
and fired a couple of shots out. In the course
of that raid on the Glasshouse potfarm, one of the
largest in the country, they came across ten kids. Two
of those kids had parents, but they're working the pot fields.
Eight of those kids had nobody. So you have eight kids,
no documentation, no parents, no guardians, working in a pot field.
You have to wonder why. Meanwhile, what they what the
law enforcement in California, especially Sacramento, Here's what they had
to do California. Read this is funny because I'm just
juxtaposing where California's priorities are worried about the potform, their
cities are trying to say they're not going to cooperate
with ICE. I'll tell you what their mayor said in
a little while, but California residents who launched fireworks for
the Fourth of July have tickets coming in the mail
thanks to police drones. Now, you would think the police
drones would be interested in helping ice and providing logistical
support and stuff like that. No firework discharges. One resident,
for example, racked up ten numbs are right one hundred
thousand dollars in fines last summer due to the illegal
use of fireworks. If you think you got away with it,
you probably didn't, said Sacramento Fire Department chief. Justin Sylvia,
we may have been what may have been one thousand
dollars fine for one occurrence last year could well be
thirty thousand because you set off so many fireworks. Homeowners
who weren't even present at the property also have tickets
coming in the mail due to the social host ordinance.
Social host ordinance. I want you to think about that
for a second, because a social host ordinance means that
if someone was at your place and set off the fireworks,
you get the ticket. Imagine, I say, if you loaned
your car to someone and they sped and the car
got pulled over for speeding, you got the speeding ticket,
a social host ordinance. It's one of the most And again,
when I went through a list of things yesterday that
the left came up with, only the left could come
up with something the social host ordinance. I was watching
and this is where I'll jump jump shift. But it's
the same thing, is that the left comes up with
these looney ideas that we then then it becomes part
of the standard vernacular. And you know, when you first
hear it, you think it's so loony. I don't need
to embrace. I don't need to give that the time
of day. But then they keep doing it, and then
they try to justify it, and then they add and
they codify it and make policy and things of that
nature out of it. One of the most egregious that
I've seen positive is something called a wealth tax. Now
people are going to say, well, you're just opposed to
that because maybe you have more than someone else. No, no, no, no,
I want you to think about the con because Britain's
having this discussion now, it's been discussed. Democrats have put
this forward. Bernie Sanders kind of likes the idea. It's
at the leftist if the mom Donnie mom, Donnie's kind
of of this, of this ilk. He wants government run
grocery stores. He wants to pass a tax to wealthy
your neighborhoods. He hadn't quite said wealth tax that and
heard it. But if you're a redistributionist, that's your mentality,
is that you have a right to the stuff earned
by other people that somehow you in a government position,
you've gained power. Therefore you want to grow your power
and exert that power over people who earned it somehow
those people need to be shown lesson. So the wealth
tax goes something like this. In fact, it goes exactly
like this. So you pay your income taxes, you pay
your property taxes, you pay whatever you know it takes
to keep your stuff from being complicated. And then the
government comes along and says, well, your house is worth
this much, your net savings are worth this much, and
so you add all of that your net worth basically
minus expenses maybe or you know what you owe, and
that's your net worth. And so then we will pass
a tax and annualize tax on what you're worth. So
let's say, whatever reason, you're worth a million dollars and
you're going to pass a two five percent wealth tax.
So five percent wealth tax, you're gonna get, you know,
fifty thousand dollars out of that a year forever. That's
what a wealth tax. It is an instant collect confiscation
and redistribution. Mental Now, I hope that he gets shouted
down in Britain. It's been pushed a few times in America,
but there are enough common sense people to say, that's
absolutely insane, Ludacris, we don't need to do that. But
it will come back. Mam Donnie's elevation in New York
is the tip of the spear, so to speak. And
the reason he's getting a lot of attention is because
Democrats are falling in line to support him and Democrats
that want to say, oh, that's not our party. When
Jim Clyburn from South Carolina said he's the nominee, I'm
going to support him now, to me, it sounded like
Jim was a little confused. He was having a little
bit of a Biden moment, thinking confusing Cuomo for Mam Donni.
But he said in the end when they ask him
to clarify, Mom Donnie is the Democrat candidate, Yes, I
will support him. So Democrats fall in lop lockstep with
that part of me wants him to win. That sounds terrible,
doesn't it, Because I don't want to wish bad policies
on anyone. But don't you get tired of trying to
save New York from itself? Don't you get tired of
the constant amount of attention that gets paid to trying
to save the city of New York from its worst inclinations,
from rent control, from bad union contracts, from overbearing food
policies like you're not allowed to have a sugary drink,
like having a government grun grocery store, or having food
desert policies. At a certain point, you just let them
go because when the people who pay the bills leave,
New York's going to be left to its own devices.
And often the regression to the mean, and that kind
of situation means a conservative ideology returns in New York returns.
It becomes safe again, becomes better again, becomes more successful again,
and that's what we all want. Ultimately. Sadly, a lot
of those people in New York that would leave would
come down south. I think that head to Florida. Maybe
we should put aside and says keep going, keep going.
I know you hit on ninety five. You have the
state line. Florida's only put big sides of every couple miles,
Florida's only eight hundred miles. Whatever it is.
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getting ready to line up for Brett Winterables radio show,
You're on this very fine, amazing station. Seven oh four,
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Speaker 3: Uh. One of the interesting things, well, there's so many
interesting things to me. My mind is an infinitely uh
infinite wonderment. Uh is the Komy stuff. So Jim Comey
and John Brennan, the famous Trump hating dynamic duo, you
know I have said that, you know, Hey, we're they
went after Trump, they created the fake Russian dossier, they
did all this, and what's interesting is is their response
to these kind of the thought process that they're going
to be that they're they're going to be in trouble.
It's kind of interesting. So what you did was you
had him on. He was on CNN with Nicole Wallace
and she asked him, Hey, what do you know about
what's going on with all this mess? And in his response,
he was somewhat dumbfounded. His response was this, So so
he said, quite frankly, I don't know what's true, you know,
and I'm not I'm not giving you this out of context.
This is literally these are his words exactly from the
transcript of what he said. And I just, you know,
and kind of blown away by.
Speaker 2: What his take is. This supposed to be one of
the brightest guys in DC, former CIA director, the guy
in the know who said there was a Russian rush
rushier thing. He said, you know, I don't know if
it's true. You know, what are there are so many
things that get out in the media bloodstream, and it's
interesting saying that it was. I think Fox News and
the New York Post reporting things like this about him
being investigated. So I don't know whether or not there's
any validity to it. If there was, it was a referral,
if there's an investigation. Presumably, if there is an investigation,
then people will be questioned. I would be questioned about it.
But again I've had no contact with them, meaning the
people investigating. But again I testified. But again, but again
he says, those are his words, not mine. He likes
to use that phrase. I testified, but again in front
of many many congressional committees in the House and the
Senate over the years, and I continue to explain exactly
what we did during the process, why we tried to
make sure we stay true to our intelligence responsibilities and
that we were not going to do anything at all
to try to interfere in that election. And again, it
was a challenging time. But also when I think that
the people who actually worked for this, both in terms
of trying to collect intel prior to the election and
then the ones who put together the intelligent they really
I think showed the best of what the intel community
and the CI is made of. So I'm clueless what
they're investigating. This is one of the two guys that
really pushed the Russia collusion narrative. I mean, I'm blown
away by his reluctance to try to say he doesn't
understand why they would be looking at him in any way.
It just and listening to him doesn't make it any
more clear at least, I well, I was.
Speaker 3: Going to play it for you, but it's uh, it's
having a little, it's struggling a little to show you that.
Speaker 2: So that in the background, so we know the years
of persecution. Now the public believes that the public confidence,
by the way in climate change stuff is is that
the lowest it's been. The approval of Democrats in Congress
is the lowest it's been the party in general, the
lowess it's been. The Democrats are having a very tough time,
So what what does that mean for them? So that
what they're hoping and what they've gambled on is that
here's what here's what they've gambled on. We're going to
just oppose Trump and there'll be enough people that hate
Trump that they'll join us and will scoot onto victory.
Speaker 3: We'll just skate in and we got this, We've got
it all. And unfortunately that's not what things are saying.
This is from the Hill. This was printed earlier today.
Speaker 2: The Democrat Party's credibility with voters has plummeted even further
since the twenty twenty four election raising alarm bells as
the party looks to rebuild ahead of the midterms the
next presidential election. According to a poll obtained by The
Hill The Pole conducted between May and June by the
Unite the Country, a Democrat super pack. Okay, so this
isn't right leaning optimism. This is the Democrats conducting information
on their voters about where they're headed, where they stand,
and what's going to happen. Now, again, it's early. Any
number of things can happen. I'm not I say if
the trend line continues, Democrats are in trouble, but I
would be the first to say six months, eight months
from now, we could be a year from now, we
could be looking at a different world. But right now
it's very difficult for Democrats. The poll commissioned by Unite
the Country perceive the Democrat Party as out of touch, woke,
and weak. The party has seen its support eroad with
white men, Hispanic men, and working class voters across the board,
with approval ratings sitting below thirty five percent across those demographics.
So think about Hispanic men, working class voters below thirty
five percent, and enthusiasm within the party continues to be
weak in the wake of twenty twenty four according to
the poll. This is the reality of the perception of
us as a party, and until we accept that, it's
going to be hard to move forward, said Democrat strategist
Rhodel Mullinou, who serves as the senior advisor to the pack.
There's a perception out there outside of Democrat elites, and
it's taken a hold in not just the magnet Crow,
but people that should be with the Democrats and the party.
Democrats need to realize that in order to improve and
get better, to not only win in twenty eight, but
when in twenty thirty, thirty two and beyond. He said,
Democrats have been searching for a way out of the
wilderness since they're devastating loss last November, when they not
only lost the presidency once again to Trump, but also
the House and Senate. Since then, party officials have conducted
a number of post mortems. They love to do that.
After the body's dead, they're what wed's wrong. The problem
is they never want to admit it's them. They want
to look for some kind of what it had to be,
something else done by someone else. It can't be we're wrong.
We can't be wrong on men and women's sports. We
can't be wrong about having a poorest porter. We can't
possibly be wrong about letting NATO be week. We are
not wrong on any of our issues. It must be
the media. But since that time, the party officials have
conducted a number of post mortems as part of the
party's rebuilding effort. They spend like twenty million dollars trying
to figure out what men think. But Democrats are still
feeling dejected and rudderless in the early months of the
Trump presidency. The pull out in May reveal that only
thirty five percent of Democrats are optimistic about the party's future,
compared to fifty seven percent the previous July. There's an
overwhelming sense that the party lacks strong leaders. You think
Democrat donors and butlers are not cutting checks to candidates,
citing the party's lack of enthusiasm and zero vision unite.
The Country's latest poll was conducted in voters in twenty
one battleground counties in ten battleground states. Democrats have not
escaped the shadow of that loss. They look who they
put forth as their candidate for president. They were more
concerned about checking a box yep female, then the most
qualified candidate, like a new Summer Shapiro, they went with
someone that was It's like when the party went with
Dole back in the nineties for the Republicans. Democrats have
had opportunities to hit back at Trump, including on tariffs,
Big Beautiful Bill, but political observice ay, those were wasted.
The super Pac poll revealed that Democrats' prime emphasis on
fighting for democracy, which is popular within the party, is
no longer going to cut it in the general electric
since their soft on immigration policies have turned so many
people away. It's not about bandoning who we are. It's
not about leaving people behind. We're a big tent party.
But it's about prioritizing the messages and starting where the
majority of people are with them on most issues right
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Speaker 2: As we get to the top of the hour, try
to leave with something optimistic. Maybe optimistic not for Democrats necessarily,
Well even that, because I think there was a time,
and I used to like that time, when we debated
how to make the streets safer, how to make education better,
how to better support our country, how to make it stronger,
how to do these things that increase the quality of
life for our kids and families, and our our and
our fellow citizens. But I think we've strayed away from
that and the age of social media. And it's not
to extol the virtues of everybody on the right, because
there's some Look, the extremes are out there on both sides,
and they're not productive and they're very closed minded and conspiratorial.
But the poll that I just kind of went through
a little bit of it with you is showing that
this drift to the left that is alienating voters from
the Democrats heading in the next year. Now, I say
that because we're you know though there we're in the
lull of summer. You know, it's fun, it's warm, it's
hot dogs, hamburgers can be outside and until Labor Day
and then Labor Day. Right now, a lot of different
towns and cities, it's municipal election time, so people are
signing up for mayor city council.
Speaker 4: That stuff.
Speaker 2: Next year, the big midterms, that's when county commission and
everything's on the ballot. Is that at the local levels
where we give up a lot. So you'll have a
lot of these Trump supporters that are out there and
they'll go, ah, I supported him, I'm a conservative. But
when they get into local elections, they all of a
sudden they want, you know, they want to have massive
tree ordinances. They want to look at right away issues
they're looking at. It's kind of this erosion of property
rights and increase in bureaucracy. They never connect their philosophy
at the national level with their philosophy at the local level.
Now Democrats, on the other hand, I think are very
good at this. I think them, by and large, they
love the transactional stuff at the local level. They like
big government, more bureaucracy, and they like it at the
state level, then they'd like it at the national level.
That's why I think city councils and county commissions tend
to breed Democrats in many ways that it breeds them well,
gives them a farm team to go to the house,
the North House, North constentated onward and upward. Whereas the
Republican Party's not as good at that because when they
start getting higher up, all the realities of how they voted,
I mean happened. I mean you see that they're not
as conservative when they move up the food chain, they're
just not so. I say that because the mayor of
La just came out or I think it was earlier today.
It may have been earlier today where she's talking about,
so we knew there was a big situation on a
pot farm where you had kids working on a platform.
But here's how her response to that is, She's going
to do an executive order. Now. I'm not sure that
she's inclined to know what the limitations on being a
mayor are. But I don't care what mayor you're in,
what city. There are limits to you that go to
your state and limits on you to the federal government.
But she wants to act like they don't applied to her.
So I want to play what she had to say
in this press conference. And again, this is the same
mayor that was in Africa when while kind of nero
fiddled to why Rome burned, you know, even though there
were no fiddles. But the point being, she was completely
out of touch when the fires were happening and was
indignant when confronted by same mayor, Karen Bass. Here's what
she had to say about the situation with Ice.
Speaker 4: I am here today to sign an executive directive, and
I just want to point out the irony for a
minute that there is a need for me to have
an executive directive to help our city understand how to
protect itself from our federal government. Just let that sink
in for a minute.
Speaker 2: To protect the citizens from the federal government. What is
the federal government doing that is so wrong? So she's
issue executive order to protect to protect non citizens. There's
more what.
Speaker 4: We have seen here over the last now going on
six weeks of raids that pop up and we never
know exactly when and where they're going to happen.
Speaker 2: So she's upset that ICE is doing its job and
showing up in places unannounced. I don't know you're going
to catch bad people, you don't tell them. Hey, by
the way, fellow cartel members, we're going to be there
at one thirty five in the morning, So just want
to let you know. She's complained that she's now this
is the same kind of complaint that Democrats had when
they wanted to know about where the missiles were hitting
in Iran or not the missile, but the bombs whatever missiles.
Also before it happened, they wanted to the same kind
of you don't do that, You don't communicate surprises, especially
from law enforcement that would endanger their lives. After the
Left has said they're going to show it on a
on a on a on an app and that the
lives of the guys that are serving.
Speaker 4: We've seen them in the general region. I'm sure many
people saw Camarillo yesterday and what broke out there. We
saw Magarthur Park earlier this week, which I think now
after all assessments, it is viewed as just a display
of force, just to put the city in its place,
to say, we are the federal government. We can roll
out troops whenever we choose.
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Byrn the riot, all of the other stuff
that's happened, this is where she's planting the flag that
somehow trying to get. I mean, that farm that she
referenced had ten kids that were working on it. That
doesn't bother her at all. And this is the kind
of disconnect that is driving people away from her party.
Speaker 4: So the executive directive that I will be signing in
a few minutes is to help the city family, to
help the city workforce, to help the city departments and
all of the general managers essentially develop preparedness plans that
have specific protocols and that help city workers know how
to address immigration officials should they approach a city department,
how we abide by the law, but we understand what
our rights are as city employees, how we can provide
protection for immigrants who might be attending a city event.
Speaker 2: So, if you're reading between the words on what the
mayor of La says, she's basically saying, here's the truth, Mayor,
every one of your city employees has the same rights
to every other American. They do. You're treated equally under
the law. But you don't have the right to aid
and to bet criminal activity. I don't care whether you're
a city employee or not. And that's what she's kind
of trying to do because she's what she's saying is
if there's a city event, you know, we don't want
ice coming to a city event. So if you're an
illegal and you want to go somewhere, what she's essentially
saying is we're going to create sanctuary events. Not just
the sanctuary city, We're going to create sanctuary events. We
want to prevent curtail hold back the federal government from
enforcing the laws of the country. She's trying to act
as if she wants to stay within the federal guidelines.
The truth of the matter is you're not being terrorized.
Your citizens are not your citizens for whom you swore
an oath to, you know, protect a constitution you serve.
You know, you swore an oath to serve and protect.
You're wanting to circumvent that for citizens that are not
from this country. Now, the other funny part about this
is there's on a post adjacent to this, there's a
guy who's got a he's being deported. He's got a
flat Mexican flag wrapped around him, and he's not wanting
to be deported back to Mexico. Now. I don't know
about you, but if I were going to be deported
and I wanted to stay in the US, maybe I
would wrap myself in an American flag because that's where
I want to be. You would think you would extol
the virtues and the values of the country you wish
to stay in. And then you're telling people while you
wrap yourself on a Mexican plat that you don't want
to go back to that country. But again, this is
where and as you go through as we ramp up
things through.
Speaker 3: Labor Day, because that's what's really going to take off
is after Labor Day, as we ramp up into that
period of time, Please take a closer look at your
city council candidates. That's important. It's it's important that you
that they get questioned about property rights.
Speaker 2: It's important not just about the tax rate. The tax rate,
you can do so many different things with the tax rate.
It's about the tax burden more than anything. It's about
what they're doing to protect property rights, what they're doing
to reduce crime, what they're doing to get away from
this woke DEI stuff. Are they embracing meritocracy where they
are rewarding and and and raising through their own the
brightest and the best and the most successful. Is that
what they're doing. Or are they promoting people because of
other things? Are they discriminating against people because of things
that have nothing to do with meritocracy. Those are really
legitimate questions. Those aren't bad questions. Are you going to
work with the federal government to make sure that the
citizens are protected and that if we do, we shouldn't
be harboring fugitives from justice? Period? As I started the
week with full stop, that's pretty much the way. It's
not complicated, but ask the questions. It's the American way.
Just do it. Don't barge into meetings like the left does.
Be respectful, folks. Have a fantastic week, fantastic weekend. I'll
be talking with you soon, I'm sure. Stay tuned for
Winnable next here on News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine
three WBT.
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