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have time to get to him beforehand. And I don't
know if he dropped off or our phones are dropping people,
So I apologize if it's our phone system. Not sure
what's going on. But Alan is on the line and
now joins the program. Hello, Alan, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: Hey? I'm good. What's going on? Well?
Speaker 2: I would like to project a nomination to the listeners
of the nomination for mayor.
Speaker 1: Okay, for which city?
Speaker 2: Well it'll be for w BT. We need to nominate
Tee Solendar for mayor of real Will we need to
we need to make this happen.
Speaker 1: Well, there's only one mayor of Realville and that was
Rush Limbaugh, So I would accept. I would accept a
nomination for Aldermen, though I could be Aldermen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well Rush has been gone. Yeah, I think he
would gladly hand that gavel off to you.
Speaker 1: And because well, I appreciate the kind words. I would
never presume to know that, but I appreciate the sentiment. Uh.
And look, Rush Limbaugh formed a lot of my a
lot of the way I, uh, the way I do
the show. The way he tried to have, you know,
have fun doing the show, because like I remember the
early days especially, it was just funny. There were a
lot of things that were funny, the bits that he
did and all of that, and so I try to,
you know, I try to be humorous. But uh, you know,
he definitely influenced my trajectory. And I would not have
this job right now but for him just working in
AM radio for as long as I have, this medium
was dead before him.
Speaker 2: Okay, well i'd be sheriff.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go. Yeah, and then I would cooperate
with Ice. All right, Alan, I appreciate the call, buddy,
thank you. All right, all right, take it easy. I
will go ahead and get to a couple of these messages.
So I made a comment in the last hour, and
I wrote a obed about this. It was over at
the Blaze before the election, and this is how I
came to UH to decide to vote for Donald Trump.
He is the only major party candidate that I've ever
voted for for president ever. And I did that because
my view of the media, the role of the me
is rooted in the constitution right. The press is responsible
for educating the citizens so we can self govern. And
if you have media, you have press that fails to
do so, then that actually harms the democracy, if you will.
And I know what I'm going to get with a
Donald Trump presidency and a you know, Kamala Harris presidency.
With regards to the media coverage, I knew what I
was going to get. I was going to get over examination, overreach, misconstruing, motivation,
all of that stuff with Donald Trump. Absolutely, But I
also knew I wasn't going to get anything with Harris.
I was not going to get anything except cover ups
and glamour pieces, hay geographies. I was not going to
get any kind of accountability for a Harris administration. And
so when presented with those two options, I didn't know
any other way to punish the media for the way
they've been behaving during the Biden presidency with the cover up.
I said it the other day last week. It's to me,
it's the biggest scandal in American political history, the cover
up of Joe Biden. It is up there with the
cover up of Woodrow Wilson. Right, It's like it's worse
than the FDR cover up. At least at that point,
we were in a war, you know, and there were
people that knew they just didn't take his picture. They'd
have him sitting down or whatever. But when you have
a president and that was just a physical infirmity. If
Joe Biden's infirmity was only physical, it wouldn't be that bad.
But he had mental decline, mental cognitive decline, and you
had a media apparatus that that protected him by not
telling the people about it as he was going to
seek another term. That is scandalous. And at that point
it's like, Okay, you cannot be trusted at all. You
have to be punished somehow. So I know you're not
going to do this for a Democrat president. So I'm
going to give you the Republican and it's Trump and
I know you're going to You're going to quote hold
him accountable. You're going to go after him, and I'm
going to disagree with the way you do so sure,
But with a Trump executive overreach and a Harris executive overreach,
only one scenario protects the people more than the other,
and that is a Trump executive If Trump overreaches, I
know the media is going to go after him. If
Harris does, I know they won't. And that's the danger,
that's the actual danger to democracy. So Joseph asked me
that he didn't get the logic behind that argument. So
I think I fleshed it out there, and it is
of concern when I see Trump doing executive orders. I
have been on the record for years. I do not
like these executive orders of any kind. I don't like
them when they start trying to write law, just like
I don't like it when courts try to write law.
We have a branch of government to do that. Now,
just because those lawmakers have decided they want, you know,
to do TikTok videos instead of legislate, that doesn't mean
that that power goes over to the executive or to
the judicial branches. You don't get to write laws. So,
and this is not an indictment on everything. All the
executive orders Trump has done, some of them I think
are perfectly fine, and some of them I understand. What
he's doing is to try to force the issue into
the courts to get the rulings. And what was it
on the birthright citizenship issue? We covered that in depth
last week. You know the pros and cons of those
arguments and the history of it. But the Congress somebody
introduced a bill to end birthright citizenship and that is
the appropriate mechanism to go through. And so if his
executive order induces this kind of response, then okay. But
you know, like Biden wiping away debt for student loans,
you don't get to do that. You don't get to
do that. And the media treated it as if it
was completely within the boundaries of the norms and it
was not. It is not, so like that's where that
So that's how I got to that got to that decision.
And then who's this from Thomas who says the modern
big media speaking truth to power. Really this sounds pretty
hollow right now. I guess the reporters you are reporting
on are doing just that. But I guess they don't
have to stipulate who, what, when, where, why, and the
important how in a timely fashion. Yeah. And the same
thing occurs when these reporters get embedded into campaigns and
they they they omit details and stories that they learn
during the campaign that the public should know about before
casting a vote for or against that person. But the
reporters sit on it so then they could write the
book afterwards and get people to write or to buy
their books. Right, So they're covering up stories that the
public should know in order to make money. I find
that to be completely inappropriate, highly unethical, and this is
sort of par for the course now in our modern
media landscape. Thomas goes on to say, finally, I guess
it depends on who you are speaking the truth to
and about. Truth about conservatives, yes, truth about liberals in
the swamp no. Yeah. I think that was what those
reporters were were outlining, is that when it came to
certain stories about the Biden family, politico from came from
up on high. As one reporter said, like this was
the mandate that came down. Do not talk about the
Hunter Biden laptop, do not tweet about it, don't write
about it. Don't talk about it. Yeah, so they acted
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And we do have a call here. This is from John. Hello, John,
Manny Johnston, Yes, GP, Yeah, what's up?
Speaker 3: Hey, how's it going? I'm going to be hey, I
just want to say, I'm I know you were kind
of ragging on the legacy media covering up for Biden.
I think they were actually covering up for the pullet Bureau.
I don't think we've had that's fair.
Speaker 1: Now, that's fair.
Speaker 3: See now since president and we've been a country being
run by committee with nobody able to say, yeah, this
is my decision, et cetera. And like you said earlier,
with Trump, you know, no president's going to know everything
that's going on everywhere, but he does a heck of
a lot more than Biden ever did. And yeah, it
was a bunch of radical left progressive Committee members that
have been running our country for the last two and
a half three years and look where it's gotten this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and look, I mean, say what you
want about Barack Obama and his policies, but nobody had
any doubt that he was in command. That he like,
if there was an executive order signed that that was
his signature, he read it, he understood it. This was
something he wanted to do. But we played the clip
from House speaker Mike Johnson where he talked about going
into me with Biden and talking about Liquid Natural Gas
band and Biden said, no, no, I just signed it
in order to study it. He didn't even know what
he had signed. So, yeah, like, this is the problem
is that, Yeah, Joe Biden was not in command. And
then the next natural question is, well, who was and
who was putting stuff in front of him, who was
drafting it? Why were these things being done? And yeah,
so the media covering up for the cognitive decline of
Joe Biden necessitates the follow up stories of who's actually
doing this stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, and I know everybody's upset about
the J six pardons, but here's the deal, you know,
with Biden parting the Jay six Committee. I do think
he's left open the door for people to go look
at who was responsible for keeping his condition away from
the public. To me, that's probably more dangerous than any
of those other events. Well, if I'm a president that's
not in command.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you go back last week and pull the podcast,
we covered the story in debt that was written up
by the New York Times and uh they did actually
two stories, one with Schumer and talking about how like
the Democrats in the Senate they knew, like they they
were pressuring Chuck Schumer before Joe Biden bailed, right, but
they they were like, we need uh, we need you know,
he's not talking to us. We don't have confidence in him,
we don't think he's leading, and all like the Democrats
in the Senate knew what was up. And the other
New York Times story talked about the six people that
were the closest around Joe Biden, and they were the
ones that were managing the affairs. They were the ones
that were in charge. And it includes Jill Biden, it
includes Donalin. I remember Mike donaldin I think is his name.
I think Hunter Biden was in there. So like he
had these six people around him, and they were the
ones that managed it, and they were the ones that
that blocked access. Yeah, and that's why I say it's
it's a huge scandal. And I'm hoping, you know, some
media outlet now can write the story because he's out
and Harris is out, and so now maybe somebody will
write the story that they should have written three years ago.
But we'll see.
Speaker 3: Well, let's keep our fingers crusted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we'll see. John. I appreciate the call man,
all right, thanks, yep, you too. So I said at
the beginning, what a difference a week makes. And I'm
gonna throw something out there, all right, if you are
a friend of mine, or let's say, okay, if you
are my neighbor, and we have an agreement that you know,
I won't throw a bunch of garbage in your yard
and you won't throw a bunch of your trash into
my yard, right, and so we have this agreement and
most of the time, you don't even have to kind
of articulate this. It's just understood. Like you share a
property line on the lawn, and you know I'll mow
my side, you mow your side, and every now and
again I'll I may, you know, do a little weed
whacking to help out on your side or whatever. But
it's an amicable arrangement where we both kind of benefit. Now,
if I throw my trash over into your yard and
you say, pete, take that garbage and move it back
onto your property, and then I say no. And then
when you scoop up all the garbage and you try
to you try to bring it back onto my property,
I prevent you from coming back on my property. You
have now or I in this situation, I have now
changed the nature of this relationship. So if we are
being neighborly or we are being friendly, I would not
do that to you in the first place. And if
you attempt to clean up the mess and give the
trash back to me for me to dispose of properly,
then and I refuse, then the nature of our relationship
is fundamentally altered. And that is what has occurred with
the US relationship with Columbia, right, And so Columbia, you
don't get to have a bunch of your people come
to a friendly country such as America. We are friendly
with Columbia. You don't get to have a bunch of
your people come and then we were like, hey, these
are criminals. We've arrested them. They weren't supposed to be
in our country. We're giving them back to you. And
if Columbia says no, well now where we are, we
are in a different relationship. And that's what happened over
the weekend. But I eventually took the I did take
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of a dust up, if you will, with Columbia. Here's
how CNN build it. Columbia backs down on accepting deepes
on military planes after Trump's tariff's threats. So Columbia backstown.
Here is how Euroews, the European Broadcasting Union, here's how
they said. The US backs down on tariffs after Columbia
agrees to deportation flights. So note the different framing. CNN
says Columbia backs down, but Euronews says the US Backstown.
But the US is backing down after Columbia agrees to
do what the US said. So is that is that
the US backing down there? Euronews. Now the German government,
they put out a what they call their news compact,
and they said USA and Columbia settle tariff dispute. Is
that what it was? Was it a tariff dispute. I
don't think it was a tariff dispute. I think it
was a dispute over whether or not Columbia would allow
the repatriation the return of its own citizens. Right. So
here's CNN. Columbia has walked back from the brink of
a damaging trade war with the United States, reaching an
agreement on accepting deported migrants being returned on military planes
after a flurry of threats from President Donald Trump that
included steep tariffs. By the way, I think that this
focus on the use of the military planes. I think
this is the this is their excuse. I think they're
using this as an excuse. They're like, if it was
on a commercial flight, I mean, first class travel, we
would have been totally fine with it. I know you
would not. Okay, no, you would not. If you are
a friendly country with US, and you're enjoying the trade
benefits of being a friendly country with us, then you
should not be sending people to our country illegally. And
most importantly, if we catch some of these criminals that
have come from your country and have come to our country,
and we are like, we don't want these people. Take
them back. You don't get to say no, and you
darn shore don't get to say, well, it's because they're
traveling by military plane. Now it doesn't matter, they're yours,
these are your citizens. You take them back. So Columbia
said that it wasn't going to take them back on
the military planes. They would not allow the military planes
to enter Columbia. And that's when Trump said, well, then
we'll slap you with a bunch of tariffs. And then
Colombia's like, oh yeah, well we'll slap you with some
tariffs too, and then Trump is like, well the tariffs
just got ten feet taller. And then they're like, okay, fine,
we'll take the We'll take them back. That's that's what happened.
And one of the things that I find notable in
this entire drama as it played out was that there
seems to be very little recognition that a trade war
or tariff battle between the United States and Columbia would
hurt Columbia as well. Like I understand how tariffs work,
I am not of the opinion that tariffs hold harmless
the people of the country that implements them, Right, we
slap a bunch of tariffs on Columbia. That means the
price of their goods coming into our markets is going
to be more expensive. I recognize that no solutions, only
trade offs. So I recognize that as a negotiating tactic.
I understand what Trump was doing because that's what he
does with a lot of countries. Right. He's going to
punish you, and he's going to assert maybe not dominance
per se, but like equality. Because if we had a
bunch of people that were in Colombia and they were like, hey,
take your people back, we would not refuse them. We
would take them back. So therefore you should take yours back.
That's what neighbors do. That's what friendly countries do. And
if you're not going to do that, well, now you're
not a friendly country to us anymore. You are changing,
You are altering the terms of the relationship. Okay, so
we shall alter our terms as well. And when the
Colombian president tried to out Trump Trump, he learned what
basically every other Republican has already learned that you can
there's only one Trump. Okay, There's only one, and doing
a tariff battle with the United States is going to
harm a lot of people in your country. Is the
juice worth the squeeze? Is it worth it? And Colombia decided,
I think logically so it is not. It is not
worth it to penalize all of your law abiding citizens
in order to protect the travel accommodations of criminals. That's
not a good trade off, and that's what the Colombian
government came to recognize. But I note the lack of
this information now. CNN, to its credit, they did have
a quote here from economic and foreign policy analysts also
urged Colombia to avoid a diplomatic feud with the US.
The Colombian Council on International Relations, which is a think
tank of former foreign ministers and analysts, warned that commercial
retaliation would only harm Colombia and warned the country's government
to preserve its relationship with Washington. Right, why would they
risk it? Why would they risk it? And CNN, while
it does mention this in this at the very end
of their three page story. The focus in our media
generally has been about the impact on the price of
coffee and flowers in America, Like do you want your
coffee to go up a dollar? Well, like to me,
there's more of a fundamental principle here, which is that
a friendly country is refusing to take back their own
citizens from US. So yeah, I'll just I'll buy coffee
from some other region. But then again, I don't place
like a high value in the origin nation of my coffee.
I don't go out looking specifically for Colombian coffee. I
hear it's a good coffee. I've had Colombian coffee. I've
enjoyed that Colombian coffee. But I have also had coffee
from other parts of the world, I suspect, and it's
just fine too. I mean, I'm it's just a caffeine
delivery mechanism for me. Okay, that's it. It's like a
good cup of coffee is good, and if I have
to pay an extra dollar, I will do so if
it means that criminals get sent back to the countries
that they are from when they came here illegally, So
to me, that seems like a good deal. Now, your
mileage may vary. Maybe you're not a coffee drinker, in
which case then it shouldn't even really affect you, right,
But I buy a lot of flowers. That was the
other one that they were yeah, yeah, it would hurt
the people in those industries in your home country. And
if you are the government looking out for Columbia first,
then you should say this is going to hurt more people,
and then you take these criminals back, and then maybe,
I don't know, just free advice, you probably should lock
them up because they're criminals and that would be a
bad thing for your country. Also to let the criminals
just run wild in your country, which might actually be
why you allowed them to come two hours hmmm. Interesting.
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a tweet here, It's a Pete tweet from It's all
a distraction. Who says, why wouldn't Columbia want to take
Sorry Colombia, why wouldn't Columbia want to take back their
people made? According to the mainstream media, they're adding value
to our country. Right, that's a very good question. Oh
and by the way, just a heads up for all
of you lefties that are making these arguments about who's
going to pick our crops? That's really racist. You should
stop making that what never mind, keep making that argument,
you guys, just yeah, keep going, you guys, just keep
doing that. By the way, CNN's Harry Enton, He's the
guy that stands in front of the big digital board,
and he circles stuff and does numbers and stuff on
the big board, you know. And he anyway, he had
some polling that he was going over I guess yesterday
or today. This was based on polling a comparison back
in April of twenty seventeen, so the initial months of
the first Trump presidency versus today. Okay, So he's got
two sets of data. And the question is which party
do you trust more on immigration? And four years ago
or no, yeah, twenty seventeen, April twenty seventeen, eight years ago,
seven years ago, eight years ago, Democrats enjoyed an eleven
point margin over Republicans when asked which party is trusted
more on immigration? Democrats were up eleven points a plus eleven. Okay.
Now Republicans are up plus twenty two. So that is
a thirty three percentage point swing. And he sent out
his you know, his video of him going over these numbers,
and he says that the GOP has turned an eleven
point deficit on who Americans trust on immigration in Trump's
first term, roughly the same point as now, into a
twenty two point lead. Now, so the GOP turned an
eleven point deficit into a twenty two point lead, and
I would submit humbly sue that was really the Democrats
that did that. I don't know if that was all
Republicans that did that. I think Democrats have I think
they should get all of the credit for blowing a
thirty three percentage point swing, you know, because the Republicans
have been pretty they've been pretty consistent on this issue
for the last eight years, and Democrats have been in charge,
and I think they really deserve the credit for this. Yeah.
So oh, and then there was this clip. This was
from a Fox News report. This is a guy who
got busted as part of the immigration sweeps and he
is from Haiti. I'm not going back to Hayden.
Speaker 3: One of those threats is this illegal alien from Haiti.
Speaker 2: I says he's a gang member with seventeen criminal convictions
in recent years.
Speaker 1: So you feel, I mean, go Biden forever, bro. Thank
Obama for everything that he paid for me. Blim so
bleep Trump Biden forever bro, and thank Obama for everything
he did for me. Again again, I don't think Republicans
deserve all the credit for the thirty three percentage point swing. Okay.
Also another example of what a difference a week makes
this from the UK Telegraph. Iran has ordered its proxy
forces across the Middle East, So this would be well,
basically all of the worst actors Ksbolla, Kamas and the Jutis.
How come they don't get the how come they don't
get the sound the houties Anyway, Iran has ordered its
proxy forces across the Middle East to exercise caution as
the Islamic Republic fears an existential threat following Donald Trump's
return to the White House. Officials have told commanders of
Iran backed militias to avoid provocative actions that could escalate
regional tensions. Quote. Forces and allies in the region have
been instructed to act with caution as the regime feels
an existential threat with Trump's return, said one senior Iranian official. Quote.
In Iraq and Yemen, forces have been told not to
target any American assets, and if they do, they are
explicitly warned against using Iranian weapons. They have been told
to keep defensive positions for a while and to avoid
any actions that might provoke the Americans. Yeah, I saw
somebody analyze this. I apologize for not having their name
at the ready, but they said like here's the difference.
Like the way things would normally go, whether it was
Columbia or whatever, it'd be like, oh my gosh, Colombia
don't want to take the flights. Oh my gosh, we
got to have a meeting. All right, get all these
agencies together, Okay, draft a report, come up with some options,
and the interagency reports take like a couple of weeks,
and then they come up with some options, and then
it goes up the chain. Then they're like, oh it
make some changes, we get some other options. They swap
out options, then goes back for more review, goes to
a different agency, they make changes, and after like a month,
two months or something, it finally gets presented to the president.
It's like the worst of all the options and it
doesn't actually do anything. And that's the difference now with
Trump is Trump is just like I'm gonna slap a
tariff on you, Like I'll slap a tariff on you, Okay, Well,
I'll slap a bigger tariff on you. Okay, fine, we'll
take the military jets like fine. Like that's it's there
is a different mindset in the business world versus the
quote public sector. It's just a different mindset. There's almost
like this analysis paralysis that takes root in these government
agencies and in business. It's like, oh, here's an obstacle,
here's a problem. Okay, fix it, move on, move on.
What a difference a week makes? All right, that'll do
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