The Bill Martinez Show 05 08 26

0:00 Are you ready? Yeah, okay, let's do an Ill Martinez Live, a program about current events, our culture, our values, our politics, and our future. And now Bill Martinez. Hey, good morning America, six minutes after the top of the hour. Right now, I'm Bill Martinez. He is Kenneth Bramowitz. Mister Cana. How are we doing? Great? Great? Great? Thank you. Always good to be connecting with you. Let's talk the latest of that crazy little place that's causing all kinds of attention. You know, Iran, you know, to straight or not to straight, to bomb or not to bomb. You know, we're at a bit of a bit of an impasse. What say you, Yeah, well, yes, we're in an impass by definition, we're basically playing a game of chicken between America and Iran, and both in this race, both automobiles are going roughly one hundred miles an hour, and the question is who's going to turn left or right or hit.

1:05 Well? Uh, And it's always tough when you're in a game of chicken and you're and the other person in the car is a deaf cultist, so uh, you know, uh, and and I and I and I understand I have no delusion to think that whether it's Donald Trump or Marco Rubio or anybody else, UH is under estimating. Uh, you know the craziness. And and Trump is giving them every potential, every way to work around this. But you know they're fixed. They're fixed on their end game. And I don't see any movement whatsoever, do you no? And which is typical of death cults. There isn't. Death cults are called deaf coults because they die, they go down with the ship. Right now, In relatively recent history, World War Two, we saw the Nazi death cult die in the Japanese Imperial Army death cult die. Now. Aiding the Japanese death were two atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, which finally convinced them to surrender. And Germany we just we the Allies in Russia just kept killing the leadership until Hitler killed himself and then that death cult died.

2:27 More recently, we've had the ISIS and al Qaeda death cults aft in the in the wake of nine to eleven. So now now we have another death cult. And one irony here is as President Trump tries to make it easier for them by lowering the bar, it actually decreases the chances that they'll come to the table. I'm glad you're saying that, because that's my you know, my gut reaction as well, because what do you have to do is continue to squeeze, just like you did in Japan to wear Uh. The forces that want to continue the war are deafened by those where there's enough reason that rains that said, look we've lost, you know, we got to pack it up and fold it and uh and reluctantly, the core of that death cult, you know, fades and goes to irrelevance. But but they don't necessarily die altogether, do they.

3:23 Well, notice, going back to World War Two, Japan did not summer, did not surrender after one nuclear bomb. No, yeah, it took two. And you if we were talking beforehand, just pretend we would have both forecasted that one one nuclear weapon and that's it. They'll surrender, No, I think if I remember history correctly, a couple of weeks so so, yes, so we have to stay tough, tough, tough, and we shouldn't lower the bar. We should say here's the fifteen things that we want around We'll say here's the fifteen things that we want and then we should say, as President Trump has said, but we blockaded the Strait of Hermos.

4:08 You're not selling any oil, which is most of your income, and you're gonna run out of money, food, water, and everything else. And have a nice day. Here's and when does their infrastructure, their oil infrastructure collapse, because we've been told, you know, for the last week and a half any day now. Yes, yes, so am I told through the internet and various websites that in about two weeks or so, some people say three weeks, some say one week, but let's just say two weeks, they fill up all their storage area. And so therefore they're going to have to shut down their wells. And when you shut down your well, you destroy the pressure within the well, and you basically destroy the well and you have to drill another well another day, somewhere near but nearby. So yes, they're going to end up ruining their oil industry. And bear in mind that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp Owns approximately fifty percent of the GDP of Iran. They're like a business. They're the biggest business there is in Iran. So they'll be destroying their own business. Some business people within the RGC are going to say I don't want to destroy my own business, and other people will say, but we're a death count and America has to surrender. So that's why we're in a game of chicken. And just to finish the point, I think President if Trump President Trump run with us today, he would say, look, I'm blockading the straight They're not

5:42 getting eighty or ninety percent of their income. They're going to come to me eventually. I have time and have a good day. Yeah, but what are you to do negotiating position? Well, I like it to a degree. But and I'm sure Trump has thought about this. I mean, death culture crazy. And what happens if they say, hey, our tanks are full, so we're just going to start releasing oil into the Strait. Yeah, sure, yeah, and we'll pollute our own sea and well, yeah, that's right. They can do anything that's unpredictable. But I think now bear in mind, each side thinks each other is going to surrender. So Trump, President Trump would say, oh, they're going to surrender. I don't know if it's in one month, two month, three months. And by the way, the midterms coming up in November. They can surrender before after the midterm whatever suits them. And Iran is saying, oh no, no, President Trump's going to surrender because he's got the midterms and he wants this resolved before the midterms.

6:53 He'll surrender. And if we have to. Here's something in mind. When you're in a dictatorship. Ten percent of the people are still all the money. Yeah right, they're going to eat. They're gonna have their caviti four gras and share a pay and whatever they want. It's the ninety percent of people who got to seff into which they would say, well, what do I care? Right exactly? Well and uh, and then they're looking at our media. I mean, their media is interesting. It's like bag Dag Bob and Iraq all over again to hear them talk, and then our media picks up the narrative like it's one hundred percent valid. I mean there's no question, no critical thinking, uh, no critical positing on the reports coming out of Iran. They take it wholesale cloth. And I mean it's amazing. Uh this. You know you and I often talk about, well, of course, in light of your book the multi front war. This is a multifront war that we're in, and you think of all the players, right, that's right, Yeah.

7:54 That's exactly right. It's it's basically all the bad guys in the world, or US is all the good guys in the world. Unfortunately, all the good guys in the world have sort of abandoned America, so it's really just America, Israel, and UAE. I would say those are the only three real allies contributing on the bad guy side. You of course have besides around you have China and Russia right behind them in financing this mess. So now, one other thing you mentioned about media. When the bad guys look at our media, they get a mixed message. Some Republicans says, oh, I support President Trump, some other Republicans says, I don't know about I don't know why are we fighting this war?

8:40 And then the Democrats say, we certainly shouldn't be fighting this war. Why did we start this war? A let's end this war. And so you can see what a mixed message they get from us from our media. And they're greatly encouraged, thank you very much. The mainstream media, some Republicans, as you say, and certainly the Democratic Party the Americans against them. This is just astounding to me. Let's go to quick break. We'll pick it up on the other side. More from Cannabramowitz after this. It's National Small Business Week, and the smaller the business, perhaps the bigger the opportunity when it comes to worker engagement. ADP research is recent Today at Work issue reveals that just thirteen percent of US employees at businesses with less than ten employees reported full engagement, compared to twenty seven percent of those with ten to forty nine employees. The good news the smallest firms may have an advantage on boosting engagement across all businesses. Fifty three percent of workers reported being fully engaged when they strongly believe their employer was investing in them. ADP's SVB of Small Business Services Lacey Bizelli.

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14:08 Hey, welcome back. Bill Martinez here with Kenneth A. Ramowitzi is the author of the multipreps. For Defending America from Political Islam, China, Russia, pandemics, and racial Strive. You might even add a little addendum ourselves. Maybe we need to protect ourselves, protect ourselves from ourselves. He is the founder of Savedthwest dot com. Can let me ask you this, what did you make of Trump's announcement to start taking troops out of Germany. Well, I think there was a good announcement. I think it was a very modest announcement, although he publicly said more to come, more to come. Keep watching right now. I would just send a signal like that. As opposed to one hundred thousand troops, I think we have seventy five thousand if I remember from the internet. But bear in mind, you're also sending a to Russia. Remember Russia's trying to take Ukraine, and right now Ukraine's winning and Russia's in big trouble. So if just pretend you're announced I'm taking almost all of my soldiers out, Russia would salivate and say, oh great, let's go tack some more countries.

15:18 Isn't this fun? Let's see how much of Europe we can take over. So I think it should be of a token nature. Number one. Number two, my problem is pretending I'm in the Trump administration. My problem is not NATO itself. It's the country's in NATO. In other words, I'm not happy with the morons running England and France and to a lesser extent, Germany. So I'm angry at the countries. I'm not angry at the concept of having a NATO, which is we all unite together, both the Europeans and America to protect Europe from Russia. I think that's still a valid concept. I think President Trump should be tougher on the leaders and say we need better leadership in Europe and go through pressure for regime change in European countries.

16:11 Do you think Trump had just a little bit of a conversation with the king when he was out to say maybe a better look at your prime minister. Well, I just wrote something on my website just today on the meeting with the King of England, and I said, everything's wonderful publicly, and I enjoyed the show. I enjoyed the speeches. It was very entertaining. And I said, but what were they discussing in private? And I said, well, I don't know what they're discussing in private, but I'm going to guess what they're discussing in private, One of which is where did you get that Prime Minister, and how can you get rid of him? He's hurting the UK tremendously and hurting the America UK relationship, and it's time to get a new leader there. I hope that came up, even though it certainly didn't come up publicly.

17:02 No, well, and I think wisely. So every once in a while Trump gives you a little bit of breath because sometimes he shoots from the hip and you go, oh, why did you You didn't have to say that, but he did, And in this particular case, he was mining his manners and he did well. Like you said, I think the visit, you're exactly right. I think the way you characterize it was very entertaining. It was fun and it was hopeful. And you hope that the king somehow, you know, though he tries to stay away from, you know, things political. It's like, how can you do that? How can you say you're gonna step away from things political?

17:44 Well, and another thing, he's saying, we have to have a strong relationship, which is true between the English speaking people here and there. That's that's great, But ninety eight percent of the problem is them. You're not We're not the problem. They're the problem. They're the one that losing confidence in the Judeo Christian society. They're the ones who are human rights violators. They're not protecting the ninety percent of the people who are Christian or the little one percent who are Jewish, and they're the ones who initially denied our use of their basis for exa our plans. So they're the ones who are the problem. We're not the problem. But it came off as if it was like an equal problem. You know, we're not doing things, so well, they're not doing something, you know, and let's fix each side. No, no, let's fix them. That's what asks me about.

18:38 Well, that's why I resent this argument that goes on on nauseum about you know, there's we're there's wrong on both sides. You know, that just neutralizes the conversation. You know, that's right. Yeah, how silly is that? But you know, going back to what we were talking about in terms of the death cult and the mindset of Iran, I mean, you know, unless we forget, you still have Gaza being controlled. You know, forty five percent of Gaza controlled by that death cult amaz, yes. And also you have maybe a third of Lebanon controlled by his will a death cult. And here and President Trump has put constraints on Israel on both scores because he's simultaneously working with Iran on a deal and he feels that if Israel is overpowering in Gaza and in Lebanon, it'll reduce the chances of a deal with a run.

19:36 I if he asked my opinion, I would say the opposite. I would say, let Israel pressure his and Lebanon. Let Israel pressure Comas and even if they can destroy him, destroy them, that'll put pressure on Iran to come to a deal. And that's the way, as we discussed in the first minute of our conversation today, how we have to keep squeezing. And Israel's happy to do a lot of the squeezing, like that's the ally America ever had. So let Israel do the squeezing. If America doesn't want to do the squeezing. Right, well, and that's how you bring people to the table. And you know, because they'll be upset and saying, hey, you got to control that. You got to control BB and Israel from doing this. Well, you know, the only way to control him is you got to be a nice you know, we got to have peace talks. But they're not going to They're not going to do this.

20:30 You see, because you know I'm with you on this. I don't think a deal is there to be had. Trump was right initially when he talked about unconditional surrender. That's what has to happen with the death cult. You have to get to that, to that matrix of an unconditional surrender, and you don't do it by hitting the pause button. I'm sorry. Right now. Trump might have an ulterior motive. He has many ulterior motives that he doesn't tell us about. So we just yes, he wants to show the American public. I did everything possible to end this war. I tried this, I tried that, I did this. I said that, look at how hard I am trying to stop this war.

21:14 So that if and when we have to continue the war, or when President Trump says, I don't want to continue the war, but Israel, I know you want to. You have a bone to pick whether run you finish the war. So America doesn't have to finish it. Directly, he can say to the American people, I tried everything possible. You don't like war. I don't like war. I tried to end the war. They're just they're they're looney tunes on the other side, and I just couldn't reach a deal that I thought was good for America. And that's why there's no deal. And I'm still blockading, I'm still pressuring, and but we'll work. The deal will come when it comes. And I think that's one of the ways to protect him and the Republicans for the midterms.

21:58 Well, you know, surprising can when you look at, you know, some of the polling that comes in and I get polling's all over the place, and it's a snapshot. We understand that. But to hear our mainstream media, you think that the American people in mass are against Iran. But that's not what the polling according to, you know, the Harvard polling is saying recently, you still have a majority of people supporting Trump and they're supporting these actions that Trump has been executing on behalf of the Middle East and on behalf of the American people. So it gives me encouragement to see that the American people are starting to see the long term and even short term gain here in executing this war against Iran, because a nuclear Iran is unacceptable. And you know we were told for many years, you know, by Barack Obama or Iran's not going to have a nuclear weapon. But in much the same way as he presented the case for, you know, the Obamacare scam. You know, they just flat out lied and you could see that there was a sunset clause in this deal that they were, you know, going to be able to go nuclear, you know, down the road.

23:09 And you know, they've been lying to us all these years. And this is after the fact that they've killed you know what, you know, thousands of Americans. Yeah, they've killed the one thousand or more Americans directly, I'm sure more indirectly, and they killed fifty thousand or so of their own people. And but one of the problems, and I agree with everything you just said, but I just have to add, Run declared war in America forty seven years ago exactly. That's the Israel. But our leaders purposely did not want to say, Oh, by the way, mister, mister voter, we're in a war right now. I Ran declared war on us, and we're in a war. And people go war, war? What I don't like? Where I like peace?

23:55 What do you mean war? That would have put pressure on all the presidents before to do something about it, and no one wanted to do anything about it. And basically President Trump got stuck holding the bag. And as I think Harry Truman, President Truman said, the buck stops here, and right bctically, the buck stopped with President Trump. He knew he had to do something, even though the population didn't know that we had to do something. It's funny that all the other presidents said, yeah, the buck stops here, but they treated it like a hot potato. Gets that away from me. Well, Ken, as always, we appreciate the time. Cannabromowitz, author of The Multi Front War, Defending America from Political Islam, China, Russia, Pandemics, and Rachel Strife.

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28:26 Hey? Terrific? Glad you could be here with us to talk about you know, your latest your latest article about the SPLC. You know, there is so much happening here and especially you know tie this in with the latest decision from the Supreme Court and you know the SPLC obviously was was prescient. They saw what was happening and they needed to contrive something in order to continue their existence. Huh pretty much. Yeah. In fact, I did this piece for Daily Signal last week and headline Southern Poverty Law Center outrage offers a silver lining And there's actually some good news in this.

29:07 But the bad news is, first of all, that the Southern Poverty Law Center. We've heard their names for decades. This is sort of like the Vatican of anti racism, if you will. And these people have been fighting the KKK, fighting the Neo Nazis, et cetera, et cetera, and lo and behold we discover, thanks to an indictment by the Department of Justice, that these guys have been paying off the clan, paying off the Neo Nazis, paying off the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, even paying off a guy who was convicted in federal court of cross burning, actually giving money to a guy who burned crosses can believe that. And the reason that they've done this, essentially was to pay off people informants who are in some of these groups, and in some cases to encourage them to engage in racist. Activity, and they hate crimes and so forth.

29:49 So they then could turn around and tell their donors, hey, look at these racists, look at these Nazis, look at these clansmen. Oh my god, we need to go fight them. Please send us money to go fight these people. And little to these since and I assume well meaning anti racist donors, they little have any idea that this morning is actually going to the very racist and Nazis and clansmen that the Southern Property Law Centers said that they were fighting. I mean, absolutely astonishing stuff. You know you got one of these guys, was these donors little? Yeah, yeah, I just say I'm just saying these donors. Ahead, go ahead. I'm sorry, I'm stepping on you, Okay. I was just going to say. One example, there's a guy who a neo Natzis organization called the National Alliance. These people are various Field sources known by their code names. Code name of this one is F nine is in Foxtrot Night paid him a million dollars. Somebody who's involved Unite the Right hate Fest and Charlotte Field, Virginia. This is the one where you had a big race right breakout in August of twenty seventeen, this guy, neo Nazi type, got in his car, drove, drove right in a crowd, killed a poor woman named Heather Hayes. Heather Higher who's thirty two years was thirty two years old. The informant they got paid two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. This guy who's a member of the neo Nazi type, he actually was, as I say, federally convicted for burning crosses. He's actually a Jew hating skinhead organization called American Front. He got nineteen thousand dollars

31:19 from the Southern Poverty Law Center. So these guys were showing out all this cash to these anti Black, anti Jewish, perhaps even anti Catholic organizations, and the money was coming from donors who thought that this was going to be used for legitimate, you know, anti bigotry type work. And as a consequence, the Department of Justices ursuing them, is indicted, is indicted them for a conspiracy for fraud, wire fraud. These people are in big trouble. They'd served to be and I think they ought to be convicted and thrown into prison for a long time. I think it could fifteen to twenty years. Will be about right in my opinion. The cultural damage de roy that they imposed. I mean, you mentioned Charlottesville. I mean, look at all the stuff that they to Trump over that. I mean, on and on what they've done in terms of poisoning the well for we the people, you know. And here, and I started to say about the donors here they are participating in a grift unbeknownst to them, you know, because they're believing all this. And meanwhile, where's our mainstream media reporting on this?

32:27 Not a long noise? They didn't make much noise about this. Of course, they got a nice, big fat excuse when the third assassination attempt against President Trump took place that totally knocked the story out of the headlines. And I've talked about this story a bit, but other than that, it's almost completely vanished as we've been focused on the attempted assassination of President Trump and that mayhem at the White House correspondence dinner. But I do say there is a silver lining here of a sort, which is that if the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is based in Alabama, if this country were as racist as they said, he they want to people walk down the street or you know, around the corner and find some clansmen and some neo Nazis and so on, and you know, fight those guys right there. They actually to go to the trouble of inventing, creating, fabricating, etasizing racism so they could keep themselves relevant and then say to people, oh my god, we're fighting these guys.

33:18 Please give us money to fight them. I mean, they had to go to that extent. The same way with Jesse Similette in Chicago had to invent this, uh, you know, this alleged attack by red hat wearing Mega Mega Mega types who says it attacked him in the streets of Chicago turned out two Nigerian brothers who are you know, not very white at all. They're actually rather black, and that had to be invented. You've got all these other things. There's some guy at the US Air Force Academy prep school. He said that somebody put go Home Nward on his dormitory whitebird white board. That turned out to be a fabrication. He did that, apparently to distract from some other wrongdoing who he was involved in. The media told is Kyle written now, so he's a Mega mega anti white, white nationalist, pro Trump type of guy. Well, it turns out he told Tucker Carlson back when Tucker was at Fox News that he was a pro Andrew Young, a pro Andrew Yang BLM supporter, So not a Trump supporter, but Andrew Young Young supporter, not a white nationalist, but a BLM supporter. So so much of this racism we hear about these days is just invented, artificial, contrived, cooked up in order to keep America on edge and keep people thinking that, oh my god, the KKK is about to take over, the neo Nazis are about to take power. Oh my god, you got a vote Democrat, you got to give to the SPLC, you got to help out the NAACP, and on and on and on, and so much of the alleged racism we hear about now is just totally fake, total hotels.

34:45 You're right, America is breeding again, because you know, we've been saying this for decades, we're not racist, and yet the accusations were there, the media was piling on it and the whole deal. And then of course, you know, like you said said, here we get the attempt at assassination, kind of taking this off the out of the headlines and off of people's top of mind awareness. But then you get the decision of the Supreme Court yesterday. Right, yeah, that's right. You do get the whole situation with the. Mail dovetailed these together, and it's like, you know, yes, you know we're not racist, and you know that all this stuff has been a ruse and what they've done in damaging our culture and doing I mean, this is beyond disgusting. Like you said, people need to go to jail for this.

35:40 No question about it. Look, this country, obviously we've had racial problems from slavery through segregation and so Jim Crow and so on. We've tried very hard to get over this. We elected a. Black president then comfortably and re elected them comfortably two and twenty twelve. We've got black sectories of state, black attorneys general. We just had under Joe Biden, a black CIVI True of Defense during the whole Pentagon. You can debate about whether those people did good work or bad work, but they were appointed there. So how racist is a country if a black man is able to earn the Pentagon? I'm going to say, not that racist. Yes, they're individual racists around, but is this is systemically systemically racist country that's just doomed to centuries more of bigotry. I don't think so. And yet you've got people saying, oh my god, we've got to have you know, all black districts or black people have no representation in Congress, and all we got to have all this money sent to the other poverty law center to fight a bunch of racists who those guys are basically propping up. This is a much much, much much less racist country than the left to have us believe. And they don't want to give us any credit for having achieved the racial progress that we have, and instead they want to pretend that it's still nineteen fifty six and we're all living down in Birmingham, Alabama, getting hosed off the sidewalks by racist firefighters and people like Bull Connor and these other racist white democrats. I might add, those days are long behind us. They're in the history books. And I really wish the left would let us get on with our lives with that. Having to spend so much time worried about an ever shrinking and increasingly marginal problem of racism in this country.

37:11 Right, well, you know it's the reason for these grifters to exist. This has been a long time coming, and I thank God that this is all being brought to the light right now so that again, you know, people can say you know, with confidence, I mean, because they've been told time and again. You know. It's like I keep saying, who told you you were racist? You know? And so now we know who's been telling us we're racist, you know, the SPLC and the media and those that benefit, you know from this kind of grift, right. That's right. And you know who also benefits from this are political candidates. I just saw a piece today about how John Ossof, the Democrat senator from Georgia, apparently took something like I think it was one hundred thousand dollars donation from the Southern Poverty Law Center. So I'd like people to go up to on ASO at public events and have journalists and citizens ask him, you know, do you plan to give back the money It was given by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which was taken in a fraud, under fraudulent circumstances from well meeting people who thought they were fighting racism, not knowing that in fact they were underwriting and financing the activities of neo Nazis and klansmen and so center. Alsof do you plan to take that money and give it back to the Southern Poverty Law Center, or for that matter, give it to a charity.

38:27 Which maybe maybe. Doing actual positive work against racism, or going to keep that tainted money that was received fraudulently and use it in your campaign for reelection. Yeah, don't hold your breath, got to go to break. You can hold your breath now, Okay, because we'll be back with j Ryan Murdoch after this. Stay with us this dear season, John Deere wants to give you the home field advantage. We're bringing you the best offers of the season, whether that's cash off on select new machines or a shot at the ultimate Major League Baseball Prize package. Because right now you can. For a chance to win an MLB All Star experience for you and three friends, complete with travel and logic for All Star Week this July. Dear season is going on now through June third. Visit John Dear dot COM's last year season to enter and view the offers in complete.

39:16 Hey, welcome back Bill Martinez here with the Manattan Basebox News and Crimina de Roy Murdoch drawing. The other thing about the SBLC is the amount of offshore money. I mean we're talking millions of dollars. I mean, this tells you this is quite the enterprise. I mean, you know, and God only knows what other things cash Patel, And you know our Justice Department is going to discover because you know what happens when you start embracing this kind of insidious behavior. It's like eleven, It just goes throughout the whole system and it gets nastier and nastier. Right, Well, this is true. And while it's against the law for people overseas, foreign citizens or foreign cup these as the case may be, to give to American political candidates, they are able to give money to groups like the one you just mentioned, like Southern Poverty Law Center. I heard recently I learned from some people in the election integrity area that there's a big problem now of foreign money going not to candidates, but tod referenda, to ballot questions, and they put money into you know, vote to have more abortion, or vote to have this type of redistricting, or to do this with taxes or whatever it is. And you have foreign money coming in and backing one side of the other in ballot measures. That is a big loophole. And yeah, it's true. You may not be putting money into the into the pockets of somebody running for US House or US Center for the presidency. But if you are somebody, let's say, who can put money into this initiative in

40:46 California which is on the ballot this November to create a wealth tax for any billionaires, they've got to fork over x percent of their of their wealth, not their. Income, but their actual assets. You know, you could be China, you could be the Chinese Communist Party, you could be Hamas, you could be MS thirteen, whatever it may be, and put money into those ballot measures and help them to win and be able to create additional chaos in this country because you support the side that it's going to create a weaker economy or more racial tension, or more social division and acrimony. So we should not have foreign money involved in ballot measures. Anything that's on the ballot should be only the money of Americans and American citizens.

41:29 And the people in that state. If it's a state initiative, that should be involved, because otherwise you're diluting their vote. Yeah, I think largely so. I mean, if you are somebody from out of state with a lot of money, like let's say that there's a ballot measure in Florida and you've got Tom Steyer, whos a multi billionaire in California. You know, should a guy like Tom Steyer be able to put money into a ballot measure in Florida? I think there's a big, you know, very serious debate about that sort of thing. Certainly nobody from overseas that money needs to be stopped. And I understand there's some question about whether, for example, I understand that some organization you're able when you take in credit card money money on credit cards, you're able to say is this a foreign credit card or not?

42:11 And apparently just been turning off that switch so that they don't get the notification saying this is a foreign credit card, And so they could say, gee, we didn't. Know, we had no idea. Well, you know, if you don't ask the question, you know, it's like don't ask, don't tell, don't ask the question, You're not going to get the answer. And so they don't bother asking is this a foreign credit card? The money comes in if they get caught, oh gee, sorry, we didn't know what that. And if they don't get caught, then the money goes right through and has an impact on Americans elections when they vote on referend and on ballot initiatives and this sort of thing. Well, this is why, I mean, in light of the Supreme Court decision and the exposure of the SPLC, why to say that is so critical right now? Deroy, don't you think.

42:54 It is absolutely critical? I mean, this measure is extremely popular, something like sixty plus percent of Democrats want photo ID. I think maybe sixty five plus. The Democrats want only US citizens about our elections. The numbers among independents among Republicans are even higher. It passed the House, it stalled in the Senate. I don't know what John Thune is doing. He should have remained with this stand up filibuster to get this thing through, but they then decided to go take off two weeks for Eastern took all the pressure away from the Democrats to pass this thing. But we need to get this thing done. It needs to be signed by President Trump. It needs to be implemented this year so we can prevent foreign citizens voting in our elections, eliminate vote fraud and have a clean midterm election rather than yet another election with magic ballots popping up and mail in ballots coming in days after the polls are closed, and this kind of thing. I think what the House should do is every single bill it comes over from the House should have the Save Act attached to it. So, for example, this farm bill they just passed should be the Farm Bill plus the Save Act. If it's the Defensive Corporation Bill, to be Defense Propriations plus the Save America Act. Should be on every bill. At some point the Democrats are going to say, look this thing. If we want to pass anything, have anything, get put on President Trump's desk.

44:06 We got to swallow hard and take the Save America Act. This is popular, it's vital, it's important, and I don't have no idea why John Thune is not spending every weeking hour getting this thing through. It's very, very disappointing. And by the way, if it doesn't go through, I think the Republican base this November. Is going to be demoralized. They're going to be subjected, They're going to feel neglected, abused, and ignored, and a lot of them are going to say, you know what, we voted for Trump. We're glad about the Boarder, but we wanted Save America Act. The Republicans didn't. Vote for it. I'm not going to bother to show up and vote for US House members or US really that. Don't blame the US House. They've done their job, but vote for you know, US Senate if the Senate GOP didn't give us the Save America Act. So if the Save America Act doesn't go through, it's really going to be an act of political suicide on the part of the Republican Party. And I could see the point if this were really divisive and the country we're split right down the middle, and half the country loves it, half the country hates it, and maybe we don't want to rip the country into you know, you can maybe go along with an argument like that, but this is something that overall enjoys, you know, like ninety percent support among Republicans, eighty plus among independents, sixty sixty five percent among Democrats. For God's sake, the whole country's in favor of this thing. And yet somehow the Republican Senate, which is the same party as the Republican House and the Republican President wanting something that will be good for Republican candidates who will not suffer from vote fraud as they have for so many decades. They just can't seem to get off their butts and pass this thing.

45:30 It's so annoying and so frustrating and so counterintuitive. I mean they. Don't have any ex excuse of Well, nobody wants it, nobody's interested. Everyone hates it. No, everybody wants it. Everyone's aware of this. Even the Democrat rank and file. Democrats across the country want this. The only people who don't want it are Democrat officeholders because they know that if they if they have this thing go through, it'll be that much harder for them to steal elections to get reelected. Yeah, they they got to find a new way to cheat. I mean, they've worn't on this system for a long time, yea, and they don't want to have their system. Ben, And you know this is the thing, you know, I keep you know, you and I talked about this before. This is like Obamacare deja vu one more time for the Republicans. If you screw this up, I mean, you know, like it wasn't that we're not talking ancient history here. Look at what happened. You kept saying you were going to repeal and replace Obamacare. You had a chance, you didn't do it, and guess what you got punished for it, and you're gonna have the same thing happen. And uh, and John Thune needs to understand look at you know, the heck with tradition and uh, whatever you think may be the formality. I mean, the Democrats have already have already blown through the filibuster. I mean that's what gave us three you know, thank you very much, Harry Reid.

46:44 You know, three conservative justices on the Supreme Court, right, Yeah. That's right. I Mean the used to be that you pretty much had to get sixty votes to get somebody else on the to get to vote to on a Supreme Court nominee or any kind of a judge. And Harry Read, the former Democrat leader of the Senate majority leader at that time, got rid of that, so you can do it by a simple majority. And guess what that blew up in their faces, boomerang in their faces because Republicans took over and we're able to put Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Amy Cony Barrett on the Supreme Court under Trump forty five. I have no doubt that if the Democrats take over the Senate, the first thing they're going to do before they you know, before this down sit down in their new chairs, is get rid of the filibusters. So it's kind of like, I put it this way, it's like two people sitting at a table and there's a loaded glock on the table. You know, whoever grabs that first is going to be telling the other person what to do.

47:35 I'm not saying person has to be shot, but the whoever's whoever owns the gun is going to be, you know, calling for you give the pun, calling the shots in that relationship. And either we grab the glock first, or the Democrats grab the glock in a few years and then they'll be telling us, all right, this is this is the legislative general we're. Going to have. Welcome to d C and Puerto Rico's New States. I think maybe even the US Virgin Islands may be Guam. Who knows. My wife's opp at New States went up four, five or six New States. Let's expand the Supreme Court from nine justices to fifteen and make sure those other those brand new six are all liberal Democrats and so much you kissed the Supreme Court goodbye. And they're gonna implement the whole rest of their agenda. And they're going to do it by you know, with fifty votes or fifty one votes or fifty to fifty plus Democrat vice president splitting, the splitting of the tie.

48:23 So I think that the Republicans have got to grab the gluck now and get rid of the filibuster. Put this stuff through now. Because they don't do it now, it will be done to us. I'd rather be the person doing it than having it done to me. And of course they'll they'll pay the price in the midterms. I'll guarantee you if they if they mess this up. This is an interesting story from Gary Bauer. You know, we were just talking about, you know, the voting process and all that. I don't know if you saw this, but Michigan Democrats, you know, they had their endorsing convention last month, and so of course this is the same Democratic Party convention they formerly Doris the supporter of Hesbeola. Right, Okay, several candidates now are demanding a recount of the votes and a full audit of party procedures. It's been discovered that hundreds of convention voters there were improperly registered, hundreds of voters were not on the master voter list, and hundreds of illegal votes were cast.

49:23 Wow, that's at the convention. This is at the Michigan Democrats in Dorset. Convention that I thought there's no evidence of vote fraud. So there's actually evidence of vote front at the Michigan Democrat Party's convention. That's absolutely spectacular. Well, but it's like you were. Saying, it's been You've been saying this from day one, Deroy. This it's in their DNA. They don't know how to do. Yeah, they even cheat themselves, even cheat themselves. That are at a Democrat convention. That is astonishing. I also want to mention another aspect on this, redistrict and business in Georgia. We always have obviously the Republicans in Georgia for some reason. Brian Kemp, the Governor of Georgia, in light of the Supreme Court's Calle decision, this is the one that has to do with redistricting. He said, well, we'll get to that in twenty twenty eight. Excuse me, we have a midterm election in this November. What he's basically saying is, we're going to have an election this November with unconstitutional racially discriminatory districts. We're going to wait till twenty twenty eight to get past the racial discrimination. If you have racial discrimination and get rid of it now, you don't say let's have one more election and possibly lose the US House in the process. So Brian Kemp needs to get off his butt, get his act together, call a special session, bring the Republicans in, and put in a legislative map that does not reflect unconstitutional racial discrimination. I'm just shocked that a Republican has be as to be educated on this. This should come second or first nature to him. But for some reason, Brian Kemp and also

50:54 this guy Raffensberger who was the Secretary of State in twenty twenty seemed to drag their feet and anything and help the Republicans. Is they just, you know, they're just not all they're just not into it all that much, and they need to, you know, get up, get into it, and get involved. Is how James Brown would have put it and put an end of the racial discrimination on the Georgia Legislative maps and follow the Supreme Court's lead and give us maps in Georgia which are constitutionally sounded and Brian companies to get that special session going and. Right now exactly well, and talk about following the lead. Just look south and follow the lead of one Ron de Santis and what he's doing there in Florida too, Absolutely right, pretty pretty basic and logical. But that's what that's what we call leadership, Deroy, that's what, yeah, leadership And did it right and did it quickly? Yeah, well, we got to leave it there is always appreciate the time.

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52:53 Getting America back on track. Bill Martinez Live. Hey, good morning to you. Six minutes after the top. Bill Martinez here with Mike Palace from ATR Americans for Tax Reform. He is the tax policy director. Hey, Michael, good morning to you. Good morning, can be with you, Bill. Yeah, it sounds like the bells of doom because I'm you know, they're ringing here because I'm in California, and I think maybe our grandfather clock saw the gas prices. And it's a snee jerk response here. It's Mike, I cannot believe it. I mean a buddy of mine paid eight dollars and fifty cents the other day here in California. And when I left Florida, we were just what about four twenty four, twenty five, and and I get it.

53:36 You know, it's easy. Its way up at California. They said, that's about two dollars a gallon is just to keep Governor Newsom happy. Well, it's insane. And of course California has the highest gas prices in the country because of the extra taxes and regulations. You know, all all for green New Deal like policies, but we're seeing gas rise across the country, but Californians hit the hardest. Yeah, I don't understand why, you know, why they wouldn't want to do it, because since they've been ripped off by the government for all these years, you know, everything's just doing so wonderful. I mean, they are the poster child for green energy and all this you know, crazy climate insanity that hasn't moved the needle. I will say this though, When I was a kid growing up in California, we played on a baseball team. We traveled all over southern California, but we were based on the coast, so we never dealt with smog, right have you Have you ever had to deal with smog? It's oppressive. I mean, you can't breathe. It's hard, and you know, you're playing a nine inning game. By the time you get the fifth inning, you know, they're cracking out oxygen for you in the dugout. That's how bad it is when you're playing in the interior of LA. So they decided to do something about it, and they made a good move, you know, and the gasoline, the refineries and everything like that did a good move. It was very positive and we started getting relieved. Now you would think that would be enough, but no, the government just took advantage and says, all right, well, the door's open here. We're going to start to you know, up being the tax prices, because, after all, this is California, and as one legislator said, you know that California is such a wonderful state that

55:08 people will pay the price. So you're paying a premium in order to enjoy the benefits of the climate and this beautiful state. But yet now we should charge them back because what they've done is absolutely destroyed the state with homelessness and waste and fraud. Right, that's exactly what democrats do too. Right. They take regulation, they take a good initiative that was the clean up smog, and then they over apply it and they start overregulating. They apply it to greenhouse gases instead of to air pollution. Right, we have clean air, some of the cleaness that we've ever had right now, and instead they decide that they're going to have policy to control global emissions set from the state of California. Right. And like you say, and Grover's fond of referring to this, you know, because it's like, you know, every tax is a cut in your paycheck, and here in California it's the death of a thousand cuts because it every turn they're finding a way to whittle away at your paycheck.

56:04 And it's no wonder if finally people are moving I mean they're moving out in such a way that you you don't want to stand by the exits. You're gonna get run over by a U haul drug. That's right. We're starting to see across the country and especially in California, with discussions around a wealth tax. Yeah, you think. Democrats are out of ideas to tax you, I mean they keep coming up with new ways. Where you said, everywhere you look, the government's trying to get their cut. It's like the mob. Wherever there's money being made, they want to make sure they're getting their slice of the cake. Yeah, Mike, if you've got some sort of financial benefit, which a lot of people did with the Big Beautiful Bill, the Democrats went nuts, what what do you mean you're letting these you know, these pleabs have all that money. Oh, we got to find a way to capture that money.

56:45 So whether it's you know, some sort of incentive like an electric vehicle mandate or whatever, they find a way to claw back their share. It's like they want their big If they don't get their big man, you got you know, you got hell to pay. At America for tax from we've pointed out on Trump accounts, Gavin Newsom doesn't plan to conform with Trump accounts at the federal policy, so the state government will still treat a contribution from an employer to an employee's Trump account for their child as taxable income. I mean, they have no shame, you know, because, like I said, they're constantly fleecing the people. But look at the people. It seems almost like there's a little bit of enlightenment that's happening here in California, Like, you know, the Democrats are starting to go a little bit too far, and whether it's with redistricting, you know, go right on down the line. I mean, there's still the biggest boondoggle, of course, is this this rail that you know is costing him over two hundred billion dollars.

57:42 Mike. They haven't even laid an inch of rail and it was supposed to be originally from San Francisco to you know, just northeast of LA and now it's it's it's you know, they've cut it down dramatically. I mean it's like these. Were shovel ready jobs we were promised. Yeah under Obama, we're multiple presidents on from that now. Yeah, and what a joke. And then Obama laughs about it. Well, I guess they weren't so shelvel ready. Well, he says that at the expense of the taxpayer, right, we pay the money we expect, you know, like healthcare and all the other things he lied about in his scandal free administration that he says, right. Yeah, that's exactly right. And I think if you look at the scale of which because of the balloon ballooning costs, you're going to end up with high speed rail from Mercy to Bakersfield, I believe, now, yeah, exactly which the government stepping in. This was a jobs program that's created no jobs, of which the you know, we were going to solve the problem of how you get from LA to San Francisco when you can get an extremely reasonably priced airline ticket. Right, it's solving a problem that doesn't exist in costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars to embarrass the government for two decades and end up with high speed rail connecting less than one hundred miles.

58:57 But like you say, this is typical of the Democratic Party, sad. I mean, this is their mindset. I mean, they're they're dysfunctional. It's even like the language you know you got in Virginia. Here Spamberger declaring herself as a moderate and I'm saying, how do you define moderate? What is the new definition? And the Democratic Party of moderate? Yeah? And what she did she got elected by lying to voters. She ran as this moderate security mom in the realt is. The second she gets into office, it's it's full stop. You know, as liberal as progressive as we can go. We're going to change a five to six map in Virginia, one of the most fair election maps in the country.

59:37 They're gonna they're gonna go for this nine to ten to one whatever it is map courts hopefully you're going to throw it out here. And then on the policy front, it's just every tax like they can try to find out of the sun, coming up with new ideas, talking about now about raising taxes on dog grooming, raising taxes on streaming services, all while the voters are just screaming at the top issue for the last five plus years has been a four ability and cost of living right, and Democrats are just going to keep making you take it. And it's really frustrating. It's again added costs for families. There's are real kitchen table issues, and they're just going to keep adding on to families burdens. Well. And like you said and we mentioned earlier, is that they cannot sayd this is the Democratic Party, okay.

1:00:19 The Democratic Party has this mindset is when the people are making extra money, they want their big okay, the big beautiful bill against all odds and everything that they tried to push against there like that didn't want the big beautiful bill, but then when it passed, they go, okay, these people got money. So Spamberg goes, okay, so we're gonna, you know, we're open the door in new taxes, gym memberships, dog rooming, you know, tax on. You know, we got to get some of that tip money back, so we're gonna we're gonna capture and claw that back into the estate coffers. You know, it's just look at. I will be surprised. I mean, this is just me. Okay, I would be surprised if she ends up serving her full term because already and less hundred days, she's proven herself to be repealed.

1:01:05 Yeah. I think that's exactly right. And if you look at I think it shows the kind of big lie Democrats always run on when it comes on the tax front. And one the fact that they have to lie, I think is a sign that the conservative taxpayer movement has been winning now for a while. Where every Democrat will lie and say they're only going to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, right, We're not going to raise taxes on anyone earning less than four hundred thousand dollars. Was the Biden and Kamala Harris campaign promise that every Democrat parroted, and then the second you get a Democrat in office like Abigail Spaanberger, it's actually we're going to raise a new tax on dog grooming. We're gonna come after your Netflix and Hulu streaming. Right It's as if it's only millionaires and billionaires who are paying the sales tax or who are paying, you know, for Hulu and Netflix. Exactly for every American. They're going to reach it in everyone's wallet and search under every couch kitchen they can so they can spend more money to redistribute to democrat first and keep getting themselves elected.

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1:06:31 That's magavitamin dot com Nutrition for Patriots. Hey, we're back with you. The ATRS text policy director, the one in all of Mike Palace, continues with us. Yeah, it's a dysfunction, it's a disease. But the voter has got to wise up. I mean, because it's so obvious anymore. And you know, like him or love him. You know what I appreciate about Donald Trump is he gives you contrast, right, I mean, this is what good governance looks like. I mean, forget about his personality. I mean, here's you know, somebody who all of a sudden says, hey, I mean and all the other presidents had opportunity to say, what about tariffs? Can we utilize tariffs to help reduce income tax and draw down this thirty nine trillion dollars a debt? You know, can we do something different and offer what about no tax on tip? What about no tax on Social Security?

1:07:23 Is that an affordable issue? And he's he's answering the questions that are coming out in some questions that didn't even necessarily come out of kitchen tables other than hey, we need we need affordability. And what does he do? I mean, immediately he found a way to reduce oil you know, drill, baby, drill, and we were doing okay until hey, we got to deal with Iran. But it's surprised you pay and some people need to pause and think, you know, do you want to pay higher guess taxes for a short period of time and rid yourself of the risk of a nuclear Iran who has already threatened to kill America, has killed Americans, probably a thousand Americans over the last forty seven years, and they're threatening Hey, give me the nuclear bomb, and we're going to wipe out the little Satan and the big Satan Israel in America.

1:08:11 I mean, why would you not want to invest in your national security? Because we know that freedom is not free. And I think if you want to look at the energy front, that is one issue where Trump has absolutely turned the tables on the left broken through, and I think the left that you know, green environmental movement is probably at its lowest point it's been in my lifetime. Right now. We've seen just I don't think we would have had twenty years ago the ability to launch this action against Iran that we have now. There's an amazing story right now because of the Trump administration's energy policies making American energy independent, because of the fracking boom we've seen that Democrats did everything in their power to stop. You've actually seen natural gas prices go down during the area exactly right.

1:08:55 Of course, oil prices gas prices are up right now, but you're seeing some monumental long term change too, where the UAE has left Opek that we're actually breaking up the Opak oil cartel right now. That's like the American consumer since it's an intervention since its invention, right, the fact I think we're seeing you know that that's so much of that attributable to the Trump administration energy policy. I think in his ability to break through the media too, that Democrats have alwaysind a stranglehold on. He had a great post calling out Governor Abigail Spamberger on these new tax increases and to your point drawing the contrast between low taxes and growth offered by Republicans and what we're seeing with Democrats to search for every tax like under the sun, whether it's a wealth tax, are coming after your streaming service right now. That is the contrast. That is how Republicans need to win elections, be the party of low cost growth and low taxes.

1:09:47 Well, the Republican Party brought back affordability when they elected and when the people elected Donald Trump, because look at what was we were experiencing under Biden, you know, whether it was taxes, living, and he had no concern, he didn't care people were paying four or five dollars a gallon of gas. I remember those signs, remember that they put on gas pumps. Did I do that? You know kind of deal? Brandon? You know, yeah, exactly right, right, in exact, three and a half years of real wages decreasing three and a half years street under Biden. We finally have now real wages under the Trump administration increasing. We have tax cuts, letting people keep more of their own money, larger tax refunds.

1:10:28 This season, in a growing economy. We just had a good GDP quarter of growth of about just over two percent. That's something the Biden administration would have been thrilled with if they barely ever saw. And again, letting people keep more of their own money, letting workers and families' wages actually increase. That's how you get growth in prosperity. That's what Trump administration's been delivering. And speaking of GDP, watch what happens on the other side of it. Run You've got meanwhile, which is somewhat similar to Barack Obama. Barack Obama, ohpress the middle class and held back labor and you know, you know, with all his crazy policies and everything like that. And I said, you had all this pent up energy that as soon as Trump came in, he opened up the gates and we went through the roof. I mean, you know, unemployment went down. Obama in a very braggadocia sort of way and mockingly sort of way, and made fun of Donald Trump.

1:11:21 Said. You know, when Donald Trump was talking about three four percent GDP, he started laughing at me. He says, he goes, you know, there's no way you can do better than two percent. That's just what it is. It's it. You know, we're there. Well, that's that's the best that Barack Obama could do because he didn't have a vision beyond that. Donald Trump is a businessman and he has a vision for America and Americans. I mean, he's non beholden. I've said this from day one. He's not beholden to you know, the K Street lobbyists and all these money people, and that I think he's got his eyes open about the deep State because they're dangerous three ways to Sunday, There's no doubt about it. And you know, so he's got to keep an eye on them and these other people like you say, they've been grifting off the American taxpayer forever, and the taxpayer is starting to see this.

1:12:07 But Donald Trump, you know, there needs to be more. Donald Trump's just like there's becoming more. Charlie Kirk's you killed Charlie Kirk. But now there's you know, it's just more they're reproducing and with that passion and idea. And it's the same thing for Donald Trump as they continue to try to, you know, kill him at every turn. Just about and you talk about, I think just his ability to think outside the box and deliver for the taxpayer movement, to deliver for American families. One thing he's looking at right now, at doing that I think would just be the silver bullet to any concern with affordability rising costs is consideration of indexing capital gains is something we're big supporters of. Something like Larry Cudlow and Steve Moore, close economic advisors of Trump, are big fans of. You talk about housing affordability, Well, you would help both buyers and sellers if we can wipe out biten inflation by adjusting the tax on inflation that Americans currently pay. Something in Trump's doing right now and looking at doing right now, strongly consider him doing. I think it helped thirty million American people who file capital gains every year and three corps of which earn under two hundred thousand dollars, a huge move the Trump administration can do and should do.

1:13:12 See, this is how you know how dastardly the Democrats are. I mean, think about it. They create inflation and then they draw benefit for inflation. So the incentive for them is to keep pushing the needle of inflation because they make more money. And when they make more money, they get more money into the cofferce for re election campaigns. Right. And I think that's how powerful this issue is on cap gains indexing. You can go and make the election about whether or not Americans pay taxes on inflation. If that's not a winning issue for Republicans, force Democrats to argue everyone should be paying inflation taxes. I think that's how you win a midterm That's how you talk about the economy. Well. See, and this is the problem with the Democratic Party. See, they cheat and still in all these subtle ways. And when you bring it out, whether it's blatant fraud from the Leering Center in Minnesota or what's going on in California.

1:14:04 And God only knows, because the deal is And I say God only knows, because what you're seeing is a systemic issue here. They've got this. It's like a. Franchise that the Democrats have set up a franchise to fleece the American taxpayer. That's exactly right. They're ripping off Americans across the country, and then you have to be blind to it. I mean Democrats are obviously where this is happening in their cities and which you put when you've literally got a daycare center that can't spell its own name correctly, get somehow Democrats are just completely oblivious to all of this happening while these same places are giving campaign contributions back to the state Democrat parties directly how they benefit it.

1:14:45 That's the game that they've always played. It's fleecing taxpayers to redistribute to their special interest to win elections. That's what Democrats do. They take their money and they give it to someone. Else, and then when they're found out, you know, like Governor Waltz, then they rally as see what we've done for you. We discovered this and you know, Cashptel could not believe the gall of Governor Waltz. I mean that man has no shame, whether it's stealing you know, military honor or you know the hard work of the Feds. You know, this guy has no conscience. It's amazing to me. And it's thankfully again we're talking about voters wisening up to this. The fact he's being forced out of office, I think is a win for both the state and for Americans.

1:15:27 Well, but the deal is is that's just you know, it's it's the tip of the iceberg in a sense, because this is so deep rooted. They have been doing this for decades and they are I say, they're black belts and fraud. They know all the angles, and like you say, it's almost it's a cabal. It's like it's like the mob. Yeah, And I think that's if we just look at what's happening. They are They are too irresponsible to govern. They cannot govern the economy. You look at these radical canids they're putting on the ballot the selection cycle, people like ram Platner in Main oh I should be terrifying that the idea that someone like that could be the United States Senate. I think voters, we do need them to wisen up and pay attention here because this is a very important midterm election. It's going to, i think, determine the course of the Trump administration for those remainder in office and the Democrats on the ballot simply are too progressive, too far left to govern, and they're going to take the economy run into the ground.

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1:20:27 I'll order ship quickly and include a thirty day money back guarantee for a better night's sleep. Get your order of Restova today and make sleepless nights a thing of the past. Get Restova exclusively at magavitamin dot com. Nutrition for Patriots. Hey, good morning, Welcome back Bill Martinez here along with Bill pascotpp's man in DC and on the Beltway and everywhere. Hey, mister Bill, how you doing buddy? I'm doing well, Bill, How are you. Hey, I'm doing terrific. I gotta tell you, well, I'm in California. This is an interesting observation here. You know, they're paying My friend the other day paid eight dollars and fifty cents for a gallon of gas. And I mean, and it's all over the place. Now you would take Switzerland. Yeah, it's nuts, it's crazy. And so you would think that for the high price of gas, there would be less people on the freeway. The freeways are jammed. And I guess if people figure they're paying eight dollars for a gallon of gas here the speed limit, it's it's not even a suggestion anymore. Wow, you know, Wow, it's like eighty five ninety people's hair on fire, just burning up gas, you know, at that rate. And of course Newsom's going, hey, great man, that's just more tax money and OARC offers to you know, build something else that we tell everybody we're going to build and not build.

1:21:48 Wow, how is that bullet train going? By the way, is that more of a buckshot train now maybe even bucks sold? Yeah, yeah, it's not going. They still haven't laid an inch of rail, and billions of dollars tied up. I mean, I mean, people, they can't be serious to think this guy could be the president of the United States. He is the most incompetent governor between him and Bass. I mean the one state here that's all controlled by the Democrats as a poster child, and clear evidence that the Democrats have no idea how to govern. You know, I'm still waiting for the Vice President's new fraud Task Force to walk into the Labor Department in California and say, Okay, now we understand that during COVID, when Julie Sue was the Secretary of Labor at the or the deputy Secretary of Labor in Washington, we understand that she came from being the secretary of labor in California and that under her watch, thirty billion dollars was lost to fraud. And they haven't even really begun the investigation.

1:23:00 I mean, you want to talk about Virgin territory for investigators. Holy, that's three times the size of the fraud in Minnesota, right, and it's about time. Yeah, And they want a law. They want a law outline the Nick Shirley law that they don't want people coming in and checking into it. So they want to make it a you know, an offense. And as that would be a violation of the law to report on somebody else's crimes. Yeah, the fact that they're stealing, you know, you're not supposed to do that, you know, and it's just it is just grossly disgusting. And of course, you know, you know, we saw what happened in Minnesota, and then I love that Governor Waltz tried to do a end zone dance, a victory dance, claiming victory that look at what we've done for you, right, right, right, look at what we didn't do for you.

1:23:46 Right That's that was an interesting take. Well, you know, you've got to hand it to him. You know, the Democrats, they have no call, they have no shame, and this is what we're dealing with, and and how people want to continue to seriously consider them to be in office is beyond me. Bill. I just I'm wondering, gosh, what are we coming to. It's like fifty percent, it's really a fifty to fifty country, and you know, it's almost like, you know, we're trying to negotiate, to negotiate with the with the Democrats and Hakeem Jeffries in that I mean, we might as well be, you know, negotiating with the IRGC in Iran, and. Those negotiations don't seem to be going as well as we might hope. But you know what, it occurs to me listening to you talk there about what's happening to the country. I want you, I want you to go back in time thirty years to the mid nineteen nineties, and I want you to think of a Texas Senator by the name of Phil Graham. To my mind, we all missed out by not having the opportunity to live under his presidency. I think he would have been a fantastic president at the time in the nineties. He had a very simple way of looking at America. There's two kinds of Americans. You're either pulling the wagon or you're in the wagon. And the idea was, we want fewer and fewer people in the wagon being pulled by more and more people, so that that distributes the weight more equitably.

1:25:18 It becomes easier if there's a thousand people pulling the wagon, that's one thing. But if there's one hundred thousand people pulling the wagon, well, then it becomes easier for everybody who's pulling the wagon. Your tax burden could come down if there are more people pulling the wagon than there are in the wagon being pulled along. The problem with the Democrats these days is everybody wants to get in the wagon. Nobody wants to say, you know, I'll pull the wagon, I'll help pull the wagon, I'll get out front, I'll put no, no, no no. Nobody wants to do that anymore. Everybody wants to get in the wagon for one reason or another. And you know what's going to happen is eventually there's not going to be enough people left pull in the wagon, and the wagon's not going to move at. All, exactly.

1:25:59 Yeah. And the thing is is that you have some people guests that have that enablement or that entitlement attitude. But the deli is is when you have a government and a party with their policies to say no, get in the wagon, and they're throwing people into the wagon whether they want to or not. And they get there and they you know, they're taking care of a little bit and they get comfortable. And here it is, like you said, we've got a wagon full of people who are not pulling their weight, and it's so Unamerican, you know when you think about the founding and we had some tough times, you know, during the depression, and how people you know, they looked at, you know, government aid is something to you know, somewhat be ashamed of. And I get that, you know, because they you know, people we're Americans, we're not Americans, and you know, we'll get the job done.

1:26:49 And it's counterintuitive, it's counter our own personalities to want to rely on the government, you know, we want to be we want to be givers, not takers, buy and large. And this is what has come down to. But getting back on Iran real quick, as I want to talk about the Supreme Court decision last week too. Is the latest Harvard Harris poll asked a series of questions about the conflict with Iran. Results to have a bit surprising considering all the weights of the media has been putting and leading Democrats about the false claims putting them out there about us about America losing the war. The poll found bill that the left's negative narrative isn't working. Seventy four percent of Americans, including sixty percent of self identified Democrats, believe we are winning the war. The vast majority of Americans are not fooled by the left's deceitful narratives, as Gary Bauer. Now, why would Democrat leaders, including how King Jeffries want people to thank the US is losing a military conflict? What do you think?

1:27:51 Right, We've got elections coming up in just a few months, and those elections are key to the Democrats. They think they have to win the House so that they can stop the Trump agenda, because that's what it's all about for them. It's not about making America better. It's not about even coming up with policies of their own that they think would make America better. It's just about stopping Trump. That's been the entire name of the game for the Democrats, not just now, but for the last ten years. And that's why the remarkable thing is even the left wing commentators who are constantly trash talking the President and his administration and Republicans on Capitol Hill, they have to acknowledge in the same breath that, well, people don't think that much of the Democrats either, and they kind of move off that very quickly. But if they know, if you put a gun to their head and force them, they would say, yeah, Democrats have a real problem too, because people, as much as they hate Donald Trump, they hate the Democrats even more. Now, why could that be? Could it be because people have come to the conclusion that the Democrats aren't doing anything for them. The Democrats are simply involved in trash talking Trump and that doesn't Does that put a check in anybody's mailbox? Does that put cash money in their wallet? Does that reduce the cost of living?

1:29:10 Does that, to use the word of the day, does that make life more affordable? Trash talking Trump? No, it doesn't do anything to make life more affordable. What what makes life more affordable is keeping taxes low, preventing the biggest tax increase in history. Let's have let's have new tax cuts. How about no tax on tips? How about no tax on overtime? How about a tax break? If you're a senior, you've worked your entire life, why should the government be taking so much money from you. Guess what we're gonna We're gonna lower the cost of living for seniors by giving them an additional tax cut that didn't exist before. That's what the Trump administration has been doing. That's why Democrats are terribly upset because you know, right now, we're going through tax season.

1:29:52 People. People started getting refunds a couple of weeks ago and they're looking at wait, how did I get this much money? And their accountant their turbo taxes telling them maybe because there were new tax cuts that went into effect thanks to Republicans and Congress and President Donald Trump exactly. And the thing is, I think Democrats are realizing the mess that we're in is a result of the policies and acted during Joe Biden in oh yes, eight years of Barack Obama. So anyway, this is where we are, and maybe reality is starting to sync in. We can only hope for Bill. We didn't get a chance to talk to talk about SCOTUS, but we'll have to do it the next time. But as always, we appreciate your insight. The one and only Bill Pasco, he's tpp's man in Washington.

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1:34:42 Hey, good morning, welcome back. Good to have you with us. Bill Martinez here along with plugin dot COM's Adam Holtz. Mister Adam, how are we doing, buddy? Oh I'm great. How are you doing? Hey, I'm doing fine. I gotta tell you, I'm a little surprised at the box office results here. I never would have thought that Devil Wears Prada two would outgross Michael the movie. Well, it was double Ware's PRODA two's first week and Michael's second or third week. So as a general rule, movies fall off about fifty percent from week to week, Okay, so it makes room for the newcomers. And I think that with both of them, what we have are examples of different kinds of nostalgia, right, you know, Michael is nostalgia for the sixties, seventies, and eighties, mostly the eighties.

1:35:32 And Double Ware's Product Two is a movie that connects with a lot of people who saw and loved the first one twenty years ago. It came out exactly twenty years ago, and so that's amazing. I think twenty years ago, I. Know, it feels like five years ago, right. Exactly at max. If you could have won one hundred dollars off me and just say how long do you think it was? I would never even got close to twenty years. No, I wouldn't have been close either. And you know, I think that there remains a fascinating with the high fashion New York, you know, clothing scene, that whole that whole thing, the fashion world, And I mean we see it even today, like we just had the Met Gala this week, and I've seen so many headlines about the crazy things people wore, and I just have to say, who cares? And yet obviously people care. Obviously it gets eyeballs on news stories, or they wouldn't they wouldn't publish these news stories, right exactly, there is a fascination with what you know, they're rich and the famous do with their excess money. And I think that the Devil Workers brought it to taps into some of that sort of fantasy realm. And I think it it's going to skew more toward a female audience obviously, whereas I think Michael was a movie that probably appealed across the board equally to both men and women.

1:36:53 I would think so. Yeah, the met Gallas, speaking of which my curiosity is, how do they I mean, do they stay standing up? Well? Forget that? How do you take a break when you need to? If you know what I need exactly? You know, some of those outfits, I'm like, you would need a staff to get into them. And you know what do you do? You just hope for the best. Either that or you're wearing protective moments that could capture that stuff like that gal. Remember that that gal that drove cross country to go after her her lover's girlfriend or whatever. Maybe I remember pretty. Crazy and war diapers. Yeah, no, it's uh, it's pretty crazy. Uh, And I think that it illustrates, you know, the principle.

1:37:41 I forget whether it was Chesterton who said something to the effect of, you know, when we throw God out the window, we won't you know, worship nothing, We will will automatically worship something else. And I think that we see a desire to find meaning purpose afrom who knows what people are looking for. But I think that's all on display in an event like that. And Chestersten's words echo especially. Now because and I paraphrase them really badly. No no, no, no, but we get the point. And you're exactly right. I mean, you're going to worship something, and that's just human nature. It's a way we've been designed. And people want to get into things that are in between and gray areas and that no, it's black or white, it's either God or something else. And that's what it comes down to. And look what's happening right now. I mean you've got young men, especially at them, that are.

1:38:35 Flocking flocking back to the church. And it's they are flocking back to Catholic churches, to Evangelical churches. I mean, it is across the spectrum, and I think it indicates a cultural weariness with things that promise satisfaction and don't deliver. Right. There's a rejection of the mainstream narrative of what really matters in life. And I think that that is a hopeful thing, right. Yeah, without a doubt. You know, I had I was privileged to have lunch with George Barnet be in California. He was in California. I said, hey, let's get together. It's actually the first time we sat down and you know, just you know, just talked, you know, share story. You know, it was so much fun. But we were talking about this dynamic about what's happening in the churches and that you know, particularly you mentioned the Catholic Church is seeing some you know, dramatic growth, not so much in some of these other Protestant churches. And what his research is showing is what somebody else has been echoing to me as well, is that some of these kids, they don't want to go to a nightclub. And you know, the woke churches of today that you go in there and I mean they got you know, smoke, you know, machines and lights blasting and everything. It's like you walked into a disco and it's like, who are worshiping here? Again?

1:39:56 You know your earlier point and this is what is all He's been a challenge you know, because you've got to remember that Satan himself was the worship leader of Heaven, right, right, And so when you have so much focus at the stage, right. Yeah, Yeah, And I think that we are longing for a genuine transcendent experience. We are hardwired in God's image to seek to experience something bigger than ourselves, and the world offers lots of substitutes. It offers a lot of It offers, you know, sexuality outside of the context that God designed it. I think one of the more interesting things I've probably told you this before, one of the more interesting things I ever read, was by Pastor Eugene Peterson.

1:40:43 He said, we recognize sex and drugs as ways that people are trying to find transcending experience. But he said the third one that we don't talk about as much as crowds, and that has really shaped the way I see so many of these movements and the protest movements. I may not and in fact I almost never agree with what's being protested. However, understanding that as people are desperate to have a part in a narrative bigger than their own lives, that helps me at least understand it psychologically, even if I say, man, what are you doing? Why are we protesting this? You know, and doing the things that go along with that. But that that article has always stayed with me, that we're we're hardwired, and forget protests.

1:41:31 You know, it can be a football. Game, anything, anything that brings people together. Exactly my concert, any of those things. I was. I went to a concert last week with my nineteen year old son. We went to a hardcore concert bill. You would have been so proud of me, right on the edge of the mash pit, wondering what on earth I'm doing here and hoping that I don't end up in the hospital. Now that was shock. No, yeah, but are. You adam, my buddy? What do you do it? Yeah? No, But again I found myself in this weirdly reflective place of Okay, these people are hungry, they are desperate for a sense of meaning, a sense of connection, and even in the weirdness of the mosh pit with people ramming into each other, just human touch, right, just sometimes.

1:42:23 I can't believe they're still mushing. Oh yeah, mushing it had gone out. No, they're still they live and. Well it's alive, and well yes. I'll tell you. Yeah. Well but look at you got to enjoy this with your son. I did know, and that was why I went and I actually at one point we just looked at each other and we just laughed because it was so hysterical. Now, you didn't throw yourself in the middle of the freight, did you. No? I didn't, because you had you had you had limits good. You know, even if I even if that impulse had occurred to me, which it did not. Yes, I'm not twenty anymore. No, right, yeah, yeah, you need tailand all or ibuprofen to the ready you start throwing yourself in the middle of that stuff.

1:43:07 Yeah, well I one person afterwards picked up a pair of glasses broken in half on the floor. And there are all these people looking for the things that got lost in the mash pit. It was kind of strangely sadly funny just to watch people looking for everything that jumped out of their pockets and off their faces while they were smashing into each other. Yeah, and you go, well, who's and who's going to pay for that? Well? Mom and dad? Well mom and dad, right, yeah exactly. But again, where we're looking for something that provides meaning, and we look for it in all sorts of places. And the bottom line of all this is self responsibility. You know, you've got this movement that's going on, you got this curiosity that's going on, and I pray that you would have a heightened level of self responsibility that the change and transformation that you're looking for it. You know, God is faithful and he's the same, and you have to seek God out and seek his wis him. He's not going to be found outside of his character. Yeah, He's the same yesterday and forever.

1:44:08 You know. I heard one pastor over the weekend speaking of going with your son. I went with my son to his church because I'm here in California, and we visit his church, and I was impressed with his pastor, his pastor's biblically sound. And one thing though, and I told my son, I said, that kind of bothered me, was that he said something about God's grace being lifted away, that as if, as if God would lift his grace away. And I know what he what he was trying to say is that sometimes in our activity we get away from God. But it's not that God lifts his grace. God's grace is always. There, right, It's that we choose to wander away from it. Right exactly. And I thought that he missed and I was talking to my son about it, and I thought he missed that point. Because God's the same yesterday, today and forever, and yes all this was the basis of free will. That God loves us so much he gives us free will, which all, when you really think about it, makes so much sense. And so we have the free will, but also the experience of getting outside the covering and not being submissive to His will and his loss, you know which, which means to be under the protection of Then we get hammered.

1:45:20 Right right, No, that's exactly right. But we must have to get hammered a few times before we realize, Oh it hurts when the hammer comes down on my head, right, I actually don't want to do that again. And it's not God that does it. No, it's our own stupidity. Well it's but it's also the system that was created good and evil. Okay, So as soon as you walk away from good, then you walk into the realm of evil. And sometimes it's pronounced with a hammer on the head, sometimes a car wreck, sometimes other things. But again, the responsibility is on us right, I'm gonna let you wrap up. Well, it is, and I think that we always have to keep that in mind. And I think with regard to all these people coming to the church, those of us who maybe have been there for a while, the onus is on us to understand that they may not look or sound like what we're used to seeing in church, and we want to really really listen to their stories and do whatever we can to make them feel welcome as well. And also when you're done with that, you can come to plug in dot com, which is a ministry of focus on the family, and we'll talk movies and entertainment with you as well.

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