The Bill Martinez Show 06 05 26

0:00 Are you ready, Yeah, Okay, let's do it. Ill Martinez Live a program about current events, our culture, our values, our politics, and our future. And now Bill Martinez. Hey, good morning, welcome six minutes after the top of the hour. Right now, Bill Martinez here, we've got Alex Draman join us. The award winning journalist and the CEO and Jerusalem Bureau chief for JNS News Alex. Chalom, Hello, Bill, good to see you. Hey, always good to see you, my friend. Let's update everybody on all things Israel, all things are run, all things in the Middle East. We'll go around the horn here, right, Let's start at the home front. How's everybody there in Jerusalem.

0:42 Well, it's been quiet here since the ceasefire was declared. We're coming up on about two months of ceasefires. So in terms of rockets to the home front, most of the country has been spared. Over the last few weeks, we have had increasing number of attacks coming from Lebanon at areas that are near to the Lebanese borders. So we've got a number of small villages and towns and small cities near the Lebanese border, and they've been getting hit by by rockets and by drones, and in particular, they've been using these fiber optic drones, which is something they weren't using in early parts of the war. These are have been featured in the Russia Ukraine war and now Kazba has them. They're very hard to detect as well as to shoot down because they don't use a radio frequency.

1:31 Well, let's talk about the drones first. Are they coming via Russia. It's a good question, you know, that's a good there's a good chance that they may be coming via Russia. It could be that they're coming there. You know that there are you know, three D plans to three D printing that's taking place, like inside Lebanon and others. But there's something that they're using now that's that's sort of like making it easier to to hit. And we've seen another number of Israeli soldiers get hit as well that are inside Lebanon as well as Israeli villages near the border. Now, has Iran sent up the bats signals so to speak, you know in American terms, that has caused Hasbela to activate themselves again and attack Israel. What's going on here?

2:21 Oh? Absolutely? Uh, you know, Chasbela is an Iranian proxy and it is operating at the. Orders of Iran. Uh. And on the one hand, Iran is saying that they want to cease fire with President Trump in the United States. That includes the ceasing of fire on all fronts, which includes between Hesbela and Israel. And then on the other hand, they have Isabella attacking Israel, forcing Israel to test its resolve and to return fire and to actually the Israeli military doctrine now is not just. Tit for tat. It's to make you Makechabel pay a serious price, right, So it's it's going, you know, on much more intensive operations, deeper and deeper inside Lebanon. And so as Israel is doing that to teach Casebella a lesson and to to re establish the terrens, Iran is then using that as saying, hey, look, we're not going to agree to anything as long as the Israelis continue to fight.

3:23 So what they're trying to do is to create. Some kind of uh A tension between President Trump and Prime Minister Natanielle. Yeah. I was gonna say that seems to be the playbook here. Uh and uh and I you know, I of course I'm cheering for Israel, that Israel needs to do what is right for its own security. And and I realized at times Bebingt Yahoo probably has to walk a tight rope here between Jerusalem and UH in Washington. D c Oh. Absolutely, I mean, there there's no way that Israel would have been able to accomplish nearly as much as it was able to accomplish in Iran if it was not flying. Side by side with the United States.

4:05 So the fact that that Operation Epic Fury that was led by the United States means that what Israel did was take its war, you know, which started on October seventh, and gave at least this chapter of it to being America's war right. And so what happens then is that you have the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, who's now really calling the shots. But if you think about it in terms of what Israel would have been able to accomplish, if you didn't have the United States bring all of its air force assets, including all the refueling planes and the heavy heavy bombs, they never would have been able to hit all those ballistic missile nuclear targets and assassinate all those senior leaders in as short a time.

4:47 Frame, right, And of course it was genius as well. I mean, this is the partnership of working with Israel, you know, the mesade and the idea. It's just so brilliant and strategic, what you We're able to do at the onset of the war, even identifying you know, these crucial coordinates so that you could wipe out their leadership. I mean, that's that's all on Israel. Isn't it. Absolutely? The United States was relying very, very heavily on Israeli intelligence throughout the war, and Israel was able to hit targets and strategic importance for the United States as well, and they did so with incredible precision. You know, we didn't see you know, in the two. And a half years of fighting we Israel, and I don't know how this is even possible. It hasn't lost a single pilot or a single plane.

5:35 You know. The safest profession in the entire world over the last two and a half years has been to be an Israeli Air Force pilot. So I know for certain that the Americans are very very impressed with the Israeli pilots. They're very expressed with the what. Israel's able to do with the planes, the way they're able to Jerry rig for example, F thirty five's the most sophisticated planes in the world to increase their flight distance. And certainly also the intelligences been Uh, it's it's been a tremendous partnership between the United States and Israel. Well, I also say, the hand of God, no doubt, continues to be in the favor of Israel, and uh, you know, and so we continue to pray for the piece of Israel and piece of Jerusalem, as our Bible says.

6:19 The number one question here in the United States, Uh, that we have, Alex and I don't know if you can answer it is that you know, who is Trump negotiating with? You know, because one one minute, I RGC maybe it's the you know, the possible, you know, dead Ayatola. I mean, everybody scratching their head because it seems like there's a proposal out there and then they come back with something altogether different. And as you mentioned, you know with Hesbela, Hesbela wasn't part of the negotiations. Now all of a sudden, you know, Iran is saying no, no, we need to protect all our proxies we want the Huthis, we want Hamas, we want Asbala protected as well. Right, the whole angulosity. Absolutely, I mean you basically have I mean we're generalizing here, but you have like three major camps, all of whom have some kind of a role.

7:07 In the negotiations or in control. So on the one hand, you've got the sort of the Ayatola and religious fanatic camp, and you have a possibly a supreme leader in Moshtaba Hamen, the son of Ayatola Kamenei, who was assassinated at the beginning of the war. I mean, nobody has seen him or confirmed, though you're hearing reports now. I think even maybe in the last twenty four hours, Mark Rubio said that they're getting indications that Hamna's son has a bigger role than he did before. We don't know what extent of injuries he had. You have the. Sort of political class which includes the president Pozek and includes the head of the Iranian Parliament, the speaker of the parliam Into Galibaf, and then you had also the foreign Minister Aradchi, who are part of this political class, who the ones that are making a lot of the public statement. It's on x and may be involved in some of these phone calls back and forth of the United States. And then you have the one who's really believed to be in power inside Iran, which is the iergy C. And when you ask, like, what does it mean to be in power? So it's who's controlling the population, who's preventing the population from overthrowing the regime?

8:18 This is the ergy C. Who's actually controlling the straits of Ramuz and blocking a free passage of commercial vessels, that's the IRGC. So you know, ultimately they're the ones that are still still in control. And what Israel and the United States have seen is that it's not really possible to defeat a group that maintains its control with small arms with F thirty five's and F sixteen's right exact Iranian strategy as well. Right to me and my observation alex Is is when you look at these groups, clearly, it seems that the IRGC is the most dangerous of them.

8:59 All Right, they're the center of control. They were designed in order to keep this regime in power. Right, are the ones that were shooting thousands of Iranians civilians to death in the weeks leading. Up to this war. Remember, back in January, the President has said as many as forty thousand Iranians were sadered on the streets. You know that. I've heard Israeli estimates that say that they believe that that number is overblown, but that they still believe that thousands of Iranians were murdered during these protests, of at least a million people. Exactly. Well, let's go to quick break. We'll pick it up on the other side. More for Alex Streman after this. This report is sponsored by IBM as AI transforms how work gets done. A new IBM CEO study finds success will depend on how quickly organizations redesign their workforce. CEOs agree people are the priority. Eighty three percent of CEOs say AI success depends more on people's adoption than the technology, but many organizations are still struggling to redesign roles, build new skills, and rethink how teams collaborate. This gap is already showing up in the workplace. CEOs say only twenty five percent of employees are using AI as part of their jobs, even though eighty six percent believe their workforce have the skills to collaborate with AI. Looking ahead, CEOs expect the impact on jobs to accelerate by twenty twenty eight.

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14:25 And you know the numbers estimate I've heard numbers in the eighty in the eighty thousands that were slaughtered, so what I mean forty fifty. I mean, it's a lot of humanity that's been mowed down by the i ERGYC. It's no wonder the people in Iran are still kind of buckled down and by the grace of God enduring you know, inflation, food shortage, all that they're doing right now, because I mean, if the IERGC themselves are not eating healthily, I doubt that the locals are eating much better. You have electricity shortages, you have water shortages. What we've just seen now for the first time is that the Internet has been turned back on after being off for approximately you know, two to three three months, right basically.

15:11 Why would they why would they turn it back on? Alex Well, I think that at a certain point that there's pressure, you know, both domestically and internationally to get the Internet back on. And where we live in a world in which the whole world is connected by Internet. For whatever reason is, they've gotten the Internet. They're back on, and Iranians are now for the first time, like really being able to see exactly what's going on in the rest of the country. And I've seen, you know, you see things on social media. Just I was looking today and it looks like there may be Iranians taking to the streets again in larger numbers because they're now able to communicate and see what's actually happening in other parts of the country. And of course they must be you know, careful themselves, because you know, they're still executing their own people, right even as you and I are talking.

15:59 Right, And that's actually what one of the purposes of economic sanctions on Iran is and strangling the country economically because the country is in economic straits as it is. But you have the IERGYC that's willing to shoot its own fellow civilians because they're getting paid to do that. That's the idea is that if they're not getting paid to do it anymore, would you just turn guns on your fellow countrymen if you weren't getting paid by a regime to do that. So that that's why you want to keep that economic pressure on. Of course, Uh, you know, Iran has a lot of leverage over the international community, which is these strategic straits of Romus, which allows all oil to flow out of the Persian Gulf. And this is important not only to Iran but also to countries like Qatar and to the United Arab Emirates and others.

16:47 So they're pressuring the president to get the straits of Ramus open uh and Aron saying, okay, well, we want to see sanctions, reliefs that they can continue to pay their their i ERGC henchmen in order to continue to mow down Iranian civilians when they take to the streets and protests. You know, Alex Trump has maintained that he just cannot live with Iran and many, many of us here in the United States cannot live with the run having a nuclear weapon. And I was a little bit surprised because we said early on is that they may not have access themselves, they may not be able to develop a nuclear bomb, but that's not going to stop them from going in and capturing a nuclear bomb somewhere. I mean, these are terrorists, These are dangerous people, and they've demonstrated what they're willing to do. So how how do you live with with terrorists like this? I mean, and this is their thing we've been saying, because you know, being a marine. You know, I go back to our history of when Thomas Jefferson had a problem with the Barbary pirates and he said, hey, get me the Quran. Let me read the Quran. Shortly after the read, he says, sending the Marines, he realized that there was no negotiation with these terrorists. So not much as changed from then to now, actually has it?

18:03 Well, like you're saying, there's more than one way of getting a nuclear weapon. You can build a nuclear weapon, you can acquire a nuclear weapon, which makes it so ironic that the Pakistanis were the ones that were trying to broker that first round of negotiations between the United States and Iran, because the Pakistanis can provide Iran if they haven't already with nuclear weapons. The Russians could provide around with nuclear weapons. The North Koreans or the Chinese could provide Iran with nuclear weapons. And if you want to know what Iran would do with nuclear weapons, all you have to do is look at what they've done over the last years without a nuclear weapon, utilizing the entirety of the Middle East, you know, creating a ring of fire around Israel, attacking Israel on all sides from Klamas, Kazbala, the Hutis and had to eat Kazbala in Iraq and directly from Iranian territory as well. And so there's no reason whatsoever that Israel or any other country should believe that if I Run did have a deliverable nuclear weapon, that they wouldn't use it already.

19:04 I mean they've. Absorbed you know, if you want to know if they're a rational actor, I mean, what right the United States and Israel did to level Iran over a period of six weeks is probably a greater air larger end campaign, more massive air campaign than in any in the history of warfare. They were willing to absorb it and are still trying to humiliate the President of the United States and play a game of chicken with him, you know, in terms of renewing possibly military conflicts. So I think they're a very very dangerous player even if they don't get a nuclear weapon, and they're an existential player to world security if they do get one.

19:47 Well, and this is the challenge, and I think that the West has always had a challenge in understanding you know, the Middle East and these Arab players like you mentioned this is a death cult. We've said all along, they're not going to put down their weapons. I mean, you've got to go and you've got to get total unconditional surrender. I mean, here you are. I mean you know, you mentioned Hamas and last time you and I talked, you said that they still control about forty five percent of the Gaza. Is that still the case. Yeah. Prime Minister Netaniao interestingly stated that when the ceasefire was declared that Israel had fifty three percent of the Gaza Strip in its control and they've pushed that already to about sixty percent of the strip. And in comments that he made saying that they're going to continue to go to seventy percent control in the Gaza Strip, and you have these terrorist organizations that are not going to surrender unconditionally, that they will go to the last man. If there's just one guy walking around with the gun and a flag, he's going to say, we're still here, We've survived. That's their whole victory is survival. And I think for Israel and Gaza, it's a question of you know, what does it take if Kamas has twenty thousand more machine guns, okay, in the hands of whoever are holding them right now, because you know, the whole upper and mid levels of the and low levels of the command were eliminated during the war, but you know, new people are recruited. You're sixteen years old. Here, here's a gun.

21:17 Now, that's what you've grown up with. That you've grown up with that ideology, right. Right, So now you know what is it, what's the cost and what does it take to go in and confiscate those last twenty thousand guns. That means you have to go in with a very extensive ground operation. You're going to be engaging in firefights. You could risk losing soldiers who are killed, you know, in this booby trapped territory, and all the international condemnation which comes from sending tens of thousands of troops back into Gaza. And at the same time, like the Trump twenty point Plan says that there's not going to be any rebuilding in Gaza in less Kamas disarms and unless Gaza's demilitarized.

21:58 So it means if israel Us do that and they're going to get all the international condemnation, that they're gonna lose soldiers, which hurts. You know, on the home front, and then at the end of it, when they get all those guns, then billions of dollars are going to start to pour in. To Gaza to rebuild the place. Right, Israel's looking at the situation and saying, why should we do that? You know, if if Hamas and the gasen Tear and the Gozens civilians, if they want to live together and terrorize each other, and in this forty percent or thirty percent of Gaza that's remaining, maybe just best to let them do that and and hope that the situation there degrades to the point where Gozans are are begging, begging to finally get out of the Gaza strip and be settled elsewhere.

22:43 Yeah. Well, then the problem you got is the neighboring Arab nations. They don't want them. They think they're crazy. Well, why would you want a population of people that have been indoctrinated to believe that the only your only purpose on earth is to terrorize Israel? Yeah? You know that that can be, you know, very easily converted into terrorists that have destabilized other countries when they've been there. We saw like the PLO and asked our fat you know, he was kicked out of of Israel, and he was then kicked out of Jordan, then he was kicked out of Lebanon. So you see what you see a pattern here. So so Egypt certainly doesn't want them, and I don't know if Israel wants them running around a much larger border, which is the Egyptian Israeli border than where they are in Gaza. But there's questions maybe they maybe Libya would be willing to absorb, maybe Somaliland would be willing to absorb, maybe Indonesia would be willing to absorb. Meanwhile, the Europeans would seem willing to take, you know, Muslim refugees from anywheres. Uh, they won't take a single right because they want the Gazans to perpetually be Israel's problem.

23:56 Right, yeah, it makes sense. Well, Alex, we got to leave it there again. Thank you for your time. Appreciated Alex Trainman, the award winning journalists and CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief for Jans News. God bless you, show on my friend take. Care God busts and show them thanks for having me. Do you have medicare and do you use a seapap machine? This is a national Healthcare Alert regarding your SEAPAP supplies. Using a clean SEAPAP mask and clean supplies is important. To staying healthy. The best way to make sure your SEATPAP equipment is clean is to get new supplies. If you have Medicare, we have great news. Medicare will pay for you to have new clean supplies every ninety days. We'll even do all the paperwork for you to make sure that there's little to no out of pocket cost to you, and you don't even have to leave your home. We provide free in home delivery. So if you're a SEAPAP user and you have Medicare, staying healthy with new SEATPAP equipment is easy. Just make this free phone call right now to get started.

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27:45 Hey, welcome back Doll Martinez here along with DOROI Murdoch, The Manhattan based Flocks News contributor, Hey to Ryan, how are we doing? Thanks great, Bill, how are you well? You know, uh, just having fun watching the Three Ring Circus on the TV night, you know, whether we're talking New York, you know, Chicago, or you know California. Of course, you know, with all the recent voting and that, so you know a little bit of a surprise in La, particularly our old hometown and you know the places that we used to run through here, you can't run through so free in La. You might step in, you know, the tulips as you know, as somebody. Saying about, you know, if you're lucky that just the tulips.

28:28 Exactly, yeah, exactly. But anyway, nonetheless, I mean Karen Bass, you know, she's all that she's thinking, you know, very positive. But you know she didn't for that, I think the first time in twenty one years and incumbent mayor did not get over fifty percent of the vote first time. Yeah, that's right. This is something we've not seen, as a Saint says, seldom seen. It's been a couple of decades since this has happened, and I guess it's somewhat impressive that she got thirty four to thirty five percent. It's amazing she got any given what a disaster been. I mean, this is a woman who homeless. Homelessness has increased in her watch. There's still a lot of crime. You've got the illegal alien situation, you've got the homeless encampments, and you've got obviously the fires and Pasilfic palisades. And she was out in Ghana, you know, hanging out with the inauguration of the Canadian president at the times is going on. It would be one thing if she flew over there and then all of a sudden they found out, oh my god, this fire broke out, or you know, have a terrorist attack. You can't plan for that. But I believe twenty but twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight hours before the fires broke out, the National Weather Service said we're gonna have a lot of heat, a lot of wind, and very low humidity. And it's exactly the kind of situation where you're gonna have wildfires break out and spread like crazy. So you'd think given that, she'd say, you know, maybe I should you know, skip my trip to Ghana, or you know, at least keep the mayoral plane.

29:54 At the end of the runway with the engines running. Something happens, you could jump on it and get out of there and come right back here. I don't think she came back very quickly. She basically just you know, kind of text them back and forth with their staff. And it wasn't until you know, the next day or so when she returned. And then most dramatically and I think stunningly, a journalist went up to her and said, Mayor Batht, do you have anything to say that people of Los Angeles and why we're not here in this tremendous time of need and what what advised you have for them? She said, they're totally stone faced, didn't say anything. I mean, she looked, you know, I think a deer in the headlights would be more. U She was deroy a little drowsy. You know, anybody who ran for and won, you know, student body vice president, any junior high school wouldn't know very simply say something like I'm glad, I'm back here.

30:41 My thoughts are with the people of Los Angeles and the Pali States in Altadina, and we're going to do what we can to get on top of these fires as quickly as possible. In the meantime, we urge people to stay in touch for their authorities, keep a weather eye out for any flames coming over any ridges. And I'm now going to go to city Hall and do what I can to manage this and bring this all to a safe and peaceful ending as soon as possible. Thank you very much. I mean, that's it. Fell. She had to say. She's at there, literally stone face, literally silent she was. She looked almost like she had a stroke and was unable to talk. And I've never seen a leader in a crisis of that completely unable to put together even one sentence to reassure people are give people a sense that hey, I'm back, I'm in control, somebody's in charge. It was an absolute, complete, utter failure and utter collapse of leadership. I've never seen anything quite like it before.

31:27 This is she's on a sick What is it about a sixteen seventeen hour flight? And I think you can scribble the paragraph, right? You think? So? I mean maybe maybe hey, look at you know, uh mayor Besk. When you come back town and you know the media is going to be there and they're going to be on top of you, maybe you should have a good a good line or two, you know what. Yeah, well, I mean, look, you know, somewhere between the you know, the first meal, a movie, a nap, and then getting up for the second meal and a nap and then landing somewhere there, she could have found you know, ten fifteen twenty minutes to write three sentences four sentences, and I guess you couldn't do that. Maybe she's busy, Maybe she had other priorities on the flight flight back than trying to reassure and comfort her constituents.

32:13 Well, you know, if it was Spencer Pratt, you know, they would have said, well, looking, I mean some people would have, you know, said, well, look at he's an experience. He didn't know better, But this is what experience looks like. That's right. Well, the decades of service supposedly, and this is this is the best she can do. That's the best you got. Yeah, I mean, I believe she was in the state legislature and Sacramento if I'm not wrong, and then she was in the US House for multiple terms. So you'd think somebody with that kind of experience would know, you know, it's an emergency. I'm going to have something to say. You know, if no other reason, just to cover my rear end. And she couldn't do that. I mean, she was looked absolutely like she'd been given some kind of a knockout drug or something like this. It's just breathtaking, and I'm not I can't point anywhere else where she's been a particularly effective leader or or impressive or that was my question.

33:04 My question because the same thing we asked of Kamala Harris, give me one or two great things that you've done, you know, as mayor of Los Angeles. You know, you promised you would eradicate homelessness, and now she comes out and says, hey, we just do you know, like a typical socialist, we just need more time and more money. You know, I'm going to take care of this. Go wait a minute, you send that four years ago. Is that works? And it's only got worse. And one of her excuses is, hey, these problems have been going on for thirty years. Well you know, maybe you have the opportunity over the last four to reverse the damage or at least mitigate it, and you didn't. And what's been what's been the common denominator of the last thirty years of decay Democrat rule largely one party Democrat rule in California. I don't believe Republicans have won a statewide race in California. It's something close to thirty years or maybe twenty adudiars or something like this, and probably in Los Angeles maybe even longer.

34:03 And so who's been in charge. Who's been running things? It's been the Democrats have been running things, and they've been running them right unto the ground. And she's been leading the packs. As the economy weekends, people back up and leave. Almost the situation expands. You still have the crime problem, the illegal alien problems. Skid Row is a complete disaster. At one point, the skid Row situation was so bad that there the Holmelest encampments were attracting rats. The rats were I guess, yeah, well not quite bubonic plague. The next worst thing is typhus, which is a disease I don't think anybody's seen since the fifteen, sixteen, seventeen hundreds, and so these fleets got into city hall and he had people actually contract typhus in city hall, the city hall of the second biggest city in the United States of America. And for that to happen somewhere in the last five six years or so or thereabouts is just unbelievable.

34:54 I mean, this is like people getting again getting bubonic plague in the year twenty twenty six in America. I mean, it's just unheard of, unexpected and other worldly. Well you know it. Uh, it's been a clear disaster. And my question is how much more do Californians have to tolerate, whether it's in LA or out of Sacramento Deroy, Well. The question is how much will they take? And you know, I think if if certainly excuse me, it looks like Steve Hilton, I believe we'll stay in the race, and hopefully Spencer Pratt will And if they do, stay in and don't get overwhelmed by these magic bowels as I call them, which you're going to trickle in over the next week. So I mean, these guys are head now. Who knows where it will be next Sunday, Monder Tuesday, when when I think that's the deadline for these bows to arrive by mail. If there there, their leads are not wiped out, but they do remain. The people of LA and the people of California will have a very clear uh, they'll be at the fork in the road, and they'll be able to make a clear decision said, look, do we want to go uh left with their continued going left with Karen Bass and I assume nivir bisera uh with more spending, more socialism, more homelessness, more caving in and giving freebies to illegal aliens, being nice to criminals, and letting a homeless situation expand. Let the wildfires keep burning, the droughts continue to roar on as they've refuse to build water infrastructure, or are you going to are they going to move right and follow Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt and actually see people addressed very seriously the crime problem,

36:25 address the homeless problem, address the tax high tax problem. Steve Hilton's talking about making the firste hundred thousand dollars of income tax free. That's going to be a huge, huge help for a lot of people who are suffering in the middle class. And bringing gasoline down to three dollars per gallon by by deregulating and things like that. So, I mean, people will really be able to have a choice if again, if Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton stay on the ballot, and they'll really be able to have a choice between you know, big government socialism or limited government free market capitalism. And I hope they do have a choice. No, hope they hope they choose choose correctly. And I think you're right. I think these two guys have the capability of repatriating all those Californias that are left.

37:08 I mean, what I understand is Spencer Pratt's been getting a lot of money from UH expats from California that you know, we're waiting and hoping for the revival of California so that they can come back home. Yeah. Absolutely, because you know there are there are a lot of people have packed up the lifts. They've gone to Texas, Tennessee for these other places, and they're you know, have no income tax. That's a big plus. I'm not sure Steph Helton can deliver no one come tax, but you know, if they can make it so it's reasonable, you don't feel like you're being completely robbed. Some people say, all right, I'm willing to go back to California and you know, pay a little more tax, but hey, guess what you get zero aminity. You get to the beautiful Pacific coast. You're not a landlocked you are like you are in Tennessee, for example, And you know that might be worth it to some people. And it'd be good if if they if people reverse the exit, at least if they stopped the stopped the bleeding, that would certainly be an improvement versus Democrats. Back to getting back in a people could continue to fill up their U hauls and the clear out of town.

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42:11 Hey, we're back with Droy Murdock and Manhattan Basbox News contributor. Contributing editor continues with us, Deroy, I think we pretty much beat up California as much as you can. I mean, look at you know, the people have spoken. We'll see about magic ballots. Interestingly enough, Judicial Watch put a lot of pressure on California, in La County especially, and they were able to eliminate I think something like one point two million voters author roles that needed to be cleaned up for a number of years and they've been able to hold on to them, but they finally at least got one point two million off the vote. These are people that haven't voted in you know, as many as eight election cycles, but they're still there. But you know, the temptation is is that, especially with the motor voter rolls, ballots are going out to these people and and the way we find out is that this, uh, you know, the whole registration and voting process is so complicated that it's easy to get it to be taken advantage of.

43:17 And you know, and we have all these like you say, magical votes that suddenly come up. Right, well, you know, the magical votes, the magic ballots as they call them, pop up after election day. In this case, I think they could go on for another week or so and almost maybe there's a exception of this, but I've not seen what. What happens is that you have a Republican leading for could be governor, could be well, hasn't been in LA. Hasn't been the case for governor for a web Very often US House seats in particular, and hey, so one of US House seats is that great, And then on Wednesday, Thursday, the magic belts starts showing up and this person goes from you know, fifty three percent to fifty two to fifty one and oh my god, look the Democrats going up. And after five six days, oh never got one. The Publican lost. We've seen that over and over and over. You almost never see the reverse where the Democrat I had on election night and the magic ballots come in and the Democrat goes down, the Publican goes up, and the Republican loses. I mean, maybe that's happened somewhere, but I'm not I don't think I've ever seen that. California almost never see that outside anywhere else. So at least to two problems. One is one is if these are in fact fraudulent ballots, and the people sitting around, you know, figuring, okay, here's how many more ballots we need in order to win. Let's let's get some people room fill them out, and you know, somehow surreptitiously or corruptly get them into the into the system recounted. That's a horrible situation. The other is, let's say it's perfectly honest. These people are legitimate voters who have every right to vote. They fill out their ballots, they drop them off with the mailbox mailboxes on election day,

44:48 the post margin election day, I mean, they trickle in over the next week. But still it looks funny again, no funny business. Everybody's honest. But if this happens, then they people maybe ben more Democrats than Republican and the Publican loses. Or maybe even if it goes the other way, people think, okay, what went on over last week? You know what's the funny business wants? The monkey business, and that kind of thing just corrodes faith in our elections, and that ultimately crodes faith in our constitution. Republic. This is not healthy, This is not good. We sh have people to be able to say, look, you know, my candidate one ran and won, I'm really happy with the election. Or hey, mechanic ran and lost. I wish this person won. But at least the process was system. It was a fair election. We lost, fair and square. So we'll you know, pick up our marbles. We'll come back and play another day.

45:31 Versus oh my god, this is stolen, is ripped off. You know that Congress is not my congressman, that's not my senator, and that just breaths resentment, acrimony, and I think ultimately political violence, revolution. So we really have got to get the situation where we have at least credible elections which we all can believe, and we don't have we don't have the whole system kind of you know, corrode and fade away. Well, you know, to your point here, I mean, look at the rise of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, and this is all derived and supported by one party, the Democratic Party, which is amazing because what they've done is they've almost committed political suicide. They have brought in such evil agency into their you know, into their tent that the Democrats, Like I was listening to one Democrat this morning and she said, we don't know where to go.

46:25 We don't have a home. It's not just a oh well, let's just go to the Republican Party, because you know they're they're perceiving the Republican Party, the extreme right of the Republican Party having issues. But even in the extreme right, I don't see the extreme right going and burning down buildings and eradicating jobs, do you. I don't. I don't an you know, the the left's Leo's O. Well, both both sides to it, both sides of gates applical violence. I mean, can you name any Democrat who's been shot by, you know, by some Republican in the last twenty thirty years the left? I say that there was a couple Inisconsin, a husband wife, pair of state legislators. As far as I know, I don't believe there's shumpire republic and he might have been a Democratic, did it? People point to the fire Governor Jos Shapiro's Governor's mansion Pennsylvania. That wasn't my Republican. That was done by some left winger who was upset that either he's Jewish or reason Israeli support of Israel's is kind of a pro Amas type of thing. And then on the Republican side, he've got obviously Charlie Kirk who's assassinated I think four maybe five assassinate, assassination attempts on President Trump, who got his earshot, thankfully not natally. And then he ha's Steve Scalise almost killed, and that baseball practice some years back. That was a Bernie Sanders supporter who did this.

47:43 And then as you say, you've got Black Lives Matter with the fires and the statues yanked off of pedestals and on and on on. So you know, we see the violence. It's not one hundred percent on the Democrats side. I'm sure it's ninety seven ninety eight percent on the Democrat side. And quote unquote both sides do it. As the left like lefts to say that's either outright lie or grotesque distortion at best. Well, it totally is. I mean, it's as big a distortion as Joe Biden on the on the book selling circuit, you know, with the stories that she's coming up with now, I mean, I mean it's just incredible, and and of course you know Biden's own staff, they now feel like they're free to respond and counter this narrative and saying, you know, no, that's not the way it was whatsoever that you know what people were seeing, you know, their eyes were not lying to them. You know, Joe was not the Joe Biden of the eighties or the nineties, or even as vice president under Barack Obama. I mean, there was a huge shift. And I think that's why Barack Obama even told Joe Biden, hey, you don't have to do this, you know, because I think that in the heart of hearts, you know, Barack Obama knew that he wasn't up for the job. But it's also I believe why they affected Plan B and that was that Barack Obama was going to stay, stay in town and stay closely connected to the you know, the levers of power.

49:14 Yeah, and keep an eye on things, make sure things didn't get totally out of control. Well, you talk about, you know, the old Joe Biden. I didn't agree with him very much that he said. But when Joe Biden was a senator and even his vice president, he was a very forceful speaker. He was a very effective advocate for his point of view, which I don't share it, but he certainly expressed it very well. I think he did, certainly towards even the end of his vice presidency, which would be twenty sixteen, certainly four years later when he ran for president twenty twenty, was already by then quite diminished, and then certainly in his presidency. But the more the further it went on, the more he was incapable of putting coherent sentences together, the more he drift off, the more he couldn't even get off stage he finished speaking. I remember one point he turns around and was shaking hands with an invisible human being. That was quite something.

49:57 And then certainly at the debate where he got up been sent among other things, you know, we finally beat medicare. Wow, what a what a comment for a Democrat to make. And then Joe Biden said she was sitting an audience and she says, oh my god, my husband's having a stroke. Well, all right, when the debate's over, you say, honey, we're going to take you to the hospital. We're going to take you to urgent care and make sure that everything's okay, or you go back to the hotel. You get the white House doctor in there and say, you know, doctor the doctor's name, get up to the presidential suite and do a quick examination of Joe and make sure he's not having a stroke. And said, what does she do? She took him to uh some some uh waiting or whether wall class or was and yeah, and she gets him up on stage and then says, oh, look, Joe did such a great job. He answered all the questions. Everyone. Everyone, Everyone cheers, And I'm thinking, if you really believe that your husband is having a stroke, you don't keep him on stage another minute longer. You get him out of there, get him to the hospital, and make sure that he's not doesn't have a blood clot blocking the blood float into his brain, which is what a stroke is. So I find it. I find her story either completely not credible or she had other priorities in saving her husband's health when she thought he was having a stroke.

51:05 I think she took advice from Hunter Biden, because that's the kind of story Hunter Biden would come up with instead of if in fact she was concerned about him having a stroke, you know, Deroy, that had been much more plausible, And I think that he could have had the ability to get back on his feet and get back in the ring if she had employed a doctor, a real doctor, even though she said in the view she goes, well, I'm not a doctor, but you know, well, yes I am a doctor. That's right. Yeah, that's the problem. You kept trying during COVID, trying to present yourself, you know, with the illusion that you because you're a PhD. And it's probably a small P, not a big P, but a PhD. And you tried to give the illusion that you had some sort of medical standing just by and me.

51:54 She's a doctor, and the same with doctor Kissinger was a doctor. Exactly exactly so and even like Scott Besson, I had to last the other day, did the deal hecause you know, I got an honorary degree. You know, I'm now a PhD. You can call me doctor now. Well, most people about those honorary degrees. I mean, you know, okay, you got one. You can tell the grandkids about it, but you're not going to go around and tell everybody you know, you're your doctor. Jeri Murdoch. Has you got this honorary degree, you know, from your old old university or whatever. Right, Well that I guess an academic version of stolen. Valor, I say, exactly, yeah, exactly. Stolen, certainly borrowed for sure, exactly yeah. But you know, even with I think she got a doctorate in education, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, yeah, but you know, I do know people wanted one gentleman in particular who had a stroke, and about a week later I saw him get up in front of a group and give a very clear uh uh uh sort of MC presentation. Did a great job. And I sat there in aweing, My god, this guy's stroke a week ago, and it was a minor stroke now, and I guess he went in and got to take care of and same thing. You know, maybe Joe Biden suffered a minor stroke. He could have had it addressed and gone on with his life just fine.

53:05 But you know, that's what you do. You get even the minor stroke addressed, and maybe it's not a big problem, but you don't bring your loved one, your husband, your spouse of so many years and say, okay, we're going to delay the medical attention gets you on stage and have you you know she did all the talking. He didn't say very much. You know, Oh, Joe did such a great job. He answered all the questions as the crowd cheers, and what if Trump do he lied? And that was her big her maybe dick that night. Yeah, so I think either Joe rather doctor Joe Biden is not telling the truth in her in her book or she you know, she'd have thought, well, he's having a stroke, but let's get him out on stage first, which is a really strange way to treat your husband well. And the Democrats are going, oh, please go away, you and one hundred and seven day lady, and we need to just bought you up, get you off the stage all together right now, because we've got the midterms and of course Set twenty twenty eight is just around the corner. Well, Droy Murdock is always appreciate the insight the man makes Fox News contributor and contributing editor at The American Spectator, as well as a great article at the Daily Signal dot com.

54:07 Right, yeah, I've got a piece. I just did a Daily Signal about the California races, which still are not been decided. That's the article is still timely on the California races having an opportunity for conservative wins. If Pratt and Hilton Hang on and I also saying that I hope that Tom Steyer would be the opponent for m Steve Hilt. I think that's at this point highly unlikely. But I think that the one thing the Sarah does because he's Hispanic, I think he's able to the generally a lot of excitement among the Hispanic population of California, which is significant. I don't think Tom Styr would have been able to do that very well. Also, Tom Steyer is a multi billionaire who made his money, believe it or not, in coal mines, in private prisons. I mean, this guy checks off and he's also white, male, white heterosexual.

54:53 I mean, this guy is like Satan times three for most Democrats. He checks off all the wrong boxes, and so it'd be I think so a lot of Democrats like well, can't get very excited about you know, Stier, and we're not going to vote for Hilton, so we're going to stay home. Versus Hey, Massarah is going to be the first Hispanic governor of California. This is great, Let's go ahead support Bessera. So I hope that Tom Stier ends up coming out on top, but I don't think that's like would happen. That was my Even though he has billions of dollars that he could spend, he probably spend millions other than billions at some point, spend some. Like nineteen million or something on this cambig Oh. More than that, No, I think he was somewhere up at somebody approaching two hundred million. Only lose the election, but something like that. Yeah, gets but there's more that comes from.

55:35 Yeah, exactly. Well, Derai is always appreciated it. Take care of my friend. Okay, great, talk to you, thanks a lot. Streaming TV is where it's that. It's not about cutting the court anymore. That's old news. It's all about your customized TV options with the best and cheapest high speed internet and your own TV subscriptions. We've got your dream TV lineup between wired and satellite internet and TV now have tons of options. Save money and get more internet speed and better TV today by calling the Whole Home Connect, we scan your location and offer you the best TV and Internet options, and we always have specials and promotions. So when you call, ask about that. Take five minutes.

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57:03 Bill, I'm good morning to you. I'm well, Thank you well. Rediscovering America a timely book, especially now that we're on the brink weeks away from really officially celebrating our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Huh. Yes, really, the book was written a few years ago, but it's probably more timely now than it was then because the book addresses a lot of the underlying It addresses the greatness of our history, but it also touches on, you know, that we have departed from so many of our foundational ways, and really, you can't build, you know, if your house doesn't is not built, or doesn't stay on a solid foundation, you're vulnerable to collapse.

57:55 Right exactly. And it would seem that, you know, that threat is very eminent when we see what's happening across the country, what's happening with the elections, and you know how people are choosing to move and place a vote that is really anti constitutional. Scott, Well, we have a you know, we we certainly have an attack when within. It's interesting that both George Washington, our first president, and our sixteenth president, who's also considered one of our greatest presidents, that's Abraham Lincoln, both said in different ways but very clearly that if America, that America.

58:38 Would not. Fall from being invaded from outside, that a foreign invasion would not be our downfall, but rather it would be an internal problem that we would have problems that we we would we would face internal problems that would bring us down, right, and that that's really where we're at. So most people don't fully recognize all the problems that you just mentioned. Election integrity, yes, very very important. That wasn't an issue ten or twenty years ago or prior to that, except in you know, certain local elections where there was fraud.

59:18 But well, it had been not an issue like now because become so to the forefront. I mean occasionally, I mean we got arguments going all the way back to JFK, maybe even earlier too, when you look back on our history where there was ballid stuffing taking place and manipulation of you know, a vote, and it seemed to be on a minor scale compared to where it is now. Yes, yes, absolutely, Now it's really an incredibly sophistic operation that has many different aspects and layers to it, from the dominion voting machines to. The mail in ballots. You know, they really had When you connect all the dots, you can't help but recognize that we came under assault with the COVID nineteen epidemic.

1:00:09 This was a you know, a manufactured laboratory, manufactured virus gain of function. That is to say, they took a virus and made it more lethal and then it was released. Well some people might say it escaped, but you know, by now it's in China, right, and then it's brought then it's spread around the world, and you know, America has always been the target. And certainly it created an environment that was really a great opportunity for vote fraud to be you know, to be to explode because you put the fear. You know, everybody was fearful about exposure to the virus. Therefore we had to expand mail in ballots.

1:00:56 Mail in ballots have always been a venue for vote fraud, always. And so it was. The twenty twenty election, you know, was had enormous voting irregularities. Well, no doubt, and of course we were warned about it. You have the Carter you know study that they did. What back in was the eighty nine when Jimmy Carter did the study about mail in balloting and the conclusion clearly was that mail in balloting would open the doors to fraud. And you know, and of course we saw this in real life, but we wanted to you know, when you got fifty percent of the country ignoring it and championing it and trying to convince everybody else that it had nothing to do with de legitimizing the election, that the election was legitimate and case closed, let's not check it out any further. And now here we're getting tortured in a slow, drip by drip expose and exposure of some of the things that we knew about suspected and there was evidence for it, but the courts didn't want to see it. Nobody wanted to admit it because they wanted to stick with their narrative, and that is that Joe Biden got all these millions of votes very suspiciously, very suspiciously.

1:02:27 I'll remind the audience that the I think the seven swing states, I think they all did anyway, maybe it was only six of the seven, but they all shut down vote counting at the same time. Amazing about ten thirty at night, okay, suddenly, and there were reasons for it. Well, there was a flood in Atlanta, and there was a reason here or a reason there, but they all stopped vote counting. When they stopped vote counting, Donald Trump was leading in all those states. Yes, in Pennsylvania he was leading by I think over six hundred thousand votes. That's a that's a that's a huge margin.

1:03:09 Well, then when we. Woke up in the morning, they had they were already back counting votes because there was different tallies up on the on the screens, and suddenly the margin between Trump and and Biden had narrowed tremendously. Yeah, and I think by the end of the second day of vote that you know, the day after the election was the first full day of after election day vote counting. U Biden had pulled out ahead in several of those states, and then in subsequent days, you know, Biden pulled out ahead and all of them. So it was all mail in ballots that you know it was. Vote counting was stopped in all the states at the same time they pulled out the ballots stuff, the stuff the ballots the system to be counted, and they got the right number of votes to get a winning victory in all those states.

1:04:07 I mean, if that's not obvious a vote fraud, I don't know what is. Well, Scott, the other thing that brought out, see what happened COVID to me was an exposing element on many levels, on many levels, a breakdown international security, certainly, but what was happening in education, you know, what was happening with our kids, the kind of things that our kids were being exposed to. Certainly, the whole idea of the consent of the government was compromised and exposed to say, you know what, the ruling elites could care less about the consent of the government because the government they don't know, we know better. So the cumulative intelligence of over three hundred million people is inconsequential when you are so lucky to have a ruling elite class. I mean, this is stuff that has gone on from you know, the birth of humanity is that you know, somebody has got to be elite and the somebody has to control the minions.

1:05:09 And you know, America, you know, messed up the whole program by putting the minions in charge. Right, well said, right, And I mean that's that's why America it's so extraordinary. And I remind the audience at this anniversary time that they should really recognize how amazing the birth of America was because prior to, you know, to the Declaration of Independence, there was no nation in all of human history that we can find that put the people in charge. Exactly got to go to quick break, Scott. We'll pick it up on the other side. More from Scott Powell after this, stay with us.

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1:10:17 That's Magavitamin dot com Nutrition for Patriots. Hey, welcome back Bill Martinez here with Scott Powell, the one and only. He's the author, member of the Committee on This Present Danger of China and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute Scott. As we were saying before the break, this was revolutionary on so many levels. Oh, our founding fathers would say, look at we're going to put the people in charge. In essence, they turned what would be traditionally viewed as the org chart upside down. Right, that's right, absolutely right. And of course, you know, when we think about how virtue can come out of the people, it's really if you get your structure right, and we did. In the Constitution. We divided power between three branches. We had a federal government and we had states government. And in fact, the constitution required that all power would reside in the states and the people that was not specifically designated to the federal government. In other words, the federal government had limitations. It couldn't just be arbitrary in taking rule over people or over states. It had to stay in its lane, if you will. So these were layers of checks of abusive power, because you know, the issue, you know, for the American Revolution was you know,

1:11:49 abusive power and recognition that i mean Great Britain actually was one of the better nations in human history. I mean that's where the Magna Carter was born, which put a limitation you know, on monarchic rights. And it had a strong rule of law. I mean much our sense of law in early America came right out of Britain, came out of Blackstone in Britain. Right, these were Christian people, and just as our colonists were all Christian for the most part, every state, all thirteen states, what we'll call constitutions that had a preamble of appreciating of giving gratitude to God as a foundation.

1:12:41 And also they made it a prerequisite for elected officials representatives that they must be godly. Yes, and by. That it wasn't like, oh, they're running around and you see them on the street corner praying all the time or anything. No, there was evidence of their faith, that they were connected to the Bible or they believed in God Almighty. Right. Yes, And what's the reason for that. The reason for that is that if you're going to have a republic that gives a lot of freedom to people. In other words, the people are really they have a kind of maximum freedom within the boundaries of the republic. Right, there's not enough government or law enforcement, you know, to you know, to stop to arrest all the criminals. So when you have a moral people you have far less crime. So that's why George Washington, in his farewell address when he was leaving office, reminded us that our system of government is only, you know, will only work with a moral and religious people. And that was reinforced by the second President, John Adams, who said pretty much the same thing that in order for our republic to survive, to prosper, you know, we it would have to be based on the people who needed to be you know, ethical, moral people. For

1:14:15 the most part, the majority needed to be because it's always majority rule. And that's was the wisdom of the founders too, was that they didn't expect any sort of perfection, but they did recognize that if we have a moral people with common sense, we're going to have better rule than we would have under elites, which invariably become corrupt, right and self serving. Okay, that's a formal correction. And capricious, and you know all those human elements that come into play that violate you know, you know, true rule of law and true rule of law. There should be consistency.

1:14:59 Right, absolutely very important, and that's one of the problems we have today is we have a two tier justice system where where the elites, and particularly the Democrat elites. They get a pass if they break the law. Republicans they go after them. I mean, we could see that clearly in the transition. It started really with Barack Obama. The you know, the the sort of politicization of of rule, you know, the the the what shall we say. Every everything became weaponized, weaponized, That's that's the term.

1:15:40 Yeah, weaponized. Our political system became weaponized. So the Democrats weaponized the system against Republicans. You remember, during that time we had the I R S was weaponized to go after political opponents. The Tea Party patriots. I still maintain what they did back then Scott has affected every every voting and an election cycle since that period of time. The damage that lowis learner the I R S and Barack Obama did we live with to this day. I believe so. Yeah, I do. Well, there's no doubt. I mean, look at you had the Tea Party patriots. You know, they were gaining momentum.

1:16:22 All of a sudden I R S comes in. They refuse to give them a tax exempt status. They're constantly harassing them, and what to do to the Tea Party movement. Yeah, well, it's hurt the movement, it hurts, but the devastated it. But the ideas that were born they remained, and that's really the base for in make America Great again? Really, Right. It definitely evolved into MAGA, there's no doubt, but still and there's still that again, that push because there is where the dividing line occurs. And you see it all the time in our culture, whether you're looking at Minnesota and you see the stuff that's so unreasonable that's happening there, Scott, that is an affront to the great American idea. I mean, it is lawless. And you've got the Democratic Party, I mean, you got to call it out for what it is because they seem to be the ones that are proponents and they're supporters of Antifa. They don't have any problem with ANTIPA, you know, being paid and coming into you know, like New Jersey, with what's going on with New Jersey right now.

1:17:27 Right, So let's explain that a little bit further. Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization. Right they have now declared now declared, but. It's been declared. So the Democrat Party is working with a terrorist organization for political ends. That is anathema to the way our system should work. Right, First of all, if you're if you're a terrorist organization and you're involved in any kind of activism that affects uh, law and order, affects the political system, Uh, you should be arrested. You should ticking off the streets.

1:18:08 Well that's like the Southern Poverty Law Center. Oh yeah, I mean the same thing. See, this is just this is what's going on with the political process. You know, like you say, to your point, Scott, it has all been weaponized, you know, for political purposes or as Lindsey Graham said, power and control. That's right, absolutely absolutely. The other element that I think American people need to be more fully aware of. Is how. How public opinion gets manipulated. You know, we've all known that the that the major media has been had a liberal bias really for decades, goes back a long time.

1:18:48 But you know, it became worse and worse, particularly you know in the in the Obama and the Biden years, where basically there was mass censorship within America so that American people couldn't get the information that they needed. Yeah, they captured everything, they captured, they captured the internet. You know, we were you know, shadow band, I mean, all kinds of activity against us and just outright you know, even sponsorship Scott and then Sponsors said, hey, we can't have anything to do with conservatives.

1:19:29 Right right. When you demonize people, that's what happens. And so this demonization phenomena, which really goes back to Saul Olenski rules for radicals, when it's a very effective political weapon. You may have no truth in what your charge is, but it doesn't matter if you demonize someone. Donald Trump has been demonized, right, That's what Trump derangement syndrome really is. For some reason, you know, Trump people buy into this notion that that Trump is a dangerous uh you know. Well he's a Nazis. Yeah, underneath the surface, he's really just another Nazi dictator, right, So why is so far from the truth? I mean, it's ridiculous.

1:20:18 Yeah, But unfortunately this is where the Democrats have lowered themselves. Well yeah, but they've got carrier. The carriers of that information are still you know, a large part of the media, a lot of the culture. They've they basically we've had a cultural Marxist revolution in America, and can that traces back the seeds of The of cultural Marxism traced back to the nineteen thirties and forties with a Frankfurt School that came out of Germany, Nazi Germany, and they came to the US a group of about a dozen people, maybe ten or ten people that constituted what's known as the Frankfurt School from Frankfurt, Germany, and they came up with the idea that the Marxist revolution will never be realized just on economic means. In other words, the proletariat, the working class will not rise up and overthrow the business owner class because the plight of the working class tends to improve over time, right, And you're.

1:21:25 How dare they live better lives? You know, that's not supposed to happen, right, right. So they realized that if we could take over the culture, and at the same time of the Frankfurt School, Antonio Gramsciw was the head of the Communist Party in Italy, came up with the exact same strategy. The way to get Marxism and power in Western democracies is through the. Culture, right, And this is what's happening today. Scott, quite clearly, we got to leave it there, Scott Powell, he's the author, member of the committee on this President Danger China, and the senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute. Thank you. Scott has always appreciate the time. Take care of friend you. Okay, I will thank you. Have you written a book? Where do you have a manuscript ready and just need to find the right publisher.

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1:25:46 Thank you so much. Well, this is an interesting report here. The United Nations has decided to abandon their annual forecast, which again you know, kind of I guess keeps triggering people. And you know what happened? Did they run out of powder here? What's going on? I think even they long last realized that they were running not so much out of power, but out of credibility. Every year, the UN puts out a forecast of what the climate is going to be doing over the next not months, not years, but decades, and they put up various scenarios, each scenario dependent on the underlying assumptions, and one of those scenarios was always the most dire.

1:26:37 And it. Was predicated on the assumption of a for instance, that the number of people on the Earth by the year twenty one hundred would be fourteen billion from roughly eight billion. Now that's highly unrealistic given catastrophically low birth rates in places like China, Japan, South America, the United States. You're right, and what have you. So the underlying assumptions here were completely devoid of any contact with reality. Well after, but this scenario that they came up with published every year was of course the one that the media seized on.

1:27:22 Why because a bad news cells. But actually more important, the media were very quick to spread and eager to spread, you know, predictions of gloom and doom because the media in large part were on the side of the people who were coming up with a doomsday scenario, saying that doomsday is right around the corner, and it's fit very nicely into the Biden administrations claimed that we were in the midst of a climate crisis and therefore needed all sorts of regulations and mandates and what have you to avert that crisis. Well after being cited by the media for years for predictions that never came to pass, that finally decided it really wouldn't be a bad idea. Uh, They'll continue putting out scenarios, but this particular one based on totally unrealistic assumptions as being abandoned. The delicious irony of this is this is occurring on the twentieth anniversary of Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth. And what do what does the Inconvenient Truth have to do with the UN climate scenarios, namely predictions of gloom and doom that

1:28:54 never came to pass. Right exactly, Well, so much for inconvenience, you know, and you know, and here it is this was their reports were consistently failing. And you know, in running hollow, I mean, how how many years can you go and yell at the people the sky is falling, The sky is falling, right, it still stays up there, you know, Yes. That's right. Let's not forget that these dire forecasts that the UN came out with were used as the basis for individual countries to impose regulations or the use of energy, the type of vehicles in household appliances, people were going to be allowed to buy, the investments that were to be made, particularly in poorer third world countries on energy and what have you. So as ridiculous as these forecast were, they were never thetheless taken seriously by people who saw what they wanted to see and acted accordingly, or at least tried to.

1:30:09 So what's the future of these third world countries that we're counting on getting money from, you know, people like the United States somehow had been shamed into, you know, some sense of overstated responsibility for you know, the climate conditions. As long as the Trump administrations in power, they will get absolutely nothing from US taxpayers because what the Governmental Panel of Climate Change TAKE created a few years ago was a gigantic green slush fund with wonderful opportunities, actually boundless opportunities from from corruption for corruption for the people doling out to the money, to the people receiving the money. Well, they're not going to be getting any of that. However, what the Trump administration can do is offer these people not taxpayer handouts, but investments in energy that really hold the promise of meeting the dire needs of people in poorer countries. But this will be private money that will go in that will develop natural gas where it's practical, coal where it's practical. Even third world countries know that they can't meet their needs with wind turbines and solar panels.

1:31:33 They need energy twenty four to seven three sixty five, just like we do. So there is a very nice consolation prize for poorer countries if they have the good sense to take it, namely private investment and making good use of the resources that many of them actually have at their disposal, but they were being prevented from getting to because of international lending practices that all but banned investments in fossil fuels are in poor countries around the world, thereby condemning them to energy poverty.

1:32:13 Right, has there been a cost analysis on all this? I mean we're talking trillions of dollars. Oh yeah, put down this rabbit hole. About being trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars misspent on projects that led to absolutely nothing, passing out solar panels to poor sub Saharan Africa. There's no lack of sun down there, but you don't have an infrastructure capable of taking that in. Even in countries that get a lot of sun, the sun doesn't shine at night. Batteries function only for a few hours. It's a terribly inefficient way to provide people with electricity, particularly when there are very viable alternatives. Expensive, yes, but there are people willing to put the money down to invest in that which would be mutually beneficial, beneficial to the developers, and beneficial to the population on the receiving end of this, which at long last will be getting electricity. They add a transportation fuel they desperately need.

1:33:31 Yes, well, yeah, it's just amazing. I mean, at some point, I just see some economists coming up with a number just saying, hey, you spent X amount of trillions of dollars and this is the return that you got or didn't get. And I only say this because right now they may be a little dormant, but as you know, there's always a season somehow where they will come out of their holes and their back. Oh. Yes, they are eagerly away change of administrations in Washington in the hope that if that comes then it's going to be back to business as usual. I don't think they're going to be able to turn the clock back to where they were three, five, or ten years ago, simply because court decisions have greatly limited the ability of the administrative state to implement the agenda that these people want to impose on the rest of us. Nevertheless, you're absolutely right, they're ready, willing and able for the good times from their perspective to come back. In the meantime, they're going to go after data centers and whatever else they can do, or protest and bring lawsuits against the development of energy infrastructure such as pipelines, be the oil pipelines or natural gas pipelines. So they're not going to remain in that And as I said, they're certainly going

1:35:03 to hope that a change of administration in their favor will will bring back the climate industrial complex, which benefited them all. It benefited the nonprofits which got government handouts, it benefited the purveyors of green energy, which also got government handouts. And it did the most important thing that they were really after, and that is put power in the hands of a relatively small number of people, both in government and outside of government, who could tell us how to run our lives. Because ultimately this whole game is about power, who has it and who does not.

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1:40:03 How you do Bady? Bill? I'm great. How are you doing? Hey? I'm doing terrific. I mean, I think California is still trying to figure out how to count votes. Right There's third world countries out there that can complete a you know, election cycle better than California. I don't know if that says anything, but the comparison is I think some embarrassing. It should be. Anyway, Well, I will say only that when we moved out here and lived through our first multi day power outage. I thought to myself, I have lived in Iowa, I have lived in Colorado. I have never experienced a power outage that lasted four days. From a rain storm, not a hurricane, not a tornado, not an earthquake, a little bit of wind and rain, right, and it's I don't know.

1:40:58 We could have an entire discussion about the state of all sorts of things out here, But it looks like, for the first time in a long time, maybe there's some other people percolating to the top that are attracting attention, and maybe people are fed up with well, there's a lot to be fed up with. Well this could this could, in a sense be the big canary in the coal mine, because you're sensing some irritation where wokeness has gone itself over the top to such a degree that it's like, come on, all right, Yeah, this was a little fad, you know, you know this it didn't work. It's not working. You know. I think life needs to be more you know, more about common sense and just you know, let's get back to the basics for a while here.

1:41:53 Well, and I have been seeing news stories with regard to corporate support for you know, LGBT stuff. It's Pride month, so to speak. Uh, and the corporations are really pulling back their endorsements and their spending. And so I wonder if we have maybe reached you know, peak LGBT, Q, I, A and just you know whatever other letters. Yeah, right, exactly right, Yeah, no, I think so. And then you know, my prayer is out of this is there is an exchange that's occurring culturally. Yeah, and there always is that exchange. My prayer is that the exchange would be for the truth that you've realized that gravity does exist, and that maybe the things that Grandma and maybe mom and dad tried to get through my thick skull starting to make some sense here a little bit.

1:42:49 Well, we're seeing all kinds of reports about, if not full on revival, certainly a really measurable growing interests among gen Z and especially among gen Z men, you know, who are hungry for spiritual truth. And the thing is, you know, just like grandma and your mom said, you can eat that entire box of oreos, you can live on junk food, but it's going to make you sick. And I wonder if maybe you know, the diet of worldview. If I can stretch my metaphor a little bit that has been fed to that generation, they are waking up and they're saying, wait a minute, I'm not sure this is working. I read another article recently that said, you know, one of the hallmarks of gen Z is that they question everything. And you know, at times, as a parent, if I find them questioning things that I believe in or maybe even take for granted, I have to stifle my frustration a little bit, say, okay, come on, you know, is it this self evident? But I think it really is a virtue. You know, if they're doing that across the board and really questioning the prevailing woke mindset in the mainstream culture, say wait a minute, this isn't working.

1:44:09 You know. I think the challenge, at least for me anyway, is that when I come across those queries, I want to give them an answer. Absolutely, but absolutely. But what happens this is, this is the challenge that these young kids have had. They have been told what to believe, well they have, and. They've been sold to build goods in so many ways. You know, one of my kids came up to me the other day and said, so, what's so bad about communism anyway? I mean, what was self evident to us? Right, it's not to them. And worse than that, it's been sold as something virtuous, as opposed to something that has been tried and found wanting over and over and over again for more than one hundred years.

1:44:56 You know. You see my parents and my dad, especially when I came up with goofy things like that. Uh he was who told you that? Yeah, exactly, and so uh you know today too often sadly, and it's an indictment and all kinds of participations, you know, participants, whether it's teachers, professors and that sort of thing. Yeah, and again you know, because my son is and he's asked questions and and I wanted to give the answer. I wanted to resolve it right and pitching and when I'm learning the hard ways to say, look at you know, which has been typical and this is kind of what what brought about the idea and what people will often hear me say in the show own your own knowledge. Yeah, it's your responsibility. Okay, you know what, that's a good question. Yeah, have you how you know? You mister YouTube, mister Ai have you checked it out? Although even AI.

1:45:53 I, uh, well it's biased too, so you've got to work around that as. Well, right, exactly, So there is a caution because the thing is, unfortunately is that everything and this is what we need to be aware of, the pervasiveness of corrupt intellectual evidence or information YEP is rampant. You know, everything's being squashed down. Like you said, Google, you know, it's all influential and some of these AI. What concerns me about AI as we get back to the old you know, as we would say in the Mexican vernacular, coca incoca out and.

1:46:34 Yeah, well, and it gets more and more inbred as you get more and more CACCAI in the system, right, I mean, if it's just continually over and over again regurgitating ideas. We know what happens when species propagate that way, the DNA gets bad and they die out because it's all in bread. And I think there's something similar happening potentially with AI is you're getting an accelerating cycle of slop and each time around it's a little more inaccurate. Right, and again, getting back to the foundational principles, let's go back to God who created it all with a purpose, and what is man's purpose? And where is man in the hierarchy of things?

1:47:16 Right? Okay? And so we have to be careful not to subordinate our authority because this is what happened in the Garden of Eden. It is, it is. And you have an entire cadre of these tech guys who are intent upon a transhumanist, you know, worldview of becoming god, and they don't really care what the consequences are for everybody else. I'm like, man, there's so much, there's so much to be critiqued here. But I think back to you know, what I was saying, and back to even what plugged in? Does? You know? One of the things I often ask my kids is well, what was the source? Is that a credible source? Do we take that at face value? What does it look like to think critically about the source of information? How do we gather information on a topic from more than one perspective? And maybe we don't agree with all of them, but I think it is important to know how to look at a subject and to be able to read and critique different perspectives on it.

1:48:14 You know, that's the only way you're going to think critically. Right, exactly, And so the onus here is that we must think critically, we must ask questions, we must own our own knowledge. If not, we're going to continue to be told and fed. What is that the power brokers, the elites? One is to believe. And then what they do is they dumb everybody down because we're all siloed believing and saying the same thing. And so then now we're less than what And so can can machinery then take over? Quite easily? I think so? Well, I think so. And when our primary motive operation is consumption for the point of feeling good, we're easy marks right, And in America we are constantly conditioned do what you want, do what makes you feel good, do what you think is right in the moment, and don't think about yesterday, and don't think about tomorrow. This moment is the only thing that matters.

1:49:14 You know. Again, another trend is, you know, I've seen a number of articles recently on how you know some of the younger generations aren't saving for retirement because they're like, well, what's the point, It's not going to be there anyway, I may as well live now, you know, Well, okay, you're going to find out that is a mindset that creates problems. Later if you live long enough, right exactly. I mean here it is, especially you're living in Land. Even as corrupt and messed up as it is right now in America, not perfect, but there is a lot of institutional of fraud and chaos within the system. I get that, but you're going to rely on that system, right, yeah, I mean, if you just give you a little peak, check out what ha happens in England, check out what happens in Canada. Yeah, Okay, when you can't take care of yourself, Oh, you can't take care of yourself and you've got a hangnail, I think we're going to help you kill yourself, okay, right, because you're not going to be a burden on the people.

1:50:13 And if you really want to go to the doctor, we can maybe see you next. Year, right exactly, getting the line. Yeah, So, but anyway, we've kind of digressed. Here, but we have, but I have enjoyed it well but well hopefully, Well the deal is, like all our conversations, I always pray that they're a blessing and that and it's eye opening, you know, because you're you know, you're studying the culture. I'm observing the culture, and we're seeing these things, and yes, there might be some indications of you know, I've been referring to them as bonfires of revival, and that's encouraging. But the thing is is that you know God's will be done. The Bible says very clearly, I mean really more than anything, more than gold, more than silver, more than anything else. Is wisdom, is Godly wisdom, and the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God.

1:51:01 That is exactly right. And circling back to what I actually do it plugged in we review the culture, entertainment, technology, that sort of thing, and we want to hold that plumb line, hold it up to that plumb line of truth and evaluate entertainment and evaluate these trends from that perspective, because man, there's a lot of perspectives out there. I do not have truth as a plumb line, but just raw emotion, and it's going to lead you a string. Amen, lots of red flags out there. Be aware where do they need to go at them? You can come to plugged in dot com. We are a ministry of folks on the family and this week the new Masters of the Universe movies out, so check out that review and everything else that we have reviewed.

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