The Bill Martinez Show 09 02 26

0:00 Are you ready? Yeah. Okay, let's do it. Bill Martinez Live, a program about current events, our culture, our values, our politics, and our future. And now, Bill Martinez. Hey, good morning, America. Glad you could join us. Bill Martinez here just about six minutes after the top of the hour. And we've got Mark Manilla joining us from Financial Issues. Mark, good morning. How are you? Welcome. Doing great. Thanks for having me, Bill. Good to be back with you. Great to have you here. You know, there's a lot going on to talk about. Interesting, Rasmussen says 50 percent of America thinks the Iran situation is worse than Trump says. Well, you know, that's I mean, I have to give a lot of credit to the mainstream media because everything that they talk about when it comes to Iran certainly is not to promote Trump. And if anything, it's to promote the midterm advantage for the Democrats and even the media, though, so conflicted because what Democrat party are you supporting? Are you supporting the old guard or are you supporting the DSA, right?

1:07 Right. That's incredible. I would have never in my life up until now thought this could be this way, where the Democratic Party would be split into socialists and over half of them are signing up for that. How can that happen? It's just ridiculous. Well, Mark, I got to tell you, going into the 2020 elections, I had predicted that there was going to be a disassembling of the Democratic Party. But, you know, I didn't think they were going to cheat to win. I thought they were going to lose so badly in 2020 that they were going to have to go out to the desert and kind of discover themselves. But here they are imploding and disassembling the party and allowing the party itself, I mean, to be hijacked. By a small minority, I mean, you know, I think back in 2016, and I was surprised at these numbers, which just goes to show you how politics works. Bernie Sanders had about 6,000 card-carrying DSA members, socialist members, 6,000. Look at all the havoc he caused for Hillary Clinton in 2016, right? He almost, as an independent, not even a Democrat, almost got the Democratic nomination for president. And now here we are, fast-forward, to 2026, now there's only 120,000 card-carrying DSA members who have fallen out of the closet and said, here we are, and they have taken over the Democratic Party. What does that tell you?

2:37 Absolutely. Well, it tells me that the party isn't listening to their membership. They're not listening to the true Democrats, the mom and dads that are working every day, that are making a life of and do more than just take money out of our paychecks. The people running the Democratic Party seem to be ignoring the Democratic Party. Right. Do you think a little bit cuts both ways that maybe the Republicans need to learn something here? I mean, these young kids that are gravitating towards socialism or toward the message of DSA, I'm saying, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I don't think they're all wrong.

3:20 They may not be able to put their finger on the situation. All they're saying, you know, in their terms, it's an affordability issue. Well, okay. When you drill deep into the issue of affordability, there's regulations, there's all this corruption and fraud that we've been carrying, you know, through the system for decades and And now we're $ 40 trillion in debt. And guess what? And I hate this. I hate to say both parties are guilty of it. But you have to say both parties are guilty of it. And I think if the Republicans, if they miss this message, they do so at their own peril as well. Bill, you're absolutely right. Here's the situation. Over $ 1. 9 trillion a year in waste and fraud is what's calculated right now.

4:05 That's what we're over on our budget every year. $ 1. 9 trillion. I saw a news article today talking about, I guess it was about Jackson Hole and the conversation Mr. Warsh had there. And they brought up the idea of affordability somehow being part of that conversation, which obviously they just want to go there to badmouth something. But what they didn't say, they said, even if we got rid of all waste and fraud, it would only be a fraction of our budget. Of our budget. And it's like, no, it's $ 2 trillion of our budget. Let's just get rid of it. Let's get rid of all waste and fraud. We don't need to get rid of social security or Medicare or Medicaid. We just need to get rid of the fraud involved in those and everywhere else. And the waste, how many, how many more organization NGOs and stuff are receiving billions of dollars a year still that, that this administration hasn't found. even though they found a lot, which we're really grateful for. But the whole idea.

5:10 Of- But it's the tip of the iceberg, isn't it, Mark, though? Yeah, it is. From the federal government and then bring it back home again, the affordability thing. Did you know, I think it's 18 out of 20 of the last years. No, I'm sorry. Well, the first four years that Trump had, The real wage growth was positive. Now, Bill, I don't know if everybody listening understands. Real wage growth is the difference between inflation and what people are taking home, how fast their income is growing. If it's positive, then their wages are growing faster than inflation. If it's negative, then it's growing slower. Well, the first year of this administration, this time it was positive.

6:01 Month after month, we're seeing positive except for two months. Now, think about that. So the affordability thing is pretty much major propaganda. Now, I'm not telling people that there aren't things like beef and stuff that are a problem right now. But that problem isn't from inflation. That problem is because we have the lowest number of cattle in the herds in history since they've been tracking it. And it takes two to five years to grow the herds back because you have a little baby calf. It takes it two years before it matures. So affordability on beef, sure, I get it. We all can't eat steak every night right now. But when I grew up, I don't ever remember getting steak.

6:41 So I think there's also an expectation creep there. Right, exactly. It's part of the story the media can use to beat Trump up. I get that. But what caused the depletion of the cattle? Well, first it was Mexico and a worm screw, a screw worm, I think it's called, So we stopped importing from Mexico. Um, we also, they stopped the agricultural, uh, the, the cattle farmers, they had a drought at the same time. So they were sacrificing cattle, just killing them off because they're going to die anywhere way. So killing them off because they can't be fed and selling them off so that they all shrunk down. So there was a, there was several, I guess, you know, the perfect storm type of situation. Uh, Now we're seeing them starting to come back.

7:35 Craig Haugard, he's our ag guy on financial issues. He's going to be on tomorrow to talk about this and a few other things. He has brought it to light that it could take a little while to grow those back. When you can't feed the cattle, then you have to cut the herd down. And when you have a drought, that kind of thing happens. And then when you can't import it, because of the screw, which has changed now. We are starting to import Mexican beef now from Argentina. And then the Democrats threw up, well, that's going to have a lot of microplastics in it, and it's going to be bad beef and blah, blah, blah. It's like, no, it's not. It's beef, you know?

8:16 Right. Yeah, exactly. It's not like, we're not like talking turtles from the Pacific Ocean. Right. They're choking on all kinds of plastics. I mean, you got to love the arguments. And this is the thing. And this is why the voter politic has to exercise some critical thinking. I mean, they've really dumbed us down in such a way that they want people to believe everything they say, which is nonsense. I mean, these are the same people that told us that, you know, the vaccine would keep us from getting COVID, right? and all the other lies that went along with, oh, and Obamacare. Yeah, you like your doctor, you get to keep your doctor, and it's going to be cheaper. I mean, these are the same people that are telling us now. It's like, I want to kick them out of the marketplace, Mark.

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14:29 Well, I'll tell you what, you know, the DSA, the Democratic Socialists, what they're saying is that Gen Z and what's coming after that, I forget what they're calling them, but they're saying they're lazy. They're saying that affordability is an issue here, Bill. And I know you have an intelligent audience, just like Financial Issues does. So they can tell the difference. And one of the things that they've done is they've come around and the propaganda coming out is affordability. They never talk about the true cost of stuff. But I think you and I talked before. Lumber's down 60% from its high during Biden. Used cars are down 20%.

15:11 We actually have food down. Groceries are down. Housing actually came down just a couple of percentage. All these things are true, but what's being told to them is that it's not. What they're being told is they can't have a new house. They can't realize the American dream. Guess what? My wife and I went out driving the other day and looking at houses, just using an app to look at prices of houses and stuff. Starter houses are about $ 180 to two and a quarter, okay? Account for inflation and wage growth from back when you and I got our starter house. It's cheaper today than it was then, okay?

15:56 Think about that. So it isn't that they can't get into a house, it's that they've been programmed to think that they can get into a five-bedroom, four-bath, three-car garage on three acres in the most expensive part of town Just like their mom and dad have right now that took them 35 to 40 years to grow into. Exactly. Expectation creep is happening. They've been programmed to believe they deserve everything their mother and father have right when they get out of school. And it's ridiculous. And most people don't even realize that they have this expectation. I did another thing. I looked up how much the average Gen Z person is spending on food delivery. Okay. This is meals in a month. Okay. Over almost $ 600 a month.

16:46 That's half a mortgage. That's half my mortgage payment, you know, that's half a mortgage payment. So effectively when I grew up, we never had anything delivered. If we wanted a pizza, my mom and dad thought we could afford it. We'd all get in the car and go get a pizza. They didn't, you know, want to pay the extra two to $ 3 for delivery and stuff, that kind of thing. So, It's all a change in programming. And you can get your house. You can eat well. You can drive a decent car. You just can't drive a brand new one every three years. You can't get into your mom and dad's house right away. Just do like every generation before you does and start with a starter house.

17:29 That's right. Yeah, like I tell the kids, it's all... about process. You got to crawl before you walk, before you run, right? No matter what it is. And, uh, and you go through it. And unfortunately, uh, you know, these kids have been propagandized and they've been lied to, and guess what? They want some skin. I mean, they're upset. And so if it means that we're going to turn this country upside down, but look at What are you turning it upside down and you're going to find underneath? That's the dangerous part because the DSA has nothing to offer when it comes to growth and opportunity. You know, Bill, let's do this. Let's have a contest between you and me right now. I'll take the free enterprise side and I'll give you the socialist side. Now, this is how the game works. This is how the game works. First, you dig me. We'll go through history, and you give me every country that adopted socialism that came out better, and then I'll give you one that embraced free enterprise. Okay, go.

18:31 That's not fair, Mark. There's not one. I've done that. I've asked all the econ people that come on the show. I say, you tell me one socialist country that is better off today than they were before they were socialists. I mean, look what's happening in South America, Mark. All these countries– and, of course, this is the thing. See, our government was participating with these– what was the term? The non-geo– oh, gosh, the term has slipped my mind here. These government groups, these government agencies, right? And so they were funding all– NGOs.

19:15 Yes. I'm sorry. Thank you. So here they are. These NGOs were buttressing and supporting all these countries in South America. And as soon as Marco Rubio and the president said, hey, we're cutting NSAID out of the picture, right? Guess what happened? They turned from socialism because they ran out of America taxpayer money. Right. They ran out of other people's money. And that's what always happens with socialism. Unfortunately, the propaganda is huge. Free this, free that. And with younger people, they haven't lived long enough to realize that other people's money runs out. As soon as it does, that system collapses. With free enterprise now, here's what's really cool. You want some good news?

20:02 Yes, give me some good news. The entrepreneurship on Gen Z is incredible. What we're seeing with the millennials is they're actually over 50% of them say they're better off now than they ever have been. So they're starting to realize free enterprise works. Gen Z has more applications in for starting businesses than anybody else in the United States right now. So last month they were like, 60% of the applications were from Gen Z. That means they're realizing they can start businesses. They can do things. They can embrace the free enterprise and not have to rely on other people's money or the government to tell them how they have to live. This is the type of house you have to rent. You can't buy.

20:49 This is how much money you can have in your bank account. That's what happens when the government takes over. Right. Or they come in with an idea like, oh, government run grocery stores. And they run local businesses out, right? Yeah. And what a mess. I mean, the problems that are being created there in New York. I mean, you're talking a generational issue here, Mark. I don't know how they avoid it. No, it's going to be really rough. They got some issues. But, you know, you and I saw this. We saw, remember when New York was a place you didn't want to ever go to because of the crime and everything? And then Julianio got in? And he cleaned it up and it just turned around to this light on a hillside for the world.

21:37 Right. And he did it. Broadway was safe again. Yeah. Yeah. I remember being told my first trip to New York, never get on the subway. And I went up at a great time after it got cleaned up. It was wonderful. People were nice. It was just incredible. Yeah. It can turn around. So we do have hope there that we get in somebody up there good that can turn this around next, if he doesn't destroy it too much. But yeah, there's a lot going on, Bill. And your broadcasts and financial issues and others are waking people up. And that's what's needed. Because when they see the reality of it, they see that we really do have an incredible country, one that God gave us, laid his hand on. One that was formed on biblical principles. A lot of people argue that, but the 10 commandments are the foundations of all our laws. God put his hand on this country.

22:37 He allowed it to be blessed. We show how free enterprise can work. Then we spread it around the world and we took all these countries out of poverty and they became very, we lifted, we almost ended poverty. And then the wall came down in Berlin and all the... all the Republicans started saying, hey, we won, it's over, and got lazy. And then that's when the left started regrouping and taking over the schools and the colleges and starting all the propaganda and teaching our kids that capitalism doesn't work. Well, it's not capitalism, it's free enterprise. Capitalism is a word Marxists use to demean free enterprise, but free enterprise has won over and over and over again.

23:24 Yeah, it's proven itself, no doubt about it. Well, look what's happening in Venezuela. Thank you very much. The Venezuelan oil looks like it's going to refill our U.S. reserve that Joe Biden had emptied for political purposes, not for national security, only for his political skin. Yeah, that is pretty incredible. I haven't seen the whole deal yet, but the idea that we will get at cost the oil to replenish our oil here, you know, our reserve is incredible. And that we have a lease now, a hundred year lease on some of the biggest fields in Argentina for the oil. That's incredible.

24:06 I'll tell you, you got to love this president. I mean, thank God. I mean, we've needed a businessman president for a long time and God answered our prayer and the heck with the media and all these naysayers, Mark Manilla. We just, you know, hey, if they don't like it, So whatever taxes that they used to pay on tips or Social Security, whatever great break that they got from the big, beautiful bill, just send the money back to the government. It's OK. You know, you know how many are doing that, right? As many as countries that succeeded with socialism. I was going to say he's the host of financial issues. Mark, how can they connect with you? Well, it's really easy. Go out to financialissues.org Monday through Friday at 9 a.m. Eastern time. You can catch us live.

24:53 If you go out there and do it, you can get into the chat. We have hundreds of people in the chat every day. And you can call in and we answer your questions or take your opinion and discuss it. It's a wonderful time with brilliant people. Well, Mark, thanks for coming on. Take care. Be blessed. Bill, thanks for having me. God bless you, sir. Every 40 seconds, a child disappears. That's 2,000 children every single day. Find the Children is a nonprofit organization fighting to bring them home. But we can't do it without you. Your unwanted car, running or not, can help find missing kids, reunite families, and support the search and rescue efforts that protect children every day. We'll pick it up fast and free with a 24-hour response. And your donation may qualify for a tax deduction. Find the Children provides crucial resources to help locate missing children and educational programs to teach kids how to recognize and avoid predators before it's too late. Together, we can give families hope and bring children home where they belong. Donate your car today and help bring a child home. Find the children because every child deserves to come home.

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29:21 Good morning, Bill. So good to be with you. Hey, always good to have this time together every week. I always look forward to it because we get to get caught up on the news. What's going on with Governor Hochul? She's in a hijab. Yeah, she, you know, it's really disturbing, especially because we are so close to the 25th anniversary of 9-11. Exactly. I think that there's a lot of, I understand you're being respectful to somebody else's faith. And Ivanka Trump even did that when she was overseas. But this is in America, in New York City. right before 9-11. And there is symbolism involved as well. And I think that it sends a wrong message. It sends a message that Americans will comply and bend to Islam.

30:15 Even the feminists, who would have thought? That's what we needed. You know, we just need some Muslims here to take care of the feminists. I mean, it just washes out her ideology with a quick sweep, all for what? You know, Some political navigation? Because what these men can't handle seeing a woman with her hair shown. And I have to be careful because they do understand that there is a Muslim faith and I can be respectful of that. At the same time, you're the governor of the state. You are the governor. The people of the state elected you to lead and run the state. The men should be able to understand and respect that.

30:57 Well, to me, see, I think respect goes both ways, right? I mean, look, we can respect that that's your religion. I'm not going to condemn you for it. That's what you want to do in your faith. That's okay. But this is the United States of America. What happened to our faith? What happened to our ideology? All of a sudden, that's supposed to be subordinated because an immigrant class has come in and insists that somehow we're supposed to listen to, you know, respond to the call of prayer and all that. Well, there was also, what about the women who are in that faith? And if they want to do what they want to cover themselves, it's one thing. What if they don't want to, and they're in America, how do they get out from underneath that so that they can actually be free and our free country? It raises questions that I think sometimes we need to just take a pause and think about because what, what they're doing to women is, um, It is very controlling, very, very controlling.

31:57 And it's something that I never want to have happen to me. Well, it's interesting because the Democrats are always condemning people of trying to put women, take women or take minorities to the dark ages, right? Well, this is that, I believe, you know, with all due respect. I mean, we're having the conversation here. And again, I'm not condemning them. I just say I disagree. Because, you know, like you said, something just was very important. You talked about freedom. This is why people want to come to America, to be free, not to find new reasons to handcuff ourselves and to limit our freedoms. Yeah, that's exactly right. And the governor could have just declined to go into the mosque to speak. She didn't have to be there. She could have spoken outside of the mosque. There were other things she could have done in order to speak to them that didn't compromise her own values and didn't compromise their values. There's a bridge somewhere in between that and she crossed the bridge and I think she went too far.

32:56 Well, I think it's interesting right now. And on one hand, I'm thankful for the DSA because the DSA is putting a line in the sand and you have to decide what side of the line you want to be on. Do you want to be on the side of freedom or do you want to be on the side of socialism? That's the option. And so. People need to understand and discern that's what's going on here, because that war is going on in the Democratic Party. I mean, look what happened after the primaries. The Democrats, so much for their broad tent. I mean, they're trying to bring those tent pegs in and even define what's supposed to be under that tent right now. Well, you know, you can have a broad tent and accept a lot of people in your political party, the political party that is going to determine if your people are elected, how the United States government operates, and the people have to take an oath to the Constitution to be elected. You don't need to have people in the party who want to dismantle the Constitution and dismantle the United States government. It's pretty simple to me. This should be something that all Americans agree on. It shouldn't be a left, right, Republican, Democratic thing. If you want to abolish the Senate, change the entire presidency so it is subservient to one half of one third of our government, get rid of or completely pack the Supreme Court, abolish police, abolish prisons. You don't want to have a functioning America any longer. You can't honestly take an oath saying you will uphold and defend the Constitution. And there shouldn't be

34:29 room in either party for that. If that were going on on our side of the aisle, we would say, no, I don't want anarchists on our side of the aisle. I don't want communists on the other side of the aisle. Either way is wrong and both lead to tyranny. Right. Well, what happens with socialists and deception is they get a little bit of that, which is valid. And they create wedges. And so what I have been warning the Republican Party about is that don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Listen to the complaints that these young people have, because I don't think they're all wrong. I mean, they just don't know how to, I guess, explain it in political terms. They just know that it's unfair. There's corruption, fraud that's been happening. People are being cheated out of things, the affordability issue, all those things. But look at what the Republicans have. They've done something about it just in the big, beautiful bill alone, Jenny Beth. But, you know, we have to listen to what these young kids are saying.

35:26 We've got to understand their pain, so to speak, because the only people that are doing that is the DSA, and that's why they're following the DSA right now. Yeah, you're exactly right, Bill. We have to feel their pain the way that Bill Clinton did. I went through bankruptcy. I had to clean my neighbor's homes. I know what it's like to have to completely start over with nothing in this country or basically nothing except my loved ones and my faith in God and a few clothing articles. I get it. I know how hard it is to build up in this country. And I know it is possible to do that.

36:06 I think that part of what we're seeing here is that they weren't taught the basics when they were in school. And because they weren't taught the basics when they were in school, the real world is now hitting them and they're not prepared for it. And now we've got to figure out how we're going to understand and feel their pain and empathize and sympathize with them while also educating them and teaching them of the basics that they should have learned back in fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. And it's a tough situation because we're not just dealing with high school graduates at this point. We're dealing with college graduates who went to college, were honestly cheated in their college education because they got horrible, worthless degrees, yet they ran up debt sometimes to the tune of $ 40, 000, $ 50, 000, $ 60, 000, $ 100, 000 or more. So they're coming out of college completely underwater financially and feel like the world is stacked against them.

37:04 Right. Yeah, you can't blame them for that. But again, what they need to understand- Solution is not communism. Oh, no, exactly. Well, they need to understand what capitalism has done for the West. I mean, we've got decades, well over 100 years of experience where capitalism is a building block. It has created this incredible country of ours and other nations around look what's happening in south america for example venezuela is born again argentina all ever since uh president trump said hey no more of uh ngo money going to the south guess what the socialists said oh we're out of money we better you know we better turn to capitalism and look what's going on there's this resurgence of capitalism out of these people because it's commonsensical right Yes.

37:51 It is commonsensical. And also, socialism fails everywhere it is tried. Communism fails everywhere it is tried. And someone may say, well, look at China, but The people in China don't have the kind of freedom and liberty that we have. The government still owns more than we can possibly imagine. And people don't have the same opportunities to rise up the way they do in a capitalist society. We have to show the good in capitalism. We have to show the failures and the harms of socialism and communism. Thankfully, the people in Miami who have escaped communism from Cuba seem to be able to do this better than just about anyone I know in the country. Also, I've met people who escaped from or survived the Soviet times. But to a young person, that just seems ancient. It just seems like ancient times. We're dealing with young people who weren't even alive 25 years ago when 9-11 happened.

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44:00 That is correct. And we need to get to a point where we're looking at history as a guide, not for a reason to make excuses, but as a guide, so that people can understand where people are coming from, look at that history so we don't repeat mistakes that we've made in the past. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's often said that the reason history repeats is because we forget or we don't pay attention to it. But, you know, the loss also, as you say, is the lessons that can be learned and that we need to hold on to. And this is really, this is what smart people do. Dumb people just...

44:41 You know, they keep going, oh, that gravity thing, you know, I really don't believe in it. Let me get on the roof and jump off again. And oh, it's still there. You know, ouch. You know, and we do this repeatedly out of our, you know, I guess you want to say, you know, curious humanity, I guess. Let's put it that way. Exactly. Exactly. And We cannot afford to make those kind of mistakes with our immigration policy because we've seen time and time again, when we have a tight labor market, Americans thrive. When we have a loose labor market, Americans suffer, especially black Americans.

45:24 Right. Well, we're talking about an issue that you had put out that has to do with dignity. It's honoring the lives and dignity of people. And when things are under law and order, everybody wins and the dignity quotient is there. It's very vibrant. When it's loose, as you suggest, we lose a sense of ourselves and dignity and we're less productive all the way around. Absolutely. And let's take a trip through history. So we have the Great Migration. Black Americans are moving out of the South, they're moving North, and they're moving West. In 1940, the Black population in South L.A. was around 60%. By 1970, their population had grown to around 760,000. So there's a huge growth. Why is all this growth happening? Why are all these people coming into South L.A.? Because there are jobs.

46:33 People are able to raise families. People are able to create stable living conditions for themselves and build legacy and transfer wealth to the next generation. But what happens? Policy changes. We decide to open up our immigration policy to the rest of the world. We ended the 1924 Immigration Act and replaced it with the 1965 Hart-Celler Act. And we decided that we were going to right a wrong. Before in the previous act, the 1924 Immigration Act, we had policies that limited people by race, by countries of origins that were not fair to the rest of the world.

47:22 So they wanted to deal with some of those things that were deemed to be racist or unfair. But they promised that they wouldn't increase the number. They ended up increasing the number. And in 1965, you saw all these people from around the world coming into the United States. And by 1992, you would have one of the bloodiest riots in history, the L.A. race riots. And during that time, you had people, 50 people that died, a thousand people who were injured, and they had to bring in the National Guard. This thing lasted for five days. Why were there so many tensions that caused this explosion? Well, the match that was struck from the timber box was from tension from all of these people that were moving in to South LA. Because the policies opened up our immigration policy, you had from 1965 to around 1992, 750,000 immigrants move into that region. And what you were finding is that many of the people that were living in LA, they

48:53 were not speaking English at home. You are finding that 40 percent of the population was immigrant and it was taking a toll on the black population because they stopped getting hired. Right. And there was an EOC report that that they published in 1993 that showed that Asian-Americans gained around 59 percent. jobs during the recession. Hispanic Americans or Hispanics, they gained around 60% of jobs, net jobs during the recession. Black Americans lost 59,000 jobs during that of the recession. So what does that tell you? That tells you that companies that were trying to make their affirmative action goals were hiring Asians and Hispanics to fill those goals and they were laying off Black Americans. And what does this do?

49:57 They get cheap labor. They get to maximize their profits by paying these people less at the expense of Black Americans. Right. You know, the other thing that happened during that period of time, Andre, I was there in Southern California, is there was displacement of people out of Los Angeles. And you know where they sent them? Where did they send them? Pomona Valley. Because Pomona Valley had buildings, they had empty buildings, homes there in Pomona. And here they thought they were doing something, you know, to help the black community. And what they did is they displaced them. And it's a real study in human sociology because what happens when you get displaced like this You know, you still have a job in LA. Now you're 60 miles away. Now you got driving, you got commute time, right? Now you've got an increase in delinquency because mom and dad aren't near a home to keep an eye on the kids. So it was a problem all the way around. And the other thing too, that they don't want to talk about was the mayor of Pomona, I believe was the mayor.

51:06 And you can double check me on this. He owned that property. So it saved his bacon. by putting all these black people into a project, a housing project that was losing money. And so it helped him, but it devastated the black community. And so there was lots of moving parts that contributed to the L.A. Riots. And then, you know, the other thing we're not talking about was the increase of abortions. I mean, clearly you had black babies being murdered at an inordinate rate 40% of blacks contributed to the abortion casualty numbers. That's what's going on. So you had a lot of things that people didn't understand necessarily. They were angry, rightfully, but they may not have been able to put the finger on it because some of these things, like you just shared, happened in the back room. All they know is the fruit of the tree started to stink. And they were living in the tree that once was, you know, was pretty vibrant and they could live off it and do well.

52:14 And all of a sudden, because of government regulations and unfortunately, I mean, which still blows me away to this day, Andre, because, you know, this was done by and large by Democrats. And I hate to make it partisan, but you've got to call it for what it is, because the Democrats wanted the black vote and they ended up indenturing Democrats. Black America, and they brought them down. And then also look at what happened. Divorce rates starts to skyrocket, you know, and everything, homeownership, all these positive matrix that were demonstrated there in the black community was all compromised. And this was all done by regulation. And the thing is that drives me nuts, Andre, is they saw this stuff happening.

52:58 And do you think they would have said, hey, stop, let's reconfigure? No. And here we are decades later, and we're still dealing with this. And black America is going, what the heck happened? And so now, slowly but surely, they're moving away from the Democrats and going to the Republicans. And I'm saying, hey, the Republican Party needs to get their act together. Because yes, they have an opportunity to serve the people. I think the heart of, and I will say one party over the other, is more to help the people as opposed to the other party that wants to help themselves. But they need to stay true to the values and the moral guidelines that make sure that they're doing right by all Americans, black, white, yellow, pink, or whatever color you want to pick.

53:43 Absolutely. And here's another thing. that you kind of alluded to, Congress. You're right. We shouldn't make this a partisan issue because there have been failures on both sides. Now, the Republicans right now have decided to take more of a stronger role with immigration, but we've seen through history how that has switched. In 1972, the Hesburgh Commission, they established that during a recession that immigration should be flexible and they should be able to hold off on bringing in more people when we are having a recession. But when they presented that argument to Congress, they shot it down. They shot it down. And that's both sides of the aisle. So we really have to hold our elected officials accountable When we're talking about protecting American jobs.

54:49 Yeah. You know, you touched on something that's a whole nother discussion. And unfortunately, we're out of time. So the next time we get together, because we need to talk about how, you know, Congress and this is, you know, typical of all human beings. You're used to doing something and you go, OK, do I take on, do I reinvent something right now? Even though the times and the seasons and the indications are you should do something about it. You go, well, that's a lot of work. You know, I'll just put it off, right? So that's the human inclination. But we do that at the injury of those that we serve. We got to leave it there for now. Andre Barnes, as always, thank you so much for coming on. Andre is the HBCU Engagement Director with Numbers USA. How can they be in touch, Andre?

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57:09 Hey, help me understand this, okay? You know, the media and the left, especially the DSA, is telling us repeatedly that Trump is bad. Okay, what am I missing here? Since taking office, as promised, Trump secured our border. He's been working against all resistance to deport millions of illegals, some who have killed our citizens, take an unfair advantage of our hospitality by stealing, even committing billions of dollars in fraud against our social services. Affordability, as you recall, was an issue on day one of this administration because of what the Biden administration and democratic policies and regulations did to our economy, how it weakened our energy sector, monetary policy, raising inflation almost 9%, something that can't be resolved overnight. So help me understand. And we're not even talking about big, beautiful bill here that the president was able to enact in what, in the first six months of this administration, all the great things out of it.

58:08 But we're supposed to discern out of the work that Donald Trump has been doing on behalf of America that he's the bad guy. What am I missing, Jeff? No, you've outlined it pretty well. Don't forget, the media amplifies everything that the DSA and the Democrats say about Trump. So they make it even more of an issue because they hate Trump. And of course, they've been an opponent since day one. But yeah, I mean, securing the border, an incredible accomplishment. We need to deport millions, three million, I think, have already left, either voluntarily or been deported. We've got tens of millions to go, but I mean, we're working on it. They're trying to stop every ICE operation. They've got multiple lawsuits that are filed about everything the president's trying to do, every executive order.

58:59 Every renovation to D.C., every project, whether it's a ballroom or an arch or a reflecting pool, is facing multiple lawsuits. So they've got an onslaught. against him politically, media-wise, legally. And of course, the one thing that unites the Democrats, the DSA, the moderates, is hatred of Trump. And my prediction is, and I don't know if you agree or not, but if the Democrats take control, they'll impeach him again. Oh, there's no doubt. They've already got articles in their desk drawer. I mean, they've already said as much. So, yeah, I mean, it's absolutely ludicrous. Even though they know they can't convict him, which takes a two-thirds vote of the Senate, they know they can't remove him.

59:41 They just want to go through. The whole process to satisfy their rabid base, to make life more difficult for President Trump, to muck up the works, to make sure that there's no real agenda passed in the second half of the administration. This was the. Playbook of Trump 1. investigations, harassment, hearings, impeachment. So that's why it's critical for Republicans to hang on to the Congress to prevent that from happening. Well, you know, you just brought something up again in terms of his first administration. It is a wonder that Donald Trump was able to accomplish what he did in his first administration, starting with all the cabal led by the former president himself, Barack Obama, who has done it with impunity. Nothing will happen with him. I mean, he orchestrated this Russian collusion deal. Clearly, he did. I mean, he is guilty of that as much as Fauci is guilty of the COVID pandemic.

1:00:38 And I guess a lot of us are asking, you know, where's the justice? Navarro went to jail. Manafort went to jail. Bannon went to jail. When is Brennan going to go to jail? Clapper going to go to jail. Obama, Fauci. I mean, the list is long. Or Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, I mean, James Comey. I mean, it's so frustrating that there is a double standard of justice. And the left tries to say, oh, well, Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ. Really? I think the DOJ was weaponized against Donald Trump and his supporters. They're the ones that have been raided, indicted, mugshot. Right.

1:01:18 Put through hell. I mean, you know, we still have this E. Jean Carroll case. That is out there. Oh, what a mess. What a mess, yeah. You know, on and on and on. Did Barack Obama have his home raided by FBI agents? I mean, then we can talk about equality here, but no. Joe Biden had classified documents, Bill. And what did they do to Joe Biden? Absolutely nothing. They gave him a pass because he's old. Yeah, right, exactly. He had classified documents. What scared me about that is that Here you got the special prosecutor saying, hey, this guy's guilty, but we can't do anything about it because he's old and he's feeble. Excuse me, this guy's the president of the United States. He has the nuclear codes. Why didn't they put a bag over his head and drag him out of the room at that point?

1:02:04 Right. Nancy Pelosi, if you remember, toward the end of the first term of Donald Trump, wanted to enact and set up and tee up the issue of being able to oust an incompetent president. She was targeting Trump with this idea. But, you know, little did she know, like anything, you got to be careful what you wish for and what you put into action, because actually that's something that they should have exercised under Biden. And you can't tell me that they didn't know. You can't tell me Nancy Pelosi, as a leader of the House of Representatives, was not aware of Biden's frailties. They claim that they just found out during the debate with President Trump, which is a total joke.

1:02:49 We knew it. We could see it from day one. And what the Her tapes expose is that he was mentally incompetent back in 2016 and 2017 because when talking to his ghostwriter, He couldn't even recall certain dates. He was fumbling and mumbling, stumbling around then. So that was 2016, 2017. He just got worse. That's why he didn't run a campaign. He really was in his basement the whole time. That's why when he does press conferences, he needs a script. He needs the reporter's questions written out. And the reporter's name. And the reporter's names. And he only did like a handful of press conferences in four years. And he only went on friendly media outlets. So, yeah, they all knew, Bill. It's a lie that they were shocked by his debate performance. I mean, he had been performing like that his entire presidency.

1:03:41 Well, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, Schumer, they were all getting exactly what they wanted. They had their hands in control of the presidency. Because of a feeble Joe Biden, this is, eventually this will come out, but it's clear. I mean, you and I have talked about this. I mean, you don't have to be a genius to figure this out. Just look at the fruit of the tree and what was going on. The fact that Biden didn't even, he wasn't even aware of a lot of this stuff that was happening. He's the president of the United States, for goodness sakes, right? Right. I mean, but who was the president? That's a question. I mean, you know, he had the auto pen pardons. You had a very engaged and involved wife. Was she calling the shots? Was Hunter calling the shots? Was it, you know, the chief of staff, Ron Klain? I mean, who was it? Who was really the presidency? Was it a cabal of some of these people?

1:04:34 Was it Barack Obama. Directly directing it? Obama was the last man standing. He was, you know, he was on top of the mountain. There's no doubt. I mean, look, it was unprecedented that you have a president when he leaves office, he doesn't stay in DC. Obama was there in the zip code there. You're right? Right, right. Yeah, he didn't want to leave because he still wanted to influence everything that went on since then. And you know what? His legacy is still there. We had a chance in the first term to get rid of Obamacare and we didn't do it. And we still haven't done it. And that goes back to the Republicans in Congress that don't get the job done. When we give them power, we give them majority. We give him a chance. And the president can do what he can do. He can only do so much. He can do executive orders. He has his pen and his phone. He can do what he can. But you've got to have cooperation from Congress.

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1:10:08 Well, we're talking with Jeff Cruer. Jeff's the native New Orleans political commentator, author, and host of the award-winning program Ringside Politics. You know, speaking of, you know, the situation with, you know, with Joe Biden and what he left us, the mess that he left us with, and Donald Trump, you know, to his credit, has picked it up and come and brought solutions. And a lot of these solutions, you know, the Democrats want to talk about you know, kitchen table issues. Well, Donald Trump has addressed those kitchen table issues. But the deafening sound of the mainstream media, as you say, part of the cabal, because this has been, you know, the fix has been in for a long time against conservatives, against capitalism. And now here you've got the Democrats who have really gone off the edge. I mean, the lunatic fringe of the left has taken over the Democratic Party.

1:11:05 No doubt about it. And the passion is among the socialists. The young people in the Democrat Party have turned on capitalism. They're all embracing socialism. The majority of Democrats have a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. So this has engulfed the Democrat Party. Whether it's going to lead to their party nominating a socialist in 2028, we'll see. Will it be AOC? Will they try to hide that and nominate a more establishment Democrat. But here's the deal. Bill, the Democrats of old, when you and I remember the days of Truman and Kennedy and Scoop Jackson and even Bill Clinton are gone.

1:11:50 So now it's a far left party that has been taken over now. So even if they nominate somebody like Harris again or Buttigieg, that is a super far left Democrat. The socialists are even further to the left. So it's left, far left, and super far left. They don't have any moderates. There's no more centrist. There's no more pro-capitalism wing of the Democrat Party anymore, which gives a great opportunity in opening for the Republicans. Well, attention, America. I hope you listen to what Jeff Krueger just said. There are no moderates, regardless of what the media would want to tell you. Oh, this is a moderate. Moderate compared to what? You know? I mean, just because you're not super far left, you know, you're considered a moderate in the Democratic Party. It's just, is this crazy?

1:12:38 They just tell us the fiction that Joe Biden was a moderate. And I always oppose that because I think his administration... was even. Further to the left than Barack Obama because Barack Obama was orchestrating it, as he just said. So he's like, I'm going to go even further. So it was even further to the left. So yeah, there's no John Fetterman. I mean, that's about it. There's no, they claim, oh, Andy Beshar or somebody like John Ossoff. They're not moderates. No, none of these so-called moderates are moderates. Well, Brashear, because of the pressure that he's got with the DSA, if you've listened to him recently, He's changing some of his positions. He's finessing around it so that he can be somewhat of a potential plausible candidate. But it seems that, you know, all their eggs are going into the AOC basket right now. And hopefully what she's done is taken a geography lesson because, you know, on the international stage, she really embarrassed herself, if you remember, right?

1:13:43 Oh, I know. It was at an international conference, right? I mean, she had basically no knowledge of, you know, basic international questions. And because, I mean, she's only been in Congress a few terms. I think she asked about Taiwan, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know what exact question she was asked, but she totally flubbed it. And I mean, it would be, I mean, she's barely eligible via the Constitution to be president. She certainly would be a horror show if she were elected president. I mean, she doesn't have the skills, doesn't have the intellect. Certainly her positions are far left. I mean, to go from somebody like Donald Trump to somebody like AOC, I mean, I can't even contemplate that, Bill.

1:14:32 Well, the thing is, people need to understand, is the socialists, the communists, They just take. They don't give. They don't invest. They don't know how to build up a treasury. Donald Trump is building up a treasury. So whoever is the next president has assets to work with. The socialists will drain that, just like Mamdani is doing in New York. I mean, just take a look-see of what he's doing in these other blue states where the socialists have taken over. I mean, they're draining the coffers and they're looking for handouts. I mean, they're almost standing on street corners with a... you know, with a basket, you know, we'll work for food. Not really. Just give me the money, you know. But regardless, I mean, they're going to turn into beggars. And that means if they're turning into beggars, their constituencies are going to be beggars.

1:15:19 Right. And you know what? They're going to run all of the productive, all of the wealthy, all the business owners out of New York City. And the drain is going to continue. New York is going to continue losing to Florida and other states, sort of red states. People are going to get out of there. And it's going to be a disaster. Look at what's going on in California, Illinois. I mean, that's a wake-up call, folks. These states that implement these policies are failures. We don't want this on the national level. It would be a disaster, even magnified to a much greater extent nationally. So these are like little tests to show the American people that these policies do not work.

1:16:01 They're disastrous. I saw a poll though. Even though all these people are leaving New York, even though there's all kinds of problems there, Mondami still has over 50% approval rating in New York. So it's crazy. The people still are supporting him there and maybe they'll wake up eventually, Bill. I hope. Well, either they're smoking the polls or which we found out that's what they do and have done recently. They did it in California that's being reported, right? So they're either fudging, somebody's putting the elbow on the meter again, as they do, or that's all that's left. All the conservatives and the capitalists are leaving New York in such a way that they're just being overwhelmed. And that common sense doesn't exist, but okay, fine. We're going to leave you to your publicly owned grocery stores. We're going to leave you with Medicare for all, taking care of all these illegal immigrants and everything like that. And then you're going to be broke. I mean, you're already broke. You're bankrupt for all intents and purposes right now. But all that set aside, Jeff. You don't have that if you don't have national security. And there's something about the Democrats.

1:17:12 It's been a long time that they've really, I don't know, they're just incompetent because the prevailing mindset when it comes to national security is they're not interested. You know, that's happening over in Iran. So what if they get a bomb? You know, it's just over there. It's not here. You know, remind the people of what happened in 9-11, you know, because what happens in the Middle East doesn't stay in the Middle East. It visits you And it did in a harsh way on 9-11 here in America. We've had thousands of people die at the hands of these radical terrorists. And you think, OK, well, it's irrelevant. So the Democrats just turn a blind eye to it. And they're incompetent.

1:17:53 I can't tell you when the Democrats have come together and have executed a military strategy that has made sense and that has allowed us to win a war. I mean, we have to go back to World War II. Right. I was going to say, after World War II. To FDR and Truman, really. Because, I mean, at least the Korean War was not a loss. It was sort of a, you know, a tie. I mean, we were able to secure the freedom of South Korea. But ever since then, I mean, you know, you look at Vietnam, you look at all the other wars that we've had. I mean, Democrats have contributed to those losses. And look at what happened in Afghanistan, where we withdrew from Afghanistan in humiliations.

1:18:34 I mean, look at 9-11. I mean, eight years of Bill Clinton neglecting everything, not taking out Osama bin Laden when he could have. And then, of course, eight months into the Bush term, 9-11 occurs. But I mean, I put most of the blame on Clinton for that. And he is in He was distracted. You know, he had more important things to do, like chase interns and everything that he was doing. So, yeah, the biggest thing about Biden also is the open border. I mean, allowing in the millions of people. Imagine how many terrorists were let into the country, how many Chinese spies were how many threats were allowed in. If you don't have a secure border, you're opening yourself up to all kinds of national security issues, which is what Biden did. So, I mean, thankfully we've secured it now, but we've got problems within our own country due to the negligence of Biden.

1:19:22 Yeah. But at what cost? I mean, financially, the lives that have been lost, every state in the union has lost a citizen at the hands of an illegal immigrant, Jeff. Yes. What does that tell you? Yes, that tells you that it's not getting enough attention. There's not enough outrage. There's not enough people that know about it and are taking action. The Democrats have figured, OK, it's all right for all these people to come in because politically it benefits us. You know, the census, it benefits us to have all these illegals counted. You know, when you turn them into voters, it benefits the Democrats. So. They say it's worth the pain. And the suffering the American people have to go through to help them politically because all they care about, Bill, is power. They don't care about these people that are their voters. They don't care about helping these people in need.

1:20:13 They just want the power. And I think we've seen that time and time again. Yes. Lindsey Graham's voice echoes from the Kavanaugh hearings that the Democrats are more interested in power and control. And he said, I hope To God, you don't get it. Jeff Kruera, as always, we appreciate the time. He's the host of the award-winning program and author. Jeff, as always, appreciate you. Take care. Thank you, Bill. Take care. Have you written a book or do you have a manuscript ready and just need to find the right publisher? Christian Faith Publishing supports authors like yourself to bring their books to life. And right now we're offering you a free writer's guide designed to steer you towards book completion.

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1:23:13 Hey, welcome back, America. Glad you could join us. Bill Martinez here. We've got Ken Fisher back with us, the chairman and CEO of Fisher House. Ken, good morning. Good to have you with us. Thanks for having me back, Bill. Well, always. This month, September, National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and you're here to tell us about the progress. Are we making any progress on what our veterans are dealing with here? I understand that A 2026 report from the Department of Veterans Affairs revealed that more than 6,000 vets died by suicide in 2023. Is that right? That's correct, yes. That's 50% more than the civilian sector. But to me, Bill, there's a more compelling one. Brown University came out with a study. You know, it's the 25th anniversary of 9-11.

1:24:03 Since 9-11, 31,000 veterans have committed suicide, which means a veteran is four times as likely to die by suicide than to die on the battlefield. And we get crazy with numbers, but behind every one of those numbers is a face, is a name, and a family that are all suffering because the entire family serves. Right. Yeah, you can actually multiply that number by three or four, Ken, because of the immediate family that's involved, not to mention friends, associates, brothers in arms, And, you know, you think about that number and this, the 25th anniversary of 9-11, most of those soldiers, they responded to the call after 9-11, didn't they?

1:24:52 Yeah, 1% of the nation responded, which means a couple of things. One, 1% served this nation with their hearts, their minds, their bodies, and their lives. But by the same token, That means that a lot of us have no idea what these men and women have gone through. So when somebody comes back with post-traumatic stress, you know, people don't really understand what that means. Why do they have it? What cause? I don't know what that means. Well, because you don't know what it is to serve in combat. So you need to learn about it. You know, we need to keep this conversation going because, Bill, not everyone can have the conversation we're having.

1:25:37 Yeah, exactly. If one veteran hears what we're talking about and we remove that stigma and he or she comes forward, then we have accomplished our mission. Right. Well, the thing that happens with PTSD and things that cause depression is that, uh, it ends up isolating the person, which is the worst thing that could happen. And, uh, and people like you say, 1%, that's been the traditional number outside of world war two. Uh, of civilians who have served our country and have put on the uniform, about 1%. And so 99% really do not quite understand. And so it's because they don't understand, it's hard for a vet to go and talk to their family members or talk to a non-military fraternal brother who has experienced, you know, a battlefield experience.

1:26:29 That's exactly right. And that's where the privates, the. Communities... and the peer groups. So many veterans, when they retire, they cluster. They retire in clusters. These kind of peer groups, while this is a national issue, national issues got to start somewhere, and that's where the communities start. And so peer groups and the fact that these people are not alone goes so far towards, first of all, removing that stigma, but secondly- giving them the opportunity to take that first step.

1:27:10 Well, your late great uncle, Zachary Fisher, whose vision is the result of the Fisher House Foundation, frankly, he understood that. And your family, this has been a generational commitment by your family to honor your late great uncle and those of us who have served our country. And I got to tell you, Ken, I always appreciate and look forward to our time together because Again, we just want to support 150% everything that the Fisher Foundation stands for and what you're doing. Well, we appreciate that, Bill, and you have. You've been one of our best friends, for sure, over the years. Making them aware that these issues exist and making the country aware that Suicide Prevention Month is a good place to start But we need to do more, and we need to get mobilized, and we need to hold our public officials accountable, not just during re-election time, not just during Suicide Prevention Month. But if we know somebody who's having an issue, the VA does have a hotline. Sorry, I'm at the airport. It is 838- 255, text that number, or dial 988 and press 1. hours a day, seven

1:28:41 days a week, confidential, free of course, but there. So there is a lot of help that is out there. We just need to get these men and women to come forward and seek that treatment. And the thing is, it's, It's an all-encompassing commitment, as you say. It could be other brothers in arms. Family members notice this right away. They know something's off right away. And sometimes it's hard for them to, as you say, Ken, to have this conversation and to know how to come alongside their loved one who has served in the military, right? So what do you tell them? How do you encourage them to come alongside their family member?

1:29:25 Well, what I like to do is I'm trying to get these men and women seen earlier. I don't, I think that the biggest, I think the most important time is the separation. And when they finally get home, you know, at least they're already seeking treatment rather than getting home and having, you know, three, four months go by and the problem is manifesting. Because remember, the impact is not just on them. It's the whole family. And that includes children. And we have to be mindful of that because this is not going away. This problem is going to be with us for a long time. So we need to get mobilized and we need to get things moving. We need to put forward the programs that work and we need to hold our public officials accountable. At the end of the day, it's all going to start and end in Washington.

1:30:19 Right. Well, and of course, the home where these soldiers go That's the first line of defense. And we need to encourage these families to understand, look, it's difficult and you need support. And there is support for you as a family member because you're dealing with something that it's hard to comprehend because unless you yourself have been on the battlefield and have experienced what your loved one has experienced, you're hard pressed. And all you can do is pray and come alongside and love them But meanwhile, you know, as you're saying, Ken, we need to educate ourselves. We need to, you know, do some extra work and understand that we're not alone in this battle. And it's a good fight. I mean, after all, our loved one went to go and preserve freedom on our behalf. The least we can do is come alongside them and help them get through, you know, this trauma that they've experienced. Is that fair to say, Ken?

1:31:22 It doesn't end, Bill, when the loved one finally commits suicide. That family suffers for years, if not longer. So we need to remember what we're dealing with here. This is a group of men and women that 1% served and made sacrifices and bared burdens that the average American will never understand. It's time we learned about what's going on. And don't be afraid. As unpleasant as these conversations are, we can't be afraid to have them. Because the only way change is going to happen is if we put these issues.

1:32:08 Out in the center. Exactly. Well, as you say, Ken, each loss underscores the urgent need for continued investment in mental health support for veterans, service members, and civilians alike. And the Fisher House Foundation has been there upfront leading the charge. And how can our audience come alongside Ken and support you and all that the Fisher House is doing? Our website is fisherhouse.org. On it, we're going to put the suicide hotline number on that, the website as well. You'll learn a lot about us and what we do. We're family centric. We've always been about the family. And when we evolve, we.

1:32:52 Evolve in a family-oriented way. So this issue is just an extension of a family issue in our minds. So we're tackling this as best we can, given the resources that we have. We need all hands on deck to this end. And Ken Fisher, the chairman and CEO of Fisher House Foundation, God bless you. Thank you so much for Thanks for having me back, Bill. You take care. God bless you. You too. Bye-bye. If you're 65 or older and Medicare is your main source of insurance, pay close attention right now and listen for details on how you may save thousands of dollars on your health care costs. Did you know that Medicare can pay for things like dental visits, home delivery of drugs, even a gym membership? Save a ton of money on your health care costs. and get the code to unlock all your earned Medicare benefits. Paid for by Senior Choice Plans.

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1:37:26 Hey, we're back with you. I'm Bill Martinez. He's Dr. Bonner Cohen. Bonner, how are you? I'm doing very well, Bill. And I hope you and our listeners are too. Well, I'm sure they are. Bonner is the senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. And Bonner, it looks like the Greens, you know, they just can't go away. You know, they're like those cockroaches that just keep on growing another head. That's right. I think they recognize that, at least for a foreseeable future, the salad days have come and gone. The quick transition that they had envisioned the transition from fossil fuels to, quote, unquote, clean energy. The pathway seemed all set for that. The regulations were in place. The subsidies had been duly handed out to eager recipients, and it was just going to be a matter of time before out went oil and natural gas, and in came wind turbines and solar panels. Well, it turns out that the world's a bit more complicated than that. There are all sorts of problems associated with transition. In fact, I think we can safely say that there is no transition possible.

1:38:49 It is true that more wind energy and more solar energy are being produced today than 5, 10, 15 years ago. But it's not replacing fossil fuels or nuclear or hydro. It's simply adding to it. But at the same time, we are producing more fossil fuels than ever before, particularly in the United States. And as a result, globally, fossil fuels still account for already 86% of all the energy that is produced. 86%. That's about the same as what it was 30 years ago. And so nothing has changed.

1:39:39 And as we look around the world and we see those parts of the world where the transition has quote unquote taken place, what have been the results? Let's go to Europe. Countries in European Union, including Britain in this case, derive 34% of their electricity from wind and solar with a result that Europe has far and away the highest energy prices in the world. And that's without ice and air conditioning, Bonner.

1:40:19 That's exactly right. Right. Per kilowatt hour, electricity costs three times as much in Germany as it does in the United States. And remember, the American figure is somewhat inflated because you have places like California and New York and Washington and Oregon and what have you that bumped that up. If you were to compare that with, say, Texas or Florida or Tennessee, it would be probably four times as much. Well, the point is Europe's economy cannot compete globally. If the Europeans, particularly in their manufacturing, are having to pay so much for electricity, So they have been engaging in unilateral disarmament through decarbonization, which actually translates to deindustrialization.

1:41:19 Exactly. What are they going to do with AI? I mean, they can't even really consider AI, can they? No, they can't. They're being left out of the AI race. Because putting a data center in Europe, where are you going to get the electricity? So what I think this is going to mean is Europe is going to have to, to the extent that it uses AI at all, it's going to have to piggyback on what is being done in the United States and elsewhere simply because they don't have the electricity. that will enable them to have their own access to artificial intelligence. And this is something they haven't begun to come to terms with.

1:42:10 Well, and of course, they're, you know, they're hamstrung because of their connection. And, you know, they're just so connected to the European Union. Of course, Britain is not, but all the other European nations are. And so this really retards the process for them, doesn't it? Yes, it does. And even though Britain is no longer in the European Union, on its own, it has adopted policies that differ very little from what is going on on the continent, with the result that Britain's industries are every bit as uncompetitive as those on the European continent, be they in Germany and France or what have you.

1:42:55 Britain has now at long last decided, well, you know, we may be able to use that North Sea oil after all. So they have lifted some of the restrictions on that and intend to go after that, not that they should ever have abandoned it to begin with. But at the same time, the green ideology has such a grip on Britain but they're still putting up wind turbines. They're still putting up solar panels. In other words, the change there isn't going to be that much. As a result, the continent is just becoming geopolitically and in terms of economically, it's becoming more irrelevant with each passing day.

1:43:45 Well, and it's probably, you know, you think about this, Bonner, it's probably why they're cheering on what's going on in Iran right now, right? Because this favors them. Yeah, it does in the short term. I think they're ultimately going to have to come to terms, however, with however Iran, the whole thing in Iran ends, if what the Trump administration is now doing. instead of seeking some sort of out-and-out military victory, which they fear will involve putting boots on the ground. Nobody wants to do that after the experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. But rather, you can carry out a severe form of economic war against Iran and bring them to their knees. Now, whether that will happen or not, we'll see. And if it does, how quickly? Will it be in three weeks or three years?

1:44:40 Nobody knows. Right. The other thing too, Bonner, I'm just thinking that in terms of the pressure that they're putting on Iran, like you said, we don't know how fast or how slow this could take. You're dealing with a death cult. For them, this is an issue of life and death, not to mention some religious fervor that involves Islam as well. Because they're believing that You know, they're holding out for their Mahdi and they feel like where they are right now, it is offering that opportunity for the Mahdi to come back.

1:45:22 And so till death do them part. That's right. I mean, their goal right now against tremendous odds against the U.S. is simply survival because there's really no place for. For the hundreds of thousands of IRGC people, you're talking about secret police, what have you, where are they going to go? They're not going to retire to Florida or Texas or Tennessee. Some of them may be able to escape to Russia, but there's probably an upper limit in Russia, unless, of course, they're willing to go to Ukraine and be used as cannon fodder there, which has probably occurred to some Russian generals eager for manpower.

1:46:09 But outside of that, there's a real problem with these people. They have no place to go. And the Arab states, the Gulf Arab states, don't want them at all. Exactly. Yeah. Any more than they want Hamas, right? That's right. Exactly. So they have real incentive to hang on as long as they possibly can. They hope they can wait out Trump. But that's something over which they don't have that much control. If the economy completely collapses, a big if, but if it does... And absolutely nothing in Iran works. Who's to say what will happen? We have seen these things happen before. When the Shah's government collapsed 47 years ago, the same kind of thing could happen there. What will follow it is anyone's guess. But to be sure, we have seen for the last time Iran's using of the Strait of Hormuz, because the Gulf states are simply making, shall we say, they're making other plans.

1:47:18 They're going to get their oil. They're going to send it out over pipelines. They're never going to allow themselves to be put in a position where they are dependent on the goodwill of whoever happens to be in power in Tehran for the export of their oil and natural gas. Well, the other thing that America is doing, which I think is prudent and it's leadership by Donald Trump, and that is that, you know, some people would just go and just blow the holy what have you out of Iran. And then you got a, you know, trillion dollar price tag to rebuild. And Donald Trump is trying to hold together as much as possible the infrastructure so that there's, you know, reasonable minimal damage that you can have, you know, all things considered with all the targets that they've been doing. But, you know, I think people, and this is something that they're not reporting on. Of course, they're not going to, right?

1:48:13 Yeah, that's right. They don't want to walk into the same situation that we found ourselves confronted with. at the end of World War II, when we were the occupying power in Japan and in Germany, and we were occupying a lot of rubble. want to have to go back and do all of that over again so as you said we want to leave as much of the infrastructure there in place as possible no saturation bombing of residential areas or anything like that because after all these are the people we want to liberate not with our soldiers but with other forces that we think can be brought to bear to rid that country and the world of the mullahs in Tehran. Again, we don't know whether it's going to work, but that is one of the reasons, while we're not, contrary to what Trump said, we're going to bomb the hell out of them, we're going to bomb the hell out of certain parts of the country.

1:49:12 But big chunks of it, we are leaving intact on purpose. Well, hopefully this economic pressure, like you said, Bonner, is something that can work effectively. you know, quickly. That would be in the best interest, I believe, for all concerned. We got to leave it there. Dr. Bonner-Cohen, the Senior Policy Analyst for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. Thank you, Bonner. Take care. Thank you, Bill. We call ourselves ASAP Travel for one reason. We can help you book a ticket ASAP. For those of you that don't know, that means as soon as possible. That means no wait time. You get through right away. No searching online. Our specialty is the lowest available fares on the big name airlines.

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