Human Events Daily - Live From the PA Leadership

Summary

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec: Live From the PA Leadership Conference (April 4, 2025)

Introduction and Setting

On April 4, 2025, Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec aired a live episode from the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The event served as a rally for GOP supporters to celebrate President Trump’s victory in the 2024 elections and to strategize for upcoming political races in 2026 and beyond. The atmosphere was charged with patriotic fervor as Jack Posobiec, along with guests Kevin Pozo and Cliff Maloney, engaged with fellow patriots and discussed pressing state and national issues.

Economic Policies: Globalist Economy and Tariffs

Jack Posobiec opened the discussion by critiquing the globalist economic model, emphasizing the United States' reliance on incurring debt to purchase goods manufactured abroad, particularly highlighting the dependence on Chinese production.

Jack Posobiec [01:03]: "What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is fundamentally, it's based on two principles. Incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us."

He further lauded President Trump's tariff policies, referring to them as "the great deal" that aims to protect American industries by making imported goods less competitive and encouraging domestic manufacturing.

Jack Posobiec [24:55]: "I call it the great deal because this is the first time that we've seen in years an actual bailout, not for Wall Street, but for Main Street."

Stacy Garrity, Pennsylvania’s State Treasurer and a guest on the show, echoed these sentiments, explaining the short-term pain versus long-term gain of the tariffs.

Stacy Garrity [24:54]: "It's very short term pain for a tremendous long term gain."

State Leadership and Critique of Josh Shapiro

A significant portion of the episode was dedicated to criticizing Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Posobiec and his guests portrayed Shapiro as an ineffective leader whose policies have led to economic decline and increased crime in the state.

Jack Posobiec [07:56]: "Oh, five foot three Josh Shapiro. Oh, no. Everyone on my audience knows you can't say that name around me."

Mike Jones, a State Representative, amplified these criticisms by labeling Shapiro a "wolf in sheep's clothing."

Mike Jones [07:46]: "He's a very serious threat politically."

Posobiec mocked Shapiro’s personal life and professional competence, suggesting that his leadership has exacerbated issues in Pennsylvania, including rampant crime and economic mismanagement.

Jack Posobiec [09:33]: "Like, Josh Shapiro is just basically, he's right down the street. Right, right down the street from the government."

Guest Voices: Advocating for Change

The conference featured several key speakers who voiced concerns over Pennsylvania's direction under Democratic leadership and advocated for Republican policies to revitalize the state.

• Kevin Pozo emphasized the need to energize grassroots movements and align more closely with Trump’s vision to prevent voter complacency.

  Kevin Pozo [04:03]: "We go to church, they go to politics because it is a religion for these guys."

• Joe Diorsi, another State Representative, highlighted issues such as affordable energy, education reform, and economic sustainability, proposing universal school choice as a solution.

  Joe Diorsi [17:19]: "I carry a universal school choice bill in the House. I think that's a big topic."

Fiscal Health of Pennsylvania

Stacy Garrity delved into the financial turmoil facing Pennsylvania, citing unsustainable spending and looming tax hikes under Governor Shapiro’s administration.

Stacy Garrity [28:07]: "It really is. And it's, you know, we're at a crossroads. We're not doing that well."

She pointed out that the state is projected to spend significantly beyond its revenues in the coming years, leading to potential financial crisis.

Stacy Garrity [28:25]: "It is. We really are going to. We're at a crossroads. Something has to give."

Posobiec criticized the state's financial management, accusing the governor of irresponsible spending without viable solutions.

Jack Posobiec [27:55]: "It is government incompetence that is actually costing more money in real dollars that you have to send out, even though it's taxpayer dollars to begin with."

Energy and Manufacturing: The Path to Recovery

A recurrent theme was the untapped energy resources in Pennsylvania. Posobiec and Garrity argued that leveraging the state's vast natural gas reserves and promoting energy independence are crucial for economic revival and national security.

Jack Posobiec [24:55]: "Why not use the energy that's right here under our feet?"

Stacy Garrity [31:46]: "Energy security is national security, and we see that, you know, all over the world."

They criticized green regulations and initiatives like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (Reggie), labeling them as obstructive to Pennsylvania’s energy potential and economic growth.

Stacy Garrity [36:25]: "It's a cap and trade scheme. We're squandering it. We have. We are doing nothing."

Concluding Remarks: A Call to Action

The episode concluded with a rallying cry for Pennsylvania patriots to take active roles in reversing the state's decline. Posobiec encouraged listeners to follow and support state leaders advocating for fiscal responsibility, energy independence, and economic revitalization.

Jack Posobiec [33:25]: "If you care about your country and if you care about the way this country goes, the swing states of the Rust Belt, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, it runs through here. This is the beating heart of MAGA."

He underscored the importance of grassroots movements and continuous voter engagement to ensure lasting political and economic change in Pennsylvania.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Jack Posobiec [01:03]: "What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? ... borrowing from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture."

• Mike Jones [07:46]: "He’s a very serious threat politically."

• Stacy Garrity [24:54]: "It's very short term pain for a tremendous long term gain."

• Stacy Garrity [28:25]: "It really is. And it's, you know, we're at a crossroads. Something has to give."

• Jack Posobiec [33:25]: "This is the beating heart of MAGA."

Conclusion

The April 4, 2025, episode of Human Events Daily served as a platform for Jack Posobiec and his guests to critique Democratic leadership in Pennsylvania, celebrate Republican victories, and advocate for policies aimed at economic revitalization and energy independence. The discussions underscored concerns over fiscal mismanagement, declining manufacturing, and ineffective governance under Governor Josh Shapiro, while promoting a proactive Republican agenda to reclaim Pennsylvania’s prosperity.

Transcript

[Jack Posobic]

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[Mike Jones]

The start because I've already heard some rumors and gossip. This was not a race thing and.

[Jack Posobic]

This is not a political thing. What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is fundamentally, it's based on two principles. Incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us. And to make it a little bit more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.

[Stacy Garrity]

You said previously that the relationship that Canada had with the United States is now over. Is the U.S. still our ally?

[Jack Posobic]

The U.S. absolutely. Look, the U.S. is absolutely our ally. It's our ally in security and defense partnership. America is rich. We buy a lot of stuff. President Trump is saying that if you American business are you a foreign businesses want to sell in America, then move your business here and hire American workers. That's an audible goal and I support it. It'll work long term.

[Cliff Maloney]

We can't allow the United States of America not to produce pharmaceuticals. We can't have a war where we can't get antibiotics and we have to call another country to make a missile or to make a plane. I mean, these are obvious things. We need to have domestic production. We need to employ Americans. And I think that is the model that Donald Trump is seizing on. We need to employ Americans for the good of the United States of America.

[Jack Posobic]

Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily. We're here live in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this April 4, 2025 Anno Dominique. We're at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. This is a gathering of patriots. We're here to celebrate the incredible victory of President Trump in 2024. Turning Pennsylvania red. Ruby red, baby. We loved it. But we are here also because we're Soros Maxing. We're building for the 2026 race for the local races here in 2025 and then 2028 and beyond. And of course, I wouldn't be Pennsylvania if I wasn't here with my brother, Kev Pozo. What's up, Kev? Keystone, Kev checking in. So, Kev checking in, putting the. Putting the key in Keystone. You know, they said Josh Shapiro issued a mandate, said we're not allowed to be in the state together. Did you realize that? Is that right? I didn't realize that. Where's Josh? He's not here. Where are you, Josh? He's right. He's right up the. He's right uptown. We'll cover. Well, maybe he'll come over from the governor's mansion. Maybe he'll come out. Take a peek. We're also here with the great Cliff Maloney. Cliff, want to thank you for having us here, for hosting us from Citizens alliance and the phase.

[Kevin Pozo]

Got our commonwealth back, baby. We did it. Happy to be here.

[Jack Posobic]

Look, we've got it back, but it's not all the way back. We want a big battle. We want a big battle, but we haven't quite won the war yet, have we now?

[Kevin Pozo]

And I think, you know, this Lancaster race last week really was an eye opener for us. You know, the Democrats, we might think they're in turmoil, but they. They've got no leader, no message. What are they doing? Except for going after Trump, going after Elon. But one thing they do do, Josh Shapiro takes his election seriously. This is a business for these people. They show up even with no message and no candidate. And that's why we have to continue to compete.

[Jack Posobic]

We go to church, they go to politics because it is a religion for these guys. It's their theocracy. It's their worship. When they go and get involved in politics, that for them, that's like reading scripture or something for us. And it's. And we think it's ridiculous, but you know what? We got to fight the same way.

[Kevin Pozo]

Yeah. And I think that's what it's all about. I mean, we learned like, look, we've got to double down. We got to take the lessons we learned in 24 and make those permanent.

[Jack Posobic]

Right.

[Kevin Pozo]

We got to stop listening to the consultant class. They have no idea what they're doing. It's more Karl Rove. Money on tv, money on mail. It's like, come on, guys, the rules have changed. We adapt or we die. So I think it's actually a good wake up call, this Lancaster race. And it's just seeing if the consultants will finally figure it out.

[Jack Posobic]

Kev, we got. We got some great Human events Daily fans. Any fans of Real America's voice here today? Any fans, Real America's Voice? They're watching us here. They're all here from Pennsylvania. Look, folks, this is what it's all about. Pennsylvania is the play, the keystone is the key. And we love this great gathering of patriots. We got thousands of people coming in today. We'll be speaking later today. Kev is going to be prowling around outside. He's looking for antifa. He's like, I wish a Tesla terrorist would. I wish a Tesla terrorist would. Welcome to the second American revolution. All right, Jack Posobic, we're back live Human events Daily. Real America's voice here in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. And we're also want to bring in now the third hour of the Charlie Kirk program on the Salem Radio Network. In fact, Chris de Gaulle, the morning host on Salem radio just spoke a little while ago, another great son of Pennsylvania like myself. Look, we're here in Pennsylvania. We're having this gathering of patriots. That's what this is, a patriot gathering. But it's not a celebration. This is a working meeting. A working meeting of patriots. A working meeting of people who want to take action that are tired of the same old, same old. We're not going to show up every four years. We're going to show up every single day, putting our shoulder to the wheel and doing what we want and what we need for our commonwealth. And across all of it. We've got a lot of great fans here. We got a lot of folks coming up. And folks, before we get into that, I got to tell you, look, they say, how do you do all this Poso? How do you do it all? How do you have the energy? You're, you're, you know, going here, you're going there, you're in Ukraine with Secretary Bessant, you're coming back over, you're on all these places, you're up in Pennsylvania. How do you. How do you keep going? I say it's very simple. I start my day every single day with a cup, maybe a couple of cups of blackout coffee. And if you want to have that same level of energy, that same level of drive day in and day out, you got to go to blackout coffee.com promo code posto. It's so simple. And that promo code Will save you big on your first order. The best way to do it, honestly, just go get the yearly subscription. You get it 12 months, it's delivered straight to you. Blackout Coffee.com promo code, poster. If you could tell, I had my blackout coffee before the program today, and that's how I'm able to go at the level that I'm going right now. The only person that I think has a little bit more is President Trump. I can't get you that stuff, but what I can get you is blackout coffee. So go to blackout coffee.com promo code, blackout posto. A little bit of that poso power. So we're here. We're talking to grassroots. We've also got local officials here, as well as State Representative Mike Jones from the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Welcome to Human Events Daily.

[Mike Jones]

Hey, thanks for having me, Jack. It's great to be here.

[Jack Posobic]

So tell me, what's the importance of this conference and what's the. What's the theme today going into 2025?

[Mike Jones]

Well, the theme is we gotta. We gotta put as much pressure as we possibly can. Can on the Democrats, who unfortunately control the House by one seat. And of course, Governor Josh Shapiro.

[Jack Posobic]

Oh, no. Five foot three Josh Shapiro. Oh, no. Everyone on my audience knows you can't say that name around me. Oh, no.

[Mike Jones]

I will say this, people, and I know you know this, but people need to take him. He's a very serious threat politically.

[Jack Posobic]

Yes. Oh, yes.

[Mike Jones]

Which. The only. But you know, it's. It's a wolf in sheep's clothes.

[Jack Posobic]

A wolf in sheep's club. He comes. He comes right in front of you. And he. And he lies. So the silky, sweet lies, the smooth lies, because he really believes it. He really believes that he'll say whatever he wants. By the way. Wait, my brother Kevin's here. Kevin, you got to get the Josh Shapiro napkins. Can you grab some of the napkins, folks? Don't worry. They got Josh Shapiro napkins here. This is. How great.

[Mike Jones]

I haven't seen this.

[Jack Posobic]

I know. This is great. I should have grabbed some for the show.

[Mike Jones]

Well, who does he remind you of? Everybody I talk to.

[Jack Posobic]

Well, it's very clear to me that he's taken his mannerisms, his articulation, and his. His vocal timbre from Barack Obama.

[Mike Jones]

100%, he's got that.

[Jack Posobic]

And people to judge, kind of does this, too. But Josh Shapiro does it to an even greater extent. In fact, we were. We were toying around last year with. When he spoke a couple of times after. By the way, Kamala Harris completely Humiliated him by passing him over. Remember, he's playing basketball in the, in the front lawn with the kids, with the, with the Inquirer sitting out front. He said, maybe, maybe I'll get the call. Maybe. He can't make him shoot. He can't make a single hoop. But he's playing basketball with the kid. Never gets the call. Tim Walls gets the call. And we all know how the rest.

[Mike Jones]

Of the story is.

[Jack Posobic]

And so he got passed over for that. You know, five foot three. Of course he can't play basketball. But the thing is, people need to understand that he is, he is, he is a facsimile. He is not telling his true nature.

[Mike Jones]

No, it's very Obama esque, as you said. His mannerisms, his way of speaking. Almost everybody that observes him says it. But the thing to remember about Obama, there we go, the Josh Shapiro here.

[Jack Posobic]

You can have one. Stop the Shapiro tax. All the napkins here at the conference. Stop Shapiro. Stop Shapiro. We love this. Oh, it's so good.

[Mike Jones]

The thing you got to remember about.

[Jack Posobic]

And you need, you need napkins when Shapiro's around because you always got to clean up something.

[Mike Jones]

Well, he wants to be president. That's what his motivation is. So. But much like Obama, I call Obama the great decision deceiver.

[Jack Posobic]

Indeed.

[Mike Jones]

And the masters, you could say. Well, and I'm not comparing them literally, to be clear, but if you look at, if you look at the devil and the style.

[Jack Posobic]

The style.

[Mike Jones]

A lot of what the devil says in the Bible is technically true. But he's, but he's more. He quotes scripture.

[Jack Posobic]

Yes.

[Mike Jones]

But he's a master deceiver. And they're the masters of the half truth, the white lie, the exaggeration. And it sounds really good, but the father of all life and sheep's. Yeah, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. And I'm not, to be clear, I'm not saying he's literally. No, but that's, there's a parallel there. And that's how Obama was.

[Jack Posobic]

I'll tell you. So he was my county commissioner in Montgomery County. I'm born, raised in our town, Pennsylvania, and he was our county commissioner. And he would sit there and tell you that he's done a great job. I say, where did he do this great job? Where was it done? Was it done in, in his district when he was a state rep, which has now fallen apart? Was it done in Norristown where he sat and was serving for all this time? And you look at Norristown, it's completely flooded by illegal aliens. It's flooded by fentanyl and crack and all the other stuff that's going on. Murder with the hospitals getting torn down. And you think this is good? This is street. I grew up on street. I live my mom and dad and I can't even take my kids there so much. It's so much crime. That was Josh Shapiro's area that he represented and now he's in the governor's mansion after being ag. And I'm sorry, but the crime in Pennsylvania still hasn't been fixed. All these problems haven't fixed. Get me started on Philadelphia, you know, killadelphia. And so this is the guy. What record is he supposed to run on? But he'll walk up there and say everything's great. He'll walk up there.

[Mike Jones]

Well, I mean you don't have a media to call him out on it other than guys like yourself. And it's, it's the epitome of a career politician. No private sector experience, which I came out of the business world. That's one of my big pet peeves here. Our state's getting older, smaller and poorer by the day because of these taxes and regulations on business. It's absolutely killing us. The only demographic in Pennsylvania that's growing is the over eating demographic because we're chasing, we're chasing employers and young people with them because they follow the jobs right out of the state. And something that people don't talk about nearly enough yet they keep beating that same union drum, regulatory drum. Let's tax the rich, tax the businesses. We're going to run out of rich people and businesses to tax the way we're going.

[Jack Posobic]

Yeah, a lot of, and a lot of people left during COVID And then the kids, we have the brain drain because people will come to Pennsylvania and go to school, school, and then they immediately leave and get out as soon as they get that degree.

[Mike Jones]

Lost another congressional seat. Electoral vote with this last sentence or census. Right. You know, especially, you know, North. Well, meanwhile, North Carolina and Tennessee and others are.

[Jack Posobic]

So that's the state of the commonwealth. That's why people said we need change. That's why they voted for President Trump. What can, what are people doing here at the conference today? People who care about our state, who love our state. What are people doing to get things back on the right track?

[Mike Jones]

Well, what I hope we're doing is getting energized because that was, it was a beautiful day, November 5th. I guess it was. I'm still, I'm still celebrating, but I think people got lax. You Said we lost this state Senate race in Lancaster, that Trump won that by 15. Now part of it is a lot of Republicans haven't figured out that they need to get on the Trump bandwagon. It's, it's mind boggling to me that they don't get the message. But I think you also have a lot of complacency. It's like Trump won. Everything's good. What we need to do here is start the process of really energizing our grassroots and getting out the vote for the biggest single thing are these retention votes for the state Supreme Court. Because as bad as Wolf and Shapiro were and are, you can make a strong argument the last six, seven, eight years, the state supreme court has, has done more damage. Redistricting being the single unconstitutional redistrict.

[Jack Posobic]

Well, they took our district map. They, they, they basically shredded it and then they outsourced the entire thing to some college professor out of California and said, this is the guy who's going to redraw your equitable districts. A joke. I said, I said, why don't they just ask the donors of the Pennsylvania Democrat Party who they would like to be congressmen and representative? Because that's so obvious what they're doing. Well.

[Mike Jones]

And you had judges running on that. We made a big mistake by not impeaching at a bare minimum, Justice Weck probably should have impeached a couple of them five, six years ago when we were in the majority when I first got up to Harrisburg. Instead we said idly by and watch them. They cost us two or three congressional seats. Almost took out Scott Perry.

[Jack Posobic]

Yep.

[Mike Jones]

Back in. I guess that would have been. Or 18. Oh, they were head hunting and then they, and then they cost us the majority in the House. Blatantly unconstitutional.

[Jack Posobic]

We're headed off to a break. Where can people go to follow you? Get more information.

[Mike Jones]

State Rep. Mike Jones on Facebook and I Mike Jones for PA is the other one. And I'm down in south central York County.

[Jack Posobic]

Oh, we love your county.

[Mike Jones]

The big red wall here in Pennsylvania.

[Jack Posobic]

So that the round the clock diners.

[Stacy Garrity]

Yes, sir.

[Mike Jones]

They're good friends of mine. The Sacarellises. We hot rod on the roof. I spearheaded Reopen York with Veronica over here and about a dozen others I know. And the Sacarellises were the, you know, front and front and center.

[Jack Posobic]

Right back Patriots.

[Mike Jones]

Thank you.

[Jack Posobic]

Today, you know, they talk about influencers. These are influencers and they're friends of mine. Jack. Where's Jack? Jack. He's got a great job. All right, folks, we're back here. What's up, guys? Are we excited for President Trump in Pennsylvan? Are we excited to be here for the Pennsylvania Chase? Are we excited to be here to take back Pennsylvania from little Josh Shapiro? Do we like Josh Shapiro? Is Josh Shapiro five foot three? He is. He is. He is with the platform. He is with the ply. This platform shoes. I mean, we love this. We're right here. Josh Shapiro is just basically, he's right down the street. Right, right down the street from the government.

[Kevin Pozo]

He's not at the leadership conference for Pennsylvania.

[Jack Posobic]

Let. Why didn't he show up? I would love to come. Kevin wanted to see him so much. I was, I'm hurt. I'm so hurt. Did he hear that we were going to ask some interesting questions about some of these court cases, Some of these skeletons that, oh, gosh, you know, because he looks so nice when you see him. He looks so, he looks so put together. He's so articulate. He so, he's so smart. He's so well spoken. But then you start digging into his past and oh, my gosh, there's a lot there. There's a lot there. He's got more skeletons than a graveyard. Oh, more skeletons in a graveyard.

[Kevin Pozo]

We got a couple patriots over here.

[Jack Posobic]

But we do bring up like patriots, you know, should we say patriots?

[Kevin Pozo]

Join us over here.

[Jack Posobic]

We got, we got another state rep. We got Joe Diorsi. Stay right here. Let's do this. We'll do a little producing on flight. I'll give him. Oh, no, Joe, Joe, you're right here. Right here. We're doing it live, folks. We're doing it live. It's okay. It's Pennsylvania style. We're Pennsylvanians. We can figure it out. We might not be there the fastest, but we'll get there. State representative, thank you so much for joining us on Human Events Daily. Tell me what, what brings you out today and what do you think are the biggest issues facing Pennsylvania that you're going to address here at the conference?

[Joe Diorsi]

Well, I mean, we're all gathered, we're of like, mind for liberty, limited government and free market principles. I think that's pretty, pretty rational. I think a lot of the people in this building are for that. I think energy is a big topic for Pennsylvanians. Affordable energy. We have so much natural gas under our feet.

[Jack Posobic]

We have, it's right here.

[Joe Diorsi]

It's right here to power the rest of the United States. States and our allies abroad. I think education, school choice. I carry a universal school choice bill in the House I think that's a big topic. And just the economy.

[Jack Posobic]

I've seen a ton of tabling here for school choice.

[Joe Diorsi]

Yep. And, you know, you're talking about little Josh. I mean, he talks about Pennsylvania being competitive as hell. Fact is, we've lost 300,000 people to states with greener economic pastures over the last 15 years.

[Jack Posobic]

A little Josh, he seems to think that if he curses that, that makes whatever he says believable or makes him seem tough, like. No, it doesn't. It actually makes you seem weird and creepy.

[Joe Diorsi]

It does. And he also likes to talk about sports a lot. He's all about the Phillies. He's all about the Pirates, Penn State, but I'm not sure how much he knows about sports.

[Jack Posobic]

Well, and what's funny, too, is, is he'll do that. He'll say, I'm a lifetime. I'm a lifelong Eagles fan. But then I'll say, he's also a Steelers fan. There's. And look, if you know anything about Pennsylvania, you don't mix. You do not mix. No true Eagles fan would ever say that they're a Steelers fan and vice versa. You would not. You. You can have a terrible towel one day, you know, and you're hanging out with, like, the Philly fanatic in the Phillies the next. It just doesn't work. It doesn't track. So just be honest, Josh. Just be honest. But he can't. He just can't because he is not constitutionally capable of being honest.

[Joe Diorsi]

Yeah, I mean, he's a Montgomery county guy. So, I mean, just.

[Jack Posobic]

You're. You can't trust those county guys.

[Joe Diorsi]

You're right. Phillies, Eagles, just go with it.

[Jack Posobic]

Yeah.

[Stacy Garrity]

Just go.

[Joe Diorsi]

Pennsylvanians respect a true fan and not a bandwagon.

[Jack Posobic]

It's. Exactly. And that's. That's 100% who he is. I love. We've got the. We. Have you seen these? I'll give you one of these. We've got the Josh Shapiro napkins here. Because when. That's for you. State rep. So whenever. There's one for you, Cliff, as well. Because whenever Josh Shapiro is around, there's a mess you need to clean up. So we've got Stop Shapiro. And this is for the tax hike. What are the tax hikes that he's pushing right now?

[Joe Diorsi]

Well, he. His. His energy plan would translate to a tax hike. And ratepayers, he changes the acronym, like, every week. It used to be Reggie. Now it's Pacer. I think there's a new one now. They just shift the goalpost. That's the major one. I think also budget wise, his budget would spend this year $51.47 billion, spends down our surplus. And the projection is that we'll be out of money. And then when we're out of surplus, we're out of the rainy day fund. That's a. That's a tax hike. So.

[Jack Posobic]

And that's where we're at. And that's what he's setting it up for, a tax hike. Because he's going to be saying that, oh, we want to continue our services. There's only one way to do it, folks. We've got to raise taxes. Where can people go to follow you to get more information and really find out the truth about Josh Shapiro?

[Joe Diorsi]

Yeah. So I'm on X. Joe D for PA Also on Instagram and Facebook under the same name. Joe D for PA Joe D for.

[Jack Posobic]

PA look, that's a real patriot there. A Pennsylvania patriot. Look, we're here today in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. PA is the play, the keystone is the key. And look, if you thought it was just me who's got a bone to pick with little Josh Shapiro, guess what? I'm surrounded by an entire thousands of patriots who agree with me. We'll be right back here. Human Events Daily continues. That was perfect. Thank you. And Jack. Where's Jack? Where's Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you. Great job. Thank you. What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys should be getting bullishers. All right, Jack Paso. Vic. We are back live, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. We're meeting with local leaders, grassroots leaders, patriots, all from the four corners of this vast commonwealth. And we're also very honored to have on someone who is a. A statewide elected official in this commonwealth. It is the treasurer of Pennsylvania, Stacy Garrity. Thank you so much for joining us, Stacy.

[Stacy Garrity]

Jack, thanks for having me. And first, before we start. Oh, yes. So Navy intelligence.

[Jack Posobic]

That's right. That's right.

[Stacy Garrity]

So I'm retired army.

[Jack Posobic]

There we go.

[Stacy Garrity]

Challenge coin.

[Jack Posobic]

There you go. Oh, wow. Wow. Hua to you. Thank you so much for this. How long were you in?

[Stacy Garrity]

30 years.

[Jack Posobic]

30 years. Tell us a little bit about what you did in the army.

[Stacy Garrity]

Oh, my gosh. So military police. But my. So I had three deployments, all detention operations.

[Jack Posobic]

So my last deployment, so I was at Guantanamo. So I. I worked. I work with you guys all the time.

[Stacy Garrity]

Yeah, I know. So of course, military Police hate detention operations. That was all three deployments that I had and my last deployment.

[Jack Posobic]

You just can't be an actual cop.

[Stacy Garrity]

Exactly. I was acting battalion commander at Camp Bucha in southern Iraq. So we had 7,000 detainees, 225 on death row. And then I had the shoe special housing unit, which I know you're familiar with. Oh, yeah. So we were the first internment facility to have zero escape attempts and zero abuse allegations. So, you know, kudos to the ncaa.

[Jack Posobic]

That would. That was. Now, was Abu Ghraib during that period around about then?

[Stacy Garrity]

No. So Abu Ghraib was 0304. This was 0809.

[Jack Posobic]

Okay, gotcha.

[Stacy Garrity]

Right. So I hit my mandatory retirement date in 2016. Had I not hit my mandatory retirement day, I would not be standing here with you because serving was and is the honor of my life.

[Jack Posobic]

What do you. What do you think about what Secretary Hegseth has done so far?

[Stacy Garrity]

You know, I think it's great. You know, we couldn't even recruit because, you know, when people join the military, it's not for dei. It's because they want to serve. Yeah.

[Jack Posobic]

And they want to be a war fighter.

[Stacy Garrity]

Yeah, exactly.

[Jack Posobic]

They want to. I mean, as they say, they want to be all they can be.

[Stacy Garrity]

Yes.

[Jack Posobic]

Right. You want to see how far you can go. You want to see.

[Stacy Garrity]

Exactly. You don't want diminished standards. Once you lower your standards, you know, it's so hard to get them back up.

[Jack Posobic]

So is that what you saw as you were in. Did you see that coming?

[Stacy Garrity]

I started seeing it coming. So I was a battalion commander, had first trans soldier, and we were going to a weapons call at Fort Indiantown Gap. And so. Right. So I had to give my first sergeant a credit card because I couldn't. I'm responsible for all these young women. I could not have a trans in the barracks.

[Jack Posobic]

So, Wait, wait, so that they were required to be in the barracks?

[Stacy Garrity]

Well, they had no other provisions because this was like, when it was brand. Brand new. So. Yeah. So I'm like, here, go get a. Go get a room.

[Jack Posobic]

Go stay out in town.

[Stacy Garrity]

Like, I can't.

[Jack Posobic]

You're gonna stay out in town.

[Stacy Garrity]

These parents would. Yeah. Have a field day if they heard.

[Jack Posobic]

About responsibility of female soldiers.

[Stacy Garrity]

Exactly.

[Jack Posobic]

And it's. It's so ridiculous. Ridiculous what we're doing. And the fact that you're up there, you're trying to train for weapons qualifications. You're trying to actually, you know, put, you know, you know, put rounds down range.

[Stacy Garrity]

Right. And you have these.

[Jack Posobic]

Worried about these distractions. And you know, you just mentioned you had, you had to take time and you had to take resources to go and deal with all of this, which as we all know, that gets in the way of what the mission.

[Stacy Garrity]

It does, it does.

[Jack Posobic]

But now you're here in Pennsylvania.

[Stacy Garrity]

I am.

[Jack Posobic]

And you're also the Pennsylvania state treasurer. So the biggest finances has been a huge piece of this going forward. We're all talking about the Trump tariffs. This is the big thing this week. I call it the great deal. I think it's the great deal because this is the first time that we've seen in years an actual bailout, not for Wall street, but for Main Street. They've been getting a bad deal now it's a great deal. But, but you tell me. I'm not going to, I'm not going to, you know, sit here and vamp tell me what the tariffs mean for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

[Stacy Garrity]

Okay. So I say it's very short term pain for a tremendous long term gain.

[Jack Posobic]

Kind of like leg day.

[Stacy Garrity]

Exactly, exactly. And for folks that are complaining about prices going up. Well, where were they when we were losing millions of manufacturing jobs overseas? And you know, I have a manufacturing background. I spent 30 years at the largest tungsten smelter in the Western world. We had to shut down an entire business unit. 225 jobs went. And you know where they went? They went to China, of course. Exactly.

[Jack Posobic]

They'll go to China.

[Stacy Garrity]

And so all President Trump's asking for is treat us like we treat you, full stop, end of story.

[Jack Posobic]

And so do you believe that with this, this tariff policy and by the, not just it's the great deal is more than just tariffs because you've got also the, you know, you've got the ability for no tax on tips. You got the Social Security and the energy benefits that are going to be coming when we actually get American energy dominance back online. By the way, you know, we've obviously got the LNG right here in the Commonwealth. What do you think the effect will be once this really comes to realization?

[Stacy Garrity]

Oh, I think it's going to be thousands and thousands of families sustaining jobs. And you know what, it's more than bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States. Anything that we can do to encourage manufacturing here. It's a matter of national security.

[Jack Posobic]

Of course.

[Stacy Garrity]

Yes.

[Jack Posobic]

And we, we all learned this during COVID And Covid hit Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania very hard because of Governor Tom Wolf at the time. You know, we've got, by the way, I'm sure that our current governor would be just the same Policies, possibly even worse policies. Of course, he would exempt himself the same way that Tom Wolf exempted his own company from all of the policies. So, so, so you're, as a statewide elected official, do you work with Josh Piro on a regular basis with the governor?

[Stacy Garrity]

I work with the budget office.

[Jack Posobic]

Okay.

[Stacy Garrity]

I do have some dealings with Joshua Paris. So from a financial standpoint, you know, we work well together. I mean, this isn't commonly known, but we do doge in Pennsylvania.

[Jack Posobic]

Okay. Talk to me about that. Tell me about that.

[Stacy Garrity]

Because my office makes all the payments of all 70 agencies. Over 70 agencies, which, by the way, if you ask me, way too many agencies.

[Jack Posobic]

It's a lot of agencies.

[Stacy Garrity]

So we have stopped billions and billions of dollars from going out the door in improper payments. Just last fiscal year alone, we stopped $1.7 billion from going out the door. But we could be doing so much more at the agency level if we had the right person in the governor's office.

[Jack Posobic]

I was going to ask is, I mean, certainly the governor must be supportive of that. I mean, that's waste, fraud and abuse. Right?

[Stacy Garrity]

Hopefully he is. But I'll tell you what, just at the Department of Revenue, we spent almost $50 million of taxpayer money last year because they gave tax taxpayers their refunds late. So now, not only think about that, wrap your head around it. Not only did we give taxpayers their, their refunds back late, but then we had to pay more money, and it's taxpayer dollars. So there's, you know, you're.

[Jack Posobic]

It's, It's. Right. So it's, it's government. It's. Right. It's government incompetence that is actually costing more money in real dollars that you have to send out, even though it's taxpayer dollars to begin with.

[Stacy Garrity]

Exactly.

[Jack Posobic]

Ridiculous. It is.

[Stacy Garrity]

It's totally ridiculous. So I think there should be effort at the agency level because, you know, I'm limited in what I could do. So there's so much more we could do.

[Jack Posobic]

And now when you, when you look at the state of Pennsylvania's finances, obviously, you know, we have, I don't know if you've seen these, these napkins that have been going around.

[Stacy Garrity]

Stop, Stop.

[Jack Posobic]

Shapiro tax hikes. Please take some. Although there's this ton of. They're all over the place here at the conference. And when we look at this, this really is about the fiscal health of the state, isn't it?

[Stacy Garrity]

It is. It really is. And it's, you know, we're at a crossroads. We're not doing that well. So just this year alone, we will spend $3.5 billion more than what we bring in next year. It's going to be 6 billion the year after. 6.9 billion. You know, assuming that, you know, revenues are pretty constant.

[Jack Posobic]

Right.

[Stacy Garrity]

So no matter how you look, look at it, we're out of money in three years. Out of money, which means one of two things, and neither of them are good.

[Jack Posobic]

Everything in the state's coffers is being spent out. Whatever surplus is there is being spent out. We don't have a Fort Knox here. Fort Indiantown Gap doesn't have a whole room full of gold up in there. Not that I've seen you. You were the battalion. But. But. So. So what is the governor's plan, then?

[Stacy Garrity]

Well, they just keep throwing. Throwing more money and hoping, you know, something different happens.

[Jack Posobic]

Well, this is what they do. It's every. I. I follow him. I watch every. Oh, I watch him like a hawk. I watch him like a hawk. Every week there's a new program, there's a new announcement. There's a. And I get it. That's how you. That's how you build popularity. But ultimately what you're doing is you're spending other people's money.

[Stacy Garrity]

Exactly. And, you know, it's really unconscionable. And I think the money runs out in time for him to run for, you know, his. His next higher office.

[Jack Posobic]

Right. And so the money will run out. And look, he was my county commissioner, so I'm from Norristown, Pennsylvania. He was my county commissioner. He ran that county into the ground. He certainly ran Narstown into the ground, as you know, in the sense that he represented the area and worked right at the Norristown courthouse. This is the county seat of Montgomery county. And he didn't care.

[Mike Jones]

Why?

[Jack Posobic]

Because he just moved on to the next job. He just moved on to attorney general. And then when he was attorney general, crime went absolutely crazy in the state in particular, particularly the city of Philadelphia, and didn't care about that.

[Mike Jones]

Why?

[Jack Posobic]

He just bounced off to his next job and nobody ever holds him accountable.

[Stacy Garrity]

Now, you go past Independence hall, and what do you see? Filth, crime, the homeless.

[Jack Posobic]

Times that people beating each other to death in the streets, which happened recently. It's horrific. Yes. Kensington and Allegheny, they're the K and A, those corners. When I was a kid, and I'm talking like, like 80s, 90s, you could go shopping there. And now it's. It's like, they call it Kensington beach and it's the Fentanyl Highway. It's horrific.

[Stacy Garrity]

I Know, it is awful. I have relatives that come in from out of state, and they've called me and said, stacy, what happened to Philadelphia?

[Jack Posobic]

Yeah.

[Stacy Garrity]

Yeah. So we really are going to. We're at a crossroads. Something has to give. I mean, even look at education. We are the. We're in the top 20% of all states. We spend over $22,000 per student per year on education. And guess what? A little over 50% of our 8th graders are proficient in reading and math. So it's. It's not, you know, it's oil and gas, Reggie. You know, Ohio, Virginia, they're kicking our butts because nobody wants to invest in the Commonwealth because, you know, particularly in oil and gas. Because you have this. Reggie. Regional greenhouse gas and regulations. Yeah. Which is an illegal tax disguised as a regulation.

[Jack Posobic]

And this is what. When President Trump ran, when he talked about the fracking, when he talked about that we have these massive LNG reserves under Western Pennsylvania that are a gift from God. They are to the citizens of this Commonwealth. And you've got these crazy taxes that are pushed by the Democrats, pushed by the green movement, and won't actually allow us to tap into our own resources. And so if you want energy dominance, why not use the energy that's right here under our feet?

[Stacy Garrity]

Exactly. I mean, we should be exporting so much more, and that would be transformative.

[Jack Posobic]

And what does it do? It brings the price of oil down on the international market.

[Stacy Garrity]

Inflation down.

[Jack Posobic]

Brings inflation down. It brings all the prices down. Then the tariffs come in, and guess what? Now American goods can become more competitive on the open market. And what does that bring back? The manufacturing jobs.

[Stacy Garrity]

Exactly. Exactly. And again, just like manufacturing jobs, energy security is national security, and we see that, you know, all over the world.

[Jack Posobic]

Stacey, tell people, where can they go to follow you, to follow your work? Because there's. There's few people that are speaking truth to power here in Pennsylvania, but you're one of them.

[Stacy Garrity]

Thank you, Jack. So you can follow me on X at Garrity for Pennsylvania or on Facebook at Stacey Garrity for Pennsylvania.

[Jack Posobic]

Look, you've got to go be following her if you're in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or if you're interested in what's going on in these states. Look, Pennsylvania went red in 2024, but guess what? President Trump, as far as we know, won't be on the ballot again. As far as you know. Just saying, as of right now, you never know. Never know for sure. Maybe Vance Trump, I don't know. We'll see. There's some Rumors. There's some things being floated, but we need to build the networks out. We can't just assume that because Trump won that everything's going to be fixed with a magic wand. That's not how it works. And if you care about your country and if you care about the way this country goes, the swing states of the Rust Belt, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, it runs through here. This is the beating heart of maga. God bless. Stacy, thank you so much for coming on, brother.

[Stacy Garrity]

Thank you. Thank you, Jack.

[Jack Posobic]

Jack is a great guy. He's written a fantastic book. Everybody's talking about it. Go get it. And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event. And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again.

[Mike Jones]

Amen.

[Senator Kiefer]

I'm not sure why the President of the United States wants to do this to our small businesses, wants to harm our main streets, but here in Pennsylvania, I want you to know that I give a damn about our small businesses and I give a damn about our main streets. And I am trying, together with these lawmakers to make life easier for our small businesses.

[Jack Posobic]

Shapiro visited a brewery in Bethlehem this afternoon in the Lehigh Valley region.

[Senator Kiefer]

I just wish the president wasn't working against us as recklessly as he is. This tariff war that he is starting, this button that he is pushing, is going to have one effect, and that effect is to drive up costs on consumers and businesses throughout Pennsylvania at a time where we can't afford that.

[Jack Posobic]

All right, Jack Posobic back live here, Human Events Daily. We are in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where we've got the Stop Shapiro napkins that we've got up because we got to have the napkins, because whenever Josh Shapiro is around, he always makes a mess. So this, this is, this is amazing. We've got them all over the event. Everybody's got them. It's actually amazing. I love that we're doing this over here with State Senator Hebert. Thank you so much for joining us on Human Events Daily. Now, I'd love if I could get, if you wanted to respond to our illustrious Governor Shapiro, five foot three that he is, that he's saying that the tariffs and everything that President Trump is doing is going to hurt Pennsylvania, it's going to cause pain to Pennsylvania. Is that your view? Do you see that as happening?

[H]

I don't. And we've got to do something different because what's going on now, what had been going on for the past four years was decimating Pennsylvania. Our, our population continues to decline. The biggest import we have are old people. We're losing jobs. Manufacturing's going to nothing in Pennsylvania. We have no help. We're not producing energy like we were once producing energy. We have a lot going wrong with us. We have so much opportunity, though.

[Jack Posobic]

Well, and this is what, when President Trump ran, he talked about fracking. He talked about wanting to have Pennsylvania energy be this, this beacon and be this absolute. It's literally a gold mine. It is actually a gold mine that we're all sitting on top of. He was talking about building pipelines down to Philadelphia, where we've obviously got the energy hook up there. So you can do the transfer. You put it on the river, you're out to see it's on the open market. You could be selling Pennsylvania energy all around the world. But Josh Shapiro isn't letting that happen.

[H]

Right. He stifled everything that we have. So he doubled down on what Biden did. He said, hey, I'm not going to do Reggie, but oh yes, I am. He's going to court to fight in support of Reggie.

[Jack Posobic]

These are, these are the green regulations. Walk us through what that is for.

[H]

The Reggie, Reggie is the regional greenhouse gas initiative. So it's basically a cap and trade. We're going to sell carbon credits. It's this whole. It's a scheme, it's a virtual selling of nothing back and forth between consumers, it does nothing. Or between businesses, it does nothing for the actual environment. Right. But it's this, it's again, it's a cap and trade scheme.

[Jack Posobic]

Right. And so companies, companies who look at Pennsylvania say, well, why would I want to invest if I have to deal with all this? What's where, where the company's going, right?

[H]

So Ohio is eating our lunch, and now West Virginia is eating our lunch. West Virginia is eating because.

[Jack Posobic]

So for folks to understand the way the Marcellus Shale finds, sits, it's, it's in that sort of corner of Pennsylvania. So it's western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, not far from where East Palestine is. And the train crash, remember that when J.D. vance went. And then West Virginia buttresses it to the south right there. So where they don't have these regulations, that's where the companies are going.

[H]

And let's be clear, it's not that they don't have all of the regulations. They have regulations for being good stewards of our resources, but they're letting the market take, take charge there. Right? The market is actually booming there. And so Ohio loves, Pennsylvania, loves us. They love taking our workers, they love taking our, our money, our revenue. They're exploiting Everything they can possibly exploit in Pennsylvania, where we are ripe with resources, coal, gas, energy, everything else you can think of in Pennsylvania, we're squandering it. We have. We are doing nothing. And again, like I said, we grow older, smaller and poorer every single year in Pennsylvania. There's no reason we produce 60% more energy than we consume. And we're the number two producer of energy in the country. Now imagine if we can go to full capacity and actually get all of that to the market. Imagine as they're talking about, hey, we're looking at brownouts here soon. We don't have enough capacity. We're sitting on capacity. It's outrageous that Shapiro would sit there on all these green energy fantasies that he's. He has a lightning plan. It's called. It's again, more green. Yeah, it's green energy.

[Jack Posobic]

There's all this time coming up these little marketing tricks and marketing ploys. But meanwhile, the jobs keep leaving, the people keep leaving. The only people that are coming in are seniors and they're coming for the programs. And he's spending our money down to nothing. He's spending our coffers down to zero, zero and more.

[H]

So we have a budget, a 54% tax increase. That's what the budget would be if Shapiro gets his way.

[Jack Posobic]

And that's, that's why we have this, to stop the Shapiro tax hikes.

[H]

And part of his green energy fantasy plan is doling out $100 million tax credits. So not only are we going to, you know, try to do these pie in the sky green energy fantasy things, we're going to give people money, your money, my money, my taxpayer dollars to help prop up big corporations when we. All we have to do in Pennsylvania is step back and get out of the way.

[Jack Posobic]

Senator, we're just about out of time. Thank you so much. We're honored to have you on here on Human Events Daily. Tell the audience where can they go to follow you to find more and the truth about Joshua.

[H]

Yes, Senator Keeper.com or you can find me on Twitter, Senator Kiefer or on Instagram and Facebook. Same thing. Senator Keeper.

[Jack Posobic]

See people, people are used to. The audience is used to hearing me rant about Josh Shapiro. They say, why are you so off than this guy said? Because you don't understand what he's doing to my commonwealth. You don't understand what he's doing to the state that I love more than any other, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And that's why we're here live. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.