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Eric Wolling
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Close. That darn market already, please. Well, not so bad kind of mix. They call it a split market, as they say. Mixed close. We'll get to all the really important news very quickly. Very quickly. Run through the dow. Dow down 455, ballpark or so. S P down a little. 23, not a lot. NASDAQ actually up. That's why it's called a split market. Gold off 29. Not bad, not bad. Still approaching $4,600 to the ounce. I saw Goldman Sachs say silver could hit 100 to 100 to 300 an ounce. It's 80 something. $4 an ounce right now. It's off to the charts. Oil down a little bit. Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin backed off a couple thousand. Don't want to see it trading too far under 90. Just don't want to see that. All right, folks, glad to have this guy. First guest filmmaker, the host of the Robby Starbuck Show, a voice for the people. And he's a Latino who has very strong views on Venezuela and Cuba. By the way, happy to have Robby Starbuck with you. I've been doing TV with Robbie for a good long time. Rob. Good to have you on, my friend. Before we get into Venezuela, just sit tight for one second. We want to take a look at a little thing we put together. Watch.
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Robby Starbuck
Get the out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.
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Eric Wolling
Okay, so that was Jacob Fry, mayor of Minneapolis, who's referring to ice. Get the F out of here. All because a woman who tried to ram her car into ICE agents. As they were getting their car of the snow and ice, one of the agents fired on the woman and killed her in self defense. I think there may have been a second round of fire. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the woman's behavior an act of domestic terrorism. Watch.
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Robby Starbuck
You asked about a shooting that we just had in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was an act of domestic terrorism. What happened was our ICE officers were out in enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their vehicle and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot to protect himself and the people around him. And my understanding is, is that she was hit and is deceased.
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Eric Wolling
Robbie. I mean, it's fast and furious. We just had a Tim Walls press conference. It says, keep the Feds out. He pointed the finger. Trump, once again, what's your reaction to what's going on in Minneapolis, sir?
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Robby Starbuck
Well, it's very clear, Eric. You watch the video. I just watched a video indisputable that the agent was in front of the vehicle. VEHICLE ACCELERATES AGENT and everybody, I don't.
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Eric Wolling
Mean to interrupt you, but we're going to play that video right here. Right, Ben? This is the video of the actual. Do you have that lined up, queued up, Ben? Mad Dog, we're going to get it. Go. Go ahead, Robbie. We're going to put it up there. We're going to show you. And by the way, when we do put it up there, there's cops, there's agents that approach the vehicle, but there's one in front. Here it is. There's one in front. Make sure you understand that there was an agent in harm's way when this woman takes off. But go ahead, Robbie. I. I apologize. Go ahead. Go for it.
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Robby Starbuck
It was unclear in some of these videos if the agent was hit, but a video angle has come out that shows very clearly that he was struck by the vehicle. So. And even if he wasn't, standard training, is this. A car is a deadly weapon. The minute that it accelerates at you with an intent where it could hit you, a cop can't try to search out what you're trying to do there. If they see a vehicle barreling toward them, they have to assume that you're going to try to hit them.
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Mark Warner
And.
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Robby Starbuck
And so that agent did what I think anybody would do, and I think that's what we need to talk about. What would these Democrats do if a car was barreling toward them and they were armed? They would shoot. That's what any sensible person who values their own life would do. And these agents know there's a target on their backs.
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Mark Warner
Why?
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Robby Starbuck
Because these Democrat politicians have been whipping up these same protesters into a violent rage over all of these issues. And so if there's any villain here, it's the Democrat politicians that have whipped these people up into such a state that they believed it acceptable to try to impede law enforcement as they carry out their duties. It is not, and not only is it not acceptable, it's clearly entirely unacceptable to ram one of them with your vehicle or to accelerate toward them with your vehicle or to try to block them with your vehicle. So, you know, sadly, it ends up in a situation like this, but really, I blame the Democrat politicians that are whipping these protesters up into such a state that they put themselves in these positions.
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Eric Wolling
Let's play that sound bite from Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis again, Mad Dog, because it. Listen to his tone of voice. Forget that. He drops an F bomb right off the top. Classy move, Mayor. But the heightened rhetoric, the political. There's heightened political violence, mostly from the left at. At the Republicans. But listen to Jacob Fry, his anger in his voice. And by the way, watch that little interpreter when she flips the bird out when he drops that word. Mad Dog, you play it to ice.
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Robby Starbuck
Get the out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.
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Eric Wolling
Robbie Long, what you just said, I mean, the politicians are whipping the crowd up. Is that what you said?
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Robby Starbuck
100%. I mean, that's what they're doing. It's undeniable. And here's the truth in any other context. I mean, it's so plain for anybody to see the hypocrisy here. If this was a Democrat, right, a Democrat administration, and this was a MAGA protester, right, that was protesting some policy they didn't like, and they accelerated their vehicle toward that agent of, let's say, a future Newsom administration, every Democrat would be lined up praising the law enforcement agent as a hero. They would be talking about, oh, if that MAGA person wasn't killed in this, they'd be thrown in prison because clearly they were trying to kill the agent. They're just hypocrites. I mean, that's it. I mean, it's very clear for me, I don't care who the administration is. If you accelerate toward a law enforcement agent, I mean, you're. You're asking for big trouble, right? You're going to be lucky if you walk away alive because they're going to naturally assume you're trying to kill them. So, you know, I think it couldn't be clear. Here's the cold, hard truth. The Democrats are desperate for a George Floyd. Why? Because they're flailing in every other area. Americans don't trust them on any issue, especially the major political issues of the day. These people still have not learned the lessons from the last election. They still believe in transitioning, giving sex changes to kids. I mean, their party is beyond absurdity. So what are they grasping for? They need this George Floyd energy back. So they're going to search for a situation like this where they can hope to ignite social unrest to a degree that they believe they will have some sort of political advantage. That's the truth here. And it doesn't matter. This lady's life doesn't matter to them. It's not about her. They don't care about this lady. They care about their pocketbooks. They care about their power. And ultimately, if they can use this woman to get more power or more money in their pockets, they're going to use her. And I think in this case, it's not going to work because it's so clear with the video that this was a totally lawful situation. It's what we train officers to do. But they're going to continue looking for this. They're going to continue whipping up left wing protesters and agitators into these situations until they can find that George Floyd like scenario. And who knows if they'll find it, but if they do, you better bet they are going to try to do everything they can to exploit it.
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Eric Wolling
There's a clear lack of respect on the left. Defund the police. It's been there. They still feel it. They may not vocalize it now. They'll bring it back up as soon as Trump's not in office. We know it. But you know, you have Tim Wall saying, I'm not going anywhere. He's not going to run for reelection in a year, but I'm not going anywhere. In the meantime, $9 billion of fraud in the state of Minnes. Keith Ellison, the attorney General of Minnesota, the top cop in the state. Nothing. Where are they? You have Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis, Tim Walls, governor of Minnesota, the attorney general of Minnesota. All three of them likely are going to be the targets of investigative probes. You can hear it. I'm going to submit that you can hear the anger and fear in their voices because they know the administration, the FBI, is going to come down them hard. What are your thoughts on that comment?
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Robby Starbuck
Yeah, you know, I think the American people are asking for this, right? I mean, beyond just the necessity of it. There's a growing unrest within the groups of people who work so hard to get President Trump elected, where, you know, there's this consistent question I keep hearing from the grassroots, when are people going to be held accountable? And so my hope is this is a situation where things are so clear that you will start to see some real accountability. Because to me, it seems very clear that a fraud like this couldn't be perpetrated entirely alone by the Somali community in Minnesota. Right. So many levels of state governance this had to go through. And so many people had to have known something was wrong. And if no one's held accountable, what are these communities going to learn? They're going to learn, oh, we could do this. Maybe we need to do it a little differently to get away with it for longer. But they're going to continue to pilfer and pilfer and pilfer until there's actual consequences. I believe, based on conversations I've had, we will see actual consequences this time. And that's my hope.
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Eric Wolling
Right, Right, Bobby. So, okay, I want to get to some of the other things, things that we're talking about, but there were other people and lawmakers in Minnesota who've known about this, who've been involved in, in all of this corruption crime for years. I, I, until Nick Shirley's piece, I didn't know. I did, I thought it was a recent thing. It's been going on for years upon years. I mean, if nothing else, I mean, I, I, I don't believe that Walls and Ellison had no idea what's going on. I just don't believe it at all. I think they were just fearful of losing the Somali voting bloc, which is several hundred thousand votes.
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Robby Starbuck
Well, that's exactly right. And Ellison specifically, actually, there's a tape online of him meeting with some of the people who are part of the feeding the future scam, basically where you had all these people go to prison over billions in fraud. And it was actually just less than two weeks before they were indicted on this. And there was some conversation about the investigations and investigations, you know, sort of being put to rest. And ultimately the feds moved forward and went after the case. Right, but Ellison was very cozy with these people. And if you look at the donations of the Somali community, I mean, you, you've got to understand, this didn't just go into the pockets of the Somalis who were running these scams in the area. Right. You're talking about a community where well over 70% of the Somalis in the area are on welfare. I think it's actually past 80%, and that's including people who have been here more than 10 years. So it's not just them. There's a whole network of lawyers and other people involved. Remember, there's grant writing that has to happen. There's lawyers that have to do the legal process, people to open the LLCs, people to do the tax paperwork. There are so many layers to this. It had to involve.
- [10:46]
Eric Wolling
Well, you know, we need though, Bobby. We need a, we need a freaking perp walk once in this country, once, put some people behind bars. I'm not talking about the people that catch with their hands in the cookie. I'm talking about the, the lawmakers that look the other way because they, they basically paved the way. Oh. Laid it for, for the crime and corruption to happen. Bobby, you're going to stay with us for next block if you can. Yes, yes. We want to talk about Maduro. We want to talk of Venezuela and something near and dear to your heart. Cuba. Because I contend, I. I'm concerned that Cuba maybe, maybe next. But thank you. So Robbie's gonna stick with us, folks. By the way, New Year means New Year's resolutions. If you're looking to lose weight, get in better shape, have more energy, then drop is for you. Drop is not a gimmick, a quick crash diet, or a quick fix by any means. It's a daily prescription. Free flavorless liquid peptide supplement supports weight management by targeting GLP1 GIP and other metabolic pathways. Those are peptides. It works with your body, not against your body. The core ingredient is retarded. Trude a breakthrough peptide study for its ability to regulate appetite, improve metabolism and help the body use energy more effectively. Combined with MCT oil, mineral rich fresh Irish Sea moss and drop becomes a powerful tool to curb cravings while gently raising your energy. Drops an investment in your health, your own health. Promo code Voice100. That's Voice100 saves you 100 bucks. And drop go to TWC Health, slash voice. TWC Health slash voice. And make 2026 your best year ever. All right, very important. Let me be very clear about something. One thing. Most people spend their lives reacting to decisions that they never helped make. Rules they didn't write, systems they don't even understand. They just like amoebas. They just go with the flow. Outcomes they complain about after it's too late. Tomorrow on the edge. I'm sitting down one on one with the top ESPN executive producer. The man behind developed the pylon cam that you see right there, the strike zone cam that you see right there as well. His group developed that technology that didn't just change how the world watches sports. It changed who controls the narrative. There's some amazing discussions, but he reveals some unbelievable things. I bet a million dollars you never knew about NFL referees, but he's going to expose them and the MLB as well. This episode isn't about entertainment. It's about how real power actually works. Quietly, structurally, before anyone's paying attention. If you've ever felt like you're watching the game instead of being a part of it, this conversation will Explain why. Why? Hit that QR code right there. Put that screen up there. That's it. With your phone camera. Hit it. You'll subscribe. Doesn't go to anyone. No list, no sales, no push. I just want you to subscribe. Let YouTube know how fast we're growing. We are 8,300 subscribers already in 15 weeks. It's insane. It's amazing. YouTube.com EricWolling the edge or go to YouTube. Type in Eric Bowling in the Edge. Look for that logo right there. Hit subscribe please. I, I thank you for your, your patron, your support for watching Rav, for watching Bowling. But I also am asking you, please subscribe to the Edge. You won't be disappointed. We'll be back. Two and a half minutes.
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Robby Starbuck
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Eric Wolling
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Eric Wolling
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Robby Starbuck
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Eric Wolling
See terms. All right, we're back with good friend Robby Starbucks, the host of Robbie Starbucks show. Robbie, you came on you, we were talking about bringing. You talk about Maduro and all the Minneapolis stuff happened. But tell us your assessment. I believe you're a Cuban heritage. Tell us about Cuba, Venezuela and what do you think's next for really for this part of the world?
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Robby Starbuck
Yeah, well, the island of Cuba has really only existed under communist rule because of Venezuela. Venezuela has essentially ensured that Cuba stayed a communist country because to be really honest, I think anybody with just a tiny bit of information understands that Cuba doesn't really have an economy. I mean, people there are in extreme poverty. I know people who, you know, their experience with, quote, Cuban health care is that it took up to five years to just get a scan. They find out they have cancer, they're terminal at that point. And then the country decides we're not even going to give you pain medicine because it doesn't make sense. You're going to die anyways and the cost isn't worth it. That's the type of country Cuba is and has become. And so now with Venezuela changing, you know, in this movement, I think what you're going to see is Cuba falls next. And I think it's going to be, honestly, fairly quick, because Venezuela is not going to have the time nor the money or energy to continue with this project to keep Cuba the way it is. And it's sort of like the Greenland expansion for the United States. These are strategic spots in the world that keep us safer. So anybody who thinks it's not America first to pursue these things isn't thinking clearly enough about our future threats. This is a global world where we have global trade, and a lot of times military action tries to disguise itself within trade routes. Well, when you have buffers, an island like Cuba that buffers off of the edge of Florida, or you've got Greenland, that's protecting the north side of our Atlantic, what you can do then is launch operations from there, be able to keep a better eye on your enemies and what they're doing. And these things, especially if you ever get into a very serious war, act as a defense mechanism for your entire country. So I think that that's the next stage here is securing. Cuba is essentially an American territory, the way Puerto Rico is, and then Greenland, same thing. All of them are interconnected, though, and it's to send the message to the world that we are the boss again. Okay? President Trump is not, you know, okay with the idea that America is all about our history and we have this historic, wonderful, you know, constitution and ideas and everything, but the future really doesn't belong to anybody, you know, and it's up for grabs. He believes the future is ours. I believe that, too. And I think that this operation Venezuela, it asserted that we are dominant again, and it says, we will decide the future. We will go out and stake a claim on these places before Russia and China do. And they've been trying to. So that's the truth. For anybody who says, oh, well, the US after the oil, what do you think Russia and China were after? You think they wanted some good recipes of Venezuelan food? I saw a guy in Venezuela say this, and it's like, that's brilliant. That tells the whole story, right? These countries were not interested in spending money there or time there because they liked the food. They were there because they wanted the oil. They were there because they wanted the strategic capability to launch offensive capabilities from these places. So President Trump could not be doing a better job on this front.
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Eric Wolling
So Venezuela has oil, Greenland has rare earth minerals. Cuba has a massive 12 million people. I believe a people who've never gotten themselves into the 21st century as far as buying products and stuff. It's a. It's a huge demand side of it. So there's a lot for Americans to be happy about when Trump does these things.
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Robby Starbuck
Oh, absolutely. And then you're also talking about an island paradise. Right? I mean, it's another great, beautiful place to. To be able to develop and, you know, stimulate more economic activity in our hemisphere, which naturally we end up the greatest beneficiary of. Because where are you going to buy these things from? Right, because investors are going to pile in from all over the world. They're going to want to put in resorts, they're going to want to do all kinds of things. Cubans are going to finally be able to make money again, selling things, being able to have, you know, just normal jobs again and be able to make a normal amount of money instead of surviving on pennies a day. Right. So it changes the dynamic for everybody. It also, it just makes our country safer.
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Eric Wolling
Right.
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Robby Starbuck
Once you add that buffer there. But it does a myriad of different positive things. And each one of these countries is offering, you know, sort of different things for us. But even Cuba, in relation to Venezuela, it is sort of a midpoint when you talk about the oil there. When you've got the crude that they have in Venezuela, it has to be refined. And Cuba serves as somewhat of a midpoint for some of the ability to move things so that refineries can take this stuff in, you know, in like, sort of Louisiana, Florida area.
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Eric Wolling
Right. So, Robbie, I'm coming up against a heartbreak. I really, what I love to do is you have so much information. I'd love to bring you back next week. We're going to be in D.C. tomorrow, but maybe next week we sit down again. If you got find some time. Let's have a. Let's have a good, robust discussion about all these little. These various points of international foreign policy that. That we're up against. We really appreciate your time, Robbie. I mean to cut you off again. Robbie, Starbuck, everyone, again, if you can do it. We're gonna get our folks talking to you for next week. Robbie, thank you.
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Robby Starbuck
Sounds good, brother. See you soon.
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Eric Wolling
You too, YouTube. All right, folks, you never know. Get up early every day to bring you this show. I do it. I work all day for the show. And the crew does. They work really hard. When I don't sweep well, it's often I don't sleep well. It's a problem. But I'm not alone. So many of us are tired, dragging through the day with that really kind of micro tired, glazed over feeling where your brain's half asleep, your body's heavy, you just need coffee or Red Bull. I drink a lot of them. Here's another one. Yeah, just stay awake. It's like America's almost given up on the idea of a good night's sleep. Well, Mark Werner, founder and CEO of Ghostbed, decided to create a comfortable mattress so people can experience a good night's sleep. Happy to have Mark with us today. Mark, tell us about the story of how Ghostbed, how did all start with you? What was your impetus?
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Mark Warner
Well, thank you, Eric, for hosting Ghostbed today. So my story goes back a while. My grandfather started Warner ladder over 100 years ago and he was a lieutenant colonel in the military World War I and 2, started the ladder business. My dad then invented the aluminum ladder and the fiberglass ladder. And I learned, and then I grew up in that business and I learned about quality and brand reputation and doing the right thing. And my grandfather always used to say, profits follow quality. You do the right thing and you'll be rewarded. So that family business was ultimately sold about 27 years ago. And I talked my wife into starting Ghostbed when we're still based in Chicago. And then we moved it to here in South Florida. And we are a direct to consumer business. And it was really started because I've had three neck surgeries. You can see a couple scars in the front. And I couldn't find a mattress or a pillow that worked for me, so I just invented my own. I had a lot of background working with my dad as his assistant when he was inventing fiberglass, which is what we call a structural polymer, not to get technical. And I now make comfort polymers. So we wanted to make a high quality, affordable mattress line, mattresses, bases, pillows, et cetera, for the general population. And that's how we launched the Ghostbed as a family business.
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Eric Wolling
Very good. So how much, like if there's a pie, you know, how much of a good night's sleep is the mattress you're sleeping on?
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Mark Warner
90% of it, 95%. It's critical. And people take for granted the importance of the mattress and why they should invest in a better mattress rather than just some inexpensive Amazon $300 mattress. It's not a good thing for your health. A third of your life you're spending sleeping and restoring your body. You need to invest into it.
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Eric Wolling
Tell us about this. You have a 101 night sleep trial.
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Mark Warner
So what we have is just because we sell direct to consumer and then we sell major Brands like Costco and Sam's and Amazon, etc. Home Depot. So what we do is we allow you to buy the mattress, sleep on it for up to 100 one night at your own home. And that way in your own environment, in your own conditions, your own temperature, etcetera, you can experience if you've got the right mattress and if you don't, you can return it and get a full refund.
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Eric Wolling
So are there various levels of firmness that you can say, oh, that one's too soft, that one's too hard with you guys?
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Mark Warner
We have the Mark's mattress quiz. So we'd like you to kind of initiate it when you come onto the site and kind of put in your choices for temperature, what firmness levels you want. And then that kind of kicks out that you should have the Ghostbed Luxe hybrid, which is a medium, medium, plush type of a feel. And then hopefully we align you. And I know it works really well because of our. I have over 100,000 reviews and in that review I can kind of see the feedback from people and we also have a very low.
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Eric Wolling
Mark, I will, I will tell you, I opened an account at Old Glory Bank. I'm going to give you guys a call, I'm going to give one of those beds account because I would give with my shoulder. I wake up almost every morning like, oh, that didn't work out so good. Mark Warner, appreciate your time. CEO and founder of Ghostbed folks. Thank you.
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Mark Warner
Thank you.
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Eric Wolling
All right folks, two and a half minutes right back. So now apparently it's Haitians in Boston. We are announcing federal charges against two.
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Robby Starbuck
Men, Antonio Bonner and Saul Elismay, for large scale SNAP benefit trafficking. A scheme that turned a program designed to feed families into a multimillion dollar criminal enterprise.
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Eric Wolling
A $7 million SNAP food benefits fraud scheme in Boston in which two Haitian nationals exchange SNAP benefits for cash. We really are the fools, aren't we? There certainly play us for them. Well, we now know why they poured over our borders. It wasn't just about getting free. It was ATM cards and hotel rooms on the taxpayer dime in New York or Chicago or L. A. There was a longer game to be played and they knew it for years. While Democrats obsessed over getting Trump for years as they defended and protected the invasion of this sovereign country. We've been robbed over and over again. We're not even seeing half the stuff they're doing. Another blue state, another blue city. Tons of American taxpayers robbed. And these criminals are not doing this on their own. So who's helping them. Well, follow the money. Always said it. Follow the money. Or better yet, follow some anger. Their idea of improving this state is being a parrot for Donald Trump, agreeing to everything that he agreed with. Well, here's what I'm going to tell you. It ain't happening. I'm not going anywhere. And you can make all your requests for me to resign. Over my dead body will that happen. I will fight this thing till the very end to make this state better. And the question that I think they need to decide is, is when did the guy in the White House resign? When does he take accountability for what he did? Because it isn't going to happen here. In terms of us shying away, first of all, where do I start? I'm not going anywhere. My dead body. Not sure this is the right political climate to be saying that. Tampon, Timmy. And. And when did this become Trump's fault? How'd you turn this into Trump's? Just curious. He's not going anywhere, folks. That's what he said. Because there's plenty of fraud yet to be done, even more to be covered up, but not without a mini confession of sorts coming from the latest fall guy for the corruption party. There's full accountability for everybody because I Buck stops with me. I'm accountable for this. And because of that accountability, I'm not running for office again. But I have a year to continue to improve on a record that I think will stand up against anybody's. A record that has made Minnesota better, a record that makes people want to come here, and a record that has respected not only only the dignity of people, but the idea of rule of law. They really think we're stupid, don't they? They take us all for fools. We pay taxes, they want more of our taxes, and they rinse and repeat their theft schemes. Buck stops with me, he says, but it doesn't really stop with you, does it to me? And it gets even worse, folks. Yet another bombshell. Another one with a Minnesota auditor report that Tim Wallace's Department of Human Services fabricated reports and did not verify grant recipients tried covering their tracks and then enabled massive amounts of fraud. Folks, it's a billion, or should I say 9 billion times worse. By the way, managers within DHS tried to cover their tracks by backdating and creating fake new documents.
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Robby Starbuck
According to the nonpartisan Legislative Auditor, this.
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Eric Wolling
Is another case of mismanagement of taxpayer money. But perhaps the most explosive revelation is.
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Robby Starbuck
That managers within dhs, the Department of Human Services, tried to cover their tracks by backdating and creating new Documents.
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Eric Wolling
I do want to talk about what.
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Robby Starbuck
A serious issue this is and how it is frankly, unacceptable. Another sobering report by the Office of the Legislative Auditor. This one concerning the Behavioral Health Administration.
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Eric Wolling
Within the Department of Human Services, which.
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Robby Starbuck
Issues grants to providers treating mental health.
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Eric Wolling
And drug and alcohol addiction. Hundreds of millions of dollars each year. The audit found them issuing grants to applicants without a bidding process. Yo, yo, yo, Tampon. Timmy. Got some splaining to do, Lucy. Not just daycare centers. Well beyond. And a subsequent cover up nonetheless. There's no way sir. Tampons couldn't have known about all these things going on. And who do they want to try to replace Tim Walls with? Well, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, of course, who once said the quiet part out loud. This is the same corruption with a different face. That's all we can say about this. Watch.
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Robby Starbuck
Psyched to see all of you.
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Eric Wolling
I decided instead of the MAGA movement.
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Robby Starbuck
We'Re going to start the MAMA Movement. That is Make America Michigan and Minnesota again.
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Eric Wolling
Make America Minnesota again. Got that quite part out loud. Corruption all over the country. Not just what goes on in Minneapolis and other parts of Minnesota. That's what they want. And these corruptionists, the corrupt leaders turn the eager members of their state into willingness corruptionist soldiers. Corruptocrats, you might as well call them what they are. Democrats are corruptocrats. All on our dime. And I assure you Klobuchar no different. Because Amy's been a busy little fraudster herself. You see, Amy's senior adviser is a Somali immigrant named Siad Ali. Seid has worked for Amy since 2008 and currently her senior regional outreach director, whatever that means. Outreach for more stuff, more fraud. And he successfully lobbied Klobuchar to secure Senate funding for Somali initiatives in. So you can't make it up. They weren't stealing enough. They had some federal money on top of it. And to expedite refugee applications through the system. Oh, hey Amy. There's this congresswoman I'd like you to meet who also has Somali's interest at heart. Well above her own country. By the way, her name? Elon Omar. I'm sure you two have met before. Have a lot to talk about. Anyway, back to Amy's senior advisor. Somali immigrant Siad Ali Seattle established the Ali Educational Leadership Institute. A non profit. You know what that means? Siphon off taxpayer money. Non profit that receives Minnesota Department of Education grants to train Somalis for careers in the education field in Minneapolis. Let me guess. Education field for kids. Where you can get some of that Minneapolis Largess, right? The free stuff. I'm sure things are on the up and up there. Nothing to see here, folks. They want to cry racism whenever the fraud is investigated and exposed. All to distract from how disgusting it is to invade a country in order what? To steal from the American taxpayers? The citizens who live there, they work hard. Half of us work hard and pay taxes. And they steal it. You can smell the panic, can't you? Flinging words around like racism always means there is. Desperate as they can be. Why not? They know that this will get a lot bigger before it goes away. Little moments start to make sense, don't they? Like Dr. Jill traveling Dr. Joe Biden Dr. Jill Biden traveling to Minneapolis, Minnesota back in 2022 after sir naps a lot funneled billions of dollars over for childcare via the American Rescue Plan.
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Robby Starbuck
First Lady Jill Biden making a stop.
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Eric Wolling
In Minnesota today to tout the country's investments in child care. She was joined by Governor Walz and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. During a visit this afternoon to the University of Minnesota, Biden highlighted major investments in child care through the American Rescue Plan. Billions of dollars in funding have helped states like Minnesota keep health care and.
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Robby Starbuck
Child care providers open and boost pay for child care workers during the pandemic.
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Eric Wolling
That they were given to these smalleys who were health care and child care providers while they were providing nothing because there were no children recipients. They were just taking the money, meeting with walls, wearing masks in 2022. How cute are they? And sure, Minnesota was a. But we're finding out about more and more states where this was happening. Same thing is happening. It'll probably be easier to find states whose leaders didn't let criminals wet their beaks in exchange for campaign contributions or promissory votes by a voting bloc, the welfare industrial complexes. Incentives have grown far too perverse and who pays? We do. Taxpayers and the poor who actually need it. Because now guess what's going to happen? They're going to shut all those centers down. Everyone's going to say no more of that. And there will be people, kids who need health care and elderly people who need help. It's insane. And this is a perfect example of how welfare programs in general are giant magnets for abuse and fraud. President Ronald Reagan once said, and I'm quoting the greatest president. Sorry guys, I'll call him the greatest president in my life. I just love the guy. We should measure welfare success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added to it. Why does that make sense. Much as I would like to think that the scale of this massive Minnesota fraud might lead fraud might lead to a wholesale rethink of all states and federal welfare programs, I don't think with these corruptocrats, corrupt Democrats, corruptocrats that will actually happen anytime soon. The money is just too good for them to pass up. We'll be back. Two and a half minutes. There are nearly 350 million Americans people in America and this is the best we can do. I guess I'm half of that. And guide her through the night with the light from above from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans widely form.
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Mark Warner
God bless America My home sweet home God bless America My whole sweet home.
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Eric Wolling
Those Democrats had a can lit vigil last night on the fifth anniversary of January 6th and saying God bless America. Believe it or not, they were Democrats who actually said those words. These people are such huge colossal losers, liars and hypocrites there aren't enough words to even describe it. What's great though is that they were singing and then their own feed got cut off. It's always entertaining when members of the United States Congress still can't get a full handle on the interwebs. I'm Mountain. Whoops. Chucky Schumer. Coming out to make comments in front of that total clown show just shows you that these people are still milking it five years later for no reason at all.
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Robby Starbuck
Let us remember the attack of January 6th is not over.
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Mark Warner
It lives on in the threats to our election workers.
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Eric Wolling
It lives on through those who want.
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Mark Warner
To take away our right to vote, who want to legalize voter discrimination. We must never, never never stop fighting.
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Robby Starbuck
For this beautiful democracy which January 6th.
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Mark Warner
Showed us is more fragile than we ever imagined.
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Eric Wolling
Incredible. Incredible. They're still doing this too, by the way, folks. These people are really still comparing that horrific day, that horrific day to the most horrific day, the most horrific day. They're still comparing January 6th to the most horrific day that I've ever witnessed in my entire life. 911 attacks. Even after all of those videos were finally released, proving that the day wasn't even remotely what they had said it was going to be. There is no comparison between January 6 and 9 11. But watch so we remember. We don't look away. We treat the day with the same reverence, the same sorrow and the same resolve as the day the towers fell.
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Robby Starbuck
Because the moment we forget is the.
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Eric Wolling
Moon is the moment we as a country also while you complete moron, complete more. 1919 Saudi terrorists flew planes one of them took down the World Trade Center. Two of them took down the World Trade center. Three of them took down the. The Pentagon. Are you out of your freaking mind? Thousands of people died. This was an act of terror. January 6th was a peaceful protest. It was a protest. I won't call peaceful. It was a protest, okay? It got heated. The only person who died on January 6th, the only person who died, really, on January 6th was Ashley Babbitt because she was shot through a door, which I still contend. I'm not sure that's completely legal. I don't believe that was a legal shot, but whatever. That's my opinion. So you can't compare one person dying of the protester to 3,000 innocent Americans dying because of 19 terrorists flying planes in the buildings. Jerk. As we can see, Democrats are insistent on making inane comparisons, not to mention disgusting, actually, like the one they insist on continuing to make, comparing January 6th to the attack on Pearl Harbor. And yes, nine, 11 attacks. They call the president a fascist dictator. MAGA supporters were Nazis. And of course, to them, ICE officers who are just doing their jobs to help protect and defend this country, which is their mandate, are like the worst perpetrators in our history. You know, you said.
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Robby Starbuck
I'm quoting you here.
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Eric Wolling
You said, what we are living through is one of the great civil rights and human rights struggles of our time. Right? What. What can average people do to push.
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Robby Starbuck
Back against this authoritarianism that we're seeing? You know, I always look at history.
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Eric Wolling
And I think that this is a.
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Robby Starbuck
Moral assault on our democracy.
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Eric Wolling
And we need to look back at history when things like this have happened before. The internment of the Japanese, the fugitive slave patrols, which is what this has felt like. Another census surprise attack by a foreign country. It wasn't terrorists then. It was Japanese in the middle of the night. You know, and by the way, FAFO Japan, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry, who, by the way, has completely abandoned his own country in favor of bending the knee to the corrupt residents of his own city, continues to prove that he's more interested in the needs of illegals than he is of the actual residents and citizens of this country.
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Robby Starbuck
This is not about solving crime. This is not about preventing fraud. This is about sowing chaos on the streets of Minneapolis. And that's what this, they are intent on doing right now. I mean, if the goal was to stop crime, we have mechanisms to do so. We've worked in the past substantially with the U.S. attorney's office and by the way, driven down crime substantially. Crime is down across the board in virtually every neighborhood in the city. Whether it's homicides, assaults, carjackings, car thefts, they're all down. And if the Trump administration was looking to, you know, work on crime, we would be supportive of that. But that's not what they're doing.
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Eric Wolling
Hey, Jake, you got $9 billion to find. I just start looking for the 9 billion before you start working on what Trumps are worrying about what Trump's got going on. Looks like tampon. Timmy Walls, his daughter has been sent out to make the media rounds in order to help clean up on aisle nine for dad. I'm not really sure sending your daughter to tell more lies on your behalf is an effective measure here, but why not? It's your kid. Give it a shot. But it's like it's, it's not about him. It's about. He's the other side for a big group of Americans. Yes, I feel like y. Yes.
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Robby Starbuck
And I think he was popular during the campaign last fall and he's still.
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Eric Wolling
In office and he was running again.
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Robby Starbuck
And so it's just kind of an easy, an easy thing for them to pick up on. And I think there's enough truth to the fraud CL like things that they were able to twist it and amplify it and whatnot because it is being dealt with.
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Eric Wolling
They were just able to frame it.
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Robby Starbuck
In a way that benefited them.
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Eric Wolling
It's gotten people. She's going to be surprised when they find out what daddy was involved in. She. In case there was any wonder left. The left is still hell bent on going after Elon Musk. Democrats only poured everything they had into coming after President Trump as soon as he made it into the White House the first time. But they also did everything they could to punish anyone in his inner circle. Clearly they have dreams of doing that all over again if they regain control. Remember that. That's why 2026 is so important. Those American hating Mehdi Hassan made comments he makes quite clear right here. I think the next Democratic president has to be ruthless. Not just president, ex presidential candidate. The 2028 Democratic primaries have to showcase a group of politicians who are running for office to not just fix things, not just offer a bright new future. Not just running on a change platform, but are running on a platform to prosecute and punish the people who broke the law, destroyed our country, destroyed our democratic fabric, destroyed society. I mean turned people against one. What we saw over Christmas with the Somali fraud nonsense, the video from this right wing YouTuber that went viral, all these people jumping on attacking the Somali community, that is all Engineered by people like Elon Musk. The algorithm does that. And I think I said this recently to Jon Favreau, Twitter, I said maybe I'm only half, I'm only half joking when I say this, which is the next Democratic president should run on a plan to prosecute Elon Musk. This somali fraud nonsense. $9 billion worth of nonsense. Mehdi Hassan, Maddie. Liberal, Muslim liberal. I guess that's why they stick together. You know what? Six days into 2026 now, seven days, of course. But did I wonder, I wonder what Jasmine Crockett was going on about again. Full force spewing her nonsense. The winner of our 2025 award for most embarrassing member of Congress is now taking a break from comparing our president to Hitler, instead comparing him to a ruthless Venezuelan narco terrorist dictator. And you know, I do want to just say this. Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate as we sit here on January 6th.
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Robby Starbuck
I do want to be clear.
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Eric Wolling
Somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference difference is Maduro was successful. Well, the claim is that Maduro, that the Trump administration has to prove that he's not the legitimate president because a president of Venezuela will have some sort of diplomatic immunity. And if they can prove he was not the legitimate president. So forget all this narco terrorism and all people that his drugs are killing. Jasmine, is that we're supposed to do. Just forget all the bad stuff he did. Got it. Remember when Gavin Newsom promised to solve the homeless problem in his state. Well, I do remember when Gavin Newsom spent $135 billion on a train that never happened, went nowhere. I do remember when Gavin Newsom promised a quick rebuild after the massive wildfires. Not a single home has been built a year later. Well, I do, but sure, Gavin, go on about your hatred of, quote, waste and abuse.
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Robby Starbuck
Caroline Levinson, they might investigate fraud potentially here in California as it relates to.
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Eric Wolling
Well, I think let's bring it on. Fraud in terms of child care. I if, hey, you think for a second anyone countenances fraud. So if he has some unique insight and information, I look forward to partnering with him. Can't stand fraud. Can't stand waste and abuse. Looks forward to partnering with him or partying with. I really, everything that comes out of that guy's mouth is a lie anyway. All right, folks, here is an uncomfortable truth. Most people aren't held back by talent. They're held back because they never understand, understand how the system, system above them actually works on the Edge. Tomorrow we're dropping a new one. I release a rare conversation with a very tip top ESPN executive producer. Someone who helped build the technology that determines what millions of us see, believe and respond to in every single sporting event. Did you know that there's a way to know exactly to the millimeter whether the football actually crosses the goal line or comes up an ants nose hair short? And did you know why the NFL has the technology and refuses to use it? By the way, did you know the strike zone camera we're showing it right there is accurate to the centimeter yet MLB still uses imperfect human umpires. Wonder why. Find out tomorrow. It's not hype interview. This is how operators think when real money, real pressure and real consequences are on the line. If you're content reacting from the sidelines with the cheap, understand how leverage is created in massive audiences are sucked in. This episode is required viewing the Edge Tomorrow hit the subscribe button. Go to YouTube.com Eric bowling the edge just go to YouTube and in the search box Eric Bowling and the Edge you'll see a logo that looks just like that. Subscribe. We are growing so fast. We want you to part of it top 1/10 of 1%. Subscribe. Hit your camera on your phone right there. You can subscribe that way as well. Never going to charge you. Not selling your information. Just need you part of this group again. It's no, no politics, man, no politics. Just talking about how the world works and how we can all be better inside that world. We'll be back two and a half minutes. All right, everyone, you've been leaving great voicemails. Let's what's up, Mad Dog? Hey, Ben. It was called everyone's there. Let's jump into a couple of voicemails. Let's get them. Let's get her done. This is Tim from SoCal on Legals.
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Mark Warner
Jacob Prime, Minneapolis Mayor.
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Eric Wolling
He's an idiot.
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Mark Warner
He's saying they're going to.
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Eric Wolling
They don't want ice in their communities ripping families apart. This is the rhetoric. This is what is causing this problem. People like him need to be in prison. They're inciting criminal activity when they talk like this. They openly do it. And they use their office to put in policies and procedures to maintain this criminal act. They should be in prison.
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Mark Warner
I don't get why we're not arresting these people.
- [45:46]
Eric Wolling
They can show, you know, these guys can claim, oh, they're doing it out of love and this and that and the other. I'm sorry, we have Laws to follow. People came here knowing it was illegal. They didn't care. They dropped their babies over the fence and scram. They sent their kids in without parents.
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Mark Warner
This nonsense about ripping families apart.
- [46:05]
Eric Wolling
We'll send the whole family back to their country.
- [46:07]
Mark Warner
But this nonsense.
- [46:09]
Eric Wolling
Our officials have to start being held accountable. If we don't start this, we're going to.
- [46:14]
Mark Warner
This is a never ending war.
- [46:15]
Eric Wolling
These guys can talk as soft hearted as they want.
- [46:18]
Mark Warner
Thing is, they're in violation of the.
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Eric Wolling
Law and they need to go to prison.
- [46:22]
Mark Warner
They're inciting this.
- [46:23]
Eric Wolling
They're encouraging their citizens, the community of lawbreakers to stay. This is just nonsense. Gavin Newsom, this Mayor, Tim Waltz, all of them. If they put in policies and they've.
- [46:35]
Mark Warner
Spoken about protecting communities when they know they're illegal, they should be in prison.
- [46:40]
Eric Wolling
Start in prison, prisoning these people and this will stop. And it's not going to stop until you start making examples of people like this.
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Mark Warner
Anyways, have a great day.
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Eric Wolling
Jim and Sokal. Take care everybody. What's up? Tim and socal. You're so right. Anyone else tired of all the big talk about all the arrests and how tough we're going to be on these folks? I'd like to see him start. Listen, I know these, these, these people. I know Cash, I know Pam, I know Mall Dan Bungino. Now out. But I know they're all friends. Guys, do something. Lock some people up. You promise you're going to Mad Dog. This is, this viewer wants a civil war. I got nothing for you. Why don't we just stop all the bullshit. Let's just have the civil war. Really? I mean, I think that's the only way you're going to get the Muslims out of Texas, the Muslims out of California and leftists that hate their country. Man, let's have the damn civil war and get it over with. I mean, it's bloodshed one way or the other. Either we go to the grocery store and they fight, pour gasoline on us and burn us. And the subways and the grocery stores and the migrants confused semis to kill our people on the streets. Why not just stop all the jargon, Eric, and tell the damn truth? You want your country back? You better damn man up and go get it back. Because they're taking it and you guys ain't got the balls to even say it. Really? What's the show? Dude, don't come down to me. I'm aggressive about some of this stuff. Maybe not asking for a civil war. I actually had a caller said that the Mayor of Minneapolis should be shot. Which we're not going to play because we don't come down that. I mean, there's. There's legal rules. Put these people in jail. It'll be a lot more effective for the next folks that try and do it. No, no. I'm pretty aggressive with. Let's clean this place up. Yeah. You're not supposed to be here. Get the hell out. Get out. Don't give them free crap. It's insane. You're magnetizing. Making a big old magnet. Come to America. Come to New York. Mom, Donnie's gonna do that to New York. I say this guy's a bit. These. It's a red herring. It's. You know, it's a test. It's a. A weather balloon to find out how this socialism works. They better fail, and you better prove it fails. We better be talking about it. No, no. We'll call them out all the time. That's one thing we absolutely do do. All right, folks, good day. I'll be in D.C. tomorrow. I might join the war room as well. Go watch warm now. I'll see you tomorrow. Bowling and then the warm right after. Have a great night. What if watching Real America's Voice was just the beginning? Introducing RAB Ambassadors, the new grassroots platform that turns viewers into leaders, connecting directly with hosts like Steve Bannon, Dr. Gina and more.
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