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Jack Posobic
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare. A commentator, international social media sensation and.
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Kenny Cody
Former Navy intelligence veteran, this is Human.
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Jack Posobic
Events with your host, Jack Posobic. Christ is king. Trump now warning eight key NATO allies.
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Kenny Cody
Including Denmark, France, Germany and the United.
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Jack Posobic
Kingdom that they will face tariffs starting with 10% in February until a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland. All right, well, President Trump is headed.
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Libby Emmons
To Davos tonight to attend the 2026 World Economic Forum. His push to purchase Greenland is poised.
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Jack Posobic
To be a key issue at this.
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Libby Emmons
Week'S Switzerland based event. But despite intensifying tensions over the island nation's future, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant insisted the relationship between the US And Europe remains strong while speaking in Davos today.
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Alex Adams
I am confident that the leaders will not escalate and that this will work out in a manner that ends up in a very good place for all, for, for national security, for the US and for Europe.
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Jack Posobic
The death toll in Iran reportedly topping 3,000 since protests started three weeks ago as the Ayatollah blames President Trump.
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Kenny Cody
We consider the US President a criminal for the casualties, damages and the slander he inflicted on the Iranian nation.
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Libby Emmons
Minneapolis is on edge. The Pentagon is putting 1500 troops on standby. And the FBI is reportedly asking agents across the country to volunteer for temporary duty in that city.
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Jack Posobic
Why are you not at Whip? Anti ice protesters get this. Storming a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, disrupting services to confront the pastor who they allege is working with ICE AG Pam Bondi, quote, says this attacks against law enforcement and the intimidation of Christians are being met with the full force of federal law. If state leaders refuse to act responsibly to prevent lawlessness, the DOJ will remain mobilized to prosecute federal crimes to ensure that the rule of law prevails. Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily. We're here live on Real America's Voice. And folks, today is, of course, January 20, 2026, Anno Domini. One year of Trump. One year since the return of President Trump to the Oval Office. Also one year. I posted the photo up on Twitter since Charlie and Erica got to be there at the inauguration and be with the president. One of the, one of the best pictures that we'll ever see. One of the best pictures we'll ever see of our friends. And a hard fought victory for so many and, and yet bittersweet in so many ways. Now when we look at all of this, here's the thing. The left didn't just go away one year ago. The left didn't just disappear. They didn't just dissipate. They didn't vanish into the ether, didn't roll over and die. No, they're back and they're backed with a vengeance. We're at the church raids part. And specifically what did they say? They said they were raiding white Christian churches. White Christians are the targets. Everyone who was involved with that church raid needs to be arrested immediately. There's no question about it. If it's Don Lemon, if it's Keith Ellison, all the way up to Tim Walls, every single one of them needs to be arrested under the Face Act. It was in law from 1994. We know this law has been on the books. It needs to be signed, it needs to be done. There's no question. There's no more excuses. That's key. What else do we see going on? Folks understand the next time they're not just going to be protesting in the church, the next time they are going to show up with murderous intent. And they're already. When you look at the trans elements out there, the trans militants, they've already been shooting up the churches. And by the way, what was the last church they targeted? Oh, right. A church in Minneapolis, the church in the Annunciation. That trans militant went in pew by pew, shooting the width through the windows, up and down the aisles as children, little children were sitting there, going to Mass. Understand what part of the movie we're in. This is it. This is the chance to make the final stand for. For American freedom. We know who they're targeting. We know who the targets are. We know what the list is. We know where. Where. We need to be defensive. And the key is simple. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. We need to go on the offensive immediately. The work in Minneapolis has been amazing. The patriots in Minneapolis have been amazing. You've seen the human events coverage also Cam Higby, Nick Sorter, of course, crushing it. Nick Sorter, of course, I've been in communications with ever since his incident, which happened there on the ground, his dragging incident. Love more on that as it develops. But ladies and gentlemen, we need to understand that time is short. One year from today, the next Congress will be sworn in. What does that mean? Well, we'll have already been sworn in. They actually get sworn in a little bit earlier than the President. So what does that mean? Which Congress is that going to be? Is that going to be a Republican Congress or is that going to be a Democrat Congress? Are we going to have a new speaker of the House? Are we going to have Speaker Johnson or are we going to have Speaker Hakeem? Speaker Hakeem. The fight for the midterms begins now. And that fight is all about delivering for the American people. The tariffs, ending the forever wars. And by the way, I got to say Greenland. I'm all in on Greenland. You guys know this. You've been watching this. Hemispheric defense from green northern Greenland all the way south to the Panama Canal through the Gulf of America, named by our own Kevin Posobic. Yes. It's all about the greater people. Talk about certain projects out there. I'm talking about the Greater America Project. All right. Obtain Greenland to avoid conflict in the future. It's so simple. Right back, Jack. Pos Human Events Daily. Nothing will stand in our way. And our golden age has just begun. This is Human Events with Jack Pos now it's time for everyone to understand what America first truly means. Welcome to the second American Revolution. All right, Jack Posic, we are back live here. Real America's voice. Human events daily. Folks, look, you're anything like me. The holidays were a little bit brutal. All those healthy eating habits gone. 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Three exclamation marks on that one. And. And President Trump, 19 billion, he says, is missing in Minnesota. He's also holding up mug shots of the people who have been arrested. These heinous criminals, rapists, child traffickers, murderers that have been arrested in Minneapolis, and so many out protesting to support them. How strange. So when we do look at the, the, when we do look at the fraud that's there in Minneapolis, what's key, what's absolutely key to understand is that this is not just about fraud from Minneapolis. It's also about the daycare fraud and fraud that's missing from hhs. So we're very excited and honored here on Human Events Daily to bring on Alex Adams, the Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families. Alex, how are you?
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Alex Adams
I'm doing well. Thanks for having me, Jack.
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Jack Posobic
Well, thanks for coming on. So you got the president up there. He's talking about 19 billion. Now, of course, that's, that's a, you know, a total number that's all in when, when HHS is looking at the Minneapolis problem set. What can you tell us that you're drilling down on right now?
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Alex Adams
Well, first, Jack, as he said a year ago today, President Trump was sworn into office. And putting America first means rooting out fraud in each and every one of these programs at the Administration for and Families. The program that we're specifically looking at in Minnesota is the child Care subsidy program. So the way these programs work, Congress appropriates money. My agency sends it out to states, States administer it, and they're entrusted to administer it within federal parameters. We send out about $185 million annually to Minnesota, and then Minnesota is supposed to use that to help defray the cost of childcare for its citizens. They serve between 18, 19,000 kids with those dollars. And certainly, based on past reports and recent reports, there's a suggestion that a lot of that has gone to fraud. False store frauds, phantom children, et cetera. We at the Department of Health and Human Services had an Office of Inspector General report that had been done earlier this year. It was in May, and it was critical of Minnesota's practices, specifically how they kept attendance records, suggested a series of improvements. There had been a number of other reports, including a legislative audit report from the State of Minnesota itself. So in early December, we sent a letter to the state asking for data on claims. One of the challenges with these federal programs is you separate the financing and the accountability. We are the funder, we are the overseer, but the State of Minnesota administers it. And they've been sending us bills, but they haven't necessarily been sending us debt. We, in early December, asked for data on their program participants. We've asked for data on attendance records, inspection records, things that would give confidence to the American taxpayers. And to date, we have not received that data from them. So we've taken a number of actions. We had announced that we were doing a restricted drawdown where we were going to condition their funding on them, providing that data. That's been held up in court. We're under a temporary restricted or a temporary restraining order. So we've taken other actions. We actually have a team on site this week asking them about their practices, asking them for data, because Americans deserve accountability for these tax dollars. This doesn't just impact Minnesota. As I said, we send $185 million in tax dollars out the door to that state annually. So every dollar stolen by a fraudster is stolen from a child that could have benefited from the services that the program was intended to prefer.
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Jack Posobic
And this is something that I think is so key. And you absolutely hit on it. And I appreciate you saying that, because this isn't just money that's gamed out of the system. It's not, you know, funny money. This is theft from the children of Minnesota and in some cases, disabled children, the neediest of the needy, the people who actually need it, the children who actually need it, the native Minnesotans, the children who are there who are just asking for the help from the government. Obviously, it's been allocated by Congress to be able to do this. That's who they're stealing from, and those are the true victims. So I wanted to say thank you so much for pointing that out, because so many times people say, oh, why Is the administration cracking down here? I said no, no, no, no. It's not a crackdown on a certain group of people. It's because they're victimizing the neediest of the needy disabled children in Minnesota, Minneapolis and throughout. And obviously it's not just Minnesota. Wanted to also ask you because you've got a new deregulatory push that you're, that you're working on. But in some cases it's also tied to the fraud because of some regulations that Joe Biden put in while he was in place. Walk that through for our audience.
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Alex Adams
Yeah, we're, we're focused on dismantling the administrative state that starts with both regulations and sub regulatory guidance that the agency issues. And what you see is when you look at our trend line of regulations, it goes up almost exponentially, especially during Democratic administrations. In the last year of Democratic administrations in particular, and in 2024, the Biden administration rushed some regulations that we think would have turbocharged fraud in the child care program. It asked states to pay based on enrollment for child care, not based on attendance. It asked states to pay in advance, not after the fact, based on verified attendance. And it asked states to start convert some of its funding for childcare from vouchers that go to parents and allow a parent to shop around for the childcare facility that best meets their needs and instead contracting with specific locations. So if you think of the Quality Leering center and some of these other facilities that have been pilloried online, the Biden administration was asking American taxpayers to pay up front regardless if a kid showed up or not. It's not hard to see how that could lead to fraud and make it easier to perpetuate and harder to crack down on. So as part of our drag efforts, we published a temporary rule to start the process of getting that off of the books and allowing states to put teeth into oversight of these programs. But Jack, that's one small example. We see this all over the place and we're committed at the Administration for Children and Families to deregulating, downsizing, smart sizing government, doing what's right. And just as one example, we just inventoried all our sub regulatory guidance documents. These are things that are purportedly just guidance, but often carry the force and effect of law through intimation if nothing else. And we just found we have 55,000 pages of sub regulatory guidance. So I was talking to my team, I said God had 10 commandments for the entire world. Somehow I have 55,000 pages of sub regulatory guidance documents for grant programs that pass through state and local governments. We can do better. Better, and we must do better. And you can rest assured we're very soon going to have a bonfire of regulations at acf. Focus on the, the things that will combat fraud, focus on things that will ensure affordability to American taxpayers and get rid of all the fluff.
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Jack Posobic
Well, I mean, that's absolutely incredible because when so many people look at this, they said they don't realize how much money really goes through hhs, how much funding goes in there. But to your point, once the money goes out of the federal coffers, it's really to the states and that's where this problem is. But that administration of those federal dollars, I'll simply ask this, you know, as we're leaving, but you know, if there's any indications where you uncover information that could lead to potential liability for officials or fraudsters involved, is that then communicated over to doj?
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Alex Adams
Yes, sir. We work hand in hand with our other federal partners. We also at HHS have the office of the Inspector General. And you can rest assured that we're going to support President Trump, that we're going to focus on America first, that we are going to root out fraud wherever it exists within our programs. I administer about 60 programs, $70 billion that goes out to states. And we're going to look under every rock and every cover. We've started sending out letters in our TANF program as well, which is cash assistance. We just sent a letter to President Biden's home state of Delaware last week alleging that they inappropriately used funds in the cash welfare program. And you can rest assured this will be a big priority for us the rest of the way.
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Jack Posobic
Alex Adams is secretary of hhs. Thank you so much for joining us. We're honored to have you here on Human Events Daily.
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Alex Adams
Thank you, Jack.
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Jack Posobic
Thank you. God bless. All right folks, stay tuned right back with so much more action packed show today. Yes, we are on location. More on that to come. Jack Posobe, Cuban Events Daily.
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Alex Adams
Today.
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Jack Posobic
You know they talk about influencers. These are influencers and they're friends of mine. Jack Posonic Where's Jack? Jack. All right, Jack Paso, big We are back live here, Human Events Daily. I want to bring on Libby Emmons. She's the editor in chief of Human Events and the Post Millennial. Libby, how are you?
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Libby Emmons
Jack, how are you doing?
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Jack Posobic
I'm doing well. So read your op ed the other day. Is Minneapolis going to be our bleeding Kansas moment? And my response to it was, you know, I don't know if Bleeding Kansas is right. Of course, that was the, you know, the chaos over whether or not Kansas would turn into a slave state or a free state. It was immediately prior to the Civil War, really seen as one of the precursors. But I do perhaps see it as a precursor to some of the type of activity that we saw during the Spanish Civil War, AKA the Spanish Communist Revolution. Funny how, by the way, if you notice, our history books don't even tell you that Spain had a communist regime at one point in the early 1930s. Funny how that works, isn't it?
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Libby Emmons
Yeah, it sure is. And I, you know, I think that you're. I think that you're right. And my concern and why I wrote the piece was because I'm concerned that we are veering headlong into something absolutely terrifying in this country and that we could really be in trouble if we are not paying attention and understanding what's going on. And in Minneapolis over the weekend, as we saw in viral video, and we know Don Lemon was there, we had agitators who are very organized with something called Operation Pull Up Storm into a Church in St. Paul, a Christian church, specifically targeting white Christians, specifically going in there, heckling them for being white, screaming at them, making their children cry, interrupting services and. And complaining at these people for having one of their pastors, one of the men who's on the pastoral staff at the church, also works for ice. And so they were harassing worshipers over this. And this is, of course, a complete violation of the parishioners and the church's First Amendment rights.
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Jack Posobic
Bill. Libby, I want to point out something, and I said this on Twitter this morning, and I noticed that not a lot of people were saying it was that if you go and actually watch the videos of the agitators, the leftists, when they go in there, they don't just say they're going after Christians, they specifically say white Christians. We can't allow these white people, these fake Christians, to not stand with their black and brown brothers out there. Those are the real Christians. And you're not a real Christian if you're white and not there. Libby, why is it that they racialize a religion? Why is the race, the white race, so much of a target for them?
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Libby Emmons
These are the same people who were involved with blm, right? I mean, this is going back a good few years at this point, where they have been targeting specifically white people and ideas that they think are white, such as, you know, like, being on time for work, stuff like that that they think is really perhaps criminal activity and associated yeah. Yeah. They're. They're used to this. Right. This is what they have wanted.
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Jack Posobic
Not just being punctual, following, following rules, knowing. Knowing when it's time to be quiet sometimes, you know, just. Just. Just more. More of that pervasive toxic whiteness.
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Libby Emmons
Yeah, we. That was an exhibit at the Smithsonian about how toxic whiteness can be. Yeah. I mean, really crazy. But they. They are. They are specifically hating white people. There was a man out there, a white man, of course, William Kelly, who. Agitator. He has a GoFundMe that is helping him pay for all of his expenses out there in Minnesota. And he went into this church and started screaming at everybody about their rich lifestyles and their lattes and that the fact. And saying that they're Nazis, which is absolutely out of control. And after he went to this church, broke up, worship, terrorized children and families. He then went to a mosque where he was invited, and he spoke in his TikTok about how beautiful that mosque was and how amazing it was, and welcoming the people there made him feel. Now it was empty. And he talked about how scared the people who attend the mosque are of going to their house of worship. And so in retaliation, his idea was to make the white people feel terrorized in their house of worship. One of the women who was leading the organized protest agitation here, Nekima Armstrong, is actually a reverend as well as a former president of the NAACP in Minneapolis, and she's a civil rights attorney. And she said that she was there under the power of God, that she was doing this for God. Right. She was terrorizing these families, screaming at children and moms and dads getting in everybody's face because they dare have a parishioner who works for ICE who's. Who's a pastor of the church, which is absolutely out of control. The man who was giving the sermon that day is not even the man they were targeting. He wasn't even there. So to top it off, they're going in there calling these people horrible names, violating their First Amendment rights, claiming that they're doing it under their First Amendment rights. But we know that you can't practice your rights by violating other people's rights. That's not how that works. Yeah, so that was going on here. It's absolutely horrific. And you didn't even have Governor Tim Waltz come out and say anything specific. He just had his office make a little statement.
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Jack Posobic
So, Libby, this isn't the first time we've seen this, by the way, because there were some journals which were kept completely hidden by The FBI and local police out of Nashville. Written by Aubrey Hale, the trans shooter there at the Christian school where she too wrote that she specifically targeted that Christian school where she had gone, not just because they were Christian, but also because they were white. She wrote that she hates white people and that she worships black people. Why was that information hidden?
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Libby Emmons
Well, I think there's a lot of reasons why someone would want to hide that, right? I mean, people in law enforcement certainly don't want anyone out in the public to think that white people are being targeted because we've seen a lot of regulations over the past few years that are specifically targeting white people. You know, you have DEI and things like that. We've seen a lot of reporting about how white people are specifically not hired for different jobs because it's more important to prioritize identity over, you know, merit perhaps and other things like that. So, yeah, they didn't want us to know that Aubrey Hale had been completely indoctrinated as a self hating white person and that she was going out there specifically to kill white Christian children. Again, this is absolutely horrifying. And there's no reason in this country that we can't just all live in peace. We were doing it about 25 years ago and for some reason now we have to.
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Jack Posobic
The reason is these, is these agitators and they're agitating it all up. Libby Emmons, where can people go to follow you and get access to that op ed?
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Libby Emmons
You can find me @libbyemons on Twitter and of course, check out my op ed@human events.com.
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Jack Posobic
Thank you so much. Libby Evans, Human Events. We're right back. And Jack. Where's Jack? Where's Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you. Great job, Jack. 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 who've been getting policies. All right, Jack was up. We're back live Human Events Daily. Real America's Voice. Folks, let me tell you something straight up. I'm gonna tell you it's just true. I'm gonna be sure. I'm gonna shoot straight with you, if you don't mind. I'm gonna do that. Okay. I'm extremely picky about what I put in my body and what companies I support. It's true. And one of those is blackout coffee. Because blackout coffee checks every box. Blackout is a family run American company roasting fresh coffee right in the usa built by people who believe in hard work, freedom, and our country. No global corporations, no fake activism, no lectures. Just darn good coffee made by Americans for Americans. 2026 is a huge year. This is the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. And blackout coffee is celebrating it all year long with new roasts, limited editions, and some very exciting releases coming. Now look, I drink blackout coffee every single day. Morning shows, late nights, travel days, all of it. It is smooth, it is strong, and it is always fresh. Once you switch, you're not going back. Look, they got something for everyone. Morning Reaper. Their best selling medium roast is smooth. It's never bitter. Brutal awakening. A bold, dark roast that actually wakes you up for 2026. You have to try the 1776 dark roast, rich and apologetic, made to honor America's founding. And the two, a medium roast, smooth, balanced, and proudly named after the second Amendment. This is coffee that actually stands for something. Now, here's the movement. If you want the best deal, sign up for a blackout coffee subscription. You save more money, you get free shipping, and you earn free coffee through their rewards. This program, you'll get it just for drinking what you already drink. Your coffee shows up fresh and on schedule, and you never run out. They also have instant coffee, which is a total game changer. We're not talking some weak gas station powder. This is real blackout coffee in a packet. No machine, no message. Add water, stir, and you're ready to roll. Perfect for work, travel, or keeping your desk or go bag. Go to blackoutcoffee.com poso and use promo code poso for 20 off your first order. That's blackoutcoffee.com Support American Jobs. Celebrate 250 years of American freedom. Drink coffee that tastes incredible because every sip should feel like a win. All right, folks, I want to play this video out of the city of Philadelphia talking about America's 250th. We've got a clip out of Surge Media in Philadelphia on a SEPTA bus. SEPTA is the Philadelphia Area Transportation Authority. You got to see what happened when an antifa agitator came across an independent journalist. Let's play it now.
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Frank Scales
What about. She doesn't want to be on camera now.
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Jack Posobic
Why not?
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Frank Scales
I'll record. All right. Why do you do that? Why do you do that? I mean, you're so good.
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Jack Posobic
What am I. Whoa, whoa.
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Frank Scales
She missed. She got in the back of my head with pepper spray. That was. She's still there. She's coming. You're going to get. Okay, so her name's Paulina, Paulina Rays.
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Jack Posobic
There she is.
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Kenny Cody
You want to wait?
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Jack Posobic
You want to hang out for the cops?
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Frank Scales
She's coming back. Yeah, she's going to wait for the couch. She's coming back.
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Jack Posobic
You want to hang out?
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Frank Scales
How am I a racist?
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Jack Posobic
You want to hang out? Go and see.
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Frank Scales
Why are you so dead?
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Jack Posobic
Why? Because you talk about Islamic people, you talk about black people, you talk about.
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Kenny Cody
Mexicans and you post on the Internet.
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Jack Posobic
Come here, come here, come here.
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Frank Scales
Right here.
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Jack Posobic
All right. That intrepid journalist of surge media, Frank Scales now joins us here on Human Events Daily. Frank, how are you?
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Frank Scales
I'm doing well. How about you, Jack? Thank you for, for having me on the program today.
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Jack Posobic
Have to, have to, especially for Philly Zone. Now, frankly, I gotta ask, how's the eye?
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Frank Scales
The eyes are feeling good. And a lot of people talked about how I didn't really, you know, react too viscerally. And that's because just a week before that incident, I was pepper sprayed when I was covering a protest in Philadelphia again. So I got pepper, pepper sprayed twice in about two weeks. But I'm feeling 100.
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Alex Adams
There.
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Jack Posobic
Good, good. Now let me, let me ask you, who was this individual? What's her backstory? Why did she target you? Target you the way that she did?
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Frank Scales
So her name is Paulina Rays. She was a Community College of Philadelphia student. And I was actually at Community College of Philadelphia, the school, while she was there. She was like a journalist for the student newspaper and now she works at Y News in Philadelphia. So she actually calls herself a journalist to this day on LinkedIn. But she saw me and I actually turned around on the bus and I saw her and she was calling me a fascist and a racist. And I said, I disagree with that. I'm not. And at that point, when she realized she couldn't bait me into an argument, she became very aggressive. So I immediately started recording and it's just escalated from there.
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Jack Posobic
And this is really. So wait a minute. She's a W H. Why? Why News intern in, in the city right now. She's working with. Basically that's sort of like the NPR of Philadelphia. She's over at W H Y Y and she's going around pepper spraying people on the bus. If she doesn't like what they say on the Internet, is that what you know, or at least what she thinks they say on the Internet?
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Frank Scales
That's correct. And it's very unfortunate that WHY has not come out and condemned political violence. They're publicly funded and they should do that immediately. They should do that right now.
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Jack Posobic
No. This is horrific. And I put the tweet up with. When you guys identified her over at Surge Media, we put it up. I said, why is this? Why is this? Why w h y y intern going around doing this? It's gone incredibly viral. The piece has gone out there because they think. And here's, here's the issue, and this is something, and I think you can answer. Does she think that the DA is in Philadelphia, is actually going to do anything to her?
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Frank Scales
She. I would say she doesn't. I can't speak for her, but I don't think she does. Just a month ago, we got our phone smashed when we were covering a protest at City hall. And that individual who smashed my phone actually got diversion. So the DA doesn't hold anybody accountable and these radical leftists know it. So they feel they can do whatever they want. And that's why the atmosphere is especially hostile and violent in Philadelphia for people who are Republicans.
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Jack Posobic
Well, and you've actually gone and had a few, a few run ins with the D A as well, the Soros D.A. there's Larry Krasner. His response, he blames things on Trump. He blames things on ice. But that wasn't Donald Trump pepper spraying people on the bus. That wasn't ice pepper spraying people on the bus. That was one of these cretins that supporting him.
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Frank Scales
Yes, exactly. And when I actually had an interaction with him, I just asked why I wasn't allowed in his previous town hall because he had his supporters literally block me from entering his town hall because he knew I disagreed with him. So I asked him why and he grabbed my phone. So even Larry Krassner himself assaulted me in a park. So it's insane. But the silver lining here is that septic crimes, the transit authority in Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, they can be prosecuted by the state of Pennsylvania. And that's what we want to see happen. Because these people, these agitators, these Marxists, these anarchists, they need to be held accountable, they need to be identified, they need charges need to be pressed, and they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law to stop this political violence.
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Jack Posobic
Well, that's an interesting point that you make because even though the Governor of Pennsylvania is currently Democrat Josh Shapiro, Republicans actually won the Attorney general seat in 2024 as well as the Senate race with Dave McCormick, president with Donald Trump. But Dave Sunday also won as the Attorney General candidate. And so there is actually a Republican Attorney General there in the in office. And that's a great point that you make that in on a septibus that the state can actually come in and level charges because that is actually a state related agency.
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Frank Scales
Yes. And the state actually had to step in because Larry Krasser was doing such a bad job in keeping people safe on septis. So the state stepped in and fortunately they did. And I'm hoping that we could see justice served and the state can help out here.
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Jack Posobic
Well, I hope you do. And as you go through this investigation as it proceeds, I want you to come back on, let us know what the developments are. For now though, for people who want to support you, support your work, tell them where they can go.
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Frank Scales
Surge Media us, we have a website up if people want to donate. We are using those funds to maybe get a car, get security so that we don't run into these radicals because that situation escalated very fast. We don't know or we do know what these people are capable of and it's not pretty. If you would like to see our social media surge Media us, you can find all our social medias like and share our videos. We're trying to spread information nation rooted in truth, faith and accountability far and wide. And we're going to save the United States.
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Jack Posobic
Save the United States. And it starts in America's birthplace, Philadelphia. Frank, thanks so much, man. Thanks for keeping the flame going.
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Frank Scales
Thank you for having me.
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Jack Posobic
Be right back. 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. Amen. All right, folks, we are back here on Human Events Daily. Kind of an interesting next guest that we have coming up because normally when I introduce this guy, I say he's the opinion editor of Human Events, but he's actually coming on. He went and said, you know what? I don't do enough work. I guess we haven't assigned him enough work over at Human Events because he's taken on another title. Kenny Cody joins us again. Kenny, what. What are you up to? What's going on? All this stuff I hear down in Tennessee.
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Kenny Cody
Well, Jack, it's honor to be on with you, brother. On Friday, I announced my candidacy for the Tennessee House of Representatives District 11, which consists of Cott County, Hamlin county and Jefferson county, slivers of Hamlin county and Jefferson county and all of Cott County. Representative Jerry Fazer announced his retirement. And I am making my bid to become the Republican nominee for that position. And on August 6th.
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Jack Posobic
So we got that. We got the Appalachian kid running as a Republican for Tennessee's 11th housed district. All right, Kenny, why should anyone who's in that district, why should they vote for you?
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Kenny Cody
Over the last 10 years of my life, I grew up here in these mountains, or the last 30 years, I've grew up in these mountains. But over the last 10 years, I've dedicated myself to public service, whether that's been as a school teacher at Cosby High School and Cosby Elementary School, where that's been the GOP chair of the Cott County Republican Party for the last seven years of my life. And just being in this community and seeing how it recovered from Hurricane Helene, where these churches, the local government and the state government all banded together in the midst of disaster, I realized that in the midst of Jerry Fajian's retirement, I wanted to step up to become the man of the arena, just like Teddy Roosevelt said. I have seen that this community deserves somebody who is a native, deserved an East Tennessean that knows that we're going to embody the mountain conservative Christian values that every family in this district, every man, every woman and every child in this district embodies. And I know I can bring that to the Tennessee House of Representatives in Nashville and bring some Smoky Mountain conservatism into the halls of Cordell Hole. And I know that over the next six months, I'm going to go knock every door, I'm going to go meet every Appalachian constituent that I've got and earn votes and get to know the Christian conservative values that our district embodies. And I know that I can bring that representation to House district alone 11.
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Jack Posobic
Smoky Mountain conservatism. Now, would that be possibly related to populist conservatism? Because I know, Kenny Cody, when I've read your op eds, when I've read your work, you do not have a lot of. Put this way, you know, you don't really spare your powder when it comes to the establishment conservatives. You are a rock ribbed populist. As populist as they come.
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Kenny Cody
I'm a populist that goes out and listens to his constituents. You know, look, I've always said that populism is a to go out and listen to constituents, go out and listen to the low propensity voters, the high principity voters, and all those who care about their values and the Christian conservative values that this district embodies. I know that I'm going to go out, I'm going to go and listen to these people. I'm going to go and listen to my future constituents and then get people to vote that may have not voted before, those low propensity voters that may feel like they've never been heard. And I'm going to use populism to hear them. I want to hear those Appalachian voices. I want to hear these mountain values and these critical Christian conservative values that my district I know embodies. I've done that over the last seven years as a Republican Party chairman, helping Republican candidates both statewide, countywide and nationally be able to go out and listen to my constituents. And I know that I could do the same thing as the Tennessee House of House representative in the state House. And I'm going to use populism to get to know that the working class issues that our district embodies, they don't want their jobs going overseas. They don't want illegal immigrants coming in and committing crimes and violence against the people of House District 11 and taking their jobs. We want to ensure that Tennessee is a safe haven for Tennessee families, for Christian conservatives and for everybody here to live in peace and to have that economic educational prosperity that this district deserves. I know that I'm going to use my skill, use populism and be able to go out and listen to those values just like J.D. the vice president, J.D. vance, did. I know that I can do that and I'm going to throw to do that over the next six months.
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Jack Posobic
Well, you know, Kenny, when it comes to those middle American conservatives, Appalachian conservatives, we know obviously the president, President Trump has put so much stock in this area, of course, appointing and raising JD Vance as his vice president. But I do also have to say that when I go around and look at the human events, the Human Events columns, the human events writings, I always know that there's one guy that we've got that if you want to get something on the president's desk and get it up on his true social, that you got to hand that assignment over to Kenny Cody. Do you have you have ever counted how many times President Trump has shared your work?
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Kenny Cody
I think about 25. And he's also shared media clips of me talking about him on. I did. I went by and counted it. It's such a privilege to be a, a MAGA warrior.
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Frank Scales
I have whip behind.
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Jack Posobic
No, it's amazing. It's amazing.
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Kenny Cody
Yes. And I, I'm a little, it's really amazing.
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Jack Posobic
And he has shared. He has shared so. And he reads them. People, people don't realize that when, when The President gets something. They, A lot of people out there in the media, they think, oh, President Trump, you know, he just, he tweeted that out. He's, whatever, you know, he's just putting it up there. His staff does that for him. No, sir. No, sir. President Trump has them, articles printed out for him. I know this for a fact. I've seen them. I've seen them in the White House. He has the articles printed out for them. If he likes it, he says, let's make sure we get this up on Truth Social or else we did out himself. And in many cases, he'll even, he'll even, you know, write on the articles and then have that mailed to you.
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Kenny Cody
Exactly. And he's done, he's done that for me before. He's recognized my work, he's emailed me those articles with his signature, and he's seen how I speak for the Appalachian conservatives here in House District 11. I've done my best to represent the values here. I made that clear in my articles. I always brag about my home. I'm so proud to be from Cott County. I'm so proud to be From House District 11, being connected to Jeff in Hamlin county. And I know that over the next six months, I'm going to be able to be connected to the President. I'm going to promote his values. I'm going to make sure that our local law enforcement has the funding to work with the ICD to deport illegal immigrants and to arrest those illegals that are coming here and committing crime and violence against our people and protect our homeland. That's exactly what our district needs. We need to bring economic prosperity here to make sure we're not outsourcing jobs, bring economic prosperity here for small businesses to thrive, for agriculture to thrive. And I know by safeguarding the families of District 11, we can make that happen.
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Jack Posobic
Now, I know that, you know, coming in, you know, obviously in your area, you've got a certain, certain types of issues, but as, as Tennessee writ large comes in, we've seen a number of crime issues, at least prior to the President's effort, efforts there in Memphis, other parts of the state. When you're looking at issues statewide that affect Tennessee, would you be supportive of the President's efforts there and continuing those efforts to help to keep and maintain the peace in a once great city like Memphis that should be made great again. It is being made great again.
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Kenny Cody
Absolutely. I hope the National Guard comes in and continues, continues to help Memphis. And even, even in Nashville, you know, I wrote an article a few months ago that talked about how Mayor Freddie o' Connell in Nashville was opposing ICE agents and exposing them and trying to out them and dox them and endanger ICE agents by simply coming in there and deporting illegal immigrants and arresting those aliens that are coming here and committing crime. I would ensure that. I would work with the Trump administration, call out the local officials that are rejecting that help and call for the National Guard to be sent in. Listen, if the local government, if the local mayors and the bureaucracy in these cities and in these counties are not going to step up, up, then the federal government should come in and ensure that our people are safe. Because Americans come first. The government doesn't come first. The foreigners don't come first. Criminals don't come first. In our state, Tennesseans come first. And in this country, Americans come first. And that has to be prioritized. And I'll make sure it's prioritized in Nashville.
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Jack Posobic
Look, folks, I'll just say it. You know, I. President Trump has, I believe, they say, taken a shine to Mr. Kenny Cody and taking a shine to his writings. And. And I think it's because the power of his convictions that he speaks with the ability to be a voice for his community, especially in an area, as we know, the MAGA movement going back 10 years ago, an area that gets overlooked and has been overlooked by so much of the country for so long. You play the game of the east coast and the West Coast. You miss all the people in the middle, especially communities that are filled with great people like Kenny Cody. So when those voices get raised up by President Trump, it's incredible to see folks and patriots like yourself, Kenny, to actually step up and meet the moment to say, I'm willing to do this. I'm willing to put my hand up. Where can people go to connect not just with your writing, but also with your campaign?
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Kenny Cody
Yeah, I usually just say at Katie Cotn, but it's kind of expanded past that now. You can go follow our campaign account Cody War roomtn on Twitter Kenny Cody for State House on Facebook and go to our website vote kenny cody.com on any media browser.
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Jack Posobic
Kenny Cody, Appalachian kid. Go check him out. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission.
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Alex Adams
FL.
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Jack Posobic
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