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Jeff Cruer
Good day, everyone. Jeff Crayer here. Welcome. It's Ringside Politics on Real America's Voice. Great to be with you. Great guest joining us today. Interesting clips, lots of topics. We're going to jam it all in. We appreciate all of you joining us, especially our friends from Pluto TV channel 240, Dish Network channel 219, the Roku channel, all the platforms associated with the Real America's voice app, AmericasVoice News, Samsung TV plus channel 1175, select TV channel 106, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and friends online on Getter and True Social. Welcome one and all. You know, folks, after the 2020 election was stolen, we got busy right here on Ringside Politics created a plan of action. It's called Project Keep the Republic. We've been working on it ever since. A lot of you have signed up. We appreciate it much. It was inspired by the end of the Constitutional convention when Benjamin Franklin was asked, what kind of government have you given us? He replied, madam, a republic if you can keep it. Now, what does it take to keep a republic? Real, tangible action. Adopting the warrior ethos, placing the mission first, never accepting defeat. And folks were never quitting. We're organizing groups across the country based on the days of the week. Morning prayers Monday, release a Kraken Tuesday, Sheepdog Wednesday, Tech Tribe Thursday, and our favorite fraud busters Friday. Now you can get started easily. Just two or more people. Gather your group from friends, family, neighbors, co workers or classmates. Start small and then get big. And as you do, send me your photos and videos to jeffgso.com we'll share them with our friends, include a short description of your group and the action depicted. Now do you want a copy of our slides? You can email me@jeffgso.com we have an overview. We have a detailed Sheepdog organizational plan. It's also right on the website, the Handy Dandy website. My last name crewair.net c r o u e r e.net also on crewair.net we've got our petition for the immediate resignation of Rhino Senator Bill Cassidy. Love for you to sign that. Thousands have note and photos from President Trump. I think you'll enjoy my latest video is the NFL made a bad decision by choosing Bad Bunny. Do you agree or disagree? Of course. That's the halftime entertainment. Supposedly entertainment. Then of course got information about my first book, America's Last Chance and 2026 will be the new one. Also@crewair.net we got the midterm election countdown clock. This is the biggest election midterms of all time. It's for all the marbles. Do we keep the Trump agenda or do we descend into chaos? You can subscribe to my new podcast on the Air with Jeff Crew. Air ranked number two in the great state of Louisiana. You can sign up for our free newsletter and love for you to get on board with that so you can get plugged in as to what we're up to. And here's what I'd love you to do. Check out and vote in our latest poll. And the question is this. How is President Trump's current relationship with MAGA supporters after the high profile breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene? And there's been some more independence in the House. Listen, my opinion is it's strong, but a lot of you disagree. So I'd love for you to keep it up for one more day. So go to Crewair.net and cast your vote. What is the relationship between the President and MAGA today? And cast your vote. Also on the website, you can contact me, there's a contact form. You can email me@jeffgso.com or how about just going on our social media sites and contact us there. Gab Getter. Also True Social and X Crewair and Facebook at Ringside Politics. All right, every time we gather, we share our favorite pro Trump image of the week. This one was submitted to us by our friend Daniel in Mandeville. And I like this one. The President of the cowboy hat celebrating with those who brought us the Americal on ice. Of course, that great historic win over the Russians, the Soviets back in 1980 in the Olympics. Love that picture. Thank you, Daniel, for that. Also, folks, we give a shout out to our champion of the week and it's our free speech partner. Our great, of course, broadcast outlet in the Gulf south, that's WGSO Radio, believes in free speech, believes in getting your voice heard, doesn't believe in censorship. You know, this is a station that is owned by Patriots. Our competition is owned by George Soros. That's the, that's the battle we're in. Free speech versus censorship. Check out WGSO.com for more information. Of course, I'm on there in the mornings and the evenings during the week. And we have a lot of you join us as well. All right. We've got an economy that is, you know, I think getting better, but still the strategy is the same. Diversify. That's why I recommend our friends over at Birchgold got a lot of things out of our control, out of the president's control. That's why we need that safe haven for our savings. Birch Gold, which is my gold company, will help you convert an IRA or 401k into an IRA in physical gold. And here's the best news, folks. It doesn't cost you a penny out of your pocket. So to get started, text America to 989-898. You get a free info kit. You can't beat that. Protect your savings today, folks, with Birch Gold. Text America to 989-898 and claim your free info kit today. All right, lots of topics we're delving into. Let's start with the president issuing a pardon for Tina Peters. This is a woman that has been abused for fighting for election integrity. She's in a state court in Colorado. These folks are. They want her to die in prison. Okay, we need to keep the pressure on these state officials. She needs to be released. She's been railroaded. She's been politically persecuted. This is a gold star, mom. This is a hero. And a kudos to President Trump for issuing the pardon. We're gonna keep the pressure on concerning Tina Peters. Democrats, wacky Democrats led by wacky Al Green, the crazy guy, attempted to impeach President Trump this week. Only 140 Democrats voted yes. Still 140 of them. That's crazy. Of course, if they get control of the House, get ready for that happening again. Also, House Democrats this week released more Epstein photos and such a hoax. They released a photo of President Trump with a bunch of young women. All of them were adults. All of them were over, you know, legal age. And the public had already seen the picture before. But the Democrats blacked out the obscured the faces of the women as if, you know, they were underage. I mean, how ridiculous. All the Democrats are trying to do is get President Trump with the Epstein issue. They don't care about these victims. They don't care about anything but getting President Trump. Now, here's the deal. We got a crisis in healthcare, and the Democrats gave that to us via a vehicle known as Obamacare. So the Congress is trying to come up with a plan. They shot down a Republican plan to try to give us health savings accounts, give the money directly to the people. The House is going to be working on something, but Republicans need to be clear with the American people. This crisis is brought to you 100% by the Democrat Party because we were right when we were saying 15 years ago that Obamacare would never work. And it has Never worked. Okay. It has been a disaster ever since it was first authorized and we knew it from the beginning. Now, the House also passed this week a defense authorization bill. And Tim Burchett and others upset about it because they slipped in another $800 million for Ukraine. So the warmongers and neocons can't help themselves. They've got to get more money in for the war. As President Trump's trying to bring it to an end. They're getting more money to Ukraine. We've given them hundreds of billions of dollars already. How about putting that 800 million toward needs here in this country? Infrastructure, homeless. How about giving it back to the American people so they can spend it? I mean, any kind of effort like that would be better than just throwing it overseas. Got another big story that came out this week. We've been following. J6. Committee chair Barry Loudermilk has now released information that photos and videos on the morning of J6 have been lost or deleted or compromised either purposefully or by accident, either incompetence or. We're talking about purposeful destruction of J6 data from that morning. We see a lot of video of the J6 pipe bomber from the night before. Nothing from the morning of January 6th. Because the videos are gone, folks. They're gone. And if that doesn't raise questions, I don't know what will. Also this week, following the decision by the Federal Reserve to cut rates by a quarter point, this gives a little relief to the American people. President Trump can't wait to get a new Federal Reserve chair. Anything can be better than too late Powell. And he's going to be hopefully riding off into the sunset, getting the heck out of here. And we'll get someone that can give us some real interest rate relief. And it's been a busy last few weeks here in New Orleans. ICE has been here arresting and deporting. Now, just in the month of November, the figures that I have been given show about over 14,000 people have either been arrested or deported. That, to me, is excellent news. I mean, that to me, is a success story. And I give kudos to ICE wherever I see him. But on buildings across the city, we have activists that have spray painted F ice. So the crazy, the lunatics are out there wherever ICE goes, trying to stop them from doing the good work that they're doing. And we do have a report that. And this is something from Sean Duffy. Kudos to our Transportation Secretary. Speaking of illegals, half of the commercial trucking licenses in the state of New York have been given to, you guessed it, illegal aliens. So as you're going down the highway and you see a truck next to you that could be a driver that's here illegally that can't speak English and can't read the signs. So that should give us a lot of discomfort, ladies and gentlemen, a lot of discomfort. And finally, kudos to the president standing firm on the Venezuela issue. We have now seized an oil tanker that was headed to Cuba. I think this is excellent. We need to continue to take care of these anarcho terrorist boats. And I think this is the right utilization of our military, focusing on our hemisphere, our neighborhood. And he started his affordability tour this week in Pennsylvania. I hope they're going to be more of these going on across the country over the next few weeks. Republicans have a great story to tell on affordability. President Trump is bringing affordability to the country. The ones that caused the affordability crisis were Biden and the Democrats. And that message needs to be repeated over and over to the American people. All right, lot to get to as we roll on. It is ringside politics right here in Real America's Voice. Jeff career with you. We'll be right back. Foreign.
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Jeff Cruer
Welcome back, folks. We've got great guest who's going to be joining us momentarily. But we've got some breaking news we wanted to share with you. And we've got our own David Zier who's going to update us on what happened in Syria. Seems like some of our service members have been killed. Let's get the latest from David Zier. David, thank you for joining us. And updating us on this important issue. Yes.
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David Zier
Hi, Jeff. That was released from the Pentagon, Sean Parnell's office, the chief Pentagon spokesman that today in Palmyra, Syria, two US army soldiers and one civilian US Interpreter were killed. There's a bunch of others wounded. And the attack occurred as the soldiers were conducting a key leader engagement for ongoing counter ISIS operations, counterterrorism operations in the region. So the identity of those killed are yet to be released. They have to notify the families. I did get comment from the Pentagon and asked some questions as to what branch of service they were serving in and whether they were special operations. So I'm waiting to get back from them, but they released a statement to me for further comment. This attack took place in an area where the Syrian president does not have control. Initial assessments show the attack was likely carried out by isis. Jeff, it's breaking news. I will bringing the network more as things develop. Another loss for US Soldiers abroad.
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Jeff Cruer
Yeah, tragic. We're showing now a tweet from Sean Parnell and I think we have one from Pete Hegseth to share with our viewers. Viewers as well, David. And yeah, there've been a lot of questions about, you know, the stability in Syria. And of course, this new leader has been in place for about a year since Assad was overthrown. I think they just celebrated one year. I know the president has tried to, you know, support this new leader of Syria, but as you pointed out, he doesn't have control of the whole country and there's still plenty of terrorist activity going on there. So. All right, so we've got this information out there. Any other comments you want to share, David?
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David Zier
No, I was just going to say, you know, since the civil war, there's a million and a half refugees went to Lebanon from Syria. The HDS took over Turkish support, lot going on. So it's still not stable.
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Jeff Cruer
Yes, you're exactly right. All right, my friend, thank you so much for this report. That's our own David Zier updating us on this unfortunate tragic situation where our service members been killed in Syria. All right. And we'll pass on any updated information that we receive. All right, let's bring on our first guest today and he is a contributor to the Ringside Products program. On other occasions. We're glad to have him back as a guest. He's our friend, Sheriff Richard mack, speaker, author, 20 year law enforcement veteran. And we'll talk about his organization as well. And welcome, Sheriff Mack, to the Ringside Politics program. How are you, sir? Good day.
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Sheriff Richard Mack
I'm doing well. And thank you. Merry Christmas, Jeff.
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Jeff Cruer
Merry Christmas and welcome back to the program. So, you know, Sheriff, one of the issues that I talked about in my opening segment was what ICE is doing down here in New Orleans. Trying to restore law and order. And sadly, we had a sheriff down here was initially pretty uncooperative, saying she didn't want to get involved in a civil matter. We had to remind her it's not a civil matter, it's a criminal matter. When people cross a border and decide to try to take jobs and benefits for the American people here illegally. What do our sheriffs need to do on this issue of deportation?
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Sheriff Richard Mack
Well, they actually get to do whatever they want. That's the bottom line. We actually have had an extreme dichotomy with going on with sheriffs. Some that absolutely refuse to participate and some that have actually been sued by their ag. Right now, Sheriff Wagner in Washington State is being sued by AG Brown because he's helping ICE and trying to get rid of the cartels, the drug traffickers, the international terrorists and. And the human traffickers. He's trying to get them out of his county. And he's now being attacked by the state because they passed some rule or law or policy that no sheriffs can help. Now, is that Washington state or what? Because Washington State is the worst state in the union, promoting wokeness and their own political insanity. We're going to have an event there on January 9th and 10th in Pierce county in Puyallup, Washington, which is close to Tacoma. And I want to invite you to come or anybody from your staff. Jeff, I really want you to be there. It's on the front page of our website. But then we have a sheriff who is also going to be there, or at least his story. We're still working it out with him. Sheriff Dan Marks was sued in Iowa by the AG because he wasn't helping enough. And so the bottom line is I met with Tom Holman about three months ago in his office and we discussed all of this and we discussed the concerns that Sheriff Marks had. And I'm not so certain that Sheriff Marks was wrong. He wanted, in order to turn people over from his jail to the to ice. He wanted a warrant. Not a detention order, but a warrant as required by the Fourth Amendment. I'm not sure he was wrong, but I really appreciate his constitutional concern and I'm not going to dismiss it that easily. So I want dichotomy of what we have.
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Jeff Cruer
Yeah, and I understand where you're coming from, which is a different perspective, and I appreciate that I want people to know. Your organization, it's the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers association and their website is cspoa.org cspoa.org you can learn all about the event and everything Sheriff Mack and his colleagues are doing. So if you had a.
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Sheriff Richard Mack
We've encouraged all sheriffs to help that, that's been our position from the get go.
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Jeff Cruer
Right? Well, it's, it's a crisis because under Joe Biden, the borders were wide open and 20 million people streamed in here. So we've got to remove them. They can't take away jobs and residences. No wonder housing's so high. I mean, they're illegals staying there, illegals taking jobs. And also the financial aspect, it's a drain on our budgets for all this money to be going to illegals. It's not right. Other countries maintain their border. So we've now secured the border. Now we gotta do something about the millions and millions and millions of people that are here illegally. And I understand the sheriffs have their rights and the sheriffs have their independence and prerogative. I just hope we can work together cooperatively. Right?
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Sheriff Richard Mack
Sheriff well, that's what we've said. We feel the exact same. But the thing of it is, if you're really going to be serious about getting rid of criminals and going after the criminal element in your county, how could you ignore the terrorists and cartels that are there, the human traffickers that are there, the people that were bringing in fentanyl all throughout the state of Washington, they're being supported now by the Democrat Party and these crazy woke ideas. So, yes, we want sheriffs to help and many of them are, but there's a lot of sheriffs that are afraid to get involved because they don't want to be sued and attacked and thrown out of office because they're simply doing their job.
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Jeff Cruer
Well, they're lunatics on the left that are threatening our law enforcement officials that are attacking them. And, and those people need to be arrested. And unlike the riots that happened after George Floyd's death, when they attack a law enforcement officer, they need to suffer the consequences criminally. Right? Sheriff Absolutely.
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Sheriff Richard Mack
Yeah, absolutely.
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Jeff Cruer
All right. There's no. In our remaining minutes at all. I wanted to talk to you. You've got a to do list for President Trump. What is your to do list for President Trump?
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Sheriff Richard Mack
Sheriff well, well, how long I've got, I've actually got an analysis of his first year in office and it takes 90 seconds. Do I have time to give that to you?
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Jeff Cruer
Okay, that's about what we have. So do what you can in our next minute or so. Go ahead, Sheriff.
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Sheriff Richard Mack
Okay, so within the first few months, Trump has and his team have pulled off some real miracles. First and foremost, they have secured our border, made America safer. Second, the worst thing that any government can do is put innocent people in prison. And indeed, President Trump remedied that from the 1200, more than 1200 souls that were put in prison for the January 6th fiasco. There were two people murdered that day, Ashley Babbitt and Roseanne Boylan.
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Jeff Cruer
Yes.
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Sheriff Richard Mack
Both of them were done by Capitol Police. Look at all the lies that were told since then. But another one, I really want, another point I wanted to make, and it's right here. Amazingly, on 9-23-25, Trump stood before the United nations and tore them a new one. Good for you, Mr. President. It was about time that a leader in our country accused the United nations of what they truly are. And that's corrupt and worthless. Thank you, Mr. President. I gave a minus for his first year in office.
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Jeff Cruer
All right, well, that's. I give him a solid A. In fact, a lot of my viewers and listeners give him an A plus. But we're all in the A range, which is good. All right, Sheriff, thank you, my friend. Keep up the great work. You know, we talk on this program a lot about being a republic. And I found this clip that I wanted to share with you all showing the differences between a democracy and a republic. It's by a commentator from the great state of Texas, Dan Smoot. And he said it back in the 60s. It's as true today as it was back then. Let's check out clip number one.
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A democracy is a political system in.
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Jeff Cruer
Which the people periodically, by majority vote.
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At the polls, select their rulers.
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Jeff Cruer
The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they put please by majority vote among themselves. In a constitutional republic, the people also.
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By majority vote of the poll, select rulers who make laws by majority vote among themselves. But the rulers cannot make any laws.
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Jeff Cruer
They please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.
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Sheriff Richard Mack
The ideal of a democracy is universal equality.
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Jeff Cruer
The ideal of a constitutional republic is individual liberty. In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our.
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Republic and transforming it into a democracy.
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Jeff Cruer
And he goes on to talk more about the differences. But there are differences, and we do not have a democracy in this country. It is a republic. If remember what he said, we can keep it. All right, some other clips we're going to share with you in a bit. We've Also got more great guests joining us, so hang tight. It's the Ringside Politics program right here on Real America's Voice. Rolling on. I'm Jeff Cruier. We'll be right back.
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Jeff Cruer
Hey, we're back. Got some more great guests joining us here on the Ringside Politics program. So the great state of Texas is in the process of redistricting. We're going to have some more Republican seats here. It's been challenged. It's now been approved by the court. And one of the casualties has been Jasmine Crockett. So she's now running for the US Senate from the great state of Texas. That's going to be a crazy campaign. But we've got a gentleman who's running in the 6th district. Brian Stahl is with us, a law enforcement officer. He wants to be the next congressman for that district. And, Brian, how are you, sir? Welcome.
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Jeff Cruer
Tell us a little bit about why you want to do this, my friend. You want to go up to that swamp, that cesspool up in? You want to leave the great people of Texas and go up to that swamp? Tell us about it.
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We do have great people here in Texas. And I think that, you know, we need to have proven leaders in Washington, and we need to start replacing the ones that are filling the swamp. You know, I've been an officer for over 20 years now, and the only way I know how to serve people is by being with the people and for the people and actually providing for them and answering the tough questions and being a part of the community. And I think that's something that we're severely lacking. And I think that a lot of public officials find out that they get to go to D.C. and kind of do what they want and, you know, line their own pockets and please themselves. And that's not how I been, you know, brought up as a public servant. I want to continue my service at a higher level.
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Jeff Cruer
Well, that's good. And we need good people to serve. We need people that want to serve and then go home. We don't need people that are going to stay up there for decades. All right, so let me ask you some questions. Do you agree that we need congressional term limits?
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I do. I think term limits are healthy. I think it's something that seriously needs to be looked at. I don't know what the term limits need to be, but I think some of the biggest problems that we see right now in Washington is the fact that we have these career politicians that have been there for 30, 40 years, and, you know, it's not a true representation of what the people want. And they, they kind of just, they, they coast into their seat every election cycle, and they do never leave. And they never leave, you know, and I think it's healthy to have new blood representing new generations of people.
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Jeff Cruer
And that's what you offer, new blood, new new ideas, and then, you know, we move on to have others. Let me ask you about stock trading by members of Congress. Do you believe that members of Congress should be able to get rich while they're, as a, quote, public servant?
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Absolutely not. You know, I'm definitely not in the public service business to get rich, you know, as a police officer. I don't know any millionaire police officers. And I don't think that Congress should be able to have access to certain things or be able to trade while they're in office, especially if they have access to things that's not open to the public or, you know, considered classified. I think that's something that needs to be heavily looked at. And there's actually a congressman here in Texas that just became a little popular for a little argument that he had with a popular podcaster over the last couple of days over that same issue.
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Jeff Cruer
Let me ask you. So you're running as a Republican, Brian?
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Jeff Cruer
What do you think of the leadership so far in the Republican Congress today?
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You know, I mean, what kind of.
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Jeff Cruer
Job have they done? So we've got about a year of this Republican Congress since President Trump has been in office. And give us, give us your view. How are they doing? And if they're not doing up to what they should be doing. What are you offering to do if you get elected?
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You know, I think first and foremost, President Trump's doing a great job, especially with securing the borders and bringing back justice to our streets. And I know we're feeling it in law enforcement, and we really appreciate the supplementation that he's providing, whether it's with ICE agents or with federal troops. It's something that we welcome with open arms. You know, I think that Congress as a whole, you know, they're doing. They're doing what they can, but I think they could obviously do a little bit more. I think that there's some things that have been brought to light, especially with the healthcare issues, especially with the Epstein files. You know, they're slowly starting to trickle those out. And, you know, there's a lot of people asking a lot of questions about. I get them all the time when I'm out talking to people. You know, they're asking me questions. You know, when are we going to find out what's in the Epstein files or what's the deal with health care? I just spoke to a lady yesterday, and, you know, I didn't know this, but they're starting to cut health care for autism here in Texas. And that's something that, you know, we need to absolutely address because.
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Jeff Cruer
So that was. That was my next question to you. As you go out on the campaign trail and you talk to the voters in your district, I mean, what are the issues they're telling you? What are the top issues that they keep bringing up to you? Brian?
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Mint Mobile Advertiser
Public safety is a big one. You know, since our district is. It's quite large and it embodies the southern portion of the DFW metroplex. So public safety is something that's very big. We want to make sure that our law enforcement agencies are, you know, provided for and supported and that they are able to get federal grants and to. For better training and equipment. And healthcare is something that's really big to them. You know, there's a lot of people that are concerned with the cost of healthcare rising. And, you know, the number one thing that they're asking me is, do you think that illegal immigration has anything to do with it? And the answer is absolutely yes. You know, if we're dumping money into it, into a system that is providing for illegal immigrants to have health care at the cost of our. Of our citizens, I think that's something we need to address.
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Jeff Cruer
Right. All right. And finally, tell us about your district. And in the race, I mean, is there an incumbent in that district and if so, who.
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Mint Mobile Advertiser
Yes, there is an incumbent. His name is Jake Elsey. There's also another gentleman who's running as well. So there's three of us running. And, you know, our district is. Is very unique, I believe, because the southern portion of the district is significantly rural and small towns. That's where I reside. And then the northern portion of our district goes into Fort Worth and Irving and Arlington, where the Dallas Cowboys play, and it brushes right up against Dallas. So we have a little bit of everything. We're very excited about our campaign. It's going extremely well. We have a big team around us that we've built to cover a lot of things, and we're constantly hosting events and attending events, and we're getting out there as much as we can to talk to everybody we can.
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Jeff Cruer
All right, when's the primary, Brian?
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Mint Mobile Advertiser
March 3rd.
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Jeff Cruer
All right, good luck to you, sir. We're going to, we're going to keep on top of this race and follow it very closely in the sixth district of the great state of Texas. Brian, stall with us. Candidate for office, and thank you for your service as a law enforcement officer. We appreciate that. All right, let's shift gears, talk a little bit more about national politics and what's going on up in D.C. he's a Skillman fellow with the Heritage Foundation. The author of the Polarization Myth, Jonathan Butcher, is with us. And hey, Jonathan. How are you? Welcome.
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Jonathan Butcher
I'm doing well. Great to be with you.
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Jeff Cruer
Hey, great to have you. So we're not polarized, Jonathan. We're. We're united. Is that, is that what we need? We're told by the, at least on.
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Jonathan Butcher
Some issues, we're, we're told by the experts that America is polarized beyond repair and that the topics that we discuss at kitchen tables and at the water cooler are all dividing Americans. And the fact is that on some of the most important socio and cultural issues that we see and face around us today, Americans actually agree on the issues. When it comes to boys and girls bathrooms, we don't want those things. When it comes to teaching young people about character and virtue in K12 schools, parents are in favor of those things. When it comes to teaching gender to young children in grades K through 3, we don't want that. So on the important issues, it turns out that Americans are not polarized.
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Jeff Cruer
And that's not the media narrative. Right. So we keep hearing about the country being split, but on a lot of those issues, there is agreement. So are our leaders acting on that agreement?
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Jonathan Butcher
Well, and that's A great question. I think that more could be done to create good public policy based on this widespread agreement that we have on some of these key questions. So, for example, in my survey for the book, I asked if we should teach young people at age appropriate levels to finish high school, enter college, or get a job, enter the workforce, and then get married before you have children, that we should be telling young people these things. And it turns out that among millennials who practiced each of these items, it's called the success sequence, that they were far less likely to wind up in poverty in their 20s and into their 30s. In fact, many of them were at middle class or above. So you could design a policy around this idea and you could say as a school board member or as a state representative, hey, let's teach young people the success sequence when they're in K12 school and there's a constituency of people who agree with them.
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Jeff Cruer
But isn't it that the activists, the donors, the influencers, they have more sway than the average American who might have agreement with his or her fellow American? But, but the, the powerful are sort of influencing policies that are divisive and radical that really hurt the American people in the long run?
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Jonathan Butcher
Well, they might have a louder microphone. And I'll take an example of say, teachers unions, Right. Who are ready made political action committees for, especially for left of center causes. And the reality is, is that Americans realize after Covid that unions were really the organizations responsible for keeping schools closed and keeping students out of school. And so I think that we can counter the narrative that unions push, that they take issues on or take positions on everything from nuclear warfare to Middle east politics to climate related issues, to.
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Jeff Cruer
Issues related to teaching, gender and sexualization issues. Yeah. That are being injected into the classroom that shouldn't be, in my view, with impressionable young people. So in our final minute or so, how do we counteract that? How do we get the voice of the people heard?
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Jonathan Butcher
Well, I think for one, we can be active at our school board meetings to start. But I also think that Americans need to realize that they're not alone when they take very common sense positions on some of these cultural issues and questions. It will show up in the ballot box as well. But I think it's important to recognize that Americans are not as divided on these questions as the media would have us believe. And with that knowledge, I think we can create healthier communities, healthy civic organizations, and be confident that America has not become as radicalized as the, quote, experts would have us think.
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Jeff Cruer
Jonathan, thank you for your Work. And thank you for being with us. Very important topics. You know, some very important topics were discussed the other day in Congress before the Homeland Security Committee. And you had Joe Kent, who is the NCTC director, outlining some very significant threats that the Biden administration caused and allowed into our homeland. And he outlined those. And let's hear a little bit about what Joe Canton had to say. Let's go to clip number seven. Clip number seven, if we can, please.
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Mint Mobile Advertiser
So far, NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come into our country. These are individuals who, under normal circumstances, would never be allowed to enter our country because of their ties to jihadi groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda. Yet the Biden administration not only let them into the country and in many cases, facilitated their entry into the country, just like the entry of the Afghan terrorists who committed the terrorist attack here just before Thanksgiving, killing one of our National Guard members and wounding another. That Afghan was brought into the country as a group of over 100,000 Afghans who were brought here during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. These individuals, despite what has been reported, were not vetted properly to come into the United States.
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Jeff Cruer
Okay, all of these Afghans were allowed in here, and a National Guard service member was killed. But Benny Thompson, a radical Democrat from Mississippi, former chairman of this committee, called that an unfortunate accident, if you can believe that. He also called on Kristi Noem, the Director of Homeland Security, to resign. Let's check out clip and watch Kristi Noem's expression at the very end. Let's go to clip number six. You have systematically dismantled the Department of Homeland Security, put your own interests above the department, and violated the law.
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David Zier
You are making America less safe.
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Jeff Cruer
So rather than sitting here and wasting your time and ours more with more corruption, lies, and lawlessness, I call on you to resign, do a real service to the country and just resign. That is, if President Trump fire you.
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Mint Mobile Advertiser
First, I yield back.
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Jeff Cruer
And of course, she smirked there, as she should have, because the guy's, you know, he's. He's crazy and he's a disgrace. Now, when she left the hearing, she was surrounded by crazed protesters carrying her grandbaby. She was embracing a gold star mother. And these protesters wouldn't ever have any kind of peace. These are the kind of people that we're up against here in New Orleans. When ICE tries to do their work all over the country, the left is unhinged. Let's check out clip number five.
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Mint Mobile Advertiser
You cannot use a baby as a.
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Jeff Cruer
Family girl while you take Away the rights of family.
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Mint Mobile Advertiser
How dare you. How dare you. How dare you.
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Jeff Cruer
And she had the composure to warmly greet that gold star mother. So kudos to Kristi Noem and that lovely lady. And you know these protesters, they're the ones that should be ashamed of themselves for the way they act. A lot more to get to as we roll on. It's ringside politics right here on Real America's Voice. We'll be right back.
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Jeff Cruer
Ringside Politics. We report the news to you up front. Ringside politics, politics with the blind. Crystal clear. Ringside politics with your host, Jeff Crew. Air. All right, everybody is out there shopping for Christmas and I've got a better way, folks, so you don't have to fight the crowds. How about having everything delivered to the comfort of your home? We've got our expert joining us. She's a senior director with switch, the number two. USA.com Maria Lynn is with us in her beautiful home with her beautiful Christmas decorations. Hey, Maria, how are you? Welcome.
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Maria Lynn
Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you all of the viewers. I'm excited to be here and I'm excited that it's, it's beautiful Christmas.
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Jeff Cruer
Yes. So Christmas is a time when people get stressed out. Why get stressed out? Let's just have everything delivered to the comfort of your home, right?
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Maria Lynn
Absolutely. We are with a world class American manufacturer and they make everything for American consumption right here on US soil. So what better idea is to shop and lead by example? We have everything that every family could ever need or want and uses every single day. It's just a better, better ingredients and it's all non toxic.
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Jeff Cruer
So you've got American products made by American workers, American company. So we keep the money in America. You can shop from the comfort of your home, it's delivered to your house. And we're in an affordability crisis. That's what the experts tell us. People are worried about prices. How are the prices of your many products that you have@switchtousa.com Are they competitive?
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Maria Lynn
Maria, they're more than competitive. So when you come in and you shop as a member, membership is under $20 for the next 12 months, right? So it's for the annual, you know, annually, what you get is a 45 to 47% discount site wide. There's 500 different products at the site. And so I like to say that if, if you have hair, skin, nails, teeth, there is something here for everyone in your family, including yourself. And so membership is affordable. But what I would like to stress here is that you cannot and I cannot afford to not shop here. Why? Because it's all non toxic. I'd like to say that I can, we can't really control the air, the skin, the, the air, the water that that is outside it comes into our house. But we can control the products that we decide to buy and we can decide to stop giving our money to people that do not share our agenda. And this company has world class products, so it's a no brainer. We can't afford not to shop.
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Jeff Cruer
All right, so we'll review great prices, healthy products, American made, American owned, American employees. And as you say, instead of us dumping money in big box retailers with woke values or buying products made by Chinese slave labor going to the Communist Party of China, our foremost enemy, let's keep the money in America, right? Isn't that what President Trump's trying to do, Maria?
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Maria Lynn
Absolutely. We've been doing it for over 40 years right now. And I'm proud to say that this company shares our, our Make America Great Again for the last 40 years. So they're at the forefront. And I think that everyone that's watching today can afford to at least come in, try us out. You have nothing to lose. It's risk free and I think you're going to love the products.
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Jeff Cruer
All right, so you just go to the website. Is that the best way? Maria, switch to USA.com?
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Maria Lynn
Yes, please do that. And I received recently a letter from the White House congratulating all of us for what we're doing here and helping Americans point the finger to an American manufacturer. And they're very happy with what we've been doing so far.
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Jeff Cruer
I shared that letter well, we're happy. We're. We're happy with you, too, Maria. And thank you so much. Merry Christmas to you and the. The great team over@switchtousa.com and, folks, check it out. Save yourself some money. Save yourself some hassle, and how about keep the money right here in the good old US of A. Thank you. That's Maria Lynn with us. All right, let's share one more clip, and then we've got some memes to share with you guys. So we had a Kentucky state representative, this woman, all upset because she's white and she feels ashamed because she's white. Let's check out clip number two.
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Jeff Cruer
Every day for a lot of reasons.
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Jeff Cruer
In a way that so many of.
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My other colleagues and friends and family.
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Jeff Cruer
Members of the community don't get the privilege to do.
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Jeff Cruer
Okay, I'm sorry. You're. You're also a not very smart white woman, sort of an idiotic white woman. And that's a shame. That's really embarrassing. But, yeah, that's what some of these liberal Democrat women believe, and it's really scary. All right, let's share with you our video clip of the week, brought to you by. My wife sent this to me, Mimi, and Metairie. She thought this was fun. So let's check this out. It's called Bourbon Street Gravy. Don't be careful when you're walking down Bourbon street in New Orleans. Let's go to our video clip of the week. Oh, my God, Save me from Bourbon street gravy. Don't let it get on my toes that are exposed. Hell no. Please save me, Save me from that Bourbon street gravy. Open toe, flip flops, wear them cross. You better not. Mutters, peep, puke, alcoholics. Got it all. Step in and you can't hand. Never wear a freaking sandal. Be careful on Bourbon street, that's for sure. All right, let's check out some of the memes we've got for you. The first one, brought to you by our good friend Sandy in Minnesota. Yes, indeed. So that is. That's a good one. Thank you, Ms. Sandy. Our second one, brought to you by our friend Mick in the great state of Texas and a little Christmas cheer there for Doge. Yeah, I hope we see more of Doge. Mick. Thank you for that one. Our next one is brought to you by our friend Susan in the great state of California. Another Tim Walls inspired one. Hear no fraud, see no fraud. And I think we've got our one coming from our great RAV staff here in the great town of Denver. There you go. So another good one from our real America's Voice staff. So all right, I want to thank our great staff for the awesome job they do in Denver, for helping what we feel is a great program and producing it every week with us, sharing with you our great viewers. Be sure to check me out on the radio during the week and that is at ringside politics on WGSO, wgso.com 7 to 9 in the morning and 6 to 7 in the evening. Don't forget to go to our website folks, and that is Crewair.net and take our web poll all about MAGA and President Trump. Love to get your view on that. And the President has truthed about the serious situation that we discussed on this program. So check that out online as well. So a big thank you to all of you for joining us right here on Ringside Politics on Real America's Voice. We look forward to seeing you right back here next Saturday. Have a great week everyone, and we'll see you later.
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