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Jeff Cruer
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Marlon Marachi
Jump in the ring with Jeff Cruar as he squares off against the liberal.
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Jeff Cruer
Media in Ringside Politics. His blow by blow analysis will keep you up to speed with what's happening in our nation and around the world.
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Dan Doyle
The world.
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Jeff Cruer
This is politics with a punch. Ringside Politics with Jeff C. Starts now. Good day, everyone. Jeff Carrera here. It's Ringside Politics on Real America's Voice. A happy Valentine's Day to everyone and an early happy President's Day and of course, an early happy Marty Gr. We got a lot to get to here today, of course, great guests joining us, interesting clips, lots of topics we've got. So get ready. We want to thank our friends joining US on Pluto TV, channel 240, Dish Network, channel 219, the Roku channel, Roku Vizio, all platforms associated with the Real America's Voice app, AmericasVoice News, Samsung TV Plus, Channel 1175, Freecast Channel 106, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and our friends online on Getter and True Social. Welcome aboard. Glad to have you. Hey, you know, when we had the election stolen from us in 2020, we got busy here on ringside, created our own program and launched it nationwide. Lots of people are involved and we're still excited about it. It's called Project Keep the Republic and 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, not a democracy if you can keep it. Not a monarchy if you can keep it, but 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 we're never quitting, folks. Organizing groups across the country based on the days of the week, morning prayers Monday, release the crack in Tuesday, Sheepdog Wednesday, take Triumph Thursday, and our favorite fraud busters Friday. So how do you get started? Just small, two or more people you can gather from friends, family, neighbors, co workers or classmates. And as you get bigger, send me your photos and videos to Jeff. My email address@wgso.com we'll share them with our friends, include a short description of the group and the action depicted. Now, if you want a copy of the slides of our overall plan or our detailed Sheepdog organizational plan, you can just email me@jeffgso.com or just go on my website. My last name Crewair.net download it from there. It's easy. We got other great information@career.net I think you'll enjoy. Petition for the immediate resignation of Rhino Senator Bill Cassidy, who's running for reelection. Note and I think some photos from President Trump I think you'll enjoy. All right. I just posted a new video up there. I'd love for you to watch it, share it like it it's called the Trump tax cuts and the Trump rebate checks will solve the affordability crisis. That's going to be done after the one big beautiful bill and this money starts flowing to Americans. By the way, information about my book America's Last Chance, working on the the new one. We'll have that done soon. Also on the website Crewair.net we've got a countdown clock to the most important midterm in our history. It's getting ever closer, folks. It's a sense of urgency. Subscribe to a new podcast on there on the Air with Jeff Crew Air ranked number two in the great state of Louisiana. Also, you can sign up for our free newsletter. Love to have you do that right there on the website. And I'd love for you to take our poll question. We put it up periodically. We're going to keep this one up for a few more days. And, and here's what I'd like you to vote on. You know, Iran is facing his biggest protests in 47 years of the Islamic regime. What should be the US response now? We got six different responses on there leading in the poll right now is it's none of our business. So all the way from the military to the CIA to Israel. So log on crewair.netc r o u e r e.net and cast your vote. You can contact me there. There's a feedback form. You can also email me@jeffgfshow.com how about following us on social media? We're on Gab Getter X and True Social at jeffcruer and on Facebook at Ringside Politics. Every time we gather, we share our favorite pro Trump image of the week. And this one is a little bit maga, not exact, not exactly Trump. But hey, Trump is maga. I don't date maga. I don't think a lot of MAGA want to date her. But there you go. In case you wanted to. The mask says it all right there, right?
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Jim Renaissi
Unbelievable.
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Jeff Cruer
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And the best news is it doesn't cost you a penny out of your pocket. You got to love it. So let's get started. Text America to 989-898, get a free info kit. Text America to 989-898- get a free info kit and protect your savings today. All right, let's check out some of these hot topics that we're following right here. Okay. Two weeks in and the Nancy Guthrie case continues. The mainstream media is glued to this case. I mean, every development, the glove, the DNA. They've detained people. No one has been arrested. 30,000 leads came in after they posted the video of the, the camera on the front porch, the ring cam. You had all kinds of different potential leads. Ransom notes, bitcoin demands. And we're still in the same situation, waiting for news of her rescue, apprehension of the kidnappers, praying for her safe return to her family, questions about the FBI and local law enforcement, all kinds of different snafus that have occurred. And we'll talk to an expert about this later on in the program. ICE declares victory and leaves Minneapolis. So this is after 3,000 agents were initially there. Lots of dangerous felons were arrested. 3,000 missing children were found, which I think is a tremendous accomplishment. And the agents will be redeployed into other areas across the country. The deportations continue. This is what the Democrats need to get through their heads. This is going to continue because we, the American people, voted for this by voting for Donald Trump. This is called the will of the people. This is called what Barack Obama said. Elections have consequences. If you want to stop this, if you want open borders, get a Democrat elected and hopefully next time it'll be legally, not fraudulently and hopefully that won't happen because we can't afford another Democrat in many ways. This week AG Pam Bondi had fireworks in the Congress before the House Judiciary Committee. It was knockdown, drag out. Uh, you had bombs being thrown on all sides. Uh, she was tough, she gave some tough responses. She uh, held up to him. President Trump said she was fantastic. I thought she showed a lot of guts uh taking on some of these people and firing back at em and she had zingers for a good number of them. And of course this all revolves around Epstein. Epstein file revelations have worldwide implications. You got resignations in Norway, you got resignations in the uk. Will there be a resignation here about Howard Lutnick? Who knows? There was a resignation from Goldman Sachs, former Clinton attorney caught up in all this mess. So there could be more, there could be more revelations. This guy was most connected guy in the world. This guy was all over the world doing all kinds of things. And it just shows you what the elite do. And it's sort of a very disturbing picture. It paints something positive this week the EPA now removing Obama era vehicle admission standards so we can drive a car without the stupid start stop emission standards. All this climate change nonsense that Obama pushed through. This is great news for vehicle manufacturers. The the price of these vehicles can come down. It's good news for consumers. We're getting away from the climate hoax. We're getting away from all these so called green policies. Let the market determine if there's a market for this. The customers will demand can't be forced by government. That's not how it works. Good news is this president instituted tariffs and everyone said inflation was going to soar. No it didn't. In the last month inflation dropped to 2.4%. That is affordability ladies and gentlemen. Affordability is 2.4% inflation. Wages are above inflation. That means you have more take home pay. You can pay down your debt, you can save that money, you can buy gold and you can invest in what you want to invest in. Government shutdown again. We're in the midst of another one. Hurting dhs, hurting tsa, hurting fema. These workers will be working without paychecks. ICE is fully funded so they hate ice. But ICE is not impacted by this. This is a Democrats obsession. They're anti ice, foaming at the mouth, their tds, their crazed lunacy. So this is going to be going on for who knows how long. Of course the Congress is on another vacation any do these guys ever work I mean, they were up there for two days. They get off for eight days. They're working a few hours. I mean, what a job. You go in worth about $12,000 and you come out worth tens of millions and you barely work. The Save America act which should be done. Get rid of the filibuster, Pass the Save America act in the Senate. The Democrats are going to get rid of it when they take power. Get rid of it now, get all this legislation through. These Republican senators are driving me crazy. I mean the House Republicans aren't much better, but the Save America act has passed the House and needs to pass the Senate. This has got to be done for election integr. These senators have gotta get rid of this thing. The Democrats have talked about doing it. They're gonna do it. Manchin and Cinema are gone. They're gonna do it the next time they take up power. Republicans need to do it now and pass it. And finally, I don't know if you are as sick as I am of these Olympic athletes bashing America. How about the one who is getting paid millions to ski for China? She turns out to be Eileen Goo, turns out to be an American born American educated athlete, but paid off to represent China and bash America at the same time. That is disturbing. We need athletes are going to love this country, be proud of this country, compliment this country when they go overseas to compete. I'm tired of the criticism of the greatest country on earth. We got a lot to get to as we roll on. Let's take care of some business. Keep it right here on Ringside politics on Real America's Voice. Jeff career with you. We'll be right back. So the world is talking about the Nancy Guthrie case and we've got an expert on to get give us his viewpoint as to what's happening. Marlon Marachi is a retired Los Angeles Police department sergeant. And Marlon, how are you? Welcome to the program.
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Marlon Marachi
Thank you for having me, man, I really appreciate it.
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Jeff Cruer
Yeah, thank you so much for being with us. And you know, this has been 14 days, so it has been non stop media speculation and coverage. You know, the reporters outside the home, the sister's home, you know, the drones, the, you know, the TMZ ransom demands, the, the, the detaining of people, but no arrests. Last night, three detained. Marlon, give us your overview. What's going on here?
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Marlon Marachi
Well, what you also forgot to mention is that I think every hour on the hour, the main, main, muted main media news outlets say, hey, the SWAT vehicle, you know, SWAT officers have taken off and the Mobile command center has also taken off and they haven't returned in four hours. What I will say is, is that let's stick to real good, solid facts about this kidnapping, abduction. And my heart goes out to, to the Guthrie family first and foremost. And of course you and I can agree the ultimate goal is to make sure she makes her home safe. But we are really spending a lot of time doing this play by play announcement of something. To this very day, we still don't have a suspect. So let's just start there.
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Jeff Cruer
So let, let's. Let's talk about, if we could, first, the relationship between the local law enforcement and the FBI. Much has been made about there's not a good relationship. Sheriff says, hey, you know, I do the news conferences. The FBI is behind me. We got a good relationship. Many have been critical of the sheriff. He went to a ball game. You know, the. The site wasn't secured for very long. You know, pool guy's been going through there. So is that legitimate criticism, Marlon?
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Marlon Marachi
100%. I've been saying this since the beginning of all these sound bits that I've been doing for, for different outlets. What I have been saying is that if you pull the curtains back, there has been a power struggle. And what I mean by that is anytime that you have a multi. Jurisdictional, multifunctional operation, you have to know who's going to take lead on this. And as you can see, in the beginning, the sheriff did a couple of press conferences that really didn't have some really good facts or to tell the media and the community that this is what's going on. And that seems to be a problem. The FBI, you and I can agree, has all the necessary tools and equipment, resources and manpower to conduct what I consider a no stone goes unturned, right? Full blown investigation. We got to get out there and let us do our job. But maybe sometimes egos get in the way. Hey, I'm the sheriff. This is my town. This is my community. I'm going to be the one that's going to inform the public about this major sensationalized, national and probably international kidnapping case.
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Jeff Cruer
You know, they were. And you know, the FBI, you've had some good and bad leadership in the past. You've had some good and bad actors in the past. They've done some good and bad things in the past. I'm hoping now we got good leadership and it's going to be doing all the right things. It took them five years to figure out who the J6 pipe bomber was. And he had all kind of video on that. So now there people are saying, okay, we got the video from the ring cam on this guy. We should be able to figure out who he is. It's not that easy, is it, Marlon?
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Marlon Marachi
No, it's not. As a matter of fact, that video, ring camera, surveillance camera, I should say that is what I would like to say. It's what got the party started. Now we have actual a lead. We have a direction for us to actually go. So that took close to 10 days. What I will say is that, look, the FBI is very good at what they do. They have all the experts, they have all the manpower. And the contradicting theme here in this particular case is that time is of the essence. We need to make sure that Mrs. Guthrie makes it home safe. But at the same time, for every time that you get a lead or every time you get a piece of evidence, it takes time to process. And that's the reality of it.
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Jeff Cruer
So, you know, they found a glove supposedly sent to a DNA lab. There was. Sheriff said there was some DNA in the house sent to the DNA lab that I guess they use in Florida. Some are critical. It should have been sent to Quantico. Does that delay things, Marlon?
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Jim Renaissi
No.
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Marlon Marachi
Look, I'm not much of a DNA expert, but what I can tell you is that it's been processed. It's going to get processed. You have all these systems by which you could determine, depending on the actual evidence of the glove, whether there is going to be able to get some proof, some fingerprints out of it, and who knows? But it takes time. And again, it's nothing that you can do overnight. It's not a CSI or any other TV show that you can sit there and go, you know what? Oh my God, we got the glove. 24 hours later, we know who that person is. So again, right, let's be patient and make sure that the FBI is conducting a full blown investigation.
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Jeff Cruer
So they have to track down supposedly the. The.
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Jim Renaissi
The.
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Jeff Cruer
The guy was wearing a backpack, mask, clothing that he bought at Walmart, possibly. And they're checking, I guess, with the Walmart stores and seeing if they could track down who did that. And just going at it from every angle. Is there anything that they're not doing that they should be doing? Marlon?
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Marlon Marachi
Good question. Nothing that I can think of that comes to mind. But what I will say that, yes, we're overwhelmed by the play by play announcement and giving it color. I don't necessarily think that having colorful announcers equates to actual evidence. Look, we got the video Surveillance camera. That's good. Now we're going in the right direction. Hey, we're going to saturate this area and really conduct a major search and effort to get and gain and find more evidence. That's really good information. Hey, we got the glove. You know what? We just conducted a traffic stop. We, you know, we detained these particular individuals and we impounded this vehicle. So now you have concrete facts that's going to lead you to hopefully the apprehension of. Of the suspect. So I can't think of anything that was. They're not doing. Sorry.
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Jeff Cruer
What was going on with the three people detained, but they weren't arrested. What, what do you think that could be all about?
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Marlon Marachi
Be the fact that there's pro. Definitely reasonable suspicion to believe that they could have been involved in somewhat of this criminal act or maybe there will be involved in this criminal act. Right. So crime is upfoot is the way we were taught definitely back in the my academy days.
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Jim Renaissi
Right.
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Jeff Cruer
Two, Two final questions for you, Marlin. All your experience. Is this lady still alive in your view?
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Marlon Marachi
Gosh, good question. I've been in critical incidents. I haven't really investigated many kidnapping cases. But I will say. Is that my. I. Yes, I would like to think that she's still alive.
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Jeff Cruer
And do you think she's being held in this country or in Mexico or a foreign country?
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Marlon Marachi
Oh, no, that. But let me add, Let me add this. Is that anytime that you send ransom notes, and by the way, you know, sending the tmz, no offense to them, but media outlets doesn't seem like a sophisticated type of group of suspects.
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Jeff Cruer
Right.
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Marlon Marachi
If you will. Or maybe just a suspect. But what I will tell you is that anytime that you do have some. That element of a ransom, it just makes you believe that she's still alive.
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Jeff Cruer
And also the, you know, the bungling of the guy at the ring cam and it looked like he didn't know what he was doing. It didn't look like a sophisticated actor to me. Would you agree with that? I mean, very amateur.
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Marlon Marachi
Very, very.
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Jeff Cruer
But then again, we're.
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Jim Renaissi
We're.
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Jeff Cruer
We're two weeks out and he hadn't been caught. So I mean, something is very awkward, very bizarre. Strange.
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Marlon Marachi
The fact. And it's very, very strange. And here's the deal. Anytime that you're dealing with, we just don't know. These are very difficult cases to report about. Right. And to let the public know because we just don't know. We don't even know what happened inside the house, which is very important.
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Jeff Cruer
Prayers are. Prayers are still with the family. Thank you so much, Marlon. Appreciate your time, your expertise on this very important issue. So, Marlon, sounds smart. Did AOC sound smart in talking at the Munich summit? She's what test? You know, testing out a presidential run, Senate run. Let's check out clip number one. Would and should the US Actually commit.
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Marlon Marachi
US troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
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Jim Renaissi
You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is of course.
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Jeff Cruer
A very long standing.
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Jim Renaissi
Policy of the United States. And I think what we are hoping.
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Jeff Cruer
For is that we want to make.
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Jim Renaissi
Sure that we never get to that point and we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for.
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Jeff Cruer
That question to even arise. Okay. The thought of her in higher office is scary. Not ready for prime time amateur hour, you know? Huh? You know? No, no. One guy who is smart is Eric Schmidt. He's the senator from the great state of Missouri talking about these deportations. They're going to continue. Let's check out clip number two. So I don't know when, you know, I guess we'll be back here in a week or something, but the reality.
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Jim Renaissi
Is not going to change.
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Jeff Cruer
No matter how much Chuck Schumer tries.
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Jim Renaissi
To villainize ICE agents, no matter how.
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Jeff Cruer
Many times I hear my colleagues from the other side try to stir up people, it will not change this very basic reality. We have front loaded money for deportations and those deportations will continue and there's nothing you can do about it. Now. If you want to make a proposal to stop that, put it on the floor. You'll lose. Another senator who was fired up is Ron Johnson from the great state of Wisconsin taking on socialist, communist, radical Islamist, Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota. Let's check out clip number three. I can't imagine being a law enforcement official where I know my colleagues have been shot at, their vehicles rammed, that they're trained activists deployed.
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Jim Renaissi
And by the way, we know at.
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Jeff Cruer
Least one of those activists had a semiautomatic pistol with extra clips. So now you're an ICE officer, you're doing enforcement action. You've got a team behind you trying to protect you. You've got all these trained activists behind you.
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Marlon Marachi
Is it any wonder they're at hair trigger alert? A tragedy was going to happen and you encouraged it.
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Jeff Cruer
And you ought to feel damn guilty about it.
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Marlon Marachi
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Jeff Cruer
All right, tell it like it is, Senator. Quick time out. More ringside politics coming your way right here. On Real America's Voice. We'll be back. Foreign. Folks, we see a lot of these protests in places like Minneapolis and other cities where the. The protesters that seem to be the most vocal, the most angry, are liberal women. And I want to delve into that with a real expert. She's a columnist, she's a TV star. She's the author of Real Men don't go woke up. Dr. Gilda Carle is with us. Dr. Gilda, how are you? Welcome.
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Dr. Gilda Carle
Are you. It's such a pleasure to talk to you today.
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Jeff Cruer
Yes, well, thanks so much for your time. There seems to be now memes and, you know, you have the quote, unquote Karens now. There seems to be a lot of focus on these liberal women that are angry, that are at these events, that are sort of leading these protests. What's going on here? Are you sensing something that seems to be changing in the progressive movement here? Here?
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Dr. Gilda Carle
We have never seen such a conglomeration of white woke women ever in our society. Suddenly they have taken the reins and they have decided that what they say goes. They do not like men, they do not like marriage, they do not like families, and they punctuate every curse word with the word racist. So these are the women who. Who are saying horrible, awful things about anybody who doesn't agree with them, including, by the way, Taylor Swift, who was one of them once. And then all of a sudden, she had the audacity to write lyrics that said, I love you, I want to marry you, and I want to have children who look like you. Heaven, heaven to be. Oh, my gosh, that can't happen. Here is this man who is white, and she said she wants to have children who want to live, who want to look like him. And the white woke women said one in particular came out and called her a racist because she wants to spread the white gene. I mean, so.
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Jeff Cruer
Dr.
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Dr. Gilda Carle
Absolutely ridiculous.
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Jeff Cruer
Dr. Gilda, how did all this. How did. How are these folks, I guess, socialized, educated? How did they get this way? How did we. Is this an offspring of the sexual revolution or. It just seems to me that this is so counterproductive, harmful to our society continuing. If you have these kinds of attitudes, these prevalent attitudes, and I think you're 100% right. I think it's very disturbing.
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Dr. Gilda Carle
It's very disturbing. It's very harmful. We know that the birth rate has gone down, and that's in large part thanks to these women. And it's so interesting. The younger women, who are about 30 and younger, have been shown to have greater mental health issues than other sectors of women. These are women who are angry. They are more angry than they have ever been. It started, do you remember the old now National Organization for Women? They had some legitimate gripes. After all, they couldn't get a credit card in their name. Years before that, they couldn't vote. I mean, they have been fighting, but what has happened was all of a sudden they went crazy. And who did they pick on?
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Marlon Marachi
Men.
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Dr. Gilda Carle
And so we are seeing. And that's why I wrote this book, Real Men Don't Go Woke. I wrote that because we are seeing men committing suicide four times greater the rate than women.
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Jeff Cruer
Let's delve into that. Because to me, the psychosis we're seeing is among women. It seems like to me, men are going to church more. I'm hearing reports there, you know, young men are more conservative, voting more Republican than their, you know, female counterparts. So why is it that men are experiencing higher rates of suicide?
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Dr. Gilda Carle
Great question, because I know you. This sounds unbelievable, but all the research tells us that men want relationships more desperately than women do. Relationships are more important to them than they are to women. So they don't want to come in the crosshairs of these angry women. They open their mouth and they are put down. They are cut off, they are canceled. They want to keep their jobs, they want to keep their relationships. And so they remain silent. And, you know, in. When you're having issues, you can either act something out and get into trouble, like P. Diddy, or you can act something in, internalize it, and you hold it. And every once in a while, the champagne bottle, the cork pops and they go crazy like Will Smith during the famous slap. So if they internalize things and they don't have an outlet, they just take it to heart. And they are. Not only are the men committing suicide more frequently than we have ever had, and even President Trump talked about this, young boys are committing suicide now, and this cannot go on.
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Jeff Cruer
And we're going to continue this discussion with you, Dr. Gilda. It's so important. We need to make sure that boys can be boys. Right? I mean, so many times in school they. They prevent boys from acting like boys. And, you know, all this going. Right, right. And I think that creates issues. You're the doctor, but that creates issues that I think then materialize later. So there's so much, and you're doing such important work to stand up for for boys and men. And I appreciate that so much. We'll have you back. Dr. Gil, thank you so much for being with us. And thank you for your, for your work. All right, we're going to shift gears a little bit and talk about another issue of extreme importance, and that is what's going on in Washington. We got to shut down. And let's bring on an expert. He served up there for eight years. Jim Renaissi is with us, and he can shed some light on why we're shutting down all the time and why they're always going on vacation. The former congressman is with us. Hey, Jim. How are you, sir? Welcome.
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Jim Renaissi
I'm good. Thank you for having me.
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Jeff Cruer
Thank you for joining us. So are you surprised we've got another shutdown? This is now several departments involved. It's not all of government, but it just seems like we can't get any kind of traction with these two parties at odds.
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Jim Renaissi
No, I'm not. And, you know, it's surprising because when I was there, I always remember, look, we stayed over New Year's Eve one time just to make sure we were all in town in case there was negotiations to open the government back up. Now it's become so easy. Everybody leaves. They're gone. They're gone for over a week. They're not even talking about the shutdown. And they're going to blame each other. It's sad because it's political. It's politics as usual in Washington.
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Jeff Cruer
You were there during some tumultuous years, right? I mean, it's always tumultuous. It seems you were there during the first part of the, the Trump term. It, it just seems like there's a lot of Trump derangement syndrome going on here. I would not be surprised if Democrats, if they take control, you know, impeach President Trump again. I remember the good old days of Reagan when he used to break bread with Tip o' Neill and you'd get stuff done, and there seemed to be sort of a cooperation between Clinton and Gingrich. They got things done. There was a budget surplus. Those days are long gone, right?
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Jim Renaissi
Well, absolutely. And I gotta tell you, even when I served all the way up through 2019, it was still okay to sit down and break bread with Democrats, although you were a little bit frowned on. Now you can't even be in the same room. You can't get anywhere near each other. That's a real problem, because quite frankly, to get things done, especially in the Senate, you gotta have the minority party at least willing to sit down with you. And we've lost that in the Senate and in the House, it's pretty much squared off 50, 50 and if you cross the line and you're a Republican, you get stomped on by the President, the Democrats. It's always easy when you're in the minority. I remember the first thing I heard and learned. When you're in the minority, you just vote no. You just stay together and vote no. You make the majority party do the work.
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Jeff Cruer
You know, it seems like to me, you're the expert. The Democrats are more united than Republicans. I mean, Pelosi used to get all these Democrats behind her and seemed like they were always united no matter what. But they don't have that Blue Dog coalition anymore. Right. I mean, there used to be a significant moderate coalition of Democrats. I think those days are gone. I think there's one guy, Jim Fetterman, John Fetterman, that could be the only moderate left. What happened to the moderate Democrats, Congressman?
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Jim Renaissi
Well, you're exactly right. The moderate Democrats were all removed from Washington. They all lost their seats. The far left went into those districts, got them removed. Quite frankly, there's a lot of. There was a lot of that going on that eliminated them. Now, on the Republican side, you know, there's still some moderates, and they kind of keep their mouth shut. They're a little bit more quieter, but they are the majority makers, no matter what anybody Sundays. There's probably 15 seats that were won by members of the Republican Party that Trump did not win, and those 15 might be 10. It might even be, you know, 10, 12, whatever the number is. Those people have serious problems coming up this November because, you know, there is a push to remove them as well, and it's going to be interesting to see what happens.
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Jeff Cruer
Congressman, you've tweeted a good bit about Epstein. Is that going to be an issue that harms the Republicans? Because there's a lot of division going on about these Epstein file revelations.
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Jim Renaissi
Well, what's interesting about Epstein, look, President Trump ran on it in 2024. He talked about it. He said he was going to open everything up. He said he was going to bring transparency to anybody that was involved. And his staff came out in the beginning and said, yes, we're going to do it. And now all of a sudden, yes, there's a lot that's been released, but a lot of it's covered, you know, redacted, and there's still pages that aren't being released. So the problem is, and I just saw this, I mean, it is the number one issue on social media above the Olympics right now. So it's not going away. And I think the President has to realize that and realize that if he doesn't just rip the band aid and send all the information out, this is going to go along all the way through until November.
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Jeff Cruer
So even with 3 million files released, even with all the disclosure, you think they need to do more as far as getting rid of these redactions? So we've only got about 30 seconds, but if you were recommending a course of action to the president and the DOJ Congressman, what would it be?
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Jim Renaissi
Well, the problem is I don't know what is all in there. It sounds like there's some damaging stuff for a lot of people, not President Trump, but a lot of people. And I think there's some protection that is trying, there's some control trying to be done here. But I think it's too late. I do think you got to start opening up the bandits band aids and you got to let this all open to the air and let the chips fall because it's not going to go away.
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Jeff Cruer
Congressman, thank you so much for being with us. Jim Renaissi adding some perspective on what has really changed over the years from when he served and many others served. A very volatile environment up there in Congress. And he used to be working during the holidays. They take holidays all the time now. So we talked about what could be a problem with voting. Here's a county sheriff, San Joaquin county sheriff, talking about people voting from not even in the country. Let's check out clip number four. The way the voting system is structured, we see quite a few flaws. You're able to register even if and cast a vote if you don't live in the country. As evident of his brother in Pakistan. I think we have some evidence of two or three other people out of the country that are voted. Is that correct?
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Jim Renaissi
Yeah, approximately two or three other people out of the country as well as people residing outside of the district.
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Jeff Cruer
The online voter registration system, it seems to be an honor system. Anybody can put information in there to register to vote. All you have to do is click a box and say that you're not lying. And then you'll get an email from the secretary of state or something in the mail saying thank you for registering to vote. And there you are. Once you're on the voter rolls, anytime an election comes around, guess what, you get mailed a ballot, right? You get mailed something to vote. So we found that a little bit problematic. And finally we got some good news. Some areas maybe that are, you know, very Democrat could be turning around. There's, you know, a flip Chicago Red movement going on now there's a Flip Philly movement going on. Want to flip it Red? Let's check out clip number five. I'm with a grassroots organization called Flip Philly Red. We're here to give something different to Philadelphia, something that you are not used to because you've been voting Democrat for the mayor's office for the past 70 years.
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Dan Doyle
It's not Maga who's doing all of the carjacking and the shootings.
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Jeff Cruer
When we talk about ICE, 78 million people, seven swing states, including Pennsylvania. We voted for this. We voted for this. We gave a mandate. He's exactly right. We voted for it. So they're doing what the people want and that is following through on the president's agenda. All right, we got a lot to get to in our final segment. Hang on. More Ringside Politics coming your way. We'll be right back.
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Jim Renaissi
Ringside Politics Politics with the Flingside Politics analysis.
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Jeff Cruer
Make crystal clear Ringside Politics with your host, Jeff Crew. Air. Guest joins us. Want to talk a little bit about energy and that fuels the economy, right? We're talking about the economy on the upswing. And a part of it is energy. Energy costs are down big time under President Trump. Well, let's bring on a guest who's president of Reliance well Services. He's also the author of Of Roughnecks and Riches. Sounds like a great title. Can't wait to read it. Dan Doyle is with us and, and the book talks a lot about the fracking revolution and. Hey, Dan, how are you? Welcome.
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Dan Doyle
Good, Jeff, thanks for having me.
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Jeff Cruer
Appreciate it. Thank you. So tell us how fracking was such a revolution in the oil and gas industry.
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Dan Doyle
Well, fracking has been around for nearly 80 years, you know, back in Oklahoma, back late, late 40s. But what, where it came to national attention was with the advent of shale fracking. And that was such a game changer. Very quickly it allowed us to drill down into a formation that held oil and gas that might be 40ft thick. In the old days, you could only pull out of that 40ft. It was a vertical well bore. But now with horizontal drilling, you could turn sideways and drill through that, that 40 foot thick formation for miles, 2, 3, 4 miles. Now, even so, you expose so much more the formation to a single well bore and you just got these incredibly prolific wells because of it. So that came about with down in the Barnett Shale outside of Dallas and then made its way up into the Marcellus Shale around, you know, 2004, I think was the first, first one, but really started picking up steam about about 2008, 2009.
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Jeff Cruer
So this has really given us access to so many more resources. Right? I mean, so, so we're now going to have enough oil and gas for how long, Dan?
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Dan Doyle
Well, just a long time. We keep finding it. And truthfully, you know, in a gas formation like the Marcellus or, you know, the Haynesville, the Barnett, you get a lot of the resource out, but for oil, you know, you're only getting a small fraction of the oil out. And so there's a lot of innovation underway to get more of that oil out of the ground and gas. And so I think the next wave of, of, of extraction is going to come through kind of tertiary or remedial means to extract more from the same well bores. So I, it's hard to say, you know, 100 years more, you know. You know, we're shipping a lot of our natural gas overseas now as LNG through terminals down primarily in the Gulf Coast. So, you know, that's drawing down some of the America's reserves, North American reserves. But, but there's a lot. There's plenty. And we're, it's a big.
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Jeff Cruer
So we don't need, we don't need solar and wind. We don't need to be pushing electric vehicles, do we? I mean, that seems to me to be sort of counterproductive and expensive when we have all of these resources now available to us.
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Dan Doyle
Well, you know, it's so expensive and again, you know, it's, it hasn't really moved the needle. As much money that has gone into renewables. They're still, you know, a small fraction of a small percent of what we, of what we use. So EVs are expensive. They use batteries, batteries to manufacture them. They're highly toxic, highly toxic acid rain from the smelting required. So yeah, it's, it's not really necessary. I mean, where it works. Sure, let it, let it, let's do it where it works. But it doesn't work everywhere. And to be told that it does.
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Jeff Cruer
Is, is, is really disingenuous of roughnecks and riches. I mean, that's just what a, what a title. And that to me says it all right there. And that's an all American story. Dan Doyle, thank you so much for sharing that with us. Thank you for being with us. Continued best wishes to you. And I think we need to continue to, you know, push this industry and, you know, try to make things economically feasible for Americans as opposed to this green agenda, which is so expensive and so unneeded now. All right, one More clip we've got for you here. This is the President calling out Bad Bunny. He's still upset about Bad Bunny's performance last Sunday. Let's check out clip number six.
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Marlon Marachi
This is your favorite President and this message is for Bad Bunny, or as I call him, the Nasty Rabbit, El Canejo desa Grandabole. He's a nasty rabbit and a stupid rabbit. Anytime you see a guy in a dress, that's a very stupid person, so he's a nasty guy, a horrible guy. They call him Bad Bunny. I call him the worst bunny. Think about it. And nobody knows bunnies quite like I do. I get along very well with many of the highly respected bunnies all around the world. I have a tremendous relationship with Bugs Bunny. He said to me, what's up, Doc? He said, sir, what's up, Doc, sir? I said, you don't have to call me doc. You could call me Donald.
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Jeff Cruer
Oh, gosh. And this is the President. This is our video of the week sent in by Johnny in Austin. This is the President taking on Billie Eilish. Let's check out our viewer video clip of the week. Before I accept this, I just want to acknowledge the land we're standing on. Wrong. Totally wrong. Nobody talks about stolen land better than me, okay? I built on stolen land.
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Marlon Marachi
Tremendous stolen land.
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Jeff Cruer
The best stolen land. I'm talking about history and history. Billy, you've got a massive mansion, beautiful.
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Marlon Marachi
Mansion on stolen land.
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Jeff Cruer
All right, if you've got a video clip of the week, email me@jeffgso.com we also love our Trump MAGA images and our Memes of the week. And we got a few to share with us. The first one is from Donna in Salt Lake City, Utah. And this is a sign that went up in San Francisco. Stolen goods must remain under $950. Unbelievable. Talk about liberal. All right, our next one is from Michael D. In Maryland. And yeah, don't let Trump cheat. Demand voter ID and proof of citizenship. Paper ballots in person voting, same day result. That's right. Yeah, don't let him cheat. Let's have all of that. It's good idea. And our last win from Kathy in Sulphur, Louisiana. How true, huh? Boy, when we were kids, teachers wanted us to have a nice recess time for math. Now they want to talk about privilege and sexuality and. And wear nose rings. What happened? All right, if you got a meme of the week, email me@jeffgso.com now it's time for our meme from our Denver team. There you go. Okay, instead of friends it's frauds. Very good. Very good, guys. All right. Love to get your input on the memes, the videos and of course, the images. Also, comments about the show. Love to hear from you@jeffgso.com and you can check out our poll@crewair.net Want to know what you think about this whole Iranian issue, whether we should be getting involved or not. Looks like we could be. Want to get your view on it? So during the week, I'll be broadcasting live from WGSO. You can check us out@wgso.com 7 to 9 in the morning, 6, 8 to to 7 in the evening. Love to have you on board with that. And we look forward to being here next week with you for another edition of Ringside Politics here in Real America's Voice. A big thank you to all of you. A big thank you to our great team in Denver for their outstanding work. And we'll look forward to being with you back here at 1pm Central next Saturday on Real America's Voice for another edition of Ringside Politics. Have a great week, everyone. We'll see you next week. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.