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I'm Josh Hammer and this is the Josh Hammer Show. America's airports continue to be a total poop show. ICE agents are now at more airports across the country, but can they possibly expedite your process as you go through tsa? Well, I will find out personally tomorrow when I travel to Texas for seatback standby later this week for more information on that front. Meanwhile, another horrific Lake and Riley esque murder by an illegal alien to a young, innocent 18 year old girl out in the second city in the city of Chicago. All sorts of things happening when it comes to Iran and the Middle East. More generally speaking, is this standoff between the United States and Israel, has that standoff finally arrived? Or is it potentially in the making? We will unpack that all and much more in today's show. But for now, we begin with this what does it mean to be on the left? We talk a lot on the show about what it means to be on the right. If you are of, by and for the right, it means, among other things, that you stand for tradition. You stand for your civilization. You stand for your nation. You stand for your tribe, your family and your people. You believe that your way of life, that your worldview, that your values, principles, your customs and all that ultimately constitutes the broader way that we do things in this country. You believe in that. You believe that it is superior. And you believe in that intergenerational chain of transmission to pass down what we do, how we think, how we ought to think, how we ought to act, and laws and customs. It is this emphasis on inherited tradition, this dissemination of tradition from one generation to the next, all ultimately rooted in eternal truths in the Bible above all, and in the natural law, the transcendental order. This is, this is all what it means to be on the right. But what does it mean to be on the left? Well, by contrast, if the right stands for intergenerational transmission, civilizational inheritance, and stands for doing something the way that our forefathers did, the Wisdom and body and tradition, not blowing things up and bringing things down. On the contrary, the Left stands for naturally the opposite. The left stands for breaking with tradition, in rejecting eternal truths and the transcendental order. Above all, really in rejecting God himself and in rejecting the very notion that there is only such thing as true utopia from a biblical perspective in the Kingdom of God, that there will never actually be true utopia here in the Kingdom of Man. The left rejects that. The left believes that frankly that there is no God, or if he exists, he exists in some sort of minimized deistic fashion. He's not actively involved in human affairs. He doesn't bother, he doesn't care. So it is incumbent upon human beings who try to construct utopian schemes here in this mortal coil. Throughout Western history, indeed throughout American history, that has taken the form of aggressively, aggressively going against not just the ruling class, not just the D.C. political establishment, but indeed in going against the United States of America. There is a long, long, long history, a deeply inglorious one of leftists in America opposing the country that they purport and profess to love when they even bother ordained to do so. I'm thinking here about the first and second red scares. The first red scare happening around the time of World War I, the second red scare happening during the era of Senator McCarthy. McCarthyism as the left tended to deride that movement, as there is a long history of anarchism on the American left. People like Emma Goldman, anarchists actually ultimately assassinated President William McKinley. That was done at the hands of anarchists. The anarchist movement led directly to the Bolshevik movement here and the Red Scare and the communist sympathizers. That was a long standing problem. You might have thought that McCarthy went too far and perhaps he did. But Communist sympathizers were a very, very, very real long problem in American history for much of the 20th century. Go back and read about Alger Hiss and episodes like that, incidents like that. If you don't think the Communism was a massive, massive problem. Bernie Sanders, for what it's worth, Bernie Sanders, who is now the US Senator from Vermont, back before he was Senator from Vermont, back when he was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, was known to be a communist sympathizer, at least at one, at one time there, 40, 50 years ago, he was infamous for having the hammer and sickle Soviet flag there in his office there in Vermont. At one time he actually flew to the Soviet Union with his wife. This is 1988, he flew to try to establish a new sister city in the town of Yaroslav. A town in the old Soviet Union. He did this in 1988, around the time that Ronald Reagan was teaming up with Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul ii, others, to literally destroy the evil empire of communism. So the left has a very, very long history, a sordid history of openly siding with the enemies of America when we are at times of war or when we are at times of nominal peace. This is very much happening. Yet again, we covered briefly on the show this outrageous convoy. They're calling it the Nuestra America convoy. This group of pampered, privileged brat leftists led by subversive anti American fifth column organizations like Code Pink, Code Pink organization that has confirmed demonstrable ties to Chinese Communist Party sympathizers, Chinese Communist party funders. So CodePink is leading this delegation to Cuba that has been happening over the past few days. Hassan Piker, one of the most execrable human beings in the entire American political media ecosystem. He has been a huge part of this particular convoy. The daughter of Ilhan Omar has gotten in on it there. Hasan Piker, by the way, who wears $1,300 Cartier glasses. I mean, this convoy was there. As we explained yesterday's show, they actually were staying at these five star hotels that the US State Department designates as prohibited accommodations under long standing State Department's Cuba embargo policy. So they were violating law while doing so. They were consuming, they were consuming power and air conditioning. While most of the country of Cuba, all 10 to 11 million people, are literally experiencing yet another nationwide blackout at a time crucially to emphasize a time where the leaders of Cuba, the Castro regime and their functionaries underneath them have openly confirmed that they are in talks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other people at the State Department when it comes to trying to reach some sort of deal to phase out or to potentially even end the embargo. So they are literally going there to rescue a regime that has caused endless American stress and suffering. And by the way, when I say they're trying to save their, I mean, what are they doing? They're taking photos for their Instagram. They're streaming on Hasan Piker's stupid livestream. They're not doing crap. They did this publicity stunt where they filmed themselves painting this mural of humanity like it's like Woodstock 1969 all over again. They did another little stunt there where they were passing out merchandise to Cuban regime officials, literally trying to bail out the communist regime that America has had an embargo for now for nearly seven decades. And by the way, because again, I've actually been to Cuba, I've seen this for myself. There are actually two separate currencies in Cuba. This is not a well understood concepts. There is the local currency for the deeply immiserated impoverished locals, and then there is a US Dollar denominated. So the second type of currency is actually changed to the dollar. It's pegged to the dollar, unlike the local lower person, the plebeian currency, if you will. The other ones actually pegs the dollar. And that one is one that the Cuban Communist Party officials use tourists and abuse and that the other regime has this total blatant, unapologetic, two tier system in place. On the one hand you have normal Cubans, on the other hand you have the Communist Party elite people who come in to visit wealthy people who want to spend their money at the rare resorts that you're actually legally allowed to go to, things like that. So these people have just been yucking it up there out in the open for days. And the broader point that I wanted to make to you is this, is that this is not an isolated incident. This is part of a broader problem of US Foreign operations happening out in the open on our soil. Code Pink is an organization with very, very, very close ties among other individuals to an individual by the name of Neville Roy Singham. We've mentioned his name on our show before. He is an extremely wealthy tech mogul who was born in the United States, but actually lives in Shanghai, China. He is a mega fan of Xi Jinping and a mega fan, extraordinarily close with the Chinese Communist Party. If this man sounds like a traitor to you, that's because he is. The word traitor is a perfectly apt description for someone like Neville Roy Singham, who is just worth boatloads and boatloads of money and is probably the number one funder these days, along with George Soros, along with the Rockefeller Fund and the Ford foundation, various other groups. But Singham is up there in terms of who is spreading the most cash around to fund a lot of these radical left wing organizations. In fact, according to a new investigation that was just up on Monday morning from foxnews.com apparently Neville Singham has been funding at least 2,000, 2,000 different organizations. It just could give you an idea as to who this guy is. According to Fox News.com, he spoke at this conference in Shanghai, an investors conference this past November where, where he essentially rewrote the history of World War II to say that the people who really suffered in World War II, it wasn't the Jews. It wasn't the British, the Americans, the French. No, it was actually the Communists. It was actually the Soviet fighters and, oh yeah, China, too. China was the biggest victim. Look, I'm not downplaying that if we're actually being fair here. Imperial Japan did commit unspeakable atrocities against China, especially in the years leading up to World War II, the rape of Nanjing, various atrocities like that. So I'm not downplaying that, but just to give you a sense as to who this guy is, Neville Singham, Again, according to FoxNews.com, 2,000 different organizations there, $278 million into six nonprofits in particular. Code Pink is very much one of them there. Another group is called the People's Forum. You probably saw after the assassination of the Ayatollah ali Khamenei on February 28, you saw that there were these not so organic uprisings in New York City, Chicago, Louisiana and elsewhere led by a group called the People's Forum. This is the same organization that was able to successfully instigate some of the pro Nicolas Maduro anti American uprisings within minutes of Operation Absolute Resolve to extract Nicolas Maduro from Caracas, Venezuela, back in January. All of this is done through the network of Neville Roy Singham. So you take that. You take the fact that they are funding CodePink and CodePink is the lead organizer of this ridiculous Nuestra America convoy stupid Hassan Piker stunt in Cuba. Then you add to the fact that there is another new study that just came out about a week ago, so from a wonderful organization out of New Jersey called the Network Contagion Research Institute, that shows the extent of Iranian funding and Iranian influence operations here on American soil, led by, among other things, their state regime TV network, Press tv, which most recently was seen playing clips of the Tucker Carlson Jo Kent interview. Are you waking up yet? So you're starting to get a sense whether it's the Tucker Carlson quote, unquote, right? Whether it's the Hasan Piker left. Foreign operations are doing a number here on American soil. They are doing a number to make you rot your mind and to try to subvert you, to make you turn against your country. It is the job of people like me who host shows like this to try to awaken you to this threat and to say that you must not lose your mind in this process. Let them lose your mind. You ought to stay sane.
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Get started for free@turbotenant.com. I want to finish my thoughts on this anti American subversion here on the American home front. There's a lot happening when it comes to Iran and the Middle east as well. But for now, folks, just a quick word from our sponsor of today's show, which is the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Ifcj, let me paint you a picture. It's midnight, sirens blare. You only have seconds to grab your child and run. Now imagine you're elderly. Your legs don't work like they used to. Getting downstairs feels impossible. And after all that, you end up in a bomb shelter for hours, even days, because you can't make that trek again. This is what's happening across Israel as Operation Epic Fury continues. Children are being traumatized. Families are exhausted. Homes have been destroyed. That's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is there on the ground bringing food, emergency equipment, care for children, help for the elderly, and supplying bomb shelters and medical centers with critically needed essentials. If you've ever wondered what it looks like to stand for Israel and stand for good against evil, this is it. Please act now. You can give $45 right now to Rush Life Saving Essentials with the vulnerables to the vulnerables under fire. Call 1-888-488-IFCJ. That's 888-488-IFCJ or go online at ifcj.org ifcj.org Our sponsor today is the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. So we'll get to the Iran war in just a moment here. But for now, just a final word on this subversive fifth column operation. As I mentioned, it's happening all across the political spectrum and unfortunately, those on the quote, unquote right, who are doing some of these same influence operations, most recently, actually, I just saw Tucker Carlson yesterday talking about how Islamic societies are apparently more advanced than Western civilization because of Sharia law. Really? Really. Who is paying you to deliver that message? Sharia law, the famously forward thinking, progressive oriented, innovative, innovation, friendly Sharia law. I mean, what is this guy smoking? But whether it's that, whether it's this Chinese communist, Marxist, Leninist propaganda on the left there, there is so much foreign influence happening all around us. And I know that it's very fashionable these days to say, oh my God, AIPAC is buying off Americans in D.C. or oh my God, it's the Israel Lobby, or it's the Jewish influence, the Jews that. The Jews that. All these terrible Christian Zionists I mean, that's very fashionable these days, say all those things. There's and there actually are foreign operations happening all across our eyes, including this stunt that just played out in Cuba. This is absolutely a foreign Chinese Communist Party orchestrated op. The ops just aren't necessarily what the so called influencers are necessarily telling you what they are. Now. There is a real war happening in the Middle east and the war is still playing out very much in real time. We are still in this five day period where Donald Trump is not striking the Iranian energy facilities. The actual war is still continuing apace. Pakistan, for XYZ reasons, has decided to assert itself as the mediator between Iran, Israel and the United States there. So apparently there could be a Pakistani mediated meeting as soon as potentially later this week we will see if that transpires between all three of the parties, the us Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran. I don't fully understand exactly why Pakistan should be mediating this meeting. If you can't tell, I am highly skeptical of that. Pakistan, after all, was I guess considered a U.S. ally during the Cold War for the very simple reason that the United States had an interest in making sure that India didn't get too aggressive because India was seen as sympathetic to the Soviet Union, was a whole Cold War geopolitical chessboard. Unfortunately, whatever chips America put in the Pakistani basket did not exactly pay off. We learned that the hard way in May 2011 when we found out that Pakistan was actually harboring and sheltering, oh yeah, that guy, Osama bin Laden, literally in Pakistan. So I have no idea why Pakistan ought to be trying to host this conference. Now the latest is that Donald Trump is saying he's essentially telegraphing that he's getting very eager to make a deal. And this gets back to our long standing emphasis on the difference between ends and means, on goals and tactics. And the goal here, as Donald Trump surely understands, is that the Islamic Republic of Iran cannot and must not be a threat after this is done. And on yesterday's show we explained how the fact that over this past weekend, how Iran was launching missiles at Diego Garcia, this joint American British military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean, how they were trying to launch these missiles two and a half thousand miles away, that should indicate that Iran's missile program is not exactly fully depleted yet. And frankly, it really ought to awaken the European powers because if Iran can shoot a missile of two and a half thousand miles, that puts basically the entire European continent in play, probably London, Dublin, I mean, as far west as that is potentially in play as well, depending on the specifics of the missile there. So the job is not done yet. Now, one guy who is apparently adamant that the job is not done yet, interestingly, is Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, who apparently, according to the New York Times, has been pushing Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war effort against Iran. Bin Salman is arguing that the US Israeli military campaign presents a, quote, historic opportunity to remake the Middle East. There was other reporting, I believe it's from the Washington Post, if memory serves, that bin Salman had privately been encouraging Donald Trump to start this war effort in the first place. So now with the New York Times saying something very similar there, as I said in yesterday's show, one of my issues with these Arab countries is that they so often will privately talk the right talk and very rarely publicly walk the right walk. We're going to bring on Jason Greenblatt, the former Trump 45 White House official and a real knowledgeable actor when it comes to the broader Gulf and the Sunni Arab countries there. We're going to bring on Jason tomorrow and I want to get his thoughts on this because to me, I don't fully understand exactly how The Saudis, Emiratis, etc. How they can justify not actually getting involved yet. Really. I mean, I'm sorry, but you guys are just a total bunch of freeloaders. I mean the UAE in particular, which is probably the most western friendly of all the Arab countries, like literally all of them, the UAE is probably number one. They've been shelt. The UAE has taken more incoming fire than any country in the region for the past month, literally any. They've gotten like twice as many drones missiles combined as Israel has. How is the UAE justified not lifting a finger? I totally don't get that. Now, there was a recent phone call between Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu when it came to this five day pause when Trump is saying that we're not going to strike the energy facilities when it comes to the fact that Pakistan is now trying to get this three party meeting between the U.S. israel and Iran. And apparently, reports Lahav Harkov over at Jewish Insider, Lahav is a very good reporter, has great sourcing on these issues. Lahav says that the phone call between Trump and Netanyahu was certainly a friendly call. It's not hostile or anything. But according to her, and Lahav is Israeli, just to be clear, she says that it was not enough to reassure Jerusalem and therefore Netanyahu has dispatched ron Dermer to D.C. to try to prevent what Israel fears could be a bad deal. Ron Dermer was the former Israeli ambassador to the US he was born in the United States. English was his first language. He is very, very, very smart man who is known to be very friendly with the Trump administration. With Donald Trump there, I believe Trump and his inner circle think quite of Ron Dermer, if I'm not mistaken there. So Dermer has essentially been dispatched to the United States to try to make sure that whatever deal is reached is not a terrible deal. And ultimately, it really is the specific details that will determine whether or not any possible deal with the Iranians is actually worth doing. But the upshot remains this, and this has been the problem now for 47 years, is that any deal with these guys, even if it is the best deal, the details are amazing. Let's say that they say they're going to actually take all of their fissile material, their enriched uranium. They will dig it out of their mountains where they've been burying it hundreds of feet below the earth. They will dig it all out. They will ship it over to the IAEA or to the United States or to various other international inspectors. They will get rid of all that. They will ferret it out of the earth. They will take all of their ballistic missiles, and they will destroy them there. Even if the terms on paper look amazing, like 10 out of 10, how do you trust them? I mean, this really has been the issue since day one. Fundamentally, how do you trust people that are just some of the biggest liars on the face of the earth? Again, the devil's always in details. We will see how the plan actually shapes up if there even gets to be that stage. At this still somewhat early juncture of the war, Barack Obama's nuclear deal was catastrophically terrible because, among other things, it was just on the nukes. It had nothing to do with the ballistic missile program or the fund of all the proxies, Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas, etc. So there were a million things that Barack Obama's deal did not address. I'm sure that Donald Trump and Steve Wyckoff and Jared Kushner have learned those lessons. In the meantime, the United States is not taking its foot totally off the gas pedal. 2200 more US Marines are arriving in the Middle East. There's a lot of rumors as to whether or not Donald Trump will consider launching some sort of extremely limited ground incursion. A lot of folks are freaking out over that. And again, the devil's always in the details. I would think that if that happens. It would really only be to take a very strategic choke point like a carg island near the Strait of Hormuz, a place like that. There. There's not going to be, folks, there's not going to be a march to Tehran from the Gulf. That's not going to happen. There's zero interest in that. There's no appetite. It's not going to happen there. So a lot of moving parts. We are tracking it all here on the show and we will have much more for you after a short commercial break, folks. We'll be right back with more on the other side. What's better than receiving rent on the first, not having to ask for it. Stop wasting your time and let software handle rent collection for you. It's easy, free, and you don't have to be the bad guy. Get started@turbotenant.com. Welcome back. So early on, just after Operation Epic Fury started, we had a handful of guests to talk about their early analysis there. And one of those guests at the time was Mike Duran, who was a very smart man. Mike Duran is at Hudson Institute, just a general smart thinker on foreign policy and a bit of a specialist when it comes to the particular thorny issue of Iran. And I remember asking Mike at the time his thoughts as to whether or not this possible rupture would happen. Whereas at the very beginning of the war, the US And Israel were doing the exact same thing, just blowing up a lot of Iranian regime infrastructure, top leaders, mullahs, ayatollahs that are there. And I essentially said to Mike Duran, will the day come where there is tension between Trump and Netanyahu? Is it going to be a time where these respective national interests of the United States and Israel diverge? And let's be very clear before moving on here, it should be axiomatic, it should be self evident that the national interest, the United States and Israel are not exactly literally the same. This is overstated by some people in the pro Israel camp, of which I obviously am in the camp myself there. There are a lot of folks, Tucker comes to mind, who say that Israel is a net harm. Not only do they not benefit the United States, even though Petexeth has literally explained exactly how they do, how they are a quote, unquote force multiplier. Anyway, the Tucker of the world say that Israel tends to drag America down. That's demonstrably false again, as the past month I think has pretty clearly shown in empirical fashion. But it would be severely overstated in the case as well to say that the national interest. The United States and Israel are exactly the same. For that matter, it should be self evident that the national interests of no two countries are literally exactly the same. It's just not true. And it's even just a very clear example here, because I've been asked many times myself as to what would this look like in practice, where the national interest might be slightly different. I'll give you an example, actually. So in the northern Israeli port, the coastal city of Haifa, which is the northernmost populous city not terribly far from the border with Lebanon, Israel was building a brand new port for all these ships and tankers that were coming in. They were building this port maybe four or five, six years ago, so end up taking a lot of bids, a lot of bidders there. And at the time, they were considering a bid from China, from a Chinese owned company. And from their perspective, it's a very small country. It makes sense. You don't want to, you know, you don't want to alienate all the superpowers. You want to try to have good relations with your best friend, the United States, but you still want to have decent relations with China. But from the American perspective, we hate that as we should. We hate China, as we should. They're evil, they're horrible, they are an awful actor. So the interests are not the exact same there. So that's the preface for this whole conversation as to whether or not this day is going to come, where Trump and Netanyahu will have slightly different endgames here as to what ought to happen in Iran. I don't think that we are there quite yet, but it is entirely possible that that day will come. And my prediction as to what will happen at that time is that Netanyahu will essentially just take his wins. He is, after all, the junior partner in this bilateral relationship. The United States is the big dog. There is zero question whatsoever about that there. And if Trump determines that the mission is over, Israel could certainly act on its own, but they would not do so in a way that went against Donald Trump's sentiments or against his orders there. So at this point, there's been severe damage done to Iran. And if the effort were to end right here, it would definitely be a massive win. The region, and by extension the world, is a much, much safer place right now, certainly by any trace of the imagination, than it was one month ago for sure, to say nothing of two years ago, prior to the B2 bombing run of the nuke sites last June. But, but Mr. President, you should finish this job on your own stipulated terms. And on your own stipulated terms, that means making sure that Iran is fully neutralized as a threat. Now, unfortunately, there continue to be all sorts of threats here on the home front as well. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris led in, as you will recall, at least an estimated 8 million completely unvetted illegal aliens. Each and every one of them a potential hazard, a potential terrorists in the making. I'm not saying that all of them are, but potential is doing a lot of work there in that description. All this is happening, by the way, in case you forgot, at a time that the United States Department of Homeland Security is barely being funded. So the parts that Democrats purport to hate, namely ice, all sorts of the immigration infrastructure, the apparatus that's actually being funded, a lot is being funded, at least from the one big beautiful Bill back in 2025, if not from other sources as well. Now, the effect of this is that parts that don't impact immigration are currently being shut down. FEMA is being partially shut down and above all, TSA is being partially shut down. So TSA workers have now gone at least one or two paycheck cycles without actually getting a paycheck. There have been at least 400 TSA agents who have actually quit their job. ICE is now being deployed throughout the country. ICE is now at least in a handful of major airports. Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Houston, New York, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, etc etc etc. There aren't a ton of actual physical ICE agents yet. The media tends to be over overstating this. They're basically going there at some of these limited airports and they're basically going to just try to take care of the actual safety and make sure the airport is secure so that the TSA guys can do what the TSA guys do, like run the X ray machines and things like that. For what it's worth, Tom Homan, the border czar, who in my opinion really should have been the next DHS secretary, but neither here nor there, he went on Fox News to say that lines at the airports are actually already shorter and are getting better in real time. Here is Tom Holman on Fox News. The wait lines already dropped. Plus we're doing a security function at the airports. We're going to arrest criminals going through this airport. We're going to look for human trafficking, sex trafficking, money, you know, money smuggling. We're going to be at the airports working with our brothers and sisters and tsa. There are brothers and sisters in dhs. President Trump made a smart move. We're going to keep the airplanes flying. We're going to get the American people to those lines quicker and we're not going to give up President Trump's promise to American people to make his country safer every day. And that's what we're going to keep doing. So again, I will find out tomorrow because I'm flying a CPAC tomorrow. Make sure to come find me on cpac, by the way, if you will be there on Thursday. I am speaking Thursday afternoon at CPAC at one of the largest conservative conferences in the country every year. Looking forward to that. I've done a lot of these CPAC panels in past years. I've never actually done, I don't think I've ever done a standalone speech. So they gave it to me this year and I, I plan to make the most of it. I hope, I'm hoping and expecting to attract some attention for what I intend to say. There's make sure you're not going to want to miss this. We'll unpack it for you certainly on the show on Friday. But I will be fine tomorrow. And we'll see if Tom Homan is right. When it comes to the shorter airport lines, Democrats are just seemingly having a ball. They're seemingly having a field day as we the people are suffering through these TSA short staff. I don't really understand exactly how Democrats think that this redounds to their political benefits. There is just so much ample political ammunition here, so much opportunity for Republicans to try to go on offense with and try to beat Democrats across the head with a cudgel. I mean, run these ads talking about how Democrats are standing with illegal aliens. Or as the case may be thinking back to the State of the Union, they're sitting, they're sitting with illegal aliens as opposed to standing with we the people there. The ads guys basically write themselves. So if you are a scriptwriter, if you are an ad creator at the rnc, the nrsc, the nrcc, what are you doing? I mean, this information is literally being tailor made, is being handed to you on a silver platter. Just go ahead and write this ad. In the interim, when it comes to the utter poop show at the airports, which apparently is becoming slightly less poopy, per Tom Homan, I saw this great headline out of Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal Constitution being the major newspaper there in Atlanta. Atlanta is the home of Delta Airlines, famously, and Delta is a major, major corporate presence there in the city, in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia. So per the the ajc, the local newspaper there, Delta has announced that they are Suspending their special congressional desk service. Members of Congress cannot access a special desk. They will not be given any extra privileges at least until the shutdown is over. That that folks, is how you run a business. That is a MAGA America first way to run a business. Personally speaking, I actually already prefer Delta of the major American Airlines, Delta, United, American. To me, Delta is the best. I think American's probably second. United is at least favorite. Again, just personal preference, but Delta is definitely my favorite. Ready. If anything, I will try to slightly go out of my way to prioritize Delta when they do things like this there. So if you're trying to win back normal Americans into into your company, this is a very, very, very good way to do it in the interim. Yesterday Markway Mullen was confirmed as the new Secretary of Homeland Security. So it looked last week that the guy might not make it out of committee because Rand Paul, the chairman of the rolling committee, just hates Mark Wayne Mullen a deeply personal grudge. But John Fetterman ends up voting for Mullen to get him out of committee. On the actual Senate floor, Mullen is confirmed 54 to 45. Ends up getting votes not just from from Senator Fetterman but also from Senator Heinrich out in New Mexico as well. Ends up being at least a somewhat bipartisan vote. Incidentally, we have a new individual who's been named to fill the seat of Mark Wayne Mullen there in the Sooner State in the state of Oklahoma. Kevinson announcing that it's going to be Alan Armstrong. Looks like he will be the new center from Oklahoma. A rather curious pick actually for at least one very interesting reason. I was kind of doing a little bit of an eyebrow raise this one. I will explain to you what that is and have much more on the other side of a quick merch break. Say this folks. We'll be right back with more on the other side. One bad tenant, one late rent cycle. That's all it takes for your year to spiral. Turbo tenant helps you prevent rental nightmares before they happen. With trusted screening, customizable leases, automated rent collection and timely maintenance tracking, you can stay ahead of every issue. Get started for free@turbotenant.com welcome back. So Governor Kevin said of Oklahoma had a very interesting decision to make as to who would be the next senator. With Markway Mullen now being confirmed as the Secretary of Homeland Security. Oklahoma is by some metrics the reddest state in the United States of America. In terms of these states that give the widest margin of victory on a four year in four Year out basis to the Republican presidential candidates. You have Wyoming, West Virginia and Oklahoma are quite possibly the three most consistently high Republican states. But one of my favorite political stats, you know, that's a very nerdy thing to say, one of my favorite political stats, but I am kind of a political nerd. Oklahoma has 60 plus counties. 60, 70, somewhere in that range. Every single county in Oklahoma, every single county including the most urban county. So Oklahoma County, Oklahoma is where OKC is. So okc, Tulsa, all of them, all of the counties have voted for the Republican president candidate over the Democrat in every election. Going back to bush over Kerry 2004. You have to go back to Bush versus Gore in 2000 to find the last time that there was a presidential election and you had a single county vote for Democrat. It's just a mind blowing statistic there. So this is as red a state as it gets. And Kevin Stitt, who I've met numerous times actually, Kevin Stitt, he's very, very nice man. He was one of the only governors to actually endorse Ron DeSantis presidential bid in the 2024 cycle along with Kim Reynolds of Iowa. That put him on the wrong side for a little while of Donald Trump. Stitt has done some other things that some Oklahoma conservatives tend to take umbrage with. I generally like what I see, but I understand that he has some other issues. His pick at face value to replace Mullen seems slightly curious. So this guy's name is Alan Armstrong. Allen Armstrong is essentially a wealthy oil man and wealthy oil man. If you know anything about Oklahoma and Oklahoma Republican politics, that is a very common theme in the state of Oklahoma. So he is the leader of the Williams Company, which is a Tulsa, Oklahoma based oil and natural gas company. The curious part about this and the reason that I'm raising some eyebrows here is because he gave a donation. He gave a political donation after 01-06-2021 to a man by the name of Adam Kinjinger. Remember him? Oh yeah. Adam Kininger was one of the leading anti Trump never Trumpers from at the time within the Republican Party. It was him and Liz Cheney. So Armstrong, this ultra wealthy oil guy goes out of his way to donate to this ardent, adamant, never Trumper. And you have this Governor Kevin Stitt, who again is generally pret conservative but has done some things to tick off Trump and the MAGA base. And I don't really understand exactly then what the rationale is for this pick. I mean again, maybe I'm missing something. The guy as far as I can tell, has Never served in politics ever. So he has no experience there. That's fine. I don't really mind that at all. If anything, that could be a good thing. But maybe he's like, maybe he has the most hardcore right wing views. Magical. Again, this is Oklahoma, okay? This is not Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan. This is Oklahoma. Freaking Houma. I mean, you can basically nominate Attila the Hun to that seat and that'll be a safe Republican seat in the next time that that dude is up for reelection. So I'm not fully understanding this pick, I think would be a very polite way of saying it. Again, we have virtually nothing else to judge him on other than this one donation, but he went out of his way to give 5,800 bucks to never Trumper par excellence. Adam Kininger after the 1-6-20 assault on the Capitol. So I am not seeing this, to be honest with you. But I guess we will learn more in, in the days to come. What I am seeing unfortunately is another tragedy, another tragedy called this lake and Riley 2.0 if you will. And it happened to an 18 year old girl by the name of Sheridan Gorman. Sheridan Gorman was a student at Loyola University in Chicago, a campus that I have been to. I used to live in Chicago, went to law school. There's Sheridan Gorman is actually from my home county of Westchester County, New York, just a young 18 year old girl originally from Yorktown Heights, New York, who was there in Chicago studying at Loyola. And she was walking the beach, walking one of the beaches on the north side of Chicago. There are any number of beaches along the lakefront there on Lake Michigan, a lot of pretty beautiful beaches, albeit they're not really operative for a lot of the year because it's freezing. But she's walking there with some of her friends and she was killed by an illegal alien. It's basically that simple. So the legal alien approaches, ultimately branches a firearm, fires and this beautiful young 18 year old girl, Sheridan Gorman is tragically killed. Now the individual by the name of Jose Medina, 25 years old, was immediately charged by Chicago Police Department with first degree murder and attempted first degree murder. He was arrested this past Friday. He made an initial court appearance on Monday and he appears to be here illegally. So my own 2 cents when it comes to illegal aliens here in the country, there is that there's no point in doing this whole song and dance, this whole process of prosecuting. Just deport the dude, deport him. He never should have been here. I mean, this is the crazy part, these people never should have been Here. It's just awful. I mean, all the Black Lives Matter activists. George Floyd, say his name. Michael Floyd or Michael Brown. Excuse me, Hands up, don't shoot. That whole farce, that lie from Ferguson, Missouri, 2014. They say, say his name. Okay, I'll say their names. But you say Lake and Riley. You say Sheridan Gorman, you say their names. These are innocent, young, beautiful Americans who have been gunned down, killed when it comes to illegal alien crime in this country. And we the people are not going to stand for it. Indeed, we are not standing for it. This was the number one issue, of course, that led to Donald Trump being elected in 2024. The Biden border crisis was the number one issue that did end Democrats in 2024. It's just horrible stuff. And it's horrible stuff that has a real human impact. I live here in South Florida. Seemingly every week I see some new local headline, whether it's Miami, Dade County, Broward County, Palm beach county, somewhere in the broader South Florida area. I see a new headline seemingly every week about some act of illegal alien crime. I vividly remember reading one such story. I believe it was last year, in 2025. There's a Barnes Noble, a bookstore. It was in Boca Raton or somewhere else in Palm Beach County. Illegal alien just opens fire in a gun store. Old lady's dead, killed, senseless, absolutely senseless. And to the people who are saying that illegal aliens are not disproportionately committed to criminal activity, I say this, yes, they are. How do I know that? Because that's literally why they're here. Their first act, crossing that border was a crime. The amount of gaslighting that you have to do in order to try to convey the sentiment that an illegal alien is not more criminogenic. I think the criminologists say is not more inclined to do crimes. The amount of mental gymnastics you have to do is nuts. These ads write themselves Republicans. If only you are paying attention. The craziest part is this is how terrible the city of Chicago is. And it makes me sad because I used to live there. I've lived in Chicago for three years. I actually loved living there. It was freezing, really cold. It snowed all the time, bone chilling snow. And it's very corrupt and it's very Democrat. There's a lot not to like, but it's just a great city. If you've ever spent time in Chicago, maybe not these days. If you spend time there 10, 20 years ago, you know what I'm talking about. It's a classic American city and Chicagoans are not New Yorkers. I'm from New York. I can say that originally they're nicer people. It's just a great city. But it's run by fricking bums. And it has now for multiple mayoral administrations. Lori Lightfoot into the current Communist, Brandon Johnson. So I saw this clip that was going viral in my social media feed actually yesterday after this horrific murder of Sheridan Gordon. Listen to this from a woman by the name of Maria Hadden. She is the alderwoman for the 49th Ward. So she basically serves in the Chicago City Council, the city, municipality, lawmaking body, etc. This woman is a psychopath. This is what she says about Sheridan Gordon. Gunned down on Chicago beach by an illegal island. She says, quote, the kids were out doing normal things people do in the neighborhood. And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time situation. Running into a person who had a gun. A person who had a gun. He's an illegal alien. Are we? Ah, they might have unintentionally startled this person at the npr. Startled him? Startled him. What? Talk about victim blaming. Blaming the people who were killed. No. There is one person culpable for this, and that is Jose Medina, the little alien who should have been sent packing within minutes of committing this atrocity. Say her name, Sheridan Gorman. In the interim, send all these bums packing. Do not stop. Mark Wayne Mullen, now that you are the new secretary for Women's security, do not stop when it comes to deporting all of these bumps. All of them. God willing, more Lake and Riley's and more Sheridan Gormans will be saved. If so, folks, have a great rest of your evening. Josh Hammersani off. We'll be right back with more tomorrow.
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