
DHS conducts the largest illegal immigration raid in U.S. History at a Hyundai battery plant in Savannah, Georgia; the same $5 billion plant that the Biden Administration facilitated billions in tax exemptions to.
Loading summary
Tony Kennett
At Capella University. Learning online doesn't mean learning alone. You'll get support from people who care about your success, like your enrollment specialist who gets to know you and the goals you'd like to achieve. You'll also get a designated academic coach who's with you throughout your entire program. Plus, career coaches are available to help you navigate your professional goals. A different future is closer than you think with Capella University. Learn more@capella.edu. tony Kennett, Tony Kennett.
Donald Trump
Tony Kennett.
Tony Kennett
Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett, host of the Tony Kennett cast let's get down to business. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC on CYTV, here on the Daily Signal. Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and formerly first on 93 WIBC. The Trump administration is hitting home on one common theme right now, and they are hitting this particular theme as though they've got a giant mallet and they're smacking just the gong over and over and over and over. And that is delivering on as many of the campaign promises from big to small as they can. Everyone at the same time is pushing forward, and that includes Pete Hegseth over at no longer the Department of Defense, but now the Department of War. From the president today. Check it out.
Donald Trump
Thank you, and it's an honor to sign this. And we will do that right now. I think that's a big one. I'll be honest.
Tony Kennett
Now, that is both his 200th executive order, as well as one of the more important renaming American kind of cultural reset points. I've heard some of the criticisms already, mostly from those who say, why are we even spending time on this? How could we be doing, and I'll be honest with you, the same crew that was so excited to tear down statues of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington to rename the Redskins, and the chiefs who have thrown all of their weight into renaming Fort Benning and Fort Jackson and the other various military forts and camps which had been named for Confederate generals, those who have thrown all of their weight into renaming, all of a sudden, they find it a waste of time. Now, the other crew who believes against this particular thing, this is somehow a very this is a warmongering move to name it the Department of War. That means they're on the warpath. No, no, no. The, the era of the US Doing the gentle parenting thing. Okay, Timmy, this is the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense, which lost the Korean War because We didn't win it. Which lost the Vietnam War. We did not win it. Who bungled Operation Enduring Freedom, the Iraq and Afghanistan war? Why? Because it was all about coalition building and friendship and nation building and democracy building. That's not what the American military was built for. It was for overwhelming force, moving in, conquering, delivering the will of the American people. By the way, that is America First. That is what defined the Monroe Doctrine and the new video. Because, you know, Pete Hegseth, being a former TV host as well as a decorated veteran himself, he put a little video or had his team put a little video together. And now I think it's pretty good. You know, we won World War I and we won World War II. Not with the Department of Defense, but with a war Department.
Donald Trump
We're focusing our military on its core mission, crushing America's adversaries.
Tony Kennett
We're in the business of war fighting. Department of Defense logo with the Pentagon. And then underneath the Department of Defense. And then you'll hear kind of the Hollywood. And then it'll switch to war. I mean, it's cool. I agree. Because once the again, to speak softly and carry a big stick doesn't mean hiding the stick somewhere. If you mess with the United States, then you will, in fact face the consequences. By the way, which is being learned right now in the southern Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela, the Monroe Doctrine means that the United States ensures the Atlantic, as well as the north and South American shorelines remain free of bad actors and European and Asian intervention. And it is something that must continue. So as we showed yesterday on the show, there was a little fleet of fishing boats and some of the Venezuelan Coast Guard, which tried to go buzz the US Navy, along with two Venezuelan Maduro regime military aircraft that flew near a US Navy vessel later yesterday, essentially to try to spook the US Navy, which had struck, and a cartel narco terrorist boat carrying a lot of drugs and killed 11 narco terrorists. And so, of course, Venezuela in itself is really upset about this. Oh, they took down a fishing boat. Yes. Because I always go fishing with massive crates of cocaine. I mean, clearly, especially if I'm, you know, heading out for a date with the 80s finance bros. You got to have a little nose powder to do some fishing. You feel me?
Producer Nick
Producer Nick really brings the fish to the surface.
Tony Kennett
Really does bring the fish to the surface. Yes. And you can catch fish lightning fast when you've got two fishing rods that you're winding up at lightning high speeds.
Producer Nick
Popeye has nothing on you.
Tony Kennett
Again, the Navy and the Department of Defense. Now the Department of War are not cowed from the Department of War. Today two Maduro regime military aircraft flew near a US Navy vessel in international waters. This highly provocative move was designed to interfere with our counter narco terror operations. The cartel running Venezuela is strongly advised not to pursue any further effort to obstruct, deter or interfere with counter narcotics and counterterror operations carried out by the US Military. And that is absolutely correct. Here was Trump more on the impending quiet in the Caribbean today.
Donald Trump
And when I see boats coming in like loaded up the other day with all sorts of drugs, probably fentanyl mostly, but all sorts of drugs and we're going to take them out. And if people want to have fun going on the high seas or the low seas, they're going to be in trouble. I will tell you boat traffic is substantially down in the area that happened and they called it the Runway. It's a Runway to. It's a Runway to the United States. And boat traffic is very substantially down on the Runway. You can imagine why. I think anybody that saw that is going to say I'll take a pass. I don't even know about fishermen. They may say I'm not getting on the boat, I'm not going to take a chance.
Tony Kennett
What happens if Venezuela flies jets over US Naval vessels again?
Donald Trump
Well, I would say they're going to be in trouble. We'll let them know about that. We heard that happen but it wasn't really over, not like they described.
Tony Kennett
But I would so again President Trump saying yeah, not going to be a good idea if Venezuela gets a little bit spicy. Now again, people are making a lot of hey, the open intelligence accounts that keep track of military movements and communications elint that kind of stuff. There are two groups, one group who over sensationalizes everything pointed out that there is a couple of squadrons I believe of F35s which are being deployed to Puerto Rico and they're saying ah, see, this means the US Is going to invade Venezuela. No, first of all, jets do quite a bit more than just striking targets. Unless it's the A10 Warthog. God bless the A10. Never retire. Let's go. Close air support. Sorry. If you've ever seen an A10 warthog in action, the excitement will be with you for the rest of your entire life. But alas, the F35 is also engaged in a lot of rapid engagement surveillance. Yes, in fact rapid engagement surveillance. When you think something is happening and one of the US Drone fleet just ain't gonna cut it. That is in fact what they are also for. Now, you'll notice that I didn't tell you what I believe that they're for, but I do believe that the United States essentially creating hard points of micro deployments that are not in some far flung Middle Eastern country forever, but are enforcing the Monroe Doctrine. Which, by the way, is one of the comments Delphix actually pointed out correctly. President Teddy Roosevelt's first big test for the US of the Monroe Doctrine was in 1902 during the Venezuelan border crisis in which the United States told the British, hey, listen here, bud, we're going to be the ones negotiating, arbitrating the negotiation of any European intervention in South America. Now, the US has had its ups and downs in South America. Shout out to Chile. However, in all in all, the United States leveraging the full force of its military as a if you mess with us, we will end your family's bloodline. Yeah, I mean, that's what I voted for. That's a far better use of my tax dollars than some UN aid crew then palming off those US dollars to whatever local terror group is willing to give them quarter. Radio crew, we're gonna send you guys over to the commercial land. We're gonna continue on the live stream. There's a lot more. It's the Tony Kinid cast here on the Daily Signal. By the way, did receive a couple of comments over the last couple of days asking why we divide the show up by that particular fashion. We divide the show up into these kind of micro segments with the radio crew so that we can be on as many platforms as possible. The show started out as a radio show, but we do the live stream. The live stream's grown bigger, so we're trying to keep you guys from having to sit through, you know, two, three, four minutes of commercials. And so we just send the radio crew off like a bad toddler who got back out of bed again. And then in a minute we'll bring them back. So those things said, let's talk about hegseth and the Secretary of War not messing around on a lot of other things. There are a few holdouts from the Biden Obama era, kind hearted, lovey dovey, military angle that are showing they're essentially trying to moon the rest of the United States by expressing themselves in the most exciting ways possible. And one of these individuals is a Navy commander now, I shall say a former Navy commander who decided that it would be a great idea to promote how important she is as the transgender health care medical director at a Naval center in California. So Janelle Mara again the rank of commander promoting her important work of while again right now individuals suffering from gender dysphoria who are not mentally stable by nature of believe they are in the wrong body, believing that the wrong kinds of hormones are flowing through them. That right now that the transgender situation being the way that it is in this country, having someone in the Navy who is using their post to express rather political means. My focus on women's and LGBTQ health, the plus is very exciting. Pronouns she and her oh so special. Hegseth quoted that and said pronouns updated. They are now she, her and fired. Yes, yes. Removing some of the theatrics around your sexuality and focusing instead on war fighting. Yeah, I'd say that's more effective. That's a better use of my dollars. The same with the Department of Education, which has been brought down to a core function like it used to be as the Office of Education to keep track of education statistics and ensure that civil rights are being upheld, not providing resources on third grade transgender lessons and you know how awful white people are and the other kinds of nonsense that throughout the entirety, the entirety of the Biden and Obama administrations consistently forced individuals in the public sector and the private sector to abide by a series of regulations that not only crippled the economy but also put individuals in jail or the very least within the crosshairs of FBI investigations. Like if you were a parent who would go speak at a school board meeting, you would be put on a domestic terror watch list. Those things are no longer going on. So one of the reasons why it is important when you see a major name shift like the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, it is an honoring of American history. It is a recognition of American culture where it belongs. And it is again making clear what the tax dollars for specific bureaucratic agencies which are already too large and too bloated are meant to be spent on not random acts of defense and loving kindness and investments in random Middle Eastern communities with Sesame street and naval drag and whatever nonsense like that. If the Navy wants to do dragons, again, a time honored Navy tradition, they can do that off duty. Can't help it. But a little bit of a sailor joke there. Now again, I'm all for making sure that our military servicemen get the best care while they are in the military and afterward. And the focus that Pete Hegseth has brought to the va, to Veterans affairs in general, to ensuring that health care for our vets is top notch is excellent. I want our Marines to have the best Crayola crowns. No. Rose art. Crayons for our Marines. Now, unfortunately, the former officer Theatrical crew. It's a little bit worse. We got to bring the radio crew back. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal. This episode is brought to you by Lifelock. When you visit the doctor, you probably hand over your insurance, your ID and contact details. It's just one of the many places that has your personal info. And if any of them accidentally expose it, you could be at risk for identity theft. Lifelock monitors millions of data points a second. If you become a victim, they'll fix it, guaranteed. Or your money back. Save up to 40% your first year@lifelock.com podcast terms apply. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenneth cast. We cannot say that the shift away from the United States activist culture has come quickly enough because we talked about RFK Jr. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, yesterday in that Senate committee hearing, arguing with every Democrat senator in the room and a couple of Republicans. A lot of shouting was going on. Well, one clip we didn't get to play for you was of two former army officers. And when this clear, two former U.S. army officers who were escorted forcefully out of the room after they stood up and started shouting about Palestine and genocide and pesticide. Well, here you go. Every American sitting at home right now needs to realize that you are paying for a genocide. Rise up. Rise up, America. Rise up.
Protester
It is time to take back this.
Tony Kennett
Country from these corrupt politicians. It is time. It is beyond time. Okay, so the two actors in this particular situation. One would be Tony Aguilar. He's got a couple of issues that we're just not going to get into right now because this man's got problems. Number one is that he has been caught repeatedly just blatantly lying about very obvious videos. And stick. Yes, that Tony Aguilar.
Robert Nettzley
Mm.
Tony Kennett
That one, for example, that there is this boy that. That in the Middle east, in Gaza, that was dead. He saw him dead with his own eye. He watched him die, bleeding from the abdomen. And actually, now all of those stories have had to be retracted because the boy is, by all biometrics, totally alive and left his stepmother's house and went to go live in his mother's house. And no one actually did the due diligence to check on that story. So we're gonna leave Tony Aguilar alone for a minute. The lady, however, yelling in this particular story. Yes, what a lovely peach of a young lady there. This individual's name is Josephine. And then I want to make sure I get the name, the name right here. Josephine Gilbel. Now, Josephine Gilbel, of course, shouting Rise up, America. Again, always someone in an army uniform shouting about political action. I don't like that, but we'll get there. I want to play this again here. Rise up, America. Rise up.
Protester
It is time to take back this.
Tony Kennett
Country from these corrupt politicians. It is time. It is beyond time. All right, so a little bit of problem here that I have. So a friend of the show actually over from the Ruthless podcast, their producer, Lee Wolf, he noticed something that I noticed that was a little strange. We did some digging this afternoon, so if we could shift over to the B roll for segment two here, I'll show you what I'm talking about, guys. So in a different video, she's got her class A uniform on, sort of. There is no tie, which, I mean, you know, there's also no head covering. I really don't like it when people dress up in uniform to do political advocacy. Anyway, there was that individual from not too long ago who was arguing about her mother and her uniform, things like that. So Galo here claims to be a 17 year veteran in the intelligence community and also was active in US Cybercom. Now that brings us to a couple of problems, and this is where I start to get extra annoyed. So first of all, to dress up in your class A's, your nicest service uniform, in order to get out there and be political. I got enough of a problem with that. That's like a really gross misuse of what the service uniform is for. Number two, there's an issue on the uniform itself. There's some discrepancies. So first of all, the big Palestine flag heart pin pinned on the lapel above the fruit salad. Sorry, the fruit salad, for those who are listening or don't know what I'm talking about, the fruit salad, that's the ribbons on the chest and the stuff surrounding those ribbons, that's kind of rough enough. But then Lee and I, we took a closer look at the ribbons on her chest and we get to an issue. So Lee points out the bottom left ribbon, that with the, the yellow, the gold with the two thin red stripes on the outside, that is what appears to be the United States Marine Corps Reservist ribbon that they stopped giving out in the 1960s. Now why would a, an officer in the U.S. army, past or present, be wearing a Marine Corps Reservist ribbon? That's just what the ribbon looks like also the device that I saw on there. At the time, I was like, I don't know what on earth you would have oak leaf clusters on a Marine? What are you, like, so super reservist? That's a little weird. And then Lee pointed out he had no idea what the ribbon to the. The two ribbons to the right of it was. There's like a gray ribbon with some blue banding on it and then a white banding with some blue and red banding on it. This is where I got to doing a little bit of digging, and I discovered that you can basically go one of two routes here. Because she claims to be a U.S. army officer, she doesn't claim to be part of the National Guard. None of her forms out there say that she's ever worked with the state National Guard. Keep that in mind. Now, when I look at the US army ribbon guide for precedence and things, I don't see anything on there that looks like anything in the bottom ribbon row at all. Nothing whatsoever that looks like that. In fact, what I find is that the ribbon that she's wearing on the bottom right appears to be a ribbon from the Air Force Junior ROTC J ROTC ribbon for the Air Force association ribbon that has been flipped upside down a little bit. Weird. I would say rather strange. So either a, she has no idea what she's doing and she's just stapling extra ribbons onto the bottom of her uniform to appear more impressive when she's hauled away. And I'll tell you the other reason that I think. I think that's probably the likelier of the two. Um, another comment pointed out that there are similarities to the Louisiana National Guard ribbons. So, first of all, if you are in active army officer duty, meaning that you are in, like, the real, correct full status federal army, you do not wear National Guard ribbons. You don't wear them if you are assigned. If you are taken out of your battalion and you are placed instead in the regular army for a special operation, you are no longer listed as National Guard. You're in the federal army. You do not wear National Guard ribbons in that particular case. Additionally, there's no evidence she's in the Louisiana National Guard or she was ever in the Louisiana National Guard on the Eisenhower Institute stuff. No evidence that she was of art. It's not listed. So while there are some, like, general excellence medals and longevity awards and things like that, and a Louisiana Emergency Service Medal, I also have a bit of an issue, why there would be oak clusters on an emergency Service medal for someone who claimed to be in cyber intelligence. I'm sorry, I really don't like stolen valor. It really irks me. I'm not accusing her of such, but this is why whenever I start looking at ribbons, people show up dressed up in. I get really, really bothered when political advocacy shows up. Additionally, last but not least, she wears on her uniform over on the left, above her name tag, a unit insignia, presumably for the cyber defense unit she was a part of that is different from the Louisiana's. I believe it's what, like the 4 17th for the Louisiana National Guard unit insignia for intelligence. So all I will say is that that's some pretty suspicious stuff. The leftist coalition in advocacy, they really do bring, like, their worst and most embarrassing in a way that really a lot of Americans just can't get on board with. Case in point, Dearborn Heights Police Department, that's up in Dearborn, Michigan, has released their new police uniform badge, and it's got some Arabic script on the front of it. And that's bothered a lot of Americans because I was told for quite a long time that, you know, Americans were usually served by American police departments. And given that English is, even if it's not the technical, official, congressional, official language of the United States, although it should be, there aren't a lot of police departments I know of with Spanish or French or Morse or other languages on the badge, given that that's the largest Muslim community in the United States up in Dearborn, Given the hate Death to America chants that have been going on up there, it's kind of weird.
Producer Nick
Producer Nick I would argue that it's not even necessarily that it's Arabic script. It is the intention of the inclusion of the Arabic script in and of itself. This is a purely political option here.
Tony Kennett
Doesn't it say something also about, like, I don't know the translation here, but something about respecting the pride of, like, diversity, Something on the front of the.
Producer Nick
Badge, Something to that effect, people.
Tony Kennett
Goofy. It's just so goofy. Now we do have to send the radio crew away for commercial again. We're going to go through some of the leftist coalition just desisting into chaos over here on the Tony Kinnit cast. See you guys in a second. Radio crew. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. All right, so aside from the imagery, the left has no idea what they're doing in response to anything the Trump administration is up to. And so the younger, more violent crew is getting more loud and violent, and the older crew has no idea what to do. They're just pulling anything they can. Case in point, New York City mayoral race, getting into the. The last stretch here, looking towards November. That election is right on the heels, right? So Zoran Mamdani, the young, angry, loud, open communist, pro jihadi, very, very insane dude. He's running against two different Democrats, Current mayor and incumbent Eric Adams, as well as the former governor of New York, Cuomo, Chris Cuomo. And is Chris or Andrew. It's Chris, yeah, Chris Cuomo. And then, of course, on the Republican side of the ticket, Chris Silva, who doesn't have a chance in this particular race. And a lot of people have been encouraging either Eric Adams and Silwa to drop out or for Chroma, for Cuomo and Silwa to drop out, because they're, they're just not going to win. You're going to split the vote and you're going to have a communist to be the mayor of New York City. A pro jihadist communist of New York City. So, yeah, a lot of people have some, some issues, Andrew. Sorry. The Cuomo brothers, they're, they're rather easy to mix up.
Producer Nick
Both equally despicable.
Tony Kennett
Both equally Cuomo. So in this particular, in this particular case, Eric Adams makes a big announcement today. Oh, big, huge announcement. We're going to get into it. Oh, so exciting. He's going to. It's like, is he going to drop out of the race? There's been a lot of speculation. So Cuomo gets in front of the. Or, excuse me, Adams gets in front of the country. And as his big, huge move decides that what he needs to do is just accuse Cuomo of racism. That's the big announcement. He bragged everyone into a press conference today. Check it out.
Donald Trump
So I want to be clear with you, Andrew. Cuomo is a snake and a liar. I, I am in this race, and I'm the only one that can beat Mendonni. Andrew has had a career of pushing black candidates out of races. You've heard me say it over again. Karl McCall, Charlie King.
Tony Kennett
Great, thanks. Thanks, Eric. So the older folks in the Democratic Party are just calling everything racist that's never been tried before. And the younger goobers are turning to violence because, you know, of course they are. So this is happening in a couple of places. So again, right now, Trump has announced he's probably not going to send the National Guard, and maybe the National Guard of Chicago, maybe not, might just send it to Louisiana instead and just let ICE do the work in Chicago. And the antifa crew, the antifa crew in Chicago has now announced that they are going to get out there and make threats openly to Immigration Customs Enforcement to directly impede federal law in Chicago. This is absolutely how you get the National Guard.
Protester
Hey Chicago, many of you saw that I got arrested blocking a van outside of the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, a Chicago suburb located at 1930 Beach street in Broadview, Illinois this past week. This morning we had a follow up action where a number of protesters blocked entrance into the ICE facility. There were so many people that ICE turned turned around and the police refused to arrest those protesters. This action was scheduled to end at 9am this morning. It is Friday, September 5th. But now that we know that that works, now that we know that ICE is running scared, they do not want you here. They are located here because it is inconvenient for people from the Chicagoland area to get out here and because the village of Broadview has 7, 900 people, vast majority of them are non white.
Tony Kennett
Ah yes, that's it. Ah yeah, the vast majority are non white. Good, keep it up.
Protester
Is hiding out in. They've run out of Chicago. They're running scared here too.
Tony Kennett
ICE is not running scared hon. That's misreading the situation to the extreme.
Protester
We are going to be here past night, it's now 10am we are going to be here as long as we can be. Because now that we know that this works, what's going to stop us? So come on down, come with friends and hope to see you there if you can't make it. Share, Share Share I'll be here. Ice get the out.
Tony Kennett
Good luck. Good luck to you. You want the Trump administration to send in the National Guard like they did with Los Angeles. This is how you get it. This is how you get it. You get out there, you threaten, you do what ICE is is currently dealing with in Portland and you are going to get the National Guard right to your doorstep. And really the key to all of this does in fact come down to Portland. Portland is kind of the linchpin of what is going to bring the Guard down in these blue cities. We're going to talk about it. We got to bring the radio crew back from commercial. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. This episode is brought to you by J.C. penney. Yes, JCPenney. And if you've been there recently, you know it's the place to go for jaw dropping looks at brag worthy prices. They've got something special for every style and budget, not to mention rewards and deals that make finding those hidden gems even sweeter. If you already shop JCPenney, you're already in on the secret. But if not, it's time to ask. Wait, am I sleeping on JCPenney? Shop jcpenney.com yes, JCPenney. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYPC Portland. It sucks kind of the worst. It's Oregon that's already bad enough. Then you get into Portland, it's smells like urine. And I'm not talking about the streets. A lot of the antifa action in the country is coming right out of Portland. And it has been a place where Immigration Customs Enforcement has requested that those who are in jails and prisons, who are illegal immigrants, be turned over to the federal government because they're not supposed to be taking local resources for law enforcement. And again, you know, they're illegal, they're not supposed to be here. Many of them are essentially already in situations where there are likely to be federal charges like drug charges, sexual abuse charges, murder charges, et cetera. And so Portland, and it's great, definitely not insane progressive stance, has decided to say no. And Antifa has backed it up. Ice was sent in and over the last 80 days, I want to make that clear, over the last 80 days, the ICE facility in Portland has effectively been under siege by Antifa. So this is a clip from Fox News. I think this is airing from some of the post millennial footage. You can see the police who have been like, like, basically people have called the police in Portland who live near the ICE facility because people live in the city and they've said it's loud all times of the day in the night. There's violence. There are constant riots. Can you please send police to remove the protesters? They're, they're breaking laws that aren't just involved with ice. And even vi, you're not allowed to get out there, blast loudspeakers at 2 in the morning when people are trying to sleep. You're disturbing the peace. And the city of Portland, I know, shocker. They've done nothing.
Producer Nick
There has been a general failure of response from first responders reported by the residents as well. Ambulances and fire response has been blocked.
Tony Kennett
It's ridiculous. Now it gets better. And by it gets better, I mean it gets a lot worse. So the antifa crew decided to, because already they're winning such a fantastic war against, you know, federal law. They have now dragged a guillotine, which I was told by the left was like, oh, because there was Was like a gallows that was erected, like at one place. And like somebody chanted about Mike Pence that meant, oh. Only that kind of violence appears on the right. Ooh. So the left drags out a guillotine and of course plays a lovely song about dragging out the guillotine. This footage is from the post Millennial check. I mean, an actual guillotine and then a song chanting happily in the background. Bring out the guillotine. It's such lovely children's music. I can only assume they imported it from, you know, Palestine. So the Department of Homeland Security under Kristi Noem, like Pete Hegseth, they're no longer messing around. They are no longer messing around. The Homeland Security posted this video online or quote, tweeted it. I should say saying to call for beheading officers is unhinged behavior. The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line every day to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens. Politicians and activists must turn the temperature down and tone down their rhetoric. This is, this is them saying it nicely because the other alt, the alternative to this is the National Guard. And by the way to the mealy mouthed out there who are suggesting that oh, Trump can't just send in the National Guard. The correct and legal application of federal law enforcement, including the military, is when federal officers are upholding federal law legally with legal warrants and they are being impeded by those in an organized fashion, inciting violence. That qualifies as an insurrection first of all, but also impeding federal agents and putting them in danger. You do get to provide security to those federal forces. And as, as if I haven't been saying this, here's President Trump today making that case. Exactly.
Donald Trump
I will say this. I watched today, I didn't know that was continuing to go on. But Portland is unbelievable. What's going on in Portland? The, the destruction of the city. Well, I'm going to look at it now because I've, I didn't know that was still going on. This has been going on for years. So we'll, we'll be able to stop that very easily. We'll be able to stop. But you know, that was not on my list, Portland, but when I watched television last night, this has been going on. You wouldn't be standing. If you were the mayor. You would be. Can you imagine what they're doing? They're walking in, throwing smoke bombs into store. These are paid terrorists.
Tony Kennett
Okay, he's correct. He is 100% correct on that. And now that, that brings us over to the actions from the Department of Homeland Security itself, which are really, really on point. So today, the largest immigration raid in history occurred today in Georgia. It was a collaboration by the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of justice, overall, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms of Atlanta and Georgia. And it essentially it was the raiding of a large Hyundai facility where there were over, what was it, over 1200 or 1500 people were working in the facility before the raid?
Producer Nick
Over 1400.
Tony Kennett
Over 1400, yeah. Now there are only 900 people working in the facility. This is a clip that was uploaded earlier today from Ross Security. We have a search warrant for the whole site. We need construction to cease immediately. We need all work to end on the site. Right now. You can see the individuals that have been again detained. 475 detained. And by the way, I really do enjoy some of the pearl clutching from those on the legacy media side of things who have suggested. How could you? I. You don't even. They're asking for your immigration papers or your citizenship papers. People don't even carry those. I carry my Indiana driver's license with me at all times. I have a lot of documents in my wallet which prove I'm supposed to be here. Amazing how that works. ID is in fact a very basic function of civilization. Especially at a time when there are verified threats of those who are not carrying proper identification. It is hilarious to watch folks try to thread that particular line. What else is rather hilarious? And I'd say I'm just a little suspicious. This posted also today that President Joe Biden just so happened to issue an executive order on Hyundai investments in Georgia. So amazingly enough, this same Hyundai facility was targeted specifically by Joe Biden's economic agenda. This plant was announced during my trip to the Republic of Korea in May and I am excited for the groundbreaking. Happening months ahead of schedule. Hyundai's commitment to invest more than $5 billion and create more than 8,000 jobs making electric vehicles and batteries, well, not 8,000American jobs, you know, will help boost the entire community around Bryan County. With good jobs, people can raise a family on and ultimately help lower the costs for American people. Hmm. I would say rather apropos, no, that the facility that Biden put so much time and love and care in just so happened to hire a lot of individuals who are not legal immigrants. So either the individuals who were hired at this plant falsified E verified documents or this particular Hyundai facility or Hyundai's corporate offices, someone somewhere chose to ignore that these were illegal immigrants that did not have the appropriate work documentation or visas to be in the United States working. And I happen to know that when there are plants around me here in Indiana that open up auto manufacturing plants, those jobs are taken within an instant. So don't tell me these are just jobs that Americans wouldn't want to take working for a car manufacturing plant in some of these places. These are like really good jobs. Ask someone from Detroit about what auto manufacturing jobs are worth, you're never going to see the major revival and boom of the 50s and 60s. Auto industry just doesn't work that way anymore with the technology and how things function. But the jobs that are there are extremely important. And if you're going to be here in this country, you got to play by the rules. Sorry. Oh, wait, I'm not sorry at all. And neither are the majority of American workers. So we're going to get into the economy and a few more things along those lines here in a second radio crew, we have to send you over to the commercial. Don't go anywhere. Over on the live stream, that is. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal. Few more things out of Savannah. The Savannah is where the Hyundai facility was says from the Associated Press. The state of Georgia and local governments are on Track to give $2.1 billion in tax breaks and other incentives to the Hyundai Motor Group after the South Korean automaker and a partner announced last month this is during the Biden administration that it will invest an additional 2 billion at an electric vehicle complex it's building in Georgia. Associated Press calculations show projected incentives will rise by more than $290 million from the $1.8 billion deal originally announced last year. Only 2.75 million of that represents additional cash from the state. The rest will come from increases in tax breaks. This is why I do not like corporatism from the United States government. I don't care who's in office. I hate this. I don't care for the idea that we are going to incentivize corporations to come into the United States with large amounts of your money and then the company just breaks the rules. Now, the odds that all 475 of those detained, let's be nice, let's say that of those that are detained, a hundred of them left their wallets home. Just one of those days. I mean, come on, like I've left my wallet at home before. Definitely not when I have driven anywhere. But you know, we've all left our wallet at home. Perhaps. Unless your, you know, driver's license is super glued to your thigh. I don't know why you would do that, but benefit of the doubt here. So if 300 were detained and not left their licenses at home, they are illegal immigrants. They don't have their visas here in the United States. Correctly. Are you telling me 300 people who all went to work at this plant all independently falsified their E verified documents? It could happen. We saw this at the food processing plant in Omaha, Nebraska. But that was like 20 or 30 people had falsified their E verified documentation. I just find it a little bit suspicious that someone in Hyundai is that bad at their job. They didn't check this. So the Hyundai corporation getting tax breaks, big tax breaks from the Biden administration now finds out that wow, just so happened to be getting, you know, great bargains. And also he gets slave labor. Woo hoo. Problem? Sorry, bit of an issue for me. So when we look at the, the scrutiny, the scrutiny that is being applied to the illegal immigration issue in this country, one of the key reasons why Trump has built instead of a coalition of socialists and the antifa anarchist radicals, the LGBTQ crowd and the pro jihadists and then old white liberal women. That coalition is far weaker than the weird amalgamation of the Bill Clinton populist kind of former union labor Democrats and then the conservatives and the pseudo libertarians on the right. That coalition is stronger is because the left keeps propping up this Hyundai garbage that is ridiculously insulting to everyone who is a citizen in this country. You and I pay taxes. Illegal immigrants do not pay taxes in the same way. Oh sure, they may pay a sales tax every once in a while and some kind of finagley ways to make taxes happen. No, not in this way. We'll be back in a second. We're going to talk economy and then some really good news. It's the Tony Kinnit cast. Don't go anywhere. Mint is still $15 a month for premium wireless. And if you haven't made the switch yet, here are 15 reasons why you should. One, it's $15 a month. Two, seriously, it's $15 a month. Three, no big contracts. Four, I use it. Five, my mom uses it. Are you, are you playing me off? That's what's happening, right? Okay, give it a try@mintmobile.com Switch upfront.
Protester
Payment of $45 for three month plan. $15 per month equivalent required. New customer offer first three months only. Then full price plan options available, taxes and fees extra. See mintmobile.com.
Tony Kennett
This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. Now this brings us to Some of the economic numbers here in the United States, we're now in September. The jobs numbers came out this morning and in a couple of ways, they didn't look too fancy, they didn't look too good. And this had immediately every single speculator out there making all of the bold statements right off the crack of the bat. And some saying, look, this is because of the tariffs, that the job numbers haven't increased. Actually, some of the jobs numbers are good, some of them are bad. You have a lot of different narratives that are already jumping out. Some are saying we haven't even seen the revisions yet. There's a lot jumping in already on that. So before I get into some of the ins and outs of this particular jobs report from the President today, who was asked about it and then shifted over to the economic spokesperson, Kevin HASSETT, President Trump. Mr. President, we learned this morning that.
Robert Nettzley
We'Ve lost 78,000 manufacturing jobs this year.
Donald Trump
How do you explain? Well, one thing we have is, you know, we have the interest rates are too high. That was, you know, matter of the Fed. But the other thing is so many different, so many different elements aren't included yet. And one of the things we've learned, and we learned that the hard way, watching over the last few months are the corrections that people have been making. They'll say you're losing jobs. And then they'll say, by the way, we have a correction a month later of, you know, 100,000 jobs are missing. They actually had a Correction once of 850,000 jobs. But I'll let Kevin just speak about that a little bit because I heard him speaking about it this morning. I thought he did very well. Please.
Tony Kennett
Thank you very much, sir. Well, I think that if you look at the indicators, there's capital spending boom, industrial production at an all time high. The Atlanta Fed says GDP now is north of 3%. And so all the indicators are saying that things are really strong. And what we've also seen is that Goldman Sachs put out a study yesterday that said that the August number tends to be really messed up because of seasonal adjustment things that they tend to be revised way up. And so I think if they were revised up, which has happened on average over the last 15 years by about 60,000, then everything else would make sense.
Donald Trump
Sense.
Tony Kennett
But right now we're puzzled about the BLS numbers and looking forward for new leadership there to make it so that the numbers are more reliable. Okay. So going with the statistics thing either way, whether or not in the next couple of weeks, which is really when this question will be answered pretty down pat. Is Powell going to lower interest rates after this? Is this going to be kind of a hook? Is it going to be kind of a question? You actually do need someone a little bit more finger on the pulse of watching the markets, the manufacturing economy and all of that than just, you know, yours truly. We head over to Robert Nettzley, the founder and CEO of Inspire Impact Group, because not only is his new book biblically responsible, investing on Wall street as it is in heaven, getting ready to come out not only on that side, but because, look, if we're going to talk about like some financial advice, some kind of general themes in the market, getting results, I would rather do so from a guy that's got his heart in the right place. And I know I'm a little biased here as your neighborhood friendly Baptist, but got to say, Robert, good to have you, man.
Robert Nettzley
A pleasure to be here, Tony. Thanks.
Tony Kennett
Let's dig right in. So first of all, I know you guys are coming off of a big victory because Costco announced that it's not going to be selling mifepristone, the abortion drug, because of your shareholder intervention. That's kind of unheard of.
Robert Nettzley
Yeah, it's, it's a huge win. We started the shareholder engagement campaign about a year and a half ago with Costco and a huge coalition has rallied around, certainly not a single handed effort. But as we have spearheaded and helped lead that charge, we're thrilled to see that. And that's just an example of many other wins as we, as Christian investors, conservative investors, are realizing that we have a direct inroad to the boardrooms. And we can make some pretty significant change when we just don't outsource our votes and influence to BlackRock and Vanguard, but instead take control of that. We can see some really amazing progress.
Tony Kennett
But do you realize how rare it is to actually see results on that front? Well, of course you do. You're in this game, I hope. Been calling for years now for ABC News specifically because media accountability is kind of one of our shticks here on the show. They'll put forward an egregiously false, objectively verifiably incorrect headlines. The reporting is maliciously terrible. And I will point out, hey, look, the shareholders at Disney, they realize they must realize that these kinds of headlines are directly against shareholder values to grow the company and increase dividends. And here you guys are actually delivering not only on the financial and the journalistic side and getting those results, saving lives by mifepristone, not poisoning Mothers and of course killing kids.
Robert Nettzley
Absolutely. Yeah. And the tide really is with us. We've been among the fastest growing investment firms in the nation the past several years. We're managing about three and a half billion of assets under management. And in his testimony to what I believe God is doing in industry, opening the eyes to of his people to this huge problem that we've been taking his money and just putting it in all sorts of heinous things and just a little intentionality. We can earn market rate returns from good companies doing good things instead of funding the enemy's endeavors.
Tony Kennett
I'm going to be really clear about two things. First of all, how encouraging it is to actually hear a brother in Christ say the tide is with us. I mean, do you know how rarely that is said these days? And that kind of a smile on your face when you're saying it? And the second thing I want to be clear on, we are not paid by the Inspire Impact Group. This is not a sponsored segment. Producer Lou booked this based on some of the stuff that we've worked on before. So just to be clear, this is not like some kind of a special sponsored segment. I'm actually really freaking happy to hear some of these results. So I want to keep pushing, I want to move on this because a lot of Christians and a lot of conservatives, the country at large, they're nervous about the interest rates in September. You're in the business of giving advice, of kind of looking for organizational opportunities in rough times. Specifically, what if Jerome Powell over at the Federal Reserve gets cold feet or political feet, doesn't lower interest rates?
Robert Nettzley
Absolutely. So we've got a lot of economic commentary available for free@inspireinvesting.com to really. People want to really dig into the commentary there and some of our long term thoughts about those things. Certainly just in a nutshell, the Fed has a lot of power, but it doesn't have as much power as many people think they do. And it will be interesting to see how the markets react to Jerome. And of course with the whole Trump Fed debate or Twitter or X war or whatever you want to call it there.
Tony Kennett
So you mean that like different parts of the economy, different sectors could respond totally different to this fight?
Robert Nettzley
Sure. I think investors oftentimes just myopically kind of watch the Fed and make bets based on, well, look, interest rates go down, interest rates go up. This is exactly what's going to happen.
Tony Kennett
You mean like drinking Red Bull and watching cnbc? What do you mean? Like myopically, like watching the market here.
Robert Nettzley
There'S a term called buy the rumor, sell the news. And so anything that happens in the markets has been priced in six months ago. And so if you're waiting for that Fed announcement, you're usually too late. So that's the, you know, in a nutshell. I think it would be better if Jerome would, you know, decrease interest rates. I think there's some, some, you know, things that we're seeing in the labor markets that would help him make that decision. But I think it's also a little political and so who knows what's going to do.
Tony Kennett
I want to, I want to pick a brain on that for a second though, because we just talked to a major investment crew who is concerned about the idea that Americans no longer value labor statistics coming out of the government. They no longer value market statistics coming out of the government. You're talking about this being priced in. If Fortune 500 companies are no longer watching labor stats regarding governmental numbers every month, what is your Christian conservative investor crew watching?
Robert Nettzley
Yeah, well, we look at the same data as everybody else has and unfortunately it does, you know, revolve around a lot of these government stats, which I'm encouraged to see the Trump administration working to fix and add some credibility back into those numbers.
Tony Kennett
If you heard about the EJ and Tony being appointed to that position.
Robert Nettzley
Sure, yeah. It's just, you know, there's also the looking around just at the, at the price action in the market because the price doesn't lie. You can look at the stats, you can look at the economics, but what's happening on the actual price charts is telling you what the market actually thinks.
Tony Kennett
The politics fade away as soon as it's too expensive to bring those products into the factory and keep that same crew on manufacturing in that part of the absolute sector.
Robert Nettzley
Absolutely. More index investors. We're the world's largest provider of faith based ETFs. And so we'd encourage rather than market timing and that sort of thing. It's good to be informed. But you know, all the stat studies.
Tony Kennett
Show more long term, how you build a pack to shoulder for the long haul.
Robert Nettzley
Right. Long term, markets down, that's a good time to buy markets up. You know, maybe you want to stay invested but try not to get jacked around by the news too, too much. It's fun to, to speculate and postulate, but over, over the long term, you want to buy the market, keep it efficient and invest in good companies and avoid woke activists, you know.
Tony Kennett
All right, Robert, then let's, let's dig into the long Term here. There are two ways we could take it. Both of them are going to get me in trouble. Don't care. Are we going to dig into the retirement investor Social Security mess? Let's set that one aside. Let's talk about AI. I'm told that is the future of the economy, all the money in. You hear someone like Ben Shapiro say it's a bubble ready to burst. You hear somebody on probably the more populous side say it's the bright shining future. As Christians though, you and I might have a different view of AI and what man can create. What do you see long term regarding AI?
Robert Nettzley
Yeah, I think both those views are actually right. I mean, there is a bright shining future potentially with AI. I think it's also overbought. I mean, so those things aren't necessarily intentional. And as a Christian, I think they're, you know, we tend to obviously think a lot different about technology than many secular counterparts. And we got to be careful with any sort of new technology and not to look at it as our savior or as a, you know, transhumanist, you know, sort of thing where we're going.
Tony Kennett
Not to take away the, the curse of sin from the world to make my life essentially heaven here on earth. That kind of a dream. Right.
Robert Nettzley
We want to employ, look, we have a, a dominion mandate to go forth and exert the sovereignty of Christ, the lordship of God over all of creation. That includes technology. And so if we approach this with a kingdom mindset and take artificial intelligence captive to the will of Christ, many wonderful things can happen. And if we don't and allow those who with evil, more wicked intentions to win the day, then there's going to be some bad things that happen. So that's all the more reason for Christians, serious Christians to be involved in industries like this and to, yeah, to really exert the lordship of Christ instead of abandoning, you know, back to our bunkers and just hoping, you know, that the sky doesn't fall on our part of the world.
Tony Kennett
I think that you're dead right there. So therefore let's carry that through to the last long haul portion that a lot of people are doing. The fear mongering, the doom and gloom of the end of the US economy because of Social Security and the other entitlement programs. But there are still a lot, in fact, the rising generation, they're trying to get married, they're trying to buy a house, they want a future. They may not be able to control Social Security in the entitlement programs right now. So what do you suggest for Them right now, millennial, Gen Z or I Alpha coming up behind them. They want a future. They want that Kingdom mindset that includes raising a family. So what do you suggest to them right now? They may not have the, you know, kind of the Gen X or boomer influence or money squared away in the big investing game. What do they do?
Robert Nettzley
Yeah, well, first of all, work hard. Don't wait for a handout. Don't wait for government to. To make this happen for you or anybody else to happen for you.
Tony Kennett
Expound a little bit. What do you mean by work hard? You just mean, like on the job, like give 110%. What do you mean?
Robert Nettzley
Yeah, you know, there is a tendency to look at the, I think the, the, the macroeconomic landscape. Houses are too expensive. You know, it's hard to get jobs that pay well for this or that. The other thing, those things are true. But it's also true that God rewards hard work. And so don't, don't take a defeated mindset that, look, the world is stacked against me and I'm just gonna, you know, kind of have a pity party, ride the waves.
Tony Kennett
Populism. Yeah, I hear what you're saying.
Robert Nettzley
Go get that job. Go do what you can. Start a business, work hard, save your family, have babies. In faith. Right. Don't wait for the world to get better, to have kids and get married, all that sort of thing.
Tony Kennett
Your kids are part of changing the world to make it better. Kingdom mindset, start building.
Robert Nettzley
Yeah, There are plenty of opportunities for those who are will willing to go out there and do it. I know there's opportunities in my business and many others like it, and so I'd encourage you to. I mean, it really is a matter of faith. If we have trust in the world economic system, the US Government and the economy, we're going to have a very pessimistic outlook if we have faith.
Tony Kennett
Are you suggesting the doom. And I'm sorry, are you suggesting that the doom and gloom that we often push in the media may not actually be the kind of things that everyday Americans are finding when they go out and they touch grass. They go to their local church, they get involved. I'm shocked.
Robert Nettzley
Yeah. Shocking, right? Look, I'm optimistic. I've read the end of the book. Jesus wins. He is on the throne and he's in charge. And those who are working with that in mind, we know that all things work together for the good of those who love him, are called according to his purpose, and we have reason for hope. It doesn't mean things Aren't going to get tough. It's not going to be challenging.
Tony Kennett
No, but Christ pays for what he orders.
Robert Nettzley
Yeah, absolutely.
Tony Kennett
I mean, if he's called you and me and our listeners and viewers to a purpose, to something specifically actionable, then he's going to make sure that the resources are there for those needs to be met. I don't know what that looks like. You know, I'm not, you know, not doing a prosperity gospel thing. And we know that you're not, otherwise we wouldn't have you on the show.
Robert Nettzley
Absolutely. Absolutely.
Tony Kennett
I gotta say that. A really refreshing interview. Robert Nettzley, biblically responsible investing on Wall street as it is in heaven. That's Canon Press that's coming out. When is that coming out?
Robert Nettzley
Actually, it's available right now. Start shipping in a couple of weeks, so get it while it's hot. It's on sale@canapress.com right now.
Tony Kennett
You got it. Robert, we're going to have you back, man. Thanks for your time.
Robert Nettzley
Thank you. Pleasure to be here.
Tony Kennett
All right, right before we finish out the show, there's one big thing that was said today I wasn't expecting. So speaker of the House, Mike Johnson again. Congress is back in session. They're back from the recess. They're gearing up for another big, huge financial fight. And Mike Johnson, speaker of the House, he got some. Well, he got a little Epstein question about the President of the United States and the Epstein list and all of this kind of conversation here. And it was. Again, I was expecting a response. I don't think I was expecting Speaker Johnson to say this. He's not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It's a terrible, unspeakable evil to. He believes that himself. When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar A Lago. He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down. He was an FBI informant to try and take this stuff out. We'll let him finish the rest of this. The President knows and has great sympathy.
Robert Nettzley
For the women who have suffered these unspeakable harms. It's detestable to him.
Tony Kennett
He and I have spoken about this as recently as 24 hours ago. Okay, producer Nick, your initial thoughts on that?
Producer Nick
When we first began discussing the Epstein situation, I did propose this theory before we had even had the. The victims come out and say this, as I had done quite a bit of research into Epstein himself and the island. As we began preparing to discuss the situation on the show the first time.
Tony Kennett
I mean, it's. It's Definitely a one up there. So I, Again, the question that I, the question that I've had through this entire, this entire thing is what things are still ongoing and what are the things that you cannot say in public because there has to be reason behind it. You can't say whether someone is or is not involved in an investigation if they are kind of on the informant level. Remember, we played this with Ray EPPS during the January 6th thing. Was Ray Epps, you know, some kind of informant, secret inside guy for the FBI? And, and there were things, the more.
Producer Nick
We learned about him.
Tony Kennett
Right, right, right, right. Suspicious things. Now, I will all speculate just a little bit here, throw a little of my rationale here. Again, now that you've seen the clip that Mike Johnson said he was an FBI informant, you know, go after Epstein. Okay. That is a big statement to make. I am now very interested in hearing how that plays out over the next couple of days, I'm sure. Now we haven't really heard from Attorney General Pam Bondi herself in big press conference sorts of ways. I think now we're gonna have to come out and look at this because that's a big claim, not even one that you can walk back. Um, I mean, I guess you could say he once filed a statement here or there, something like that, but that's a big one. Um, that would be an explanation as to why. But we also know the Biden and the Obama administrations have leaked things before. However, leaking this doesn't benefit them politically. I gotta be honest, I don't know what to make of this one. It seems ill timed. But also it seems like if you were doing some kind of a PR campaign, it's a perfect time for something like this.
Producer Nick
It's also congruent with some of the statements that Epstein's lawyer had made about the situation with Trump, with him actually throwing him out. That's in reference to 2008, when Jeffrey Epstein was banned from returning to Mar a Lago. In the video itself, you see Mike Johnson kind of recoil a bit when he says that. It seems that part of the discussion was not necessarily intentional. I think maybe the stress of being asked that question again and again alongside the relevancy of the discussion itself in the news and in the administration.
Tony Kennett
Either Johnson stuttered because he thought, ah, crap, that's gonna be a problem, or he stuttered because I maybe not have. I probably have been given clearance to say that. Yet I'm not. I'm also not a body language expert, though I certainly appear to be one. So there you go, there's that particular clip. One last, one last. One last thing. I was brought certain story snippet over the last 24 hours I couldn't help but share with you. According to a St. Anselm poll testing potential 2028 Democrat presidential candidates in New Hampshire. Again, that's like primary open season, right? Right. Now, According to the St. Anselm College poll, with a margin of error of about 3%, Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom are tied for the lead at 23%, followed by JB Pritzker at 9%, then followed by AOC at 7, Kamala Harris at 6, Cory Booker at a very constipated 5%. Benisanders on death's door. By that point, I would, I would guess at 4%, Amy Klobuchar and the staff members she definitely doesn't beat at 3%, Josh Shapiro at 3, Gretchen Whitmer at 2, and the most popular of all, other candidate at 3%. I'm rooting for other. Um, also, I really hope that someday that some parents name their child other candidate or just other, they come forward. Yeah, he won the election. I'm other. All right. In. In all seriousness, though, the reason this poll is interesting to me is that if Pete Buttigieg, who is far more articulate and can cite far more data than Gavin Newsom, if Newsom and Buttigieg get together in a debate, Newsom is going to criticize Pete for not getting anything done in the Biden administration. But he can't though, right? Because he can say, you know, Pete, you didn't actually do anything with the $7 billion you. You got out there. And because, you know, Gavin Newsom talks of the same. You got out there and you just built seven stations at rest stops. And then Pete Buttigieg, I guess, could fire back. Well, Gavin, you haven't built a high speed system in California. You know, there are two telephone poles in rural Indiana that are stretched further apart than the length of that high speed rail. I mean, my goodness. So what do they have? I guess as a fight against each other, Buttigieg is more articulate and cunning in a debate than Newsom, but it's very bad for him as a primary candidate because again, we've said this before, Pete Buttigieg has a, according to the echelon polls, a 0% favorability rating in the black community. Zero percent. And reminder, the Democrat get out the vote, inner city black community, last crew of the coalition that's still big enough to make a sizable swing in a primary. So whatever this means for the primary and that JB Pritzker is up there is just freaking hilarious. JD Vance versus Pritzker. First of all, I would argue that the Ohioan and the Illinoisan have to do the debate in Indianapolis. I don't know if we have a building that can accommodate the size of J.B. pritzker. But, you know, Indianapolis is a sports town. We'll build a new stadium. Yeah. Lucas Oil the roof retracts. We could lower him in that. Thank you, producer Nick. That's very good. But that's kind of the last thing I wanted to, you know, share with y' all this. Fine, fine Friday. Have a fantastic evening. We've got a lot of special stuff coming for you next week. Not gonna get into it, but there's gonna be some cool things to get to. Thanks very much for tuning in this week. This is the Tony Knitcast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. Take care.
Episode 401: 450+ Illegals Arrested at Biden's $5 Billion Hyundai Plant
Date: September 6, 2025
Host: Tony Kinnett (The Daily Signal)
Producer: Nick
Featured Guest: Robert Netzley (Inspire Impact Group CEO)
This episode delivers Tony Kinnett's signature middle-America conservative analysis and commentary on national news, with a heavy focus on the recent federal immigration raid at the Biden-backed Hyundai plant in Georgia, as well as a sweep across defense policy shifts, turbulent leftist activism, Democratic party in-fighting, Antifa disruptions against ICE, economic signals, and Christian investing. The tone is direct, critical of progressive policies, and laced with humor and sharp, sometimes biting, banter between Tony and Producer Nick.
[00:32 - 06:00]
Department of Defense renamed Department of War: Trump signs his 200th executive order, and the administration reframes the nation's defense posture.
Military Actions near Venezuela:
Open Speculation on U.S. Actions:
[09:30 - 14:00]
[16:00-24:00]
[24:30-35:17]
NYC Mayoral Race Called Out:
Antifa Actions Against ICE: Chicago & Portland:
[35:17-44:07]
[44:07-58:59]
Kinnett Breaks Down the Job Market:
Interview: Robert Netzley, Christian-Inspired Investing
[58:59 - 62:09]
[62:09 - End]
Tony Kinnett (01:51):
“The era of the US doing the gentle parenting thing... That's not what the American military was built for. It was for overwhelming force, moving in, conquering, delivering the will of the American people. By the way, that is America First.”
Donald Trump (06:53):
“If people want to have fun going on the high seas or the low seas, they're going to be in trouble. I will tell you boat traffic is substantially down on the Runway. You can imagine why.”
Tony Kinnett (11:19):
“Removing some of the theatrics around your sexuality and focusing instead on war fighting. Yeah, I'd say that's more effective.”
Producer Nick (23:59):
“It is the intention of the inclusion of the Arabic script in and of itself. This is a purely political option here.”
Tony Kinnett (26:37):
“So the older folks in the Democratic Party are just calling everything racist... And the younger goobers are turning to violence because, you know, of course they are.”
Tony Kinnett (32:15):
“It sucks kind of the worst. It's Oregon that's already bad enough. Then you get into Portland, it smells like urine. And I'm not talking about the streets.”
Robert Netzley (49:00):
“We've been among the fastest growing investment firms in the nation the past several years. We're managing about three and a half billion of assets...”
Tony Kinnett (57:39):
“Are you suggesting that the doom and gloom that we often push in the media may not actually be the kind of things that everyday Americans are finding when they go out and they touch grass...?”
Robert Netzley (57:56):
“Look, I'm optimistic. I've read the end of the book. Jesus wins. He is on the throne and he's in charge. And those who are working with that in mind, we know that all things work together for the good... and we have reason for hope.”
Tony Kinnett’s style is blunt, humorous, and rooted in a “flyover country” frame. The episode is highly critical of progressive politics, corporatism, activist culture in the military and police, and legacy media narratives. It lauds the Trump administration’s muscular approach to foreign and domestic policy, makes a case for traditional values—including faith-driven investment—and warns against top-down economic and cultural management.
For new listeners:
This episode is packed with cultural critique, political analysis, and Kinnett’s brand of irreverent, biting wit. There’s deep skepticism toward Biden-era policy, especially on immigration, defense, and corporate subsidies, as well as energetic support for Christian, faith-based engagement in every sphere of life.