Ep. 438 - Trump's Showdown w/ Xi, Justice Comes for Judge Boasberg, SNAP Users Threaten Violence

Summary

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Podcast Summary

The Tony Kinnett Cast – Ep. 438: Trump's Showdown w/ Xi, Justice Comes for Judge Boasberg, SNAP Users Threaten Violence
Date: October 31, 2025
Host: Tony Kinnett, with Producer Nick and guest Virginia Allen
Produced by The Daily Signal

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Episode Overview

This episode of the Tony Kinnett Cast dives into several hot-button topics affecting national politics and daily life in the U.S. Top items include the potential impeachment of Judge James Boasberg over illegal surveillance activities, mounting Democratic anxiety over SNAP benefits and shutdown politics, threats of violence from SNAP recipients, the impact of illegal immigration on transportation safety, and a deep analysis of President Trump’s high-stakes meeting with Xi Jinping and its implications for U.S.-China relations. The show keeps its trademark sharp, sardonic tone, calling out political hypocrisy with biting wit, and closes with some lighter political fare and viral moments making headlines.

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1. DOJ, Judge Boasberg & Illegal Surveillance (00:18 - 08:30)

• Main Points:

  • Judge James Boasberg has come under intense scrutiny after revelations from the FBI Arctic Frost investigation, which exposed that the Biden administration ordered the DOJ and intelligence agencies to monitor Republican members of Congress and conservative organizations – allegedly for mentioning Trump.
  • Boasberg issued a secret gag order to AT&T to prevent them from notifying customers (including senators) that the FBI was tapping their devices – a blatant violation of U.S. law (per Sean Davis, The Federalist).
  • Legal requirements dictate the Senate be informed about collection of their communications; Boasberg’s gag order is seen as explicitly avoiding this.

• Political Fallout:

  • Senator Ted Cruz has publicly called for Boasberg’s impeachment, stating:

    "I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg... That is a dereliction of duty and a violation of the judicial oath. And I want to thank Chairman Grassley and Chairman Johnson for pursuing this tenaciously like a dog on a bone." (03:57)

  • Representative Byron Donalds (FL) is spearheading impeachment talk in the House:

    "He needs to lose his seat as a judge... This is worse than Watergate." (05:55)

  • Historical context: Impeachment of federal judges is rare, with the last such case in 2010. None have been from the D.C. district.

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2. SNAP Benefits, Threats of Violence, and Shutdown Wars (14:33 – 28:40)

• Democratic Messaging & Public Meltdown:

  • Top Democrats (Senators Schumer, Kamala Harris, others) are warning the public about catastrophic consequences if SNAP (food stamps) and government funding run out.
  • Chuck Schumer accused Trump of “cutting off food stamps to hungry children, elderly, [and] veterans” for political leverage (17:02).
  • Kamala Harris, on The Daily Show and elsewhere, made dire predictions:

    “Babies are going to starve when the SNAP benefits end in just hours.” (21:25)

• Fact-Checking and Reaction:

  • Kinnett and Producer Nick mock what they perceive as Democrats’ hyperbolic rhetoric, highlighting that non-citizens are legally receiving SNAP benefits (over 1.7 million in 2023).
  • Viral social media videos feature SNAP recipients proclaiming threats to loot stores, stop paying bills, or take other disruptive action if benefits end:

    “If they don’t want to put food on our table, then we don’t need to be putting no money in their pockets... Thanksgiving is canceled. Black Friday is canceled. Christmas as well as New Year’s Eve...” (24:16) “If the people just go ahead and walk off the... We can crumble the system...” (24:48)

• Host’s Commentary:

  • Tony distinguishes “those who genuinely need SNAP” from those making inflammatory threats online:

    “The people that really need SNAP benefits don't often make videos of themselves in their finest attire telling me how evil I am.” (26:12)

  • Sarcastic take on protestors threatening looting:

    “The fall of gluttony, ladies and gentlemen.” (24:07)

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3. Immigration, Transportation Safety, and Democrat “Math” (08:45 – 14:30)

• Illinois Governor Pritzker’s Halloween Fear-Mongering:

  • Pritzker suggested that ICE operations during Halloween would put children in danger. Kinnett and Nick deride this as outlandish:

    “No child in America should have to go trick-or-treating in fear that they might be confronted with armed federal agents.” (08:33) “The only [Illinois city] I can think of goes by the lovely name Chiraq.” (09:25)

• Illegals With Commercial Licenses:

  • Reports of multiple accidents involving illegal immigrants with commercial driver’s licenses, particularly from “sanctuary” states like California.
  • Kristi Noem, head of DHS, touts Indiana’s 287(g) program which has netted “223 illegal aliens arrested, of which 146 were drivers, including 46 semi-truck drivers.” (11:04)
  • Kinnett and Nick criticize the federal government’s handling and defend states’ enforcement efforts.

• Math and Congressional Gridlock:

  • Rep. Jasmine Crockett tries to explain Senate math and Democratic struggles with government funding.
  • Nick jokes about her confusion and the tendency to blame “poison pills”:

    “She’s doing the airline stewardess... shifting exits on your front and left under your seat is a flotation device.” (19:57)

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4. Trump’s Showdown with Xi Jinping: Trade, Energy, and Geopolitics (28:40 – 36:31)

• Breakdown of Trump-Xi Meeting (with Virginia Allen reporting):

  • Tariffs on Chinese imports cut from 57% to 47%.
  • China agrees (verbally) to resume major soybean purchases from U.S. farmers.
  • On rare earth minerals, China promises continued supply—critical to tech manufacturing.
  • On fentanyl, Xi promises to help restrict precursor chemicals, though skepticism remains (as expressed by China expert Gordon Chang).

• Key Observations:

  • All major agreements are verbal; skeptics (including Gordon Chang) doubt China’s follow-through.
  • The heavy reliance on China for the processing of rare earth minerals (90% globally) is underscored, with U.S. urged to speed up its own production and energy development.
  • The meeting is framed by Trump as:

    “On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, this meeting was a 12.” (31:24)

  • Kinnett editorializes that this is the “next decade of the global economy, bar none.” (33:19)

• Criticism of Democratic Response:

  • Hakeem Jeffries calls Trump “punked on the world stage by the Chinese Communist Party” (36:32).
  • Kinnett and Nick characterize this as out-of-touch and contradictory given Democrats’ previous positions on trade policy.

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5. Other Notable Moments & Politics-in-the-Wild (40:00 – End)

• Halloween at the White House:

  • Humorous recounting of Trump’s traditional “put the candy on the kid’s costume” moment and a mini-rant about pop-culture references.

• UK Royal Drama:

  • King Charles removing Prince Andrew’s titles—Kinnett relishes the “stick that kid in a locker” symbolism (45:55).

• Democratic Candidate Legal Woes:

  • Chicago activist Kat Abu Ghazaleh is federally indicted for interfering with ICE, dodges direct questions in a cringeworthy interview:

    “I’m not speaking to the specifics of anything that’s in the indictment right now, but... I plan on pleading not guilty.” (48:02)

• Security for Trump-era Officials:

  • Media commentary on officials like Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, and Kristi Noem moving residences onto military bases due to security threats; Kinnett mocks the “housing coup angle.”

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6. Kamala Harris on Election Loss and Grief (56:22 – 61:11)

• Interview Highlights:

  • Kamala Harris recounts her stunned reaction to the 2024 loss:

    “I was in a state of shock...” (56:22) “The thing I kept saying over and over again is, 'My God, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?'” (58:30) “I haven't felt that emotion, anything similar to the emotion I felt that day and for quite some time, other than the grief I felt when my mother died.” (59:04)

• Host’s Reaction:

  • Kinnett calls this “disrespectful,” noting no election loss should compare to losing a parent, and points out Democrats repeatedly promised dire consequences that never materialized.

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7. Memorable Quotes & Soundbites

• Tony Kinnett:

  • “This is Watergate times 30.” (02:59)
  • “The fall of gluttony, ladies and gentlemen.” (24:07)

• Senator Ted Cruz:

  • "I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg..." (03:57)

• Producer Nick:

  • “The only [Illinois city] I can think of goes by the lovely name Chiraq.” (09:25)
  • “She’s doing the airline stewardess... shifting exits...” (19:57)

• Virginia Allen:

  • “[Trump] says, in his words, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, this meeting was a 12.” (31:24)

• Kamala Harris:

  • “I was in a state of shock... I haven't felt that emotion... since I lost my mother.” (56:22 - 59:04)

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8. Episode Tone & Takeaways

• Tone:

  • Sharp, combative, and unapologetically irreverent toward Democratic leadership.
  • Heavy on sarcasm and satirical analogies.
  • Backed by a mixture of news clips, stats, and host’s rapid-fire commentary.

• Key Takeaways:

  • Drama around Judge Boasberg could precipitate rare judicial impeachment.
  • Democratic handling of SNAP/shutdown has created sensationalism, but data shows many non-citizens do receive benefits.
  • Transportation safety and illegal immigration remain a sore spot for many Americans.
  • Trump's meeting with Xi is lauded as quietly historic, with huge implications for U.S. agriculture, tech, and energy.
  • The episode spotlights viral moments, high-profile political gaffes, and ends on a mix of absurdity and analysis.

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For Listeners New to the Show:
This episode encapsulates the Tony Kinnett Cast’s classic style: political storytelling refracted through middle-America skepticism, relentless roasting of political elites, and lively banter, all built on a foundation of original reporting.

Transcript

[Tony Kennett]

Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett.

[Producer Nick]

Tony Kennett.

[Tony Kennett]

Tony Kennett.

[Producer Nick]

Tony Kennett.

[Tony Kennett]

Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett, host of the Tony Kennett cast.

[Producer Nick]

Let's get down to business. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC on CYTV here on the Daily Signal. Hey.

[Tony Kennett]

Hey.

[Producer Nick]

Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated first on 93 WIBC. We've got a lot of breaking and developing news to get into. So without further ado, D.C. district Court Judge James Boasberg, we talked about him last night because he was revealed, according to several documents in the recently exposed FBI Arctic Frost investigation in which Biden ordered the DOJ and the intelligence services to keep track of and tap the phones of several Republican members of Congress, track a lot of conservative and independent organizations because they may have mentioned the word Trump and didn't put is evil in the same sentence. So now that James Boasberg has been identified in these documents, people have done a little digging and have found that this same guy who's been giving a lot of grief to the Trump administration, now as an activist judge in D.C. also signed off on a gag order for AT&T to keep the company from letting their customers know that that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was tapping their devices. By the way, this in and of itself is an illegal and blatant violation of the two US Code requiring the Senate to be given notice of any collection of its data or communications. Private, public, federal. It is required that you give senators of the United States notification that their communication's being collected. You say, hey, tomorrow, Tony, how come? Why do senators need to be alerted? You guys do realize that senators hold and maintain a lot of very secure national documents that maybe shouldn't be getting out to the general public. And if you can actually get into some of the private behind closed door meetings of the Senate, you can, you know, maybe pull a Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren, do a little of the old insider insider trade and shuffle. Maybe you can alert the enemies of the United States about things in advance. Very, very illegal. By the way, the same law also requires courts. This is according to Sean Davis over at the Federalist, to quash subpoenas demanding collection of Senate data upon a motion by the Senate, which is exactly why James Boasberg issued his illegal gag order. He knew that if the Senate was notified that Jack Smith was running around trying to tap Ted Cruz's phone that they would have immediately shut that down. And so James Boasberg said no no, no. Don't you let the Senate know that we're spying on political opposition. Don't you let them know this is Watergate times 30. And so he issued a very illegal gag order. So what does this mean? What does this mean? It means that James Boasberg is very likely to be the first federal federal district judge in a very long time that is likely to be getting impeached. So of course here's Senator Ted Cruz yesterday calling directly for Boasberg's impeachment. I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boseberg. Judge Boasberg put his robe down, stood up and said sign me up to be part of the partisan vendetta against 20% of the Republicans in the Senate. That is a dereliction of duty and a violation of the judicial oath. And I want to thank Chairman Grassley and Chairman Johnson for pursuing this tenaciously like a dog on a bone.

[Tony Kennett]

We are going to get the answers.

[Producer Nick]

Of every person who signed off on this abuse of power. And mark my words, there will be accountability for these zealots who wanted to corrupt the Department of Justice and corrupt the judiciary in order to try to attack their enemies list. Now I want to make this clear. We have on record from Chuck Schumer not just a general soft handed admission, open bragging that Democrats had endorsed, had voted for confirmed judge after judge after judge to be used as political weapons. Not the, the statue of justice holding the scales up high blindfolded in order to ensure impartiality. Absolutely not. Of course over in the House of Representatives which is where the judge would need to be impeached from. Representative Byron Donalds of Florida leading the charge over in the House. He is one of many in the House of Representatives who are likely to bring again the first federal impeachment of a district court judge like this in, in at least as far back as I can remember. Not that I'm some encyclopedia of all of the times that federal judge has been impeached. Here's Byron Donalds. They should know. Number one, I think it was Judge Boasberg was the judge who signed off on all this stuff. He needs to lose his seat as a judge. That needs to go number two. They need to be called into Congress. But the third part is cuz Congress will happen, we'll do that stuff. The Department of Justice is really gonna have to go through this and if there were criminal violations, they have to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This is worse than Watergate. As much as everybody wants to talk about Watergate and everything around Richard Nixon, this is significantly worse. The last district court judge that was impeached was Thomas, excuse me, g. Thomas Portias Jr. He was impeached by the U.S. house of Representatives in March 11, 2010 on charges of accepting bribes and making false statements under penalty of perjury. He was then convicted by the U.S. senate and and removed from office in December of that same year. Before that, Samuel B. Kent, District Court, Southern District of Texas. He was removed in 2009. Before that, Walter Nixon in 89. Alcee Hastings, Mississippi, and then Florida and then Claiborne of Nevada in 1986 and then Halstead Ritter. And we're not going to keep going back 1936 district of Florida. I don't think we've ever seen a District Court from D.C. in fact, no, we haven't. Samuel Chase, Associate justice of the Supreme Court, was impeached in 1805. That's about as close as we've gotten. So right now what you are seeing is a very serious and what I would say is going to be breaking the dam. Because if Boas Berg can and should be impeached, there will be others that follow. And this is likely to happen in the next midterm year. This upcoming election is going to be a bellwether for the way the country is going in some of the more purple and blue areas of the country, followed by the biggest midterm election, a chance for a major upset or probably one of the greatest fumbles that the Republican Party could muster. It's going to be one of the two. It's either going to be really, really good or really, really bad for either party. Now this brings us to what other people around the country are concerned about. Breaking news. Governor JB Pritzker, top 10 most wanted in Golden Corral's employee management room. Posters. JB Pritzker, governor of Illinois. He is very, very worried about ice. Why? Well, because tomorrow is Halloween. Now, if you haven't connected the dots on that, I'm going to be real with you. I haven't either. So hopefully he can. And I'm not joking. I haven't watched this clip yet. Let's hear him. Children and families, black and brown people, US Citizens, hardworking parents. In essence, you are targeting all of us. Okay, what does that have to do with Halloween? It's un American and we cannot stand for this. I will not stand for this. You can't say he won't run for this because he can't run anyway. I Want to now speak directly to Greg Bovino. Mr. Bovino, your operation has sown fear and division and chaos among law abiding residents in our communities. I like how he says residents. He doesn't say citizens. If you are unwilling to cease operations and leave our city, can we at least agree that our children should not be victims, especially on Halloween? Can we agree that there is no imminent threat that should disrupt their holiday?

[Tony Kennett]

What?

[Producer Nick]

What? I'm sorry, is ICE going to be out there going, hey, kid, what are you doing in this patch? I'm waiting for the great Pumpkin. Well, you're coming with me, Kit. That's not happening. This is like bl. This is like saying, check your kids Halloween candy. You never know. If you might, you know, open up your Reese's cup to find a Lockheed Martin missile on the inside. Get out of here. No child in America should have to go trick or treating in fear that they might be confronted with armed federal agents. Hey, producer Nick, remind me, what major city resides in Illinois famous for gun violence around Halloween? The only one I can think of goes by the lovely name Chiraq. Is that Chiraq? Survey says yeah. Yeah. Then in fact, yes, in fact, ding. That is a 100% Chiraq situation. So we're moving on very, very quickly here. The other issues that Americans are genuinely concerned on. Based on. On concerned about. Based on polling data. The economy is starting to become less of a concern for Americans by the polling data. It is being replaced by safety in transportation. We're going to talk about that on the Livestream Radio crew. We have to send you to the commercial. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal now. Yes, Boys, girls and squirrels. It's absolutely true. After Gavin Newsom assured us that California granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal immigrants was totally fine. It's totally safe. It's low in calories. It's like a super wonderful thing. Yada, yada, yada, all this stuff. It just so happens that there were multiple accidents in which individuals who are illegal immigrants into the United States, illegal aliens given commercial driver's licenses, which federal guidance says no, don't give people who can't read or speak English commercial driver's licenses. The signs on the road are in fact in English that Americans really don't care for seeing the brutal accidents from these drivers. The manslaughter on TV every single week. And Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem is actually out here targeting what Americans have been saying for a while. Kind of a big issue for him. Here you go.

[Tony Kennett]

Now, through our 287G partnership that we have with the state of Indiana, we have run an operation recently which has allowed to hundreds of arrests that has brought people in that are breaking our laws. Through that partnership, 223 illegal aliens have been arrested and taken off of our roads. Of those, 146 of them were drivers. That includes 46 semi truck drivers and another 82 of them that were either box trucks, buses, moving vans, vehicles such as that. The CDLs that were issued to those individuals were issued from over a dozen different states. Many of those individuals could have been licensed in a state somewhere and received their CDL in another state. But overwhelmingly these individuals have come from sanctuary states such as California.

[Producer Nick]

Oh, wow. I'm so surprised. Oh wait, I'm not surprised at all. Those who harbor those committing illegal activities do in fact export more individuals committing crimes based on those they are given sanctuary for. Yeah, it's called a permission structure. It's called a given pathway. And Americans are not in fact going to tolerate that. The idea that it's going to spook Americans to see police officers pulling over semi drivers. I've never heard of anyone driving down the interstate seeing a semi truck pulled over saying, oh, gee, I sure hope they're okay. After all, we all know semi truck drivers are known for their safety these days. No, I've never seen that once and it's not going to start now. So the pearl clutching on that line, I don't really think that, you know, I'm not buying it, but that requires basic math skills. Meanwhile, the Democrat party at the national level, I do enjoy that this is in fact news of the day. Representative Jasmine Crockett is, well, I'd say a pretty good representative of kind of Dem math at the moment. Here you go, Jasmine Crockett, she's out here, she's mathing.

[Tony Kennett]

They know how to get rid of the filibuster when they want to. I am not telling them that they need to or whatever, but I'm just saying right now they want to say, oh, it's the Democrats that are holding us down when, hell, we ain't been able to do much of anything right because we don't have the numbers. But now they're like, oh, it's the Democrats fault. It is not. It is not. I mean, you understand what the numbers are. You were supposed to be able to count. And part of counting is also making sure that you understand when you got to negotiate, you don't have 60 in the Senate. That means you have to talk to the other side. Guess what? Joe Biden didn't have 60 in the Senate either. But guess what? He never had a government shutdown.

[Producer Nick]

So you're admitting that Republicans voted to keep the government open and keep benefits rolling through because even though he had control of certain parts of Congress, he still had cooperation.

[Tony Kennett]

So for all the talk about Joe Biden being c now, Joe Biden being incompetent and all the other nonsense, I just want to remind y' all that in the last four years, you did not endure a shutdown. In fact, this is the shutdown president. That's the only thing that he is very accomplished at. And listen, nobody can beat him at it, okay? When you run the tape on him, this is what he does. And as far as I'm concerned, she's.

[Producer Nick]

Losing her train of thought. It's really funny.

[Tony Kennett]

And these are words that he has shared with us.

[Producer Nick]

Beautiful. Well, we're going to let her continue. It's the Tony Kenneth cast. We're going to swing by and pick up the radio crew from commercial. Be right back. It's the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WYBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. It's good to be back with you. There's a lot to cover over the next couple of minutes, so we're going to try to keep pace. Right now, the entire country is focused on SNAP benefits with regard to the federal shutdown. So for a hot minute, everyone was really concerned about the troops and federal workers, which, yes, it is very, very important to make sure that individuals are paid. When you're talking about the operation of things like air traffic control, maintaining safe travel, making sure that our troops are paid. And the Trump administration kind of bent around trying to find different ways to allocate certain finances to ensure that the troops and federal workers were paid. And you started seeing all of these various threats from Democrats in order to stymie and stifle temporary funding of various measures like funding the troops. You will remember that in the funding the troops bill that went to the Senate that it was Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, the two Democrat senators from Georgia who broke away from Schumer to vote to advance that bill. It didn't go all the way through. Democrats still ended up blocking it. Overall. Now we're getting around to SNAP and food stamps, food assistance, whatever it is that makes you most comfy calling it. And Democrats are trying their rootin tootin est to kind of keep their image afloat by just blatantly lying about where the government shutdown's coming from. So we have a clip from Chuck Schumer. For those who are watching online, that is, those who aren't tuning in via podcast or radio, I have on the screen kind of cropped in the ratio that Chuck Schumer experienced as the senator, the Senate Minority Leader, for posting this. So for those who don't know, a ratio on social media means that there are more comments calling you a goober than there are likes on your tweet. So more people are giving you a hard time than supporting you. Here you go, Chuckles Schumer, giving it his Sunday best on Saturday. For the first time in American history, a vicious, heartless president is cutting off food stamps to hungry children, elderly who.

[Tony Kennett]

Can'T afford enough food to feed themselves, veterans who are down on their luck.

[Producer Nick]

All because he wants to use them as hostages so that Democrats will stop.

[Tony Kennett]

Fighting for people's health care.

[Producer Nick]

Do you hear how insane this sounds? I can't be the only one who hears just how insane this is. Some conspiracy level stuff. 3.0. This is bonkers. So Republicans are trying to hold Democrats to a shutdown rule to not fund health care so that people will starve, so that other people won't get health care, so that billionaires will be taxed. So they won't be taxed. And that means that if you carry the one and Tuesdays in June, then it's all Trump's fault. Yeah, that's 30,000 replies and just over five and a half thousand likes. And by the way, as far as individuals who are not citizens of the United States receiving SNAP benefits, which they're really not supposed to. Producer Nick, I think you have a couple of statistics on this one for us. An analysis by the Economic Policy Innovation center has found that in fiscal year 2023, so quite a few years ago now, approximately 1.764 million non citizens received SNAP benefits. What? No way. I was so it's amazing. Every time you were told, oh, no, illegal immigrants or non citizens are receiving health care, that's just conspiracy theory. Then it comes out they're receiving it. Oh, they're not receiving SNAP benefits. Then it comes out they're receiving SNAP benefits. Oh, they're not receiving commercial driver's licenses. Then it's they're receiving commercial driver's licenses again and again and again and again and on and on ad nauseam. Now this brings us to the rest of the Democrats who are struggling with this. We could talk about for example, Representative Janelle bynum from Oregon's 5th also just so dumbstruck by the mental gymnastics that Schumer performed that she can't even recreate it on tv. Someone didn't read the script. Someone didn't study the assignment, and they were asked to give a book report. And. And this just. I mean, I feel bad for her a little bit, but in the way that I feel bad for Michael Scott in the office. Like, it's the same kind of cringe. Here you go.

[Tony Kennett]

They did have a clean CR vote.

[Producer Nick]

On September 19th in the House.

[Tony Kennett]

Did you vote for it? I disagree with your characterization and want to make sure that we're very clear about what Republicans have been doing. Any bill that they've put put forth, they've always had some extra stuff to it. There's always been a poison pill to it. So I disagree with your characterization. What were the poison pills of the.

[Producer Nick]

Clean CR or the continuing resolution? You say it's not clean.

[Tony Kennett]

That was voted on in the House in mid September. Here's what's important. I think what you're trying to do is shift the responsibility to Democrats.

[Producer Nick]

She's doing the airline stewardess. We're going to shift exits on your front and left under your seat is a flotation device. I'm gonna need one here in a second. I disagree with your characterization. It's riddled with poison pills, Arsenic killing puppies, and of course, the Cracker Barrel rebrand. That's what the Republicans stuffed into the bell. And she's like, okay, well, what are some of those actual poison pills? She's like, I think what you're not understanding, she's doing, like, aerobics, 1980s moves. It's like Gavin Newsom if he were athletic. Go ahead. I think you're messing up your line in this conversation. Can you rephrase it so that I could say you're characterizing me wrong? This wasn't the script that my staff gave you. And outside of politics, or I should say desperately trying to find your way back into politics, Kamala Harris is back, baby. She's out here to defend truth, justice, and I guess discounts on wine at Kroger, she is out here ready to go, and she's gonna do two things. She's going to talk about Snap and she's going to complain about the ballroom that Trump's building. Here you go. Kamala Harris, man, on Jon Stewart's show. She's ready to go, and she's got all the bad words lined up.

[Tony Kennett]

Are you kidding? Me, this guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind eye to the fact that babies are going to starve when the snap benefits end in just hours.

[Producer Nick]

From now, babies are going to start. She has not called again. If this is so important that she think. If you actually believed people were going to die, and I mean this, if you seriously, in your heart as a senator, you believed. John Fetterman, by the way, is a great example of this. He says, look, people, if we really believed that people were going to die, genuinely pass away from starvation because the SNAP benefits were cut in November, then don't you think you would say, okay, we're going to agree to open the government for this and then I guess call Republicans super stinky cheesers, I guess here anyway. No, no, no, I can't let you jump in. Producer Nick, Kamala Harris has got to finish, man. This is crazier rant than Kanye ever gave. Come on.

[Tony Kennett]

So what? I'm not going to be distracted by, oh, does the guy have a big hammer? What about those babies?

[Producer Nick]

I don't care if the man has a big bleeping hammer. I don't know. Is that a euphemism? Can someone in the comments help me out? Another producer? Is there like some kind of Trump hammer story that we're referencing? Is the other like, this is my new hammer. It's not a Stanley, it's not a Milwaukee. It's a beautiful handcrafted hammer and I'm gonna use it today. I don't care if he's got a big hammer. Ma', am, please, there are children around. Stop. What about the children? Beautiful. Incredible. 10 out of 10. I'm, I'm, I'm thoroughly enjoying this radio crew. We're going to send you off to the commercial. But the snap benefit meltdown is, is something to behold as well. We'll talk about that on the live stream. It's the Tony Kennedcast guys. I'm going to level with you. Those people who are getting ready to expect a SNAP benefits ending, there are essentially two kinds of people. There are those who genuinely do in fact, need SNAP benefits, who I have seen not actually making videos about themselves, threatening to loot stores. And then there are people that. I'm just gonna say it, you know, look, looking a little large in charge, Marge on SNAP benefits. Just a little, you know, a little Pritzker esque, as they say. I mean, I'm not gonna say that they've ever been in classic literature, but they call me Ishmael. Would be a great way to introduce yourselves to them. They are threatening that if their SNAP benefits get cut off, they never post these videos from the job site. They never post these videos from work. But anyway, there, there, there's the Summer of love. Is it was going to be replaced. The fall of gluttony, ladies and gentlemen. Here you go.

[Tony Kennett]

If they don't want to put food on our table, then we don't need to be putting no money in their pockets. Effective November 1st, Thanksgiving is canceled. Black Friday is canceled. Christmas as well as New Year's Eve, and please do not forget tax season as well. The first opportunity you get to go to HR, please go and make sure you file exempt all 2026. Do y' all realize how much we.

[Producer Nick]

By the way, you would. You would exempt the Latter half of 2025, wouldn't you? You're not paying taxes for 2026. In 20. I'm sorry, I. It's unfair to hold. To hold her to taxes, period. I.

[Tony Kennett]

We can crumble the system if we, you know.

[Producer Nick]

You don't pay taxes on food stamps. That's what I was so confused by.

[Tony Kennett]

Stop spending money for an entire week. Better yet, an entire month. How about starting November 1st, y'? All, we stop paying mortgage, we stop paying rent, we stop paying all of our bills. Who going to come and evict us? Because the way that they land people off and if the people just go ahead and walk off the.

[Producer Nick]

Wait, they're laying people off. Who are they laying off? What does the EBT program have to do with being laid off? Okay, all right, all right. But another, another. We're gonna, we're gonna keep on going here. There are a few to get through here. These. These are all exciting. I'm very, very excited for the responsible just protest that always is cropping up around these times.

[Tony Kennett]

You know what? We don't need more videos of people saying, you know what? We don't care. We don't care that you're not. Not getting SNAP benefits, that you're not getting EBT or food stamps. We don't care. We get it. We get it. You are a demon.

[Producer Nick]

You're a. I mean, I've been called a cyborg half cyborg demon before, but just a straight up demon. No, no, no, thank you. I don't sacrifice children to bail soulless demon.

[Tony Kennett]

Go do that in private. We don't.

[Producer Nick]

We don't.

[Tony Kennett]

We don't care.

[Producer Nick]

Go do what in private? Pay for my food?

[Tony Kennett]

Like you don't care. We don't care. That you don't care.

[Producer Nick]

Again, I just can't help but notice that the individuals who need to be on snap, who I, by the way, have no issue with making sure that there are people who need to eat can eat. Absolutely. The people that really need SNAP benefits don't often make videos of themselves in their finest attire telling me how evil I am. Because, you know, I don't think that looting is the answer.

[Tony Kennett]

And when people start stealing because they cutting food stamps, I'm gonna look the other way.

[Producer Nick]

Oh, no. Because you were definitely gonna not look the other way before. Yeah, yeah. Mm.

[Tony Kennett]

I'm gonna tell y' all straight up like this. I just got that text that the link is definitely cut the off for November. Y' all better stay the out of my way in these stores. I'm walking out with cars and I'm not paying for Trump. If you want mother, start looting. Oh, it's gonna happen before my kids go broke it as like jock. I'm gonna be stealing like it ain't no tomorrow. I am going to go in that store, get.

[Producer Nick]

All right, that's enough. We're gonna swing and pick up the radio crew from commercial and then actually get to some real news and what Trump actually did this week. It's the Tony Kennett cast. Don't go anywhere. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast. There are a few real things that are actually going on in the world right now, believe it or not. One of them that Trump is actually responsible for is managing major international negotiations regarding China regarding the Indo Pacific, actually managing how certain things that are going to affect the imports and exports of the economy. Amid growing geopolitical tensions between the United States and China and the Chinese hegemony and their former Belt and Road Initiative partners. Now, the entire global trade system that China had kind of been the hegemon on during the Biden administration is flipped on its head. There are major things going on that we're not hearing because Schumer is having a meltdown in front of the cameras over SNAP benefits that he's trying desperately. No one's believing him. He's trying desperately to claim that he totally didn't cause. Over to Virginia Allen, our senior news producer, who's been following a lot of Trump's Asian adventures. Are you dead tired?

[Tony Kennett]

You know, I feel like the president should be more tired than I am, but I don't think he is. I think reporters are way more exhausted than Trump is, and I don't know if the man slept at all. Because last night it was like 10 o' clock and at night our time. And like the President has just continued tweeting through the night in Asia time and, or not tweeting, but truthing. Like, I have no idea if he slept at all this week. Maybe an hour.

[Producer Nick]

Well, well, he's of course been powering through a large Asia trip, several legs on it. A lot of news that's, believe it or not, desperately crucial for our audience live right now. This is one of the things I want to have your expertise on, because we're over here yelling about snap benefits and Schumer throwing a fit in front of the. And Hakeem Jeffries. Well, also throwing a fit in front of the press. But there are some really major implications of Trump and the meeting with Xi that a lot of people don't seem to know what to make of this. Give us a breakdown of kind of what was heading into this meeting and then the meeting itself.

[Tony Kennett]

Right? Yeah. So the number one agenda item was that of trade and specifically focused on the tariffs. So the big news takeaway there is coming out of this meeting with Xi, Trump says that tariffs on imports into the US from China, they're dropping by 10%, going from about 57% down to 47%. That's, of course, a large sum still, though, you know, 47% is pretty high and I think represents the fact that China is not the US's best friend per se. So there's still that trade tension there to an extent. But some of the big takeaways from this meeting, the things that Trump was very clear, he put out a true social post shortly after this meeting. One of the big issues was soybeans. China has been a major purchaser of soybeans from U.S. farmers. And so far this year, only in the past recent days, China made one big soybean purchase from the us. Until then, there really was nothing. So according to President Trump, she says that China will again start buying soybeans from the United States. Also on rare earth minerals.

[Producer Nick]

You know where I'm going, you know.

[Tony Kennett]

Yep, I'm getting, I may be getting ahead of you, but let me just run through this real fast. I think it's helpful to hit kind of these big, big issue items, rare earth minerals, lots of tension there. China, about 70% of the world's rare earth minerals come out of China. This is a big deal. These things go on smartphones in your smart TVs, like all the stuff that we rely on. We, we need these rare Earth minerals. So China said, okay, don't worry, we're going to keep giving you those Fentanyl. This is a big, big, big issue. I spoke with China expert Gord for Trump's meeting with Xi. He said fentanyl was the number one issue. He's going to be watching because the precursor chemicals that the cartels use to make fentanyl, those flow out of China to South and Central America. She said, hey, we're going to continue to work on cracking down. Now, Gordon Chang told me China said that before, so he doesn't have a ton of confidence that anything is necessarily going to change. And I think that's one of the big takeaways from this meeting. Trump is celebrating this. He says, in his words, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, this meeting was a 12. The president is obviously very optimistic about what came from this meeting. And nothing is in writing. These are verbal agreements. And China, as the President knows, cannot be trusted. And so time will tell in the coming days, weeks, months, if China actually makes good on these promises.

[Producer Nick]

That's one of the reasons why I was quite happy to hear you mention the soybean issue. Then flowing right into the rare earth mineral processing. This is the thing a lot of people don't understand. They say, wait a minute. Well, if Greenfield or if Greenland has rare earth minerals, if Alberta has rare earth minerals, and they list a bunch of our allies or even places in our own country where rare earth minerals are abundant, well, then why aren't we putting all of our efforts into there? Ah, my friendly sweet summer child. Just. You don't just dig semiconductors out of the ground. You don't just go mining and ah, that today I panned out of the river. A three, four, three circuit board. No, no, you don't do that. You have to process those materials and shout out to DuPont Manufacturing. That's a dirty, dangerous business. And when it comes to dirty, dangerous businesses with no concern for human safety, you want to dunk a child in a vat of acid, China's your place to do so. And so their processing of rare earth minerals is huge. And also a lot of 90% of.

[Tony Kennett]

Rare earth minerals are processed out of China.

[Producer Nick]

90% of rare earth mineral processing in China, that is bonkers. You couple that with the soybean industry, because China imports all kinds of soybean for oil processing as well. Argentina and the United States are the big exporters. A couple more here and there. So for Trump to go in and try to negotiate two thirds of the wedge in this China agreement. That really puts the South Korean agreement, the Malaysia agreement, the Kuala Lumpur peace accords, this becomes a really heavy piece of multinational economic news that, again, I'm looking through your coverage over at the Daily Signal is still probably some of the most thorough that I've seen. And that is no offense to you. That's unfortunate. This is something that we should have seen ages ago. This is the next decade of the global economy, bar none.

[Tony Kennett]

Yeah, well. And Tony, it's so critical, I think, that you mention and really hone in on that rare earth mineral issue. Trump also talked about kind of in the next breath of his true social post, issues related to energy. And while China is this big energy provider and yes, yes, slapping up coal.

[Producer Nick]

Plants like we do dollar generals, of.

[Tony Kennett]

Course there is a level to where in the immediate future, you know, it makes sense to maintain to an extent that relationship. It's also critical. And Heritage foundation experts have pointed this out time and time again, including in the piece I wrote, talked to Heritage foundation energy expert Diana Perchcott Roth and she said, you know, yes, this is great. And the US Cannot slow down on all our own energy production. We need to be tapping into all of our energy resources that for so long the far left environmental groups have blocked time and time again. But to your point, the US Is going to develop those energy sources, mining, rare earth minerals, all of that in such a more clean and sustainable way than anything that China is going to be doing.

[Producer Nick]

This is the key reason why it all does come back to energy production in the Trump administration. We've talked about this on the show. It seems like we're tying that in. It's not artificial. The energy issue really affects absolutely everything. And a new economy of a president is not just built on whether or not the stock market rises and falls. It is based on whether the United States adds abundant new energy. Anyone who tells you otherwise is Fibon. Virginia Allen, senior news producer, thanks for taking a moment for us.

[Tony Kennett]

Thank you, Tony.

[Producer Nick]

All right. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast. Main side of things where we've got a little extra stuff that's coming to the forefront regarding Virginia's reporting. Kind of a little shock we had to come in on it this quickly. Radio crew, we got to send you to the commercial on this side here. Actually, no, we'll send you to the commercial in a second. I'm not ready to send you to the commercial. You got to hear this first because Hakeem has now come out. Hakeem Jeffries, the William Shatner of Obama impersonators has now decided that the Trump administration, brokering a pretty roughshod deal boxing China into a corner here, is somehow Trump being punked by Communist China, which is a stance. Look at it, look at this. It appears the most reasonable observers that.

[Tony Kennett]

Donald Trump was punked on the world.

[Producer Nick]

Stage by the Chinese Communist Party. So getting the Chinese to abandon their plan to import soybeans from Argentina instead of the United States committing to a soybean order with the United States as a verbal agreement, again, that's important for a number of reasons. And simultaneously saying, okay, you open up soybeans, we will open up rare earth minerals, lower the tariffs a bit, if that's being punked by the Communist government of China. I mean, I, I would, I don't even have a joke for that. What?

[Tony Kennett]

The notion that Donald Trump has created.

[Producer Nick]

All of this trouble for the American.

[Tony Kennett]

People, which he has.

[Producer Nick]

The Trump tariffs are raising costs on everyday Americans by thousands of dollars per year. Okay, this right here, this tiny snippet from Hakeem Jeffries would have been a far better attack strategy against Donald Trump in February of 2025. If the Democrats were going to run with that strategy, that one right there, it would have been effective in February of 2025. But I said at the time, they have a problem with this because up until that moment, Democrats had supported protectionist tariff policy in the United States. Just really poorly managed tariff policies. A bastardized version of Bill Clinton that didn't get more rational but got more insane. So Hakeem now here a week before the off year 2025 elections, now he's criticizing the tariffs right after the rate dropped from the Federal Reserve, right after the tariffs have shown not to add a bunch of inflation. Right after he lowered tariffs on China. This is the moment. Who is your comms director? The sloth from Zootopia. All right now, radio crew, you can go to commercial so that you can consider Hakeem's words and what they mean to you as an American. And if you're not that slow, join us over on the live stream. It's the Tony Kinnid cast here on the Daily Signal. Now, my favorite part about Hakeem Jeffries criticizing Trump for being punked by Communist China is that Hakeem Jeffries just endorsed. Oh, yeah, he just endorsed an actual radical Communist to be mayor of New York City. Don't take my word for it. Here's Zoran Mandani in a new TED Talk style video about. He's going to nationalize housing in New York City. Further toward the Vienna model, we'll have to go beyond the market. We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership. We can give tenants a right of first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale. And we can fully commit to a new era of social housing, ending subsidies for luxury housing development and using our wealth to build beautiful, high quality social housing projects that offer good homes and strong communities to everyone. We great Russia has forever united the indestructible union. Sorry, little Soviet Union anthem gets stuck in my head there. Yeah, that's just communism. We're going to buy up the housing, and if you don't sell us the housing, we'll sue you and arrest you, and then we'll freeze the rent and everyone will be happy and amazing. Screw laws. Ah, that's who Hakeem Jeffries is endorsed in this election. There is a Democrat running in that election being Andrew Cuomo. So, yeah, yeah, Trump got punked by the Communists, did he? It was Trump who, not the leadership of the Democratic Party. Okay. On other equally fun and exciting good hoot news, I should mention that regarding the energy independence conversation that Virginia and I were having, you know, because we do try to actually stay ahead of things. Everything comes down to the United States producing more energy. Everything, period. Bar none. Well, here's the Senate voting 52 to 45 to open up energy production in the United states. Senate Resolution 80, a joint resolution of the disapproval of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management. Okay, boys, girls and squirrels, let's talk rules. Rules are laws that are passed by federal agencies. So under a rule, the federal bureaucracy, the Alphabet agencies, get to decide how you live your life. Now, Congress is supposed to do that, but when Congress got really lazy and decided instead, it would be a lot more fun to, I don't know, like Hakeem, release rap videos or, you know, be like Katie Porter and abuse your staff. Yeah, there's a lot of fun things you can do. But in the meantime, Congress does have the authority to overturn these rules. Now the Senate is actually doing so. It will pass the House, and that is going to result in the National Petroleum Reserve being developed essentially through pipeline and construction in Alaska. You know, the things that Biden totally said he had opened up and didn't. Just a big freaking lie. Now that's actually going to begin. So energy production in the United States, actually lowering energy bills, which creates industry, which lowers the cost of transportation, which lowers the cost of food. You know, common sense stuff that we all understand. Beautiful. Now, in. In a couple of seconds, I do want to point out that we're going to get into some of the best, most entertaining stuff that I have seen in politics in a very long time. I have saved it for the end just for use. We got to pick the radio crew for one last commercial break. Return. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal. It's the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYPC. All right, for a little closing time, end of show news for all of y' all out there. There's some really funny stuff. Tomorrow is Halloween or Saint Hallows Eve or All Hallows Saints Eve, trademarked platinum plus or Trunk or treat or Autumn festival. Either way, tomorrow's Halloween and there are some celebrations afoot. So one of these is President Trump with the trick or treating at the White House. You may remember in his first term, there was a kid that came up to him in a minion suit and Donald Trump like, what the heck is this yellow bubble coming up to me right now? And you may remember as the kid came up to him, he just sets the Hershey bar. It's so good on the kid's costume. And then it falls off. It was a great moment. This lady just trying to be polite and to make sure that the kid actually gets some candy as well. So we remember that. And. And people were posting it because tonight I think, is that the trick or treat night at the White House? House. And so, Nick, you're gonna have to tell me who is the kid? Or there's a streamer that has, like, the marshmallow for a head. Yeah, he's a. He's a dj. Dj. That's right. What is the house dj? There's an X in the name somewhere. Just marshmallow. I've made up the X's. There's no X's in the name. Marshmallows. I'm trying to figure out. He does cooking videos as well. Cooking. Okay, great. Well, there's a kid dressed up as the streamer, and he's got a marshmallow. His eyes are X's. Oh, yeah. Okay, so he's got a marshmallow on his head. And Trump. I tell you what, here we go.

[Tony Kennett]

I was in.

[Producer Nick]

Oh, no, that's Kamala. That's even worse. Here we go. So the kid walks up with his sack and says, I, Mr. President. And Trump just puts the candy bar on top of the costume again. And the kid is Quite impressive. The the candy bar stays flat like get out of here kid. I'm sorry. I love it. I think it's great. It's fun times. In other really hilarious news, His Majesty or whatever, the King of England, the man to whom my tea is ever to be thrown in the harbor for according to the royal statement from Buckingham Palace, His Majesty has formally initiated the process to remove the style, titles and honors of Prince Andrew. So Prince Andrew is no longer the brother of the King. Right? Brother. Not just an area brother of the King. No more royal titles for him. He goes from Prince Andrew to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, which has got to be the most stick that kid in a locker name in existence. He also says his lease on Royal Lodge has to date provided him with legal protection to continue in residence. So there's like legal drama over in the United Kingdom. I love how obsessed with their little titles and things. But dude, I would be account. Would you rather be a count or a duke? A duke. You'd be a duke. I like it. I think count just kind of has, you know, it's the thought that counts and it's the count that thoughts. Thanks. You know I haven't thought much about feudal hierarchy for a bit. You know Count von Dracula did not have a castle because he's Dracula but because he's a counter little historical fact from Transylvania. He's account whether he's a vampire or not. Yeah, Van Helsing was trespassing. There you go. Another little fun not so historical fact for you. I do want to get to one clip that had me rolling today. So Kat Vuvuzela or sorry, Kat Abigar Bonzo. Cat. Bless you. Cat. Something. This left wing journalist up in Chicago running for Congress because I don't know why she thought she should run for Congress. Young, progressive, blonde. Remember my little rant yesterday about how women on the left often no accountability whatsoever. So when they're asked by a C SPAN reporter, you know, very, very, very simple questions like hey didn't you vote for the shutdown? And, and you know, you're claiming there are all these poison pills in this Republican continuing resolution, but like where are these. And then you know, these particular Democrats then say well, I don't know what you're, you know, I don't know what you're talking about.

[Tony Kennett]

They did have a clean CR vote.

[Producer Nick]

On September 19th in the House. Did you remember that kind of accountability? Lack of it. Well, Kat Vuvu abigonzales. She had a really rough moment on an interview with the reporter. Remember Kat Argable, Kansas. She was charged by the federal authorities because she impeded in ICE vehicles. She tried to interfere with a lawful arrest by federal officers, and so she's being charged for it. She got really, really mad about it, and so she came out to do some media thinking that's going to help her. And, well, then this happened.

[Tony Kennett]

The indictment alleges that you and others, quote, surrounded a federal officer's vehicle, banged on its hood and windows, etched pig on the side, and impeded movement. Did you. Did you etch the word pig on the side of the. And of an officer's car?

[Producer Nick]

Oh, I didn't even know she was accused of that. Oh, vandalism is. But remember yesterday when I said it would be helpful for her to tell us what the charges were? Okay, let's see how she answers this.

[Tony Kennett]

I'm not speaking to the specifics of anything that's in the indictment right now, but like I said, I do plan on pleading not guilty, and the evidence will come out in court.

[Producer Nick]

You know what the easy answer to that is? No, that's an easy one. That's pretty simple stuff, and, you know.

[Tony Kennett]

I plan on winning. Okay, well, let's not watch the video of what happened that day. That they are.

[Producer Nick]

There's the crime. There's an. There's an allegation. I haven't really looked close enough here. I don't think the video is clear enough for me to make a ruling. They say when you zoom out, you can see, like, the. The vandalism on the side of the vehicle.

[Tony Kennett]

What do you. When you see that, what do you think right now? You know, Tara, once again, this is my first time being federally indicted. Like I said. Yeah, okay. Not guilty. The evidence will come out in court, and I plan on winning. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, Just really quickly, I did want to ask you about just the fact that, like, conspiracy to impede an officer's up to six years in prison.

[Producer Nick]

She's talking to nobody. Just. She flew the coop.

[Tony Kennett]

Forcibly impeding and intimidating an officer is up to eight years. Is that like that Could. That could actually hinder your ability to serve in Congress. Are you concerned about that?

[Producer Nick]

Cricket. Cricket. Cricket.

[Tony Kennett]

Did she just sign off?

[Producer Nick]

Yes. I love it. I love it. More of this, please. More of this. No accountability. No accountability. Now, remember yesterday, she was bragging in her own little personal video about how, like, strong and brave and fearless and Taylor Swift she was.

[Tony Kennett]

My name is Kat Abugazale. I'm running for Congress.

[Producer Nick]

Abu Ghazali. Ah. Elevator, gastrointestinal. Keep going.

[Tony Kennett]

In the Ninth District of Illinois, the Department of Justice is charging six people, including myself, with federal crimes for exercising our First Amendment rights. Near ICE's Broadview Processing Center.

[Producer Nick]

I too remember the First Amendment where it says freedom of speech, feed freedom of press, freedom to, you know, scribble pig with a house key onto a federal law enforcement vehicle. Remember that was very, very important. Alexander Hamilton was passionate about your ability to vandalize whenever it suits your political needs. Of course, I believe Madison was the one to say, do your best to chest press a truck. That that's true. Radio crew will see it. We're going to be on the live stream tonight a little bit longer. It's the Tony Kenneth cast. We'll see the radio side tomorrow. I mean, we'll see you guys tomorrow. I'm just going to say, I think that one of the most underrated lines of former president, God rest his soul, John F. Kennedy was when he said, ask not what your country can do for you, but right peg on the side of an ICE vehicle. And they were like, what are you talking? What is ice? What, what vehicle? And then it was like, someone get me Marilyn Monroe's phone number. Just, you know, little US history for you guys. You guys are getting some really great history lessons by the way. While we're talking about the incredible lessons of history, I really want to give props yet again to Senator Chuck Grassley who consistently until his dying breath has made it his life's mission to expose as many federal agencies and just illegal crap they've been doing for years. Just at every single press conference. If you are in a Biden administration official, an Obama administration official, I believe every time you hear the word Grassley you should start sweating. There should be like chronic swamp butt for those in the FBI whenever Chuck Grassley strolls up to the podium. So another thank you to him. So much media coverage today. And by the way, one of the reasons that I point this out, the rise in left wing political violence, again aided by the investigations of individuals who were targeted by the administration. Individuals like Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Christy Noem have now moved their residences onto military base housing in the United States. This is an article according to the Atlantic and I, I really appreciate how ridiculously the Atlantic phrased this. Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers. And then like every Atlantic article, it takes three of them to write it. Now like I've co written articles before, I can't help but notice that every Single time an Atlantic piece comes out, they need 3, 4, 5 people to change the light bulb. Is it that hard to write an article these days? I mean, there's more AI. There are more writing tools. I mean, Sylvan offers, like reading and writing classes for elementary students. Producer Nick one to tell the other what to write into grok chatgpt, and then the third to take that prompt and turn it into legible article. So the Atlantic article in question here, whether it's ChatGPT or Michael, Missy and Ashley, which sounds like a really horrible Disney's recess spinoff. Um, anywho, this crew thinks it's scandalous that the Trump administration officials might need to be in an area with some security. Now, by the way, this does save taxpayers dollars because now you don't have to actually provide individualized security because they are on a military base area. Now there are housing areas. There's a whole thing in there. It depends very much so on the military base. This is not an expository explanation of how military bases work. But what the Atlantic doesn't seem to understand and what they don't mention in any explicit detail in the story is how many times people like Stephen Miller have been threatened with just open murder. Constantly. Marco Rubio, constantly. Christy Noem, constantly. And when you're writing an article, why would they feel the need to move? They just say, well, the Trump administration. And then they just like put it in this little tiny contextual paragraph. I just don't think they realize how bad this looks. That's the only explanation that I can think. It's the only one. Is there. Producer NICK Is there any, any at all, any other explanation that you can think of? Well, they phrase it as taken over. So the only angle that I can see from the left, it's a housing coup. Well, they're militarized. Like they, they're trying to suggest they see themselves as like generals under Trump and that they need official military homes. And then, of course, the monetary benefit of not having to pay mortgage. And you know, I like it when. Let's return to a true leader here for, for the end of some bonus tonus this evening. Kamala Harris doing more interviews. Excitedly, angrily, and I don't know who. Again, Kamala Harris, you are more than welcome to come on the show. We'll have a good. Please, please come on the show. As a Baptist, I can't promise I'll pay the wine bill, but we might release Tony Kennett cast mugs just for you to drink out of. Just for that you Got a Kamala anytime. Yeah. Now the Kamala Harris interviews are going rough. They asked her what on earth it felt like, and when she realized that the Trump campaign had won the election, I wasn't expecting this, because the rest of us knew that it was going really poorly for Kamala. The internal polling, the external polling was really bad. Remember internal polling for Kamala showed that she was getting beaten with a wooden spoon by an angry mother. This was, this is her. Her supposed response. And when she realized it was all over.

[Tony Kennett]

I was in a state of shock.

[Producer Nick]

Really? Did you think I was in the state of Indiana, personally? I was in a state of shock. As opposed to what? Temporary residence in shock. Passive shock. I was repeatedly stabbing a fork into an outlet the day before that. You were going to win. Yeah. And so when did the proverbial penny drop?

[Tony Kennett]

When I got a call from my campaign manager.

[Producer Nick]

She says, talking into her hand, not very joy cometh in the morning.

[Tony Kennett]

Is it that it looks like we need 200,000 more votes that we can't find?

[Producer Nick]

I'm sorry, did you just say we need 200,000 votes that we can't find? I was told, I was told that that wasn't just good old fashioned normal campaign rhetoric like things that they've been saying. We can't find this many votes. I was told that when Trump's campaign said that they were trying to, you know, drag out the post it note index cards and like, rig the election, is what they. Oh, crazy. Can't find the 200,000 votes that it.

[Tony Kennett]

Looks like we need 200,000 more votes that we can't find. Meaning it's just the map.

[Producer Nick]

Meaning it's just the map. You know, like Dora. Yeah. If there is a place you gotta go, 200,000 votes to know I'm the map. You know, just. I love the hand motion swiper. No swiping more votes. She's painting the map for us. It's very expressive numbers.

[Tony Kennett]

And the thing I kept saying over and over again, I was in a state of shock. I was. I was so inarticulate, but maybe very articulate.

[Producer Nick]

Ah. Have you ever been so inarticulate that you've been very articulate? Yes. I don't know what she could possibly mean there. Maybe I was slurring my words. Actually, maybe every one of my words was incredibly precise and pronunciated.

[Tony Kennett]

What I kept saying over and over again is, my God, my God, my.

[Producer Nick]

God, why hast thou forsaken me? I love it when she quotes scripture. Really?

[Tony Kennett]

Over and I couldn't stop.

[Producer Nick]

I remember how they said, by the way, there are pictures from this night. She's just standing there watching the TV screen. She makes it sound like she's sitting there on the table, bottle of Chardonnay in one hand, a box of Boone's Farm wine in the other, and that she's just, you know, sitting there repeatedly talking to God, who, you know, didn't believe in. Up until this moment, I haven't felt.

[Tony Kennett]

That emotion, anything similar to the emotion I felt that day and for quite some time, other than the grief I felt when my mother died.

[Producer Nick]

Guys, I'm going to level with you. No politics aside for a second here. Just putting all of the politics away. Forget it. No election on this earth at the local, state, or federal level is so important that if you lose said election, you should feel as awful as when losing your mother. Kamala Harris. I, unfortunately, have suffered through some of her writing or transcription or her biographical musings, whatever you want to call them. She claims to have been super duper, duper, ultra close with her mother. I know a lot of people like that. Maybe, you know, you lose your father early on and so you're that much closer to your mother. That kind of a very intensely close relationship. To then take that and say, I haven't felt that bad since I lost my mother. That's just really disrespectful. So you can't tell someone how to feel about their. Yes, I can. If you think that an election is more important now, I'm sure she'll go, well, I was worried for the country. And that is where she goes here.

[Tony Kennett]

I. I knew what was going to happen to our country.

[Producer Nick]

Yeah, see, there it is. You're so full of it. You're so full of it. I. When Biden won the election, when, when he, when it was called for Biden, even amid the shaky, you know, shenanigans and the questions and the, oh, is this going to happen? Is this going to happen? I never was at the point where I said, all right, it's all over. Ma load the AR15. No, no, just things will, in fact, be okay. There's a lot of defeatism on all sides right now. Everyone's finding a slice of defeatism to roll around in. No.

[Tony Kennett]

I knew. I knew the harm that was going to happen to people, and I knew it. I knew what was going to happen.

[Producer Nick]

I will point out, and producer Nick and I had a lengthy discussion about this this afternoon because we do, in fact, actually work through some of these points and ideas during the day. One of the biggest red flags for me, whenever someone says something extremely bad is going to happen or has happened, they say, I knew this was going to happen. Usually they start citing things that happened. Usually they start citing various, you know, various things that occur. Oh, it says, I guess the stream is frozen for some people. That's very weird. Not sure what's going on over there. Not sure if there is some kind of an outage on rumble. I'll tell you this because of course after this we're going to try to get things up anywhere any way that we can to kind of close off things this evening. There is nothing that is so important that you react that way after losing an election. There's no, no. If you realistically are so losing your mind in bonkers that you know all these things are going to happen or you can say, oh, these things happened and you should be able to list a couple of things. I'm very receipts driven. And if you don't actually have examples, then shut your mouth. She has no examples. These bad things. We were told everyone was going to die like 36 times. It hasn't happened. Pritzker earlier on in the episode making his big claim, making his, his big statement that oh, ICE needs to leave black and brown children alone on Halloween in Chicago because yeah, that's, that's the threat to people in Chicago. Is, Is ICE okay? Yeah. No, that night will come and go. There won't be big, huge terrible things from ice and that will be yet another thing that cannot be listed along those lines. Now given that I have other clips to play more on the bonus tonus side of things, but because that either there's some kind of service outage that shut off the stream side of things. We'll catch you. We'll catch you guys on the other side of things tomorrow, hopefully, Lord willing and the river don't rise. It's the Tony Kennedcast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. Y' all take care of.