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Ep. 455 - National Guardsmen Shot in DC, Election Lawsuit Tossed in Georgia, Rep. Swalwell Sues
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Two National Guardsmen were shot near the White House in Washington, DC. Their conditions are currently unknown due to conflicting reports. Kurt Schlichter from Townhall.com joins us for more on the behavior of those trying to encourage sedition in the United States military.
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Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett.
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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 Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on wibc. We have a lot to dig into and not as much time as would well give us the room to lollygag around. So let's get right to it. A horrible situation out of Washington D.C. today near the White House. Two National Guardsmen were shot at point blank range in a targeted terrorist attack. Here is the assistant police chief of the Metropolitan Police on this today. Executive assistant chief here at the Metropolitan Police department.
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At approximately 2:15 this afternoon, members of.
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The D.C. national Guard were on high visibility patrols in the area of 17th and High Street Northwest when a suspect came around the corner, raised his arm with a firearm and discharged it at.
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The National Guard members. The National Guard members.
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There were other members that were in the area. They were able to after some back and forth able to subdue the individual.
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And bring them into custody within moments.
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Members of law enforcement in the area were also able to assist and bring that individual into custody at this time, as the director mentioned, the National Guard members are being treated at a local hospital now the situation as grim and I'm going to try to save some of my analysis for a moment. On a more structural level, things were thrown very out of whack very quickly in the news sphere and on social media when a post by West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey said, quote, it is with great sorrow that we can confirm both members of the West Virginia National Guard who were shot earlier Today in Washington D.C. this was about an hour and 20 minutes after the shooting took place, have passed away from their injuries. Then he says these brave West Virginians lost their lives in service of their country, were in ongoing contact with federal officials of the investigation begin or continues to. And now it well, at the time, immediately media sources started breaking. You know, when the commander in chief of the West Virginia National Guard gets out there and makes that kind of a statement, immediately people started saying that these two were in fact murdered, that they had succumbed to the gun wounds. He posted about a half an hour later, quote, we are now receiving conflicting reports about the condition of our two Guard members and will provide additional updates once we receive more complete information. This is a, this is a rough situation and it's one of the reasons why here on the Tony Kennet cast that abroad good media, it's okay to take a moment, not to be first to a particular news point, but to hang on for a minute. It's also one of the reasons that it's a better idea to check before you get out ahead of your skis and make official statements. What it appears to be the case, according to members of his office, is that they had seen various posts from likely trustworthy sources claiming that the soldiers, the guardsmen, were not just shot but were murdered. And so there's been a lot of contention regarding the shooting this afternoon. Now immediately, what comes up question is the motive for 99% of Americans. The motive here is not a difficult question. The motive here is not a difficult question. The idea that there are just two National Guardsmen that just so happened to be the target of some random, unplotted, strange attack while they are being deployed from West Virginia into Washington D.C. is so unlikely that it's, it's laughable someone might hold that opinion. Nevertheless, that is in fact what over on msn, no, excuse me, over on ABC News was originally reported. And the number of possible excuses that the ABC News reporter tries to come up with is really rather gross and very insulting to those of any kind of intelligence or a focus will turn.
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To whether these guardsmen were specifically targeted. If that's the case, it would fit with what we've been hearing from law enforcement officials for a number of months.
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Now, that some political flashpoints in the.
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Country, whether that's immigration policies by the administration, the ongoing Israel Hamas conflict, even amid a tenuous cease fire, those kinds of flashpoints have made people in uniform, be they military, law enforcement, government officials, people in uniform, have increasingly been targets.
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And that is going to be one.
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Focus of the investigation going forward. Kira.
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You don't need to say, well, there's a slim chance that it could be. It's not because of the Israeli Palestine conflict. It's not because of some ridiculous far out strange connection nuisance. No. The entire focus of half of the country's media over the last couple of weeks of major members of Congress have been to explicitly target and lambast National Guardsmen as being evil. Governor J.B. pritzker called Illinois National Guardsmen evil. And conspirators. Governor Gavin Newsom of California called his own California National Guardsmen evil. Horrible individuals trying to intimidate people because they were trying to protect federal agents upholding federal law enforcement in Los Angeles. Now, a couple of details that we do have. Now, I don't really want to get this out of order. Mayor Muriel Bowser stepped forward to answer a question about what was whether it was a motive. Of course, we saw this in previous shootings regarding these kind of incidents. Well, we don't know if this was random and just happenstance. Props to Muriel Bowser making it very clear right off the bat this was obviously targeted.
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Validate the need for the national guard.
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Here in D.C. what we know and what the reporter asked for those who couldn't hear is does this validate the need for national guardsmen in D.C. and that'll matter here later when we talk about the judicial stuff, but I'll let that question replay.
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Validate the need for the National Guard here. What we know, Andrea, is that this is a targeted shooting.
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One individual individual who appeared to target these Guardsmen.
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That individual has been taken into custody.
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So again, props to Muriel Bowser, who from recent news and information has been very pro National Guardsmen upholding law and order in Washington D.C. we'll get to this in a little bit later. Homicides in Washington have plummeted since the National Guard has been in Washington itself. Last but not least, Cash Patel, director of the FBI. Of course, an immediate investigation was launched. Was at the press conference as well, and he paid some honor and gave a little bit of an update on the situation regarding the two Guardsmen. Here's FBI Director Cash Patel. Individual is his connections at this time. He's still in the hospital receiving treatment.
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And I would just like. Hang on. I would just like to add the reason that this suspect is in the reason that this suspect is in custody is because of the bravery of the men and women of the National Guard who responded due to their extensive training to secure American lives today there was not any further injury and any further shootings. We should highlight the fact that the men and women of law enforcement, the interagency, the Department of War and the National Guard executed their training with great precision today and prevented an even greater tragedy from befalling us. These National Guardsmen are heroes and we must Pray for their safety and their speedy recovery. And as the chief said, we are in the preliminary stages of this investigation. We will run down every single lead, every piece of evidence. This is the power of the US Government at its best, at the state, local and federal level. That is why this interagency group is standing behind us to assure America and the world that we will continue to keep D.C. safe. And thankfully, we have Metropolitan Police Department.
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All right, then he goes off into the kind of the proclivities there. So a couple of things. Producer Nick is sending me some additional information now, so. Oh, that we actually have that. That piece of information. I'm glad you sent that over. There is some new information regarding the suspect. I'm gonna have to say suspect, the shooter who was captured by National Guardsmen was wrestled to the ground and is now in a different hospital. I don't want to get ahead of myself here. A statement by the President of the United States and not just a true social post. This was then taken and sent on all of the other social media platforms from the President, Quote, the animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being critically wounded and now two in separate hospitals, is also severely wounded. So the National Guardsmen are believed currently to be in critical condition. God forbid we have an update on that that is negative. We'll of course share that. If that breaks during the show, we will wait a little bit just to confirm, especially given some of the questions and confusion earlier today. The president continued that the animal that shot the two Guardsmen is also severely wounded and in a separate hospital. He then says, quote, God bless our great National Guard and all of our military and law enforcement. These are truly great people. Uh, I, as President of the United States and everyone associated with the office of the presidency, am with you. And that statement matters at the end there. That is not just a nicety. I am with you because there are a number of individuals in this country right now who claim on videos that they have the backs of National Guardsmen while simultaneously painting targets on their backs. We're going to get to that, but there's a little more news to cover. From the information that we know a suspect in custody. I'm not going to show his picture here. I don't want to glorify this tub of lard. Is a fat, bearded moron who was loaded into an ambulance, taken away, who, according to Nick Sordor, is an Afghani national and shouted, quote, allahu Akbar during the attack. Law enforcement sources told friend of the show Julio Rosas. Therefore, this if this is in fact the case, this would be an Islamic terror attack in the United States. Again, we don't know all the information yet. Regardless, right now it is very clear that an individual committed a point blank terror attack in this country. And it has been inflamed and made more likely by those who have spent the last couple of months demonizing the National Guard. And when I say demonizing, I mean openly advocating the National Guard are some kind of pre 1930s Nazis who are just following orders. This is what one analyst, senior analyst over on CNN had described it as. Actually what the President is doing through.
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The Secretary of Defense is creating units.
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Official military units, to quite frankly guard or not guard, watch the American people. And that's the thing that is absolutely abhorrent. It reminds me so much of what happened in Germany in the 1930s. It's disgusting. Now, some of the other coverage from today was as atrocious as you would expect. Ken Delaney and over at formerly MSNBC, now MSNBC, he had some rather gross assertions to make while covering the initial shooting.
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But of course, you know, there's so much controversy happening in the United States right now with ice who are also wearing uniforms.
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Oh, no. Wearing uniforms. Oh, no. Clearly, if someone's wearing a uniform, well, then, I mean, violence should be allowed then.
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And wearing masks.
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And so there's, you don't know, people.
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Walking around with uniforms in an American city. There are some Americans that might object to that.
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Oh, there's some American. Some Americans might object. See, that's why I was shot. Some Americans might object to, you know, people in uniform. That's a grown man making that assertion to you. They're so bewilderingly far from the narrative, so bewilderingly far from what actual people in the United States believe. I've said this before. When I go to Washington D.C. i'll be heading there next week. When I go to Washington D.C. i feel more disconnected from what is going on than at any other time in anywhere else in my travels. And that is specifically because people in Washington D.C. people in the broadcast district of New York City are disconnected to the extreme from the rest of the country. Case in point, Al Sharpton, the race riot hustler himself, and Nicole Wallace. Somehow, somehow the worst part of the Bush administration, in case you were wondering, together talking about the shooting today and of course, just blaming it on Donald Trump, because that makes perfect sense. Here you go.
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This idea that they're all on the same side, right? I mean, people that follow a chain.
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Of command and at Any level in.
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Government, you are reporting to someone above you. To your point, you know, it's the men and women of the military are following orders. I mean, that is the chain of command. They're following orders. This was not a vote that they all voted and said the majority of us vote, therefore we have to go. They're following orders. And I also would if I'd show the concern that if this has been an ambush, we don't know where this is going. You've got guardsmen out there that's got to wonder, is there something that's going to follow this up? We don't know what we're talking about yet. Was this a sole gunman?
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Now, regardless of the fact that Al Sharpton is a blithering imbecile, um, it's important to note a couple of things. Yeah. No military force on the history of this planet, no law enforcement group on the history of this planet meets in a large room and votes to where they are going to go and what they are going to do. When you apply to be part of a law enforcement agency, when you sign up to join a military, you are signing up to follow a series of orders in a chain of command. That's not breaking blistering news. That's not even fourth grade civics. That is a basic fundamental understanding of human organization and pattern psychology. You learned this in preschool. There's a chain of command. Yeah, no kidding. Thank you, Al Sharpton. Then the argument, well, you know, National Guards, they don't even know if there's going to be a follow up attack. Do you know why? It's likely there might be some kind of a follow up or additional attacks like this. Like the terror attack we just reported on with the U Haul being driven into people. That person released on bail. The assault on the ICE facility in Texas in which they were trying to shoot the ICE officers and ended up shooting the detainees instead. Not to mention the horrible firebombing in Aurora. The number, the number of attacks in Charlotte and Chicago and New York. These are targeted terrorist attacks inflamed by a group of people who have painted law enforcement in this country as Nazis. Why? Are the law enforcement taking away any rights? No, they're not. They are upholding the standard of law that is currently held by Congress. Law enforcement officers are not making up laws. The President of the United States is not making up laws. The President has not decided that an executive order has to create. The President has not dispatched some executive order that creates a new law regarding immigration, federal law enforcement is simply upholding the current standard of immigration law. And in D.C. the National Guardsmen, who are unarmed, by the way, it just, it's ridiculous. The National Guardsmen should absolutely be fully armed so that if any individual pulls a gun on them, then then God willing that you, you actually have an opportunity for the soldier to defend himself and not need other guardsmen to run up and put themselves in harm's way in the process of detaining that piece of filth. Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Now, this brings us to the rest of the officials for the day that have said some of the worst things. One other piece of update news here. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced that the President has ordered him to deploy another 500 National Guardsmen to Washington, D.C. we're going to talk about that in a minute because there are some conflicting judicial orders, because, you know, of course there are. But in the meantime, the conversation around the seditious six, the number of Democrat congressmen and women senators and representatives who made a video saying, hey, hey, hey, just reminding you you don't have to follow legal orders and not actually saying what orders might be illegal, not actually saying what to do if you think there's an illegal order being given, just undermining again, the chain of command. We'll talk about that with Kurt Schlichter in a moment here. Elisa Slotkin, who in that video said, hey, we've got your back, troops. We've got your back. We sure do. Well, you know, except for a couple of days ago when she was saying that National Guardsmen are likely to run around shooting random people. Here was the Senator of Michigan making sure there was justification for this terrorist attack in Washington. Look at these videos coming out of places like Chicago.
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It makes me incredibly nervous that we're.
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About to see people in law enforcement, people in uniform, military, get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians. It is very, a very, very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for.
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The communities on the ground.
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So it was basically a warning to say, like, if you're asked to do something particularly against American citizens, it's disgusting. It's dis. Oh, just randomly running around shooting people. That's what they're gonna do. When you tell people Nazis are coming, when you tell people their lives are on the line, when you tell people you're like an animal and they're like the Nazis, they're backing you into a corner because they're going to stab you and throw you in a concentration camp and disappear you. How do you think people are going to respond to that. And those who pretend they don't know how this works because that's what Senator Mark Kelly is currently doing, along with the rest of the seditious six, are making sure that events like these happen all the time. It is an act of terrorism. It is meant to imply political pressure. We do have new information about the suspect confirmed by CBS News. The suspect's name, 29 year old Afghani national Rahmanullah Lal. He of course entered the United States in 2021 under the Biden administration. Remember all that pearl clutching and crying over the Trump administration revoking certain protected statuses for migrants that had no business being here? Hmm. The open immigration processes that have allowed individuals to just waltz into the country and by the way, when obtaining ID that they shouldn't have access to, being allowed to not give any name whatsoever. If you apply for a, a commercial driver's license in California, there's an excellent interview with the head of ice, Director Lyons over on the Ruthless podcast. You should go listen to where he describes. There are several states that will allow you to put no name given as the first name of your license or the last name of your license, and then they just give you the license. The way that Democrat administrations, senators and representatives have treated the security of this country is not only reprehensible, it is criminal. Yeah. We do also have confirmation that this was carried out with a handgun. Keep an eye out. Just, just out of curiosity, I know there's some rumor on this as well, producer Nick, where the individuals where the National Guardsmen were shot, I've heard some saying that they were chest wounds, some saying that they were. There were head wounds. Of course, nothing on that yet. All right, good. We don't want to, don't want to speculate any further. We absolutely do want to make sure that we are praying for those, those two who are currently still, as we understand, in critical condition for their families. And I also, dear, endearingly hope that the medical care that the shooter is receiving right now in a different hospital comes without any sort of anesthetic whatsoever. Now, not only was Elisa Slotkin one of those out there suggesting the National Guard was going to come in and be Nazis. When I say that, by the way, that's not a joke. Half of the demographic, the bitter women demographic of the Democrat Party openly believes that Trump's using the National Guard to just go in and Auschluss sends the Nazis into Austria to make sure that the ballots have yes in big letters so that you have to vote. This is their this is their idea. This is what they think Trump's gonna do with the National Guard. This is painting a target on our troops. There is crime in American cities, but the way to deal with it is.
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Get the funding that you need for.
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Police, get the training that you need.
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And work with local officials. This is a pretext to stop the next election. That's what I think it is. I would say it might also be.
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A distraction from the hearing that's going on right now about the Epstein files.
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Some things have come up and ag Pam Bondi was dodging questions and attacking back. Do you not think maybe the whole.
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Civil unrest storyline is maybe overblown? I think that Donald Trump also sees American troops in US Cities as a sign of strength. I think most Americans don't. I think they see it as, like, societal breakdown. The way that the left views the military is just disgusting. As a reminder, when average Americans see troops in uniform, it is usually followed by thank yous, offering to buy a meal. Whenever there's a member of the military in a commercial, it's usually hugging their child getting home from a deployment. People applaud wildly. Not just in red states, in blue states. When there's a member of the military that attends an event, they say, any veterans or active members of the military here? The crowd goes wild when troops are on deployment somewhere. By the way, this is not a new thing. The National Guard has assisted various organizations and agencies not just in disaster recovery, but in emergency security and civil unrest hundreds of times over the last century in American life. This kind of whitewashing of history, where we're gonna pretend the National Guard is secretly the Gestapo, is insidious. It is, in fact, disgusting to the core. And then, of course, you have the journos who have come out saying things. Jane Ma. Jane Mayer over from the New Yorker, which is, by the way, if you've never read the New Yorker, it is exclusively the magazine of people who have unhappy extramarital affairs. Jane Mayer says, quote, this is so tragic, so unnecessary. These poor guardsmen should never have been deployed. I live in D.C. and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash. It was for political show. And at what a cost. Filth. Human scum. To say something like that. First of all, according to the data, between August 11 through today, November 26, there have been only 24 homicides in the greater Washington, D.C. area. In the identical time period last year, there were 61. The National Guard have absolutely saved lives in Washington, D.C. there have been fewer carjackings, fewer Thefts. And not just fewer petty thefts, but fewer instances of grand theft auto, fewer instances of of larceny of arson, fewer instances of sexual assault. I've been to Union Station. It is where I grab lunch the very first time I'm in D, very first day I'm in D.C. i always end up grabbing lunch from the Union Station kind of on my way in. And the National Guard have ensured they're not picking up trash. They are keeping that area safe. And it was filled with vagrants, very violent vagrants. And by the way, people aren't just making excuses for this horrific act, they're openly praising it.
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Here's the from producer Nick sent this over our way. People over on TikTok on the left openly offering kudos and shout outs to the assassin or to the would be assassin, shout out to the patriot who kirked two federal agents near the White House. This is exactly how we need to be dealing with violent dictatorships and embrace our second amendment rights. Hopefully they'll think twice about serving this racist administration. You better take this one because the words that I have are not FCC compliant. The double standard of suggesting that the National Guard had nothing to do and stood around collecting trash but also need to be wiped out because they're contributing to a police state. The cognitive dissonance there, I think is exemplified pretty well with that man of believing that that's what you do with a dictatorship. You kill people serving your local community that were just standing around picking up trash. Regarding the piece of trash that has yet to be picked up, who gave kudos to the Afghani national who shot two West Virginia National Guardsmen saying that he kirked them again, the embracing of political violence over on the socialist left, by the way, there really should be a point in which when a side tells you they are willing to kill you. That's enough. That's enough. The idea that we need to sit around and wait until the shots are flying in front of you is ridiculous. I'm over it. I'm over it. The idea that I'd sit here, someone's saying, yeah, I really like it when people are shot and killed over on the right. That's good. People should be killing more National Guardsmen. That's how you should stand up. He should be picked up. I'm sorry, I don't care. Deport him. But the Constitution. Deport him now and pick the most violent country you can to deport him to. He has nothing in common with the rest of Americans. He shouldn't be here. Get him out of here. Get every one of those people out of here. I don't want to hear it. Because the longer they get to sit here on their fat rear ends and call for violence, the more that those who are mentally unstable, the more that are violent migrants from around the world, as it appears this Afghani is, the more that individuals who are simply doing their jobs to keep this country safe will pay the price for it because some gender confused fool out of Columbia University thinks that this is the way to inspire Marxist revolution so she can be a transgender farmer in Seattle. F off. Disgusting. Disgusting. All right, there's more to cover on this, some of the judicial stuff, because again, last week Federal Judge Gia Cobb ruled against Trump's deployment of the National Guard to D.C. now things are going to get even more concerning. We're going to talk about it. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kinnid cast here on the Daily Signal. This is the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WYBC. To continue in the news of the day, because before we go into Thanksgiving, it's important that you have all of the news that will likely be kind of swept under the rug by the time you plug back in over from the New Yorker. Orville Ettore, a Jamaican national who lived in New York for nearly 50 years, was shackled and put on an ICE flight to eSwatini. It helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt going to another land in shackles and chains. He said, same kind of rhetoric. Nazis, slave traders, murderers. That's how law enforcement are painted. That's how the military is painted. There's one small catch because there's always a small catch. Orville Ettoria, the guy who's quoted and featured in this article, shackled and dragged away like a slave. He's had multiple serious felonies, including armed robbery and murder. So, you know, just saying maybe, just maybe, media is absolutely as filthy and disgusting as you imagined it to be. Moving on to some of the judicial matters because now we get into some of the legal stuff and the other news of the day of the show. Um, the Department of Justice is now seeking an emergency stay after the two National Guardsmen were shot in D.C. this afternoon. So as a kind of a reframe here as a reminder, last week Federal Judge Gia Cobb ruled that Trump's deployment of the national guard troops to D.C. was unlawful, sort of. She made the argument that the administration, quote, exceeded the bounds of their authority by deploying the National Guard for crime deterrence. And then she said, without a request from city officials. Uh, yeah, she.
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She can't really do that. So, first of all, it's a temporary block because she doesn't actually have the authority here to just say, the National Guard's not allowed to go here. She's not in the chain of command for the National Guard. Number two, Washington, D.C. is in federal territory. The Senate, as well as the Washington, D.C. metropolitan Department under Muriel Bowser, as well as the City Council, have approved National Guardsmen continuing to be in the city. So saying, well, they're there for crime deterrence. And that's bad. I don't like that. Well, I don't care how overweight a judge you are. I don't care how excited you are about making the case that LGBTQ BLM litigation somehow makes you qualified to be a commanding officer in a National Guard regiment. No, not how it works. Not how the Constitution works. And now the Trump administration is going above her lofty forehead to the appeals courts and to the Supreme Courts for asking for additional stays and additional troops in D.C. it's going to be granted, and it should be granted. Federal judges, no matter where they are, do not have the constitutional authority to step in and cut off Article 2 authority of the President of the United States. That's not a thing. It's not. You can really, really want it to be a thing. That's a matter of Congress. If Congress wants to get delegate authority to the judicial system, Congress has to give the authority. Judges can't grant themselves authority. Judges determine whether the laws that Congress passes are constitutional. They judge if the president is acting in constitutionality with the laws that are passed. But if the president has explicit authority, as he does under Article 2 of the Constitution, not to mention under previous acts in the 1930s in the full nationalization of the National Guard. Federalization of the National Guard. Excuse me. Some district court judge doesn't get to say boo about it. Now, that's not the only major breaking piece of legal info today from the judicial side. A judge Scott McAfee has officially dismissed the Fulton county criminal prosecution of President Trump and all of his co defendants. This is in the 2020 Georgia election racketeering RICO case that Fanny Willis brought forward and then hired her little boyfriend to be the prosecutor and got in lots of trouble because you're not allowed to engage in janitor closet shenanigans with the legal counsel. Not even on svu. Is that allowed? So in this Particular instance, a big womp womp. To Fanny Willis, our thoughts and prayers are certainly with you. And you're a clown. Moving on. Representative Eric Swalwell, the Democrat representative from California and also a Democrat candidate for governor of California, after being sued by the Department of Justice for mortgage fraud because the Trump administration allowed FHA Director Bill Pulte to look at suspicious mortgage documents from those serving in government and found that Eric Swalwell very overtly, very obviously purchased a $1.2 $1.3 million home in Washington, D.C. he has no place of residence listed in California that he's lived at. So he's not even legally a member of the California Congressional delegation to Washington. That's a serious problem. But neither here nor there. He may not even be eligible to run for governor of California, but he committed mortgage fraud by essentially making the claim when he was getting his house in D.C. that that was his primary residence. Well, if you're a member of Congress, you can't have a primary residence outside of your state. Kind of the whole point of being a representative of the great state of California, that would be the point. Now, Eric Swalwell has decided that the move here, because everybody's got to have a little political strategy. After you get smacked with a very serious lawsuit, again, the kind of lawsuits that are on paper, you are dead to rights. You, you idiot. Wrote primary residence on your mortgage, and you got caught. Well, alas, legal strategy. Here we go. Eric Swalwell is countersuing Bill Pulte. Why? Here's his statement. This is all real. I'm not making this up. Eric Swalwell is suing the guy who opened the filing cabinet and pulled out the mortgage documents Eric Swalwell illegally signed knowingly. Because there's all of those, like, make sure you know what you're doing here. Right. Here's the argument. Here's the statement he released on social media. Quote, today I have filed a civil lawsuit against FHA Director Bill Pulte for violating the Privacy act in the First Amendment. Director Pulte has combed through private records of political opponents to silence them. There's a reason the First Amendment, the freedom of speech, comes before all others. As. As George Orwell said, if liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Don't you remember when he said that.
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After signing the Declaration of Independence? Ah, yes. We the people, in order to form a lower interest rate in a state outside our own, in order to defraud the American people by committing heinous bank mortgage and wire fraud, respectively. You know, I'm. My favorite part of the Constitution. Oral signed it and then said, you know what, I think we should make sure that the First Amendment is first. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, when his famous speech is the First Amendment, I know we were thinking it was going to be third, but I think the order is going to be really important. So let's make it first. And then he signed off. Yeah. One of his incredible works, Animal fraud. Excellent. He outlines it 1984 closure. Also top notch. Really proud of the, the George Orwell rewrite here. Kind of ironic, not gonna lie. I. What I really love here is he's making the case. He said so. He's combed through private records of political opponents to silence them. Look, look, look at me here for a second here. Hang on. Hey, wait, this isn't, this isn't quite right. Get the Chirons off of the screen for a second. A little one on one conversation, you and me here. Your mortgage records are filed with the government because you moving large sums of money means taxes are very precise. Because you have the right as a citizen to sue the Internal Revenue Service if you mess up. The Internal Revenue Service has the right to sue you if you mess up on those particular taxes. Now, if it is suspected you've committed mortgage fraud, the federal government has the obligation to look into that fraud. And if we're gonna start looking into those kinds of fraud, because by the way, remember in 2016 when Hillary Clinton was standing up on the debate stage with Donald Trump and she says he uses tax cuts and he uses all these loopholes. Of course I do. And all of the rich people do. I'd be stupid not to. All of your donors, Hillary, they use the loopholes. If we're actually going to start going after the loopholes and the people who are just committing blatant fraud, wouldn't it make sense to start at the top and work our way down? Isn't this something the American people have been complaining about for a very long ding, ding dong time? It makes a lot of sense when it comes to the irs. Makes sense to me. Everyone always is complaining that if I screw up on my taxes, it's the hoot scout for me. And Eric Swalwell openly, very blatantly lies on his mortgage documents and what does he get? A Chinese prostitute and a slap on the butt. No, I was about to just ask. Do you think he'll at some point make the case that he received advice from one of his girlfriends and that's why he messed up on it. He was filling it out and asked for her help, and she has no idea how she gave him. And she gave him her answer. She was like. And he's like, I don't speak Mandarin. I think that means yes, by the way. If you do, like, decide. That was. How could you. That was really race. I'm sorry. Making fun of a Beijing Communist spy. Yeah, I'll do it again. You know what would be really racist is accidentally, you know, handing a Chinese takeout menu thinking that it's one of the mortgage forms. Nick, as Mao once said, that'll be 1395. Thanks for coming to Panda Express. Now, moving on. Before I do in fact, get kneecapped by President Winnie the Pooh of Beijing, he, Derek Swalwell's not slowing down there. The case has been assigned to D.C. district Court Judge James Boasberg. Yes, James Boasberg, excellent. The guy who just so happens to randomly get all of the very serious political cases in Washington, D.C. has randomly, by chance, by happenstance, by the seat of his pants, been assigned this particular random case. Now we actually want to talk about real anti Asian discrimination in this country. It happens to be that James Boasberg has presided over a large number of cases that have ruled against Asian Americans, expressing concerns via civil rights litigation. And it. I'm just. I'm just drawing some lines here. I just didn't expect. Oh, that I actually have the Boisberg, the Boasburg Asian connection there. Why, yes, I certainly do. I've never seen a media rule. I want to. I want to make this explicitly clear because from Politico, this episode's going off the rails very quickly, and I'm loving every second of it. Kyle Chaney, the senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, he says, so he tweeted this out 7 hours. 7 hours ago. He said Representative Eric Swalwell's lawsuit against Bill Pulte has been assigned to ellipses Judge Boasberg. Now, when you put a tweet out there like that and you have an ellipses a dot, dot, dot, and then you say you're putting a lot of focus on the Judge Boasberg. And then people start responding as you would guess, like, wow, what a surprise. Judge Boasberg with another blockbusters like, everyone's like, wow, he takes offense to this. And Kyle, again, over from Politico, says, folks, there are a lot of high profile, controversial cases in Washington, D.C. and actually, Boasberg has gotten a smaller share of these controversial cases than many of his Colleagues, including some appointed by Donald Trump. The conspiracy theorizing around how he gets the cases is so silly. Okay, no, I chimed in on this one myself because I couldn't help it if this was bad. It was very well done. I said it's not like Judge Boasberg allowed the illegal tapping, tracking and spying on of US Senators and then assigned himself the oversight cases on that particular series of investigations. It's not like in a series of huge, sweeping major national injunction situations just so happened, just so happened to get every single one of those randomly assigned cases in like a four day stretch. That's a batting average. I mean, tell you what, if you get, you're getting records like that, Vegas is calling to stay. You stay away from Vegas, they'll throw you out on card counting or something. No one's got luck that good. Yeah. In fact, normally if you're that good at blackjack, you run for the governor of Illinois and then tell, you know, we made $1 million in blackjack profit this year. Yeah, I knew where you were going. Now one other thing, just because we're, you know, talking about it, you know, some might say it's random that of the eight anti Asian American discrimination cases brought to Washington D.C. over the last five years, Judge James Boasberg has presided over all five of them. Oh yeah, I actually did my research on this. You weren't expecting that one, were you? That's right, the Tony Kenneth cast. Boys and girls, we're here for a good time, not a long time because I'm not booked for like a three hour show like a lot of my colleagues. So those things aside, before we get to mail time, we're going to go over to the great Kurt Schlichter of Townhall.com we're going to talk about some of the seditious six. Because God forbid that we go through an actual investigation of a person's actions on the left without Lisa Murkowski walking out in front of the crowd and weeping big David French sized tears. Oh, they're going after one of my friends in the Senate. So we're going to talk about that with Kurt. Don't go anywhere. It is the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC.
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Sam, It.
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I'm just thinking it's the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYPC. That's right. Kurt Schlichter and I have been talking about all of the deep, dark Capitol Hill rumors that are flooding around while the pearl clutching women in the United States State Senate. That would be Lisa Murkowski and John Curtis of Utah are out. Just feathers ruffled because someone dares, someone dares ask the Secretary of the Navy to investigate seditious comments by Senator Kelly. So, Kurt, I gotta ask, do you feel fluffered? Just, just completely flabbergasted? Speckledorfed by the apparent insult of such a decorated navyman?
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He looks like a thumb. Mark.
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Oh, man, if he's such a goof.
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I, I mean, first of all, I think he's also like five foot three. He's just annoying. And Lisa Murkowski, who came to his defense, she looks like a shoe.
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I don't understand. You seem to have more insight on this than I do. I don't know why. When you have a guy who is insinuating every single day that the entire Republican Party is evil and illegal and they're killing the children and all this other stuff, then the Republican senators, when he is investigated for seditious remarks, they immediately come out and go, well, because we all know the expert on military law is Lisa Murkowski. Well, he didn't do anything wrong and he's my friend. Give me a break.
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I, I, you know, the, the problem with having such close margins is these marginal characters suddenly get outsized importance. I mean, if we had like a 10, 15 seat majority, Thomas Massey would just be a lonely crank, you know, doing whatever he does. He got a nice haircut, though. I guess his new wife was like, no, no, no, no, no. You look like you look like an adjunct professor at a community college in Tennessee.
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As is a wife's right to tell you to get your hair cleaned up.
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Yeah, it looks a lot better. He's stored. Well, I, I'm really glad that, you know, I'm really glad that mtg's gone. I wish she could have weighed in on it. Every time I look at her, I think of Clint Eastwood saying, right turn, Clyde.
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For, for those who are wondering, Lisa Murkowski wrote yesterday evening, quote, senator Kelly valiantly served our country as an aviator in the US Navy before later completing four space shuttle missions as a NASA astronaut. To accuse him and other lawmakers of treason and sedition for rightfully pointing out that service members can refuse illegal orders is reckless and flat out wrong. The Department of Defense, Department of War and FBI surely have more important priorities than this frivolous investigation. Oh, the pearls, the bath salts, they're all coming out hurt. Are you moved?
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Are you convinced I'm having a bowel movement?
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I just, you know, how are These exclusive. How is your service record and actions that you are taking now? Why are, why do those have to be in line? What is it with these goofball elitists thinking that something that you have done earlier in your life, which may be good, may have been bad? Whatever now means that you are immune from any sin for the rest of your life.
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You know, I, I, I, I am unbelievably offended by everything about Mark Kelly, starting with him using Captain in his.
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Username on X. Yeah, yeah, that's major dope behavior. I mean, that is so that's like, call me doctor. And you have like a doctorate in.
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Like, I, I know, paleontology. Yes, it belongs in your bio. Because it's credential. It's a credential and you can weigh it for what it's worth. I've got mine in mine, but I, and I, it's, I'm Captain Mark Kelly. Dude. Dude, that's just, that's like mortifying. It is so cringe. It's like you get your rank to do a job, not to be the rank. It's pathetic. And I see that a lot from active duty guys. More from active duty guys. Not all active duty guys. US Reserve guys, we're like, I am a colonel in the Guard. I'm also a really good lawyer in California, which, you know, pays the bills and matters. I, I just, by the way, we, we reserve guys meet the same standards that the active duty guys do. We just have an entire other successful career at the same time.
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Don't get into the difference because then I'm going to start talking about contracting and then everyone's going to start asking questions and it, well, they get no answers.
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No, I did have somebody go, well, just some National Guard major like Pete Hagseth. Oh, the guy who did two combat tours and as a cib.
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I'm still tired of this, though. I'm so tired of this idea that you have these individuals who served in various roles. Again, you need a lot of different roles to make our military function function.
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Car wash.
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Right. I like to crap, I like to tease the guys. You know, who are these brass? You know, guys that are in logistics, but the logistics core, obviously it matters. The signal court matters. Those who are keeping the drones running. You know, let's say there's a guy who did some drone maintenance and mechanics.
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Get to make fun of them because we're in civilians back the F off.
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And, and, and by the way, to make this explicitly clear, when you criticize an individual's actions now that has nothing to do with their service record at all. Because as we found out from Petraeus, after you get done doing good stuff, if you go screw your mistress, that doesn't have anything to do with the stuff you did for the country. Unless you're out there, I don't know, providing morale to the wax during the Second World War.
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Well, if he, well if he, if he had whacked, he wouldn't have had that problem.
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Low bar, but that's right there for you.
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The infantry's there for you, baby.
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So I know that you have forsaken a beautiful, Thanksgiving filled, joy inspiring, Kurt Schlichter town hall Thanksgiving column to go after this nonsense. And this is one of the things I wanted to ask you about. I despise when a man has to whip out his fruit salad. I despise when a man has to go, hey, look at my medals and do the Soviet kind of Krukov, you know, blazer, flip of the metals to impress us all. I gotta. Have you ever had the need to, to display all of the medals instead of just the ribbons in on your uniform?
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Two ribbons, all of which are for perfect attendance? Except for one. Aam. I literally. You'll love this. I have an AAM for supervising. Not participating in. I was the lieutenant. I supervised the erection of a beer tent at the, at the Nelligan Barracks Volksfest in Stuttgart. I know, right? And I was there winning the battle. Winning the ted. Offensive. No, I mean defensive.
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Oh, that's brutal.
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The thing is, it's like, you know, civilians are like, well, he's got many, many ribbons. I'm like, well, you know, there's ribbons and then there's ribbons. If you're. Oh, I saw some guy, Dakota Meyer steps up, right, and goes, hey, you know, simmer down there, Captain. You know, just chill out and, you know, take care of your troops instead of trying to talk them into getting themselves a bad conduct discharge and some, some human dildo, you know, Steely Dan decides he's gonna, he's like, who the hell's this Dakota Meyer guy to be talking to a war hero like, like Mark Kelly? And I'm like, oof.
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Now look here.
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Wow.
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To put things, to put things into perspective, I, the of this bothers me just kind of the, the ribbon packing is that I will be that guy. I will be that guy and say that there is at least one good thing to have come out of the service academies, which is this idea that if you don't have the best version of that ribbon, if you don't have the best version of that metal. It doesn't go on the uniform. Oh, you got the Silver German Challenge. No, it doesn't go on the uniform unless it is the best. But aside from that, of course, near the Leo Wolf over on the Ruthless podcast, he and I have had fun making fun of these stolen valor cases where you, you flip up. There are people wearing flipped over JROTC Air Force ribbons on their uniform and things.
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Dude, it is so mortifying. The thing you do is if there's any question about whether you have it, you've like lost your certificate. You still wear it.
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Yeah, I don't.
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Again, I'm Entitled to like 6 or 7 Reserve, Reserve Service ribbons. You know, with a device, I have no idea what they are, so it's just like I'm not going to wear any of them.
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The desperation and this is how people always get caught in this kind of thing. It's never enough to say, hey, yeah, I did some kind of maintenance stuff. I, you know, enjoyed my time. The community was great. I was actually a super special forces cop pilot from the. Don't do that. And this is the issue that I have with Kelly. The issue that I have with Kelly is that again, he did some cool stuff. I have no problem with the cool stuff that he did.
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Shut his mouth. All be like, he did some great things.
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Naval aviation, excellent. Glad to see it again. I'm fascinated by aviation for reasons I'm not legally allowed to discuss on the air and other things that you and I have talked about in private. But the idea that you then have to take that and go, hey, look at me. Look at, look at all the, look at the medals that I have. Here's a picture of my shirt. Stop it. You embarrass officers who already have enough of a bad rap as it is.
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Dude, I'm an 06. He's an 06. And I spend all my time going, you know, all those 06 aren't jerk offs. I mean, it's like, dude, we've got a reputation problem and you're not helping.
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Well, wait, Captain, he's a retired 03, isn't he?
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No, he's an O6.
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Did he get breveted up to 6 Navy? Oh, the Navy's garbage. Captain rank. Nevermind. That explains a lot. He's the Navy.
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The worst. You're either the best or the worst, right? You're either Damon or you're like Colonel Burns who can't score with hot lips.
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Now that's okay. The MASH Reference is incredible, by the way. Just. I, I was, Well, I was. It was Carson over at Newsmax over the last week. I had the misfortune of staying in Washington. And in the middle of that, he said, you've got a weird sense of humor. And I said, well, you know, it's. You know, I watched a lot of Whose Line? The kind with Drew Carey growing up. And he said, that's not it. He said, you watch mash? And I said, oh, yeah, I watched like, all of it. My dad and I watched it, like, on repeat all the time. He said, you, you talk like, like Alda.
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He is just a big, strong kid. He crushed a beer can with two fingers.
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Show off. Once I killed a gopher with a stick. And I, I didn't. I guess I, I, the. I don't know.
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B
His show was funny most of the time.
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Just how you, you know, how you made the jokes kind of like on the fly while he was in the middle of hell. I don't know that, that kind of a thing. I, I never had been pigeonholed.
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Understand. People don't understand how deeply funny military people are. I'll carry your books. I'll carry a torch. I'll carry a tune. I'll carry on, carry over car, cash and carry. Carry me back to old Virginia. I'll even Harry carry if you show me how. But I will not carry a gun. It's life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour. Insanity is just a state of mind. War isn't hell. War is war and hell is hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. How do you figure that, Hawkeye? There are no innocent bystanders in hell. The war is shock.
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Full of them.
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You're not supposed to go to sleep. I'm not sleeping. I'm inspecting the inside of my eyes. I said fire that weapon. All right, you're fired. Good evening, ladies and germs. I'm sorry I'm late, but my watch stopped.
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It had to.
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It's been running fast all week. Are you the Yankee Doodle Doctor? I certainly am. Dark, hilarious. Military people can be.
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It is so important people. All of the pearl clutchers out there. And again, we talked about this with Lisa Murkowski. We've talked about this with John Curtis, who also is from you, who, by.
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The way, are moving ahead of redistricting Indiana. Utah is making you guys in Indiana look like a bunch of femme boys. I can't even. I can't. That's like a guy from the Bulwark saying, I score more tail than you guys.
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Okay, that cuts to the quick.
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I know, right?
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Me to the quick. Now, I've had to play a little bit nicer on redistricting for this. I don't mean nicer as in given. I've been very, I've obviously advocated for redistricting. We are getting ready to host Jack Posobiak and crew in the studio. We're getting ready to do a major push as much as we legally can. I have to be careful for FCC rules, but as much as I legally can. We're going to lean in on redistricting for the state because as I've said before, Andre Carson has no right to a congressional seat because we've decided that Marion county is a square based around racial. Like this is the black district in the state. That's disgusting. Screw him.
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Every, every, every venue should redistrict. Redistrict is best it can to serve its majority. I am morally offended that my other home state, I'm in Texas at the moment, but my home state of California is going to redistrict. I think you should. I expect you to do it. But.
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So you're also, by this, you're also bothered by this silly notion that, well, if there are four out of 10 voters are Democrats and six out of 10 voters are Republicans, then there should be six Republican districts and four Democrat districts. Like, that's not how this works.
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It's like weird, arbitrary. There's nothing I hate more than somebody who tries to be, you know, to, to remind teacher at 3 at 2:59 on a Friday that she hasn't given homework.
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Ah, classroom nerd stuff. We haven't been fair. Jill only got three vanilla wafers. That kind of nonsense. Yeah.
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Everyone be quiet while teachers out. I'm gonna write your names on the board if you're bad. I, I, I, I, I look forward to helping in any way I can with primary. Every single one of these people in Indiana who have failed to do their duty and they can kiss my booty there. Sam Ryman, like a rapper.
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It's a really, it's a really magical time to be in politics because so many people are self destructing over the dumbest things imaginable.
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Yeah, I think some of it's fading, though. Have you noticed? Well, like, Candace Owens has gone completely insane and people are like, yeah, okay, Nick Fuentes isn't getting mentioned. Tucker is out there going, you know, big problem with the world Jews. And everyone's like, I don't care anymore what he says and capitalist. Huh?
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Oh, yeah, yeah. Jews.
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Yeah. The Christians.
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Even Marjorie Taylor Greene is now ousting herself because she said she doesn't want to be the beaten wife. And everyone just kind of looked awkwardly to the side.
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Well, okay.
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Because it's like, what are you talking about? She's like, I don't want to be a abused wife. And it's like, ma', am, this is a Wendy's. What are you complaining about? No one's beating you. What are you doing?
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All I can think of is her sitting there holding and eating a banana. I just. She's just. She's just an idiot. I mean, she's a joke, and I love that. She's like, you know, I did really well in the reddest district of the reddest, red, red area of Georgia. I must be a genius.
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I'll run with a 20% approval rating. You usually have to be the mayor of Chicago to get numbers that bad.
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And, and, and, yeah. And then Trump's like, well, I'm not gonna let you throw away this seat for your ego. And, you know, she goes nuts. She's like, I can't believe it. He's betrayed me. Okay, not betraying you. When he tells you, no, you freaking idiot, you're not going to screw things up for the rest of us.
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So the stuffy elites who think they're really special because of their very fancy academic or officer career, that crew over on this side, then you have just the absolute nutcases over on this side. There's the idea that hopefully we actually have some decent normies that are starting to come to the center. We just talked to Tim Burchett, representative from Tennessee. Of course, Brandon Gill out of Texas is just a stellar guy.
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I think Jim Banks from Indiana is the most normal guy in the world. And then you've got Todd Young, who is a Marine and ought to know better. You know, one of the guys who's a ringleader of this. This little Femi I won't redistrict thing is his. State representative Todd Young's boy. What's his name? Richard Good or George Good or something.
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I'll level with you. And this is something that I kind of made a theme of the show here. I don't focus as much on the Indiana inside stuff because every show otherwise on the station that we're broadcasting first out of 93, WIBC. Sorry. I got to remember that because of the syndication, that someone in Arkansas is listening to this and going, why the hell are we talking about Indiana so much? I don't focus as much on them. But also, I will say this there. It was floated to one of the state senators that I would move back to her district and would primary her. I have no interest in running at all for the state senate whatsoever. And apparently that was part of the reason why she's now flipped her vote and has decided she is going to vote for redistricting. The thought of me in the state house or state senate is terrifying.
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Well, look, as you know and I know from history, it is vitally important to make examples.
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Very true.
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It is Genghis Khan. See, you hear about when Genghis Khan.
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A
Every great story starts with Genghis Khan. Please continue.
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Or changes is the horse face. Frenchman would say you. You. You hear about the towns that he completely leveled, and there are a few of them, but you don't hear about the hundreds of towns where people said, you know, I don't want him doing that to me. I give up. I'm going to obey. People say, kurt, you're harsh. You're cruel. I'm not cruel. I'm actually very nice. I'm offering you people a way not to have your careers destroyed. I'm handing it to you on a silver platter. You just got to go take it.
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The weird complaint that I've heard that seems to be just in the defense of the status quo, it doesn't bewilder me because I see why there are people that are so desperate just to have things be the way that they are. Like they're terrified of change. I'm trying to discern where this status quo ism and the drive for it comes from. Because the status quo is getting worse, right? I mean, the status quo 10 years ago was, quote, unquote, better or easier to deal with than the status quo today. Then, of course, 20 and 30 years before that. So why are there people that are clinging to this kind of slowly moving towards hell status quo? Do you have any, like, insight on this? I know that you, in your massive amount of writing, you have more of an insight into how people think.
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Yeah, there's. There's a problem with many Republicans in that we have somehow, and, you know, I. And we've always had the. The. The nerd aspect. We've promoted into positions of authority and responsibility. Far too many who've never gotten in a fistfight. I don't think you should be in a position of responsibility unless you've kicked somebody's butt and gotten your butt kicked. Because I think that refocuses your mind on things when everything's a Hypothetical. You tend to put up with nonsense. And these politics are hypothetical, but they're not hypothetical.
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They are disposable for them because in their gated communities, nothing touches them.
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Yes, but the. The constituents that they're supposed to be protecting are getting shafted, getting murdered, getting destroyed. You know, when it's. It's just cruel to. To arrest people in our communities who've been here living, you know, and working. No, they get drunk. They drive into, like, you know, the local cheerleader. She's dead now. It's just the DUIs. I'm leaving out the rape murders. Okay. I don't see why our lives are less important than your feels. Because they aren't. If you don't have the guts to do what a man needs to do, get out of the way.
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Yeah. There is an aspect of. Of this. There's weird pseudo civility that they think. And we see this again in Murkowski. We talked about the beginning. We see this with Curtis, where because you have a friendship with someone or because you work professionally with someone, this means that you toss aside the things that you're there for because there's someone who believes something and they want something. And what's worse is that they are there to do work that their constituents are counting on them to do. And they say, well, actually, no, you know, screw you, Alaskan. Whether, you know, up in Murkowski's realm. Sorry, I actually have to simp for this goober who thinks that because he has a distinguished record in the Navy and NASA, that means that he can never be wrong. And so I have to get out there and lick his elbow.
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He's my buddy, and he's going to make tens of thousands of us unemployed when he votes to close down drilling. But that's okay. I. I can't oppose him because he's my pal.
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Yeah. Because I decided. I decided, you know, that. Well, even though there's a lot of, you know, military men and women out there who have said, yeah, making this kind of video is clearly trying to undermine the chain of command. And even though his crew can't say why anything is illegal, obviously the thing that they are trying to insinuate is that the actions in the Caribbean are illegal. So they're actually trying to get sailors killed. Multiple, of course, here at home as well. But, I mean, the most immediate thing being the action in. In. In combat situation.
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The thing I think is the gutless, disingenuous. I'm not. We're just. I'm just pointing out this. This basic Fact, I don't see why you're getting so upset. It's like a little kid in the car and he's like, like this with his part. I'm not hitting you. I'm not hitting you. You know, and it's like, we know what you're doing, and you're going to get some, some dumb lieutenant, you know, from the University of college is going to decide, oh, well, I don't have to file the follow an order to go to Washington, D.C. to keep those savages from butchering each other because I'm smart and I watched MSNBC and I'm not dumb. Like everybody says, I'm smart and I want respect. And I'm going to get myself end up with a bad conduct discharge that's gonna follow me the rest of my life. Because I listen to these guys who have my back. How exactly do you have their back? Are they gonna, Are they gonna. Are they gonna take a few swings at the rock with a sledgehammer at Leavenworth for you?
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Just as a, just as a fun little aside, here, you bring up a really important distinct or not a false equivalency double standard here where they'll say, hey, we as Congress, we have your back. And you say, how? I say, well, on the Armed Service Committee, and Congress is kind of the mom of the military, whereas the command, the chain of command is the dad. Right. That's, again, kind of how that was set up constitutionally. But then at the same time, when you say, okay, well, you released this video undermining dad. You released this video undermining the chain of command. And they said, well, I'm just a regular America as, as a. Ruben Gallego got out there and said, it's like a free speech issue. No, it's not. You are part of the apparatus that directly impacts the military. Yeah, but being willful, willfully stupid.
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Well, the thing is, they, I find the undermining of basic institutions because Trump is such an emergency. And Trump's an emergency because he's taking power from them. It's such an emergency. We have to undermine these institutions to protect these institutions, dude. And you wonder why the conservatives are like, yeah, don't care about the Department of Education. How dare you? No, don't care. It's a bunch of DEI crap Don't care Institute. Just wait till we get to the Article 3 courts. You know, you can have some. You can have an ICE agent on video getting a sandwich thrown at him. That's. That's a battery. And, oh, well, you know, the courts, because they have that jury pool in D.C. aren't going to come through and give us the relief we're entitled to. We can't go to court and expect to get a fair, neutral shot. So goodbye, Article 3. We're just not going to do it.
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And think through some of these consequences at all. No one's thinking through them.
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They, you know, it is such a short term mentality, especially with the new social media. Did they see, the thing is, they marched through the institutions, they took the institutions. In the words of Iowa Hawk, they gutted them, skinned them, wore their, wore, wore their pelts like a skin suit and demanded respect. And they didn't understand that that doesn't work for very long. You, you can draft on the corpse of the institution's respect for a little while, but eventually people are going to turn and go, screw this, screw you, you don't get the credit. And then they're like, I can't believe it. You don't respect our institutions. What's the institution do? For me, the institution is something I need to be able to rely on within a set of clear rules. If I fall within those rules, I should. The institution should perform for me. And if it doesn't, then it doesn't.
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And I'll leave it with this. It's a weird form of the status quoism as well. When the left says we need to reform the institutions for progress, for progressivism's sake, everyone nods along and says yes, and then throws more money at it than you know, you could shake a stick at in Vegas on a fight night. But when you actually look at reforming the institutions from the right, something's gone too far. All of a sudden the pearls come out to party and it's clutching and it's terrify because God forbid there's oversight on the change of the institutions. It's, it's, it's silly. It's just silly.
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Well, it is.
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Kurt Schlichter, townhall.com Appreciate you. Thanks very much. And of course, we'll link your column in the description.
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Thanks very much.
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Mail time.
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Mail time.
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Tony Kennett, cast. All right, just a little bit of bonus tonus here at the end of the show this evening. A lot of great questions have come in. Do want to get a chance to address some of those? Because again, with the situations that are developing, it's always good to get a little bit of time to see what it is that people are thinking, what they're asking. And every show's got to have a little mail time segment So I recorded a little barbershop number and little Blues Clues reference there. So right off the top of the bat from Rizzell Jam, are they really going to nail Mark Kelly or will he get to go free too? So right now, the review being sent over by the Department of War to the Secretary of the Navy is asking for a review of the video. There is a chance that this does in fact go before court martial. Very unlikely. He goes to jail over this because he would have violated the Uniform Code of Military justice, not a specific statute per se, that maybe Elisa Slotkin would have broken. Whether he's charged criminally or charged in the military matters, because he could just be cashiered and they could just strip him of his rank. I don't think that's gonna happen. Uh, I'm not entirely sure. Do I expect him to be thrown in jail over this Mark Kelly? No, I don't. Um, now do I expect him to maybe get a court martial just for the heck of it? Yeah, we haven't had a high profile court martial or any courts martial that I can remember in, in quite a while that are that size and scope. It would be interesting. I wouldn't put it past the Secretary of War to do so, but that'll give everyone a chance to dress up and go play Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson and it'll be a really good hoot. Next question from David Macera, producer. Nick, have a question for Tony. What would we do to straighten out America if I had a magic wand? Well, if it was to straighten out Indiana, I would. I would ask to be appointed the indefinite mayor of Gary, Indiana. I would send in the National Guard and I would purge the city with fire and iron and I would turn it into the very first connected to the east coast automated port and bring back, I just throw the city in martial law until further notice. That would be the local answer. The national answer would be getting rid of the 17th Amendment that allowed a direct election of senators. I would get rid of that constitutional amendment completely that. The idea that state legislatures don't really matter anymore. No one really knows what they're for. Back when you were state senators and representatives, or if you're in the unicameral Iowan legislature, you're in House of Burgesses over in Virginia, House of Delegates, that kind of a thing. When your state legislature gets out there and makes the case that you should have state representation of the senator, you care a lot more about your state government now. People don't care. People don't. People don't Understand why your states decide what redistricting is. People don't decide why the California assembly matters. Why does the state senate for California matter? Why? And it's important because that actually makes states distinct. Direct election of senators is probably a huge reason for trouble. After that, I would scalp the majority of federal agencies. I would make the idea of rules illegal. So there's their laws, and then there are, like, rules and regulations that the bureaucracy can set through agencies. I would outlaw rules. No more. No more of those. If you want to pass a law, it has to be delivered through the legislature. The last but not least, I would ban national emergencies or clearly define them. And I would be hyper specific about what a national emergency is. And when you as a president get to declare it's an emergency and then like, divert half of the national GDP towards something that may work or may not or may not be a national emergency, those would be my magic wand. Now, the actual magic wand approach that I would, I would really throw into play. I would nuke France. I would conquer Greenland, and I would spare no expense to dynamite around Cook county and shove Chicago into Lake Michigan until it sank. That's the magic wand approach. I think producer Nick France has the hadron collider. Oh, yeah, France does have some pretty cool science stuff. Okay, okay. Next crusade. We announce the next crusade. We conquer Lebanon. We reform the Christian nation of Lebanon. I will, in fact, be your prince, not a king, because Christ is king. So, yeah, yeah, that kind of a thing I'll take. I'll take those, those undertakings there. And in that situation, I love, I love, I love fun, goofy, goofy questions here. So that said, next great question this evening. Oh, a little bit of a thanks to Maggie bogdan for the $10 super chat saying blessings to the Tony Kinnickast crew. You guys don't have to give super chats or get channel memberships. We really appreciate those who do. It's very, very kind of you, but, you know, big thank you. Appreciate that very much. Very, very kind. Up next, from Lisa W. Regarding the video to disobey illegal orders, how about they do their jobs to legislate and stop pretending they're still in the military? Yeah, that would be. That would be nice. I have no problem with those who have served in the military expressing a deep opinion on the military. I have no problem at all. I mean, I don't even think that you need to be a contractor or auxiliary if you want to have an opinion on the military. Cool. You're a citizen of the United States. Awesome. Have an opinion on the military. If you are a citizen of the United States, you have a right to do whatever in the United States that you are allotted those privileges under the Constitution to do. You want to talk about military, cool. You want to talk about foreign policy, cool. You want to lobby as a US Citizen for something good. Awesome. You want to lobby for something bad as a US Citizen, fine. That's your right as a US Citizen. But. But when you start pretending that your experience makes you not only more qualified to talk about something, but gives you the rights to everyone else to shut up about it. Yeah, that's. That's when. Yeah, I don't think that's when you really start. I don't think that's a really good idea, personally. So that said, over to the next. Excellent question. This is from High Turbine. If the national guard in D.C. was unarmed, then who returned fire and wounded the suspect? Reports seem to indicate that it was the Secret Service. The Secret Service were those who were immediately over on the scene and providing medical aid. I do believe there are some National Guardsmen that also carry a sidearm. And there are some Humvees, many of which are made here in the great state of Indiana. Fun fact for you that they do keep an M4 in the vehicle. I don't know the situation yet. None of us really know the situation yet. So when I do know the answer to that fully, I'll let you know. I'm more than happy to have people having their rifles half slung at battle ready. And you know, actually, if we're going to put a person in uniform, they should probably be carrying the full kit. You know, I know a ruck down I Avenue sounds about as exciting as a root canal, but if you're going to station them there, then do it. Do it right. Question from Tanya Hendrickson over on this particular. She said, so we all realize this was a false flag operation, right? No, it was not. Quit doing this stuff. Quit doing that. Every time there's. It's a false flag conspiracy. How about people who announce they're gonna do bad things often do bad things again. To remind those of you who have never been outside of the United States and believe the rest of the world is sunshine and roses, There's a lot of people in the US who understand the world is a dark and rough place. Those are people with a lot of common sense. There are some who believe stupidly that, well, you know, just over in the Middle east, it's really sunshine and rose. It's the George W. Bush approach to foreign Policy, the heart of everyone yearns for freedom. I'm terrible at the George W. Bush accent. You'll have to forgive me there. That's a stupid idea. And the idea that there are not radical Islamic extremists, terrorists who would not kill you in a heartbeat, film it, brag about doing it. Have you not been on social media? I agree with one of the best foreign policy analyses of the 21st century. If people could read Arabic or Mandarin, there would be a lot less confusion about what Americans should believe on foreign policy. So I. On that particular note, no, I don't think this is a false flag. Stop it. People do bad things. I happen to notice that the people who have these false flag things. Yeah, there's not one of them that has yet been confirmed as a super false flag supreme. Stop it. Dumb. Sorry. Can't. Can't. Can't abide that one. So that said, the last question that I think is, you know, rather, rather for someone asked. M4 cannon. I mean, the, the M4. The M4 rifle. The, the, you know, classic Colt made M4, you know, firing 2, 2, 3, or sorry, can't say. 2, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6. Yeah. I do believe that the military contracted a new service rifle soon, but they haven't switched out yet. So it should still be an M4. Well, there's this new intermediate round that they're trying that is, is. It's performing well, sort of. But the, the way the round is made. I thought they ended up canceling. They were going to land on this, this kind of intermediary. I think it was Ruger made and then they switched away. What do you got here? So the program that I'm referring to is the Next generation squad weapon program, which has designated the new rifle officially the M7. The M7. Ooh, excited stuff. Excited stuff. Well, boy, the comment section is lively. Very, very, very lively this evening. I'm trying to follow some of these conversations. I don't really watch the conversations in depth as often as I'd like to here on the show. We're trying. There's a lot of stuff kind of in front of me. Prince Tony, please. No, I will address this one. Nobody lives in Gary anymore. At least from 6th Street North, south of Ridge Road. You'll find people mostly there in Merrillville. Now, that's very true in Crown Point and areas in that general vicinity. I will say, though, that that's one of the reasons why Gary needs to be restored. I think it needs to be restored. You will eventually have to rebuild Detroit and after the liberals finish ruining California, to answer and address one of our members, Carol, who is very frustrated as a conservative in California because conservatives built California to be as wonderful as it was. And now the left moved in and then also bred their way in because conservatives, many of them, did not raise children to be appreciative of what it took to build the state. And then they leave behind, as she accurately put a hellhole. And it's frustrating. Eventually there will have to be an age of Americans that go in and forcibly restore. And when people complain and go, no, you can't send National Guard people in here and stop the looting, I find it quirky. No, absolutely not. So there's other stuff that's coming out this particular evening, and I think that we'll leave it all seats or something saying, Detroit, it'll never be fixed. When, when people actually do have the gumption to go in and clean it. And I mean clean it for good. The kind of cleaning where you, you make and take examples in the town square, if you catch my drift. Yeah, that, that'll be the, that'll be the, the moment that we, we actually do start fixing these. All right, this is from a senior law enforcement official, Jack Posobiek, reporting this one. He said, quote, the suspect waited for the guardsman to turn the corner before opening fire. He had only four rounds, but he managed to hit the female guard in the chest. He then approached her, took her weapon, so she had a weapon, and then shot her point blank in the head. God be with us. Using her firearm, he continued shooting at the other guardsmen, hitting one in the neck and until a third guard engaged and subdued them and subdued him. Well, that's, that's, that's horrible. That's horrible. I will, I will refrain from, from any analysis on, on that at the, at the present time out of respect for the situation. Please do, do pray for those guardsmen and God be with our country as well the individuals that are running around doing this. And while we're at it, when Mayorkas was in front of Congress and said that all of the members of the Afghanistan Relocation Maneuver were being vetted, he was a liar then, he's a liar now. Mayorkas should be stripped of his citizenship and shipped to Afghanistan. I'm not joking. Remove his citizenship. Revoke it. Ship him to Afghanistan. He can hang out with the locals. Those things said, I do hope that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Don't participate in any of the Black Friday garbage. It's not worth it. And spend some time with your folks. I'm gonna go inside and make some stock. My typical Thanksgiving stock. So you guys have a wonderful evening. Producer Nick, you have a turkey to pull out of its beautiful brine. Oh, he made. Producer Nick makes the best turkey. I'm not joking.
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It's.
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Seriously, it's changed my life. So we're looking forward to it. You guys have a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving. God bless this country. God bless you. Thank you very much for tuning in to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first out of 93 WIBC. Take care.