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Ep. 459 - Supreme Court Sides with Republicans' Redistricting, Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Arrested, Jack Smith Subpoenaed
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The Supreme Court of the United States rules 6-3 that the Texas redistricting plan for 2026 midterms is upheld. The man believed to be responsible for placing a pipe bomb outside the DNC and RNC on January 6th, 2021, in Washington DC has been arrested by the Department of Justice and a new investigation from the Daily Wire reveals shocking details from his history.
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You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93WibcyTV here on the Daily Signal. Good evening ladies, gentlemen, and they them people in therapy everywhere. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal nationally syndrome on 93 WIBC and producer Allison. I am excited because I am going to use the very fateful FOX News alert button because that is how big and how breaking the news is. So if you will kindly allow me to.
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We have breaking news here on the Tony Kenned cast. The Supreme Court of the United States has officially sided with Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas government after its redistricting push and legislation had been momentarily held up by an appeals court after Democrats like Al Green. Oh, you know, Representative Al Green. Al Green of Houston, the man of dastardly deeds undone said that the Texas redistricting plan was very, very racist. Don't take it from me. Here's very sane and not at all losing it. Al Green. What's happening in Texas is invidious discrimination. It is racial, my dear friends. It is racist. It is. This was Al Green back during the emergency Democrat, Texas legislator flight to Illinois. You'll remember the totally not gerrymandered state of Illinois. But besides looking like he does here, as though he has smelled stinky socks in the dryer, Al Green, we'll let him continue. He says it's racial, it's invidious, it's insidious. It's Nvidia stock falling slightly on the stock market and we have to say it. We have to say it. That's what it is. I know it when I see it. I know it when I don't think you should say I know it when I see it with your eyes closed. Also. I do like that they don't think it be like it is, but it do reference there. So a really rough time. Now we got a lot of news, so let's dig right into the text of the bill. At the moment, Texas is not only allowed to redistrict with a map for 2026, Texas is allowed to use the GOP favorable congressional map that it put forward that in a key way eliminates racial voting districts that were set up based on racial lines in the state of Texas prior. So there were districts like Jasmine Crockett's, for example, which were set up along racially segregated lines. The Supreme Court ruled you can't do that. And also we find Texas political map not to be a racist redistricting, which is what the legal challenge had suggested, what the appeals court had softly said, we're not quite sure. On the Texas legislature passed a map that the Supreme Court says just appears to be indisputably. That would be the word used, quote, indisputably driven by the pursuit of partisan advantage as opposed to impermissible race based goals. Now there are a couple of people running on social media right now saying, well then this means that Gavin Newsom's map is also fine. And the answer to that would be, yeah, likely, except California's districting maps are becoming more racially isolated with. Whereas Texas congressional maps are less racially isolated, they are more racially integrated, they are drawn along economic lines, they are drawn along industrial lines. And we'll talk about that with turning point action in a little bit here because we're currently having a nice three stage fist fight smackdown, food fight here in the state of Indiana. But most important is the dissent because Ketanji Brown, Jackson, Justice Kagan, and as Obama called her, wise Latina Sotomayor got out there and issued one doozy of a dissent. Believe you said the dissent was how many pages long? Producer Nick yeah, the dissent itself was written by Kagan and it turned out to be 17 pages long. Seventeen pages long, at least in the format that I was viewing it in in the document that was now the, the, the affirming right, the, the side that sided with the, the majority. How many pages did you say the majority opinion was? 3. 3. So they, these, these three ladies, through Justice Kagan whined for 17 pages. It's straight out of Friends. It's like when Rachel Green wrote her why Ross Geller is a bad person letter front and back. That's what this is. And here's what their dissent comes down to. It's a lot of academic, highfalutin, rootin tootin Language, but quote, clear error review is supposed to be highly differential. The district court's finding that race predominated was at least plausible. And then in parentheses, actually rather compelling end parentheses. Given massive direct evidence. Okay, you don't get to be extremely highly academic in your language and say we found that of course suggesting race was a motivation was plausible, which by the way, is an incredibly gross thing to say. We thought Texans were racist is what she's saying there. In fact, it was really compelling that the Texans are racist, she said. And then she says, given massive direct evidence, you don't get to use fancy academic language. And then given the really massive, huge direct, solid, extremely big evidence that essentially she says Texas is really racist. Well, I mean, that's why we're dissenting, because it's clearly racist. It's as though your child is arguing why they need more cookies but knows nothing about dinner time nutrition or that they've already had five cookies. That's what the dissent is. So we'll be keeping an eye on this. I'm sure that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is not only the most equity hire ever in Supreme Court history, but also seeks attention more than Jimmy Kimmel and blackface. So I'm not sure this is the last we'll hear from scotus. I think the Voting Rights act is definitely getting overturned now with the 6:3 opinion on this. That's clearly in the works. Jasmine Crockett, whose address is now completely different. Well, her address is the same, but now her district has moved, putting her in a different district. She's done in the House. She will be running in the Senate. The good news is she thinks that by running a campaign exactly like Beto o' Rourke and exactly like Colin Allred, that'll supposedly work different this time. On to more excellent breaking news here. Brian Cole Jr. The man who was the suspect now of the January 6th pipe bombing, has been arrested by the Department of Justice. And I say now because there have been individuals who we have cited on the show who have suggested that by measuring someone's gait, the way they walk, by using super body analysis, it could be all of these other people. No, not at all. The suspect arrested this morning in a massive raid. Attorney General Pam Bondi announcing Brian Cole Jr. Here you go. Early this morning, Brian Cole Jr. Was arrested and charged with placing the pipe bombs at the RNC and the DNC on January 5, 2021. He has been charged with violating 18 USC 844, which is use of an explosive device.
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Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't mean to nitpick here. I do enjoy this. Like, he's charged with this exact thing, which, as we all know, is bomb making. It's like, oh, yeah. Anyway, aside from the officiousness, the best part, or I should say the two best parts of this come from an amazing investigation by Luke Rosiak at the Daily Wire, who is the winner of this year's Dow Prize, a phenomenal investigator. And number two, that there's no reason that we should just now be getting around to getting this guy. And here's one of the reasons why. Here's Bondi talking about no new tips were found. We just actually investigated the pipe bomb. Amazing. We weren't allowed to talk about this through the whole Biden term of office, but all of a sudden, four long years. Let me be clear. There was no new tip. There was no new witness. Just good diligent police work and prosecutorial work. Working as a team, along with atf, Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police Department, and of course, the FBI, we are working every day to restore the public's trust. We hope that today is a significant step towards that progress. We'll share more information when we can and when it unfolds. I cannot stress enough how hard Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino have worked for months to make our nation's capital safer and to make our country safer. I'd like to introduce now Director Patel. All right, so the key facts of the situation. The FBI and the Department of justice reopened the January 6 files and said, okay, if we can track down the individuals out there who were near the Capitol, in the Capitol, around the Capitol, and we can find them in moments, why couldn't we find this guy? So they looked up the footage, and they found a guy named Brian Cole Jr. This is where Luke Rosiak's excellent investigatory skills come. Come into play here. But we got to get to this over on the live stream. Sorry, we're running a little short. Got to keep with up those FCC rules. Radio crew will send you to commercial. And we're going to continue over on the live stream. It's the Tony Kennet cast.
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All right, let's talk a little bit about this Brian Cole character. According to Luke Rosiak over at the Daily Wire, this individual worked for a bail bonds company run by his father that worked to free illegal immigrants from ICE facilities during the first Trump term and sued the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security weeks before. This is according to Luke Rosiak at the Daily Wire. 30 year old Cole Jr. Allegedly planted pipe bombs at the headquarters of the Democrat and Republican parties. On January 6, 2021, a court ruled against his father's company in its lawsuit attacking the Trump administration on immigration issues. Later in 2021, the company then held a press conference bemoaning anti black racism with some left wing attorney Cole Senior and Benjamin Crump, who represented the family of Trayvon Martin, attempted to sic the Biden DOJ on a local Tennessee prosecutor who had raised questions about this bail bond company. So this guy, like his father, according to this excellent investigatory work by Luke Rosiak, had worked to sue the Trump administration for the prosecution of illegal immigrants. And then when they were smacked down, this dude went planting pipe bombs. Man, I'm, I'm shocked. I'm astounded why we didn't find anything out about this guy. For four years now. There have been Democrats, one or two. I can't find the particular clip in question. We'll find it later. One of the Democrat representatives or senators has come forward and said, man, this is really shoddy. Why haven't we found this guy before? Who the heck was in office the last four years? It's a question a lot of Americans have because the President was often too dead to answer questions very quickly. Well, not only that, January of this year, CNN put out an article where they themselves confirmed that there was 1,570 people where cases or prosecutions were brought against them, against them for the Capitol riot. So it's not like that. They weren't busy at all. Yeah, just weren't busy trying to find this guy. It's very suspicious. You would think a pipe bomb, by the way, that Kamala Harris apparently came within feet of that came within feet of and was almost assassinated. You think they would have actually put a little effort into that? Let's find all the old grannies that were in the crowd because, you know, they're contributing to a riot. But the guy who's planting bombs, leave him alone. All right, but first, a little something on crypto.com. look, I personally was not a huge fan of crypto for a long time. I was more of a silver and ammunition kind of guy. But let's be clear. Cryptocurrency, it's no longer emerging. It's here. And this latest move cements that reality in the biggest way yet. The Trump Media Group just inked a massive $6.4 billion deal with Crypto.com, the world's top crypto platform. They're teaming up to scoop up $6.4 billion in CRO. That's the powerhouse token that fuels fast, low fee defi staking rewards and real world perks like cash back on your spends to launch America's first CRO treasury. When it's done, this new company will be the biggest CRO holder out there. So if you want in on the action, head over to crypto.com, C-R-Y-P-T-O.com today and grab some CRO. Quote let's make crypto great again. End quote. All right, so aside from that particular information on the Brian Cole situation, Jack Smith, good old Jack Smith of the Arctic Frost investigatory fame. He's getting subpoenaed too. And he's getting subpoenaed to the House Oversight Committee. Uh, James Comer is pulling him in because there's a lot of suspicious stuff coming out of the court regarding James Boasberg, the D.C. district Court judge who approved a lot of wiretapping, location tracking and other illicit and spurious stuff. And that is going to result in some pretty interesting hearings because James Boasberg just refused to testify in front of a hearing. So we're going to get to that in just a second. Don't go anywhere. We have a very packed show tonight. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. Got to pick up the radio crew from commercial.
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The Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. All right, kids, let's talk a little bit about the beauty of James Boasberg, the D.C. district Court judge after refusing to testify before Congress over Arctic Frost investigation stuff. According to a Fox Digital report there, who got their hands on it first? Robert Conrad Jr. The D.C. district Court's administrative Office director has provided an explanation on behalf of Boasberg to the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. Essentially saying, I'm not joking. We didn't know when we were signing the order for the wiretapping and the location tracking that they were U.S. senators. I thought it was a different Ted Cruz. I mean, after all, there's so many. Ted Cruz is out and about. I mean, you know, they're probably a lot of them Live in Washington, D.C. part of the year and then in Texas theater. I thought we were going after the Zodiac Killer, Ted Cruz. I thought we were looking for the different power rangers. Who knows? So that's what his letter actually suggests. Check it out. The DOJ's request for dad for gag orders, also known as non disclosure orders. This was to at&t to say, hey, don't let Senator Ted Cruz know you're tapping his phone. Quote. Typically, the court does not attach the related subpoena. Rather, they identify the subject accounts by only a signifier. That is a phone number Conrad wrote. As a result, the non disclosure order applications would not reveal whether a particular phone number belonged to a member of Congress. Here's their argument. Oh, I didn't know that that 318-555-3409 was Ted Cruz. I just thought that it was a number. I thought we were just doing a little bit of math. It's some weak arguments and it has led to James Comer, head of the Oversight Committee now saying, okay, Jack Smith, the guy who submitted these requests to James Boasberg, he needs to come do some testifying. Here's a subpoena. No, he will definitely be under oath, obligated to tell the truth. He can assert privileges, but yes, he will be under oath and we'll be asking him questions, all kinds of questions. Now, we've already deposed some of his deputies, Mr. Windham, Mr. Bratt, Mr. Cooney, some of the key people who were involved with Arctic Frost investigation and then that was merged with the special counsel investigation that he led. So we've already talked to them. We're continuing to get information. But two weeks from today, we will be deposing Mr. Smith and he asks. He will be under oath, obligated to answer questions truthfully. You can call this an IV because that goes straight into my veins. Producer NICK if we're to follow this logic that Boasberg is presenting, how many cases has he just not cared enough to look into the details of where he's just given law enforcement fiat control over private citizens. I will also remind the boys and girls watching at home that Judge James Boasberg has granted stays and injunctions previously because a portion of the federal government, including the Department of Justice, was not being specific enough about the secondary and tertiary effects of policies against defendants. So, I mean, of course, you know, pot calling the kettle black, coincidences. I know, I know. Let's get on to some other straight up nonsense. The Minnesota fraud situation is getting worse and you can always tell when something is getting especially bad because Jake Tapper wakes up and decides to actually do a little bit of real interviewing. I mean, he's also kind of awful in it, but he starts out by asking Ilhan Omar a tough question, kind of. So here you go. More Minnesota Mina fraud, Minnesota. Difficulty situations here. First of all, federal prosecutors say 59 people have been investigating these schemes so far, Americans at large stole tens of billions of forms of aid during the pandemic. All over the country, Minnesota's fraud scandal stands out according to federal auditors. What are you hearing from investigators right now? Well, I've been following the cases closely as they've gone through the courts, and we know that there are more indictments possibly coming. I think that number might go up to 73 is what I'm hearing. Okay, I love that. I love that. And she said, so what do you think about the fraud? That's a lot of fraud. And she says, I too have heard about fraud. I think that the numbers will go up. Yes. Thank you, Charles Barkley. That's some excellent sport analysis right there. You shed any light on why the fraud got so out of control in Minnesota? This is a great question. Because what he thinks is that Ilhan is essentially gonna do some. Some people did something. That's what he's setting her up for. At least from my analysis, you know, he might push back on that. But what he opens up the question for Americans. They wanna know, well, how did the fraud get so out of hand? Because why are illegal immigrants who came into the country, why did they so quickly band together in this little Mogadishu area of St. Paul and just start slinging fraud out like hash browns at a waffle House? Um, I think what happened is that, you know, when. When you have these kind of new programs that are designed to help people, you're oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate. And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up, they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created. Oh, it's the guardrail. Okay, so here's what she's suggesting. She said, look, during COVID we were trying to give money to people who need it. And that means relying. Because we needed so much so fast, we started pulling on people who may be inexperienced. And, you know, sometimes when you're rushing to things, there's not enough guardrails. So people might accidentally commit $1 billion in concentrated fraud to one specific part of the planet. Oh, guardrails. You know why we don't have guardrails for everything? Because in a common society, in a standard and just society, a high trust based society, that's what a Western society is called, where implicitly, I trust that you will act like a decent person. You trust that I will act like a decent person. It's not an honor culture. An honor culture believes Whatever you can get away with, you get away with. The reason we don't haggle with each other here in Western culture and society is because I trust that you are going to give me a fair price. And, and then if I choose to buy or not, it is because I believe the goods in exchange of services is fair. In an honor based society, you try to screw the other person by having a banter back and forth of oh well, my kids die like dogs in the street. Like that's not something you say in a high trust society. But here in the Somali situation, they saw they could get away with it. And that's a really rough question. It has not just a lot of people on the left in dyspepsia today, but a lot of people on the establishment. Open immigration, let everyone in, right? Where if they come in legally, then I guess it's fine. Because when you start asking questions about Somalian culture, you start running into some problems. And once you start running into problems that seem to be unique to some of these third world countries.
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Well then by golly, by gosh, it turns out that you find some objective details about some cultures that, that are better than others. Interesting stuff. A white person from Somalia is likely to have some really awful cultural things about them in the same way that a black person in American culture likely doesn't have those same issues. But they flip it around on race. Here's Ro Khanna trying to flip this around really aggressively from California. Remember he was Thomas Massie's like good old pal, just trying to fight to secure the Epstein file release. Here's Ro Khanna trying to say, well, this is Trump trying to go Jim Crow.
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1965America when immigration from many nations was severely restricted. By the way, that is true. It is in fact President Eisenhower who deported people left, right and center because during the first and Second World War, especially under Franklin Delano Roosevelt's horrible managing of everything, a lot of people came into the country illegally and it was considered a national security threat by every major political party and subcommittee in the United States has nothing to do with Jim Crowism, but that's what he's going to paint it as. If Trump had his way, my parents who taught me to love this country would not have been welcome. His. Now that's a little bit of an interesting take here. My parents said, Rohana, which taught me to love this country, love the United States, would never have come Here, the issue Americans have is there appear to be a lot of migrants coming into the country legally, illegally, who are not teaching their children to love and respect the United States. They are teaching their children to take advantage of the United States, and that is abhorrent and disgusting. Radio crew, we got to send you over to commercial. We've got more on Minnesota fraud and Tim Walls crying about being called over on the live stream. It's the Tony Kennett cast. Don't go anywhere. All right, live stream crew, we'll leave Ro Khanna to sulk here for a moment because remember how Ilhan Omar just said, well, I was watching this from a distance, this fraud, certainly those numbers will increase. Here's Ilhan Omar at the restaurant where the owner committed $250 million in fraud by raising money for starving children and then sending it to himself and Somalia.
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I'm sorry. I forgot you don't speak Somalian. She says, I'm very happy to be here at Safari.
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As everyone knows, our young kids, estimating about a number, around 20 million who are school kids, only get their food from school. So we get a chance to create a law called the Meals Act. And she endorses this restaurant for providing a charity for children. Ilhan Omar endorsed the very operation that would become a quarter of a billion dollars in fraud ripped directly from the mouths of hungry children. And. And by the way, say, well, she's a representative. Of course she's gonna go endorse any charity at all. Here she is with the owner of the Safari restaurant, who was then convicted of that $250 million in fraud at a campaign event hosted at that restaurant for Ilhan.
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Amazing. I don't see any children eating anywhere in that video. Just the pockets getting lined. I would like to hear if the amount of money that he gave to the Ilhan Omar campaign.
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Increased or decreased after his suspected fraudulent activities increased. I. I'm interested in hearing some things about this, because all of the crying and the weeping immigrants, they built this country. Pramila Jai apologies back, and she says, the only people who are worth anything are people from East Africa and South America. Probably. Pramila, go. The majority of Americans across the country.
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From all over the world, Somalia, India, wherever they're from. Latin America, Africa. That immigrants have built this country and make this country what it is today. Hmm. Yes. Except. No. This is the issue that I have with the whole immigrants issue. First of all, there are more than one kind of immigrant. The idea that immigrant is something that is applied to a person's soul as some kind of virtue. It's the same thing the left does with money. If you are poor, you are virtuous. If you have money, you are evil. If you have this skin tone, you are awful. If you have this skin tone, you are virtuous. If you have power, you're evil. If you're an oppressed class, you are virtuous. If you're an immigrant, you must be an oppressed, wonderful, sweet, kind and loving person. Again, when you start looking at the Someone was complaining today on the conservative side of the aisle why this is being called the Somali migrant issue. And it's because that's the common denominator. No one's saying it's the African migrant fraud. No one's saying it's black migrant fraud. No one's saying it's Muslim migrant fraud. They're saying it is Somali migrant fraud. The money was stolen by migrants from Somalia and was then shipped back to Somalia. That's the common denominator.
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Now, in the meantime, as we get ready to shift back on from the commercial side of things.
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I'm just going to say from now on, we're calling it minnesomalia. So we're all aware. Minnesomalia. All right, we're going to bring the radio crew back from commercial. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kennett cast.
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It's the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WIBC.
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Welcome back to the Tony Knitcast here on the Daily Signal where we have a lot of updates on the situation in Venezuela and the southern Caribbean. According to multiple reports. Now, the Department of War has executed, or excuse me, not multiple sources, the United states Southern Command SOUTHCOM has announced that on December 4, at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted another lethal strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a designated terrorist organization. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco trafficking route in the eastern Pacific. Four male narco terrorists aboard the vessel were killed. Now, does that sound as though the military is just winging missiles at fishing boats willy nilly, or does that sound exactly as precise as the strike video shows the missile was? Because there are people right now who are bending over backwards and then trying to crawl out their own behinds again to make up silly nonsense. The war crimes narrative didn't pan out. The allegations on Signal Gate, they're trying to say, okay, well, Pete Hegseth didn't break the law when he talked in that Signal Chat. But he violated policy. Like HR policy? Yeah, sure, he's the boss. But he violated HR policy. Here's Chuckles Schumer, the wise minority leader of the Senate, saying this in the aftermath of a hearing today on Signal Gate. Today a Pentagon watchdog will release a new report on Signalgate, finding that Secretary Hegseth put the lives of American troops at risk. I've read the report. He did not. They didn't say that he put the lives of American troops at risk either, but monotone, sleepy time. Chuckles Schumer really wants you to be deeply concerned. That's why he's reading it as though he's beatboxing at a funeral. By sharing sensitive operational information on a group chat in a flagrant disregard of security proposals, Secretary Hexseth has put the lives of American troops at risk. He goes on like that for another two and a half minutes. Slit my wrists. Meanwhile, the New York Times is now suing the Department of War over their new press policy. By the way, their press policy, which is that you're not allowed free roaming, free reign around the Pentagon. You're not allowed to, like, look in people's offices and take photos. You have to show ID at all times. And then also, if you have classified information in your report, you have to check it with the Pentagon before you release it because of that very thing that Chuck Schumer just claimed to be deep and deeply concerned about. So the Secretary of War was able to set aside some time for Tim Parlatore, one of the press policies drafters, to actually sit down with our President, Rob Bluey today and talk about this policy and this weird lawsuit from the New York Times that, by the way, it has about as much chance as a snowball in the Caribbean. It is wonderful to be in a room with so many different media outlets and diverse voices and individual influencers who have massive followings. At the same time, there have been a number of news organizations that have.
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Deport from this room. What are your thoughts on how that has played out? And are you hopeful that maybe they will come to realize that it's better to be inside the building here, have the opportunity to ask the questions and.
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Agree to the terms of the policy.
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That the secretary set out? Sure.
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I was involved in helping to draft that policy and change it.
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And I think that one of the problems that we had was that people.
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Locked onto certain ideas and certain interpretations.
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Without really understanding what the policy actually meant.
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And we really did a lot of.
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Hard work to make sure that the.
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Policy was completely fair, that it was completely legal, that it respected the First.
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Amendment, but balanced those, those concerns with also the security concerns of the department.
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What would you say the biggest myth or myths are about the current policy that you'd like to correct and set the record straight on?
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One is this idea of the pre publication review, as you know, nothing that you write or that you publish has.
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To be passed through the Pentagon, you know, for approval.
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That's, that's just false. The other one is this issue of solicitation that a journalist who receives unsolicited.
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Classified information, you are protected by the.
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First Amendment to publish that.
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Our request was that if you do.
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Receive classified information before you publish it.
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Can you please go talk to the.
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Press office to discuss it?
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Because there are.
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Certain circumstances where if you publish it right now, it's going.
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To put light lives in danger. You're still legally allowed to do it.
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Under the First Amendment, but while you're.
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Legally allowed to do it, you have the right to do it.
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You don't have the right to come.
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Back in the building.
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I'd say that's pretty darn fair. I'm sorry. I know there are some of my journalistic colleagues who have a great unction, who have great dyspepsia, who really need to drink some Pepto Bismol over this particular policy because they don't like the idea that the people are being asked, hey, if you get something that's like really salacious and spicy, we ask that you just like, show us first. Because again, the amount of intelligent, highly classified material that we have in our possession as a country is so enormous that leaking selective parts that again, our services rely on the intelligence services from all around the United States. The five eyes, greater NATO infrastructure keeps our troops safe. It keeps them operating at maximum efficiency and lethality. And so when you just take that and go, it's like, sure, you have your First Amendment right to take something unsolicited someone leaked to you illegally. Senator MARK KELLY but if you then take that and then release it without saying, hey, by the way, I'm about to reveal all of the troop locations in the.
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You know, in, in this particular sea or body of water near a hostile power, well, then we may not invite you back in the building for additional press conferences because you're making it pretty clear what it is that you intend to do with certain information and why. So we might have a couple of questions about that later. I do want to point out Trump is Changing the policy slightly on Venezuela and making it clear that we aren't just going to sink boats that are launched by narco terrorist organizations. We're going to go full Monroe Doctrine, or as I've heard it called the Donro Doctrine. That's, you know, if you're operating a, let's say a drug procession, little convoy on land, we might get rid of that, too. Mr. President, in the boat strike, if it is found that survivors were actually killed while clinging onto that boat, should Secretary Heseth, Admiral Bradley or others be punished?
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C
I think you're going to find that this is war, that these people were killing our people by the millions. Actually, if you look over a few years, I think last year we lost close to 300,000 people were killed. That's not mentioning all the families. Have you seen what happens with the families of not only the people killed, the people that are trying to get their son or their daughter off of this poison that they've been fed? I think you're going to find that there's a very receptive ear to doing exactly what they're doing, taking out those boats. And very soon we're going to start doing it on land, too, because we know every route, we know every house, we know where they manufacture, manufacture this crap. We know where they put it all together. And I think you're going to see it very soon on land also. Yeah, please.
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A
Good. Again, if our intelligence services know where the stuff, the fentanyl that is killing millions of Americans, the other various drugs and paraphernalia that are killing Americans by the pile are being manufactured, why do these countries get to continue to benefit economically in a manner that is directly harming the citizens of the United States.
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Not to mention while they're. Not to mention while they're trafficking children and women.
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It does boggle one's mind. Now, I do want to talk a little bit about the amazing move by the Trump administration, amazing move by the Trump administration in rolling back the cafe. The cafe. The cafe Biden fuel economy nonsense. But I don't want to talk about that in too big of a rush. So, Radio crew, we're going to send you over to the commercial because we're going to have a big excellent conversation with Turning Point USA Action on redistricting again. Now, the Supreme Court ruling on Texas means it is go time and Indiana really might be the very last line of defense for the House. We're going to talk about why here in a second. Radio crew will send you guys to the commercial and catch you in A second. Continue on the live stream.
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All right, to the live stream crew. I want to take a moment here and answer a couple of really excellent questions that have come in. Normally we don't do that during this time. The questions are too time sensitive. First of all, a big thank you to Glenn Gardner, who threw a $10 super chat. You guys don't have to donate money to the show. Very kind of you to do so. He said, great to be here to enjoy it. Live. Well, almost live. No, you're live, man. We're live. It's 7,44 and 50 seconds Eastern right now. So if you're watching when that time syncs up with a little offset, you're live, my dude from Delpix. What's the difference between tax evasion and tax fraud? Tax evasion is when you simply do not pay your taxes and when you provide particular excuses as to why you're not able to provide certain services or if you misrepresent certain facets of your income distribution, that's tax evasion. So, for example, if I say, oh, this is a write off, and then I kind of like, group in certain things. Al Capone was guilty of tax evasion because he shuffled away parts of his payment of taxes that should have been under certain industries he was participating in by saying, oh, I'm making. No, I'm not making any income at all. I'm not doing any industry. That's evasion. You can't not mark down certain kinds of labor. Number two, tax fraud is when you just lie on the forms very blatantly. When you try to suggest different amounts were made, amounts of monies were made, different industries were at play than what were. This is if I were to say that a famous scene from the Simpsons in which Homer Simpson forgot to pay his taxes. And so they say they have nine kids, three are disabled, and one's a minister. That would be tax fraud. So a little bit of a breaker there. It changes on the corporate and the federal level because the larger amounts of evasion and fraud you do, the more they start to blend and intertwine and it gets a little sticky depending on the jurisdiction. So that said, on to a question from Monica Pinkston Brock. The way that it used to be regarding the Pentagon and the press, why can't the press get that? Why can't we just go the way that it used to be? Because the members of the press have consistently leaked secrets of the national security infrastructure that keeps Americans safe, especially our troops in active operational areas safe. I will remind you that some of the details that, for example, that Edward Snowden linked led to United States assets being executed before they could escape, before they could get out of there. And what the Pentagon is saying is, look, if you want to go out there and release sensitive stuff, that's your right as an American. Now, Snowden's a different case and situation for some of this stuff. But if you're an American journalist, you're at cnn, you're the Washington Post, you want to leak stuff. Sure. But if you don't at least give us a chance to make sure no Americans, especially those who are currently serving in the civil or federal military capacity, you don't give us a chance to at least make sure they're safe or reshuffle some things. Well, then we're not going to invite you back and give you full access to everything because you don't give, you know, you don't give a damn whether Americans live or die. That is why it can't just go back to the way it were, the way that it was. And I think that's fair, to be honest with you. I believe we're about ready to come back from the radio commercial break and have a great conversation. Turning Point USA Action. The Indiana redistricting stuff, it's going to be good. Don't go anywhere long show tonight. Good stuff. It's the Tony Kinid cast here on the Daily Signal.
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It's the Tony Kennet cast on 93 WIPC.
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Welcome back to the the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated first on 93 WYBC. We have something that not a lot of shows have. Incredible energy and up to date news that's not written by 11:30am but today we have something that a lot of other shows do usually have in studio. Guests. That's right, no zoom. Today we have the one, the only Brett Galajewski. That's right, a Polish man himself from Turning Point Action, their enterprise director. Because all eyes are on the Hoosier State. Not for Coach Sig's phenomenal coaching, but because we are in the middle of a redistricting fist fight that has got the whole nation up in arms. Brett, thanks for stopping by.
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B
Thanks, Tony. It's great to be here in what's basically now the center of the political.
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A
Universe, which is weird because I remember when I worked in Governor Walker's office, because you're from Wisconsin, that when we were duking it out with the unions and right to work policy, that was when Wisconsin was the center of everything and I was being spit on by a very rude man from Honduras. But that's another tale for another time. Give me a different perspective here. I'm obviously the Hoosier who's right in the middle of this major congressional redistricting gerrymandering argument from Illinois to California. Now here in Indiana, what is the national take on why this matters at all from someone who didn't grow up here in the Hoosier state?
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B
Yeah, simply put, all eyes are on Indiana right now because Indiana is truly the last line of defense right now in putting us in the best possible position to retain the House of Representatives.
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A
Why do you say the last line of defense? Because some could say, well, what about Texas and Florida? Why is Indiana the last line here?
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B
Because of the flare signal that this could send to the rest of the movement, which is that we as conservatives are not going to lay down and die. And when the left goes hard in the paint in states that they have liberal controlled, everything in the right is going to do the same thing. And a state like Indiana really epitomizes what a conservative state looks like. It's about as red as any other, you know, Wyoming, Alabama, any other top five conservative state that comes to mind. There's no reason we shouldn't have a 9,0 congressional map. I don't want to kind of skip ahead here, but that's what's on the table here. And Indiana has that ability to really rewrite history.
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A
Now, I'm not going to be the guy that gets out there and says that. According to a couple of private group chats, I'm the guy that says, you know, 90 or it's gotta go or whatever. That, that was the rhyme that I came up with. Actually, I think it was nine. Oh, or your mom's a hoe. But that's again, moving aside from my, my quips and things that are gonna get us emails, I, I really don't understand why we have to have Marion County. That's the county that is at the center of the state. That's Indianapolis downtown. That's that County Producer Nick, while I'm saying this, magically, if you could just throw up that county highlighted on the screen there. This is an area that has traditionally had its own little special congressional district and therefore got Andre Carson, who is human trash. I want to make that clear. I am. This is one of the only five people in the country who I will openly call human debris. Andre Carson is one of those. I've talked to him personally. He is a horrible human being. And by the Way, just for the record, also uses more anti Asian slurs than anyone I've ever met in my entire life. Again, just a little flavoring here. Why does Indianapolis or Marion county get a special district and no one considers any other district in the state like they consider Marion?
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B
Yeah, I mean, I was just telling somebody this who was in opposition to the 90 maps because there are a.
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A
Few people, well, let's not be hasty.
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B
Kind of people and kind of the main, you know, adversarial phrase that I've been hearing is, you know, two wrongs don't make a right. California went hard in the paint and removed five Republican seats. You know, hey, we shouldn't do that in Indiana.
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A
Two wrong. What is it? Sesame Street? Almost as two wrongs don't make a right.
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B
Get out of here. Right.
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A
Thank you.
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B
It's a head scratcher to me. And we can obviously talk about what I think that this is masking a much larger issue. But for a lot of the policy wonks, the question I have for them is do you firmly believe that the 7:2 math as it stands right now is fair, is a fair representation, is what's best for Indiana? Because what I see are two dots over the two areas of Indiana that have the largest minority population. You're essentially redlining.
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A
Now we'll get to the redlining in a second because this is, look for conservatives, this is, this is low hanging fruit and we can, we can get to the red meat here because it's a very simple argument that, yeah, I don't think a racially segregated district in the center of the state and to a slightly lesser extent, just to be fair, a racially segregated district up in the northwestern part of the state. The region, the armpit of the state. Sorry, future Congresswoman Greene, I just, that kind of comes with the territory. I don't really like that area. But alas, the thing that always annoyed me in our current map is that here in the eastern central portion of the state and Kyle Mattern, who is a good friend of the show from Turning Point Property, he's grinning right now because he knows how I feel about this. The Indiana 6th congressional district is stupid. That's not the word I want to use. But to be FCC and station compliant, that's what I'll say at the moment. The sixth Congressional wraps around from where we are in the eastern central part of the state from the edge of Ohio and between that and Indianapolis and then swings down to Columbus, Indiana. Columbus, Indiana is a town and Greenfields, Newcastle, Richmond, Indiana. They have nothing in common with Columbus. The economies are different, the population representation are different. The industries, the transportation, how they do their roadway taxes, how they do their county commissioner set up, their county council set up. There are two very different regions of the state. But because we have to keep the very, very important Marion county sacred, we get gerrymandered like Croatia. And I can't stand it.
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B
Yeah, I call it the Chicago Doctrine. Oo, you know, if, if people who lived on, you know, the west and south side of Chicago, if they actually had the conversation with themselves someday and said, you know, hey, this neighborhood's been impoverished for decades, you know, unemployment rates are at an all time high. This neighborhood, for lack of a better term, is awful. What's the common denominator here? Oh, well, it's that we keep electing Democrats. You would think that maybe one of these years the light bulb moment would occur and let's, let's try our Republican now.
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C
Yeah.
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B
And so this is more so than you. We need to be able to retain the House of Representatives next year. That's the much broader national issue. The very local aspect of this is that we have an opportunity via now new maps that allow for Republican representation to instill prosperity into those two communities of Gary and central Indianapolis that haven't had that in literally decades.
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A
So I mean, the new maps that are drawn, I, again, I've got some mixed feelings on just in transparency sake. The one that has been suggested right now is being passed is the final map that's going forward. Presto, stamp it, put it on T shirts and yeah. Just because the state is voting on redistricting does not mean that right now it is voting to confirm this exact map. It's exactly how it's going to look at the end. And for the. Let's not get hasty. Wait just a minute folks. This is where the dishonesty kicks in and it really annoys me. They pretend that this is the map and it's the worst map that's ever been in the United States. And it's horrible and it's evil and look how it fingers up through Muncie, Indiana. Oh no, it's horrible, it's dishonest. And from a national perspective, I gotta ask, do you think that the rest of the country is seeing this or am I just like screaming over here in a corner with a straight jacket on?
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B
Yeah, no, they're seeing it. And what they're particularly seeing, we're addressing generation that really embraces authenticity and Turning Point has kind of the monopoly right now on the young conservative activist crowd. The word that as a former, as.
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A
A guy who used to be a part of a former, like, competitor, if you'd call it that. Lone conservative. Yeah. I mean, it is the authentic organization. It did kind of win us over.
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B
I appreciate you saying that. Yeah. And so what we're hearing on the ground from some of our best turning point activists is that, you know, these reasons that are being put out right now by some of these senators for not wanting to support the president and vote yes to the nine zero map, it's not authentic. It's masking a much larger issue, and that's these people subliminally hate Donald Trump. So when Senator Boichek comes out and says that he doesn't want to vote yes to the map because he doesn't like the names that President Trump was particularly calling Tim Waltz during the presidential election cycle, I don't personally buy that. I know that it's a subconscious hate.
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A
For President Trump that's just cowardly. Mike Pence, I mean, I'll say this, and I do so in all. In all, full transparency and clarity here. Mike Pence used to be my congressman, and I was his last appointment to West Point before he ran for governor. And before all of. Yep. Before all of the stuff, he and I had a very good friendship. And from what I've gathered, the idea that this, this Senator Boacheck, whatever guy has suddenly come out and said, well, I was thinking about it until President Trump said the word retarded. And now I'm. Get out of here. We all knew that you were a no to begin with. And the idea that he's going to then bring Mike Pence's name in and say, well, it's because I'm principled, like Mike Pence. Like, first of all, Pence was always annoyed when someone would whip out a word. Again, regardless of what you think about the whole Trump and Pence dynamic, which is a totally different conversation for another time, the idea that he would hide behind these layers in order to not be pushed to explain why the current districts in the state need to remain, why we need a racially segregated district in Indianapolis, which, by the way, if the Supreme Court overturns the Voting Rights act, like we're expecting them to, Indiana is going to have to redraw its maps anyway because Marion county is literally drawn along racial lines in its electoral map.
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B
Yeah, yeah, 100%.
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A
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ramble so long at you. It's just, it touches a bit of A nerve hearing about that guy throw his son because of a comment that Trump said, oh, I'm gonna change my entire state's policy and how it runs in the fabric of this country because Donald Trump said the word retarded. Okay.
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B
Yeah. So here's another obscure reason, by the way. This is just getting so irrational at this point. The reasons why senators are coming out in thunder statement.
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A
Yeah.
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B
One senator, I won't say her name, but Senator Lysing. Yes.
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A
I used to page for her and I know her well. So you can say what it is that you'd like. It is my show. I'll go ahead and stamp it.
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B
So Senator Jean is a legacy member of the Indiana establishment cabal.
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A
Like I said, I used to page for her when I was in high school. Yes, continue.
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B
She's older.
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She came out recently and said that one of the reasons that she is a hard no on the 90 congressional maps is because a conservative activist group sent a text blast to her district urging them to call their senator and tell them to vote yes. And on that text blast distribution list was her 14 year old grandson. She is going around with a straight.
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A
Face who's a very nice young man by the way. I happen to know him. He's a very nice guy. And yeah, I've heard this story from a couple of different angles. Yes.
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B
She doesn't know how text blasts work. She thinks that this conservative activist group only targeted her 14 year old grandson.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And she's going around with a straight face telling people that and telling them that that's the reason she's voting no to the map.
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A
Bring the camera into me right now. Look at me. Look at me in the face. Zoom in on my shiny forehead because I'm not wearing show makeup yet. Text blasting works like this. There's a big book of numbers. Yes, a big book of numbers. All right. Like you're teaching a foreign enemy alien race from Mars how earth counting works. Big book of numbers. You highlight, you drag the mouse across, you highlight about 30,000 of them in an area and you text them. You know it. I know it because around election season it's hell. You were bothered every ding dong dang day. We were talking about me being in Wisconsin. I'm still getting text blasts from Wisconsin. I haven't lived. It's like they're trying to get me to vote like a Democrat in Chicago. I'm not even in the place anymore. License wrong there. Lysing was going to vote no anyway though. Why were you making up reasons for this? And again, this is something that's annoyed me because she should know as the state senator in an area that her district has changed in the last couple of years. She had a lot of adjustments to make when her district totally warbled and walked out to some completely different region. She should understand why redistricting is important. But she wanted to throw some excuses out because then some union or some PAC or some organization's gonna call and send an angry message that she doesn't wanna hear. Yeah.
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B
And we could talk about all day long how there are people in the Indiana State Senate who subconsciously hate Donald Trump and that this is the genesis of all of that. There's another element to this and it's self righteousness we're hearing. So when I'm not doing the whole turning point thing, I sit on the state Executive Committee in Wisconsin. The equivalent that here in Indiana would be the State Central Committee. Yes, we're hearing that high level party officials here in the state of Indiana do not want to speak up against this because new district lines could mean that they might no longer be able to sit on State central and represent the old districts. It's volunteer. These are volunteer positions elected by Republican door knockers, Republican Party members. And they're worried they're going to lose their spots on State Central Committee. So they don't have a voice now in party leadership, endorsement of candidates and party platform. This is what it's come to.
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A
I absolutely cannot stand this kind of nonsense because I happen to notice, I spoke in Anderson, Indiana a couple of weeks ago and the first thing that this Republican group brought to order was that they could not find people to fill precinct committee chairs. We couldn't find people to fill the most core, essential role in ensuring elections take place. And they take place properly and legally in a contested Indiana city. Anderson, Indiana is in the middle of flipping from blue to red. It's a mess. But oh man, what we're really worried about is some nonsense, not serious committee. That's all volunteer. Anyway. That's what we're worried about. I can't stand that aspect of politics. It bothers me right now. I'm watching people already carve up my state and saying, well, I'm running for Congress. No, I'm gonna run for Congress. I'm running for Congress. As someone who was asked to run for Congress in the sixth. Thank God I didn't. It just bothers me. People treat this area like it's full of cattle and it's just, it's skeezy, you know, it's it's slimy. It just feels weird. I don't care for it. Yeah.
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B
I mean, so like there's, there's a root of that problem too, the self righteousness. The root of the problem with the pettiness and the tyranny reasons that we talked about is that, you know, the Mike Pence foothold is still very strong here. The root of the self righteousness problem is that complacency has set in here in the state of Indiana.
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A
That is the biggest issue. This Republican Party doesn't have to do anything. They don't care why. But we're in power, so why do anything? Just sit there and do nothing and rubber stamp junk. And that's why most of our state is run by the county commissioners. They're the only ones that do anything because they're the, they have all been, they're the bureaucracy that is elected. And when, I mean the bureaucracy, I mean like we've abdicated a lot of constitutional authority from Congress to the three letter agencies. We've abdicated a lot of local and state governance to the county commissioners. They hold a lot of the money, they hold a lot of the rulemaking power and that's just the way it is because everyone else is lazy and it's that complacence because, I mean, come on. The best the Democrats could put forward was the epitome of an annoying Karen for the gubernatorial election last year.
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C
Yeah.
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B
I mean, and this all goes back to the importance of, I know that this is slightly off topic, but that trickle up effect that can exist in the Republican Party structure.
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C
Structure.
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B
And the importance of becoming a precinct committeeman.
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A
You mean like what we've seen in Florida, what we have seen in Nevada, what we have seen in, believe it, of all of not all places, eastern Oregon, those kinds of trickle up effects where people say, you know what, I'm going to get in this for the long haul. I'm done doing quick sprints and like last minute donations. I'm sticking around. Yeah.
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B
I mean at this point, yeah, it's safe to say that, you know, I'm probably thinking somewhere in the ballpark of half of the precinct slots that exist here in Indiana are actually full. So you have a party that at best is operating at half strength.
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A
I'm, I'm glad that we have, we've struck the same nerve chord here. That, that it's. People don't realize precinct committeeman sounds, you know, about as sexy as stepping in dog crap. But I mean it really is something that is deeply important. To the state. But there's no glamour, oh, I'm a precinct comedian. I mean, it's that or I'm a. You might as well be a precinct comedian. It doesn't matter. I mean, people think, well, who cares? If you care about the structure, if you care about getting things done, if you care about growing a generation, that's got to be full.
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B
Events like this and like the sequence of everything that's led to now the final couple days of redistricting further reiterate to me that the most important position in politics is a precinct committing that effective precinct committeemen could have elected effective state central committeemen that are willing to speak out against us and put that necessary pressure on those elected officials that are voting no. And we might have a different landscape right now.
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A
And the reason that we're talking about this, because even though I'm here in Indiana, this is a national show. So of all of the shows that started out at wibc, I am the only one that really tries to focus mostly outside of the loop of 465 around Indianapolis. I like the rest of the country because a Hoosier's perspective or the middle of the country, the average American's perspective on what's going on, you know, it kind of matters. And so when I. When we say that precinct committeemen, when we say that getting involved and staying involved, when we say that redistricting and actually getting out of this complacency matters for every state, every single precinct in the entire country. That's what we're talking about. This what's happening in Indiana right now should be a focus conversation of every Republican party in every state in this entire country.
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B
And in the instance that maybe the nine zero map does not pass, it's a cautionary tale. That's what Indiana becomes. The consequences of becoming complacent. That when you are complacent, you lose. And I don't have a problem with leftist states going hard in the paint in states that they have leftist control in. California, Illinois, I mean, that's next door weird.
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A
Like training wheels, parking brake, clip on, handicapping, where we say, well, you need to play fair. And it's always only one side that's ever told to play with the rules of the board game, and the other is told, well, now, hang on. Have you given up a portion of what you were elected to do today?
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B
Well, yeah. And to finish that thought, knowing what we know about Indiana's political makeup, having a. What I would consider to be a very conservative metropolitan area in comparison to Other Midwestern metropolitan south of the north.
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A
And the north of the South.
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B
Correct, Correct.
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A
Yeah.
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B
We have an opportunity to really slam dunk here. Get that 90 map, stop whatever socialist train is coming in our tracks. Oh, and by the way, through all of this, Gavin Newsom looks like a hero to the left because he rewrites history, takes away five Republican seats in California. It has a chain reaction on a hard red state like Indiana. And, you know, next, this time next year, were wondering why Trump is getting impeached. This is what Indiana right now is setting the country up for, and it's not good. I can already see what next year will look like if we lose the House because of Indiana. RFK is going to be sitting in meetings about whether or not he should be in his position. Trump is going to be tied up in impeachment hearings. Aoc, Ilhan Omar, they're going to have power again. Why on earth would we do that? And why is Indiana, of course, all states the conservative stranglehold of the Midwest, the reason that this could happen?
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A
That is precisely the question. And why, when you again stop by, this is what I wanted to talk about. I know we could have talked about a ton of different things on your way through the Midwest. You guys have a lot of stuff going on, obviously, at Turning Point and Turning Point Action. But if we don't take a look at what individual states are doing to. Again, Congress is a national body. Congressional districts are part of a national body. It's a national game. It's not, well, what are you doing in this district?
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B
For the local.
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A
No, it is representing a district on a national level. If you don't learn that lesson here, if we don't learn that lesson here, it's going to be a disastrous 10, 15, 20 years for the Republican Party in the nation as a whole.
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B
Yeah, yeah. And that's the message that we're hoping to send. So the reason why I'm here in the Hoosier State is because we're holding our first ever Turning Point Action event at the Indiana State House tomorrow, December 5th. We're hoping that we can send that final message to those Republican state senators that the Republican grassroots, the ones who have knocked doors until their knuckles have bled to make sure that we've had that 40 to 10 majority on the state Senate. They don't want this. They want the 9 oh map. They don't want you to lay down and die. They don't want this to have national implications that will affect our ability to compete in 2028 and more so than that, the Republican base, the ones who donate time and treasure to come out and vote these people in, they don't want that either. They want President Trump's redistricting effort. And so that's what we're hoping to send tomorrow. It's at noon. We have Governor Braun there. We have Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith, who I know is, you know, a friend of everyone here. And we're hoping we can send that signal. We need to. We want you guys there, the listeners, please show up at the state House tomorrow, send that message. We need you.
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Brett Galajewski, thank you very much for stopping by. Joining us A little bit on this again, Enterprise director for Turning Point Action. We'll be back in a minute. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kinnid cast here on the Daily Signal. And I was joking. We're not going anywhere. We're not going to be back in a second. We're back right now. So buckle up, boys and girls. We've got some of the best power pack bonus tonus you've seen since our last excellent, power packed bonus section of the show. You mean last night? That's right. Last night's excellent bonus tonus. Well, tonight we've got. I'm serious. I'm excited about this. The Trump administration, thank you very much for that. The Trump administration has done something that I have wanted more than anything else. More than I've wanted school choice, more than I've wanted cartels to be bombed. More than I've wanted Nancy Pelosi shoved into a catapult outside. Okay, well, maybe not. Maybe not that one. More than I've wanted many things. Things. The Trump administration. With Congress in tow, Senator Ted Cruz has worked tirelessly on this, has finally defeated the reason cars and trucks suck so bad. Ask any mechanic, ask any man in the trades, ask anyone in the automotive, manufacturing or selling industry, and they will tell you the reason that your car is made out of cheap aluminum and plastic and it doesn't work and it's full of all of this complex, useless garbage crap is because of these environmental standards. The very, very first scene of King of the Hill. That's right. The very first scene of King of the Hill has Dale and he's saying it's this pollution control from the government and Hank Hills. Dale, what are you talking about? And the very first scene points out a common gripe with rural Americans. And the King of the Hill makes the wrong assertion, by the way, which is that when the Obama administration strolled on through, it was on the heels of this Al Gore pollution control nonsense that was going to shove down your throats, all of this ideological stupidity pretending we're saving the environment by making your engines and every other part of your vehicles, whether they be small lawnmowers or whether they be large trucks, a hellish nightmare with all kinds of taxation. He's finally kicking this in the slats. Well done. Incredible. The President.
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Ladies and gentlemen, today my administration has taken historic action to lower costs for American consumers, protect American auto jobs and make buying a car much more affordable for countless American families and also safer. We're officially terminating Joe Biden's ridiculously burdensome, horrible, actually CAFE standards that imposed expensive restrictions and, and all sorts of problems, gave all sorts of problems to automakers. And we're not only talking about here, we're talking about outside of our country.
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You guys don't understand. He is reading this because it is a very particular set of policies. Yes, I've pulled out the Trump hat and I've put it on. It is a huge crucial deal. So much of the American economy and you personally have been screwed over. Not just the 50 mile per gallon goal that the Green New Deal and the Democrats set up that Obama had us questing after, but also now we have a Republican Party that isn't getting stopped by John McCain in a last minute vote in the Senate. We are actually getting a bunch of these nonsensical fuel policies and the stupid chicken tax rule that has kept me, Tony Kennett, from owning the best pickup truck ever invented, the Toyota Hilux. I'm so freaking excited that no longer will the only American made Toyota Hiluxes be heading to Afghanistan for the Taliban or to the cartels down south of the border. And not to me if I pay a ridiculous chicken tax, but they will be made here in the United States. I'll let the President continue. Freaking huge.
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There's nobody could do it. Nobody wanted to do it. And it was ridiculous. Very expensive. It put tremendous upward pressure on car prices. Combined with the insane electric vehicle mandate. Biden's burdensome regulations helped cause the price of cars to Soar more than 25%. And in one case they went up 18% in one year. Today we're taking one more step to kill the green news scam as part of the greatest scam. Probably. Well, other than Russia, Russia, Russia and a few others, I could name the greatest scam in American history. The Green news scam. And it's a quest to end the gasoline powered car. This is what they wanted to do. Even though we have more gasoline than any other country by far.
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So essentially as, as though many of you need reminding, sorry, the lighting's not exactly right. I, I, I have never, I think, I don't think I've ever actually pulled out the, the MAGA hat on the show. This is a moment that requires the MAGA hat because the Trump administration has not only ended so many of the useless rules, standards and regulations created by the bureaucracy through the environmental protection agencies that were backed up by these mass injunction court decisions from judges that were shuffled on through by Chuck Schumer and before him, Harry Reid, that would not allow you to do certain things. That would not allow auto manufacturers to do certain things. The reason and I spoke directly to the individuals at the picket line at the UAW picket line in Allison Township, north of Detroit, Michigan, at the Ford assembly plant, who have been Democrats their entire lives. Red and yellow, black and white, all different colors. Of the two genders, both were represented. They told me that they didn't like Trump the way that he tweeted they didn't care for Trump, that sometimes he got out there and, and said things that were a little too Republican for their taste. But he is the one who promised to end all of the crap that crippled Ford, that crippled General Motors. That by the way, not just Obama crippling General Motors, but George W. Bush also crippling the auto manufacturers. The Trump administration has come forward and said the chains are gone. Huge. Now I do want to point out again, the thing that makes me get out the great red hat is the pan on light trucks is over. The reason that every truck now is a big massive dually that is useless. I can't get I, by the way, I drive a Toyota Corolla. As many of you know. I would love to own a classic like Ford Ranger sized Toyota Tacoma sized pickup truck that is new and not filled with computers and crap. Because I actually would like to do some hauling and things not big, major dually farm hauling. I'm talking like normal regular guy want to own a pickup truck hauling. I want a Toyota Hilux. Dang it. Well, the day is finally here. God bless America. Here you go, ladies and gentlemen, the end of all the bullcrap. President if you go to Japan, where.
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I just left, and if you go to South Korea and Malaysia and other countries, they have a very small car, sort of like the Beetle used to be with the Volkswagen. They're very small, they're really cute. And I said how would that do in this country? And everyone seems to Think good. But you're not allowed to build them.
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The key truck. We've actually talked about importing a key truck before. A lot of guys have. It's actually kind of a, a meme that's become real life, a trend with a lot of the youths out there. A key truck. You've seen them on the road. They're just, they're bigger versions. They are the truck that is all cab in the front. They're usually white, boxy. You don't have thing here. There's a smaller, like between if you took a forklift and, you know, like a small delivery truck and they had children, that would be the key truck. Again, it's a small kind of pickup truck. You couldn't make them here because Barack Obama thought, well, they probably have emissions. We can't have that quick slap attacks on it. It's not allowed. Also, my wife's a man and I've.
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Authorized the secretary to immediately approve the production of those cars. So you'll be able to buy. They really are, they're actually, some of them are really beautiful, actually. If you take a look, Honda.
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Some of the Japanese companies do a beautiful job, but we're not allowed to make them in this country. And I think you're going to do very well with those cars. So we're going to approve those cars. Would you like to say something about that?
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Well, no, just, just that he never stops working. So even when he's on Asian tires, he's calling me at midnight. By the way, this is really funny. This is now the third secretary this week that is pointed out because I guess Trump, I guess dozed off for a second in the Cabinet meeting. Trump routinely calls all of his cabinet members at 2am and Elizabeth Mitchell, our White House correspondent, has confirmed to me repeatedly that when she's on Air Force One, he doesn't sleep. He will waltz into the room that like the reporters are sitting and sleeping in and just be like, who wants a Big Mac? I'm in the mood for a Big Mac. I mean, it's just the man really is getting the most out of the second term. Go ahead. You have some. Yeah. The last time that there was questions about Trump's like, liveliness, reporters came out on his behalf and mentioned that. Yeah, whenever he's traveling on Air Force One and they might be on it with him, he walks around and tries to find any reporters that are dozing off so he can make fun of them. Now, there's one other thing that he does here because the other two, the Stellantis CEO and the. Yeah, yeah, sorry. And the Ford CEO also do step up and say some good things, but they don't mention this. The other thing that I'm particularly pleased about as a conservative is that here in Indiana, and I understand this is a national show. I know we just had a segment in which we talked about some redistricting situations here locally. One of the reasons that I have despised governors like Gavin Newsom is that there was federal funding set aside that allowed California to. To get around all of the special taxes and rules that you and I never could get around. Essentially, the idea was that if I wanted to buy a car here in the great state of Indiana, there were extra taxes. If I wanted to buy a truck, extra taxes. All of the transport tax, all the extra gas taxes. But because California and their electric vehicles were just so special, they get extra little bonuses and treats and wonderful stuff. This is part of the thing that got Trump in a little bit of a falling out with Elon, because Elon's like, well, I still want some of those special deals for Teslas. And Trump's like, no, you will have to compete alongside Ford and Honda and et cetera, and on and on and on. Let's, let's all the car companies, you have to compete alongside everybody else. Them's the rules. You don't get a special privilege because you're cranking out an electric car with a big honking lithium ion battery. No, that is a good thing. That doesn't unnaturally benefit the auto unions. That's not a kickback. That's not a subsidy. That's saying all of these restrictions, they're gone. You want to make a car awesome, neat, you got to put it on the market. It's got to pass safety standards. But no longer does it need to be considered an exercise drink for Greta Thunberg to be considered automotive fuel here in the United States. Ethanol has a lot of uses. Corn has a lot of uses. None of it needs to be in the position of some type of gasoline requirement for certain states and jurisdictions. It's ridiculous. And again, obviously, the automakers agree. Ford, who's investing $5 billion in new construction into the United States, is obviously very pleased about this.
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We were number two last year in EV sales. We were number three in hybrid. And we're the leading brand for combustion. We believe that people should be able to make a choice, as you said, Mr. President, and we will invest more in affordable vehicles. This allows us to invest in affordable.
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Vehicles made in the US which we will Take the lead on and will.
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Allow us to make vehicles more affordable.
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This is what the man is saying. Listen, clearly we've said this on the Internet with the youths. Seriously, just to kind of get into the mental mindset of a lot of millennials and Gen Z here in a useful way. The common post that has been reposted and shared, screenshotted and shared again, ages producer Nick. You know the one I'm talking about is like the ideal dream design car. Not a lot of electronics. It's extremely simple. It's very, very basic. It's like a lot of you who are tuning in your first vehicle, how simple it was, how well made it was. It didn't have a lot of bells and whistles. It didn't need them. Doesn't have 846 buttons across the dash. It drives, it's got cruise control, shout out to perfect circle. It's got all of the excellent features that make it fun to drive. It doesn't need a motorized this over here and buttons that activate this computer system that goes out every three and a half week. No, it's just a simple vehicle. There's not special valves and cramps and crimps on the engine system itself that keep you from being able to drive. You have to replace all these various hoses because that reduces some of the emissions. No, simple. It's what people have wanted for a long time. You want to address affordability, as the buzzword is these days. That's how you do it. Open the market, release the barriers. The next thing the Trump administration should do is essentially hold states that have major restrictions on housing and building development hostage on federal funding until they release those restrictions. You, you want to build a new house, you want to build an apartment building, you want to build a new structure, then build it. All of these restrictions on the automotive, on the housing industries have made things expensive and they suck. Those are Democrat policies. Stop it. Huge win. And by the way, what the Ford CEO said was correct with the Stellantis CEO. Obviously Stellantis makes a lot of electric vehicles. I've, I've written in a couple of them. They're, they're interesting newer auto manufacturing company. What he says is true. I don't care. You want to get an electric vehicle, There's a lot of good reasons for it. The Tesla driving computer system for automatic driving. Kyle Mattern was in the studio a little bit earlier. He drives one. He enjoys the automated driving systems on. It's really cool. If you want to get that out there and compete. Cool but the idea that you get special treatment because while electric vehicles are really important. No, no. Here was the Stellantis CEO. Oh, sorry. Producer Nick says they're very, very old. My bad. Here you go, Stellantis.
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Mr. President and Secretary, all the important lawmakers here, competitors.
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Today is the victory.
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Common sense and affordability. We're very proud of Ford to be the number one auto producer in our country. 85. 80% of the vehicles we sell here, we make in our country.
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Oh, wait, hang on, hang on a second here. Sorry. We'll get the Stellantis CEO. No, no. They formed in 2021 from a merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the PSA Group. So, okay, I wasn't crazy. I was like, I know that I haven't seen, well, at the CEO speak.
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Here.
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Have a brand new car as opposed to a car that maybe isn't so great. And so you car companies start thinking about that. I think it's, I think it's going to be a tremendous market. Please, would that exercise on that.
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Thank you, Mr. Mr. President. It's a great day for us at Stellantis today because it's the day where we see CAFE regulation reconciled with real customers demand. That's why as Telantis, we decided to invest to Jeep, Graham Dodge and Chrysler. $13 billion in the next four years, increasing production by 50%, delivering to the market five new vehicles and creating 5,000 additional jobs. That's because we believe in what you and all your team is doing in this country. Now, what was the prompting for this? This is one thing I want to parse. There are two things and they both deserve to be talked about. Number one, trump talking about the automotive tariffs. There is some incentive, as we've already seen from the foreign investment with for example, Honda and Toyota in moving manufacturing to the United States. Because if you move to a foreign land and use cheap labor, then we're going to put a tax on your cars because you're screwing over Americans one way or the other. That's one conversation that brought some to the table. What also appears to have brought a lot of American auto manufacturers to the table is reducing the restrictions once you're here. Here's the thing. If you have ever been invited somewhere as a guest and you get there and it sucks, it really ruins the quality of the invitation. Once the auto manufacturers have been brought back to the United States, it needs to be a good place for the manufacturer to operate. And I, I'm like you. Well, why wouldn't you, why wouldn't you want to Be in the United States. You should want to be. It's a wonderful place here. I agree. But Delaware should not be the only state corporations want to go to become incorporated because Delaware has some lax corporate policy laws that bring a lot of those people in. Funnily enough, Joe Biden squeezed his way into that with a lot of credit card companies. That's why he was so well liked in Delaware. It's another topic for another show. But regarding the Trump administration and getting rid of cafe. Cafe, I've heard it pronounced multiple ways today, which confuses me because clearly cafe would be the easiest way to pronounce. It is a huge win for the American people. It is enormous. Scalping. Scalping. Governmental regulation is a very, very, very good thing. Very good thing. All of these bureaucratic agencies, I have yet to find a single sweeping action by an. Maybe I should say civilian focused Alphabet agency. So not talking about the law enforcement, but like a civilian focused agency in the government. I have yet to see a single sweeping action that has been done that has improved the American economy and culture. Not a one. When the academics get in there and start making decisions for you, things go left, no pun intended, really quickly. All right, one last little bit of bonus before we're done because I didn't get to share it during the show. Minnesota Governor Tim Walls is very, very upset. Why is he upset? Not just because President Trump called him retarded, severely, apparently, but the governor of Minnes, Somalia has also now been receiving greetings out and abroad in public. And this is, this is a broken man, ladies and gentlemen. True, this creates danger. And I'll tell you what, in my time on this, I'd never seen this before. People driving my house by my house and using the R word.
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One more time.
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And I'll tell you what, in my time on this, I'd never seen this before. People driving my house by my house and using the R word.
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They won't stop. They're driving by my house and they're like, hey.
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These 12 year old kids, they're sitting outside my house, they're riding their bikes and going and calling me, hey, do we need to slow down or you.
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I told them they need to wear their helmets and offered mine, but they, they would take it. I'm so, I love it. I'm sorry. The, the, the way in which some of these politicos are completely obliterated by common insults that, you know, never really went away, but went away very briefly that were all of the enjoyable rage. Sorry. That the pro clutching. I just I don't buy. I said, one more time for me, it's just so enjoyable.
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Never seen this before.
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People driving my house by my house and using the R word in front of people. This in front of others. He's in there with his family and they're like, hey, Tim.
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Is shameful. And I have yet to see an elected official, a Republican elected official, say, you're right, that's shameful.
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I mean, are you kidding me? First of all, there are a couple of Republicans that have definitely come out and made a big deal, a big hoopla. But also coming from the man who refused to condemn. The worst thing you can say that Republicans are doing to you outside of your home is yelling that you're retarded. That's what you have to complain about. I'd say you lead a pretty charmed life. I mean, how many different politicians, political pundits on the right would just beg for that to happen?
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I'm just. I'm sorry. I'm really, really enjoying every little bit of this. Every little bit of it. It's just fantastic. Let him continue here.
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He should not say it.
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So, look, I'm worried. We know how these things go.
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They start with taunts, they turn.
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Oh, here we go. Here we go. They came for the. They came for the retard. And I said nothing because I wasn't retarded here, but. But nowhere else. Huh? I love this so much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, first of all, they called me retarded. What are they going to do next? Download illegal movies? Steal from candy stores? Take away my apple juice? I'm mad. Go.
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They start with taunts, they turn to violence.
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So.
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Says the man who has called half of the country violent Nazis. The man who sent the National Guard down different streets in Minnesota to make sure people were locked inside their homes during COVID Deeply concerned. Deeply concerned. Boy, you're deeply something. But for more on that, you'll have to listen to the passersby at the Tim Walls residence.
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I love it. I love it so much. It's so funny. Oh, it's good times. All right. So that stuff said, we hope here from the Tony Kenneth cast crew that you have a wonderful evening. We'll see you here tomorrow, 7pm Eastern. Same great time, same great place. It is the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. Take care.