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Ep. 507 - Cartels Assault Prisons, Mamdani Drowning During Blizzard, Rep. John James Joins
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Mexico is in chaos as cartels fight openly with the Mexican government. Prison breaks now leave dozens more unaccounted for amid fires and small firefights. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani accidentally supports voter ID while drowning in disapproval at his handling of the east coast's blizzard.
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Tony Kennett
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Tony Kennett
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Tony Kennett
I'm so relieved. No problem. I'll be with you every step of the way.
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Tony Kennett
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Tony Kennett, Host of the Tony Kennett cast. Let's get down to business. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93WibcyTV here on the Daily Signal. Good evening and welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. Nationally symbol on 93wiBC. We have more news than we know what to do with this evening. So let's jump right into it. Mexico is on fire. And the reason that Mexico is on fire is that when you leave an infection alone and you allow it to fester and in fact you feed it lots of wonderful sugar, you end up getting a very, very bad mess. And this was the case of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who was on the air just a couple of months ago saying we could not possibly go after the cartels. We could not. But human rights, the violations would be severe. I mean, think about all of the cartellos who probably would like to see a day in court, even though, yeah, they're burning buses, you have to at least go and arrest them and, you know, all of those extra things. Yeah, it turns out that idea and that entire strategy, it sucked. And so President Trump from the Department of War and through Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the State Department passed along a little message. You take care of your cartel problem or I'm gonna take care of it for you. And when you look at this administration, yeah, that appears to be a pretty real and serious threat. So the Mexican government, with intelligence from the United States as well as some of the five eyes intelligence partner community, undertook the killing of Nemisio Oseguera Cervantes, otherwise known as El Mencho, the longtime leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation cartel, on February 22, that being yesterday, Mexican military special forces with support from their National Guard air force, and then of course, the complimentary intelligence from the United States conducted an Operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco. That's. That's El Mencho's home state. To capture him. Bullet points of this particular strategy, no pun intended. A firefight ensued at the secluded location reportedly tracked via one of his many romantic partners. Which just goes to show you, gentlemen, maybe don't whore around, and then you won't have to worry about that. El Mencho was seriously wounded, died shortly after, and several of his bodyguards and companions were also killed. And right now, the Mexican publications have stated that there are about five that were killed. Some reports say as many as eight, because some of the cartellos picked up their injured compatriots and carried them away. They died afterward due to some very serious wounds. The Mexican government immediately came out and said, we did it. It's amazing. Yeah, vaminos. And turns out, no, because the cartellos, which have been allowed for quite a bit to simply stockpile weapons and other various terrorist accoutrements, began retaliating by just killing suspected Mexican government informants. They began holding up particular transportation thoroughfares, setting vehicles on fire. Usually you have to be in Detroit for that kind of a good time. And then, of course, shots outside of some places that Americans were vacationing. There was a lot of panic in Mexican airports, for example, because of gunfire outside nearby. And in the airport itself. You can see people streaming out of the airport. A couple of isolated shots. There was AI footage circulated of big 747s and other smaller passenger planes that were set on fire. No, no, not. Not the case. Only a couple of vehicles and buses that were set on fire. Now, of course, Mexico did send in a slightly beefier version of its National Guard. So I'm just going to level with you right off the top of the bat. First of all, I love 511. It is my favorite combat supplier when it comes to stuff. Just way better than anything. Standard issue lasts a lot longer. But maybe it's not time for a video. When you're getting ready to deploy the armored vans and the Ford F150s to the fight. Say what you will, but as a proud Hoosier, I'm thrilled that we make enough Humvees for the whole darn military to go in and do the various kinds of things. The United States doesn't need to send in the pickup truck cavalry to do so. There have been 38 separate instances reported and confirmed so far of isolated shootouts between various cartel members. This violence spread beyond the state of Jalisco to include Colima Muco. I'm not going to pronounce that correctly. Guanajonto. Then of course Guerrero, other areas like Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, other major tourist destinations, as well as some isolated incidents of cartello and Mexican force fire all the way over into Tampico, which is not right next close by. So some really interesting developments. Now here's what you need to know right right now, the total reported number of deaths from the operation in immediate aftermath has reached between 70 and 73, including cartel members, security forces and at least one civilian. Mexico's defense secretary came out a few hours ago and said, well, the problem is is that American keeps sending a bunch of guns down here. 80% of these weapons that are seized are of US origin. Here was that speaking of the strategy, General, since the beginning of this administration, 23,000 weapons have been se. Of these 23,000 weapons, 80% are of US origin. Now of course, this brings up fantastically fond memories of Barack Obama's Fast and Furious operations. But right now what you need to know relative to you, is that Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has surged Texas Rangers, highway patrol, tactical teams of various sorts and units to the Mexican border. Arizona has done some troop sending, some border patrol ramping up, I should say Sheriff's department border units near the border with Arizona and then of course US Border Patrol as well down to the border with Mexico. The best advice right now is as the State Department gave, if you're in Mexico, shelter in place, try to find a way out of the country. Of course, it's a hellhole in a failed state anyway. But again, the United States never should have given it up after the last time we occupied Mexico City. Meanwhile, in Iran, the situation regarding the United States buildup of arms resulted in yet another round of leaks and rumors and various media outlets reporting things. So over the weekend, reports from the Washington Post, from Reuters, Axios, that's the other one. Washington Post, Wall Street Journal stated that the president of the United States had been approached by General Kaine in the Pentagon who said we would not be able to win an extended war handily with Iran. They suggested that Kaine and several Pentagon staffers had said that we were going to run out of air like counter air defenses, among other essentially supply and strength shortages would be a cripple to the United States here. I'm going to level with you right here and now. That is an absolute load of crap. That is a load of crap. There is no shortage of air defense munitions in the Middle east under the United States at the moment. We have deployed extra and sundry to not Just our bases. And by the way, not just the bases of our allies that have perhaps infrastructure and military fortifications. We have also dispatched Thaad missile batteries and the cases which hold those lovely flying explosives to outside of specific embassy and diplomatic hardpoints. Meaning that we are so well defended at the points that the United States has set up surrounding Iran that we are now spreading around a couple of spares just in case they're needed and necessary. Next time you're in Turkey, look for one outside the local Sonic. I don't know, maybe the guys will let you come up and, you know, move it around. Fire a couple of rounds into formerly Constantinople. Here's the President's response to these particular leaks. He said numerous stories from the fake news media have been circulating stating that General Daniel Kaine, sometimes referred to as Raisin, Raisin Kaine, is against us going to war with Iran. The story does not attribute this vast wealth of knowledge to anyone and is 100% incorrect. General Kane, like all of us, would not like to, or, excuse me, would like not to see war. But if a decision is made going on against Iran at a military level, it is his opinion that it will be something easily won. Now, that's correct. And the reason that's correct is because Iran has no navy. They have no navy whatsoever. They have a paddle boat and, and I believe a guy in a duck floaty. It's kind of hard to see from the distance. He's kind of getting further out from the beach every time he swims out there. Their air force consists of a couple of F4 tomcats that should be in a museum. My only faint wish for the United States is that when they level the rest of Iran's air force and ballistic missile fields that they send in Tom Cruise to fly the F4 out of there and get it to safety so that it can sit in the Smithsonian. Also, perhaps a dark joke, but parents, children shouldn't have to bury their parents. Meaning that F22s shouldn't have to shoot down the last F4s out there. Radio crew, we got to send you over to the commercial. More news on the live stream. Catch you guys in a second. It's the Tony Kenneth cast. So what the President said, everything that has been written about a potential war with Iran has been written incorrectly and purposefully. So that is very, very true. He says, I am the one that makes the decision. I would rather have a deal than not. But if we don't make a deal, it will be a very, very bad day for that country. And then very sadly its people because they are great and wonderful and something like this should have never happened to them. So the President of the United States not exactly leaving a lot of wiggle room for the Iranian mullahs. It is completely up to him. He's correct when he says this. It is only up to the President of the United States. Now there are a couple of accounts out there, there are a few various hyper isolationist that once again seem to believe the United States is going to fall into some Eternal Iraq 2.0 style war. But their nonsense are just as bad as Chuck Schumer losing his mind about what he calls Jim Crow 2.0. So the situation in Iran developing, obviously if that breaks, we will bring that to you live. Very much doubt it's going to be carried out in the next 24 to 48 hours, but I'm not making any super solid predictions. Speaking of chuckles Schumer, he came out to the floor of the Senate and he did a little kind of schizophrenic theater in which he tried to act out that he was both excited and disappointed at the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs. And I don't know if someone else wrote the script for him or if he just did it on the fly, but if he did it on the fly, dude, zip it up and leave. It's awkward for everybody.
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Democratic Politician (possibly Chuck Schumer or a Democratic spokesperson)
Unicorn we are not Mr. President. Americans breathed a brief brief Americans breathed a brief sigh of relief last week when the Supreme Court knocked out Trump's harmful tariff tariff proposals. Americans are suffering because Donald Trump is raising tariffs. People pay more for so many daily goods, so many groceries for cars, for homes, for everything. And the American people hate the tariffs.
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All right, so he kind of awkwardly lumps into it. But there's a bunch of doddering two things real quick here. So as of right now, and I should clarify, sorry, there are roughly a dozen F14A Tomcats in the Iranians arsenal and just a handful of F4 Phantoms and F5 Tiger Twos. So sorry about the mixing up of the the F14 and the F4. So just a quick clarification there. Also no acquiring any of the new Russian SU24s or 35s. So sorry, I just wanted to correct
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Democratic Politician (possibly Chuck Schumer or a Democratic spokesperson)
that real quick because they know it's raising their costs. And so for a brief moment there was a sigh of relief that you heard from one end of America to the other because the Supreme Court correctly said the President can't raise tariffs on emergency basis only the Congress can. But Donald Trump, who is in a bubble has no understanding of what the American people need feel or want, reimposed the tariffs right away and then he one upped it, doubled down on it and raised him again.
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Tony Kennett
All right, so excellent, excellent stuff to hear, Chuckles Schumer trying this particular approach. I'm not quite sure what he thinks that he's going to accomplish. I'm just not quite sure what he thinks he's going to accomplish by telling everyone that the Supreme Court decision, which was made as a result of the Supreme Court decision, was largely in avoidance or really, I should say, ignoring anything the American people thought about it. I mean, say what you will, but at least we had kind of a principles wrestling match argument regarding the tariff decision in the way that the President of the United States had previously used the IEEPA statutes. So in this instance, Chuck saying that doesn't work, also then turning around and saying that the President of the United States has no idea what people want, while you at the head of the Democrat caucus in the Senate are against the largest approval rating policy in modern US history, that being voter ID law. The vast super majority of Democrats are in favor of voter ID law and you call it Jim Gro 2.0. So again, whatever the kind of awkward half strategy is here, if you could call it that from Chuck, Schumer is falling a little bit less than on point. And he's not again of the Democrats kind of on the floor, on the playing field here. He's not even the worst one. So you have all of these Democrats who are coming out of the woodwork to announce their different plans for State of the Union. So State of the union, tomorrow night, 9:00pm, the President of the United States, he's going to stroll out and he's likely going to take a victory lap. Democrats have decided that they really want one thing and one thing only, attention. All of the attention that they can find. They don't care. That doesn't matter. They want to get out there and they want to boycott it somehow. But while the camera's boycotted, they want the camera on them. So there's a group of Democrats, some senators, representatives who are currently planning to ditch the State of the Union. These include Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Chris Van Hollen of El Salvador, Yasmine Ansari of Arizona, Rebecca, excuse me, Representative Becca Balint of her own rectum, Representative Greg Caesar of Texas, Representative Veronica Escobar of Texas, Representative Pramila Jayapal of whatever Pride Parade she represents, Zilia Ramirez of Illinois, a bunch of people I've never heard of like Coleman of New Jersey, Larson of Connecticut, who looks like Newt Gingrich but younger, slightly Representative Eric Swalwell of California, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and not Jimmy John's. That's another story. For another time, Representative Dan Goldman of New York. And then somehow still alive and appearing to possibly be at this point, skin stretched over a mannequin Representative widened from Oregon. So that's their, I mean, con. You were really excited to see them at the State of the Union, weren't you? I mean, if Pramila Jayapal is not going to be there, I mean, what's the point? So they think this is going to make them look really good. Everyone from those kind of over on the left, Stephen A. Smith of sports commentary fame and some pretty good cultural commentary takes from time to time he has roasted the left over skipping out on the State of the Union. Those that are there are many who believe that the United States hockey men's team should be given the seats that the Democrats are leaving for the State of the Union. I would really enjoy seeing that. We're going to get to those a little bit later on in the show. I do want to take just one particular point in the comments about the Iran stuff and answer it a little bit early here. Tony, aren't you worried about some of the reports showing that we are running low on interceptors, other words, specialized missiles and guided rockets that are useful for shooting down ballistic missiles? No, because the only report that came out was immediately debunked and it cited an installation that doesn't even exist. There's a field in Kansas where they said the warehouse was supposed to be that was empty. Also, the United States has far and gone quite a few, not just our Aegis aircraft, excuse me, our Aegis missile guided destroyers, but also of course the Thad 2 systems. So we're gonna bring the radio crew back from commercial. It's the Tony Kennedcast here on the Daily Signal. Don't you go anywhere. You're listening to the Tony Kennett Castle on 93 WIBC. Welcome back to the Tony Knittcast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. So the Democrats have decided after mocking the turning point USA's halftime alternative show that they were going to do their own Democrat livestream State of the Union address. So I want to play a little bit of a game here. I want to see how many views the Democrats alternate stream gets. And of course, the president of the United States on Our Tony Kenned cast will be sharing, of course, that State of the Union address right here on the live stream. I would bet a healthy amount of Indiana tenderloin sandwiches that our show dwarfs the Democrats alternate sort of kind of State of the disunion address. Especially if they get Gavin Newsom to speak. I mean, there's a good chance that they try. But Gavin Newsom's in a bit of a scandal because Newsom over the weekend decided to get up and tell a room full of a bunch of black men that he's just like them. He's like, I also can't read. I also got a 960 on my SATs, which is right up there with Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, saying that black kids in New York don't know what a computer is. But anyway, here's Gavin. I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you that I'm like you. By the way, I do want to point out, look at the. Just look at the stank on this guy's face. Usually to get the stank look like that, you have to be in the middle of a beautiful piano solo. So, I mean, that man is looking at him, it's already not going well. But Gavin, he's going to go into recovery mode. He said, I'm not trying to impress you people. I too put on my pants one leg in the morning. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. And, you know, so you get a couple of hoots and hollers and laughs and then you get a bunch of people who are awkwardly laughing going, did he just call us like, all he said, oh, I'm just like you. This crowd of black people I'm speaking to, my SAT scores are low, just like you. Oh, no. And I'm not trying to offend anyone. You know, trying to act all there if you got 940, but literally a 960 SAT guy. I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. I love that. So this whole thing came about because Gavin Newsom was called historically illiterate by Ted Cruz. So Gavin Newsom got out there and started talking about how, you know, in 1492, Amelia Earhart conquered Narnia or whatever at the Munich security conference he was going on about. And Ted Cruz pointed out that Newsom is historically illiterate, meaning that he doesn't know his history. Everyone out here, you and I, we know what that means. If you've ever heard the phrase, even if you haven't used the phrase before or heard it used before, you know what it means. So Gavin Newsom did the dumbest thing he can. He got out his phone in three and a half seconds and he tweeted, how dare you call a dyslexic person illiterate? That's so insensitive. It's like throwing a beach ball at Helen Keller. It's so rude and mean. I'm such a victim. There's this culture right now of a lot of influencer types on social media who need a mental illness of some sort. So the, the trend over the last year was calling yourself autistic when there was no reason to and dressing in really weird, quirky, like, 1990s Disney series Colorful clothing, like the awkward best friend in every sitcom series who doesn't know how to dress, whether it's Phoebe Buffay or whoever was on Wizards of Waverly Place, that one chick next to Selena. You know, I mean, like the weird dress, they're like, oh, I'm autistic. That's why I dress like I stepped out of the trash can at Burlington Coat Factory. So in this instance, Gavin Newsom's decided that his particular mental disability is going to be dyslexia. So a couple of people reached out and said, well, again, officially claiming some kind of a, some kind of a learning disability is interesting because he immediately got out and said, oh, I've been dyslexic, as wrong as I can remember. And so from Real Clear Politics, Susan Crabtree, excellent reporter, and by the way, on the ranking list of reporters that I would say are some of the least biased or try very, very hard to, to report things exactly as is. Susan Crabtree is one of the top. She is the real Clear Politics national correspondent. She's a 2024 Dow Prize winner. She reached out to Gavin Newsom's press office and said, and I quote, hi there. I know any type of learning disability is very sensitive, but I also see that Governor Newsom and his press team have been using the diagnosis to hit back at Sean Hannity, Ted Cruz and other critics in the wake of Newsom's comments over the weekend that he had in his 960 SAT. So I'm like you, which he said to a black moderator. So she asked Newsom, if that's the case, does he have anything that essentially just demonstrates that as a child he had dyslexia? He also said he was diagnosed in 1972. That'd be when he was five or six. Is there anything the government can point to the proof of this? And then Izzy Garden from his press office reached out and said, and I censor yet, quote, hey, Susan, thanks for reaching out. Respectfully, F off. The word is in full in the message, Izzy. Classy radio crew, we're going to send you to the commercial. Please don't y' all F off. We love you, but you just come back after the commercial break. It's the Tony Kenned cast here on the Daily Signal. All right, live stream.
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We'll.
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Tony Kennett
We'll step away from Gavin Newsom's burning situation in a minute. Again, remember, dyslexics are teeple poo. You know, you gotta hand it to them with the wrong hand. Probably the left. You gotta make the Ls, you know, figure it out. Regarding the blizzard situation on the opposite coast, Zoran Mamdani is drowning, which is perhaps a little ironic because you would expect that Zoran Mandani would be doing phenomenal job. There's usually a lot of carryover momentum after a previous administration, even a disastrous one, to which you can take any of the successes that were kind of expected to follow and say, yeah, this is great. Everything's going. Going very well so far. Mamdani can't even handle basic weather. So he has now come out and announced that those 19 homeless people which died due to exposure, again, remember that Zoran Mandani said, those cops, those nasty, dirty pigs, you can't go in there and scoop out a bunch of. You can't be scooping out a bunch of them. Them homeless people, when they tell you that means that I'm fine. Leave me alone, copper. And so Mamdani's policy, if I hate the police, send in the weird therapist didn't work. And homeless individuals in the city died. 19 of them. And so Zoran Mandani has now come out to say, well, actually, they didn't die of the cold. They died because they overdosed and then froze to death. Now, I don't know if you guys know that unless you're a very good James Bond movie, you only die once. So unless we're getting spiritual here, I don't. I don't think that's how it works. Mamdani also came out, though, and announced, because there's some big weather coming in, or it's here now, the blizzard. Over the weekend, though, he announced that you, too can cover up for the shortfall of New York sanitation, landscaping, and city officials not being Adequately funded and prepared to fight a major snowstorm, despite being in the Northeast, which gets hit with, you guessed it, Steve snow. Here was his announcement.
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Various Announcers/Advertisers (including Matt Davis and Lifelock spokespersons)
We're utilizing 33 DSNY vans and two DSNY buses to transport shovelers where they're needed faster. And for those who want to do more to help your neighbors and earn some extra cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler. Just show up at your local sanitation garage between 8am and 1pm tomorrow with your paperwork which is accessible online@nyc.gov snow and you can get started right away.
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Tony Kennett
Oh, okay. Oh, okay. So a couple of things here. Now a lot of people immediately said, wait a minute, you gotta show a bunch of ID and bring your paperwork and your forms to come shovel snow. And by the way, the voter ID required are two forms of photo identification or one if you have a passport. You know, but also, I want to point out something different. I, I was told that the reason that these illegal immigrants were here was to do the manual labor. Right? Who's gonna pick the crops? Who's gonna, you know, clean the hotels? Who's gonna do the landscaping? Where are all of the. I was told that's why they're here. I, I mean, it was promised after all. Jasmine Crockett said, we ain't gonna be out here picking cotton or shoveling snow. So then where, where is everybody? Interesting stuff indeed. So of course everyone mocked him because again, you know, Democrats are currently fighting and a very basic voter ID initiative to prevent individuals from committing voter fraud as easily. His follow up response, because he really hates being called out of being an awful mayor. Politics aside, he hates just being called a really stupid hypocrite and a failed rapper and the child of two, a professor and a movie producer. He really hates that. So he came out and tried to poindexter it.
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Various Announcers/Advertisers (including Matt Davis and Lifelock spokespersons)
There's been this controversy over the snow laborers and the sort of what some see as onerous. Need to have documentation.
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Tony Kennett
We're gonna bring the radio crew back and then we'll get this question here in a second. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal. The Tony Kennett cast on 93 WIBC. Welcome back. If you're in New York, you probably have a better chance of calling Jenny and getting her to come out and shovel your snow rather than anyone in the city government. Not again. Not because of the guys that are out there actually shoveling the snow. No, no, no. The guys out there who are underpaid and who are managed horribly by Whichever latest, either former antifa member or lesbian advocate or pro Hamas open terrorist sympathizer that he's put out to run major city agencies like sanitation. Mamdani is under a lot of heat because he has no idea what he's doing. And it turns out all of these college hacky sack circle groups are terrible at doing big grown up adult work. And so he really didn't like being asked by a reporter, hey, you got out there and said you need to bring your papers. Papers please. If you want to show up and shovel city for. Excuse me, shovel snow for the city. Which again is hilarious because there are millions of people around the country as kids who would just go shovel snow and then like take the money right then and there as like a small cash payment. But this is a huge process for New York because it's an over regulated hellhole. Here was his response to this reporter.
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Various Announcers/Advertisers (including Matt Davis and Lifelock spokespersons)
There's been this controversy over the snow laborers and the sort of what some see as onerous need to have documentation. Can you just talk about if that's new and what you make of the controversy? This is all long standing. This is a long standing program and long standing requirements. And this is a way that New Yorkers get paid to shovel snow in assistance with the city's response to a winter storm event. Federal law requires that employers get authorization and documentation.
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Tony Kennett
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Hold on a second here. Wasn't this the guy that said that he wasn't gonna like work with the feds, that he, you know, federal law, I mean, it's not really up to a city to uphold federal law. That's why the city has laws, you know, especially not something about identification or, or employment and immigration. Oh, no, no. Hmm. Now I'm, I gotta say, all of a sudden, Mr. Mr. Federal Law Cider over here seems to be sweating a bit at the brow to pay people for their work.
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Various Announcers/Advertisers (including Matt Davis and Lifelock spokespersons)
We are not allowed to just cut checks to individuals for their work. And these are the policies that we've had in place. But I understand that for many it's the first time that they've ever heard about it.
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Tony Kennett
I love it. I love it. I love watching. It's so fun. Now, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez also came out to simp for Momdani while her husband snored in the background. We're not going to play that one right now because there's more to get to. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode island, all have declared states of emergency. Thousands are facing power outages, school Closures travel bans In Providence, they reported that as of 1pm 32.8 inches of snow, largest snowstorm on record. For the contrast there, the blizzard of 78 snowfall only got up to 28.6 inches. So really wild snow and ice. Now speaking of ice, there are a lot of the left wing outlets here. What is everyone else covering around the country? People upset about the sad, sad song of Karen Newton. And a lot of these left wing outlets have openly flaunted Karen Newton, including the Guardian as well. Here from Jenny kleeman on the 21st Saturday, said Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. And no, not held by one of Mamdani's hugging social workers. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says if it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone. And they made it appear as though she was just traveling with her husband Bill to an ambitious itinerary that would take them through California, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, and then on to Canada over two months. They talked about how she didn't like Las Vegas, which, I mean, same, okay, but anyway, she was gonna do a road trip with her husband and then ICE picked her up. The Department of Homeland Security dream holiday ended abruptly on Friday 26th September, as Karen and Bill were trying to leave the US when they crossed the border, Canadian officials told them they didn't have the correct paperwork to bring the car with them. Boy, a lot of paperwork hitting these liberal governments lately and I really enjoy that. Anyway, they were turned back to Montana on the American side. And you know, when you leave the American border, go up to the Canadian border when they tried to come back in the United States. Oh, no, Border patrol with Canada. Uh, we're gonna talk about that with Representative John James here in just a minute. It so happens, it just, you know, it just so occurs that, yeah, Border patrol's gonna look at, at your id and even though the guardian says Karen has no criminal record, she is a grandmother and all this nonsense, uh, the actual records came out and it appears Karen Newton not only violated several laws of the country, overstayed her visa waiver admission for almost four years after visiting her spouse. Her husband, William Newton, also broke the law for nearly 20 years by overstaying an H1B visa. People come here on a temporary visa and then they just stay forever. Hey, what do you say? So when she tried to cross the border with her husband to Canada, they didn't have the proper vehicle and they were denied entry. So Then coming back into the United States, she was unable to provide clear details about her situation, including her husband's legal status. Hmm. Boy, those inches sure are resting. Hmm. That's a real chin scratcher. Why would the grandmother, the articulate former assistant, what did they call her, who spent eight years working as an administrative assistant at a primary school before her retirement? She can't produce a few details about her husband or her own legal status. Oh, or, or is it because she's a big liar and then she was held and then deported. So, again, I love it. I think it's fantastic. But again, as a quick reminder, if you are here legally, you need to leave. Just a little fun reminder there. So the sad song of Karen Newton is a real struggle. That said, I do want to flip it over and get a bit of perspective on the State of the Union, some other major economic factors, including some trade policy. Obviously. We had a lot of comments earlier on in the show asking for some updates on that. You could hear me talk about that. Representative John James of Michigan's 10th, one of the guys that knows, unlike a lot of Republicans, how particular policies in urban environments are supposed to go as well. Representative, thanks for a moment of your time this evening.
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Representative John James
Of course. Thanks for having me. Glad to be back on.
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Tony Kennett
Tony, you've got a ton of stuff headed under the State of the Union address. A lot of theater expected. Top of mind. What are you looking for tomorrow evening?
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Representative John James
Frankly, I think that President Trump is going to take a well deserved victory lap for probably the most productive first year. Not just first, second term. In one year, in his second term of any American president in our lifetime, President Trump and his conservative Congress has been able to get through everything from working family tax cuts to making our world a safer place. Under President Trump's leadership, we're stronger, we're safer, and we're greater than we were before.
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Tony Kennett
Heading into this midterm year, obviously there's a ton of stuff on the table, especially as far as economic policy. People are kind of concerned, at least I've seen, according to some of the polling, as to how the tariffs are going to impact them. With this kind of new push, do you see a lot of market instability and things being pushed towards consumers kind of over the next quarter? Or how do you think things are going to play out by the time we hit, say, June in the economy?
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Representative John James
Yeah, great question. It's top of mind, particularly in states like Michigan. Tariffs. President Trump recognizes, and I also realize that America's been getting the short end of the stick for Decades and decades with non tariff barriers and tariffs themselves being used by our allies and trading partners to get one over on American workers and American farmers. And Trump said no more. President Trump is interested in reciprocal trade where we get treated the same way that we are being treated. President Trump's actions has resulted in in trillions of dollars investment coming back to the United States of America. One sterling example is we're now making more steel in the Japanese and that hadn't happened before. That's a matter of not just economy but national security. Negotiating better and fairer trade arrangements. Protecting American workers and farmers is something that's going to help our economic situation but also decrease our dependence on adversaries like China. We're beginning that slow march back toward re industrialization. But in states like Michigan, we're going to need conservative leadership.
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Tony Kennett
Sure.
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Representative John James
That we can participate in this great economic and defense resurgence. We have the ability, but we lack the leadership currently to be able to help out. So I'm looking forward to leading in any way that we can. And I applaud the President's efforts to finally get our allies and our trading partners to work with us in good faith for our mutual benefit and not continue to take advantage of the American economy and the American worker and farmer to soapbox.
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Tony Kennett
Just for a second. I'm not asking that question just because I know that you're going to give me the Republican in the House answer. You've served on the Energy Commerce Trading Committee and Subcommittees for quite a bit when it comes to these issues. Of course you up in Michigan, us down here in Indiana, we're very passionate about not just the general box store trade internationally, but also the manufacturing sectors that also comes with energy. Right. So if we're going to look at the unleashing of energy, that takes a lot of different forms. President Trump has been calling out the windmills, but there's a lot more to it in the replacement of those energy sources. What do you see coming down the pike? I know deregulation's been going fast and furious.
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Representative John James
Yeah. And all of the above energy approach that actually capitalizes on things that work. You know if we could make money on unicorn tears. And we absolutely would. But, but you can't. You can't lower people's prices on, on hopes and dreams developed in the ivory towers of universities all over the country. We need natural gas, we need nuclear. We need things that actually work. And so that's what we're doing to, to lower our energy costs, to increase the resilience of our of our electricity and our grid. And that's part of something that I actually got passed a couple of weeks ago is my critical mineral supply chain bill that's going to increase the resilience of our supply chain, increase the resilience of our ability to power and supply our own goods and lower the costs of everything from gas to groceries. These are the things that the Trump administration has been working on. I'm glad that I was able to get it passed through the House of Representatives and being able to focus on energy and leading in that area is something that Michigan is ready to do under new leadership.
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Tony Kennett
So I'm sorry to again give you whiplash to move through some of these questions so quickly, but hey, a lot of stuff right before the State of the Union. Your governor, Gretchen Whitmer, big gretch. Unlike you, she traveled over to Europe for the Munich Security Conference. Again, I noticed you're talking about a lot of international issues. I didn't see you there. But I did hear Gretchen Whitmer, your governor, freeze up when being asked about victory in Ukraine, about other military matters. So eager and excited to sit opposite the US Ambassador on the panel. Yet when the questions came up, the crickets played their lovely music just again in the Michigan political system. What in the world was the response of Michiganders to that?
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Representative John James
Well, I took no joy in seeing one of our leaders go over to Europe and face plant on an international stage. But that just underscores the importance of having somebody in Michigan, a northern border state where its major city is the only one in the United States within 20 miles of an international border, having somebody who understands what it takes to keep Michigan and America safe because they've done it before. I'm a combat veteran. I flew 750 hours combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom. I served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and in this race in Michigan, having people who understand what it takes to compete and win in such a special and important position as Michigan is very, very important. Elections have consequences and we need leaders who understand what it takes to keep us safe and understand a little bit more about the current events in Michigan's outsized role in keeping America safe. Michigan's arsenal democracy was called upon in two world wars that we were able to help win because of our manufacturing effort. And as somebody who has a manufacturing background, having a chief executive who understands that is very important. Having a combat veteran as commander in chief of Michigan National Guard is also something that's very, very important. So again, we take no jo when our leaders go to foreign shores and, and make us look more vulnerable. That's a liability. But we do have an obligation to, to elect leaders with experience. Now is not the time for experiments.
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Tony Kennett
Representative John James, Michigan's 10th we would love to have you back in a couple weeks after things calm down. Yeah, right. Just to ask a few more broad questions about the manufacturing sector and rebuilding it in the country. I know that you and I both have to sprint. Thanks so much for a few minutes of your time.
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Representative John James
Of course. I'm glad to be back on. Anytime, Tony. Take care.
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Tony Kennett
All right. Here in just a minute or two, we're going to dive into the Olympics match. That was just beautiful. We're going to dive into that. Some of the pettiness again for no reason surrounding that. A little bit of SCOTUS stuff. And then of course, some of the updates again. We haven't even had a chance yet to report on the assassination attempt. We got to bring the radio crew back. Don't go anywhere. It's the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. It's the Tony Kenneth cast on 93 WYPC. Welcome back to the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated, first on 93 WIBC. Very, very briefly. Want to bring a bit of an update here. The president of the United States was the, well, a attempted assassination, the third or fourth attempted assassination of President Trump thwarted on February 22nd. That being yesterday. A suspect has been. Suspect was apprehended, excuse me, by both U.S. secret Service agents and a deputy from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office outside of Mar A Lago. The suspect, named as 21 year old Austin T. Martin from North Carolina was reportedly carrying a shotgun and a fuel canister. Officers told him to put the gun down, he raised it at the cops and they downed him. So it appears based on some prior social media posts and things that this individual was fueled by a trying to put Trump down. Based on Epstein file stuff. We don't know that for sure if that's the case. Again, that's why here on the show we actually dig through things and we don't encourage people to go mentally insane and schizophrenic over wild things that again aren't even found in those particular documents. So that aside, let's dive into some of the greatest stuff just period over the weekend. If you didn't get a chance to watch a lot of the U.S. winter Olympics, it's not usually the most viewed, of course, up against the Olympics or some other major American sporting events, but it was a phenomenal Year for the United States. Of course, we've already talked about the figure skating. Leslieu. We've already talked about some of the other excellent American performance. The female. The women's hockey team was able to knock out Canada in overtime in the finals. And then the US Men's Olympic team was able to in a beautiful last minute overtime shot. Again, this clip provided by NBC. Phenomenally gorgeous shot. Watch this. Fantastic. The proper response, of course. I mean, just in. Incredible stuff. Incredible, incredible stuff. Jack Hughes plays for the New Jersey Devils in a phenomenon, I mean, just wonderfully executed. Three on three play scored. The golden goal, minute 41, assisted by Zach Winsky, slipped it right through Canada's goalie Jordan Bennington. So this is where things get a little bit fun here. We'll play out the Canadians beautiful second angle right across the front. And all of a sudden the American Hopkins went back the other way and it was a three on one. So if you'll, if you'll forgive me here just kind of from like an inexperienced thing, I've never really played hockey, but in kind of the soccer thing, throwing it beautifully across what in soccer would be like the 18 right in front. Just beautiful. Right in there. Again, I know the terminology is different for hockey. Just phenomenally executed. Amazing, amazing work. And again, just as a kind of a site here. First period. Matt Boldy scoring to give the US a 10 lead in the second period. Cale tied it 10 or excuse me, one to one. Canada third period, scoreless. Very, very intense. A ton of strong goaltending. The US goaltender, honest to goodness, Connor's just phenomenal. Outstanding. 41 saves on 42 shots. Just incredible. One of these particular saves really should live on for as long as we are here. We're going to throw this clip up as well. Beautifully, beautifully executed. Look at that stick. Safe. Wow. Incredible. Incredible goaltending. I mean, that's some beautiful goalkeeping. Excuse me. So, no, I'm not making an attempt at the last names. Producer Lou, you're absolutely correct. I'm not going to. Absolutely not. I will say this afterward. There were a lot of pearls being clutched, a lot of tears being thrown out everywhere over the United States, which apparently under the Trump administration is really problematic to cheer for the country, which is bizarre. I remember cheering in a very sweaty New York City apartment during the 2012 Olympics. I was out in New York for a while and it was. Well, the AC wasn't working right, but everyone in New York, Republican, Democrat, if you were here and maybe you even weren't supposed to be you were cheering on the Americans regardless of the president in 2012, 2016, same thing. 2020, same I mean, it's not really that difficult to do. And again, the Winter Olympics should be the same way. And the United States performance was beautiful. So, I mean, it's just so special. And thank our troops for allowing us to play this game. Thank our troops for allowing us to play this game. And thank you all the support back home. But Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared that clip. A lot of pro America sentiment from the men's hockey team, again from the the women's hockey team, from Alyssa Lou as well, wrapping the American flag around them, grateful to the country. That is what Americans want to see at the Olympics. That's what Americans want to see at the Super Bowl. That's what Americans want to see at the World Series. That's Americans want to see at any major sporting event. It is a beautiful privilege because of the sacrifice of so many, so many men connected to each and every one of us, our brothers, our fathers who fell on battlefields, those who keep the country going. That allows us to have beautiful sporting events like these in a manner and at a scale far before the rest of the world was able to catch up and enjoy some of the major sporting events. And a level of safety that we enjoy while we're doing flyovers and everything else. And to be thankful for that after what the United States has given each and every one of us is not something that should make people upset. And yet here we are. And I want to make we're gonna I'm gonna show some of the rest of the stuff. Of course, President Trump, Cash Patel getting involved a little bit as well. From the Atlantic, which is how every bad story starts to those on the men's USA Hockey team who laughed at the prospect of sharing a White House visit with women. The NHL frequently trails the WNBA in ratings. That was one of the less offensive comments, believe it or not, from kind of the broader journalistic class who spent the entire day yesterday crying over the United States waving the American flag. The hockey team being extremely proud, thrilled about their victory. Again, coming off of the major U.S. canada in our hemisphere hockey brawl not too long ago. Complaints about the United States from your own country. Leave. Go somewhere else. You don't want to be here? Fine. Get out. Radio crew. We're going to send you guys out for the evening. We're going to continue over here on the live stream unabated. It's the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. Y' all take care. Various outlets losing their minds. Oh, it's, it's such a. How, how could they, how could they stand under a flag of such slavery? People complaining that Jack Hughes, who had teeth broken, not just teeth missing, teeth broken in his mouth. I can't imagine the pain that he was going through at the, at the moment, American flag wrapped around him, fist raised in the air, an online journalist complaining that he needs a dentist. And he's probably misogynist. Just really weird. Really weird for no reason whatsoever. Now, I should point out as well here, the President of the United States did make a call to the locker room. And it's pretty great because receiving a call from the President to congratulate you at the end, again, especially since, again, just a couple of months ago, the President was encouraging them to defeat Canada in the last non Olympic finals, different tournament, which didn't play out perhaps as much as Americans had wanted. But here at the Olympics, when it counted, same thing. President afterward calls to congratulate them and invite them to the State of the Union address. And by the way, you go, played not bad. How are you? Say hi to him. How you doing, Don?
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Various Announcers/Advertisers (including Matt Davis and Lifelock spokespersons)
I have seen hockey goalies have slightly worse games. Unbelievable.
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Tony Kennett
And you are all unbelievable.
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Various Announcers/Advertisers (including Matt Davis and Lifelock spokespersons)
And, and that team is pretty good. You played, I don't know again anytime soon. Right? You know, I tell you what, I just told my people two minutes ago.
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Tony Kennett
I didn't know they'd be calling.
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Various Announcers/Advertisers (including Matt Davis and Lifelock spokespersons)
I said, we're giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. I could send a military plan or something, but if you would like to, it's the, it's the coolest night. It's the biggest. We're in.
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Tony Kennett
I get a bunch of guys who truly, I mean, it's the State of the Union, but I mean, just to be invited again, Trump's like, we'll send the military Delta Force swinging, grab you, fly a home, maybe even let you fly a plane, bomb Iran if you want. It's good. It's a good thing. And they're thrilled about it. Now, there were some fools on the online side of things who started going through social media, I guess, in saying, well, I mean, this particular hockey player, he doesn't even like Trump. And he was smiling in the video. What a fake. What a phony. Americans don't care about that. Americans don't genuinely at the base level care whether a celebrity, whether an athlete is Republican or a Democrat. They want them not to be annoying and shoving politics in their face 24 7. That's what they want. And I mean, yeah, of course you have some of the particular team members. For example, Matthew to Chuck, you know, getting out there. He's a fan of President Trump. Here's that clip.
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Various Announcers/Advertisers (including Matt Davis and Lifelock spokespersons)
It was. It was super cool. It was an honor. You know, it really is parent for the president of the United States. You know, hearing that, you know, he was supporting us and supporting us and all the other athletes and wanting us all to bring home as many gold medals as we can. So we're definitely honored to represent him and the millions, hundreds of millions across the country and bringing a gold medal back.
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Tony Kennett
Yeah, again, I don't care. I don't care whether. I mean, let me explain. When I say I don't care, I mean I don't care about the outrage over whether or not these particular players are Republicans. Apolitical Democrat. I don't care that they got out there and they did two things that I love. Number one, they played their hearts out. And to the extent of exceptional physical injury. The classic hockey stereotype to beat Canada at its own game in the men's and women's event. Excellent stuff. So that one of the only big goals that Canada really has to be proud of includes a massive cheating scandal, which is really hilarious. But aside from that, aside from the curling drama, to see the men's and women's hockey team and again, and Alyssa Lu as well, an immigrant wrap herself in the American flag, wrap themselves in our flag, stand with admiration, tears in their eyes as the national anthem played and to be thankful for the country that they are in and that they have the privilege to represent makes one proud to be an American. And that is worth that. That is worth all of the nonsense and the bleeding and the crying. Now, you know, we can talk about how Canada went and handed a bunch of little teddy bears to their Olympic team, Their. Their Olympic women's hockey team for losing, which is again, very, very, very strange. But alas, at the end of. At the end of all of these, in a world full of Megan Rapinos, be a Jack Hughes. I think that's. That's really the best way that that should be said. All right, just for a bit on the bonus tonus side of things this evening, I wanted to cover a few of the mail time questions, but also wanted to talk a little bit about some of the stuff that you guys had thrown our way here on the Tony Kennett cast. So I have not seen this clip yet. So I hope there's not, you know, like A bunch of language and other stuff in it. Apparently Jamie Raskin got up in front of the country today. Representative, Maryland. And had himself a good sized hissy fit. I've seen several comments about this. We have the clip loaded now. I'm interested to see this as well. Raskin has before considered himself to be of more decorum. Not in the last couple of years, but anyway, no president ever transformed the entire machinery of the federal government into an instrument of political propaganda, censorship and repression the way that Donald Trump has. Okay, now that's a wild thing to start off out with the top of my head. FDR interning individuals based on the color of their skin. Banning gold. I'm sorry, just banning the ownership of gold. FDR threw people in prison for fun. FDR was a horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible president. Woodrow Wilson also creating the bureaucratic state which ate more rights of Americans between those two presidencies than any other time. Fathomable. I mean, even Andrew Jackson. The Supreme Court has made their decision, now let them enforce it. I mean, at some point, you have to wonder if they really believe that history began with Donald Trump. As aspiring presidential dictators go, he is simply in a class by himself, which is why America now has a no Kings movement of tens of millions of Americans that has risen up to counter him. Trump makes no pretense of respecting any part of the First Amendment. He merges his insatiable greed and his authoritarian politics with his snarling dictatorial desire. Okay, so I don't know if you guys know this about actual fascist governments, right, that don't have any kind of a First Amendment. They don't let you get out there and say what he's alleging right here. You realize this right, like an actual country that has no respect, love for free speech. Like the UK for instance. You tweet a meme, you're out there praying in public. Well, excuse me, you're out there praying to the Lord and, oh, it might. You got a license for that? And they'll give you a ticket or haul you off to jail. Jamie Raskin can get out here and just make things up. Nothing's gonna happen to stamp out any political, legislative, social, cultural, or intellectual expression that he personally disagrees with. I like the just listing of various adjectives. And again, I want to make it clear the real threat to the First Amendment is very, very, very clearly from the left. Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, for example.
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Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
This week, we launched an initiative alongside companies and nonprofits to help improve research and understanding of how a person's online Experience experiences are curated by automated processes. This will also be important in understanding more about myths and disinformation online. A challenge that we must, as leaders address. Sadly, I think it's easy to dismiss this problem as one in the margins. I can certainly understand the desire to leave it to someone else. As leaders, we're rightly concerned that even the most likely light touch approaches to disinformation could be misinterpreted as being hostile to the values of free speech that we value so highly.
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Various Announcers/Advertisers (including Matt Davis and Lifelock spokespersons)
Uh huh.
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Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
But while I can.
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Tony Kennett
There it is. There's the but. We value free speech so highly.
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Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
But not tell you today what the answer is to this challenge, I can say with complete certainty that we cannot ignore it. To do so poses an equal threat to the norms we all value.
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Tony Kennett
Okay, so I enjoy she said, I'm here to tell you an unvarnishable truth. We can't ignore it if we do. And then she proceeds to say how you could ignore it. I don't, I can't stand that in political speech. As though they're breaking something that's not at all breaking. They want to get out there and have like the quote that's going to remember for ages. I have the most important thing to tell you. You can choose what restaurant to go to. And everyone's like, well, that was incredible. I hate this. But anyway, the big threat to norms that free speech is, she's saying, after
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Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
all, how do you successfully end a war if people are led to believe the reason for its existence is not only legal, but noble? How do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?
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Tony Kennett
Oh, how do you do anything if people disagree with you? That's what she's arguing. That is directly what she's arguing. How do you end a war if there are people who believe that war is justified? She doesn't specify what war that is. Any war. You think it's justified, Someone else thinks that it's not. Then how do you end that war? Or climate change? How are we supposed to fight it? How are we supposed to save New York City from this global warming threat? Look like the East Coast. The east coast is a desert. It's baking in 80 degree weather right now. Huh?
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Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
How do you ensure the human rights of others are upheld when they are subjected to hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology?
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Tony Kennett
Oh, no. Someone said a mean stinky word that means my rights are raced from existence.
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Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
The weapons may be different, but the goals of those who perpetuate them is often the same. To cause chaos and reduce the ability of others to defend themselves.
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Tony Kennett
Oh wow. There might be a bit of dissension. That's chaos. And if the other side can't articulate their arguments and so they look stupid when they try to explain why. Well, actually, you know Venezuela and the equator. Oh well, I'm actually very dyslexic. Or the other kinds of nonsense. They're humiliated because they're idiots. See that, that actually, that, that's terrible. Because then the left wing crews who are benefited by these useful idiots going out and saying things, then they're exposed as useful idiots and the left can't then accomplish their agenda. So what's the secret? What's the special sauce? What's the answer? Remove the first Amendment, Remove free speech, but say that you secretly love free speech. That's why you're doing it. It's the I'm beating my wife because I love her kind of argument.
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Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
To disband communities, to collapse the collective strength of countries who work together. But we have an opportunity here.
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Tony Kennett
This literally could have been said by Khrushchev in the 50s like word for word and it would have been fine. The capitalists seek to dissolve our Warsaw Pact. Who's been working together. We must protect these communities from the imperialists here to ensure that these particular
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Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
weapons of war do not become an established part of warfare.
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Tony Kennett
Weapons of war. There you go. Former Prime Minister of New Zealand. Free speech. Weapons of war there. I mean, yeah, Donald Trump. Oh, such a threat to free speech. Oh my gosh. Wow. All these no Kings protests that happen and they, they're allowed to happen. Oh man. As long as you don't try to run over a police officer, um, then it's, then it's usually pretty fine. Oh man. Wow. Just the, the horror. Oh my gosh. So beautiful. I, I, I'm glad that that clip was, was sent over our way. That, that's really great. Apparently Chuck Schumer has been roasted yet again trying to also claim that this particular voter ID, the SAVE act is Jim Crow 2.0. Just as a quick reminder, here he is with Jake Tapper over on cnn. When CNN is like dude, you know that you're kind of dumb, right? It's kind of over. But anyway, here he is. 83% of the American people, including majority of Democrats support voter ID laws.
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Democratic Politician (possibly Chuck Schumer or a Democratic spokesperson)
The voter ID laws that first, each state can have its own voter ID laws and some do and some don't. But secondly, what they are proposing in this so called save act is like Jim Crow 2.0. They make it so hard to get any kind of voter ID that more than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poorer people and people of color, will not be able to vote under this law. We will not let it pass in the Senate. We.
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Tony Kennett
I really do like this. Again, the idea that people of color or women are so stupid, they're so dumb, man. They, they could never actually get out here and you know, you know, they could never actually get an ID unless they need to shovel some snow. Then, you know, that's, you know, that's, that's right in there. That's right in their purview. Also, if you criticize me, I'm just going to say, well, I'm just, you know, I also am a big stupid person just like all of you black people. I'm dyslexic. Nothing is set in stone, nothing is ever set in stone politically. But when people tell you that they're going to be like this matters massive blue wave to come out and push some of these fools saying this nonsensical things into continual power. I'm suggesting that right now, unless things change very seriously throughout Q2 into Q3 this year, very, very, very small chance that we have a high turnout election coming at the end of this year. What you're gonna see is a lot of unenthusiastic people which right now, according to the culture and the polls regarding cultural involvement and excitement about things, people are just unenthused. They're, they're really just not, ah, it's not really doing it for me. Now that brings us over to the Save America act, which is one of the last couple of things that Americans are very enthusiastic about, according to Mike Lee, he being of the Senator of Utah variety. Mike Lee has announced that speaker, or excuse me, Senate Majority Leader John TH has agreed to bring up the Save America act in the Senate, but it's gonna have to wait until the end of the DHS partial government shutdown thing. Interesting. I'm more curious to see what President Trump says tomorrow night at the State of the Union about the Save America Act. By the way, again, our coverage tomorrow, the State of the Union, it's gonna start at seven and it's just gonna do. Go for a while. It's it, we're just going, we're gonna cut away to the State of the Union, maybe a couple of seconds of the gut wrenching scissors in my ears style entertainment of the Democrats. State of the, whatever they're calling it actually. What are they, what are, what are the Democrats calling their, what are they calling Their little State of the Union shindig. Alternative. I'm just, I'm just curious. Maybe they had to come up with like a really good name, right? Like a really good alternative name. What do we got here? Comments, producers, explanation to their, their beautiful alternative. We'll cut over to that in just a minute here. Regarding Representative Jamie Raskin. Really kind super chat from Purely Patriotic. Again, very much agree with the name there. Jamie Raskin is the most hypocritical, lying low life in Congress. And again, a very kind $10 super chat. You guys don't have to do that. You don't have to give us any money. But I very much agree with you. Absolutely, absolutely agree. And to Roger Simmons, do I actually think the SAVE act is eventually going to be voted on? Yes, I think this year we will see a verbal. A speaking filibuster be brought forward. That will take a couple of weeks because the Senate parliamentarian hates everything essentially. The Senate parliamentarian is like Roz from Monsters Inc. Like Speaker John Thune. I noticed you didn't file your paperwork, that kind of a thing. So that'll take a couple of weeks for procedure. One of our key editors at the Daily Signal, Keith Koffler, pointed that out to me quite recently. So really beautiful stuff. It's, it's an, it's an exciting, exciting, exciting time. Beautiful. Do we actually have the name? They're calling it Trash Talk. Certainly that's not what they're actually calling it. Tell me. They're not actually calling it Trash Talk. There's no way. They have to call it actually something useful. Right? I have to, I have to know this. I have to. I have to know that. The people's producer, Jen. The people's State of the Union.
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Representative John James
The pe.
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Tony Kennett
That's it. The People State of the Union. Brother, this guy stinks. So that's what we're going. The People's State. So like the Democratic People's Liberation State of the Union. Boy, not really hiding from that Marxist left wing agitator label anymore, are they? The People's State of the Union. Thanks, Producer Gent. That's horrible. That's just embarrassing. I really want. Well, they have Abigail Spanberger, I believe, who's giving that State of the Union address, aren't they? Or that their whatever particular alternative address, which is a weird choice because she's done just about everything but govern Virginia which is still covered in snow and festering poop and its waterways. She's raising taxes on Virginians as well. Again, it really funny to watch the little Miss Moderate. They did this with Elisa Slotkin as well, remember for Michigan last year. They're like, oh, this is our new incredible alternative. See, she's like a basic white woman and they bring her out and then she tries to talk. And either she can't speak or once she starts talking, you realize that it's either like corporate platitudes about believing in yourself. You know, like the New Zealander, prime minister, former prime minister, that one, you know, bunch of useless adjectives and phrases stapled end on end. Or, or you get the, you guessed it really far to the left, Social Marxism. And by the way, as long as we continue to have political parties that ignore the autopsies of either major elections or special elections, what you are going to see is just continued pimp slapping and it's only going to get worse. So, for example, Democrat officials who have worked on the party's still secret autopsy of the 2024 election wink concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza. This is according to Axios. So there are a large group of people in the country right now on the left and the right who are continuing to say really stupid things on foreign policy and make that like the thing that they're running on. Like the Epstein. They're running on Epstein and they're running on foreign policy. And according to every single poll that we have, those are 2 of voters least concerns. They don't care. They don't care. They do not believe the President of the United States is going to kill us all with Iran. They do not believe the President of the United States is actually a secret jumbo dinosaur in a purple suit. Pedophile. Whatever. They don't believe it. They don't believe it's. It's top of mind. They do not. What Americans care about is the economy and the reduction in crime. So far, the reduction in crime thing is going exceedingly well. And so right now, the Trump administration, if they are able to build some momentum heading into Q2, then it, it really stands to be a pretty decent year. Now, according to some of the polls, Kamala Harris is still the choice for what Democrats are gonna push forward in 2028. That is who, at least according to the Canadians opinions. After getting slammed in both men's and women's hockey, this is who they want to be the replacement. A wild move for sure. But I mean, you know, hey, I'm here for it. I'm here for it. Do it. I'm thrilled to see it I'm enjoying all of the hyper online individuals. Last but certainly not least, I would like to point out over the next couple of days as we get ready through our State of the Union coverage, we have a couple of great guests on lined up and then of course some excellent analysis from your Daily Signal team. If you want to chat with us throughout the day, whatever, we have a link to our discord down in the description. You're welcome to join us over there. And then of course we have some excellent interviews and investigations coming out. One on immigration here in the next couple of days regarding some of the transport disaster and the commercials, driver's license policy failures and not just blue, not just blue states but also red states. Of course an excellent interview on the mass organ harvesting industry over in Communist China. So catch those over on our YouTube page, Daily Signal. We'll be releasing those. We're going to catch you guys real soon. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated first on 93 WIBC. See you tomorrow for our State of the Union coverage.
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Various Announcers/Advertisers (including Matt Davis and Lifelock spokespersons)
I'm Matt Davis, CEO here at Maranatha Baptist University, and I'd like to invite you personally to Maranatha's fourth annual Leader to Leader conference on March 5th and 6th here in Watertown, Wisconsin. This event, sponsored by our School of Business, offers two days of practical insights, valuable connections and leadership development that will impact your career no matter your field. This year's conference includes keynotes from Ken Barbik, a Maranatha graduate and former Senate confirmed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and currently serving as a senior lobbyist and advisor to Fortune 500 companies my friend Tony Kennett, another Maranatha grad who now serves as a national correspondent and syndicated radio host for the Daily Signal, and Adam Morgan, president of Majesty Music and a former member of South Carolina's Legislature. Becoming a more intentional, effective leader starts here. Take the next step in your leadership journey and join us March 5th and 6th for two days of learning, networking and growth that will set the tone for the rest of your year. To learn more, visit mvu.edu leadertoleader. Can't wait to see you here on merit at this beautiful campus. March 5th and 6th for the 4th annual Leader to Leader Conference.