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Ep. 563 - Chinese Oil Refinery in Venezuela Explodes, U.S. to Indict Fidel Castro's Brother
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A Chinese-operated oil refinery in Venezuela explodes as Chinese foreign ministers rush to collect on Pakistan's outstanding debt amid a situation going horribly wrong for the communist regime in Beijing. The United States Department of Justice is preparing an indictment for Fidel Castro of Cuba's brother.
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Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennett. Tony Kennick, host of the Tony Kennett cast. Let's have a show. You're listening to the Tony Kennett cast on 93 WYPC here on the Daily Signal. Good evening. Happy Friday. Welcome to the Tony Kennett cast here on the Daily Signal nationally symbol on 93 WIBC. A very fine May 15th to you. Let's get down to it. There was a lot of suspicious stuff going on and I mean that. I'm seeing things in articles that should be very large rojo flags that I'm not seeing a lot of people report on. We have become a society that not to be too much like the joker, but we've become a society that ignores anything past the headline. So allow me to share with you a couple of details that have not been reported on out of outside of the eighth paragraph of Reuters Venezuela. So as many of you do know, there is a gas plant near Lake Maricabo over in Venezuela that did have an explosion today. So there is some of the footage that we have of the explosion you can see across Lake Maricaibo. It's, it's quite wild. Now in case you don't speak Spanish, what he is saying is not just today's weather, it's, it's, this is not exactly grand, not exactly complimenting the, the beautiful waters. That is quite a large explosion. And the reason I point that out is because Venezuelan state media came out pretty quickly afterward and said everything is bueno, everything's fine, no worries, no problems. Yeah, not exact a great time. So let me give you some of the details here that have been left out of a lot of the other coverage today. So what you have heard is according to Reuters, the company confirmed this being pdvsa, that is the state run petroleum and refining company for the Venezuelan government. The company confirmed that the response teams assisted six injured workers. Earlier reports and videos seen by Reuters showed that two workers had to jump into the water after suffering large burns. And again, those are petroleum based burns. So those don't exactly that's not just instantly washed away by water. In fact, some kinds of petroleum burns can continue to burn you even after you have been in the water. It's a really horrible kind of burn, not that there's any good kind of burn. They were taken to a nearby hospital in the city, in the western city of Maracaibo while four others were reported with less serious injuries. So then we get to the alleged argument as to what caused the explosion because why am I reporting to you A random gas plant explosion out of Venezuela is the headline for this particular piece. There's a very good reason. So according to the pdvsa, the fire erupted during a gas depressurizing maneuver at the Lamargas compression plant in Lake Maracaibo. Just a routine gas depressurizing maneuver. Totally no problem at all. There's a problem with this. First of all, the way that the employees, according to a friend of mine inside of Venezuela who works in the gas and oil industry, made it very clear to me because I reached out to him in a heartbeat as soon as I saw something I'm going to get to in the later part of this article. He said there are not supposed to be these individuals in this place at this time for a routine maneuver. No, in fact, there are usually people that are wearing, even in Venezuela, specific suits to protect them in case something goes awry during a gas depressurizing maneuver, at least is what's what's argued here. Now, what's the actual smoking gun here? What's the lead? Well, this particular gas facility, this gas plant in Venezuela is owned by the Lago Cinco project, which is operated by China Concord Resources Corporation under a contract extended by the PDVSA to produce crude oil in the lake's shallow waters. Now of course, the some of the reports pointed out that the facility is just damaged and that's all they had elaborated to say, which is again rather strange if you are saying here's what's going on, just it was damaged then cutting everything else off. Here's the catch. This is China's one and only gas plant, one and only gas plant inside of Venezuela and the only facility in Venezuela, a part of the Lagos Inco project, which means this, the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, their amazing plan to develop other second and third world countries all over the place for the sole goal of bringing those resources back to China while they establish their influence around the world. This was kind of their last big shot. This is one of the last things they had. They had been a huge controller over the Venezuelan oil supply as well as, again, as certain aspects of Cuban intelligence which we're going to get to. Why is the timing here really, really bizarre? After all, don't oil and refinery accidents happen in Venezuela quite often? Absolutely they do. 100% they do. There's a lot of aging equipment. All right. It turns out that countries, whether they're in the Middle east, whether it's, you know, Egypt with Nassau or whether we Go over to the other, the Iraqi, the Afghanistanis, all the way down to kind of the OPEC countries or if we're looking at South America, when you nationalize the country's resources as Venezuela did, and you say, all right, all of these American built oil companies are now the property of Venezuela, or if you're in the Middle east and you say all of these British and French and American made oil industries that they built and they poured resources into and they own, well now they're Egyptian. It turns out that a lot of countries that just take everything from the coloniza don't exactly take very good care of it. They don't exactly upgrade it. Things don't exactly get better. Can I get a Zimbabwe Rhodesia, anyone? Yeah, it turns out that when you just take things and say they're now mine, you don't exactly do a very good job of upkeep. And so that's an app that is absolutely a part of this. Do not think that I am discounting it. The timing here is extremely suspicious. The maneuver in this place, according to my source inside of Venezuela, who I am on purpose leaving his name out, though I normally cite unnamed sources, this guy giving me this information and essentially telling everyone else the state media is lying. I know. State media, Venezuelan lying. I know. But in this case I'm making an exception to the rule and I'm telling you about it. So in this instance, the reason this is suspicious is this is at the same time Venezuela made a public announcement, there was a diplomatic wire in which this was announced two days ago, but publicly, Venezuela announced today that it would begin restructuring its external debt. So the International Monetary Fund and the World bank kicked Venezuela completely out in 2019, but had mostly kicked Venezuela's financial holdings as well as how their debt was monetized and then used as leverage around the world back in 2017. So Venezuela has now announced, after President Trump and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besant had essentially reintroduced Venezuela to the IMF and the World bank, that since Venezuela has been in default since 2017 and was estimated like $150 billion in unpaid bonds, otherwise known as what Gavin Newsom wastes on that train project every Tuesday, these particular things would now be reopened for Venezuela. What does this mean? It means that now there are more than two countries Venezuela can trade with. Up until this point, since 2017, Venezuela was trading with one of two and a half countries. So I say half because occasionally they got something through to Venezuela or Iran. Some of Iran's drones were manufactured in Venezuela. But as far as the two primary trading partners of Venezuela were concerned, you know what they are, China and Russia, even Brazil wasn't doing a good amount of business. Even despite, you know, Da Silva, the leftist socialist, current leader of Brazil, has not been able to effectuate trade agreements of any substantial quality with Venezuela. It was only China and it benefited, you guessed it, only China. And so now with the World bank and the IMF now open to working with Venezuela again, things are moving forward. There are individuals who are being released from prison. Things are starting to begin to turn in the clockwise direction. Who is cut off yet again? It's China. And the same day there was an explosion at the only Chinese held gas plant. Now it's like, Tony, what are you insinuating? That the, you know, that the Venezuelans did it? That the Chinese did it? That the CIA did it? That Mossad somehow trained dogs to carry pagers all the way to the plant? Is that what you're insinuating? No, not at all. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying the timing is suspicious and I'm leading with that because there are a couple of other things that are interesting. Now in the non suspicious category, there was another refinery that was struck in the last 72 hours. This is a Russian oil refinery that Ukraine essentially said, I'm going to do a little Starcraft 2 maneuver and just blitz every single small thing that I have. At the same time. If you, if you don't know what I'm talking about by like the Starcraft 2 reference, imagine that you had a football team that was a very good football team that had to go up against in one offensive play, 410 year olds all on the same field and you had to somehow stop the 410 year old. It's like that classic argument, you know, like how many, how many men does it take to beat one bear kind of a thing. In this instance, Ukraine sent all of the drones that it had in a strike package towards this Russian oil refinery and it, well, you know, kind of a thing. But that's not the interesting story out of the Russian, Ukrainian situation. No, the most interesting story as always, is the fact that the United nations absolutely sucks. Do we take a quick detour here to talk about how much the United nations sucks? Yes, yes we do. So the United nations, who could screw up a two car funeral procession, they're very, very upset and they're very, very upset because there was a humanitarian UN mission, according to UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres. He says, I am alarmed that a Clearly marked UN vehicle was struck twice in Kirsten City in Ukraine this week. Civilians and civilian objects must be respected and protected at all times. International law must be respected. Okay, so two quick things here. First of all, no one cares about international law, especially two countries who are fighting. No one has learned this lesson up close more than the UN. No one. You know, Kurt Schlichter from Townhall.com talks quite endlessly about the things that he witnessed in Eastern Europe during the 90s. They weren't good, Bob. They were kind of bad. International law and friendship in the UN goes out the window, as does any cojones that the UN might actually have. So here's the funny part. Not only do the rest of the world know exactly who committed this particular strike, and Antonio Guterres, who likes to talk a tough game, clearly is trying to obfuscate who the person was that did this. So again, he's ready to come out and call out the United States. He's ready to come out and call out Israel. He's ready to come out and call out Bahrain or Saudi Arabia. He's ready to call out the uae. He's ready to call out the very last few Christians in Lebanon. He's eager to call out the last few Europeans in Europe that haven't been taken over by the wonderful sun shining migrants from Africa. He's ready to call them out by name. But man, when it comes to actually calling out the force that attacked the humanitarian convoy, well, no. And by the way, where do I get off saying that it's definitely the Russians who did it? Because the Russians released the footage and bragged about it. Exhibit A, comrade. And pause. Freeze that frame. Simon. Enhance. Behold. That is the blue letter designation you. And. Incredible. Now, I don't know if you know anything about these kind of drones, but they're not exactly meant to deliver your doordash order. And then gone. And then here's the other footage. And then gone. There's the drone. Different angle. There you go again. Russian media put this forward. So what's my point? The UN's ridiculous and not waste and, you know, a waste of our time and money. And I continue to ask the United States to pull out of the United nations, raise the United nations building in New York to the ground and replace it with absolutely anything else. A Buc EE's would actually be preferable, to be honest with you here. So moving on back to some of the other big news here. There was an announcement from the State Department that shocked yours truly. This was yesterday. We didn't have time to report on it. Came out right before the show. The United States has announced it has completed an accelerated mission to remove highly enriched uranium from Venezuela. So the Trump administration, in partnership with Venezuela, the United Kingdom, which I can only assume meant Keir Starmer standing over in the corner and whining softly, with technical support from the International Atomic Energy Agency, successfully removed excess highly enriched uranium from Venezuela's shuttered RV1 research reactor. It's the country's first and only nuclear reactor, originally built for peaceful scientific research and then later repurposed for gamma ray sterilization of medical supplies, food and other materials, along with perhaps additional enrichment capacity. So, interesting stuff. It certainly appears that the United States is doing a couple of test runs here. You know, you know, doing, doing a couple of, of kind of feeling out the waters for how a uranium capture operation would be carried out, who would be involved, what would be necessary, what was almost missed, how was it tracked, how long did it take? The various equipment that we have. We've come a long way since the lovely clickety clicks of the Geiger counter. What are we doing in a high paced or fast paced high intensity operation to remove uranium? I know. I don't know if you are picking up what I'm putting down just yet, but gee whiz, John, it sure seems like there is something that we're brushing up against that, that might be necessary or worth talking about very soon. And speaking of, let's talk about Iran. So Iran decided while again, several different factions of the IRGC and the Iranian Parliament cannot agree on international statements. Now this does have to do with China and Pakistan, given that Pakistan, which is several, several, several hundreds of millions of dollars in debt to China, has to do whatever China says. And Pakistan's only route, its only operational point at this point is either promising to China they'll build whatever pipeline or whatever train it wants so that China can maybe get things from Iran, even though the Strait of Hormuz is shut down tight, which again, now the President's home. I, I don't exactly see a lot of commercial, commercial vessels flowing out of the Strait of Hormuz, given that China said, oh, we're just going to walk everything through. Mm, someone may have mentioned that a little bit to you briefly yesterday. Now, also, the Pakistanis are having a really rough time because no one's listening to them. So Pakistan is, is like that very weird kid who graduates from school and then goes back to every single sporting event and expects to be treated like they're a really Big deal. The high school athlete who like comes up and goes, yeah, I used to be here every Friday night. They were cheering my name. I'm really great. Hey everyone. And then the students have no idea who he is. That's Pakistan right here, right now, is trying to get Iran to care. Iran has sent back three different diplomatic packages, all said completely different things. And then you have the United States who's just comfortable again doing exactly what it is doing because it is erasing any power at all of the Iranian regime, which is splintering and fracturing as we speak, while, you know, the Kurds get up and actually start doing things that are useful. So what has Iran decided to attempt? There were a group of hackers that breached the automatic tank gauge systems that monitor underground fuel levels at various US gas stations across multiple states. So what does this have to do with Iran? U.S. officials suspect that Iranian linked hackers based on intelligence and Iran trying to do this stuff before targeting fuel and industrial control systems somehow access to the systems that allow some gas stations to say, hmm, here's how much unleaded we have underground in the tank. Yep, that's the whole thing. And, and how do I know that's the entire thing? I spent a good two hours arguing with my wonderful team this afternoon. The darling producer Jen and producer Daniel, who by the way, you should congratulate because he graduates tomorrow with his master's in economics. I argued with them for like two hours this afternoon. And because I said certainly if this is the big, huge Iranian hacking operation, we've been hearing about these things for years, right? The Iranians at any time can just shut off the whole US power grid. And here they are in the last throws. The last they've got. What do the Iranians achieve? They're like, well, I think there's, there's a couple thousand gallons in the gasoline beneath the speedway. That's all there is. That's it. And by the way, the reason I'm doing a bad Hispanic accent there is that there were cartel based contacts, that there were those in the Iranian hacker group that were reporting the data to. As though Ms. 13 is going to go, oh no, man, you got to, you got to go around. I go, go around this marathon, man. It's running really low. Okay, just a big hearty I, I too am impressed. Now there's a lot of questions as well. Attackers could alter what fuel levels appear to be on monitoring screens. They could lock operators out by changing credentials, mask real leaks or fuel shortages from station operators. If you've ever Met anyone in charge of a gas station. First of all, there is no unified system for how American gas stations operate. There's not at all. And there are quite a few different chains of gas stations around this big, beautiful country. So if you really stretch your imagination, and I mean, we're talking like Kermit the Frog playing on a banjo, you know, someday we'll find it, that Iranian connection. Maybe you could say if they got access to all of the gas tanks, that one morning we could wake up and it would say, the whole of the United States is out the fuel. You do realize that they would just go, stick some kind of metal gauge into the tank and go, no, we're not. Jim, the system's busted. Fill her up anyway. And then it would be over. That's it. That's the big Iranian hacking operation, everybody. Yeah. Now, there's also my personal favorite here, which means because this particular weakness has been exposed, it's going to get fixed. It's going to get patched. So don't. Don't play your cards too soon, boys, girls and squirrels. Now, speaking of cards, the President of the United States, now that he's home, we've got all of the interviews coming into play here. So regarding the situation in cards, Brett Baer sat down with the President of the United States and said, look, you know, Iran, you say they have no cards left, but it seems they're still kind of throwing some stuff on the table. What's up with that? Here's how the President responded. You like to talk about cards. It seems like they're playing with a bad deck. To your point, no deck, but they're still playing. No, the only thing they have going is a fake press. They know how well we're doing militarily. And then at the request of a very nice group of people from Pakistan who are very close to Iran, I didn't go that final. They said, could you stop? We're going to make a deal. And we really had the confines of a deal. No nuclear. They were going to give us the dust. Nuclear dust, all. Everything we wanted. And every time they make a deal, they. The next day, it's like, we didn't have that conversation. And that's taken place about five times. There's something wrong with them, actually. They're crazy. And you know what? Because of that, they cannot have a nuclear weapon. Because the President of China agrees with you on that. And he agrees with me on that. He agrees with me that he wants to see it end. He'd like to see it End he would like to help. If he wants to help, that's great, but we don't need help. And you know what he means, like, oh, they're okay. If China, you know, actually wants to come in and, and clear away some of the mess along the coastline of the Strait of Hormuz, he's welcome to. But we don't need them to broker little half hearted miniature deals here and there. Not bad. Not a bad thing. Now, there is one thing that you should be aware of and I believe that we have her photo ready to throw up from the B roll here. Yes, this interesting looking individual. Her name is Monica Elfride witness. The FBI is currently offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the capture and the prosecution of Ms. Monica Witt. She is a former U.S. service member and a counterintelligence agent who has been accused very, very credibly. We're going to get into that in a second. Of spying for Iran. Authorities say that Witt knowingly shared sensitive information that endangered U.S. personnel and their families overseas and helped the Iranian regime identify and target her former colleagues in the U.S. government. She was born April 8th of 1979 in El Paso, Texas. It is believed that's where her family is still close to. She's a former US Air Force technical sergeant and then an intelligence specialist and a counterintelligence agent who defected to Iran back in 2013. Why does this, why she defected all the way back in 2013? Why does this matter? Well, because recently she announced, as of a couple of months prior, I want to make sure I get the exact kind of time here. A couple of months prior, it was announced that she was going to be trying to come back to the United States and visit her family and do a couple of other things which. Yeah, absolutely. No, absolutely not at all. So the reason that this is important, this individual has disclosed code names and classified mission of U.S. department of Defense special access groups. Now Department of War revealed the identity of U.S. intelligence officers and endangering that individual. You know, the kind of things that the state governments in places like California have been trying to do. Have also conducted research on former US IC colleagues and drafted target packages to help Iran intelligence target recruit or harm them and provided other national defense information that placed at risk several sensitive U.S. programs and U.S. personnel and families abroad. So how did she get here? You know, how, how did, how did we get here? Because after all, she was former technical sergeant. What happened while she was abroad? Before 2012, she studied the Quran and converted to Islam while abroad facing Pace faced personal challenges, including financial difficulties and family estrangement. In February 2012, she attended the IRGC sponsored Hollywoodism Conference in Iran. She interacted with a dual US Iranian citizen and attended a second such conference later on. The FBI reportedly warned her about potential Iranian recruitment attempts, but didn't think, gee, this is a lady who's going to Iran. She's converted to Islam. She has spent a lot of time at America is bad, Iran is wonderful conferences. And here's what they thought to do with her. Hey, you may want to, you may want to, like, you may want to keep it, you may want to keep it a little down here because, you know, if I was the FBI, I'd say, hey, maybe you shouldn't be a terror. It looks like you're kind of going on the terror route here instead of just going up to her and saying, instead, may want to look out if they try to recruit you. What is that? What is warning someone they're about to be recruited going to do? If they're already flirting with the ideology, telling them that they might be getting recruited is, is an interesting thing. That's, that's bizarre. Okay, so now again, she defected. And according to the justice, the DOJ indictment, which was unsealed back in, in 2019, there wasn't a whole lot they were able to do about this. And now again, there's rumors that she might be coming back to the United States. So keep an eye out for this individual and if it's one of you who ends up tackling her or ends up, you know, detaining her, after you absolutely confirmed that it's her and not just some random lady out there, we'll definitely sing your praises. You can send you some free Tony Kinnit cast merch or something, I don't know. So, yeah, don't, don't be a, don't turn traitor, man. It seems like there's a lot of espionage cases that are floating around also in. Iraqi national and senior member of a US designated terror organization was arrested and brought to New York about 12 hours ago to face trial on federal terrorism charges. I'm going to butcher this name. I don't care. Mohammed Baher Saad Darwood Al Sadi is accused of coordinating nearly 20 terror attacks in Europe and plotting additional attacks on US soil. Man, if only there was a way to see like a person's pattern of behavior and the groups that they support and the culture that they've embraced and the countries they come from and go, hmm, I wonder if they might be more predisposed to terrorist acts. But you know, Tim Wall says that's very Islamophobic. We can't do that. The suspect is accused of directing strikes on behalf of Iranian backed Islamist group Ashab Al Yamin since March. The FBI had said it took action after learning that Al Sadi was planning to expand Al Shab's a Yamin operation to the United States, allegedly directing individuals to coordinate American terror attacks against synagogues, churches and other religious institutions across the country. So to be very, very clear here, there's quite a bit of reason right here and now to pay very significant attention to the cultures which are marching openly, carrying the street or the flag of Hezbollah which has killed United States citizens and servicemen. It would be perhaps rather worthwhile to look into individuals who have openly declared that the United States must be burned to the ground. And also, you know, while we're at it, you know, considering deporting a good portion of Dearborn, Michigan. So that said, that brings us to the very last of the foreign policy news. I know we've made it almost there, but this is what's going to pull you out of your wonderful weekend sleep. In case the United States gets a little frisky on some of these things. That brings us over to Cuba. You may recall that this week while President Trump was in China, seeing the little children wave the flags and 11 of the 12 business executives that he brought over were those who Huawei had tried to steal from and didn't quite successfully pass on the global market. Oh, you didn't hear about that. A little power move. Well, anyway, we've had enough China for today. Let's go down and talk a little bit about Cuba, maybe a little more China intermixed in there. So CIA Director John Radcliffe visited the Cuban regime in Havana and made some demands. Some of these demands were along the lines that Russia and China, which are known to have not only intelligence but also some domestic operations there in the country, need to be ended immediately. Need to be ended, need to be stopped. China does not get to operate an intelligence listening post here so that you can have Cuban Dash 01 playing on the shortwave band, which, by the way, you guys need to replace the tapes that are, that are running, that the, the magnetic tape on that's running a little bit lame and you have the right ionosphere kind of, you know, interference. It's going to be really hard for your sleeper cell here in the United States to listen to that and write it down on the one time pad. Anyway, that's a little intelligence Advice for the Cuban regime if any of them are literate. So what did the Cuban people respond to this order that Russia and China needed to cease operations there? They threw a fit. So there are other things the United States should be pressuring Cuba to do openly. Michael Vice points out over on X also, the goal should be to get the Cuban regime to give up what they were allowing the Russians to do to CIA officers in Havana back in 2016 and 17, which I think is true and appropriate. But the Cuban embassy in the United States threw a huge fit. So you can tell it's a really big deal when it's got like three or four emojis before the statement. And look, I mean the title of our videos have an emoji before it. So I'm not going to get too high and mighty, but it is really funny. It's like the writing emoji, the X emoji, the global emoji. I love it. An executive order that violates international law. So what is this executive order that the President of the United States noted that you really shouldn't be trading with Cuba. And by that they mean the regime because they're still can. They're still complicit in and participating in international terrorism. So. So from the White House's statement. The government of Cuba has taken extraordinary actions that harm and threaten the United States. The regime aligns itself with and provides support for numerous hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups and malign actors adverse to the United states. That is 100% true. How do I know that every single awful slaughter, rape, women and children, kill, Christian kind of terrorist movement in Africa that has existed ever has had the support of Cuba. They got a little bit in Angola and they could not get enough. They provided report. They provided support to cartels. They provided support to Venezuela. They obviously provided support to communist dictatorships. They allowed Hassan Piker to stroll around unfettered. Those are all acts of terrorism. So the Cuban Embassy threw a big fit and said Cuba has been a victim of state terrorism for more than 60 years. The more than 3,000 fatalities of this scourge. Please don't look at all the people we killed in Africa. The more than 3,000 fatalities of this scourge bear witness to who the true perpetrators are. The designation of Cuba as the state sponsor of terrorism, therefore the glass is right up on the face, therefore lacks any technical, moral or legal basis. You know, we talk about cushy jobs in the country quite a bit. If you are the person in charge of social media for some random embassy In a country you have the cushiest job in the world because you can just declare bullcrap whenever you want like Michael Scott and like it doesn't really mean anything. But also you don't lose your job over it either. Just like you're the embassy account, you're supposed to say stupid stuff. You don't believe me? Ask any Chinese embassy account what in the Kung Pao chicken they've accomplished over the last. How long has it been since Twitter was founded? 2007 last 20 years. What have they accomplished? Nothing. So on to some other interesting news here on that side. We talked about this yesterday because producer Jen sent us over our way. According to CBS News and the specific reporters here would be Jennifer Jacobs and Sarah lynch, the United States is taking steps to indict Raul Castro. He's the 94 year old former president of Cuba and the brother of Fidel. Now why go through all of this trouble? Well, here's the official reason. In connection with the downing of planes the 30 years ago, according to US officials familiar with the matter, the potential indictment which would need to be approved by a grand jury. I mean if they put that down in Florida, that thing is going to get approved lickety split. Is expected to focus on Cuba's deadly 1996 shoot down of planes operated by humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue. So a couple of things here. First of all, in case you didn't know, this is what Raul looks like right now, A U S Justice. Now the audio is, is French media which is worthless. So I'm not going to play that. This is an old dude announced late Thursday night that it plans to. We might have finally found one guy that is, is, is somehow somewhere. Oh, it's just Cuban resources and stuff. We might have found a guy that is somehow older than Bernie Sanders. We might have. We finally found him. So is this going to be like another Nicholas Maduro situation? I don't think so. I don't think so. Miguel Diaz Canal seems to be a lot more, what's the right word here? Cowardly. And while the Castro family is still definitely telling Miguel Diaz Canal what to do, is this good for anything, there could be some additional diplomatic efforts to be placed in, like demanding extradition and then being using that to get some additional diplomatic things across the table. I don't quite believe yet that the United States is about to, you know, roll in the discombobulator and take out a lot of Cuban resources or at least the Cuban regime's. I don't know. You want to call it defenses their special operations crew that they had, the Cuban special forces protecting Nicolas Maduro all got mowed down immediately. I mean, just gone. So I doubt that there's really anything substantial or significant there outside of just. Things continue to get a little bit harsher, a little bit more specific here on the, you know, on the things that could possibly happen that generate either diplomatic intervention, other south or Central American countries to act, or a facilitation to a return to Cuba with new rules. Those are the things that are on the table. Sorry, I had to kind of frame up the way that the options make sense there because a lot of those things are really murky. And I could very easily just say this. We're setting up for the downfall of Cuba. But even though that's easier to say, I don't want to lie to you. I don't want to just tell you, oh, this is totally happening. Because by doing it my way, I end up being right a lot more often. So here next, I want to talk just a brief amount about some of the newest news. So an hour ago, 6:41, 6:36pm Eastern Time, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected the Virginia Democrat appeal by J. Jones to restore their congressional map that people had voted for. So what did the Supreme Court say? The Supreme Court said, we do not have jurisdiction over the Virginia Supreme Court and their interpretation of the Virginia Constitution. The Virginia Constitution has rules. If the Virginia Court says you broke the rules, then we can't jump in and say, I'm Clarence Thomas, you're gonna flip everything. Nope, that's not a thing they can do. No. So of course the Democrats are already freaking out just everywhere as fast as they can. Um, so you know, Kyle Kalinsky over from secular talks is completely illegitimate court expand it and impeach the corrupt MAGA hacks. Enough. There were. I want to make sure that I have this right here. I'm gonna look the. The actual ruling up here at least is for the. The number. It's a one sentence order issued without any public dissents. So it's a unanimous. It's a unanimous order the Supreme Court rejected unanimously. No, no. Judge Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Katanji Brown Jackson, the crayon scribe, did not say anything to the counter. They're like, we don't literally the rules. Honey, you brought uno cards to a skip bow game. I don't know what you want me to tell you. You're throwing Monopoly pieces on a risk board. If you can't figure out Jay Jones why that doesn't make any sense. Well, it's not really a surprise because his first appeal to the Supreme Court spelled Virginia wrong. So he redacted that. He put a second appeal out and then sent it to the wrong Supreme Court. He sent it to the Virginia Supreme Court. There's no Clarence Thomas on the Virginia Supreme Court. So third time's a charm. The Supreme Court says no. Nope, not a thing. Not gonna happen. So a big fat L for the Virginia Democrats and Barack Obama and Kamala Harris and all of them to hold. They're now trying to pivot as hard as they can over to Tennessee. And, yeah, it's getting extremely stupid already, Boys, girls, and squirrels, because not only have they announced that we've heard, you know, Kamala Harris announced that she wants to pack the court and then get rid of the court. And then also in her little zoom call that we aired yesterday, she wants multi, like, Democrat House districts. She says should be allowed to send multiple representatives per district, which. That's a thing. And then also said the Senate Judiciary Committee should just get to decide to just send someone to jail if they don't like what they say in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which again, holy crap. To quote Frank Barone of Everybody Loves Raymond. So what is the Kamala Harris crew doing now? Well, because Virginia is kind of dead and gone, they're going to go after the Memphis Democrat seat getting removed. So again, the Tennessee legislature followed the rules, you know, followed the rules and then redistricted their state in accordance with the guidance that's recently come out from the Supreme Court. Again, getting rid of a racially gerrymandered voting district. And the guy that was chosen by Democrats in Memphis to represent them, this particular Representative Cohen, well, he got up this morning and announced. And I have never seen a sadder guy who in Congress today, tomorrow is impersonating Benjamin Franklin at the museum. I've never seen just a sad, sacchary kind of guy here. Look at this. So that's something special about Memphis, and we're not going to have that. And I feel bad for my constituents because a lot of them come up to me regularly and say, please, we're for you and don't quit. Don't quit. I've had people tell me recently as today, African American and Caucasian, don't quit. And I don't want to quit. So, first of all, I find this funny because why do I find this funny? Whenever you're having these kind of discussions, it is very amazing how quickly Democrats believe there are only two kinds of people on Earth. There are white people and there are African American people. They have no concept. Whenever the things get this bifurcated, they don't care about Hispanic people. They don't care about Indian people. They don't care about Native American people. People. Or of whichever tribe we may be from. They don't care about delineating individuals from Oceania or the Asian countries. They have no concept. They don't care. None of those people exist. It's only the black people and the white people. That's it. That's all they got. And it's hilarious here because, like, I've been. People have been approaching me left and right. They've been at my house. People have been walking by my office and throwing their bras into my office and pray, saying, please don't quit. Please don't quit. We need you, old weird white man. We need you so bad. Can you please eat some more Kentucky Fried Chicken in the United States Congress again? Gee willikers whiz. Wow. After all, Memphis is doing swimmingly right now. Nope. So, please, Mr. Cohen, can you do it for us? But I'm not a quitter. But these districts were drawn to beat me. They were drawn to defeat me. So I love this. So. So, first of all, there's the. You know, I'm not a quitter, but here's why I'm quitting. Stellar. Excellent. We're off to a great start. And then he says, but these districts were drawn to beat me. Go look at some blue states out there, all right? There are several that you will find in which there are Republicans that do hold some of those curly Q, me and you kind of districts that look like Croatia on meth, there are some Republicans that hold those districts. It turns out that the whole point is, even though they draw the district, if they draw your House out of a district, did you know your House is in a totally new district where you still get one vote? I know. Kind of cool. Kind of incredible. And if you and your state don't like that, you can take your pitchforks, your ballots and your torches, throw your state representatives and state senators or state burgesses or assemblymen out of office, and then they can draw a new map. Now, if you're a state that's dumb enough to pretend that you have an independent committee that sketches your map, first of all, good for you, sweetie baby. No, no, no, no, no. But anyway, back to this. Back to the matter at hand here. So, Cohen, he's. He's having a rough time. He is. Best of luck to Him Steve, not the Steve from Blue's Clues, but Steve Cohen. And had an uncle a long time ago. I too had an uncle a long time ago. Told me many pithy statements. He said, steve, never put your head in a lion's mouth. And this is what I would be doing to go out and I can't represent counties all the way to Williamson county that have nothing in common with Memphis. And Memphis is my, that's my Jones. So two things here for fun, you know, a little something something here. Here in Indiana, there are congressional districts that are just big blocky regions that are much further out than what he's talking about with the new districts in Tennessee additionally, and this one's just for fun, you know, we have these cool things called cars and trains and planes. The full automobile selection you got going on here. But Mr. Lions and Tigers and bear. Oh my God. Um, also forgets there's this cool thing, it's called a phone. And your constituents, because you're in D.C. anyway, you know, I mean, I, I, I don't know where he's, he's chiming in here, but that certainly looks like a congressional office building. How was he able to communicate with his constituents so far away from him? Hmm. No. Now I do like that he had to think. He had to make up a statement. My uncle used to tell me, you can lead a horse to water, but two birds in the bush don't save a cat. You can eat too, you know, just don't put your head in the lion's mouth. You're an incumbent. Incumbents have a natural momentum. They have name recognition. You would be able to come out. And by the way, being say, look, they are trying to get rid of us. They're trying to get rid of who you voted for. You come out. We're all going to vote together. We're going to show them that it's not just about electing one color of people. We're going to say it's about electing who black people want to send and whatever you want to garbage you wanted to make up. And then you could run with that. That's a pretty powerful amount of momentum that it would not just be easy breezy for Republican. There's this argument that like the redistricting thing has emboldened Republicans to suddenly come out on election day and flip districts. There's not a lot of evidence for that yet. It turns out that gerrymandering of any kind left right up, down really doesn't exactly get people going. I mean, it just doesn't I'm sorry, That's. That's. That's the day. And you can say, what about an Indiana where they threw people out? Aggravation at people not willing to play a national game is different than when the maps are drawn. Two different things. And, yeah, I'll be kind of a stickler on that one, but that's more of a pattern psychology thing. So Mr. Cohen's mad. Who are we gonna run then? We gotta run a Democrat somewhere, somehow. Who are we gonna run? We're gonna run good old Justin Pearson, John, the Pearson man. Now, Gavin Newsom didn't get the memo, and he drove down to Tennessee and took a picture with a different black representative. And I'm not joking. I seriously think Gavin Newsom went down to maybe endorse Justin Pearson, and he ended up endorsing the wrong Justin, you say? How do you know that? Well, given that he also went before a crowd of black people and said, hey, I'm just like you. I also bombed my SATs and ACTs, you know. So anyway, in this post says maga, Tennessee Republicans want to erase the only black majority district in the state. Ah, yes, the only black majority. Behold, the only black representative in Tennessee. So that's something special about Memphis. We're not going to have that, I feel. Yeah, yeah. Are you impressed? Look at him. Look at. Look at that. How about that? Representing. Anyway, sorry, Gavin Newsom. So he endorses the wrong guy and he says, you know, hey, you know, Brother Jones, Justin Jones, he stood up and fought. Then he was stripped of his committee assignments. Let's call this voter suppression. He violated the procedures. He made a scene, you know, participated in a little battery and assault, and then also was a general freaking nuisance. And I'm sorry, this idea that, like, you have the freedom of speech, you know, what if cops came in and took people loudly on FaceTime in Walmart out of the store? I wouldn't shed a tear. A tear. If you're being. There's a difference between kids having fun in public and just being, like, an unruly man child wherever you are, being loud and obnoxious, that's not cute. That's not normal. And then if you're, like, in a building, in a session that is gaveled in, and you are acting against the. The. Whatever your state's version of the Roberts Rules of order are, and they're like, will you calm down and shut up? We're trying to get work done. And he's just up there going. And then you get thrown out My dude, that is your own famed alt. I don't know what to tell you. So anyway, after Gavin Newsom went down and endorsed the wrong, the wrong guy who's not running for that seat, who is running for the Tennessee 9th now that representative Kentucky Fried Cohen is out of the picture. Well, it's, it's Mr. It's Mr. Pearson. And so he's already assembled the best endorsements that he can. Now, who is this guy? This is yet another one of the representatives, the state reps in Tennessee who's made a bunch of noise and had a bunch of pictures like screaming at Tennessee State Police lately. The guy with the afro. Now, he didn't always have, you know, the afro and, and look like this. He actually, he kind of did the Jasmine Crockett thing. When he got started, he acted just normal. And then as this, this kind of older Breitbart video points out, after he watched the, the Malcolm X documentary, then he, and I'm not joking, like, literally right after the Malcolm X, like, documentary series came out, he changed how he dressed and acted, which is. That's like white guys pretending to be Christian. Christian Bale's character in American Psycho just. It's a little on the nose. But anyway, here's the before and after. Hey everybody, I'm Justin. Hey everybody, I'm Justin. Hi, my name is Justin J. Pearson and I'm running for president of bsg. I thank you for the opportunity you've given me to serve and to develop in these leadership roles. My savior, my black Jesus. He was lynched by the government on Friday. So the 2020 documentary miniseries who Killed Malcolm X? Was released on February 7, 2020. So you have the before just normal. And by the way, no, no color attached to it. Just normal. Like, hey guys, I'm running for this position that is normal. And. And I want you to believe that I am a competent individual by the way that I am communicating my thoughts and I'm not putting on a fake accent. And then, and then you had coming down from heaven, like, what? First of all, when did you start pastoring? At the first Nezim of the Baptistal. Second non denominational, the Lutheran of the meeting of the Minds. What in the Hollywood depiction of a Southern church are you doing? They thought that all hope had been lost. One of the programs I intend to create is the disorientation program. This program will help us to adjust for life after voting. You say, Tony, you just don't like that he's. That he. He what? He's black and he's embracing cultural roots. I'll remind you that on the left and the right. And I don't have to remind you of this. It's just worth saying for receipt's sake. There are a lot of black individuals in power that don't feel the need to put on what the. Again, of all places, the producers from the Tyler Perry movies, the people who've been producing Madea. Thank you. Said that even Jasmine Crockett's accent, they wouldn't be able to put in a Tyler Perry movie because it was so stereotypically embarrassing. I mean, look at this man. Look at this. He's like, you know what? I got to tell people that I'm like some kind of crusader for stuff. And he's not actually crusading for any kind of rights. You know this. I know this. He's just yelling. Once he started talking about elevating the voices of people who've been excluded, the next action of the status quo was to silence him. How can we represent all voices in a conversation? I wanted to do this by partnering with organizations from the Boone Democrats to the Boone Republicans. The people in power. The next. Go to your Bible. The people in power. Get ready to kill them. So I do crack up just right after. Again, as soon as he watched this documentary, just everything changed. This little docu series, it completely changes. Starts like pulling quotes, ribbon goes. So this is the guy. This is. This is their answer here. Captain, everything's racist. 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 here. I'm sorry, let me change the chiron. There we all. So what does this mean now? Where are we going from here? Well, he's got the best endorsement a Democrat could ask for. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. And we're bringing back an old 2024 favorite. Hey there, Representative Carson. So, you know, in the wake of the Cali decision, you immediately. Donald Trump, Marsha Blackburn. Governor Lee called for a special session. We had to be back by Tuesday. And by the following Thursday, they'd taken it. The only black majority district in the entire state. They're basically backdooring racism through politics. They know the power of the people, and it scares them because if they thought on merit that they would win, they wouldn't have to resort to this cheating. That's right. They're taking the front door, the side door, the back door. They're taking all the angles to say, how is it that we can work to dilute the power? We need to have a playbook that is born out of our ability to Assume some risk. So. By the way, I do. I'm sorry, I love pointing this stuff out. Let's zoom in CSI style here. My excellent production team will be the first to tell you that's not actually what's displayed on his phone right there. They had this recorded and then they went and they like, tried to sort of Photoshop after Effects Adobe Premiere that image on the screen. I've been thinking about, you know, we need to have basically a no bad ideas brainstorm. Ah, there we go. Excellent, excellent. Thrilling, exciting stuff. So there you go. I mean, hey, hey, I. I'm sure it's going to work. We're going all in. We're getting into there. So now, now I have a couple of special things for you because. So from this point on in the show, viewer discretion is advised because the language is kind of rough. It's not exactly the most clean and kind things. And there's a little bit too much, I think, at least from kind of where I'm sitting, to censor out in one way. So, first of all, this one's a little hard to hear. Um, but Democrat Minnesota Representative Aisha Gomez, there's footage of her apparently telling a Republican colleague to go effing kill himself. Here you go. Great. So if you. Again, if you can't hear that, it's very, very hard to hear. You kind of zoom in on the audio and. Yeah, I mean, it looks like she just told a Representative Republican colleague to go out there and kill. So we've got all of the good stuff here. And when people act like this, when people engage in this kind of behavior, traditionally, traditionally, people have used rather curt words to describe them. You know, maybe you might, you know, take a look at individuals who are acting like this and call them, you know, rather inappropriate terms. Again, fair. I just don't know if we're gonna be able to play this particular clip as much as I, perhaps I kind of wanted to at first. There is a Democrat representative over on the main side of things who, who, after being called the. The C word, then immediately went out and released a video that said, you know what? Yeah, I am. And I'm gonna embrace all of that stuff. And. And it's just. Just the bad, the worst decisions. I'm not. I'm sorry, I can't play that on the show. I just don't have the heart to get just completely demonetized over that. Believe me, though, there's. There's far more that's worse than that. The newly reappointed non binary head of the Illinois Department of Human Services, Dolce Quintero, who was born in Mexico, also a little fun fact there, has reportedly and knowingly sent out pre filled voter application forms to illegal aliens. So we've got all the hallmarks of just stupid decisions right now. Again, when Republicans are trying to claim this stuff is going on. You take the stereotypical Democrat who leads the Health and Human Services Agency, the non binary guy, the dude in a skirt, that kind of a thing. And in this case for Illinois, this Dolce Quintero, who again reportedly has been sending out prefilled voter application forms to illegal immigrants. That's in Illinois. Check it out. Hey everyone, it's Mark Hessman, Illinois Insider. I just left State Senator Steve McClure's office. I sat down with him to get his thoughts on why he voted no on the appointment of of Quintero as the head of DHS here in Illinois. He was a vocal opposition to that appointment yesterday on the Senate floor. Of course the Democrats pushed that appointment through. Here is why Senator McClure voted no on the appointment of Quintero as the head of dhs. Well, one of the main concerns is the fact that we discovered about a year and a half ago that DHS has been mailing non citizens who are applying for state benefits forms to register to vote that are already pre filled out to the county clerks. So two things that are a really serious issue. Really three things. Obviously the problem is that these things are being sent to illegal aliens. Anyway. That's a problem. Illegal immigrants, legal aliens, people who are not supposed to be here, even those who are on green cards. When you register for anything, period, if you are being sent a ballot, that's thing number two. That's the problem for me. So obviously illegal shouldn't be sent ballots. There is a normie mainstay Democrat idea. It is a truism. It is a philosophy that says that we should be trying to get everyone to come out and vote. Everyone needs to everybody out there, everybody get out here and vote. And this has been the way that Americans have been taught that the electoral system needs to be. We talk about this. Oh, it's really sad that only this percentage of Americans came out to vote and that's treated as the world's worst thing. I would rather only the people who knew about the issues and who knew about the candidates were coming in to vote. People who are sending in pre filled forms that someone sends out for like social media campaigns. No, they don't need to be voting. They have another the idea that like you. You. It's your duty as a citizen. It is your duty as a citizen to pay the f attention and then to go and vote. It is not your duty as a citizen or in this case an illegal immigrant in Illinois to just send in ballots just for, you know, so you can get the sticker. And the Democrats change the laws in our state so that you can no longer verify whether someone is a citizen or not. So the county clerks don't have access to that information. So the form is already pre filled up to the county clerk. So they fill this out with their benefits. It goes to the county clerk. There's problem 300 number three. You can't even check. You can't even check. And guess what? They've got to register them to vote. So this is a very concerning thing. I talked with the secretary about this at length a few weeks ago and the secretary's response was that this was very concerning and this was going to be looked into. Well we already looked into it over a year ago. We knew this was happening. And at the confirmation hearing the secretary's only response was that yes, this is happening. And I said what are you going to do about it? They said they'd get back to me and DHS has never gotten back to me about this. Senator, for anyone out there who's watching who has concerns about Dulce contrast Tarot is the head of dhs. Where do you encourage them to reach out to or to voice those concerns? I mean this by the way, at this point the answer to that as far as voicing concerns would be this would be a, this would be a Todd Blanche issue. If there is suspected in instances in this case in which someone has violated federal law by providing ballots. Pre filled ballot. I didn't know you were allowed to do pre filled out stuff like that's just bonkers. That is the strategy going all in on openly saying hey we're going to cheat. Hey we're going to do all of this, we don't care. That's the plan. That's strategy. It's not very intelligent. I personally wouldn't recommend it but it is where we are. Now. There's a ton of other things that I could mention to you here on the show. I don't have, you know, all of the different bits and pieces to, to do clips for all of them. Uh, 100 and how 173 House Democrats voted against a resolution honoring law enforcement during National Police Week again as assaults on officers hit a 10 year high. Only 29 Democrats cross party lines to support the measure. That's the ending and why stuff. Elizabeth Warren is losing her mind saying Trump wants to lock people in warehouses made for Amazon packages because there have to be detention facilities that are built. Which I really love. Elizabeth Warren getting out there and talking about the economy and other, you know, kinds of things. Hilarious. Xavier Becerra, who's currently the front runner for Democrats in the California gubernatorial election, has been accused, according to the New York Post, of breaking campaign finance laws, all while accepting a $500,000 gift from Big Oil. Hilarious stuff. Probably one of the craziest stories though. 83 year old democrat Representative Frederica Wilson has been missing from Congress for an entire month and she has not cast a single vote since April 17th. At what point are you allowed to say, yeah, it's, it's time to, you know, put in somebody else? I mean, is she really. I'm sorry, she's been missing since April 17th almost a month. 83 year old democrat Representative Federico Wilson gone. No votes cast and just nothing. So again, stellar decisions, stellar decisions being made all around. All right, I have, I have a couple of last minute or last, last entry things for you before we get to some of the mail time. So first of all, on the Supreme Court side of things, the, the lag behind squad members are coming to the table. So as soon as there's any kind of a big event that happens, you have your first runners to the fight and then you have all of the down the party, down the ballot people who start repeating things and it's really fun because you actually end up getting kind of a game of telephone. Ayanna Presley, one of the members of the squad who acts interestingly here were her thoughts on kind of the Supreme Court going into this election season. It is not surprising that now Donald Trump and his co accomplice in the Supreme Court because the court is incredibly imbalanced and they have been, I think, co conspirators and accomplices in advancing this authoritarianism. Again, it's an anti freedom agenda. People that want to control the books you read, the very autonomy what you do with your body, that want to degrade free speech and now also want to deny your access to the ballot box. That is an anti freedom agenda. Again, these kinds of things are rather problematic. Now by the way, I do, I do want to point this out here. Um, now there's a, a, a comment that has been made regarding Democrat Representative Frederica Wilson says well, oh, well, you know, she's, she's recovering from her eye procedure that's why, you know, she's been missing. It was not reported that she was just recovering from an eye procedure until about seven hours ago. No one in the country knew where she was for like a month. And I'm sorry, like a month to recover from an eye procedure? A month. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So again, just to be clear here, Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Now, again, as far as, you know, Ayanna Pressley is concerned, just kind of back on this matter. She also reintroduced the idea going into this election season that it's chattel slavery time for black people again. This is a unique burden for black America, who for decades, even after the Voting Rights Rights act was passed, have been outworking and out voting voter suppression. But it is very clear that this administration is working actively to take us back. Not even just to Jim Crow, I would say even pre reconstruction, to take us all the way back. Seeking to silence and disenfranchise the voices and the votes and to try to dilute the power and the black representation of. Of black America. So he has been attacking black people, black bodies, black votes, black power, black progress. So the question that I always follow this up with is, what about all of the Republicans who are black or who are praised endlessly ad nauseam on the Supreme Court that no one seems to have an issue with over on the right, in fact, on the left, they're constantly called a lot of slurs. Hmm. Now, again, you all know this, not exactly breaking new ground. But you, you should see as this, this comes out, the starting point of this conversation is that it's chattel slavery. We need to just burn down the country. That's the argument that is here now on May 15. By the time we get all the way to November, that is going to create some pretty crazy situations. Now, I could play, you know, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser saying that Washington's going to become the 51st state. A lot of other things. I want to play two media catches here for you at the end. First of all, the socialists are freaking out about AI in a totally new and exciting way. You know, kind of the. The people who believe that it's all Skynet and it's going to kill us all and slaughter us because they watch too much Terminator. Well, some people are making this their actual. Like here. Just. Just watch this. AI has been turned into an instrument of war. Firms like Palantir are building the autonomous. So this, this is Evan Blake from the Socialist Equity part Equality Party. Exciting. And he's going to make the case that AI is just an instrument of war, that's, that's going to kill us all. So we have to stop, we have to burn down the country so that AI doesn't do it anyway. Miss. Targeting software now deployed by the US and Israeli militaries in Gaza, Iran and across the Middle East. The wave of mass layoffs now sweeping industry after industry is being justified in the name of what the ruling class calls AI efficiency. So the problem that they're going to make here, they're going to claim that this is always the thing, whether any industry, when anyone starts talking about it, no one can be fair. They have to, they have to make really stupid claims. So one side will claim that it's the most amazing thing ever and it's going to cure all of our problems and it's going to wipe your butt and make your breakfast. Hopefully not with the same hands. And it's just, wow, you've never seen anything. It's wonderful. And then kind of on the flip side, the, the other side will say that it's never done anything good and it's only going to kill us and it's going to hurt us forever and it's extra evil. The vaccine situation and debate gets to this. I get really, really annoyed with this. It's like, well, you know, actually vaccines were created to make the polio communism stop while also saying, yeah, there are some cases where there are allergic reactions and a series of problems. Having just a normal like set of values on those things freaks people out. AI has become this modern status. So for AI, the argument is simultaneously that it's never done anything for anyone, that they keep saying AI efficiency and it doesn't do anything. AI's never done anything. But also it's going to kill us all. Can't have it both ways. AI's done some cool stuff so far. The, the bubble that was going to pop and collapse and it wasn't going to do anything hasn't happened. Also, is AI turning into Skynet? No, don't be retarded. Relax, take a deep breath, go touch some grass, even if you're a socialist. Last but not least, Jake Tapper and a lot of the media outlets and a few of you asked me if I was going to mention this here and our pop, Jake Tapper on the lead today, had to be the last Democrat to mourn big crocodile tears because Stephen Colbert, which lost his network tons of money. Tons of money. And let's see, you know how much here. Annual loss of 40 to 50 million dollars. The Late show lost. So again, before he took over, it was exceeding and it was, it was actually benefiting the network based on ad revenue, sales and production costs. That used to be a lot less expensive. It was actually benefiting. It was in the positive, between 8 and $15 million annually. After Colbert took it over, he started boasting a massive budget of $100 million per season, then ended up averaging out to about 40 to $50 million of loss for CBS a year. And they canceled him. And so then the media ran around hackishly, just straight up lying and saying, actually it's that Stephen Colbert got under Trump's skin and Trump got him fired. Now, look, make all the conspiracy theories you like, but if Trump is going after him, and that's the real issue, then you either need to show, number one, that Colbert has done something incredible here that no one else is doing that's getting under Trump's skin. Nah, nothing really special. I mean, what, like the, the people in the, the syringe costumes dancing to a bad version of, of improperly incorrectly played tequila? Is that it? I mean, of all of the late night hosts that really got Trump's like, goat. That's your call. So anyway, the reason I'm showing you this, though, is that the mainstream media cannot help but go all in on the whole Trump's a fascist routine culture lead. Years ago, when longtime Trump fixer Michael Cohen was testifying before Congress, he was asked about the ways that Donald Trump, now President Trump, makes his desires known. It is seldom with direct instructions, Cohen said. It's more with suggestions, obvious hints. Get it is. Oh, it's, it's just gaslighting little, little, little, little dog whistling. Yeah, sure. Trump never actually, you know, told the FCC to do anything, and the FCC never actually did anything. But Trump said he didn't like Stephen Colbert. And we all know that means that Trump ordered the FCC to ban their licenses or something. You suggested that the president sometimes communicates his wishes indirectly. For example, you said, quote, Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress. That's not how he operates, end quote. Can you explain how he does this? He doesn't give you questions, he doesn't give you orders. He speaks in a code. And I understand the code because I've been around him for a decade. Okay, so, so Tapper cuts over to talking again about Michael Cohen and Justin Amash, who's an absolute dork, saying, so sometimes Donald Trump speaks in code. Do you know how to interpret that code? Is the code in the room with us right now, like, Donald Trump is coming over there, you know, like, like handing a card over. He's like, oh, yes. He hands it to the guy and he opens it up and it's like, drink your Ovaltine. Get out of here. Stop it. Don't be stupid. But we can't help it. This is the case they're building in this big long 5 minute ramp by Tapper. This provided over for me by Nicholas Fundacaro over at the Media Research Center. Trump is some mastermind, super duper, ultra genius, but he's also a big dumb idiot. Okay, we'll let him continue. Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, again, not a direct instruction. This is the President speaking. I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go. So the President expressing his wishes to people. That's like direct orders to stuff. Trump's like, I kind of like this General Flynn kind of guy. I think you'd. I wish you'd leave him alone. I think it's kind of partisan, what the thing is you're doing. And that's like Trump secretly Gestapo, super duper ordering it. Is this, Is this the journalism? This is the journalism. Again, I came to at the very beginning of the show, did I not? And I said, hey, I have some things that I don't normally do. So I saved it for a Friday. And interesting. It also happened today here. I have some speculations. The timing is weird. And then I was very honest with you about how far I thought I was reaching and I presented the evidence to you. You cannot agree with me. You can agree with me. Doesn't matter. That's fine. Cool. I'm very clear with you. I don't try to say. Now, if you take this over here and you draw the red yarn line, clearly Donald Trump is bringing about the Order of Saskatoon, like, stop it. Or to the folklore about King Henry II. In the 12th century, King Henry voiced frustration with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, who had excommunicated bishops who defied church law as depicted in the 1964 film Becket. And then he plays a clip from Beckett. Oh, piss off. Well, no one rid me of this meddlesome priest. And shortly there. So he doesn't. I love this. So he's like, it's just like King Henry ii. Right? Because when I think of Donald Trump and the reason that Donald Trump makes decisions, I think of old English royalty. Yes. Ah, yeah. He's not just like an old, pissed off real estate Mogul from New York, even though that's how he's governed every other decision. And a TV star and like, that's just what he does. And sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, sometimes it's great, sometimes it's cringy. He's a dude, all right, but he's like, ah, yes. It reminds me of King Henry ii, who in into the adaptation of this. Yeah. And then he plays. Oh my gosh, it's so just. It's so gay. And he thinks he's got something. He's just like repeating the lines as they appear on screen. Ah, I've discovered what a reference. Dude. We play references on this show all the time. Some of them to my detriment for sure. Some of them not at all. You know, some of them are right on point. But I don't like, pat myself on the back. After assassins came and killed the Archbishop. The phrase has come to represent what happens when leaders want immoral actions carried out on their behalf, but they also want plausible deniability. Ah, yes, yes, yes. See, that's it. That's it. Donald Trump was in there going, I was doing great. But as soon as everything fell apart, as soon as, you know, I saw Stephen Colbert who was wrecking the elections, and I thought, if I can only get that Stephen Colbert. I tried, I couldn't do it. Is that it? Really? Like, that's Trump's nemesis, like up there with Hillary Clinton on stage. Instead of like griping with Hillary Clinton, he's like, hillary, I don't like you. But that's Stephen Colbert. I just, someday I'll get him. Now, there's no evidence that President Trump, who has long railed against Stephen Colbert and other late night comedians who mock him, no evidence that he demanded that Colbert be fired or his show canceled. Great. Cool. That's neat. This is on the lead, the, like, big afternoon show over at cnn. Right. And again, having been in some of the, you know, the CNN studios, they have quite a, quite a production crew. Doing this kind of stuff as a host is insulting to your producers. It is you, actually. Again, there are times that Tapper has had the opportunity to provide very important journalistic framing to certain situations based on his coverage over the years. Fumbling the ball this bad though, say, I mean, yeah, I have to be clear. Donald Trump didn't do this. But if I play this clip from an old movie and like, talk about Henry II and a clip from Michael Cohen in the year of our Lord 2026, is that enough to convince you that CBS again, who all the ding dong dang day all day, has internal fighting. They have not all unified behind Barry Weiss and carried out her order. There's fighting in that organization that is just downright dirty. But all of a sudden, all of a sudden, they've all unified to carry out Trump's wishes. Notable very conservative outlet, cbs. Mmm. The final episode of the Colbert show airs in one week, next Thursday, May 21. Nor, as King Henry demonstrates, does there need to be a direct order. The people who ran Paramount, CBS's mothership at the time that the cancellation was announced last July, so just so, so stupid. I think that goes on for another four minutes. It's literally just the whining of a sad man who wants to have the smoking gun and is so angry that he didn't get one. It is, by the way, in the same way, this is kind of like Candace Owens being forced to admit that if she says Erica killed Charlie, then there's gonna be a serious legal smackdown. And she's promised all this evidence and she doesn't have it. But she can't let the conspiracy theory go. She can't let it go. She can't. Because, man, those 4G bots that she bought instead of the 5G bots, ah, they're not doing good enough. Oh, man. So she has to, like, be bitter and like, leaning over and muling like Gollum over the ring. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing. Wherever it comes from, don't do it. Stop. Get some help. To quote Michael Jordan. So that said, little of the nonsense this week come to a close. We're going to cut away briefly and come back and do a smidgen of mail time. It's actually, you know what? I changed my mind. We're not going to, to cut away. Oh, we are, actually. I'm sorry, I got a producer. No, we're going to swing back out real quickly here to reset and then we'll be right back. It's the Tony Kenneth cast here on the Daily Signal. Don't go anywhere. This is the tony kennett cast on 93 wibc. All right, before we get over to the mail time side of things, briefly here, I wanted to talk for again a brief moment about some of our excellent friends over at the Alliance Defending Freedom. So may it's National Foster Care Month, I want to tell you a little bit about the work that ADF is doing to support these foster care and adoptive families here in the country. Over 300,000 children are in foster care in the US right here, right now. And states desperately need parents to step up and to meet that need. 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Text Tony to 83848 or visit joinadf.com Tony it's T O n Y and seriously consider giving a gift. They are excellent. So now that we're done and out of the crazy, goofy, arguable nonsense and YouTube dropping stream things, now let's get over to just a smidgen of that glorious mail time. Mail time. Tony Kennett, cast All right, so as a reminder for mail time, this is the way to to go because I see a very, very kind super chat from Marcus Holiday. It's a very super nice 220 super chat. We're very grateful for it, my dude. Marcus, you really don't have to do this. We thank you though. The best way to ask questions is in Discord in our channel's Discord. We have mailtime channel there and we can get to your stuff a lot easier. It's a lot easier to organize because I'm not going to tell you guys to stop chatting in the live stream chat. That's ridiculous. So from Marcus Holliday. Very kind said, great show tonight. Thank you. I said question. I remember maybe a year ago, Elon talking about how we don't have a need for fighter pilots because drones can do the job instead. Is this true? I hope not because I love fighter jets. I must be very careful in how I answer this. The short answer is no. We will always need fighter jet pilots. The reason the easiest way to answer this, having a gay, having a guy right there behind the stick. Sorry, I shouldn't have said having a gay. That's for Navy pilots. So having a guy right there behind the stick means that you can't really be hit with a lot of Interference in the communication that is going to the drone. So drones are controlled remotely and they're not like autonomous. They don't have like a little brain inside that says I'm going to do this and I'm going to do this again. I know you, you're tired of me saying this from, you know, the starship troopers thing. But a computer that can fit its entire brain into a bomb is not ever going to be that smart of a brain. So there's limits to what we can do there in pre programmed things. So you need some kind of outward instruction. It is wildly, extremely, super duperly easy to cut off a drone from the on the ground instructions. It's very, very, very difficult, or excuse me, it's very, very easy. It's very difficult to maintain some kind of security. There are a hundred different ways that I really can't go into detail here on the air on that you can cut off a drone from its operator. So that alone. Are we ever going to see, you know, drone pilots replace? Replace, you know, fighter jet pilots and bomber pilots? No. Also having a guy that can reason and change things based on the ground in front of them from human terms, it matters a lot. Now you will see more drone operators. But is this kind of like an AI or a tech thing taking over? I don't think so, no. Fighter jets have a very different series of jobs. But as craft becomes more advanced and our maintenance teams swell, I don't think you're going to see fewer fighter pilots. And we've lost a fair amount of drones and drones also just they carry different kinds of munitions. And because of the package and because drones are often more cheaply made and they, even if you have a very fast and agile drone avoiding surface to air missile strikes and even some kinds of small arms fire, some have a natural talent for avoiding certain shots from the ground. But even in a craft that, that's not that maneuverable, it's very difficult. And so you don't want to put a lot of big fancy strike package stuff on that drone. Now fighter pilot is more likely to get to the target, get to it quickly, drop the load and return. And again, you need a little more human reasoning there. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't worry about that. I wouldn't worry about that too much. All right, going to some of the mail time questions this evening, of which there are a few because we have, we didn't really do a lot of mail time this week. So over to the Discord mail time channel. Let's See, Tony, whatever happened to the Daily Signals Top News Intent? All right, I've gotten this question so many times, and I'm just gonna be very, very honest with you. So we did this series for a while that I took over when I started doing the show stuff here full time called the Top News Intent. And it used to be just an audio only kind of read of the top news of the day and then given to you. So I took this on in March of last year and the idea was, hey, you know, we had this other thing that wasn't really being used and would you like to try your hand at it? And I, being a big overachiever who can't handle things, not looking cool. I made a pilot episode and sent it over to Rob Louie, our president. He really loved it. And then I just decided to take that on to do every single night. So this show would end and then I would stay in the studio and like miss getting to be in my home in the evening and just do the top news in 10. Which is not as simple as me sitting down and reading the news because there's B roll and footage and graphics. And if the news changes during the show, at first we would just read the top news stories from the show, but we didn't always sit there and talk about the top news, intense stories. And so it became an entirely huge different project that while a lot of people loved, essentially just became me doing the stuff over and over again. And it honestly, the juice wasn't worth the squeeze I would rather have put. And we did start putting more effort into the show now. After the show is over, I take a little bit of time to chat with the Discord and actually communicate with our community. We update some things very sneakily so that the next day shows are better. I call and yell at producer Daniel, which is always a good time. Those are the kind of things that we do instead. So I know a lot of you love the top news in 10. I hear you. I'm so sorry. I know a lot of you loved it. There was a very short time. There was one episode where we had considered doing kind of a hybrid of the two of them. And it was called the, like the top news in the Tony Kennett cast. Again, not that any of you ask for that. There were just some kind of cool things that we'd considered, but this is where we are now. And a lot of people do just listen to this show in the morning. A lot of news doesn't change overnight. I know that doesn't make you Guys, happy. I know. I hear you and I'm sorry, but that's kind of where we're at. It's a lot of work, believe it or not. So. All right, next, next, next on the question side of things here, and I know there is a need. I hear you. Oh, okay. So from Kit Pro says when the Chinese robotics creators saw Elon arrive with President Trump, they panicked. So did they bring out their best or did they choose the worst that they have? The answer to that question is that according to some of the documents that were wiped offline, right before President Trump's delegation arrived at China, they were going to display that unitree mech robot. Now we sit here on the show, that mech robot looked a little fake and concerning and not at all real and impressive. And I suspected there was some AI. I kind of looked at some things, you know, through. So I think we actually have the footage here of their, their demonstration. So here was the. So there's a bunch of AI in this. And also they, they busted a joint on the, the right ankle, or excuse me, our right, their left ankle of the robot right before Trump got there. And so they didn't end up. They just released this video and said, wow, it's really incredible. Look how amazing China is. That was supposed to be released as like what Trump had done with Vladimir Putin. When Putin came to Alaska and Trump flew the B1 and the B2 bomber overhead and said, I could erase you right now and all of Moscow and that kind of a thing. And the flex from the United States, by the way, what did the United States do to Flex? I alluded to this earlier in the show. The President brought a delegation of employees, or, excuse me, a delegation of business leaders, CEOs, CFOs, and things that Huawei, the Chinese tech company that just steals from American companies and calls it innovation, has not been able to steal from and bankrupt. So Trump brought a bunch of leaders and essentially said to China, you couldn't pass these people. That was the flex on that side. So that side of things over there. How about instead. This is from PA Piatz. How about instead of term limiting Congress critters, we institute real enforceable, transparent term limits for congressional committee staffers. Interesting. We have had on the show before, it's been a while, some of the guys over from an organization called American Moment, who exists to provide a conservative pipeline of staffers into Washington D.C. for various offices. Because, yes, that is how a lot of people entrench themselves. You could in no way shape or form enforce that, and I think that term limits themselves are unconstitutional. I'm sorry, I just don't think that you can tell an American if Brandon Gill wants to stay in Congress for eight or nine terms, given how he's acting right now. Awesome. Awesome. I just, again, what you'll end up getting out of that is like, people who aren't in office that are, like, running things from behind the scenes, multiple terms. And staffers. I hear you. It's. I share your disdain for staffers, as you've probably heard here on the show before. I don't think that's, you know, I don't think that's probably where things are supposed to go there. So from S. Jack ca Here, here's my goofy, weird question. If you have time and an opinion. After watching the COVID the. The coverage of the Chinese robots on Wednesday, especially the clips afterwards showing robots doing hotel or officer janitorial work. Those would be American robots that did that, by the way. I got to thinking, why do we instinctively design advanced robots to resemble the human form so closely? Like, from an engineering standpoint, you would want robots to be specifically designed for the job at hand. So why, you know, why design them like human? The answer to that question is because we're made in the image of God. That's the answer to that question. And so humans create human things. Humans, just like God, imparted his creative will and image on mankind. Mankind seeks to anthropomorphize, to make like man, everything. How do I know this? You talk to your pets like people. You do. You anthropomorphize things. That is you imparting your. Your image on those around you. It's also why we're so obsessed with. With children looking like their parents. Robots are the same way. It is. It is a part of Franken, Frankenstein's monster. And that's it. That's a cultural thing. You can say otherwise, that. Well, actually, people think it's more comfortable. No, it's actually rather uncanny. The closer that you get to creating something that looks mankind. In graphic design and video games, we call this the uncanny Valley, where people would rather have a cartoonish portrayal of a human rather than one that almost looks real, but not quite. Like how Governor Tarkin looked in Rogue One when they tried to AI CGI generate his face. It didn't look quite right. The pores were a little too detailed. It was a little weird. The facial expressions never stopped moving. That's the uncanny valley. And so people do try to impart, even if it's Uncomfortable. You try to make something that looks like you. Robots are the same way. And also because it's cool. It is. So there's kind of a cultural, you know, a cultural aspect to that too. Now I will from Louis Whistler, the movie Irobot is a look at our near future. I very much disagree. So. And that's not a slam. A lot of people think that human. You cannot create a soul. The closest you're ever going to get. The closest we're ever going to get is Jarvis from the Iron man movies. Mark it down, write it down. We're getting close in a lot of ways to that. My wife and I argue about this a lot. It's a lot of fun. But the idea that you will have a butler who can assess things and give you answers is a lot closer. But actual genuine native creativity and like the imparting of a soul that can't be created. I'm sorry. That's the limit of humanity. Man can't be God. It's not a thing. Now there are a lot of people who are very anti AI who say this is humanity's Tower of Babel. I don't know about that. It's a little interesting. We have some people that are coming on the podcast actually next week who are titans in this industry on the pro and the against side to break this down with you guys because we haven't avoided talking about it with you guys on the show here a lot. But I'm just trying to be transparent with you. I don't like telling you things and my takes on them unless I either know enough to be strong and firm on it or unless it's a moment like this after all of the news where I can just be open and honest with you about things I do and don't know. Kitty, I'm guessing responding in the discord mail time chat again, that discord links in the description says maybe they am getting the Congress. People need cognitive tests for congressmen and justice's thoughts. Sure. In a perfect world where these cognitive tests and things could be made independent. Great. Someone still has to write the tests. The answer is people need to give a damn about their congressman. That's the answer. That's it. That's the answer. Because then people can say, gee, wow. Hey, remember that time that old. Actually, I have this clip. It'll take me just a minute to find it. Remember when Joe Biden was so cocky about his age and spryness and people behind the scenes knew that the man was absolutely dead and he still got out there and, and boldly and brashly promised the president of the United States to debate. He's like, oh, I totally got this, like, in the bag. Here's that clip in in 2024. Here's Joe Biden doing this, this routine back in the day. Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hadn't shown up for debate. Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I'll even do it twice. So let's pick the dates. Donald, I hear you're free on Wednesdays because he get, because he was in court, they were going to get him. Remember, that was the old. I believe this is the beginning of the end. I do, too. It's really the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end. He may be feeling the walls closing in on him. All the walls closing in on him, the walls closing in on him, that kind of a thing. So, yeah, nope, never happened. A big whompy womp. But to the answer to the question on cognitive tests, it just, nothing's going to be better than people actually caring. That's the truth. Sorry. That's. That's the answer, by the way. That's what the answer is to why the, the St. Louis Cardinals suck, by the way, as well. They, they rely on, they rely on, like, technicalities and like, on base, like stealing bases as part of their strategy. If you're relying on, like, micro rules and changes and things to make your strategy, sorry I say this is a St. Louis Cardinals fan, then it's gonna suck. Don't do that. You actually have to care and have, like, genuine passion to drive and be the best. That's how you get the best. That's right. That's the answer. So I know it's kind of a weird little rabbit trail there, but it, that was an explanation I gave this week. All right, a couple of other questions here that we're going to dive into before we saddle it off for, for the evening. Want to make sure that I actually get the right one. Sorry. There are a lot of you here. I'm very, very kind. Tony. Why is Governor Desantis closing Alligator Alcatraz? I've heard a couple of things on this this week as to, like, Alligator Alcatraz might be shutting down, closing its doors and all that stuff. One of the reasons that might be shutting down is that Florida is going through all of the illegals that it had and is deporting them. Now. There are also some federal courts that are trying to get creative with, like, who can be detained without bond. That's probably going to be at the appellate or the Supreme Court level by the end of this year. That's where that's headed. And even, even though we're in the summer session of Supreme Court cases right now, the number of Supreme Court cases is going down rather quickly. And I think you might see a special ruling out of session for SCOTUS that's going to be necessary before the end of this year. All right, last, last question here, Indy. Andy, are there any working railroads in Africa anymore? I'm not sure what you're referencing. If that's, like, something I'm supposed to understand, I don't think I quite get it there. But the reason that there's not a lot of grand railroads in Africa, and by the way, there were not a lot of great railroads in Africa for a long time anyway, because in the scramble for Europe, the countries didn't do as they did in Europe, where, hey, we're going to have to build railroads on a common gauge with everybody else. They didn't quite work that way. And so they just had localized colonies that didn't really function. So that's kind of why that never really took off in that age. And also they were very easy to sabotage, so that kind of industrialization never really took place at that level there. Why is there highly enriched uranium in Venezuela? There's highly enriched uranium in a lot of places, is the answer to that question. There is. There's highly enriched uranium in a lot of places. A lot of countries are moving around to the nuclear power sort of side of things. Which, by the way, that is why I am not incredibly gloom and doom on AI data centers as a whole, because that's how you're going to get nuclear power in the United States. That's the only way at this point. Could the lady that the feds are currently hunting for the FBI lady. Oh, Daniel says yes, Africa has rail systems. Sorry, I don't know a whole lot about that one on that. I just like why it's not as advanced as kind of the rest of the world. Yeah, thanks for clarifying, Producer Daniel. I'm sorry for that question. If it's tied to something that I referenced earlier in the show, or you're just asking me questions about trains. Cool. But I, I, yeah, I, I'm sorry, Sorry about that one. Um, sorry from Kevin Stankowitz here. Can. Could the lady the FBI sending for give the US Good actionable intel on the Iranian government and IRGC military Assets. No. And here's why. Countries that have double agent spies, they don't tell everything to them. If she's willing to cheat on you, she's willing to cheat with you is the oldest lesson any man can learn or any lady can learn. And government's the same thing if they're willing to betray their country. By the Benedict Arnold, the same thing. He betrayed the United States for England and then he went over to England expecting to be treated amazingly and everyone just kind of. The government didn't like bring him in on a bunch of things because once you throw your honor in the trash, you're kind of worthless. So, you know, there's, there's a little bit there. Oh, apparently there's high speed rail in Morocco. Morocco doesn't count for Africa. That's not the same. That's not the same. All right, thanks very much for the original, original jersey, Jen for the kind super chat for the $2 from David Maceker. I think we'll make this our last one. Unless any of you have any, any super duper bangers here from David. He says, in all honesty, how long does America have left? Not gloom and doom, just reality. Well, I mean, it's undecided. That's the actual truth. So when I've said in the last couple of weeks that things are going to get worse before they get better, here is what I mean. Without any if, ands, buts or coconuts. The United States has a group of people who are able and afford the luxury of not caring about politics. They still do. The Cold war ended in 1991 and Americans decided, screw it, everything's fine. I don't need to care. There's a lot of food, there's a lot of entertainment. There's a lot of opportunity for me to just live my life and not have to worry about it. And because you're a citizen of the United States, that sucks. Because citizens don't only have privileges, they also have responsibilities. So we created this idea in Western culture, Western civilization, where you could just kick back and everyone, you deserved things and that would all be taken care and you, you deserve. The natural state of man is not to be political or to care. And that's a huge problem. And it's persisted in American society a very long time. Occasionally Americans will decide they've had enough and will then come out and vote in greater numbers. We've seen this before. The problem is right now, things aren't bad enough to get Americans permanently engaged in things. And so things will just by the rules. Of how nature works. Things will get worse before they get better, because that's how that stuff works. Now, does that mean that it's over for America? No, There's a lot of reason. Americans have not truly been tested. The metal of the American spirit has not truly been put to the test since the Second World War. That doesn't mean there haven't been amazing Americans and amazing generations since. That's not what I'm saying. The true mettle and dedication of the American people has not been tested since the end of World War II and has really not been tested since 91. And so that's what I mean. Now, is America, like, all over and gloom and doom and it's all over? No, it's not. It's not. And anyone who tells you that America is over and we're all screwed over, they're idiots. They're idiots. There's no evidence to suggest that America's all over when I say things are going to get worse before they get better. What that means, definitionally, is that we are currently in a period where too many people can afford to be lazy. There are people now who are getting generationally involved in politics. Some of you are these people. You got involved after 2020, and you never stopped. You got involved after 2024, and it never stopped. You got involved after the end of it never stopped. That kind of a thing. You're here for the ride. Hmm. And so that's a big thing. Now. There are a lot of people on the slopulism, the sloppy list, right? And who are like, it's all over. Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens. Those idiots who believe for some stupid reason that America's over and the Jews have. Oh, no, the Jew. Oh, the horror. Oh, all that stupid nonsense. And also, we need to suck up to the Muslims because if we don't, we don't suck up to the Muslims, then, gee, whoopsie. Oh, man. Then. Then the country's over. No, it's not all over. It's fine. Case in point, the people who told you that, you know, we were all going to. You know, the people who told you. I'm sorry, all the messages are rolling in. No worries. Producer Daniel will sniff that out at the very first opportunity. The opportunity, as things are, for the American people to actually move forward and effectuate policy change. That's not over at all. It's not over. So. Okay, okay, last fun question here, and I really will be done. What is the term? Just got the message. I'm sorry. I can't help. I can't help but answer. I can't help but answer this one. Tony, you often joke about getting FCC fines. What constitutes, like, you getting in trouble with the fcc. Okay, so the FCC has a series of rules for what can be said or shown on broadcast spectrum air, that means radio stations and spectrum tv, meaning the numbered channels on your television. Cable news doesn't count. The FCC can't really do much for CNN OR FOX or Ms. Now, or any of that stuff. That's why that someone on CNN can say the B word and it airs or even, you know, Scott Jennings, you know, dropped the F bomb on the network a little bit ago, friend of the show, good pal. You know, we all have our moments, different F word, you know, but anyway, and, and then they don't, they don't blur it immediately. They don't necessarily have to. FCC Spectrum air, the ABC television affiliates, the CBS television affiliates, you know, the nextstar or the Fox television affiliates, those have to abide by rules. Those channels, I'm on a few of those channels. And I have to abide by a couple of things I can and can't say, things I can and can't say regarding an election, which is where you hear me talk about free use and. Or fair use, not free use. Free use is a copyright thing. And I have to abide by those rules or I get a fine. Radio is all on that, you know, I guess digital radio streams, YouTube. I don't have to. That's not an FCC thing. Now there are YouTube rules and community rules and things that really should or shouldn't be said and advertising standards based on those. There are things that we don't allow you guys to say in the, you know, in the comment section, that kind of a thing. And there are IRS rules for what I can say as a member of the Daily Signal. I can't endorse candidates. I don't want to endorse candidates, that kind of thing. And also that's that fair use thing that, like, I have to say, hey, you know, if I've brought a candidate on and I have asked them a question about their race for office, I now have to reach out to every viable candidate in that election. So essentially the other major New York mayoral candidates that aren't, the rent is too high guy, that. So I have to bring them on and then allow them to speak, that kind of a thing. So those are the rules. So I don't get a fine for occasionally slipping if it's on. Not so we're not on broadcast air right now at 8:50pm Eastern. We're not. The broadcast hour for the show of like inset is for all of the radio and TV stations except for a few between 7:06:05pm Eastern Time. That's the FCC's Eastern Clock all the way over to 7:55 or excuse me, 7:57 and 20 seconds for a couple of radio stations that fit the Central and the mountain time clocks. I'm on for another half an hour on some nights and then local community cable rules are different and that's for our excellent producer team to take care of. See at the end of the Friday stuff. There you go. That's again. No one really, you know, no one really cares. I just kind of said, hey, that's your end. No one asked. You didn't have to watch this far into the show. There's the explanation. So have a wonderful weekend. Obviously, if something crazy happens, we'll be back live before then. But Monday evening, 7pm Eastern. We'll see you then. It's the Tony Kinnit cast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated and first on 93 WIBC. That's called a sign off. Take care of.