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That's the big, I got a guy having a tantrum over a leaf blower.
So let's start here.
So this has to do with two Florida men who got into a big giant fight because apparently someone used his leaf blower and blowed blue, blue, blue leaves on someone else's car, which is rude. I mean, I don't think he did it on purpose, but, uh, and it was all caught on camera. Things went sideways really quickly. A man stomped on a worker's leaf blower because leaves kept getting on his vehicle. And the guy was very, very aggressive.
And I was watching it. I don't think the guy was doing it on purpose. It was in Delray beach and it was in the parking lot. And the guy was cussing and And he grabbed it and started stomping on the thing. And oh my gosh, so now he's in trouble.
You have to understand that if you're parking your car outside and it's next to trees or grass or anything, and you have landscapers that are dealing with the grounds, that your car could have stuff blown on it because they're there to deal with the grounds. That's all there is to it. It's not those guys' fault. And in the video, it didn't look like the guy was, I don't know. I mean, it doesn't look like he was trying to do it on purpose.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it didn't look like that. A man, a Florida man, shot a kidnapper for trying to abduct his wife. Yeah, he did. That's a real man, Bradenton, Florida. A Bradenton, Florida man fended off a kidnapper who tried to kidnap his wife on New Year's Day.
It was in Manatee County. Nicholas Palomo, a 36-year-old felon, had previously gone to prison for kidnapping and a bunch of other violent crimes, tried to abduct a woman who was walking her dog. She tried to escape by running from his car made it to her home warned her husband and the husband went outside the guy and apparently palama What hadn't left he was still trying to get her so the guy went outside He saw the guy still trying to threaten the wife.
So the husband shot him once in the driveway That was it sheriff's office said it was in a matter of minutes Entirely self-defense And uh, they all he also prior like just prior to him stalking this woman and trying to take her He had caused a ruckus at a circle k up the road so uh they're they're doing it they were apparently doing the toxicology to see if he was under the influence of narcotics as well if i hear of someone whose fashion that i like and i know that they're a person of color i try to make it a point but the clothes have to be available you know i think we can all do some work to think about that balance in our wardrobes you know what does our closet look like and who's in it? Who are we supporting in it? And I think if you have the money to buy Chanel, then you have the money to buy everybody. And so let us be mindful. I think would be my advice.
Just like you bought an oceanfront property in Hawaii. An oceanfront property in Martha's Vineyard. And a big old mansion in Chicago. I'll buy whatever the hell I want and you're going to sit down and you're going to take it because I don't give a damn. It's not up to you to tell people how to spend their money.
Does she ever stop being just bitchy? Does she ever stop? Every single, I mean, I have never seen a single clip of anything this woman has done where she's just having fun and she's just enjoying life. She's got to come out and grievance and bitch and moan about everything. And I just don't understand how someone who had such a silver spoon entitled life is so mad and hates everyone and wants everybody to be as miserable as they did.
I would love to have the kind of upbringing that Michelle Obama had. I'm the poor girl, not her. You all are not her, her and her rich entitled husband, both of them, nepo babies growing up and very well to do families, bank presidents and university professors and driving parents and driving new cars and being able to go to whatever college they wanted to, never having to worry about anything. People bending over and lifting them up from the very beginning of their professional existence, launching their political campaigns in their living rooms in Chicago, raising them money, buying them a big old mansion so they can hold that status in Chicago, doing all this stuff. I'm so damn tired of it.
I don't feel bad for you. You were never in any way aggrieved more than anybody else ever. It is a yarn that you spend to try to make yourself seem more special and to maintain control. These people try to gatekeep grievance. I'm so tired of it.
And she's a racist. Michelle Obama is just an old bitchy racist. I'm done with it. I'm so don't buy from white owned brands. That's what a racist would say How about you just buy whatever you want to buy Because you like it Doesn't matter if it's black or white or whatever That's not something that I do First off, I don't have the type of cushy existence That she does Where I eat bonbons all day And I sit on my ass and I don't work I don't have the type of free time Where I'm like, let me look into the life of this designer And find out their whole backstory Before I commit to a purchase If I like it, I just buy it It's very easy pretty amazing right if I like it I Just buy it I don care about what their backstory is that they either make things that are nice or they don That it But can you imagine Yeah if you had anybody any Republican first lady oh, well, I try to avoid black owned brands and others should also.
Can you imagine if they had said that? Can you imagine? Good heavens. I mean, it would have been never ending. It would have you would have had a nonstop news cycle about it.
that's that's racist what she's saying it's divisive it's racist i who's she trying to convince that she just has it so hard i mean i think they have issues in their marriage you never see them together he never seen you don't see him anymore he just seems like he tries to stay away with her her and her look-alike brother do these podcasts oh i don't care if it's mean. I'm tired of being lectured by this old entitled woman who had such a great life and had such a cushy entitled life that she wants to look down on everyone else because you're not, you don't share her skin color or you don't share her retconned history. What is, I mean, it's like Pam Greer. What is with these women that try to make it to where they have such a hard coming up? They try to rewrite history and act like, oh, we had such a hard, you had no idea.
Michelle Obama does not know struggle She does not know poverty Not in the way some of us do I don't want to hear it And I'm not going to feel bad And be told that I have to shut up Because of my skin color Racists Not going to have it Good heavens How about You know what would be great If she went out there And just said You know Just buy whatever you want to buy Doesn't matter Support who you want to support Support whatever brand you want to support That's it That's it That's all you got to do That would be a lot more unifying and a lot, but it doesn't get clicks. I don't know. I guess there's a portion of the population out there that loves this grievance peddling. Like, I can't get into it. It just annoys me to no end.
I just can't. Then she says this, cut 30. She would never consider running for president because she is not likable. She doesn't have the credentials and she's not likable.
So I don't even know why we're entertaining this stupid idea. Listen to this. This is 30. You said, don't even look at me about running because you all are lying. You're not ready for a woman.
You're not. There are men out there that were not going to vote for a woman. Let's just be real about it. And let's put that on the table and talk about, well, what's that about? Let's not be mad because I made the statement.
The young women that we're talking to keep climbing. We need you and know that you may come up short, but keep going. What does this even mean? Nobody cares. All I heard was a bunch of word salad that was miles wide and inches deep.
Shallowness that's like cosplaying as some sort of analysis or some sort of intellectual deep dive. No. What is this? First off, you're just not likable. That's why they would never vote for you.
Like Hillary Clinton wasn't likable. Like Kamala Harris wasn't likable. There are women out there who are likable. Margaret Thatcher was likable. There's other women in the United States that are like Sarah Huckabee Sanders is likable.
They're likable people. They come across they're amiable They they're friendly They're not constantly trying to put you down by acting like they've had it so much harder than you Even though they actually haven't they don't say racist things like you should avoid uh brands based on skin color They don't say stuff like that. That's why people don't want to vote for you Nobody and you're just not qualified to do it.
Sorry, but you know working as an attorney and being a nepo baby That's not enough of a qualification Can we get can we just move past the nepo baby age? That would be great We have a it's a problem that's pervasive in every aspect of society including politics and especially right-leaning politics It's so bad Can we just get past it? I get so tired of this It's so tired So I don't I I don't know I wish That The great it's the there is a subsection of the american population that just is grievance mongering. I feel like though, it's kind of dissipating. Our partners who help bring you the program, our friends over at Webrood, they want to make sure that you're protected because there's so many ways, just to be frank, swindle you out everything you got.
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So first up, excuse me, almost sneezed for a second. K-pop Demon Hunters is Netflix's most watched movie so far, and it's not even close. Before you freak out it is literally one of the most conservative things you ever going to watch and for people who are like yeah but yes there is a ton of religious overtones because a lot of the people that are involved with it are are like have christian background but they but if they like oh well they don say jesus specifically remember neither did lord of the rings i'm just saying take it for what it is it actually is i watched it i actually watched it it was great i'm not into the music but you know the animation was good and it was the dialogue was very good and you can feel okay about your kids watching it i can tell you that it's literally good versus evil but can you believe that that's like the most watched thing because they get a lot of filth on Netflix I don't know if you've seen some of the stuff that they've like just launched this year but it's so that was really nice Christmas 2025 was the biggest streaming day ever in the United States says Nielsen. Interesting is it because of all the it's probably because I watched Die Hard five times there was a lot of hype around Stranger Things being released on Christmas too. I haven't watched it yet I haven't either.
But I like the Millie Bobby Brown girl because she seems nice and kind of trad. I mean, like in a real trad way, not a fake Instagram click way. But NFL and Stranger Things, that's what they were attributing that to. And their revenue and profits have risen. I just still, I don't think that, like if I'm streaming something, Netflix is never where I go.
Unless it's the Great British Baking Show. Or the Aliens thing. not gonna lie but i i watch amazon prime that's what i do i watch like a lot of the old stuff on amazon prime so uh well let's see pierce morgan gets a hip replacement i don't care um oh threads overtakes tots and pairs uh threads overtakes x and daily mobile users threads overtakes x threads wait that's wait whoa whoa whoa that's the instagram thing that i always scroll past and purposely ignore, right? Yes. Yeah, me too.
Why does that take a, why is that taking over X? That's kind of weird, right? You okay, Kane? Kane's dying. Kane's got the plague.
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The Ketanji Brown Jackson. I don't even know where to start with this because I first, I thought this was a joke. Actually, the last several bits of audio that we played, legitimately, when I have seen them pop up and I see a brief synopsis of her remarks, I immediately don't trust Even if it's a trustworthy source what i'm reading because it's so ridiculous And this is again par for the course so you have wolford v lopez and it's a it's a second amendment case that is being argued right now Uh, and there's been a lot said about it. This has been going on for you know earlier this week and in one of these instances you had a discussion as to how to what does permissible firearm regulation look like and you know who's free to carry who is free to not carry things like that and you had these people inadvertently starting with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson literally saying that well she's defending black codes as a precedent for consideration as to constitutionality. Just listen.
Justice Jackson?
So I guess I really don't understand your response to Justice Gorsuch on the black codes. I mean, I thought the black codes were being offered here under the Bruin test to determine the constitutionality of this regulation. And it's because we have a test that asks us to look at the history and tradition. The fact that the Black Codes were at some later point determined themselves to be unconstitutional doesn't seem to me to be relevant to the assessment that Bruin is asking us to make.
So can you say more about that? Absolutely. Black Codes were unconstitutional from the moment of their inception because they are pretextual laws that are designed to ensure that newly freed slaves are returned to a condition of sheer crime.
Okay, let me stop you there. They were not deemed unconstitutional at the time that they were enacted. They were part of the history and tradition of the country. And when we have a test now that's asking us to look at what people were doing back then, I don't understand why they should be excluded. Because they are outliers.
They are by definition unconstitutional. They have found that unconstitutional. Afterwards, not at the time. And if the test says what's happening at the time, tells us what's constitutional for this purpose, why aren't they in? Respectfully, a law is always unconstitutional.
When it's from its inception, it's...
So the history doesn't matter. We shouldn't care about the history then. We should deeply care about the history.
So if you're scratching your head thinking, what in the world is she talking about? She's essentially saying that because an unconstitutional law was incorporated or in existence on the books at one particular point in time that it can now credibly be used from here on out as a legal precedent Well, it was always unconstitutional, first and foremost. It's the constitutionality of something that determines precedent, not the existence of whether, not the mere existence, it's the constitutionality of it. I just, she's, you know, she's so smart, we're told. We're told she's so smart.
I was amazed at that. And then this is the principal deputy solicitor. This is Sarah Harris. And well, her reaction, as you can imagine, would be yours. Listen, this is 35.
Sorry. There's been some discussion about the black codes and maybe they should be relevant and maybe we really should consider them as significant here. In fact, they're a dead ringer. Thoughts? It is 2026, and it is somewhat astonishing that black codes, which are unconstitutional, are being offered as evidence of what our tradition of constitutionally permissible firearm regulation looks like.
So it's Wolfer v. Lopez. This is a case because it's going to and it settles around Hawaii and it's determining whether or not they can eliminate the Bruins, the Bruins standard, meaning does it comport with the founders establishment of our longstanding Second Amendment firearm traditions? That's the Bruin test, which it's going to go down. I mean, it's going to get it.
It's going to be wrecked. This this court case for Hawaii. Hawaii is going to lose this. They're going to lose this. It is going to be a wreck for them to hear them try to argue this.
And Hawaii is trying to do like an in run around all of this by saying, well, you have to be able that you can't take your firearm basically anywhere. You know, basically, it's all public spaces. You can't take your firearm, et cetera, et cetera. And that's where the whole vampire rule came from.
So the vampire rule, that was what Hawaii had tried to implement as a way to end run around Bruins saying, well, you any kind of entity can prevent any sort of legally armed patron. and you have to ask questions before you have to ask permission before taking your firearm anywhere. And it's called the vampire rule because vampire folklore, in order to go in some place, you have to get permission.
So it's like an in run around that. And it applies to every space, every everything like it doesn't matter if it's public or private, whatever. And they're trying to do an in run around this. And they were arguing that somehow that goes along with the long that that they could, even though it violates the longstanding tradition that Bruin has already established.
So that's that that is the wolfer v lopez case. I just it was amazing to hear kentonji brown jackson say well, you know Even though it might be unconstitutional it existed.
So it can still be used as precedent She's literally she do her. I just can't even believe that she actually I mean I can but it's still amazing to hear someone who Masquerades as being an educated person try to argue that well because black codes existed and they were at one point historical that that's the legal precedent from here on out going forward. Oh, my gosh. By the way, you realize, and I wrote my first book on this, Hands Off My Gun, that one of the reasons why the Dred Scott case went the way it did with that racist Judge Taney, who is a big-time far-left Democrat, is because he was using Scott's inability to own a firearm as a free person as the final mark against his quote-unquote personhood. And that was actually used as a litmus test to establish personhood, was firearm ownership, which, as you know, Democrats were they really advocated against any minorities being able to exercise their Second Amendment rights, freed or not.
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