Tim Walz's Relatability Push, FBI Lies About Crime Rates, Trump Speaks On Trans

It's gonna be just before my show. I'll do my show live in Pennsylvania. It'll be essentially live to tape and no stipulations on the questions. Wide open. There's no caveats that are coming to do the interview.

So she'll take all and any questions. And I ask the audience, drop me a line on X at Brett Baer or Instagram or Facebook.

Well, they have. Oh, they have dropped him many lines on X. That was Brett Baer previewing his conversation. It's already been live to tape. And we talked about this yesterday with Kamala Harris that's going to air tonight.

Or this afternoon, like late, wait, early afternoon, late afternoon, early evening, like the later today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of this first hour here on Wednesday.

And we don't have a simulcast per se today, but you're obviously still listening to us because we're here in Richmond, WRVA broadcasting live at our affiliate today. We got an event coming up this evening, an affiliate event here in Richmond.

So we're looking forward to that. We'll tell you a little bit more about that as we go forward in the program. But the Kamala Harris, the big this interview. Where I think everybody is waiting to see whether or not Bear puts the screws to her. Whether or not he asks the tough questions.

Now, he says that he knows that they know that the campaign is aware that they have to change up their strategy and that they need new tactics and they have to do more outreach. And I just think that that's something that the campaign probably should have thought of, I don't know, maybe right when they first began. Right when they first switched out old Joe Biden with Kamala Harris, maybe that was one of the things they should have thought about from the get-go, but they didn't. And so now they're in this weird predicament of having to boost. Her, not just name recognition, but awareness of her, well, I guess her, I would say her policy positions.

They're really Biden's policy positions. But she's having to really push. She's losing in all demos across the board. I got some polling for you coming up on that we're going to dive into. And in some of these battleground states, she's sliding.

I don't know what she can do at this point to manufacture the momentum needed in order to boost her ahead of Trump going into November.

So, and it doesn't help. that, you know, I'd be real. I just got to be real with you. She got a dumbass on her ticket. This guy, Tim Walt.

I mean, out of all, you had, she could have had Josh Shapiro.

Now, for our sakes, I'm glad she didn't. Because that would have been a lot more difficult. For Republicans.

So she picked Tim Waltz for some reason. And this guy cannot, he just can't stop putting his foot in his mouth. That's the other thing. I wrote about this. If you are a subscriber over at Chapter and Verse, the newsletter, there was an interesting soundbite that he had.

He was at an event, he's in his flannel, right? And he's, we all know that he's he can't stand upward economic mobility. He's got a major problem with it. But I've never seen anybody. That really tries to make themselves seem as dumb as he does.

Listen to this, this is Audio Soundbite 10. And Senator Vance, he became a media darling. He wrote a book. About the place he grew up. But the premise was was trashing that place where he grew up rather than lifting it up.

This guy's a venture capitalist cosplaying like he's a cowboy or something. It does most of the time. And he says in this audio sound bite, if we have it, he goes, I don't even know what a venture capitalist is. I don't even know what a venture capitalist does most of the time. Most of the time.

What does that even mean? I mean, this is the, you don't have to be a Wall Street whiz to understand basic economic activity. I mean you don't have to but that's That isn't the issue here. The issue is that this ticket, they believe that in order to sound like the average everyday guy, that you have to sound like a complete economic illiterate. And that's, I mean, this isn't the first time that he said this either.

Remember, he jumped on Vance for being a Harvard grad. I think this was part of his speech when he was at the DNC. He was hitting Vance for being a Harvard grad, which was ironic considering the number of Harvard grads that were on stage at the DNC.

So he, Wallace has previously said that he owns no property. He doesn't own any stock. I don't even think that he can define what unrealized gains are. I don't even, I mean, can he even define what a venture capitalist is? But he wants to make these decisions about all of this stuff for you anyway.

He doesn't know what unrealized gains are. He can't define it, but he wants to tax them anyway. And he thinks that he's entitled to the second highest office in the land. to help make these decisions for all of us and our families. And that's that's I mean, that's the whole crux of what they believe.

That's their ideology. I mean, he was hitting fans for saying that he was trashing where he comes from. He said, trash where he came from. He was celebrating where he came from, but he did grow up. as a statistic and he escaped from that but that's not what Walsh wants to hit.

Because see, Democrats, they have this horrible, abusive narrative that you are realer, that you are more of an everyday person if you are unremarkable in terms of savings or accomplishments. and crediting a person for their hard work whether it's economic, you know, upward mobility or what. Crediting someone for their hard work means that there's less glory to give to the government because the government didn't have a role in that creation. And if there's one thing that big government loves... It's glory.

So if you have too many people that think like J.D. Vance, And not only believe in upward economic mobility, but make it happen for themselves, then other people might start believing. that they too Can lift themselves into a higher economic status through sheer hard work without. The government to help. That's what the government wants you to think: that only the government can help you.

That is the whole thing of Harris Walls. Only the government can help. And if you make yourself without the government, well, that's frowned upon because it lessens. the stature of the government and simultaneously it shows the true limitations of its power. It's weird.

I was thinking about this last night flying out to Richmond because big government ideology is like a reverse aristocracy. You know, like back in the day where you would have like actual gentlemen didn't work, right? They just earned a living off of the land that they had people lease and work. I mean, they that was that's how you know, true gentlemen, they were gentlemen of leisure. They didn't work.

That's the nobility. That's the aristocracy. Big government ideology is creating a reverse aristocracy here in the United States, where the government creates vassals who are dependent upon federal entirements. And if you, in federal entitlements, and if you work to change. your status, that's considered gauche.

just like it's considered gauche for a nobleman to work. It's considered gauche. For you to want to work and to propel yourself forward into a different economic status. That's the left, that's their ideology. I mean, you can say what you want advance.

And you can say that Well, he's, you know, you can disagree with him on policy or whatever, but he overcame. Growing up a statistic. I mean, he propelled himself into a higher life station through hard work. And Waltz holds this against him. I mean Walsh went to China, I guess, instead of going to Harvard.

But yet, he's also simultaneously trying to make it seem like he is the one who's more down to earth. He is the one more capable of representing average Americans in every way. except ambition. And that's the thing. Americans are a very ambitious bunch, even the average everyday ones.

Be they born here or legally immigrated, it is a hallmark of being American. It's one of the things that we are known for worldwide. And this idea, this trajectory of upward economic mobility, that used to be a shared trait of both the right and the left. And then somehow the left decided to go full Marxist. And they wanted to keep poor people poor by robbing them of incentive and ambition because that's a great way to control them.

We used to have, Democrats used to be: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. And that turned into, well, we got $20,000 for a year to buy a house. We got loans based on race now and taxpayer-funded gender surgeries. That's what they That's what they propose. No, the rich people are fine if they're the Bill Gates' of the world and they and they extol the virs the virtues or blessings of big government.

But if you're a renegade like Elon Musk and you don't stick to the script, well, that's considered a no-no. That's frowned upon. This is the thing, I mean It goes to show you whenever I hear Tim Walls talk about this stuff. Like they they don't get the people that they're cosplaying for. In all their flannel and their camouflage.

I mean, these are all farmers, they're small business folks, they're factory folks, they're people. for whom inventiveness has had to become an art form because of this economy. And these people, they want to achieve. like Vance. They don't want to stew in mediocrity like Walls.

Someone who achieved it for themselves, that's a way more appealing candidate. Than somebody who hasn't, somebody who refuses to, somebody who mocks and looks down upon others who actually succeed. And honestly, this is why. This is why they're slipping in the polls. Early voting in Georgia, you know, for all the Jim Crow that Georgia is said to have had.

How many times have you heard that over the past couple of years? Oh my gosh, you can't give anybody a bottle of water. A record number of early votes have been cast in Georgia Tuesday. Everybody's been heading to the polls. They had over 328,000 ballots cast yesterday.

That's according to the Secretary of State's office. It was a record-breaking first day of early voting. and accepted absentees. They posted on X that they had 328 over 328,000 total votes cast so far. The previous record.

was set in 2020 and that was one hundred and thirty six thousand.

Now Georgia is considered a swing state. And this is one of the reasons why I was kind of, you know, I was whenever Trump and Kemp argue, I'm like, oh, Kemp's got 63% approval in Georgia. The Republican Party in Georgia, Georgians are very protective of their own, kind of how Floridians are.

So you don't want to be making any, you don't want to be causing no problems with nobody there.

So, it's going to be very interesting to see how many of these, if it's Republican, if it's Democrat, and I'm sure we're going to get these surveys as they turn out because that's going to be a great measure of enthusiasm. A great measure of enthusiasm. And in every place where you can chase those ballots and early vote and do all of that stuff, where illegal, Republicans should be out doing it.

So this is a huge, that's a huge, huge number.

So, we're going to get into some of this. Also, you got Michelle Obama going to Georgia. On behalf of Harris. We're going to get into that. We're also going to touch on some other things this November, the known unknowns.

I got some surveys for you. And I also need the Republicans to not stick their feet in their mouths. It would be great, especially on hot button issues where you see the right and the left and the center and the independents and everybody else kind of coalescing. on the same square. We need to keep everybody on deck here.

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So, apparently, Coca-Cola had to recall 13,152 cases of Minute-Made Zero Sugar Lemonade because they actually put sugar in it. They said it was incorrectly packaged and it was put in a carton labeled as zero sugar when it's, in fact, has like a ton of sugar in it.

So, they've recalled it because there is sugar in it. And I know that there's people that, you know, like whether they're, you know, people who have health conditions like diabetes, they, you know, watch what sugar they intake.

So, double check at that minute-made zero-sugar stuff. They recalled over 13,000 cases of it. Bruce Pack. A meat recall. I don't even know what Bruce Peck is.

Bruce Peck meat recall includes a number of foods from Trader Joe's Kroger and more. There's a big O list out there that you can look up because they said that they had 12 million pounds of meat and poultry contaminated with Listeria. The products were disclosed by the USDA just last week. And it's like the Mexican-style street corn salad at Kroger, the Wegman Salad Bowl with chicken and uncured bacon. They also have like Taylor Farms, Boston Market, 7-Eleven, Aldi's, Rows, all kinds of stuff.

So they detected listeria in samples of ready-to-eat poultry during routine testing. Ooh, not good. 50 well-preserved Viking Age skeletons unearthed in Denmark. I'm pretty sure that this is how the world ends.

So put them back. They said that a village in central Denmark, archaeologists made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era. It is a Viking burial ground, and they said that there are 50 exceptionally well-preserved skeletons. Why would you go mess around with that stuff? We've seen everything that's happening in the world right now, right?

I mean, we're not even that far off away from the Rona. Let's just, you know, then that whole nightmare. Let's just stop messing with this stuff. They said it's an exciting find. They found these skeletons that are so well preserved.

That's it. That's the archaeologist Michael Borlindo, who led the, that's how you got to say his name. It's on Scandinavian. There's like a line through the O led the six-month dig. He said normally they would be lucky to find a few teeth, but now they have entire skeletons.

They're very excited about that.

So they, they, I mean, they got photos of it and everything over at Associated Press. I still think they need to put them back because this is how bad stuff happens. The water supply in Southern California, they're warning, engineers are warning that you could actually be crippled if heaven forbid there's like an earthquake or something. They said that they need to get on that stat, according to a bunch of engineers in SoCal. They said the earthquake is inevitable, the disaster is not.

They have the San Andreas Fall down there, and they said that they need to make sure that they're securing their water supplies and that what they have, their infrastructure can withstand it. It's kind of scary. Hunter Biden has revived his lawsuit against Fox News over the explicit images used in a streaming series.

Now, he's suing Fox because the trial of Hunter Biden, which they had on their Fox Nation thing, it included a mock trial of Biden on charges that he hasn't actually faced yet. And it was weird because he filed suit first in July, then he dropped the suit three weeks later, the same day that Joe Biden dropped out of the race. And then now he's filed an identical suit on Tuesday.

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The Misinformation Fight. Boy, do I have some misinformation for you? This is something that Kamala Harris was asked about. She was talking to Charlemagne in a recent interview, and she was asked about. Mis and disinformation.

I just want you to hear what she says here before I give you this story of actual misinformation. Go ahead and play this Audio 7x4. One of the biggest challenges that I face is missing disinformation. And it's purposeful. Because it is meant to Um convince people that they somehow should not believe that the work that I have done has has occurred and has meaning.

So Well, she hasn't really done any work. I mean, that's, you know, I mean, good heavens, she hasn't.

So that's kind of interesting. But when she talks about mis and disinformation, this is what really stuck out to me. And it's this story, and I tweeted about it a little bit earlier. And I'm going to make sure that if you're a newsletter subscriber, that you get this, because this is something that you're going to want to bookmark. This was a very interesting stealth Edit.

from the FBI. And my friend John Lott caught this over. on behalf of RealClear investigations.

So remember when the FBI was saying, oh, crime was Crime is down. Oh, I mean, it's actually up.

Sorry, we messed up. They were trying to say. that crime had fallen. And this was, you know, in the wake of Restorative justice and all this other nonsense. They were trying to tell people that, no, no, no, crime is actually, guys, crime is down.

We don't, that was a huge talking point. Because Trump was trying to tell people, no, guys, crime is up. Uh we gotta do something about it. The recidivism is out of control. And the Democrats were pushing back on that.

And so when the FBI released And this was back in Sept.

So they are, it's always a year behind.

So in September of 23, they released their crime data for 2022. And when they released their data for 2022 in September of last year, they were saying that. The violent crime rate had fallen by over 2%. And that was a big talking point that they were using to push back against. what Trump had been saying about the soaring crime rate.

but very, very quietly. The FBI has revised their numbers. And instead now they're rele they release new data. Showing that violent crime.

So remember, they were trying to say that violent crime in 2022. had fallen by over two percent. it actually increased. by almost five percent. The new data that they very surreptitiously released.

includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults. And the Bureau, when they came out with their press release just last month. They made no mention of this. They said nothing about their revisions. They very quietly revised it.

and then they said nothing about it. They wanted it to still be a talking point. and real clear investigations. It just kind of happened to find it. Because of a Cryptic and purposefully so.

That's how they said it was a cryptic reference, they said, and I think it was done that on purp that they did that on purpose. They had the thing on their website, like, buried in it. Where it was saying the 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS 2023. But they didn't mention. They just said it had been updated.

They didn't mention that the numbers increased. And in fact, you can only see the change if you download the PDF of their crime data and you compare it. to the PDF file. that they released last year. They don't tell you.

They just said it's been updated. You don't even know what those updates are.

So they released after they released this USA Today, they had their headline violent crime dropped for a third year straight in 2023, including murder and rape. USA Today, Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, everywhere.

Now The revised data was released three weeks ago. And it was released and they they They had surreptitiously changed it on their website before they released They're new data. and before the September 2024 press release. and they made zero mention of the revisions. or that the talking point that all these news outlets are running with is wrong.

It's all wrong. They they purposefully Hit it. Real Clear Investigations was asking the FBI about these revisions, which they say are extensive. John Lott over at our Real Clerk Investigations dove into it. The FBI, by the way, hasn't responded.

They won't respond. The up the updated data. Get this. How much do you think it's updated by? How many more crimes do you think?

So, for instance, The 2022 report, which is what we're discussing. There were over eighty thousand more violent crimes. than there were in twenty twenty one. These revisions that they're not telling you about, they just said updated. It included almost seventeen hundred new murders.

Over 7,000, almost 8,000 rapes. Almost 34,000 robberies. Over 37,000 aggravated assaults.

So how How can you believe any of their numbers? These are. These revisions, this is, I don't know how you miss 7,780 rapes. How do you miss 1,699 murders? Or, for instance, how do you miss 33,459 robberies?

How do you miss over 80,000 violent crimes? and you just don't tabulate them in to the final number. Because they were hell-bent on giving Democrats this talking point. of having reduced crime. They didn't want to have to face the reality of this rot, this restorative justice and these politicized DAs.

I mean, this is crazy. This isn't the only, by the way, this follows what the Bureau of Labor Statistics has done. Remember how they made up, they literally made up the number of jobs created? And then we find out that these jobs just are literally, they were nothing. RCI is very generous.

They said they massively overestimated. I say they made them up thousands of jobs. This is crazy.

So How I mean How does this? I mean, they look at like information from police departments. I know that they have to make estimates for cities that don't. input data, but this is insane. I mean, they know, they can kind of predict, they can see, they just didn't include this.

And I mean, I This was one of the things that they kept trying to say that Trump was fear-mongering on.

So here you have deception in another government entity. You have deception in the FBI. You have deception in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You have deception in almost every single government agency now. And it's Government officials and Democrats wonder why it is That no one trusts these government agencies.

They create They wanted to create a ministry of misinformation. and go after people. For correctly questioning things related to the government injections, aka quote-unquote vaccines. They want to go after people who challenge their narratives and they label that as misinformation. This is actual misinformation.

It's purposeful. It was designed to shut people up who were criticizing. Democrat-run cities where crime is out of control. If you want to have a discussion about misinformation, the call is coming from inside the house. But yeah, right-wing misinformation is the issue.

That's what you're led to believe. That's what she, going back to that audio sound by Kamala Harris, was talking about. Yeah, it's just it's just right-wing misinformation. Sure, sure, sure.

Now, a couple of other things to note: North Carolina. The governor there, Mark Robinson, is suing CNN. Over that bombshell report, remember where we were we we covered it a little bit. How he's a lieutenant governor there now. He's behind, he was behind before this story broke.

He's looking to sue CNN over the report that he made, explicit. racial and sexual posts on a porn website. and he said that the reporting was reckless and defamatory. And he's seeking fifty million dollars in damages. And this is a weird case.

It's a it's a it's a weird case because They You know, everybody, they went through the whole Nick Sandman thing, and I don't, it seemed like they were kind of taking some care to not make that mistake. twice number one. But number two, I mean, they were, you know, were making, it seemed like they were trying to vet the information and that it was some of the similar information that he had used elsewhere or something to that line of effect. The thing is, is that you get into whether or not someone's a public figure, and that's a really high It's a high bar to hit. I mean, it's weird because You know, you would think that Uh like Sandman, for instance, he wasn't a public figure.

Uh he wasn't considered a public figure by Uh you know, previously court cases. There isn't that legal precedent. I mean now Robinson obviously is a public figure. And that's the Sullivan case because the Sullivan case was the that was that's the standard that that establish that. The plaintiffs have to, they have to prove that the claims are false.

But he's going to have to Robinson would have to prove. That CNN Um and uh the guy does a K-file over there that they that he would have to prove that they knew that the stories were false. and yet acted upon them anyway. with a level of disregard. That would uh count as uh malice, actual malice.

And I mean, that's going to be a really, I mean, there's a reason that's a high bar to pass. And I think They did, it seems like they were trying to cross-check stuff and not get into another Nick Sandman thing. You guys remember him, the Covington kids? Who went who were there and they were attacked by these adults, and all the media outlets smeared them. But what Robinson needs to do here, and a friend of mine was talking about this.

My friend was saying, Well, this isn't so much a legal case, it's a political case at this point. And I think that's a good point. I mean, he's got to, you know, he's got to make this, it's a political case. He's got to make a political fight against it, more so than a legal fight against it. But I don't think that that's enough to, because he was already trailing.

his opponent in the gubernatorial election before this broke. But there's a lot of stuff involved in that. And that's good that's I mean he'll be litigating that for a long time. And we'll see how that unfolds. We have more to hit as we roll towards the conclusion of this first hour.

And we got a lot still to touch on, including. I've got some. New polling for you. We're also going to get into some of the GOP stuff. I need GOP to not stick their feet in their mouths.

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On the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist? Follow Dana's Absurd Truth podcast for bite-sized informative episodes perfect for your busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the program. So, for days of these United States, since we're in a different studio. We don't have our stinger.

I'm thinking. Audio Soundbite 18, Steve, who's behind the board today. That's what I'm thinking for days of the United States. I'm so tired of hearing people fear monger over this. This is the Lincoln Project, which is a weirdo group.

Listen. Put yourself in the mindset that the Trump campaign really doesn't think it can win, either the popular vote or the Electoral College. You look at this campaign, it makes no sense. He's not trying to add voters. What they want to do is they want to win the election night until the inauguration.

And if they can go in and they can violently disrupt these counting centers, How will states be able to certify elections? You burned down a county center in Arizona. How does the governor certify those elections? I mean Where is this coming from? They're gonna burn down election centers.

Where is this coming from? I mean, there's just like, can you imagine just like going on television and just saying whatever, you know. Pops into your head. Where is this talking point coming from? That they're going to sit here and burn down election centers in cities where black voters are.

It's just so stupid. The only people saying this are actual racists. They're they're the fear-mongering. Can we just have a normal election? Is it just possible at one time, just to have like a normal election?

I feel like we're due, like a normal, boring election. Like, oh, People are going out and voting. All the lines are long. There, there you go. Parking's tough.

Like, why can't that be the biggest thing? Why does it got to be like a hot mess like this all the damn time? Just I want the biggest issue to be parking. Right? Or maybe people are waiting in line, that's all.

Like I I mean the the this stuff is just so goofy. Doesn't I keep seeing like what apparently like Joy Behar was saying something to this effect on the VO. I mean, where do these people? I feel like they're actualizing the stuff that they want to see. That's they want to see this stuff.

That's what it feels like. I don't know. I just um I got some s if we got some polling coming up for you, including one. You pull this up from Rasmussen. Where they've asked the question that I think everybody's been really wondering.

And it was the question that Reagan. asked. Americans when he was running against Carter. In 1980. And Jimmy and Ronald Reagan asked: Are you better off today?

than you were four years ago. And The Answer in the Rasmussen survey was a telephone and online survey. And they found that it was by a 16-point margin. The majority of voters said no. to that question.

Are you better off? Than you were four years ago. Most people said no. And these are, now it's likely voters, not registered voters, and it's just a little over a thousand. But I feel like It's such a common refrain.

That I think that if you were to even switch it from likely to register, that it would be the same. And they I mean They said that I mean the majority, the vast majority. I mean it's a 16 point fifty six percent they're not better off. This is the question. Second hour on the way.

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And we are here broadcasting live from WRVA, our affiliate. In Richmond, we got a big event tonight that we're going to be having, and of course, going over all the political, all the politics. I got some polling for you. We got Got timber walls. talking about how everyone else is a pretender, but he's not.

Audio Soundbite 12. Kill us all now. I know guns. I'm a veteran, I'm a hunter, I'm a gun owner. I know most of these are cosplaying like they're tough or they know because they really don't.

Someone totally taught him that word because he has no idea what it means. I actually don't want to. I was thinking about this the other day, and I'm guilty of it. I've been calling him Elmer Fudd. Actually, I've been calling him just a FUD.

And I actually, I think that's wrong. And I think that I'm being very mean. When I do this, and I don't want to be mean. You know, it's a new year, new me, not really. I don't want to be mean to Elmer Fudd.

when I talk about this stuff because Elmer Flood knew what the hell he was doing. I mean, you know, he was a dumbass, but Elmer Fudd knew what he was doing. Elmer Fudd knew how to handle his gun, even when Bug's bunny tied it into a bow. He knew how to handle his gun. And Tim Wolf doesn't.

I mean, I watched the guy put the. Stocking is growing. While he's trying to love, like, what are you doing? But I mean, I still can't get over it. I mean, this is the guy who.

like try he couldn't even load his shotgun for crying out loud. And he didn't shoot a single pheasant, by the way, when he was doing that. But I I don't know. I like he handled his shotgun like he didn't, he'd never handled it before. He had no idea what he was doing.

He was wearing brand new brush pants. I've never met any hunter that has like a clean outfit on. Unless they had to get it, they got one to replace their nasty one. Like he had like his orange, his reflective, nothing on it. His brush pants looked like they were out of the bandbox, like all brand new.

I mean, he looks. He just looked Like he looked like he was like cosplaying. That's why I think someone taught him that word. I mean, this guy's overstated his military service. He said that he was, you know, a combat vet.

He was never a combat vet. He talked about carrying weapons onto the battlefield. He was never on the battlefield. He said he was a command sergeant major, and he wasn't. He didn't retire as a command sergeant major.

So, I mean, this is. He gets flack because it's part of his ongoing Like record, it's part of his, you know, he because he's built up this body of ridicule for himself. I know guns. I'm a hunter. I'm a gun owner.

And I know most of these are cosplay. Who is he talking about? Most of these. Cosplain, like they know guns. What the hell does that have to do with being for or against Second Amendment rights either?

I know people. who are on the right that don't own a single gun. I mean, I talked to Vivek Ramaswamy, he didn't even own a gun. But he'd doesn't he's not against the second amendment It doesn't want to ban quote-unquote assault weapons. Tim Walls.

wants to do all those things.

So, the issue is: what do you want to do with other people's rights? I mean, for a guy that makes a thing out of, oh, mind your own business, mind your own business. I mean, he certainly wants to get all up in everybody else's business. Gosh, he is such a drag on the Harris ticket. It really is stunning to me.

Can I just take a moment? It was so it's stunning to me how much of a drag he is on that ticket. I mean, you have two supremely unpopular candidates. He's unpopular in his own home state, by the way. You have two super unpopular candidates.

I mean, you would think that they'd cancel each other out at some point. This uh Now, on the Republican side of things, I need Republicans to not make things difficult for themselves going into a very close election.

Alright, so everybody have a seat because we're about to have a conversation here. It's gotta be a little troubling. We have to talk about this. I wrote about this if you again get the newsletter. I wrote about this on the newsletter.

As I was asking a question about this, I'm like, okay, I've got some questions. I don't understand what. His point was here, and of course I'm talking about this sound bite. From 45, from Trump. He was at, what is it, like the Bloomberg, it was the Bloomberg news.

Economic Forum. And I just thought this was. I'm trying to figure out why he said this. Listen to this. Look.

This is a party, the Republican Party of Common Sense. I forget about conservative, liberal. Where Let's say conservative, but we're really a party of We need borders, we need fair elections, we don't want men playing in women's sports. We don't want transgender operations without parental consent. Yeah, there's so many things, but it's 99.9% is common sense.

Okay, so when he says we don't, this is the thing that a lot of people were pointing out and they were asking about. What does this mean when you're talking about We don't want transgender operations without parental consent. Because I didn't think we wanted any. You know, with or without parental consent, because the issue is. Is minors.

And I have another sound bite where he was with Harris Faulkner at her like Georgia Women's Forum thing, which we're going to play, where they talked about sports. But this isn't about sports, this is about. The experimental surgery on the genitals. of minors. Like like kids.

Kids who haven't hit puberty or haven't finished going through puberty. And just to remind people, what specifically we're talking about, like breast removal, like removal of your reproductive organs, you know, penile removal. That's the kind of stuff we're talking about, right? And I don't know, some were questioning whether or not he misspoke. I mean, there hasn't really been any clarification on it.

I just, I thought that the official Republican position was against. any you know experimental genital surgery or chemical castration or whatever on minors.

Someone who was on X, and I thought it was kind of, I don't know, they weren't smartest. They were the brightest bulb in the box, but They said, well, you know, we shouldn't be tricked into tyranny. We can't allow the government to dictate things to parents. I mean, I get what you're saying, but I've never really viewed laws. against child abuse as being tyrannical.

or laws against child endangerment. as being tyrannical. You know, anything like that for that matter. I mean, there's there's we're talking about minors, we're not talking about grown adults. making decisions for themselves as adults.

We're talking about minors. We're talking about children. And when you don't have parents that are protecting children, then I mean who protects the children. I think ultimately it seems like the issue Headed for a debate. It's over whether or not it's a state issue or a federal government issue.

But that's not what that's not what Uh code has said though. and that sound bite. I also think it begs the question of that any of this is informed consent. And none of it is. I mean, there's zero long-term studies on juvenile hormone abuse, and there are zero long-term studies on the long-term effects that these surgeries have on the kids who get them.

I mean, there's no way to credibly fully inform a child. As to what their life is going to be like long term after such a surgery, beyond the absolute certainty of future surgeries and a lifetime of prescription medications. I mean, I just don't know why we would risk. With message discipline. Any kind of why we, I mean, I don't understand the messaging on that.

So. Like are some I mean, what's the line? It's okay to experiment on the genital surgery of minors if the parents agree? If the parents want to live out activist lives through their children and have them be subject to surgery. I just don't, I mean, that's not an, I don't know how anybody can make that.

I mean, we don't, there's a reason why, you know, you have laws against child abuse. I mean, if a parent wants to beat their kid to death in the street, I mean, what? Are we going to say, well, big government shouldn't get involved? Government shouldn't tell parents what to do. I mean, who protects the kid?

Do do people realize that they're arguing, they're making a pro-abortion argument?

Well, you can't dictate to people what they do with their kids if somebody wants to abort their baby. Do you see how that argument, that logic can be used? I mean, who protects the life of the child? Who protects the the health of the child? That's a huge question.

And it's weird because it's an issue. that even you know the coveted moderates sided with conservatives on.

So, I'm not sure what the angle is here. I don't exactly know what's to gain. by leaving the door cracked open for parents who consent. to having their perfectly healthy child mutilated. before puberty, like parental consent makes it less abusive somehow.

I don't know what 45 is getting at here. Here he is. He's talking about though, he's more clear here. on the issue of women in s uh men in women's sports. This is from this Harris Faulkner forum.

That he did with, was it women, Georgia voters? Just women? Oh, it's airs tonight.

So this was a teaser. This is, he did it with Harris Faulkner, and this is with the... voters in Georgia and it airs tonight. Listen. How do you plan on addressing the transgender issue in women's sports?

I have nine grandchildren, six of them female, all playing sports, and we are very concerned for their safety, not just on the field and the courts, but in their locker rooms as well. It's such an easy question and everybody in the room and you know that answer. We're not going to let it happen. You look, just yesterday they had a volleyball match, did you see that? Where a person that transitioned, okay, we have to be very careful because this can terminate your political career if you say it slightly off, all right?

but transitioned from man The female was on a volleyball and I saw the slam. It was a slam. I never saw a ball hit so hard, hit the girl on the head. But other people, even in volleyball, they've been permanently, I mean, they've been really hurt badly, women playing, men. But you don't have to do the volleyball.

We stop it. We stop it. We absolutely stop it. You can't have it. It's a man playing in the game, I mean physically from a muscular stand, even if it was a little bit less, maybe they do all sorts of tests and drugs and everything else.

Look at what's happened in swimming. Look at the records that are being broken. How do you stop it? Do you go to the sports leagues? Do you go to the Olympics?

You just ban it. The president bans it. You just don't let it happen.

Well, I mean, obviously, there's a little bit more nuance than, you know, he can't just ban it, but I mean, you're going to have to go through. Know something there has to. I don't know if it's like a Title IX thing or however they're going to go through it, but that's what he.

So he's, he's, he's, at least in terms of the objective that he wants to achieve, he's clearer. There. than he was when he's talking about the uh surgeries.

So I just think it's too close. And Republicans got to be so damn careful. With messaging.

So far, I don't know if that's an allowance, if parental consent, something that changes it for them. I don't know. I mean, that's like the one area where you got a lot of moderates and independents that actually grew the conservatives on. I just don't want to lose. You know, that that that That common ground there because I think we're all on the same page with it.

Coming up, Doug Emhoff. He's trying to present, he's trying to make himself seem like a beta male. But don't buy it because it's a strategy that's designed To distract from the stories where he was slapping his girlfriend. and the sexual harassment. From apparently his colleagues and all of these other new reports, to say nothing of him knocking up the nanny.

So, wait until you hear what he says. He tries to make Kamala seem so tough. And he tries to make himself seem so soft.

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So Kamala Harris blames the marijuana rescheduling delay on DEA bureaucracy. Of course, she's also having to defend her own prosecutorial record in which she put actually, I think the number ended up being like over, it ended up being something like over, what, over almost 2,000 people in jail for marijuana related offenses. But they've been reclassifying the drug through the DEA. And she says that the delay is because of just the bureaucracy in the DEA. Almost like you're the vice president.

Maybe you could have done something. I don't know. Maybe you could have done something about it. It's a possibility. Former Ozzie Osborne guitarist Jake E.

Lee. Is recovering after he was shot in Las Vegas multiple times during a, it was street dust up, apparently, according to his management. He was out walking his dog. Police say it was completely random, and they said that they're keeping private and they just announced it, and that was pretty much it. But they have nothing on suspects, nothing on what they think motivated it.

I'm sure it couldn't have been drugs, probably wouldn't have drug deal, right? Probably wasn't. Just saying. A student from China received a six-month prison term because they were one of the people taking drone photos over a naval shipyard. One time graduate student was studying agricultural engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Interesting. Who else is from Minnesota? Tim Walls, just saying, interesting. But the uh they got a six-month prison term. For flying this drone over this naval yard, and this has like been one of several stories where there have been like swarms of drones flying over military sites and things like that.

That the individual, they it was uh it has to be on court supervision, he was. On court supervision for a year after his release. It's a World War II-era statute that's part of the Espionage Act. And the individual, Feng Yoon-shi, 26 years old, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts: abuse of aircraft for unlawful photographing of a designated installation without authorization.

So interesting. Again, not the first time. Walgreens is closing over 1200 stores. The uh Drug chain is struggling to contend with online competitors and a declining and declining prescription drug payments.

So by 2027, about one in seven Walgreens currently open will close its doors. 500 will close their doors in the next year, they announced yesterday. This is a significant escalation from a few months ago when they announced that they were closing 300 underperforming locations as part of a multi-year optimization program.

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Imagine being As awkward as Doug Emhoff is. He's trying so hard to like seem soft. because of all the stories that came out about him slapping that chick. His like Girlfriend, at the time, I guess when they were in line, like the bougiest thing ever. They're in line at the Valet at Cannes Film Festival.

And he just backhands her because he got mad because somebody was He said, thought she was flirting. At least that's the report that's come in. And then, of course, there's all these colleagues, former colleagues of his that have been speaking out. And then, let's not forget, he knocked up a neony.

So I feel like he's trying to go above and beyond making himself seem soft. And as a way to Just discredit That reporting. This is how he's doing it. Listen to this. Audio soundbite 13.

Listen to what he says here. I that was right.

So it it it it was I was in LA. It was during that weekend when all the pl the planes were were down because of the software glitch.

So I had to spend an extra day in LA. I decided to go to a cycling class with some friends and it was an hour class and we were just chit-chatting. I had my phone in the Secret Service car so I didn't h have my phone. And then my friend's partner just showed me his phone with the letter from President Biden, and I'm like, gotta go, and just ran into the car. And there was my phone, literally, like, you could feel the steam, seven or eight messages, all with, you know, where are you?

Call, comma, call, comma. And it was a one-minute. or less conversation, which started with where that After you, I need you right now, and basically get to work. I mean, it doesn't really put her in the most flattering light, does it? I mean, that sounds rough, but it also, I feel like he's trying to make himself seem super soft.

I think he thinks that that plays well with the bass. And also, that helps him against all those accusations that have been coming out. I mean, really, it's um. It's I don't know. There's It's just a mess.

Th they're just a mess. They Just, I mean, he just, it makes her look really bad, I think. In the meantime. I got we have so much audio. We got audio coming in now.

I wanted to get. I'm gonna get one more of walls and then we're gonna switch to culture stuff. But I just got to play Audio Sunbite 11 because this makes him again, it's like he's trying to purposefully sound. Like A dumbass. Listen.

But he walks into this grocery store and he hands a $100 bill to a lady to pay for his groceries. Did you see this?

So I'm like thinking, I wonder what he's doing there. And then I got to thinking, I think it's just natural. Any woman he sees, he pays off because he did something on there. I'm going to, I don't know. Wow.

He just intimated that that woman was a hoe. This is what he just did. He just intimated. that thou woman, that there was some impropriety there. That's like Why say anything about it at all?

I mean, surely there is enough. If Walls wants to criticize Trump for him to criticize without doing that and dragging that poor lady in it, Waltz is, Walz isn't, he didn't give her no money. Walls ain't been giving nobody no money. Golly.

So these people are.

Alright, can we switch up and and a couple of things here? I want to Let's see, what do we have? Make sure I'm getting everything that we have here. I wanted, I got some, we're going to get into some of the culture stuff, but I have to play. This issue, this this Elise Alyssa Slockin.

Audio.

So I saw this. I actually tweeted about it this morning because that's when I first saw it was this morning. And Alyssa Slockin is Uh she was like talking smack about Mike Rogers. and she's m from Michigan and she's running for Senate. And so she tweets this or posts, I guess 'cause it's X now.

This thing where she says gun violence is the number one killer of children. Listen to her, under 21 in our country. Listen to the claim that she's making. All you need to know is gun violence is the number one killer of children under 21 in our country. Are you going to do something about it or are you not?

My opponent Doesn't want to do anything about it, right? And why? Because he is 100% rating with the gun lobby and they give him campaign donations. What is like children under 21? What the hell does that even mean?

What is children under 21? I mean The these what she's talking about are these C D C numbers. And I discussed this, I tweeted about it. The CDC defines 18, 19, and 20-year-olds as children. And they include the majority gang and drug violence from that age demo to pump up the numbers so that they can scare people, scare families into thinking that their kids are just like at any time now they're going to be statistics.

And it's going to be a mass shooting or shooting or something. They do this all the time. And so This isn't the first time that these people have been making this claim. In fact, you can go and look. I mean, the CDC, remember, the CDC also removed from their website defensive gun usage after they were pressured by the Everytown and the Brady Group and all these other gun control advocates because they said that the inclusion of defensive gun usage actually imperiled.

Their agenda, the narrative that they wanted to push, because defensive gun usages outweigh criminal usage like three to one. It's crazy. But the CDC includes 18 to through 20 year olds as kids. I mean, you're a legal adult by the age 18, but a C D C, you're a baby. Maybe that's why some of the left thinks Hunter Biden's an infant.

I don't know. But when you look at, when you take away the gang and drug violence, when you take away the 18 to 20 year olds, firearms actually aren't the biggest killer. It's vehicles and suffocation. In fact, suffocation. And one of the recent Overtook vehicle fatalities, actually, which is usually it's a vehicle.

Uh vehicle deaths. Firearm deaths and vehicle deaths, when you remove that demo. Um vehicle deaths exceed firearm deaths for like every year. Um The third of them of the firearm fatalities. For those under twenty?

18, 19, and 20 year olds. One third, actually over a third of those, involve homicide. And the 20% of that I mean they're gang related. Drug-related, and so it doesn't matter if you ban guns or not because that's The firearms that they have, they're in illegal possession of in the first place. It's not like they're going to gun stores and buying them and they can't run around with pistols, which, by the way, when you talk about the fire and fatalities from that age demo, it's handguns and they're illegally obtained handguns.

It's already illegal for an 18, 19, and 20-year-old to be running around with a handgun. And yet, when you look at the, and the FBI has statists, has data on this, if you believe it. But it's true. The handgun you, because they're not running around with rifles, they're not running around with shotguns, they're running around with handguns. And the handguns that they have are illegally obtained.

They're obtained on the black market. There's not like this huge deluge of retailers selling handguns to 18-year-olds and 19-year-olds and 20-year-olds and having them running around the city with them. They're illegally obtained.

So banning guns is not going to change that. That structure is not going to stop them from illegally obtaining them because they already illegally obtained them. That's why it's called a damn criminal act, FFS. Good grief. That's why it's a criminal act.

And furthermore, When you remove all of that, it's vehicle deaths, suffocations, and drownings. That's what ends up becoming the biggest a killer of children. like actual children, 18 and under.

So she's just lying to you on this. And I gotta tell you, I think it's soulless and ghoulish. What these people do. They lie and they purposefully misrepresent actual figures so they can just scare the hell out of people into disarmament. I think it's disgusting and soulless.

for people like Slocken. to misrepresent tragedy like this to pimp. For a political agenda, using the deaths of children to pimp for political agendas. I think it's disgusting. If she had any self-awareness, she would feel grotesquely ashamed.

and not want to be seen in public. It's just infuriating. I mean, they actually lie to you to pump up those numbers. I'm not even getting into the ones that are suicides because that's also a significant chunk. But heaven forbid we talk about mental health in this country.

Too many Democrats would be indicting themselves if we did. That's the issue.

Now, the other thing with this. From Gotta talk about some of this cultural stuff. I don't, I've never, what is this, Shark Tank? I've never watched Shark Tank. I sure as hell haven't watched Canadian Shark Tank.

Sounds even less enjoyable than just like the US version. But what struck me about this was this actor, and I don't even know who this guy is, and I forgot who he is. I think I googled him last night when I was flying to Richmond. Who the hell is this even guy? He is Nobody knows.

He's a Canadian actor. He was in some Marvel cinematic unit. Oh, nobody knows. He was, nobody knows. He does he was one of the Ken dolls in Barbie.

That's his big claim to fame. I am dead. He was one of the Ken dolls in Barbie. Was he the one that said he wanted to have he wanted a beach off Ken? I think so.

Yeah, okay, that makes sense.

So this guy is mad. over a boba tea company. And he criticizes, it's a company, I guess, that's like looking, I don't know, for sharking. And he gets mad at them and basically accuses them of appropriation. Listen to this.

His name is Simu Liu. I am studying your can and I am looking for anything that tells me where Boba came from. And where Boba came from is Taiwan. You know, I started this venture company for a lot of reasons, but really primarily to uplift minority entrepreneurs. And not only do I feel like this is not happening here, but that I would be.

Uplifting a business that is profiting off of something that feels so. Dear to my cultural heritage, I want to be a part of bringing Boba to the masses, but not like this.

So, for that reason, I'm out.

So one of the other hosts on that show kind of tears into him a little bit. He's a Chinese actor living in Canada. Shut the hell up. Like he's sitting here culturally appropriating offense over what is actually, I guess, part of Taiwan. It's bob, it's a damn drink.

You absolute moron, it's a drink. I'm going to be offended, and I'm going to say cultural appropriation because of this drink. You are. No wonder he's only like his only big claim to fame is as an extra. an extra kin in the Barbie movie because this guy's just unremarkable in every way.

He's Chinese who lives in Canada and he's mad about appropriation of boba t on behalf of all of Taiwan. I didn't realize that he was elected like king of you know all people who are of Asian descent. I didn't realize that a Chinese-Canadian actor is apparently king of everything that happens in Taiwan and gets to lecture one of those individuals, by the way, that brought it up. I think was a minority business owner, but I guess it didn't count to Sima Liu. And like, how dare you?

I mean, everything is cultural appropriation, then. You're speaking English, cultural appropriation. You're acting in a US creation, cultural appropriation. You're in Canada, Canadian appropriate. It's cultural appropriation.

I mean, we can sit here and do this all damn day. This is why this is so stupid. There's celebration and then there's appropriation. No one is appropriating by coming out with a boba tea drink. No one is appropriating Taiwanese culture.

There people, that's like if you eat, I guess what? If he's Chinese Canadian, so he can only eat Chinese Canadian food then, and only use Chinese Canadian products and only do Chinese Canadian things. Because according to him, everything else is appropriation.

So he should probably give up his career. Because that's also appropriation as well, then, isn't it? I mean, if he's a Ken doll, if he's an extra in the Keniverse. Then I mean, I don't know. I feel like all that's appropriation.

This is all so stupid. This is like, he wanted, he thought that he could get attention for himself by being offended. I mean really you're gonna you're gonna like do this to somebody over boba tea? Cheese. These people are insufferable.

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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.

So, do you guys remember the story? This was like right when Hurricane Milton was happening, right as it started. the terrified dog. That had been tied to a fence and was left in like chest-deep water during the hurricane.

Well, they found the Florida man who did it. And that he's not he was arrested. and he's now being charged with animal abuse. Police spotted the dog on the side of the highway on October 9th, right before Milton made landfall. The dog was terrified.

It was a bull terrier and he was tied to a post. He was in chest-deep flood waters. And they rescue this poor baby. They rescue the pup. They brought him back to safety.

And they he's got a home now. And thankfully, I mean, they went after the guy who did it. I was pulling this up. Uh the individual who did it. This guy, they renamed the dog Trooper and they charged the Florida man.

They arrested the Florida man. He was charged with felony animal cruelty, and he faces a few years in prison. And I think maybe they should, the next hurricane, they should tie him to a fence post and leave him in chest deep water. Honestly, that's so good on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He said that the guy who left the dock, in fact, we have this audio, don't we?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got to see it to say in this about this Florida thug who left this guy this poor pup tied to a fence during a hurricane. Yeah. Somebody does it. Decide as Hurricane Milton approached that it would somehow be a good thing to take his dog.

And chain it to a post on the interstate.

Well, we had a Florida Highway Patrol with us here today that saw that dog in distress. Dog was very rattled from that experience, rescued the dog. The dog's now in Tallahassee. It will be adopted, renamed Trooper. But we said at the time, You don't just tie up a dog and have them out there for a storm.

Totally unacceptable. And we're going to hold you accountable.

Well, I'm proud to announce that. The authorities have identified the dog's former owners, and state attorney Susie Lopez is now pursuing animal cruelty charges against the individual. Good. Good. I'm glad.

And he shouldn't be allowed to let him own another animal. That's horrible.

So I'm so happy that that had a happy ending because that could have been bad. There was a story I read of a Florida family that found their cat. They couldn't get their cat inside. They were trying to get their cat inside before the hurricane came, and cats are gonna do what cats want to do. And then they ended up having to leave.

They could not find their cat. They could not get their cats. They had to leave and seek shelter. And apparently, they did see their cat later on, like. One of those, like, door, like, um, uh, like front door cameras, and the cat was like, I guess, trying to get away from the water, and they thought the cat had been washed away, but they ended up being reunited with it.

So that's kind of crazy.

So, anyway, let's see. This, I got a couple of others, bear with me. Uh, this story, this Florida man story. Um, no, I want to do this one. Uh, oh my gosh, this is the same guy.

So, remember, Lieutenant Dan, guy who survived?

Okay, so here's the Keep He's now they're trying he's milkshake ducked. He has beneficially milkshake duck. the guy who rode out Hurricane Milton on the boat. Uh he was on a kick live stream. where he apparently dropped a slur.

And um I don't know. I guess they're now. Is he canceled? Is he canceled? I don't know.

I guess he's canceled now. I mean I probably could have warned you something like that was going to happen. Stick with us. We got a third hour on the way. Is being a good person always easy?

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Top of this third hour. We're broadcasting out at WRVA today, our affiliate in Richmond, Virginia, where we are at for an event, a station event later today.

So it's good to be with you. And don't forget, you can sign up for the newsletter over at Substack. Chapter and Verse is the name. Lots of good stuff that goes out of there on the regular. In the meantime, Kamala Harris has been on her media blitz still.

And she gave an interview. Where she was talking to Charlemagne. She gave an interview. Where she decided, you know, talking about race-based loans wasn't enough. Giving everybody money to buy a house wasn't enough.

Now We're talking about taxpayer-funded reparations, Audio Soundbite 5.

Well, first of all, on the plane of reparations, it has to be studied. There's no question about that. And I've been very clear about that position. In terms of my immediate plan? I will tell you a few of the following.

One, as it relates to the economy, which is a lot of what you have addressed. Look, I grew up In the middle of the year. My mother, you know, worked hard, raised me and my sister, and She didn't know how to answer this question. She does not know how to, it sounds like, I don't know, does it sound like she's on board with it all the way? I don't know if I believe that she's on board with it all the way.

But the fact that she's even entertaining it and isn't going, no, that's stupid. That's just stupid. You want to know why it's stupid? Because you're talking about making people who weren't even here when all this stuff, first off, it's so dumb. It's just, it's so stupid, and it ignores the participation of people who were also on the continent of Africa, who were selling their neighbors into slavery as well.

And so it's just the whole thing is stupid. And then, you know, like what happens to people if, you know, they're you know, they have one black parent and one white parent. He's like 50% go to reparations. Like, how do we do that? Like, how is that?

I mean, it's all dumb.

So she shouldn't even say, no, we're going to look at it. What she should say is that's stupid. We're not doing that. We're not making peo we're not having this discussion. That's what she should say.

But she's not. She also stole the line from SNL that SNL made fun of her for it is used again about the grown-up and the middle class and the sister and everything. Yeah, exactly, yeah. And that's, I mean, this. I don't know if this interview worked well for her.

I don't know if it did. I don't, I don't. I don't know if it did. She also said this, audio soundbite three, listen. Super.

Why are you allowing him to call you the border czar when that's not even your? No, I'm not giving him permission for that. Oh, okay. You're right. But I mean, you'll push back on it because that wasn't your role.

Fact checkers have made that clear. If I responded to every name, he called me. I wouldn't be focused on the things that actually helped you very well. It was her title because that's what they released a statement on the White House website, and they said that she was taking over. Border issues.

And not only was she taking over border issues, but she was also taking issues, taking over examining Central and South America and the Mm-hmm. Result, like some of the why is it that some people are coming across the border illegally? I mean, they know the answer. She was the, I mean, she can sit here and go, well, I wasn't technically called the czar. You were in charge of it.

Just like she's in charge of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention.

So she's the gun violence artist.

Well, I wasn't. My title doesn't say czar. It's not C-Z-A-R-like officially. It's just like rhetoric. It's just, they're playing rhetorical games.

It's dumb. Just rhetorical games. But uh this is one game where it seems like it takes This is, I don't know, audio sound byte 7. Like You know, I get it that she's trying to chase votes, but some people need to be told to shut up. Listen.

Could you please respond to Trump's claim that he's going to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to round up immigrants if he wins the election? This law was last used to put Asian Americans in internships during World War II, and I have a sneaking suspicion that if Trump wins, he's going to use this law to put anyone that doesn't look white. in camps and I'm scared. Yeah, so you've hit on a really important point and expressed it, I think, so well, which is. he is achieving his intended effect to make you scared.

That's So stupid. They're talking about the Alien Enemies Act. Which was part of the Alien and Sedition Acts, and that was established under Adams. And when they were talking about the camps to put Asian Americans on, that was literally done under a Democrat. It was a Democrat who did it.

But the Alien Enemies Act, that was supposed to expire, but then it became part of, like, it became codified. And it was. To deport non-citizens that are determined to be dangerous to the peace and the safety of the United States. And I mean, there's, you know, the history of it. It was, you know, World War I, they had Germans and other foreign nationals they put into camps.

That was the National Archives that had the history on that. Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, was the one who invoked it against. People who were from Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and he was the one who kind of kicked it into gear. And and began uh I mean, essentially detaining people through that. But further, Trump was saying that people who are here illegally will be deported.

Don't be here illegally then. I mean, I just can't take seriously the excuses of people, especially if you were brought over here as kids and you were able to apply for scholarships for college and apply for jobs. There's no excuse for you to not have also applied to become a citizen of the United States, particularly when the DRAIMER Act prevents you from being deported during that whole process. There's zero excuse. Absolutely none.

So at some point it's just willful, it's out of spite and willful rejection of lawful behavior. To not follow through and take advantage of the multitude of opportunities provided to you by Democrats who had not, they literally froze deportations for people who were brought over under the DRAIMERS Act, and people could file and they become citizens and they could not be deported. But yet, there were so many people who they chose just not to do that. But they could file and they could get student loans and they could file and apply to colleges and they could apply for jobs and all this other stuff, but you couldn't apply to be a citizen of the United States. I mean, just, you know, I mean, your priorities, you screwed yourself.

But to to deport people who are here illegally. I find it Incredibly ironic. that Democrats think that it's impossible To round up people who enter the country illegally and deport them, but they think it's perfectly possible to go and round up. Legally owned firearms from millions and millions and millions of people and confiscate them through a mandatory action. The irony of it.

But the people who, you know, the scariness, and Steve, I don't know if we have or if we saw that Joy Behar audio. Because I think that was from this morning. On the view. I don't really watch the view. I don't watch it.

The only time I Seen it. In fact, the only times I've ever seen it are when I've guest hosted it. And like when cuts like this kind of get crazy. And and s start making the news.

So apparently Joy Behar was like I guess. continuing and encouraging this stuff. And she was on saying that Trump was going to what, use the military to kill progressives or something to that effect. Do we have this? She was saying that he was going to use the military to go and kill progressives and and I don't even know where this stuff is coming from.

I don't know where people get this nonsense that I mean, they're just like making stuff up To scare voters.

So they can't sell you using policies.

So they're going to try to make you think that he's going to come kill you otherwise. Listen. I was watching interviews with MAGA supporters. They do not believe that he will do what he says he's going to do. That is what we're up against.

So if you say he's going to be dictator on day one, he wants to punish with the air forces, whatever we have, the armed forces, he wants to punish people who disagree with him, like people like us.

Okay, and they say, Oh, he's not going to do that. He's going to take us out of NATO. No, he's not going to do that.

So, it's very hard for us to talk to these people because they refuse to believe. And I guess they're hearing it on Fox or LTE. Interesting. Oh, for the love. Where do they get the whole thing he was going to take us out of NATO?

He actually expanded it. And there were people who were criticizing him, that were on the right, who criticized him for that. Like, where do they get? I mean, they just make this stuff, they just pull the stuff out of their ass. Where do they get this stuff?

I mean, it's just stupid. None of this stuff is real. That's not a real. I mean, so they're just scaring people for the sake of. Scaring them?

I mean, what is the point of this stuff? You're fear-mongering because you don't have anything else to recommend yourself to voters. That's a problem. That's a real problem. I don't know.

I'm just telling you. This uh It's a I I don't know whatever happens in November. And I was telling you the Rasmussen survey that came out, and how it was like 56% of Americans. when they were asked if they were better off now. Than they were four years ago, it was no.

I mean, that's the question that Reagan asked going up against Carter in 1980.

Well, people have their answer, resoundingly, they have their answer. They are not better off. And they're feeling the pain, and it's going to get worse. I found this story interesting, and this is kind of related to it because it's like economic and. it kind of gets into its consumerism.

Now most people don't pay attention to this kind of stuff, but this caught my interest because China.

So I saw this headline: LVMH. LVMH is a luxury group. In fact, Salma Hayek's husband I forgot what his name is, Henri, whatever. It's um Moe, Hennessy, Louis Vuitton, it's a holding company, it's a huge conglomerate. And they do luxury goods, right?

And they do all kinds of designer goods. Balenciaga, which nobody likes because they're like groomers, and it's true. Balenciaga, they do Makeup Forever. I know you've seen that brand. They do like jeweler, Bulgari.

They have all kinds of other luxury brands. They own a lot. I think they. They uh they own Fenty, Rihanna's uh fashion house. I think that they ended up taking over Solomon Cartney.

They own almost everything, they own so much. And I was looking at this. Because one of the things that the CCP used In like some of their propaganda in like entertainment and you know in influencing is consumerism. And they like their people to always be seen with like luxury goods and all this kind of stuff.

Well, To that effect, apparently there's been a bottoming out.

So, the headline is that LVMH sales, they have a huge sales miss. It's clear negative. for luxury, and it's sparking global growth concerns. Their shares tumbled as much as almost 8% today, the lowest level in over two years. They missed estimates for third quarter organic sales, and they're seeing a worsening slowdown in China.

They said it's the weakening Chinese consumer. sequentially weakening Chinese consumer. And they said that the largest division, fashion and leather, and that's like where the big. I guess the power of their luxury holdings, it's centralized. They said demonstrated the deacceleration in spending from the Chinese cluster.

So, China, which was like bragging about, look, we're not that communism's not bad. Look at how many of our people can afford luxury goods.

Well, nobody's been because they can't. Their economy is bottoming out. They said their management highlighted a deterioration in performance of the Chinese cluster. They said that there was only modest improvement in trends in both the United States and Europe, but the biggest hit came from China. Isn't that interesting?

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These pandas are spies. Two giant pandas bound for the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. have left the Chinese city of Chengdu for their long journey to a new home. A cargo jet operated by FedEx. Which means it's probably going to run late.

Is transporting the pair, both three years old, according to the AP. They cited the China Wildlife Conservation Association. Are we sure we're not getting the dogs painted to look like pandas? Because that was a thing at one point over in there. The pair, one female and one male, King Bao, and the males Bao Li, are going to arrive almost a year since they left.

The last giant pandas left DC. It's a conservation project with Beijing. It's panda diplomacy. These pandas are going to be spies. the same.

Plus I'm not sure. Unemployed people are going to be given weight loss jabs to get them back to work. What? This is over in Britain. This is one of the things they're looking at.

The health secretary, Secretary West Street team, said the widening waistbands were pacing a burden on the national health system. And so they actually were looking to give them all like weight loss shots as a way to like try to get people back to work. I don't really think that that's how it works. You're just creating another. Giant entitlement net, just the FYI.

The FBI says that ISIS. Was behind the foiled mass shooting plot on election day. Remember this? This was from 2021. And they, now it's just like finally coming out.

But the FBI had arrested Nasir Tawidi in Oklahoma last week. They were saying that he was planning to purchase two rifles and gonna carry out this attack. And he was apparently affiliated with ISIS-K, which is the Afghan branch of ISIS. And Tawidi had previously worked as a security guard for the CIA in Afghanistan. Oh, that's nice.

And he apparently did not undergo vetting. By the State Department for Special Immigrant Status, SIV. The FBI said it tracked him donating to an ISIS-connected charity and viewing ISIS propaganda online. And apparently, he also was legit in contact with ISIS-K people.

So they arrested him. And apparently, now the administration admits that they never checked him, they never fully vetted him. And he was literally given SIV status after he arrived in the United States. Yeah, we're definitely not vetting. Bill Clinton wasn't wrong.

We're not betting people, just saying. Can't believe I just said Bill Clinton wasn't wrong. Only because it's a problem for Harris Walt. Two comets are going to be visible in the night skies this month. None of them will hit us.

Halloween visitors, this is from that Uort cloud I was telling you about.

So they say there are going to be visible, and I can't, I'm not even going to say the names of them. Basically, Comet C and then another one, A3. They said they're going to be October 12th, is the day that it's closest to the Earth.

So look to the western sky shortly after sunset. And then you'll be able to apparently see Them.

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All I know is it's polar. Polar Express just like chew-chewed by. We made up to 58. Oh my gosh, that's like fire parka weather. This is, I am, okay, I am such a baby, you guys.

Like, I don't. I'm not a baby about really anything except this. Like the moment. it gets cold. If it's like super cold, I will be like But we went from ninety degrees in my defense in Dallas to 58, you said?

Yeah, it was it was 80 here on Sunday. You just brought the cold with you. This is the coldest day of the fall. I didn't I came from where it's 90. I didn't bring I didn't bring the cold with me.

What? And it's like, am I correct? Or is my tech broken? It said like 40-something degrees this evening? When we got coffee this morning, it was 41.

I think it was 41. That's That's nuts. That's like legitimately crazy. That's That is like fire and soup. And coats.

And all in like Han solo attire, you know, that's like when all the girls wear boots and leggings. It's what it's called, leggings. No one says leggings. No one says that.

So, welcome back to the program. We're at the bottom of this third hour. And, yeah, we have a fun event tonight. It's what do they call it? Politics and pints, and I don't have no idea what to expect.

I have no idea what to expect. The way that they're the way that they sell it, it's like a fist fight in a theater. We're all gonna be throwing punches and stuff. I'm joking, slightly, slightly joking. No, it should be very interesting.

It'll be interesting. I think that we can all Pretty much. Is everybody just like. I don't want to speed towards the holidays, but I feel like everybody wants this election to be over. And like I have a friend who put up their Christmas tree already.

It's not even Halloween. I mean not You know, I Their defenses. I guess I just love Jesus so much. I'm like, I'm not, stop it. You're just doing it because you want your Christmas stuff up.

Because everything is weird, and you want to not be weird, and you want the nostalgia of Christmas. Just be honest about it. But It does feel like You know, and we were just talking about this. Steve's in the studio with me here in Virginia on break. And this is like the longest election of memory of ever.

I don't know of any election that has ever lasted so long. And the crazy thing is that they just put in a new candidate a couple months ago, and it's the weirdest thing ever. And it's made it seem like it's longer. when they did that. It made it seem like it's longer.

They had What's Her Face's funeral? Was it her funeral today, Ethel Kennedy? Yeah. One of the Steve is like he knows her, yeah, Ethel's Ethel's. Ethel's funeral.

It's my homegirl Ethel. She's a Kennedy. There's a lot of Kennedys in politics, so make sure we know which one we're talking about. They all don't, not all of them win, that is for sure. But um yeah, they had all of them there and then there was a funny video.

of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, who is significantly significantly grayer. Standing shoulder to shoulder, and you can't really hear anything. But It I I really want to know what they're saying. I really would love to know what they're saying. And it's kind of hard to read lips because Biden doesn't really move his face.

He's like Terrence and Phillip character, where it's just his jaw opens and closes, and he doesn't actually move his lips around to form words.

So I don't know what he's saying. Like his mouth moves a little bit. And It feels like Obama is It just seems like he's fed up or tired or something. I don't know. Like, one of the jokes is.

Biden asked Obama, can I endorse Trump? I want to endorse Trump. And Obama's like, no, you can't do that. Stop it. Stop it.

So I don't know, but it's but they were both there together and they were. having some words. It looked like they were having a serious conversation. I kind of wonder what they were talking about. Michelle Obama is expected to go to Georgia.

To stump for Kamala Harris, but I don't know what all that's going to do. I mean, what are you going to go out there and tell people? Oh, abortions and abortions, and you're women, so you have vaginas, and you got to support other people that you got to support people based on how your genitals match. That's the rule. According to Democrat Women, do your genitals match?

Then you have to support. It's the dumbest rule ever. It's the weirdest matching game I've ever seen, but that's what the left does. Nope, that's how we gotta vote. We're playing the matching game.

That's not you should want. To go with the person who's actually like most qualified, not well, that person has a penis, and uh, so do I, so I guess I gotta vote for him. That's not how this works, it's just so weird. But that's they play this weird game. Weird game.

But I don't know. Georgia will be an interesting state. It's going to be an interesting state, and Democrats have been making a play for Georgia almost at the expense. Pennsylvania. And I still argue that I need Tim Wallace and just tanked.

Just tanked her momentum. I think Tim Walls just totally tanked her campaign. I honestly think that they would have, if they would have picked Josh Shapiro, I think it would have been a lot more competitive. But they also couldn't run the risk of him looking more intelligent than her. And so that's why they didn't do it.

They didn't, they, and because he's Jewish, honestly. Let's be real. That's why. Because they're all terrified over the whole Israel Hamas thing Democrats are, and they're trying to figure out how to make, you know, dear born to stand happy. That's really what it is.

I don't know. I was looking at, speaking of Harris. The plagiarism scandal still plagiarizes. plaguing her. The Washington Post is now trying to say that she didn't really plagiarize it.

because electronic research is common. That's literally what they said. Electronic Research. has become more common. What I read is, she's too stupid.

to figure out how to use quotation marks. Those little lines That are like two in a row, and they're like on your keyboard next to the letters. Those are quotation marks. Why did she have just used those, but she didn't?

So they're still defending her, but I feel like it's just less. I feel like it's less um Oh, that's what I'm looking for. Uh not purposeful, but It just doesn't it's it's half hearted, half attempted.

Meanwhile, apparently we are now giving another $425 million in weapons to Ukraine. But hey, All the hurricane people, you get 750. 750 for the hurricane folks. But we're giving weapons too. Ukraine.

They're not even, from what I understand, they're not even buying them. Like, Israel actually. Gibbs Money. in exchange for goods. And Taiwan.

wants to do that as well. And in the meantime, we're just like handing over stuff to Ukraine. along with all of the other billions of dollars that we've given.

So, yay, I love how that just like slips in right before her, you know, big uh her big interviews and then the other thing that she's doing, all this stuff before it all, like like that's used for cover.

Well, 'cause it is. A couple of other things to touch on as well. I was reading this piece in the Atlantic. This is actually a sentence. Quote.

The shoplifting surge is real. People think it's okay to steal, and no one knows how to stop them. That is an actual Peace. It's from the Atlantic. And They act like they We just don't know what to do.

The people they're stealing. Um I mean, I've got some ideas, by the way. I mean, I think that. We're just all out of ideas. How do we stop the?

I mean, we, you know what we used to do when people would steal? and uh you would arrest them. And depending on what they were stealing and how much, they would go to Jaley McJail. That's what used to happen. Um but now You know how how people think it's okay to steal 'cause no one goes to jail anymore.

In fact, some states like California, they've decided to reduce penalties. They've reduced misdemeanors to nothing and felonies to misdemeanors. I mean This writer was like complaining about basic everyday items being kept behind lock and key. I wonder why that is. I wonder why.

She was saying that literally the deodorants were behind. The a locked door, a plexiglass door. A razor. Lock behind a plexigrass plexiglass door. And She said that you have to press a button for someone to come.

and like let you have the product there. And she said the result: three paying customers sacrificed to the war on shoplifting. There isn't a war on shoplifting by very nature of the fact that they got to. Put this stuff behind locked doors. People aren't going to jail for it.

You're going to bitch and moan, even though you supported that exact enforcement that led to this. I love it when people are forced to meet the consequences of their actions. Nothing makes my heart swell more with joy. Bitch and moan about it, Atlantic. You have to sit here and wait for your dove deodorant because you celebrate the kind of lawlessness that comes that's created, that's perpetrated, that's encouraged by the sort of policies that you support.

So, yeah, I mean, when you're not sending people to jail for like bum rushing into stores and stealing stuff, what do you think is going to happen? I guess we just don't know how to make people stop Stop stealing. I just don't know how. Yeah, we've got a million ideas. It's not a problem in every city, it's not a problem in cities where you don't.

where you just you know stop enforcing the law. Good grief. Are people really? Yes, people, I'm going to answer my own question. Yes, people are really that stupid.

I mean, but that's sort of what, you know, for instance, there's a story over, I was reading, um, A good piece of what red state.

So one of the this this multi-murderer And this story is crazy. It's a multi-murderer. This in 2004, a 57-year-old man named Thomas and his wife Jackie, who was 47, they had a 55-foot yacht. And they worked hard, they built themselves up, they had a family, they were getting ready to have. Uh uh their grandchild.

They decided to sell their boat. They placed an ad. And a convicted felon, this 24-year-old guy named John Jacobson. Answered the ad. And he brought his wife and kid to the next meeting as part of the ruse.

And then he and his criminal friend showed up at the dock for a test drive. And when they were out at sea with Thomas and Jackie, Jacobson and his friends overpowered them. They tortured them until they signed the title of the boat over and gave up all of their bank account information. and then they tied the couple to the boat's anchor and pushed them overboard. And then they spent the rest of the day fishing.

They were only caught after they tried to access. the couple's bank accounts.

So, Jacobson was tried for the Hawks murder at the same time as another murderer, a man who had his throat slit. Jacobson slit another man's throat. And Jacobson didn't dispute that he murdered any of them. And he five years after he drowned them. Jacobson was sentenced to death.

And so Then, um Now there's the story of It gets this is where it gets weird. He decided that he wanted to change his gender and go by Schuyler.

So, Jacobson didn't get the death penalty. His sentence was commuted to life. And the state of California, at the time, under Kamala Harris as the top cop. who supported this. Jacobson claimed that he was born in the wrong body, so he wanted to have his name changed and he wanted to have sex change surgeries in California.

pays for all that and Kamala Harris has celebrated it.

So they're celebrating a sex change surgery that taxpayers paid for for a multiple convicted multiple murderer. And She is, she has been in full-throated support. In fact, she brags. that she played a key role. In California and changing its policy.

And her statement was: quote, so that every transgender inmate in the prison system has access to the medical care that they deserve and need. an issue of humanity. She actually said that. I mean, no mention of the humanity for the people that Jacobson killed. Oh, and by the way, Jacobson is being put in the women's prison now because he's a woman.

So he says. Yeah, this is This is part of the whole lawlessness and disorder. And people are shocked about it, and then they're shocked when they got deodorant behind locked doors. Seriously? We have more on the way as we roll towards the conclusion of this third hour.

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So we have this Politics and Pints event. Here in uh for WRVA. In Richmond tonight. And I've never done one of these. And I don't know what to expect.

All I know. Is that As we get closer to the election, people are getting so hyped up. Like I said something about the seven hundred and fifty dollars. from uh FEMA. On on X.

Where we're giving millions of dollars again to Ukraine, and then here you go: hurricane victims, you get 750. And someone was like, that's a Trump lie.

Someone on the right. That's a Trump lie. Why? It's like, this is not a Trump lie. I literally know people who live in these flipping areas, and this is like, I've heard it from them myself.

And they've got to pay it back. Like, I literally know people's, and some of them don't even actually get $7.50.

Some of them get like less than. I think it's like up to $7.50, what they can get.

So that's like not a lie. Like, where are these people? Like, I get it. Like, there's going to be some people who like Trump and some people who dislike Trump. And, oh my gosh.

I just need the people who dislike people to just slow their roll on me. Cause as we look, I get hyped up too before election. But I may not be as nice. I'm just like, oh my gosh, like, just con, like, that's a Trump lie. It's actually not a Trump lie.

I mean, if you want to get mad at Trump for something, get mad at him for something that's like real, but that's actually not a Trump lie.

So Yeah, like that's you know Just not gonna. And then the people who were mad because I had said something about, you know, well, we don't really want any. Transgender operations with or without parental consent.

Someone was like, Oh, you're just giving the government an invitation. No, we like it's child abuse. That's how you got to look at it. And that, what are you saying? That parents can just be, you can just beat the hell out of a kid in the middle of the street.

I mean, there's that some of the big capital L libertarian stuff is so stupid, it makes me feel like I've just obliterated my brain without the fun of drinking the alcohol that would normally accompany it. Just like quit. The illogic is killing my soul. killing my soul. You're making me feel Daria-like, more so than, you know.

Normal, and I'm in a rock studio right now, which is nice. And I'm looking at a sign Ray J poster.

So it's like weird and also I don't know. I like that. Part of me wants to steal it. Do you think they would know if I just took it off? They probably wouldn't care.

I mean, I don't like Ray J. I can't tell you anything. Does he sing? It was anything like a full-like, what was he doing? What did he do?

Isn't that Brady's brother? I don't know. Okay, well, anyway, I just think it'd be funny. It's funny, and nobody would know. Nobody would know.

Shh, don't tell anybody. Nobody can hear us. We're in here quiet. It's all we're all by ourselves. All right.

Today's stupidity. Steve, I say the best for last. Joy Reid is on some speaking panel. I don't know where she is or why she's talking about it. She's on ACID.

It's about democracy and American values. Jesus invited me. This is what she thinks fascism is all about. The elements of fascism are rooted in this nationalistic drive for more babies for the state, for a strong man-driven nation, and a deep sort of state-based religiosity.

So I do believe we have a media problem, and we do have some of our media that is leading people toward fascism. These people are insane. That's dumb stuff. They're having babies for the state. Or maybe they just want to make sure that we can support old bad boomers like Joy Behar as they age.

I don't know, just the thought. Folks, have a wonderful evening. I will see some of you in Richmond tonight at the WRVA Pints and Politics event. And for the rest of you, I will be back behind the mic.

next week.

So have a wonderful rest of your evening. God bless.