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A new poll was recently released that reveals a SHOCKING number of Liberals want to see Elon in the clink - what he did to potentially deserve that treatment, no one knows. Why would they be trying to incarcerate the world’s richest man and one of the biggest proponents for free speech?Show more We’re covering this and MORE on today’s episode of The Rift Report!
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Okay, so that video actually, by the way, it's old.
It's from February 11th, but it's still going on.
I want to jump into this.
So we have a lot of issues going on in our country, and a poll came out, right?
I mean, the last time I enjoyed seeing a poll, it was at a strip club, but other than that, I'm like pretty much not into this.
And let's just talk about this.
So RiftTV.com reports this poll.
80% of liberal Americans want Elon Musk thrown in prison.
Check this out.
Elon Musk's efficiency crusade has liberals fuming.
81% want him locked up for his Doge role per a new pool, with 71% of Democrats backing prison and 68% wanting him banned from government.
The left's fascism is on full display.
Interesting.
A new poll reveals that a jaw-dropping 81% of self-described liberals want the billionaire Doge chief behind bars simply for his role in the Department of Government Efficiency.
A Rasmussen Report Harlan Institute survey found that 71% of Democrats and 81% of self-identified liberals favor a hypothetical law that would imprison Musk for his Doge involvement.
Additionally, 68% of Democrats back banning Musk from any government role.
That's Rasmussen, which is supposed to be a bipartisan polling factor.
Now, in contrast, 75% of respondents who voted for Trump in last year's presidential election have a favorable view of Musk.
The left supports tyranny, contends Justin Haskins, the poll's primary author and a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute.
The fact that a majority of Democratic voters would support imprisoning Elon Musk for trying to make government more efficient is a shocking indictment of the modern left, which has become increasingly more tyrannical in recent years.
Askins notes in an analysis of the Rasmussen survey, we've reached a point where many Americans would rather unjustly punish innovation than fix the broken system Musk was trying to reform.
Why do liberal and Democratic voters want Elon Musk behind bars?
Well, since President Trump's inauguration, January 2025, you put me on the screen too with this too for the good old viewers there.
Elon Musk has slashed federal inefficiencies as a Doge chief.
He's overseen the elimination of 12 redundant federal agencies, saving an estimated $100 billion annually, according to a March 2025 White House report.
Musk's team implemented AI-driven audits, identifying $45 billion in misallocated funds within Department of Education and redirecting them to infrastructure.
His push for transparent budgeting has forced 28 agencies to publish real-time expenditure data online, a first in U.S. history.
Musk has also negotiated a 15% reduction in federal contractor fees, saving taxpayers $22 billion over three years.
And the left isn't just dreaming of gulags for innovators like Musk.
They're hell-bent on destroying him and his companies.
Mr. Hennessy, it is very strange that of the very few accomplishments I feel like that Musk actually has accomplished or that the entire Trump administration has has been these government cuts.
And we know these are all slush funds to pay off their friends.
But what you really find at the core of this is because people view the government on the left like it's their husband, like it's their daddy.
You know, there's a sort of like a toxic authoritarian relationship like where they feel like you're cutting off their family from the grocery store, right?
You're cutting off daddy's money.
And it's not even their money directly.
It's weird because a lot of these guys are rich liberals and they pay a lot of taxes.
They don't like taxes, but they also don't like seeing their money be saved either, meaning that they think that government is God and that by cutting this, you're sort of reducing the good in the world, right?
So by reducing government spending, you're reducing what good can happen in your country.
And the left actually used to be a party who was against government full control and it was more about freedom.
It's straight far from that.
And it's more of a derangement syndrome we're running into.
Me personally, if someone's saving me money, you know, that's a wonderful thing.
I love it.
And the fact that they're allowing the free speech should be something great.
But the thing is, is that since he's aligned with Trump, Orange Man bad, and since the news are telling them that they need to be angry about this and how this is a complete outrage, what they do is they just stick on whatever the news says instead of, you know, actually thinking about the topic and seeing the benefits that our country is having.
But on the side note, I think it's pretty damn good that he cut billions of dollars in funding, federal contract spending.
Like a lot of spending isn't just cutting programs.
He's cutting the amount that you're paying contractors, which should be generally praised because people are overcharging the government.
Everybody knows that you overcharge the government.
And the fact that he's not, you know, not trying to, you know, exhaust our finances, I think it's crazy.
You know, I get upset when I owe like 10 grand at the end of the year on my taxes.
And he's saving us $22 billion, which, by the way, gives us more money that we can send to foreign countries.
So the left should be very happy because now we have more money to send to Ukraine, more money to send to Israel, more money to send anywhere.
In fact, now that Canada hates us, maybe we should start sending them money too, because that seems to be what we do is we find countries that don't have our best interests in mind and we pour cash into their military economies.
I'm just wondering, do people not realize when you see your check and that money going somewhere that that's not even what's paying for all of our life?
We're in trillions of dollars in debt.
They're just printing money.
You know what I mean?
So we have to cut spending because if we cut spending, we can slow inflation.
But we also have to cut off the Federal Reserve as well, because as long as they can print money, they continue to inflate our dollar regardless because they don't even need our tax money anymore.
Yeah, the Federal Reserve needs to be audited in itself.
But the fact that they're kicking back, pushing back, and they just want to give endless amount of money to our federal government, our government, pretty much everything the government does, most of the time they fail on.
And what they're doing is they're failing with the money that we're providing to them.
As you said, we have endless wars that we're paying for.
We're paying for gender classes in other countries.
And we're just wasting all this money.
But if we look around and we see what the U.S. is going through, we're being destroyed from within.
We have people who are struggling.
We see our streets are becoming corrupt and crazy.
And there's so much better places we can be putting this money, but it seems like it's just an endless amount of money that we want to give the government just for them to waste.
And unfortunately, the government sucks at a lot of stuff that they try to control and think that's for the better good.
Tech and Elon Musk really showing contempt for the government and its approach on this issue.
What's your take on the tech billionaire?
So when it comes to the tech billionaire, like I've already said, I think he's a social media knob with no social conscience.
He has absolutely no social conscience.
Someone like that should be in jail and the key be thrown away.
That blake should not have a right to be out there on his own ideology platform and creating hatred, you know, showing all this stuff out there to our kids and doing all the rest.
I'm very interested to watch what the US is going to do with TikTok and how far that they can do.
We're trying to get rid of that platform as well.
So I think we're all watching on the United States at the moment to see what they're doing.
But seriously, if we can move and if that means in the next sitting that we can shut him down from doing this, because this is stressful.
Kick the platform out.
I don't give a stuff about the platform.
I'm happy to go for a platform today, to be honest with you.
I already have a list of all you journalists.
I don't even know why we're on the platform.
But I say this to everybody else.
I'll be switching off X today.
I'll be doing that before I get to the airport this afternoon.
And I suggest that the other 226 is 227 members of parliament do the same thing and show them that you mean business.
Because when you want to lead by example, it has to happen from here.
It has to happen from here.
So start switching off X. Start throwing it back at him.
Yeah, so like I'm mentally retarded enough that I can actually get money.
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But okay, so conclusion on that statement, though, that's what I meant.
It's like they rely on the government.
And so you see in a socialist country that they have the same mentality as a leftist here because cutting government spending means cutting off daddy.
It's like daddy's money might not be available.
And those of us that are independent that are just taxpayers, we don't want to live in a world like that.
And I'm not surprised coming from this lady from police state.
I know that in Australia, they have all the speech hate speech laws you were telling me about that are coming out where if you just even offend somebody that you have a chance of going to jail, which is ridiculous.
And, you know, if she leaves X, which I hope she left already, my heart is not going to be broken for this.
So, you know, that there's no harm, no foul there.
I'm not, I really don't care.
But the reason why people gravitated toward X, the reason how we've gotten to this point is because of the propaganda that people like that new station want to put out.
We're tired of having false lies shoved down our throats and the American people, the Australian people, a lot of different countries had to come forward and then fill that void of actually speaking the truth, being the light in the darkness and not allowing the manipulation to continue.
So of course, big organizations like that would love for us to get off the platform.
They would love for us just to be mindless people who just turn on the TV and whatever the news organizations say in unity, we have to agree.
We have to just roll over and, you know, as if everything they say is facts.
No, we're at a point now across the world where we've all lost faith in mainstream media.
We know that it's just a bunch of lies.
So we need platforms like X.
We need platforms where people can actually speak the truth and just be done with the propaganda.
And that's what drives them the most because they know they're losing the control.
You know, I'll just end here in saying, oh, there's this last tweet here from somebody named Snowflake News.
And it says this.
UK mass arrests citizens for memes.
France arrests founder of Telegram.
Ireland tries to ban mean memes.
Brazil forces X to flee the country.
Australia tries to censor X posts.
EU tries to blackmail Elon Musk.
DOJ fails someone for a meme or jail someone.
Maduro blocks all access to X. Free speech is under attack all across the globe.
And that is true, though.
I think the universality of free speech being under attack is it's about destroying the white monoculture.
You know, people use the word racist to define white people.
You know that, right?
Like we'll talk about later some of these Boers that are supposed to be coming over from South Africa.
People are saying we don't want them here because we don't want racists.
What?
Because they're white.
They're racist.
That's what's been taught to our kids, that white people are all racist, that they have internal racism.
So that word racist, I want to remind people, is just an anti-white phrase made to demonize white people in our country, which by the way, founded and built the nation, should be respected, should be appreciated.
And also, this is their country.
They built it.
They're the majority.
And people are coming in and they want to take what they didn't build.
They want to reap the benefits, kind of like what we see in Australia.
So the moment that the money gets cut off, they're going to get really upset because they didn't come here to build, right?
They're not coming here to start a country.
They're coming into a system already built.
They're not founding new cities.
They're just coming in, jumping into a financial capital system.
And then they're trying to destroy the white culture that, you know, is predominant in the nation.
And they want to keep this very gay, liberal, atheist culture pushed by people like Colin Wright and James Lindsay, which is, you know, to prevent any civic nationalist ideas, not let alone even actually Christian nationalist or real nationalist views to ever get into the spotlight.
Better your kid is just bisexual and, you know, you have sexual experiences with them.
So, I mean, it's not even the fact that they come here to reap the rewards.
It's what's happening to our country.
First off, white people are being ashamed for being white.
It's supposed to be like it's the most dangerous thing.
We hear our politicians talk about it all the time.
Our children are taught that they should be shameful just because of their skin color.
And there's all these privileges.
And white is the most demographic that's tacked the most.
So to say that you want your country to remain the majority of what his founding fathers is should not be controversial.
If any other country came forward and said that, if Mexico came forward and said that, if another country came forward and said that, nobody would complain.
But the fact that we say that majority should stay the same, you know, in America, which is, you know, whites were the originals, that should not be so controversial.
And there's benefits to having the original culture stay the same because then you have less people separating from each other.
You have more unity.
And that's what got our country to this point.
But what happens is they come here.
They want us to change our policies to be these corrupt policies, as you mentioned.
And then not only do they do that, they try to destroy our history.
They're ripping down our monuments.
They want to replace everybody in films and movies to be some other culture, to be some other nationality.
You know, I'm seeing the black Vikings and the black crippled gay king of England.
Trump is doing some other good as well, though, in conjunction with this.
He's actually lowering prescription prices.
This is an interesting attack.
So, Trump has sort of flipped the switch, right?
He's sort of been in line with sort of like the global Zionist regime.
Then he flips on Netanyahu, which we'll talk about in a little bit, and then goes to war against the pharmaceutical companies.
It seems like if there's any two groups of people where your life could be in danger, it would be going against Netanyahu's government and the pharmaceutical companies, let alone at the same time.
These are not people you want to mess with, right?
They're known to assassinate.
They're known to kill.
And it's an odd time.
And I wonder what it has to do with.
I wonder if him going after, we'll connect it, but maybe him going after Netanyahu is why he's going after the pharmaceutical companies because maybe some of the same people that support that government also run the pharmaceutical companies.
So to say it lightly, and so maybe he's trying to hit these people in the purse saying, hey, we're going to crush not just the temple, but we're going to come for the pillars as well, right?
You thought it was bad in 400 AD with Rome, you know, or was it 70 AD?
Because at that time, they had a very stupid president and it really went crazy during the last four years.
And remember this: the Democrats are the ones that allowed this to happen.
They were the ones that were the protector of this pricing system.
And I think it's going to be very hard.
You'll have to ask Democrats: are they going to vote against the one great, big, beautiful deal that's being negotiated now, tax cuts, et cetera?
When now, on top of the tax cuts and regulation cuts, all the things, now you're going to say that the price of your medicine is going down by 60, 70, 80%.
You're going to vote against it?
I think a lot of Democrats are going to be forced to do something that their leaders are going to beg them not to do, and that's vote for the bill.
I don't see how they can vote against it.
How can they vote against it when drug prices, drugs, and pharmaceuticals are going to be down 70, 80%?
It doesn't sound like he's necessarily just fighting for the American people.
There's something more sinister.
And I don't know if it's bad or good, but I mean, I have my, I don't know what your projections are, but I think that this has to do with his other act.
I do hope that we're getting to that point where it's more America first.
Could it be tied into the whole Netanyahu and all those other connections?
There's a good possibility it can.
But the one thing we do have to do is we do have to stop the pharmaceutical industry.
The way that the pricing is outrageous.
The way that they've been poisoning the American people is just nuts.
It's like I heard we're one of the only countries that have the commercials to talk us into buying the products.
And most of those other countries, that's banned.
But here we allow our people to be poisoned daily.
You know, instead of actually solving problems, what we do is we just give another prescription.
And we see also the poisoning that's happening to our children.
You know, children get X amount of shots when they're born, and most of them they don't eat.
Some are even protecting against STDs.
There's no reason a baby should get a shot to protect against STDs.
But what it is, it's a money-making business.
So what they do is they push it, they push it, they push it.
And we've seen how they're tied into our federal government.
I mean, with COVID, just the craziness that was there protecting them, saying that we can't sue these vaccine manufacturers no matter what happens, but trust the science.
But if you get poisoned, you can't sue them.
But trust that it's safe and effective.
You know, our government has been retwined with this.
And what you do have is you do have other politicians who are speaking against it.
And I think it just kind of shows, you know, their true colors, you know, which people I'm not fans of, but you have Elizabeth Warren is speaking out against this, which she's one of the biggest donors from pharmaceutical industries paying her off and a bunch of others.
So this is something we have to take serious.
You know, our country is being poisoned daily through pharmaceutical, through foods, through multiple sources.
And we need to, we need, I mean, that's what people want.
They want to make America healthy again.
That's why people are so excited about RFK coming into office.
So, you know, I hope that there are pure intentions.
If it's just to make Netanyahu mad, I don't know.
But I do hope there are pure intentions here.
And I do think that we need to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry because enough's enough.
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Well, Mendoza, are you standing up to the pharmaceutical industry?
Well, I mean, I was going to say going to Walmart is like a prime example of that, not to be not to be elitist or anything, but just every time I go to Walmart.
And, you know, I mean, you know, some people have been put have been put into that situation, but, you know, sometimes maybe even not because I mean, people always say, oh, well, you know, it's expensive to eat well.
It's expensive to eat organic.
But I mean, I constantly see a lot of these gymbrotypes who show this is how you do like a grocery haul for like 150 bucks to like last you two weeks.
Like, I mean, ground beef is cheap.
Eggs are cheap.
Vegetables are cheap.
And like, you know, I've seen a video too before of like people getting like people who work at grocery stores and they'll like see like an avocado like rolls out of the organic section and then they'll just put back into the other regular section and vice versa.
So I think sometimes some of those things are kind of just like marketing.
It's kind of played up a little bit, but it's not hard to, it's not hard to make better decisions.
You know, maybe you work a lot.
Maybe, you know, like your time, your schedule doesn't allow itself.
But I think this whole thing with not being able to eat well is kind of just like a psyop.
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No, but as we were talking about that, you know, what was funny is, is check this out.
We're at the gym.
We're recording.
I don't even have sound on for this, but we were putting some stuff up here because people were mad.
These are 100s, right?
We can push down pretty easily.
We can do 10 reps.
You know, we've been going up in a lot of strength, Joey and I, our editor, and just kind of going in.
But I pointed out here, I guess people were really mad about this, that when I go up a little higher to 115 or 110 actually here, you know, I can get quite a bit of reps in, but then I start to get like shaky because, you know, it takes so much energy to push these weights up.
Now, my favorite part about this was whenever you post something about exercise, everyone's suddenly an expert, you know, in the comments.
And you have a ton of guys with fat profile pictures that are like completely out of shape trying to tell me what I'm doing is wrong.
And then I write back, can you lift that much weight?
Well, no, but your elbows should be tucked in a little more.
And it's like, well, you don't, do you even exercise?
My point is, is like, I noticed when you make healthy choices or when you talk about the healthy choices you're making, or at least just like show your lifestyle, there's usually a negative response in the America.
I don't know if you've seen this on social media.
Like even if you're like fit and you put a picture, it's like, dude, your delts are not even as large as they could be.
The front, the front, you know, George Floyd had bigger arms than you.
What are you talking about?
But I mean, yeah, we really have a culture that sort of like doesn't shame unhealthy choices.
You know, they don't, you don't, you know, glorify it.
You don't have to have like the perfect six-pack, but we should be much more healthy.
We shouldn't be saying that this is the type of country we want.
We don't want an unhealthy country.
We don't want people to be unhealthy because one, it's just dangerous for your health.
And we see all the other things that happen, diabetes and everything else that comes from it.
So it's sad that we've gotten to this point as a country and we should be rewarding more when people are actually taking care of themselves than people who are not.
Well, yeah, but also too, what you said about like being healthy, I think one of the crazy parts is look at this.
RFK Jr. was talking about the president as well, talking about how, you know, basically everybody's criticizing Trump.
Oh, you know, he's, you know, he's trying to, you know, make drug prices go up, basically.
Like there's going to be a drug shortage, right?
There's going to be problems.
If he's going to try, he basically said he's going to make the prices of drugs the same in our country as they are in every other country.
Why should there be a, you know, difference, basically?
Why should we be paying more?
Well, you can go down to El Salvador and pay a lot less.
It doesn't make any sense.
Consider the fact that drugs aren't manufactured in El Salvador.
They're manufactured in China.
So why are we paying a different price?
Now, the drug company said it was research and development, but RFK Jr. pointed out the reason why Elizabeth Warren and others and Bernie Sanders are criticizing this move is because they've been taking money from the pharmaceutical companies, which is, by the way, what you see a lot of people that have criticisms of healthy things are getting money from these food companies.
You don't know how many people on the internet are paid influencers just to give their opinion about things for money.
But he can't be bought, unlike most of the politicians in this country.
And he is standing here for the American people.
I don't know why, you know, there's writers like Lord Elizabeth Warren or Robert Reich who are saying that President Trump is on this side of the oligarchs.
There has never been a president more willing to stand up to the oligarchs than President Donald Trump.
And I'm very, very proud of you, Mr. President, for your courage.
I'll say, because I don't want to be crude, your intestinal fortitude, your stiff spine, and your willingness to stand up for the American people.
We have 4.2% of the world's population.
Our country represents 75% of the revenues for pharmaceutical companies.
I think it's our reliance on the pharmaceutical industry instead of actually getting rid of the things naturally, which there's many ways to get rid of a lot of the symptoms people have naturally, but we go ahead and we just pop pills and give more.
I think it's also what we're digesting, what we're eating, what we're putting in our body.
You know, what we do is, yes, there's alternatives, as Mike mentioned, but people just go based off convenience.
It's easier for a lot of people just to go to a McDonald's, which I know Trump loves McDonald's, but it's easier for people to go to McDonald's and things there.
And then another big thing, too, that we run into with food is even our seeds, like the vegetables that we have here, everything is genetically modified.
So we're running into a problem there.
You know, when I went to Mexico and I cut a tomato, I can actually smell a tomato versus, you know, here is just dull, it's bland.
And then you see horror stories where you see now they want to put more vaccines into the animals that we're eating.
So you have the cows, they want to give more vaccines.
They're just trying to pump the chemicals into them.
And back to the seeds one more time.
I believe Bear is actually one of the ones who owns majority of the seeds that they have.
So it's definitely not good.
I think that plays a huge part.
And not holding ourselves accountable is a big thing too.
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But we are on the audio only.
I told you guys we would do that and we did.
It's just that we didn't have a show on Friday because Rumble was down.
So that's pretty much the only reason why.
Some of you were asking in the chat about that.
So that's what's going on there.
Yeah, but with being healthy, check this out.
Senator Elizabeth Warren's lobbyist payments exposed.
She's taken $125,000 from pharmaceutical companies, $491,000 from health professionals, $108,000 from hospitals, totaling $871K.
And a lot of this money doesn't sound a lot in terms of when we're talking directly about, you know, the government, but these are individuals, right?
So we're not talking about $871,000 into a department.
That's into one person's pocket.
And considering the average American only makes about, what, $60,000 a year, you know, that's many, many years of an American's life, you know, just given and put in their pocket to just say a couple things.
You don't have to really even do anything.
You just have to kind of like give your opinion publicly.
And that's what's really hard about corruption with money.
It's like, you know, I don't expect people to not be corrupt because life is tough and you only live once.
If you don't believe in God, then there's really no accountability.
And, you know, I've had temptations to be corrupt as well, you know, in different situations.
Luckily, I've turned down those off opportunities because I realized once you accept the level of dishonesty from these companies, there's really no going back.
Because I've learned that with most sins in my life, it's like once you cross the boundary, uncrossing the boundary is not ever possible because now you have the experience of the sin and now it's easier to do it.
Every time it's easier.
But then now it's not like, it's not like, look as a guy, if you start living, you know, a sexually, you know, pure life that you're not suddenly, you know, wanting or dealing with lust or something like that.
It's like you just learn how to control that sinful desire and that thing.
But if you can prevent yourself from unlocking new sinful desires, that's why you tell kids, you know, don't do drugs and stay away from immorality and these kinds of things because you're trying to tell them, hey, like, you know, it's really hard to do the right thing once you start doing the wrong thing.
You know, sin always keeps you further longer than you wanted to stay, takes you further than you wanted to go and cost you more than you wanted to spend.
And it's not easy to get out of.
And especially in a culture that calls good evil and evil good, you know, corruption in the government, it's like, it's not even corruption.
Well, yeah, they've allowed as much evil sin to get them as possible.
There's a reason why a lot, you know, there's hidden reasons why a lot of them, they make only $160,000 a year, but yet they all live in these multi-million dollar mansions.
They have multiple homes.
And, you know, it's like AOC.
I remember AOC was complaining when she first started that off the amount of money she was receiving, she'd have a hard time paying for her apartment.
Now I think she's worth like 20 million or something, some crazy amount of money.
And maybe it's just Nancy Pelosi's lucky stock picks that get them there.
And that's then her, you got to check out her recent interview here on Almost Sirius.
Check this out.
She interviewed Ozpil.
You guys know him.
He was here the other day.
And like when you go viral, it's good.
She's gotten like her videos doing really well.
So that's really, really good.
And that's probably about like 10K views or will be about at the end.
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All right.
Switching over stories, I do want to talk to you guys about something very important, and it's something that's called house stealing.
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Well, they can take your equity, and it's sort of like a criminal refinancing.
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That being said, interesting story.
Interesting story.
This is a little, this is kind of like a dumb story, but it is funny.
The country's sort of been falling apart, right?
Adults must ring a doorbell for entry after a DC area McDonald's bans under 21-year-olds from indoor dining for repeated incidents of student violence.
It's kind of crazy.
Gateway Punnett reports that a McDonald's restaurant in the progressive Washington, D.C. suburb of Fairfax County, Virginia has banned under 21-year-olds from indoor dining after repeated incidents of student violence.
Adults must ring a doorbell to be let in by staff.
McDonald's is located just outside the Beltway in the Fran, what does that say?
Franconia neighborhood between Alexandria and Springfield.
It has been a popular hangout for students of several nearby schools, including Thomas A. Edison High School.
We have a full video for you here.
It's quite interesting.
Check this out.
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Well, a new policy is now in place at a McDonald's in Fairfax County.
Those who want to dine inside the Franconia Road location must be 21 years of age or older.
This comes after multiple fights among young people broke out in the dining room area, according to management.
News force Dominic Moody explains the reason for the change and the new process customers have to go through to get a happy meal.
Imagine it's lunchtime and you're ready to get that nice, juicy burger.
You've been waiting all day for those nice hot fries at Mickey D's.
And so you come to this Virginia location in the Franconia neighborhood in Fairfax County, and you're going to run into a couple of things that might be unusual from what you're used to seeing.
First is this sign telling you why they are asking you to ring the doorbell and what prompted this new policy.
This video obtained by News4 shows the melee inside of this Fairfax County McDonald's last week.
The location is right down the street from Thomas Edison High School in the Franconia neighborhood.
And it seemed like how they acting, their parents are allowing them to act.
Workers inside tell us young people, including some from Thomas Edison, can be seen fighting, heard cursing, and standing on tables in the video.
Managers of the McDonald's say those actions and other similar incidents led to a new policy and this sign on the front door on Monday reading, quote, due to repeated incidents of student violence, the location is temporarily closed for dine-in service to anyone under 21 years of age.
Like we sitting down eating, y'all smoking, y'all drinking, y'all cussing.
Stacy says she, along with her grandkids, stopped by the Golden Arches location in the past and saw a group of young people disrupting other customers inside.
She says she's okay with the new rule.
I understand where they coming from because that's turning customers away.
If you hear you acting up, they losing their business.
Management says adults age 21 and up can still enjoy their Big Macs and happy meals inside.
They may be asked to show their ID.
To get service, customers need to ring the doorbell.
And a team member will let you inside.
This McDonald's, I would have never expected it.
Other customers, like Bridget, say she hopes young people understand that their actions have consequences.
I think we have a long time until young people in this country find out that their actions have consequences.
There's a lot of, seems to be a lot of these teens causing problems around the country in every city, in every country, actually, from London to Stockholm to Munich.
You know, I mean, literally even Portugal, it's like they've all got a teenager problem.
Well, I'm sure a lot of it's playing into the immigration of who we're allowing over.
And then also a big thing is the fact that we go ahead and we kind of ignore or make excuses for this type of behavior.
You know, even our politicians have been doing it when stores were getting looted during the summer of love.
You had AOCs saying, oh, they're just getting loaves of bread and you had people running out with Nikes.
You have California, a state that goes ahead and makes it so that you can steal up to $1,000 worth of merchandise and still be okay to be let free.
So what they're doing is they're allowing this type of culture and it's just getting worse and worse.
And the youth is going along with it.
So that's why now you have McDonald's that are locked up.
If you go to most of these in some of these states, especially in the major cities, you have places where you just go to like a CVS and you have to get everything unlocked from like plastic, you know, plastic protection thing.
So it's just, it, it's, it's just crazy.
It, I think we need to start calling out what's really happening.
Anytime it's an immigrant, we go ahead and we stay away from avoiding who's saying who it is.
You know, you know, people did something and they try to hide and bury names.
Also, there's statistics that we have growing in the U.S. where certain cultures are more inclined to commit crimes, but I think that also has to do with what's being glorified, the type of environments that they're in and what they think is just.
May that be through their music, may that be through what they're taught at a younger age.
You know, Father's Homes plays a big part.
So there's a lot of things that are happening in those areas, but I think a lot of it we have to blame is one is parenting, of course.
I think as parents, we need to be more in our children's lives, not just expecting a tablet to get them through the day, but instead checking in, making sure that we're teaching them good morals.
And then also not ignoring when there's the statistics, as I mentioned.
Right now, they say, you know, white people are the ones that commit the most crimes in the United States, and that's not true at all.
So if you look at statistic-wise, you can see that there is culture problems, but instead they want to avoid all that.
And unless it's a white person that's in the news, they really don't want to talk about it.
I don't think it's just the teenage Democrats causing stores to have to have doorbells.
I feel like it might be the adult ones too.
But I love how, you know, we were talking about this on the Gateway Pun and is that Mall of America also, you have to be 21 to go into Mall of America.
Like, I mean, I haven't been there for 10 years now, but I mean, you know, once I went, it was just like, it was like a regular mall, like all the stores, but just doubled up.
Like, it was like, there was two or three Spencers.
There was two or three, whatever, FYE, like a, like a music store at the time, like two or three hot topics.
Like, it was just like, okay, this is supposed to be like the pinnacle of like American excellence.
Is that there's just instead of having two Spencer stores where you can buy sex toys, there's, there's three.
Like, okay, I'm not sure if that's really American.
Have you seen like a video of like the inside of Mall of America?
looks like there's a lot of teenagers look a lot of teenagers Now, when you see that kind of image, right, you're like, oh, well, what are you?
A racist?
Like, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, apparently, there's been so many shootings now inside Mall of America, several shootings recently, that this is what they're doing from Mall of America.
Look at this.
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Daoud Muhammad, Executive Director of People in Action, here with Mall of America.
As we come together to celebrate Eid, a time that commemorates peace, family, and community, we invite you to enjoy this special occasion to ensure a joyful and safe experience for those of us planning on celebrating Eid at Mall of America this year.
We kindly ask parents to accompany their children and teens throughout the day.
Please do not leave them unsupervised on Sunday.
Please be prepared to show your IDs upon arrival.
Anyone under 18 must have a chaperone at all times who is at least 21 years old at all times.
Those 17 and under without a chaperone will not be allowed into the mall.
Yeah, well, Minnesota has definitely been conquered.
I mean, unfortunately, it has the wave of Somalis coming in.
You have people like Ilahan Omar who's pushing for it.
Then you also had Tim Waltz who's pushing for a lot of it.
I mean, it's even to the point where in Minnesota, they changed their state flag, which to represent more of the Somali flag.
So there's an immigration problem there for sure.
And what happens is when you import all these people from other countries, what you're doing is you're bringing the same type of the way they act in that country.
They're going to act the same over here.
And it's not the same values or the same type of, you know, just it's just, it's just not good when you bring people over.
We lose a lot of our responsibilities we're supposed to have and it's just pushed to the side.
Well, yeah, who knew that despite having roller coasters, that the best ride that we were all going to be on was the highs and lows of unrestricted legal immigration.
Remember when Obama was like, hey, we're just going to resettle like million Somalis in a small white town in Minnesota.
All right, that being said, kind of interesting statement.
Our last story today, as we mentioned, you know, Trump is having an interesting break in diplomatic relationship with Netanyahu.
The Guardian reports here that Netanyahu must now work for support of U.S. as Trump tires of Israel's war in Gaza.
The U.S. president will not visit Israel on a trip to the Middle East, and his envoy has reportedly said Netanyahu's government is drawing out the war.
Here's what he said.
Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff didn't mince his words in a meeting late on Sunday with former hostages and relatives of those still held in Gaza.
He told them that Israel is drawing out a war that the U.S. wants to end, local media reported.
On the eve of the release of Eden Alexander, the last living American being held by Hamas, Witkoff spelt out the gulf between his boss and his government, Benjamin Yetanyahu.
We want to bring the hostages home, but Israel is not willing to end the war.
Israel is prolonging it, despite the fact that we don't see where else we can go and that an agreement must be reached, Witkoff told a meeting, according to Channel 12 television, quoting sources who were present.
It was the latest in a series of high-profile and high-stakes snubs from the White House, which suggests that Israel's most important ally is frustrated with its government and possibly losing interest in its fortunes.
Trump's not against Israel, but he doesn't care about Israel, said Alan Pinkis, a former Israeli diplomat.
As far as Trump is concerned, Netanyahu has become an irritant and an irritant that doesn't contribute to the bank account.
Trump may have embarked on an open attacks that have characterized his relationship with other leaders fighting a war he wants to end, such as Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
But a recent policy move has undermined Israeli security, weakened its diplomatic standing, and flown against Israeli defense policy, particularly over how to handle Iran.
Last week, Trump announced a ceasefire deal with Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, which excluded Israel.
He described the Houthi rebels as brave just days after one of their missiles hit Israel's main airport, prompting many international airlines to suspend flights.
Houthi's attack on Israel have continued.
He previously dismissed Israel's calls for military action against Iran, instead opening talks with Tehran on ending its nuclear program.
Days after the Houthi ceasefire deal, news leaked that the Trump administration had dropped a Biden-era demand that linked progress on the Saudi Arabian civilian nuclear program to normalizing relations with Israel.
Saudi Arabia has ruled out normalization with Israel in a war in Gaza.
Trump's move made it clear he doesn't want his hands to be tied as he heads to, is it Riyadh?
It's definitely you don't want to, you don't want to poke Trump's ego, you know?
And I think the waltz, his security advisor, finding out that he was a double agent working for Netanyahu made him think, huh, maybe having staunch Zionists in my administration is a double-edged sword.
You know, on one hand, I get a lot of money to become president, hundreds of millions, or 400 million approximately.
But on the other hand, maybe I don't like feeling like I'm not in control of my own people.
And when he sees the American people saying, hey, Netanyahu controls you, buddy, you don't control him.
That doesn't mean he couldn't change course.
And maybe he is.
And this would be, as one famous commentator said today, one of the greatest diplomatic shifts in American history if Trump does turn on Israel, whether good or bad, depending on where you stand.
You know, personally, I support this.
But a lot of people watching may be very big fans of Israel.
And that's, you know, maybe a very bad thing for you as an individual.
Although we should say, I think Netanyahu is definitely bit off more than he can chew, and Trump's not going to put up with this.
I believe that what they're doing is they force us into endless wars.
Does that mean I'm against all Jews?
No, that does not mean I'm against all Jews.
Just like I said numerous times on this show, I've made fun of Biden.
That doesn't mean I hate all Americans.
But Israel has been dragging us into endless wars.
I mean, this has been going on forever.
And the reason why this is a big shift from the past is because all the other presidents would follow blindly, go put their hand up on the wall, kiss the wall, do whatever they had to do, and to get Israel's support.
So I'm really hoping that this is Trump pushing away from Netanyahu.
I know we're going to be getting a lot of kickbacks, people kicking back at him because a lot of the influencers are paid through Israel.
And then also you have a lot of the politicians that are in office.
I mean, there's a huge amount of them that are just dual citizens with Israel and will always put Israel first instead of the American people.
What we voted for is we voted for endless, no more endless wars.
You know, we don't want to be in, you know, helping Zelensky.
We don't want to be doing, going to war with Iran.
This is not what we voted for.
What we voted for was to put America first.
And that means that our country has to be at the forefront, not some foreign entity.
And I'm really hoping this is a change.
I got nervous when you seen that they were trying to silence everybody, making it so if you were coming over to our country, they're going to check your social media history, see if you ever made fun of Israel.
They've also wanted to go ahead and silence everybody at campuses.
I don't believe in people being violent at campuses at all, but you should be allowed to speak, you know, freely.
We have the freedom of speech that should not be restricted, especially for a foreign entity, because it seems like you could say anything you want about any country in the world, but the one soft topic that hurts everybody's feelings is Israel.
And I believe as a country, we need to step away from them.
And I think this is hopefully the right direction.
I hope he continues it.
I hope this isn't just more of a ploy to show that no, Netanyahu doesn't control me, which I don't think it is because one thing Trump, as you said, he doesn't like is people to tell him what to do.
I don't know if those quotes from BB are true or not, but it is pretty remarkable.
I also know that Trump, obviously, there was a plan possibly to recognize a Palestinian state.
He's taking money from Qatar with that airplane.
I feel like these are all just signs to Netanyahu that he's like, hey, I'm going to be diplomatic with people that will work with me.
And if you don't want to, then we don't need you.
And I don't think we need them.
So, you know, I hope we break diplomatic ties.
I find them to be a very, very, very negatively impactful country when it comes to foreign policy.
I think they're massively destroyed our image in the world.
And therefore, with it comes our national security, right?
Because we had to, for them, you know, create 9-11 so that we could get into these endless wars and, you know, do all these regime changes from Yemen to Egypt to Syria to Libya, right?
And now Iran.
And with that came the Patriot Act, which our own politicians put into place.
Now we don't, you know, we sort of, we don't really have a lot of patriotism anymore because we don't really like our own government.
We don't really believe in our government.
And we realize that the wars were in our pointless because we're not fighting them for our own country.
And I feel like that's been done.
They've done so much damage to us.
I would personally consider them to be, you know, more of an enemy than even an ally.
But a lot of Americans really don't share that sentiment.
You know, a lot of them really, especially evangelical Christians, you know, would view Trump's decision here as being sort of anti-biblical or even just anti-Christian.
And that's, of course, we know due to the dispensationalist infiltration to the modern church.
But again, those are people who think that like doing backflips on stage is worship.
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You know, so that's like smoke machines and everything.
And yeah, a lot of it relates to the Schofield Bible.
But the one thing is we are tired of is our sons, our daughters, our family members going to endless wars, dying for battles that we have nothing, that we shouldn't even be there.
You know, even in Iraq and everything, we were finding weapons of mass destruction, which ironically we never found.
In 9-11, obviously, there was a hidden agenda through the government of why that happened.
And just a cover-up, too.
I mean, you look at the JFK files.
The one thing they were not allowed to talk about was Israel's involvement.
And I think that also ties into why we don't hear about Epstein.
So I do hope that we're getting away from it.
I don't know why we call them our greatest ally.
I think that's just absurd.
And yes, the church has been completely infiltrated, you know, to say that they are God's chosen people.
Well, God's chosen people are those who choose Jesus.
Sometimes like, I need to just like work on my sleep and like get my energy up.
I feel like a bit I've been like low energy the last couple shows, but it's because I'm just kind of like, it's like everybody's just annoying and exhausting in life.
You know what I mean?
It's just everything sucks and is annoying.
And like, I'm just trying to like live my life.
And everyone's just always got to have problems and negativity and stuff.
And I'm like, pretty positive guy in general.
I'm trying to like pretty happy-go-lucky person.
Sometimes I want to kill people, you know what I mean?
But I don't.
So that's good news.
I won't be going to jail anytime soon.
That being said, so you guys know where we're at with the rift.
You know, we just signed someone new today.
You might want to check out some of Sarah's recent episodes since she was here last week.
She's been pretty doing a swell job in that adjustment.
Our new people should be doing as just as swell of a job or even better.
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