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April 16, 2024 - Jim Fetzer
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Truth vs. NEW$, Inc Part 2 (15 April 2024) with Don Grahn and Brian Davidson
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Welcome back, folks.
This is April 15th, Tax Day, and we had one heck of a heavy hour on international affairs and other things that were taxing our minds, and it's really getting heavier than I can ever lift, all the stuff that's going on.
Now, Jim, what's he got?
Well, John, it's embarrassing to say.
But the House has just voted to extend the wireless buying power of the American government.
It's outrageous.
U.S.
lawmakers have passed a bill reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, allowing the government to survey American citizens without a warrant.
A small group of Republicans blocked the vote but allowed it to proceed calling a minor amendment.
The two-year extension passed the House Friday in a bipartisan vote of 273-147, with 126 Republicans and 147 Democrats supporting the bill, which will now proceed to the Senate.
The lawmakers also debated an amendment.
That would have forced federal agencies to obtain warrants before spying on Americans.
How appropriate is that?
It failed in a tie vote.
Disgusting.
This is how the Constitution dies.
This is a sad day for America, Thomas Massey said after the amendment went down in flames.
He noted how Speaker Mike Johnson provided the tie-breaking vote to kill the warrant requirement.
Damn him!
To hell with Mike Johnson!
Though he was once a vocal critic of Section 702, which handed intel agency sweeping powers to spy on Americans, he reversed course after his promotion to House Speaker.
When I was a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I saw the abuses of the FBI.
There were terrible abuses over and over and over.
He told reporters earlier this week.
Explain his about-face.
And then when I became Speaker, I got the confidential briefing from the other perspective to understand the necessity of Section 702 and how important it is for national security.
And it gave me a different perspective.
Fellow Republicans have been critical of his abrupt 180, with Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz saying the Speaker's opposition to FISA was a view he deeply held like 20 minutes ago.
Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has gone further, threatening to advance a vote to oust Johnson from his position over his supporting FISA, among other complaints.
I'm with her.
The White House also worked to kill the Warren Amendment.
Both Attorney General Garland and National Security Advisor Sullivan reaching out to lawmakers Friday morning to urge them to vote it down.
The senior officials argued the amendment would make the United States less safe and would prevent the government from accessing lawfully collected information already in its possession to identify and disrupt critical threats to the American people.
That's all the Trump voters are talking about, folks.
Don't be misled.
Friday's vote followed heated debate over whether to extend the warrantless fine authorities with a group of Republicans led by Gates, resisting the move.
During a procedural vote earlier, 19 GOP lawmakers blocked the bill from advancing, as Gates said the measure lacked essential reforms to protect American Fourth American rights from a lawful search and seizure.
However, The original bill was modified to extend vice authority for a period of two years instead of five, which appeared to appease the GOP holdouts, including Gates.
He later argued should Trump win the November election, a two-year limit would allow his administration to fix the system.
Meanwhile, Congress introduces an ADL-backed Countering Anti-Semitism Act to police online speech.
If you thought that was revolting, this is disgusting.
A bipartisan pair of AIPAC-funded senators have introduced a new bill backed by the Anti-Defamation League aimed at silencing criticism of Jews and Israel—really, criticism of Israel—and policing Americans' online speech, as though we have no First Amendment right at all.
The bill comes as Israel is committing an active genocide in Palestine with U.S.-supplied bombs and inducing a man-made famine in Gaza.
The Countering Anti-Semitism Act is the most far-reaching anti-Semitism initiative to be introduced in Congress, said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, an enemy of the Constitution.
It offers a smart bipartisan, whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to combating this hatred and protecting Jews around the country.
Here's Jonathan Greenblatt, Going forward to praise it.
Outrageous!
Here's how the ADL describes a bill.
The Countering Antisemitism Act, CAA, the most comprehensive antisemitism initiative to be introduced in Congress, will implement the national strategy to counter antisemitism and ensure its policies and infrastructures are made permanent.
God forbid.
As ADL data shows, the U.S.
Jewish community is facing the worst crisis of anti-Semitism we've seen in a generation.
As we reach the conclusion of the National Strategy 12-month timeline, we must guarantee important policies within the plan continue to protect Jewish lives.
Those are, after all, the only lives that Jews care about.
The Countering Anti-Semitism Act will ensure these policies endure and create lasting executive structures to prioritize and fight anti-Semitism, including a domestic national coordinator in a dedicated task force meeting regularly to coordinate fights against anti-Semitism across federal agencies, no doubt affecting you and me.
As we face such historic levels of anti-Semitism.
And why are they at historic levels?
Because the Jews are slaughtering the Palestinians!
The Countering Anti-Semitism Act offers a smart, innovative, whole-of-government approach to combating this hatred and protecting Jews around the country.
The Countering Semitism Act is authored by Senators Jackie Rosen of Nevada and James Lankford of Oklahoma, and Representative Kathy Manning of North Dakota and Chris Smith of New Jersey, co-chairs of the House and Senate Bipartisan Tax Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, key provisions
Establishes a national coordinator to counter anti-Semitism, to serve as a present principal advisor on countering domestic anti-Semitism and coordinate federal efforts to counter anti-Semitism.
Establishes an interagency task force to counter anti-Semitism, to coordinate implementation of federal strategies to counter anti-Semitism.
Requires federal agencies to submit a report to Congress detailing their implementation of the national strategy to counter anti-Semitism.
Requires the FBI, DHS, National Counterterrorism Center to jointly produce an annual threat assessment of anti-Semitic violent extremism.
Requires a national coordinator to conduct an annual analysis of online anti-Semitic content, including Holocaust denial and distortion, and prepare a recommendation for Congress on how to counter the threat of anti-Semitism online.
Requires the Department of Education to designate a senior official to advise and oversee the department's efforts to counter anti-Semitic discrimination at colleges and universities.
Requires the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum to study Holocaust education efforts across public K-12 schools.
Requires FEMA to ensure they have sufficient resources and personnel to carry out a non-profit security grant program.
Formally designates May as Jewish American Heritage Month.
I think I'm gonna vomit.
The bill is supposed to work in concert with the Biden-Edmund national strategy to counter anti-Semitism, which calls on all online platforms to ban extremist websites, ban hate speech, and institute zero-tolerance policies.
Zero-tolerance.
Not a word of criticism against Israel will be tolerated to protect Jews from anti-Semitism.
Real quickly, today, Monday, April 15th, people who are anti-Israeli were blocking the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge and all kinds of things, and having all kinds of big protests, so it looks like there's quite an anti-Israeli group here, and it's going to be going down to zero tolerance for them, and an awful lot of people are going to be upset.
Don't worry, Don.
We'll soon have them incarcerated and properly punished.
Maybe cut off their heads.
Okay, so let's talk a little bit about that FISA battle, okay?
The bottom line is warrantless searching of Americans Communications is now here, and it's here to stay until it's changed, if it's changed.
Now, there was a procedural vote in the House to try to place an amendment on the FISA bill that required the warrant, and that bill failed as a result of the Republicans not sticking together to back it.
Well, as a result, it tied, Brian, and it was the Speaker of the House himself who guaranteed it would fail.
Right.
But that was our best chance to make sure that they had the warrant to get that bill to pass.
It didn't.
And it didn't because basically Mike Turner argued that there are no warrantless searches of Americans under FISA 702.
Um, whereas on the other side, Jim Jordan and Thomas Massey argued that the standards are too lax compared to traditional probable cause and warrant requirements.
The bill that they tried to put through was to reauthorize FISA with reforms, including criminal penalties.
For for abuses, but Marjorie Taylor green basically wanted to eliminate FISA altogether.
So basically, at the end of the day, the Democrats always stay together on whatever they vote for.
And the Republicans are always trying to modify and twist and turn and adjust, and they can't get the votes to hold it together to get anything that they want.
But basically, the White House circulated a memo opposing the warrantless requirement amendment, which put all the Democrats in one group, and they called it a reckless policy choice.
So if you have any communications with any foreigner whatsoever, Federal government agencies may now be capable of intercepting those communications and then using it against you in a court of law if they think that you're a threat to society.
In regards to the Anti-Semitism Act, well, this is going to backfire.
They're overplaying their hand and protesting too much to defend themselves Because there hasn't been that much anti-Semitism.
What they're worried about is losing the younger generation to these protests.
And they think that they can legislate a solution to losing them when what they just did in Gaza was basically a pure genocide.
It's not going to work.
As a matter of fact, it's going to end up backfiring on everybody because how is it defined?
How will the police determine what is anti-Semitism and what is not?
What will the district attorneys say?
And why is it different to argue against the Jew than it is to argue against the Black culture or the Asian culture or anybody else?
Well, how do you possibly categorize it?
So to me, it's a lot of gaslighting and grandstanding to try to get Jews to up their position as victims here in America.
And I think it's going to end up backfiring on them as everything that the Jews have been doing has been backfiring.
Even the evangelicals are beginning to rethink their position related to Israel based on the fact that they were So gung-ho about killing so many Palestinians in Gaza.
And I think that there's a lot of churches that are now beginning to take note that, hey, something's wrong with this.
And just from a big picture perspective, anybody who evaluates the protocols of the learned elders of Zion that has a critical thinking mind,
Can put the pieces together in terms of what has happened in our culture and see that it has been engineered to basically destroy the white, conservative, Christian culture that the Founding Fathers came from and replace it with more of a pro-elite mentality.
And I think that's really what this is all about.
They don't want people to be able to continue to criticize or threaten or Or make a nuisance of the super elite upper class.
And that's really what's going on is that the 99% are beginning to lash out at the 1% and they want to masquerade as a anti-Semitism act to continue to protect them.
I hope it backfires.
I hope it doesn't go through, but I think it's gonna be here to stay because you gotta You gotta remember that most of our politicians that support this take a tremendous amount of money from this APAC, American-Israel Political Action Committee.
I think something like 30% get over $100,000 a year from that PAC alone.
And that doesn't even begin to talk about all the different PACs that are out there related to Israeli interests.
That's American taxpayer money given to Israel to buy our politicians that control our country.
It's disgusting, Don.
Is that money buying us truth and facts, or is it putting out an agenda that is deleterious to our country?
I think everybody should have equal rights to pursue truth and tell truth.
These bumper centers, are they telling the truth or are they trying to place their lives upon us to control us?
That looks pretty bad to me.
Everybody answers to somebody, and I can tell you that what's at the top of the tree, if you continue to climb high enough and look deep enough at what's going on at the very top of the tree, you're going to find people that just simply have personal economic capitalistic interests that are purely in their best interest.
Yeah, I'm driving policy nationwide and you can define them however you want.
But at the end of the day, those entities that are driving this political change here in America are largely very largely overrepresented by the billionaire class, which is very largely overrepresented by the Israel by the Israelis.
Yeah, not good.
Israelis are going to argue that they're You know, they've just been very successful, they work harder, they do best.
But the truth is, they have a very clannish mentality about anything that they have ownership in, and they make sure to promote nepotism within their clan to feed the boards, to feed the top executive positions, so that they can continue to promote their agenda.
You can argue just as well against capitalism as you could against Well, I think the whole purpose of it is to get rid of Twitter.
Holocaust denial to protect a big lie.
As I emphasize, if you've done the research, you're either a Holocaust denier or a big fat liar.
Well, I think the whole purpose of it is to get rid of Twitter.
They've got to get rid of Twitter because I'm beginning to see a much higher percentage of Twitter traffic that is exposing what's been happening with the specifically Jewish agenda.
I think that they're really going to be after that movement.
Mostly Facebook's already basically.
Disgusting beyond belief.
everything.
They've used their algorithms to do it.
But Twitter is sort of the last stronghold.
So it wouldn't be surprised.
I wouldn't be surprised if you see this anti-Semitism act basically be like a hostile political takeover of the Twitter platform to try to shut it down.
Disgusting beyond belief.
Meanwhile, bombshell.
Trump, whose trial about this matter began today post letter from Stormy Daniels on Truth Social.
Ciao.
You never know what you'll find when it's spring cleaning time.
Such might be the case with President Trump, who came across an old item posted online Wednesday afternoon.
What did he find?
Why, it's a letter from Stormy Daniels, signed even.
This sure puts a crimp on the Democrat narrative about hush money, doesn't it?
Here's DC Drano tweeting, Trump posted a 2018 signed letter from Stormy Daniels on Truth Social that destroys the Democrats' hush money witch hunt.
She says, I'm denying this affair because it never happened.
Inconvenient for the fake news narrative.
Look what I just found tweet, Trump tweeted.
Will the fake news report it?
Official statement of Stormy Daniels.
January 30, 2018.
To whom it may concern.
Over the past few weeks, I've been asked countless times to comment on reports of an alleged sexual relationship I had with Donald Trump many, many, many years ago.
The fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006, 2011, 2016, 2017, and again in 2018.
I am not denying this affair because I was paid hush money, as has been reported in overseas-owned tabloids.
I'm denying this affair because it never happened.
I will have no further comment on this matter.
Please feel free to check me out on Instagram at the Stormy Daniels.
Thank you.
Signed, Stormy Daniels.
Plus, the Trump hug heard around the world.
Trump hug supporter, really, supporter hugs Trump during visit to Chick-fil-A.
Here's why I keep saying.
Here's just the latest example.
In 2016, we had this.
This black woman, older woman, hugging Trump.
Now in 2024, we just got this.
How perfect.
Featured in the Vodacub is Michaela Montgomery.
And she is a firecracker.
Watch this segment from Fox.
Watch!
Michaela Montgomery's hug with Trump at an Atlanta Chick-fil-A was a viral sensation, explained why so many black Americans are supporting Trump and why the media is getting it all wrong.
Meanwhile, swing state panic Kamala Harris rushes to save far-left agenda.
V.B.
Kamala Harris is visiting Arizona to advocate for the murdering of unborn children in response to a landmark decision by the state Supreme Court to preserve an 1864 statute that forbids almost all abortions.
According to the Arizona Republic, the Biden-Harris re-election campaign said that Kamala will be in Tucson Friday for an event that will center around reproductive freedom in the wake of the judgment.
Harris is making her way back to Arizona following her appearance in Phoenix at the beginning of March as part of her pro-abortion tour around the country in advance of the November presidential election.
Throughout the trip, Harris denounced the 2022 passage of Arizona's prior 15-week abortion restriction and referred to pro-life activists as extremists.
In the upcoming presidential election, Arizona is considered a swing state.
According to the analysis, Trump lost his state to Harrison Biden by a margin of less than 0.5%.
As a result, the White House has expanded his presence in Arizona.
Since the beginning of March, numerous additional campaign surrogates, along with the President and Vice President, and both of their spouses, have visited Arizona.
A woman cannot get an abortion in Arizona unless it's necessary to preserve her own life.
Abortionists face a two to five year prison sentence under the 1864 legislation.
A December argument in the case of Planned Herodhood, Arizona v. Mays-Hagrid asked justices to rule on whether Arizona's 15-week abortion limit supersedes a previous statute.
The court decided Tuesday, 4-2, with one recusal, that the 1864 statute is enforceable.
Beyond the more recent 15-week term, even though it did not rule on the validity of the 1864, 1964 legislation.
Brian, your thoughts.
Well, there's a lot of diverse issues there in that sense.
So let's just start with Trump's stormy Daniels hush money trial.
Why is this taking place in the first place?
It's obvious that it's just simply an extension of the political prosecution of Trump in order to keep him weaker or try to continue to weaken him, but he gets stronger every day as illustrated by The re-emergence of support from a portion of the Black community, and I'm not going to say the larger majority of them, but I'm going to say some of it.
On the Stormy Daniels thing, now Cohen's out talking, that same guy Michael Cohen, the established liar, that he's going to drop some big bombs at the Stormy Daniels trial, and we don't know exactly what those are yet.
There was You know, there was a lot of chatter about this.
A lot of people thought that Trump was going to go down over the hush money payment that went to Stormy Daniels.
Of course, it appears that Cohen paid it out of his own personal money.
Stormy Daniels then writes a signed note saying, hey, I didn't have an affair.
It was, you know, it was me and Cohen basically working together to settle up whatever we settled.
So why is this even in play?
Nobody's even alleging any criminal activity related to it, but it's an opportunity for the lefties to drag out more dirt.
For instance, they want to bring up Trump's supposed affair with Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal that happened while Melania was pregnant.
So it's an opportunity for them to hopefully dig up some more, drag some more dirt into the public eye related to Trump.
And of course, you know Cohen's going to go in there and tell the same ridiculous stories that he's been telling again.
But I think even the black community, and I don't mean like I think there's a larger portion of them than ever before that's beginning to see that Joe Biden is not and the Democrats do not have the right policies and plans for America.
In Chicago recently Democrats got together and basically went as far lefty loony as you can possibly imagine chanting death to America.
In Chicago, among the Black Democrat Party.
So, I think the tides are beginning to turn in terms of what America is being able to see through.
Unfortunately, if you ask the pollsters, they're going to say the tides aren't continuing.
What the pollsters are beginning to say about Trump's trial with Stormy Daniels, they're pointing out that 66% of Americans, which was basically They did a poll of a thousand Democrats and a thousand Republicans and, you know, like another 300 independents.
And they came up with 66% of them answered one question that Trump ought to have some consequences related to the Stormy Daniels affair.
So now they're saying 66% of Americans believe that Trump, but we didn't, I didn't look at how that poll was actually done.
I do believe it though.
I think people really are that stupid here in America.
Um, As I continue to interact with the general public out there every day, I'm still seeing so many of the Karens and the ignorant fools that listen to CNN and ABC and the mainstream media.
Even the people that listen to Fox News are sadly misinformed about the entire nature of everything that's taking place.
So you just can't underestimate the stupidity of the American public.
It's pretty rough.
Let me just add on to Stormy Daniels before we turn to the other stories.
It appears to me that it was Michael Cohen who, as you observed, paid out the money without Trump's authorization.
There wasn't any affair, but I'm certainly willing to believe that Michael Cohen, who is as corrupt as they come, was paid money to make it look as though Trump had done something improper.
There's no law against hush money payments.
The Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice have both previously investigated this case and found it came to nothing.
So it's pure Democrats fight politics to tarnish his election prospects.
Brian.
Well, they need that to cover up for the fact that they're going to cheat in another election.
That's why they need to keep piling the dirt on as high as they possibly can to make Americans think that other Americans have fallen for this fallacy of the masses.
Oh, most people are voting Democrats, so they must be right because that's what the masses of people think.
Well, that's what the mainstream media tells them.
I don't believe it to be the case.
I think it's going to fail.
And by the way, Cohen came out and said, He doesn't think Trump is right for the nation, and that's why he's doing it.
Okay.
That's a real reliable witness right there.
We had two other stories, Brian.
Oh, I don't remember what they were.
I'm sorry.
I got sidetracked.
Well, one was Kamala Harris trying to salvage Arizona because of their extreme abortion ban, where it seems to me When the Trump court rejected Roe v. Wade, they gave the Democrats a huge issue, the only issue that, in my opinion, could make a difference to the outcome.
It's not going to be enough, but it won't be for lack of trying.
My analysis of that is that all the Breaking of Roe v. Wade did was give the states the opportunity to decide if they would continue to allow abortion or not, which is how it ought to have been in the first place.
Why should we have a federal law mandating that this should, this can and will take place inside states that simply don't want it?
That's not how the Constitution was set up.
The feds don't rule over all the land all the time on every issue, and it ought to be a state issue.
So I don't know I think it plays poorly for Trump in the sense that the loony lefties and the people that want to continue to support that particular position are going to blame Trump because they can't have an abortion on demand wherever they want to go.
Well, that's a state issue, not a federal issue.
I was just checking to find the other story, and it was a story about the hug heard around the world.
Oh yeah, I think that's great, and I see it too.
I see a lot of Democrats out there that are beginning to recognize that the old Democratic Party is not what they thought it was, and that even that all the handouts are not good for their particular community.
Look at what it's done.
Look, there's a lot of arguments that could be laid Against personal responsibility, the welfare state drives a dependence upon handouts.
Handouts drive a victim mentality.
A victim mentality continues to ask for handouts.
What it is not doing is continuing to support a growing, burgeoning, working, contributing, lower and middle class.
You have to work for your money.
You have to go forward.
Everybody wants a handout who's weak.
And I think even that there's a large portion of that poor class that are beginning to recognize that sometimes the best lesson is a lesson that says, you've got to go get a job.
I'm sorry, I'm not going to give you a handout.
There's the old adage, you know, you teach a man to fish, you can catch fish for the rest of his life, you give him a fish and you fed him for a day.
That's the concept that's taking place here and I think the lower classes are beginning to recognize that the only way to fight out of the paper bag is to literally fight their way out with hard work.
Because I'll tell you one thing, fraud, theft, criminality, all-time high right now and even The poor are beginning to feel it on a lot of different levels as their windows get broken on their cars and their houses get broken into.
It's getting rough out there and people are beginning to see the consequences of unbridled crime and poor and lower classes that are unwilling to go to work.
You're right.
And just to substantiate how the different voting blocs are moving away from the Democrats A reliable voting bloc for decades, minorities now look to alternatives to the Democrats.
Democrats, first reluctant to see the problem or seeking solutions or efforts, could be too little too late.
Amen!
Democrats gathered at the state fairground in Columbia, South Carolina to await the result of their primary.
President Biden, the only candidate to campaign one-handedly, is expected.
From the podium, James Claiborne took a call from the Chief Executive, who thanked South Carolinians for their support.
Applause followed, with congratulations all around.
As the modest crowd dispersed, Claiborne spoke with the press.
The veteran congressman and staunch Biden ally said that President's support among the Black voters remained unshakable.
The best illustration is that he got 96% of the vote in this primary, Claiborne said.
His largest percentage, over 97%, was in the town of Orangeburg, where there are two HBCUs, historically black colleges and universities, and a community college.
I go to an African-American barbershop, Flayburn said.
I go to an African-American church.
Biden is as strong with African-Americans as he has ever been.
Clayburn's view, however, defies the findings of several recent polls and contradicts a trend observable for several years.
Namely, Democrats have a problem with black voters, especially men.
Hispanic voters, too.
Over the last eight years, minority voters have slowly but steadily migrated away from associating themselves with the Democrat Party, a movement led by men.
An April Poll from the Wall Street Journal showed 30% of black men in battleground states intend to vote for Donald Trump.
Hispanic voters who lean Republican are approaching parity with those who lean Democrat, in simplest terms.
It amounts to a classic case of leaders being blind to generational change, taking their constituents for granted, and failing to deliver on the most basic function of government—to create conditions in which people can thrive.
It's unclear whether Democrats can halt, or at least counter, this decline in minority support before the November election.
What is clear is that the demographic composition of both parties is in flux.
These shifting political allegiances could significantly impact both the 2024 election and the future of party politics.
Support for the Democratic Party among black and Hispanic voters has been eroding for years.
The percentage of black voters who lean Democrat topped out at 90% in 2008, but fell to 66% by 2023, the lowest level yet recorded, according to data from Gallup.
Meanwhile, the percentage of blacks who lean Republican rose from single digits to 19% over the same period.
The percentage of Hispanics who lean Democrat fell from around 60% in 2016 to 47% in 2023, while the percentage who lean Republican rose from about 25% to 35%.
A similar shift occurred among Asian American voters.
The 22 lean Republican rose from about 25% to 35.
A similar shift occurred among Asian American voters.
Some 30% voted Republican in 2020, according to Gallup, up from 18 in 2016, according to exit polling.
In California, the ship was even more pronounced.
54% of Asian Americans favoring Trump in 2020, according to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
It shows up consistently in survey after survey.
It also shows up in actual electoral results going back to 2016.
Matthew Wilson, a professor at Southern Methodist, told the Arabic Times.
And there's just real movement and more diversity in the electoral outcomes in predominantly black and Hispanic precincts than has been true in the past.
So I think Democrats who are inclined to write it off as artificial are engaged in wishful thinking because it shows up in multiple different indicators.
And the shift is being driven by multiple factors which may vary by ethnic group.
Unfortunately, Biden got hide from this economy, and minorities are losing trust in it.
Charlie Colleen of the R.E.D.
Political Action Committee told the Epoch Times, minorities see that big government is no longer helping, but hurting them.
For the black community in general, they have been lied to consistently.
That matches the findings of Whitney Yates, diversity and engagement director for the Indiana Republican Party.
For the black community in general, they have been lied to consistently.
They have been promising every election cycle and have been used by the Democrat Party to remain in a position of power without any type of progress.
For those communities, Ms.
Yates told The Atlantic Times.
Black unemployment was low and median household income rising under President Trump, according to Ms.
Yates.
But Biden was able to appeal to black voters based on promises of student loan relief and the legalization of marijuana, seen as criminal justice issued by many black Americans.
The Democrats' choice to deal with illegal immigration, primarily as a humanitarian issue rather than a matter of natural security, has angered some Black and Hispanic voters who see themselves as bearing the brunt of the issue.
Blacks and Latinos tend to be working class and are thus disproportionately hurt by inflation and immigration.
The undocumented immigrants flooding the country tend to live in their neighborhoods and compete with them for jobs, Henry Olson, senior fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center, told the Epoch Times.
The two ethnic groups may share a concern over illegal immigration.
But the issue impacts them in different ways.
Hispanics who immigrate legally from Central and South America tend to be grateful for the opportunities they found here and wary of socialism.
They see America as a land of opportunity.
Many have worked hard to be successful.
They are very upset with what's happening at the southern border.
Because a lot of the things that they were getting away from in Mexico and other places are being poured into this country in droves, including drug trafficking and cartel activity.
In 2020, 95% of black women voted for Biden, while 87% of black men did so as well, according to Pew.
Although there's a gender gap, More black women are now favoring Trump.
Only 11% of black women in battleground states have a preference for Trump, according to a recent Wall Street poll.
This is probably less a race-based thing and more a gender-based thing, Mr. Byrd said, theorizing men may be more inclined to favor a strong candidate who displays dominant personality traits.
We've been fed a lot of likable politicians, Ms.
Yates said, but what we're realizing is that likable politicians do not lead to anything.
Black men appear to be looking for Mr. President, not Mr. Rogers.
Democrat Party messaging must be improved, Ms.
Byrd said, and discussions are underway about how to do that.
Is there a disconnect between how the messaging is coming out and how they feel about the messaging?
It is going to be too little too late.
Brian.
Is it futility to have this conversation?
I mean, if the vote machines are rigged and Dominion's got control, Who cares how they actually vote, because their actual votes don't count anyway.
So they might as well instruct the media to continue to gaslight the American people, saying that all blacks ought to be Democrat, and all women ought to be voting Democrat, and the only people that vote Republicans are rich white men who are not victims of anything.
It's bullshit.
And James Carville, going back to Bill Clinton, I'm old enough to remember, it's the economy, stupid.
It's the economy, stupid.
That got Bill Clinton elected when it was George Bush that was coming in from the CIA.
Now, what's interesting about this is not only are we seeing a shift with the blacks, do you have any idea what the shift with the white women has been?
I'll tell you something, white women are legitimately pissed off about their little girls having to compete with boys out on the track.
And out on the field, it doesn't make any sense at all that this agenda is being pushed.
Everybody can feel that the agenda is all wrong, that it doesn't.
I mean, I saw a woman's track, a girl's track race with a bunch of 14-year-old girls where the boy won by 400 yards on a 800-meter race.
It was ridiculous.
And all the swimming things that are taking place.
But we've always believed that The best way to condition and overcome a society is to make everybody feel like they're victims, to make everybody feel like the white man has done it.
Look back at feminism and compare feminism with the problems in the Black communities or even the problems in the Hispanic communities right now.
What did feminism bring us?
Well, if you ask the right people, they'll tell you feminism was about getting more kids into school earlier Therefore, let's establish a kindergarten, getting more women into the workforce so we have more taxpayers, but we have less people that are being raised
We're seeing shifts all over in society as people begin to realize one of the most important things that's ever happened in America, which was Donald Trump 2016.
You can't trust the media.
They're all lying to you.
None of it's true.
I think everybody out there now is listening to their television with sort of a suspicious thought in their mind that Are these people just programming my brain?
Because none of this makes sense.
And so I think, now I believed back in 2020 that Trump was going to take all 50 states.
I really did think that the shift had taken place.
But I can tell you at this point in time, with the way inflation has set in, with the way the economy has gotten screwed up, with gas prices and food prices, I do believe that the shift is complete.
They cannot win unless they cheat.
Now, the downside is our House politicians, Republicans, have done nothing to address the issue.
They're bought and they're paid for.
And Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson are right.
They all need to go.
Even Marjorie Taylor Greene said we all need to go.
The entire system needs to be reformed.
All of us.
Like, break it all down, throw it all out.
The problem is, Every six years on the Senate seats, every four, you know, it's just too many cycles broken up in too many different ways.
But we need an absolute cleansing of the House and fresh new people and oaths of office properly performed in place On time, because I'm telling you something, those O's of office do not exist with too many of the players out there.
Large portions of them have no allegiance to the Constitution and the people of the United States.
They have no allegiance whatsoever, and their allegiance really is to whatever lobbyist will pay them the most money for political points.
Excellent commentary.
I especially appreciate your point about white women being upset about transgender mucking up girls and women's sports, which is a disgrace.
Don?
Yeah, for women's sports, you gotta make the guys who are wanting to participate wear bras, at least a medium-sized bra.
I think that'd be interesting.
Germany just passed a law where you can only be, you have to be agender for a year.
So you can change genders every year, but if you choose a gender, you've got to register that gender for at least 12 months.
Oh, wow.
What a wonderful improvement.
That was a real necessary use of our political time to change this.
But now you can't just change for the next sporting event.
You've got to change a year in advance.
I might say on the topic of voting and stuff, if they're cheating on the vote, isn't that called treason?
If they're not allowing True elections.
It's a little more complex than that.
A little more complex.
I know.
Yeah, I know, but there should be some huge amount of arrests when the whole election is stolen in such a gigantic proportion.
I mean, that should be... You know what they say, the spoils go to the victor.
Yeah.
If you can pull it off and get power, you can make sure that those machines never change.
And you can do that in America.
You're free to do that and not get shot.
Thank you, Don.
Yes.
Meanwhile, USA hyperinflation 157% in the past three years.
This week, more CEOs are saying lending rates could get even worse and go up to new 40-year highs, not seen since the Jimmy Carker debacle and Reagan's landslide election of 1980.
The intersection of hyperinflation and escalating interest rates on various types of loans have disproportionately affected women and minorities, exacerbating existing economic disparities.
The weak energy policies, increased fuel prices, and skyrocketing fuel prices have only become more harsh, wiping out savings and discretionary income for working families according to the IMF.
The surge in inflation, coupled with soaring interest rates, has created a formidable financial burden.
Particularly evident in the realms of home loans, auto loans, student loans, and credit cards.
To illustrate, the average interest rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage has skyrocketed by abruptly 157.41% since January of 2021, reaching 6.95% in March of 2024.
Other loan-in-bank products, such as credit cards, student loans, auto loans, went up in a devastating fashion, which continually injures working families.
Here are the three year changes in costs for various types of loans.
Credit cards.
APR 19 to 29.
Lending rates worse by 42.3 percent.
Credit cards often charge higher interest rates than other loan products right now.
Most women and minorities are paying between 19% and 29% interest, which kills savings, spending, and investing.
These are loan shark-style rates, inflicted upon working families by government and banks, too.
Average APR in 2020.
The average percentage rate for new credit cards offered in the U.S.
was 14.71.
Average APR in 2023?
The now is at 20.93, averaging around 24 to 25 for most.
Therefore, the average credit card APR increased by approximately 42.3% from 2020 to 2023.
42.3% from 2020 to 2023.
That's in just three years.
Student loan rates also doubled over Federal student loan interest rates are over 100% in three years.
Rates vary based on the type of loans.
For loans that's worth between July 1st, 2023 and June 20th, 2024.
Presently, the average rate is over 9%, which is up over 100% in the last three years.
2020-2021, fixed interest rates at 2.75 are applied for both subsidized and unsubsidized loans.
755 applied for both subsidized and unsubsidized loans.
The 2023-24 fixed rates of 5.5 for both subsidized and unsubsidized.
So permanent change from 2.5 to 5.5 is 100%.
Thus, 43 million families with overpriced student debt are paying double the interest since President Trump left office.
Auto loans up 94.8.
The initial rate, December 2021, 3.85.
Recent rate, 7.5.
Auto loan rates depend on factors like credit score and lender average.
New cars, around 7.1.
Used cars, around 11.6.
Therefore, The average auto loan rate is working, folks, with a 94.81% higher punishment in costs over the last three years.
Home mortgage 30-year rates up 157% in three years.
As of now, the average interest rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage is about 6.95, according to the St.
Louis Fed.
Keep in mind, mortgage rates can get worse, and the 30-year loan rate costs are directly passed on to renters, creating rental hyperinflation.
Calculating the increase January 2021.
Average interest record low 2.7.
October 2022 surge to a high of 7.08.
Current rate March 2024 6.95.
2.7 October 2022, surgical high of 7.08, current rate March 2024, 6.95.
Therefore, since January 2021, home loan interest rates have gotten worse by approximately 157.41%.
This substantial rise has impacted affordability for potential homebuyers.
Rent costs 270% more compared to wages.
Rental price hikes got much worse, beating and surpassing annual wage increases by 270%.
by 270%.
Last year, many cities had 30% rent increase in year 2023, pummeling inner city minorities and youth.
Small business lines of credit rates up over 100%.
Business lines of credit allow you to access funds as needed.
Interest rates can vary wildly from 6% in 2020 to 13% today, up over 100%.
Presently, a small business in the inner city would pay about 9% to 75% APR on average for a loan.
Bank rates report SBA, small business loans, fixed rate 13.5% to 16.5%.
Bad credit business loans went 20% to 99%.
is 16.5.
Bad credit business loans went 20% to 99% for loss.
In 2021, the interest rate for SBA disaster loans is about 3.75 and 2.75 for nonprofits, with long-term repayment options of up to 30 years overall.
or This painful economic landscape not only complicates the bath to renting or home ownership, but adds strain to managing existing debt, hindering financial stability among marginalized and ethnic communities, as 2024 interest rates climb to loan shark rates.
The accessibility of credit diminishes, perpetuating cycles of financial exclusion and widening the economic gap for working folks who also already pay an outrageous totality rate for sales taxes, federal income taxes, entertainment taxes, internet taxes, cell phone taxes, auto taxes, luxury taxes, real estate taxes, cable TV taxes, and local income taxes.
Furthermore, analysis suggests nobody would even need student debt relief if the government had not intentionally raised lending rates on working families with debt by a staggering 100% on most loans.
All of this unnecessary calamity upon workers is occurring while many on public assistance receive tax-free housing, food, and health care, and do not feel any of the suffocating effects of hyperinflation with higher rent costs, loan repayment, food costs, insurance costs, or health care.
In this volatile financial climate, it becomes imperative to address the disproportionate impact of hyperinflation, escalating interest rates, and rental costs on working families, women, children, and minorities.
To make a long story short, the math does not lie.
According to the U.S.
federal courts, business bankruptcy filing rose 40.4% from 13,481 to 18,926 in 2023.
Meaning, let me take that first and then hit this last story.
481 to 18,926 in 2023.
Meaning, let me take that first and then hit this last story.
Brian, you're into this.
You've been looking at it.
Yeah, I've been looking at it.
Okay, so something very artificial happened in 2020.
You remember what artificially happened in 2020?
That was COVID.
And so everybody's sitting at home and there was a bunch of layoffs that took place and people were sitting at home and trying to figure out what to do next.
And so there was sort of a large exodus of the workforce.
Related to people working from home and then people wanting to set up their own thing.
So there was a bunch of low interest loans that were available and at that time.
There were people that had great credit that could get more 30 year mortgages at the time because the banks had.
Artificially messed with the lending rates as a result of there were people they're getting.
2% and 3% interest rates on a 30-year mortgage.
Well, the cost for servicing that kind of debt is 5% or 6%.
So, this causes a large gap in terms of we're making 2%, but we have to have 5% to service it.
So, if we've got half of our assets out there collecting 2% at a loss, at a 3% loss, Then we need to take the next half of the assets that we bring in, and we've got to collect 7% to make up for those losses.
And the problem is, all that money is now lent out, and people are beginning to go to the bank and say, hey, this doesn't make any sense.
I'd like to buy some gold.
I'd like to buy some precious metals.
There's a problem with the market and large withdrawals are beginning to inch upward and upward and upward.
Now, what's going to happen sooner or later is that there's going to be a run on the bank, run so hard that there's no solution other than printing more money, quantitative easing, giving the banks more money to get people their deposits back, which means that all that money sitting out in the market losing At a time on mortgages, and there's going to be another collapse.
It's going to be 2008 times 10 in terms of what takes place now.
The credit card problem is also another really big area of concern because everybody that's finding themselves falling behind, but they still have those old spending habits.
I'll buy whatever I want because I can click a button on Amazon.
It's ease of purchase.
Oh, I need this today.
I need that to get those spending habits are beginning to put people deeper and deeper into debt causing sort of a snowball that's working its way down.
With the middle class in terms of they're absorbing more credit.
They're getting closer to their credit limit.
The interest rates are getting higher.
The snowball is going down.
Uh-oh!
Next thing you know, I can't pay my credit card payments.
I'm falling behind.
Well, I've got to pick something.
I'm going to pay my mortgage.
But as the fees and interest continue to snowball, it's falling farther and farther.
At the same time, there's a surplus and an inventory of available housing out there.
In most markets, and there's not enough qualified buyers because of all the credit dings that have taken place with people to purchase those houses, meaning that all those contractors have all that capital out there building those houses.
I think we're running into an area In the economy that where expenses and inflation have gotten so high that even $100,000 household income cannot continue to have a lifestyle that appears sustainable.
It all takes borrowing to do it.
And the more borrowing that you get, the more trouble that we have.
I think they're setting up the perfect environment.
For a centralized digital currency, and I think all they have to do is flip the switch.
The solution to all of it?
And then you'll take your good citizens that pay their taxes and fit the middle class and you can buy, sell and trade.
Oh, by the way, now you're the Chinese style of if you misbehave, we're going to shut off your ability to travel.
I think they're all moving towards the Chinese style of economic management, even though even that seems to be crashing at this point in time.
The solution to all of it.
Less law, more capitalism.
I hate to say it, break it down, but the problem with conducting business in America today, a fundamental problem, is that it costs too much money to get into business.
And the investors are skittish about doing it with anybody who's out there willing to put the time and the work and the energy into building it.
Even the SBA is getting into it.
So over-regulation has driven over-pricing, over-policing, not just policing, but litigiousness has driven over-pricing.
The cost of insurance has driven over-pricing.
Everything is just beginning to hit the edge of that bubble, where now that bubble is stretched so thin that the inevitable is the bubble breaks.
Mass defaults take place.
The economy swings down.
The government tries to fix it by pumping a bunch of money in.
It doesn't work.
People still can't afford because the costs have to go up to make enough money to operate.
I see trouble on the horizon.
And you know what?
Make sure you have a seed bank.
And a little piece of property.
I hate to say it, but I think it's going to get that bad and that ugly that you're going to have to figure out how to raise hogs and goats and a garden to get through whatever's coming, unless you take the mark.
The central bank digital currency.
Brian, I think you're so right in that.
Notice how COVID contributed to all of this has set it up.
I think that's really vital.
Very nice.
We have one final story.
No surprise.
Biden's covert alien invasion.
800,000 flown under radar to U.S.
cities.
The Biden admin planned to secretly let huge numbers of illegals into the country is shocking.
According to available federal records, a whopping 33,000 illegals have been flown into New York City alone.
Even more mind-boggling, an astonishing 326,000 were flown into Florida.
You're that right, folks.
Florida's been bombarded with illegals making up Biden's hidden agenda.
The number Biden has thrown around the country far surpasses the number that Texas Governor Abbott sent via bus to deep blue cities.
And here's the kicker.
The left-wing media hardly bats an eyelash at Biden's major human trafficking operation, while Governor Abbott is relentlessly attacked for trying to manage the influx of illegals.
It's a classic case of double standards, folks.
Here it is.
Scott Per Trump tweets, how is this not treason?
When Trump becomes a 47th president, he should investigate and indicate, he means indict Biden and everyone else involved in this.
Joe Biden has secretly flown 33,000 migrants into New York City.
into New York City, $326,000 in Florida taxpayer expense.
Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Todd Benzman, revealed the stunning truth.
Biden has smuggled in a whopping 800,000 illegals using a top-secret program called the CHNP program Or advanced travel authorization.
These sneaky programs use planes that transport people who have not gone through the proper immigration process and are dumped into American cities without any notice or coordination with local government.
The cherry on top?
The Biden admin has been extremely hush-hush about these covert plights, desperately trying to keep everything under wraps.
It's like running a top-secret spy operation.
The only thing they're smuggling are illegal aliens.
Not only that, but Biden's DHS has flat-out refused to comply with Freedom of Information Act record requests.
Talk about dodging transparency.
The numbers revealed by Benjamin have been expertly pieced together from various government records because the Biden admin has been doing everything in his power to keep this under the radar.
Florida Governor DeSantis didn't hold back, slamming the lack of transparency and coordination with state governments to add insult to injury.
Even New York City Mayor Eric Adams had been completely silent about the 33,000 illegals dropped off at the region's airports by Biden, a classic case of selective outrage.
And if you think it can't get worse, think again.
One of the illegals Biden swooped into JFK ended up being arrested for a heinous crime.
Pierre Lucard, a Haitian immigrant, was busted by Boston police in September 2023 for allegedly raping a teenage girl with a developmental disability.
Absolutely gut-wrenching.
The bottom line?
Biden's secret scheme to fly in the illegals left, right, and center is a shameful display of secrecy and recklessness.
Time to shine a light on this covert op and hold the Biden admin accountable for his blatant disregard of the safety and well-being of Americans.
Meanwhile, Trump puts pressure on Biden, calls for debate, Looks like Trump is ready to increase the pressure to get Biden to debate him.
Will the Democrats allow it?
I think we know the answer.
Trump would destroy him in a verbal judo battle the likes of which we've never seen.
One have truths, backs, and a sharp mind.
The other lies, mumbles, trouble reading teleprompters, distracted easily, trouble finding his way off the stage.
The more I think about it, I hope it does happen.
It would be hilarious.
RNC tweets?
President Trump.
It's time for Cricket Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of the United States, and I to debate.
We have to talk about what he's doing and where we're going anytime, anywhere, anyplace.
Brian, your thoughts?
If the crisis is coming, and it's coming soon, think about what to do to prepare for times of crisis.
If we have a large economic bubble in front of us, and what's going to happen is that every American family is going to begin to feel the pressure.
What happens when you feel the pressure is that you cut away at non-essential services.
And only spend money on those things that are essential services.
So, is it essential to have a house cleaner in times of economic crisis?
Is it essential to have a pool cleaner?
Is it essential to have a car cleaner?
What is essential?
Food, water, Services.
Do you think people are going to pay their medical bills in times of economic crisis?
In times of economic crisis, there's going to be oil and gas.
There's going to be mechanical needs.
What does it take to run a household?
Air conditioning, HVAC, plumbing, electrical.
Times of crisis, you're going to find economic services perform much, much better than anything that is sort of A long-term maintenance type service.
So that said, whatever you've got in terms of your ability to provide a service, your ability to invest in a service, your ability to support any sort of industry, the people that survive the longest are going to be the people that have heavily leveraged themselves into essential goods and services such as rice,
Medicine, soap, milk, car repair, fuel production of one sort or another, even solar production.
But you got to ask yourself the question, essential?
Is it essential?
Because when people are squeezed as hard as the squeeze is coming, they're going to have to make decisions and everything that's non-essential is not going to be paid anymore.
Credit card bills, not going to be paid anymore.
Not essential.
Not essential.
At that time, it's going to be essential.
If you can buy and sell, barter, trade, food, goods, essential services, you're going to be okay.
You're going to last longer than your neighbor.
Wonderful commentary tonight, Brian.
I can't thank you enough.
Don, take us out.
Yeah, I guess I should take us out with one question here.
This is Income Tax Day, April 15th.
And what is the statute that has required you to pay income tax?
Can you name a statute that requires you to do that?
I haven't been able to find it.
And so we're paying an income tax as well.
So we're getting robbed from the top to the bottom.
It's a dire situation here, folks.
And you hear it straight here.
You ain't gonna hear this kind of information anywhere else.
Jim, is your... Don, we're $33 trillion in debt.
We're putting a trillion dollars in debt on every 100 days.
We've already crossed the precipice.
We're on the snowball going downhill.
The clock is ticking.
There's no way to fix it.
How can you eject enough money back into the system to repair it?
You can't.
It's broken.
Every man, woman, and child born in America owes over $100,000 in debt from the day they start.
And they've got to start paying interest on that in day one.
It's going to crash.
The question is, what are you going to do?
How are you going to be set up when it does?
Very good.
Yeah, we're having an ambulance.
The snow is pretty deep.
It's going to hit us hard.
So we're hitting you hard here with the fact that you ain't going to get nowhere else.
So thanks for watching.
By the way, one more thing.
One more thing.
Sure.
When it gets this tough, the final essential, guns and ammunition.
Yeah, that's right.
We got it.
Oh boy.
And thank you for watching, folks.
Share this widely.
This is the only show like this in the world.
And actually, we've been hacked and actually been shut down on YouTube and other things.
We've been attacked for telling the truth in America.
That makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
So anyway, see you next week.
Share this widely and play it for Better days ahead.
These are hard times, folks.
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