Owen Shroyer dissects Dan Bongino’s pivot from promised "deep state" arrests to attacking media, calling it empty bravado amid unaddressed scandals like Epstein and January 6th. Trump’s 2026 policies—Venezuela oil deals favoring Elliott ($billions), Iran-Israel regime-change plots, and Florida’s gubernatorial race—expose donor-driven priorities over "America First" principles, with James Fishback framing the choice as preserving "Old Florida" (heritage, sovereignty) against Byron Donalds’ "New Florida" (corporate welfare, foreign influence). Meanwhile, Trump’s vaccine schedule cuts 72 shots to 11, and Spain’s anti-Israel protests clash with debunked deepfake narratives, revealing selective outrage and systemic hypocrisy. [Automatically generated summary]
I have nobody to blame but myself, unlike other people out there that will try to blame everybody else around them.
No, I take full responsibility for that.
Yes, somebody was censoring me.
All right, guys.
Let me just, since I already did this, Dan Bongino, he declares war on the deep state.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No, the headline reads, Dan Bongino declares war on black pillars, grifters, trying to hijack MAGA.
I'm going to tell you what this means as far as where MAGA is at, where the administration is at, and even maybe where Dan Bongino is at personally.
But this really is a major indicator.
First, Dan's exit was a major indicator.
And now everything that's happened in the aftermath is a major indicator.
Of what, I will tell you.
But he's doubled down.
He's tripled down.
Now he's getting into it with Matt Gates.
And then you've got the defenders out there.
We're going to break all of that down today.
We've got President Trump.
Now he's expressing concern.
Trump is expressing concern over the midterms.
And as I've been saying, if it's ever been the walls closing in, maybe this is it.
And I think Trump maybe has mismeasured something or he's been given bad intel on something.
But he's expressing concerns about the midterms now.
And maybe that's why he's pedaled to the metal because he figures in a year he's going to lose a lot of power.
And so he's doing everything he can right now.
Maybe that explains why the pedal is to the medal right now.
Now, I do have some January 6 news in my stack today, but I wasn't going to get too much into it, but I assume since it's close and personal to me, we might actually spend some time on that.
What we have gotten, what we haven't gotten.
Have we gotten justice for the January 6ers?
Are we just forgetting about that?
Are they running out the clock on the statute of limitations?
But there is a story in the news today.
So we'll have that.
We have some fraud stories, and then we got a ton of geopolitics.
Venezuela, Israel, it's the same story.
And there's going to be a major, there's going to be a major problem that the administration has already began to run into, but it's only going to get worse now.
We covered some of it with Marco Rubio.
We covered some of it with the things that Trump used to say, and now he's doing the exact opposite.
So these things are starting to pile up.
Now you've got Heg Seth today.
Now you've got Gabbard today.
Now you've got Speaker Johnson today.
Really, the Bongino thing ties into all of it.
So it's really weird.
You have the new generational right that demands results, and then you just have the brainwashed, the cuckservatives, the con Inc., the grifters, the whatever, the cheerleaders, that they just, they just cheer and do the high leg kick and wave the pom-oms no matter what.
And that's really the split in the right.
You can talk about policy.
The real split in the right is people that demand results and the people that wave pom-poms.
And now we're starting to see the difference.
Now we're starting to see the difference with this administration.
Who's here and actually wants to see results?
And who's here that just wants to wave the pom-oms or get the access or take the pictures, the fortune, the clout, the fame, all of that?
Who's here for results?
Who's here for fortune and fame?
Throw the policies out.
That seems to be what it's all about.
But a lot of geopolitical news, there's developments in Venezuela today.
There's developments in Israel today.
There's developments in Iran today.
But as this administration gets farther off the path of what we elected them to do, and as this administration gets closer to neocon globalism than America first, they're going to have problems.
And Bongino is going to have problems.
And it's going to be harder and harder to address the American people on these obvious hypocrisies.
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Now, I would normally see this Trump and Bazaar cancel elections rant as he warns I will be impeached.
Now, I do have that clip.
Now, so this is what they're going to make the headlines out of.
He'll cancel elections.
I used to probably would have just tossed that aside and say, yeah, that's not going to happen.
And I'd still say it's very unlikely.
But, you know, now you hear it and it just kind of hits differently.
You know, it just kind of hits differently now that Trump is acting as an authoritarian in some ways.
So it just kind of hits differently.
I don't want to get distracted by that.
We do have James Fishback coming on at five today in the third hour.
That is confirmed.
Made sure to double, triple confirm with him this time.
We talked earlier.
So I don't want to spend too much time pontificating on that.
We may come back to that.
I want to start off the show.
And really, this is probably the light.
This is probably the light work for the day.
There's a lot of heavy geopolitical news.
But the Dan Bongino phenomenon, I think, is significant.
It's significant to understand what it means and how it's as a phenomenon showing where this divide in the right really is.
And you can talk about policy or you can talk about a singular issue like an Epstein files or an Iran strike.
And there might be a consistency as far as who's splitting on these issues.
But I think the larger, I think the larger picture that's emerging now with the Bongino departure from the FBI and Bongino's response to the criticisms after his departure as his show is going to go live sometime this month.
I don't know if they've, I haven't seen an official date, but I'm assuming it's going to be this month.
So he's getting a lot of criticism and he's declaring war.
Now, before I get off into that, the split seems to be, and this is why it's so crazy to see Dan Bongino and others taking the other side of this.
The split seems to be it's people who demand results and people who just want to cheerlead.
People who just want to wear the jersey, wear the hat, wave the pom-pom, do the high leg kick, and cheerlead.
And then there's people that actually want results.
So it's like, yeah, you look at the issues, look at the Epstein files.
We want results.
We want to see the names of the clients that Jeffrey Epstein was either doing money laundering or sex trafficking for.
And then all of the top names die in suicide events in prison.
It's like, no, we want results from that.
We want to know who is being controlled by this blackmail operation.
And we want to know why and who was benefiting and who was running it.
We want results on that.
And then we want something conclusive so that we can understand it and make sure it never happens again and maybe even try to reverse all the damage that was done because of it.
So that's where people on the right say we want results.
And then the cheerleaders, the pom-pom waivers, the high leg kickers that seem to just want access.
They want to take a picture.
They want some fortune.
They want some fame.
They're just appeased as long as somebody is there cheering them on.
They're just appeased as long as there's some hype.
They're just appeased as long as there's some slop on the plate in front of them.
It's like, just give us something to kind of put out there and cheerlead and do a high leg kick, and we'll be okay with that.
And if you can get me into Mar-a-Lago a couple of times, if you can get me into the White House a couple of times, you can get me that picture a couple of times, you can boost me on social media a couple of times, then we'll be all good.
We'll be all good.
And so Dan Bongino is getting a little bit of the, he's getting a little taste of what we've been dealing with here for the last year.
And, you know, just if you follow me, you see, and a lot of people are pointing this out to me now.
They say, well, you know, why do you get so much hate?
How do you deal with all of this hate?
And I just say, I've been dealing with it for more than 10 years, so I don't really care.
I'm here to do a job.
I'm here to report the news three hours a day.
That's what I do.
As far as haters are concerned, I think it's fun.
But now Bongino enters himself back into the social media world, back into the media world, and he's getting the other side of that hate.
And he just, he doesn't know what to do.
He doesn't understand it.
Because some of us want results.
Some of us are not happy doing the high leg kick.
Some of us are not happy eating the slop.
Now, the reason why somebody like me gets so much hate is because I raise the standard.
I raise the standard for independent media.
I raise the standard for logical thinking and politics and policy.
I hold a magnifying glass to anybody, and I call out hypocrites no matter what side of the aisle they're on.
So that's why people hate me.
That's why people come after me.
Because if Owen Schroyer is here, who went to prison for January 6th, fought like hell for Trump and the MAGA movement for 10 years, suffered immensely because of it, if I can come out here and say these things, it makes them look bad.
Why aren't they willing to say it?
Why aren't they willing to see it?
Now they look bad.
Now they look like establishment hacks.
Now they look like propaganda agents.
That's why I get the hate.
It's like somebody that keeps getting A's in class.
And so the curve, the curve doesn't help the people getting C's and D's.
Now, I'm not saying I'm the only one like that.
I'm just using myself as an example.
There are obviously others out there that are getting much more hate than me.
So here comes Bongino back into the media.
And we've been asking this question.
How does he go back to his show?
How does he go back to his show, specifically with no deep state arrests?
Now, we can give credit where credit is due here, right out of the gates.
And we have no problem in doing so.
Did the FBI under Kash Patel and Dan Bongino increase their arrest of violent criminals?
Yes.
Did they increase their arrest of drug trafficking?
Yes.
Did they increase the arrests of sex trafficking?
Yes.
Are homicide rates down in the United States?
Yes.
And for these things, we give them credit and we say a job well done.
We say a job well done.
But let's be perfectly clear.
The expectations were much bigger than that.
And quite frankly, and this isn't to be a cynic, it's just true.
That's your job anyway.
That should be the standard at the FBI.
So just because the FBI has been such a miserable failure for years and you guys actually came in and did the work that's supposed to be done, hey, we say good job, but that's your job.
That's what you're supposed to do.
You don't need an extra special pat on the back.
You don't need an extra special cookie with a candle for you to blow out and hear how great you are.
That's your job and you did a good job at it.
The expectations were much bigger than that.
And I thought we were all on the same page.
That's the big disconnect.
Thought we were all on the same page because Dan Bongino talked about the Epstein list being important.
Dan Bongino talked about January 6th being an inside job.
Dan Bongino talked about the January 6th pipe bomber being an inside job.
Dan Bongino talked about all the treason that happened when they illegally spied on Donald Trump.
And I can go on and on and on.
And same with Kash Patel.
And now they run the FBI, the most powerful investigative bureaucracy in the country, and they don't deliver on any of those key issues.
And they just want to fall back on, hey, but we did our normal job.
Good job.
You did your normal job.
I thought the expectations were higher, not even just from us, but from you guys too.
And if you guys were on our side of the aisle, if you were sitting on this side of the camera, you'd be saying the same things that we were.
But now you're in the administration.
And now all of a sudden the expectations have changed.
Dan Bongino declares war on black pillars and grifters trying to hijack MAGA.
Well, let's see if Bongino decides to name any names.
Let's just see if Dan Bongino wants to name any names when he does this.
But what does this even mean?
Is this a new thing?
Why?
Dan Bongino.
Did Dan Bongino make a career out of going after black pillars and grifters?
Is that who Dan Bongino is?
Did Dan Bongino make a career?
Was the thrust of Dan Bongino's show, Republican Party infighting and nitpicking and personality conflicts?
Is that Dan Bongino?
Is that the Dan Bongino show?
Is that why people tuned in to hear Dan Bongino?
So he could go after other people in the media?
No.
No, people tuned into Dan Bongino because he was informed, informative, and well-researched on the most important issues as far as exposing and dealing with government corruption at the highest levels.
But so how does Dan Bongino go back to his show now?
Well, I guess this is it.
So Dan Bongino is not going back to his show with the scalp of a deep stater.
Dan Bongino is not going back to his show so that he can go take his book about Russia Gate and spying on Donald Trump and say, here it is.
We did it.
We got the bad guys.
He can't do that.
That's just a fact.
He can't do that.
Now, whether he wants to explain why or not, my guess is no.
And there'll probably be an excuse of an NDA.
Well, Dan, you could become a whistleblower.
Dan, you used to support FBI whistleblowers.
Remember that?
So you could become an FBI whistleblower and explain why we're not going to get any Epstein lists.
Explain why there's all this weirdness with the footage from his prison cell, why nobody's getting arrested for Spygate, Russia Gate.
You could become a whistleblower, Dan, or you can, or what are you going to say?
That you were wrong about all that stuff?
There is no corruption?
Or are you going to say it's so bad?
There's so much corruption.
I can't do anything about it.
So I have to come back to my podcast and rant against other people in the media.
Now, I would say this for Bongino, and I'm not going to be too hard on Bongino yet.
Okay?
I'm not going to be too hard on Bongino.
I think this is totally fair right here.
But now he's decided he's going to going back to his show.
The big hype, the big promo is he's going to declare war on what?
Other people in the media.
Is this your new thing, Dan?
Are you going to talk about the deep state?
What are we going to talk about?
Dan Bongino, for eight years, rose to fame and prominence, covering the deep state corruption.
He becomes number two at the FBI, does what about it?
Has to go back to his show because he can't do anything about it and says, well, now I'm going after other people in the media.
And I think this is only going to get worse for him, quite frankly, because and he's reposting AI videos of himself, like looking like a super cop and all of this stuff.
And it's just total cringe.
Nobody's buying it.
Now, if you got in there and you, if you got in there and had like two or three deep state arrests and started reposting AI slop, okay, then it might hit.
If you got some arrests from Spygate, if you got some arrests from Spygate, if you got some arrests from RussiaGate, then you can post AI slop like this.
But you didn't, Dan.
You didn't get any deep state arrests.
And so you're posting this stuff and people are saying, hey, why are you doing this?
You can't repost AI slop unless you arrested somebody for Spygate or for Russia Gate that you talked about for eight years.
But so he's all hype.
He's leaving the FBI.
He's excited to come back to his show.
And of course, he's being met with a lot of criticism.
He's being met with a lot of what gives.
Love you all.
And thanks again, Flaming Elmo emoji.
He actually posted that, by the way.
He posted Flaming Elmo emoji.
He didn't actually put the emoji up.
He posted that in text.
So I don't know what that's about.
I think it's just really getting cringe here is what it is.
It's really getting cringe.
And look, again, I won't go too hard on Bongino.
I think my coverage has been fair here today.
I could certainly go harder.
And I will say part of my hesitation there is, and it's not like, oh, we should feel bad for Dan or, you know, oh, poor Dan.
No, no, Not that at all.
Exact opposite.
He's a big boy.
He needs to be able to handle this.
But at the same time, he's basically now been set up for failure.
And unless he goes on air and explains why, then it's just, I just don't know.
I don't know how he holds an audience.
What is he going to talk about?
Is he going to go on air and talk about how everything is great now?
Is he going to go on air and talk about how we've drained the swamp, made the deep state arrest?
Is he going to pretend like the things he just talked about for the last eight years don't matter anymore and they're all taken care of and it's all great?
Is it just going to be pro-Trump slop?
But yeah, I don't know what you do.
I don't know what you do if you're Dan Bongino.
I don't know what went on behind the scenes, but he's obviously not handling this well.
And I don't know Dan Bongino personally, so I don't know if this is just a bad reaction to a bad situation.
I don't know if this is Dan Bongino's ego taking a hit, so he's crashing out.
I don't know Dan like that.
I know people that do, and they're telling me one thing.
But so that's the big hype now.
Dan Bongino, number one show on Rumble, one of the biggest political podcasts, all about exposing deep state corruption and demanding we do something about it, becomes number two at the FBI and now has to go back to his show to what?
Talk about deep state corruption and how we need to do something about it.
That dog ain't going to hunt.
That dog ain't going to hunt.
And, you know, if I knew Dan, and if my understanding of the situation is accurate, which I'd say it's pretty close, I'd tell Dan, I'd be like, look, Dan, you're going to have to put your ego aside and you're going to have to put your loyalties aside.
And you're going to have to go on air out of the gates.
And you're going to have to explain soberly, humbly and honestly, why there are no deep state arrests.
And whatever might be holding you back from that, whatever concerns, whatever cares you might have, you're just going to have to put them all aside.
You're going to have to put them all aside.
Because if you're not willing to go right back to your show and address that head on, it's only going to get worse.
And you'll have the MAGA sloppers out there.
You're always going to have the MAGA sloppers.
You're always going to have the MAGA sheeple.
But that's not where you want to go.
You're an anti-establishment guy.
You don't want to go into that world, Dan.
You never come out of it.
But we'll see what he does.
But I would say all signs indicate right now that he's going to go after people in the media.
That's going to be the new Bongino show, at least out of the gates.
He's going to go after black pillars.
Okay, well, what's a black pillar?
Somebody that's upset because we didn't get the Epstein files?
What's a grifter?
Somebody that's against the Trump foreign policy because we have domestic issues we need to take care of first?
What are you even talking about?
Who are you aiming this at?
What is the purpose?
Now, here's what I see from the larger picture with the split on the right wing.
And I'm going to go to this Bongino support page, Bongino support post here in a second.
You've got two things happening that are splitting MAGA, the right wing, Republican voters, Trump voters, however you want to classify it.
There's two things.
And the one thing is obviously policy.
And it's a pretty consistent pattern on policy.
Do you support the Iran strikes?
Do you support the capture of Maduro?
Do you support more foreign policy?
Do you support this continued support of Israel?
These are the policy things that it's like, okay.
But I think the general attitude now that's exposed with this split now with Bongino coming back and some people with the warm reception and others with the cold reception, you have people on the right that expect and demand results.
And then you have people on the right that really don't care.
They're not results oriented.
As long as you give them some slop, as long as the Republicans win, as long as they have something to wave the pom-pom over, do the high leg kickover, and maybe get some access to Mar-Lago or the White House or something like that, then they'll be fine.
They'll be fine.
They just want to be a part of the show.
They just want to feel like they're a part of something.
They just want to feel special.
They just want to post on social media.
They just want to be able to brag to their friends or family, you know.
So they really don't care about results.
So they're okay with this.
They can, they can, they can, results or not, they don't care.
As long as Trump is in there and they have some slop to chew on and they have some pom-poms to wave and at least, you know, something to put out there for their people, then they're happy.
So, these are the two things that split.
Now, now I go to this post on social media because to me, it just shows the mindset and it shows.
I mean, I don't want to say like mental health, but I do, as somebody that is a psychology graduate, I do think I can't help but look at the human psychology element of this.
There is an element of denial here that is causing people, I think, to go crazy.
And I've explained the different factors that go into this.
There's the factors of you want to deny that you could possibly be betrayed.
You just can't believe it.
Nobody would betray me like this.
You have the like just relentless, true believer and hope-filled person that no matter what, no, it's going to go my way.
But I also think you have these people that have built a brand off of supporting Trump.
They've built a persona off of supporting Trump, and they're so afraid to lose that.
They don't know.
They've never, that's all they've known.
That's all they've done.
They've built an entire online persona, online brand off of support for Trump.
They don't know anything else.
And that's why they started to attack me when I started to question some things that were happening with this administration.
And they started to attack me because they don't understand.
I didn't build my brand off of supporting Trump.
I didn't build myself.
I didn't build my show.
I didn't get into broadcasting, all this stuff.
I didn't do that in support of Trump.
I'm not built off of supporting Trump.
I'm built off telling the truth.
I'm built off telling it like it is.
I'm built off taking news, current events, analysis, and making it as understandable as possible for my listening audience.
But they can't understand that.
They're just in the Trump brand person, persona brand, and that's all they know.
So they don't know anything outside of that, and they're scared of anything outside of that.
So they have this denial.
No, I can't be wrong.
No, Trump can't be wrong.
When really subconsciously, they know something isn't right.
I don't think these are bad people.
I think they're suffering from some sort of a psychological distress-based response, which is denial.
So here it is, and we'll go into the replies here.
And you can, because it's very easy to tell who's stable-minded and who's not.
So, this is Gina Milan.
I don't know too much about her.
I think I may follow her or used to follow her.
Unapologetic, resilient, Trump 2024.
I actually think she's some sort of a model that came out and supported Trump and got popular on social media some time ago.
She says, Why are people attacking Bongino right now?
He walked away from his podcast, millions in income, blah, blah, blah.
And then he delivered and he did his job, never sold out, blah, blah, blah.
And this is how I prove that, you know, these people are like, oh, no, this is America first.
This is what I voted for.
No, let me explain something.
If this administration would have released the Epstein files, if this administration would have cut all the foreign aid, if this administration would have made some deep state arrests, how many people right now are complaining, why didn't we capture Maduro?
Zero.
Zero Zilchnada.
If we got deep state arrest, Epstein disclosures.
How many people are coming out and say, why didn't we strike Iran?
Nobody.
I mean, maybe Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin, but nobody.
This is not what people voted for.
This is not the America First policy.
Now, you can discuss why Trump is doing this, and you can say it's because of the donor class.
You can say it's because of the Israeli lobby.
You can say, well, he's going for global dominance.
You can say he's got a larger trade vision.
So fine, let's at least have the discussion on the real playing field.
Let's at least have a discussion in reality here.
But they're not even interested in reality.
It's literally just everything Trump does is great.
And now he's taking advantage of it, by the way.
Now he's taking advantage of it because he knows that that's true.
So, okay, so she stands with Bongino.
And if you don't, you're not a patriot.
Oh, okay.
Yes, you can decide.
Now, now here's what happens.
So people are putting fair points out there.
Like he was appointed for over a year.
He whiffed and quit.
Nothing about the government gangsters or pedophiles, just local crime staff, crime stuff that is routine for a functioning FBI.
So there's an actual point.
Her response is, you sound like a Candace viewer.
So in other words, you have no response.
You can't respond to that.
There is no response.
All you can do is attack.
All you can do is name call, just like the left.
Here's another one.
He'll go down in history for protecting pedophiles and human trafficking.
Period.
The response, you sound dumb.
They can't deny it.
They can't deny it.
There is no denying it.
So I could sit here.
Look at this.
This attack on Bongino better have never quit a job or anything else in their life.
Hypocrites.
So first it's, oh, he's a patriot because he quit his job.
And now he's a patriot because he quit his other job, but nobody else is allowed to quit.
I mean, folks, they're spiraling.
This is what happens.
This is what happened to the woke left.
They're lost in a world that doesn't exist and they're living in denial.
And now they're spiraling.
You can only lie to yourself for so long.
Eventually it catches up to you.
And in this world, that means you lose elections.
Now, I want to jump to the Trump stuff here before we close the first hour.
But in closing, so Bongino.
So Bongino goes from declaring war on the deep state, gets into the FBI, no deep state arrests, leaves the FBI, and declares war on what?
Independent media?
So again, I say this.
I don't know Dan personally.
I have nothing against Dan.
This is somebody who followed his show.
You could even say religiously for years.
It was part of my daily media consumption routine.
I doubt it'll last more than a couple days or weeks when he comes back, but we'll see what he has to offer.
So, this is somebody that's supported Bongino, likes Bongino, has listened to his show.
I don't know him personally.
This has not come from some anti-thing against Dan or anything like that.
This is from a fair neutral observer who has listened to Dan Bongino for years.
Dan, you're coming off as a fake tough guy who is trying to cover for the fact that you got no deep state arrests.
And so, you're covering with this bravado.
You're trying to cover that up with this bravado and this hype that you're going after other people in the media.
Nobody cares about that.
I don't care about that.
I want to know why there's no deep state arrests.
I want to know why we can't get any Epstein clients arrested.
I want to know why Epstein was able to not kill himself in prison and the security footage is gone.
And you guys gave us edited security footage.
I want to know why there's no Russia gate arrests.
I want to know why there's no spygate arrests.
That's what I want to know.
But if you're going to come back on air with this bravado as a cover for lack of results in those categories and you're just going to go after the independent media, then you have nothing to offer.
Your show no longer has anything to offer, Dan.
And you can't be mad at the show consumer for feeling that way.
Now, you'll be fine.
I have no doubt you'll be fine.
Rumble is doing great.
I don't know if you had to sell your stake in Rumble or not, but Rumble's doing great.
I'm sure your show will be fine.
You got millions of dollars.
You don't need any money.
I hope the issues that you've had in your personal life dealing with all of this.
I hope that that settles for you.
I hope that you're able to deal with that in a healthy way.
I know it's difficult to do that in media too, by the way, Dan.
But I'm just again, this is not from a negative place.
I'm just, if this message ever gets to Dan, Dan, if you think this big bravado tough guy thing going back to your show is going to cover for the fact that you can't bring a single deep state scalp to your desk, it's not going to work.
So you can attack Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes or myself or whoever it is or Breanna Morello.
You can attack these people as much as you want, but it's not going to change the circumstances when you open that microphone and you have to explain to your audience why there's no deep state arrest.
And if you decide that you're going to declare war on the independent media or now the right-wing anti-Trump media, however you want to describe it, if you think that's going to cover for this, or if you think that's what people are going to want, you're just going to be talking to sheeple.
And you can't blame your audience that's been consuming you for years talking about deep state corruption and demanding deep state arrests.
And then after you being number two at the FBI, going back to that desk with nothing on the big things you talked about for years, you cannot be mad at your audience for that, Dan.
You can't.
So you can either explain why or you can insert yourself into this divide and, in my view, end up on the wrong side of history.
So I'll leave it at that.
Now let's go to Trump.
It seems like even Donald Trump is starting to get it.
Now, I said the walls are closing in a couple months ago.
And that was more of kind of like a kind of a joke.
It was a real thing.
But I was just using the propaganda headline that they've been running against Trump for years.
And they just say the walls are closing in.
Well, it's been fake.
That's been fake, I would say, until the last couple months.
Now I do think they're closing in, and I still am suspicious that he's been set up for impeachment, by the way.
I mean, folks, Donald Trump is just a man.
Let's not forget the first four years.
Let's not forget what Chuck Schumer said.
Now, again, I'm not saying I happen to like JD Vance.
I happen to like Pete Hegzeth, Marco Rubio.
I don't know, but he seems to be all right in this administration.
Folks, these are all anti-Trumpers.
These are all originally anti-Trumpers.
Do you understand this?
do you get what i'm saying here can you really trust these people to make these decisions that now might get trump impeached in a year from today or a year and a half whatever it takes You take on the intelligence agencies.
They have six ways of Sunday of getting back at you.
That's Chuck Schumer.
Do you think that just died and went away?
You don't think people are in there giving Trump bad intel so that he slips up?
You don't think people are in there putting banana peels all over the Oval Office so that he slips on one?
Don't be so naive.
He's surrounded by never Trumpers.
Now, maybe he's with them now.
All signs indicate he's with them now.
And so maybe he thinks, oh, well, if I join the establishment in this shape, in this regard, then I'll be okay.
But now it seems like Trump is starting to realize maybe the Panicans were right when he says stuff like this.
So he just said that.
He just said this in a recent speech talking about the midterms.
It's because of the priorities of this administration.
It's because of the close relationship with Netanyahu.
It's because of the Iran strikes.
It's because of closing Doge.
None of this is popular.
And he knows that.
So all the Republicans can offer you now, including Donald Trump, all the Republicans can offer you now is, well, we don't deliver on any of our promises and we prioritize foreign and special interests, but you got to vote for us anyway.
That's the campaign message.
And remember, now we'll see if this ends up happening.
The plan is to have Trump campaigning for the midterms.
The plan is to put Trump on the campaign trail.
Do you guys understand how insane this is?
Trump is the president.
All Trump has to do is have good policy and good results.
That's all he has to do.
Why is he campaigning?
Make some deep state arrests.
Expose the Epstein pedophiles.
Money launderers.
Stop all the foreign aid.
Stop all the foreign wars.
So he doesn't deliver on the promises.
The results are not so popular, even in the right wing.
And so all he can say is, well, just vote for us anyway.
Yeah, you know what?
You're upset because a lot of the things and the policies, but you know what?
You got to vote for us anyway.
So we don't do what we say we're going to do.
And you guys don't like our policy, but vote for us anyway.
That's your pitch.
That's your midterm pitch.
Help me not get impeached by voting Republican.
That's your pitch.
Help me get elected.
Help me win the midterm so what?
I can protect Netanyahu.
Help me win the midterm so we can continue to increase the debt and give more money to foreign aid and foreign interests and special interests.
That's your pitch.
And you're going to be stunned, just like Dan Bongino.
You're going to be stunned when it doesn't hit.
So, okay, so that's a pretty important moment right there.
It's like, you got to vote for us because, well, you just got to.
It's like, sorry, you don't like what we're doing.
And, you know, we haven't really been doing what we said we were going to do.
But you just got to vote for us anyway.
Otherwise, I'm impeached.
Well, boy, who cares about that now?
You know, the only people that care about that?
If you take things at face value, the only people that care about that are the billionaire class, the tech billionaire class, the energy billionaire class, and the foreign lobbyists.
Those are the only people that care now.
The average Trump voter is still out there getting crushed.
So that just doesn't ring.
But here, listen to it again.
And then there's one more very important thing he says at the end.
Now, that part right there might even be more important.
And this is why Trump's approval rating is falling.
This is why Bongino is dealing with the criticism.
Says, oh, well, we didn't impeach them because they're just meaner.
Hold on a second.
Whoa.
Mr. President, you have implied that the Democrats and your opposition are committing treason multiple times, and you have used the word treason.
Okay?
We have a Republican Party with the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee that ran an investigation into the Biden crime family.
And we found beyond reasonable doubt that they were engaged, the Bidens, in a pay-for-play access scandal.
Millions of dollars, multiple countries.
So hold on a second.
Those are crimes.
These are crimes.
And nothing ever happens and no arrests are made.
And all you say is, well, this is just because they're meaner.
So what are we saying?
So we let criminals go now?
Is that what we're saying?
Because that's what it sounds like to me.
And that's the perception.
And that's not popular.
And that doesn't win elections.
So that's now.
So the first thing they say is, well, we're going to lose the midterms because our policies aren't really popular and we didn't do what we said we were going to do, but you got to vote for me anyway.
Just vote, vote for Republicans anyway, just because you got to vote.
You got to vote or I'm going to be impeached.
Yeah, the only people that care about that are the billionaires.
That's all.
That's the only people that care about that now.
And then they say, well, you know, the Democrats do all this stuff because they're meaner.
What?
I thought they were criminals.
I thought that was the point.
I thought they illegally persecuted you.
I thought they illegally persecuted your followers, your supporters.
This isn't about who's mean and who's nice.
This is about their criminals.
They committed crimes.
You agree with us on that, and none of them have been arrested.
Yeah, you want to avoid impeachment?
Arrest the damn criminals.
You want to avoid getting impeached?
Arrest the damn deep state.
For whatever reason, we can't.
Or maybe that's what they're going to say.
There is no deep state.
We looked into it.
There is no deep state.
It doesn't exist.
We made it all up.
We're sorry.
Where do you go from here?
They're meaner than us?
I thought they were criminals.
I thought we were all on the same page, that a bunch of criminals were in DC, and more specifically, the Democrat Party, and we were going to arrest them and drain the swamp.
So they're not criminals and crooks and treasonous traitors now.
They're just meaner.
I mean, that's funny, but you can see it in Trump, man.
It's I think you can see it in all of them, quite frankly.
You can see it in Rubio, you can see it in Bongino, you can see it in Trump.
Folks, the swag just isn't there.
They know.
They know.
It's not there.
All right.
I want to get to the geopolitics here.
Lot of geopolitical developments.
And I was concerned somebody was setting Trump up with these boat strikes and maybe even now the Maduro capture.
Calls for Trump's impeachment gain momentum amid fallout over Venezuela operation.
I think he was set up for this, folks.
I think he was set up.
And they're probably going to nail him on it.
And maybe he's now realizing it, but doesn't know what else to do.
It's going to be an interesting year.
Gonna be an interesting year.
That's for damn sure.
Social media erupts.
I got to tell you, I didn't see the eruption.
Did you?
By the way, yeah, because we saw the eruption for the Somali fraud in Minnesota.
We saw that eruption.
Where are the arrests?
Where's Tim Walz?
Where's Keith Ellison?
Don't worry.
Walls has two months before his hearing, so they'll all clean house before it's time.
And some of these state legislatures, they'll be in there, I think, next week.
So it'll all be a wash by then.
But oh, that was the big social media eruption.
Where's the arrest?
Where's Keith Ellison?
Where's Tim Walz?
Where's the deportations?
On to the next one.
Did you see the eruption here?
Now, this does look like a story.
Social media erupts.
Didn't see that.
But report over Capitol Police Officer Michael Bird and wife running an unaccredited daycare.
Now, what are the odds of that?
How many people are running these daycare scams, by the way?
You know, maybe I should just start running a daycare scam.
They make the joke of it.
Seems there's a lot of good money in it.
And I'll actually run a daycare.
Imagine that.
I'll actually run the daycare.
How about that?
I like this as an idea, guys.
Maybe we can pull this off.
I'll get some of the government funding.
Oh, but wait, I'm an American.
They cut it off for me now.
Okay, I'll move to Israel.
I'll convert.
I'll get some of the funding.
I'll start a daycare and we'll actually have a daycare.
And then I'll do the show from the daycare with the kiddos.
It's a genius idea.
Eventually, it'll pay for itself.
What are the odds?
Michael Bird, the guy that shot Ashley Babbitt and his wife had an unaccredited daycare.
What are the odds of this?
Reports have surfaced that U.S. Capitol Police Captain Michael Bird and his wife, Kaleska, have been operating an unaccredited daycare center from the Maryland home since 2008.
Records show U.S. Capitol Police Captain Michael Byrd, who fatally shot unarmed January 6th, protester Ashley Babbitt without warning, has been running an unaccredited daycare center with wife Kaleska from their home since 2008.
This is being reported by Red State.
Paul Sperry reporting on it from a separate source here.
This is, this is the actual site, I suppose, right here, is what he's linking to.
Looks like it's in their home.
Looks like it's set up for a daycare.
That could be staging.
We will run a daycare.
We will run the Owen Daycare and the Owen Report.
And we will actually run a daycare, and it'll be the best daycare ever.
And those kids will have the most fun they've ever had, and they'll learn a couple of things in the process.
We'll say the Pledge of Allegiance.
We'll pray to the Lord God.
I wonder if any of that's going on at the Michael Bird daycare, supposedly here is where you're at.
That looks nice.
What are the odds?
What are the odds of that?
Everybody's got a daycare scam, huh?
Everybody's got a daycare scam.
So Musk has come out talking about this.
They uncovered a $7 million snap fraud scheme in Boston.
And Elon Musk covering a lot of this fraud on X, giving it some much-needed boost and attention.
Half a million dollars a month stolen by a single fake store with fraudulent food stamps.
Snap.
Now, see, that's why true conservatism, true political conservatism is the smallest possible government, the smallest possible government that we can have.
That's political conservatism.
And here's why.
Because when you have a small government that has little to no welfare, then you have little to no fraud.
See how that works?
So we try to conserve our country by not opening up the doors and the opportunity to fraud.
But when you have all these massive welfare programs and all these massive spending programs, then you're just opening it up for fraud.
And now we're seeing it.
And Musk also followed up and said he saw $700 billion of fraud every year in the United States in their books.
$700 billion in fraud every year.
And it's like, you know, you see this and you say, where is the outrage?
And it shows you how really the right wing is just as brainwashed as the left, unfortunately.
And that's kind of the big letdown for a lot of people right now is we thought the right wing got better than this.
We thought the right wing learned and figured out how the game is played.
But it turns out most of them are just as brainwashed as the sheeple, or they are the sheeple now.
Where is the outrage?
Hey, we caught the Minnesota fraud.
That's great.
That's great.
You know, let's wait and see what the results are.
But okay, now $700 billion in fraud annually.
$700 billion in fraud annually.
Where are the mass arrests?
And instead, they shut down Doge because they didn't want there to be mass arrests.
Instead, they shut down Doge and gave Musk an ugly exit because he actually wanted to do something about this.
And he got in there and found out that nobody else was serious.
This wasn't the real agenda.
He was fooled.
They lied to him.
And he didn't take it very well.
Now he's kind of re-cozying up or playing ball, at least to a certain degree, whatever.
I'm not too judgmental of Elon Musk and all of this.
Others have wanted me to be more critical.
I'm not going to do it.
He remains in a 51, his approval rating with me is still above 50.
It's 51% for me approval rating.
Maybe higher, but we'll leave that aside.
Where's the outrage?
See, MAGA cannot be outraged by $700 billion in fraud because then they'd have to be upset at the Trump administration for not doing something about it.
You see how that works?
So they pick and choose with their selective outrage.
And this is why the pandemic policies were such a disaster.
Second, state lawmaker charged with pandemic fraud.
State Representative Karen Bennett, a longtime Democrat legislator, has pleaded not guilty to charges of fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits in 2020.
Well, she's going to get caught just like the other one.
The charges will eventually stick, or she'll plea.
We'll see.
But they basically, they caught these people, and she's not the only one, but they caught these people taking the COVID money and the stipulations were either your business had to be shut down or your income had to be stopped, whatever it was.
And it turns out their income never stopped, their business never shut down, and they took these loans out anyway.
So they caught committing fraud.
And it's a tiny little thing, but this is how it happens.
And this is why we're just against the government spending.
This is why we're against the massive government.
And it's like, how many conservatives are really left?
So, hey, whatever.
You don't like Thomas Massey and you get upset because he takes on Trump head on and he sticks to certain issues.
Thomas Massey is like the only true conservative left in the Republican Party in the House.
Like he's a true conservative.
Don't call yourself a conservative if you disagree with Thomas Massey's policies.
He's a real conservative.
Don't call yourself a conservative unless you're ticked off with the spending and $700 billion in fraud every single year because the government is so big and so expansive and there's so much waste, fraud, and abuse that it's just easy for hundreds of billions of dollars to get stolen.
Don't call yourself a conservative unless you're outraged with that.
Don't call yourself a conservative if you're for regime change wars and nation building and all this stuff.
None of that is conservative.
Now, if you support that, that's fine.
Again, if you support that and you're behind that, hey, okay, just be honest about it.
Be honest about what it is.
But don't call yourself a conservative.
That is not conservative.
But here you go.
Here's the recent regime change war.
So Maduro due in court and the court documents and the allegations drop.
And this little diddy hits.
Justice Department drops claim that Venezuela's Cartel de los Souls is an actual group.
Last year, before capturing President Nicolas Maduro, the Trump administration designated a Venezuelan slang term for a drug corruption in the military as a terrorist organization and said he let it.
So they've retracted the claims.
The new claims are, let's see if I can find the quote.
Yeah, right here.
Prosecutors are now accusing Maduro and participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy, but they abandoned the claim that Cartel de los Souls was an actual organization.
Instead, they revised the indictment so it states it is a patronage system and a culture of corruption fueled by drug money.
So their original claims that he was a drug kingpin, they've dropped.
The original claims that he was in charge of this gang, De Los Souls, they've dropped.
They've dropped it.
So now they're just saying, oh, there was corruption in the Venezuelan government.
And so we're bringing you in because there was corruption in the government.
So cool.
So when do we bring in the corruption, the people responsible for the corruption in the United States government?
America first, right, baby?
Drain the swamp.
Deep state arrest.
Yeah, we're arresting Maduro for corruption in the Venezuelan government.
When do we arrest people for corruption in the U.S. government?
Or does that not exist anymore?
Or do we not care about that anymore?
Or did we lie about that from the beginning?
So why did we go into Venezuela?
Well, I think there's multiple factors.
I think the oil for sure.
And I think Israel wanted Maduro out.
I don't think there's any doubt about that.
And these two things combined to the capture of Maduro.
Israel expresses hope for resumption of Venezuela ties after Maduro's deposal.
So Israel has been calling for the removal of Maduro for decades.
We showed you that yesterday.
We had documentaries going back to 2009, Israel demanding Maduro be removed from power.
So this has been in Israeli agenda for a long time.
So now Trump delivers it for them, just like everything else.
And now Trump gets to give himself a little boost in the economy and in the trade war against China by seizing all of the assets of Venezuela that was cooperating with China.
So Trump gets a little power play in his trade war with China, and Israel gets their agenda taken care of.
They wanted Maduro out of power.
Where do the American people sit in all of this?
Well, you fund it.
That's where you're the slave that funds this entire operation.
I hope you enjoy that role.
Netanyahu says Israel supports strong U.S. action in Venezuela.
Of course.
Of course.
And then in Netanyahu's recent speech, restoring freedom and justice, Israeli government praises Maduro's capture.
And then I've got the actual clip of Netanyahu's speech saying that with the translation here.
So here's the actual clip of Netanyahu saying that translated to English.
Regarding Venezuela, I want to express the government's full support for the U.S.'s firm decision and action to restore freedom and justice to that region.
I must say, in Latin America, we're seeing a transformation as countries return to the American axis and unsurprisingly, to ties with Israel.
Cuba's solidarity and support to the brotherly people of Palestine, victim of more than 75 years of colonial occupation, flagrant violations to their legitimate rights as a nation, submitted to cruelty, aggression, collective punishment, and apartheid.
Over the last 11 months, the Israeli army has massacred more than 40,000 civilians.
In that indiscriminate and disproportionate massacre, this has killed more boys and girls than men and women.
They die with the complicity and weapons contributed by the government of the United States, with the complicit silence of others.
We pay tribute to the more than 220 aid workers of this organization who have also been killed.
Cuba's position is clear and unequivocal.
President Miguel Diascanel Bermudes has said, and I quote: History will not forgive the indifferent, and we will not be among them.
The genocide against the Palestinian people must end unconditionally and without further delay.
Israel, with the complicity of the United States, has brought the world to the brink of a major world conflict.
The irresponsible aggression against Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and the people of the Middle East will have consequences that are hard to predict.
Yeah, we're probably going to go ahead and just invade Cuba after a speech like that, I imagine.
Now, so you have the leaders of Venezuela, the leaders of Colombia, and the leaders of Cuba now all coming out and saying, we're being targeted by the Zionists, we're being targeted by Israel, but Trump and America is the weapon that they're using against us.
Now, you may agree, you may disagree.
Or you might even say, well, that's good.
But this is what's incredible.
This is what the world has realized.
This is what these foreign leaders have realized.
This is what most people in America have now realized.
That the most influence, as far as U.S. politics is concerned, as far as U.S. policy is concerned, and most directly foreign policy is concerned, the number one influence are the special interests and the donor interests, the foreign interests.
And the number one benefactor of all of these things continues to be Israel.
The number one influencer and the number one benefactor continues to be Israel.
Now, all right, I already know there are people pulling their hair out and they deny it, they're sick of it, whatever.
This is the conclusion that people have reached.
This is the undeniable conclusion that people have reached.
And they've reached this conclusion because they're paying attention and they see where the influence is coming from, where the benefit is going.
And so leaders all around the world and American people have all reached the same conclusion and it's never been more obvious, obviously.
So that's why everybody's reaching it.
It's never been more obvious.
It's never been more in your face.
And so here you are.
So they're all calling it out.
And they're sitting here saying, well, what the heck is going on?
Since when is America aimed against us?
Since when is the American military aimed against us?
And they know there's no support from the people.
There's no political movement of people saying, go into Maduros, Venezuela, go into Cuba, go into Colombia.
It's not there.
Like I said, if you deliver the Epstein list and you deliver deep state arrests, how many Americans, how many Trump voters are standing up today saying, why didn't we invade Venezuela?
Why didn't we invade Cuba?
Why didn't we invade Colombia?
Zero.
That's how many.
But if and when they invade all three of these countries, people will stand up and say, why didn't we get the Epstein files?
Why didn't we get deep state arrests?
Because that's what people actually want.
So now the world just sees it.
They realize it.
They know this isn't coming from the American people.
So they're addressing it where it's actually coming from.
And they're saying it's the donor class, it's the special interests, and it's the foreign interests that are doing this.
They've all, everybody's reached the same conclusion.
All neutral, honest observers have reached the same conclusion.
And eventually, because this only goes one way, eventually the people that haven't reached that conclusion, eventually they will too.
It's only going one direction.
Eventually, everybody's going to reach that same conclusion because it's right in your face.
There's never been more evidence.
It's never been more obvious.
Trump brags about it.
Netanyahu brags about it.
So there's really not much more time left to deny this.
And maybe that's why Trump is peddled to the metal right now.
Maybe that's why Netanyahu is pedaled to the metal right now.
These are old men.
These are old men, and they've probably just decided between the two of them or whoever has decided that, you know what, we're just going all the way with it.
Screw it.
Who cares?
So yeah, regime change, war, foreign interests, special interests, that's who's going to get what they want, not the American people, not the Israeli people.
And I don't know, maybe the Venezuelan people get something out of this.
Maybe the Iranian people get something out of this as far as if they don't want their current political leadership in there.
But we're sick of our current political leadership too.
That's the problem.
And if you think that somehow the average citizen of America or Venezuela or Iran or any of these countries, probably Israel will be the only place they benefit.
But if you think the average citizen of any of these other countries is going to benefit, you're kidding yourself.
The special interests are going to benefit.
The billionaires are going to benefit.
That's who this is for.
This isn't for you.
This is for them.
And they all knew it was coming, by the way.
We'll always watch the markets.
Yeah, look at what happened to the Chevron stock right before it happened.
Boom.
They all knew it was coming.
They all knew it was coming, folks.
I'm telling you, this market is so rigged, folks.
There's never been more insider trading happening right now.
And I don't even know if you could call it insider trading because quite frankly, anybody can do it.
I don't have any inside sources.
And I've never been in the market.
I've never been in the stock market before.
I just watch what the Trump administration is doing.
And it's really easy to do well.
I almost don't even like talking about it publicly.
It's kind of disgusting that for one year into the stock market, I did ridiculous numbers.
And I don't have a bunch of money to play with.
Just the percentages are about as good as anybody you're going to see.
And it's because it's all insider trading, folks.
It's all of Trump's cronies.
It's all of these oil companies, energy companies, quantum computing companies, and everything's going in that direction.
So as long as you see who Trump and the administration is cutting deals with, and who's coming to the White House and who's making deals and getting contracts, as long as you follow that stuff and you get ahead of it, you can make out huge in the stock market.
So, yeah, if you're sitting here at the end of the year, oh, Trump is about to give the oil companies Venezuela, get in, and then there you go.
It's that simple, folks.
Now, this is what's so crazy about it.
Let me put some, let me connect some dots for you on this Venezuela situation.
If you want to see how absolutely insane this is: Sitco is a crown jewel of Venezuela's oil industry.
Elliott is set to reap the benefits.
The hedge fund could soon close its proposed takeover of the refiner and profit from any bump in oil production from the Latin American country.
Now, they have refineries, I believe, in Louisiana and Texas, maybe California, too.
I think there's three or four states they have refineries.
I know it's Louisiana and Texas.
It was a big story in Texas.
It's where I'm at.
So you say, okay, American companies.
Well, it's going to be the billionaires that benefit.
So, okay.
Activists hedge fund Elliott investment management.
All right.
So they're about to reap the whirlwinds of this.
Could be billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars.
All right.
So you read on here, think, all right, who's making these deals?
Who's cutting these deals?
Well, one of them would be one of them would be Paul Singer.
Where does his name first pop up here?
Yeah, Paul Singer.
Elliott's billionaire founder, Paul Singer, stands to make billions of dollars on his distressed Sitco investment now that this administration has taken over Venezuela.
Thomas Massey calling it out.
Sanger, excuse me, Paul Singer has spent a million dollars to try to unseat Thomas Massey.
He's also a donor to the Trump administration.
So now you see.
Now you see what's really going on.
Again, it's the donor class that runs Trump.
Last year, Singer gave a million dollars to MAGA Kentucky, a super PAC seeking to oust Massey.
The investor donated $8 million to help get Trump re-elected and contributed $1 million to Trump's inaugural campaign.
So that's $10 million, $9 million for Trump, and $1 million against Massey.
So it's all connected.
So Singer goes after Massey, Trump goes after Massey, and the administration goes after the oil in Venezuela to benefit Singer.
Okay.
So you say, there's just your normal political corruption.
There's your normal pay-for-play.
This is why they're not going after the Biden crime family because they're doing it too.
This is where it gets even crazier.
Maybe you don't know too much about Paul Singer.
So let's refresh your memory.
This is from October 2017.
Conservative website first funded anti-Trump research by firm that later produced dossier.
What?
Who are we talking about?
Paul Singer.
Paul Singer was part of the push of the Trump dossier.
The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm that months later produced the Democrats' salacious dossier describing ties between Donald Trump and the Russian government.
The Free Beacon, funded in large by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm Fusion GPS in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC began paying Fusion GPS in April for research that eventually became the basis of the dossier.
So it starts with Singer and the dossier, and it ends up with Singer and millions of dollars and then billions coming in via oil from the Trump administration.
How you like them, apples?
Venezuelan raid enriches MAGA billionaire, the ouster of Maduro, is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire investor, Paul Singer, who once helped fund and push the Fusion GPS steel dossier against Trump.
This is who runs your country, folks.
This is who runs this administration.
Don't kid yourself.
Don't make excuses.
Don't get complacent.
Understand what's happening.
Now, things aren't so good in Venezuela.
Go figure.
But as long as the oil companies secure the oil, that's all that matters.
So if a civil war breaks out and people die, who cares?
Not the Trump administration.
As long as the donors get the oil out, that's what matters.
And as long as that gives Trump a little boost in the trade war in the economy, that's all that matters.
Civil war fears grow as heavily armed far-left militias take over streets of Caracas.
Gunfire was heard across Caracas last night as tensions remain sky high after the U.S. raid captured the country's president.
So there's a vacuum of power.
You've got something left of the Maduro administration that's saying he's still president, and this is the corrupt Zionist-backed administration that's doing this.
That's what they said.
Then you have these militias and military types who see the vacuum of power, and they're just going out in the streets.
There's no infrastructure to stop them.
And again, none of this matters.
They knew this was all going to happen.
But as long as they secure the oil, that's all that matters.
As long as Trump and his donors benefit, that's all that matters.
And what about those people that were celebrating what Trump did?
Remember, we saw, well, you saw a bunch of fake videos, but there were people in Venezuela celebrating it.
Now, now, quickly, though, in case you weren't aware of this, but let me just say this quickly.
There were people that were posting fake videos after the Maduro capture.
They were posting fake videos from Florida saying it was Venezuela, from Chile saying it was Venezuela, from soccer games and other things that were from years ago had nothing to do with Maduro's capture.
People took videos that had nothing to do with Maduro's capture, shared them on social media and said, look, people are celebrating.
Look, it's great.
Look, the people of Venezuela support what Trump did.
That was 100% propaganda.
So now they have to use propaganda to support Trump's actions and administration.
You see where you're at yet?
And what's even more shameless is all the people that posted this propaganda, whether intentionally or not, none of them deleted it.
None of them corrected it.
None of them retracted it.
None of them said anything.
They just did it.
And oh, well, we got caught, but let's not say anything.
And then at the larger measurement of how are things going, if this was really popular, if this was really popular and everything was happening above board, then they wouldn't have to push this propaganda, folks.
So they know it's not popular.
They know it's not clean.
So they have to push this propaganda.
Now, there were people in Venezuela celebrating this.
What about them?
Maduro's motorcycle thugs go door to door and hunt for Trump supporters.
Loyalists scour Caracas for signs of dissent and celebration of U.S. raid.
Now they had to do this retraction and say, oh, no, no, no, no, that's not happening.
It's all a lie.
These Venezuelans that are now going to be politically persecuted in Venezuela, they're all coming here.
And you know what?
I don't blame them.
I'm not even mad at that.
So we go in, destabilize their country, and put their lives at risk.
So, yeah, now we got to take them in.
So now we got to bring more in.
Just like Iraq, just like Afghanistan, now Venezuela.
This is the Trump administration.
This is the reality.
No slop, no propaganda, no cheerleading.
This is the reality.
This is the truth.
And I wonder how smoothly this oil grab is going to go.
Oil flotilla sails from Venezuela despite U.S. blockade.
So now the BRICS companies are apparently moving in on the oil, folks.
Now the BRICS companies that had a good relationship with Venezuela, now they're moving in to these oil fields despite the U.S. blockade.
So I guess the Trump administration figured as long as we had the military out there, nobody would move in.
Now they're coming anyway.
So what's going to happen when the BRICS nations and Venezuela's allies, because there is still a government in Venezuela, what is going to happen when the BRICS nations move in to grab that oil and the U.S. military is there and the interim president of Venezuela says, no, we have invited them.
They're coming in.
These are our allies.
They have the right to be here.
What is going to happen then?
Is the U.S. military going to attack oil ships?
The oil ships coming in?
Is it going to be Russia?
Is it going to be China?
Is it going to be India?
Who's it going to be?
It's going to be Brazil.
Is the military going to be told to strike these strips that are coming in to grab the oil that the American oil companies are claiming the rights to?
How's this one going to go?
It's not a war.
It's not a war yet.
U.S. may intercept and seize oil tanker headed for Europe.
Folks, they're going for full control.
The U.S. may act to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker heading across the Atlantic to Europe.
Two U.S. officials told the BBC that American forces plan to intercept the ship, which has historically carried Venezuelan crude oil and is thought to be between Scotland and Iceland.
So this is, folks, this is the big pressure cooker now.
And hey, you know what?
All things aside, you know, Trump, Trump put it all on the table.
I mean, he went all in, and I don't know if that's with full confidence and understanding or that's a gamble.
But folks, this is huge.
If these countries decide they're done with U.S. imperialism and they're actually going to stand up to this administration, this could be the tipping point.
And if they decide we're going to go after every ship that has a drop of Venezuelan oil, and now we're going to try to block Venezuela's allies from getting in here and getting access to the oil that's still there that we're claiming we have now.
How is that going to go?
Is this what you want?
Again, now Trump could be making a gamble here, or he could already know what's going to happen and have all the pieces on the board where he needs them to avoid this, which he's usually good at that.
I'll give him credit.
He's usually good at that.
But, folks, the more shots you take, eventually the odds you miss one.
The more things you run, the more plans you run, the more plays you run, the more the odds increase that one of them doesn't work.
That's just life.
That's just the game.
And do you really think these other countries are just going to sit here and take this forever?
Especially now that there's this new global alignment against Israel and everybody sees Netanyahu and Trump in bed together running this crap?
And it seems like they're just so disconnected now, they don't even care.
They're just going to do whatever the American people, the Israeli people, the IDF, the American military.
These are just now just cannon fodder like everyone else.
U.S. may subsidize oil companies to rebuild Venezuela's energy infrastructure.
Oh, so the U.S. taxpayer pays for it and the billionaire class reaps the benefits.
Isn't that amazing?
Again, where's the outrage from the conservatives?
Where's the outrage from MAGA?
If Joe Biden did this, MAGA would be going nuts.
If Barack Obama did this, conservatives would be going nuts.
They'd be pulling their hair out.
What?
The taxpayer has to pay for this.
But since Trump's doing it, it's all good.
So the U.S. taxpayer is going to subsidize the oil companies and BlackRock and everybody else going in there and owning everything and then them reaping the profits of it.
That's how this is going to go.
These are Trump's donors.
These are the lobbyists.
These are the special interests.
Certainly you're not denying this.
And I think the Trump administration now sees that the BRICS nations are not going to go along with this.
I think the Trump administration now sees that other countries are moving in to seize that oil.
So they're having an emergency meeting.
This is what they're meeting about, folks.
We're having a special interest emergency meeting in D.C., not to arrest the deep state, not to save the economy, not to cut the taxes, not to stop all the waste, fraud, and abuse.
No, we're having an emergency meeting with the donor class and the special interest class to make sure we can steal all the oil from Venezuela.
That's what we're meeting on today.
Trump administration sets meetings with oil companies over Venezuela.
Yeah, because they see the BRICS nations are moving in and they're not going along with it, folks.
So now they have to have an emergency meeting to see what they're going to do.
Boy, oh, boy.
And it continues in Iran.
Protesters clash with security forces in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Pazekistan government can't handle this alone.
So you've got to got both sides.
You've got these massive protests happening in Iran that the government can't really stop without getting militaristic, let's say.
So this is all being set up.
This is all being set up by the CIA.
This is all being set up by Mossad.
And this is all a larger regime change plot.
But the Trump administration has realized we can't keep bombing Iran.
It's bad for approval ratings.
It's bad policy.
So you guys need to run a color revolution on the ground.
So they've now got enough numbers where the government can't really stop what's coming.
There's enough people out on the streets, and the color revolution is on.
So they really can't stop what's coming without getting militaristic against it.
But at the same time, they don't really have it ready to go where if the people do overthrow the government in some way, shape, or form, they're not really sure what happens in that vacuum.
So there's kind of a mystery element on both sides about how to handle this.
But the Iran protests continue.
Now, you're going to have a lot of this, folks, as the administration becomes more and more hypocritical.
I jumped at the opportunity, booked a flight, got on a red eye, landed in New York City, and about an hour or two after I landed, went to Trump Tower to meet then President-elect Trump, first time I'd ever met him.
And it was his first meeting of the day.
Went into his office.
He was very kind.
He was very welcoming.
And we sat.
I sat across his desk from him and we had a conversation for about an hour about foreign policy.
And I talked to him about why we should stop being the policemen of the world, why we need to bring about an end to regime change wars.
The left is really upset at Gabbard's silence on this.
I'm giving Gabbard leeway here.
I think I understand what she's doing.
And not to be redundant here, but I think she cut a deal with Trump for her endorsement.
And then she gets a role.
And I think she's just staying in that role to just keep an eye on things, you know, take notes.
Probably she has no weight in this administration, but she still has a presence.
Trump can't get rid of her because it's part of the deal that they made, and Trump will honor that deal.
So she's just, she's just there.
But I think her silence is strategic.
So I give her some leeway and some benefit of the doubt on that, while others are, well, let's say not so much in alignment with that leeway.
Now, this is just hilarious.
And I'm telling you, folks, this is only going to get more clownish from this administration as their hypocrisy and their double standard and their ill logic and their reverse on policy continues to mount.
You're going to see more clownish videos like this.
We've already had multiples this week.
It's only Tuesday.
So here's Speaker Johnson.
He's going to sort it all out for you.
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Some of these things were discussed in the SCIF.
I want to say that the way that this is being described, I think, is accurate.
This is not a regime change.
This is a demand for change of behavior by a regime.
Some of these things were discussed in the SCIF.
I want to say that the way that this is being described, I think, is accurate.
By the way, these are all the anti-Trump people, folks.
This is from 2016.
All of these people are anti-Trump.
So you see, oh, they're all pro-Trump now.
They were all anti-Trump.
So this is an anti-Trump segment saying that if Trump gave people, Trump will give the military illegal orders and the military shouldn't file those orders.
But of course, now they're with Trump and they say you have to.
So this is Hegset.
This is Killmead.
This is an anti-Trump segment saying if he gives illegal orders, which is them trying to stop Trump from getting elected, saying he's going to give illegal orders to the military.
And they're saying you don't have to obey those orders.
The military is not going to follow illegal orders.
And so the Trump campaign was forced to change their position and say, we're going to try to change the law so that the military can operate within the law.
That's a tall order also.
There are some guys at Leavenworth who made really bad choices on the battlefield.
And I do think there have to be consequences for abject war crimes.
If you're doing something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there is a consequence for that.
Well, we were talking about how your campaign has gotten so much interest, so much national interest in the last couple of months, and really so much so that I think you've kind of crossed a threshold where they can't ignore you.
You know, the GOP candidates, the kind of mainstream candidates, they love to play this game of ignoring the others, keeping you out of the conversation, out of the picture, off of the debate stage if they can.
But I think that your campaign has now crossed that threshold.
And avoiding you now, I think only makes them look scared and makes them look like they don't have confidence that they can beat you in a debate.
Do you get that same vibe right now where the race is?
And, you know, it's funny, the University of Florida, the College Republicans chapter there, which is just full of great America First Patriots.
They have invited Byron Donalds and myself to a long-form debate with a moderator from the Reagan administration in front of a crowd of 500 people at the university in February.
I, of course, immediately accepted.
I think that debate is good, for lack of a better word.
No word yet on Byron Donald's accepting.
I can't imagine why he would think that he wants a job, but won't be willing to show up for the interview.
And the debate is the interview.
When you have to sit down and answer tough questions from both a moderator and the crowd and compare your vision on stage, it's very different than being in a Fox News studio pushing out GOP slot for five minutes.
And so I encourage Byron Donalds, if he is in fact confident about his chances, to show up at the University of Florida in February, let's have a real debate.
Well, and I also think that I told you this the other day.
I, you know, look, there's very few good people in politics, right?
And so I kind of looked at Byron Donalds as one of the good guys.
Not that I agree with everything he says or does, but I kind of looked at him and like, okay, if I'm doing approval ratings with Congress, he's probably on the upper echelon.
He's a guy that I never thought would really be challenged as far as that status is concerned.
But you showed up and I said, okay, this is going to be fun to watch.
This is going to be curious.
And now I, as I told you in the messages, I said, you flipped me.
I mean, I'm in Texas, you know, so take it with a grain of salt, but I'm in Texas, so I don't have a vote there.
But if I did, I'd now be voting for James Fishback.
And I think the measurement here that you've made, and correct me if I'm wrong, the measurement that you've made is you don't shy away from the controversy in 2026.
You lean into it.
You go into those regions where you're not supposed to.
You talk about the things you're not supposed to talk about.
And that's how you do gain traction in 2026.
Is that an accurate statement that I've made here?
And I think the way to really size up Republicans in 2026 is, oh, ask them a very simple question.
If someone is running for Congress or in my case, governor, and they call themselves a Republican, you should not vote for them if you ask them the following question and they do not say yes.
That question is, is the great replacement real?
If a Republican says anything other than a decisive yes, if they try to hedge, if they try to say, well, racial, no, no, no, no.
If they are unwilling to acknowledge that the grace replacement is both real, is happening, and it must be stopped, then do not vote for any Republican who is unwilling to proudly say that.
And I am because I see what's happening here in my state, whether it's H-1Bs, Chinese nationals, illegals, TPS, Haitians, it doesn't matter.
The very identity of our state is being replaced before our eyes.
Large parts of our state are being sold off to foreigners and multinational billion-dollar corporations.
And so I'm running as an unapologetic America First candidate.
And I think 2026 is going to be a really interesting proxy for where the America First movement goes in 2028.
Florida is a massive state, 23.5 million people, third largest state.
The next governor here in Florida is going to be a Republican.
President Trump won this state by 13 points.
Ron DeSantis won it by 20 points.
And so we are inevitably going to elect a Republican in November.
The question is, which Republican do we elect?
Do we elect the America-lass AIPACT-backed Byron Donalds?
Or do we elect, I'd like to think, an America First patriot who's going to speak truth and is not going to be shamed out of doing so?
The great replacement is a coordinated effort by both the government and large multinational corporations to replace the founding stock, the heritage Americans in our country with cheap foreign slave labor.
The Democrats want it because they want voters.
A lot of the Republicans want it because they want cheap foreign labor, but they share the same commonality, which is they have utter contempt for the people who built our country and we will never be replaced.
And it's not even something that I thought about too much.
Heritage American.
And, you know, I'm somebody, I can't help myself.
I like to point out logical fallacies, inconsistencies.
And obviously, a lot of the geopolitical talk right now is centered around foreign influence, foreign policy, Israel, APAC.
And so this word heritage American comes up again.
And it's funny, you bring up APAC, and it seems like we're supposed to hold a country to a different standard than we are, where it's like there's this idea of a heritage of Israel and a heritage of the Jewish people there.
And somehow America is supposed to be all in for that and support that and fund that and everything.
It's like, okay.
But then if somebody starts to talk about a heritage American, it's like, well, where is the value there?
And again, I'm not somebody that like stands on this pedestal, but since we're talking about it, my family has been here since the 1600s.
The Schroyers have been here since the 1600s.
I guess you could say, I've got a little bit of a heritage here.
So, you know, what does that matter?
Is this a conversation that Americans need to have?
Does heritage matter again in America?
Or do we just apply that when we're talking about policy in other countries?
Well, it's interesting because you talk about the dangerous subject of both Israel and double standards.
It's actually quite funny because the IHRA. defines anti-Semitism as holding Israel to a double standard.
The only one holding Israel to a double standard is Israel, APAC, and the people who receive their massive donations because they think that Israel needs to be separate and apart from every other foreign nation.
You have a right, in my view, to criticize Russia.
You have a right to criticize Qatar, China, Angola.
But the second you criticize the Israeli government, you are called a bigot and an anti-Semite.
Our founding fathers, the OG Heritage Americans, the founding fathers of this country, Owen, they fought and died for your right, my right, every single one of your viewers' right to criticize this government.
Pretty sure that First Amendment right also extends to the Israeli government.
And so in Florida, this is particularly pernicious because we actually have a state statute, state statute 10105 that defines anti-Semitism and codifies it into law where you could actually be punished, fined, even expelled from a public college or university if you are so-called convicted of anti-Semitism.
I think we all condemn religious hatred or discrimination, but to simply criticize Benjamin Netanyahu or to say that Israel is committing a genocide, how on earth is that anything other than protected speech?
Speech we should absolutely welcome, by the way, if we're going to have a substantive, earnest debate about foreign affairs on our campuses.
Why would APAC even be interested in getting involved in a governor's race, right?
I mean, it seems like the interests of APAC exist at the national level, the federal level, the executive level, the White House, D.C. Why is it that APAC would be interested in funding a governor's race and maybe becoming more interested now that you're getting a little more vocal about this support?
Well, because I think they rightly view, I don't want to give them too much credit, but I think APAC rightly views the 2026 Florida governor race, specifically the primary, as a proxy war, as a test for what is happening in the Republican movement today.
Byron Donalds is a Republican last or America last Republican stooge.
He is a slave, unequivocally, I say without apology, Byron Donalds is a slave to his donors, to Israel, to all of the foreign interests that are trying to destroy our state.
And I think what APAC views this as is that if our campaign succeeds against Byron Donalds, what signal will that send to Republican candidates, not only in other states, but in Congress and state legislatures all across the country and up and down the ballot?
And so when Miriam Adelson comes out and tells NBC News that she's going to raise a war chest against me, even before I had formally declared as a candidate, by the way, in November, that's very telling about what they view this race as representing for the entire country.
And I think how they view my candidacy.
And, you know, there's a real hunger right now here in my state as there is across the country for an actual America first candidate.
A lot of people, a lot of Republicans throw that term America first, America first.
But if you're taking money from APAC, you can't be America first.
If you won't end the H-1B scam, you can't be America first.
If you're going to let 600,000 Chinese foreign students come to our colleges, you can't be America first.
And on that last point, Owen, as governor, I'd actually signed an executive order on my first day in office that would raise the tuition on all foreign students to $1 million a year.
When they can't pay, their admission slots will be given over to the actual kids who deserve those spots at our universities.
kids from Pahoki or Pensacola, Miami, Mariana, those kids who have built our state, who have an active skin in the game, those spots should be reserved for Florida kids, not for foreigners.
Well, if you can pull it off in Florida, that's like a political atom bomb because Florida probably has one of the oldest average ages in the country, I would imagine.
It has probably the oldest voting base.
And we kind of classify this new movement as more of a young thing, more of a younger generation thing.
And if you can pull that off in Florida, I mean, that's David versus Goliath in the political world.
And just, I can't wait because we'll clip that last one out too.
I can't wait till they say, oh, look at what James Fishback said about Marion Adelson.
No, Trump said that.
It's like, that's so frustrating.
It's like Trump said that.
And it's like, why aren't you attacking him when he says it?
But they have come after you.
I know they will.
I want to talk about something that happened on your campaign.
You had a campaign event.
I guess it was at the Disney theme park, and they tried to kick you out.
So there's something called Disney Springs in Orlando, which is a shopping complex owned by Disney.
And there's a Starbucks at the shopping complex owned by Disney.
And so we're at the event.
We're 30 minutes in.
It's not a rally.
There's no amplification, no microphones.
It's literally me and some voters who I'm just taking questions from.
We're all paying customers, having a coffee.
Mind you, we've done a number of these events at Starbucks already.
And so there was no issue.
The moment it became an issue, Owen, is when I was asked about white guilt.
And I said, we're done with white guilt.
2025 is the year that white guilt died.
And we're proud to say that.
And the second that happened, quite literally a minute or two later, Disney Security came out and said, no, not that you're a political candidate, not that we don't want any sort of neutral political.
No, no, no.
They said that I am manipulating the youth.
It's on camera.
And they didn't just kick me out and trespass me.
They kicked out the 150 people that were there and banned them from all Disney properties for life.
Not because we were having a campaign event, not because we were having a conversation with a political candidate, but because we addressed the number one thing that's being pushed on our kids, and that is white guilt.
And I want to be very clear.
If you are a teacher in Florida pushing white guilt, you will not be a teacher in Florida when I am governor.
We are sick and tired of left-wing black lesbian teachers sitting there telling the white kids to apologize to the black kids and also equally disgraceful, telling the black kids that there's something somehow wrong with them.
No, Owen, as Christians, we reject that slanderous lie.
Blacks and whites, we are all created in the image of God.
And we need to kick out teachers who are going to push that divisive, divisive propaganda on our students.
Disney had no issue with their manipulating of the youth with their transgender degeneracy in their cartoons.
They had no issue telling white people that there was something wrong with them.
They had no issue standing up to the parental rights and education bill that the governor proudly signed here in 2022.
No, Owen, if we have a conversation, if America first conversation about white guilt, they then remove us and ban us for life.
It would have been one thing to say, hey, guys, wrap it up, whatever.
I get that.
No, they specifically banned the event because we were manipulating the youth just moments after we started discussing white guilt.
I mean, can you imagine if we discussed white genocide, which is totally real, by the way, as well?
Well, and that's the big hypocrisy of it is if you came out there and promoted white guilt, then they probably would have, you know, taken care of your whole tab.
If you would have gone out.
Yeah, if you would have gone out there and talked to young kids about how, hey, maybe you should consider some hormone replacement or some gender bending drugs, then they probably would have brought you a bunch of balloons or something, given you a lifetime of free coffee.
But no, because you said that, which is really, I would say it's demanipulating the youth.
It's like you're trying to demanipulate the new that that's when they take offense to it.
So it's like even the corporations are coming after you now, huh?
And it's very telling that an organization like that would pick sides.
Look, if you want to have a neutral policy that says no political discussion, no whatever, look, that's your private property.
You can do what you please.
But let's not pretend for a moment that, yes, if we were having a conversation there and we were all wearing ripped jeans and we had the loops and the earrings and we all had our little name tags, she or her, they, them, whatever transgender degeneracy of the day they were trying to invoke.
If we had that, they would have bought us a round of drinks and they would have given me a cake pop too.
Now, I'd be very skeptical about the ingredients of that cake pop because I don't want any mRNA chocolate and I certainly don't want any transgender therapeutic drugs pushed on me in the form of a delectable dessert.
But that's my weakness, Owen.
I mean, you could get me on this mRNA if you put it in a cake pop form.
But I think that it's very telling that Disney, this is the, again, no surprise, the same organization that said they would do everything in their power to repeal the parental rights and education bill, the same bill that 80% of voters, Republicans and Democrats in our state represented, supported rather in 2022.
Why?
Because it's common sense.
Don't try to trans the kids.
Don't talk to them about this, that, and the other.
Don't try to convince the girl that she's somehow a boy because she doesn't like wearing dresses or the color pink.
This is exactly the kind of divisive stuff that got President Trump elected in 2024.
And it's a shame that because it's not the government doing now, but it's a corporation that we somehow tolerate it.
Look, injustice, tyranny can come from the government, but can also come from oppressive business.
And I'm running for governor because I recognize that those threats can come from either side and I won't tolerate it no matter what.
Well, you're just asking for a mean Trump post at this point.
You can join the ranks of Massey and others with that.
You know, I go back to my original question, which was, you know, why would APAC be interested in a governor's race, right?
These people, the governor doesn't vote in Congress.
The government, the governor doesn't vote about foreign aid and foreign policy.
And I think the reason why is the Florida governor has kind of become this new like standard bearer of Republican Party politics at the state level.
And a lot of that is because our governor here in Texas, Abbott, is basically a nothing.
He's basically a flop.
And then, of course, you know, the other big states, California, New York, the Democrats run those states.
And you may agree or disagree, but I think DeSantis with his success story, I think he's done a good job as Florida's governor, specifically during COVID.
He's kind of raised, and Florida is very red now.
It's no longer purple.
It's very red.
So it's kind of raised now.
The Florida governor is like the standard bearer for state level politics in the Republican Party.
So I think a lot of, you know, a lot of power, a lot of influence, a lot of attention comes with that role.
And they certainly don't want somebody in that governor's mansion that speaks his mind like you do.
And someone who can't be bought off and controlled like Byron can.
And, you know, Byron, to tell you the truth, and I want to use a very technical term here, but Byron is what we call dumb.
He's just dumb.
Maybe he's cheerful.
Maybe he's flamboyant.
He loves to use his hibonics.
But the truth of the matter is that Byron Donalds is dumb.
He's greedy.
And that's what makes him the perfect slave to APAC and the corporate donors.
That makes him the perfect slave.
Sir, the citrus grove needs to shut down and we can build an AI data center for Elon Musk and scam Altman.
Yes, right away.
That's good for economic development.
No, it's not.
Cap, it's not.
That's going to destroy our environment.
It's going to raise our electric bills and it won't create a single good paying job for local workers.
And so the reason they like Byron is the reason they like Biden, because they're dumb, they're malleable, and that makes them the perfect assets to manipulate and to bend to their will.
And I'll tell you the truth.
I'm someone who worked on Wall Street for 10 years.
I ran my own hedge fund.
I deployed $40 million of capital just last year alone in companies that were doing something crazy, which was refusing to use DEI and hiring, but instead hiring on skill and merit.
Byron Donalds has been in Congress for five years and has absolutely nothing to show for it.
You get to hit him with the Elon Musk, what'd you get done this week?
And no, I'm sorry, ranting on Fox News and putting out a strongly worded letter to the DOJ does not count.
We need America First Patriots to rise up.
They claim I don't have experience.
Yeah, I don't have experience taking $45 million from AIPAC and corporate donors.
I don't have experience lowering the vetting requirements in July 2021 to let the sicko Afghan refugee come to our country who shot two National Guardsmen the night before Thanksgiving last year.
I don't have the experience of going to Congress for five years and voting for every single one of the spending bills that increased our government debt by $6 trillion, spent more money that we don't have on things that we don't need on people who, quite frankly, should not even be in our country.
In fact, they're here and they're poisoning our country.
And so, the question is not about experience.
The question is about vision.
It's not about the who, Owen.
It's about the what.
What vision do we want, not just for Florida, but recognizing this is the testing ground for the future Republican Party?
What vision do we want for the Republican Party?
If you want to go back to the Republican Party of Dick Cheney, George Bush, Koch brothers, all of that slop, Byron Donalds is your guy.
But if you want an America-first vision, I hope to earn every single vote.
And I will, because over the next three months, I'm going to every single one of our 67, yes, six, seven, 67 counties to make my case directly.
Don't go there, Owen.
Don't even, don't even address it.
Don't even address it.
We're going to start something there.
Every single one, because look, the people of my state deserve a governor who's going to show up, take questions from them, not duck, and maybe even debate with them a little bit on the side.
That's the kind of person you want a lazy bum, Byron Donalds is your guy.
You want someone who's going to sell you out in your First Amendment rights to a foreign government called Israel.
Byron Donalds is your guy.
You want somebody who's going to who actually in 2019 introduced a bill.
We call him BLM Byron.
He introduced a bill to increase the felony threshold for shoplifting from 300 to 1,000, which means you could walk into the Apple store, steal $999 worth of stuff, and still not be charged with a felony.
And he did it because, in his words, too many young black men who looked like him were being oppressed by the system.
That is the kind of man we are talking about.
I don't care if he's a Republican.
He is a woke moron, and we cannot let him anywhere near the governor's mansion lest he turned it into a trap house.
You know, you brought something up that there's not enough commentary on, which is what all of this AI is going to do to our energy grid, to our water supply.
You know, it's something that's maybe not sexy to talk about.
We just think about, oh, AI, data centers, quantum computing.
It all sounds good, but there is a downside to that.
I know you've been really heavy on orange and citrus.
You know, it's a big, it's a big product of Florida.
I know you've really kind of leaned into that.
Juxtapose, juxtapose for me, Florida embracing the orange, the citrus economy versus Florida sacrificing that in the name of AI data centers.
The most recent season was only 14 million boxes of oranges.
So down more than 90%.
What does that mean?
Well, it means that Democrats and Republicans in Tallahassee have thrown in the towel.
They don't even pretend to try anymore.
And what they'd much rather do is Citrus, which actually created local jobs, created local industry, propped up, built up a lot of small towns like Frostproof, like Haynes City, like Sebring, screw that, and all the local economic benefits.
We're just going to sell off these citrus groves to AI data centers, which will be a million, 2 million square feet.
And guess what?
Citrus gave you jobs.
AI data centers won't give you jobs.
Citrus gave you investment in the local economy.
AI data centers won't do that.
But you know what AI data centers will do?
They'll raise your electric bills because when you bring on a 2 million square foot facility to train the next version of Chat GPT, so you can generate that image of Axel Road on the go, guess what?
You then increase the electric bills of everyone in the surrounding community.
I worked at a hedge fund.
We traded natural gas futures.
And so what's very clearly the case is that if you bring new demand for energy onto the grid without a commensurate increase in supply, quite literally, the equilibrium market clearing price for everyone goes up, Owen.
It's the same reason why in Texas and in Florida, the cost of electricity is higher in the summer than it is in the winter because everyone wants it.
So the market clearing price goes up.
When you bring on an AI data center that 10X's the demand in a local community, because the power runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, nonstop, guess what?
Everyone pays the cost for that.
And so, I think as conservatives, we're right to say hell no to corporate welfare.
And we have to remember that the corporate welfare of this is very clear.
When you have a company that is privatizing its gains, if OpenAI makes a billion dollars for its shareholders, the Florida residents who got screwed over their electric bills, we don't see any of the money, but we subsidize them with higher than expected electricity bills.
It's time for Republicans, just as we did, we were vehemently against welfare for illegals, the Obama phone, the food stamps for the illegals.
We also need to be vehemently against welfare for multi-billion dollar corporations that want to build these monstrosities.
Worst of all, they're ugly.
Some would say fugly, but that's a technical term.
That they build these monstrosities in what used to be orange groves and cattle ranches.
And then at the end of the day, we are the ones footing the bill.
Socialism is wrong in all forms, whether it's to illegals from Afghanistan or whether it's to these multinational AI corporations that honestly couldn't care less about us, but want to use our land and our electricity so they can power their next generation of AI slot.
Well, I have a feeling that that energy, that need for energy may be part of the reason why we just went into Venezuela.
But that aside, it sounds like what you're saying is you would rather see Florida's resources, water, electricity, be used to fuel Florida's agriculture instead of some AI data center that's going to strip us all down to our bikinis.
I don't pretend to believe that 100% of my state is on board with that vision.
I think it's very much an 80-20.
Look, if you want Florida to be the next financial capital of the world, vote for Byron Donald's.
If you want Florida to be the next AI capital of the world, vote for Byron Donald's.
If you want the governor's mansion to look like the trap house out of that Migos mixtape in East Atlanta, then vote for Byron Donald's.
But if you actually want an America-first patriot who recognizes that we are plenty proud of who we are already, we're proud of our citrus heritage.
We are proud of our ag heritage, of our cattle heritage.
If you don't want to see land handed over to developers to build another Section 8-style housing project, if you want to see our land protected, our water used not to cool AI servers, but to actually water the grass that is used to feed our cattle, to water the citrus groves, if you want to protect our water waves, and the choice is very simple.
Do you want old Florida or new Florida?
Because New Florida turns us into Dubai, New York, or Singapore.
Old Florida recognizes that in Florida, we do things a little bit differently.
We leave a little bit of money on the table.
We're not going to sell off every single parcel of land to turn ourselves into Shenzhen or Shanghai.
We are proud of who we are.
And that means we reject the idea of being a concrete jungle.
We reject the idea of allowing our state to be pawned off to foreigners or to multinational corporations that honestly couldn't care less about us.
So I am in this race because I am the only candidate who will stand up to developers, stand up to APAC, stand up to AI data centers, stand up to Section 8 style housing.
Because if you're a New Yorker right now, I am sorry for your loss.
But that little communist named Zoron, he is not our problem.
We did not vote in your election.
We voted to keep Florida, Florida, and our identity and heritage are quite literally on the ballot.
If you vote for Byron, good luck.
If you vote for me, thank you.
I'll protect a state that my family is now proudly known for four generations.
Well, I anticipate Larry Ellison and Barry Weiss teaming up once again.
Barry Weiss's CBS last week.
What does it mean to you to be a xenophobe?
I said, well, I completely challenge the premise of the question, but if being a xenophobe means being an unapologetic America first patriot, I guess I'm guilty as charged.
The truth is they're going to try every book, everything in the book.
That, you know, that ex-girlfriend from high school prom or whatever the case is, that, you know, they're going to play every single game in the book.
The truth is that at the end of the day, you're voting for the person before you.
That is it.
That is the vision.
And I think there are some people, to tell you the truth, in our state, extremely wealthy people who live on the coast who do want us to just give up on citrus and say, you know what, AI is the future.
We have to win the AI arms race with China, whatever the heck that means.
And they don't give a crap about citrus farmers and frostproof or cattle ranchers in Okeechobee.
My grandfather was a cattle rancher, so it's personal for me and folks like me.
And so I think we're going to win this.
And I don't even think it's going to be close because I think when you have a guy like Byron Donalds who has done absolutely nothing but sell us short and sell us off, then we have a very clear choice about what vision we want for our state.
Byron Donalds came here at 18 years old and managed to get himself arrested twice in the span of three years.
He is not the person to lead us on law and order.
Byron Donalds increased the felony threshold cap from 300 to 1,000 in his bill in the Florida House of Representatives.
That would have allowed people like George Floyd to rob more, steal more, and get away with it.
Byron Donalds, this is the same guy that went to Congress and in the past year has not introduced a single bill to codify a single one of President Trump's executive orders.
No, he voted yes on every single bill to spend more money on things that we don't need on people that should not even be in our country.
When we had principled conservatives like Thomas Massey step up and stand up to the reckless, wasteful debt machine that is the uniparty Republican and Democrat establishment, Byron Donalds went along with it every single way.
And guess what?
The biggest thing is that Byron Donalds sided with Joe Biden in the summer of 2021.
He voted yes to lower the vetting requirements for the sicko Afghan refugees who came here and raped our women.
And in the case of one very special individual came here and shot two National Guardsmen, killing one of them on the streets of Washington, D.C. the night before Thanksgiving this year.
That's Byron Donalds.
I am an America first patriot.
I am not a politician.
I am a businessman.
I am the only investment CEO who stood up and signed, filed my own amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court this past summer, clearly and cogently arguing that President Trump does, in fact, have a right to remove federal officials who are clearly abusing their power and neglecting their duties.
I am the only person who has stood up as an investment CEO and said, you know what?
We're not investing in companies that hire on DEI.
We're only going to invest in companies that hire on merit.
And I'm the only person who stood up after high school debate went woke.
And unlike most conservatives, I didn't complain about it.
I built my own thing called Incubate Debate.
I'm really proud of that.
A free high school debate league that over 5,000 students have now been a part of since 2019 in rural and urban counties alike to do what our friend Charlie did best.
Use debate, yes, as a tool to get closer to truth.
But once we get close to truth, we can actually unify as a country.
I am not one of these conservatives going to play this kumbaya game that we're going to unify in a superficial fake sense.
If we can unify as a country, we can only do it if we're actually unifying around a singular, unequivocal truth.
We cannot unify with the people who want to murder babies right before they're born.
We cannot unify with the people who push transgenderism on eighth graders.
We cannot unify with the people who shill for Kilmar Garcia, but will say nothing about the white men who are being replaced in this country.
And so, if we need true, genuine unity, it can only happen on a precondition of reaching truth.
And truth cannot happen in the wake of censorship.
It can only happen through rigorous, open debate.
And look, if Vivek can't take the comment section on X, if he can't get a little bit of pushback from some people, I'm sorry, who were rightly frustrated by him scamming over that Alzheimer's drug and calling out the fact that he is in fact an anchor baby.
His parents were not citizens of this country.
If he can't take the heat in the comments section, he cannot be governor of Ohio.
And Byron Donalds is the same way.
He's calling me racist for calling him a slave.
No, I'll stop calling you a slave, Byron, when you stop acting like a slave.
When you give them $45 million that APAC and those corporate donors gave you, I'll proudly stop calling you a slave.
But until then, Byron Donalds, you are a washed-up, wishy-washy slave who has done nothing for our state besides sell us off Byron.
You were auctioned off at a slave auction a long time ago.
$45 million was your price.
You work for them.
You don't work for us.
And that's why you'll never be Florida governor.
I am running because I'm never going to ask my state to blindly trust me.
I'm only going to ask for that.
Sorry, the first date, no homo.
I'm only going to ask for the first date where I can get that opportunity to earn that trust over the next eight months to serve the state that my family has known for four generations.
Well, there's no mincing of words with James Fishback.
I think that's fair to say.
No mincing of words.
And I would just say, too, that this is what happens in politics.
And this is why watching James has been, it's been a study.
It's been a study in political psychology because what happens is kind of an anti-establishment rogue type of candidate like James gets gets involved.
And then the heat starts getting applied and the pressure starts getting applied and the attacks start to increase.
And you either decide, okay, am I going to start to kind of cater what I'm doing to avoid that stuff?
Or am I going to lean in and go even harder?
And James has done the latter, obviously.
He's leaned in and gone even harder.
So there you go.
And if you watch the Owen Report, you know, we've been following this race closely for months now, knowing that it was going to get interesting and intense as we get closer to this summer's primary.
But yeah, we were on that.
I think the rest of the national media is catching up quite rapidly, as they always have to do with us, right?
They always have to catch up to us.
We are always ahead of them, you know?
That's just how we do it.
All right, before we finish off the rest of the news for the day, thanks to James for joining us.
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All right.
What left do we have in the stack?
We got a couple, I got about 20 minutes left of today's transmission.
We got a couple stories left in the stack.
We will get to our super chats, by the way.
We will get to our super chats, but we got a couple other news stories first.
So we mentioned, you know, Thomas Massey is catching the flack from Donald Trump.
Trump says Massey is a true hater of Israel, and this is why you can't elect him.
But then if you dare say that Israel has control over Trump or this administration, you're called a crazy conspiracy theorist and all the other names in the book, even though they tell you that, yes, Israel is their measurement.
Israel is now their measurement to loyalty to Trump.
Israel is now their measurement on loyalty to America.
Israel is now their measurement on loyalty to Republican Party politics and all this other stuff.
And then you get gatekept out of the party if you're not loyal to a foreign country.
But then when you say, hey, gee, why are you measuring everything off of loyalty to a foreign country?
And why do they have so much influence?
They say you're making it up.
It doesn't exist.
It's a conspiracy theorist.
It's really a wild thing to witness.
But now that's the latest attack on Thomas Massey.
And of course, it's not even true.
But you take the good with the bad.
And I'd say it's not all the way good, but it's pretty good.
Trump releases the updated childhood vaccine schedule down from 72 to 11.
Today, the Trump administration is proud to announce to the United States of America that they have updated the childhood vaccine schedule.
And he goes on with a bunch of slop, but 72 jabs down to 11.
And that's kind of the European standard.
But really, it should be zero and you can just choose what you want.
Really, that's what it is.
So this is the better.
Yeah, this is the better policy right here in my eyes from the foundering with the meme.
But, okay, you know what?
We are we're moving in the right direction.
You're moving in the right direction with that.
So you take the good with the bad.
There might not be a country that has turned more on Israel than Spain.
Anti-Israel protests forced Spanish basketball teams to ban fans as security fears mount.
It's really not good.
And they kind of have a history there in Spain with this issue, let's just say.
But the Spanish people are not very supportive of Israel right now.
They're very anti-Israel right now, and they don't really hide it.
They're not really bashful about it.
And so basically, you can't even, if you're an Israeli sports team, you can't even have a normal sporting event.
They basically have to run some form of a filter over what access they're going to allow Spanish people at these events because there's so much disdain for Israel right now in Spain.
And you may have seen this, and we get into some of the propaganda slop here.
So there was this video that went viral.
This says 1.3 million views.
Is that on the original?
The original has 2.6.
But it's this supposedly IDF soldier on New Year's Eve just firing bullets.
Now, they say at civilian homes in Gaza, you know, maybe that's the direction of it.
I don't think this person is just firing at people.
I think it's just New Year's and he's just, you know, whatever.
He's just firing.
But this gives you a good idea of where the IDF is at and, you know, where they're at.
Oh, we just fire bullets at houses.
We just fire bullets at will, whatever.
We do whatever we want.
That's the general attitude in the IDF right now.
And that's why most rational people around the planet have turned against them because of how they're behaving.
So they came out, the propagandists came out and said, it's not an Israeli soldier and it's AI.
Well, it actually is an Israeli soldier and it's not AI.
And so you can go look at this, folks.
Go, it's just like, it's just incredible.
It's like the Venezuelan videos that people are posting that are fake.
So you have people going along with this, but it's a Golani brigade soldier and whatever, forget social media.
Folks, the IDF investigated it.
The IDF to investigate soldier filmed firing.
Here, let me pull this story up for you.
I'm sorry.
Here's the story.
So they say it's fake.
No, it's very real.
The IDF to investigate soldier filmed firing into Gaza on New Year's Eve.
There it is.
The IDF stated in a public statement, the soldier documented in the video acted contrary to procedures, firing unprofessionally and not following orders.
So it was real.
I'm going to just, we're almost done with the show.
I'm going to, I didn't get, we didn't get too upset today.
We kept the temperature cool, but I get so mad about this, folks.
I get so mad about this stuff.
I counter propaganda no matter what direction it comes from.
I counter propaganda no matter where, what, who, why, how.
I always counter it.
And nothing ticks me off than people that pretend to be honest dealers, people that pretend to be better than the propaganda, you know, all the other stuff.
And then they just propagandize you like everybody else.
It infuriates me.
It infuriates me.
We're supposed to be better than that.
But it turns out now on social media, it's actually worse.
It's actually worse.
Now, in fairness, I think in social media, you kind of get the best of it and the worst of it now.
But again, it's just like the people posting the fake Venezuelan slop, the fake videos of Venezuela celebrating Maduro's capture.
It was all fake.
None of them deleted it.
None of them retracted it.
Same thing happened to that video.
That was a real video that was an IDF soldier and they said, oh, that's fake.
That's AI.
It was real.
And none of them have corrected it.
And that post I showed you that said it was fake got over a million and a half views and has not corrected it and has not retracted it and has not deleted it.
You're just as bad.
You are just as bad as the fake news media that you're claiming to fight.
It's lazy.
It's sloppy.
And it's disgusting.
So, where's your retraction?
Where's your correction?
Oh, I can't believe Trump would do this.
No, it's real.
I can't believe the IDF would do this.
No, it's real.
Wake up.
Stop living in La La Land.
Stop being lost in a world that doesn't exist.
Stop eating the slop.
Stop dealing the slop.
We're supposed to be better than this.
And I guess it turns out maybe we're not.
Here's another one.
You may have seen this video going around of an Iranian, an Iranian who was scamming the daycare fraud, an Iranian scamming the daycare fraud.
And then he goes into his Rolls-Royce.
So everybody was sharing this video saying, look, it's an Iranian scam.
Look, the Iranians are running the scam.
And, you know, the person that shared this, I have no problem with him personally.
I actually like Derek, but this happens to the best of us.
But Derek Evans did share this.
I believe he was a January 6th prisoner himself.
An Iranian daycare in California received $42 million, yet no children have attended in nine months.
So again, I like Derek.
People just, this stuff perpetuates online and they just think it's real because everybody else does.
Well, it turns out that was literally fake.
It turns out that the video of the Iranian scamming the system was fake.
And it looks like the originator of this has deleted his post.
So you just, you got to be extra careful out there, folks.
I'm telling you, the propaganda is worse than it's ever been.
It's worse than it ever been.
And we kind of have this new belief system, this new consumption system that, hey, if it's on social media, okay, it's probably better.
It's not.
It's not.
It's worse now.
So you had all millions of views.
This video of the IDF is fake.
It was real.
Millions of views.
Look at the Venezuelans celebrating in the streets.
It was fake.
Look at this video.
An Iranian scamming of daycare scam.
Look, the Iranian, the daycare scam.
It was fake.
But that's why you tune into the Owen report, isn't it?
Because we keep it honest.
Did you hear about this?
This is the World Cup.
Now, why does Mexico get to host any World Cup games?
I'm actually beginning.
I was already irritated with it, but I didn't make a big fuss.
Now I'm pissed.
I'm actually pissed.
Why is Mexico co-hosting our World Cup?
I am pissed.
I don't want Mexico to host a damn thing.
This is supposed to be our World Cup.
This is supposed to be the United States of America's World Cup.
Why are we sharing it with Mexico?
Come on, Trump.
Come on.
That's where all the drugs are coming from.
You know what?
I got to say, I'm sorry.
Let me just, let me just for a second here.
You need to know this.
Folks, you're getting lied to about this Venezuelan drug thing.
And now it's caught up to them.
And so now what they're claiming is that somehow these fentanyl-laced drugs are what Venezuela and China are doing.
And so, oh, they're lacing the drugs with fentanyl.
And then that's how they get through the Mexican border.
So in other words, they got caught lying about the drugs.
They got caught because none of the fentanyl is coming from Venezuela.
And so now they're just saying, oh, well, it's Venezuelan drug cartels that are lacing the drugs with fentanyl.
Folks, it's all a lie.
It's literally all a lie.
The fentanyl-laced drugs get laced in the United States of America.
And I know this because I was in prison with the fentanyl dealers.
I was in prison with the gangs.
Okay?
So I talked to multiple gang members that run the fentanyl drugs.
I talked to some of the biggest fentanyl dealers in prison that were serving 20-year sentences because they were pulling that much fentanyl in, and they told me how it really works.
The fentanyl comes from China.
It gets smuggled through Mexico, and then they distribute it to the different gangs and drug dealers in the United States, and they lace it.
Now, some people just use fentanyl.
Some people just use fentanyl all by itself.
But no, the drugs are getting laced by American drug dealers and American cartels.
Okay?
That's what's happening.
The fentanyl comes in from Mexico, mostly from China, and the drugs get laced in America by American cartels.
That's what happens here.
So just understand that.
That's the truth.
That's what's really happening.
And that's just how it's proven that this whole war on drugs Venezuela thing is a lie.
But okay, 456 bags of human remains found near Mexico World Cup Stadium, discovery near Akron Stadium, raises safety concerns ahead of the group stage matches in the 2026 World Cup.
We had Mexican cartels burying human remains right next to this soccer stadium where the World Cup is about to be hosted.
Why did we let Mexico co-host our World Cup?
I'm very upset.
Mexico missing people crisis cast a shadow over World Cup venue.
Yeah, the cartels with the drugs, the cartels with the political assassinations, the cartels with the dead burial sites.
Oh, but we're going after Venezuela and we're letting Mexico share the World Cup with us.
What's up with that?
And if you want more proof of the double standard here, I won't play this entire 13-minute segment, but in 1993, 60 Minutes ran a report about how the CIA ran the cocaine trade and the cocaine drug boats into Venezuela.
22 tons of it.
So the next time they tell you about the drug cartels in Venezuela, remind them that the CIA ran 22 tons of cocaine into Venezuela.
Speaking of weekend news reports, did you ever hear this about JFK Jr.?
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But now we're getting a look at the handwritten pages, and it's showing us a side of Kennedy we've never seen before.
This generation of Germans has earned the right to be free.
Some two decades before addressing crowds in West Berlin as president, John F. Kennedy wrote these 61 diary pages, 12 in longhand, 49 typed in the summer of 1945.
Germany had just surrendered and the 28-year-old JFK was touring Europe as a newspaper correspondent, traveling shoulder to shoulder with leaders from around the world.
The young JFK's final destination, Germany, just months after the Allied victory.
Already a scholar on global politics, Kennedy seemed fascinated with Hitler and his place in history, writing, he had in him the stuff of which legends are made.
And within a few years, Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived.
We mentioned this briefly with fishback, but if you're on X, you probably saw this.
So there's this new trend on X where people are asking Grok to strip people down to a bikini or their underwear or these weird image requests.
So I wouldn't suggest going to Grok's profile and clicking on images or media, but you can see what's happening there.
EU is seriously looking into Musk's Grok AI over sexual deep fakes of minors.
And so, yes, it is getting that nasty.
Now, what's strange is when you look at Grok and how actively Musk has been kind of monitoring it and changing it and everything, folks, this has been going on for like a week or so and nothing has been done.
And we all saw what happened with Grockler, where, you know, Grok turned into Grockler for about 24 hours and they pulled the plug on it.
It was like, oh, we are not doing that.
And they pulled the plug on that Grok for going full Grockler on us.
But this Grok has been producing AI images of women basically almost naked, some of them as naked as Grok can make it.
And nobody's pulled the plug and nobody stopped it.
So it's a little strange, I have to say, that this is continuing today.
But another angle of this is the energy factor.
Guys, what are we doing here?
Do you realize what a waste of energy this is?
Oh, it's fun, whatever.
Okay.
You know, it's innocent enough, whatever.
It's AI.
It's a game.
It's a program.
Do you have any idea the amount of energy that is being spent on stupid, worthless, I don't even know what you want to call it, content creation, fun little trends on social media?
Grok has probably made tens of millions of worthless images that are never going to be viewed again just for one single funny post or an appropriate post.
And we're talking about a total waste and a full-on demand of our energy grid right now because of this stupid crap.
And so you can say, hey, it's free market, baby.
Hey, it's freedom.
Hey, it's capitalism.
I'm not saying anybody should ban it.
I'm just saying, so we're not going to have a discussion about it.
So we're not going to talk about it?
We're not going to talk about whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.
Or maybe you want to talk about this.
Le'Veon Bell, former NFL player, put this up Sunday evening.
I bet my bottom dollar the Steelers win this game.
I already got the script.
And then the Steelers won on a missed field goal at the end of the game.
I told you the NFL players were leaning into this stuff, guys.
Didn't I?
I told you that you're going to hear more about this.
So there's a little smattering for you.
All right.
Let's go into our super chats before we sign off the show for tonight.
Now, remember, guys, if you're sending Rumble rants, those get lost in the system.
It's like, unless I see the Rumble rant in live time, I just can't see it.
But the YouTube super chats save in the system.
So we always read the super chats at the end of the show.
All right.
I see a bunch of you were warning me about the sound issue at the beginning of the show.
So I won't read those.
But thank you, Spartan Brass, Jen Kale, Rode Dog, Ray Finkel.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Sorry about that, but we got that taken care of.
So we'll go to the other ones.
Robert Bickerstaff, if we don't support Israel, then we are just bots.
Good afternoon, my fellow bots.
Christ truth is king.
Thank you, Robert Bickerstaff from Andrea Jordan.
Your take on Alex attacking Candace, your relationship with him aside.
What do you think?
I think it's sad.
He's made mistakes.
Also a force for good.
All right.
Do you guys want me to start talking about this stuff?
Because we didn't talk about it all last year after the drama and everything.
And I preferred it that way.
But now I'm getting asked about it every day.
So it's just like, I don't even want to do it because you know I don't do personal stuff.
I don't do personal conflicts and personal beef and reality TV drama and all this stuff.
But you guys keep bringing it up.
So, you know, I'm not trying to avoid it for any other reason than I just don't think it's good content.
But I'll respond to your super chats.
I think Alex is trying to insert himself into the story.
I think Alex wants Candace to talk about him on her show and bring him into this phenomenon for more ratings or views or whatever it is.
That's what I think.
I don't think too much of it, to be honest.
I don't think much of it at all.
But I don't know.
That's kind of what it looks like to me.
But I'm really not paying attention to that, to be honest.
Captain, Captain Deehard.
Nice.
Nice.
Right and left are corrupt.
We have 20 years of example.
Well, I think we have more than that.
Hipster Trey, Taytay from Florida, Bongino buddies with Cat Turd.
Well, they are in the same army.
They are littermates, right?
I think so.
I think so.
Angel Silva.
U.S. views distant galaxies, estimates alien life, but can't monitor borders.
Blames Mexico for cartels, supplies their guns ammo.
Or does the U.S. not know where the ammo comes from?
We need arrests in U.S.
Yes.
Yes.
And that's why that post I made that says, I'm so glad we can rid foreign governments of corruption, but we can't rid our own.
Isn't it true?
Isn't it true?
Hipster Trey, both Dan Bongino and Owen drink blackout coffee.
Well, that's true.
That's true.
He does have that going for him.
Does he still drink blackout?
I don't know.
He hasn't been on air for a while.
We drink blackout coffee, blackout.com slash Owen.
So, yes.
More from Captain Hard.
They were all anti-Trumpers.
So either he fell in line, got bribed, or got blackmailed.
That's the truth.
Lindsey Graham pom-poms, that's just my opinion.
No, you're right.
Either he fell in line, he got bribed, or he got blackmailed.
I don't know how else.
I don't know whether options, unless he's changed his mind, but he hasn't really argued that case.
Crypto Kratos, the DOJ couldn't get an indictment on a ham sandwich.
Well, now, isn't that funny?
Now it can't.
It used to be, it used to be that the DOJ could indict a ham sandwich.
And that was the joke that they can just indict anybody.
Now it's like we can't indict anybody.
We can't even deport Abrego Kilmar Garcia.
We can't indict Comey.
We can't indict Letitia James.
We can't indict anybody from the Bidens.
We can't indict Obama.
So yeah, now the DOJ can't indict a ham sandwich.
Jose Navarro, should I pay my taxes or put that money on Chevron since that's where my taxes are being used to help?
Well, maybe you could declare Chevron as an independent or Chevron as a dependent, rather, on your taxes.
The tax strike.
You know, the whole thing kind of lost its momentum in the last couple of days.
But I wonder, I wonder if that'll pick itself up.
By the way, did you see CBS News Barry Weiss got the exclusive with the lady that's whatever her name is that they want to replace Maduro with?
Isn't that fun?
It's always nice, isn't it?
Hipster Trey, Tay Tay from Florida, fishback 2026.
That's going to be a fun race to watch, guys.
That's going to be a fun race to watch.
All right.
Hey, yes, Zeb Boykin.
That's right.
I'm going live with Zeb right after this transmission, guys.
I think I got about 30 minutes or so with Zeb.
So as soon as I fall, as soon as we sign off of this, I'm going live with Zeb Boykin.
I got some other stuff planned for tomorrow.
I don't have my schedule in front of me, but we got some other interviews tomorrow as well.
So stay tuned to that.
Of course, Owen Report weekdays, 3 to 6 p.m. Central Standard Time.
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So we take this show takes a 21-hour break.
I don't take a break.
I go right back on Zeb Boykin after this.
But the Owen Report takes a 21-hour break.
Thanks to everybody for tuning in.
Oh, one last super chat.
Hey, Owen, how did it go with the stylist?
By the way, I know a good barber off South Congress.
I feel like that's a joke.
And maybe even I know who is sending me that.
And that is kind of funny, but it hasn't gone with the stylist yet.
My hair appointment with the stylist is Thursday.
Sneaking in another one.
Coach Sarah to six to fix Florida schools, stay with the curriculum.
Texas has same peer/slash structure.
Guess who?
So sliding in some super chats before we sign off.