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May 27, 2024 - Rudy Giuliani
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The Rudy Giuliani Show (E11): Memorial Day—Honoring America's Fallen Heroes
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It's a very, very mixed group of emotions.
And of course, this is the highest form of sacrifice.
It's sacrifice for your fellow man that you don't even know.
It's a great sacrifice, of course, to lay down your life for your wife or your daughter or your son or your best friend.
But it's another thing to lay down your life For someone that, oh, is thousands of miles away, or in many ways is an abstraction.
In this particular case, one of the tragedies of the terrible era that we live through, in which we want to make America the greatest country on earth, the worst, is to Not mention the exceptional quality of this war in that hundreds of thousands of men laid down their lives so that men of another race could be free.
That's not the whole country agreed with that.
That's why we were at war.
But if you're going to condemn the white race for racism or slavery, which the white race did not invent, by the way, I think you gotta give him credit that a good deal of the white race put their lives at risk and lost their lives to free black men.
And it's quite possible black men would have freed themselves, but it would have taken a much longer time.
And it gives you the sense of commitment and love that this country can produce.
Of course it can produce horrible things as well.
But the balance is so much greater here that it is a travesty that so many of the people now hate America, and the numbers are getting higher and higher, and the teachers provoke it, and the pseudo-intellectuals have made it almost a part of our war.
I mean, so you can have a big battle over... I shouldn't say battle.
That's the wrong word.
I'm talking about the Civil War.
You could have a big debate about where Memorial Day or Decoration Day began.
I mean, you could go way back to Jackson, Mississippi, where Sioux Landon Vaughn decorated the graves of Confederate and Union soldiers.
But there was no reference to this until many years later, and there are contradictions of it.
So we can't really We can't really use that one as one that would stick.
Columbus, Georgia would be another, in which a group of women, the Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus on March 11, 1866, held a press conference asking for assistance in celebrating the soldiers of the South.
And plans were noted in the newspaper But the details of what happened aren't there.
So the three major events from which originally Decoration Day and then ultimately Memorial Day emerged would be the Memorial Day or Decoration day or celebration in Charleston, South Carolina.
And this was a group of 300, largely the black community of Charleston, South Carolina.
And it was a parade honoring the war dead.
And it was a parade of children, 300 black children, who marched through the streets of
Charleston, South Carolina. And altogether, it was said to be 10,000 people that did it.
And they honored 257 dead Union soldiers who were buried in Charleston, South Carolina.
So you think about that, right?
These were men who were buried behind enemy lines, kind of like a small Normandy, right?
And the black population, with some whites involved but still mostly a black celebration went to the Washington race course where the bodies were buried and then ultimately and and decorated the graves paid tribute to them and over a period of time buried them in appropriate graves in Charleston.
Now it was contemporaneously reported in both the Charleston Daily Courier and the New York Tribune.
And historian David Bright says it's the first Memorial Day.
It may very well be.
The reason it wasn't designated by Lyndon Johnson as the first Memorial Day doesn't have a link to the declaration of the first Memorial Day by General John Logan in 1868.
But it certainly should be remembered and considered.
This should be And also the celebration in Bolsberg, Pennsylvania.
But if you take a look now, I hope you can see my, this is the only real picture I was able to find of it.
Those are the graves.
I can't actually tell you if those are the graves before they were moved or after they were relocated.
It looks to me like after they were relocated.
from the racetrack to the more appropriate setting.
It does say in the caption, at the race course, that somehow looks to me like a better laid out
arrangement of graves, kind of like an amateur Arlington, right?
Or amateur Normandy.
Remember, it was only 250.
These were the enemy soldiers who died, who were buried.
And they were buried at the race course.
But then, the black population went on it.
And then, I don't think that day, but then over a period of time, re-buried them in more appropriate graves in Charleston, South Carolina, which was, you know, part of the core of the Confederacy.
There was also a celebration in Columbus, Georgia, but again that was only for the southern soldiers, whereas some of them actually honored both.
Bolsberg is another that claims to be the first Memorial Day.
It's a little earlier than Waterloo.
It was in October of 1864.
It's in Bowlsburg, Pennsylvania, 100 miles from Gettysburg.
A number of the bodies buried there were from Gettysburg.
Of course, there are bodies buried at Gettysburg also, but the people of Bowlsburg brought their dead back to Bowlsburg.
Bowlsburg was, in fact, a very, very active abolitionist community, working on emancipation for decades.
And during the war, it was very supportive.
The women all joined groups to make uniforms and to create even armaments and to house the injured and the sick.
It was one of the places that really turned itself over for that period of time to supporting the Union Army.
At the time of the fifth casualty of their locals who were fighting in the war, a doctor named Reuben Hunter, he was brought back to be buried and they went to his cemetery and decorated it.
And these are the three women who did it.
And then they subsequently did the same thing.
They subsequently did the same thing for others that were brought back.
That's Elizabeth Meyer.
whose son Amos Meyer was killed at Gettysburg.
And Sophie Keller, who was just a, just had family members that had been killed.
And of course, Emma Hunter, who was the daughter of Dr. Hunter, who was the first one from Bolsberg to die in the much anticipated war.
This was a war that Bolsberg supported And it supported it.
Now, you know, when we get down to it, there were other reasons for the Civil War.
The main reason given by Charleston, South Carolina, for seceding is slavery.
The main reason for the war, the history of Bolsberg is clear as hell, is to free the slaves.
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So take Mike for serious here.
I mean, this is Memorial Day.
It's a day to help all patriots.
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I didn't see that particular advertising, but the advertising, the pillows, the patriotic, what a period of time to buy those patriotic pillows and blankets.
I mean, you're going from Memorial Day to July 4th, you get stuff like, see, I have a lot of this stuff and I intend to wear it in the next couple of weeks.
So don't, you may see me in flags and in revolutionary flags Civil War flags for the North, and not the underwear.
Socks, maybe?
Well, the one that won the prize, I guess, the one that was selected officially as the founder of Decoration Day, or Memorial Day as we know it, is a town called Waterloo, New York.
And Waterloo, New York had a decoration day.
What was it?
It was on, let me get the exact date here of it.
Waterloo, New York's decorated with May 26th.
Now we're getting close to the actual, actual time.
In fact, no, I'm sorry.
It was on May 26th, 1966, that President Lyndon Johnson designated it as the official birthplace of the holiday and then had
first made it for the 31st and then changed it to the last Monday in May so that it could
really end up being a three-day holiday.
And it was designated originally in 1868 by General John Logan, who at the time was the
commander of what remained of the of the Union veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic.
He issued order number 11 called the Memorial Day Act.
And even though it was called Decoration Day back then, it's still in the act was called Memorial Day.
And May 30th, I'm sorry, was chosen As the day that flowers would be brought.
And it was thought that that was a good time because the flowers were all in bloom.
And here's what he wrote.
Let us then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with choices of flowers of springtime.
Their soldiers' lives were the revelry of freedom to a race in chains.
And their guests, the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms.
We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance.
As I said, Columbus, Georgia, Bolzberg, Pennsylvania, Charleston, South Carolina, Columbus, Mississippi, and Waterloo, New York all have claims to various forms of Memorial or Decoration Day celebrations, but this was the most complete.
They had on their Memorial Day, They had decorated the entire town.
They turned the entire town over to celebrating the people who died during the Civil War.
They decorated all the graves and then promised to do that forever.
And all the flags were at half staff.
They were japed with evergreens and mourning black.
And it was organized by a pharmacist named Henry Wells and a general of the Civil War named John Murray.
And this town, from my home state of New York, is up in what we call the Finger Lakes region.
It's up in between Seneca Lake and one of the other lakes.
Beautiful part of New York, by the way.
You wouldn't know that such a part of New York exists if you just go to New York City.
Now, they did lose 58 men from Waterloo during the Civil War.
And they have established, if you go there, they have You know, a memorial and a library.
And you can read the histories of those 58 men, as well as the contemporary history of, so in a sense, it's also the most complete.
All the other places are worth visiting too, but they are in various states of preparation for you.
This would be the one where you'd get the best sense of memorial day.
Now the rest of the history of it is interesting too, because It eventually turned into, it had to be expanded to embrace the other wars, the First World War and the Second World War, and that's when it became Memorial Day, and Lyndon Johnson designated Waterloo as the key place.
And remember, the distinction between this, which confuses a lot of people, I think, In good faith, but it's worth reminding them.
This is not a celebration of all of our veterans.
Very often people think it is.
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It raises money for veterans.
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So it's really encompassing both Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
Veterans Day is on the 11th, and that celebrates everyone who served.
This celebrates everyone who lost their life in the line of duty.
And may I finish this portion of the program with the statement of my good friend, the one that will stick with me until the day I die, about why America is the greatest country on earth.
America is the only country that has sent so many men and women to fight for the freedom of other people.
And all it asks in return is a piece of ground and a peaceful place to bury their dead.
That was Colin Powell.
Whereas the history of war is that when you go and you win, you take.
You take land.
Isn't that the English Empire?
How did Israel get established?
Or Jordan?
Or the English captured it and held it for a long... India!
We went to France and we went to Germany and we went to Italy and we went to Japan and...
Appropriate period of transition, and they're all back as free countries.
But if you go to Normandy, and this will be the 80th anniversary, and I've been there twice and I cried both times.
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And you just, you have to contemplate when you see those ages, 20 years old, 19 years old.
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And they gave it up for France!
And others.
Just like during the Cold War, we gave it up for Eastern Europe.
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I'm having a Memorial Day hamburger.
Is that okay?
Everybody else is.
I thought I should.
I'm probably getting Memorial Day call.
So, Um, last week ended on a real high note, uh, for president Trump with the rally in, um, in Manhattan.
I mean, I don't, um, I don't, I can't see anything that would frighten the Democrats more than that.
A great turnout in the Bronx.
Even the CNN was shocked that it really was the Bronx.
And, um, and in fact, uh, tremendous enthusiasm.
For President Trump, which is backed up by one poll after another, in which he either leads, let's say, with the Hispanic vote, or he's very, very close to tied, either one of which would assure his re-election.
Be hard to cheat your way out of it.
Not that they won't try.
And one of the reasons that I felt so strongly about being censored In being able to talk about the 2020 election, it's my firm belief that if we get cowered into not talking about the 2020 election, they're going to feel much more empowered to cheat heavily in 2024.
Well, they're going to cheat in 2024.
Democrats have probably cheated in every election since BuzzTweed.
I mean, after all, in the cities, it's a crooked party.
Crooked parties cheat.
If they steal money, they steal votes.
The level of the cheating, the scope of it varied from time to time.
But if we win by large margins, it's going to be hard to do it.
And if we remain vigilant, it's going to be hard to do it.
That's what we've got to try to do right now.
Right now, if the election will be held today from the polling, universal polling, the only way they could win is by cheating.
The New York Times poll.
Has Biden behind Trump by 6% with the Hispanic vote?
If he's down by 6%, he's probably going to lose it by 10%.
Gone.
Election's gone.
He depends on a 20% to 30% margin with the Hispanic vote.
With the black vote, he depends on an 80% margin.
That gets cut in half.
Did you think about the cities that would be affected by that?
Black votes in all those cities either don't vote or vote for Trump.
It's the core of their party.
Well, if you had white men, there almost have been no Democrat presidents in the last 50 years.
Uh, white women, probably most of them wouldn't have gotten elected.
Um, I think Obama won the votes of white women the first time and lost it the second time.
I think.
And then the other thing that is killing him is, uh, 30% of African Americans say they are going to probably vote for Trump.
Now, some polls have it at 23.
23 is enough to upset the election.
And I think yesterday or the day before, I gave you similar numbers with regard to young people.
18 to 34 people who you think are going to vote for Biden think that Biden is going to make it impossible for them to make a living.
And they're right!
Pretty smart young people.
Most of them aren't out there like those clowns that are, you know, that Ted interviewed.
Who don't know why they're protesting.
And here's the analysis of Rich Lowry today.
Hispanics are too much like the rest of America.
69% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track.
72% of Hispanics say it's on the wrong track.
34% say that inflation is the biggest issue.
42% of Hispanics say it's the most important issue.
Only 37% of Hispanics view Biden favorably.
And that's the same percentage among whites.
They're both at 37%.
So they basically both dislike or find Biden unqualified to be president.
More Hispanics did not think that recent immigrants have made life worse.
So they're not sold by the immigration now being like their immigration.
What they're sold on is the immigration now is going to kill their children.
And, uh, uh, Trump's big, big numbers are among the Hispanic working class rather than the college graduates.
78% of Hispanics are working class.
Wow.
So mayor, are you willing to make a prediction?
What, what, how?
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm not willing to make a prediction.
I'd make a prediction today based on that.
That he wins, and I don't think they can out cheat it.
If he wins the Hispanic vote, I mean.
I'd like to see this now translated into a House and Senate because I think the thing that's necessary is quick and decisive action to change this country around and end the communism.
Uh, I mean, that's take money.
When I say communism, you see a lot of these things and you're all upset about it, but you don't see the connection to communism.
So let's take an example.
You see the parents in being shut out of the schools, right?
You see a guy like McCollum, uh, uh, saying, uh, uh, parents should have nothing to do with education.
What do they know about education?
The teachers do.
I see Karl Marx saying children are the property of the state.
I see Stalin saying that.
I see Hitler saying that.
I see part of the communist 20-point agenda, one of them, get control of the kids.
You look at Orange Grove Assembly in New Jersey, which we're going to talk about in a little while, who for 155 years had a little celebration on the beach.
It cost about two hours on a Sunday.
And there was a little exception made in the charter that allowed them to use the beach.
It's a public beach, but it's in front of their church to To worship God as the sun came up.
Well, the New Jersey regulation said they can't do that anymore.
And a bunch of people interrupted their celebration because God doesn't mean anything.
God isn't worth a two-hour little tiny, you gotta walk around that tiny little space for a short while.
It's really because the communists want to make it clear that God has no place.
Now, the people who did it, they're into this liberal bullshit that they learn in school and all, but the real reason for it goes right back to Karl Marx.
Get God out.
The same thing with the pandemic.
You know, close the churches, but not the whorehouses.
Right?
And also, it is another part to it.
Part of what Marx wants to do is to make us first an amoral and then an immoral nation, because it's easier to take one over.
And boy, we are getting there.
You look at a judge like Merchant.
What a corrupt judge.
What a corrupt judge.
First of all, he's not even a judge.
He's an acting judge.
He's never been elected.
They've got him like a puppet on a string, the Democratic politicians, and just tell him what to do.
I had the great privilege of being with one of President Trump's lawyers on the plane back from Florida.
And we didn't talk about the case, but it got me to think about the case.
They actually did something that almost never happens in a criminal trial.
They proved that Trump was innocent.
They just proved he's not guilty, which is all you have to do.
The judge, I'm sure this judge won't say it because he's lied so much.
He's done things that are extraordinary.
He's let a case go to trial and go to a jury.
We don't know the felony that he's charged with.
It's one of three, possibly.
That is a dramatic, unbelievable violation of due process.
That is so bad that the chief judge of the state should come in and tell him to end the trial because it's an embarrassment.
How can you charge somebody with a crime and say to them, Ted, you're guilty of a felony.
Now go prove you're not guilty.
What felony?
I'm not telling you.
Guess.
Oh, it's one of three.
Pick one.
This is not a game.
That's a rule that's 800 years old that that crook.
I mean, this guy is going to be in our history books as in terms of the level of justice, like the justices in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, in terms of rules of law, just ramming through incredibly Ridiculous verdicts on innocent people and think about it.
The statement that supposedly was false is legal expenses.
That's exactly what Cohen testified to legal expenses because it wasn't just the money to Stormy Daniels.
It was money for for technology.
It was money for taxes.
It was money for and it added up to I think 135 was her 455 was the total payment.
So when an accountant Who's the one responsible for it in the long run?
Now Trump wants to gross it all up.
How does he write down all the little things that it is?
It wasn't all money to Stormy Daniels.
So you couldn't put you if you if you put down what they wanted, hush money, that had been false because it was a lot more than just hush money.
The right statement was it was a conglomeration of things into the lawyer took care of and was reimbursed for.
That's the right statement.
He begins off not guilty.
And this creep, creature of the crooked 150-year-old Democratic Party of Manhattan, creature of a court system that's an embarrassment to the country, is going forward with the case.
Hopefully, the summations tomorrow, I guess, right, Ted?
Summations are tomorrow.
The summations tomorrow will win over At least one New Yorker will be able to get beyond the brainwashing.
Most times, my fellow New Yorkers disappoint me in getting beyond the brainwashing.
There are times in which I really wonder about their intelligence when they elect Hochul and Adams and de Blasio.
I mean, look at Hochul.
What's her comment on Trump's appearance?
We're all clowns.
A half of America are clowns.
I mean, and boy, is that the pot calling the kettle black?
That might be the definition.
If we're clowns, what the hell is she?
Yeah, that might be the definition.
I mean, she's just waiting around for her money for the stadium.
Oh, she did.
I was going to say whoever elected her, but I guess she did win an election recently.
She did win an election and she won some local elections so she could grab a nice piece of that stadium for her husband, who's an owner of the concessions there.
And then she did that $300 million deal, where she paid $300 million more for PPP and stuff like that.
And then that $300 million ended up in her account as a campaign contribution, straight to jail if you're a Republican.
Bye-bye!
Straight to jail.
But not for hokal pokal.
It is wild.
Her defense would be like Biden's defense.
I'm too stupid to understand.
And this is the same one who said that Black kids at home don't have computers.
Yeah.
He's the biggest racist.
And everybody at home got upset because they know computers better than her.
She probably doesn't know computers.
I say that she seems to know better.
Everybody believes in that.
It's a very good defense.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Well, I told you about how they screwed up religion.
155 years.
The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, which is affiliated with the Methodist Church, Had a brief two hour, I think it was a two hour ceremony.
The little space was reserved in the charter and not even a court.
The New York, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection overruled it.
This is like what they did in Nazi Germany and in Soviet Union.
The regulatory agencies run things.
You will not have a, no celebration for God now?
Are you the mayor?
No.
Are you the state legislature?
No.
Are you a court?
No.
I am the chief commissar for who has the right to be on the beach and you don't have the right to be on the beach because you're gonna talk about God!
We don't talk about God on the beach!
But we've been doing it for 155 years and nobody really mind.
Well, we mind!
That's New Jersey for you.
Maybe that's why so many of them turned out for Trump, huh?
They're tired of it.
They're tired of being pushed around like they're in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia or Red China.
They're in New Jersey.
Home of the free.
Except when you got a guy like Murphy who became a dictator during the pandemic.
Boy, he got a lot of old people killed too.
A lot of old people.
Stuffed them in, and was warned about it, and stuffed them in anyway.
Wonder how much money he got from the nursing homes.
Cuomo got a bundle.
So there's a very, very good article.
And you know, today is a day you might miss the newspaper, but you should really get it.
Very short, one page, by a guy named Jeremy S. Adams, and it says, and it's a horrible poll, It says that 40 percent of Gen Z considers the American
founders to be villains.
And one in three considers Osama bin Laden to be a force for good.
Imagine how that makes me feel.
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Hillary Clinton says, Now, I mean, she used to say the election was illegitimate, but I guess she stopped doing that because, well, and because it's so damn contradictory to the idea that Trump, you know, has committed a crime by doing it, or I committed a crime by saying.
So now she's saying that the women cost her the election.
I mean, a lot of women voted for her.
I mean, is it possible she cost herself the election by being like one of the most unpleasant people in America?
I remember people coming up to me when I was thinking about criticizing Clinton over Monica Lewinsky and telling me, stop being such judgmental.
You don't wake up and see her in the morning.
I mean, come on.
That was a joke.
And it was a damn funny joke.
But it also related a lot to her, her, uh, You know, in a bigger sense, it related a lot to her unpleasantness as a candidate.
She was an unpleasant candidate.
She was like your teacher, scratching on the blackboard, as opposed to, you know, other candidates, both men and women, who can be extremely charming.
I mean, look at the difficulties that DeSantis had as a candidate.
And he wants to blame it on the indictments.
Well, it had a little bit to do with the fact that he's not a great candidate.
And the only way you're going to become a great candidate is if you know that.
DeSantis is teachable, but he's better be taught or it's going to happen again.
She's not teachable because she's too damn arrogant.
I would hate to be her political consultant.
You know she's doing it wrong and she would just, you know, stop making those faces, Hillary.
And stop saying stupid things like the women caused you the election.
It sounds like you're not taking responsibility for yourself.
Well, the war in Israel is heating up again in a way.
There has been a war going on, somewhat ignored in the north with Hezbollah and the northern part of Israel.
It isn't like at the dimension of Hamas.
But now in Gaza, for the first time in quite some time, Hamas hit back.
And Hamas, I think it was on Saturday, hit Israel with About 50 or 60 missiles.
I'm not sure if Iron Dome was used or David Sling.
Iron Dome is the less sophisticated, David Sling is the more.
And usually for Hamas, they use, they usually use David Sling for Hezbollah, because they have more sophisticated rockets.
And they use Iron Dome for, For Hamas, but depending on the availability of rockets now, who knows, right?
But it looks like it was.
Anywhere from 100 to about 99% accurate.
The only only apparent strike was a vehicle.
That was that was driving to a to a school in.
Kippur Assad.
Right near the Gaza border was hit.
Don't think anybody was killed.
May have been injured, but we'll have better statistics on that.
It certainly wasn't for the number of rockets, 50 or 60.
It did very little damage as far as so far reported.
Well, Israel hit back, but of course, Israel knows how to aim rockets, unlike Hamas.
And they took out Yassin Rabia, the chief of staff in Judea and Samaria for The terrorist Hamas, and one of their senior officials, Khalid Nagar, and a number of other Hamas people, because in retaliation, they immediately hit back a place where they knew they were hiding.
Now, the place they were hiding was... Well, Hamas claims they kill children, but we don't know that.
And I don't have the details of whether they were hiding in front of or had children in front of them or whatever.
But they definitely took out Hamas soldiers and they took out two of the Hamas biggies that they have to get rid of if they want to decapacitate Hamas.
And I don't know if we got the point yet.
We're not stopping them from doing that.
And if I live there, they better not stop doing it.
I do it myself.
Keep my children alive.
Representative Jared Moskowitz, who's a Democrat from Florida, made an extraordinary statement, which, of course, will get no attention.
But he said that President Biden should not have reversed former President Trump's decision to impose sanctions on the International Court of Justice.
Well, I mean, you know how many things?
President Biden should not have reversed President Trump.
And now we have about 500 things we have on our list.
And if he hadn't done it, America would be very prosperous today.
There wouldn't be two wars.
Jared, I know you're a Dem, and thank you very much for that, but doesn't this all lead to, if you care about your country, this is the year you don't vote Democratic?
Right?
I'm for putting those sanctions back in place.
What do you think the chances are, Jared, he's going to put the sanctions back in place?
Come on.
You and I both know, although you can't say it, That he sold out Israel so he could get about five votes in Michigan and a couple of other places, and I'm not even sure he's going to get them.
I don't think he can get them at all.
I think they're going to either stay home or some of them might even vote for Trump, just on the theory that they admire the fact that he's a man, you know?
I always watch very carefully in the war in Ukraine, what's going on in my city, Kharkiv.
I call it my city because I work there.
I helped to design a whole security program for them.
I helped to design a management center for them.
I got to know the mayor, now deceased, very, very well, and the deputy mayor, now functioning.
And I got to know the people.
And the people are, a lot of them, heavily Russian-origin Ukrainians.
And they are, what, 10 miles from the border of Ukraine.
And they used to be very heavily pro-Russian until Putin talked him out of it by attacking them in 14 unnecessarily.
Now they have resisted to... How long has the war been going on?
Two years?
And I'm telling you, Russia is doing everything they can to take Kharkov.
This is like sticking in Putin's craw that no matter what he does, he can't take Kharkov.
But I'll tell you one thing, he's doing tremendous damage to that city.
I mean, I hate to think of what it looks like.
I see some of the pictures here, and I think of what it looked like.
And I see this beautiful couple crying.
I mean this is like when you turn them all around.
This is a place that when I first would go to Ukraine, it was heavily Russian.
And whenever they'd have an election, whenever they have an election in Ukraine, The vote would be almost 50-50, Ukrainians pro-nationalist Ukrainian, Ukrainians pro-alliance with Russia, or put another way, Ukrainians pro-alliance with the West, Ukrainians pro-alliance with the East.
As you would suspect, the eastern part of Ukraine has more of the Russian-oriented ones, and the western part of Ukraine, which is right near Poland and Western Europe, is more Western.
And the first big election that took place, when they became free, they split almost 50-50.
And in other elections, it went back and forth, where the pro-Ukrainians won one or two times and the pro-Russians won one or two times.
And it was always by a small margin until, let's call it the revolution of 2014, When the pro-Russians were thrown out and left $800,000 in the bank.
Because the pro-Russians were all a bunch of crooked oligarchs.
Oh, one of whom is the person who provided all the money to the Bidens, Solzhenitsyn.
And that's another one of the biggest damn contradictions.
We'll be back in a moment.
And if I ever start talking about Biden contradictions, we'll be on here until July 4th.
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Well, we have three coffees.
We have a morning.
I think that's the one you saw with the picture of younger me.
A happy kind of one.
Then a more serious one called bold.
And that has a whole little history of my prosecution of organized crime in the back.
Dr. Maria did the little biographies.
And then the third one is decaf.
And I don't drink decaf, but a lot of people do.
And we thought we could make a contribution here, because a lot of people drink decaf, and believe me, you know all these articles about how coffee has become healthy?
That's true.
But the more Robusto beans you use, The more you're risking, it's the Robusto bean that gives you the shaky feeling.
It's the Robusto bean that's more likely to give you problems with your stomach.
I mean, it can be used, like it's used in espresso a lot, because it can be used for, but if you're not careful with it, you can create really, you can take what can be very healthy, if you have three or four cups a day, to something that's very not so healthy.
Same thing with decaffeinated.
When they decaffeinate, they use chemicals.
Some of those chemicals have been proven to be extremely unhealthy.
So we do it with a new process where we use water to separate the caffeine.
It even tastes better.
And so if you want to use or you feel you have to use decaffeinated coffee, then you're going to find this the closest thing to like real coffee.
But most importantly, you're not going to take on the health risks Of all the stuff they do to get it out.
So I want to talk a little bit.
I want to talk a little bit about the New York Rangers.
You probably didn't know I'm a big hockey fan, but the first year that I was mayor of New York, the Rangers won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 years.
Due to me.
Not really.
It wasn't due to me.
But the Rangers are now 2-1 in the final series that would qualify them for the Stanley Cup.
And yesterday's game, of which I only watched the very end, was really remarkable because I think... So which goal are we watching now?
We picked out... The Rangers won in overtime.
The thing strange about this game is they were outplayed by the Panthers.
The Panthers beat the crap out of them.
I mean, really knocked them around.
I'll give you a couple of statistics that make that able to envision.
So how about the Panthers had 108 overall attempts.
The Rangers, the winning team, had only 44.
Now, can you imagine the goalie?
108 attempts.
So even though they had four goals, he was one of the stars of the game.
Because the poor guy was being pounded.
His name is Shasterkin.
Igor Shasterkin.
And his goal playing at the key moment was nothing short of brilliant.
Brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
I think the real star of the game, though, was Alexis Lafreniere.
And Alexis had two goals in the second period that Now the first one is a fairly ordinary goal.
Now that's the one he did on his own, basically.
Did you see that?
He just went in and he just faked.
That was like a one-on-one shot almost, right?
He just faked him and he just made the goal look like a monkey.
Let's see, is it the backhand goal?
It's the same goal you saw, okay.
Oh, it's the same one, right.
Yeah, yeah.
That was the second goal.
That goal put them ahead.
Now, that wasn't the winning goal, though.
The winning goal came in overtime.
It came in about five minutes of overtime.
And that was done by Alex Weinberg.
And really, it was a deflection in front.
Those goals always get a... You're going to see...
How upset.
If we have the final goal, you're going to see how upset the goalie gets, because really when they... That's not the goalie's fault.
You shouldn't allow that in front.
Now it's a real trade off in hockey, which Ted will know because he played hockey. And I will know because I watch
it all because my son played.
Is it really?
Do you help the goalie in front?
And of course, a lot of times you block shots for the goalie, right?
The other players.
But sometimes you hurt the goalie because you block him.
And after all, the best guy for blocking shots is the goalie.
So some goalies don't like it if you like all crowd in front.
I don't think we have the last goal.
We'll play it tonight.
But the last goal that I think you see the celebration for.
Is this it here?
I didn't realize it was right off the face-off.
Yeah, so it was right away in O.C., so... No, it was five minutes into O.C.
Oh, was it?
Okay.
Yeah.
Even in overtime, they were outscored.
They were out-attempted 2-1.
I'm watching this thing, you know, on and off because I was talking to a group of people and I'm saying to myself, this is very bad for the Rangers.
They're constantly in their own end.
You get out of your own end?
Will you get out of your own end?
On every statistic in this game, they should have been beaten.
Except scoring goals.
They also got physically outplayed.
Yeah, that's it.
You see that?
He was sort of blocked.
The goalie was blocked.
So now the question is, can the Rangers keep it up?
Two more games, and they don't have to win any more in Florida.
If they lose tomorrow night in Florida, they can win two at the Garden.
But in the Garden, Uh, they split, so we'll have to see.
This is a very good team they're playing.
It's a very tough and a very physical team.
Seems like it is a tougher team than they are, but they seem to be more of a finesse team than they are, and they are really a clutch team.
They have won all four overtimes in playoff competition.
So that says something about when the chips are down, when the chips are down, you don't count on Biden.
Well, the final thoughts are for those men and women who gave their lives for us.
This didn't come from nothing.
There were times in which because of our arrogance and because of our weakness as human beings, God made us that way.
We don't appreciate enough what we have.
Oh, we concentrate on the false and they're driven into us and they exist.
And I'm the first one to say we should improve our false.
This is about making us a more perfect union.
But we begin perfect, at least in comparison to everybody else.
Used to be we had a criminal justice system that wasn't perfect, but it was better than everyone else's.
Now we have one that's worse than most others, that are democracies at least.
We got to get back there.
And we have to come from loving your country.
Obama didn't love our country.
I said that many times.
I was attacked viciously for that.
I don't know.
You don't give cash to the Ayatollah if you love your country, because you know, he's going to kill your own people.
God, how can you give money to a guy that we're going to kill your own people?
Well, you don't do what Biden did and give up a ground airbase 400 miles from China if you love your country.
You love the 31 million that he gave you.
We need people who love their country.
You have to love your country.
It's entitled to be loved.
You are very lucky to be here.
Sure, it's not perfect.
Take a better one and go there.
If it isn't perfect, get up and go somewhere else that's perfect.
Well, you're not going to find one, so why don't you stay here, and instead of complaining about us, why don't you start working on what we need to improve?
Which ain't very much compared to other countries.
Now, the damage that you communists have done to us is almost at the point of irreparable.
What you've done to our schools is going to take a long time to undo.
That's going to be the hardest.
What you've done to law enforcement and our borders, we can change.
Maybe not the people here.
That's going to be hard to get rid of them, but stopping them from coming in.
What you've done with fentanyl, we can cut that down.
What you've done by infiltrating our schools and turning our children against us is disgraceful, and boy, Karl Marx would be so proud of you.
But it doesn't mean that, of course, it's hard.
It's not going to be on our agenda.
A lot of things that I thought I would never change in New York City, once we got it started, it was much easier to change than I thought.
The momentum, the momentum toward positive action is much greater than toward negative.
Once you get it going and get it, let's get back to the children belong to the parents, not to the state.
How about we start with that and that whether you believe in God or not, recognize that God is so important to so many people that God has to be respected and has to be a key part and a key element of our government.
Because it holds the whole thing together on a moral basis.
And maybe the single worst thing we did is take God out, and then everything fell apart.
So, we'll be back tomorrow.
You please celebrate appropriately the rest of your Memorial Day, which should consist of having a good time with your hamburgers and hot dogs and everything else and your family.
But also, tonight, when you go to bed, a little prayer.
Not just for Israel and America, but also for all those men and women who made this possible for us.
And for the ones in the future that are going to do it, you send in $11 to T2T.org.
Tunnel to Towers.
This would be a great day to do it.
God bless America.
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Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
Not like a factory, it's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep green, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know, All Arabica beans.
Robusto!
All Arabica.
They're gonna go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh my goodness.
Look at these!
My goodness!
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