The Stone Zone ties Veterans Day to Roger J. Stone Sr.’s Korean War service, framing it as a legacy of 16M veterans and Trump’s $200K+ advocacy for military reforms. It slams Ohio’s forced pronoun policy as "totalitarian," warns NYC Mayor-elect Zorayan Miamdami’s DSA-backed chief of staff will push $30 minimum wage and defund police, and cites Stephen Miller’s claim unrestricted immigration risks "third-world" collapse. The episode also exposes House Republicans’ probe into Jan. 6 pipe bombs near the DNC, accuses Seattle councilwoman Angie Nueva Camina of inciting violence against ICE, and demands Trump label Antifa a terrorist group. Energy shifts focus to Trump’s $B nuclear loans for AI-driven demand, calling coal "anti-human" while Democrats block reindustrialization—all painting a clash between "Western survival" and progressive collapse. [Automatically generated summary]
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There are occasions on the American calendar that demand reverence rather than routine.
Today, Veterans Day, is one of them.
It's not a day of mere sentiment.
It is a civic duty to acknowledge the men and women who stood in the breach for the survival of the United States of America.
My father, Roger J. Stone Sr., proudly served in the U.S. Army, but never actually saw combat.
But my uncle, Leroy Korbo, served in action in the Korean conflict and was actually pictured on the cover of Life magazine, something our entire family was most proud of.
Veterans Day began as Armistice Day.
The First World War, that terrible cataclysm of the 20th century, ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
One year later, on November 11th, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first national commemoration which continues to commemorate America's military veteran service to this very day.
In 1938, Congress made Armistice Day an official holiday dedicated to peace.
After the Second World War and the Korean conflict, the holiday became known as Veterans Day in 1954 with a nod to Armistice Day's original date.
Its purpose was expanded to honor all who served rather only than those who had fought in a war.
I think this was a wise and noble change.
It recognizes that the defense of the Republic is a continuous calling.
Today, there are approximately 16 million veterans in the United States.
Each one represents a chapter in the story of American strength.
Some served on aircraft carriers in the Pacific.
Others patrolled the snows of Korea.
Many marched through the jungles of Vietnam.
Still others stood posts in Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan, and countless unnamed stations across the globe.
Their service forms a living chain stretching from Lexington and Concord to this very present hour.
A remarkable number of our presidents have worn the uniform.
George Washington, of course, led the Continental Army.
Andrew Jackson fought both the British and their tribal allies.
Ulysses S. Grant crushed the Confederacy and preserved the Union.
John F. Kennedy commanded PT-109 in the Pacific, was a true war hero.
Of course, General Dwight D. Eisenhower led the armies that broke the Nazi and Japanese war machine.
And George H.W. Bush flew combat missions in the Pacific as a mere teenager.
Service in uniform does not guarantee greatness, but it often forges the clarity, discipline, and steel that leadership does require.
Approximately two-thirds of all American presidents were veterans.
This is not an accident.
The stewardship of a nation is best entrusted to those who have already proven they will bleed for it and that they will serve.
There's something else unique about our veterans.
Since 1973, the United States has had 100% voluntary military.
It was President Richard Nixon who ended the military draft.
No draft, no conscription, no coercion.
Every soldier, every sailor, every Marine, every airman, and every guardian raised a hand and swore that sacred oath of their own free will.
The most powerful fighting force in human history is today composed entirely of men and women who chose to serve.
This is patriotism made real.
This is devotion to the Republic of the United States of America, not as an abstraction, but as a sacred obligation accepted freely, willingly, and unreservedly.
On this Veterans Day, President Donald Trump is honoring America's warriors in a manner that reflects not only his gratitude, but also his long-term bond with them.
Throughout his presidency, he has strengthened the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs after decades of bureaucratic neglect.
He signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act so that corrupt or incompetent officials could be removed rather than just shielded.
He expanded veterans' access to private medical care when the VA could not provide it.
He secured the largest military pay raise in years, and he rebuilt the strength of America's forces from the exhaustion of endless wars.
Even out of office, he remained a consistent advocate for veterans, attending ceremonies, visiting wounded service members, highlighting military families, and insisting that the nation must never abandon its warriors after they return home.
President Trump is loved by the military because he's always loved them first.
Not with slogans, not with platitudes, but with his deeds, with his resources, with his respect.
He listened to the enlisted as well as the generals.
He recognized that a nation cannot be free if its defenders are ignored, underpaid, or mistreated.
The rank and file, of course, know this.
They know who fights for them and they know who uses them as a political decoration.
The bond between President Trump and America's veterans is very real, enduring, and deeply felt.
In fact, in November 1995, when Donald Trump was a real estate developer in New York and long before his political career, he donated the first $200,000 to a parade to commemorate those who were returning from Iraq.
Some sources put his total involvement, including helping raise additional funds, somewhere between $300,000 and $375,000 of his own money.
Now, the total cost of the parade that year was reported to be more than $2 million.
Parade organizers say that Trump's donation actually jump-started the fundraising effort when corporate contributions were coming in very slowly.
Trump was honored to serve as the parade's Grand Marshal.
Some news reports say he received that honor following his donation, but I think he received that honor because he deserved it.
He was the spark plug that made this parade work.
Veterans Day matters because a republic that forgets its defenders will not remain a republic for very long.
Our freedoms did not descend from the clouds like gentle rain.
They are earned by sacrifice, discipline, risk, and courage.
Veterans understand that freedom has a price.
Most civilians only enjoy the receipt.
So on this Veterans Day, I ask Americans to do more than just post a phrase on social media.
Speak to a veteran.
Thank them directly for your freedom.
Thank them for their service.
Remember those who never came home.
And teach our children that liberty survives only because strong.
On this Veterans Day, I ask Americans to do more than post a phrase on social media.
Please speak to a veteran.
Thank them directly for your freedom and for their service.
Remember those who never came home.
Teach our children that liberty survives only because strong souls have shielded it.
The men and women who served did this without promise of reward or guarantee of safety.
They stepped forward when others stood back.
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They did not ask whether America was perfect.
They asked how they could defend her.
This is the highest form of citizenship.
May God bless our veterans.
May God bless those who currently serve our nation.
May God bless President Donald J. Trump and may God bless the United States of America.
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Well, a federal appeals court has ruled that an Ohio public school cannot mandate that students call their classmates by their preferred pronouns.
This is based on a 2023 lawsuit from the group Defending Education against the Olintangi Local School District in Ohio over anti-harassment policies which compelled students to, quote, affirm the genders of their peers.
You see, after a lower court wanted to dismiss the lawsuit, a panel made the ruling that the school district cannot wield their authority to compel speech or demand silence from citizens who would disagree with the regulator's politically controversial preferred new form of grammar.
The Oligantangi School District was threatening students with suspension or expulsion unless they humored the gender nonsense from their mentally ill counterparts.
The court determined that this was a fundamental violation of the First Amendment to free speech and deeply un-American in its attempt to police speech or to control thought.
The court stated, American history and tradition uphold the majority's decision to strike down the school's pronoun policy.
Over hundreds of years, grammar has developed in America without government interference.
Consistent with our historical tradition, our cherished First Amendment, the pronoun debate, must not be won through individual persuasion, not government coercion.
Our system forbids public schools from becoming enclaves of totalitarianism.
So the only way to push the transgender agenda is through coercion and silencing anyone with any rational or reasonable objections.
This court made the right decision in validating these senseless policies.
Meanwhile, New York City Mayor-elect Zorayan Miamdami has named L. Bisgard Church as his new chief of staff.
Bizgard Church was instrumental in rallying the Democratic Socialists of America behind Miamdami as his ground troops to win the recent election.
Miamdani credits Bizgard Church with steering his campaign and helping Miyamdami set his agenda, which includes defunding the police, freezing rents, increasing the minimum wage to $30 an hour, government-run grocery stores, free bus and subway rides, and free child care.
She will help the new mayor, Miam Dami, implement these nanny state policies in New York City that will make overbearing government to a whole new level.
Bizgard Church is a well-educated Marxist.
She went to graduate school at the University of Columbia before going to the London School of Economics.
So she's steeped in far-left ideology.
What makes her dangerous in my view is the fact that she's not stupid at all.
This woman will be deviously working to attack the pillars of a free society, including religion, the family, private property, and yes, the rule of law.
It will be an all-out assault on the rights of the people of New York.
They will rule the day they put Miam Dami or any socialist in office.
But the disaster to come may pave the way for the rise of a Republican governor.
Elise Stefanik, a congresswoman from upstate New York, has announced her candidacy to challenge sitting governor Kathy Hochul.
This may be the single best chance Republicans have had to regain the governorship of the empire state in decades.
I believe that the policies of Miam Dami will cause a rapid decline in New York City, which could pave the way for the first Republican governor in memory.
In Elise Stefanik, Republicans are nominating a fighter, someone who I believe can reach independent and younger voters, someone who has led the way for the final implementation of a strategic missile defense to defend the entire East Coast, where she's fought to put that right here in Fort Drum, New York.
It's going to be one of the most exciting gubernatorial races in the country.
I believe the time is exactly right and that the high-tax, soft-on-crime policies of Miam Dami in New York City could pave the way for the election of Elise Stefanik.
We'll be following this race very, very closely here in the Stone Zone.
In fact, I've invited Congresswoman Stefanik to join us for an interview.
We don't endorse candidates here, but we will be talking about this race a lot in the months to come.
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Well, President Donald Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller, told it to the public straight during a recent appearance I saw on Fox News, where he candidly described in non-political correct terms what happens when a country just lets in foreign migrants.
Miller said, who lives in your country determines what your country is.
At the end of the day, what this really comes down to is this.
Haiti, for example, doesn't work as a country.
It just doesn't.
People have tried forever.
People spent billions of dollars trying to make Haiti work as a project, as a nation.
But Haiti just doesn't work because Haiti will let in anyone and has unlimited foreign immigration.
So if you take Haiti and you move it to America, it's not going to work here either.
Somalia doesn't work as a country, has never worked as a country.
You take Somalia out of Somalia, you put it here in the United States, it's not going to work any better.
It's not about how you feel about any individual immigrant or group.
It's about the policy at a systemic scale.
So if you move the third world to the first world, eventually we will become the third world.
And that's not good for us.
It's not good for anybody who wants to live here in the future.
These comments would have been previously branded by some as a white supremacist, but President Trump's brash style has put an end to cancel culture.
Now Americans can call out illegal immigration for what it is.
This is an attack against the American people.
This is the demographic overthrow of America.
They want to replace native-born Americans.
This is part of a conspiracy to destroy Western civilization.
We need to keep calling this out and make it more commonplace to speak out against illegal immigration.
Yes, we welcome immigrants to America.
We are a nation of immigrants.
My people came from Europe.
But immigration must be legal.
It must be orderly.
And above all, we must have a system that regulates who comes to our country.
Under Joe Biden, America became an extraordinary dangerous place because essentially just threw our borders open to anyone who wanted to come here.
Now we don't even know how many illegals are in the country, and we don't know how many of those illegals are terrorists.
President Donald Trump has rightfully mounted the greatest single deportation of illegal immigrants in American history, and we must pray that he is successful.
A country that has no borders is not a country.
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So the International Olympics Committee is expected to prevent biological males from competing in women's sports in the upcoming Olympic Games in 2028 that will take place in Los Angeles, California.
This decision takes place after President Donald Trump made it known that the U.S. will deny visas for birth males looking to make a mockery of the Olympics by competing against women.
The new International Olympics Committee president, Christy Coventry, is expected to officially change the policy of that body in the upcoming months.
The International Olympics Committee Medical, Health, and Science Director, Dr. Jane Thornton, presented information during recent commission meetings demonstrating how birth males calling themselves transgendered males have advantages over birth females.
This was previously called common sense, but now apparently actually needs to be explained to members of high society.
According to sources, Dr. Thornton laid out the evidence and it was generally well received from the committee members.
This is yet another sign that the transgendered absurdity is waning.
People who were previously scared to speak out even though they knew it was madness are now finding their courage.
God bless Riley Gaines and others who spoke out and paved the way for sanity to once more reign in Olympic sports.
No, men should not compete against women in the upcoming Olympics.
Meanwhile, House Republicans are demanding information regarding Kamala Harris's Secret Service detail.
Congressman Barry Lautermilk, who serves as the chairman of the Select Subcommittee Investigating Questions Surrounding January 6th, issued a letter to former Vice President Kamala Harris's Secret Service detail demanding information about the pipe bomb that was planted at the Democrat National Committee on January 6, 2021.
The letter states, during the 119th Congress, we have sought information regarding the discovery of pipe bombs that were placed near the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee headquarters on January 6th.
Now, more than four years later, there remain more questions than answers surrounding who may have placed these devices and whether federal law enforcement entities have adequately investigated the matter.
Given the presence of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's Secret Service detail at the Democrat National Committee, when authorities discover this pipe bomb, your agents may possess information that is necessary for our oversight, and we request your cooperation in this process.
Last week, as I reported right here in the Stone Zone, it was revealed that former Capitol Police Officer Shawnee Kirchhoff, who now works for the CIA, was an accurate match for the figure caught on security video captured near the scene.
It may be possible that it was multiple deep state operatives working in concert.
House Republicans and the Trump administration must continue investigating until the guilty party is located and they're charged.
This is a revelation that will show the entire country that January 6th was a Fed surrection and that Trump supporters were ensnared in an op all along.
Meanwhile, a handful of rogue Senate Democrats have flipped and voted with Republicans to reopen the federal government.
This happened on Sunday.
Democrats are blaming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his inability to keep his ranks in line.
Representative Roe Hanna from California, one of the most progressive members of the Democrat House caucus, blasted Schumer in an expo saying that Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced.
If you can't lead the fight to stop health care premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for? The California Democrats said.
Yet another progressive stalwart in the House, Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, said, tonight is another example of why we need new leadership.
If Chuck Schumer were an effective leader, he would have united his caucus to continue to vote no.
That was tonight.
And he would have held the line on health care.
Now maybe Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts will finally join me in pledging not to vote for Schumer to be the Senate's leader.
This pushback against Schumer highlights the growing schism within the Democrat Party.
You see, anytime Democrat leaders are not sufficiently radical, the most extreme among their ranks will be applying severe pressure to them.
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The radical socialists are waiting in the weeds to take power from the Democrats' old guard.
There is no better example of the old guard than Chuck Schumer.
And they'll eventually be successful.
MAGA, the America great movement, just has to be up to the challenge of defeating them in order to save our country.
So the old Democrat Party, the party of John F. Kennedy, the party of Harry Truman, who was indeed the founder of Israel, the party that believed in capitalism, free enterprise, a strong national defense, and yes, God, that Democrat Party no longer exists.
Republicans have an obligation to broaden our party to attract the votes of Democrats and disaffected independents seeking a new way for America.
The Democrat Party has lost its way.
Before you count your chickens regarding the 2026 and 2028 elections, look at the Democrat Party because today it is a fiasco.
Indeed, it's a mess.
Meanwhile, a Seattle area councilwoman is urging citizens to fight back against ICE.
Angie Nueva Camina, a city councilwoman in Redmond, Washington, called on citizens to fight back against ICE in what could be interpreted as a call to arms for leftist radicals in that region to commit violence against federal law enforcement officers.
She made the comments during an exchange at a city council meeting with Police Chief Darrell Lowe, who has stated his agency was doing nothing to help ICE with immigration enforcement, but were constitutionally not allowed to stop ICE's actions at the same time.
So Nueva Camina said, they're operating under federal law and federal authority, and federal law and authority supersedes that of local jurisdiction.
So we would not be able to interfere or intervene in their particular operations.
We've seen in other communities where it's been the community then taking it upon themselves to essentially fight back against ICE officers who are merely performing their duties.
They're doing it right there in their communities.
So basically what we're letting our community know is, hey, from a city perspective, we really can't do anything.
So it's upon you then to stand up and fight back against ICE officers doing their duty to arrest and deport dangerous illegals.
This attitude from the city councilwoman is shared by public officials in and around the cities of Seattle and Portland.
This is why law enforcement sits idly by and has been indicted in Portland.
Police may actually be helping Antifa terrorists get to safe houses to avoid being captured for their violent actions against ICE agents.
This is why President Donald Trump must use the National Guard to keep peace in these areas and to help ICE with immigration enforcement.
These communist subversives cannot be allowed to destroy the country unabated.
This is a national emergency and President Trump must use his power as such.
Several people were arrested outside a Turning Point USA event on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley.
Turning Point USA was, of course, the student organization founded by my late friend Charlie Kirk.
A Trump supporter was allegedly the victim of an attempted robbery by an Antifa thug resulting in the altercation.
The Antifa terrorist was apprehended by police as his fellow comrades attempted to de-arrest him through obstruction and violence.
Antifa terrorists were chanting to get the fascists out of Berkeley and set up barricades to stop entry to the event.
Others were heard chanting anytime, any place, punch a fascist in the face, as well as X your dead homie.
You can use your imagination there, referring, of course, to my late friend, Charlie Kirk.
Overall, four University of California Berkeley students were arrested for felony vandalism as part of this demonstration against Turning Point USA.
28 flyers were glued to the historic Sether Gate featuring quotes from Charlie Kirk on abortion, gun control, and other topics designed to inflame liberals on campus into shutting the event down by force.
Even though President Trump has named Antifa as a terrorist organization, they still feel emboldened to attack peaceful protesters and obstruct lawful displays and gatherings by conservatives.
If anything, they see the death of my friend Charlie Kirk as a feather in their cap and a sign that they need to double down on the heinous tactics and violence.
So until Antifa is treated like ISIS, their funding sources are exposed, and cells are taken down by federal authorities, they will continue to tear our country apart.
This is the mandate that President Trump must deliver upon.
The future of our nation depends upon Antifa being taken down.
In the meantime, you may recall that the FBI director Christopher Wray insisted that Antifa wasn't even an organization, that it was just an idea.
Well, my question is an obvious one.
Who's paying for the pallets of bricks?
Who's paying for the flatbed trucks?
Who's paying for the buses that are shepherding Antifa demonstrators and terrorists around?
And who's paying for the lawyers who, on those rare occasions when Antifa operatives and miscreants are arrested, immediately bail them out.
The president is right to call Antifa a terrorist organization, and Vice President JD Vance and the Deputy Chief of Staff for Domestic Policy Stephen Miller must take seriously their effort to uncover the interconnected nonprofit organizations as well as our tax dollars that are going to fund these terrorists.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is planning to spend hundreds of billion dollars in loans for the construction of nuclear power plants.
As the AI revolution takes off, the data centers that are being created across the country have an insatiable need for energy.
Morgan Stanley estimated the United States would need, at the very least, an additional 36 GW in new power by 2028 to service the data centers, and that number is only rising.
This has caused a renewed interest in clean nuclear energy.
In order for the U.S. to win the artificial intelligence arms race, the Trump administration announced that the federal government will be lending hundreds of billions of dollars to facilitate the development of nuclear power across the country.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, we have significant lending authority at the Loan Program Office.
By far the biggest use of those dollars will be for nuclear power plants to get those first plants built.
The U.S. currently has no commercial nuclear reactors being built, though several intend to reverse their permanent shutdown status and open again.
There are other plans to build new, large, and small reactors.
President Trump signed a May executive order that called for the United States to start building 10 massive nuclear reactors by 2030 as tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft make private investors into existing and defunct nuclear plants.
While there are certainly many problems with AI and these tech problems, their insatiable need for energy and the resulting investment in nuclear power could be the solution for our energy problems.
Nuclear is a clean, viable, and safe form of energy.
It was once politically incorrect, but today it is absolutely essential.
So I think we should applaud the Trump administration for this critical investment in our national infrastructure and recognize the importance that nuclear plays in the mix of energy.
In addition to this investment in nuclear power, the Trump administration announced that a $625 million expansion of certain programs will keep coal-fired power plants open and operational.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright again stated that the Trump administration is undoing the damage by Democrat administrations who believe that coal was the energy of the past and needed to be shut down for the greater good, regardless of how much it would hurt American families.
Wright said, coal just makes the world go round.
They've tried to strangle it, particularly the Biden administration, started, however, with the Obama administration.
We're going to export more of that coal.
We're going to use it for American industry, particularly as we reindustrialize, and it's going to continue to provide 15 to 16 percent of our electricity and enable us to reindustrialize the country and win the artificial intelligence race.
Coal is the energy of now, and it's in the public interest as well as the national security interest to expand its production capability.
China gains a foothold against us in the geopolitical fear when we refuse to maximize our use of coal.
We need to put all of these bizarre obsessions with carbon emissions to bed.
That line of thinking is what impoverishes America.
Even Bill Gates is turning against it.
The Trump administration's energy policy is a breath of fresh air amidst an elite who are anti-human and want to strangle our prosperity on an ideological basis.
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So throughout the government shutdown, one thing that has surprised many Americans, including me, is the sheer number of Americans who today rely on food stamps.
In 1970, only 2% of Americans received what we call today SNAP benefits.
That number has risen to 13% of Americans today, representing 42 million people.
That's an increase of 650%.
The welfare program rose exponentially during the economic crisis, with food stamp usage increasing 69% between 2008 and 2013.
The number has gone up slightly, but then food stamp usage has become a staple of modern life, with one in eight Americans now on some sort of food assistance.
The SNAP program has surprisingly become rife for bureaucratic plunder, however.
SNAP erroneously dispersed almost $11 billion through 2024.
However, that number is in all actuality, probably much higher.
Robert Rector, the former, pardon me, the senior researcher at the Heritage Foundation, has stated that the reported error rates are false and ridiculously low.
Rector noted that there are about 4 million people on food stamps that are able-bodied adults without dependents.
Now, the Trump administration instituted a reform back in July, forcing people to work in order to receive benefits.
But much more reform is badly needed in order to create less dependency on welfare across America.
A dependent population is a subservient population, and that's what the elites knew when they created this system.
Unfortunately, their plan to some extent has worked and will take a lot of work from the Trump administration.
But the able-bodied working people America in general need to help dig us out of this hole.
Meanwhile, Republicans are challenging a constitutional amendment that was a ballot initiative approved last week in California that would allow the temporary suspension of the California state constitution in order to allow a partisan gerrymandering in their redistricting their seats in Congress.
The measure was put forward in response to President Trump's demands that states like Texas redraw fairer congressional legislative districts that do not disenfranchise Republicans.
The Gavin Newsom-Back proposal in California, on the hand, was written specifically for the purpose of promoting unfair partisan district maps.
California had a non-partisan, non-political, bipartisan redistricting commission create its congressional maps in the past.
But the Democrats, through this Proposition 50, have now suspended that.
California Republicans believe this is not only an egregious violation of the law, but it's also strictly unconstitutional.
The lawsuit that they filed against Proposition 50 violates the Constitution's, says that Prop 50 violates the Constitution's equal protection and voting provisions by unlawfully using race as a factor to give overrepresentation to certain voters.
California Republican Chairman Corinne Rankin said, this is about the Constitution.
This is about the right that our ancestors have fought so hard for in this country.
It's about sticking with the Constitution and its equality and fairness and equal treatment.
And we believe Californians, no matter the color of their skin, no matter what their socioeconomic background is, you deserve to be treated fairly and you deserve to be treated equally.
Expect to see these kind of redistricting fights in other states as both parties maneuver in the upcoming and extraordinarily important 2026 elections.
The good news for Republicans is those states that can gerrymander and rig the system for more Democrat seats have essentially already done so.
In the meantime, let me thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
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