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So Elon Musk announces that he's buying Twitter and the left goes insane.
I mean, absolutely apoplectic insane.
And the amazing thing is they're saying stupid things.
I mean, they're always being pretty stupid, but they're saying dumb things like, well, what if a politician, you know, gets gets canceled or banned or silenced on Twitter because Elon Musk owns it.
And I'm like, where the hell have these people on the left been?
Do they not know while the Ayatollahs in Iran still had access to Twitter and the ability to tweet their hatred of all things America and Israel?
Uh the former president Donald Trump was banned from Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and so many other conservatives banned, suspended, canceled.
You name it, it happened all the time.
Then we found out all of us conservatives, all of a sudden, how many what how many hundreds of thousands of of new followers did we have uh Linda ever since the announcement that Elon Musk is buying Twitter.
How many we've got like we are actually up almost two million.
No way.
We were at five million.
We're up to seven million.
So they were shadow banning a lot of it for a while, and we complained and got them to release about a million and a half.
That got us to five.
And since he took over, we're close to six million.
So it's pretty insane.
So Elon Musk makes this announcement, then the left goes nuts.
I mean, they just go insane.
At the same time, almost simultaneously, President Trump had launched Truth Social.
And then I was looking at the most downloaded apps on the Apple store, the App Store, and I saw I couldn't believe it, True Social for days was ahead of Twitter in terms of the number one downloaded app.
Uh Donald Trump Jr., also a friend of ours and a friend of this program.
Um he also, and I had no idea he was doing this until I read about it.
He's he now is created a curating platform, and it's now been the number one downloaded app in the app store for a full day plus, 24 hours plus, and it's called MXM News, and it's a uh curating platform where uh Donald Trump Jr. and other people that we know and like uh offer mainstream news without mainstream bias.
And I think this is gonna be a massive hit.
This was a brilliant idea.
It would have been nice, Donald Trump Jr.
If you would have brought me in the loop, I could have known ahead of time.
I might have helped you promote it, and you might have been number one for 48 hours.
I don't know.
How are you?
I'm doing well, my friend.
I'm doing well.
Yeah, listen, you know, we have to push back against this stuff.
You know, the left, uh it you know, I I don't believe that they didn't know that there was censorship of conservatism.
They just said once there's a level playing field, all of a sudden, now they're really against it.
When it was happening to conservatives for the last decade, no problem.
No no issue with free speech, as long as it's their free speech.
And the same as with news, Sean.
I mean, people were reporting on, say, the Hunter Biden laptop.
There were things out there about Durham.
They're just not covered by many people.
They won't get covered on the social apps.
So I started MXM News with a couple of friends to basically show people what's there.
I mean, it's totally free to download.
You can just go to go to my website, go to Don Junior.com.
You can download it on Apple, you can download it for Google if you're on Android, totally for free.
But you can scroll through and see the news that you're just not gonna see from mainstream sources, the stories that they try to cover up to make sure that you get an objective standpoint of what's actually going on.
And you know, that's what we need, and that's what we all want.
But once there's that ability, that's when the left loses their mind because they've had total control over what is truth, even if it's not truth.
So explain this platform for me, because I really like it.
In other words, you're gonna you're gonna go through the the very news stories and news services.
You're gonna vet the stories and the stories that you believe to be true and accurate and informative that people would want to know about.
Even stories like Hunter Biden's laptop that will that was totally suppressed in the lead up to the 2020 election.
And it's going to be a platform where people will be able to get news that you will kind of be p pulling together like for example as a talk show host I would go to your site, see what stories you're leading with on any given day, and that would probably become part of my show prep.
A hundred percent you can just you know go and have download it's constantly updated if something new comes on you can scroll through, see what's the leading news you can choose sort of topics that are of interest to you so that those things will show up first and foremost.
If you're more into you know politics, that's one thing if you're more into sort of even BAGA politics you can you can go that.
That way you're seeing the stuff that you're actually interested in.
But yeah, constantly updated and it's from everywhere.
I mean you may even find places you know stuff from the New York Times as much as uh they've been as big a disinformation platform as there is out there, some things may be relevant to what you're seeing but you'll also see the things that have been hidden whether it's you know Bright Bar, the Daily Call or some of the more conservative outlets.
So it's aggregating all of the news from all of the channels that are out there online and putting them into one place that you can just scroll through and get all of your news in literally a couple of seconds and just you know click on what's of interest to you at the time and and go from there.
So we we just felt it was something that needed to be done given how much all of this stuff has been hidden from people.
They're not going to see it on a lot of the social platforms they're not gonna you know sometimes there's probably too many people to see all that news you can get it all in one place really quickly at MXM News.
So why did you call it MXM News uh where did that name come from?
Well it it's a little play on minute by minute but also sort of an alternative to MSM you know like the mainstream media it's like that's new very clever media so you know between you know minute by minute probably the easiest way to remember it but it's a little bit of a hybrid of the two and and so far it's been great.
Even for me as much as I do this stuff, you know, uh if I'm not helping to curate and I can go see what I'd be interested in it's it's the source of my my tweets uh some of my outrage posts on other social platforms uh you know etc etc.
So it's it's been really exciting and again I think uh filling a much needed void uh for news that matters that you're just not seeing elsewhere.
You know it's pretty amazing and it's a world that we live in that most people can't relate to in that once you get attacked by one publication, all the other leftist left leaning liberal socialist publications, they all do a rewrite of the same exact story.
And and there's like if if you ever Googled your name I tell people all the time that Start of Fox or start in media don't ever put your name on Google Alert or else you're gonna want to jump off a bridge by the time your your first controversy comes about.
And you know and a lot of people are not like I I just don't care anymore.
I don't care what people say.
It doesn't matter.
And I know you feel the same way.
We've talked about this but for a lot of people they take a lot of this really hard.
Yeah listen I I think once once you're in sort of you know the the the cage that is this stuff if you take it really hard you probably can't you can't just do it.
Luckily I you know I'm blessed with enough of the Trump jeans that that stuff doesn't bother me.
But yeah if you googled my name and again that's part of the problem with search engines, right?
Uh they're so heavily biased you know if you Google my name the first 90 articles are going to be from you know some lies from CNN and some sort of nonsense about that kind of stuff Sean uh you're never going to get the stuff that's good or the things that are relevant.
Uh most of it's lies and most a lot of it's uncorrected lies as you saw with you know dealing with the Russia Russia hoax for years all the things that were found out to be lies there's no corrections to those things.
They still show up number one, number two, number three.
Uh and that's why we collectively have to push back and I think that's why you're watching the left go outraged.
I mean in one week you have the outrage over Twitter.
You have CNN plus being canceled you have you know whatever it was that you know paid Obama for the uh the stupid uh you know podcast that no one listened to even though he made probably what was it 60 million dollars or something like that for it.
Uh you know that's being canceled.
You know people are finally pushing back.
It maybe took the extreme nature Sean of the incompetence of Joe Biden and the radical nature of today's Democrat Party for people to wake up and actually push back.
You have you know what was it Netflix lost twenty five percent of their stock because you you you you couldn't watch uh an American history thing without some you know the trans-Asian character that wasn't really there but we're gonna pretend was there to make sure we check off all the woke points uh you you have uh you know uh all of these things getting crushed people have had enough so maybe I say Joe Biden was good because it exposed people to what the Democrat Party is today,
the level of incompetence and insanity that's out there uh and and I think we got to keep pushing back.
That's why you have this leak from the Supreme Court, Sean.
It's purely designed to motivate the left when there's literally nothing else in their party in their platform that's even remotely good for America, let alone worth showing up to vote for in November.
So they have to leak something from the Supreme Court.
If that was a conservative on a liberal issue, uh you know, people would be going to jail.
Instead the collective left hatches on to a couple sound bites.
It's really about this and somehow it's gonna affect childhood LGBT rights and all the insanity again.
You're watching before your very eyes Sean.
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He now has launched his brand new news site it's MXM News.
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Anyway it's free just go to your app store and just get MXM News.
Um it's it's fascinating I've always I've I've used this in past elections.
This is a tipping point an inflection moment for the country and and I mean it I really believe the next two elections are everything's on the line.
As bad as I knew they would be I never thought things would get this bad this fast.
You went all around the country your whole family went all around the country and I give you a lot of credit because it's a grind.
It's hard you put everything you had into it you left nothing on the field and I never thought it would get this bad this fast even though I wrote a book about how bad it would get live free or die, America and the world on the brink and and you wrote a book similarly, you know, warning people how bad it would get and I'm like wow I I still to this day every day I look at it at the news I'm ready to like say we got to save this country.
Yeah no every day I wake up thinking we must have hit rock bottom yesterday only to see something else ridiculous that's out there.
Yeah I I wrote liberal privilege about all of these things you know Joe Biden was going to be radical on our energy uh markets and our energy sector.
No no no we promise we won't and yet on day one they had an executive order drafted up and ready to go.
You know we've been lied to for so long by the other side that has you know a trillion dollar mainstream media complex Sean working for them a trillion dollars in a big tech industry working as their marketing department trillion dollars in social media.
I mean we're up against three multi-trillion dollar industries that are working as the marketing department for the other side and elections are still close.
It should be like ninety-nine to one um but they're not because the American people get it and now it's gone so far it's gone so extreme they've become so radicalized they can no longer hide it even that much in their marketing budget essentially can't hide it from the American people and that's why I'm I see people every day that were probably even less leaning or at least neutral that are like we we can't do this stuff anymore.
It's they it's insane it's gone too far.
They've woken up to it.
So you needed someone as incompetent as Joe Biden in the Oval Office who'll just sign whatever the radical lunatics in you know in the Democrat Party stick in front of him to show you how bad it's gonna be and that's what it is.
It's not Joe Biden.
I don't think anyone believes it's Joe Biden.
This is today's Democrat Party.
Is there anybody else on television that is exposed the fact that this guy is a cognitive mess more than me know I I I'd say you're up there, my friend but but I don't say that with any joy.
I say it with genuine fear and trepidation because we're now seeing what a weak America president looks like.
I mean, for the for the people that criticized your dad for those mean tweets that that made them bubble and fizz like Alga Sultra and Water.
I mean, good grief.
Uh I'll take the guy with mean tweets that gives us uh an unprecedented growing economy, uh, that takes out the caliphate, Solomon on the tarmac, Baghdadian associates, uh, gives us energy independence, sets record low after record low unemployment for African Americans, histor uh Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment, African American youth unemployment.
And I'll take the guy that makes NATO pay their fair share and negotiated free and fair trade deals with every one of our allies and adversaries and got better deals for we the American people.
I'll take that guy.
Yeah, now now everyone's gotten an eight, eight and a half percent pay cut, and you and I both understand that inflation, the real numbers are much more than that.
You know, that's what they'll actually publicly say.
Uh it's significantly more than that.
You have interest rates going through the roof, you have energy prices super high.
I mean, you know, this is gonna create a serious problem, Sean.
I mean, people are gonna have a hard time affording the homes that they've been living in for the last few years, as you know, their disposable income goes to nothing because they're paying uh out the wazoo for gas prices to be able to get to work.
It's gonna get really ugly, and what's really scary to me is Sean, we're eighteen months into a three year uh four-year term.
Uh, you know, we we got two and a half uh more years of this insanity to go.
Uh and that should scare anyone who's been watching.
I mean, it's happened so quickly.
I say the only place that Joe Biden has overperformed is that I thought it would take them at least four years to destroy our country, but they're really on breakneck pace right now.
You know, and I'll say this about conservatives.
I know that there's you know we are in the primary season, and some people like this person, some people like that person.
I don't care.
At the end of the day, we better unite behind whoever gets the nomination.
Because anything's better than these radical new Green Deal Socialist Democrats.
Anyway, I want people to you can go to your app store, it's MXM News.
Uh it's a curating platform created by Donald Trump Jr.
And you download it's free, right?
A hundred percent free, yeah.
We just we just want people to be able to see these things and make up their own minds.
So yep, 100% free.
All right, Donald Trump Jr., always a pleasure, sir.
Thank you for being with us.
Quick break, right back, and holding them accountable.
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All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
Let's go straight to our busy phones.
Vincent is in Kansas City.
What's up, Vincent?
And I've been to Kansas City many times.
How are you?
Pretty good.
How are you doing, Sean?
Thank you for doing that.
I'm good, sir.
Glad you called.
Um, hey, uh, I wanted to talk about uh I actually want the viewers to hear this.
Uh the mental health aspect that's that's affecting well in my own home.
I've got a 19-year-old daughter that has struggled with mental health, which is not Biden's fault.
That's all on us as parents.
But when she told me that uh we had a long conversation the other day, she's okay and we're working with this, we're working this out, but she said, you know, what kind of future am I gonna have when I gotta borrow gas money from you and she works, she goes to college, she expects to pay for her own college.
I mean she's not the same kind of kid that uh expects their college to just be paid for and get handed, even though she's struggling.
I just wanted the viewers, Democrat, Republican, whoever's listening to hear that that this isn't just affected.
She's looking at this through her nineteen year old eyes.
She can't see that it can't be.
Listen, it it's gonna be up to our parents because our kids are who we're uh I have a a daughter of similar age, and my son is now out on his own, and believe me, my son has discovered uh how much money he pays in taxes, and he's like, Dad, you can you believe this?
And he's like, and I'm like, Really?
Do you have any idea what I do for a living?
Do you they you know, my kids one thing I never did is I never really brought my my job home.
I never brought politics deeply into their lives.
I point things out to them, but I was I mean I wasn't going to indoctrinate them into the way I think.
Turns out they think the right way on their own.
Um and but my son in particular is like, I can't believe this.
You gotta pay this fee, that fee to do this one thing, and then they tax you.
It's like, you know, he's going off on me.
I said, You like would you like to fill in on my show one day?
Okay, very funny, Dud.
Very funny.
You know I'm not gonna do that.
Um but that that's called the reality check.
What I'm finding, and I am finding more people that I know and love in different industries and places that I that I go to, restaurants that I go to, places that I I'm uh a customer, where they're really struggling.
I hear these stories.
It breaks my heart.
People have put their their entire life savings, they've worked their guts out, they're doing well, and now this is impacting people in businesses like you can't even imagine.
And now we're gonna have to navigate through these waters, not knowing how bad it's gonna get.
And and people are I think are in for some real economic hard times in shock.
Look at people on a fixed income.
Look at the poor and the middle class, and and blue let's let's go with the low estimate of Bloomberg that the average American household is paying a fifty-two hundred dollar a year Biden inflation tax.
These are people that you know were gulping water already and juggling to you know make ends meet before all of this.
Uh I I'm I'm just shut and then okay, they they maybe had uh one one day a month, two days a month that they can go out to eat.
They're down to none.
That now impacts the restaurant business.
You know, maybe maybe they used to buy you know steak, uh, maybe they're buying chopp meat now.
Maybe they're buying that they used to get 90% um lean and and 10% fat.
Now they're buying 80% fat.
Um I'm sorry, 80% lean just to save that little extra money.
Um it's these are it's these times are going to get tougher.
Here's something else that's gonna happen.
New housing starts are going to plummet dramatically.
Home prices, everyone's enjoyed the the inflated cost of their homes, and a lot of people, by the way, they they made a lot of money selling their homes.
Good for them.
I hope they invest it wisely.
I don't trust the stock market.
What was the stock market down at one point, I think over down 1200 today, scared the crap out of me.
And now for people on fixed income, what about first-time home buyers?
How are they going to get in the market when interest rates get to seven percent?
Because now you're talking about thousands more per month that you have to pay just in interest.
So it is it's it's it's it's gonna hurt us all.
And and the thing is there's no end in sight here because they're not gonna change the policies, the bad policies that they've adopted.
They're locking into them more deeply.
They're dumb the doubling and tripling down on stupid.
The single best thing they could do for inflation is is go back to energy independence.
They won't do it.
And they won't, but with one by one last thing, if you don't mind.
Um I don't, you know, it you it used to be that that you know, parents could talk to their kids, you know, about uh mental health, because she has struggled, which is not the government's fault.
That's genetics or whatever, what have you.
But now I'm having a lot of people.
Does she have anxiety issues, depression issues?
What does she have?
Lots of anxiety and and uh yes, some suicidal uh uh tendencies.
Uh all uh pandemic spawned a lot of it, uh you know, didn't get to finish high school, didn't I did finish high school, but not in school.
But there's a lot of issues on top of that.
You know, and I'm not blaming any.
I'm the parent.
I mean, it's it's that that rests on my shoulders.
I mean, we raised her, I just like you said about your kids, yeah, you know, with conservative values, but you don't drill it into them.
They just see how you live.
And and they understand those principles.
And but now I'm having to indoctrinate the the the government issues, like it's okay.
We we get we can I mean the people can change this, hopefully.
I mean, I can't understand what I'm saying.
Let me Let me give you some unsolicited advice.
Yeah.
Um, and I know you you you're doing this, but just to reinforce perhaps what you already know.
Whenever somebody gets to that point, I always take it very seriously.
Absolutely.
And you've got to take it seriously.
And you know, maybe it's I what kind of work are you in, Vincent?
What do you do?
I'm a truck driver.
And uh what about now?
What about bringing your son out on the road with you?
What about sending them to trucking school?
What about the two of you, you know, working together?
By the way, there's more more women driving trucks now than ever before.
Absolutely.
Every color is out here, every mix, every race, every every gender.
I would just find the time, and it's very hard when you're an over the road guy to do that.
Uh if there's anything we could ever do to help you, let us know.
If if it's serious and you can't afford maybe a mental health professional, uh, I know people that will give their time to talk to her.
All right.
So we'll we'll work on, you know, if you need a number, we'll get your number, and you can get in contact with us.
Uh and and hopefully we can, you know, help her get over this hump, this this obstacle in her life and and become the the great creative force that God made her to be.
Absolutely.
Thank you, Sean.
All right, man.
Thank you.
God bless you.
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Uh Chris is in Illinois.
Chris, how are you?
Mr. Handy, how are you, sir?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Oh, not a whole lot.
I am a third generation farmer um here in Illinois, and I just wanted to call and talk to you about how you uh you and Donald Jump Jr. and then your last caller was talking about how how bad inflation really is.
The government has turned back the natural gas production.
And due to the natural gas production loss, we get our inhydrous, which is a byproduct of the natural gas.
And with inhydrus going through the roof, that is a main fertilizer that we use to grow corn.
And our crops have been hurting because of high fuel prices, which was start, you know, a couple years ago is two dollars a gallon.
Now it's five sixty-five a gallon in the state of Illinois, and I also own a trucking company, and it's been very difficult.
And the question I have is when is uh when is enough gonna be enough to the government uh where people are gonna stand up and p and get the the Democrats and the Republicans off of our necks so we can start to survive again.
There's only one it's only gonna happen if we win the midterms.
We have to get at least one, the House or the Senate.
Hopefully we get both, and the single most important presidential election, I think in our lifetime will be 2024.
I couldn't agree more.
But we've you know, we've been at this turning point, and there's been certain regulations that um the the FMCA now wants to put a speedometer, put a rev limiter on our semis to where we can only drive sixty-five mile an hour.
So several years ago they enacted the electronic logbook to where we can only work eleven hours a day.
They want to turn that back to ten.
Now they we can drive we used to be able to drive seventy-five, now they want to back us down to sixty-five, which is gonna make more supply chain is gonna make the supply chain even har harder to to keep moving.
Um the problem that is not happening is these regulations are getting enacted, but they're not getting removed.
When when can that happen?
You know, I I will tell you the most important thing is gonna be the elections.
I'd love to be able to tell you what this whole climate alarmist religious cult is real.
It's a cult.
There's these new Green Deal Democrats are real, they're radical socialist.
What's interesting from a historical perspective is if to me anyway, fascinating to me, is Democrats really have always thought this way, but they never said it publicly.
They they always kind of hid their their true feelings because they knew it was on they'd be unelectable.
So now that they've it's out in the open, now that they've been pushing for it, now that they've just they failed on every single solitary front on a spectacular level, you know, the door is wide open for A Republican party that has strength and vision and that will go back to the policies that work.
I won't list them now because I list them often.
Anyway, I hope that answers your question.
It's not maybe not the answer you wanted.
I would I wish there was a magic pill.
There isn't.
It's called an election.
That's why you need election integrity measures in every state.
I've been saying that since 2021.
Uh anyway, Lynn is in Arizona.
Hey Lynn, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, how are you?
I'm good.
Thank you for checking in.
What's going on?
I've been listening to your show for years, and I've never called, but um, I really, really appreciate your call screener, first of all.
Second of all, your first caller was speaking about his daughter, and he got repeatedly saying that it wasn't the government spot and he was taking responsibility as a parent.
I kind of feel like it is.
If the world was moving the way it should be, it sort of may not be as as sad and depressed.
It wouldn't things wouldn't be so difficult if it was a better outlook.
So he needs to take some of that burden off of just him as a parent and and give credit where credit is due.
But I was really calling to comment on this disinformation thing.
I feel like it could be trouble for you in the future.
Most people are not looking at the whole big picture.
I feel like the Democrats are actually playing chess with this one.
Like they're looking ahead in the future if they're going to say that certain things that we disagree with them and it goes on Twitter and it you talk about it on the radio.
If it's disinformation, then all of a sudden there's going to be a problem.
It's just another way to be able to control Twitter again.
Because if a lot of these people are uh allowed to be on Twitter and they're allowed to say things that you know that they want to say, and like the whole um that top thing that came out on Twitter, they can just shut that down.
They can start penalizing the um the um the platform.
They can start penalizing your platform as a radio show when you're looking very smart.
This has been a goal of the left for the longest time, and that's to silence talk radio, silence Fox News, you know, own all these big tech pet tech platforms.
It's fascinating.
All of a sudden they're worried that wow, politicians may get banned.
I'm like, what world have you people been living in?
They did that already.
They don't live in my world where every single word I say for four hours a day on air is recorded and distorted and cropped and edited in the hopes that they can get me fired, uh start a boycott, silence me, cancel me.
I've never I've never my whole career it 35 years since I started this journey.
I've never one time ever called for somebody to be canceled, some show to be canceled, some post to be hop-fired, or for some boycott, which is just a roundabout way of trying to silence somebody.
Never and and I never will.
And I'll tell you why.
Because I believe in freedom, and that is the essence of freedom of speech.
I can't force people to watch.
I can't force you to listen.
I can only do the best show I can do and entice you to listen and watch.
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