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America trapped behind enemy lines.
Day number 306.
All right, day 306.
Joey said he'd never abandon uh Americans behind enemy lines and the Islamic emirates of Afghanistan.
He sure did.
Uh, but nobody talks about it.
Everybody's turned the page, what it's a year.
Remember Nightline, America held hostage, day 306.
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America held hostage.
What about the Americans that are held hostage there?
Why did we abandon them?
Why do we ever do that?
I mean, it you know if you just go through the list of Joe Biden.
Look, look at look at gas prices today, all because of his commitment to climate religious cult alarmism and new green dealism.
The highest inflation since Jimmy Cardiffer crying out loud that he caused.
You know, the Afghanistan disaster.
Abandoning Americans, abandoning green card holders, people legally eligible to live in this country.
Uh abandoning our Afghan allies.
Joe said 13 days prior to leaving, we'll not abandon our Afghan partners.
He abandoned them.
Many of them were taken out of their homes, never to be seen or heard from again.
Many of them killed on the streets in broad daylight.
The old Taliban is now the new Taliban.
Women can't go to work, little girls can't go to school.
Uh surrendering Bagram Air Force Base.
That we that that was critical.
Geopolitical for our national defense for geopolitical purposes.
We could have had it.
They surrendered it.
You know, the Afghan disaster.
You know, at this point, I mean, I was all for beating Putin, but again, these politicians are all gung-ho.
When they start these wars, in this case, starting support of President Zelensky.
I didn't think Zelensky had a shot.
But you had to give him the help to fight back.
He's a sovereign country.
And he then not only did they prove courage, bravery, valor, a willingness to fight for their own country, but then NATO and Western European countries and America.
No, they never gave Zelensky the weapons to actually win the war.
We don't fight wars to win them anymore.
That was the beauty behind Trump defeating the caliphate.
It's unbelievable.
You know, Joe Biden saying, oh, we will defend Taiwan five minutes later.
No, we won't.
Oh, we got to walk that back, like so many other things.
We're training troops in Poland.
No, we're not.
It's just, it's this is a disaster.
An unmitigated disaster.
Our border?
Now we have the largest migrant caravan ever making its way to our southern border, and we know what the outcome is already going to be.
They're all going to get processed, and then they're going to get a free Biden phone, and then they're going to be released into the country, and the high cost of housing and food and health care and education.
That will fall on the states that can't afford it.
Unbelievable.
Highest violent crime rate in 40 years in these democratic run states and cities.
This is insanity.
War on the police.
How come nobody cares about the 2,000 cops?
Where's that committee investigating all the injured cops in the summer of 2020?
The 574 riots there.
You know, look at the policies.
You know, this here we have Anthony Fauci.
He got his first vaccine shot.
He got a second vaccine shot.
He got his first booster shot, second booster shot.
Now he has COVID.
Same P same person saying if you got the vaccine, you're not going to get COVID.
If you get vaccinated after you get infected, your level of protection will go sky high, and then you won't have to worry about getting infected again.
So now you have people vaccinated, double vaccinated, boostered, double boostered, previous infections.
They're still getting it again.
Then why do we why are we why why are you why are we kicking people out of the military over the issue of vaccinations when fully vaccinated, fully boostered, people with previous infections can still get it again and infect other people?
It means everybody can infect other people.
There's no point anymore.
The science, if you followed it, has changed and changed dramatically, but they don't want to follow the science.
They don't want to look into, they don't encourage therapeutics.
You don't hear a word out of them about their therapeutics.
Do you ever think of them, you know, four-year-olds?
You know, we'll put Rand Paul on in the next hour.
Rand Paul asked a great question of Fauci.
He said, Well, is there any science behind uh this notion that uh you're gonna give boosters to kids to, you know, any evidence scientific?
Nope.
That was Fauci's answer, but they're doing it anyway.
CDC did say boostered people are more prone to get this variant than unboostered people.
Not telling people what to do scientifically.
I'm just telling you what the CDC said.
You know, people say Hannon is giving bad advice.
I'm not giving anybody advice.
Ask your doctor.
That's my advice.
You know, what now do you ever think we'd have food shortages, baby supply shortages, now feminine product shortages?
You ever think that we'd have a 42-year high of inflation?
Everything you buy, every store you go to, everything you send your kid to school and first through third graders.
If you take the position that it's not age appropriate to talk about gender identity issues somehow, that that's the don't say gay bill.
It's not even not even talking about gay.
Just keep kids, you know, we spend all this money on education.
They can't read, write, they're not proficient in reading, writing, math, science, and computers, and we pay more money per child per capita than any other country in the industrialized world with the worst results.
Why don't we focus on the basic things?
You can set up after-school programs that parents can opt their kids in if they have trouble talking about issues involving sexuality with their kids.
You know, then we're we're gonna investigate parents when they speak up against inappropriate or not age appropriate material taught in schools.
No, that we're gonna investigate them as domestic terrorists.
You know, if parents shouldn't be involved in our schools, according to Terry McCulliff, oh, excuse me, but they're not your kids.
That's the parents' job.
Or Joe Biden saying to teachers, they're your kids.
No, they're not their kids.
Their job is to educate them.
Their job is reading, writing, math, science, arithmetic, and then computers.
Let's stick with the basics.
I'd say history, but I don't even know which history they're gonna be teaching at this point.
You know, uh at this, you know, now we have Democrats doxing Supreme Court justices, and the administration is okay with that as long as they're peaceful.
Giving out the addresses of Supreme Court justices and not acting swiftly to provide protection like Nancy Pelosi, you know, took her 30 some odd days to do it to offer the help to these justices, even after one assassination plot was discovered.
Not only targeting the the justices, but their kids, and then Amy Coney Barrett, telling people where their kids go to school, telling people where the family goes to church, what days they go to church.
What are we doing here?
This is you know, Chuck Schumer, you won't know what hit you, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
You have released the whirlwind.
Wow.
Imagine if I said that.
And I wouldn't.
Or gave I start giving out the the names and addresses of politicians I don't like.
I have a long list, but I wouldn't do it because it's dumb and it's dangerous and it's irresponsible, and I don't want people harassing public figures just because you disagree with them.
I couldn't imagine ever going up to a public person that I disagree with and saying anything other than hi, how are you?
And I've been in those situations.
Linda, you've been there with me.
You know, we have to go to the occasion when I used to go out.
I'm a hermit now.
There's a lot of offensive people who don't know how to keep their mouth shut.
Or I say something nice.
Yeah, but why would I be mean to somebody just because I disagree with them?
I'm just it's not my way.
Um, you know, calling the it's it used to be every two years, every four years.
Now it's it was one article out today.
You've we've gotta we've got to scare the hell out of minorities for this election to turn the tide of where things are going.
Why?
Scare them if anything, everybody should be scared at the state of the economy and scared that we have a president that has that cannot function at the level necessary for this job, the hardest job in the world, to keep America standing up in the world, and the entire world sees it.
I mean, when you have fake news CNN, and you have Van Jones and Don Lemon acknowledging Biden's not up to the job physically, mentally.
You know, something I I've been telling you from the beginning, everybody knows it, and there's a reason they wouldn't attack me.
And I had prepared uh, you know, I always prepare for the attack.
I get attacked with her, you know, uh if I open my eyes on any given day.
But it's the evidence is overwhelming.
It's incontrovertible.
It's it's it's we're reminded of his incompetence every day.
You know, this is why Democrats thinking they're gonna run on abortion.
Americans will figure out if Roe is overturned and it goes back to the states.
They're gonna figure out very quickly that abortion is still legal in America, and even some states will allow it up to the moment of birth.
So that's not gonna be the big issue that somehow uh negates the trend, which is a wave election that we're heading into.
And by the way, there are they're against being against the second amendment.
That's not gonna get them there either.
It's just not gonna work.
And it's not gonna work.
January 6th, you know, the first day, you know, they had 20 million people.
Watch.
All the networks combined.
Not really that high.
Three out of four of Donald Trump's State of the Union addresses, which would be comparable because all the networks carry that.
You know, he had over 40 some odd million people.
And way higher, 30 some odd million people in the fourth one.
That was his last one.
You know, the constant division in this country, you know, surrendering our energy independence, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, halting oil and and gas exploration on federal lands.
For what purpose to beg Venezuela, Iran, and the Saudis?
Joe Biden, he claims all he wants, he's not gonna beg the Crown Prince to produce more oil and encourage OPEC nations to produce more oil, but yes, he is.
He's not gonna call, he's going to the nation he called the pariah nation.
He's going to meet with the guy that he says is responsible for the death of Jamal Khashoggi.
And by the way, I I don't think these golfers made a good decision either.
I wouldn't do business with the Saudis.
Even though there has been an improvement.
Mike Pompeii was right.
There's been an alliance of merging against Iranian hegemony and Iranians, you know, attempt to get a nuclear weapon that included the U.S., Israel, the Jordanians, Egyptians, the Saudis, and the Emirates.
That's true.
But, you know, there's still a repressive regime persecuting minorities all over Saudi Arabia.
You know, now we've weakened our military on top of all of this.
You know, now fentanyl can get into this country easy.
You know, now we're gonna have a war on the First Amendment and the second amendment.
And the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
The entire Bill of Rights for crying out loud.
Doing everything they can do.
Oh, no voter ID.
We don't want integrity in our elections.
Voter ID.
Why don't you want voter ID?
You need it for everything else we buy and everything else we do in life.
Need your vaccination card.
They're all in favor of that.
Doing everything possible.
What to remove integrity and in elections so we don't have confidence in results and people get upset about it.
Using the government power, the deep state to go after other fellow Americans, which we've exposed.
These are not good times.
I have economic news today.
None of you are gonna like.
I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but I hope it motivates you because we have we have to win two elections to save this country now.
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Only 16 American percent of Americans are happy with the direction of the country.
How could they be happy with it?
What do they have to be happy about?
You know, Joe Biden inherited inflation at 1.4%.
Now wait.
The highest in 412 years, whatever it is.
Gas prices, 239.
Now it's over $5 on average.
You know, why would he give Putin a uh waiver on Nord Stream 2?
Can anyone answer that?
Does that make sense while simultaneously canceling Keystone?
You know, wasn't it Joe Biden who made the the big promise, I'll shut down the virus, and then runs out of tests over Christmas and entering year three of the virus?
Are you kidding me?
Never pursues therapeutics like monoclonals.
Add to that the supply chain crisis.
Oh, we'll fix that in a 90-day sprint, he said.
Yeah, so so much for that.
We won't abandon Americans in Afghanistan.
Oh, we abandon them.
You know, the DOJ memo release saying the FBI is to mobilize against parents opposing critical race theory in public schools, citing the threats, domestic terrorism, the border disaster.
Do I need to even go into detail?
Kids in cages, you know, process release, no COVID tests in the middle of a pandemic, no vaccine mandates for them.
Now we find out free phones and free transportation, helping, aiding and abetting and lawbreaking.
Whoever thought we'd have a baby formula shortage.
I mean, when you stand back, well, I didn't like Donald Trump's style.
Okay, you didn't like his tweeting.
All right, that's a fair criticism.
You didn't like his stuff.
Did you like his policies?
Uh did you do a lot better under Donald Trump than Joe Biden?
Conservative prop principles always work.
That's a point we make often on this program.
Shut down the virus, you know, supply chain crisis, 90 days sprint.
I will not make vaccines mandatory.
He makes them mandatory.
I'll protect you and your family and defend the nation from threats, seen and unseen.
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Linda, have you noticed that these January 6th committee hearings don't care at all that Donald Trump uh, in fact, authorized up to 20,000 troops on the 4th of January, and we have four of the five people in the room at the time that affirm have affirmed that on this show and on TV.
And the fifth person, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, uh, people around him.
I uh have to me personally have confirmed that they that he spoke about safety prior to January 6th with the president.
That would be five out of five.
It's all pretty shocking to be honest with you.
I mean, even the interview you did yesterday with you know, Benny Thompson and all the rest of them up there.
I mean, they they're making False accusations left and right, and they're getting misproven.
They're having people come forward with evidence to the contrary of literally everything they're saying, and they're just not putting it out there.
I mean, there's they're essentially paying the MSM to lie.
It's it's awful.
I've never seen anything like that.
I think it's a pre re predetermined outcome.
Um we now have John Solomon breaking more news that the Capitol police received alerts from both the U.S. Homeland Security and DC authorities about the potential for violence at the Capitol more than two weeks before the riots.
You add that's 14 days advanced notice.
You know, now we know, remember, after the threat assessment, uh the first opportunity that the Capitol police had, the police chief had to call in troops.
He said no, but then there was a new assessment that came down that said, uh oh.
And then Chuck Schumer's office specifically was handed a threat assessment with the exact language of what they were planning, and they paid no attention to it.
So, you know, where is where is the desire to prevent this from ever happening again?
I mean, am I the only one?
It's unbelievable.
It's actually really depressing because I think the bottom line that we have is, you know, on that day, we talked about the fact that things got really out of hand and and they were frightening and it was an inappropriate and terrible way and a miscarriage of justice the way that things occurred.
But I think there is, in my opinion, there is a surge of animalistic behavior all over this country of people treating one another in the most despicable ways I have ever seen in my entire life.
Whether it's saying that in a non nonpartisan way, people are No, I'm saying across the board.
I mean, just you know, a Republican to Republican.
I mean, you go back to the Dr. Oz moment, and I just remember thinking to myself, like, whether you're former Cormac or Bartos or Oz, it really doesn't matter.
We have to support who wins so that we can whoever wins.
The election is just a lot of people.
This is the thing about groups like uh Club for Growth.
I mean, now they just want to go in and go against anybody that Donald Trump supported.
Okay, well, those never Trumpers.
I'm just trying to understand their logic.
Okay, maybe you don't like Trump's style.
Do you like his policies?
Now, now that you got your way and Trump's out.
Well, this is now just a sideshow.
Because if if they don't care about preventing it from ever happening again and bringing in the speaker and Chuck Schumer and Muriel Bowser and the sergeant of arms in the House and the Senate, okay, and you know, all these people and ask, well, why didn't you you you were warned?
Why didn't you take the troops that were authorized?
Muro Bowser in writing said she didn't want the troops.
You know, and I'm just looking at all this and I'm thinking, and and by the way, when nobody lifts a finger.
Nobody cares about, you know, thousands of cops were injured.
They were being pelted with bricks and rocks and bottles and frozen water bottles and Molotov cocktails.
Over 2,000 injured cops.
Where's that committee?
The committee, we lost dozens of Americans that day uh throughout that summer.
We lost had billions in property damage that summer.
And and not a word.
All right, so all the never Trumpers, I'm I I hope they're happy with the state of the economy.
I hope they're happy with inflation.
I hope they're happy with the borders.
I hope they're happy with the high price of gasoline.
Um I I I would assume I guess they're happy that we ran out of COVID tests over Christmas, or the supply chain crisis, or giving waivers to for natural gas to Putin or Afghanistan, the withdrawal disaster that was there, or you know, the labeling of of parents at friggin' school board meetings.
By the way, you would be one of the first parents to God help you when Tiger Mom shows up at a school board meeting.
I feel sorry for the school.
Oh, listen, I've been to all of them, every single one.
I am I am there, I am speaking, I am present, and I am engaged and involved, and that is exactly what the left doesn't want.
They don't want you in the no, they want you in the I don't care, distracted.
And I think that's a big part of what we've got going on here.
You know, whether we're talking about energy, smash and grab, attacks on the streets, attacks in our subways, and public transportation.
I mean, I saw something the other night here.
I just saw a video of this.
Anthony and I were looking at it, and it was a guy pumping his gas, and he's just standing there pumping his gas, not doing anything.
And four guys surrounds his car, come up, beat the ever loving you know what out of him, and drive away with his car.
No accountability.
No police, no nothing.
Well, you take 900 bucks worth of stuff, you're not even getting a ticket.
Exactly.
It's just it's an entire radical socialism and climate alarmist religious cultism and new green dealism and Biden who doesn't know what day it is, um, and weak and frail.
With by the way, I I have a list of all his broken promises.
No one making under 400,000 will have the taxes raised.
You know who's got the biggest tax increase because of his inflation policies and energy policies?
The poor, the middle class, people on fixed income.
You know, you'll see Biden said you'll actually see your standard of living go up and your costs go down.
He said that in October 2020.
I'll fix the supply chain crisis in 90 days.
He said that on October 13th.
Uh, he said, I'll shut down the virus.
Uh, yeah, uh, okay, the viruses ain't shut down.
I will make vac I will not make vaccines mandatory.
Oh, we know what happened there.
The mask mandate will be lifted in a hundred days, won't last forever.
Well, sorry, he extended it forever, pretty much.
I, you know, I promise I will protect you and your family and defend our nation from threats seen and unseen.
Okay.
Uh, primarily under Biden's leadership.
Uh 12 major cities hit all-time record highs homicide rates.
And by the way, most democratic run cities and democratic states that have been run by Democrats for decades.
I'll visit the border at some point.
Not yet.
I'll get the opioid crisis under control.
It's never been worse.
You deserve a president and vice president and will spend every minute of every day working to make your life better.
Are you kidding?
He's on vacation half the time.
He's a there's a lid on his presidency.
He has one public event on average a day.
Unbelievable.
I will unify the country.
Yeah, you're doing a great job unifying.
I'll defeat the lies.
Always tell the truth.
Really?
Okay.
Like you when you sit lied about, let's see, driving tractor trailers.
The Afghan withdrawal will be conducted orderly and safely.
We'll get it, we'll take care of all of our allies.
We'll get every American out.
That didn't happen.
Never mind the block, you know, the blunders and the lies and everything in between.
I mean, it's I don't know.
It's the only thing that is coming out of this that is any good is America now sees what radical new green dealism and socialism is.
And if America makes the choice that they want to go down this road, then I can't help the country.
Because I think most people see what we see.
16% of Americans, that's it, satisfied with the direction of the country.
I who are the 16% satisfied.
I'm very curious who's doing this polling because they definitely haven't called.
And everyone's never been called.
I've never been called.
I they wouldn't be able to get off the phone.
I'd be like, okay, and on this topic, let me tell you.
All right, get a coffee, sit down.
First of all, first of all, this is going to take a little while, so get cozy.
It's about to get real.
I mean, I I'm so frustrated, honestly.
And and I was saying this, you know, to a friend.
It's very difficult to talk to people who do not agree with you because they can't stop screaming and yelling because they have actually nothing to back up the claims that they make.
And that to me is the biggest problem.
Like I would love for you to change my mind and tell me how great everything is.
But they can't because it's they can't cite a single thing.
All right, let me get back to the news.
Uh oh, the one of the leading anti-Semites in Congress, Congresswoman Omar.
Israel is hypnotize the world.
May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel's.
It's all about the Benjamins.
Oh, one of the few people that's supporting Biden for 2024.
She made her endorsement.
Uh there were 50 Democratic con uh senators contacted.
Will they support Biden in 2024?
Only five responded.
You know, we have a record high, 50% of Americans rate our moral values as poor.
Um, you know, and then Biden, I don't know if you saw the whole.
Did you see the disaster from yesterday's Event.
Advancing equality for liberation gay.
Oh, excuse me, for lesbian gay.
And then he goes on to say, I don't have to tell you about the ultra MAGA agenda, attacking families and freedoms in Florida, going after Mickey Mouse.
Mickey Mouse, for God's sake.
I mean, that's not what happened.
LGB.
All right, let me play it.
Listen.
No one knows better than the people in this room.
We have a lot more work to do.
A lot more work to do.
I don't have to tell you about the ultra magenda attacking families and our freedoms.
300 discriminatory bills introduced in states across this country.
In Texas, knocking on front doors to harass and investigate parents who are raising transgender children.
in florida going after mickey mouse for god's sake that strength goes to home No, but think about this.
All of you in this room know better than anyone that these attacks are real and consequential for real families.
For real families.
And then he said, the LGBTQL.
Excuse me.
Plus Americans.
It's like unreal.
You can't even make this stuff up.
But the networks are silent on Hunter Biden's laptop, a whopping 298 seconds of coverage since March.
So bad.
By the way, this might end up being a good thing.
Russia is now slashing the flow of natural gas to Europe.
Good.
Maybe we can now fill the gap.
Why don't we make America rich again and frack away and get our our natural gas over to our European allies or NATO allies so they don't have to rely on Russia and help give Putin a billion dollars of money a day.
It's unbelievable.
That's exactly what we're doing.
You know, but look, the the volume Joe is lying.
There's a reality check in the New York Post today.
Biden boasting he put America in a position to tackle the worldwide problem that's worse everywhere, but here, inflation.
It was 1.4%.
It's now 8.6%.
By the way, South Korea, it's only 5.4%.
It's only 5.1% in Australia.
It's even lower in Canada, and it's lower in Great Britain.
Biden claiming President Putin, you know, blaming him for the gas prices.
Now he's blaming the oil companies for the gas companies for the gas prices.
It's unbelievable.
And by the way, one of the reasons we're having problems is in large part, you say they're calling on gas companies, oil companies to be patriots, because they don't have the refining capacity.
We've known this, we've been talking about this for decades.
Because environmentalists fight against building new refineries.
So we have the old, outdated refineries that are not keeping up with the demand for refineries.
You'd think we would have built new ones, or we would be building them.
But no, we'd rather beg Venezuela and Russia and OPEC and the Saudis.
I can't wait to see him kissing the ass of the Crown Prince.
He's lying if he says he's not going to do it.
You know, Federal Reserve analysts estimating Biden's, you know, handouts added 3% to the inflation rate, but he says, no, I'm mad.
Anyone that says my spending caused this, these are reckless lies.
Uh no.
Sorry.
Even Federal Reserve analyst Joe say you're wrong in lying.
You know, the AFL CIO wants to fight inflation by offering new subsidies in child care.
Okay, the reality is the White House press office corrected the official transcript, adding a year after the word month, because he said he would do it in a month.
I mean, everything this guy does now has to be corrected.
They have to come in and clean up every mess that he makes.
It's unreal.
Accusing oil companies of making excessive profits.
The reality is Biden's policies are what disrupted the energy markets.
American Petroleum Institute issued a list of 10 steps that Biden could do and take to reduce the supply disruptions, including ending obstruction on permitting natural gas products, lifting development restrictions on federal lands and waters, bringing back Anwar uh as a possibility, and then uh, you know, bringing back the Trump policies, basically.
He's not going to do that either.
So just shift the blame.
Now it's now instead of Putin, we're going to blame the oil companies.
Like we'll blame uh the meat companies, and we'll blame the poultry companies, and we'll we'll we'll just blame business in general for everything.
What are people supposed to do?
So the Pariah Nation that he called it, Saudi Arabia, and the guy that he said killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he's gonna go meet with why do you think he's going to meet with that guy?
To beg for oil.
Frustrating part is we have all the resources here.
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All right, a lot coming up.
Senator Rand Paul will uh join us.
He's challenging Dr. Fauci.
You also, remember we used to have the penny plan.
He's got a six penny plan on how we could balance the budget in five years.
I support it.
I think it's a great idea.
We'll get to that.
Congresswoman Bobert of Colorado being accused of having two abortions and basically being on a website.
What was what is the term you use for that?
An escort um vigorously denying it, now threatening a lawsuit against this same group that apparently that went after Madison Cawthorne.
We'll find out what's going on from her and much much more.
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