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You know, there's such a difference with what happens in liberal states.
What is going on in liberal America and what is going on in conservative states?
And the difference of it's like night and day.
We'll get into this in more detail later, but you know, Whole Foods, 13 months ago, open up their largest store in San Francisco, and now they have to close it 13 months earlier because of the crime and the increased drug use and the fact they cannot, they cannot keep their employees safe.
I mean, okay, this you're chasing away Target, you're chasing away Walmart.
You know, by the way, those are stores that people like to go to because you save money.
When I had no money in my early adult years, I I bought furniture for crying out loud at Walmart.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
And, you know, Costco's all these great stores.
Now now people will have fewer options.
You know, it's in New York that they can't even get a budget together because of the absolute adherence to this insanity of no bail laws.
And instead of giving, they have they legalize weed, which is I can't I'm not a drug person, whatever, but they're not giving any of the licenses.
They're giving them to felons instead of to veterans.
How do you make how do you make this stuff up?
And why would you pick like the Democrats have?
Why would you pick the city of Chicago?
Linda, we're gonna be stuck going in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention.
If I even bother going, I mean, it's not like I'm gonna you know what it's like in this divided time.
I mean, you know how much security I'll need just to walk through any public area, it's gonna be insane.
That is gonna be insane.
I'll just bring sensei.
He can take care of any people at once.
You need like 10 sense to walk through Chicago.
Well, we got our we got the best, and you know, we'll take the whole dojo with us.
They'd love to go.
They'd have fun.
They absolutely would.
There was an article in Breitbart that I saw, a prominent evangelist, Reverend Franklin Graham, a wonderful man.
Uh also I can say is a friend of mine, I spoke to him maybe in the last two weeks, uh, blasting an Oregon law that excludes Christians from adopting children on the basis of woke gender theory.
Can you believe that?
I think you're really sick.
Yeah, me too.
Oregon's Department of Human Services ruled that uh prospective adopting parents must respect, accept, and support the race, the spiritual beliefs, the sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disabilities, national origin, cultural identities, immigration status, socioeconomic status of a child or younger adult uh in the care or the custody of the department.
Wow.
You you're not allowed to instill in your children what your what your faith happens to be, regardless of what it happens to be.
Uh and get this.
You know, I've been saying all the time, not only are we not teaching our kids reading, writing, math, science, you know, arithmetic and computers.
No.
We're just indoctrinating them.
California mom.
Where did I see this article?
I forget where I found it.
Uh Uncle James gave it to me.
Anyway, California mom is outraged after her daughter's school district, upheld a parental secrecy policy allowing school officials to offer gender counseling without informing parents.
An 11-year-old kid changed genders without the parents' knowledge.
And apparently says an elementary school teacher helped the daughter transition under a parental secrecy policy.
So I guess parents are nothing but potted plants at this point in our lives.
They have no say, and schools think that it's okay that they can contradict the values the parents may want to instill in their children.
Maybe they have a belief in in God, a belief in creation.
Maybe they're maybe I don't know, maybe they practice the Christian faith, the Jewish faith, maybe they're Islamic.
What it doesn't matter.
It's not The role of teachers that are failing our kids on the educational front to take on the issue of bypassing the values that parents want to instill in their children.
And these people are so arrogant they think they have the right to do it.
And that's no wonder why you have tiger moms like Linda out there furious, now being investigated, not Linda, but you know, as domestic terrorists because they dare to speak out at school board meetings.
You can't make this up.
It is so bad.
I've never been, you know, I do all this research all day, getting ready for the program.
I have never been more afraid for the future of our country than I am right now.
And I'm and I'm more concerned about the prospects of getting the country back on track.
We have we have a couple of big problems in terms of elections moving forward for a Republican in the modern election era, meaning post-Reagan, for example, post-George Herbert Walker Bush.
You know, is it has always been you have to win Florida, Ohio, but we never had to fight.
Now we can win those states easily.
Then you would have to win Georgia.
That used to be easy.
It's not easy now.
North Carolina, you better pay a lot of attention if you want to win that state.
And then, of course, Pennsylvania's always been a hard state for Republicans to win.
Same with Wisconsin.
We saw the Supreme Court election last week.
Then the same with Michigan.
Same with Arizona now.
It's a difficult state for Republicans to win.
Too many Californians have moved there, and they're ruining that state.
You know, if you're going to move, and there are three big problems here.
Number one is what I call accelerated migration.
So all these swing states, high-tax states like New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin, they're all moving, getting away from high taxes, burdensome regulation.
They've got sick and tired of draconian shutdowns.
Many now baby boomers are retiring, and they're saying they've had enough of all this and the cold weather, and so they're moving.
Now Florida is taking in nearly a thousand new residents a day, a little shy of a thousand residents a day.
New people moving to Florida.
That is a dramatic amount.
Texas is not far behind them.
I've told you the story that if you take a U-Haul from California to Texas, you're going to pay anywhere between two and three thousand bucks, depending on the size.
But if you take that same U-Hole from Texas back to California, you are doing you haul a favor.
You can get it for three or four hundred bucks because they want the truck back there so they can get the higher price, sending it from California back to Texas or another state.
So you have a mass migration that is now accelerated, and people are leaving high-tax states, and most of the people that are leaving are tending to be more conservative Republican.
They're moving to free states like Texas, Florida is number one, Texas, number two.
Then they're moving to North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee.
They're just getting the hell out of these big states.
What does that mean for the election?
Well, that means that this accelerated migration coupled with baby boomers retiring is now resulting in fewer Republican votes in swing states.
That's not good.
That means as hard as it was to win Pennsylvania before, it's even going to be harder.
As hard as it was to win Wisconsin before, it's going to be harder.
And the same with Michigan and all the Californians leaving that state.
They have a net loss of nearly, you know, a person a day leaving California.
They've had it had it with the state so much.
And some of them are moving to states like Nevada, states like Arizona, and then others are moving to Texas.
But I mean, this is a serious problem.
Now, also add to that, Republicans, this reluctance and resistance.
It doesn't exist in Florida.
And every Republican, every conservative, you better start embracing early voting and mail-in voting because that's what the Democrats are doing.
You better embrace it.
And you've got to understand there's something called legal ballot harvesting, and the Democrats, they have long gotten out of the business of running traditional campaigns, and we just don't know it yet.
That's why people like Joe Biden, John Fetterman, Katie Hobbs can hide in the basement.
They run hundreds of hundreds of thousands of dollars in negative ads against their opponents, lie about them.
Republicans are racist, sexist, uh, xenophobic, homophobic, islamophobic, transphobic, they want dirty air and water, and they want to kill grandma and grandpa.
So they'll run those ads, and then they'll hide.
They'll try not to debate.
If they do debate, they'll wait to the very last minute after you know a million votes have been cast, and and and hope that early voting which favors them because they're involved in ballot harvesting.
Republicans better start matching the ballot harvesting efforts that is legal in these states, follow the law and match them and surpass the efforts of the that the Democrats are involved in.
You cannot start out election day down 100,000, 250,000, 500,000 or a million votes down and expect to make it all up on election day.
God forbid the weather's bad that day.
Ronna McDaniel, you know, I've had I had a conversation with her about this.
I had a conversation with Rhein's Previs about it.
Republicans better do whatever it takes moving forward to make sure they match, hopefully even surpass the efforts in terms of elections because Democrats are not kissing babies, they're not taking selfies, they're not shaking hands, they're not doing press avails, they're not doing town halls, they're not even doing debates half the time.
All they're doing is running negative ads and ballot harvesting efforts.
That's that's how they are winning elections.
You know, I saw Scott uh Walker blaming voters, young voters for the GOP's loss in in Wisconsin.
Um it's not all of that.
By the way, RFK Jr.'s challenging Biden for the 2024 election.
On the other side, there is some good news.
Joe Biden likes to pretend he comes from, you know, uh Scranton, Pennsylvania.
He's made up one story after another how his ancestors used to work in the coal mines, likes to talk about you know his homespun wisdom of his father uh that he would share while sitting around the kitchen table in Scranton.
Actually, Biden's father was doing quite well when Joe was born in 1942.
In 1946, Biden Sr. moved the family from Scranton to Garden City, Long Island, not that far from where I grew up in Franklin Square, which is one of the wealthiest areas in Long Island, meaning Garden City, not Franklin Square, I can promise you.
Anyway, that was in 1946, but more Pennsylvania voters want former president Donald Trump or Florida Republican Ron DeSantis to run than Joe Biden.
Democrats don't want Joe Biden running.
So it's um this is getting really, really dangerous.
You know, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, and I know some of you are not gonna like this.
I'm not talking about abortion from a perspective of morality when I say this here.
They said the left wing wins in the Midwest elections.
They're talking about Chicago, and they're talking about Wisconsin.
The GOP's decline in the suburbs is a warning for 2024.
And the Wisconsin Supreme Court result, another victory for the national left.
They outspent the GOP, made it the most expensive judiciary race in history.
The surprise was the magnitude of the progressive 5545 victory, which continued the GOP's erosion in the Milwaukee suburbs, and a lot of this is on the issue of abortion.
Now, I I am just telling you, abortion is not going to be Democrats will try to make this the biggest election issue possible.
But if Republicans, if they if they want to win these swing states politically, it is suicide.
Look at Doug Mastriano.
Nice guy, met him, no exceptions for rape incest mother's life.
He lost.
Well, Alan Shapiro won the governorship in Pennsylvania by the highest percentage of any non-incumbent since the 1940s.
And it was over, I would argue that one issue.
That hurt the everybody down ticket.
Dr. Oz was able to get double digit ticket switching.
In other words, people that voted for the Democrat for governor switched over to the Republican, but it still wasn't enough.
Because if you when if the governor candidate, gubernatorial candidate, loses by 16, and you only lose by three, uh, there's only so much ground you can make up.
Otherwise he would have been elected.
So I'm telling you that this issue is resonating.
It just it's it's it is what it is politically.
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Never can.
Hey James, if you got a minute.
Can you turn that off?
Thank you.
Anyway, I don't know anything about equipment.
Anyway, so China is now warning, and the two things I'm worried about are the economy and foreign policy, right?
Okay, so I've been telling you about a new axis of evil.
And what's happening is China is now saber rattling at the the worst it's ever been.
Now if you might recall, remember when Putin was building up his troops on the Ukrainian border.
You recall that.
And people say, oh now he has no plans to go in and I'm just thinking like yeah he does he's not sending all those troops there just for the hell of it.
He's planning an invasion.
It's now 13 months old.
Now we see the never ending you know saber rattling that has been going on with China.
And now they're threatening a confrontation with our Navy destroyer that's in you know the Taiwan Strait, South China Sea, etc, etc.
And of course we've been watching them saber rattling and flying their their jets, their fighter jets over Taiwan airspace and lecturing America about whether we have the right to meet with our ally Taiwan then you got this idiot McCron going over there saying they do nothing to help us if in fact China decides to invade Taiwan because they they're absolutely useless just like the rest of Europe has been useless when it comes to you know defending
Ukraine this is you know in their backyard not our backyard and I have two conditions if America is going to offer any more money or any more help at any point in time and that is Joe Biden must demand that Europe pay their fair share.
And unless and until they do there's no point the other the other thing that that Joe Biden needs to do is to insist that they take the handcuffs off and allow Poland for example wanted to offer the Ukrainians 30 MIGs and it didn't it he didn't do it.
Joe said no he vetoed it.
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So we're watching China lecturing oh you can't Kevin McCarthy, our speaker, can't meet with our ally, the president of Taiwan in California, just like they are lecturing American politicians about they better not show up in Taiwan, threatening even at that point, Speaker of the House Pelosi.
You know, now we have China warning that its carrier killer missiles are going to wipe out any U.S. naval force sent to defend Taiwan.
And while the Biden administration has been cutting America's defense budget, China, they have been building up their defenses for decades.
This isn't about Taiwan.
They can take Taiwan in mere minutes, probably.
This is not going to be a Putin Ukraine situation.
China is now warning, quote, carrier killer missiles will strike down U.S. forces before they can even come to the aid of Taiwan.
So clearly this is now inevitable.
China's fiercely nationalistic Global Times newspaper reports that the People's Liberation Army is 100% prepared for any foreign interference in the Taiwan question, whether it's military intervention, economic sanctions, or an attempt at political isolation by the United States.
The paper boasted that China is, you know, their hypersonic missiles will strike down any U.S. forces before they can even see the island of Taiwan.
Now China's built up a massive arsenal of hypersonic missiles aimed at neutralizing the power of our Navy.
And they seem to be ahead of us militarily.
And Joe Biden, I don't, he does not have the capability to instill enough fear in them that there will be consequences.
And so when you put the whole picture together, and that's China now aligning with Russia, they had the summit.
That is China now aligning, you know, even neutralizing France with Macron.
China now aligning with Iran and Russia.
China brokering deals between the Saudis and the Iranians, and now the Saudis and the Syrians.
Now we're reading that the Egyptians today, they're they're they're apparently offering arms to Vladimir Putin.
So you have two countries that under Donald Trump were aligned with us.
Because we had an we had an alliance of the U.S., Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates aligned together.
Something I didn't think I'd see in our lifetime.
Well, now, watching that the U.S. president is weak, frail, and a cognitive mess and has abdicated his role as the leader of the free world and abdicated his role as the leader, the America leadership in the world.
Well, guess what?
That void is now being filled very quickly by China.
And their goal is to be the most dominant and only world superpower.
So if your heart's troubled, it should be.
They have built up an arsenal of these hypersonic missiles.
And do I think they mean what they say?
I do.
They can fly a spy balloon over, you know, the continental U.S. and Alaska, no consequences at all.
China declared that its military is now capable of smashing Taiwan.
They're now showing on state-run television exactly how they're able to do it.
The theater's troops are ready to fight at all times to smash any form of Taiwan independence and foreign interference.
So this seems imminent.
That's what it seems like to me.
With Chinese state TV showing chilling Taiwan invasion blitz video, I think that's a pretty good indication of what's coming.
And that China's military is ready to fight, and their drills near Taiwan are a clear indication of what's coming.
And then their fighter jets flying over Taiwan airspace.
That's another clear indication of what's coming.
Anyway, the U.S. Navy has challenged Beijing in the South China Sea amid these Taiwan drills.
You got China-Taiwan aircraft carrier literally sealing off the island on the third day of drills.
U.S. Navy is challenging Beijing in the South China Sea as this is now happening.
But there's not a thing that the U.S. is going to be able to do.
China's military now is, it's very, very clear.
They're simulating hitting key targets on Taiwan.
So that's going to happen.
And you can always count on the French.
Macron wants to avoid getting into a potential conflict between China-Russia over Taiwan.
So, you know, and by the way, this sphere of influence now is far deeper into Latin America and other parts of the world than we knew.
That would include Cuba.
That would include Africa.
President McCron, to go back to him for a minute in an interview, said and emphasized the need for strategic autonomy for Europe from the whims of Washington.
Even Europe wants nothing to do with Joe Biden and the U.S. Even they recognize that the U.S. under Joe Biden is a paper tiger.
McCron arguing Europe should not follow America into a potential war with China.
Fine, if that's Europe's posture, then the U.S. has every justification now to stop funding the war with Ukraine and Russia and let that be a European problem.
McCron's saying the great risk is that Europe gets caught up in a crisis that's not ours.
Guess what?
Your crisis in your backyard, that's not our problem.
So the paradox is okay, we'll just follow your lead, Macron.
That's what the answer needs to be.
Let me tell you something.
They are preparing for war against the U.S. They are preparing to be at a level where they can destroy the United States of America.
But you know, to have Macron meeting with President Chi and snubbing the U.S. on China and Taiwan while America has been bearing the brunt of this European war that we don't need to be involved in this.
Most Americans I know are sick and tired of it.
They don't want any part of this.
You know, this is very and button, and now we have these online leaks of highly classified documents about the Ukrainian war.
Well, that's a risk to our national security.
And senior leaders now are taking steps to mitigate the damage.
I don't, you know, once the genie's out of the bottle, it's out of the bottle.
Because these leaked documents show show Russia and China reaching, you know, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Forgot to mention the Caribbean.
But Biden's out there blaming his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan on Donald Trump and claiming there's a lot to be proud of.
There's 175 Americans that we know of that they're admitting that they abandoned, and many of those are being held hostage.
That's the state of the world in terms of foreign policy.
By the way, just in Alvin Bragg is suing Jim Jordan, who's on uh was on Hannity last night and is going to be on this show at the top of the hour uh to block the alleged interference in the Trump case.
No.
He's doing it.
Why?
Because he's holding a hearing to talk to victims of crime because of his weak on crime policies.
Then you move to the economy.
This is where the United States is now weakening.
It is weakening every day.
Every you can't cite a Biden policy that is successful, be it an economic policy or foreign policy.
You know, domestically, he's had wide open borders, now upwards of a near six million illegal immigrants in the country because of his wide open borders policy.
Then we, of course, abandon and, you know, have rendered our our domestic energy production down to nothing.
That that means we're relying on Venezuela, the Saudis with OPEC and the new alliance with China.
I'm sure China weighed in and said, you know what, why don't you cut back, you know, by a million three barrels of uh of oil a day so the Americans have to pay even more money so that they can help bankrupt us in the process.
And we'll just leave all of our natural resources in the ground, and we won't compete with, you know, we'll lower the we'll lower the world supply of energy, and then we'll play pay inflated rates artificially raised by decreasing production of the Saudis and OPEC and begging countries like Venezuela and helping them get rich again.
And Biden still, according to reports today, is seeking a deal with the Iranians so that we can what?
Import oil to make the mullahs and Iran rich?
And as Biden is pushing his electric cars on average $22,000 more per car?
Who can afford this?
Nobody can.
You know, less Americans are rejecting electric vehicles.
They don't want them.
Some people do.
I know people, for example, that like Tesla.
I'm like, okay, well, if you like it, I'm glad you're happy with your new car.
I personally like the Corvette Z06.
I'd like one with the Z07 package, but I can't find one.
Two of my friends got one.
Or at least they're on the list to get one.
And now your federal government, by the way, just pay attention to the central bank digital currencies are about to be controlled.
This has got to stop.
Because then the federal government will have eyes on every single transaction.
In other words, every transaction you make will be run through the Fed, giving them increased oversight, basically spying into what it is you do each and every day.
And what if hackers or cyber war criminals gain access to the system?
And how's the government going to track the money after that point?
It's never been this bad.
It never has.
And Republicans are way behind in terms of modernizing their election strategies.
You know, they're using a playbook that is outdated by 10 years.
And the Democrats are running rings around them.
And now that we've figured it out, now trying to get them to actually act seems to be task impossible.
Very frustrating.
I don't know.
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Congressman Jim Jordan, we were just talking about this just broke.
Alvin Bragg is suing Jim Jordan to block alleged interference in Trump case.
Uh not quite exactly.
One of the things that we'll deal with later on, John Solomon of JustHnews.com, Greg Jarrett will analyze.
We now have documents, and Josh Hall is accusing Merrick Garland of lying before the Senate over the issue of whether or not they were recruiting in churches, like for example, they have the traditional Catholic church, and apparently they they were.
And that means Garland was not being honest before the committee.
And he's they've also now subpoenaed FBI director Ray.
Remember the the issues in play here.
Has the FBI been politicized?
Is the DOJ weaponized?
So that's what we're looking for.
Anyway, Alvin Bragg sued uh Jim Jordan.
Uh we'll get his first response coming up at the top of the hour.
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We'll get to that.
And uh we'll get to all the other news of the day as well.
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We're gonna use those stories purposefully just to make you happy.