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Democrat Kickbacks - February 11th, Hour 3
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Well, the continued meltdown freak out of the radical left continues.
Um I played you earlier in the program, some, you know, left-wing Washington, DC, you know, swamp creatures, and and they're freaking out over Elon Musk and Doge and how extreme and radicalized this entire party has become.
There are a few admonitions on the outside, but they're voices that are not being listened to.
I mentioned Carvol and Axel Rod and Rama Manuel saying, you know, don't die on this USAID hill because it's a bad hill to die on, because once Americans discover where all this money has been spent, they're gonna get angrier and angrier.
And this is only the beginning.
And if you want to die on the men playing women's sports, that that's not gonna fly with the American people either.
Like free, you know, taxpayer-funded sex change operations.
That's not gonna work either for illegal immigrants or convicts.
Uh, and it's definitely not gonna work.
Americans in larger and larger numbers support the president's deportation plan and plan to secure the border.
Anyway, you have this Tennessee preacher suggesting that violence can be justified against Elon Musk over these doge cuts.
Listen.
And in this nation, I'm worried that we are on the verge of bloodshed.
Uh, this is a a an attempt to take us back to a day that we do not want to go and we will not go.
Therefore, there will be conflict.
I pray that the peace of God will win out and overcome the madness that is attempting to take over this nation.
And I will say to you, beloved, no one likes violence.
But sometimes violence is necessary.
When Elon Musk forces his way into the United States treasury and threatens to steal your personal information and your social security check, there is a possibility of violence.
Sometimes the devil will act so ugly that you have no other choice but to get violent and fight.
Well, someone might say now, Reverend, you you you you know you you shouldn't be talking about violence.
This isn't the Christian thing to do.
Well, I will say, why not talk this way?
Because Jesus did.
Jesus said in this king, this key verse, didn't it?
The kingdom of heaven suffers what?
Violence.
And the who?
The violent take It by force.
The kingdom of God is a war zone.
It is a battlefield.
You did know this, right?
Maybe you didn't ever read the verse about turn the other cheek, or you forgive 70 times seven people that wrong you.
Maybe you missed those verses.
You know, you know, forgive us as we forgive.
Maybe you forgot those those verses versus the one he's taking out of context.
Uh, but sometimes violence is necessary.
I don't know.
I think maybe a visit from the Secret Service might be warranted here after hearing that insanity.
Uh then you go over to that hard-hitting news show, The View on ABC.
Apparently, according to reports, Georgi Stephanopoulos is not happy after the payout, uh, because he falsely knowingly uh stated that Donald Trump was convicted of rape and they were held accountable in Donald Trump suit and meta paid Donald Trump as well.
Looks like CBS will come to some type of settlement also.
Anyway, Ava Navarro speaks out about how President Trump is going to ban black people from the halftime show after the Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl halftime show, which I thought personally I didn't like it.
I thought it was terrible, and there's so many gifted talented artists out there that you can bring in that everybody would love so much better, but that's my point of view.
And there was a lot of false speculation and a lot of conspiracy theories.
Why did Donald Trump leave after the third quarter?
Because there's eighty thousand plus people in the stadium.
And if he doesn't leave, get to his airplane, get wheels up, that means nobody can leave that stadium until he's out of, you know, out of uh, you know, out of uh flight range for any of the other planes that are gonna take off immediately after the Super Bowl.
He did it as a courtesy to everybody else that was there.
He didn't leave because of the halftime show or the fact that Kansas City was not winning the game.
But that's neither here nor there.
Let's go to the hard-hitting news show, The View with Ava Navarro.
You know, I don't do sports.
You know I don't do football, so I wasn't watching the game.
But listen.
I think today Donald Trump is gonna sign an executive order banning black people from halftime.
Because you remember last week we were talking about whether the NFL was capitulating to Trump by removing the term and racism from the uh end zone.
Yeah, boy, did they not capitulate to Trump when I saw Samuel L. Jackson, yeah, dressed as a black Uncle Sam.
Yeah, who then have like an entire formation of all black people making a U.S. flag.
This much I know.
All the black people on my feed were like, ooh, this is black and black black.
And all the racists who somehow get in, man, were they hopping mad?
So if the races are mad, I am happy as a plan.
The implication obviously Donald Trump is racist and anyone supports him as racist.
Uh how well did that work out for any of them in the final uh days of the campaign, considering that was their closing argument.
Anyway, here to react to uh the media.
We have Fox News contributor, media expert extraordinaire.
He's got a new book coming out soon, the greatest comeback ever inside Trump's big beautiful big beautiful campaign, unburdened by what has been.
Uh anyway, Joe Concha's with us.
How are you, sir?
Outstanding.
Happy Tuesday, Sean.
And uh, I mean, I I I can't believe I just listened to what I just listened to, Anna Navarro saying that, oh, Trump wants to ban all black people from performing during halftime of the Super Bowl.
Uh who uh who was DJing and rapping again at Trump's inaugural ball uh on January 20th.
Oh, that's right, it was Snoop Dogg.
So I'm pretty sure Trump uh isn't going to start banning black people from halftime, but that's what that garbage show uh serves up these days.
Let me go to Joe Rogan.
He ripped Democrats in the media for refusing to course correct since Trump's victory.
I think it runs deeper than that.
I think that the party has been so marginalized and so taken over by the extreme, with the exception maybe of John Fetterman as an elected official, and there's what there was one congressman that said stop feigning outrage at every single thing Donald Trump does.
And in the media, you have Carvel and and Axelrod and Rama Manuel, the only three people that are saying uh this is jackassery and stupid.
But anyway, here's what Rogan said about the Democrats in the media.
They're gonna keep shutting people.
This isn't they're not gonna correct course.
They're gonna go off the cliff.
There's no way they're not.
Yeah.
They're not course correcting at all.
You know, they're saying stupid it's it's all nonsense.
Like they're they're their understanding of social media and the dynamics that you set up by having completely state-controlled mainstream media where they only said the narratives that you guys wanted.
They all said it in step so you could watch different programs repeat the exact same words, exact same phrases.
We know they got talking points.
We don't trust you anymore.
We don't trust the New York Times, we don't trust the Washington Post, we don't trust CNN or any of the MSNBC, but they're all full with propaganda.
Yeah.
And so that's why the internet rose.
It's not because there was some sort of a right wing conspiracy and heavily funded.
No, you guys suck.
You guys suck.
And you're not real people, and you're not like nobody wants to hang out with Brian Stelter.
You know what I'm saying?
There's the none of these people are people that people can actually relate to and like.
I don't think anybody knows who Humpty Dumpty is, but that's a separate issue.
Wouldn't you say uh Joe Concha?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I don't want to go balling with uh Brian Stelter anytime soon, uh, Sean, the scenographer, former sonographer for uh Jeff Zucker.
Uh yeah, look, Rogan's exactly right.
And by the way, I didn't realize I could say that on the air.
You guys suck.
Okay, I think I'm just gonna go with that for now on whenever you ask me on your TV show or here, like, ah, your analysis of the media.
Well, you guys suck, because they do, and the numbers show it.
And by the way, it's not like we're playing Joe Rogan here because he's some sort of right wing ideologue that always has supported Trump, the conservatives his whole life.
Joe Rogan, he only endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2020, right?
So the left had him and they lost him, just like they're losing more and more Bill Maher and James Carville and John Fetterman, who have become the voices of reason uh within this party, which which which really tells you something.
But yeah, in the end, when when you hear the media over and over again talk about, for instance, deportations, and they try to fear Mogner around that.
You look at a CBS poll that comes out this week, and six in ten Americans support deportation.
Sixty-five percent supporting troops, sending U.S. troops to the Mexico U.S. border in order to seal that border until a wall can be built and completed.
And when you're Democrats and you're trotting out in all these media spectacles, Maxine Waters, as the face of your party, 86 years old, completely unhinged, trying to break into the Department of Education.
That was such a horrible look, or Chuck Schumer in front of a microphone in any capacity.
You gotta get him off the stage.
Even John Stewart says that at this point.
Democrats right now are they look weak, disorganized, and they are leaderless.
And that's why you have all these different messages and reactions.
They're trying to keep up with Trump, and the media is trying to keep up with Trump, but they can't because he's controlling the message and the narrative right now by constantly being out there, constantly taking questions, constantly signing executive orders and getting stuff done.
So, yeah, this is so different from 2017 where Russia, Russia, Russia dominated 2017, his first year in office, 2025.
Donald Trump has learned and he knows exactly what he needs to do, and that's why right now his approval ratings are higher than they've ever been, Sean.
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Um interesting that after a hundred and forty years, Chevron has now dumped California via a text in a split fueled by nothing but insults, accura accusations, bureaucracy, lawfare.
You know, the chief executive tried to reach out to Gavin Newsom for more than a week last summer, texted him, hoped to get the governor on the phone, wanted to talk about the company's plans to move their headquarters to Houston.
And we're about to make an announcement.
I'd like to tell you before you read about it.
Newsom's reply was essentially, I don't need to talk about it.
I'm good.
Wow.
That's pretty alarming.
And, you know, remember California's suing energy companies.
You know, I saw a friend of mine in California that's still paying five dollars plus a gallon.
I'm paying I I you know, for unleaded regular, it's like 299, unfortunately.
I have to put super in my car, and I don't have an extravagant car that I'm driving right now.
Anyway, the DOJ is moved to dismiss federal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
You know, the more I learn about this case, but the more it's just the timing of it is very, very alarming to me.
And I don't know what's going to happen in New York because, you know, uh I I do believe that the mayor of New York, and maybe I'm giving him too much slack here.
I do believe the fact that he had invited people to his city, illegal immigrants of Harris and Biden initially, and then he was so overwhelmed he he backed off that position and realized that it was unsustainable and didn't know that there'd be all this crime associated with it and all this cost associated with it, that I think he was sincere because he did all of that way before the election.
And now he's gonna run up against and probably in a democratic primary, unless he runs independent against uh former Governor Cuomo, who I can't believe is making a political comeback, to be very honest with you.
Um, but apparently he's he's polling very well.
Name recognition, I guess means a lot in New York.
It's just sad.
This used to be one of the greatest cities in the world.
It's not anymore.
It's returned, you know, it's and it's slowly deteriorating back into what it was before Rudy Giuliani got elected and fixed the city.
It really is.
And it's it's just to watch it is very, very sad.
Um, so uh by the way, do you notice, Linda, the astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study an asteroid that has a small chance of striking Earth less than uh eight years from now.
It's it's described as a potential city killer.
Maybe we're gonna have to get Elon Musk on that.
I don't know.
It doesn't say which city in the article, but they're saying that it is on a trajectory that in fact it could hit planet Earth.
That would not be good.
I would not like to live through that, nor would anybody else.
Uh UK University is added trigger warnings to Shakespeare for popping balloons in extreme weather.
University in England, 200 trigger warnings on Shakespeare works and adaptations for things such as popping of balloons, violence, and psychological trauma, extreme weather.
This world has gone insane.
The left, you know, around the world is insane.
Um it's just it's just it's an amazing time to live and to watch and to just observe and to learn and to pay attention.
Because the radical left has lost their mind.
And I don't think that they're learning a thing.
Uh rumors are George Stephanopoulos, miserable at GMA after the Trump apology and the payout to Donald Trump after Trump sued.
He got the fact wrong.
He claimed repeatedly, and he knew better that Donald Trump was convicted of rape.
He knew better.
And then we talked about this with Joe Concha earlier.
You know, look at ABC News and that hard-hitting, you know, news show The View, and you got Ava Navarro's out there.
You know, I don't know sports.
You know, I don't do sports.
You know, I don't know football.
Sound like anybody we know on this program who's come a long way in a year.
I will say that.
I don't know if she knows what crossing the plane is yet, but I'm but she's come a long way, Linda.
Anyway, she then Launches into this, you know, ridiculous rant about how Donald Trump was upset about seeing black people perform in front of him and how it was supposedly the NFL, you know, sticking it to him.
Quote, I think Donald Trump is going to sign an executive order banning black people from halftime.
I'm like now, i it's it's so ridiculous.
Now let's think back in some I thought Usher did a great job.
You remember Usher?
I thought he did a good show.
Yeah.
And you you remember Jennifer Lopez.
I thought she did a great show.
Rihanna, didn't he?
Remember when Rihanna performed at the Super Bowl.
I do.
I just don't like any of these people.
I mean, the best part of as far as music went was Lauren Daigle.
Lauren Daigles, America of the Beautiful, that was amazing.
I love her.
She's a Christian singer.
You know what I mean?
Like that's the space she works from.
Like that's what everybody knows.
She's a good thing.
And the guy that sang the star the national anthem was good too.
He sang it a little differently, but I really liked the verb.
The red condition.
It was beautiful.
With the game being so bad, not meaning not being close, and I I find I I want the game to be close.
I want I want I want to be sitting on the edge of my seat watching a game.
And that didn't happen in this game.
And then I didn't love the halftime show.
My own personal taste.
I'm allowed to like what I like.
Um and when you think all the artists that are out there, you know, somebody brought up Ray Charles performed years ago.
Man, could you have a lot of people?
Yeah, but see, the difference is those people came and performed.
They came and they performed.
They were there to play their songs.
I don't know any song that this man has made, nor do I care to.
I'm not really interested in that kind of music.
And his message was not a message to people watching football.
He took the time because he had a political statement to make.
He used Samuel L. Jackson to help him out.
Um it just wasn't.
It just wasn't.
And he's egregiously making a statement that clearly uh the popular vote and uh the electoral vote did not agree with.
So putting that all to the side, instead of just playing your songs, you know, you made a whole uh, you know, this is the revolution.
Uh we are the movement.
You're actually not.
The revolution is the counteract to what you are actually doing.
It would have been nice to have like a John Rich or you know, a Zach Brown, or you know, somebody.
Why don't they ever bring in any of these country artists?
They don't ever get to play.
They don't.
No, they don't.
You know, and it's just frustrating.
That would have been cool.
Uh, or just do a mix of genres and have different people.
Right.
Almost like a we are the world.
Bring in Lionel Richie.
I mean, he's great.
Bringing out Elton John and Billy Joel, you know, is stuff that every generation kind of likes.
Right.
The the stuff that everybody sings along to.
Like, I'm not gonna put Kendrick Lamar on when I'm cleaning the house on a Sunday.
Sorry.
It's not a thing.
Well, if you ever do you ever do karaoke?
Okay, what do people do?
Sweet Caroline, exactly the devil I do the devil went down to Georgia.
Um, you know, you think of you know there's so many, you know piano man, uh, listen, I don't know who's I don't know who does it, but given the way that Roger Goodell runs the show over there and how gross he is, I have to assume that it's that same kind of mindset in the back office, which is why we got what we got.
Look, I I I think I I don't I just don't know about the NFL.
I really don't.
I don't know about the politics.
I hate the politics.
The other thing too is I felt it went on too long before the game even started.
And I'm like looking at the players and they're like, when do we get to play?
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Uh let's say hi to Tom.
He's in Vegas.
Tom, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
How are you, sir?
Hey.
I'm good.
What's going on?
Well, if you're in Vegas, you guys got my number.
I drive limousine.
But anyway.
Sean, the post office.
The post office is delivering five, six days a week.
Residential.
If they cut that to Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, some routes, the other ones go Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Nobody cares if they get their mail every day.
You got emails, you got all kinds of electronic.
The maintenance, the fuel cost, the fleet.
Um, this is a no-brainer simple idea.
Every other day, residential deliveries.
Businesses keep bringing the mail every day to them.
Why don't you just privatize it?
In other words, why doesn't the government get out of the business because they're losing money?
Well, and I'll tell you, I mean, you got FedEx, you got UPS.
Now, the only part of the deal that I would make is I'd want to protect the people, the good people that work for the post office, and there are good people that work for the post office.
And I know because every postman I've ever met in my life I love, and they're great people.
The only stipulation in any deal is they've got to keep on the people that are working for the post office so that their careers are not disrupted.
That's not fair to them.
No question.
Nobody's talking about that.
But they're still gonna get 40 hours.
They're just gonna do a different route every day.
You see what I'm saying?
But every day, every other day, they're at your house.
Same people.
We don't uh I'm not disagreeing.
We don't need mail mail every day.
I don't ever I don't even get half my mail, to be honest with you.
You know, it drives everybody that sends me stuff nuts.
Linda tries to send me stuff.
I still haven't, I still, he swears that arrived and I'm like, The stuff that you ask for and then you say, I don't send it.
That's what drives me nuts.
Well, you didn't send it because if it didn't get to me, I didn't need so ridiculous.
No, but I I think there are a lot of ways to thread that needle, save money, and if it's if it can reach profitability, then you gotta find then I would be I would seriously look towards maybe a combination.
Half of it goes to UPS, half of it goes to FedEx.
I don't know.
You know, DHL can be a part of it.
You know, any of these services, they do such a good job, and they have figured out how to do it.
You know, maybe maybe Amazon could be a part of it for crying out loud.
I don't know.
Um anyway, appreciate the call.
Chris in California.
Chris, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, how are you doing?
Well, why are you living in that socialist utopia out there?
Oh, I'm stuck here, man.
I I grew up here and all my family's here, and I'd love to get out, but maybe uh maybe in 10, 15 years, I'll find a way.
You know what?
Go to go to Vegas, go to Nevada, go to Arizona, and you know, get a commuter air jet and fly back when you want to go see your family.
Yeah, yeah.
Tell that to my wife, you know, she's the one who's got me tethered here.
Yeah, put her put her on the phone.
I'll take care of that right now.
Yeah.
The reason I called, I wanted to draw attention to something that I personally witnessed dozens of times.
I used to sell cars and it has to do with illegal immigration and identity theft.
And when I was selling cars, we would get people coming into I personally sold a guy a car one time.
Everything looked good on the credit report.
The bank approved it.
I sent the deal to the bank.
The bank calls me a few days later, they're like, hey, we need to get a copy of this guy's social security card.
Some's not adding up here.
So I call the customer back, and he's like, Oh, no problem.
I'll bring it to you tomorrow.
He brings it in.
He brings me a photocopy of a social security card, and it like first glance, I'm like, oh, that looks that looks fake.
So I send it to the bank.
They're like, it's a stolen social.
And the banker is somebody I knew, calls the guy and says, Hey, you could be deported for this.
It's going to be reported.
You need to return the car or find some other way to pay for it or whatever.
The guy shows up with $10,000 cashier check the next day, and we let him take the car.
I worked at a second dealership, and this this situation.
I don't have time for this example, but I can tell you this.
Let me tell you, identify uh uh identity theft is real.
And it's impacting more people that I know every day, and more people's credit cards are getting in the hands of the wrong people.
I'm telling you, I'm not saying it just because they're an advertiser, call 1-800 lifeloger, get lifelog.com because we're all being impacted by this.
Um, I appreciate the example.
I wish I had more time.
Good luck getting to Vegas with and I'll talk to your wife anytime you want if it'll help.
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