Oh my God, this is the real politics. I'm not supposed to be cursing. I'm very sorry about that. So anyway, as I was saying, you know, of course it's working. Yeah, of course it is. It's the real politics. We do this every Monday at 9.30 PM, you have a Houston time, so I'll start the local recording. And with the local recording, I can go ahead and then I'll go ahead, play some of that intro music. It's great intro music. For the best intro music in the entire, you know, right wing ecosystem, you know. All right, and welcome to this real politics on this January 15, 2024. It's mind-luthy King Day, ladies and gentlemen. We're all going to celebrate communism and racial equality and the racial animus against white people that animates our government today. I'm kidding. We're not going to do any of that because we're not a bunch of Democrats. But it is caucus day, and that's an interesting thing indeed. I went on white rabbit radio earlier today with Tim Murdoch. That was a great time. So it's been a busy day for your humble chorus, but I don't take the day off of Martin Luther King, Jr. I do not. I work overtime and I feel pretty good about that. So, you know, it's interesting. The Martin Luther King Day thing, it used to be very taboo to say anything negative about Martin Luther King. You're allowed to do that now. That's in doing some part to Charlie Kirk. I was pretty surprised about this. Yes, indeed, Charlie Kirk, as it turns out, is the, he's the current employer of a fellow by the name of Blake Neff, whom you may recall if you followed these things. He had parted ways with Fox News where he had been one of the writers for Tucker Carlson before his crime think was discovered in the form of online forum posts. Neff has been preparing today's episode of the Charlie Kirk show in the background in Kirk last week teased that he would be laying into Martin Luther King full force today. And he dropped Neff's name in the process. Now, I have not had a chance yet to listen to today's episode of Charlie Kirk's show. Don't do that too frequently. Used to do it one episode of the Charlie Kirk show week with air on the weekends and a prison that I resented in for a couple of years. And I'd listen to him sometimes. It was not a bad show. But of course, as I said, tonight, Nia with the presidential race is officially underway as the first boats have now been cast in that state's caucuses. I'm happy to brag that at least one speech that I had written was in favor of Donald Trump has already been read. I've been informed by one of the caucus goers there. And I'm told it went over very well. And this is felt pretty good about that because I think today that's a very important event today. The presidential race is the focal point of American politics. There are arguably more important political events happening all the time, but not that attract the attention of the general population in the way the presidency does. Even if you don't think Trump is any good, even if you think the whole thing is a sham, participation in the presidential race and participation in American politics are synonymous. To blow off the presidential election is to blow off politics altogether essentially. Our focus on the top executives, powerful evidence mankind's natural state is monarchy. The courts and the legislative branches, although more assertive under some administrations and others tend mainly to serve as accoutrements of the president's legitimacy. Only the executive acts, the other branches merely provide opinions that support or conflict with his actions. Democrats tonight, they are only handling party business. They're not picking at candidates since the leftist party's anti-white racial animus is deprived, Iowa, of its first-generation status among that leftist party. And in any case, there is no primary challenger to Joe Biden worth mentioning. Republicans, of course, are involved in a more animated contest. Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis constitute the players worth mentioning here. Other Republican contenders, notably Tim Scott, Chris Christie, have suspended their campaign seeing the hopelessness of it. And with their Democrat backers, probably getting sick of spending money on something they know is going absolutely nowhere. Others still haven't gotten the message but are likely to shortly after tonight's failure is cemented. Trump, of course, is favored to win, but Iowa has proportional representation in the delegate process. As opposed to the winner take all contests of most states. So all of the contestants have something to gait if they can obtain enough vote for even a single convention delegate. The caucuses began at 7 p.m. local time or 8 p.m. US Eastern. That's when on our side here. According to the AP, the 2016 results were completed by midnight US Eastern will aspire to stay on the air until the races are called tonight. So please do give us a call at 217-688-1433 if you'd like to be on the program and the more you talk less I have to, so please do give us a call. Let's go take a look at our stream chats. See if anybody's going on. Hello there, money penny over on Wombul. Good to see you. We missed you too. General Malcontent, since $143 and 30 cents, wow, wait a start it off, thank you, friend. Good listening to you on White Rabbit Radio, Chris Hale Victory. Go salute to you too, friend. Thank you very much. Very generous of you. Appreciate that. Let's see him. And so, you know, the Iowa thing, it's funny. One of the things that I thought was pretty amusing, one of the commercials that's running up here in New Hampshire, it's run by Americans for prosperity. It's one of these packs. And one of the things they were saying, which I thought was pretty funny, it's a pro-Haley ad. And they say, oh, well, you know, with all the legal problems and the liberal media out to get him, you know, there's no way Trump is just too much trouble. The liberal media is out to get him, so we're going to have to drop it. I thought that was pretty amusing because, you know, right now, yeah, the liberal media is out to get Trump because he still might become president of the United States. They don't like that, you know. But they're not going after, you know, the other Republican candidates, which is unusual. You might recall that, you know, in years past, they'll go after all of them. But they really don't want Trump to be the nominee. And so, they're not going after Nikki Haley. They're not going after Rhonda Santas. Now, you know, the liberal media has gone after Rhonda Santas before. Remember when he was Rhonda's death Santas? Remember that? Remember when Rhonda Santas was murdering old people for fun in Florida during the COVID pandemic? When he just hated old people so much, he just wanted to murder them. He just, he was like, oh, good, I get to murder old people. It's my idea of a good time. That's the liberal media's conception of Rhonda Santas when he's not running for office against Donald Trump. And so, I thought that this was pretty funny. I went, you pull this story up here. This is pretty funny. This is in, where's the political story, does it? Oh, there it is. Okay, Washington Post, it was. Yeah, it's not a political, this wouldn't be as interesting. In the Washington Post of all things, okay? So, the Washington Post is not exactly a Republican newspaper, you see. They're not in the business of being fair to Republicans. You might know that about the Washington Post, if you know anything about anything. And so, the Washington Post in there bid to take down Rhonda Santas. You know, like I said, the guy who was murdering old people for fun during the pandemic, Rhonda Santas. Well, Hannah Knowles over there at the Washington Post, she wrote a piece, the unusual political vocabulary of Rhonda Santas. And what I'm about to read to you is shocking in its non-shockingness, right? What I'm about to read to you, it's the absence of something that you're looking for. Okay, remember that as I go through it. On the debate stage, Rhonda Santas announced, what denounced, I should say, warned over corporatism and accused his opponent of ballistic podiatry shooting oneself in the foot. The Florida governor drew backlash last year for apparently warning fellow Republicans against becoming listless vessels following former President Donald Trump. A favorite phrase that few besides DeSantis seem to use. And on the campaign trail, he speaks the language of the online right with a lot of people to the language of the online right with unusual fluency, whipping through terms like central bank digital currency or CBDC, environmental, social and governance investing or ESG and shadow banning. We will reconstitutionalize the executive branch and we will bring this administrative state to heal. Once and for all, he declared at his campaign kickoff speech in Iowa. DeSantis is a times esoteric political vocabulary reflects who he is as a presidential candidate, wonkish Cerebro and attuned to the leading edges of a conservative war on woke, which animates his GOP base, but can fall flat elsewhere. He is less inclined to make small talk about his personal life than strike up a conversation about policy, say a recent Supreme Court decision with implications for pork production, which he once brought up while grilling with Iowa Republicans. It also accentuates his stylistic differences with rivals like Trump and Nikki Haley in a presidential GOP presidential primary that's often revolved on personality and presentation rather than policy. DeSantis has been awkward in some one-on-one interactions with voters where other candidates might have seized a chance to show their personalities. Trump, the heavy favorite to win the Republican nomination, uses simple and harsh language that has helped him convince many working class conservative voters that he is also an every man who identifies with them, even though his name is associated with lavish wealth. DeSantis, in contrast, pitches a Trump like agenda with lofty metaphors, the sacred fire of liberty, and the call to reconstitutionalize the government, which he mentions frequently. He does return again and again to some blunder catchphrases, such as how he wants to leave suspected, I'm sorry, blunter catchphrases, I should say, not blunder. Blunter catchphrases, such as how he wants to leave suspected drug traffickers at the border, stone-called dead. Where DeSantis denounces transgenderism and woke gender ideology, haily, a former UN ambassador in South Carolina governor takes a softer, more conversational approach that's approached more moderate voters, attracted, I should say, more moderate voters, appealing to girl dads about the importance of keeping boys on a female sports. To some supporters, this is part of DeSantis's appeal. They want Trump with brains or the hard-lined stances on issues. They say Republicans neglect interested in someone who shares their alarm at Vax Bandates and what DeSantis calls the biomedical security state. While many Republicans have zeroed in on culture wars around race and gender, DeSantis most mirrors the language of conservative activists warning about the perils of cultural Marxist and woke ideology in social credit stores. DeSantis gets applause in the trail as he ridicules acronyms like DEI, diversity equity inclusion, which he says should instead stand for discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination. I like his attitude against wellness, Tim Donaldson, a retired police officer to 60, said at a DeSantis event last year, suggesting that the Florida governor was more versed in the issues than Trump. Two other voters, however, that kind of language is confusing or turn off. He's really focused on a lot of cultural issues and maybe not what I think is really important, said Claire Funston, a 24-year-old factory worker who attended a Haley event in Spirit Lake, Iowa. A registered Republican who calls herself an independent, she said she cares most about the economy and liked Haley the best. At a town hall in Waqee, Iowa this month, just after the resignation of Harvard's president, DeSantis rift longer than usual on the changes he's made to colleges in Florida, especially a small liberal arts school. He said now has modeled after a conservative Michigan school called Hillsdale College. He said he'd appoint conservative board members who eliminated DEI, along with critical race theory, eight term increasingly used on the right to describe a wide range of teachings on race and they view best guided. He lingered for a while on accrediting bodies that he accused of helping to push schools to the political left when the town hall shifted to Q&A. One woman said she hadn't heard clearly and wanted to confirm that he says anything about predators while discussing universities, accreditation, a creditor to Santa's Claire Fun, DeSantis also draws occasional attention for turns of phrase that are simply unusual or marked throwback to the past. Some reflect his historical influences. At a CNN debate with Haley this past week, DeSantis echoed Ronald Reagan when he called for a flying, a flying flag of bold colors rather than a pale pastels. Another time when he warned people against becoming listless vessels that are just supposed to follow whatever happens to come down the pike on truth social, Trump social media platform, it wasn't to one off of the formal naval officer. We can't graduate a listless vessel that has no idea of what American freedom is all about. DeSantis said to, uh, said this spring. His wife, Casey DeSantis, his caution voters against politicians who become listless vessels bending in the wind in Washington, DC. DeSantis talks less about wokeness these days than he did towards the beginning of the GOP race. But any of his opposition to it is still a key part of his president, uh, political identity. Returning to Clive on Thursday, just ahead of the Iowa caucuses, DeSantis denounced the ESG cartel. And so that's the Washington Post attacking Ron DeSantis. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, he says esoteric things about wokeness. He's not a neo, not see or anything like that, you know, he's not going to get us into a nuclear war. He's not going to put y'all back in chains, you know, ha, ha, ha, ha. Excuse me, just one second. Still not entirely over this cold. Pold. Pardon me, those of you who are watching that on video, Polly. So, you know, now I just want you to think about this for a second. What if Ron DeSantis won the Republican primary? Do you think that if Ron DeSantis was the nominee for the Republican presidential, uh, the Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States, do you think they'd still be saying, oh, he uses esoteric phrasing? No, they'd be like, this is not see code language, right? He's going to kill all of the Jews. He only signed that letter. He's only signed that law in Israel to trick them. He's got to put y'all back in chains. He's worse than that Mitt Romney guy, right? It's absolutely comical that people think, you know, that this is like, oh, well, it's unique what they're doing to Donald Trump in the media, right? I mean, it's unique in its extremism. Yes. But it's in no way unusual for the liberal media to be going after Republicans. What's the big joke right now is that they're acting like, oh, well, you know, this is all going to remain static after the contest is over, you know. Once it's all decided, you know, once it's just me and Joe Biden on the campaign trail, they're going to keep on handling me with kick gloves, of course, because, you know, the media is they're not a bunch of like backstabbing, fanatical, lunatic people, right? They're not going to totally completely change their tune as soon as it becomes politically advantageous to do that because they're, you know, they're umpires. They call balls and strikes fundamentally. I don't see anything being said about Nikki Ailey, right? And she's right around saying, oh, I beat Joe Biden by 17 points. Yeah. Well, you know, if the media said nothing about me, I might beat Joe Biden by 17 points, right? If I decide to be like, you go out and yeah, nobody knows my name and they say, hey, do you want Chris McKetwell or Joe Biden to be president of the United States? You have no idea who Christopher Kentwell is. Like the average person would be like, yeah, well, like anybody but Joe Biden. But if you go out and you say Christopher Kentwell, that guy who was all over the news in 2017 with that Virginia thing, they'd be like, you know, it's going to be closer to, you know, 49, 51 me, right? And so, you know, the idea of that, what you need to do is, you know, have Nikki Ailey be the standard bearer of the Republican party because she's just so popular with those independent voters. It's pretty comical. What's happening is nobody's laying a glove on Nikki Ailey in the media because, you know, they don't want Donald Trump to be president of the United States. And there's nothing for me to say about Nikki Ailey. There's not, you know, that's the, that's the attack on Ron DeSantis that he says sort of esoteric anti woke things. What are they going to, what's the main, what's the Washington Post going to say negative about Nikki Ailey? Oh, Nikki Ailey is, you know, she's not registered with the party that she's a member of, you know, that's the criticism fundamentally. She hasn't registered as a Democrat. She's still involved with that Republican party. And, you know, we don't like that party. We'd really prefer that she was part of our party. That's the criticism of Nikki Ailey. So they're not going to say that while she's running for president. They're not going to do that. Unfortunately, I mean, I kind of wish that they would. That'd be nice, you know, it would be an improvement over what they're doing now. What's going on here? What the hell is going on here? Why is entropy screwing me over? Because that's what entropy does. That's why I got a second ago fix entropy here. Because, you know, you know, you got to, you got to do everything on the air. Why would you do things in advance and expect it to work? That would be preposterous. There we go. All right, much better. 2176881433 like to be on the program. Where you took the last I have to. So please, you give us a call. I wonder, let's see. Let me go pull up this story about Charlie Kirk and Martin Luther King Jr. This is pretty entertaining. They don't get into a much detail about what he's going to do. But over at wire, they say how Charlie Kirk plans to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. the Civil Rights Act, which is obviously a crime. We're not allowed to do that. Can't do that Charlie Kirk. See illegal. That's thought crime. Can't do that. And this is the, you know, see, obviously, you know, he's red and he's blue. That means that Martin Luther King is good and Charlie Kirk is an evil Nazi. You see, that's the whole bit. That's the whole bit. Conservative activist and turning point USA co founder Charlie Kirk has a lot of opinions on Martin Luther King Jr. In 2015 Kirk called him a hero in 2022 MLK was a civil rights icon. But in December of 2023, speaking before a group of students and teachers at America, fest a political convention organized by turning point USA Kirk struck a different tone. MLK was awful. Kirk said he's not a good person. He said one good thing. He actually did believe. For decades, conservatives had pointed to King and his idea that people should not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of the characters and model for equality. Democrats completely rejected that and said that white people are evil. That's not what wired said. I'm just filling in the blanks. For a while, Dr. King stock was very much on the rise and conservative circles in the Republican Party says John Wood Jr. Republican activists, it's been understood on the right that even though Dr. King wasn't really one of us politically, he was still a good liberal. Yeah, there's no such thing as a good liberal. We're figuring that out, sir. For Kirk, the shift on King wasn't an offhand remark, but a glimpse into his broader strategy to discredit the civil rights leader and the landmark legislation most associated with King civil rights act of 1964. Quote, I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it and I've thought about it. Kirk said at America fast, we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s. Turning point, USA founded in 2012 by an 18 year old Kirk to organize conservative students on college campuses has grown into an ideological force in right wing politics. America force, which took place at a convention center in downtown Phoenix, features speeches by right wing heavywage Donald Trump, Jr. and Tucker Carlson, US representative Matt Gates of Florida, nearly 20,000 people attended the four day event, according to Kirk closely aligned with Donald Trump. The group has seen a has been seen, I should say, as a way to replace the modern Republican establishment with younger people more aligned with the 45th US president and reactionary politics. Kirk argues that the civil rights act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race ushered in a permanent DEI type bureaucracy, referring to diversity, equity and inclusion. He illustrated how the law has gone wrong when responding to a question from a student who said they became the subject of a Title IX investigation after posting an Instagram story mocking transgender people. Title IX, which was passed as part of the education amendments of 1972, banned schools that received federal funding from discriminating on the basis of sex. King was assassinated four years prior in 1968. God forbid that had kept up any longer than that. You wouldn't believe that's not what they're saying in wired. I just I lost track of what I was doing. The courts have been really weak on this. Kirk told the America fest crowd federal courts just yield to the civil rights act as if it's the actual constitution. The law is ultimately a way to re-found the country and get and to get rid of the first amendment according to Kirk. Kirk's attempt to discredit civil rights laws, an example of how the fringe moves to the center at the speed of light and right wing politics says public policy scholar, Jonathan Rausch. If they're going to say the civil rights act of 1964 was a death of the constitution in freedom in America, then that's going to be extremely tephecic because a lot of people are going to say, well, if that isn't racist, I don't know what is. Rausch says, this is the federal law that ended segregation. Well, you know, maybe we're just going to conclude that it's not bad to be racist. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens. King supported the Civil Rights Act and wasn't architect of it. Rausch ads, if I guess if you're going to draw the go down this road, you have to say King was wrong. Maybe King was a bad person. Yeah. Well, you know, if he's cheating on his wife and advocating communism, that might be the case. Kirk's comments at America fast were merely a preview of his attacks on King. He said recently that he plans to release a content to discredit MLK on January 15th, King's birthday, which is a US federal holiday honoring King. We're going to be hitting him next week. Kirk said on his podcast this week. Yeah. On the day of the Iowa caucus, it's MLK day. We're going to do the thing you're not supposed to do. Bad ass. Kirk. We're going to tell the truth about MLK junior. You better tune in next week. Blake has already been preparing. It's going to be great. Blake is an apparent reference to Blake Neff, a producer of the Charlie Kirk show in 2020. Neff resigned his from his job at Fox News is Tucker Carlson's top writer amid after CNN revealed that he had been making a race, is supposed to under a pseudonym. Fox News CEO, Suzanne Scott called Neff's post abhorned. Yeah, they're out of heart. They don't like it. Neff had also been publicly laying the groundwork for rewriting the history on King and attempting to link him to violent unrest after the passing of the Civil Rights Act. Yeah, you know, you're not him. He's a. He's all about that passive stuff. He's, you know, that Martin Luther King, he's all about the nonviolence. Unlike all those other activists, you know, those those what type of activists were they again. You know, they weren't, it wasn't BLM, but I mean, you know, kind of the same idea, you know. Neff has also been laying publicly laying the groundwork for rewriting the history on the King, attempted to link him to violent unrest after the passing of the Civil Rights Act. Martin Luther King, Jr. gets praised as a peaceful activist, Jack Neff said on Jack the Civics Human Events Daily podcast in November. But what they always end up glossing over is actually in the mid 60s and late 60s civil rights activism became a very violent thing. Now, well, you know, it's a violent criminal enterprise is the whole point. A spokesperson for TPSA Andrew Colvin said that Americans have been fed a fake history, a core part of the fake history of America is the elevation of MLK into a saint whose entire being is beyond reproach and above question. Colvin said in an email statement, this sanctified version of MLK strips away his actual views and exores his actual actions. The real MLK was a complicated person. Yeah, complicated. I don't think it's that complicated. He's a scumbag, I think is actually the actual very simple truth of it. It's not that complicated at all, matter of fact. He was an adulterer who was right around calling himself Reverend. And so once you know that that's the case, you know that he's a piece of garbage, you see. The attacks on King show how turning point USA has become more willing to indulge on more extreme issues that can alienate voters. Yeah. You know, that's pretty funny. It's according to Nick Surgey, executive director of a watchdog group called documented who has research turning point USA for years. You know, why don't you just call yourselves undocumented? That's what you're really all about. Why don't you law? You know, it's a Democrat thing that everything they say is a lie. That's why they call themselves documented because there are a bunch of illegal immigrants probably. A decade ago when he was launching TV USA, Kirkalfoy did hot button issues like race or a poission, Surgey says. Now he seems totally unrestrained. He's increasingly radical and is aligning himself with people like Blake Neff, who insisted a particular subculture on the right. This is not dog whistle politics. It's blatant and intended to cause outrage. That's really the point. Even for Kirk and turning point USA, the attacks on King represented dramatic shift. The group is profited from the use of King's image. Turning point USA's website sold a $55 t-shirt as was hilarious. TPUSA's website sold a $55 t-shirt with MLK's name and stickers of King saying let freedom ring. After an inquiry from wire, both products were removed from the TPUSA store. They're like, yeah, we're going to tan down this Martin Luther King guy, but if we can make a buck off, sound as stick as God, whatever. And then why he gives him a call and they're like, oh, that piece of garbage. Nobody's buying him anyway. We'll take them off the website. Thanks, douche. These guys are very good at moving to over to window, Rosh, the scholar says. That's what they do. They push and push and get things into the dialogue that until the day before yesterday, we're not thinkable. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, I guess that that's there's a lot of that going around there, Mr. Rosh. Two, one, seven, six, eight, one, four, three, three. You like to be on the program and the more you talk less I have to, so please do give us a call. Caller, you're on surreal politics. What can I do for you today? This is hiding in Florida. Hey, adding what's that, buddy? Well, I have my phone again, at least in some internet. Yeah, you mentioned the new college of Florida and they're modeling it after a hill's day. I have some actually personal experience with new college of Florida a long time ago. I was there for two semesters, actually. Had had a, it was an interesting experience, but not real. I couldn't stay there. Why is that? I don't want to say exactly what it was, but it was made impossible for me to stay there. OK, all right. I went somewhere else. All right. But, you know, it was in some ways a helpful experience. It kind of hardened me. I was persecuted by some other students there. There was a couple of Jews actually that persecuted real stupid morons Jews, actually. Yeah, they'll do that. They're there. Is there a bit of that going around here? Yeah. I had the, when I was teaching, a few years ago, I had some students that one of them was considering going there. And I said, well, I mean, it's a great place if you're a Marxist or homosexual, but otherwise, you know, and they thought that was a real funny observation, but it's more or less literally true. It was a, it was like a big haven for Marxist and homosexuals. And people who, you know, kind of wanted to do the whole cultural Marxist thing, it was a insane Jewish girl. It was interested in me. And she told me about how she was into critical theory. And I'm like, you know, it sounds like some Jewish bull shit. Hey, watch the language. Yeah, that's me. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. Please apologize. OK, OK. Sorry, anyway. Yes. So, yeah, so basically what happened was a Jewish girl fell in love with you. And you had to get the heck out of there, huh? That girl caused me a ton of trouble. I mean, I never showed any interest in her, but she, I, I was very overt about my opinions. And she reacted to this and caused me basically kind of sick to do more on me. And it was very bad experience. But meanwhile, she had caused me all this trouble. Meanwhile, she was interested in me. But I wasn't going to have anything to do with her, not just because she was Jewish, but because she was psycho. Yeah. But anyway, anyway, that's that's too much detail about all that. I felt that new college of Florida had a cup come up and do to it because obviously the average Florida and supporting that institution could not know what the hell was going on there. It was weird as hell what was going on there. This stuff that people were, we're pushing very highly ideological courses, you know, more or less. And it was an atmosphere where it was just weirdness. So I expect it, you know, I mean, in a way, it's the idea that they, that they, that they would be dismantled is gratifying. It would be except who's doing it. They put Richard Corcoran in charge of that place. I don't know if you remember who Richard Corcoran is. I wrote an article a while back called, I can't remember. It was about William Latson. It was the principal of this black principal of his high school in Boca Raton who was persecuted because he was, he didn't want four students to take Holocaust classes. Oh, you're not allowed to do that. That's, you know, that's another show. Basically, the tolerant man who could not be tolerated is the name of my article. It's on national vanguard or still. But Richard Corcoran was the key figure in, in selecting punishment on William Latson. He was the key figure in making sure that his teaching credentials were under assault and that he wouldn't become a school principal again. That's the guy who did all that really. I mean, he was the prime mover in it. And now they put him in charge of new college. I mean, I thought they had to come up and sue, but to give it to that guy, to give him the license to remake it according to what he thinks is right. Oh, no. You know, and I saw late last year, somebody connected with, I think it was Corcoran actually, they said, the new college of Florida stands 100% behind Israel. Of course. And now new college of Florida has moral clarity. Unlike the rest of academia and moral clarity, I don't know if you knew this. Dennis Pregner, that's a, that's a term that he uses all the time. Is that, you know, I know that that's a very, they, they always use that term in connection with their, um, with their contrasting of the liberal values of racial equality with their, you know, with their Israel obsession. Um, I hear that used often. I didn't know, I don't know if it originates with Pregner or not, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that he says it twice per episode of his podcast on the low end. Yeah, he says it on the radio quite often. Moral clarity. It's, it's like a Neocon buzzword. That's pretty funny. And as far as hillfail is considered, a lot of people, I'm sure, have a very positive impression of hillfail because Rush Limboi used to promote it all the time. But the place is basically, I'm from what I see, it seems to be a Neocon propaganda mill. You know, they, um, they constantly have these courses that are offered, you know, they're promoting sort of, um, simplistic history, I would say. And there was some course, there were, Larry Arn was offering where they were, presenting the Winston Churchill as a great hero. And I posted some comments on their website about this, some facts that they were neglecting. And they kept erasing my posts. Yeah. So I mean, this is not, this is not honest discussion, you know, but golly, uh, well, there's quite, there's quite little of that, I'd say, you know, in, uh, a lot of the subject matter that you're known to discuss, of course, adding, I don't think that that comes as the greatest shock, right? And so, you know, there's a lot of bad things about Churchill where you can avoid crossing certain lines, you know, he, uh, he, he was deeply in debt and he was bought off by financiers and he dragged Britain into war unnecessarily. Yeah. Well, you know, uh, real quick, I should probably mention, I just wanted to check, not that this comes as any great surprise, there's still, you know, there's still a lot going on in Iowa, but the Fox News decision desk is predicting that Trump will comfortably secure victory in Iowa, uh, others battle for second in first, GOP presidential nominating elections. So, uh, as you might have expected, Trump is expected to take away most, uh, the largest number of delegates from tonight's Iowa caucuses, that's being called by the Fox News decision desk. Just want to get that out there. Continue, go ahead, adding. Yeah, uh, and the, this is, this is this kind of extreme surveillance to the state of Israel's interest has been a repetitive phenomenon with the Santhes because Corcoran is one of his cronies, right? Uh, because you know, this anties last year signed, I believe they were both last year, two laws enacting censorship in Florida, basically censorship for criticizing either Jews or the state of Israel. Yeah, I'm aware of that. Hardly aware of that. You know, I mentioned, uh, I mentioned in the opening monologue I had written, uh, a speech for a caucus goer and the caucus goer, uh, reported back to me afterwards and, and of course, you know, so in my speech that I had, uh, originally written, I said, I don't know if you want to include this, but I'll throw it in if you want me to reword it, I will. And I had mentioned that, you know, Ron DeSantis talks about being America first, but he went to Israel to sign a law to persecute his own citizens for speaking negatively to Jewish people. And my friend was like, you know, uh, the people who are at the staying, it's probably not going to sway them. So, you know, maybe we'll figure out something else to say. And so I said something else. And then he comes back to me and he's like, yeah, I read your speech, it went over very well. And then some other Trump supporter invoked the, uh, invoked the thing. So it seems that that's not going over well with even, you know, uh, people who are not, uh, you know, involved in the darkest recesses of the internet, say. Yeah, DeSantis did that not once, but twice. Yeah, twice. Okay, well, that's that's all I wanted to say. All right, thank you very much for the call, adding two on seven six eight eight one four three three. Of course, he punches out when I'm like, starting to eat a candy. Uh, whoops. So pardon me. That was embarrassing. Two on seven six eight one four three three like to be on the program and then we'll you tell the less I have to. So please do give us a call. Let's see. What else we got here? Uh, go IMTV apparently they're under, uh, DDoS attack. It looks like they don't want, uh, those, uh, those, uh, Democrats up there. They don't want go IMTV to be, uh, helping to sway the Iowa caucuses in favor of Adolf Hitler. I think is what they're trying to do. Haha, that'd be pretty funny. Um, I'm going to frame an MLK street sign after we rip them down just to show my great grandchildren how messed up America was before the purge or they never would believe it. Haha, that's pretty funny in general malcontent. Um, just returned from caucus. Trump dominated will over half the supports as acid drop on, uh, on the honesty chat. Well, that's good to know sir. Thank you or ma'am. I don't know. I always make these assumptions. Um, two on seven six eight eight one four three three. So, uh, you know, when they do it all this, uh, voting stuff, people get the idea and they're head that, you know, democracies are thing. And it's not everybody actually believes that matter fact. So, uh, there's, uh, there's a story over here and, um, um, media, this country needs a dictator. Trump fans in Iowa rally say absolutely they want dictator over Biden. Let's see what this, uh, what this video looks like here. Would you rather have four years of Donald Trump as a dictator or four years of president Biden real elected? You know, you don't have to like the words that come out of the man's mouth, but sometimes in life, we all need a good paddling from the principle to, to set our life on the right track. And this country does need a little bit of that. It, we need a little paddling. I mean, I was a problem child growing up and it took a good leadership to set me straight. So, I think our country does need some of that. So, I, I, hands down, believe people wanted it four years ago, three years ago. So, but they didn't vote that way, right? I don't know about that. That's right. You, you think it was a stolen election without a doubt? With the other day, Donald Trump said on his first day, he's going to be a dictator for that. I like that. Yeah, I like that. Would you rather have Donald Trump as a dictator for four years or reelect Joe Biden for four years? I would rather have Donald Trump. I'd like them to see the repeal the Roosevelt law so that he can be a president for a lot more than four years, but we, this country needs a dictator. I hate to say that, but it's the truth. Donald Trump said in a speech that on day one for a day, he would be a dictator. What do you think of that? No idea. That's hot. To be honest, have four years of Donald Trump as a dictator or four years of Joe Biden as a president. Trump. As a dictator. Maybe. Would you rather have four years of Donald Trump as a dictator or four years of Joe Biden as a president? Donald Trump all the way. Even as a dictator. Yes. Yes. Even coming out of Slovakia. Yes. Would you rather have four years of Donald Trump as a dictator or four years of Joe Biden as a president? We have a dictator currently. Yes, we do. And so, yeah, they're not, they're not all big on this saving democracy nonsense over there. They've just completely had it with the nonsense. Trump fans in Iowa, rally were dear unanimous when they said they prefer president, Donald Trump as a dictator over re-electing Joe Biden. Even one said this country needs a dictator and another compared Trump to a much needed paddling for the nation. Monday marks. Hey, wait a second. That's not right. You guys weren't seeing my pretty face while I read this to you. That's not fair. Just a bunch of advertisements. Monday marks the first nominating contest that blah blah blah blah blah. Whatever you get the idea. So, you know, the world is betting against American democracy. That's what's happening and that's what they say over politico. So you know that it's true. Ambassador is to Washington warn that the GOP democratic divide is endangering America's national security. Unlike that whole open borders thing which is fantastic, you understand, right? When we open up the borders and we fraudulently elect senile old men who don't campaign, everything's fine. When the other side starts getting fed up with that nonsense democracy's under threat and that's national security you see. And this is written by a guy named Nahal Tussis. You understand he's obviously looking out for America's best interest and he's not some kind of global as sham. He's politico senior foreign affairs correspondent. Oh, she, I should say. Because you know, you can't tell the gender of the name. They like that feature of dealing with foreigners. When I asked the European ambassador to talk to me about America's deepening partisan divide, I expect a polite brush off at best foreign diplomats are usually low to discuss domestic US politics. Instead the ambassador unloaded for about an hour warning that America's poisonous politics are hurting its security, its economy, its friends and its standing as a pillar of democracy and global stability. The US is a fat buffalo trying to take a nap as hungry wolves approach the envoy amused. I can hear those champagne bottle corks popping in Moscow. It's like it's Christmas every effing day. As voters cast ballots in the Iowa caucus's Monday, many in the United States see this year's presidential election as a test of American democracy. But in a series of conversations with a dozen current and former diplomats, I sense that to many of our friends abroad, the US is already failing that test. The diplomats are a gas that so many US leaders let their zeal for partisan politics prevent the basic functions of government. It's a major topic of conversation at their private dinners and gatherings. Many of those I talk to were granted anonymity to be as candid with me as they are with each other. For example, one former Arab ambassador who is posted in the US during both Republican and Democratic administrations told me American politics have become so unhealthy that he turned down a chance to return. Quote, I don't know if in the coming years people will be looking at the United States as a model for democracy. A second Arab diplomat warned. Many of these conversations, when it have happened a few months ago, there are rules, traditions, and pragmatic concerns that discourage foreign diplomats from commenting on the internal politics of another country, even as they closely watch events such as the Iowa caucuses. One rare exception, some spoke out on America's astonishing 2016 elections. Right, once Donald Trump got elected and was like, hey, you know, maybe we should look out for America's interests. All the rules have went out the window. They were like, yeah, why would we be polite when you're not trying to destroy your country? But the contours of this year's presidential campaign, a Congress that can barely choose a House Speakerer, keep the government open and perhaps above all the US debate on military aid for Ukraine have led some diplomats to drop their inhibitions. That there would potentially be some decline to go and refuse to pay Hunter Biden's pay master some panatic tool of Igor Kolomysky. But the contours of this year's presidential campaign, a Congress that can barely choose between a House Speaker, a House Speaker, keep a government open and perhaps above all the US debate on military aid for Ukraine have led some diplomats to drop their inhibitions. And while they were often hesitant to name one party as the bigger culprit, many of the examples they pointed to involved Republican members of Congress. And that's what you would expect from Politico. As they vented their frustrated like, hey, are you with Fox? No, okay, well those Republicans are awful. As they vented their frustrations, I felt as if I was hearing from a group of people wishing they could stage an intervention for a friend hitting rock bottom. Their concerns don't stem from mere altruism. They're worried because America's state of being affects their countries too. They are hopelessly dependent upon the foreign aid that is shuddled out as a means by which to keep the corrupt system moving. That's not what they said in Politico by the way. I just made that up. When the United States's voice is not as strong, it's not as balanced, it's not as fair as it should be, and a problem is created for the world, said Ronald Sanders, and Kegwin Barbudas, longtime ambassador in Washington. Donald Trump's name came up in my conversations, but not as often as you'd think. Yes, I was told a Trump 2024 win would accelerate America's polarization, but a Trump loss is unlikely to significantly slow or reverse the structural forces leading many of its politicians to treat compromise as a sin. The likelihood of a closely split house and Senate following the 2024 vote adds to the worries. The diplomats focused much of their alarm on the US debate over military aid to Ukraine. I was taken aback by how even some whose nations had little connection to Russia's war raised the topic. In particular, they criticized the decision to connect the issue of Ukrainian aid and Israel aid to US border security. Not only did the move, Tangle, a foreign policy issue with a largely domestic one, but border security and immigration are topics. Also are topics, which the partisan fever runs usually high, making it harder to get a deal. Yes, because one side wants to completely destroy the country and the other side would rather destroy it much more slowly. Immigration issues in particular are a problem. Many US lawmakers have little incentive to actually solve because it robs them of a rallying cry on the campaign trail. So now Ukraine might not get aid. Israel might not get aid because of pure polarization, politics, and Francisco's Santos, Calderón, the former Colombian ambassador to the United States. That's right, because the people who love Ukraine don't love Ukraine nearly so much as they hate America. That's right. Oh, well, let's just, if we can just destroy America a little bit quicker, screw Ukraine, you know, that's the whole point of funding them in the first place. So now diplomats from many European countries are especially unhappy. That's right, they're very unhappy. Those diplomats from those European countries, because that's what really matters, you see. We wouldn't want to make European diplomats unhappy. We need to do all of those things and not protect our border. They remember when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many Republicans downplayed concerns about the far-right fringe in their party. That question, what was then solid bipartisan support? Now is the debate over the eight unfolds. It seems the far-right is calling the shots. As a matter of fact, it's just not a far-right issue anymore. It's just common sense, actually. There's a growing sense among foreign diplomats that moral or national security arrangements about defending a country unjustly invaded, deterring Russia, preventing a bigger war with Europe and safeguarding democracy and Hunter Biden's crack money. Don't work on the American far-right. They didn't mention the Hunter Biden's crack money. I was ad-libbing their political doesn't talk about that. There's a growing sense among, instead, some are stressing to US lawmakers that funds for Ukraine are largely spent inside the United States, creating jobs and helping rebuild America's defense industrial base while having the side benefit of degrading the military of a major US foe. If this doesn't make sense to politicians, then what will the European ambassador ask? A former Eastern European ambassador to D.C. worried about how some GOP war critics cast the Ukrainian crisis as Joe Biden's war when in reality the consideration should be to the national interest of the United States, which is to say being friends with Russia. That's not what Politico said either. Foreign diplomats are also watching an alarm as polarization, polarizing abortion politics have delayed the promotions of US military officers and threatened to damage PEPFAR and anti-AIDS program that has saved millions of lives in Africa who are all then immediately transported to Europe because they're trying to destroy it. They didn't say that in political, you might have gathered. But there are questions about America's commitment to NATO, dumbfound the diplomats I talked to because they can't conceive of anything other than what they're familiar with because they're dumb and unimaginative. That's not what Politico said either. Then there are the lengthy delays in Senate confirmations of US ambassadors and other officials are trend exacerbated by lawmakers from both parties. There were always certain courtesy that the other party gave to let the president appoint a cabinet. What if these currencies don't hold as they don't seem to hold now a former Asian ambassador said it's very concerning? When Republicans and Democrats strike deals, they love to say it shows the system works, but simply having a factious lengthy and seemingly unnecessary debate about a topic of global security can damage the perception of the US as a reliable partner. It's a right. It is right that countries debate their foreign policy stances, but if all foreign policy issues become domestic political theater, it becomes increasingly challenging for America to effectively play its global role on issues that need long term commitment and US political capital, such as climate change. That's right. Chinese authoritarianism and peace in the Middle East and containing Russian gangsterism, third world, European diplomat, sorry, not a third world diplomat, a third European diplomat, I should say, but you know, third world Europe, you know, six months a year, whatever. The current and former diplomat is so funny. Oh, if America's going to fix the whole climate change thing, they better just turn around and go, oh, you get those Republicans on board with the abortion stuff, you know, gotta open up them borders and do the abortion things that America can lead on climate change. And those Republicans just gotta stop, you know, with their partisan ideological nonsense. The current and former diplomats said their countries are more reluctant to sign deals with Washington because of the partisan divide. There's a worry that a new administration will abandon past agreements purely to appease rowdy electoral bases and not for legitimate national security reasons. The fate of the Iran nuclear deal was one example some mentioned. Foreign relations is very much based on trust. And when you know that the person that is in front of you may not be there or might not be followed by somebody that feels exactly the opposite way, what is your incentive to do long term deals? A former Latin American diplomat has? Yeah, well, that's kind of what happens when you have elections every four years. The whole entire idea behind this, you're like, oh, well, we don't want, you know, America to not be a democracy anymore. We need policy to never change, you see? And the one thing that you can predict about democracy is it will result in permanent policy changes that never changed no matter what the voter wants. That seems to be Latin American democracy. Ha ha ha ha ha. Still, there's no ambassadorial movement to ban together and draw up a petition or letter urging greater US unity or focus. The diplomats countries don't always have the same interest. Some have plenty of polarizing politics themselves. In other words, there will be no intervention. Some of the diplomats stress they admire America, some attended college here. They acknowledge that they don't have some magical solution to forces deepening its political polarization from gerrymandered congressional districts to a fractured media landscape. They know that the US has had polarized moments in the past from the mid-18 hundreds to the Vietnam War that affected its foreign policy, but they are worried today's US political divisions could have a lasting impact on an increasingly interconnected world. The world does not have time for the US to rebound back. The former Asian ambassador said, we've gone from a unipolar world that we're familiar with from the 1990s into a multi-polar world, but the key poll is still the United States. And if that key poll is not playing the role that we want the US to do, you'll see alternative forces coming up. That's right. Do what we want you to do. It has nothing to do with the will of your voters. You stupid Americans. What's wrong with you? Don't you understand the point of democracy is to keep you sheep in the keep you sheep in your pen while we decide what your country does? Russia's diplomats meanwhile are among those delighting in the US chaos and fanning it. The Eastern European ambassador said the Russians had long warned their counterparts not to trust or rely on Washington. And now do they say now what do they say? We told you so. The world's envoys are reconsidering how their governments can deal with this America for many years in presidents to come. Some predicted that a Republican win in November would mean their countries would have to become more transactional in their relationship with the United States instead of counting on it as a partner who will be there no matter what. Oh, imagine that. Hey, maybe we'll have to engage with the United States on a give and take basis where only the mutual interests of the parties are served. We've become accustomed to this idea where America will be there for us no matter what. And we don't like the idea that there would be conditions attached to the billions of dollars that they're throwing at us. That would be preposterous. What's the point of democracy if we don't get all of their money for nothing? Haha, embassies are already beefing up their contacts among Republicans in case they win back the White House. Oh, God forbid. Imagine those people in those other countries had to negotiate with the party in power. Oh my God. They've been able to negotiate with the permanent bureaucracy this entire time. And now they're actually going to have to deal with the people who won the election. Can you believe that? How destabilitizing is that? He's stabilizing. I think it's the right word. Most countries will be in defensive positions because the asymmetry of power between them and the United States is such that there's little proactively or offensively that you can do to impact that said, Arturo Saruqan, a former Mexican ambassador to the United States. When I asked diplomats what advice they'd offer for American politicians if they were free to do so, Saruqan said the same thing. Find a way to give me more money and screw your voters over. I don't think that's what they actually said. I was just anticipating. Let me read that for real this time. Haha, ha, ha, ha. Find a way to overcome your divisions, at least when it comes to issues that reverberate beyond US borders. Yeah, find a way to overcome your divisions. As in, don't do what your voters tell you to do, do what we want. When there's a, there's a divide between your voters at US, we win. You understand. Please create a consensus in long-term foreign policies that sent us, the former Colombian ambassador. When you have a consensus, you don't let the internal issues create an international foreign policy crisis. Well, there's no consensus that it's a good idea to empty our treasury and military stockpiles into Ukraine. And there actually never was what. So I don't know what they think that they're accomplishing there. Let's get a consensus together. Okay, screw Ukraine, screw Israel. Wait a second, never mind the consensus. How fast would that be the case? So that's political telling us why the world is betting against American democracy. And I could think of more reasons than that, but those are a fine set of reasons to start, I'd say. Why don't we go check? Let's see what's, let's, let's go check the Fox News channel. Let's go ahead and do that. We'll just go to an end a little bit here. The Sanchez 20.9% Trump's 51.6, 74% reporting, 7.7% for Rama Swamy. That's pretty interesting. Trump is over 50%. That was not the case when I got my last update. So that's 51.6% for Trump to Sanchez 20.9% Haley 18.8% you know, right before I was on with, let's we can mute the commercials. When I was on with Tim Murdoch earlier today, he brought up that you know, Trump laid in to Rama Swami and said, if you're voting for Rama, Swami, you're basically voting for the other side, right? Which is just obvious because if you're not voting, if you're, if you're like kind of guy who's going to vote for Rama, Swami, like what do you just like? Are you some Indian partisan who's like, well, I got, I have to choose between Rama Swami or Nikki Haley because I'm all about those people who use the, the street as a toilet, right? I don't think that that's really Rama Swami's constituency. They're Trump voters who are looking for an alternative to Trump. And so since there isn't one, you know, vote for Trump. So Donald Trump comes away with 51.5% with 75% reporting. Vivek Rama Swami came away with 7.7% and so Trump could have been at 58% you know, 58% plus. But 7.7% went to Rama Swami. So, you know, that's probably, you know, there's probably, I don't know what the numbers break down to for delegates say. And we're still at 78% reporting. But this is, you think about that for a second, okay? So Rama Swami is going to amount to nothing at all. Rama Swami will not want a single state. He's going to take a few convention delegates from Iowa. But he could have given Trump a more commanding lead, okay? What other than this does Rama Swami have a chance of accomplishing? Nothing. He could sell books, right? But politically he's going to accomplish nothing. And everybody knows that and has known that for a really long time. So like when you have people who, you know, get in the, get in the sandbox and they're playing this silly game, they're trying to take something very serious. They, they race for president of the United States and they're trying to do something that's very silly. It's, it's not a serious project, you know. 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Right after I read DBOT 805 since $10 New Year's Stream, salute Tim and Chris. Well, thank you very much DBOT 805. He's here at Herbert Hoover Elementary School in Iowa City, Iowa. About 70 voters came in of 150 eligible in the area. And when they walked in guys, you think of all the money spent, all the phone calls and ads. That guy looks like Danny Penn, Zalla. If anybody knows who that guy is. Some of the speeches right now, that's a DeSantis supporters speaking on behalf of DeSantis, that was the surrogate from Nikki Haley making the case to those 70 other voters from the district. They're all given a one inch by two inch slip of purple paper where after those speeches are given, that was Vivek's surrogate speaking on behalf of Rama Swami and then there was a Trump surrogate as well. They simply write the name of the candidate. They prefer on a small slip of paper and put it in a brown paper bag that's passed along those chairs like church pews. And ultimately, that little piece of paper, they're all added up on a table in the front transparent for everyone to see all the campaigns are watching. They dropped them into piles. And in this particular precinct in Iowa City, it was Nikki Haley 26 votes, Donald Trump 25, Vivek, Ramaswami 10 and 16 for DeSantis. It will renew your faith in the American people that our system invests the power. In humble folks who come out on a cold night in Iowa in January to decide the leader of the free world. It was cool to watch and great to see the results quickly, which the Republican Party delivered here in Iowa. Paper balance work. Pete, thanks. It's a beautiful thing. You just write your right the name on it, right? Laura Ingrams here. She has been out there. You went to three different precincts nearby. Right, Laura? Would you say yes? I was at 36, 39 and 37 and Nikki Haley won all of them by significant margins. So is in Des Moines. So Des Moines is. Uh, Serial Poteaks. You're on Serial Poteaks call or what can I do for you tonight? Uh, well, I'm a little bit behind on an episode. So I apologize if you've kind of covered Vivek from a Swami, but I sort of wanted to discuss that a little bit. Right. Because as I've been following the debates, I have thoroughly enjoyed watching him destroy Nikki Haley. It's been so fun. And I guess my own theory is, perhaps, uh, when you have so many threats against Donald Trump, who is obviously, you know, the number one choice for the Republican Party, they have literally all of the opposition trying to take him out anyway possible. And we all get a sense that they can do some things that are incredibly unfair, maybe even some things we've never seen before. You know, such as indicting him. So I kind of feel like the veg is positioning himself to inherit Donald Trump's support if he does indeed get taken out somehow from this race. If you cannot support Donald Trump and you are a Donald Trump supporter and you're looking at the debate stage, who is representing, you know, Donald Trump's talking points as platform his views. So by being on that stage and kind of representing that same thing, he's also representing to the establishment that if they take Trump out, there's still somebody else who can still follow those same talking points in such an intelligent and quickfooted way. It's difficult then to keep Trump's support from perhaps being inherited by Vivek, at least that's kind of what I see is going on here. I mean, what's your view? Sorry about that. And so I have a, I see your point. I think that there's, uh, there's some, it's plausible. I don't think that Vivek Ramaswami, I don't think that he has serious political aims, frankly, I think that he's published two books. I think he aims to sell them. He was condemned by Trump today because, you know, if he's, if what he wants is, you know, Trump's policies to prevail, he understands he's not going to win. So the ideas to have Trump win. And what he's doing right now is taking delegates away from Donald Trump. And, you know, the best thing that you could say about Vivek Ramaswami in that context is, as a consequence of him never voting before 2020, he might actually not understand how this works. That's actually the most kindest thing that you could say about him, because the only thing that he can do tonight is take delegates away from Donald Trump. And so, you know, if he stays in the race, all he can do is help the other side, you know, and so like he's not going to, it's not like Trump is going to be convicted and sent to prison. And then all of Trump's support is going to go to Vivek Ramaswami. I don't think that there's, I don't think there's an informed observer who believes that. And I don't think that anybody who, who Vivek Ramaswami would be, who would pay anybody who Vivek Ramaswami would hire as a political consultant would inform him of that fact. And so I think it's very unlikely that he believes anything of the sort. Well, it just seems like he's playing the insurance policy. I mean, if you have like all the focus and the only person who could ever achieve, you know, that same level of talking points and coming as an outsider, someone who could fund their own campaign and someone who can speak well on stage, if Donald Trump at 81 is the only possible person that the Republicans can hope for, at least you got this young guy. I've been totally surprised before, especially Biden winning. But I just don't see the fantez or Nikki Haley being able to actually threaten Trump in any way. Now, Vivek is taking maybe potentially delegates away from Donald Trump at like 7 percent. But I feel like whether Vivek is there or not isn't going to hurt Donald Trump as long as he's allowed to run as president and they don't figure out a way of taking him out completely. But by being on the stage, because Trump isn't showing up to these debates, he doesn't have to, he doesn't need to. But then there is nobody making a fool out of these people on stage. So at least you have this guy that is being entertaining, producing the memes and is showing that perhaps, you know, after Donald Trump, maybe there's a future in this. The thing is, for him to have a future after Trump, he has to not be destroyed by Trump. And he's now that he's in the contest. Trump did not attack Ramaswamy until today, right? And so Trump is kind of, it seems to me that Donald Trump took a view of it that probably rhymes with what you're saying. But now that the contest is underway and Vivek Ramaswamy is there and actually depriving Trump of, you know, material support, now he's like, okay, enough with the game's kid, cut it out. Okay, the contest is now, this is no longer, we're not playing in the sandbox anymore son. All right, get out of the way. The adults are, you know, here to do what the adults do. And so, you know, I think that what you're saying made sense until today. Now, you know, Trump seems to be, and I, and I think it's a sound thing to do is questioning the man's motives and his intentions because, you know, up until today, all he was doing was, you know, basically representing the Trump point of view on the stage and maybe even a little bit more of an extreme point of view, right? Like he was like, we're not going to fund you, Craig, we're not going to fund Israel. You don't hear those words at a Donald Trump's mouth. And so like, you know, Vivek Ramaswamy was sort of, you know, taking that sort of kamikaze thing on the stage, we're like, I'm going to say the things that, that you can't say in politics say, right? And he was doing that and it was, and it was, it was very entertaining to watch. He was, you know, arguably the highlight of the debates, but now it's, now it's time for like, you know, now it's time to start divvying up political power. It's time to start counting up votes and issuing delegates to the convention. And now he is like, he's actually a problem. And Donald Trump identified that today and is like, you vote for him, you're voting for the other side. And sure enough, 7.7% of caucus goers in Iowa seemed to have done that was 79% reporting. And so, you know, what Vivek Ramaswamy does from here on in, I guess will be interesting to see. If he had cut it, you know, if he, if he was out of it before today, I'd say that you were right, that what he was doing was basically, you know, giving people, you know, the Trump point of you. Well, I guess, you know, I mean, what you're saying is fundamentally that if Trump is somehow taken out that the, that there's somebody who has a, who is in the race who could win the, the election and go on to be president with Trump's views. I guess that's more fundamentally your point. And that's, I don't think that there's any reason to, to, to, to view it that way because, you know, it's, it's not, let's say that Trump, let's say Trump won three states and then was sent to prison and got taken out of the race, okay? I don't think it would be the case that those, those delegates would then be pledged to Vivek Ramaswamy because that would be Trump's will. I don't think that that's how that would work. It would fundamentally be that, you know, some administrative decision is made and those people are not going to do that, you know, whoever's going to be in charge of that decision, say, it's probably not going to be Donald Trump or somebody sympathetic to him. They're going to be like, oh, well, we love that Nikki Haley broad because she's going to do all the foreign policy things we like. And so screw you Americans, we're going to take your vote away, you know. And so, well, that's kind of what I foresee happening because like if you're, if you're on the Democrat side, it's very difficult to get rid of Biden, but he is not a good choice, but there's really no good secondary choice in the Democratic Party that they don't have anybody. So if you're like in the establishment, you're going to put your money behind a candidate, you would put your money behind Nikki Haley. I mean, she's essentially the Democrat nominee running as a Republican, but if you're Vivek, if my suspicions are correct, Vivek will not attack Donald Trump under any circumstances. But if the race is underway and let's say halfway in, Donald Trump gets taken out because we've got a long time before the nominee is actually chosen and then we have a long time until we actually vote for the next president. If you're Vivek and you're trying to work this, you know, trying to inherit a possible Trump supporters if Trump gets taken out and you drop out of the race right now, how do you then jump back into the race? I mean, maybe he goes quiet, I don't know, but I'm trying to figure out what Vivek's angle is here because I mean, he seems to be a pretty intelligent guy and he seems to be serving a very good purpose, but if I were, if I were Vivek and this is exactly what I'm trying to do, would I want to drop out of the race right now or want to go kind of quiet, try to take a back seat, but still stay in the race as that insurance policy just in case something were to happen. Well, he's, I mean, what should Vivek do? If you were Vivek, what would you do right now? Well, if I were Vivek Ramaswamy, I suppose that would depend upon my motives, but if I if I was Vivek Ramaswamy and I had the motives that you attributed to him and what I would do is drop out of the race immediately and campaign for Donald Trump full time because he's not going, Donald Trump is not going to drop out of the race, okay? If Donald Trump is thrown into if Donald Trump's bail is revoked and he is thrown into a Georgia prison tomorrow, Donald Trump will not drop out of the race. Donald Trump's only hope of survival is to become president of the United States. And so Donald Trump is going to, well, you know, his heart attack. Well, you know, I mean, his only hope of, you know, his, his only hope of coming out the other side of his current travails alive and not in prison is to become the president, okay? If he is, if he doesn't have power, then he'll be thrown into prisons all over the country and he'll be murdered, right? So yeah, he's 81, whatever, however old he is, he's going to be dying sooner than later anyway. But, you know, his immediate survival depends entirely upon his ability to wield political power. And so Donald Trump is going to try to become the president of the United States and there is nothing that is going to prevent him from exerting the maximum possible effort to accomplishing that goal. And Vivek Ramaswamy has to understand that. And so all that Vivek Ramaswamy can do if his motives are, as he says that they are, is to get the hell out of the way and stop interfering with Donald Trump's chances of becoming president. But he has not yet done that. And if he continues into New Hampshire, then, then people who, people who assign positive motives to Vivek Ramaswamy are going to have to reconsider that, that, that perception. Oh yeah, I'm right on the fence because the other, the other side is that he is, you know, a planter opposition to pull votes away from Donald Trump. And I'm 50, 50, I, I have no idea. I guess I just, I want to see what the other does. If he does not drop out, if he does not drop out before the, the New Hampshire primary, the answer is, that's what he's doing. Okay. There will be no question about it if he does not drop out before New Hampshire. New Hampshire is, New Hampshire is not a proportional representation situation. So whoever wins the New Hampshire primary gets the New Hampshire delegates. Okay. In Iowa, it's proportional representation. Okay. So whoever wins the primary wins the primary New Hampshire, those delegates go to that candidate. If, if Vivek Ramaswamy is taking votes away from Donald Trump, which is all that Vivek Ramaswamy can do, then what will happen is that he will be exposed as being hostile to Trump's presidency and him being a fundamentally a tool of DeSantis and or Nikki Haley. I think that, you know, it's interesting that DeSantis is up ahead of Nikki Haley right now. He, he's at 21.3% with 85% reporting and Haley is at 19%. And so, you know, there was some talk that maybe Ron DeSantis would be the one dropping out today. That does not appear to the case. I think Donald Trump is about to talk. So let's hear what the president has to say. And if you want to hang on, I'll talk to you after that. You could stay on the line or I will or I will continue on without you, but he's about to talk. I'm kidding. I'm not going to do it. Well, I want to thank everybody. This has been some period of time. And most importantly, we want to thank the great people of Iowa. Thank you. We love you all. We want to turn out. We want to crowd. And I really think this is time now for everybody, our country, to come together. We want to come together, whether it's Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative. It would be so nice if we could come together and straighten out the world and straighten out the problems and straighten out all of the death and destruction that we're witnessing that's practically never been like this. It's just so important. And I want to make that a very big part of our message. We're going to come together. It's going to happen soon, too. Can I have a chance? I want to thank some of the great people. We have so many senators. If I go through every name, we'll be a whole night and everybody's going to get angry at me. But the senators, the congressman, from Washington, they came down from all different states. I want to thank you very much. I want to congratulate Ron and Nikki for having a good time together. We're all having a good time together. I think they both actually did very well. I really do. I think they both did very well. We don't even know what the outcome of second places. I see Gary Lake. Congratulations, Gary. I spotted her after you announced because she's terrific. She's going to be a great senator. I predict, right? She's going to be a great senator. I also want to congratulate the Vake because he did a hell of a job. He came from zero and he's got a big percent, probably 8%, almost 8%. That's an amazing job. He came from the third world. Now he's in fourth place. I think most importantly, I want to thank my incredible wife, first lady. I'll say former and maybe future. But more important than Melania, I want to thank her incredible, beautiful mother who passed away a few days ago. She's up there, way up there. She's looking down and she's so proud of us. I just want to say to Amalia, you are special. One of the most special people I've ever known. That was a tough period of time for the family. She's amazing. She was amazing. I just want to thank what she's done for our family and her husband who's home right now. Very lonely. He's a lonely man, but he's going to be okay. Victor, they're great people. Great great parents to all of us, really, great parents, but also to Baron. Boy did she take care of Baron. That's how he got so tall. He only ate her food. And I want to thank my family. Generally, they've worked so hard and they've taken so much abuse for being good people. I mean, good people, but Eric and Don. They really did. These two have been working so hard and they, you know, they have another job, also. So they have to do it all, but they've been working so hard. And I know that Ivanka is home and Tiffany's home, they're watching. And I know that Baron's watching. Good old Baron. He's, I said, you're going to be a basketball player. Is it? Well, I like soccer, Dad, actually. I said, you're right. I like basketball better, but you can. Sometimes you can't talk to them in everything, but he's a special boy. But the whole family is just incredible in my sister, Elizabeth, who's just the biggest fan. She's just an incredible person. And always supportive. We love Elizabeth so much. Also, we have a woman who took a big chance. You know, in most states, we have support of everybody. The Congress, the senators, we had Marco Rubio, we had Gricks got the other day. We have, you know, probably 50, 55% of the senators. And now they're all calling and saying, we want to endorse you, sir. I said, oh, great. Same thing with the Congress, men and women. We have tremendous much more than anybody, probably has ever had in this position. And we love them all. They're great. They're really trying to do a good job for our country. But one woman in Iowa who really stepped up was your attorney general, Brenna Bird. She really, really stepped up. Where is Prada? Thank you. She stepped up. She's going to be your governor someday, I predict. So we'll see. We'll be watching, but she really did. She broke away from the pack. And she had tremendous courage. And was uneasy. In some states, it's easy. In other states, it's a little bit more difficult. But we have really the support of the people of Iowa, which has been just incredible. Another man who was actually the first person to endorse me. In the entire country, he's a state senator. His name is Brad Zahn. He looks like he's the most handsome guy. I think, oh, you made it. He had a drive from his caucus location. You made it. I call him the Marbra man. Well, I'll tell you, I had to actually do a TV interview, bragging about you. The reason why I was late because of that, but is he awesome or what? I am honored to be the first person in the United States to endorse this guy. The next president, the 47th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. And when he says endorse, we're really talking about 2015. He had dorsany before, actually long before I knew I was going to run. I said, who's this man in Iowa? He's a senator. A state senator is a good looking guy too. Doesn't he look? You could pay him and give him a lot of money. By the way, Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for being here. You are so great. Comes all the way from Missouri, which isn't that far. You can't drive an electric car that far, though. Thank you very much. I appreciate it very much. The group of people that we have on this day, just important. Just emblematic of the tremendous group that we've had. We've had such a great team. You know, we did well. We were looking really good in 2016. Just to go back to the senator, he was saying, I said, who is that guy? Brad, his name. Who is he? He keeps endorsing me. He keeps saying Trump. And I didn't even know I was running. He endorsed me four months before I knew I was running about four months before the escalade ride down with our great first lady. And that was Brad. I said, who is he? So he was the first one. But we have people that are so incredible. You're Republican Party Chairman, Bobby Kaufman and his son, who is a brilliant guy. And he worked with us. And I will tell you, that is a family of real professionals, Matt Whitaker, who is the very talented and very good attorney general. Where is Matt? He's around here someplace. And he's been with us all the way. You know, we have a man that was very impressive. And I say, there's nothing wrong with it. He's so solid and so good that he didn't catch on. Sometimes being a little controversial is good. He's so perfect. Although he did break his leg during the campaign, that wasn't so good. But it sort of stood out a little bit, but Doug Bergham from North Dakota, the governor, and his beautiful wife, Catherine. And he got out of the race. What people don't know is that he actually supported me on the other side twice already, right? Then he decided to do it. And he was outstanding. But the traction is never easy, right? You need controversy for traction sometimes. And this guy is the most solid guy. There's no controversy whatsoever. And he's one of the best governors in our country. And I hope that I'm going to be able to call on him to be a piece of the administration, a very important piece of the administration. And also just to conclude with this, the entire Trump team, and that includes my two boys who are really here all the time whenever we need to them, whenever we need to them. They are great, Eric and Don. And look at all these people, Suzy, I have to say. And Chris, Chris. And they want no accolades. They just want a victory and they want to make America great again. That's all they want. Actually, they don't want to be speaking. They don't want to have pictures. They just want to do their job, right? I want to thank you very much, Jason, everybody. You're really fantastic. What a job you've done. Thank you. So we're going to come together. We're going to drill baby drill right away. We're going to seal up the border. Because right now we have an invasion. We have an invasion of millions and millions of people that are coming into our country. I can't imagine why they think that's a good thing. It's a very bad thing. I think it's a group of people that probably larger and number than New York State. And we can't have that. We can't have that. It's not sustainable as a country. It's horrible. And you know they're coming from prisons and jails. They're coming from all over. They're coming from countries that most people have never heard of. And they're coming from mental institutions and in St. Asalams, they're being emptied out into our country. And they're terrorists. Many terrorists are coming in. You know, in 2019, I saw just recently on a poll, they had none in 29, no terrorists. No, I even say there's got to be some, but they have none. And then as soon as this group took over, they have hundreds and hundreds of terrorists coming in, known terrorists, some of them really bad. And many of them are in and they came in and nobody knows where they are. This is not a good thing. And we're going to have to deport. We're going to have to have a deportation level that we haven't seen in this country for a long time since Dwight Eisenhower, actually. So I don't want to be overly rough on the President. But I have to say that he is the worst President that we've had in the history of our country. He's destroying our country. And you know, my wife attended the funeral two months ago of Rosalind Carter and it was beautiful. And Jimmy Carter was there and I thought to myself, Jimmy Carter is happy now because he will go down as being a brilliant President by comparison to Joe Biden. He'll be a brilliant President. He's going to be, he's going to be known as brilliant by comparison. So we have to stop the invasion. We have to bring down our energy. We have to say, you know, we have, I say all the time, we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other nation anywhere in the world. And we have to stop the crime and we have to help rebuild our cities. And we have to rebuild the Capitol. Washington, DC, I was there on one of the Biden indictment trials. You know, this is the only person this never happened before. But I go to a lot of court houses because of Biden because they're using that for election interference. And it's on things like election. And I don't know if you know, but they did polls tonight on the election of 2020. Do you believe it was honest or not? 82% said, 82% said it was not. And we can't have that, Chairman. We can't have that. You can't have a situation like that. So we're going to straighten out our elections. We're going to do a lot of great things. We're going to try and go to paper ballots as soon as possible. Voter ID. One day, one day elections. You know, we have these elections that last for 62 days. And if you need some more time, take as much time as you want. And so many bad things happen. We have to get rid of mail-in ballots because once you have mail-in ballots, you have crooked elections. Actually, Jimmy Carter's commission said that a long time ago. We're going to rescue our economy. We're going to save our economy. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. There was never a greater economy. And now we don't. And when you look at what's happened with inflation, inflation is destroying. You know, they call it a country killer. Going back hundreds of years, Germany, countries that had big inflation are dead. They become dead countries. We have to stop that immediately. And we want peace through strength. Russia would have never attacked Ukraine. Would have never done it. Putin and I get a lot of money. In both Germany and the inflation, things very humorous. Not a bad thing. The fake news, which I would, if the fake news would become real and honest news, 90% of our problems in this country would be solved. Yeah. There would be so. Who wasn't for those people who are lying in the newspapers and making inflation like Germany right before that guy tried to straighten it out. Israel would have never been attacked. The Ukraine situation is terrible. Israel would have never existed. It's not for all that inflation. It's horrible. What's happened. And we're going to get them solved. We're going to get them very fast. I actually said Ukraine. I know President Putin very well. I know Zelensky very well. I'm going to get them in. We're going to get it solved very quickly. It should have never happened. Would have never happened. Now you have all that death far greater than people understand. The numbers are far greater than anybody would even think possible. Are you going to find that out in the years to come? When they knocked down these massive buildings in Ukraine and then you see they announced two people were slightly wounded. No, no. Many people were killed. Many people were killed. We're going to get it stopped. But it's so sad because it should have never started. People killed and a culture destroyed. You can never replace thousand-year-old buildings with the most beautiful golden domes and churches and everything. Just all rubble now. And as so said, it would have never ever happened. And likewise, Israel would have never been attacked. It all comes from a random. And we would have had a deal with the random very quickly. Had the election where we by the way got, and I say we because it's all we. We got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country. But they say we lost by a whisker. Okay. But regardless of that, we're going to do incredible things and we're not going to let China do what they'd like to do. I get along great with him also. President Xi is a very strong leader. And we're going to get things solved. We're going to get the Ukraine war solved. We're going to get the Israeli situation solved. But if you think back to that, Iran was broke. I said to every country, anybody does business with Iran, buys oil from Iran. They were broke. We're not going to let you do business in the United States. And that's the way it is. They did very little business, almost sold no oil. Nobody wanted to do that. That's a big penalty. And what happened is they had no money to give to Hamas and to give to Hezbollah. And in fact, there were a lot of stories at the time. They had no money for terror. And for four years, we had no terror. We had the terror ban. We had the terror ban. They caught the Trump travel ban. But it was really the Trump terror ban. We had no, we don't want people in our country that are going to blow up our shopping centers. Thank you very much. And we want a country of law and order. So we're going to rebuild the capital of our country, Washington DC. We're going to scrub those beautiful marble columns and get the swastikers off them. And we're going to scrub them and get the graffiti off them. And we're going to clean the streets and we're going to rebuild the streets. And we're not going to have rusted medians through the middle that are falling down into the roads where foreign dignitaries from all over the world come and they look. And we're not going to be riding on top of garbage. Like I did just a month ago, riding on top of garbage. We're going to rebuild our beautiful Washington DC. And we're going to take control of it. And we're going to make unbelievably harsh penalties for people that go around shooting. Last week, they shot three people. And every night something happens. It's so sad. And likewise, we're going to rebuild our cities and we'll work with the Democrats to do it. I'd be glad to work with the people in New York. We're going to work with the people in Chicago and LA. We're going to rebuild our cities. And we're going to make them safe. And we're going to give our police officers a minute. So every time they do something, they don't get sued and stopped. I'm going to end crime in our cities. I know you don't know what that means, but there's a different place. You don't know about crime. You don't know about getting mugged and getting whacked and getting thrown into subways. And we're going to stop it. And we're going to come down very hard on criminals. And we're going to stop crime in America. So I want to just finish by saying that this has been an incredible experience. The people have been, this is the third time we've won. But this is the biggest win. They said, well, if you win by 12%, that's a big win. That's going to be very hard to do. Well, I think we're more than double that. I guess triple that maybe. They said, you'll never get over 50. And I just left and we're 54. Now, I don't know what's going to happen with it. But they said, you can't do that, sir. I said, what's about the highest? Well, you could get into the 40s, maybe 40, 41. And then I looked up and you know, it was very interesting. I didn't know they called it early. I thought that they called it at about 10 o'clock. My impression to see this gentleman, we built, he's dressed like a wall. I love this guy. He goes to, he's been at 150 rallies probably. He has the most beautiful outfit I've ever seen. It's all beautiful brick. Will you come up here? Just come up here. Come on. It's so nice to see. Come on up here. He's emblematic of what we did. We built over 500 miles of wall. We were going to add another 200 miles. It's much more than we promised. And we had the safest border in the history of our country. Now we have the worst border in the history of the world. Look at his men. Congratulations. I love that outfit. I love him. That's great. We love it. That's a hot selling jacket, by the way. But that represents what we did. No, we built a tremendous, that's the reason. And we got Mexico to give us 28,000 soldiers free. And we had remained in Mexico and we had catch and release in Mexico. And we did a jab with the safest border in our history. We had the greatest economy in our history. We had a great, we were a great nation three years ago. And now we're a nation in decline. We are going to turn it around so fast. It's going to happen so fast. We're going to drill. We're going to make great, we have great wealth. We're going to drill. We're going to use that money to lower your taxes even further. We gave you the biggest tax cut in history. And we're going to lower them further. And we're also going to pay off national debt. It's about time. So it's now off to New Hampshire, a great place. We won it last time. And we won it both times. And we love it. The people are great. But you know the truth is the people in our country are great. They're all great. We love Iowa, but they're all great. They only want to see one thing. They want our country to come back. They're embarrassed by what's going on. Our country is left at all over the world. They're laughing at us. And they want our country to come back. They want America. You know, they want us to be great again. It's a very simple, mega make America great again. And America first. America first is a very important part of America. So we're going to put America first. We're going to make America great again. Again, Iowa, we love you. You are going to go out and buy larger tractors in Moreland. Don't worry about it. And to all of the people standing behind me and all of the people in this room and so many great politicians and great dignitaries and friends. I just want to thank you all. There's a very special night. And this is the first because the big night is going to be in November when we take back our country. And truly we do make our country great again. Thank you very much everybody. Great honor. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, ladies and gentlemen, former president Donald Trump with his victory speech, he could win a new Donald Trump. He could. Oh, I will caucus tonight with a big lead there. But now we can make another call. The Fox News decision desk can now project that Governor Ron DeSantis will take second place. Yeah. In the Iowa caucuses, the Sanctus will trail Trump as we said by a significant margin there. But coming in second, may give his campaign a much needed boost. Now, if he takes all of the 99 counties, is that mean he gets all of Dell? Sanctus has that is ahead by about two percentage points and there's still a bit coming in here. So we are expecting that we're going to hear from Governor DeSantis of Florida shortly. Nikki Haley looks like she comes in third tonight. She is also expected. So that's interesting. You know, I was under the impression that this is a proportional representation. They just said that Donald Trump could win all 99 counties. So it's not, it's not directly proportional representation apparently. It's you win or lose counties apparently. And I just received a report in email while we were listening to the future president speak. One of the erratic agenda listener or a surreal politics listener, I should say, who is a caucus goer has reported to me that his precinct captain told him that they ran out. What's the phrasing that he used here? They ran out of registration forms because so many Democrats were showing up to register Republican and vote against Trump presumably for Haley. A lot of good at it. They shouldn't even beat DeSantis. And so there's no constituency for Nikki Haley. I don't know what this woman thinks that she's doing besides you know, draining the pockets of Neocons. But you know, she'll probably have something to say in other contests perhaps. But it's an absolute joke tonight. Call her if you're still on the line. I'll take your thoughts before I move on. Yes, I guess just a little story. The first person to endorse Donald Trump in 2008 when Ron Paul lost the election. My dad an anarchist supported Ron Paul and back then I was pretty sure my dad was a little bit crazy because I mean anarchists are all crazy right. And he said you know who would make a great president. Donald Trump. And of course I was very very crazy thing to say. And I'm I was just like what are you serious? He's like oh yeah, he would be a great president. And he handed me his book, The Art of the Deal. And he said you should read that and tell me what you think. And he passed away in 2013 at the age of 71. And he missed all of this. Oh that's it too bad. He missed a heck of a show. Oh my god did he ever. Yeah. But yeah, thank you. Thanks for taking my call. I appreciate the perspective. Thank you very much for making a call. It's good to hear from you again. I look forward to hear from you again in the future. Do you have a good night? And so all right ladies and gentlemen, so DeSantis has clinched the second place. They're calling that. It's 91% reporting. Yeah, we'll we'll listen to Ramas Swami for a second. Let's see what he has to say. And then I'll read your see there are super chats and some non-paid chats that I will read nonetheless. There as we figure out where this is going. They're not going to actually play his directly to New Hampshire. All right, so they're not going to they're just showing him. They're not listening to him. So screw him. I don't care. He's going to talk about how the streets they make fine toilets anyway. And you don't really need to worry about those things anymore. It's probably the idea. So anyway, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to end the shut the phone system down here and we'll wrap up the show. But you know, I think go back over these these chats that we got here. I am Winston since $20. I just said Vivek wasn't Vivek just on Alex Jones last week telling people not to waste their vote on Trump because they'll never let him near the White House. Pretty sure that's what I heard him say Vivek is 100% controlled off just like all the all the Indian politicians in Europe who pretend to be for the populace. Well, you know, I didn't hear that, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find out it's true. Now it's kind of funny. Debot 805 you sent me $10 earlier and he then proceeded to say a bunch of subversive nonsense on the chat. I'll never vote again. Their lips never stop moving. We're all to say internationalist endorsed across the field. No solution, Chris. And then while Trump is speaking, this is unbearable shilling their own always Trojan Horus for Israel. Believing in this is naive. You know, are you having fun, buddy? Oh, if Congress denies funding again, he says we're talking about the wall. Well, you know, if Congress won't fund the wall, the president doesn't have the authority to just go and take money out of the treasury and spend it on whatever he wants. That's kind of how it works, buddy. And so if you want the president to do things that you want to do, then you have to do more than show up on election day. And if you've ever listened to surreal politics, you've heard me say that a thousand times that if you show up on election day and vote for the president and you have no other involvement in what's going on in the politics of your country, but that you are not a participant in politics in any real sense. There's a lot that goes on. You have to be involved in the party. You have to be involved in the primaries. You have to be involved in the in the midterms and the local elections and yada yada yada. Those are the people who are making all the important decisions before election day gets here. And if you're just sitting on Odyssey and being like, well, I'm not fooled by all this Israeli trickery, I'm going to stay home and do nothing and talk about how cool I am. Well, then guess what, buddy? Then you have not influenced anything that's going on in the Congress. And then the Congress can say, screw your politician, screw your president. We're not going to fund the wall. We're not going to fund what he wants. Okay. And then you say, ha ha, told you while I was sitting home, not voting that Congress that I didn't vote for didn't fund the things that you voted for. That doesn't make you right. It makes you very silly and childish. And you should become an adult and behave more adult-like and participate in politics like an adult. No, Congress approved all of the money that Joe Biden sent to Ukraine actually, debot. And so, you know, I think that basically the idea here is that you have to be informed, you have to participate. Otherwise, you lose. And as a matter of fact, you can be informed and participate and you can still lose, which is why you should probably be informed and participate so that, you know, you're not, you don't lose rightly. Say, okay. Look, what do you think is going to happen in November? What do you, somebody's going to be declared to win a rubber presidential election at the end of this year, okay? And in January, that person's going to be sworn into office. And that person's going to spend the next four years calling himself the president of the United States. What do you gain by saying, I'm way too cool for this? What? Nothing. Nothing at all. There's actually no argument to be made that anything positive comes of that. All you get from that is your own self-aggrandisement. It's worse than third-party politics, actually. There's nothing in that for you or for anybody else. All there is in it for you is your own on so much smarter than all those dumb voters. That's all you get. Well, pal, you know, you're not going to be happy about that. He says civil war. Oh, well, you might get a civil war either way. You won't be denied a civil war by showing up for a vote, pal. You know, nobody's going to deny you the right to hate your country and wage war against it because you showed up on election day. Let's see what Ron DeSantis has to say. DeSantis, and listening to his speech tonight, he came in second place in Iowa. We love you too. They threw everything but the kitchen sink at us. They spent almost 50 million dollars attacking us. No one's faced that much all the way just through Iowa. They, the media, was against us. They were writing our own. Oh, yeah. The media sell against Ron DeSantis saying that you speak as a Territorm. People even got a chance to vote. Oh, you're so depressed. They were just so excited about the fact that they were predicting that we wouldn't be able to get our ticket punched here out of Iowa. But I can tell you because of your support, in spite of all of that that they threw out us, everyone against us, we've got our ticket punched out of Iowa. You're going to get your ticket punched, all right, pal. And what I, what I learned by going around Iowa is that this country has a basic decency. We've got hardworking people, God fearing people, patriotic people. You just don't see it every day because of all the nonsense that gets spewed out there by the media, by social media, all this other stuff. People want to have hope for this country's future. And that's what we represent. We represent a chance to reverse the madness that we've seen in this country, to reverse the decline of this country and to give this country a new birth of freedom and a restoration of sanity. That's what we are going to do. No, you're not. So we have our marching orders. Our marching orders are to do all we can to preserve what George Washington called the sacred fire of liberty. The same fire that burned in Philadelphia in 1776, when our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. The same sacred fire of liberty that burned at a cemetery in Gettysburg when our first Republican president Abraham Lincoln pledged our nation to a new birth of freedom. The same sacred fire of liberty that was on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, not being the brother storm those shores and help free the world. Oh my God. The same sacred fire of liberty that was at the Berlin Wall in 1987 when Ronald Reagan stood there and said Mr. Gorbachev, as a consequence of what happened in 1942 is our responsibility to carry this torch and to preserve this sacred fire of liberty. Don't run away from this responsibility. We welcome this responsibility. We thank you for your effort. We thank you for your support. You helped us get a ticket punched out of the Hawkeye State. We have a lot of work to do, but I can tell you this as the next president of the United States. I am going to get the job done for this country. I am not. All right, this is, you know, you guys want to say that Trump is boring to listen to shut up Rhonda Santis. You're not going to be president. You're not going to restore the fires of liberty. You're not going to storm the beaches of Normandy shut up. Okay. Your entire purpose and everybody knows it is to try to weaken Donald Trump in advance of a general election against Joe Biden. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows what the outcome of the Republican primaries going to be. Donald Trump is going to win and he might well win it and then be thrown into a Georgia prison. And then debot 805 will get his wish and there will be a civil war. Okay. And so ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to engage in a civil war or if you would not like to engage in a civil war, why don't you go ahead and get yourself ready for that? Because if the Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination and is thrown into a prison in Georgia or New York or one of the many places he's been indicted, that's exactly what's going to happen. And so, you know, which side do you want to be on of that conflict? Do you? Do you want to be on the side of the conflict that's throwing Donald Trump in prison? Because you get, because the people who do that are not going to be like, yeah, well, you know, screw those Israel people because I don't like them either. No, that's not what's going to happen at all. These are the people who are trying to destroy you are the people who are lining up to destroy him. And that doesn't have to make him your friend, but he certainly doesn't deserve any of the energy that you devote to trying to take him down. And I don't know who it is that told you that, or what made you think that that was a good idea, but whatever gave you that dumb idea, it's a dumb idea, okay? The closest thing that you got to a guy on your side is Donald Trump. And if that's just a said statement about how powerless you are, well, then you might want to do something to change that. And it's not going to be accomplished by sitting on the internet and saying that you're too cool to participate in politics. And anybody who told you otherwise is not looking out for your interest. Sorry to say it, okay? So, believe me, I did this too cool for elections nonsense for a decade. Get out of here. You know, maybe not a decade, but close to it. From 2009 until I 2015, probably, I'd say. So, you know, six years, six years in change. It's a bunch of nonsense. Get on, get on board. Let's get the meme power going again. Let's have fun. Do you remember how much fun we had in 2016? Do you remember what a great time that we had? How much power we obtained in the course of that? Do you think that you obtained that power because you were just so cool? No, it wasn't because you were so cool. It was because you attached yourself to something that had power. And now you are saying, no, no, no, I don't want anything to do with power. I just want to be self-satisfied with my own ideological purity. Friend, you are not going to have fun, you are not going to accomplish things. None of that's going to happen. You're just going to sit and swallow in your stew. And it's going to suck. But not me. I'm going to have a good time this year. I'm going to have a lot of fun this year. I'm going to have a lot of fun this year. And then at the end of this year, then the federal government is going to get their stupid effing boot off my neck. And then I'm going to hit the road. And then we're going to have a lot of fun for the next four years. And then we're going to do this all over again. And we're going to do it four years after that. And four years after that. We're going to have a really good time here. And all you people who don't want to have fun at yourselves, I don't know what to tell you. I mean, you know, come on. We're going to have a lot of fun here. And we're going to accomplish things. We're going to become more powerful. We're going to make money. We're going to matter. And anybody who doesn't want to do that, then you go, you know, while I'm in your pity somewhere else, I don't know what you're talking about. So for those of you who are on board, it's good to be with you. I'm really glad you tuned in. Those of you who are not on board yet, keep on tuning in. Maybe you come around. Those of you who pay me, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. So talented. I'm good at what I do. And I try really hard. A lot of people really try very hard to stop me. But I'm not going to let them do that. 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I'll be interested to hear from you. I'm easy enough to get a hold of. You can call the shows or you can drop me an email. ChristopherCantwell.net slash contact. Get on the email is ChristopherCantwell.net slash subscribe. You know, if you're on Yahoo or Charter or whatever, you might not be getting my emails. We'll work on that eventually, but I'm sick of these criminals using a spam filters as a political weapon. I'm just really kind of had it with them. But, uh, you know, ladies and gentlemen, just let's have some fun. Huh? Stop with the, I'm too cool for its stuff. Come on. Just let's have a good time, man. Let's just have a good time. If not the nails, just have some fun with it. You're not going to benefit from Joe Biden being president. You're not going to benefit from a, a, a, a Republican contest that's just so fractured that it leaves the party in shambles. Get on board with the Trump thing. Just for the heck of it. Like, what do you think you're gaining? Nothing at all. Nothing. Just let's go have a good time, man. And if you don't want to, that's fine. You know, I'm not going to, I can't make you have fun, man. I can, you can lead a horticulture, but you can't make a thing. You know, that's the old saying. I don't think that's what most people say, but I like that saying, you know, so ladies and gentlemen, you know, you can get on board the helicopter or you could get the hell out of my helicopter. I guess is what I'm saying. All right. So, you know what I mean? Let's give them a helicopter ride. Okay. See you Friday. I see you Wednesday members and I'll see the rest of you Friday for a, for a radical agenda, where we'll be cursing up a storm. And of course, every Monday, 930, surreal politics, thank you very much for tuning in to the show. Have yourselves a wonderful evening with the ones you love. Celebrate this victory. This is a good thing for you. Okay. Stop acting like you're too cool. Just take it in. Enjoy it. Okay. You beat Nikki Haley tonight. You beat Ron DeSantis tonight. Doesn't that feel good? Ron DeSantis threw handsome truth in jail. Okay. So why don't you guys on Goi-MTV celebrate the loss of Ron DeSantis this evening? Okay. Celebrate. Have some fun. Feel good about it. I'll see you soon. You feels good, man. You know, what's the thing? You know, why you wake up angry? Just be happy. Try to find something to feel good about. You just beat Ron DeSantis. You beat Nikki Haley. You beat that brown fellow all the way on the right. You know, you won. Be happy. It's a good thing. There's going to be a lot of that just here. You're going to do a lot of winning pretty soon. And all you've got to do is be happy about it, dude. It's so good. What was the last time winning was that easy for you? But you just had to accept it. You say, I won. You don't get to do that that often. Embrace it. It's good for you. Beats the hell out of taking Prozac, you know? SSR riding on since.