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But thank you for being a part of the broadcast. I was talking about AI as we went to the break and it's impact and technology on our lives, not to mention our politics. It plays or will not necessarily how policy looks at AI and I think it's government. It's always about. I think as technology increases in complexity and ability, government's ability to react to it continues at about the same pace. I think probably in the forties, fifties, sixties, government could keep pace with change in society, and about the seventies eighties that started lagging further behind. And then by the nineties policies were really lagging because things were moving. And now if you were to go through your city or county's regulations and look at the read through them sometimes because there's their onerous there's thousands of them, you would find many that are outdated. With respect to ride Away's cars. There so many different things, building codes and just things get outdated and it's hard to update. It's hard to constantly update, very costly to do so. Software, by the way, the software that your local governments use to collect taxes, issue finds, or even to promote its meetings and stuff. Depending on which county or city you're in, it's very very costly difficult to keep that modernized. Even the building systems the way counties do building, or the way town and cities do building. It's constantly in need of upheaval, even your cars that are on the streets. You know, cities and counties that they're smart have some kind of strategic plan and they're probably replacing about twenty percent of the vehicles on any given year, so they get about five years worth of good utilization out of a vehicle. It'd be nice if they could get six to ten, but generally they wear them out. It's kind of the way you treat rental cars, isn't it. They just don't tend to last. Plus, the tech change is so dramatically in cars these days. They're very outdated at five or ten years. I look at the stuff that was in a like a twenty ten Aguar that makes it into a cheap car by twenty twenty. You know, the cheapest cars have some of the greatest and amazing, most amazing technology built in them. It's the nature of where we find ourselves these days. And uh, I don't know, I don't know where it all ends up. But you know, well, I'm fearful. I tend to get fearful. I don't mean to be fearful, but I don't know that I trust. I'm not a big believer in government's ability to deal with things. I like us. I think a smaller, more limited government has a great deal more alacrity. I think the smaller and more tactical a government is that the better able it is to adjust to things. You know, if you have an onerous, large bureaucracy, things slip through the cracks. And that's where that's what Medicaid has become. Medicaid has become huge, It's become lethargic, it's become you know, not even necessarily reactive. It just moves so slow, and the people that want to scam it move much more quickly. So, I mean credit card credit card theft has become something that I think from a security standpoint, more and more people are getting better at the companies are getting better at identifying fraud, getting something done quickly, going after things more quickly. There's still a lot of fraud, but it's a lot better than the Leviathan that his government now on that front. On the medicaid front, you heard what Tom Tillis opposed, the Big beautiful deal. A lot of it was on Medicaid. A lot of the Democrats. I even heard Hakeem Jeffery's the minority leader, say hey, we're we're the Republicans. We're not going to let them get away with this. We're going to stop the big ugly bill. We're going to stop it because some of the worst parts of it don't go into effect until after the midterms. And we got to make people aware of how horrible it is. You know, looking at that, I'm just you know, okay, that's the Democrats tactic this time around. And I was looking at what josh Stein had to say about it, and josh Stein was saying, you know, similar things that we worked so hard. But what is fascinating what what josh Stein had to say was that he said, we need to not let them kind of get away with this. He said, North Carolina is facing real risk to the health of hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians and the financial stability of our rural hospitals. Do the reconciliation law. And when you read what Stein says, you know, we came together to expand Medicaid, we must now come together to defend it. What is interesting about Keem Jeffries Joshdine in North Carolina Democrats across the nation that are decrying this. They did not offer an alternative. They did not offer a vision, they did not offer an idea, They did not offer any way to be responsible about these big government programs. Instead, what they decided to do genius maneuver was to just stand back and throw darts at whatever anybody else did. They had no intention of providing leadership, even at Josh Stein. I don't think that I think that Joshtin will look at things that come across his desk, But I'm not seeing from this particular governor solutions to problems. It'll and the class warfare that's constantly there. You know, you're going to tax cuts for the wealthy. Oh my god, that's so tired. That's like the worst re tread ever. They're putting square tires on cars with this stuff or Anothery're not. That's just simply not true. So when I looked at the Medicaid stuff, because a lot of people bandied it about, and so Paragon Health Institute has a really good newsletter out there that's talking about some of the things about Medicaid that are again, so much of this stuff is droll and boring and not sexy. But what I think, what I'd like to try to do is add a little bit of levity to it by going through some of this because it is, it can be complicated. It doesn't need to be, but it has. So what does the what does the new bill do? The reality of this? You know, the critics of it are saying it's going to cause seventeen million Americans to lose their health coverage, you know, and what does that mean? Where does it come from? So what we're gonna do, tell you what we're going to do. If PAM will allow us to do this. I'm kind of setting her up here. If PAM will allow us, I'm going to go to her a little slightly earlier than normal so we can check on traffic, and then I'll come back and I'm going to go through some of these medicaid myths so that when you hear them, at least you'll be able to, in casual conversation say that's not true. And here's why the critics are claiming that this is going to put Americans out, kick them out of their health insurance. It's going to be a terrible thing, And that's just not true because of who it's affecting and how it's affecting things, and also what's going to happen? What about ineligible people and how do we count those? The Congressional Office is pretty bad at predicting these kinds of things, and we'll talk about why they're wrong on this now. All right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash Pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. 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So what you're going to hear is what you heard Tom tillis what you heard the Democrats. They're all screaming about how terrible this bill is. It's gonna Josh diin, it's going to destroy our hospitals, is going to destroy healthcare for seventeen million Americans. But if you dig deeper into this bill and the people who help write it are actually the ones coming out now and defending it saying this is just not true. And you'll remember in the debate about numbers of deficit, the way the deficit's going to grow or not grow, depending on taxes. The Congressional Budget Office took a lot of hits, and it should. Their way of scoring bills has been notoriously bad for decades. I don't know why. It's like no one ever does anything about it. They're just terrible at what they do, and so they're the ones who's scoring. Is what the Democrats and Tom Tillis and others are screaming about. But they have a terrible track record. So let's go beyond the Congressional Budget Office. The number that that seventeen million Americans that are going to lose health coverage comes from is The number includes ineligible enrollies in Medicaid and Obamacare exchanges, in eligible enrolies, people who do not meet the community engagement requirements, and even those affected by the expiration of temporary COVID Era subsidies that Congress already chose to get rid of. In fact, many of the individuals counted in this figure were never eligible for coverage to begin with, such as unauthorized immigrants or those who misrepresented their income to qualified. In other words, they made more money, and they said oh, we don't make enough, but they actually did. So CBO's track record, I'll looking at that was very bad. It vastly overstated the number of people who would lose coverage when the individual mandate penalty was eliminated. It was not fully accounted for more than ten million ineligible enrollies currently receiving coverage and exchanges in Medicaid. So this new bill restores program integrity by ensuring eligibility is verified. So that's just one of the many misrepresentation of what's going on in the bill. I just wanted to pass that along. If you'd like to get in on the conversation at seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten, five seven oh eleven ten, that's the call in number. It also happens to be the WBG text line driven by Liberty b GMC. Exact same phone number, seven oh four, five seven oh eleven ten. You can text and then the producers will say, chat, hey, look this guy or gal texted. Yes, guy or gal. He said that with purpose, no agility intended. It is what it is. It's simple. So if you happen to text that line, the producer's like, hey, you need to be aware of this, and they'll tell me what you said. Maybe, maybe they'll tell me what you said if you didn't go off the rails. If you go off the rail sometimes that can be funny too. But I did want to pass along one thing I was looking through. So remember we started the show talking about the immigrant situation in California and how when they did the ray they were confronted by protesters who were throwing rocks at them. One guy pulled out a gun and fired a couple of shots out. In the course of that raid on the Glasshouse potfarm, one of the largest in the country, they came across ten kids. Two of those kids had parents, but they're working the pot fields. Eight of those kids had nobody. So you have eight kids, no documentation, no parents, no guardians, working in a pot field. You have to wonder why. Meanwhile, what they what the law enforcement in California, especially Sacramento, Here's what they had to do California. Read this is funny because I'm just juxtaposing where California's priorities are worried about the potform, their cities are trying to say they're not going to cooperate with ICE. I'll tell you what their mayor said in a little while, but California residents who launched fireworks for the Fourth of July have tickets coming in the mail thanks to police drones. Now, you would think the police drones would be interested in helping ice and providing logistical support and stuff like that. No firework discharges. One resident, for example, racked up ten numbs are right one hundred thousand dollars in fines last summer due to the illegal use of fireworks. If you think you got away with it, you probably didn't, said Sacramento Fire Department chief. Justin Sylvia, we may have been what may have been one thousand dollars fine for one occurrence last year could well be thirty thousand because you set off so many fireworks. Homeowners who weren't even present at the property also have tickets coming in the mail due to the social host ordinance. Social host ordinance. I want you to think about that for a second, because a social host ordinance means that if someone was at your place and set off the fireworks, you get the ticket. Imagine, I say, if you loaned your car to someone and they sped and the car got pulled over for speeding, you got the speeding ticket, a social host ordinance. It's one of the most And again, when I went through a list of things yesterday that the left came up with, only the left could come up with something the social host ordinance. I was watching and this is where I'll jump jump shift. But it's the same thing, is that the left comes up with these looney ideas that we then then it becomes part of the standard vernacular. And you know, when you first hear it, you think it's so loony. I don't need to embrace. I don't need to give that the time of day. But then they keep doing it, and then they try to justify it, and then they add and they codify it and make policy and things of that nature out of it. One of the most egregious that I've seen positive is something called a wealth tax. Now people are going to say, well, you're just opposed to that because maybe you have more than someone else. No, no, no, no, I want you to think about the con because Britain's having this discussion now, it's been discussed. Democrats have put this forward. Bernie Sanders kind of likes the idea. It's at the leftist if the mom Donnie mom, Donnie's kind of of this, of this ilk. He wants government run grocery stores. He wants to pass a tax to wealthy your neighborhoods. He hadn't quite said wealth tax that and heard it. But if you're a redistributionist, that's your mentality, is that you have a right to the stuff earned by other people that somehow you in a government position, you've gained power. Therefore you want to grow your power and exert that power over people who earned it somehow those people need to be shown lesson. So the wealth tax goes something like this. In fact, it goes exactly like this. So you pay your income taxes, you pay your property taxes, you pay whatever you know it takes to keep your stuff from being complicated. And then the government comes along and says, well, your house is worth this much, your net savings are worth this much, and so you add all of that your net worth basically minus expenses maybe or you know what you owe, and that's your net worth. And so then we will pass a tax and annualize tax on what you're worth. So let's say, whatever reason, you're worth a million dollars and you're going to pass a two five percent wealth tax. So five percent wealth tax, you're gonna get, you know, fifty thousand dollars out of that a year forever. That's what a wealth tax. It is an instant collect confiscation and redistribution. Mental Now, I hope that he gets shouted down in Britain. It's been pushed a few times in America, but there are enough common sense people to say, that's absolutely insane, Ludacris, we don't need to do that. But it will come back. Mam Donnie's elevation in New York is the tip of the spear, so to speak. And the reason he's getting a lot of attention is because Democrats are falling in line to support him and Democrats that want to say, oh, that's not our party. When Jim Clyburn from South Carolina said he's the nominee, I'm going to support him now, to me, it sounded like Jim was a little confused. He was having a little bit of a Biden moment, thinking confusing Cuomo for Mam Donni. But he said in the end when they ask him to clarify, Mom Donnie is the Democrat candidate, Yes, I will support him. So Democrats fall in lop lockstep with that part of me wants him to win. That sounds terrible, doesn't it, Because I don't want to wish bad policies on anyone. But don't you get tired of trying to save New York from itself? Don't you get tired of the constant amount of attention that gets paid to trying to save the city of New York from its worst inclinations, from rent control, from bad union contracts, from overbearing food policies like you're not allowed to have a sugary drink, like having a government grun grocery store, or having food desert policies. At a certain point, you just let them go because when the people who pay the bills leave, New York's going to be left to its own devices. And often the regression to the mean, and that kind of situation means a conservative ideology returns in New York returns. It becomes safe again, becomes better again, becomes more successful again, and that's what we all want. Ultimately. Sadly, a lot of those people in New York that would leave would come down south. I think that head to Florida. Maybe we should put aside and says keep going, keep going. I know you hit on ninety five. You have the state line. 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So Jim Comey and John Brennan, the famous Trump hating dynamic duo, you know I have said that, you know, Hey, we're they went after Trump, they created the fake Russian dossier, they did all this, and what's interesting is is their response to these kind of the thought process that they're going to be that they're they're going to be in trouble. It's kind of interesting. So what you did was you had him on. He was on CNN with Nicole Wallace and she asked him, Hey, what do you know about what's going on with all this mess? And in his response, he was somewhat dumbfounded. His response was this, So so he said, quite frankly, I don't know what's true, you know, and I'm not I'm not giving you this out of context. This is literally these are his words exactly from the transcript of what he said. And I just, you know, and kind of blown away by. What his take is. This supposed to be one of the brightest guys in DC, former CIA director, the guy in the know who said there was a Russian rush rushier thing. He said, you know, I don't know if it's true. You know, what are there are so many things that get out in the media bloodstream, and it's interesting saying that it was. I think Fox News and the New York Post reporting things like this about him being investigated. So I don't know whether or not there's any validity to it. If there was, it was a referral, if there's an investigation. Presumably, if there is an investigation, then people will be questioned. I would be questioned about it. But again I've had no contact with them, meaning the people investigating. But again I testified. But again, but again he says, those are his words, not mine. He likes to use that phrase. I testified, but again in front of many many congressional committees in the House and the Senate over the years, and I continue to explain exactly what we did during the process, why we tried to make sure we stay true to our intelligence responsibilities and that we were not going to do anything at all to try to interfere in that election. And again, it was a challenging time. But also when I think that the people who actually worked for this, both in terms of trying to collect intel prior to the election and then the ones who put together the intelligent they really I think showed the best of what the intel community and the CI is made of. So I'm clueless what they're investigating. This is one of the two guys that really pushed the Russia collusion narrative. I mean, I'm blown away by his reluctance to try to say he doesn't understand why they would be looking at him in any way. It just and listening to him doesn't make it any more clear at least, I well, I was. Going to play it for you, but it's uh, it's having a little, it's struggling a little to show you that. So that in the background, so we know the years of persecution. Now the public believes that the public confidence, by the way in climate change stuff is is that the lowest it's been. The approval of Democrats in Congress is the lowest it's been the party in general, the lowess it's been. The Democrats are having a very tough time, So what what does that mean for them? So that what they're hoping and what they've gambled on is that here's what here's what they've gambled on. We're going to just oppose Trump and there'll be enough people that hate Trump that they'll join us and will scoot onto victory. We'll just skate in and we got this, We've got it all. And unfortunately that's not what things are saying. This is from the Hill. This was printed earlier today. The Democrat Party's credibility with voters has plummeted even further since the twenty twenty four election raising alarm bells as the party looks to rebuild ahead of the midterms the next presidential election. According to a poll obtained by The Hill The Pole conducted between May and June by the Unite the Country, a Democrat super pack. Okay, so this isn't right leaning optimism. This is the Democrats conducting information on their voters about where they're headed, where they stand, and what's going to happen. Now, again, it's early. Any number of things can happen. I'm not I say if the trend line continues, Democrats are in trouble, but I would be the first to say six months, eight months from now, we could be a year from now, we could be looking at a different world. But right now it's very difficult for Democrats. The poll commissioned by Unite the Country perceive the Democrat Party as out of touch, woke, and weak. The party has seen its support eroad with white men, Hispanic men, and working class voters across the board, with approval ratings sitting below thirty five percent across those demographics. So think about Hispanic men, working class voters below thirty five percent, and enthusiasm within the party continues to be weak in the wake of twenty twenty four according to the poll. This is the reality of the perception of us as a party, and until we accept that, it's going to be hard to move forward, said Democrat strategist Rhodel Mullinou, who serves as the senior advisor to the pack. There's a perception out there outside of Democrat elites, and it's taken a hold in not just the magnet Crow, but people that should be with the Democrats and the party. Democrats need to realize that in order to improve and get better, to not only win in twenty eight, but when in twenty thirty, thirty two and beyond. He said, Democrats have been searching for a way out of the wilderness since they're devastating loss last November, when they not only lost the presidency once again to Trump, but also the House and Senate. Since then, party officials have conducted a number of post mortems. They love to do that. After the body's dead, they're what wed's wrong. The problem is they never want to admit it's them. They want to look for some kind of what it had to be, something else done by someone else. It can't be we're wrong. We can't be wrong on men and women's sports. We can't be wrong about having a poorest porter. We can't possibly be wrong about letting NATO be week. We are not wrong on any of our issues. It must be the media. But since that time, the party officials have conducted a number of post mortems as part of the party's rebuilding effort. They spend like twenty million dollars trying to figure out what men think. But Democrats are still feeling dejected and rudderless in the early months of the Trump presidency. The pull out in May reveal that only thirty five percent of Democrats are optimistic about the party's future, compared to fifty seven percent the previous July. There's an overwhelming sense that the party lacks strong leaders. You think Democrat donors and butlers are not cutting checks to candidates, citing the party's lack of enthusiasm and zero vision unite. The Country's latest poll was conducted in voters in twenty one battleground counties in ten battleground states. Democrats have not escaped the shadow of that loss. They look who they put forth as their candidate for president. They were more concerned about checking a box yep female, then the most qualified candidate, like a new Summer Shapiro, they went with someone that was It's like when the party went with Dole back in the nineties for the Republicans. Democrats have had opportunities to hit back at Trump, including on tariffs, Big Beautiful Bill, but political observice ay, those were wasted. The super Pac poll revealed that Democrats' prime emphasis on fighting for democracy, which is popular within the party, is no longer going to cut it in the general electric since their soft on immigration policies have turned so many people away. It's not about bandoning who we are. It's not about leaving people behind. We're a big tent party. But it's about prioritizing the messages and starting where the majority of people are with them on most issues right now at all, They're just not You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video. 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Maybe optimistic not for Democrats necessarily, Well even that, because I think there was a time, and I used to like that time, when we debated how to make the streets safer, how to make education better, how to better support our country, how to make it stronger, how to do these things that increase the quality of life for our kids and families, and our our and our fellow citizens. But I think we've strayed away from that and the age of social media. And it's not to extol the virtues of everybody on the right, because there's some Look, the extremes are out there on both sides, and they're not productive and they're very closed minded and conspiratorial. But the poll that I just kind of went through a little bit of it with you is showing that this drift to the left that is alienating voters from the Democrats heading in the next year. Now, I say that because we're you know though there we're in the lull of summer. You know, it's fun, it's warm, it's hot dogs, hamburgers can be outside and until Labor Day and then Labor Day. Right now, a lot of different towns and cities, it's municipal election time, so people are signing up for mayor city council. That stuff. Next year, the big midterms, that's when county commission and everything's on the ballot. Is that at the local levels where we give up a lot. So you'll have a lot of these Trump supporters that are out there and they'll go, ah, I supported him, I'm a conservative. But when they get into local elections, they all of a sudden they want, you know, they want to have massive tree ordinances. They want to look at right away issues they're looking at. It's kind of this erosion of property rights and increase in bureaucracy. They never connect their philosophy at the national level with their philosophy at the local level. Now Democrats, on the other hand, I think are very good at this. I think them, by and large, they love the transactional stuff at the local level. They like big government, more bureaucracy, and they like it at the state level, then they'd like it at the national level. That's why I think city councils and county commissions tend to breed Democrats in many ways that it breeds them well, gives them a farm team to go to the house, the North House, North constentated onward and upward. Whereas the Republican Party's not as good at that because when they start getting higher up, all the realities of how they voted, I mean happened. I mean you see that they're not as conservative when they move up the food chain, they're just not so. I say that because the mayor of La just came out or I think it was earlier today. It may have been earlier today where she's talking about, so we knew there was a big situation on a pot farm where you had kids working on a platform. But here's how her response to that is, She's going to do an executive order. Now. I'm not sure that she's inclined to know what the limitations on being a mayor are. But I don't care what mayor you're in, what city. There are limits to you that go to your state and limits on you to the federal government. But she wants to act like they don't applied to her. So I want to play what she had to say in this press conference. And again, this is the same mayor that was in Africa when while kind of nero fiddled to why Rome burned, you know, even though there were no fiddles. But the point being, she was completely out of touch when the fires were happening and was indignant when confronted by same mayor, Karen Bass. Here's what she had to say about the situation with Ice. I am here today to sign an executive directive, and I just want to point out the irony for a minute that there is a need for me to have an executive directive to help our city understand how to protect itself from our federal government. Just let that sink in for a minute. To protect the citizens from the federal government. What is the federal government doing that is so wrong? So she's issue executive order to protect to protect non citizens. There's more what. We have seen here over the last now going on six weeks of raids that pop up and we never know exactly when and where they're going to happen. So she's upset that ICE is doing its job and showing up in places unannounced. I don't know you're going to catch bad people, you don't tell them. Hey, by the way, fellow cartel members, we're going to be there at one thirty five in the morning, So just want to let you know. She's complained that she's now this is the same kind of complaint that Democrats had when they wanted to know about where the missiles were hitting in Iran or not the missile, but the bombs whatever missiles. Also before it happened, they wanted to the same kind of you don't do that, You don't communicate surprises, especially from law enforcement that would endanger their lives. After the Left has said they're going to show it on a on a on a on an app and that the lives of the guys that are serving. We've seen them in the general region. I'm sure many people saw Camarillo yesterday and what broke out there. We saw Magarthur Park earlier this week, which I think now after all assessments, it is viewed as just a display of force, just to put the city in its place, to say, we are the federal government. We can roll out troops whenever we choose. Los Angeles. Byrn the riot, all of the other stuff that's happened, this is where she's planting the flag that somehow trying to get. I mean, that farm that she referenced had ten kids that were working on it. That doesn't bother her at all. And this is the kind of disconnect that is driving people away from her party. So the executive directive that I will be signing in a few minutes is to help the city family, to help the city workforce, to help the city departments and all of the general managers essentially develop preparedness plans that have specific protocols and that help city workers know how to address immigration officials should they approach a city department, how we abide by the law, but we understand what our rights are as city employees, how we can provide protection for immigrants who might be attending a city event. So, if you're reading between the words on what the mayor of La says, she's basically saying, here's the truth, Mayor, every one of your city employees has the same rights to every other American. They do. You're treated equally under the law. But you don't have the right to aid and to bet criminal activity. I don't care whether you're a city employee or not. And that's what she's kind of trying to do because she's what she's saying is if there's a city event, you know, we don't want ice coming to a city event. So if you're an illegal and you want to go somewhere, what she's essentially saying is we're going to create sanctuary events. Not just the sanctuary city, We're going to create sanctuary events. We want to prevent curtail hold back the federal government from enforcing the laws of the country. She's trying to act as if she wants to stay within the federal guidelines. The truth of the matter is you're not being terrorized. Your citizens are not your citizens for whom you swore an oath to, you know, protect a constitution you serve. You know, you swore an oath to serve and protect. You're wanting to circumvent that for citizens that are not from this country. Now, the other funny part about this is there's on a post adjacent to this, there's a guy who's got a he's being deported. He's got a flat Mexican flag wrapped around him, and he's not wanting to be deported back to Mexico. Now. I don't know about you, but if I were going to be deported and I wanted to stay in the US, maybe I would wrap myself in an American flag because that's where I want to be. You would think you would extol the virtues and the values of the country you wish to stay in. And then you're telling people while you wrap yourself on a Mexican plat that you don't want to go back to that country. But again, this is where and as you go through as we ramp up things through. Labor Day, because that's what's really going to take off is after Labor Day, as we ramp up into that period of time, Please take a closer look at your city council candidates. That's important. It's it's important that you that they get questioned about property rights. It's important not just about the tax rate. The tax rate, you can do so many different things with the tax rate. It's about the tax burden more than anything. It's about what they're doing to protect property rights, what they're doing to reduce crime, what they're doing to get away from this woke DEI stuff. Are they embracing meritocracy where they are rewarding and and and raising through their own the brightest and the best and the most successful. Is that what they're doing. Or are they promoting people because of other things? Are they discriminating against people because of things that have nothing to do with meritocracy. Those are really legitimate questions. Those aren't bad questions. Are you going to work with the federal government to make sure that the citizens are protected and that if we do, we shouldn't be harboring fugitives from justice? Period? As I started the week with full stop, that's pretty much the way. It's not complicated, but ask the questions. It's the American way. Just do it. Don't barge into meetings like the left does. Be respectful, folks. Have a fantastic week, fantastic weekend. I'll be talking with you soon, I'm sure. Stay tuned for Winnable next here on News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine three WBT. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.