It worked! We have no kings!! (06-16-2025--Hour1)

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[00:00:29] Now, I must admit, I was pretty skeptical that it would work over the weekend. But apparently it did. It totally worked. We don't have any more kings anymore. I am as surprised as you. I thought I would, you know, wake up and it would just be normal, a regular Monday, bunch of kings everywhere.

[00:00:56] But no, it worked. Thank you, Democrats, for your momentous events, your rallies, your bravery, your courage, as Dan Rather might say. You have saved us from all the kings. Again, I was skeptical. But here we are. Look around. Do you see any kings? I don't either. So it obviously worked.

[00:01:22] Now, there was a royal wedding or what passes for royalty in America, which is George Soros. Well, his son, Alex, got married to Huma Abedin. I guess her name is now going to be Huma Soros.

[00:01:42] Huma Soros, which sounds almost like a dinosaur species, you know, that you learn about Huma Soros. But anyway, yeah, top Democrats were out celebrating the lavish wedding of former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and Alex Soros, the son of left wing mega donor George Soros.

[00:02:07] Among those in attendance, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton. And she even delivered remarks at the wedding. It was held at a Soros family estate in the Hamptons, which is the very wealthy upscale area of Long Island, New York, out at the east end of the island.

[00:02:35] And guests at the Opulent Affair dined on. I don't even know what this is. I probably will mispronounce it. But truffle agnolotti, agnolotti. I have no idea what that is. I don't even think I know what a truffle is. I mean, I see the word and I like I've heard of truffle oil. I've probably eaten some of it, but I just is it like is it a mushroom?

[00:03:00] I think. Anyway, they also had chilled pea soup. That's P.E.A. soup, by the way. P.E.A. soup. That sounds horrific. Yeah, but well, I got texture issues with pea soup. It's just it looks like a bowl of boogers, you know, and I just I'm not a fan.

[00:03:25] And I like peas, but and I like soup, but I know pea soup can't do it. And then you made it even worse by having it chilled. So it's basically it's a pea smoothie. Right. That's what that's what you've made. You just put it in a bowl and you're calling it soup. This is how the wealthy dine. Oh, I don't know what this word is either. Wagyu Bavette, B-A-V-E-T-T-E.

[00:03:55] Sports car. I don't know. Wagyu Bavette and grilled prawns. New York Times labeled it as something of a political royal wedding. On the no kings day. They had this wedding on the same day that they were protesting the kings. The Democrats were literally at a royal wedding.

[00:04:22] The no kings protests were organized in part by the Soros funded activist group Indivisible. One such demonstration titled shut down billionaires lane. No kings. That's the name of the event that was scheduled on Saturday in Southampton, which is where they were. That's the name. Shut down billionaires lane. No kings.

[00:04:52] I don't. But yeah, that's like right down the street from where the Soros Abedin wedding took place. And people flew in on their private jets. Is that billionaires lane? I don't know. Do they? I've never heard of this thing called billionaires lane. Maybe it's a place in the Hamptons where all the billionaires live. I don't know. But there's just something rich. No pun intended. Actually, yes. Pun intended.

[00:05:19] There's something rich about a no kings protest. Attacking billionaires in the Hamptons. Hamptons. Give me a break. You're the Hamptons guys. The board of open society foundations, a major Soros philanthropic organization, elected Alex Soros as chairman in December 2022.

[00:05:45] Alex describes himself as, quote, more political than his father. George Soros said that his younger son earned the chairmanship. The younger Soros has met with numerous high profile Democrats to discuss issues that the foundation is involved in. Yes.

[00:06:06] And he takes photos of every Democrat that, you know, makes the pilgrimage to Alex's penthouse skyscraper apartment or condo. And he takes pictures of them and posts them up like you would, you know, gain trophies on the wall that, you know, you took down this 70 point buck or something and you put his head on your wall. So like he's collecting Democrat trophies.

[00:06:35] Alex Soros and Aberdeen announced their engagement in July 2024. Aberdeen was previously married to. Anthony Weiner. That's right. Whose political career ended after he sent explicit photos to a minor from Gaston County. That's from the Daily Caller News Foundation piece by Harold Hutchison. Headline Democrat bigwigs hobnob at Ritzy Soros wedding on no King's Day. Yeah.

[00:07:06] Like just the irony alone. Did not anybody. Well, I guess they probably had the date planned for a long time. They chose flag day. It's very odd. But yeah, just sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Now, I could not tell.

[00:07:27] If the parade that was held up in Washington, D.C. with all of the military, you know, personnel and equipment and all that and vehicles. Maybe that's what got rid of the kings.

[00:07:41] Maybe there was such a strong show of force from our military that maybe it didn't have anything to do with all of the, you know, 70 year old white liberals reliving, you know, the 60s Woodstock era or something like maybe they didn't actually get rid of the kings for us. Maybe it was the show of force. Maybe it was the show of force.

[00:08:00] Now, I can't tell if the left wanted our troops to be doing like goose stepping like the Nazis because they seem very disappointed that they weren't. Like they were predicting that this would be terrible and that they were going to be like jackbooted thugs walking the streets and all of this. And then when it was actually held, the parade was done.

[00:08:25] And then I saw this criticism from lefties online that were like, oh, that was pretty lousy. That was that was pitiful. And they didn't even know how to march in line together. And like they were just like attacking the troops is not being Nazi like. So I'm I'm I was just unclear. Did we want them to be like the Nazis or did we not lefties? And by we, I mean you like what was it?

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[00:10:41] Yeah, it was. I was not offended by the parade. It's the army's 250th birthday, right? I'm fine with all of that. Not a big deal. And so, uh, Byron York writes, he's, uh, here's the first thing to say about Saturday's military parade in Washington, D.C., honoring the army's 250th birthday. It was a good thing to do. It wasn't a vanity production for President Donald Trump's birthday. It wasn't an authoritarian flex.

[00:11:09] It wasn't a threat to the American people or to the democracy. It was instead a dignified celebration of one of the great institutions of American life as it and the U.S. marks its 250th year of existence. Trump was right to highlight the army's birthday as the beginning of America 250. That's the brand, by the way. That's America 250. All one word.

[00:11:39] That's the marketing thing, like hashtagging it, you know, for, uh, for the July 4th celebration. It was also a good parade, Byron York says. Um, and then he talks about, you know, all of the various, uh, pieces of equipment, how it told the story, you know, it starts with the, are the beginning of the army's history.

[00:12:01] And then it like horses, the fife and drum corps, and it kind of works its way towards the modern, uh, you know, modern equipment, modern forces, all of that. The crowd seemed pretty big, but not huge. And it was spread across an extended area because it was a parade, right? Um, White House spokesman, Stephen Chung tweeted, amazing. Despite the threat of rain, over 250,000 patriots showed up to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army.

[00:12:31] God bless the USA. And that's the White House line, right? All of Trump's opponents in the Democrat Party and the media, but I repeat myself, um, and elsewhere, they're all, they'll all say it was far less. Right? And here's the thing. No way, there's no way to know with any certainty because many years ago, you may recall, the National Park Service got out of the business of estimating crowd sizes. Do you remember why?

[00:13:02] Well, they came out and gave a crowd, uh, crowd estimate after the million man march that was put on by the Nation of Islam. Um, and, um, they pointed out that there wasn't a million people there. Now, they didn't do it meanly or, you know, they were just saying, you know, National Park Service estimate was, you know, 100,000 people or whatever. It still had a good turnout, a decent-sized turnout. I mean, that's a lot of people to attend any one event, right?

[00:13:28] And so they had this million man march and, and they did not get a million men and outrage ensued. And so they were like, you know what? We're not going to do estimates anymore. So it's, it's hard to know how many. There is one important thing to also remember about crowd size, writes Byron York. There is a partisan component here. Trump wants to hold big, beautiful events in Washington because the setting is so magnificent.

[00:13:54] But the District of Columbia and the surrounding counties in Maryland and Virginia are heavily, heavily Democrat. Democrat. So even with the high military presence in some areas, anybody within easy driving distance or public transportation distance to the parade was likely a Democrat. And that's just the way it is. It was true in 2017 when Trump insisted that his inauguration crowd was bigger than it was. And it's true now.

[00:14:23] For a Republican, it's not really something to worry about, though. Like, if you are a Republican, you're not going to be able to throw a massive rally or parade in Washington, D.C. because the Democrats won't go to it. They could have gone to this, right? They could have gone. But they, they wanted to depose kings. So, now there were some protesters, and Byron York writes about that too.

[00:14:53] And, no, they were not, like, hauled away and thrown in jail as all, you know, kingdoms do to the dissenters. No. They, they just were allowed to hold signs and do their chants and whatever. No violence broke out, so it was entirely peaceful. There was no, like, mostly peaceful. It was entirely peaceful. It was just a parade.

[00:15:17] Of course, you would have to be pretty stupid to, you know, act foolish like that and start violence when you've got, you know, the military there with all of their weaponry. One more thing, he writes. The idea behind the nationwide movement was to create a narrative that Trump's opposition dwarfs his support. And that opposition is growing as everyday Americans are shocked by Trump's actions.

[00:15:45] Organizers will say, just look at the demonstrations across the country. Millions of people coming out to protest Trump. And then compare that to his puny parade in Washington. We are the real majority. Right? That's what the No Kings messaging is supposed to convey among many of the messages because they're kind of all over the place on the messages. They've got, like, yeah, there's a lot of different messages. It really wasn't a great branding effort.

[00:16:11] But the whole point is to, like, give this idea that, you know, Trump's not popular. We're the majority. And, you know, we are going to rise up for democracy, which we literally just had. We just did the democracy, like, eight months ago. And Trump won, guys. That's really what it was about. Right? This is why it's a tough case for the left to make here. They're working hard to make it, but it's a tough case to make.

[00:16:41] Because we just did a democracy. And Trump won. And so your No Kings thing seems a lot more just like TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, and, like, whining and sore losing. That's what it kind of looks like to me. 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.

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[00:17:59] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. All righty, so President Donald Trump yesterday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democrat-run cities, a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration's immigration policies.

[00:18:28] This is according to Iamer Madhani. Madhani. Iamer Madhani. Anyway, the Associated Press. So, is it possible that the cities that are being targeted, L.A., Chicago, New York,

[00:18:52] could it be that those cities have implemented sanctuary city policies that then drew in a large number of illegal aliens over the past, you know, decade? Hence the need to focus your efforts on those cities. It's not that they are Democrat cities, that they are, because they obviously did the policies, right?

[00:19:20] But the policies drew in large numbers, and so that's why you would focus your efforts on those cities. Are we supposed to ignore the cities? Also, Trump, in a social media posting, called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to, quote, do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest mass deportation program in history, end quote.

[00:19:50] He also added that to reach the goal, officials, quote, must expand efforts to detain and deport illegal aliens in America's largest cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where millions upon millions of illegal aliens reside. Right. It's like the old line, you know, they ask, who was it, Billy the Kid? Why'd you rob the bank? Well, that's where they have the money.

[00:20:16] Trump's declaration comes after weeks of increased enforcement and after Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff and main architect of Trump's immigration policies, said ICE officers would target at least 3,000 arrests a day, which would be an increase from the 650 per day during the first five months of Trump's second term, which makes sense because you go from, like, no enforcement under Biden,

[00:20:46] and then you've got to kind of ramp it up. And that's why they're, you know, signing all of these. Oh, I heard driving in today, I, you know, I pop around the dial and I pull up the NPR station and I'm always curious, like, oh, what do they think is the news today? And Jen White from 1A, that's the program, 1A.

[00:21:13] I think it's First Amendment, but it could also be, like, Section 1A of the newspaper. But do they even have sections of newspapers anymore? I don't, like, they're all just basically, like, one chunk now, except for, like, on Sundays, I guess. Anyway, they were talking about this immigration enforcement stuff, and she had on a couple of legal experts and lawyers, and there was a guy on from, I think he was out of Emory University,

[00:21:40] and he's talking about the expansion of the 287G program. I've talked about 287G for 20 years because the quick recap is that it's a federal statute, 287 parentheses G, and it allows local law enforcement agents to be essentially deputized so they get access into the database that ICE uses.

[00:22:10] So when people are coming into your jail, sheriffs' offices around the country were using 287G to identify if people are illegal aliens or not. And our former sheriff of Becklenburg County, Jim Pendergraft, actually implemented it here. He was one of the very first in the country and then proceeded to go all around the country instructing other sheriff's offices how to use 287G

[00:22:36] because he got hired to do that as a consultant, basically, for the Bush administration. And then, of course, you know, the left rises up against this program and they start scrapping it. Our sheriff scrapped cooperation with ICE, scrapped the 287G program in Mecklenburg County when he was first elected, and this has gone on in, you know, Asheville as well, and Raleigh, Durham. So the left does not like the 287G program.

[00:23:04] And listening to this guy talk about the 287G, he never tells the audience what it is. But he's very concerned at all of the agreements. They're up to now, like they had, I think he said something like there were 100 287G agreements in place when Trump was sworn in. And now they're at like 650. And this is very alarming. It's militarizing everybody and something, or I don't even know.

[00:23:30] I couldn't even follow his logic on why this is so terrible to have other agencies enter into the agreement so they can help identify illegal aliens that they may have in custody or that they take into custody or whatever. But I just thought, how odd. You're catastrophizing the 287G to an audience, to this NPR audience, and you never explain to them what the program does.

[00:24:00] Anyway, the Trump administration has directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants, and hotels. Did y'all hear this? Trump expressed alarm about the impact aggressive enforcement is having on those industries, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter who spoke only on condition of anonymity. So we're stopping the enforcement at farms, restaurants, and hotels.

[00:24:30] I don't think that's a great idea. But I do have some audio here. Yeah, this was a thick-framed, glasses-wearing, awful affluent white female liberal from California who posted a short video with the title, Bleep Ice, No Human is Invisible, which I don't even understand what that means. But yeah, here's what she said.

[00:25:00] So I'm in my beautiful city, L.A., and I have friends texting me like all morning. My gardener didn't show up. My housekeeper didn't show up. Oh, my farmer's market was closed. Everyone's scared. Well, this is not going to just happen in L.A. And you one percenters that only voted for Trump because of money? Guess what? You're going to have to do your own dishes or clean your own house or mow your own lawn

[00:25:29] and, oh, that wonderful produce, the organic produce you get for your brunches? Uh-uh. All gone. Yeah. You're going to actually have to do some work around your house. These people are important. Okay. She was directing that message to one percenters, billionaires, I'm assuming, right? The top one percent of wage earners or the wealthiest one percent maybe. Yeah, they're still not going to be doing their own dishes and mowing their yards.

[00:25:58] They're billionaires. They have so much money, they can actually afford to pay the wages required by U.S. citizens. Right? You guys, this is not a winning message. Right? Lobbying to keep your indentured servants so you can pay them, you know, off the books, under the table, less than the job actually would pay if they were legal.

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[00:27:55] protesting. The closest thing to a royal wedding, you know, in the Democrat Party over there up at the Hamptons, east end of Long Island, and I read through what they served aside from the gross, chilled pea soup, but, P-E-A soup. But, the Wagyu Bavette, Bavette is apparently, well, I will let, Nick, you should do this. You should, you should announce what exactly Wagyu Bavette is.

[00:28:26] It's flap or flank steak. So it's flank steak, but with a, with a fancy name. A fancier name. It's for the Hamptons. It's like, um, it's like the Patagonia toothfish. You can't call it that. That's its name though. But you can't call it that on a menu. Nobody will order a toothfish. We'll call it sea bass. Chilean sea bass. Yes. And, boom. Everyone's favorite fish now. Um, yeah,

[00:28:55] Bavette is a flank steak. There you go. Um, so, did you know that, uh, I don't know, well, Randy Weingarten, uh, was not at the Soros wedding. I don't believe. Because she was out at one of the No Kings protests. And, like, to be fair, her union, the American Federation of Teachers, uh, they were, uh, some of the prime, uh, organizers of these marches. So, she, I do have, actually, hang on a second,

[00:29:25] let me play the clip here. But did you know that she's, she's been on the Democrat National Committee for like 20-something years? Did you know that? She's been, like, why is the teacher union president on the DNC? You are the community to this president's chaos. And together, we build a future of opportunity and justice for all. Hope over fear,

[00:29:55] aspiration over anger, the promise of America for each and every American. That is what we are fighting for today. Ugh. Um, yeah, I could not, I could not listen to an entire speech like that. The whole time, she's, like, hopping up and down and it's kind of comical because she's very short and so, like, the shot from the camera is, like, below the lectern

[00:30:24] and so you just see her head like, kind of jumping up and down behind the lectern as she's, but what is this aspiration over anger? That's not true. You guys, like, you can't just say that this is what you're about and when you're not actually about that. We can all see it's all about anger. You guys are just really, really angry all the time. Even her, the way she's delivering the speech is anger. But anyway, she, um, she's a long-time

[00:30:53] powerhouse member of the Democratic National Committee. But not anymore. She's leaving the DNC. She, uh, has been a member of the DNC for 23 years and she wrote a letter to the DNC chair, Ken Martin, that she had fundamental disagreements with him. Quote, I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging. This was a letter dated June 5th and I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not

[00:31:22] enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more of our communities. Her departure is the latest sign that the party is still embroiled in factional disputes and it is likely to only further finger-pointing and intensify criticism among Democrats. She's not the only one, by the way. Uh, she backed Ken Martin's opponent in the election of the chair. Uh, but so did, um, Lee Saunders. Lee Saunders of the American Federation of State, County,

[00:31:52] and Municipal Employees, the other union. he left the DNC too. They both quit. They both sent letters and said it was because of Ken Martin's leadership and that they're not expanding, the DNC is not expanding its coalition. This comes on the heels of David Hogg just getting kicked out of his position as vice chair of the party for basically being the wrong gender and race. All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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