She did it again! (04-14-2025--Hour1)

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[00:00:29] Full disclosure here, I am, uh, oh, I'm really tired. Well, I started, Christy and I started watching last night some Special Forces show where they take these B-list actors, reality show, and, uh, stars and former athletes and they put them, like, through the Special Forces training and it's just, I couldn't look away and I stayed up way too late watching episodes. Then I didn't even get to the season finale.

[00:00:57] We're on the first season, so I, we wanted to see Cam Newton, but we're like, well, let's start at the beginning. And then the chef guy went out immediately. It's like, oh, oh, spoiler alert. Sorry. Um, all right. Uh, Donald Trump is in the Oval Office right now and, uh, talking with the president of El Salvador. Let's listen in. He's taking questions.

[00:01:20] We had a great relationship and it's become bigger because of a strange thing that happened. You know, I came back. We had no war in Ukraine. We had no war with, we had no October 7th, Middle East problem. We had nothing. We had, we had no inflation. We didn't have the Afghanistan most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. The Afghanistan not withdrawing because I would have been out. You know, I was, I had it all set to bring people out with dignity and pride.

[00:01:50] That was the worst, most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. Afghanistan. We didn't have any of that. You wouldn't have had the war with Russia, Ukraine. You wouldn't have had the Middle East problem because Iran was broke.

[00:02:02] They had no money because we had secondary sanctions on and lots of other sanctions. And now every single thing got a problem with Iran, but I'll solve that problem. That's almost an easy one. We've got to solve a war that should have never started Ukraine and Russia. And we'll get that solved. And, uh, we have to solve problems and we already solved inflation. You know, if you look at the numbers, the numbers are incredible. Actually, I don't know what the question was for this answer.

[00:02:32] And, uh, we're not letting other countries take advantage of this country like they have for the last 40 years. So thank you very much. You have a question, please. The Pressure President, thank you so much. You scored another major investment win this morning when NVIDIA pledged to build its AI supercomputer. The first time ever right here in the United States. The President, thank you. That's a question I like. That's true. The Pressure President, what is your reaction to this announcement, sir? How is it positively bent with Americans across the country?

[00:02:59] Well, it's one of the, uh, biggest announcements you'll ever hear because NVIDIA, as you know, controls that almost the entire sector, which is one of the most important sectors in the world between chips and semiconductors and everything else. And they're, they're the biggest. And, uh, the other biggest we already have coming in and spending 300 billion, as you know, they announced two weeks ago.

[00:03:26] But NVIDIA is so highly respected. And this was an announcement that a lot of people, I knew it was going to happen, but not to the extent that it happened. It's big. And the reason they did it is because of the election on November 5th and because of a thing called tariffs. As I say, the most beautiful word in the dictionary after love, God relationship.

[00:03:49] The Press actually hit me and said, tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. What about family, love, God? I got hit even on that. You understand? I said, okay. Yeah. So now I say it's my fifth most favorite word because they get you in anything. But, um, no, uh, that NVIDIA, it's, it's, it's. By the way, the president of El Salvador is not wearing a tie. Just thought I would let you know that. He controls segments that nobody. He is wearing a blazer.

[00:04:19] Sort of controls the world in a sense. And they're coming in here in the biggest way with hundreds of billions of dollars, not, not like millions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars. And I'm honored by it. And, uh, I want to thank Jensen and all of the people that we deal with. They're great people. They're brilliant people. And without tariffs, they wouldn't be doing it. Thank you very much.

[00:04:45] Are you considering additional sanctions against Russia after their latest attack? And do you have an update on the rate and when you might announce semiconductor attacks? Yes. I have sanctions on Russia. I put them there. If you remember, uh, Nord Stream 2, that was, that's the big pipeline that goes through Europe. I stopped it. That's Russia's pipeline, the largest pipeline, I think in the world goes to Germany. And I stopped it.

[00:05:11] And when Biden came in, he approved it. And then they say, oh, I'm friendly with Russia. No, no. Putin said, you know, if you're my friend, I'd hate to see you when you're my enemy. I stopped the biggest, the biggest economic job they ever had. I stopped it cold. Right. It was dead. You know that. Right. And Biden came in and he immediately approved it.

[00:05:32] What was that all about? And, uh, it's a pipeline that takes care of a lot of the needs. Now, you know, it's, uh, it was a very controversial thing, but I stopped it and Biden approved it. Uh, question. On tariffs. No, not you. Not you. President Bukele, on the South Carolina update today, on the central semiconductor tariffs and particularly pharmaceuticals. What? Semiconductor tariffs and potentially some pharmaceuticals.

[00:05:58] The pharmaceuticals we're going to do, uh, we have, we don't make our own drugs, our own pharmaceuticals. We don't make our own drugs anymore. The drug companies are in Ireland and they're in lots of other places, China. And all I have to do is impose a tariff. The more, the faster they move in, the higher the tariff is very safe. It's inversely proportional.

[00:06:21] The higher the tariff, the faster they come. And, uh, yeah, we're going to be doing that. That's going to be like we have on cars. We have, as you know, a 25% tariff on cars. We have a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum. And that's what that category fits right now. Do you have a percentage of money in the timeline? I have a timeline. Yeah. Not too distant future. We're doing it because we want to make our own drugs. We're doing it because we want to make our own steel and aluminum, lumber, other things.

[00:06:51] And, uh, they're all coming in. We have record numbers, $7 trillion. Since I announced like a month and a half, since I came basically, since I came in, we have over $7 trillion being invested in the country. We didn't have one trillion. We didn't have a half a trillion dollars for some of these guys. They didn't know what the hell they were doing. So we have the largest investment that we've ever heard of. And we're only two months in.

[00:07:20] And that'll continue at levels that you've never seen before. That's what's going to happen. And even the stock market's up today. It's, uh, we also, you know, we, we, a lot of people didn't say it the way it was. We had the largest gain in the stock market in history on every single category last week. That was a nice, nice game because we were getting a little hit because people didn't understand

[00:07:44] the power of our economic. Okay. All right. All right. All right. All right. So, uh, he is not going to be returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to America. He said, quote,

[00:08:12] the question is preposterous. I don't have the power to return him to the United States. He's an El Salvador. So no, he's not, he's not, he's not sending him back. So that'll be one of the headlines. Also, Donald Trump, uh, said he took his cognitive exam, um, and he got the highest mark. And the doc, one of the doctors said, I've never seen anybody get that

[00:08:38] kind of, uh, highest mark never before in the history. I've been administering this cognitive test for 40 years and nobody has ever been as cognitive. Okay. All right. So spring is here a time of renewal and celebrations. You got graduations, weddings, anniversaries, and the special days for mom and dad. Your family's making memories that are going to last a lifetime. But let me ask you,

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[00:10:01] episodes because they're like 44 minutes. I mean, without the commercials on Hulu, whatever. And so, the next thing it's like midnight. It's about the time I get to sleep. You know, I got like five and a half hours of sleep. And I'm just saying if, you know, you call in to do battle with me, this might be your chance because I am mentally off my game. So I feel like I say that a lot on Mondays.

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[00:11:22] Like this, some guy, um, and I don't want to give the guys, well, I guess I can't. Well, no, I, I don't see. I don't like rewarding these miscreants with the publicity for their name. So there's a 38 year old guy who is now in custody over suspected arson at the Pennsylvania governor's residence.

[00:11:48] Authorities were investigating crimes, including terrorism and attempted homicide, which I think they actually ended up charging him with. Um, yeah, included. Uh, so the, uh, Dauphin Dauphin County D.A., Francis Chardo. That's his name. Also said, um, during a press conference that charges against this guy will include attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson,

[00:12:11] and aggravated assault against an enumerated person. Pennsylvania State Police Colonel Christopher Paris said during a press conference that the 38 year old suspect had been arrested. Um, yeah, uh, over the, uh, 2 a.m. fire. This was 2 a.m. yesterday morning. Uh, this is from the hill.com. Uh,

[00:12:36] the mother apparently said that this guy was mentally ill and had stopped his meds. The guys from Harrisburg and he turned himself into state police yesterday afternoon. So he turned himself in. They didn't track him down. And he admitted to authorities that he harbored a hatred towards

[00:13:04] the governor, Josh Shapiro. He evaded police while on the property, breaking a window and throwing a Heineken bottle filled with gasoline into the piano room on a wing of the governor's mansion in Harrisburg. Um, he then went to the attached dining room. He broke a window with his little hammer. He had a

[00:13:30] little, uh, like a little sledgehammer kind of tool. And he broke the window. He then climbs into the dining room and he lights two more homemade Molotov cocktails. And then he takes off. It is unclear, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, how state police who have a 24 seven detail assigned to

[00:13:54] Shapiro as well as additional security at the governor's residence. How did they let this guy get on the property, right? Scale a fence, break in, throw a Molotov cocktail through one window, break and enter another window, set off more Molotov cocktails and then flee on foot and get away. The suspect's ex

[00:14:20] called police and said that he had confessed to her and wanted her to call police to turn him in. Imagine how crazy that sentence would be, uh, with, uh, with leftist pronouns in there, right? So he calls her, she calls the cops, says he wants to turn himself in. He then goes to state police headquarters in Harrisburg

[00:14:48] yesterday afternoon and turns himself in. And then he tells the investigators that he hated the governor and that if he found him at the property, that he would have quote beaten him with a hammer that he had brought with him so he could break into the residence and I'm assuming beat the governor. He also told police that he walked an hour to the residence early Sunday before scaling a fence on the property, breaking in to start the

[00:15:16] fires and fleeing on foot. He started the fires on the first night of Passover. Um, the Shapiro family was there, they had some guests and extended family following the start of the Jewish holiday. Um, he had hosted a Passover Seder in the same room that the suspect admitted to burning down the dining room, right? With the homemade

[00:15:38] incendiary devices. At a news conference yesterday, Shapiro said this kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society. We have to be better than this and we have, uh, and we have a responsibility to all be better. And he is exactly right. Every time one of these incidents occurs and they are happening with greater frequency, I know, I can tell because

[00:16:06] I cover them more often now than I ever did in the past. It is becoming more prevalent. Now the suspect here, uh, but oh, hang on Shapiro, the governor thanked president Trump and federal authorities for supporting the state police in the investigation. Shapiro told reporters that he spoke to the FBI director, Kash Patel, who was quote, extremely kind and courteous and thoughtful in his conversation with me. The suspect has faced, this is

[00:16:36] going to come as a shock. I know he has a criminal record. I know he has faced criminal charges on several occasions over the last 10 years, including for assault, forgery and some traffic related offenses. Two years ago, he was charged with three counts of simple assault in a case that is ongoing in, is it Dauphin County? Dauphin. Thank you. Resident, uh, Pennsylvania. Um, well, former resident

[00:17:06] Pennsylvania. Anyway, um, that's Nick. He, uh, uh, in, in 2016, he pleaded guilty to one felony count of forgery and was sentenced to 18 months of probation. I don't know what the guy's motive is. He seems insane. I've seen a picture. I've seen a couple of pictures of the guy and honestly, he looks kind of

[00:17:30] Antifa. He does. Um, and he like posted some Andy no had a, a series of pictures and from the guy's social media. And one of the pictures, the suspect had posted on his social media was like a, uh, it was a, you know, like one of those iron on patches or something or so on patch, you know, and the patch is a Molotov cocktail and it, you know, has some, you know, little quip on there. Let's get ready to

[00:18:00] party or something like that. So he just, and his whole look, he's got the mask going, you know, with the skulls and crossbones on and he's got like the, uh, it's got the hoodie, uh, he just, he, he comes across kind of Antifa. I'm sorry, but he does. I, but that, but I don't know if he is or isn't. It's obvious that the guy is insane. You don't do that and then call your ex and say,

[00:18:25] I want to turn myself in and then go turn yourself in like that does none of that. That's not a plan, right? This is not some sort of a well thought out plan. And if the reports are true and what his mother has said that he is, he has mental illness and he went off his meds, he stopped taking them. And okay. So then that, that would be some kind of explanation, but this is happening more and maybe

[00:18:53] it's happening more because we have more people suffering from mental illness like this. and we also have people that, uh, tend to give a, a wink and a nod to this sort of behavior. I've talked about this repeatedly because the left has a problem with this stuff. I'm not saying only the left as Vince Coakley would say, right? Do not hear what I'm not saying. I'm not saying it's

[00:19:21] only on the left. I am saying the left has a problem with this and they seem incapable of calling it out on their own side. Case in point, Taylor Lawrence, Lorenz, Lawrence. This is the, um, she's, I think she's like 70 years old or something. I'm just kidding. She's that people make jokes about,

[00:19:47] but she, she, she's one of these, um, tech writers. She worked for the New York times. She went to work for the Washington post. She's just, she's a train wreck of a person. And she just basically hangs out in chat rooms and busts people for saying things that are problematic. She, I mean, she hit her zenith

[00:20:11] in the, uh, in, you know, the, the, those heady days of high cancel culture, you know? And, uh, she was just outing people left and right. Ooh, they said something on a, on a telegram chat. Ooh. And then, you know, get some 16 year old girls, uh, uh, scholarship canceled. That's the kind of quote unquote reporting she was doing. And then of course, like, you know, everybody realizes, holy cow, she's really toxic and all of this. Well, not everybody. Mainstream media still

[00:20:41] loves her and they bring her on this, despite the fact that she seems to celebrate the murder of people for political reasons. I'm not saying you should do the violence, but that's what she does. That's what she does. And she did it again on CNN. But as Donald Trump would say, nobody watches it.

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[00:22:26] and calling it out and just condemning it and leaving that as the only sentence. Just put a period. No, you shouldn't ever murder people because of political differences. Period. Then you don't have to add anything to the end of that sentence. You just stop right there. So Taylor Lorenz is on some show on CNN. I'm not kidding. It's called, uh, Miss info nation,

[00:22:56] Miss info nation. And it's hosted by some Irish dude. And it's about misinformation, I guess, in America or something on CNN. Okay. So here is Taylor Lorenz talking to the Irish guy who's the host. His name is Donnie or Donnie O'Sullivan. And here's what she said. Hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone standing a

[00:23:26] murderer when this is, this is the United States of America, as if we don't lionize criminals, as if we don't have, you know, we don't stand murderers of all sorts and we give them Netflix shows. There's a huge disconnect between the narratives and angles that sort of mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels. Hang on a second. Did a, did a, did a murderer get a Netflix

[00:23:50] show? I'm trying to think through, uh, I don't, I'm not aware of a murderer getting a Netflix program. Did that happen? Well, she is on a program called misinformation. So I guess this is on brand for the program, but you'll recall Taylor Lorenz is talking about is sort of a rehash of the comments that she

[00:24:15] made when the United healthcare CEO was murdered in cold blood shot in the back on a sidewalk in New York city by a deranged Luigi. And, um, he became just like the lefties did with the, uh, Boston marathon bomber, right? They turned this guy into a sex symbol and they're like,

[00:24:43] yeah, yeah. They're just like thirsting over the guy. It's gross. So she's talking about like that dynamic, that story. And you see that in moments like this. And I can tell you, I saw the biggest audience growth that I've ever seen because people were like, Oh, somebody, some journalist is actually speaking to the anger that we feel. The women who got her outside course in New York. So you're going to see women, especially that feel like, Oh my God. Right.

[00:25:10] Like here's this man who, who's a revolutionary, who's famous, who's handsome, who's young, who's smart. He's a person that seems this, like this morally good man, which is hard to find. So Luigi Mangione is a morally good man because he murdered somebody, shot him in the back.

[00:25:37] Guy's a coward. Guy is a deranged coward. I think I read too that like supposedly this was about like his mom needed all these treatments or something and she couldn't get the treatments. And so like there was some sort of, you know, justification for this. And I remember seeing a story that she didn't even have UnitedHealthcare as an insurer. So there wasn't even that connection.

[00:26:03] He's just crazy. Oh, but look, he's got muscles and a six pack abs and, uh, and he's cute. He's a revolutionary. Oh, like that's what we're hearing from her. And they're, I mean, they're, they're giddy about this. And then Donnie or Donnie, whatever the guy's name is. This was quite an interesting tell for me. Yeah. I just realized women will literally

[00:26:30] date an assassin before they swipe right on me. That's where we are. I'm sure you wouldn't like to be compared to a Trump supporter, but some of them. Hang on a second. Let me stop there. That line right there. My computer froze for a second. So that line right there though, that women will choose to, to go after an assassin before they will pick me on a dating app. And that speaks to, we taught, we, we heard this what last week when we were playing some of the

[00:27:00] sound bites. Um, oh, the guys from Axios and they were talking about reporter brain, remember? And there was this group think peer pressure is what he's talking about. I said this at the time and that is rooted in an insecurity at the individual level. They're insecure. And I think

[00:27:22] that's what this guy just expressed this insecurity that chicks don't find him attractive. Seriously. Like I think that is, he's frustrated about it and he wants to be at the cool kids table. That's what this sounds like to me. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in Western North Carolina, just a quick drive up the mountain and

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[00:29:09] I think he's insane. I think his rantings prove his mental illness. But she still has this difficult time saying that it is anything other than a cold-blooded murder, which is what it was. There's no justification for it. There is no justification for walking up behind somebody who has not presented

[00:29:34] a physical threat to you and shooting them in the back. I've got a message here from Russ who says, Taylor Lorenz's whole identity and significance is built around fame, however she can get it. So it's not a surprise. She cannot differentiate shows about criminals from criminals having their

[00:29:58] own shows. To her, it's probably the same thing. And at Patriot Girl says, Taylor Lorenz is a garbage human. This does not surprise me at all coming from her. David Strom at hotair.com said, Taylor Lorenz exemplifies the, I don't approve of violence, but type of person. While many people

[00:30:26] who default to this step away from violence before embracing it a bit more slyly, Taylor goes for broke and doesn't just fangirl the idea of striking a blow against evil capitalists. She embraces the people who do it to the point of suggesting that such people are sexy heroes. Here's the thing

[00:30:48] for you folks on the left, right? And really anybody with a utopian point of view, any system has finite resources and potentially infinite demands on them, right? Any kind of a healthcare system like this, that we, that, that Mangione was supposedly motivated by and that Taylor Lorenz keeps saying these stupid

[00:31:14] things about, um, you have finite resources and limitless demands for those finite resources. I have made this argument since the Obamacare days, almost now what? 15 years? Is it 15? 20, 10, longer than that. Anyway, gosh, I'm getting old. Anyway, the, uh, the finite resources and the infinite

[00:31:43] demands, you can only do so much with the finite resources. And so you have to ration in some way, either by access or by price. So you either tell people they can't get the services like they do up in Canada. That's what they do in Canada. It's what they do over in the UK. They ration it by access. You literally cannot access the service. Even if you're a billionaire, you can't get in.

[00:32:13] Or you ration by price. And at least with the price ration, there's a chance. See, without the rationing of pricing, then you're just rationing by access. And that means a bureaucrat is just making decisions far away from you. And you have no ability to influence that. And so here's the problem. When you have that kind of a utopian vision that, that perfection is one of the options that's

[00:32:42] available and it's not because, you know, finite resources, they will inevitably look for villains to blame. And David Strom is exactly right about that. I've talked about this pattern in collectivism, this Marxist ideology. It's why it's so toxic and dangerous. And it manifests itself the same way all the time, which is first you have your revolution and you overthrow the oppressor,

[00:33:11] do a whole bunch of murdering, right? And then when the system doesn't work because it cannot work, then you start looking for the villains. And at first, you see this in Venezuela, right? At first, maybe you go after the landowners and the capitalists and all of that. You weed them out. Useful idiots. Sorry, guys, you got to go too. But then great Satan is the reason. It's the United

[00:33:36] States. It's the foreign actors. And then you accuse people in your own country of being tied to that foreign villain too. Things must not turn out well because some evil person caused it to happen. Because surely it's not our plan. Surely it's not our system. People who brush past the,

[00:34:01] I don't approve of violence part of the sentence, whether they are Taylor Lorenz or Chuck Schumer, you'll recall, who refused to denounce violence against Tesla, but then explain why people should hate Elon Musk. What they're doing is actually justifying the violence. And they will say they're not, but they absolutely are. These are the people who will give you long explanations for why Trump inspires hate while refusing to denounce it. Strom says, I could give you a long list of leftists

[00:34:31] who I think are threats to the Western way of life, but I wouldn't for a moment suggest that people go out and kill them. And if one of them got killed by a hot girl, I wouldn't start laughing about how much I would want to spend the night with her because killing people is wrong, except in very limited circumstances and political disputes are not on that list of the very limited circumstances.

[00:34:57] Politics is what we do to avoid the violence. And if you are too emotionally or intellectually stunted to understand this, then I don't think you should be participating in this society. Leftism is an anti-civilization, or sorry, he says leftism is anti-civilization because civilization begins with agreeing on rules by which we govern ourselves and within which

[00:35:27] we behave in the society. Right? And the way we make the rules is politics. That's how we do it. The lawmaking process. That doesn't mean it doesn't get emotional. Doesn't mean it's not important. It is. But if you cannot settle it through the, you know, the rules that we have set up for our society and you're going to say, you know what, I'm not going to follow those

[00:35:54] rules anymore because my feelings trump your right to exist. You do not want to live in a society when everybody adopts that standard. At the heart of this, Strom says the left loves the Che Guevara's of the world because in the end, they kind of love the violence. They find it sexy. As with this guy

[00:36:21] Mangione. And all societies have such people. Unfortunately, since the 1960s, the Democrat Party has embraced them. The Weathermen. Hello. Black Panthers. Black Lives Matter. Antifa. Indivisible. Right? These are the organizations, the shock troops of the left. And it's been this way for a while.

[00:36:48] And they have such a hard time calling them out on it. Here. Well, I don't have time to play. Yeah, let's see. This is wait. This is I think this is a minute. It looks like you're this is Taylor Lawrence on TMZ. It looks like you're saying there should be open season on some of these CEOs.

[00:37:13] Absolutely not. So let me just be super clear. No, we should not murder CEOs. No, we should not go around shooting people in the street. But I think what's really missing in all of these conversations is context. When you see the entire Internet left and right united around one thing, and that is celebrating, I hate to say it too, the death of a health care CEO, you have to ask why. And I don't think that has been discussed at all. There's no discussions of the systemic cruelty

[00:37:41] in our health care system or the fact that thousands of Americans die because CEOs like this one and others deny essential lifesaving care to Americans. And I think that's the real that's where this anger is coming from. And of course, people are going to get a little carried away and celebrate. But they're celebrating because it feels like a victory. It feels like somebody stood up to this barbaric, evil, cruel, violent system for once. And of course, he matched it with violence, which, you know,

[00:38:11] again, we are not condoning murder here. OK, that is not the solution to this. But I do think a lot of people, you know, it's got people talking. Yeah, it's got people talking. You know, what can I say? I'm just justifying it. That's all. 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

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