Jan. 29, 2026

Powder Keg Politics: Storms, the Fed, War Powers—and Minneapolis

Powder Keg Politics: Storms, the Fed, War Powers—and Minneapolis
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This episode is a hard look at the real currency underneath every other currency: trust. When trust collapses, everything gets more expensive—safety, stability, cost of living, and the fabric of local community. We cover five major current events through one consistent lens: What happened, why it matters to working families, what’s missing in the framing, who benefits, who pays, and what reforms restore accountability. Then we take the main course: a developing Minneapolis story tied to federal immigration enforcement. We keep it conservative and responsible—supporting ICE’s mission to remove violent offenders and predators, while refusing to declare a verdict without complete evidence. We reject narrative warfare, demand verified facts, and push for transparent investigation so legitimacy isn’t destroyed by politics and media incentives. Inside this episode:

  • Winter storm disruption and the reality test of competence and infrastructure resilience
  • Supreme Court + the Fed: independence, power, and the impact on rates, inflation, and families
  • War powers and Venezuela: Congress dodging responsibility while the public pays
  • Syria ceasefire extension: why foreign instability hits domestic safety and budgets
  • ISS medical emergency: competence matters when there’s no room for spin
  • Minneapolis deep dive (developing): competing claims, partial footage, incentives, and why truth-first is the only adult posture
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America. I want to start tonight the way that we

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should always start when the noise gets loud and the

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stakes get real, with people with families trying to keep

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the lights on, with workers try to stretch a paycheck,

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and with small businesses trying to survive another month of regulations, inflation,

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and an uncertain economy. Because here's the truth. Most programs,

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laws and policies are sold to the public with claimed

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good and great intentions. They're wrapped in comforting language, their

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package like protection. They're marketed like compassion, and then quietly, slowly,

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too many of them become machinery that serve the machine

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first and not the people they were meant to protect.

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And when that happens, regular Americans pay the bill, not

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the lobbyists, not the consultants, not the career bureaucrats who

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never miss a meal. You pay it in higher prices,

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lost freedom, diluted accountability in a country that feels less

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stable than it should. So tonight we're doing what other

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people won't. We're doing what the captured institutions refuse to do.

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We're going to tell the truth even when it's uncomfortable.

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We're going to separate real compassion from performative compassion. We're

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going to call out corruption without telling you to hate

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your neighbor, and we're going to propose a way forward,

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because the point is not rage. The point is repair.

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The point is to get us back to a unified

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front against our enemies, foreign and domestic. If you're tired,

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if you feel like you're being gaslet, if you feel

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like the rules keep changing and nobody answers for anything,

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you're not crazy. You're paying attention. And paying attention is

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the first step to taking your country back in the

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most American way possible, truth, courage, law, and community. Tonight,

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we're going to talk about a winter storm that exposes

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how fragile modern life really is. We're going to talk

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about a Supreme Court fight that touches the nerve of

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who controls your money and your future. We're going to

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talk about the war powers and why Congress keeps trying

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to dodge responsibility. We're going to talk about Syria and

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what chaos abroad does to safety at home. And we're

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going to talk about a medical emergency in space that

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reminds us what competence looks like when the stakes are

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life and death. And then we're going to take the

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main course. Minneapolis Fed immigration operation, a US citizen killed,

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conflicting accounts, video evidence, protests, political blame, and the one

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question that matters more than all the talking points, What

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does justice look like when the system closes ranks? Let's go.

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I want you to picture something with me. Not a headline,

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not a partison argument. Picture a kitchen table. Picture a

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mom doing mental mass with a grocery seat. Picture a

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dad checking a weather forecast because he still has to

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go to work in the morning. Missing a shift means

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missing a payment. Picture a small business owner starting to

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look at payroll and wondering if next month is when

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the pressure finally breaks the place they've built with their

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bare hands. Now, picture the people who talk into cameras

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all day. Picture the people who write policies and then

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fly home and tell you it's all for your own good.

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They don't picture that kitchen table. They picture leverage. They

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picture budgets and narratives and control. They picture how to

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keep the public divided so no one has the time

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or the unity to demand accountability. And that's the theme tonight.

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Trust Not the soft and naive kind, not the just

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believe us kind, the hard earned, hard fought kind, the

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kind that comes from transparency, lawful authority, and consequences when

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someone abuses power. Because the truth is, trust is the

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currency underneath every other currency. When trust collapses, everything goes

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more expensive, safety becomes fragile, communities become anxious, people get cynical,

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and sus is what allows corruption to run for decades

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without being confronted. This week's story on the surface looks

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totally different whether courts war powers, foreign conflict, and then

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above all space flights, But underneath they rhyme. They all

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ask the same question in different forms, who's in charge

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and who answers for all those outcomes. When a winter

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storm hits, you find out fast whether leadership is competent

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or performative. When the Supreme Court hears arguments about a

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federal reserve governor, you find out whether institutions still have

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guardrails or whether everything becomes political muscle. When Congress tries

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to restrain war powers, you find out whether elected officials

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will actually do their job or just posture and run

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from responsibility. When a ceasefire gets accented in Syria, you

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find out how fragile order is. When nations fracture and

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what it means for your safety, your borrier, and your economy.

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And when astronauts return early because of a medical emergency,

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you find out what real professionalism looks like when there

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are no excuses and no spin. And then Minneapolis puts

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a spotlight on the most dangerous thing in a free country.

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Force without accountability, a citizen dead, claims and counterclaims, federal

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agencies and local officials in conflict, public trust unraveling in

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real time, people in the streets, people scared, people angry,

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in a system that if we're not careful, we'll teach

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Americans a lesson. They should never learn that truth. It

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doesn't matter if powerful decides it doesn't. So here's where

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we're going today. We're going to walk through five events

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with a clear lens. What happened, why it matters to

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your life, What the media says versus what's missing, what

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both parties get wrong or the incentive's point, what the

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constitution and common sense demand, and what reforms actually move

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the needle. Because if you're not trying to reform and

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trying to get better to prevent things from happening in

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the future, you continue to repeat history over and over

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and over again until the powder keg blows. Then we're

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gonna sit with Minneapolis, not as a talking point, but

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as a case study and how a nation loses itself

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and how it finds it off again, not through violence,

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not through hatred, through lawful reform, local strength, moral courage,

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and a refusal to be lied to. All right, take

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a breath. Let's start with a storm, because it's the

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most honest teacher of all. Weather doesn't care about your politics,

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it doesn't care about your narrative. It shows you what's

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real down to your core. This weekend, a massive winter

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storm swept across huge portions of the country, snow, ice,

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freezing rain, brutal cold, and the kind of wind that

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makes you respect nature again. Travel got hammered. Thousands upon

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thousands of flights were canceled, roads turned to ice, skating rinks,

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power lines came down, families in the dark. Entire nations

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were minded in one night that modern world is not

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strong as they once thought it was. And I know

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what some people hear when we talk about a storm.

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They hear, Okay, that's just weather. But no, the weather

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is the spark. The story is what the spark exposes.

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Because what happens when the power goes out. What happens

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when trucks can't move, What happens when grocery shelves don't

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get restocked. What happens when the people miss work, misappointments,

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miss deliveries, miss paychecks. The storm reveals the fragility of systems.

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We were told we're stable. And here's the thing that

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makes Americans furious when they're being honest. You pay more

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every year, you get taxed in fifty directions. You watch

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money shipped overseas, You watch agencies grow, You watch officials

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promised resilience, and then a storm hits and the basics

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feel shaky, heat, roads, communication, emergency response. That's not a

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partisan point. That's a stewardship point. Now, what does the

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media say. The media tends to frame storms like a

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peer spectacle. Look at the snow totals, look at the

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car pile ups, look at the viral videos. Then, depending

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on the outlet, it becomes a vehicle for whatever narrative

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they're already driving before the storm showed up. What's missing

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is the accountability conversation, the boring, vital questions that don't

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trend on social media, but decide whether your family is safe.

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Why is grid resilience such a political football. Why do

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we treat basic infrastructure like a bargaining chip. Why are

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your emergency systems so often reactive instead of being prepared,

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even after decades of lessons learned? And yes, both parties

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are guilty. One side will sit here and scream about

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infrastructure spending and then funnel money into pet projects, sweetheart contracts,

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bureaucracy that can't clear a fallen tree in a timely way.

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The other side will scream about waste and then underinvest

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in basic resilience or refuse to reform procurement. So the

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money we do spend actually buys competence. Follow the money

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and you see incentives. Disaster declarations can unlock massive streams

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of federal funding. That money moves through layers, contracts, subcontractors, consultants,

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compliance firms, equity administrators, and political allies. And the more

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complex the system gets, the easier it becomes for everyone

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to claim they did their part while the citizen shivers

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in the dark. Now, let's put a constitutional in common

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sense leadens on it. The constitution doesn't say the federal

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government must be your local utility company, but it absolutely

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demands that government be accountable, limited, and competent in what

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it does. Act federalism exists for a reason. Local and

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state leadership matters, but when federal dollars are extracted from

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working Americans, those dollars should come with measurable outcomes, clean audits,

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and consequences for fraud. So what do we do realistically

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without turning this into a fantasy. We start by demanding

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transparent performance and metrics for grid reliability, emergency response state

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by state, utility by utility, not slogans, not press conferences.

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Number is that regular citizens can actually read in an

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understand We modernize procurement so contracts reward outcomes, not paperwork.

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If a contractor falls and fails, they don't get more

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money to fix it, they lose eligibility. We stop paying

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for failure. We harden critical infrastructure where it matters most hospitals,

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water treatment, emergency communications, using targeted upgrades rather than megabills

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stuff with unrelated spending. We also give communities incentives to

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build localized resilience, backup generators, microgrids, and mutual aid plans

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so we're not depending on one brittle chain. And at

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the personal level, we reclaim something that used to be normal. Preparedness,

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not paranoia. Preparedness, a week of basics, a plan for

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elderly neighbors, a way to stay warm, a way to communicate.

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We can't legislate common sense, but we can revive it.

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Here's the closing punch. Storms don't divide people by ideology.

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They divide people by readiness in leadership. And if we

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can't keep the lights on in January, we have no

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business pretending we're building some utopia with another trillion dollar

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bill and a bunch of hashtags. Now stay with me,

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because the next story is about a different kind of power,

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not the power of weather, the power of money and

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who gets to control it when politics gets hungry. Now,

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before we hop in to the Supreme Court and the

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Federal Reserve, I want to take a quick pause, not

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because the moment isn't serious, but because keeping this show

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independent means we do this the old fashioned way, with

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your support, with sponsors and ads that actually align with

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what we believe in community accountability and building something real.

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This week, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments tied

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to President Trump's effort to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa

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Cook the legal fight is tangled and questions that are

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bigger than one person. How independent is the Federal Reserve

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supposed to be? And how much removal power does a

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president have over officials and independent agencies. Now, for a

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lot of people, that sounds like an abstract legal machinery,

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but it's not abstract. It's your mortgage rate, it's your

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car payment, it's your small business line of credit. It's

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the difference between being able to breathe financially and being

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crushed by interest. The Federal Reserve affects the value of

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money and the cost of borrowing. When the FED is

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perceived as a political tool, trust gets damaged. And when

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trust gets damaged, markets get jumpy, investors get defensive, borrowing

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costs can rise, and everyday Americans pay more for everything,

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especially the middle class. Here's what the media tends to do.

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One side frames this as a heroic battle to protect

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institutional independence from a power hungry executive. The other side

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frames it as necessary correction an elected president reigning in

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unelected technocrats who operate like royalty. And here's what's missing,

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the honest admission that the FED has been political for

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a long time, not always in a partisan way, but

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in an incentive way. The incentive is always to avoid

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short term pain, even when short term pain prevents long

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term collapse. The incentive is always to keep the system

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stable enough to avoid blame, even if stability is purchased

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by quietly devaluing the dollar in inflating assets. Both parties

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get this wrong in different ways. Democrats often defend independence

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when it projects their preferred outcomes, but they're happy to

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pressure institutions when it serves their agenda. Republicans often attacked

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unelected bureaucrats until those bureaucrats become useful to their side,

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and then suddenly the rhetoric cools down. So follow the money.

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Wall Street loves predictable signals. Politics and political operatives love lovers.

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Government loves cheap borrowing. Everyone loves the illusion that you

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can spend forever without consequence, and the Fed becomes a

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silent partner in that arrangement. Now, constitutionally and common sensically,

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here is where a conservative lens should be consistent. We

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believe in limited government and accountability that includes accountability for

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independent agencies, but we also believe in guardrails that prevent

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raw political power from hijacking systems that require stability. So

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the real question isn't should the FED be untouchable. The

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real question is what structure best protects the public from

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both political abuse and bureaucratic insulation. Here reforms that actually matter. First,

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we need clear statutory definitions of removal standards for independent

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agency officials, so courts aren't forced to invent guardrails case

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by case. If the nation wants true independence, define it

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in precision. If the nation wants executive oversight, define it

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with its limits and its transparency. Second, Congress must stop

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hiding from behind the FED. If we're going to run

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chronic deficits, don't blame the Central Bank for the consequences.

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You can't light the house on fire and yell at

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its smoke detector. Third, we need stronger transparency around decision making,

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models and assumptions. The Fed's credibility is built on data driven.

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If it's data driven, show the work in a way

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that ordinary people can understand, not just PhDs that went

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to school. Fourth, reintroduce real fiscal discipline at the federal level,

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so monetary policy isn't forced to compensate for political addiction.

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A country cannot print and borrow its way into prosperity.

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It can only delay reality. And finally, at the cultural level,

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we have to stop treating money like a It's an

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infinite resource. A nation built on entrepreneurship and production can

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be wealthy. A nation built on consumption and debt becomes fragile.

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No matter how many experts speak in calm voices, here's

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a closing punch. This court fight is not just about

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one governor. It's about whether the American people will demand

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both stability and accountability, or whether we'll keep living in

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a system where nobody is truly responsible but everybody gets

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rich along the way. Now let's pivot, because if you

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want to see nobody is responsible in its purest form,

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you look at war powers, you look at Congress, you

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look at politicians trying to have it both ways, big

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talk with no fingerprints. Now, if this storm has taught

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us anything about what happens when nature tests the system,

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this next story about what happens when politicians test the constitution.

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And the problem with politics is that it always wants

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to perks of power without the weight of responsibility. This week,

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the House voted on the war power style measure tied

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to President Trump's military actions involving Venezuela. The resolution failed,

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and it did so in a way that tells you

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everything about Washington. A dead even split, a procedural mess,

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and a whole lot of people are trying to avoid

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being the adult in the room. Now, let's be clear

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on what this is really about. The Constitution gives Congress

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the power to declare war and control the purse because

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the founders did not want one person to the country

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into conflict on a whim. When Congress refuses to own

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that responsibility, we don't get strong leadership. We get a

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permanent gray zone where force expands, oversight shrinks, and the

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people paying for it have the least say in it.

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The media frames this as team sports, because team sports

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are easier than the truth. On one channel, it's Trump

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is reckless and Congress must restrain him. On another, it's

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Trump is decisive and Congress is undermining national security. What's

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missing is the consistent principle if an action is serious

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enough to put American forces in harm's way, it's serious

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enough for Congress to take a recorded vote, explain it

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to the public, and accept accountability for the consequences. Parties

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have blood on the same knife here, even if they

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extend and pretend otherwise. Democrats love war powers when the

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commander in chief has a d nex to its name

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and suddenly discover the constitution when they are is in charge.

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Republicans talk like constitutionalists until the executive power is their

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executive power, and then the limited government sermon becomes real quiet.

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Now here's the thing that I personally believe on this.

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If there is a military action that needs to take

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place that helps prevent Americans from being in direct harm,

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take it. If that means you're protecting troops we have overseas,

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if it means that we are sitting here trying to

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prevent a terrorist attack or in Maduro's case, prevent a

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regime that release his criminals to try to come to

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this country, for one, tries to help cartels infiltrate our

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country using various methods, and then also help they're helping

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with the fentanyl crisis, and they have done that for decades.

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That's it's not just been fentanyl, it's been drugs of

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all sorts. They've done that for a long time. And

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to say that they didn't, to say that Venezuela is

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innocent completely in our war on drugs is false. I mean,

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you just you can't take that stand and have a

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foundation to stand on. It's just not possible. I want

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you to follow the money and really, honestly, you'll understand

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why this never gets fixed. War and foreign intervention are

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not policy choices. They're funding rivers. And by making it

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to where you don't have to have this a congressional

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vote on it, there's a lot more flexibility and the

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amount of military actions that can happen. And like I said,

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there are some times where Congress shouldn't have to vote

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on it, and that the executive bridge needs to have

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the speediness to be able to enforce an action. If

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it's a terrorist, our own terrorist that is a real threat

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to this country, and we know his location, we need

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to be able to send out a quick force to

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take him out otherwise he continues to pose a threat

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to our country. The thing is is the funding doesn't

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just stop with arms companies, the ones who make the

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guns or the missiles or anything like that. It's also

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the intelligence pipelines, the consulting ecosystems, and the political donors

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all orbit the same gravitational pull. Because conflict creates budgets

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and budgets create careers. So what do we do realistically

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if we're serious and not just performing. Congress should have

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to vote on any deployment that crosses a clear threshold

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with strict timelines and narrow objectives, not vague blank checks

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like we saw with the endless war that we fought

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in Afghanistan and Iraq. There needs to be a clear cut,

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clear objective when we send our troops overseas to fight

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foreign wars. Now here's the closing punch, and I want

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it to only at hard because it needs to. A

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government that can use force without owning the decision becomes

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a government that stops fearing the people. And a Congress

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that won't do its job is not a safeguard, it's

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a surrender. All right, Let's take a quick pause because

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I want to talk to the men and women who

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are building something real in this country, the ones who

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still believe values matter and quality isn't optional. You already

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know this show isn't existing just to sell you junk.

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It exists to rebuild the backbone of this country. And

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the sponsor I'm about to mention is a sponsor because

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it's aligned with that mission. If you're tired of being

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told to sit down, shut up, and accept mediocrity, then

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wear something that says the opposite without you having to

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explain yourself. Valor Built apparel isn't just clothing. It's a

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flag planted on the ground that says you still believe

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in resilience, community, faith, and doing a hard thing when

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it's easier to fold. I'm talking about the gear that

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looks like something a grown man would wear, gritty designs,

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purpose driven messages, in a brand that's built around the

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idea that your life should stand for something more than comfort.

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And when you support Valor Built, you're backing a business

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that puts its money where its mouth is, supporting meaningful causes,

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and building a commune that's not ashamed of conviction. So

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if you want to represent strength and purpose, check out

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you are, and when the world tries to pressure you

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into being someone else, you know you have ground to

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stand on. All right, back to the show. Now, let's

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go overseas, because what happens over there has a way

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of landing right here, whether our leaders want to admit

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it or not. This week, Syria's government and the Kurdish

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led SDF extended a ceasefire, again, buying time in a

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conflict zone that never truly stops burning. The report says

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the extension is tied to broader operations, evolving ISIS, detainees,

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and regional stability, and it comes after rapid changes on

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the ground that have shifted control and raised the threat

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of bigger war. A ceasefire like peace, but most of

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the time it's a pause in the violence while everybody reloads, reorganizes,

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and negotiates from position they hope gets stronger by tomorrow.

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And when ceasefires become short rolling extensions, that's not stability,

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that's fragility disguised as progress. Why does this matter to

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you in the Midwest or the South or anywhere in

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the US. Because chaos abroad doesn't stay neatly within its

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own borders. It drives refugee flows, it reshapes terror networks,

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It affects global energy in shipping routes, and it pulls

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American resources, money, attention, and sometimes lives into endless management

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of problems that politicians swear they can handle. And this

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Syrian crisis has already claimed too many lives. It just

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claimed three. Not too long ago. We covered that previous podcast.

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We have to be able to have clear cut objectives

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when we send people over there, and I get it,

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war is war. Objectives change, but be transparent about it.

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I get it. There's stuff that's got to be classified.

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There's stuff that you can't just come out and say, yeah,

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we're targeting this guy, because then that guy goes into hiding,

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and if he's got enough money, he can hide for

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a long time. But that does not mean that you

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can sit here and just use the American taxpayer as

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a blank checkbook to continue to write the checks and

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continue to push a war that will never end. It's

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not right. It's not fair to us, it's not fair

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to the military members. It's not fair to anyone. And

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I get it. Fair is fair is sometimes in the summer.

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I get it. But we deserve better in this country.

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We deserve better as American taxpayers do not have to

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fight foreign wars that go on endlessly. The media often

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skips the important truth because it doesn't fit into a

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clean narrative. They'll tell you who's the good guys and

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who's the bad guys depending on the day, and they'll

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pretend there aren't trade offs. What's missing is a sober

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accounting of incentives. Who benefits when Syria stays fractured, who

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benefits when certain factions gain territory, and who benefits when

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the West stays stucks responding instead of shaping a real strategy.

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Both parties have played this game for years. One side

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talks big about human rights while funding and empowering alliances

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that change when convenient. The other side talks big about

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America first and then drifts into these half measures that

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keep the US involved just enough to own the blame,

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but not enough to solve anything. So what's the common

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sense path? First, brutally honest objectives are repreventing a terror resurgence,

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protecting strategic interests, preventing mass atrocities, or just managing headlines. Second,

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real congressional oversight in transparent reporting on what you're doing,

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why we're doing it, and how we measure success beyond

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the press releases. Third, stop pretending diplomacy is weakness and

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stop pretending force is a strategy. We need regional partners

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carrying regional burdens, and we need to prioritize humanitarian corridors

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and stability without signing blank checks and at home, we

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should be honest with Americans that foreign policy failure becomes

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domestic pressure. So competence abroad is not a luxury, it's protection.

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Here's the closing punch. When nations fracture, ordinary people suffer first.

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Extremists rush in to fill that void. And if our

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leaders can't explain to you in plain English what the

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mission is and how it ends, then the mission is

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probably designed to never end. All right, another quick pause

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just for you, Take a little breath, Relax your shoulders,

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because we're about to hit two, if not three, major

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major stories. And the last one is going to be

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one that has been debated and debated and debated for

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a long time. Ever since it happened, people have debated

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whether it should have happened, whether it shouldn't have happened.

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And that's all I'm going to tell you. This week,

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astronauts returned early from the International Space Station after a

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serious medical issue on board forced an abruptge of plans.

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Reports say the crew relied on the station's medical capabilities,

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including ultrasound, to manage a crisis that doesn't care about politics,

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doesn't care about pr and doesn't care about your feelings. Now,

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why does this matter beyond the headline, because it reminds

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us what real professionalism looks like. When the stakes are

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life and death. You don't just get to blame the

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other party, you don't get a hide behind a narrative,

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and you don't get to call failure equity. Either you

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do your job or people pay. It also matters because

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space isn't just science, its strategy, its innovation, pipelines, national security, communications, infrastructure,

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and the kind of technological leadership that keeps you and

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your country strong. When our institutions become hollowed out by

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politics and bureaucracy, you don't just lose efficiency, you lose

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the ability to respond when something goes wrong and there's

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no backup. The media will treat this like a human

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interest story, and it is, but it's more than that.

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What's missing is the connection to how we fund, manage,

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and protect competence and the time when competence is constantly

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being replaced by credential games and ideological theater. A system

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that rewards appearances over outcomes will eventually fail at the

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worst moment because reality always collects its debt. So what

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are the reforms and actions that actually matter here? Protect

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mission focused training and accountability and agencies that keep people

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00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:54.920
alive and stop turning everything into a political messaging platform

462
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:59.880
audit procurement. So we're funding performance and reliability, not just

463
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:06.599
contractors with connections, and culturally, bring back a national respect

464
00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:10.199
for mastery, for excellence, and for the kind of quiet

465
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:14.559
professionals who don't need applause because the work is applause.

466
00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:19.559
Here's the closing punch. A nation that forgets how to

467
00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:23.480
do things will eventually be humbled by hard things. And

468
00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:26.239
if we want to rebuild that trust, it starts with

469
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:31.199
rebuilding competence at every level, in every institution, in every

470
00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:37.920
community across the nation. Now we're gonna get ready for

471
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:42.719
the main course. Oh and this main course is a

472
00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:46.760
rough one this week because we just talked about it

473
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:51.800
last week, because Minneapolis is where all of these themes collide.

474
00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:57.599
Force accountability, narratives, institutional trust, and the question every free

475
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:01.119
citizen should care about. Take a breath, Stay with me,

476
00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:05.480
because we're diving in. Now. We're at the point in

477
00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:11.119
the show where the temperature changes. Because everything we just covered, storms, courts,

478
00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:16.880
war powers, foreign ceasefires, even the space story. These stories

479
00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:20.079
all orbit a single question who has the authority to

480
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:23.880
act and who tells the truth when things go wrong.

481
00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:33.920
Minneapolis is where that question stops being theoretical. Minneapolis is

482
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:38.079
where it turns into a name, a face, and a

483
00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:43.360
family in a city holding its breath. And right now,

484
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:47.119
the most dangerous thing happening isn't just what occurred on

485
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:51.760
the street. It's what's happening after, in the story war,

486
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:56.840
in the propaganda war. So I'm going to say this

487
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:02.239
as plainly as I can from a conservative lens. We

488
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:08.000
do not do mob verdicts. We do not do trial

489
00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:12.360
by ten second clip. We demand law, due process, and

490
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:17.719
verifiable facts, because ordered liberty is the whole point of

491
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:21.599
this country. And that's exactly why I'm putting the spotlight

492
00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:26.920
where it belongs tonight. Not on everyday citizens who are

493
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:31.239
scared and angry, not on agents who are trying to

494
00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:34.960
do a hard job in a hostile climate. The spotlight

495
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:38.840
belongs on politicians in mainstream media figures who are pouring

496
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:42.880
gasoline on a powder keg to build an anti ice

497
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:47.559
narrative before the evidence is fully in. Here's what we know,

498
00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:50.119
and here's what we do not know. We know a

499
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:54.960
US citizen Alex pretty was killed during a federal immigration

500
00:40:55.280 --> 00:41:02.840
related operation in Minneapolis. We know there are competing accounts

501
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:05.440
of what led to the shooting, and we know that

502
00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:10.960
public trust is already brittle, which means people are primed

503
00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:14.559
to believe the worst about the other side. Whether you

504
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:17.679
are on the right or you're on the left, you

505
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:25.119
are ready to accept the worst. We also know the

506
00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:29.320
environment is tense on both ends. Agents are operating in

507
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:32.960
a moment where they're being treated like villains by people

508
00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:37.880
who want to abolish enforcement entirely, and where every moment

509
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:42.920
is filmed, clipped, and framed. Citizens are operating in a

510
00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:46.480
moment where they don't trust institutions, they don't trust the statements,

511
00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:49.280
and they don't trust that the whole truth will be

512
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:56.360
shown without pressure. That combination is volatile. When trust collapses

513
00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:04.079
and everyone's fear is on their chest, the smallest misunderstanding

514
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:10.599
becomes a spark. When the media and politicians feed that

515
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:15.360
fear for ratings, for votes, they're not informing the public.

516
00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:24.159
They're manufacturing the instability that we see today. Now, let's

517
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:28.119
talk responsibility about the evidence that's floating around. There are

518
00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:31.639
sources saying that Alex was armed, and there are claims

519
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:35.719
that he may have had a weapon, possibly holstered, while

520
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.639
some circulated video clips show moments that appear to support

521
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:43.280
the mainstream narrative that he was holding a phone. But

522
00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:49.079
here's the key. The publicly available angles do not conclusively

523
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.159
show the entire sequence of events that led to the

524
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.599
trigger pool. And I want you to catch what I'm

525
00:42:55.639 --> 00:43:00.519
doing here, because this is the adult posture. I am

526
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:03.119
not telling you what to think before the facts are clear.

527
00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:06.480
I am telling you what we're up against. A narrative

528
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:19.440
that picks a conclusion first, and this machine, this narrative machine,

529
00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:25.239
then hunts for footage that fits it while ignoring anything

530
00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:30.320
that complicates it. That's how trust gets murdered twice, first

531
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:33.960
by the death itself, second by the story manipulation that

532
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:38.079
follows when people are treated like they're too dumb to

533
00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:43.440
handle complexity. So what's the conservative position in a moment

534
00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:47.280
like this. It's not blind faith and authority, and it's

535
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:53.920
not automatic hostility to enforcement. The conservative position is ordered liberty,

536
00:43:55.039 --> 00:44:00.880
which means two things at once. We support lawful enforcement,

537
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:05.679
and we demand accountability and transparency when force is used,

538
00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:12.519
especially when it results in a death. Let's talk about

539
00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:18.639
the ICE like grown ups because too many people either

540
00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:26.400
demonize them or canonize them, and both reactions lead to stupidity.

541
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:33.480
ICE does real work that protects American in American communities,

542
00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:40.960
including targeting violent criminals, traffickers, predators, and repeat offenders who

543
00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:44.880
have no business harming families. Here, if you care about women,

544
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:51.480
children and working class neighborhoods, you should care that violent

545
00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:57.079
criminals are removed and prosecuted. And here's the other truth

546
00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:00.880
that must be spoken in the same breath that uses

547
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:05.360
force must also be a system that can examine itself.

548
00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:10.599
Not because we hate enforcement, but because legitimacy is what

549
00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:16.199
makes enforcement sustainable. If the public believes the government can

550
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:19.800
kill a citizen and hide the facts behind bureaucracy, you

551
00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:24.679
don't get peace. You get permanent distrust. So what's the

552
00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:28.239
real problem tonight? The real problem is the political class

553
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:31.159
and media class trying to shove the country into one

554
00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:35.119
of two stupid boxes. Box one says ICE is evil

555
00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:40.440
and enforcement itself is violence. Box two says questioning anything

556
00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:45.199
is disloyal and you should just shut up. Both boxes

557
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:48.840
are designed to keep you emotional, divided, and easily managed.

558
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:54.199
I'm not playing that game. You can support border enforcement

559
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:59.719
without surrounding your surrendering your brain. You can support ICE

560
00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:07.039
eight doing dangerous work without accepting narrative shortcuts. And you

561
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:10.519
can demand the full truth without turning into a rioter,

562
00:46:11.159 --> 00:46:16.960
a vigilante, or a propagandist. Here's what matters to everyday

563
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:20.519
families and small businesses in the real world. When a

564
00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:24.719
city spirals into unrest, the people who get hurt first

565
00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:28.639
are not the politicians who stoke the fire. It's the

566
00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:32.159
business owner who loses inventory and income. It's the worker

567
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:35.320
who doesn't get to go to a shift. It's the

568
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:39.639
mom who doesn't want her kids walking past chaos on

569
00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:44.199
the way home. And when the response becomes polarized, we

570
00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:50.199
get the ability to get answers because instead of an investigation,

571
00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:54.719
we get theater. Instead of evidence, we get slogans. Instead

572
00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:58.559
of reform, we get fundraising emails. Now, I want to

573
00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:02.280
speak to two groups of listeners directly, because this story

574
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:06.039
is where the country splits. And before I go on,

575
00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:10.000
I want to touch on this. Why isn't that whenever

576
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:13.039
this stuff happens, the protest happened at the location of

577
00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:19.159
the shooting. This is a federal issue. Why are you

578
00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:25.639
not flying to Washington, DC and protesting it right in

579
00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:29.360
front of the Capitol. Why are you not protesting it

580
00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:32.119
in front of the White House? Why are you not

581
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:38.440
protesting it where policy can be changed. Yes, you can

582
00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:44.320
protest up in Minnesota because that's where it happened, But

583
00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:46.880
with it being federal, with it being federal agents, with

584
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:54.239
it being federal policy, Minnesota as a government cannot change

585
00:47:54.239 --> 00:48:01.440
that the federal government does. And you know, maybe if

586
00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:08.199
the way that you protest and get into working families

587
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:11.440
ways while they're trying to get to work or trying

588
00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:14.920
to pick their kids up from daycare, which I've seen

589
00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:18.639
multiple videos of stuff like that happening. People trying to

590
00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:21.239
get to work, people trying to pick their kids up

591
00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:24.320
from daycare, people trying to do stuff to make sure

592
00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:29.920
that their family's taken care of. Why instead of burdening

593
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:35.400
those people by getting in their way and getting them

594
00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:44.519
all riled up and getting them all honestly getting them

595
00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:47.960
all screwed, because if you're late to pick up your kid,

596
00:48:48.199 --> 00:48:55.239
it costs them more. It It just it dumbfounds me.

597
00:48:56.320 --> 00:48:58.880
If you want policy to change, you don't protest it

598
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:04.440
and mess with working class families. You go and you

599
00:49:04.519 --> 00:49:13.719
protest to the politicians that are supposed to write the policy,

600
00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:19.480
because right now protesting up in Minnesota isn't doing shit.

601
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:24.519
If you're someone who cares deeply about border security and

602
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:28.480
you're tired of the lawlessness, don't let that frustration turn

603
00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:31.440
into blind permission for the government to do anything that

604
00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:39.000
at once. That's not conservatism, that's submission. Conservatism demands limited

605
00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:43.960
power and accountability, because once power becomes unrestrained, it doesn't

606
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:48.599
stay pointed at the other guy. If you're someone who

607
00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:57.599
distrusts federal enforcement and you assume every time that the

608
00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:02.199
worst happens, don't let that distrust turn into chaos in

609
00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:06.239
the streets or blanketed hatred of agents. That's not justice.

610
00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:10.360
That's instability and the fastest way to guarantee heavy handed

611
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:19.000
responses and to normalize disorder and call it righteous. So

612
00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:20.639
where do we go from here in a way that

613
00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:25.719
is consistent and lawful. First, we preserve and disclose evidence

614
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:30.559
as quickly as possible without compromising legitimate operational details. If

615
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:34.519
there's more video, more angles, more lead up, get it

616
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:37.519
secured and get what can be released out of the public.

617
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:41.320
The longer the truth is withheld, the more room there

618
00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:46.440
is for lies to breed. It's like the Renee Good shooting.

619
00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:50.280
There's no reason why we haven't seen the wife's point

620
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:57.000
of view yet. There's no reason for that all because

621
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:02.719
to me, as a conservative, I feel like they're hiding

622
00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:09.440
something on that phone that happened, and that's why they

623
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:12.960
haven't released her view yet, because she was recording the

624
00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:15.079
whole time. She had her phone up in front of

625
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:19.079
her face, talking about how she's recording too. Why is

626
00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:26.039
that not released. Second, the investigative process must be credible.

627
00:51:26.280 --> 00:51:30.079
That means clear jurisdiction, clear chain of custody on evidence,

628
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:36.480
and clear timelines. It means no selective leaks, no political stagecraft,

629
00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:40.880
and no media sources shaping the story while the public

630
00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:45.000
is kept in the dark. Third, we need better operational

631
00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:48.880
clarity and high tension moments because this isn't going away.

632
00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:54.440
That means tighter standards for federal operations around crowds, better

633
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:59.400
coordination with local authorities, and body worn camera policies that

634
00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:03.920
make trans parentcy the norm, not a bargaining chip. When

635
00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:09.920
you're operating with the public, watching legitimacy is not optional. Fourth,

636
00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:12.719
we stop rewarding the people who profit from turning this

637
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:17.320
country into perpetual riot. Politicians who use tragedy to inflame

638
00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:22.800
should be called what they are, arsonists and suits. Media

639
00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:29.719
outlets that push a prepackaged anti anti ICE narrative before

640
00:52:29.760 --> 00:52:34.400
the evidence is complete should be treated like activists, not

641
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:40.280
trusted referees or trusted sources. And here's the personal piece.

642
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:44.599
Because reform doesn't live in Washington. We need Americans who

643
00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:48.920
can handle uncertainty without turning it into hatred. We need

644
00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:53.639
citizens who can demand answers without demanding blood. We need

645
00:52:53.800 --> 00:53:00.800
communities that can stand for law and order while also

646
00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:05.320
standing up for truth and due process. Now, let me

647
00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:07.920
be specific about what we're going to do on this show,

648
00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:11.559
because I'm not going to pretend we have more than

649
00:53:11.599 --> 00:53:16.800
we have. As more verified information comes out, additional footage,

650
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:21.400
confirmed timelines, official findings, we will try and update you.

651
00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:28.599
We will correct anything that needs correcting, because the goal

652
00:53:28.719 --> 00:53:31.039
isn't to win a narrative. The goal is to protect

653
00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:33.480
the truth. And I want to land this section with

654
00:53:33.519 --> 00:53:36.119
a message that claims the right parts of your soul

655
00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:41.239
while strengthening the right parts of your spine. If ICE

656
00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:44.079
is doing its job taking violent criminals off the street,

657
00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:48.360
that deserves respect. If there are questions in a single

658
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:55.000
specific incident, those questions deserve honest answers. A strong country

659
00:53:55.159 --> 00:53:57.760
can do both at once, and a free people can

660
00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:03.119
demand both at once. All right, we're going to take

661
00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:06.400
just a quick pause, quick breather, because this is heavy,

662
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:08.840
and this is also the kind of truth that gets

663
00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:13.880
you throttled unless you help move it. If you're getting

664
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:17.320
value out of this show, please share it with one

665
00:54:17.360 --> 00:54:21.639
person who's tired of the propaganda. Follow the show wherever

666
00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:25.079
you listen, and leave a review because it helps us

667
00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:31.679
reach people who don't even know they're starving for honest conversation.

668
00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:37.039
Then we'll finish Strong by tying the entire week together

669
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:41.719
into one theme and one way forward. If you want

670
00:54:41.760 --> 00:54:44.679
to support what we're building, the simplest move is to

671
00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:46.960
back the brands that still have a spine, and you

672
00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:49.760
already know the one that's been riding with us from

673
00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:53.280
the beginning. Valor built apparel isn't just shirts. It's a

674
00:54:53.320 --> 00:54:56.199
statement that you're done with soft excuses, done with the

675
00:54:56.280 --> 00:54:59.920
captured narratives, and done pretending strength is something to a

676
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.360
apologize for. If you want gear that reflects conviction, faith,

677
00:55:04.519 --> 00:55:10.159
and grit, go, support, valor build, because every purchase keeps

678
00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:16.960
this kind of conversation alive. Okay, let's close us out

679
00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:23.920
the right way. Tonight wasn't five random stories in one heavy,

680
00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:27.840
deep dive. Tonight was a warning flare about the kind

681
00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:31.079
of country we're becoming if we keep letting institutions drift

682
00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:34.679
without accountability. A winter storm hit and reminded us how

683
00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:37.880
thin the line is between normal and chaos. When the

684
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:42.800
power flickers, when roads freeze, when supply lines choke, you

685
00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:46.960
don't care about slogans. You care about competence, preparation, and

686
00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:51.119
whether leaders built systems for real life or for press conferences.

687
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Then we stepped into the Supreme Court fight tied to

688
00:55:58.199 --> 00:56:03.280
the Fed, and that one is definitely a quiet kind

689
00:56:03.280 --> 00:56:07.559
of danger. It's not dramatic like a riot or a storm,

690
00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:11.199
but it touches every walllet in America. When institutions that

691
00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:15.519
influence your money get treated like political weapons or untouchable priesthoods,

692
00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:23.559
trust gets poisoned either way, and families pay the price

693
00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:30.719
and interest inflation and instability. Then we talked about war

694
00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:34.119
powers and where the Constitution either matters or it doesn't.

695
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:38.760
Congress loves to play tough and then disappear when the

696
00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:46.519
bill comes due. They want the applause of strength without

697
00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:51.119
the fingerprints of responsibility, and that cowardice is how a

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republic becomes an empire of vague missions and endless debt.

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Then they're Syria, and that's the brutal truth about a

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fractured world. Ceasefires can be real, but they can also

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be a pause when everybody needs to reposition, and when

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nations fracture, the fallout travels. It travels through refugee flows,

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00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:20.280
terror attacks, economic shocks, energy pressure, and the kind of

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instability that eventually shows up at your border and on

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00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:30.000
your budget. Then the a medical emergency in space, which

706
00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:33.480
sounds like it belongs in a different universe, but it

707
00:57:33.519 --> 00:57:38.079
actually belongs right here because it reminds us what competence

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00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:43.239
looks like when there's no room for ideology. It reminds

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00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:47.360
us that when things go wrong, reality doesn't just accept

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00:57:48.159 --> 00:57:55.519
excuses and outcomes, don't care about your narrative. And then

711
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Minneapolis a citizen dead, a city, tense, competing, a counts,

712
00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:06.400
partial video, emotions everywhere, and the worst possible environment for truth.

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00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:13.079
Politicians in mainstream media pushing preloaded conclusions because outrage is

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profitable and division is useful. If you remember one thing

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from this episode, remember this. A nation cannot survive on narratives.

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It can only survive on trust, and trust only survives

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when truth is demanded and accountability is real. Here's what

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00:58:32.719 --> 00:58:34.320
I mean by that, and I want you to feel it,

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00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:37.559
not just hear it. Trust is what makes people obey

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00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:41.079
laws when nobody is watching. Trust is what makes communities

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00:58:41.119 --> 00:58:46.320
cooperate instead of collapse into suspicion. Trust is what keeps

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00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:54.039
a country from turning every crisis into tribal warfare. And

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00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:58.400
when trust gets replaced by propaganda, everything becomes a fight.

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Every storm comes politics, Every court case becomes a weapon,

725
00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:10.920
Every foreign conflict becomes a fundraising tool. Every tragedy becomes

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a chance to demonize the other side. That isn't progress,

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00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:18.840
that's rot. Now I'm going to say something that needs

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00:59:18.880 --> 00:59:23.960
to be said in a conservative voice with zero apology.

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We believe in law and order because chaos punishes the innocent.

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We believe in borders because citizenship must mean something and

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00:59:36.360 --> 00:59:42.360
working Americans cannot be expected to carry unlimited strain. We

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believe in discipline institutions because the purpose of government is

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to secure rights, not to play king. But that same

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00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:57.239
conservative spine that also demands restraint. It demands due process.

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It demands that force is accountable. It demands that agencies

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01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:04.119
don't get to grade their own homework behind closed doors

737
01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:06.440
while the public is told to shut up and just

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01:00:06.559 --> 01:00:10.079
trust them. You can support ICE doing the hard work

739
01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:13.800
removing violent criminals and predators from American communities and still

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01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:17.880
demand that every use of deadly force is investigated with integrity.

741
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Those two things are not in conflict. They're married. Enforcement

742
01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:29.159
without legitimacy fails. Legitimacy without enforcement collapses. A strong country

743
01:00:29.199 --> 01:00:33.679
requires both. And if you're listening and you're thinking, okay,

744
01:00:34.679 --> 01:00:38.039
but what can I do, I'm going to give you

745
01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:42.880
the answer that most politicians hate because it makes you

746
01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:49.559
harder to get the narrative. It puts power back in

747
01:00:49.639 --> 01:00:55.800
your hands. First, refuse the emotionally managed. Stop letting headlines

748
01:00:57.880 --> 01:01:01.639
tell you what to hate before you know what happened.

749
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Stop letting clips become verdicts. Demand full context, and demand

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01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:11.679
it from everyone, including your own side, because truth doesn't

751
01:01:11.679 --> 01:01:17.679
wear a jersey. Second, demand competence locally, know your county officials,

752
01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:22.119
know your city council, know your sheriff, know your state reps.

753
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:27.320
The federal machine feels unstoppable because people neglect local power,

754
01:01:27.880 --> 01:01:31.199
and local power is where culture and stability are either

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01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:38.719
built or destroyed. Third, reward transparency, but punish spin. If

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01:01:38.719 --> 01:01:42.679
a politician uses tragedy as a campaign tool, treat that

757
01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:46.559
as disqualifying. If a media outlet lies by a mission

758
01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:51.320
starvative attention, outrage is their business model, and the only

759
01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:54.239
way to beat a business model is to stop buying

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01:01:54.239 --> 01:01:59.199
the product. Fourth, rebuild community where you live, not online,

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01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:04.360
not in sections. In real life, strong communities are harder

762
01:02:04.519 --> 01:02:09.760
to destabilize, harder to manipulate, and harder to divide. A

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01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:15.519
neighborhood that knows each other doesn't ignite as easily because

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people have relationships that cut through the propaganda. Fifth, get

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01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:24.400
your own house in order. I'm not saying that to

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01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:31.800
shame you. I'm saying that because a strong nation needs

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01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:37.320
to be built within the home. A nation of strong

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01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:40.960
families is harder to conquer, and a nation of fractured

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01:02:41.000 --> 01:02:46.400
families is easier to manage. Pay down debt when you

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01:02:46.440 --> 01:02:53.280
can build skills, build savings, build discipline, prepare for storms.

771
01:02:54.360 --> 01:03:00.480
Literal and political, because preparedness is peace. And I want

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01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:03.559
you to speak to the men in this audience for

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01:03:03.599 --> 01:03:06.559
a second, because the country needs it. If you want

774
01:03:06.559 --> 01:03:09.519
a better America, start being the kind of man who

775
01:03:09.559 --> 01:03:14.400
can carry pressure without becoming angry and useless. Be calm,

776
01:03:14.719 --> 01:03:19.039
be steady, be protective, Be the one who doesn't panic,

777
01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:24.559
doesn't escalate, doesn't get baited into stupid fights. Then I

778
01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:28.199
want to speak to the women in this audience. Your

779
01:03:28.239 --> 01:03:32.559
discernment is a weapon against chaos. Your leadership in families

780
01:03:32.599 --> 01:03:36.639
and communities is a stabilizing force. Do not let this

781
01:03:36.800 --> 01:03:42.199
culture convince you that strength is toxic and courage is oppressive. Now,

782
01:03:42.480 --> 01:03:45.039
let's talk about the politicians in the mainstream media one

783
01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:49.000
more time, because they deserve the heat, not your neighbor.

784
01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:54.719
Politicians love divided citizens because divided citizens are easy to rule.

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01:03:55.519 --> 01:03:59.599
A population that argues all day doesn't audit budgets. A

786
01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:05.320
popular that hates each other doesn't ask why procurement is corrupt.

787
01:04:05.800 --> 01:04:09.960
A population trapped in outrage doesn't notice that the same

788
01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:15.559
people keep getting rich no matter which party wins. Mainstream

789
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:20.960
media loves division because division pays. Outrage drives clicks, fear

790
01:04:21.079 --> 01:04:25.960
drives engagement. Anger drives addiction, and when a media ecosystem

791
01:04:26.159 --> 01:04:31.880
learns it can shape a nation's emotional weather, it stops

792
01:04:31.880 --> 01:04:36.000
reporting reality and starts manufacturing it. That's why we keep

793
01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:40.320
coming back to this, not because we enjoy being mad,

794
01:04:40.880 --> 01:04:45.800
because we're trying to save what matters. We want a

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01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:51.039
country where the power stays on in a storm because

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01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:54.119
leadership planned ahead. We want a country where the dollar

797
01:04:54.159 --> 01:04:59.039
holds value because we stop pretending debt is free. We

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01:04:59.079 --> 01:05:02.239
want a country where war is a serious decision with

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01:05:02.360 --> 01:05:06.280
real accountability, not an endless gray zone. We want a

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01:05:06.280 --> 01:05:10.920
country that understands foreign chaos is real and prepares intelligently

801
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:15.639
instead of reacting emotionally. We want a country that respects

802
01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:20.000
competence and demands excellence again. And we want a country

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01:05:20.039 --> 01:05:25.559
where a citizen dies in a controversial incident, the truth

804
01:05:25.639 --> 01:05:30.880
is pursued like oxygen, not buried like a scandal. That's

805
01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:38.199
not radical, that's normal. That's America when it's healthy. So

806
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:40.320
here's the call to courage, and I want you to

807
01:05:40.360 --> 01:05:45.800
hear it like a personal challenge. Do not outsource your backbone,

808
01:05:46.199 --> 01:05:49.559
Do not outsource your thinking, Do not outsource your community.

809
01:05:50.480 --> 01:05:53.599
Your job is not to become a pundit. Your job

810
01:05:54.239 --> 01:05:57.760
is to become unshakable, To be the kind of citizen

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01:05:57.880 --> 01:06:02.000
who demands better with out becoming hateful. To be the

812
01:06:02.079 --> 01:06:05.719
kind of neighbor who brings stability, not gasoline. To be

813
01:06:05.800 --> 01:06:09.199
the kind of American who can hold two truths at once.

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We enforce law and we protect rights. That's how you

815
01:06:18.599 --> 01:06:22.239
can rebuild trust, not by pretending everything is fine, not

816
01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:27.039
by screaming at the strangers, by telling the truth, demanding accountability,

817
01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:31.480
and building something local that the national chaos cannot destroy.

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01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:35.320
All right, let's bring us to the final stretch, because

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I want to send you out of here with clarity,

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01:06:37.360 --> 01:06:40.360
not just intensity. If you made it this far, you're

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01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:42.199
the kind of person who believes in this country is

822
01:06:42.199 --> 01:06:46.159
worth fighting for and fighting for the right way, not

823
01:06:46.280 --> 01:06:52.519
with hatred, not with violence, with truth, courage, discipline, and community.

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Now let's close it. If this episode hit, you share

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01:06:57.599 --> 01:07:01.719
it with one person, one text, one conversation with someone

826
01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:05.480
you know who is sick and tired of being lied to.

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Because what breaks propaganda is not a viral clip, it's

828
01:07:09.480 --> 01:07:15.719
a million quiet citizens refusing to play along. Make sure

829
01:07:16.519 --> 01:07:19.719
you're following the show wherever you listen and leave a review,

830
01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:24.280
because it matters more than you think it tells the platforms,

831
01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:27.320
there are people who want long form truth, not five

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01:07:27.400 --> 01:07:31.079
second outrage. Check the show notes for links and references,

833
01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:35.119
and keep an eye out because as more is verified

834
01:07:37.000 --> 01:07:42.199
about the whole Minneapolis shooting, we'll update you not with spin,

835
01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:46.000
but with facts because we don't owe anyone a narrative.

836
01:07:46.320 --> 01:07:51.079
We owe the public the truth. Follow me on Facebook, YouTube,

837
01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:56.880
and x We're working on YouTube a little bit more

838
01:07:56.920 --> 01:07:59.440
in depth this week and next week, and then we're

839
01:07:59.440 --> 01:08:03.719
going to work on Rumble kind of in in junction

840
01:08:03.920 --> 01:08:07.199
with that. Also, check us out on Instagram. That's where

841
01:08:07.239 --> 01:08:09.280
the clips go, that's where the updates go, and that's

842
01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:12.880
where we keep this conversation alive when the gatekeepers try

843
01:08:12.920 --> 01:08:17.560
to throttle it. And one more time, support the sponsors

844
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that support this mission. Valorbilt Apparel wear something that says

845
01:08:22.079 --> 01:08:25.920
you haven't surrendered. Wears something that reminds you and everybody

846
01:08:26.119 --> 01:08:29.960
around you that conviction still exists in this country. All right,

847
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that's it for today. I'm sorry I talked your ear

848
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off for the last hour. Stand tall, stay sharp, stay faithful,

849
01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:42.520
and never let them steal your love for this country

850
01:08:42.600 --> 01:08:45.920
by turning you against your neighbor. This is the world

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of pain and we'll see you next time.