Badlands Media - Culture of Change Ep. 143: Politics is the Culture War Now

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

Ashe in America is joined by Mark Fitzpatrick, who is running for Governor in Idaho, for a conversation centered on how politics has become the front line of the culture war. Mark shares his perspective on stepping into the political arena, what motivated his run, and how cultural issues are now directly shaping policy decisions at the state level. The discussion focuses on the connection between everyday values and government action, and why local leadership is becoming increasingly important. The episode also explores how narratives, institutions, and public pressure influence political outcomes, along with the challenges of running as a candidate in a highly charged environment. Ashe and Mark examine what it means to represent constituents in a time where cultural divisions are driving political engagement, and how individuals can play a role in shaping the direction of their communities. Throughout the conversation, the focus remains on the intersection of culture, governance, and personal responsibility in today’s political landscape.

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They make you memorize the Gettysburg Address and all that. That speech should be memorized. And it is super relevant for now. You can find the full text of it at ashtonurica.subsec.com. You can also find all the stuff that's on tonight's show, all the links to the different things that we're going to talk about on ashenoerica. com. So make sure that you check that out.

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which has hosted Badlands events. We had a Jordan held a Codex 9-11 event there and also a Q-focused event. Also running for governor of Idaho, Mark Fitzpatrick joins me now. Mark, welcome to the show. Thank you very much for having me on. This is going to be fun.

Yeah, it is. It is going to be fun because you are causing a ruckus in the state of Idaho. And as I was preparing to have you on tonight, I'm just, I'm now a fan. I'm looking at the headlines. So, well, first, before we get into the ruckus that you're causing, tell the audience a little bit about yourself. All right. well. Let's see. I'm 48 years old. Married to my beautiful wife of 23 years, six children, a business owner. I own a wedding venue and a restaurant, saloon, old state saloon, also a real estate

brokerage and do some land development. Was a police officer for 15 years and then got into over to Idaho and started these businesses. And it's been quite an adventure. in all that time, going down the journey of figuring out how much deception there is in the world and getting really sick and tired of it and just getting to the point where I just said I don't really care about the damage truth cause. I'm just going to start speaking it. And yeah, so get to this point. I'm sure we'll touch on some more of those topics in the recent history, but it just got to this point where I started looking into things and I was so frustrated with the way that our leadership is handling things in Idaho and the direction

we're going is not good. It's definitely going more of a socialist direction and there's no response. There's basically a back turns to us from the governor's office and more like he's answering crony, you know, buddies and things like that and big ag and big dairy and big pharma but there's not a genuine interaction with the people at all and that's just and if we're going to fix this country there and we need leaders that are going to be working with the people and the people need to be good stewards of the government they've been given and so i saw that nobody was running against him and and you know once once we kind of go through a little bit more of the things that happened to me i think it just realized just realized maybe that's why i went through all that stuff

was to prepare me for, you know, running against the incumbent Republican establishment governor. And, you know, being, I have a little bit more thick skin now after everything that's happened. And so being prepared to do that, my wife and I prayed about it, and we got clear answer after about four or five weeks. And so moving forward with this run, and we have to win on May 19th. And there's a very good response from from Idaho so far. So I love what you said about not caring any longer about the damage that the truth causes because you're channeling Patrick Henry, who in that same speech said, for my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost,

I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst and to provide for it. And that's the spirit that we need because there's so many lies. the, you know, running against incumbent governor or incumbent Republican governor, the, the unit party is a very real thing, right? And it depends on what, the dynamic of red or blue depends on which state you're in. Some states have, you know, blue majority party and a red minority party. That's where I'm at here in Colorado. And the Republican Party is very happy being the minority party in the state. They don't actually seem to want to win elections. They just want to disrupt whatever organizing, you know, kind of organizing that the people can do to make change.

The Republican Party is the one that stands in the way of the Republican grassroots. It has a similar dynamic in red states, you know, for blue voters trying to make change. And the division that divide along party lines is beneficial to the political class. It serves, it services the political class. It doesn't service the people. at all. And so taking on an incumbent Republican, you're going to get a lot of fighting. I would, I would theorize, I don't know Idaho politics, but I would, my hypothesis would be that you're going to get a lot of pushback from your own party. Is that what you're experiencing?

Well, it's interesting because a lot of the committees that I'm going around and vetting with and talking to and spending time with most of the people involved with those committees. and these are more like your volunteer, non-elected type of people or the PCs on a ground level. They, and that's precinct committee men, but they are basically very much for me, and they're just totally done with the current governor, Governor Little, and very excited and behind me. I think there is a bit of a hesitancy with people who are elected to publicly jump behind yet, So that will remain to be seen. But the more of momentum that we're getting, the more people are calling and saying that they want to get behind and help.

And it's definitely going a very positive direction as far as the party system and everything. It gets extremely frustrating. And part of me wants to at one point. And on one angle, just burn it all down. I just don't know what to replace it with exactly. I don't know that there's a solution out there. I do feel like we're very close to, I mean, we're DefCon 1 right now. Like, we're, if we don't get our stuff together as a country and as the state of Idaho,

we're toast, especially a, and this is a different topic we can talk about, but especially as AI and humanoid robots come on the scene in about four or five years from now or sooner. That's when, like, you guys start thinking, hey, does the Second Amendment, is that really going to help us? much as it did in the last decades where people were afraid to even consider warring with the United States on our soil. When you have a million humanoid robots, it's a totally different game at that point. So if we don't, if we don't like get a hold or like get in control, the good, good guys that is, getting kind of control of the politics and good and evil battle and

all these humanoid robots come into play, I don't know. I mean, I don't think our Second Amendment's going to, our guns aren't going to really help us at that point. Well, and the power dynamics shift, right? Because the army of humanoid robots may be owned by a government actor or it may be owned by a private corporation, right? And we already have corporations like Apple that are essentially nation states in terms of their power projection and the ability that they have to affect change. You start adding armies in line with those capabilities. They already have the ability, like full, full blown surveillance, right? So now you add the ability to enforce change from potentially private actors.

I personally believe, like we could say, well, I didn't vote for this. We don't know what people voted for because elections are a black box and we're not allowed to look. But nobody's voting for that. I don't want to be like dark and depressing, though. So the point is that we need to get our stuff together now. We have to be honest about it, Mark. We have to be honest about what the threat landscape is. and we can't sugarcoat it.

We might seem a little doomy, but we have to address it. We have to face the doom if we're going to fight it. And the reality is, you know, we may not love the two-party system, but when I look through the Republican platform, especially Idaho's, I definitely agree with basically all of it, you know,

but are Republicans actually acting that out in their life? The elected Republicans, and the answer is no. I mean, we have a big, big establishment here. Example, right now, we had a good push in the House. They pushed through seven bills that were immigration related,

which is our biggest problem, in my opinion, here in Idaho right now. All of them are sitting in a drawer because two people who are establishment Republicans, who basically aren't Republicans at all, are squashing those and killing them, and they won't go to the Senate. And so they won't pass.

And then we'll go through another year of not having the teeth we need to get the job done to start, you know, cutting down on all of our agencies and government programs and everything that's been getting out of whack, growing like crazy as a result of COVID money coming in from, you know, when COVID started all through the, you know, following four or five years. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, COVID was such an expansion. I was, so I was in the Tea Party back in the day and, you know, screaming into the void about Obama being a communist and his reign of terror being the long march through the institutions. And when you see what they accomplished in COVID, how fast, how comprehensive, they were able to change the behavior of the people with very little resistance because

of the amount of fear. It scares me because I think they can do it again. I don't know that the masses of Americans learned that lesson. I think there are people that are still afraid of, you know, the virus that came out. What was that, what was that like for you, COVID? I was like banging my head against a wall. It was like, I remember, you know, because I was our, I'm already very suspicious of anything that has a lot of money behind it. If there's a government and money behind it, like, I'm.

I'm very suspicious. Yeah. Smart. That's just being smart. This is something where I was like, no way. This, I'm calling this right now. If they, you know, start pushing vaccines, we need to not take them. And that was way before they were even talking about vaccines.

And people were, you know, wanting to hush me up because I was very blunt. And, you know, people were scared. and the control of information is such a huge thing. And that's what we lost out on was that the people who are kind of running things in the world figured out a way to control all of our media and information and got us addicted to it with this entertainment that's relatively cheap. So we enjoy it and get programmed, right? And then they just start dishing out all these lies and people just believe it.

and instead of automatically questioning it. So, yeah, I was, whether it be my church that I was going to or, you know, just regular life and business and people, I was very much against it. You know, we had a health board that was making a decision and I helped get a whole bunch of people down there. My family, we all brought flags and we were singing outside and demanding that they don't make any stupid rules about wearing masks and, and demanding that people will wear masks and trying to like make these statements from a health board as if that's the law you know and and people are people just go ahead and believe this stuff oh the health board says we can't do it it's just give me a break they're not trust the experts in

fact that's like that's obscene to the actual law which is the constitution right well yeah and choice right that was one of the things that was crazy to me when the vaccine push started coming out was that the abortion activists were also vaccine maxis, right? Like my body, my, and I really did believe, like, very naively, that the people would be able to find some common ground around the issue of bodily autonomy. It went when that happened.

Nope. No, it was, it was tribal, the tribalism, the intellectual inconsistency, right, didn't matter to people. And that was a surprise. I feel like I was a little bit naive in thinking that, you know, that there would be, that there would be some some sort of common ground about, hey, we can't, we can't allow the government to force a, no, there's no, the, the ideological divides from like left and right

are hardwired, deeply programmed. And it was, it was crazy to experience. So I have your platform here, your priority. And I thought, I think we should, I think we should go through them because I think they're fantastic. So let's start with faith. Oh, let's try to do this about boring. We don't want to bore people. None of this is boring. All of, all of these are very exciting things.

And government waste and corruption. That's my love language, man. There you go. So God-centered government, protect life from conception, unique DNA is formed at conception. Stand firm. That means a human. That means a unique human being is formed at conception. It should have human rights.

stand firm against cultural attacks and uphold religious accommodations in the workplace and schools. What kind of battles are you guys fighting in Idaho right now? Red state, right? You have some blue cities, but it's a red state. And what is the attack on faith feel like there? Yeah, so first off on this, on our more risque things that we print and push out there, it says Idaho's favorite F words, faith, family freedom, Fitzpatrick. Eric. That's our little fun thing that we do. But to answer your question, well, a couple years ago, we did a, we had a vote and really kind of made it very clear that abortion is, is illegal. And then there's, and they just never stop. So this year, there's initiative on the ballot that they think will get, will get enough signatures and will be on November's ballot that would allow for abortion if a

doctor says it's needed whether that doctor is an eye doctor or a you know it doesn't matter what kind of doctor and then they they slipped in there too that uh to allow for all the transgenderism for children and and people that are looking for transgender stuff and it's like didn't we just do didn't we just argue all this stuff and vote on it and and and have it be this way but they keep pushing and i think it's because they they figure out a way to get these leaders in these elected positions and these people are leading to charge as Republican, they're calling themselves Republicans and they're anything but. But yeah, that's the one that we're going to have in November is a big one and it's abortion.

But I think the more clear agreement that almost every rational person has is that we shouldn't be tempting and having a lot of money behind transgendering children. Yeah. So that's going to be my biggest way to argue against that initiative would be that we don't want to make that legal in any way. Yeah, I mean, my state is a cautionary tale on this. So the trans thing of children is the sexualization, mutilization, sterilization, and psychological torture against children, in my opinion. And here it is taxpayer funded. And abortion is now in our constitution.

Taxpayer funding of abortion is in our constitution, to which point I'm like, I need to leave because fiery hail is going to come from the sky. But they don't ever stop. That's the nature of progressivism is that they're going to continue to push the limits as far as they can until people stand up and push back. and then they might chill out for a little bit, but they're going to come back with a vengeance because the destruction of our culture and our values, really, it's the attack on biblical values that isn't going to stop. Yeah, and they do have, I mean, on a national scale,

it's been a decade, decades, decades and decades long, but the deception to keep the church out of all this fight, so you collectively have the church and the apathy that's gone on for decades. I really think that's the main reason why we're in this situation that we're in is because the church just says, you know, come into our bubble and we'll do our thing on Sunday. And there's most definitely been a, you know, we don't get involved in politics kind of attitude. And that has allowed Satan to prevail and push these agendas.

And it's finally right now, people are made. maybe starting to wake up a little bit because they are cutting off boys' penises and girls' breasts. Like, that's what, like, you're finally waking up. I mean, it's gotten so wicked and disgusting. It's like, this is like biblical level extreme wickedness that's happening right in front of us. And most of the church is still asleep on the issues. Absolutely. And I love what you said, like come into our bubble and we'll do our thing on Sunday.

and we won't come outside and we won't talk about politics. We won't bother anybody. And the reality of that is because then we might lose our tax status. And we saw that during COVID, you know, to go back to COVID. At the point when despair was at its highest in recent memory, where people needed the church more than ever, the church closed its doors because the government said so. And that was a wild moment for me in terms of realizing just how late the hour was when it came to the church. church. If the church were to stand up, and by the church, I mean the body of Christ. I'm not talking

about some, you know, some Sunday concert building. If the people, if the followers of Jesus were to stand up and hold the line, we would solve a lot of problems. But we, but instead, we have, we have people that are beholden to government that are calling themselves church leaders. And we have focus on a whole bunch of things that aren't actually the problems we need to solve. So it's, you like minds again. We have some questions in the chat here. Depatriate 1776 says, how does Mark hope to defeat election fraud?

And also, when is the Idaho primary? Yeah, so I know election, oh, May 19th is the Idaho primary. So every Republican needs to show up and vote for me, Mark Fitzpatrick, not Brad Little. And how do I defeat election fraud is, I mean, awareness, getting people to understand that, you know, at 2 o'clock in the morning in the middle of the night after an election, four states stopped counting all at once. And then suddenly 90 something percent of the rest of the ballots are for, you know, the socialist person that they want in office. That's not, that is not rational to, like, think that that's okay.

But people need to, like, get it, you know, they don't, they need to, they need to get past the point of, like, oh, I'm being called a name by, liberals an election cheating denier or whatever i better stop talking about this and instead just speak the truth speak the truth that stuff doesn't happen at 2 a.m that's not normal that's that's that's that's a common sense evidence that there's fraud going on and uh we need to do that so i'm that's as the governor of idaho i'm going to be the most extremely blunt truth-telling person ever and there'll be a lot of people offended for a while and some people will probably end up going to jail for all this stuff and then after that we'll rebuild our state and our our our government on the wreckage left behind by truth that we were just speaking out and the light that

we're shining so how do i stop the the voting fraud i don't know exactly like this specific steps i know what to do after uh i'm voted in as governor i don't know what to do for this may other than my mission is just to move forward, trust that there's a plan. And I think my advice to everybody is to tell everybody, go vote, vote harder. I know you make fun of that. People make fun of that vote harder. But what you're doing is you're creating a bigger crime scene. And the hope is that the investigation will happen at some point if the election is a joke again.

And there's more cheating happening. But because you went, you were part and you're watching. watching and people are recording and cameras and all that stuff. But also the amount of votes that go in that are legit votes, that makes it harder for them to bring in fake votes. And it creates a bigger crime scene. So do it. Yeah, I agree with that.

I would also say if it so happens that on election night, there's a drop at 2 a.m. and there's overt, obvious, you know, malfeasance, you as a candidate have standing on that. Voters don't have standing. That's been, you know, widely decided by the courts that voters don't have standing to challenge the results of election. Your right to vote ends at casting a ballot is what we found out in Curling v. Raffinsberger in Georgia. But as a candidate, you have standing. And if they

steal your election, I hope you challenge it, because that's really the only way that we've seen any meaningful changes through the courts. Spetzel asked the question. I'm curious about the progress of and Mark's take on the Greater Idaho Project. So immediately after I'm sworn in, we're going to start taking land from Oregon and Washington. Just kidding. Why are we kidding? I think this sounds great. No, I know that there's a lot of people in the eastern part of those states that want to get away from the cities and the liberalism that's happening there.

And I'm watching it. I think it would be a great idea. Those are mainly good conservative Republican, Christian people and good land. And so I think why not take a look into it? Obviously, I would never proceed forward if it wasn't for the best of the people of Idaho, the current borders of Idaho. But I would be very open to that idea and discussing how we might be able to make that happen. I'd love to hear it.

We have a greater Wyoming thing happening here where the northern part of Colorado is trying to leave and join Wyoming. No idea if it's a possibility. It seems so far-fetched, but I love the idea of somebody taking that kind of stuff seriously. Next up, we have your family priorities. Protect parental rights. Guard kids from radical ideology.

Honor traditional marriage. Protect community and not bureaucracy. These are all great things. Again, living in the communist country of Colorado, all of parents are. rights are one of the most, I have not heard, and I live here. So it's, you know, possible that it's just that I hear it so much because I have not heard of the level of crimes against children from people inside of institutions, like teachers and administrators, people in trusted, you know,

positions of trust that have in a few counties here, it's almost like the stories are happening every week, that there are teachers that are, you know, gaining out. access to children, whether that's convincing them that they're trans and taking them and undergoing, you know, social transitioning until they're old enough to make decisions about themselves. And that's like 16 here that they're old enough to make decisions about themselves. Or, you know, having an affair with their students and then leaving the state when they're caught, that happens. We have just an insane amount of crimes against children by people in trusted positions here.

And they never really seem to get in trouble. they might get, you know, in trouble in terms of having a record, but it's not like they're going to prison for nine years like Tina Peters did for lying to Jenna Griswold one time. But tell me about your family priorities. Yeah, strong family. I have six children myself. We homeschool. We did foster care and adopt my youngest son. and that was quite the experience learning about the foster care system and all of the shenanigans going on there because it's definitely government involvement and there's money involved. So there's going to be problems, of course, whenever those two things happen. So there's things to be aware of there. Most foster care systems need to be kind of cleaned out and have a light shine just through everything and be.

exposed um schooling a definite problem here ever since uh especially since mayor mclean came in and went extreme leftist and then all this money started appearing usa id money all this stuff pushing out through the country to basically mega help these programs happen that were pushing this queer theory and lgb tq agenda transgenderism etc. I had a whole bunch of money behind it for so long. My hope, I think a lot of that has dried up with Doge and my hope is that it will stay that way. There were a lot of events canceled in the last years. I'll be standing as a governor who will try to stop all of that type of thing from happening. Idaho has traditional marriage as part of its constitution

between a man and a woman. And I'm very happy about that. However, obviously overruled by Supreme Court, I personally don't really feel like the government needs to be involved in our marriages. But the actual definition of marriage is something that God created and designed and that definition can never be changed. Go ahead and call whatever you're doing, whatever you want,

but it's not real. You know, God decides. that and and so those things i would be standing for and supporting and fighting anything that that would be otherwise there's overreach the government wants our children they come after well the government the globalist type of government that's part of the socialist agenda etc wants our children they want to basically raise them and take that authority away from the parents and i'm very, very opposed to all of that. And that is directly tied to just the size of government, right?

The government should never be big enough to where it has the resources to come after our kids in that way. But we've expanded what you said about marriage, right? The government shouldn't be. Why is it that we argue about gay marriage? Well, because the definition of marriage is enshrined in law, and it's enshrined in law largely for tax benefits, for access to different government programs and resources and things and that it that drives the government having the power to decide and define

and then we all fight about it and then you know over time we decide okay we know we being the collective right decide over time okay well you know different types of unions can also be considered marriage for these government benefits but that whole domain of government shouldn't exist and that's that's a mindset thing that I really hope Americans get back to um exactly Same thing with the church, right? 501C3, like you were saying earlier. Exactly. Exactly.

Yeah. So love that pillar, the second F word. The third F word is freedom slash taxes, shrink government, hold the corrupt accountable, remove all illegal aliens in Idaho and defend the Constitution. Set the immigration one to the side for second because I want you to speak to that specifically because you did tell me that that is your biggest concern from a kind of government issue standpoint that you guys are facing up in Idaho. Talk about the size of government, taxation landscape.

What are you guys seeing? What are you going to do? Our government has increased about 70% in the last eight years. The money came in from the COVID years with strings attached to it. We also had a population boom as a result of people coming from California, Oregon, Washington, and illegals. And, you know, as a result, the money coming in, for COVID with all the strings attached, more agencies were created. And our health and welfare department ballooned to a $6.5 billion budget, which is a lot for Idaho. Our total budget is

$15 billion. And there's so much fraud going on. I was really inspired by Nick Shirley. I went out and I did video four different days of going to Somali daycares in Boise. And it was like mind blowing. It's the exact. same thing there's so much fraud hundreds of thousands sometimes million a couple places had over a million dollars going to them and they were just completely either not there or a joke or they're supposed to be 12 kids and there was one and it was just fake and and fraudulent and so how to how to solve these problems we need to slash all of all that's what getting you know immigration getting rid of people who shouldn't be here who were basically incentivizing to come here and steal

the American dream from Americans, get rid of them. I have a way to do that, which would get them probably just to go to California or something like that, but that would solve Idaho's problem. And then the other thing about slashing taxes is it's not just about cutting government and shrinking government. It's also, and this is one of the things I like about Trump, it's looking at other sources of income and Idaho is very rich in natural resources so I've done some initial studying on my own and I'm really like obviously no natural resource expert of any kind however we are very rich with natural resources and I was looking at our royalty and taxes that we take in for just say silver by the way our biggest silver mining company is owned by

Black Rock and Vanguard and it's taken straight out of Idaho, right? They pay us 1%. One percent. Wow. And it's gone. Alaska charges up to 10 percent, depending on what type of land you're on, if you want to mine on Alaska's land between the royalties and taxes. Idaho's getting 1 percent. Who made that deal? Well, it used to be three. And then early 2000s, 2002 or three, they reduced it from 3 percent to 1 percent. And I want to know who was involved in that deal and whose friends came in right after that with mining companies, etc. Because that seems dirty. But I did a little bit of math and if silver, I know it's been dropping lately, but I think it's going to go way back up. But if it continues to go up and we were to increase to 10%, you know, we would have multiple

billions of dollars of rather than 30, 40 million only a year, we'd have 100 times more income if it goes up about 10 times value and then we take 10 times as much tax and royalty fees. We're going to have 100 or 100 times increase and that would be $3,4 billion, which is a quarter or a third of our total budget. And that would potentially right there eliminate property taxes, just that one thing. So Trump, you know, he's got external revenue service he wants to do and he's talking about eliminating income tax. I think he might be serious. And the way to do that is to stop believing the lie that people have to pay taxes in order for our country to work. It's a lie.

It's a deception. We just need to realize that we're rich and use, think about these other countries that have oil fields and everything. And a lot of they don't have these taxes and things that we have here. Anyways, I just think it takes a different way of looking at it. That's crazy to me because you would think that the resources. you know, under the feet of the people of Idaho, essentially belong to the people of Idaho, but the fruit of globalism is to exploit everyone involved

except for the people profiting. And that's sort of maddening. Talk about the illegal, the criminal invading migrant landscape that you have in Idaho. Oh, yeah, it's the most our governor will ever say is he'll post something that says, I am fully committed to deporting violent criminal alien offenders. And these are basically the ones that get arrested for some charge of violence or they get in a car accident and kill somebody or whatever.

But it's like we're talking one or two people here and there. The reality is we've had tens of thousands of people come in. He signed two letters pursuant to executive order 13888. that Trump put out, he had to sign two letters that told the government that we were eager and equipped, eager and equipped to receive more refugees in Idaho. All those refugees coming in like crazy through the Biden administration, we here in Idaho were eager and equipped to take them in. So they came in by the busloads and bus loads in the middle of the night. And they came with a lot of money with them. And they go and work at these big

corporations and they get to they get money supporting them if they employ these people and so it's a big racket all the money that was attached to it all and it's all going to be drying up it is and now who's going to be left holding the bad who's I mean who's going to be left holding the bill for all that is the taxpayers because the federal funds are going to dry up Trump's not trump and the way the government's going is not going to keep sending us money for all those you know agencies and service for refugees and illegals. The refugee, refugee, people being refugees into the United States

has pretty much ended under Trump, this administration, and so is the money. So we're sitting here like we've got tens and tens of thousands of people who have come in Idaho. They are competing for our jobs. I went out and interviewed some guys on a job site. Several of them admitted to me that they're illegal. And we interview other guys and they're Americans and they said they're having a problem competing with illegals for these jobs on these job sites. The illegals told me, I said to them, if we pass bill 700 or 704 and it makes it illegal for an employer on a state level, we have a state law. The employer cannot employ you anymore or they'll get thrown in jail for a year and they're not going to employ you. What are you going to do? And he said, I'll either go to

Mexico or I'll go to California. That's what he said. And so that that right there would solve Idaho's problem because if there's no money and job and schooling and housing and food and education, all these things that are being passed out or offered at discounts or for free for people, if it's not there, they will leave. And that's what we need to get back to. Yeah, I mean, the reality is they'll leave your state and they'll come to mine, right? Maybe they'll go to California, but here in Colorado, we're a sanctuary and they made a newcomer playbook for how to accommodate all of the migrants, including giving them instructions on how to access all of the benefit programs. And then, of course, in the 2024 campaign, President Trump talked about Trenda,

Aragua and they're taking over of, you know, apartment buildings and all that kind. They pulled a woman's fingernails out here. And the news told us it wasn't happening. And it's just, it's madness. But we do have, like, I guess one of the. silver linings is if states like Idaho make it make it an untenable position for them to stay right so they're going to go somewhere else so then they're going to go to places like Colorado or California at least they're centralized right there's they're brought together so then the federal government can

come in and take care of it I've been begging for a Rocky Mountain showdown here to to take this up because it's it's it undermines isn't even the right word it is um it is to the detriment of americans that the political class prioritizes people that um come here with with ill intentions even if those intentions are just to free load and have americans pay for your whole life that's that's not it's for it's not asylum it's not right it's not refugeeism. It is, it's the, it's intentional destruction of our society and our way of life. And I hope that we can do something about it. Final, final F word, Fitzpatrick, serve without compromise, answer to Idahoans, not insiders, govern without fear, and refuse to sell out. Tell us about your

fourth pillar. Yeah. So my idea, and I've mentioned Trump a few times, there's a lot of things I really like about Trump. There's some things I also, I wonder, and there's other things I'm kind of like, what are you doing? But one of the things I do like is the populist style of governing, and that would be a Fitzpatrick thing for sure. I'd be extremely blunt and truthful, extremely transparent. I show up right now on my campaign tour, and when it's a longer format, I'll give a talk or whatever. I'll tell everybody what's going on and who I am basically. And then I'm very excited to open up for questions and just see what people have. And I, you know, I'll just be straight honest with people. They're going to ask a question. I'll give them an answer. And that's what we need

out of not only the governor, but every elected person should be willing to stand in front of the people and answer questions. And I'm very thankful for the ones that we do have. But unfortunately, like these two or three people that are responsible for drawing these bills, they won't respond to any, all the hundreds of people who are reaching out to them and telling them, we want these bills heard. They won't even respond. And that's just, that, I don't know, that seems criminal to me to be, you're supposed to be a representative of the people and you are completely ignoring all of them. So the Fitzpatrick way would be to actually do some outside the box type of things. We would have a monthly meeting at the Lincoln Auditorium at the Capitol

or other places around the state. I'll travel around and I'll buy on the first time. I'll do, I'll have tacos catered and we'll call it Taco Tuesday, meet with the mayor or the governor. And they can stand and ask all the questions they want. We'll broadcast it live across the state and everybody can see it. And that's like you talk about holding people accountable, like allowing the public to come in, ask questions live, and have it broadcast across the state. 100% committed to doing things like that.

I have my own podcast at that point, Governor's podcast. And when there's issues that come up, like, for example, Facebook, you know, there was some deal of Facebook coming in and they're building some huge data center here. Everybody's worried about the water and energy, electricity, associated with it and what it's going to mean for us. And I think there's just a lot of, well, a lack of transparency in negotiations for things like that, most likely because there's probably people's pockets are being lined somehow

in some way, shape, or form. But the reality is, if I'm the governor, I'm involved with that, the people would know every single detail before there's anything signed and they'd be able to have some feedback, you know yeah that's that's that's it's such a great point that you bring up because we hear we hear about this like stakeholdering process that happens in government right it's like oh well you know facebook wants to come in and make a data center so we're going to stakeholder that with the and it that's should not be a verb but they use it as a verb but that we're we're going to we're going to take that we're going to you know run it by all the people that matter well the the people actually matter right and

the people, as you and I were talking about before the show, the American people are amazing. They have incredible skill sets, run the spectrum. And the people in those communities should have a say in whether or not something like that goes in. It's a huge drain on local resources. Also, it creates jobs, though, right? So there's cost and benefits associated with it. What we actually see is, and this might not be something that the governor has complete authority to do. because it's a legislative matter maybe, right?

Where they'll take it, well, my donors and this, you know, I've stakeholdered it because I talked about it with Facebook and the energy company, right? It's like, well, hang on a second. But by the time that people find out about it, it's pretty much done, right? The legislation is negotiated. The governor is generally on board. And that kind of Potemkin village of governance, it's not real. It's cronyism.

but the people don't have access to provide meaningful input. Now, again, a lot of that is legislative, not executive, but I mean, what do you, how would you address that? Specific to the data center issue. Yeah. So, I mean, legislative executive, I think that a good governor is going to be, for lack of a better word, a cheerleader to inform the people about the details of what's going on and get them involved.

Okay, so the governor is not going to, you know, drop some gavel or hammer or whatever and say, this is the way it is. It's obviously the people, the people by their elected officials and are going to make these decisions. But the elected officials, when the people aren't paying attention, that's when bad news happens, right? Yeah. So that's the problem we need to solve is to get the people far more involved. We have so much technology now that we have to, I mean, there's, of course we can keep track of

every dollar and where it's going and who is getting that dollar, what company, when was it created, who do they know, you know, all these things should be very, very transparent. And there should be a logical, you know, steps that we follow when companies bid and, you know, there's all the cheating and money and everything i i'm the i'm the polar opposite all that okay i'm i've made decent money in my life and lost it all twice and now i'm just at this point where my wife and i are like this this is we hold our stuff like this because god can take it whenever he wants like we're not we don't hold on to anything and i don't care about money i don't or or anything like that power or money whatever i just want the people to have the truth i want the truth and i'm

I'll tell you right now I'm willing to die for it. That's what we need. And that's the founding spirit, right? We're in America's 250th year. We're about to celebrate our 250th birthday as a nation. And that's the spirit that founded this nation. Give me liberty or give me death, as Patrick Henry said. On this day, 251 years ago, we're going to talk next about the shenanigans that you've

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So get your tickets, badlandsmedia.tv slash events and join us in Nashville, virtually or in person. All right, Mark. The number one question on everyone's mind, is there going to be a third annual heterosexual awesome this month? Most definitely, yeah. So we'll probably, we'll do it every June. It's a lot of fun. And it'll just be hopefully just the focus on celebrating God's design for sexuality, which is pretty awesome. And we'll continue to do some of the things that are traditions like beers for breeders.

on Monday for any heterosexual male. And we have other specials for the ladies on Tuesdays and then Wednesday for the couples and then different events throughout the month. And we try to get some you know, singles nights going. So hetero, you know, that'll be heterosexual singles nights. And we also do occasionally vaccinate or unvaccinated singles nights. And so, It's a lot of fun. It really, I was reading one of the original articles that was written by the Idaho statesman after we announced it the first year and write in the title basically, they're clearly calling me a bigot right in the title just for celebrating heterosexuality. And we hadn't even gotten anywhere negative yet. It was simply me just saying we're instead of like, you guys are doing this, we're just going to do this. We're going to look this way towards God's creation. in God's design, right? And it got so negative and nasty. That article came out and it was, I was getting hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day from across the country and the world. And people were extremely dark and disgusting and threatening. And so that's the point where I was like,

man, I didn't realize it was this crazy of evil going on. And that's when I started really looking to some of these things like the transgenderism and everything, which is just a demonic, a very demonic evil thing. And then I started noticing that a fair amount of LGB people were calling me and supporting me. And they were like, we want no part of this. This has gone. way, way too crazy and too far. So we do have customers that are LGBT, relatively, you know, people that have just like have the conservative mindset of understanding how that just is way, way wicked. Anyways, I start talking about that.

And I just, once I started actually talking about and exposing what they were doing, that's when I lost my 15,000, 15, 20,000 followers on Facebook. just gone, you know, started getting censored and all those things. But yes, we will be having... Promoting heterosexuality. Yes. Well, but then I was actually educating people because I was not aware, and that made me realize that a lot of people were not aware of the level of wickedness

of the transgender, everything, right? Yeah. And the targeting of the children, which is very much a socialist, like a globalist plan. And so that's when when I started going a little bit more on the offense is when my account started disappearing and everything. So there you have it. So at Old State, this is from last year's celebration, but I just want the audience to understand how awesome this is. Throughout June, Old State Saloon will offer a lineup of special drinks celebrating heterosexuality, including the Brohito, the babymaker mimosa, the tech. Latin Russian and the alpha mule.

The month will feature theme days to keep the party going. Monday's beers for breeders. Any heterosexual male dressed like a heterosexual male receives a free draft beer. So no skinny jeans, right? Yeah, I mean, we have a judge standing there, so you have to pass. Yeah, this is smart. Tetan Tuesdays, ladies buy one drink, get one free. duo deal Wednesdays, heterosexual couples enjoy 15% off their bill.

Special events include hetero-merch parties with exclusive discounts, a June 7th International Procreation Day celebration, and a June 14th, President Trump, huge heterosexual birthday party. The Saloon will host internet influencers, sports personalities, media figures throughout the month with more details to be announced. Absolutely awesome. And it's crazy that this is a brave thing to do, right? Like our society is in such a place that this is a brave thing to do, but it is a brave thing to do. So thank you for doing it. I think Michelle said she met you at one of these events.

Awesome. Yeah, I met so many amazing people. We still have people that come in like it's a mission of theirs in their life to come and visit us. And I'm so thankful for them. I have people sometimes call and say, we're thinking of going on a trip this weekend just to visit you guys. are you going to be there? So it's, it's really neat to have all that happen. And the support, you know, I did talk about the darkness and everything, but the support has also been off the charge too. And if I didn't have the support, there's just no way I would have to continue doing it.

But things like that, that's, that's part of the reason, you know, what happened with that over the last few years of why I felt like I was, both me and my family were equipped because of what happen for this run for governor. It kind of put it in this position. And a lot of times the last couple of years, I would like wonder myself, why am I doing all this? You know, I'm, I'm getting attacked. My businesses are getting attacked. They're trying to bankrupt me. Their government's doing weird things on these projects I'm trying to do. Why, why am I doing all this stuff? And I think maybe, you know, it just seemed really clear to me when I started thinking about running that God had had basically used that path to prepare me for this.

Oh, yeah. Once you've gotten the, once you've gotten the attacks and you've gotten through that, right? Because that can be, I mean, it's almost debilitating when you, when you are first, like, have the spotlight on you. My name was attached to the KKK and the level of, you know, death threats and whatnot was just something I, it had never even occurred to me. And it took a minute. But then it was like, oh, okay, this is what this is. we can we get you know and i think you're spot on like god brings you through it you get refined through the fire like silver um and uh yeah it's is it thank you for for and your family because it's really that's got to be really difficult on your family so you have six kids right yes a lot yeah that's that that's that's that's that's a lot for for family all right speaking of promotions that have gotten you in trouble we also have uh free beer to anyone providing information leading to the deportation of undocumented immigrants. Tell us about this one.

Yeah, so this in November is when I looked at who was running for governor and nobody was really running against Governor Little. And I was like, man, maybe I'm supposed to do this. So I prayed, God, you know, I'm just going to start walking this direction. If I'm not supposed to do it, just shut the door in my face or if I am, show me. And so for the next month, he showed me that I'm supposed to do this. Two days later, after I started praying about it, I did a post about that free beer offer. And it's not very abnormal for me to make a post similar to those or whatever, but you just never know when something's going to take off.

And so I made the post, and it really took off, and some major accounts shared it. And then Department of Homeland Security shared it, which everybody started writing articles about the Department of Homeland Security sharing it, and they did it with the dinosaurs. I don't know if you saw how they shared it, but it was pretty funny. You would never think that the Department of Homeland Security would share an offer from a bar for that. And they had the dinas. You remember the dinosaurs sitcom from the 90s, early 90s or whatever, but they had the dad dinosaur dropping his beer, like in surprise, you know, about my offer.

That's the Department of Homeland Security. actually retweeted my tweet with that. And so it really took off. And I got on all these interviews and I was on Fox News and everything. And that's when I'm one of those interviews, I was talking about immigration and answering questions. And I told them like Governor Little and Mayor McLean are basically incentivizing and welcoming illegals and refugees into Idaho at rates that are unsustainable and just like in like just crazy and illegal. And, uh, And we need this stopped immediately and they're not helping at all. And then I said those on some major shows.

Two days later, we got a phone call from Idaho Tax Commission and said that they're putting my businesses under audit. And I mean, you know, I just don't really think that that's a coincidence. I suppose it's possible, right? But it just doesn't seem plausible. So I did some investigating. I did a FOIA request and asked for all the emails and communications and everything. And I got the results back and they had told me it was a routine audit and that those, that I was just like basically the next whatever number up or something like that.

So I got, but in the history of my file, I was sent this. And this whole redacted, I'm probably reminding people of the Epstein files right now. But this whole redacted. You asked why you're being audited. you requested open records information and you received a redacted document as to why you were being audited. But it's totally routine. Don't worry about it. This is the reason I'm being audited right here.

Yeah. Yeah. That's incredible. Did you get tips for leading to the deportation of migrants? You know, I think no. Well, they weren't supposed to go to me. They're supposed to go to ICE, right? So there's nothing I can do about the immigration thing.

But what I found out is. or what we found out is it seems as though ice in idaho is way too busy to take to take you know phone calls and things like that and actually go and do these things so um i don't know that anybody really uh went to a conclusion other than somebody had just done that on an issue regarding of all things one of our elected officials uh michelson she has a farm and ended up having illegals on her farm working there and one of them was caught with methamphetamine or something. And so this gentleman reported that and that person got deported. So he was given in, you know, kind of after the fact, he was given credit so he got his free beers. But other than that, I haven't had anything yet.

There's no expiration on it so people can keep doing it. But I do want to tell you, you know, after that audit thing, I thought this isn't right that we should be on our heels and in fear of a government weaponizing itself against us. So I was trying to be creative on what I could do next, if I can tell you about that. Is that how we ended up at the bounties on the mayor? Yeah. Yeah, let's go there next.

Yeah, I was like, man, there's no way that I should be, that I, you know, speak out and this about her and basically creating this city where, you know, this whole everyone is welcome thing and let's bring in all the refugees and illegals and everything else. And this is just classic socialist agenda to take down a city or state. And so, you know, I shouldn't have to be on my heels because I said somebody's name. I have no idea, you know, who called or whatever, why I'm being audited. But the type of person like her who pushes transgenderism for children and all of the other wicked social

things she does. I mean, those are just ethically deplorable, horrible things, morally wrong. And so I would have no doubt. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody like her was involved in the illegal activity. So I just put out a $10,000 reward if anybody had any information that would lead to her arrest and conviction. And then that caught a lot of attention. and she ended up lifting probably what is, I'm pretty sure there's a ban for any media to talk about me because they know it essentially helps me in my business. So the ban was lifted so that she could be a victim of my aggressive, dangerous, whatever,

which is essentially me asking people to come forward with truth. And you can't do that these days. So anyways. What's you afraid of? I don't why would you be afraid I mean yeah that's the thing is like I can imagine when I'm governor if somebody did that to me I'd be like come on let's do it come look at anything you want you can look at everything so yeah I mean that's that's the thing is that's what they say to us right the government says well if you're not doing anything wrong you know anything worry about why worry about an audit if you're not doing anything wrong you shouldn't have to worry about anything it'll be fine well the process is the punishment um but but yeah I mean should to heighten security and do you know did were there was there actual actual reasons for her to height insecurity or uh from what i'm from what i was told by people who are in the know there was no threats at all made from anybody or received um but that's just a you know what i was told

rumor so over the the the course of the shenanigans all of the the fighting and i you know open this up by saying like what would Sam Adams do. We need more. We need more men, frankly, in our communities standing up and fighting the tyranny. There has been a vacuum of opposition to the expansion of government at the local state and federal level. So thank you for what you're doing. How has the, since you've been in Idaho, three years, I think you said? As far as living here?

Fighting in Idaho. Oh, well, yeah, I mean, I've been fighting for a long time. It's just I didn't have the bar, or old state saloon. Yeah, we've lived here eight years. On that note, there are some people who say, you know, you need to be a second generation Idahoan to be considered running for this. And I would say, your current governor is a third generation, Idaho, and he's completely turning his back on Idaho.

And so that is just not a reasonable determination on what you should vote for. Determination now, honestly, should be integrity and somebody's willingness to produce truth and embrace truth. And that should be what you're looking for to vote, not, you know, I understand like if somebody just moved here a year ago or something. But I've been here eight years. I love this state and I love the people. So my question is, since you've been kind of fighting and seems like, you know, progressively increasing and doubling down, not going to let them get you, not going to let them, you know, shut you up. How has the popular support been for you? Has it increased?

Have you, you know, any concerns? Where are the people of Idaho at? Yeah, that was part of that answer that God gave me, you know, so when the immigration thing went viral, role. We gained another massive amount of people following and who were very interested in supporting. And so it was like a whole fresh new group of people that were excited about what I was doing and thankful for me for standing up. I will tell you there definitely was the other side too. And a lot of it, a lot of it was from other people who are illegals that live in the United States, they reached out and threatened me and told me I'm a horrible person. I'm a racist, all these things. But there's a lot of good people. And so with that support, I'm traveling around

now, fast forward. I announced running everything, traveling around. And people, they recognize the name of the saloon. They recognize me. They recognize that I was one who kind of stood firm and even in the face of threats and whatever, just kind of doubled down and say, I'm not I'm not, you know, cowering to you. We've had numerous businesses and vendors who have no longer work with us because they get threatened by the left and they decide it's not worth it for them to do the fight. I understand that thinking, but I'm not, that's just not me. I'll just double down and we'll take it to you.

The truth is going to win and the people will rise up for truth eventually. We just need enough leaders to step forward and do it. Absolutely. So reminder to the audience, if you have. Questions for Mark, tag me in the chat at Ash 1776. Depatriate 1776 says, please ask Mark, how are property taxes in Idaho compared to the national average? Is there and is there a state income tax? She's thinking about moving.

Yes, there's both of those things. My intention by using those methods we discussed earlier, looking for more income from other sources, would be to lower those. The first one on my list to kind of target to really lower or even completely get rid of would be property taxes. It's insane that you pay off your house and still have to rent it from the government and you just don't ever own it. It seems ridiculous to me. And in some instances, people having to move because they can't afford to live in a house that they own. It's just because of taxes is just insane. So I would be going after that one first as we're trimming down the government.

etc. Yes, we do have income tax as well. It is lower. Our property tax is generally lower than much you might find across the country. And it's been a little bit reduced or not raised as much as it could have been raised, which again, raising property taxes because values are going up, you're taxing people on unrealized gains that are just guesses. I mean, it's just crazy. So I will be fighting those. I will be motivating the people of Idaho to fight those through the legislature, et cetera. That's how we do it and we'll take care of it. It'll be the goal.

So, yeah, and then income tax is lower than most income tax places, certainly a lot lower than California's. But yes, we do also have income tax. Okay. Tamarack Flats, which is Rick, I believe, says, tell Mark, hello. and we'll see him on the 29th in Athol. Awesome. I don't know if I said that right. Yes.

Wild Blue 208 says I was at a fundraising event in February and Bedkechie bashed a state senator from the neighboring county because they quote, don't believe the narrative they are told. Supporting you from Cassia, Mark. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah, Bedkeet needs to go as well. Unfortunately, nobody ran against him. So he is the nominee for the Republican Party. But it's a part-time position in Idaho, the lieutenant governor.

And then Depatriate 1776, great show. Thanks for having Mark on. You're welcome. And thank you, Mark, for coming on. This has been a blast. We're rooting for you. I think you're kind of given the example of we are the plan. The people like you just mentioned, well, nobody ran against the lieutenant governor.

So I guess we're stuck with him again. That's definitely definitely equipped Idahoans out there. there that could have. And that's kind of the key takeaway is that it's up to us to stand up. Everybody out there has skills, talents, and passions that they are uniquely equipped to solve some problem, right? There is something that you are supposed to be doing. If you are here on this earth, there is something that you are uniquely equipped to be doing. And we have been, you mentioned apathy earlier. And the American people are so apathetic because our power has been stripped from us and we've sort of been conditioned and programmed to have it to just let it go without a fight

thankfully i think that's changing i think that the um the american people are waking up to the realization that are uh you know it doesn't have to be this way we we can we can actually return to sanity in some ways and um you're you know kind of leading the way there love the shenanigans love the platform appreciate you being here yeah you bet it doesn't take a big percentage of people to change the course of this country and the way it's going. It just takes some leaders to step up and take charge and lead for what's right and true. So I hope that my story would be motivating to somebody somewhere to think, yeah, whether it's even the school board spot that you're going to be on and start shining light there,

people who are evil, they don't like shine. They don't like the light shine on them and exposing. them so they tend to run away if people get involved and and so let's get let's get the church awake let's get the church involved let's get good people to take a step forward and lead and not become career politicians but step forward and serve and lead for a period of time and then bring in the next people to do the same we can do this as a country we have to do this if we don't do it now it's we're done and it's going to be very messy and bloody not too long from now. Yeah, we don't want that.

We can solve this, Americans. Grease Monkey says, tell him we love what he is doing. Love them Taters, too. Right on. And, yeah, I think that's the show that we have. Mark, thank you so much for being here. And, you know, keep in touch. We'll be watching the campaign.

Everybody in the chat that knows people in Idaho, is now telling them, they've all committed to tell their friends to vote for you. Cool. Well, I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a great, great conversation. Keep doing what you're doing.

Don't, don't you dare stop. No, I won't. Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks so much for being there. And that is Mark for Idaho. No, Mark Fitz for Idaho. I think the number four as well.

It's in the show notes. Dot com. So you can see the platform. You can donate. You can, you again if you have friends in idaho tell them to uh tell them to turn out for for mark that's fun i like i love i love people that are bullying the government those are my my favorite kind of people are the people that are bullying the government because we need more of it we need we need

more people to be unafraid and and bully the government it's a fun conversation hetero awesomeness month is great why aren't we doing that everywhere we should we should be we should all you business owners out there especially you with bar You should be doing hetero awesome this month in June. There's a template. It's on old state saloons website. All right. We are going to get out of here.

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Baseless Conspiracies is coming up next with John and Zach. So I will raid you guys over there after the outro plays. And remember, change happens one conversation at a time. So be brave and speak the truth. See you next time. As the expression goes, be careful what you wish for. In my former life, I was an insider as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider.

It's not bad. Not bad. Now I'm being punished for leaving the special club and revealing to you the terrible things that are going on having to do with our country. Because I used to be part of the club, I'm the only one that can fix it. I'm doing this for the people and for the movement, and we will take back this country for you, and we will make America great again. You know what they're trying to do? They're trying to take us out.

And it's not going to work. Not going to work. Not going to work. It's not going to work. We're just getting started. The drug cartels are way to do. war in America and we will destroy the cartels. You have no choice.

That's an army. And I'll use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all traffic children to their families in their home countries and media. Never forget our enemies want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom. I won't. They want to silence me because I will never let them silence you and in the end, They are not after me. They're after you.

I'm just standing in their way. I always will. Protect and uphold our great and very important under siege Second Amendment. We will protect. We will protect innocent life and we will restore free speech and I will secure our elections. We will secure our elections. If we don't, we are a country in trouble. Our goal will be one day voting with paper ballots and voter ID. Very simple.

On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school, any school at all pushing critical race theory, transgender and sanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto the lives of our children. And I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a maximum. mask mandate. When I was coming down the escalator with Melania, I was already under investigation because they saw how well I was sitting in the palace. And it just got worse and worse.

And we caught them. We said they were spying in our campaign. It turned out to be true. They had the fake dossier. That turned out to be true. It was paid for by the Democrat Party. It was all fiction. All of these things happened.

Impeachment hoax number one. Impeachment hoax number two. I've been treated very badly and I've won every single time. When you say do I sleep, I sleep, I sleep because I truly feel that in the end we're going to win. I think we're going to win an election, the likes of which nobody's ever seen before. I don't think anything's going to stop it. Nothing's going to stop it. I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president.

your 45th president. I will fight for you, for your family and your future. Every single day, I will be fighting for you, and with every breath in my body. I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age of America. That's what we have to have.