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Episode Date: January 5, 2026

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The Bill Meyer Show podcast is sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. Well, that was an interesting weekend, huh? What do you think? Join in the conversation at 7705633-770KMED, the email bill at Billmyershow.com. We heard all over Southern Oregon, happy to be back.

Of course, I was back on Friday. I mean, a lot of people didn't realize. I didn't realize you're coming back on the second. Yeah, I did. Had a great weekend, and I did watch a noodle around with some of the news and what is going on. But, yeah, Venezuela, top of the fold this morning. And President Trump ended up getting the attack rolling in there Friday night and a Saturday. And boy, it was pretty quick.

A few dozen Venezuelans ended up dying as part of this. Interestingly, though, they had all this Soviet weaponry, from what I understand, manpads. sorts of other things. They didn't really do anything. And so I, you know, I'm kind of wondering if this was kind of semi-negotiated and then they just decided to just grab him anyway. Maybe he was going to take, I'm talking about Maduro, of course, he was going to take it off ramp and then, and then, well, now Maduro is going to be, well, I guess he's in a New York court right now. He's in the court building, but I guess he goes into court at 9 o'clock this morning. Narco terrorism and all the rest of it. And of course, in my opinion, that is the story which is

told for domestic consumption so that we go, oh, yes, this is what we want to do. Now, the Democrats naturally are not going to say anything good about this. And let's see, what did what did Senator Fenniglputh have to say here with the Democrat Ron Wyden Fed? President Trump's attack on Venezuela without congressional authorization or imminent threat to the United States is exactly the same global interventionism that Americans soundly rejected after decades of failed wars and disastrous meddling and other nations affairs. He's right a little bit. Of course, I don't remember Senator Wyden really going after Barack Obama's interventionism that was fine because it was a Democrat Party interventionism. You know, but this is the way it goes. You're not going to hear a lot of criticism of President Trump from the Republicans.

Talk radio is going to kiss his butt today. I mean, honestly, I think that's what's going to hear. And we're all going to fall over ourselves to say how it was absolutely perfect. And the Democrats are going to say it's the worst thing that ever happened. And let's see, what was it? Merckley, Senator Merckley says it's all about the oil. And it could be. but not for the reason that Senator Merkley is thinking it's about the oil.

I think it has more to do with the money, and I will talk more deeply on such things. I think it has to do more with the dollar, the United States dollar, more than anything else. And I was reading a lot of analysis over the weekend, a lot of people saying, here's what Maduro's capture means, and da-da-da-da-da, what happens next, yada-da-da. It's about oil. It's about China. Well, yeah, it's about all that kind of stuff. But I think some of the best analysis you will find are not actually from political people, but from financial people. Because financial people pay big money prices when they're wrong.

They're paid to be right more often than not. Otherwise, they don't get customers, right? And, you know, politicians can be wrong about their analysis of a situation all the time. And there's never any penalty for that. Maybe they don't get reelected. But even that, you know, for the most part, if you're, especially in Washington, D.C., if you are an incumbent, you're there usually as long as you want the job. That's the way it tends to be. So I always like to go.

I was wondering what Sean Ring, the Daily Reckoning was going to say. Sean Ring is an expat, lives in Italy now, and moved his parents there, there, and he's a financial analyst. And he said, and this is kind of what I was thinking, when I told you what I first came on here, The drug war, that's what is being sold to wee rubs at home. You know, we hear this is about the war on drugs. First off, it was cocaine, not fentanyl. We don't really have a cocaine problem with most of our drunken disorderly homeless here in southern Oregon. I don't think there's a whole lot of the cocaine problem there.

More likely heroin and depressants in fentanyl and various other things. In fact, when you look at the stats, Venezuela, is about 1% of our illegal drug problem in the United States of America. About 1%, 1 out of every 100 parts of the drugs coming in here. And they are generally speaking, cocaine. And President Trump apparently doesn't have much problem with cocaine dealers. It just depends on who they are if they're in the way. Because remember, he ended up pardoning the former president of Honduras,

who was convicted in United States courts of, importing cocaine of being a cocaine smuggler, you know, into the United States. And President Trump pardoned that guy, right? So maybe he was trying to work a deal. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not saying he was happy with it. You know, President Trump's very much a teetotal or anti-drug got a guy. But, you know, you play the game as the way it plays with domestic politics.

Everybody knows we have a big illegal drug problem. Oh, it's been narco-terrorism, blow the boats up, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, it, that's what they want us to think. think, and that is certainly part of it. But Sean Ring brings up the case that it is about the oil, but not the way you think it is about the oil, because it has to do with the petro dollar,

which has been weakening, and what you do have to consider, and I think this is right. He says that the United States and Washington will be much happier that Venezuela, oil will be repriced in dollars rather than being sold directly to China and Yuan or to Russia in rubles. And to me, that is the simplest. This was almost defending the dollar hegemony, the dollar is supremacy and doing its best.

And frankly, the dollar's been under pressure for a long time. Let me look at, see, I had a, see, crude oil prices. Yeah, crude oil prices only went up just a little bit. But, you know, the dollar index, the value of the dollar was actually high, like about July of last year, year before that, too. And then it's been declining, declining, declining, declining. We're right now, it was like 105, 106 was the index, and now it was like 95, 96. It's kind of been bumping around there for a while. Now, President Trump wants a cheaper dollar, a less valuable dollar, because it helps us with exports.

The problem is you get too cheap on the dollar, and then nobody's. wants to buy our debt. And believe me, everything we're doing right now, we haven't really stopped the spending in the United States of America. We're a late stage empire that is still spending as if it was, you know, as if it was World War II and we were on top of the world. I honestly think that's what's going on here. I think it has more to do with oil, but not for the way Merckley would tend to think of it's just about getting oil. Now, the point being, though, that Venezuela's oil, and I was looking up and doing some research on this yesterday, doing some AI searches and various other things, Venezuela's oil is not really great on the open market

because it's very tarry, it's very heavy, it has high sulfur content, all sorts of other things like that, and it makes it more difficult for many refineries to use. But the United States, we have all that fracking will, right? People are saying, well, look at all. this oil we're having and the fracking well that we have here. You know our own refineries, or at least most of our own refineries, can't process that oil. We have old refineries, and we haven't been building any new refineries either. That's another story. I haven't seen any of that changing. But it comes right down to it. President Trump is cornering the market on oil that we can actually use. Because Venezuelan oil, if you can actually get it out of the

ground and get it here to the United States works in our old antiquated refineries. Our old refineries are okay with the heavy crude. Yeah, it's the light stuff that comes out of the fracking that we can't use. We export that. And other countries end up processing that oil. But you didn't know that. I was looking at, oh, okay, so this heavy, tarry stuff that they have to mix up with naphtha and all sorts of other dilutants and they have to heat it to be able to make it

flow into the big tanker boats that ship it around. We could actually use that more so than the fracking. So we've been talking about this a fracking miracle, and yeah, we've got a lot of natural gas out of that, but a lot of that we can't really process in the United States and we have to export it. So we're an oil exporter for that reason, not that we wouldn't like to be able to do it, but the Venezuelan oil, even though it's relatively, you know, it's a huge, huge proven reserve that they have there.

It's all tarry and very heavy. Asphaltish, and they have all sorts of other things in very high sulfur. So it's a lot more difficult for most refineries to process, but we can handle that with our old, with our older refineries just fine. Not a problem at all. So that's why the price of oil has barely even bubbled or nudged at all with this Venezuela thing over the weekend because actually President Trump ends up cornering the market on. Unusable crude here for the United States. Usable crude for our refineries. I was kind of wondering, okay, what's going to go on here?

Because price of oil has been so low that pretty soon I think we're going to see the fracking field start shutting down. You know, when you have oil at $56, $57 barrel, it's not really great for keeping those fracking places open in the United States up in the, what was it, North Dakota, South Dakota, those various places where they have all that going. Yeah, they usually need about 70 to 80 bucks a barrel to keep it going. So I think it does have something to do with oil, but not the simplistic way that Senator Jeff Merkley tends to look at it. It is about oil, more so than drugs. The drug stuff is kind of nonsense. It's not nothing, but it's not really a big thing.

But most of the American sheep will go to sleep. And, oh, just about the war on drugs. Oh, okay, I can certainly understand that. And the problem is, is that Marco Rubio and all the other people, over the weekend, they were sticking to the script about, you know, the war on drugs. This is a law enforcement action. And what's Trump doing? He's shooting his mouth off about, yeah, we're going to run, we're going to run Venezuela.

We're going to get the American oil companies back in there. We're going to make it work and this and that and the other. And that part's on shaky legal ground, but you go in there as a law enforcement action, war on drugs, you know, and then that kind of works. So that's sort of the way I see it. It's the way I sort of see it. And I know I also was kind of wondering, well, you know, this is our anti-war peace president, until you can't be an anti-war peace president. And then I guess you have to do what empires do.

So that's sort of how I see it this morning. I'm happy to take your call and opinion on this. But I think it has more to do with keeping the dollars priced in, or the oil, rather, priced in dollars. That certainly helps us out with dollar. supremacy trying to hang on to that for as long as we can. Even though we continue to print in, go in debt, and we haven't really cut the spending. I know people don't like to talk about that,

especially as we're going to be heading into the midterms, but yeah, nobody's really talking about really cutting spending. You understand that, right? Sure you do. I know you're a smart person. Okay, 770KMED. What is on your mind? Let me go to the phones.

Well, you've got a little bit of time for some phones. Hi, this is Bill. Who's this? Morning. Good morning, Bill. This is Vicki from the Applegate. Vicki, how you doing this morning? What's on your mind, huh?

I'm doing good. Just listening to the rain come down and waiting for the light to come out. Yeah, I know. It's been a pretty steady rain, moderate rain overnight. Up until now, it's great. What's going on? So this is kind of off topic of what you're talking about this morning, but it's really been stuck in my car off.

Okay. What's that? Before the holiday. What's that? Um, you, when you did the story about the guy, I believe it was in Phoenix that got in trouble at the library. Oh, yeah, the talent, yeah, the talent library, uh, that fellow named Nicholas, apparently, or something like that. Uh, and looking, allegedly looking at the dirty pictures, the, you know, naked kid things and videos in the library on a library computer. Yeah.

So my issue is we have parental control for the TV. We have parental control for the phones. we have parental control for the computers, for the kids. Why don't they make pervert control? I like the idea. They do have pervert control. It's just that management, upper management in the library, hasn't been real fond of wanting to crack down on that.

In fact, there's going to be a public meeting later this morning. I think it's at 10 o'clock at the main library in downtown Medford. They're going to be talking about this, and they're going to have an executive session to decide on what, if any sort of discipline is going to be done to the library employees involved, okay? Well, and the other thing is, is they will, like, boot you. I don't have Facebook or anything like that. I don't like Facebook, but they boot people off if they don't like what they're saying

or the comments that they make. I just don't understand why they can't do that for nasty websites. Yeah, it's because, you know, actually just locking wholesale websites out probably is a tough thing to do. I don't know. I think a lot of the big parts about it, though, is that when adults are using the library, do you necessarily want your library viewing chosen by the librarian, per se, right? Now, I'm not talking about the kiddie porn and stuff like that. I mean, do you really want, you know, would you want them saying as an example,

I like to read Lou Rockwell.com. Well, most of the librarians would look at what's on that site and just go, oh my gosh, it's libertarian free market stuff. This is hate speech, you know, that kind of thing. And then they wouldn't like you. I mean, do you really want them to make that kind of decision? So they try to take a light touch on it, but they take a light touch to the point of nonsense when it came to this privacy deal.

When you have people that are like getting caught looking at that in a public library, where there are children and, you know, elderly, and I just don't think it's right that that's on the Internet. I'm sorry. Okay, well, I don't think you're going to get anybody around here to disagree with you on this, although there are a few people out there depending the pervert. If you can believe that, if you look at some of the social media posting. But, you know, this is something, this is truly a bipartisan universal revulsion at anybody who, who's allegedly looking at naked kid pictures and zooming in and saying,

oh, yeah, I really like this. This turns me on. And apparently the patron actually admitted this. Now, at this point, let's hear what happens with the library disciplinary meeting this morning. Maybe we'll have a little bit more to talk about tomorrow on this. What I'm going to be more interested to find out, though, is how the talent police department investigates this and ultimately if charges get referred to the Jackson County District Attorney, okay? That's the more important part.

You know, back to my day bill, you know, there was penthouse and Playboy, and if you wanted to watch that kind of stuff, you went to an adult store, and you bought the videos, which are still available. There's adult stores all over the place. I just believe that if you want to look at stuff like that and have that kind of content in your life, those are the places you need to go. not to our public library. Yeah, there's talk that there has been a discussion about trying to

require all porn, all naked pictures of whoever, to end up going to a triple-X domain, so that way they could be more easily blocked out of such things. But, you know, you'd still have librarians that would be saying, hey, this is a free speech sort of thing. You've got to look at the librarian industry as an industry as a rule. It is very progressive and very open-minded to a fault. Okay, so... The world is going to hell in a handbasket,

and I just think this is just one more thing that people are allowing to happen. They're not being, you know, charged the way they should be to stop it. I just... I think it's disgusting. All right. Duly noted. 770K.M.E.D. Hi, good morning. Who's this? Welcome. Morning, Bill. Steve and Sunny Valley.

Steve, what's going on, buddy? Yeah, about the Venezuela, it's very similar to what Bush Sr. did in Panama, and the reasons are not, it's not drugs. I mean, it's always the pretext, it's always the pretext or the pretense that is used, you know, and we always fall for it. We really do. There are always other things involved, though, right? One thing you have to think about is what was Venezuela doing with the oil,

and they were supporting Cuba, and they were supporting other despots around the world. And they were also selling it to China. They were also selling it to China. And they stole the infrastructure developed by American companies. The American companies invested hundreds of millions of dollars, and they weren't compensated for that. Yeah, I know, except that I don't really care about that.

You know why? because every government, including our own government, steals stuff from us all the time under various... And what they do is, they nationalized the oil industry and they said, okay, all right, Yankee boy go home. You know, we don't care about this. Of course, they stole it and they let it rust. Yeah, exactly.

And the production dropped 95% and the people who suffered are the people in Venezuela, who lost 20 pounds five years ago from starvation on average. They were eating the cats, and they were eating the dogs, and 10 million fled. And I have no problem with this unelected guy being yanked out, kind of like Manuel Noriega was from Panama. And it's not like this kind of interdiction, addiction hasn't been done before. And the other thing is, is Venezuela is in medium-range, missile range, from Houston. The other thing I think you have to...

The oil refineries we have there. Yeah, you know, no, I get that. I think the other thing you have to consider, though, is that I don't want to hear any Republicans, though, and Democrats talk about national security. Because remember, we did this for national security. But at the same time, remember, Russia is not allowed to have a national security interest with Ukraine, wanting to be friendly and do the two-step with NATO. But they are, and I think what is happening is that the curtain is being pulled back, and all of this, you know, Britain has been trying to act like, well, we're just all equal under, you know, we're going to run the world by lawful means, but they have lost. Yeah, this is a shot across the ball. This is the shot across the bow of the multi-polar world order, right? Right. The curtains are pulled back. The fangs are bared. Now we see the U.S., China and Russia are all.

just the same. We are all the same. Yeah. And we might not like it to think about ourselves that way, but that's the world we live in. That is indeed a proper way of looking at this, and to sit there and hide behind the drug boats and the drugs. Oh, come on. Right. Right. I mean, it was the rich who were buying the cocaine anyway. That's the way I understand it, too. I appreciate it. Well, you know, maybe that's why. Maybe they were worried about they were going to see now we're going to have the CIA running the cocaine the way god intended it for the united states exactly reagan and and bush administration see now you get it and this is why you will never be hired as an analyst on fox news because you couldn't say something

like that okay all right one other thing about the library sure quick yeah nobody knows who's going to get turned on by what people have feet fetishes I mean, what if, what if some guy is getting turned on in the library looking at shoe ads? You just, you just, I don't know. I don't know how to stop this. Just don't do that in public. I think that's the main issue there. But you are right.

There are people who are turned on by shoe ads. And, yeah, there's all sorts of, there's some weird. There's a weirdness for everybody out there. But, yeah, we tend to really look askance at little kids, though. Right. But I remember when I was a kid, there was a sunscreen at Billboard on the freeway with a dog that was pulled out. Oh, yeah, the copper-tone. Copper-toned air, right?

Yeah, and people got in a big cry about that. And it was a cartoon. I know. So I don't know. All right. Yeah, we don't know. We'll see what they say later on this morning, though, out of that public meeting. Okay, thanks, Steve.

I appreciate it. 634 on KMED. Selling a house this year. here's a tip from grants pass water lab if you buy or sell a product good morning this is news talk 106 3 kmede and you're waking up with the bill mire's show all right partner belly up to the talk bar with bill bagistino he's the mrc newsbuster senior research analyst he watches television so you don't have to watch as much of it a lot of times bill it's great to have you back on happy new year yeah happy new year you as well. Thanks so much for having me.

Bill, you put out a report the other day, and I find this fascinating because in the talk radio world, we have been talking and talking and talking about the Somali issue, the Minnesota Somali welfare fraud scandal. And there's a part of us that's wondering why there doesn't seem to be as much outrage over this in some corners as there should be when you're talking about billions upon billions upon billions of dollars in a nation, which is already trillions of dollars in debt. And then it ends up going and funding, you know, Islamic jihadist types and just basic fraud and everything else. And it breaks down the social fabric. And then I find out, according to your report, that most of the people outside of talk radio, they just aren't

hearing about this, are they? What's the story? Right. So I will, I will caution your viewers. Some of these numbers are about five, six days old, because our study only went through December 31st. So we have it. So it's through 2025 all December. And what we did find was, interestingly, CBS has actually been sticking to this story somewhat regularly, which was kind of nice. We were looking at the evening newscasts, which are the most viewed news programs in America still, unfortunately, on the broad. podcast network. So CBS was actually, they were kind of, they were doing close to their job than what you might have expected of them, say, a couple of years ago. Where things really get

ugly is when you take a look at what ABC was doing. They mentioned the story exactly one on December 3rd in a report that was largely just about how Trump was sowing, quote, unquote, fear in the, in the Somali neighborhoods in Minnesota by sending ICE into deport illegal aliens with final removal orders. It was a 25-second mention of the scandal in the middle of that report, and then they just did not touch it. So 25 seconds, so there was only in, on ABC, only 25 seconds of reporting on the Somali welfare fraud scandal for the entire month of December. That was it, just once at the very beginning of the month. That was all. Yeah. Yeah, basically watching their hands of it so that they could point to it later and say, see, no, no, no, look, we talked

about it right here in this report about how ICE's mean. And NBC largely did the same thing. They had only two different mentions of it up until December 29th when, if you remember that that excellent video by Nick Shirley, the independent journalist and YouTuber kit, who went out exposed just some of the daycares around, around Minneapolis. After that video came out, NBC actually did do a full-length report basically just on his investigation. And what's notable about NBC's reporting throughout all of this, both that full-length report and the two mentions they did previously, is there was essentially nothing original in there. It was all just them regurgitating the findings of some other investigative journalist out there somewhere, which suggests to me

that NBC has literally zero investigative resources on this at all. It's basically just reframing what other people are saying. Is there a possibility? Now, did they frame the investigative journalist poorly or try to present him in a, I'm talking about Nick, of course. Yeah. Do they try to present him in a bad light somewhere? somehow? Just curious. Yeah, so nowhere near as as hand-handedly and poorly as CNN did. If you saw that

report, we can get to that. But yeah, I mean, it was a lot of just reiterating what he claimed to have found. And then, you know, a bit more and a bit more of, oh, but, you know, local leaders say that's not the case. Or, you know, we've out, but we talked to this Somalian guy and he said, don't blame the whole community, you know, that kind of thing. It's more when you get into the liberal cable networks where you have people outright trying to smear and disprove what he did. And it's, you know, it's funny. I think actually the absolute worst report that I saw on any news channel all year was on New Year's Eve when CNN sent out some reporter to confront not one of the daycare owners, but Nick Shirley himself in public.

and ask him, well, how do you know that what all that stuff you exposed was actually bad? And then it cuts to a video of her calling the owner of the Somali daycares. Six of the seven don't even pick up. But the seventh one, she says, hi, at CNN, are you doing fraud? And they say, no, ma'am, no fraud here. She's like, well, well, thank you very much. We've settled out, right? Oh, man.

So there has been some reforming. You're actually saying that CBS, though, is honestly working a better way or a better approach to news than they once were, though. So there is some change then going on with the new management. So there has been some, I mean, the framing of it has been pretty scattered. What's particularly interesting is John Dickerson, when he was, he's not the evening news anchor. anymore. Now it's Tony de Koppel, but when he was still the anchor back during the month of December, he would frequently almost seem like he was introducing a different report than what you were about to see. So John Dickerson would basically, he would sound like ABC, right? He'd talk about,

like, you know, Trump is so mean to Somalians and here's, here's a story about, you know, all of these, all these mean ICE agents and people complaining about Somalians in Minnesota. and then the report actually opens with like missing children, shuttered doors, and $9 billion in fraud, a scandal racking Minnesota. It's like, wait, what? But then they downplay it in the actual story itself. Okay, got it. All right. Hey, Bill, kind of curious, is there any, it might be a little soon to actually come up with a real analysis of this, but has MRC kind of taken a look at the way the Venezuela situation has been covered over the weekend.

Well, that's what we're working on now. We're going to have a bit of a comparison video out. And I, sorry, excuse me. Bill? Yeah, I'm so sorry about that. My phone freaking out there. Oh, okay. But, yeah, no, we're going to have a bit of a comparison video out coming out this week.

We're not sure how we want to study this yet, because this is, there is such wall-to-wall coverage that there's a lot that you can. can do on it. But it's hard to find an exact apples-to-apples comparison because, for example, basically any operation that we've done has either been a much higher profile target, like, say, Osama bin Laden, or it's been a much longer kind of operation, not this miraculous. Like, what was it? What did I hear? 88 minutes in and out? Oh, yeah. And they didn't, and the thing is, I understand that Venezuela actually had quite a bit of Russian armament, and they didn't really resist, which part of me wonders if this was kind of semi-negotiated. I kind of wonder, but that's just me speculating at this point in time.

Right. Right. I know, yeah, I'd love to be a fly on the wall during all the lead-up, but I hear we'll never know. Yeah, probably not. There's definitely a lot there to look at. I mean, it's, you know, the short and boring answer to, well, how are the media reacting to this? this is basically the one that everybody already knows, which of course is, you know, they're going to treat it like it's a bad thing because it's something that the Trump administration

did, and so they see that as their job. Yeah. The much more interesting thing is, okay, well, in what way do they do that? Right. Because so often the way the media choose to frame anything that the Trump administration does as bad is to find somebody somewhere who they can reasonably assume was hurt or affected negatively by it. And almost always that's not an American, right?

So, for example, the perspective of the illegal alien who doesn't want to be deported is why the ice raids are bad. And it's like, okay, we're never going to talk about the perspective from America. Is this a good thing? You're just going to talk about this guy who, of course, he wants to be here, but does he get to be here? And I think that's probably going to be the case with this as well, right? is most of what we're seeing so far is, oh, well, you know, some idiot country that nobody's heard of in the UN Security Council said that this violated some nebulous thing that we've never defined it before called international law. Therefore, it's bad. And we're not going to talk about

whether or not this could benefit America. It's just, you know, the UN Security Council said it violates international law. So it's bad. Well, I know that I always clutch my pearls over everything the United Nations has to say. I know that. I just want to go on the record as saying that right now, Bill. I appreciate the take on this. You know what will be really interesting to see is what the coverage will be on the aftermath in Venezuela. Maybe MRC newsbusters can keep an eye on this. Because, you know, as we, we have a tendency when we go blow up anything, even if it's temporarily blowing up something, that we start importing a lot more of those citizens for a while. You know, I'd be really curious to see if that ends up happening.

Well, you know, because of this in the tumult and everything else, we have to bring in a bunch more Venezuelans. I can't help but wonder if that's what's next on the table. We'll see about that. I mean, well, what's encouraging about this case specifically is that it's basically making the place objectively more livable and hospitable and less, right? That's what you would hope. Still the exact same Venezuela, except without the communist dictator guy.

Yeah, except that the Chavezza, so the Chavez people, they're still controlling the country, though, at this point. Exactly. Exactly. What is encouraging to me is the recent DHS announcement that the president has apparently capped refugee admissions at 7,500. Oh. And he plans to prioritize actually most of those spots for Afrikaners in South Africa. So that suggests to me that this might be the first case since I've been born of us doing some kind of military action that is not following the terrible principle of invade the world, invite the world. Yeah, yeah, invade the world and invite all their refugees to join our welfare system, right? That kind of thing. Yeah, this might be a historical case of us actually not doing that.

So, I mean, you know, eyes peeled, we will definitely, we will definitely be keeping an eye on that because if, look, if Trump's foreign policy ended up resulting in some colossal influx of refugees, it'd sort of be like, huh, right? Like, is this, is this what you ran on, big guy? Probably not. It's something, something you got to, something you definitely got to be vigilant about. Bill, I really appreciate the talk and also the research over on MRC newsbusters. I'm going to link to this. It's a Bill Duggestino, and he's the MRC. NewsBusters, Senior Research Analyst, and of course there's a big study about how the broadcast

networks are differing dramatically on the Somali welfare scandal in Minnesota and elsewhere. Of course, I think what's really going to be interesting is to see how much of that is in it has probably spread to every state in the Union, not just Minnesota and California. I suspect you're right. Yeah, and I imagine Oregon, our people in Oregon will be covering this up soon, I'm sure. So I'll get back to you, Bill. Okay. Thank you so much.

Sounds good. Thanks so much. Bill Degistino, MRC, NewsBusters. And I bring this up because I know that, I think it was Governor Kotech last week, folks, did mention something that she was out there in praising, and she was making sure that she knew that everybody knew that she supported our Somalia community. She's very concerned about the Somalian community, so just so you know. And I'm sure you feel a lot better. It's 6.51.

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541-770-5633. That's 770 KMED. 6.53, taking your calls on anything on your mind. Of course, Venezuela on my mind, of course, over the weekend, watching some of this. And you have Merkley, who's out there talking about, it's about the oil. I do think it is about the oil to an extent, but not the way he's thinking. I'm thinking this is making sure that the oil continues to be priced in dollars rather than in yuan, rather than in yuan or roubles, that sort of thing directly.

And this is about trying to keep a lid on this. And President Trump actually corners the market on oil we can refine. And that is a national interest. There's absolutely no doubt about this. And so you kick China in the groin and you kick, and you kick Russia in the groin, you know, essentially over something like this, and you kick, well, Cuba to an extent, in the groin, too. Isn't that really what this is about? Don't pay attention to the drug nonsense.

The drug nonsense is just a fig leaf, a fig leaf for public consumption so that you don't think too deeply about the financial. and other strategic aspects involved in here. I think it's a little bit more to that. Maybe we can talk about that or something else on your mind. Give me your take if you want, 7-7-0-M-E-D. I wanted to give you a quick traffic update here. Even though we have rain in the valley, we have snow in the high hills. My boss, George, just came out of the Collier Tunnel,

and he says, this is on 199, of course, the Collier Tunnel. He says, it is snowing on both sides of the tunnel this morning, about, I think about an inch of snow over there on 199 on both sides of the tunnel and the roads have yet to be plowed. Okay, so keep that in mind. So that's what's going on on 199. So if you're above 2,500 feet, that's about the snow level here. The rain be falling as a snow, so just keep that in mind.

Brad has joined the show. Hey, Brad, what's on your mind this morning, huh? Hey, boy, isn't it fun being watched history made, Bill, isn't that amazing? Yeah, like I said, it's a very interesting thing. of course, you know what I would say, Brad, is that what would have happened if President Trump had run as an interventionist president? Boy, it'd probably be even more, it'd be more of this then. Be more of this stuff.

He ran as the non-interventionist peace president, but, oh, well, I guess you have to be nimble politically these days, huh? Well, I know you disagree with me a little bit on this, but, you know, when it comes to this kind of stuff, I think Trump's oil policy is his foreign policy. taking away the financial resources of bad guys to do bad things, and he's putting it on our balance sheet. And it's like, to me, he's just fighting with money instead of bullets. That's the way I see it. The only thing I would say, though, is that I don't want to hear any moralizing about Ukraine and Russia, though, okay? Can you agree with me on that? We get to a certain

point here. I completely agree with you on that. Yeah. You know, it's like, we'll go out there and we're saying, okay, we're going to kick out the little pipsqueak out of Venezuela because we look at this as national security issues. But the neoconservative side of the United States government for, and by the way, this is a bipartisan group, really, has been out there saying that Russia has no security interests in having a politically neutral Ukraine on its border that, of course, was attempting to get NATO to join it or to allow it to join. So I think it kind of, you know, it kind of puts the lie to all of that conception. in my opinion. But anyway, please continue. You called for something different.

I did, yeah. So on the Somalia discussion that you're having with MRC this morning, a lot of people don't know, and frankly, I don't know how deep this Somalia stuff goes nationally, but there's a very strong Somalia connection that a lot of people are not aware of, and it reaches all the way into Medford. I'll tell you what it is. So the Oregon, the Oregon Senate leader right now is a man named Casey Jama. Casey Jama was born and raised in Somalia, was later brought to America, went to college here, got recruited to come to Portland, Oregon, and was recruited by an outfit called Unite Oregon to run for the house seat for the state of Oregon, which he easily ran. And he eventually served on, and the way I got to knowing was he served as the chair of the Oregon Housing Commission for a couple of years when he was in the House. Then he successfully ran for the Senate, and he is currently the Senate Majority Leader for the State of Oregon.

Now, keep in mind, this is a man who was born and raised in Somalia winds up getting recruited, apparently, by this outfit called the United Oregon. And there's the Medford connection. So who else did we have affiliated with Unite Oregon that actually served on the city council for the city of Medford? And it's a gal named Kay Brooks. Kay Brooks at one time also served on the board of directors for United Oregon. I'm sure she knows Casey Jama very well. We eventually got her replaced with a very capable young man named Chad Miller. Chad served for four years on Medford City Council.

And I'm trying to remember who has that seat now. But, Bill, there you go. There is a, there's an Oregon connection through Casey Jama to the whole Somalia import people for political purposes thing. And a person that served on Metro City Council, Kay Brooks, who also served on the board of United Oregon. Can you believe it? Yes, I can, actually. And the reason why it matters is that Somalia is a very corrupt, low-trust culture. The way you get ahead is to essentially, what can you steal from someone?

What can you, you know, as far as rules and ethics. Now, I guess it would be unfair to say that everyone who is imported here from Somalia has this. But as a generality, the culture which gave birth to Somalia and continues to export people to the United States is, what's in it for me? What do I have to do to get it? and let's do it. Rules are for other people. Well, all you have to do is look at what's been going on in Minnesota. Minnesota was formerly a very high trust society, high trust society in which they would sit around there and be Minnesota nice. They would assume that, well, of course, these rules are okay. Who would actually, you know, use this to their advantage and

commit fraud? Well, we know who would do it. The Somalians that have come in. And so, You cannot separate the immigrant, if you want to go there, or the migrant, or however you want to put it. You can't separate them necessarily from the culture that they came from. You can't because that's something which is much deeper. And I think the other thing that's pretty clear is that the people that become bad actor activists were recruited for that purpose. That's the other thing that we can see. Minnesota and Oregon, 1960s, early 70s, Oregon and Minnesota were culturally very, very similar. You know, they've only got like a million, million, and a quarter more people than Oregon does.

Minneapolis is the Portland of Minnesota. It is. I mean, it's the deal. So this is what we're learning as is these people were recruited from Somalia to come here and participate in this fraudulent activity. That's why they were brought here. All right. Good take on it. And I thank you for the call, Brad.

Be well. Take care, Bill. Submit of that after seven, this is KMED, KMED, HD1, Eagle Point, Medford. KBXG grants pass. About the only snow that I'm aware of at the moment. I'm not seeing any on the Sisku Summit. I haven't checked 140s, trip check cams, but, yep, definitely on Highway 199 at the Collier tunnels, both sides of it.

About an inch of snow on the ground, so just duly note that if you're traveling today. You're up before sunrise, tools packed, coffee in hand. You're building...