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Welcome everybody to the rising republic it's your boy Zell Douglas Hogan and Ryan Buford
glad to have you with the show with us on the show today everyone it's been crazy Ryan
what you got going on this week man actually it's been the last couple weeks yeah it's
been crazy went over to the west side, got to drive around
with a bunch of crazies in Seattle,
in the snow storm Vancouver area.
That was a lot of fun.
And I actually just got a new puppy.
So.
What'd you get?
It's a pit bull and mastiff mix.
So it's gonna be a big boy.
A big boy.
Jinks, you owe me a coke.
We're working on training him up
and so far he's doing good,
but he's gonna be a presence for sure,
which is exactly what I was hoping for.
Good deal. So, indoor or outdoor?
Oh, well, probably a little bit of both.
He'll be a guardian dog to a certain extent to keep the coyotes at bay,
and then he's definitely gonna be here at the house whenever I'm not, that's for sure.
So, but yeah, it's good. I mean, new life, new blood, and finally a dog that can hear.
He doesn't eat cats, does he? He wouldn't have to eat cats, does he?
No cats, no.
He doesn't eat cats?
I don't know, maybe. Probably not.
I got it. So I'm just, never mind, probably shouldn't be talking like that.
I'm more concerned about him eating my chickens. The thing is, I've lost a couple of chickens
within the last couple of weeks to coyotes, so I need to get them trained up and ready so that, um,
he can keep these coyotes at bay and I need to flock back.
Yeah. Send him out there to eat the, eat the other, what that's called cannibalism.
At least kill them. At least kill them.
Nothing else. Just hold them down so I can shoot them. That's, that's all I can ask.
Wasn't us talking to not long ago about, about peanut, the puppy,
there's a dog named peanut and the coyotes and the hunting coyotes and stuff like that I think we talked about hunting one time on the show and
and yeah because the groups are always about no don't kill don't kill coyotes and all this stuff because it's
corona but uh it's funny how the tide turns when one of their own gets eaten it's like oh yeah peanut
peanut was like a I don't know what it was some it was some kind of a, it was just a little dog, similar to, I don't know, like a Jack Russell kind of a dog.
Oh yeah.
And something itty bitty like that. And well, in comes a coyote, and you know, they're usually in packs, and grabs, grabs a little peanut and takes off.
And of course, they don't just kill him. Generally, sometimes they will, they'll kill another dog and just because it's territorial to them, don't care if it's FinCEN or not they don't know the difference they'll
just come in kill it run off with it's cat run off with it whatever the case may be.
But yeah they got to go down because they're like us right we're predators and if we're
competing for food sources they got to go one of us has got to go.
Oh yeah and it's I mean they do keep balance, but that balance needs to stay away from my flock.
Right.
Because right now the balance is,
I get about an egg or two a day,
which is like gold anymore.
So I want to try and keep that part of my bank account
dialed in here on the homestead.
How many chickens did the government put down
for this bird flu thing?
Oh gosh, I don't know.
Probably, I mean, it had to have been
tens of thousands if not hundreds.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
I heard, I think I heard 400,000.
Yeah, and I mean, it's just like year after year.
I remember in 2020, they were popping off these farms,
these poultry farms, left and right.
Nobody was saying anything about it.
And then next thing you know,
shoot, there's another one going up.
Oh, there's another one.
They're up in flames left and right all over the country.
And now we're starting to feel some of that.
And on top of that, they're dropping the bird flu.
So it's like anything when the government says
you can't have it, it makes me really start to wonder,
well, why the hell not?
And what's the big deal?
Why is it?
And chickens especially, and you start looking into it
and it's the cheapest form of protein you can get.
Always has been.
And it's been something that we've been able to survive on
as independent people for eons.
Yeah, and chickens in particular,
one of those animals that are just like goats and cattle that are more practical
Right, they serve more than one purpose because chickens good for meat
I mean how many things can you do with an egg by itself?
That's the chef's hats got what 200 folds in it and each fold represents a different way to prepare an egg
And I mean, it's just it's an unbelievable product and I think
to prepare an egg and I mean it's just it's an unbelievable product and I think to me it boggles my mind that people would wouldn't look closely into why this
is such a big deal and why government stepping in saying the bird flu is
affecting especially you know small not hobby farmers but you know people like
me I've got only got five or so hensens, but it's not like I'm doing commercial farming
and I am very concerned about the potential of a state
or federal agency coming down and saying,
you gotta kill your chickens.
How many times though in the past has the government
come down and tried to shut down some milk producer
that's doing things that has a private business
because it's not regulated, they shut it down.
Or more recently under the Biden administration,
agriculture, just farms in general, are burning down.
You see what I'm saying?
And then, so it's not much of an excuse
for the government to say,
oh, bird flu kill all the chickens.
Because it's something that we, the people,
can produce en masse, right,
without any form of government regulation.
We know that countries
like, or countries, I wish it was his own country, states like California, for example,
that tax or restrict people from collecting rainwater, right, because they want your,
the almighty tax dollar. They'll stop you from doing that because they want to regulate
it.
Yeah, there's a saying that if it can be measured,
it can be managed.
And if it can be managed, it can be taxed.
So there's kind of a thing where you just,
at some point you've got to look into this,
like, wait a second,
if you have free range chickens on your own property
and they cut that off,
then you are forced to fall in line and go-
And rely. Yeah, go with and be reliant on whatever system exists that off, then you are forced to fall in line and go and rely
with what yeah, go with and be reliant on whatever system
exists or place that product. And frankly, eggs is like the
simplest thing. And people are just now starting to realize
that now that they're saying that, wait a second, they're
not on the shelf. So they're too expensive or whatever. But I
mean, we I've been paying a lot of you, but I haven't paid attention to it for the last're too expensive or whatever, but I mean, I've been paying, I don't know about you, but I've been paying attention
to it for the last five years.
And it's, I mean, I'm glad that I learned
how to grow my own chickens and raise my own flock
up to this point, you know.
Just so people would know, I mean,
this is a supply and demand thing, correct?
I mean, you raise chickens, I don't.
When you kill 400,000 egg producing chickens
that are going out to the public,
to the stores to purchase eggs,
there's fewer of them.
And when there's fewer of them, the price goes up.
Is that how it works?
Oh, absolutely.
And you're talking 400,000 per day
as far as how many eggs those hens will lay.
So as time goes on, I mean,
it takes about four months from chick to a layer.
So, and maybe even longer, depending on where it is or what kind of layer it is.
So this isn't, I mean, it's short term if all the chicks are there to replace them,
but it kind of makes me wonder what these chicks are that are coming in.
You know, do we have some weird vaccine schedule for these new chicks?
And is it going to be something that, you know, do we have some weird vaccine schedule for these new chicks and is it gonna be something that,
you know, are you even gonna want those eggs?
Is this like some sort of backdoor vaccine that,
you know, people are gonna wind up eating and not realizing?
Help me clarify something though,
cause do chickens just, hens lay eggs,
they can lay eggs without a rooster, correct?
They just can't.
Oh yeah.
They just, the eggs don't turn unless there's a rooster.
The eggs aren't fertilized unless there's a rooster. So you have to have like you
if you have say you have a dozen, let's make it easy. Say you have 10 hens,
one rooster, all the roughly one egg a day you would expect to be fertilized, you know,
maybe more two or three if you're, you know, if you got a busy rooster kind of thing.
more two or three if you're you know if you got a busy rooster kind of thing but you still have to have a way to incubate those eggs and if you're using your own
hens then that takes time so from egg to chicken as in baby chick you're looking
at about four weeks six weeks sometimes and then beyond that you're looking at
four to six months for an actual layer so you've got about a six month to eight month timeframe
from conception to production.
So you're not really, and without a rooster,
it ain't happening, unless you're artificially
inseminating these eggs somehow.
It's not really insemination, it's different.
It's kind of the way they do it.
We could be willing to trump's second year
before we start seeing the price of eggs go
down then.
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, people don't realize this is just the beginning and it's going to get quite
a bit worse.
I'm more concerned about getting chicks because I have a feeling that large farmers who have
contracts are going to be able to buy up other chicks from reputable breeders and then those
breeders are going to run out and so
secondary and tertiary breeders are going to wind up having to fill in.
Well usually when you go to your farm and home store that's where you get your chicks.
Well this year we might be okay getting chicks, next year might be a different story.
So personally I usually figure three chickens a year I'm going to lose from predation
or, you know, just death in general. Chickens don't last very long. So three a year tends
to keep me in enough chickens with a flock of five to eight hens or keep me in eggs where
I never have to go buy eggs basically. the cost of food 20 bucks a month for
what's essentially anywhere from two to five eggs a day that's that's significant and it's getting
more significant as time goes on so for me I'm I'm paying attention to roosters that are available
on craigslist and layer hens that people are getting rid of and baby chicks especially.
So it's going to be an interesting 12 months for sure.
Yeah, because there's people out there that's going to be, you know, I've already seen it,
people complaining that the price of eggs haven't gone back down yet.
You know, expecting that because Trump is the president that somehow that it was, you
know, that Trump could come in and increase the egg development,
right, which would drive the price of eggs.
I don't think they understand the whole process
and what this bird flu and the killing of the chickens,
all that has to do with the eggs in the stores.
They're not gonna be on the shelves,
and if they are, they're gonna be few,
and then if there are few, they're gonna be high in price.
Right, and it's kind of like at some point,
you gotta wonder if that is fabricated.
Like, is it a price gouging type setup?
Because, you know, the store only gets, say,
a hundred dozen eggs,
and they might not know when they're gonna get eggs again.
So instead of selling them for a dollar or two dollars
a dozen, they're gonna sell them for seven, eight, nine,
ten dollars a dozen.
Well, I have no doubt that it's price gouging,
because if you're normal, let's say that you're Kroger,
okay, and Kroger's used to having 500 dozen eggs,
and this is how much money they expect
for 500 dozen eggs, but now they're only getting
100 dozen eggs.
To make that bank again the same amount
they got for the 500 dozen eggs,
they gotta raise the price on the 100 dozen eggs
to make that equal out.
That's how capitalism works.
They're expecting this much
income from the sale of these products, but when they're suddenly not there
because of the supply and demand situation, the price has to go up so that
they come out. They have the employees to pay, that's the thing. You know,
everybody, it's a very complicated situation, but if Kroger is paying 50
employees that are working at their store X amount of dollars because this
is what they're expecting from these sales and all of a sudden those products not coming
in they're not making the money they can't pay therefore if they keep if they lower the
price of eggs for example they won't have the income to pay their employees so they
got to raise the price to keep things that's just how it is that's that's basic capitalism
101.
Robert Furrow 001 Yeah I, it doesn't surprise me at all.
In fact, the only thing that does surprise me
is it didn't happen sooner.
I was really expecting this to happen in 2022, 2023.
So I think there were probably, I can't say,
but I have a feeling that some of these things
were subsidized and farmers were allowed
to sell their eggs cheaper to keep them on the market.
So that as soon as the change of the guard, so to speak, happened, that if
Biden would have stayed in office or his entourage, whoever was going to be
after him stayed, then those farmers would have been able to retain that
supplementary income or whatever to whatever to offset the the costs
that they have for the chickens since it didn't and since we're starting to see a
lot of these federal programs drying up and you know some of this money's
realizing you know we're realizing this money's being misspent now all of a
sudden I have a feeling that you know these farmers aren't getting their
subsidies they have to recover their costs on,
and as a result of, you know,
whatever left-wing extremism is happening
on this bird flu scene,
the egg production is not going to be there,
and it's not gonna be there for another,
at least six months to a year,
to where we start seeing any kind of prices drop.
So, honestly, there's kind of a whole perfect storm
and it's almost too perfect.
It seems orchestrated in my opinion.
And it could be because there's been a lot of stuff
that has been, man, with Trump going in office
because he's released, and I talked about it here
on the last show, I think, the one I ran solo on
with the Northwoods project Northwoods that's
some crazy stuff that I talked about with how back when JFK was around no I'm
sorry yeah back in the 1960s the United States when we were at Cold War with
Russia and in Cuba was become became communistic the United States was was
talking about,
and I had documentation I talked about
where the Operation Northwoods produced signatures.
All the Joint Chiefs of Staff produced signatures
that they were willing to commit atrocities
on the United States population and blame it on Cuba
to help incite a war with them
because they were now communist
and they needed a reason to do it.
And so say the bombing of a United States ship
or say the bombing of a US cities,
this was the plan and this was all,
I guess JFK when he got in the office
was going to, this part of the JFK stuff that was released,
that was declassified by Trump,
all this stuff is in there.
And Project Northwoods or Operation Northwoods,
whichever it is called, was actually released
back in 1962, declassified back in 1962.
I had never even heard of it
until the JFK files were declassified
and I got to looking into that a little bit.
I'm like, oh my God, if the United States government
is capable of committing atrocities
in the name of furthering their own agenda, right?
Then what's to stop them from doing anything,
keeping anything secret from us,
such as orchestrating this egg thing
so they control synthetic eggs.
If you start controlling something and making things,
like beef has already been approved by the US,
the way it is.
USDA, thank you.
Yes, it's been approved.
Synthetic meat has been approved for sale to the people, to sit
in the United States to consume and sell in the marketplace. And once they start doing
that, once they start doing that, it can be regulated by the government. And once they
start regulating that kind of food, it's regulated by the government, then they can control anything
that goes into it. We've already heard about Gates talking about putting vaccines in meats
and giving it to
us that way.
He's not probably going to talk about it now, but it's out there.
I think what we're probably going to see is some, in the next year or two, we're probably
going to see some form of egg product that comes out in the carton or some kind of, maybe you can get egg whites, egg
yolks, powdered eggs, or something like that.
And they're going to call it that, but I don't think it's really going to be that.
It's going to be a protein substitute-like material, and it's going to be made probably
from some sort of plant or synthetically manufactured thing. And the only way to really sell that and make it feasible
is to make it slightly cheaper than normal eggs.
And so it'll probably hit the market with
one dozen egg equivalent
that's maybe 20 or 30% less.
And it's gonna be sold as something beneficial with,
oh, like vitamin D milk. Yeah, exactly. So I think,
I think we're probably going to see something like that and it's a little scary.
I don't know what other countries are experiencing, but I mean,
in some locations, chickens run wild. I mean,
Hawaii and tropical areas in region Mexico, some of these places, they just,
they're, they exist and they roam around
restaurants and wherever else.
Wild chicken.
Oh yeah, wild chicken roosters, they live on their wild.
They're capable of surviving on their own.
And they overproduce because they get killed off
so frequently.
But it's kind of one of those things where if we go away
from a natural source of food, we're really putting ourselves at
an unknown risk of, you know, what is this going to do to our bodies and our mental state
years down the road, you know, we're supplementing estrogen and testosterone and all these other
things. I mean, it's just like eating a fake plant, you know, it just doesn't, it doesn't
cut it. It's not the same thing. You know, it just doesn't, it doesn't cut it.
It's not the same thing.
Lab-grown is not the same thing.
No.
Let's take an early quick break
because I want, when we come back,
I want to talk about, because USAID, Doge,
I mean, Doge has been killing it.
They've been uncovering a lot of stuff.
It's just mind-boggling to me.
And the left, when I say the left,
I mean, the Democrats in Congress seem oblivious.
Like they're complaining about the young 19, 20, 21 year old
men that Musk has recruited into his team to go through
and find this stuff.
Finding all kinds of stuff.
Yes, that's what they're complaining about.
They don't care that a child, you know a few months ago,
and it still is in their minds, it's okay for a child, for a minor to say,
you know, who still believes in Santa Claus,
to say a little boy, that he wants his testicles cut off
because he wants to be a girl, right?
That's okay.
That's okay.
But this 19-year-old kid is too young
to be combing through our financial records.
You see what I'm saying?
It's just mind boggling.
Let's take a quick break,
because I want to come back and talk about, I just want to run
down a long list of some of the things that's going on.
I want to hear Jesse Waters talk a little bit about it.
And Fox and Friends, one moment, we'll come back from our break.
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Welcome back to the Rising Republic.
Okay. by William W. Fordy. Welcome back to the Rising Republic. Okay, okay, so this is a list of stuff that I got here
and a lot of this stuff you're probably gonna hear again
from Jesse Waters and Fox and Friends,
but this is crazy, this is crazy.
All right, so $2 million,
this Doge discovered this, all right?
The Department of Government Efficiency discovered this
in USAID, again, that's the United States Agency
for Independent Development, I believe is what it stands for.
And it's basically a front, a government agency front
for money laundering.
Yeah.
All right, so it goes into this.
It's supposed to, the whole purpose of this
is to further the goals of the United States.
Like, so basically, if it improves the United States,
right, it makes us better,
then that's what this money's supposed to be spent on.
But this is what Doge has uncovered.
This is what the Department of Government Efficiency
has uncovered.
This is what Trump was elected to do.
All right, Trump was elected to office
and he ran that he was going to do this kind of stuff.
He ran on this.
Everybody knew it when they voted him in office.
This is what he was going to do.
And this is what has been uncovered.
And this is not even, this is the short list.
$2 million for Moroccan pottery classes.
Okay.
The Moroccans have been building,
have been making pottery
longer than the United States has been around.
Yeah. True story.
We're teaching them how to do it.
Right.
$2 million for promoting tourism in Lebanon.
Again, how's that been in the 50 United States?
$20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq.
Oh, I heard about that.
I think I might've seen a clip,
but I wasn't sure if it was fake or not,
because I was like, there's no way.
Sesame Street in Iraq, no way.
Can you imagine Big Bird throwing a homosexual muppet
off of a building?
Oh my God. Oh Oh you're gay?
I mean I saw them, yeah.
I don't know how true the clip that I saw was, but I mean they had like muppets behind
sandbags and they had, what do you call them, they're not burkas, they're, it's the little
neck scarf, not a hijab.
You know what I'm talking about.
I do know what you're talking about.
I don't know.
It's a multi-purpose thing.
They're like throwing bombs and stuff.
I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
This isn't, this can't be real.
This cannot be real.
I have a feeling it probably was.
Well, it probably was.
Yeah, if that's what, I mean,
cause that's the culture.
I saw, who was it?
Was it CNN the other day? And that's what it, I mean, because that's the culture. I saw, who was it? Was it CNN?
Is one of those legacy media groups was over in one of those countries, Afghanistan, Iraq,
Iraq, I can't remember where it was at.
And the children, a group of children started stoning the reporters.
Wow.
And, and you see that's the culture there.
So Sesame Street is going to feed the culture. So basically we're investing, we invested $20 million for Sesame Street to further, you
know, that kind of culture, that kind of behavior.
Well, it kind of makes you wonder too, like, I remember watching Sesame Street as a kid.
So were we the experiment back then?
Makes you wonder.
If we could be programmed?
Gaslighting at its finest right there. Oh yeah yeah 1.5 million for DEI in Serbia how is
diversity equity inclusion of Serbia beneficial to United States I just don't
understand you see you see million 1.5 million Wow yes 70,000 for DEI musical in Ireland. So it's funny, a democracy gets $70,000, right?
And 1.5 million to Serbia and 70,000 to Ireland.
I just think that's mind-boggling.
I don't think any of this should be going over there
for any kind of DEI anything.
That was the case.
47.
This is all our taxpayer dollars.
Yes.
Columbia gets $47,000.
These are all, of course, all this is,
all this is taxpayer funded stuff.
So this is going, being funneled into USAID
and is being laundered out to these other,
these other ideals, we call it.
This ideology that the American people doesn't vote for.
Well, and the contracts on the other end of that
is what's really, I'm kind of curious to see
what's gonna happen to that.
And I have a feeling that's why a lot of the politicians
are freaking out because they've got, you know,
some weird shelter corporation that they're funneling money
into their non-profits, so to speak.
Doge. From these, yeah.
Elon Musk recently said, this happened within the last week
or so, that he is, that Doge is opening
an investigation into the net worth situation with our congresspeople.
Because you get people like AOC and Pocahontas, Elizabeth Warren, these individuals who come
in, they only make $150,000, $200,000 a year.
It's not significant, especially if you live in Washington, D.C.
Right, where the price of living is crazy but they that's how much they make
right 200,000 a year but their net worth is in the millions of dollars. Yeah. And I
think I might say from a bartender to a millionaire within a couple of years. Yes
so you can't tell me that they're not getting some kind of kickbacks probably
from this this kind of stuff here and it's probably an inside thing.
You don't really know this is going on.
You run for office, you get in,
hey, let me show you this little secret, right?
But you gotta work with us on this,
you work with us on this, and you keep your mouth shut,
you'll get all these proceeds,
but you gotta work with us on this.
And that's how you keep people in line,
because money talks.
Oh yeah.
And I think what's interesting is you got Doge and you know,
president Trump, both Elon Musk. And if it's headed up by Elon Musk,
you got two billionaires. They, I mean,
they don't have skin in the game at this point.
They're doing it for efficiency sake.
So that's what I wanted to see happen the first term.
And now we're actually seeing it on the second go around right off,
right out of the gate.
And it's kind of interesting to see because it's like what are these people who have millions
of dollars gonna do against someone who has billions of dollars you know when
when their intentions are essentially to expose the truth right well it's funny
that they're they're crying foul about all this stuff yeah because they're
they're crying that he was that Elon Musk was it is it
If you they're big complainers, he's unelected. He's unelected. He's okay I didn't like to send my money to Lebanon or Siberia or wherever the hell else is going
but that's exactly right and the administrator of
USAID
Who's been sending all this stuff? It wasn't elected either. No, right?
So you had this administrator that's going,
and tell you what, what else?
You know, you don't need to be an elected person
to go in there and do this job.
And they're also saying that he's taking over
the power of the presidency and all this.
It's all baloney.
This job was actually created by,
I wanna say by JFK,
I could be mistaken,
but I believe it was created by JFK
back a long time ago in the 1960s, by the swipe of a pen. All right, any government agency could be mistaken, but I believe it was created by JFK back a long time ago in the 1960s by the swipe of a pen.
All right, any government agency can be created by the president and it could be annihilated
by the president.
True story.
Just because Congress votes to how much money they're going to send to these agencies doesn't
mean that you know that that you need congressional approval to cut the agency.
If it was created by the president, it could be taken down by the president.
The thing is, there's been too many presidents
with somebody else in their back pocket
over the past several decades to where they don't,
you know, they absolutely cannot turn that loose
because there's money coming in, you know?
They gotta keep that money flowing into their own,
I don't know, estates or whatever.
So did I say a 47,000 for transgender opera in Columbia yet?
Oh my God.
I think you, I don't think you, you got all the way through the sentence.
Uh, 40, yeah.
47,000 for transgender opera in Columbia.
Very interesting.
Uh, 32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.
Wow, and here's another millions winner.
So I mean, $32,000 in Peru.
That's a-
When you convert that to that kind of the local money,
that's a hell of a lot of money.
That's an annual salary for an average American.
Right, and now you take that to Peru
where people are making pennies.
Right. That's big bucks.
That's huge.
Yeah.
So that country could essentially be funneling money somehow some way back into a congressperson's
you know whoever made whoever saw fit to do this.
Yeah you know.
Probably the guy stealing luggage.
Well here's another thing this could just be an idea I don't know if this is accurate
enough this is just this is just. Douglas Hogan talking about this.
But you've heard, let's use a Democrat, for example, saying Republicans are not, we wrote
a bill to send money to North Carolina, but the Republicans voted it down.
When you get to looking into those bills, you'll see that $5 million was going to North
Carolina and $100 billion, and this is just, I'm just throwing some crazy numbers out there,
$100 billion is going to Serbia
for gay robot porn comic books.
They got writers on the bill that wind up destroying,
killing it in the house.
But there's line items in that bill.
So you'll have 6,000 pages in a bill.
One page will go to North Carolina
and all the rest of it's called pork.
It's just garbage. And so what they'll say is we wrote this bill to send money. We try to approve
this bill to send money to North Carolina, but the Republicans shot it down. The Republicans are
holding it up in the House or whatever the case may be. Because you got stuff like this. What's
my idea, and this is just L. Douglas Hogan talking, is when you get, say in this 6,000 page bill
that's got one page for North Carolina,
that two million dollars would go to Moroccan poetry classes
or pottery classes, two million dollars would go
to tourism in Lebanon, 20 million dollars
to go to Sesame Street showing line items.
So where does that go?
They don't send it directly to the president
or the dictator or the prime minister
or whatever of that country.
But it would probably get funneled,
my idea is it probably gets funneled through USAID
and they push it through to wherever it goes.
So in my mind I'm thinking that these people are,
these congress persons have these,
probably these lobbyists that work for them
and there's probably a middle man,
maybe two or three middle people,
so there's fricking no crumbs,
no breadcrumbs leading back to the congressperson.
So when they get this approved in this bill,
this kickback comes from this country
back to this congressperson.
And that's how their net worth builds up like that.
Absolutely.
And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out,
but it takes a lot of work to make that happen.
And I think people are starting to see through,
like people are actually starting to care.
And like I've had this conversation
with a couple of people, like, you know,
they're really, really upset
with what's happening right now.
I'm super upset that, you know,
the programs are getting cut or grants are getting pulled
or different things, people are getting losing jobs, that kind of stuff. But if you think about it, that kind of stuff, again,
like you said, was already on the docket. That's what was the plan. And some people,
obviously, were against that plan. I think to me, it's really important to look at this big picture,
because right now, if I don't have to pay income tax, or if it's really important to look at this big picture because right now if I don't have to pay income
tax or if it's reduced significantly that's money back in my pocket and that's money that'll allow
me to live my life more fully and contribute in ways and in directions that I feel are worthwhile.
Like maybe I want to donate to a humane society or do something else. If I want to send money to a transgender opera in Belgrade
or wherever the hell it is, I'll do that.
But I want that to be my choice.
I want it to be something that I decide on,
not that some politician or group of politicians,
Republicans and Democrats that are signing off on something,
shipping out all of our cash somewhere else
and then laundering it back to themselves. I mean, you have billions of people in the United States getting taxed hundreds of dollars
every month to pay for politicians to get richer. And we know this, and we know it's
happening. I think we're actually fed up enough to where we don't care what the fallout is.
We want to see it burn to the ground and start back over with what we essentially
need. Self-defense or you know national defense, you know stable farms that kind of stuff and
independence.
I don't think the man on the street in any of these liberal cities, I mean you know as
well as I do that liberal cities carry most states.
Oh yeah.
But I don't think that the man on the street understands
that nothing is free.
If you ask them, hey, how do you feel about the United States
sending $2 million to Morocco for pottery classes?
Oh yeah, yeah, that's great.
Because what person wouldn't like for a Moroccan
to make pottery, you know what I'm saying?
What they're not understanding is
they're making $15 an hour
and how much of that is actually going into their pocket
because the government is taking X amount of dollars
away from them to send that to Morocco.
And it's not fair to the American taxpayer
because even if you do support that, I don't.
And if I'm putting a single dollar into it,
I have a vote on that.
And you shouldn't be taking my money without my knowledge
and sending it somewhere else
to some ridiculous DEI project in another country
that's not benefiting the United States at all.
It's not furthering our goals.
$2 million for sex changes in Guatemala.
$6 million for tourism in Egypt.
One million dollars to help disabled people
in Tajikistan become climate leaders.
Climate leaders.
Climate leaders, what's a climate leader?
Is that going to, what?
I was just ready to say, Greta, what's her name, Greta?
Funberg.
Funberg, yes.
Are we going to create a generation of Greta's?
God, I hope not. And who's that other clown we talked about last time on the show the
The kid that they just voted to be the what's the vice? Oh, yeah
Yes, I know like a whole generation of David Hogg's in Greta Thunberg's mm-hmm no, thank you
15 million dollars for contraceptives and condoms in Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
That's a lot of condoms.
Yeah.
And you think they're actually going to come, what are they going to do?
Oh, no.
Are they actually going to use them?
Yeah.
You think they're good.
They're getting exactly that.
Exactly.
That it's going to, it's getting funneled in and they're saying, Oh, look for $15 million
for condoms.
You think you think it's being trans translated into condoms condoms before the condoms are dropped into the country
or do you think the money's just going into the country
and they're spending on what they want, guns?
Yeah, they're just, yeah, guns, ammo, whatever.
Yeah, this isn't going to advancement or development,
it's going to just garbage.
It is truly going to garbage.
So now what I wanna do is,
because I made a list of these things off of some shows
that we watch, but let's hear it out of, as Jesse Waters,
here's a clip from Jesse Waters show us,
he's reporting on some of this.
We'll do a couple outtakes from his show.
43 million dollars on a gas station in Afghanistan
that had no customers.
Still less though than what Biden paid
for a charging station here.
One and a half million to promote gays, lesbians, and trans in Jamaica.
Jamaican me crazy.
Four million for trans Serbians.
Five and a half mil for gay rights in Uganda.
Over six million for men who have sex with men in South Africa.
That's just how it was described.
17 million to promote inclusion in Vietnam.
It's just probably another way of saying it went to trans.
We carpet bond them and then we paid them to cross dress.
25 million to promote green transportation in Georgia, not the state, the country.
And it's not like we
took the money and bought them electric cars. We just paid a shady agency to put
up a billboard that says, buy electric cars. A million for Arab and Jewish
photographers. Are you Jewish? Are you Arab? Do you have cameras? Here's a check.
Eight million dollars to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid binary gendered language. Translation,
we spent 8 million so that a reporter in Sri Lanka doesn't write he or she. Well, at least
nobody died, right? Wrong. 122 million of the USAID money was given to terrorists. The
Taliban is taxpayer funded.
So is the Wuhan lab.
So we're on a roll.
Thoughts?
It just makes me mad.
I mean, I think, and I think that makes a lot of people mad.
Seeing this stuff, I mean, you,
a lot of us knew that it was bad,
but I don't think many people realized how bad it really was.
And the fact that we're seeing it now,
I think this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Once we start seeing more of this stuff come out once we start seeing the IRS and some
of these other agencies the FBI and things like that as they get audited I heard there
was movement on Fort Knox as well just to have to audit the gold reserves.
I mean, I think we're really going to see some things and it's important, we gotta rip off the bandaid.
We gotta get this stuff exposed and out there
so people are paying attention.
And then I think people will be able to make better decisions
about their own politicians.
Hopefully we don't see as much of the blue cities
ruling the red states essentially,
because I think people will start to wake up to that as absurdity. Even people who would normally
be left-centric should be able to at least recognize that these are not effective ways to
spend our taxpayer dollars. No, exactly. And we just, here's the thing, we had this huge,
I don't think it's, I think red wave is the wrong term
for it.
I think because what happened with this last election
was people that were centric, like in the middle,
moderate, and maybe even a little left of moderate,
has seen what's going on in this country
and they were tired of it.
They're tired of this stuff being force fed to us
and these things happening to us.
If you wanna impact somebody, attack their pocketbook.
And that's what's going on here.
People, the left has, the money is,
people are filling it at home,
they're filling it in their bills,
they're filling it in their groceries.
You know, we talked about the price of eggs a while ago.
You know, that's not really part of the economic problem
as much as it is, you know, a pandemic
issue. But the average American doesn't understand the difference. When they go to the grocery store
and they see that a dozen eggs is $6, that makes them angry. And that hits hard. And that happened
during the Biden administration. And so, you know, they take to the polls and they vote for
whoever's on the opposite team right and so that's what we're seeing here.
Yeah I think it'll make a big difference but I think people like I said we got to
pull the bandaid we have to see this stuff and I think people need to feel
the pain especially the politicians. Yeah we got to hold them accountable at the
at the at the ballots that's for sure. Here's another clip from Jesse Waters,
because what we just heard was in addition to
the long list of things that I read earlier.
Here's another clip.
This is what Democrats are fighting to save.
20 million dollars for Iraqi Sesame Street.
We covered that.
Two million dollars for Moroccan pottery classes.
Covered that.
11 million to tell Vietnam to stop burning trash. 27
million to give gift bags to illegals before we deport them. Millions to help
Afghanis grow crops instead of opium. That program was such a success that
opium production doubled. We also gave Afghanistan 300 million to build diesel
fuel power plants, but they couldn't use them because diesel
was too expensive. 200 million on a dam that was too unsafe to ever be used. We could have
used that dam in California. 250 million on a road that was never used. We literally built
a road to nowhere. Oh, and we gave Syrians nine mil for humanitarian aid, but someone messed
up and it went to Al Qaeda. A million for bat research in Wuhan. That equates to a million
dollars for each dead American. USAID was funding Fashion Week in Paris. France isn't
even paying its NATO dues and we're paying for their Fashion Week.
USAID is a $40 billion deep state social justice slush fund.
Yep, I agree with that.
Absolutely.
That's probably the best way to put that, a deep state
social slush fund.
Yep.
Let's see here.
A couple more on USAID. Elon Musk says workers at Doge are
putting in 120 hour work weeks. So, Host of Fox Businesses Making Money, Charles
Payne joins us now to take a look at a few of the cuts from this agency. This is
very exciting. Think about this. He was inaugurated on the 20th, Charles.
Right. And these are just the numbers that we've cut in the, what, 10 days?
It's called a whirlwind, and it's just getting started.
It is.
Let's go through some of it.
This is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Look how much we were spending.
They had to cut almost 20 million.
Department of Agriculture, Charles?
110 million, Office of Personnel Management, 500 million.
USAID, obviously this is the one that's in the news right now, over 200 million.
Because Elon shut it down.
Yeah, well here's the thing.
Listen, all of these things ostensibly were designed for good reasons or good intentions,
but then they become covered.
You ever ask...
To clarify, these are Doge cuts.
So the USAID stuff we talked about a while ago is wrapped up in that USAID that they just talked about.
But in general, everything that Fox Friends right now
is talking about is what Doge is cutting expenditures to.
Because they found some kind of fraud
or some kind of government waste.
They spent money, yeah.
So if were all these folks who work in these administrations go after the administrations
ousted?
How do they still live in mansions after they're out of government?
What's the answer?
Well, a lot of it is these NGOs.
A lot of these NGOs operate things that are funded by USAID.
And it's amazing.
As we find, as we start to peel the layer of the onion, we're going to see people like,
oh, I thought this person was a journalist.
He's getting millions of dollars from taxpayers. Right.
For what?
Right.
What exactly is this agency?
What was it created to do?
She's talking about extremists who sort of represent America around the world and help
other nations.
Humanitarian efforts.
It's aid, but again, it's like who decides what the aid is, who gets it, and by the way,
who manages it.
There's no accountability for it.
Right.
And so you've got to shut it down.
It's become a beast.
It does things that we're not supposed to do. So let's say Congress says, hey, we no longer want
to do X, Y, Z in this country. USAID can fund an entity to do the same thing on behalf of
special interest. So even though the government's not directly funding it, the taxpayers are
still paying for it against the wishes of our Congress. It's really, it's really outlaw
it's become an outlaw industry
I mean people are waking up right now getting ready to take their kids to school and go to their jobs hard-working
Americans they work for these tax dollars and then we're wasting it on look at look at this
This is where we're sending money to other countries
Serbian LGBT all the stuff she ready to cover is of USAID
EQ rights group. They got $1.5 million.
Electric vehicles for Vietnam, $2.5 million.
South African transgender HIV research, $30 million.
Uganda LGBTQ rights group, $4 million.
And Egyptian tourism, $6 million.
And I heard on Sean's show last night,
they, we gave, according to Eric Schmidt, our senator,
$20 million to Sesame Street shows in Iraq.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And again, a lot of this is pushing an alternative agenda, right?
Uganda has their own government.
They have their own people.
They have their own say.
Right.
They may not want us pushing LGBTQ in their country.
Right?
We're trying to force our values, or sometimes it's not even our values.
Sometimes it may be the values of special interest, using taxpayer money.
It has to stop.
You say, how do we get this almost 40 trillion in debt, right?
Trillion dollars a year just to service the debt.
This is what's crushing America.
If we want to remain the greatest nation in the world, we have to...
Just to re- I'll pause it there.
Just to reiterate, that $ million dollars that went to Ugandan
LGBTQ rights group, that would be similar to say Russia
giving four million dollars to Black Lives Matter,
or to some other hate group in the United States
that burns buildings and tears up police cars.
You see what I'm saying?
They're pushing their money, we're pushing our money
into another government, to another group, to push an agenda that's our own
would per se you know the liberal from the United States into Uganda it might
not be their policy they wouldn't like it if that was happening to us with them
pushing you know if Russia was sending money over here oh my lord can you
imagine what would happen because right now the left they hates because right now
it's it's good for them to hate Russia
because Trump is talking,
making relations with Putin, for example.
Right, so, and then they got the whole thing
with where Trump was colluding.
So Putin is like the number one enemy right now to the left.
And so imagine if they were to send money over here
to push an agenda that was pro-Russian. Pick him back up.
Take these sort of haircuts and it's not going to be hard.
Everyone's like saying it's going to be hard.
It's not going to be hard, but it does mean that a lot of these sort of these special
interest groups are going to take a hit.
They're very powerful.
They have amazing resources.
They control a lot, but they've never met the force of a combination of a President
Trump and Elon Musk.
They've never had that one-two combination before a president trump and a long mostly never had that one two combination yeah i understand starving
children in another country i understand maybe helping with the most of your but
not that's who we are so we say the country said the world on a couple of
occasions we've told we've rebuilt the world on a couple of cases that's what
america is but these things have been hijacked our our sympathy for the world
our compassion for the world has been hijacked by special
interests who are doing two things, pushing an agenda and lining their pockets.
It's time to say no.
You're right.
Marco Rubio talked about this.
He was meeting with the El Salvadorian president.
He was meeting with Maduro, already working hard in a short amount of time.
And here's what he said calling out USAID.
They are a global charity that they take the taxpayer money and they spend it as a global
charity irrespective of whether it is in the national interest or not.
USAID is not only not cooperative, they undermine the work that we're doing in that country.
They are supporting programs that upset the host government.
They're completely uncooperative.
So we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control.
We are going to fund programs that make America stronger or safer or more prosperous.
We're going to pay for things that make sense for the United States.
The United States government is not a charity.
It is not a global charity.
And what is the goal each day?
How much does Elon want to cut?
Ultimately, I think $4 billion a day.
That's the goal.
Wow.
And it's going to listen.
This is a lot of money.
People are lining their pockets.
There are people out there who are making hundreds of millions of dollars off of this.
It's a real nice cushion.
They've got friends all the way in the media.
They've got friends throughout the corporate world.
They've got friends throughout government.
It's not an easy thing.
It could only, in my mind, have been achieved or could be achieved by an outsider with the
kind of power of a Leland Musk who can't be bought off, he can't be intimidated, and neither can the president.
Again, that's the ultimate one-two punch for getting to some of this stuff because there's
going to be a tremendous amount of pressure.
And you're going to read articles today.
How dare we deny people around the world?
Who are we?
Who have we become?
We don't want to help the poor folks out there.
Of course we do.
We don't want to help their leader somewhere with a
Swiss bank account. Right. Sesame Street in Iraq. It's common sense. It goes back to that.
And again, what Rubio said to Secretary Rubio said that was intriguing, often it goes against
the interests of either our interests or even the interests of those governments. It's not
even in their interest. It's not even helpful to them in some cases. We're trying to instill certain things in some of these countries that they don't want.
Right. You know, and this is how we get into wars. This is how we get into
getting involved in things that we should not be involved in.
Yeah, so in my thought, I didn't even think about the whole team of Trump and Elon Musk.
about the whole team of Trump and Elon Musk.
Like, both these men are workhorses. They don't rest.
They, I know, true story, neither one of them speak well.
They both think well.
And I raised an argument one time to a liberal
that Trump is a good businessman.
They're like, well, I hardly think
he's a successful businessman.
He went bankrupt. Fine, the guy think he's a successful business man, he went bankrupt.
Fine, the guy came in, his net worth,
whenever he, his father, I think he inherited
like $4.2 million, something like that,
and now he's like worth what,
40 million something along those lines.
So, that's success in my book.
Not all businesses succeed.
You can start a hundred businesses,
any person can start a hundred businesses,
and several of them will fail and go bankrupt
because that's just, you throw out an idea,
you gotta go big sometimes,
you gotta make big decisions to make big money.
And sometimes they fail.
That's just how it is.
Trump is successful, Elon is successful,
neither one of these men rest,
they're both very intelligent
and they both, neither one of them talk very well
and they hit hard and they cannot be paid for.
Yeah, and they surround themselves with people
who are on that same vein.
Very intelligent people.
People that are working hard and are smart.
So I think what's interesting with
on your USAID thing,
and the bill, the 6,000 page pork bills
that are actually getting through,
you gotta realize too that in order for those bills
to have passed, for that money to have been sent
to these places, there would have had to have been
bipartisan effort, which means that this isn't just
the left, there's people on the right
who are skimming off of that, maybe not 100%,
maybe not 50%, but you know that there is money going on both sides
of the table and I'm really curious to see
who on the right side of the fence is gonna start shouting.
Well naturally it's gonna be the rhinos,
it's gonna be, and there might be more outside of that,
I'm sure, but you get these ones who always seem
to align themselves, they go in red and they seem
to align themselves all the time when it comes to the voting
on bills and things with the blue, with, you know, with the people across the across the alley.
Absolutely. And it makes me wonder, like, why, what are they getting out of it?
And now we're starting to see what they're getting out of it.
They're getting kickbacks from some of that.
They have to be getting contracts or kickbacks out of these NGOs, which is a
non-government office,
right?
Yes.
Something like that?
Let's see here.
Stephen Miller, Republican advisor.
I guess he's moved on to, in Trump's new administration, as a Homeland Security advisor.
Listen to this.
He kind of knocks it out of the park here.
He's on Fox with, I won't say McCallum is her name the
blonde-headed lady on Fox listen to this
you know with regard to this yelling and screaming about Elon Musk and the fact
that he is unelected explain how you see the legal basis for him to have the
right to do everything that he is doing and asking these different
agencies to open up their books. The Democrat use of the term unelected is
really quite remarkable here. Donald Trump was elected in an overwhelming
landslide. These are Donald Trump staffers. This is like saying that Mike
Walz, the National Security Advisor, is unelected, or Susie Wilde, the Jeep staff, is unelected, or Donald Trump's communications team is unelected.
This is presidential staff that serves at the pleasure and for the president, just as
I do.
I am a staffer for the president of the United States.
He is elected.
He is the one that American people have chosen to implement his agenda.
This is the agenda the American people voted for, that he is asking his staff, his subordinates,
his employees to implement.
The unelected power in this country is the rogue bureaucracy.
USAID is unelected.
The FBI, the persecuted President Trump for eight years is unelected.
The CIA and those who have laundered intelligence to try to change the foreign policy of the
United States are unelected.
President Trump is restoring democracy by controlling the federal bureaucracy.
There's one man in the country who is elected by the whole American people to implement
an agenda they support. That is the President. Every other officer in this country,
members of Congress and senators, are elected at the state or local level.
Let me ask you something.
The Constitution puts one man in charge of the federal executive branch, and that's the President.
I understand. And all of these people serve at his behalf and have been appointed.
With regard to where the Doge effort goes next,
tell me what you think the plan is for the Pentagon and for Medicaid, which we know does
have a lot of waste in it. Does the president intend to go after Medicaid and find waste there
and cut it? Well, the president is going to direct his staff, which includes Doge, which includes
me, which includes the Domestic Policy Council, to go up and look for waste, fraud, and abuse
in every part of the federal government.
I mean, for example, we have Medicaid going to illegal aliens.
Illegal aliens!
Who the heck wants federal taxpayer dollars to subsidize free healthcare for illegals?
Yeah, that's got to be shut down. And if we have foreign nationals who don't belong here stealing federal benefits
or scammers stealing federal benefits, of course you want that shut down. And as far
as the Pentagon is concerned, we want the most lethal and effective fighting force in
the world. We certainly don't want any graft. We certainly don't want any corruption. We
certainly don't want anyone inflating contracts or taking 10 years to do something that should
happen in one year.
We want maximum value for the taxpayer.
President Trump is a businessman, a business titan, who has made a living for decades,
finding cost savings, delivering projects ahead of schedule, under budget.
And now he is our president.
He is the leader of this country and he is going
to deliver radical cost savings for the American people, which is what they voted for.
Yeah, it's pretty...
And how many campaign speeches did he say he was going to cut federal spending?
About seeing how worked up Democrats are about protecting, for example, the Department of
Education, which has been a failure, an abject failure in its mission which was to help kids
at the lower end of the academic range to catch up. And they spent a trillion dollars
doing that as we just said in the prior segment. And that would be considered I think by anyone's
measure of failure. Let me ask you a specific question, Stephen, about, so the number, we're
seeing 45,000 have accepted the package to leave federal government
Employment you can tell me if that number has increased after this expires at midnight on Monday
This offer for eight months of paid vacation at the end of this chart of their chart
Will then will it go to layoffs if people refuse to come back to the office?
What comes next?
Well of course if people refuse to come back to the office they're going to be laid off.
I mean why would federal taxpayers be subsidizing Netflix watching at home for so called federal
workers?
In other words how can you call yourself a federal worker if you never show up at the
office?
We have these giant cavernous office buildings in Washington DC carved out of marble stone and granite
in the Greek classical style,
some of the most gorgeous buildings on earth.
The taxpayers fund it, they pay for it,
they upkeep it, they provide electricity to it,
and no one's showing up.
I'm gonna stop it there, it's a long interview,
but he made some really good points.
I'm torn though on the public education thing.
What's your thoughts on that?
Honestly, I'm on board.
I think it was a failed experiment.
And I'm a product of the public education system.
My kids have gone through the public education system.
But I think that I probably could have done
better homeschooling.
And I know that in my experience with my son and daughter,
the time that they spent homeschooling essentially
at their own pace, they were finishing their work
significantly earlier to the point where it wasn't so much
about education at school, it was about socialization.
So there's an aspect, there's a component of the public education system
with regard to social interaction.
But the generations that exist right now in school,
they socially interact very differently than we did.
And so if we're trying to teach them
at a pace that is slower than they can learn on their own,
then it's not really school, it's social time.
And it's a waste, it's a daycare.
So we're paying these massive daycares
that are supposedly going to instruct our children
on basic things that they're not learning
because it's too slow, it's not advanced,
they're not engaged.
And granted there are exceptions to that,
but for the most part, that's what I'm seeing.
I'm like 70% in favor of gutting it,
like 30% in favor of rehauling it.
And here, mostly because I'm married to,
she used to be a teacher and she's argued her points to me,
which are very understandable.
If it goes to the states, which I'm a fan of,
I think it should go to the states.
But if the states are developing their own curriculum,
how different would it be if I relocate from Illinois? Let's say I have a teenager that's
just finishing her freshman year leaving from Illinois where they're probably going to have
a very liberal curriculum to another state or vice versa. Let's say I'm in Tennessee and I'm
moving to Illinois. I'm going from a very conservative curriculum to a very liberal curriculum
that could, you know, and they're gonna be in a different place. Like, they could be further ahead
or they could be further behind and that was one argument that she pitched and I totally get it.
And also the other, the second thing that she pitched to me was the socialization. We have kids
in school right now that are being taught that it's okay to urinate or to poop, defecate
or whatever in cat boxes.
That's not what I call socializing.
I don't want my kids to learn how to do that.
I don't want my kids to see that.
I don't want them to be around that.
But they do need to be around, they need to learn how to communicate with children in
groups and stuff and talk because I'm gonna say somebody I know has a supervisor that
was homeschooled and her she don't know how to communicate with people at all
like her hand her communication skills are awful. She she don't go to community
to groups to committees that are that she's responsible for.
Like there's several committees being below her
that she should be going to, but she doesn't
because she's not a group speaker.
She don't know how to public speak.
She's not good at it.
She's not good at communicating.
She goes outside and she's kind of got this introvert
kind of personality, which I'm not saying
that that's a bad thing, but when you learn,
when you don't learn
Yeah And a lot of the kids I know they've been homeschooled or introverted. They don't know how to behave in groups of kids
Yeah, and and that's how we're gonna develop leaders properly
You know if we're not getting them in groups, and that's just that's my 30 percentile thing that I'm you know yeah
The playground it's not really happening anymore.
No.
At the park.
You know, both of my kids actually went,
they tried homeschooling and they were great at it
and they got their stuff done early,
but both of them went back to the public school system
because of that lack of connection.
They were just home by themselves all day.
So I think that there is a lot of room for improvement in the curriculum and
the speed, the pace, you know, the compatibility between states. Speaking from experience,
I went from a school district in Salt Lake City to a school district in Eastern Washington.
In fifth grade, I was reading and doing math at about a three or four grade deficiency.
I want to say in fifth grade,
I didn't even know how to multiply
two sets of two numbers together, like 12 times 40.
I had to basically get caught up.
Didn't take very long,
but they realized that I was way off,
and part of that, and this was before
we started having standardized testing and that kind of stuff. So being at the same level you got to be
careful because sometimes there's good and bad with that because you could be dragging people down
who should be excelling and on the other hand you could be holding people back on the individual
state side of things like you were saying where you go to a different state.
But that can also be beneficial, because if, for example,
a state has a more desirable education system,
then you will attract people to that state
who are more capable and who want to have that type of
education for their kids.
So there's arguments to both sides of it,
but I think in general, the main argument is that
the system that we have now is flawed to the point
where it's a waste of money, and we just,
we need to find a better way.
Because it's not doing what it was designed.
Is the curriculum, when the government regulates anything,
they control it.
So I don't know the process who controls the curriculum.
All I know is that when, again, my kids are grown,
I got, you know, my stepdaughters in school still
and she's a sophomore and she's taking college level classes
and she's already getting ready, you know,
cause that's this system right now
where she's going to school at.
She's thriving, she's doing well. And my son my son some, I'm going back to the 90s now
whenever he was autistic and there was he was kind of behind
everybody because that and so nobody could meet him in his level. He wasn't
able to keep up with the style of instruction that he was receiving. So I
was I actually spearheaded was one of the persons
that spearheaded at least at Illinois.
I don't know if I was the only person on them.
I don't know to tell you the truth,
but I know in that school, I spearheaded the,
what do you call it, the school board or whatever,
to develop an IED for the, not IED,
IPE, individualized IED.
No, I'm thinking of it for my explosive device.
I'm talking about when you get an individual
education program.
Like a learning plan?
Yeah, yeah, it's a learning plan,
but I think I'm just getting my acronyms wrong.
Because he didn't have that,
but once that was developed for him,
he was able to catch up and to maintain
and graduate on time with everybody else.
But I don't want my kids going to school
and learning that there's no such thing as genders
or that there's an infinite number of genders.
There's no need to invest that kind of time or energy
into it when we have far greater deficiencies
within the mental capability of the students
that we're raising right now.
Right, and you know, Illinois's-
And it's not that they're not capable.
Obviously your son is capable,
but he needed a different method
that didn't fit the mold.
So-
And states like Illinois,
and Washington's very liberal too,
and California, when these states are highly liberal
and they're taxing their people have to death,
how much money do you think they're actually going to put
into an education system?
Yeah, I mean exactly.
And it's gonna, you're gonna see it.
You're gonna see it at the gas station.
You're gonna see it in your maybe income tax
or housing, whatever your,
what do you call it?
Boardgages and stuff like that.
I'm drawing a blank.
But I mean. It's all gonna go up.
But like you say, what are you gonna get out of it?
I mean, how's that gonna shape up?
It's gonna be interesting to see
because I don't wanna be sitting here
living in Washington and paying for people
to learn how to use their own device
to use the wrong bathroom or something.
Exactly, it's not exactly.
And that's the whole thing with the whole,
the government, this system is broken.
It's definitely broken and the whole Department of Education,
I think it needs to be gutted.
I think it needs to be overhauled.
If we're going to be, there needs to be,
if we're gonna put tax dollars into an education system,
a government education system,
so that everything is the same across the board,
then it needs to be regulated by the people.
There needs to be a committee of people,
not just somebody that the president appoints
to oversee that, you know what I'm saying?
Because for eight years, we could have somebody,
we'd have a Democrat president for eight years
who has extremely liberal values,
is going to elect a cabinet member
that oversees the Department of Education,
who's gonna make sure that the curriculum
that goes into our school systems are extremely liberal.
That system is broken.
And that's a part of it that I think needs to be needs to be fixed. I'm absolutely for it but I
there it needs we need an alternative and it needs to be a successful alternative. We just can't we
just can't throw it to the states here you go good luck. Yeah I mean there's got to be there's got to
be a method out there and I think we're not really looking at it closely enough. I think if we paid
more attention to options and what we could do and what we should be doing,
we're gonna find some things.
I got one more little video I wanna play
and it's just because we need to close
for an hour, over an hour.
Threats to Elon Musk, talked to you briefly about it.
Amy let you listen to the video or the audio
right before the show started.
They've already started and I think what I'm gonna start doing,
you know, is remember what I had before with all the all the Trumps,
all the threats against Trump in the intro? I'm gonna start putting a new fresh batch
together because I'm telling you it's getting take off again.
They're already, it's already getting crazy. Yes, it's getting nuts
and they're already starting to make threats. Now we have a person here,
a representative, a Democrat representative, saying we need actual
weapons and that we're in an representative make saying we need actual weapons and there were enough we're in actual war and we need
actual weapons listen to this lunacy hold on a second this is this is the
wrong video but I'm gonna go and play this this like a compilation audio of
several Democrats starting their violent tendencies again here. Hold on
He must be made to pay we must enforce the law
It is pretty clear we have to
Yeah, let me see here I want want to hear why, but do you think
that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging
for confronting what is a potentially irreversible transformation of the US government?
Well, he is a dick.
And I think he's also harming the American public in an enormous way.
And what I think is really important and what the American public want is for us to bring
actual weapons to this bar fight.
This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country.
And it's important to push back on the chairperson of this committee.
I mean, Marjorie Taylor Greene talks about having decorum about bipartisanship.
This is the person that lies more than anybody else in the entire Congress.
And so if she's going to make a mockery of hearings, I want to make sure that us as Democrats
are bringing that same level of energy.
Ryan, he said Elon Musk is causing actual damage to the American population or American
people.
Yeah.
I mean, I think the only thing that he's damaging is the reputation of politicians and people
who are stuck in that government.
That's just it.
What he's doing is he's digging into all this wasteful spinning and he's making it available.
He's showing transparency to
the American people and showing them what waste has been going out to all these countries
and it's driving these people crazy because they know that their bank is drying up and
they're upset about it so they're pointing the fingers everything that they pointed Elon
Muster's three fingers pointed right back at him.
Robert Furrow 00 And you just watch I mean you're gonna see
half a million million dollar condos
going up for sale in DC because these people are going to be able to afford their two and
three and four houses, you know, because all the money is going to dry up.
And so these, these politicians that were elected are actually going to have to do their
job.
Yeah.
And it's going to be the first time in some cases that they ever have.
So I think, I think it's really going the first time in some cases that they ever have. So I think it's really gonna turn things around.
It's gonna hurt and it's gonna hurt those people,
but guess what?
That's how you get stronger.
I say, grow no pain, no gain.
Yeah, my brother used to tell me,
pain's weakness leaving the body,
and right now we're going through some pain,
but I can feel the weakness leaving in this nation.
I hear you. All right, we wanna thank everybody for joining us today on The Rising
Republic. I'm L. Douglas Hogan and I'm Ryan Buford. Thanks for joining us
everybody.