The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Rising Republic: Point of No Return

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

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I don't want to set the world on fire. Indeed, the American Revolution cannot be understood without taking into account the religious teachings that motivated patriots to action. But freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. One night who decided they'd go kill some Americans. What difference at this point does it make? We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. All right, welcome everybody to the Rise of Republic. It's L. Douglas Hogan and Ryan Buford.

How's it going, everybody? Glad to have you on the show today. Heck yeah. What's been going on in your neck of the woods? I'm hunkering down getting ready for winter. I've been out the last couple of weekends trying to get chimney swept and leaves blown up and yard cleaned up and get all the potatoes up out of the ground, all that kind of stuff so that we can get ready for the coming snow and freezing

temperatures that we're expecting here in the next two weeks. Yeah, I've been getting some wood in the house. But, uh, because it's been, we've been, we're in this weird phase right now in southern Illinois where it's like cold. I mean, Illinois is like this anyway. It's like, where there's a phrase here. If you don't like the weather, just hang out three hours. Yeah.

It's, uh, it's like that here. So, um, yeah, I brought some wood in because we had some freezing temperatures like below 32 degrees and, and then, you know, two days later, it's 70 degrees again. And I don't know, I've always been told that it's kind of, I mean, what the old wives' tales are that, you know, be careful going on when it goes up and down like that. Or you going outside with your hair wet or something like that, that it's going to make you, you catch a chill or it'll make you sick. I think it's an old wife's tail. I don't think cold makes you sick. I just think that the viruses seem to thrive a little bit better in the cooler temperatures.

But that's what it's been here. You know, I brought some wood in and we burned through it. And just in time for the, like the sun came back around again. It's like seven degrees. And it's like, yeah, I was like, okay. So now, now I'm kind of prepping, I guess maybe tomorrow because we're supposed to get rains. What days the rains coming in? Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, either Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Tuesday, Wednesday,

we're getting three days of it for sure, like a 25% chance of it on the last day. Yeah, and where I've been, I've been piling up leaves and getting grass clippings set of so that I can kind of spend time this winter going through and adding that to my chicken manure and getting some serious compost barrels going. So kind of getting that kind of stuff dialed in. I remember our composting conversation we had on this show a few episodes back. That's kind of neat that you're able to do that.

What kind of tools for our listeners? Do you, I mean, do you have something that just shreds everything and mix it together? How do you do this? I do have a mixer. It's a powered mixer that's like a cement mixer. And you can use a cement mixer, but the one that I have is a little bit different. I got it at a like a surplus type sale. And it's a machine that's specifically used to make pelletized food for animals.

So kind of serves a dual purpose because if I ever need it for that purpose and I can throw you know veggie scraps and meat and you know ground meat and you know grains or whatever rice that kind of stuff

and kind of make my own dog food pellets if I decided to go that route but it also works really well for compost so I can kind of turn it in about 15 minutes I have really uniformly mixed compost and then like once I have the ratios that I need

and it's set in there mixing I can dump it out into another pile and then I just let it set Now do you have the ratios like locked up in your head or do you have a like a cue card pin to your refrigerator somewhere that you go off of? Well actually I have a buddy at work

who is extremely well versed in compost so I kind of piggyback off of him and kind of pick his brain a little bit on the ratios. But our soils got a lot of clay in it. So we have to constantly work with other things like sand and in addition to the dirt that we're adding to the compost to try and make it to where it's not just solid clay. Like right now it's raining four hours ago. I was in when I was doing potatoes. You know, I was able to get there in the dirt. If I went out there right now, it would just be a sloppy mess.

So it kind of, it's a bit challenging when it comes to working in the soil. So with your compost, if you can add a little bit of sand or amend it with something else, then it breaks up that clay. And the clay itself is useful because it does retain moisture. Well, that's interesting. Let me tell you something that it's going on, kind of like a dynamic with, I had, I think we've talked about this before in the past on a previous episode. I just had a swimming pool put in.

They dug out lots of earth. it's all like clay stuff. Once that stuff gets wet, I mean, it's just, it's not very graceful. It's slippery. It's slimy.

You know, I mean, it sticks. And it's hard to grow. They're very, it's very selective about what kind of grass it will allow to, to grow in it, usually just weeds.

Yeah. But if I wanted to break that down, because right now, the amount of stuff that they did, they had to move earth around. And in the process, they moved a lot of this earth around to a spot where I do a lot of walking. And so I haven't put anything on it yet. I haven't, you know, the grass seed for this.

It's a big area. It's going to be a hefty price tag when I get all the straw together and the seed all purchased and get it all laid out. But if I could get around that and just make it more earthy instead of more, get rid of the clay, what would you recommend? Because I heard you just said adding sand. Do you think, because I do have a little bit of sand laying around on my property, if I sprinkle that out over the area, do you think that would help break it down a little bit? Yeah, and yes, it would. And you want to mix the sand in, like with some sort of a mixer, like a cement mixer or something like that,

and do it dry, obviously. Can't really do it when you got three days of rain coming. But if you have, once it's dried, you can take ratios however you want, like a one, five-gallon bucket of clay soil. and you know another half gallon or two gallons or whatever your ratio is that works best for you then throw it together and stick it in your cement mixer or whatever you use and then just once it's once it's kind of stirred up and mixed then you dump it out wherever you want it but if you're going to overwinter it where it sets what you can do to to help to help

add biomass to that what you can do is um right now a good time to get clover on the ground, especially with rain coming. So if you can get clover seed, even an annual, like a one-year clover, then you can spread it on that pile that you have, and the clover will fix nitrogen into that clay. And then when you actually go to break it down, all the roots and the clover leaves and all that kind of stuff will help as far as, like, improving the soil quality. So if you overwinter it with clover, like a cover crop, essentially, then that top six, eight, 12 inches will be nitrogen rich and ready to go for planting next year.

And, you know, you can next year, once you start digging into your soil, or if you want to wait that long, you can add sand to that and then stick it right in your planter boxes or wherever you want to stick it on your garden or even just spread it right over your grass. I have a walkway right now from my deck to the chicken coop that's just, it's just clay ground, right? So if I was to spread salt over that. Salt. Not salt, not salt, I'm sorry.

You said sand. Yeah, salt would do what? It'll kill your path. You won't have to worry about any weeds or anything. Yeah. No, but I want to make it more earthy instead of, you know, get rid of the sludgy kind of a walkway that I have right now between those, that area, those two areas.

I could just toss some sand out there and some clover seed, you said. Oh, yeah, clover, because you walk out on top of the clover and it'll attract bees and stuff, but the sand itself will help to allow water to drain away from it. So it won't sit there and just turn into a mush puddle when you walk through it. We have so much clover in our area, too, like so much clover. I can literally walk out. I got an eye for finding like four leaf. I don't know how I do it

I just trained my brain to look for patterns of three and where there's a break in the pattern of three, it's usually either two, three leaf clovers that have kind of twisted together and made it look like a four or five or even a six leaf, you know? But for the most part

it generally works out. I spot a four leaf clover because the pattern is broken. Nice. Yeah, it's something everybody's like, how do you do that. I really don't know how I do it, but as close as I can explain. Yeah, I'm lucky. That's how I can do it. The best way I can think, because it's a little bit of what I do. I just walk out there, I look at the ground, and I'm looking at all these three-leaf clover

and I'm looking at that particular pattern. I'm not looking for four-leafs. I'm looking for patterns of three. And where it breaks is where I might have a four-leaf clover. Yeah, cool. Yeah, that's awesome. I mean, if you got a lot of clover, that's good. I mean, anywhere you have clover is a good spot to plant stuff.

I mean, it'll choke out weeds and it'll fix nitrogen in the soil, which is good for your vegetables and stuff like that. you're planting in the ground. It's also attracting a whole bunch of deer. We've had, I'd be coming home to just seeing the floating eyeballs out in the, out on the field just staring at me. Yeah. They'll be laying down.

It's edible to you. I mean, you can go out there and pick some of it, rinse it off, throw it on the salad or burritos or whatever. I mean, it's, there's different species of clover, too, Inther. Yeah, usually red and purple are pretty common. Sometimes there's yellow or then there's annual or perennial.

so depending on what you're doing if you don't want to deal with the clover in the future then you can use a you do a cover crop with annual clover and then if you if you want it to permanently be there like a consistent ground cover then you run with the perennial do you have the i believe it's a clover um it's like a dark green and it looks like like it's real vainy it's got these like these kind of light green to neo green looking veins in the middle of the leaf is that clover as well usually yeah i mean it's there are different varieties of of that but and i don't know what specific kind that one is that you're talking about um does it kick out a purple or white flower not generally generally they're just single stem um uh leaves of three you know they just come out of the ground it's just a single stem and but they're they're in patches like lots of patches um so i i will just like start walking towards a patch because i like to i love doing a lot of the spring walking around the property. Yeah.

And I like, I always head towards the clover patches because it, first of all, there's, I love to see the bees at work. Yep. The white, what are the little white buds that come or not buds,

but little white flowers that come up in the, in the patches. Yes. They come up in the thickets of the clover and the bees are attracted to those. That's what we have predominantly in Southern Illinois. Yeah. And that clover, Honey is good. If you've got your own bees or if you know how to attract bees, you can start

your own hive and have your own clover, honey, right on the, right on your back porch. Yes, it's something we're lucky to. We want to definitely get into it. But we've learned through, you know, going to Preper Camp that there's, you know, there's a lot, a lot to it. But it's also, once you understand what you're doing, it's also a very simple thing to do. It's just getting, getting the gear. And, but you need to have a mentor. I've learned. You just don't, buy the stuff and then start you it's more than just reading books everybody that I've talked to recommends having a mentor somebody that you can go and see and visit and somebody that come out and look at you and kind of oversee what's going on to make sure that you at least until you

get your your legs your sea legs so to speak you're able to walk on your own yeah there's a lot of beekeeper groups and county extension offices that will help you connect with those mentors to you know it's a hell of a resource to have and bee people are they're kind of their own breed so it kind of depends on how

involved you want to get but it's it's a lot of fun I think that's my next year's project is to get set up with a nice little beehive and maybe attract some in the early spring see what I can do because they

come here naturally and fertilize all my all my plants my raspberries and all my fruit trees and everything like that. So it would be nice to be able to also harvest honey because I know that they're surviving here and taking it somewhere else. So. As long as you can avoid the,

what are the, I forget what they're called, the killer hornets or whatever they are. I've seen killer hornets go and attack a beehive. Usually it's just one, when one does it by itself, it might kill a bee or two, but the bees catch on eventually

and they attack it and smother it and kill it. that way. Yeah. And those are, I mean, a lot of the times how you have your beehive and your boxes set up, you know, and even yellow jackets are a pretty big threat. Yellow jackets and lights are the worst. But, you know, there's, there's a lot that you can do to try and prevent them. I mean, nature will find a way. But it's nice if you can kind of give those bees a little bit of a leg up and try and keep them somewhat safe and secure in your bee boxes and stuff. I was watching where a beehive kind of flew into the area of another beehive. Both hives had its own queen. And that's not, it's like a gang, like a turf war when something like

that happens. So what, what happened, it was interesting was the bees from from one hive flew to the other and found the queen in the other hive. and killed that queen so that the other hive would join with them. And, you know, it's just kind of a, it's astonishing to me. It's very scientific and it's amazing how they work. And I don't, I have that exact. I mean, it's like a hive of bees is like it's like its own biological organic anomaly to me. It's like a living, breathing thing of itself.

Yeah. Like a hive body. almost like it has a hive mine it's like everybody has a role and as long as everybody sticks to this role this is how it's going to work and there's such synchronicity to it it just works

beautifully really it's the way that it works in nature but the week the weak queen will go and then you'll just create this super hive with just one queen yeah it's a trip bees are a whole

I mean it's kind of interesting the way that they work and don't work sometimes because they can be very weak at the same time. I mean, as a hive, they're very strong and capable, and they can get a lot of work done. But, you know, it doesn't take much to knock out an entire, you know, an entire culture, essentially, whether it's a predator or, you know, whether they didn't, maybe someone took too much hunting or they didn't put enough up, you know, it's kind of a, but they, I mean, As small of the creatures as they are, they sure are important for everything that we have, like, at our disposal. I mean, everything.

Our entire food chain would be catastrophically impacted without the involvement of bees. Can you imagine what would happen with the beehive if the worker bees just said, you know what? I'm done with this. I'm good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what would become of a hive? Even one bee.

I mean, you got, I can't remember all the different bee types there are, but there's the queen, of course, and there's the worker bees, and is there like warrior bees or something like that? Yep, you got your soldiers and your drones. That's it. Yep, drones, yep. So each one has its own job, right? They're all reliant upon the other one to do its, to perform its specific duty. And if one fails to do its task, you know, just let's say one B fails to do its task, they'll kill it. it's like because it's not it's not performing its design purpose it's just a parasite at that point

it's just a consumer and it's not performing its role so they'll see that and they'll they'll execute it if you will exclude it from society um but all the way up to the queen i mean yes they'll kill their own queens and be like nope we're getting ready for a new queen you're uh you're done not performing her tasks anymore it's exactly right and that's why you know a lot of uh beekeepers. That brings me to a thought. I'd like to jump in here for a second before we do that. I get this last letter on to kind of toss at you. But whenever I was at Preper Camp, I've taken at least two beekeeper classes. I'm sure you've attended those as well. Yeah. The larva, sometimes there's a queen larva that will be there. And when another queen larvae appears, it's the job of the beekeeper

to make sure that that that that queen larva is removed and generally it could be put somewhere else split you know immediately as soon as it's that's that's whatever it's got to be split and you can create a second hive that way but you cannot have two queens no in a single hive um that's something i think thought also was necessary uh because if if you don't kill it uh you got to do something else with it but it cannot stay in that hive it will not function that way a hive cannot function with two brains. It's got to have one to make it a cohesive functioning

hive body. Yep. But that made me kind of think about this whole have you been paying attention to the whole New York City race and all that New York City mayor race has been going on with Zoran Mondami and or was it? Yeah, a little bit. I mean, I think I've

I have caught a lot of the tail end of this stuff because I think that there was a little bit of a push ahead of time to make sure that this didn't happen and it did and there were a couple of key players who were like this is not a good idea if you guys don't get out there and vote or if we don't you know try and make sure that this doesn't happen then we're going to be we're going to be under the thumb of this particular guy and people like oh whatever they'll just pick whoever they want you know that or people didn't show up and I think especially this last election I think there was a lot of people that didn't show up

Or, who knows, maybe people did show up and, you know, there's a, some democratic ship that we're about to really start to see happen. But, yeah, that's, the whole thing in New York's kind of messed up. There was one comment that I saw online that, you know, hasn't even been, what, 25 years since the World Trade Center was destroyed. were the twin towers were destroyed and here's new york city uh basically under the control of a muslim leader yes it's like he that timeline ship is kind of he's a muslim socialist and i remember clearly you know the united states was was chanting uh we we will not we will never forget or never forget became the you know the motto and and it's like there was no republicans democrats it's just Like we were unified Americans at that time.

But if you look at a lot, I as a police officer, I pull over a lot of people. But it's astounding to me how many people I pull over was born after 2001. And they're in their 20s now. It's like, where is time gone? And these are the people now that's, you know, the entitled group that's electing our people.

And it's even worse when you go into the inner cities and especially the inner socialist cities. previously blue Democrat cities. They just keep falling further and further in one direction. Instead of staying moderate where everyone needs to be, they just keep going in one direction.

But I can't remember exactly what the stats were, but I have, I'm showing as far as the election votes go for Zora Mamdani, he had 1,036,051 votes. So we carried 50.4 percent. I was just barely.

Andrew Cuomo, carried 41.6. So the fight was really between those two. But a lot of what I've heard, and again, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but a lot of what I've heard was the vote, a lot like his pool of voters, where by and large, the refugee, the illegal alien refugee types, those kind of individuals, the extreme left liberals and left-wing Democrats and, and, uh, the new york city new york city yeah it's it's the ones that uh that we really don't want voting in the

in the general election yeah which was the big plan you know a long time ago in letting you know reopening the gates pretty much the floodgates just letting these illegal aliens just kind of pour in so that these guys could uh could change electoral college votes in their are in their blue states and and make it so that it you know the almost always blue states will never be a red state yeah i mean if anything it shows that the bina administration's plan to flood the united states and make socialist promises is working i mean it makes me wonder if it's too late you know because here we are we are seeing now the impact of what happened two to four years ago and when a lot of people like you and me were screaming from the rooftop saying hey this is a bad idea this is

what's going to happen even though that it is happening now people aren't going to realize the significance of that for many years past i mean like like my friend usually says whenever we get into conversations about socialism and communism that you know you can vote your way into socialism but you got to shoot your way out oh yeah you do because once you lose a freedom it's not given back to you hell no when's the last time you voted for a uh a small tax hike for a school it got a break in taxes once the school was built oh yeah it doesn't it just they keep going i mean once it's gone it's gone and like i said if you you can vote your way in but you got to shoot your way out and that's and with new york good luck shoot your way out when you can't

even own a firearm new york is also reporting that uh This mayoral general election saw us an 84% increase in voter turnout compared to 2021. That's a huge, huge increase, 84%. That's huge. That's statistically significant, for sure. Any dominated in black neighborhoods? This is from a website called City and State, New York. It says, while Mamdani struggled to win over black voters in the primary election,

with Cuomo surpassing the Young Democratic nominee by 16 points in predominantly black neighborhoods, during the general election, Mamdani won over the city's black voters. The black vote swung dramatically, said election expert Michael Lang. It's the reason Mamdani not only got 50%, but that he won at all. So it goes on to say on Tuesday night,

the mayor elected won 63% of the vote in districts with 40% or more black eligible voters compared to Cuomo's 33%. What do you suppose that's all about, especially if they called it for the other side? well you know what just just looking at at what i know about uh black voters in populated like these a lot of these cities right here and what i've a lot of what i've been seeing in the past especially in the general election i don't really understand what's going on here new york city has always been

the way that it is it's just getting worse but by and large black voters have have caught on to democrat promises and i've i've watched all the videos of them showing up the city halls and saying you know You keep giving our money away to these illegals. You know, that was back when Biden was the president and the illegals are flooding in. And people are getting sick of seeing the free iPhones or the free Android phones, wherever they're giving away. The free phones to the illegal immigrants, seeing the free housing thing, you know, put up free house. The free checks, the free Medicaid, you know, going out with all these illegal aliens. And here they've been complaining the whole time.

If they want reparations, they've been not getting reparations, right? So because they kept, they kept crying about legislation. We need the legislation to do that. Well, there was no legislation to giving out all these free things. They found a way to rob for Peter to pay Paul to make that happen. And what they did was, if you remember right, all the FEMA money that didn't go to Georgia, to North Carolina and all that stuff. They took money from FEMA and they gave it. And they called the invasion.

Yes, they called it a invasion or a crisis, a border crisis. And they used that money to pay these illegal immigrants to give them housing. because there was a housing crisis. Yeah, and I think, you know, there is probably something to be said about the fact that this vote happened in the middle of a government shutdown that directly affected SNAP benefits through November like we had talked about a couple of weeks ago. And I have a feeling that the sway of that, the inner city black vote might have hinged on promises that were made. at that level like hey you know if and or the spin that that was put on snap benefit uh disbursements and and the actual shutdown and how that all shut out don't i can't say for sure but i well it could be that they were blaming trump because anytime something negative happens

and the you know oh sure um it the president of the united states is always going to be the face of that that problem even though all the whole snap debacle the food stamp crack the government shut down was not a President Trump issue at all. This was a fight between the House and the Senate and the Democrat and Republicans in Congress. Yeah. The Republicans put forward a bill that Chuck Schumer had voted for previously, and it was, it was saying. The Republicans kept calling a clean resolution. The CR bill. It was a clean resolution. In other words, this is the exact same. We're not, we didn't add anything to it. This is the exact same thing with nothing. added to it, vote for this, and the Democrats 13 times voted against it.

At least that was the last time I read on it, was 13 times they'd voted against it. So it doesn't matter because what you're going to be watching, especially the new crew is coming on up in the, you know, the Zima generation, because they get all their news from little twists and video clips and stuff like that on TikTok and, you know, Facebook and Instagram and all these other places. And it's just a snippet that is twisted by people like Harry Sisson, you know, and CNN and all these goons on the left. And they twist and completely lie about the context to spin it

and to make it what they want the narrative to be. In this case, Orange Man Bad, right? This is President Trump. They kept saying, you know, the Republicans have the president's office. They have the House. They have the Senate. So it's their fault that this is not passing. Completely twisting the truth, right?

This is not about who's in power. This is about you need 60 votes to get this resolution passed. And the Republicans could not pull off 60 votes by themselves, even though they have control of both the House and the Senate. They did not have the 60 votes in the Senate they needed to get this CR bill passed. They needed some Democrats to vote the other way. But that doesn't matter when you get people like CNN and Harry Cuomo and, you know, you get Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and all these other guys.

goons getting up there and saying, well, they're in control of everything. If they, why ain't they pass? Well, they're just lying to the American people's face. By the way, sidebar, Nancy Pelosi has come out and state as she is finally going to retire. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord and pass the biscuits. Yeah. No kidding.

After what? 60 years. Exactly. Term limits, please. But that's a whole other issue. That's going to be an amendment to the Constitution. So 60 years. Yeah.

That's a long. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, what is happening in New York is, I think, I mean, it isn't indicative of everything, everywhere else in the country. But I think for those of us who have seen the world before 2001 and knew what things were like and how things changed. where the world went after that I think it's hard it's a bit of a hit to those of us who can read between the lines

and see what's happening and have no control and really I mean we have no say I'm not from New York you're not from New York we don't live there but I feel bad

for the people of New York because I have a feeling especially not all of New York but New York City specifically because of the mayor because I think that is a a sign of things to come in other areas like Texas, Chicago, Chicago, Seattle, parts of California. I mean, your trending blue line is going to become the type of thing where, you know, it's a slippery slope.

And I don't want to say that because of a specific religion or how that works, but there is a enough of that there of an impact and the significance of that in new york city that kind of makes it kind of makes a lot of lives lost um frivolously as a result of of everything and i it's it's uh it's eye opening that new york would fall because i and that's what it had to my my opinion that's what's happened new york has fallen oh yeah and we can talk i would like to let we do that on the next the next show actually we can talk about how how Muslims plan because there's actually a plan in place how America could be defeated how the West in particular could be defeated and it's all about invasion and there's several organizations Islamic organizations who are set up to do it

peacefully and when I say peacefully I mean you know just invade quietly slowly before they take over because yes there are peaceful Muslims but it's just a matter of time before there's enough peaceful peaceful Muslims in place in a location where somebody steps up, okay, it's time for you to step up your game now. You've been too passive. You've been letting the Fidel get away with things for too long. You've been letting the Constitution run you when Allah is the only one who should be running you, you know, that kind of a thing. And this is something that's been going on in other countries. And you can see what's happening right now in the United Kingdom. They are almost gone because they're actually, the voters are actually outnumbered now, if I remember reading correctly, by Muslims.

Yeah. There's no, and that's the thing is it's like there's no bloodshed like a crusade, but there is definitely a migration of cultures that exists without bloodshed. And that, I think that kind of that slow boil is if it ever comes to a head by the time it does, the people, who essentially are being suppressed by it are going to be so outnumbered that they won't be able to fight back. I don't recall the year you were born. Was you alive during the Cold War?

Tail end. Yeah, but okay, so the Cold War. I think it was resolved by the time I was born. From like 1947 to 1991, you were definitely alive, but yeah, it was. Yeah. Well, I guess 91, yeah, I was still alive. Yeah, but basically it was just, you don't have to have, there don't have to be bloodshed to be at war. China's been saying for a long time, they're going to, they're going to defeat us without ever firing a bullet.

Yeah, and I can see it. I mean, if you have a, if you have a migration level where you outnumber people and, and wind up voting in your own kind on one side, and then you have a second prong where you, you. have so much control over markets, food, products, raw materials that all you have to do is stop, stop sending it, stop shipping it, or make it so expensive that it's impossible. Then, I mean, you could cripple a nation with a simple two-pronged approach like that. It would take time, a generation or two, but that's what we're looking at. I mean, in the past 25 years, we're only, you know, we're, it's. at least a quarter of the way from to not being the United States that our own

forefathers had fought and died for in the 40s, you know, and even before that. Look at Dearborn, Michigan. Yeah. Yeah. Were they playing sirens in the street? Yeah. Most of the recent sources are saying on Dearborn having roughly 110,000 people with about 54.5% identifying as, let me see, Muslim.

And I mean, I mean, I might sound like a, like I'm screaming from the rooftops here, but, you know, people don't realize that the places where you have grown up and or are living have the very real potential to become areas that require that your wife, your daughter, your niece, your mother have to wear burqa. to go outside or a Niquab or whatever headscarf you want to call it and people don't think that can happen well guess what it can and there's a very real possible potential that that could happen within the next 20 years we've never seen it more closely than it is now absolutely i mean the thing is is like the younger generation of folks that were are voting in new york

they're going to be the ones that are bringing that you know introducing this they're just going to open the door and let it happen because they don't know any different and anybody that tries to tell them any different they're either not listening to or they are they're on the other side of the fence so you can't kind of phobic yeah you're a phob Islamophobic or something uh-huh it's like yeah I have I have a valid reason for being an Islamophote because I've seen what can happen you know and you know there there's a lot of people fighting in the united kingdom right now who are you know the the white cross is really starting to come up more so than ever than i've seen before in social media and there's a reason for that you know what's the white cross the crusade not white cross the red cross okay with the white background that's what i meant there's a name for that cross and i can't remember what it's what it's called like the crusaders yeah yeah but I mean and that was a bloody war for the holy land and you know here we are still fighting over the holy land quote unquote with Israel and all that kind of back and forth like where we're sending our money or shouldn't be sending and it's like you know I understand religious intent and you know political nuances but on the other hand we are a nation And as a melting pod that we are, you know, if you can come here and be a normal person and

assimilate within our culture and still be able to have your own religious rights, that's great. But if it turns into essentially a takeover. Yeah, it's like not a hostile takeover. And maybe it is a hostile takeover in business when they do that. It will be at some point. It's not going to say it won't be remaining a peaceful, you know, eventually, like I said earlier, There's going to be so many, when you've reached a population, a tipping point, and you lose, you'll lose control at that point.

Yeah. And we already see it happening overseas in the United Kingdom. Have they reached that point, you know? I mean, at the point that they've reached now, it's just a matter of time, you know, because there are, there are places in the UK where they've elected persons in Dearborn as well here in the United States where they've elected people who are Muslim to be, to rule over them. and it's not it's not it's just the start of woes the start of bad things to come because you okay sure this guy promised a lot of free things but what about the guy after him you know

is he going to uh you know where's he going where's mom donnie going to leave it for the is he going to do a good job to show the american people oh look muslims aren't all that bad you know sure he's just as another democrat socialist just trying to give free things to the american people but what he's doing is setting the stage for another one and then another one and then another one. And over time, you just begin to lull your, ebb your rights away. Kind of like we've been seeing, people are listening to this right now saying, well, you don't have to lose your rights. Really? Because how many of us truly have a Second Amendment right anymore?

You know what I'm saying? We can't just strap a pistol on a hip, but walk around town. At least in most states, you can't do that. But according to... Sure, you can do it in New York City. Right. Absolutely. But you should be able to because what other amendment do you have where the government

says you need to carry a permit for that or you need to qualify and have a license or take special training to have that right? No other amendment. And also no other amendment says shall not be infringed is attached to it. The second amendment is a very, very sacred amendment to our Constitution. and there's a reason why they said shall not be infringed when they attached on there. They knew that these morons would be coming along behind them and try and, in time, try and take that away because it's the one thing that keeps the power in the people's hands.

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So the governor of New York, this is crazy to me. The governor of New York just kind of sat quietly while Mamdani was running his campaign. She did not involve herself at all. But Kathy Hochel, the governor of New York, if I said New York, I meant the governor of New York.

The governor of New York just sat quiet. quietly and watched from her ivory tower as Zora Mamdami promised the New York City voters that he would provide them with free child care, free busing, free city ran grocery stores, that he's going to add 2% income tax to millionaires to make this happen, that he's going to raise a corporate tax to 11.5% that he's going to make a citywide rent like he's going to freeze citywide the rents. I'm not sure what the good word for that would be. But yeah,

citywide rent freezes. And she said nothing. Okay. So he's, his entire campaign is running on these promises. And to the millennial voter, to the ZNZ voters, all these guys I taught, you know, that was born after 2020 or two, I'm sorry,

2000, uh, who's probably had a lot of free stuff given to them in their lifetime living in New York. So, well, yeah, why not? know, if they're going to tax the rich, I've seen the interviews. They love the idea of taxing the rich because they just don't understand how the whole capitalism thing works. Okay.

So they just want to tax the rich, throw more income, more tax on the rich, increase the corporate income tax. It all sound good for them so they can have free busing, free child care, free city-run grocery stores, on and on and on. I mean, who wouldn't want, you know, to rent an apartment building for, I don't know, in New York City, we'll say $1,000 a month, and it gets, and freeze. Like, nana, nana, you can't raise my rent, you know. Of course, that sounds great.

But the problem then becomes once Zoron won the election, he then had to face the truth, right, that these tax dollars, not only do they have to come from somewhere, but everything that he said he was going to promise has to go first to the city council. Yeah. Which is a board of elected persons, elected officials, who are each representing a district that they're elected from, right? And they have to tell their constituents, hey, I voted for your income tax raise.

Or, hey, I voted that you be taxed. Or, hey, we're going to have to do this and do this so we can make this free busing, this free child care, rent. They're not willing to do that. Nobody is going to do that. And so this is funny because Katham Hocel came out and said, sorry, we can't do that. we're already texting our rich half to death and if you text them anymore they're going to run out of our state

no it ain't going to happen so he's already breaking his first promises yeah and i mean there are it's very new york city is a hub for several headquarters um but what's going to happen is you're going to have major businesses that are like if this goes through we're out something's going to happen if it gets pushed through or whatever, even a little bit, you know, these businesses are going to be like, nah, we can do business and make more money by shifting our headquarters to Greensboro, Alabama or whatever, Greensboro, North Carolina.

And so they'll set up shop there. The rent side of things is also kind of interesting because what will happen is that if you freeze rent, If you just do a blanket rent freeze policy, then you will wind up having people who as over time, like it's fine now. But over time, what will happen is because of the real estate shortfall in New York City and as inflation starts to go up, what will happen is someone who has a $1,000 apartment. all of a sudden whoever owns that structure has even less money

to be able to keep the structure intact so the structures themselves are going to go into a state of disrepair faster than ever before and then they're just going to wind up becoming like Section 8 housing the 80s version of oh what the hell is it

it was a section of New York that was just basically garbage like Andrew Cuomo Bronx yeah what were they the anyways borough you're going to they're called boroughs yep the burrows and you know you're going to have it's going to basically turn New York these these great ideas are going to turn New York

into, you know, basically a shithole, even worse than it is now, because, yeah, you might have a rent-controlled apartment, but in 10 years, that same apartment is not going to have any repairs and it's not, it's just going to start falling apart. The grocery store one is interesting to me because that's also happening in Seattle. There was something that recently happened where they're trying to push some regulation where grocery store owners can no longer voluntarily close their doors. And I think this happened as a result of the SNAP benefit fallout because they were concerned of, you know, riots and all kinds of stuff. And basically the city of Seattle is saying, no, you can't close. you are forced to keep your doors open regardless of of any sort of turbulence.

If you, you know, if you're in the city of Seattle, you have to keep your grocery store doors open. That is going to be interesting. And I think the socialist side of grocery stores in New York is going to have a similar impact. Because if they're state-run grocery stores and, you know, you have state employees run, you're pretty much eliminating any of the profit center of that and grocery stores are pretty much just going to fall by the wayside too so in a nutshell you're going to have what did i what do i say first the the uh the rental side of it then the grocery store side and there was one other thing we got the free child care the free busing oh yeah

So, I mean, I can see how that be worked to get the votes he needed. But making those promises, even if they do come true, is basically just going to position New York in a way that is unsustainable. Oh, the high taxes on business. That's the other one. They have corporate taxes to 11.5 percent. Yep. That's huge. It is huge, but here's what people aren't understanding.

it always let's look at the the stores first let's say that they don't replace them with state employees let's just say it's a network kind of an operation where where they're regulated by the city okay so the store owner still maintains control or ownership but is controlled through via regulations okay um so if they're forced to keep their door open for example that means they're going to have to staff it an additional eight perhaps 16 hours depending on what what their shop hours are to keep that employee in there, okay? Now, go ahead. I was just saying, guess what happens to the price of the food? That's what you're going to say. The price always passes on to the consumer. That's what people are not understanding. It always passes on to the consumer.

And there's another promise that I forgot to mention. He's promising to raise a New York City minimum wage to $30 an hour. Holy shit. Oh, God. Some of this stuff he's saying will take, will happen over time like as gradual like it's not supposed to happen instantaneously you know but it doesn't matter because over the span of let's say even over 10 years when you raise the minimum weight to 30 30 an hour and you're having to staff an additional 8 to 16 hours a store let's say

it's normally closed on the weekends you're looking at 24 at 48 hours additional staffing right yeah um you're talking about that that that property owner no longer is making any money Therefore, he has to go in. He has to increase the cost of his milk from $3 a gallon to $15 a gallon. Yeah. So he could pay his employees and continue to pay the extremely high mortgage on his house. And these rent freezes. And the taxes are going to go up.

So he has to pay for that, pay for that. The rent freezes. Not all these rent rental places, these places where the rent is going to be, it's straight out owned. All right. some of them is being rented by people who is paying a mortgage. So let's say I bought a building in New York City, all right, and I want to pay that. Let's see my mortgage is through the bank is $1,000 a month, which is low in a city. And I rent that out.

I want to make a profit off of that, right? So I'm going to increase the rent. It's not going to be $1,000 a month. It's going to be higher than that so I can make a profit. on it, right? Well, yeah, plus pay your taxes and repairs. Exactly. So, you know, it's just one of those things that it's like nobody's really thinking this through. You're making all this promises because especially for a moron like Mom Donnie who's never done anything in his life and he was raised on Silver Spoon. He was not brought up in poverty like you let people to believe. He

has been rich his entire life and everything has been given to him. He doesn't understand how the system works and he's telling people who doesn't know how the system works what he's going to do to make the system work and they believe it. They eat it all up. It's called Kool-Aid. And you might remember the Jones, the story of the guy's name that they gave the Kool-Aid to all the people in his cult. They all drank the Kool-Aid and they all died because they thought that they were going to jump on. Was it in a comment or they're all going to go to heaven or something like? I can't remember. Yeah, they're being up to a spaceship or something like that. Something very bizarre, you know, and that's kind of what's going on here. You get these guys out there with a lot. He reminds

me of a very young version of Brock Obama. Like a co-leader. Yeah. Barack Obama was very charismatic individual. He had a fork-tooth, a fork-tong. I mean, he was eloquent in his speech, horrible off the prompter. But he had a lot of Riz, as they call it these days, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. People loved him, especially the Democrats, and he wouldn't have won his election, if not for the moderate voters and the white voters. you, you, 98% of all black voters went out to vote for Barack Obama, okay? That's a huge freaking swing of voters voting for, for one person based on Curtis Kin. If 98% of, of white people voted for the other person who was running, you know,

it wouldn't have been a win for Barack Obama. So that just goes to show that America is not systemically racist, okay? But let's pivot that now, because how many Muslims do you think went out and voted for Zorn Mamdani? and as you continue to let the gates be open to our country and no walls, no borders, and these guys continue to flood in here, they're all going to keep on voting for this guy. And it will eventually reach a point of no return where these guys are in every elected office and eventually the president of the United States office. And then when they're in control of all the states and they're in control of the House,

the Senate, the executive branch, and they got all their positions of power in the governor's seats how hard do you really think it'll be to get a super majority vote to change anything in the Constitution? Exactly. I knew you were going there. I was like, I mean, Second Amendment, what's that?

We don't want any guns in this country. This country could get rid of the Second Amendment. It just takes a super majority vote to do it. And that's a scary thought. I mean, that's the kind of, that is the type of thing where if, if like you say, it is done in a slow, methodical, way where they just kind of walk in

and never fire a bullet, never draw blood, then what will happen is there will be no choice with those America, I mean, that's their plan. Yeah. And the people who feel they have a choice of however millions of gun owners there are in the United States

are going to have to basically take up arms to fight their way out. Yes. And, I mean, inside of 20 to 30 years, that course could very well happen. You can see it now, though, can't you? Where before you could. Oh, yeah, night and day. I would never have thought that on September 12th of 2001 that we would be where we are today.

And frankly, it's disgusting. But here we are. Here we are. I mean, how in the world did that happen? Yeah. It's a question I asked myself on a pretty regular basis. Like, how did we get here? Yeah.

And I don't know because I felt, you know, the boomers raised me, right? And currently it's believed that the Gen X is one of the strongest, the last strong generation that's out there. But I saw it in my kids, you know, the millennials. and I didn't here's the thing I didn't do anything I didn't raise them any differently than I was raised you know they got they got spankings when they did wrong I kept things from them when they didn't deserve it I made them earn things nothing was given to them just like I was raised but it happened in the schools yeah I believe that with all my heart it happened through social media

the kids were were plugged in to things I wasn't plugged into as a kid and they were being gas lit in the creek through the curriculum and so uh those ideologies crept into them you know somebody figured out somewhere along the way that we if we can't reach them if we can't get their parents to raise them we want that we'll have the teachers do it we'll have social media do it we'll have these tech giants do it and i think i think that's how we got to where we are it started some some somebody evil somewhere came up with this plan And brought this Trojan horse in and did it that way. Yeah, right through the education system.

Yes. Because you know that's not happening at home. It's not happening at your house or mine. And it's media, not just social media, but media in general, education system. And this whole concept of, free socialism that everything is okay and we can we can get stuff for free and we deserve this the entitlement component and I mean it's it's gonna take a lot of suffering I think like people

are gonna feel good again you know there's a little bit of that not always that little bit of glitter that comes from getting something for free but once that fades it's gonna get dark and it's going to get a little creepy immediately following that so and i think what it's going to take is people to go through hard times to realize how significant the warning is that we are giving right now and yeah and you know i don't i think there's still hope oh yeah you know if you got people like zora mandani coming in and promising these things and then obviously you can't keep the promises it makes it look bad that but muslim's going to learn this they're going to to learn that they can't make promises that they can't keep and expect to get into office again.

I suspect that they're going to portray themselves as conservatives, you know, in the long run, get into office that way, and then flip the script on society. That's how I believe it's going to go down. You can see all you want to get in and then vote wherever you want. I mean, you can change midstream if you want. It's no, I mean, you might get primaried, depending on what is happening. But I think if you have a couple of years and you just cycle people through, get them voted in, and then they just vote however they want, you know, even behind the scenes,

I don't go through and check on my representatives' votes and how they voted on things back and forth. But I don't see a whole lot of people. doing a lot of research on how these people are voting or what what they're actually where their hearts are as public figures you know oh yeah and i do want to play this one that'll sound like before we go um because there is this is a funny this is a funny clip coming from uh from fox business but there was a new york city councilwoman who came on on the show and uh said quote zora momdami is a scam and so she's you know how trump is a troll like he's He's 100% troll.

He will say things just to gig somebody and make an entire fricking civilization of people upset. And I think he gets a thrill out of doing it. And that's what she's doing here. So she comes on. She's obviously a troll, but just listen to this sound bite here.

It's about a three-minute video. It's interesting. We can talk about that for a minute and then we can let our listeners go. But listen to this. Listen to this. New York City Councilwoman Iena Vernikov has invited Benjamin Netanyahu

to New York City on January the 1st. That is the day of Zohan Mamdani's inauguration. Well, the councilwoman is here, joining us in New York City, and welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. Why'd you invite him? So, you know, I think Zohan Mamdani, the radical 34-year-old Marxist and his comrades are about to find out

that there's no money growing on trees for free buses, and you can't arrest foreign diplomats. So I invited Bibi, of course, because the Jewish community in New York City is having a lot of anxiety about this guy becoming mayor. They're scared for their safety. They're scared for their children. And it would be a great

symbol of a bond between Israel and the New York City's Jewish community to come here and just be with the Jewish people. It's a challenge. You're challenging Mandani to arrest him. The other reason that I did that is to expose him for the fraud that he is, because Doherndam, the Mamdani is a scam.

The mayor of New York City has no legal authority to arrest a sitting prime minister. In fact, it is illegal. The United States is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, which created ICC, which has a warrant out for his arrest. It is essentially a kangaroo court. And it's just he's going to become the laughing stop when the prime minister comes here and he can arrest him. Have you invited? Well, I know you've invited him. Have you got a response from him yet? Well, I don't kiss and tell, but I can assure you that very, very, very young. soon we're going to see Prime Minister Netanyahu in New York City.

That would be a real challenge to the city, wouldn't it? It would be great. That's what it is, basically. Let's look at some of this proposed policies from Mandani. He says he wants social workers responding to 911 calls. There is a test pilot program of that already in existence in New York, and it's falling to pieces. It's just not working. He's not going to get this through, is he? Well, look, this thing is over before it even starts. He's being exposed for the fraud that he is. Of course, you can't have social workers respond to 911 calls. It's like, you know, when they say,

you can't bring a knife to a gunfight. This is like bringing a napkin to a gunfight. So what is he going to do? Social worker shows up, give a little Xanax to the criminal. It's not going to work. It's ridiculous. What, back to Netanyahu for a second. Where would he speak?

Would he address a special meeting of Jewish folks in New York or the United Nations? What do you propose? Oh, we have a lot of plans for BB. It's going to be great. You are confident that he's coming, aren't you? He's going to come. He's going to come to New York City.

We're going to have baby here. One more. Mandani proposes universal childcare, $6 billion a year. It's not going to happen, is it? That's crazy. Just like the rest of the proposals that he's making, it cannot happen. What are we going to do? We're going to take away, in order for that to happen, we need to tax the rich, the 1% corporations.

Well, what's going to happen is they're just going to flee New York City because, quite frankly, it's going to become a crime-ridden city, even more than it is now. there's garbage everywhere. There's no incentive for corporations and rich people to stay here. And then when they flee, the burden is going to shift to the middle class and the poor. You're saying he's failed before he even starts. Over before it even started. Okay. Well, leave it there. What do you think? I mean, that's a really succinct way of saying what I had mentioned earlier.

Yeah. I mean, she is spot on. I think she's got to get head on her shoulders. And if there's even one other person like her on the city council, the mayor is going to play hell getting things pushed through, which is going to be, it's going to be eye-opening to the voters who voted him in. But it's also, if it does prevent him from doing these things, it will be a testament, one, to the people, like she said earlier, the New Yorkers that are scared,

the people who live in New York City who are fearful of their commutes to work or whatever and things getting worse but it's also going to solidify the power of the Democratic Republic and

I think I think seeing it not happen is far more important than saying things devolve Because if these things just kind of get pushed through, if we got New York all of a sudden got $6 billion worth of child care and socialists doing 911 call response on a much larger scale, you are going to see a de-evolution of things much faster, I mean, significantly faster than even I would have expected. Yeah, and just so everybody knows, like when he's saying, you know, have a social worker go out and respond to, 911 calls. Basically, I don't know if he's planning on getting rid of police officers or just sitting, because that's not really clarified, or sitting a social worker there by themselves. Either way, I think what he's wanting to do is, if I just had to guess, I haven't read his proposal, is that when a police officer is dispatched, a caseworker is also dispatched. And the therapist goes in after the area is secured this, you know, I worked 25 years in maximum security mental health facility. We had caseworkers. We had therapists. Basically, we would handle the situation, and our therapist would come in and try to de-escalate the situation a little bit more by talking to the person.

I don't know. It's dangerous. You definitely don't want to send a caseworker into, we're talking about mental health. The mental health code is way different than the criminal code. You don't want to sit a caseworker to a hot call hoping to de-escalate something, especially where there's at least one gun involved because there's always at least one gun at every encounter police officer reports to. yeah um so uh that's that's a thing you know police officers get wrestled down to the ground all the time their guns get taken and they either flee or kill the police officer with their own weapon and you know these are the things that uh you just can't make broad promises

like this uh it's ludicrous it is and it'll be interesting to see over the course of the next uh calendar year and check in where's New York, you know, see, see what's happening. You know, if you could just take a snapshot as of January 1, 2026, the day he gets inaugurated and then see what happens January 1, 2027, and just see how many businesses have left, what the crime rate has done, how much he's actually gotten accomplished, and, you know, if any of the things that we have talked about today actually came to pass.

Yeah, we'll have to revisit it later. Sounds like something we can definitely go back a revisit later. I can tell you right now, though, that he's already looking at a wall. He's running to a wall throughout the bat with that governor of New York saying, sorry, we can't fund these things that you promised. So, yeah, let's talk about it again in a few months and see how things have progressed. Nice. All right.

Thanks, Doug. Yes, got a good chat. Always nice chat with you guys. Ryan, you take care of yourself. Everybody else listening to Out There, thank you for listening to the Rising Republic with L. Douglas Sogan, Ryan Buford. You'll take care. Take care, everybody.

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