America First, Again: The Second-Term Surge of Donald Trump

President Trump's first 100 days has led to significant policy shifts with massive changes in border security, government efficiency, and education reform. The administration has demonstrated remarkable speed in implementing campaign promises despite mainstream media criticism.

• Border security stands as a major success with illegal crossings down 96% and significant deportation operations underway
• The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has identified billions in government waste, though Elon Musk is now transitioning back to the private sector as originally planned
• Education reforms include restructuring the Department of Education and addressing ideological issues on college campuses 
• Cabinet standouts include Marco Rubio at State Department and Doug Burgum with energy and land policies
• Economic policies, particularly tariffs, require patience as they're designed for long-term manufacturing growth and market rebalancing
• RFK Jr.'s health initiatives targeting food chemicals and vaccine transparency mark significant shifts from previous administrations
• Some disappointments include limited progress on releasing promised documents like the Epstein files

Keep voting in midterm elections to ensure the administration's momentum continues beyond the first two years.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

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Speaker 2: 0:27

Well, hello, hello, how are you Clay?

Speaker 3: 0:29

I'm good. How are you? You know, I just noticed I've been watching our intro for the longest time. You have more pictures of me with no baseball hat on than I think anybody on the planet, just in that intro. That's pretty funny. I'm always with a baseball hat.

Speaker 2: 0:43

You know what we need more with the baseball cap on? Because it's more reflective, right? It's purely by chance, I don't even. I just pulled what I pulled, isn't that funny? Yeah, yeah, how are you? I'm good, I'm good, yeah, I mean. What's going on? Let's see Nothing, really, I mean, but it's quiet. I just, you know, sitting over here biting my time until the next grandbaby's visit, um, can you believe? This is wild to me? Are my fourth grandchild is due in just a matter of months Like this? This pregnancy at least for me, maybe not so much for her has flown by. It's, uh, I did say grandbaby number four. So, yeah, my, my daughter and son-in-law will have, um, four kids under four. So wild.

Speaker 3: 1:27

Yeah, raise your hand and audience. Land out there If you don't think Elsa looks old enough to have four grandkids.

Speaker 2: 1:33

Oh, stop, stop, Thank you. Thank you, it's a good filter and good lighting is what it is. I feel it. My back tells me all the time you are your age lady, but thank you, I appreciate that. Yes, I love so. My grandkids call me Oma, which is German, and if the Germans are going to come in and correct me and say it's Oma, I know it is. This is the way we say it, how we said it growing up. This is the way my grandkids are going to say it. It is what it is, but yeah, yeah, it's just it's. It's a heck of a gig. I tell you, speaking a heck of a gigs, what we got to do today is a lot of fun. We got to talk about president Trump's first 100 days. That is our, that is our singular umbrella topic. Right, cause there's so much in it to say right.

Speaker 3: 2:19

Yeah, that's, you know. It kind of hit me Was that Monday, I guess that you know we were at 100 days or fairly close at that point and I was like you know, that's it for Elsa and I this week. We're just going to, we're going to do, I hate to say, what everybody else is doing, but that's kind of what everybody else is doing. It's, it's a hundred day. You know, we're at the milestone and there's a it's a good reflection point. So that's what we're going to talk about and we'll get started right after this. Hey folks, clay Dobeck here, author of the novel Keep Moving, keep Shooting. So what I've got here is the BooBoo 2.0 basic first aid kit. This is the one that you throw in your glove. Boxboo 2.0, this is the kit that you need all the time. Again, refugemedicalcom. You can find it there. Use the discount code KMTS at checkout. Get yourself 10% off. Refuge Medical. Not only buy their equipment, but get their training.

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Speaker 2: 3:40

Well, if you believe the alphabet media which I've taken to just referring to them as everybody's like, mainstream media, legacy media, but I'm calling the alphabet media because that's basically what they are but if you only listen to them, you are going to believe that America is in this horrendous free fall and we're on the brink of destruction and catastrophe and all the things. But Clay and I are going to kind of peel back all these layers here and we're going to talk about the these first 100 days and we are going to be much more fair and hopefully somewhat unbiased about it and give the good and the bad right.

Speaker 3: 4:18

Yeah, I mean, you and I were talking before we hit record and and we were oh, by the way, it's Wednesday, it's four 30 on the East coast, that's where we're at. So there's your, your time, um, but, uh, we were talking about how, you know, there's a couple of great uh articles out, or even some postings, I think that you found on X. Uh, you know where. We've got some solid evidence that the media you know more evidence. I should say that the media I like that, by the way the media is biased and that even some of the polling is biased because it's taken out of context in the sense of you know, I saw a thing yesterday that a poll and I can't remember which one for the life of me they asked the secondary question of not you know, primary question was how do you think President Trump is doing in this first hundred days of the second term?

Speaker 3: 5:06

And then they asked the follow up question of who did you vote for? And so you know that singular piece of information matters, because when you ask a significantly lopsided population of people polled, you know that leaned towards not voting for President Trump you're going to get a similar response. They're going to follow along. So, you know, don't believe everything. The polls say, folks, because they are easily skewed, and those are some of the things that we're going to talk about.

Speaker 2: 5:33

Yeah, and you know those polls are. It's just wild to me and what's the most wild to me is that people believe it. They just run with it and think that's it. And I shared one of them. I think it was from ABC. We put them at like 39% or 36. I forgot what it is now right Like approval rating, and then I got to think I'm like same thing. You said, hang on a second, I'm just curious about this.

Speaker 2: 5:58

So I did a little research here. I'm like, well, let's think about this, let's use some critical thinking and think exactly what you do, which I know the majority of our viewers and listeners have already done the same exact thing and already dismissed polls like ABCs and and you know all of the alphabet media polls that are, you know, obviously so skewed. And, um, we were actually I was able to actually to pull up some some different polling numbers and, uh, let's see. So I've got them here, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you all what they are. Let's see, so conservative this. I took some from some conservative and neutral sources. Okay, so real, clear politics 45% approval. 51% disapproval. Rasmutian 49% approval. Epic epoch, depends how you want to say it. I guess I've heard both.

Speaker 2: 6:48

Now, this is the most logical right. It says Trump's approval highest among Republican voters 85% approval, with an independent split of 44% approval. And I think that just lends to exactly what you were just saying. If you're going to poll this one group and not ask that secondary question, what you were just saying, if you're going to pull this one group and not ask that secondary question, what are you going to get? You know what you're going to get.

Speaker 2: 7:12

So this is more reflective of kind of stating the obvious. But the independents are. That is interesting. If the independent split is, what was that 44% approval? I guess that would kind of lend to the question or conversation of saying, okay, so you know, basically, the working class crowd is really pro-Trump. Those are probably going to be the highest numbers in favor of Trump. Right, but there's a demographic that he seems to be losing. So what do you think that says about his current strategy and what, if anything, he should do differently? Or do people just need to sit back and wait it out? I mean, because that's kind of my lean.

Speaker 3: 7:51

So I would tell you that it's topic to topic. We're going to go over a lot of these throughout the show but, topic to topic, patience is going to be important. Topic patience is going to be important and it's, interestingly enough, very selective, because you'll have a group of people that will say he's moving too fast, he's doing this, he's not using the system, things aren't putting into law, they're not going through Congress, they're not going through the bureaucracy and it's moving too fast and he's using too many executive orders and he's's bypassing the system and it's dictatorial, and blah, blah, blah, and those exact same people will turn around and go. You know well these tariffs that he's put in place. We're not seeing any return on those, you know. But right, because they've been in place for, you know, less than 30 days, right? So you know the context of the subject matters across the board. And listen, folks, you know I of the subject matters across the board. And listen, folks, I'm not going to lie People who know me.

Speaker 3: 8:48

When I went to college, I took statistics in the math department because I had to and I withdrew. And then I took statistics in the psychology department and I withdrew. And then I took statistics in the sociology department. I had to have statistics to graduate and I finally finished. But the one thing that you learn attempting statistics three times in college is that there are lies damn lies in statistics and you can manipulate polls and statistical data to say whatever it is that you want. So I don't put a lot into the hard numbers because they can be manipulated, but I think what we're going to talk about is kind of the general feel we get, not just from what we see from our audience, from all of you, but really what we're seeing across the spectrum on the social media platforms you know in the alphabet news sources and then from really our interaction with folks, like all of you, that are listening or watching.

Speaker 2: 9:37

Yeah, yeah, I love it. So let's talk about key successes. Let's talk about his key successes immigration and border security. That's kind of like the no-brainer right. That seems to be the biggest wow.

Speaker 3: 9:49

I agree and I think most people agree and I think again. Some of those statistics that back that up are the number of interactions with border patrol are way down, even if you say the numbers have been manipulated a 96% drop, like even if they manipulated some you're still in the 80s. You know what.

Speaker 2: 10:08

I mean yeah, you can't manipulate it that much.

Speaker 3: 10:12

Right, you've got the massive deportations. You know folks will always pull the onesies, twosies, you know, and listen, if it's a single person, it's a tragedy. If it's a mass, you know, a mass number, it's just kind of is what it is. So you know the guy from Maryland, the MS-13 guy, you know everybody's focused on that one person, but they're not talking about the other 111,000 or or whatever it's been, that have been deported. Um, they're just focused on that one guy. But I would tell you, yes, key success. This is one of the things that he ran on, this is one of the things that people voted for him for, and that was to close the frigging border. And, if nothing else, he has done that. This administration, with Kristi Noem, with Hellman DOJ, that whole team, they have definitely abided by that campaign promise and focused on closing the border. So I think that's a huge win for everybody that voted for President Trump and for his platform.

Speaker 2: 11:09

Yeah, absolutely. And even the people who are not happy about any of this, they absolutely have to agree that he's been a success in doing what he said he was going to do. So you may not like it, it may make you angry and stomp your feet and wave your little angry signs, but did what he said he was going to do. So you know? And, by the way, is it just me and, granted, we all know that I only watch as much news as I absolutely have to but is it just me? Or have they kind of dropped the whole? What's? What is his name? Garcia, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, garcia.

Speaker 3: 11:40

They've kind of just are they moving on to a new poster child? There's been a few that have popped up. I think Kristi Noem, maybe yesterday or maybe even this morning, said she was asked you know what happens if he gets returned to the United States? She goes, we will turn around and immediately deport him again. So I think we're at the point now where you know most folks in the American attention span and, truthfully, the fact that this was really kind of a hollow um, you know, cry outcry from the left, um, I think people are moving on. Um, you know, I did see and I this hasn't been fact check folks, um, but I did see that that guy being represented as the dad from Maryland is is not actually that the dad of the children that are in his house? The actual father has petitioned for custody based on, or had petitioned for custody based on, that guy living in the house.

Speaker 3: 12:34

And again yeah, that would just get you messier and messier, yeah it's single source hasn't been verified, but those are the kinds of things that are coming back up on this particular topic around that particular guy. So yes, to answer your question, I think most of America has moved on and said we don't care.

Speaker 2: 12:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I think you know they being, you know the politicians and activists on the left you know probably started backing off a little bit too. When you come to find out the other, which I can't a hundred percent verify, when you come to find out the other, which I can't 100% verify, but this seems to be widely reported that he was hanging out with a drug or a smuggler, not a drug smuggler, a human trafficker, human trafficking, yeah, human trafficking and yeah. So now they start to kind of go like oh no, we weren't.

Speaker 2: 13:19

I don't know what you're talking about. We weren't talking about him. What? Yeah, give me a break.

Speaker 2: 13:23

Yeah, you know, and I don't want to stay too long, there's got a lot of things to cover here, but I do just have to, you know, once again point out the, the hypocrisy and the irony of you know where, where they choose to grandstand and get on their soap boxes. You know, where was all of this for the something close to 350,000 migrant children that seem to have disappeared and I actually put a post out about that. So it's a little bit misleading when you say 350,000 children just disappeared into nowhere. The truth is just as horrific they were when they came across. As much as humanly possible based on the massive influx. And of course, you know there's trafficking and smuggling and all of these things happening. So that's a whole other number that we couldn't even fathom because we just simply don't know. But of the ones that we do know, they were actually documented, taken pictures of the whole works. It was after that point that they essentially kind of disappeared for varying reasons.

Speaker 2: 14:28

So the key difference here is that that one that happened primarily under the Biden administration, and the difference is is that the Trump administration actively, currently, right now, is doing everything they can to actually find these children. So there's the difference. But where's the outrage for that? You know where, where, where is all of the you know this thumping and all of the things for these kids? They're doing this for a bug, a loser, a piece of garbage, who's you know? I'm just going to leave it at that and we can just. There's a lot more I can say on it, but I'm going to leave it at that. Y'all get my point right.

Speaker 3: 15:05

Yeah, listen, there's plenty of selective outrage out there. That's definitely one of them. You know, and we're going to talk about, you know, doge, obviously we're going to talk about Doge at some point. But you know the people who have been cut from government contracts, who've been cut from government jobs, you know those kinds of things and there's. You know those kinds of things and there's. You know, oh, my friend who works for you know, such and such agency and organization got fired and oh, blah, blah, blah, blah. Where was the outrage from those exact same people when we were shutting down family-owned businesses during COVID, when restaurants were going out of business, when waitresses couldn't get you know, couldn't get a wage to feed their kids? When you know all of those things, it's again the selective outrage which I pay zero attention to, or I should say pay zero credence to, because, again, you know it's a, it's a tragedy when it happens to you or someone you know, but when it happens to somebody else, then you know, it doesn't really matter that much.

Speaker 2: 15:57

So and you know and I don't want to say that that's just so typical of the left, it certainly is, and you know it's a human nature thing. I get that. That, you know, unless something directly affects you, you just have no, you just don't care that you should. You know there are atrocities happening all over the world of the likes that we here cannot even fathom, like, we cannot even imagine the atrocities that are happening. And we hear little blurbs of it here and there on the news, like a split second blurb of it. But it's like, you know, it's kind of like watching a movie or a video game and something bad happens and you're like, wow, that sucks Anyhow. What are we having for dinner tonight? You know, if it's not you, you tend to not care it's. It's a definitely a flaw in our, in our, in our behaviors, for sure. But I could take don't let me take a whole other tangent Clay, don't let me. All right, okay, so all right.

Speaker 3: 16:50

So the border we, we both agree in general terms. You know the border is a big win. And again, that whole crew, the DHS, doj, you know, tom Holman, that whole crowd, you know they're doing a bang up job. And this is exactly one of the things that President Trump ran on. This was top of the list of his campaign and he has followed through and doing this. So okay that I think that's a winner, yeah, and so I would tell you that Doge is another thing that we all, you know that those who voted for Trump, you know, voted for. We voted for shrinking of the government, getting rid of government waste, getting rid of the overspending, and and Doge has been the mechanism to do that with. Now the question is, how do you feel about the way Doge is conducting business? And I'll throw that at you.

Speaker 2: 17:37

Oh, my gosh, that's a great question, clay. It really is. So I am. You know my my off the cuff answers. I'm fine with it, I'm good with it. I will say, for all of all of the things that are being done, I think we always have to, and I'm going to include, you know, one of my biggest passion points. When we talk about, like you know, just to segue slightly for a second, like RFK and his initiatives and plans, you know, for our health, essentially All of these things in my heart, I always want to make sure that is what they're doing, constitutionally correct, you know. So, yes, I have to be honest. My initial like knee-jerk reactions go good, more, keep doing it, keep cutting it, keep doing it. My more thoughtful response would be as long as it's within the constitutional powers and rights and things that should be happening. So kind of a vague answer, but that's my answer, clay.

Speaker 3: 18:36

So I think I think initially it started off great and, if you remember right, usaid was top of the list. That's where they first, and they did a lot of slash and burn rolling through USAID, which I thought was it was doing the research, they were, you know, whatever they were doing mechanically to find all this overspending, it was working and they were doing it. Oh, by the way, folks, you know, elon Musk if you haven't caught this has already moved away from the White House and is back essentially running Tesla.

Speaker 2: 19:17

So you know which was the plan all along this was not a permanent thing.

Speaker 3: 19:21

Yeah, everybody who has hated Doge and has been taking it out on Elon and all that stuff, they all thought he was going to do this for four years and he was going to be there. And there's the word oligarchy, which 99% of America didn't know what it was until 120 days ago.

Speaker 2: 19:37

Bernie Sanders that's his favorite word, right, Right.

Speaker 3: 19:40

And now what's happening is exactly what we knew was going to happen. It was always the plan which was under 130 days. Because he was what's the title like? Special employee of the government, which meant he's a volunteer. He can only stay on for so long 130 days. So at a hundred days he's on his way out and he's going back to run his car company, which is great. Now his team, some of those folks are staying on. Some of them are staying on as paid employees and some of them will roll in you know, I probably in cycles and stay under that 130 day cap would be my guess.

Speaker 3: 20:12

But regardless the thing, they got into that rhythm of really slash and burn. And I think now that they've been doing this for a couple of months and they've gotten all the big chunks out of the way, now I think it's time to become more surgical. Not that there isn't more to find, and I am all for finding the fraud, waste and abuse and getting it out of the government, truthfully but now I think that the big chunks have been cut out. Now we're getting into the point where it's going to take a surgical knife and not a machete to cut out the waste. I think a little bit more of a refined touch is what's going to be required at this point.

Speaker 3: 20:57

I think Doge will start to lose some momentum because the big chunks of money most of those have been found. I think, conceptually, a huge fan of Doge, everything that they did the way Musk did it, the team of whiz kids you know I'm a big fan of and I truthfully believe, give them access to everything, yeah, and then put them into protective custody after it's over with. But I think Doge is a win, but I think, just again, a little bit of appetite suppressant for everybody. Doge is not going to last forever. Right, you know they're not going to keep finding trillions of dollars or hundreds of billions of dollars out there because they found all of that and now it's the small stuff.

Speaker 2: 21:32

Yeah, I mean, it's served and is serving its purpose, which was to essentially clean the house from top to bottom and then after that, and just like when, when you clean, once you've got it all clean, then you should be able just to maintain right, just keep up that maintenance work and and keep a watchful eye to make sure that more clutter doesn't find its way in and, you know, dust doesn't settle into the corners. And you know, and I think that's probably even though that's not the exciting part you know, of course, the big slashes and the big fines and all of those things are, you know, that's what was exciting and I agree that was a really necessary thing for them to do, because they needed the shock value to show America what the heck has been going on. But you know, kind of, like you said, okay, that the big stuff is done, we got the big stuff out. Now it's now it's kind of like the quiet, boring work of maintaining, you know, and that's not exciting to hear about, but man oh man, is it, you know, intensely important?

Speaker 2: 22:29

And I think, you know, the thing that I want to see the most of, in the most consistent way, is the transparency. You know, even though this is not exciting to hear that they saved, you know, when we're talking about like billions of dollars, you know well, we just, you know, found a hundred, a hundred thousand dollars worth of waste in this area. Yeah, I know that's not very exciting, um, but I want to know, I want to know you know who was, who was messing around with our, with our tax dollars, and I want to know that they got caught out for it. And you know. So, yeah, I Doge is definitely, in my opinion, also huge win, huge success. Go ahead.

Speaker 3: 23:07

The only that just occurred to me in what you said is that you want to know who who right. I think we've seen a lot of what With this burst of Doge in the first hundred days USAID, this program, this country, this program in this country right. But what we haven't seen in any of that is personal accountability, and I think an overarching theme that we keep seeing I keep seeing all over the place is more arrests, and I think that's kind of of an overstatement. But I think what we're all asking for is accountability of the people responsible, and I think doge was not designed to do that. Right, I don't hold them accountable, but I I would have liked to have seen from their efforts more of that. I think I would, and I don't know how that would have worked. Maybe doj walks in behind them, or maybe some, maybe not somebody in there walks in behind them and says you are responsible for this.

Speaker 3: 24:08

You know, this, this whatever you know that, whatever it was the Sesame Street in Iraq or whatever it was like, you're responsible for this. You're the one who, you know, offered this up. It's a program under you. You've authorized the spending. You are being held accountable. That would have been, you know, probably the icing on the cake. Again, I'm happy with Doge and what they're doing, but the thing we haven't seen is names on you know, dry erase boards saying these are the responsible people. We haven't seen that.

Speaker 2: 24:34

Yeah, and I, you know I would imagine we speak for a lot of people when we say I want to see that happen, that needs to happen, and you know I'll give some leeway here and acknowledging that in 100 days there has been so much, we can't even cover how much you know. If you wanted to like itemize and go into detail about everything, this would be like a eight hour show. We'd still be talking. You know what I mean, because there's so many. You know subcategories of subcategories, of subcategories of things that have happened. You know specifics, so we have to talk in kind of like generalized terms. So when you think of it that the picture is actually so much more refined, you know the closer you go into it.

Speaker 2: 25:16

I think it's fair to to accept that we're not going to see immediate arrests and all of those things. I do very, very strongly hope that, as things progress, that these arrests will start to come in and it doesn't necessarily have to be an arrest. I want to see whatever legal accountabilities there are for things like that and even if that means a public calling out being like you know, well, we can't do anything to you legally, but that's the guy right there and that's the chick right there that caused this particular thing to happen, and we just want you all to know it. So I'm okay with that if they can't get them in a legal sense.

Speaker 3: 25:53

But yeah, I mean, you know, flogging in the public square, I'm okay with that, I'm good with that. Yeah, really, I mean there's a lot to be said for embarrassment. Yeah, really, I mean, there's a lot to be said for embarrassment, you know, I mean to put somebody's name out there and hold them accountable for some stuff. I mean that's, you know, it's interesting. You kind of move into the next big chunk and that's. I kind of labeled it as education, right? Yeah, it was part of the Doge, part of the slash and burn, part of that. And you know, mrs McMahon, you know heading up the Department of Education and shrinking it was part of it. But education as a whole spans a lot of things and in the first hundred days of this administration we've had a lot of education related things, don't you think?

Speaker 2: 26:37

Yeah, oh, my gosh, yeah, yeah. A ton of things and I I have to be honest with you as much hope as I had from the get go for the Trump administration doing the things. I have to admit I'm still shocked that some of these things actually got done. Is that right? Yeah, I know it was like Carter era there. You know that in just one fell swoop, essentially it was like and you're done, and you're done Back to the states it goes.

Speaker 2: 27:13

So when you really think about it, like I think we and I include myself in this like there, we get these moments of frustration like that it's something's not happening fast enough. Well, how come he hasn't done it yet? He said he was going to do it. It's been 100 days. There's so many things happening and it's just wild. And again and we've mentioned this a bunch of times since he's taken office, people are so their heads on the left, I mean their heads are spinning. They don't even know what to react to in any given moment, because they start to react to this and then that happens and it's all happening at the same time. So it's like they can't even and I know that's very deliberate, right, it has to be deliberate because they don't know what to lose their minds over next. So they just generally lose their minds.

Speaker 3: 28:00

Yeah, so you know President Trump is. You know he, he went after the universities for emetism. Um, you know, we talked about that last week and then I just read a thing this morning that, like Harvard did a big like we screwed up. Um, they, you know they released a report actually two reports, I think that got melded into one because they took um anti-Semitism and then anti-Muslim. They had two committees that looked at it from both angles. They acknowledged that they screwed up with their processes on campus, that it's not necessarily a safe place for either one of those groups. What they need is more freedom of expression without repercussions, from both faculty and students, and you know.

Speaker 3: 28:44

So what you're seeing is, you know, the impact of President Trump across you know education, and this goes all the way down to, like the main. You know the state of Maine and the transgender athletes. You know he's like listen, you're right, I can't control what happens in the state of Maine. I can make an executive order, but what I can do is I have the power of the person. I can withhold funding, which is what he's doing. My home state of Illinois just stepped in and said the same thing and they're going to pay the same price. And so from again, transgender athletes in high school all the way to the Department of Education, and in between you've got university funding, anti-semitism on campus, school choice. There's been a lot of movement under this administration, and again that's just under the guise of education. So has it all been a bed of roses when it comes to education? No, there's still a lot of ground to be gained, but there's momentum, because we haven't seen any of that. It's been momentum in the opposite direction.

Speaker 2: 29:48

So again we're seeing the turning of the tide, which is just an amazing sight to see, and I think much of the country, whether they do so quietly or very loudly like we do are just breathing that sigh of relief that oh my sanity is actually returning, like common sense is coming back, practicality is back and again we're not saying that people of different persuasions I guess that's the way I'll put it don't have a right to a peaceful life or any of those things. I want you to live a happy, healthy, fulfilling life along with the rest of us. I just don't need to know everything that you're doing. You don't need to be the center of attention at all times. It doesn't need to be all about you. This is what's for the good of the country as a whole, not a very tiny percentage of the population that has managed to dominate essentially every conversation. You know.

Speaker 3: 30:50

Yeah, and so we are starting to see a lot more pushing back against that, which is great, I think, for the common American. You're starting to see a lot more acceptance of you know what was before we took this huge left swing. You know normalcy, I think, is what most of us would call it, and you know you don't have to worry about being I shouldn't say you don't have to. You don't have to be as worried about being attacked in public based on your beliefs if you're a conservative, which is good, you know we are starting to have, you know, some more visceral reaction, which I don't like. You know violence and those sorts of things.

Speaker 3: 31:30

Jd Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, you know, talked about this. You know, I think last week or two weeks ago. You know he did the whole. You know not a minute of sleep for all the Republicans. So you know obviously that's. You know call for all the Republicans. So you know obviously that's. You know call it what you want. I think it's proof positive that what president Trump's trying to do is working. Start getting reactions like that, but that's. We expect more out of our elected officials.

Speaker 2: 31:51

Right, yeah, absolutely. Let's talk about a couple more of his cabinet success stories. Doug Burgum, let's see. So he's focused on energy independence and land development for affordable housing and wins among conservatives for scaling back on federal land grabs. So he's doing a great job. Marco Rubio is a huge joy to me. Right, like it's such a huge. I'm not saying it's the Cuban connection, I don't know, but I just I'm so impressed with him and I think it's a very universal sentiment.

Speaker 2: 32:20

So so impressed with him and I think it's a very universal sentiment. So so impressed with him and I really look forward to seeing more of who he's going to become politically in coming years, because I think he's a very promising man right now based on what he's doing.

Speaker 3: 32:38

Yeah, this opportunity for him as sex State has been a huge future glide path. I mean, he is You're right One, he, what was he? 99%, I think, confirmed right. Yes, everybody was in support of this so far knocked it out of the park in terms of accomplishing what I think President Trump wants him to, but also handling it very, very well. He's extremely well-spoken, he moves well and speaks well in public, et cetera, and so, you're right, I think this sets him up for a long future. Now, if you want to talk international relations, you and I both we said before President Trump got elected and even right after he got elected, like he's going to fix Israel, hamas and Ukraine. Russia, drop of a hat. He's been fairly successful with Israel, hamas, yeah, he has not been successful with Russia, ukraine.

Speaker 2: 33:34

Right, yeah, well, you know, little Zelensky there.

Speaker 3: 33:38

Yeah it's. You know there's some unforeseen pieces here. You know everybody thought, oh he's. You know he's in cahoots with Putin and you know blah, blah and all of those things and and um, you know, yeah, he hasn't stopped that war. There is a ceasefire right now, although I think it's for celebration of the end of world war two or something, something like that. It's some sort of remembrance of some kind. So there's that. But yeah, it's that one's been a little bit of a struggle and OK, you know that there was any issue. You know what?

Speaker 2: 34:10

I mean, it's not going to happen overnight, if anybody. But I'll be honest. My opinion is, if anyone can make it happen, it will be Trump and the Trump administration who make it happen, and I think this to him, being President Trump, I think this to him is just more incentive. He's not dejected by this at all. He's strategizing and working behind the scenes and he'll figure it out. I truly believe that that if anyone's going to do it, it's going to be him.

Speaker 3: 34:53

Well, I think the most important thing for America is that he's not a war hawk.

Speaker 2: 34:59

And he wants this done peaceably.

Speaker 3: 35:01

And he's keeping us out of it, which is great, I think, because under the Biden administration we're headed down that path of, you know, very slowly but surely, increasing our involvement everywhere, from, oh, you know, we're going to throw in this small piece under the NATO umbrella and then, oh, by the way, we're actually going to throw in more than everybody else is, and then, you know, and we're going to get closer and all of those things. And you know his mindset on this is absolutely not, which I'm all in favor of. So you know, you're right, he'll get it figured out and I think you know it'll come to some sort of conclusion inside of this four-year administration before it gets handed off. It just may not happen as quickly as everybody wanted. Again, folks, a hundred days, right, right. But you know he's ruffled some feathers other places. I mean you know the election in Canada just day before yesterday. You know positive of his. What do you think of him in the whole, like Canada and Greenland and and all of that, and what, what he's done with those things.

Speaker 2: 36:01

You know what I'm. I'm a little bit torn here because, you know, I think like a lot of Americans were saying, oh, he's just messing with them, he's just messing with them. Tell him you can is going to be the 50%. But he just said the other day he's like I'm not kidding, Like I'm not kidding, I don't know. I mean, I don't think we want Canada. No offense, canada. I don't think we want you at this point, because there's that's all. That's a lot of liberal votes there, um, clearly, so I don't think we really want them. But you know, I don't know, I don't know. Is he messing with them or what clay I?

Speaker 3: 36:33

I thought he was, I thought it was a smokescreen, um, but when he, you know, did a press conference their election day or the day before their election day, um, and you know I, that to me was not messing with them. I think he he truth, he truthfully, I think he what? What he was trying to do, I think, is he's trying to rewrite the alliance between the United States and Canada. I think he was trying to help redirect the um you know, political trajectory within Canada itself and it it kind of backfired, um, because you know their liberal party retained power. Um, they went from bad to worse, from what I understand, like it really sounds like it.

Speaker 2: 37:10

Yes.

Speaker 3: 37:10

Idiot and nobody could stand him. But it sounds like this guy. Is it Laney? I think that's behind him. He supposedly is worse. So maybe that one you know, put that one on the back burner for a while. We'll figure that one out. Just worry about holding them accountable for the northern border, you know kind of a thing, and the you know the tariffs associated with fentanyl and let go of it. Greenland's interesting. I don't know how that one's going to play out. That one I that has to be a joke, doesn't it?

Speaker 2: 37:38

It feels like it, Like I can't. You know, I mean the man's mind. Let me make some liberal heads explode. The man's mind is just absolutely brilliant. So, whatever he's done, they're like he's so dumb. What are you talking about, Blondie? You don't know. No, the man is pretty brilliant. So, yeah, don't, don't underestimate what whatever it is that he has planned I think it's. You know, I don't know. I don't know what his strategy is here. People way smarter than than me when it comes to this stuff need to weigh in and give their thoughts and opinions on this, because I'm baffled by it, to be honest with you.

Speaker 3: 38:13

Yeah, and I think there's got to be a direct. Like you said, he's a chess player, extremely intelligent, so it's got to be related to the economy. I mean, if it's not related to defense, it's definitely related to the economy. And so you know, that's one of the places where you know President Trump's grades are very mixed when it comes to the economy. You know, in one hand, you know inflation's down, like the price of oil is going down, you know those sorts of things. You've got a lot of people who are afraid about these tariffs.

Speaker 2: 38:49

Yeah, the tariffs seem to dominate the conversation whenever you're talking about anything economic right now, that that is the you know the sore spot Right, that's the thorn right now.

Speaker 3: 39:01

Everybody's freaking out and that's the place where he keeps telling people to show some patience.

Speaker 2: 39:06

Yes.

Speaker 3: 39:07

I agree with him 100%. I do as well. Yeah, you've got to wait. Like this is going to be, it's going to be 90 to 120 days from the 1st of April before we see the impact of any of this. You know, I think you can't expect an immediate impact. It takes a while even for financial data to be collected and analyzed and all that stuff, so you're not going to get it right away, although you know some people like I don't.

Speaker 2: 39:33

Did you see the Amazon thing where they were yeah, I did yeah, so they were going to. If anybody else saw that Caroline Levitt kind of ripped into Amazon Bezos for apparently they were going to put a little, a little block there to tell you what the tariff, the cost for the tariffs, would be on their items coming from other countries. They have since denied that they're going to do that. Is that correct, like oh no, I don't know what you're talking about, but they flipped in an hour.

Speaker 3: 40:02

Yeah, so it was, it was we're gonna. And then, you know, it became public knowledge through the white house press secretary, and then Amazon quickly stepped backwards and said no, no, no, we're not, we're not going to do that. Um and and listen, I have no, I truthfully I have no problem with them doing that Right, except for the fact that there's no way that it's accurate or that you would be able to tell, because the tariffs are going to skew the market regardless. So there's a lot, you know, there's a lot to be said for that, and I'm glad that they're not doing it, because a lot of people, I think we get some bad information or a bad impression, but the tariffs in general, everybody's just got to be patient, you've got to be. You know there's. I read an article this morning that China's in a panic right now and that they are showing signs of end of regime activities In other words.

Speaker 3: 40:55

Yeah, you're starting to see some panic inside the senior levels of leadership inside of China and they're making decisions that are kind of irrational. Listen, folks, don't freak out. We're not talking nuclear war, but, like there are some indicators from some political scientists who are watching this and they're saying there's, you know, it looks like China is at the end of this administration, of this regime by the way that they're acting, and a lot of it is attributed to how they're handling these tariffs from, you know, in exchange with the United States. So the impact that president Trump wanted, I think as far as diplomacy goes, is working, but we won't know the economic impact. Folks, I'm not an economist, but my guess is like we're talking, you know, 90 to 120 days from from now, or even from the 1st of April, before we know if this is working or not.

Speaker 3: 41:47

People have to be patient.

Speaker 2: 41:49

Yeah, and I'll tell you and I know I'm not the only one who is saying this, and I feel this very strongly I am willing to pay a bit more for a short period of time if that means bringing more companies who have left and gone overseas, if that means bringing more American companies back to America, employing more Americans, having more American made products, better, stronger, all of the things that are the entire point of what he's doing. This is his goal. In a nutshell America first, American made all of those things. So if that means paying a little bit more, you know what's going to make me do. It's going to make me spend a little bit less on stupid crap that I don't actually need.

Speaker 3: 42:30

So everybody, I'm sure your husband will appreciate.

Speaker 2: 42:33

He will, he will. I'm just going to isolate this one clip for him. Actually, I'm going to isolate this one clip and take it out. So yeah.

Speaker 2: 42:42

But yeah, you know, I mean, let's be real guys, we all are spending stupid money on crap that we don't need or necessarily even want. We're just getting it because it's so damn cheap. And you know and no, I'm not saying that you shouldn't have the right to buy cheap shit. If you want to buy cheap stuff, knock yourself out. But you know, this might it's just going to help you, help him, help you.

Speaker 3: 43:04

So here's the other part about patience with the economy is that you know, we've had a bunch of not just companies, you know corporations, large auto manufacturers and other things. We have had whole foreign nations talk about reinvesting or investing in the United States, you know, for manufacturers, auto manufacturers, et cetera, bringing business, bringing factories back to the United States, bringing production back to the United States. We've had foreign nations talk about investing in businesses in the United States. Folks, it is going to be a few years before we see and feel and understand the impact of that, because factories don't pop up overnight. It's not how it works, but wouldn't everybody love to see I don't know Detroit back on the map as a manufacturing hub for the United States again.

Speaker 2: 43:56

How awesome would that be?

Speaker 3: 43:58

That would be so cool and put Detroit back to work.

Speaker 2: 44:01

Yes, yes, they are so hard hit.

Speaker 3: 44:04

Right know, with those things, unemployment goes down, right, and and the cost of things goes down too, because now you're not paying import taxes, you're not paying tariffs, you're not paying you know all of those things um, which is all part of the plan. But people have got to be patient. The worst thing we can do is whiplash on this. Yes, the worst thing we can do.

Speaker 2: 44:26

So you know and I think a large majority of the right understands this, you know. I mean, let's face it, as always we're we're quite a bit preaching to the choir right. So there's probably a small percentage of people on the right that are getting nervous and getting anxious about all of these things and maybe just wish he would stop. But you know that is the message Be patient. We're only in the first 100 days. There has been so much movement that is happening and every single bit of it has been for the betterment or to the betterment of this country and us, the people who live in it. So you know, we can give a little bit of grace and patience and, you know, if need be, tighten our wallets a little bit here and there. I mean, I think it's so worth it, I think what he's trying to accomplish is so, so worth it. I mean it's just such a game changer for this country to be able to get these things in motion.

Speaker 2: 45:21

And I go back to what I said earlier to answer one of your questions yes, I want everything to be constitutionally appropriate. You know that's a given and I think we should always be watchful of that and the people who know the Constitution better than I do. I do want to hear what they have to say, you know, and if they point something out, I definitely want it to be paid attention to, you know. But overall, generally speaking, this is all good stuff. I mean, who are we? So let's see. So who do we talk to? We talked about Marco Rubio, doug, Burgum, you're the RFK girl.

Speaker 2: 45:56

Oh my God, here he is right here, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3: 45:59

So where do you, how do you feel, Give him a grade for the first hundred days that he's been? And I know he hasn't been in the seat for a hundred days. You know where we're at this mile marker right now. How do you think he's doing? I know you've been a huge advocate for him for a long time, so what do you think?

Speaker 2: 46:16

Yeah, again, you know I'm always trying to temper my, my natural impatience for wanting everything five minutes ago with the, the actual work that's being done, the progress that's being made. Um, he's pushing for vaccine transparency, which is, you know, monumental. Um, some people will say he took a misstep if they didn't actually watch the entire thing and listen to what he was actually saying about the uh link, uh, or the effects of autism and people with autism. Um, that was misconstrued very deliberately and then, of course, people ran with autism. That was misconstrued very deliberately and then, of course, people ran with that. But the people who have severely autistic children and adult children are giving him high, high marks for what he's doing and what he's trying to do. The dyes getting the toxic chemicals and dyes out of our food sources is phenomenal. As far as I'm concerned, I would like to see that happen much faster than this two-year grace period.

Speaker 2: 47:15

Interesting thing about that, you know I wanted to look up like okay, so why? Why two years? Why can't you just stop? Make it gone? And I found some compelling information about it that you know, this whole process of testing and blah, blah, blah, all these things and reformulating and all this stuff takes time and money and research and all that stuff to reconstitute. And I was like and I was going with that I'm like, ok, all right, now that's fair and that makes sense. Things take time and money and all of that stuff, fine. But then a lot of people and I posted about a lot of people in the comments like, yeah, how about just do whatever Europe's doing, because it's already been figured out? And I was like, oh well, now I feel dumb. Well, I feel like a dumb, dumb. So yeah, I'm a little torn on that one because I do have a problem with this two years to comply thing.

Speaker 2: 48:03

So again, like we always ask, you guys, weigh in. I want to know what you think. If you have more insight, better information than I do on that, you can kind of qualify that whole two-year thing. But at the moment that would be the thing I have a problem with Love that he's going to get the fluoride out of our drinking water in office, not him specifically. But it's going to take some time to get all the things actively rolling. I just hope it's not especially long, it's just faster, just faster. But I'm patient-ish. So I'm pleased To answer to wrap up that long-winded answer. I am pleased with the progress that he's making. I just I'm looking forward to seeing more and more and more.

Speaker 3: 48:47

Yeah, no, I think that's fair and I think you know to your point of constitutionality.

Speaker 3: 48:52

I think if there's anybody in this cabinet, you know, and I would put him on par with Rubio if anybody's going to follow constitutionality and like the legal processes and and look you know, find a balance between, you know, taking care of American citizens and, at the same time, not bankrupting American companies, which would put American citizens out of work, like I think that's the way Kennedy's mind works. He's like, well, I could shut down such and such company and tell them, hey, you can't do anything until you fix this or you change this. They're gonna have to lay off how many thousands of workers until and I and I think he's a guy who sees that and says, okay, we've been sucking down whatever this crap is for however many years, we can suck it down for another year and a half to make sure that we don't also put people out of work at the same time. So I think he's he's a guy like that and the national, you know, free and those are that's a really great point.

Speaker 2: 49:48

I'm so glad you said that because that does add some more perspective to the whole conversation about that. And I think, you know, if we want to look at all the good points of this, the one of the greatest points of this is that he's bringing this problem to national attention, where there was just, you know, pockets of people who knew and and believe this to be a problem or a concern or an issue. And now this has gotten such national attention and so, yes, within the next two years, y'all been told the stuff is known, cause or cancer causing agents are in. This is linked to autism, it's linked to behavioral problems, it's linked to all of these things. You have the choice If you want to keep consuming it, if you want your children to keep consuming it, keep buying that stuff, I guess, and you know, until it's no longer available. But at least it's informed decision-making. You know, and, and I think again and I, you know I do this every episode, I pick my, my word of the night and my word of the night is transparency. You know these companies because we know what they do. We know what these corporations or these food corporations do. They're required. You know the FDA requires them. Feelings about the FDA, by the way, but skip over that for time constraints. Yes, they are regulated as far as they have to put their ingredients on their labels.

Speaker 2: 51:27

We all, if we're all paying attention, and maybe some people don't know those ingredients lists are so manipulated so when they're told that they can't use, I think I forgot what it was. It was a corn syrup. No more corn syrup. Oh, okay, no problem, we're not going to do that anymore. So they just renamed it and called it something else. There's so many things in our food that's insane, like salad dressing. I'm going to get on a tangent. That's the only thing I'm gonna say about. Salad dressing has wheat in it. If you have a wheat intolerance and you're having salad dressing, odds are that's the reason why you're feeling sick, by the way, and everything else. But to wrap that up in a bow, I want the transparency. So you know you can't be calling something by a different name and trying to sneak it past us. So no more of that. So if he can do that, that'd be great. I'm sure he's watching.

Speaker 3: 52:15

Yeah, well, he should be. He should be. Yeah, no, I again, I think he's another one that we've just got to wait and see. You know, we talked about Margot Rubio, we touched on DHS. We haven't really touched on defense all that much. And listen, folks, there's a lot of people like Pete Hegseth for a lot of reasons and a lot of people who like him for a lot or don't like him for other reasons rap for a lot of stuff that is well below his. You know his eyeline, like I don't know if you saw this.

Speaker 3: 52:50

There was an accident on an aircraft carrier the other day. We lost a $70 million fighter plane and it literally went right off the side. Somebody tried to blame Secretary Higgins for that. Like it's absurd, you know, oh, it's a trend, it's this, no, it's not Okay. Accidents happen and that's one of them. Right, they tried to blame him for and again, this is all perspective they tried to blame him and the president for the helicopter crash. They tried to blame the Biden administration for the helicopter crash, right? We're now just learning. You know what happened in that helicopter crash and that young female pilot didn't respond to the instructions that were given her from an instructor pilot, right. Nobody knows why. You can make a lot of assumptions, but he's getting the bad rap for some things you know.

Speaker 3: 53:33

I would tell you there's some, some program cuts that people that have happened, that have been his decision, that people need to pay attention to, are being cut in a very Doge-like fashion across Department of Defense, where I again, I think you know there's surgical cuts that need to be made. I think there's some revolutionary thought processes that are going on. There is a massive, there's a call right now for a massive cut in the number of generals and admirals across the services, which I am a huge supporter of. We have way too many, way too many and I'm a big fan of cutting those down, because when you cut that it's a self-licking ice cream cone. When you cut them down, all the bureaucratic processes in the Pentagon start to go away. Or when you cut the processes out of the Pentagon, then the generals and admirals who are part of those processes also go away, so they're eliminating some of the bureaucracy. I don't like the slash and burn approach within DOD on the DEI stuff.

Speaker 3: 54:32

There have been a lot of things that have been taken down and then reinstituted under this guise of eliminating DEI, like, listen when you take out, and this happened, okay, this is not. You know, these aren't like social media falsehoods Out of directive or misinterpretation of directive. Teachings about the Tuskegee Airmen were taken out of professional development because it related to oh, they were the first all-Black fighter unit in World War II we're not focusing on. You know, there were pictures of the first female, you know, fighter pilot taken down. You know, and like that, that's dumb. It is dumb, right, and I don't. I hope that that is not the intent of this administration and specifically the secretary, but those things are happening. There's been massive policy shifts. It's been massive policy shifts and I think they've either been taken out of context or if those were really the, if that's really the intent, I think it's a horrible decision.

Speaker 2: 55:37

So, you know, there's a lot of things going on and I think, again, dod is a place where the scalpel is required versus a machete, and I think there's been a lot of machete stuff going on Right and it could be, it could be a case of the, you know, similarly to Doge, you know big, splash, big, you know wow factor, and then let's take it down a notch and just do what we need to do a little bit more quietly because, let's face it, you know they, when they, when the Trump administration, came into office, high, high expectations from all of us and we were very, very demanding of what we wanted, and I think there was probably this sentiment that, listen, if we don't deliver huge and fast, we could lose people, lose people, you know. So you know there was probably there's got to be some strategizing with that Like, let's come in, like gangbusters go big wild.

Speaker 3: 56:36

It's the two-year mark, right. That's what everybody's been afraid of, and again so. One last thing about Hegseth is recruiting. Pension numbers are through the roof, right now.

Speaker 3: 56:45

That's a huge pendulum swing from the last four years. Recruiting is very high. I think retention is kind of at a. It's not bad, it's only improved a little bit. And I say that because there's a lot of people who were thriving in the previous, under the policies of the previous administration, that are not thriving under the current administration and they are choosing to leave the military. And okay, fine. But retention is up and recruiting is through the roof right now. So good on them. But that's the other point of coming in gangbusters.

Speaker 3: 57:18

The midterm, the two-year midterm mark, is the fear. Right, We've got to get as much done as we can in these two years before we potentially lose control of Congress and therefore we won't get anything done. So that's where I think you know, we are preaching patience. You and I, for the past hour We've been preaching patience and a lot of it matters. But the administration is moving at lightning speed because they feel like they're on a clock. That clock ends at midnight after two years and they're potentially going to lose control of Congress and then everything comes to a screeching halt. So I think that's why it feels like everything's on fire right now.

Speaker 3: 57:52

But, overall Right. I think we're overall.

Speaker 2: 57:55

Overall, I'm. Where are you sitting?

Speaker 3: 57:56

How are you feeling?

Speaker 2: 57:57

Yeah, I mean, I still feel as energized and loyal as I did day one. Actually, we'll go further back than that as as long as he has been in political existence this time around, more so than ever. Yeah, my loyalty remains unwavering at this point. The cabinet always has my cautious optimism, and that includes, you know, when we talk about that. You know, as we know and as we talked about earlier.

Speaker 2: 58:27

You know I've been almost ironically touting RFK Jr's role from the get-go and it's still the same mentality. It's cautious optimism based in high expectation that can shift on a dime if he's not doing what he's supposed to do. And that goes for any one of them. None of them have my loyalty. Trump has a great deal of my loyalty, but you know it's it's it's always conditional man Right, Like you got my loyalty as long as you continue to earn it, and that's been the case for me with Trump specifically. He has earned that loyalty as far as I'm concerned about speaking for anyone else, speaking for anyone else, but again, nothing is ever, or nor should it be, from anyone blind loyalty, blind devotion. It should always be based in expectation, like a demanded expectation, and that's the only way we should ever look at any type of leadership right.

Speaker 3: 59:25

Yeah, I think it's definitely a what have you done for me lately? I think they've got to continue to earn trust every day and continue to earn the votes that they got. I would tell you my my. I think you know I am a huge fan of small gov, so the more we can cut, the better. The happier I am and I'm a huge fan of all of that.

Speaker 3: 59:46

Way too much money wasted in bureaucracy, I think. Way too much NATO reliance on the United States and I'm glad that we're backing away from that big applause for that. You know there's there's a lot of. I'm shocked at the amount of things that have gotten done in the first hundred days. I do advocate for patience. I think probably my biggest disappointment thus far in the entire thing is Kash Patel has, to me, has done really nothing. Yeah, to the point where I thought for sure. When they handed him the ATF on top of FBI, I was like there's the next target for Doe, slash and burn, get rid of the whole thing. And I'm a big fan of getting rid of the ATF. I think it's a complete waste. But literally did nothing to the point where they took it away from him and gave it to the secretary of the army to manage Clay did nothing to the point where they took it away from him and gave it to the secretary of the army Right.

Speaker 3: 1:00:32

What do you think is going on with that? I don't know, and I have zero. I have zero insight, I have zero inside baseball. On that one, I don't know, it's been deathly quiet, which is so odd. I really haven't heard anything from him since he took over and I don't know if that's on purpose. It's an uncomfortable silence for me. And taking away ATF, the picture that that painted was he's either overwhelmed or incapable or less capable than what they assumed. So I'm not. I'm very curious. What's going on with the FBI, with Kash Patel, if he's staying out of the limelight on purpose, if there's something big brewing, I don't know. But that to me has been the biggest swing and a miss, I think in the first hundred days. But patience. But I do really like the ATF's got to go, like get rid of that. But other than that, I'm impressed. So far I think he's doing pretty well, better than anticipated and more than anticipated.

Speaker 3: 1:01:32

So yeah yeah, it's pretty good for a hundred days.

Speaker 2: 1:01:42

Yeah, I mean I would probably give a quick guess that maybe one of the biggest disappointments that the right would pick out is that you know we had extremely high expectations based on what was said for the Epstein files. That probably is our. That probably is the big sticking point right now. Again and we've talked about this before I think you used the phrase over-promised, or one of us both of us used the phrase over-promised and under-delivered. My hopes for that have diminished greatly, which elevates your disappointment in the handling of that. So again, wait and see, I guess. I mean I really can't do anything else. There's like literally nothing else you can do, right?

Speaker 3: 1:02:18

Yeah, and unfortunately you know his, the, the probably the biggest living witness accuser, just passed away. Yeah, she killed him in Australia. So again a missed opportunity. And so, yeah, that's, that's a great catch, because that is, I think you know, I know they, they released the JFK files, which I don't think we got anything out of that.

Speaker 2: 1:02:39

Not really Nothing that wasn't already kind of widely known. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3: 1:02:44

Right, and we haven't we haven't heard anything on RFK or or Martin Luther King, or any of the rest, or Epstein. So yeah, that's a big swing and a miss too. That's a great, great catch, cause we were, that was touted as something we were going to get and we haven't seen it yet.

Speaker 2: 1:02:57

Yeah, yeah, that's um, so that's you know. I mean, I guess if I had to pick the disappointment uh in my eyes, it would be that one Uh. Otherwise, everything else, I have been overall uh pleased with and anticipate a lot more. That's the expectation. A lot more to come. President Trump is always promising. They haven't seen nothing yet. We've just gotten started. You haven't even seen anything yet.

Speaker 2: 1:03:23

It's all just kicking in, and I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on that, one that we are going to be regularly blown away throughout this this term.

Speaker 3: 1:03:34

Yeah, listen folks, patience, patience, patience, patience. And don't forget, in two years, you know, when the midterms come. You got to vote as hard as you did, you know, for the presidential election.

Speaker 2: 1:03:46

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:03:47

Otherwise all this stuff comes to a screeching halt.

Speaker 2: 1:03:49

So yeah, that's probably going to be the next big challenge. Right, to keep everyone fired up, you know, because that's what happens when everything's going well, going great, and you're happy, you get complacent, you get relaxed and you're like, ah, somebody else will, it'll be fine, we're good. Nope, never assume that we're fine and that we're good. Always expect to be in the fight all the gosh darn time. I have one last closing thing to tell you that I I keep forgetting to mention.

Speaker 2: 1:04:14

I have a new book release coming out on May 6th. Yeah, I just kind of I kind of forgot and I know that sounds ridiculous, you know, you get to the point and this sounds like a humble brag and I apologize for that. This is like my 26th book, I think it is, and you get a little. You get a little I don't know complacent with it. Scatterbrained about it might be the better thing. I have so many projects going on, but anyhow, truth Bombs and Grace Grenades is coming out May 6. You can pre-order it now. I'll throw the link in there somewhere. And yeah, so I am, believe it or not, despite what I'm saying, I'm so excited for this book to be out. It's, as you can guess, it's geared towards the Christian audience and I hope you guys will buy it, review it, love it, get some great insights from it and, yeah, so that's my big thing you got any big exciting tells? Are you going to keep us in suspense?

Speaker 3: 1:05:05

I hope that I get to the point where I'm like, oh yeah, my 26th book is coming out. No, I'm still on track, all my stuff's still on track. So we got you know release of the second edition of Keep Moving, keep Shooting by the end of May, and then the sequel, which is called Cross to Bear, will be out 4th of July. Still on track. Awesome, it's not 26. It's two. But congratulations to you, lady. It's two. Congratulations to you, lady. Thank you, Super impressive. I'm very, very happy for you.

Speaker 2: 1:05:32

Thank you very much. I'm excited too. All right, my friend, you go ahead and close them out with the good word for the day.

Speaker 3: 1:05:37

Hey folks, patience, patience, patience, that's all I'm going to keep saying. Just take it all with a grain of salt. Things are going the direction that we want them to and you, you know, as always for me, keep moving, keep shooting.

Speaker 2: 1:05:49

Take care guys.

Speaker 1: 1:05:50

Warrior, leader, author, patriot, from ranger school to the battlefield, from the front lines of combat to the front lines of culture. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Clay Novak isn't done fighting for truth. Catch him on the Elsa Kurtz Show and read his no holds barred blog at claynovakauthorcom. Keep moving, keep shooting.

Speaker 2: 1:06:06

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