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Exploring Voter Legitimacy, Trump's Cabinet Picks, and Border Policies
Could the puzzling differences in voter turnout across recent U.S. elections hint at something more significant? We kick off this episode with a bold exploration of voter legitimacy, sparked by Biden's 81 million votes. With a glance at the controversial documentary "2000 Mules," we question what might lie beneath the surface of these numbers. Then, the conversation heats up as we scrutinize President Trump's cabinet picks, notably Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security and Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Are traditional credentials overrated when it comes to these critical roles, or is loyalty truly the most valuable asset?
As the discussion unfolds, we dive into the qualifications of pivotal political figures and their impact on key policies. Rex Tillerson's appointment as Secretary of State with minimal political experience sets the stage for a deeper look at Noem and Rubio's potential to lead. Our attention then shifts to Tom Homan, the appointed border czar known for his fierce stance on border security. With immigration and human trafficking on the table, we stress the importance of humanitarian law enforcement. Wrapping up, we reflect on the complex perceptions surrounding figures like Trump, particularly allegations of racism, and emphasize the urgent need for effective border policies. Join us as we hold out hope that those in power will tackle these pressing issues with the compassion they demand.
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Well, hello and good morning. We got to get right into it and there are going to be lots of numbers talked about. So I'm going to let the gent talk about numbers, because you know I'm not good with math and numbers.
Speaker 2:Well, it's 638 in the morning. It's 48 degrees outside, expected to be 70, some hundred degrees. Today I've had my. I'm on my second cup of coffee, so it's a good day, so far, good day. The thing that I was looking at kind of, and I mean I don't know why it's not being talked about more, and I think it should be, and I think it should be. I think it's part of the reason that we have trouble with believing election totals and results and all this stuff, because it hasn't been investigated. But why is it, if we look back, that Obama had 60, we'll say in the mid-60-plus million votes. You know, we'll say in the mid 60 million votes and Clinton had in the mid 60 million votes, and then Obama comes up with Biden, comes up with 15 million more votes, and then Kamala Harris, it drops back into the mid 65 million, 65 million votes. Where did 15 million Democrats decide not to vote this year? Did they say, oh, we're not voting? And Trump's was up a little bit, but it wasn't a substantial amount.
Speaker 1:But where'd they all go? I have a couple of answers for you. We all know that they probably came up with extra fake ballots.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:But there's nothing we can prove. It's old news. Nobody's going after that, because if you go after that, you're a conspiracy theorist. The thing you said. It, though. Less Democrats voted this time for Kamala 15 million. Probably because, well, I don't know about the number, but they probably didn't go out and vote for her because of all that, how that went down, and they didn't like her.
Speaker 2:I will definitely agree with that. I will definitely agree with the fact that they didn't vote, that some didn't vote because they didn't like her. But let's think about it on the other side of that coin too the derangement Trump derangement syndrome would have sent them out to vote for her anyway.
Speaker 1:I'm sure there were those too.
Speaker 2:Because you know, I know of and I used to know of. God bless their souls. They've passed away now, but many a people who would vote against him for any reason whatsoever yeah but let's just look at it again.
Speaker 2:The first black president, obama, the, you know, the the coming of the next messiah, basically, is the way a lot of them thought. A lot of people thought gets only 65 million votes, 68 million votes somewhere in there. The first woman president possibility and nobody liked her, and you can do it the same way for that too, was in the mid-65 million, and then Biden just jumps to 81. He was not that likable. He was not that likable to get 81 million. So now here's the next thing that I would like to find out that we don't know, and somebody could do a study, because I'm not going to do it, I'm talking like I care and I don't.
Speaker 2:What about the four states that closed their? You know we're shutting down, we've got problems, we've got to go to sleep, we've got problems with the. You know McDonald's is late, so we're going to go out, whatever the case may be, but they shut their counting down and then you know, all of a sudden, their totals were changed and numbers came out and they swung. How many more votes did they have in their states that year than they normally would have? Did they have an abnormal amount? Was the rise sufficient enough to make up that 15 million in those four states? Do we have numbers on that? Do we know Somebody can do that?
Speaker 1:I think there is a documentary out and I believe it's called two thousand mules but did it, yes, I think that's what that's about that may be what I need to.
Speaker 2:You're right, matter of fact, I've I wanted to see that well. Thank you, carol well, you're quite welcome okay, love there, love there, we have it. Stumble upon something to watch 20,000 meals.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about some of these picks that Donald's doing. The one I'm most confused about right now that I just heard about this morning, is Kristi Noem for Secretary of Homeland Security. What Make that make sense? I?
Speaker 2:can't, I cannot, I cannot make sense, I can't, I cannot, I cannot make sense of that. Maybe he knows something we don't know, and I know he does know. He knows a lot that we don't know, but I don't know. That's interesting. I'll have to read up upon that.
Speaker 1:I mean, I have no idea, I'm stunned, I don't even know.
Speaker 2:I know that he's picking people that are loyal to them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but give him a job somewhere. But the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean she's going to do a better job than Marcus did anyway, so it doesn't matter who he picks. Whoever he picks is going to do a better job. So you know she's got that going for her, which is nice, but I don't know what her qualifications to be that.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying I know.
Speaker 2:That's what you're saying and that's what I don't understand and that's why I say maybe he knows something that I don't know. So I don't know. We'll see. I can't explain that one.
Speaker 1:And then little Marco for a….
Speaker 2:Secretary of State.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't understand. I want somebody taller.
Speaker 2:And yeah.
Speaker 1:I can see him standing next to Putin or next to somebody. That's giant, he's just….
Speaker 2:Well, you know who did he pick as Secretary of State in his first one.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know, I don't even know.
Speaker 2:Oh, come on, Texas guy, texas guy. He looked like a Texas guy to me. I can't remember what his name is now. Yes, that's right, his name was Rex Tillerson, educated University of Texas, austin. He was an Eagle Scout too, and he was a. He was I don't know if he was CEO or what, but he was with Exxon.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:So yes, he was, you know, a businessman, Secretary of State, you know, maybe not qualified for it because he really didn't know much about I don't know what he knew about foreign affairs and all that stuff, but he was not a politician, but he looked to the part. One of those things, he wore the clothes.
Speaker 1:well, I don't know what Christy Noem's qualifications are. That's weird to me. That's a strange pick.
Speaker 2:That may be the same with Marco Rubio. We don't know exactly what his qualifications are, but maybe you know behind the scenes he's a you know, a pretty tough little character you know. So that'll be interesting.
Speaker 1:I do like Tom Holman, though, as the border czar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, tom's worked hard and earned a position. He may be very, very, very smart and I think he is but just the way he speaks it's like, you know, I'm more of a bully cowboy than I am a politician. And that may be exactly what that position needs. But you know, the way I like it is that he says you know, I follow the rule of law. This is what the law says.
Speaker 1:They all say that.
Speaker 2:Well, I think, and they don't do anything. I think, 34 years working on the border, I think you know, I think he does, I think he will.
Speaker 1:Well, all I know is so far is, of course, I know he's just got the job, but he's big, big, big, big big talker with tough talk. Let's see some action there, big guy, and I don't care what, I don't care, I want them gone.
Speaker 2:They are here illegally yeah, well, we'll see about. We'll see about that, but I think that, uh, you know it's going to be a process. They're going to have to figure out how to do this.
Speaker 1:Well, sure.
Speaker 2:As far as you know who goes first and again, it's not going to be that they're running around the streets grabbing people and rolling them around.
Speaker 1:I have no problem with that.
Speaker 2:I mean it's not going to be that way, it's going to be.
Speaker 1:I know, but I have no problem with that. I mean, it's not going to be that way.
Speaker 2:It's going to be, I know, but I have no problem with that Well, I mean, yeah, exactly, it's going to be a little of the toddler in the street.
Speaker 1:Goodness.
Speaker 2:It's going to be one of those ones. You know, if you're arrested and you're here illegally, guess what? We're going to put you in jail. And when we get a plane full enough to take you back, you're going back. That's just the way that is. You're here illegally. See you bye, see you bye.
Speaker 2:But the thing that still I don't think a lot of people understand is the seriousness of the illegals coming in and trafficking kids. I don't think they understand the seriousness of that. You know, I've got a friend who is of Mexican descent, although not, I don't think, really fully in touch with that part of it. His family's been here for a long time. They've done business, become quite wealthy through the American system, but I think it's more. That person thinks that Trump hates, is a racist. He's been conned into believing that he's a racist and that's why he wants to get rid of all his Mexican brothers and his Latin American brothers and all this stuff. And I don't think that's much the case. And when you start looking at border security, yeah, trump yells and screams about that.
Speaker 2:But part of that is the humanitarian part of these kids that are being trafficked, and I saw Holman doing one of his talks where you know one of the people that was, as he was on, you know, in a committee being asked questions, one of the people questioning you know, started, you know, yelling and screaming about it being inhumane and you didn't know about the humanity. And blah, blah, blah about kids, you know being put in cages and all this stuff. And you know Homan got up to his face and basically said you know, you don't know what the hell you're talking about, trying to say I'm not sensitive. You know I've held little boys in there my arms that were dying. You know that were coming across the border. They're being trafficked.
Speaker 2:You know we found kids that have come across one, two, three times. Because they come over. You know they're rented out to the people who are running these kids and running the trafficking. They'll, you know they'll come over once. Send them back. The parents will rent them to the people again. Have them come across with another man, boy, whatever, go back and do it again and they're renting them out. He said the whole time that they're coming back, they're being abused. Send them back. They come back across the border, they're being abused again and this is just a continual thing that y'all are letting happen and we have to stop it. He said so don't tell me about, you know, humanity and all this stuff. This has got to stop. You know, these people have got to go back and on and on like that. So I think that him being in that position, he's seen it and he knows what's going on and he knows the humane thing is to enforce the law.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, let's hope so. Somebody put on Twitter this morning do you think they should be deported? If they're here and they have not committed a crime, do you think they should still be deported? I retweeted it and said yep, because they are or they have committed a crime. They have committed a crime. Do you think they should still be deported?
Speaker 2:I retweeted and said yep, yeah because they are. They have committed a crime committed, a crime dumb asses but do you see what's happening now?
Speaker 1:we, the public, is being conditioned to think of these people as being here legally yes and they're not.
Speaker 2:You know, and of course you know the yelling and screaming is whether they're seeking asylum. They're seeking asylum. Well, if they're mexicans, they're not. And of course, the yelling and screaming is well, they're seeking asylum, they're seeking asylum. Well, if they're Mexicans, they're not seeking asylum, because they're coming from a country that's not persecuting them. All they're looking for is economic relief, and that is not an asylum requirement. Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 2:Then you take the ones that are coming from Africa and Asia. Okay, let's say that some of them in Africa are running from the terrible things that are going on in that country and, yes, they are shithole countries. You go across the border into it to seek asylum. In the next country over, you don't seek asylum coming across the notion through five or six countries to get to our country, that is not asylum, that is running. Okay, all the Chinese that have come in, all of the Iranians that have come in, all of the Middle Easterners that have come in, they aren't seeking asylum, they're just running to our country. So those people definitely get deported. Now the problem with the Chinese people is that the Chinese aren't going to take them back.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know what are we going to do.
Speaker 1:Well, you don't think they'll take them back. They might take them back. What in slave camps?
Speaker 2:They might do that. Yeah, but I don't think you know. First of all, they say, oh no, they aren't our people, because these people are coming in without any IDs. Because these people are coming in without any IDs, they're forging and faking their IDs. So that's just how big a business it is and how intricate and how detailed and how good that whole thing is.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we need to wrap this up. Do you have a question of the day. All right, the question of the day. Here we go?
Speaker 2:The question of the day is we basically have two primary governmental parties, political Political parties Republicans and Democrats. Republicans are denoted by a red color. Democrats are denoted by a blue color. The question of the day is why?
Speaker 1:Yeah, who picked the colors? Did we get choices?
Speaker 2:Yeah, was it voted on.
Speaker 1:Something they just adopted. Why are the Republicans red and why are the Democrats blue?
Speaker 2:You know why is it the blue dog Democratic? Why couldn't it be a red dog Democrat? You know because when you were a kid you played Red Rover. Red Rover and Red, denoting the dog Rover, sends Carol right over and she'd try to break through the line, but anyway, that's a good question of the day I like it? And if we did have a third party?
Speaker 1:Which we do have lots of parties.
Speaker 2:Yes, that became prominent and had to be denoted by color on the screen, as they're talking about the parties. What color would it be?
Speaker 1:Well, you know, you've got the Green Party.
Speaker 2:No, is that do?
Speaker 1:we have the Green Party.
Speaker 2:I think we do.
Speaker 1:Or is that over in Europe? I don't know. Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 2:I think they're trying to make it.
Speaker 1:What about the Libertarians? What color are they? Or does that oh?
Speaker 2:yeah, I don't know, you know, would it be a rainbow?
Speaker 1:color no, let's not go there, they have their party.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hopefully that party's breaking up yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, we got to go.
Speaker 2:Have a great day, go Dawgs.
