Ep. 2453 - They HATE America…And Here’s Their Plan To Conquer It

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Potential subject barriers factors such as customers accounts age and investment settings does not include Acorns fees results do not predict or represent the performance of any Acorns portfolio. Investment results will vary investing involves risks. Acorns advisors LLC and SEC registered investment advisor view important disclosures. At acorns.com/spiral They hate America and they are winning. The Democratic Socialists of America are not hiding the ball. They despise America like truly despise America and now they and their allies are forming a winning coalition not just in New York but they hope across America. I'll explain who they are, what they want and why you should actually be terrified in just a moment. This is the Ben Shapiro show. So Zoraan Mamdani is the captain now. Three New York City congressional seats are now filled by DSA members or former DSA members. The DSA is the Democratic Socialists of America will get to their actual platform in just a moment. In LA another Democratic Socialist of America member may end up as mayor in New Jersey. A former al-Qaeda mouthpiece allegedly will likely win a congressional seat in Michigan. A terrorist supporter will likely be elected to the Senate in Maine. A dude with a literal Nazi tattoo will likely end up in the Senate as well. The rise of the hate America crowd is the story here. It's their pitch. It's not a bug. It's a feature and a lot of people are saying no, no, they're winning in spite of all that. Wrong. This is how you win with young people. It's how you signal that you're not part of the machine. Now again, the seeds of all this were planted long ago. In 2008 the Democratic Party coalition turned into the Barack Obama coalition by 2012. The Obama coalition had turned into the coalition of the oppressed by 2016. That coalition of the oppressed was turned into the anti-Trump coalition. And now the anti-Trump coalition is turning into the hate America coalition. Full scale all masks off. Now the seeds were always there. I cite this quote a lot from Barack Obama from his book, his first memoir, because I think I have three memoirs at this point. Dreams for my father in 2007. I have a bad habit of actually reading political memoirs because it actually tells you a lot about the politician. He wrote this quote, "I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless, how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi. In much of the same ways it does the lives of children on Chicago Southside. How narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untremeled fury. How easily they slip into violence and despair. I know the response of the powerful to this disorder alternating as it does between a dull complacency and when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware isn't adequate to the task." Again, that sentence could have been written by Zorn Mamdani or by Shavelle Yeh or by any of the variety of democratic socialists of America candidates. And that is the entire matrix of thinking there. Is that all suffering all over the world is the fault of evil capitalist free market systems. And what you really need is an America that apologizes for its presence in the world and that there is some sort of ideological solidarity between gang members on the Southside of Chicago, left for all our victims of the system and teens in Jakarta. Hey, there was a reason the Barack Obama sat in Jeremiah Rice Church for decades and that's because he agreed with Jeremiah right pretty obviously. There's also a reason that Barack Obama loves Mamdani because Mamdani is Jeremiah right, except he's much more smartly and younger and has a better beard. Bernie Sanders, almost one of the democratic nomination in 2016, running against the Democratic Party as an open advocate of anti-American socialism. He won the youth vote outright. Well now that Obama Sanders' coalition has turned into the Mamdani coalition and is going to keep getting worse. Here by the way is what the democratic socialist of America actually believe. Hey, this is their new platform, abolish the Senate, replace the president and the Supreme Court with an executive in judiciary chosen by and subordinate to the Congress. Defun completely the Department of War abolish all prisons, free Palestine of course, naturally because and this is the omnicaws and all complaints about Western civilization must be projected into love for a pseudo state that loves terrorism, loves it, and sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela and Iran naturally abolish ICE grant amnesty for literally everyone to open borders, public ownership of all major corporations and remake the elections nationwide. The ultimate goal, a Democrat socialist republic. And this is what their official platform now. In 2012, the DSA had 6500 members. By February of this year, that was over 100,000. By the end of this year, it would be shocking if they don't have at least half a million registered members. Now the thing that you're hearing from all of your left-wing friends and from your legacy media interlockers is that the DSA, all these Democrat socialists of America candidates are winning based on affordability. See, they're saying the thing, they just keep saying affordability. Here is the problem, that's not true. It's not true. They're winning primaries, not based on affordability. When they had to a general, they might lie that they're running on affordability, but what's winning them primaries is a bunch of white college educated voters. So for example, Darielisa Shivalye, who is a complete psychotic anti-American nut job. She won her primary the other night with 32,790 votes. She won 50 to 60% of the votes among younger residents, majority college educated areas and higher income areas. So it was richer, younger, college educated people. For opponents, Adrenal Aspiat is a sitting congressperson, one about 30,000 votes. And this congressperson won 50 to 55% of the votes among lower income areas and majority Hispanic areas. So again, Shivalye is not winning the low income areas. She is not winning the minority areas. She's winning college educated white people. Shivalye also do not win the public housing precincts. Aspiat won St. Nick, which is apparently a public housing project in central Harlem by 40, even as Shivalye won the greater neighborhood by 30 points. Overall, Aspiat won New York City housing authority precincts by 24 points across the district. How about Brad Landers? So Brad Landers is the pseudo Jew who was a member of the DSA and then dropped his membership in the DSA but actually is still a member of the DSA basically. Well, it turns out that even Dan Goldman won the public housing precincts by about 20%. Okay, so what do you notice? What you're noticing is that the Democratic Socialist of America is led by over educated white people. That is what is happening here. And you can see it. There's a Pew poll that came out just a week ago showing what the Democratic Party looks like. And what it shows unsurprisingly is that membership in the so-called Leftward Progressives, the people who are the most left wing, the Democratic Socialist crowd is highest among whites. It is lowest among blacks unsurprisingly actually among black voters who vote for Democrats. By far and away, the biggest group is what you would call order and opportunity leftists, meaning people who are still fairly pro free market, people who want some immigration restrictions but don't want total deportation, people who are relatively non-socialist. And that is the biggest group among all Democrats, but among white people, among white people disproportionately, they are far to the left. But this isn't really a racial thing. Hey, this is not about race. It's really much more about age. Are you coming up? Zorn Mamdani and his "Hey, America Crew" are getting ready to take over, not just New York, but the whole country. They have a plan. We'll get into it. First, here's a thought experiment. Imagine printing out your entire browsing history from the last 30 days. Every website, every search, every article, every purchase. Now imagine signing your name at the bottom of it and pinning it to your front door for the whole neighborhood. to read. Most people wouldn't do that because that would be incredibly stupid. In fact, most people would probably consider it invasive, unsettling, but online, that happens all the time. Internet providers can see the website you visit. Yes, even when you use incognito mode. In many countries, they're required to store records of online activity for years. In the United States, providers can legally sell your browsing data to third parties. 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They're building a coalition, right? And the coalition is going to be national in nature. So, here is Zor Mammdani, a career useless person, an absolute in great, a person who hates America as mayor of New York City, talking about how he's ready to be the face of the Democratic Party. I think we can see from each of these candidates that they have exactly what it takes to succeed. And we've heard from a publicans time and again that they're going to try and make these candidates the face of the Democratic Party. To them, I say that we are ready for that, because for far too long we have been told that it is not possible to fight for working people and win. These candidates have shown that they can let the Republicans talk about that more. Okay, so again, he is going to make the claim that this is the face of the Democrat. Okay, so, that's the, he pretends about affordability. As I just showed you, it's not about affordability. They're not winning primaries because they say affordability. They're winning primaries because they hate the country. Claire Valdez, who just won a congressional primary. This is the kind of stuff that she breaches in order to win a congressional primary, that the nation was founded on genocide, on the habituation room. Being a dual national, how does it inform your politics? Yeah, it's, I think it makes me, it does a couple of things, I think. Like it ties me very personally to the fights for self-determination and sovereignty, you know, from Puerto Rico to Palestine. I think it's so essential that we're standing in solidarity in those, in those struggles. And I think it makes me think about immigration in a different way. You know, we hear all these, you know, white conservative men talk about who doesn't does not belong here. And look, this, this nation was founded on genocide, and the mass displacement of people. This is, it's just the history. And to say that some people cannot belong here, it's like, come on. Again, they despise the country. To say some people don't, I mean, if you don't come here legally, and if you hate our country, probably shouldn't be here, Clairald has also, by the way, is April 30th. She said that she wants to abolish pre-check and nationalize the airline industry. And they are just comments who hate the country. This is not some sort of giant secret. They just say the thing out loud. My all I take is we need to abolish pre-check. I've got like a million beefs with the airline industry and the process of having to fly. We need to like nationalize the airline industry. But let's try abolishing pre-check. And so it's not just Clairald has Daria Lisa Shivalye, who is probably the nuttiest of these people, which is saying a lot. She was asked if she was a communist on MSNOW and she said, well, if by communism, you just mean basic kindness. Also, it's a Republican's ad to say, this is what you're going to get if you vote for the Democrats a communist. You know, I think that is that framing is one that I've been very proud to be able to say I don't respond to one in which I have been very intentional to say I won't be reactive. We are presenting a vision of what we're fighting for. And I think for far too long, we have had politics that is reactive to what Republicans are doing. What we need is Democrats who are actually going to present a positive vision, one that sets the tone for what we should be talking about, which is the issue of affordability, which is the issue of how our budgets are moral documents. For far too long, this reactive conversation of what we should be afraid of has prevented us from being able to have a politics of hope and a politics of life that Democrats can actually identify with. Okay, so hope, light and communism. That's what she's talking about. And of course, she's hiding at beneath all this pseudo academic nonsense jargon that she was taught over at Columbia. We'll get to that in a second. Now again, this is what they believe. So the question is how do they form a coalition for victory? Okay. So again, I hear a lot of Americans sighing as they listen, okay, finds that's New York. Yorkers are crazy. We know this. They are the electors on Mamdani. So they elect a few more crazy Congress people. So they elect a crazy senator over in Michigan, a person who hates America. So what if they elect a person who's an actual mouthpiece for terrorism, allegedly over in New Jersey? Is it a few kind of like they're 435 members of Congress? There's a hundred senators. They're mayors all over the country. What's what's the big deal? So how exactly do they take over? Hey, so I'm going to show you how they take over what the actual plan is. So look at this poll data again. This is poll data from Pew political typology by age. And it breaks down a bunch of different subgroups within each party. So notice the age bracket 18 to 29, which is again, where the democratic socialist of America and the radicals are putting all their focus. Notice that age bracket 14% of people aged 18 to 29 are what they call leftward progressive. That would be the DSA 14% compared to 2% of people above the age of 65 demonstrating once and for all that the young always and forever will remain the dumbest generation until they get older. That's how it works. So 14% are basically openly DSA. That represents by the way 26% of Democrats and Democratic leaning independence. 26% so over a quarter are basically DSA if you're young and a Democrat. Hey, then how about the people who are the left out left? What Pew calls the left out left? People who are disaffected with the Democratic Party and and feel angry at the Democratic Party and who are perfectly willing to join the outsiders. 25% of all Democrats under 30 are part of the left out left. Hey, so that represents by the way a sheer majority of Democrats 18 to 29 are either Democratic socialists, meaning like actual communists or people who hate the Democratic Party and are happy to watch outsiders smack it around. That's a sheer majority of Democrats aged 18 to 29. Then you have a couple of other groups among people aged 18 to 29 overall. Now again, overall 14% of people, not just Democrats, 14% of people aged 18 to 29 are Democratic socialists, 19% are people who are disaffected Democrats essentially, the so-called left out left. 14% of all people aged 18 to 29 are what Pew calls the tuned out middle. These are people who are basically low information voters. They don't tend to pay attention to politics. They sort of culturally see it on their TikTok. They listen to Joe Rogan or the Oval and that kind of folks. And then 9% who are the loyal liberals, Democratic Party voters. So the goal here is and the proposed coalition for mom Donnie is the TSA that 14%. Plus the disaffected Democrats 19%. Plus the people who don't pay attention and who voted probably for Bernie in 2016 and then maybe for Trump in 2024, the tuned out middle, the Joe Rogan types, it's like 14%. And then the loyal liberals, right, the people who are sort of the binary thinkers, Democrats who say, listen, I don't like all of this when it comes right down to it. If I'm forced to choose between Donald Trump and Zor Mom Donnie, I'll choose Zor Mom Donnie. That's 56% of everybody aged 18 to 29. That is the coalition they're looking at. And again, it's a youth-based coalition because the hope always and forever is that the youth will bleed up into the rest of the population. So let's break down this coalition a little further because it's pretty fascinating. So start with the DSA. Who's leading all of this? Who is the DSA? As we pointed out, it is overeducated, useless white people. Some of them are white, some of them are not, but bottom line is this professional, disproportionately white, the professional useless class. They've been manufactured over the last 20, 30, 40 years in university classrooms. They've been majoring in absolute junk. They're unemployable losers who have never held a real job, but they did go to the best colleges four years and then more years. And then they can't get real jobs. So they end up as community organizers or agitators or political aides for crappy candidates who hate the country. The Democratic Socialist of America is a make-work machine for college educated losers. That's what it is. And this is who these folks are. Claire Valdez explains to Zorn Mamdani. Again, another useless person, Zorn Mamdani went to a solid college and then he turned into a failed rapper. And that was his entire career path until he was elected to office in New York. He has never held a real job, never. He's an overeducated loser whose father taught at Columbia University and his mom is a documentarian. He is a member of the elect in the United States. Treating himself as though he's a member of the proletariat, which by the way is a common theme. If you're looking for the people who lead revolutions, never look at the actual polls. Don't look to the proletariat. Don't look to the people who are working in factories. They're busy. They got a job. The people who always lead revolutions are disaffected pseudo-intellectuals who feel disrespected and want to remake systems because they're bored and unemployable. It was true for everyone from Hitler to Lenin and it's true for Zorn Mamdani as well. And it's true for Claire Valdez. So here is Claire Valdez explaining how she got into politics at Columbia. That shift happened when I started working at Columbia University. It was a union job. And all of a sudden, I had all this time, you know, it was my first proper nine to five job. And that's revolutionary, I think to so many workers who are used to working two, three jobs and nights and weekends. That's so much power. That power was something that I wanted to help win for other people. It felt like the most incredible gift in my life. Okay. So she was working for Columbia University as a useless assistant. And she had extra time. She started thinking about politics. She studied painting and art history at the School of Art Institute in Chicago. That's who this person is. Never held a real job. Worked at a university again, another make work program for overeducated idiots. And now is leading the revolution. Or take Daria Luzas-Chevalier. She started college in 2008. I want to give you a college history because that way when you hear about her affordability problems, you understand where she's coming from. She went to Columbia. She graduated in 2016 with a degree in Middle Eastern studies. Now she is in her seventh year of her PhD at CUNY in sociology. When I talk about career useless people who have never produced a thing of value, her name just comes right up. Here she was explaining though that this created affordability problems with her again. The idea that you have an affordability problem because the system has failed you when you've been in college or grad school for half of your life is insane. And as someone who has had to live with the question of whether I can even afford to stay in the city I love, as someone who has struggled with this issue of affordability, but yet seen time and time again, my tax dollars, New Yorkers tax dollars, be used to bomb children and families abroad instead of being invested in our communities here. I am tired of that type of politics and I'm running because I believe my community deserves a dignity of a representative who is going to fight tooth and nail for the things that they deserve. I have to say, Zoramam Tahni is absolutely unlawful. Just the pasted on fake grin everywhere. He's got this creepy Joker-esque grin every time he appears on your screen. It's really very, very strange. But again, those are the leaders of the revolution career useless people, pseudo intellectuals, not particularly smart, but granted high degrees in useless crap, who now have extra time on their hands, they're going to lead the revolution. So that is the core group 14% of the people aged 18 to 29 and about a quarter of all Democrats in the in the pupil age 18 to 29. Already coming up, we'll get to disaffected Democrats and how they fold into the Mamdani coalition plus we'll be having on and recipients of the medal of honor to talk about what makes America actually awesome. First, people spend a lot of time these days talking about bringing manufacturing back to America, which don't get me wrong. That's awesome. It's also worth noting the industries that never actually left in the first place. One example, America's beverage companies, the drinks people have grown up with for generations. So does sparkling waters, T sports drinks, the companies behind them have continued making those products here in the United States the entire time behind all of that are 275,000 men and women across all 50 states showing up every day and doing the real work. These are good paying jobs distribution, manufacturing, trucking production, the kinds of jobs that support families and local communities. For more than a century, America's beverage companies have continued investing here, building here, employing American workers in America's hometowns in an economy where so many industries moved operations overseas. That actually does matter quite a lot. Learn more about how they're keeping America strong at we deliver for America dot org again. That's we deliver for America dot org. A lot of industries that left that never happened with the American beverage industries. They've been helping out Americans and obviously giving us the stuff that we like as well go check them out right now. We deliver for America dot org. Hey, then you have part two, the disinfected Democrats. Okay, this is where you have a bunch of people in the Democratic Party who are just annoyed with the Democrats. Why? Well, because the Democrats are constantly promising the world and failing to deliver. They yell about Trump, but they don't give you enough. It is very easy, by the way, to campaign from outside a party saying the party doesn't do enough. It works on the right president Trump to this. It works on the left. The DSA is doing this. So here is the DSA head co chair who's Savo Gordillo saying we disagree with the Democrats. Like what we're using them basically. And this is a lot of people are warm toward this because again, they don't like the Democratic Party. They're Democrats, but they don't like it. And so what they're doing is they're weaponizing the disinfected and again that disaffected group for people 18 to 29. That is the second that is the actual largest group is like 19% to people aged 18 to 29. For candidates, run as Democrats, we're on the Democratic Party ballot line. We contest the primaries. And when they're in the legislature, they're part of the Democratic Party caucus. But we don't agree with the way the Democratic Party establishment organizes or runs its party apparatus. And so we try to build independence by focusing on volunteer led movement. We think that everyone should be able to be trained and to become someone who can participate in the in the political process. And we don't really think that Democratic Party campaigns in the establishment are run that way. And I think, you know, you really see that difference in these in the races like we're having tonight. And they hate the Democrats and they are running from inside the party to destroy the Democrats. And a lot of Democrats are very much on board with this. Here is another DSA coach, her name Megan Romer saying she's not a Democrat. She's a socialist. We are explicitly socialist. We're not shy about it. We're not we're not the Democrats. We're like, no, no, no, no, no, we're not so cool with us that. Yeah, no, you can go as that's fine. We're a socialist. It's cool. We're not fighting for a kinder, gentler capitalism. We're not fighting to soften the edges. We're fighting to have worker control of every aspect of our lives of our housing of our workplace of our communities. Again, they're quite open about this, but the idea is they're going to recruit all the people who are unhappy with the Democrats. Harry, end 10 points out that this is working. Here is looking at the polling data, Democrats versus say the DSA. The Democratic Socialists of America have a higher net favor than the Democratic Party does at least those who members of Congress. I mean, just take a look here. Dems, Dem Socialists of America plus 17 points. Democrats in Congress plus four points. No wonder that Dems Socialists are getting nominated across the political map in different primaries because simply put they are more popular than the Democrats currently in charge. Right. Again, attacking the party is a very, very good way of winning power. And you can see how kind of more traditionalist Democrats, even very, very left wing anti-Trump Democrats, New York Attorney General, Latisha James. I told you earlier, the anti-Trump coalition has turned into the hate America coalition. Latisha James literally tried to sue Trump out of existence. That was her entire raise on debt. And now she's being out of flanged by Mamdani and she said, quote, all of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party, but you don't blow it up. That's what Magda has done. But no, no, no, that's the whole idea. You do blow it up. That is the entire promise. That is the pitch. This is why is our Mamdani says he's not worried about ticking off Latisha James. Here was the crusades. She said she and other political leaders who spoke into our disappointed in Zora Mandani, all of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party, but you don't blow it up. What do you say to that? I think what is the Democratic Party if not its voters and what we saw yesterday evening where Democrats across the city turning out and voting for a new kind of politics. And I've been clear time and time again that I believe the only majority in our country is that of the working class and what we saw is that a focus on the working class, whether it's from Claire, whether it's from Dali, so whether it's from Brad is the kind of focus that New Yorkers want to see. And I have a deep amount of respect for my friend attorney general James. And I also believe that these are the kinds of candidates that we need to see in Congress. Okay, so again, running against the Democratic Party is a lucrative political strategy. Okay, fine. Now you have the third group, the people who aren't watching very closely, right? The Joe Rogan's or the Theo Vaughan's who are perfectly happy. I am sure to host members of the DSA and hit them with no difficult questions, but talk about how revolutionary they are and how they are, they are really changing it up politically. No deep questions, no serious policy ramifications, but they do make cool tiktoks and as long as they're making the cool tiktoks, the inspiring tiktoks and talking about the problems, which of course is the thing that the podcast sphere likes to talk about they never like to talk about the solutions. But they do love people who will just complain about the problems with the system because now you're in the know and all the rest of this nonsense. So that is a fairly large group again for people 18 to 29 that tuned out middle that's 14%. And then finally you have the loyal liberals, right, the partisans and these are people who if forced to choose between the psychotic left and the Trump right will choose the psychotic left every single time. This is why the Democratic Party has no systemic community to any of this. I mean, they haven't had systemic immunity to any of this for 25 years. Again, the seeds of all this were planted in the Obama era. It's just all coming to fruition now. Here's a Kim Jeffery is basically giving up the ghost. You said bomb Donnie was not the future of the party. You regret those statements. I think the future of the party is diverse and it's anchored in the fact that we've got candidates all across the country who are running to take back control of the House of Representatives so we can end the National Nightmare has taken place. Man, Montgomery has been off to a great start as man. We have a good work in the relationship. and that will continue with the public. Again, the kind of traditionalist left, which represents very young people, about 9% the loyal liberals, the Democratic Party voters, who will choose, it forced to choose between Nazi tattoo guy and Susan Collins. They will choose Nazi tattoo guy because absolutely Susan Collins might sometimes vote with Trump. Joe Scarborough, who used to be a Republican, right, a long, long time ago. He, for example, is trying to shy away from the fact that every single one of these New York candidates is preaching pretty much open anti-Semitism. And he says, no, no, no, it's really not about them. It's about Netanyahu in Israel, right? It's sure. If you're not Tally Bennett or yeah, you're Lapid was Prime Minister of Israel, I'm sure that Zorn Mamdani would then be moderately pro-Israel, probably. This is just a terrible take from Joe. Hearing a lot of you say, talking about the anti-Semitism in New York City in last night prove the anti-Semitism in New York City and this is Mamdani's fault, this is so-and-so's fault, this is this, this is this, no, no, no, it's not. It's really not. If you want to blame anybody for what happened last night, in my opinion, if you want to blame anybody, Jonathan, I think you have to blame Benjamin Netanyahu for years of maximalist aims, for years of a historic goals in the Middle East. Okay, I was just pointing out at this point. It's totally wrong on the facts. I mean, the fact is, what is this four years nonsense? Is he talking about post-October 7? Is that what he's talking about? It's just a brief refresher. Israel is attacked on October 7th since then. They've destroyed Hamas and the Gaza Strip. He has also fired thousands of rockets into the North. Israel responded to that. Iran got involved by firing missiles at Israel. And the Houthis and Yemen were firing missiles on Israel so they responded to that. But it wouldn't matter. I mean, let's be real about this. It's such a silly argument. If you know anything about Israeli politics, you understand that actually Netanyahu right now is being perceived as too moderate. He's being run against from the right by people who are the first while left. People like Naftali Bennett, who's not a leftist, he's sort of a centrist, as well as God, the Eisenkot. But again, none of that matters. It's just nonsense. The reality is, obviously, Zorimam Doni will remain as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel as possible. Same thing with Shavallay, same thing with the rest of these clowns. Okay, but the point here is that all of the Normy Democrats will fellow travel with the DSA if they have to. Now, there is a problem for the Democrats and this new coalition. It's still not enough. When you move outside that 18 to 29 age bracket, right, I told you, 56% of all people aged 18 to 29 would be in that coalition I just described. But when you move outside of that age bracket to like the total of all available voters, that coalition starts to shrink pretty radically. Only 7% of all voters in this Pew Research poll would be leftward progressive Democratic Socialists of America. 12% would be disaffected Democrats. 9% would be the tuned out middle, the Rogan Theo von Types. 11% would be the loyal Democratic voters. Well, you don't have to be great at math to do the math here. When you total all that up, that is only 39% of the total electorate, which is a far cry from 50%. Why? What does that leave out? Well, it turns out that what it leaves out, if you go back to the chart, is one gigantic group of Democrats. In fact, the biggest group of Democrats, that biggest group of Democrats would be the order and opportunity left. The order and opportunity left, again, the hope for the Democratic Socialists is that the order and opportunity left basically continues to vote alongside the Democrats. If they do, if they were to do that, that would be a huge problem for the Republicans, obviously. Because again, the order and opportunity left is by the numbers, the single biggest group among voters. It is 18% of the entire voting base. So if you were able to stack 11 of that 18% on top, they end up with the majority, this coalition. But if Republicans are able to reach out to that order and opportunity left, which is the place they need to be reaching out to, then Republicans could win. Because again, people who don't hate capitalism, but do hate crime. Who want to border clothes, but are not huge on sort of the immigration rates? Who don't love trans politics? For example, that remains the single biggest swath of Democrat leaning people. Now the right has fallen into this idea that this is like the working class coalition. It's about the working class coalition, but notice something. The socialist nonsense that's being promoted by Mamdani is not being supported by the quote unquote working class coalition. What these people actually want is just moderation. That's all they want, meaning they want law and order, they want cops. They want immigration law enforced, but they don't want raids in their workplace. They want capitalism, but the rough edges shaved off, right? That's the stuff that they actually want, probably. And so it's an opportunity for Republicans. The more the Democrats push the left, the more opportunity there is for Republicans. With that said, Mamdani and company pretending away the threat is silly. They have reached a tipping point. They have enough of the Democratic Party to pose a serious threat to the future of the United States, and they hate the country. And that is their campaign is to hate the country. The grill is shot. The chairs are held together by optimism. And what happened to the rug? Sounds like your outdoor setup is not ready for patio season. Fix it all with way fare. Shop way fare for grills, rugs, furniture, and more. 20 million five star reviews, room of choice delivery, and expert setup on qualifying orders. It's never been easier to do more for less. Get 10% off your first eligible purchase. Hurry to wayfair.com or download the app now. Way fare every style, every home. So how should the GOP react by pointing all of this out? Marco Rubio back in 2020. Again, his family came from a communist country. Everybody was back in 2020 talking about Democratic Socialism. The bottom line is that unless the Democratic establishment steals it from Bernie Sanders, a Democratic Socialist is going to be the Democratic nominee for president. And that's a really big deal because Democratic Socialism sounds benign, but at the core of Democratic Socialism is Marxism. And at the core of Marxism is this fake offer that if you turn over more of your individual freedom, we're going to provide you security. We're going to provide you free health care. We're going to provide you free education. The problem is that when they can't deliver on it or when you're not happy with it, you don't get your freedoms back. And by freedoms, I don't just mean elections. I'm talking about the right to choose your own doctor, the right to make health care decisions for yourself, what your kids learn in school, what schools they go to, all that stuff you lose control over. And you don't get it back just because the security they promised you didn't happen. So that's what we're on the verge of having to decide here in this country. It's a reason why people flee countries that have this stuff. It's a big deal for America. Well, that is right. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, he points out that Hakeem Jeffries is not holding the line inside the Democratic Party. Hakeem Jeffries, my counterpart, the Democrat leader here in the House, was booed at some of these return parties last night. You saw that on social media and some of the clips. When he was being interviewed on the screen, the crowds in New York in his own backyard in the Bronx and one of these districts were booing him and they shouted, "You're next." Hakeem Jeffries has a tall task ahead of him right now. He's got to go out and somehow make a credible pitch to Democrat establishment donors that that's a good national investment right now. That's a tough one to make. He has just proven that he cannot even hold the line in his own backyard. How can he possibly defend against the Marxist march around the country in these other districts? And again, this is going to be the pitch by Republicans, President Trump added to this quarry. He says, "2028 should be easier because the Democrats are going crazy." Does this tell you that the Democratic Party's 2028 nominee will likely be or could likely be a Democratic socialist? Well, it should make it easier for Republicans because most of the nation is composed of same people. They don't want to. You know, if you look throughout history, go back thousands of years. You've always had socialism and communism by different names. It's never ever worked. It's not going to work this time. Okay, and the president is not wrong about that, but. But what this does require is for Republicans to look not crazy. Again, this has been my constant pitch, whichever party is the first to not crazy land is the party that likely wins. And this brings us to yesterday's hullabaloo that happened with regard to the Trump administration and a housing bill. So according to Politico, President Trump abruptly canceled the bill signing for major bipartisan legislation on housing affordability on Wednesday. He said he would not support the law until Congress passes his elections bill. Now, again, he's not vetoing it. And if he just doesn't do anything about it, it naturally becomes law within 10 days. Okay, so that's just how it works. He was scheduled to sign the 21st century road to housing bill on Wednesday afternoon. But he said that essentially he's not going to sign the bill until Congress rams through the save act. So what exactly is in this bill? Again, it's got some good stuff. It's got some bad stuff. It's bipartisan, which means that it's kind of a crap sandwich. The good stuff is that it reduces federal regulations. It streamlines environmental reviews. It speeds up the construction process. It expands financing. It encourages manufactured homes. And it offers funding to local governments that actually build more housing. So it increases the housing supply. On the bad side, you have the dumb populace nonsense about how corporate investors should not be able to buy a single family homes, which again, we've discussed this on the program before. None of that actually lowers the rent or lowers any of the housing prices when you do that. that's not the way the economy works. It is a marginal part of the housing stock and actually it disincentivizes production of new homes, which is what you actually need. Okay, so there's kind of one dumb part of the bill and then it's a good part to the bill. President Trump for his part, he says he doesn't care about the housing bill. Now, this seems like a political own goal. Why not sign it, make a big deal out of it and say that you're working on affordability. If you really believe affordability is a major electoral issue, you sign it, you make a big deal out of it and you wave it around. Instead, the president seems to think that he's got leverage with Republicans to what, destroy the filibuster. Based on the Save Act, if he doesn't have a signing ceremony or something. So the president put out a statement yesterday, the Elizabeth Pocahontas war in Central housing bill, which is of minor importance compared to the lower interest rates and even FISA, Pales in comparison to passing the Save America Act. That is what Americans, both Democrats, Republicans and everyone else care about. Get the bad Republicans to approve it or better yet, terminate the filibuster and approve it and everything else Republicans have ever dreamed of. The Democrats will do it in one hour, 100%. Republicans will feel very stupid if they don't do it first. I'll be watching with tears in my eyes. And so he wants them to destroy the filibuster, which of course, you're gonna miss it when it's gone. If there's one thing that we have learned about Senate filibuster rules, once the glass is broken, it cannot be unbroken. The president says that he doesn't really care that much about the housing bill. Again, I'm not sure what the purpose of this would be. You finally get some piece of legislation passed that you can wave around and you're like ripping on your own legislation. It's just, it's not logical. It is a political mistake. - If the housing bill that you didn't sign today, if it came to-- - No, I said I'm not signing a housing bill. I wanna see what happens. We'd say, look, the housing bill is, I made billions of dollars with housing. I know housing better than anybody, maybe anywhere. It's all about the interest rate. Lower the interest rate. You're gonna have all the housing you want. But you have to understand, I don't wanna hurt people that own houses too. These people for the first time in their lives they have valuable houses. They become rich. I don't wanna hurt them either. What you wanna do is what good for everyone, get the interest rates down. - Okay, so again, he's talking about getting the interest rates down. The problem is we now have inflation and so the interest rates are probably likely to go up. Well, a lot of this broke out into the open after behind closed doors in the Senate. So one of the problems with the president's approach to the Senate is he's alienated a lot of senators at this point. He's attacked a bunch of senators ranging from Bill Cassidy to Tom Tilles. There are a bunch of senators who aren't on board. In general, with a lot of what president Trump is trying to do. So a bunch of fighting occurred behind closed doors between Republicans and the president. The president was on the right side of some of these fights and on the wrong side of others. I'll say that he's on the right side when he is angry at Republicans who voted along with Democrats to suggest that he asked to quote unquote end action in Iran. It's a symbolic vote that doesn't mean anything. It's probably also unconstitutional if carried to its fullest extent. Now again, what is in the save act that the president is so agitated over? A bunch of stuff that I generally agree with, obviously, it requires individuals to provide documentary proof of US citizenship when you register to vote in a federal election. So states will not be able to accept a voter registration application unless you actually give that kind of proof. That would require a passport or a birth certificate or a naturalization certificate. A real ID card wouldn't be allowed because again, real ID cards can be issued to illegal immigrants in places like California. It adds photo ID requirements for in-person voting and photo ID requirements for requesting and submitting absentee ballots. And eligible voters could only register or re-register in person with an election official so no voter registration by mail or online voter registration or stuff like that. Now again, I'm in favor of a lot of these provisions. Do I think that we ought to blow up the filibuster over that? Again, you're gonna miss it when it's gone. Also, you don't have the votes for it. So Speaker Johnson is coming up with a workaround. His workaround is that we'll shove the save act into a reconciliation bill. And reconciliation is this process that avoids the filibuster by allowing a sheer majority and the Senate to just vote for it. The problem, of course, is that any reconciliation bill, you're gonna have people in the Senate who try to strip provisions out of the House version, but this is the Speaker's workaround. - The only path I think to get that done because you're never gonna get seven Democrats to join 53 Republicans in the Senate to do that. They will not do it. Chuck Schammer will never vote for that or release any Democrat to do it. You have to put it on a reconciliation bill. We believe that if you create a grant program that ties it to reconciling the budget and you allow blue states, if they come to their senses and they want to avail themselves or election integrity proposals and ideas and policies, they can draw down from a federal fund and use those funds. We're willing to invest heavily in that. And House Republicans will put together a reconciliation bill, reconciliation 3.0, that will have that. I talked to President through that and to tell this morning as I have in the past. And he said, can we do it? I said, we can. If the Republicans will stand together. - Okay, so I mean, if they stand together in the House is really not the question really as much more about the Senate. Naturally Democrats used this quasi breach between Trump and the Senate Republicans as an opportunity to smack him. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who again was behind part of this housing bill. Here she was on MSNOW ripping on the President. - He is in trouble and instead of changing his policies, instead of doing what the American people need and want, he's all saying, I'm gonna keep a bunch of them from voting. And that's what he's thrown down on. This is Donald Trump trying to subvert democracy because he understands that democracy is not gonna be in favor of Donald Trump and the Republicans come November. Okay, so again, I will say, I think that all the Harper and all sides of the Save Act is wildly overstated. When Democrats suggest that having a show ID to register to vote is some sort of great subversion of democracy, that's an overstatement. When Republicans suggest that the reason that they're losing particular elections, especially after they just won the House, the Senate, and the presidency is because millions and millions of illegal immigrants are voting or some such. That is not the problem. The problem is ballot harvesting, which by the way is not stopped by the Save Act. That is a major problem. But the idea that you have like tons of people who are illegally voting, the evidence for that is scanty at best, given the sort of current situation. Again, that doesn't mean it's not a problem or that we shouldn't fight it. But treating this as sort of like the existential crisis in America is just not related to what we currently know about voting procedures in the United States. All right, meanwhile on the foreign policy front, Mark Rudy was the Secretary General of NATO. He showed up at the White House yesterday. He has a good relationship with the president. The president, I think, was rightly ripping on NATO for their failure to help out in the Iran war and to keep the straight open, which again, I've made the case. And instead of cutting out truly crap deal with the Iranians, what the administration should be doing is simply saying, listen, we did what we wanted to do in Iran. We destroyed their nuclear factories. We buried them under rubble. We went after the ballistic missile facilities. We already destroyed their air force and their navy. And you know what? We don't care about the straight. The straight is your problem. I actually think the president was right about that to a certain extent. Again, I think in the best of all possible worlds, I think we just opened it up by force. But if we're not going to do that, we're better off walking away and saying to the Europeans, listen, you guys need their oil way the hell more than we do. Chinese and Japanese, you guys want to go in and work with the Iranians? Your problem now. In any case, the president is not wrong that our allies did nothing for us when it came to Iran. They just set a bunch of words. But I was disappointed. I was disappointed with Italy. I was disappointed with the UK. He's now gone. And you know, he had a lot of problems. But we were disappointed with the UK. We were disappointed with Germany and France. We're disappointed with most of Spain is ours. Spain is terrible, even from US to the end of the day. They don't want to pay anything. They think they're in for a free ride. Spain is not a good group. Not a good group at all. Yeah, so again, I do not blame the president for being really upset about all of that. I think that he is right about all of that. He says, listen, some oil too would be nice. We're always fighting for them, which of course is true. And also the president, you know, only he did try to take Greenland from Denmark and such. So they, you know, it's a mixed bag, shall we say. Do you want the allies to do more than what they are doing right now? Do you have oil? I just want the oil. We don't need their money. We don't need anything. We have the most powerful military in the world by far. But I just want loyalty. You know, we're so loyal to them. We're always fighting for them. We have thousands of troops all over Europe in Germany. We have 50,000 troops. And then you want a little, give us a little nudge, give us a little kiss. We don't want much. And they say, no, we can't do it. We're paying hundreds of millions of dollars for the troops that we have in Germany, the troops that we have in the UK, the troops that we have all over Europe. Okay, so again, he's not wrong about all of that. That, that part is absolutely true. Now, the Secretary General, he's trying to claim that NATO was supportive because American planes were taking off from European bases. But I mean, we basically pay for those European bases. I know. I know the heavy debates about whether your allies and your were with you enough. I just want to say one thing, which is. Say what? Yeah, but let me say one thing, which is, I know your thing. But let me, and I know the, about the, let's say, your, your, yeah, irritation about that. But you look at the numbers. Four to five thousand US planes taking off from bases in Europe. In the six weeks this war took place. Still, the ceasefire took place mid, mid-air April. Bookerrest, the airport in Romania, heading to, heading to close. It had to close for commercial traffic because they had to make sure were that you were able to send a tanker aircraft up in the air. So this is what I know. There have been isolated cases about which you are really disappointed. But generally speaking, your European LS has been there. I really want to make the point for it to 5,000 US planes taking off from European air bases. Again, whatever you think about our relationship with NATO, I will say this. The president, going out of his way, Mark Rudy, to talk about helping, or some type of Erdogan, who's the dictator of Turkey, who is an Islamist who supports actual terrorism all over the region. The infiltration of the Turkish point of view into American foreign policy is disastrous. Turkey caught their, they are working across purposes with the interests of the United States. Now we are talking about giving them F-35 parts, which is nuts. I'm sorry, that's crazy. One openly, openly talks about expanding the reach of the old-style Ottoman Empire throughout the Middle East. He openly talks about this. This is not like some sort of hidden secret. He is openly allied with Russia. The country holds Russian S-400 air defense systems. They support Hamas openly. And the president was praising them yesterday, like this is just a misread. Are you going to Turkey with a big gift bag? I think so. He is a member of NATO. Some people don't consider himself, but he really thinks he is a strong member of NATO. I'm going to probably do something that's going to make it very happy. And Turkey has a huge defense industrial base, 3000 companies working all over the alliance, also in the United States. So strong people. People don't know how big Turkey is in terms of the military. It's a very strong, they have a lot of our equipment, a very strong military because of him. Because of him, because of the magic of Erdogan. Again, the misread of Erdogan is astonishing here. Not the only Middle Eastern misread, of course, the attempts to tie Lebanon into the memorandum of understanding on Iran has been fully disastrous. It's a disaster area. According to Reuters, Lebanon and Israel, again, a new round of talks on Tuesday in Washington. And the talks did not go amazing. And the reason they didn't go amazing is because the Lebanese government was working with the United States government and with Israel in order to extrapate Hamas, a Hezbollah, which is an Iranian terror group in Lebanon. And that was going really well. Marco Rubio is brokering all of that. Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, he said that the hope was that the Lebanese government would be able to control more of their own territory and then Israel could withdraw from that territory. Here was the Secretary of State yesterday, with what was supposed to be the goal here. The only reason Israel is in Lebanon is because it has the low launch rockets and drones from there. They made that clear. And with the talks continue today, they started yesterday, they're going on today, they'll go on tomorrow. And that's exactly what they're talking to the Lebanese about with our mediation. And that is our hope. That the Lebanese are forces of the legitimate sovereign Lebanese government will continue to be able to control and secure more and more of their own territory. That's who needs to control Lebanese territory. Not a terrorist group like Hezbollah. So that's the goal. And I think these rebels have been clear. They don't have any foils with the Lebanese people. They don't have any claims on the territory of Lebanon. The reason why they're involved there is because the territory of Lebanon is being used to launch drones and missiles against Israel. But the more of that area the Lebanese armed forces are able to secure, the less of its and Hezbollah's control, the less its control is in Lebanon. And the Secretary of State is correct about all this. One reporter tried to claim that Israel acting against Hezbollah somehow undermines President Trump's deal with Iran. Here is the Secretary of State rejecting that. Do you believe as some elements of US intelligence come and assess that Israel is interested in undermining the current? I don't know where I'm talking to. I don't know where you're getting that stuff from. We're working on this. These Israelis are exactly what we're working on. All of our partners in the region are working on everybody understand what the President's red lines and positions are on this. I don't know what reports are. Are you going to be talking about it? Now again it's two separate, it's two separate tracks. Rubio's track is the right track. And then the Vice President's track is the wrong track. The Vice President is trying because of the threats of the Iranians to wrap Lebanon into the Iranian portfolio, which totally destroys any possibility of any actual real deal between Lebanon and Israel. Because if simultaneously, Israel and Lebanon want to destroy Hezbollah and the United States is telling them not to do it because we're trying to appease the Iranians, that's not going to work. And so at a certain point here we're going to have to make up our mind what we want. Now again, the President's rhetoric with regard to the MOU is divorced, shall we say, from the realities on the ground. So the President yesterday said that he would block any deal that included fees on shipping. I mean, I hate to break it to everybody, but the MOU explicitly says that after 60 days there will likely be fees on shipping. That Iran and Oman will be working out essentially transit fees, which are just holes. Would you block a final arancing, or if they included any kind of fees on shipping or maritime equity? It would be unacceptable to me because we have numerous strengths. And if you did that for them, you'd have to do it for other people. You have other strengths. I wouldn't allow it there either. Yeah, it would be a game changer. Okay, so I'm just going to point out that literally this morning the IRGC was announcing via the radio that vessels could not transfer without their permission. So this idea of the United States is in control of the strait is not true. It is not true in the slightest. And the fact that they are keeping it open so they can ship out their oil and rich themselves, which is the way they're they're building back up. And we waved a bunch of sanctions on them. We never should have waved. And that's how they're enriching. It's not that we're unfreezing all of their funds this moment, although we are infreasing some of their funds, supposedly to buy soybeans or some such, which which will immediately, by the way, be stolen and then sold by the IRGC. And all of this is Miss Begotten. Here's actual footage of the Iranian Navy announcing that their vessels are going to stop any vessels that try to transfer without permission. Attention, all vessels, attention, all vessels, attention, all vessels, incursion goals on Oman Sea. This is definitely warning. Transition in the straight-off room was disownly possible with secondary permission and on designated routes. If any vessels attempt to transit in the straight-field of our permission or AIS off or outside of the designated routes, it's responsible for any consequences of any danger. This is 780 000. Again, they are they're openly announcing that they control this stuff. It's just don't after don't. At a certain point, we're going to have to change our our attitude and our approach on all of this. It's just going to be a thing that has to happen because reality is going to intervene. Alrighty. There's no better way to celebrate America's 250th than to take some time to thank and appreciate our veterans. Joining me online is Clint Romashe. He's a former Army Staff Sergeant Combat Veteran, Medal of Honor recipient and Puritalk brand ambassador. And today he continues to advocate for veterans and serve ziborid member for America's warrior partnership working with Puritalk to support the veteran community. Clint, thanks so much for taking the time. Really appreciate it. Oh, Ben, thank you so much for having me today. So obviously you are awarded the Medal of Honor. There's no higher honor in in the United States. Tell that story. You know, being called a hero is always kind of an interesting thing Ben because for me, like two heroes are those that don't come home. We lost eight great men that day and to give a quick snapshot, it's 2009, half-Diana Stan, we're at a Combat Outpost feeding 50 Americans, two Latvians, six o'clock in the morning we get hit with 300 Taliban fighters. Odds are not in our favor. What ensues out of that is a 15-hour firefight. Again, like said, we ended up losing eight amazing men. But yet it's kind of weird when you kind of go through combat. How much love you see for your your fellow soldiers to your left and right as kind of the dust that I'm at outpost because it's said in such a vulnerable spot. The military deemed it a indefensible position, but I can tell you this I got to watch 50 Americans defend the indefensible. And it wasn't because of politics or any of that because they loved each other so much and the enemy hated us. And it was that love over coming and knowing you have someone to have your back taken thin when you have a uniform on. And more importantly, when you take the uniform off, you still have those that are always going to have your back. So, you know, your specific actions obviously ended with you being awarded the Medal of Honor. What was that day like for you on a specific level? You know, for me, it was it kind of sounds weird Ben when I say this. I felt like the first day I did my job in the military. You know, we always growing up, you know, you think I grew up. My dad was a bit on that my granddad in World War II. I grew up in the 80s. You think of war heroes and stuff as Chuck Norris on all these combat action videos. But it was really a sense of just doing your job. And for that day, it felt like I got to do it. And it was leading guys, you know, at one point, the enemy had breached our perimeter, was inside our wire. We knew that there were guys that were cut off isolated. We had no idea if they were live dead. And the big fear became, you know, thinking about coming back home and having a telegold star family didn't bring your son home. So initially it was leading a group of guys to go counterattack the enemy that had us outnumbered, had us outgunned, pushing them off our ammo supply points so we could continue to fight because we were running out of our ammo. Shut the front gate so they couldn't just keep pushing in on us and then go into recover those following. heroes so the enemy couldn't get them. It was kind of one of those surreal things where you're kind of just living life by the moment, but you also understand that you know we don't need to win this here and now we just need to take those steps and that's really what it was for me that day was to break it down. Here's the first thing we need to do. We can accomplish that, we can take our next step and like I said that was initially getting guys to believe in me to follow me when I asked him to basically go on a what was potentially going to be a one-way mission of counter attacking an enemy that had us outguned 8-1 odds that had us you know out out you know just outmaned out situated out maneuvered. They had the high ground. There's no place you could be outside where you weren't exposed, but they trusted enough in me to to follow and I was just so proud to be along their sides to be able to provide that support. Again it just goes back that that's what I think we do is American so often we don't realize the potential we have and it does take kind of some of these over the top things to really unlock that and challenge us and we just continue to see a time and time again. What impressed me was the 18-19 year old kids guys like Copus 19 years old he was the only young left in the fight on our defensive perimeter. He set them a humvee for 15 hours most of time by himself holding the whole eastern side of the camp on lock with his mark 19. No one would have blamed him for saying hey I need to displace an abandon this position but that kid did it that day. So proud of him and now he's he's a guidance counselor out in Cleveland Ohio for high school like what he's done after life has been amazing. So let's talk about that transition back to civilian life so obviously you know we hear all the time about how difficult it is for a lot of veterans to transition back to civilian life being from the firefight back into you know what we would normally consider normal life. How does that transition go and how is it that America's warrior partnership helps out? You know each veteran you know we look at them kind of overall as a mass you know we understand they have certain difficulties but really it comes down to one V1. Each veteran has their own unique experience and as you make that transition one of the biggest things we've noticed is just that that lense that loss of kind of self identity. Your part is something bigger than all of a sudden you're out. The guys like I can still tell you to this day what rather the feet smell like they're freaking ranch cord nuts like you're so embedded with these guys and you know I'm so deeply and then when you take that uniform off the next day they're gone they're half a country away and losing that kind of sense of identity and connection really kind of makes it hard for veterans to kind of cross to going out and experience and something that many of them have done that's one thing in the military as a leader that you're trying to tell your soldiers what to do because you know leaders always lead from example lead from the front but that's the first thing you do is a leader in the military that you've never done that you're trying to lead your you know give your eyes a bite on and so when a lot of them get out in the civilian world they most of the time they just don't know what they don't know and that's where America where a partnership steps in and we've understood like there's so many great nonprofit veterans out there that specialize in certain things we don't need to reinvent the wheel but we need to know these veterans and we need to plug them in with those you know those opportunities those earned benefits help them navigate the VA help them write resumes help them find proper employment not just higher in veterans to higher veterans that's one of our great initiatives is if you know a vet tele vet there's what almost 16 million veterans out in the US we need to know all of them because each and every one of them are very unique and the challenges they face you know when when it comes to you personally and reintegrating into civilian life obviously a lot of people struggle to find a purpose after you know experiencing what what for a lot of folks would be sort of the height of camaraderie and the height of of sort of visceral experience of life how did you find purpose coming back for me it was you know I got up North Dakota I started getting work in the oil fields and for me I'd understood that even though my time in the military was precious and I will never you know never have that taken away from me that's not who I was gonna always have to be and I had the mentality that when I got out the only thing I was ever owed was the opportunity to prove myself and I knew I had to start from somewhere and just prove it and like I said I didn't know what I was actually going to be doing in the oil fields and I went from low man on totem pole to managing eight hydro excavator trucks learning how to be a safety guy but it was those tools the military gave me that so many veterans praying to the table we just don't know how to convey that how we can convey hey we've got initiative in the absence of orders you know we we know what wrong looks like and we can confront it we have tack to be able to talk to various different you know people from around America um those are those soft skills that you kind of take for granted getting out of the military and the breakdown of communication that's what was hard for me I was thinking myself my first job it's like okay I'm a reconnaissance guy who's gonna hire someone they can throw 60 pounds on their back run up and down mountains shoot a weapon I could be maybe a multi-security cop at best but it was really those small things they attached to detail rules and regulations enforcing standards being a team player those are what got me through and more importantly it was two other veterans I worked with that mentored me in my journey because they had been through it and that was a critical thing that's what helped me so you know obviously pure talk is partnered with america's warrior partnership in order to help veterans maybe can talk a little bit about what that partnership looks like and why it's so important for people to support it you know pure talks have been an amazing uh program with uh america warrior partnership uh the roundup that they've been doing with their customers I mean so many so many Americans always come up and you know want to thank you for your service and they know I didn't serve but felt like it should do more well service to the country doesn't have to come from where in the uniform it it comes from showing up and doing what you can and I think to today right now just with the roundup of the customers from pure talk have been doing has raised almost 750 thousand dollars for america's warrior partnership it's been amazing one of the other great things that has came out of the partnership with pure talk in a wp is one of our initiatives known as deeds not words said that there's so many veteran on profits out there there's a lot of resources available for veterans but there's always those one-offs that they they come against the challenge and there's nothing to really fill the gap uh one example real quick was we had a veteran that had got into a new work opportunity was trying to pursue that and he needed three hundred dollars to buy the tools to get to his new job so he's trying to come off his disability trying to improve himself he didn't have the three hundred dollars for these tools to work this new job that was going to lift him up and deeds not word stepped in and it's great to see those americans that will step in like pure talk in the military leadership that they come out of to say hey sometimes we need to do something not just talk about doing like let's let's make action when others talk about action and that partnership between pure talk america warrior partnership and all of those that are supporting it has been just hands down so amazing well clinton romache former army staff sergeant and a metal of honor recipient thank you so much for your time and obviously thanks much for your service and everything you continue to do for america's warriors today really appreciate it thank you so much then already folks the show continues for our members right now we'll get to Larry david ripping on the ufc fight at the white house 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