Good morning, everyone. This is Anne Baker on
talking with Anne on Newsstar 1492.30.
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927-1100.
And we don't have Brian on yet. We
actually have him now. We do have Brian
on. Good morning, Brian. How the heck are
you? Good morning, and I'm I'm doing well.
Thanks for having me on. No. No. No.
It's been eight years. You know? I couldn't
do Friday without you.
So there you go.
I know today is a very special day.
I'm quite sure,
Catherine and Luke,
are
she's probably telling Luke about Jesus on the
cross,
but she's also reminding Luke that good behavior
brings, the Easter bunny and all kinds of
wonderful chocolatey
candy as well.
Do you have any special things, Brian, that
you as a family and maybe with extended
family do on Easter?
Well, we absolutely get together. We
reexamine the past year since the last Easter,
and, you know, we focus on what the
day means and, you know, the fact that
in
in Christian faith, like our lord and savior,
Jesus Christ, died on the cross for our
sins
and,
few days later, rose.
And it's just something
that you
you it's your faith. It's what you believe
in. And we we talk about that. We
discuss that. We talk about how that has
impacted our life in the last year
and what we're trying to do to be
better tomorrow.
Yeah.
Alright. So let me ask you a very
big question that a lot of people are
asking.
Sure. What do you think,
former attorney general Pam Bondi is doing today?
Yeah.
So, again, this goes back to a baseline
expectation of performance.
You can be a great person like Pam
Bondi is. You can be a very effective
state attorney general from Florida like she was.
But the past fourteen months, again, Trump's going
to make,
decisions based on performance. I mean, this is
how you get things done. He's done this
his whole
life and career
in real estate and business and heck even
in The Apprentice and and politics
that if you are not meeting expectations or
exceeding expectations
and performance is lackluster,
then decisions have to be made. And this
usually happens,
you know, a year and a half, two
years into a a presidential term anyway, but,
you know, she has her exit ramp to
the private sector.
And, you know, you you have to appreciate
everything that she attempted to do.
But
in the eyes of the president, she didn't
measure up. And the things that I'm upset
about you know, she did a lot of
good things. There's no question about it. But
the things I'm upset about is the lack
of accountability
for the actions,
more specifically, that Department of Justice took against
Donald Trump when he was a private citizen
in the in the inter,
years between his presidential terms so that that
never happens to anybody else ever again regardless
of political,
affiliation party, etcetera,
that you don't try to
or have an environment that creates,
all these fake lawsuits,
all these ridiculous,
things that cost Trump and his family
millions and millions of maybe even tens of
millions of dollars to defend himself,
as well as some of the other accountability
factors,
with regard to the campaign promises. So that's
kinda where my mind is at. Again, you
know, performance match. Usually, you have your learning
curve into a new role. You get yourself
situated, and then you're able to start making
decisions. And usually at that fourteen to sixteen
month,
timeline,
you can kinda make a decision of whether
or not someone's got their groove or they
don't.
And, unfortunately, there's a lot of missteps,
with Pam Bondi, especially with how things were
communicated
regarding the Epstein files
when she was on, you know, the media
the media hits.
And, again, this is the Trump administration,
and everything and all things defer
to the president who was elected by the
people to make decisions.
So that's that would that would be my
comments. Yeah. She, she gave the left ammo.
She talked, but we didn't see any of
the names that we're familiar with
being
prosecuted.
And,
when we
anyone who
understood what was happening under Biden Obama understands
the weaponization
of an entire government system
against Donald Trump.
We knew it. We knew who was doing
it. We knew the open borders. Mayorkas
should certainly be in prison for the rest
of his life,
as should Biden and Obama, but there was
nothing. She she didn't give us
the prisoners we wanted to see
handcuffed and prosecuted.
Yeah. And, again, that's that's what it comes
down to is the accountability
that sends a message to others that may
try this again in the future. You're not
going to do this because we are going
to prosecute.
You are gonna be found guilty by, a
jury of your peers, and you are going
to be, thrown in prison.
And a lot of that
oh, I mean, a significant amount of the
things that we've encountered over the years,
we haven't seen anything. And I get it.
Look. Government, the wheels of justice, they go
very, very, very slow, but you also have
to figure out how to do things in
the environment that you're in. And that's why,
you know,
from the political aspect, people are like, well,
why you know, Trump just fired Kristi Noem,
and, you know, luckily, they were able to
get a replacement because a fellow senator was
able to be confirmed.
That's not gonna be the case with the
attorney general, and, again, just like in this
first term,
there is acting capacity that can be for
a significant amount of time, and Todd Blanch,
who is the deputy attorney general, is gonna
take that role probably for the max a
hundred and eighty days, maybe more,
until they find another,
candidate to go through the the senate ringer,
which probably won't be until after the midterms
anyway,
depending on how things go,
with regard to finding a candidate and getting
the votes needed to be confirmed.
So it's it's just unfortunate because, again, you,
me, everyone listening, we want accountability.
When people abuse
government,
powers
or go I mean, again, this all was
targeted at Donald Trump. If they could target
a guy like Trump, a former president, one
of the wealthiest guys in the country,
they can literally target anybody, and you need
to stop this now. And there has to
be accountability. There has to be faces, names,
and those individuals
held accountable
in prison
up to the full 600 of the law,
and we we haven't seen that. That's the
unfortunate part.
No. We we haven't, and it's, it's sort
of a a scary kind of thing
because
the Democrats
continue to go back to something that I
think is
it's a it's a leaf in the wind
with these Epstein
files.
They had the Epstein file. The Democrats had
the Epstein files.
If there were Republicans on it that they
could nail to a cross
They were. Coming in today,
If they could have found those people, they
would have used the Epstein files.
Why do you think both sides
of they're they're treating it like a wildly
horrible disease.
They don't wanna touch it. They don't wanna
reveal what
was in it.
Do you think we'll ever get beyond it,
and can we stop the Democrats from continuing
to use it as a cudgel?
Well, the sad part about this is, you
know, the Epstein files basically took the place
of the Russian hoax. Not necessarily saying that
it's a hoax, but that it's a political
distraction
that encompasses
so much energy, so much time
that you're
you're utterly wasting, and that, again, unfortunately falls
back to the attorney general, Pam, on the
way she's carried this out. You know, she
said that there was a client list on
her desk,
on on
live camera and live TV, and that wasn't
the case,
things like that. So,
again, when you tie into
your comment, you know, if there was anything
significant why didn't the democrat they had democrats
have full control of the house, senate, and
presidency.
Why didn't they do it? Why didn't they
do it during the Obama administration when this
happened? And, again, because DC
and the powers that are and this isn't
conspiracy theory. This is just the facts.
There are people that are associated with Epstein
that probably did no criminal wrongdoing but had
interactions with him
on one thing or another.
And whatever reason,
from a hesitation standpoint, from the Democrats, again,
it's a political tool. It's political leverage to
distract from the things of the day. Because
if you're in the minority,
you wanna do everything you can to slow
the wheels of the majority.
Distractions, political theater, you you know, you name
it. All the things that we're seeing. So
with regard to the
Epstein files, again, you know,
are there reasons for redactions?
Absolutely. If there are individuals that are still
alive that are minors that don't wanna be
a part of this or under judicial
seal, then that's one thing. But if there
are other reasons that things are redacted that
we don't know, that's that's kinda concerning. Now
granted, we
Trump passed and, I mean, Trump signed after
congress passed all this stuff to be released,
and they did release what they could legally
do. A lot of the rest is under,
unfortunately,
judicial seal that they'd have to go to
each of the individual judges and unseal this
and make a make an appeal, and then
the judge has to make a decision, etcetera,
etcetera.
But it's a really administratively
daunting task,
and they did. They released millions and millions
of files. But in terms of
the mantra of a Epstein client list
because, again, what was the initial accusation? That
Epstein was running a sex trafficking ring,
where he was getting underage girls that were
being trafficked to, quote, unquote, rich and powerful.
And
according to Kash Patel and according to former
deputy,
FBI director,
Dan Bongino, they didn't find evidence of that.
They just found evidence that Epstein is just
a sick, twisted, perverted pedophile,
on among other things, and it was just
confined to him. And a lot of the
stuff, quote unquote, in the Epstein files was,
you know,
disgusting crap that he
downloaded to his own computer that we would
never wanna see in the public sphere. Now
that's up for debate. Right? Because most stuff
we we all wanna see in the public
sphere, but if you did release that,
and what I'm talking about is child pornography,
that kind of discussing stuff, do do we
wanna see that? I I I mean, I
don't know. That's the kind of decisions that
I'm sure are being made behind the scenes,
But in terms of the evidence and following
the evidence and then the the last piece,
not to draw on here, but the last
piece is whether or not
Epstein
actually killed himself
or if the environment was created so that
he could be killed
because there's so many sketchy things
that call into question to follow-up
around his death. Why was the prison guards,
you know, asleep? Why were they shopping? Why
are they not checking on the required timelines?
Why was he given extra linens? You know,
all that kind of stuff that could lead
to conspiracy theories, but those leads should be
followed through
and have an unequivocal
understanding of what that is even though those
prison guards have been fired. You need more
details. And, again, you keep pulling at the
thread, but sometimes
you pull out a thread and there's nothing
there. And that's that's where things turn into
conspiracies.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. It is quite a conundrum. We we
will probably never know. But,
Brian, what do you make of our new
governor,
governor Mikey
Sherrill,
and what
she has signed into law,
since taking office?
Yeah.
Not I don't have a very odd opinion.
Obviously, that shouldn't shock anyone. Notwithstanding
what she campaigned and what she promised to
do and what she's actually doing now that
she's in the Governor's Mansion.
And, obviously,
she doesn't have a clue, and and there
are things that will probably work to our
benefit from a conservative standpoint
from a lawsuit, and what making its way
through the judicial process with regard to, some
of these bills that she passed or signed
or rather with regard to,
illegal immigrants and etcetera. Now remember, the fundamental
aspect here is that she believes in sanctuary
city, sanctuary state policies, which by definition
are Confederate
practices. Right? You know, there were states during
the civil war, prior to civil war, that
refused to enact,
you know,
the freedom of slaves, etcetera, and and obviously
the larger debate over, quote, unquote, property rights
where slaves were considered.
And we did the entire war over it
because there were states that refused to abide
by the federal government, etcetera. So this is
the same thing when you have sanctuary state,
sanctuary,
city policies
where you do not
yield to the supremacy clause where you work
with Department of Homeland Security and get illegal
immigrants out of this country.
I e, you're a Confederate state, which is
what the state of New Jersey is under
Mikey Sherrill on the Democrats.
Now everything that she's passing, again, just shows
what an absolute complete moron he is because
she doesn't seem to understand fundamental economics. What
is the number one problem or issue or
challenge in the Garden State? It is
affordability,
taxes, and costs, all the above, financial and
economic challenges.
And yet they don't seem to realize that
literally for the last twenty five years, quarter
of a century where the Democrats have been
in control with the exception of eight years
of Christie
and no legislative control for Republicans in the
last quarter century, that everything thing that's transpired
is literally the result of policies of the
Democrats that Mikey Sherrill champions.
And why are taxes so high? Because there's
out of control government spending. Why is it
out of control government spending? Well, look at
what you spend our ridiculous $60,000,000,000
budget on. 8,000,000,000
of it alone is for illegal aliens and
individuals, noncitizens that do not belong in The
United States, much less the state of New
Jersey. And then you look at taxes and
everything else. And I'm looking forward to when,
Nick Shirley comes to New Jersey to look
at the fraud that's going on here like
you see in the Minnesota and California. So
you have massive amounts of fraud that are
likely going on in the state of New
Jersey. And guess what? People
have made decisions. Corporations, businesses. We talked a
few weeks ago about Exxon leaving after nearly
a hundred and fifty years in the state
of New Jersey, leaving.
Businesses
cannot thrive in an environment that is so
taxed, that is so regulated,
that is so challenging
that when you have 49 other options,
you can
let the market decide where your decisions are
gonna make. So, unfortunately,
here we are in April, three months into,
Mikey Sheryl's,
first term,
and it's just more of the same. And
if you wanted things to change, you should
have made a different decision,
election day. Look.
Elections have consequences, and voters get what they
voted for good and hard. And then that's
that is under the umbrella of whether or
not you come out to vote at all
or whether or not you
encourage others to vote, etcetera, or you stay
home, whatever that may be. Right? I mean,
voter participation
was, again,
from the Republican side, was abysmal relatives of
the Democrats. Democrats were
were ready to go, and and this is
what we're
unfortunately suffering. So, again, the biggest thing that
I'm focused on is the fact that she
signed these bills,
into law with regard to legal immigration, sanctuary
state policies,
sanctuary city policies, and working with ICE and
DHS,
which again are now,
warrant for lawsuits, which again,
not to give him credit, but governor Murphy
was actually smart enough to pocket veto those
because of,
you know, the the the trust initiative
from an executive order standpoint, not to try
to put it through legislative channels.
And now it's open for for lawsuits, which
will probably make its way through the courts.
And, eventually,
it'll prove that it's,
that's unconstitutional
what she has done, but, unfortunately, we have
to deal with the crap in the meantime.
How long do you think it'll take? We
we see that Pam Bondi was fired because
Yeah. It, you know, of how long it's
taken her to actually get someone we recognize
in,
shackles.
But,
how long do you think it it will
take the people to start feeling the pain?
I mean, people are blaming Donald Trump for
the pain,
of affordability. But how long do you think
it's going to actually take New Jersey residents
to see it's because of
Mikey?
Well, you know, I I try to go
by the the adage of, you know, if
it when it's bad enough, people adjust.
But, apparently,
it's not bad enough yet. As as much
as we talk about it and everyone listening
are feeling the pain,
a lot of the things that we feel
in the state of New Jersey has nothing
to do with Donald Trump. Taxes on the
from property tax standpoint has nothing to do
with Donald Trump.
Income taxes has nothing to do with Donald
Trump. Sales taxes have nothing to do with
Donald Trump.
The tolls that we have up and down
the expressway,
the turnpike, and the parkway have nothing to
do with Donald Trump. The spending of the
government on illegal aliens has nothing to do
with Donald Trump. The ridiculous spending on welfare
programs without auditing and making sure that these
are individuals
that should be on it, that we we
do wanna help are are most challenged in
the state of New Jersey. But that they're
actually citizens and they actually qualify, and they're
not being taken advantage of. Donald Trump has
nothing to do with that. All these inputs
that have a direct effect
on
the state of New Jersey and cost.
Donald Trump has nothing to do with the
fact with regard to,
energy prices in particular. The taxes on a
gallon of gas, he has nothing to do
with that. New Jersey does. He has nothing
on the fact that guess what? New Jersey
is the only state where you don't pump
your own gas. Guess what? You have a
labor cost that is baked into the cost
of a gallon
of,
of gas that you purchased. You're paying for
that labor for someone to spend the four
minutes to pump your gas, where the other
49 states do not have that. Imagine if
that wasn't the case. Again, these
are simple things, and I get Jersey girls
don't pump their own gas. I get it.
But at the same time, it all comes
down to all these decisions that were made
at the state level that have nothing to
do with Donald Trump that predate him, and
this has been going on for a quarter
of a century. Yeah. It's nothing to do
with Donald Trump. I know. I know t
Trump derangement syndrome is out there, but the
cause has not yet been found.
Brian, you are,
involved in the weapons industry.
How do you see
the,
Iranian conflict
going
knowing what you do about weapons?
I'm sure you listen more carefully than most
of us about the damage done by Iran,
which means they still have weapons.
Mhmm. And you've heard about the,
jet going down in Iran.
What are your thoughts about those issues?
Well,
so, again, I'll preface this by saying even
though that my profession is as a defense
contractor in building weapons and vehicles,
for the US military. I absolutely hate war.
It's last resort. But when we're in that
situation,
we want maximum damage, which is what Trump
is doing
with regards to the weapons and the the
vehicles that he's chosen. Now
war is
a very, very foggy environment.
Things go our way, things do not go
our way, and things take longer than expected.
Things may take shorter than expected.
And depending on the objectives that have been
identified
at the gecko or if there is mission
creep, which sometimes happens
because you discover more intel and the mission
expands because,
oh, we were going in with these assumptions
and these were the mission objectives,
but guess what? We just learned more. So
those mission objectives
have to be expanded, thus the mission creep,
takes over, which I would suspect is,
unfortunately going on right now. But at the
same time,
we need to address this because, again, everyone
keeps asking the question, well, what was the
imminent threat from Iran?
You know,
news flash, it's been forty seven years. They've
been an imminent threat saying death to America
and that they would kill us if they
could. And if they could do so with
a nuclear weapon, they would do so,
among other things. But the fact that we
we achieved
objectives of alright. We took out Forto and
the other nuclear facilities,
from that standpoint so that it could
do an actual nuclear weapon that's separate from,
you know, ICBMs and their continental,
ballistic missiles that could also be armed with
enriched uranium. Because, again, if you already went
after the production and the facilities where this
has already been completed,
okay. Cool. That's what we did last June.
And then there's the fact that why would
you enrich uranium past 20%?
Because the only reason to enrich uranium past
20%
is for nuclear reasons. Nothing else. Everyone else
has can utilize uranium for,
you know, public or, you know, generic purposes
of energy. But anything past that, again, you're
getting to the point of nuclear weapons.
So,
the objectives were to okay. We gotta get
rid of any kind of capability where uranium
can be enriched
and where this could be used on any
other kind of missile payload, I in this
case, ICBMs,
as well as, okay. Well, we're gonna decimate
the Iranian navy ship. I I think they
I think the last count was a 167
ships were sunk to the bottom of the
ocean. The air force has been decimated, the
infrastructure, etcetera.
And, again, what are the overarching mission objectives?
Is it punishment?
Is it retribution?
Is it regime change? Is it all the
above?
Is it so that that neighbor,
Iran, in that neighborhood of the Middle East
stops doing what they're doing?
Changes their behavior so they don't continue to
do what they're doing, and as well as,
accountability if they did kill 40,000
private citizens. So that that's a long winded
way of saying that in terms of the
weapons and and where this is going, again,
when we first spoke about this in that
first week, I told you that likely that
this would be a weeks, months endeavor,
because this is never simple. This is never
easy, especially in The Middle East,
among other, you know, challenges that are that
are on the ground. So, again, there are
mission objectives that have been completed. There's no
doubt that there's been mission creep with regard
to new information that was learned along the
way, new intelligence, etcetera.
But, again,
the short term impacts that everyone is feeling
that they're more focused on is
energy at the pump. Right? What you're paying
in gas. And, again, this stems back to
the fact that it takes forty five days
to
refine a barrel of oil, and it's not
necessarily that we have any favor for the
oil that comes out of OPEC because we
do our own here, in United States, and
we are pumping more.
But the cost of transporting it, if diesel,
which is trucks,
diesel transportation energy,
has an impact because of the supply in
the global market, then, yeah, you're going to
feel that, and that's being passed on. And
Then in some states, there is more cost
per gallon because there's a higher tax. Obviously,
if you go into Pennsylvania, they have a
higher tax per gallon than New Jersey does.
New Jersey still has significant tax,
obviously, on a gallon of gas. So and
then the other
thing that you see, obviously that I think
American people do not support is another forever
war or ground troops
on the ground, and that comes into Card
Island on whether or not you would
want to take that or if president Trump
sees
a leverage point with regard to that. Now,
again, you heard me say this. Anyone can
look this video up or multiple videos. Donald
Trump is nothing if not consistent. He said
repeatedly since the eighties
about Iran that they need to be,
readjusted in their world view. Let's put it
that way. As well as if we are
going to do anything, we are going to
take their oil,
and that was his point with Iraq. We
went into Iraq, and we did all these
attempts for nation building,
but we didn't do anything or take anything
in exchange, and we expended all this blood
and treasure, and we even take their oil
from his perspective. Now you were also heard
me say that in the twenty first century,
one of the big problems that we have
is when you go to war, there isn't
conquest anymore even though, for instance, Russia is
trying to do that with Ukraine by taking
land. When, unfortunately, United States has gone into,
war scenarios, whether it's Vietnam, whether it's Korea,
whether it's Gulf Wars, whether it's Iraq, whether
it's Afghanistan, now Iran,
there wasn't a conquest in terms
of geographical land grab
or anything else. It was more of a
behavioral
change or retribution
because of past behavior. And that's where it
gets complicated because what we've unfortunately seen is
the enemy will wait us out. We'll wait
The US out because people will eventually turn.
Politics will change, elected officials will change, different
decisions will be made, etcetera, etcetera.
So that's where things get into potential quagmire
territory. And, again, I'm not a fan of
troops on the ground. I am a fan
of making sure that we understand what the
mission is and that we have a beginning,
middle, and end of what that is, and
that we take we we do what we
need to, and we go home, and we
focus on domestic issues. But national security is
a huge aspect of that, and there's probably
still a whole lot of information
that has not been shared, which is why
the president has made the decisions that he
has made and why he made them quickly
to deal with Iran now rather than later.
What role do you see
with NATO?
President Trump is obviously very disappointed in some
of the countries,
that are in NATO.
But what do you think is going to
happen
once the war is over?
Iran has been forced
to,
give up
their nuclear
dreams?
And,
what do you think is going to happen
with these countries that resisted
helping The United States Of America,
in this war?
Yeah. So, obviously, Trump has indicated, you know,
we will remember. In the next three years,
Trump is still president.
And it could very well be that we
end this
this war
without,
completing some mission objectives like, okay. If we
go to war with Iran, are there a
likelihood that the Strait Of Hormuz gets impacted,
which game theory this out, this is exactly
what happened. And do we not leave until
we,
secure that that's open up for from a
global trade standpoint, global logistics standpoint, or do
we just say, you know what? We we
did what we needed to. We took out
the Ayatollah. We took out a lot of
the members of the regime. We showed our
military might. We took out their air force.
We took out their navy. We took out
their infrastructure.
And, you know what, we're just gonna pick
up our ball and go. And guess what,
Europe? This is your problem because you did
not help us, in the forefront. Trump could
take that position, and that can be debated
on whether or not that's the right thing
to do or not. But, again,
The United States has been the and this
is what ticks me off more than anything.
The United States and by default, the American
taxpayer
has been able to fund the lifestyle
and the culture of Europe for the last
almost hundred years and has enabled them to
enact socialist
policies because they do not spend enough on
their own national security and defense. They have
too many of these ridiculous government programs
and socialism
as a government,
you know, organizational process and culture that they've
been taking advantage of The United States, and
that's Trump's point too. It ticks me off
that if they have an issue,
they should be the ones leading and driving
this. And if they're if NATO
from that standpoint
remember, it's North Atlantic Treaty Organization
meant as a coalition so that World War
two type stuff doesn't ever happen again. And,
again, until Trump came along,
only Greece and Poland were the ones that
were meeting their 2% commitment. And then Trump
got everybody to revvy up that in the
first term, and he's now doing it again
more in the second term. That's gotta be
more than 2%. It's gotta be 5% of
GDP of of contributions to NATO. We shouldn't
be funding it wholly, and we shouldn't be
the ones that put boots on the ground
all the time to solve issues
that Europe should be dealing with. Again, we
are an ocean away. We have our own
challenges here in The United States that we
wanna deal with, but we also don't wanna
have a situation with a Stalin and or
a Adolf Hitler where we let it fester.
And while it's small, we don't take it
out and kill it, and it grows bigger
and bigger that it becomes our problem from
a global standpoint. Again, I get that, but
Europe needs to take a bigger initiative,
spend more of their own damn money as
opposed to the American taxpayer on things with
national security and defense. And, again, Trump will
enact this. He'll remember Spain.
Good luck, Spain, because your trade
is going to be severely impacted
with regards to The United States or anyone
else who does trade with Spain because of
not allowing NATO air force bases and airspace
to be utilized
with this, situation with Iran. So there will
be accountability that at least in the short
term, meaning three years during Trump's presidency, that
he will put the screws to the countries
that when he asked them for assistance, much
like they always ask United States for assistance
to deal with things, I e Ukraine,
Russian war, and everything else in between.
Again, Trump's going to remember that, and he's
gonna respond in kindly. And truthfully, I'm I'm
a 100% on board with whatever he determines
with regard to that because I'm fed up
supporting all this crap in Europe that doesn't
give us a benefit
in a,
in a, you know, cost benefit analysis that
favors United States. Well, it seems to me
that almost every nation in NATO, other than
for Poland and Hungary,
they
have accepted so many immigrants into their countries
that they are literally starving their own population
in order to give illegals
that they've allowed in. I guess now they're
legal immigrants in these in these NATO countries.
They've they've allowed so much money to go
to them that they they don't have money
for their own citizens.
What do you think is going to happen
with that? And how do you think it's
going to affect NATO and its,
our relationship
with NATO?
Yeah. So usually, again, this is no different
than anything we've seen throughout history. This is
nothing new. You know, you got the Soviet
Union when they collapsed, when they just couldn't
sustain,
the spending and everything they were doing. Same
thing in a a small business if it
collapses when you overextend yourself or even personal
bankruptcies when you overextend yourself. Eventually, there's something
that's going to snap
where it cannot continue,
and you have to do something to fix
that in the short term. And guess what?
Europe doesn't seem,
smart enough or motivated enough to do that.
At least we have those debates here in
United States where we're now revealing all this
absolute fraud,
perpetrated on the American taxpayer and the American
citizens by noncitizens
and by illegal immigrants,
that have just taken advantage of every aspect
of being within The United States borders that
we need to change.
Again, there's going to be a breaking point.
You cannot continue this.
You know, again, my my funny,
comment with regard to our national debt that's
unfortunately now approaching $40,000,000,000,000
is,
why don't we just get rid of Hawaii,
sell that for $20,000,000,000,000
to Japan, amortize it over a hundred years,
and get rid of it, pay off half
our debt, and then deal with China,
another avenue with regard to,
other other territories that we may have because,
obviously, you know, we had purposes and reasons
for certain things, and you can change that.
But, ultimately, there is a breaking point where
you cannot continue the behavior that you're doing,
and it either collapses
or you fix it and adjust it, and
you figure out how to move forward. And,
again, Trump has mastered that with regard to
his own businesses.
He was never ever personally in bankruptcy, but
he used the bankruptcy laws to his benefit
for his businesses,
to reorganize,
to,
basically write off debt, etcetera, all those kind
of stuff. That is completely legal under United
States laws. The same can be said with
regard to any kind of restructuring.
And, again, they're our biggest debtors are Japan
and China, unfortunately.
Now if what if we go and say,
China, guess what? You know? We're not gonna
pay all this debt back. Will they go
to war with us over that, or will
that be another escalatory thing? Japan, same thing.
They're just not gonna pay debt.
You know, a lot of things can happen
with regard to those avenues. But with with
Europe, there's gonna be a breaking point, and
they're going to collapse because they've allowed this
infiltration
of all these illegal aliens
in their countries.
That's actually 10 times worse than what we're
dealing with here in The US, which is
which is scary to even think about in
terms of the impact, but not in terms
of the,
the real numbers. Yeah. Well, we do. We
we we have to be afraid of, our
own state. We have to be afraid of
other blue states that are allowing these
illegal
immigrants to impact
not just the crimes that are being committed,
but the amount of money that the American
taxpayer has to spend to keep these people
here, to keep them alive, to keep them
housed and clothed and sheltered in all the
ways that they wanna be.
And and I don't know how he's going
to end that.
Yeah. Look. Again, you I sound like broken
record when I say this. Bring us down
to the smallest level in the state of
New Jersey. Right? You wanna know why housing
prices are so high? There's too much demand
because guess what? There's too many illegal aliens
in the state of New Jersey, probably a
million of them.
Driving demand in terms of housing, whether that's
apartments or or whatever it may be. They're
demanding more rent. Therefore,
your prices are going up. You wanna know
why health insurance and health care costs are
so expensive? Blame illegal immigration. There are too
many people that are illegally owned that do
not pay, that use urgent care, and that
use emergency rooms as primary doctors, and they
don't pay. So guess what? You get charged
by the individuals who can pay to pay
for those who do not pay. Wanna know
why property taxes with regard to schools are
so expensive? Because there's too many kids that
are illegal aliens, anchor babies that are that
are infiltrating our schools that you need to
hire English as a second language or other
things to assist the individuals,
that drive up the cost. That's where this
comes from. It's fundamental
economics.
Just look at the basics, and, unfortunately, people
don't seem to understand that as a as
an easy level. Yeah. Yeah. How true.
If they did, we wouldn't have the governors
that we have. In fact, all of the
blue states,
the people, if they had been smart enough
to understand exactly
what being a Democrat
consisted of, they would never have voted for
the people that they did vote for.
We've got Rich on the line. Good morning,
Rich. How are you? And, hope your beautiful
Easter weekend is just that, beautiful.
Thank you. I appreciate that. I hope you,
both of you have a nice Easter
Oh, yeah. And, or Passover, whatever you recognize.
I just wanna comment on one thing is
that,
with respect to this war or conflict or
whatever you wanna call it, I don't think
they should pull out until they, can verify
that there's no nuclear weapons or capabilities.
I think there's too much pressure
right now politically to pull out
and all of this would be for nothing
if they don't completely
eliminate that.
Yeah. What are your thoughts?
No. I think that's a good observation because,
again, there's the mantra of stay the course
no matter how difficult,
things are with regard to the polls or
anything else. And, again, take this back to
the most fundamental level. Trump from a political
standpoint was definitely advised and knows that when
he made this decision that there is going
to be a political
repercussion. There's always political repercussions when it comes
to military action. But that if you pull
out
away from your objectives,
then we lost 13,
men and women
for nothing. Right? The soldiers that lost their
lives in the initial,
blood and treasure that we lost. So that's,
again, that's the commander in chief's decision. And
does it extend out to weeks and months,
etcetera? And that's that's kinda my point of
whether or not you cut bait or have
you completed your initial mission objectives? Yes or
no? Or has this become more complicated? Has
it become a quagmire?
Or do you do you cut your losses?
You know, the fundamental thing that you're taught
in kindergarten that I do not agree with
is to finish what you started. That can
be the case, but sometimes you do have
to cut,
based on new information and new circumstances. But
I I kinda more to your side, Rich,
with regard to if we have the capability
and the ability
to get the uranium and get it out,
then great. But if it's too
tall too tall of an order or too
costly, then maybe different decisions have to be
made. And we take the accomplishments that we
did by taking out the Ayatollah and a
lot of members of the IRGC.
We sink the navy and the army, and
we've allowed attrition to allow these weapons to
to be utilized with Iran. They still will
have some weapons for some time, but attrition
has made them use a lot of their
weapons, which will take them,
quite some time to recover. And, again, this
is what makes it so difficult
because how long do we wanna do it?
How long can we tolerate
this as American,
voters and taxpayers? Because,
again, the only thing that changes the election
trajectory of anything in this country is the
economy and war.
And right right now, it it could be
a double whammy with regard to
that. Yeah. Well, we are at the end
of our,
segment.
Rich,
thank you. You,
you know, Rich, all I would tell you
to do is think about how Israel
prior to this so called war,
Israel would go in and destroy
all of the places where they were,
where they were,
purifying the uranium.
And,
I think Israel will go in again if
necessary to do the finish up work that
needs to be done so war ends, and
we don't have to at least worry about
Iran
or the other terrorist organizations
they supply money to.
Anyway,
Rich, happy Easter to you and your family.
God bless you. Take care. Take care. And,
my friend Brian. Brian, the same to you.
Thank you, my friend, for being on. You
are amazing.
I could talk about just about anything to
you. I could throw things at you that
I
thinking that you you may actually have to
pause for a moment to think about, that
you've read about it,
but you always come through, and you are
amazing. So, keep up the good work, my
friend. May god bless you,
Catherine, and your beautiful son
with all of the gifts that,
are out there and, that you will use
wisely.
Thank you for being
on. No. Thanks for having me. And, you
know, to everyone listening, happy Easter. You know,
again, what we talked about in the beginning,
you know, are
my lord and savior,
died for my sins and died for my
family's sins, and this is something to reflect
on today as we go through the Easter
Easter weekend. So I'm just, I'm just very,
very, very, very, very appreciative, and, thank you
for having me. No. Always. Thank you. Happy
Easter, Brian.
God bless.