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It's the day after New Year's, and I sincerely hope all your resolutions, hopes, and dreams are already starting to come to fruition. I can tell 2026 is gonna be your year. It's gonna be our year. Unfortunately, it's been weeks, and Tom Emmer, the Uniparty loser from Minnesota, who ignored his constituents for years, has not resigned or apologized even for not heeding their words, and is now acting like a real tough guy in law enforcement and the true accountability czar, when in actuality, he is the reason this Somali fraud happened. Not going to get into it today, but there's another thing I'm actively looking at that I think is being largely ignored. These social groups, mainly Catholic charities and Lutheran social services, who facilitate many and did facilitate much of these resettlements. I want to know why they aren't being held accountable for the lack of success of these resettlements. We trust these groups that have become massive in their involvement to assimilate these people and their failing. My feeling, it's not based on fact yet, is that these groups have one goal in mind when they enter this conversation, convert people to Christianity. But with these radical Muslims, it's damn near impossible. So they give up. Got my team looking into that, and we'll follow up on the story next week. But they have to be blamed as well. Again, nothing gets fixed until we look at all the culprits. And larger than actual fraud itself, I believe the biggest story here is that Tom Emmer, a bloodsucking leech in DC fake Republican, Paul Ryan type Uniparty boob, ignored the constituents because he thought he knew better. Folks, when politicians go against their people, this is what happens. Your people know best, not you. That's why you're supposed to be a proxy for your voter base, Tom Emmer. Where are you? I can almost promise you this guy had some reason for being so pro-Somali from 2014 to 2017. His pockets definitely got lined one way or another. I'm just sure of it. So while other conservatives are quoting his fake accountability calls and pretend law enforcement, I'm demanding he apologize and come clean for ignoring his constituents for years and playing the same race-based guilt trips on his voters that these Somalis used to gain access to billions of dollars. Nick Shirley, please dive deeper into Tom Emmer. Honestly, folks, we expect this from Democrats. People criticize me often for being too hard on these Republican politicians who are sort of part of our conservative movement. But I don't care about the Democrats. This is expected. They have largely legalized this fraud in places like California and New York. They perpetuate the fraud. But one of our own doing this gets me mad simply because he refuses to do his job as a representative. You can all use this on your meltdown clips of me in the media. Tom Emmer, you are just as responsible as Tim Walsh and the attorney generals who have oversaw this and the scammers themselves. You should resign immediately. And conservatives should demand more from their representatives. Period. While I'm fired up here, folks, allow me to give these politicians, especially the Republicans, some winning advice for the upcoming midterms and the new year. You are a proxy voter. Listen to your voters and respond accordingly. That's how you will win. You're going to have to vote on things and support things you might not personally agree with. But your job is to be a representation of your people, not tell your people what they need. Many of you know to give my complete focus to this show, I've stepped down from multiple board seats and I now send a proxy to meetings where I have voting power. Proxy voting is the basis for representative government. If I tell my proxy to support something, but after hearing the meeting, they personally feel I should be voting a certain way, and they cast the wrong vote for me based on their own personal feelings, they would be fired immediately and probably never work again. All of these explosive examples of large-scale fraud, theft, and crime stem from representatives largely ignoring their bases. The public has been proven more effective in their calls time and time again. The public warned that state reps had not put out the fire in Topanga State Park with videos and calls, 911 calls, and social media posts. They were largely ignored by their politicians' representative government. And look what happened with the Palisades fire. Stop ignoring your base and act as the proxy, or in other words, selflessly serve your base. When you do this, you will win. But I digress and we have a lot to cover today, as the left's continued BS blame the billionaires scam has gotten some surprising support from billionaires. Mitt Romney, one of them, was in the New York Times at the end of December talking about how the only way to fix Social Security and the crippling debt is to tax the rich, and I quote, like him. The problem with the argument is that it stems from the largest scam perpetuated on the American people since the creation of the Federal Reserve. That scam is that we have a problem with revenue and that somehow taxes and taxing is the only solution to saving our country. But the fact is, is the United States and all the tax collecting independent offices have never had a revenue problem in the history of this nation. They have tried and used every form of taxation to justify their spending, including wealth levies, all of which have largely failed. If they hadn't failed, we wouldn't be in this situation. When in actuality, giving more money to the same people who have caused this mess is like giving controlled doses of heroin to an addict while expecting them to stay sober. It just doesn't make sense. Furthermore, progressives have now collected close to 100,000 signatures calling for the deportation of Nicki Minaj. I gotta ask folks, if you're a normal Democrat sitting at home, a Bill Clinton type, friends of mine that I have that are like this, how do you sit by and watch this crap silently? I mean, really. Here's a group of people who have spent the later part of a year screaming that deportations are inhumane, illegal, and crushing our democracy. Then they turn around and demand the deportation of someone for exercising their free speech rights in defense of democracy? So just so I'm clear, Albrego Garcia, a wife beater felon gang member, doesn't deserve deportation, but Nicki Minaj does. Well, there's a lot more to it, and I want to break it down when we come back. Lastly for the day, Hudson Crozier at the Daily Caller News Foundation. God, I just love this guy. He is such a breath air with reporting. Thank God for him. He uncovered a memo that instructs the City of Portland employees how to interfere and obstruct ICE operations using some phony human rights agency. All that, and I'm gonna take a few audience questions when we come back after these words. Well, folks, we finally made the switch. We're now shooting this show primarily for YouTube out of our 8K high definition supermodern studio in Scottsdale, Arizona. You'll see all kinds of new fun clips and shorts all over social media. We're getting great press coverage, and most importantly, the channel is growing the same way that this show grew in the very beginning. Head over and check out the YouTube show, folks. Or you can just keep listening. Either way, the show might sound a little different, but we want to encourage you to head over to the YouTube show, subscribe to the channel, watch a show or two, like and share so we can continue our movement, spreading truth and restoring common sense conservative politics in the American household. Again, you guys are the best audience. I wouldn't want any other listeners. You are the best. So check out the YouTube channel, check me out on video, and let me know what you think. Most importantly. Welcome back, America, and let's dive deep into the Democrats perpetuating this continued scam of blaming billionaires for America's problems. The last several years, Democrats have stood their ground on the messaging that billionaires need to pay their fair share, that somehow they're cheating the system, that somehow their contributions are not worth the same as the contributions of everyday American people like you and I. We know that that's false. However, they've now, somehow, some way convinced other billionaires to join in on this scam. And of course, Mitt Romney is leading the charge. Mitt Romney, who's made most of his money through Bain Capital, is now claiming that people like him, rich people, need to be taxed more, which is the only solution to save America. His words from falling off a fiscal cliff that includes Social Security insolvency and crippling national deficits. Instead of being a proponent for things like tariffs, going outside of our tax base to look for other forms of revenue, he's doubling down and perpetuating the Democrat scam that's been perpetuated since the beginning of time, since the creation of the Federal Reserve, that America as a government has a problem with revenue. When in fact we've never had a revenue problem. We've had a management problem and a spending problem. America as a governmental agency, as a tax collecting agency, and all the sub-agencies below it, state, local, sales tax, income tax, property tax, all the other taxation forms of taxation have never in the history of this country had a revenue problem. We have more money than the law allows in this country. We have more land than the law allows in this country. We are the richest country in the world. Unfortunately, we have a government that looks at that wealth as its own personal checkbook without any accountability, spending caps, or requirements. Essentially, what we have is an endless spending spree on an unlimited credit card based on the income of American people. And I don't care if your income's minimum wage or a billion dollars a year. But this scam that our government cannot function without increasing, levying, and assessing more taxes and fees on the existing base of people that are here allows people like Mitt Romney to stand up and say I should be paying more taxes. Well, here's the problem with this argument. One, the wealthy already shoulder the majority of the taxes. We simply don't have enough money on the top to tax our way into being a nation that provides social services for the middle class for free, the way the Democrats would like to create the government. It's just a matter of arithmetic. There's not enough to tax at the top to support a socialist society. We don't have it. The other problem with the argument is that it completely discredits a huge part that tax law and taxation has on the American progress, which is incentive. Wealthy tax laws act as incentive for young entrepreneurs like myself to want to grow and do better, knowing that as we grow, as our ideas flourish, as we work really hard and pay our taxes, pay into the system, then understanding that we won't be penalized for our success. And when that changes, entrepreneurship, progress, innovation all changes with it. It is a huge, unspoken part of taxation that people don't understand. Tax law dictates incentives for the future taxpayers of this country. A great article on reason.com yesterday, written by Veronique Derugie. I hope I'm saying that right. She breaks it down. She says, let's start with a basic arithmetic problem that never goes away. High-income households already shoulder a disproportionate share of federal income tax burden. The top 1% pay roughly 40% of income tax revenues. The top 10% pay well into two-thirds. And when taxes and other transfers of wealth are factored in, the system has become increasingly progressive over time. Exactly. What she's saying is, is the top already pays for the bottom. Expanding that won't help. The other argument that she's making here between the lines is you continually ask for more and more money, pretending that this time we'll be different. The American taxpayer have become the battered wife of the United States legislature of the Capitol Hill of Washington, D.C. We are the battered wife. Oh, he wasn't hitting me. We were just running into the punches. He was just swinging his hands. I was running into the punches. But we've constantly excused this behavior and year after year continue to pony up money that becomes largely wasted and put into programs, policies, and procedural efforts that the American people would have never approved, never knew about. And it gets sent into the rat's nest of the fourth branch of government we never voted for or never wanted, the federal bureaucracy. And that's just at the federal level. California, Oregon, New York, these places that have huge budget deficits. They've never had a revenue problem. And again, they're looking into taxing the top 1% or what do they call a billionaires paying their fair share. What they don't understand is though every time tax law changes to go after these billionaires, all they do is move to different countries, move their money just like Mitt Romney did. I mean, he literally just had a fundraiser a few years ago. He's on a boat and his yacht is flying the flag for the Cayman Islands, registered in the Cayman Islands. Why? Because it's a tax shelter. So the irony of this guy standing up here after he's already made all this money and now that he has no power and saying that people like him should be taxed more is ridiculous. But I think the most common sense argument and response to Mitt Romney has to be this. The American government, the Treasury of the United States of America, accepts voluntary payments. Mitt and his buddies could get together and wipe out the trillion dollar deficit imposed on the American people, largely created by Mitt Romney and his friends in the Capitol. He created it. And so now as he's being called to pay more taxes, why isn't he taking steps to pay voluntary taxes? We can all pay more. We all have the option to pay in. Same in California. When I see people like Ro Kana, who has largely enriched himself in Congress, he's a hundred-plus millionaire, and the guy is calling for these ultra-wealth tax, ultra-wealth tax levies to happen on America's millionaires while he sits back and doesn't pay anything extra. Why aren't these people who are constantly screaming for taxation who have tons of money paying more? If you believe you're not paying your fair share, then isn't it up to you to pay your fair share? That's what I always loved about Colin Kaepernick when he was so anti-capitalism. Anti-cap, all these people who claim that they're anti-capitalism, are any of them redistributing their own wealth? I mean, all they have to do is walk around their neighborhood with their checkbook and give out checks for$100,000 to people who have less than them or$10,000 or whatever. They're not doing that. Bernie Sanders isn't doing that. He made millions of dollars with book deals, television deals, especially after his presidential run against Hillary Clinton. Made him a very, very wealthy man. Is he redistributing any of that wealth? No. That is the disgusting irony of these arguments, is that the ability for these people to pay their fair share is already there. Why aren't they doing it? And what I'm really curious to know is how many of these ultra wealthy people who think they should be taxed more are collecting their Social Security benefits. If you have enough money to live without Social Security, even though you've paid into the system, you don't have to take those benefits. And I would put a lot of money on the fact that people like Mitt Romney probably still get a little tuny little$3,000 or$4,000 check into their checking account every month from Social Security because they paid into the system. But as the author of this piece on Reason.com goes on to say, Romney proposes raising revenue by removing the cap on payroll taxes, taxing assets more heavily at death, again, punishing people for being successful, ending like-kind exchanges in real estate, limiting state and local tax deductions, and closing the carried interest preference. None of these ideas are new. They have tried these things for years, and their revenue effects have been studied repeatedly. Even under an optimistic assumption, their combined yield over a decade amounts to only a fraction of projected deficits. Trillions sound impressive in isolation, but against tens of trillions in red ink, there's a rounding error. She's a phenomenal writer, this Veronique. She goes on to say, and higher marginal tax rate at the top do not affect today's wealthy people. They shape incentives of tomorrow's entrepreneurs. What did I just say? Took the words right out of my mouth. Or maybe I took them out of hers. I'm not sure. I'm reading this for the first time as I'm here. Moral posturing, as she points out, becomes especially troubling because it's easy. Say tax me more when you're already rich and you don't really pay extra taxes. The funny thing is, is this conversation has happened before, and Trump already donates into the Treasury in order to offset foreign profits from hotels that might be construed somehow as a conflict of interest. So, in order to smash that in 2017, he said, forget it. All the profits will go towards the deficit into voluntary payments to the Treasury. Okay, Mitt, where are you? Rokana, where are you? I mean, hysterically, even Gavin Newsom is not cheering for these billionaire levies, even though he says the fair share thing all the time. Now that one of the states that's really honing in on this is California, he's going to be largely affected. If he's still governor when they try to pass one of these levies, he will most likely veto that bill because he doesn't want to be overtaxed. It's a joke. And people like Mitt Romney need to go away. But this is what the New York Times does. They believe that he's a conservative voice, a conservative face, a longtime Republican, and he somehow represents these conservatives on the right that are that are ultra wealthy, that are looking to screw the American people every day by all these tax loopholes that just don't exist. They don't exist. And the ones that do exist, Mitt Romney and his buddies have been exploiting for years. And when they study closing those loopholes, it makes a little bit of a difference, but not enough to risk taking all the revenue that comes from those billionaires and having it leave to go to foreign countries. We just saw this with the wealthiest, uh the wealthiest man in Norway. They levied a billionaire wealth tax on this man and he moved to Switzerland. And he even said, what I love about what he said was Switzerland isn't the lowest taxes. I could have gone somewhere to avoid paying taxes at all in general. But I went to Switzerland because in Switzerland you don't pay the least, you don't pay the most, but you actually see your tax dollars at work. Folks, there is a reason why the richest three counties in America are all around Washington, DC. These people get rich in DC. Period. Politics is America's get rich quick scheme. And it's pretty easy to do, even if you're not the starpest tool in the shed. So of course, what these people do, because they've never had to work for their wealth and they've gotten great insider tips or tricks or been in the right place at the right time, have rich guilt, and then go on the New York Times and say they need to be taxed more. It's no different than Warren Buffett saying, Oh, my secretary paid more taxes than me. Whose fault is that? Yours. Not tax law. Mitt Romney could write a check to cover a huge percentage of our deficit tomorrow, does he? No. And he won't, and he doesn't want to be taxed more. He's simply giving credibility to this scam that we are short in revenue. We're not short in revenue. We pay plenty. We have a problem with spending and management, and billions of dollars disappears. These are the same people. Mitt Romney, the senator, same person who largely created an environment where Somalis could steal$10 billion or more in Medicaid funds, which are are nothing compared to some of the other social programs that are out there that are ripe for the picking by fraudsters. This is merely the tip of the iceberg, folks. If they can't keep track of billions of dollars, why should we give them more? And until Americans stop paying taxes and actually create a real revenue problem for these people, they're going to continue to demand more and pretend like there's not enough to go around when there's more than enough. Just needs to be managed better. You look at things like the California lottery, for example, that were put in place because there wasn't enough money for education. California lottery has collected billions and billions and billions. That's supposedly bettering the education in California. It hasn't helped anything. The money gets dumped into the general fund and goes into the rat's nest of bureaucratic spending. This is lifetime pensions, folks. This is 401k matching and lifetime benefits for secretaries and people that have largely spent their lives pushing paper in government offices. Is there a need for that? Yes, somewhat. But we have people doing the job of others and others and others, different agencies that don't communicate with each other and the bureaucratic state that's been caused by both sides as what created this deficit. And the writing's been on the wall for 40 plus years. And unfortunately, we largely had a population of elected representatives in Washington that were uniparty and were putting themselves and selling us out to globalists and lobbyists and socialists while pretending that they were kind of sorting, sort of fighting each other, when in actuality the Democrats and Republicans were exactly the same. That's why Americans that lived through that now today go, oh, there's so much division. And I say, wow, thank God, people are finally fighting. That's the way the democratic process is intended to work. You take two extremes, you lock them in a room, and eventually they either kill each other or come up with the best solution for the most amount of people. There's no such thing as everybody winning, but the extreme fighting, and that if done correctly, and people don't pick up their toys out of the sandbox and run away, we lock these people in a room and force them to do their job, things will get done. But we excuse, blame, and buy into the distractions and the concept of somehow that giving these poor people more money to mismanage is going to fix anything. So for me, it's not about tax law, it's not about billionaires. I'm sure there's plenty of people that need to be paying more. But for me, it's about revenue in general. Stop tapping the same customer and fix your product. Reminds me of GM in the 2000s. I mean, before they got bailed out, they made the same shitty product over and over again, couldn't figure out why they were failing, continued to pay these huge union rates, and blamed everyone else, China, the economy, labor costs, parts costs, instead of just building a product that people wanted. Like Toyota. The government is a product. The product that they give us is infrastructure, protection, education, all of which are failing in relativity to most things. That needs to be fixed. Fix the product before you demand higher prices. He's right. We are on a cliff, a fiscal cliff that's been talked about since Ronald Reagan. But taxation is never the answer. It never has been, it never will be. None of these ideas are new. And the fact that we have addicts demanding more drugs with a promise of being sober should make every American seriously question what we're doing here. And all it is is his fake, noble approach to taxing wealthy people. All it's doing is perpetuating these oppressor lies that democratic socialists of America are convincing young people of that billionaires are the reason for the problems in this country. When in actuality, the problems in this country largely stem from mismanagement and the same people that are demanding more money from us, whether it's from billionaires or not. Asking for more money is my problem. Not who you're asking from, but asking in general. And to criticize Trump for going out and finding new customers in a global market to increase revenue without relying on the existing tax base or the existing customer base is absolutely atrocious. That is the only way we can grow revenue. Not through taxation, but through trade. And it's been proven, the history of the world has proven this over and over again. So if you're one of these people who says, see, even Rit Romney, who's a billionaire, thinks billionaires should pay their fair share. Read between the lines. He already could be paying his fair share, and he's not. All of these people could be, and they're not. Legislation will not change that. There will always be a loophole. There will always be another country willing to accept their wealth at a much lower tax rate. Fix the product before you raise your prices, Congress. And put your money where your mouth is. Stop getting paid. Donate your salary to the deficit. Donate your Social Security to the deficit. And stop demanding more taxation and more rev focus on getting more revenue and start figuring out how to fix the hemorrhaging of billions of dollars that's happening every single day with unbeknownst to anyone. I mean, there are literally people that work for this country that have been elected, like Gavin Newsom, or people in the federal government that I don't know where the money is. Gavin Newsom will sit there and look at you and tell you he doesn't know where the$36 billion went from unemployment. How is this possible? And then in the next breath, they want more money. Those of you who have kids, you pay your kid an allowance every week. If they decide to spend their money on something stupid and not put their allowance in their piggy bank, do they come back to you and ask for more allowance and just keep giving more and more and more? No. You teach them how to spend it. You say enough is enough. And that's why this argument falls flat. To close off this article from reason.com, the author writes, the temptation to tax the rich is understandable. It feels fair. It feels painless. It allows us to postpone harder conversations. Isn't that true? It's always easier to grab the low-hanging fruit and to literally sandbag difficult conversations with the distraction of something like this. I love how she says this. However, feelings are not solutions. Such taxation will not stabilize government finances and it will not restore confidence in the system. 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In my opinion, they are the only option when it comes to insurance for your pet. Welcome back, America, and let's talk about the crazy left progressives that are now demanding to use deportation to punish Nicki Minaj for exercising her free speech rights as a human being. Not just as an American. Nicki Minaj's immigration status isn't public information, but we know she's married to an American and has given birth to children in this country who would automatically qualify as American citizens under the Democrat translation version and perpetuated falsehood that every baby born here is an American citizen. That's neither here nor there for this argument. The point being is that Maniki Minaj has an American citizen kid. She's married to an American citizen, so therefore she's probably a green card permanent resident, green hard holder. Millions of other people who are married to Americans from other countries have this immigration status. She's not deportable, doesn't have a criminal record, but it's the same people that have been saying that deporting people is inhumane, illegal, unconstitutional, eroding our democracy. Talking about how ICE should be abolished. Funny, now all of a sudden they want ICE when it comes to deporting someone who doesn't largely align with their opinion. The irony is that these people are no different than anti-gay politicians who then get caught having gay sex and truck stops. These people say deportation is bad, it's disgusting, et cetera, et cetera. And then they use it when they don't get what they want or when they hear something, God forbid their ears have to hear something that they don't agree with. It's crazy. The funniest part of it is that their biggest argument of why she deserves to be deported is because they feel betrayed. Because apparently she was once some liberal voice or champion of LGBTQ rights, none of which we can really find.org says Nicki Minaj's actions and words have taken a turn that has left many of her supporters and those who once found solace in her music feeling deeply betrayed. Once a voice for the LGBTQ community, she has now flipped her stance, asserting an outdated and harmful notion such as boys should just be boys. These statements are just insensitive. They undermine the very foundations of a community that looked up to her for advocacy and understanding. These are people who seemingly just automatically assumed I can't find Nicki Minaj in any sort of uh where she's largely supported LGBTQ other than a couple of attaboys. Never been on the cover of anything. She's never been uh an advocate for anything. She's a hip-hop star, but but because she's over sexualized and sings about vaginas and penises and this and that, they automatically assume that because those are her lyrics, that's her music. She has to be an advocate. Well, shame on you for looking up to someone like Nicki Minaj for understanding. And for all the conservatives out there that are going to put her on a pedestal like she's some great conservative all of a sudden. That's silly too. Why don't we let these people prove themselves? She has every right to her opinion. And I'm so glad that her and Erica had that moment, and we're bringing people into our movement who represent bases of people who we've never normally been able to touch. That's the power of Turning Point USA. Truly is their power. And so here's Nicki Minaj, someone who's going, okay, things are getting crazier, crazier, crazier. She finally says what's on her mind, and they call for her to be deported. Once again, instead of having a meaningful conversation about why her words or opinions are wrong. This is the failure of the democratic process. Silence, deport, leave the legislator, go hide in California when redistricting votes are happening. Walk out, storm out of the Congress committee meetings, shut down the government, deport dissenting opinions. None of this is democratic. None of it's democracy. And then they'll turn around and say, her words are degrading democracy. It says deporting Nicki Minaj back to Trinidad would serve as a reminder that public figures need to be accountable for their words and the broader impact they have on diverse communities. It's not just about one person's fall from grace, it's about holding everyone to a standard of compassion and consistency, especially when they possess significant influence. Once again, not illegal standing, no issues on her immigration record, nothing. They're using deportation in a way that fits their narrative after they've largely said that ICE needs to be abolished and there should be deportation. So essentially, what these hundred thousand people and more are saying, people who are perpetuating this argument, are saying that deportation shouldn't be used to apply laws on the books, but it should be used if someone has a dissenting opinion or says something we don't like. That's to me, that's as stupid as saying you're a Christian and walking around with a sign that says God hates fags. That's not Christian. This is not progressive. That's this is not how you use deportation. Furthermore, what Nicki Minaj said was nothing controversial. She's calling for a call, much like I am, back to normalcy. There's no problem with gay people. You say leave boys alone, let boys be boys, girls be girls. Again, why isn't the gay community, seems to be the one running with this, embracing the argument that they made forever? That it's nature versus nurture. People are born gay, people are born trans, right? So if it's nature, things will naturally ensue the way they're intended. What you're asking people to do is now interfere and create a nurturing environment that promotes some of this wackiness. And it just doesn't work. So for years, you've jammed down our throats that it's nature versus nurture, it's nature versus nurture, it's nature versus nurture. And now you want everyone to nurture and largely ignore nature, perpetuating the idea that gender is fluid or a social construct or that it's assigned at birth. But you can't have it both ways. You can't say it's nature versus nurture and then want to deport someone who says, let boys be boys. That's nature. But these people don't know what they want. Because trans is the newest thing that fills the coffers of all these uh nonprofits like the Trevor Group and Glad. Etc., because trans is the newest thing. It's the same with Planned Parenthood. Trans is their newest thing because abortion doesn't pay the bills anymore. So they have to start operating on sex changes. It's just constant perpetuation of however they can get the most nonprofit donations and however they can keep themselves running. But again, instead of entering into meaningful democratic conversations with Nicki Minaj about this, they call for her to be deported. Just shut her up. And in the same breath, they'll say Trump is censoring dissenting opinions and shutting down voices of people who represent these communities, et cetera, while they're in the same breath calling for the deportation of someone who expresses their right to free speech. How do any Democrat politicians, how isn't the, how aren't these people like Rachel Maddow and Joey Reed, is that are standing up and saying, this is so stupid? I do the same thing with the conservative movement. I mean, when all those I wrote a piece about the boys who cried woke, when all these people were trying to apply the same things that they did to Bud Light over Dylan Mulvaney to Cracker Barrel. It was stupid. Where are the voices criticizing these hundred thousand people for using deportation after they've largely criticized deportation? No one, because they're stupid too. There's nothing worse than people who cut and paste things in order to fit a narrative. It doesn't work. It's no different than a cop cutting and pasting a story to make a law fit because a crime doesn't perfectly fit into the puzzle piece of a law, or a lawyer or district attorney doing that as well. It's no different than Christians who pick and choose pieces of the Bible for their argument and largely ignore other pieces of the Bible. This is the hypocritical irony that occurs on the left, and they get cheered and supported and paid to do this sort of thing. And there's tons of Americans right now, because their feelings hurt about what Nicki Minaj said, instead of saying, man, that really sucks that she flipped that way, or man, it really sucks that she said that. This is why they say, deporter, get rid of her. And then they get on CNN and say, oh, the human rights violations. These deportations are so sad. All these hardworking taxpaying people are getting ripped out of their homes. And Nicki Minaj comes and says, Yeah, I think Trump's a normal guy, and boys should be boys. Deporter! Where's ICE? That's insane. This is the stupid level that we're dealing with. And unfortunately, people are buying into it. And that's where I have to say enough is enough. You don't get to criticize deportation and then use it as a tool to your advantage when someone says something you don't like. That's childish and silly. But this is the level that we're dealing with on the left. And these are the kind of people that largely have control of our bureaucracies and non-representative government in Washington and places like Sacramento and Salem and Albany, et cetera. Deporting people for saying something you don't like to hear is so much worse than deporting people for breaking the law and having a criminal record and entering the country illegally and essentially taking food off the plates of American people that have been in line for a lot longer. So much worse. But this is what Democrats do. And they'll get tons of press, tons of social media support. And when we check in next week on Monday, I bet this petition will be tripled in size. When we come back, we'll talk about Portland. How city employees received a memo on how to obstruct ICE operations using a phony human rights organization. And I'm going to take a few questions from the audience. We'll be right back after these words. Folks, does your dog have stinky breath, itchy skin? 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On top of that, Multnomah County is also known for providing the least amount of services while the city of Portland faces fiscal deficits, layoffs, budget restraints, and a slew of other worsening conditions that the left elitist, socialist globalists that have destroyed that city are doubling down on. Most of the negative impact comes from virtue-signaled laws and policies like decriminalizing drugs and doubling down on the belief that being homeless in the city of Portland is not illegal. Well, that's all good and dandy. However, the city is failing miserably. And now, a perfect icing to that cake, it's been revealed that in November, all city employees were given a memo with new procedures in place on how to obstruct ice operations. Now, if Portland was succeeding, if these policies were working, if their homeless numbers were going down, if crime was declining, if revenues were going up, if businesses were more satisfied, if investor confidence was growing, I wouldn't even be talking about this story. Who cares if they want to put this stupid memo out, really? But when you have a city in shambles where people are starving, sick, drugged up, largely a culture of people figuring out ways to take advantage of these wannabe virtuous social programs. Meanwhile, hardworking taxpayers are fleeing left and right, you have to wonder why these Portland City employees, elected officials and bureaucrats, and the mayor have dedicated time, money, and resources to a memo like this. So my favorite, one of my favorite journalists of all time, Hudson Crozier at the Daily Caller News Foundation, broke the story today. According to a November memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. This is the true journalistic work that Hudson does. I can't say enough about him because every story has something that he's unearthed. That's called news. Not simply just cut and pasting the AP's latest story and putting a right-wing slant on it, like so many of these other progressive news editorial boards claim to be doing. No, Hudson's the real deal. Says city workers should call a hotline to Portland Immigration Rights Coalition. So that's PIRC. Again, you have Americans, veterans, everyday people who are jobless, homeless, hooked up on drugs. You have the highest rate of people on EBT, you have the highest rate of people on Medicaid, you have the least amount of investor confidence in your city, you have horrible, horrible, crippling utility prices and taxes that people, even in Montecito, California, don't even pay. Yet you're putting time, money, and effort to obstruct ice. Is this really what the voting base of Portland wants you to focus on? Meanwhile, Live Nation comes in, proposes a brand new venue on the river in Portland. First major development construction proposal that they've received in years, largely employing uneducated people that can work these venues. If you've ever been to a live sports event or to a live uh concert, you know, people who usher and do a lot of times these are parts of programs uh for people who have been on drugs or been previously incarcerated. The kind of jobs that Portland needs to get people off the streets. 500 of these jobs would have been available with live nation. What does the city council do? Oh no, because anything to do with development or growth is obviously not a priority. And what they focus on is this memo. How much money, time, and effort went into this memo? How much money, time, and taxpayer dollars went into Portland Immigration Rights Coalition? The memo says PIRC will activate MegraWatch volunteers to investigate and confirm reports of ICE. MegraWatch is a taxpayer funded, even though they say they're member funded, part of a larger network of NGOs and nonprofits that are loosely tied to George Soros and his ilk. It's another group that uses taxpayers to obstruct what taxpayers want to see, which is less crime, less illegal immigrants crossing the border, more opportunities for Americans, want the value of their homes to go back up. They want the taxes to level and be fair. But instead, this is what the liberals and the left and the elitists in Portland are focusing on. And shame on Keith Wilson. Mr. I'm gonna clean this all up. All promises have fallen on deaf ears. Because again, you can't do it anyways with the way that the system's been rigged up there. But he made all these promises. He said he was gonna address public safety. And no, what is his government working on? Portland Immigration Rights Council working with NGOs to protect and obstruct ice. Again, my problem isn't necessarily with the memo. And if the people of Portland want their represented officials to be focusing on obstructing ice, that's fine. But I have a feeling that if we went up to Portland today and I lived there for two years while I wrote my book on America's new Mumbai, how the left and the elitists and the globalists and socialists in Oregon have destroyed the city of Portland and the state of Oregon, a once wealthy, resource-rich, and influential part of this country, now is largely a welfare state that can't survive without additional federal funding and all sorts of bonds and measures and new tax implications on the residents of the state. When someone like Dr. Eric Fruits, the economist, comes on and explains exactly what's going on, you have to wonder why the priority is obstructing ice over fixing the problems of the city. That's my problem as a conservative. It isn't the memo itself. If you guys had made any progress at all towards improving Portland this year, then I'd give you some leeway to do your little political maneuvering so you can show this memo and get clips of yourself talking about how bad Trump is in ICE and protecting the most vulnerable for your election campaigns in your up and coming re-elections. I mean, I would give you some leeway for that, but you've done nothing. So that's what these political groups do is these elected leftist progressives, they're so focused on creating political talking points they haven't actually gotten any work done. Because right here, urban economists use the term doom loop to describe a specific failure mode in Portland. When a city's decline becomes self-perpetuating, normal policy adjustments no longer work. The mechanism operates through vicious cycles. Deteriorating services drive out taxpayers, which shrinks the revenue base, which forces service cuts, which drives out more taxpayers. Research on municipal bankruptcy identifies consistent warning signals. Beth Parker Seymour's analysis of bankrupt American cities found that specific financial ratios accurately predict insolvency. They go on to compare it to Detroit, and essentially Portland is following in Detroit's footsteps. Between 2020 and 2021, Multnomah County lost 1 billion in taxable income. The following year, they lost another 1.2 billion. I love he says right here. And no, they're not leaving because of the weather. And this is what's really telling is that the people leaving the city of Portland's County, Multnomah County, are not moving to Florida and Arizona and everywhere else, like the people who flee California. They're trying to maintain their employment while avoiding these largely virtue-signaled policies and tax burdens that nobody signed up for or wanted and have helped no one, including the preschoolers. Oregon has also lost 18,000 jobs in the past year, while the national economy added millions. The jobs they're losing are positions in information, financial services, manufacturing, and professional services. Those are higher salaried services. And the jobs, the small jobs that they've gained are much less salaried services in food and agriculture, et cetera. Commercial real estate collapse is also a huge part of it. Whereas a third of Portland commercial real estate is empty. There's no one there. Yet the people who work for the city of Portland refuse to go back to the office. Most of the city government is still on these weird COVID protocols in 2025. Six, excuse me, six. But they want to focus on obstructing ice. That these are the points we need to make, folks. It's not the craziness that we already expect. We know these memos are going to happen. We know these local city governments are going to try to pass laws and sanctuary uh ordinances that try to obstruct ice that will never do anything up against the supremacy clause. They're just wasting time and taxpayer dollars to pass these things for their own political careers and they can feel better about themselves. We expect it, but not when you're the worst city in America. Ice should be your last priority. The federal operation should be your last priority. Instead of worrying and protecting about people that are illegally in this country that are going, getting sent home from ICE, why don't you worry about the homeless population that's still growing and the drug dependency that's still growing? Meanwhile, rehabs, detox centers, and medical treatment centers are shuddering. And furthermore, the city has received billions of dollars in homeless COVID, all sorts of social funds from the federal government that have all been pissed away and mismanaged by the bureaucracy. Again, legal fraud. Billions of missing dollars that should have ended up on the streets of Portland ended up in the pockets of bureaucrats. But they spend time, energy, and money of the hardworking few that are left in Oregon to obstruct ice. Get your priorities straight. This is not representative government. This is not what people want. You people are the optics of deportation and ice bad? Yes. It makes people feel like shit. It's a shitty situation. But I can tell you, it's way worse walking through downtown where the streets are either largely empty or filled with drug addicts and homeless people. I moved up there to write a book about this. And again, if they were just doing this automatically and calling Lamigra, whatever, that's fine. These people want to record and insert themselves into ICE operations, that's fine. But for people who are paid by the taxpayer to spend time and energy drafting memos, creating hotlines, funding nonprofits, all with the intention of obstructing the federal government and breaking the law, United States Supremacy Clause. Meanwhile, your city is completely eroded, failing, and damn near insolvency is sick. And it's a complete departure from your promise to serve and dedicate and put the taxpayers in the Constitution first. This is where ideologues who get into politics, who get into the bureaucracy, put their ideals over the direct benefits of the taxpayer. You don't like what ICE is doing. Make that clear. Get on the record that that's clear, that's fine. But then to instruct dollars and energy and resources that could be working on the things that people elected you to work on is a complete breakdown and failure of the democratic process that these people so try to convince us they're trying to protect with this stuff. The democratic process mandates you to prioritize and pursue the issues that your constituents most care about. And I can tell you the people of Portland need the homeless drug and constant fraud, waste, and abuse of social services handled before IC is obstructed. Period. But this is again what happens when you put party political talking points in your political career before people, which is why it was so stupid that they expanded the city council and then the city of Portland elected all of these new people that are brand new in politics, brand new in governing. And now their number one rule and their number one priority will be to remain in office instead of delivering on their promises because it's largely a popularity contest. And that's everywhere, not just Portland, but the voting base in Portland is too stupid to change their pattern. That's my resolution for 2026, is that voters finally start taking accountability for what they've largely created for themselves. The people of the Palisades are a perfect example. They had the opportunity to elect Caruso, and instead they feel good DEI mayor Karen Bass got in office and all their houses burnt down, and now they're mad about it. Yes, it doesn't matter. We all have to have a realistic And right to the expectation that our government will protect us regardless of what party is in power. But when you create the conditions and then you elect the people who are largely there to claim and perpetuate those conditions, and then shit hits the fan, all you have to blame is yourself. The people of Los Angeles after the fire should be doing some serious introspection. And the people of Portland and Multnomah County should as well. Because the people who won't take the time to understand and question the decisions they've made and the people that they've put up will just move and do the same thing somewhere else. And again, folks, this isn't about the memo. This isn't about your opinion about ice. You know where I stand, you know where most people stand. I understand ice operations are largely unpopular in these deep blue cities. But in the case of Portland, the reason why I'm bringing this up, you've got a new mayor and a new city council have literally achieved nothing this year. Nothing. And they dedicate time, money, and resources to obstructing, illegally obstructing the federal government, going against the Constitution while all their residents suffer. It's disgusting. It's deplorable. And each and every one of the people involved in this memo should be fired, primaried, or kicked out of office. Show us some wins, and then you can waste money like in memos and doing things like this. Show us some gains. But they make this as their focus because this is the only thing they know how to do is to be political. They can't actually govern. Most of them have never done anything. I mean, again, Keith Wilson, the mayor, he's a very successful businessman, but apparently he's not the strong CEO we thought he was. Or, like many people do that come from the private sector, he had no idea the level of rat's nest, fraud, crime, and swamp that he was getting himself into. Not an excuse, but that's probably the case. So I want to ask the people of Portland, the voters in Multnomah County, is this what you're really looking for? Are you cheering on these people? Because this is not governing. These are political talking points, political posture, political talking points, political posturing, and virtue maneuvering in order to make you think that they're doing their job, meaning what meanwhile, every score on the board is in the bottom part of the rest of the cities in this country. Does that feel good? And if not, what are you doing to change it? And that's my question to you, Multnomah County voters. Is this really what you want this newly elected council and mayor to be working on? How to obstruct ice over how to fix the city? That's my question for you. Next episode, and when we're back, I'll answer some questions from the audience. In the meantime, let me remind you what Reagan once said. Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race, we kept them free, we kept the faith. That was largely abandoned by Republicans and Uniparty boobs in the 90s and 2000s. But today, we're back fighting for that very spirit. God bless you, President Reagan, and may God save America.