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No, it won't be. And Brother Belail really loves Mondays too, as you can tell. He's waving at me. He does. He is. He put the... Mason, if you need to get Bell out of there, you can just turn the camera on and he's scurried. Watch him go. If he's bugging you, man, he just turned that camera on and he gets the hell out of there. He really did. I was just joking and he scurried. He was gone. Not even risking it. All right. So we were talking about the executive order for mail in ballots. Is it mail in or mail out? Mail mail mail in mail out. Some of the super texts, the line said mail out ballots and I was just very confused. I think it's mail in. That's what I would say. So anyway, any who... Here's what it would have done. The executive order from late March, March 31st, it was ensuring

citizenship verification and integrity in federal elections. You had to accept mail ballots only for voters on state submitted lists. So the state would have to provide a list. From there, they would require specific envelope designs, official election mail markings and unique intelligent mail barcodes. That would be both on the ballot and on the envelope, the envelope going out and the envelope coming back in. Those designs would be pre-approved and they would be able to refuse non-compliant ballots. And then come spring early summer, we got the first wave of lawsuits. Two dozen states plus the district of Columbia and Pennsylvania's governor and voting rights groups like the League of Women Voters, sued in Boston before Judge Indira Tallahwani. The NAACP apparently sued in DC arguing the changes violated a 2021 settlement that required USPS prioritize election mail through 2028. June 25th, Tallahwani ruled that key parts of the executive order itself exceeded

presidential power. The elections clause give Congress in the states the authority over federal elections. She said the president cannot use the United States Postal Services a backdoor regulator. She blocked USPS and DHS for the 2026 midterms in the plaintiff states. July 1st, a judge Emmett Sullivan in DC blocked the proposed USPS rule as a violation of the NAACP settlement. The USPS issued a proposed rule in June and a final rule on August 21st that said ballot mail for federal elections, even while injunctions were in place, the final rule made the list upload barcode and design approval requirements binding and said non-compliant ballots will not be accepted. The USPS noted it would not implement for 2026 unless the injunctions were lifted. Then we got to the end of August where the Supreme Court gave a brief opening. Scotus stayed Tallahwani's injunctions and the state's executive order case saying that

the challenge was premature because the rule hadn't been finalized. Tallahwani then vacated her remaining nationwide block. New suits immediately targeted the final rule. On August 26th or 27th, she issued a 14 day TRO blocking the implementation. She also found that the USPS had violated her earlier order by finishing the rulemaking. September 4th, here we are today. This is what happened on Friday. After a hearing, Tallahwani converted the TRO into a preliminary injunction that lasts through the November 3rd midterms unless a higher court lifts it. She held the rule is likely unconstitutional. The USPS has no delegated power to set election conditions on states and that forcing 10,000 jurisdictions to redesign an envelope to get USPS sign off and upload voter files weeks before voting while some states were already mailing ballots, but almost certainly disenfranchised

eligible voters. The United States Postal Service support reportally still wasn't ready. So now we're asking the Supreme Court to take another look at it. So the administration filed another emergency application arguing that the requirements are modest and that the lower court is wrongly treating postal standards as an election regulation takeover. Challengers are now going to have a short window to respond. The court is expected to act quickly because ballots are already going up. So that's where we are currently. This is from ABC News. Such Indira Tawani's temporary order, which had been set to expire on September 10th is now in place indefinitely unless a higher court allows the Trump administration to put the rules into effect. So we need the Supreme Court to act here. Trump who has pushed unfounded claims of widespread mail ballot fraud wants states to report to the USPS basic voter information such as a voter's name and home address attached to

a unique barcode and every mail and ballot that is distributed. So workers would then deliver ballots addressed to voters who appear on the state provided list. Following the publications of the regulations last month, dozens of Democrats state attorney general sued the Trump administration after an earlier lawsuit was blocked by the Supreme Court, which set at the time that the challenge was premature because the regulations weren't finalized. So the state's challenge in the USPS rule have until Tuesday today, 15 minutes ago to formally respond before the Supreme Court makes the decision. The states and voter advocacy groups have argued that the new regulations are an attempt by the Trump administration to federalize elections, even though states would control them all anyway. So we're going to be standing by and waiting to see what the Supreme Court says on this. And we're going to see what the state's challenging have said on this because they have to formally respond before the Supreme Court makes a decision here. But if something that definitely needs to be paid attention to, these people are absolutely

insane. Chain of custody is a real thing. This is not federalizing elections. The states would have the full authority to make all of these lists. The states though have illegal aliens on their voter rolls. That's what this is really about. If you don't believe me, see New Jersey, their own governor, a moderate Democrat by all standards. She said, yeah, we had illegal aliens on our rolls and they were voted. There are states that won't turn over their voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security because of this reason. So I'm out. We need this at bare minimum to ensure that we're not being flooded with a ton of fake mail imbalance. And my pushback on the Democrats would be like, if it's not happening, why are you so adamant against it? This all should have been handled a lot sooner, not a couple of weeks and while we're handing out mail and ballots currently. Again, I think it's North Carolina's already started mailing up ballots. And next week, another state jumps in. This should have been handled a long time ago elsewhere.

There's some other stories that have been making the headlines bigly. Did you see what happened in England over the weekend? It was crazy. And it gives you a little bit of hope that England is waking up. So there were some newcomers that showed up in Port Smith. And a few hundred protesters got there and blockaded the entrance of the newcomers in Port Smith. Bright Bart has a story. Hundreds of Britons descended on the East knee marina of Port Smith on Sunday evening, blocking the roadway as illegal boat migrants were brought ashore and were sent to be loaded onto the coaches and dispersed into the country. Illegal boat migrants. Do you need the boat? I just, I don't know. Maybe that's a, maybe I'm being nitpicky here. What could have been by a chariot or something? You know, no. By land or by sea? Illegal chariot migrants just doesn't have the same ring.

Illegal hoverboard migrants. Illegal boat migrants. The waterfront city of Port Smith, a busy seaport and the home of Britain's Royal Navy, descended into chaos on Sunday. After a dinghy carrying an estimated 140 illegals was seen approaching the coast. According to the local Port Smith evening news, a helicopter aeroplane and multiple life boats were dispatched to the scene. Alerted to the commotion, Port Smith local and longtime street organizer Danny Tomo rushed to the East knee marina where the migrants were set to be brought ashore. Tomo is an associate of Tommy Robinson and he live streamed himself and some of his supporters attempting to block the migrants from being put on coaches and allowed into the country, saying that they posed a direct danger to the women and girls of the local community. Fact check true. We've all seen Rupert Lowe's migrant rape gang inquiry from over the summer where about a quarter million young British girls have been raped by these migrants, not something

that you want to continue happening, yet they keep bringing the boats ashore anyway. The live stream attracted hundreds of others, many of whom came dressed in black block, as was the case with the protest in Dover on Saturday, which was reportedly organized by Tomo and his new Patriot platform group. Those gathered were heard chanting send them back as they blocked off the only road leading out of the marina. Some protesters were seen briefly clashing with police who in turn used pepper spray and batons. However, the standoff was mostly without violence. While much of the footage on social media focused on the incident revolved around the mass to 10Ds, oil field work is dangerous, even under the best conditions. But when companies cut corners or ignore safety, it's the workers who pay the price. One accident can mean catastrophic injuries, lost income, and a long road to recovery. At Tramoris injury lawyers, we have the resources and experience to handle oil field injury cases and stand by workers and their families through the legal process. Real cases, real injuries.

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And that big old burger. Yeah. He holds and this marks on us only $5.99. The whole team is available for a limited time of participating restaurants tax on included not valid for use within a combo or in combination with any other offer or discount. Footage posted on social media also seem to show that local residents were quick to join in in such an act of civil disobedience. The Britons are pissed. They are tired of their country being overrun. And you know what? I like to see a little fight out of them. I really do. Like it's it's about damn time. How many more young girls need to be raped before you say enough is enough? Seriously. How many more cities need to be overrun before you say enough is enough? Apparently that time is now reforms you reform UK's Richard Tyson said that Britain is at a tipping point when it comes to these protests in port Smith. And I think that they've been at a tipping point for a while. You go back to what happened to Henry Novak and the like over the summer as well.

Well I think we're at a tipping point Jeremy actually this weekend. Look we all understand the huge frustration anger annoyance by millions of British people. But we have always criticized the use of masks from the like of just stock oil from the likes of Antifa who appeared at our conference by the way in black masks in black clothes clothing and you intimidated our delegates and one Antifa masked individual through a rock and hit one of our delegates who had to receive medical treatment. We've always condemned that there's no need for masks. What we want is lawful protests on the side of the road in big numbers to demonstrate people's concern. That's the big difference between what happened in Dover that looked like a very intimidating militia and what happened last night in port Smith where almost nobody was wearing masks and these were this was a genuine very frustrated large group of people saying enough is enough.

We're not going to have port Smith invaded as well as having Dover invaded. And I think that's good. I think he's also right to say don't don't wear masks. I mean, there is the threat of being arrested and labeled a hate monger in the nation of Britain. But don't wear masks. Don't give them an opportunity to call you a right wing extremist, which they are jumping at to say they'll flood your end to how with migrants. And then as soon as you say, please don't they call you a right wing extremist. Nigel Farage is saying warning that there's going to be a serious civil disturbance over the migrant crisis. And he was speaking out on the protests in Dover and in port Smith. But he's he's speaking out in favor. If we're being honest, he doubled down on some condemnation of men wearing masks in Baklava's Bala Kav Bala Klavas. Whatever you however you say it. You know what I'm talking about, right? Bala Klavas Bala Klavas. Bala Klavas the dessert delicious.

But he said the only solution is through the ballot box, but a lot of these guys feel disenfranchised with the ballot box. And he said that a reform UK government would stop the boats from arriving, pointing to an agreement he signed with a potential French prime minister, national rally leader Jordan Bardella to push back on boats in the channel. But he said if we start doing that within a fortnight, they'll stop coming and anybody else that comes illegally in the back of a lawyer, whatever it is will immediately be thinned prior to deportation. This is a serious situation. It's about to get significantly worse. The government needs to act. I suspect it won't. But remember peaceful protests, good uniforms and masks, bad voting is the only way we get a solution. So they're they're rising up. Rupert Lowe went off saying the people in port Smith will not tolerate being a dumping ground for illegal migrants after the blockade. He said those lads and girls take absolutely zero bullish. And if the government thinks that they can use their city to land these illegals, they

are very much mistaken expect expect resistance peaceful firm resistance. Restore Britain will support them. However we can and I'm delighted to see our membership booming across the city. So the there was a poor test. The people ended up dispersing late in the evening at around three four a.m. After the police had to use riot lines, batons and some pepper spray to keep the demonstrators away from the buses where they had all of the migrants, a small number of officers received minor treatment at the scene, several police, border force and Coast Guard vehicles were damaged. No arrest made throughout the night. Don't investigation was open to identify those responsible for assaults and criminal damage. The coaches carrying the roughly 140 illegal aliens from the dinghy left portsmith under escort in the early hours and we're taken out of Hampshire for processing in the usual way. Some protesters followed the convoy on their way to Dover.

Danny Tom on his group comply with the order left the scene rather than stay and be arrested. The blockade failed to stop the migrants, but the fight that you're seeing from the Brits, it is encouraging. It really is a former senior US citizenship and immigration service official has been arrested for taking bribes to illegally give out green cards and fast track immigration applications. Are you ready for his name? Are you sure? Are you sure now? Dukeman, O'Wallaby, Gneew, Gneew. Sounds like the kind of name. That would be committing immigration fraud. And allegedly corrupt senior immigration official and his sleazy money man are accused of manipulating the US immigration process and approving citizenship, citizenship applications for nearly $960,000 in bribes authority said on Friday.

How much fraud are we going to uncover in this country? How much just dirty deeds are happening in every single one of these institutions. Investigators discovered the report, the reported racket through what's app messages between former senior United States citizenship and immigration services officer Luke Min, O'Wallaby, Gneew and his financial accomplice. With NEI, Akim, Somayo and an individual and and individual citizenship applicants bless you. Thank you. The pair located in Texas bypass standard procedures by funneling bribe paying applicants directly to Gneew, skipping key steps in the immigration process like, God, I don't know, these feel important to me. Maybe they don't feel as important to you. They skipped key processes like criminal background checks. That's fine. What, hey, you know, what are you going to do? Then they rigged the US customs and immigration system to seize control of applications, fast tracking them for a payout prosecutor said the senior official allegedly fast track citizenship

for as alleged partner and crime, then green lit residency for that guy's wife and kid. Gneew hijacked the system to snatch files from field offices in Minneapolis, Charlotte, Houston, avoiding local supervisors to rubber stamp the applications himself, according to the US attorney's office between 2019 and 2026. They pocketed roughly 671,000 via cell and cash app plus 287,000 in cash deposits designed to hide the money source from citizenship applications according to court documents obtained by the New York Post, acting as money manager. Des Mojos accumulated roughly 1.7 million in transfer volume, which is particularly attributed to his applicants via bank transfers, Zell and cash app, skimming a portion of the applicants bribes as payment. He also deposited $449,000 in cash. The unless it windfall dwarfs their meager incomes.

So at that government job, the guy who is the senior official Gneew, he was making $67,000 a year while his money man was making about $7,500 a year in legitimate wages. As the investigation mounted, Gneew was not immediately fired. And steady quietly resigned due to personal reasons in March of 2026, just months before federal authorities moved in to arrest him. The complaint notes that the senior official and the money man frequently exchanged money back and forth with applicants authorities alleged the rapid churning of funds on digital apps inflated the total volume of money processed leading to the $1.7 million figure. Most of the citizenship applications they dealt with came from African countries according to prosecutors selling immigration benefits for cash is a blatant abuse of public trust. Said the US attorney for the Northern District of Texas in a statement on Friday.

The only question I have is who else is engaging in this type of behavior behind the scenes. You'd have to imagine that this isn't the only case of this happening. Are the others just better at it or are they going to be busted soon as well? All right. You know what else is always good? It's the lighting round. It's the lighting round with Chris hand, Chris hand. We do it every day at this time. Stories that wouldn't fill a whole segment. Stuff we wanted to talk about when we ran out of time and sometimes just the most random things. It's an emotional roller coaster on the lighting round. We cry. We get angry. Sometimes we do all three in one story. That's what we do. All right. First the first bucket. It's not really like one story, but it's like it's a bit of a bucket here. Lindsay Clancy. Ooh. You want to start with the media or you want to start with a lawyer?

Start with the media. That's what it wants to get. OK. So this is after the mistrial came down. This is how the media was covering it on court TV. You tell me if they're not biased in any way. They said that the person, the one hold out, is unwilling to accept the definition of reasonable doubt. And that the person just don't understand it. You know, we don't know what exactly is the nature of the dispute. Again, is it that the person is unwilling to accept the definition of reasonable doubt? Or is it that they just don't understand it? The judge is going with maybe they still don't understand, which is why the judge gave the instruction again, rather than jump to the level where they are taking the juror off and putting an alternate who can actually follow the law of what reasonable doubt says.

What if he doesn't have any reasonable doubt? What if that juror has no reasonable doubt? Let's talk about CNN's reporting of it. CNN describes female Clancy jurors as the judge spoke after declaring the mistrial and they were a wreck, an absolute wreck. You can tell you from our producer in the courtroom that when the judge said, I want to tell you all how proud I am of you. There was one female juror that was not in her head, no, as he was saying all that. Another female juror clenching her hands into fists as she was sitting on that chair. All of the jurors were extremely tense. One female juror would not even open her eyes. Her eyes were gazed down in her lap. Her eyes were closed as the judge continued to talk to them about what this final decision was. Another juror just nodded her head the entire time he was talking and another female juror

was percing her lips. We can now tell you that they are all psychopaths. And that the prosecution did not factor that in while they were picking this jury. What a bunch of insane people just emotionally unhinged on the jurors stand. Lindsey Clancy's lawyer, Reddington, right? Is it Kevin Reddington? Yeah, Kevin Reddington. He said that she was robbed by the man on the jury. Is Lindsey ready for her second trial? Lindsey is very, very, very strong. She is a very, very intelligent young woman, very emotionally invested and just a tragic. She's a classic example of a tragic person. Her life is a tragedy and she was robbed by this man. She murdered three children.

One of them wasn't even a year old. One of them from the looks of the crime scene tried to get away and ran across the basement to another room where she tracked that child down and strangled him as well. So yeah, so her life is a tragedy. The prosecution was asked the question, oh God, ever wanted to try an Olympic sport but think you're too old, too out of shape, too busy or that those sports are just too unsafe. Again, Fencing is taking the nation by storm and it's a safe, fun, engaging sport that's perfect for everyone, any age, any skill level. Classes are safe, active, engaging and community driven. No experience needed and most clubs offer loader gear for beginners. Learn more and find beginner classes near you at trifencing.org. Yes, it's Angus Maximus. This partner has won down to the pound of hunt. The gun scene cooked to honor Angus Speed. It's more face than a quarter pounder.

The battle of clubs. And for only $5.99 even regular Jews can afford it. Like that guy. Give me that big old burger. Yes. The whole Angus Maximus only $5.99 is cold senior. A bill for a limited time in participating restaurants, tax on included, not valid for use within a combo or in combination with any other offer or discount. Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick, at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at urgentcarekit.com. Slash blue. Urgentcarekit.com. Slash blue. The DA, Timothy Cruz. He was asked if the Clancy prosecution was insensitive. You know, I'm not going to stand out here and listen to this.

Yeah, Cruz, you had 11 jurors that didn't necessarily believe your case. What do you say to those people who felt that the whole prosecution was insensitive? Was what? Insensitive. Insensitive. Insensitive. Insensitive is killing three children. Insensitive is ignoring those facts. We have an obligation to stand up for those people and see justice and make sure that they defend against justice and make sure they get justice. So if people don't, can't understand that, I don't know how I can answer that question. Are you sure you're worried that you were a little insensitive to the woman who murdered three young children? No, not at all actually. Not worried about that one bit. This morning, a good morning, America, Lindsey Clancy's lawyer popped up again because I do believe he's enjoying this newfound level of fame. Jason the clout. Is it just me, right? He loves the clout. No, he loves this. He's like, this is his favorite part about it. He can act like he's upset that they're going to another trial, but I think that he is even more giddy about this.

He said that President Trump should pardon Lindsey Clancy. What's next for Lindsey? I'd like to say that perhaps Donald Trump, who felt compelled to speak out about this case, made very well. Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady. The type of person she is, what she's been through and consider a pardon. How about no? No. The best we can do is life in prison without parole. It's crazy. God bless the one guy for holding his own against the mob and these unhinged women of the jury. There's a lot of unhinged women out there. The current fundraising total is almost at 1.5 million for Lindsey Clancy and they have up to the goal to three million dollars. And the woman who organized this fundraiser on GoFundMe, she's a psycho. I don't know how to, I can't say it any other way.

What would be who you to start a fundraiser for a woman who murdered three children? And how does this stay up on GoFundMe? But if I was, you know, say there's so many conservative causes that have gotten taken down off GoFundMe, right? Like Austin Metcalf, I think, was taken down off GoFundMe. So how does this stay up? That really sucks. That really, really sucked. And my heart is breaking for that family. What family? What family? She murdered the three kids. Being said, I've upped the fundraising goal. It is now set to three million. This whole process has been extended. So has their time away from home and their life just being with, however it is. You know who never gets to go home, right? The three kids. So I lifted the goal. I raised the goal.

So it's now three million dollars. And we can get there. But if people wanted to donate to help with legal bills, you can do that in Kevin Reddington's website. There's like a drop box and it says like, pay and you can write it like a person's name in there. And people have just been writing Lindsey Clancy. So if you'd rather help out that way, you can do that too. But we are still doing this. I'm not going to stop. I know you guys won't stop. So let's make something good out of this. I love you guys. And thank you so much for all your support. Starting in brave psychopathic toxic empathy, suicidal empathy. What? Three million dollars. I want to know how many followers she's gained from doing this. Go fund me. Let's sick, right? Like isn't that whole thing sick? I don't know who's worse. Is it the woman who is raising all the money or is it the woman who is comparing the

Lindsey Clancy trial to the Salem witch trials unironically? Back during the witch trials, if you said that she's not a witch, she's being framed. You'd get burned at the stake with her. So now when we say she didn't do it, she's being framed. They're like, you're crazy. Silence the witch. Oh my God, you're so stupid. You will. I can't. That's true though. If the whole conspiracy theory that she didn't do it was real, don't you think the defense attorney would have argued that? You know, going back to, well, you just don't understand what reasonable doubt is like, what? Don't you think if there was a thread there to pull on to create that reasonable doubt, the defense attorney wouldn't have done it? You don't understand anything. So let's go over the names that they call us since they don't use witch anymore. Crazy. Stupid. Poor. Ugly.

Okay. Thank you. Now, we are experiencing a witch trial and we're pointing out she's being framed. The only people pointing that out are lunatics on TikTok and you ever do the whites of the eyes thing? You ever see that chart? This woman, the whites of her eyes, she's insane. Like there's no doubt about it. Yeah, she's nuts. But there's like a million of this woman out there. They were all like, oh, Lindsay didn't do anything. She got framed. Nobody's arguing that except for lunatics on TikTok. Going back to witch trials. The older I get, the more I feel like the witch trials were justified. Is that a weird take? Maybe it's a weird take. Maybe those witches had had a good reason to be burnt. All right. Got another story here in the lighting round. It's end on a positive note.

Please. Man arrested with truck truck with truck full of flock cameras in Albuquerque. I saw that one over the weekend. Say that five times fast. I dare you. I can't. You know what he was calling them? Tyranny trees. That's good. Albuquerque, New Mexico, sheriff's deputies took a man into custody Wednesday after he showed him outside their headquarters with multiple flock cameras in the back of his pickup truck. Authorities arrested Javon Martinez for damaging flock cameras in Rio Rancho in May. Then Wednesday, he posted a video on social media, apparently showing him driving around Albuquerque and taking down the ALPRs once again. In those videos, he comments that since the sheriff's office ended its contract with flock last month, those cameras should no longer be on the streets streets. He said, just for the record, I'm not stealing these. I'm not destroying them. I'm simply returning them to the sheriff's department.

Martinez who goes by John Vaughn the champ on social media said his issue isn't with the sheriff's office, but rather with flock, whose automated license plate readers have become a major topic of controversy around the country. The cameras track locations and store identifying information about your vehicle, and there have been concerns that police have been using the cameras for personal matters, such as tracking romantic partners. Is there been concerns or is there been documented cases? I think there's a lot of proof out there right now. Also like that's also small potatoes. I don't know if anybody understands that. What this stuff can do and how it can reconstruct your week and how they're they're trying to band-aid over all the issues with software patches. It doesn't change what the hardware can do and how all of those changes can be undone further down the road. So that's another thing. But he spoke about the cameras, labeled them as tyranny trees, and I think that's the best part about this story. And on his video, which I can't play because he's swearing a lot, he was like, look,

there's a little bolt right here that I just unscrewed and then I just lift it right off the base. He's like, I'm not destroying any of these things. I'm not, I'm not harming them. I'm simply returning them. I should get a medal for his service. It's what a patriot looks like. It was just helping them out, saving the government some money. They had already ended the contract. There was another city that ended the contract early. Flock wouldn't come take the cameras out. So they put black trash bags over them. That way they couldn't do any of their job. They just fall back in the ground. We're getting to Christopher Columbus statue back in DC. Oh, really? Fly. You don't sound so excited. Why aren't you excited? I don't know. Was it the liberal indoctrination that made you think that Christopher Columbus was a back guy? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm in a state of interest. I got to know that I'm not a good guy. I'm not a good guy. But I'm not a good guy. real indoctrination that made you think that Christopher Columbus was a bad guy. Or was it

the stories about him doing bad things? Probably the stories that open my eyes a little bit. Well, anyway, we're honoring the Italian American community. Christopher Columbus proudly stands at the entrance to the Eisenhower Executive Office building directly adjacent to the White House, one of the most important entrances to entrances to a building in DC. I did this in honor of the Italian American community. Industrial, brilliant, wonderful people. It is something that they have greatly appreciated President Donald J. Trump.

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