March 9, 2026

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We're very glad that you are with us and a lot to talk about here.

I'm in pretty serious news and I am surprised that people are letting things slide

the way they are. You know, we're one week into the war.

So we're going to talk about that in a couple of seconds.

And we're already seeing domestic terrorism.

Nobody seems to want to pay attention to it, but that's what's happening in our own backyard.

And this isn't just an immigration debate about, you know, illegals being here

and committing crime, which Democrats still won't acknowledge is happening.

We're now seeing domestic terrorism directly related to what has happened overseas.

And this is the problem when you have a society that's splintered and is not united for your country.

You have a bunch of people who are here who have competing interests,

things that they believe in more than they believe in the United States.

I mean, I don't know why they're in the United States except to make money

and to get away from oppressive regimes, but they're religion.

One thing you need to understand about people,

they're religion is always going to trump everything else.

It's just the truth.

So, you know, if they are a hardcore evangelical Christian,

you can count on that guiding principle to be the most important thing for that individual.

And you have to calculate that in if you have an issue that you're dealing with.

I mean, it's why it was legitimate to ask Pat Robertson when he was running for office.

You know, you're an evangelical Christian.

And let's say that the Congress of the United States passes legislation and overrules you.

I mean, if you're president, you can veto something.

But if they overrule you,

will you be able to execute the responsibilities of your job?

If you were instructed to in the appropriate manner,

if it contradicts what you personally believe, that's it.

That is a real issue for people who are in elected offices.

It is not an unfair question to ask.

And you know, it's going to be a bigger problem now because we focus so much on diversity.

We have very little in common anymore.

I mean, think about it.

Tell me what, tell me one or two things that everybody in the country would agree on.

Can you think of what that is?

What would that be?

Well, I mean, what would that be?

Freedom of speech, no.

I mean, not everybody believes in freedom of speech now.

They believe in speech that they approve of.

But I mean, you can't even say that a man is a man and a woman is a woman without losing your job today.

No, I would say.

And the people who claim to be all about freedom are the ones who will cause you to lose your job,

if you say a man is a man and a woman is a woman.

So don't tell me that freedom of speech is the preeminent issue.

Freedom of religion, I don't think I don't think that everybody is on board with that.

In fact, the very people who are pushing the radical Islamic agenda are the people who are silencing Christians.

You know, oh, we're not going to call it Easter break anymore.

We're going to call it spring break.

I mean, there are just little things that are big things that indicate that we're changing the nature of the society.

Because we've focused on diversity so extensively for 25 years, we really don't have a lot in common anymore.

I think we probably do have more in common than we would like to admit.

But the left, I mean, they are executing with great precision, the textbook about dividing everybody.

So we have domestic terrorism happening here and everybody's just kind of ignoring it.

And the only way, this is for our audience here in Virginia.

I'm sure predominantly the people who watch in this program who know me are from all over the state of Virginia.

The only way your voice gets heard in Washington is to have a congressperson in the House of Representatives who will speak out on your behalf, who presumably will cast a vote to represent your beliefs.

That is all in jeopardy.

Starting last Friday, March the 6th, the votes began for this illegal gerrymandering scheme that the Democrats are pushing through here in Virginia.

So I want to start every program between now and April 21st pleading with you, even if you're a traditionalist and you, you know, you want to vote in November.

One time you, you like to go stand in line at your civic duty. I'm not mocking you. I understand that.

I think that that's a very noble mindset, but it didn't working for us.

I don't know if you've noticed, there have been a lot of losses lately.

And the system is different than the one you grew up with.

And it's, it's really important that you understand the system that we grew up with does not exist anymore.

And there may be cheating. I don't know. There's no way to deal with that unless we regain some parity with the Democrats in state government.

You know, I don't think it takes a genius to see that the voter rolls are not secure.

I mean, in fact, this year they're using in most places, they're using the voter rolls from last November.

Well, you know, it's March now. So forgive me, but people have died. People have moved. People have gone to jail. People have gotten out of jail.

I mean, you know, the voter rolls from last year are not accurate, but nobody seems to give a damn. I don't know why.

You know, if you're running an election, accurate voter rolls that close where you know exactly how many people, you know, on the day that this finishes the maximum number of votes is this number.

That's important. But no one seems to care.

Or at least no one in power seems to care. And the, I think the Democrats are deliberately using their power to try to keep things very loosey goosey and not clear.

So that if someone in their midst, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, whoever that is wants to cheat, they can cheat.

Meanwhile, they'll, they'll swear up and down. They're not cheating.

They'll say that illegals are voting, but then when governor Youngkin discovers that they're 1600 people that he's aware of who are illegal on the voter rolls, they'll fight like hell all the way to the Supreme Court to keep those people on the voter rolls.

Don't tell me you're not willing to cheat because you're, and you, you've demonstrated it over and over again.

You're fighting to keep the system in place with things that are so blatantly obviously not correct for anybody, Republican or Democrat, they're not right.

One side is trying to clean it up so that it's transparent and clear for everybody.

And the other side is deliberately fighting to try to keep things very, very unclear and confusing.

And the Republicans are the ones trying to clear it up and the Democrats are trying to keep it confusing.

And I think there's a reason for that. Can I prove that there's cheating? No, I cannot prove that there's cheating at the moment.

But I don't think you, it, it, it's like if I catch somebody with their hand in my pocket, reaching for my wallet, and they haven't stolen the wallet yet, you know, forgive me, but you're a thief.

You know, I don't have to catch you two blocks away with my wallet, with the money out on the sidewalk for me to realize that you're a thief.

There is a movement of foot to be deviant with elections.

So what do you do if you're a responsible person and you want fair elections? And I'm not saying that I got a win.

I'd like to win. I'd like to be able to convince people to vote for me, but I'm not saying I got a win.

I can accept losing as long as I know that it's a fair election. How about that for an idea?

That seems like old-fashioned mindset, right? But that's my mindset. But I'm not convinced it's a fair election.

You don't have any choice right now. You need to get out and cast your vote. And there are a whole bunch of people who are spreading a lot of information, which I think is probably well intentioned, but it's not helping at the moment.

And I think it's inaccurate. You know, there are a bunch of people who say, oh, well, don't vote until after April 16. Look, the election has started. It started on Friday.

The courts are not going to intervene. We're going to have the 45 days of voting up until April the 21st. That is the final day of voting.

We now know that getting the votes in early does a couple of things. It secures your vote so that no one can steal your vote.

No one can show up at the county court house and say, hi, I'm John Reed. And some ding bat says, okay, Mr. Reed, here's your ballot. And then they vote. And it goes into the into the counting machine with no notation.

And then when the real John Reed shows up, they say, oh, you've already voted. And then the real John Reed votes some sort of provisional vote. And there's no way to undo the vote that's in the machine.

Another example of how we don't have a secure voting system. We just don't.

It's possible to have that, but no one seems committed to having a secure voting system. And that's why the Republicans have to pass the save act.

And the fact that they're not doing it sends me into orbit, like what in the hell is the point of running for office, supporting a candidate giving any donation, even $1.

If you guys can't get it together on the save act, which is about as basic as anything is. And the Republicans in the Senate don't seem to be able to pull it together.

I mean, it is, it is the kind of thing that makes you think if we can't get that done, what is the point the country's over with?

If Republicans can't push that through under, you know, I mean, to me, if you're not capable of doing that, then the whole thing is lost.

We'll see whether they get it done. But the fact that we're sitting here going back and forth and we've got all these influences are an activist trying to put pressure.

But what pressure should you, I mean, should you have to utilize to get this through this shouldn't even be controversial.

The polling indicate it's, it indicates it's not controversial. The only people it's controversial with are the hardcore Democrats who want to be able to cheat.

You know, we're stuck with the system we have at the moment. And the only way to make this work is to be too big to rig.

And that means that even if you're exhausted, and I'm exhausted, I'm financially exhausted, I'm mentally exhausted, I am tired of this.

I will tell you that. But even if you're exhausted, you better show up to vote and you better tell your husband or your wife and your kids to show up to vote.

Vote no between now and April 21st. That means looking up where you live and going to the county courthouse or to the library wherever they have early voting.

You know, there's basically burning money in your locality because the Democrats insisted on the stupid 45 days of voting, which is really unfair because who knows what's going to happen between now and April 21st.

But they don't care. They're look, the Democrats have figured out how to maximize every every person in a mental ward, every convict in the jail, every person who's comatose in a nursing home will miraculously vote Democrat.

They're going to make sure those votes get to the polling place. I mean, the Democrats know what they're doing. In a certain way, I've got to give them credit. They have figured out where their votes are and they're going to maximize their votes.

Republicans can't even pass things in a formal sense in the Senate. So you better show up and vote no between now and April 21st.

I am going to go out and check the mail a little later today and see if my ballot is on the permanent absentee list, whether my ballot has arrived in the mail here and then whatever day it arrives, I'll share that with you and show you the totally bogus language leading fabricated language that the Democrats have used to explain this proposal.

And we'll robot that on air just so you can go around and robot it too when people say, oh gosh, it seems so fair. It's not fair. It is a con job of of the highest order from the Democrats and you need to be aware of that.

So every day between now and April 21st, I can't say it enough. Vote early. Get your vote in and vote no against this gerrymandering scheme. It is a spit in the face of everybody who wants a fair democracy in Virginia and the people of Virginia have already made a decision that they don't want politicians drawing the lines.

And can I just tell you this Abigail Spanberger at the end of last week said, oh, you don't you understand this is a temporary measure. Look, Abigail Spanberger, you know, no one tried to be nicer last year than me.

I tried to be a gentleman. I was polite to everybody. Apparently that doesn't matter. Abigail lied to you last year. I'm sorry about that. She said she was not interested in redistricting the state.

Nothing has changed the whole time. We knew exactly what was going on in other states. She lied to you. And you, you know, you have to, you have to start to recognize when people are lying to you, even if you like them. I mean, maybe you're some sort of middle of the road person and you thought, oh, Abigail seems so nice. She's a soccer mom and, you know, everybody says she's a moderate. I don't know why they said she was a moderate. Everybody said she was a moderate and, you know, Republicans didn't successfully push back on that in the press.

She's in the tank for her. Oh, everybody believed that she was a much that they she lied to you because as soon as she got in there, the first thing she did besides saying that local law enforcement wouldn't cooperate with the feds was she signed to this bill to redistrict here in Virginia and take, take away the voice for all of these Virginians.

40 some percent of Virginians who vote Republican every election will not have a voice in Washington. I mean, come on. You know, she's she's playing politics 100%.

And I think you should have known that from somebody who worked for the CIA and who was not a moderate in Congress, but okay, we're stuck where we are at the moment, but please don't let her keep lying to you.

She's not a temporary thing. It says it's a temporary thing, but she's not going to be governor as governor, Gilmore pointed out she's not going to be governor when this ends.

So she can say everything she wants, but if let's say we have a Democrat governor following her in four years, you think that person's going to go along with returning to the old way and what putting the lines back the way they are today. Hell, no, that's not going to happen.

But you should be lied to be mad about it. You should be angry about it. I mean, don't go into the streets and be like a Democrat. Don't harm innocent people or set buildings on fire. You know, don't march around and block the roads and impede other people, but you should be mad about this because you've been lied to.

And you should take action by voting and spreading the word that the answer for this gerrymandering scheme is to vote now.

All right. We're going to talk to the former Virginia governor, George Allen about this in a couple of minutes. So I don't want to go on too long about that. But I feel like I've got to start every show with that admonishment for everyone, not to just let this slide.

The other thing about voting now is it means that the Republicans who don't have a lot of money. I mean, you know, the Democrats are spent, they've sent five million dollars from DC to buy TV ads.

But the only way to fix that is to win this election. So if you get your vote in right now, it means that whatever little bit of money is left to go after chasing votes doesn't have to go after you because your vote is already in.

There really is an important situation here for you to contemplate. All right. Back to the war.

Well, they didn't pick the little Ayatollah Ghazala Hashmi as Ayatollah of Iran. I'm so disappointed. I thought maybe we'd get rid of Ghazala Hashmi and she could go really be a radical Islamist leader.

There's the little Ayatollah. If you zoom in on there's a Virginia flag with the Arabic on it. And there's the little Ayatollah Ghazala Hashmi. Can you zoom in on it?

Producer, Andy, you have because she's not very pleasant looking. I thought she had a more pleasant look on her face. But the little Ayatollah will continue to be our burden here in Virginia instead of ruling Iran.

You know, the way things are going though, there'll be another opportunity very soon if Donald Trump can get rid of the real Ayatollah, maybe Ghazala Hashmi. Where was she this week?

Did she march for the terrorists in Iran? Remember, I'm not making us up. She went marched with Hamas for the Palestinians with her little bullhorn.

You know, she, she's not so much as a leader as she is a protest person. Oh, forgive me. I know people think it's rude of me to bring this up. No, I'm pointing out what you should have been paying attention to in the first place, which that you, you have a radical Islamist now as the lieutenant governor of Virginia, who's about to run for governor in three years.

And if you don't care about it, your children are going to care about it. Your daughter is going to care about it. Your gay friends are going to care about it when there is a radical Islamic movement that is based here in Virginia. Why do you think the Mamdani people gave money to Ghazala Hashmi's campaign?

What? Because she's a nice lady. She's not a nice lady. Even the Democrats don't like her. They want her over me over Republican because they stick together, but they don't like her. She's not a nice person.

So, you know, there's a reason that they have the radical Islamist in America have funneled money to her campaign and are supporting her now. It's because slowly you're singing the Islamic takeover in Virginia.

And it's not me attacking Muslims. It is me saying you don't have a reform movement. You know, Ghazala Hashmi's not standing up saying, I'm an I am a reformist within my own religion. You won't hear that from her.

There goes she's walking with Hamas in Monroe Park in Richmond. She's standing there with the Antifa BLM crowd. The people who were trying to take down Western civilization and take down the United States. She's a part of that movement. That should disqualify her for leadership.

And the fact that she won't talk to anybody about it is a problem here. Let me just share this with you in case you missed it last week. I don't think I can play it enough.

This is the attitude of the little Ayatollah at the state capital in Richmond. God, can you believe that where are you supposed to talk to an elected official? If you can't talk to them at the state capital in Richmond.

Nick Menach, the reporter at WJLA, tries to approach Ghazala Hashmi in the hall at the state capitol identifies himself. Look, she rolls her eyes.

And the security guard pushes Nick out of the way. I mean, you know, I was a reporter at the Capitol. That's where you ask questions of elected officials and she rolls her eyes. And the question is about a dead Virginia woman who is murdered by an illegal immigrant.

Murdered murdered at a bus stop. And Ghazala Hashmi, when she hears the question, she rolls her eyes. She can't be bothered by you, the peasants or by the reporter from WJLA in northern Virginia, which largely voted for her.

I mean, this is the type of arrogance you should hold people accountable for this. You should hold people accountable for this. If if your instinct as a political leader is not to engage.

We got a problem and she refuses to engage and nobody. I mean, I have not seen anybody holding her accountable. She got elected. She was sworn in on the Quran.

Nobody even made, I mean, I asked that question and I was roundly attacked. Oh my God, how could you, how dare you? How could you bring that up, John? Well, I think it's important. I think it's important.

What the document, the text that you're sworn in on says something about your belief system. So what does the little Ayatollah believe? What is she saying?

What, how will she manage the moment where, as I used the Pat Robertson example, how will she manage her, I guess, conflict when Sharia law is being promoted in certain communities in Virginia. And she has the law of Virginia in conflict. How do you manage that?

And I'm not making it up. It's happening in Europe all over the place right now. Sharia courts are a part of the society separate from the government.

And so, you know, you know, you can always read a book and hypothesize like a science fiction. Oh, what would you do if we're not making this up? We're not making this up. This is real and everybody in Virginia, including the people who should be asking questions, even if they vote for her.

It's a fair question. They didn't bother. They didn't censor themselves when it came time to ask me unpleasant questions. Did they? If you, if you remember, every nasty question you could possibly ask was thrown at me, I stood there and answered them.

I stood there and engaged with the reporters. I didn't roll my eyes and storm off.

I got a problem with that. And since no one else is going to stand up and say it once again, I will be the person to stand up and point it out.

And before we go, because I do want to get to Governor Allen, I have to tell you, it's a dangerous time right now. You remember last week, last weekend, not this most recent weekend, but the previous weekend. I was in New York for meetings with a group of donors.

And kind of influential business owners in New York, very interesting collection of meetings. But I noticed that the city was not as vibrant as it normally is, even in February and March, right.

I took note of it. I lived in Manhattan for a while so I know what it's what it's normally like.

People were scared in New York because they anticipated that with the large radical Muslim population, not people who keep to themselves, but with a large hostile group.

And they presented themselves. Nobody pays attention to it. If you go into Times Square, there are radical Muslim black leaders who openly talk about murdering white people.

In Times Square, and everybody just walks by and goes, oh, you know, I'm not a lot of say anything about it. That's different from the Muslim population. But now that there's a war and the Ayatollah has been taken out, pay very close attention to who is standing up for the United States and who's conflicted here.

If you have someone who is concerned is like, I've started unfollowing people, even if they I like them on other issues, if they're conflicted about whether getting rid of the Ayatollah in Iran is good or bad for the world, then you are not grounded. You don't know what you're talking about.

And you know, if you're a younger person, I can kind of excuse it because maybe with the modern media focusing only on America being the threat to the world, you're ignorant of the last 47 years of history.

So you need to pause for a moment and listen to those of us who have lived through it. I watched it as a child on television and then lived it as an adult when I was living in the Middle East. Iran is the source of terrorism, the largest funder of terrorism in the world.

And we got to get it under control. I'm very pleased that the Donald Trump is gone after Iran. I'm very pleased that he is slaughtering these people. And I wish there was another solution. You know, I mean, call me crazy after 47 years and there hasn't been a solution.

At some point you reach a place where you go, you know, the only way to get rid of these people is to kill them.

It's awful. It's terrible. I don't like it. But tell me what the solution is. Negotiate. We've been doing that on and off for decades. Give them money. Barack Obama tried that. Let's be friends. I'll give you all this money.

And you know, that way you can build up your economy and you can be, you know, your own country and not dependent on anybody and you.

Barack Obama tried that. Didn't work. They used the money and they went and started killing more Americans and more Westerners. They started actively working to murder Westerners.

So at some point, really no matter how benevolent you are, you need to reach the conclusion, gosh, these people want me dead and they want you dead and they want the decline and destruction of the West.

Maybe we have to do something about it, even if it's not our instinct. And Donald Trump is doing that. And for those of you who are worried about Donald Trump,

you know, going back on his pledge of no foreign wars, we're one week into this. I mean, for God's sake, what do you think? I mean, you really, it's like everyone has a video game mentality today, where you sit down in your underwear in the basement and you play a video game for 45 minutes with random people on your team from around the world and 45 minutes into it, the games over and you either play another game.

Or you, you know, you come out of the basement, go do whatever, you know, stuff your fat face with with French fries. I mean, this is not a video game. So I'm sorry, and it's not a TV show at minute 58. There's not going to be a conclusion here.

And I would suggest to you as someone who's watched this stuff for a long time and done a lot of study one week when there's a war like this is not a lot of time.

So before you think we're into another forever war, which I concede in Afghanistan, we were there a lot longer than we expected. It didn't accomplish what we wanted to accomplish.

I would suggest to you that part of that was the leadership of the United States, not being aggressive enough having lawyers.

If there's one thing you should take away from the last 50 years of American war efforts is that as soon as the lawyers get involved as soon as the diplomats get involved in the war like let the diplomats talk at the beginning and see if you can stop the war.

But once the war starts, kick them out of the room, kick the lawyers out of the room and kill everybody you have to kill. I've got it. It's awful.

But that's once you've crossed that line into a war setting, it's the only way to win. And they're going to do that to us. They got no problem.

Torturing, killing, humiliating, abusing Americans overseas. So I mean, you know, there's just a reality check here that has to happen. I think Donald Trump say what you want about about him. He's living in reality.

This wasn't going to resolve itself. The negotiations haven't worked. There is a real threat to the existence of the West and to the United States if Iran were to continue to work on a nuclear weapon. And this is the, this is the moment to stop it.

And I think that's really important for us to recognize. So I, I hate that we're in this situation, but I'm glad if we're in it that it's somebody like Donald Trump who I think will be brutal with these people.

And my hope is that, you know, it's going to take more than a week. News flash for you. It's going to take more than a week. But in the long run, I think we're going to be better off here. Don't mean it's going to be perfect.

Especially now that we've imported these people into the United States and they're throwing. I mean, this is the point I wanted to make at the beginning. You saw the little protest that nobody's paying attention to up in New York.

That was a real IED. That wasn't a smoke bomb. I mean, you've got people in the United States now who are going to create improvised explosive devices here to kill Americans who dare go out and protest. We had a small protest in Richmond yesterday. I wish I had been back in town to see it.

And I would have gone and stood there. I don't, you know, I don't, I don't want to ever be one of these rabble rouse or types. But I think it's important to stand up for what is right. And you got to be careful because you have radicals now in the United States and going back to what I said at the beginning, never underestimate someone's connection to their religion.

It's hard for us to fully comprehend how important religion is for many, if not most people around the world because our society has changed so much where we don't talk about religion and it's something you do a couple of times a year.

There are people where their entire existence is directly related to their religious faith and every decision is made in that context. And I just don't know that the Western mind given that we have changed is capable of understanding that there are millions and millions of people who would gladly die, die for their religious beliefs.

And if you're not fully focused on that being the reality, then you will make bad decisions, you'll, because you'll assume that their mindset is similar to our mindset. And it's just not the case.

And if you import those people into the United States, and if you promote those people in the United States, if you put them in leadership positions, really don't be surprised that you're going to have trouble.

All right, you see that former Virginia governor, George Allen is with us. We will take a quick break and we'll return, talk to him about the gerrymandering vote, some of these other issues.

You know, he was on the foreign relations committee was when he was in the United States Senate. So let's get his take on what's happening overseas when we return on this Monday edition of the read revolution.

On this Monday, I'm John Reed, the read revolution continues and we get the opportunity to talk to former Virginia governor and former US senator on the foreign relations committee.

George Allen and governor, I appreciate the chance to talk to you. I hope you're feeling better. I heard that you had a little surgery. Are you doing okay?

Oh, did we lose the camera? Well, dog gone it producer Dan. He was up there for a second. Now I don't seem and can't hear governor Allen.

Let's see. It looks like his mic is muted. There he is. How are you? I'm fine. I've just getting all this stuff straight here. I got blocks on top of blocks.

Oh, okay, to get the camera right. Okay. Yeah, I don't know if it's right on myself. I can't I can't close other Riverside browser tabs box that is.

It's you look good and we can hear you said don't touch anything as it is. It's like the plane is on autopilot. We'll go with this. So real quick. I heard you had surgery. I'm allowed to bring that up. You're doing all right.

I have asked on my knee. I had right knee replacement surgery a couple weeks ago. Generally what's going on. I get on a show like you and it'll melt the ice on my knee because I'll get fired up.

So one of the great things about technology, the internet and zoom meetings and all the rest is. I can operate right here out of the kitchen table. Good. All right. Well, I appreciate you coming on.

So let's start with the gerrymandering issue. And I know this is probably got you hot. And and and governor Spamberger actually came up and said don't worry everybody. This is just a temporary thing. She did that going into the vote on Friday when the voting started this

in temporary. Come on, right? Right. It's just for six years. Six years doesn't seem really temporary. And what it is is a suspension of our Virginia for Virginians are constitutionally protected rights to have honest representative democracy.

And so what they're doing it be like saying let's suspend the the first amendment for for six years that you won't have freedom of expression and representation in Congress or in any legislative body is is the voice of the people.

And so what they're what they're trying to do is invagled the people of Virginia to to really silence their voices. And when you look at these maps, John, when it's it's not just theoretical.

When you look at these maps, you see what that what they're doing is for people who live in rural areas, outer suburbs from the Shenandoah Valley, there goes my cane.

That's just string I hit a cane. And anyway, people in the northern neck, the middle peninsula, New Kent County, York County, Goodsland, Powhatan, they're going to be represented by people in northern Virginia.

And it's just so wrong. And they're taking one representative away from the Hampton Roads area to give it to northern Virginia.

And it's silencing their voices. Now, the Democrats will say this is because of President Trump and what yet, well, that's that good. I'm glad you got that up.

They're saying this is because of President Trump and what Texas did. And I've said from the beginning, President Trump should not have been pushing and pressuring Texas and other places to do this abnormal me mid decade redistricting or gerryman.

Texas did it. And then California did it and offset Texas. I like the principal stand that Republican legislators in South Carolina and Indiana did. And they said, no, we're not going to do this. Now Virginia has a special protection in that just five years ago, six years ago, most now 66% of the people of Virginia voted to amend our Constitution to prevent the state of Virginia.

And to prohibit politicians from designing districts, if you'll put that back on that, that this was done by David Poole, who's an independent. He's not a Republican or a Democrat.

He just shows these districts how much is controlled right now. There's three congressional districts that are that are northern Virginia congressional districts with it in the bottom. And that's the top one and that the kind of the burn orange is is northern Virginia, which is nothing like burn orange text, but it's.

But you see that now they're going to have five districts that they control. And it subsumes. And in each one of them, you see it subsumes either the Shenandoah Valley in three of them.

The Shenandoah Valley Buffalo gap is in with Arlington or Alexandria in Fairfax. No connection. Those people share no none of the common concerns about issues.

And in fact, our Constitution says you're supposed to have compact contiguous districts of communities of similar interest communities of similar interest and rural community small towns outer suburbs.

They really don't have much in common with inside the beltway or very densely populated liberal elitist northern Virginia.

Yeah, they don't have they don't have forestry and dairies and ag interests or any of that in northern Virginia.

And it's it's just so wrong to do something like this to the people of Virginia. So I'm with a group called no Jerry Mandarin Virginia.

It's a bipartisan group. John and I know you've tried to be bipartisan. You try to stand on principle rather than situational principles or situational ethics and chap Peterson, a Democrat from former state senator from northern Virginia.

And I have an op-ed that was posted on land today in the risk and times dispatch. And we point out how wrong this is that and chaps writing it as well.

That Republicans will be consigned to 9%. 9% of the Virginia congressional just representation of Washington will be allocated to Republicans.

1% or 10 districts will go to Democrats and this is not representative democracy, especially John.

I know you love history like I do. This is the 250th anniversary of our declaration of independence from a British monarchy.

And now we have outside elitist monarchical interests. And I almost feel like for the modern day Jack Jewett's Jack Jewett, you know, right Virginia's Paul Revere trying to warn people that this is what's going on and warning about this takeover of Virginia for outside interests rather than the best interests of the good people of Virginia.

It's remarkable that the people who for the last several years have gone into the streets claiming that they're protecting democracy.

American democracy are more than willing when it serves their purpose to stop on the votes and the voices of people they may disagree with in other parts of the state that they never go to.

I mean, it shows a real disdain and disrespect for Southwest Virginia for parts of central Virginia and south side Virginia where people have a different values set than than many of these people do in northern Virginia.

So you know, I with all due respect to the crowd in northern Virginia, which does think in a monolithic way.

Don't lecture me about democracy if this is your response to a national problem that you've identified and that's to stop on the voice and the votes of other people around the state is really insulting and revealing, I think.

Yeah, really that's exactly correct, John and it is and then and then the the language in this they say they want to restore fairness.

Well, we now have fairness in our districts in Virginia because of our constitutional amendment in Virginia that again was passed what over two two million people voted for now they're they're rushing this through.

In my view, an unconstitutional way of trying to make a constitutional amendment, but I'm not going to get into all the legalities you could get law years on like Tim Anderson's very good on all the law part.

The reality is what they're trying to do is say well these other states did this and that they were wrong and I agree they were wrong as was on both sides Republicans and Democrats.

But what they're trying having to do in Virginia is negate our our protections in our constitution for fair representation so they're not they're not restoring fairness they're taking away fairness and it's not just me saying this john.

There's a group out of Princeton who analyzes all the congressional districts across the country in various states Virginia along with maybe Arizona and a few other states but there's only about four states four or five states.

That have a grade a you know a rating for their districts and you look at our current districts they're fair they're compact.

You have the three in northern Virginia you have the outer suburbs ones of northern Virginia you have the Shenandoah Valley you have the southwest south side the Hampton roads area you have minority majority districts which are required by the voting rods act.

And so it's a very fair and right now it's six to five Democrat and and you know in Abigail Spanberger just a few years ago was saying out terrible gerrymandering as we need to oppose that those she she had the right principles.

A few years ago and now she's going along with this is just totally changed it yeah and and by the way in her election last year.

You were part of it you did you did better than the top of the ticket but but Abigail Spanberger won the first and the consent and second congressional districts so if you have candidates and an agenda that are advocating a positive or

notorious agenda they can win in those districts so in a legitimate election that it could end up being seven four eight three Democrat which is but that's the people in those areas voting that way and so they just have gone to such extremes to rig these elections to make sure that the Democrats win in fact some of the Democrats

and Helmer in particular a member of the General Assembly they designed the district for them to run it you know it's just which is so simple yeah I've heard a lot of Democrats really resent him for his behavior they they they don't appreciate what he's done yeah and and so he's he lives in Fairfax and he's going to represent Shenandoah the Shenandoah Valley parts of the Shenandoah Valley which again has nothing to do.

With with Northern Virginia as far as other than being in the same state and and so that's a self-dealing this is what people hate politicians pick in their their voters rigging elections rather than the way represented democracy supposed to work and that is the people we the people the owners of the government it's it's a consent of the govern but if they if they rig the consent of the govern to get outcomes they want that it's just so wrong in contrary

to the foundation and founding principles of our country and Virginia being the cradle of American liberty of all places that ought to stand up for those those enduring principles it should be the people of Virginia and whether the Republicans independence libertarians or or Democrats and our our group this no gerrymandering Virginia has Brian cannon with us he and I went all over Virginia for this constitutional amendment trying to get he's a Democrat

he's a Democrat they needed me to try to persuade Republicans for the constitutional amendment and then and they got through and then the subsequent year the Democrats talk over the majority and wanted to keep them all together and passing it and then sending it to the voters and this the whole way this is going about again is so wrong there there wasn't there wasn't a single candidate last year and John you were on the campaign trail

you ran a grassroots campaign that's kind of we're trying to run a John Reed type campaign with our no gerrymandering Virginia true we don't we're not expecting any money from outside for decent sources or any of those folks and we're trying to make sure people understand what's at stake in this because in the elections last year when you were running your your opponent Abigail Spanberger nobody nobody

or anybody running for the House of delegates when they pass this in the final week right before election day in Virginia doesn't have election days we have election seasons for 45 days and so they pass this a few days before the final day of voting no one was saying hey elect me we're going to we're going to if you elect me we're going to pass a constitutional amendment to gerrymandering rigged the districts in Virginia so that it'll be

10 to 1 Democrat that assuring that no one was running on that now you do remember they were running on some of the other constitutional amendments will be which will be voted on not on April 21st in this odd rush to election but back if it'll be voted on in November later this year and regular election day on reproductive rights as they call it and

giving voting rights to felons and and and marriage equality issues and they were running on that they there were delegates running and in fact your opponent was running on that and so that's the proper way to do it rather than this this really

show your card to be up front with everybody exactly I don't know no one gets held accountable for that and this is the last chance to do that hold people accountable before

everything changes and it's going to be really difficult to fix this back to a fair situation for everybody if if this gets out of control I don't want to run out of time with that before we go into that I think that any political party Republican or Democrat who has to

regulations with Jerry mandering must not have much confidence in the popularity of their ideas or the merits of their agenda so they have to do this and that really shows a posity of integrity and also a lack of confidence in what they're

actually running on as popular with the people when they have to to to Jerry rig districts this way yeah well especially when they propose 51 different tax increases after they just talked about you know

affordability I'm sure it'll be fun at the end of this session it'll be interesting at the end of this general assembly session to look at this affordability issue and with the tax increases and rejoining that regional greenhouse gas

it is see which is regressive which is going to add three or four maybe more percent everyone's power bill monthly in a variety of other things how much power bills will go up because of that in the various taxes on employers and employees

I think Virginia at the end of this is going to be and there's going to be a scoreboard I think Virginia is going to end up being less affordable and less competitive with the states we

compete with for investment and jobs you got especially North Carolina and Tennessee well last week I had one Democrat who I like nice person disagree with them but they told

being you don't understand your definition of affordability affordable is different than ours and I said gosh really what I don't

understand it shouldn't we shouldn't have to go to the dictionary for this they're like no we're going to make it more

affordable for people who need it to be more affordable and I said oh so it's not more affordable with just the price

on the ticket or the price on the wall or the price at the gas pump you're coming up with a government scheme to try to

siphon money to certain people so they will have a more affordable situation in their life that's not affordability that is a

government scheme it's it's a socialist scheme yeah and I wish you guys yeah yeah yeah in fact there's some of their schemes on particularly on

the power bills is redistributionists as they're saying yeah well these these rates these power bills are going to go up and it's

very regressive the people hurt worse by having another you know 11 12 13% added to everyone's power bill every month for the

offshore wind project in the clean Virginia and the renewable and regional you know regressive greenhouse gas

idiocy joining these these loser high cost northeastern states all of that hurts lower and middle income working people the worst

and so they've come up with some scheme that if if your poverty level whatever's 1550% or whatever it is of the poverty level your bills will

only go up say 6% not 12% and the difference will be made up by those earnings say over $80,000 and their bills will go up by 15

can you believe it or 18% again this kind of this kind of stuff this is not going on in places like Tennessee or North Carolina or

Georgia or South Carolina or Florida or Texas and Virginia competes with those states we're not competing with

Maryland and New Jersey and New York and those states and it's just going to make for the cost of doing business the cost of

living in Virginia much higher yeah all right look I do need to run but I got to ask you you know when I work for you you

are on the farm relations committee I remember sitting in briefings about Iran attempting to get a nuclear

weapon give me in 60 seconds what your snap assessment is of where we are right now with the decapitation of the

itola and his leadership well I think it's all good I know right now there's some short term pain no no question about it

gas prices are up I think it'll be temporary they Iran is the number one state sponsor of terror in the world it's not

just them it's all their proxies whether it's the Houthis or Hezbollah or Hamas the Syria was once part of that that

coalition as well as Russia and China and they're roundabout ways but knocking them out makes it safer for America

safer for Israel safer for our allies it's not just knocking out the top of it and whomever else we need

to knock out it's stopping their their nuclear weapons program knocking out their long range and any any missile

technology we got to knock out their drones and all these different ways that they can project their

terrorist approaches and so I think we need to support our troops I think the president made a tough

decision that the time to act is now and just dawdling and kicking it down the road is not a

responsible approach and so I hope that I hope they get their objectives done with a minimal loss of

life for our brave men and women serving our armed forces I know our folks always and you know there's

John from the wars in Iraq and and in Afghanistan we try to hit military targets you hate to have any

collateral damage in it so I think we're doing a good job we're on the right track need to degrade

I'd like that most of their fleet has been sunk and so this this is something that has been neglected

you cannot deal with these autocratic theocrats they have a mindset that is contrary to our

Jeffersonian principles and the people of Iran and the Persians who live here in the US the ones

who want freedom and greater personal freedoms and liberty are happy with this right hopeful change

but there is a difference between we don't want to kill civilians they are fine with it and

everybody needs to pull focus on that our governor Allen I appreciate the chance to see you happy

birthday late I hope it was a great weekend of celebrations for you I'm yeah it was

except for the stinkin at knee rehab uh I know looking forward to my next birthday where I'll be

much more mobile it's it's great you're looking good and I appreciate the chance to talk to you

always governor thank you thank you John for standing strong for freedom yes sir all right we're

gonna take quick break when we come back dr michael shires from the american first policy institute is

with us stay here on the read revolution

we're back on the read revolution I'm John read and this weekend because it's the 250th

celebration anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence I'm trying to go

every week to a different historic site in Virginia a couple of weeks so far I've missed it but

this weekend I had the chance to go with Jim Herring who some of you have been following on

Facebook he's got this really interesting thing where he shows the most popular memes in the

country every day hundreds of thousands of people are watching this thing every day very interesting

but anyway Jim and I went out to uh George Washington's birthplace near Wakefield

and then we drove over to Fredericksburg and saw fairy farm where George Washington was a boy

and I thought it was interesting I went across the street and didn't get to go in to marry

Washington's home George Washington's mother's home but went to her tomb yesterday is really

interesting um and I grew up in a family where we did those kinds of trips on a regular basis that

was just kind of one of the thing my my parents were both from Virginia so for visiting Virginia

attractions was a part of our family tradition and we always talked about a why it was so important

that we had a leader like George Washington who didn't make himself king and the principles of

American representative democracy a republic and I'm just not sure that that's a part of the

formal education that young people get today and I question in most families is that what you all

do is that what you used to do is that what your uh children and grandchildren are doing today

where you go on a family trip and you have a little picnic out at George Washington's farm

doctor Michael Shires is with the American First Policy Institute and he's talking about

civics education formally and I appreciate you joining us what's your assessment of that do you

think that's um I'm underestimating how many people still have that as a part of their family

tradition to appreciate the United States and and the history of their home state and good morning

to you well good morning and it's great to be with you I mean the reality is and I love hearing

your stories about your family doing it um but so many Americans today I think trust the schools

to do it and you know we've done some work the Secretary of Education uh Secretary McMahon and

President Trump have used the occasion of our 250th anniversary to kind of launch this national

conversation on what it means to be an American and what our responsibilities are as Americans

and so as part of our work here at the America First Policy Institute to lead a coalition of

folks looking at this question and we went out and looked at the data and the data are not good

if you look at the national assessment of educational progress which is the closest we have

to a national test on civics the last time they've ministered it was four years ago now but what

we found out was only 23% of eighth graders were what we would call proficient that they understood

how the American system worked at a great appropriate level they knew how to get involved they knew

what the president did they knew what congress did and so I mean the data are not great when you're

talking about less than one in four basically knowing that um and it has it has a lot of consequences

down the line but I mean the the key is in you know Ronald Reagan's famous line you know that we

don't pass what it means to be an American in our bloodstream that you know freedom is not something

that that you inherit biologically but it has to be taught so many young people in America today

are not are growing up not only not being taught those great stories about about George Washington

even the story about the cherry tree and you know what you know why honest these important right

they're not being taught those things and in fact in a lot of our schools they're actually being taught

quite the opposite right that America was this horrible colonizer that came and and really wreaked

havoc on the land and there is a push I think to make everything into mythology that this is a

nice myth but it's not true when the reality is really ugly and nasty and it's almost a

a way to demoralize anyone who does have confidence in faith and hope in their own society to give up

on it and surprise surprise the communists are waiting in the wings to take over for you if you let

that happen I mean America's an aspiration we're not perfect no government's going to be perfect

you know it's an aspiration it's about trying to serve your fellow man it's about trying to

put others before yourself it's about trying to do the right thing and yeah their times we fall

short of that and so much of the curriculum today is focused on that and not on you know as we

saw in the state of the union last week right not on our heroes I mean there is nobody that I

can imagine that grew up at least the way you know you and I did I think they would not say wow

we owe those folks a debt of gratitude and should say special thanks but apparently it's perfectly

acceptable in today's political environment to do that and that says a lot about where our societies

kind of gotten to and these narratives are difficult and you're right when you talk about sort of

why would half of 18 to 24 year olds don't think their vote matters about one and four are going

to vote I mean think about that that means three and four are expecting not to vote I mean that's

just kind of terrifying will be surprised when they're overtaken at the ballot box and the end

result is pretty negative how do you fix that we've got Hillsdale College which I think has a pro

western viewpoint what truth and beauty one of the things that they you know the search for

absolute truth eternal truths that used to be if you go back to ancient Greece used to be

the mindset of academics and intellectuals was to find things like mining for a little nugget of

gold something that they could say this is truth and that seems to have been lost I you know the

curriculum seems to have been overtaken by people who hate the United States is there a solution

in the next few years while we've got President Trump in office to fix this well there's certainly

a big conversation going on AFPI where I am America first policy institutes leading a coalition

over 57 organizations that are putting together materials and resources and we're kind of thinking

about four levels of conversation I mean there is a there is a national level that's clearly what's

unfolding now but the states have to play an important role the school districts themselves parents

are the most important actors and then you know especially a school choice starts to take hold

when you build new schools what do you how do you build these things so we're putting together

materials for kind of all four of those groups but it's really about a national conversation the

best part is the next four months are the perfect window to have it because I mean I still remember

the bicentennial I'm old enough to remember growing up collecting my little bicentennial coins I

still have a collection of quarters you know six yeah a lot going on then yeah and we were kind of

mired in a lack of self confidence under president Carter at that time as well we were we were

but here's the thing there are new stories every day of American heroes I mean we saw that

in the state of the union we see that every time somebody goes and takes a chance to build a business

in your community and then pays that back by helping the school right I mean these heroes happen

every day we need to we need to focus on the stories that tell the wins of being American in so

many ways and I mean it's kind of incumbent on all of us who've lived the American dream and get

to live the freedom that America is to constantly be telling that story and constantly living that

story so that we could be an example for the rest of the world and so you know we're working with

Hillsdale and turning point USA and like I said 57 other coalition partners on this as part of this

of the initiative out of the secretary's office but the same time every one of us needs to be one

of those folks that's constantly reminding our friends and our families I mean we used to have a

tradition we we still have a tradition that I carried on with my sons we read the Declaration of

Independence on July 4th as a family yeah well much of the document is kind of mired in the history

of the time just those opening three or four paragraphs really kind of transform how you think

about the holiday well if you read it today I think there'll be some echoes where you're going

wait a minute we're tolerating we're tolerating this in 2026 and they went to war over that

in 1776 maybe we'd become a little too passive about what we're willing to accept from government

reaching into our lives there's a lot of that I think going on and especially in our educational

system I mean the whole purpose of public schools was to raise up you know was the educated

electorate it was Jefferson's ideal that every citizen would know what they need to know to help

hold their elected officials accountable but more importantly to have the civic virtues

that commitment to community service to you know following the laws to you know serving in the

military if there's a need right all of those kind of civic virtues were a key part of the vision

behind public schools and our public schools have really dropped the ball on this in so many ways

and that's an important part of why school choice you know as we create more schools we want to

make sure that that narrative continues in those new schools school choices really important it was

one of the things that the lady who ran against me beat up on me about was that she is 100% committed

not to the public school student but to the public school unions and you know making sure that those

jobs are untouchable and that the left continues to run the curriculum that is used in those schools

is speaking of the the books that these students are taught and are forced to read I think it's

different you know I kept all of my books and they're sitting in the attic and occasionally I go

up there and move stuff around and the narrative in those books is very different from what I see

with family members who are in school today is there a new collection of books and and curriculum

aids that do tell a story that results in 18 years when you know when the person hits 18 that they are

that informed citizen who actually loves the country instead of hating it they want to make it

better whatever that means instead of wanting to just trash the system

absolutely and I mean you know I mean books are you know it there's a lot more digital resources

today I mean but the good news about that is the incremental cost of getting another digital

resource is zero right I mean literally these things are widely available a Hillsdale's put together

an amazing curriculum one part of those resource kids that I was talking about they were putting

together actually roadmaps for the things that you would need to help create the kind of learning

environment that you're talking about well in the next couple of weeks we're going to announce

the read revolution tour of Virginia for the 250 and we'll include some of the places that I've

already been like the George Washington sites in Virginia that I went to yesterday with the hope

that we can help guide families that want to take this opportunity this year to visit those sites

and then offer a little bit of a narrative one of the thing I mean the the guide who walked us

through at ferry farm yesterday was obviously very enthusiastic about the the site and I think he

comes from an archaeological background so it shouldn't be surprising that he talked about the things

that have been found at the archaeological site matching the pottery with you know we found this

piece of pottery and look we have gone to an antique dealer and this is the exact same set it was

was here when George Washington was a child and I'm appreciative of that but I do think there's

almost a self-sensorship that is happening today then instead of telling the story about the cherry

tree chopping down the cherry tree and I cannot tell a lie who knows whether that's true or not but

without even bringing that type of narrative up those things seem to have gone by the wayside I joke

with people because so many wokesters have taken over Monticello Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia

that you feel like you've gone to Sally Hemings house and you're hearing about the rumor unsubstantiated

about a love child with Sally Hemings instead of about the third president of the United States

who wrote the Declaration of Independence and was very important person in crafting the mindset

of of the American theology if you will you just don't get that when you go to visit these sites

anymore you don't I mean I I took a tour of civil war sites in Virginia actually a couple years

ago same kind of experience and I did it with my sons who were you know actually was I guess 10

years ago now who were 16 and 18 at the time and it's so amazing it's so fun to watch the next

generation just connect the place with the stories and the history and I mean a big part of what

we need to do as a nation is rediscover not rediscover but continue to tell I mean the immigrants

that come to this country interestingly enough are some of the biggest storytellers you know in

terms of telling what it means to be an American and appreciating it Jorge Galicia I spoke at an

event with him who came from Venezuela it was telling the horrors of what happened in Venezuela

and how appreciative he was of being here yeah and I mean I think that you know these are the stories

that are kids that we need to get into the conversation and it's interesting because you know under

the umbrella of diversity we've oh well this history doesn't matter anymore it's like no these

people put every single thing on the line they put their lives they put their fortunes they put

their life their livelihoods they put their families at risk to launch this country and every

generation since then has taken similar risks and all of those stories I mean the story of Valley

Forge and the suffering that happened for those troops I mean 250 years ago today the revolutionary

war was happening you know North Carolina was just there last weekend had this great story about

a battle at the Ed Moore's bridge you know and how they stopped a regiment of British soldiers

from you know accepting reinforcements in the city nearby you know it's they were people were

putting their lives on the line 250 years ago to create this opportunity that we get to take for

granted today yeah well I hope that everyone who's inclined to join the Democrat Party and the

leftist movement will pause and think about what what am I a part of if you join a revolution they

don't have a very good track record around the world and and even if even if something good does

come from it there's a lot of destruction in the interim and you lose a generation or two or more

prosperity and peace for the people and you need to think long and hard before you join in

something that is that damaging especially when you're when you're tweeting about the revolution

on a an expensive piece of equipment that the rest of the world would love to have but you have

and you're driving in a car on a road that's paved in a society like this I would think twice before

you you know overturn that well and you don't have to go very far back in history and I will say

our history scores were worse than our civic scores but you don't have to go very I mean you've got

Cuba today the lights are out you've got Venezuela I mean you don't have to go back very many years

to see how these alternative systems just don't work and I mean I suspect we'll get some great

evidence out of New York City we have California today I mean there are lots of examples of how

these big government socialistic programs just don't provide the answers yeah well we're paying

attention where can we go to follow your work doc Shires so America first policy dot com all one word

our website is there we have links on civics education we call it the Freedom 250 project

and so you can look for that on Google as well and you will find that quickly

all right well I appreciate your work and I will be one of the people tracking you doctor Mike

Shires the America first policy institute and forgive me for keeping you holding for a couple of

minutes I appreciate you've been willing to to wait thank you oh no no worries thank you for having

yes sir all right we're going to take quick break we'll come back producer Daniel will you join us

we've got the best and the worst of the internet in segment four in just a moment on the read

revolution

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we're burning through the show producer damn pop that top yeah

I know it's not a beer it's a soda water a little early for a beer you know what even this

week I went to a bunch of different things I just I'm just I'm not interested in drinks and I feel

like there's so much bad stuff happening that I kind of need to stay grounded you know last year

during the campaign I stopped drinking completely I mean not even a glass of wine at events

because I just thought I have to not be overly emotional I have to be stoic and thoughtful

and you know even though I'm not a candidate right now I still feel like there's so much

baloney that's happening all around me um that kind of indulgence just doesn't feel right

these days so here's you know my thought on all that here's to Monday I'll have some soda water

yeah there you go uh what do you do I usually have a drink drink over over by my station here

that I try to try to drink while I'm off off camera but I forgot to bring it bring it to my

station this morning from my refrigerator which is only about you know five feet away you mean

the water uh it's a sprite zero I think sprites usually when you say drink people assume

get a confusing I usually have a drink oh you don't drink I say of course I drink I just I drink

water I drink you know calorie free soda you know all right what do we got the best in the worst

of the internet today and for you people should know at three o'clock in the morning when I cannot

sleep and this has been a horrible thing since the election I just can't sleep I've got too much

on my mind I'm worried about everything I'm money and politics and the rest of it and I gotta

get over it Alonzo keeps telling me um you know I've never had a gummy are you are you familiar

with these melatonin melatonin gummy or well I was a melatonin or is it whatever's in

oh see a CBD type kind of thing oh CBD what is I don't know what CBD is really except that cannabis

say you know I lost I don't I'm not a colleague at WRVA uh germ yeah he would know all about that

I think well apparently supposedly it makes you sleep but I don't want to sleep that way I want

to sleep because I have peace of mind not because some substance has put me under but I have to admit

uh I'm not sleeping well there's I'm I'm worried about a lot of stuff and so I guess my point

telling aren't we glad is that I'm texting stuff to producer day at three o'clock in the morning

do you hear that I was up this I was up this this the last night at three a.m. in the morning

yeah so did you see the stuff I was sending yeah yeah absolutely okay now I was I was uh I

I had an odd sleep schedule this weekend I and and did not realize until I think hours before

Sunday morning technically that this weekend was spring forward weekend you changed your

clocks like you must have because you signed on yeah well you know now almost every clock in the

house is digital these are just on its own yeah the one over the stove and the microwave

but yeah I sent you my well my stuff what did you pick well I I remind everybody that we've

been following we've been on punch watch you know for for a while and uh we have here's John

with punch but these jerk women uh there a couple there two or three jerk real jerks out there

who think this is a horrible picture I think it's cute it's obviously AI maybe you don't I

did not fly it it's possible that I would have gotten crazy and flown to Japan to meet punch the

monkey that is not inconceivable but this is an AI picture I think it's really cute but some of

these ones it's great and well speaking of yes I'd love to say that this is real we it's pretty

what is this but punch punches had enough he's he's he's taken enough and and now he's just he's

gonna tell these monkeys these other monkeys whose balls he's using he is pushing back he's

pushing back what do you guys what punch this is what punch had to do

uh do you know the audience would cheer at the suit to punch the monkey started doing this to

these awful monkeys that have treated him so badly but seriously there's this that's hilarious

but people I can't tell the different I mean it's slowed down and it's silly so you know with the

music that it's fake but if you just looked at it you might think that's real you might think

I mean it looks real yeah yeah it's not an animated thing it looks real what what what what

computers are capable of doing and this AI technology can can accomplish these days is just

remarkable on the one hand and probably a bit scary on the other but but yeah it's at least in

this context it's it's pretty well in this context it's funny but I'll tell you I do especially

three o'clock in the morning I find myself questioning everything I see like is that I don't want

to be emotionally manipulated into anger or sadness or a political movement based on garbage

that is you know completely fabricated and that's that's a problem all right what else do we have

so in in the wake of what has happened in Venezuela in Iran respectively we had a we had a

another AI video emerged this past week that thought was sort of sort of interesting and this

is it here Trump Disappearing Act

looks like a magic show

what is that Madura and uh yeah the drone yeah it's well

and the crowd goes wild

you've got all of the the conservative leaders Mila international yeah yeah and um and that

ground okay that's clever and then clever well this was one you you sent me and it's it's amusing

I'll just let it speak for itself uh the title is black mega black mega

black mega black mega black mega Donald Trump yeah that's my president Donald Trump

the first black president ever seen a black patriot yeah we exist the Democrats use my color just

to stay rich and that my president you might as well he died he flew call me your uncle tumbo really what

Obama knew not a damn thing so there you go the Democrats that worries them because they think

that they own uh certain demographics of the voting population that they can manipulate people

into constantly voting Democrat whether they deliver for them or not and Trump is one of the people

who has managed to break some of that up I mean not not 100% because they're people who just will

not move politically but we should take that music and then whenever we have a I don't know black

issue we'll just that'll be our theme so it's like our update music like rush used to have

yeah right well I have many questions about that video but my big my big question is yeah why is

why is bill cower in there what's going on with this guy like uh who is this well hold on I got

a good he's having a great time though the white mega guy in there so yeah with the most

looks just like bill cower the old stealers coach would know what to do but anyway what is going on

okay yeah so those are like the jokes lost on me videos of the day they're like wow what is going on

there but yeah so I always always interesting to see what's floating around on the internet where you

saw um the IED being thrown in New York yeah yeah a near Gracie mansion and I think this is important

this is how um dishonest reporters can spin something this is this is this is this is the textbook

example of spin okay you've got a right-winger um I don't know this Jake Lang guy I think once I

once I looked him up I recognized him from some videos I mean he's very provocative but you know

being provocative in the United States is only wrong I guess if you're a conservative right

if you're a if you're a lefty you're applauded for being provocative but this Jake Lang guy goes

and he's he's anti-Islam you know really kind of aggressively in your face uh look you know one

side's going to do it then I think that it's probably legitimate but we're reaching a place where

I think Jake Lang is raising a alarm that people should pay attention to even if you don't subscribe

to the way he does this there's an important issue that's being discussed here so he's having

an event over near Gracie mansion which is the home of the mayor of New York

uh a group of I don't know if they're radical or not but their Muslim supporters throw real IEDs

improvised explosive devices at Jake Lang's group and they wind up arrested they're screaming

Allah Akbar you know this you know it's textbook and the coverage of it that night and the next day

is all about a threat to mom Donnie and Gracie mansion not the fact that the IEDs were thrown

at a conservative protest group and you know whether I agree or not uh the left gets to protest

and so does the right uh in society I mean you you may not like either side and personally

I would much rather have an intellectual discussion in the context of a podcast or a radio program

or a television program or a university debate a real debate not just yeah and by the way

people love the conversation that we had at the end of last week on the Friday show yeah

sure out of discussion kind of we were about to sign off and end up going on for about 25 minutes

find a a a a nutcase leftist who's willing to come on and engage in that conversation just

I mean it would be interesting right but anyway the but you you get my point about this is the way

the news covers things the story wasn't a threat to Gracie mansion the the right the radical Islamist

we're not trying to bomb Gracie mansion yeah yeah they weren't threatening mom Donnie

so why are we acting like that's the threat that that was the issue no these people were trying to

attack conservatives yeah and I think it is completely uh under reported that mom Donnie's wife

supposedly was clicking like on pages that were applauding the slaughter of Jews on October 7th

now again in in the interest of fairness having seen a lot of people who will lie to get what they

want to get and to do damage we need to verify whether that's true or not but this is tell me

another situation let's just say um Melania Trump another first lady the the national first lady

had she been clicking like on um I don't know attacks on blacks or attacks on muslims or I think

it would be a problem and I don't think that story would be kind of a second-tier story is she

the elected official no she's not the elected official but there's something there's there's

something wrong here where we're giving a pass to people for behavior that you know would not be

acceptable if it was occurring on the right but because it's on the left uh it doesn't get

extensive coverage and it actually reveals what I think is true and I think we're going to get

an ugly awakening there are there are a group of radical Islamist leaders who were working their way

into the American political system and they are going to help implement sharia law they are going

to help implement leftist uh theology um uh related to Islam and other groups to try to take down

the west and you know if you're not paying close attention of course you go oh that's crazy that's

not true it is true and this is one of those moments where you realize no wait a minute

if I had seen a video talking about slaughtering Jews is there any situation where I would click

like on that tell me I don't I can't imagine that I would ever do no and and that goes for me too

yeah so if someone is doing that and you know we're going to go through and we're going to monitor

everybody's social media behavior then do it fairly and recognize that people reveal in new ways

today how they really feel about issues and they should be held accountable for that especially

if it's something like that where you're talking about murdering people you're talking about

slaughtering people um innocent civilians no less I mean it's not even like she I mean I guess you

could say you don't like Israel okay I mean I you know I said at the radio station if you don't like

Israel as a government that is different than saying I want to slaughter Jewish people that is

different but so many of the people here try to pretend that they dislike Israel and what they're

really saying is I want to stomp on Jews and we need to be sophisticated enough to recognize

when that is being revealed to us and I think that mom Donnie I never had any question about who

he was he's a radical islamist why else would you be picking somebody's 34 years old he's never

done anything never never let anything never done anything never achieved anything to be the mayor

of the biggest city in America because the radical islamists are funding him and they're pushing him

same thing with gazala Hashmi does it make any sense for some stupid poetry teacher

from some school enrichment to be in the state senate and to be running for lieutenant governors

that make does some somebody explain to me how that makes any sense it doesn't make any sense

she's being funded by the same people who pushed mom Donnie so don't be surprised when she is very

callous about the abuse of Americans and the abuse of Christians and the abuse of Jews because her

core fundamental beliefs which no one ever bothers to ask her about in a in a very direct way

are not aligned with the beliefs of this society I mean you know I don't know what it's going to

take for you to wake up to that and by the time you wake up to it it may be too late you're going to

have major conflicts in this society that are going to hurt you and your family it's dangerous for me

to be the person to bring it up I wish I wasn't the only one who would do it I wish that I had

back up apparently everybody else is too weak and pathetic to talk about it so I have a choice

do I disappear and not talk about it or do I bring it up and and it's uncomfortable I it's

uncomfortable but I mean what else do you have to see IEDs being thrown in front of Gracie mansion

at conservatives and what you don't give a damn about it gazala Hashmi walking past a reporter

talking about a young woman being murdered by an illegal immigrant and rolling her eyes and her

security guy pushing the reporter out of the way I mean what it's I mean is anybody going to be held

accountable at all you're going to ask any questions at all are you just going to continue to watch

this happen right in front of your face and then pretend that everything's okay something is

seriously wrong here and there's an attitude that is on display that indicates that these people

are not on your side and they are not traditionalists this is not just oh how wonderful that we've

enabled different types of people it's not just white men anymore who are in leadership we have

all different types of people who will protect and preserve our constitution and our society no

they're not they are not protecting and preserving your constitution and society they are deliberately

attempting to denigrate it and bring it down and I hate to be the one to tell you that and I know

it's unpopular I'm so sorry but that is the truth and you need to wake up to it now while you can

still fix the situation and I'm going to I'm not just going to tell you that's the truth I'm going

to show you situations where this is revealed and hope that you're smart enough to recognize it

and then do something yeah it is we're we're on the verge we're on the verge of the big prop

I don't think that we want to become the next great Britain

well yeah great Britain's got a big big issue here and you know the one of the problems they've

got in great Britain and I'm kind of worried about going back over there I um

is that if you dare say anything that is hostile right to this what you see right in front of

your face you become the enemy even if you even if you're no freedom of speech anymore

if no freedom of speech and especially if you're a Brit who's been around for you know your

family's been there for 500 years you're a target I mean they don't want you to say no wait a minute

what's happening in my own country you're not allowed to say it's my own country you know you're not

allowed to say no wait a minute you're one generation in here and you think you're going to change

everything wait a second um I'm not on board with that and and that is that is a real problem there

more people who are in the Congress who are standing up about this domestically in the United

States and there certainly is a growing movement in great Britain of people who are seeing

college professors and ministers and normal folks be locked up for what they believe

who were saying wait a minute this is wrong this isn't the society that I grew up in and I'm

not interested in becoming a theocracy especially when it's run from the left or from an Islamic

perspective there are more people who are standing up but I'm afraid that it may be a little too late

so we need to prevent that from happening in the United States and I think we're well on our way

towards that occurring and we just can't can't tolerate it well that was a point made our

our guest from last week Andy Bernstein in his new essay of capitalism magazine about the set that

this this unholy alliance if you will between the Marxists and the Muslims and Denise I don't

know if you saw what she just wrote in and I put up on the screen the Sharia free caucus in

Congress has now grown to 22 states including 46 congressional members I did not know that Denise

so thanks for sharing that it's important and if you've not been paying attention you've got to

pay attention what does that mean that means that the courts in the United States the courts and

let's just say Henrico County where I live could say we will allow a Sharia court to adjudicate

this domestic issue we will allow a Sharia court to adjudicate this business decision

you have a contract but we're not going to touch it we will allow the Sharia courts because you

are involved in this society to make decisions based on a different set of laws than the ones

that everybody else lives under and that's a problem you know we do it to a certain extent I guess

with the Amish but the Amish are very exclusive and they keep to themselves right I mean am I

is that safe from me to say I've not lived I mean there's one little place in Virginia that I

counted during the campaign where the Amish live in Virginia and I've certainly been in Pennsylvania

where there are Amish communities but their whole point is that they are

very resistant to engagement with the rest of the society I mean that's a problem on some level

but at least they are people who stay to themselves that's not the situation with the rising

Muslim influence in society and I have to say again because I know people will say oh look at this

white guy who is just beating up on Muslims that's not what I'm doing that's not what I'm doing

and I remind you I lived in the Middle East and as a gay man in the Middle East I had a lot of

friends of people who were trying to get out of the Middle East or had one foot in and one foot out

because they couldn't live their authentic selves in the Middle East given the hostility towards

gay men and women in the Middle East I'm very familiar with this and I would assert that I'm

much more familiar with it than most of you right so I'm not I'm not trashing people because of

their Muslim faith I am pointing out that we don't have a good track record around the world

of the traditional Western philosophy about freedom co-existing with the most radical vision of

Islam and unfortunately it doesn't take a large group of people who buy into the radical vision

of oppression from Islam to overwhelm everybody else and we just need to be honest about that

that's a problem that's not some sort of a racial prejudice Islam Islam is not a race Islam is a

philosophy it's an ideology that's a choice that people make to follow these these radical ideas

uh you know that is that is that is that is a chosen thing and and it's no different from

choosing to be a communist or a socialist or at least in terms of the nature of just this is

what I believe in the something to choose to believe in it is not saying that you are anti-Arab

or anti-pursue or anything else we've been conditioned to believe because hypothetically at least

I think this is questionable in the modern era everyone is you know they they malve the words

freedom of religion while they bash evangelical Christians in a freedom of religion

they really don't believe that here here's the problem I can promise you right now if anywhere in

Virginia there were evangelical Christians who were overtly taking bricks and smashing the heads

of gay men and women or interracial couples right there are people who send ugly emails about

things like that but if they were committing crime or threatening to commit crime against

two protected minority classes the entire society would be in an uproar about it because they

wouldn't accept it from evangelical Christians and they're by be honest with you there are a lot of

people who are really they're watching very closely to see whether the evangelicals behave that way

um may I suggest to you that if you were that concerned about evangelical Christians you need to be

at least that concerned if not more about radical Islam and if you have a large Islamic population

in your community does not mean you treat anybody badly doesn't mean that you harass anyone

doesn't mean that you dump on anybody discriminate against them but you need to be alert that there

is a movement within that culture that hates the things that you believe are important and true

and it manifests itself in a violent way in and it and I'm not making that up that is exhibited

across around the world and I don't want to as somebody who would become the victim of it I'm not

going to sit here and be silent and then just wait till I'm the guy who gets bashed in the middle of

the night um and then suddenly everybody pays attention hell no I'm not tolerating that and I'm

going to lay the marker down that I will not tolerate that from anybody from any religion and

we need people who are going to be be tough about this and right now they're not they're scared to

talk about well some of our our loyal followers have mentioned on on the chat we don't need to be

concerned about the the Amish as as a people causing problems that they're not they're not bombing

anybody or blowing things up or or threatening to do so it's there's one group of people basically

doing that it's not it's not the Christians it's not the Jews it's not it's not it's true the

Buddhists it's it's it's it's not the people who want to you want Jedi Knights to be a religion it's

one group of people we need to be honest enough to say it and I'm sorry about that I wish that

wasn't the case and I and if and if you're a good person who is not violent I'm very sorry that

that you are stuck with this is a reality that you've got to deal with but then it's incumbent upon

you I mean I I looked up this weekend the Islamic reform movement hadn't been around very long

and it hadn't been very successful to be honest with you and that didn't mean that everybody's

got to change their opinion but they've there's got to be a decision that that we're not going to

tolerate this type of violent behavior to get your way that has been on display for an extended

period of time not just our era but for centuries and this belief that it is acceptable to

murder and abuse and enslave people who won't embrace your religion and uh you know Americans have

been fed a lie and it's a nice lie it's a pretty lie that everybody's the same wherever you go and

that's just telling you 116 countries over the last 40 years of my life that's not true um it's

just not true people are not the same wherever you go and their belief system and their value

system is not the same wherever you go and you really do need to be discerning and wise about

how you navigate that you go if you're traveling around the world you you know I would love to

go visit Syria or quite frankly I would have loved to have gone to Iran and seen the the amazing

glass palaces in Iran from an architectural standpoint from a historical standpoint the the

history of the world is a lot of history in Iran but I'm smart enough to recognize that would be

a problem for me you know I'd love to go visit North Korea so I could report back to you in a

firsthand way um what the situation is on the ground in North Korea but I'm smart enough to

understand that that is dangerous for me um and I and it's not just because the government says so

it's it's a practical issue and I think we're we're we're living in a fantasy world where we've

been fed this very pretty nice lie and Americans don't want to face the much more um ugly reality

that we're not all the same and there's danger we need to be aware maybe maybe a rabbit hole to

go down another day but the the Muslim community doesn't exactly have China's one child policy either

so they are they are trying to overwhelm the world population through you know the people who

reproduction will hear you say that producer Dan and they will be very angry and assume that you're

spreading some sort of hostility please spend a little bit of time don't just trust producer Dan or

me yeah spend some time this is being said openly and proudly and loudly and I do think

you know I find it odd um the great replacement theory which is not a theory you know if you bring

that up suddenly you're a racist well no who's the racist me acknowledging what's happening

demographically or you for promoting it I mean I hear more and more people saying how wonderful

it's going to be when whites are in the minority you think so do you think that's going to be

wonderful I don't think that's going to be wonderful because I look at the way people are behaving

today around the world towards whites and Christians and others and I think now wait a minute

what should I expect when I am in the demographic minority to be treated nicely

to be treated fairly it doesn't seem doesn't seem like that's working out real well

in other parts of the world and I am a realist I recognize that people who are in the majority it

takes a certain type of discipline not to abuse others I think I've demonstrated that discipline

and that commitment to my values um I'm not I don't I don't think other people have demonstrated that

in their lives or their cultures around the world and we should be very aware of it

and not be celebrating it be kind of alarmed that things are going to change and then once it

happens you can't undo it no once you're in the minority and you start to become abused

I hate to say this is only one way out and that is violence and that's not good for anybody

we've been we've got to get something to piggyback on what Dr. Shiers was talking about a few

minutes ago yeah criticize the founders if you if you so choose but what I'm about to say is

absolutely indisputable to a man they were trying to make the world a freer more just place

than it had ever been and that distinguishes them from just about everybody in office today

who was trying to make the world a less free less just place than it previously was here

the great men and they were good men in perfect perhaps but yeah I think the motivation was was

just and I and I you've got a second gas in question what the motivation is from a lot of the

leaders that we have today um if I mean if you're pushing socialism you're and and you know in

some cases you're pushing flat-out communism uh you know your hypothesis at this stage doesn't count

because we have a century of exhibited failure for these philosophies and we should push back on

it anything that even smells like it we should push back on it and we have a thousand years of

of bad results when it comes to uh Islamic leadership and I'm sorry about that I'm that's

God I wish that wasn't the case but that's the case and um I'm singing nothing right now that

makes me have confidence that this new generation of leaders is going to behave much differently

than previous generations and until I see something different you're not going to have you're

not going to have me sit silently and be abused or taken over just not America is the greatest

country in the history of the world and at a minimum it is the first moral country in the history

of the world and we should be very very proud of it and we should be very protective of her

well on that note let us take a break and we will come back tomorrow and who do we have tomorrow

producer name oh let's see here I think we are still building the show out but we should have

uh let's see I know that we have a guest on at 10 45 Christine oh I I'm going to blow the

pronunciation this pronunciation this name center center center wesky is that sounds

Christine Sinowesky president and CEO of mediapedia and she's going to talk about

something that we've been talking about a bit a bit today the bias and legacy media uh but

in particular covering the attack on Iran okay yeah all right well one guest I'll look

all we're going to talk before this out tomorrow yeah all right that's good listen producer Dan

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