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Well, there's something happening in the conservative movement, and it's been happening for quite some time, and I think that we need to talk about it.
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Somehow, along the way, supporting this current administration and being MAGA and supporting Donald Trump has meant that you're not allowed to question him.
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You're not allowed to question the administration, and you're certainly not allowed to question anything you don't agree with.
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I'm still a conservative.
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I would not change my vote.
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My values haven't changed, my beliefs haven't changed, but I also refuse to pretend that everything that's happening right now with this administration and our current president is good for Americans.
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We've spent years as conservatives criticizing the Democrats, that they were protecting their own party no matter what.
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We watched them defend things that were so obscene and clearly indefensible.
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We watched them make excuses and tell people not to believe what they could see with their own eyes.
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You know what I'm talking about.
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I don't want conservatives becoming that same thing, but unfortunately, it feels like a lot of us are.
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This is things that we stood against, and now all of a sudden we're for it because we are quote unquote MAGA?
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If our principles only matter when Democrats are in office, then are those really principles at all?
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How have we all become so brainwashed?
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What happened to America first?
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I think that's the question that most of us are asking, or at least we should be.
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When did conservatives change their views and start defending what they stood against?
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I have definitely not switched sides.
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I am not going to, but I am so tired of the never-ending left versus right, and that if you say one thing, you're giving a win to the left.
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I'm not agreeing with that.
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I don't think you should be either.
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And I think this is a conversation that we need to have.
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So welcome back to Melissa Unfiltered.
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Everybody watched out.
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As always, I want to dive into some comments from the previous episode and some of the previous clips on socials before we uh go into today's episode.
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So on last week, I talked about how the government, our government in multiple states across the United States, is putting foster children in juvenile detention centers when they have nowhere to put them.
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And it was not because the kids had done anything wrong most of the time.
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It was just because they had nowhere to put them, they didn't have the right placement for them.
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And one of the clips that really uh started taking off recently was talking about a boy who spent his 17th birthday in an orange jumpsuit.
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And I was actually pretty shocked by the amount of people who were quick to jump in the comments and say, Tracy Goddard said he obviously did something wrong.
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Well, Tracy, I'm sorry he didn't do something wrong.
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His mom actually died when he was young and he bounced around between group homes and then ultimately ended up in juvenile detention because nobody wanted an older boy who was labeled group home problems, all of that.
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Um, another woman said, Julie Shutt said, did something or he wouldn't be there.
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Well, that is just not the case.
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He didn't do anything and he ended up there.
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Another woman, Juanita Smith, must have done something wrong.
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You don't just put a kid in juvie for no reason.
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You're right, we shouldn't be doing that.
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And another one said, Mary Cox, as a former foster mom, I can tell you some of these kids do illegal things and have to go to juvie.
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It's terribly sad, but they have to.
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Again, he didn't do anything wrong.
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And it was just comment after comment.
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There were several people now, it's get been some time on there, um, who see what's going on and know what's happening and understand that this is just um Mel Lambert, my friend, hey Mel, uh said, barbaric abuse, follow the money and find out why and who.
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Well, you are right, Mel.
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And you know, her and I are, as my other friend Darby Hill says, mom's on a mission.
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So um, I just, you know, keep commenting in there.
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If you know things, if you yourself were a foster child who went to Juve for no wrongdoing on your own and you were put there because they didn't have a home, please share your story with me.
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I would love to talk more.
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This needs to get out.
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People do not believe that this is happening, and that's part of the problem because no one is sticking up for these kids, and people just, like I said, don't believe that this is happening.
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Okay.
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Now let's get into today.
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You guys, I have tossed this idea of this episode around for a while, and I just can't take it anymore.
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Like, I have to say something.
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I'm I get super fired up when I talk to people about this because it's like if you say one thing as a conservative that goes against what conservatives are doing right now, conservative or not what conservatives are doing, what this administration is doing and goes against, oh, I don't agree with this or that.
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Conservatives will jump to you and say, Well, what about the midterms?
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And we can't, you know, sound weak.
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I'm like, I'm not just gonna go along with things because the midterms are coming up.
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That's ridiculous.
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And no, I'm not changing party lines or changing my vote, but like there has to be better options than this.
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This is ridiculous.
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And I want to say, yes, I voted for Donald Trump.
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I would not change my vote.
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I really don't care if he says things that hurt people's feelings.
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I'm sorry, like we're all grown-ups here.
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Get over it, okay?
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I don't think he's like it honestly doesn't matter what I think of him.
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I agree with the policies that he stood for, and I voted for him based on that.
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And I said, you know, I agree with these policies and I'm voting for him on that.
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And I did not agree with the policies of the other options.
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So, prime example of me, you know, having these this is kind of what sparked me to be like, I have to have this conversation.
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We had some amazing friends in town visiting us last week, love them so much.
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They're also conservative, voted for Trump.
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Um, and we I love having good conversations with my friends, and we were pretty deep in conversation about um prices, you know, inflation and everything that's happening.
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And I said, you know, no, I don't agree with um everything that's going on.
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And I don't like being labeled like with a part like with a person.
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I'm not like a Trumper or anything like that.
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I voted for Donald Trump.
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That doesn't automatically make me defend everything that he's doing.
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And my friend's like, yeah, but eggs are down, eggs are down.
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And I was like, okay, I see what you're saying, but let's really talk about this, okay?
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Because eggs are down great.
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Um, but this is like the big example.
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I don't watch mainstream news anymore.
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I'll see clips when I'm at the gym, or I have to tune in to um do some research for this show and see what people are saying.
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But that seems to be a big talking point right now is that eggs are down and the economy is doing great.
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And I just completely agree.
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Yes, eggs are cheaper, and I'm happy they're cheaper, but we went through insane spike um in price on eggs because of the bird flu, and it wiped out tens of millions of hens.
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And so I think the USDA said it was 50.7 million egg-laying hens were lost during the outbreak.
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Okay, that's what spiked supposedly, you know, allegedly what we're told.
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Spiked the egg prices.
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They said they got up over$6 a dozen at the peak, yes.
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And if you buy only pasture raised or organic eggs, they were like$10,$12 a dozen.
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Completely ridiculous.
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Um, and I noticed during that time it wasn't just eggs.
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I said everything is going up, everything I buy.
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I don't look at specific items as the kind of factor, like eggs are down, everything's cheap again.
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No, I look at how much I'm spending at the grocery store every three days because I'm feeding three athlete children and they eat more than my husband and I do, and it's very expensive to feed them, and I feed them healthy.
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Um, I try to be organic when we can, feed them very healthy diet, and at my it's like$400 every time I go to the store, which is insane.
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And I know not everyone can do that, and everyone can afford that.
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And I said, you know, of course the eggs are down, but the national average is$219 a dozen.
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But in February 2020, it was$1.45.
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So just because something was so inflated at one point, we should be so happy that it's down now.
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You know, you've got Trump on Fox News saying the food and groceries, it's all coming down.
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I have a problem with that because groceries as a category are not coming down at all.
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You know, the government's own numbers say food in the home is still up 2.7% more than it was a year ago.
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I agree.
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And that's let's go all the way back to, you know, pre-COVID, it was down a lot more.
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It just kept going up and up and up.
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It felt like every single time I went to the store, my grocery bill increased by like five bucks.
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And I didn't, I look at, you know, what we're ordering and what we're getting.
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Um, my kids have always been good eaters.
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Maybe they eat a little bit more now, but but I also got rid of diapers and I also got rid of formula and I also got rid of baby food and I also got rid of like more expensive items and swapped it for food.
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So I I just, you know, we had an argument because he's like, Well, you can't say that.
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And it wasn't an argument, I shouldn't say that, because like we're such good friends.
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But I was like, you you've got to like turn off Fox News, you know, they just keep saying the same thing over and over.
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Eggs are down, gas is down, eggs are down, gas is down.
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They say it enough times and you start repeating it.
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And you know, electricity's up 4.2%, gas is up 24.6%.
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My husband drives a diesel.
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Diesel is so expensive, and if you look at all the trucks, the trucks are using diesel, the trucks that deliver your goods, the trucks that deliver your food.
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So if diesel's up and the delivery price costs these companies more, everything you're getting Amazon, wherever, Target, Home Depot, it's all going up.
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Everything is up, nothing is coming down.
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So eggs came down from the inflation from when there was a bird flu, sure, but to say it's all coming down is just not an accurate description.
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Um, I know what I spend, you know what you spend.
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I don't need someone on television explaining to me that life is suddenly affordable when I'm watching my money leave my bank account every single day.
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And I'm sure most Americans feel the same way, or they might not even have money in their bank account to pay those bills and are going into debt, huge debt, just to keep food on the table for their children.
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I mean, this isn't the 1920s where we're spending like half our money on eggs, bread, and milk, right?
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We have groceries, insurance, utilities, kids' activities, um, repairs, anything else that a normal family pays for.
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I feel like every sport's like we're doing a fundraiser and you gotta buy the backpack and the the head, the little fat head thing, and the matching t-shirt and everything costs more.
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So, what a normal family pays is substantially more than it was before COVID.
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And I'm sick of the gaslighting and being told that egg prices are down and we should all be so happy and it's all sunshine and rainbows because it's not.
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Um, you know, lots of people I think get manipulated by the word inflation because inflation coming down does not mean that the prices came down.
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So if something went from$100 to$130, and then the next year it goes up to$133 instead of$140, inflation slowed.
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You're still paying the$133.
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That's like as simple as I can make it for you.
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So when someone tells you that inflation is lower, okay, good, but like I want the whole price lower, I want the cost back down.
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And I know that yes, things do increase year over year, but the increase that we saw was so exponential, and there has not been enough of a bounce back from that.
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And wages did not go up to account for that increase in goods and everything that we're paying for.
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I just don't think um that anyone's buying this, and I think that's where we're having problems as conservatives.
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And I get annoyed, you know, I don't want someone parroting the talking talking points on Fox News because they repeated it enough times, and I feel like that's what keeps happening.
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That's why honestly I stopped watching the news.
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You guys, I know it's a lot of work to go out and do your own research, but that's where we're at.
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You know, if you keep hearing these talking points and you're repeating them without any research, yet you're at the store paying the higher bill and you're not recognizing that.
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I think it's time to take a step back and go, wait a second.
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Yeah, we're being lied to.
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Another huge thing while we're on food and things becoming so expensive, just announced this past week that um because there's not enough beef and beef prices are so high, Trump announced a plan to temporarily allow 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef into the United States at reduced tariffs over a 90-day period.
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Okay, I'm not here to demonize foreign food, you guys.
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Um, but he's saying this is what's gonna bring our beef prices down.
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And like, why?
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I thought it was about America first.
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I thought we were putting America first, and we need American ranchers and we need American cattle farmers, and we need to bring their cost down so that they can supply the American people with American beef.
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I don't need foreign beef, I don't need tariffs brought down to have beef from somewhere else.
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That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
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Also, they're not labeling it in the store, they're not telling you where it's from.
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If I'm buying beef at the store, I want to know exactly where it's from.
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If it's from China, it should say from China processed in the US.
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But they're not doing that.
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As long as part of it was done in the US, they don't have to say anything.
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They can say USDA or USA on there in a sticker.
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It should say if it's from a Tennessee farm, it should say.
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Like we should we have a right to know.
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And putting America first is helping the American farmers and helping American cattle farms, and they're already pushing back, and this is not good because these were people who fully supported this administration, fully supported Donald Trump, and they are the backbone of our country.
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You know, the cattle farmers, the farmers, truck drivers, these are people who make our country go around and get us what we need.
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And I think this is a huge mistake for our country.
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And 90 days, honestly, what's that gonna do?
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I mean, the USDA says we lost 27.6 million beef cows.
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I'm sorry, it says we had 26.7, 27.6.
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I'm sorry, you guys, we had 27.6 million beef cows at the beginning of this year.
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That's a 1% decline from last year.
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So I understand wanting cheaper beef.
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I want cheaper beef too.
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Fortunately, we do buy from a local farmer.
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If that is something that your family can't afford, I highly recommend not buying beef in the stores anymore.
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You need to find a local farmer, support them.
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Um, yes, the prices have gone up a little bit each year, but I am feeling so blessed and fortunate that we have this farmer and we can help support his family by buying beef from their farm.
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And we know that it's quality, we know what we're getting, we know that there's nothing in it that we don't want.
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And I just highly, highly recommend if it's something that you can do or save for because buying beef at the store, not knowing where it's from, is gonna be a huge problem.
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We already know that our food is a disaster in this country, and I thought that we had this whole make America healthy again movement, and I haven't really seen enough going on there that's really helping um Americans be healthy.
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So I think we're looking, uh this is another reason we're looking at this saying, you know, this isn't working.
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And what's funny enough is you've got communist China over here.
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Yeah, they import beef, um, but they recognize when their own cattle industry was getting hammered, they put a 55% tariff on imports and they label it and say where it's from.
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And meanwhile, we've got our cattle herd at a historic low.
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And I'm not saying I support any communism over here.
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I'm just saying it's kind of interesting when you've got another country who we give so much criticism to doing something that's putting their country first.
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And I think we need to be doing that.
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Put America first.
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That's why we all voted for this administration because so many Americans agree with that.
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Yes, it's like the analogy I love to use, I use this so many times in life, but it makes so much sense.
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When you're sitting on an airplane and you're hearing the flight attendant tell you the safety instructions, and they say, in case of emergency, your air mask is gonna come down and you need to put your mask on first before you can help others.
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Because if you're dead while helping or you die while helping someone else, what good, what good are you?
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And then they're probably gonna die too, and nobody wins, right?
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That analogy applies to putting your own country first.
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If we don't have our country being as great as we can, as powerful as we can, supporting the people of this country as best as we can, we are not gonna be able to successfully help others, or they're just gonna drain us.
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They're gonna drain us and we're gonna die.
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And that seems where we're heading.
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You know, another thing that really gets me um a little frustrated here is tariffs.
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I know this is a hot topic.
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A lot of this is a hot topic.
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I'm interested to see who's gonna be pissed at me for all these conversations.
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You guys, again, I want to reiterate, I'm still conservative, I'm not changing my vote, but we have a right to question as taxpaying Americans what is going on with the people that are running our country.
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And tariffs were something that I initially said, you know, this is a good idea if done correctly.
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Um, you know, essentially we're charging the country who we're getting stuff from to deliver those goods to us, and they should eat that cost.
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And I know Donald Trump was all over the news saying we're gonna make them pay and it's gonna be great for Americans.
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Well, what's happening, not always, but what's happening is those places, let's just use like Walmart, for example.
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Okay, if they're getting stuff from China and they're getting a tariff put on that at a high rate, who's gonna absorb that cost?
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They have a choice.
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They can either eat the cost themselves or they can make the goods in our stores more expensive and you know ultimately put kind of price us out and we can't afford everything.
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That's what's happening, in my opinion, um, because everything has gone up.
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I mean, I look at even another luxury, I know a lot of these things are luxuries, um, like getting my nails done.
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Ladies, do you not remember when getting a fill was like 15 bucks?
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It's$45 now, and then you tip on top of that.
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That's because their products cost more.
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Everything you do costs more.
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Getting your hair done, buying makeup, buying hair care, skincare, deodorant, toothpaste, razors, every single thing we're buying is more expensive.
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And um, I just don't think that this tariff situation has worked out the way that it was intended to, or maybe it is.
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We were told at one point that we were gonna have so much money, we were just gonna pay off all this debt, and even Americans were maybe gonna get checks in the mail because we were making so much money.
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I have not gotten a check in the mail.
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I don't know about you.
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And my goods are still really freaking expensive.
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So how are these tariffs working out?
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You know, I I if I'm that country, of course, I'm gonna make the goods more expensive because they're paying a higher rate.
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So all right, guys, let's get into it.
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This is I know this is touchy stuff, but someone's gotta someone's gotta talk about it.
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Um Donald Trump and his administration, especially him, touted himself as the peace president.
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I can't even begin to tell you how many clips I saw of Donald Trump saying, we're not gonna go to war.
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I'm gonna fix the wars, everything's gonna be fixed in a day, everything's gonna be, you know, rainbows and unicorns and sunshine, and it's everything's great.
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Our country's so amazing.
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I can do all of these things.
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No war, no war, no war, no war, no war.
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We all voted for no war.
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Hooray, no war, yay.
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Um, Trump sold himself as the peace president, and we can go back and watch the speeches.
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I know, I'm sure, I'm sure, I know for a fact that CNN and all of the news organizations that don't like him, and all the Democrats and the left and the ladies on the view all love to play the clips.
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But October of 2024, he said he would end the Ukraine war while he was still president-elect.
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He repeatedly said he would stop chaos in the Middle East and prevent World War III.
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And at another rally, he reminded voters that under the first administration, America had no new wars.
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This was a major part of the reason we supported him.
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I mean, again, my values are conservative, so to me it's more than that.
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But yes, I was like totally against and still am against wars that do not help our country and are completely useless and killing innocent American soldiers, and um I think we need to stop these endless wars.
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And we were told that's what was gonna happen, but in August 2026, Ukraine is still at war.
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The chaos in the Middle East didn't stop either.
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February 28th, the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran.
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We're constantly being told that we're gonna be at nuclear war with Iran.
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Iran's got nukes, Iran's got nukes.
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I'm literally deaf in one ear from hearing how many times we're told that Iran's got nukes.
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Um, and you know, this is something that I've got to point out.
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I'm not arguing that Iran is good.
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Let me be very clear about that.
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Okay, Iran is not our friend.
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I absolutely believe the president has a responsibility to protect Americans, and I believe that he will do that.
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If there's an imminent threat to us and he would deal with it, and I have full faith that he would protect us and our country.
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But what exactly is the mission right now?
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Because I'm not really clear.
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And a lot of people aren't really clear.
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I've listened to a lot of independent journalists and I've listened to a lot of people speculate about why they think we're doing this.
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And most of the time, um, what I'm hearing is that they are speculating that he thought that this was gonna go a different way and he was gonna end it very quickly because of what happened with Venezuela, and that's not what happened.
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Now that's just what I'm hearing.
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Um, I don't know, and I know everyone can speculate and have their own opinions about it, but what has to happen for this to end?
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Like, where is the end point for this?
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I also don't know what that is.
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And was there congressional authorization for this war that's gone on for nearly six months?
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Those are not Democrat questions.
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You've got four Republican senators, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul joined Democrats in June supporting the measure that would have ended the Iran war without explicit authorization from Congress, and the Senate blocked it 48 to 47.
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American people have questions.
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Um, the newest Reuters poll says that only 31% of Americans support military action against Iran currently.
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Republican support has fallen from 77% to 69%, and 83% of Americans think this is going to be an extended conflict.
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I mean, can you blame them?
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I kind of agree with that.
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Um, but what happened to our promise?
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What happened to our promise that we weren't going to be in these wars?
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I think we have a right to ask this question.
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And no, I'm not low IQ for asking this question.
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It's a valid question.
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We're all allowed to ask it.
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You know, I think something that's really important is just taking ownership when mistakes are made.
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And I don't see that that's something that's going to happen.
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Um, but we we don't want to be in any more wars, and then another really horrible thing.
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This is probably gonna be the most controversial part of this episode.
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I just want to give you fair warning.
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We need to talk about Gaza.
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I want to be very clear.
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I do not, do not support any terrorists, I do not support Hamas, I do not condone anything that they have done.
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I think what happened on October 7th was evil and disgusting.
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I don't support any of that, but I also want to be very clear that I am America first, and I'm not gonna say I stand with this or I stand with that.
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I stand with America and I stand with children, and I do not support or condone killing of innocent children.
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I don't care what race, what religion, what ethnicity they are, I will not support it.
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As a Christian, as a mother, I cannot support killing of innocent children.
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Period.
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And I'm not anti-this or anti-that or anti-anything or any kind of pro anything because I said that.
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I am a Christian and I am an American and I don't support killing innocent children.
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Okay?
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Period.
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That's it.
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So I don't understand how we can be supporting this and backing it.
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I don't, nothing makes any sense.
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And anyone questioning it is being called all kinds of horrible things.
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I don't even want to say what they're being called because I don't even want to give air or give weight to any of that because it's absolutely ridiculous.
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You can say as a Christian that you're not okay with people being killed for no reason.
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That's that's all we need to say.
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But unfortunately, you know, we criticize anything and we say any of this, and we've got the Israeli government coming for us and calling us anti-Semitic and um blaming everyone who's Muslim for Hamas.
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That is absolutely ridiculous.
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I have friends who are Muslim and they are very nice, fantastic people, and I don't wish any ill will on them, and they don't wish any ill will on me.
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And I'm sick of being told that you know all these horrible things have to happen because Muslims.
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I just I don't accept that.
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Okay.
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I don't accept hating a group of people, a class of people, a group of religious people just because just because one group part of them is bad.
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I don't, and you shouldn't either.
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I mean, that's completely unacceptable.
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And then you've got people, this word genocide being thrown around because of what's happening to Palestinians, and I want to be clear, there are Palestinians who are Christian as well, and I think people don't understand that.
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And you've got people in the West Bank, you know, the Holy Land over there, and they're completely just blowing it all up, and I I can't support that.
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I really cannot support that.
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Um as a Christian, if you support that, please explain to me how.
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Like I need to understand this more.
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I need some more context here because I'm talking to people and everyone's just, especially Christians, going, oh well, you know, the Muslims are really bad and we need to be careful.
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And I can't support that.
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Again, very clear, I'm a Christian, I'm a mother, I'm a conservative, I support America.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Don't get it twisted.
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All right.
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Got that off my chest.
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Um one person who has some conversations about this that I can appreciate.
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Uh, she's actually a Democrat, and her name's Anna Kasparian.
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She uh had a podcast called The Young Turks.
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I'm not really sure if that's still her platform or not.
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I only have seen clips of her when she's been talking to conservatives.
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Um but we disagree on plenty of things, but this is one thing that we understand is the anger of the people whose homes are being destroyed and all in the name of a terrorist group that, you know, I don't believe is in parts of those areas.
00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:18.079
So um if you want to, as a conservative, hear another point because I think it's important that we listen to people on both sides.
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Anna Kasperian has said some really great things.
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Um, she's again been talking with conservatives on both sides, and there's things that we disagree on, but on this one, I agree.
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Um, also, I think something really that's disturbs me about this situation in Gaza is the feeling that this is all a land grab.
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I don't know if anyone was able to watch the um interview from 60 Minutes, where Kushner and Steve Whitkoff were on 60 Minutes talking about the waterfront property being very valuable, and he talked about a development and moving civilians out of the area that was cleaned up.
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And they talked about this master plan being developed for two years.
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And if you watch the video, there was clips circulating.
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You can't just watch a clip, you gotta go like watch the whole thing.
00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:13.759
But you can see the look on his face uncomfortably.
00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:22.160
Um, Jared Kushner, when Steve Wickoff's like, yeah, it's been in the works for two years, we got this plan, and you could kind of see, like, oops, we weren't supposed to say that part out loud.
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Um, it makes you really question, you know, what's going on, and did this redevelopment plan exist before October 7th?
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Allegedly, supposedly, maybe.
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I don't know.
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But I think it's a question that we should be asking.
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And I think you're kicking people out of their homes and in a very holy place to Christians as well.
00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:57.839
And you're talking about this beautiful waterfront property and making it this, you know, the Gaza waterfront development, and Trump's calling it the Trump Gaza plan.
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Um it feels it feels gross to me.
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I gotta be honest, guys.
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I don't like it.
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I don't like it one bit.
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Um, my spidey senses are going off.
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:12.319
I've got all the, you know, feels that this is this is not good, and it makes me feel like we're just being lied to.
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And can you blame me for feeling that way?
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:26.960
Because so much of this administration um we've been lied to about many things, and um I don't want to be part of the like don't ask like the Biden administration.
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:32.720
Like, he's fine, he's healthy, he's not staring and standing, and there's nothing wrong with him.
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:36.720
No, there was clearly something wrong, and people should have said something.
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There's something wrong going on in this administration, and I think as conservatives, it's okay that we ask questions of who we elected and who we put in office.
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I mean, let's look at Epstein for an example and Doge, right?
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:54.079
Okay, we want our federal government cutting waste.
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They told us they were cutting all this waste, it was all going well.
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:03.839
Elon was in there, they're finding all this, you know, government spending and people getting social security checks who were like 200 years old.
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:05.279
Whatever happened to that?
00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:11.119
Whatever happened to the 1.7 billion in savings that happened?
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:12.640
I mean, there's gotta be more, right?
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:14.240
Like they did, they just stopped.
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:15.680
We never got any more.
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:18.079
And then then you've got Epstein.
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:20.960
Um, I really thought that we were gonna get it.
00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:26.240
You had Pam Bondi on Fox News, asked about the client list, and she said it's sitting on my desk for review.
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:32.880
And then you had all these political conservative commentators standing outside the White House with these binders, like, we got it, guys.
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:34.559
Whatever happened with that?
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:36.880
That's just it was like a joke.
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It's a joke that people were raped and tortured and killed and children, and they're just like making a joke of it.
00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:47.440
And you have President Trump sitting on the news going, we're still talking about that?
00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:48.640
Come on, guys.
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:49.599
I'm sorry.
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:50.960
Yes, we're still talking about it.
00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:55.039
We're not gonna shut up about it, we're gonna keep talking about it, and we deserve answers.
00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:56.720
What's going on?
00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:58.400
Why, who are you covering for?
00:31:58.559 --> 00:31:59.359
Who's in that list?
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Honestly, I think so many people in that list on both sides, and I don't think it's just like a list like written down.
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I think it's way more nuanced than that.
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:11.119
Um, but it's gross, and we're not gonna shut up about it.
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:12.480
We shouldn't shut up about it.
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I mean, imagine your own child.
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The things that we have learned are just so disgusting and evil, I don't even want to talk about them.
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:35.920
So do yourself a favor, go find some independent um people who are talking about it and get yourself familiar with it because you're not gonna find out on Fox News, you're not gonna find out on CNN, you're not gonna find out anywhere else.
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:37.599
It wasn't just Epstein.
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:38.720
There is a whole group of people.
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And if you think it ended with Epstein, you're stupid.
00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:42.400
It didn't end.
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:43.519
It's still going on.
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:44.960
There's a new Epstein.
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:46.240
There's a million of him, right?
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:47.839
Okay, like this is still happening.
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:53.519
Children are still being raped, tortured, kidnapped, prostituted, and used in government somewhere.
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Allegedly, my opinion.
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:03.839
So, where I land on all this, one of the biggest things I just want you guys all to take away from this episode.
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It has nothing to do with whether you like Donald Trump.
00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:07.599
I think we all need to get over that.
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:15.119
You can still call yourself a conservative and still vote for conservative values and still vote your party line if that's what you choose to do.
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:18.640
I think it's important to look at both sides and what the issues are.
00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:25.279
Um, and I just want you to stop getting all your news from tele from the television news.
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:28.079
Don't be that house that just has the news on in the morning.
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Turn it off.
00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:32.880
It's not good for you, it's not healthy, it's all just a repetition.
00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:34.640
It feels like brainwashing.
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.519
They're all repeating the same thing, the same talking points.
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:47.039
And if you really dive deeply, you will understand that the news media outlets on both sides are owned by the same main corporation anyway.
00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:50.880
So why would you think that they're not just gonna say what you want to hear?
00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:52.559
Because they know what their listeners want to hear.
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:57.039
If you're a conservative, they're gonna say everything you want to hear to make you hate the other side.
00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:02.559
If you're a Democrat, they're gonna say everything you want to hear to make you guys hate us conservatives.
00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:04.640
And I think it's time that people wake up.
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:09.840
I think you need to go listen to some independent journalists and really dive in.
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:14.719
And if you hear someone raise a point, don't just be so biased that you hate that person.
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:15.920
I can't even tell you.
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:22.239
I have friends, I'm not gonna call them out, but I have friends who go, Oh, I hate, I can't listen to her, or I can't listen to him.
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:23.920
And I ask, well, why?
00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:25.679
And they can't even give me a reason.
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:30.400
Like they're just ingrained to hate these people who are making valid points and making good arguments.
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:36.239
And I don't agree with every podcaster or independent journalist that I listen to just because I listened to them.
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:44.320
We're all entitled to form our own opinions, but that's what you need to be doing is forming your own opinion and not just being told to blindly trust.
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Go one step further.
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:49.440
If the story matters to you, find the actual documents that they're referring to.
00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.800
If someone tells you what inflation is doing, go look.
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Go look for yourself.
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:54.400
Look up the numbers.
00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:57.039
Don't look on the media websites, go actually look.
00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:03.199
You can go to um, if there's government claims about spending, you can go to CBO, you can go to the GAO.
00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:07.039
And when someone says Trump did something, find the whole interview.
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.480
Don't just watch the 12-second or 30-second clip, find the whole thing.
00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:15.519
In fact, go watch the five, 10 minutes before they claim, you know, he said what he said and see what happens.
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:21.039
But this endless left versus right has made America incredibly easy to manipulate.
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And I wish more people would see that because every time that there's a fact, immediately it just becomes a loyalty test.
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Which side are you on?
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And if I criticize Trump, you know, I have friends who are like, oh, you're turning liberal.
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Absolutely not.
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That is not where my values lie.
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If a Democrat agrees with me on Gaza, they think, oh, I believe everything Democrats.
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No, that is completely ridiculous.
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I'm still conservative, okay?
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I believe conservative principles, no matter what.
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That is part of my faith as a Christian.
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And I want, I want Trump to succeed.
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I really do.
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When he's doing something that help him helps Americans, I'm fully backing that and supporting it.
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I want whoever's in office to succeed because we live here in this country and we shouldn't be so um just inclined to our party that we can't hope for any success at all.
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Because if you're hoping for failure of the president, you are hoping for the failure of your country that you live in, that you're raising your children in, and that is ultimately the future.
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And I also want to say one more thing.
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This is not just Donald Trump.
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When I say administration, you have to understand that there are people who work in the office.
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I mean, the president is one man.
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He doesn't have, there are not enough hours in a day for him to go do all this research.
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He has people that he trusts who get their information from people that they trust.
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And there are people within the cabinet and within the administration who have been there for years and years and years, and they'll be there years after him.
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They already have an agenda, they already have stuff in place, and they're gonna make it happen no matter what.
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If they have to manipulate people who talk to our president into thinking something to get it done, that's what they're gonna do.
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And I think that's the bigger issue that we all need to um focus on here is let's get term limits in there and not allow these people who've been in there forever to be controlling us by this left versus right because that is what's happening.
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It needs to end.
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And I think if it doesn't, you're gonna see parties on both sides every time losing voters, gaining voters, losing voters, gaining voters, and nobody wins.
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This back and forth has not worked.
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We've got to try something, something new.
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And I think Republicans need to be careful right now.
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Um, you know, holding Trump accountable is not gonna destroy conservatism, but blindly defending him is something that could.
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It could destroy our entire party.
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And I don't think we owe anyone protection from their own record.
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I don't know any news, any form of loyalty.
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I don't know any independent journalist blind trust because I like what they said, just like you shouldn't blindly trust me.
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Um, I do my best to get all the facts straight, but when I don't, I will certainly own up and say that was incorrect.
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And I want the truth.
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I think ultimately every American deserves the truth, and it's something that they should want.
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So if the truth makes my own side uncomfortable and it makes you uncomfortable, well then maybe my own side needs to get uncomfortable, you guys, and you should get comfortable being uncomfortable, okay?
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Um, join us on socials, and as always, tune in every Tuesday at 5 p.m.
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Central for a new episode.
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Thank you guys so much.
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I'll see you next week.
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Melissa Filter is a delayed media group production.
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Well, there's something happening in the conservative movement, and it's been happening for quite some time, and I think that we need to talk about it.
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Somehow, along the way, supporting this current administration and being MAGA and supporting Donald Trump has meant that you're not allowed to question him.
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You're not allowed to question the administration, and you're certainly not allowed to question anything you don't agree with.
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I'm still a conservative.
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I would not change my vote.
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My values haven't changed, my beliefs haven't changed, but I also refuse to pretend that everything that's happening right now with this administration and our current president is good for Americans.
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We've spent years as conservatives criticizing the Democrats, that they were protecting their own party no matter what.
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We watched them defend things that were so obscene and clearly indefensible.
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We watched them make excuses and tell people not to believe what they could see with their own eyes.
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You know what I'm talking about.
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I don't want conservatives becoming that same thing, but unfortunately, it feels like a lot of us are.
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This is things that we stood against, and now all of a sudden we're for it because we are quote unquote MAGA?
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If our principles only matter when Democrats are in office, then are those really principles at all?
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How have we all become so brainwashed?
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What happened to America first?
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I think that's the question that most of us are asking, or at least we should be.
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When did conservatives change their views and start defending what they stood against?
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I have definitely not switched sides.
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I am not going to, but I am so tired of the never-ending left versus right, and that if you say one thing, you're giving a win to the left.
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I'm not agreeing with that.
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I don't think you should be either.
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And I think this is a conversation that we need to have.
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So welcome back to Melissa Unfiltered.
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Everybody watched out.
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As always, I want to dive into some comments from the previous episode and some of the previous clips on socials before we uh go into today's episode.
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So on last week, I talked about how the government, our government in multiple states across the United States, is putting foster children in juvenile detention centers when they have nowhere to put them.
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And it was not because the kids had done anything wrong most of the time.
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It was just because they had nowhere to put them, they didn't have the right placement for them.
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And one of the clips that really uh started taking off recently was talking about a boy who spent his 17th birthday in an orange jumpsuit.
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And I was actually pretty shocked by the amount of people who were quick to jump in the comments and say, Tracy Goddard said he obviously did something wrong.
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Well, Tracy, I'm sorry he didn't do something wrong.
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His mom actually died when he was young and he bounced around between group homes and then ultimately ended up in juvenile detention because nobody wanted an older boy who was labeled group home problems, all of that.
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Um, another woman said, Julie Shutt said, did something or he wouldn't be there.
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Well, that is just not the case.
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He didn't do anything and he ended up there.
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Another woman, Juanita Smith, must have done something wrong.
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You don't just put a kid in juvie for no reason.
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You're right, we shouldn't be doing that.
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And another one said, Mary Cox, as a former foster mom, I can tell you some of these kids do illegal things and have to go to juvie.
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It's terribly sad, but they have to.
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Again, he didn't do anything wrong.
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And it was just comment after comment.
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There were several people now, it's get been some time on there, um, who see what's going on and know what's happening and understand that this is just um Mel Lambert, my friend, hey Mel, uh said, barbaric abuse, follow the money and find out why and who.
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Well, you are right, Mel.
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And you know, her and I are, as my other friend Darby Hill says, mom's on a mission.
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So um, I just, you know, keep commenting in there.
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If you know things, if you yourself were a foster child who went to Juve for no wrongdoing on your own and you were put there because they didn't have a home, please share your story with me.
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I would love to talk more.
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This needs to get out.
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People do not believe that this is happening, and that's part of the problem because no one is sticking up for these kids, and people just, like I said, don't believe that this is happening.
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Okay.
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Now let's get into today.
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You guys, I have tossed this idea of this episode around for a while, and I just can't take it anymore.
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Like, I have to say something.
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I'm I get super fired up when I talk to people about this because it's like if you say one thing as a conservative that goes against what conservatives are doing right now, conservative or not what conservatives are doing, what this administration is doing and goes against, oh, I don't agree with this or that.
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Conservatives will jump to you and say, Well, what about the midterms?
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And we can't, you know, sound weak.
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I'm like, I'm not just gonna go along with things because the midterms are coming up.
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That's ridiculous.
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And no, I'm not changing party lines or changing my vote, but like there has to be better options than this.
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This is ridiculous.
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And I want to say, yes, I voted for Donald Trump.
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I would not change my vote.
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I really don't care if he says things that hurt people's feelings.
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I'm sorry, like we're all grown-ups here.
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Get over it, okay?
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I don't think he's like it honestly doesn't matter what I think of him.
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I agree with the policies that he stood for, and I voted for him based on that.
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And I said, you know, I agree with these policies and I'm voting for him on that.
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And I did not agree with the policies of the other options.
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So, prime example of me, you know, having these this is kind of what sparked me to be like, I have to have this conversation.
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We had some amazing friends in town visiting us last week, love them so much.
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They're also conservative, voted for Trump.
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Um, and we I love having good conversations with my friends, and we were pretty deep in conversation about um prices, you know, inflation and everything that's happening.
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And I said, you know, no, I don't agree with um everything that's going on.
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And I don't like being labeled like with a part like with a person.
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I'm not like a Trumper or anything like that.
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I voted for Donald Trump.
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That doesn't automatically make me defend everything that he's doing.
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And my friend's like, yeah, but eggs are down, eggs are down.
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And I was like, okay, I see what you're saying, but let's really talk about this, okay?
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Because eggs are down great.
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Um, but this is like the big example.
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I don't watch mainstream news anymore.
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I'll see clips when I'm at the gym, or I have to tune in to um do some research for this show and see what people are saying.
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But that seems to be a big talking point right now is that eggs are down and the economy is doing great.
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And I just completely agree.
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Yes, eggs are cheaper, and I'm happy they're cheaper, but we went through insane spike um in price on eggs because of the bird flu, and it wiped out tens of millions of hens.
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And so I think the USDA said it was 50.7 million egg-laying hens were lost during the outbreak.
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Okay, that's what spiked supposedly, you know, allegedly what we're told.
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Spiked the egg prices.
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They said they got up over$6 a dozen at the peak, yes.
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And if you buy only pasture raised or organic eggs, they were like$10,$12 a dozen.
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Completely ridiculous.
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Um, and I noticed during that time it wasn't just eggs.
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I said everything is going up, everything I buy.
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I don't look at specific items as the kind of factor, like eggs are down, everything's cheap again.
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No, I look at how much I'm spending at the grocery store every three days because I'm feeding three athlete children and they eat more than my husband and I do, and it's very expensive to feed them, and I feed them healthy.
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Um, I try to be organic when we can, feed them very healthy diet, and at my it's like$400 every time I go to the store, which is insane.
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And I know not everyone can do that, and everyone can afford that.
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And I said, you know, of course the eggs are down, but the national average is$219 a dozen.
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But in February 2020, it was$1.45.
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So just because something was so inflated at one point, we should be so happy that it's down now.
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You know, you've got Trump on Fox News saying the food and groceries, it's all coming down.
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I have a problem with that because groceries as a category are not coming down at all.
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You know, the government's own numbers say food in the home is still up 2.7% more than it was a year ago.
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I agree.
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And that's let's go all the way back to, you know, pre-COVID, it was down a lot more.
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It just kept going up and up and up.
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It felt like every single time I went to the store, my grocery bill increased by like five bucks.
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And I didn't, I look at, you know, what we're ordering and what we're getting.
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Um, my kids have always been good eaters.
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Maybe they eat a little bit more now, but but I also got rid of diapers and I also got rid of formula and I also got rid of baby food and I also got rid of like more expensive items and swapped it for food.
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So I I just, you know, we had an argument because he's like, Well, you can't say that.
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And it wasn't an argument, I shouldn't say that, because like we're such good friends.
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But I was like, you you've got to like turn off Fox News, you know, they just keep saying the same thing over and over.
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Eggs are down, gas is down, eggs are down, gas is down.
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They say it enough times and you start repeating it.
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And you know, electricity's up 4.2%, gas is up 24.6%.
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My husband drives a diesel.
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Diesel is so expensive, and if you look at all the trucks, the trucks are using diesel, the trucks that deliver your goods, the trucks that deliver your food.
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So if diesel's up and the delivery price costs these companies more, everything you're getting Amazon, wherever, Target, Home Depot, it's all going up.
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Everything is up, nothing is coming down.
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So eggs came down from the inflation from when there was a bird flu, sure, but to say it's all coming down is just not an accurate description.
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Um, I know what I spend, you know what you spend.
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I don't need someone on television explaining to me that life is suddenly affordable when I'm watching my money leave my bank account every single day.
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And I'm sure most Americans feel the same way, or they might not even have money in their bank account to pay those bills and are going into debt, huge debt, just to keep food on the table for their children.
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I mean, this isn't the 1920s where we're spending like half our money on eggs, bread, and milk, right?
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We have groceries, insurance, utilities, kids' activities, um, repairs, anything else that a normal family pays for.
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I feel like every sport's like we're doing a fundraiser and you gotta buy the backpack and the the head, the little fat head thing, and the matching t-shirt and everything costs more.
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So, what a normal family pays is substantially more than it was before COVID.
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And I'm sick of the gaslighting and being told that egg prices are down and we should all be so happy and it's all sunshine and rainbows because it's not.
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Um, you know, lots of people I think get manipulated by the word inflation because inflation coming down does not mean that the prices came down.
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So if something went from$100 to$130, and then the next year it goes up to$133 instead of$140, inflation slowed.
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You're still paying the$133.
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That's like as simple as I can make it for you.
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So when someone tells you that inflation is lower, okay, good, but like I want the whole price lower, I want the cost back down.
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And I know that yes, things do increase year over year, but the increase that we saw was so exponential, and there has not been enough of a bounce back from that.
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And wages did not go up to account for that increase in goods and everything that we're paying for.
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I just don't think um that anyone's buying this, and I think that's where we're having problems as conservatives.
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And I get annoyed, you know, I don't want someone parroting the talking talking points on Fox News because they repeated it enough times, and I feel like that's what keeps happening.
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That's why honestly I stopped watching the news.
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You guys, I know it's a lot of work to go out and do your own research, but that's where we're at.
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You know, if you keep hearing these talking points and you're repeating them without any research, yet you're at the store paying the higher bill and you're not recognizing that.
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I think it's time to take a step back and go, wait a second.
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Yeah, we're being lied to.
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Another huge thing while we're on food and things becoming so expensive, just announced this past week that um because there's not enough beef and beef prices are so high, Trump announced a plan to temporarily allow 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef into the United States at reduced tariffs over a 90-day period.
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Okay, I'm not here to demonize foreign food, you guys.
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Um, but he's saying this is what's gonna bring our beef prices down.
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And like, why?
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I thought it was about America first.
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I thought we were putting America first, and we need American ranchers and we need American cattle farmers, and we need to bring their cost down so that they can supply the American people with American beef.
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I don't need foreign beef, I don't need tariffs brought down to have beef from somewhere else.
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That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
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Also, they're not labeling it in the store, they're not telling you where it's from.
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If I'm buying beef at the store, I want to know exactly where it's from.
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If it's from China, it should say from China processed in the US.
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But they're not doing that.
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As long as part of it was done in the US, they don't have to say anything.
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They can say USDA or USA on there in a sticker.
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It should say if it's from a Tennessee farm, it should say.
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Like we should we have a right to know.
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And putting America first is helping the American farmers and helping American cattle farms, and they're already pushing back, and this is not good because these were people who fully supported this administration, fully supported Donald Trump, and they are the backbone of our country.
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You know, the cattle farmers, the farmers, truck drivers, these are people who make our country go around and get us what we need.
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And I think this is a huge mistake for our country.
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And 90 days, honestly, what's that gonna do?
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I mean, the USDA says we lost 27.6 million beef cows.
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I'm sorry, it says we had 26.7, 27.6.
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I'm sorry, you guys, we had 27.6 million beef cows at the beginning of this year.
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That's a 1% decline from last year.
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So I understand wanting cheaper beef.
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I want cheaper beef too.
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Fortunately, we do buy from a local farmer.
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If that is something that your family can't afford, I highly recommend not buying beef in the stores anymore.
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You need to find a local farmer, support them.
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Um, yes, the prices have gone up a little bit each year, but I am feeling so blessed and fortunate that we have this farmer and we can help support his family by buying beef from their farm.
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And we know that it's quality, we know what we're getting, we know that there's nothing in it that we don't want.
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And I just highly, highly recommend if it's something that you can do or save for because buying beef at the store, not knowing where it's from, is gonna be a huge problem.
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We already know that our food is a disaster in this country, and I thought that we had this whole make America healthy again movement, and I haven't really seen enough going on there that's really helping um Americans be healthy.
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So I think we're looking, uh this is another reason we're looking at this saying, you know, this isn't working.
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And what's funny enough is you've got communist China over here.
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Yeah, they import beef, um, but they recognize when their own cattle industry was getting hammered, they put a 55% tariff on imports and they label it and say where it's from.
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And meanwhile, we've got our cattle herd at a historic low.
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And I'm not saying I support any communism over here.
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I'm just saying it's kind of interesting when you've got another country who we give so much criticism to doing something that's putting their country first.
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And I think we need to be doing that.
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Put America first.
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That's why we all voted for this administration because so many Americans agree with that.
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Yes, it's like the analogy I love to use, I use this so many times in life, but it makes so much sense.
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When you're sitting on an airplane and you're hearing the flight attendant tell you the safety instructions, and they say, in case of emergency, your air mask is gonna come down and you need to put your mask on first before you can help others.
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Because if you're dead while helping or you die while helping someone else, what good, what good are you?
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And then they're probably gonna die too, and nobody wins, right?
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That analogy applies to putting your own country first.
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If we don't have our country being as great as we can, as powerful as we can, supporting the people of this country as best as we can, we are not gonna be able to successfully help others, or they're just gonna drain us.
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They're gonna drain us and we're gonna die.
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And that seems where we're heading.
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You know, another thing that really gets me um a little frustrated here is tariffs.
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I know this is a hot topic.
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A lot of this is a hot topic.
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I'm interested to see who's gonna be pissed at me for all these conversations.
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You guys, again, I want to reiterate, I'm still conservative, I'm not changing my vote, but we have a right to question as taxpaying Americans what is going on with the people that are running our country.
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And tariffs were something that I initially said, you know, this is a good idea if done correctly.
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Um, you know, essentially we're charging the country who we're getting stuff from to deliver those goods to us, and they should eat that cost.
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And I know Donald Trump was all over the news saying we're gonna make them pay and it's gonna be great for Americans.
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Well, what's happening, not always, but what's happening is those places, let's just use like Walmart, for example.
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Okay, if they're getting stuff from China and they're getting a tariff put on that at a high rate, who's gonna absorb that cost?
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They have a choice.
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They can either eat the cost themselves or they can make the goods in our stores more expensive and you know ultimately put kind of price us out and we can't afford everything.
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That's what's happening, in my opinion, um, because everything has gone up.
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I mean, I look at even another luxury, I know a lot of these things are luxuries, um, like getting my nails done.
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Ladies, do you not remember when getting a fill was like 15 bucks?
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It's$45 now, and then you tip on top of that.
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That's because their products cost more.
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Everything you do costs more.
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Getting your hair done, buying makeup, buying hair care, skincare, deodorant, toothpaste, razors, every single thing we're buying is more expensive.
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And um, I just don't think that this tariff situation has worked out the way that it was intended to, or maybe it is.
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We were told at one point that we were gonna have so much money, we were just gonna pay off all this debt, and even Americans were maybe gonna get checks in the mail because we were making so much money.
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I have not gotten a check in the mail.
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I don't know about you.
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And my goods are still really freaking expensive.
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So how are these tariffs working out?
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You know, I I if I'm that country, of course, I'm gonna make the goods more expensive because they're paying a higher rate.
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So all right, guys, let's get into it.
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This is I know this is touchy stuff, but someone's gotta someone's gotta talk about it.
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Um Donald Trump and his administration, especially him, touted himself as the peace president.
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I can't even begin to tell you how many clips I saw of Donald Trump saying, we're not gonna go to war.
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I'm gonna fix the wars, everything's gonna be fixed in a day, everything's gonna be, you know, rainbows and unicorns and sunshine, and it's everything's great.
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Our country's so amazing.
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I can do all of these things.
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No war, no war, no war, no war, no war.
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We all voted for no war.
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Hooray, no war, yay.
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Um, Trump sold himself as the peace president, and we can go back and watch the speeches.
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I know, I'm sure, I'm sure, I know for a fact that CNN and all of the news organizations that don't like him, and all the Democrats and the left and the ladies on the view all love to play the clips.
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But October of 2024, he said he would end the Ukraine war while he was still president-elect.
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He repeatedly said he would stop chaos in the Middle East and prevent World War III.
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And at another rally, he reminded voters that under the first administration, America had no new wars.
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This was a major part of the reason we supported him.
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I mean, again, my values are conservative, so to me it's more than that.
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But yes, I was like totally against and still am against wars that do not help our country and are completely useless and killing innocent American soldiers, and um I think we need to stop these endless wars.
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And we were told that's what was gonna happen, but in August 2026, Ukraine is still at war.
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The chaos in the Middle East didn't stop either.
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February 28th, the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran.
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We're constantly being told that we're gonna be at nuclear war with Iran.
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Iran's got nukes, Iran's got nukes.
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I'm literally deaf in one ear from hearing how many times we're told that Iran's got nukes.
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Um, and you know, this is something that I've got to point out.
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I'm not arguing that Iran is good.
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Let me be very clear about that.
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Okay, Iran is not our friend.
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I absolutely believe the president has a responsibility to protect Americans, and I believe that he will do that.
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If there's an imminent threat to us and he would deal with it, and I have full faith that he would protect us and our country.
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But what exactly is the mission right now?
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Because I'm not really clear.
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And a lot of people aren't really clear.
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I've listened to a lot of independent journalists and I've listened to a lot of people speculate about why they think we're doing this.
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And most of the time, um, what I'm hearing is that they are speculating that he thought that this was gonna go a different way and he was gonna end it very quickly because of what happened with Venezuela, and that's not what happened.
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Now that's just what I'm hearing.
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Um, I don't know, and I know everyone can speculate and have their own opinions about it, but what has to happen for this to end?
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Like, where is the end point for this?
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I also don't know what that is.
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And was there congressional authorization for this war that's gone on for nearly six months?
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Those are not Democrat questions.
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You've got four Republican senators, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul joined Democrats in June supporting the measure that would have ended the Iran war without explicit authorization from Congress, and the Senate blocked it 48 to 47.
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American people have questions.
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Um, the newest Reuters poll says that only 31% of Americans support military action against Iran currently.
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Republican support has fallen from 77% to 69%, and 83% of Americans think this is going to be an extended conflict.
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I mean, can you blame them?
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I kind of agree with that.
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Um, but what happened to our promise?
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What happened to our promise that we weren't going to be in these wars?
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I think we have a right to ask this question.
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And no, I'm not low IQ for asking this question.
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It's a valid question.
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We're all allowed to ask it.
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You know, I think something that's really important is just taking ownership when mistakes are made.
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And I don't see that that's something that's going to happen.
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Um, but we we don't want to be in any more wars, and then another really horrible thing.
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This is probably gonna be the most controversial part of this episode.
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I just want to give you fair warning.
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We need to talk about Gaza.
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I want to be very clear.
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I do not, do not support any terrorists, I do not support Hamas, I do not condone anything that they have done.
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I think what happened on October 7th was evil and disgusting.
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I don't support any of that, but I also want to be very clear that I am America first, and I'm not gonna say I stand with this or I stand with that.
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I stand with America and I stand with children, and I do not support or condone killing of innocent children.
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I don't care what race, what religion, what ethnicity they are, I will not support it.
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As a Christian, as a mother, I cannot support killing of innocent children.
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Period.
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And I'm not anti-this or anti-that or anti-anything or any kind of pro anything because I said that.
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I am a Christian and I am an American and I don't support killing innocent children.
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Okay?
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Period.
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That's it.
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So I don't understand how we can be supporting this and backing it.
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I don't, nothing makes any sense.
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And anyone questioning it is being called all kinds of horrible things.
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I don't even want to say what they're being called because I don't even want to give air or give weight to any of that because it's absolutely ridiculous.
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You can say as a Christian that you're not okay with people being killed for no reason.
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That's that's all we need to say.
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But unfortunately, you know, we criticize anything and we say any of this, and we've got the Israeli government coming for us and calling us anti-Semitic and um blaming everyone who's Muslim for Hamas.
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That is absolutely ridiculous.
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I have friends who are Muslim and they are very nice, fantastic people, and I don't wish any ill will on them, and they don't wish any ill will on me.
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And I'm sick of being told that you know all these horrible things have to happen because Muslims.
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I just I don't accept that.
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Okay.
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I don't accept hating a group of people, a class of people, a group of religious people just because just because one group part of them is bad.
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I don't, and you shouldn't either.
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I mean, that's completely unacceptable.
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And then you've got people, this word genocide being thrown around because of what's happening to Palestinians, and I want to be clear, there are Palestinians who are Christian as well, and I think people don't understand that.
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And you've got people in the West Bank, you know, the Holy Land over there, and they're completely just blowing it all up, and I I can't support that.
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I really cannot support that.
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Um as a Christian, if you support that, please explain to me how.
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Like I need to understand this more.
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I need some more context here because I'm talking to people and everyone's just, especially Christians, going, oh well, you know, the Muslims are really bad and we need to be careful.
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And I can't support that.
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Again, very clear, I'm a Christian, I'm a mother, I'm a conservative, I support America.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Don't get it twisted.
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All right.
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Got that off my chest.
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Um one person who has some conversations about this that I can appreciate.
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Uh, she's actually a Democrat, and her name's Anna Kasparian.
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She uh had a podcast called The Young Turks.
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I'm not really sure if that's still her platform or not.
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I only have seen clips of her when she's been talking to conservatives.
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Um but we disagree on plenty of things, but this is one thing that we understand is the anger of the people whose homes are being destroyed and all in the name of a terrorist group that, you know, I don't believe is in parts of those areas.
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So um if you want to, as a conservative, hear another point because I think it's important that we listen to people on both sides.
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Anna Kasperian has said some really great things.
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Um, she's again been talking with conservatives on both sides, and there's things that we disagree on, but on this one, I agree.
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Um, also, I think something really that's disturbs me about this situation in Gaza is the feeling that this is all a land grab.
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I don't know if anyone was able to watch the um interview from 60 Minutes, where Kushner and Steve Whitkoff were on 60 Minutes talking about the waterfront property being very valuable, and he talked about a development and moving civilians out of the area that was cleaned up.
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And they talked about this master plan being developed for two years.
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And if you watch the video, there was clips circulating.
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You can't just watch a clip, you gotta go like watch the whole thing.
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But you can see the look on his face uncomfortably.
00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:22.160
Um, Jared Kushner, when Steve Wickoff's like, yeah, it's been in the works for two years, we got this plan, and you could kind of see, like, oops, we weren't supposed to say that part out loud.
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Um, it makes you really question, you know, what's going on, and did this redevelopment plan exist before October 7th?
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Allegedly, supposedly, maybe.
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I don't know.
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But I think it's a question that we should be asking.
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And I think you're kicking people out of their homes and in a very holy place to Christians as well.
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And you're talking about this beautiful waterfront property and making it this, you know, the Gaza waterfront development, and Trump's calling it the Trump Gaza plan.
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Um it feels it feels gross to me.
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I gotta be honest, guys.
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I don't like it.
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I don't like it one bit.
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Um, my spidey senses are going off.
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:12.319
I've got all the, you know, feels that this is this is not good, and it makes me feel like we're just being lied to.
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And can you blame me for feeling that way?
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:26.960
Because so much of this administration um we've been lied to about many things, and um I don't want to be part of the like don't ask like the Biden administration.
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Like, he's fine, he's healthy, he's not staring and standing, and there's nothing wrong with him.
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No, there was clearly something wrong, and people should have said something.
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There's something wrong going on in this administration, and I think as conservatives, it's okay that we ask questions of who we elected and who we put in office.
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I mean, let's look at Epstein for an example and Doge, right?
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Okay, we want our federal government cutting waste.
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They told us they were cutting all this waste, it was all going well.
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Elon was in there, they're finding all this, you know, government spending and people getting social security checks who were like 200 years old.
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Whatever happened to that?
00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:11.119
Whatever happened to the 1.7 billion in savings that happened?
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:12.640
I mean, there's gotta be more, right?
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:14.240
Like they did, they just stopped.
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We never got any more.
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:18.079
And then then you've got Epstein.
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:20.960
Um, I really thought that we were gonna get it.
00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:26.240
You had Pam Bondi on Fox News, asked about the client list, and she said it's sitting on my desk for review.
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:32.880
And then you had all these political conservative commentators standing outside the White House with these binders, like, we got it, guys.
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Whatever happened with that?
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:36.880
That's just it was like a joke.
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It's a joke that people were raped and tortured and killed and children, and they're just like making a joke of it.
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And you have President Trump sitting on the news going, we're still talking about that?
00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:48.640
Come on, guys.
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I'm sorry.
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:50.960
Yes, we're still talking about it.
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We're not gonna shut up about it, we're gonna keep talking about it, and we deserve answers.
00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:56.720
What's going on?
00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:58.400
Why, who are you covering for?
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Who's in that list?
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:04.640
Honestly, I think so many people in that list on both sides, and I don't think it's just like a list like written down.
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I think it's way more nuanced than that.
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:11.119
Um, but it's gross, and we're not gonna shut up about it.
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We shouldn't shut up about it.
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I mean, imagine your own child.
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The things that we have learned are just so disgusting and evil, I don't even want to talk about them.
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So do yourself a favor, go find some independent um people who are talking about it and get yourself familiar with it because you're not gonna find out on Fox News, you're not gonna find out on CNN, you're not gonna find out anywhere else.
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It wasn't just Epstein.
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There is a whole group of people.
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And if you think it ended with Epstein, you're stupid.
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It didn't end.
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It's still going on.
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There's a new Epstein.
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There's a million of him, right?
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Okay, like this is still happening.
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Children are still being raped, tortured, kidnapped, prostituted, and used in government somewhere.
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Allegedly, my opinion.
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So, where I land on all this, one of the biggest things I just want you guys all to take away from this episode.
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It has nothing to do with whether you like Donald Trump.
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I think we all need to get over that.
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You can still call yourself a conservative and still vote for conservative values and still vote your party line if that's what you choose to do.
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I think it's important to look at both sides and what the issues are.
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Um, and I just want you to stop getting all your news from tele from the television news.
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Don't be that house that just has the news on in the morning.
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Turn it off.
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It's not good for you, it's not healthy, it's all just a repetition.
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It feels like brainwashing.
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They're all repeating the same thing, the same talking points.
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And if you really dive deeply, you will understand that the news media outlets on both sides are owned by the same main corporation anyway.
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So why would you think that they're not just gonna say what you want to hear?
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Because they know what their listeners want to hear.
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If you're a conservative, they're gonna say everything you want to hear to make you hate the other side.
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If you're a Democrat, they're gonna say everything you want to hear to make you guys hate us conservatives.
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And I think it's time that people wake up.
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I think you need to go listen to some independent journalists and really dive in.
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And if you hear someone raise a point, don't just be so biased that you hate that person.
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I can't even tell you.
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I have friends, I'm not gonna call them out, but I have friends who go, Oh, I hate, I can't listen to her, or I can't listen to him.
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And I ask, well, why?
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And they can't even give me a reason.
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Like they're just ingrained to hate these people who are making valid points and making good arguments.
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And I don't agree with every podcaster or independent journalist that I listen to just because I listened to them.
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We're all entitled to form our own opinions, but that's what you need to be doing is forming your own opinion and not just being told to blindly trust.
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Go one step further.
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If the story matters to you, find the actual documents that they're referring to.
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If someone tells you what inflation is doing, go look.
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Go look for yourself.
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Look up the numbers.
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Don't look on the media websites, go actually look.
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You can go to um, if there's government claims about spending, you can go to CBO, you can go to the GAO.
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And when someone says Trump did something, find the whole interview.
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Don't just watch the 12-second or 30-second clip, find the whole thing.
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In fact, go watch the five, 10 minutes before they claim, you know, he said what he said and see what happens.
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But this endless left versus right has made America incredibly easy to manipulate.
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And I wish more people would see that because every time that there's a fact, immediately it just becomes a loyalty test.
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Which side are you on?
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And if I criticize Trump, you know, I have friends who are like, oh, you're turning liberal.
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Absolutely not.
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That is not where my values lie.
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If a Democrat agrees with me on Gaza, they think, oh, I believe everything Democrats.
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No, that is completely ridiculous.
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I'm still conservative, okay?
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I believe conservative principles, no matter what.
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That is part of my faith as a Christian.
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And I want, I want Trump to succeed.
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I really do.
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When he's doing something that help him helps Americans, I'm fully backing that and supporting it.
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I want whoever's in office to succeed because we live here in this country and we shouldn't be so um just inclined to our party that we can't hope for any success at all.
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Because if you're hoping for failure of the president, you are hoping for the failure of your country that you live in, that you're raising your children in, and that is ultimately the future.
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:19.920
And I also want to say one more thing.
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This is not just Donald Trump.
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When I say administration, you have to understand that there are people who work in the office.
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I mean, the president is one man.
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He doesn't have, there are not enough hours in a day for him to go do all this research.
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He has people that he trusts who get their information from people that they trust.
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And there are people within the cabinet and within the administration who have been there for years and years and years, and they'll be there years after him.
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They already have an agenda, they already have stuff in place, and they're gonna make it happen no matter what.
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If they have to manipulate people who talk to our president into thinking something to get it done, that's what they're gonna do.
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And I think that's the bigger issue that we all need to um focus on here is let's get term limits in there and not allow these people who've been in there forever to be controlling us by this left versus right because that is what's happening.
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It needs to end.
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And I think if it doesn't, you're gonna see parties on both sides every time losing voters, gaining voters, losing voters, gaining voters, and nobody wins.
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This back and forth has not worked.
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We've got to try something, something new.
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And I think Republicans need to be careful right now.
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Um, you know, holding Trump accountable is not gonna destroy conservatism, but blindly defending him is something that could.
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It could destroy our entire party.
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And I don't think we owe anyone protection from their own record.
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I don't know any news, any form of loyalty.
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I don't know any independent journalist blind trust because I like what they said, just like you shouldn't blindly trust me.
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Um, I do my best to get all the facts straight, but when I don't, I will certainly own up and say that was incorrect.
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And I want the truth.
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I think ultimately every American deserves the truth, and it's something that they should want.
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So if the truth makes my own side uncomfortable and it makes you uncomfortable, well then maybe my own side needs to get uncomfortable, you guys, and you should get comfortable being uncomfortable, okay?
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Um, join us on socials, and as always, tune in every Tuesday at 5 p.m.
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Central for a new episode.
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Thank you guys so much.
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I'll see you next week.
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