We the People doesn’t include hostile Russian assets (Hour 2)

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You could be a big part eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five Civic Got Just PS working hard on the board and I'm jazzed as hell to introduce our next guest.

His name is Matt Flynn.

He's the former chair of the DPW and attorney and Navy vet and a friend of ours.

And he doesn't really like the rusky commies too much.

Hey Matt, welcome to the show man.

Dom, it's good to be back with you, my friend.

We did stuff together a lot of years.

Terrific being on the Dom show.

All right.

I appreciate it, man.

We've been on some email chains together with some of our concerned friends and listeners out there.

And I got to tell you, man, I have missed your voice on these issues.

And for some reason, I don't know why you can't, we can't get over this fascistic, I don't know.

tendencies that the Republican party seems to be embracing these days.

And of course, a lot of that has to do with the Nazism and the communist going on, the KGB aged it in charge of Russia right now.

Matt, plus we had elections in Germany.

Let me just get your sense of where the, what's influencing mega right now as you see it, Matt

Flynn.

Yeah, what really started it, and this is going back some years, is immigration.

And at the bottom of it, we have not had a coherent immigration policy in this country for a long, long time.

And that's been true under both presidents.

So suddenly people swarm into the country.

Back in the 1960s, the government changed the laws

to make it harder to emigrate here from Europe and easier from other countries.

And so the racial composition of the country changed.

When John Kennedy was president, the country was 80% Caucasian.

It's now about 59%.

And what this does is it builds up conflicts and unease.

And when people, and one of the things that really hurt the Democrats in the last election, people watch the evening news every night.

And they see New York, they see Chicago, you know, hundreds, thousands of immigrants just walking around the street.

So Trump rode that, but Trump, quite frankly, is a criminal.

Trump is a Russian agent.

He has three guiding principles, which are, frankly, sadism, treason, and fraud.

And he's betrayed us to Russia.

He's a Russian agent.

And yet people fell for that over the, I think it's the immigration issue.

going away.

It really is.

Folks are listening to the Dom Salvy show that is Matt Flynn friend of ours.

The Russian agent man.

So like a former KGB agent put out there on Facebook last week that Donald Trump was in fact recruited when he was in his

40s back in the day when he was a big shot real estate executive in New York city.

Uh, we know he did go to Russia and I forget the, the, the name that he espoused, but it offered no specific proof of that.

Well, I am very suspicious.

Matt, how can it be so sure that the current president, former and current is somehow a Russian agent?

Well, here's what I would say first of all that story I think was carried in an Irish newspaper has not been carried in American newspapers yet But he did go to Russia going back to the 80s and starting in the 80s.

He was complaining about NATO starting in the 80s now What what leads me to believe it is the steel report number one the steel report said that it is widely discussed in Eastern European circles that there was a video

Trump went over and you know Trump is a very very lax idea of what to do with women and so apparently he was in a hotel room according to this report the steel report in a hotel room with some women who were really KGB but they're pertaining to prostitutes he has very perverted ideas of sex and this is on tape and so he is definitely afraid that Putin will reveal this

And let me take you back to Hill Sinky about six years

ago.

Terrible

Finland.

Yeah, with Putin and he goes, uh, uh, he talks to him alone and then he goes, uh, well, Putin did interfere with our election.

Why would I believe our intelligence agents agencies and the Republicans committee in the Senate over Putin?

He is a slave.

He's afraid of Putin and we can't have a president who is fearful and servile to anybody, but certainly not.

to a murderous genocidal thug like

Putin.

Well, Matt, but that's where we are right now.

And we've seen just in the month that this man has taken over this administration, how our foreign policy has been upended.

You know, 80 years of course, World War II relationships with the rest of the world is just being rewritten as we sit here.

How do you...

Number one, what do you think the motivation of that is?

And number two, how do you think that the fallout will be in the next 60 to 90 days?

Because this is ongoing.

It is moving very quickly.

Right.

Well, first of all, the motivation is, I think, is sexual blackmail.

I mean, if that thing comes out, he's dead.

That's the steel report.

Now, he says, no, it didn't happen.

And he went to England to sue steel for doing it, saying it was defamation.

He lost.

Trump lost.

So, okay, he's a public figure.

This report is out there.

Number one, number two, his motivation is the same as it was when he was president last time.

He did everything he could to benefit, tried to blackmail Zelensky, remember, and investigating Biden and all this sort of stuff.

And so that's, that's what's, that's an accomplished fact on the ground.

One terrible fact that just was revealed about an hour ago.

And so I don't know if this is hit the news is that

When Musk is making the agency send lists of employees, he did it with the CIA and revealed undercover agents' names.

This is Musk and Trump, undercover agents' names in an unsecured server.

Russia now knows it.

Iran knows it.

China knows it.

Our allies know it.

And here's how the CIA works.

You have an embassy and a guy will come in and say that he's the head of logistics.

He's really CIA.

Well, now they know who the CIA agents are in our embassies.

Donald Trump is betraying this country to the commie Ruskies.

And anybody tells me they're not commies.

Let me tell you something.

They say, oh, we're not commies anymore.

They are just as brutal and vicious.

And Putin was a KGB mastermind at the top.

They're very dangerous.

They have Trump in their palm of their hand because he is definitely afraid, in my view, that the steel report is going to come out.

And they've been funding his companies.

Eric Trump, his son, told a journalist when he was president before that after the New York banks cut him off after six bankruptcies, the rescues are funding him.

And this guy, his base, is giving him enough votes to get in there and betray the country.

That is Matt Flynn.

You're listening to the Dom Salvia show eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five Civic if I recall Matt, you know, some of that money was alleged to have been laundered through Deutsche Bank Into real estate in in New York around the time that Magnitsky then we have the Magnitsky act that was named after a guy who was what?

Killed in a Russian prison for identifying some fraud over there.

I mean there there's there's a lot there Matt and I know that over the years you and I we've talked about this and And and it's gets it gets entirely written off by the Megas and perhaps folks don't read it Don't know the history now.

He can't be woke if you don't know the history man I know you say that but some folks I think just outright ignored how could our president the former president now current president How could he possibly be a foreign agent?

And what concerns me above and beyond that, Matt, is this embrace and an outright embrace of fascism.

When you see Elon Musk giving the Nazi signal twice last month, and Steve Bannon at CPAC over the weekend doing the same thing.

They're right out there in our faces.

They can tell us that.

No, I meant just away, but Matt, you know and I know what a Nazi salute looks like.

Right.

But yeah, it was just the way it was like I held on my fan.

There was only one finger I'm holding.

Come on, give me a break.

You know, I didn't fall off the turnip truck on the way into town, you know, the truth is, and let me say something else that's kind of strange.

People use words like fast fascism, Nazi, nobody remembers remembers what a fascist is.

And Nazis, you know, there's the chocolate Nazi, the soup Nazi, it's been kind of smooth over.

Yeah,

the one thing people

really understand as bad as coming.

And Trump is imposing coming communist government on us, stripping our democracy and betraying us to a foreign power.

And you say, how is it possible?

Well, here's the way it's possible.

In this last election, we put up Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris is synonymous in the public mind with identity politics.

Nobody in my mind wanted either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.

as president or is in charge of our military during war.

But because he'd been president and Kamala Harris never had been, what happens is he wins by maybe a million votes, but something like seven million people who voted for Biden never did didn't vote for Kamala Harris.

They didn't vote at all.

He gets back in.

He has just broadly found a flaw in our constitution that gives the president power over the attorney general prosecutors and the justice department, as well as the military.

And he does whatever he wants.

And if judges tell him not to, he says, screw you.

They said, put the aid back to USA.

He hasn't done it.

He claims, Oh, I told him to do it.

Oh, it's a couple of bureaucrats.

Eddie Jones over there.

There's a lot of bull going

on.

He's a criminal.

He is.

He's a draft dodger.

Here's another guy.

This is a.

This is generally yellow belly.

General bone spurs is what?

Throwing people out of their general ships and Admiral

ships.

Yeah,

this guy was afraid to go.

He was afraid to go.

He is a draft dodger, a thief.

He is a felon.

And what people are saying?

Well, he can look what in the middle of World War two, if Franklin Roosevelt said, Hey, I've had it all wrong.

Churchill is a dictator.

We're with Hitler.

What do you think would happen?

that would not have gone over, and he would have been out of office.

In this one, everybody is for Zelensky.

He's the Churchill of the modern era.

This guy goes, Churchill's a dictator.

Putin's good.

And what?

We're supposed to say great.

Get him the hell out of there.

Impeach him.

The problem is, he has all these guys.

He has 50 eunuchs, 50 Republican eunuchs in the Senate who will do anything.

And they're doing it not just because they're afraid he'll interfere with primaries.

They're getting death threats.

Tom Tillis North Carolina was set to vote against egg set.

We already had Moscow Mitch We had Collins and Murkowski against egg set one more in the day before the vote He said I'm gonna vote against him the FBI came to him and said that there were credible death threats against him and his family And he switched for that reason there are a lot of people in the Republican Party Who right now are going along with Trump because they're afraid of physical violence against them or their family and this is a guy

who it urged the

crowd to hang his own.

Remember, how could we possibly forget?

It's almost his name.

Folks are listening to the Dom Salvia show.

Matt Flynn, he's going to stick around for at least one more segment.

We'll take your calls as well.

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For we the people, where are they?

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Civic, my guest today, Matt Flynn.

He is a former chair of the DPW Long Time ago, Matt, an attorney here in the great state of Milwaukee, the city of Milwaukee, state of Wisconsin.

He is a frequent civic media contributor, a friend of ours.

And he hates those commie Ruskies, man.

Thank you, Matt, for joining us.

I want to play for you a little bit of sound.

Is this from today?

I believe this is from today.

Yep.

Donald Trump being asked questions about, uh, well, you know, you called, you called Zelensky a dictator.

Would you say who's the dictator?

Let's play cut one, please, Jess.

Uh,

I don't use those words lightly.

I think that when we see how it all works out, let's see what happens.

I think we have a chance of a really good settlement between various countries.

And you know, you're talking about Europe and you're talking about Ukraine as part of that whole situation.

Great

talk.

The other side has a lot of, a lot of support also.

So Matt, apparently,

He wouldn't call Putin a dictator.

Why do you think that is?

Well, I think Trump is an animal and the fact of the matter is he's being sexually blackmailed by Putin 35 minutes ago the Wall Street Journal just reported that the US sided with Russia and China to overturn a United Nations Security Council blaming Russia and just putting them a more bland type of

statement about Ukraine, Britain, the UK and France both have the right to a veto what the US did, but they didn't because they're afraid that Trump would retaliate against them.

This guy is essentially switching in the middle of a war, switching from our allies to Hitler.

That's what he's doing.

And he's doing it because he I think is afraid servile really to Putin and

I am tired of people who support him.

I know people and you do too who voted for him okay but once this happens if anybody says somebody called in one of the civic media shows earlier today and said he thinks Zelensky is a dictator because Trump said he was a dictator.

Trump is a Russian agent he is hurting our country he's destroying our democracy.

Folks are listening to the Dom Salvi show met Flynn joining me 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 we have one more cut Trump with Emmanuel Macron on financing Ukraine's defensive war with Russia.

Let's your cut number 2, please, just

I'm so stated, but not by Ukraine by Russia because there was a one-to-aggress Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine they get their money back

No, in fact, to be frank, we paid 60% of the total default.

And it was through, like the US, loans, guarantee, grants, and we provided real money to be clear.

We have 230 billion frozen assets in Europe, Russian assets, but this is not as a collateral of a loan because this is not our belonging.

So they are frozen.

If at the end of the day in the negotiation we will have with Russia, they're ready to give it to us,

If you believe that,

it's okay with me.

If they

get their money back, we don't, and now we do.

But you know, that's what

we fight

for.

So Macron pushing back a little bit on Trump's statements there.

Matt, are we going to just end up, is this really just about dividing up Ukraine for the minerals and let's go on from there?

Because you know, it's Russia, it's Ukraine, it's Europe, it's a thing.

You know look Trump is totally transactional Trump doesn't have a shred of integrity or a shred of loyalty to the United States with Ukraine They have rare earth minerals great so we'll negotiate with them when this is all said and done and we get the Ruskies out of there There's plenty of things that we can do but what Trump is trying to do and you know Europe has given

This is an odd thing to say.

We've given more military aid than Europe, but Europe has given more aid overall than the United States.

The other thing, keep this in mind, there are $300 billion in Western bank accounts owned by Russia.

And I, a lot of other people have advocated, seize it and give it to Ukraine.

And they have to get rebuilt after this is over.

If we don't stop Russia now, they'll be in Poland, they'll be in Lithuania, they'll be in Finland.

And we're going to have to spend more to stop them.

Trump is willing to let them take Eastern Europe.

Trump is betraying the United States.

And people who support Trump now knowing this are also betraying the United States.

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We got some folks lining up on the phones.

Matt, let's get to them.

Brian, you are up from Milwaukee.

Welcome, Brian.

What do you got for us?

Lost Matt there.

Sorry, Matt.

And I'm there.

Thanks.

Yeah, my only big concern is, you know, with everything going on right now, as we can turn against our allies and turn our country apart and undo years of work, I mean, even centuries of work, say we get what we want as far as a democratic concert, you know, Supreme Court, yada-yada, new president and mayor, yada, whatever the case is, how do we fix this problem?

Because it's only been one month.

We're gonna be, you know, we're gonna be by ourselves.

Sooner than later.

I mean, I think I even heard that the, I think they just had a new election in Germany for a new president.

And even that president just said to people in the UN, no, we need to cut ties with America because they don't care about Europe.

That's scary.

I mean, Trump is going to start World War three.

And how do we fix this problem before it gets any worse?

Because.

I'm afraid it's already too late.

All right, Brian, I'll cut you short there, Matt, your concerns.

Brian thinks perhaps, you know, our allies are turning against us.

Germany just had an election.

They're saying we got to be prepared to go forward without the United States and expanding war.

Are you concerned?

I don't think that's going to happen.

I think what it works, the guy in Germany did say that Trump is destroying our alliances, but Trump

Well, there'll be a new president in three and a half years.

What I think is a couple of

Are you

sure?

Yeah, right.

Well, that's a funny.

Yeah, that's not so funny.

But there's a couple of things we can do.

One is he should be impeached convicted and thrown from office.

But the people in the Senate are afraid of him just like he's afraid of Putin.

The other thing everybody can do out there is listening to this thing is immediately call or email all friendly embassies Canadian, Ukrainian, UK, French,

German, Italian, Spanish, and tell them we... Trump is not our president.

Trump is a criminal.

Trump is an agent of...

Matt Flynn, stick around.

Come back with us more on the other side.

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And welcome back to the Dom Salvia show, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five at civic jazz does hell.

Our guest today, Matt Flynn.

He's going to stick around for another segment.

Matt, thank you for doing.

So get some flack on the civic media text line.

Saying, ah, you're a conspiracy theorist.

Matt, you know, Donald Trump's doing these things, these tactics to end the war.

We're all just, you know, we're all behind the eight ball on this thing.

Matt, and I gotta ask you a question to respond to that, but also frame it in this context.

If Donald Trump were not a Russian asset,

Uh, as you claim and as, as Elner Messiah of a former top intelligent official with the Soviet KGB and then post-Soviet Kazakhstan, he put on his Facebook page that they, the KGB recruited a 40 year old Donald Trump while he was visiting Moscow, giving him the code name Krasnov.

If that were not to be the case, if Donald Trump, uh, if that's not true, let me, let me rephrase this.

Let me pause and stop that.

What would Donald Trump be doing differently if he were, in fact, an agent of the KGB?

He'd be doing what every American president and every patriot in this country and every member of the military did.

Of course, he was not because he was a draft doctor, but he would be doing everything to stand up to the Ruskies, keep them out of Eastern Europe, support Zelensky,

support the sanctions against Russia, and then absolutely talk to Russia, sit down with Russia, and say, Rusky, you're 145 million people hogging 11 time zones of gas and oil.

There is nothing of value in your culture in the last thousand years.

You'll no longer screw around with us in civilization.

You'll get the hell out of Ukraine, and we will treat you

Well, whatever that means, but you will not continue to attack Western civilization.

That's what he

do That's what he would do if he wore not a Russian agent.

Yes.

Now if he were a Russian agent Matt, what what would he be doing differently right now?

Then what he is already doing

He is a Russian agent, so he's doing what he's doing and the thing is

He has turned in the middle of a war against the Ruskies, who are also threatening Eastern Europe.

In the middle of a war, saying that our guy, the good guy, Zelensky, is a dictator.

They say, is Putin a dictator?

No, he wouldn't say Putin's a dictator.

Putin is a sadist.

Putin is a genocidal sadist.

And millions of people were killed by Stalin in Ukraine, millions by Hitler, and now there'll be millions by Putin.

He is siding with torturers.

He is siding with what Putin is going to do.

The eastern part of Ukraine is Christian, largely Catholic.

The western part of Ukraine is Orthodox.

It was Russian Orthodox as well as Greek Orthodox.

He's going and killing them all.

He's killing them all like he did in Hungary, like he did in Czechoslovakia.

When I say he, I mean the Ruskies.

The Kamyruskies do not have a civilization that is of value.

to western civilization now we'd like to accommodate them we'd like to treat them well they only understand force they understand the roll newspaper across the snout that's all they understand and we cannot have a commie rusky agent in the white house but we do now and we're not going to put up if they if the hell of the text call let's hear your voice jack and you tell me what that you think that uh putin is a good guy

You're not going to get very far in this station.

There's a lot of other stations you can call

8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 at Civic Matt Flynn joining me.

Let's get to some of those callers LA Tom our pal from California.

Welcome Tom.

What are your thoughts today?

Absolutely Matt.

Love you However, I think we really really need to stop trying to either carry water or cover for these people in Congress

First off, all those senators that voted these people into the power should not ever be given a pass.

And what I mean by that is the different people that are in the cabinet.

And second off, and we cannot forget that, those votes are very, very important to the history and to the future of the United States of America.

And if these people are afraid about their next election, or if they're afraid about their safety, physical safety,

then get the hell out of the way.

Get out of Washington.

Retire.

It's not a big deal.

We all make it every day by not being a Congressperson.

And they need to stop this.

And we need to stop giving them cover.

Like, oh boy, they're afraid of their safety.

Screw that.

You know what?

You picked this job.

And if you can't get security or whatever it is, get the hell out

of here.

Right.

Hey, Matt, you know, it is, and thank you for the call, Tom.

I always appreciate it.

I do concur in that regard.

I mean, if you are an elected official and you are afraid of your constituents, maybe you're on the wrong side.

Right on.

And right on, Tom, brother, thank you for calling.

Right on.

The fact is that there were 50 of these Republicans who have voted for Tulsi Gabbard.

Hegseth, Robert Kennedy Jr.

They voted for people that do not like the United States.

They hate the United States.

They love Russia.

Tired of people who love Russia.

And you're absolutely right.

Either lead or get out of the way.

Lead or get out of the way.

They are afraid of their physical safety, some of them.

And

so you are permitted under the new federal rules to use your campaign funds to higher security.

So higher security.

And the other thing is you have a commander-in-chief, so to speak, Corporal Bones Spurs is up there who will not only not use his Justice Department to prosecute people who threaten you, but he'll encourage them to threaten you.

And if they're caught, he'll pardon them.

That's what happened in January 6th.

He encouraged them to hang his own vice president to beat up cops.

You remember Michael Fanone who was almost kicked to

death?

This is the most disgusting thing of all.

The people who were pardoned went back to Capitol Hill, walked around taunting where they had walked, threatened the cops again, and Michael Fanone and his mother had death threats.

Michael Fanone and his mother had death threats.

These people are not Americans.

We don't want them in this country.

We want to get rid of them.

But we have a president who will pardon them.

That's one of the paradoxes.

So higher security.

and say there, you should not have voted for Hexeth.

You shouldn't have voted for Tulsi Gabbard.

You shouldn't have voted for Robert Kennedy Jr.

You should not have cashed Patel.

This guy cashed Patel.

His people came from the Bajara province in India, which was invaded by the Muslims in the 14th century.

Claims he's a Hindu now.

He has a scraggly weird beard.

So he's in there now and he's going to go, okay, you

You agents who went to Fordham and Brigham Young and the University of Alabama and the University of Minnesota.

You count how you get down on your knees in front of me or you're fired.

Why are we letting them do that?

Throw him out.

He's bringing right wing foreigners into this country.

Elon Musk, the South African.

None of these people have the iota of Western values or American values, not an iota.

And he is using them as mercenaries.

That's got to stop.

Matt Flynn, joining me, taking more of your calls, 855-752-4842-855-75 Civic.

I'm getting in trouble.

You can put Matt on hold and grab Chris, please.

How are we doing there?

Oh, we lost him again.

All right.

Let's get to Chris.

Hey, Chris.

Welcome.

We'll get Matt back on the line.

Welcome, Chris.

What do you got for us?

Hi.

Yeah.

I called Chris.

Matt had said that he felt that the race was about who would lead us in war, and he was

indicating that this had something to do with the war in Ukraine, and that is why Kamala Harris lost the race.

And the war that everybody was looking at was the genocide in Gaza.

And the reason that I believe that the Democrats have lost is because a lot of people have lost faith in them, not just because of what happened this year, but what happened back in 16 with Bernie, what happened in 2020 when all the candidates dropped out and the only one left.

was Bernie and then Biden.

And then I think that when we had people pull out of our primaries, when we had a senatorial raise, I think that was a problem.

I think you lose the trust of the people that are knocking your doors and doing your phone calls when they give up their weekends and their time with their family.

to get out there and get the vote out for people that you're told that you need to get the vote out for, and we're gonna have a dictator, and this is the most important race in your life, and you give up years upon years of your work and your time, and then they pull out your candidates and don't give you a choice but tell you you're fighting for democracy.

I think it's pretty hard to sell that anymore, so I think that both trust that the people have been lost

in many ways because of the way that the people have been led around by the nose from one election to another, that we just miss every single piece of legislation that is to be passed for the people by one Democrat, not voting.

So I think that that's the issue.

I don't think Ukraine was the war that we were actually concentrating on.

I also don't appreciate the Russian people being thrown in this

as if they're bad people.

They're being led by a dictator, much in the way that we're being led by Trump.

Thank you for that, Chris.

Matt Flynn, your thoughts, sir.

Yeah, well, let me give you a couple of thoughts.

I think that the point is well taken, that people lost trust in the Democrats, I think for a variety of reasons.

But I take exception with a couple of things.

One is you talked about the genocide in Gaza.

The genocide is attempted genocide of the Jewish people.

We stand with Israel.

The fact of the matters of the Democratic Party is pro-Israel and the fact of the matter that the Democratic Party going back to Harry Truman when he recognized Israel in 1948 is we stand with them.

Palestinian people are fine people and we want to make peace with them.

But the events of October 7 were sadism.

Sadism by Islamic jihad.

We're not going to put up with that.

We stand with Israel.

When it comes to Ukraine, we stand with Ukraine, and when it comes to Russia, all people are good.

All people are created in the image and likeness of God.

Everybody, in my view, is equal.

But the fact is that Russia, a thousand years ago, was a forest inhabited by wolves, and yet Ukraine had been a civilization for 300 years before that.

And since then, their only period

Really a civilization in Russia is the 19th century and they produce Pushkin and they produce Tchaikovsky and so forth 20th century communism comes in there's an century of torture and fraud and sadism and we're tired of it.

We're just very very tired of it.

So we say to a people Okay, you're good people innately, but you're led by a sadist and a genocidal thug Why don't you throw him out?

Why don't you stop

doing that?

And I get that, man, but I mean, but, uh, and, and, and certainly Trump is not genocidal to this point, uh, but wouldn't, aren't, aren't Europeans saying that to us right now, Matt?

I mean, certainly we can't put everything that Trump does on you or me or Jess, right?

I mean, we, we have elections as a different circumstance.

We're not happy with it, but you can't do the broad brush the entire country and everyone in it because of the failings of a particular leader or the inability or unwillingness.

to stand up against that kind of authoritarianism.

There's nothing said by anybody in this show that the people in Russia themselves are bad people.

I am saying they occupy 11 time zones, biggest country in the world of gas and oil.

And all they have done is cause a hell of a lot of trouble throughout their entire existence.

And they're not alone.

Persia, which renamed itself Iran in the 1930s.

has been a thorn in the side of any, any civilized people in the world, going back to the Greeks and the Romans.

Now, does that mean that every Iranian is a bad person?

No.

Is every Russian a bad person?

No.

But we are entitled to say their leadership and what they have permitted to bubble up for evil, not going to put up with them.

And you can't just say, well, but some of the people are good.

So maybe we should pull our punches when it comes to Trump.

He is a criminal.

He is an evil, bad man who's betraying us, and we have a democracy and we're standing up against him.

You are right, and Tom of LA is right, that you can't have these chickens, these eunuchs in the Senate, go home afraid of my safety, so I'm going to vote for Tulsi Gabbard.

And he said, no, we're not going to put up with that either.

But we have a free press.

You're a free journalist.

I'm a free caller now.

So I think that the caller made a very good point that there's been trust lost by the Democratic Party.

We're very down in the polls.

And I think that she's absolutely right that in the Senate race, people dropped out.

People thought there wasn't a competitive primary for president.

Sorry, Matt.

Gonna have to cut you short there.

Thank you so much for giving us your opinion, your thoughts today.

Come back with us.

Tell us something good.

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Don Selby a show.

Thank you so much for listening eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five.

Civic one.

I'm thinking our most recent guest Matt Flynn boy.

He's got some opinions and we appreciate sharing those.

Um,

remember when we were planning for this show and you said, Hey Jess.

You think I can get Matt to call Trump a Russian agent?

And I said, yeah, within like five minutes.

And like three minutes in he said it.

Matt doesn't pull the punches and certainly, you know, he has his very strong opinions and we can agree or disagree on some of those things, but the, the.

the one that he does have a bead on the authoritarianism, and he's never strayed from that concern.

He's always been articulate and very pointed in his criticism of Donald Trump.

And I know I kind of butchered when I asked him the question, and I had to let him answer.

So what I asked Matt was, and the point was, that if Donald Trump, if we assume to all of our mega-textures out there that Donald Trump is in fact not,

a Russian agent, then what would he be doing differently if he were?

That's the question.

And, you know, once we kind of got through it all and got what I was saying, you know, he chuckled because, yeah, man, I mean, what would he be doing differently?

He is embracing the Vladimir Putin's world vision, worldview.

That's what he's doing.

He's

parroting Kremlin talking points the same as he did during the first administration and the same as he did throughout Biden's presidency.

This is not new.

This is a pattern.

This is a strong pattern.

And when you hear hooves, don't go looking for zebras.

It's just a horse.

It's not a duck.

Eight,

five, five, seven.

When was the last time you saw a duck with hooves?

I was just saying, if it walks

and quacks, eight, five, five, seven, five, two, four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five, civic.

You know, we like to end on a good note, a positive

note, a happy

note, a happy note.

So tell us something good, eight, five, five, seven, five, civic.

Jennifer, she text in, hello, Dom and Jess.

My something good is that I just received a book.

about how ancient trees communicate with other plant life in the woods nature knows more than we do.

Oh my god that is so fascinating these trees especially the so in sort of clusters of trees there's usually one tree that's bigger and older called a mother tree.

that can help to sort of coordinate the funneling of nutrients

and make sure

that everyone around the mother tree,

they

all

survive.

The mother tree doesn't take all the nutrients for itself and then hoard all the nutrients and sit on the nutrients while all the other little trees need to.

pick themselves up by their bootstraps.

Not at all.

That's not how nature works.

No.

No,

huh.

Interesting.

Interesting.

Thank you for that, Jennifer.

So let's see, we've got some callers, Angie from Monroe.

You are up, please tell us something good.

Okay.

My good thing is I have two newly adopted puppies.

Well,

one was I found her in the woods and

in

our guile, like it took me a month to catch her and I caught her.

She was out in the woods for like two months.

So yeah, nobody owned her.

And then the other one came from New Orleans.

So yeah, and I just love them to death.

And today was their first day at the dog park.

Oh,

did they have the best time?

Did

they get all

muddy?

They did.

I went to Freeport.

They have a really good dog park in Freeport.

So they have to let you guys know that they're a community society.

It's only five bucks for a dog.

Yeah, it's all fenced in.

You can let your dogs run.

There's sections, so that way you can go in different sections.

You know, so that way you don't have your little dog with a big dog.

Right, didn't run over by the big

dog.

A private spot.

Yeah, yeah, people are respectful and stuff like that.

So yeah, always be a neuter people.

Always be a neuter.

That's how you end your program.

There's

something good.

Appreciate your contribution today.

855-752-484-2855-757.

Just a lot of text, but none of them were telling us something good They're responding to Matt and some are valid some maybe less so but we're not gonna go there only got a couple minutes left out and unfortunately given my total lack of clock management We are not able to play Harvey K's toast to Thomas Payne today.

So so so tomorrow

We'll get to it tomorrow.

Yes, we will.

We'll start out our last segment tomorrow of Tell Us Something Good with our pal Harvey K. And I know he's going to be joining you next week.

Indeed.

Next week, Tuesday, we're going to get a full two hours

of Harvey K

and Jess P. Yes.

Harvey K is cheating on me with Jess.

That's going to be fun.

That is.

I'm going to look forward to it.

I'm going to be out of the studio for about four or five shows.

Five?

Five shows.

I look forward to that.

I'll be remote somewhere warm.

Yeah, you and Harvey are trading places.

I know.

I was going to see Harvey in Florida, but he's leaving

the

day I arrived.

Yes, that's how it is.

I just only got a minute or two left.

Anything you want to share today?

Yeah, I had a really excellent conversation with my seventh graders yesterday.

So I am just amazed at the progress that this class has made and just the progression that we have every day of them coming in.

And I just see them by their hoodies and you know, hoodie up, draw strings fully pulled.

So I just see like a nose sticking out.

And by the end of the day, they're all leaned in and we're having a great conversation.

And it just was a

Good teaching moment.

I just,

I was real proud of myself.

Wow.

Maybe there's something to do with the teacher.

I got to go visit my mother yesterday.

And now she's 70, 90 years old.

She's in memory care.

She's got some dementia and the chair and doesn't really get around at all.

It's

hard

sometimes.

You know, see, she sunsets as I best

turn it as I get

later.

She, but when I was there, she looked up at me and in a moment of clarity, she said, you are so good looking.

I said, you think I'm good.

You should see my parents.

Thank you to Matt Flynn joining us.

Thank you just PS for all that you do folks.

Thank you for listening We'll be back tomorrow promise Harvey K a little overtime with Megidon as well now stick around nightlight with peach wabba is coming up next.

Have a great night

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