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Remember, you're not woke if you don't know history.
You're not woke.
The lesson until you know history, going right to the front lines of history and the making
and boy was a lot of it being made and a lot of it is being made right now as I speak.
The US, at Joe Biden's direction, he did exactly the right thing.
What are the bombing of targets in Yemen?
This was accomplished by aircraft missiles, submarines and ships in the United States and
the UK.
In addition to Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands were part of it.
It was not their ships or missiles, but they supported it.
They also provided intelligence and coordination on these attacks.
Germany and Denmark were also part of it and South Korea.
Here's the deal.
The hoodies, the rebellion against the Yemen government has been going on for 10 years.
The hoodies are deeply dug in.
Their enemies are virtually everybody in the Middle East except for Iran.
They are an Iranian proxy.
They've been fighting Saudi Arabia for 10 years.
They've been 100,000 people killed in Yemen.
Saudis have been bombing them for years.
Why is Iran and why is Saudi Arabia?
Why are they fighting each other?
Saudi Arabia is a Sunni country.
Iran is a Shiite, Shia country.
90% of the Muslims in the world are Sunni, about 10% are Shia, concentrating Iran, but
some in Iraq, some in Afghanistan for that matter, routinely murdered by Sunnis.
This bombing by Yemen, and it isn't the Yemeni government, it's the hoodies who are
allied with Iran, has been going on right now since October, but has been going on for
10 years in the fighting with Saudi Arabia and others in the Middle East.
The United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 27-22, a condemn these attacks and it says
we condemn these attacks in the strongest terms.
11 members of the Security Council voted in favor of that.
None of them zero opposed it.
China, Russia, Algeria, and Mozambique abstained, but neither China nor Russia vetoed it.
Remember there's a Security Council, and at one time it would be basically the UK, France,
China, and Russia in the United States.
Essentially people who had nuclear weapons, well now they're a couple of others who have
nuclear weapons, so they opened it up, so the Security Council still has the core that
can veto, but others who are elected in a rotating basis, and they can't veto, so that's
why you have countries on there like Mozambique and Algeria.
But for the Security Council to stand together on this, and even China and Russia not vetoing
it, shows the severity of the problem and why Biden was exactly right and what he did.
The severity of the problem is this, if you take a look at a map, the Red Sea funnels into
the Suez Canal. Funnels into the Suez Canal, a big percentage of the world's trade goes through
the Suez Canal. Here's some statistics, 12% of the world's oil shipments go through the Suez
Canal. 8% of the world's grain, 8% of liquefied natural gas,
and lots of other commodities too. If you cut that out, if you permit the Yemenis, and I ran
to shut off the Red Sea, and by the way, Iran just seized an oil tanker in the last day and a half,
if you permit that, you are saying to people, okay, avoid the Suez Canal, avoid the Red Sea,
but then if they're shipping from the far east, they have to go down around Africa and come up,
it has between four and five thousand miles. It has 10 to 20 days of sea time. I spent
sea time in the Navy, fair amount, and I've been at sea the longest because we had access to
NATO ports in the Mediterranean, but if you're at sea for three or four weeks, that's a long time,
but if you're at sea for months, actually underway, in other words, not going into port for supplies,
the recreation or R&R, that's a real long time, and it adds a lot of costs, about 20 to 25 percent
of the costs to ship oil, grain, liquefied natural gas, and other things. But what do you do?
Iran is behind this. If we were to bomb Iran, if we were to eliminate Iran,
none of this would happen. Hezbollah wouldn't have a backer, a mosque wouldn't have a backer,
the hoodies in Yemen wouldn't have a backer. But the bomb Iran, it's not saying that it would
never happen. It would happen if they hit one of our naval ships and killed our sailors.
But if you do that, you're essentially signaling the start of a war, and you do not want to unleash
the dogs of war. You do not want the fog of war. You can't control it. I don't care how powerful
you are. You can't anticipate. You can't anticipate all the horrible things that could happen.
But what do you do in the meantime, if you have proxies like the hoodies, simply lobbing missiles,
drones at commercial shipping and driving them down around Africa to avoid it? What do you do?
What happened this time, the straw that broke the camel's back is on January 9,
the hoodies unleashed about two dozen drones and missiles against ships in the Red Sea. And some of
them, they say that they weren't directed at the US Navy, but they were real close to the US
Navy, and I got news for you. If you're in a ship and a drone or a missile comes close,
you fire back. It's as simple as that. You fire back. Now, what is happening politically about
all this? The US deliberately did this at night and the UK. They targeted radar, air defense systems,
storage facilities and launch sites for crews and ballistic missiles of the hoodies.
And they did it as I say at night because they want to reduce civilian casualties.
The hoodies say, well, they won't be deterred, but they haven't responded as far as we've gone
on to the air. There's some Democrats, the squad basically, predictable,
Camilla Priapal, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Slive, Cory Bush and a number of the others,
immediately attacked Biden for this and said it should have been done with congressional approval.
And even moderate progressives, and I'll say moderate, meaning not the anti-Semitic progressives,
even the moderate progressives when clock clock may be Biden should have run this through Congress.
The Republicans who know better, Mike Lee is a terrible senator from Utah.
Mike Lee said, it's too little too late. Rick Scott of Florida said, well,
it should have been done a long time ago. You can always argue about timing, but the drone attacks
and the missile attacks on the 9th of January, three days ago, were the straw that broke the
camel's back. But let me address the issue of congressional approval. You have rules in the
Congress in the Senate of unanimous consent and filibuster. In the House, you have the freedom
caucus, the so-called MAGA caucus, shutting down rules votes, which are the procedural prerequisites
to put something on the floor. Do you really think that this Congress is capable of quickly coming
to an approval or a conclusion or a denial of the right to attack the hoodies when they are
sending drones and they're sending missiles in the direction of our ships?
You're Tommy Tuberville, a treacherous dog who might do not want to see up here next to
July in Milwaukee, treacherous dog held up appointments of our officer corps, including our navy
and our air force Marines and soldiers for 10 months. The Republicans were complicit, treacherous.
They wouldn't put up nine votes to bust the filibuster.
Right now, Rand Paul, Tuberville and a few others are blocking all civilian appointments
to the Defense Department and the NSA, which are essential to coordinate and protect our troops
and give valuable information to our flag officers. I don't trust the Congress to do a damn thing.
Then in the Democratic Party, you'll have the squad that'll vote no.
Then in the Republican Party, you'll have people complicit with the Tuberville's and the Rand Paul's.
In 1788, when George Washington became president and there was a constitution in place, the idea
of the war powers in Congress made sense. Traditionally, through the middle ages up to the 18th century,
you know, it was people running with swords. The 18th century, then suddenly they had muskets and it
took a minute. You shoot a ball and then you have to kneel down and put another ball in the barrel
and okay, there's a big deal. You didn't have to make instantaneous decisions. Now in the age of
nuclear weapons, you're going to go what? We have to have a permission of Tommy Tuberville
and can't get nine Republicans to defend the United States. We can't get the squad to agree to
defend the United States. What? No, the point is that every president in the modern era has to
respond to an attack on the United States. Has to preemptively wipe out terrorism, has to do it.
Congress is perfectly capable if they want to. Right now, passing a law that says we can't
attack the hoodies. Go ahead guys. Go ahead Tuberville dog that you aren't. Try that preemptively.
Rand Paul, maggot caucus. Okay, coming up. I see you in the lines. Do not hang up. I will get to you
right away. Coming up. Some very good news on Ukraine. Two countries have now provided substantial
additional funding and I'll talk about the U.S. commitment coming right up. Do not hang up. I see
you in the lines.
I'm fixing our home. Welcome back to Madeline Director. Our lines are open 844-967-278. Now we're going
right to the lines. John of Boaz in Richland County. Thanks for calling John. What's in your mind today?
Hi, Matt. Were you ever thrown out of a hammock in the storm?
Well, my guess told me all about that in his Navy career and that's when they set up and dropped the A-bomb,
you know, in that. But did you know, did they tell you that all of the sailors and the Indianapolis
that took the bomb parts there? They never made it bad. Matt, did you hear that story?
Yeah. John, let me jump in. That's a very, very interesting story. So every knows the USS
Indianapolis was a cruiser and it was it was charged with bringing the the the the A-bomb
to the Pacific Island where it was then activated and then flown over and bombs the Hiroshima.
And afterwards, Nagasaki. On the way back in history could have been changed for the worst
if this had happened on the way. And this is a very sad story. But on the way back,
the Indianapolis was sunk by Japanese submarines and it went down and this is a crew with
many, many hundreds of sailors and most of them died drowned or were blown up. But the very sad
thing is a number of them had life jackets, the ones that survived even if they were burned and
they floated in the Pacific Ocean. But there were sharks around them. In occasion, the shark had
come under one of them grabbed by the legs and you hear a scream and down he went. Those sailors
were the bravest people you can imagine. So were our Marines, so were our Rangers and Army
invaded invaded Normandy Utah Beach, the other beach. I'll say Omaha Beach. All of those people
had a measurable a measurable courage. And if that the Indianapolis had been sunk on the way
to assemble the bomb and we didn't have the atomic bombs, the Japanese would have fought to the
death. It would have cost millions of Japanese lives and hundreds of thousands of American
lives, the GI's. So that is a little wrinkle in history by some very, very brave sailors.
Thanks for calling, Jim. Okay, Ukraine. We haven't talked about it a while. There's so much else
going on. Very welcome. The UK, Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, went to Kiev just now.
Prime Minister, another $3.2 billion in fresh funding, munitions, artillery, drones,
Brazilian ski to fight the rescues. Latvia. Now remember, when you hear Lithuania, Latvia,
Estonia, these are the Baltic nations. These are the ones that the rescues had occupied for a
long time and ravaged, plundered. Latvia has a lot of skin in this game and they have come forward
with more aid, more artillery, more ammunition, more munitions. That leaves the United States. Now
remember something. Vladimir Putin is a sadist. This is not a war. This is a genocide, an invasion
of a European country. He's brought the Chechenians in that were under Moscow's control. They get
to rape European women. Russian soldiers are doing it, torturing them, kidnapping their kids.
And he sits there like a spider and he is so far not been crushed. Zelensky is magnificent.
Right now, the Republican Party is the impediment to supporting Ukraine.
The Republican Party that wouldn't promote our military officers for 10 months.
The Republican Party that is bringing our government close to another shutdown
where our sailors and soldiers and Marines and Airmen won't be paid.
Right in the middle of wars. The Republican Party is a source of treason in this company,
in this country now. All Republicans? No. Republican voters? No.
Adam Kinzinger? No. Liz Cheney? No. But the rest of them, every senator,
who won't break a filibuster to pay our troops, won't break a filibuster to promote our troops,
won't break any filibuster or even vote to give aid to Ukraine, aid to Israel.
Without preconditions, poison pills, fine. We need immigration reform.
But every time Biden proposes immigration reform, some very, very, very serious steps,
they always say, just a little more, and poquito más, just a little more, and poquito más,
that's what they do. They're not Americans. The people that are against our soldiers and
our military in a time of war, they're not Americans. They're not voting American.
Some of them would, but then why don't they bust the rules? Why don't they bust unanimous consent?
Why don't they bust the filibuster on the Republican side? The clowns and the mega caucus,
the far right in the house, freedom caucus. Why don't they bust the idea of vacating the chair
and threatening the chair? Why don't they shut up? Why don't they just do the rules
vote to let stuff go to the floor? Or even better, why do you have a rules voter? Reminds me of the debt.
You vote for money, you borrow it, and then you have to vote again on whether you're going to pay the bill.
You're kidding me? You're kidding me? In the same thing in the house. Okay, you oppose a bill. Fine.
You oppose even the right of it to be voted on by everybody when you're 300, 300 votes.
That's what you're talking about. That's what you're talking about.
Republican Party is a clear and present danger to the United States.
Not everyone, not the voters. Voters are Americans. They're veterans and non-vetrons, men and women.
They're all over the country that make up their minds. I understand that.
But you must understand something. When a party won't promote our military in the time of
two hot wars, and a party won't promote to this day ambassadors and defense department officials
at all. And now Biden is trying to unravel the mess in Niger. It's an African country. Niger
had a president who was friendly to the West. There was an Islamic revolution pending. We had it
under control. Rand Paul, all by himself, said the unanimous consent. I don't think we should
have an ambassador in Niger. As a result, there was an Islamic revolution. They killed people.
They threw out the other government. Now they're pro-Russia. You have to understand something.
These Islamic revolutions are all pro-Russia. You do understand that. They also go in,
murdering Christians. And now Biden is trying to work with a new government to try to
adjust things there so that they back away from Russia and they stop murdering Christians.
It seems like a good idea. Rand Paul, do you think that's a good idea? Do you give it damn?
How do you get elected and Kentucky, you idiot? You're more on how do you get it?
You're going to come to Milwaukee and sit in our restaurants next July when you've done this
in the United States. This is what's going on. You have to understand that. So in Ukraine,
you have a genocidal sadist Putin who kidnaps Ukrainian kids. As he says to beat the Ukrainian
out of it, make some, make some, sing patriotic Russian songs and how bad Ukraine is. The light
goes out in their eyes. That's what's happening. We need that aid package to go along Latvia and the
UK. It's as simple as that. As simple as that. Coming up, are we going to avoid a default on
January 19th? Let a news, let a weather, and you'll get the answer very quickly.
Welcome back to Madeline Director. Lines are open. 844-967-2789.
Well, we're coming up on Fishercut Baytime coming up on a deadline,
the continuing resolution that had been passed when Mike Johnson first became speaker
since January 20th, the expiration of about 20% of the funding needed to fund the government.
The other 80% will expire on February 2nd. February or January 19th is a week from today.
It's a week from today. Congress thought, well, you know, what the heck? And they left town.
They've been moved. When Congress leaves town, some of them go to California,
some go to Alaska, some go to Arizona. They go all over the place.
And they don't do anything. They shmoos at, among the locals, they campaign.
They're going to come back on Tuesday. Then they'll have three days before 20%
of the government shuts down. Three days. And the Republicans are the ones that are holding this up.
Now, there appear to be a solution. There may still be a solution, but I want to give you the
nitty-gritty details of it and then my take on it.
Last Sunday, Mike Johnson announced that he and Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer, obviously,
is the Senate majority leader, controls the Senate. Mike Johnson is the speaker of the House,
controls the House. Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader of the House, provides 213
Democratic votes of the ones. And they all announced that they had reached a deal.
1.66 trillion in spending for next year doesn't take into account inflation.
Another 69 billion on the side, there's some social programs that were savagely cut.
Most people would agree in both parties that they were savagely cut.
And that that would continue through the end of this coming fiscal year before the
city of the next Congress. What happened was the Freedom Caucus has people in it who hate the
United States. You know, no, it's not just a matter of the hate Democrats. They hate the United
States. They hate our military. They hate what we do. They're full of hate.
And they roughed up Johnson. They met with him. And Johnson's a slick character. Y'all
want to meet with you. And I think it was about 20 of them, maybe even more than 20.
Bob Good of Virginia, who's one of the worst, said the Republican quote, this is a quote from
Bob Good of Virginia, Republican quote, the GOP should not be afraid of instigating a partial
government shutdown. In the middle of two hot wars, and now within the Red Sea leading into
the Suez Canal against the Hoody's three three hot wars, Ukraine, the Gaza Sadist who attacked Israel
and attacked 12 and 13 year old girls. Israel defending itself.
Hezbollah coming down from Lebanon back by Iran. More than three wars, and they don't want to pay
our sailors. They don't want to pay our Marines. They don't want to pay our Army. But anybody out there
have a kid or a brother or a father or a friend in the military. And you're thinking of voting
Republican? Well, here's what's going to happen. See, when the lines do not hang up, I'll get back
to you very shortly. After he met with this caucus, they all agreed that they weren't going to
declare the the chair vacant largely because they got no one else. They can't agree on anything.
What they're doing is costing us billions of dollars in unnecessary interest because the federal
government and its credit rating lowered. It means we have to pay more interest on the debt.
And it's sending the message to the Hoodies, the Iranians, to the Chinese, to the Ruskys,
all of them that we are divided. And these are people many of them never served in the military.
We're trying to sneak out of it if they had been drafted because they love Trump, and he is
the example of doing that. Right now, there is a proposal in the Senate to draft another
continuing resolution for another two months. Our credit rating will go further down with
pay more interest, unnecessary interest, just so we can pay our troops. These treacherous clowns
and the Republican side are doing this to us. To his credit, or do you think it's to his credit,
Mike Johnson is saying, well, I'm going to still stick to my deal. We'll see.
And I will tell you, as soon as I take a call right now, why I don't trust him on that.
Adrian Amatt is my friend. Thanks for calling Adrian. What's in your mind today?
Hey, Matt, you're right that the Republicans waste billions of dollars by
taking actions that drive up the interest rate. We have to pay for that service on the national debt.
But another part of it is that the Republicans, as you know, are always pushing to
reduce the number of IRS employees that conduct audits and make sure that rich people are paying
the taxes they're supposed to pay. So I just don't understand how anyone can take
your Republican budget house seriously when they're doing things all the time that worse than
our budget situation. That's an excellent call. And you're right. Adrian is just
noted one other thing by continuing this continual bringsmanship because you know we're going
to fund the government, but threatening not to pay our army and our sailors when they're involved
in hot wars and rains and airmen is not just treason, but what it does is it lowers our rating
and the interest on the national debt. We have bonds out there, treasuries. Many of you have them
whether you know it or not in your IRA, your 403B, your 401k pension plans. Many of you.
So instead of only paying one or two percent, we have to pay four or five percent. That comes
out of tax money. It's useless. The Republican Party does not care about saving money.
Can't be trusted with money. They are costing us billions. They're not saving billions.
With the second thing that Adrian noted, one of the preconditions, one of their initial precondition
was money to hire IRS agents, especially forensic lawyers and accountants to penetrate these
tax shelters and get people to pay their taxes. They wanted that eliminated. Why did they want
that eliminated? What do they care? They lied and they said it was because it was directed at
low-income people. That's false. The government incidents of auditing people of low or modest
incomes is virtually nil. At Goldman Sachs, the IRS keeps an agent in house at all times. He
has an office because they know they'll cheat them. They'll know they'll screw around and they'll
know that they'll take questionable deductions. So he keeps an eye on things. You can't put an IRS
agent in any corporation in this country. Remember something. In 2016, Donald Trump paid $750
in federal taxes. $750. In the previous 15 years, he paid zero to zero in federal taxes. He took
all sorts of manipulated things around his mirrorless state. The Republicans don't want that
penetrated. They don't want people with the highest incomes to have to pay income taxes.
That's why they agreed that hedge fund managers don't pay income taxes. I don't know if you
knew that. He said hedge fund taxes. For instance, I got like Jared Kushner. It's two billion from
the Saudis and it's a close to the hedge fund. He's not going to pay income taxes. Why is that?
Because they had the word income changed by Congress, believe it or not, to be called carried
interest. So he says, yeah, I made this money. It's carried interest. I only have to pay 15%.
I had to pay income tax to be 39%. How do they get away with that?
Were you paying attention? How many people were paying attention?
Where they got away with it, they said, well, lumber, you know, lumber interest like companies that
plant trees and then harvest them for paper and oil companies pay their quote income and quote
is called carried interest. Okay, that's because you plant a million trees that they got to grow.
Takes a long time for them to grow. And then when they grow, sometimes they're blights and
everything, there's risk. There's risk. So the sweetener that the Congress said was, okay,
then your quote income is actually carried interest. You're going to pay capital gains. You pay
15%, 20% whatever it is now. Oil companies, they said, well, we drill 50 holes, 49
and we're dry holes. That costs a lot of money. The 50th hole is the gusher. So we want that risk
to be acknowledged. And we're going to call that income carried interest and only pay half, pay,
pays capital gains. I personally with the oil companies think that because they also get massive
subsidies, that should be discontinued. But let's put that aside. They do take some risk.
The hedge fund managers who sit in New York, I'm not kidding. And they get this money,
they take no risk whatsoever. It's not like trees. It's not like oil. There are no dry holes.
They have it out there and they basically as a casino, they're playing poker.
They get 2%, the average I would say is 2% of everything under management, whether they do a good
or bad job. So Jared Kushnery, 2% of 2 billion from chainsaw Charlie, the Mohammed guy,
Prince Mohammed, chainsaw Charlie. It took a chainsaw to him. And some people say,
there's before he actually died and was unconscious if you can imagine that.
The chainsaw Charlie gives them 2 billion. It's basically bribe Trump.
He gets 40 million a year through nothing. He could sit around you on. He could put it in an index
fund. If he beats the S&P 500, typically they get another one and a half percent.
And they claim, well, we took risk. What risk? Well, the stocks could have gone down. Yeah,
they could have so could every investor. You try that sometime. The next time you stock portfolio
goes down, say it's carried interest. I don't think that's going to work. But nobody said to the
Jared Kushner types, yeah, but you get 2% off the top. So where is your risk? This is a scam.
And then what happened was they don't pay income tax. The Republican party will protect its donors
no matter what. They want them to steal money through tax fraud. It's basically tax fraud.
When you claim you're taking risk and you're not and the Republican party ratifies that in the
Congress, that's fraudulent to me. You know, you technically are not committing fraud because you
got the law change. But that was a fraudulent thing for the Republican party to do.
Now, they don't want Biden to hire more tax agent. You can't just hire any old tax agent.
You need forensic accountants, lawyers who penetrate this stuff. There's some insurance scams.
We buy a few policies and you do this and that and suddenly take massive deductions against your
income. And there's a lot of stuff like that that the average person isn't going to understand
unless you spend a lot of time studying tax law. Biden and the Democrats may be a handful of
Republicans say we should have that investigated under control. So what Adrian is pointing out is
that that is not going to be investigated under control because the Republicans want that funding
out in the deal that Biden and McCarthy made. He did cut out Biden had to about six billion
towards that kind of enforcement. But it still leaves most of the enforcement. The sad thing is
that the 80 or so billion that Biden has for strengthening the IRS were produce hundreds
of billion dollars in withheld crooked taxes. In other words, it paid for itself in space.
Okay, coming up, coming up, a couple of senators have begged the Senate and the House to take
the deal because they know what's going to happen if Trump by accident gets elected. Coming up.
We had a point.
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844-967-2789. Well, in this dust up where it looks like we're heading to a partial shutdown
next Friday because of the right wingers in Congress. We won't let it get to the floor.
Or Mitch McConnell. They used to call him Moscow Mitch. He is sort of Moscow Mitch.
They're people. I think they're Russian oligarchs who contribute to funds to packs that he controls.
They're technically American citizens. It's easy for a rich person to become an American citizen.
You can easily become a citizen in the UK for instance or Canada. Simply by investing a certain
amount of money. And there's something like that in the United States. We get a green card for
investing a certain amount of money. Then you lie in the weeds and become a citizen.
If you're a UK citizen or a Canadian citizen, it's even easier to become a citizen in the United
States. And then they come over here. They don't even live here. They lie in the weeds and they
contribute to the Republican Party. He's not exactly Moscow Mitch other than the money
because he did go to Kiev and he stands tall against Putin and for Ukraine. So I want to acknowledge
that. It's a guy named James Langford, Moklahoma, who apparently, astonishingly, is not a right wing
nut. Or I said, a guy from Moklahoma is a right wing nut. Well, that's not necessarily true.
I must have been thinking of Mike Lee. He's from Utah. In any event,
Langford is the guy that the Republicans have designated to negotiate with
Chris Murphy and other Democrats on the border security provisions that the Republicans are requiring
to release aid to Ukraine and Israel. And Mitch McConnell and James Langford have just
put out a plea to the Republican colleagues in the House and the Senate.
Quote, take the deal on border security. Release the aid to Ukraine and Israel and take
what the Democrats are offering, which is pretty substantial. It's very, very substantial.
I'll tell you what some of the hang ups are. Very substantial. But then they said to their
people in a closed caucus, which of course leaked out, if Donald Trump, God forbid, gets
reelected to the presidency, there will be no deal. Because Donald Trump will shoot his mouth off
and require things that nobody could agree to, including most Republicans. And the deal goes away.
So for God's sake, take the deal now. That's just come out of Moscow, Mitch and James Langford.
Now, here's what's holding it up. The Republican Party has linked Ukraine aid and Israel aid
to border security. And I personally think we need better border security. I personally think
you can't continue to just release people into our population and tell them to come back for
court hearing and they never come back. And then they become dreamers. You can't continue to do
that in a modern country. The hang up appears to be this. There's a thing called humanitarian parole.
What's humanitarian parole? People come into this country and they truly are afraid of going
back to where they came from. And so for humanitarian reasons, the president can say they have
humanitarian parole for six months a year, two years, whatever. Biden used that for Ukrainian
refugees. And I think he was exactly right. A lot of these Ukrainian refugees, if they go back
to some of these areas, are going to get murdered and tortured by Russians. Now, you can say
that able-bodied men, able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 60 over there are forbidden
to leave the country. They have to go into the military. And I support that 100 percent.
They're fighting for their lives. But they're women with children. They're very old men. They're
young kids. And what happened was that Biden gave them humanitarian parole. They contribute
immeasurably to our country, to our culture. They contribute immeasurably to their hard workers.
And they blend in very, very nicely. He also gave humanitarian parole to a number of people
from Afghanistan. Now, there are people from Afghanistan who are allies. There were people who
were interpreters. There were people who fought with us. In other words, on our side,
they did not want the Taliban. They're Muslims, but they don't want that kind of extreme stuff.
I think it's absolutely correct to give humanitarian parole to anybody who actually supported us.
But hundreds of thousands of people have tried to come in on that. And if you remember the
the TV on it, you know, the airplanes would be going down the runway and there'd be a
Gaginian people swarming around them. And then 13 of our Marines got killed in the suicide bombing.
And you have to be certain of who you're letting in in my view.
So I think that with regard to Afghan humanitarian parole, it has to be absolutely iron clad
reserved only for people who demonstrably were our interpreters, fought on our side,
and are not going to blow things up in this country. That's my view.
I think that right now, James Langford said that that's the issue that's holding this whole thing up.
I cannot believe, and by the way, Joe Biden has gotten much more involved in this. Joe's very smart,
Joe's very experienced, and he is perfectly capable of crafting a humanitarian parole
with exceptions, humanitarian parole with kind of checks and balances. In other words, he can't just say,
all right, these two million people can come in and blah, blah, blah. And maybe most of them don't
deserve to come in. That's what's holding it up. Now, what do we do with that? The 19th is next
Friday. These people are so lazy, they're not even coming back to the Tuesday. Then they'll come in
about middle of the morning, yawning, burping, having coffee, a Danish, you know, picking their nose,
and then, you know, kind of playing their navels, and then they might get around to a Tuesday afternoon.
That is 48 hours to do the final drafting, and they have a lot of drafting trolls that know how to
do it, and then get it voted on. So it's going to require a continuing resolution.
Johnson's going to have to do the same thing that he did before. It's a new and resolution.
Our credit rating will go further down. We'll pay more interest because of what these idiots are doing.
Absolutely, we need better border controls. Biden's offering it, quite fooling around.
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