Trump Takes Control: Federal Takeover of DC and Rising Threats

The American culture war reaches new battlegrounds as we examine three remarkable stories shifting the nation's landscape. First, we dive into Cracker Barrel's dramatic renovation plans that have loyal customers up in arms. The beloved Southern restaurant chain's CEO claims "overwhelmingly positive" feedback despite apparent backlash, raising questions about authenticity versus corporate survival in today's market. Will your favorite breakfast still exist when the dust settles?

Next, we explore the troubling case of a woman arrested after explicitly threatening President Trump's life on social media—then doubling down when interviewed by Secret Service. This incident forces us to confront difficult questions about free speech boundaries and whether certain rhetoric crosses into criminal territory, especially following two assassination attempts against the former president.

Most significantly, we break down President Trump's unprecedented federal takeover of Washington DC's police department through Section 740 of the Home Rule Act. This constitutionally-permitted move deploys 800 National Guard troops to the nation's capital in what Trump called "Liberation Day in DC." The action signals a dramatic shift in federal-local relations and potentially foreshadows accountability measures against those who previously targeted the administration.

Throughout these stories runs a common thread: America's institutions are undergoing profound realignment. Whether in private business, law enforcement approaches to political threats, or the relationship between federal and local government, traditional boundaries are being rewritten before our eyes. This isn't just news—it's a window into how power dynamics are fundamentally changing in real-time.

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Speaker 2: 1:37

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Speaker 3: 5:35

It is 9 o'clock, we're about to kick this off and we are about to get started. There's a bunch of stuff going on in the news, as always, and we're going to talk about it here. We're going to do something a little bit different. We're going to try to stay away from the major headlines and hit those secondary headlines tonight to see if we can tap into something that not everybody is talking about. So here we go is talking about. So here we go. Three topics, one hour. The first topic is going to be Cracker Barrel. What the heck are they doing? They are revamping the entire thing. People are losing their minds about it. Is it a good thing? That's the question. Or are we just uncomfortable with change? That's something that we need to figure out. Number two is going to be the DC takeover. Yeah, it's big news, but there's some little updates we're going to go over. And then a woman has been arrested for threatening to kill Donald Trump. All of that coming right up.

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Speaker 5: 7:09

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Speaker 3: 7:34

Recently, the CEO of Cracker Barrel came out and said that they were going to revamp the entire restaurant world of Cracker Barrel, and the menu too. So are they going to have Mama's French Toast Breakfast? Because if not, I'm going to be one pissed off customer. But the CEO is taking serious heat about this, as is Cracker Barrel, and for years upon years, upon years, cracker Barrel has not changed the way that they do things. Okay, that is the question Is this a good thing or is it a bad thing? For me, personally, it's a bad thing. I love Cracker Barrel. I go to Cracker Barrel all the time. Mama's French Toast Breakfast is probably one of the best breakfasts ever created. Mama's French Toast breakfast is probably one of the best breakfasts ever created. So is the Country Boy breakfast? Their biscuits are fire. If they get rid of their biscuits and gravy, I'm going to lose my mind. I will shed a tear.

Speaker 3: 8:32

This used to be a great country where you can get proper biscuits and gravy, and you get it at Cracker Barrel. This is a staple in the South. Cracker Barrel, it really is. Yes, it's a big, massive chain and usually Southerners don't like that. But Cracker Barrel is different. Cracker Barrel's, homey Cracker Barrel. There's some warm, comforting feeling like you're in your grandma's country kitchen and they're making you incredible things to eat. So here is the CEO. Everybody's giving her crap. Let's hear what she has to say about what she's doing.

Speaker 7: 9:09

Question. I think I probably know the answer. What if all the customers are coming at you hard enough about the look of the restaurant and they want to go back to the old way? Would you do it?

Speaker 4: 9:19

Honestly, the feedback's been overwhelmingly positive, that people like what we're doing. I'll give you another soundbite.

Speaker 3: 9:25

Okay. So she's saying that the feedback is overwhelmingly positive. It's overwhelmingly positive in her tiny little bubble of existence. I can tell you Billy Joe and Charlotte are not happy with this and Charlotte are not happy with this. They're not happy with this. The regular American family is not happy with an updated Cracker Barrel. The whole point of Cracker Barrel is that it's outdated. That's the whole point. Nobody wants to go into a modern Cracker Barrel with, you know, sharp-edged corners on the roof and a square like useless thing. She's getting her information from the people that work for her. Listen.

Speaker 4: 10:07

I actually happened to be in Orlando last week with all of our managers. We bring them together and once every other year and the number one question that I got asked, Michael, was how can I get a remodel? When can I get a remodel? How do I get on the list? So, because the feedback and the buzz is so good, not only from our customers but from our team members, they want to work in a wonderful restaurant.

Speaker 3: 10:27

So your team members are stroking you off because you're the CEO. They're stroking you off because you're the CEO. They're not actually excited about this. Nobody is. This is heartbreaking. Is what this is? This is devastating. Here they're even changing the logo and, surprise, surprise, they're getting rid of the white guy. Cracker Barrel is removing the white guy, keeping the same font and just changing the shape ever so slightly. This is the new Cracker Barrel logo and they're getting rid of the old country store slogan. They probably make more money from their country store than they do from their restaurant. This is unacceptable.

Speaker 3: 11:23

As far as I'm concerned, Cracker Barrel is the greatest place on earth. It's like Disneyland for breakfast. When I was a kid and we used to go on road trips Because I'm from New York we used to stop at Cracker Barrel and I swear it was like Going to Disney World. This isn't AI. This is a computer mock-up of what they're looking to do with Cracker Barrel. That's not it. Look at that. There's just. It's gone. All of the cool stuff on the walls is gone. It looks like a friggin' Denny's. All right.

Speaker 3: 12:15

So here's the CEO of Cracker Barrel. She's got Rachel Maddow glasses on. That doesn't mean that she's super liberal. In fact, I haven't really been able to find much on that and I've researched just a little bit. So she looks super liberal. She went to Stanford Law. She probably is super liberal, but as of right now that really hasn't come out. Could she be influenced by the woke mind virus? I don't know. I just want to make sure they don't get rid of mama's French toast breakfast and biscuits and gravy, and I'll be and we'll be fine.

Speaker 3: 12:51

This is another thing that people are posting with her, the Cracker Barrel LGBTQ plus alliance supporting home office and field employees to bring their whole selves to work while strengthening Cracker Barrel's relationship with the LGBTQ plus community. I never understood this and I still don't get this. Just stay out of it. Just stay out of it. Why are you getting involved in politics? If you own a restaurant? Don't support anybody. That's a political hot button. I mean nobody, nothing, not a single thing.

Speaker 3: 13:29

Don't do Black Lives Matter, because now, when you're trying to remodel your restaurant, this is the crap that people throw back in your face and the concern I I think for people, and probably the assumption from people, is that they think this is some woke leftist lib who is trying to erase a part of white culture. I think that that is the concern. Now, there's one thing that this CEO her name is Julie Massino, by the way faced when she took it over. She came from Taco Bell, she came from Taco Bell to Cracker Barrel and this is the problem she faced. This is her with Jim Cramer. Now, don't ever take Jim Cramer's advice on stocks unless you're going to do the opposite. Let's listen.

Speaker 9: 14:23

But also warning you to stay away from the stock because it seems destined for a nasty dividend cut. Sure enough, a couple weeks later Cracker Barrel slashed its dividend by roughly 80%. They had telegraphed it. The stock instantly lost nearly 15% of its value before spending the next two months trending lower. By the time it bought about two weeks ago, this thing was down more than 30 percent from where I covered it in early may and down 50 percent for the year. So keep your bat on the shoulder. It's been the right call so far. But what about now? Crackerbrow's gotten the dividend cut out of the way? We've learned more details about the turnaround plan. I think it's real includes a store remodeling program and a menu refresh. Both have to be done. Well, it could take two or three years to play out. That's emphasis. They've got to get them that you got to give them that time. The story doesn't mean the stock won't rally.

Speaker 3: 15:00

This was a year ago. This was a year ago.

Speaker 9: 15:03

Ahead of time, anticipation to come back, especially after this huge pullback. Don't take it from me, let's go straight to the source. It's very exciting for me, julie Buccino. She's the new president and CEO of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. One more, ms Buccino. Welcome to Mad mine on Clinton in New Jersey 78. Really good one, and all we know is is that we want it preserved, but we also want it fixed. Difficult to do both.

Speaker 4: 15:29

isn't it, it is, it is. That's our goal. Our goal is to take what people love about Cracker Barrel and open the aperture a little bit so that more people love Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 3: 15:38

So she, she was brought on because, basically, it was failing right, the stock was plummeting, it was failing. Guys, let me know if we're live on Facebook. I'm not seeing us live on Facebook, but we should be, so I don't understand why we wouldn't be. Drop a comment and let me know, anyway, yeah. So here we are. Here we are, we're trying to. Yeah, I think we're going live now.

Speaker 3: 16:07

So everybody seems to think that this is some liberal agenda. Okay, is it? I don't know. It definitely could be. Man, we've seen it so much. It's easy to make that assumption. Man, we've seen it so much, it's easy to make that assumption. But if the business is not performing with the old country store and you need to change it, you need to change it. That's just business. Now I understand that nobody likes change. I don't like change. I'm not a fan of change. That's not what I want. But it's not what we want. It's what investors want. So if investors are losing their money and not getting a return on their investment because people aren't stopping there, maybe because it's outdated, then maybe it needs to be changed.

Speaker 4: 16:57

We want to appeal to all generations.

Speaker 9: 16:59

Right now, the greatest turn I've seen in restaurants was was Panera, where Ron Shake legendarily said listen, came on the show.

Speaker 3: 17:06

Notice how they don't have the white guy on the Cracker Barrel on the set either. That is interesting to me.

Speaker 9: 17:11

They're just going to cry. So look, this is my son said my place is a mosh pit. I can't look at my own place. We redoing everything. I kept begging him to tell me how's it going. How's it going? He did a whole new redo. He went to Charlotte. You're doing something similar when it comes to your company.

Speaker 4: 17:25

Yeah Well, as you mentioned, we're in the beginning phases of our three year plan. So 25 fiscal 25, which starts for us in a couple of weeks, is going to be an investment year and we're investing a couple around a couple of key pillars. So one, as you mentioned, is the remodels. We've got four right now in Tennessee, four different versions.

Speaker 3: 17:42

So they're doing four in Tennessee. Good luck. I don't think it's going to work out for them. I don't. If I wanted a more modern remodel, I would just go to Bob Evans, which is a knockoff Cracker Barrel anyway. Crack or barrel anyway. But there's no way. I don't like it and that's okay. I don't have to like it. I'm just concerned that it may be, in fact, some liberal agenda that's going on. We're going to stay on top of that. We're going to keep everybody updated on that and we're going to follow that closely and see how it goes.

Speaker 3: 18:26

Now, this is not a situation where Cracker Barrel is going woke, going broke. They didn't hire Dylan Mulvaney to sell their pancakes or any of these left-wing loonies to do their bidding. They also didn't, do you know, sponsor anything psychotic. Yeah, they did an LGBTQ community post, I guess. But I mean everybody does that during Pride Month for businesses. So not that I agree with that. We already established that. So, before we go any further, make sure you hit that like, share and subscribe button. Don't forget to follow us on facebook and twitter. I know we got a bunch of people on twitter right now. Make sure that you guys hit that, that share button and subscribe, if you can. Tommy, how are you? Good evening. Thanks for coming in, cat, welcome back. I appreciate you guys. You guys are just awesome every night. But Cracker Barrel, we'll see where that goes.

Speaker 3: 19:24

This next news story is a little interesting, so before I show this, hang on, I need to show what's going on here. Okay, on here. Okay, there's a lady who made threats to kill President Trump and she was arrested. Okay, now, when I was a former police officer, right, so, I was a Jacksonville sheriff for a very short period of time I always have to disclaimer that it was only two years, but I was a patrol officer, I was on the street.

Speaker 3: 20:03

So, in the state of Florida, in order to arrest somebody for what is considered assault, right, which is a threat, right, assault is words, battery is hands, fists, physical contact. Now, in order to arrest somebody for that, they would have to say it very specifically and that you would have to have the means to do it. For instance, if you're standing outside and you're yelling at somebody, I'm going to hit you over the head with a baseball bat and you don't have a baseball bat, well then, that's not assault, because the threat cannot probably be done. Right, it was a very hard charge to bring. Now federal law is obviously different. We're dealing with a president. This lady was arrested, so here's the news story. She kind of does an interview, but this is kind of what we have seen, and we have seen a dramatic influx in leftists becoming more, increasingly, more and more violent. That's what we have seen. So let's look at this video of her interviewing during a Washington DC protest.

Speaker 10: 21:12

Here at the White House on Saturday, we saw a large protest gathering outside, so we walked out of the gate.

Speaker 3: 21:17

Hey, jd, welcome back bud.

Speaker 10: 21:19

Conducted a few interviews. I spoke with this woman. She even gave me her card. Now, hours after that interview, we're learning she was arrested for allegedly making death threats against President Trump's life online, saying she wanted to disembowel him and cut out his trachea. That's according to the DOJ. Here's some of that interview.

Speaker 3: 21:38

I mean, that's serious stuff, or is it political free speech? That's my question. We're going to get back. I'm going to put this just on the back burner just for a second. Is that political free speech? Is that political free speech if you're actually not able to do it? Right? Federal law is different than state law. But if you're actually like, if it's not logical that you'll be able to do it, should you be able to do it? Right, federal law is different than state law. But if you're actually like, if it's not logical that you'll be able to do it, should you be able to do it. I'm not saying you should or you shouldn't right. I'm not taking either side. I'm just asking questions. Is it okay to say that with political speech? Here's the caveat. During the American Revolution, here's the caveat.

Speaker 3: 22:23

During the American Revolution, the American people definitely hung King George in effigy and I'm not the biggest Trump fan. I'm a huge fan of him. Now, ever since they tried to persecute him and put him in jail, you kind of really turned me on to him. Thanks, democrats. But in the beginning I was not. I really wasn't, and not that he's a tyrant or not even close. I just didn't think he didn't have any political resolve, that he's not a politician, that he has really no political philosophy, he's a populist, but anyway. But should that be? Or is that protected free speech? That's the argument the attorney is going to make on her behalf. Is that it's metaphorical, it's not serious. She never intended to actually do that disemboweling. How are you supposed to get your hands on the president and disembowel Right? How are you supposed to actually get that done? But let's listen to this interview and let's see what she had to say.

Speaker 11: 23:22

These COVID losses where people are manipulated out of just safe and effective vaccines to the point of doubt in this regime is completely intolerable. We aren't going to have a classic regime just killing patients in mass, driving them away from their simple and effective health care.

Speaker 3: 23:41

Okay, she's talking about COVID and how Republicans are scaring people away from the COVID vaccine. This lady is not even in the know of what is happening in the United States. She's still stuck in 2020. She's still stuck in 2020. She hasn't even got the news of what happened with all of the crap since COVID. She hasn't even gotten the news. She is completely out of touch, completely brainwashed and obviously if she's making threats like that. But let's listen to the rest of the interview.

Speaker 11: 24:19

It's unconscionable. It's not a political issue. This should be health care. It never should have been made partisan. It's a tragedy for the United States of America. This regime has to go with the whole of the military. You do not deploy the military against the American people.

Speaker 3: 24:35

Well, you can't deploy the military against the American people. She's right about that. There's a law called posse comitatus. However, the National Guard is not little loophole for the federal government. But the National Guard is not the military. The law is posse comitatus. Okay, we could do a whole episode. We could spend a whole episode on that and how the federal government circumvents posse comitatus at every chance that it gets, no matter who's in office. It's not the political party that's corrupted, it's the power that corrupts. So, yeah, she's right about that, but not the National Guard. So she doesn't. Again, she doesn't know what she's talking about. Every Democratic president has called the National Guard at least once during their administration. I think every president. I don't think there's ever been a president since the National Guard was formed that didn't call it. That didn't call the National Guard. Okay, let's listen.

Speaker 11: 25:31

We will not be suppressed. We will not exist in an authoritarian regime. We will not accept fascism.

Speaker 10: 25:37

During that interview.

Speaker 3: 25:38

We will not accept fascism. Okay, you don't know what fascism is. You're talking out of your ass.

Speaker 10: 25:43

We had no idea that this woman was already under investigation. She had done this voluntary interview on Friday, august 15th, with the United States Secret Service, where she told them that she believed President Trump was a terrorist and a Nazi and that she wanted to use a bladed object, to quote carry out her mission. Now, as of now, jones has not entered any kind of plea as Judge Jeanine, I just wanted to like.

Speaker 3: 26:05

All right. So Jeanine Piro, which is a good friend of the Don't Unfriend Me show if you ever watched that. I haven't spoken to her yet, but I plan to. But Janine Pirro is the US attorney for the District of Columbia. Okay, trump appointee, he likes to appoint very famous people. Obviously she's going to throw the book at this lady. She's going to throw the book at this lady and they going to throw the book at this lady and they're going to do everything they can to lock her up. They're not going to tolerate Trump's threats against President Trump's life. Now I'm going to give you a why to that. Okay, I'm just here to be.

Speaker 3: 26:46

I'm not going to take one side or the other on this issue, but the rhetoric that led up to the 2024 election is what had Donald Trump receive two assassination attempts, one that was an inch away from successfulness? Was all the calls for violence? Was all the calls for Donald Trump's death? That is what it was. It was the left screaming about their imminent danger and imminent loss of democracy, and you're going to lose 100% of your rights. You're not going to make it anywhere because Donald Trump is a terrorist and Donald Trump is against all of you as citizens of the country. He basically wants to end your life, tommy.

Speaker 3: 27:39

Well, she doubled down when Secret Service interviewed her. Yeah, that was pretty foolish. That was pretty foolish. You could tell by the way she speaks. There's obviously something wrong with her. She's not like normal way she speaks. There's obviously something wrong with her. She's not like normal. She doesn't have she definitely has some sort of what appears to be autism. To me could maybe not I could be completely wrong, but that's exactly what it looks like and what it sounds like. She she has something going on with her speech. Let's rewind it and listen to it. She's not all there, but you know, most people who believe that Donald Trump is a fascist is not there. Let's listen again.

Speaker 10: 28:19

In an interview we're learning, she was arrested for allegedly making death threats against President Trump's life online, saying she wanted to disembowel him and cut out his trachea. That's according to the DOJ.

Speaker 3: 28:30

That's not reasonable. She's never going to be able to do that. I'm conflicted, I really am. That's like she's not going to be able to do that. Now, a bomb threat? Yeah, basically anybody can make a bomb, that's. You know, I get that. But this is like a very specific threat and seems almost like an emotional plea rather than an actual threat. But again, this type of behavior by the left has caused two assassination attempts for Donald Trump. So I don't blame the Secret Service, Jeanine Pirro, to take it seriously, because the Democrats have wanted him killed and attempted to get killed before. So let's listen to her again.

Speaker 11: 29:16

Here's some of that interview To have these COVID losses where people are manipulated out of just safe and effective vaccines to the point of death in this regime is completely intolerable.

Speaker 3: 29:29

Completely intolerable. There's something wrong with her that he's driving people away from the COVID vaccine Like she's like. What are you talking about?

Speaker 11: 29:50

It's a tragedy for the United States of America. This regime has to go the whole of the country. You do not deploy the military against the American people.

Speaker 3: 30:00

You can hear like there's something wrong. There's something wrong with her.

Speaker 11: 30:04

We will not be suppressed. We will not exist in an authoritarian regime. We will not accept fascism.

Speaker 3: 30:11

She's just repeating all the crap that everybody tells her online. That's all she's doing. She's just repeating all of the crap that everybody tells her online. And you know, I'm sure if she could get her hands on Donald Trump, she probably would hurt him or she would chicken out. But I don't know. You guys tell me, put it in the comments, send in.

Speaker 3: 30:43

If you're listening on the podcast and you're not watching live, you can text into the show your opinion and I will read it on the air. I rarely get those because most people that watch the show watch it live. But, like right now, we have like 350 people on across all channels. So, thank you guys, but the is this taking it too far? That's my question. Is this the right going after free speech? We'll see what they do with it. I mean, they may not actually persecute her. They did arrest her. They can do that. They could just trip all charges. Raley says President Trump three hearts, raley. Democrats are so, so embarrassing. Yeah, they are. They're incredibly embarrassing. They're not even embarrassing, just cringeworthy. They're so wrong. I mean that's literally the best definition for Democrats to give. They're wrong. They're embarrassingly wrong. They're so off the pulse of the country. This is a Fox News alert of the story.

Speaker 8: 32:04

An Indiana woman now facing federal charges after making death threats toward President Trump. The DOJ says Natalie Rose Jones posted on social media earlier this month that she was quote willingly willing to sacrificially kill the president on set, and on Saturday she was arrested in DC after admitting to Secret Service that she did make those threats.

Speaker 3: 32:29

I don't know why she would admit. Man, you got a right to remain silent for a reason. Use it. I mean, they exist. The police are not your friend. Just a little piece of advice. I don't care what you think, I don't care how good of a citizen you are, the police are not your friend. I don't care. You don't talk to cops. I am a cop. I am a former cop, no longer a cop. I am a former cop. You don't talk to cops, period. I know you think, oh yeah, I'm a good citizen, I'm going to help them out. That's what happened with the January Sixers. They were all patriots and they were all like yeah, we love America, man, we love you guys. The FBI is great. The FBI is the best. We're here to help you guys. I'll tell you anything you want to know. Yeah, I walked into the Capitol. Yeah, I went in there. I didn't break anything. The door was already open and they let us in. Oh great, you're going to federal prison for the rest of your life. You have a right to remain silent for a reason. Use it. They can't and they won't go after you for exercising your Fifth Amendment right. You don't have to talk to anybody and they will lie to you to try to get you to talk. So this is a perfect example. Keep your mouth shut.

Speaker 3: 33:52

I don't think she was a credible threat. I think she's nuts. I think it's symbolic for the trump administration to go after this person to say, hey, this kind of this kind of things are not going to be tolerated by the, by the trump administration. I don't agree with it, but it depends on what they do with it. Just because they arrested her does not mean they're going to lock her up for the rest of her life or throw the book at her for 20 years. If she gets arrested and they put her on probation and she has to go to anger management classes or something along those lines. Yeah, you know you can't threaten to kill people, but if you're going to use the entire weight of the federal government to crush one individual who made a threat, who doesn't have the ability to carry out the threat, that's a different story. Man, I'm sorry. That's I'm sorry, but we'll see what they do with it now.

Speaker 3: 34:49

The democrats completely threw the book at the january sixers and I am all about donald trump getting freaking payback man, I really am. I like 100 support donald trump, just completely eliminating the democratic party. Unfortunately, the federal government has grown so out of control that whoever's in office the other party is scared. It shouldn't be that way. The federal government shouldn't have so much power that one political party should be scared. But Democrats are the ones who created all of this power. The Democrats are the ones who have grown the federal government completely beyond recognition. So let's, this is. I think.

Speaker 3: 35:41

She put this on Twitter. This is her name. It's like Nathalie, not Natalie, but Nathalie. This is what she posted. This is either Twitter or Facebook, but she put this up. This is her in Washington DC.

Speaker 3: 35:58

This is August 6th, the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Okay, let's say you have an elected official, perhaps you are an American citizen, even and let's say you have rights and you would like to be represented. Perhaps you place a call to the individual's office. Perhaps you make a comment on social media. Perhaps you email the office on a web form. Then, feeling unheard, you protest somehow.

Speaker 3: 36:25

Here's where we are. I literally told the FBI in five states today that I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea, with Liz Cheney and all the affirmation presentation. And you did not come to my home this way at all. Let's deal with this and restore domestic tranquility. So look, what is our limit of the First Amendment. What do you need for me to remind the Supreme Court of the United States that we will not be terrorized by leadership? By invoking the Second Amendment, I'm just trying to say don't kill people in mass unnecessarily. What do you hear? Let's finish planning this arrest and removal ceremony.

Speaker 3: 37:12

Now. Immigration, and she's tagging ICE, the FBI. The Supreme Court of the United States Knows that this country isn't going to continue with cruel and unusual punishments. Okay, there is no cruel and unusual punishments with ICE. Okay, we can have a conversation about cruel and unusual punishments, but this isn't it. Department of Homeland Security this is her tagging them Knows that I have to defend my AARP patients who have been terrorized and will not be induced into psychotic hysteria nationwide To die by this administration. Psychotic hysteria nationwide to die by this administration. So please just have Woodland Field Station for my father's family. Chris Bavender from Indianapolis. New York City FBI to writer. San Diego FBI for guys who want blowjobs. Cia nationwide but can't at all show up for marriage or for real sober. And Chicago FBI for my beloved home of 15 years, all come to the White House.

Speaker 3: 38:21

Now let's be coordinating this arrest for Donald Trump Jr's sorry, djt's terrorism and the American people at the White House and then tagging the White House. Okay, does that sound like a sane individual to you? No, which is why they made the arrest Because they're not going to take any chances, and I get that. We'll see what they do with that arrest. It's going to be interesting to see, and it's a media story that could just go ham and just go away, or they can drag it out for the next I don't know five or ten years and let her be a martyr for the Democratic Party and see just how far the Republicans are going to push this. I mean, that's what we're going to see, okay, and I'm not really sure exactly which way that's going to go, but we're going to follow it. I don't think anything's going to come off of it. I think this is going to be it and there's going to be absolutely nothing left to discuss with this situation left to discuss with this situation.

Speaker 3: 39:35

So Donald Trump has taken over DC. Okay, for those of you that watch this show, you know I'm like a hardcore anti-federal government type of person. I am against. I think I think the National Guard is a is a clever loophole to overcome posse comitatus. I think it is unjust and unconstitutional, however it exists. But when it comes to Washington DC, washington DC in the Constitution is under the federal government's control, primarily Congress. So that's different. This is not Donald Trump going after New York City, where citizens vote for their local electors. They do it in Washington DC too. However, washington DC belongs to the federal government. So, yeah, this is all legal, this is all legal and Washington DC is completely out of control and crime-ridden.

Speaker 3: 40:36

And one of the sheriffs came out, or the law enforcement people came out and said, oh, look at the crime statistics, look at the crime statistics, our crime is down. Let me tell you something. This is me, as a former police officer. You cannot trust crime statistics because officers and any officers who are watching if you want to disagree with me, go ahead, but you're full of crap Officers receive orders on how to log in or log out of calls from their commanders in an effort to manipulate crime statistics.

Speaker 3: 41:15

I'll give you an example. If we got a call that there was a burglar at this address and was it a burglary Was the window just broken. Did they actually go in, right? So they want you to report the crime down. So, instead of a burglary right, if there's nothing missing or you can get away with it you mark it down to just an alarm that went off. So now it's not an actual crime, it's just an alarm that went off. Okay, these are things that you're instructed to do by your superiors. Okay.

Speaker 3: 41:56

Also, in some incidents, if they want more funding, that what the? The one you went from a month before is now. What would have been a just a normal alarm or a signal 32 is now. Oh man, that was a horrible burglary. We need to put that in there. And then when the crime stats go up, the budgets go up and you need more cops.

Speaker 3: 42:22

So if you're tired or you know working all the time and you don't have enough people, you know, so you can't trust it. If it's crap in, it's crap out. That's just the way that the system works, man. It's political, it's police unions, it's your senior sergeants, your lieutenants, your chiefs. They're trying to make names for themselves. They're trying to say that you know we're getting crime. Ever since I took over, crime has been down. It's all BS. Man, you can't believe any of it. What you can believe is what happens to people when they walk down the street. And Washington DC is absolutely crime ridden and it has been forever. This is nothing new. It's a Democrat run city and Democrat run cities are garbage and they're crime ridden. So Donald Trump took over, took back control into the federal government, where it belongs per the Constitution. Let's listen.

Speaker 6: 43:18

I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse. This is Liberation Day in DC and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States. I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act you know what that is and placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening and they've done it before. In addition, deploying the National Guard to help re-establish law, order and public safety in Washington DC, and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly. I'm announcing a historic action.

Speaker 3: 44:20

That's his announcement and it's 100% legal. It's 100% legal. The things that Donald Trump is doing is he is trying to eliminate the Democratic Party forever. That's literally what he's trying to do and I love it. I do not think that the Democratic Party has a right to exist after all of the things that they have done, After what they tried to do to Donald Trump when they tried to arrest him and put him in jail, the Russia hoax and this is somebody who was a hardcore libertarian, anti-government, anti-Republican or Democrat. I now am basically a Republican. So they created all of this, and guys like me are a dime a dozen. We're everywhere. So here's CNN reporting on this as some sort of Gestapo. Why is that video so small? As some sort of Gestapo event. Let me try to zoom in and see if that helps.

Speaker 12: 45:41

We're going to watch it anyway. So the question is does the situation actually warrant such a dramatic and provocative response or, as gavin newsom, the governor of california, says, oh, it's gavin newsom says.

Speaker 3: 45:51

Back to gavin newsom. I would really like not to mention that name on my show every night.

Speaker 12: 45:56

Is DC just the first step of militarizing cities like dictators do? Cnn legal analyst Joey Jackson joins us in our fifth seat. It's an obvious point why Trump would start with DC. Because DC?

Speaker 3: 46:11

Now the reason he's starting with D because DC is illegal, because it's under the federal government's control. He's invoking one of DC's laws. This isn't like he took over New York city or or Los Angeles. I would be outraged, I would be up in arms and I'd be screaming about it and I would be calling him completely out of control and a tyrant. But I'm not, because this is legal. He can do this. This is not a slippery slope. He has no legal precedent to do it anywhere else.

Speaker 12: 46:45

It's the one place in this country where there's a little bit more leeway to do this.

Speaker 7: 46:53

But I think the question people are asking themselves is is this a trial run for more? So it could be All right. So there's a couple of considerations, abby. The first, of course, political, and that's a story, I think that needs to be talked about whether it's warranted, whether it's appropriate you played the clip there. If crime is down and of course some suggest it's down lowest in 30 years is this necessary? The next is the. Those are the crime statistics that they're talking about, which are always bs. They're never accurate, legal. So there's two things to look at with respect to whether it's legal.

Speaker 7: 47:22

The first thing is dc, we all know is very different from any other american city. Why? Because congress has enacted legislation to allow it to be largely under federal control. What do you go practically? It means practically that Congress essentially could do whatever it wants in terms of overturning anything the city council does. It also means that the president of the United States is in charge of the National Guard. That distinguishes DC from any other state in the country where you have governors that are in charge, so he clearly has more authority. That is the president as it relates to doing things in DC. The other issue, finally, is whether or not he can usurp the authority of the locals in terms of the police, commissioner, the fire, etc. And that is a question of whether there is an emergency. So, on the one hand, national Guard he's the command in chief Send them in. On the other hand, could he now suggest or otherwise employ the locals to be under federal control? That's an issue which would be.

Speaker 3: 48:21

He can do it. Cnn is saying that he can do it. To me, that is enough to know that he can friggin' do it, that he can frigging do it, and it's not a trial run. Yeah, he wants to take it over and completely annihilate anybody who tried to ruin his life. And dude, I don't blame the guy, I mean it's self-preservation. What are they going to do when he's out of office again? They're going to come after him again.

Speaker 3: 48:52

He has to set this whole thing up. He's got four years. We're three and a half more years to make sure he passes all of these laws. We have to win the House of Representatives and the Senate. That's where the redistricting comes in. So this is all set up to protect him and protect the Republican Party and completely eliminate the Democratic Party.

Speaker 3: 49:14

The Democratic Party is basically dead. It has one hope to rejuvenate it and that is Gavin Newsom, who you're seeing swing the pendulum back to the center and try to shift to the right. He's an existential threat to the Republican Party, but that's what Donald Trump is trying to do and that's what he needs to do. This needed to happen for decades, but Republicans have never had a backbone. They've just kowtowed and bowed down and been pushovers to Democratic lawmakers. They're afraid to fight back against social programs out of fear of being called racist, to fight back against DEI initiatives out of fear of being called racist.

Speaker 3: 50:05

And now, even in Donald Trump's first term, he didn't really pick the right people, he didn't really get the job done and he learned a lot of lessons. That's the one thing about Donald Trump, is he he? He learns lessons and he can 100% improve his performance and he's doing a bang up job this time. But there's things still like. We're very early in the presidency. Right, he has done a lot of things so far. He is building this up to make sure that the Republican Party lasts for another 100 years.

Speaker 3: 50:48

The Democrats are going to have to come out with another party if they don't change their ways, if they don't start swinging the pendulum back towards the center. They're going to have to come out with another party. If they don't change their ways, if they don't start swinging the pendulum back towards the center, they're going to lose everybody and it's going to be an extremely hard thing for them to do. They're just so dedicated and all in and all of their people that are going to run for office in 2028, aoc. Bernie Sanders, gavin Newsom they're all 100% bought into the complete left-wing lunatic ideology, although Gavin Newsom is attempting to backpedal on a bunch of things. Here's another comment by Donald Trump.

Speaker 6: 51:27

We have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to. We could run DC. I mean, we're looking at DC. We don't want crime in DC, we want the city to run well. Susie Wiles is working very closely with the mayor and they're doing all right. I mean in the sense that we would run it so good, it would be run so proper, we'd get that best person to run it, the crime would be down to a minimal, would be down to a minimal, would be much less. And you know we're thinking about doing it. To be honest with you, we want a capital that's run flawlessly and it wouldn't be hard for us to do it and we've had a good relationship with the mayor and we're testing it to see if it works. But New York City will run properly. We're going to bring New York back. I love New York. We have tremendous power at the White House.

Speaker 3: 52:17

I mean he does. This is before he did it, and that's the thing is. He usually tells you what he's going to do, but a lot of the things he says is so outlandish you're never going to believe he'd actually do it. I never thought a president would ever take over Washington DC, but I can't believe that he actually did it. But I'm happy, I'm not mad. It's 100% legal in the founding documents. That's why he's doing it. So here's a clip from Bloomberg Television where everybody's talking about. You know that there's no crime and Bloomberg Television here was sorry. We got a comment here from Rebecca Davis. I believe it was a sudden reaction. If they had asked her to coming out of the Walmart, it probably would have been different, but she will make a good example. I think you're talking about that lady that threatened Trump. Sometimes these comments come in a little late, but yeah, no, I gotcha, I agree. All right, let's listen to Bloomberg News and what they have to say about the crime in DC.

Speaker 13: 53:33

There have been some high incidents in Washington. Capitol Hill staffer or an intern was shot at 7th Street, which is a major thoroughfare right by the convention center. And then you have, just a few days ago, a person affiliated with the, with the Doge efforts, a federal government employee, who was attacked and that is being investigated. But what you have here is a takeover by the federal government of Washington DC under the Home Rule Act 800 National Guard members who will be doing mainly traffic and logistical support. But this is all going to be run by Pam Bond, the attorney general, effectively going to be running this law enforcement effort, and then she'll be supported by Terry Cole, the new head of the DEA. So what does this mean for MPD, the local police department? It'll still be run by its chief and they'll answer to the chief, but the chief will have to answer to Pam Bondi and answer to Terry Cole. This is unprecedented and what we know is that this sort of follows the model that the president has done in other cities.

Speaker 13: 54:34

I'm in LA right now. You know he deployed the National Guard to LA after the immigration protest.

Speaker 3: 54:41

Yeah. So he deployed the National Guard to LA, but not to take over the city and take over the police department. He didn't federalize the police department. There is a difference. This is just the liberal media trying to twist things, and it's almost like they don't even fully understand what's going on. They don't know that you can do that with DC and they're thinking that this guy is just taking over everything. Let's listen.

Speaker 13: 55:05

But this move comes after Congress stripped a billion dollars from DC's budget and DC says they need more cops. The president said why do you need more than 3,000 cops? You can get it done, and he's going to try to do this with federal law enforcement as well.

Speaker 3: 55:22

Yeah, good, I hope they put criminals in jail in DC now. That's literally what I hope that they do. So there was a video just to show how active the police presence is. Brett Baer, who is a Fox News host who had a show, who was actually. We were watching that when my daughter was born and I held her up to the TV it's a true story and we sent the picture into Fox News, never heard anything. But, yeah, my daughter was born and I held her up to the TV it's a true story and we sent the picture into Fox News, never heard anything. But, yeah, my daughter was born during that and it's so active that Brett Barrett got pulled over. And do you know what happened? Nothing, nothing. Why did you stop me? You were on your phone, sir. Well, my bad, yeah, I was wrong. No arguing, no fighting, no handcuffs, just here's all my license and registration and paperwork. And here you go and then guess what, he was sent on his way and there was no problem. There wasn't a national memorial.

Speaker 14: 56:38

EPA today, but I wanted to take a minute to explain something that happened over the weekend. I did get stopped by a DC police officer. I was driving my wife's G-Wagon and I was coming back into Georgetown. The phone rang. I picked it up, the police officer was was there and he pointed to pull me over, pulled over, said you can't be on your phone. Then it took me a while to find the registration. Wasn't my car? The car wasn't. The phone wasn't paired to my wife's car, so I couldn't do the Bluetooth thing. I he was very professional. The police officer was was very cordial. I was saying, yes, sir, I apologized, found the registration and then he gave me a ticket. I said thank you, because I didn't know there was paparazzi across the street and listen, don't pick up your phone, don't drive with your phone, don't text on your phone. Lesson learned, and maybe I'll just take the Metro.

Speaker 3: 57:44

So Burt Baer is even saying he got a ticket for it. Is he mad? Is he trying to fight everything? No, he's taking accountability. Is what he's doing? He's taking accountability for his own actions. So there's been notable incidents, but none more notable than the attack of Big Balls. Now, big Balls is the nickname of a member of Doge who was in DC and there was a lady being harassed by a pack of juvenile delinquents or a pack of something. A bunch of dudes were harassing her and he went in to protect her and I mean, he got his butt kicked. So yeah, jd, yeah JD, I agree, he's definitely not going to take the Metro. So here let's watch this clip of John Waters with Elon Musk and Big Balls.

Speaker 15: 58:46

Big Balls, that should be obvious why do they call you Big Balls? Just said it as my linkedin username. Well, people on linkedin take themselves like super seriously and they're pretty adverse to risk and I was like, well, I want to be neither of those things. So I just I said it and honestly I didn't even think anyone would notice.

Speaker 13: 59:20

Yeah, linkedin is so cringe. What does Big Balls?

Speaker 15: 59:22

do. Right now I'm working on some payment computer stuff. So one of our initiatives is to root out fraud and waste and to do that we started looking at the payment computers and, as mentioned earlier, like there is no accounting of what payments actually go to, this is them talking about Doge and what they're doing with Doge and how they're cleaning up the federal government.

Speaker 3: 59:41

So these guys are young, but they're incredibly intelligent. These guys are probably some of the best in the country at what they do. But yeah, so that was big balls. He was attacked. They're not talking about that in that interview, but that that's kind of was the beginning of this. That was the last news story that they were like OK, we're good, we're cleared, we're good to go. This is what we're doing. So let's listen to this last news story. Let's listen.

Speaker 16: 1:00:12

This morning the nation's capital put on notice awaiting the arrival of hundreds of National Guard troops as the president places Washington DC under federal control.

Speaker 6: 1:00:22

This is Liberation Day in DC and we're going to take our capital back.

Speaker 16: 1:00:27

President Trump declaring a public safety emergency in DC, placing Attorney General Pam Bondi in charge of the DC Metropolitan Police and activating some 800 National Guard troops the first time the National Guard has been deployed to DC since after the 2021 attack on the Capitol. Overnight, the Secretary of Defense saying they'll be ready to act.

Speaker 9: 1:00:49

They're going to be proactive. If you take an action or a shot at them, there will be a consequence. We're not going to have National Guard just sitting there like this, seeing a crime committed, not do something about it.

Speaker 3: 1:00:58

I love Pete Hexeth. He's what we call a meat eater in the military and police world. That's somebody that's actually going to go out and do what needs to be done.

Speaker 16: 1:01:13

Guard is being deployed to assist with law enforcement activities. Guardsmen always have weapons available, according to a US official, but whether they will be armed for these duties is up to their commander. The president is painting an.

Speaker 3: 1:01:26

The National Guard is almost never armed. They're almost never armed. They're almost never armed. The National Guard. During 9-11, not during 9-11, but after 9-11, when the National Guard was in the New York City subways, they had their M-16s and they had zero ammunition in them. They're almost never armed because they can't be trusted with ammunition. Listen in them. They're almost never armed because they can't be trusted with ammunition. Listen, they're great people.

Speaker 3: 1:02:09

I love all of our troops. The National Guard is not even Army Reserve. So you got Special Forces, you got regular Army. You got Army Reserve. Then you got regular army. You got army reserve, then you got the national guard. They're complete part-time, weekend warriors. I I appreciate them and I appreciate what they do, but they do not have enough experience or training to really be trusted with live ammo unless it's is a dire situation. They have very minimal skills with stuff, which is why, a lot of the times, we're seeing more and more that Marines are being sent into situations like active Marine, like LA right, great people, love them. They need more training but they don't really have that much time to train because they're only working one weekend a month, two weeks a year. And, yeah, I think they need more training?

Speaker 3: 1:02:55

I do, but Donald Trump is officially taken over DC. We will see where that goes. I wonder what the next trick he's going to pull out of his hat. I think we're going to see some indictments coming down the pipeline. I think Letitia James is in a lot of trouble with the case that she did against Donald Trump. I think the DOJ is going to come out with some sort of indictment against her, perhaps the judge as well. I would love to see Judge Arshon, because that was just a complete and utter railroad job by the Biden administration. Let's call it like it is. Let's call it like it is. It was Joe Biden and Kamala Harris meeting with these district attorneys and the state attorneys behind closed doors. I think that Fannie Willis is going to be in a lot of trouble too. I think Pam Bondi is working on this stuff, along with Dan Bongino and Kash Patel. I think all of those people should be sitting in federal prison for the rest of their lives.

Speaker 3: 1:04:02

You do not get to utilize your position of power to try to suppress your political opponents, and this has been happening forever. To think that this didn't happen in the 1800s is you're just naive. This absolutely happened, but nowadays it's different. They didn't really do it with presidents, right? You had a lot of presidents do a lot of bad things. You had the Teapot Dome scandal. There's been a lot of stuff that's been corruption in our government's been happening since day one. Literally since day one. It's been happening.

Speaker 3: 1:04:41

The notion that it hasn't is wrong and I hope Donald Trump sets the precedence that if you're going to use your political, your seat and political power to go after your political opponents, you're going to go to federal prison. And yeah, I think so. I think 100% they should go to federal prison. I think Pam Bondi should start setting out indictments. I think that Letitia James should go to federal prison. I would love for Letitia James to go to federal prison. I would love for Letitia James to go to federal prison for the rest of her life. I think she earned it. I do Also Fannie Willis and her boyfriend.

Speaker 3: 1:05:25

When they got caught embezzling all the money from the state because she hired her boyfriend on the case and paid him like a half a million dollars a year. That could be a wrong number, but it was a lot of money. A half a million dollars means a lot of money, or a million dollars it might even be more than that. She'll look into that and then used his money to fund her trips and vacations that she never spent a dime on, so she overpaid him so she could reap the rewards of having him. That alone is fraud, right. Maybe not at a federal level, maybe a state level, I don't know. But that is it for this evening.

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