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FBI Investigating First Amendment-Protected Texts (Ep.81)

2024/11/8
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Key Insights

Why is the FBI investigating racist text messages?

The FBI is investigating racist text messages because they are offensive and racist, but this action is criticized as a misuse of taxpayer resources and a violation of the First Amendment rights to free speech.

How did Barron Trump contribute to his father's victory?

Barron Trump helped his father reach young voters by encouraging him to prioritize podcasts over traditional media, tapping into a decentralized and more organic form of communication that resonated with a generation resistant to establishment messaging.

Why did Gen Xers vote for Donald Trump?

Gen Xers voted for Trump because they feel they have been neglected and mistreated by the government, and they want to inflict as much pain on those who have wronged them as possible. They see Trump as the perfect candidate for this revenge.

Why did young men vote for Trump?

Young men voted for Trump because they feel oppressed by the woke culture and the left's narrative that all men are evil. They see Trump as a symbol of defiance against the culture institutions that have been demoralizing them.

Why did the Colorado Buffaloes reject a design featuring the American flag?

The Colorado Buffaloes rejected a design featuring the American flag because they did not want to license a product that included the flag, possibly due to the FBI labeling certain patriotic symbols as signs of domestic extremism.

Why is Prince Harry afraid of being deported?

Prince Harry fears deportation because he admitted to taking drugs, which under US law could be grounds for rejecting a visa application. He likely lied about his drug usage on his visa application.

Why did Trump's victory lead to calls for national unity?

Trump's victory led to calls for national unity because there is a stark reality of two irreconcilable visions of what the country should be. To achieve real and lasting unity, there needs to be a counter-revolution in America, starting with tearing down the permanent state and rebuilding agencies like the FBI.

Chapters

The FBI's investigation into racist text messages and its broader rejection of the Constitution, including censorship efforts on social media, are scrutinized.
  • FBI is investigating racist text messages, which are protected under the First Amendment.
  • The FBI's leadership is reportedly stunned by Trump's reelection.
  • The FBI has been involved in censoring content on social media platforms.

Shownotes Transcript

Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report Early Edition. The FBI uses our money to investigate mean techs. MSNBC calls for a deep state coup. Mike Pompeo sucks and should be absolutely nowhere near the White House. CNN complains about the rights podcasting influence. How Barron Trump helped deliver his father's victory. Gen Xers take

a true victory lap, voting more than any other generation for Donald Trump. Joe Scarborough is shocked people care about the economy. The Colorado Buffaloes reject the American flag and Prince Harry fears deportation by Donald Trump. All this on Bunting to Report, early edition.

So we have a pretty serious human trafficking crisis, pretty serious drug crisis. Thousands of children are missing. Drug cartels are operating inside the United States and killing people.

And one would think that the Federal Bureau of Investigation would be stretched thin dealing with all these interstate crises, but apparently not. The FBI announced yesterday that it is spending taxpayer resources on investigating racist text messages. Per a report from ABC,

People are receiving racist text messages in multiple states after Election Day and the FBI has now released a statement on offensive and racist text messages and the statement reads the FBI is aware of the offensive and racist text messages sent to individuals around the country and is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal agencies on the matter. Seems like a great great use of taxpayer resources FBI. Tom Massey responded

It's probably y'all sending them. Pack your bags. And it's true. This is actually why the FBI is a corrupted agency that must be dismantled. Because one, it, like Thomas Massey said, probably was sent by FBI assets. All the problems that the FBI handles, the vast majority of them when they're political was created by the FBI itself. And two, what right does

does the FBI have to punish people for sending racist text messages? What interest does it even have in investigating racist text messages? Is it right to send racist messages? No. Is it illegal? No! In this country, you actually have the right to say offensive things. It's called the First Amendment. And this is how you know the FBI needs to be gutted. It somehow has the time and the money to violate the Constitution while targeting the political right.

And the FBI is scared, and I'm really happy about it. Per the Washington Times, the FBI leadership is stunned and shell-shocked over Trump's reelection. And per the report, they were especially worried about Elon Musk coming in and cutting them down. And I say good. The FBI's investigation into mean tweets is emblematic of the federal government's wholesale rejection of the Constitution. We know from the Twitter files

that the federal agencies, including the FBI and the White House, directly demanded social media companies censor content disfavored by the government.

but they also outsourced their censorship efforts to various NGOs. So not only has the FBI self-admitted to censoring content it dislikes on social media, but its third-party surrogates are doing it too. And what this means is that even if Elon Musk does gut the FBI and puts an end to all of the censorship coming directly from the agency, various NGOs will still suppress content disfavored by the permanent state.

So what do we do about this? And I asked Mike Benz, former State Department official, deep state whistleblower, I asked him this exact question during the Bungino election night coverage. Take a listen.

ask you about the protections that we need for social media companies. How can we stop the government from being able to bully social media companies into censoring content that it dislikes? With control over the executive branch, it would be surprisingly easy not to take the whole thing out, but to devastate it in effectively a single blow. All you would need is an incoming day one executive order that prohibits government grants and contracts to going to

any private company or nonprofit entity that engages in domestic disinformation. It does what the Supreme Court should have done and said that the funding of censorship by the government is censorship by the government. That EO will allow you to go agency by agency and kill all of those grants and contracts that comprise the censorship industry. There are hundreds of thousands of people now around the world and tens of thousands of people here in the U.S. whose full-time

Their paychecks, their livelihoods, their mortgages are effectively paid for by doing full-time 24-7 censorship work. This field did not exist eight years ago. It was created after the 2016 election as a response to Trump winning to stop a night like tonight where he might win again. So we need an immediate executive order preventing NGOs from carrying out the government censorship efforts.

And then of course eventually we're going to need Congress to pass a law so the president can't just undo everything, the next president can't just undo everything whenever Trump leaves office. Yeah, Mikey? I thought he had a post for me, but he was just stretching. It's a collaborative effort, you guys. It's pretty obvious, I think, to everyone, myself, Michael, the chat, what we are about to face in this next administration is going to be an uphill battle.

all of our goals are going to be met with very hostile forces within the federal government. And already, the corporate media is calling on the deep state to stop Trump and potentially stage a coup like the government did in 2016 with Russia collusion. Here is MSNBC's Chris Hayes. The House we're not going to know for weeks, but it's possible.

that Donald Trump and the Republicans will have a trifecta as they did in 2016. In which case, the bulwark against whatever overreach there could be, whatever those depredations might be, and I think you're gonna have a tendency to overreach if they do, is the kind of thing that's democracy between elections, which is the work of civil society, it's the work of the fourth estate, it's the work of institutions, it's the work of citizens.

All that super important stuff. We've seen it before. Hey, Fidelity, how can I remember to invest every month? With the Fidelity app, you can choose a schedule and set up recurring investments in stocks and ETFs. Oh, that sounds easier than I thought. You got this. Yeah, I do. Now, where did I put my keys? You will find them where you left them. Investing involves risk, including risk of loss. Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, member NYSE SIPC.

By the way, the work of citizens, Mike Benz talked about this extensively, probably means rioting in the streets. So he said, if Republicans keep the House, then it's up to the fourth estate and institutions to stop Trump. So like Russia collusion. Rest assured, this thing is not over. We know how they play. We've seen it before.

And it's why Trump cannot afford to have bad personnel. We cannot have snakes in the grass. Case in point, Trump is reportedly considering former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be his Secretary of Defense. Mike Pompeo, the guy who stabbed Trump in the back during his first term, enabled the Russia collusion hoax by failing to counter the intelligence community's narrative on Russian interference.

And shout out to Jack Posobiec for sharing this clip on X yesterday. Here's Mike Pompeo on Fox News supporting, supporting Jack Smith's classified documents investigation last year and even accusing Trump of putting American soldiers at risk. What Donald Trump is facing and is it right to charge him?

Brian, good morning. Great to be with you. Two things I think are both true at this point. First, if the allegations are true and there's lots of indications that they are, President Trump had classified documents where he shouldn't have had them. And then when given the opportunity to return them, he chose not to do that for whatever reason. That's just, Brian, you talked about me having classified documents. I handled thousands and thousands of them over my time in Congress and then as a CIA director and secretary of state.

I suppose we can all make mistakes and get them to the wrong place, but when somebody identifies that, you gotta turn them in. And so that's just, that's inconsistent with protecting America's soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. And if the allegations are true, some of these were pretty serious, important documents. So that's wrong. Mike Pompeo kicked Trump while he was down and dealing with this bogus classified document case. Documents that Trump had the power to declassify because he was the president.

Meanwhile, Biden did not have the power to declassify anything when it came to his vice presidential documents. And he had them in even more insecure locations than Donald Trump allegedly did. He had them in an office building shared by multiple other entities in a garage. The FBI made a political raid on Trump's home over this case and even authorized the use of deadly force if needed.

Pompeo should be ashamed for even entertaining this as remotely normal or okay or justified. And the only one putting soldiers at risk, let's address that for a second, is Mike Pompeo and his deep state buddies because he's a warmonger. His priorities lie with the state and not with the people and certainly not with Trump. This next clip from Tucker Carlson, it's a little long,

But it is so incredibly telling of who Mike Pompeo is and why he should be in prison, not the White House. Take a listen. The next day, I'll never forget it. I went quail hunting and I was driving back and I got a phone call from Mike Pompeo's lawyer. Mike Pompeo was the secretary of state, but before then he was the director of the CIA. And in that position, he

plotted the murder of Julian Assange. So he is a criminal as far as I'm concerned. But his lawyer called me and said, you know, you should know that anyone who tells you the contents of classified documents has committed a crime. He's threatening me. It's in my car. I'll never with my dog sitting next to I'll never forget this. And I said, are you really saying that to reveal that the U.S. government had a role in the murder of a democratically elected president to say that out loud? That's the crime.

What about the actual crime, which is murdering a president? Like you're covering up for that. Mike Pompeo. He had no no response at all. And so Mike Pompeo is the one who pressed Trump to keep those documents secret. And so it's like what's crazy to me is not just the Pompeo did that. I think Pompeo is a really sinister person and a criminal. I think that I think that because the facts suggest that he was caught.

Yahoo News, Mike Isikoff wrote a long piece on this several years ago. His employees went to Mike Isikoff and said, hey, Mike Pompeo is plotting to murder Julian Assange, who's never even been charged with a crime in the United States as CIA director. That's illegal. You're not allowed. Federal employees are not allowed to just kill people they don't like. OK, just to set the baseline here. So that's who Mike Pompeo is.

But he somehow intimidated Trump into not releasing this. Well, OK, that's all bad. Right. I think it's criminal behavior. What's crazy is how Mike Pompeo is treated. He's treated as like a Republican poobah in good standing. He fully expects to become the secretary of defense in a Trump administration, which is like completely insane. Why would you take a criminal and give him nuclear weapons? OK, that's my view.

I think it's a common sense view. And like he goes to fundraisers and dinners and everyone's like, hey, Mike Pompeo. It's like, no, you're the guy who kept information. The public has right to know secret. You're the guy who plotted the murder of someone who committed no crime. You are the outlaw. You are the bad guy. But no, he's treated as like, you know, like a pillar of Republican Washington. I think that's I think it's mind bending to watch that.

i don't know if you guys michael said some of you in the chat didn't even know some of this about mike pompeo he is truly a bad bad guy hiding documents that belong to us belong to we the people about jfk why would he do that where are his loyalties trying to murder julian assange who in my book is an american hero

We don't need the likes of Mike Pompeo anywhere near the Trump White House.

And we need to make our voices heard. You guys, Trump listens to his base. Trump listens to the people. He cares about what we think about his admin. And you guys, we have to make our voices heard. We have to be talking about this. We have to be sharing information about it. Retweet Tucker Carlson as he's bravely talking about Mike Pompeo and signaling to this administration that he is the wrong choice. We have to prevent this from happening.

by pressuring the incoming administration with our voices. It's the only thing we have. And there's just too much at stake right now. There's too much at stake. Democrats have essentially responded to Trump's victory by saying that free speech is a problem. X is a problem.

podcasters are a problem. Here is a panelist on CNN blaming Kamala Harris's loss on the quote, entire right-wing media ecosystem that the left apparently doesn't have an equivalent to. Take a listen. And so one thing that I think stands out also, we can't have this conversation, a little bit to your point, Dana, is that maybe it's not so much Democrats'

policies or messaging or the words that they use specifically but there is an entire right-wing media ecosystem that doesn't exist on the left it does not exist in the center or mainstream and people are getting their information in very different ways now and donald trump and republicans and elon musk and joe rogan know exactly how to reach americans where they are regardless of age and demographic and that played a big role in this because of the fact of like the

whether it was disinformation, misinformation or different propaganda that they were feeding to the American public that made them feel the way they did. And the American public felt as though that they were being heard by Donald Trump. Absolutely zero sense of self awareness in that sound bite. And for many of them who were agreeing with her, she's participating in the left wing media ecosystem as she speaks.

CNN and the entire corporate press make up the left-wing media ecosystem, the mainstream. Conservatives gravitated toward podcasting only because the left-wing media ecosystem, like CNN, refuses to platform authentically right-wing voices. Is this woman insane? And by the way, let's talk about podcasters. Democrats did once have their own Joe Rogan. You know what his name is?

Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan was a Democrat, a liberal. Here's a reminder of what Joe Rogan used to sound like not that long ago. I really believe if Michelle Obama runs, she might win. She's good. She's great. She's the wife of the best president that we have had in our lifetime. I've never voted right wing in my life. I consider universal basic income a really good idea. I want free college education. Take it easy. Hello, Bernie. How are you, Joe?

Wonderful. Pleasure to meet you. Nice to meet you. I like Tulsi and I like Bernie. That's it. Oh, yeah? Everybody else can eat shit. Look at you, fucking progressive. Yeah. I think I'll probably vote for Bernie. I think he's looking out for the interests of the working people. And I think he wants people to have a better life and do better. And I'm all for that. And if that means I have to pay more and people think, oh, you're a socialist. I've heard people say that. Oh, you're a fucking socialist, bro. Like, first of all, he's not even a socialist.

He's a democratic socialist. It's a different thing. I would like to spend more in taxes if they could fix inner-city communities and take these poor neighborhoods and throw a fuckload of money. Spend more, you fucking Republican piece of shit! 87% of scientists said that human activity is driving global warming. I'm very pro-choice. I'm very women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, trans rights. I'm even universal healthcare.

This guy is like bread and butter for leftists. He's perfect. He should be voting Democrat down the line. But Democrats left Joe. Democrats have alienated themselves from their own base to where you have an exodus of just normal people like Joe Rogan who say, I can't be part of this anymore.

CNN specifically edited Joe Rogan's face to make him look more sickly during COVID because CNN was running big pharma propaganda and wanted to demonize Joe for seeking the truth. Joe was a regular guy interested in figuring out what is COVID, how can we combat it, what other remedies work, how should we be a healthy human beings to combat being taken out by the COVID virus.

The left, I think, underestimates how radicalizing all the COVID lies and tyranny was for so many people. They really exposed themselves as not on the side of the average American, as people part of the machine.

Oh yeah, here is the side-by-side of Joe Rogan where they made him look super sickly, completely gray and not normal. And then the real video was him looking, you know, with actual color in his face, like a healthy human being. They're liars. The media lied on behalf of Democrats, on behalf of Big Pharma, on behalf of the state in general.

Lying about even the origins of COVID. We weren't allowed to talk about it.

Speaking of podcasting, Amuse came out with a sub stack on how Trump owes his victory in part to his son, Barron Trump. And the piece outlines how Barron, who is 18, tapped into the zeitgeist and helped his dad reach young voters by pushing him to prioritize podcasts over traditional media. I want to read you guys an excerpt from this piece. I think it's really, really excellent, really important.

It reads, this development signifies more than a tactical shift.

It's an emblem of a broader change in how conservative figures approach media engagement. Where the Biden-Harris regime relies on establishment channels, President-elect Donald Trump with Barron's counsel embraced decentralized free market media, delivering his message directly to the earbuds of America's youth. It's a strategy rooted in the rejection of media gatekeepers in favor of something more organic, more resonant, with a generation that resists being told what to think.

I think that's a very accurate assessment of what has happened this election cycle. We've seen a dramatic shift away from the establishment media's powers and an embrace of alternative media, which by the way, wouldn't even exist if establishment media was willing to platform alternative perspectives. But they're not, and they haven't been. And this is what you get.

Barron's counsel clearly paid off because Harris did dramatically worse with young people compared to Biden and Hillary. Take a listen. So, Steve, there were a bunch of surprises overnight. One of them is the youth vote traditionally goes to the Democrats, not the Democrats.

so much in this one. Yeah, big movement here. Let's call up the exit polls from last night. Take a look. Voters under 30. And we got here a comparison to what happened last night and what happened four years ago. So last night, Democrats still won. We say Democratic candidate because it was Harris last night, Biden in 2020. So Harris wins the youth vote by 30%.

points. Four years ago, Joe Biden won it by 24 points. So basically got cut in half. And the other interesting part about this is overall, we had a gender gap last night, but it wasn't as big as people were expecting it to be. But it was massive among the youngest voters. Among men under 30, Harris won by two points. Among women under 30, Harris won by

by 36 points. So the gender gap is growing among the youngest group of voters overall, less Democratic, but look at that gap. And if you think about it, the gender gap makes perfect sense. Lee Fang from UnHerd had a great tweet putting this all kind of in perspective. If you're a little older, you don't know what it's been like culturally as a person who's very young. If you're an 18-year-old male, you were 11 during Me Too,

Believe all women. All men are evil pigs who abuse women. And then you start high school. Democrat politicians closed your school, forced you to take classes online. No sports, no school dances, no social life. Women around young men are going to college at higher rates and earning far more than men in many professional white-collar jobs. They send memes.

That's what young men do, send memes to one another, mocking the dominant suffocating woke culture, but they can never leave the group chat. They can never express themselves outside of their inner circle where they feel safe to actually do so.

And you can never tell anyone out loud how you really feel because you could destroy your future. You get yourself kicked out of college. You could not have a career in corporate America after this. It is truly, truly a stifling, oppressive environment that young men are growing up in. Modernity is perilous for young men. They aren't respected and they've been told that they no longer really even have a role in society. The future is female.

80% of suicides in America are committed by men. They're drowning. And so for the first time ever, young men are throwing their weight behind the Republican candidate. And it's unprecedented, but it's understandable. Trump didn't talk down to young men or demonize them. With help from Barron, Trump messaged to them via the media that they actually consume.

Trump's brass and brave in the face of traditional power structures and social norms. And he represents really an FU to the culture institutions that have been suffocating and demoralizing young men their entire lives.

Now, in addition to young men, I should also give a shout out to the frequently forgotten Gen Xers. Gen Xers, people between the ages of 45 and 64, voted 53% for Donald Trump. Meanwhile, other generations, both older and younger, went for Vice President Kamala Harris in the majority. I don't know what it is about Gen Xers, but they're so proud of being Gen X. It's actually pretty funny.

heard of anyone saying, oh my gosh, it's so awesome to be a millennial or it's so amazing to be a boomer or a Gen Z-er. But Gen X, those guys really do think they're the greatest generation and maybe they're right. Either way, the news that Gen X went for Trump has triggered a slew of hilarious and self-congratulatory articles from Gen Xers themselves. This is an excerpt from Megan Fox in PJ Media about why Gen X went for Trump.

She says,

When we weren't dodging rusted metal edges of slides, we were suffering the verbal assaults of the schoolyard bullies that often escalated to physical fights. The adults in charge did not care to intervene. We were regularly told, sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you.

We work too hard to get to a place where we don't live hand to mouth, and we will not go back to living like 20-year-olds in their first apartment. And we will not allow the government to step on our necks and the necks of our children. No amount of mean tweets will stop us from inflicting as much pain on the people who did this to us as possible. They all hate Trump.

That makes him the perfect guy for the job. Gen X is bearing the brunt of this terrible government and has been for some time. We want revenge. Gen Xers, drop a comment. Do you agree with this assessment? Does this ring true to why you voted for Donald Trump? Unrelated to this election, but still very funny. This is my favorite Gen X video. Again, this is a generation that just loves being Gen X for whatever reason. Gen X.

Folks are the toughest people that currently exist in our world today. Nobody catered to us. Nobody gave a flying flip where we were or what we were doing. We had to be home when the streetlights came on. We climbed water towers. We hopped fences we shouldn't have. We committed crimes and nobody knew.

Okay, I mean, drop a comment if this is true, but it feels like the defining feature of Gen X is that you guys were unsupervised growing up. Anyway, love Gen X. You guys are funny. Hat tip to all of you for voting very base this year. You know who's not based? The ladies of The View. Take a listen.

Do we got it, Mikey? And finally, we talk a lot about these different demographics and these assumptions of where they're gonna go. Latinos in Texas, a district that's 97% Latino, went 75 percentage points for Donald Trump, why? Misogyny. No, it's on the border. It's misogyny. The border crisis is on their doorstep. And they were begging people to care about it for years. Misogyny and sexism, that's what that was. The lessons are not misogyny and sexism. Knock, knock, who's there? My gosh, it's whooping.

No, Sonny, the lesson is not sexism. The lesson is that Democrats didn't pay attention to anything the American people cared about at all. Oh, is this? I feel like I have a lot of Gen Xers listening to this show because there's a lot of comments from you guys responding to how Gen X is unstoppable.

All truth spoken there. It's true. You guys are funny. Shout out to Gen X. You guys voted really well. So hat tip to all of you. I wish Gen Z was a little more base, but we're better than millennials. I'll give you guys that. Gen Z, we're trying. We're doing our best. It's difficult. We've grown up in the internet age. There is a lot of coddling around the way that we grew up. It's true. We grew up in a very overly protective culture.

And we're getting better. We're better than millennials. Gen Z men are trending right. So I do have some hope, but we are not as cool as Gen X. I will admit it. We're not. Now, the lesson, Sunny Hostin, is not sexism. The lesson is that Democrats did not give a F about anything the American people actually cared about this election cycle.

Trump won the biggest share of Latinos of any Republican president ever because he ran a campaign on policies, not celebrities and brat girl summer. For a sense of just how out of touch the media is, I want you guys to listen to Joe Scarborough yesterday. I can't even believe that these words came out of his mouth.

I want to talk about economy for a second. A few weeks ago, three weeks ago, somebody who was going to be voting for Kamala Harris came up to me and said, oh, my God, Trump's going to win. I go, why is that? He goes, I just I went to the grocery store. Butters over three dollars. I kind of laughed and I said, I said,

well that's kind of reductive isn't it said it to myself to him i smiled and i said good point um but it actually what everything we're hearing after the election is i'm just saying the seven what's that the seven dollars what's that butter is seven dollars yeah what is it framed in gold anyway where you go but

Okay, well, yeah, okay. Seven bucks. Anyway, my point is this, Willie. The rent is too damn high, and this guy was saying the cost of butter is way damn too high. Yeah. And so I thought it was a bit reductive. It ended up being...

Just the point that if you look at the cost of groceries, if you look at the cost of gas, if you look at the cost of things compared to four years ago, it was a very simple answer for working class Americans. Things just cost too much. Yeah. Yeah, no question about it. By the way, seven. Reductive? Yeah, Joe. Normal people care about the price of groceries.

Is he an idiot? Yeah, he is an idiot. I'm answering my own question. He is an idiot. He's clearly wealthy enough to not even buy his own groceries. He didn't know the cost of butter. Maybe Mika buys it for him. I don't know. Either way, Joe Scarborough and Sonny Hostin are no different than Beyonce and Cardi B. It doesn't matter whether Trump is or isn't in office to them. They're immune to the economy because they're already rich.

And we have too many of these voices in the media ecosystem, or at least the corporate media ecosystem. This is why podcasters are becoming a thing because the voices in the propaganda press are not in touch with regular Americans. They're completely detached from normal life. And therefore their commentary is out of touch, not to mention chock full of lies half the time. Americans...

I really think voted for Trump because they want to reclaim a semblance of national pride. And there's a cancer in this country coming from the left that prevents us from being patriots. Ever since the 2020 race rights, it's never been more clear that the left hates everything that normal Americans love about this country. It's why stories like this one really piss a lot of people off. A Texas company

that makes customized game day shirts offered the Colorado Buffaloes some designs ahead of their game with Texas Tech. But the Colorado Buffaloes declined every proposed design and then finally admitted to the company that it wouldn't use a design with an American flag. Here is the owner of the company explaining.

developing the shirt and sending it into the official channels. Texas Tech was ecstatic about it. Received an immediate yes and approval from Texas Tech Athletics. And we were waiting on the University of Colorado to approve the shirt. Multiple times we reached out and the only message we ever got back from Colorado on multiple occasions was in quotes, not interested.

So we had some people reach out asking why. We made some changes to the shirt as required by Colorado, asking for just two helmets locking up with each other to make it a neutral shirt. We said, absolutely, this is about celebrating American game for us. It's not about a rivalry. Made those adjustments, sent their armor back in, and we had another response back from Colorado saying, not interested.

And at that point, we pressed a little bit more and we were told they would not be licensing a product that had an American flag on it in conjunction with their logos or our logos. And we're aware that there may be other Colorado shirts in the marketplace and we were given the opportunity to take the American flag off this shirt and we absolutely refused to. Since when did the American flag become controversial? Of course, the FBI.

We talked about it in the beginning of the show. The FBI has labeled the black and white American flag, the Gadsden flag, and the Betsy Ross flag as signs of so-called domestic extremism. And stories like the one about the Colorado Buffaloes makes people's blood boil because it's not really hatred of this country so much as it is hatred of right-wing patriotic citizens. It's a hatred of fellow Americans.

who disagree with the left politically. And I think having it come from a college football team is especially offensive. These are actually college football fans. Football is where you go to just be American instead of fractured on party lines. And we can't even come together for football without the team saying, no, we can't have an American flag featured on our t-shirts. There is a shift happening in the zeitgeist. I think we're getting bolder.

Following Trump's victory, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that he's ending food vouchers for illegal aliens. Take a listen.

The mayor just announced that the city will no longer issue vouchers to migrants to pay for food, ending a controversial program that had repeatedly come under attack by conservatives and others. This pilot program in New York City drenched in both humanity and controversy, distributed debit cards to migrant families staying in city-funded hotels and allowing them to buy their own food. Good. Why?

how are homeless on the streets including veterans while illegals are housed and fed on our dime joe and sunny if you're confused pay attention people are absolutely sick of funding illegals while our own suffer funding ukraine while our own suffer it's backward and it's wrong not to mention fueling a drug and human trafficking crisis and perhaps in the best news immigration news that we have

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are making, quote, desperate attempts to return to England after Donald Trump's victory, with royal insiders saying that Harry fears deportation because

because Trump and Eric Trump have suggested that Harry could be deported over Harry's own admission that he formally took drugs, including cocaine, cannabis, and psychedelic mushrooms, which under US law would typically be grounds for a visa application to be rejected. It's likely that he lied about his former drug usage on his visa application.

and good riddance if he does get deported. You guys remember when Harry said this? There's so much I want to say about the First Amendment. I still don't understand it, but it is bonkers. The First Amendment is bonkers. Prince Harry works for the Aspen Institute's Commission of Information Disorder. Remember how I said that there's various third-party organizations that the government is outsourcing censorship to?

at this organization that Harry works for, he actively advocates against free speech. We have enough to deal with in our own federal government. We don't need a snobby British royal and his self-obsessed wife trying to throttle constitutional rights. We fought a revolution to avoid this very situation. And really, that's what we're up against. People who hate everything about this country's founding principles because they're authoritarians. And the Constitution doesn't jive well with tyrants.

And there are a lot of calls for national unity right now. People saying we need to bridge the divide and reach out and be the bigger person. And I'm going to be honest with you guys, if that means forgetting what's happened in the last eight years, it's not going to happen. The media has been running assassination prep on Donald Trump, literally calling him Hitler for years. And the press gave credibility to the deep state's Russia collusion and Hunter Biden laptop lies.

Special counsel Jack Smith, FBI director Christopher Wray, and New York Attorney General Letitia James waged unprecedented lawfare against Donald Trump. The left tried to imprison him, bankrupt him, and throw him off the ballot. As John Daniel Davidson writes in The Federalist, you can't smack someone in the face with a hammer and then insist everyone calm down.

And Michael, put that up again, if you could. The headline of that article, if you guys want to read it, it's an excellent piece. After Trump's victory, there can be no unity without a reckoning. John Daniel Davidson in The Federalist. And according to John, it's not just the media or the state. The stark reality is that there are a large number of our fellow countrymen who are no longer Americans in any meaningful sense.

We are two nations occupying the same territory with two irreconcilable visions of what this country should be. And to achieve real and lasting unity, we'll need a counter-revolution in America. As John says, a re-founding of the country. And that starts with tearing down the permanent state brick by brick, abolishing or completely rebuilding agencies like the FBI,

booting out the neocon swamp creatures like Mike Pompeo, destroying the taxpayer-funded NGOs that are facilitating the border crisis and censorship regime, refusing to stay quiet and complacent when an American football team disassociates itself from the American flag itself.

It's going to probably take a lot of young men getting a lot braver and putting an end to the insanity that is identity politics, male hatred, America hatred, the rejection of Christian mores. Politically, young men are trending right in by virtually every metric. They're even going to church more than their female counterparts for the first time ever. It's just a matter of getting braver. It's a matter of all of us getting bolder.

And that's all I have for you guys on this Friday. Someone tweeted, everyone make hashtag no Pompeo go viral on Twitter. Yes, absolutely. No Pompeo. Let's make that go viral. Let's tweet it out. We cannot afford to have that man in this administration. He will be a disaster.

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