SAVE America Act Advances in Senate, Floor TAKEOVER Underway as Two Republicans BETRAY

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Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Tide, good to be with you. Yeah, that procedural vote yesterday launched the Senate into a debate that stretched late into last night and it could go on that way for weeks. It is over, of course, the Save America Act, which requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, photo ID when you cast a ballot, and oversight on state voter roles where non-citizens have been flagged. Joining all Democrats in opposing opening up this bill for debate were two Republicans, that was Republican Senator Lisa Marowski. voted no and Senator Tom Tillis who is absent for the vote. For Republican Majority Leader John Thun, the strategy behind this public debate is to force Democrats to publicly display an unwillingness to secure elections. Now, the other side sees it all as a way to complicate upcoming midterm elections » by doing away with your right to vote. That’s the Save America Act for you. It should be called the Save Our Political Hives Hides Act because that’s exactly what it is. » This bill makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat. They’re happy with exactly half of the equation and not the other half. But you can’t have both and have a functioning representative government. » President Trump called the Save Act his number one legislative priority and has promised not to endorse any lawmaker who opposes it. » You know, corrupt mailin ballots. We’re the only country in the world that does it that way. Corrupt as hell. It’s really good for it. So good for our nation. I mean, who would not have voter ID? Who would not have uh proof of citizenship? And uh the only people who would want not to have that are people that want to cheat. » Here’s the complicated part about all of this. Without at least some support from Democrats, the Save Act is very unlikely to pass the Senate in its current form. So it’s it would have to make some changes to get that 60 vote threshold it requires. Guys, save our ass. Same old crap. The ruling class saves itself. But guess what? Guess what? BUT EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY. Guess what day? What day it is? It’s someday. Get it on. That Irish jig there. That’s right. A little sea shanty. Uh derived from the aisles of Ireland. We were at the White House for St. Patrick’s Day. I’ve married an Irish lass. And so I said, “Alas, maybe we should just uh go enjoy St. Patrick’s Day at the White House and do a couple of uh critical meetings about the Save Act in Washington DC and where we are on something that actually affects the everyday life of American people. And I think this is like a critical point and it’s like got me uh a little bit like, you know, hot under the collar this morning, Wednesday, March 18th, 2026. What actually matters? What matters? What is the point of all this? Why are we doing this? Why are we live right now? Why are we live every single day? Why do we work every single weekend? Why Why was I at the White House yesterday in meetings to try and like effort to get something passed for the American people? Why is Scott Pressler hitting the bricks in the Senate every single day? Why are we constantly talking about the Save Act? We had 10 minutes to do a show yesterday. We get Ron Johnson and we got to hit the we got to bully the Senate into getting the Save Act passed because the American people don’t mean need more podcast wars. They don’t need more egos talking about how important they are or how hurt their feelings are. Who cares? They didn’t elect you. We’re not electing Piers Morgan or Ben Shapiro or Megan Kelly or Tucker Carlson or Candace Owen. We’re not electing any of them. None of them were on the ballot. IF YOU WANT TO SAY in what’s going on, get on the ballot. Who was on the ballot? Was Trump. We elected Trump three times. We elected Trump. Popular vote elected Trump. 77 million people elected Trump. All seven swing states elected Trump. All bellweather counties elected Trump. He’s a president. And I was at the White House with Trump yesterday because that’s how you get things done for the American people. I’m done with this doomerism and also done with taking your eye off the ball. You know why Charlie’s a legend? You know why Charlie is so memorialized and beloved was because he was a coalition builder to get things done to help the American people to help you and your children and your grandchildren not to just sit there and [ __ ] and whine and piss around all day because you got your feelings hurt. Who the hell cares? It doesn’t matter. You It’s like check the comment section. Check the live comments right now on the chat. Live comments right now on the chat. Like half of them are going to be like talking about how much they hate me, how stupid I am, how dumb I am. Every conceivable porative that could possibly be written about me on the internet has already been written. And I don’t care. And it doesn’t matter because my because it’s not about me. It’s about getting the Save Act passed. It’s about doing something good for the country for like my children to live in a functional nation that’s clean and peaceful and orderly. And I want that. And I think that like the majority of the American people are sort of sick of Republicans, but then especially like the chattering class of influencers like not delivering. I was at the White House all day yesterday. The vast majority of the day was spent in meetings doing our level-headed best to take the priorities of this audience. And I’m not going to betray the exact conversations, but let me just tell you, we read the chat and we read the sentiment of this show and I was there to deliver on that sentiment. and the White House tactical team, political teams and legislative, they they they actually changed direction on a number of things based on insights that I had from this audience doing the show every single day being online pretty much terminally every single weekend, every single weekday, every single evening, every single morning like never stop. Never stopping. That’s what this is about. It’s not about your ego. It’s not about your hurt feelings. It’s not about somebody who has a big YouTube channel or a big podcast show like uh getting buttth hurt. This is about delivering for the American people and it’s all we ever care about. It’s why I try and keep my nose clean on this stuff. Speaking of keeping your nose clean, at big sign at the White House, big giant sign as you’re checking in, no marijuana allowed on site. I was like, dude, how did any of the Biden people get in here? How did anybody from Biden’s family or anybody from Biden’s administration get in here? They’re all cokeheads. That’s I guess there was no sign that said no cocaine. That’s why that’s the point. That’s why we’ve all we’ve done is yell and do interviews and bully senators and members of Congress on the show and tell our voice cracked because the point is to deliver for the American people. That’s the point. There is no other point. And so with that is the main building goal of this show is coalition building victory, winning, not being a doomer. America is the greatest country on earth. America is a blessed nation. I love this place. We should colonize the moon. It should be the 52nd or 53rd state after Greenland and Venezuela. Whatever. This is what people are talking about here. I’m done. I’m done. I’m done with the drama. Okay. And it’s like I like I’ve tried not to like because sometimes speaking you even just speaking about it or like like involves you in it, right? I’m just saying what’s the point? If you want to be better than the corporate media, you want to be better than what we are trying to replace, then you have to act better. You have to show the fruits of actually locking in and delivering. And so, ladies and gentlemen, that’s what we’re going to do on this program. And it’s what we’re going to be setting our hearts about doing as a constant motivation to stay out of the bit, like stay out of other people’s business, stay out of the drama, keep charging, keep moving forward, keep working because I know that the vast majority of the American people are on my side. They know that this moment is dire. They know we’re headed towards a thousand years of either light or darkness depending on how we behave in this moment. We must behave with courage, bravery, and absolute clarity of mission. To save our nation starts with the save act. Okay. So, let’s do the uh let’s do the show. Okay. My name is Benny Johnson and this is the Benny Show. Trisha McLaclin and Carl Deio join us on this program. Critical victories for the American people. critical victories for life. This is the most pro-life administration. There isn’t really a remote argument to the to to that. This is the most pro-life administration in American history. Freeborn, ladies and gentlemen, assists in ensuring that we stay a nation of life. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is everyone’s birthright in this place. Foremost is life. You cannot have, of course, a country filled with Americans if you are killing generation after generation. And Pre-born is trying to reverse that evil and demonic trend. At pre-born network clinics, a woman receives uh what the abortion industry will never offer. 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I was constantly being asked by members of the president’s staff like what like why Why are you not blackpilling? It’s amazing. You know, there’s there’s so then so many historic crashs. You know, a lot of the recent news cycle has broken people’s brains. I would argue a lot of people who of course were never MAGA before. May, you know, maybe it’s time to like not let the people who abandoned MAGA or weren’t ever MAGA in the first place define what MAGA is. I had a blast. We met with a number of friends. Uh we talked strategy with a number of great people and then we got to enjoy I mean again my wife’s Irish and so I said you know St. Patrick’s Day at the White House to put on an amazing spread was really uh fantastic. Probably wasn’t very healthy. They had like fried fish and chips and uh corn beef and I had a Guinness. Oh man, it was delicious. It’s great. Green fountain was beautiful by the way. I was very proud to be an American. That gorgeous giant American flag. Could you imagine the White House without that enormous American flag? Can we please remember why we’re all doing this? We’re not doing this for anybody’s hurt or damaged ego. We’re doing this to save America. We’re doing this so that your children and my children can experience the the green fountain at the White House powered by the leprechauns. I did see a leprechaun yesterday. I saw Sean Spicer on my way out. Yelled at me and came charging at me. Stay back. You know, magical. Go find your pot of gold somewhere. Remember what we’re doing this for. I do need to lengthen my tie though. I gota work I’m gonna work on that. It’s what happens when you get dressed on the plane. You know that’s what happens when you tie your tie on the plane. We popped in popped out talked about the Save Act and we had a wonderful update yesterday on the Save Act. The GOP has officially voted to trigger marathon Senate fight to expose Democrats opposition to Trump backed voter ID bill. So, we have a very good bit of news here and a massive update as Senate Republicans on Tuesday successfully launched their floor takeover to put the Senate Democrats on record against the Trump backed voter ID legislation. It’s a move to shift the spotlight from the internal GOP divisions over safeguarding America’s voter eligibility, something that of course 80% of the country or more agree with, who are ultimately uh withholding the needed votes to pass the bill. Not a single Democrat will support the Save Act. Uh, it is a radical bill, says Chuck Schumer. And if Republicans try to burn time on this legislation here on the floor, we will oppose them as long as it takes. Okay. It’s also a culmination of the pressure campaign, Senate Majority Leader John Thun, Republican Donald Trump, Conservative Conference, and fervent online campaign against Bill. What are we doing this for? We’re doing this to deliver for the American people. That’s the point. If you’re not delivering for the American people, like actual legitimate wins, then you’re not going to have a movement. You have to deliver for the American people. That needs to be the only goal. That need like delivering actual results. I want my mass deportations. I want them. I need them. I have to have them. And I I and I want my border wall and I want Greenland and I want voter ID. These are things that the American public wants. They want the total and whole focus of the United States government to be on domestic policy. That is something that I reiterated time and time again yesterday. Something that I really hope John Thun can get across the line. President Trump said uh yesterday at the White House, he gave a wonderful speech. It’s hilarious. President Trump totally undeterred uh by the moment. So, let’s go ahead and pop on in and listen to Mike Lee as update. I mean, obviously Mike Lee doing updates every single day. Must listen to uh Mike Lee doing an update on what happened yesterday with Save Act as they moved to open up debate on the Save Act, a critical hurdle that was jumped by only 51 votes. Tom Tillis and Lisa Marowski not present for the votes. So, traders in our ranks, Lisa Marowsky, of course, winning her seat based on very dodgy election laws in Alaska. Here we go. Okay, I know it’s late. I got a good excuse for being up late. I was on the Senate floor late late tonight debating the merits of the Save America Act. One of the arguments that I’ve seen and heard made over and over again on the Senate floor and on social media and elsewhere, but including on the Senate floor multiple times today, is this absurd argument that goes something like this. If the Safe America Act passes, then if you don’t have a passport, you’re not going to be able to vote. Or if you can’t find your documents and can’t afford to spend a lot of money getting those documents, you’re not going to be able to vote. Therefore, it’s going to disenfranchise people who don’t have uh their documents on hand and don’t have a lot of disposable income to spend on it. Look, all this is a lie. Go to the House passed bill, the Save America Act, the same bill that we turn to today. Go to page 12, line 22, and the text that follows from that and onto the next page. It makes very clear, you don’t have to shell out a dime. If you can’t find your documents, you never had them, your dog ate them, your house burned down, whatever, no problem. We’ve made accommodation for that. If you can’t, if you’ve gotten married and you’ve changed your name to where it’s your married last name, we’ve taken care of that, too. You can handle that by affidavit and put the burden on the state to track down the background documentation without shelling out a dime. Even if you don’t have any of the documentation cuz your house burned down, your dog ate it or you never had it or whatever. You got to stop lying about this, Democrats. Because the fact is, the more you lie about this, the more it calls into question your other specious arguments, including the the fact that voter fraud supposedly never happens or that uh non-citizens never register to vote and never do vote. You’re exposing those as lies as well, but you’re lying about the bill. » Uh I really look forward I’m probably going to go back to DC. I was like, man, I need to just like get into the Senate. need to get into the Senate and call people out. Like Ton Tillis, for instance, who was on a plane, he skipped the vote for voter ID. This is the single most critical issue. I mean, am I wrong, chat? This is the most critical issue. I’ve never seen the base more laser focused on a single issue than this. Voter ID. Never seen it. ID to vote. I’ve never seen the base more obsessed with something than the Save Act. Don’t Don’t tell me big beautiful bill. No. No. Nobody can even tell you what IT DOES. I’M NOT SAYING IT’S BAD. I’m just saying like that that it’s a messaging thing. Never seen the base more connected with a core issue. If a Republican cannot deliver for our base, for the vast majority of the American people, not only for our base. I mean, look at this. You’re looking at 300 million people, not just the 77 million Trump voters. 300 million people favor voter ID. That’s 84% of the nation. If a Republican can’t show up, stand and deliver for those people, then you have traitors in our midst. Tom Tillis was on a plane. He showed his ID to get on a plane to skip the vote for voter ID. Every Democrat that voted against it yesterday used their ID to vote against voter ID. There’s not a single logical or consistent argument that you can possibly make against this legislation. I hopped on a plane. We went viral yesterday. I hopped on a plane and uh asked a quick question. Here we go. » Went through TSA at the airport right here and I had to show my ID. I pulled the numbers and it turns out that 90% of Americans have flown commercially. That’s 300 plus million people have flown and had to show their IDs. Yet, Democrats say that requiring your ID to vote is somehow racist. So, is TSA racist? » Oo, TSA race. Oh, no. Oh, no. It’s amazing. The Democrat argument for this is so sad. We’ll jump over to Trish McLaclin here in just one moment. Very excited to hear uh like what what it like what what could possibly be the argument against this here? Here it is. I asked my team like what is the argument against this? Actually, it’s interesting. Republicans, even like some of the like like more softspoken, let’s just call him weaker Republicans like John Baraso is this doctor. Yeah, he’s from Wyoming. Like he like, you know, he he this guy’s not a flamethrower. Listen to him yesterday on this. It’s like getting people actually like going. Let’s go. » 10 million illegal immigrants flooded into our country. » Boom. while Joe Biden was president and the Democrats were in charge in the United States Senate and House. And now the Democrats want those same illegal immigrants to have an impact on the elections in the United States. » I believe only citizens of the United States should be allowed to vote in American elections. » Get them? » And I believe you should have to present a photo identification card in order to vote. It’s common sense. You need to present a photo ID to buy a beer, to board a plane, and to do so many other things that are part of American life » or to buy a beer to vote. » The great the great number of American people agree completely with this that you should have to have a photo ID and be a citizen in order to vote. The Save America Act is the best way to secure and safely provide elections that represent the viewpoints of the American people. Okay, it’s true. Like you never hear Republican leadership like sort of like come out swinging like this, especially soft spoken doctors. Okay, let’s get Adam Schiff here and then we’re going to bring in Trish McLaclin to like respond to this because of course these are the same Democrats that have defunded uh TSA. I thanked every single TSA uh agent that I saw yesterday working at the airport. These people are working without pay. Uh they can’t pay the rent. It’s not their fault. Especially at a time when of course terrorist threats are at an all-time high right now based on military action throughout the world and and terrorist hotspots. The defund the the DHS when there the there are credible reports of Iran launching a drone attack off our coast and they defund the Coast Guard. This is malevolent. Uh they were saying that Iran was going to drone California. Yet, Senator Adam Schiff of California is saying uh here that what matters the most to him is illegal criminal aliens voting in the election because of course it does. Here we go. » Which brings me to the so-called Save America Act. This legislation will not save anything about America, but it will destroy something precious about this country. It is not meant to empower people to determine the direction of the nation, but to deprive them of that power. Not to encourage citizen participation in government, but to discourage it. Not to heal a nation that is badly divided, but to cause further division, disunion, and democratic decay. » All right. Wow, Adam Schiff. And I and I quote, “The Save Act will destroy something precious about our country.” Yeah. The the something precious is the reason why you imported so many criminal aliens. Every single day, by the way, we’re tracking this. The DOJ prosecutes more criminal aliens for voting in our elections. This obviously the goal. There’s why mass deportations are completely and totally critical. Joining us uh right now uh live is Trisha Mccclaclin. Trisha is a friend of the show, former assistant secretary for homeland security and public affairs. Here we go. Uh Trisha, this got to kind of piss you off that we’re living in a time where there seems to be like quite active attacks, frankly, uh against our nation. You can count them. There’s like five or six in a week. Yeah. uh from Islamic extremists and Democrats have defunded DHS. It’s kind of like hit close to home. » Yeah, absolutely. It is absolutely bottom barrel politics. Talk about putting politics ahead of public safety. Uh of course TSA that’s going to impact every single one of us. Those terrorist attacks that we’ve seen, just three in the last week and a half. And we have about 400 TSA agents who have quit. And that’s on top of the volume, increased volume because of course spring break. I just spoke with uh some TSA agents who I’ve gotten to know from my time at Homeland Security. They’re talking about colleagues who are selling blood plasma so that they can pay their rent. They have colleagues sleeping in cars. They’re in put in dire situations. That’s them personally. And then on top of that, our national security is put in a very dangerous situation here. You mentioned the Coast Guard. I’m so glad you mentioned that. So many people, you know, understandably don’t appreciate how big of an agency DHS is. You’re talking about Secret Service. Of course, we’ve just seen threats to the president’s life in recent weeks here. Um CBP and ICE are funded through 2029. So, as much as the Democrats talking points is that they’re going to really stick it to ICE and stop these mass deportations, that’s not happening. Those mass deportations, those arrests and deportations are still going on. This is just gutter politics, Benny. And I hope we start seeing the RNC putting up advertisements uh at our airports and say you want uh you want to get through security fast. You want your uh safety, vote Republican because the Democrats are causing you to stand in line for three to four hours. » Yeah, I think so. I mean, I’m looking at I’m checking the chat and we check constantly for the reflection of the vibe of the show and a lot of people are saying, “Well, do we have mass deportations?” And I guess like since you’ve done a year and more at DHS, I like you know what what would you classify as mass deportations? Where should uh DHS uh be going? And I I know Mark Wayne Mullen is in the middle of his uh confirmation hearing right now. So I want to get to that. But like what is what is the classification of a mass deportation for you? » Well, I think the classification of a mass deportation is if you were in this country illegally, then you need to be arrested and deported. And that absolutely should be happening and I think will continue to happen. I think we also have to look at our illegal immigration system which uh the Joe Biden administration completely plundered. They completely exploited the parole program uh temporary protected status which a lot of your viewers are probably familiar with. Really was just a rubber stamp to let these individuals in with no vetting. Um so I I think that we also I mean we did see about 3 million illegal aliens leave the country. The vast majority of that was from self-deportations, which are a lot cheaper, a lot safer for communities, a lot safer for law enforcement. But what we saw a lot of, at least during my 13 months there, Benny, was that the more arrests we were making, the more these illegal aliens within the interior of our country were getting the message, hey, if I don’t leave now, I’m going to get arrested. I’m never going to be able to return. And so, I’m hoping under a Mullen tenure, we’re going to see more and more of that. » Okay. Okay. So, so the number is 3 million voluntary deportations. » 3 million total. So, I think it was around 2.5 uh million self-deportations and a little over uh 600,000 deportations last year. » What was the major because, you know, everyone was like, well, you know, and and Steven Miller, you know, you know, constantly messaging and driving home like, you know, we have 20 million. But let me take a step back. Why would I lecture you on this? How many criminal aliens are there? How many people illegally are there living in the country today? » Around 15 million is based on estimates. That is a huge problem though, Benny, is that there’s not total consensus on how many are actually uh in the country illegally. I think that’s a big part of the push to have that US census finally uh start checking on what citizenship is in this country. » Yeah, I mean that’s obviously an a critical question. I if I had a time machine go back and like tell the founders, you know, please please make the second amendment really really specific and and then say like citizens not persons when you’re counting the census. But um so you know I don’t have time machine and they they they’re really smart and I think we’re fine w uh hopefully amending something that counts just the citizens. But the I guess the point is like okay so 15 million and 3 million have has either self deepport deported or have been deported. » Yes. Otherwise exited the country. Exactly. Right. And we we only have a couple more years for sure in office. So we’ve got to crank those numbers up. And uh I’m confident President uh Trump has the will and fortitude to do just that. » Okay. So So 1/5ifth. So 1/5ifth is what we’re So so it’s been 1/5if in the first year. So if you could keep those numbers constant, you could get almost if you’re staying at 3 million deportations or self deportations per year, then you’re almost at the entirety of the illegal population in the country. Is that correct? Am I doing the math right? » That’s correct. But I think Benny, the other piece of this too, and I mentioned that temporary protected status, those pearl programs, Cuba, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, CHNV, a lot of your viewers might be familiar with. I mean, really, again, rubber stamping these people who were not vetted into our country. It really was an optics play because these programs really started being stood up right around 2023. The Biden administration saw the optics at the border were abysmal. They were losing public support. border security was becoming a huge uh national security issue and they said, “Hey, instead of having these massive droves of people come to our border and there being photos and video of that and said, “We’re just going to let these people in and call it legal.” » Yeah, that’s right. And they flew him in the dark of night. » They did. » Yeah. I saw some statistic that I deported like 10% of New Orleans. Does that is that square? » I haven’t I haven’t seen that statistic. I mean, we did have a lot of cooperation, right, uh, from the Louisiana uh, governor and the state and local government there. Those 287g, which agreements, which basically means uh, that ICE is allowed to deputize state and local government and law enforcement to actually carry out deportation and make immigration arrests. So, I mean, you saw Florida, I would think that number would be even higher there. Texas as well because of those authorities. So I mean those those agreements I mean they sound very technical but they’re actually incredibly important to the safety of the country. And then on the other side you have the Virginiaas of the world where under YNC we saw a lot of cooperation. They were honoring ICE detainers meaning that uh if illegally Alen was came into state or local custody that they’d eventually be turned over to ICE once they served their sentence and so that they could be deported. Now under Spanberger uh we’re not having that even with the most violent criminals. That’s that’s a huge problem. » Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, obviously, this is a huge problem. Like the the base, the MAGA base and the American first movement want mass deportations. I guess at these numbers, you could almost you could almost say that all criminal I mean, if you stay up at 3 million per year and there’s 15 million based on all then you could say, well, we’re in the first year of the second Trump term, we would get virtually all criminal aliens out of the country as long as you’re allowing zero more in. Um, I think that’s like I think that’s good. I think it’s like I think it’s like a good start. Uh, okay. So, Mark Mullen is going to carry the torch here. What do we This is your first time on since you’ve left DHS and since Christy Gnome uh was, I guess, reassigned. That’d be the right way to say it. Um, to like a different, you know, to different job. Uh, what’s the background story there? What’s your advice to Mark Wayne uh as he’s going through his confirmation this morning? » So far, it looks so far so good. He’s doing a great job. I think he’s going to be really pushed to make different commitments to especially uh to every senator, but especially the Democrats um on the committee and they’ll push for ending administrative warrants, stop using masks. Um they’ll push for not you going into safe locations. So what the um what the administration changed was what we saw in past administrations was that the Joe Biden he said if you are ICE law enforcement, if you’re CBP, you cannot go into a church, you can’t go into a hospital, you can’t go into these so-called safe locations. What was happening was these criminals then were were taking safe harbor in these locations. That absolutely has to stop. It puts innocents of course in danger and it hampers our law enforcement officers. So, uh, those are commitments that you’re going to see Democrats, uh, try to to force Mark Wayne Mullen to take, and he really shouldn’t take the bait there. It does impal our law enforcement, and he needs to be able to run that agency as he sees fit and talk to these career law enforcement officers who deal with the day-to-day on the ground there that the Democrats, I mean, I don’t think any of these guys have ever been on an ICE operation. Benny, you’ve been on multiple ICE operations, and you see what these men and women uh, deal with dayto-day. There’s a reason they wear masks. there’s a reason um that they conduct the operations in the way they do and that’s what they’re going to need to be effective. » Yeah, it was insanely dangerous and obviously we’ve seen how radicalized and how violent the left is. They are truly a uh paramilitary force uh unlike anything I’ve ever seen. They behave like ISIS frankly uh in our country uh and attacking federal law enforcement. They do worse uh on a day-to-day basis than anything that ever happened on January 6th uh to federal law enforcement. It’s totally allowed because of who’s in power. And it’s incredible how the heel turns uh as soon as Democrats get in power. If you were to behave like this against federal law enforcement with Democrats in power, you know, of course, like you know, it’d be 22 years in solitary confinement, but they’re protecting their own. And we know that they’re going to do this and it’s like something I guess. Yeah. I mean, I guess the Okay, so Mark Wayne Mullen I I haven’t been f he’s live. They’re live right now. Do we have a live feed of this by the way team? Like do we have a do we have a live feed of the confirmation hearing because I think it’s like uh going to be critical. Mark’s been such a great friend of the show. Um we did go out with uh Christy Gnome on a number of different trips and do a number of different things. Obviously mass deportations is critical to the core of the MAGA movement. Um and it was like important to tell that story. Uh what like what happened there at DHS? like what like like what was the what was the big you know what what what was the reassignment like what like what was the what’s the behind the scenes story? » Yeah. So I wasn’t there uh many you might remember it was um in February earlier February I had left uh departed DHS I was there for 13 months um state was supposed to leave uh in December really uh or excuse me January. um really goal for my family and I is is to start a family and and that was going to take precedence to get back to Ohio. Um but I stayed on in the wake of the uh Minnesota shootings and kind of the uh what happened those the events after. Um as far as you know the conversations between the president and secretary Gnome. Um he makes the best personnel decisions for that moment. She has an enormous job that is an incredibly difficult job. There’s 23 component agencies uh underneath the Secretary of Homeland Security, mentioned them before. TSA, FEMA, which by the way, FEMA is a monster in itself. Uh she surely the bureaucracy there, the undermining there. There’s also SISA a lot of people are not familiar with, but it really hardens our infrastructure, especially we’ve talked a lot about the Save America Act. That’s essential when it comes to election integrity and safeguarding those uh systems. Um, and then of course there’s CBP, ICE, uh, WMD, weapons of mass destruction. So that it’s a huge agency. She had an incredibly difficult job. Worked incredibly hard. But I’m really, you know, praying and wishing for her success in this next role that President Trump gave her. » Yeah. And so Mark Wayne. Okay. So here’s the live shot. So we have the live shot here of Mark Wayne at the uh uh at the at the hearing. based on based on what you know and of course you’ve been operating at top levels of DHS like you just said don’t let Democrats sort of cow you into uh some of these niche issues. DHS is obviously defunded right now. I presume that like when Mark Wayne comes and is confirmed and it sounds like he’s going to get confirmed. Democrats are already saying they’re going to vote for him. um you know what like what would be your what be beyond like the niche issues like masks or no masks like beyond those like what like what’s your broadstroke advice to Mark Wayne coming in because obviously like what needs to be said to the base » is like we have in we you we promise mass deportations 3 million a year gets us to the 15 million number we have mass deported all criminal aliens in our country like that that’s what the base needs to hear to tick the box like what what’s your message to Mark M to get that done » yeah I think that he really has to focus on self-deportations. How do you make that carrot uh so appealing to these illegal aliens that they get the heck out of the country and you can make sure that they don’t come back? The most untold story, I think, of this administration has been that border security. He’s got to make sure he keeps an eye on the southern border that doesn’t he doesn’t lose sight of that as well as the northern border as we were seeing increased activity um there in 2025. Yeah. I mean, all of these senators in this hearing, it’s three to four hours. They’re going to be trying to get something out of him, some sort of commitment to an investigation or some sort of commitment to their state specifically, whether it be FEMA or TSA or otherwise. So, he’s got to uh stick to the Highline vision. And also, he can’t forget there’s an a I mean, of course, this audience of this panel of senators who are going to confirm him, but uh this is President Trump’s vision. This is President Trump’s number one issue was mass deportations. He was partially elected on that issue. I would say he’s largely elected on that issue. And to your point, Benny, this is going to have huge midterm ramifications. The base wants and demands mass deportations. And that’s something that has to be delivered uh even if you know the uh right of center senators and the leftist media is going to fight every day as they did under Secretary Gnome’s tenure uh to prevent us from doing that. » Yeah. like you you like I actually care a little less about criminal illegal aliens voting in my country. I would I would much rather them just not be in my country. You know, you you’re going to get rid of the problem of illegals voting illegally if there’s none of them here. If they’re not here, if they’re gone and back to where they back to where they belong and where they came from. So, it’s like, wow, that problem kind of fixes itself. Like, it’s not even a problem if they’re gone. » Yeah, exactly. » Okay. All right. Um, cool. So that so that that that um a final parting question because it’s it is like a great booking to have you on wall mark ways here. I am howling looking at John Federman in his hoodie. Uh when they zoom out chat you can see John Federman just sitting there in his car heart like his head down on the desk. It’s funny. Um uh what was the what would be the thing that you like okay so you just talked about there he is. All right. You just talked about the um you know I’m asking you to be a little self-reflective here. like you just like this is a ma it is a massive organization. I mean DHS probably would be like the last place I would want to be in the government just because of how just the enormity of how much how much structure there was there. Um we were at the White House yesterday is like the guy who was in charge of you know Sean Curin you know was was was there. There were various other function functionaries of federal law enforcement there. Like dude this is like a really tough job. What is it that you wish you knew going in? like what is the piece of advice you wish you had going in at DHS that maybe we could carry on with Mark Wayne since we text him virtually five times a day every day? » No, I mean that’s a great question. I think I’ve done a lot of self-reflection since leaving this job. I mean as far as purely uh priorities from my perspective I was dealing with the press each and every day and 80% of the questions we were getting of course were on ICE and CBP but there were uh you know there’s also Coast Guard, there’s also FEMA which those are going to sneak up on you when there’s a massive disaster. So he needs to know where the president’s priorities are, where the president’s public priorities are because that’s right. You have to be in line with the president. And I think that that’s sometimes where there’s footfalls there is you need to know on a day-to-day basis. What does the president want you to be saying and where does he want you to be focusing your efforts on? Um and so I I think he’s needs to make sure he has those close relationships within the White House with Steven Miller, with Tom Hol and make sure he’s really fostering those. Uh that’s going to be essential for him as well. having great relationships with those 23 component uh officers, whether it be TSA, C, CBP, ICE, he’s not going to be able to micromanage all of them. And so, he’s going to it’s going to be essential. He’s going to be able to upward manage and manage his agency itself and really echoing what the president wants uh and what the American people voted for the president on. » Yeah. I just just it it almost like boggles the mind howor the enormity of this agency and the various competing personalities and requirements but uh and and and and obviously to get them deployed it’s easy for us to talk about mass deportations it’s a little harder to actually implement it but nonetheless the single most critical issue uh facing our country in fact the act wouldn’t be necessary I mean it’s a great legislation all we do is talk about it but like it wouldn’t be necessary if you didn’t have so many dan illegals in this country like because you just assume that only the only people when you and I were born like I was born in the 80s it was just kind of like the basic assumption that only Americans voted in our elections. » Of course you would think twice. » Yeah. So you you bring you know you bring 30 million illegal foreigners here and you have to then you have to have the save act. Yeah. Okay. So uh Tail wags the dog. Trisha McLaclin. Everybody follow Trisha. Uh thank you so much for uh popping back on obviously. Um, and what a uh what a what a wild time we’re living through. I can’t can’t wait to see how Mark Mark Wayne does in this hearing. » Me, too. We’ll vote for him. » All right. Thanks, Trisha. » Thanks, Benny. » Ladies and gentlemen, uh Carl Deayo is joining us to talk about his own version of the Save Act in California. You know, you could do it on a state level be a lot easier actually than doing it on a federal level. Uh, and there is a man who has actually made this his driving force and his life force. Uh, and his name is Carl Deayo. He’s joining us in just one second. He is like the the king of voter ID and forcing the state of California through referendum to have voter ID in the state. Absolutely critical battle. Now, ladies and gentlemen, to Carl in just one moment, our partners today wanting to help you have a golden American future. Advantage Gold. I talk about it a lot. 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You 1,368,000 signatures of Californians verified in order to put voter ID initiative on the ballot. We have a massive cheer actually for you right now from the chat. You actually delivered on your California your own California version of the Save America Act. Of course, it gets put up to a vote next. Um, congratulations, Carl. Well, thanks, Benny. But the credit goes to all of the grassroots volunteers who collected signatures. Uh to all of our coalition partners who helped us raise funds, including Julie Lucky, uh in her committee, the Californians for Voter ID, which include Nicole Shanahan, who you had on your podcast. You brought a lot of national attention to this. So, this was a real team effort. And it goes to show that even in the blue state of California when everything is stacked against us, all the money, all the media, all the infrastructure, that the conservatives can actually work together, rise up, and do something uh to move the needle. And and so part of what I’m trying to do by moving voter ID forward in the state of California is send the message to the red and purple states out there. If we can do this in California, then what the hell are you waiting for? enact your own voter ID initiative at the state level. Don’t wait for those sellouts in the Senate to do their damn job. They never will. Let’s rise up. Make this a grassroots rebellion state by state by state. Uh now we got the signatures, but we’re not out of the woods yet. We still have to pass it in November. The polling shows 70% of Californians are in favor of voter ID, but there’s a lot of dirty tricks that the Democrats and their friends in the liberal media will pull. So, we’ve got to work hard between now and November to actually win the vote uh on election day. » Yes. A lot of dirty tricks. We were able to find them when we were out in California. Boy, we found a registered toilet with 27 people at it. Is a portagon in the middle of an empty parking lot. 27 registered voters there, Carl. I bet all of those voters will vote against voter ID. » And that’s what we’re up against is that this first election where our initiative is on the ballot, we’re doing it without voter ID. So, we have to win by more than 50% plus one. We have to make this even bigger rig. Uh, which is why when people say, “Congratulations, you got the signatures. It’s a 70% issue. This is in the bag. It’s going to pass.” I’m like, “No, I do not trust how things go out around California. They’ve got all this dark money, all the super PACs, the lying liberal media.” Uh, so we’ve got to make our case. And, uh, this is not going to be easy, but we are going to go district by district. turn out the vote uh and win by such an overwhelming margin that they’re not going to be able to rig it. » Okay. So, what is now the strategy? So, you got and just so just so that people understand what Carl has here is he he already hit the too big to rig. So, the number here at 1 point I was just going to round up 1.4 million signatures. Even if like Gavin Newsome and his lawyers try and pry away some of those signatures, it’s on the ballot. It’s guaranteed on the ballot. Yes. » Uh yes. We had we had to get 874,000 signatures to put it on the ballot. But as you you note, uh I don’t trust these people. And that’s why I told everyone we have to get more signatures than we’re legally required to so that it’s so overwhelming. And Benny, we also did 100% signature verification internally at our campaign. uh we have a scanned copy of every single signature so that if Gavin Newsome and the Democrats want to play games and be sneaky and dishonest and say we don’t have enough, we will go into a court of law, present that evidence, and show that yes, we do have the signatures. Um I’m I’m not leaving anything to chance on this because these people are fundamentally corrupt. They are dishonest and you must treat them as such and act accordingly. » Look at this. a county bycounty signature totals statewide support for California voter ID initiative here on Carl’s website the reform California website you can see every sing this dude is locked in this is why we have Carl on the program this is why we’re constantly retweeting him he is locked in he knows it and he’s going to be able to defeat Gavin Newsome based on the actual rules of the state and I just hope that man I saw the other day Steven Miller was posting about it how the vast majority of Californians voted against giving illegals state benefits, but then a judge strikes it down, right? And now you get, you know, state benefits. How are you going to prevent something like that happening, Carl? Cuz, you know, it again, it looks like you have, let’s just say you have the momentum at your back here, right? Um, you have a big issue that a lot of people care about that everybody agrees with and um, you know, just like most Californians agreed with not giving illegals state benefits, but some dirty corrupt judge goes and strikes it down and then here here like here’s all the Medicaid fraud in the world, right, to every illegal. » Yeah. And and and going into this, we knew that not only did we have to uh beat them at the ballot box, we had to beat them in the courtroom. And so I actually had filed this constitutional amendment twice before just to smoke them out. Uh I filed an initiative back in 2021, then again in 2023. And what I was trying to do was was was surface their legal arguments against the initiative. And it was a very helpful process because every time they would write a title and summary and the attorney general would issue an opinion that said what we were doing was flawed or illegal, I then went back to our team of attorneys nationwide election lawyers who are topshelf, top-notch, and I said, “Let’s tighten tighten this up.” We actually hired three law firms. One firm was in charge of drafting the language. One firm I hired just to tear it apart. I said, “Pretend to be a a a sneaky Democrat and come up with every single legal trick in the book and throw it at the initiative.” And then the final firm, we had them build what I call implementation architecture. Uh, and that is we have a whole five-year litigation strategy, Benny, that once we pass this, we’re then going to issue demand letters to the Secretary of State and every county registar of voters saying, “Look, this is now in our state constitution. We believe this is plain and simple, but how are you going to implement it? And as you think about that response, um here’s how we think you should implement it based on best practices. And any county registar who decides not to follow this initiative, we’re going to sue them. We’re going to sue them in the local court system. We’re going to sue them in federal court if necessary. But we feel very confident that uh not only will this survive any challenge, but we also know that we have to force them to do it step by step, county by county. Uh and so this is not a oneanddone thing. We’ve got to get it passed, get it in the state constitution, and then litigate it if necessary in the counties where we have registars that we don’t trust. » It’s so smart, Carl. It it’s so smart. And you’ve just you you’ve devoted, I don’t know, decades maybe to this issue. Um and to last five years. » Yeah. Securing elections in California. Uh okay. So, so maybe take a giant step forward and tell me what happens if this passes. Give me a vision of a future of safe and secure elections in America’s largest and most populous state. What does that look like, Carl? So, we actually broke the challenge into two uh steps. Uh because there when you look at elections, people say, “Well, let’s just get voter ID.” That’s not enough because in California, they issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. So, you need to have more than just voter ID. You have to start first with cleaning up the voter roles. And that’s why we require number one citizenship verification of anyone registering to vote uh as well as an audit of the voter roles by the independent state auditor. And that audit will happen every two years on the off year before they use that uh uh list to mail out ballots. » Uh we spend a lot of time listening to voters. We listen to Democrats, independents, and Republicans. And while it’s frustrating, a lot of the Democrats and the independents and even 40% of Republicans in California, they said they like the convenience of mail and ballots. I don’t like mail-in ballots. I actually like going into the polling center and pulling a paper ballot and casting a vote. But remember, Manny, we’ve got to win this at the polls. » And so what we did was we said, “Okay, if we keep mail in ballots, how do we make sure that we have an ID requirement to verify that the person who is registered to vote actually mailed that ballot back. And it’s really simple. You require the last four digits of a government document, a government ID associated with that person as a PIN. We all know how to use pins on our ATM card and you know various things throughout life. So, we created a system in our initiative that said if you don’t use a photo ID in person, if you want to use a mail-in ballot, you have to first register with the the uh the county uh registar voters and say, “Here is the document I want to use.” And it could be your license, it could be a voter card, it could be your social security card, passport, but the the voter would have to proactively say this is what I want to use as my pen. So anyone who’s no longer alive or no longer lives in the state of California, what happens? They’re not going to contact the registar to proactively select a pin. That registration would then be moved on at least a mail and ballot basis to inactive. And that’s very important because there’s a lot of people two million people have left fled. The better word is fled the state of California. Uh the corruption, the high cost of living in the last six years. Two million people have moved out of the state. But guess what? they still receive ballots to their old address because no one is removed. Those ballots would basically be rendered inactive. Um and then uh we also require that that pin match obviously before the the mail-in ballot is counted. So the first part of our initiative is tightening up the integrity of who’s registered to vote. Are they a citizen? And are they actually the person that they say they are when they’re casting a mail and ballot. The second part obviously is the voter ID requirements. Um all of these things are best practices. And when when our opponents showed up at our press conference last week when we turned in our signatures, they showed up with signs that read uh voter ID equals racism, I said, “Well, you better tell that to the black and Latino voters because they support voter ID by wide margins, a super majority.” Uh so that that that that dog don’t hunt. The other uh one was voter ID equals voter suppression. And on that one, you know, the most important thing to point to is that in states that have enacted voter ID, participation has actually gone up, including amongst minority voters, if you take a look at Georgia and some of the other states that moved to more robust election integrity requirements, voter participation increased in the election right after those those reforms were enacted, including amongst minorities. And then finally here in California in the focus groups, we heard time and time again from women who said, you know, when I registered, it was before I was married, I don’t know what my signature looks like because we we we have this inadequate loosey goosey system of signature verification on mail and ballots. Um, we did an audit in 2022 showing that the counties actually do not do signature verification properly or consistently, but a lot of voters feel as though they can’t vote because they don’t remember how their signature was 20 years ago, 15 years ago when they first registered or they’ve since married. So, the argument that the Democrats are making about married women actually is the opposite. We are the antidote. We actually fix the problem of low confidence and concerns about signature matches by doing away with that requirement. Now, you don’t need to match your signature. You don’t have to remember whether it was your maiden name or something else. It’s simply the fourdigit uh code uh last four digits of a government document that you can select. You can change it at any time. It’s super simple. So, it’s the Democrats that are practicing voter suppression and reducing the confidence in our elections. and we’re going to make that case in this campaign. And for the life of me, I cannot understand why US senators can’t be making this case right now on the US Senate floor. It’s as though they don’t even want to win the argument on citizenship verification and voter ID. They’re letting the Democrats literally run rough shot on the messaging war on the Save Act. Yeah, it’s been so frustrating for us and we have senators on every single show and we just keep badgering them that you’re losing the information war here on the easiest issue to win the information war on because so many people like 77 you owe it to 77 million Trump voters. Bro, this is something that is supported by like 300 million Americans. Yeah, forget Trump voters. Like you’re looking at numbers here in the 85 percentile of all Americans. You’re talking hundreds of millions of people support voter ID. Uh in, you know, including the races that, you know, including the demographic breakdowns that you talked about that cut across all sections of society. » You know, when I talk to Democrats who are a little unsure, I say, look, are you sick and tired of the conspiracy theories? You want to shut up your Republican neighbor? Well, then give them what they want, voter ID. » And then the light goes off and they’re like, you know, that’s that’s a pretty good pretty good argument. Right. » There’s almost no one that we will lose in this debate. You Yeah, there’s fringe of 20% that will never, you know, support this. I don’t even think they they they uh uh support uh the American flag. Uh don’t worry about the 20% fringe. Focus on the 70 to 80% bipartisan consensus. This should not be hard. And again, I look at the US senators and I just want to smack them. This is derction of duty. This is, you know, and Betty, this shows how corrupt and broken our political system is. When you can’t even give the American people an 80% bipartisan consensus, it shows that our system is fundamentally corrupt and dysfunctional and that we need we need to intervene with these elected officials, even many within our own party. » Yes. Yes. It’s been it’s been maddening. It’s been incredibly frustrating. I was in DC yesterday like just trying to box about the years on messaging here, but when the Republicans don’t even agree on this issue, when the Republicans aren’t willing to fight for, what the hell is going on? Like, what are we even doing here? Right? So, um just really quickly, Carl, um in closing here, what is your message to Gavin Newsome? He’s obviously going to fight you tooth and nail here because this is going to mean less power for him. This is going to mean, I think, that like California instead becomes more of like a purple state, which is probably where it rightly sits. uh if it were if everything were done sort of fair and equal and same same California just kind of be like a swing state right » eventually I mean part of what we’re I’m trying to do and this is a a I have to hold the Republican party of California accountable for its ineptitude and its uh lack of uh courage lack of principles they’ve sold us out for 20 years » they haven’t organized the fight let me just say this right now on your on your show the party chair Karen rank Not only is she inept and incompetent, uh, but she actually undermined our voter ID initiative. They didn’t lift a finger. The California Republican party did not lift a finger to help us with voter ID. This was done despite their uh their their efforts to undermine our process. This was a grassroots rebellion. And so when people say, “Well, why is California so blue?” California is so blue because Democrats are working it and hustling. and the Republicans have literally sold us out. » And so I do believe we will become more purple as as as you’ve just predicted with voter ID, but it’s not just because we’re enacting voter ID. » It’s because we’re showing people that there is the ability to fight. We’re giving hope to the hopeless out there. I’m meeting so many people who say, “I don’t want to flee California. I love California, but I hate our government. Um, and I don’t want to move to another state, but I feel like it’s hopeless. Well, guess what? When people see others fighting, not only does it give them hope, but they will join that fight. They will get off the couch, they’ll get into the street, and they’ll be part of it. And so, that’s what’s going to make California purple and I predict red again, is the fact that we actually have a fight and we’re giving people hope and giving them uh something that they can be part of. Uh, so I do think Gavin Newsome is going to try to lie and cheat and deceive and break the law on this. He’s going to ignore the law. Uh, particularly as he’s running for president. And I warn people across the country, do not underestimate him. Oh, he’s a lousy governor. He’s failed his way upward with the help of billionaires. But the one thing he is very good at is he’s a very capable liar. I mean, this guy would sell his mother for a nickel. He and he’s so good at looking into a camera and just lying in such a a you know a convincing way and and and and and having this umbrage like oh how dare you you challenge my position on this. Of course it’s true. Of course I’ve always believed this. He is dangerous and you you underestimate him. Uh I believe right now uh as people dismiss him he is very capable of winning the White House. uh and it would would would destroy this country in in in a single term. So, we’ve got to make sure people learn the truth about his uh uh character flaws and his failures here in California. We have a Gavin Newsome sound bite actually that we play constantly uh from his hilarious black podcast interview where Gavin Newsome who’s uh live grew up in a multi-million dollar mansion and inherited multi-million dollar properties, owns a vineyard and uh you know has a rich father. I’m hustling. » It was just like hustling. » I just like I just like hustling man. I was, you know, just hustling right with my with my Getty with the Getty family, you know, and the the the the cruel the rich kids photo shoots for Vanity Fair, you know, like, you know, I just hustling with my ascot. » Yeah, but you got the other clip where he basically said, “I’m just like black people. I can’t read and I’m dumb.” I mean, this guy literally said that. If a Republican said that, you know, that there would be no stop to the chorus of calls for resignation. Um, I’M JUST LIKE YOU. HEY, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WE’RE WE’RE WE’RE WE’RE HOMIES. LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE ABSOLUTELY, you know, cut from the same cloth. No one has anything in common with this guy. He has led A PRIVILEGED LIFE. EVERYTHING HAS BEEN HANDED to him on a silver platter, and he has failed upwards. » Yeah. Yep. So, now would be time to like knock him down a peg. And this is what we headed out to California uh to do. This is what Nick Shirley is doing right now. We’re going to like take the fight where the fight belongs, which is the state of California. That’s why we’re so thankful for Cole Deayo and your work and your constant effort here. Obviously, you’re so right about bravery and having people that continue the fight and that that is contagious. It is critical uh to follow Carl Deayo. Uh he has nearly 100,000 subscribers right now here on X. Uh, and then we have just this little piece of data from Steven Miller that I love, uh, because it does show that 60% of California voted to strip all taxpayer funding of criminal aliens. Scroll down, please, uh, Clay. I mean, California voted to do this. California’s not lost. You could still win on common sense issues in California. There are fellow Americans. There are brethren. So, like, don’t write it off. you can we can go on offense as a party and win and uh Carl’s the guy doing it. So, thank you Carl. » Thank you, Benny, for all your help. And in the fall when we hit the road on our bus tour, come to some of our events. We’d love to have you. » Let’s Let’s go, man. Just as long as you’re not in LA. I don’t think I’m invited back there, but uh yes, let’s go. » It’ be a blast. I would love that. Thank you, Carl. Godspeed. » Thank you. Abysmal Oscars TV ratings revealed after Snorefest awards ceremony. The Oscars had a absolute wholesale collapse. A 67% collapse in viewership from 10 years ago, down 9% from last year. Uh, this of course shows kind of like a really nice hook end to how worthless California is, how worthless the propaganda economy of California has become, how they’re literally hanging on to the vapors. With every single passing billionaire or trillion dollar company that leaves California, the capacity for them to project power uh, diminishes. The capacity for Hollywood to project power has all but been ground to powder. The Oscars will now be on a live stream on YouTube. Hey, no hate, but like we’re new here. All right, you’re the Oscars. You’ve been around for a hundred years. This is the 98th Oscar. And the reason we care about it is because it is actually a signal of the waning power of the system, the deep state, and those who wish to control us. And that’s a very, very good thing. And it’s something that, you know, Elon Musk this morning had a great tweet. I don’t know actually got it. What did he say? It’s like an insult. It’s an insult to win an Oscar these days, right? Is Elon Musk like it actually is is actually something that kind of funny. They There was a roast about Kid Rock having an alternate Oscars down the street. It’s like Kid Rock, you can go to the Kid Rock Dave and Buster Oscars down the street. Well, the Kid Rock Halftime Show did more views. Winning an Oscar has become an embarrassment, says Elon Musk. The Kid Rock Halftime Show did more views, reached more households than the Oscars. In fact, depending on what number metric you use, the Kid Rock Halftime Show did twice as many or three times as many views or reached as many households and the Oscars did. So, you played yourself, right? Whatever. Insert DJ Calli meme here. You played yourself. Oh man. Uh this is a uh fun and wild time that could we flip California. Don’t ever black pill. Don’t ever doom. 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They got some good ball players, man, in Venezuela. uh two they the apparently like the the noise in Miami from the world baseball championship apparently like the no like it’s the loudest ever record there have been like Super Bowls in Miami and stuff. It’s the loudest ever recorded street volume of these baseball games. I haven’t been watching them because I don’t want I just don’t watch a ton of sports. I love Team America but just is what it is. All I do is work. Um Donald Trump responded by saying what what does Trump say? statehood. Okay. Okay. Uh well, what could the argument be here? Well, the argument for statehood for Venezuela, and not that I’m here making it, okay, I’m just giving you the broad strokes. The argument for statehood in Venezuela goes like this. Uh Venezuela controls the single largest oil reserves in the world, the largest known reserves in the world. They also have something like eight trillion dollars worth of minerals in Venezuela. Like these are the kind of like this is the kind of hardcore mineral deposits that you need to build batteries that you need to build vehicles and infrastructure and Venezuela has a ton of it. It’s buried up in the mountains. You need to develop it. So, what could happen if Venezuela became like a Guam, you know, or like a like an American like like an American territory or something and you get mineral rights? Kind of like the same thing that Trump’s trying to do with Greenland. I mean, Trump’s been trying to do that with Greenland, so it’s going to like move that direction with Venezuela. I don’t I don’t know, but that would be the argument. Okay. Wow. Venezuela defeated Italy tonight 4-2 in the semi-finals. Trump said in a different post, uh, they’re really looking good. Good things are happening in Venezuela lately. I wonder if the ma what the magic is all about. Statethood anyone. He’s just trolling at this point. Whatever. You know it. Well, I guess we’ll see. I guess we’ll see. Will the US invade Cuba in 2026? Let’s go ahead and check in. Uh 26% chance. Skyrocketing in fact. Way up. Way up. 26% chance that the US will in fact invade Cuba. Boys, we’re cooking. That’s one I can get behind. I will always admit to you my biases. I will always tell you where I’m coming from here. I will always tell you like what I, you know, care about. top line is for my American children to be able to live the American dream and for your American children to be able to grow up in a safe and clean, prosperous and functional country where the potholes are fixed, the the bridges are strong, where the buildings are being built, uh people have access to housing, the middle class, people have access to a life in their church, a future that’s all I care about. And part partly, you know, sometimes you actually have to pair that vision with getting rid of your enemies that live directly off your border. This is the problem with the Iran excursions is that Iran isn’t particularly close to America. Venezuela was. They hated us. And so is Cuba. Cuba is just one of those places that if like if it had the right guidance could be one of the most profit prosperous nations on Earth. And it’s 90 miles from where we’re doing our broadcast right now. I live in a neighborhood packed with Cubans. The regime is in to wholesale and total collapse. I think this is night two or three of complete blackout. They have zero electricity. They’re having to now cook with like firewood to make bread. And while that sounds like fun and wholesome, like it’s actually terrible if you’re trying to sell bread. You don’t have any electricity. So that it’s in wholesale collapse. I think that the regime will collapse without Trump even firing a bullet. But I want I would want that like big time. I would want that. That’s something we’ve been waiting to happen for a long time. Marco Rubio Cuban uh descent is somebody who is I think on it. Might be growing out a beard getting his cigar chomping ready. Getting his little green fatigues ready. But looks like uh looks like there’s a chance. Okay. So you’re saying there’s a chance. I’m saying there’s a chance of a verse of the day every single day on our program. Philippians 3 for today. I press forward on the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14. I love this series of Bible verses that we’ve been going through. Uh because like day after day it’s about like continuing forward and despite setbacks and setbacks have happened to the America first movement. Setbacks have happened to MAGA. There have been a ton of crashs. Nobody’s promises, you know, nobody promised that this would be perfect. It’s definitely not easy. Trump was just shot in the head less than two years ago. Trump shot in the head. You know, Charlie was shot and killed live for the world to see. I man, it’s been actually really tough. And you read your Bible and you realize that that’s what the Bible promises that like life is tough. We live in a sunken world. You’re going to need Christ. You’re going to need something outside of the disappointments of this earth. And there are a lot of them. And they they they come in waves and sometimes it just feels like one after another. One one battle after another, right? Didn’t see the movie, but drink your milkshake. Come take your take your little movie title. Anyway, one battle after another. That’s the truth. That is life. So, make sure that you have something that is consistent through all of that. And that is your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. As it says here in the holy verse, God has called me heavenward in Christ. Right? Keep your eyes fixed there and you won’t be you’ll have something good. You won’t be disappointed. You’ll have something good. All men will disappoint you. Trump will disappoint you. All the government will disappoint you. Republicans in the Senate will disappoint you. There’s no such thing as a perfect man. There was only one perfect man. Your faith in him. It’s your boy Benny. March with us. On to victory. See you. Guess what? Guess what? Save back. Save our ass. Same old crap. The ruling class saves itself. But guess what? Guess what? BUT EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY. Guess what day? What day it is? It’s home day. Get it on day. The biggest ships in the sea all owned by the oldest kings and a dying legacy media. Soon will the Benny show come to mind from Liz for fun. the gold and bring the gun. We sail for number one. Soon will the penny show come to mine the salt from lids for fun. Leave the cold and bring the gun. We sail for number one. The biggest ships in the sea. All owned by the oldest king.