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"At Jimbo talks and our guest is Jim Robb author of political migrants, Hispanic voters on the move, and as the break intervened to Charles and Dothan Alabama, had characterized people coming into this country in three categories. The criminals, the freeloaders and those who want to make something of themselves. Your thoughts, Jim rod. Well, most come here to work and there's work at high pay in America and most people, however they get here, whether legally or illegally they're coming for jobs, there are some criminals, of course, and they need to be found and ejected. But when we have borders so insecure, how can you find the criminals, you're not seeing who anyone is. There's no way to vet people when the borders are like at just as soon as. Yeah, I mean, people are charging into the country and the only way you can possibly vet people is to stop them. Hold on, we'll check you out one by one. That's the only way you can do that. There is very little difference between a strong border law that's not enforced and a weak border law that's not enforced, but go ahead. Well, and a couple of years ago, I was just looking at the monthly figures of drug of impoundment and pounding front by the drugs we caught. And there were a few hundred like 200 pounds of fentanyl caught in one single month. And I think it was 200. It was several hundred pounds. And so I broke it down, I put my calculator on it, and I looked up the fatal dose, there was enough sentinel caught in one month coming across the border to kill every man woman and child in the United States. Why not surprise them? And that was what was caught not what got across. So if we don't have a secure border, obviously we can't stop criminals. We can't stop anyone, but most people come to work and Hispanics in the United States two thirds are born here. We do get the idea, I think, people who are not at the Spanish committee, especially looking from outside that, oh, all Hispanics are recent immigrants, not true. Two thirds born in this country, another 8 million Hispanics in this country have become citizens after having immigrated legally. So it's a population that's come to work. They're an asset to the country, but even they don't want a huge amount of more immigration. I mean, they want to moderate the flow. We see this as a poll, and they certainly want secure borders. Right. All right, Liza in Palo Alto, California. Good evening. It's always wonderful to listen to you, mister bohannon. Thank you. I have two comments. I'm just going to go back a little bit to your comment, your guests comments, your rob. Is that the guest name I don't want to be. Yes, Jim Robb. Yeah, go ahead. And to make sure I was correct. Okay. You have been talking about the black population and how they're more of a block as they were persecuted, et cetera. And I just want to comment on that because even 20, 30, 40s, blacks were very, very conservative. They had a nuclear family, et cetera. And then, of course, you had the great society where they were kind of giving checks to not have a man in the house. And that's what caused the breakdown and then a lot of you were being paid extra to have a child. So I think it was really the good values were rung out of them like a washcloth, but that's exactly you're right, but go ahead. Okay, I'll try to be brief. I mean, as you can tell, I'm a little worked up about this. So then, but of course, right now you are seeing blacks like as a Hispanics are realizing that, hey, we want a better life. We want self esteem. We want to have a job and build a life for ourselves, not just handouts. But let's move on to Hispanics now. The Hispanic and I work with a lot of them. But of course, I'm not going to make generalizations as you, your guests, so aptly said you can't generalize a group. But they are very conservative, Edward city is right next door to Palo Alto. You go there on a Sunday and they're all going to church. One thing that I will say is you haven't mentioned is that if you say to a Hispanic woman and I work with many of them, you want to take the man out of the house, they will put daggers in shoot daggers you. That is something it's a very strong sense of family. Yes, of course, all the other things. The border security crime, et cetera. But they are very and this whole thing of transgender and abortion and all of this. This really does not fit well with them. So I just wanted to give you that perspective. Okay, right. Fox, Jim rod. Well, that's right. Hispanics as a group take a dim view of gender politics, they don't like soft and enforcement of crime there. They're all about work. Work is in the American Dream is the key value family. But I can say this, the more religious, the Hispanics are, the more likely they are to be Republican, that if they're married, they're more likely to be republished. More likely to be Republican. If they've been here longer, it's the thing is that remarkable when I study this group over a period of years is not how different they are from Anglo or non Hispanic white Americans. It's how similar they are. The difference is begin to melt away after a couple of generations. And I think all the data shows that
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"Show one 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo. One 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 and here is dock in Wilmington, Delaware good evening. I have to have a contrary and viewer unfortunately to the senator. Senator I followed you for years, you're a brilliant man. Honorable man, moral man and a brain economist, specifically wrong. You did one good thing in your career and that was to open up the investment system of this country along with my great senator Lake race under Bill Roth to make the middle class millionaire to the stock market. What you ignore is the offshore banking system that lawyers and my own state have set up for decades to help the rich game the system to onshore offshore trusts and tax havens to legally evade taxes in places such as the British Virgin Islands, the Dutch west had these Switzerland Monaco. Your thoughts, sir. Well, first of all, that's illegal if that's what they're doing. The generally the legal use of all shore entities is when you've got nonprofits that are investing, they often invest through all shore enemies because they don't pay taxes. And it's a more efficient way of doing it. But the point is, the point I'm making is totally valid and that is if you add up the value of all transfer payments and you take into account all taxes, we overstate income inequality by 300%, we overstate poverty by 400% and income inequality is not rising. Now, people ask me, well, what about the underground economy? What about people that are engaging in illegal activities? We're not counting their income. But we don't have data on it. And so I'm not getting into speculation about who might cheat on their taxes or who might be earning illegal income, but on the data that we know the Census Bureau is grossly under counting income of lower income Americans and grossly over counting income of our income Americans, by not taking into account how much they pay in taxes. All right, to Steve in Atlanta good evening. Mister hannon, the senator, thanks for taking the call. So I think more succinct way except that I've loved how the center actually explains things. And quite eloquently and softly to people who might not understand. He is saying that it's probably in the best interest of the people in power in the RS to overstate or to excuse me, always have a subclass of people making less money than their actually making because we always hear on the radio and we hear on TV that this person that person actually has an income of $57,000, but the vast majority of it is from its welfare. She's one of those queens. What do they call them? Welfare queens. That's Ronald Reagan's term. Well, let me respond. Yeah, go ahead, senator. By saying, in the last 50 years, government transfer payments low income Americans has exploded and grown far more rapidly than the income of middle income working families. And as a result, when you count all the transfer payments and deduct all of the taxes, the bottom 60% of American owners in this country make almost the same income, have almost same income. And as a result, the bottom 20% of income earners are getting for not working about as much as they could get for working and over that 50 year period, the percentage of prime work age people that are actually working has fallen from 68% to 36%. We've had millions of people leave the labor market and they've gotten all the escalator that's the American opportunity system. They missed out on the American Dream and I think everybody's poor for it. Yeah, it's especially those of us who are subsidizing them. Yeah, exactly. But even those that are subsidized, you can't succeed in a miracle without being part of the system that breeds success, which is work. Yeah, but if they can get by and they don't have to lift a finger, I guess it's worth it to them. Well, we have got to have fuel remember during the Clinton administration. We reform one little piece of welfare, aid to families with dependent children, and it was a resounding success. Has the beneficiaries went to work, left welfare, they were better off. We need to take that reform system and apply to all means tested programs. If you're going to give people $45,400 a year, give families that amount of money. You're going to have to have a mandatory work requirement, or you're going to have huge numbers of people who simply choose not to work. And in the pandemic, as these programs have gone up, we now have people that are dropped out of the labor market from the middle income point. Yeah. And so the danger is who's going to pull the wagon when everybody's riding in it. I think that's the real danger for me. It certainly is. Here is Tommy and Charleston, West Virginia. Mister bohannon, senator emeritus said, grant. Gentlemen, please hold on to your hats if you're wearing them, I'm going to put this show and reverse and floor it all the way back to Graham rudman. And the Reagan administration and some really good things that happen with our tax law. I remember working going to college and working with adults some old enough to be my mother. Some older have to be my big sister. They don't want any hours, oh my God, we'll bump up a tax bracket. The two martini lunch and the itinerant fisherman who paid in zero taxes on the money. He was making a whole got wiped out. Mister rutt senator rudman, please tell me what? This is senator Graham, but go ahead. Same thing. Go ahead. What went wrong or right? With the tax law after Graham rudman, listen off the air. Okay, very good. Go ahead. Okay. Well, first of all, the Reagan program worked. We brought the inflation under control, we cut taxes, the economy started to grow again. We won the Cold War in terms of Graham woodman. Which was a bill that I passed in 1986. I couldn't get anybody to take the deficit seriously. And so I put together a bill that I had Congress vote on as part of raising the debt ceiling and it set out concrete targets for balancing the budget. And we made progress as long as the law was in effect, but part of the compromise in getting it adopted was that the new president
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"The Jim bohannon show at one 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo. One 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 in this day and age of the utterly ridiculous put forward was public policy. Sometimes you can actually get a good laugh out of a story. And two of the illegals flown by governor desantis of Florida to Martha's Vineyard filing a class action lawsuit against him is funny two ways over. One, it's funny because these arrogant snots have no concept of apparently the fact that we don't like people who break the law, at least some of us don't. And secondly, the idea that illegals thought up the notion of a class action lawsuit, oh, sure they did. Sure, they did. But in Chicago, good evening bud. Evening, Jim. These Democrats are really gone off the deep. I think they're sitting in front of watch and CNN. And Kevin a bowl of prescription medication and makes sense of every word. Of Biden's mouth. These aliens could be alien races from anywhere. We don't know what they've done. Why they why they're here, well, you can't possibly consider a border control when people come in by the thousands. Who are not even contacted by the authorities, people who are flown by your federal government at federal government taxpayers expense to American cities all across the country often landing in the middle of the night. And you can not possibly know who has desires to work in this country and noble enough desire if you had the right to be here, or who is a human trafficker. I mean a real human trafficker, not the idiot Democrats who claim that there's particular action flying the. Illegals to such hell holes as Martha's Vineyard are engaged in human trafficking, whether you're a drug trafficker, whether you're a terrorist, it's just remarkable. And again, as I say, to the best of my ability to look at the evidence, I believe the evidence would indicate that while nobody on the left is in favor of young people dying of fentanyl, nobody is in favor of terrorists coming into this country. Nobody is in favor of drug traffickers or human traffickers coming into this country. But, but they desperately want these people into the country and to turn them legally or otherwise in the voters. And if a few dead teenagers is the price to pay, well, that's acceptable collateral damage. I absolutely believe that. Liza in Palo Alto, California, good evening. Mister bohannon, I have to say you're a godsend may I also just say the lady who answers the phone at such a sweetheart. But oh yeah, she is. Readers define pine trees. She is such a sweetheart. I'm not kidding. But anyway, the reason I'm calling, if you recall, to this day, one of the indications they say about Trump and all supporters is what a racist is because he called Mexicans rapists all Mexicans rapists and murderers. Now, if you remember that statement, he was actually repeating what the president of Mexico two weeks earlier. They never report on that. Two weeks earlier, the president of Mexico because he made this agreement with Trump to keep them in Mexico until they came over. He said, fine, I'm going to let out everybody from prison. People going to prison. You can have good luck. And so Trump was basically mimicking that statement. But that aside, he didn't say all Mexicans as we know. He said no, he did not say that. But the reason I brought that up is because now we have the president of Venezuela, basically saying, in fact, he is letting out prisoners and putting them at the border. So I mean, it shows you the absurdity of it. I mean, if someone were to repeat what the president of Venezuela or Trump were to repeated, I guess again, they'd say we're racist. But in fact, that's what Fidel Castro did during the Mariel boat lift. He emptied his mental institutions in prison. That's exactly what he did. Absolutely. It's so horrifying. I can't even, I can't even believe it. I want to at times laugh about it because you have to, but it is so appalling. And I just hope and pray with all my heart that somehow people will come to their senses and they go to vote in 2022 and see beyond just the sound bites. I mean, I listen sometimes to earlier on your station, I can't even believe some of the people what they call and then say. And it scares me because there's no discernment at all. They just hear something they repeat it and that's all they want to know. That's it. You can put the facts in it as much as I could ascertain and they don't hear it. And it's really frightening. It's really frightening to me. But I have to say, having you to come home to and listen at night helps me to keep my sanity. So I appreciate it. Well, that's very kind and I appreciate that Liza. Thank you very much for that. One 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo one 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6. And there are a lot of very simplistic people in this country. That's quite true. There are also people who have shall we say an agenda and it certainly isn't remotely what any of the rest of us are after. And part of it does involve a certain tearing down. Of our society to rebuild it in a way that meets their approval. Yeah, we have a few problems. All right, Steve, and angier North Carolina, good evening. Hey mister. I'm hoping on your expertise to get that answer on this. I've heard my mind was here in the Cubans will come across our southern border. So in the other countries, this is coming. In the comment denominator, Mexico's well, that they're coming across the border with Mexico, that's true. I mean, I guess you could call that a common denominator. To find a hunk of land that Jason to the United States that is at Canada, you pretty much have to come through Mexico. Yeah. I'm trying to get an answer to the question is how are these people getting from the country today and all the way across Mexico into the United States? That's why I say it in the comment denominator. Mexico. Well, it is. I mean, I don't know what the Mexicans are doing or not doing. They're obviously not doing a very good job of controlling who travels through the country. I mean, we've had an entire caravans of people from Central America to the U.S. southern border. So obviously the Mexicans are not exactly shall we say concerned about our southern border, but why should they be we're not? I mean, I mean, that would be my answer. If I were if I were the president of Mexico, I would say, no, we're not concerned about your southern border. Neither are you when you start getting concerned, we will as well. I'm not sure that they have ever offered such an answer, but it would be very fitting. More to come one 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo one 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 back in a moment. Preparing for what comes next
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"FBI, what do you call the rising looming power of the national security state? It's happened all over the place. If you want to pay cash versus the world for I want you to know that if you take more than $5000 out of the bank, more than $4 billion 900 million of the bank, you could have the fed's knock on your door that is tracked down by the Treasury Department and by the federal agencies are to the Patriot Act, which is. Opt by Congress every single year it's been up. How much money is the trigger point Doc? To my knowledge, mister bohannon, Jim 5, $4999. So if I want to buy a bunch of guns cash, that transaction taken out of my ATM or taken out of the bank inside the bank is our mega report to the federal government. It's to say $5000 or more is reported. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. Stephen. Well, I'm going to say, I don't know what to tell you, except that you might not want to put all your money in the bank. And then what happened during COVID in Australia, where they turned around and they just took people's money out of the bank and stuff, if you didn't get your shot, you know, the government has the power just to take the money out of your bank account. If you don't get your shot, that's what happened in Australia. And so maybe they're trying to encourage us not to put our money in the bank. That would not be a good idea for the economy. Anyway, more to come. But you know, think about it. Yeah. Stephen will for our guest. More to come on the Jimbo had a show one 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo and more calls in a moment. For by government dot com. Have you heard the United States mint has issued the Morgan silver dollar for the first time in 100 years, not only that, but they are also minted in 99.9% pure silver for the first time ever in history. Coin experts are calling this an amazing opportunity for anyone that
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"Sagar Meghani reports that official Washington is joining in the morning. At The White House. The inflation reduction act. We're spokeswoman karine Jean Pierre's briefing was interrupted with the news of the queen's passing. Our hearts and our thoughts go to the family members. President Biden canceled an event due to start minutes later, and issued a statement calling the queen more than a monarch. A stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy. Barack Obama knows her generosity and warmth. Donald Trump, her unwavering devotion to country. One where Senate democratic leader Chuck Schumer says most people have never lived without her. She was a rock. The living embodiment of the virtues that lie at the core of the nation, she's so proudly led. Sagar Meghani, Washington. And we will be speaking in this portion of the program with Lauren conlin, host of the Lauren interviews and commentator. Let's start with a call from Liza in Palo Alto, California, good evening. Good evening, mister bohannon. Boy, that was a treat. Just a humanize that was so much fun just imagining the humor between president Reagan and Queen Elizabeth dancing to lady and the tramp that was wonderful. I had a comment. It's kind of referred to your very first guess. She was talking as were you talking about the fact that she knew how to fix a car and she was kind of very humbled despite her incredible upbringing and she was a princess. But I wanted to just give a little I don't exactly know what the status of the family is feeling so that I knew someone who was England and he was his sister ran a little millinery shop where apparently the queen bought off her custom made hats or a lot of them over the years. And apparently she was incredibly devout Catholic and she said once that she took the queen was the queen was, of course, the head of the Church of England. Right. And yes, exactly. And she said that she took the relationship with God above her throne and England. And I think that probably, but she was particularly, of course, she was the head of the church, but her faith was so and I think that's probably gave her a humbling feel. I mean, she sensed that she was no better because in the eyes of God were all the same. So I think that allows her to not only be very appealing, but you get what I'm saying. I think she fell on the queen, but I'm a child of God. And that's why. I think that there's much truth, probably, of what you say, Lauren conlin your thoughts. Hi, how's it going? Thanks for having me. Yes, indeed. Yeah, you know, I am just, I was not expecting this today to say the least and you know, I'm thinking of the UK right now as they just go through this crazy time of transition, you know? I mean, I don't want to harp on the timing too much, but you know, the timing is not great with a new prime minister, and I just, you know, I just feel like things are about to get very, very hectic. Well, certainly, it is a period of some turbulence without question, including, of course, the presence of prince Harry, but not Meghan at the queen's website. That was shocking to me. Well, you know what, Jim, I guess not those shocking considering the tumultuous relationship that Meghan Markle had with Queen Elizabeth. But, you know, I'm thinking to myself, prince Harry, maybe should have requested that Megan stand by his side. What do you think? Personally, I think it was a wise decision to keep her away. This is the queen at the time, was presumably struggling on her potential deathbed. I think keeping Meghan Markle out of the room was a very compassionate thing to do. Here's a call from Joel and the Johnson City Tennessee good evening Joe. Good evening. I have nothing profound to add with being 77 years old and having had an admiral's ten inch television in The Bronx. We were the second person second family on the block to have one. 1952 and I remember it. Ed van Hillary was about to break the one minute mile a little bit later and the Hillary was the guy who climbed Mount Everest. Mount Everest. I never. And Edmund Hillary was about and banister was about to break the one minute mile. The format. Yes, exactly. Excuse me. It is late for me. Of course. And gorgeous George was the wrestler. That's all you could get. When the coronation occurred, that same year, Christine Jorgensen returned from, I think, Sweden or whatever for the first sex change operation. But nothing on television came close. To the coronation, I believe it was the first international broadcast. It might well have been certainly television was very early, obviously, and very probably was. I would imagine, yeah. It was an astounding event, even on a ten inch television. Everybody just huddles around and there we were suddenly in England. So she came in with a bang across the airwaves. And it was quite something. And it's just fascinating. I remember back and now she's dead and of course I remember when she was in the car nation. Anyway, I just thought I'd add that. Times have changed and she went and that many years, what is it almost 70 years or something? Well, 70 years that she was on the throne that is a correct little over 70 as a matter of fact. So yes, you do put things in perspective, Joel. Sharon and crane, Missouri, good evening. Good evening, Kim. Queen Elizabeth came in to her duties at a time when Great Britain had not recovered from World War II yet. A lot of people think the war was over and everything was hunky Dory in great debt and it wasn't the people were they had a lot of trouble eating because everything was in short supply. The country was trying to recover from the devastation of the war. She lost her father that she adored and she took her duty with great seriousness. And she realized how much she meant to the people as a sense of continuity. There is a thousand years of history behind her and she took all of that extremely seriously. When you stop and think that she was queen of England for a third of the time that a country has been in a distance, it makes things a little bit clearer. She brought Ireland into Great Britain. They didn't, you know, they had a lot of problems in Great Britain.
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"Is Jerome in New York City good evening. Yes, good evening, Mysterio Hannah. What I'm what I want to say is that the Supreme Court struck down to New York law of 1913, I believe it was limited anyone's ability to have a gun unless they could show proper and profound cause while they would need one protection or whatever. The thing is now that that law was struck down, New York governor local came back and responded with a strict set of rules for anyone who wants to obtain a gun further to fiscal permit carry. She said you got to go through social media checks. You've got to have four people you could have bring forward as with assist your character and so on and so on a whole constellation of things. Now, the problem is she also said that certain areas of New York will be gone freed if you're in there with a handgun whether you have a permit, you're going to get arrested. And just out of curiosity, what areas of New York are considered gun free. Well, she set the areas a New York City as churches, schools, large places of public gathering and especially a place in the midtown of New York all time square. Okay. All right, just curious. Okay. Aiding. Isn't she actually aiding the criminals because she's advertised to use a gun for zones and you can't go in there if you have a proper license embedded. You know what I mean? Well, certainly everybody should have a sign outside of their home or business that reads gun free zone come in and rob us. Lee. Yeah, the decision is New York State rifle and pistol association versus Bruin, and it was a major victory. Certainly the most, the biggest victory I've seen. And there is so much coming out of that in has yet to be defined hopeful and the 7 states that are incredibly anti gun started throwing up all this crap once Bruin was decided, she's going to make it as difficult as possible for people to exercise their Second Amendment. We will be I work for the Second Amendment foundation. I have no doubt at some point we will be crossing swords with our legally, we have active litigation last time I checked in 35 states. Bruins should overcome a lot of that. And it should have overcome this whole show cause crap while you have to show that you're such a good person. The government should grant you it's a constitutional right to have a pistol. So there's more coming on that. Yes, the Times Square sign. That's huge. That's going to result in blood that will be on governor hochul's hands. That's a tremendous target for foreign bad guys. It's always full of people, 24/7, and she would rather have dead constituents than safe constituents in my humble opinion. To Jim and Danbury, Connecticut, good evening. Good evening. My question is quite simple. I guess the Second Amendment man does have the right to bear arms, but what that doesn't come with a little responsibility on the part of the gun owner and also the gentleman selling the gun case in point of all these sector shootings are 18 year old kid board guns for but he also bought a 12 hour investment. He plans on having fire returned. I would have alerted the police. All right, thoughts, Lee. Yeah, some people have said that they looked at that. The fact that the gundam was 18, when I was 18, I was in the army. We have a lot of young Americans who serve this country 18, 19 and 20. Raising that age to purchase a firearm for 21 is unconstitutional. You reach the age of majority at 18. There's millions more good folks out there that young age buying firearms than there are bad guys. And I look at, as I said earlier, you've already was a failure of law enforcement. And again, not only that, but looking at. Just the sheer notion, well, different point I'll bring it up later. All right, Eliza in Palo Alto, California. Good evening, mister bohannon and mister Williams, wonderful program. I just got distracted for a second with what just came up that you've all these shooter actually passed. They did a complete background check on him. So the failure might have been elsewhere that they didn't catch the mental health issues, but he did pass the gun a complete background check. Anyway, the reason I'm calling is that the gentleman who called earlier, I'm in California. And I'm a little upset because this is the first time in my life I've ever known somebody personal. Personally, wonderful man who was shot just going in to get a lot of water coming out of a convenience store and someone just drove by and shot for whatever reason maybe Cred for a gang. Who knows? But anyway, what they're doing in California and I wonder, Billy gallery, I mean, maybe I'm wrong, and I'm just a mister Williams. If you commit a robbery, let's say. And the old days are good old days. And you had a gun with you. I think it was elevated to arm robbery. Now garcetti, this guy who was the AG in San Francisco now. He wants to completely eliminate any extra charges, if you will. I'm not using the right terminology. If you're carrying a gun, it's a relevant. I mean, of course, they'll get out anyway in two days for whatever they did. But that and also the fact that, of course, you can steal anything you want up to a $1000. And then they wonder why all the stores stores have to close. So I mean, it's to your point, mister Williams, the idea that the problem is with law abiding gun owners is ludicrous. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you for the question. It's a good question. Regarding the, he passed the background check. I've always said background checks tell what you did, not what you're going to do. And I'm so sorry to hear about your friend getting hurt and getting shot. I wish he had the means to defend himself. Better. Yeah. And guns should be an enhancer for a crime. And this crap is not going to go away until we start putting people in jail for extended period of time. Especially if there is a crime of violence and even more so for firearms involved. Jim and Danbury, Connecticut, good evening. We already talked to Jim. All right, dude, we'll be back with more in a moment. The
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"You're listening to now enthusiastically endorses the bob sarot morning shore. Welcome back to the Jimbo had it show one 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo here's Paul and Lansing Michigan good evening Good evening. I just want to make my quarterly announcement that this is just another move to distract us from something they're doing better. Okay, any thoughts as to what it is that this is supposed to distract us from everything from the day he was installed. He who too many pronouns. Oh, bye. Joe Biden. Every day from the day he was inaugurated. Install, whatever. I mean, yeah, although everything from Afghanistan to the economy to well, we have stories on that all the time, but maybe we should do some more of them, Paul. Mark is driving an 18 Wheeler from Georgia to Florida. Yes, sir, how are you doing, mister bohannon? Fine. Thank you. I'll try to make sweet and simple. This may sound crazy, but you know the way the liberals are socialist supposedly pushing their gin and breaking all these rules and laws. It makes me kind of wonder to them not really worried about the primary is like they might have something up their sleeve that we don't know about. It's kind of scary thinking about it. Well, you just be sure you vote and then we'll see how those come out. I'm guessing that the November elections will find things not looking very good for the Democrats. Will and feeder rapids Iowa good evening. Hey, Jimbo. Thanks for taking the call. Two things real quick. I wanted your opinion on the possibility that how many people are walking around with pocket cards already. And they know what Joe Biden really the puppet that he's at now at this point. They could be right in those left and right knowing that they're going to skate. He's too demented to put him under interrogation and my second. I'm not sure what you're saying here. Granted that Joe is showing some signs of cognitive difficulties, but what are you saying? I'm saying is that how many people have already been assured given here's a sign one will fill it in. A sign assigned one, assigned assigned what? Apart. Oh, I have no idea. I have absolutely no idea. John and vero beach Florida good evening. Yes, good evening, Jim. God bless you for your honest show. Thank you. Yes. I'm disabled veteran. And I have a basic question, why did they deny Donald Trump's president Trump's attorneys access while they were in their searching home, why did they not be able to witness the items being confiscated? I don't know. That's a very good question, one that I would like to see answered in the very near future, John. I don't have an answer to that. But it was not certainly a mandatory procedure in many cases such searches have taken place with the occupants of the home and others representing that home right there watching them go about it. So good question, let's hope we get an answer or two. Rob in the calabash, North Carolina. Hi. Hi, Jim. Welcome back. Thank you. I saw a little bit ago that said breaking news Elon Musk offered to buy the FBI for $100 billion. It went on to say that the word had been heard from the clintons on whether they wanted to sell it. Once upon a time I would have said, what the heck are you talking about? These days I can only laugh and maybe cry. That's very funny, rob. Unfortunately, it's sad, but it's also funny. You gotta laugh sometimes. You gotta laugh sometimes. All right, Morty come will be back
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"Welcome back to the Jim bohannon show as we talked with the author of China hand Scott space ex I understand you to say that's not your real name. It is a pseudonym. For all the reasons you've listed about I'd rather keep my personal personal life out of the crosshairs of China and Chinese nationalists. I can certainly understand that. Now then I had to ask you and you were about to answer when the clock intervened. I had asked about the fact that this threat to shoot down House speaker Pelosi's airplane was not the first time such intemperate rhetoric has come from what sounded like an official Chinese source. Chinese general a few years ago, when Taiwan had again become a major issue, wondered how the United States would react to a missile being lobbed into Los Angeles. And you were about to respond. So please go ahead. Well, yes, the broader question I think I understood you asking was about Chinese nationalism and Taiwan and yes, some of these threats that they've launched. And three tests that I was going to give a slightly longer, longer story. It's just to try to put I do see the way that the Taiwan situation is reported in the press. And usually the articles come from one side or another. I'll try to provide a balanced perspective. I'll try to provide my view, it's a little long winded, but I'll try to keep it punchy. The reality is the history of China is quite complicated, right? Much of this predates the People's Republic of China. Imperial China. So before 1949, was in fact invaded and parts of it taken away by colonial powers. So the French, the British, the U.S. were involved in taking territory in Shanghai or obviously Hong Kong, there were different concessions they were called to the colonial powers. And in Taiwan, itself was taken by the Japanese as a prize as a concession from the Sino Japanese war. And I think 1894, 95. So China was the victim of colonialism and when the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, they vowed to reunify what certainly they view as historical China. And you can debate exactly what historical China could be, but even that is complicated because unlike you could say modern nation states, imperial China often had this kind of tributary relationship with kingdoms or cultures that were part of China. I don't know. They were certainly sort of related to Chinese culture. But anyway, China has vowed to reunify the historical China. That's just the way they view it. And we can debate it. But I certainly see certainly some merit to their view that China was a victim in the past. And even the Taiwanese government is basically the legacy of the Chinese Civil War, when the Taiwanese government Taiwan side was on the losing side, the nationalists, they fled to Taiwan and they remained the government there. And the U.S. has helped over the since World War II since the Chinese Civil War, the U.S. has helped prevent the communists from invading Taiwan. So where does that leave us today? We're in a situation where for many years, consistently, China has said they are going to reunify even the Taiwanese, I should say, believe that Taiwan is part of Mainland China, the Taiwanese constitution just argues that Mainland China should be part of the Taiwanese government run by the Taiwanese government. So it is complicated. Where do I come out? I certainly do not believe in use of force. I certainly believe there should be some right of self determination and democracy and there should not be a use of force to reunify or take over Taiwan. That said, the Chinese are deadly serious about that. They genuinely believe that the U.S. is interfering in a domestic issue in China and trying to split the country and I do think they'd go to war over it. So where does that leave us? Well, I do think the U.S. should be deterring war with China. But war would be a complete disaster. We speak, we as Americans seem to sort of. Carelessly sometimes get into these conflicts with no way out and I struggle. I'm not saying that China would the 50 U.S. and award, but I do not see how a war with China ends because they are very determined. And so what my second point would be in addition to deterrence, the best way to deter is to have a very strong military. I believe in Teddy Roosevelt's speak softly, but carry a big stick. Sometimes I think the U.S. tends to speak loudly, but not back that up, particularly in Asia with the military capabilities required. So whenever you read the war gaming, the U.S. doesn't fare so well these days in a conflict with shining and war games, we still seem distracted in the Middle East and Russia and I'm just saying if we're going to do things that could well provoke a real war with China, the U.S. better be prepared and I frankly don't see the U.S. particularly prepared for what a conflict with China could look like. No, I think you've spoken very realistically. I would agree. I had some questions on that. But here, let's see Stephen and Atlanta calls in. Hello Steven. Mister bohannon. Yes. I am thrilled, and I think you know the smile on my face and the thrill in my eyeballs. If you were looking at me about the fact that you were back. And not that I didn't enjoy your guess. I mean, your hosts that you're away. But I mean, you're just such a kind and a kind and wonderful person, as thoughtful and I just damn it, that is awesome. I thought that you were something was wrong with you. Really wrong with you, of course they don't tell us anything. Well, I had a health issue, which for the moment is put aside, and I appreciate your sentiments very much as Stephen. Did you have anything for our guest? Yeah, I do. Okay. Okay. So,
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"On 7 20 Welcome back to Jimbo had a show one 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo one 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 series janey in brownville Nebraska good evening And my question is I honestly don't understand why the price is at the pump because here in Nebraska Kansas Iowa and Missouri some of the largest producers in their reducing more of it now instead for food for ethanol fuel and we've been burning that for the last two decades and it's worked effectively So in other words we're making our own fuel and it's been working the point for the last couple of years It was low until this deal with Russia now with this invasion and I don't understand why that there are supply chain problems that have arisen number one and number two even ethanol is not mostly alcohol ethanol is mostly gasoline with the additives alcohol additives added Canon council bluster Nebraska good evening Thanks for taking my call Jim I got to know what might be conspiracy theory Simple man that doesn't get information 24/7 But I get a couple hours at the end of every day So most of my information comes from you and so my question is I haven't heard anybody ask a question like this But if our president and his son are up to their ears or corruption and the leader of Ukraine presidential is part of that problem and Putin has been a middleman and politics in America for almost a generation Well Putin is not a middleman in politics in America That would be a vast overreach Putin as the gadfly an irritant and while there is certainly considerable evidence to indicate Biden family corruption both in Ukraine and in China but there's no indication the candidate that has anything to do with the current conflict which is simply a Vladimir Putin wanting to feel nice and safe and secure at night because he's very upset that the western powers have designs on Russia despite the fact that in the entire existence of NATO 73 years we have never attacked either the Soviet Union or its client states in the Warsaw Pact one time Sandra and Dothan Alabama now good evening Hey good evening I didn't hear your program tonight and so just recently I tuned in So I've got a couple questions for you One is could it possibly happen that we will end up with a lot of refugees from the Ukraine since our troops are over in Poland help them with the refugees now And then another question is this with the possibility be that the United States will end up rebuilding the Ukraine So that's my question for you Okay well number one the refugees I guess it's possible my guess is most of the refugees would probably be somewhere in Europe but that's only speculation on my part We really don't know in terms of rebuilding No that's the Russians are taking it over The last thing they want is any American interference with that noise The Russians broke it The Russians are going to have to fix it One 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo one 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 and is Brad and Dallas good evening Sir pleasure talking to you Thank you I'm curious Putin is like an Napoleon complex He's no better than Adolf Hitler and a leader of North Korea right now Why has there not ever been a contract put out to take him out A very good question Well for one thing I suppose that there's probably a reluctance on the part of world leaders to open the door to that kind of behavior and make themselves vulnerable and two Vladimir Putin is shall we say extremely well protected Sharon and crane Missouri hello Sharon Hello Jim And first of all I need to apologize for my rent earlier this week Oh I don't recall either needed an apology but whatever This has been a real hard week for everybody to deal with Yes I am I am being told by the left and the liberals in this country now that it is my duty to get behind President Biden because he's being so brave and standing up to Russia And it is my duty to support him in his policies My hair is no longer present because it's burnt completely up I do my duty as a citizen of this country because I vote I show up for jury duty I pay my taxes I'll pay the loss But where were those people in the last four years supporting the president that I voted for They were not available because they didn't support him Now you have a duty They have no duties whatsoever Well I am really tired of them and I know it doesn't mean it would be to them but I'm not the only person on here who is a quote unquote common person not a person who is a pearl wearer and I did not go to the best schools in this country but I get a better education listening to your show on a nightly basis and I am constantly amazed at the intelligence of the people that call into your show and the quality of the guests Well I'm certainly impressed by them I don't guess I'm amazed that I am impressed yes Thank you very much Thank you I'm going to get my master's degree and it's going to be because of you Well I'm glad to hear that Sharon Thank you very much I will treat Biden as I've treated other presidents I'll support him when I think he's right and I will oppose you when I think he's wrong I think his approach regarding sanctions is generally a good approach I don't think he's doing enough and hasn't done it soon enough but and certainly the posture of weakness that he is portrayed starting with Afghanistan and going in a lot of other directions certainly I think opened the door for Putin to think he could get away with this So I would oppose him there Steven Atlanta hello Steve Mister bohannon it's such a pleasure to talk on your show and thank you so much for providing all of us a forum to discuss these current topics during these strange times I love how that last caller paints everybody on one side with such a broad brush That's an issue on both sides I support any president when he does what I agree with and I think is right And I try not to paint everybody with a broad brush and I think she's a little too angry anyhow I remember the last president but enough to this guy Putin and I think that's a mutual admiration on their parts for the kind of bully side a half I also think Joe Biden's a fool and the way he's behaving But I remember Trump butting up to this guy and being pally with him and how weird that felt So I think it's less of a weak policy with Mexico's border More so that he didn't want to embarrass his buddy on his watch And right now I'm really scared about all of this Thank you so much Thank you for your thoughts I would note before we pause briefly and come back with more calls Yes Donald Trump has had some things to say Rhapsodizing about his relationship with Putin he liked me I liked him He's praised him as a man of charm a lot of pride who loves his country blah blah blah And a strong individual That particularly rubs me the wrong way Donald Trump well it's not the first time or the only example that he needs to think before he blurts And his praise of Vladimir Putin was ill placed ill placed I mean I'm sure Hitler could be charming too but that hardly is.
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"And the savage number will learn more about those in a moment but she was giving us a bit of a tutorial on the student loan situation Starting with something called sallie Mae please continue Well I was just pointing out that a lot of you who have older loans and are stuck paying old high interest rates are seeing some changes Sally May before 2010 made those loans in 2014 They created a kind of a subsidiary to collect and service on those loans that was called navia Navient agreed with the attorneys general that it did some horrible things And just ante up $1.7 billion in loans forgiveness only unfortunately to people who are in default And those who are still paying will soon see that their loans are no longer serviced by Navient You want to believe that that means that you get out of most of the serving business So they have a couple of companies including advantage And you may be getting a letter from your student loan servicer It's the same loan that's been passed around a lot but now it will be serviced by probably maximus or advantage and I think the students of America have been given a raw deal all the way through on these loans and it started pretty much when the government took over making them directly And made loans to people who could never repay them And have continued to collect interest on them and their servicers that they designated have done some horrible things adding huge interest payments and touting them into repayment plans that weren't appropriate And that's part of what this lawsuit said All right call from Frank and Cumberland Maryland for Terry savage hello Frank This is the change of topic I don't want to mess up here but if interest rates go up on the national debt the U.S. will be bankrupt And the explanations for the metastasizing national data given by mister bohannon don't wash if large corporations if The New York Times and The Washington Post if religions would tell people and start raising pain the politicians would have to do something about the national debt But if we keep going we're done for Well a lot of people frankly don't know about it and frankly don't care about it as long as there's something in it for them whether or not it's sustainable is not of concern to many people unfortunately So will I clean up my act Why don't you go ahead Terry and offer your thoughts Well you said somebody out there was listening to your question and said wait we already are bankrupt We're not bankrupt as long as we can print the money As you well know sir printing the money is inflation So the point I thought you were going to make is why have interest rates been kept so low Oh the feds get them low to help the economy That's it mandates to keep the economy going through COVID But think about who benefits most from low interest rates We have a 28 maybe 29 probably in the next 12 months It will be a $30 trillion national debt Who calls those migo numbers that stands for my eyes glaze over But we pay interest on net national debt and as old maturing treasury bills and notes come do every week and every month We refinance those And when interest rates go up the biggest cost the biggest burden is going to be on the U.S. government which has to pay all that interest So you're right that we are in quicksand deep quicksand or just at least pretty much ankle deep in it right now To James and Lexington Nebraska good evening All right game to Terry I want to know who covered $2.5 trillion federal note note for I'm sorry are we losing you James who covered the $2.5 trillion federal notes for and then I didn't hear anything else Are you talking about the cost of some recent bills that have been before Congress I'm not quite sure which note you're talking about James maybe Terry knows but the rest of us I don't think do which note are you talking about Well the last debt increased was $2.5 trillion Well that goes on the den and it sits there and it collects interest And of course paying interest on the federal tat is one of the largest expenditures in the government but there can give a more learned answer for you This is interesting Who buys all those treasury every week of treasury bills three and 6 months and one year treasury bills and treasury notes are sold to your notes ten year notes They do that to borrow the money As I said we have a $28 trillion national debt and what that is is all our IOUs that we've sold and which we pay interest on And as people doubt our credit the interest rates could go up but the funniest thing is despite all of our problems political problems COVID problems we are still the least worst place to invest in the whole world In fact in Germany and Europe citizens are so scared of what's going on in their economy that the interest rates there are negative whereas so in other words you literally can make more money by burying your money in a mason jar in the backyard than you can by putting it in the bank People put money in the banks knowing they'll get back a little less but it's safe in between Now so we're buying all our treasury bills and I'll come back It was just announced I think we have the most recent numbers but in September foreigners foreign countries foreign central banks own almost $8 trillion worth of US Treasury securities So especially Japan and China those are the biggest buyers of our debt This is really interesting This helping finance our spending There they're buying leverage over us in the case of the Japanese that would be minor in the case of the Chinese that's major And the idea that the Chinese should be able to make us dance to their tune I mean I can't imagine anything more like what Vladimir Lennon said when it comes time to hang all the capitalists they shall be found bidding on the rope Wait wait wait We send a lot of money over to China Trillions of dollars And stuff we buy there And we just buy stuff there You know that We all know that now because hard to get it and the shipping is held up So they get these dollars and they look around and say oh what are we going to do with these And they've been gracious enough to reinvest them in our debt So it's an interesting end of the old fashioned seesaw We have done but they have a way of them Yeah it's purely economic transaction that might very well be the end of it but it of course is not For the record by the way the U.S. national debt as I speak is 29 trillion 819 billion 908 million that's about to hit 909 even as I speak because the hundreds of.
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"Welcome back to Jimbo Hanna Joe at one 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo one 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 it was largely an uneventful January 6th of 2022 with remarks made at the capital by the president and the vice president with the presence of two Republicans in the House chamber Liz Cheney of Wyoming and her father the former vice president Dick Cheney And we are speaking with Mark Fisher senior editor at The Washington Post and with the Jimmy in New Bedford Massachusetts good evening You know I take great offense to advice president Kamala Harris comparing to what happened on January 6th last year to the Attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7th 1941 when we were attacked by a imperial Japan and we lost nearly 3000 of our young sailors It's foolishness And the comparison was certainly inapt but to say that it wasn't a terrible tragedy what occurred a year ago I think would be a mistake The fact that she's not too good with metaphors notwithstanding Jimmy We have Jim boas We have the extremes The far left and the far right that don't represent the American people And that's why Washington is in a mess Well I would agree with you I think that in fact we have a lot of that and of course we can look at all of the apologies made for all of the violence that racked American cities in the months that have preceded this period of time in which total anarchy and the city of Seattle was called the summer of love et cetera and so on inexcusable stupidity of great depth and none of it none of it excuses what took place at the U.S. capitol It's another example of the people who seem to have lost all common sense in my view of Mark Fisher but again that would be the equivalent of Spiro Agnew resigning by saying well look at all the other people who took bribes That doesn't excuse what he did Well that's certainly true On the other hand I think the comparison of January 6th to 9 11 and Pearl Harbor and the other such markers of American history I think this is a pretty good one Well except for a little thousands of lives lost Yeah but that's not the point The point is the threat to the country and to the sense of unity the sense of common purpose And so across history we see that these signal moments that take place that change the course of our country's progress these are all very much in line with one another And what January how it differs from those other markers is in that it failed to bring people together But I can't disagree with that Fair enough Steve and lawrenceville Georgia good evening Mister bohannon thanks for taking my call Sure I appreciate the fact that you have a lot of these leftists in lifts or dams I guess on your show because it gives us a chance to have people of all stripes on my show Steve And if you're a regular listener I'm sure you know that Yeah and I appreciate that Okay well thank you Almost can get these folks on So if you don't mind please don't cut me off I'm going to make a little statement and then I'm going to ask both of you to ask answer a question about whether or not you agree with something that I think should be our new voting Let's get to it Yeah All right So I totally believe 100% that China hacked our voting machines And there were drops in the middle of the night in four swing districts in four different states that changed the vote hundreds of thousands of votes where Trump was winning and then all of a sudden while the voting polls were closed Those places were closed And the digital drop got made into the voting machines So and I believe that because I watched the four documentaries that Mike lindell made Now the question knowing that or even thinking that or even thinking that's even a possibility where we can't even look at the software coding on these machines I think it is necessary to get rid of all the living machines and go to an email system email email you're opening the door to the worst possible form of interference I mean these things aren't all hooked up like they would be on email Steve I mean my God That's worse than ballot harvesting I understand that where you think that might not work but it worked okay Go ahead Let me explain Let me explain how briefly briefly okay it's easily canvas which is beautiful because before the certification you can easily canvas it They have to give you their address their phone number the social security number their email address and they could possibly lie on that We are short of time I want our guest to weigh in and I would simply note by the way that it's fine to believe what you wish it to free country but until we see proof to that and I'll remain the highly skeptical And I would also note that the ballots that were counted in most states they tended to count the mail in ballots first which tended to be predominantly the day's votes first which tended to be Republican And then they started counting the mail in ballots which tended to be democratic and that caused a lot of the changes in the momentum of the vote count but I'll defer to Mark Fisher Yes that's exactly right That's how it counts work in every place because you get an immediate count of the ballots from that day's machines And then it takes a longer time to hand count the mail in ballots which is obviously a more cumbersome process So those both come in later But I would disagree that listener has the right to believe what he wants about a matter of fact We all have the right to disagree about matters of opinion Matters of interpretation But the counting of the ballots is a simple matter of fact And there have been numerous audits now in state after state all of which have confirmed Biden's victories There's been no evidence whatsoever other than raw assertions of any fraud And I think listeners should kind of ask himself why would you only see fraud in elections where someone who didn't want to win wins Why would their fraud why would there be front at all elections Why wouldn't there is broaden all of which Number one number two of course we can recall Hillary Clinton doubting that she lost to Donald Trump following 2016 So it's hardly confined to Republicans Right Exactly This is something that losing candidates have done since the beginning of the republic But this is an extreme version of that And it's based on pure assertion without any evidence because no one is claiming that the down ballot elections below that of president were fraudulent even though they were the same ballots on the same machines cast by the same people counted by the same people in the same process and yet only the presidential result is being challenged at everything else on the same ballot as somehow accepted That doesn't make any sense That does take care of our time by the way and we think Mark Fisher for joining us I would simply note that we are talking here about practices which need to be closely watched Don't forget that Carter baker commission on elections some years ago which did come out in favor of the notion of mail in ballots was heavily against the notion of ballot harvesting which has been made a legal practice in the state of California 30 the door has.
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"At each of the shows as we talked with professor gizi quick granville of Johns Hopkins about the ami cron variant of COVID-19 and the Jonathan calls in from Atlanta good evening Jonathan Good evening First time caller mister bohannon it's a honor to talk to you You are the best you're a legend and it's a pleasure to talk to the doctor real quick So my boss got the vaccine and my mother in law got the vaccine and my wife and I wanted to do a little experiment So we put a magnet because we heard that magnets were sticking to the injection site And this is the God's honest truth No lie at all I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it So we put a magnet on my boss's arm and my mother in law's arm and the magnet stuck like on my on my boss's arm the magnet almost jumped onto the injection site So with that being said is there something in the vaccine that might be metallic and or a possibility of a graphene oxide in the vaccine And I will hang up and listen And again it's an honor Thank you very much Thank you for your call I've never heard of that one before a professor grandville No there's nothing that causes your body to become more magnetic Whether anything else is going on there with what kind of lotion they're using or whatever I can't say but the vaccines do not cause people to become more magnetic All right Brad and.