This is the FCB Podcast Network. Our braids all mesoda tay that we won't to stay. Then we won't to say, oh we gott it does. No one can take that away. Gonna be okay, o braids asoda that we won't to say and then we won't to say, oh we gott it does. No one can take that away to be okay. Well, hello everybody, welcome to another episode of Just Listen to Yourself. This is a Signal Gate the Signal Gate episode, and we're gonna talk about what has been going on in the media with Signal Gate. And I've been trying to see if I can get this live stream up and running, but I don't see it going. We'll see not quite okay, Well, the show my go on. Welcome to another episode of Just Listen to Yourself. This will go to YouTube. I actually just tried to set it up for a live stream and apparently I did not get all of the connection correct. Surprise, surprice, you may be surprised to hear it. That's fine. This neither here nor there. We're gonna keep going because we've got a lot to talk about today. I wanted to make today's episode on about discernment, and I've been thinking about a lot about that lately, and then this signal gate thing came up, and I thought, Okay, this is a great opportunity for this is a great opportunity for us to fold in this idea of discernment into what's going on. And if you just stick with me, I think you'll get where I'm going here. You'll pick up what I'm laying down. But let's just do some housekeeping first. Of course, you should subscribe to this podcast now. If you are watching this video on the YouTube channel, you're probably a fan of the audio podcast as well, and you may be wondering why the content on the YouTube channel seems different from the content on the feed, and that is because FCB Network, which is my network, has some really big things going on. My producer, DARBYO, has been working NonStop on a radio station in Cleveland, where our home base is. I'm very proud of him, but as you can imagine, getting a radio station up and running is a huge endeavor, so he has been completely engaged with that. And rather than bother him constantly, I'm still making my content and I've been needing to build up this YouTube channel for a while anyway, So I'm taking it as an opportunity to learn how to do these other streams, these other avenues of communication in a more effective way, because Kiri Davis is not going to survive if she doesn't figure out the YouTube thing. And I've been threatening to do it forever, but I'm finally doing it. So sometimes God's got to give you a shove before you'll do it. I'm know Megan Kelly. Yesterday, Megan Kelly came out and told us that she is starting her own media now work, which would be my dream, no offense to Jarvio, be my dream to work for Megan Kelly's network. But who's gonna pick up Kira Davis if she's only doing audio. I've got to do video as well. As much as I hate having to set up this camera and set up all this stuff, I am so gen x It's insane. The truth is is that when I was on my walk today, I was listening to the Bible on Bible on tape, Bible on streaming, and you know, the book talks about doing what you do for Christ, doing what you do for the Kingdom and not for your own glory, And so I do this job because I do believe it's a ministry in some ways for me, And so I can't complain about the people who don't watch, or the amount of views or things I don't get, because I'm not doing this job for that. I'm doing this job because I believe it's a part of my ministry, if you will, so to speak. So all that to say that that's what's going on. So stay tuned to the YouTube channel, join me on x at Real Kira Davis, and subscribe to the YouTube channel, and enjoy this journey as this the gen X technological loser tries to figure out this platform all by yourself. I don't have a team of people. I've got Darby Oo, but he does my audio stuff. He's not into all of this stuff. He's just he's just the guy that puts it on the Internet signal gate. That's what I want to talk about. So do I need to recap it? Maybe I should in case somebody's watching this episode in the future. So it's month three or year ten, depending on where you are in your journey in this Trump administration. It just the time makes no sense these days. Month three of the Trump administration, first big blunder. First big blunder, I would say. Some people might say some people getting fired who maybe weren't meant to be fired during the USAID stuff. But this really is the first big blunder, turns out the Atlantic. So Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally included on a text thread a touch chain via the Signal app. If you don't know what Signal is, it's an encryption app and a lot of people use it. We use it in the reporting business, and government agencies use it. A lot of people use it. Signal enjoyed a large resurgence when conservatives began getting canceled on Twitter, on the old Twitter, and on Facebook, and we move a lot of us moved to Signal, and Signals its own platform. Now I should move this show to Signal actually, And it was a text thread between heg Sev, CIA director DOJ, bunch of entities Vance I think was on there, a bunch of entities and they were talking about the bombing and Yemen and the uties and if Jeffrey Goldberg, of course he's a reporter, he leaked the conversation. He waited a week, which I think is interesting. He waited a week. Why would he do that, is it? Because he's a great patriot. He wanted to make sure that these operations were pulled off without a hitch before he blew anything regarding national security. No, no, yesterday was the intelligence the first national intelligence hearing, and so he held on to that until the night before. So now now as Chelsea Gabbard and John Radcliffe and all the rest sit down at those hearings, of course now they've got to face this. So Jeffrey Goldberg is a well known slime bag. But I will say this, I don't think he is to blame for leaking the details of these messages. He's a reporter. What else is he supposed to do? And I kind of found it really off putting when Hegsteth got off the plane in Hawaii and they asked him about this. He got off the plane to this news and they asked him about it, and he said, WHOA, that's slime bag, Jeffrey Goldberg. He's got a history of being a jerk. And then he did go on to make some statements saying that no classified information was shared, nothing that would have jeopardized national security. I think that's for you to decide, but I don't think it did that. I was a little put off by that, But it wasn't until I understood that Goldberg had hung on to this for a week that I sort of added some context to those comments. And then, as it turns out, is if you listen to Radcliffe and Michael Wallace, who now admits he was the one. Michael Walls admits he was the one who accidentally added Goldberg to the thread, there might have been some deception there, and that's another reason why they keep bringing up Goldberg's character. Perhaps perhaps he was lurking around as someone else signal as numbers they usually don't. You can obscure your identity on there. There's a whole reason for that, so he didn't know he was adding Jeffrey Goldberg. It seems to be we haven't heard the end of this yet, but it seems to me that there might be situation here where Goldberg Goldberg was lurking around under a pseudonym in these signal threads, and then you might want to ask, well, how did he get there? And a lot of people are blaming Michael Waltz and Ratcliffe and the Trump team. Why do you have the phone numbers of these people? Plug into your phones. First of all, reporters and politicians talk all the time. That is not odd. I have the phone numbers of a lot of politicians that I am not friendly with. But sometimes you never know when you want to get a hold of that person. Same for them with the press. They might want to call us up at one point and tell us hold that story, or you're a jerk, or you got this wrong. So there's all kinds of reasons why we would have each other's phone numbers. That's not weird at all. It really is not. It's not, but I think I think what is weird is that Goldberg is rolling around signal threads and in a position to be accidentally added to one. And so I think as this investigation goes on, I think the administration and Caroline Levit alluded to it in the press conference today, the administration might want to ask how did he get there and how long has he been there? I wonder if this is something that goes back to the Biden administration. So again, I don't know how all that would work. I just spent the first five minutes of this podcast telling you how I barely understand YouTube live streaming, So I certainly don't understand the all of the signal things. But here is what I do know. A lot of people are angry, and a lot of well, I don't think a lot of people are angry. Actually, I think a lot of people are, to use the gen X term front y'all are front and out there. I think there's a lot of folks out there who are well, there's two kinds. There's the progressives who are looking for anything, any sort of weakness in the Trump administration, any sort of blame that they can place. They have been taking loss after loss after loss, so they're looking for anything, so of course they're going to pounce on this. But then there's the other group of people that I call the conservative contrarian crap class, the professional conservative contrarian class. And there are people who are on my side of the island. For the most part. They are ideological conservatives, but they're also a bit snobby, and they don't want to be associated with people like you, the unwashed masses. People like you who are really mag and you're really excited about your politicians, and maybe you come off as a bit fanatical online and they don't. They find that distasteful that's not Those aren't the attitudes that get you to the cocktail parties. And they're all kinds of conservatives on our side who are like that, even though they are conservatives, and they want to make sure that they delineate their conservatism from yours. So they take advantage of every operation tunity to be out there and to separate themselves from you, and oftentimes that will lead them to taking a contrarian position on any controversial issue that comes out of the right. That's how they make sure that I don't know, whoever they're trying to impress knows they're not like the unwatched masses of conservatives. So the conservative contrarian classes out there going, well, if the Biden administration did this, you guys will be calling for heads on sticks. Heads would be rolling, You guys would be calling for mass resignations. We'd never hear the end of it. This would be a huge story in conservative media. By the way, it is a huge story. Everybody's talking about it. Everybody's talking about it right now. I am. It's on TV right now even as I sit down to record this podcast. So a lot of conservatives are out there denigrating I suppose people like me who seem to be seem to be brushing this off or brushing this aside. I love Megan Kelly, my girl Megan Kelly. I talked about her early Meghan. If you're looking for a gen X podcaster who does her own tech work and doesn't know what she's doing, but definitely has a lot to say. But my girl, Megan Kelly, the only woman on Earth my husband would leave me for. Was saying as I was watching her talk about this, one of the things she said was that this is a lot of catterwaing about something that really isn't It's not that we're dismissing it, it's that we understand what's going on. That's I'm trying to reframe what she said. I'm struggling with this, even after I just asked her for a job. But she was saying that in context is what she was saying. In context. Basically, what she is saying is the theme of today's show. What I have been saying, discernment is what we're talking about here, all right, everybody, So you can sharing conservatives out there just because we don't want to be like the left, and we don't and we want to free ourselves from the absolute authoritarian weirdness of the left that we've been experiencing for the last four years. We don't want to be like them. We want to make sure we're better than them. And I understand that. But just because we don't want to be like them doesn't mean that we can't have discernment about situations. And in fact, I think that it is the inferior, it is the anti intellectual position to take to say, we have to treat this administration exactly the same way we treated the last administration. They are nearly the same thing. You're an adult. You can use discernment to decide, That's what discernment is. You can use your judgment to decide how you apply these rules, these values, consequences, all of that. And I'm sorry, but for the last four years, we have watched administration completely destroyed this country, leave the border open, pronounce parents at school board meetings as terrorists. They weized, weaponized the government around us against us. They tried to put us in prison for going to work for protesting our government. Some people did go to prison. They tried to put our commander in cheap in prison. And now we're finding out all of the horrific, horrific things that they did with our tax dollars and are still doing with our tax dollars. Joe Biden sold us out to China. His son sold us out to probably a lot of China, and a lot of other places, probably including Ukraine and Russia in some spots. God knows what Susan Rice has been doing back there this whole time. The Democrats have created a trillion of dollars deficit, a crashing economy, and education system that is absolutely useless. Americans are just now digging out from under the rubb of the Biden administration. We were all there. It was barely three months ago. And you want to try to tell me that I should be comparing the Trump administration to the Biden administration. No, screw you, Screw that. I'm a freakin adult, and I know the difference between idiots and non idiots. This administration may have made a mistake with this, but they are not idiots, and they have been conducting themselves as promised since day one. So I think, yes, a thinking, intelligent adult can look at this situation and say what Michael Walt said on the media circuit last night, which is yes, this is certainly very embarrassing. This is certainly a big mistake. It does need to be looked at. But this is not at the end of the world. The mission. This is not the end of the world. The mission continues. So to you weak conservatives out there who are so you're so worried, and see that's the thing. You're weak. You haven't done enough work to shore up your own position. If you don't even know in your mind you believe, then yeah, you're all worried about what people are gonna call me a hypocrite. I'm not worried about being a hypocrite because I have been ideologically true and authentic since day one, since day one, and my values don't change just because I actually don't think this is the end of the administration, they haven't changed one bit. What I'm being is a fifty year old woman who has some life experience behind her and can use her discernment, and frankly, I'm ashamed of a lot of you out there who refuse to. I don't think that's the intellectual position. You're the ones being like the left, because the left has removed nuance right and you've fallen for it, and you've you've taken that brand on. I refuse, I refuse. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna die on the hill of both sides of it. I'm not gonna do that. I'm too old for it. I got into trouble when I uh, I printed an article with Newsweek on Fawnie Willis during her big perfuffle, whatever happened to her. You know, these people come and go, Jasmine Crocketts of the world money. I have seen a dozen of her come and go over the years. I know exactly when these people come and go. Fannie Willis, though, I almost lost my train of thought, almost because, as I've said repeatedly on the stream, I'm fifty. But Fannie Willis during her debacle, remember when she was on that stand with her dress on backwards and they were questioning her, and she was so ignorant and rude, and she just sounded, frankly, she sounded like ghetto trash. I said it, That's what she sounded. She didn't sound like an She didn't sound like a college educated ivy IVY league educated lawyer. She did not. And that's what I would expect from a black woman who has supposedly worked her way up the ladder. We all code switch. If any of y'all don't know what code switching is. Black folks talk one way to each other in a different way when we're out in public. We have our own length just like you do with your family, just like you do in your culture, at your workplace, with other Persian people, or with other Mexicans, whatever your culture. Americans, we have our own shorthand, right, same for black folks. We've got our own shorthand, we have our own code. Right. We code switch a lot. That's fine. Everybody does a version of that. Because you don't talk or you shouldn't talk the same way to your husband when you're laying next to him and at the end of the night in your bed, you don't talk to him the same way that you talk to your boss at twelve pm. So we all do it. So I understand that. And Fani was breaking the rules. Jasmine Crockett is too, by the way, there are rules to this and they're breaking them. So Fani was breaking the rules because she was in trouble. And this happens a lot I find with black female professionals. You're like, oh, getting controversial again. I find this happens a lot. When they are in a corner, they pull out the queen, the yes queen, the sister girl right, because it's intimidating. A lot of white people are intimidated by it. A lot of white folks are intimidated by it. It works, It's not for nothing. It does work. So she was in a corner, and that's the attitude she pulled out. But she didn't just sound angry. She sounded stupid. She could not articulate her positions. I don't think she knows the meaning of some words that she was using. To be honest with you, I genuinely mean that. I'm not saying she's stupid because they didn't like her. I genuinely think she is unintelligent, unintelligent. So how did she get to be in that position? The attorney general in what is it? The cow in Atlanta? How did she get there? I said that I was looking at a DEI graduate. I was looking at somebody who was who has been thrust The only explanation I have for it is that a woman like that has been thrust through the system her entire life based on what she looked like and what was between her life, either because she was a woman or because she was black, and that's why they chose her to take on this case in Georgia. Probably another reason is that she's corrupted and they knew that they could control her. I got in a lot of trouble for saying that, including from my own producer. Darby and I had an argument over this. He didn't mean, he always supports what I say, but he was like, no, I don't like when people blame DEI for everything. My friend Adam Coleman, I'm gonna be interviewing him next week, he said the same thing. I don't like it when people, especially conservatives, US conservatives, blame DEI for everything. Stephen Smith read me out my name on his podcast. You can see that video. I responded to it here on YouTube on the YouTube channel. He called me out my name, called me a racist, called me a sellout, called me a self hating whatever, whatever. And here's but here's my point. I'm going to bring this full circle. I too hate it when conservatives blame every idiot black person in charge somewhere on DEI. I think that's a cop out. They blame every bad woman in power on DEI I hate that too, But just because people over use it doesn't mean that it never applies people. It's called discernment. So you're gonna get so caught up in your own narcissistic need to be seen as fair minded and both sides. I'm so rational and reasonable that I refuse to apply logic to this situation. I'm only going to both sides it, and that way, I'm the one who's intellectually authentic and you're not intellectual. Authenticity is the ability to judge each situation according to its characteristics. So for Fanie at fifty years old, everybody, yes, I damn well know a woman who has tripped up, failed up her entire life. I damn well know it when I see it. In Fannie Willis was one and the prooson the stephen A. Smith, I'll take your apology, by the way, while you're enjoying this right word shift, I'll take all the apologies, my friend, for all of the bullshit that you have put at our feet for all of these years. I didn't watch the Fuam Megan Kelly interview with him because frankly, I'm still kind of mad at him. Megan, I hope that you did require an apology for. But I don't think we should be welcoming these people over to this side and giving them our platforms. Not that I have this platform, but you know, my platform's not very big, but even still, and giving them our platforms without requiring them to make some kind of mia kulpa. Otherwise they're just grifters. I think Steven Smith is a grift. But I you know, prove me wrong, prove me wrong. What I'm talking about is discernment. And I've even heard Stephen say such a thing himself, just a different situation. He just didn't like what I said about Fani. But what I said about Fani was real and it's true, and I'll stand by it. And no, not every black person or white woman that gets put into a position that maybe they're not qualified is a DEI higher. I hate that too. But I'm too old. I'm too old to be worried about people thinking I'm a hypocrite. It's not hypocritical to understand nuance. All right, let me move on from this, let me let's see we got here. Let's take a break for our sponsor drawing lines. White conservatives must begin to battle fiercely in the arena of ideas. Dan Bongino, our new FBI Deputy director, calls this book a no holds barred battle plan for conservative This book is endorsed by incredible conservative names like Steve Hilton, Kerchlickr, my good friend Carol Markowitz from the New York Posts, and other Fox News personalities have endorsed this book. And this book is exactly the way Dan described it. This book tells everybody how to get in the game where they are right now. Not everyone can run for office, Not everyone can be a Scott Pressler, right We're not all going to be that. And I think a lot of us get discouraged because we think if I can't make a big splash, but I can't make a big difference, then what can I do? And so I wrote a book about how everyone needs to stop thinking like that and you need to decide what you can do where you are right now. And that looks different for everybody. For me, it looked like running for office. In twenty twenty two, I ran for my school board. I lost. The unions came for me. The unions came for me, so our folks, they blew their wad that they didn't even put up a fight in the next election. We flipped the school board this year because the unions didn't even show up. They blew the o lot in twenty twenty. Definitely didn't want a reporter on the school board. They even I mean they even did some work through the conservative members of the school board or I'm using air quotes curtains, so they even got to those people. That's how hard they work. So not everyone can run for office because that is hard, and man, it's discouraging when you put everything. I told the parents, if you support me, I will give you everything. I will pull every resource. If you listen to Dan Bongino, he had me on once twice a month on his show just to raise money, just to tell people what I was doing out here in California. I mean I pulled every card I had, I pulled every paper I had. I did, and so when I lost, it was devastating. So I don't recommend running for office to everyone. And that shouldn't be the only way we think when we think about making a difference. You have the ability to do something right where you are, but you have to change your framework. You have to change your mindset. You have to look around. We're at war. Welcome to the revolution, everybody. The revolution has already started, started November fifth, maybe even a little earlier than that. We're in the midst of it now. So what we're watching happening was signal Gate calls to resign. You fake outrage at these hearings. What we are seeing as battle. We're at war. These aren't peace times. And I don't like saying that because I'm kind of a pacifist I guess as a mom. No, mom's really a pacifist. But I don't like confrontation and conflict. I really don't. I think people are surprised to hear that about me because I have a really aggressive personality, But no, I really don't. And I'm a peacemaker. Childhood divorce we're you know, divorce kids are we're we're peacemakers. We are people pleasers. We don't like to see people upset or angsty because that's not safe for us. So we learn early right that you're safe when the adults are okay and feeling and not angry and feeling good. So you become that person that wants to make everybody okay and that's how I am. But I understand the times we're living in. This is war, and so in war, you don't fold at the first sign of a crack in your defenses or the first mistake. You don't do that. You don't call for it. By the way, we're just starting this war. Why would we call for them. Why would we ask the administration to be recalling our generals from the battlefield wall they're there, then we learn we lose the lessons that they have learned there. This is war. We're not in peace time. So here's my thing. Think of fact, it's not the traditional war of World War two. But think back to what we know, or some of you remember about World War two, and when the United States got involved, it was a full nation effort. We sent our sons and husbands off to war. And what did the women do. They didn't get to stay at home. They went to the factories, they went to the stores, they went to the corporations. They started filling in those jobs for the men. They built the bombs, they sold the bonds, you know, they the women stepped up. What did the kids do? They went to school, They learned their drills, their nuclear attack drills. Everybody was on a war fitting pudding. We had internment camps for the for our Japanese citizens, we deported Germans and Japanese people. Everybody was on a war footing. Everybody was a part of the war effort. If you weren't doing something directly with the war, you were supporting it by helping people in your community, or supporting soldiers with packages, or just holding events, prayer events. Everybody was a part of the war effort. Well, guess what, we're at war right now. That means you're part of the war effort too. So you've got to do something where you are. And what can you do where you are? Well, that book will tell you one. But I'll tell you a story. I don't know if I share. I don't think I shared it in this book, because this happened after I published and a woman came to buy the book. I was at TPUSA conference. I was selling my books there and she came to buy a book. And she said, I'm a librarian, a high school librarian from Portland, Portland, Oregon, and I as you can you can imagine what the school is like in there, and I can't take out any books in the library and there's all kinds of weird stuff in there, but I do have the right to add any book that I want. That was sort of the downside of their opening up the book policy in Portland is, well, you have if you're going to welcome everything, then you have to welcome everything. So she said, so what I do is I go to conservative conferences and I buy conservative books by authors that maybe aren't that well known but are talked about interesting things, and then I host a discussion club at lunch at the lunch hour in the library on these books. I thought that was amazing, and she was like, well, I only have one or two students that participate, maybe you know, every month. And I thought, yeah, but that's one or two more students than would have even been thinking about these things if you didn't do that. Is she changing the world? I don't know. One of those students might be the president one day. One of those students might be inspired by what they learn to take a leadership position that does change the world. So it's not up to you to decide which actions you take are going to make the difference. It's up to you to be the soldier. And that's what I was reading or hearing listening to in Collossans today. So you're not doing these things for your glory, you're doing these things for his. You're doing these things because you're called to do them. So get in where you've been in, figure it out. You don't have to run for office. Maybe you just go and put some conservative books in your library. Maybe you hold a monthly ladies luncheon or your friends and you just talk and have community, and maybe that morphs into charity work or something else political action. I joined my local women's club and if you would like to, by the way, I didn't know I was going to sell them, but if you want to join us, we meet in Laguna Hills once a month. We meet third Wednesday of every month in Laguna Hills, and it is the Southern California Area Republican Women's Club SCARW. You can look us up on Instagram SCARW. And I joined that club because I thought I need to be more connected if I'm going to make a difference here in Orange County, here in California, I need to be more connected locally than I am. I certainly are a plugged in nationally speaking. I joined my ladies club, and I know it might sound corny to a lot of people. What do we do have our buffet luncheons once a month and we have a speaker, and I mean we have raffles and it's kind of corny sometimes. Maybe we're kind of dorky sometimes, But guess what those are the women A lot of them are. And yes, a lot of them are retired. If you're raising kids, yeah, I no, you can't go to a monthly lunch all the time. But these are the women who are at the city council meetings, at the school board meetings. They're the ones that know the law that just got passed that you're not gonna like. They are the ones that know that this protest is happening here because they're plugged in. A lot of them are retired and they've spent their entire lives networking in your community. They know things you don't know, and they've got the history up here. So join. Another way to help make a difference is join your local GOP club or local conservative club. They're also conservative branches. Not every conservative wants to be associated with the mechanics of the being a GOP club, So join a club my club, SCARW on Instagram. I just spoke at our club, actually, so that's something that you can do. I guess my point, my very long point, is that I'll make this whole circle. I'll bring this back to signal eight. We're at war, and this is the first battle that we've lost here. Are you gonna fold because of the first battle? Are you gonna fire all your generals because of the first battle? No, this is a long term strategy. This is a four year at least war, all right, and we're in monthly. So everybody put on your big girl panties because this is what war looks like. And a gat mistakes are made, and should we be happy about it? And should we just pretend that nothing bad happened or no, be skeptical. I appreciate all your skeptics out there, but use your brain, use your noggin, use new ones, use your life experience. You can you can be discerning about how concerned we should be about this. That's okay, But there are lessons learned here that we are going to need moving forward. And we've been doing we the Trump administration has been doing so much winning even since November, that it seems like we might just keep winning forever. And I think this is a good wake up call for a lot of conservatives, especially MAGA conservatives. This is a good wake up call. There are going to be losses, There are going to be lessons that need to be learned, and if the administration is going to be successful, they need to know where their weaknesses are and tighten them up. And if we're going to be successful as the American people, we also need to need to understand what it means to take a loss in winning times and keep pushing forward. We also need to know what it means to be a supportive true a supportive team. This is war, and this is what it looks like. One of the over linings of this is that now they've taken a loss, and now you know it's not just all winning. I mean, even those confirmation hearings, even that process, as crazy as it was, it's just been win after win after win. Some of these people might be getting cocky. That happened to Elon, by the way, that happened to Elon before. Remember what was it that he said that was getting people? See I even forgot about it. Oh, it was when we were talking about the HB one visas the visa thing, and he said something that really didn't vibe with conservatives, and then it was like, we got to cancel Elon. See, we can't we can't trust him, and it was a big deal. Elon ended up kind of backtracking and then just moving on to something else. To me, I thought that was a great conversation because Elon needed to be reminded of who he was working for. And I think he does know, but even still, let's just be fair to be a guy with that kind of power, influence, money, and now you're really like the most looked at person in the world. Of course, there might be some elements of that even for the best of us, that are intoxicating, and you can get carried away with it. So it's good to be reminded that he's not doing us the favor. He is doing us with paper, but he can't do it without us, right. We give him the permission to do that, and we are in charge, not him. We are in charge. So I thought it was a good thing. I thought it was a good reminder, and I think if you look at the way Elon's conducted himself, since I do believe it was a humbling moment, for him, and this is a good moment for us because why is our government communicating over Signal? It's a great app, it's very good, the encryption is excellent, Lots of sensitive operations use it. Why should our government be depending on this? There should be no way that a journalist could even accidentally or otherwise be added to a sensitive chain about national security issues. That shouldn't happen. So I think that this is this needed to happen because we needed to see that this is going on. Caroline love it today. I thought handled it very well. Love that young woman to have bright future ahead. Maybe she'll be president one day. But she handled it very well. But she made sure to remind everybody we've been using Signal app and government for years now, as long as it's been around. Maybe we need to change that. Why doesn't the government have its own This makes no sense to me. Why doesn't the government have its own Internet? Isn't that's what the Internet used to be. The Internet was just for the government and they communicated among themselves and then we all got that technology. Doesn't the government have an intranet? This is something that needs to be looked at for sure. And I saw Michael Waltz on Laura Ingram last night, and he said, I was talking to Elon on the way over here. He's got his guys on it. One aside, we should not be depending on Elon must to pick all the things. Let's get out of that habit. Let's start welcoming other people, other billionaires, other tech of people, same, giving them some leeway now because Trump's got a job to do and he can't make that circle too wide because of happening to twenty twenty and before that. So but I just let's be careful that we're not throwing everything to Elon to fit. I said, this is a necessary setback. Oh all right, and I need to end this. I'm going to end this, but I'm going to end on this. Last night, Tuesday, there was a special election in Pennsylvania for a state Senate seat that could have been flipped. It was a District thirty six state Senate seat Democrat James Malone running against Republican Josh Parsons. As you may or may not know, Scott Pressler, our hero, has decided to stay in Pennsylvania and work to make that a red state. So he's registering voters he's fighting hard. Well. Unfortunately, it looks like this Republican has lost by a very slim margin, maybe four hundred and eighty two votes last count. Scott was very disappointed. He took the Twitter last night to complain about it. He says, I asked for help in Pennsylvania and no one helped us. I can't do all this work by myself. Now I'm thinking he met he meant, excuse me, you know, all by myself as a not getting help from Republicans. Because I know there's a lot of volunteers and people who help him and volunteer and help him with housing and funding and stuff like that, and he is always talking about how he appreciates those people. But I think he meant the Republicans. Okay, So let's connect these ideas of get in where you fit in and the state Republican Party in Pennsylvania basically losing that state Senate seat. We've got another huge election for the Supreme Court in Wisconsin coming up, and over six hundred million dollars has poured into that. The Liberals want that seat bad. We have to win it. But here was my experience when I was running for school board and the experience. I hear from a lot of people who run locally, and even people like Scott Pressler last night. The national GOP is one thing, your local GOP is quite another. And while we're doging elections, we need to doge our state gops because they have become absolutely useless. They have become what the national GOP was before we got rid Rana, before we welcomed in Maga two point zero. They have become the country club, chicken salad, sandwich circuit. They're there for themselves and no one else. The GOP in your state, their only job is to get Republicans elected. A lot of people said they didn't even know there was a special election in pennsil A lot of people don't know there's this huge this election is gonna hit a billion dollars in Wisconsin. There's a huge election that could shift the entire political direction of this country happening Wisconsin. This is a GOP problem. If people don't know this, this is a state GOP problem. My party, my state party has the same issue. Mike County Party has the same issue. I had a crawl over broken glass to get endorsements from them, even though I'm you can you can see me on Fox News once a month. I am a I have been a conservative broadcaster for fifteen years, and I still had to face rumors and whisper campaigns and questions because I wasn't a chosen one. They didn't pick me, and so they my own party, my own party. I don't have a lot of good feelings for the Orange County GOP. I do not, even though I'm on I'm an alternate for our Central Committee, so I'm sure they're not going to love here. But even my local and like I said, even some of the Republicans on my school board were actively working against me. And that's not a unique story. People. Every parent candidate I ran with in every other school district said the same thing about Republicans. We expected to face Democrats. Every grassroots candidate who has ever run will tell you that about their state party. This is a massive failure and we Trump has four years max, but really two years to get this done. We've got to win. If we want to really get the job done, We've got to win the midterms. That's going to be a function of the local GOP parties, not President Trump. He's not Jesus. Everybody he's not a magic wizard. Your state is your responsibility, and your state's Republican Party is your state Republican party's responsibility. And if they're not electing Republicans, that's their fault and they're not doing enough. So if you want to know how you can make a difference right where you are without becoming the next Donald Trump, one thing you can do, join your local geopeak club and then tell them to get off their asses, figure out what's going on around you, and then get in the game. Here in California, one of the things that every peak club is working on right now is voter integrity. It's top of mind for every club, and that's creating a momentum because normally we're split with people don't understand how differently Californians live their lives. Life in Orange County is way different than life even in La County, or in Central California, or California's three states in one. It's Southern California, Central and Northern California. None of us like each other, and none of us live like each other. We're all supposed to be voting on the same things. As a mess, we're not very unified even in the Republican Party, we're not very unified. But voter integrity is one thing that is unifying all California Republicans right now, and so all clubs are really focused in that direction and it's creating some genuine momentum here. That's what you all need to be doing in your state. The Pennsylvania Republican Party had no excuse on the back of that massive Trump mandate. You have no excuse to lose that election. None, none. So this is on the Pennsylvania GOP, not on Scot Pressler, and not even on the voters. It's on the GOP. That's a place where heads need to roll. This is war, everybody. This is not business as usual, and your local state GOP is trying to run things as business as usual. They're just waiting Maga out. They're waiting us out. So your battle is as much against them as it is against Democrats, because if we want to make permanent change in the country, we have to make permanent change to the Republican Party. One of the things I get asked a lot when I'm out speaking to Republican groups, because I speak to a lot of grassroots groups and I get asked a lot, Kira, how do we defeat the establishment in our own party in order to get some work done? This is, we can't work with these guys and they thwart us at every turn and we're not on the same page, and like, how can we how can we work with them compromise and get get our agenda done? And my thing is like, you can't. You can't work with them, You can't. You have to win. That's what they're doing, right. They're thinking of you as competition, not as someone to work with. You have to look at them the same way they are your competition. You have to win. So a lot of times we lose to the establishment a tea party, I believe lost a lot for the most part to the establishment, but we did rack up some wins along the way. And you know, maybe we won't win this fight against the Republican establishment. To get this new I would say sort of manga coalition going in the Republican Party. Maybe we won't, but that's the mindset you have to have. War putting again, I mean, I can't believe I'm saying this because I really am a very passive person. I don't like conflict. I certainly wouldn't consider myself physically aggressive. But I'm fifty, and I have discernment, and I've earned discernment through my years, and I've earned it to I have the right. I have earned the right to sit here and judge certain situations for what they are. And I am judging this time that we are in to be wartime, just like I judged Fannie Willis to be a dei idiot, which I'll stand by that and die on that hill. But we have some really tough times coming up. It's not going to be all winning, and it's not going to be all pretty. Some of it's going to be ugly, and some of you are going to be asked if you're going to stand by this agenda or not. And that's why it's important for you to know what you believe to not be one of these the professional conservative contrarian class, right that's more worried about how they look to other people than about what the truth is. Then about using your combined intelligence and experience and knowledge to make discerning decisions, to use discernment about individual situations. One more thing. In California. On April Fool's Day, April first, there will be a rally up in Sacramento. There are two bills that have been introduced, one by Representative assembly Woman Kate Sanchez and one by Assemblyman Bill is Sally to protect girls in sports. So far, they've been weaving their way through committees. So far every Democrat has voted against that. I mean surprise price, even though our governor just said to Charlie Kirk recently, well, it's an issue of fairness. It's very unfair. But apparently our Assembly doesn't agree. So there's another hearing on I think a Sale's bill will be coming up on April first, and so we would like to load the chamber with young girls and parents who are who have experiences with this very dire situation and want to urge our Assembly to get on the eighty percent side of this eighty twenty issue and protect girls in girls' sports. Join us up at the Capitol April first for that. I'm in Sacramento, and if you have any more questions about it, maybe go to California Policy Center. They're doing a lot I think you can. I think you can look them up cal Policy Center on Twitter or just stay tuned to my social media. I'll be keeping you all updated as well. I'm going to try to make it up there, but it's a seven hour drive from my home and it is a five hundred dollars flight. Hi, It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. It's cheaper for me to fly across the country than it is to go to Sacramento from Orange County. That's government for you, though. It perverts everything. All right, Well, that's the end of this show. So I can tell that something technical went wrong. The live stream did not go through YouTube. But again, because I do not have a YouTube producer right now, I'm all on my own and I'm just the lonely gen X fifty year old idiot. My apologies, but you've got the episode and that's what matters. 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