Antifa Panic Over Federal Conspiracy Charges

The J. Webber podcast is presented by Creative Planning Helping clients simplify their journey to financial wellness, onene personalized plan at a time J. Webber Podcast is a production of IHart Radio podcasts Good day. this is J. Webber. and the focus of today's podcast is how now that the quote Democratic socialists of America have largely taken over control of the Democratic Party, now they're starting to admit, yeah, we're not Democrats After a decade of those of us on the right have been warning traditional Democrats, socialists are taking over your party. Those same Democrats now seem shocked that it has happened and they're scrambling Meanwhile, those socialists are feeling some swagger. They're admitting we aren't really Democrats. We just want to take over one of America's two major parties because third parties don't work. and that's actually really smart We'll also talk about how the nation's top antifeda leaders are suddenly mortified that the Trump Department of Justice has figured out their systems of organization and communication and can detail their crimes in criminal cases. But first producer Ggory John I ran across a story in the Washington Times that I didn't really see anywhere else. It's a report on how federal agents have just discovered and stopped the largest prison smuggling operation ever. This is the largest on record It's a smuggling operation that was using drones to fly contraband into the prisons. And these agents say smugglers have kept some prisons supplied with drugs, cell phones, even tools to help and escape a dozen people have been charged so far with smuggling stuff into and out of at least ten federal prisons. This is ten federal prisons. At one Georgia prison, it had gotten so bad that an FBI agent said it looked like a small airport on some nights with so much drone traffic I can I'm trying I'm trying to envision how you would not detect these drones coming over the fence. I mean, remember all those movies, you'd see the helicopters, you could see that, but you would think they would see these drones And even at night, you'd also think that we'd have the technology to block the drone traffic over prisons. It's amazing that we still don't have that. They've talked about blocking drone traffic over the southern border, for example. We've got to have that technology by now. You know. And I don't know if you heard the story about at JFK this week, a drone and aircraft collision. There was up at three thousand feet and hid ran into a jet. No damage. I mean, no major damage. But I'm starting to see reports where they're, you know, helicopters are flying in and they see drones at their same height at three thousand feet. This is getting kind of dangerous Yeah, it is. And of course, obviously that's all illegal, but people are flying their drones anyway. Well, prosecutors here said, Ira Chris Jackson, who also went by the nickname of action Jackson, good grief. He kept a fleet of drones and he worked out of a former daycare center. He had several drone operators on staff to service the clients in prison, and one or two men actually would travel to the prisons to orchestrate the drops. It sounds like agents finally managed to trace the flight patterns back to the daycare center, and that's how they caught him. But it had me thinking about a couple of things, including, we have so many prisoners locked up across the country that this became a viable business for Action Jackson and his friends. One of the best ways to make big money, of course, is to find a need and then fill that need, right? That can be hard to do with a billion people on this planet. Well Dipod Jackson here saw a way to make money. and understood he literally has captive customers, people who want certain things but can't get them because they're in prison. So the guy decides to do what Amazon and Walmart and the other big retailers still really haven't done. They're still only dreaming about running a drone airport over Oh you know, in order to deliver their packages. Well, this guy's running a drone airport over several prisons every night. So do we need to be grudgingly impressed with action, Jackson Well, look at it this way, Jay. They're going to say that see, this is the dark side of capitalism. See, that's going to lead right into your your topics today. You're right. You're right. but I'm kind of impressed. He saw need and being an entrepreneur, he filled it. He just decided to ignore the part where it's clearly illegal. Yeah. 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This new alarmism within the Democrat partarty about how socialists are taking over their party is highly amusing to me. Some of us, especially some people like myself on the right, have been warning about this for many years. Ever since Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama decided it would be smart to invite their party's cook fringe into the Democrat tent and have a seat at the big table really. But it's really been since Hillary's lost in twenty sixteen that left the top Democrat Party members lost and scrambling for a new way forward for the party, that this has occurred. I mean, this is going to sound very familiar to listeners of my radio show. There was a gap there when Obama left office and Hillary was out wandering in the woods and her depression Mumu that the party's tent was abandoned. There were simply no clear Democrat leaders. It allowed for the Bernie Bros to rush into that Democrat tent and take over control. And they've been exerting their power and their influence over it and the DNC ever since We on the right have been talking about this creeping socialism at least since twenty sixteen, so it's been at least ten years now And just now the more traditional Democrats and their leaders just now. They're seeing the threat Well, for heaven's sake We've hit the point at which it might already be too late, too late to shove the socialist horde back onto the fringes of their party I mean, consider that even after these three rabid America hating socialists won their primaries in New York's congressional races, the only real public alarm over it has been expressed by James Carville, Ram Emanuel, and Bill Marr Apparently, they're the only higher profile Democrats remaining in this country who have a backbone and who are willing to say we should not be embracing socialism and the anti Americanism and racism that's come along with it with these candidates The left wing news media and their insider media outlets have been aash in stories this week about how the Democrats find themselves in a civil war, and yet only Carvill Emmanuel and Bill Mar have the guts to come forward and defend the party and the country against the socialist creep Have you noticed that Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, the Obamas, both Democrat leadership teams and both chambers of Congress? None of them have raised an alarm or commented on the primary wins from these three America hating socialists in New York. None of them has said theseese people do not belong in the Democrat Party What cowards But these are the people who've always proven themselves to be power hungry monsters who only care about being in charge anyway. And so no, I don't expect a big pushback from the traditional power brokers and the most influential voices in the party against this wave of socialism. No And that's not only disappointing, it's disgusting. As James Carvill said, let these America hittating socialists go off and start their own political party if they want to, but they shouldn't be co opting the Democrat Party Well, James, I agree with you, but you and the most influential leaders of your party have been allowing them to do so for a decade now and you haven't made a peep until now This week, finally, James Carville said, We're a big tent, but there's some stuff that I can't be in the same tent with. He said. Let's negotiate terms of schism here. Maybe we can part with some kind of advantageous terms for both of us, but I'm done and I'm not in that bleeping political party He said there are more radical anti capitalist members of the movement, including this Avila Chevalier, who have no place in the Democrat Party Sivali has said murderers shouldn't go to jail. She's against deporting anyone in the U. S. She's against borders. She says defund IC, no police officers. She doesn't want any police officers in America. And of course, no, she says Israel does not have the right to exist Carvill argued that the Chevalier and those with similar views should carve out their own movement. And he's right. He said, quote, She has attacked interracial relationships in the American flag. Lady I ain't in the same party as you I am not, and I actually do think it's time for Democrats to talk the S word schism. I really do He should have been saying similar things for eight years though, ever since the Socialist squad members were elected to Congress. Did Carville basash and oppose Zorron Mom Dni when he was running for mayor in New York recently? I'm not sure, but I bet the answer to that is no Carvill is one of the Democrat Party's gatekeepers who quietly and willingly let the socialists under the tent But he's not the only one. Nearly every single Democrat in office today is complicit in this Aside from Pensylvania Senator John Fetterman, no one's been pushing back against this creeping socialism. and that includes Wisconsin's three horrid congressmen, Gwen Moore, Tammy Baldwin, and Mark Pokan who is a closet socialist himself. But there's all sorts of discussion this week all of the sudden about the Democrat insiders saying we can't let the socialists co opt our party, steal our voter rolls, use our powerful infrastructure, steal away our donors. They've been doing that ever since Bernie ran for president in twenty sixteen, and AOC and that batch of socialists were elected to Congress in twenty eighteen by running as Democrats instead of socialists Folks, it was way back in twenty eighteen that the so called Democrat Socialist Party of America, the DSA wised up and decided that the path to power was to cooopt and take over the Democrat Party, not try to build their own Even now, in this moment, these three socialists who won surprising victories in the congressional primaries in New York aren't the only socialist headache for these party leaders They're famously dealing with the racist, misogynist, socialist America hating Graham Platner out in that Senate race in Maine Also in Maine, the party's handpicked candidate for the state's only swing district was just defeated by a more socialist sounding candidate, shocking the party leaders in the Cgressional commommittee And so far, the sum total of the reaction from the more traditional Democrats in Congress is to have ten House Democrats, ten out of more than two hundred that are serving say this is not a socialist partarty So far, the big reaction to this new socialist threat to Congress has been to have ten of them sign a pledge to reject socialism and support capitalism and American ideals That pledge said, We need to bring common sense back to the Democrat Party by committing to fiscal discipline and capitalism over socialism The authors of that proclamation could only get ten of their fellow two hundred and some Democrats in the House to sign it. That is pathetic And folks, if this is the sum total of the pushback from the Democrat partarty members against the socialist horde taking over their tent, then that party is already lost to socialism. There's been this one organized effort to pull the Democrat Party back toward the middle and back toward common sense over the last ten years. It's a group that has called itself third way. It's a centrist Democrat policy group. and it's been around for years now. And it and its leaders have made absolutely zero splash, none when it comes to bending the party back toward positive American values in capitalism. Instead, nearly everyone who's anyone within the Democrat Party just stood by silently as three candidates endorsed by Zorran Mamdani won all three congressional primaries in New York recently. They did so even though all three have called for abolishing IC and erasing our national borders, all three have called for abolishing our police forces across the country, and at least one of the three has insisted we shouldn't have prisons. Not even murderers should be put in prison This is the new agenda of today's left and increasingly today's Democrat Party Oh, and let's not forget that Jew hating was also a big part of their campaign platforms and their big wins out there. All three ran as anti Zionists and pro Palestine, pro terrorist. This is today's Democrat Party. And this is something that I've said all along that I still don't see any other pundit really saying It's going to be up to the voters of the Democrat Party to police their own tent to deal with these socialists The Republicans and conservatives can alert the country to this until we are harse from yelling about it. But until or unless the longtime Democrat voters and insiders decide to step up and deal with this, nothing's going to change the trajectory that this party has been on since Hillary lost, a march towards socialism and communism. Everyone in the media on both sides should be emphasizing by now that this is a Dmocrat problem and it's going to be up to the Democrat voters to fix it. Yes, we can appeal to the moderates in the independents, not to be stupid enough to vote for socialists, but there isn't going to be any shift away from this terrible trajectory that the Democrat Party is off until its own leaders and its own loyal voters deal with it themselves. The best way would be for the voters in these three New York districts to reject these three primary candidate winners. reject them at the ballot box The problem is, these are such solidly blued districts already that the voters who live in them are not likely to reject that person who's running as a Democrat in favor of the person with an R behind their name in the general Trust me, most of the voters in these disticts in the Bronx, Brooklyn, etceter They aren't following along very closely. They'll just vote for whoever has a D behind their name on the ballot when they vote in the general election These socialists won low turnout primary races, right Now they'll have the D next to their name on the ballot as a much larger pool of voters will come out to vote in the general election. And most of those voters won't know who the heck they're voting for really, or why They'll just always vote Democrat or I hate Trump, et cetera But the best way for the Democrat partarty and Democrat voters to deal with this growing socialism is to defeat it at the ballot box, reject these candidates at the ballot box Because even in heavily Democrat New York, socialism isn't selling all that well The truth is, Zoron Mam Dani barely squeaked into office in that mayor's race in a deep blue city And most of his policies have proven to be unpopular. And friends, I'm getting these stats right from MSNBC So even the leftists at MSNBC are admitting these three congressional races could be close. They say Mamani's agenda thus far has proven to be a hard sell. He won the election with fifty one percent of the vote. That's it. And after his first one hundred days, his job approval rating was at forty eight percent. They say just for comparison, his predecessor, Eric Adams won that office with sixty seven percent of the vote And held a sixty one percent approval rating after his first hundred days in office. So their point is, Mom Donnie is not as popular as the left thinks he is They say this is all happening as Democrats are on the brink of retaking the House of Representatives. and should Mom Donny's preferred candidates win their primaries, they'll be catapulted front and center into the national spotlight by Republicans as the news face of the Democrat Party. They're right about this. They'll be painted as out of touch extremists in the attack ads targeting swing voters, and they will because they're out of touch extremists Republicans will say, this is what's going to happen if you elect Democrats to the House. And that message, even MSNBC admits, might very well work, as they put it. Let's hope so. And obviously, either one or the other is going to occur. Either the voters of New York reject these socialists and Republicans shock the country and flip two or three of these seats red because the Democrat Party overreached Or more likely, they win, and Republicans have a great new line of attack in twenty twenty eight because the socialist threat will be even more real to most voters Then there's the simple truth that former Chicago mayor and Obama adviser Rah Emmanuel is providing to the party this week Emmanuel is already running for president in twenty twenty eight, and he hopes to convince the party and the country that he's the more centrist, safe choice as all the other candidates in that twenty twenty eight primary rush to run as socialists Emmanuel is making the point that socialism is not the path to the presidency or controlling Congress No What I find interesting is You know this, I' spent my life turning red distrs to blue What the Socialist wing has decided to do is turn blue districts to coalt blue. And that doesn't make Jakim Jeffes the speaker the way in two thousand six, we made Nancy Pelosi the speaker. The way you create a majority either in the legislative body or whenin the presidency is moving red areas to blue, not blue areas to cobalt blue or to midnight blue. It's hard to argue with that logic. The socialist takeover of the party so far has only made the blue areas a more extreme shade of blue. How is that helpful, really But you can only give Emmanuel and James Carville so much credit for saying it now, because they were both among the top Democrats and DNC members who have stood silent and watched the socialist takeover of their party over the last ten years, evenven encouraged it at points Where were these sage warnings two years ago Four years ago eight years ago. They, all of them in that old guard, they gave birth to this new left wing extremism. This is Pelosi's baby, Obama's baby, Hillary's baby, Chuck Schumer's baby, James Carville's baby, etcetera And right now as one pundit put it, the parents of this monster are suddenly feeling the revolution's jaws clamping on their jugulars. And we can only hope that normal Americans stop this madness before the blood really flows. This columnist points out that shockingly, America is following the same pattern that the creators of the French Revolution, Russian Revolution, the Maoist revolution in China They all had a bunch of academics and their brainwashed college students who decided to push for change. It all gets out of hand, and the first people to be gored by their own movement are the quote adults who pushed for it and organized it. In each case, French, Russian, Chinese revolutions, theseese young people and revolutionaries quickly turned on the very people who helped them organize and rise to power You can extend this to nearly all revolutions throughout history. In Cuba, for example, Fidel Castro used all sorts of less extreme socialists and communists to help him get into power, and then he killed them all in order to purify his brand of communism after he was put in charge The castros put hundreds of thousands of people to death who would actually help them take control of Cuba. Why Because they weren't pure enough for Fidel's liking And so how perfect is it that on election night, as this new brand of even more radical socialists won their primaries in New York, the crowds at their victory parties were chanting, Jokeim Jeffes is next, Chuck Schumer's next. any traditional Democrat is next. I got a kick out of how mortified the jokers on CNN and MSNBC were to hear those chants and to be told by the leaders of the Socialist Party they fully intend to target the traditional Democrats for political destruction now It was finally a moment of recognition. and I took some pleasure in it as someone who's been warning about all of this for a decade All of these left wing punits on CNN and MSNBC have been helping to elevate the increasingly extreme and left wing elements of the Democrat Party. Now they appear to be shocked when those elements win out and when their party, the party they've been helping with all of their efforts, suddenly nominates America hating candidates Numerous times this week. I've heard shocked Democrats saying, well, but but but but these socialists are just exploiting our party. Yep And you've been letting them do it. But they just say they're Democrats. so they can run on our ticket and steal our donors and our turnout operations and stuff. Yeah, and you've been letting them do it, you jackasses Because for this past generation of Democrat leaders, ever since the Reagan era, really, for that generation of Democrat leaders, nothing has been more important to them than winning and making themselves rich and powerful And so they've sacrificed any integrity, consistency or shared political or ethical platform for that party. Yeah, that's what's happened A piece from J the News. says, quote, The Democrat socialists of America have adopted a strategy to exploit the Democrat Party's ballot access to boost their own candidates at the expense of incumbents, a plan which achieved remarkable success in New York City this week The victory delivered a shock to the Democrat Party establishment which has begun to call for better policing of its party's primaries against candidates who are only seeking to exploit it, not join it I say this with no ill will or animosity. If you hate the Democratic Party, then please don't run for our nomination, said Jamie Harrison, who served as the Democrat National Committee Chairman from twenty twenty one to twenty five Don't use our resources, he said. Don't rely on our volunteers. Don't use our infrastructure. Don't ask Democrats to invest their time, money and energy in your campaign focus on building the party you actually support But Harrison and his team have let them do that. the same as all of the DNC chairmen and board members over the past decade I swear to you, it should not be a surprise to them that extreme and America hating candidates are starting to win their primaries more regularly It's what the DNC's actions have been building to. The head of the New York Chapter of Socialists, the DSA co chair there, Gustavo Gordillo, isn't hiding anything. He says, quote, We're using the Democrat Party as a ballot access vehicle, not because we share its goals. We build our own organization, get elected under the Democratic label, cacus with Democrats when it's useful, and push our own agenda from the inside In fact, the story says, various forms of the strategy have been referenced right in their party resolutions since twenty nineteen The party's youth wing, the so called young Democrat socialists of America, identifies this exact strategy and by name in twenty twenty two when they adopted a resolution about it in the convention that year So the ultimate irony and the ultimate kick in the face here is that the socialists who are increasingly taking over the Democrat Party don't even consider themselves Democrats or support Democrats. They from the beginning have been very clear about what they're doing. and it's smart. Instead of trying to form and build their own third party, they've decided to take over one of the two major political parties that controls America Remember, party and ideology are not the same thing. So for two hundred or two hundred and fifty years, the Democrat Party in America has meant that political liberals are in this party But Obama and the Democrats of this era have killed liberalism So the socialist swoop didn't acc claim and inhabit the shell of their party People call themselves deemocratic socialists if it tricks the masses and helps in their rise to power, but they aren't anything close to a traditional Democrat or historical liberal They're not anything that the term Democrat in the past has suggested a Democrat is. The underlying ideology of the Democrat Party is changing dramatically If two hundred and fifty years of Democrats could be viewed as basically different forms of a cat. you know, they differed on things and there were different varieties of Democrat, but they were all basically cats. Well, now the cats are being pushed out of their own home, their own tent by rabid coyotes And the rabid coyotes will call themselves Democrats if it means you let them into your home and you're stupid enough to vote for them News Talk eleven thirty WSN He's proud to present the J Weber Podcast. J. Weber draws from his thirty five year career in radio news and commentary to craft an insightful look at the major stories and impactful issues from around Wisconsin, the nation, and the world. And after you've enjoyed the J Weber podcast We invite you to go to your radio or go online and listen to NewsTalk eleven thirty WISN, Wisconsin's M Listen to radio station So we have the head of the New York chapter of Socialists admitting, hey, we aren't Democrats. We're socialists who are smart enough to take over the Democrat tent if they're dumb enough to let us. It just kills me that the socialists who are increasingly taking over the Democrat partarty are already admitting, we don't consider ourselves Democrats. Instead of trying to form and build our own party, we'll just take over yours after all It's only one of two parties that ever has a chance of winning elections in America The DSA leaders have never really lied about this aside from putting Democratic in front of socialists. Yeah, they do that because people like Joy Behar are dumb enough to think that Democratic socialists aren't socialists. Well, yeah, they are But in terms of agreeing with the traditional Democrat platform or wanting to work with today's Democrat Party, the leaders of the socialist movement have never really hidden their intentions, whichich is one reason that I'm getting such a kick out of the alarm bells finally going off at DNC headquarters and among Democrat leadership You've been willingly turning over the control of your party to socialists. How did you think this was going to end Obama and the Democrats of his era killed liberalism as the party's main ideology. It was clear to the country, it doesn't work. So the socialists swooped in to take over the tent. Yeah, they call themselves democratic socialists because most of you are easily duped. But what's the surprise here You should have been smart enough to see it coming All sorts of us on the right have been sounding the alarm bells on this and explaining to the masses how the Democrat Party was becoming increasingly socialist And there have been voices on the left who've been saying this as well like this centrist group third way and former Democrats like Rod Blgoyevich and Bill Marr I know this is reaching back several days now, but Bill Marr's interview with JD. Vance on Friday was really interesting, and it included at least two significant admissions by Bill Marr, who has a significant following on the left and in the more elite Hollywood and New York circles, obviously Admission number one was, Mark can't get any of these socialist Democrats to come onto his show He actually named the Democrats who refused to be interviewed by him, and the list includes AOC and Zorron Mam Dani. And the reason they won't come on a show is obvious because socialism falls apart under scrutiny and it really falls apart quickly when you've got mental midgets like AOC trying to define it or defend it And so of course they won't come onto his show. But Mar said the Republicans will. And being a genuine liberal, meaning Marr tries to be genuinely open minded and open to all arguments, willing to debate. Being a genuine liberal, you can tell it matters to Maar and let's hope it matters to the people in his audience. The second significant thing Mar said is I'm not a socialist or a Jew hater, and I can't support where the Democrat Party is going. Like, if this is where the Democratic Party is going where this democratic socialist, this obsession with Israel, with the Jew hating, with they don't believe in capitalism, no prisons. If this is where they're going My vote is in play, okay Id like to hear that. It actually always has been. I just every year, I don't make my decision by who has an R or D. I actually always came to the conclusion that the Democrat was probably better, sure, and voted for them. Okay. And Trump can't run again, and he'd be a little too exciting for me anyway. So it's either gonna be you or Rubia I know you heard it right at the end there. Bilmar actually suggests he may be voting for a Republican in twenty twenty eight. He says it's either going to be you or Rubio. and I'll hazard to guess and say it would be for the first time in his life he was voting for a Republican This is an example Of just how many people today's Democrats are starting to push out of their party though. When you're making people like the very left wing, Bill Maarr, decide that they cannot vote for you anymore after forty or fifty years of doing so, the alarm bell should really be ringing loudly in the party headquarters It is shameful that just a few generations removed from World War II and then the fall of the Soviet Union So many people have forgotten the lessons of socialism and communism that littered the twentieth century I have bemoaned the fact that clearly our schools are not teaching any of these lessons of our recent history to new generations, and they aren't because the radical left has so successfully taken over our educational process. But there's a guy named Marion Tupey, who has a wonderful column on this this week and is posted at National Review Tup's the founder of humumanrogress. org and a senior fellow at the Kato Institute as well. And he makes the point that When the Berlin Wall fell, the questions related to socialism and communism were settled They were clearly terrible failures that brought nothing but scarcity and starvation and brutality and misery and death to the people who had to live under them But now these lessons have been quickly forgotten Sui writes we're living through a great relearning When the Berlin Wall fell in nineteen eighty nine, a set of propositions seemed settled beyond dispute. Central planning had impoverished half of Europe while markets enriched the other half The right to own a business, to keep the fruits of one's labor, and to trade freely across borders had lifted more human beings out of poverty than every charity in history combined There were conclusions of an experiment run across a continent with the control group on either side of a barbed wire line A generation later, those conclusions have been forgotten voters in wealthy democracies and the young above all are electing self described democratic socialists who promise to repeal economics by decree It's the intellectual corpse of socialism that's being revived. What are the lessons that the voters have forgotten? Well, things like free trade is desirable. Rnt control is ruinous because a price pinned below the market ensures fewer apartments are built and maintained Public ownership of factories fails because the managers risk no money of their own and answer to no customer. A municipal grocery cannot serve you because a shop that's forbidden to fail has no reason to stock what you want Confiscatory taxes defeat themselves, Chronic deficits and the inflation that they summon are cruelest of all, et cetera. We've lost all these lessons. He says human nature does not change, and so the case for liberty must be made afresh in every classroom, every generation which is precisely where the chain has been broken When you stop teaching a lesson, you guarantee it's repetition And when this chain of knowledge is broken, he says, we as humans go back to square one It's infuriated to many of us how quickly this new ignorance surrounding socialism and communism has redeveloped. But yes, it's our own fault for allowing crackpots in America hating leftists to take over our educational system in our institutions of higher learning and teach the same dangerous poison that has already proven to fail to new generations are our children Meanwhile, these wins in the New York primaries are said to be, quote, spurring Alexandria Ocasio Cortez into running for president The Hill says DC insiders are the source for their story. and they say if Zoron is the most exciting thing in politics these days and he can't run for president because he's foreign born, well, then AOC can. and she has seen these wins as a huge positive This is how it's being couched. quote, The decisive primary sweep gave Representative Alexandria Occasio Cortez such an ego boost that Democrat insiders predict it will spur a White House bid in twenty twenty eight. The squad's Queen Be may ditch her plot to unseat Chuck Schumer. and run for president instead Adam Green, the co founder for Progressive Change campaign Committee. whatever percent chance AOC was putting on running for president a week ago, it should be higher now. Absolutely. It should have gone from fivecent to twenty percent, he said Every light on the dashboard is flashing that people want generational change Meanwhile, a long time Democrat fundraiser says that the more traditional Democrats are, quote freaking out over all of this. They see AOC as a threat to their Democrat Party tent and their chances to hold stronger majorities in Congress, obviously. Because as much as the leftists in New York and the elite bubbles want to celebrate, these Democrats know most Americans are not ready for socialism. I've never been a person who says, give us the most extreme or the most silly looking Democrats so we can win an election easily because there's always a chance that that person will win There's always a chance that the voting public will be duped into making a mistake and actually electing a fool. And still, I don't see the majority of voters in the Democrat base wanting to elevate AOC as their twenty twenty eight standard bearer, meaning that if she does launch a presidential bid, I don't see her winning the nomination. But if by some miracles she does, I wouldn't be worried that she could actually win this. I know twenty twenty eight will be an odd and historically unique moment in time will have served two non consecutive terms and can't run again. But the normal pattern of having voters wanting to return power to the other party after two terms of controlled by one party has been broken. So we can't really predict what sort of mood the country's voters are going to be in in twenty twenty eight. But I still don't see the American people wanting socialism And I still do see a voting public that is at least smart enough to see how dumb AOC is If Hillary lost because she was just a thoroughly unlikable person and if Cami lost because of the cackle and because she was so inherently unlikable and couldn't hide her intellectual shortcomings Why see AOC being rejected because she too won't be able to hide those intellectual shortcomings? She might be more likekable than either Cami or Hillary, but AOC simply cannot hide the stupid She's a rather dumb person who's pretending to be smart, and it shows every time she opens her mouth She is not smart enough or politically talented enough to hide this fact overver and over again for six years now Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has proven that she's just not that smart and is pretending and I just don't see fifty one percent of the voting public falling for it, not being able to see the dumb prettender that I do I think most of us do AOC doesn't get beaten up for her word salads as much as Kamala does, but she makes them all the time She will string sentences together that make no sense and no one calls her on it. You can actually see the wheels turning as she tries to make up the lie or invent the sentence I have an example here from an interview this week on MSNBC in which she was asked if she supports the very radical opinions of one of those America hating socialists who won the primary in New York. It was a minute of blather and wind up that I won't even bother you with here as she wound up and said nothing and stammered and stumbled. and then she ended with this. I genuinely believe that We have to give people the opportunity to occupy their beliefs within the gravity of becoming a duly elected member of Congress What does that suuttence mean play it for you again and give you another crack at deciphering that. I genuinely believe that We have to give people the opportunity to occupy their beliefs within the gravity of becoming a duly elected member of Congress What does that sentence mean It's not as long winded and meandering as one of Kamala Harris's word salads, but it's just as stupid AOC is saying nothing there She doesn't want to admit she supports the extreme views of the other candidate because the host described them as extreme, but AOC isn't smart enough or Clintonian enough craft a coherent non answer as Bill or Hillary Clinton would have been, or Obama would have been? And what you're left with is this obvious sense that AOC is pretending. She's pretending to be smart enough to answer this question or defftly spin it, but she can't. And so what we get is nonsense over and over again with Alexandria Occasio Cortez. All you get is nonsense. And what saves her is the host or, the interviewer just accepts the nonsense and moves on to the next question. She's never challenged But in a presidential campaign, she's going to be at least occasionally forced to explain that nonsense that just came out of her mouth. and she's not going to be able to pull it off. Nor is AOC going to be able to, quote, explain socialism or wrap it up in the shiny packages that Zorron Mom Donny and more capable politicians can But two thirds of Americans still don't want socialism But for heaven' sake, this week, Mom Donnie forced a rent freeze onto the city of New York. Rnt freezes have been tried over and over and over again in different parts of the Western world and the western economies. and they never work They never work because in implementing them, you are tampering with the free market system that has made those apartments available and for that level of rent forever That free market is based on the cost to the landlord, his mortgages and his loans, his repair bills, his taxes And the hand of government can't just step in and stomp on those and declare that he can never raise his rent, not even as his costs rise The last time this was tried in New York in the nineteen seventies, some landlords were actually burning their properties to collect the insurance money and get out from under them If this investment wasn't going to be profitable, why have it You can say, all, will just sell it, but sell it to whom? No one wants a property that costs you money every month Having government dictate red prices doesn't work. It's never worked. But don't worry, Mom Donny's ultimate plan is to have government seize the apartment buildings for itself anyway. And no, this isn't an exaggeration. And yes, the socialist schemers on his staff have already made it clear how they are going to seize these properties. It's a three step process and freezing the rent to F over the landlords is step number one Mamani has a quote housing zar named Cia Weaver And their plan is simple. squeeze the landlords from all sides as you organize tenants to file hundreds of complaints against these, quote, neglectful landlords That touches off investigations by the city's housing board. and step two is squeeze those same landlords with massive compounding fines that they won't be able to get out from under Complliance with tenant complaints literally impossible Step three then is using the outstanding debt and all that noncompliance as leverage with mortgage and bankruptcy courts to have the buildings turned over to the city or designated nonprofits at fire sale prices. This is how private property is going to be stripped from owners and how politically favored activist nonprofits are going to become the new landlords in New York City This is their plan Weaver has suggested they'll start with the big landlords, but then they're going to do this on the increasingly small property owners and eventually even on private homeowners who rent a basement apartment or an upstairs apartment And if you think they can't do it Mamani just froze rent by installing looyalists onto his rent guidelines board. That circumvented any legal process, and he can just keep doing this with other city committees and boards David Strum says M Donni may have the Hugo Chavez agenda. But he's tailor made for the TikTok generation and has a smile and demeanor that makes the oily Gavin Newsom look like a piker. Strom says, like all socialists, he's selling fairness, affordability, and unicorn farts. Tapping into resentment, he makes people feel good and virtuous about wanting to steal from others. Rnt control everywhere and always leads to reduced housing supply, declining maintenance and eventual abandonment of private sector housing. Add in onerous regulations, tenant unions, massive fines and government seizures for unpaid fines, and you get the transfer of property from the private sectors to the government Dom concludes, Zorron Mamani and the DSA crowd are communists making a play for control of our major cities and the Democrat Party Democrats are just waking up to this fact far too late That's absolutely accurate Meanwhile, one irony, rent prices have been falling across America's biggest metro areas since Trump took back office The latest figures show a nearly two percent drop in rent prices across America, and a contributing factor is probably the crackdown on deportation of illegals After all, nearly four million illegals have now either been deported or gone home since Trump retook office, right? That's millions of rental units that are now available to other people According to the latest Apartment List National Rental repeport, which was released at the end of May, rental prices are down one point five percent nationally compared to a year ago, and this is the lowest year over year rent increase since twenty seventeen And this is after rental growth in twenty twenty two during the Biden administration was at eighteen percent They say national median rent prices have fallen by twenty dollars a month compared to May of last year. Prices have fallen a total of sixty three per month compared to their peak in twenty twenty two. That's over seven hundred and fifty dollars in annual savings for Americans in the S secondcond Trump era. Will Trump get any credit for that in the media? Of course not Will the American people be told that, you know, under Trump, rent increases that were nearly twenty percent a year under Biden have dropped two percent under Trump. That means the average renter is saving seven hundred and fifty dollars a year Of course, they won't be told which is why I'm talking about these sorts of stories on my podcast Having the rest of us in the alternative media talk about these things is the only way most of this positive news related to the Trump era is ever going to get out to the voters This group that tracks rent prices says just since last year, rent is down ten percent in Denver, a whopping seventeen percent in Phoenix, five percent in San Antonio and Austin, and they say the decline can be attributed to some level of new inventory available, yes and. the mass deportation of illegals So there's another positive side effect of this mass deportation effort that's been going so well. So keep it going for another three years under Trump and then hopefully, another four to eight years under a president, Vance or Rubio At least seventy percent of Americans would be all for that if you believe the polls, and I do You're listening to the Jay Weber Podcast, a presentation of News Talk eleven thirty WSN and IHart Radio podcasts. Jay Webber draws from his thirty five year career in radio news and commentary with an irreverent wit that simply can't be matched. Right minded alternative to media outlets that substitute self serfving narratives For candor and truth Listen to the J. Weber podcast, published every Tuesday and Friday. Be sure to subscribe. As you know, I've been loving this government wide crackdown on fraud that the Trump administration is conducting It's being headed by the vice president, JD Vance, which, by the way, gives Vance a great issue to run on in twenty twenty eight and one that's unique to him. As in, he'll be able to say to voters in twenty seven and twenty eight, I've stopped ten billion in fraud in this department, one hundred billion do here, two hundred billion do here. And because cleaning up the federal government isn't something that Donald Trump explicitly ran on, JD Vance is going to be able to say The president put me in charge of this and I took the mission seriously and voided we deliver That is one potentially powerful issue the Republicans will be able to run on in twenty eight that isn't even on most people's radar yet. And this effort to stop the fraud is taking place across all government agencies. Imagine Joe Biden and his administration, when they had the chance, decided that their multi agency effort was going to corrupt all of those agencies and get them to engage in a scummy effort to find more Democrat votes. Every agency was ordered by the Biden White House to come up with plans to, quote, expand access to voting which of course, is code for, sign up new Democrat and left wing voters use the federal government to get out the vote in our favor find new ways to use the power of our governmental agencies to cheat. That's what one president found to be a priority or a good use of government agencies when he got into office The other one, Trump that decides his agency wide effort is going to be to root out and end the never ending fraud and political gameplaying that's been going on in those agencies for generations Which administration do you find more noble or admirable or worthy of your vote I don't know about you, but I'm very happy to have voted for President Trump a second time, and I did so without hesitation given his historically consequential and successful first term the successes of his first term have been dwarfed by all of the consequential and longer lasting efforts that he and his team are undertaking in Term two And this effort to finally deal with fraud across all of government is simply stellar. No other president in my lifetime has done it. They've talked about it. None has taken it on honestly This week, Treasury Secretary Scott Besscent announced that the treasury and the IRS are going to be engaging in a new scrutiny of so called nonprofits. President Trump signed an executive order last fall, asking federal agencies to better police these tax exempt organizations, which have exploded in size and mission well beyond the traditional charities or their traditional usage So this week, Scott Besscent warned nonprofits that are engaging in fraud, violence, improper politics, foreign collusion or terrorism, that they could face penalties far more severe than just losing their tax exempt status. He said this would include criminal prosecutions for their officers and trustees, forfeiture of the financial assets This is fantastic news. Besscent said nonprofit status is a privilege. It is a privilege, the right to be exempt from paying taxes, being able to take donations that are tax deductible, have private citizens apply against their taxes. He said, we believe that many organizations are violating this privilege Imagine this is the first ever attempt to police wrongdoing in the nonprofit industry. That's really something. This nonprofit industry now accounts for more than ten percent of the U.S economic activity Bescent says Just one example of what's being uncovered would be this Justice Department move against the Southern Poverty Law Center. They just charged this liberal civil rights group with fraudulently collecting donations, claiming they're fighting extremism and hate while paying hate groups Meanwhile, experts say there's plenty of evidence that other left wing nonprofits are engaging with China and Cuba They're defrauding government welfare programs. They're extructing our law enforcement agencies like IC. They're fomenting violence, anti Semitism and unrest All of this is being done through nonprofits So this move to audit nonprofits is simply fantastic news. And anyone who you're going to hear squealing about it is going be a Democrat or a leftty who's profiting off of this long corrupt system There isn't a single taxpaying American who should have a problem with this unless they know their side is profiting off of it And so of course, some immediate squealing has started about how going after these NGOs and nonprofits was a totalitarian effort to chill free speech, blah, blah, blah. That's lety complaining because this is really just an effort to finally finally strip out a lot of the corruption that people on both sides of the aisle, but predominantly on the left built into our system of federal government over the generations The next bit of good reform news comes from Dr. Oz and Robert Kennedy Jr. Trump's appointees to the HHS and CMS. They're saying they discovered that about a million Obamacare users enrolled without ever providing a social security number This means that they're either very likely illegal aliens abusing the system or they're insurance fraudsters and these people don't really exist They say this too will end Kennedy said the Obamacare marketplace is plagued by fraud in large part because the Biden administration dismantled basic program integrity guardrails. He said partartisan lawfair block common sense efforts to protect taxpayers. So today, doctor Ozz and I are exposing one of the latest examples of fraud that we've uncovered. More than a million people enrolled in Obamacare without social seecurity numbers on file That's a glaring warning sign of fraud He said, why are we paying people we don't know actually exist doctor Uz said shady insurance agents and other bad actors have been getting paid to enroll unsuspecting Americans in healthcare plans they never signed up for. These rogue agents have been flooding into healthcare dot gov dot They submit applications for fake people, enroll stolen identities, all to collect millions of dollars, improper fees from insurance companies for selling plans they never legitimately sold And it turns out they've already acted to correct a lot of this O said that in May they took swift action to block this fraudulent behavior directly on healthcare. gov and the markarketplace call center And Kennedy said, thanks to this aggressive enforcement strategy, we've already eliminated thousands of fraudulent policies, and we're just getting started We're also working with insurers to cancel every policy that should never have been issued and recover every taxpayer dollar that was fraudulently paid out. Kenny warned to every unscrupulous insurance agent and fraudster exploiting the American people. Here is our message. If you steal from the American taxpayer or if you defraud American families, HHS will find you and we will hold you accountable Why did it take the Trump administration to finally say this fifteen years after Obamacare began? Honestly, Why didn't Obama or Joe Biden or their regimes ever care to find the fraud within this wonderful system they created Was it because finding widespread fraud would help prove it wasn't a wonderful system Or was it because for today's Democrats, they want every possible American and illegal alien dependent on big government in some way I'm guessing it was the second option But fifteen years after Obamacare ex changes started, which means after fifteen years of obviously fraudulent schemes that have been occurring within this system We finally have our government agencies looking to find and root out the fraud A, why did it take Trump's team to do this? And B, why should this be unique or a one time effort from a single administration Shouldn't it be an obvious responsibility of any government and any governmental agency that creates and runs a program to monitor it for fraud and end any of it that's occurring Of course it should be The next story related to this fraud crackdown, eight black women in North Carolina have plleed guilty to stealing over twenty five million dollars in COVID money. They're admitting to it Federal investigators say two of them owned a tax return preparation business. They conspired with others to prepare false tax returns, claiming fraudulent refunds based on COVID tax credits. Seven other co conspirators were arrested too. Again, they all pled guilty immediately The ring leadader faces a maximum term of eight years in prison and a five hundred thousand dollars fine when sentenced later this year. She'll also be ordered to pay a forfeiture money judgment of about fourteen million dollars I hope they all get the maximum sentence. and it's clear the prosecutors have them dead to write. They all entered guilty pleas with no effort, it seems The next story is related to the massive fraud schemes discovered in Tim Wallts', Minnesota one of the orchestrators of the so called Feeding ourur Future program which was one of the biggest scams that's been uncovered to date, has now been arrested in Somalia Clown has been running from the law for four years, apparently and was finally taken into custody in Somalia this week And this is another instance of Trump's Department of Justice setting a new standard and saying, maybe the Biden regime let you escape the country and didn't care if you ever got prosecuted, but the Trump team doesn't play that game So far, seventy nine people have been charged in relation to this scam, which nearly all top Minnesota Democrats seem to know was going on. And almost all of those charged are Somali. Democrats in Minnesota, including Governor Tim Walls and attorney General Ke E Allison clearly decided to let organized groups of foreigners victimize the American and Minnesota taxpayers. just as much as they wanted, so long as some of that money was kicked back into Democrat campaigns and they got Somali votes. That is clearly what went on up there, even if Tim Walts and Keith Ellison want to pretend that they're cracking down on the fraud now They aren't and weren't. They knew what was going on So that's the latest fraud stuff. But then there's also this, as long as we're talking about Minnesota, love this The Department of Justice is charging fifteen members of AntifA up in the twin cities with numerous charges related to targeting ice and obstructing justice. fantastic But even better news, the way they're doing it really has Antifa's top organizers rattled if you believe the left wing press This case is more concerning to AntifFA members and leaders after the successful prosecution of nine AntifFA members who targeted an ice facility in Texas with violence and terroristic acts, But these fifteen haven't been charged with domestic terrorism. they've been charged with other federal crimes that prosecutors can easily make stick. Federal indictment of these fifteen chargeed them with conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers, interstate stalking, destruction of government property, solicitation to commit a crime of violence and other offenses Charging documents say the defendants are members or associates of a group called Direct Action Minnesota, and they use secret aliases. Officials say Direct Action Minnesota is comprised of activists from suborganizations and it is affiliated with Antifa This DAM group's Facebook photo is an image of a Minnesota police precinct on fire They describe themselves on their website as a group of dedicated anarchists who root ourselves in the labor and direct action movements Daniel Rosen is the U. S. attorney for the Distict of Minnesota And he says they're highly organized. They're holding meetings on a regular basis, and they're successfully infiltrating lawful demonstrations against IS The conspiracy charges that they're being charged with stem from two different blockades that Direct Action Minnesota and AntifFA organized on january third and march first outside of the Federal builduilding up there, which serves as the base of operations for Iice. Rosen said these agitators surveilled, harassed and confronted IC officers outside the Federal buildilding and even followed some of them to their homes In one incident, a defendant allegedly followed federal officers all the way to Wisconsin which explains the interstate stalking charge When Rosen was asked by a reporter whether affiliation with Antif is considered a crime, he said, It's a crime to conspire together in order to commit crimes of violence That's the right answer. And it is now apparently dawning on other organizers for AntifFA and left wing groups like this that all of those charges, all the basic charges that these Minnesota activists are facing, could fit their groups committing antis social acts and violence across the country. In short, the leaders of AntifFA are realizing that they aren't going to get a complete pass like they did from the Democrat DAs and judges of the Biden era or the federal prosecutors of the Biden administration anymore They're even more panicked that Trump's Department of Justice investigators have found ways into their secret little clubs This is causing panic, according to a Washington examiner story They said the federal indictment is sending AntifFA's leaders into a panic scrambling over the case's legal implications for the underground movement. In response to last week's raids on the residences of the defendants, AntifFA accounts across social media started circulating an alert warning others You should be discussing this with your comrades and organizing groups And they're talking about the federal agents mounting a conspiracy case against these suspected AntifA operatives in Minnesota. See, as the examiner explains, AntifFA by design is subdivided at the local level into loosely affiliated cells or affinity groups organized around their shared anarchistic and communistic activities This decentralized structure serves to shroud Antif his operations in secrecy and undercut claims that it is a unified criminal organization desespite itell the cells often working in tandem So put another way, these are groups of smart leftists whose legal leaders have considered it a genius to come up with ways to avoid rico charges and conspiracy laws They decided we just won't have a clear organization or centralization at the top. We'll keep AntifFA and our actions a loose affiliation of groups that government prosecutors can't easily identify or shut down or prosecute Okay, but Trump's Department of Justice is finding ways Because anytime any group of people is organizing violence against the U.S. government, prosecutors have myriad things to charge them with. Investigators say the affiliated group, this direct action Minnesota held regular meetings, coordinated almost exclusively through encrypted signal chat rooms, and trained their foot soldiers in guerrilla like warfare ranging from tactical surveillance to mass mobilization Some of the big panic here is that these insiders expect this conspiracy case in Minnesota to expose Antifa is a real and organized threat, which debunks the myth that it's merely an idea. Forever, the Democrats and the AntFA activists have said AFA doesn't really exist. It's not a real thing One expert says the investigation's findings will blow up the ridiculous lie that AntifFA doesn't exist He says the AntivA activists are particularly alarmed about the FBI infiltrating that Minneapolis sells signal group chats as many other AntivA groups rely on the supposedly secure messaging system to plan criminal activity Qot The Feds have penetrated into the encrypted messaging of these underground networks, and they're terrified because that is where the evidence is of their crimes. To prove a conspiracy, you have to prove that people were planning crimes and then carried out those crimes. Well, if they have the signal chats, the Feds now have the proof the intercept, which is a liberal outlet that's sympathetic to antivac causes published a piece last week that said, Keep in mind that signals disappearing messages delete the contents of a message, but they don't remove evidence that the communications between parties occurred in the first place. This is the advice they're giving to their fellow anarchists Qote, There therefore, it's safest to regularly delete entire groups and chats, not just the messaging themselves This is the intercept, helpfully providing ways that the anarchists can hide their crimes from prosecutors. Lovely But what this really is is proof that the Department of Justice under Obama and Biden really could have gone after these anti American activist groups all along here proves that those two administrations intentionally told their Departments of Justice and their local federal prosecutors to stand down prosecute those crimes, donon't go after AntFA. donon't find a way to end this rioting Don't find a way to stop the violent actions that these groups are committing in the name of protest over the last ten years That's infuriating