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00:01:54.440Hello, everyone. How's everybody doing? I know you're surprised to see me again,
00:02:07.000but Allie is traveling and asked me to step in for her today, and I'm always happy to do that.
00:02:14.320My name is Ron Simmons. We're going to talk about several things today that are,
00:02:18.740you know, they're serious stuff, and we have serious stuff going on in the world today.
00:02:23.160We know that the Iran war is still going on. I do want to do a quick shout out to our friends in Australia who are giving five of the Iranian ladies soccer team asylum because evidently they did something in either a photo or a video clip that showed some defiance.
00:02:44.460and they were worried about their safety if they went back to Iran.
00:02:51.440You know, they have named a new supreme leader,
00:02:54.840which, boy, I sure wouldn't want my name out in the public.
00:02:57.480You can bet that our friends from Israel are already looking for that guy.
00:03:01.500And evidently, he's the son of the former one that just passed away
00:03:05.980and is as radical, if not more radical, than his father was.
00:03:12.020So it's okay. We're going to finish the job. We've already crippled their military might, no matter what they say.
00:03:19.920They're trying to do some stuff in the Strait of Hormuz, which is at the bottom of Iran, that kind of has shipping going through there.
00:03:27.860But we're going to get all that straightened out. We'll talk about the economic implications of that a little bit later in the show.
00:03:33.780But what I want to talk about starting out is there was a terrorist attack in New York City and something that we've heard before in our lifetimes, for sure, and something that if we all remember 9-11, how many of our fellow Americans that were murdered on that day.
00:03:51.800But this was a really more of a scare.
00:03:56.560Luckily, no one was injured any seriously at all.
00:04:00.580And on March the 7th, which was just last this past Saturday on the Upper East Side, where the mayor's mansion is, they call it Gracie Mansion.
00:04:10.500There was a protest going on by a group of about 20 people that was a don't let Islam take over our country.
00:04:19.220And then there was a counter protest called Stop the Hate, Get the Nazis Out of New York City.
00:04:24.840So they were calling all those people Nazis.
00:04:27.000And then there were two people that were affiliated with that counter protest or at least supporting of that counter protest that had built bombs and threw those into the crowd.
00:04:39.860Now, luckily, they didn't ignite, but they did attempt to cause major damage and major loss of life if they could have.
00:04:50.300The protesters were, the first one was an 18-year-old by the name of Amir Balot from the Philadelphia area.
00:05:02.900And here is Sot 1 that shows what this guy was doing.
00:06:06.100Then another 19-year-old by the name of Ibrahim Nick, and he also had a bomb and threw it.
00:06:15.520And then they both ran off, but then policemen were able to get them.
00:06:18.900They were denied bail, thank goodness, on terrorism-related charges with the federal government stepped in and did that when it's terrorism, it becomes a federal crime.
00:06:28.600and they also had stated in their own that they were pro-ISIS supporters.
00:06:36.180In fact, he said ISIS was his reason for acting,
00:06:42.240while Balot told officers that he had pledged allegiance to the terrorist group.
00:06:49.720And when they were asked whether they sought to emulate the 2013 bombing,
00:06:54.500Balot reportedly replied, no, even bigger.
00:06:58.600And remember, there were three people killed in that bombing and 280 injured.
00:07:03.340So these weren't kids that were just playing around, coming to New York City for a prank.
00:07:09.220These were serious, radicalized Islamists.
00:07:12.420Both of them grew up outside or spent the last several years anyway outside of Philadelphia.
00:07:18.760They lived in very, if you look on the Internet, they lived in very nice homes, looked to be million-dollar-plus homes.
00:07:25.400So it's not like they had been oppressed or anything like that.
00:07:28.500In fact, their families had done well by us rolling out the carpet for them to come to the United States.
00:07:34.860Police later found their vehicle near the scene.
00:07:39.620So it was coordinated and had a fuse, metal cans and handwritten list of chemicals and components for bomb making.
00:07:47.740It's really unbelievable when you think about it.
00:07:51.820And the officers, of course, we thank them.
00:07:54.920They ran towards the danger and were able to apprehend them.
00:08:00.460She also said that there, this was a commissioner, Jessica Tisch, commissioner in New York,
00:08:05.600that there was no direct link between what they were doing and what was going on in Iran.
00:08:11.480That was just the radicalization of two guys, which is very sad.
00:08:16.660And Pam Bondi said they've been charged federally.
00:08:20.520There's a full screen picture of this guy that one of the two people that were throwing the bomb.
00:08:26.280And the charges that we filed from a federal level have been the material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
00:08:37.400That is a maximum sentence of 20 years.
00:14:38.020An activist, an activist explaining what's happened, holds a homemade explosive before throwing it towards police during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang against alleged Islamification in front of Gracie Manchin.
00:14:53.880Again, not even mentioning at all the counter-protest, calling him an activist rather than a terrorist.
00:15:00.920Telling you, our media is such an issue.
00:15:39.480We are in a military fight with a foreign power.
00:15:45.720Again, as I said on Saturday, not necessarily much the country of Iran, but the radical Islamic Islams that lead Iran and they lead other organizations like the Houthis and Hezbollah and Hamas.
00:16:00.200Those are really, that's where the issue is, not with the country per se.
00:16:06.920And this alert is based on preliminary signals of transmissions relayed across multiple countries shortly after the assassination of the Supreme Leader.
00:16:25.180So if you see something unusual, make sure that you're reporting that.
00:16:28.780or if you hear something unusual, you know, some type of unusual type of, uh, words being said,
00:16:36.280if you're out in the crowd, things like that, make sure that you're diligent for that. Um,
00:16:41.180and then, you know, cause we also not into, not only the New York city, but if you remember a
00:16:46.240week or so ago, they, uh, had an, there was an Austin shooter in Austin, Texas. And I think we
00:16:51.740have a screenshot as well of this one that was called, had a sweatshirt reading the property
00:16:58.480of Allah. He killed three people, wounded 14 after firing from his car into a bar near the
00:17:04.720University of Texas. And the police were there in about 57 seconds. They got there really quick.
00:17:10.280They were able to eliminate the threat and eliminate the man. And then there were flags
00:17:17.540and photos in the attacker's apartment of the Iran leader. So, you know, everybody likes to
00:17:24.740belong to something. And I was listening to a podcast here recently, uh, about a lot of you
00:17:31.420will not know this, but some of the people my age will remember the, um, kidnapping of Patricia
00:17:37.620Hearst, who was an heir to the Randolph, uh, William Randolph Hearst, uh, you know, uh, riches,
00:17:46.220I guess you would say wealth, who had a huge, uh, media empire a long time ago and still owns
00:17:51.220media stuff but she was the granddaughter and who was kidnapped by some terrorist organization
00:17:57.720and then she actually you know she she was rebelling against her parents already so when
00:18:03.120she got inside of that uh a lot of us believe although she has denied it that she kind of
00:18:10.540became a part of that organization in fact she was she went on a couple of armed robberies and
00:18:16.140what have you now she said she was forced it's hard to believe that that she was forced for that
00:18:20.700long. But anyway, I'm just saying people like to belong to something. If they can't belong to
00:18:25.420something good, they'll belong to something bad. So that's what's happened with these people. And
00:18:29.820who knows what was going on? Maybe, you know, the guy in Austin was mentally ill. I think the
00:18:34.020two boys in Pennsylvania, you know, had just been listening to the wrong stuff,
00:18:41.760looking at the wrong stuff online and, you know, just have gone the wrong way. So
00:18:47.460anyway, it's a sad situation. I'm glad they were able to catch these guys and nobody was hurt in
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00:20:01.220Now, the next thing we want to talk about is the Save America Act. We've heard a lot about that
00:20:06.520lately that's really been in the news, and it's called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility.
00:20:13.720And let me talk just for a second of why this is so important. The base of all republics or
00:20:20.220democracies, we actually are in a republic, all right, which means we elect officials to represent
00:20:27.680us. A democracy is where everybody has one single, each individual vote for the government itself.
00:20:36.280But in a republic, it works a little different. But the goal is the same thing, is that really the power is in the people.
00:20:43.720But if the base of that power is being able to vote to elect those people that you want to run the government, that's really the basis of the power.
00:20:53.660And so if there's anything that makes that not as accurate and as safe and even as transparent as it should be, then you don't really get the government that the people want.
00:21:05.420And people talk about, well, it's such a small thing.
00:21:09.340Look, if I have a voter in the area where I live that's an illegal voter, and let's say that he or she votes for someone different than I vote for, then my vote's automatically been canceled.
00:21:21.340So I've been disenfranchised for no good reason.
00:21:24.240So I believe that we have to root out every smidgen of illegal voting, every smidgen of that.
00:21:31.200And sometimes maybe it's done unknowingly.
00:21:35.220Maybe somebody moves and they don't change their address quick enough, so they vote in the wrong location.
00:21:40.580I'm talking about just kind of within a city.
00:21:42.180And those things matter because what some people vote for in one part of a metroplex area may be different than the other people are voting for, especially on the local, local level.
00:21:52.440So the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, introduced by Senator John Cornyn, our senator from Texas, Senator Mike Lee, who is from Utah.
00:22:01.200And Congressman Chip Roy from Texas requires individuals to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
00:22:09.060This is where the biggest issue is. And I've said this for a long time in Texas.
00:22:14.200I did not. I filed a bill to get this taken care of, but it didn't get through all of the minutia in the legislature.
00:22:21.680And that is if you right now in Texas and in most states, when I register to vote, I basically just I do give them some information that they should be able to verify.
00:22:34.460But I'm essentially signing an affidavit saying I'm eligible to vote.
00:22:38.960There's not really any follow up done on that.
00:22:41.420All right. And what we need to put into play and what the SAVE Act puts into play is that you have to prove your eligibility to vote.
00:22:50.420You prove your citizenship. You prove that you're where you live and that type of thing in order to even be able to register as a legal voter.
00:23:01.700It also it also would require photo ID when you go to vote. All right.
00:23:07.480And it also would require states to remove non-citizens from voter rolls, which that's important as well to include any non-citizens because they're out there.
00:23:17.880How they got on there, who knows, but we need to remove those as well.
00:23:23.500Now, President Trump has really stepped out on this one, and here's what he has said.
00:23:27.980I want to read this true social post that he put up there.
00:23:31.140Good job by hardworking Scott Pressler on Fox & Friends talking about using the filibuster or talking filibuster,
00:23:38.760and we'll talk about that in a second as well, in order to press the Save the America Act.
00:23:42.560An issue, 88% of all voters says we must have.
00:27:05.680So we don't know what's going to happen with this because they're trying to
00:27:09.280all at the same time, move other priorities.
00:27:11.400Like when you remember the department of homeland security is still not
00:27:14.580funded during where we have in spring break times,
00:27:17.680You can see some of the waits at airports, three, four hours, because these people aren't getting paid.
00:27:22.020Some of them aren't showing up because they're not getting paid.
00:27:24.560Maybe they have to go do another job to make money to feed their family.
00:27:28.600And the Democrats are the ones that are the cause for this.
00:27:31.460If you wait in line at an airport, call your local Democrat, because that is who's stopping this from you.
00:27:38.280All right. If you wait in a hugely long line, that's what's causing it.
00:27:41.280They all want to get more Iran security funding and other, Mark, the new DHS secretary, Senator Mullen.
00:27:52.600They've got his nomination coming up that needs to go through the White House, I mean, go through Senate as well.
00:27:58.780So it's already passed the House multiple times and therefore, you know, hopefully it will pass the House in the future or pass the Senate.
00:28:07.500And I'd like for him to pass the House version.
00:28:09.780I know President Trump wants a little more, but if you pass a Senate that hit the version that he wants in the Senate, you've got to go back to the House.
00:28:17.160And there's always risk when you do that.
00:28:19.660Now, the Democrats are opposing this, of course.
00:28:46.860I mean, Jim Crow, if you remember the Jim Crow laws that were keeping people from voting in the South where they would put these ridiculous things.
00:28:55.380But having a having an identification is not one of those.
00:28:59.940As a matter of fact, I was reading today that somewhere around 90% of the people that are eligible for them have driver's license in the U.S.
00:29:13.100or some form of state or government-issued ID.
00:29:16.920So they're talking about, it's what we call a red herring, meaning they're throwing up something to get attention that doesn't have any facts based on it.
00:29:26.560He also claimed, Senator Schumer did, that this will allow Elon Musk to determine who can vote.
00:29:32.900Now, let's see how he pulls this rabbit out of his hat.
00:29:36.160He would purge the voter rolls using an AI system set up by Musk and Doge.
00:29:44.540So you could show up at the polling place this November, and they'd say you're no longer on the rolls.
00:31:44.120Hillary Clinton, our good friend, who, by the way, has still not called me to come on the show and talk about her attack on Allie a few weeks ago in that article.
00:31:53.100But Hillary Clinton claimed on X that Republican voter legislation, specifically the Save America Act backed by President Trump, would make it harder for millions of Americans to vote, particularly married women, portraying it as deliberate suppression.
00:32:07.860What they say is once you get married, your name's changed, all right?
00:32:12.520And as this says, House passes elections overhaul bill that could make it harder for married women to vote.
00:32:18.680Now, this is so crazy because, first of all, there are provisions.
00:32:24.620If you've recently married and your birth certificate, which it would never match what they have on or your ID doesn't match,
00:32:33.420they have other ways to reconcile that when you go to vote.
00:33:04.820That's, that's, I was surprised at that.
00:33:06.660So if you go to the airport and your ID doesn't match the name on your ticket because you've gotten married, then what are they going to do?
00:33:21.460They get that taken care of, all right?
00:33:24.020And again, if it's within a few months or something, there are other ways to show who you really are.
00:33:30.540It's just, again, it's another red herring that you need to push back against.
00:33:36.060If any of your, you know, woke friends are talking about that, it's just it is it's just incredible.
00:33:43.860Democrats, including Clinton and House members, suggest that the bill would disenfranchise married women whose birth certificates do not match their married names, which is just not a true statement.
00:33:54.600Republicans emphasize that the legislation includes explicit provisions to accommodate name changes without excluding eligible voters.
00:35:02.960And this is backed by 79% of independents and 70% of Democrats requiring voter ID to vote.
00:35:09.98080% of people want states to purge non-citizens from voter rolls.
00:35:17.94085%, this is probably the most interesting statistic, 85% agree only U.S. citizens should vote in our election.
00:35:24.640But if you listen to some of the far left woke, they don't believe that the mayor of New York doesn't believe that a lot of people don't believe that 80 or I say a lot of people, a lot of loud people.
00:35:35.660It's not really. It's a loud minority. Remember that most things that seem crazy. It's a loud minority that's doing it.
00:35:43.340Sometimes that's on the far left. Sometimes it's on the far right in a Harvard Caps Harris poll says there is a strong support for the Save America Act when confronted with a tradeoff.
00:35:54.320Here's the tradeoff. Should voters prioritize stopping fraud over access concerns?
00:36:00.820So, in other words, some people will claim and you can see on this page here, some people will say, hey, do you support the or oppose the Save America Act, 71 to 29 support of it?
00:36:11.760And then they say, but however, which is the more important that we do everything possible to stop voter fraud or are we worried about eligible citizens can't or deny the ability to vote?
00:36:26.560So a majority of Americans say, hey, it's more important to stop fraud than it is that a few people may not have the right identification to vote that are that actually are eligible to vote.
00:36:40.440I mean, I don't know why Republicans cannot use this, especially in their campaigns, to beat some Democrats this coming fall, because it's just real.
00:36:54.840I mean, it's something that they should be using, just keep pounding and pounding.
00:36:59.040I think that's why President Trump, say anything you want to about President Trump.
00:37:02.080The guy knows politics as far as what moves the what the what the majority of people are thinking or what at least what his base is thinking anyway.
00:37:11.940He has a pretty good finger on the pulse of that.
00:37:15.600So I encourage you that if you live in a blue state or if you live in a state that has a squishy Republican senator,
00:37:22.700that you get in touch with them and you tell them that we want this passed and we don't care what it takes.
00:37:28.340If it means getting rid of the filibuster or make them do a talking filibuster, that that's what you want to have happen.
00:41:37.680We also have to go against the Iran proxies like the Hooties and what have you who try to help in that situation.
00:41:43.420But right now that has reduced some of the oil flow through there.
00:41:47.220But America is producing more oil than it ever has.
00:41:50.580Trump's been on the phone with China to say, hey, we're going to help you get the oil you need because that was coming from Iran.
00:41:57.280Same way, you know, I mean, Trump's also had a conversation with Putin trying to tell him, hey, don't get involved in this conflict, which I think is a smart thing to do.
00:42:07.460Again, I told you, you know, you may be in your, you know, in your policy or political opponent, you may be totally against something on this with them.
00:42:18.400And I had this happen to me a lot when I was in the legislature, especially when it got to social issues.
00:42:22.420I was bitterly against a lot of the Democrat policies.
00:42:25.860But I need to work with them maybe on some transportation issues, something related to roads.
00:42:31.220And that's what President Trump is doing.
00:42:33.140It's, you know, we don't think China is our friend, but if we can help them get something that they need,
00:42:39.480that may make discussions and negotiations with us a little bit easier.
00:45:02.560It's, again, always some great questions.
00:45:05.080I'm going to get through as many as I can in the next few minutes.
00:45:07.960And, again, you can always email me, ron at ronsimmons.com.
00:45:13.220And if you've emailed me and I haven't got back to you within a couple of weeks, email me that again, because it'll get back up to the front of my email box.