The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


The Stone Zone ｜ 06-22-26


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Trump-backed lawyer Abelardo de Espereira defeats leftist senator Iván Cepeda in Colombia s presidential runoff, sending the country into a new era of conservative politics. President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence react to the results.

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00:01:00.440 Well, I was one of the first in the country to call this,
00:01:04.240 but Colombia has now delivered victory for the conservative populist realignment
00:01:09.640 that is sweeping Latin America.
00:01:12.200 Over the last year, we have seen conservatives move into positions of power
00:01:16.680 through democratic elections in Argentina, Peru, Chile, Honduras,
00:01:22.120 And I predict Guatemala is next.
00:01:25.320 Now, Colombia has elected a Trump-backed lawyer, Abelardo de Espereira, who won Sunday's presidential runoff over left-wing Senator Iván Cepeda, according to preliminary results.
00:01:40.900 With all ballots now counted, D'Esperella captured 49.66% against Cepeda's 48.7% and margined roughly 248,000 votes.
00:01:54.980 Known publicly as the Tiger, DiEsperella came out of nowhere, gathered the two million signatures necessary outside their party structure to get his name on the ballot, and campaigned on restoring law and order, confronting armed criminal groups, lowering taxes, expanding energy production, and reducing the size of government.
00:02:19.560 His victory ends four years of leftist rule under President Gustavo Petro, who was constitutionally barred from seeking another term. 0.94
00:02:29.980 Petro is also famous for having sex with trannies, but that's another story. 0.96
00:02:35.260 Petro and Cepeda have questioned, of course, the preliminary count and called for scrutiny, even claiming, most improbably, that Israel had somehow hacked the voting count. 1.00
00:02:45.940 Bottom line of their protests, they lost.
00:02:49.560 It's all absolute hogwash.
00:02:51.800 Petro, of course, has been a vocal opponent of President Trump,
00:02:55.480 releasing unhinged diatribes against Trump publicly
00:02:59.060 and concluding that, colluding, I should say,
00:03:03.880 with other leftists in the region
00:03:05.360 in an attempt to halt the success of the Don Roe Doctrine.
00:03:10.220 The result in Colombia follows a broader regional rejection
00:03:13.420 of socialist failure.
00:03:15.480 As I said, conservative governments, candidates,
00:03:17.660 have gained ground in Argentina, Chile, Honduras, Peru, El Salvador, and now Colombia, up next
00:03:26.420 Guatemala. President Nayib Bukele's dramatic crackdown on violent gangs has shown voters
00:03:34.280 that determined leadership can restore public safety, while Argentina's Javier Malay has
00:03:40.940 challenged the spending, inflation, and debt produced by decades of left-wing economics.
00:03:46.660 For Washington, Colombia's turn offers a strategic opportunity.
00:03:52.760 A conservative partner could strengthen the fight against narco-trafficking, resist Chinese influence in this hemisphere, promote free enterprise, and rebuild regional security.
00:04:05.220 It appears that the Trump effect is spilling over to other countries in this hemisphere.
00:04:10.460 People across our entire hemisphere are ready to make the Americas great again.
00:04:15.920 This is the type of renaissance we need to create stability, needing to reshore jobs, take industry back, and foster a broad prosperity that will last for many decades to come.
00:04:32.260 Meanwhile, Vice President J.D. Vance led the American delegation into high-stakes peace talks in Iran on Sunday,
00:04:40.160 carrying President Donald Trump's message that diplomacy is welcome, but America's strength is not negotiable.
00:04:46.060 Meeting at Switzerland's Bergenstock Resort, Vance joined White House envoys Jared Kushner and Stephen Witkoff
00:04:53.720 for the first round of U.S.-Iranian negotiations since April.
00:04:58.980 Officials from Pakistan and Qatar served as mediators.
00:05:02.720 The talks are expected to begin a 60-day process aimed at restricting Iran's nuclear program and easing regional tensions.
00:05:12.440 But there are certainly hang-ups regarding this tenuous peace process.
00:05:16.900 I urge you to sit back a bit and not jump at everything you see at social media, because there's a great deal of disinformation out there.
00:05:25.780 But there, I think, for instance, Iran has claimed that Israel violated the ceasefire through operations in Lebanon.
00:05:34.380 Before meeting Iranian representatives, Vance conferred with the prime ministers of Pakistan and Qatar, along with Pakistan's military commander.
00:05:43.020 He said the moment presents a choice.
00:05:45.460 We can either establish a new relationship in the Middle East or we can return to the failed patterns of the past.
00:05:52.140 Vance emphasized that Sunday's discussions will not resolve every dispute overnight.
00:05:58.140 Instead, they begin the technical work of identifying each side's priorities and then moving forward to a workable agreement from there.
00:06:06.100 President Trump reinforced the administration's peace through strength posture on true social. 0.70
00:06:11.200 He warned yet again that Iran would be hit harder than before, as they were in Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury, unless it rains in Hezbollah and its other proxies in Lebanon. 0.59
00:06:25.380 The Trump administration seeks regional peace, but Tehran will not secure concessions through nuclear pressure, terrorist proxies, or threats against global commerce.
00:06:35.100 J.D. Vance understands this better than few others, and is remarkable in articulating the America First foreign policy.
00:06:43.840 I told him so in a text exchange the day before yesterday.
00:06:47.660 The peace process is in good hands with him, taking a greater leadership role in winding down the conflict with Iran.
00:06:54.680 We all pray that the MOU will lead to a lasting peace.
00:06:59.000 Meanwhile, the reviled British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, is being forced to resign
00:07:06.000 Starmer announced his resignation Monday, brought down by a Labour Party revolt
00:07:11.940 After less than two years in office
00:07:14.400 Starmer will remain Prime Minister until Labour selects a successor
00:07:19.260 Popular Labour politician Andy Burnham is the favourite after winning a special election
00:07:26.260 and securing Health Secretary West Streeting's endorsement.
00:07:31.540 Labour entered the government in 2024 with a majority but a weak vote share.
00:07:37.040 Starmer's loveless landslide unraveled among economic stagnation,
00:07:42.700 uncontrolled immigration, surging crime, local election losses,
00:07:47.420 and the rise of my friend Nigel Farage's Reform UK.
00:07:52.000 As his government cratered, Starmer resorted to Orwellian repression in an attempt to maintain his facade of control.
00:08:01.220 Ahead of my friend Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally in May, his government blocked 11 foreign conservative figures from entering Britain, declaring their presence to be for the public good.
00:08:14.340 Starmer branded rally organizers and participants extremists, spreading hatred and division.
00:08:20.740 Authorities deployed over 4,000 officers and live facial recognition technology around the demonstrations
00:08:28.620 This is not anything like democracy with a small d
00:08:32.860 Our documents, our fundamental documents are based on the Maga Nakarta
00:08:37.620 All of our fundamental freedoms come from a model first formed in Britain
00:08:43.480 But today, it is illegal to question or criticize Islam
00:08:48.660 That's hard to believe
00:08:50.100 The operation was designed not to prevent violence, but to intimidate political opposition and redefine immigration dissidents as a security threat.
00:09:00.820 Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarzynski said his exclusion constituted political censorship and threatened legal action.
00:09:09.960 European conservatives denounced the ban as an attack on democratic freedom and freedom of expression.
00:09:16.360 The strategy ultimately failed for Starmer. He could police rallies, he could bar foreign speakers, he could smear opponents, but he could not suppress the voters' anger over the immigration invasion, the increase in rape, the continued economic decline, and the collapsing trust in government.
00:09:36.700 Britain now faces its seventh prime minister in a decade.
00:09:41.180 Starmer's fall offers a blunt lesson that government leaders who answer public dissent with surveillance and censorship are doomed to failure.
00:09:51.800 It's only a matter of time before conservative populists take hold in the UK and make Britain great again.
00:09:58.960 Alan Greenspan, who, by the way, served as Richard Nixon's economic advisor in his 1968 comeback campaign,
00:10:07.540 the economist who led the Federal Reserve for two decades, has died at age 100 from complications of Parkinson's disease.
00:10:16.500 Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, Greenspan served five terms as the Federal Reserve chairman under four presidents.
00:10:25.240 His lengthy tenure reflected a bipartisan confidence rarely seen in Washington. Greenspan became known as the maestro while overseeing years of historic growth. He guided monetary policy through the 1987 stock market crash, the technology boom, and the shock following September 11th.
00:10:47.240 A committed defender of markets and private property, Greenspan was closely associated with novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand.
00:10:57.820 He argued that homeownership strengthens political support for the property rights essential to a free economy.
00:11:04.220 Again, a man plucked from obscurity by Richard Nixon.
00:11:08.320 However, Greenspan's record was not without controversy.
00:11:11.400 Critics blamed low interest rates and financial deregulation for helping inflate the housing bubble that burst after his retirement, contributing to the Great Recession and the area of quantitative easing and massive inflation that followed. Greenspan acknowledged that he had underestimated the ability of financial institutions to police themselves.
00:11:34.400 After leaving the Fed, that was in 2006, he founded Greenspan and Associates and remained an economic commentator
00:11:42.980 Greenspan was a free market intellectual who, unlike Jerome Powell, who was a lawyer and not an economist
00:11:50.460 Took his role as Fed chair seriously and cared about his country
00:11:54.960 That will be Alan Greenspan's legacy, but still, even the most noble of men cannot be trusted with that level of power
00:12:02.220 No one man or oligarchy of bankster elites should ever control our interest rates and our monetary supply.
00:12:10.780 That's why I agree with former Texas Congressman Ron Paul and say it's time to end the Fed.
00:12:17.720 Meanwhile, the Supreme Court unanimously last week said that federal prosecutors cannot charge a Texas man with a felony for possessing a handgun in his home while he occasionally used marijuana.
00:12:31.700 The case involved one Ali Daniel Jiménie, a dual U.S.-Pakistani citizen, born and raised in Texas.
00:12:40.820 In 2022, FBI agents raided his family home in Louisville, Texas, as part of a national security investigation into suspected ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:12:53.240 During the search, however, agents found a handgun, roughly 60 grams of marijuana, and a small amount of cocaine.
00:13:01.200 Jiménie told the agency he smoked marijuana about every other day.
00:13:05.120 Prosecutors charged him solely under 18 U.S.C. 922.
00:13:10.600 The federal statute prohibits unlawful users of controlled substances from possessing firearms.
00:13:17.880 They did not pursue charges, by the way, related to the cocaine or alleged that he was armed while impaired.
00:13:24.040 Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the court's opinion.
00:13:27.020 Lower course dismissed the indictment.
00:13:28.900 The Fifth Circuit held that the charge violated the Second Amendment under the framework established in the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association during Bruin decision.
00:13:39.180 The Supreme Court agreed.
00:13:41.060 Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for the court.
00:13:44.660 The government defended the statute by citing historical laws, disarming habitual drunkards.
00:13:51.060 The court found these analogies to be unpersuasive.
00:13:54.620 19th century statutes generally required a specific judicial determination that the individual is dangerous or otherwise incapacitated.
00:14:03.080 It is now clear one can smoke marijuana while owning a firearm.
00:14:07.860 You're listening to The Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. Don't go away because we'll be right back to talk about how a federal judge has now blocked a subpoena of Tampon Tim,
00:14:19.200 the governor of Minnesota while investigating Somali-based fraud in that state. Don't go away.
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00:16:00.460 A federal judge has blocked Justice Department subpoenas seeking records from Minnesota Governor Tim Walsh over alleged obstruction of federal immigration enforcement.
00:16:12.620 Issued in January to six offices, the subpoenas sought communications surrounding ICE operations in Minnesota.
00:16:20.680 Authorities were investigating whether officials unlawfully impeded agents conducting deportations.
00:16:27.080 An example of how the judiciary works to impede border security, U.S. District Judge Patrick Schlitz ruled that the subpoenas lacked an investigative purpose.
00:16:37.520 He said they were intended to coerce Minnesota officials into assisting with civil immigration enforcement and retaliate against them for refusing.
00:16:46.040 The judge seems to have missed the point that, of course, that is the law.
00:16:49.720 Walsh called the decision a victory for democracy, accused President Donald Trump's Justice Department of targeting political opponents.
00:16:57.800 Extremist Muslim Attorney General Keith Ellison claimed the justice system had been weaponized.
00:17:04.160 Minnesota's sanctuary policies created an environment where federal agents faced protests, harassment, and alleged obstruction while enforcing laws passed by Congress.
00:17:14.760 Cops were reportedly being ordered to stand down by Walz and the Attorney General, Ellison, while the city of Minneapolis devolved into anarchy and chaos.
00:17:25.880 Separately, 15 local activists were indicted this month for alleged crimes against federal officers.
00:17:34.200 State officials under our constitutional system can criticize federal immigration policy, can challenge actions in court, and can decline voluntary cooperation where legally permitted.
00:17:46.060 But they do not have the right to obstruct federal officers or shield lawbreakers from lawful arrest, which is obviously what was happening in Minnesota.
00:17:55.780 The Justice Department is expected to either appeal or pursue narrower subpoenas supported by specific evidence that would be more likely to be allowed by the courts.
00:18:05.720 But the fact is, the courts are obstructing this shows the level of institutional rot we are facing.
00:18:11.280 It is well known that President Trump holds former President Andrew Jackson in high esteem.
00:18:16.600 It may be time for him to follow in Jackson's footsteps and ignore this corrupted order.
00:18:22.160 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.
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00:19:44.280 welcome back into the stone zone well a florida nursing homeowner has pled guilty in a massive
00:19:51.800 diploma fraud scheme that put thousands of unqualified people on a pathway into America's
00:19:58.000 health care system. The Justice Department says Carleen Norius, 52, conspired to sell 3,000
00:20:05.220 fraudulent nursing diplomas and transcripts through two South Florida schools between 2018 and
00:20:11.720 2025. Byers had not completed the required classroom instructions or clinical training
00:20:18.300 for registered nursing, practical nursing, or for a bachelor's degree in nursing.
00:20:22.780 Yet the fake documents allowed them to sit for national licensing examinations.
00:20:26.820 Even more alarming, roughly 2,274 buyers passed those exams,
00:20:33.240 obtained nursing licenses, and found health care jobs across Florida and other states.
00:20:38.920 Both schools have been shut down.
00:20:41.180 Nori has pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money.
00:20:46.140 She faces up to 20 years in prison. I heard about this on Father's Day dinner night from my daughter,
00:20:53.260 who is a registered nurse in Florida. She must now be fingerprinted and take a new exam because of 0.98
00:20:59.380 this massive scandal. The case is part of Operation Nightingale, a multi-state crackdown that
00:21:04.840 previously uncovered more than 7,600 fake nursing diplomas issued by three South Florida schools.
00:21:11.520 The scandal shows that bureaucratic credentials and test scores cannot replace real education, supervised clinical experience, and personal integrity.
00:21:21.860 America may face nursing shortages, especially in rural communities, but lowering standards, tolerating fraud, or flooding the system with foreigners is not the answer.
00:21:32.040 Patients deserve qualified professionals, not paper credentials purchased from criminal operators.
00:21:37.600 Authorities must identify every fraudulent license holder, remove unqualified workers, and determine whether patients were actually being harmed.
00:21:46.340 The health care system has become commodified, and that's not because of the free market.
00:21:52.520 It's because the system has become too bureaucratic with too many middlemen and administrators getting in the way of patients receiving care from medical professionals.
00:22:01.780 We need to cut that waste and clamp down on scams like this, fake nursing school, in order to improve our failing health care system.
00:22:09.880 Meanwhile, a former U.S. Olympic canoeist is facing scrutiny after an alleged act of vandalism at Washington's newly refurbished reflecting pool,
00:22:19.960 as the Trump administration makes it clear that attacks on America's monuments will simply not be tolerated.
00:22:25.480 67-year-old David Hearn, who represented the United States in three summer limits, has been arrested last Friday by U.S. Park Police.
00:22:34.940 Authorities allege that he interfered with the pool near the Lincoln Memorial, which had become a hot-button issue after President Trump vowed to restore the pool to its former glory.
00:22:45.100 Journalists at the scene said they witnessed Hearn grab a hose being used by the National Park Service to remove algae.
00:22:51.360 He was confronted by park police and National Guard troops after reportedly competing a 52-mile bicycle ride.
00:22:59.940 President Trump has said multiple arrests have now been made in connection to what he calls disgraceful vandalism of the iconic pool.
00:23:07.000 The president has championed efforts to restore order, cleanliness, and civic pride in the nation's capital.
00:23:12.880 U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro says citations have already been issued and promised that offenders will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
00:23:21.360 If these allegations are true, and if this former U.S. Olympian did in fact vandalize the reflecting pool, it just shows how far Trump derangement syndrome through the propaganda sewer of the radical left can warp the minds of even those who once loved their country.
00:23:37.540 Nevertheless, these sorts of acts cannot be tolerated.
00:23:40.700 All found guilty of vandalizing our national symbols and monuments must be made into swift examples.
00:23:46.300 This idea of implanting algae into the reflecting pool or chemicals that would peel the new paint job.
00:23:54.000 These are outrages that must be prosecuted.
00:23:56.840 Otherwise, if we don't, we risk another BLM-style uprising in the future. 0.64
00:24:02.440 Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Ruben Gallego, a Democrat from Arizona, is facing scrutiny over campaign spending that reportedly refinanced family travel, childcare, and a Super Bowl outing, including tickets.
00:24:15.420 According to Politico's review of financial records, Gallego used leadership PAC money for trips to Miami, Chicago, Disneyland, and Disney World.
00:24:25.320 Filings also show his PAC and his campaign committee reimbursed more than $18,000 in child care expenses since 2019.
00:24:34.340 Fundraising committee formed with disgraced Congressman Eric Swalwell also funded Gallegos' 2023 Super Bowl outing with his wife.
00:24:44.340 A source familiar with the spending accused Gallegos of treating campaign accounts as a personal slush fund and using donor money to support a luxury lifestyle.
00:24:54.500 Gallegos did not dispute the figures, the senator says,
00:24:57.140 spending is lawful.
00:24:59.020 Federal laws allow campaign funds to cover travel, events, food, and child care
00:25:04.480 when connected to political activity.
00:25:07.100 Leadership pacts operate under broader rules
00:25:09.320 and are not subject to personal use prohibition governing candidate committees.
00:25:13.740 However, legality is not the only standard.
00:25:17.000 Donors deserve to know whether their contributions advance political principles
00:25:20.700 or underwrite campaigns, politicians, vacations, and family conveniences. Washington's habit of
00:25:26.840 exploding loopholes while Americans struggle with child care bills have fueled the kind of severe
00:25:32.160 detrust we see in our political system today. Gallegos insists lawmakers from both parties
00:25:37.700 travel with their families and use permitted child care reimbursements. Perhaps that's true,
00:25:42.980 but it doesn't make it right. The defense will not settle the ethical question. Gallegos is
00:25:48.100 exploding loopholes in order to live high on the hog on his donor's dime. You wonder who he'll be
00:25:54.040 beholden to when it comes time to vote. The same kind of special interest he relies upon for this
00:25:59.060 garish lifestyle. That's who. If this sort of slush fund is not illegal, Lagos must receive
00:26:05.080 his comeuppance from the voters. They should remove this dirtbag from office because he's 0.94
00:26:09.500 corrupt and he cannot be trusted. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is reporting 13 consecutive 0.99
00:26:15.760 months without a single catch-and-release case at our southern border. No migrant apprehended
00:26:21.660 at the border has been released into the United States, the lowest figure recorded in more than
00:26:26.100 three decades. The result marks an incredible reversal from the Biden years, where lax
00:26:31.580 enforcement and mass releases encouraged an unprecedented surge. An estimated 10.3 illegal
00:26:38.540 immigrants crossed the border between 2021 and 2024. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne
00:26:44.420 Mullen credited President Trump's leadership, declaring that the days of catch and release are
00:26:49.500 over. He said the administration is enforcing the law, rapidly returning illegal immigrants to their 0.92
00:26:55.060 home counties, and defending America's safety and sovereignty. Customs and Border Protection
00:27:00.900 Commissioner Rodney Scott, the administration's enforcement policies are also producing gains
00:27:06.100 in drug interdiction and trade enforcement. In May alone, agents reportedly seized nearly 800
00:27:12.620 pounds of fentanyl, poison responsible for devastating families and communities through
00:27:18.160 tainted illegal drug supplies. Over the past four months, monthly marijuana seizures averaged less
00:27:24.040 than 37,000 pounds, 61% higher than monthly average reported during the Biden year of 2024.
00:27:32.460 The CPB also intercepted 2 million counterfeit products worth more than 400 million dollars in
00:27:40.500 May. Agents blocked roughly 250 shipments valued at $440 million. The Biden administration was
00:27:47.340 happy to let all this contraband over our border as long as it hastened the demographic downfall
00:27:52.960 of America. The Democrats wanted their third world invasion of our country because to them 0.99
00:27:57.700 it meant permanent political power as they ultimately got citizenships and votes or these
00:28:03.160 people voted illegally. But their evil machinations have been thwarted by the Trump administration
00:28:07.640 whose strong border policies proved that no new law was required, as Joe Biden kept insisting.
00:28:13.680 All we needed to do was enforce the existing current law.
00:28:17.820 It proves that enforcement works, deterrence works, and putting Americans at its first
00:28:22.300 is restoring order after years of deliberate failure.
00:28:27.060 Meanwhile, America's energy debate is no longer centered around silliness or climate change policy.
00:28:32.220 It's now about national survival, military readiness, and defeating China in the race for industrial dominance.
00:28:39.420 Artificial intelligence, chip plants, shipyards, weapons factories, and military bases require abundant electricity around the clock,
00:28:48.200 yet America's grid remains vulnerable to cyber attacks, sabotage, transmission failures, and extreme weather.
00:28:55.900 Intermediate wind and solar power cannot provide the dependable baseload energy a global superpower requires.
00:29:03.520 And even globalists like Bill Gates are beginning to recognize that sad reality.
00:29:07.880 Small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs, offer a conservative solution.
00:29:12.860 These factory-manufactured reactors can provide reliable power to defense installations and AI campuses.
00:29:20.080 Placing reactors behind the meter could reduce independence on transmission networks and keep operations running during emergencies or conflicts.
00:29:30.860 Energy independence means refusing dependence on foreign powers for critical fuel.
00:29:36.440 China is moving rapidly in the avenue of nuclear energy development, and nuclear capacity tripled in China from 2014 to 2023,
00:29:44.500 and Beijing plans to export reactors across its Belt and Road network.
00:29:50.080 America can't afford a decade of studies, demonstrations, or regulatory paralysis.
00:29:56.680 New Scale Power currently holds Nuclear Regulatory Commission design approval for a new nuclear reactor under the licensing framework.
00:30:05.140 Its collaboration with the Tennessee Valley Authority and with ENTRA-1 Energy could support up to six gigawatts of capacity.
00:30:14.500 America must use every dependable resource, including fossil fuels, renewables, and yes, advanced nuclear power.
00:30:22.900 But nuclear reactors deserve urgent deployment.
00:30:25.580 If America does not rapidly develop nuclear energy, we will undergo serious hardship as the new technology-driven economy puts a greater demand on the need for cheap, abundant energy.
00:30:37.440 Nuclear was resisted for years due to misaligned fears and the need for a few to create artificial energy scarcity for their own power grabs.
00:30:47.460 We can no longer afford that nonsense.
00:30:49.660 It's time to put billions into nuclear development immediately to secure America's future as the top world power.
00:30:56.840 Meanwhile, New York School Board's vice president and drag performers facing federal child pornography charges
00:31:03.200 after authorities reportedly and allegedly discovered the disturbing material on his phone.
00:31:09.540 Travis Longo, vice president of the Casanovia School District Board of Education,
00:31:16.120 has been charged with receiving and possessing child pornography.
00:31:20.200 Federal prosecutors allege his phone contained images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of infants.
00:31:25.600 The material was discovered following his arrest by New York State Police,
00:31:29.880 after which federal agents took him into custody.
00:31:32.840 State authorities initially charged Longo with four counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
00:31:38.840 Investigators allege he engaged in a pattern of sexually explicit communications with a child younger than 12.
00:31:46.280 Longo was elected Schoolbrook vice chairman in 2024.
00:31:49.020 He also founded the Casanovia Pride Fest, who was reportedly the first drag performer elected to public office in the United States.
00:31:58.300 Cazenovia Pride Incorporated has now canceled this year's festival,
00:32:02.560 ended associated events, and severed ties with Longo,
00:32:05.460 announced it will dissolve.
00:32:07.260 This is similar to the many instances in which drag queen story hour participants, 0.99
00:32:11.660 where perverted cross-dressers read books to kids in places like libraries 0.84
00:32:15.520 and even churches, were exposed to child predators. 0.98
00:32:19.380 The idea of this movement is to be left alone is a lie.
00:32:23.280 It should be exposed.
00:32:24.120 This organized movement is about enabling predators and giving them access to children, and that has been proven time and time again.
00:32:31.380 If one wants to live their lifestyle in private, I'm a libertarian. So be it.
00:32:35.220 But when it comes to public, it involves children. That's when it becomes a problem.
00:32:39.020 We need to root out this from our society. This is not about freedom. This is about protecting vulnerable individuals.
00:32:47.020 It took nine months to remove one illegal alien from the voting rules.
00:32:51.080 Maryland has quietly removed convicted illegal immigrant Ian Roberts from its voting rules
00:32:56.540 nine months after the Maryland Freedom Corps exposed his registration.
00:33:01.080 There was no press conference announcement or acknowledgement.
00:33:03.600 Roberts was removed only after being convicted and sentenced on federal charges
00:33:07.880 connected to falsely claiming United States citizenship.
00:33:12.080 Roberts, a national overstated student visa and faced a final deportation order,
00:33:16.620 reportedly remained registered in Maryland despite leaving the state more than a decade ago.
00:33:21.880 He later served as superintendent of an Iowa school district.
00:33:25.480 Documents obtained by watchdog groups showed that Roberts affirmed under penalty of law
00:33:30.460 that he was an American citizen on his voter registration forms.
00:33:34.900 That evidence undercuts the claim commonly voted out there by fraud-complicit Democrats
00:33:39.780 that non-citizens appear on voter rolls only because of bureaucratic errors.
00:33:45.040 Roberts allegedly continued to receive election mailings and ballots for years.
00:33:49.760 The central question here is unavoidable.
00:33:51.900 If a conviction was required to remove such an obviously ineligible registration
00:33:55.880 and took an incredible nine months to accomplish after being discovered,
00:33:59.800 how many other less visible cases remain?
00:34:02.940 How long will it take those adjudicated?
00:34:05.000 How long will it take to get people who are not eligible to vote off our voter rolls?
00:34:11.820 Thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
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00:35:17.380 Well, Steak and Shake, the well-known burger chain, is proving that offering better quality restaurant options does not require a federal mandate.
00:35:27.320 The century-old burger chain is rebuilding its brand around the Make America Healthy Again movement, also known as Maha.
00:35:35.340 Its goal is to replace industrial seed oils and heavily processed ingredients with alternatives a customer wants but cannot find from their competitors.
00:35:44.440 Leading this effort is Michael Bose, the first Maha officer and former senior advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services.
00:35:52.780 Bose helped shape the 2025 through 2030 dietary guidelines for Americans before moving back into the private sector,
00:36:01.040 where he says Maha can become the cornerstone of its brand.
00:36:05.340 Steak and Shake now cooks fries, onion rings, and chicken tenders in beef tallow without preservatives or chemicals.
00:36:12.600 Companies pledge to use 100% grass-fed beef, switch to butter and A2 milk,
00:36:18.400 and serves Coca-Cola made with cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.
00:36:24.420 It also has removed all microwaves.
00:36:27.040 Transition is not complete, of course.
00:36:29.160 Steak and Shake acknowledge some frozen products still encounter vegetable oil during manufacturing,
00:36:34.600 says employers are working diligently to eliminate that too. For too long, food companies buried
00:36:40.660 questionable ingredients behind confusing labels while America's faced soaring rates of chronic
00:36:46.320 illness. Steak and Shake is taking an entirely different approach, which I find interesting,
00:36:50.940 by informing customers, improving the product, and letting the market respond. The Maha movement
00:36:56.500 was spearheaded by President Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as creating 0.99
00:37:03.380 trends that could have major ramifications throughout the marketplace, but will only hold
00:37:08.340 permanently if we get out there and reward businesses who decide to go all healthy.
00:37:13.760 We voted for President Trump. Now we must vote with our dollars for a healthier society
00:37:17.480 and look for healthier choices. Meanwhile, a Realtor.com report says that 25.2 million
00:37:24.380 young Americans are still living with their parents between the ages of 25 and 34. That means
00:37:30.620 one-third of adults are still living at home with their parents. Roughly 70 percent of 25
00:37:38.360 to 25 have jobs, and that employment rate has remained steady even as multi-generational
00:37:44.480 living has increased. Realtor.com senior economist Hannah Jones says that income levels,
00:37:51.460 debt burdens, and punishing house costs are preventing employed adults from moving out.
00:37:57.140 The numbers show how American's dream has become squeezed.
00:38:01.560 In 2025, more than 20% of adults between 25 and 29 lived with their parents, 6% below the rate at the beginning of the century.
00:38:11.500 Between 30 and 34%, the share reached 12% at 2.7%, nearly double the 7% recorded back in 2000.
00:38:22.180 Meanwhile, the median home price climbed to $430,000 in 2025, a 34.4% increase since 2019.
00:38:33.220 Medium rent reaches a $1,673, up 18%.
00:38:38.940 Realtor.com estimates the country is short 4 million homes.
00:38:43.840 Student debt is adding even more pressure.
00:38:46.280 Decades of politicians promoting expensive college degrees as the only route to success
00:38:51.620 have left many young workers owing money before they can begin building any real wealth.
00:38:57.500 The answer is clear.
00:38:59.340 We need to expand the housing supply, cut inflationary spending,
00:39:03.520 reduce job-killing regulations, promote skilled trades,
00:39:07.020 and restore an economy where disciplined work once again delivers independence,
00:39:12.440 home ownership, and family formation.
00:39:15.160 This is exactly what the Trump administration is en route to doing,
00:39:18.280 but Rome was not built in a day.
00:39:20.400 President Trump needs more time for his reforms to undo decades of damage.
00:39:25.160 That is why the upcoming midterm elections are so very crucial.
00:39:28.740 We cannot afford to backslide into socialism and despair.
00:39:32.180 Generations of Americans hang in the balance.
00:39:35.540 Meanwhile, great news.
00:39:37.180 Marijuana compounds may hold medical promises for Alzheimer's disease, chronic pain, and other conditions,
00:39:43.600 strengthening the case into research for more treatments, according to a new study.
00:39:48.220 So if you have Alzheimer's, something my dad suffered from, marijuana use has now been approved by this new study as potentially beneficial.
00:39:56.840 I'm Roger Stone. Thanks for tuning in to The Stone Zone. Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.
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