Erick Erickson HR 1 10-16-25

One, zero, all engine running. Lift-off. We have a lifetown. America, welcome. It is Eric Erikson here across the United States. I am delighted to have you with me. The phone number is 877973-725. We must begin with the globalist president striding the world stage. Better than many who have come before him. President Trump now just what? Four days ago was in the Middle East securing the release of hostages from Hamas, signing a peace deal in Egypt surrounded by Western and Eastern world leaders singing his praises about how he has brought peace. And what I find really interesting is, well, one, it's harder for him at home where he has to deal with Congress. But two, part of the broader coalition that got Donald Trump elected was a anti-globalist coalition. You hear a lot of President Trump supporters use the word globalist as a pejorative. And they don't. mean it well. You have, for example, Marjorie Taylor Greene declared herself America First. She wasn't even concerned about American hostages held by Hamas because they were abroad and they were Jewish and she didn't care about them. You have Tucker Carlson thinking we need to be isolationist to divorce ourselves from our relationship with Israel and with NATO. You have even JD Vance who ran as an isolationist. And he comes from an authentic Midwestern strain of isolationism in the blue collar rest belt area of Ohio where they kind of want to keep to themselves. A lot of historically American isolationist sentiment came from that area of the country. And he is certainly a possessor of. of it and now comes word that the president, the man they all support here in his second and final term for office, has decided to change his position towards regime change in Venezuela. It's somewhat unmistakable that he's trying to build pressure for the end of the Maduro regime. I mentioned this yesterday. I'm going to mention it again. From the New York Times, the Trump administration has secretly authorized the CIA to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials.

Stepping up a campaign against Nicholas Maduro, the country's authoritarian leader. The authorization is the latest step in the Trump administration's intensifying pressure campaign against Venezuela. For weeks, the U.S. military has been targeting boats off the Venezuelan coast. It says they're transporting drugs, killing 27 people. American officials have been clear privately that the end goal is to drive Maduro from power. Trump acknowledged on Wednesday, he's authorized the covert action and said the United States was considering strikes on Venezuela. Swalen territory, quote, we are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control. But wait, there's more. That was the New York Times. This is the Washington Post. The U.S. military's elite special operations aviation unit appears to have flown in Caribbean waters less than 90 miles from the coast of Venezuela in recent days. The helicopters were engaged in training exercises, according to a U.S. official, that could service preparation for expanded conflict against drug traffickers, including potentially missions inside Venezuela. The U.S. military has struck at least five boats, allegedly carrying illegal narcotics in international waters, killing at least 27 people. President Trump on Wednesday authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct missions inside the country. The U.S. has declared it is in armed conflict with drug traffickers, though lawmakers and legal experts have said the strikes are unlawful killings of people who are suspected criminals and not battlefield combatants. Visuals that circulated on social media in early October appeared to show MH6 Little Bird attack helicopters and MH60 Blackhawks over open water near oil and gas platforms. A visual analysis of the platforms in visible terrain indicated the helicopters were flying off Trinidad's northeast coast, bringing them within 90 miles of several points along Venezuela's coastline. The aircraft are operated by the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, says Mark Kansian, a senior advisor with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The center flies missions for commandos like Navy Seals, Green Berets, and Delta Force, and has gained renowned for undertaking complex and dangerous operations, such as the raid to kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The inclusion of Little Birds. suggest preparations for potential missions that could see U.S. boots on the ground. Where are the screams about globalism and the globalists? You know, today it is, it's acceptable on the right to vilify George Jimmy McBush-Hitler Halliburton. George Bush, not H.W. W. The president who sent us to Iraq and Afghanistan. Globalism, globalist. It is a pejorative now on the right. You're very bushyan. They don't mean it as a good thing. He was a very nice guy. He was a very good president. He struggled with a very difficult task after 9-11, decided to go in and finish the job his father had started. History judges it, reflects on it poorly.

But at the time, it's what he knew to do, and it was to avenge what happened on 9-11, and there's been a lot of historic revision now from the right to malign George W. Bush to keep the United States out of global interests and global intrigue. And a lot of people from Tucker Carlson to others have... maligned George W. Bush's presidency. They have come to vilify George W. Bush's presidency to discourage future Republican presidents from being globalist. Here now, the president of the United States of America, Donald John Trump, who has himself attacked George W. Bush as a globalist. Look in mighty globalist. In the early 1800s, the United States was a little concerned after the Congress of Vienna that European powers would try to revolve monarchical governments in the Western Hemisphere. France had agreed to restore a Spanish monarchy in exchange for Cuba. After the Napoleonic Wars, the Holy Alliance, that included Prussia, Austria, and Russia. began authorizing military incursions to reestablish bourbon rule over Spain and its colonies that were inspired by the American Revolution in the Western Hemisphere declaring themselves as independent. The United States, under the president of the United States, James Monroe, in 1823 during his seventh annual state of the Union to Congress.

declared what he essentially called the Monroe Doctrine. Now, it was written by the Secretary of State and Future President John Quincy Adams. This is part of what it said. The occasion has been judged proper for asserting as principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents be free and independent condition, which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power. The second passage of it, however, is a more... complete statement. We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. When the existing colonies and dependencies of any European power, we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the governments who have declared their independence and maintained it and whose independence we have on great consideration and unjust principles acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any other manner of their destiny by any European power in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.

Interestingly enough, there was one European power that agreed the British. We had just come out of the War of 1812. You have... Monroe there now from Secretary of State to President. Notice how in the early American Republic a lot of Secretary of States were elevated because Uts on the world stage was very important. The Secretary of States oftentimes got elected. The British had moved from a mercantilist empire into laissez-faire. free trade, and they recognize that through free trade conditions, they could maintain their colonial regime better than through a mercantilist protectionist system of trade between colonies to prop up the main. They realized that the colonial economic system that they had had before the American Revolution and that fostered the American Revolution was ultimately destabilizing. The British were totally down with the Monroe Doctrine. They did not want to commit arms to reestablishing monarchical control over colonies in the West. Western Hemisphere. In fact, their colonies were the most stable. Their colonies were transitioning to parliamentary democracies. And in fact, around the world today, the British systems are the most stable. When you look at the countries of the world that descended from the British Empire versus the French Empire versus the Spanish Empire versus the German Empire versus the Belgian Empire, the British system remains the most stable. India? Kenya? A lot of countries in the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Bermuda, even Jamaica, they got problems, but contrast them with some of the other countries out there, including the Spanish colonies. The British tend to have a better parliamentary system and democratic support, and those that remain within the Commonwealth, tend to support each other, and they've been pretty stable. The other European powers hated the Monroe Doctrine. One of the countries that really didn't like the Monroe Doctrine and thought we were getting too big for our britches were the Russians who today are helping the Venezuelans in violation of the Monroe Doctrine, along with the Chinese and the Iranians who weren't applied to the Monroe Doctrine, but this president, the current president, has taken a more expansive view that the eastern powers should stay out of the Western Hemisphere.

He's right. And he's willing to use the American military. to shut down the expansionist tendencies of the Chinese and of the Russians and of the Iranians, all of whom have a military presence presently in Venezuela with Nicholas Maduro, who is trying to undermine this American government and the American people with narco-traffickers who are addicting Americans to drugs and killing them. There are between 770,000 and a million Venezuelan refugees lawfully living within the United States who have fled the Venezuelan regime. If you collapse the Venezuelan regime, a million people in this country roughly would go back to Venezuela further reducing immigrants in this country, taking jobs from Americans. You're dealing with the immigration issue, the drug issue, and the Western Hemisphere issue with one fell swoop if you take out Nicholas Maduro. Now, the problem for the president, of course, is that he got elected attacking globalists, and this is a pretty globalist policy. It is a pretty, pretty strong policy of the president of the United States to go in this direction, and it's probably the most sound policy the president could go in. But it puts him at odds with the portion of his base that as he heads towards lame duck status is increasingly vocal. that after the president, MAGA will split and they want their peace of it. And so you could start seeing a coalition now of isolationists led by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene coming out of the MAGA coalition trying to establish their own. The question is, what does Donald Trump right now where he has so much political capital after what he did with Hamas and Israel do to stamp out that isolationist well that will undoubtedly happen if he does decide to dispatch Nicholas Maduro? And just so we're clear here, dispatching Nicholas Maduro would be a good and worthy cause. Have something to say? Hello. Hello. Call the show. 1-877-97-airing. That's 1-877-97-933-7-4-25.

Want to be on the show? Come on, be on the show. Call Eric now at 877973-725. It'd help if I turned on my microphone, wouldn't it? I'm a professional. Maybe. Y'all know I don't even know how to operate. I tried to learn how to operate the radio board and they told me that it would cost someone else their job. So I figured I should stop and I just know how to turn on and off the button that lets me talk and hit the little cough button when I sneeze so it doesn't. Blast your eardrums. But other than that, I don't know. I just apparently have this gift of being able to not shut up for three hours. So nonetheless, welcome back. It's Eric Erickson. Don't forget. Text Eric E.R. I C.K. 2377. We're doing Richard Nixon price controls, apparently. The Nixon administration is back. The Trump administration will set price floors across a range of industries. To combat market manipulation by China, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC, China has driven foreign competitors in the rare earth industry out of business over the past two decades by using its global dominance in refining and processing to slash prices. This is not actually true. And I know it's not actually true, and I have the data to back it up. What a price floor is means that the price of something can go no lower than what the government sets. It's one of the things Richard Nixon did. He set price ceilings, meaning the price could go no higher. He set price floors. It costs scarcity. A free market means you don't have floors, you don't have ceilings and prices, and it actually hurts American consumers to have a price floor because they could be getting the product cheaper. You know the reason, the actual real reason we're having problems in this country with rare earth minerals? Because it takes seven to ten years to secure a mine permit in the United States. It's one of the longest permitting processes in the world. Australia and Canada, the process takes between two and three years. Seven to ten of the United States, two to three here. It's actually one of the highest on the entire planet to get a mine permit in this country. That's why we don't mine rare earth minerals in this country. It has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with the failure of government. Capitalists went where it was cheaper to get the minerals. And now Scott Bessent's going to punish the American consumer by putting a price floor on.

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You want to know the wild craziness of this? Do you know how often John Fetterman votes with Donald Trump? Any guesses? Six percent of the time. Six percent of the time John Fetterman votes with Donald Trump. He's actually being attacked by a Pennsylvania congressman that is Representative Chris Deluzio, or I'm sorry, it's not Chris Deluzio, it's Boyle, Brendan Boyle. Brendan Boyle has been referring to John Fetterman as Trump's favorite Democrat and accused him of going to Marlago to kiss the ring. John Fetterman votes with Donald Trump 6% of the time. Boyle votes with Donald Trump 14% of the time. The Democrat attacking John Fetterman actually votes with Donald Trump more than John Fetterman. Why, though? Why are they attacking John Fetterman? Because it has everything to do with the Jews. John Fetterman has been denouncing anti-Semitism. John Fetterman has been stridently supportive of Israel. John Fetterman has been attacking the anti-Semitic hostility within the Democratic Party. And John Fetterman has been telling Democrats that they should probably stop calling Donald Trump a Nazi, given what he's been able to do getting the hostages released to Israel. And also that it is a strikingly incendiary rhetoric that is actually detached from reality. And because John Fetterman has the audacity to tell Democrats that maybe you shouldn't call the President of the United States Hitler, they want to throw him overboard. This gets to what I was talking about yesterday, that as the Democrats go further left, they're alienating more people in the center. The Democrats are cutting off their nose despite their face, cutting off their legs with the voters. They're trying to align themselves with a fringe of the left that are anti-Semitic rabid communists. Contrast this now. Contrast this to Graham Platner. Graham Platner, you may not know him, but he is the Democrats' big pick in Maine to challenge Susan Collins. Graham Platner is the Democrats' preferred candidate to go after Susan Collins. But... K-file, Andy Kaczynski at CNN. He's got the receipts on Graham Platner. This is from CNN. In one deleted comment in a threat about a Black Army lieutenant who was held at gunpoint and pepper sprayed by police during a traffic stop, one reddeter user wrote, well, a pejorative. Cops are the B word. Graham Platner replied, all of them, in fact.

Graham Platner also frequently weighed in on police violence, arguing that misconduct was a problem that extends deep into the profession as a whole and rejected claims of accidental shootings after incidents such as the killing of Detroit black men, Dante Wright, writing, F, these cops. I can honestly say that was just me being an a-hole on the internet, Graham Platner told CNN this week. I have an immense amount of friends who are police officers. They're not all the B-word because they're literally buddies of mine. In another since deleted posts from 2020, Plantner responded to a thread titled White People Aren't as Racist or Stupid as Trump thinks by writing Living in White Rural America, I'm afraid to tell you they actually are. When asked about the comment, Graham Platner said he didn't recall the specific exchange, but suggested it reflected an argument was having it online at the time. I'm also a white guy, and I don't think I'm racist. I don't believe that. I'm sure I was just angry on the Internet about the state of things back then. But wait, there's more. Graham Platner also called himself a communist.

This is Andrew Kaczynski who did the report. This is his tweet. Let me read it to you. I spoke with Graham Platner about his deleted 2021 Reddit post. It's always Reddit, isn't it? Some were raw and angry, others deeply reflective. He called himself a communist, blasted all cops, as the B word, and said, rule Americans actually are racist and stupid. He says they don't reflect who he is today. I'm not a communist. I'm not a socialist. I own a small business. That was very much me effing around the internet. Another other posts showed his disillusionment. After four tours of duty, I'm a vegetable growing, psychedelics taking socialist these days, he once wrote. After the war, I stopped believing in the patriotic nonsense that got me here in the first place. Still got the guns, though. I don't trust the fascist act politely. Graham Platner said he still stands by some of the ideas, though not the tone of his old post. He continues to condemn the January 6th rioters, who we call traitors effing morons, effing P-word, and a worthless P-word for supporting a coup attempt. And he's very much angry about the wars he fought in. It is difficult to see all that honor, as well as all the grift and corruption and not find the entire thing utterly bankrupt, he wrote in one post, and he's not regretful of all of them. On musician Ted Nuget, he wrote, quote, as a combat veteran, that M. F.er makes me want to puke. Suck a D. Ted. To be fair, he told me, I'm not really regretful of that one. So he's regretful of the ones. Isn't this ironic, this guy, this star Democratic? recruit. He's regretful of all the posts that could cause him problems in election. He's not regretful of any of the ones that won't cost him an election. He's regretful of calling himself a communist and a socialist and a psychedelics user. He's not regretful of insulting Ted Nugent or Donald Trump. He's regretful of saying F the police. He's not regretful of saying F Donald Trump. There were many of these posts all the same posts woven together. I regret that sentence, but I don't regret this sentence. Isn't that very convenient for him? This is a star Democratic recruit. The Democrats are going further and further left. The Democrats are pushing further and further off the deep end of the left.

And they want to drive people like John Fetterman out of the party. They want to drive people like John Fetterman out of the party because John Fetterman is on the left, but not far left enough. John Fetterman votes with Donald Trump 6% of the time, and that's too much for the Democrats. In fact, some of the Democrats attacking John Fetterman from the House of Representatives in the Pennsylvania delegation, they vote with the Republicans more than John Fetterman votes with the Republicans. It's not as voting with or without Trump that they don't like. It's that he refuses to vilify his opponents. John Fetterman had that stroke and a lot of us on the right thought this is insane. Why are Pennsylvania voters sitting this guy? They covered him up. They covered for him. They didn't bring him out in public until it was too late. Once his condition was revealed in that debate with Dr. Oz, half the vote in Pennsylvania had already been cast. A lot of us on the right were good Lord. went after his wife, I was critical of his wife. In fact, there's a lot to suggest that, you know, his wife has kind of gone under the radar now that maybe she was one of those on the left of the progressives that were amplifying John Fetterman and his staff now has left. His staff has attacked him saying there's something wrong with him. The thing that's wrong with John Fetterman is he's not willing to attack Israel and the Jews. He's not willing to vilify the Republicans. He's not willing to hate. He experienced the hate from people as he was recovering from his. his stroke, and he's not willing to reciprocate to others. And that's why the Democrats hate him. They're okay with the man who said, F, the cops. They're okay with the man who said, I'm a communist, and then said I'm a socialist, and then talked about a psychedelic drug use. They're okay with the man who said that all rural white voters are racist. They're okay with that guy. They're not okay with John Fetterman saying Republicans aren't Nazis and we shouldn't call them Nazis. They're not okay with John Fetterman saying the president's someone he can disagree with but still deal with. They're not okay with that. And that's part of the problem here because most Americans, they don't particularly care for Donald Trump, but they despise the left. Donald Trump does have a popularity rating of less than 50% of this country. In the polling average, forget your beloved Rasmussen poll, in the polling average, which tends to be better, accurate reflector of what's going on, less than 50% of Americans like Donald Trump. Less than 20% of Americans like the Democrats.

This is why, again, I will say to you what I said yesterday, the Republicans should refuse to budge on the shutdown. And if it takes till November, it takes till November. Just go out there and keep saying, repeat the talking point over and over. We're voting to open the government. The Democrats are voting to keep it closed. That's all you have to say. We're voting to open the government. The Democrats are voting to keep it closed. We would like to open the government. The Democrats won't give us the votes needed to do so. Keep it on the Democrats. And when they finally cave and open the government and have gotten nothing for it, it's going to cause a frenzy on the left and push that party further to the left. We saw it on CNN last night. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders having the first big socialist town hall on CNN? Caitlin Susan Collins asked point blank, are you going to challenge Chuck Schumer? And they were like, what? And Bernie says like, I'll answer that for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Let daddy talk for you, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Let the white man speak for your political career, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Yep, that was very progressive. The Democrats are lurching further and further left. And they have an American media that is amplifying them, that is enabling them, that is emboldening them, that is pushing them. They're all in this bubble together. They don't realize it. That the guardrails have come off them. You know, it reminds me as well. I saw a piece. last night where it was progressives lamenting that the guardrails have come off, that there's nothing to stop Trump. And I thought, you know, I played multiple times during Joe Biden's administration when they were going after Republicans, that famous clip from the Man for All Seasons movie that if you chop down every tree to pursue the devil, when he stops and turns towards you, what will protect you? If you chop down all the laws that have protected the devil, They protect you as well. And when you chop them all down to get to the devil, and the devil finally stops and turns around, and there are no laws left to protect you, where will you hide? That's what happened with the Democrats. They can rejoice that in the comparison Trump's the devil. But the point is the same. They cut down all of the laws to go after Donald Trump. And now Donald Trump has gotten reelected, and he stopped and turned and looks at them. Where will they go? Where will they stand? What will protect them from Donald Trump now that they've gutted all the laws that were protecting them from Donald Trump? They'll go further left. And in going further left? the American people will turn on them. There's something to be said for the Republicans in the shutdown effort just refusing to cooperate and give the Democrats anything so that the Democrats are forced to reopen the government and getting nothing for it. And then watch the progressive base turn on the Democratic Party just as they're turning on John Fetterman for the audacity of funding the government that they've convinced themselves is the funding of Hitler-Hitlering.

Honest. Putting your trust in me to tell you what's going on. Transparent. I need you to know this from the bottom of my heart. Giving you the information without the noise. My job isn't to tell you what you want to hear. It's to tell you the truth. It's the Eric Erickson Show. Hello America. Mitch McConnell has fallen in Washington, D.C. He appears to be okay. This is his last term in office. And I just, again, we'll have to say, as someone who was a longtime critic of his from the right, we would not have the Supreme Court we have today but for Mitch McConnell. The president of the United States may have nominated those individuals, but Mitch McConnell had to get him through the Senate. And if you ever paid attention to the leadership of Bill Frist or Trent Lott or Bob Dole, who preceded Mitch McConnell, you will understand that Mitch McConnell had the gumption to do what they themselves did not have the gumption to do. So his legacy will be one of a conservative Supreme Court, which, as an aside, I've got to say, some of the... remarks from Ketanji Brown Jackson. She's just not smart. And when you say that, you immediately get heckled by people of the left that you're a racist and you're saying it because she's not black. No. But I am saying it was Joe Biden himself who said he was essentially putting skin color ahead of competence. He wanted a diversity pick. Let's make no bones about it. Just based on Joe Biden's own characterization of Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination, she's a diversity pick. He picks skin color over brains, and she's an idiot. There were plenty of qualified non-white applicants for that job, but he wanted the easily confirmed possible one. She happened to be in the D.C. Circuit, and he wanted elevator to the Supreme Court, and she adds nothing of value. She actually compared the Voting Rights Act to the Americans with Disabilities Act suggesting somehow that black voters are disabled and needed actual additional help in voting. She is just a, she's there to tow the progressive line. Who cares what the law says? She certainly doesn't even appear to know the law. She's just not a good pick. And behind the scenes, a lot of Democrats will admit it, but up. front and in person they'll scream that you're racist for daring to criticize her. It has nothing to do with the skin color. That's why Joe Biden picked her though and he said as much. The problem is not her skin color. The problem is her brains of which I'm not yet sure she has any. Now, we have to move on. I need to tell you about Swiss America. They've been warning people about a Secret War on Cash for some time. And they would love to give you their free report on the Secret War on Cash. I got an email from Milister yesterday who was asking me, what exactly is this whole Secret War on Cash thing? Well, if you go to a lot of grocery stores now, you go to a lot of restaurants in particular, a lot of businesses there no longer take cash.

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