The Joyce Kaufman Show 8/4/26 - In-N-Out Burger mass shooting, Debate about the Gadsden flag, French government hates Jewish people,

The other thing I was thinking about, and I think Sarah Johnson, the salty citizen, had mentioned it in one of her newsletters recently. And I know a lot of you are familiar with the Gadsden flag, you know, the yellow background with the coiled snake and the words, don't tread on me blazing across the top. And for many people, me included, it's a patriotic symbol of liberty. And then to others, they think it's a, you know, like a dog whistle for extremists. You know the kind. Outlaws and lunatics who fly a Gatson. I don't know any outlaws and lunatics who fly it. I know people like me who fly it. You know, people who want secure borders. People who want safe cities. People who want parental authority and limited government and just to be left alone. Wackos, right? All of us. Ironically, most Americans with strong feelings about the flag probably couldn't tell you why there's a snake on it. So I thought, well, let me echo Sarah and tell you why. The snake on the Gadsden is a second appearing. It's a remix, if you will. It goes back to a snake of old, Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin's severed serpent meme of pre-revolutionary America. Its first time it appeared was in the Pennsylvania Gazette. On May 9th of 1754, where Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin depicted a chopped-up rattlesnake with each segment labeled to represent an American colony. During the French and the Indian War, it was a call to unite the colonies to combat the French and their Native American allies and to convince the British government to support a colonial government and a colonial military in America. Franklin was very persuasive, very smart, very knew how to get his message across. But it didn't work. It might even have backfired over there in England because as England became aware of the trouble that a unified America could cause them. But the message and the image have still been understood and embraced. And there is in U.S., there is a them. and it is us against them whoever them may be to Benjamin Netanyahu franklin the rattlesnake was an admirable and uniquely american creature had never attacked first it warned before striking but once threatened it fought fiercely and never surrendered

And for these reasons, it was used again a decade later when colonists resurrected the symbol as they protested, unfair taxation enacted the Stamp Act. Great Britain enacted the Stamp Act. Paul Revere used it in 1774 as the masthead for the Massachusetts spy newspaper. The message, leave us in peace. But if you insist on aggression, you will regret it. Don't tread on me. But unity was the call before liberty. A unity is necessary before liberty can be or can be defended. And America is painfully segmented right now. Red and blue and boomers and zoomers and Christian and secular, native and immigrant. We don't just disagree. We define ourselves by our disagreements. Hacking away at our common good and all our common goals. And in the meantime, our national debt skyrockets. Our cultural norms are erased. Government grows and expands and our enemies are emboldened. And Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin's observation still stands. A snake divided into enough pieces is no longer dangerous to its enemies. It just dies. So here we are again. The original colonies didn't agree on everything. In fact, they argued constantly about trade, about military might, about funding, about representation. Their greatness wasn't unanimity, it was humility, recognizing that independence mattered more than winning every internal argument. An independence against tyrants couldn't be one alone. It requires other people at your table. Could someone please tell that to my fellow conservative pundits out there? The same ones that are hacking each other to bits and pieces? We have a common enemy and right now they want us captive more than we want to be free. They want us captive to globalism, to nihilism, to socialism and communism, every other godlessism that promises peace and prosperity and has never once delivered that. You know, it's time to come together. Or as Sarah said, join or die, me amigos. I get that. Don't forget to download that 850 app. You can put it on your cell phone, your laptop, your Chromebook, wherever you want. I got a new No Restrained podcast out. It's interesting. Talk about gender and the way we've changed our language. Not for the better. It's very 1984. And also... A piece about the crumbling, the, I don't even know how to call it, the end of Hollywood as we all remember it. So it's a good podcast. If you had the app, you could listen on your app or go to the website, 850WFDL.com or any of your podcast providers. Let me take a quick break. Please stay right where you are. Oh, my goodness, my goodness. So many crazy things, crazy news stories, crazy, crazy, crazy. But I know I'm not alone in having this kind of experience. There's just so much going on right now. And I keep thinking that if you are like a Martian and you landed on this planet, you'd be very confused.

He shot both on our property and off and ended his life shortly after he took the precious lives of our associate and customers, innocent people who never saw it coming. Snyder called on the community to seek God's comfort and strength as families and employees grieve. In and out will be mourning with the families and praying for them as they tread through a very painful season. I am no stranger to loss, but this is so incredibly tough, and my heart also goes out to all of the associates and customers who were there during this traumatic event. I love you all, and I ask you to turn to God, not in anger, but seeking comfort and strength for those who are hurting. We will stand together and we will do everything we can to learn from this situation. And now let me tell you about the heroic armed bystander who told the newspapers that he and his girlfriend had stopped at the... In-N-Out, Burger Place after a horseback riding trip, when gunfire suddenly erupted. Jim Jordan Salinas, a 35-year-old health care worker, said he instinctively ran toward the danger, drawing his legally carried handgun and relying on years of firearms training. He did not like it when bullets started firing both ways, Salina said. The action of Salinas and the off-duty law enforcement officer sent the shooter running. These people are true heroes in our community, said the sheriff. They diverted the shooter and without a doubt saved many lives. There's a couple of things that, of course, are really relevant about that portion of the story. First and foremost. Legal gun owners safeguard their community. People like me don't run away from dangerous situations. We run towards them, but we have training, and we also have a plan. And thank God this health care worker. had some training and was prepared to do the right thing, to intervene and stop the shooter before he shot more people. We don't hear enough of the stories. We really don't. Instead, if there's a shooting, we'll hear, oh, we need gun control. Yeah, well, Mr. Salinas had gun control. He controlled his gun and stopped the madman from doing even more damage. But here's the other part of the story, and I say this so often that I'm really frustrated about it. If your intention is ultimately to take your own life, why do you have to take other people first? I just don't understand that. You know, if life is not worth living, if you don't think life is valuable, if you would end your own life, for whatever reason, I mean, I don't know the man's story, none of us do.

But if that's your plan, why do you that take innocent people out first? I just can't wrap my mind around what that, what must be going on in your head. Like is it some, I don't know, do you preconceive that there'll be some glory that you'll be remembered because you did that? You won't be remembered fondly. You'll be remembered as a bad person. A disgusting human, which is what Lindsay Snyder, the president, Vin and Outberger's called him. And if that's your intention, just take yourself out, you know. I don't, I'm not a person who advocates for suicide, and I think there are a lot of people who are just so emotionally disturbed that they don't see any other way. But what is this insanity where first you have to kill innocent people? I just, I really don't get it. You know, maybe we'll find out there's a motive. Maybe there was somebody else in the crowd. I don't know. But either way, if ultimately you end up putting a bullet in yourself, why don't you just start there? You know, I think that that's actually a somewhat honorable thing. Maybe it's just me, but doesn't that occur to most of you? Because how often do we see this? We see these people who, you know, do these horrible things, commit terrible, heinous crimes, kill innocent people, and then they kill themselves, you know? I got a shortcut for you. Just go straight to yourself. And maybe then you'll actually... not be remembered as a disgusting human being, which is surely what this individual was. I just had to get that off my chest. I know a lot of you must have similar thoughts when you hear stories like this. And that's a good thing. You know, we're the only line of defense sometimes in this crazy world. And so I like a story where the good guy actually, you know, gets some of the glory, or at least stops a worse case scenario. How much worse could it have been? Three people died. Seven were injured. What if it had been seven died and 20 injured? It could have been so much worse. So... I don't know. I just, I really admire the CEO of In-N-Out Burger. I think that was the right kind of statement. I think she said everything that I would have said. You know, she didn't spare the criminal, called him a disgusting human being, but she also told the rest of us that we don't have to be disgusting human beings, that we can rise to our better selves. That's a good thing. The other thing I was thinking about, and I think Sarah Johnson, the salty citizen, had mentioned it in one of her newsletters recently. And I know a lot of you are familiar with the Gadsden flag, you know, the yellow background with the coiled snake and the words, don't tread on me blazing across the top. And for many people...

Me included, it's a patriotic symbol of liberty. And then to others, they think it's a, you know, like a dog whistle for extremists. You know the kind. Outlaws and lunatics who fly a Gadsden. I don't know any outlaws and lunatics who fly it. I know people like me who fly it. You know, people who want secure borders. People who want safe cities. People who want parental authority and limited government and just to be left alone. Wackos, right, all of us. Ironically, most Americans with strong feelings about the flag probably couldn't tell you why there's a snake on it. So I thought, well, let me echo Sarah and tell you why. The snake on the Gadsden is a second appearing. It's a remix, if you will. It goes back to a snake of old, Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin's severed serpent meme of pre-revolutionary America. Its first time it appeared was in the Pennsylvania Gazette. On May 9th of 1754, where Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin depicted a chopped-up rattlesnake with each segment labeled to represent an American colony. During the French and the Indian War, it was a call to unite the colonies to combat the French and their Native American allies and to convince the British government to support a colonial government and a colonial military in America. Franklin was very persuasive, very smart, very knew how to get his message across. But it didn't work. It might even have backfired over there in England because as England became aware of the trouble that a unified America could cause them. But the message and the image have still been understood and embraced. And there is in U.S., there is a them. and it is us against them, whoever them may be. To Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin, the rattlesnake was an admirable and uniquely American creature and never attacked first. It warned before striking, but once threatened, it fought fiercely and never surrendered. And for these reasons, it was used again a decade later when colonists resurrected the symbol as they protested, unfair taxation enacted the Stamp Act. Great Britain enacted the Stamp Act. Paul Revere used it in 1774 as the masthead for the Massachusetts spy newspaper. The message, leave us in peace.

But if you insist on aggression, you will regret it. Don't tread on me. But unity was the call before liberty. A unity is necessary before liberty can be or can be defended. And America is painfully segmented right now. Red and blue and boomers and zoomers and Christian and secular, native and immigrant. We don't just disagree. We define ourselves by our disagreements. Hacking away at our common good and all our common goals. And in the meantime, our national debt skyrockets, our cultural norms are erased. Government grows and expands and our enemies are emboldened. And Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin's observation still stands. A snake divided into enough pieces is no longer dangerous to its enemies. It just dies. So here we are again. The original colonies didn't agree on everything. In fact, they argued constantly about trade, about military might, about funding, about representation. Their greatness wasn't unanimity, it was humility, recognizing that independence mattered more than winning every internal argument. An independence against tyrants couldn't be one alone. It requires other people at your table. Could someone please tell that to my fellow conservative pundits out there? The same ones that are hacking each other to bits and pieces? We have a common enemy and right now they want us captive more than we want to be free. They want us captive to globalism, to nihilism, to socialism and communism. Every other godlessism that promises peace and prosperity and has never once delivered that. You know, it's time to come together. Or as Sarah said, join or die, me amigos. I get that. Don't forget to download that 850 app. You can put it on your cell phone, your laptop, your Chromebook, wherever you want. I got a new No Restrained podcast out. It's interesting. Talk about gender and the way we've changed our language. Not for the better. It's very 1984. And also... A piece about the crumbling, the, I don't even know how to call it, the end of Hollywood as we all remember it. So it's a good podcast. If you had the app, you could listen on your app or go to the website, 850WFDL.com or any of your podcast providers. Let me take a quick break. Please stay right where you are. So I've read an interesting piece. I've been reading a lot of... writers within Israel who are just stymied. They cannot understand, and neither can I, why the president is doing some of the things that he does. And they're offering all kinds of advice. Arlene Jared Kushner wrote a piece today offering CENTCOM advice. Can you imagine this? The military bosses in the U.S. of A. are asking somebody to tell them how to get out of this war. Now, first and foremost, you shouldn't get into a war that you don't know how to get out of. And second, why would you telegraph that to everybody, mostly to your enemies? It doesn't make any sense. But she had an interesting piece, and if you listen to my thought of the day,

And you know, I share that with you. You cannot, I don't know how many times you can say this and how many different ways you can say it, but you cannot negotiate victory. You have to win victory. If you're negotiating, victory is definitely not what you're going to get. Because negotiation means everybody has to give in. Everybody has to make a compromise. How do you compromise with monsters who have spent the last 47, 48 years telling you they want you dead? Why would you even desire a compromise with them? Why would you even have a conversation with them at this point? It just doesn't make sense. And I guess that's where people like me get into a lot of trouble. Because I don't see this as something that can be resolved, not with negotiation. And the problem with the length of the war now, the longer this goes on, the harder it is to gain a victory, the more peril to the treasure human lives, the economy. munitions, that's what everybody's talking about now, running out of munitions. It's just insane. And we look around the globe, we look around Europe to see, like, where are our friends, where are our allies? And certainly, Benjamin Netanyahu and the people of Israel, they keep looking. And there's nobody they can depend on. They're getting more out of some of these Arab nations than they're getting from their supposed allies, including us. You know, that doesn't bode well. Not for their victory. So there's an interesting piece, and I really don't remember. I don't remember where I found it. I know I got it in an email, and I don't remember who wrote it. But it was similar to when I was talking the other day about how Zohran Mamdani decided that there were no Jewish lawyers that should be put on this council. In spite of the fact that in New York, Probably half of the practicing attorneys in New York of any merit, any worth are Jewish. Judges. You could certainly find someone to put on your counsels, committees, but he deliberately doesn't do that because he hates Jews. I don't know when the Jews in New York, if ever, are going to wake up to them. hates Jews. I don't know when the Jews in New York, if ever, are going to wake up to that fact. Are your politics so important that you would allie yourself with someone who hates you? Because that doesn't make any sense. What's up with the French? How many times in the course of my adult life?

Have I had to point to the nation of France and say, what is wrong with these people? Over and over and over again. They literally have made it impossible for Jews to live in France. So listen to this. Well, you know what? I should probably take a break first. Let me take a quick break. And when we come back, I'm going to tell you a classic example of how insane the French are, the French government, certainly, and actually the French people. And how, how, you know. They hate Israel. There's no nice way to say it. I can't come up with a, you know, a funny line or a funny meme because it's a serious subject. And there's no question of my mind anymore that they have turned their back on the nation of Israel and they've turned their back on Jews, including French Jews. So if you want to hear the story, don't touch that dial. I'll be right back. So it starts out with a story about a town called Natanya. And Natanya is not a beach town necessarily, but... When you look down, if you had like a satellite view right now, it's like a full-scale human migration involving, you know, umbrellas and inflatable unicorn rafts for kids, tubes, and 12,000 plastic bags and at least one grandmother yelling at a kid who is 43 years old. The Mediterranean is beautiful. If you've ever... visit it, it glitters. The cliffs are glowing and the sky is so blue. And the promenade in Natanya looks like, I don't know, I can imagine that when God finished creating the world, he like stepped back, he admired his work and then he said, okay, let's put like a pizza parlor over there. Let's put a kosher pizza parlor over there. And everywhere, absolutely everywhere, Natanya, there are French Jews. And you hear French, you know, the people in the beach chairs and people on the elevators and, you know, people in the water. You hear French from a man arguing with another man, you know, maybe a friend, a business partner, maybe an enemy, maybe his brother. Benjamin Netanyahu has become the place where French Jews come to enjoy the Mediterranean without being told that their star of David is somehow disrupting public order. France lost them, and Israel got them. This is one of the greatest trades in modern history.

You know, France received anti-Semitic marches and, you know, France is undergoing all this moral confusion. They've got politicians who speak for 18 minutes without communicating a single recognizable thought. And there's a national obsession with surrendering to every bad idea as long as it arrives wrapped in some sort of intellectual, academic vocabulary. Israel received Jewish families and has booming businesses and has, you know, everything that we have here stateside, including aggressive parking styles and people who can complain in two languages before breakfast. But it makes you hate France. Not hate every French person. That would require that you meet them all, and nobody has time for that. But I hate France as an idea, the governmental France, the arrogant pompous France, the France that lectures Israel about proportionality, while entire neighborhoods in Paris require Jews to disguise their identity as though they were smuggling uranium through de Gaulle airport. France loves universal human rights. except it becomes extremely busy whenever Jews require universal human rights. The French political establishment can detect an Israeli apartment permit from 4,000 kilometers away, but somehow struggles to notice that Jews are being beaten on French streets, that if a Jew wears a Kippa in Jerusalem, France calls that colonial provocation. If a Jew removes his Kippa in Paris because he fears being attacked, then complicated social tensions must require dialogue. And France has mastered this linguistic trick. Nothing is ever anti-Semitism. It's, they call it social anger. It's Middle Eastern tensions or it's youth frustration. Apparently, screaming about killing Jews is now some form of community activism, community outreach. And then these same French officials show up on television with their faces in that expression of, you know, an unhappy teacher, and explain that Israel must show restraint. restraint. France can't control a roundabout protest without setting half the countryside on fire. I mean, French farmers become annoyed and they cover the government buildings in manure. The taxi drivers block...

Paris, teenagers overturned cars. The entire nation goes on strike because someone suggested retiring before the age of 97. And But Israel, which is surrounded by terrorist armies with missiles and tunnels and drones and genocidal manifestos, they're expected to respond with the calm of a yoga instructor. The hypocrisy could literally power Europe throughout the winter. Still, The French Jews are magnificent. They arrive in Natanya, dressed for the beach, as though the beach has a matri-dee. You know, Israeli men stumble down in faded shirts and mismatched sandals and swimming trunks purchased during the Second Lebanon War. The French Jewish man appears in white linen, wearing sunglasses and expensive sandals, and enough cologne to, you know, to change maritime weather patterns. His wife looks immaculate. His kids look immaculate. Even the family's, you know, bag of bomba looks imported. Bamba, by the way, is a peanut butter flavored snack which Jews have been giving their babies and they don't have any peanut allergies over there. Hmm. Just something to think about. They don't walk onto the beach. They make an entrance and then within 11 minutes they become Israeli. Someone steals their shade, a kid loses a sandal, the umbrella collapses, and a lifeguard screams something incomprehensible through a loudspeaker. This is the beauty of Israel. It doesn't matter whether you arrived from Casablanca, from Paris, from Johannesburg, from Moscow, from Brooklyn, from Buenos Aires, Addisababa, or a suburb where the largest Jewish landmark was the Costco Kosher section, Israel absorbs you into its national rhythm. You arrive elegant. And three weeks later, you're shouting at the parking attendant. You arrive speaking French. Six months later, you're mixing Hebrew and French and Arabic slang and hand gestures that could be interpreted by aircraft. You arrive believing lines are orderly arrangements, cues. Israel cures you of that immediately. Benjamin Netanyahu is the perfect city for this transformation because it is both beautiful and completely insane.

There's something deeply satisfying about the sea below the sandstone cliffs calm and ancient and stretching west towards civilizations that have spent centuries telling Jews where they may live. And behind it rises a city filled with Jews who ignored them. There is something deeply satisfying about that. French Jews sit on the shore of the Jewish state, eating sandwiches, watching their kids run freely, and speaking openly about being Jewish. No lowered voices, no hidden Star of David necklaces, no scanning the train carriage before mentioning Israel, no checking whether the restaurant owner has developed revolutionary opinions about Zionism. Between the appetizer and dessert? Just Jews. Loud, sunburned, overfed, argumentative Jews. Free Jews. This is what Europe never understood about Zionism. Zionism was not a request for approval. It was the end of the request. For centuries, Jews lived according to the emotional weather of kings and priests and mobs and governments and newspapers and universities and whichever lunatic had discovered that blaming Jews was easier than repairing the economy. And then they came home. So now France can issue statements. Israel has its own air force, which upsets the natural European order. They preferred the Jew as a museum exhibit, you know, quiet, historical, dead enough to generate sympathy but not alive enough to defend themselves. You know, a dead Jew receives a memorial plaque. A living Jew with a rifle receives a United Nations investigation. The French Jews of Natania understand this better than anyone. They know the strange European bargain. You may be Jewish, but please do it discreetly. You may support Israel, but only during cultural festivals involving hummus. You may remember Jewish persecution provided you never draw conclusions from it. See, but Israel offers another bargain entirely. Bring your family, your accent, your recipes, your opinions, your impossible demands, and your belief that every problem can be solved by loudly calling your cousin. Welcome home. Natanya's French Jewish community has brought extraordinary energy to the city. Synagogues are full, restaurants are packed. Property prices have reached the point where buying an apartment may require selling a medium-sized European Republic. French bakeries have multiplied. Even the croissons seem more Zionists there. A croissant in Paris is a pastry. A croissant in Natania is a refugee success story.

This was not merely a day at the beach for the writer of this article. It was Jewish history wearing sunscreen. The Roman Empire is gone. The Crusaders are gone. The Soviet Union is gone. The British mandate is gone. The French government continues producing statements. But we must accept that no civilization disappears in a single afternoon. And there they are. Back on the Mediterranean coast, building cities, raising children, speaking Hebrew, arguing in French, creating traffic where no traffic should logically exist. France may have given the world fine art and excellent food and the astonishing belief that a scarf qualifies as a personality, but French Jews gave Israel something better themselves. So feel free to mock France. It has earned it. A country that believes Israel is the central problem in the Middle East, while Parisian Jews conceal their identity. has voluntarily entered the satire business. But French Jews, you got to love them. You got to love their passion, their style, their families, their fierce Jewish pride, their ability to turn a quiet synagogue into something resembling a championship football match and their refusal to apologize for being alive. They didn't abandon France. France abandoned them. Natanya welcomed them with beaches and bakeries and municipal taxes. In other words, Israel welcomed them properly. And by sunset, the sky above Natanya turns orange and pink, the towers along the cliff caught claim they were not tired while collapsing face-first into the sand, and the French voices continued. France can keep its lectures. Israel will keep its Jews. That's a, you know, a fascinating look at this, and it's something that I think about here in America. When you have this Zohran Mamdani trying to eliminate the Jews in New York City, literally, first you get rid of the lawyers, then there's nobody to defend them. It's shameful. Shameful for Europe, especially for France. England is right behind it, but it's more shameful for America. You know, the country that still argues whether we should allow people to cross the border and live here just because they want to. Don't have to sign the guest book or anything. And yet, apparently New York is too good for Jews as far as their mayor is concerned. But the real sin of that is that they voted for him. Yeah, the Jews of New York got Zohran Mamdani elected. I will never, I'll never understand that. Anyway, don't forget coming up after me is Guy Benson, followed by Will Kane. Then it's Joe Pags and Lars Larson.

The overnight guys lead you at 6 a.m. to Jennifer Ross and Stephen Deener with the South Florida Morning Show. Followed at 9 by Brian Kilmeade. Noon, it's Eric Erickson. And 3 o'clock, yep, I come back. But I still have a segment left in today's program, so stay right where you are. I'll be right back. Oh, boy, I'll tell you. I was also, I've been doing a lot of what I consider heavy thinking. You know, the kind of thinking that I have to take notes for myself, because I'm afraid I'll forget the idea or the reference. And that's just another part of this whole aging process that I've finally mastered is instead of worrying about... being forgetful because I think a lot of people are forgetful and we make too much too much of a deal about it it doesn't mean we're all gonna have Alzheimer's it doesn't mean you know it's the end of our memories that that's that's not true but I've got some tricks you know I keep notes I keep a little pocket size notebook I don't say I carry it with me everywhere, but I have it. Pretty accessible all the time because I think it's important that I have no excuse for forgetting important stuff. That's all. You know, I want you to think about this, okay? There was an illegal immigrant. He was deported twice, and the third time he came into this country. He was convicted of like an automotive offense that ended up killing a U.S. Marine. And so this guy is in an ICE facility, he's an ICE custody, and he's heading towards a third deportation. Mexican National. Now understand me, he has entered our country illegally three times, three separate occasions. And he's at Fort Dix right now in New Jersey in a federal prison. Because he has repeatedly and flagrantly disregarded the laws of the United States. People have died because of his presence in this country. In 2017, he was convicted of a hit and run in Maryland that took the life of a 21-year-old U.S. Marine. His father was on the Will Kane show, and he said that this, I'm not going to say his name, I just get really frustrated giving out these monster's names. Not that they are listening to the show, but. You know, I just don't think who they are is as important as what they've done. And how we, for some reason, feel like we have to accept all this. Well, I don't. But he's driving without a license, no insurance, and he crosses into oncoming traffic. And...

hits this young Marines motorcycle head on. 21-year-old, just starting his life in the Marine Corps. He worked for Intel. He worked for the National Security Agency as a crypto analyst. Basically, Jimmy spied with a computer. And after serving three years for the death of Walden's son, He was deported in 2020, but was caught attempting to illegally reenter the U.S. the following year, sentenced to 15 months in prison for unlawful entry, again deported in October of 2022, but again reentered the U.S. in 2023, according to the DOJ, right? He was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release, and now he's in ICE custody pending deportation. Why? Because of the Biden administration. Yeah. As part of its border enforcement priorities, the Trump administration started this operation takeback, the nationwide initiative, to remove these illegal immigrants and end the cartels and the transnational crime organizations. You know, but during the Obama, well, it might have been the same. During the Biden years, the Democrat years, These monsters were just repeatedly allowed back into our country. I just, I'm angry about that. And I think people need to remember that when they go to the polls. Need to remember what the four years unto Joe Biden, what a mess was created. and how, you know, Donald Trump has been abused and battered for trying to fix the mess. Think about that in the polling booth. I thank you for your time this time until next time. My plan is to be back here tomorrow at 3. If it be his will and he delays his coming, what lies behind us and what lies ahead of us at tiny matters compared to what lies within us. So wherever you are, just be yourself. Everybody else is taken. And then may God bless you. May God bless Israel. And may God bless the USA. I will see you tomorrow at 3. The other thing I was thinking about, and I think Sarah Johnson, the salty citizen, had mentioned it in one of her newsletters recently. And I know a lot of you are familiar with the Gadsden flag, you know, the yellow background with the coiled snake and the words, don't tread on me blazing across the top. And for many people, me included, it's a patriotic symbol of liberty.

And then to others, they think it's a, you know, like a dog whistle for extremists. You know the kind. Outlaws and lunatics who fly a Gatson. I don't know any outlaws and lunatics who fly it. I know people like me who fly it. You know, people who want secure borders. People who want safe cities. People who want parental authority and limited government and just to be left alone. Wackos, right? All of us. Ironically, most Americans with strong feelings about the flag probably couldn't tell you why there's a snake on it. So I thought, well, let me echo Sarah and tell you why. The snake on the Gadsden is a second appearing. It's a remix, if you will. It goes back to a snake of old, Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin's severed serpent meme of pre-revolutionary America. Its first time it appeared was in the Pennsylvania Gazette. On May 9th of 1754, where Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin depicted a chopped-up rattlesnake with each segment labeled to represent an American colony. During the French and the Indian War, it was a call to unite the colonies to combat the French and their Native American allies and to convince the British government to support a colonial government and a colonial military in America. Franklin was very persuasive, very smart, very knew how to get his message across. But it didn't work. It might even have backfired over there in England because as England became aware of the trouble that a unified America could cause them. But the message and the image have still been understood and embraced. And there is in U.S., there is a them. and it is us against them whoever them may be to Benjamin Netanyahu franklin the rattlesnake was an admirable and uniquely american creature had never attacked first it warned before striking but once threatened it fought fiercely and never surrendered And for these reasons, it was used again a decade later when colonists resurrected the symbol as they protested, unfair taxation enacted the Stamp Act. Great Britain enacted the Stamp Act. Paul Revere used it in 1774 as the masthead for the Massachusetts spy newspaper. The message, leave us in peace.

But if you insist on aggression, you will regret it. Don't tread on me. But unity was the call before liberty. A unity is necessary before liberty can be or can be defended. And America is painfully segmented right now. Red and blue and boomers and zoomers and Christian and secular, native and immigrant. We don't just disagree. We define ourselves by our disagreements. Hacking away at our common good and all our common goals. And in the meantime, our national debt skyrockets, our cultural norms are erased. Government grows and expands and our enemies are emboldened. And Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin's observation still stands. A snake divided into enough pieces is no longer dangerous to its enemies. It just dies. So here we are again. The original colonies didn't agree on everything. In fact, they argued constantly about trade, about military might, about funding, about representation. Their greatness wasn't unanimity, it was humility, recognizing that independence mattered more than winning every internal argument. An independence against tyrants couldn't be one alone. It requires other people at your table. Could someone please tell that to my fellow conservative pundits out there, the same ones that are hacking each other to bits and pieces? We have a common enemy, and right now they want us captive more than we want to be free. They want us captive to globalism, to nihilism, to socialism and communism, every other godlessism that promises peace and prosperity and has never once delivered that. You know, it's time to come together. Or as Sarah said, join or die, me amigos. I get that. Don't forget to download that 850 app. You can put it on your cell phone, your laptop, your Chromebook, wherever you want. I got a new No Restrained podcast out. It's interesting. Talk about gender and the way we've changed our language. Not for the better. It's very 1984. And also... A piece about the crumbling, the, I don't even know how to call it, the end of Hollywood as we all remember it. So it's a good podcast. If you had the app, you could listen on your app or go to the website, 850WFDL.com or any of your podcast providers. Let me take a quick break. Please stay right where you are.