The Charlie James Show Podcast

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruit America is back. Yes, sir. Welcome back to the program. We appreciate you tuning in this afternoon, especially with all the winning that president Trump has done over the past couple of days.

Let's go to Gene in great court. Gene, what do you think about president Trump? Charlie, I'm gonna ask you to start a movement here on your program with all of Charlie Champs. Okay. And that is we need to petition the Norwegian parliament to declare Donald Trump the next Nobel Peace Laureate.

Yeah. He has done much to stabilize the world, to give the world clarity of direction and stability. Yeah. No question about it. And that includes the accomplishments of his, 40, fifth term, Charlie.

Now, on the other hand, if they won't do it, then we have to demand that Barack Obama go on a special Oprah Winfrey show and return the Nobel Prize that they gave to him to say this rightfully belongs to Donald j Trump because I did nothing. You're exactly right. That that guy did nothing, got the Nobel Peace Prize. I appreciate it. Thank you, Jean.

Man, I would kill to get a Nobel Peace Prize. Let's go to Tom in, Anderson and talk to him. Tom, welcome. Hey, Charlie. How are you today?

Doing good. What's up, man? Well, I wanted to comment on the pharmaceutical price reduction. Yeah. It wasn't that many years ago that I recall that you could basically deal with some companies out of Canada.

You could buy a drug manufactured here in The United States that was sold to Canada, and then in turn, somebody in Canada could sell it back to you Yeah. For half the price that you would pay if you bought it here. Yeah. And they're still making money, which you think to yourself so, basically, they're just, like, taking huge advantage of their own countrymen while but somehow, Canada's able to buy it so that it's cheaper. Reduce the price in half and still make dollars off of it.

Yeah. The last time I got something, I I think they had sent it to Zimbabwe or something. Yeah. Right. And so they ship it all around the the world, and somehow it comes back to me at the half the price that I would pay if I went down to my local pharmacy and bought it.

Yeah. And you're going Yep. This is insane. It really is. I'm glad he took care of that.

I am too. I am too, Tom. I appreciate it. In fact, there's so many do you know I mean, like like, ivermectin? You know, in Mexico, that's over the counter.

You you can go in and get ivermectin like you can get ibuprofen. Not here. Not here. But thanks to our FDA and the USDA, they got those restrictions on those. Well, we remember last week that a bunch of Democrats showed up at a an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.

Remember that? And, oh, boy, and they caused a ruckus while they were there. Well, they might actually be paying the price for that ruckus. The Trump administration is warning there could be more arrests after three house Democrats attempted to push through ICE agents and enter a New Jersey immigration detention center on Friday. He just told me those lawmakers have oversight capacity.

DHS had said, hey. You know, we would have let them in with proper channels, but instead, you saw that play out. Those Democrats, though, they're insisting they are the victims. That's right. They're always the victim.

Now federal law enforcement exists to uphold the law. That's what they're supposed to do. They're not supposed to be there to be props for political stunts. They staged an unannounced inspection, quote, unquote, at a fully permitted ICE facility operating under a $1,000,000,000 contract with the GEO Group, then they cried foul when all their grandstanding collided with security protocols. The mayor trespassed after ignoring wa ...

And welcome to the program on a rainy, nasty, black Monday afternoon. Man, I tell you what, it is, it is wet and and and sloppy out there. You guys, if you're driving around, please, please, please be extremely careful. Give the guy in front of you plenty of space and, make sure you use those indicators, your your your blinkas as they call them. You need to do that.

Also, just, again, just just be very, very careful. The roads are very slick this afternoon. Well, we got so much to talk about today, but I gotta hope that that all you moms out there, I hope you had the best Mother's Day ever. I really do. It was a I just I hope you did.

Or or as one school district called it, special person's day. That's right. Yep. Yep. Yep.

That's they went there. They absolutely went there. As I know, I'll try to give you more on this story about coming up in a little bit, but they they couldn't even say mothers that this is how unbelievably stupid the folks on the left are. This is I mean, and and, again, this is more school BS. Well, you know, to be more inclusive, Charlie.

We've gotta be more inclusive, Charlie. We can't just call them mothers. We have to call them special person's day. It's gonna be special person's day, Charlie. So let's go get your special person's card.

Unbelievable. Again, they're nuts. This this goes so far beyond Looney Tunes. I mean, that is an offense to Looney Tunes cartoons because even those those characters had more sense than these folks on the left. No.

We're not gonna call them mothers. No. We're gonna call them special persons. That's what we're gonna call them, Charlie. Special person.

Don't you understand it? You're crazy. This is absolutely a mental illness. I'm so glad I did not grow up in a generation where we even thought about calling a mother a special I'm surprised they didn't call them, you know, birthing persons. Or what was it, what is that one, phrase that they had for pregnant women?

Inseminated persons. I'm surprised they didn't go with that one. Those people are nuts, and we don't need to be messing around with them. We don't I'd I'm so tired of these people going, you know, Charlie, there are some good Democrats out there. Show me one.

Show me a good Democrat. Show me. Show me. Anybody that goes along with that ridiculous, anybody that goes on with with unfettered abortion, anybody that goes on with unfettered immigration, anybody that goes along with a not a good person. Sorry.

I've got a I've got a I've got another definition than that. There's a special person's day. Get your special person a car. No. You cannot do that.

You cannot go get flowers. You have to go pick flowers from the you pick dandelions out of your yard or whatever. Anyway, they're nuts. They're crazy. They're crazy.

So president Trump, the winning just keeps on going. It just and I'm gonna run down some things that just happened over the past couple of days with president Trump. But if you really look at it if you really look at it, he has done this practically all by himself all by himself. Did you know and this might shock you, then, again, it might not, that Mike Johnson, that Johnson and Thune have sent fewer bills to Donald Trump in the first one hundred days, little over now, than any other president in seventy years. President Trump has had fewer bills on his desk from Congress than any president in seventy years.

Good gracious. That's unbelievable. Why? Because congress is I mean, they're they're just literally not do they're not doing anything. They're sitting on their hands.

The only things they are doing is trying to block what president Trump is doing. And he's sitting there. He is literally carrying it's him, Elon Musk, RFK junior, Tulsi Gabbard, Hegseth, Kash Patel, the the you name it. The administration is taking care of business in this country, and Congress is sitting there and they're doing absolutely nothing. Fewer bills than any other president in seventy years.

That boggles the ...

And welcome to the program on a rainy, nasty, black Monday afternoon. Man, I tell you what, it is, it is wet and and and sloppy out there. You guys, if you're driving around, please, please, please be extremely careful. Give the guy in front of you plenty of space and, make sure you use those indicators, your your your blinkas as they call them. You need to do that.

Also, just, again, just just be very, very careful. The roads are very slick this afternoon. Well, we got so much to talk about today, but I gotta hope that that all you moms out there, I hope you had the best Mother's Day ever. I really do. It was a I just I hope you did.

Or or as one school district called it, special person's day. That's right. That yep. Yep. Yep.

That's they went there. They absolutely went there. As I and I'll tell I'll give you more on this story about coming up in a little bit. But they they couldn't even say mother's day. This is how unbelievably stupid the folks on the left are.

This is I mean, again, this is more school BS. Well, you know, to be more inclusive, Charlie. We've gotta be more inclusive, Charlie. We can't just call them mothers. We have to call them special person's day.

It's gonna be special person's day, Charlie. So let's go get your special person's card. Unbelievable. Again, they're nuts. This this goes so far beyond Looney Tunes.

I mean, that is an offense to Looney Tunes cartoons because even those those characters had more sense than these folks on the left. No. We're not gonna call them mothers. No. We're gonna call them special persons.

That's what we're gonna call them, Charlie. Special person. Don't you understand it? You're crazy. This is absolutely a mental illness.

I'm so glad I did not grow up in a generation where we even thought about calling a mother a special I'm surprised they didn't call them, you know, birthing persons. Or what was it, what is that one, phrase that they had for pregnant women? Inseminated persons. I'm surprised they didn't go with that one. Those people are nuts, and we don't need to be messing around with them.

We don't I'd I I'm so tired of these people going, you know, Charlie, there are some good Democrats out there. Show me one. Show me a good Democrat. Show me. Show me.

Anybody that goes along with that ridiculous, anybody that goes on with with unfettered abortion, anybody that goes on with unfettered immigration, anybody that goes along with a not a good person. Sorry. I've got a I've got a I've got another definition than that. There's a special person's day. Get your special person a car.

No. You cannot do that. You cannot go get flowers. You have to go pick flowers from the you pick dandelions out of your yard or whatever. Anyway, they're nuts.

They're crazy. They're crazy. So president Trump, the winning just keeps on going. It just and I'm gonna run down some things that just happened over the past couple of days with president Trump. But if you really look at it if you really look at it, he has done this practically all by himself all by himself.

Did you know and this might shock you, then again, it might not, that Mike Johnson, that Johnson and Thune have sent fewer bills to Donald Trump in the first one hundred days, little over now, than any other president in seventy years. President Trump has had fewer bills on his desk from Congress than any president in seventy years. Good gracious. That's unbelievable. Why?

Because congress isn't I mean, they're they're just literally not do they're not doing anything. They're sitting on their hands. The only things they are doing is trying to block what president Trump is doing. And he's sitting there. He is literally carrying it's him, Elon Musk, RFK junior, Tulsi Gabbard, Hegseth, Kash Patel, the the you name it.

The administration is taking care of business in this country, and congress is sitting there and they're doing absolutely nothing. Fewer bills than any other president in seventy years. That boggles t ...

Let's go to the PHD Weight Loss Talk Line with doctor Steve who's heading up to Boiling Springs. How are you doing, bud? I'm I'm doing well. And yourself? I'm doing great.

What's going on? Great. I just don't know if you've heard, but the the strength of Trump's, tariffs, even the pope is American made. I see. I see.

There you go. I mean, it's working, isn't it? Globally, Trump's Trump's tariffs are working. And another quick thing about Belichick Yeah. If he marries that girl if he marries that girl, are the young unsung to call her nana or granny?

Yeah. Right? I don't know. My gosh. It's gonna be awful.

Thank you so much, buddy. You be careful out there. Yep. Even even the pope is American made. That's how well Trump's, tariffs are working.

Now what you're not hearing from the mainstream media is exactly that, how well Trump's tariffs are working. Already signed that huge great deal. It was a huge deal. It's the best deal we've ever done with The UK. Nobody else could do it but me.

Only I could do and he's right. Only he could do that. Because these even as they pointed out over on CNN last night, The United States has has been trying to come up with some sort of a trade deal with The UK for a long time. Now remember, they lost a lot of their trading status when they went through Brexit, and they broke away from the European Union. So they lost a little bit there, but now this this benefits them.

It benefits us. Everybody's a winner. But who is about to come to the table? Well, China. China's getting ready.

So it wasn't long ago, and and you saw it. Everybody, you know, if you're on social media, you probably saw it. China went on this huge campaign. It was a propaganda campaign is what it was. What it was.

It was a big propaganda campaign. They even you know, they were pumping up China's economy, and everything is going great. And we got, they they posted images of Mao Zedong, lambasted imperialist, sent messages to people's phones capitulating to bullies as dangerous, and it went it it it that they wouldn't back down. Well, not so much. Because now we're finding out according to Tyler Durden over there at the Liberty Daily, behind closed doors, China was quietly and has been quietly preparing to do that back down.

And Reuters reports that according to three sources, officials had grown increasingly alarmed about tariffs, impacts on the economy, and the risk of isolation as China's trading partners have started negotiating deals with Washington. China's reasons for deciding to negotiate, Washington's letter on fentanyl, US diplomatic challenges in Beijing, and the early outreach between the two sides are reported by Reuters for the first time based on interviews with nearly a dozen government officials and experts on both sides. As usual, China's diplomatic efforts had two faces. One, for the popular domestic consumption and one for private engagement with the adversary, and that case is Us. China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement to Reuters that it reiterated that China's firm opposition to The US abuse of tariff is consistent and clear, and there is no change.

It added that The U US has ignored China's goodwill and unreasonably imposed tariffs on China under the pretext of fentanyl. This is a typical act of bullying with serious, which seriously undermines the dialogue and cooperation between the two sides in the field of drug control. Now they're backing down. So you see, The US did not ignore China's goodwill as they say. The issue of fentanyl is a very serious one, and we need to take it seriously.

But it's about more than that. They had social media influencers, like I said, online. They were they were begging people begging people. Buy directly from the factory. If you need a product, if you need something, buy directly from the factory.

That way we can, you know, kinda do or go around some of these tariffs. They were begging people. Factories have been shutting down. Unemployment is rampant. W ...

Let's go to the PHD Weight Loss Talk Line with doctor Steve who's heading up to Boiling Springs. How are you doing, bud? I'm I'm doing well. And yourself? I'm doing great.

What's going on? Great. I just don't know if you've heard, but the the strength of Trump's, tariffs, even the pope is American made. I see. I see.

There you go. I mean, it's working, isn't it? Globally, Trump's Trump's tariffs are working. And another quick thing about Belichick Yeah. If he marries that girl if he marries that girl, are the young ones gonna call her nana or granny?

Yeah. Right? I don't know. My gosh. It's gonna be awful.

Thank you so much, buddy. You be careful out there. Yep. Even even the pope is American made. That's how well Trump's, tariffs are working.

Now what you're not hearing from the mainstream media is exactly that, how well Trump's tariffs are working. Already signed that huge great deal. It was a huge deal. It's the best deal we've ever done with The UK. Nobody else could do it but me.

Only I could do and he's right. Only he could do that. Because he's even as they pointed out over on CNN last night, The United States has has been trying to come up with some sort of a trade deal with The UK for a long time. Now remember, they lost a lot of their trading status when they went through Brexit, and they broke away from the European Union. So they lost a little bit there, but now this this benefits them.

It benefits us. Everybody's a winner. But who is about to come to the table? Well, China. China's getting ready.

So it wasn't long ago, and and you saw it. Everybody, you know, if you're on social media, you probably saw it. China went on this huge campaign. It was a propaganda campaign is what it was. What it was.

It was a big propaganda campaign. They even you know, they were pumping up China's economy, and everything is going great. And we got, they they posted images of Mao Zedong, lambasted imperialist, sent messages to people's phones capitulating to bullies as dangerous, and it went it it it that they wouldn't back down. Well, not so much. Because now we're finding out according to Tyler Durden over there at the Liberty Daily, behind closed doors, China was quietly and has been quietly preparing to do that back down.

And Reuters reports that according to three sources, officials had grown increasingly alarmed about tariffs, impacts on the economy, and the risk of isolation as China's trading partners have started negotiating deals with Washington. China's reasons for deciding to negotiate Washington's letter on fentanyl, US diplomatic challenges in Beijing, and the early outreach between the two sides are reported by Reuters for the first time based on interviews with nearly a dozen government officials and experts on both sides. As usual, China's diplomatic efforts had two faces. One, for the popular domestic consumption and one for private engagement with the adversary, in that case, is Us. China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement to Reuters that it reiterated that China's firm opposition to The US abuse of tariff is consistent and clear, and there is no change.

It added that The U US has ignored China's goodwill and unreasonably imposed tariffs on China under the pretext of fentanyl. This is a typical act of bullying with serious, which seriously undermines the dialogue and cooperation between the two sides in the field of drug control. Now they're backing down. So you see, The US did not ignore China's goodwill as they say. The issue of fentanyl is a very serious one, and we need to take it seriously.

But it's about more than that. They had social media influencers, like I said, online. They were they were begging people, begging people. Buy directly from the factory. If you need a product, if you need something, buy directly from the factory.

That way we can, you know, kinda do or go around some of these tariffs. They were begging people. Factories have been shutting down. Unemployment is rampant. W ...

Let's go to the PhD weight loss talk line. We'll talk to Scott in Lexington, Georgia. And in case you're wondering, Lexington is just Southeast of Athens. And, Scott, I'm hoping you are a dog fan. Are you?

Someday. Someday. I know the feeling. Right? I know the feeling.

Yes, sir. What's on your mind? Yeah. I'm just wondering why we have to spend any money to get them out of here when all president has to do is just suspend habeas corpus. They just deputize all the law enforcement in every state as I say.

Just just remove him here. I don't understand why he doesn't suspend habeas corpus. I I'm waiting for him to do it. He just won't do it. I think that because when you do that, that's kind of the the nuclear option, isn't it?

Well, we need the nuclear option. I know. I know. I know. I don't know I don't know what he's waiting on, but hopefully, it will.

Yeah. I mean, he's got four years in office, and he's got he needs he needs to bear that. He needs to have a final showdown with these Democrats. He needs to come. Just Yeah.

Just dragging it out like the last time. He's gonna have to he's gonna have to it's gonna have to be a showdown here very soon. I think so too. We'll see what happens, Scott. But see what do you see the big problem is?

Because I mean, I I know I love Trump. I know most of you guys love Trump, think the world of him, and you would love for Trump to go over there and just run rough shot over everything. But we've got some midterms coming up. So while president Trump is trying to do the job that he has said he was gonna do, he's also while he's really good at playing offense, he's also gotta play a little bit of defense here as well. If the Democrats get in in the midterms, if they gain in the house, if they gain in the senate or take over one or both of those houses, they're gonna show the Republicans once again just how much power they hold.

You see, the problem with the Republicans, and we're talking about nationally, locally, statewide, is they do not use the power that they have. Remember during the the the last term of Obama of, of Biden? Where all these congressmen that are out there and you're getting all the mailers in the mail and you were getting all the advertisement on it. We're gonna use the power of the purse. We're gonna use the power of the purse, and we're gonna blah blah blah blah.

And they did they never did it. They never did it. In fact, I moderated a debate in Saluda for the Third Congressional District. I think we had five candidates. There were six candidates.

One didn't make it. We had five candidates at that debate. Beautiful little town of Florida. One we had a great time. And I asked them.

I said, would you be willing to use the power of the purse in order to stop some of Joe Biden's legislation? Some of this radical Democrat legislation. Only one Only one. So I I when I said, and would you be willing to use the power of the purse up to and including shutting down the government? Only one person said yes, and that was Mark Burns.

I was the only candidate on that stage that said, you know what? Yeah. I would be willing to shut down the government to stop Joe Biden's bad legislation. That was it. That was the only one.

You see, Republicans in in mass are terrified of the Democrats. It doesn't matter. I mean, right now, we got the house. We got the senate. We got the White House.

Depends on what day it is. We got the Supreme Court, but they're afraid to use the power. They're scared to death, and I don't get it. If these Democrats are allowed to take over during the midterms, how and and, historically, that's what happens. Historically, the party that is in the White House in the midterms loses seats in Congress.

We've got to break history. And you know what that means you gotta do? You gotta get out and vote. You gotta find a campaign, and you gotta fall in love with it. And you've gotta make sure that we support these people who are supporting president Trump.

Go ...

Let's go to the PhD weight loss talk line. We'll talk to Scott in Lexington, Georgia. And in case you're wondering, Lexington is just Southeast of Athens. And, Scott, I'm hoping you are a dog fan. Are you?

Someday. Someday. I know the feeling. Right? I know the feeling.

Yes, sir. What's on your mind? Yeah. I'm just wondering why we have to spend any money to get them out of here when all he has president has to do is just suspend habeas corpus. They just deputize all the law enforcement in every state as I say.

Just just remove him here. I don't understand why he doesn't suspend habeas corpus. I I'm waiting for him to do it. He just won't do it. I think that because when you do that, that's kind of the the nuclear option, isn't it?

Well, we need the nuclear option. I know. I know. I know. I don't know I don't know what he's waiting on, but hopefully, it will.

Yeah. I mean, he's got four years in office, and he's got he needs he needs to bear that. He needs to have a final showdown with these Democrats. He needs to come. Just Yeah.

Just dragging it out like the last time. He's gonna have to he's gonna have to it's gonna have to be a showdown here very soon. I think so too. We'll see what happens, Scott. But see what do you see the big problem is?

Because, I mean, I I know I love Trump. I know most of you guys love Trump, think the world of him, and you would love for Trump to go over there and just run rough shot over everything. But we've got some midterms coming up. So while president Trump is trying to do the job that he has said he was gonna do, he's also while he's really good at playing offense, he's also gotta play a little bit of defense here as well. If the Democrats get in in the midterms, if they gain in the house, if they gain in the senate or take over one or both of those houses, they're gonna show the Republicans once again just how much power they hold.

You see, the problem with the Republicans, and we're talking about nationally, locally, statewide, is they do not use the power that they have. Remember during the the the last term of Obama of, of Biden, where all these congressmen that are out there and you're getting all the mailers in the mail and you were getting all the advertisement on it. We're gonna use the power of the purse. We're gonna use the power of the purse, and we're gonna blah blah blah blah. And they did they never did it.

They never did it. In fact, I moderated a debate in Saluda for the Third Congressional District. I think we had five candidates. There were six candidates. One didn't make it.

We had five candidates at that debate. Beautiful little town of Florida. One we had a great time. And I asked them. I said, would you be willing to use the power of the purse in order to stop some of Joe Biden's legislation, some of this radical Democrat legislation?

Only one Only one. So I I when I said, and would you be willing to use the power of the purse up to and including shutting down the government? Only one person said yes, and that was Mark Burns. I was the only candidate on that stage that said, you know what? Yeah.

I would be willing to shut down the government to stop Joe Biden's bad legislation. That was it. That was the only one. You see, Republicans in in mass are terrified of the Democrats. It doesn't matter.

I mean, right now, we got the house. We got the senate. We got the White House. Depends on what day it is. We got the Supreme Court, but they're afraid to use the power.

They're scared to death, and I don't get it. If these Democrats are allowed to take over during the midterms, how and and, historically, that's what happens. Historically, the party that is in the White House in the midterms loses seats in Congress. We've got to break history. And you know what that means you gotta do?

You gotta get out and vote. You gotta find a campaign, and you gotta fall in love with it. And you've gotta make sure that we support these people who are supporting president Tr ...

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of rain, for purple mountain majesties, America is back. Yes, sir. And it starts with immigration. Let's go to Rick in Simpsonville, wants to talk about immigration.

Rick, welcome to the program. Hi, Charlie. This is my second time calling in. Well, I I I just give you a little there you go. I just get a little second time ding there.

So what's up, man? Listen. I just wanna make a couple of points as a as a Hispanic, and this is not gonna go over well with my brother and sister. And, however, I wanna reference first. You had the caller that said about, you know, locking them up Yeah.

And getting our pound of flesh. That's not gonna work. Our system still doesn't you're right. It it's not it's gonna cost more money to keep them here, to go through the process and stuff because that appeals and our judicial system is still too woke and radical. Yeah.

I was just I was just about to say that. I mean, there's a good chance that they could go in front of a liberal judge. Oh, absolutely. And this is this has been since I was a child in the seventies, man. I saw the divisiveness that this type of stuff cost, and I'm seeing it now, and it breaks my heart.

I am a twenty year combat vet. I've been to these countries Thank you. And it breaks your heart. But let's walk down our streets. What about the people our people here?

Now listen. I am an American. I am a flag bearer. This is our country. Okay?

And what happens is these people, when they've come over, one, illegally, two, then they send the money that they're making here back out of our country. Right. How does that help? And then in the enclaves, and I'm talking in in, you know, the people on the ground. Okay?

They laugh at it. You go to America free, free, free, free. Yeah. Okay. This is not new.

It's just the focus now is with all these illegals. Then they bring listen. Cinco de Mayo is coming up. Okay? Here's a trip is that we have foreign flag parade running through our country.

What is that? I know. What other countries allow that? You don't do that. And then you have other and it's not just the Hispanic illegals.

I'm talking all of them. You got the Chinese private police in New York. Right. You got, the Sharia laws in some of these states. Are you kidding me that an American can't can't walk down there?

Charlie, this gets me upset. I'm totally right. I understand. Absolutely. So You know what?

The the thousand dollars that they give them to fly them up, that's great. That's cheap. That's a smart business decision. Cut your losses and go. And you know what?

Then you can cut the knees off of these people. I hate saying it. The fellow Americans say what they mean, God given and stuff, but that's exploited them. That's the lawyers. Yeah.

That's the the landowner, the business owner. You know what? Have them do it illegal. Now Have them do it illegal. There you go.

And it just gets me so upset. And then I hear, you know, here in this country now, nowadays, you know, you have folks calling in. We're not hearing from the Hispanic community, and there's a lot of them that feel out there the same way. Come in legally. You know what?

If you're here legally, then you send money back to your family over there and help them out that way. Yeah. Use the the proper system. Exactly. This this is just getting ridiculous.

And I just wanted to say to you as a Hispanic, as an American, a God fearing American, flag waving United States Of America. Now we appreciate you, Rick. Thank you, buddy. Thank you so much. Michael is in Charlotte.

Michael, what do you think about the immigration idea? I like it. I think it's a start, but I kind of I don't know if this is gonna be the right place to say this or not. I'm a, you know, I'm I'm I'm a conservative person, ...

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, America is back. Yes, sir. And it starts with immigration. Let's go to Rick in Simpsonville, wants to talk about immigration.

Rick, welcome to the program. Hi, Charlie. This is my second time calling in. Well, I I I just give you a little at the there you go. I just give a little second time ding there.

So what's up, man? Listen. I just wanna make a couple of points as a as a Hispanic, and this is not gonna go over well with my brother and sister. And, however, I wanna reference first. You had the caller that said about, you know, locking them up Yeah.

And getting our pound of flesh. That's not gonna work. Our system still doesn't you're right. It it's not it's gonna cost more money to keep them here, to go through the process and stuff because that appeals in our judicial system is still too woke and radical. Yeah.

I was just I was just about to say that. I mean, there's a good chance that they could go in front of a liberal judge. Oh, absolutely. And this is this has been since I was a child in the seventies, man. I saw the divisiveness that this type of stuff cost, and I'm seeing it now, and it breaks my heart.

I am a twenty year combat vet. I've been to these countries Thank you. And it breaks your heart. But let's walk down our streets. What about the people our people here?

Now listen. I am an American. I am a flag barrack. This is our country. Okay?

And what happens is these people, when they've come over, one, illegally, two, then they send the money that they're making here back out of our country. Right. How does that help? And then in the enclaves, and I'm talking in in, you know, the people on the ground, okay, they laugh at it. You go to America, free, free, free, free.

Yeah. Okay. This is not new. It's just the focus now is with all these illegals, then they bring, listen, Cinco de Mayo is coming up. Okay?

Here's a trip. Is that we have foreign flag parade running through our country. What is that? I know. What other countries allow that?

You don't do that. And then you have other and it's not just the Hispanic illegals. I'm talking all of them. You got the Chinese private police in New York. Right.

You got, the Sharia laws in some of these states. Are you kidding me that an American can't can't walk down there? Charlie, this gets me upset. I'm so sorry. I understand.

Absolutely. So You know what? The thousand dollars that they give them to fly them up, that's great. That's cheap. That's a smart business decision.

Cut your losses and go. And you know what? Then you can cut the knees off of these people. I hate saying it. The fellow Americans say what they mean, god given and stuff, but that's exploited them.

That's the lawyers. Yeah. That's the the landowner, the business owner. You know what? Have them do it illegal.

Damn right. Them do it illegal. There you go. And it just gets me so upset. And then I hear, you know, here in this country now, nowadays, you know, you have folks calling in.

We're not hearing from the Hispanic community, and there's a lot of them that feel out there the same way. Come in legally. You know what? If you're here legally, then you send money back to your family over there and help them out that way. Yeah.

Use the the proper system. Exactly. This this is just getting ridiculous. And I just wanted to say you as a Hispanic, as an American, a God fearing American, flag waving United States Of America. We appreciate you, Rick.

Thank you, buddy. Thank you so much. Michael is in Charlotte. Michael, what do you think about the immigration idea? I like it.

I think it's a start, but I kind of I don't know if this is gonna be the right place to say this or not. I'm a, you know, I'm I'm I'm a conservative person, ...

And welcome to the program on your TGIF afternoon. Thank goodness it's Friday. Looking forward to the weekend. Not as much as I look forward to last weekend when I went fly fishing. This weekend, oh, it's gonna be better than that.

I get to trim a huge a huge loropetalum in my yard. That's not gonna be fun at all. I but the whole time, I'm gonna be thinking about fly fishing. I try I promise you that. So, I hope you guys have a great weekend.

Oh, by the way, we are going to the, Simpsonville Farmer's Market tomorrow. I believe it is their first day tomorrow that they'll be open, and they're in a brand new location there in Simpsonville. They were in the bank parking lot kind of area. Now they've moved over to where the new police station is, and it's kind of over where the dog park is. It's a very nice area.

It really, really is. So it's gonna be nice and shaded and all of that. So, looking forward to going to the Simpsonville Farmers Market this weekend. Well, I tell you what, the more you learn about Columbia, the madder you need to get. Now I know you think you're mad right now.

I know you you fully believe that that you're mad at Columbia. But what you really need to do is take that anger and multiply it several times several times. Columbia, South Carolina, our state capital, is absolutely it is the swamp. It is absolutely the swamp. They have things going on in Columbia that would absolutely curl your hair.

Now, A lot of this stuff, you you know, sometimes you wonder why are these people so, so hell bent on keeping these positions of power when it only pays, you know, right now, and I know they voted themselves a pay raise, but it only pays about $10,000 a year plus per diem. Why why why is this so important to them? Because it that's what they're paid. But what they make is a lot more than that. They make a lot more than that.

This is a club in Colombia. It's a club, and they don't want you to know it's it's almost like a, a secret society. Like, they got a secret handshake, and they've got rituals that they go through. And you are not privy to what happens in Colombia. And the biggest perpetrators of all are the lawyer legislatures legislators in Colombia.

The lawyer led legislators, they are a huge problem. And I give you a perfect example. Let's say you're Scout Motors, and you wanna come into South Carolina. Well, you're going to South Carolina, what do you need? You need yourself a good lawyer, don't you?

Need myself a good lawyer. Yep. Oh, yeah. We are we are going to, to South Carolina. We are going to build the Scout's Mortise Plant, and the first thing we need to do is get a good attorney.

Are there is there any attorneys working in their state legislature? Oh, there are a bunch of them. Yeah. So who do they hire? They hire a lawyer, legislator.

How about that? How about you wanna build a casino in South Carolina? How about you do that? Well, what do you look for? You look for a good lawyer legislator, and you hire them.

Because now it is practically guaranteed that the bill will pass because your guy that is on retainer is also in the state legislature. We have got so much corruption going on. And and and and since and since our state legislature votes on who is sitting on the bench, well, now they got the double whammy. So now if you sue them, well, they just take you in front of a friendly judge that is not going to that is not gonna side with you. It is absolutely disgusting.

And the worst part of it is the worst part of it of of, of this whole thing is, if you try to stand in their way, if you try to stand up to what the lawyer legislators are doing in Columbia, they will try to kick you out of the club. They will try to remove you. You have to be moved aside so that they can do the jobs that they're really there to do, and that job is not representing you. If their job that job is representing their clients. That job is representing lobbyists.

That job is representing donors. That job is ...