Who Benefits When A Tragedy Becomes Content

A State Divided Opening Rant

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A state divided, a country gone crazy. Unfortunately for me today, the time has come for me to address some hometown ridiculousness that has made it to mainstream media. We scratched the surface a couple weeks ago, but today I gotta let you know, common sense isn't common any damn more. Let me tell you something. Everybody's struggled. The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it. The choice is completely yours. Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.

Episode 316 And Gratitude

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Am I so excited to be back with you? Oh, it is true. It is damn true. Episode 316. I love the number 316 for multiple reasons. Obviously, the biblical reasons. Obviously, me being a redneck wrestling lunatic my entire life. The stone cold Steve Austin reasons. Fun fact for you I uh had this memento in life, this um time, I would say, right after high school, where I went head over heels into motocross racing and Duros and all that good stuff. Bought my first dirt bike, ended up having a couple dirt bikes, and uh I got some track time in. Never did anything crazy, but uh um loved it. And I'm a big fella on two wheels and the dirt, okay? But I just want to let you know my motocross number was also 316. Gotta love it. 316. Well, folks, 316 is also a special number because it means for 316 consecutive weeks, it is you and me. Huh. It is a beautiful, beautiful thing, if you ask me. We've got ourselves a uh a run here. Every week I feel like this might be the week where it all ends. And here we are, together again as friends. I love and appreciate each and every single one of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you for uh supporting this podcast, for listening, for helping to grow the show, for sharing the show, uh for each and every one of you that does that. I really just want you to know from the bottom of my heart that I appreciate that. I thank you for uh really just trying to increase the efforts of building this positive vibe, this positive tribe. It means the world to me. We've um been doing this for quite some time now. It's crazy for me to think, no, we're not super famous, it isn't the most popular podcast on on the airways, even though we're on all the major platforms. We don't rank on all the platforms, but we do have a surprising listener audience, and I appreciate that. There's so many of you that are loyal at day ones. Get your ones up. I acknowledge you, I love you, and I appreciate you. If this is day one for you, then I welcome you and I encourage you to go back and listen to all the shows and and listen how we've we've blossomed and flowed, how we've um tried and failed and conquered, because that's the secret sauce to what it is that we're doing here. So I appreciate each and every one of you.

Small Business Chaos Before New York

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I love it. It is an early morning here in Maine as I record. Got the doors to the office open, the doors to the garage open, the dogs are running around being chaotic. We might be interrupted by some of their chaos, but uh, I'm trying to get this session in nice and early, get ready for my uh daddy-daughter duties. Mikey has some appointments today with her dad, and uh Mima's at work, and I'm also trying to balance the workload of getting us to the biggest challenge in Loud Proud American brand history, known to the fine folks in New York as the Erie County Fair. We are um moving a lot of uh a lot of checks and balances, a lot of uh organizing and crazy things going on behind the scene. It wouldn't be this crazy if it wasn't for it just being me, because that's this is the truth. I feel like this is just kind of how my life rolls, right? Y'all have been listening, you understand, but there's so much going on behind the scenes. One big part of this is that I am trying to get the Lab Proud American bus back on the road, and we had an ABS situation last year that almost prevented us, or it didn't almost prevent us. We just it just created more obstacles for us to get to our biggest event of the year. So we're still trying to put that bus back together after dumping a few grand into it last year at the end of the year, scrambling to make it work, to now getting to a point of all new brakes, all new rotors, all new calipers, all new lines, new ABS system, and whatever else, um thousands more shall go into the bus to get us to this event. And then we hope it is incredibly prosperous and that it changes the direction of so much for Lauer Proud American. Behind the scenes, we are gambling yet again on our hopes and dreams. As I get myself into a manageable position, I find myself having to relight and re-ignite those equity lines and accounts to try to get this business stocked up and ready to put up numbers we've never seen before. That's what I'm hoping for. But and here's the secret sauce to this, folks. If you want to attain a number, if you have a vision, a hope, a dream, an aspiration in your mind when you're doing this business that we're doing, the thing is, if you don't have nearly twice that on the shelf, you're not gonna make that number for yourself. So that's the challenging thing is affording all that we need and doing it in a time frame that um isn't really as uh as as long as you should like. I did myself a favor of clearing the books for a few weeks to get myself ready for New York, but it never feels like it's quite enough. It never feels like you've really given yourself enough time, you know? This just seems to be the truth, if you ask me. But thankfully, we did create some time. So behind the scenes, we are working crazy. Like I'm a duck right now, okay? Uh, I'm just floating along the water, but my little feet below the water are just pedaling like crazy. Now, here's the truth: your boy can't swim, and my feet aren't little, so that analogy might not work. But what I'm trying to tell you is behind the scenes it's a tornado, just trying to make things happen. So that's what we've been up to. This past weekend, I took a little break to do some uh some family stuff, try to get uh some of my to-do list stuff, that honeydew list, try to come good on you know a Mother's Day birthday project I promised, and it feels good doing those things, and it makes me realize if I had ample opportunity to do those things, I feel like I would be a better father, better husband, better son, and I wouldn't feel so stressed knowing that I'm completing my tasks and they're not just waiting, you know, and piling up. But the truth is, when you're a small business owner and you're doing what I do as a small business owner, when you take time off to do the things that you feel like you want to do or need to do, you often find yourself feeling further and further away from the things you have to do for your business. And that's the uh the tough balancing act that that tightrope walk that we seem to walk all too often. So that's that's kind of the behind the scenes. This week, Loud Proud American. Uh, I am actually going to be DJing on a little booze cruise in Portland. Never done this before, never DJ'd on a boat before. This should be interesting. Uh, we'll see how this goes. And um, this one is actually again for Seeds of Hope, which is a charity that is near and dear to my wife's heart. So, because of that, um, here we are again, um, doing another event for them. So um I'm excited to help and to give back. I'm excited to uh enjoy ourselves, but it's been a long time since I DJ'd. So, in the midst of all the chaos and the things that I'm doing, I gotta find some time to uh practice and fire up the uh turntables and such pretty soon. I got I can't be ultra rusty. So getting ready to do that. Um the bus parts have been arriving daily, and um I retaped all the main wiring harness and all that good stuff over the weekend. I should be bringing it tonight to my cousin's shop and my cousin Joey and uh and my brother Noah from Torque Solutions with Chris Woodcock. This should be getting getting down and dirty on getting the bus clean and dirty so we can hit the road. Man, I don't know if I'm rambling, but I feel better. Okay, I got some stuff off my chest. I'm sitting here looking at massive piles. I'm recording in the office, massive piles of apparel that I need to press. And so many of my designs, I'm at that crossroad in the season where um multiple designs, as far as my imagery, my transfers that go on those designs, so many of those are are sold out. Like I am using the last final numbers of those, navigating those those rough seas to make things make things work and to balance the budget as much as possible. So there's a lot of like you have to make a map, you have to make a game plan, a battle plan, and then execute that plan. And that's what I've been working on. So it's uh it's crazy. I'm maybe I'm rambling, but I'm looking around at the chaos, and I know it's about to grow, it's about to get even crazier. Today I gotta finish a lot of designs. Now I've taken up too much of your time. But that's that's my full frontal confessional. That's me crotch first into what has to happen this week and then the oncoming week. So a little fun for you right there. Little fun fact.

Local ICE Shooting Sparks Protests

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Now, a not so fun fact for ya is a situation that has taken place in my home state. Something that has happened uh just a few miles away from me, and in the city in which I went to high school. Now, a few weeks ago, if we roll back the time frame here and we go back a little bit into the old the wayway machine and listen to some previous episodes of Share the Struggle Podcast, I was getting ready to hit the road for New York, and I mentioned a ICE agent involved shooting that had uh erupted in some um some protests, some wide spread protests in my state and um throughout the country. And it's crazy because I've seen a lot of this stuff happen um on TV, on national media, and um you see it in uh in big states and places, right? For it to happen here, for it to happen a couple miles from my house, um, pretty pretty crazy. And then for me to be leaving town right when things start to happen, that in itself was also um different because it's like, well, no, I'm gonna get away from it. So I removed myself from the situation and then uh came back to re-experience the situation. So not all the facts have really come out, and I'll be honest, there's a lot less attention on uh this nationally than um I expected based off of like what we saw that happen in Minnesota. I was like, oh man, my state's gonna be on fire, you know? And um, yes, it's definitely received a lot of attention, but for some reason, being in the middle of it, being so closely connected to it, I don't feel like I've um seen as much attention as I would have expected when you compare it to some of the other places and what what has happened. And I think that a lot of that has to do with the fact that some of these media outlets that are the ones that like to throw gasoline on the flame, that like to take opportunity to to shed blame, to take opportunity to manifest hate, to forecast violence. I don't think they feel as much of an opportunity and the Po donk state of Maine. I just don't think that they do. They they don't feel that this is the the lightning rod of a state to um you know manifest some of the craziness that they want to come out of these situations. The locals, on the other hand, or the transplants on the other hand, that's different. I'm talking first about mainstream media. Local media, they're doing their best to keep this story alive because it's one of the greatest uh story opportunities that they've had in this state in a long time. It's a mainstream story bringing national headlines to to our state run um media outlets, right? It's a big opportunity for them and and and um like I'm just just speaking facts here. Regardless of um a story or situation, the heartache, the heartbreak, no matter how depressing a story can be, when it has something that connects a story in Maine to national headlines, to national news, that doesn't happen every day, every month, or every year in our state. So these local news outlets, for them, it's a tremendous opportunity to show off their abilities. I'm not saying that in a positive light. I'm saying that as an I guarantee that's what the the meeting room, boardroom, office meeting conversation is at these news channels. Well, folks, uh we've got a real tragedy on our hands, and this one connects to national headlines. Here's the opportunity to get Sally Joe and Billy Bob on national news. Here's an opportunity to show how professional we are, how great we are, how awesome we are. Here's a smack on the ass, a card in a balloon, a slice of cake, see you soon. Get out there and make it happen. Does that make sense to you guys? This is the big opportunity for local small-time news stations in Maine to make national news. So they're taking advantage of that. They don't want this story to go away because of that. Local uh politicians, people looking to be politicians, people that are looking to be authority figures in this state, they want to be all over it. This is an opportunity for them to stake their reputation, to put their flag firmly in the ground, to have the almighty solution, and to have the loudest voice in the room. This is their opportunity. They're all over this opportunity. They want to yell and shout from the rooftops to feel like they can they can rally a voter. And that's what it comes down to. And I want this to be clear. When it comes to news, when it comes to these local politicians, when it comes to so many of these people in the room with the loud voices, it's looking for two things eyeballs and votes, attention and votes. That's all they want. It's an opportunity to be loud, to deliver their message, to stake their claim, to place their flag. This is who I am, this is how great I am. Let me yell about it. Let's use this opportunity to unite my party or to showcase my talents. That's what's happening in this local state. They're looking at this as an opportunity. I can guarantee you these news channels and these these political opportunists don't give two shits about the fella that's dead, and they certainly don't care about the one that shot them. Make sense? That's the truth, folks. That is the full frontal confessional. Hand on the Cabela's catalogue, out of the sky, truth from the sky, it's eyeballs, it's attention, it's votes. That's it. It's however to place this narrative into their agenda to get the results that they need. They're making the blend, they're putting all these ingredients in the blender of attention. That's it. That's what they're looking

Media And Politicians Chasing Eyeballs

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for. So I want to use that as the surface of the onion and peel back a few layers and dig into some of the things that I've seen and I've observed with this situation so far. This makes sense, y'all. Y'all seeing it, you're feeling it, you hearing it. Before I left, I had mentioned that the the protest had begun, that people were were gathering in mass quantities to protest, to be angry, to yell, to shout, to waste time, to stop traffic, to nearly close businesses. Because when Biddeford Police Department has to shut down the most popular and populated areas in Biddeford for businesses because of a protest, those businesses aren't making money. Those people that are out there yelling and screaming don't give two shits about that business owner's rent that's due, the payments on their equipment that's due, maybe the food that's expiring. They don't they don't care about that. They want to be heard, okay? They want to be heard. Now, I'm not gonna get into the facts on what might have happened because we don't know all the facts from what I've seen and what I hear. Ice was in town uh looking for an individual, not the person that was shot. There is an eyewitness who was on all forms of local news who made it on some mainstream uh national news stations saying that he witnessed this car driving at attempting to run over an ice agent, and they shot and killed this person, and then the car was um obviously kind of just rolling around out of control. That's from one eyewitness, legitimately on the scene, who was shaken up telling the story. Now, there's all these reports coming out now saying, well, the ice agent was mentally disturbed, um, he was came from an abusive relationship, um, wasn't fit to be an officer. All these things are being put out there. I don't know what of this is true. Uh, they're talking about military backgrounds, police backgrounds. I'm not going to go over um all of those those things because I don't know the truth. I'm gonna go over the reaction, okay?

Common Sense And Use Of Force

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First and foremost, me, who I am, where I live, if I'm a couple miles away in this town, and there's police executing a search warrant or whatever they're doing, and I interrupt them with my vehicle, and I um go to run one of them over with my vehicle, as said witness described, I fully expect to be shot too. That's not that's not breaking news, folks. That's not we're we're not this isn't something that happens. We're not profiling for Immigrants. Here's my fat white privileged ass. Because so much of this non-stream media wants to talk about white privilege. If I'm so white privileged that my big ass was heading towards a pack of ICE officers with my vehicle or regular law enforcement officers with my vehicle, I would fully expect to be shot. Common sense. Common sense isn't so common anymore. And the fact that we defend this lack of sense is nonsense to me. If we roll the clock back three years, four years, five years, I don't care how many years, if you roll it back and you see on the news, uh and even let's put it this way intoxicated man attempts to run over police officer, shot and killed. Huh? What an idiot. Drinking and driving? Attempting to run over a cop, what a moron. What about um let's take the drinking out of it? Maybe there was a domestic dispute. Cops come on the scene, domestic dispute, husbands fleeing the scene, attempts to run over a cop, shot and killed. Is there outrage? Is there riots and protests? No. What if there's no violence involved, there's no alcohol involved, there's a traffic stop involved, and while the cop's going to write a ticket, he takes a hard laugh, tries to run him over. What do you think is going to happen? If the cop shoots him, is he in his full right to do so? Are there protests? Are there riots? No. It doesn't even get the weeks of coverage that it's gotten right now. Why? Because it's against the narrative. Why? Because it doesn't push the agenda. That's why. This is what they need, this is what they're praying for, this is what they are looking for. It's all about dividing a country. It's all about pushing their agenda. It's nonsense to me. Common sense should be common. I don't have the right to run anybody over. And if I'm going to run over a law enforcement official, I certainly should be shot or stopped in any way necessary. Make sense? Can we establish that as the baseline, as the common sensible baseline, okay? Let's just do that. I even made up a word, common sensible, because it's just so ridiculous to me that we need to make up just simplistic nonsense words so that we can find a foundation, okay? Because this foundation is a shaky one so far. People have lost common sense, so we're building foundations of pebbles here. I think just literally lessons from Little Red Riding Hood here, um, you know, would could probably help, okay? Um, those wise piggies and the crazy wolves huffing and puffing and how to build a foundation, this could all help, okay? Because the foundation of lies is weak, boys and girls. I don't mean to get off on a on a tangent there. I really have no uh no plan here. I'm just shooting from uh from the cuff here because I'm kind of just getting fed up over all of

Are These Protesters Even Local

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this. One of the things I mentioned before leaving for New York was these these protests and the fact that first off, if I show up in the morning, there's nobody there. When I drop my mom off for work, I intentionally go through this section and there's nobody there. There's nobody there to protest. They don't show up until um I would say maybe the bus drops them off. Because another alarming thing here is all the people, the thousands of people that are all over uh my social media timeline or local news stations. I yet to see one person give an interview that I say, huh? I know that guy. I went to school with that girl. Okay, I know who they are, I recognize them. Oh, I've seen that person in Walmart. Oh, um, they work at the town hall. Oh, um, they work at Dunkin' Donuts. You know what's happened? No one has been recognizable to me. I have not recognized one person in these freaking protests. The only thing I've recognized in this protest is the the local main news channel, the um Maine Wire, who, in my opinion, is the only news outlet in our state that you can trust because they're reporting on factual, factual evidence. They report on um questions that Mainers have, and they go out and they do the research and they shed the light on some of the nonsense that's happening in our state. I'm embarrassed by our state in the national attention that it's got. Thankfully, Graham Platner stepped down in his campaign run, but we were pushing a Nazi, chauvinist, sexual abuser, straight up loser, and he was getting votes in our state. We're talking about a guy who, pardon my explicit here, um, masturbates, talks about masturbating in porta potties. He's um insulting purple heart recipients. He he is a complete nut job. Uh, sexual harassment on multiple women, multiple, multiple allegations, and uh it took to the very last minute for him to step down, full support throughout the state, through the Democratic Party. And this is another case in point where democracy doesn't seem to matter to Democrats because much like Joe Biden when he, you know, was primaried in to run against President Trump, they removed him and then planted in the crazy Kamala and the last minute, removing any opportunity and all the votes that Democrats in this country stood for, stood in line for, and voted for. Your democracy is over, folks. There's two opportunities here. You voted for the guy you wanted to be president, they said nope, not today. We're gonna remove him and we're gonna replace him with the person we want to be president, and it failed dramatically. But to the Democrats and the crowd that are listening, I hope you realize and understand and just soak up the moment and the fact that your political party said your vote doesn't matter, we're smarter than you, we know more than you, we're better than you, we shall choose for you, and you will fall in line and vote for the person that we select for you. That's what happened when you primaried Biden and they took him from you and replaced him with someone that you had no opportunity to vote for. Same thing just happened in this state with Graham Freaking Platner, another incredible loser. He's a real loser, he's a massive loser, and they replaced him with another loser. But the real loser is the voters in Maine that are voting for people in their primaries and having them replaced because their party feels they are smarter than you and they can select better than you. This is all just some of the nonsense that my state has put into national media. Uh, a lot of the fraud and and stuff that's happening in Maine, these there's like the Maine Wire reported on a lot of these fake home health care facilities knocking on um camper trailers that are doubling, supposedly being a home health service office, legitimately a camper and a field. They're knocking on the door. Office buildings where um one whole floor has, let's say, seven or eight different home health care facilities on this floor, all behind closed doors with nobody there to answer the door. This is all fraud, stealing taxpayer dollars. These are all just fraud opportunities. We have these Chinese, illegal Chinese marijuana grows. Nothing gets done about these things. Our state is shameful. There's so much fraud, there's so much negativity in this state. The last thing we need is outsiders coming in to protest, and that's part of what I'm seeing just a few miles away from my house. So as I leave town, I see some of the protests get bigger and bigger, and I'm thankful I'm not in town for those protests.

Online Backlash And Racism Accusations

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While I'm out of town, um something ridiculous happens, and that's um my wife shared a post on her Facebook page, and in that post she shared that um somebody else had actually shared a story of um a couple American citizens, a couple main residents that lost their lives because an illegal immigrant ran them over, hit them in traffic, right? Hit them um while walking. And I'm not even reading the whole story about those situations. Um but my wife had shared this story that was being shared by um multiple people online, and um one of them was a gray woman, the gray is a town in Maine, who was struck and killed by an illegal alien driver one day after another illegal alien uh struck and killed somebody in Lewiston. These are about 30 minutes away from the riots in Biddeford, and um this didn't happen at the same time. It's an older article, but my wife was making the same case that many people are making, and that's the fact that where's the riots for this? Where's the uprising for this? You have two illegal immigrants not supposed to be here, given driver's licenses, who murdered innocent people out walking, residents, friends, neighbors who were supposed to be here. I didn't even hear this story in the news. It got no PR, it got no push. I didn't see it on national media, mainstream media, social media. So for it to come up now is even more alarming. These people that are so concerned about their fellow neighbor who died that we're gonna shut down businesses, we're gonna protest, and we're gonna cause chaos, hate, and discontent. They weren't there for the neighbor who probably has kids in the same school system as you. Maybe you see him at the grocery store, maybe you live next to him, maybe you recognize him. No, doesn't matter. So my wife shared this this post, and she said two innocent Mainers were murdered by an illegal immigrant operating a motor vehicle. One of the vehicles, uh one of the victims was in Lewiston days apart, another one in gray, 30 minutes away from the riots in the streets in Bitterford, Maine, over a very similar situation. So I'm asking for a friend, where are you? And when is the gathering pro and when is that when are we gathering to protest these murderers? Alright, these stories don't fit your narrative. These are disgusting similar situations, but we know that you won't cause a scene in the street for these neighbors. Now, this post for my wife received um some positive feedback, and it received um a lot of negative feedback and some stuff that uh um really just kind of kind of pissed me off. Some people uh criticizing the main wire as not being a reliable source, and um legitimately the main wire is like one of the only news sources in this state that I actually trust, actually the only that I trust. I wish they even did the weather because our weather we can't even trust. This broad on here that knows my wife that I don't know, and um I'm gonna read her her her message. Pretty effing, didn't say effing, spelled it out for you, pretty effing gross and straight up racist to compare the two for similar outcry. Honestly, look back at what you posted and really think about it. As if this effing country wasn't started by foreign refugees in the first place. Give me your poor huddles masses, pretty sick for all the red, white, and blue you post constantly. Pretty effing gross and straight up racist. Okay, so my wife is racist, that she's calling out the fact that there's no there's no attention, there's no uprising, there's no riots, there's no protest, there's no there's no praying, there's no spotlight put on these two innocent people who were killed by immigrants that shouldn't be here, that weren't supposed to be here, instead, we're going to fuel and feed the fire of an immigrant that shouldn't be here, that was attempting to run over law enforcement, regardless of race, color, religion, or green card or not. If you are going after a police officer, if you are interrupting a investigation, stupid prizes, get stupid trophies. My wife had um responded on here, and I'm not gonna go back and forth on the social media stuff, but I will share a couple more things. One of the things that I that I mentioned is look like we just said here earlier. Um, if I tried to drive over a cop, I would expect to be shot. If I'm walking, I don't expect to be run over and killed by an illegal alien. Facts, not racism. Get your mind right before your mouth. That's part of the problem. There's another nut job on here. They aren't comparable situations, though, even though the outcome was the same, two were illegal immigrants, according to you. One was an immigrant with a green card, social security number, and a family. You're comparing apples to oranges here while somehow completely missing the point. This isn't American, this isn't even effing human. You can support deportation while simultaneously admitting that ICE is not doing the right thing. Stop yelling for the sake of being loud and look at the effing principle. You are an absolute nut job. Common sense just isn't common, and it's unfortunate. I don't even know who these people are on my wife's timeline. I have I have no clue. Um, but the fact that number one, you can scroll through somebody's posts and assume that I'm gonna come on your page and yell and argue you as loud as I possibly can, because I'm going to change your mind and I'm gonna prove your point. That in itself is just one of the dumbest things that I could possibly expect. I mean, there's a bunch of people coming on here, um, just you know, defending my point and stuff like that. And I had mentioned I'm gonna try to run over a cop, citizen or not, uh, or um, citizen or not, you or I will be shot. And um, you know, this moron comes back with that's such a half-assed response, dude. Just proves my point. You'll take to FB to be loud while not actually contributing anything valuable via action or argument. And there's a lot of this that continues to go on. And there's one person that goes on here and mentions here's a whole list of people who have been killed by illegals, and she posts a whole uh screenshot of a list. And the person they continue to make reference in these comments loud, being loud, and they continue to make references to being uh you know proud or the you know almost all the patriotic red, white, and blue posts. That's a way for you to come out and say loud, proud American. You want to be a loud, proud American, um, and this is this is what you're doing. This isn't this isn't, you know, you're not being patriotic, you're being racist. First off, how is any of this racist? That I find a hard one to draw any freaking connection to this being racist, you're a loser for saying that we are racist, you're a loser. And number two, I'm a loud, proud American who supports American citizens. Okay? I'm proud of this country, even in the despair and nonsense that we are experiencing in this country. I'm proud of this country. This is my country, this is your country, this is our country. I understand we are founded on immigrants, of people who did it the right way. And if we talk to immigrants that are here today, that are now citizens today, that have their paperwork to be here today, they would tell you they disagree with the mass freaking overtaking by illegal immigrants. Joe Biden opened the borders and let the floodgates happen and gave them all benefits and support. And my state gives some of the most incredible, ridiculous, insane benefits, free housing, free food, free everything. I'm being a loud proud American by supporting what is right and wrong, by standing up and shedding a spotlight on the good, the bad, the ugly, and the indifferent. For six damn years I've gathered here week after week, 316 consecutive weeks, doing more than my part to spread a positive message, to build a positive tribe, to echo a positive vibe. This is me, this is what I do, this is how I've been raised, and I do anything everything possible to shed the light on all that is good and right with this country. I have legitimately, wholeheartedly invested my life savings into a mission and a message to bring patriotism back to this country, to support American jobs in this country, to shed a light and an emphasis on the importance of faith in this country, being proud in this country. To have some key board warrior try to tell me that I'm racist and that we don't do our part for this country, that all we want to do is be loud, shame on you and shame on your parents for raising you to be such a useless excuse of life and flesh. Quit stealing and robbing our oxygen.

Outside Agitators And Cleaning Up

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Getting back to the streets and what's happening on the street, um, representative from the main wire was attacked while covering these protests, hit with a skateboard. People try to jump him, people slash the tires of his vehicle, all these things are happening, no consequences for these folks. And I saw some videos of a um a counter-protester person down there uh being pro-Trump and being um them getting into um you know heated exchanges, and I see these videos popping up online, and I see um this uh pro-Trump individual, and then I see this ginger snaggletooth in his face arguing with him, and I'm like, I've never seen this guy. I don't know what who this guy is antagonizing um this nonsense, but I keep seeing all these videos popping up on my timeline, and before you know it, he pops up on my timeline as a uh suggested friend, and I click on him, and he's not from here, he's from California, and uh he goes by I believe it's the uh Jolly Ginger, but a lot of folks refer to him as, or people with common sense refer to him as gingivitis, because he literally just shows up and um breeds hate, stirs up violence, nonsense, and ridiculousness, does it all for uh for views and attention, thinks he's moving the needle while pushing his narrative. So the Jolly Ginger, aka Gingivitus, I legitimately watched a video of him boarding a plane talking about how he was leaving California headed for Maine to come support the people to stir up the violence and the nonsense. Just like my wife mentioned weeks ago, just like I've observed every single week, these people aren't from here. They're transplanted here. Trust me, there are some nonsense, ridiculous locals that are standing out there with nothing else to do, that don't have jobs, that just want attention. I get it. There's some of those, and I don't I don't claim to know everybody in the town, but it's alarming to me to not even recognize a face from anybody. It's also fitting for me that these protests are happening right um at the sewage plant. Our city decided to build a little park right above the poop plant that smells like crap in the middle of the summer, so enjoy that. It was also a homeless encampment for a long time that the city had to push out to move out. So clearly, all useless shit happens in this one spot. So um maybe we just board it up, uh, donate it, use it as a landfill, because that's clearly. All that it's good for at this current moment in time. So rather fitting. Rather fitting. I did see that at one point apparently the city was trying to clean things up and to move people out, and they were met with a lot of resistance. And um I saw our current excuse of a governor went to pay her condolences and she was um accosted by people. They were yelling at her and telling her to leave, and they basically push her out as well. So they don't really care who it is, they're gonna push their narrative and their agenda. But I find it funny to me that the city can't clean up this massive um monument that they're building, these uh um the flowers and the candles and the photos and this vigil and all the stuff that's happening there that's now just rotting on the sidewalk. They can't clean that up. They don't know how to do that. Well, I can tell you how. Every single morning that I drive by there in the morning and it's not before their protesting business hours, there's nobody there. There's stacks of signs there, there's lawn chairs there, there's all this shit set up at the at the poop poop shit scenario, all their all their paraphernalia is lined up there. There's nobody there to use it, but it's waiting for them to arrive. Signs are already written, sacks of stuff is sitting there, launchers, folding chairs, megaphones, it's all there. Here's a clue, but if we're clean it up. They're not awake. They're not on payroll yet, okay? They're on union break. Clean the shit up. What happens when they show up and that's all gone? What happens when they show up and the rotting monument that they've made that's ruining storefronts is swept up, cleaned up, and put in the trash where the rest of this nonsense belongs? Just do it. Get over it. Stand up for yourselves, draw a line in the sand and say, Not in my damn city. There shall be justice and there shall be an investigation, and we shall fall low the order of the law. But chaos, protest, stopping businesses, hindering traffic, causing chaos, promoting violence and fights shall not happen in these streets. It will be removed. Because if my big ass did something stupid in the streets and I died today, I guarantee you, they would clean up any remembrance of me far sooner than now. You understand? This is just common sense. It's the same rights that we all get as Americans, it's the same common sense we should all possess as humans. Clean it up, get it done, I'm over it. An America three things are created equal. Equal rights, equal opportunity, equal consequences. Those three things we should stand behind, we should stand up for, and we should guarantee that they last for many, many more years to come. At least another 250. That is my two cents. That is my rant for the day. That is my truth each and every

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