Live Free - Die Last
Season 2 - Episode 9: Holding Power to Account: From Local Corruption to National Failures
National Corruption and Team OD's planned destruction of Harford County continues.
What if everything you believed about the mainstream media's portrayal of President Joe Biden was a lie? This episode of Live Free Die Last kicks off with a critical examination of media narratives and their evolution from praise to an acknowledgment of Biden's decline. We scrutinize the media’s handling of pivotal events like COVID-19 and the Iraq War, highlighting the eerie parallels and the pervasive influence of "Operation Mockingbird." Reflecting on the 2020 election, we dig into the media's early dismissal of concerns about Biden's capabilities, urging listeners to consider who is truly steering the country's direction.
Next, we tackle the pressing issues undermining democracy and amplifying censorship. From elder abuse in politics to election manipulation and the weaponization of government agencies, we leave no stone unturned. Our critique extends to the Democratic Party's decisions on voter registration and election integrity, Supreme Court rulings, and the role of social media titans like Facebook in controlling the narrative. We also delve into the impact of past administrations on today's political climate and the ongoing struggle between Liberty and the deep state, considering the broader implications for future elections and democratic processes.
Our episode then transitions to a contentious discussion on U.S. involvement in Ukraine, critiquing current policies and drawing parallels to historical conflicts. We explore the constitutional missteps in declaring war, financial motives behind prolonged conflicts, and the portrayal of Ukraine's government. Additionally, we examine national security and infrastructure concerns, the flawed education system, and local corruption issues in Harford County. Whether it’s the ethical allocation of tobacco tax dollars or the alarming oversight of hazardous material trucks, we advocate for freedom, truth, and accountability, calling out corruption and advocating for genuine leadership. Join us for an episode packed with revelations and a steadfast commitment to uncovering the truth.
National Corruption and Team OD's planned destruction of Harford County continues.
What if everything you believed about the mainstream media's portrayal of President Joe Biden was a lie? This episode of Live Free Die Last kicks off with a critical examination of media narratives and their evolution from praise to an acknowledgment of Biden's decline. We scrutinize the media’s handling of pivotal events like COVID-19 and the Iraq War, highlighting the eerie parallels and the pervasive influence of "Operation Mockingbird." Reflecting on the 2020 election, we dig into the media's early dismissal of concerns about Biden's capabilities, urging listeners to consider who is truly steering the country's direction.
Next, we tackle the pressing issues undermining democracy and amplifying censorship. From elder abuse in politics to election manipulation and the weaponization of government agencies, we leave no stone unturned. Our critique extends to the Democratic Party's decisions on voter registration and election integrity, Supreme Court rulings, and the role of social media titans like Facebook in controlling the narrative. We also delve into the impact of past administrations on today's political climate and the ongoing struggle between Liberty and the deep state, considering the broader implications for future elections and democratic processes.
Our episode then transitions to a contentious discussion on U.S. involvement in Ukraine, critiquing current policies and drawing parallels to historical conflicts. We explore the constitutional missteps in declaring war, financial motives behind prolonged conflicts, and the portrayal of Ukraine's government. Additionally, we examine national security and infrastructure concerns, the flawed education system, and local corruption issues in Harford County. Whether it’s the ethical allocation of tobacco tax dollars or the alarming oversight of hazardous material trucks, we advocate for freedom, truth, and accountability, calling out corruption and advocating for genuine leadership. Join us for an episode packed with revelations and a steadfast commitment to uncovering the truth.
We are, we the People of Maryland. Our mission is to advocate for your right to control your livelihood, your property, your family and your destiny. Our vision is to provide an organized outlet for Americans who are frustrated by government overreach. Thank you for listening to the Live Free Die Last podcast.
Speaker 2:The Lord is getting ready to smite the enemies of freedom.
Speaker 3:Yeehaw, here we go again. Another episode of the Live free die last podcast broadcasting from we the people studios very, very high above harvard county. We can see it all now. We've made some repairs and changes to the to the vehicle while we were gone, so we'll have to break some of those out during the podcast. But we got three patriots in the house tonight.
Speaker 4:We got, as always josh the josh, good to be back. Man, it feels really good to be back up next we got patrick warren patrick warren.
Speaker 3:Of course Travis Sunday. How could we do something without Travis Sunday?
Speaker 5:The magic Travis.
Speaker 3:I think Travis actually lives in the Freedom Pod. I saw a pile of dirty clothes over there. I'm not sure. All right, so there's a lot going on in the world. I guess we should tell you first about our email address and all that fun stuff. I want to let Josh do that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, info at wethepeopleorg is the email. Send us any information that you have. Wethepeopleofmdorg yes, wethepeopleofmdorg, and the website is wethepeopleofmdorg as well. The website is wethepeopleofmdorg as well, po Box 13 and Forest Hill, 21050 is. If you need to drop a letter to us and go to the website, click on the link and sign up for our newsletter. It comes out quite frequently A ton of information in there and good information here, locally, nationally, and kind of bridges the gap between our podcast and kind of reality and, you know, keeps us going yeah, and we'd also love to see pictures of team od crying.
Speaker 3:So if you have those, send them to us. We love those. Uh, let's start out national, though. I mean there's a lot going on. People want to know. I mean, everybody's talking about um cocaine. Joe, you know they had uh some. I don't know if it was a debate, I don't really know what it was. They had some. I don't know if it was a debate, I don't really know what it was, but they had some sort of televised argument on television and Joe didn't look too good but he answered all the questions.
Speaker 4:You did great, Joe Right.
Speaker 3:So but think about this the media has been telling us, they've all been telling us, how wonderful he is, how sharp he is. Uh, they're lying and it's clear for everyone to see now.
Speaker 5:Hey, come on Behind closed doors. He is a dynamo.
Speaker 3:Yeah, dynamo, that's what they're trying to tell you now.
Speaker 5:Cannot keep up with the man Right Cannot keep up with it.
Speaker 3:So for those of you that isn't sure that the media is part of the CIA and that they're lying to us about everything, this should help wake you up we know it's funny to watch.
Speaker 5:Out of all this is because I'll watch just to watch them feign like they're surprised and their indignation. They've been lying to us about this, just like they've been lying to us about everything else about covid, you know, the election, russian disinformation, the iraq war, the afghan, everything else, anything that ever mattered. They've lied to us about it. Now they're shocked. Well, and that Joe can't put two sentences together.
Speaker 3:They have the exact same observations to right now. There's nothing different. Nobody there is going oh, I think maybe Joe is on the decline. They're all saying the exact same thing that Operation Mockingbird. That's what they do, right? They get talking points and they echo the same talking points over and over.
Speaker 4:It happened during COVID, it's happening right now during this discussion. It's literally the same lines, the exact same words coming out. It's just a different news organization saying the same thing. I will add to this we got yelled at, I guess, by the mockingbird media and mainstream media for calling Joe out during the last election when he was, you know, basement Joe. He never came out of the basement during the election, but he also got 81 million votes.
Speaker 4:You know how did that happen when we're calling him out, we're, you know you're you're being mean to this old man. You know he's a good guy. You know whatever they were saying. But for us to even say we got an issue, joe biden can't get himself even out of the basement to campaign. Well, here's the result of that. So again, you know, yeah, what is the conspiracy theorist. You know, uh, it's just takes six months to be right. You know, to actually be news and facts that's called the arc of validation.
Speaker 5:Yeah, the arc of validation, yep, the arc of validation. They deny it for two years and then slowly, they say, well, maybe it is, and it's like, well, it looks like it kind of is, and it's like, well, yeah, it definitely is. Now.
Speaker 3:If you go back to that debate, I think what Donald Trump should have done. As soon as it became clear that Biden was a mess, he should have said hold on, I'm not going to torture this old man anymore, let's stop this so he can get the care he needs. But I do want to know who's running the country, because it's plainly obvious to everyone that he's not. That's what I would have done. I would have quit, I would not have pushed that thing.
Speaker 5:So you would have invoked the smear rule, the mercy rule.
Speaker 3:No, I would have. Yeah, I mean genuinely I don't like the guy, I but yeah, I mean genuinely I don't like the guy.
Speaker 5:I think he's evil, he was down 15 rounds by the third inning he's getting kicked in the face when he's down.
Speaker 3:I mean he's not running the country. He is not aware enough to be doing anything but changing his diaper and eating ice cream.
Speaker 2:But I mean, do any, have any presidents in the recent history really run the country? I think but that's the they say he is, I get it. You go to trump and the, the deep state and the swamp sure I think one of the things we saw is that they really don't no but, but wouldn't you want to get that out in public?
Speaker 2:and the only way you do is by calling it out but one of the other things that got said here is is this kind of idea that that biden's just this kind of bumbling puppet? He's, he's, well, he's, he's a nice little old man? No, but you got to remember, this guy's been around, this guy's been in Washington for 50 years, made a fortune and he ran for president in 1988. And he had to get out of the campaign because he exaggerated his academic record. He didn't exaggerate.
Speaker 2:He lied, he plagiarized, he plagiarized, he lied and he had that.
Speaker 3:He had right bounce out of the campaign because of it oh, if I made him sound like I cared about him or thought he was a nice old man, I apologize to everyone even snopes says that's true.
Speaker 4:So that's that's pretty bad if snopes agrees with you and he's quick to call anybody a racist or use that in defense, when this guy he's an actual racist. You know he's said even on record many, many things that you know people I guess just forget about.
Speaker 3:You know, oh, he never did that well, no, there's record of that, and what are the neocons always talk about? What does the rest of the world think of us?
Speaker 5:they think we're weak and stupid you know I saw joe today, I saw videotape him at the nato conference and I swear he looked like something out of you ever see the film Reanimator, you know where the scientist like reanimates the dead body. He was standing there. He looked like a corpse standing there with his, with his shoulders all slumped over and his mouth hanging open. I mean, he looked like a corpse, yeah, a walking corpse.
Speaker 4:Well, you mentioned it, John.
Speaker 4:You a corpse yeah a walking corpse well, you mentioned it, john. You know this is abuse, this is elder abuse. The country, the world, you know I I hate to say it you know we do have to feel bad for the guy and, yes, deep down, he should not be and does not deserve to run. But this is the, this is the, the grave that the democratic party has our country and our country has, has dug for ourselves. So I live with what you have. You know, don't, don't use this, as you know, like they used last time with the democratic party, has our country and our country has as dug for ourselves.
Speaker 4:So I knows to live with what you have, you know don't. Don't use this, as you know, like they used last time with covid for the election, you know as a distraction and try to sneak something else in. You know this is let john run, let joe run. You know we as a country need to. We need to um, we need to learn from all of this, and if we continuously make errors and we're not going to learn from our mistakes, I know we're just doomed.
Speaker 3:Wait, wait, wait. I got to say this because I wanted to say it my whole life, when it actually meant something. We are literally beating a dead horse right now. I mean, we are literally beating a dead horse.
Speaker 5:Well, you know what? I don't feel sorry for anybody here, because you know what. The Democrat Party and the commies and the neocons lashed their wagon to this meat puppet because they knew that he was the perfect vessel to carry out what they wanted to get done sexualism through an open border, through God knows who knows, coming into the country, given all these people welfare benefits. There's a reason why 20 million people have crossed this border and I guarantee you right now there's going to be a whole bunch of them that are signed up to vote in this election, because the those aren't the ones I'm scared of.
Speaker 5:The government agencies, the state of Maryland, the state agencies. They're giving these people driver's license, they're giving them benefits and when they go to get sign up for benefits, they're being registered to vote and all they have to do is say they're a citizen.
Speaker 2:They do not check I agree, uh, so well it's, it's actually illegal yeah for them to ask for idea at the at the polling places, once they get to vote too.
Speaker 3:So and this whole thing kind of you need one to buy a pack of smokes.
Speaker 5:That's interesting.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know this kind of segues into the supreme court rulings too. That that went on it the the mainstream media is crying oh old trump is is the benefit of of a activist judges, which is couldn't be further from the truth, because there's more Democrats that are benefiting from this than anything. You've got Barack Obama. Who's who is a criminal?
Speaker 5:He was the largest beneficiary of this ruling because he executed two American citizens in Yemen that had no charges outstanding against them.
Speaker 3:Well, Joe Biden's got to be a serious criminal 16 year old son were drowned by barack obama. If this ruling hadn't come down, he could have been prosecuted for murder right so so mainstream media is not telling you that this isn't a a trump thing, so forget, forget that silliness but it is an election season, so anything you know that they can put against trump, they absolutely will yeah and that's that's the problem.
Speaker 4:Like even social media is now um, I think facebook is censoring, is censoring things and they're taking down items, flagging things. Um, I've seen starting to see a lot of pages now uh starting to get canceled. You know, uh getting um flagged by facebook and actually getting deleted again. You know this happened during the pandemic, it happened during the last election. Here we are, we're getting a little bit closer when truth is starting to come out. Zuckerberg is starting to take it away from everybody and punishing, you know, citizens. Again, I'm not here to promote Facebook and that type of stuff, but you know it is a resource and it's just interesting to see. You know, it's a cycle. Yeah, here we are again.
Speaker 3:We're now we're suppressing information, you know, and we're we're crucifying people look at what the deep state's done through the cia, the fbi, the doj, um, you know, the board of education they're. They've weaponized every agency against conservative, not just conservative americans, but americans everywhere. They don't want our choice to matter well, that happened.
Speaker 5:agency against conservative not just conservative Americans, but Americans everywhere. They don't want our choice to matter. Well, that happened during the Obama administration. It did, and you know so again today, you know they're whipping up the Russian bot farm story again. So I heard that again today. But really, if you're awake and you're paying attention to what's going on, I mean, the real election interference is being committed by the deep state of this country and they're using companies like Facebook, google and similar to do this election interference. And then, not on top of that, they're trying to throw the leading candidate against the meat puppet, joe Biden, in prison.
Speaker 3:Go look at even your local races. I mean the neocons, the rhinos they're. They're grenading anybody that would look into this and fix things. All they want is the status quo to continue as it's continued well you know.
Speaker 5:It's pretty interesting too that with the state of maryland there is a law now that if you're asking for precinct information that you have to sign a document under penalty of prosecution that you will not use any of that information for election integrity purposes.
Speaker 4:Imagine that the voter rolls Yep.
Speaker 5:And it's also really pretty interesting Nobody's talking about this either that JB Jennings voted for Senate bill three, three 333 in this last session of the Maryland General Asylum. And what that did was it set up a state agency for anybody to report election disinformation and this agency can go after you and prosecute you for election disinformation. Way to stand up for our rights, jb.
Speaker 3:JB Jennings is the biggest mess that is part of Hartford County and he runs with Team OD and all those people that you keep voting for over and over again, that you keep voting for over and over again.
Speaker 5:You know this is very low bar to clear, but he is. I don't know who's worse, like him or Mike Griffith in terms of who is the most worthless member of the Hartford delegation in Annapolis.
Speaker 4:Wasn't that his dad's seat? Though it's his daddy's seat.
Speaker 3:You know, you just gave me an idea. We should issue at the end of the year a we the People award for the most worthless, spineless delegate from Hartford County and the award could be a giant sucker.
Speaker 5:It's going to be a jellyfish.
Speaker 4:We're just going to give him a big jellyfish and the leading candidate for me here in Hartford County right now is Pat Vincent. We're going to get to this later, but I'm sorry I had to jump in with that.
Speaker 3:Why don't we have Travis tell us what's coming next? Because I saw him playing with the crystal ball on in the in the back of the uh pod.
Speaker 2:Tell us about it, travis the decoy dictator, or uh, the buford t galers no, I think we're.
Speaker 3:We're probably gonna tell us about the. Then what's coming in 25? What are they gonna try to lock us down for? I?
Speaker 2:don't. Is it the bird flu? This?
Speaker 3:time it's the bird flu.
Speaker 2:This time the bird flu? Maybe the bird, bird, bird Until the birds get offended.
Speaker 4:You know, like monkeypox, you had to change the name of monkeypox until the media started getting a hold of it.
Speaker 3:The point is they just ran another what do you call it simulation another war games, if you will for what's coming in 25.
Speaker 4:They're already funding a bird flu mRNA vaccine as well. They're talking about funding that. It's insane. Again, it's a cycle.
Speaker 3:In case you didn't get enough of your Myrna the first time.
Speaker 4:Myrna Seven more coming. Myrna, myrna's coming.
Speaker 5:Get your jabs.
Speaker 4:Get your jabs right here.
Speaker 5:Step right up.
Speaker 4:Right Again. I hope people, as I said before, I hope people learn as we go through this attack after attack after attack, again, after again, after again. Stop, you know, just just think for yourself, take the blinders off. I want to, you know, a comment for the vaccine in the during the last pandemic and the pandemic itself. It just really sucks because I lost a lot of really good what I thought were friends you know, lifelong friends, that you know. Yeah, we had differing opinions. I wasn't aggressive, I was just being a good friend to them and concerned Time to save their life, yeah, and just having a conversation. And you could not have a conversation and to this day, you know, even if I reach out to him, hey, how are you doing nothing?
Speaker 5:oh, family's broke up over this yeah, well, you know one of the following effects of this bird flu thing is going to be like I'm reading more and more about. We got to have more testing. Got to have more testing for these animals. Got to have test test, test. You know the pcr test, because now it's jumping to cows. It could jump to your dog next.
Speaker 3:Right, you can eat the grass.
Speaker 5:I think one of the knock-on effects of this is going to be is they're going to want to test herds, they're going to have mandatory testing of herds and they're going to say, oh, we've got all these herds that are positive, we've got to call these herds. So they're going to kill all of these animals.
Speaker 5:They're going to kill all these, all this cattle well, let's hope that one of the unintended they're going to pay the farmers, they're going to call the cattle and it's going to cause food shortages and it's going to drive up the price of beef well, let's hope one of the and chicken unintended consequences is tar and feathers, because that's what needs to happen.
Speaker 3:only takes Travis you look like you're queued up.
Speaker 2:I just don't want to be late to the game. If you guys say something important. All right, that's okay.
Speaker 4:No again. You know, whatever pandemic pandemic's coming up next, it's time for the people. That's why I love our name. I love our name of our group. We, the People we truly represent not only the constitution but the community, the people coming together. And if that does not happen, and if we're continuously not growing our numbers you know they are the the enemy is, you know, and they are controlling people. You know they're brainwashing. So we're not trying to brainwash anybody, we want people to just live free, you know you know yeah.
Speaker 5:Hey so and let's not forget, too, that during the what happened during the last pandemic, the people that are touting themselves as the dream team, that are going to be the next County executive, pat Vincente, the next council president, aaron Penman, our illustrious sheriff, buford T Gaylor none of them. Not a single person. Not a single person in Annapolis, not a single person on the county council, not the sheriff. Nobody stood up for our rights that are guaranteed to us as living persons.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Dan Cox is the only one that did.
Speaker 5:And our right to worship God, our right to assemble, our right to meet, our right to you know, get married, go to funerals, visit our parents that are in old age homes. Not one person, none of them, stood up for us. So, when the next one comes around. Just remember, they're not going to do it again either, and you're going to have to stand up and demand your rights. Well, not only did they not, stand up.
Speaker 2:They endorsed the people that wanted to continue that same path. They were all in the can for Kelly Schultz and wear the damn mask and all that stuff.
Speaker 3:And yeah, let's go back to national for a second, because I want to talk about, uh, the gravy train called the ukraine, because it's become clear to most people now that the us government has been lying seems to be a common theme for tonight's beginning of the podcast yes hey people, you're being lied to this is the rhino neocon uh war fest. Okay, that's what this is. Let's stop. We need to be.
Speaker 4:This was the the biggest waste of money since anybody ever wasted money even the democrats have jumped on this one, which was kind of you know, they sometimes have always been. You know the anti-war, you know group, where you know that you'll see a few far you know extremists of them, you start, uh, protesting stuff.
Speaker 4:You don't see that right now, you know the only people that you're seeing talk about this are, you know, podcasts like this, not necessarily like the mainstream media. Some people down in washington are starting to, you know, raise up, you know, their hands, saying we ain't giving them any more money. But then they also kind of cave in sometimes and just so you know, it's only a couple billion, not 20 billion this time cocaine joe's considering boots on the ground.
Speaker 3:I mean, who's he gonna send billion, not 20 billion this time? Cocaine Joe's considering boots on the ground. I mean who's he going to send?
Speaker 5:He's not going to send his son. You know the crackhead? Well, what they're doing is he's okayed for US military contractors to go to Ukraine and to be in Ukraine. And this is exactly how we got involved in. Vietnam Started off small like this, and then, you know, by 1975, there were nearly 60,000 dead Americans. But it ain't going to end that way this time. The Russians are not going to let us fool around in Ukraine. If you know anything about the history of Russia, they have been invaded multiple times over the centuries. Russia is a 1,000-year-old country, you have a very long memory, but they've been invaded multiple times through Ukraine. They're not going to let the United States set up a military in Ukraine with nuclear missiles that can fly seven minutes to Moscow.
Speaker 3:But this is what our team wants. They want nuclear war. They want World War III. They don't care, there's too many of us. They want to call the population nuclear war.
Speaker 2:they won world war iii. They don't care, they. There's too many of us. They want to call the population well, and this is. This is something where people don't know about the constitution.
Speaker 2:They haven't read the constitution right like the constitution clearly says in article 1, section 8, that congress has the authority to declare war, not the president, and I I remember you know that's that's kind of what got me not drinking the Republican Party Kool-Aid. I remember when W George W was president and his spokesperson, ari Fleischer, got up there and he said confidently that the president has the. We believe that the president has the authority to declare war.
Speaker 3:Now they don't even bother.
Speaker 2:It's like they don't even like they're not even reading the constitution at all. And if, if I feel like if half the population even knew what the constitution said they would, they would have known on its face that was, that was illegal. When he said that we haven't properly declared war since maybe world war twoi I don't remember if we did it in korea or not, but we definitely did.
Speaker 2:It was a police action yeah, so I mean, since world war ii we haven't, we have not properly declared war well, that's because they used to know the constitution.
Speaker 3:That's why they had to have an amendment to ban alcohol and an amendment to take repeal that one today they would just ban it.
Speaker 5:Well, the other thing you have to have to realize here too, is that the United States has not won a war since defeated Japan in 1945. We have spent trillions and trillions of dollars since 1945 and we've not fought one war against a peer. And we've not fought one war against a peer and we've not won any of those wars. We were defeated in Afghanistan by a bunch of guys with AK-47s and in sandals.
Speaker 3:It's all about the money.
Speaker 5:That's who I mean. We have not won a war. We spend a lot of money, but the whole point now is to not win the war. The whole point is to keep the money machine going to keep the defense contractors appropriated so they can send their campaign donations to the likes of disgusting people like Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 3:And the big bankers can further mortgage the country.
Speaker 5:And Dan Crenshaw and guys like that.
Speaker 2:And your kids are expendable, your sons and daughters, whether they die or lose arms and legs or come back messed up in the brain because of the stuff they had to do and the stuff they saw, you are expendable.
Speaker 3:And war costs a lot of money and all the money ends up going to the banksters. That's who ends up getting the money. All wars are bankers.
Speaker 5:Wars, yes and what people may not really realize right now too, is in the most recent national defense authorization act, all your kids were automatically registered for the draft, yeah, so they're registered for the draft, but you know everything about this is a lie. We are not defending democracy in ukraine. We are defending American business interests in Ukraine, period.
Speaker 3:And Joe's money laundering scheme.
Speaker 5:Zelensky has canceled the elections. He's an illegitimate president. He has locked up his political opponents. He has outlawed political parties. He has shut down anti-government websites. He has shut down anti-government newspapers. He has shut down anti-government newspapers. Sounds a lot like what Joe Biden's doing.
Speaker 3:Well, let's not get too upset, because the good news is by 2025, you know everybody will be driving an electric vehicle, right?
Speaker 5:Oh no, no, wait a minute, they're going to have electric tanks and electric fighter jets.
Speaker 3:Did you know that?
Speaker 5:Yeah, the EV movement's falling apart that's what this moron uh defense secretaries we got to have like electric tanks. Oh, excuse me, um uh, mr russian general, can you hold off?
Speaker 3:while we charge our tanks hold off on that offensive while we charge our tanks while we run around with our, our umbrellas that have solar panels on them before we keep going down into the cars, I want to do one clarification.
Speaker 4:We're not putting necessarily boots on the ground. The contractors, government contractors not our military, but they're going there to provide support for the weapons systems that we've already given. That's my biggest problem. We're not giving them people, we're just giving them our weapons.
Speaker 3:They want to change that and weaker.
Speaker 4:But another thing I want to bring up is I think it was this week or you know here, recently, team nato was in dc um and they were basically just there to to make sure that they can secure some funding for ukraine. You know, um, and they want to make sure that, just in case something happens bad in November, we're still going to get our money. You know that. That's again. Here comes the taxpayers. Open up your checkbook. This is I'm not going to say what I want to say, but this is, this is, this is BS. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:Well, we don't have a checkbook anymore. We all have a credit card.
Speaker 5:And what's being discovered, and as we give all these weapons to the Ukrainians, is that our stuff actually doesn't work very well. Right, because the Russians are destroying these tanks like no problem and they have, you know, electronic warfare. That's like shooting down, you know, our vaunted high Mars missiles. I mean our stuff. Just spending trillions and trillions of dollars on stuff that doesn't really work very well and a lot of the components for it aren't even made in the united states, so we don't even have an industrial capacity to replace this stuff. Like I read something the other day, like in a in a defense publication, where 40 of the components of american weapon systems are made, where china, china so look, we're at a very weak point in our history.
Speaker 3:That's what I remember earlier when I said that's not the ones I'm afraid of. They're sending Chinese or sending military-aged males into this country by the thousands. We're at our weakest point. These people sit around and wait for that. Buy farms Right Now. What they don't understand. They don't understand that every american has a safe full of guns and, regardless of what the government does, we're going to be out there protecting our stuff well, it's estimated that there's over a hundred thousand military age chinese males that have come into the united states.
Speaker 5:That's the equivalent of 10 chinese divisions right, so well, let's keep going you know, just as just one more little bit of okay here.
Speaker 5:So, just so people know, because I mean people don't know, because they're being lied to about this all the time this, this war in ukraine, just didn't start in february of 2022. This started back in 2004, when the united states initiated a color revolution to get rid of the Russian ethnic Russian prime minister of Ukraine. In 2014, we instigated the real shooting revolution. Victoria Nuland and John McCain were in Maidan Square in Kiev cheering their revolutionaries on, who were neo-Nazis, giving them cookies and cheering them on. Now can you imagine what would have happened if Vladimir Putin was in Mexico City cheering on the Mexican separatists and was in Austin, texas, cheering on the Mexican separatists in Texas? Right.
Speaker 5:It would not not been put up with for like two seconds. Nope, and we, through that, built the largest army in europe. In ukraine and that army has been systematically taken apart and destroyed by the russians are over 500,000, half a million Ukrainian dead soldiers. This country is being depopulated and being destroyed and we're bankrolling it. These people are just being eliminated.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's a lot of nastiness.
Speaker 5:A third of the country has fled to Europe.
Speaker 3:While everybody waves their sillyraine flag because they don't understand what's going on in the world, they're not paying attention. All right, so let's go back to these cars, because the car manufacturers are saying, oh, hold on there, cocaine, joe, we're losing all our money. So, uh, we're not gonna continue down this path. Nobody's buying this stuff.
Speaker 4:It doesn't make sense and you're seeing a lot of the car charging stations um, you know that are you know public car charging stations and stuff like that, as a business investment? Those are kind of going away too. Um, you know you're seeing these. Um, jobs are getting canceled. You know projects are getting canceled and um, you know why is that?
Speaker 3:You know it's because the demand's not there, yep.
Speaker 5:Well, they're also being vandalized for the copper that's in the charging cables. Yeah, there's. So it's. They're going to be like public phones, like you're going to go up to the public phone. You can't use it because there's no receiver there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, look, I get it. You want to go buy a Tesla because it's fast and fun to drive or something. That's really great, and a company like that that could make a couple dollars doing that and can keep the innovations going, that's a wonderful thing. Now, until battery technology changes, none of this is going to be super viable. And if we're really planning on doing this, what they should be saying is let's upgrade the infrastructure so that, by the time the battery technology is viable, we've got the electrical grid to handle what the load that this is going to place on it, because it will be significant.
Speaker 4:Absolutely, and there's room for both. You know you don't have to do all EV. You know that's where this climate change and all these pieces of legislation coming out. You know we're going to be zero emissions by 2035. It's unrealistic, right.
Speaker 5:Well, we might have been able to do that if we hadn't spent $7 trillion on wars since 2003. We could have spent some money on infrastructure and airports and bridges and roads and all kinds of things around here. But EVs make a great third car, yep, but it should be market driven, it shouldn't be mandated exact. So I think this whole thing with the chevron decision, I think is going to be a real game changer with regard to issues like this, where they're mandating, you know the president just issues an order, you got to have 50 miles per gallon and you know x number of cars sold in america have to be evs by xd folks.
Speaker 3:The pendulum is swinging the other direction. That's what's going on here. We're seeing it across the board. The big question is will they be able to steal the election again while the pendulum's swinging back? Before it was kind of it was starting to swing, but people weren't really upset. Now they're pissed.
Speaker 4:Now we need to flick it and, you know, make that pendulum swing a little bit harder, a little bit farther, a little bit faster.
Speaker 3:You know it's we can't let them steal one vote, not, much less all the things they're planning on stealing because you mentioned.
Speaker 4:You know all this money going away. You know the tax dollars going out the door. You know wasteful spending. Even when they spend the money, they're spending it on stuff. You know that you would think that is good like an education for our children yeah, but they're literally blowing so much money right out the door, you know for nonsense in these kids.
Speaker 3:They're suffering yeah, you're talking about the, the, the blueprint, yep, and with that hogan started.
Speaker 4:And more is funding yeah, hogan, let right in the door. You know just like you know, I guess he was too tied up in the COVID pandemic of trying to, you know, lead the charge of the lockdown. But yeah, the Kerwin Blueprint program that here in the state of Maryland that's being forced down upon us, it's unfundable.
Speaker 3:It's going to bankrupt Carford County and everywhere else. Yep.
Speaker 4:It's estimated that property taxes will have to be increased by 535 percent. And how many taxes do we just get signed into um into law?
Speaker 2:on july 1st by by uh westmore, it was over 300 I think you know the vehicle registrations just went up a lot I mean it wasn't like five or ten bucks, it was like yeah, you know 50 or more.
Speaker 3:I hate to be the guy that reminds everyone that team od a ron penman, joe snee, uh the clines. They brought westmore to town for a fundraiser the same people that fund the good old boys and tell you they're conservative republicans and I love freedom and property rights hell, no, they don't. They support west Wes Moore. They're spineless Democrats.
Speaker 4:Yes, they are.
Speaker 2:Unless you're a person that gets up to the mic at the public comment section of a county council meeting, then they will bully you. They will violate your First Amendment.
Speaker 3:The duck man Rights of free speech. The decoy dictator. These are not Republicans, folks. All you guys that live up there in the Northeast and Hartford County that support them, all you know Jarrettsville area and whatnot. They're pulling the wool over your eyes and they're going to come for your land next. Trust me.
Speaker 5:Well, you know, it's really pretty interesting If you go to a Hartford I go to too many of these meetings. But if you go to a Hartford County council meeting and then you go to a Bel Air town council meeting, the difference between the two meetings is just stunning. You know, paula Edding, the mayor of Bel Air, lets everybody talk. She lets them say whatever they want to say. You know some people will clap Some people. She lets a free and open debate and reaction happen in her council chambers. It's a stark contrast with what Pat Vincenti does and the way he bullies people from his dais.
Speaker 4:It shows that he doesn't have power over top of the people in the meeting and that he doesn't have control of of his his council. He refers to it as his council. You know it's our council, it's the people's council. We voted them on there and that's how it should be. But again I want to go back to a couple points about the Kerwin Blueprint Program, because it is unfundable. In FY 24, it was $1.4 billion that went into this plan to indoctrinate our children, For lack of a better term. It's a plan to indoctrinate our children, For lack of a better term. It's a plan to indoctrinate our children. But by FY29, that's going to be $4.1 billion is going to be needed, added to the budget, to even keep up with the check marks, the tasks that the blueprint has set forth for the counties and the state, With the taxes that just went up.
Speaker 4:I want to bring up one tax. I was reading an article I don't know the specific numbers, but the cigarette tax in the state of Maryland. I think it was a couple dollars per pack. A majority of that money has been allocated for funding the Kerwin Blueprint program. I look at it a bunch of different ways. You want, you don't want people to smoke cigarettes because they're bad for you. You're bad for your health. As a government you know there was that. You know don't smoke. You know campaign. You know this still is. It seems a little dirty to use the tobacco tax dollars to fund our kids education, like I just don't understand. Is that good business practice? Like you don't want somebody to do something you're charging more more money, but oh, we're gonna.
Speaker 4:We need this money to fund this and if we don't implement this, you know you're the bad guys in each county. Um, you know this has to be implemented and you guys have to fund this, and this is part of of the argument we've been discussing during this last budget cycle here in Hartford County, but to me this just seems. It just doesn't seem right. It's also like when they said they're going to use the casino money to fund the schools.
Speaker 3:Well, the best and brightest don't become leaders in this country, unfortunately, yeah, unfortunately, the worst rise to the top.
Speaker 5:Unfortunately the worst rise to the top. But you know you might have a leg to stand on with regard to what you just said, josh, if you could show that the test scores were improving. But the test scores aren't improving. The test scores continue to degrade and there's 13 high schools in the city of Baltimore that doesn't have one student proficient in English or math not one. And they're spending $31,000 per student in Baltimore City. So if money was the solution, the problem would be solved by now.
Speaker 3:Look, look, patrick they're trying to redo the standards by which they measure the test results, for you just have to give them time to dumb all this stuff down to make it easier to make the there well, they already tried that too and they failed.
Speaker 4:So they're trying to. You know, try again. You know I I did see somewhere that the state of maryland board of education might consider um like, for instance, if you, if you're in third grade and you cannot read at a third grade level, you cannot pass, go and go to fourth grade. You know you have to third grade.
Speaker 5:There's no way they're going to do that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, this is never going to happen.
Speaker 5:Pass them right through.
Speaker 4:You might not get your step increase if you're a teacher. Exactly that's when the unions are going to come out and start fighting and screaming. I want to bring up this next point. We talk about the deficiencies within, you know, within the systems of government and within our elected leaders. You know in the strains they're putting on us as taxpayers. But we are also paying people, you know, to do their job and they're failing to do it on so many different levels. You know talk about every elected official. You know here that we've been discussing. You know they're failing to do their job. I wanted to bring up something that you know we, we as a community, we want to be a safe community. You know, here in Hartford County that's a struggle to say, with the, the illegal immigrants that have come across the border, the murders here in the in the County. You know the, the increased crime rates. You know the gun violence, um, the theft, um.
Speaker 3:Wait, did you hear about a gun doing something violent?
Speaker 4:Oh no.
Speaker 3:I meant the poor gun owner violence there you go. Normally I don't listen, but when you say it it makes me go. What?
Speaker 4:But no, the shooting up at the Hartford Mall is what I meant the idiot that pulled out a gun at a kid's birthday party and shot a guy who he's arguing with around a bunch of kids.
Speaker 3:That's just idiots. Yeah, that that was violence from a human.
Speaker 4:Yep, that hasn't been doing the right things all his life but I wanted to bring up something that, uh, patrick, you, you, you brought up and it's um, you know what's some of the other things that you know people aren't talking about. You know, from the, the bay bridge or, excuse me, the key bridge, um, uh, debacle. You know the, the accident, the collapse. You know, again, we're paying these people money, um, you know, as taxpayers, but what are we missing out on and how are they putting us in an unsafe environment?
Speaker 3:I remember thinking, holy cow, this is going to be huge because hazmats have to avoid the tunnels. Yep, so I don't think most of the hazmats are going through the city. They're going over the key bridge. So I was thinking to myself wow, they're going to have to go all the way around, or are they going to direct them through the city?
Speaker 4:And traffic was really bad there for a few weeks. After this, not as much anymore.
Speaker 3:The story we heard, you would think that, wouldn't you? You would think that, wouldn't you, you would think that. But it's even worse, because now the story we heard Go ahead.
Speaker 5:That's not what's happening. So there was a story in the Baltimore Banner the other day where some of the reporters sat down at the tunnels at the entrance to the Fort McHenry tunnel and the harbor tunnel and they just watched and they were watching trucks go through the tunnels. They saw trucks 12 hazmat trucks go through the tunnel with their hazmat signs on their trucks. They saw other trucks pull over, take their hazmat signs off, get back in the trucks and then go through the tunnel. So this is an extremely dangerous situation and it looks to me like the Maryland Transportation Police and the Maryland State Police, you know, are looking the other way. Now. These are the same people that will pull you over because your windows are tinted too dark, or they're going to pull you over because you were 12 miles an hour over the speed limit, but yet they are allowing trucks with hazardous materials to go through these. I mean, it's only. It only takes one accident and a lot of these trucks you know they're. They have like deferred maintenance on them.
Speaker 5:You got truck, you got drivers that have been, that are sleepy even if the driver's good, you got knuckleheads on the road in front of them you have people changing lanes, you know, in the tunnel in front of, in front of, it's only gonna take one accident to close down one of those tunnels. And if one of those tunnels or two of those tunnels go down, how long do you think it's going to take to repair those? Because those things were built like 70 years ago.
Speaker 3:Then their 15-minute city will become a reality, and that's what they want.
Speaker 5:This is an extremely dangerous situation.
Speaker 3:You're right.
Speaker 5:And nobody in government that cares about you. We just want to keep you safe, right? Nobody's doing anything about it.
Speaker 3:You are 100 right, patrick, so did you have anything else to talk about on that topic, josh?
Speaker 4:no, I just thought it was a you know something to bring up that you know we expect things as a society and you know they're not happening.
Speaker 4:You know, and again we go look at the federal side at the beginning of this podcast we're talking about here at the state kind of level. It's happening at every single level. You know. I think you know we would like to close out this podcast talking about some of the local stuff here near and dear to us in harford county. But you know at every single level. You know, yes, there's an election in november, you know. But also you got to open up your eyes because people, they're playing politics, they're playing games all day every day for you know, 365 days a year it's
Speaker 4:not just because of an election year, it's it's all the time and it's happening right now, and that's kind of what I wanted to close out with is with some of the corruption that's happening here in harford county. And how should people understand what is going on? Because we're going to have decisions to make and we're going to have some really tough decisions in some aspects to make, and, and they're putting the pressure on us as people and and as more and more people go away and stay quiet, they're just going to start steamrolling it. But I'm telling you, right now there's people sitting on the county council, there's people within this, this county, in this state, that are, they're kind of scared and they're they're a little bit fearful of um, what people are saying about them, because they're not, you know, agreeing with them and saying, hey, oh, it's, hold them up on a pedestal. No, people are starting to call these, the corruption out. They're starting to call team OD out by name and putting all the information out there, and I think that it needs to continue.
Speaker 4:And the one thing I wanted to dive into um specifically is bill 24-016, which was supposed to be, you know, for the people. You know, give the people the decision on where our money's spent. That's not that. That's what team od's using the mockingbird media for. That's not really. That's what Timo D's using the Mockingbird media for.
Speaker 5:That's not really what this is about Right, right and you're a politician claiming that they're going to do something for the people. That's your clue right there that you better watch your wallet.
Speaker 3:Right when these guys want to change the charter that's been around for so long. That scares me. They've already just violated the charter as far as who can be on the council.
Speaker 5:We should ask them why they even want to have this charter changed, because they don't listen to the current charter.
Speaker 2:They just ignore it when they encounter something they don't like anyway.
Speaker 4:But just to kind of get into a little bit of the facts about this. This was voted upon by the council. It was introduced by AA Ron from District B, aaron Penman Again, they use like these. I get a lot of information from my constituents. Many people have reached out to me about this, thousands, thousands, yeah. So Aaron introduced the bill and then it came down to the vote. Dion Guthrie, tony G and Riley voted no, and then Jessica Boyle-Saddles and Aaron Penman voted yes. And then Jacob Bennett jumped in and said yes too. The reason being is because he's got an interest for the school budget. This whole bill is about the council being able to adjust funds.
Speaker 3:You think he worked for the school or something.
Speaker 2:And that can't be understated.
Speaker 4:Two of the people that voted for this are dual employed in violation of the charter that are receiving tax-paying dollars Absolutely, and then pet Go ahead.
Speaker 5:I was going to say, and not only that, three of them have business interests where they will be financially, where they will benefit financially with uh increases to the budget of the county yeah, and then, look, guys, let's stop call it well, no, it's an increase to the budget.
Speaker 3:But what you really need to know is it's going to come out of your pocket. They're going to have to take more money. It's not like the federal government when they can just bring up the credit card and print more. They cannot do that in the county. It will come from your hide and everybody that goes oh, property taxes go up, I don't care, I'm a renter. Guess what?
Speaker 2:your rent goes, your rent's gonna go up to pay for it, pal, I promise and and, and you know it goes back because people listen to us and they're, and they're like well, they're saying the school board, uh, didn't get a cut, and the sheriff's office didn't get a cut, and the sheriff is out there saying you know, we're defunding the police. It's like what do I believe? Well, it's real simple. You can go on the county website, you can look up the budget, you can look up the numbers yourself and you can see whileuford T Gaylor is out there whining about the budget. You don't have to take his word for it that things are being defunded.
Speaker 4:Well, that's what Aaron's there for. The council have the power, you know, to give his boss that money that you know that has been, as as they would like to say, defunded from the police. You know he just wants to overfund and basically use um, his ability as a councilman now to take over that, that power from the county charter like a lobbyist like a paid lobbyist, um but.
Speaker 2:But you know, I know we tend to wax philosophical and don't get into a whole lot of hard numbers on this program. But on page 308 of the FY25 proposed operating budget, if you look at FY22, audited, the sheriff's office got $93 million a year. I'm sorry, I think I said 23. That was 22. In 23, they got a little over $108 million. In 24, they got almost $118 million. And the proposed operating budget for FY25 is $6 and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2:So again, we've said this before but the budget's almost doubled since, uh, beaufort d galer has been sheriff and he called the previous sheriff a tax and spend sheriff. He, you know he beat up on him because sheriff bain was a democrat. But you look, you look at what galer's done with the budget. He's gone on a spending spree since he's been in office. He has not managed the budget at all. It's exploded. And the population? Well, people could say, oh well, we got all these new people. In Hartford County the population only went from like 250, 255 to like 265. It only went up like 12,000, 000 during the last census it did. The population did not double. It did not justify this kind of an increase so.
Speaker 3:So that is all great information. I'd like to get back onto the bill.
Speaker 4:Yeah, keep going, because we are running up on our time limit here well, the interesting part about the vote of this bill is um pat prides himself of being able to you know um stay control, but also you know, he thinks he's you know the middle of the road, you know barry glassman and larry hogan style, but, um, he really put himself in a box with this one, because this bill is not necessarily a new bill.
Speaker 4:You know, giving you know this charter amendment or giving the power to the council. It has come up in the past but it never has moved this far. And basically what Pat said was well, yeah, there wasn't that much interest from the people. So, you know, last time we just kind of didn't bring it up, we just squashed the bill. But now, you know, some people are starting to talk about it. So, guess what?
Speaker 5:I can't really make a decision, so I'm just going to vote yes on this bill and put it on the ballot so that you know the people can vote for this and the reason why I bring this up is two things.
Speaker 4:One, he's elected to vote and make decisions he's not elected to say, hey, I can't really make a decision, so I'm just going to let somebody else make a decision on this. It's a kick in the can, right? Well then, his vote should have either been no or abstain Exactly. Well, now what he's using is he's using this ad as to attacking County Executive Castley. In this narrative they're basically now coming out Team ODs all ganging together. You know it's funny. You have Jessica Boyle Sottles, you have Gaylor, you have Penman and you have Vincente now saying well, vincente says that the voters are dumb. You know, just because he's against turning this out to the vote for a charter amendment, he doesn't believe that the people in Harford County will make the right decision, so they're dumb and they can't do this. That's the whole defense now that Timo D is using. So he set it up right there in his his testimony and his comment.
Speaker 5:That's what he's using to flood Cassidy with yes exactly so.
Speaker 4:so what does Cassidy do with this?
Speaker 3:He vetoes the bill you know, rightfully so he has the power to do that for him. You know absolutely so. So let me just point this out when you have a guy like the county executive whoever he is, democrat rebelling, he's in charge of the bills I'm inside the budget, right and he sends it over to the council and they approve it. Having a council that can just take a piece of the budget and jack it up, you've thrown everything out of whack. Now, how is a County executive supposed to manage things the way the people that voted for him want them to, when other people have the ability? That's what happened with the school. The school's a big mess because of all this stuff.
Speaker 5:Well, people come, people complain about the way things are in Washington and how the budget's out of control. Well, how do you think that happens? It happens exactly like this, and it should be noted that the three people that walk around proclaiming themselves as super Republicans, Vincente Penman and Boyle Sottles, voted for this bill. And it should also be noted that there's only two other counties in this state that allow the county council to add to the budget Prince George's and Montgomery. So these guys want Hartford County to become more like. Montgomery and PG it can only.
Speaker 5:I left Montgomery County because I didn't like the way things are down there, and it's becoming more and more and more and more like it every single year.
Speaker 3:It can only increase the budget. That's all this bill will do. It has. It's not going to make less of a budget. It's going to increase the budget and increase your taxes. If you vote for this bill, you were voting for a tax increase.
Speaker 5:Bennett will be adding money to the schools. Penn will be adding money to the sheriff's office. God knows what Boyle's saddles will be doing. But did you notice on those press releases that were sent out by those three flogging castling, did you happen to notice that all three of them sounded the same? Yep, they all sounded like they were written by the same person.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think I know, who did that when od yep?
Speaker 4:well, and that's the thing. So what's team od's response? They're now calling for aaron put out a, a message calling for a special session this summer, since they're on summer vacation trying to force this through, um, and the constant, consistent attacks. When I say consistent because they're literally saying verbatim, word for word, the same exact thing. And all castley does. All of our listeners go out, go to our facebook page. We, the people of maryland, um, and we put out some information and read it for yourself. We, we uh, put pictures out of everybody's response to this bill, from castley to boyle saddles, to aaron penman, to vincente and to jeff galer. Those are the people that have really made comments about this and just look at it, it's clearly somebody trying to do their job and somebody trying to politically bash somebody else. It's clear as day that Team OD does not care about the betterment of the county or the community. They just care about their power.
Speaker 3:Wait, you mean all these things that Aaron comes out with all the time he's not writing up while he's at the brewery.
Speaker 4:Absolutely not.
Speaker 3:I was like amazed by his energy and the amount of work he gets done and are you telling me that's all a lie too?
Speaker 4:it's amazing what you can do with your face stuffed into a beer mug oh my god well, speaking of uh, you know doing things you might not have intended to do, but I think team od said let some of the uh the cat out of the bag.
Speaker 3:Um, in some social media comments this past weekend, though, did they let loose their plans for the next election.
Speaker 4:Well, I don't see how it's feasible again, I, I don't see how. So, okay, the comment was, uh, based around president vincente, aaron penman and sheriff galer in a picture op at a Fourth of July parade, and the comment was basically like you know, the next county executive and council president looked good with my sheriff, which was implying that Pat Vincente was going to run for county executive against Bob Castley and that Aaron Penman was going to try to replace Vincente as the council president. I'm sorry, are these people on drugs? Like seriously to think that you're going to get enough votes to make that happen?
Speaker 3:For.
Speaker 4:Aaron Penman the destruction needs to come from this county.
Speaker 3:They've got their ace in the hole named Roby.
Speaker 4:They do and they do have the money. But this is where I keep saying, going back to what we said it's time guys In numbers, the politicians do not care about us as the people, our group name being we the people. You know it says it all Live free, die last they're coming for us. You know it's time to fight back against these people. They're coming for you, they're coming for you.
Speaker 5:I mean, I have lived in this county for 25 years and I have never I've lived here longer than I've ever lived anyplace else and I have never in my time in this county seen the v? One point in the county. All I ever heard was you can't attack another Republican, you can't attack another Republican. That's all these guys are doing now and I've never seen this happen before. And it's being done by the most ethically compromised and conflicted council I have ever seen ethically compromised and conflicted council I have ever seen. They all have financial interests that benefit them on bills that they vote on. Penman for the sheriff's office. Boyle Sottles has an excavation company. She's also a realtor. She should not be voting on anything with regard to development. Penman should not be voting on anything with regard to the sheriff's office. Pat Vincenti, when he was a councilman, was the deciding vote on the hotel tax that was going to give money to tourist organizations in the county.
Speaker 4:Decoys Museum.
Speaker 5:His decoy museum has received over $1 million of taxpayer money. And does anybody even go to that place? Nope, I would love to see the visitors log to that place. But he voted himself a million dollars out of the County treasury and he was the deciding vote. He should have recused himself because he was going to benefit. So these people, they don't care about you, they care about themselves, they care about their business interests, they care about their friends and their donors. Period, end of story. You are way down the list, although the County org chart shows you as the citizen at the top of the org chart. So amen.
Speaker 4:And exactly Josh you want to take us home. I wanted to bring up one more thing. You know for me the pettiness, and it's also getting to be kind of disgusting in the grand scheme of things. You know the, the, the fighting that's going on. This just needs to stop the attacking from Team OD. You know, if you're not, you know standing shoulder to shoulder with them, they're going to push you right off the edge. And I want to bring up something you know we talked about Gaylor, we talked about Team OD.
Speaker 4:There was an event, there was a wreath-lay laying ceremony back in May during police week, and I wanted to read something you know, so give me a second here.
Speaker 4:And then I wanted us to discuss it because this can't be and this can't continue in our county. So this is an email response that Sheriff Gaylor sent back to County Executive Bob Casley after Bob Casley had invited him to this wreath-laying ceremony. So the email starts Bob, on behalf of the men and women of the Hartford County Sheriff's Office, I must decline this invitation Hosting this newly created event for our fallen heroes while simultaneously working to defund the police. So he goes on and continues to say that he actually honored fallen soldiers at another ceremony last week at one of his precincts. The fallen officers, the fallen officers, I'm sorry, and you know that was sufficient enough. Then he closes this out as saying as I said in my remarks during our ceremony, all of our fallen heroes served with courage, honor and integrity, and their sacrifice should not be allowed to be stained with a photo op by a man who possesses none of these values.
Speaker 2:Well, in the email, wow, he doesn't even spell possesses. Right for one thing, but the other thing is he's talking about a guy who who is a recipient of of the bronze star. It's the fourth highest award that you can be awarded in the military. Cassidy was in the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and I don't mean to get up here and show for the guy.
Speaker 2:But the guy was in a combat zone. He was in Iraq for three years. He was you know. Whatever you think about the global war on terrorism, I mean he was a part of that. He was in Iraq, he was in combat for three years. He was an Army Ranger. He was a JAG. You know, the guy is accomplished.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:So the last sentence just really kind of sad that a childish childish I'm gonna say it jeff's a chump, he's a chump and this is the person that's in charge of our sheriff's department. So again, is he? Does he have a personal beef, like so us sitting here tonight?
Speaker 3:if we were to drive down the road into town? And he's picking on other people about their courage, honor and integrity. Are you?
Speaker 4:kidding me? That's's absolutely correct. You know, I know we've beaten a dead horse about Eric Roby and insider management here in Hartford County and his employment with the sheriff's department. Go back, look up some of our old podcasts. We go into major detail, especially financial gains that insider management has taken from local politicians. But my point is this is our sheriff writing this? You know throwing this temper tantrum, having, you know, beef with somebody. So again, here we are sitting providing factual information, documented information, to the citizens of Hartford County, maryland, united States. Whoever's you know listening out in the podcast world, what if we drive down the road and get pulled over? You know, is he going to take this same type of mentality into his? You know justice. You know when he comes to dealing with us, you know this is disturbing as any citizen, as a voter and as a taxpayer to see this, it's disgusting.
Speaker 5:It makes him look incredibly small, I mean just like a Lilliputian.
Speaker 3:That ain't easy. All right, Travis, do you have anything to take us to the promised land here?
Speaker 2:No, that was pretty much it. I just wanted to get that little Army Ranger.
Speaker 3:You know, as a veteran myself, I kind of took umbrage to that right and and you can say that even though you don't believe these wars are proper, that doesn't belittle or or make any less the sacrifice, the men that have to fight in them.
Speaker 2:We're certainly not picking on those guys no, and you look, you look at ron paul. Ron paul was the anti-war candidate and and he had the most support out of all the candidates of of military people, because they they're, they're the ones that are going to be on the front lines. They don't want to be sent out to all these stupid police actions, to, you know, guard, guard people's poppy fields and, and you know, I I got a lot of sons. I don't want my sons are, you know, most of them are military age. I don't want them being sent over to Ukraine or some place where they have no business being Amen.
Speaker 3:Every crooked move you make, every corrupt breath you take. We'll be watching.