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In 1975, Ronald Reagan famously remarked, “The problem with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t true.” The truth of that statement couldn’t be more apparent than it is today.The advent of social media and interactive internet platforms has validated Reagan’s statement and proved that this truth is even more prevalent than we suspected.At every turn—on any given day and on any given subject, erroneously advanced inaccuracies and untruths can be found because someone “liked,” forwarded, and/or posted a meme, statement, or opinion on something without actually taking the time to validate the meme or statement or read the provided content.This intellectual cancer isn’t just an attribute of “our liberal friends.” It exists just as prevalently on the ideological Right, and instances of this are getting more frequent.Recently, I had an old acquaintance from high school—by all accounts, a solid guy; thoughtful and an engaged member of the community, completely out himself as someone who finds it more important to opine on what he thinks he knows rather than what he actually would have known if he had taken the time to read what he was opining on.He is not alone. I have been guilty of this at one time or another, although today I make a conscious effort never to do it. We will read a headline and maybe the first paragraph of an article, and because we believe we understand the gist of what the author is saying, we feel confident that the opinion we’re about to craft for the consumption of others is valid; and based on a full knowledge of the subject at hand. Yet it’s not because we didn’t read the full article, white paper, research, or book or listen to the full podcast or presentation.This is a dangerous practice because when a not-fully-informed opinion is advanced—and then re-advanced, again and again, and liked and quoted—it takes on the appearance of fully researched truth, and a non-truth co-opts the appearance of legitimacy.Disingenuous actors, those who manipulate the public for ideological and opportunistic purposes, prey on those who engage in such acts—those who exist intellectually vulnerable because of their “excitability”—to seed statements that sound legitimate but aren’t. This allows them to create division and discontent while capturing the power of narrative control. Think of the Steele Dosier and the Trump-Russia scam, the Hunter Biden laptop denial, or, today, the Obama-Jennifer Aniston rumor.This intellectual susceptibility in our society makes us incredibly vulnerable to maleficent actors—government agencies as well as political organizations and ideological NGOs—employing PsyOps.Some of the more egregious PsyOp campaigns in recent years include:* Trump's Business Dealings: Accusations of money laundering and illegal business practices at the Trump Organization, circulated often without substantial evidence* Republican Voter Suppression: The claim that Republicans are actively suppressing minority votes, an allegation repeatedly disproved and lacking in both evidence and context* Trump's Mental Health: Speculation during Trump’s first term about the President’s cognitive abilities and mental fitness, allegations completely baseless and without evidence* Republican War on Women: The notion that Republicans are waging a war on women's rights, even as conservatives are on record as supporting policies that empower women.* COVID Mask Use: During the COVID pandemic, it has now been proven that a purposeful PsyOps campaign was employed to encourage the widespread use of face masks. This operation aimed to instill fear and compliance among the population by exaggerating the effectiveness of masks and the ineffectiveness of natural herd immunity. Inconsistent messaging from health authorities, along with the constant bombardment of frightening statistics and images in the media, created a state of panic that made people more willing to accept unconstitutional restrictive measures like mask mandates and the closing of businesses, maintaining that the information on mask-wearing and social distancing was based on scientific evidence.And the list goes on and on and on.In each case, well-meaning individuals were duped into advancing these untruths on social media and interactive internet platforms, as well as directly into the public square. They were duped because they failed—they failed—to do their due diligence in ascertaining the facts of the matter, to any responsible extent, before they opined on the matter.Now, I’m not advocating for the restriction of free speech in any way, shape, or form. I believe that the way to combat mis– and dis–information is by applying more free speech (which facilitates access to the truth), not less, and it certainly doesn’t facilitate the discovery of truth when the government (or any arrogantly self-important NGO) assumes the mantle of arbiter of the truth.What I am saying is this—and I specifically urge this among those who consider themselves conservative and constitutionalist, although I beseech those on the Left as well as all those who feel the need to opine: Don’t just read the headline or the first paragraph and feel you have the intellectual authority to opine. Yes, you have the right to state your mind, but to feign an understanding of the information in an authoritative way is the height of deceptive irresponsibility. It is almost as egregious as the actions of those who seek to manipulate the people for opportunistically disingenuous gain. It’s insanely irresponsible and arrogant.No one has the intellectual capacity—the clairvoyant ability—that allows them to divine whole swaths of content because they feel they understand the gist of an article, program, podcast, or presentation’s content. It cannot—cannot—be about the feeling that you get it. It can’t even be for your want to believe that you understand it. It has to be about acquiring the full context and content of the information.For that to happen, as the Blues Brothers said (and I paraphrase) you, me, everybody—everybody—we need to be responsible. We have to gather the information first and opine and make statements afterward. We must advance information that is based on fact and truth, not feelings or the want for the appearance of authoritative knowledge without having first earned that station.Bottom line: If you have the time and compunction to advance information, then you have time to consume that whole of the information on which you feel the need to opine first so you know the information you are advancing isn’t complete bullshit; so you don’t make a complete ass of yourself by exposing your intellectual laziness; so you don’t come off looking the fool for your ignorance.If we all do this—all of us—imagine how Teflon we will be against the manipulation of the Deep State manipulators and dividers.Then, when we return, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida..Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber.A Few Words On The Left’s ‘Stupidity Games’As reported in a variety of mainstream media news outlets—both on the Left and the Right, the United States Air Force, arguably the wokest of the military branches as far as its hierarchy is concerned, has ordered the removal of some training courses focusing on the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots who served during World War II.The order comes, they argue, to “comply” with President Trump’s crackdown on DEI initiatives throughout our government institutions, including the military. And while the problem may not be with the course content itself, the subject matter was co-opted by radical ideologues and incorporated into DEI coursework.There is a stark difference between DEI policy, advocacy instruction, and actual history. In fact, removing historical teachings from the USAF curriculum goes against the very spirit of Trump's Executive Order. This move is, itself, discriminatory.Trump's order is extremely clear: Demographic preferences, i.e., race, gender, religion, sexual preferences, etc., are not to be employed in any way, shape, or form in any training curriculum or promotion-based decision-making. Instead, merit and ability are to be the basis for everything, regardless of demographic. Certainly, the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women of WWII proved their merit, both making history.The Tuskegee Airmen were part of the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the US Army Air Corps, the precursor to the US Air Force. Despite facing racial segregation and discrimination, they proved their skill and valor in the skies over Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean.The Women Airforce Service Pilots, often referred to as WASPs, were a remarkable group of women who served during World War II. These brave ladies—over a thousand women— took to the skies flying aircraft of all kinds, including bombers, transports, and even the iconic fighter planes. They ferried aircraft from factories to military bases, towed targets for live-ammunition training, and even tested newly repaired planes. But, despite their invaluable contributions, the WASPs weren’t granted military status until 1977.So, whoever in the US Air Force hierarchy made the shallow-brained—or purposely deceitful—decision to remove the history lessons on these two prestigious groups, wrongfully identifying their history as only that of a DEI issue (and I would like to know the name of the charlatan who made the call to do this), doesn't deserve to be in a position of authority and should be relieved of command immediately, for they possess no common sense.We have to refuse to play these stupidity games. As Dan Bongino is fond of saying, "Cutesy time is over." 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Most of the nation—and the free world—is breathing a sigh of relief at the exit of Joe Biden and Obama 2.0 from power. We see this as the beginning of the end of neo-Marxist wokeism. But while we celebrate the probable return to constitutionality and the downsizing of our federal government, some well-funded far-Left disruptors see an opportunity to create chaos.A small group that played a role in the effort to disqualify Donald Trump from ballots before the 2024 General Election is already propagandizing for impeachment proceedings against the 47th president. The Free Speech for People nonprofit organization is spearheading the call for impeachment, insisting:“Trump has refused to sell his ownership stake in companies through which he is assured to receive substantial payments from foreign governments in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause. At least five foreign governments pay a combined $2 million per month in fees for their units in Trump World Tower; and because all five of these foreign governments are currently paying Trump these monthly fees, Trump is in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause from the moment he took the oath of office.”The group is pursuing this ridiculousness even though CBS News and myriad other news outlets reported in January 2017 that Trump “resigned from all positions of authority and management within the Trump Organization and its affiliates” and that “his sons, Don and Eric, are fully in charge of the company.”Expecting Trump to sell his shares in the Trump Organization while he is not in an official capacity decision-making role is similar to requiring members of Congress to sell stocks in companies and organizations that could be impacted by the legislation they are considering. So, the expectation exposes the gross hypocrisy of the hyper-partisan Trump-hating Left at the Free Speech for People organization.The real issue is not so much the Free Speech for People non-profit itself but rather the typical neo-Marxist progressive donors and philanthropic organizations (using the term “philanthropic” very loosely) that finance groups like this one. It’s the dark money of the far-Left transformative Deep State oligarchy and their neverending financial commitment to undermine the will of the American people that is the problem; that is the cancer in the system that needs to be exposed and then expunged.Two main groups behind the new effort to divide our nation, purely for opportunistic partisan, transformative, and power-play purposes, are The Tides Foundation and Arabella Advisors.According to the Independent Journal Review:“The Tides Foundation — a key cog in the wider left-wing Tides philanthropic network, which combined to shell out $850 million in 2022 — is a major financial backer of Free Speech For People. The Tides Foundation gave grants exceeding $250,000 to the legal nonprofit in 2020, 2022 and 2023, and a combined $925,816 since 2019.”Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber.The article’s author, Nick Pope, goes on to say that the Hopewell Fund granted the Free Speech for People anti-Trump efforts $20,000 in 2023. The Hopewell Fund is one of several nonprofits boosting transformative neo-Marxist causes under the management of liberal dark money juggernaut Arabella Advisors, a major for-profit consultancy established by Clinton administration veteran Eric Kessler and funded by some of the worst anti-freedom advocates around the globe, including:* Bill Gates: Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he has been one of the largest donors to the Arabella network, focusing on various globalist policy advocacy issues.* George Soros: He has provided multi-million dollar donations to the network, with affiliations noted through his funding to groups like the Sixteen Thirty Fund.* Mark Zuckerberg: Specifically, his philanthropy through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed significant funds, particularly noted for social justice issues.* Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund: This organization has been identified as the largest institutional donor to almost all of Arabella's nonprofit entities, providing donor-advised funds to wealthy individuals.* Hansjorg Wyss: A foreign national billionaire, he has donated substantial amounts, notably $500 million, to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has been used for various Leftist political initiatives.Incidentally, the same cast of characters—and more of the usual suspect far-Left advocate cabal (Google, Soro’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and Pierre Omidyar and Warren Buffett)—financially supports The Tides Foundation.These are the kinds of organizations that cause the divide in our country. It's less about the radicals they dupe into subservience, who constitute the far-Left ideologue voting public, and more about the agitators in organizations like these that stoke partisanship by advocating for destructive and baseless actions like the impeachments of presidents from the first days of their administrations, regardless of political party or political party affiliation.These are the transformative neo-Marxist opportunists and agitators. These are the people and organizations that comprise the Deep State cabal that must be marginalized and expunged from influence on Capitol Hill. This is the anti-freedom and anti-American influence that the American people mandated President Trump to eradicate from the halls of power.Because we have free speech rights in the United States, we can't go after the cabal’s message—or the message trumpeted by the Free Speech for People nonprofit, as imbecilic as it may be. But we can expose them as disingenuous and opportunistic political partisan assassins and pressure their donors and donor corporations to shun them financially.Bleeding these organizations (The Tides Foundation, Arabella, The Ford Foundation, etc.) so that they have to draw their finances from an evermore limited pool of ideological zealots marginalizes their ability to attack the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as they routinely do.It also sends a message that ‘We the People’ disapprove of impeachment as a partisan political tactic and believe it should be reserved for only the most extreme circumstances.And lastly, it sledgehammers them between the eyes with the unmistakable message that “We the People” are done with this far-Left Alinskyite tactical bullshit and that if they continue to act so childishly, they will suffer consequences, consequences that will result in their being dropped from the elitist class for their personal and institutional poverty.Let’s face it: we punished Disney, Anheuser-Busch, and several other organizations into subservience after their woke activism, bringing them to their knees. We can do it to these “philanthropic” organizations and their benefactors as well.Striking their wallets to punish their intellectual infantilism is the only way to get the message across to them.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.Before we go, a quick point.It’s beautiful that President Trump is enacting a flurry of much-needed Executive Orders meant to reverse the institutionalized wokeism and neo-Marxism that has been implemented by the Obama-Biden Era. But without legislative action to codify those EOs into law, they can all simply be reversed with any incoming Leftist administration in the future. Then, we are back to square one.We must keep the pressure on our elected Congress creatures to craft and institute constitutionally sound law that codifies the Trump doctrine into law, including his moves to end DEI, secure the border, and unleash our energy sector.Without those pieces of legislation, it’s all just an exercise in short-term gratification and long-term ideological masturbation. We have to be smart this time around.And I’d like to give a quick shout-out to Bobby D. and Sheila S., who have—ever since the days of The New Media Journal and the non-profit BasicsProject.org, have been steadfast supporters. Please know you are appreciated now as you were appreciated then. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

In his final hours as President of the United States, Joe Biden issued a series of preemptive pardons for Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, the members of the January 6th Committee, and his extended family. This action was one of the most disgusting uses of presidential power to grant reprieves and pardons in the history of our Republic. And the action’s constitutionality should be questioned. In Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution, the president is vested with the power to “grant reprieves and pardons” through these words:“The President shall…have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.”The keywords here are “for offenses against the United States,” which infers a criminal conviction in federal court. In fact, the US Supreme Court has already ruled on that. If you accept a pardon, there is an inference of guilt. Therefore, the question that begs to be asked is valid: Are pre-emptive presidential pardons constitutional?Biden, in the early days of his presidency, lauded the Wilson and Roosevelt administrations, both of which expanded presidential authority and the purview of the Executive Branch unconstitutionally. Roosevelt’s New Deal was choke-full of presidential authority expansion beyond the limits of the Constitution. Brion McClanahan documents each—and the expansionist agendas of Wilson and Truman, as well as several others, in his book, 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her. It’s definitely worth the time.So, it should come as no surprise that Biden felt unencumbered by the Constitution in his actions, specifically with his precedent-setting issuance of pre-emptive presidential pardons. It’s never happened before, and, through an originalist's view of the Constitution, it appears unconstitutional.Some would attempt to defend Biden’s actions by juxtaposing them with President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon after his resignation stemming from the Watergate scandal. But there are significant differences between the two.Ford’s pardon of Nixon was singular, focused solely on Nixon, covering all federal offenses he committed or was under investigation for during his presidency. It was a direct response to a specific legal threat—a threat that had already been initiated. Ford’s action prevented any further legal action against Nixon.Biden’s actions, conversely, were preemptive because no investigative or legal actions had commenced against anyone receiving a pre-emptive pardon. Biden’s actions were aimed at protecting individuals from potential future legal actions regardless of any criminal conduct.Biden issued pre-emptive pardons to Fauci, Milley, the J6 Committee, and his family members. However, according to the Constitution, presidential pardons are only valid for issuance in instances of transgressions against the United States. So, how could they be valid and binding?But what to do? Well, if Biden can execute precedential actions, so can President Trump.President Trump should instruct his Solicitor General to file an emergency petition with the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to definitively rule on the parameters of the presidential reprieve and pardon clause in Article II, Section 1.It can be successfully argued that Article III, Section 1 gives the SCOTUS purview over establishing the defining parameters associated with Article II, Section1, through the words:“The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party…”Because the SCOTUS is a co-equal branch of our federal government—and the one charged with judicial review—it does not need to be presented with a case to accept or decline because the Executive’s action has already taken place. All it needs is a petition from the Solicitor General.This petition isn’t even an act of partisan politics because it concerns constitutionality; the definition and parameters would apply to all presidents regardless of party.The Supreme Court should be motivated to make this ruling because failure to do so would create a constitutional crisis.For example, suppose presidential pre-emptive pardons are allowed to stand. What is to keep every president, at any time, from issuing pre-emptive pardons to the entirety of his staff and cabinet? What would prevent a president from issuing pre-emptive pardons to sycophantic private citizens or crony foreign nationals?Inaction by the SCOTUS would render moot its ruling on presidential immunity because a POTUS could, theoretically, issue himself a pre-emptive pardon for any and all actions undertaken before, during, and after his or her tenure. Hunter Biden’s pre-emptive pardon serves as precedent for that.Moving forward, President Trump should request that liberal constitutional attorney Alan Dershowitz be seated as a Solicitor General specifically for this action in front of the Supreme Court. Dershowitz is on record as holding the idea of preemptive presidential pardon in contempt as wholly unconstitutional. Few possess his knowledge, experience, and expertise in matters of the US Constitution and constitutionality.Additionally, Mr. Trump must talk directly to the American people, circumventing the mainstream media, and explain that this action is not an act of retribution but a question of constitutionality that would bind all presidents to limitations set forth by the Constitution. He doesn’t even have to state that he wants the pardons revoked. He is simply asking the Supreme Court—the proper authority on the Constitution—for clarification on a matter of constitutionality.Personally, if I were in President Trump’s place and Biden would have left the pre-emptive pardons at only his son, I probably would have let the subject go. The question of what we would do for our children—especially troubled children like Hunter—is a question of personal sacrifice.But the moment Biden issued pre-emptive pardons to Fauci, Milley, the J6 Committee, and his extended grifter family, there was no question that the issue of pre-emptive pardons had to be addressed.We, as a nation and our federal government as a whole, have strayed far from the limitations set forth by the US Constitution. Our federal government routinely ignores the 9th and 10th Amendments even as it expands its authority beyond its constitutional boundaries by bastardizing the meanings of clauses in the Constitution and enabling the bureaucratic regulatory process. By allowing this expansion of authority, we now find our constitutional right to free speech under attack.Mr. Biden said it himself in his farewell babblings. No one should be considered above the law. I put it to you that no president should feel he can exist above the limitations of the Constitution.All we are asking for is a ruling by the SCOTUS on a matter of constitutionality. It’s their job, the reason that branch exists, to determine constitutionality. All we are asking is that they do their jobs.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber.This Is How You Come To The Aid Of Your Neighbor?Many people may think I’m naive for believing that people rise to the occasion when disaster strikes. However, I’m not naive. I have witnessed this firsthand as a professional firefighter and paramedic and through my own experiences with numerous natural disasters, primarily hurricanes and tornadoes.In every instance, I have witnessed people stepping up to help their neighbors and even strangers. It may be something ingrained in us as Americans; who knows?I have come to understand one important thing: while people who "run towards the fire" can be found everywhere in our country—and likely across the globe—I notice that there are more of them in rural communities than in urban areas.I have been told by those who have grown up in rural settings (including family members and close friends) that this is because in rural communities, because resources are so spread out, people come to depend on one another in times of crisis. It makes perfect sense.This is why the current story coming out of fire-ravaged Southern California makes me believe that there are some real assholes in the world, and many of them come out during disasters and crises, exposing their selfishness in people’s despair.Ariel Zilber of The New York Post reports:“Landlords in fire-ravaged Los Angeles have jacked up rents — in some cases by more than double the price — in violation of California law against price gouging as thousands of residents seek shelter.By law, landlords are not permitted to raise the price of housing by more than 10% after a state of emergency has been declared. But a search of local listings and horror stories from realtors show that many opportunistic landlords are openly flouting the law after the wildfires destroyed entire communities.”She went on to say that one rental property in North Hollywood, near the disaster area, jumped by $800 overnight. And one mansion (or what would be considered a mansion by middle-class standards—five bedrooms is a bit larger than the average house) in Santa Monica, that previously listed at $12,500 per month in February 2024, now lists at $28,000 per month—a 124% increase.The question that begs to be asked is this. What kind of a jagoff gouges people in the face of a once-in-a-lifetime disaster? The answer is obvious: The worst kind.As pleas for help fill the threads on social media (even from those who have millions and careers that will, no doubt, afford them millions more), this is how some Californians come to the aid of their neighbors? By jacking up rent prices over 100%?? With neighbors like that, who needs enemies?!Now, there are those who, chest out and make-up applied for the camera (and some of them need it), say full-throated that they are not trying to politicize the situation, even as they go on to castigate the rich for not paying enough in taxes to pay for the disaster and as they insist that taxes related to “climate change” could have prevented it all (cough…Maxine Waters…cough). I am not going to be disingenuous like those people. I am going to get both political and ideological about it.In the 2024 general election, 71.17% of the voters from the five voting precincts that largely constitute the Pacific Palisades area voted Democrat. It’s estimated that the areas affected by the Eaton Fire went Democrat by 65%.Known for its radically liberal, neo-Marxist-leaning community, these voting patterns reflect the general trend in Los Angeles County, a stronghold for Democrat candidates. This is evidenced by the fact that Southern California counties, specifically Los Angeles County, voted 70.85% in favor of retaining Gavin Newsom in his 2021 recall election.Aside from the fact that the voters of this area voted in favor of Newsom and the ideologically driven political bullshit that has led them to this disaster, by voting demographics alone, it is fair to determine that there is a 77.17 percent chance that the landlords raising the rent prices to robber baron levels are, themselves, neo-Marxist progressive liberals.These are the same people who virtue signal about diversity, equity, and inclusion and how everyone has to pay their “fair share.” These are the people who screech about equity of outcome being more important than equal opportunity. They are the same people who vomited invective about how greedy Donald Trump is while calling him Hitler.These are the same people who say—nay, insist, that they know what is best for you and your children. They are people who expect you to accept their intellectual superiority over the average person.Yet, when the chance to prove their benevolence comes into play, what do they do? They opportunistically stick it to their neighbors in a time of desperation and need. That, my friends, is the very definition of a jagoff.And they, no doubt, will be the same assholes complaining about how the federal government isn’t providing enough taxpayer-funded relief to the victims, even as they refuse to acknowledge that their votes—their ideologically fueled votes—are responsible for the extent of this avoidable disaster.Meanwhile, people in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee still live in tents and without basic amenities after officials denied them the charity of the Amish community, which offered donations of tiny cabins. This kindness came from complete strangers who traveled hundreds of miles at their own expense to help their neighbors.All the people of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee got from the woke-loving Biden administration was a directive to “go online” to apply for $750. But hey, at least they aren’t getting gouged on rent for their tents, right? Meanwhile, they’re looking for an internet connection. And if it weren’t for Elon Musk, there would be no communications connections at all.Yes, there are two worlds in the US today, but hopefully, that’s coming to an end. And it's time the one the woke elite live in to crash down and burn. Shame on those people gouging those who have lost everything, regardless of who they might be and from what station in society.Maybe exposing these gouging blood-suckers among the ash ruins of Southern California will force them to see their greed and inhumanity. And perhaps that will cultivate some true benevolence for their fellow man…and some much-needed humility.I say we expose them all. Expose them all! Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

It’s finally here, Liberation Day; liberation from the caustic, divisive, neo-Marxist Biden administration, liberation from the underhanded, shadowy Obama 2.0 neo-Bolsheviks, liberation from the heavy hand of our globalist oppressors, liberation from wokeism.But just like in any successful “revolution”—and frankly, that is what we have achieved, a revolution in restoring governmental leadership that thinks the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights don’t suck—just in any revolution, We the People have to see it through, which means keeping the pressure on.I’ve said this before, and I will say it many more times as we move forward. It’s an Alinsky rule, Rule. No. 8.Alinsky understood that creating constant tension and conflict was the key to transitioning power. This rule—“keeping the pressure on”— was and remains crucial to the far-Left's agenda because it focuses on wearing down their opposition through relentless pressure. They understand that if they can keep the pressure applied, they can exhaust and divide their opponents, making it easier to push their transformative, neo-Marxist agenda. It's like a never-ending political battle where the farthest of the Left never lets up.They use this tactic in various ways, including endless protests, media smear campaigns, and constant calls for change. By keeping the pressure on, they aim to create an atmosphere of crisis and uncertainty that will make people more likely to accept their radical ideas.Well, I have always thought that if your opponent uses a tactic—or in this case, a set of “rules”—that works, why not co-opt that rule book and turn those tactics against them? Quite frankly, the Trump campaign (and now administration) understands this and leverages it to its advantage.But now, the time has come for us to understand our role in our restorative revolution. We cannot go back to being complacent. We cannot foolishly believe that just because we watched President Trump get sworn in as the 47th president, everything will be fine. We are at the beginning of the process, not the end.While wokeism is now dying, just like a mortally wounded wild animal that is cornered, now is the time when those in that movement are the most dangerous. We all must continue to accurately and factually educate our fellow citizens on why wokeism—its DEI and ESG tenets and its climate change and identity politics—why wokeism is so incredibly damaging to our freedom and to our ability to thrive. That takes engagement, not just liking posts and forwarding memes.We must immediately shift part of our attention to the 2026 mid-term elections and adding to the majority numbers in the House and the Senate. Why is this important? Well, we do have usual suspect RINOs in the Senate and the House, and our majorities in both houses are not large. We need to be able to have numbers that make the usual suspect RINOs inconsequential. That can only happen if President Trump doesn’t have to count on their votes.In the meantime, we must make sure that those currently elected to office feel our breaths on the back of their necks every minute of every day. We cannot let them fall back into the “self-importance” routine. They need to hear from us—with both positive and negative reinforcement, just like a child—when they do things that are both good and bad. The American people gave Donald Trump a mandate to re-establish constitutionalism across our nation, and that’s what we have to demand: that return to constitutionalism.We cannot tolerate those elected to the House and the Senate to derail the mandate that we, the voters, bestowed on the 47th president. They must feel pressure from we, the voters, so they know it is unacceptable for them to exhale and return to the bureaucratic, political, inside-the-beltway status quo. Again, that requires engagement, not just poking a button on a social media platform.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. It costs less than a monthly cup of coffee at Starbucks.President Trump, now inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, has an incredible amount of work to do in just one term. He must:* Secure the border, deport criminal aliens, and advocate for legislation to permanently establish immigration laws that make it impossible for transformative neo-Marxists to flood our nation with illegal immigrants ever again* Completely rework the century-old income tax system to work to our strengths as a nation instead of the current unconstitutional system of inequity and carve-outs for the connected* Re-establish our energy self-sufficiency and position the US as a net exporter of energy to the world while establishing the US energy industry as a leader in common sense innovative energy development* Purge our federal government—including all departments and alphabet agencies—of partisan political activists* Streamline and balance the federal budget while expunging overreaching and unconstitutional regulations and the bureaucracy’s ability to establish regulations that equate to law* Re-establish the core mission of the Pentagon to that of a warfighting machine instead of a social engineering Petri dish* Reclaim the United States' rightful seat at the world power table to regain the ability to influence and potentially compromise the relationship between communist China and neo-Soviet RussiaAnd these are just some of the big-ticket things that Mr. Trump must achieve in only four years. To say his slate is full is an incredible understatement.This is precisely why we—as well as the Trump administration—can’t allow the business-as-usual disrupters of the far-Left and the RINO classes to “wrench the machine” like they usually do. And to make sure that doesn’t happen, we must stay engaged; we must take the lead in using the far-Left’s playbook against them. We must think and act cohesively as a movement—a transformative constitutionalist movement—using tactics; “rules” that have proven to work on the stage of social influence.To reiterate the Alinksy Rules:* Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have* Never go outside the experience of your people* Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy* Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules* Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage* A good tactic is one your people enjoy* A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag* Keep the pressure on* The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself* The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.* If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative* The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative* Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize itSo, with the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States, I exist with hope in my heart for a re-establishment of constitutionalism for our Republic and a return to equal opportunity and prosperity for all. But without our commitment to “seeing it through,” without our efforts to “keep the pressure on,” this spectacular revolution will have all been for naught. It will die on the vine.And if we fail now to achieve our goals, the far-Left will—without doubt—execute a resurgence that will make the Clinton-Obama-Biden era look like nothing. What will come after our failure will make Mao’s Cultural Revolution look like child’s play ad that will not only affect the United States, it will affect the world.If that doesn’t motivate you, I don’t know what will.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

Well, Joe Biden said his official goodbye to the nation—allegedly—in his farewell speech to the nation, which most people decided not to watch. The fact is this. Biden has been beyond a lame-duck president since the Obama machine shelved him as the Democrat candidate.But his farewell address had some things worthy of being addressed, even if for their obvious hypocrisy and the telegraphing of his and his administration’s misdeeds.I have edited his speech down to a few points and hurried his speech along, so if you are someone who thought Biden was a good president, no, I’m not taking him out of context. So, feel free to go about your day in your bizarre pseudo-utopian bubble.In this first clip, Biden discusses the importance of treating everyone with dignity, justice, and fairness.Without time enough to blink, the question erupted: So, what happened to Donald Trump’s right to be treated with dignity, justice, and fairness? He was denied each for his tenure and Biden’s term. He was called Hitler; they mocked his appearance, turned a blind eye to his benevolence to call him greedy, and denied him fair treatment both socially, professionally, and judicially.But that set the tone for Biden’s speech. He would go on to disingenuously serve up one hypocrisy after another even as he telegraphed his own opportunistic actions before and during his presidency.In this following clip, Biden has the unmitigated gall to say that we all must have the backbone to stand up to those who abuse power.You have to wonder if he really doesn’t understand that he is describing exactly what he and his administration—Obama 2.0—have done for eight years. He talks about “respecting” the institutions of government. Yet, at every turn, he transformed whole departments and agencies of our federal government into weapons against his enemies and the American people.And to even suggest that he is a proponent of a “free and independent press” when his and his party’s relationship with the mainstream media was both nepotistic and sympathetic stinks a vomitous stench of untruth. We haven’t had a free and independent press since the days of Woodrow Wilson, and it’s only gotten worse over the years.And then Biden made these obnoxious claims.The claim that this administration did anything to protect our children should earn Biden his own private circle in Dante’s world. There has never been a more egregious push to normalize gender dysphoria than during the Biden administration. The entirety of his staff—appointees et al.—were obsessed with sexuality and the sexualization of our children. And they were so to the point where they attempted to come between the sacred bond of parent and child. The Biden administration did more to corrupt the family unit than 100 years of Planned Parenthood, and that’s saying a lot.He then went on to falsely claim that crime—violent crime—is down across the nation. This is a flat-out lie. In fact, crime is so bad in many locales that people have stopped reporting crimes because there is too much of it for our law enforcement officers to address. Listen to any urban area police scanner on any given night—and especially Friday and Saturday nights—and all you hear is “shots fired.” Those aren’t the radio calls of a lower crime rate.And I suppose it’s easy to claim you’ve created 17 million jobs when you first eliminated 17 million jobs by destroying businesses during a so-called pandemic. But don’t worry, there are more people with health insurance than ever before. Now, all they have to do is schedule appointments thirteen months into the future because there are too many illegal immigrants in the waiting rooms thanks to the Biden administration giving them all free healthcare on the taxpayer’s dime.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. It costs less than a monthly cup of coffee at StarbucksThen we come to Biden’s warnings for all to heed. For some reason, Biden felt he had the mental acuity to channel his inner Eisenhower to forewarn of ghosts of the future.A peaceful transition of power? I suppose the Bidens and their White House staff won’t barricade themselves in the Oval Office. Still, with the rapid-fire executive orders coming out of Biden’s administration in the waning days of his presidency, he is certainly setting Rome on fire for the incoming president. I’m half expecting to hear he has posthumously pardoned Charles Manson and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.But the most sickening thing in his speech to me is his telegraphing of the dangers of a new oligarchy. Yes, he was trying to paint that color onto Trump, his incoming administration, and his potentate supporters, but he was describing exactly what he, the Democrats, Hollywood, the Silicon Valley billionaires, George Soros, and the World Economic Forum Orcs have had assembled since the days of the Clinton administration. Biden was speaking of the Deep State inside-the-beltway bureaucracy, the very entity that Donald Trump now has a mandate from the people to destroy.And he validated this by warning of the mis– and dis-information that will rule the social media threads because his beloved “fact checkers”—read government anointed censors—are being abandoned by most social media organizations, so much so that many “fact checking” companies are going belly up.But he continues to incriminate not only himself but the entirety of the Deep State apparatus.Reform the tax code? Biden had four years to do something about a corrupt and inequitable Internal Revenue Service and did absolutely nothing. In fact, he fueled the beast by feeding it personnel. But hey, he’s right. We should scrap the entire tax code from top to bottom and craft a consumption tax that can never be raised, with no add-ons or extras. That would force the federal government to establish and maintain a budget.Then he dared to complain about dark money in politics when Democrats—his party— have thrived off of dark money political donations since before the Clinton administration. Obam and Biden were even caught accepting donations from overseas. Look into ActBlue if you need proof.And you have to see Nancy Pelosi’s dentures fall into her chardonnay glass at Biden’s suggestion that Congress be forbidden from playing the stock market. I mean, really. How will the Congress creatures exit office as millionaires if they can’t inside trade and influence legislation for profit?However, the moment the possibility of a lightning strike was presented was when Biden addressed the issue of holding a president accountable to the law. Honestly, I agree. And by his own request, the incoming Attorney General should appoint a special prosecutor—and make sure Congress seats him or her—to investigate the actions of both then-presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.And lastly, Biden “circled back” to complain about that darn oligarchy again.Much to my surprise, I agreed completely with the sentiment in his final points, but again, he telegraphed precisely what he and his neo-Marxist ilk have done to the people of the United over the past 16 years. They have used identity politics and the smear of racism to divide our country.Rather than creating that level playing field for every American, they have embraced the discriminatory neo-Marxist tenet of equity of outcome over equality of opportunity. They have demonized the White heterosexual male as a second class onto which all the blame for every ill of our nation—past, present, and future—must be placed.We have to suffer two more days of these divisive assholes, and I am sure there will be some parting shots as he and his leave the White House and the Naval Observatory. But there is a new dawn on the horizon, and it is filled with a return to normalcy, or at least the hope of that eventuality.Now all we have to do is make sure the Congressional Republicans don’t fuck everything up like they did with Paul Ryan’s Congress in 2016. There is never any guarantee that Republicans can’t snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

The aware understand that free speech is required for freedom to reign. Our Framers understood it well, and that’s why it is enshrined in the First Amendment to the US Constitution in the Bill of Rights. But how does a free society protect free speech from nefarious charlatans who abuse that right for personal and ideological gain?Such is the question we face today when we examine the partisan politics that have metastasized like cancer throughout the mainstream media complex and, to drill down into one aspect of that niche, the pollsters.In an era of high political polarization, trust in polls has waned, particularly among certain voter groups. This distrust manifests in lower response rates and sometimes (and this is growing) dishonest responses, further skewing poll results. There has also been a trend where polls “herd” their respondents towards an expected result to avoid being an outlier, which can lead to a uniform but inaccurate picture.The American Association of Public Opinion Research published a white paper on herding that read:“Herding” specifically refers to the possibility that pollsters use existing poll results to help adjust the presentation of their own poll results. "Herding” strategies can range from making statistical adjustments to ensure that the released results appear similar to existing polls to deciding whether or not to release the poll depending on how the results compare to existing polls. By drawing upon information from previous polls, herding may appear to increase the perceived accuracy of an individual survey estimate…”The white paper said that one troublesome consequence of herding is that pollsters who engage in the practice will produce artificially consistent results that don’t accurately reflect public attitudes. This perceived polling consistency instills false confidence about who will win an election, thereby artificially impacting how the media covers the race. The white paper’s author goes on to say that the faux consistency becomes a major factor in whether political campaigns and parties “devote resources to a campaign, and even if voters think it is worthwhile to turn out to vote. “So, by the conscious decisions made by the polling companies and, most of the time, by the individual pollsters themselves, even the associations that champion their “science” admit that industry practices artificially affect elections.In 2020, Maddy Weinberg, writing from the University of California at Berkeley, noted that data analyzing over 1,400 polls from 11 election cycles revealed that only 60 percent of polls conducted the week before an election included the actual outcome. This doesn't sound too bad to those defending the “science” of polling, but to the consumer, that result is a failing grade.The defenders of this failure spin it this way:“It’s really important to remember that these polls are not forecasting who’s going to win. They are an estimate of likely vote share. So this is about whether the truth falls inside the confidence interval, not whether the poll calls the eventual winner.”And pollsters often use statistical models manufactured to adjust or “weight” their data to—as they see it—to better reflect the broader population. However, these adjustments often introduce errors if the assumptions or methods used are ideologically tainted, dishonest, or flawed. For instance, weighting by “recalled vote” or education level has been criticized for possibly skewing results. The 2020 election highlighted that national polling errors were among the highest in 40 years despite these adjustments.So, it goes without saying (although it must be said) that the “science” of polling is inaccurate, to say the very least. Yet, the mainstream media complex and the political opportunists of all political parties routinely cite polling results as intently sincere and an accurate harbinger of the coming election results predicated on that snapshot in time.This presents the action in question recently reported by TheHill.com. Ashleigh Fields reported:“The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) announced on Tuesday their decision to represent an Iowa pollster entangled in a lawsuit with President-elect Trump stemming from a November poll from renowned pollster Ann Selzer that showed him losing to Vice President Harris.”The group, in Selzer’s defense, claims the poll was an “outlier that projected inaccurate predictions unintentionally” and, therefore, did not violate the law.The poll in question—Selzer’s poll, was published in The DesMoine Register just days before the November 2024 Presidential Election. Her poll results stated that the people of Iowa favored Kamala Harris by three percentage points over Donald Trump. In reality, Trump won in Iowa by 13 points—a 16-point deviation from Selzer’s results.Yet FIRE maintains:“Trump’s lawsuit, brought under an Iowa law against ‘consumer fraud,’ violates long-standing constitutional principles. It’s also entirely meritless under the Iowa law…The lawsuit is the very definition of a ‘SLAPP’ suit — a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Such tactical claims are filed purely for the purpose of imposing punishing litigation costs on perceived opponents, not because they have any merit or stand any chance of success. In other words, the lawsuit is the punishment.”Let’s take a look at the past performance of Selzer and her company:* 2008 Presidential Election: Selzer's final poll correctly predicted an influx of first-time caucusgoers would deliver Barack Obama a victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses. Her poll had Obama leading by 3 points when he actually won by 10, which, while not exact, captured the trend correctly.* 2012 Presidential Election: Her poll showed Obama leading by 5 points over Mitt Romney in Iowa, and he won by 5.6 points, which is a very close match.* 2014 Senate Election: Selzer's poll predicted Joni Ernst would win by 7 points over Bruce Braley, and she won by 8.5 points, showcasing her poll's accuracy.* 2016 Presidential Election: Selzer's polls were among the few that accurately anticipated Donald Trump's performance in Iowa. Her final poll had Trump leading by 7 points, and he won by 9.4 points, indicating a small but notable margin of error.* 2020 Presidential Election: For the 2020 election, her final pre-election poll found Trump ahead by seven percentage points (48% to 41%), which was very close to the actual result where Trump won with a margin of 8.2 points (53.1% to 44.9%).* 2022 Senate Election: Her poll predicted a Republican lead by 12 points, which was exactly what happened.That makes her 16-point error in the 2024 Presidential Election a significant—and, quite frankly—unbelievable anomaly in her track record. Her last poll before the election predicted a 3-point lead for Kamala Harris in Iowa, but Trump won by 13 points, marking a 16-point miss, unprecedented for Selzer's polls.Trump’s lawsuit alleges that Selzer’s poll—now proven to be a magnificent anomaly from her routine accuracy—was intended to “deceive” voters:“Millions of Americans, including Plaintiff, residents of Iowa, and Iowans who contributed to President Trump’s Campaign and its affiliated entities, were deceived by the doctored Harris Poll…Selzer’s misconduct caused ‘great distrust and uncertainty at a very critical time.’”Because the newspaper and associated media outlets portrayed Selzer’s poll as accurate using her reputation and polling accuracy as a selling point—and because that product was intrinsically defective, there must be some culpability for misleading voters given the industry’s acknowledgment of a 40 percent accuracy failure rate and industry standard practices that facilitate that inaccuracy.It’s quite hard to believe, given Selzer’s history of extreme accuracy, that a nefarious intent wasn’t in play here. Certainly, because The DesMoines Register paid Selzer for her polling, the poll itself must be considered a product. By that fact alone—because Selzer was paid for her services—her product shouldn’t fall under the dominion of First Amendment free speech protection, simply because she wasn’t engaging in political free speech as an individual espousing her personal beliefs. She was facilitating a product for profit.That FIRE is attempting to sully the judicial waters by arguing First Amendment protection—in the face of all of the evidence of malfeasance and nefarious intent, and in light of the fact that she was not exercising political free speech as a citizen redressing government, diminished its reputation as a protector of free speech in a time when it is needed the most.How far the mighty have fallen. And I have no doubt a fair and honest jury will hold to that assertion.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.A Post Script:Before we go, I feel the need to further expose the insanity of the systemic wokeism that has infested the Los Angeles Fire Department’s administrative ranks.If you recall, I mentioned a Deputy Fire Chief named Kristine Larson, the head of the department’s DEI Bureau, in my recent article Who Couldn’t See This Coming. Not that it makes a bit of difference, Larson is of the LGBTQ+ community. What does make a difference is this. That’s why she ascended to her rank. Her appointment was not due to merit.As reported by Newsweek, of all places:“Los Angeles Fire Department Deputy (LAFD) Chief Kristine Larson is facing widespread criticism online after comments surfaced in which she appeared to shift blame onto fire victims for their circumstances.“Speaking as part of a video that aired during a commercial break for the FOX show 9-1-1 about firefighter capabilities, Larson said, “Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out.”This mindset is antithetical to the very reason the fire service—and, in fact, all public safety organizations—exist. The primary purpose of a firefighter, regardless of rank, is to save lives. Larson’s narcissistic approach to the fire service is a slap in the face to every firefighter who ever donned an MSA or Scott mask and put his life on the line to help someone in danger.But this is the arrogance that permeates the woke movement. It’s an undeserved and unearned air of superiority that can only be defined as arrogance. And this arrogance comes out each and every time these assholes are put on the spot because their ineptitude and determination to force their dysfunctional ideology into the mainstream have ended in disaster and, many times, death. The response to the fires of Southern California—from Newsom to Bass to the DEI hire chiefs of the LA Fire Department—the fires of Southern California and proves this beyond argument.To that end, those who exist inept in their positions who can be fired should be fired and immediately. I am certain there are a multitude of fireline battalion chiefs and even captains who would have managed the crisis better, especially in pre-planning preparation. So, to Deputy Chief Larson (and I just threw up a little bit having to say that), I say this: Go fuck yourself. You don’t deserve to wear the uniform, anywhere.But the scourge of the imbecile among the ranks of California’s elected officials, well, that has to rest on the shoulders of the people who vote in California. They ascended them to power and did so because these idiots promoted and pandered to the ideologically woke. They got the government they deserve. And now their homes are ashes.The question is this. From the ashes, will a new, more sensical mindset emerge in Califonia’s electorate? Or will they just return to being the ideological dupes that people like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass believe them to be. Only time will tell. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

This terrible, tragic story about what is happening in Southern California isn’t about wildfires or climate change, no matter how badly the elected class in California tries to spin it as such. Wildfires have been a part of everyday life since Los Angeles was created. And climate change didn’t cause the explosion in the size of this wildfire. But blame for the utter devastation has a home.Woke-brained ideologues and eco-zealous activists who have captured California government—at every level—have instituted reckless and dangerous utopian ideas and unrealistic and imbecilic initiatives, which have made this tragedy 100 times more dangerous and deadly than it had to be.Wildfires in California are nothing new. No one should have been surprised about a wildfire in Southern California. No one should have been caught unprepared for the annual arrival of the Santa Anna winds. What is happening in California right now was bound to happen sooner or later. However, the inability of California’s state and local governments to mitigate the emergency has caused this natural disaster to become an unnatural disaster propagated by inferior intellect at the hands of social engineers of a dysfunctional ideology.Traditionally—or until the woke mob assumed the throne—a large portion of California’s state, county, and city budgets were allocated to a reasonable amount of fire prevention, water management, and forest maintenance. But since the invasion of the woke, fire prevention budgets have been slashed, water management doesn’t exist, and forest maintenance is considered a crime.At a time when a large portion of the budgets should have been devoted to securing the safety of the citizens of California by evolving fire prevention abilities, hiring more firemen and training them for wildfires, and solving the decades-old water crisis—the exact opposite has taken place.Over 2,000 homes have burned to the ground (so far). Let that number sink in. It will take decades to rebuild all that was lost if, in fact, the people who lost their homes are allowed to get permits to do so for all the bureaucratic bullshit people have to go through in California. So, the overarching question for the moment is this: Why did this happen?Los Angeles elected a radically extreme neo-Marxist activist for its mayor, Karen Bass. She is woke in a devout way; fully invested in the DEI culture that manufactures the equity of outcomes instead of the equality of opportunity.Bass cut the fire department’s budget by $17.6 million in deference to the institution of DEI programs and their accompanying taxpayer-funded administrative salaries. At the same time, Bass’s budget found money for housing, educating, and healthcare for millions of illegal immigrants and the homeless.By the way, with full knowledge that a massive wind event was to bear down on Los Angeles and its surrounding area, Bass went to Africa to celebrate the inauguration of Ghana’s president. Why would attending such an event serve the people of Los Angeles?Then, we have the DEI hires who are the Fire Chief of Los Angeles, Kristin Crowley, an LGBTQ+ community member, devoted to DEI (and damn proud of it, according to her official department bio), and her deputy chief, Kristine Larson, also of the LGBTQ+ community. Larson heads up the department’s DEI Bureau. Both have publicly bragged about their devotion to ridding the Los Angeles Fire Dept of “old-school white guys” and hiring for “diversity.” In fact, Crowley said shewas “super inspired about bringing more women and LGBTQ-identifying persons in to fight fires.”Honestly, if your house is on fire and you are trapped, do you give a damn who the person coming to rescue you is sleeping with? It’s inconsequential to the job at hand and the position. To base the hiring of a firefighter—or any first responder— on gender, sexual orientation, or skin color over the candidate’s ability to do the job is not only imbecilic, it’s a dereliction of duty.This is illustrative of the whole of governments—with few exceptions—in the state of California.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. It costs less than a cup of quarterpounder with cheese at Mc Donald’s once a week!During COVID, Bass and the Los Angeles Fire Department administration fired hundreds of professional firefighters who refused the vaccine. It goes without saying that those fire-tested professionals could have been valuable during this emergency, but then they would have needed equipment. To that point, were you aware a large portion of Los Angeles’ firefighting equipment was sent to Ukraine to aid in the war effort?Then we have Janisse Quiñones, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, the nation’s largest publicly-owned utility. Under Quiñones, firefighters responding to the fires were met with fire hydrants that didn’t produce water. Within 24 hours, the tanks used as reservoirs for the hydrants were depleted, and Los Angeles' outdated infrastructure couldn’t refill the tanks fast enough to produce usable pressure for the hydrants. The water was there, but there was no pressure to bring it to the hydrants.Could it possibly be that an individual whose salary was doubled upon taking the position as head of the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power ($750,000 annually—the highest salary in municipal government) might begin efforts to upgrade a dilapidated system that, by all expectations, couldn’t perform in a worst-case scenario?Then, we come to the eco-zealots of Southern California’s radically insane environmentalist community.The area currently existing as an inferno is surrounded by state forests. However, the eco-zealot stewards of these woodlands have not controlled, cleared, or maintained undergrowth in 20 years. Many eco-zealots argue that undergrowth plays a crucial role in forest ecosystems, providing habitats for wildlife and contributing to biodiversity. Clearing it, they argue, would disrupt these natural processes. Besides, fire is a natural part of the forest ecosystems.Preserving habitats is one thing, but allowing undergrowth to accumulate to the point that when it catches fire, it obliterates whole cities is the rationale behind the imbecile. This poses the question: How many habitats were destroyed in the current fires?California has had two years of more-than-average rainfall, especially in Southern California. 2022-2023 was notably wet, with many regions of California receiving significantly more rain than average. Following the previous year, the 2023-2024 water year continued this trend with above-average rainfall across much of the state. Los Angeles, for example, recorded one of its highest two-year rainfall totals since the late 19th century, making these back-to-back years exceptionally wet by historical standards.Yet that naturally available water wasn’t captured to fill new reservoirs that were appropriated in 2014 through Proposition 1. Instead of building new reservoirs, there's been a push towards “conservation.” The last water desalination plant was built in 2015 in Carlsbad, California,Los Angeles is a city built on the Pacific Ocean. Yet the firefighters had no water? Why?Well, the state government—spurred by a potent eco-zealot lobby—routes naturally occurring water to the ocean for several reasons, all of which are rooted in environmental regulations. These people lecture everyone about carbon footprints and how dangerous CO2 is for the environment (CO2 is required in the growth cycle to afford photosynthesis and plant growth) as they board their G6s to Davos.So, while tens of thousands of people see their houses burn to the ground and, in a growing number of instances, find out that their neighbors have died, it’s pretty easy to see that the bulk of the blame for this horrific event lays at the feet of the woke assholes that are elected and appointed to public office in the State of California and the city and county of Los Angeles. Each has failed the people of Southern California in a spectacular way.To add insult to injury, just weeks ago—you know, when warnings about a more intense than usual Santa Anna wind was forecast, many of the people affected by the fire had their fire insurance canceled. Aside from that action being tantamount to criminal, it begs the question: If the insurance robber barons were astute enough to know that a disaster was in the offing, how come the people elected to know about these things were caught completely unprepared?The answer is simple. They are all DEI hires of the extremist ideological class, and their mission is not public service or the protection of their people but a mission of social engineering transformation. Well, they’ve succeeded in transforming a once beautiful and thriving area into an armageddon-like wasteland.But, you get the government you vote for so it can be argued that the woke of California lit the match to this disaster because virtue signaling was more important to them than electing people of merit to very important roles.But, hey, don’t worry. President Biden just announced the federal government will be picking up the tab for the disaster, so the woke who voted for their shit show of a government won’t suffer any consequences for their ideologically-based stupidity.I wonder how Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee people feel about that.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

The conservative block recently celebrated the paring down of the 1500-page Continuing Resolution that kept the government open. Part of that celebration centered on the defunding of the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which the learned pointed out was an integral cog in the Deep State anti-First Amendment censorship apparatus. However, the reports of the Center’s death have been greatly exaggerated.The so-called "Global Engagement Center" sounds about as threatening as a high school debate club. But in the wise words of Vivek Ramaswamy, it was actually a linchpin in what we might call the "censorship industrial complex." Its mission? Supposedly to combat "foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations." Foreign, they emphasized, because: a) apparently, the truth is only offensive when it comes from outside our borders, and b) political censorship is forbidden in the First Amendment.Here's the kicker: the GEC, like its cousins in the Deep State alphabet soup of government agencies (think CIA, FBI, and all those other three-letter nightmares), was supposed to be our shield against foreign threats. But—and especially over the Obama and Biden years, this shield has been turned inward, targeting those pesky American citizens who dare to think differently, especially on topics like COVID or Hunter Biden's laptop or the manufacture of the J6 events. The GEC, it seems, was more like a junior partner in Big Brother's surveillance state, keeping tabs on “Wrongthink.”Because heaven forbid, they couldn't directly censor Americans (that pesky First Amendment thing gets in the way, don’t you know), the GEC played it coy. They funded the British-based Global Disinformation Index. This group was less about fighting disinformation and more about creating a blacklist for publications like The Washington Examiner, RealClearPolitics, and The New York Post. The result? A financial guillotine for conservative voices, with ad revenues drying up faster than the initiatives promised by the BLM activists who bilked millions from their supporters and immediately abandoned them.Then came the bureaucratic masterstroke. The GEC’s funding was tucked away in that behemoth 1500-page legislative monstrosity—the Continuing Resolution to keep the government open. It was like serving a scoop of bureaucracy with a side of contempt, drawing the ire of Elon Musk and others. But, after much outrage and protest, the spendthrifts of Congress managed to shave it down to a mere 120 pages, cutting the GEC's funding and retreating from the legislators’ pay raises intact. Crisis averted? Not quite.The joy (no, not Kamala Harris “joy”) was fleeting. Like a magic trick, the State Department pulled a rabbit out of its hat, rebranding the GEC as the “Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference Hub.” Isn't that just a mouthful? Same people, new sign on the door, and a budget that miraculously “re-aligned” itself. It's like watching a bad magician perform at a second-rate political fundraiser.Now, with Donald Trump's second term looming, the questions are these. Will he be able to successfully play whack-a-mole with these bureaucratic hydraheads? Or will Republican infighting and the voraciousness of the Deep State apparatus mute his efforts to rein in the bureaucracy and tame the beast?There's talk of a "vibe shift," a cultural sea change where even former center-leftists and moderately inclined never-Trumpers are jumping on the MAGA bandwagon. But as some pre-maturely celebrate, we must all remember that rebranding doesn't mean reform. In fact, it’s not even close. It’s a re-packaging of the very initiatives we determined were outrageous in the first place. The GEC lives under an assumed alias. The Deep State bureaucracy, so focused on chiseling away at our First Amendment rights, lives on.Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a paid subscriber and supporting the free speech/truth effort at just $5 a monthSo here we stand, at the precipice of what could be a significant cultural, governmental, and political upheaval. We have a real chance to tame the Deep State beast and protect our First Amendment right to freedom of speech. But that will require us—all of us—to keep the pressure on. That means making sure our elected creatures in Congress hear from us regularly about the consequences they will face if they don’t support the reformation—from top to bottom, including the CIA, DoJ, FBI, State Department, and the IRS—that was mandated by the people in the re-election of Donald Trump to the presidency.If we don’t keep the pressure on (an Alinsky rule, by the way), everything we have achieved to date will be just another episode in the endless saga of government inefficiency and overreach.Will Trump and his team truly be able to dismantle the Deep State bureaucracy apparatus? They will if we do our part by keeping the pressure on. But should we fail in our duty to advance our return to constitutional government, all we will see is the same old song and dance, just with different choreography and under a new production company.Only time will tell if we're witnessing the death throes of a bloated, ineffective, and nepotistic Deep State bureaucracy or merely watching its latest act of self-preservation.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

It might just be possible that you are as tired of hearing this bullshit as I am. Almost daily, it seems, we see items in the news that declare outgoing lame-duck president Joe Biden is enacting this order of that initiative to hobble the agenda of the incoming Trump 2.0 administration.Evidently, one of two things is happening here. One, the mainstream media narrative crafters never showed up to or were always stoned for civics classes. Or two, the neo-Bolshevik spinners of the Clinton-Obama-Biden regime are working overtime to make the public believe something that simply isn’t true.Where presidential executive orders are concerned, a lame-duck president cannot enact executive orders that are inherently irreversible by an incoming president.Executive orders, directives from the POTUS, are legally binding but can be revoked, modified, or replaced by subsequent executive orders from a new president. This is because executive power resides in the office of the President, not in an individual president after they leave office.While a lame-duck president can issue executive orders, these are subject to the same legal scrutiny and practical limitations as any other executive action. They can be challenged in court, and their implementation might very well depend on the cooperation of the federal agencies, which can shift with a new administration.Congress can also affect the longevity of executive orders by passing legislation that contradicts or nullifies them, subject to the president's veto power or lack thereof if there's enough support to override a veto.Historical examples show that new presidents often review and sometimes reverse executive orders of their predecessors. For example, Biden reversed almost all of President Trump's executive orders shortly after taking office. Trump did the same with Obama's orders.Through the federal rulemaking process, a president can influence regulations managed by federal agencies. However, these can be changed by subsequent administrations, though this might involve expediting the Administrative Procedure Act's notice-and-comment period.Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a paid subscriberThis applies to one fear-porn item floating around the usual suspect partisan media outlets—you know, the ones that are choke-full of asinine clickbait articles and ads— that reads:“President Joe Biden is reportedly preparing to restrict offshore oil and gas drilling in his final days in office, a move that would placate the environmentalist lobby and potentially obstruct President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to unleash the US energy sector...“Biden’s reportedly forthcoming order would permanently ban new lease sales for oil and gas drilling in certain regions of the outer continental shelf…Some elected Democrats and many well-funded green groups have pushed Biden to implement permanent environmental policies in the waning days of his presidency to fluster Trump’s ‘energy dominance’ agenda…”So, when you read or hear bullshit like that, remember your civics class in understanding that all agencies, departments, and commissions in the federal government fall under the Executive Branch and that the Executive Branch is under the control of the White House, not the other way around.That means, when a president with a working knowledge of the US Constitution and an actual set of balls—and not transgender balls either—takes office, he is the ultimate executive authority, not the Deep State bureaucracy of the agencies, departments, and commissions, and the myriad assholes of K Street.That’s important to remember this to fight the fear-porn that’s coming out of the mainstream media as we head towards January 20th.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

The questions beg to be asked. Are our political and academic classes that fatuous and dense? Or are they so jaded in their partisanship that they are willing to commit an actual insurrection against the American people because of their political power greed?Such is the question that we are presented with in scrutinizing an opinion editorial in The Hill (and, by the way, if you are under the delusion that publication is fair and balanced or conservative, you’re smoking something Hunter Biden would share) by two established far-Left operatives, Evan Davis and David Schulte.Davis, a former editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review and counsel to New York Governor Mario Cuomo (D), and Schulte, an investment banker and former editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal—and good friend and financial supporter of Barack Obama, are ignorantly parroting the nonsense promoted by US Rep. Jeremey Raskin (D-MD), that somehow, Donald Trump is ineligible to hold the presidency because of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states:“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof...”Davis and Schulte, like Raskin, insist that there has been some sort of adjudication that insurrection occurred on January 6, 2021, and that is was planned and executed by Donald Trump.Davis and Schulte write:“Disqualification is based on insurrection against the Constitution and not the government,” the authors write. “The evidence of Donald Trump’s engaging in such insurrection is overwhelming. The matter has been decided in three separate forums, two of which were fully contested with the active participation of Trump’s counsel.”Davis and Schulte, like Raskin, cite the main charge of Trump’s second impeachment trial, “incitement of insurrection,” which all 222 Democrats voted in favor of, as proof. Trump was acquitted by the Senate on February 13, 2021.Davis and Schulte went on to cite “the Colorado five-day judicial due process hearing, during which the court found “by clear and convincing evidence” that President Trump engaged in insurrection as those terms are used in Section Three.And lastly, the authors cited the farce that was the Nancy Pelosi House Select Committee that investigated January 6, arguing that evidence from witnesses leads to “the inescapable conclusion…that Trump engaged in insurrection against the Constitution.”For men educated at Ivy League universities, these two are as constitutionally illiterate and devoid of critical thinking skills and common sense as they come, maybe but for Raskin.Let’s take each piece of “evidence” in reverse order. Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a paid subscriberThe House Select Committee's investigation of the events of January 6th was contested in its legitimacy from the start because the minority party was denied the right to seat members from its caucus, thereby making the exercise one of political persecution and partisan politics.Further, the committee selectively presented evidence to support a predetermined narrative. The committee cherry-picked evidence and refused to release or discuss all relevant information, particularly anything that might contradict their findings or narrative. This includes exculpatory evidence, which was hidden or not adequately explored.In addition, a former ABC News producer helped stage the hearings, and it’s easy to see that the committee was more focused on creating a compelling narrative for public consumption than on conducting a legitimate investigation.Then there is Davis and Schulte’s citation of the Colorado court hearing, not a trial but a hearing, and a hearing that invalidated itself from the very beginning.Set aside, for a moment, that after the “verdict” was affirmed by the Colorado Supreme Court, it was sent on appeal to the US Supreme Court, which did “not address the finding that Trump had engaged in insurrection.” For the SCOTUS not to address that point, basic to the appeal, is an action of ipso facto “denial of certiorari,” dismissal for lack of jurisdiction.And, to put a legal and constitutional cherry on top of that, let’s not forget that Colorado, like all states, is bound to the Supremacy Clause—Article VI, Clause 2 of the US Constitution—which states:“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”But let’s look at the big kahuna here: Davis and Schulte’s assertion that a House impeachment, devoid of a Senate conviction, is something more than it is: a failed indictment.Impeachment by the House of Representatives is equivalent to an indictment by a grand jury in criminal law. Both are formal charges or accusations of wrongdoing. The House votes on articles of impeachment, which act as charges against the President.However, just as an indictment does not lead to a conviction if the trial results in an acquittal or a hung jury, an impeachment alone, without a Senate conviction, has no consequences, the impeachment effectively fails to achieve its ultimate purpose, much like an indictment that does not lead to a conviction.Like an indictment that doesn't lead to conviction, a House impeachment without a conviction in the Senate doesn't legally harm the accused beyond the stigma or public perception. It does not result in the President's removal or any legal consequences related to the office. Therefore, the Senate's failure to convict Donald Trump on the charge of “incitement to insurrection”—in the appropriate and germane jurisdiction for the accusation—serves as an acquittal of the charge.As a final nail in the coffin of this issue, because Mr. Trump was acquitted in an impeachment hearing trial in the US Senate, he is protected from all other actions under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment, which reads, in part:“...nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb…”I discuss this singular point in more depth in an article titled, Excuse Me? Trump Has Already Been Acquitted on Insurrection Charges.And so it would seem that the cancerous infection of Trump Derangement Syndrome is so pervasive on the political and ideological elitist Left that they are not only willing to trample the US Constitution and the established rule of law to get their way, but they are also willing to enact an actual insurrection against the American people in their attempt to deny an election mandate.So, who are the election deniers? Who is attacking our democracy—our Constitutional Republic? It certainly isn’t Mr. Trump, and it’s definitely not the American people who provided that electoral mandate. Evidently, it’s the elitist Left of the Obama-Clinton-Biden ilk, you know, the ones who have delivered us to one of the most embarrassing times in American history, bar none.I have a learned and worldly friend who is perpetually amazed at how the so-called educated and elitist classes can be so astonishingly foolish. She often ponders a relevant question: How can individuals with such impressive credentials and book-smarts be so incredibly dumb?I suggest that question be asked about Davis and Schulte. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

The heads of far-Left and usual suspect media outlets are exploding all over the world at Donald Trump’s recent statements about Canada and Greenland, and maybe a bit less so about the Panama Canal. But those who are so alarmed fail to understand the “art of the deal” type of thinking being employed here.Recently, Trump extended his holiday wishes to “Governor” Justin Trudeau of Canada. Of course, Trudeau is the prime minister of Canada.In his holiday message, Trump pointed out that Canadian citizen's taxes are far too high. In mentioning that fact, he playfully said, “but if Canada were to become our 51st State, their taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other country anywhere in the world.”In a separate statement, he went on to say that he had just met with hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and suggested that he run for prime minister of Canada, alluding to Gretzky in saying he would soon be “the Governor of Canada.”Trump also extended his holiday cheer to the people of Greenland, who he said “is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the US to be there, and we will!”And he didn’t forget his favorite target, communist China. To which he said:“Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in ‘repair’ money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about ‘anything.’”Of course, Trump’s words toward the communist Chinese came after he addressed the issue of excessive shipping fees assessed by the Panamanian port authority operating the Panama Canal. Reliable reports indicate that Chinese nationals—most likely PLA soldiers—operate the canal daily. Trump proposed that if they did not stop “ripping off” the US by charging obscene fees for using the canal (built and owned by the United States until President Jimmy Carter), the United States would retake it.Can’t you hear the exploding of the heads of the usual suspects in the mainstream media and on the radical Left?Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a paid subscriberIn typical kneejerk fashion, those who feel anyone cares whether or not they get in front of a microphone immediately did so.Múte B. Egede, Greenland's Prime Minister—who obviously takes thighs way too seriously, stated: "Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom. Greenland is not for sale."José Raúl Mulino, President of Panama, who equally lacks any sense of jocularity, stated: “Panama's independence is non-negotiable. The canal and surrounding area belong to our country and will remain so.”And Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada—who many believe to be the illegitimate son of Fidel Castro, raced to the microphones and cameras and declared: “This is not a laughing matter. Threatening tariffs and then joking about annexation shows a lack of understanding of our sovereignty and the respect due between allies.”To borrow a phrase from Sgt. Hulka in the movie Stripes to apply to each of these pearl-clutching Karens, "Take it easy, Francis."To cite another age-old adage—albeit to apply it in reverse (and anyone with an intellect larger than that of figgy pudding understands this), what Trump is doing here implementing a strategy where he is asking for much more than he expects to get, settling for less but still achieving his actual goal.So, let’s look at what Mr. Trump did and how Egede, Mulino, and Castro—oops, I mean Trudeau—were played.In the aftermath of Trump’s statement about Greenland (which is a nation in the kingdom of Denmark), Denmark announced a significant increase in defense spending aimed at strengthening Greenland's defense capabilities. This included a package worth at least $1.5 billion for new inspection ships, drones, dog sled teams, and upgrades to civilian airports to handle military aircraft.Trump threatened annexation and received a bolstered native defense of Greenland that would help protect the United States and the free world…at zero cost to the US.In Canada, Trump not only kept the issue of high taxes front and center for the Canadian people, but throttled up the pressure on the Trudeau administration, currently under attack and facing a vote of no confidence that would end Trudeau’s term as prime minister. That pressure also aids the budding conservative movement in Canada at the national level.Trump talks about Canada being annexed as the 51st State and helped advance a more fiscally responsible and conservative government in Canada while taking out one of Klaus Schuab’s World Economic Forum golden boys.And in Panama, Trump put a spotlight on the continued aggression and expansion of the communist Chinese in the Western Hemisphere, refocusing attention on the still-relevant Kennedy Doctrine (Monroe Doctrine), which is being violated under the guise of communist China’s membership in the World Trade Organization.Trump brings up communist Chinese activity and high fees at the Panama Canal, and the world has to address communist Chinese imperialism and expansion even as the far-Left has to admit they are in bed with imperialists and colonizers.Trump threatened to take a mile, and the kneejerkers surrendered their inches.As I said before, anyone with an intellectual capacity over that of a rusted bolt understands what Trump was doing with his statements.Evidently, those with access to the microphones and cameras—and many with places in the halls of power—possess the intelligence and critical thinking skills of inanimate objects; of rusty bolts in rancid cups of figgy pudding. To that, I say that maybe a good New Year’s resolution would be to expunge these idiots from the halls of influence and power and start paying heed to and electing those who employ critical thinking skills and common sense.And as the far-Left’s grinch drove out of sight, all the little shuddering Karens and globalist ne’er-do-wells heard him say, “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a huuuuuuge night!” Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

Christmas is here, and I thought I would take a different tack, away from the overt politics of the day, and talk a bit about what I speak of at the end of each podcast.Everyone recognizes the spirit of Christmas when the season approaches. Sadly, a lot of that spirit centers on material things because the profiteers and marketers never miss an opportunity to exploit our consumer society to their benefit. I’m not saying they’re bad people for it, but it would be nice if it weren’t “so slam it in your face” and “jam it down your throat” 24/7/365.No, the Christmas spirit I am talking about is the “peace on earth, goodwill toward men” spirit. The spirit of brotherhood—and sisterhood, I don’t like to play those woke word games, so you know what I mean. If you’re offended by that sort of thing, well, I don’t think you listen regularly anyway.At the end of each podcast, I always ask people to talk about politics, religion, and current events with their family, friends, and colleagues. My point in doing so is that when we have these conversations, we start to realize that we all have a lot more in common than we do in difference. It helps us—all of us—realize we aren’t in this thing called life alone, that we are part of a brotherhood—the brotherhood of man.Now, I’m not naive enough not to see that there are some nefarious people in the world. There are. They are the weak, even though they see themselves, most times, as powerful and influential. These outliers, sadly, we won’t be able to reach with any message of brotherhood in the time we have on this earth. These are the people we must keep in check every day so that their egos and greed don’t damage our lives any further than they already have.But those outliers are the exception, not the rule. The common rule, the commonality of natural law, is the brotherhood of man.The brotherhood of man is a powerful thing, even emerging during times of war and revolution.During the American Revolution, the faithful gathered in their churches regularly and heard messages of unity and brotherhood from their priests and preachers. These messages fostered unity among the diversity of the colonists who, through that message, achieved e pluribus unum, out of many, one.These messages promoted a shared identity and common purpose, emphasizing the idea that all of the colonists were part of a greater American family fighting for liberty and freedom from the tyranny of King George. This sense of brotherhood was vital in rallying support for the revolutionary cause, encouraging mutual aid and sacrifice among the populace.This message, this brotherhood of man message of unity, was instrumental in mobilizing both soldiers and civilians, reinforcing the shared resolve needed to endure the hardships of war and to envision a new nation built on principles of equality, freedom, liberty, and fraternity.During World War I, an extraordinary event known as the Christmas Truce occurred—spontaneously—along various parts of the Western Front in December 1914.On Christmas Eve, soldiers from opposing sides, primarily British and German troops, began to fraternize, singing carols, exchanging gifts like cigarettes and food, and even playing impromptu games of soccer. This unofficial ceasefire saw men emerging from their trenches to meet in “No Man's Land,” sharing moments of peace and humanity amidst the horrors of war.Although the truce wasn’t universal and varied in duration, with some areas seeing brief moments of ceasefire while others lasted for days, it remains one of the most poignant examples of human solidarity—of the brotherhood of man—during wartime, showing that even in the darkest times, the spirit of Christmas, the sentiment of “peace on earth, goodwill toward men,” could momentarily halt the brutality of conflict between peoples.Today, as our society, our brotherhood, exists threatened by ideologues who purposely attempt to gin up discontent and division at every turn—all for their own greeds; power, wealth, influence, it is important that we understand—or reacquaint ourselves with the fact—that we are all—all of us—a part of that brotherhood of man. In the spirit of this brotherhood, this commonality, this reality, we awaken to the truth that, in the grand scheme of things, we are all in this crazy and sometimes maddening ride together.This is why my Christmas wish for you—for all of you—is the gift of talking with one another about the issues we face—as a brotherhood, as a brotherhood in liberty and freedom—that we all talk about the things we have been told never to talk about in public so that we can arrive at the realization of that brotherhood.So, grab a glass of whatever it is that you choose when you are setting yourself to revelry, and take just a few moments to talk with your family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances about politics, religion, and current events. Please employ a tone appropriate for the holidays—a tone steeped in peace on earth, goodwill toward men—and listen, really listen, just as much as you search your heart for the right words necessary to express your true feelings, not the narratives you have been led to believe are your thoughts on these matters.It is when we all achieve that intellectual symbiosis, that meeting of the minds, that we realize of memberships in that brotherhood of man. It is then that we diminish the power and greed of the outliers. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.I wish each and every one of you a happy, healthy, and meaningful Christmas. My the brotherhood of man erupts in your soul, and my you keep that brotherhood in your heart…always.And as I do each year, I leave you with the meaning of Christmas, as conveyed to us by Linus VanPelt.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

As we approach the start date for Trump 2.0, it appears some of the more partisan Deep State, uniparty Democrats—and their RINO compatriots—are starting to regain their confidence after the election slap down they received from the American people, not Donald Trump, although he was on the ballot and was the vehicle. The slap down came from the American people, the voters.Some are desperately trying to ignore the mandate for change the American people voted for in November, but then, we can’t expect the grifters of the inside-the-beltway bureaucracy to change just because the people demand it. That would be like having representative government. I mean, really!No, they will have to be expunged from Washington either through the electoral process—which, given the lack of critical thinking skills among the progressive electorate, is nothing more than a pipe dream—or by the process of that age group dying off of organic, granola-like natural causes, of course. One of those two things will have to happen before we are rid of their Constitution Avenue palmistry.One arrogant uniparty tool—and yes, I am using the word in the way you think I am—is US Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who recently attacked the existence of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s influence in the Trump 2.0 administration. In a pathetic attempt to define the narrative away from the federal government’s bloated budgets, spendthrift spending, and overall fiscal irresponsibility, Murphy said:“Why do we, all of a sudden, decide to take this government efficiency task force seriously? Like, why are we acting as if this is legitimate?...[DOGE is] “not a department…it’s being run by two billionaires, people who have no idea how important basic government services like Medicaid, Social Security, Veterans Benefits are to regular people.“But there are a lot of Democrats, you know, openly saying, ‘I wanna work with them, I want to sit down with this group' giving the appearance that this is something other than either than just a TV show or an effort by the billionaire class to privatize government to benefit themselves, which would be par for the course because all Donald Trump has shown us is that he wants to monetize his power for the benefit of himself and his friends…”Let me get this straight. The guy who gave—and plans to give— his presidential salary away to charity is only out for himself. That’s some twisted and convoluted stuff right there.And as for Musk and Ramaswamy working to kill a Continuing Resolution, how was killing a bill that was packed with politics, pork, and opportunistic protection, “privatizing government to benefit themselves?”Let’s look at some of the more egregious things that Deep State uniparty reprobates—from the Left and the RINO classes—tried to stuff into that now dead bill:* Immunity for J6 Committee members* Nullified Statutory PAYGO so the government doesn’t have to pay for programs by offsetting spending elsewhere* Funding for a new Washington Commanders stadium* Congressional pay increases of $70,000 annually* Renewal of the Global Engagement Center (a vassal for government censorship)* Expansion of vaccine and mask mandates, as well as pandemic policy* Redistribution of Social Security Funds* Exempted members of Congress from having to enroll in Obamacare* Redefined “criminal offenders” to “justice involved” individualsAdd to that the ideological spending that seems to be mandatory when you are a Deep State unipartier; things like $15 Million for Egyptians' college tuition—the tuition of Egyptian college students, $400 thousand for clothing for transgenders, and $500 thousand for a DEI zoo.Aside from the fact that none of this—none of it—has anything to do with the core functions of government, we must come to the realization it’s all pork bullshit. How does any of what the Far-Left and RINO classes wanted in the original CR “benefit” Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or Vavek Ramaswamy? How does it benefit anyone but the devout special interest groups of the neo-Marxist transformative Left?Yet, that’s what Murphy insisted. That hacking the spendthrift bullshit from a bill meant to fund the core obligations of government is somehow benefiting the billionaires.I said this recently, and I will say it again. People who have awakened to be pissed off at the opportunistic grifter class that our federal government has become must keep the pressure on! Yes, Donald Trump—a disrupter if there ever was one—emerged victorious in the election, thank God. But that is not the total of the battle. Not by a long shot. It is just the beginning.In this war to reestablish the people’s dominance over a now tyrannical federal bureaucracy—and one that has no understanding at all of fiscal restraint, we cannot let usual suspect uniparty operatives—like Murphy, Mitch McConnell, Hakeem Jefferies, Susan Collins, The Squad (or at least those remaining members), Lisa Murkowski, and the like—we can not let them reassume the ability to craft the narrative away from the truth.The reason the people—and again, I say this, not Donald Trump, although he was the vehicle, but the people—the reason we won in November is because we realized that they have been lying and swindling us for decades and decades and we finally—finally—got off our asses and said, “Enough!” To cede that victory to the grifters of the Deep State uniparty after all we have been through would be catastrophic.It would be catastrophic because it would prove the Deep Staters correct. That they are above the law. That they can do anything they please and get away with it. That we are as gullible and lazy as they believe us to be.Well, I am here to tell you these truths. The uniparty Deep Staters are not above the law, and they must be held accountable for their unethical and malicious actions, like stuffing a CR with pork and special interest agenda items and expecting us to just roll over and take it.In fact, how about we all get pissed off enough to demand they actually do their fucking jobs and craft and pass legitimate budgets instead of kicking the can down the road and executing Continuing Resolutions? How many post offices can be renamed as a priority over crafting and passing a budget?To that end, all budgetary items should be legislated on a stand-alone basis so no one can attach inconsequential items to them in an effort to hide the pork. Hell, every piece of legislation should be executed in a stand-alone manner, so we know how our elected are voting without any excuses.The Constitution Avenue palmistry must come to an end. People like Murphy and McConnell must be led to the door and tossed out onto their asses. We voted for radical change; a change that brings us back to the Constitution, not further away from it.That said, the uniparty Deep Staters will fight to the bitter end to hold on to the dynasty of deception and grift they have built. It is up to us to keep the pressure on to tame and/or neuter these con artists and charlatans, and the only way to do that is to, as Trump said on that fateful day, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.Underground USA is reader-supported…Please, consider becoming a paid subscriber Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

While social media and the information sphere buzz about the drones inundating the coastline approximate to New Jersey and New York, I can’t help but wonder if we are being blind to the real problem here.With credible reports coming out of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that radioactive material was lost in transit earlier this month from a cargo ship headed into New Jersey, the simple explanation that the NRC and/or US military is searching for that material becomes probable.Also credible, but further down the list, comes the truth that 80 nuclear warheads that existed in Ukraine during the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980s are unaccounted for.According to John Ferguson, CEO of Saxon Aerospace LLC and an expert in unmanned aerial systems—as reported in GatewayPundit.com:“Back in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan had dismantled the nuclear program with Russia. There were countless nuclear missiles that were disarmed and disposed of. Well, there were over 80, I believe, over 80 nuclear warheads that were in Ukraine that came up missing.“We don’t know where they are. Maybe somebody does, but nobody really knows where these are. I speak with some pretty high-level government officials on this stuff. It seems as though that is the case.“I spoke to a gentleman a few months ago who was trying to raise the alarm to the highest levels of our government, who had their ears closed, about this one particular nuclear warhead that he physically put his hands on.“He physically touched this warhead that was left over from Ukraine. And he knew that that thing was headed towards the United States. That is a very serious deal…”If, in fact, this is the case, that the drones are of the US government in origin and they are looking for lost nuclear materials—a warhead or otherwise—then we have a serious and actionable problem on our hands.If, in fact, one of the two aforementioned scenarios is the reason for all the drone activity, that makes Biden’s National Security Communications Advisor, John Kirby’s, statement all the more infuriating:This brings me to my point and a point that I believe has been and is being somewhat overlooked. Our federal government has become a behemoth apparatus where secrecy is the order of the day, and transparency is a rarity.Secrecy is supposed to be the rare exception for the most serious of issues and subjects, not the automatic default for anything and everything the government does. Using secrecy as a default sets the stage for the co-opting of government by the nefarious and opportunistically connected. It’s a warm petri dish for the bureaucratic Deep State to manipulate government to their will. And when the government bureaucracy, the Deep State government bureaucracy, is so entangled and controlled by K Street and the global elite—as it is today—the people kneel as slaves to the master, and that master has become the federal government.I talk about this to a great extent in my book Nullification: The Case for Decentralizing the Federal Government. The free Constitutional Republic of the United States was never—ever—supposed to have an all-controlling centralized government in Washington, DC. The fear of just such a centralized control was palpable as far back as the last days of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency when Jeffersonian Republicans went head-to-head with the federalists on the subject.It has been an issue our nation has been battling and debating ever since, but in this day and age—what with the many levels of greed present in the elected and activist classes; greed for money, greed for power, greed for being seen as correct—the dangers presented by a centralized federal government are ten-fold from those of Jefferson’s era.The secrecy surrounding the drone activity is just a by-product of the centralization of power at the federal level and a byproduct of a federal government that has gotten entirely too large. When coupled with the fact that this centralization of power is being controlled not by those duly elected to represent us in government, but by a bureaucracy that really answers to no one; that is never held accountable…well, Houston, we have a problem, a serious problem.That means we don’t live in a Constitutional Republic any longer. Since the US Constitution created our government as a Constitutional Republic, it presents a reality and a few questions.The reality is that a coup has taken place in the transformation of our government away from its rightful state as a Constitutional Republic.The questions: When did that happen, who is responsible, and when will they be held accountable?Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

So, how much of a complete asshole is Mitch McConnell? Well, I can argue that he is an emotion-exploiting, Deep State, K Street whore of a magnanimous proportion. Put succinctly, he’s quite an asshole.Anyone who listens regularly understands how much I loathe McConnell; a demonstrated Republican In Name Only who clings to his lust for power and control like Charleton Heston clung to his Second Amendment rights.McConnell, the titular head of the Deep State Republican “Gang of Six”—comprised of himself and US Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John Curtis, Lindsey Graham, and John Thune, recently took a shot at Trump Health & Human Services nominee, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on the issue of vaccines and the vaccine approval process.Kennedy, many would argue, is a bit more informed on the issue of vaccines than Mitch, “the Sino-Bitch,” who, with regard to the COVID vaccines—now proven to be choke-full of side effects and absent the promise of immunity—infamously stated:"I can say as a Republican man, as soon as it was my turn, I took the vaccine. I would encourage all Republican men to do that." (March 2021)And…"It was a modern medical miracle. That doesn't work if people don't get vaccinated. So for whatever influence I can have over those decisions, I want to encourage everyone to get the vaccine." (June 2021)And…"These shots need to get in everybody's arm as rapidly as possible or we're going to be back in a situation in the fall that we don't yearn for, that we went through last year." (July 2021)Now, the oracle of RINO-ism and purveyor of pseudo-science is feigning a superior scientific intellect in attacking a Kennedy ally, Aaron Siri, singling out Siri’s questioning of one vaccine to blanket suspicion over the whole of his opposition to BigPharma’s addiction to profiteering off of vaccine creations for anything and everything the commercial marketeers can concoct, all under the guise of “protecting” the American public.McSino-RINO said:“For decades, I have been proud to work with devoted advocates—from Rotary International to the Gates Foundation—and use my platform in public life to champion the pursuit of cures for further generations. I have never flinched from confronting specious disinformation that threatens the advance of lifesaving medical progress, and I will not today…Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed – they’re dangerous. Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.”So, the 82-year-old—whose own physical capabilities have informed him that he shouldn’t be navigating the halls of power, let alone doing it on behalf of the people of Kentucky or the United States—is using his position to coerce those who weren’t duped by the pseudo-science of the COVID vaccine movement, into being just as ignorant in their thinking as he and his profit-motivated RINO, Deep State compatriots?I don’t think so, Tim.In fact, this is just more evidence of the need—the intense need—for the American people and their duly elected representatives, by virtue of the established Trump mandate, to turn the page on the opportunistic politics of the McConnell/Pelosi era. It’s time for those two reprobates and their henchmen to vaporize from public life. I mean, really, haven’t they done enough damage to the American political system over the years? Haven’t they enriched themselves to saturation at the taxpayer-funded governmental monetary feed trough?So, to answer my own question, I guess McConnell is an asshole of historical proportion. And we should all be pretty sick and tired of his slurred bullshit.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

In a world where we have been duped into believing that everyone’s individual truth must be accepted and embraced, even at the expense of facts and reality, I suppose the statement “there is no defense for what they do,” could apply to many people, entities, and organizations. But as the virtue-signaling globalist Left in the United States continues to turn a blind eye to the lethal dangers streaming by the tens of thousands over our open borders each month, it’s time to over-state the blatantly obvious.There is no defense, no rationale, no excuse for the US federal government–as well as the many state, county, and local governments–to do absolutely nothing to thwart and, in fact, facilitate, in many cases, the entry into our Republic of criminal gangs from Venezuela, El Salvador, and Mexico. With every passing day, they embed themselves into our country like roaches in a tenement building.This is not about extending a benevolent hand to Third World downtrodden in an effort to help them live better. This is about well-financed and organized criminal gangs–aided by foe governments to the United States–strategically rooting themselves in our country to occupy and profiteer from their chosen trades: Drug and human trafficking through the use of obscene and horrific uses of violence.As reported in The New York Post:“The vicious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua has expanded its territory to at least 16 US states–an area that includes half of America’s population...“Homeland Security officials last week were warned in an internal department intelligence memo about TdA’s growing presence across the country, most recently in Washington, DC, Virginia, Montana and Wyoming.“The gang already has footholds in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin, according to the memo...“The gang has only increased its violent tendencies’ as it spreads, the memo added.”In late August 2024, shocking videos surfaced of gun-wielding Tren de Aragua members storming an apartment building in Aurora, Colorado. This incident was part of a series of events leading local authorities to acknowledge the presence of the gang in the community. Incredulously–and assumably because it was during the heat of the 2024 General Election cycle, local authorities downplayed claims of the gang having “taken over” the city.In June 2024, a 19-year-old member of Tren de Aragua was charged with shooting two New York City police officers in Queens. This incident was cited as part of a broader pattern of criminal activities by the gang, with the suspect showing no remorse about the shootings, stating it was “common practice” to open fire on police in Venezuela.Tren de Aragua is heavily engaged in the following:* Human trafficking, particularly women and girls for the sex trade and debt bondage* Kidnappings for ransom* Extortion of “protection fees”* Drug trafficking, including cocaine, MDMA, and "pink cocaine," a mix involving ketamine* Arms trafficking* Theft and robbery, including retail theft, street robberies, and home invasions.* Money laundering* Prostitution, particularly in migrant shelters or areas with high migrant populations* Violent crimes, including murder, assault, and intimidation to maintain control or expand their influence, including high-profile incidents like shootings of law enforcement and civilians.And like Tren de Aragua, the El Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) is entrenched in the United States with a significant presence in California (particularly in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the Central Valley), New York (notably active on Long Island and New York City), Virginia, Maryland, Texas (in Houston and Dallas), Massachusetts, Nevada, Washington, DC, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, and Florida (particularly in Miami). Their presence has also been felt in Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.In September 2016, two teenage girls, Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas,16—both civilians—were viciously attacked and killed in Brentwood, New York. They were beaten, hacked, and stabbed to death by members of MS-13. One of the victims was stabbed over 50 times, and both were mutilated in an act meant to terrorize the community and establish MS-13's dominance. The attack was in retaliation for perceived slights against the gang.These are just two of the more than 33,000 organized criminal gangs—including street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs—currently operating in the United States. Of those 33,000, thousands of the most vicious groups, with splinter groups numbering in additional thousands, come from Mexico, Central America, and South America.Currently, the top five most violent street gangs in the United States based on notoriety, reported violence, and law enforcement focus, are:* Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13)* Barrio Azteca* 18th Street Gang* Mexican Mafia (La Eme)* Bloods & CripsLeft unaddressed, this list will soon include Tren de Aragua.It is prudent to note that some commonalities exist between the most notorious gangs operating in the United States. They all engage in drug trafficking, human trafficking, prostitution, and extortion.Of particular note are the crimes of drug trafficking and human trafficking.The most lethal drugs that organized criminal gangs trade in within the United States include Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, Heroin, Cocaine, and Synthetic Opioids.Fentanyl has a potency of 50 to 100 times that of morphine. Even small doses can be lethal. A significant amount of fentanyl, both in its pure form and mixed with other drugs, comes from across the southern US border. Mexican drug cartels, particularly the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels, have been major players in producing and smuggling fentanyl. Recent seizures indicate that millions of lethal doses are intercepted each year, with estimates suggesting that in 2024, Mexican authorities seized quantities sufficient for hundreds of millions of lethal doses. There have been approximately 275,473 fentanyl-related deaths from 2020 to 2023.Methamphetamine or Meth, while not as immediately lethal as fentanyl, can lead to severe health issues, including heart failure, stroke, and addiction-related deaths. Much of the methamphetamine in the US comes from Mexico, where cartels have industrialized meth production. In 2024, significant quantities were reported to have been seized at or near the southern US border, with law enforcement in various states like California and Tennessee linking large shipments directly to Mexican cartels.Then we have the big “H”: Heroin. Heroin is a highly addictive opioid that can lead to overdose deaths, especially when mixed with fentanyl. While the bulk of heroin production occurs in Mexico, it also comes from Colombia. Mexican cartels control much of the heroin trade into the US, with significant quantities smuggled across the southern border.Cocaine can cause sudden death from heart attack or stroke, and its use is associated with violent behavior and addiction. Although cocaine primarily originates from South America, particularly Colombia, Mexican cartels have become central in its transportation into the US. They often control the smuggling routes across the southern border.And last but certainly not least, we have synthetic opioids, excluding Fentanyl. Drugs like carfentanil are even more potent than fentanyl, posing a high risk of overdose. These drugs can also be produced in clandestine labs within the US, but the precursor chemicals often come from or through Mexico, with China being a significant supplier of these chemicals.That brings us to the modern-day societal cancer that the most egregious of virtue signalers consistently turn a blind eye to in the US: human trafficking.Many victims trafficked across the US border are exploited for both labor and sex. A significant number of these victims are children, with the risk heightened for those in migrant or asylum-seeking situations at the border. Traffickers often use deception, force, fraud, or coercion.The US Department of State's 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report notes that globally, an estimated 27 million people are exploited for labor, services, and commercial sex. Some statistics reveal that between 15,000 to 50,000 people are trafficked each year in the United States, with approximately 25% being children and over 70% female.It is important to understand that human trafficking is a hidden crime, and statistics often only represent reported cases. The actual numbers might be much higher due to underreporting or fear.Now, aside from the totality of the impact that gang crime has on our nation, we need to consider a few realities to put this danger into perspective.In comparison, the total number of fentanyl-related deaths in the United States from just 2020 to 2023—275,473—is over four times the number of US soldiers that died in the Vietnam War (58,220), and almost two-thirds of those who died in World War II (405,399).In addition to the drug-related deaths, available data from the National Youth Gang Survey Analysis by the National Gang Center revealed that gang-related homicides averaged nearly 2,000 annually. Couple that with the 15,000 to 50,000 people that are trafficked each year and the lives destroyed by the existence of gangs in the United States total over ten times the number of US soldiers killed during the war in Afghanistan.Yet, we still have elected officials—at every level—indignantly virtue-signaling their ignorance by failing to identify this scourge as a full-on attack by foreign paramilitary entities on the American people on American soil.In 2020, US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said, “We need to stop treating migrants and asylum-seekers like criminals.” US Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said, “We need to stop the militarization of our border and instead focus on humane, sensible immigration policies.” And US Sen. Julián Castro (D-TX) said, “We should decriminalize crossing the border because it is not a crime to seek asylum.”In 2021, US Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) said, “Our immigration system should be based on compassion, not on punishment. We need to dismantle the cruel, punitive system at our borders.” And former Speaker of the House, US Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), said in 2022, “We must recognize the dignity and worth of every individual, and that includes those who seek a better life here, crossing our borders.”And with regard to the existence and activities of Tren de Aragua in Aurora, Colorado, where gang members terrorized apartment complexes in the expansion of their “turf,” Aurora’s mayor, Mike Coffman, made the wholly absurd statement, “The reality is that the concerns about Venezuelan gang activity have been grossly exaggerated. The incidents were limited to several apartment complexes in this city of more than 400,000 residents.”Using Coffman’s reasoning, seizing ground to criminal gangs that trade in drug and human trafficking to the tune of over 275,000 fentanyl-related deaths and 150,000 trafficked humans in just three years is acceptable collateral damage in the pursuit of extending benevolence to people who don’t even have enough respect for the laws of our country to enter legally in the first place.Coffman, Pelosi, Booker, Warren, Presley, and Castro fail to think it through; they fail to consider the damage their virtue-signaling—their imbecilic political posturing and ineffective benevolence causes each day. Honestly, it’s stunning that they don’t forget to breathe; they’re so vacuous in their thinking.It is well past time that the moral grandstanders of the open borders Left come to the reality that their faux concern for these criminals’ “civil liberties” is killing people, that their virtue-signaling and ideologically-based social justice posturing is killing people, our children, our brothers and sisters, our parents and our neighbors.The time has come for government—and this is the number one obligation of government in its compact with the people—it is time for the government, on all levels, to unite to form a militaristic response to these gangs in an effort not to control or contain them, but to eradicate them from the country, treating their actions like the acts of war that they are.We wouldn’t tolerate ISIS or the communist Chinese People’s Liberation Army to land on our shores and kill 91,000 Americans each year, and take another 50,000 prisoners. Why are we allowing organized criminal gangs championed by adversarial nations to do so?There is no defense for allowing this to happen. There is no excuse for allowing this proxy war to continue on American soil.Bottom line: If your truth trumps our kids, then your truth sucks. If our kids aren’t worth fighting for, then what is?Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

First, let me state this for the record so no one can try to manipulate my words. The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is nothing short of an act of murder. I condemn the act and hope the perpetrator is apprehended and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, left to the justice meted out by a jury of his peers.I also extend my sincere condolences to Mr. Thompson’s family and close friends.That said, it would be wise to examine the possible motives that spurred the shooter to engage in murder, in the taking of another human being’s life.The security camera footage of the shooting is chilling, even in a world where violence is over-glorified in the entertainment industries. The shooter, calculated and cold in his simplicity, stalked Thompson and very simply pulled the trigger…three times.VIEW VIDEO HERE Investigators have discovered that etched onto the bullet casings found at the murder scene were the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose.” These words are eerily similar to the title of the book, Delay, Deny, Defend, which discusses why “insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it.”The book is a critical examination of the insurance industry in the United States, delving into how insurance companies often operate through strategies encapsulated by its title:Insurers often use delaying tactics to slow the claims process, hoping claimants will give up or settle for less. When that doesn’t work, they often reject claims (even valid ones) by finding any reason not to pay out. And if those two tactics don’t work, many, if not most, insurers will proceed to litigation, aggressively defending and leveraging their resources to outlast or outspend the policyholder.The book’s author uses numerous examples and case studies to illustrate these practices, highlighting how they affect individuals and the broader economy and society. He argues that these strategies prioritize profit over policyholder welfare, often at the expense of those who have paid for coverage expecting protection in times of need. The book also explores regulatory failures and suggests reforms to make the insurance industry more equitable and consumer-friendly.So, it is reasonable to speculate that the shooter was adversely affected by the health insurance industry and decided, like the character Howard Beale in the movie Network, that he was mad as hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore.Of course, that wouldn’t rationalize an act of murder, and it certainly doesn’t excuse it. But who hasn’t had a run-in with a health insurance company and ended up enraged and disgusted? At every turn, there seems to be a loophole or fine-print caveat that excludes what an insured patient needs or saddles him or her with co-pays that are just about as expensive as paying out-of-pocket.Then there is the unholy alliance between the health insurance industry and BigPharma.Insurance companies influence drug costs through their formulary, a list of insurance-covered medications. BigPharma often colludes with insurers to ensure their drugs are included in these formularies through financial incentives or exclusive deals, which usually aren’t in the best interest of patients or based on the drug's effectiveness.Further, there have been legal actions regarding price-fixing and collusion in drug pricing, where insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies agree on pricing strategies that limit competition and keep prices artificially high.For example. The average price for a 30-day supply (60 tablets) of the anticoagulant medication Eliquis is approximately $185 in Canada. In the United States, where we are told we have a superior healthcare system, the list price for a 30-day supply is approximately $594. That’s a $409 difference.The average price in Mexico is approximately $85. This translates to slightly more than $1 per pill. In the United States, the land where the US federal government tried to mandate health insurance for all each tablet of Eliquis costs approximately $9.90.That’s just one medication. Now use that as a loose base-line in contemplating how the costs of other medicines and medical procedures are affected by this unholy alliance.Consider this. One report of cost inflation after an Emergency Room visit detailed a case where a $629 bill was issued, with $7 attributed to a Band-Aid and the rest to the facility fee for emergency services. In another example, the cost of a Band-Aid was part of a $478 bill for a minor injury treatment. The retail price of a Band-Aid is anywhere from $0.05 to $0.50.Then there are plain old visits to a doctor. The average non-insurance out-of-pocket cost for a visit to the doctor in 2024 is anywhere from $150 to $300 for a basic visit. In 2000, that same visit cost $61. In 1980, it cost $14. These costs are based on data from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality.But what about major life-threatening illnesses and how health insurance companies issue payments to cover those?Let’s use the scariest example for most people: cancer. And please remember this is a generalization, so numbers are to be understood as approximate references. Different kinds of cancer treatments cost more and some less.The average cost for cancer treatment in 2024 is around $150,000 per patient annually. This figure encompasses treatments like chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and medications.Typically, insurance might cover around 70% to 90% of the total cost of cancer treatment, assuming the patient is within network and all treatments are covered under the policy. But most—if not all—patients should expect to pay anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000 out-of-pocket annually for cancer treatment, including the deductible, co-pays, coinsurance, and any non-covered treatments or expenses.Now, consider this. According to a study by Synchrony released in 2022, the average insured American adult with employer-sponsored health insurance could spend more than $320,000 over their adult lifetime on healthcare costs. This includes both premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. Given that approximately 92% of the US population had health insurance coverage for all or part of 2023, the math bears out that over the lifetimes of those American adults, the health insurance industry—and through them, BigPharma—extracts over $98.035 trillion from the insured.And if they only pay 90% of the patients' costs, they make $9.803 trillion over the course of an American Generation. If they only pay out 70% of the expenses incurred, they make $68.624 trillion. So, you can see the incentive for health insurance companies to “delay, deny, and defend.”Again, I am not defending the person who took Brian Thompson’s life. I will restate this with all seriousness and sincerity. I hope he or she is apprehended, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and adjudicated by a jury of his or her peers.But, and this should be taken existentially, if the shooter lost a child, a spouse, or a parent—hell, even a close friend—because a health insurance company delayed the claims process in hopes the claimant would settle for less or rejected the claim—or any of the necessary medication or medical procedures needed for survival—because of a loophole, or ended up litigating a claim to outlast or outspend the policyholder so they wouldn’t have to pay out on the claim, well, I can see clearly how that person’s hopelessness, frustration, and anxiety would have motivated him or her to do something, especially when we are talking about lifetime profits in the $9.803 trillion to $68.624 trillion range.This is the hope of what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Trump 2.0 administration represents. Is it too much for one person to tackle in one four-year stint? Honestly, yes. The Deep State bureaucratic behemoth that is the healthcare industry—to include Big Pharma—here in the United States will take generations to tame and reform, but damn it, it’s a start.If Kennedy, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy can work together to set in place the basis for the continued refinement and reform of the healthcare industrial complex so that it serves the American people rather than creating billionaires and placing every other country’s people before ours, we will be re-charted in the right direction.Just my two cents, but the first things that should happen are to:* Mandate over-state-line portability for all insurance policies* Restrict BigPharma from the duplicitous pricing of medications between nations* Eliminate “enrollment periods* And last but certainly not least, unpackage health insurance plans to make them ala carte so that only age- and gender-appropriate treatments are covered in anyone’s plan.Oh, and get the federal government—and state governments, for that matter—out of bed with health insurance companies and BigPharma. The federal government has proven itself an abstract failure in all things private sector related, especially in aspects of healthcare. The sooner we get that gaggle of self-enriching assholes out of the healthcare process, the better.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

It never, ever fails, ever. Democrat Deep Staters always, always, always telegraph their deeds, transposing them onto their opposition. It’s been happening since the days of Woodrow Wilson and it continues to this day.Today’s uniparty Deep State tool is a frequent flier: Dick Durbin, a Democrat senator from Illinois. This Chicago-machine-anointed partisan hack has demonstrated his partisanship almost every second of his career, and his latest remarks don’t deviate from his far-Left fealty.In response to President-elect Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Durbin issued an infantile protest full of name-calling and “it’s not fair” whining, fully unbecoming of someone seated in the most prestigious legislative body on the planet.“President Biden kept Director Wray in office because the FBI is supposed to be insulated from partisanship. Now, the president-elect wants to replace his own appointee with an unqualified loyalist…The Senate should reject this unprecedented effort to weaponize the FBI for the campaign of retribution that Donald Trump has promised.”What? There is so much wrong with that statement it’s hard to know where to begin. But let’s take it from the top, shall we?Durbin’s insistence that Patel shouldn’t be seated because President Biden kept Wray in place is an imbecilic notion. Under Wray, the FBI has been used in numerous ways to affect the political persecution of Americans.The FBI was found to have labeled parents speaking out at school board meetings as potential “domestic terrorists.” This stemmed from a memo issued by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) in 2021, which served as an attempt to categorize outspoken parents as threats. The FBI response involved investigating these parents over their legitimate concerns about how the school districts were treating and educating their children.In 2023, a subpoenaed document from the FBI's Richmond Field Office revealed coordination with multiple field offices to produce a memo targeting traditional Catholics as domestic terrorists. This memo was later withdrawn, but the incident exposed the FBI’s religious profiling and political bias.The FBI under Wray has targeted agents based on their political beliefs, particularly those with conservative views or military backgrounds. This includes claims of harassment and retaliation against whistleblowers who spoke out against political biases within the agency.The FBI has also been called on the carpet for not only not aggressively pursuing investigations into Hunter Biden, suggesting a protective stance towards political figures aligned with the Democrat party, but also covering up the facts surrounding what was on his laptop, couching it all as an exercise in Russian skullduggery.Then we have the SWAT raid at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022 where we now know the FBI was being used as a political tool against Trump and his 2024 election campaign.And lastly, for our purposes here, we now know the FBI worked with social media companies to suppress information, particularly around the federal government’s COVID disinformation campaign and the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election.By Durbin’s “ethical” standards, Trump should leave Wray in his position, well, just because Biden did, ignoring the fact—the indisputable fact—that under Christopher Wray, the FBI has been corrupted and politicized almost beyond repair.Not only has Wray failed in his sworn oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” and “bear true faith and allegiance to the same,” he allowed partisan ideologues to rise to positions of power that allowed them to thwart investigations, hobble the search for truth and justice, and use the power of the FBI and its sacred public trust to benefit political ideologues.Wray is a failed FBI director and rightfully deserves to be fired for dereliction of duty if not scrutinized for true acts of insurrection and sedition.But, back to Durbin and his idiotic statement.Durbin infers that Trump appointing an “unqualified loyalist” is ludicrous in both uses of the words.First, why would any president, Trump, Biden, Obama—any of them, appoint someone who wasn’t loyal to their agenda? The idea is psychopathic on its face. In fact, it’s absurdity is self-evident to those with an IQ over that of a grape.But “unqualified”? Durbin dares to use the term “unqualified” in the same sentence as the name Kash Patel?Okay, quickly, because it would take hours to fully explain why Patel is more than qualified to be a reformative FBI director in the Trump administration:* Patel holds a Juris Doctor from Pace University School of Law and has a certificate in international law from the University of College London.* He worked as a federal prosecutor within the Justice Department, focusing on national security cases, which gives him direct experience in law enforcement related to federal crimes.* Patel served as a senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council during Trump's first term.* He was the Principal Deputy to the Acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, in 2020.* He served as Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, where he was involved in significant policy decisions and had oversight relevant to managing the FBI's operations.* Patel worked as senior counsel to the House Intelligence Committee under Rep. Devin Nunes, where he was involved in investigations related to national security, including the Russia investigation into Trump's campaign; he exposed the Russia hoax. This role gave him insight into the intersection of politics, law, and intelligence.In addition to those “qualifications,” Mr. Durbin, Patel has been a vocal supporter of Trump, often echoing Trump's views on the Deep State and the need for reform within federal agencies like the FBI.So, far from being an “unqualified loyalist,” Patel’s loyalty and alignment with Trump's political objectives—along with each milestone of his career—are significant qualifications for the role, given Mr. Trump's stated goal to reshape the FBI into the organization that it once was: A federal law enforcement agency that serves the people rather than the politicians.But, then, that’s why Dickie Durbin, the twit political hack from the glow-in-the-dark cobalt blue state of Illinois, stands against Patel’s nomination. In cleaning out the sewer that is the Deep State, Durbin’s malfeasance might come into the light, and, well, a corrupt Illinois politician can’t be having any of that…now can he?As the flushing of the DC Swamp begins under Trump 2.0, get ready for an immense amount of pushback from Deep State uniparty assholes like Dick Durbin. They will not go quietly into the night. And that is why it is so incredibly important to keep the pressure on!!And as a pre-post-script to it all, if the far-Left Democrats and Deep State uniparty douchebags were okay with stuffing appointments like Rachel Levine and Sam Brinton down our throats during the Biden-Harris administration, they shouldn’t have a damn thing to say about any of Donald Trump’s appointments.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

Never let it be said that establishment operatives within the Republican Party apparatus can’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The only questions that remain are these: Do they do it because they are power-hungry Deep Staters? Or are they just that incapable of recognizing a mandate when they see one?The latest in the long line of “are you shitting me” moments comes in the elitist and tone-deaf remarks emanating from George W. Bush’s “architect,” Karl Rove.In a recent op-ed penned for The Wall Street Journal, Rove is quoted as saying:“While his nominees prepare for their hearings, the president-elect must turn to what is in many respects an equally important task: picking the No. 2s for his cabinet secretaries and administrator…It will be especially important for Mr. Trump’s picks to have capable No. 2s as undersecretary, deputy secretary, and chief deputy administrator — titles vary from place to place — especially if the No. 1 is new to government or that department’s function.”Rove states that those “No. 2s” (I am sure that no pun was intended) should be people who have served in the agencies, departments, and commissions and know how they function; adding the entire process might be “confounding even [to] the most purpose-driven leader.”Rove finishes up his piece by saying, President-elect Trump:“...needs people who have been in the trenches, grappled with the bureaucracy and have some sense of its powers to distract, delay and misdirect…Shaking things up works only if doing so helps rather than hurts the American people. Doing the right thing the right way matters. Who’s No. 2 matters almost as much as who’s No. 1.”Well, Rove has that last part right, anyway. And I do agree with him on his overall point. Trump cannot make the same mistake as during the first Trump administration (Trump 1.0). He must appoint and place people who understand the Washingtonian game and who won’t get gamed by the system. The problem here is this. The Republican and conservative inside-the-beltway bench is sprinkled with careerist, inside-the-beltway Deep Staters who, like last time around, would be quite tempted—if not motivated—to inject their self-preservative ideologies rather than faithfully carry out Trump’s Deep State destruction agenda with fidelity.So, if we are to follow Mr. Rove’s advice and saddle the Trump nominees with establishment Republican “No. 2s,” how are we to have a reasonable expectation that those “No. 2s” won’t obstruct the administration’s anti-Deep State efforts just like many of Trump’s “No. 1s” did during Trump 1.0?There can be no guarantee with a Washingtonian insider because that cohort has repeatedly proven to the American people that they have either a loose or non-existent relationship with the truth. Truth is “subjective” to that peer group. They can justify almost any action or infidelity, no matter how egregious.One need only look at how the so-called Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collin (R-ME) abdicated their fidelity to their party’s leader during Trump 1.0.Collins and Murkowski are two of only three GOP senators advancing to the 119th Congress who voted to convict Trump in an impeachment trial. Each has voted in line with GOP colleagues a scant 36% of the time this year. In most instances, their votes helped Chuck Schumer hammer through radically-Left judicial nominations. This voting fidelity is a far lower percentage than any other senator.With the news that the “Deep-Statiest” Senator of them all, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), is set to step aside to pave the way for Collins to take the reins of one of the most influential committees in Congress, the Senate Appropriations Committee (a role that wields unparalleled control over discretionary federal spending), following Rove’s advice would detract from the almost impossible task of taming the federal government.To follow Rove’s advice to install “No. 2s” from the establishment Republican and conservative bench, to install those who “have been in the trenches” and “grappled with the bureaucracy” would almost guarantee that the most necessary of reforms and deconstructions would never come to fruition.In fact, rather than heed Rove’s advice, the Trump 2.0 transition team—and the President-elect himself— should consume the underlying sentiment of Rove’s point and take it in another direction.Instead of placing establishment GOP bench-sitters into the “No. 2” positions as Rove suggests, why not seek out, vet, and appoint those who understand the Washingtonian inside-the-beltway games but who have been screwed over by the Deep State establishment? Strategically gather a group of potential second-in-commands who have a vendetta against those defending the status quo and the Deep State bureaucracy itself.A battle-hardened “No. 2” with a burning desire to shatter the Washington swamp, adept at navigating Trump’s appointees through the minefield of bureaucratic sabotage laid by Deep State parasites, will be the linchpin in executing Trump’s 2.0 agenda with ruthless efficiency.The next step is to start decontaminating the sewage pipe that maintains the steady flow of retreaded staffers that regurgitate through the departments, agencies, and commissions, not to mention the cesspool of Deep State, leaky, careerist staffers who actually run the congressional offices on Capitol Hill.Once those things are done, we actually have a chance to take back our Republic, thanks to the man the far-Left calls Hitler. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

I get a certain satisfaction from those social media memes that joke, “For every Christmas light that goes up before Thanksgiving, an elf dies.” Not that I have anything against elves. I am sure they are very nice. Thanksgiving comes before Christmas, and it is a uniquely American holiday that should be properly recognized.We see it increasingly every year. Immediately after Halloween, the Madison Avenue marketers and profiteers start the push to “buy, buy, buy” for the Christmas holiday. In some cases, stores are starting to put up Christmas merchandise even before the Halloween candy goes on sale. Jack Skellington riding a reindeer. How pithy.In my humble opinion, it diminishes both Halloween and Christmas. But more importantly, it completely ignores the uniquely American holiday that is Thanksgiving, and that is really disheartening.Everyone should know the story of the first Thanksgiving and the formative history that brought it to be a national holiday. I say should because, as you all know, accurate and fact-based history isn’t taught in our schools today. Another reality that is disheartening, but I digress.To give a brief overview, I turn to The History Channel, which, for most of what they do, at least attempted to have fidelity to the truth:And so it is that the Thanksgiving holiday is one that is born of Americanism. It is ours as a nation, yet today, we give it short shrift as a day when we eat well, watch football (if you’re into that, my football-watching days ended with the brilliance of the 1985 Chicago Bears), and end up arguing with the outspoken and/or over-imbibed relation who just needs to display his or her ass about politics and current events, all as the whisper of Christmas licks at the window.The fact of the matter is this. We, as individuals and as a nation, have quite a bit to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, and we should take the time to breathe and give thanks for it all.Politically, whether you are a Trump supporter or one of the vocal few who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome (a real affliction, I might add), we now have a government in waiting that is one of the most diverse and focused in recent history. Kennedy, Gabbard, and a plethora of individuals from outside the Deep State bureaucratic complex are focused on dismantling the inside-the-beltway apparatus, one that does very little but serve itself, in a quest to decentralize the federal government and return the taskmasters' whip to which the government is meant to obey to the people.Societally, it appears that the abstract lunacy—and I use those words to be consumed literally—the abstract lunacy of wokeism seems to be on the wane. DEI—Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion—is being abandoned by corporations all over the country and, in fact, the world. People are slowly becoming more comfortable discussing the ridiculousness of the transgender appeasement movement (true cases of gender dysphoria are documented at just 0.014% at the high end, internationally). And the identity politics charlatans of the genderism and racism activist crowds are fast losing the sympathies of an awakening public who sees their efforts as those of division and opportunism.But personally (and that’s what it all boils down to, doesn’t it), we all have a great number of things to be thankful for. While not a “land of perfection,” we live in the United States, and she is still the shining beacon on that hill that signals hope reigns eternal both for her citizens, those who quest to be included in her citizenry—legally, and the world.Many of us have family and friends that, sad to say, and just about everyone is guilty of it, have family and friends that we don’t embrace enough. Thanksgiving gives us a day, if only one out of 365, to dedicate ourselves to making sure they know how we feel, whether it’s a full-on embrace or just a smile and a nod of the head.Thanksgiving also gives us an opportunity to extend the brotherhood of man to those less fortunate than ourselves, to let those who feel they have been forgotten know they haven’t been. And to let those who serve us each day, out of sight and out of mind—the first responder firefighters, EMTs, and police officers; the nurses (both home health and institutional) and doctors, and our military men and women—to let them know we see them and are thankful for the protection they provide.So, while you prepare your Thanksgiving feast or sit on the couch watching football while someone else does, take some time—before the eating and drinking and before the conversations that sometimes may become heated—to give some thought to all you and yours have to be thankful for. When we stop and consider that singular question, we really come to understand how “wealthy” we really are as individuals, as a society, and as a nation.After the turkey is relegated to the sandwich-maker's heaven that the day after Thanksgiving affords, then—and only then—should we be forced to suffer the onslaught of the marketeers' “buy, buy, buy” and 24-hour-a-day Mariah Carey Christmas songs.That was almost Grinch-like, wasn’t it?Wishing you a very reflective, happy, and joyous Thanksgiving. God Bless America. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe