MCS #2311 – Marco Rubio’s Moment has Come!

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• Strange things are happening this year during Mardi Gras.
• This is the 2nd parade, so the 2nd Krewe that has had a float get stopped and all the riders removed.
• They were targeting NOLA police and ICE and State Police by throwing beads, massive bags of beads directly at them.

HEADLINE: All riders removed from Float 32 in Krewe of Thoth after beads thrown at federal agents, NOPD says by Nigell Moses

• The incident comes days after riders were removed from a float in the Krewe of Carrollton parade when beads were thrown toward officers along the route. This marks another float being cleared during Carnival season.
• Let it be known, I don’t think a Mardi Gras parade is the time to display your political anger.
• The people lining up on the streets are not there for that.
• Especially in a state that elected the MAGA representatives etc.
• Keep politics out of the parades, just let it be good family fun like it used to be.

• Hillary Clinton and AOC were basically embarrassed this past weekend.
• The Czech PM embarrassed Hillary to her face on stage.
• The moderator told Hillary to allow the PM to finish speaking.

• US Men’s hockey team is doing great.
• The Free Bird songs and the patriotic fashion in which they are playing and acting is really nice to see.
• The curling, speed skating the hockey it has been fun to watch.
• You know what you see when you watch the winter Olympics this year in Milano Cortina?
• QUESTION: What do you NOT see?
• ANSWER: Muslims, African immigrants.
• If the European Union allowed all these millions to immigrate there, where are they? Why aren’t they competing in the Olympics?
• Why are there no Mohammads receiving trophies and gold medals in speed skating? Why are there no Mohammads in figure skating? What about downhill skiing?

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• I want to go back to the last thing I mentioned about the Muslims and the winter Olympics.
• Remember the Swedish commercial where it was basically them talking about their massive amounts of ‘diversity’?
• It was very controversial when that commercial came out.
• They boasted and bragged about welcoming ALL refugees into their country.
• What do you get out of diversity?
• You don’t get speed skaters.
• They just don’t have an interest in supra-natural things.
• Don’t misunderstand, I am not knocking this culture in the winter Olympics.

• He got a standing ovation!
• Even the Europeans see what is happening now.

• What ended up happening is we planned to camp on the same weekend as the Fort Foster days.

The Martyrs of La Florida Missions

• La Florida has martyrs!  From 1549-1715 the historic lands of the Southeast once called La Florida have a glorious past blessed by the native people and missionaries who made the ultimate sacrifice for the Faith.
• So much great history in Florida.

• To me what’s happening now globally is a realignment.
• Rubio basically told the Europeans they have a major problem but their efforts must be restorative. They can’t keep importing military aged men from foreign counties if they want to keep their culture.

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• You are to fast and pray in whatever way during Lent that helps you spiritually.
• It isn’t about fasting harder and telling your neighbor how terrible they are for fasting.
• Stop lording over what you are doing.
• You also don’t make YOUR fasting or what you are doing a burden to those around you.

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• You are not going to get this nuance with the alpha male that is Trump.
• You are going to get the statesmanship from someone like Rubio.
• To undo what Obama and Biden and the Clintons have done, you have to have, and look I don’t care who this offends, you have to have alpha male leadership.
• It must be brutally honest and it should be stern.
• It needs to be well grounded in Western Civilization and faith.

AUDIO/VIDEO: Marco Rubio at Munich Security Conference – National Security, is not merely a series of technical questions. How much we spend on defense and where are important questions but they are not the fundamental one. The fundamental question we must answer is ‘what exactly are we defending’? Because armies, do not fight for abstractions. Armies fight for a people. Armies fight for a nation. Armies fight for a way of life and that is what we are defending. A great civilization that has every reason to be proud of its history.

• These people wish to devour you.
• They don’t want to make common cause.
• If we had sane people that truly had the main interest of the citizen, we would have TWO parties trying to Make America Great Again.
• They would debate the existence of the IRS.
• They would discuss fraud and abuse and waste.
• How do you make America great again?
• At the end of the day it is all about the people.
• The great battle is a moral one.

AUDIO/VIDEO: Marco Rubio at Munich Security Conference – For 5 centuries, before the end of the 2nd WW, the West had been expanding. It’s missionaries, soldiers pouring out crossing oceans extending out across the globe. In 1945 for the first time since the age of Columbus it was contracting. The great Western Empires had entered into terminal decline accelerated by Godless Communist revolutions. Against that backdrop, many came to believe the Wests age of dominance had come to an end. Together our predecessors recognized decline was a choice. We don’t want our allies to be shackled in guilt and shame. This is why we don’t want allies to maintain the broken status quo. We, in America, have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.

• This is Trump speaking, it is not Rubio.
• Now Rubio is in agreement with him, this is true. But he is a representative of the Trump administration.

• “It is hard to overstate how badly the president’s intemperate and insulting remarks have been received in Europe — and, the thing that concerns me the most, is how damaging they have been to the electoral prospects of nationalist-sovereigntist parties on the Continent. A prominent French conservative journalist lamented to me last week that with the French Right — the RN, not the squishy Right — having become the leading party in France, next year’s election will likely be fought over, incredibly, Donald Trump. As stupid as it sounds — as stupid as it actually is! — the emotional power of the figure of Trump over European voters is a real thing. It can’t be wished away. The president’s big mouth stands to do to all these parties — parties whose accession to government would dramatically be in America’s interest — what it did to poor Pierre Poilievre in Canada.” – Dreher
• If you want to win an election here in the US and you are the party in power, act like it and you will win.

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Steve Bannon

• Martin M writes me an email and says….do you see a Steve Bannon pattern? I would be he played a similar strategy at Sirius/XM.
• This is the key point I have been making.
• We were asked to put skins on the wall when I worked for Sirius.
• I thanked them even out the door.
• What is Sirius gaining by keeping me off the air?
• Certainly not the interest of the sales department and the listeners.
• How are the stockholders being served by keeping me off air?
• If you can come to that conclusion, how long did they keep Bannon there?
• He took my audience of 13 years and destroyed it in 5 months then quit to go help run the Trump campaign.
• If it doesn’t make monetary sense, then what sense does it make?
• So when I get a note like this from an outside observer I take notice.
• Bannon didn’t have an actual body of work to show Sirius.
• They are pandering to and preference to an Epstein affiliate requires at minimum a statement.
• Bannon and Brietbart didn’t want anyone having access to you.
• I talked to Bannon at TPUSA and he acted as if he had no idea who I was.
• There is no way he and Sirius can be allowed no confrontation on this.
• Sirius played a role in all of this too.
• I know there will be people to say this is just sour grapes TKD!
• In 1997 Bud Paxton owned the largest family run operation in Florida at that time. He owned TV and radio stations. After being fired at RBZ I was asked to go to Miami to do a tryout. I went down and did a full week. I was told, that I was going to work for the Paxton corporation. I was told I knocked it out of the park. I was hired. The first thing I saw when I walked into the lobby an saw was a portrait of Larry King. That is where Larry King LIVE was born.
• I only tell you this as presence for sour grapes.
• I saw this because that is what Martin is talking about.
• Bannon brought NONE of this experience when he approached Sirius/XM.
• This is not how conservatism is supposed to work.

• With the Crusader Radio Guild, we work to instill ethics back into radio broadcasting.
• What should be the role of the reporter or broadcaster? It should be only to describe facts, not inject their opinions. The answers to the who, what, where, when and why questions should be all that mattered.
• TKD tells story about Ivermectin –
• Sometimes you just have to do the RIGHT thing.
• We try to lead by example.
• We need to restore ethics in all facets of our lives.

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• You have to have trust in a civilized society correct?
• The 2 lane highway system.
• If we believe that the president brought about, say, 40 percent of those statements and stories, how do we account for the other 52 percent? It cannot all be Trump Derangement Syndrome, but that plays a large part in coverage of Mr. Trump.
• It’s more than TDS. The fact is that reporters, like most people, are intellectually lazy. They follow the herd and, in what passes today for newsrooms, the herd rules the day.
• I actually think there is something shady going on with the Nancy Guthrie story.
• I think Maggie is on to something.
• I think she was abducted by the cartel for ransom.
• They took her back to Mexico, maybe she is alive, maybe she isn’t but there is no sign of the perps?! They can’t even find a vehicle to ID?
• Why has no one asked this question?
• What kind of history would you produce if you backtrack the life of Nancy Guthrie?

AUDIO/VIDEO: Marco Rubio Press Conference w/ Robert Fico Slovakian PM – I’m not going to use this press conference to attack this member of NATO or that member. I was giving a speech about our relationship, the Transatlantic alliances. The core point of my speech remains our relationship with NATO is not just a trade alliance. This isn’t very transactional, the point was our alliance is built on something more important and enduring.

AUDIO/VIDEO: Hillary Clinton in Munich on Panel – Showing her TDS – He has betrayed the West. He’s betrayed human values. He’s betrayed the NATO charter. A lot of what has been done before to make sense to restrain people that want unaccountable power. None of us would choose to live under a regime that was so unaccountable it could act with impunity the way Putin does and that is what Trump is. I don’t like him because of what he is doing to the United States.

AUDIO/VIDEO: Hillary Clinton in Munich on Panel Clashes with Czech Deputy PM Petr Macinka – We saw the cancel culture the woke revolution, the gender revolution. I think there is 2 genders. I think some of use think there is more than 2 gender. I think there is male and female and the rest, probably, is a social construct. This is something that went too far. Can I please finish my point. I’m sorry that it makes you nervous.

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• Hillary had a chance to be Secretary of State.
• She was insanely jealous of her boss the whole time so you have to put that in the conversation too.
• The Democrat party superdelegates chose Obama over her.
• They chose the black male over the white female.
• He checked all the diversity boxes.

Schumer – To have ICE agents, these thugs at polling places? That just flies in the face of how democracy works. How we’ve had succesful elections for hundreds of years. Again I think most Americans agree.

Tapper – About 83% of the American people, including a majority of Democrats, support voter ID laws.

Schumer – Yeah, the voter ID laws that first, each state can have its own voter ID laws, and some do and some don’t. But secondly, what they are proposing in this so-called SAVE Act is like Jim Crow 2.0. They make it so hard to get any kind of voter ID, that more than 20 M legitimate people, mainly poor people and people of color, will not be able to vote under this law. We will not let it pass in the Senate we are fighting it tooth and nail.

• You can’t get on a social system without ID.
• You can use your voter ID card to get SNAP.
• There are no photos on my voter ID card.
• I have to show a photo ID with a photo to vote here in Louisiana.

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VOTER ID and SAVE ACT

• The problem is Democrats spun this lie that it was racist to ask people that aren’t white if they had a voter ID.
• Democrats were so racist they were trying to convince us that black people are too dumb to get an ID.

OLYMPICS

• European countries know they have ticking time bombs in their country.
• Trump has stopped the further radicalization of the EU and they should thank him for it.

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• Rubio is discharging a power that belongs to President Trump.
• Rubio was one of his fierce competitors when he was running.
• Politically it was a great move.
• He could have chosen not to elevate him b/c he was such a fierce competitor but he looked past that and saw he could and would be a fierce advocate and asset.

• Disney’s live-action Snow White has reportedly flopped – with the woke rebrand costing the company a staggering $170 million loss.
• No one wanted to see her.
• No one wanted to see a non-white Snow White.
• The film brought in just $87.3 million during its May 2025 opening weekend and went on to earn a total of $205.7 million.
• She was in a school production and Spielberg cast her w/o anything else.
• She has no idea how this industry really works.
• She got an Oscar and she didn’t realize this could all go away. She didn’t understand this was a children’s movie and the political banter was a major distraction and would detour people from watching and that is exactly what happened.

• Great little series so far I have watched up to Episode 3.
• You can have art that is edgy.
• We have never NOT wanted art.
• The difference is when we are told something is art and you know it isn’t.
• Look at Wuthering Heights for example, it haas already made back its entire budget already. That is because they didn’t make it woke.
• Hollywood should take note.
• We are NOT opposed to art.
• They kept the two white leading roles and didn’t try to do like the movie about Queen Elizabeth and make her black.
• Stick to the story as it was originally presented.
• There has to be an understanding, Catholics aren’t weak in politics anymore.

• It has become a lighting rod when the left has nothing left to discuss.
• Trump restructuring is fine but we have to get rid of these illegals.

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• Meta/Google trial over social media addiction.
• Meta absolutely knew what it was doing with their algorithms.
• They fine tuned them to make them as addictive as possible.
• iPads in every kids hands, biggest, greatest fail in human history.
• All fans of that have now recanted. You don’t solve things with a screen.
• President Trump is a good example of this.
• He isn’t afraid of AI, he uses it as a tool for comedy like the Prius video and the him being in the US Hockey team.
• The revolt however I think is coming.
• What do you see with people your age?
• There is a desire to NOT live super tech wise.
• No one is happy in this error of times.
• Why do people post about wanting to live in the 80’s?
• There is a desire to escape this period of time.
• What is so broken about this time that people want to leave it so badly?
• Back in the 80’s we thought tech was going to kill us.
• It is still a joke among people my age.
• No dude they are going to launch SkyNet!
• People think Elon’s fascination is going to launch SkyNet!
• Also everyone I see using AI has this never-ending fear of AI taking over the entire workplace.
• They want you to be afraid of AI to buy their course.
• Talking about the dangers is different than what they are dealing with.

HEADLINE: Bannon, Epshteyn hit with investor class action over ‘Patriot Pay’ cryptocurrency by Mike Scarcella

• Bannon has not been a net positive for the conservative party.
• Reince Priebus doesn’t get enough credit about either.
• The lawsuit in Washington  D.C., federal court named Bannon and Epshteyn, both longtime allies of U.S. President Donald Trump, along with Bannon’s War Room media company, Let’s Go Brandon Coin LLC and Patriot Pay LLC, among other defendants.
• Who was responsible? That was the Steve Bannon and anti-Catholic bias.
• Those people who were against you and are diehard Catholic now, do you believe them?
• There is a group that is allowed to dominate but what are they using it for?
• They aren’t using it for the betterment of the Church.
• No one is asking about Bannon and Epstein and the Catholic faith.
• There was a person that was going to come on the show and say if I do an interview with Mike Church, I will lose RAV.
• The book publisher set it up with us.
• Catholic social teaching does not teach this as a primary thing.
• You cannot be driven primarily by profit.
• I don’t see Matt Walsh and other Catholic broadcasters as ‘competitors or enemies’. Catholics should be willing to help each other.