Trump on Diesel Tax & Paris in Flames

You know, for months now, myself, many others here on PBN, others around, you know, common sense people at large, With a microphone. Without. I've been asking the question. About tax. On gas. And diesel. Cut the tax. Well we can't do anything about the price. So we'll cut the tax. Trump signs order. To expand access to tax exempt diesel. Man. Huh? How? How did. It take. Donald Trump to do this. I mean, what happened at the state level? And it's still not gasoline. It should be petroleum. It should be gasoline at the pump for all Americans. Now, I understand keeping the, you know, the 18 wheelers and the combines rolling, but it should be bigger than this. But it's at least a step. I'm blown away that Democrat leadership in states, governors like mine, like the mother of mayhem here, Abigail Spanberger, whose literal claim was to cut costs. We're going to cut costs. But I really think that the Democrats would hate to give this up. I think they're so rabid. That they would never give up this opportunity to say, look, would you look at the gas prices under Donald Trump? They don't care how much it costs. Because I don't think they care about costs. I mean, when's the last time they really cut costs? It just blew me away that there's so many opportunities in California. You know the difference Gavin Newsom could make in California? You know the difference it could be made for the California working class, if they cut the insane tax. And you know the difference that California could make in the United States right now if they hadn't completely destroyed refining in their state in order to preserve places like L.A. that they were going to allow to burn down anyway. And then be infested with homeless. And pay them. And pay them about half The homeless in California get paid about half per month what my father gets paid from the government for Social Security. Just put that into perspective. They've done nothing with their lives. They do drugs and live in a tent. Not all, but a lot. Let's be real. And they get a check cut each month for living in that tent. That's about half of what a man who worked 50... 60 maybe-ish years of his life. Insane, guys. So I thought I'd get on this morning early. We're still going to do our dirt cheap preps. Later. Nine. Live. For everyone. Because, you know, I don't know. Something called me yesterday. I heard a lot of things yesterday. I've been slowly sort of listening a little bit here and there to... world news and things like that the diagnoses are like I don't know they're so stark anymore it's like why listen you know what I mean you see what's happening in France it's hard to listen once you deduce the fact that Europe has fallen once you once you get to the point where you know that it's basically a miracle that Europe can turn around the Muslim invasion of their Countries. Well, that's hard to listen. It's hard to listen to news. It's like when I grew up around Philadelphia. And every night in Chester and in Kensington, someone would get shot and killed. You know, it's hard. You don't turn the news on to find that. You don't turn the news on to hear the story. Hey, what's going on in Kensington tonight? You know, it was it was such a sad and miserable element of life. in Philadelphia that it became... In order to deal with the sort of sadness of it, my father turned it into something of a joke. You know, we'd be watching the news and he would look over and say, Jim, you won't believe what happened in Kensington today. Huh? Somebody got shot. And he would act, you know, real surprised, like... You know, and it was... It wasn't a nice thing to say. It wasn't a nice little trick to have up the sleeve, but it was... It was also interesting in part because of the fact that, come on, like how depressing is it that your beautiful city has this going on in a place and every night someone shot there? I feel the same way when I read news about Britain, France, you know what I mean? I feel the exact same sort of, oh, you won't believe it, somebody got stabbed to death. You won't believe it, they're burning the schools down with Palestinian flags are flying. Because for years and years and years, they said, you, the French, are wrong. You, the capitalist French, are super wrong, right? Let the communists do their thing. Let the socialists do their thing. Let the black blocs come in and do their thing. Let the Antifa do their thing. Let the illegal immigrants do their thing. And you sit here with your baguette and watch your city burn. And now they're literally sitting and watching their cities burn. And today's a very big day in France. Today is a huge day in France. Today could be a make-or-break day in the country of France. I mean, we don't know when these make-or-break days come. You know what I mean? But it is really one of these things where it's like... In history, you can only look back, right? Like, you can only really look back and go, that was the moment when X happened. 13 hours ago, demonstrators rally across France as school protests escalate. We want to be heard, not tear gassed. Students joined by parents and unions in mass French protests. It's a big deal, man. It's a big deal. It's being sold to you as fiscal turmoil and as students being upset, right? Euro sinks to 17-month low on France debit fears. Yeah. I mean, you know, you lose control of a population and fall into a financial collapse. And you may never have France again. Now, they've weathered a lot of things. They weathered warfare. They weathered a lot of things, man. I mean, they were fighting the Brits tooth and nail for a long, long time. It was one of the reasons we got what we got. One of the reasons America's here. If not for the hatred between the Brits and the French, we wouldn't have been so easily able to send our man Franklin over. Hey, you want to slap these Brits around on another continent with us, with your Navy? Sure. You want to send Rochambeau over so he can train up our boys to run into the Brit musket fire and then kill some of them? You know, there's no doubt about that. We're not allowed to talk about hatred in school because we pretend like it doesn't exist. Everybody gets along. As long as we believe some lies like that, then we can, you know, go home and, I don't know, eat our mashed potatoes at the dinner table. Demonstrators rally across France as school protests escalate. France's school protests go nationwide. Yeah, this is what I was worried about. This is the big one. This is the big one here. Let's see what the doofuses at CNN are saying. Unprecedented student protests are rocking France. Here's why they're angry. Yeah, here you go. They got the mimeograph sheet for sure. Hundreds of schools have been forced to close and more than 5,000 people have been taken in. First of all, if you could get the go-ahead to riot in your school, in other words, miss school, set the school on fire, let's see if they mention the fact that people have been set on fire. Students, teachers, and policemen have been injured. One student in the northeast city of Lens lost his hand when he picked up a grenade. And another in Tours, the use of an eye. He didn't mention the guys who were set on fire. Yeah, something tells me we won't learn about that in this article. But you can go see pictures of people who've been dousing gasoline and set on fire in France. I wonder who did that. I kind of remember something. I remember a group. I remember a group of people setting a man on fire in... in a cage. The original protest at Saint-Exupéry High School in Parisian suburbs attracted little attention. When their demands were met, an extra staff sent to the school to strike ended, but by then the match had been lit. It's an unprecedented number of schools that are now involved. Adding that France's education ministry has been totally overwhelmed by the crisis. Okay. So what do they want? You're telling me what the students in these schools want is more teachers. That's what they want. Critics have been accused of police, the police of heavy-handed response. What do you want them to do? Let the whole country burn down? The violence and the speed, what do they want? An overcrowded, ill-equipped, and understaffed education system. How does that happen? They feel is no longer fit for the perfect. How does that happen? It happens all over America. Right? How does that happen? The French are having so much sex with each other and having so many babies. The French population is booming. Listen to how shit CNN is. A fertility spike in France in 2010 has led to a rise in the number of high school students now attending schools that have seen years of real-terms funding cuts. A fertility spike. Hmm. Maybe I missed it. Maybe I missed the statistic where the French women were just popping babies out left and right. Secondary schools now have fewer teachers than in 2008, despite an extra 250,000 students enrolled. Imagine that. Imagine that. Imagine you let in as many illegals as you can, and then all of a sudden, a fertility spike. Out of nowhere. And then all of a sudden, imagine, maybe infrastructure gets overwhelmed? Listen, if it were about resources and understaffed education systems, then why would there be Palestinian flags flying outside the schools? Tell me how those two things line up. Nothing says, you know, the model of education like, Palestine, right? Why don't we put it Palestine? Critics say the government's response has been slow and tin-eared. Tin-eared? Dang. That's, yeah. Initially, much of it was focused on the far-left LFI party and its presence at the barricades. There was initial concession over the fees at the technological high school. It had been planned for 2027, but this has now been removed on the government's budget. Yeah, why do you think the government don't have no money? Why do you think the schools are overwhelmed? You took a country that was already like, we might work today. We might not. You know what I mean? We're a socialist nation. It is what it is. You take a country like that, then you overwhelm it with Muslim immigrants that hate you. Right? That reproduce much faster than the average, you know, French couple. female, whatever, however you want to look at it. You got two societies that are very different. You got one that's disappearing and one that's growing out of control. And now the saddest part of it all is that the children have to deal with the consequences of Merkel, right? The consequences of Merkel up there smiling and getting her way and letting people into the country in unprecedented numbers, of takeover, really. The French kid's who were maybe not even born or babies, had no idea the nation was being taken over. They had no idea that, you know. And now they exist in a world where they go, we don't have any money for anything. What? Oh, it's because of, you know, fertility spike here in France. Right. France, okay. It's very bad. I mean, it's very bad news. But all that to say, you know, it's hard. It's hard to read stories about, oh my God, oh no, you wouldn't believe the struggles in Europe. I did hear yesterday that there was a big federal court case over the Fourth Amendment and flock cameras and mass surveillance at large. I actually think that the Fourth Amendment may protect us from this mass surveillance situation. I do. Call me naive. But let's get back to the story that matters for the United States and the world. Trump signs order to expand access to tax-exempt diesel because this is a big deal, man. The order directs federal authorities to expand access to tax-exempt diesel, the fuel used in tractors and off-road machinery that is dyed red to help law enforcement officials detect tax evasion if operators use the full fuel for driving on roads. Red fuel is now temporarily approved for on-road use, lowering costs. for hauling freight by 24.4 cents per gallon. It's not bad. We need more, though. Lower fuel price to save truckers $ 100 every time they fill and reduce farmers' operating costs by millions. It was the easiest. It's an easy win. It really is an easy win. You know what I mean? It might be the easiest win. And I can't believe no Democrat took advantage of it. Right. I can't believe there wasn't a Democrat on the floor of Congress screaming about taxes on gas. If you haven't noticed, we're running a $ 40 trillion deficit. So this idea that, well, we better not do this. We can't miss out on those gas taxes. Oh, if we cut those gas taxes, we're really going to be in a hot seat. You're $ 41 trillion in debt. There is no hot seat left, dude. If the seat ain't hot now, then what are we even talking about? Just get rid of it. I mean, it is what it is. You might as well get rid of it anyway. Why do we even care? You hit 40. You don't even know. You can't eat. I mean, either. No one can even, you can't understand $ 40 trillion. You can't, literally you can't, you look outside, you can't understand. Just look at your backyard. You can't understand what would happen if $ 40 trillion just popped up in your backyard right now. You can't understand the damage that the sheer volume of bills would do to your property. Do you understand? You don't understand. I don't understand. We're dancing. Oh, no, we better keep this tax in. We might need a few more pennies over here for this tax. You guys, my entire life, have just... I'm learning about exponents. And all I can think about in school is the government. I'm like, oh, this is how the government... Exponents, I get. This is how the government does business. To the power of four, right? To the fourth power, we just build on the debt. I'm supposed to sit here and go like, oh, well, they're just being fiscally responsible at the state federal level with the gas taxes. No, they don't care. Right. And what really hurts all the Trump haters and look, I'm no Trump supremacist. OK. He's as flawed and as human as any president, though, I think he has done more for the security of America than maybe any any president, period. Maybe the only one who's done more for the security of the nation was Truman for dropping nukes and then taking over the world's waters with the Navy. But he's just a man. But what really has got to hurt people out there, especially those who hate him, is to look around at their magical leaders, the Bernie Sanders, the AOCs, I don't know who else. But on both sides of the aisle, though, to look around at these people and try to figure out, like, why not just kill the gas tax? Why not just kill the diesel tax? Just kill it. Moratorium. Done. Over with. Take it off completely. Right? Then the government can say it would be the easiest win for the Democrats because they could sit there and say, look, Donald Trump's trying to kill you. I'm going to help you. Where Donald Trump is trying to kill you with gas costs, we're going to help you. But I think the problem is that every politician is captured to some degree, right? If they even think, well, we could cut the gas tax, then some oil company is probably going to call up and go, well, you know, we do get a piece of that gas tax, so that's going to hurt our bottom line. Because I'm sure the oil company gets their own money and then probably a piece of that gas tax because that goes into some government whatever. And then subsidized in the whole nine yards. It's a dark world, man. But the president has said, you know, he's going to give access to tax-exempt diesel. It's not the move that I want. Don't get me wrong. But at least he's making a move on tax. The tax-exempt diesel. Supreme Court mixes last-ditch effort to block paramount merger. I don't know all this stuff. Debate over Islam divides a Texas county. What's the debate? Let's read the debate real quick. Let's just see. McKinney recall. City council approval of a mosque has sparked a protest and recall effort. A few miles south on the 25th anniversary of 9-11, protesters gathered outside a plain old mosque waving American flags. Don't mecca my Texas. Jeez. To the east in the rural part of the county, what's known as Epic City, a 1,000-home Muslim development anchored by a mosque, remains on hold. Yeah, this whole thing, I mean, this is going to be ugly. But as more Muslims settle in the red state of Texas, strife over Islam as a political movement has grown and is increasingly reflected in the election. Well, let's make it into a political movement, you know? That'd be the way to go. Just make Islam a political party in the United States. Right? That'd be good. Why would that be good? Well, then it's not a religion. Right? So you forget about your First Amendment rights and all that. You want a political movement in the United States of America that manipulates society and law? Fine. Have the people vote for it. You know what I mean? That's the way to do it. What's wrong with that? Right? But the idea that you're going to hide a whole new set of laws, a whole different type of culture, a whole different kind of thing, you're going to hide this thing under the mask of a religion and say, we just want to be able to pray five times a day in our mosques. That's all we want. We just want to have our own little city in there of like-minded individuals. Nothing wrong with that. And if it was going to stay within that epic city, that'd be one thing. And if we could look to Europe as an example and say, hey, you know what? They're probably not lying because look, look how well they integrate and get along with the Europeans and the Londoners and, you know. In 2020, Texas was home to 224 mosques, the third largest number in the nation. When the city council stops answering to the people, the people have a duty to act. Loud and said during city council meetings. It's time to start organizing a recall on every member who has chosen cowardice and silence over accountability. Yeah, there's something going on here in America that's going to be very interesting. And it is... It's... Well, would it... I'm just going to say it like it is, OK? I'm not trying to make a point. I'm not trying to be crass or anything like that. But it just this is what's happening. There are two cultures, two protected cultures that are butting up against each other in the United States. This Ashley Loudon is a black girl, little young black Texan girl, not little, but teenage, you know, and she's opposed to this epic city. And I've seen this starting to happen in the United States in a few different places. Detroit, where American black culture is rubbing up against Islamic culture. And I don't know why, but for some reason, these guys, they throw around the N-word like no big deal. Right? This is a thing that is not, it's not happened in a big way yet. in the news, but it is happening at the ground level, right? And think about it, right? It kind of makes sense. I mean, if you had a recent history of slavery, not to mention, you know, having had been sold off by Arabs, your ancestors, Muslims, yeah, you might be a little nervous. You might be thinking, this prescription doesn't suit me. And if you could look and use your common sense mind for five seconds to see how women are treated in the most, well, not even necessarily the most radical levels of Islam, but you see how women are treated in that culture, in that political party of Islam, then you might have some qualms about mosque here and mosque there and epic city here and epic city there. I mean, it just is. Look. All I want you to know is have your concerns and speak on your concerns. And there's nothing wrong with having concerns and speaking on your concerns. There's nothing wrong with it. It doesn't make you racist. It doesn't make you a problem. Have someone explain it. I just want someone to explain it to me. I just want someone to explain to me why a burqa works. I just want someone to explain to me why a woman can't leave the house alone in your culture. And then we can talk about that. And then once I understand that, then I want to understand why you want to look at my daughter or my wife and say, oh, that needs to happen to them too. My shit has to overflow onto yours. Because now we're getting into the nature of, this is the nature of the whole situation, right? The nature of the whole situation is that there doesn't seem to be, for all the masculinity that's purported to be in the Muslim communities, there doesn't seem to be a voice of reason to talk to the kids, to talk to people in the community and say, hey, our rights don't spill over onto their rights. And maybe that's because there is a fundamental difference, right? I don't know. PBN family, I appreciate you today. There's a lot more I could talk about. I've been under a bit of a rigorous kind of production schedule. Let's go with that, right? I've been trying to crank out some things with a little more order and a little less chaos. 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