Heartland Journal Podcast
Heartland Journal Podcast EP222 Lets Go Brandon with Brandon Lewis & More 6 27 24
It is our Let’s Go Brandon edition where Brandon Lewis from The Tennessee Conservative News joins us to talk about the latest goings on in the Tennessee capitol. It’s another great show you’ll want to share with all your friends and family. For more about Brandon go to www.tennesseeconservativenews.com If you like what you hear make sure to subscribe to the show and share it with your friends. You can find us at http://heartlandjournal.com
- Duration:
- 1h 7m
- Broadcast on:
- 27 Jun 2024
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- mp3
(upbeat music) - Welcome to the Heartland Journal's podcast. With your host, Steve Abramowitz, editor-in-chief of partlandjournal.com. ♪ Let's go, brandit, let's go, brandit ♪ ♪ Let's go, let's go, let's go, brandit ♪ ♪ Let's go, brandit, let's go, brandit ♪ ♪ Let's go, brandit, let's go, brandit ♪ - Howdy, I am Steve Abramowitz, and this is the Heartland Journal podcast. Let's go, brandit, special edition. We are focusing on our nation today with always an interesting person making a positive change in our community. Welcome to our People in the News, brandit, people who are making an impact and are lovers of truth. Today is our Let's Go, brandit segment. You heard the music where we once a month, check in with our favorite East Tennessee newsman, Brandon Lewis. Brandon Lewis, founder and president of the Tennessee Conservative News covers the stories that mainstream media ignores. One of the few news organizations willing to cover the truth in Tennessee broadcasting from the tippy tippy top of historical signal mountain Chattanooga. First, big huge shout out to the University of Tennessee Knoxville baseball team for their win over Texas in the 2024 college world series. I actually watched the game, three, game three, that is, and it was very exciting. Wish my baseball coach was as fun loving as Tony Vitello got my shirt on and everything. Okay, there he is. Hi, BL, how are you today? Did you hear my wonderful intro for you? Yes, yes, thank you. Thank you very much. The check is in the mail. Thank you, Tennessee for Trump. You and those of you on Rumble will get that. You and the ladies of Signal Mountain ready for one crazy summer? We are, we're in the middle of it. We just got back from Philadelphia last week. I was able to take the girls to Constitution Hall, the Liberty Bell, the Ben Franklin Museum, and the Institute and essentially give them some experiential feelings about what we will be teaching them about the founding of our nation as we go forward with their schooling. So it was a good time. What a good dad. I'm gonna have to add that to the bio next time. Father of the year, and I like that movie too, but too bad John Cusack did go crazy, the one crazy summer I'm talking about. Actually, he always was crazy. I met him on the Clinton campaign way back when, anyone more about you and less about me, ripped from the salacious clickable, if it bleeds or it is on fire. It leads headlines of today and this week that can only be found at Tennesseeconservativenews.com. At least 50 known foreign nationals with ties to the Islamic terrorist group ISIS are living in the US literally, and their whereabouts are unknown to federal agencies tasked with national security according to several reports. That is almost as long a headline as Daily Mail. You all broke the story that Tennessee spends a billion dollars to house, educate, keep healthy illegals and their kids. Nowhere near as much on veterans or kids in prison. What do you know about how many illegals are here in Tennessee? And I think I read on your site, they primarily come from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, but that was 2019. So I'm sure scary Venezuelans and rival Colombian gangs are here now, don't you think? - Yeah, I mean, we know that they are, if you look at the arrest records of various municipalities all over the state of Tennessee. Tennesseeans are regularly being assaulted, stolen from our laws are being broken day in and day out. And most rhino-republicans will get on the campaign trail, like Patsy Hazelwood, and say that if you think the state of Tennessee can do anything about the illegal immigration crisis, you're crazy. And the fact is we have sovereignty in the state of Tennessee to protect our own borders. And the easiest way to do that is by be magnetizing our state from employment, benefits, free education, and to criminalize the mass transportation. But Republican leadership has killed all of those resolutions and/or laws every time they've been brought in front of committee and a lot of the incumbents that are being faced by conservative challengers are having to explain their voting records on those very same bills, the cycle and the primary voters don't like it. And hopefully we will be able to turn a lot of those out. - You mentioned Patsy Hazelwood, she's your assembly person, isn't she? - For now. - Yes. - So Michelle Renau is likely to be my representative soon. She's working hard, harder than I've seen any candidate work in a long time and I've worked with a lot of candidates and she's got everything it takes to win. And every time we put Hazelwood's record in front of voters, they just shake their head. And she continues to go out and try to defend it, but it's rather indefensible. - Let's go, Michelle Renau, okay, I get that. She's a pretty powerful, actually her moniker is Assembly Lady. She likes to go by Assembly Lady. Patsy Hazelwood is on the, she's the chairperson of the Appropriations Committee. Doesn't get any more powerful than that. They write the checks. How do you feel like if she were to be knocked off? I guess you're saying anybody but Patsy, but yet you lose a powerful voice, so. - I mean, the thing is I could suck you. Do you really? I mean, they're always gonna put somebody to chair the Appropriations Committee, whatever committee people set on, somebody's gonna do it. And if somebody's doing a bad job and a lot of these people in leadership are, the further you climb, typically the worst your record is. That's what I've seen. And so it is great, in my opinion, both in the House and the Senate to disrupt this very corrupt, corporately funded power structure we have in the GOP leadership all across Tennessee. So anytime one of those guys bites the dust and the lobbyists have to start all over from day one with somebody trying to bribe them into submission to abandon their constituents and their campaign promises, which many of them do most in fact. And so it doesn't matter. I don't care what committee people set on. If you got a bad voting record, you just need to hit the door. - Okay, so back a little bit to illegal immigration, estimated 128,000 in 2019 in Tennessee, probably over 200,000 now, I guess, if not more. Seven million Tennesseans, some small rural counties, that could tip a few close elections. That is 3% of the population, right? But heritage.org says we're number one in voter integrity, so not to worry. But I think it matters also because the 2030 census is coming. Constitutional loophole is making the battle against illegal immigration perpetually harder to resolve. Counting illegal aliens as citizens as outlined in the 14th amendment leads to the over allocation of seats to the dominant party in districts with large illegal populations. Our Senator Hagerty tried to get a bill passed in the US Senate to make it citizens only. And of course, not one single dem voted for it. And it failed, they run the Senate in DC. Hope they try again many times if they have to before 2030 or areas like, for example, newly drawn five with Andy Ogles might get a congressman in DC from a district that has no real voters at all to answer to. Wet would be very bad and un-American, right? Literally. Well, I mean, I don't know. That federal stuff's above my pay grade. But it's just amazing to me that anybody in any country across the world would want to give voting rights to people who have broken the laws to get in to begin with. So we're living in very corrupt times where the time-honored American traditions are being abandoned and discarded for power and influence on a daily basis. And many of them I never expected to live to see, but yet here we are. And I know that you focus primarily on Tennessee. And like you said, the DC stuff you don't focus on or it's over your pay grade. But I mentioned Andy Ogles because that is a Tennessee congressman who can go back there and affect DC policy. What do you think or what do you see in Tennessee specifically regarding illegal immigration? Some Republicans actually voted against some laws this last session that could have pertailed it or added fines to it or something about it. But they didn't really. And you were one of the only voices out there saying they should. And then they didn't. And that's why you're talking about voting records to prove that they actually don't have Tennesseean's best interests of mind. So tell me about illegal immigration in Tennessee and how our legislatures who are Republican, the reddest of red states, the ones who were talking about bill that wall aren't doing a darn thing to prevent things like fake congressman in the future going up to DC to not bring money back to us. - Yeah, well, I mean, if you look at that, the bill that would have finally fined a Delta Greyhound, American Airlines, anybody who's mass transporting illegal aliens into Tennessee, that got killed in committee. And the guys took no initiative whatsoever to amend the wall. They said that they had issues. Well, if stopping illegal immigration is the number one issue that primary voters care about, but you're too damn lazy to amend some bill language with all the support staff and budgets and everything that they have up there in the legislature's ridiculous. In times past, there have been laws proposed in committee to make E-Verify compulsory for all Tennessee employers. And that's always been killed by the Chamber of Commerce, the NFIB and the Rhinos in committee, stopping the taxpayer funding of education for illegal immigrants killed by the Republicans in committee and the list goes on. And so it is, they're corporately beholden. If you look at their campaign finance reports, it's all special interest money outside of their districts. And so the corporations want more illegal aliens for two reasons. Everyone is a customer and everyone is an opportunity for cheaper labor. And if Tennesseans get hurt, if they lose job opportunities, if they have to work harder to provide benefits for people that are here illegally, the Republican lawmakers do not seem to care about it. As far as I can see, I see no evidence of it, except for the handful of conservatives that bring the legislation. - That's like I always said, even back in the Washington days and the California days, the one thing that the conservatives on the right and the Chamber, well, the Chamber of Commerce ones and the progressives on the left can agree upon is cheap labor, kind of sad but true. And they are very hot for school choice. Do you think they'll defend citizen voters from job-stealing criminals and public school health vectors? Because I would think illegals will overrun public free schools. - Well, they're already, I don't know, but they'll take the jobs, but I don't know that they could do any worse than what many of the schools that are overrun with legal alien students right now. I mean, there are a few in Chattanooga, you drive by. Four or five years ago, it was maybe like 80 some odd percent white or 80 some odd percent black and maybe 15 percent white. And now you drive by and it's like 85 percent Latino. And it's happened in three or four years time. And so it is decimating the opportunities for native born Tennesseans to get a good education. Then the Democrats talk out of both sides of their mouth on this issue. Number one, they complain that we don't have enough money and number two, they don't seem to care that we continue putting this massive influx of additional people who are here illegally into our school systems and it costs money. And so I can't remember it's almost $600 million a year. Just the education component alone. - Just, yeah, it'll grow to that for sure. It's very, very expensive. - Yeah, that's exactly right. And I keep telling everybody this whole great replacement theory that we're not supposed to talk about. It's really not a theory. It's a fact. It's not replacing the whites. It's replacing the Latinos and the blacks that are here illegally. So they'll regret it one day, whether it be jobs, schools, anything, healthcare. - Okay. Chamber of Commerce Republicans, we call them or mainstream Republicans is the actual party name in Washington state. If you can believe that. What do you call them here in Tennessee? These candidates that you're trying to oust as rhinos. What do you reckon them to be, do you think, I guess what I'm trying to say is, do you think they think they're doing a good job as a conservative Republican or do they have some other ideology behind them besides voter interests? - I think the same thing that it talks about in the scriptures, I mean, that men are sinful and they're driven by their own personal desires. And without some kind of governing principle, they will fail to serve people. And when wicked leaders are in power, the people suffer. And so we see that. We see it at the state level and the federal level and the local level. These gentlemen get up there and they're two things. Number one, they want to climb. And number two, they need money. And so the corporations provide the financing and the Republican leadership. If you will abandon your constituents and your campaign promises, we'll get you committee appointments. And maybe one day you can be lieutenant governor or the majority whip, whatever you want to be. And so these guys are class president types and they're climbers and they don't believe in the same values and the things that the GOP primary voters believe in. They just run because their district is drawn Republican and it's the only shot they've got. And so they're gonna try to climb. And then that's what they do. And so we've got to increasingly be more informed GOP primary voters on the voting records and then we have to get engaged by giving money and time to these conservative candidates that have the bravery to run. - I just thought of something, I don't know if you've ever done this, but I know you have the Rhino report and the follow the money report. And obviously you like to call out all these Democrats and Republicans, of course, if they do something that you think is wrong there in their votes and you're very positive. But if you ever looked and seen something like, for example, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went into Congress with about $100,000 worth of net worth and now she's worth 20 million. You don't make that on a Congressman salary in DC. They make even less up here in Nashville. You ever looked and seemed like net worth of what they went in with and what net worth they've either grown to or came out with? - No, that is not something we have the horsepower to look into unfortunately. We have to primarily report on what is publicly disclosed, which, you know, is ain't all of it. And occasionally we do, we are able to dig in, but I've not looked at that. Although I do know that, you know, one of the greatest aspirations of these elected officials is to become a lobbyist, to go up there, to get to know everybody, to understand the machinations and the workings, who's who, what, what, build relationships, not run for office, retire, and then go up there and peddle influence. And so that is, you know, when that is your ultimate aim and when all the power brokers are left leaning corporations, primarily up there, I mean, the vast majority, I mean, that's why we end up having this wash rents repeat, corporate, corporatist, COP, not a GOP, corporately owned party, not a grand old party up in Nashville. - And that's exactly what Trump said was the swamp, but he didn't actually focus on the swamp. He started looking at things like the FBI who beat him. Anyway, okay, well, that brings me to the lovely assembly woman on the Democrat side that has one campaign message. More dead babies, please. Her name is Afton Ben, and she sued Tennessee to block abortion trafficking law that we just passed, which made Tennessee the most pro-life state in America, by the way, but that's not good enough for Afton and her lawyer. What do you make of all that? - Well, often you will hear Rano's complain that the reason they can't pass legislation that would do something, whether it's legal, whether they're willing to go up against a court challenge is that they'll get sued. I mean, you get sued for anything. Almost every time any significant legislation is passed that the left doesn't like, they try to go litigate it in court and occasionally they win. And so, I mean, I think this is just to be expected, it is par for the course, anything, if we do something significant that conservatives and Republicans agree on as it relates to school choice, it'll be challenged. If we do anything to try to stop illegal immigration, it's gonna be challenged. It's always gonna be challenged. I don't really understand her premise necessarily, of course, I'm not an attorney, but she says that her claims are that the wording of the law is unconstitutionally vague and that the law violates the First Amendment rights by criminalizing certain speech. And I'm like, I don't think that's what the legislation deals with. So we'll just have to see how this shakes out in the courts. That's just not in that area of expertise with legality. - I'd be interested to see what kind of judge shopping they do, but we'll have to take it. - Oh, there's plenty to choose from in Tennessee. - I may have this wonderful leftist line, this tagline here in Tennessee that I found pretty quickly getting here reps past, Republicans passed lawsuits, not laws. And it's them that do the paying lawyers millions to sue them for everything they try to do. Like Jack Johnson told me they spend most of their bills undoing what the past Democrats have done for 50 years. So it's kind of a joke. But I assume she's suing A.G. Scarmetti, who has joined other states to sue the federal government to leave Tennessee and the rest of us alone. Do you like what you've seen from Scarmetti? I know you focus almost all your energy on Tennessee, like I said, but that's the point, right? The feds won't let us be independent when they want us dependent on their money and the strings attached. - I mean, so far, I think it's been pretty good. I do believe that Scarmetti, in some of the comments that he has made, it concerns me that he thinks that the judiciary makes laws or sets precedence. There's been a few occasions. It's like, well, the court doesn't like it. I have anything to do with it. And then your job is just to play referee. What's the law say? And your opinion about the law is irrelevant. And so we have increasingly allowed judges to become legislative arms to determine like the legislative, independent of the law, the constitution or anything else. And we have a legislature and COVID evidence this that they don't believe in their own autonomy and they won't take any of it. So if the governor says X, they go along with it. If the judiciary says X, they go along with it. And so it is a large caucus of cowards from what I have seen. I mean, there are some conservative stalwarts in the mix, but boy, they are in the minority. - I did find that very surprising because leading up to that, he was doing a lot of libertarian, let's just say, decisions, and then all of a sudden he decided to go with what I like to call judicial supremacy, where just because the judiciary says it's the letter of the law now doesn't mean it can't be overturned by the will of the people or the legislature, but now it can't, he's basically saying. But in Tennessee, it's very unique. His bosses are the Supreme Court. They appoint him, unlike say where I come from Washington, where they have to run for elections, so they're beholden to the shareholders and a lobbyist, but also not the governor. There, or here, the governor Lee, who I know you've had issues with, can't really tell his appointed attorney general what to do, there's a separation, and it's separated by distance. Nashville is where the legislation is. Knoxville, I believe, is where the Supreme Court is housed. Is that right? I think it is. So I find that fascinating. Does that, am I off-base on all that, or is that not right? - I'm not exactly sure. The judiciary is not, I'm learning this stuff. I'm a bomb. - Google, it's out there. I learned it the same way. But do you think Tennessee can fight this good fight? Let's say, Speaker Sexton talked about giving back Department of Education funds, and they want vouchers, so not sure where the money will come from. But what do you think? Can gambling taxes and lottery money fund school choice, and will it get written wisdom and CRT out of here, and pouring in the kiddies libraries out? - I don't have any, I don't hold out any hope for government education. It's a very complicated service. It requires high degrees of customization. And that is something the government is not good at customer service, and they're not good at problem solving. Typically they start out with something, and it's not that good, and you turn around 20 years later, and it's terrible. And that's just about, that is my lived experience, and it is most tax payers experience. So I don't think they're gonna make it any better. I think it's on a down, I mean, I think they can pump the brakes going down the hill, but they're not gonna change direction. And so I do believe that we may get some kind of school choice through. But to me, the fact, they are just give taxpayers their money back. If you have school aged children, you don't want to use the government schools, any apportionment of those funds for property or sales tax is ought to be turned back to the tax payer, and it wouldn't bother me. I mean, I've been, - What's the question? - I've been paying taxes for 20 years on businesses and properties and everything else, and the schools are so bad I can't send my kids to them. And I don't trust what they're teaching them, and there's too many kids in the classroom, and they're focused on ancillary things instead of the basic, the test scores suck. I mean, there are a few bright spots, if you're wealthy enough to move into a rich affluent zip code. But aside from that, everybody else in Tennessee has kind of stuck at the bottom of the barrel. So I don't know what they're gonna do with all that stuff. It went down in flames, and it was about the only semi-sorta kind of conservative thing that Billie has tried to do on any large scale. So I assume he will try to revisit that in his lame duck year coming up. So we'll see. - And it was in his 10 for 10, and so he's gonna keep that promise. - Yeah, he's hit one of 10, sent 10 promises, and he's made good on one of them by forming some kind of government committee, which you never seen a statue to a committee for a reason. - At least he doesn't want to name a highway or something. Well, this is awesome. We are covering a lot of ground. You said it was a slow new summer, but all these things are hugely important, regardless of Trump or Biden in the White House. I mean, that's just 40 years and these things are forever. They've even changed the state constitution a few times. Well, I've been here, and the state was 240 years old, so it seemed to do okay until these guys got their hands on it. So you're in media, you are in journalism, actually, a conservative fellow news guy like us, Michael Patrick Leahy, you know, can't trust those three name guys. He got called into the judges chambers to explain to her, she's a freshman judge, by the way, explain why he didn't commit a crime by releasing Audrey Hale's evidence, the crime being contempt of court. Oh, and she was tipped off by a TV guy from WSMV or else she might not have even known he had done it. And in the meantime, she sat on the FBI's evidence for a year so we can't know motive. Interestingly, Channel 5 hasn't even investigated any of this. What do you make of all this as a media guy and news observer like me for Tennessee news? - The whole thing just amazed, it's just a fiasco. So number one, it's a racist anti-Christian trans lady. I never know if to call them men or women, I just have very confusing to me. It shoots up a Christian school, Rott's, why she did it. And the police, the legislature, the governor, media outlets and the judiciary, all get together to cover it up. All of them get together to cover it up. I mean, that is a huge story in and of itself. Fast forward, Bill Lee uses it as an impetus to try to take away people's gun rights. And the Republicans end up in some limp risted way going actually doing it with these mental, allowing people, the psychiatrist or whatever to say, hey, I think this person needs to be stripped of their second amendment rights without due process. And we think that's a good thing. Further, it don't read something to you from the Tennessee State Constitution. It says that the printing press shall be free to every person to examine the proceedings of the legislature or any branch or officer of the government and no wall shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. And it's plain language. - They understand that ever as much as they understand shall not infringe. - Yeah, and ever is a long time. - And so the reason that we have a free press in the United States is so that we can actually, the few that aren't corporately funded so that we can actually tell the truth to people. And so it is amazing to me that the people have such little regard for the citizens they represent as to not want to get them the truth through whatever means necessary. - Well, just a funny recap for those who aren't in Tennessee or don't hear about this, they had a special session. They wanted to get red flags by any other name. They didn't want to call them red flags. They did not. They come back to regular session and they pass a law that says you can't have red flags in any county in Tennessee. - It is, it's all a bunch of BS. It's a lot, what was his name? Oh, I can't think of it. Oh, it'll come to me here in a second. Kerry Roberts, I think. One of them that Matt Murphy show and wanted to brag, brag about the fact that they repealed a bill that gave illegal aliens professional licenses in Tennessee when they voted for it in the first place. I mean, like it just, what they think should get them a standing ovation is just baffling. - Well, that's like when Senator Johnson told me that half their bills are trying to repeal stuff that the Democrats did, it actually in less time, some of it is repealing what the Republicans did because they got outed in the news that they did a bad thing. - Yeah, and almost then they were having to run with this on their record and people hate it. They absolutely hate it. When people read most of these folks what they vote for, how they grow government, how they give away corporate welfare. Like if you really have a good candidate that can go out and educate people and it's fantastic that the voter turnout is abysmally low in Tennessee, I hope it goes lower. I hope we get like two people to show up and to every election, you've got to talk to those two people. And so it's easier in this state for a GOP conservative candidate to be an established candidate. You know, with a little bit of money you can hit those people multiple times. For example, here in our race, and then Michelle Renau's got what, somewhere between 3,200 and 2,700, three of four and four, four primary voters, that's it. That's all the people that are gonna decide who's in the state house. And you can knock on doors at 50, 60 doors a day and make it through that list before election day. And so for those of you out there who are thinking about running for office, start planning today. Start planning today, put your networks together, educate yourself on the art of campaigning. Don't just think because you're politically interested that you're gonna win. And go run. You know, there's been about three or four people that have told me without my prompting that the reason they ran for office is because of the Tennessee conservative news. Brian Ritchie is one, Bobby Harshbarger is another, Chris Spencer, and many others. So like I just didn't realize how bad my representatives voting record was so I started keeping up with your coverage. And so as we grow and expand, I think more and more people that care about the country and the state are gonna see that these guys need to be replaced and hopefully step up to the plate and do it. - And close your eyes and imagine for a second a Tennessee without Tennessee conservative news.com, even though it's killing you and probably draining your wallet faster than you'd really like. But if you were not here, besides my little podcast, there would be the Tennessee Haller, the Williamson Herald, the, I mean, so many liberal leaning out of Memphis left field publications. They would know what their records are. They would probably enjoy it and they would not want to expose the Republicans for accurately Democrats because they're doing what they want them to. - Yeah. - You know I'm on a mission to get a California prop 13 style real estate tax cap in place. Scott's a picky is on my team, so I'm hopeful. But the bill that would have done it died last session. And sure enough, Clarksville passed a hike with a little public notice or comment out by you in red banks, 56% hike overnight, Rutherford, 16% Nashville just did it a few years ago and says they want another folks fleeing Memphis for crime and now they got a 49 cent one instead of the 79 cents but to pay for basketball courts, so late night basketball will take the criminals off the street apparently, which is their solution to the rising crime, which is off the charts. And Elon Musk wants to set up a supercomputer there to use a million gallons a day of the Memphis Sand Aquifer, which could make the place uninhabitable and certainly unfarmable. Maybe if the politicians knew that that means golf courses won't get watered, they care. Anyway, that's three issues, but what do you think about property tax overnight surprises and corporate welfare in Tennessee overall and thoughts on poor Memphis and new reason to flee a home tax? - I think they should put a cap on it. You know, I talked to, who was it, Chris Todd about this because he brought the bill to cap property taxes I think two years ago and it either died in committee or never made it to committee, I cannot recall, but nonetheless, you know, the thing is, there has to be some kind of split, 'cause here's the issue, if you give it a yearly cap what municipalities will do is just pass it every year. - About 2% is better than 50 cents. - Yes, yes, I agree. And the other issue is, you know, well, if you put it in there, well, they just do it every year for a small amount. I think the answer is no, because typically when you raise taxes at all, even if you raise them a little or a bunch, you've raised taxes. And so as you run for office, somebody who's smart can get in there and do it and make some hay out of it. There's a lot of people that hate tax increases. And then I think they, I think when you buy your house, I think whatever taxes are at the, when you buy your house, I think they should stay there. It's bad enough that you can't ever get rid of it. You just can't, it's like you're in retirement, you're like, oh, I've got a budget for the rest of my life for this thing that I own to be taxed over and over and over again. So I think, you know, property taxes in general are some of the most insidious, unfair taxes that punish instead of reward people who get out there and get themselves self-sufficient. It's like, it's just never ending penalty. So I would like to see all kinds of property tax reforms because these governments need to live, to learn within their means, just like their, you know, the citizens have to. - I'll tell you, when wonderful conservative minded people leave their blue states like California, 300,000 last year, Washington state where I came from, et cetera, they come to Tennessee, let's say the good ones who don't want to California their Tennessee and leave their voting record behind or at least their neighbors. They wake up one day and say, oh, property tax has just got raised 56%. They don't understand that because they've lived their entire life with the property like I did. I had to understand like, oh, it's subject to the whim of an assembly that, or I should say county council that can do whatever the heck they want to do because that's where the money is in a sales tax, no income stack state. So to protect the farms, to protect the people, we need a cap whether it's 2% inflation, some number because one day property taxes, or sorry, property values could go down and you won't have to worry so much about, oh, well, we're gonna go have to go get the money from there. And that leads me to $500 million, half a billion for your liberals out there, shortfall in tax revenue. And guess what? Titan Stadium got $500 million. Correlation does not causation, but zero sum is a real thing. What do you think about the local NFL getting all that money and the government having less to fill potholes and such? - I don't know, it's of all the things that I look at, like the corporate welfare in general, just picking winners and losers is terrible. I think it's immoral. People are like, well, that's just how it's done. What do you matter if it's how it's done, if it's not right? Both you and I have ran small businesses and we never get handouts. I mean, the hardworking small business owners never get handouts, but the corporations who hire the lobbyists and grease the palms up in Nashville get blocked money for free to often compete against small businesses and other mid-sized businesses and to put them at a competitive disadvantage. I mean, it's very crooked, it's very corrupt. And even people like Bo Watson has a wife that lobbies for corporate welfare and then it goes into his account and he's a senator. And it's just terrible all the way around. It's a huge conflict of interest and it breaks the high heaven from an ethical standpoint. And so, but above all, recreation, recreation, recreation that probably 98%, 99% of Tennesseans will never participate in, ever set foot in that facility, ever, ever, ever, and to tax the whole state. So millionaires and billionaires can make more millions and billions, I just don't get it. It's wildly unpopular. And I hope that many of these challengers to these incumbents hit them over the head as we head into August. - Mm-hmm. And I mentioned poor Memphis. I know you are tucked away safely on Signal Mountain the whole time zone away from Graceland, but this state lives on sales tax and tourism drives that. Senator Brent Taylor is trying to recall their Soros backed $300,000 I saw. Biden's DOJ recently made it. This is from your website. Biden's DOJ recently made a deal with the Shelby County DA to circumvent the enforcement of Tennessee law. So there we go again with DC Messon with Tennessee. Steve Mulroy is the DA's name. And I think Nashville's DA Glenn Funk has made some people mad in the news too, being soft on crime and maybe some out near you could be brought up too. What do you make of the assembly working to correct the judicial branch, different branch of government? But someone's gonna do it. What do you think of that? And Brent Stevens. He and Haley Farrell are both defending their state Senate seats, I believe. - I would love to see these DA's that will not protect their citizens, whether it's from violence or quality of life issues get removed for their election of duty in one way or the other. I mean, it's just amazing these Democrats, mayors, et cetera. I mean, they just ruin, I would say the Democrat mayors ruin the cities and the DA's, et cetera. But honestly, it's the Democrats' citizens in those areas that slowly, you know, they set the dumpster on fire by voting for these people. And so it is sad, I mean, it's sad to watch your city become a hotbed of crime. And, you know, we're probably gonna talk about this in a moment, but, you know, mayor, Tim Kelly, here in Chattanooga has been one of the worst mayors we've had in recent history. Violence, through the roof, constantly being mentioned as one of the worst-ran cities in America. And then, you know, this just in, police chief resigns under TBI investigation. One count of illegal voter registration, one count of false entries, three counts of false entries of government records, three counts of forgery, three counts of perjury, six counts of official misconduct. And this is, you know, just a diversity hire by Kelly. And so, you know-- - Memphis has one and so, well, that's kind of rude with me to say, but there happens to be some under fire chiefs of police in both Nashville and Chattanooga and Memphis too, the highest crime cities in the state. So something's not right. - Yeah, I hope, I hope somebody, even, I would love to see a tough on crime Democrat run for Chattanooga mayor. I mean, somebody to challenge Tim Kelly and say, "Listen, he may not do anything about crime, but I will, but I don't know, that is typically, if you're a Democrat, you're soft on crime in most cases." - I wonder what Scirmetti thinks of all this, or the state Supreme Court over there in Knoxville. Like I said, Tennessee is unique, like I said, where they are in charge of all that judiciary stuff. I don't know, are state DA's elected officials, or are they appointed, and shouldn't he be the chief cop of all of them that we're talking about? - DA's are elected in Tennessee. - They are, okay. Well, who, so it's just up to the voters to figure out unless you do something like Senator Brett Stevens wants to do where they're actually trying to reach in there and repute the-- - Well, they can, the legislature and the governor can remove any county or city person, if done properly, because every all authority for any city, county government, any government, in the state of Tennessee, goes down from the legislature. - So he needs like a 2/3 vote of the Senate to come out of there, or something? - I don't know what it would be. - It sounds like there's a handful of them, both chiefs of police and DA's that could use some come up if nothing else, because they're not doing the job, and if you follow the money, maybe they're not intended to do the job, they're there to mess it up. Okay, I could do this all day with you, as Captain America says, and as he's getting his ass kicked, this is what happens when you take a month off and we miss a let's go Brandon, is that, I think this is your first "Heartland Journal" episode, so welcome. - Thank you. - Thank you. - Okay, well, great, we'll have to update the poster. Okay, and last night, a guest on this show last week, Pamela Fur, decided to pipe in on you and I's tweets, I assume you do your own tweeting, about a cartoon you posted, showing in a funny way how all the world called us crazy when we said COVID wasn't worth closing gyms, and vaccines weren't necessary in a cartoon way. She said we were overreacting, and everyone was scared at the time, so nobody was bad. Her old boss cumulus, ironically enough, mandated vaccines. Have you any thoughts for Mrs. Fur? Mrs. Fur. - Well, I try not to even read the comments, most of the time, to be honest, it's not what I'm here to do. I'm here to put forth my, in many cases, my personal opinion, which almost always reflects the heart and soul of 85% of Republican primary voters, and I just know, I know better than almost anybody else in the state, how people feel about issues, 'cause we ask them, and so I put stuff out there, but every time I write a post, I can't write it with the three people in the state of Tennessee, and mine that are gonna be mad about some little picky-oom thing. So I just water off a duck's back with me. But I will say this, when I was leading that COVID protest in April of 2020, just a few weeks into the lockdowns, people thought I was crazy, and people may want to excuse their behavior, or their fear, because everybody else was doing it, which is, you know, that's where the whole saying, you know, your mother said, "Where everybody jumped off the bridge, or did you jump off to?" And the answer is, yes, most people are lemmings. They are lemmings in their life, if they think they're gonna lose a dollar, if they think they're gonna lose a little influence, if they think there's some kind of risk to their health, they can be scared into abandoning all of their, quote unquote, principles, which principles, people don't abandon their principles. They don't. You live your principles, you don't abandon them. And so I think that is often highly offensive to people when I point out that I had discernment during all this early. And a lot of it just had to do with my personality and the other half that I had to do, the fact that I read a book called The Great Influenza, is like a 600 pages, something like that. I don't know, there's a long book. It's an interesting read, and it talked about everything that happened during the Spanish flu, and the fact that, you know, that flew out. Contagions mutate quickly and fall apart, and they're unstable, and so as soon as you develop one thing, it's very likely that it ain't gonna work, and we've watched the flu vaccine being, you know, it's never been real effective, and it's always like, well, how crappy is it this year? And so I just knew, I mean, everything, everything, and then the numbers never panned out. So, you know, a lot of folks just have sour grapes over, because they probably feel ashamed, they just feel ashamed to have cow-towled, to have moved in fear. And so when people talk about it, like it hurts, because, you know, you project A, but you do B, and then people remind you of that, and it's painful. And yeah, were there a few folks later in Tennessee media coming in on that? Yeah, but I promise, I was looking for anybody who would be saying what I was thinking, and all across the state for many months, there was Gary Humble, there was Andy Ogles, and a little bit later, and not as loud, Glenn Jacobs, and then Janus Bowling, and a handful of people in the legislature, I mean, they were like, you could count a dozen people with a platform making noise that wasn't couched with a thousand caveats and ways out. Well, I think this, but you got to think that, as I use all this mealy-mouthed defense of conservative values, so, you know, if that offends somebody, then they can just stay offended. As far as I'm concerned, I don't have any ill will about it, but it is the truth through and through. I couldn't find a single person in Washington state. I had to find you, all the way over here in Tennessee, to even understand, but I'll tell you this much, I went to public school and I knew that the more deaths from the Spanish American flu from the masking and bacterial infection than from the flu, so here we were mask mandating, that wasn't gonna work, and the second article I ever wrote, I was gonna post it yesterday for Pamela so she'd understand, but she said she didn't really care anymore, was about the 1853 panic in vaccines in England that were proven not to work, and only after the fact that they ever have to come back and say, well, that wasn't such a great idea. So by the time those things rolled around, I said, I don't think you really need these camps for people to go to that if they're not going to be vaccinated 'cause it's not a pandemic of the vaccinated, it's a pandemic of the gosh darn government control. And here we are to this day, having this conversation. So I love you, man. You are one of my favorite Tennesseans, definitely one of the two most favorite I've got. So thank you for coming on. Tell everyone where they can go to find out more about you, where they can join that Twitter conversation and anywhere else that you're not banned or down-platformed. - So you can look for us on Twitter. I'd appreciate you following us there because that is where the legislative critters hang out and when you hit them in the nose on Twitter, they seem to pay attention. And of course, you can check out our podcast, just type in Tennessee Conservative wherever you get your podcasts. And then finally, you can go to Tennesseeconservativenews.com, hit that subscribe button, and Jason Vaughn will dutifully send you an e-news letter around the 1130 hour, Monday through Friday, so that you can know what's going on. And if something's really important, and if you wanna be educated heading into the election, we're gonna have all your bases covered. We're about to release our Rhino report. We're polishing that thing off. We hit a little bit of a snag, and we're gonna Brandon's perfect GOP primary picks. So if you're wondering, who should I vote for in the primary? We'll have that thing ready for folks to download. Here shortly, I've already got a sneak peek at it in time before early voting. - Great, well, let's talk about in July for the next edition of Let's Go, Brandon. All right, see you soon, thank you. - Thank you for having me guys. - Hello, this is Geno Bolson, state representative from District 61 in Williamson County. You are listening to the Hartland Journal.com podcast. (upbeat music) - All right, what was that? - That was a good one. I like the way he finished off with the, oh, with the whole, you know, the, there we go. - The sermon, the sermon. I know a person who wrote a book about this sermon. I'm sure you perked up on that one. - Oh, yes. (upbeat music) - All right, well, let's move on. So this is a big deal. I've been waiting to see if this was ever gonna happen, and I always thought if our debt got too big, this would happen, and with absolutely no news in the mainstream talking about it, I guess it falls on me once again to do it for you. Lucky you. I was looking back at my first few editorials in the Mill Creek View newspaper, as I mentioned, and there was me telling people the COVID freakout was not a pandemic, and Ashley Biden's diary and Hunter's laptops were real. That was three years ago, and the news is just now bringing it up. Okay, well, listen to this, if you would, please, because it will soon change your life if you do business like buy things in U.S. dollars. Saudi Arabia's petro dollar exit, a global finance paradigm shift. The crucial decision to not renew the contract enables Saudi Arabia to sell oil and other goods in multiple currencies, including the Chinese renimbi, euros, yen, and won, instead of exclusively in U.S. dollars like everybody listening right now's lifetime. I added that. Additionally, the potential use of digital currencies like Bitcoin, they also be considered, TBSNews.net. Significant financial upheaval is potentially ahead of the financial world as Saudi Arabia has decided not to renew its 80-year petro dollar deal with the United States. The deal, which expired on Sunday 9 June, was a cornerstone of the United States' global economic dominance, right? Did you hear about this on June 10th, 11th, or 12th? No, right? Today, the June 27th. Okay, back to the article. Originally signed on June 8th, 1974, I was three, the deal established two joint commissions, one based on economic cooperation and the other on Saudi Arabia's military needs. Well, quid pro quo, defense for oil. At the time, it was said that it heralded an era of close cooperation between the two countries, says Kacha Hamilton of Biz community. American officials at the time express optimism that the deal would motivate Saudi Arabia to ramp up its oil production. Oh boy, did they. They also envisioned it as a blueprint for fostering economic collaboration between Washington and other Arab countries. Oh boy, did they do that too. The crucial decision to not renew the contract enables Saudi Arabia to sell oil and other goods in multiple currencies, the potential use of digital currencies, et cetera. This latest development signifies a major shift away from the petro dollar system established in 1972 when the U.S. decoupled its currency from gold and is anticipated to hasten the global shift away from the U.S. dollar. Cross-border CBDC transactions. In a more recent move, Saudi Arabia has announced its involvement in project Enbridge, a project which explores a multi-central bank digital currency platform shared among participating central banks and commercial banks. It is built on distributed ledger technology to enable instant cross-border payment settlements and foreign exchange transactions. We've had four shows on this. The project has more than 26 observing members including the South African Reserve Bank, which was green-lighted as a member this month. How'd that work out for Gaddafi? The better known observing members of Enbridge are those of the Bank of Israel, Bank of Namibia, Bank of France, Central Bank of Bahrain, Central Bank of Egypt, Central Bank of Jordan, European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the World Bank. That's everybody, folks. Oh, yes, that's everybody. In tandem, the projects during committee has created a bespoke governance and legal framework, including a rule book, tailored to maps of platforms, unique, decentralized nature. Project Enbridge is the result of extensive collaboration starting in 2021 between BIS Innovation Hub, the Bank of Thailand, the central bank of the United Arab Emirates, the Digital Currency Institute of the World Bank of China and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, some of which hate us very much, by the way. In 2022, a pilot with real value transactions was conducted since then the Enbridge project team has been exploring whether the prototype platform could evolve to become a minimum viable product, MVP, a stage now reached. As it enters the MVP stage, Project M Bridge is now inviting private sector firms to propose new solutions and use cases that could help develop the platform and showcase all its potential. So I can't say for sure, but I'd say, prepare for higher gas prices, lower purchasing power of your dollars and higher transportation costs, and therefore higher prices of everything from groceries to washers and dryers from China, better have that European trip now, not later. Next story, DEI is everywhere, colleges, courts, hospitals, and the world's largest budget item in the US, the military, besides interest. Here is Congressman Matt Gaetz from Florida pulling it out of former Joint Chiefs Mark Milley. Clip from the line. - My last time to question you, you mentioned two years ago that you wanted to better understand white rage. - I want to understand white rage, and I'm white, and I want to understand it. - And so my question is this, did you read this book? - No, not at all. - Well, what is white privilege is the book, and it's actually written by a DoD official, a senior official in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and there are now hundreds of these books in dozens of schools, and I wonder if you guys connect this to your problems with recruiting. - I've never read it, never seen it. Frank, I don't even think about that stuff. I think about what it is. - Go ahead and put up the next one. - Let's go ahead and answer the force. - This is a tweet by one of your employees in charge of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and it's patently racist. They say that she had to give Karen the business, that she talks about coddacity, presumably of Caucasian people. So why does the-- - Well, why is that-- - You're not going to be arguing for me. That's terrible, it's wrong, she shouldn't be doing that. - Should she be fired? - I don't, that's a DoD employee, not US military uniform. - Should they be fired? - Should they be Austin? - I would like to point out, our students in DoD of schools who are the highest on, the eighth graders and fourth graders, scored the highest in math and reading in the country. So I want to thank all of our DoD professionals who made that possible, and I encourage them to keep it up. - I hope you're not just sway off the subject there, buddy. - Did you pause it or is that the end? - Yeah, that's it. - All right, DEI should have no role in our military. Second largest budget item in America, it should be a meritocracy period, no room for value judgments in a foxhole with bullets flying around. Bombs don't discriminate based on race or religion. People do. So the question is, if the military wants more diversity, equity, and inclusion, what does that even mean? We get diversity, but does this equity? You'll be the judge after I read this to you. Biden shoots down $24 billion pay raise for enlisted troops after spending seven times more on Ukraine. The Biden administration strongly opposes a proposal to raise the pay of junior enlisted service members in the military, even after nearly spending seven times the proposed amount on Ukraine and the broader region's security. Junior, I said, as in the newest recruits, right? So the so-called most inclusive class, right? Well, let's read on. The House Armed Services Committee draft the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act would give all junior troops a pay raise representing a rough total of $24.4 billion over five years according to the Congressional Budget Office. The Biden administration said in a statement on Tuesday that it does not support the proposed significant permanent pay hike until it has had a chance to conduct a compensation review. The administration is strongly committed to taking care of our service members and their families and appreciate the committee's concern for the needs of the most junior enlisted members, but strongly opposes making a significant permanent change to the basic pay schedule before the completion of the 14th quadrennial review of military compensation. The White House Budget Office said the Biden administration has spent over $175 billion on aid to Ukraine and European Union security since 2020, the same folks that want to take away our dollars, roughly 1/7 of the proposed bill hike for the junior troops according to the committee for the responsible federal budget. The $175 billion amount is broken into several packages over the course of two years, including the most recent aid package of $61 billion in April. When accounting for inflation, the average American makes less today than when Joe Biden took office. The White House wants to block Republicans from giving our troops the raise they need to make ends meet in the Biden economy. Republican Indiana Rep Jim Banks, an H.A.S.C. member, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Meanwhile, they've sent the Ukrainian government $11,500 per Ukrainian household. It's shameful. Bipartisan members of the H.A.S.C. promoted the pay increase for junior troops as a way to improve recruiting and retention, a problem that the military has increasingly struggled with. A year-long study conducted by the H.A.S.C. and published in April found that service members, especially junior enlisted service members, and service members supporting large families, struggle to support housing and feed their families. They should move to Ukraine. The pay level for junior troops has failed to remain competitive with the civilian job market, especially with rising inflation. The study found junior troops receive smaller pay raises than senior service members or no raise at all. In eight of the last 40 years, it is indeed shameful Jim Banks from Indiana. Well, if you can't graduate high school and make a living inclusively in the military, there's always Planned Parenthood waiting for you. They like to say if you don't have a child, you can be free to go into the workforce and make a million dollars and live a wonderful life. Yes, don't have to change diapers or be home early. Yes, and they are still around. Planned Parenthood is helping teenagers transition after a 30-minute consult. Parents and doctors are sounding the alarm. The abortion provider is waiting into transgender care, doling out prescriptions for estrogen and testosterone, including two special needs kids. In late July, while his parents were out of town and after he had come of age, Fred went to Planned Parenthood, which prescribes hormones to any legal adult without a letter from a therapist or a formal diagnosis of a gender dysphoria. The only requirement is a brief consultation, usually with a nurse practitioner about the drug's effect, which ranged from mood swings and male pattern baldness to permanently infertility, to maybe suiting up Christian high schools. Who knows, for how brief? Fred arrived at his local clinic on North Fulton Avenue in Montclair, New Jersey at around 11 a.m. According to phone track data, his parents used to monitor his whereabouts. By 1139, they received a text message from CVS. Fred's estrogen prescriptions was on its way. Instead of a month-long evaluation by expert psychiatrist, a nurse practitioner had, in little over 30 minutes, prescribed their special needs son, a powerful drug without their knowledge or consent. It's criminal what Planned Parenthood all over the country are doing. Fred's mother, a New Jersey pediatrician said, and most people have no idea this is happening. Fred's story corroborated through nursing and medical board complaints, vocational data prescriptions, text messages, emails, and other document reviewed by the free beacon is a microcosm of how the nation's largest abortion provider is eroding the already thin guardrails on gender medicine in America. As weightless swell at clinics like Children's National and as concerns mount about the perils of rush transition, many young people are using Planned Parenthood to skip the line and circumvent the safeguards, making it much more difficult to gatekeep what was once a tightly regulated treatment. Though Planned Parenthood does warn patients about the effects of hormone therapy, those warnings are not standardized across its numerous state affiliates, which means patients in one region might get very different information from those in another. Planned Parenthood's in Virginia and some parts of California warn that testosterone can cause vaginal atrophy, for example, but branches in Michigan, Central and Western New York, Greater Washington and Northern Idaho, South Eastern Pennsylvania, and the Great Plains regions do not, according to resources posted on their own websites. That's crazy, Edward Leapers said, vaginal atrophy should always be discussed. If they're not including that on their list, that's a problem. A few branches such as California Central Coast do not even list increased libido as an effect of testosterone. They aren't doctors, folks. If you're sending your kids there for treatment, you may as well send them to a witch doctor. Planned Parenthood's national office hasn't exerted any influence to make things uniform, Anderson said, "I don't think they have a grip on the fundamental difference between hormone therapy and reproductive healthcare." So when you're watching that debate tonight on CNN, you can remember that's where host Jake Tapper's wife works. Jennifer Marie Brown is a field manager in DC for Planned Parenthood. So you won't hear any of that on CNN either. Here's a preview. Listen to how he phrases the question, okay? As basically out of touch, clip number two. Part of Ohio, so I want to ask about the big news from last night. Ohioans voted to put the right to abortion in Ohio's constitution. Were you surprised at the results? And do you think your party is just out of touch on this issue from what the American people want? Well, I think what happened whenever you take a constitutional provision like this and write it into a state's constitution, it's unfortunate. Especially since it's being written by people outside of the state. They have different goals and objectives, and I think many of them have values that don't even represent the people who are voting to pass it. I think this is a very difficult and debate that we're having across the country to try to find that spot where people feel comfortable. This is why I think that does go too far. We'll have to continue this debate. It'll happen across the country, and I think it'll continue in Ohio. I'll do respect seven out of seven times since the Supreme Court overturned Robie Wade. Seven out of seven people in states such as Montana and Kentucky and Ohio have voted in favor of abortion rights. And maybe you don't like who wrote it, but Ohioans voted for it. And my point was I don't like what it says, and I think most Ohioans in the end, when they see and the application of these, what I think are very left provisions. Even if you're pro-choice, there are limits, and there are things that I think people will be very concerned about. There'll be the outcomes of these. But that'll be about part of the democratic debate that we have, and we'll come to, I think, as a society, a place that people feel might be more representative of, even the people in Ohioans. Let me know if Jake treats Trump fair and balanced tonight. I won't be watching live on CNN, that's for darn sure. He's very small and disingenuous. Oh, and before I go on to the next segment, in a six to three ruling, the Supreme Court said, "It's fine if Facebook and Twitter want to ban you for telling the truth about COVID or the sky is falling or nuclear war is imminent." Centrachip by surrogate and work around the First Amendment is a-okay with John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett and Kavanaugh. Ridiculous. And if you take a bribe after the vote and not before, that's all good too. Yes, that passed. "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Abridging. Abridging. Suppressing viral content isn't abridging free speech anymore, they say, and they block Republican attempts to prevent a future wealth tax. Like the one Washington Supreme Court said was a-okay, even though the state constitution says no income tax shall be passed, but it's allowed now. Oh man, more on all that next time. Stay tuned for my thoughts of the day. Time for my quotes for the day. Before I share, I'll remind everyone to subscribe to heartlandjournal.com. You can read Brandon's email in the morning and mind in the afternoon. Just go there and give us your email and zip code and we'll deliver right into your in basket for free. No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do. Eat, laugh, trade presents, and just enjoy each other. And sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus, Dolly Parton. My father claimed no political affiliation. He supported Al Gore because he knew him as a human being. He supported Lamar Alexander, who was the governor of Tennessee, who was a Republican. It was based on the individual. He didn't believe in politics. He based his support for someone on their heart and their integrity. John Cash. I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Actually, John Carter, Cash, Johnny's son. I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50. When music dies down a little bit, I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grander. But ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me. Tim McGraw. He's 57, maybe when he's 60. I used to play when I first started trying to be professional. I disjawkeed from 1949-1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disjockey. B.B. King. Blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and a record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on the fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato, and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. That is it for this episode. Sorry I ran long, but thank you, Brandon, for coming on regularly and giving us down-home perspective on this crazy political world of Tennessee. This is goodbye for now. I'm your host, Stephen Brumless, and our Chief of HeartlandJournal.com. See you all next week. Peace in our time and definitely glory to God. 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