Media Framing Crisis defines this powerful conversation as Peter Vazquez examines how media narratives shape public trust, from White House UFC coverage and The View’s bias with Nick Kangadis to Advantage Federal Credit Union’s local food drive with Diane Miller.
The hour turns from spectacle to service, from Iran and Obama’s record to callers wrestling with free speech, political anger, election integrity, and civic responsibility. Beneath the noise is one hard truth: a nation is restored one honest act at a time.
Media Framing Crisis. There are days when the country feels less like a republic and more like a courtroom with bad lighting, where every headline arrives already framed, every cultural event becomes evidence, and every citizen is asked to pick a side before anyone is allowed to ask what actually happened.
The conversation began with a fight on the White House lawn, but the real fight was never inside the Octagon. It was in the frame around it. A UFC event at the White House became a national Rorschach test: strength to some, spectacle to others, scandal to the people who have apparently never noticed that politics has been theater with worse costumes for decades.
Peter Vazquez and Bob Savage pressed into the deeper question with Nick Kangadis, Senior Content Creator at MRC Video: not merely whether the event was good or bad, but what the media’s reaction revealed about its instincts.
Nick brought the lens where it belonged. The outrage was not just about combat sports. It was about Trump, cultural power, masculinity, and the press recoiling at a crowd it does not understand and often despises.
The same media class that treats celebrity resistance as civic virtue suddenly discovered the dignity of public space when the spectacle belonged to the wrong political tribe. That is the Vanbōōlzalness Crisis in miniature: one spectacle is democracy, another is danger; one crowd is brave, another is crude; one stage is noble, another is a threat.
The conversation moved from UFC to “No Kings,” from Jane Fonda and Robert De Niro to the old machinery of elite activism, where Hollywood veterans gather under First Amendment banners and pretend that dissent is endangered while they broadcast their contempt into every open microphone they can find. The irony is not subtle. In a country with an actual king, these events would not happen. In America, they get lighting, amplification, donor networks, celebrity branding, and press coverage.
Nick cut through that contradiction with the blunt force of lived observation: these protest movements often look less like spontaneous uprisings and more like staged productions, complete with color-coded shirts, professional signage, shifting slogans, and donor-facing theater.
Then came The View, which may be daytime television, but it is also a political mood factory. The reported Media Research Center findings cited in the conversation were sharp: in 2025, The View had 341 total guests, 128 liberal guests, and only two conservatives.
That does not sound like balance. That sounds like one ideological neighborhood pretending to host a town hall. Nick’s point was not that J.D. Vance could not handle it. It was that the setup itself tells the story. Five voices, one worldview, one conservative guest, and a studio built for ambush disguised as conversation.
But the hour did not stay in Washington. It came home.
Diane Miller of Advantage Federal Credit Union joined Peter to talk about something quieter, smaller, and arguably more important than the noise of national politics: a food drive. Not a theory. Not a slogan. Not a press conference.
Food. Bags of groceries. Local branches. Members donating. Staff competing in good faith to collect more. A Saturday distribution at 1625 Mount Hope Avenue where families in need could pull up and receive help without proving their pain to a clipboard.
That was the emotional turn of the hour. After the spectacle, a branch lobby. After the national argument, a local pantry. After the accusations, a bag of food passed through a car window. Diane explained that the effort began with branch managers who wanted to do something real for the community.
The drive ran for more than eight weeks across seven locations, with internal and external promotion, friendly competition, and a back area at Mount Hope packed with donations. No bureaucracy. No humiliation. No interrogation. Just help.
That matters because hunger is not theoretical. Foodlink says it serves the Greater Rochester and Finger Lakes region by addressing both hunger and poverty, and its mission is to “leverage the power of food to end hunger and build healthier communities.” It distributes millions of pounds of food annually and prepares more than 2 million healthy meals for students. Nationally, Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap data has placed food insecurity around 14.3 percent, with roughly 47 million Americans affected.
Those numbers are not abstractions. They are cupboards, paychecks, gas tanks, grocery aisles, and parents doing math with dread in their throat.
Diane’s segment carried the old credit union spirit: community is not just where business happens; it is where responsibility happens. A branch can be more than a place to cash a check. It can become a civic altar of practical mercy. A food drive can become a rebuttal to cynicism. One person can make a difference, not because one person can fix everything, but because one person can join the team.
That theme carried into the callers. Keith, Lorraine, Rich, Mike, Don, and John brought the raw edge of the audience, the frustration, the fear, the anger, and the hunger for clarity. They wrestled with Iran, Obama’s record, Trump’s reported peace effort, the Democratic Party, free speech, political violence, election integrity, and civic responsibility. Some calls came hot enough to melt the phone line, because humans remain committed to making live radio feel like juggling chainsaws in a church basement.
Yet beneath the sharp edges was a real question: what kind of people are we becoming?
The Iran discussion revealed the old divide between diplomacy and strength. Obama’s defense of diplomacy resurfaced in the conversation, with the old argument that partial deals can avoid war.
Peter and Bob pushed back against the notion that solving 80 or 90 percent of a nuclear problem is enough when the remaining 10 percent can become a weapon, a hostage crisis, or a regional nightmare. The Obama White House itself said in 2016 that Iran gained access to frozen funds after verified nuclear steps, and Obama also described settling a decades-old financial claim with Iran.
Critics have long argued that money is fungible and that deals with hostile regimes cannot be judged only by the wording on paper, but by the power they place in the hands of men who hate us.
The callers did not speak like policy analysts. They spoke like citizens who have lived through too many broken promises. They do not trust polished language. They do not trust enemies with flags beside ours. They do not trust leaders who explain away weakness as wisdom. They are tired of being told to stop noticing the obvious.
That exhaustion became the final civic turn: voting. Early voting, local races, civic responsibility, and the reminder that the ballot is not magic. It will not repair a lazy culture, a broken family, a crooked institution, or a corrupt leader by itself. But it still gives citizens a way to shape the future. It is not the whole answer. It is the place where responsibility leaves a mark.
The hour closed where it had been heading all along: a nation is restored one honest act at a time. Not one viral clip. Not one celebrity tantrum. Not one government program. Not one food drive alone. Not one vote alone. One honest act. Then another. Then another.
That is the why behind the conversation. The fight is not only over Trump, UFC, The View, Iran, hunger, elections, or party politics.
The fight is over whether Americans still know how to see clearly, help locally, speak truthfully, and refuse to be managed by spectacle. The Vanbōōlzalness Crisis tells citizens to drown in the noise.
This hour answered with something older: be a leader, feed your neighbor, guard your speech, tell the truth, and do not let a second go by where you are not a voice for liberty.
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Peter Vazquez:
Mira la izquierda, mira la derecha, ¿qué ves? ¿Dónde estás? In a world that seems to change daily, what will you do next?
Welcome to The Next Steps Show with Peter Vazquez, a starting point for discussion and a beacon of direction.
Happy Monday, everybody. What a beautiful day it is. It is a great day to turn on the radio and make sure you are listening to The Next Steps Show and all the great programming here on WYSL and WLEA, the Voice of Liberty.
We have some breaking news to pass along. A historic peace deal has reportedly been reached and is expected to be signed this Friday. That is interesting, and later in the show we will talk about it a little bit. We will also talk about it more tomorrow because, of course, Barack Obama had something to say about it. He spent quite a bit of time in an interview suggesting that this is basically what he already did.
Bob Savage:
Of course he did. He may want to go live in England. They have promised not to extradite him to the United States for criminal charges.
Peter Vazquez:
Well, he might make a good leader in Iran.
Bob Savage:
Maybe. He fits the bill.
Peter Vazquez:
And we know they have plenty of money to pay him because he made sure they got it.
But let us talk about something from over the weekend. We had a major event at the White House. There was a UFC event on the grounds of the White House. I thought it was pretty cool.
But here is the real question. It is not only whether the event was good or bad. The question is this: how did the media cover it, and what did that coverage reveal?
The event reportedly drew about 4,000 spectators in a temporary White House arena, with a reported production cost around $60 million, and every bout ended in a total knockout.
Joining us now is Nick Kangadis, Senior Content Creator at MRC Video, to talk about what the media said and did not say. Nick, thank you for joining us today.
Nick Kangadis:
Thanks for having me.
Peter Vazquez:
Before we get into UFC, what is your opinion on this Iran deal? Do you think Obama is right that this is like the same thing he did, but worse?
Nick Kangadis:
If you want to play devil’s advocate, Obama has a point in the sense that Iran reportedly said it would not do a deal unless sanctions were lifted and they could access money. I guess you could say there is a parallel. But Obama just gave them money. That is not the same thing as releasing money that was withheld.
It was a pallet on a plane. Philosophically, it was basically a form of reparations because Obama thought it was unfair that we froze Iran’s assets and that they should not only get their money back, but get it back with interest. The interest rate, of course, was set by Obama.
Bob Savage:
That is what they do. They are magicians because they make your money disappear.
Peter Vazquez:
Just ask Ukraine and Obama about the $1.8 billion that went missing in 2014.
Nick Kangadis:
Those are hard questions for these people. That $1.8 billion was under the guise of an anti-corruption council in Ukraine. The guy they put in charge reportedly could not even get a visa to the United States. Then, after the money went missing, suddenly he could get a visa with no security clearance.
Peter Vazquez:
Let us talk about the UFC event. Did you get a chance to see it?
Nick Kangadis:
I watched the highlights. I refuse to subscribe to all these different streaming services, but I watched the fights after the fact.
Peter Vazquez:
Same here. Streaming services are supposed to be cheaper than cable, but once you add them all up, it gets costly.
How much of the coverage you saw was actually about the event, and how much was about the press recoiling over the idea that there was a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House?
Nick Kangadis:
Most of it was anti-Trump, and the other half was about “toxic masculinity.” You look at The View last week. They talked about it briefly, and one of them said she would not have as much of a problem with it being on the White House lawn if Trump got into the ring himself.
First of all, tell me you know nothing about UFC without telling me you know nothing about UFC. They do not fight in a ring. They fight in an Octagon. Also, there usually are no 80-year-olds in the Octagon. These are world-class fighters.
Bob Savage:
When you have an exhibition match between boxers and MMA fighters, if it is a boxing match, it favors the boxer. If it is an MMA match, the boxer has no chance.
Peter Vazquez:
You mentioned The View. People like them and people like Jane Fonda are still pushing this whole “No Kings” idea. They are trying to equate this fight and other things Trump has done with authoritarianism.
Jane Fonda helped create a concert during the fight called “Rise Up, Sing Out,” positioned as a First Amendment defense effort.
Nick Kangadis:
The ironic part is that they keep having these “No Kings” events. If Trump really acted like a king, would they be allowed to have those events? Of course not.
Also, is it just me, or have these “No Kings” rallies tapered off since cuts to USAID? We know that various Soros-linked organizations were paying would-be protesters. Maybe the money is drying up. Maybe that is wishful thinking.
It is not just Soros. I covered a protest in front of the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C. years ago. There were about 30 people, all wearing the same color shirts. They stayed for the photo op and left. It was a photo op for the Service Employees International Union. They wore the union colors, got the photo, and left. It was just something to give to donors.
Bob Savage:
Here in the Rochester region, on “No Kings” event days, these protesters would show up at four corners in suburban communities with traffic lights. They would blow air horns, wave signs, and be obnoxious. Then they would pack up and move to another nearby town. Same group, same air horns, same professionally produced signs. It was like a movable feast of insanity.
Nick Kangadis:
It is always the same culprits: Soros, unions, Code Pink, Planned Parenthood, you name it. The problem with their protests is that they cannot stay focused for more than about half an hour. When you confront them on their arguments, they switch topics and move the goalposts.
For example, I have gone to feminist protests and rallies, and I always ask the same question: what rights do you not have as a woman that I have as a man? To this day, I have never gotten an answer.
Bob Savage:
Exactly. What is the philosophical underpinning of these “No Kings” rallies? We do not have a king. He does not act like a king. Kings imprison people for that kind of activity. If Trump were so authoritarian, would people be able to say the things they say? No.
Peter Vazquez:
They would not have had their concert.
Vanity Fair reported the concert involved major entertainment figures and was tied to future organizing, training, and activist mobilization.
Nick Kangadis:
Major entertainment figures from 50 years ago. From the clips I heard, that counter-programming sounded more like a deterrent. It would drive people away from signing up for the cause. I have never heard such caterwauling.
You had Jane Fonda, Bette Midler, Robert De Niro. Objectively, in entertainment, they are legends. But since Trump came down that escalator, year after year, they seem determined to ruin their legacies. At this point, even people who generally agree with Robert De Niro say he seems like a jerk.
Peter Vazquez:
He wears his anger on his face.
I want to make sure we cover The View before the end of the interview because J.D. Vance is going to be appearing there on the 16th. I thought you could help our listeners understand exactly how The View shapes political narratives because, unfortunately, even some people in conservative circles still watch things like The View.
Nick Kangadis:
Especially in conservative circles, they will usually watch clips on social media, not the actual show, unless someone like J.D. Vance is on. To their credit, if you give them credit for anything, at least The View is having J.D. Vance on.
Now, they are going to try to ambush him because it is basically five hens clucking at one guy. But J.D. Vance will probably go there thinking, if he can get two or three sound bites of himself owning them, it is a net positive. It should not be hard because ideologically and intellectually, he far outpaces them.
It is only a matter of time before somebody says something really dumb and Vance artfully spotlights it. He will let them hand him the weapons and cheer him on while he deploys them, rhetorically speaking.
Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin all share a brain. They say the same thing with slight differences. The show is called The View, and that is accurate. It is one view.
Peter Vazquez:
According to your study, The View had 341 total guests in 2025, 128 liberal guests, and only two conservatives.
Nick Kangadis:
Yes, and those conservatives were routinely minimized and ridiculed, although they handled themselves well.
Peter Vazquez:
Anything you would like to share before we let you go? Please mention your website.
Nick Kangadis:
Check us out at MRCVideo.org. You can also find most of our work on Instagram at MRC Video, and on YouTube and Facebook. Also check out MRC Video, CNS News, and NewsBusters.
Peter Vazquez:
Nick Kangadis, I appreciate you and the work you do over at MRC. Have a great day, and may God continue to bless you and your work.
Nick Kangadis:
Always a pleasure.
Peter Vazquez:
We will be right back here on The Next Steps Show on WYSL and WLEA with Peter Vazquez and Roberto.
Before the break, a community announcement: there will be a chicken barbecue this Saturday from 2 p.m. until sold out at the Groveland Fire Department on Groveland Station Road. Proceeds go to the Jerome family to help with medical bills. The meal includes half chicken, baked beans, salt potatoes, roll, and butter. Eat in or take out for $15, all for a great cause.
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Peter Vazquez:
We are back here on The Next Steps Show. The program is brought to you, as always, by YFCRochester.org.
Bob, what do we have next?
Bob Savage:
What do you have up next?
Peter Vazquez:
We have someone who is going to share some good work being done right here in the local community. I love when businesses stand up and say, “We are going to participate.”
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce Diane Miller with Advantage Federal Credit Union. Diane, thank you for joining me on The Next Steps Show.
Diane Miller:
Peter, thank you for having me on.
Peter Vazquez:
Before you tell us what you are doing, I want to read a number so people understand the importance. Feeding America’s 2025 Map the Meal Gap placed national food insecurity around 14.3 percent, affecting roughly 47 million Americans.
Diane Miller:
Well, we can only start with Rochester.
Peter Vazquez:
Exactly. You are doing your part, and that number can come down if everyone does their part. Tell us what Advantage Federal Credit Union is doing.
Diane Miller:
This started with two of our branch managers, Sierra and Katie, who work at two of our branches in or near the city. They wanted to do something for the community. We do different things throughout the year. We have done a school supply drive and a coat drive, but they came up with the idea of doing a food drive this summer.
Bob Savage:
How did that come about? Where do people donate?
Diane Miller:
We have seven locations. We have been promoting it internally and externally through emails and different venues, asking people to bring food to our seven locations. We had a friendly competition between branches and even the back office to see who could collect the most food.
It has been going on for more than eight weeks. This Saturday is distribution day at our Mount Hope location, 1625 Mount Hope Avenue. The back area is packed. A shout-out to our listeners and members. They always step up, and we have lots and lots of food.
We are packaging it on Wednesday, and this Saturday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at 1625 Mount Hope Avenue, families can come through. They do not even have to get out of their cars. If your family needs help or you know a family in need, we will have bags to hand out. Hopefully there will be a good line of cars, and we can pass out all the food.
Peter Vazquez:
Are there any requirements, or do they just show up?
Diane Miller:
They just show up. We are not going to make anyone prove they are a family in need. We know this is a great thing to do to help people who could use a little help this summer and make sure their pantries are full.
Bob Savage:
Diane, we will give you a description of Peter’s vehicle so if he tries to make it through the line, you can wave him on.
Diane Miller:
I know he will share.
Peter Vazquez:
I absolutely will. Unless it is really yummy stuff.
Advantage Federal Credit Union has been part of this community for a long time. I grew up in Rochester. My parents banked there. I see the work you do, and you have always been community-based and outwardly directed toward people in the community.
I want to quote from your video. This Saturday, June 20, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at 1625 Mount Hope Avenue. Chris Kirsch, one of your branch managers, asked Noah, a young man in the video, what he thought was more important: being part of a team or winning. Noah said winning. Chris said, “I think being part of something bigger is better.”
Later in the video, Noah asked, “Can one person really make a difference?” Chris answered that one person absolutely can make a difference. That is why I wanted to share that food insecurity number at the beginning.
Anything you would like to add?
Diane Miller:
You covered it all. I appreciate it. I keep calling it our first annual because it was a huge success, and I would love to do this every year.
Thank you to our community for donating. We are here to help. That is part of what we do as a credit union and as a business in the Rochester community.
Bob Savage:
Can people still donate, or is that done?
Diane Miller:
We would not turn it down.
Bob Savage:
Would donations go to any of your locations?
Diane Miller:
It would probably be best to bring it to Mount Hope because that is where we are collecting and organizing all the food. But we do have seven locations: Broad Street, 225 West Broad Street; a branch in Gates on Buffalo Road; a branch in Penfield on Browncroft; one on the RIT campus; one at the University of Rochester; and one at Rochester General Hospital.
Bob Savage:
It would be best to go to 1625 Mount Hope Avenue so Diane does not have to go to every branch and pick up bags of food again.
Peter Vazquez:
Diane, thank you for all the work Advantage Federal Credit Union does for the community. I know your connection to autism awareness and other efforts has been a great blessing to people in the Rochester area.
Diane Miller:
Thank you both. I am a fan.
Bob Savage:
That makes two fans now, Peter. We have Keith and Diane.
Peter Vazquez:
I still have to pay mine.
Bob Savage:
You did not have to let that secret out of the bag.
Peter Vazquez:
Diane, have a great week and a successful event on Saturday.
Diane Miller:
Thank you so much.
Peter Vazquez:
All right, Bob. We are going to take a quick break, and then we will open the lines.
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Peter Vazquez:
Foodlink reports that it distributes millions of pounds of food annually and prepares more than two million healthy meals for students. That shows how local food efforts connect to the larger regional and national hunger-relief network that we all need to be part of.
Remember, this Saturday, June 20, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at 1625 Mount Hope Avenue, Advantage Federal Credit Union has its food donation day. If you are in need, and I asked Diane whether people need to qualify, she said no. Just come. But if you really need help, go. Do not show up just to take something if you do not need it. Help, pass it forward, and share.
Welcome back to The Next Steps Show. We have Keith on the line.
Keith:
If the president can make the so-called peace plan work, more power to him. It is just that some on our side make him out like he is a genius playing five-dimensional chess. He has made some missteps here, and the American people, after the very bad Biden years, have a low threshold for pain.
Too many of our people today are not of that greatest generation that came out of the Great Depression and then fought and won World War II. We are not that people anymore. Mr. Trump and his people have to keep that in mind. Everyone agrees, including the president himself, even though he may not admit it, that this war has to be done by the summer months. This is a big impediment for our side winning in November. We are only about 20 weeks away.
Bob Savage:
That is a short runway. I would counsel caution. First, we have a reported agreement. It has not been signed yet. These things have repeatedly blown up on the launch pad. I would not get too giddy. Second, we do not know what is in it. We hear negative rumblings, but usually from the usual suspects.
Keith:
I do not want Democrats making hay out of this by trying to make the American people feel Trump is always doing wrong and does not have the best interests of our people in mind. I believe this president does have the best interests of our people in mind.
The Democrats are not the loyal opposition anymore. They are not the party of JFK or past generations.
Peter Vazquez:
I do not know that abolishing a political party is the right thing to do. First, it cannot be done. But we can highlight their rhetoric and the damaging effects of their rhetoric on the body politic. I think they are driving more people into independent camps and into the Republican fold.
Keith, Barack Obama said it is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal he had in the first place. Do you agree with him?
Keith:
No. Obama was very bad. It is sad that our first African American president had to be like Obama. The American people wanted a Black president to show that we are a good country.
Bob Savage:
That highlights the danger of box-checking and judging people by groups instead of as individuals.
Keith:
Exactly. I am not saying all African Americans. Are you familiar with Colonel Allen West?
Peter Vazquez:
Absolutely. We had him on the show.
Keith:
Why could he not have been our first African American president? Would that not have been fantastic?
Bob Savage:
The road not taken, Keith. We need to go to Lorraine.
Peter Vazquez:
Lorraine, what is up today?
Lorraine:
I have four or five quick points. Ignorance is not just passive; it is evil. I think you can see that in the way England and Canada treat people who have to go to jail for their statements.
When you think of who protected speech, Elon Musk did so much for us with Twitter. I heard a beautiful explanation this morning of why AOC and Senator Warren are wrong about billionaires and trillionaires like Elon Musk. Glenn Beck was talking about the ways Elon Musk has saved us money in space and through Twitter. He has saved both money and freedom to a great degree.
Also, Charlie Kirk might not have been killed if people realized he was simply trying to have a more open discussion.
Peter Vazquez:
We all need to know the facts before we open our mouths.
Lorraine:
Exactly.
Peter Vazquez:
Although I think because he wanted to have effective discussions, that is why he was killed. The left cannot have that. They do not want open discussion. They want to control the narrative because their ideas do not work.
Lorraine, thank you for the call.
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Peter Vazquez:
Welcome back to The Next Steps Show. Rich is on the line. Rich, thank you for calling.
Rich:
Keith was right about what he said. I know we cannot do it, but we should outlaw the Democrats, at least the ones that hate America. Anyone who stands for what the current Democrat Party stands for hates America. It is frustrating listening to them talk.
What Keith said about Obama is true. That man could have gone down as one of the greatest presidents and helped unite the country. He could have helped do away with racism, which is a stupid thing to say because there is only one race. There are many cultures and ethnicities, but only one race, and that is the human race. There is only one God who made all of us.
Bob Savage:
You make a great point that there is only one race, the human race. On the Democrat Party question, outlawing it obviously cannot be done because that is not who we are. But you can get the same effect in your own mind and dealings. Relegate them to the Siberia of lunacy. Do not let them bother you anymore.
Peter Vazquez:
When I hear some of what progressives say, I wonder what is going on in the minds of the people receiving that message. That scares me.
Rich, I appreciate the call.
Bob Savage:
As time goes on through the summer, I get the feeling we may be turning a corner. I hope the audience chimes in. I feel like people are becoming increasingly fed up with all of this from the wild and crazy left. Their messaging has gotten stronger and more anti-American.
Peter Vazquez:
They are panicking.
Before we go to the next caller, let me read another line from Obama’s statement on the war. He said that taking time to explore diplomacy and exhaust the possibilities of a deal that does not solve 100 percent of the problem, but solves 80 or 90 percent of the problem, can avoid unnecessary war.
That is their mentality. But that remaining 10 percent is the problem.
Mike, thank you for calling The Next Steps Show.
Mike:
Good afternoon. Earlier, you mentioned Trump going somewhere in Europe to sign a supposed agreement with Iran this Friday. I would like to make a prediction: it is not going to happen. Israel is going to do something to derail it.
Bob Savage:
I think it is more likely Iran will do something to derail it. But how do you feel about the possibility of a signing ceremony with Iran?
Mike:
I am old enough to remember 1979 when Iran took our hostages. I remember watching them parade our hostages. I am not an Iranian lover.
I believe Israel does not want this war to stop. Israel wants Lebanon. They have already decimated Gaza, and they are marching up the coast. I am talking about the Israeli government, not necessarily the people.
Bob Savage:
We know you are not a fan of Netanyahu or Israel’s foreign policy these days, but I think we need to focus on what is going on with Iran. I do not want to see a signing ceremony. If there is an agreement, sign it in counterparts online with electronic signatures. I do not want the president of the United States standing on a stage shaking hands with these people.
Peter Vazquez:
There was a press conference with American flags and the Iranian flag next to them, and I thought, wow.
Mike, thank you for the call.
We have Don on the line.
Don:
We need to get rid of the Democrat Party. They are the domestic enemy of this country. Look at everything that has happened over the last few years. They are out to destroy it.
Peter Vazquez:
Let me counter that a little. When you talk to Democrats, especially locally, they will say they brought us things like Daniel’s Law, and most recently they have a law to stop 3D printers from printing guns. Are you being unfair to Democrats?
Don:
Not at all. We need a purge. They have infiltrated every institution in this country and are polluting the minds of our kids. If we do not get a handle on our schools, we are fighting a losing battle.
Bob Savage:
The good news is the purge is coming, and it will be imposed at the ballot box. This fall we have to make sure Donald Trump stays in power. We have to keep the Senate and the House and increase our margins. It has to be done because these people are an existential threat to the country.
Don:
Remember one thing: they steal elections. Look at California right now. If you think they are going to let power slip through their fingers, you have another thing coming.
Bob Savage:
That is why we need election reform, and people need to call their senators and put pressure on leadership.
Don, thank you for the call.
Peter Vazquez:
I am glad we brought up elections because ending on elections is a good way to end. Early voting started this past Saturday, and Primary Day is June 23.
I want to share a quote from the vice president of the League of Women Voters. She said she lives in a ZIP code considered one of the most underserved communities in the state, and the work is about encouraging people to learn about voting and how it impacts their lives.
I agree with that statement, regardless of where you stand politically. The ballot is not magic. It does not fix a lazy culture, a broken family, a crooked institution, or a weak leader by itself. But it gives you an opportunity to shape the future.
John is on the line. John, you have about 30 seconds.
John:
First, you are doing God’s work. Greetings from Honeoye Falls, New York.
The thing you have to remember is this: if it does not affect them, Democrats do not care. The internet does not lie. One of my favorite pictures is of Joe Morelle and Adam Bello watching the city burn during the summer unrest.
If it does not affect them, they do not care. Why do they let carjackings go on while Governor Hochul talks about insurance? Rule number one: stop the car thefts and the insurance will go down because insurers will not be paying out as much.
Peter Vazquez:
Absolutely. Great call, John.
We cannot wrap up without saying that a nation is restored one honest acting person at a time. Be a leader. God bless these United States of America. And do not let a second go by where you are not a voice for liberty.
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