The following is a transcript of the audio podcast. Hey guys, welcome to my mind chimes, or welcome back. This is where I’m going to try to strain the American propaganda through the truth serum of common sense. So if you’re sick of huffing on the pipe of political manipulation, stick with me. Thanks for tuning in. So the first story I have today is how our boy Donnie is bailing on Taiwan. Carl’s Mind Chimes Magazine is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. After 50 years of building a hedge against communism, Trump decided to quit. What do we get in exchange? Taiwan is the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world. 97% of all chips are made there. So giving away Taiwan to China gives China all access to most of America’s tech infrastructure. From cars to computers to military defense, China will have access to all of the software since Trump wants to turn Taiwan over to China. This is worse than the oil deal and the energy infrastructure and the food debacle that he created in Iran. I mean, giving everything away to China is ridiculous. In news of the strange, thousands of people, and I’m going to add this, thousands of people gathered at the National Mall to pray for lower prices and cheap fuel in order to drive to church. These folks believe the founders of America were Christians, which is pretty funny. They were able, they were table knockers and spiritualists. Ben Franklin was a notorious table knocker. They believed religion was poison. Trump did a video of himself reading scripture like he wrote the Bible himself and the sadly misguided cultists, it made them feel good. Speaking of zealots, Pete give me a drink Hegseth held a prayer vigil demanding show no mercy on those who he deems an enemy. Unbelievable. Let every round find, and I’m quoting him here, let every round find its mark against the enemies of the righteousness and our great nation. Hegseth prayed during the live stream service, give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy. I’m sorry, using the Bible to kill, that’s your religion. Count me the f**k out. There’s a historian, Ron Stahl, from the University of Berkeley said, “In a nation with no [00:03:00] establishment of religion, per the Constitution, what does it mean to have a leader bring not just broadly religious views or religious in a pluralistic sense, but religion is a very, in a very particular sense? May their God have mercy on both these men’s souls.” Uh, couldn’t have said it better. Now let’s move south and let’s... This is a story that mainstream media is not gonna be covering, and that’s the border. Trump promised to build that wall, and sure enough, it’s, not gonna happen. But I think it could happen because he likes to waste our taxpayers’ money. But, US-Mexico wall, border wall construction is, unbeknownst to anybody in the mainstream media, desecrating sacred sites. There’s 170 indigenous sites all along the border, and these things have been, split between Mexico and the United States and considered sacred land for these people, for the indigenous people. And all I can say is haven’t we done enough to those who own the land we wrongly call our own? It’s only a cultural site, I suppose, if it’s painted in gold and has Trump’s fat dollar bill ass on it. The Trump administration’s program to check voter e- eligibility has been on a roll. It’s just the same old thing. When you can’t, win the vote outright and fairly, you change the rules and move the goalpost. This is what cheaters do, and Trump is a cheater and exploiter. I think this might blow up in Don’s face. At least 67 million registrations have been sorted through, in Republican-controlled states. They’ve gone through beefed-up veri- verifications in order to disqualify tens of thousands of people who have been flagged as potential non-citizens or people who have died. Some states allow only a month for people to prove their eligibility once they’ve been disqualified, and others suspend it immediately. These things, these news stories, they’re messed up, and they make absolutely no sense to me. But, as we move through all of these times, November can’t get here fast enough, and we shall see exactly what Don does. Who knows? He’s unpredictable. He’s turning 80. Life expectancy in the United States is 79. He’s one year past his expiration date. Whether he makes it to November, who knows? His birthday, ironically, is on Flag Day. Let’s just hope that the last shreds of democracy can hold on and we can start rebuilding. It’s really not gonna happen until the presidential election and we go through the Senate and House again and reelect a, a Democratic majority. In this country, all of the things that we have, funding of universities, research, all of the things that are, what made this country really great, that was all started with FDR and for 50 years, the Democratic Party held Congress. And then, Wayne Newton, No, Newt Gingrich. Yeah, not Wayne Newton, Newt Gingrich, same guy. Newt Gingrich came along and he and Bill Clinton, kinda modulated the, social safety net that was there and started to sell the government to private enterprise. And today we have a corporatocracy run by oligarchs, and that’s where we are today. Now, how do we get it back? There are tons and tons of young, really keen politicians that are being, put forth by the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party, Chuck Schumer wants to hold on in his dotage. A lot of the old guys wanna hang around, but it’s time to pass the baton, time to pass on to the youth because these people are- claim themselves to be Democratic socialists. [00:07:00] Now, let’s not go giving, letting the media and propagandists just take that word and put it on the heap of culture junk pile, the cultural junk pile of liberalism and progressivism and socialism. Good God, for a country that’s never experienced any of those things, to think that they’re bad or think that there’s something wrong with them is,, a sure sign of indoctrination and brainwashing. I made a couple of interesting posts this week, and I’m just gonna review them really quick. One of the posts that, seemed to be, hit, really well was that, I pointed out the fact that, the Trump administration has spent $45 billion on incarcerating people who have not had their day in court. $45 billion to build and refurbish shopping malls and warehouses and turn them into prisons to hold, people who have never, ever been tried in a court of law. Just rounded up and stuffed into these buildings in- Pretty much inhumane conditions. And $45 billion gets you a lot of square footage, so don’t be surprised if it doesn’t lap over into other areas beyond immigrants. And the post I posted was the fact that instead of spending $45 billion on prisons, Barack Obama, during his presidency, he became the first pre- sitting president ever to visit with incarcerated men who were in federal prison for life. That’s an incredible act of understanding and compassion, and highlighting not just the fact that we incarcerate people at an, a inhumane rate pre-Trump, just highlighting the fact that there needs to be an, a better understanding of what led these men, to end up in federal prison for life. And President Obama shined a light on those very issues by going and visiting these men in prison. I thought it was, I thought it was the highlight of his presidency, to be honest with you. I thought that was so bold. S- such courage. ‘Cause,, a lot of people believe that there are no second chances in life, and these, these men, really, Some of the crimes are heinous, and certainly, there may not be room for a second chance. But we have to be able to find out w- how they got there, what went wrong with our society, and how people end up incarcerated. , I thought that was a pretty good post, and it really did hit for a lot of people, which I was really happy with. , Also, just thinking about other things that kind of pop up, popped up into my mind, just seeing how, we’re so busy worried about Trump when we should be worried about congressional elections , in the House of Representatives in November, and we should be picking up and picking out the best candidates. And now one of the things, too, is you have to vote smart. Most people, they’re all or nothing voters, which is kinda the thing that killed the Democratic Party. One, perfect pet issue for you is gonna make you not vote for the well-being of the country, and that kinda is dumb, as the Republicans have laughingly proved. I know we all have certain pet issues, but, we were running a secret, truth test among our Democratic politicians saying, “If you’re not this and this and this and this and this, then I can’t vote for you, or I’m just gonna vote for someone else.” And it seriously cost the Democratic Party and this country, and I think it’s about to cost us our democracy and our rights to vote. And we’re certainly tipping into an authoritarian oligarchy, and there’s plenty of Trump heirs ready to grab the wheel once Don leaves office. It’s important to make sure that you vote Democratic. Certainly, you are not going to get the perfect Dem- perfect Democratic candidate, but you have to be able to make sure that you’re getting a Democratic candidate. Done. Simple. Get the Democrats elected so that at least they can run the committees and control the money that comes through Congress. And then in two more years after the midterms, we can bum rush the, White House with a Democratic candidate too. But, I think a lot of people... One, one little side bit here, a story. I went back to my homeland in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and normally when I drive through
