Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 10/22/2025

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Show Open:

• Trump admin on pace to shatter deportation record by end of first year: 'Just the beginning.'
  • Since Trump’s return to the Oval Office on Jan 20, the administration has deported over 515,000 illegal aliens.
  • The Dem-Com’s opened surrendered our borders to the Cartels (for four years). Now they are here, operating in America, when will those who have calling ICE terrorists be held to account?

Panelist:

Hugh Fike, Senior Director, (The Academy) The Conservative Partnership Institute.

Hugh brings over a decade of experience in the conservative movement to CPI and has spent time in conservative non-profits, Capitol Hill, the Office of Management and Budget in the first Trump Administration, and most recently back at the Office of Management and Budget in the second Trump Administration.

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9:20

Segment Topic:

• Hugh, I was angered to learn yesterday that Republicans caved on Obamacare subsidies:
  • A group of House Republicans is calling on Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to deal with expiring Obamacare subsidies immediately after the government shutdown ends.
  • Thirteen House GOP lawmakers, led by Reps.
  • Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., and Jen Kiggans, R-Va., are sending a letter to Speaker Johnson on Tuesday thanking him for his leadership during the shutdown but maintaining that Obamacare must also be dealt with before the end of the year.
  • Obamacare, formally called the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has emerged as one of the main flash points in the ongoing fiscal standoff between Republicans and Democrats.
    • Every day the shutdown continues to hurt the very people we were elected to serve, including the men and women of our Armed Forces, the federal law enforcement officers who keep our communities safe, the agents who defend our nation’s borders, and the public servants who provide essential services to veterans, seniors and families," the Republicans wrote.
    • "We also firmly believe that the government funding debate is not the time or place to address healthcare issues. Using the shutdown as leverage to force that debate only prolongs the harm and distracts from the immediate task of reopening the government. Once the government is reopened, however, we should immediately turn our focus to the growing crisis of healthcare affordability and the looming expiration of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits."
  • Obamacare subsidies were enhanced under the Biden administration in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to make healthcare more available to a wider swath of Americans. Democrats voted to extend those subsidies through 2025 in 2022 via the Inflation Reduction Act.
  • Republicans caved and no one should be surprised. It is time to call Jeff Van Drew what he is: Still Democrat Communist and a traitor to the Republican Party.

Panelist:

Hugh Fike, Senior Director, (The Academy) The Conservative Partnership Institute.

Hugh brings over a decade of experience in the conservative movement to CPI and has spent time in conservative non-profits, Capitol Hill, the Office of Management and Budget in the first Trump Administration, and most recently back at the Office of Management and Budget in the second Trump Administration.

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9:35

Segment Topic:

• Dem-Com’s are already petrified of JD Vance (48^th President of the United States).
  • MSNBC host Jen Psaki (Peppermint Patty) was denounced for her "disgusting" comments Tuesday suggesting Vice President JD Vance's wife Usha is scared of him.
  • Psaki made the remarks on the "I've Had It" podcast, where she and the hosts expressed concern over Vance as a member of the Trump administration. 
  • She suggested Vance was "scarier" than President Donald Trump in some regards, and that Usha Vance may feel similarly. (Fox News)
    • You should expect that the Democrat Communist Revolutionary Council already expects Vance to be the nominee in 2028 and they will focus their attacks on him and his family (a preemptive strike).

Panelists:

DIAL Producers/callers

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9:50

Segment Topic:

• Americas 2^nd Revolutionary War?
• Another threat against Trump/White House (gate crasher last night).
  • North Carolina man describes being shot at by man who tore down Trump sign. (Fox News)
  • A 38-year-old accountant has been arrested after allegedly opening fire on a MAGA supporter after tearing down a Trump banner.
  • If you post a Trump sign, you are at risk from these communist insurgents (Dem-Com supporters).
  • Is TDS a call to wage war?

Panelist:

DIAL Producers/callers

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10:08

Segment Topic:

• Are Trump tariffs biting consumers yet?
• Will Trump tariffs have a negative impact on Christmas buying season?
• According to CBS News/Megan Cerullo, Tariffs are starting to bite consumers and businesses, economists say.
  • Trump administration tariffs imposed this year on dozens of nations and a range of industries are fueling inflation, especially for goods that are widely imported into the U.S., a recent analysis shows. 
  • Product categories seeing some of the biggest price hikes due to tariffs include furniture, car parts, electronics and musical instruments, according to economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The findings are based on research models estimating tariff-related price hikes and drawing on Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) data, a widely used gauge of inflation.
  • Importers bear the cost of tariffs, typically passing at least some of the added expenses to consumers, economic research shows. 
  • The St. Louis Fed researchers found that companies passed 35% of tariff costs onto consumers from May through July. Other research from Goldman Sachs suggests that businesses could eventually pass on as much as 55% of added tariff costs to consumers. Companies would swallow 22% of the extra costs, while foreign exporters would absorb 18% of the expenses, economists with the investment bank found. (CBS News)
  • What is the truth?
  • CBS news has zero credibility.

 Panelist:

Bryan Ganz, CEO of Byrna Technologies, joins our panel to offer a very different perspective. 

Despite moving 92 percent of its production back to the United States, Mr. Ganz has not raised prices to his customers.

What is his approach to managing tariffs?  Can companies now committed to American manufacturing and smart, domestic supply sourcing withstand tariff pressure without punishing consumers?

The fact is, his company absorbed cost pressures internally, maintained margins, and refused to offload inflation onto buyers.

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10:35

Segment Topic:

• Is there a direct correlation between Obamacare and energy prices in America?
• Don’t energy prices affect the cost of running hospitals and clinics?
• Unleaded gasoline in many places is back to Trump 45 levels. That did not take long.
• Should we remove Biden stickers “I did that” from gas pumps and replace them with Trump” I did that stickers?
• What is the outlook for other energy sectors?
• Is the Keystone XL Pipeline coming back?
  • Let us put those questions to an expert, whose latest Opinion Piece in the Federalist:
  • Founder and Executive director of energy advocacy group Power the Future Daniel Turner agrees that President Trump is to blame ONLY BECAUSE he is cutting spending to an industry that cannot survive without a taxpayer bailout. The same formula can be applied to our rising energy costs.
    • Daniel argues: “Our health care industry is an expensive, unreliable mess. Our electricity industry and national grid is an expensive, unreliable mess. Both are the result of flawed legislation and terrible policies, orchestrated by and shoved down the American people’s throats by one party, and it is not Trump’s party.”
    • Obamacare was lousy legislation destined to enable lousy products. Like wind and solar, it cannot survive without endless government spending, and like green energy metrics, Obamacare, too, is full of gimmicks designed to deceive the American people that it is somehow working.
    • Obamacare’s “success” is a mirage. Wind and solar’s “success” is a fantasy. Proof: look at your health care costs and electricity bills. 
    • Both costs are up around 30 percent in the past few years. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has seen premiums go up 150 percent. Granholm stupidly proclaimed “the wind is free.” For something “affordable” and “free” it sure does cost a lot.  
  • House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declares a “healthcare crisis” that Republicans created. That may not be untrue, Republicans did cut the subsidies, but it is dishonest. Both industries have been costing the American taxpayer a fortune in subsidies, grants, backstops, rebates, tax credits, in government programs swooning with elegant nomenclature like “strengthening” and “investing” when what Democrats really mean is “bailout.”
  • Our health care industry is an expensive, unreliable mess. Our electricity industry and national grid is an expensive, unreliable mess. Both are the result of flawed legislation and terrible policies, orchestrated by and shoved down the American people’s throats by one party, and it is not Trump’s party.
  • Green energy and Obamacare are terrible wounds on the American body politic, and President Trump deserves great credit for ripping off the band aid. Only then can the healing process begin.

 

Panelists:

Daniel Turner, Executive Director, Power the Future

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11:06

Segment Topic:

• Civil War or Revolution?
• Civil War means secession, Revolution means an overthrow of the Republic!

From the Gateway Pundit/Jordan Conradson:

• CIVIL WAR? Trump Administration to Establish “National Guard Response Force” to be Mobilized for Mass Civil Unrest by April 2026.
• Trump Administration sees what’s coming.
• Marshal Law? Military Tribunals?
  • A new memo has been unearthed, showing that the Trump Administration is preparing to mobilize National Guard troops across the nation by April 2026 to stop potential uprisings amid the nationwide No Kings protests and violent anti-ICE protests in cities like Chicago, Illinois, and Portland, Oregon.
    • This comes after the Trump administration won a lawsuit over the President’s deployment of National Guard troops in Portland to quell riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Trump has activated hundreds of California and Texas National Guard troops in Portland and Chicago, but was recently blocked by a Trump-appointed District Court Judge.
    • As The Gateway Pundit reported, on Monday, the Ninth Circuit allowed President Trump to deploy Oregon National Guard troops to Portland and said he “lawfully exercised his statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3), which authorizes the federalization of the National Guard when “the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.””
    • In a separate case, Trump has askedthe US Supreme Court to intervene and allow National Guard troops to be deployed in Chicago.
  • The new memo, obtained exclusively by investigative reporter Anthony Cabassa, outlines the planned implementation of a "National Guard Response Force" (NGRF), which will be used for crowd control and civil disturbance operations in all states, territories, and the District of Columbia.
  • Units of up to 500 troops will be trained to fully deploy within 24 hours in the case of a violent uprising or riot.
  • Troops will also be trained and equipped to use non-lethal weapons, including TASER/Oleoresin and Capsicum Spray, according to the memo.
  • The memo reads in part, "states will train, equip and make NGRFs operational NLT 1 April 2026. NGRFs are required in all 53 States and Territories. The District of Columbia has a unique solution set directed by the Secretary of War. NGRFs will train in civil disturbance operations and prepared to deploy approximately 25% of the force in 8 hours, 50% of the force in 12 hours, and the full response requirement in 24 hours."
  • This provides insight into what the Trump Administration expects by spring, given the ongoing uprisings and left-wing insurrection in states across the nation.
  • Cabassa reports on Substackthat a source told him the move is "not normal," and they "have never seen an order like this before."
  • What does this mean? The Trump Administration is left to deal with the instability; deliberately brought to our homeland by the Democrat Communist Revolutionary Council (the Communist insurgency).
  • The illegals and communist insurgents created by Marxist professors are the army assembled to fight on behalf of the Dem-Coms.
  • They will not be stopped by mace and rubber bullets. Only by live ammunition – if this insurgency is not put down soon.
• The Dem-Coms spent four-years purging the military to ensure they had forces who would fire on patriotic Americans.
  • Numerous videos have surfaced on social media depicting individuals claiming to be active-duty military personnel, in uniform, instructing troops to disobey President Trump’s orders.
  • Some of these videos are likely fake, created by individuals engaging in stolen valor, pretending to be active-duty service members or veterans. However, others appear genuine.
  • This conduct seems to violate the Uniform Code of MilitaryJustice (UCMJ), which has long prohibited U.S. servicemen and women from making political statements or media appearances in uniform.
  • These posts not only violate that prohibition but could also be interpreted as insurrection or incitement. (The Gateway Pundit/ Antonio Graceffo

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Panelists:

DIAL Producers/callers

11:33

Segment Topic:

• What cease fire?
• Why send Vance to Middle East?
  • If Hamas can so easily commandeer food and emergency supplies meant for Palestinians, what makes us think they will not engineer stealing funding meant for rebuilding Gaza?
  • Two more bodies returned last night. Bodies of 13 dead still remain.
• Is Russia losing militarily in Ukraine?
  • Evelyn Farkas, current Executive Director of The McCain Institute, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia and Ukraine under Barack Obama (Russia has been weakened)?
  • Is it time to consider Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine as a negotiating tactic?
  • Trump/Mark Rutte (NATO Sec. General) meeting at White House today.

Panelists:

Brigadier General Blaine Holt, (USAF Retired)

Brig. Gen. General Holt is a former Deputy United States Military Representative to (NATO). General Holt supported the Military Representative and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in executing the U.S. political-military mission at the North Atlantic Council. General Holt was a command pilot with more than 3,900 flying hours in a variety of aircraft.  He is a frequent contributor to Newsmax.

The host of the new podcast series: “Dangerous Intellectuals”

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Salute the Troops:

James L. Ripanti

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