Rod Martin is chairman of the Institute for the American Future and the author of The Rod Martin Report, a daily geopolitical analysis with tens of thousands of subscribers. He was on the startup team at PayPal alongside Peter Thiel and served as policy director to Governor Mike Huckabee. His new book, Trump's New World Reorder, is available for preorder.
Jenny Beth Martin is the co-founder and honorary chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action and the host of The Jenny Beth Show.
Key topics:
· Why Martin says conservatives have an information problem rather than a record problem
· The border: illegal crossings, deportations, self-deportation, and what each one costs
· Welfare fraud convictions, the Fauci aide case, and why the big cases take longer
· The Laken Riley Act and the lowest violent crime rate since 1900
· The industrial super cycle: permanent tax cuts, full business expensing, no tax on tips or overtime
· Deregulation at 129 repealed rules for every new one
· Recruited foreign investment, reshoring, and reciprocal trade
· Energy dominance moving from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of America
· Nuclear power: five new reactors instead of the three that were promised
· Article Two Section One, Trump v. Slaughter, and what Martin calls a ninety year coup
· Faith and family: Roe, the Hyde Amendment, the Mexico City policy, school choice
· Peace through strength: NATO spending, China in the Caribbean, Golden Dome, recruiting
· The assignment: tell the story, then drive your neighbors to the polls
Timestamped breakdown:
00:00 — An astonishing number of Republican voters cannot name three 02:25 — Why Rod Martin wrote the list: tired of the black pilling 04:47 — Item 1: the border, and illegal crossings down 99.9 percent 07:58 — Welfare fraud: over a thousand convictions this year 08:57 — Why you go after the little fish first 13:04 — Item 2: reversing mass migration and building double wall 14:35 — Shutting down USAID 16:52 — Item 3: the Laken Riley Act 19:06 — Item 4: the lowest violent crime rate since 1900 21:30 — The greatest philosopher of our time 23:13 — Break: poll workers and poll watchers 24:54 — Items 5 and 6: the industrial super cycle and the tax cuts 29:00 — A deregulation machine: 129 repealed for every one new rule 30:04 — Item 7: recruiting a trillion dollars of investment 34:54 — What reinvesting in a business actually does 36:48 — The counterexample: Canada and Europe 38:03 — Items 8 and 9: reshoring and reciprocal trade 40:12 — Item 10: energy dominance moves to the Gulf of America 44:40 — Item 11: nuclear power, and five reactors instead of three 49:20 — Trump made elections matter again 52:20 — Getting rid of DEI 54:56 — Stacey Abrams and the two billion dollar grant 57:23 — Canada: 47 percent foreign born or children of the foreign born 57:53 — Faith and family: the best pro-life president ever 58:32 — Roe, the Hyde Amendment, and the Mexico City policy 01:00:24 — Men out of women's sports 01:01:18 — School choice, Trump accounts, and anti-Christian bias 01:02:10 — Peace through strength and America first 01:03:45 — Every NATO ally hit 2 percent, then committed to 5 01:04:34 — China out of the Caribbean, eight peace deals in eight months 01:05:19 — Golden Dome and the end of mutual assured destruction 01:06:16 — The warrior ethos back at the Pentagon 01:06:57 — This is just 25, and here is the assignment 01:08:23 — rodmartin.org and Trump's New World Reorder 01:10:44 — How to volunteer this election cycle
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