The Darrell McClain show
Independent media that won't reinforce tribalism. We have one Planet; nobody's leaving so let’s reason together!! Darrell, McClain is a Military veteran with an abnormal interest in politics, economics, religion, philosophy, science, and literature. He was born and raised in Jacksonville FL, and went to Edward H white High School where he wrestled Under Coach Jermy Smith and The Late Brian Gilbert. He was a team wrestling captain, District champion, and an NHSCA All-American in freestyle Wrestling. He received a wrestling scholarship from Waldorf University in Forest City, Iowa. After a short period, he decided he no longer wanted to cut weight which effectively ended his college wrestling journey. Darrell Mcclain is an Ordained Pastor under The Universal Life Church and is still in good standing, he's a Believer in The Doctrines of Grace Also Known as Calvinism. He joined the United States Navy in 2008 and was A Master At Arms (military police officer) He was awarded several awards while on active duty including an expeditionary combat medal, a Global War on Terror medal, a National Defense Medal, a Korean defense medal, and multiple Navy achievement medals. While In the Navy he was also the assistant wrestling coach at Robert E Lee High School. He's a Brown Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under six six-degree black belt Gustavo Machado, Darrell Trains At Gustavo Machado Norfolk under the 3rd-degree black belt, and Former Marine Professor Mark Sausser. He went to school for psychology at American Military University and for criminal justice at ECPI University.
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Biden's Exit
What kind of leadership does it take to step down from power willingly? Join us as we dissect President Joe Biden's monumental decision not to seek re-election, a move likened to Lyndon B. Johnson's 1968 announcement. We'll explore how this decision reshapes the Democratic Party's future and fundraising landscape, with insights from notable historian John Meacham who hails Biden's choice as an act of profound leadership. Reflecting on Biden's lifelong dedication to public service, we draw comparisons to iconic figures like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, offering a rich historical context that deepens our understanding of his legacy.
In another gripping segment, we scrutinize the Secret Service's reaction to a shooting incident at a rally for former President Donald Trump, questioning the agency's organizational flaws under the Department of Homeland Security. The episode also tackles the explosive scandal involving Senator Bob Menendez, who faces grave federal charges that have rocked the Senate. Examine the compelling evidence against him and the implications for his political career, with Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin weighing in on Menendez's future. Finally, get a sneak peek at upcoming accusations against RFK and a tribute replay of Rush Limbaugh's take on immigration laws. Don't miss this episode filled with sharp conservative analysis and thought-provoking discussions.
As you're seeing, the Democrat Party is not the party of democracy. They're really the enemies of democracy. The stupid president that we have Stupid, he's a stupid person. This stupid person, low IQ, he's a low IQ individual. Take his IQ. I guarantee you it's at the low 50s. Look at Joe Biden. Kamala I call her laughing Kamala. Watch her laugh. She's crazy. You know you can tell a lot by her laugh. No, she, she's crazy. You know you can tell a lot by her laughter. She's crazy. She's nuts. She's not as crazy as Nancy Pelosi. Crazy it is.
Speaker 2:I know how hard you worked, how many sacrifices you made, so many of you, so many of you. You're free to give your lives for me and the kind of commitment you people make for anything these days, but you made it and I've been honored and humbled. I mean this is from the bottom of my heart.
Speaker 4:I worry as a Biden that, for all you've done for me and my family, and I know it's been a roller coaster and we're all filled with so many mixed emotions about this I just have to say I love Joe Biden. I love Joe Biden and I know we all do, and we have so many darn good reasons for loving Joe Biden and I have full faith that this team is the team will be the reason we win in November. You all who are here.
Speaker 4:And as Julie always says, and I will quote the great Julie we are one team, one fight. So in the days and weeks ahead, I, together with you, will do everything in my power to unite our Democratic Party, to unite our nation and to win this election. To unite our nation and to win this election. You know, as many of you know, before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general, if I've mentioned, of California. Before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.
Speaker 5:So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type. Welcome to the DeBrell McLean Show. I'm your host, darrell McLean. Independent Media. The World Reinforced Tribalism. We have one planet. Nobody is leaving, and let us reason together. You are listening to this on 7-24-2024. And let's get to this episode.
Speaker 5:So the last time we spoke, joe Biden was the president of the United States and he, as of the time I'm recording this, is still president of the United States, although there are calls for him to step down. What is significantly new since the last time we spoke is Joe Biden has decided he will not seek re-election. He is the first Democrat to do this since Lyndon Baines Johnson did it. Now he did about 25 minutes after he made the announcement that he would not seek re-dollar donations, with the median contribution being $92. After nine hours, actblue had received $40 million and after 24 hours, actblue and the SuperPAC had already had a war chest for Kamala Harris of $100 million. Now that is not the number that is included with the money that Joe Biden will be able to hand over to his vice president because of the Biden Harris ticket. So she has amassed an amount of money for her war chest and will be inheriting the money from his war chest. An historic event like a president dropping out or basically saying he will not seek re-election leads me to believe that we need to look at it in this historical lens. So I'm going to go to. The New York Times, written on the 22nd is an article called Joe Biden my Friend and an American Hero, and this is coming from John Meacham, an historian who has advised President Biden on historical matters and major speeches throughout his term. I have a few Joe Meacham's history books. One of my favorite is the Thomas Jefferson book that I have of his, the Art of Power. So let's go through this.
Speaker 5:On the cliffs of Normandy, in a small holding area, the President of the United States was looking out at the English Channel. It was only six weeks ago, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day landings, and the President Biden had just finished his remarks at the American Cemetery atop Omaha Beach. Guests had been congratulating him on the speech, but he didn't want to talk about himself. The moment was not about him. It was about the men who fought and died there. Today feels so large, he told me. This may sound strange and I don't mean it to, but when I was out there. I felt the honor of it, the sanctity of it. To speak for the American people, to speak over those graves, is a profound thing. He turned from the view over the beaches and gestured back toward the war dead. You want to do right by them, by the country.
Speaker 5:Biden has spent his life trying to do right by the nation and he did so in the most epic ways when he chose to end his campaign for re-election. His decision is one of the most remarkable acts of leadership in history and an act of self-sacrifice that places him in the company of George Washington, who also stepped away from the presidency. To put something ahead of one's immediate desires, to give rather than to try to take, is perhaps the most difficult thing for any human being to do, and Biden has now done just that. To be clear, biden is my friend and it has been a privilege to help him when I can, not because I'm a Democrat I belong to neither party and I have voted for both the Democrats and Republicans but because I believe him to be a defender of the Constitution and a public service of honor and grace at the time when extreme forces threaten the nation. I do not agree with him on everything he has done or wanted to do in the terms of policy, but I know him to be a good man, a patron and a president who has met challenges all too similar to those faced by Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 5:Here is the story I believe history will tell of Joe Biden, with American democracy in an hour of maximum danger. In Donald Trump's presidency, biden stepped in the breach he staved off an authoritarian threat at home, rallied the world against autocrats abroad, laid the foundations for decades of prosperity, managed to end a once-in-a-century pandemic, successfully legislated on vital issues of climate and infrastructure, and has conducted a presidency worth of the greatest of his predecessor's history. And the fate brought to him in the pinnacle, in a late session of life. And to the end he respected fate. He respected the American people. It is, of course, an incredibly difficult moment highs and lows, victories and defeats, joy and pain. It has been ever thus for Biden.
Speaker 5:In distant autumn of 1972, experienced the most exhilarating hours election to the United States Senate at the age of 29. He was no scion, he earned it. Then darkness fell. His wife and his daughter were killed in an automobile accident that seriously injured his two sons, beau and Hunter. But he endured, found purpose in the pain and became deeper, wiser, more empathetic Through the decades.
Speaker 5:The presidential two presidential campaigns imploded and, in 2015, his son, beau, a lawyer and a wonderfully promising young political figure, died of brain cancer after serving in Iraq. Such tragedy would have broken lesser men, but Biden never gave up, never gave in, never surrendered to hope that a fallen, frail, fallible world could be made better, stronger and more whole. Goodness to encourage to enough courage to build rather than to tear down. Character, as the Greeks first taught us, is destiny, and Biden's character is both a mirror and a maker of his nation. Like Like Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, he is optimistic, resilient and kind, a steward of America's greatness, a lover of the great American game of politics and, at heart, a hopeless romantic about the country that has given him so much. Nothing bears out this point as well as his decision to let history happen in the 2024 election, no matter how much people say that this was inevitable. After the debate in Atlanta last month, there was nothing foreordained about an American president ending his political career for the sake of his country and his party career for the sake of his country and his party by surrendering the possibility of enduring in the seat of ultimate power. Biden has taught us a landmark lesson in patriotism, humility and wisdom.
Speaker 5:Now the question comes to the rest of us. What will we, the people, do? We face the most significant of choices. Mr Roosevelt framed those war, whose dead Mr Biden commemorated at Normandy in June, as a battle between democracy and dictatorship. It is not too much to say that we too have what Mr Roosevelt called a redemptious decision with destiny At home and abroad. Biden has put the country above self and the Constitution above personal ambition, the future of democracy above temporal gain. It is up to us to follow his lead, so very significant.
Speaker 5:The president stepping down with the height of power. It is something that I think. We will look at this in a few years and wonder is it something that we would do if we were, as Abraham Lincoln said in the famous movie Lincoln, cloaked in extraordinary power of the presidency? So, from the selfless to the incompetent, the Secret Service director went to the halls of Congress to answer some questions. I don't think she did a good job. As a matter of fact, she didn't answer many questions. I don't think she did a good job. As a matter of fact, she didn't answer many questions. She was hammered by both the left and the right for the outright security failure that happened on her watch.
Speaker 1:The individual used an AR-15 in order to act out his assassination attempt. My question is is a Secret Service protective program shorter than one of the most popular semi-automatic weapons in the United States?
Speaker 6:There are a number of weapons out there with a number of ranges. Again, an advance was completed the determination of the perimeter. I'm not going to speak to specifics, but there are a number of factors that are taken into account when we determine our perimeter. Some of it has to do with terrain, some of it has to do with buildings, some of it has to do with assets and resources that are available.
Speaker 1:And so what I'm hearing is that a perimeter was not established outdoors, in an outdoor venue, that would prevent an AR-15, which is one of the most common weapons used in mass shootings, from being able to be within the range of Secret Service protection A perimeter was established and even though there were buildings that were outside of that perimeter, it wasn't just that building.
Speaker 6:There were a number of buildings in the area and there was overwatch that was created to help mitigate some of those buildings.
Speaker 7:I own an AR-15, and last time I shot it I shot it one time my whole life. It was six years ago, that is, until Saturday, where we recreated the events in Savoy Texas. We recreated what happened to Butler. I was lying prone on a sloped roof at 130 yards, at 630 at night, and I knew that he had a scope, but I didn't know what kind red dot or magnified. So I shot eight rounds from both. You know what the result was 15 out of 16 kill shots and kill shots, and the one I missed would have hit the president's ear. That's a 94% success rate and that shooter was a better shot than me. It is a miracle President Trump wasn't killed. Corey Campantore's life is over because that damn shooter made it on the roof and it wasn't the roof that was dangerous, it was a nutjob on top of the roof. You know what else is dangerous. I believe your horrifying ineptitude and your lack of skilled leadership is a disgrace. Your obfuscating today is shameful. You should be fired immediately. Go back to Garden Doreal.
Speaker 6:That's a wrap.
Speaker 8:Director Cheadle as you know, the shooter began shooting at 6.11 pm Eastern on July 13th. Nbc reported that at 5.51 pm, 20 minutes before the shooting began, the state police informed the Secret Service of their concern. Now, the rally was not paused at that point, correct, no? And according to NBC, just two minutes later, at 5.53 pm, the Secret Service notified its snipers about the gunman. The rally wasn't paused at that point either, correct, no? Let me show you some video footage by rally goers. If you could play the video on the screen up here, this was taken two minutes before the shooting started. If you could turn up the volume, we have people down here.
Speaker 9:We have people down here, Right here, right on the roof. You went right on the roof. We had.
Speaker 8:That looks like suspicious behavior, that looks like threatening behavior to me, and the rally wasn't paused at that point either, correct?
Speaker 6:I can tell you, as I stated earlier, sir, that the moment that the shift surrounding the president were aware of an actual threat, that's a threat.
Speaker 8:Right there, the guy's on the roof and everybody's yelling at him yes, and directing the officer's attention to him. The rally was not paused at that point, correct?
Speaker 6:We are currently still combing through communications and when communications were passed.
Speaker 9:Did they share with you how many shell casings were on the roof? They have shared with me the FBI. Did they share with you how many shell casings were on the roof? Yes, okay, how many were there? I would refer to the FBI. How many shell cases were on the road? Yes, okay, how many were there? I would refer to the FBI how many were there? And their information that they need to share in their investigation. So they've shared the information with you. You just don't want to share the information with us, correct?
Speaker 9:We have concurrent investigations that are going on, so they have shared this information with you. You know the answer to the question. You just refuse to answer the question from the member of Congress who has subpoenaed you to be here. Is there a different?
Speaker 6:answer to that question. I was always willing to come here and testify before this oversight hearing Beautiful, then let's do that.
Speaker 9:Let's, for once, have your actions match your words. So you've been in communication with the FBI. You know the answers and you refuse to tell us the answers. So I will ask you again you know how many showcases were on that roof? What is the answer to that question? What is the answer to that question?
Speaker 6:I think it's pertinent to talk to you about the information that the Secret Service has.
Speaker 2:Would you agree that this is the most serious security lapse since President Reagan was shot in 1981 of the Secret Service? Yes, sir, I would, and you know. You know what Stuart Knight did when he was in charge at the time of the Secret Service. You know what he did afterwards he remained undue. He resigned Absolutely.
Speaker 5:Now I am happy to announce that the receiver service appearance before Congress to review the assassination attempt against the former President Trump Good, but that's not enough needs to be transparent about what happened and there needs to be new policies put in place to ensure that this type of event does not happen again. Let me say something as simple as this. Let me say something as simple as this the president is the former president. Donald Trump is very tall, so it would make simple sense that maybe the Secret Service agents who guard him not be five feet shorter than him, so when they try to cover him, his head is still poking out in a crowd that I could see on the news.
Speaker 5:That may be a starter, and they may not have wanted to take those types of steps, because then you have to hit this little snag where there may not be allowed any women on the president's detail because, just from a physiological standpoint, as anatomy goes, they are probably going to be shorter than Donald Trump, who is not a short man, not a short man. This was a security failure from start to finish and I'm sadly reading some reporting that there has been a lot of beef, I'll just say, with the Trump administration, the Trump campaign and the Secret Service, because the Trump organization during the presidency had been overcharging the Secret Service with, let's say, room and board. A normal room the Secret Service could look it up would be about $500 or so and Donald Trump would be making the Secret Service say it's hotels and it would be $3,000 a night and that was supposedly stretching the resources of the Secret Service and there was a lot of animosity from the Secret Service towards the former president of the United States. Now, although that is a human response, it is unprofessional and it is downright dangerous. Change we should make here is the Department of Homeland Security is now over the Secret Service and, believe it or not, this was not always the case. I think the Secret Service needs to go back to being under the department that they were previously under, before we came up with this massive monster called the Department of Homeland Security, who is inept and incompetent. I think it's time to rein that department in, because I don't know how secure the homeland actually is, but I do know we need to or if we could put the Secret Service back under the leadership that it was before it seemed like that they were doing a better job and had better standards because there has been failings, big failings to the Secret Service since it went under the branch of the Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 5:Just my opinion. Just my opinion. Speaking of opinions, having been told you were over-opinionated, how about this one? You can talk about religion, you can talk about politics, but I want you to try to check out a show that is a sister show of this one. Now the show is actually titled over opinionated with Josh Scott. So you can put in your search bar over opinionated with Josh Scott and it will pop up and I call him the quiet voice telling you the truth. Josh is a soft-spoken conservative area of Virginia and he gives you great analysis from his conservative Christian worldview that is not filled with vitriol or hatred or pettiness.
Speaker 5:I would like you to give Overopinionated a shot at the exact same place that you have listened to this show. And then, if you want to get some comedy, some humor, learn about some food, etc. You should go and check out another show called Lunsbee with T-Bone and Chick Brew. Now they guarantee you one laugh per episode, even though I can assure you that you will get more than that. So you have something you can look forward to. After this is over. You can go to Overopinionated with Josh Scott and you can go to Lund's Bee with T-Bone and Chick Brew at the same place. You listened to this episode.
Speaker 5:So we move on from the selfless to the incompetent to the disgraced with Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey. Bob Menendez, a Democrat, has decided that he will resign from the Senate next month after being convicted in a bribery scandal last week. The Senate on Tuesday received Menendez's resignation letter and entered it to the record. He will step down effective August 20th. The chair laid before the Senate a communication regarding the resignation of Senator Menendez. Senator Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont, said while presiding over the chamber so, without objection, the letter will be printed in the record and spread upon the journal Now. The New Jersey Globe first reported Menendez's decision.
Speaker 5:Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin told reporters that he does not expect Menendez to show up for the final two weeks of the session before the August recess. He also discouraged Menendez from showing up to receive any classified briefings he may be able to attend. I don't expect to see him, durbin told reporters. I think he knows the sensitivity of the situation. I think he should be treated as a sitting senator when it comes to anything confidential. I'm sorry he said he does not think he should be treated as a sitting senator when it comes to anything confidential.
Speaker 5:Hell, the damage has already been done. He's been a sitting senator for decades, he's been in power for a very long time and he was selling his access to For a very long time. So what could he do in the next two weeks that he hasn't done over his long career? This is whatever Menendez's departure also concedes with a payday, federal charges of bribery, acting as a foreign agent and the rest of the 16 counts he faced for allegedly accepting hundreds and thousands of dollars in bribes from business associates, including the owner of a company that the prosecutor said benefited handsomely from Menendez's influences over US foreign policy. The 70-year-old, who has held his seat since 2006, vowed to appeal the conviction he had been planning to run for re-election as independent in November. I have never violated my public oath, menendez said outside of the courthouse after trial. I've never been anything but a patriot for my country and for my county.
Speaker 5:I have never been a foreign agent, menendez has resisted calls for him to step down since the indictment was first handed down at the time, accusing the Department of Justice of trying to force him from Congress because of his humble beginnings as a first-generation Latino American. Though he relinquished his post as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in accordance with Senate and Senate Democratic rules the Senate's senior Democratic rules Once the verdict was announced, majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Democratic from New York, who had previously stopped short of calling for Menendez's resignation, said he should step down as discussions of potentially expelling the New Jersey Democrat gained momentum. More than half of the Senate Democratic Conference had called for Menendez to leave the Congress prior to the conviction, as had the New Jersey Governor Democrat, phil Murphy. Over several weeks of trial, the government presented testimony that more than $486,000 in cash and $100,000 in gold bars were found in Menendez's home by the FBI were found in Menendez's home by the FBI and they showed evidence that his wife, nadine Menendez, who also faces charges but has yet to go to trial, frequently served as a go-between for her husband and businessman.
Speaker 5:Prosecutors said the senator wielded his influence over the US foreign policy toward Egypt to help an associate, wali Hanan, obtain lucrative exclusive rights to certify American meat exports to Egypt as halal and also use his office to pressure the US Department of Agriculture not to interfere with Hanan's monopoly. They also accused Menendez of trying to intervene in a criminal prosecution of an associate in his co-defendants and in return received a Mercedes Benz worth $60,000. Several superseding indictments accused him of conspiring to act as a federal agent of Egypt, accepting gifts from Qatari government and conspiring to cover up the bribery scheme. As prosecutors worked the case, menendez's attorneys sought to pin the blame on the senator's wife, at times contending she hid her dealings with the businessmen from him. Now, what makes this all ridiculous about that too, is it's actually sad because the guy's wife is currently battling cancer. But like a scoundrel, he would throw his wife, you know, under the bus instead of just admitting yeah, I did wrong, I got caught and it means now I have to pay my debt to society. Menendez will go down as just another crooked politician, but in the highest order when it comes to the finding of $460,000 in cash and $100,000 worth of gold bars. Look, I'm distrustful of banks as well, but this is pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 5:We'll be back with the Darrell McLeain show on the next episode we're going to talk about. We're going to start off with this disturbing but kind of I guess it goes in the veins of everything made for sale when it's the accusations now that RFK tried to basically sell an endorsement to Donald Trump for a cabinet position and the President Trump, former President Trump and his staff said no, that looks too much like a quid pro quo. We're going to leave with a blast of the intellectual past and we will see you on the next episode everybody's making immigration proposals these days.
Speaker 3:Let me add mine to the mix. Call it the limbo laws. First, you immigrate to our country, you have to speak the native language. You have to be a professional or an investor. No unskilled workers allowed. Also, there will be no special bilingual programs in the schools with the limbo laws. No special ballots for elections. No government business will be conducted in your language. Foreigners will not have the right to vote or hold political office.
Speaker 3:If you're in our country, you cannot be a burden to taxpayers. You are not entitled to welfare or food stamps or other government goodies. You can come if you invest here An amount equal to 40,000 times a daily minimum wage. If not, stay home. But if you want to buy land, it'll be restricted no waterfront, for instance. And as a foreigner you have to relinquish individual rights to the property. And another thing you don't have the right to protest. You're allowed. No demonstrations, no foreign flag-waving, local organizing a bad-mouthing our president or his policies. Your floor shock your mouth. You come here illegally, going to jail. You know what was your heart? Well, everyone of the laws are just mentioned, our actual laws of mexico today. That's how the mex government handles immigrants to their country, yet Mexicans come here illegally and protest in our streets. How do you say double standard in Spanish? How?
Speaker 5:about no mas. So the voice you heard there was the late Rush Limbaugh, conservative firebrand, who died a few years back. I want to say it's been three years now. Rush Limbaugh died at the age of 70. After his battle, he was in a battle with cancer. He was born in 1951 and died in 2021. See you on the next episode.