And now, America's number one show on pop culture and politics.

This is the Michael Medved Show.

And another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth.

And it's a great nation that is facing a

range of threats abroad and only belatedly are our politicians making some note of that at least

there is a devastating editorial today in the Wall Street Journal about President

Biden's plans to shrink the military at exactly the wrong time to do that. And at the same time,

he wants to shrink the military and increase our taxes.

So on the Trump side of things, if President Trump does not intend to increase taxes,

how is he going to pay for some of the necessary additional spending in the military?

We're going to be speaking about all of those aspects of the many, many new

additional taxes that Joe Biden has listed as part of his budgetary must-do items for

2025. We're going to be speaking to Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform about, okay,

how will ordinary Americans feel these Biden tax hikes if they actually go through? And how would

they impact you and the economy at large?

We're also going to be speaking about a more grim and horrific sort of outcome involving

a post-war America, and that's assuming that we had in 2034 a devastating war with China that blew up much of the whole world.

Okay, so there's a new novel by the same authors, Admiral James DeVridis and Elliot Ackerman.

And the new novel is called 2054.

And it's about an explosive work of speculative fiction involving AI and the dangers of AI and the remnants of the United States.

We're going to be speaking to Admiral Stavridis, who is a four-star Admiral, one of the most decorated officers in naval history with considerable combat experience.

We're going to be speaking to Admiral Stavridis and his co-author about how acute this current military crisis is and how we have to deal with the

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