1 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer, and this is the Josh Hammer Show. 2 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: Are we seeing the beginning of the end or perhaps 3 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: even the middle of the end one of this nation's 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: most pernicious social contagions? Are we seeing the end of 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: the full fledged rainbow jihad in these United States? I 6 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: speak of the transgenderism craze, a social and psychological craze 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: that has taken the country by storm for far, far, 8 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: far too long. Indeed, it was shortly after the same 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: sex marriage movement achieved its constitutional solidification in the twenty 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: fifteen no Bergerfeld case. It was shortly after that that 11 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: the new frontier of the rainbow agenda of the LGBT 12 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: social crusade quickly without any hiccup, moved from the marriage 13 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: issue to the transgenderism issue. Through the first administration, leftist 14 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: LGBT forces were on the march in the bydministration. It 15 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: was solemnified, and it was solidified that this was the 16 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: new tip of the spear that when the left identifies today. 17 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: This all came to be in the past years when 18 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: the left came out as identifying as transgender and solidifying 19 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: this and saying that this is okay. Forget about when 20 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: Lady Gaga sang many years ago, born this way. No, Now, 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: you actually could be born in the wrong body. This 22 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:29,639 Speaker 1: whole nonsense, this whole notion that biological chromosomal structure doesn't 23 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: actually play your role, and that you actually could be 24 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: born in the wrong body, contrary ironically to what the 25 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: homosexual movement said for many many years. They said, for 26 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: many many years that if you were homosexually inclined, that 27 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: you were actually born this way. Actually, no, said the 28 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,559 Speaker 1: transgender movement. You could be born in the wrong body. 29 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: So it never made any sense. But this became the 30 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: new civil rights frontier for many many leftists on the 31 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: front lines of this social contagion for much of the 32 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: past decade. This was their civil rights crusade, the Rosa 33 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: Parks era social crusaders, the civilized movements. They marched and 34 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: sell me Alabama. They sat in the front of the 35 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: bus martin. Luther King Junior marched and in DC and 36 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: he had his famous I have a Dream speech, his 37 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: letter from a Birmingham jail. But no, gosh darn it, 38 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: this was going to be this generation social crusade. If 39 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: if you can't tell I am being over the top 40 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: facetious here, but really, I mean, the data on this 41 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: for a while were just simply extraordinary. So two and 42 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 1: a half years ago, in twenty twenty three, there was 43 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: a comprehensive survey that was done for the then incoming 44 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: fall twenty twenty three freshman class across many Ivy League schools, 45 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: and the percentage of this was just utterly astounding. At 46 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: the time, seven percent of Americans identified as some variety 47 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: of LGBTQ plus. By the way, say even seven percent 48 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: is insane. So, I mean, we're working here off of 49 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: a crazy, crazy baseline. The notion that seven percent of 50 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: Americans I actually suffer from some excess of same sex 51 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: sexual attraction, or actually suffer from what the DSM for 52 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: decades referred to as genders for you, a certified categorical 53 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: mental illness. The notion that seven percent Americans had that 54 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: is insane, Okay, But that's the baseline off of which 55 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 1: we're working in this summer twenty twenty three pole And 56 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 1: at the time, Brown University, arguably the most liberal of 57 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: all the Ivy League schools, thirty eight percent of their 58 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 1: student body identified as some variety of LGBT. Princeton University 59 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: the number one school in the country every year based 60 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: on US News World Report rankings, not that it means 61 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: anything more than the third of students of Princeton identify 62 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: it as some variety of lgbt Yaleen Harvard basically barely 63 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: behind there, Folks, this doesn't happen due to this organic 64 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: bubbling up. It's a social contagion. Because if you identify 65 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: as transgender, if you say that you're a man, but 66 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: you think you're a girl. But if you're a girl, 67 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: I think you're a boy. There you, according to the 68 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: Woke Dei Catechism, were afforded, were given certain types of benefits. 69 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: You can call yourself an oppressor or an oppress, I 70 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: should say, in the outrageous woke neo Marxist oppress or 71 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: oppressed faux moral dichotomy, and you got new social benefits 72 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: to go along with your new catchy and all too 73 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: alluring oppressed status. It seems to me that those days 74 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: are now coming to an end. Just yesterday, on Tuesday, 75 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: February third, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons became the 76 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: first major medical organization in the United States to publish 77 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: guidance explicitly saying that doctors should not perform so called 78 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: transgender surgeries, by which we mean chemical castration, gentle mutilation, 79 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: and all sorts of other doctor Mangela style irreversible damage 80 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: to minors. This is the first time again that a major, 81 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: major American medical organization has published such guidance. It's just 82 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: an excerpt there from this report from the American Society 83 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: of Plastic Surgeons, which represents the vast majority of plastic 84 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: surf urgens in America. They said, quote, when evidence regarding 85 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: benefit is limited, natural history is uncertain, and fully informed 86 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 1: consented challenge, then we believe that plastic surgeon should adopt 87 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 1: a posture of heightened caution, enhanced documentation, and explicit uncertainty disclosure, 88 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 1: recognizing that our role is not simply technical, but also ethical. Remarkably, remarkably, 89 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: the AMA, the American Medical Association, has now followed this 90 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: by coming out broadly agreeing, not telling, but broadly agreeing 91 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. So in a 92 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: statement to National Reviews, I guess there's too cowardly put 93 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: this out as a full public statement, but a statement 94 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: to National review the long stand even certain publication the 95 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 1: American Medical Association says that because quote, the evidence for 96 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: gender affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us 97 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: to make a definitive statement, we therefore agree with the 98 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: American Society of Plastis Surgeons that surgical interventions and minors 99 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: should be generally deferred to adulthood. This is essentially a 100 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty degree term that they have pulled. 101 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: And if they've pulled a one hundred eight degree term, 102 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: that is to say, the AMA, which is the nation's 103 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: umbrella organization when it comes to the medical profession, think 104 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,239 Speaker 1: about the ABA for lawyers, American Barsalization, it's the AMA. 105 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: It's a big deal. If they're basically quietly, surreptitiously, again 106 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: the too cowardly to put out a formal stayming. But 107 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 1: if they're saying to National Review in an on record 108 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: statements that the evidence for this is insufficient for us 109 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: to make a definitive statement there and we agree that 110 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: this should at least be deferred until adulthood, that's a 111 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: big deal. And if doing this one hundred eight degree 112 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: turn on general mutilation on so called surgeries, then what 113 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: about hormones? So I mean, what about hormone gestion, I mean, 114 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: what about all the rest of the doctor Mangolay style 115 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: so called interventions that have been wronging gender dysphoria adult America, 116 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: youths and adolescents and teenagers for years and years and 117 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: years now. The timing of this, by the way, is 118 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: super super relevant. So earlier this week we covered a remarkable, 119 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: a remarkable legal case happening out of New York State, 120 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: and indeed actually emanating out of my own home county, 121 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: Westchester County of New York, where we had a transgender 122 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: individual by the name of Fox Varian who, at the 123 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: age of sixteen, she's a biological female at the age 124 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: of sixteen, got the go ahead from a psychologist insurgent 125 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: to do a double missectomy. Well, Fox Variant has subsequently 126 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: sued for medical malpractice and this brand new judgment out 127 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: of New York State was awarded two million dollars against 128 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: these psychologists and the so called doctors, the hippocratic, oath 129 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: violin doctors who chopped off her healthy teenage breasts and 130 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: now she's without breast the rest of her life. One 131 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: of these so called detransitioners the first time, winning a 132 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: multi million dollar medical malpractice lawsuit. So basically what's happening 133 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: here is the American Society of Plastid Surgeons is looking 134 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: at this saying, oh my god, if we don't tone 135 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: this down, we're gonna be putting our plastics urgens potentially 136 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: on the hook for millions. Dare I say even billions 137 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: and a massive class action loss potentially? God willing I 138 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: say when it comes to legal liability, can't do that. 139 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: The AMA is looking at this and saying, oh, man, 140 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: can't do that. What's worth? The Department of Health and 141 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: Human Services under Secretary R. FK. Junior has come out 142 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: with a statement where they are applauding the American Society 143 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: of Classis Surgeon and Secretary Candy saying that they are 144 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: commending the American Society of plass Surgeons for standing up 145 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: to the over medicalization lobby and defending sound signs Deputy 146 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: Health and Human Service Sector Jim O'Neil SAand there is 147 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,079 Speaker 1: another victory for biological truth. The American Society of Plastic 148 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: Surgeons has set the scientific and medical standard for all 149 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: provider groups to follow. And indeed, it will be interesting 150 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: to see exactly which groups go ahead and follow. Now 151 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: that you've had this massive judgment to New York States. 152 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: God willing, may there be a thousand litigation Flowers Bloom. 153 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: We explain joy you this week that this is the 154 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: way I've been saying this for years, for literally the years, 155 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: probably since I was in law school, honestly, ever since 156 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: this whole social craze started. The way this ends is 157 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 1: in the courts. You're not gonna get these medical organizations, 158 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: these doctors to stop doing this ideological induced stuff. And 159 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: it is deeply ideological induced. The whole gentle mutilation, chemical castration, 160 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: so called surgery phenomenon is directly intellectually downstream of the 161 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: woke neo Marx's mentality and the sexual revolution. It all 162 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,079 Speaker 1: logically flows. You're not gonna get ideologues to stop performing 163 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: ideologically induced actions and lesson until they are at the 164 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: gunpoint of legal liability. So a mass class action lawsuit 165 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: easier said than done. When it comes to Rule twenty 166 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: three of the Federal Rules of Silk Procedure, there's famously 167 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: stringencies and difficulties when it comes to certifying a class 168 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: you have to have a similar harm or similar standing, 169 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: et cetera. It's fairly intricates legal doctrine and another hearing 170 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: are there for today's show purposes. But that in theory 171 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: is we have this ends is a mass class action lawsuit. 172 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: More generally speaking, you're also seeing other legal victories as well, 173 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: or at least impending legal victories. So it wasn't in 174 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: the distant pass. It was just about just a few 175 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: weeks ago. Actually, that was Transgender Athlete Day at the 176 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: United States Supreme Court. There are these two cases out 177 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: of Idaho, West Virginia have very similar laws in place, 178 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: laws proscribing prohibiting biological males from competing against biological females 179 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 1: in a high school athletic competition. The basic takeaway, which 180 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: we shared here on the Josh emmershow the basic takeaway 181 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: of the scotis oral argument. On that day in January 182 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: of a few weeks ago, the basic takeaway was that 183 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: it looks like Idaho West Virginia are probably gonna win, 184 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: and it looks like these laws are gonna be upheld. Folks, 185 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: Biological truth is winning. The rainbow jihad is on the dissent. Actually, 186 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: also last week on the show, I talked about how 187 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,079 Speaker 1: I'm now part of this new campaign. I was in 188 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,959 Speaker 1: the launch video for this new campaign, the Greater Than campaign, 189 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: which is this new effort with lots of influencers and 190 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 1: social conservtive organizations and ministries, and this this this effort 191 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: to try to overturn the Obergerfel case and actually return 192 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: marriage policy to the States. We'll see if it's successful. 193 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 1: That's a tougher slog for sure, But the Paulding is 194 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: actually moving back to the center, even on the same 195 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: sex marriage issue. We are now in a move back 196 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: towards sanity. We are seeing something of a regression to 197 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: the mean when it comes to the American people's views 198 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: of the LGBT Rainbow agenda, and above all, when it 199 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: comes to the unique social ill of transgenderism, which was 200 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: recognized for generations as a mental illness, and only until 201 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 1: recently was not just bestowed legitimacy, was conferred additional benefits. 202 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: This is the beginning of the end. God willing, Ultimately, 203 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: the truth, Folks prevails. We believe that firmly on this show. 204 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: The truth is clear, biological truth, natural truth, biblical revelation. 205 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,839 Speaker 1: It is all true. There are two chromosomal structures x 206 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: x x Y. God made man. He created them male 207 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: and female per Genesis one, twenty seven. The truth will 208 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: not die, it will be affirmed. We are well on 209 00:11:55,600 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: our way towards seeing that. Praise be to God. So 210 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 1: a lot of states have been engaging in this fairly 211 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,839 Speaker 1: rare mid decade redistrict. You've seen this in Texas. You've 212 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 1: seen this in California. So you saw a failed redishing 213 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: effort in Indiana, and any number of other states as well, 214 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: both on the Democrat and Republicans oude of the Isle 215 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: are now engaged in what historically has been a fairly 216 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 1: rare instance of a stage trying to change up its 217 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: congressional delegation between the two Deescennial censuses, So in this 218 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: case that would between the twenty twenty census and the 219 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: twenty three census are called that the census, which is 220 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: actually constitutionally mandates that it's not stature. It's actually right 221 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: there in the constitution. It is the governance that they're 222 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,839 Speaker 1: really required to do this every ten years. Recall that 223 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: the census every ten years is responsible when it comes 224 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: to the electoral college count, when it comes to the 225 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,679 Speaker 1: US House apportionment, and these days when it comes to 226 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: all sorts of other things as well, when it comes 227 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,199 Speaker 1: to certain protections under the Voting Rights Act nineteen sixty five, 228 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 1: when it comes to certain apportionments and funding per various 229 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: federal block grants. But the door was speaking is really 230 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: mostly about the electoral college and the US House Porchment. 231 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: Now we're starting to see some estimates come out. So 232 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: the Redistricting Network, which is run by, among others, a 233 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: man of the name of Jonathan Servas at Carnegie Mellon University, 234 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: who's helping you to spread this there, we're starting to 235 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: see some numbers when it comes to possible trends in 236 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: terms of how seats gained house seats loss from the 237 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: twenty twenty census to the twenty thirty census. When it 238 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: comes to the electoral college map again and also the 239 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: House porchments. This is the this is the reason that 240 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: a lot of these folks which are trying to do 241 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: this to try to get ahead of the curve there. 242 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,079 Speaker 1: But a lot of these trends have been happening actually 243 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: for a very long time. And long story short, folks, 244 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: what do these trends mean? Blue states are losing, Red 245 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: states are winning? In many ways, it actually really is 246 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: that simple. Here was our pal Harry Enton a few 247 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: nights go on CNN unpacking it. Go ahead and watch Harry. 248 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 2: This isn't just about the House of Representatives, right, It's 249 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 2: also about the electoral College. Because the number of electoral 250 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 2: votes that each state gets is equal to the number 251 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 2: of centers. Each state of course has two plus the 252 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 2: number of House seats that they have. So what would 253 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 2: this mean for the House of Representatives. Well, if you 254 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,959 Speaker 2: remember back in twenty twenty four, right, it was all 255 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 2: about we were. 256 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: Talking about the blue Wall. 257 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 2: If Kamala Harris could win the baseline Democratic states and 258 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 2: then add in the blue Wall states of Michigan, the 259 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 2: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, she would get to two 260 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 2: hundred and seventy electoral votes. But if all of a 261 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 2: sudden we in fact have applying the twenty twenty five 262 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: estimates the population estimates to the electoral college, the blue 263 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 2: states plus the blue Wall of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin 264 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 2: would no longer be enough. Under the current estimates, you 265 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 2: get to exactly two hundred and seventy electoral votes, the 266 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 2: minimum needed to win the electoral college. If in fact 267 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 2: you apply the twenty twenty five estimates, look at that 268 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 2: you would only get to two hundred and sixty three 269 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 2: electoral votes if you were a Democrat, which would mean 270 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 2: a Republican victory. 271 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: Okay, so long story s. The historic blue wall, which 272 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: Donald Trump famously broke through in the twenty eighteen election 273 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: is blue wall of Pennsylvania mission in Wisconsin. Even if 274 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: Democrats sweep the blue Wall, if they sweep the blue 275 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: Wall and they hold all of the other standard Democrat 276 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: states at this point, they literally do not get to 277 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: two seventy. So if the current trendshold, they're going to 278 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: be in substantial, in substantial electoral college defense at least 279 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: come twenty thirty tecking me the twenty twenty presidential election 280 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: a little before then, so we won't see it necessarily 281 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: yet when it comes to the House portion, when it 282 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: comes to census, but at least come twenty thirty two. 283 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: In the presidential election. After that, Democrats really could be 284 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: in just a world of hurt. Frankly, New York and 285 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: California are projected to lose a combined six seats. They 286 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: are two of the big losers, by the way. The 287 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: other of the other bottom five staves the five states 288 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: that are losing the most people because it's ultimately done 289 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: based on people where they're fleeing, where they're going to 290 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: New York, California, New Jersey, Illinois, Mass juice. The bottom 291 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: five states. Connecticut pretty far down the list as well. 292 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: It is literally like the most iconic blue states possible 293 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: that are having people flee these populations quicker than you 294 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: or I could say, Gavin Newsom and the Red States 295 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: in general. The Red States are gaining lots of seats 296 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: as well. Texas and Florida leading the list. Texas number one, 297 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: population ingress. Florida was number one for a while during 298 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: COVID tapered off a little bit. I live in Florida. 299 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: I can tell you these probably to do with the 300 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: cost of living here, honestly, but still really high. Texas 301 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: in Florida gaining it combined eight seats in the census 302 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: based on current rajectories. The other top five states are 303 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: states like North Carolina, Arizona, South Carolina, Tennessee, always very 304 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: high in the list there. It is the exact states 305 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: that you would expect, folks. It's not rocket science, is it. 306 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: It's really not rocket science. If you are a state 307 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: and your policies are excessive punitive taxation, and at times 308 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: I really mean punitive. California under Gavinussums has passed this 309 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: new billionaire's tax, a literal billionaire tax based not necessarily 310 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 1: on your liquid assets in your bank accounts, but on 311 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: your ill liquid, prospective hypothetical assets, including possible stock, inequity, 312 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: and homes and this and that there. It's deeply immoral, 313 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: frankly to tax people on potentially ill liquid not realize games. 314 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: But that's what California is doing, and in response to that, 315 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: they're seeing a ton of their billionaires please the state. 316 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 1: Peter Thiel Is, apparently, if you believe the reports, is 317 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: packing up and leaving Los Angeles. He'll keep a second 318 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: home there, but he's gonna make Miami his main residence. 319 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:40,120 Speaker 1: Sergey Brand, co founder of Google, is dishing California, apparently 320 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: moving to South Florida, probably Palm Beach, if I'm not mistaken. 321 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 1: Many other examples a bound. It's not rocket science if 322 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: you punitively tax and you punitively regulate. New York is 323 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: another great example. By the way, New York City famously 324 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 1: has another municipal city tax on top of an already 325 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: very very high state level tax. It's the only thing 326 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 1: to get highed by the way under the Comrade in chief, 327 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: Zori Mamdani there in city Hall. When you do that, 328 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: when you have crime, when you have homelessness, when you 329 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: have drug needles, when you have all the various things 330 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: that contribute to a rancid quality of life, people are 331 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: not going to want to move there. Indeed, California under 332 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom has actually for the first time in California history, 333 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: this will actually be two sentences in a row. In 334 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, California actually lost representation as well in twenty twenty, 335 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: just after Gavin Newsom took over. That was actually the 336 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: first time, the first time that California had had a 337 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: lost seats in the House, had lost Electoral College votes 338 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: since it became a state in the mid nineteenth century. 339 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: You know the old slogan go west, young man, Well, 340 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,360 Speaker 1: people actually were doing that. They were going west. California 341 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,479 Speaker 1: was booming for a very very very long time back 342 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: when Ronald was governor in nineteen nineteen sixties. It was booming. 343 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 1: Not anymore. It's not people are getting that he go out, 344 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: They're getting the heck out of Dodge. They're going to Texas, 345 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: They're going to Florida, Arizona, you name it, the right states. 346 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: By contrast, they're doing a lot of right. They're not 347 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: taxing as much, they're not regulating as much. They didn't 348 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: go full fascist during COVID. There was no COVID tyranny 349 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: for the most part in states like Florida and Texas. 350 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 1: There's a lot to say about this, folks, But one 351 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 1: possible angle to this is not just twenty thirty two, 352 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,360 Speaker 1: after the actual maps will come into place, because Democrats 353 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: are really going to be in a world to her 354 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 1: of these trendsholds. What about twenty twenty eight itself. Gavin Newsome, 355 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 1: as of right Now, is still the front runner when 356 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: it comes to the twenty twenty eight Democratic nomination. If 357 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 1: you go to polymarket right now, he is the strong favorite, 358 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: with a thirty two percent likelihood of getting the nomination. 359 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty eight. Humorously, Alexandria Coza Cortez actually runner 360 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: up at eight percent, and you have Joshapiro, Kamala Harris, 361 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: and Pete bouaj Edge. I kind of hope they nominate frankly, 362 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris or AOC. What a delight that would be. 363 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: But if Gavin Newsom is actually the candidates, you know 364 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: that says nothing good. Frankly, if he's actually the nominee 365 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: about the correlation between success and success measured in the 366 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: most empirical way possible, like literally people moving and moving out, 367 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: it's build a Babylon bijo that they ran out of 368 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 1: U hauls in California. Heck, maybe it's actually not a 369 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,679 Speaker 1: Babylon bijo. Maybe it literally happened for all I know, 370 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: especially in places like Los Angeles County and San Francisco. 371 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: But if the Democrats actually go ahead and nominate Gavenu's manue, which, frankly, 372 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,400 Speaker 1: if you ask me, I think they probably will as 373 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: of now, he actually is the front runner. He's sleek, 374 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 1: he's glib, he's well spoken, he certainly looks the part. 375 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: Dude looks like he's a Batman villa, and he's straight 376 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,159 Speaker 1: out of Hollywood Central Casting. If they actually nominate him, 377 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 1: what does that say about the extent to at least 378 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: of which the Democratic Party, and god forbid, if the 379 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: guy wins a gentle what to say about how Americans 380 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: actually think about literal result of public policy, Well, it 381 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: will be definitive statements, at least again within the Democrat Party, 382 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: that policy doesn't matter, that substance doesn't matter, and that 383 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: telegenics and looks and visuals and how sleek one talks. 384 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,360 Speaker 1: But that's actually all that matters. Is that the message 385 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: that you want to send, Heck Maye for the Democrats, 386 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: it is, that's certainly not our message. We care about 387 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: policy on our show. We care about law, we care 388 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: about results. We care it ultimately the flourishing, the health, safety, security, prosperity, 389 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: and flourishing of the American people. That's what we care 390 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: first and foremost about here on this show, and frankly, 391 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 1: these days, per Harrenton and per the data, if you 392 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: want health, security, prospery and flourishing, move to a red state, 393 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 1: young man, get out of California and get out of 394 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 1: New York. Come the taxes, come to Florida. Your life, frankly, 395 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: will be improved. So the trumpministration. We're releasing millions and 396 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: more documents from the Epstein files. Now, if you've been 397 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: watching this show for a long time, you probably know 398 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: our stance here on this particular story. There are a 399 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: lot of folks. There are a lot of folks there 400 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: who have who who have tamped me typically anti semister 401 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: beyonest with you. Emerald Robinson has been fired by numerous 402 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: cable news channels, has been adding me for a while. 403 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: I've blocked her. I think it's mutual, frankly and saying, 404 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: why is that Josh Hammer not talking about the Epstein files. 405 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,360 Speaker 1: I've gotten this from a lot of these Tucker Carlson, 406 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:23,640 Speaker 1: Candice Owens types as well. 407 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 3: There. 408 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: And I'll be very honest with you. The reason that 409 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: we don't necessarily focus tremendously on the Epstein file story, 410 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: which we will talk about right now. But the reason 411 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: that we don't necessarily go above me on talk about 412 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: it is twofold. And these twofold reasons are actually related 413 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: to another. On the one hand, I'm a lawyer, and 414 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: I know how this goes. Okay, this conduct is, for 415 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: the most part, this outrageous, disgusting, sordid, filthy, the worst 416 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:56,880 Speaker 1: of the worst conducts imageable, the sex, the trafficking, the pedophilia, 417 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: the pediastic disgusting behavior, disgusting. I feel the moral outrage 418 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: just as much you do. I guarantee you I do. 419 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 1: But again, these acts happened, folks two decades ago, more 420 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,959 Speaker 1: or less the statue limitations for these crimes has all 421 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: but as surely expired. So that's the very first reason 422 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 1: that I don't necessarily overly focus there, because I'm not 423 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: in the business of trying to falsely get your hopes up. 424 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: There are a lot of folks out there who they talk, 425 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 1: and they talk and they talk, and they promise a 426 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: big basket of goods. They promised to be that little 427 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: leprechaun with a pot of golds on the other side 428 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 1: of the rainbow. Keep on falling along here, keep on doing this, 429 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 1: doing that, and you will see the reward. That's not 430 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: what we're about. Why, Because we're true tellers and we 431 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 1: don't pull punches. We call like we see it. Okay, 432 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: I want people in handcuffs, purp walks, mug shots in bars, 433 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: walk them in jail, throw away the darn keys. Don't 434 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: think I want that you're crazy. Of course, I want that. 435 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,199 Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you and to be sober with 436 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: you and just be real here for a second. It's 437 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: probably not gonna happen. That's the very first reason. Now, 438 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 1: the related reason that that we don't go above and 439 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: be on to focus on this particular show is because 440 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: to get back to our previous segment about how the 441 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,199 Speaker 1: blue states are losing the red states are winning. We 442 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,679 Speaker 1: care about policy and law. Our focus is on is 443 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 1: on improvingly tangible day to day well being of the 444 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: American people. The way to do that is with issues 445 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: like the economy, immigration, crime, inflation. These are the core issues. Yes, 446 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 1: on tamping, also our enemy nations China, Russia, or on, 447 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: et cetera. But these are the core of things that 448 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: we focus on. Having said that, having said that, the 449 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: Epstein files now are back of the news, the Trump ministration, 450 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: the dj releasing millions more documents, any number of big 451 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: names that have been caught up in the fray this 452 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: time see Bannen actually had a lot of exchanges with 453 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, not really in Telly shows athy what to 454 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 1: make of that. Certainly they seem to have been closer 455 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: than thing many people are talked about, or at least 456 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 1: had previously speculated or realized. Bill Gates another big name, 457 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: one of the most powerful names in the world. Bill 458 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: Gates famously founder Microsoft, famously a longtime, longtime evangelist and propagandist. 459 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: When it comes to the climate change issue, the climate 460 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: change hooks, who, by the way, is doing something of 461 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: a one to eighty actually on that particular issue. As 462 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: we explained a little while ago on the show, Bill 463 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: Gates kind of buried in his personal blog this blog 464 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,439 Speaker 1: post in late October basically saying, hmm, you know what, 465 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: it appears the world is actually not ending and maybe 466 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: that's a good thing. So Bill Gates, who's done something 467 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: of a mea culpa, very silent under the radar mea 468 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,640 Speaker 1: culpa on the climate change hoax, is actually very much 469 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: caught up in this latest Epstein Files batch. He is, 470 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,199 Speaker 1: he is here and apparently if you believe this back 471 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: and forth between him and Epstein there, it's kind of 472 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 1: a he said, she said to the most disreputile people, 473 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: frankly in the Western hemisphere. Allegedly, what happened here is 474 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 1: that Bill Gates again he denies this. This is very 475 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 1: solection stuff. Allegedly he received an std as sech a 476 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 1: transmit disease from potentially a Russian call girl, Russian prostitute. 477 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 1: Melinda Gates, his ex wife, was actually just on NPR 478 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,199 Speaker 1: and when the NPR podcast talking about this, saying that 479 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: she is so happy to be away from all the muck. 480 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: That's that she's just deeply, deeply sad for anything that 481 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 1: happened here, and she says that that her ex husband 482 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: has a lot of questions to answer for. The Clintons 483 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: are definitely back part of this, of the of this 484 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 1: whole Epstein affair as well. This has been one of 485 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: the interesting parts, by the way, of this whole thing 486 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: is that Democrats ro Kahan in California, the Democrats who've 487 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: been pushing the Epstein stuff the hardest there, and ultimately 488 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: the Statue of the Congress passed recently to compel the 489 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: DOJ's disclosure role the Epstein files was a was a 490 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: really a bipartisan voe. But the Democrat partisans who had 491 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: been in on this whole time, people like Rocana, one 492 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: of their goals seemingly has been to try to get Trump, 493 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,719 Speaker 1: has been to try to get Trump okay, Donald Trump, 494 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: like Reich virtue, everyone in power seems to have known 495 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein a little bit. Guess what Trump also did. 496 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of Mari A Lago. He 497 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 1: literally kicked him out fifteen twenty years ago. As soon 498 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,199 Speaker 1: as he learned that Jeffrey Epstein was who he actually is, 499 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: a world historical scumback, an absolutely outrageous, horrific human being 500 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: engaged in the most sordid deeds imaginable when it comes 501 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: to underage girls. Trump kicked him out of mar A Lago, 502 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 1: and is my working theory that this is actually the 503 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: reason that Jeffrey Epstein became an anti Trump fanatic. In 504 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: the later years of his life, he was emailing back 505 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: and forth with Michael Wolfe, the journalist the discredited Russia 506 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: collusion hoast. Journalist. Jeffrey Epstey and Michael Wolfe were in 507 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: const communication about how to destroy Trump's twenty sixteen bit. 508 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was texting in real time with the non 509 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: voting representative of the US Virgin Island during the Michael 510 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: Cohen hearing back in twenty nineteen. Really time, medical Cohen 511 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: was switching from being a pro Trump operative to being 512 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: an anti Trump operative. Okay, so, yes, Trump do Epstein, 513 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: so did virtually everyone in power. But he very much, 514 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: he very much didn't like Epstein. Me is not what 515 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: we were porting that, which is why don't Trump Among 516 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: the things that he gets frustrated as I do I 517 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: think with this story. For instance, go ahead and watch 518 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 1: this clip is a player remarkable exchange between him and 519 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: Caitlyn Collins basically saying that can we just move on 520 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: this point? Go ahead and watch this. 521 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 3: Nothing came out about me other than there was a 522 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,959 Speaker 3: conspiracy against me, literally by Epstein and other people. But 523 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 3: I think it's time now for the country to maybe 524 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 3: get onto something else, something that people care about. 525 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 4: You. 526 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 3: What do you say the worst reporter? No wonder see 527 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 3: she has no ratings because of people like you. 528 00:28:58,880 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 2: You know, she's a young woman. 529 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known 530 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 3: you for ten years. I don't think I've ever seen 531 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 3: a smile. You know why you're not smiling because you 532 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 3: know you're not telling the truth and you're you're a 533 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 3: very disarvist organization and they should be ashamed of you. 534 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: And look, I mean Donald Trump is broadly correct about this. Okay, again, 535 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: this is not the kind of issue that is going 536 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: to be affecting the American people day day. Do I 537 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: want to see justice? Yes? Do I want to see 538 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: the Clinton testify? You're darn right I do. And apparently 539 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: the details of this are actually going still being worked out, 540 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: by the way, but apparently the agreement that was that 541 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: that was reached is that the Clinton's agreed to a 542 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: private closed door deposition before Jim Comer's Oversight Committee later 543 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: later this month. But that closed door deposition will apparently 544 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: be transcribed in court on videos. That's pretty salacious stuff. 545 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: I expect that the Clintons will just take the fifth 546 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: over and over and over again. We will see where 547 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,959 Speaker 1: it goes. The point, folks, is this, I understand. I 548 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: they totally understand the folks who are interested more so 549 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: perhaps than I am when it comes to this story. 550 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: I totally get it. It's disgusting, disgusting and has all 551 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: the various elements of intrigue. You have money, you have cash, 552 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: you have Caribbean islands, you have sex and girls and 553 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: heads of state and Bill Gates. I mean, it's crazy, 554 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: it's crazy, crazy, crazy. So I totally get it. Why 555 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: a lot of the conspiracy theorist, the Alex jones Is 556 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: of the world are just going nuts with the story. 557 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: I get it. I totally get it. I'm just saying 558 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: that may I'm thinking too much like a lawyer. There's 559 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: not going to be legal accountability here. I'm sorry to 560 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: say it, there's just not Maybe this is a statue 561 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: that I'm not thinking of always possible. The best we 562 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 1: can hope for is political and moral accountability. And to 563 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: that extent, yes, the American people deserve all the answers 564 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: in the world. They deserve full transparency. We do deserve 565 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: to hold our leaders in both the public and the 566 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: private stature accountable for the outrageous wrongs that they have 567 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: committed here. I'll be it twenty or more years ago, 568 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 1: give or take, but at some point, at some points, 569 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: we should, as Trump says, try to move on to 570 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: the issues that matter on a day to day level. 571 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: Accountability is important, but there are other issues that are 572 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: important here as well. Striking that balance something that we 573 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: are trying to do here. So again, we're not avoiding 574 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: this story. We're just trying to strike that proper balance, 575 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: which sometimes, frankly, is easier said than done. So the 576 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 1: shortest partial government shutdown in recent US history is now gone. 577 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: In case you blinked missed it, over the weekend, there 578 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 1: was a partial government shutdown. That partial government shutdown has 579 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: now been avoided because just yesterday the US House by 580 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: a two to seventeen two fourteen vote pass a measure 581 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 1: roughly one point two trillion dollar government funding bill to 582 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: end this partial shutdown for now. 583 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 4: Now. 584 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: The catchure of the cash is that the most controversial 585 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: parts of the FEUL government's funding apparatus in the current climates, 586 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: which is the part in full mansecurity, they're actually only 587 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: funded for about the next ten days, literally until next 588 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: Friday night, So come Friday, February thirteenth at midnight, so 589 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: twelve one am technically on Valentine's Day on Saturday fourteenth, 590 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: DHS could actually be out of money yet again. And 591 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: Democrats are currently demanding more restrictions on the way that 592 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: ICE and Border Patrol conduct themselves. Tis Shames actually the 593 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: turney General of New York announcing that she is putting 594 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: some legal observers on the ground when it comes to 595 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 1: how Ice and federal immigration authorities comport to conduct themselves 596 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: in New York States. She's basically trying to gin up 597 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 1: litigation when it comes to the fedes discussing stuff frankly 598 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: for the re turn general of a state, but part 599 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: of the course for a two bit hack like Tis 600 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: James in the very left wing blue state of Maryland. 601 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 1: The governor there, Wes Moore, presiding over a legislature that 602 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: has now passed numerous laws limiting the ability of the 603 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: states and of local municipalities to cooperate with the FEDS 604 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: when it comes to immigration. So some more neo Confederate 605 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: type stuff they're coming out of the state of Maryland 606 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: as well. All this is invariably horrific. We will see 607 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: a Democrats are able to actually get anything here when 608 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: it comes to this, this expiration of this very short 609 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: stop gap DHS funding measure in ten days. The irony 610 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 1: is that immigration enforcement is actually already funded. So when 611 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 1: we talk about DHS funding here, we're not really talking 612 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 1: about immigration, We're talking about FEMA. By the way, terrible 613 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 1: time to gut FEMA funding, I mean, horribly kidding. The 614 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,400 Speaker 1: country is going through historic ice storms. Look I'm not complaining, 615 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: but even here in South Florida where I live, this 616 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: past Sunday, it was actually in the thirties, I think 617 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: the twenties with the Windshiell that's historic lows actually for 618 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: the Miami for a lord of area. I absolutely bonker. 619 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 1: So the whole country is going through something of a freeze. 620 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: It seems like a very bad time to kind of, 621 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 1: you know, play fire with FEMA funding. We'll see if 622 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer ultimately gets his way on any of this. 623 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of immigration, just today, you're alwers say. 624 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: On February fourth, the Trump Minstration, Tom Holman had a 625 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 1: press conference announcing that they are pulling seven hundred federal 626 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: agents out of the leaguered, be leaguered state of Minnesota. 627 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 1: Tom Holman is saying that there's been an unprecedented level 628 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: of recent cooperation from local and county level officials. He 629 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,799 Speaker 1: seeing that given this increase in unpresented collaboration, and as 630 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 1: a result of the need for less law enforcement officers needed, 631 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: we are announcing, effective immediately, that we will draw down 632 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,879 Speaker 1: seven hundred people. Look if that's actually happening, And who 633 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 1: the heck am I to question Tom Holman, who we 634 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: have a men's respect for here on the show. Fine, 635 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 1: I still say that I'm inclined to never trust these people, 636 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 1: and you frankly don't trust and you definitely, definitely definitely verify. 637 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: But this is yet another conciliatory, de escalatory measure and 638 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,280 Speaker 1: yet another data point indicating that the Trump ministration potentially 639 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: up to it, including the President himself, is probably not 640 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: particularly happy over the aftermath of the Alex Pretty shooting 641 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: week and a half go. Not that Alex Pretty was 642 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,359 Speaker 1: a saint. He was very far from a saint there, 643 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 1: but he did not deserve to die. And the President apparently, 644 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,360 Speaker 1: if you believed the rumors, is personally not particularly happy 645 00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,360 Speaker 1: with how this went down. Now, with how the aftermath 646 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 1: went down, with and these statements from Christy Noam and 647 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 1: various other officials as well to Tom Holman, another conciliatory 648 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 1: gesture to Minnesota Democrat leadership, Tim Walls, Keith Ellis and 649 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: Jacob Frye, Illinomar, etc. We will see if they were 650 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 1: siprocrate in kinds Frankly, I'm not necessarily getting my hopes up. 651 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 1: But again, whom I, frank could do question and Tom 652 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,399 Speaker 1: Holman's judgment. Now, another thing that's interesting is very much 653 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,440 Speaker 1: hovering the background here when it comes to this end 654 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,400 Speaker 1: of this partial shutdown actually has to do with with 655 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,919 Speaker 1: with an ancillary issue is really neither related to here 656 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: nor there, which is actually election integrity. So Chip Roy, 657 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,640 Speaker 1: good friend of the show, Congressman Ship Roy of Texas 658 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 1: now running for Texas Turney general. He's the favorite there 659 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,280 Speaker 1: in the Republican nomination for sure, based in the polling. 660 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: Chip Roy introduced a bill in the US House last 661 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: year called the SAVE Act. So the SAVE Act which 662 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: stands for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which again 663 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,879 Speaker 1: is a chip Roy creation, been endorsed by Mike Lee 664 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: and the Senate various other conservative figures as well, would 665 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: among other things, require that a condition for registering to 666 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 1: vote in federal elections is that you provide proof of 667 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: US citizenship. Okay, you provide proof of citizenship. And it 668 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,879 Speaker 1: would end voter registration by mail, online registration, motor voter, 669 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,799 Speaker 1: all these various other things as well. And it would 670 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 1: also make it illegal for non citizens to registered to 671 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,399 Speaker 1: vote by definition of the of the sidship. By the way, 672 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 1: how is that not already federal law? That is absolutely bonkers, 673 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: That is not already federal law. There, So that kind 674 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,800 Speaker 1: of puts the forefront this whole debate about voter IDs 675 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,240 Speaker 1: yet again. Right now. Nicki Minaj, who was conspicuously absent 676 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 1: from the ultra left wing Trevor Noah, hosted Grammy Awards 677 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,919 Speaker 1: in Hollywood this past Sunday evening nick Minaj, who who 678 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 1: was on this MAGA bench recently, she actually retweet her 679 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 1: like one of my tweets for the first time. I 680 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,439 Speaker 1: don't know, I remember being college listening to her song 681 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,319 Speaker 1: Starships whatever. So I mean coind of playing that that 682 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 1: this girl is is based in MAGA. Now I can't 683 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 1: say I'm complaining. Not really my cup of musical tea, 684 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: but that's that's totally fine. Anyway. Nicki Minaj kind of 685 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 1: came out with this statement basically saying that that she 686 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 1: supports voter ID. How coun you oppose voter ID? Well, 687 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: it turns out to go back to our pal Harryenton 688 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,480 Speaker 1: went once again. Turns out that voter ID is actually 689 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 1: wildly popular. Go ahead and watch Harry again. 690 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,920 Speaker 2: American people are with Nicki Minaj, because what are we 691 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,399 Speaker 2: talking about here? So take a look here, favorite voter 692 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,799 Speaker 2: idea vote. Look, I got all this polling on the screen, 693 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 2: going back since twenty eighteen. You'll notice on all of 694 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 2: it it's all north of seventy five percent, seventy six percent, 695 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,680 Speaker 2: seventy six percent, seventy six percent, eighty one percent, and 696 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,560 Speaker 2: then eighty three percent. In the last year of Americans 697 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:40,120 Speaker 2: agree with Nicki Minaj, they favor photo ID to be 698 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 2: able to vote. 699 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:42,359 Speaker 1: What about by party? What's the party berd. 700 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, normally you might expect, hey, there'd be a big 701 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,399 Speaker 2: divide by party, but Republicans really ford in, Democrats really 702 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 2: against it, but not really here. I mean, just take 703 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,200 Speaker 2: a look here, favorite photo idea vote. You got ninety 704 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,480 Speaker 2: five percent of Republicans, pretty much all of them, but 705 00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 2: even seventy one percent of Democrats favorite photo ID to vote. 706 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,440 Speaker 2: So again Nicki Minaj posting that on X and what 707 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,839 Speaker 2: you see is is that the American people, actually it's 708 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,279 Speaker 2: not really all that controversial. 709 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,439 Speaker 1: The American people are with Nicki Minaj. You know, Harry 710 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,360 Speaker 1: Enton famously in touch with the Nicki Minaj voter. I 711 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,200 Speaker 1: gest of course, Look, this is obviously common sense, okay, 712 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,840 Speaker 1: the notion that you should require to provide citizenship to 713 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 1: register to vote, that you should provide voter ID to 714 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 1: actually vote when you literally go to the poll to vote. 715 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,799 Speaker 1: I think a lot of foreigners look at this, a 716 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 1: lot of Europeans perhaps over this, and they say, what 717 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:39,680 Speaker 1: this is controversial in America. Actually, not only is it controversial. Heck, 718 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: I remember in twenty twenty one in the first year 719 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,440 Speaker 1: of the Biden presidency, Georgia, they say, Georgia, under Governor 720 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,640 Speaker 1: Brian Kemp passed a fairly moderate voter id law that 721 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,920 Speaker 1: Joe Biden called Jim Crow on steroids. Major League Baseball 722 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,440 Speaker 1: moved their All Star Game out of the Atlanta Braves 723 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 1: Stadium that year because of this law. It was us. 724 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: It was absolutely nuts, because of a law that's seventy 725 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:08,120 Speaker 1: percent of Democrat supports. Chris Murphy, the utter idiot from Connecticut. 726 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 1: By the way, no fan the Save Act very sent 727 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 1: with Joe Biden. Go ahead and watch Chris Murphy on MS. 728 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,239 Speaker 4: Now. The Save Act in and of itself is a 729 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,680 Speaker 4: terrible piece of legislation, but probably doesn't give the president 730 00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,799 Speaker 4: the power he wants to come in and take over 731 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,239 Speaker 4: an election. But I do think the President is going 732 00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,760 Speaker 4: to put the screws to John Thune and his allies 733 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,120 Speaker 4: in the Senate because his options to steal the election 734 00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,799 Speaker 4: are going to continue to narrow, and so he is 735 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,520 Speaker 4: likely to want a piece of legislation that may not 736 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:39,319 Speaker 4: be constitutional, but at least tests the question to the 737 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,839 Speaker 4: Supreme Court of whether there's a circumstances where he can 738 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,320 Speaker 4: come in and take over a state election. 739 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:50,239 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, noted stealer of elections, Donald Trump. Oh yeah, 740 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,520 Speaker 1: that's right. What does do Smoky? Sometimes you really have 741 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:57,120 Speaker 1: to kind of wonder. Look constitutional law. One on one, 742 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,879 Speaker 1: it is true that in the Constitution the manner procedures 743 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,879 Speaker 1: of elections are handled by the states. That is right. 744 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,000 Speaker 1: There an article on the Constitution. It's pretty straightforward. On 745 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,480 Speaker 1: the other hand, there have been any number of dispensations 746 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,560 Speaker 1: from the general rule throughout American history. Those dispensations have 747 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,360 Speaker 1: happened at both the constitutional amendment level. That's the fiftieth 748 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,239 Speaker 1: Amendment that provided the franchise for freed blacks black men. 749 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:24,400 Speaker 1: That's the nineteenth Amendment which did the same for women. 750 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,400 Speaker 1: Other subsequent amendments also kind of solidified the eighteen year 751 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,239 Speaker 1: old voting age. So we do by amendment, we do 752 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,160 Speaker 1: by statute. That's the Voting Rights Acts of nineteen sixty five. 753 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 1: So there is president for federal electoral legislation. This has 754 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:40,880 Speaker 1: to do with nothing less to make it sure that 755 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,400 Speaker 1: the franchise is not diluted and overruled by the legal 756 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,400 Speaker 1: alien invasion that the Democrats willfully let in. Make no mistake, 757 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,400 Speaker 1: this is all about the Democrats, cynical self certain desire 758 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,160 Speaker 1: to yes, steal to Yes, rig elections for themselves. When 759 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,239 Speaker 1: it comes to the legal alien franchise, there is no 760 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,439 Speaker 1: other reason, none, There is a nice, single, other reason 761 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,240 Speaker 1: to object this. I don't buy this stupid, fax twisted 762 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 1: legal logic for a second. There there is president for this. 763 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,720 Speaker 1: There is one reason for illegals to steal the election. 764 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,680 Speaker 1: That's literally, and that's frankly all you need to know. Folks, 765 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,640 Speaker 1: have a great rest for evening. Hope you enjoyed today. 766 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,680 Speaker 1: Episde Josh hamidt Trow. Make sure to describe everywhere you 767 00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,760 Speaker 1: get your podcasts. We'll be right back tomorrow.