1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Hi, Brody and Dragon. My birthday's coming up. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 2: Can you get my dad to sas to get via 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 2: phone so I could listen to the podcast after school. 4 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: We will work diligently on that. 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 3: You will, I'm sorry, I will get you know girl whatever. 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 3: She's not my child. I don't have a daughter or 7 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 3: a granddaughter, but I will work diligency to get her 8 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 3: whatever she wants. 9 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: But not a phone. She's not been an iPad. Are 10 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: too young for a phone? 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 4: Right? 12 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 1: I have been an iPad? 13 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 3: That's a possibility. 14 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, So they got our seven year old granddaughter an iPad, 15 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: and I at first, but then they showed me, you know, 16 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: what they put on it and what's not on it. 17 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: And they just recently, as part of her seventh birthday, 18 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: gave her an email address with which she can text 19 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: certain people like me and Tamra and her uncle and 20 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: aunt and a couple of other people. And that's her 21 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: mother and dad obviously, and a few friends and that's it. 22 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 3: But also knowing girl dad as we know him. M hmm, 23 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 3: she's probably already got an iPad. 24 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're probably right, probably right? So why would he 25 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 1: then put us in the really awkward position of that's 26 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: it's not awkward because you know what if if I 27 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: know that she already has a phone, or that already 28 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: has an iPad and he doesn't want her to have 29 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: a phone, I'm gonna push for a phone. 30 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 3: I bet you she's got an iPad. And by him 31 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 3: doing this and her sending this talk back to us, 32 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 3: he makes us the bad guys. 33 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: Exactly, that's do it. 34 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 3: Honey, Michael and Dragon say, that's that's right. 35 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: So you know what, uh huh, yeah, you already get 36 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: her phone. As much as I'm opposed to her to get. 37 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 3: Her a phone. 38 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: Now, I don't mean we're gonna go buy her phone, 39 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not going to be for sure 40 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna. 41 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: Go buy How old is she now? I don't remember. 42 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 3: I still see that, you know the three talk backs? Right, 43 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 3: so that puts her six or seven? 44 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: But eight? Yeah, But as sweet as I think she is, 45 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: I'm not paying seventeen hundred dollars to get her an iPhone. 46 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: What's the what's the oldest model you can get? And 47 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: then we might do yeah, I iPhone ten? Is that 48 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 1: what a couple hundred bucks? Probably? Okay, we could probably 49 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: raise that from the group and probably get her a. 50 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe you're right, yeah, just just to be an 51 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 3: a hole girl, dad. Yeah, right, exactly, you deserve a phone, honey. 52 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: Right, exactly, that's right. You tell your dad that dragon, 53 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: and I think that you ought to have a really 54 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: have a really nice case with it too, not just 55 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: some cheap case, but a really nice case or something 56 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: a glitter yeah, yeah, yeah, something that you know, as 57 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: your dad's going about ten, that's all anybody will see 58 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 1: is that bright, you know, pink flashy. But when you 59 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 1: get insurance and Apple Care on it too, can I 60 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: finished this case real quickly because I do want you 61 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,679 Speaker 1: to know about this case, because I do think it's important, 62 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: particularly on mariad Day. The case is Revere versus Laffler, 63 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: and it's not This is not a hypothetical law school exercise. 64 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: It's about real Americans who were told, in effect that hey, 65 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: you're the wrong race, you check the wrong box, so 66 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: you can't get into this government contracting game. Revere Technology 67 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: is a small Louisiana software company. It works on AI 68 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: tools for construction, and it applied for investment capital under 69 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: a US Department of Treasury small business credit program, and 70 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: that program is a great example because it incorporates the 71 00:03:54,200 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: Small Business Administration's disadvantaged minority definition. Its owner, Matthew Schulte's 72 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: says his application was rejected solely because of his race. 73 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: Students affiliated with the Young America's Foundation they ran into 74 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: the same problem, but from a different direction. They were 75 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: trying to get a Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity fellowship 76 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: that also required applicants to be quote socially disadvantaged. What 77 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: the hell is that socially disadvantaged under the racial presumption 78 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: of the SBA program, effectively shutting them out from competing 79 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: on equal footing, And because that presumption has also been 80 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: imported into NASA contracting, EPA research grants, and a lot 81 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: of other initiatives, that discrimination is systemic, it is not isolated. 82 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: So they're trying to chip away at this as best 83 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: they can, but it's not going to be easy, and 84 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 1: we shouldn't be resistance. I mean, we shouldn't be naive 85 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: about the resistance that these cases are going to face. 86 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: Because Democrats in both the Houses and the Senate, in 87 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: both houses have small business committees, they're already out there 88 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: publicly defending the A framework and all the related DEI 89 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: initiatives because they claim that there are essential tools for 90 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: minority entrepreneurs and underserved communities. So you have this dense 91 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: network of trade associations, of course, the NGOs, the non 92 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: government organizations, law firms, consultants, that has all grown up 93 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: around minority contracting. It's another one of these industrial complexes. 94 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: Like the homeless industrial complex, this is the minority contracting 95 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: industrial complex. It all comes with the financial and ideological 96 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: incentives to keep that regime in place, and behind the 97 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 1: policy fight is really a much deeper argument about what 98 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: justice demands. One Democrat witness told a House Oversight subcommittee 99 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 1: that America has quote never placed a ceiling on the debt, 100 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: it endlessly accumulates to African Americans and other minorities, and 101 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: that the cost of racial inequities quote far surpasses spending 102 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: on DEI programs. Do you understand what I just said? 103 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: A Democrat witness in one of these committee meetings basically 104 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: says that we will never ever get rid of the 105 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: sin of slavery or racial discrimination. If I'm told that 106 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: I'm never going to be able to change anything, I 107 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: never why try? Then? Then why try? Just stop? Just 108 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: stop it and these programs themselves need to be stopped, 109 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: and today's a good day to talk about that. Are 110 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: we truly going to do we really want to be colorblind? 111 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: Or is this Democrat when says no, we'll never. 112 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 4: Be color blood good more than Michael Dragon. Michael quit 113 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 4: owning up to the fact that you're a lawyer. It 114 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 4: doesn't have to look at all, have a good day, 115 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 4: good by, it's just you know, I can't help it. 116 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 4: I can't help it. 117 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,679 Speaker 3: So it is what it is, almost like asking if somebody, 118 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 3: if there's a pilot, don't worry, they'll tell you. Asking 119 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 3: if somebody's a lawyer, don't worry, he'll tell you that. 120 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,679 Speaker 3: Asking if somebody is a vegan or a vegetarian, don't worry, 121 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 3: they'll tell you it's it's Michael right there. He's a lawyer. 122 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 3: Don't worry, he'll tell you. Or somebody's nay old, don't worry. 123 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 3: You'll know it sooner or later anyway, So clearly we 124 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 3: know what you are. And the sad part is I 125 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 3: know that because Missus Redbeard confirms it. So there you go, 126 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 3: so real quickly. 127 00:07:54,880 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: So the House Oversight sub Committee that's hearing legislation trying 128 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: to fix this, and a witness says that this country 129 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: has never placed a ceiling on the debt, that we 130 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: endlessly accumulate to African Americans and other minorities, and that 131 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: the cost of racial inequities far surpasses our spending on 132 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: DEI programs. That view means government is not merely allowed, 133 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: but we're duty bound to use race as a tool 134 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: of redistribution, and any constitutional constraints are blown away. Brown 135 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: out the door, don't worry about that. And by the way, 136 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: you will never atone for your past sins. There may be, 137 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: and we probably are very close to reaching the end 138 00:08:53,320 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: of a generation that personally new slavery. I know that 139 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: bigotry does and always will exist, you know how. I 140 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: know that because we're all human, and every human has 141 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 1: some bias built into them. Nobody is perfect. But to 142 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: tell me that I have to endlessly and forever and 143 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: that the country will never pay for its sins of 144 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: the past tells me that you don't really have an argument. 145 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: That you're trying to perpetuate a system of discrimination. And 146 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: you're also trying to perpetuate this idea that doctor King 147 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: espoused about a colorblind society. Now I want you to 148 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: contrast what I just said with critics Judge Glock over 149 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: the Manhattan Institute, who argues that minority contracting has enriched 150 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: a small subset of already wealthy businesses. It breeds corruption, fraud, 151 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: it deepens racial divisions, and it cost taxpayers countless billions, 152 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: and it does nothing to help the truly disadvantage. I 153 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: think that prescription that he's I'm going to tell you 154 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: about is pretty blunt. These unconstitutional programs should be removed 155 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: from all levels of government as quickly as possible. So 156 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: there's a choice about equal protection. So what is the 157 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: case really about. It's about whether the promise of the 158 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: Supreme Court articulated in the students for fair and free 159 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: Admissions THEFFA case eliminated racial discrimination. Means eliminating all of it, 160 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: which is what I thought we were doing. We'll stop 161 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: at the campus gate or reach into the federal bureaucracy, 162 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: where those preferences are quietly flourishing and have for the 163 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: past fifty years. So this is about It's really about 164 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: whether a white small business owner in Louisiana or a 165 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: conservative student who's looking for a cybersecurity fellowship has to 166 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: accept being told that at his own government will always 167 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: see them as somehow less less disadvantage because of the 168 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: color of their skin. The exact opposite if I thought, 169 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,079 Speaker 1: what we are supposed to be celebrating today, So at 170 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: the end of the day, which I phrase, I hate, 171 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: But at the end of this day, a nation that 172 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: still believes that all men are created equal, how can 173 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: we tolerate a permanent racial spoils system run out of 174 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: DC Revere, however you pronounce it versus Loeffler, really gives 175 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: the courts an opportunity, perhaps in just one fell swoop, 176 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: to say that equal protection is not a slogan, it's 177 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: not a talking point, but it is a standard. Is 178 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: a legal standard that binds the government itself in every 179 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: contract that it awards, and every grant that it writes, 180 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: in every fellowship that it funds, in every dollar that 181 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: it gives away, that we will not be race based, 182 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 1: that we simply will not tolerate anything other than well, 183 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: we're supposed to be celebrating today, and that is civil 184 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: rights for everybody, a color blind society. This our chance 185 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,319 Speaker 1: to win one thousand dollars is coming up the next 186 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: six minutes thanks to Mercedes Bands of Littleton Mercedesilyttleton dot 187 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: com your chance to win one thousand bucks coming up. 188 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 2: Our One of the weekend show was also really good. 189 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 2: Michael introduced for many people the lone star tick, which 190 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 2: actually makes you allergic to meat. For those of you 191 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 2: that don't know it, our government on Palm Island in 192 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 2: the nineteen sixties made ticks bio weapons, and they carried 193 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 2: things like lime disease. Whether they were accidentally or intentionally 194 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 2: released is yet to be determined, but it was wrong. 195 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: And the lone star tick to carry on a electionis point. 196 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: That's one of the ideas that the activists in the church, 197 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: or the congregates in the church of the climate activists 198 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: want to spread around because you get bit by this tick. 199 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: It creates so that you have an allergic or a 200 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: visceral reaction to the eating of red meat. So it's 201 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: a way to cut down on people eating meat. Just 202 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: infect us with a tick, Isn't it great? That's wonderful. 203 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: So amid all of this flurry of news about ice 204 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, I read a story last week's say exactly 205 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: one week could go today in the Washington Post about 206 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 1: all the ways that Donald Trump is trying to change 207 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: how the midterm elections are being conducted, because you know, 208 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: elections really are kind of a big deal. You know that, 209 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,199 Speaker 1: and I know that, and the Washington Post knows that, 210 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: And the Washington Post wants you to stand from their 211 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: point of view, from their disjointed point of view. They 212 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: think that Trump's trying to reg elections. Many of these endeavors, 213 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: they wrote, go far beyond typical political persuasion. They're really upset. 214 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: They're challenging long established democratic norms. Well, we wouldn't want 215 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: to challenge any norms, would we, because the norms that 216 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: Trump's challenging actually seem to be problems that we ought 217 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: to be trying to solve. But of course the Democrats 218 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: the left have been nooking norms for decades. Trans women, 219 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: trans men, gender, can a man get pregnant? I don't know. 220 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: But by all means, let's, you know, let's let's get 221 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: all upset over some of the things that Trump wants 222 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: to happened with our elections. Now. To be sure, I 223 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: know that those on the left suffer both TEDS and PTSD. 224 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: And that's all going back to January sixth of twenty 225 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: twenty one, that's never going to as long as Trump's alive, 226 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: it's never going to go away. Now, while tens of 227 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: thousands of Americans came to DC and all they really 228 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: wanted to do was protest what they saw for all 229 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: sorts of reasons, some of which I might agree with, 230 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: some of which I probably disagree with. They saw it 231 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: as a stolen election, but a few hundred reprobates besmirched 232 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: the entire movement by attacking the cops and rioting and 233 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: doing all sorts of stupid stuff like vandalizing parts of 234 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: the Capitol. But let us never forget dead again. Going 235 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: back to like Ice in Minnesota, the Left is going 236 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: to exploit that and try to discredit anybody had any 237 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: doubts about the ways the ways the elections were conducted, 238 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: just like they're going to besmirch all of Ice in 239 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: any effort to support anybody, no matter how bad of 240 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: a dirt bag they are, no matter whether they've committed 241 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: child right, child trafficking, human trafficking, and whatever it is, 242 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: they don't care about that anymore. They've even gone back 243 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: to defunding the police. Well, I don't want to swerve 244 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: off the elections, but I say that to give you 245 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: an example of what the left is going to do 246 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: in terms of exploiting ice. They're going to do the 247 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: same thing about elections, exactly the same thing. Now, just 248 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: because the fraud in twenty twenty might have been legal 249 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: doesn't make it legitimate or good with the right thing 250 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: to be doing. Those norms deserve to be upended. And 251 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: that's the problem I have with the Washington Post story. 252 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: In short, the Post covers several Trump's efforts that are 253 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: designed to change and reform how we conduct our elections. 254 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: Here are the headings, each followed by a series of 255 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 1: brief explainers about what the Post says that Trump is doing. 256 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: Pushing states to redraw house districts, Well, that's something they're 257 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: required to do, and there is no limit as far 258 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: as I can tell. There's there's a standard. We're going 259 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,199 Speaker 1: to do this supposedly when we do a census, but 260 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: we do census all the time. There's of course the census, 261 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: we do what's it called diceinial or whatever it is, 262 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: the ten year, but we do censuses in between. Also, 263 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: they wanted demanding it. That's one thing that Trump's pushing 264 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: to redraw house district The thing. Second point that the 265 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: post makes is that he wants he wants to end 266 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: mail in voting. So do I. I think male in 267 00:17:55,080 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: voting is in and of itself the most fertile ground 268 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: for election and voting fraud voting machines. He's attacking the 269 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: voting machines. Gee, I wonder why cybersecurity. I've got a 270 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 1: story that I have yet to condense down into a 271 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 1: format that I can do for radio about all of 272 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: the ways that the Chinese Communist Party, through cybersecurity attacks, 273 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: through the placing of malware, everything they've done to really 274 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: upend our cybersecurity infrastructure. Voting machines are on that. Voting 275 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:48,360 Speaker 1: machines are an inherently I think horrible way of doing business. 276 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: We go through those kind of interesting, isn't it. Dragon. 277 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: We haven't gotten a lot of emails lately from our 278 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: corporate it about phishing attacks and everything else. I don't know, 279 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,159 Speaker 1: maybe you know who knows me they've given up. But 280 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: we're constantly being fished p h I s h g D. 281 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 1: Not f I s h g D. We're constantly being fished, 282 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 1: and we're constantly being I mean scams. I know there 283 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: was some news story I just glad I didn't even 284 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: read it about some new scam going on. You don't 285 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: think of that. Voting machines are subject to the same 286 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: thing if the Office of Personnelity Management oh PM. I 287 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 1: forget how long ago it was now, but it's the 288 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: largest hacking event I think in the history of the world, 289 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 1: in which millions and met tens of millions of personally 290 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: identifiable information. I was a part of that hack because 291 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: I was a former federal employee, And of course, you 292 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 1: know how they provide, you know, well, we're sorry, and 293 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: here's the year's worth of you know, I D production 294 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: or whatever. That was a Chinese infiltration. They claim that 295 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 1: Trump is trying to get millions of voters private information, 296 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: that he's staffing the administration with election skeptics and deniers. Well, 297 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: I'm like a climate skeptic, and I guess I'm a 298 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 1: climate denier. What's wrong with being skeptical about elections? I 299 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:21,360 Speaker 1: think Americans DNA is primarily composed of skepticism. We ought 300 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,640 Speaker 1: to question stuff. Of course, they're upset about him calling 301 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: out the troops, and they're upset because he's seeking a 302 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: new census that would exclude illegal aliens. I don't mind 303 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,120 Speaker 1: if we count illegal aliens separately. I'd like to actually 304 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: have a valid count of how many illegal aliens are 305 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: in this country. But because they are illegal aliens, and 306 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: because the many of them are criminals and their fugitives 307 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 1: and they're hiding out, they're not going to count. They're 308 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: not gonna sentence bro Oh, sure, come on in, come 309 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: on into our meth lab here, but count us. I 310 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: don't think we're ever going to get a real sense that, 311 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: So excluding them from the actual census, or at least 312 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: having it separated out so that we know who's here 313 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: who are citizens of this country versus who's here who 314 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,880 Speaker 1: is not a citizen of this country? What's the inherently 315 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,959 Speaker 1: wrong with that? So, as I say, some of these 316 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: are pretty easy to dispense with, So let's go through 317 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: them real quickly. Jerry Mandry that's a century's old practice 318 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,239 Speaker 1: of both parties to gain a partisan advantage when they 319 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 1: draw house districts. I guess the left's mad because it's happening. Well, 320 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,959 Speaker 1: you've been doing it, Republicans do it, every single party 321 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: does it. But now they're just angry because Trump's pushing it. 322 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: As I said, the census itself. I think that's no brainer. 323 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 1: The Washington Post insists that voting by non citizens is 324 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 1: exceedingly rare. But how can you say that, How can 325 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: you say that with any confidence because of all the 326 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,120 Speaker 1: other election problems? How can you even say that because 327 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: of the census. Just because we count or don't count 328 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: somebody doesn't mean they vote or they don't vote. You know, 329 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: if we did something just you know, why why is 330 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: it so hard? Why is the Save Act so hard? 331 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: The Save Acts is one that's gonna that would require 332 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: proof of US citizenship to vote in a federal election. 333 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: Why is it so many Republican senators or against that? 334 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: Why when you have laws against requiring ID to vote, 335 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 1: affirmative laws to say no, no, no, you can't have 336 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: you can't require that. Why either way it's going to 337 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: affect congressional apportionment, and that's largely going to help the Democrats. 338 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: As far as far as election skeptics or deniers, that's 339 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: a catch all majority because that just simply wants to 340 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: dismiss anybody that questions anything about any election, whether it 341 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: be the twenty twenty election or the twenty twenty four 342 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 1: I have questions. I have serious doubts about every single 343 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 1: election takes place in this country, simply because of the 344 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 1: infrastructure that we use to conduct the elections. Now, notice 345 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: what I did not say. I don't have doubts about 346 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,239 Speaker 1: the validity of the outcome of any particular election or 347 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: all elections, because many times the margins so wide that 348 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 1: I doubt the frauds enough or the fraud is enough 349 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,679 Speaker 1: to overcome an election or to swing an election. But 350 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: that's not to say that I doubt that there's fraud. 351 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: I think there's probably fraud in every single election, either 352 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:35,159 Speaker 1: by malfeasance or just malpractice, or just by accident. But 353 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: I do think that we ought to tighten it up 354 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 1: male in voting. Here's what the Post says. Trump for 355 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 1: years has railed against male voting, leading many of his 356 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: supporters to question elector or outcomes, even though academic studies 357 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: and courts have found that widespread ballot fraud is rare. 358 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: So I still want to know whether the outcome is 359 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: you know, one candidate get a thousand and the other 360 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: candidate gets one hundred. I want to know that that 361 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: candidate really got a thousand, and that the losing candidate 362 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,719 Speaker 1: really got one hundred. What's wrong with wanting to know 363 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: the actual numbers from an election? And so what if 364 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: Trump rails against mail in balloting? Have you ever considered that, 365 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: perhaps as part of the blueprint in Colorado that when 366 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: gil and Striker and Polus got together and said, here's 367 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: how we're going to turn Colorado from a red state 368 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,679 Speaker 1: to a blue state. Why do you think one of 369 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 1: the very first things they did was mail in balloting. 370 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 1: Why Because if you want to conduct fraud, that's easiest 371 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,199 Speaker 1: way to do it. So Trump pledged to lead an 372 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,120 Speaker 1: effort to end the far too widespread practice of mail 373 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: in ballot and I think for very good reason. In 374 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: two thousand and five, Jimmy Carter and James Baker Coach 375 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 1: chaired something called the Commission on Federal Electionary Form. You 376 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: don't think louted do you want to quote? They concluded 377 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: the quote mail in ballots remain the largest source of 378 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:16,719 Speaker 1: potential voter fraud. Well, if you have potential fraud in 379 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: your business, whether it actually occurs or not, in order 380 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: to protect your revenue stream, in order to protect your 381 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: gross income or your net income, or any of your income, 382 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: don't you want to eliminate the potential fraud in your business? 383 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: You do, of course you do. Why do you think 384 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: iHeart is continually pounding us about, you know, watching out 385 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 1: for phishing scams or other scams? Are you know, based 386 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,719 Speaker 1: on our network? Well, if Iheart's concerned about something as 387 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: stupid as an email between me and Dragon, why shouldn't 388 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: I be concerned when Jimmy Carter and James Baker former 389 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: chief of staff former what all of James Baker phil 390 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 1: anyway is mister muckety muck? Why should we not be 391 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: concerned when they say that mail in ballots remain the 392 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: largest source of potential voter fraud. There are very few 393 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: other countries that have two and a half for more 394 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 1: months of mail in or early voting processes like we do. 395 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: You know the Post doesn't mention that or any other detail, 396 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: despite citing unnamed academics, studies and courts. And as for 397 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:33,120 Speaker 1: the claim that ballot fraud is rare, do you know 398 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 1: that twenty percent of mail in voters you can go 399 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: you can find this, just go google it online. Twenty 400 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: percent of mail in voters admitted that they cheated in 401 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,399 Speaker 1: one way or another in twenty twenty didn't vote in 402 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: their precinct, didn't vote in the right state, voted somebody 403 00:26:51,440 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: else's ballot, whatever. Twenty percent. That's self admissions, state's mail 404 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:06,239 Speaker 1: balance to every resident and verification is laughable. So that 405 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: leads me to the Post private information complaint. They claim 406 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: that Trump's trying to get our private information. They're appalled 407 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: that the Justice Department is trying to hold states accountable 408 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: for doing something that I think you probably thought was 409 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: already being done, maintaining a clean voter role. Only citizens 410 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: can vote, and only citizens can vote once in a 411 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 1: federal election. Now, those on the left assure us that's 412 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: just about the only way voting ever happens, because it's 413 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: illegal to do otherwise. Oh so the speed limit posted 414 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: over here on the twenty five, which I forget is 415 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: either sixty or sixty five over here by the studio, 416 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 1: whatever it is, Well, then that must be the way 417 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 1: it is because that's the way. It's illegal to do 418 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: it otherwise. So there must not be speeding because it's 419 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 1: illegal to speed. Yeah, the post is that stupid. It's 420 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: that stupid. Yet those on the left also doesn't want 421 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: anybody checking to make sure that voting happens the way 422 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: it's supposed to happen. Democrats oppose voter ID, they pose 423 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: an election day, they oppose the electoral college. They opposed 424 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: clean voter roles, because ensuring an election integrity, well, I 425 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: would undermine every attempted power grab that they might be 426 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: suddenly trying to conduct somewhere. So the Post, you know, 427 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 1: remember their mast head. Democracy dies in the darkness. The 428 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: Washington Post is simply carrying water for the left in 429 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: this case. Now, Trump, as I've said the bazillion times, 430 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: is a long guy. He's nowhere near perfect, and he 431 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: does have a squeaky clean record when it comes to 432 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 1: how he talks about or conducts himself during elections. Yet 433 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: most of the policies that the Post worries about are 434 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: not only good, but they're all so necessary for conducting 435 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: a true, free and fair election. The way to secure 436 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: our elections are simple, very very simple, with exceptions for 437 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: mail in ballots for military personnel and then having true 438 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: absentee ballots. You request an absentee ballot because you're doing 439 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: it for your grandmother who's in a nursing home, or 440 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: your husband who is in you know, an assistant care facility, 441 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: whatever it might be. So you make a request, or 442 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: that person makes a request. I don't care. But you 443 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: request an absentee ballot, and then you get that ballot 444 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: driven delivered to the place where you are living, not 445 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: where you know. And if you're living in an assistant 446 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: living facility and that's not where you're registered to vote, 447 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 1: then someone ought to help you change your registration. I 448 00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: just want clean elections. What's wrong with that? So you 449 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: get some exceptions from mail in ballots for military personnel, 450 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: you get legitimate absentee ballots. Then voting should be in 451 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 1: person with a valid photo ID, not just you know, 452 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: a California commercial driver's license handed out to you know, 453 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people that just because they want 454 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: to go drive a truck and kill people. And you 455 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: vote in person on election day, and I don't care 456 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: whether it's you know, go back to the old machines 457 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: where you punch a hole or a machine is not 458 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: connected to the internet, where it's electronically tabulated, where there's 459 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: no connection whatsoever. Don't show me a picture with you 460 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: sitting there counting ballots with a router behind you, with 461 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: all the antennas sticking up, antennae sticking up that tells 462 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: me that somebody's got access to a network. I don't 463 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: want that. Pretty simple stuff, But the Washington Post will 464 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: have none of it. You have to ask yourself, why 465 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: are they so adamant that they would go so far 466 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: Trump again, it's in section with it January twelve, if 467 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: you want to read it Democracy in America. Trump is 468 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted. Many 469 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion, challenging 470 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 1: long established democratic norms. You see, it's such a stereotypical 471 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: example of progressivism. You start out, you do mail in ballots, 472 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: You get mail in ballots going on for you know, 473 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: half a decade or a decade or longer, and that 474 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: becomes the norm. And because it's the norm, then it 475 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: must be okay. No, because that means you're just failing 476 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: or refusing to look at all of the potential for fraud, 477 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: whether it exists or not. Now I want to emphasize 478 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: that again, I don't care whether the fraud exists. It 479 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: is the potent for fraud that I want to eliminate. 480 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: And the best way to do this is eliminate bail 481 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 1: in ballots and I can hear everybody out there screeching 482 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: right now. I mean I gotta go and I gotta 483 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: work that day, right all right? Well, you know it 484 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: may be voting is not important enough to you. Because 485 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: voting is important enough to you, you'll go in your 486 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: lunch hour, or you'll tell your employer that you know, 487 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: they're required to give you time to go vote, or 488 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: you know, we'll expand the voting hours. We'll keep the 489 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,719 Speaker 1: rolls open until nine o'clock at night if we need to. 490 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: Oh that's my dinner time. I get into that. Go 491 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: help my fried chicken. Well I can't do it too late, 492 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: too late at night, I'm in bed B eight thirty 493 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: a zero. Okay, We then go vote a date. See, 494 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: every time you come up with excuse, I've got a 495 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: way around it. So just shut up and vote the 496 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: right way.