WEBVTT - Disrupting Congress with Blake Masters 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.680 So if you're thirty five years old, the CEO of 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.960 Teal Capital, you're working for a billionaire. You're probably making 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.840 bank yourself as a result of that. Why run for Senate? 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.800 We're gonna ask my next guest that question. His name 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.920 is Blake Masters. He is running for Senate in Arizona. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.720 This is a guy who has lived his life in 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.160 in a lot of the startup world. He's running as 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.279 a disruptor. I mean, he's raised a ton of campaign 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.080 cash off of things like n f T s and 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:29.800 so I want to ask him and really get to 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.400 the heart of how do you want to disrupt Congress? 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.279 What do you want to do? This is also someone 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.120 who's really made waves with a lot of the things 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.800 he said, like this, add the Second Amendment is not 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.280 about duck hunting. It's about protecting your family and your country. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.240 What's the first thing the Taliban did when Joe Biden 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:52.080 handed an Afghanistan? They took away people's guns. That's how 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.880 it works. Isn't it weird to hear someone actually just 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.600 speak the truth? Is that the whole point of the 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.240 Second Amendment to protect us from tyranny and look at 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.640 authoritarian regimes. You look at when communism takes over, what 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.400 do they do? They shut down the press, they shut 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.240 down free speech, and they take away your guns. So 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:14.119 honesty is refreshing, and that's what Blake Masters does. He's 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.200 really honest. He recently came under attack for saying that 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.920 the gender pay gap was a left wing narrative. Also true, 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.920 but so many Republicans are afraid to say things like that. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:28.440 Why It's a really fascinating interview with someone who has 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.199 already done a lot in his life. He's an author 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.880 as well, who's already accomplished a lot and wants to 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.720 do more, possibly as a United States Senator. I think 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.800 you're really going to enjoy this conversation with a fascinating person. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:55.720 So stay tuned for my interview with Blake Masters. Blake Masters, 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.240 thanks so much for joining the show. My pleasure. Thank 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.080 you for having me so Blake, you are through? Do 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.600 you five years old? You're the president of the Peter 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.840 Teel Foundation, CEO of Teal Capital. I assume you were 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.959 making bank and crushing it. Why run for Senate? It's 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:12.720 a good question. A lot of my friends ask that, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.320 they're like, dude, what's wrong with you? But you know 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.600 what it. It just seems like the most important thing 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.600 I could be doing. You know, I don't mean that 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.560 to sound cliche. I literally think we are losing this country. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.800 Um I just said yesterday. Uh. It pains me to 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.200 say it. But at this rate, America is on track 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.079 to become a third world country by the time my boys, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.040 who were eight and six and two years old and 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.080 heart high school. And that's not okay with me. You know, 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.640 Arizona is not a purple state, it's not a blue state. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:44.400 But somehow we have two Democrats editors. And uh, I 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.360 just thought, let me let me hit pause on this 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.760 business career because I can go in. I can beat 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.120 Mark Kelly. Uh and I can make a change. I 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.480 can I can actually show the kind of new leadership 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.840 that we need. So it feels important. I thought I'd 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.320 be good at it. I think I'm showing I'm the 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.760 guy who could beat Mark Kelly. And uh and here 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.560 I am. You know. And so you got involved in 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.000 Peter Chiel's world. Well, obviously everyone knows he's been involved 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.880 in politics. He's a billionaire, co founded PayPal. When you 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.040 were attending class and he was teaching about startups and 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.120 you were a student at Stanford, and you started posting 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.240 these detailed notes on the line, which ended up leading 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.680 the groundwork for a book that you co authored with 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.400 Peter TiO called zero to One Notes on Startup or 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.000 How to Build the Future. What was he saying that 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.000 you found so interesting in terms of, you know, posting 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.880 it online and sharing it with everyone else. Honestly, it 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.920 was just fresh and original content. You know, I've been 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.520 to a lot of classes up until that point, all 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.440 of high school, all of undergrad most of law school, 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.320 and you know, the professors, they're smart people, but mainly 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.040 they're just telling you about what's in some book, you know, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.480 and it's very formulaic, and all of a sudden, here's 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.040 Peter Kiel. You know, this was I guessleven when when 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.280 I met him, when he first saught a class, and 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.440 you know, all I knew was he was successful. He 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.240 founded PayPal, you know, billionaire. Congratulations. That's great. But he 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.800 wasn't just like telling wars stories from PayPal. There was 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.200 some of that. But you know, one class we're talking 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.960 about peak oil and what the future of energy was 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.520 going to look like. Uh, and then the next class 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.040 session we'd be doing some you know, textual exegesis from 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.360 obscure Abraham Lincoln's speech, you know, and then the next 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.760 section we're talking about nuclear energy and and and this 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.320 is just he was kind of all over the place. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.520 But after three or four class sessions, I realized, no, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.800 it wasn't all over the place. He had formulated you know, 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.880 these different cuts, these different angles uh of looking at 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.279 the world, and all this stuff was tying together, and 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.080 it was fascinating to see sort of fresh and original 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:44.320 content uh from somebody. It stuck out and I knew, man, 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.440 this guy, he's he's thinking about things, uh in a 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.599 different way, in the next level way. This is exciting. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:51.960 I better take notes. I mean, I'm not gonna lie Blake. 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.560 I wouldn't mind being a billionaire. But but you know, so, 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.000 you know, if you look at Congress, it's it's mostly 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.200 you know, old and and boring people. And you're sort 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.800 of talking about how you know, Peter was disruptive and 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.440 that sort of intrigued you. I mean, you're kind of 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.120 running as this disruptive force running for Senate. I mean 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.000 you've fundraised off of n f T S, which is 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.000 entirely different than you know, most people running for Senate. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.800 Do how do you think someone as young as you 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.400 was sort of this smart, this startup mentality, how do 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.600 you plan on disrupting Congress? Well, it's really interesting because 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.400 I think the same old playbook just so obviously doesn't 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.440 work anymore. Right, It's like you, you have some good 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.320 people in Congress, but not most of them, and I 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.840 just it's so it's so borring. It's just follow the process. 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.360 Follow the process. Nobody wants to debate substance anymore, nobody 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.720 wants to try anything new. Um and And you know, 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.200 on the one hand, I'm very conservative. I believe in 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.880 the timeless principles that this country was founded on. I 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.400 believe in our original design, in our in our constitution, 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.080 um and so there's something very old about that obviously. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:57.800 But we've got to get back to that. And I 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.760 don't think you get back to that just by following 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.000 where politics has been going, as if on autopilot. You know, 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.120 I'm tired of zombie Republicans. They just want to get 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.080 in line and listen to whatever ship, whatever leadership says, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.479 and who don't want to innovate. I think we need 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.200 fresh thinking. I think we need new thinking. And so 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.920 I'm just trying to run a bold campaign. UM, trying 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.120 to be as bold as possible, say the truth as 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.719 I see it. Methodologically, we're trying to innovate, right. I 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.320 had to get creative with fund grazing UM and so yeah, 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.200 we sold some n f T s and you know, 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.080 I offered some some dinners just right on Twitter. I said, Hey, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.840 if you want to donate the maximum MOP to my campaign, 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.000 you can come have dinner with me and Peter Tiele, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.120 you know, And that got a good uptake. We've had 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.200 some fantastic dinner conversations UM as an innovative way to 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.760 raise money, and so I'm just trying to do new things. Uh. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.680 And I think once I get there, you know, I'm 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.440 going to continue. That's when the real work begins. I 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.880 don't think to sort of go along to get along 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.279 Republicanism makes sense anymore. I'm tired of Republicans who just 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.840 want to play defense while they left the left set 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.400 the agenda. Well, I totally agree with you, and that's 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.200 why I wanted to have you on this podcast and 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.839 why I'm interested in your candidacy. I mean, we're sort 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.440 of we're entering into this post truth world. Where boys 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.200 can be girls, girls can be boy boys. Were you know, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.360 nothing is truth anymore, right, And so what I appreciate 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.040 about what you're doing is you say the truth, which 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.520 is almost sadly controversial these days. You know, for instance, 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.000 you just came under attack for talking about the gender 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.080 pay gap and saying it's a left wing narrative, it's 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:33.000 not real. Were you surprised by the reaction that those 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.360 comments got. I mean, not really. I guess I'm surprised that, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.680 you know, they acted like it was this gotcha. This 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.280 was a public forum that we had all the Senate 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.200 candidates except Bard of it. She doesn't show up to 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.960 these things, but most of us are there. And uh, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.800 you know, we got asked this question about the Equal 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.160 Rights Amendment. UM sort of idiots incredit question. It's not 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.040 like I'm going out and campaigning on the gender pay 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.400 gap myth every day. But you know, when I'm asked 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.640 a question, I don't just hipot too safe talking points. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.400 I just again, I say the truth as I see it. 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.760 And so I got asked this question and back in February, 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.360 and it was the public form, right, I knew it 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.400 was being recorded, and it's in front of hundreds of people. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.720 But I just said the truth, which is that in 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.240 this country, men and women they're not paid different amounts 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.600 for equal work. If you actually know how to measure 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.040 this stuff and you can get it, you can get 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:24.080 the statistics from you know, the government's website. UM, women 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.840 are paid about the same as men when you control, uh, 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.360 for for choices, When you control for um, you know 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.560 who's doing the jobs and what their relative skill levels are. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:35.520 And so it's just a myth. And I said that, 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.880 And so what happened clearly was this is the week 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.680 where all the left wing media just started to attack me. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.120 And so this was in some Democrat Operats AFO file. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.880 They fed it to MSNBC. MSNBC published the video. They 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.480 thought it would be this huge gotcha, and it turns 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.760 out everybody, you know, in the in the Twitter comments, 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.120 everybody on social media is just like, actually, Blake sort 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.240 of write about that. You know, they haven't updated their 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.719 talking points from fifteen months ago, and so I think 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.080 the fifteen years ago, and so I think this whole 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.960 thing was actually net positive for me. They're giving me attention, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.240 pretending like the truth that I'm saying is is, you know, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.000 some horrible thing. Actually it's just true. Well and it 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.320 was hilarious because I can't remember which article was, but 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.360 they're trying to dispute you, and they're like, well some 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.600 say this, but like there's also you know, like it 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.920 wasn't really outright disputing you. I mean, they're almost proving 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.640 your point that you know it's not an apples to 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.120 apples or you know there's other variants involved, which is 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.000 essentially what you're saying is when you look at all variants, 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.600 it's not a true narrative. But it was funny because 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.680 they didn't really dispute your case, but you know, and 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.640 you sort of made waves. I mean, you had a 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.360 campaign at about the Second Amendment, which I played in 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.280 the intro for our audience. And what you're saying is 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.440 that you said the Second Amendment is not about duck hunting. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.600 It's about preventing or protecting your family and country. You know, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.040 what's the first thing the Taoiband did when Joe Biden 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.280 handed them Afghanistan? They took away people's guns. I mean, 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.600 you're right about the Second Amendment is a defense against tyranny. 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.160 Do you think more people unders and that now having 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:09.040 gone through yeah. Absolutely. It's like, you know, the Republicans 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.520 already had guns. I think conservatives, especially in Arizona, we 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.560 already had guns if you look at who bought guns 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.400 for the first time during the COVID pandemic. You know, 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.240 when people are tuning into CNN and CNN is saying, hey, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:25.200 these protests are mostly peaceful. Meanwhile, you know, in the 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.160 back of the reporter there's just like police precincts being 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.320 lit on fire. I think a lot of independence and 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.680 even a lot of Democrats are like, oh, the police 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.079 are coming under attack. Doesn't feel so good. Maybe I'll 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:37.880 go out and buy a gun. And so I think 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.240 the gun control thing is is completely dead. Um. Obviously 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.400 the left still wants to disarm normal, law abiding American citizens, 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.040 but I don't think that's gonna happen anymore. And then 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.040 we can't let up. We have to prosecute the case. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.600 But the Second Amendment, it's not about hunting, you know. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.640 And I'm tired of Republicans just making ads, you know 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.800 TV commercials where they put on the camouflage and the 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.240 and the orange safety vests and they're going out and shooting, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.600 you know, uh, some some trap or something I'm fine 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.120 with hunting, I'm fine for sporting use of firearms obviously, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.079 But the real point of the Second Amendment is political. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:19.120 It's to defend yourself against threats ultimately against government maurity 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.679 and pitches the left off when you say that to them, 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.520 it's like nails on a chalkboard. But again, it's simply true. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.960 It's bold, it is provocative, and I think that's the 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.679 sweet spot. That's where Republican messaging needs to be well. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.360 And I think that's what a lot of Republicans don't 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.880 understand is and what you know, you've understood, what President 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.679 Trump understood, what Governor to Santa's understands, is that when 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.040 you go on offense, Republicans can win on a lot 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.640 of these issues. But for far too long, Republicans kind 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.840 of coward to the media and you know, bought into 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.520 these fake premises and we're so afraid of their own shadows. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.800 And I think Republicans are finally starting to get it. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.400 But we need more people like you. We need more 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.600 people like Governor to Santas and Trump who are are 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.280 fighting back and you know, going on off and ultimately, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:05.280 I think that's the path forward for Republicans agree. And 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.960 you know, I always like to contrast the presidential election 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:13.120 with the election, you know, Mitt Romney, I think when 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.959 he lost in twelve, one reason was because he was 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.240 too damned nice, you know. And I'm not saying you 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:19.400 should go out of your way to be mean to 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.920 people for no reason, but you can't. Can't be so nice, 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.520 so obsessed with your own niceness that you crave the 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.040 attention and the adoration and the respect of the media. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.800 Because most of the corporate media at this point it's 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.640 just really bad, most of his left wing um you 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.080 could best think of these people as like extensions of 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.280 the modern Democratic Party. And so when Mitt Romney was 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.760 terrified inelve about being called a racist, right and he 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.920 was running gast Obama, he was just so nice. It 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.720 was like, oh, Mr Obama is a good man, and 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.640 I'm a good man, and we have some good faith 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.960 policy disagreements, and that was just he misread what was 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.720 happening that was to save the country election, and and 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.319 so he lost, and you and they called him racist anyway, 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.720 by the way, right like they call him literally hitler, 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.360 and and he just he just caved. And then four 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.760 years later along comes President Trump. Right then candidate Trump. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.480 He came down the escalator and he knew that they 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.920 were going to hit him with everything, and he didn't care. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.800 I don't think Romney's racist, to be clear, I know 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.240 Trump's not racist, but Trump knew that they were going 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.280 to call him that, and he let it beat off 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.000 him like water, right, because they're gonna say this. You 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.480 just gotta go forward. You gotta go right through it. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.480 You've got to prosecute that bold agenda. You can't care 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.880 about seeking the adoration of the modern media. And when 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:41.040 you play offense, not only do voters reward you, but 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.199 then you can actually get stuff done, and that is 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.400 just so important. Well, and to your point, I think 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.800 that the difference between Mitt Romney and President Trump is 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.840 you know when Mitt Romney and he was also accused 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.040 of being sexist, and his response was, well, I had 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:54.880 binders full of women, which then kind of makes you 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.760 feel like, well maybe you are so like I don't know, 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.240 you're sort of buying you know, yeah, yeah, it's you're 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.600 playing defense. No. Actually, I have lots of black friends. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.160 You know, it's weird, you know, it's you can't can't 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.400 accept the left wing friend, you can't be caught on 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.000 your heels well, and like Trump I remember, I think 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.000 it was like one of his first interviews after he 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.160 had won, when he was president, and it was with 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.560 a crap I'm blanking on the dude's name from I 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.880 can see his face ABC David Muir and um, I'm 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.360 glad I got that because I would have bothered me 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.080 if I can't remember. And he was asking Trump about 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.320 the Women's March, and then President Trump's response was like, yeah, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.120 well March for Life is coming up, but you never 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.880 cover that, and his face like dropped because they're not 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.120 used to that kind of response where you're just like 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.320 blatantly not buying into this BS narrative that they're pushing. So, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.720 you know, that was a game changer, and I'm glad 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.760 to see. You know, Republicans have have sort of changed that. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:49.840 But you've also made waves on you know, a lot 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.640 of other issues as well. We've seen recently with this 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.480 Roverse Wade fight. Uh, you would say that you actually 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.480 don't believe states should have the right to permit abortions, 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.680 you know, talk about that, stay on a little bit 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.080 more in depth for for the audience. Yeah, well, you 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.840 hear so many Republicans saying, I think just the bare 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.760 minimum on this issue because it can be controversial and 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.760 they want to play it safe, and so I think 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.960 the safe course what political consultants would encourage people to 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.480 say is like, you know, let's help the Supreme Court 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.880 overturns Roe v. Wade, which obviously it should, and and 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.640 then let's return the issue to the states. You know, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.360 they use this sort of federalist language, federalism, uh, to 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.680 try to just get off the hook. And to be clear, 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.400 I hope that the Supreme Court case Um in Jobs. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.600 I hope it comes down like that League opinion suggested 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.960 it what. I hope they reverse her every way. But 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.080 I don't think you can simply return the issue to 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.720 the states, because I don't think that California or Oregon 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.520 should allow planned parenthood to go in at seven or 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.480 eight months in euro and you know, kill babies several 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.600 spinal cords and dismember babies. Um. And that's what the 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.240 left really does want to do, to be clear, right 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.120 just with it. Two days ago, every single Democrat senator 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.400 except Joe Manson, but all the rest of them voted 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.800 to legalize abortion. They said they were codifying Roby Wade, right, 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.400 but that's not what it did. It when so much 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.440 further than that, that bill would have legalized abortion nationwide 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.200 up until the moment of birth, which is just something 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:24.680 that eight Americans. No, it's horrible, it's murderous. It is 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:29.880 basically like you know, delivery room execution. And so they're 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.640 just radical on this issue, and I think at some 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.240 point the federal government's got to step in and protect life. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.040 I know there's going to be debate in Congress about 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.600 worship that worshould that be um, but let's have that debate, 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.000 because the Fortune Amendment to the Constitution, like it says, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.520 you know, all Americans have the right to life and 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.920 liberty and you can't deprive them of that without due process. Well, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.080 to me, it's harder to imagine a greater deprivation of 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.440 due process than basically being dismembered before you have the 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.920 chance to take your first breath. And so at least 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.159 when we're talking about like late term and partial birth abortion, no, 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.240 I think the several government needs to step in and 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.200 band that. They have these bogus talking points like my body, 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.920 my choice, but that doesn't apply when you're talking about 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.240 another life that is involved in this situation. Like when 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.320 I didn't get the vaccine, that is truly my body, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.720 my choice. When you're talking about another child being involved, 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.719 that that just that's not a true narrative. I mean, 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.520 that's just a blatant lie. But you know, we we 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.080 look at this league, this unprecedented league out of the 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.160 Supreme Court, we see in the left really just try 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:34.520 to take down institutions, really burned these pillars that hold 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.679 a civilized society up to the ground. What does that 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.480 mean for the Supreme Court moving forward? I believe this 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.200 has never ever happened before, right, Like, this is truly unprecedented, 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.640 and you know, you look at public polling, the Supreme 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.960 Court is more trusted than almost any other institution in 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.159 the country. And so the left is just chipping away 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.440 at all the institutions. Now they're they're really hacking away 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.640 at the legitimacy of the Supreme Court itself. Um, this 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:05.000 is really an attempt to intimidate the more conservative justices 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.359 on the Supreme Court, and we have to pray that 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.480 it doesn't work. But then again, Jen Psaki is inviting 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.240 people to break federal law and go protest outside of 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.560 these judges homes to intimidate them, trying get them to 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:22.000 to cow and you know, retract that that reversal of 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.480 grow and so this is really dangerous. I mean, we 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.760 are r out on the precipice of all out sort 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.520 of mob rule and it's two tier justice system, right, 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.720 This erosion of the rule of law that we see 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.280 under democratic rule, it's really dangerous. Like how crazy is 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.240 it that in the summer of if you were a 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:45.400 DLM or Antifa activist in Minneapolis, you could burn down buildings, 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.120 you could burn down a police precinct and nothing bad 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.080 would happen to you. And if you did happen to 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.240 get handcuffed, Kamala Harris's bail fund would bail you out, 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.200 you know, And can contrast that to uh, I mean, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.280 obviously if any conservative did it did that, if anybody 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.000 protested that side of Sonya Soda Mayor's house wearing a 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.359 Maga hat, you know, they'd be prosecuted by this Biden 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.240 DJ they wouldn't see the the sun for twenty years, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.480 they'd be thrown in a federal prison. And so this 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.840 erosion of the rule law is really dangerous. But again 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.199 Biden doesn't care. They wanted that to leak. For all 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:18.520 I know they had a hand in it. You know, 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.119 this is just really crazy, uncharted waters. I mean, for 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.639 all we know, a Supreme Court justice you know how 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.920 to hand in it, or at least knew about. I mean, 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:27.600 it would I mean, I think it would be somewhat 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.639 hard to imagine that there wasn't some sort of tacit 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.880 approval in the lead gang. That would be so bad. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.440 I mean, that would be grounds for for impeaching the justice. 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.439 I even have a hard time believing that a justice 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.040 would sign off on that, even one of the hyper 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.480 liberal ones. But but I think the Supreme Court clerk 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.040 at a minimum, right like the the best theory is 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:51.440 that a super liberal, super super pro abortion Supreme Court 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.840 clerk who had access to this you know, draft opinion, 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.920