1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: So I've got a fun one for you because my 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: next guest is actually one of my good friends. He 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: also escaped a communist state to move to the Free 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: State of Florida. My buddy, Josh Hammer. He's the opinion 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: editor of Newsweek. He also has a podcast as well, 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: called The Josh Hammer Show because his name is Josh Hammer, 7 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: so obviously that makes a lot of sense. But he's 8 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: all around super smart guy. He's He's also does a 9 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff. Research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, 10 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: you know, counsel and policy advisor at the Internet Accountability Project. 11 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: He has done, you know, a ton of other things. 12 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: He's a frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal, and 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: cultural issues. He's a constitutional attorney by training as well. 14 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 1: But he's just all around a good dude, a really, 15 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: really smart guy as well. He's on a panel with 16 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,279 Speaker 1: him recently. It was just so impressed by what he 17 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: was saying, and I thought to myself, why not have 18 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: him on the show? Right? Why not have my friend 19 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: who's super smart on the show to talk about a 20 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: lot of the things we're facing as a country. Primarily, 21 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: I want to get to the bottom of does the 22 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: rule of law still exist in America? I mean, we've 23 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: really seen the left try to chip away with it, 24 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: even with that Supreme Court leak we saw. I mean, 25 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: you've got people in the White House, like the White 26 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: House spokesperson Karee Jean Pierre, basically sanctioning these protests that 27 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 1: we've seen in the wake of Brett Kavanaugh literally having 28 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: an assassination attempt on his life. He was run out 29 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:23,919 Speaker 1: of Morton's when he was just trying to have dinner. 30 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 1: When asked about it, she said, this is what democracy is, right, 31 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: so these people want it. It's being sanctioned at the tops. 32 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the breakdown of rule of 33 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: law and America, and also is this the end of 34 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: the road for Joe Biden. You've got even the New 35 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: York Times is now piling on Joe Biden, bringing attention 36 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: to what we all know that the guy is old, 37 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: no longer, mentally sharp, losing it up there in his head. 38 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into all of this with my 39 00:01:47,440 --> 00:02:01,559 Speaker 1: buddy Josh Hammer and enjoy. So I'm excited about Josh 40 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: Hammer because we are good friends. We are part of 41 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: a Florida coalition of people who left their commun states 42 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 1: and cities to move to Free Florida. So, Josh, it's 43 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: good to have you on my friend Lisa. You know. 44 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: Funny enough, I was actually just googling today to see 45 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: how close we live. I think it's about a half mile, 46 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: so we're separated by a half mile. But we are 47 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: both part of the of the freedom movement. So it's 48 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: great to be with, you know, and you're awesome, and 49 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: we've gotten to be really good friends, which has been 50 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: one of the really cool things about moving here is 51 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:34,519 Speaker 1: just being around so many like minded conservatives who recognize 52 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: what a clown world that we're living in today. So 53 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: you know, together we fight and we have we have 54 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: such amazing comrades in arms down here too. I mean, 55 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: it's it's really become quite the scene. I mean, I 56 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: kind of feel like we live in the epicenter of 57 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: the fight that is now, in the fight that is 58 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: to come. So it's it's it's been, it's been great. 59 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: It's also you know, it's I don't know about you. 60 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: Right now, I'm looking out on my window and it 61 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: is so sunny and beautiful. It's just hard to be 62 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: upset these days. Honestly, even despite everything going on in Washington, 63 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: I feel like, looking out this window, well, it's like 64 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: an oasis away from all the craziness. But for those 65 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: at home, Josh is has got a lot of fortitude 66 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: because back in the day, during the height of all 67 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,679 Speaker 1: the COVID craziness, when everyone is essentially saying if you 68 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: didn't get vaccinated, you wanted to kill your grandmother, when 69 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: everyone still believed that the vaccine stopped the spread or 70 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: the jab I think this was like back you know, 71 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: this was last year. I was looking to publish my 72 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: ed about not getting vaccinated, and I sent it to 73 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: the New York Times and sent as to the Washington Post. 74 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,679 Speaker 1: I sent it the Washingtrot Journal. No no, no, and 75 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: the Washington Post told me to stay safe, with obviously 76 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: the implication that somehow I was going to die as 77 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: a result of not being vaccinated to have it, have 78 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: had it twice, still alive. But Josh had the guts 79 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: to publish it, and at the time that was extremely 80 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: brave and just it. Isn't it sort of ironic that 81 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: everything I wrote and everything you published has turned out 82 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: to be true? Yeah? No, Look, I at least I 83 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: remember when you and I kind of got celaboratory drinks 84 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: a few days after that offed was published, and we 85 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: were both basically toasting to the fat and nods of 86 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: us seemed to have been immediately canceled run on that 87 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: mutual decision. But everything that you said has obviously been 88 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: proving correct and then some I still can't get over. 89 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: I mean, the whole world seems to have turned on 90 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: a switch around like mid to late February. So I 91 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: guess now it's like four to four and a half 92 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 1: months ago. It seems like around like the span of 93 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: I don't know, February twenty fourth, whatever it was. It's 94 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: honestly around the time that Rushed It went into Ukraine. 95 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: Was like right around that time the Democratic Party in 96 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: particular decided that no, we were done at this point, 97 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: we were no longer gonna enforce stuff. I mean, it 98 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: was so transparently a play where they were looking at 99 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: the polling numbers this fall. They realized that with inflation 100 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: approaching four decade high, you know, record breaking numbers, that 101 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: people didn't want to be locked down, massed up and 102 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: all that. But the fact that they were able to 103 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: pivot so quickly and turn on a dime like that 104 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: really does prove how prescient the skeptics were all along. 105 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: And you know, obviously Florida's a state really led the way. 106 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 1: So you know, you and I have really seen that 107 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: firsthand as well. Like now they're trying to bring up 108 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: an election variant just in time for November, which I 109 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: assume there's going to be a push towards in mail 110 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: and ballot balloting even further. But yes, since we're on COVID, 111 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 1: COVID really gave rise to this authoritarianism, not just in 112 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: the United States, but really around the world where the big, big, bigger, 113 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: you know, the little guts subjugated by big government, big business, 114 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: big big big you know, mom and pop stores were 115 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: shut down, Walmart was fine, and the next round and 116 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: what we're releasing now is doing this under the guys 117 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: of climate change right where you know, you look at 118 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: what's happened to Sri Lanka. You look, that's happening with 119 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: the Dutch farmers even in our own country of not 120 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: producing you know, oil and gas and not doing domestic 121 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: production here in the United States, really under the guys 122 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 1: of you know, some climate rous Look, I mean, you 123 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: know it's Rob Manuel back when he was chief of 124 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: staff to President brock Obam where he famously said that 125 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 1: the progressive mantra is to never let a good crisis 126 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: go to waste. You know, he said, you never wanted 127 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: good crisis is to go to waste. And if there's 128 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:06,239 Speaker 1: one axiom, if there's one saying one phrase that COVID 129 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 1: really proved to be truer than I think anyone could 130 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: have ever in their right minds imagined it to be, 131 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: it is that phrase. I mean, what we saw for 132 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: a year and a half two years was the ram 133 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: rama manual ization of the world. And you know, I mean, 134 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: never let its progressive or a leftist kind of scratched 135 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 1: that totalitarian It's because you never know what's going to 136 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: happen next to where a subsequent where it will subsequently 137 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: lead obviously historically speaking leftist or authoritarianism, because you know, 138 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: thinking of things like mas Dung Joseph Stalin has led 139 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 1: to some Google eyes in a pretty pretty freaking dark places. 140 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: But the entire climate change alarmism agenda is to a 141 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: t exactly that I mean, to a t, it is 142 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: literally seizing onto an ideologically driven end goal, you know, 143 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: largely to appease the greeny radicals kind of the anti oil, 144 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: anti natural gas nut jobs who just disapportionately populate their 145 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: donor base and their grassroots activist base, and they are 146 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 1: making us try to care about their cartoon insial agenda. 147 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: And you're seeing that in Sri Lanka. Like you said, 148 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: this Dutch story I was reading up on today actually 149 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: really remarkable. Like you know, the farmers a lot of 150 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: credit there, frankly for the civil disobedience and what they're 151 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: actually doing. But climate change in particular, Okay, climate change 152 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: climb more than any issue that I can think of. 153 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: I I think you're right least. I think it really 154 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: does personify this rama. Man. You will never let a 155 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: good crisis go to waste mentality because you know, you know, look, 156 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: I am not an expert on on on on climate change. 157 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: It's not really an issue that I frequently write about. 158 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I'm not a scientist whatever, 159 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: although how I should note that, you know, Katangi Brown 160 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: Jackson says that she's not a biologist, So I mean, 161 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what you what you what credentials need 162 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: to opint on these issues these days. But the fact 163 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: that the world is going to implode in the near 164 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: to medium term future if we don't take drastic economy 165 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: crushing action today is just utterly absurd. And you know, 166 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: good for the people for standing up in the Netherlands 167 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: and down in Sri Lanka. But see, I think it's 168 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: all bus right. So you look droughut related to desks 169 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: or down nine. Over the last hundred years, we've actually 170 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: reduced emissions because of things like natural gas. So I 171 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: think it's it's it's not even just not letting a 172 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: crisis go to waste. It's creating a crisis, uh, to 173 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: be able to subjugate citizens and too, you know, to 174 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: assert that government control and it. But but well they 175 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: ever realized that this doesn't work. You know, when you 176 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: implement communism doesn't work. I mean again, you know, look 177 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: at Sri Lanka. Right, So they basically pushed this climate agenda. 178 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: May see this they've got that back. There was a 179 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: chemical fertilizer ban in one as part of this climate initiative. 180 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: If you inflation is now as of last month at 181 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: fifty four point six percent. Crop production decreased in half 182 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: between one to two and the environment or no, and 183 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: and then now the Prime Minister has basically recently said that, uh, 184 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: the economy has completely collapsed. He was forced out of 185 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: his position. They took over his private resident since set 186 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: it on fire. So I mean, I guess they will. 187 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: They never realize that this communism stuff never seems to work. Well, 188 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: it depends what we mean by doesn't work. I mean 189 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: to the extent that it doesn't work for the nation 190 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: stage for the people, doesn't work to boost GDP, It 191 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: doesn't work to rise wages in in in you know, 192 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: in inflation adjusted terms. It doesn't work to increase standards 193 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 1: of living. That doesn't work to increase anyone's spiritual or 194 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: transcendental purpose in life or anything like that. I'm not 195 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: sure if they know that. I also know that they 196 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: don't care about that, because what left is politics in 197 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: the twenty one century has increasingly boiled down to, from 198 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: my perspective, is a pure spiteful approach to trying to 199 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: subjugate their ideological foes and trying to boost themselves until 200 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: the top of the social mechanomic pyramid. And you know 201 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:54,199 Speaker 1: now that I'm kind of thing just through in real time. 202 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: I mean, I think century politics really encapsulates that most 203 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 1: clearly COVID really was nothing if not an exercise and 204 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 1: trying to subjugate those who dissented from the from the 205 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: group things. Those who who subscribed, like you and I 206 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: too wrong think they wanted to subjugate us and kind 207 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: of boost themselves. And they really kind of just conveniently 208 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: used the back stuff, the you know, the mass mandates. 209 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,599 Speaker 1: That was really all kind of a ruse. It was 210 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: an instrumental means towards that end of boosting themselves and 211 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: trying to subjugate the blue collar folks who couldn't go 212 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: into work while the laptop professional managerial Upper West Side 213 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: New York Times reading class could just kind of stay 214 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: at home. But you know, really back in the day, 215 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: obviously I mentioned Mao and Stall and if you go 216 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: back to the worst examples of leftist authoritarianism, because happen. 217 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: What they did, right is they literally took an approach 218 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: to punishing their enemies in Soviet meaning that meant sending 219 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: them to the good lags. And then obviously, you know, 220 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: for the well connected polar bureau leftist Marxist Lenins in Moscow, 221 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: they were okay. So that's what's happening really with the 222 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: climate change stuff, right, I mean, like the laptop class, 223 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,839 Speaker 1: the upper elites who subscribed to liberal social values to 224 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: conject that off to Davos for the World Economic Forum, 225 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: they're going to be fine. They're hypocrists because they're ends 226 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: and their private plans obviously, but they're going to be 227 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: economically speaking fine to the extempt that the lower and 228 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: middle income to Flora bles down in Missouri or Arkansas 229 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: are not fine. They don't care. They truly, legitimately do 230 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,839 Speaker 1: not care. And it's harsh to say with that, but 231 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 1: I think it happens to be true. No, I think 232 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: that's the point. I mean, we saw during COVID the 233 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: rules for the but not for me, right. I mean 234 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: you saw Obama saying, hey, you need to stay at 235 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: home where your mask shut up, and then he goes 236 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: and throws a massive rader in Martha's vineyard for hundreds 237 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: of people partying without masks, just enjoying their little lives, 238 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: or or people not being able to go and have 239 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: funerals for their loved ones or even go say goodbye 240 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: to a loved one in hospitals. But then you know, 241 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: for George Floyd, massive funeral. You know, all these celebrities right, 242 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,439 Speaker 1: So just the rules for the not for me. That's 243 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,079 Speaker 1: the point to your point. But I wanted to it 244 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: on this other thing. So if you look at the 245 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 1: overturning of Roverse Wade to the Biden administration is now 246 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: saying they're issuing guidance to hospitals, saying that they must 247 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: provide abortions if the mother's life is at risk, saying 248 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:15,199 Speaker 1: that federal law supersedes the states on this issue. Does it? 249 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: So the short answer is no. The I mean, that's 250 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: that's that's the entire point of the Supreme Court rule 251 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:25,599 Speaker 1: and the entire point of the legal problem that was 252 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: roversus Weight. Obviously, the paramount problem throughout versus Wade was 253 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: the moral evil that it promulgated and constitutionalized and kind 254 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: of put into a national landscape. But the legal problem 255 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: was that it arrogated power to an unelected nine lawyer 256 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: body where that power simply never belonged. So, you know, 257 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: all the all the Job's case does it overturns ro 258 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: versus Weight and planned parent in versus Casey, it's it's 259 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: success or. Nineteen years later, all the Jobs case does 260 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:53,959 Speaker 1: is restore it to the people. That's that's literally the 261 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: holding of the case. I mean, you know, and when 262 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 1: I'll hear your first year lass, we learned about like 263 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: what is the whole thing and it's like it's like, 264 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: what are the central proposition that the case stands? But well, 265 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: the whole thing here is that's up to the states. 266 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: So to the extent that the fellow government is saying 267 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,079 Speaker 1: that no, actually it's not up to the states, it's 268 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,319 Speaker 1: up to us, that is wrong. And that is a wilful, 269 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: deliberate distortion of what the court actually said. It is 270 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: a wilful and disingenuous misreading of the dog's majority opinion. 271 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: The slightly longer and more loyally answer would be that 272 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: the the hook that they're probably doing, that the bind 273 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: administration and their Department of HHS, Healthing Hemanserveds in particular 274 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: is probably doing, is they're probably trying to threaten the 275 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: withholding of federal subsidization dollars of Medicare and Medicaid funding 276 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: things like that to various hospitals that do not get 277 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: in line with what they say about X y Z policies. 278 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: So that that could be abortion, you know, it could 279 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: also refer to kind of transgender surgery, right, I mean, 280 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: threatening to withhold federal dollars is a you know, it's 281 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: a fairly old tool. I've actually encouraged public administrations and 282 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 1: in previous columns to kind of do the same thing 283 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: to pursue their objective. There's a nineteen eight seven or 284 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: eight eight of the Spreme Court case called South Dakota 285 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:12,479 Speaker 1: versus Dole or the Court basically signed off on allowing 286 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: this tactic when it came to breathing the National drinking 287 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 1: eight years old. So there was some Supreme Court president. 288 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: But you know, the devil's always the details here. But 289 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: to the extent of the mind that the administration is 290 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 1: just flatly saying like, no, the States can't decide you 291 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: have to do this. That's that's legally stupid, for lack 292 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: of better word, that is simply not what the court said. 293 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: In the doss Quit commercial breakback with Josh Hammer, Brent Kavanaugh, 294 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: there is an actual assassination attempt on his life. We 295 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: also have the White House spokesperson Koreean Jean Pierre, when 296 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: asked about it, said this is what democracy is. So 297 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: to your point, I mean, this mob rule is being 298 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: sanctioned at the I mean, they essentially use these people 299 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: as their street fighters more or less. Yeah, that's exactly right. 300 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: You know what it reminds me of, actually it so 301 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: it's kind of it's kind of an obscure analogy, but 302 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: I think it kind of holds. So HEASBLAW, which is 303 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: an Iran funded site militia that's prominently based in in Lebanon. 304 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: They basically controlled Lebanon right now, but they're they're actually 305 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: a sprawling apparatus on the western hemisphere. HESBLA is actually 306 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: kind of incohots with the Mexican cartels along our southern 307 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: border as well. So HESLA has a strong presence actually 308 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: in Europe. They have a very active network there, and 309 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: you know, the Euros, the Europeans for years and years 310 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: used to tote this ridiculous line where they would say that, well, 311 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: in our country, we're banning Hezbollah's military wing, but their 312 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: political wing is is kosher. It's fine. It was actually 313 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: Rick Rannell, who under President Trump was the US ambassador Germany. 314 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: He finally got Germany and bi extension in Europe to 315 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: get rid of this lie. Anyway, that's a roundabout way 316 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: of saying that is basically to me, what's happening here 317 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party that their street thugs, they're Antifa, 318 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter. Thus, the people that kind of tout 319 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: to the streets, you know, after the death of the 320 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: great martyr St. George Floyd back in Twin Twining, then 321 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: they burned down streets across the country for months on 322 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: and committed literally billions of dollars insurance claims and property 323 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: damage in vandalism. And those are the shock troops. Those 324 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: are the on the ground military wing of the Democratic Party. 325 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: But they are part of that Democratic Party and they 326 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: will not be called off anytime soon. Chassim Bludajag just 327 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: literally he's showing that to be the case in real time. 328 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: It's really scary stuff, honestly. Well, I remember during the 329 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: Derek Chauvin trial, you had Maxie Waters out there basically 330 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: encouraging people to get you know, go to the streets, 331 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: you know, essentially trying to put pressure on the jury 332 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: to get the outcome that they wanted. So but that 333 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: sort of leads me to this broader question of does 334 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: the rule of law exists still exist in America? Yeah? Man, 335 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: that's kind the million dog question, now, isn't it. Look, 336 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: I mean, after things like what happened to Peter Navarro 337 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: right where where Peter Navarre, a former very high ranking 338 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: trunk of Trump official's handcuffed. He has beaten too the 339 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: floor of his of you know, James O'Keefe, obviously they 340 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 1: had a project of ritas last October and November had 341 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: a six am FBI ray these a battering ram to 342 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: bash his door down. He's in handcuffs on the floor 343 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: of his own house for the crime of committing journalism. Literally, 344 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: just for the crime of committing journalism. Nothing, nothing more, 345 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: nothing less than that. You know, when folks like my 346 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: friend John Eastman, who you know, it was a who 347 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: of course is a brilliant constitutional scholar and has been 348 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: for years. And you know he of course was a 349 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: Trump lawyer in that sumultuous aftermath of the election when 350 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: he is you know, his phone is sezed and the 351 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: warrants for that possible seizure. If I remember what John 352 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: said correctly on Tucker, you know, the warrants was not 353 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: a warrant. I mean in criminal procedure in American law, 354 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: they need to give you a reason why they're going 355 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: to search your your effects, your property, your personal body, 356 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 1: and so forth. He said, they didn't even put it 357 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: bother to put a reason down there. That's actually the 358 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: very definition of so called general warrants that the British 359 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,679 Speaker 1: used to do to the American colonists back from the 360 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: seventeen sixties and the seventeen seventies. That was the reason 361 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 1: the Fourth Amendment was put into place, actually was literally 362 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: to make sure that these general warrants didn't happen. So 363 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: does the rule of law exists right now to an extent, yes, 364 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: but it is badly battered. It is badly battered. It 365 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: is badly bruised. One side certainly believes in it a 366 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: hell of a lot more than the other side believes 367 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: in it. And I can just be very realist and 368 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: sober about you know what our friend Dave re Avoid 369 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: would say about knowing what time it is here. I 370 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: I do think the time is such and the hour 371 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: and the republic is sufficiently late that I'm not calling 372 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: on our own side to become a Lynsky. It's my 373 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: my stance is not that the ends justified the means 374 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: period end of story. That's moral nihilism, and that's not 375 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,679 Speaker 1: my stance. But what I have been saying for the 376 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: past couple of years, Lisa, is that our side happy 377 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: willing to get its hands dirty and happy willing to 378 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: to prudentially apply a wider array of means. There are 379 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: more means that are that should be viewed as legitimate, 380 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: not all means, but more means to be viewed as 381 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 1: legitimate to secure our own net, because that's just what 382 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 1: it takes at this point. I mean, I think back 383 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: to this recent Abigail shry Or subset post was a 384 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: very good one. Abigail basically wrote, quote in defense of 385 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: political escalation. So you know, even if your end goal 386 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 1: is a true kind of classical liberalism, live and let 387 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: live style America, it returned to federalism, not necessarily such 388 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 1: a bad ends goal, but the point that the pendulum 389 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: has now swung so far in the other direction that 390 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: something more than an appeal to simple neutrality is now 391 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: called for simply to put the pendulum back somewhere in 392 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,880 Speaker 1: the middle. And you know, I think that at least 393 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: for me, that's kind of definition of knowing what time 394 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: it is right now and what are those means one is? Uh, 395 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: you know, at a political level, Look, I I think 396 00:19:57,960 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: our governor is a great example. I mean, I think 397 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: government is Antis has probably the top preeminent current elected 398 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: official that I can think of who I think grasps 399 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: these stakes currently happening. So when he punished the Walt 400 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: Disney Company for speaking out on behalf of sexualizing young 401 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: inness and children, of grooming them, of opposing his very 402 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: common sensical education bill, what what what he was doing 403 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: was taking an act to punish a political enemy within 404 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 1: the confines of the rule of law by removing from 405 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 1: them an extra legal tax bonus. And it's gonna take 406 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 1: some sort of actual tit for tat like that of 407 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: actually kind of boosting our own side using the tax 408 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 1: code to kind of reward Christian groups, Orthodox Jewish groups, 409 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,719 Speaker 1: to to reward our political friends, and to actually punish 410 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: our political enemies. Now again to the extent of that 411 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: is mimicking the left. I basically failed to see another 412 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: way out of it. Again, this is where the virtue 413 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: of prudence comes in. We're not gonna suit to their level. 414 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 1: We have we have to do this prudentially and tactfully, 415 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 1: but we have to get our hands a little dirty, honestly. 416 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 1: And I really do think that that government Descantis actually 417 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 1: appreciates that well. And I think this is, you know, 418 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: obviously all the intention of the left to to break 419 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: down the rule of law. We live in a borderless 420 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,120 Speaker 1: country as well, getting rid of the southern border as well, 421 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: eliminating that and really eliminating any boundaries, eliminating the truth right, 422 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: little boys can be girls, girls can be right. It's 423 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: it's just this destruction of any sort of boundaries in life, 424 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: any sort of black and light, any sort of black 425 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: and white in life, because if you live in the 426 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: gray area, makes room for chaos, makes room for them 427 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 1: to try to insert control and make right. They're trying 428 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: to sort of a road like what's wrong and right 429 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: in just the basic terms and in all aspects of life. Totally. Look, 430 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: I had I had a very smart friend text me 431 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: this afternoon. Actually, so there was a remarkable exchange between 432 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 1: Senator Josh Holly and Missouri and this far left law 433 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: professor at cal Berkeley where she was. She was basically 434 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: calling central Hally transpopic because he said that men cannot 435 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: get pregnant. And you know what, my what my friend 436 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,360 Speaker 1: texted me was a few things, but the relevant quote, 437 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: as he said, quote, how do we go forward in 438 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: the country where a large percentage of the population believes 439 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: that men can get pregnant. I don't know that I 440 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: haven't an answer to that least, I'm sorry to disappoint 441 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: the listeners. I'm really not sure that I haven't gonna 442 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 1: answer that because we're not here disagreeing about capital gains, 443 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: tax rates. Were not disagreeing, you know, about whether marijuana 444 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: should be legalized or something or anything like that. We're 445 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: disagreeing here about the literal building block of civilization. Going 446 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: back to the Book of Genesis. You know, in God's 447 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: image he created man and woman with Genesis seven. This 448 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: is literally the civilizational building block of all building blocks, 449 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: and you know, and in kind of scary way, it 450 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: does make me recall, you know, my high school and 451 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: college readings about kind of the lead up to the 452 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: Civil War. I'm not I'm not predicting that we're heading 453 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: towards that dark food, and in fact, I pray that 454 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:09,479 Speaker 1: we are not. But back then, they similarly disagreed on 455 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,439 Speaker 1: a civilizational building block issue, which was is the black 456 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: man and black women? Obviously, are these human beings? Are 457 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:20,159 Speaker 1: these God's creatures worthy of protection and dignity under the 458 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: rule of law. That's very similar honestly to the disagreement 459 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: that I've watched between Sentor Holly and this crazy, crazy 460 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: cal Berkeley law professor. So it is scary, and I 461 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: I don't know that I have a pan of sea. 462 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: I don't I don't have a one size it's all 463 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,159 Speaker 1: solution here. But one thing that I do know is 464 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: that I'm really really happy to be engaged in this 465 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: fight from the state of Florida, which obviously is looking 466 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: better than it's ever been, where we have a truly dynamic, 467 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: dynamic governor who I think really gets it. Well. You 468 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: know that that's such a good point about just the 469 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: building blocks. I mean, I I pray, I I still 470 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: think we have a window of opportunity in the country 471 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: with this upcoming midterm elections well as presidential elections, and 472 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: not even just on the federal level, but even with 473 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: the states, with your local legislatures, even your d a s. 474 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,439 Speaker 1: I mean, we saw what an important position that is 475 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 1: with just George Sorow's getting these really liberal and progressive 476 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: prosecutors in place who who aren't prosecuting, and then we've 477 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,400 Speaker 1: seen what that's led to with crimes. So even those 478 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: positions are really or even during the elections. We saw 479 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: the importance of uh, you know, your secretary is a state, 480 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: and you know the importance of some of these last 481 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: minute changes of the rules, and you know with the 482 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 1: elections in terms of mail about so all of these 483 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 1: positions matter. All of it matters. And I still think 484 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: we have a window of opportunity. But I don't think 485 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,439 Speaker 1: we're that far away personally from a Democrat president saying 486 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 1: you know, the heck with it. I'm not stepping down 487 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: and trying to stick around for a third term. Like 488 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: I don't. Like, I think the window of opportunity is 489 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 1: still here to to write the ship. But I think 490 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: that's ahead of us if we don't. To be honest, yeah, 491 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that's crazy at all. I 492 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: mean what's funny is if you go back to the 493 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:07,239 Speaker 1: presidential election. You know, I don't have polling right in 494 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 1: front of me right now as well as we're recording this, 495 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: but a very very high percentage of Democrats in said 496 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: that said that the presidential election was illegitimate. I mean, 497 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: you know, it was stolen by Russian propaganda, Russian disinformation. 498 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: I mean, you know this, Lisa, But I again, I 499 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: don't have the exact percentage, but it was very high. 500 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 1: I think it was like or something like that. And 501 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: that's what just that's just what makes the media's intense 502 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 1: focus on the election, which literally did happen amidst a 503 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: once a century maybe once every two centuries level, you know, 504 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: crazy pandemic lockdowns, where of these new voting rules and 505 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 1: mail on ballot that drop boxes, where all that was 506 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: put into place. Even still, after all of that, I 507 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: think the percentage of Republicans who questioned the fairness of 508 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: the election was probably pretty similar to the percentage of 509 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: Democrats who question the twenty team election, when there was 510 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: zero basis, literally zero basis for actually doubting the the 511 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 1: actual legitimacy of that particular outcome and the election of 512 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: President Donald Trump. So I I agree with you. I mean, 513 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: I definitely do not think that we are particularly far 514 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: away from that. I think a little bit actually about 515 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: the nation of Hungary, which is a small country in 516 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: Central Europe. I was actually there in February, and you know, 517 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: Prime Minister Orban is a very conservative guy. He just 518 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: won his fourth election in April. I think it's his fourth, 519 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: third or four things is fourth, But regardless the Western press, 520 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: the New York Times scene that they really despised Victor 521 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: Orbon And the phrase that you always hear kind of 522 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: trotted out whenever they talked about the nation of Hungary 523 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: is that there's quote unquote democratic backsliding going on in there, 524 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: as lower case D democratic democratic backsliding. And you know, 525 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: tell me how democratic backsliding when the people of a 526 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: country vote for a certain campidus right, But tell me 527 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: how was democratic backsliding here in the US when the 528 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: Dobbs case, which over rules ro versus way to actually 529 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,399 Speaker 1: just democratize is the issue of abortion. It literally puts 530 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: it back into the state legislatures, back to we the 531 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: people where below where you know where? Sure, then all along, 532 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 1: but all these things together makes sense these when you 533 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: realize that when the left says our democracy or democratic backsline, 534 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: they don't give a you know what about actual democracy Again, 535 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 1: all they care about right now is subjugating us, of 536 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: boosting their own people and subjugating us. So therefore, when 537 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: they win, it's a victory for democracy. When they lose, 538 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 1: it's a loss for democracy. It's a it's a total charade, obviously, 539 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,880 Speaker 1: But you know, the silver lining is as we look 540 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,680 Speaker 1: to midterm polling this fall, and I think the American 541 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: people are increasingly starting to kind of see through their 542 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 1: various laws, I hope so. And we see that with 543 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: Ukraine as well. Right, We've got all these issues back 544 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: here at home. Inflation is severely hurting people, gas prices 545 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 1: are severely hurting people, all you know, designed by this 546 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 1: White House. But you've got all these issues, yet the focus, 547 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 1: there's this intense focus on Ukraine and sending money to 548 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 1: them without any sort of accounting or transparency about how 549 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: it's being spent totally. I mean, the final tally for 550 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: this recent oh gosh, it was like a four year, 551 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 1: fifty billion dollar one time aid boondogglin and truly a boondoggle. 552 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,160 Speaker 1: I mean the kind of classic bill of the Congress 553 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: passed like a marathon overnight session where no one had 554 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: time to read it. Um. Yeah, I think the final 555 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: tally for the number of Republican Senators who voted against 556 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: it was like twelve or four or thirteen. And this 557 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: is the problem at its core, right, um, is there 558 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: are so many Republicans even still who aren't necessarily at 559 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: their core conservatives, skeptical of absorption by the neoliberal empire, 560 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: but who themselves are kind of members of effectively the 561 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: uniparty regime. Who are who are members of this of 562 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: this club is Capitol Hill Club really not necessarily limited 563 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: to Capitol Hill, I mean Capitol Hill, Wall Street, Silicon 564 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: Valley Club. It really just kind of an upper crust, 565 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: elite professional managerial class club that views things like Ukraine 566 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: as a proxy to secure various other interests. So Ukraine 567 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: in particular is very interesting, and they had a revolution 568 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: in fourteen. It's unclear, frankly, how involved Western powers, including 569 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: our own CIA and FBI, were involved in flementing that 570 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: revolution that was called the Maidan Revolution. But the aftermath, 571 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: regardless of who was involved in it was, in the 572 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 1: after cathis of revolution, a ton of Western money, a 573 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: ton of Western NGOs, non governmental organizations and sorrows money 574 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: and things like that fludded into Ukraine. So you know, 575 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,719 Speaker 1: something that I've been pointing out some of our other 576 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: friends of pointing out ever since this complict got started 577 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: is be aware of ulterior motives. All we always always 578 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: be aware of ulterior motives for unnecessarily prolonging or even 579 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: instigating a inflict, And unfortunately that's what we've seen a 580 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: lot in Ukraine. But the silver lying again is those 581 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: Republican sendors who did descent to that vote, whatever number 582 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: was twelve or thirteen, ought to be applauded. And I 583 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: think that we should try to boost them to the 584 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: stend that we can quick break more with Josh. I 585 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: wanted to run my idea BYO. So basically, I'm on 586 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 1: a flight a couple of days ago. Just popped into 587 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: my head. I tweeted it out. This happens frequently, probably 588 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: gets intro but you know, so I'm thinking, and I 589 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: was thinking about the fact that we really need So 590 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 1: we've got twenty three states red states, Republican states with 591 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 1: trifecta's meaning they control the state House, they control the 592 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: state Senate, they control the governorship. And I truly believe 593 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: that these conservative states need to form a coalition much 594 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: like what we see in Congress in the House with 595 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: the Freedom Caucus. What say you, I love it, Lisa, 596 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: I mean I was, I retweeted the crap out of 597 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: that tweet. Call um, I mean I would like to 598 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: see our governor be the chairman of of that kind 599 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: of caucus of caucus of governors who know what time 600 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: it is. You might, you might say, but there's plenty 601 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: of other governors out there too. I mean, you know, 602 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: you and I, as Politico has recently noted, we're at 603 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: this recent contact that Governor Santis convenient for a Larida 604 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: where we met some other governors. I think, you know, 605 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: Governor Kevin state of Oklahoma, Kim Reynolds of Iowa. Both 606 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: of them were there. They both seem to truly get it. So, 607 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: you know, I, I think that has to be the 608 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: path forward. I think part of knowing what time it 609 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 1: is and part of using kind of a wider array 610 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: of tactics at the state level means that we need 611 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: to start kind of trading ideas, probably even kind of 612 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: trading personnel. Honestly, I mean we you know, we probably 613 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: should get some donors on our side to start funding 614 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 1: some more flights for people in various state capitals to 615 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: kind of just start exchanging ideas. And again, I, you 616 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: and I are both praying that this does not ultimately 617 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: end in conflict, and I and I still I still 618 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,959 Speaker 1: remain cautiously hopeful that it won't. To be clear, despite 619 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: it all, all but I was saying about the civilizational 620 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: building box. But in order to really just forestall that again, 621 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: the what has to happen now, what has to happen 622 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: now at a granular level and in Washington and just 623 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: across the country, is to realigned the pendulum. Is to 624 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: use more tactics to get that pendulum which has swung 625 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: so far to the left because of the left now 626 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: century long march through all the institutions. We need to 627 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 1: reel on the pendulum and getting aligned straight down the middle, 628 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: or at least much closer to that. And that's gonna 629 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: mean harder governors resisting imperious, heavy handed democratic Washington presidential 630 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: rule from Biden or whoever will replace Biden, right or 631 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: if God forregated there is another democratic president and obviously 632 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: I created there is not. But it really shouldn't mean 633 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: that more governors are gonna have to band together. And 634 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 1: obviously our governor in Tallahassee is really a uniquely positioned 635 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: of course, to read that coalition. But that's also how 636 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 1: it's supposed to right, like America was never supposed to 637 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 1: be this vision of this massive centralized government. I mean, 638 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: this is not how it's supposed to be. We are 639 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: so far from what America was supposed to be. So 640 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: it's really just getting back to the basics by you know, 641 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: putting states in charge. So I mean, you know, I 642 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: think it's just a realignment of the actual vision for 643 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 1: America as intended. But I wanted to play this clip 644 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 1: real quick of Joe Biden. It is noteworthy that the 645 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: percentage of women who registered to vote and cast a 646 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men 647 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: who do so. End of quote. So obviously we his 648 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: Ron Burgundy moment. You know, everyone remember as an anchorman 649 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,960 Speaker 1: where he was literally I'm Ron Burgundy reading exactly what's 650 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: on the transcript. And then they said in the in 651 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 1: the I'm free. I shouldn't know this because I work 652 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: in television, but uh, but they're like, you know that 653 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,479 Speaker 1: Burgundy is going to read whatever is on this screen. 654 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: I mean, that's Joe Biden. But we you've got like 655 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,720 Speaker 1: even the New York Times is now starting to pile 656 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 1: on Joe Biden. Peter Breaker, I'm sure you wrote read 657 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: it over the weekend, talking about the reality is that 658 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,719 Speaker 1: managing the schedule the oldest president American history presents distinct challenges, 659 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,880 Speaker 1: going on to say that he often shuffles when he walks, 660 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 1: and aids worry he will trip on a wire. He 661 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,959 Speaker 1: stubbles over word words during public events, and they hold 662 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 1: his breath to see if he will make it to 663 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,840 Speaker 1: the end without a gap. Obviously, we saw this coming. 664 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 1: The media intentionally hit him in the basement during the election. 665 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,360 Speaker 1: His campaign intentionally hit him in the basement. But you know, 666 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,839 Speaker 1: to borrow a word from a phrase from the left, 667 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 1: are the walls finally closing in for Biden? When the 668 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: New York Times, which is really the organ of the 669 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 1: Democratic Party establishment, the unofficial organ when they are running 670 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 1: a major, major story that effectively says that Joe Biden 671 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: has no idea what's going on his own administration, that is, 672 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: his own aids are waiting to see if he can 673 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: finish a given sentence without making a gaff that people 674 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,799 Speaker 1: are kind of stepping on. You know, they're watching his 675 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: steps to make sure he doesn't trip over the White 676 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: House or whatever. It's really really bad. I mean, it 677 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: is really really bad out there. I mean I can't 678 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,239 Speaker 1: really say it a whole lot better than the way 679 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,359 Speaker 1: that you said on Fox recently, where you said that 680 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 1: Joe Biden sucks. Joe Biden sucks. I mean, he is 681 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 1: just really, really, really bad at this and that's why 682 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 1: he has the lowest approval ratings at this juncture of 683 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: a presidency in the history of presidential opinion polling. If 684 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, I mean he's he's literally rocking like 685 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: a thirty three or thirty five percent approval rating. And 686 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: a bunch of these polls. Now, So when the when 687 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: the New York Times coming out against in the New 688 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,920 Speaker 1: York Times al threate a separate article where they started 689 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: this one poll. This is really incredible. Apparently ninety four 690 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 1: percent of Democrats under the age of thirty do not 691 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: want Joe Biden to run for presidents again in two 692 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,319 Speaker 1: thousand and twenty four. That is incredible stuff, honestly, I mean, 693 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: I have to imagine that is beyond unprecedented for the 694 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,399 Speaker 1: for the young members of one political party to so 695 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,960 Speaker 1: vehemently oppose their own party's president who is sitting in 696 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 1: the White House in office there. So we've seen a 697 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 1: bunch of other outlets run similar pieces. NBC News, Politico, 698 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 1: a bunch of these other outlets now have run just 699 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 1: a really large sample size at this point of pieces 700 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,920 Speaker 1: that show just a very chaotic White House, a very 701 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,759 Speaker 1: chaotic Vice President's staff. I mean Vice President Harris's not 702 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 1: be the only person DC as popular than President Biden, right, 703 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 1: I mean, her staff is the turnal grape there is 704 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: just incredible. And if apparently she can't keep anyone on 705 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,359 Speaker 1: on page roll for more than two or three months 706 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: at a time before they just get too tired of 707 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,359 Speaker 1: her and they have and have to bail. So I 708 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 1: do read this as the liberal establishment bulling on Joe Biden. 709 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,440 Speaker 1: And you know, if I had to make a prediction, 710 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,240 Speaker 1: I I do predictally he will not be nominee because 711 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,640 Speaker 1: they're really just seeing just everything kind of ganging off 712 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 1: that all this tension is about to explode. That tension 713 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,759 Speaker 1: will be even more obvious by the way once they 714 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,520 Speaker 1: get blown out in this November made term elections. Even 715 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,040 Speaker 1: Kamala Harrison, she was on TV recently, right, they asked her, 716 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,400 Speaker 1: was like, are you going to run for or you know, 717 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,680 Speaker 1: they said, is Biden running for re election? And she 718 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, he's he's intending to run free election 719 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 1: and if he does, I intend to be advice for. 720 00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,799 Speaker 1: I mean, that's loyally lang, which if I've ever heard it. 721 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,440 Speaker 1: So I think the cat is pretty much out of 722 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,480 Speaker 1: the bag at this point. I do not think that 723 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,640 Speaker 1: he's going to run free election personally. Well, and you've 724 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,839 Speaker 1: got Joe Biden comparing latinos to tacos and like it's 725 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,319 Speaker 1: like it's so at all. It's like just it's like VP, right, 726 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,799 Speaker 1: it's just all but to Josh's point, so funny. So after, uh, 727 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,279 Speaker 1: you know, I was on shown Hannity not too long ago, 728 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,400 Speaker 1: and Jason shape it to the end. We had some 729 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 1: seconds to burn, so he just asked me, you know, 730 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:52,879 Speaker 1: what would you say to Joe Biden if you got 731 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 1: a chance to talk to him? And I said I 732 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,680 Speaker 1: would tell him he sucks, he should resign and he's 733 00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,279 Speaker 1: intentionally ruined New Country. And then my mom texted me 734 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,920 Speaker 1: afterwards and she was like, oh my gosh, Lisa, you 735 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,239 Speaker 1: don't have to always say exactly what's on your mind. 736 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,000 Speaker 1: But you know, we'll just we'll just continue to do 737 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,279 Speaker 1: it and see where it goes. But anything else, you 738 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,200 Speaker 1: leave us with some hope before we go, my friend, 739 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 1: So there is hope. I mean, there's always hope, of course. 740 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,000 Speaker 1: So one thing that I'm I'm being particularly hopeful I recently, 741 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,440 Speaker 1: there's there's there's some new data. I mean, you know, 742 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,359 Speaker 1: the census, and we now have basically all the data 743 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,240 Speaker 1: from that. A few things kind of give me hope. 744 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,319 Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal recently did a big article on this. 745 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,000 Speaker 1: It showed that red states are recovering from the pandemic 746 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,359 Speaker 1: much more rapidly and much more fully than Blue states are. 747 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,320 Speaker 1: So since February, since around the time the pandemic started, 748 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,960 Speaker 1: Red states have gained you know, three or four hundred 749 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,840 Speaker 1: thousand jobs something like that. Blue states have net lost 750 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,320 Speaker 1: over a million. And similarly another Wall Street Journal article 751 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 1: but I read recently. It was kind of a long 752 00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,040 Speaker 1: article about the city of Miami, where you and I 753 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,680 Speaker 1: both lived, and they had these sharks that showed the 754 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,880 Speaker 1: states that have gained and lost the most taxable income 755 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,840 Speaker 1: over the past three years. I think since all five 756 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,680 Speaker 1: of the states that gains the most taxable income, so 757 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,759 Speaker 1: translation that where you know that you know, all the 758 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,560 Speaker 1: people moved to basically who have the money. They were 759 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,080 Speaker 1: all red states or at least kind of purple states. 760 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,719 Speaker 1: So the five who was Florida was by far number one. 761 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,040 Speaker 1: I think Texas are number two, and then the other 762 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,360 Speaker 1: three were Arizona and both Carolinas north and south. And 763 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,080 Speaker 1: the five states that lost the most taxable income of 764 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:41,600 Speaker 1: the past three years surprise, surprise, they're all blue states California, Illinois, 765 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey, and the last one out of 766 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,640 Speaker 1: like Connecticut or Maryland. I mean, this is just it's 767 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,399 Speaker 1: so predictable the way that this is sorting out right now, 768 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,640 Speaker 1: and again my my cause for hopes where it's my 769 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,560 Speaker 1: cause or hope for the midst from elections this fall, 770 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:59,640 Speaker 1: that the American people are just sick of the less nonsense. 771 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:03,319 Speaker 1: They're sick of the lockdown, the authoritarian Rahm Emanuel Itch. 772 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,000 Speaker 1: They're sick of over taxation, they're sick of inflation. They're 773 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,759 Speaker 1: obviously sick of the nonsense life. This Cali Berkeley law 774 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,319 Speaker 1: professor telling Center Holly that he's transphobic because he doesn't 775 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,799 Speaker 1: believe that men can get pregnant. They're just sick of 776 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,440 Speaker 1: the b s. I don't know if you actually say 777 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,360 Speaker 1: the world bs on air, but they're just sick of 778 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,520 Speaker 1: the total Yeah, I don't feel like if it makes 779 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,920 Speaker 1: you feel better, they're just sick of the bullshit me. 780 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,040 Speaker 1: So they are truly just sick of the bullshit, and 781 00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:33,280 Speaker 1: I they're now seeing that in like the actual migrat, 782 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:37,240 Speaker 1: migratory patterns, the migration ways, the tax income moving across 783 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,480 Speaker 1: state borders. So that gives me real hope. Actually, that 784 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,520 Speaker 1: gives me real cause proptimism, and especially being here in Florida. 785 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,239 Speaker 1: Like we said at the beginning of the conversation, to 786 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,560 Speaker 1: bring it all full circle, it's really hard to not 787 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,680 Speaker 1: just look at your window at this at the sunshine, 788 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000 Speaker 1: the no state income tax, Governor de Santis. I mean, 789 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,440 Speaker 1: I wake up and go to sleep every day and 790 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,120 Speaker 1: every night here just being happy. So there's always cause 791 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 1: for hope, that's for sure. They're always is Josh Hammer, 792 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,720 Speaker 1: all around good guy, my friend, also the Newsweek opinion 793 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,920 Speaker 1: editor but not a lefty and host of the Josh 794 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,040 Speaker 1: Hammer Show. Check him out, Josh, I appreciate your time 795 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 1: and I'll see you soon. I'll see Lisa. Take care. 796 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,520 Speaker 1: That was fun. Josh is a really good friend of mine. 797 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,879 Speaker 1: I think he's a brilliant guy, so it's just really 798 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,239 Speaker 1: interesting to have him on the show. Get his perspective. 799 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,640 Speaker 1: I appreciate his time, and I appreciate you guys at 800 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,440 Speaker 1: home for listening. Every Monday and Thursday The Truth with 801 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,640 Speaker 1: Lisa Booth. 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