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Speaker 1: at buck Sexton dot com. Biden's national disaster at the
Speaker 1: border keeps getting worse. We're seeing this play out now
Speaker 1: across the country. We're seeing what this actually means in
Speaker 1: the media, how this is all going. They don't want
Speaker 1: you to know what's happening. They're trying to hide it
Speaker 1: from you. We'll get into that, but now we should
Speaker 1: all remember that this was exactly what we said would happen.
Speaker 1: This was anticipated, that people were expecting this. This is not,
Speaker 1: in any meaningful way a surprise effect. It's just maybe
Speaker 1: the numbers are bigger than we anticipated. The way that
Speaker 1: this is happening so quickly in the Biden administration has
Speaker 1: gone even beyond what they expected. But I don't think
Speaker 1: they have a problem with a de facto opening in
Speaker 1: our border. They don't want to call it an open
Speaker 1: border where there's a giant opening. Show up as a
Speaker 1: family unit and you get to stay. It's all you
Speaker 1: have to do. Show up as a family unit, you're
Speaker 1: going to get to stay. So they can talk about
Speaker 1: single adult males as much as they want. But what's
Speaker 1: happening is a flood of unaccompanied miners and family units,
Speaker 1: and they both get to stay those two categories of
Speaker 1: those who cross illegally at the border. And they don't
Speaker 1: want you to see this. They don't want you to
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Speaker 1: To protect your data today, tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: of taxpayer money now going to hotels to house illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants who have come across the border and now cannot
Speaker 1: even be held in the overcrowded facilities at our southern border,
Speaker 1: so you are paying for it. That's what's going on
Speaker 1: right now. That's actually that the situation as it unfolds
Speaker 1: before us right now. The Biden administration can say as
Speaker 1: much as they want about this, but we know that
Speaker 1: eighty six million dollars has been contracted for hotel rooms
Speaker 1: for twelve hundred migrant families because they just simply have
Speaker 1: no space for them in these facilities. You got fourteen
Speaker 1: million dollars a day now going to the cartels. That's
Speaker 1: that's real money, even for the Mexican drug cartels. Fourteen
Speaker 1: million dollars a day. And why is this happening. They're
Speaker 1: trying to hide from the truth. They're trying to blame
Speaker 1: this on other people. They're trying to tell you things
Speaker 1: that you can see obviously are not true. So instead
Speaker 1: of just listening to me, instead of basing it on
Speaker 1: my analysis or assessment from up here in New York City,
Speaker 1: and I know you're listening all across the country, we
Speaker 1: could just go right to the source, couldn't we. Why
Speaker 1: not ask some of the migrants who are coming across
Speaker 1: the border why they're coming, what changed in their perception,
Speaker 1: why the numbers are exploding. You know, Democrats can't figure
Speaker 1: if it's better to pretend the numbers aren't that bad,
Speaker 1: or they are so bad but it's Trump's fault, or
Speaker 1: they change the excuse every day. Here's ABC News as
Speaker 1: Martha rabbits asking an illegal immigrant across the border, why
Speaker 1: did you do this? Play one. We were there when
Speaker 1: a bus of fifty six asylum seekers arrived at Cassa Elitis,
Speaker 1: a Catholic charity shelter in Tucson, Men, pregnant women and
Speaker 1: children stepping off the bus with only what they could carry.
Speaker 1: This father, who asked did we not show his face,
Speaker 1: traveled to Mexico from Brazil with his wife and three
Speaker 1: young kids before crossing the border. What do you have
Speaker 1: tried to do this when Donald Trump was president? Definitely?
Speaker 1: Definitely we had a chance. You know, the same violence
Speaker 1: there's going on today was there or less here? We
Speaker 1: used to watch the news and I definitely won't won't
Speaker 1: do this. So did you come here because Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was elected president? Basically? Basically the main thing was the
Speaker 1: violence in my country. And the second thing I think
Speaker 1: was Joe Biden. There's violence in this country and there's
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. So why do you want to leave violence?
Speaker 1: Why are you coming? Joe Biden? Would you have come
Speaker 1: under Trump? Definitely not. Don't think I would have made it,
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been able to come in. Now I know
Speaker 1: you can say this is only one voice. But okay,
Speaker 1: we've got people showing up at the border wearing Biden
Speaker 1: let us in T shirts. We have individuals who are
Speaker 1: interviewing with the press, who are giving interviews to the press,
Speaker 1: and they're saying that it is because of Biden, And yeah,
Speaker 1: do you what do you think the primary the primary
Speaker 1: tool of distraction or putting the blame on somebody else? Right? Well,
Speaker 1: who do you think they go to right away? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, it's the Trump administration. Play seventeen. We will
Speaker 1: not abandon our values and our principles. We will not
Speaker 1: abandon the needs of vulnerable children. That is what this
Speaker 1: is all about. We are executing on our plan. It
Speaker 1: does take time. It is difficult. Our plan includes the
Speaker 1: deployment of the Federal Emergency Management Administration FEMA to assist
Speaker 1: HHS in building its capacity more rapidly to shelter the children.
Speaker 1: But it is taking time and it is difficult because
Speaker 1: the entire system was dismantled by the prior administration. There
Speaker 1: was a system in place in both Republican and Democratic
Speaker 1: administrations that was torn down during the Trump administration. And
Speaker 1: that is why the challenge is more acute than it
Speaker 1: ever has been before. He's saying more here than he
Speaker 1: intends to. Notice. We had a crisis onner the Trump
Speaker 1: administration because of the system, as he puts it, it
Speaker 1: was being exploited. So the Trump administration fixes it, and
Speaker 1: now you have DHS Secretary majorcas here bemoaning the fact
Speaker 1: that it was fixed. Essentially, he says, oh, they tore
Speaker 1: down the system. We have to start from scratch, right,
Speaker 1: because the Democrats system is take as many unaccompanied miners
Speaker 1: at the border, and you know, they keep saying what
Speaker 1: about four year olds? A huge majority of the people
Speaker 1: showing up the border are fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, So they
Speaker 1: got to stop saying what about three year olds? Okay,
Speaker 1: we're not heartless, No one's no one saying that three
Speaker 1: year old should be left to freeze or to starve.
Speaker 1: But they have taken what's going on here and misrepresented
Speaker 1: it to the American people from the very beginning. If
Speaker 1: you show up as an unccompanied miner or a family unit,
Speaker 1: you're overwhelmingly likely, I mean it's you know, eighty ninety
Speaker 1: percent likely you're going to be released in the American interior.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be able to stay unless they figure out
Speaker 1: that you're actually recycling that's the term they use children
Speaker 1: posing as parents, part of a cartel or something like that,
Speaker 1: or have a violent criminal history, they're going to let
Speaker 1: you in the United States. So what they're doing now
Speaker 1: is they're saying, well, it's not an open border because
Speaker 1: adult migrant males are If they show up solo, they'll
Speaker 1: be turned away. Right, what is the surge comprised of
Speaker 1: family units and unaccompanied miners. Why is that happening? Because
Speaker 1: they're responding directly to the incentives of the system, and
Speaker 1: the Democrats do not want to change those incentives. They
Speaker 1: fundamentally do not believe that it's a problem that people
Speaker 1: are skipping the immigration line and coming into the country
Speaker 1: by abusing the asylum process. They could apply for refugee
Speaker 1: st us in their home countries, they are choosing not
Speaker 1: to do so. Why is that Because they don't want
Speaker 1: to wait, they don't want to have their claims adjudicated,
Speaker 1: because a vast majority of the claims of asylum are
Speaker 1: not accepted. So the whole point, we can all see
Speaker 1: what's going on. The whole point is just find a
Speaker 1: way to get into America and then just disappear in
Speaker 1: the American interior, wait for amnesty. That's the whole game,
Speaker 1: all right. For the overwhelming majority of people who are
Speaker 1: crossing illegally in the United States, it is illegal to cross,
Speaker 1: not at a port of entry. They can keep pretending
Speaker 1: like there's no illegality here. They're wrong, And the overwhelming
Speaker 1: majority of those people do not get final asylum because
Speaker 1: they are not really asylum seekers. They want to come
Speaker 1: to America, which I understand, But we have an immigration
Speaker 1: system for a reason. If Democrats want to allow this
Speaker 1: to continue, they should be honest with the American people
Speaker 1: and say, we believe if you show up as a
Speaker 1: family member, you have a story about why you should
Speaker 1: stay in the US because of violence or whatever, you
Speaker 1: get to stay. Forget it. But do you think that
Speaker 1: anyone's going to go through the migration or the immigration
Speaker 1: system in the rest of the world legally now to
Speaker 1: come into America. You'd be a fool waiting years and years,
Speaker 1: go to Mexico, pay off the cartel, show up at
Speaker 1: the border, come into America with your family. It's that simple.
Speaker 1: So Democrats can't say that even though that's the reality.
Speaker 1: So what do they say, Well, they pretend that they're
Speaker 1: telling migrants not to come. Play sixteen again. These are
Speaker 1: Democrats saying that the change in Biden administration policy is
Speaker 1: fueling the crisis. How do you respond, I, respectfully, I
Speaker 1: disagree with them. Let me just say that we have
Speaker 1: a number of work streams in place. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: we are dealing with the needs of the children now.
Speaker 1: We are rebuilding orderly ways in which the children can
Speaker 1: make their claims without having to take the perilous journey
Speaker 1: to the border, right, and we are elevating our messaging
Speaker 1: so that the individuals do know that they cannot come
Speaker 1: to the border the border is closed. What they argue
Speaker 1: is that the messaging isn't working and that despite that,
Speaker 1: children and maybe even families are coming because they think
Speaker 1: that if they get here the border will be open
Speaker 1: for them. That's causing the surge. Dana Danna, We are
Speaker 1: expelling families, we are expelling single adults. We have communicated
Speaker 1: and we will continue to communicate to the children. Do
Speaker 1: not come expelling families at what percentage? Because I think
Speaker 1: if you found out the number, you'd say, Okay, So
Speaker 1: this guy's just a huge liar, right, this guy's misrepresenting
Speaker 1: what's going on the border? Really, they expelling families? Why
Speaker 1: are they all showing up? Why do they keep showing up? Right?
Speaker 1: The immigration market here, so to speak, right there, the
Speaker 1: free market of illegal immigration is speaking in the numbers
Speaker 1: up one hundred and eighty percent year over year for
Speaker 1: the last month. Enormous spike in unaccompanied miners. I mean,
Speaker 1: the fifteen thousand unacompanied miners that are currently in custody.
Speaker 1: They're all going to be led into the United States.
Speaker 1: They're all being placed in the US. Okay, we know that,
Speaker 1: and none of them are going to be deported. So
Speaker 1: that's not true. How many how many of the families?
Speaker 1: What percentage your families? Someone should ask, Ah, But they're
Speaker 1: hiding the data. They're playing games. These people are liars, folks.
Speaker 1: This Democrat bid administration, which is really just Obama's administration
Speaker 1: three point zero. They are lying about this to you.
Speaker 1: They cannot deal with the truth. And let me ask
Speaker 1: this question which they will never give real answer to.
Speaker 1: Why are they telling Why are they turning migrants away? Right?
Speaker 1: They want to tell you they're doing that, But why
Speaker 1: are they doing that? Do they believe that these migrants
Speaker 1: aren't people? That need help and aren't desperate and shouldn't
Speaker 1: be so. So some people shouldn't be led into the
Speaker 1: United States, even if they're perfectly law abiding, decent folks
Speaker 1: who just want a better life, and you know, all
Speaker 1: the things we always hear. Why why is that the case?
Speaker 1: You know, if Democrats can't have it both ways, it
Speaker 1: can't be anybody can basically gain the system and come
Speaker 1: into the country. But oh, also, we don't want people.
Speaker 1: We're sending people away who try to do that. Well,
Speaker 1: which one is it? Do you want to tell people?
Speaker 1: Will Democrats tell people you cannot stay if they show
Speaker 1: up as a family unit right now at the border?
Speaker 1: And if so, why they don't. They don't seem to
Speaker 1: agree with that notion, right, They just keep changing the rules.
Speaker 1: They shift the ground of the debate every few minutes
Speaker 1: so that way they can never really be pinned down
Speaker 1: and have to defend any one position. They know that
Speaker 1: this is showing how inept and just what a joke
Speaker 1: this Biden administration is. We're already at there. I told
Speaker 1: you so, part of the Biden presidency. That's where we are.
Speaker 1: We're seeing what is happening in real time before us
Speaker 1: after all the talk about how Biden was going to
Speaker 1: be a great uniter and bring us all together. I mean,
Speaker 1: no one really actually believes that anymore, or they shouldn't. Adana,
Speaker 1: we are in the midst of a pandemic. We are
Speaker 1: dealing with crowded border patrol facilities. We are focused on
Speaker 1: our operations and the needs of the children, and at
Speaker 1: the same time, we are working to provide access to
Speaker 1: those border patrol facilities when we can do so in
Speaker 1: a safe manner. Good working on that because we cover
Speaker 1: the we cover the White House under a pandemic, and
Speaker 1: we've feared out how to do it largely safely. Yeah. Sure,
Speaker 1: Look they are saying this is about safety in the
Speaker 1: facilities and making the facilities, making the process better. What's
Speaker 1: really going on here is that you're seeing the plans
Speaker 1: of the Left in real time. You're seeing how this
Speaker 1: actually works in real life. When you convince folks that
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to stay in America even
Speaker 1: if they cross illegally, even if they're not legitimate asylum seekers. Remember,
Speaker 1: asylum is a very specific thing. It is for people
Speaker 1: who we give safe harbor too, because they can't safely
Speaker 1: live in their own country. That's not the same thing
Speaker 1: as I would rather live in America than Honduras, or
Speaker 1: I would rather live in America than Brazil or Pakistan
Speaker 1: or Thailand or wherever. It's not the same thing. And
Speaker 1: yet these very fundamental issues are what the Democrats dance around.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Newt Gingrich say it very well,
Speaker 1: which is that the Left is living they're living in
Speaker 1: a delusion. The problem is they're in charge, they're in
Speaker 1: the position of power right now, and they're trying to
Speaker 1: make all the rest of us live in this delusion too.
Speaker 1: We can see what's going on. What they're saying is
Speaker 1: not true. What they're presenting to you is a lie.
Speaker 1: We're all very aware of this. We know that in
Speaker 1: their hearts they like to believe that there's some way
Speaker 1: to let everybody who wants to come into a Erica
Speaker 1: from a developing country, in particular, let anybody wants to
Speaker 1: come in come in while still have rule of law
Speaker 1: and an immigration system that functions. They think that those
Speaker 1: two things can coexist. They're wrong. This is a delusion.
Speaker 1: Newt Season Place Play thirteen. Well, okay, I think that
Speaker 1: the entire left is living in a fantasy world. When
Speaker 1: you have thousands and thousands of people, three thousand teenagers
Speaker 1: in the convention Center in Dallas who have come in illegally,
Speaker 1: when you have night after night of violence in Portland,
Speaker 1: when you have rising crime rates almost everywhere in the country,
Speaker 1: and you have gasoline prices starting back up at some point,
Speaker 1: normal everyday Americans are going to realize the gap between
Speaker 1: the fantasy world of Biden and Harris and the real
Speaker 1: world of everyday Americans. And I think that that's going
Speaker 1: to be extraordinarily expensive for the Democrats in two twenty two,
Speaker 1: because you basically have a fight between the American people
Speaker 1: and a democratic machine. And on almost every major issue now,
Speaker 1: the American people are on one side and the machine
Speaker 1: is on the other. And what exactly do we have
Speaker 1: to show for this Biden administration so far that anybody
Speaker 1: could point to and say, you know what they're doing
Speaker 1: a really good job on and then just fill in
Speaker 1: the blank. Where are we seeing really excellent work from
Speaker 1: the Biden administration? I remember all those laughable lies from
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election cycle about the competent and moderate
Speaker 1: elder statesman from Delaware, Joe Biden. You know you could
Speaker 1: trust it old Joe from Scranton. He's not some radical
Speaker 1: commie who smashes in the windows at Starbucks and comes
Speaker 1: up with new prodowns every five minutes. I mean, this
Speaker 1: guy's got more political longevity than a giant tortoise. In fact,
Speaker 1: this is true. Biden's been around so long. When he
Speaker 1: first went to the United States Senate, we were figuring
Speaker 1: out how to end the war in Vietnam. That's the truth.
Speaker 1: I mean, how much damage could he really do as president?
Speaker 1: I mean, just look at our southern border and you
Speaker 1: get the answer to that. We are two months in
Speaker 1: the Biden presidency. So far it's an utter debacle. There
Speaker 1: are more illegal immigrant kids in cages quote that's what
Speaker 1: they called it under Trump than ever before, over fifteen thousand.
Speaker 1: Right now, illegal crossings have skyrocketed to well over one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand a month, no end in sight. Cartels are
Speaker 1: getting richer, and our immigration laws look like a big joke,
Speaker 1: all because a good old Joe. Migrants are showing up
Speaker 1: with Biden t shirts on. They've told journalists in interviews
Speaker 1: that they're coming because Biden will let them in, and
Speaker 1: the response from Team Biden is nonsense. We see it
Speaker 1: all all right. They swerve around the word crisis in
Speaker 1: these press conferences like a drunk hippo on ice skates,
Speaker 1: scary for everybody, and no one's buying it. And when
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, they'll try to blame everything on Trump.
Speaker 1: It's a pathetic display. I mean, the DNC is not
Speaker 1: sending us their best. None of this is surprising, not
Speaker 1: the divisive left wing executive orders from day one, the
Speaker 1: escalator authoritarian madness around masks, the stalled lockdown recovery, the
Speaker 1: rising gas prices, or the growing sense that the stock
Speaker 1: market's going to crash any day now. Biden is, as
Speaker 1: so many on the rights set all along, a Democrat
Speaker 1: figurehead with no talent other than showing up and saying
Speaker 1: whatever works. What we've got is the third term of
Speaker 1: the Obama administration. But with mister McGoo playing the role
Speaker 1: of president. It's tough to know what's more frightening to
Speaker 1: declining hide and Biden press conferences or staircases. The border
Speaker 1: crisis is just the most visible manifestation of this obvious reality.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden was never up for this job, and we
Speaker 1: can all see it. He has neither a vision for
Speaker 1: the nation's future nor the leadership skills to take us there.
Speaker 1: He just spews the talking points and does what the
Speaker 1: handlers and advisers tell him to. He's supposed to be
Speaker 1: a great uniter, the healing leader for whom our nation
Speaker 1: was crying out at this point. Feels like a victory
Speaker 1: for the country whenever he doesn't wander on stage and
Speaker 1: mumble some nonsense about the science. By the time the
Speaker 1: Democrats can't hold up this facade anymore, the media will
Speaker 1: be talking about how President Harris really needs to step
Speaker 1: in and take the reins, and that's not too far off,
Speaker 1: and you know what they'll do. Then they'll scoff at
Speaker 1: anyone who points out this is exactly what we were
Speaker 1: expecting all along, just as they do now as they
Speaker 1: mouth the preferred slogans of Biden's Marxist puppeteers. Exactly as
Speaker 1: I said he would. Many of us saw in advance,
Speaker 1: when you've been vaccinated, or when you've gotten the disease naturally,
Speaker 1: that you are spreading it. If there were, it would
Speaker 1: be all over the news. There are no news reports
Speaker 1: and no scientific studies saying that after vaccination that there's
Speaker 1: some sort of widespread contagion people vaccinated are spreading the disease.
Speaker 1: It's just not true. What Fauci won't tell you is
Speaker 1: that he's telling you a noble lie. He's lying to
Speaker 1: you because he doesn't think we're smart enough to make decisions.
Speaker 1: His fear is if the vaccinated quit wearing the mask,
Speaker 1: the unvaccinated will say, what the hell, I'm not wearing
Speaker 1: a mask either, So he lies to you to say, oh,
Speaker 1: the mask makes a difference, when in reality he knows better.
Speaker 1: He's wearing two masks for theater. It's complete theater. He's immune,
Speaker 1: he knows he's not going to get it, but he
Speaker 1: is not being honest with the American public. I ran Paul,
Speaker 1: this guy's amazing. I mean, he's you know, sometimes there's
Speaker 1: only a few people who will come out and just
Speaker 1: say it, and ran Paul on this one. Right now.
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm thankful. I'm thankful. I wish
Speaker 1: I could give the guy a high five that he's
Speaker 1: calling out what's so obvious. Yeah, Fauci is that little tyrant,
Speaker 1: that feckless bureaucrat is double masking because he, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think very clearly wants to show people how seriously
Speaker 1: he takes the virus even though he's immune, so there's
Speaker 1: really no reason for him to do this. But then again,
Speaker 1: there's no reason for people, including the journos all across
Speaker 1: the mainstream media, including Biden himself, to take photos of
Speaker 1: themselves with a mask on and put that on their
Speaker 1: social media profile, to put that on their Twitter or
Speaker 1: their Facebook, except that this has become about tribal, political
Speaker 1: and ideological allegiance for a lot of people, not for everybody.
Speaker 1: Some people really believe in the magic of wearing masks
Speaker 1: to defend you from this, you know, in a meaningful way.
Speaker 1: How many times have I told you that it's probably
Speaker 1: helps a tiny bit, but it's way overblown, and then
Speaker 1: you used to observe it. See what's going on masks.
Speaker 1: You walk down the street in New York City, outside,
Speaker 1: you'll see ninety people wearing masks, just walk around. You
Speaker 1: see it. That's outdoors. You can't go into any place
Speaker 1: without a mask on right now. Indoors, you can't do it.
Speaker 1: They won't let you in anywhere. Has that stopped the virus?
Speaker 1: Did it stop for the spread of the virus in
Speaker 1: the wintertime in New York City? Now? Did not at all?
Speaker 1: In fact, now they're saying there's a pretty high positivity
Speaker 1: right here in New York. So this is not a
Speaker 1: situation that we should allow to continue on without some
Speaker 1: real pushback, without really figuring out what the heck is
Speaker 1: going on here. Double masking when you are immune is theater, right.
Speaker 1: You can say it's good theater, you can say you
Speaker 1: like it, you can say you're happy about the situation
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, but it is theatrical. And this statement
Speaker 1: that he makes about how they they don't want people
Speaker 1: who are vaccinated to stop masking is because the moment
Speaker 1: that somebody could walk in. I mean, i'll tell you
Speaker 1: this right now, and this is just the truth. If
Speaker 1: I could go into my gym, for example, and say,
Speaker 1: you know, blank off, when some mask shamer comes over,
Speaker 1: blank off, I'm vaccinated, is there a decent chance that
Speaker 1: I probably would say that I'll just leave that out there.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people would say, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: done with the stupid tyranny of these morons, And that
Speaker 1: would mean the whole, the whole masking regime falls apart.
Speaker 1: It has to be mandatory for everyone. And notice that
Speaker 1: the only way they've been able to justify this is
Speaker 1: somehow the science as we've gone along has almost magically
Speaker 1: been manipulated. It's just been perfect. At first it was
Speaker 1: they're really good for protection. Then it was it's really
Speaker 1: good at protecting you both ways, so from transmitting and
Speaker 1: from receiving the virus in the air. And then it was, well, actually,
Speaker 1: maybe it's really just about you not transmitting it to
Speaker 1: somebody else, and then that created this whole Well, it's
Speaker 1: not about what you want, it's about the risk you're
Speaker 1: posing to other people, and that I just want to say, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, other people could also avoid congregate settings, couldn't they.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to. You don't want to
Speaker 1: be in a gym where people are unmasked. Don't go
Speaker 1: to the gym. What's so bad about that? No, Instead,
Speaker 1: everybody has to suffer because of the anxiety of a
Speaker 1: few people. Everybody has to sufferer because of the belief
Speaker 1: that doctor Fauci's not lying to you about the science.
Speaker 1: When it comes to when I say lying to you
Speaker 1: about the science, these are all judgment calls. They're making
Speaker 1: judgment calls, and right now, for public policy reasons, they're
Speaker 1: telling people you have to ask even after you're vaccinated,
Speaker 1: and you're starting to see it pop up more and
Speaker 1: more forever, masking is gaining traction. You know, if this
Speaker 1: works so well, if this protects people so effectively, including
Speaker 1: from the flu, including from other coronaviruses that are out there,
Speaker 1: including from you know, why wait to see what the
Speaker 1: next pandemic is like We could stop it in its tracks,
Speaker 1: they say, which, of course is idiocy because you look
Speaker 1: at what's happened in the last year. But we could
Speaker 1: stop the next pandemic if only we mask up enough.
Speaker 1: This has turned into a religious belief. That's what this is.
Speaker 1: You know. It's the same thing as as Bill when
Speaker 1: Bill Gates, as he did recently, says that to fight
Speaker 1: climate change, he's going to eat less meat personally, that's
Speaker 1: a religious belief, all right, That's that's a question of
Speaker 1: individual virtue from action that no rational, no rational viewpoint
Speaker 1: could ever say is going to make a change in anything. Right,
Speaker 1: that's a religious belief. And when you look at what
Speaker 1: the reality of our version of lockdowns, which remember we
Speaker 1: never really locked down. I have to point this out
Speaker 1: to people all the time. They act like, you know,
Speaker 1: these work from home people who's sitting on their couches
Speaker 1: in you know, in Los Angeles, on the west side
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, you know, closer to the water, and
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn and in Washington, DC. They've been worked from
Speaker 1: home this whole time time and they act like they're
Speaker 1: big heroes. The essential workers are still getting on subways,
Speaker 1: getting into crowded places, going into buildings, and still getting sick.
Speaker 1: They haven't. There's not actually a real lockdown. This is
Speaker 1: what people don't understand. There's a partial lockdown. So we
Speaker 1: get the downside of this, of all of this with
Speaker 1: the herd economy and people separated from each other, But
Speaker 1: the virus continues to spread because the number one place
Speaker 1: it spreads is in the home. And so as long
Speaker 1: as you have some people who are out there subjecting
Speaker 1: themselves to getting it, it continues to it continues to
Speaker 1: move through the population. You know, well, why are we
Speaker 1: not doing psurology testing anymore for antibodies than population? By
Speaker 1: the way, you notice that just why did that disappear?
Speaker 1: We did it in June. It's not crazy. There used
Speaker 1: to be a real interest in this. How many people
Speaker 1: have actually been infected? Well, maybe because folks would realize
Speaker 1: this whole health policy stuff from Fauci and all the
Speaker 1: rest of them and worked so well that I mean,
Speaker 1: they say, what, thirty million Americans have gotten coronavirus? What
Speaker 1: if it was double or triple that they don't know.
Speaker 1: They tell us that forty percent of transmission occurs in
Speaker 1: asymptomatic people. So you got to assume there's a huge
Speaker 1: number of asymptomatic people who had it never knew, and
Speaker 1: they've been tested and they don't know, or they weren't
Speaker 1: tested rather and they never found out. So the truth
Speaker 1: is they can't allow their their little tyrannical grip off
Speaker 1: your throat, off your face for one second, because then
Speaker 1: the whole thing falls apart. If there were a state
Speaker 1: that made outdoor mask wearing on safety grounds, because there
Speaker 1: are places that say you can't actually mask unless it's
Speaker 1: a part of your job, you know, construction work or something.
Speaker 1: You can't actually mask up in public. People should be
Speaker 1: able to see your face, know who you are. It's
Speaker 1: a safety issue. If there were a state that said
Speaker 1: that they would ban outdoor mask wearing on safety issues,
Speaker 1: and they would ban indoor mask wearing on health issues,
Speaker 1: it's not good for you to be breathing in you know,
Speaker 1: your own whatever, you're expelling all the time, and this
Speaker 1: is not This is not good for a lot of folks,
Speaker 1: not good for your anxiety levels, it's not good for
Speaker 1: your mental health, it's not good for your understanding of
Speaker 1: your relationship with the state, with the government. If if
Speaker 1: there were a state, I don't care which one it
Speaker 1: is that decided they do that, I would seriously consider
Speaker 1: moving just based on that. I think it's that important
Speaker 1: now to run the experiment to show that all this
Speaker 1: stuff they're just wrong. And they won't they won't back off,
Speaker 1: they won't admit that what they've been telling this to
Speaker 1: do does not work. Didn't work in America, didn't work
Speaker 1: in Europe, doesn't work. You know, if we were a
Speaker 1: tiny island that could cut off all travel and that
Speaker 1: force people into their homes for months on end, maybe
Speaker 1: it would work. We didn't do anything even close to that.
Speaker 1: So why pretend. Well, there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: out there that are pretending for a bunch of different reasons.
Speaker 1: One of them is Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. We gotta
Speaker 1: get into that in a second. We follow the CDC
Speaker 1: guidelines any nursing home that did take a resident back.
Speaker 1: We worked with them to make sure that they had
Speaker 1: all the safety protocols. That was their choice. No one
Speaker 1: was mandated, and we have shared all of the information
Speaker 1: that has been mandated by the federal government, which is
Speaker 1: a lot publicly. So I heard nursing home story, like everyone's,
Speaker 1: is sad because this is where the spirius thrives and
Speaker 1: has taken so many lives. And yet the Michigan experience
Speaker 1: has I think been stronger than that of many other states.
Speaker 1: And so this is this is sadly politics pervading our
Speaker 1: public health. Still, We're not going to get distracted. I'm
Speaker 1: going to stay focused on getting my state through this
Speaker 1: tough time and keep moving forward. As Governor, Gretchen Whitmer
Speaker 1: of Michigan was the queen of the lockdowns. She was
Speaker 1: the governor who, right behind Cuomo and Newsom, was among
Speaker 1: the biggest advocates for lockdown, among the most the most
Speaker 1: ardent people for masking and all these different mitigation measures.
Speaker 1: As foul, she says, well, it turns out that she
Speaker 1: might have her own nursing home disasters. You know, Cuomo
Speaker 1: made the inexplicably stupid and lethal decision to send people
Speaker 1: back into nursing homes when they when they had COVID,
Speaker 1: which was if you were trying to find a way
Speaker 1: to bring up the death toll, that would have been
Speaker 1: a very good plan. If you were trying to find
Speaker 1: a mechanism to make make people more likely to get
Speaker 1: severely ill or die. As a governor, that was a
Speaker 1: good place to start. Whitmer issued an order on April fifteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, that was very similar, very similar to the
Speaker 1: Cuomo order. And it has also come up that the
Speaker 1: uh here this from the USA Today has come to
Speaker 1: light the New York authorities number falling pressure from the
Speaker 1: Governor's office delivery uner account of the number of patients,
Speaker 1: and the patient numbers are more than forty percent higher
Speaker 1: while deaths were seventy five percent higher. So what was
Speaker 1: the reality of the Whitmer decision here in Michigan? Again,
Speaker 1: this piece in USA Today, did Michigan cover up nursing
Speaker 1: home COVID deaths like New York? Raises some interesting questions.
Speaker 1: Here's what they write, quote the public had a right
Speaker 1: to these grim facts, Yet it took a five month
Speaker 1: long lawsuit by New York's Empire Center for Public Policy
Speaker 1: to discover some of the most important information. Governor Cuomo
Speaker 1: simply wasn't transparent, and neither is this state of Michigan.
Speaker 1: Michigan is one of only two states where the governor
Speaker 1: is exempt from freedom of information laws, and the only
Speaker 1: state where that exemption is written into statute. Thanks to
Speaker 1: this exemption, the governor has no obligation to produce any
Speaker 1: records whatsoever, despite making decisions affecting the lives of every Michigander.
Speaker 1: Michigan's one of only two states where the governor exempt
Speaker 1: from freedom information laws. Governor Whitmer has used this veil
Speaker 1: of secrecy to act with impunity. Her office has almost
Speaker 1: single handedly dictated the state's COVID nineteen policies without disclosing
Speaker 1: the data she has used to make her decisions. After
Speaker 1: the Michigan Supreme Court struck down the statute, Governor Whitmer
Speaker 1: relied on for her emergency authority. The Michigan Department of
Speaker 1: Health and Human Services became the vessel for COVID decision making.
Speaker 1: While yet, while that department is subject to FOYA, it
Speaker 1: has not been any more transparent. The state continues to
Speaker 1: release information about the number of cases and debts, but
Speaker 1: not the underlying records. This is unacceptable. The state is
Speaker 1: asking voters to simply accept its published data without the
Speaker 1: chance to verify the records used to create them. The
Speaker 1: Quomo scandaled Democrats how dangerous it is to trust politicians.
Speaker 1: Access to information is essential. That's why we're suing the
Speaker 1: Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. And after the
Speaker 1: state began adding additional death to its tally, one of
Speaker 1: us requested the underlying data of these added deaths, and
Speaker 1: we're trying. They're trying to get into all this. It
Speaker 1: shouldn't take a lawsuit to figure this out, but that's
Speaker 1: where they are. And Gretchen Whitmer's going to fight this.
Speaker 1: You know why. You're going to find out that that
Speaker 1: while the governors were worried about their makeup, whether it
Speaker 1: was Whitmer or Cuomo or Newsom, while they were on
Speaker 1: TV trying to build their profile. Ever, Whitmer was talked about, Oh,
Speaker 1: maybe she'd be a good Democrat vice president, right, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe she somebody who should be in the mix here
Speaker 1: That was being discussed a year ago. They were also
Speaker 1: concerned with how it was making them look, how concerned
Speaker 1: were they with the actual governance of what was going on?
Speaker 1: How much were they focused on their job instead of
Speaker 1: their optics? Right, Well, we can only know that if
Speaker 1: we get the actual data, and it's become increasingly clear
Speaker 1: that Governor Whittmer doesn't us to have that data. Why
Speaker 1: is that, Well, here's a guess more people died in
Speaker 1: nursing homes from COVID. And it's especially after she gave
Speaker 1: a very similar order to Cuomo, right, because I'm sure
Speaker 1: she saw that, heard about that, or had a similar
Speaker 1: reaction of you know, we've just got to because there
Speaker 1: was this panic about, oh, we've got to clear out
Speaker 1: the hospital capacity. Oh, the hospital capacity. We're going to
Speaker 1: overwhelm the hospitals. It never actually happened. There was no
Speaker 1: hospital system that collapsed in this country because we couldn't
Speaker 1: get anybody care. But Whitmer knows that her political future
Speaker 1: hangs in the balance here. And just as we've seen
Speaker 1: with so many other who are the people that were
Speaker 1: heroes during the pandemic and now look like villains. You'll
Speaker 1: notice one thing in common about all of them. They're Democrats.
Speaker 1: Cuomo Newsome, Whitmer, who was a Republican in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: was considered some kind of a COVID nineteen leader hero whatever,
Speaker 1: and now we see was actually awful. I can't think
Speaker 1: of a single one. Does anybody really believe that that's
Speaker 1: a surprise, or that's an accident, that's a coincidence. Nope.
Speaker 1: I think we all understand what's going on here. I
Speaker 1: think we're all quite aware of the fact that the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party, while pretending to be the party of science
Speaker 1: and pretending to be the people that care so much
Speaker 1: about the data and the facts, we're covering up a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff because ultimately they didn't know what they
Speaker 1: were doing. They made bad decisions in major states that
Speaker 1: affected thousands and thousands of lives, may have cost in
Speaker 1: the aggregate thousands of lives. And now the most important
Speaker 1: thing to them is that they don't want to be
Speaker 1: held accountable. Now, the most important thing is that they
Speaker 1: would rather think about their reelection effort and maybe a
Speaker 1: cable news contributorship or something like that, instead of actually
Speaker 1: faced the music for what they did. I mean, Whitmer
Speaker 1: was the one who decided you couldn't go from one
Speaker 1: house to another that you owned during the pandemic. You
Speaker 1: remember that you were not allowed to travel if you
Speaker 1: owned a lake house, let's say, and you were in
Speaker 1: the city, not allowed to go to your lake house,
Speaker 1: as if that was ever really enforceable. But that was
Speaker 1: the tyrannical mindset that she exemplified, and the media held
Speaker 1: her up as some kind of a hero for this.
Speaker 1: The media pretended that because of all this, she was
Speaker 1: a really good person, somebody that we should all listen to.
Speaker 1: She really knew what she was doing, she really knew
Speaker 1: what was going on. Yeah, let's see what those nursing
Speaker 1: home numbers look like. Let's let's see Governor Whitmer of
Speaker 1: Michigan open up the books a little bit. Well from
Speaker 1: where I said, I want to see a deeper investigation
Speaker 1: into whether or not these shootings and other similar crimes
Speaker 1: are racially motivated. It looks racially motivated to me. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a police officer. IM not investigating
Speaker 1: the crimes. What I have done, though, is I have
Speaker 1: actually said a letter to Director Ray, to Attorney General
Speaker 1: Garland asking for a deeper investigation into crimes that involve
Speaker 1: Asian Americans to see how many crimes have actually been
Speaker 1: underreported as hate crimes. We know that crimes against Asian
Speaker 1: Americans that have been categorized as hate crimes have increased
Speaker 1: by over one hundred and fifty percent in our nation's
Speaker 1: major cities. That's over thirty eight hundred additional crimes last year.
Speaker 1: But we also know that many of these crimes go
Speaker 1: underreported as hate crimes, and I just classified as a
Speaker 1: mugging or harassment or vandalism when they really they were
Speaker 1: targeted at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in particular. So
Speaker 1: they're they're all this anti Asian hate crime crusade right
Speaker 1: now in the medium, and you're going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of numbers in statistics. Use one thing that I
Speaker 1: will tell you is that the way that they will
Speaker 1: present statistics, you know, you've got to look at the
Speaker 1: You got to look at the overall numbers too. If
Speaker 1: you see that there were there was a two hundred
Speaker 1: percent increase in hate crimes, let's say, in a city
Speaker 1: in America against Asian Americans, against anybody, But if you
Speaker 1: saw two hundred percent increase in hate crimes, you'd say,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we've got a we've got a real
Speaker 1: problem that must be addressed immediately. You would still think
Speaker 1: you had a problem, but you might feel differently about
Speaker 1: the scope of it. If you found out that the
Speaker 1: you know, the two hundred percent increase was from oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know ten to you know, ten to thirty, right,
Speaker 1: Or if you found out that the two hundred percent
Speaker 1: increase was from uh, you know, four to twelve, right,
Speaker 1: or whatever, whatever the case. Or you know, if there
Speaker 1: was one hundred percent increase, I'll make it easy, you'll
Speaker 1: make it. We'll just make it a simple double. If
Speaker 1: it went from four to eight, you'd say, Wow, that's
Speaker 1: that's a lot. That's a that's a big that's a
Speaker 1: big change. Right, that's a big change. Except that's not
Speaker 1: a lot of overall cases. So be aware of the
Speaker 1: way that that statistics are used. They do this with
Speaker 1: the when they want to create a a media hysteria
Speaker 1: around a general sweeping surge of hate crimes or something
Speaker 1: like that, that's one of the things they'll do. They'll
Speaker 1: use the statistic that sounds like it is indicative of
Speaker 1: a wave of a massive pattern shift, when really it
Speaker 1: could just be anomalous to a certain period of time.
Speaker 1: You have to look at it. Another thing is what
Speaker 1: you'd have to say when the narrative. What's this piece
Speaker 1: here from Andrew Sullivan when the narrative replaces the news.
Speaker 1: Andrew Sullivan is a he's heterodoxy, can be a liberal
Speaker 1: in many ways, but he also occasionally will call out
Speaker 1: the absurdities of liberalism. Guy started a blog a long
Speaker 1: time ago. He's created a very successful audience for himself,
Speaker 1: and what he writes here, this is one of the
Speaker 1: best pieces. This is the best piece I've read on
Speaker 1: the Atlanta shooting massacre. And it's because it goes to
Speaker 1: the nature of our news media right now is such
Speaker 1: that it is all it is all commentary over reporting.
Speaker 1: Reporting is just the thing you do briefly so you
Speaker 1: can start all commenting on it right away. And I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the most reputed news organizations. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: you name it. There are a lot of them out there,
Speaker 1: New York Times, Washington Post. This is what they do.
Speaker 1: And here's how we go into this piece from Andrew Sullivan. Quote.
Speaker 1: The massacres at three massage parlors in Atlanta last week,
Speaker 1: leaving eight human beings dead, others injured, and their families scarred,
Speaker 1: were horrifying. Read this deeply moving story about the son
Speaker 1: of one of the women killed. To remind yourself of this.
Speaker 1: It's brutal. The grief will spread and resonate some more.
Speaker 1: But this story also has been deeply instructive about our
Speaker 1: national discourse and the state of the American mainstream and
Speaker 1: elite media. This story's coverages proof if it seems to
Speaker 1: me that American journalists have officially abandoned the habit of
Speaker 1: attempting any kind of objectivity in reporting these stories. We
Speaker 1: are now in the enlightened and social justice world of
Speaker 1: moral clarity and narrative shaping. Here's the truth. We do
Speaker 1: not yet know why this man did these horrible things.
Speaker 1: It's probably complicated, or, as my therapist used to say, multidetermined.
Speaker 1: That's why we have thorough investigation and trials in America.
Speaker 1: We only have one solid piece of information as to motive,
Speaker 1: which is the confession by the mass killer to law
Speaker 1: enforcement that he was a religious fundamentalist who was determined
Speaker 1: to live up to chastity and repeatedly failed, as is
Speaker 1: often the case like the nine to eleven bombers and
Speaker 1: the mass murderer at the Pulse nightclub. He took out
Speaker 1: his angst on the source of what he saw as
Speaker 1: his temptation and committed mass murder. This is evil in
Speaker 1: the classic fundamentalist sense, a perversion of religion and sexual
Speaker 1: repression into violence. We should not take the killer confession
Speaker 1: as definitive. But we have yet to find I'm skipping
Speaker 1: down here a little bit, any credible evidence of anti
Speaker 1: Asian hatred or bigotry in this man's history. Maybe we will.
Speaker 1: We can't rule it out, but we do know his
Speaker 1: roommates say they once asked him if he picked the
Speaker 1: spons for sex because the women were Asian. He denied it.
Speaker 1: He said they were just the safest way to have
Speaker 1: quick sex. And yet you know what's coming a company.
Speaker 1: One original piece on the known facts. The New York
Speaker 1: Times ran nine, that's right, nine separate stories about the
Speaker 1: incident as part of the narrative that this was an
Speaker 1: anti Asian hate crime fueled by white supremacy and or misogyny.
Speaker 1: Not to be outdone, the Washington Post ran sixteen separate
Speaker 1: stories on the incident as an anti Asian white supremacist
Speaker 1: hate crime, sixteen one story for the facts, sixteen on
Speaker 1: how critical race theory would interpret the event regardless of
Speaker 1: the facts. End quote, And that's about That's about what
Speaker 1: you would expect. Now, I think that's really where we are.
Speaker 1: You're at about a sixteen to one ratio. You're at
Speaker 1: about a sixteen to one ratio of time spent reporting
Speaker 1: on an incident like this. We're porting on what actually
Speaker 1: happened versus the time that would be spent, say, talking
Speaker 1: about how this is Donald Trump's fault. And that happened
Speaker 1: a lot too. It was remarkable you had, on the
Speaker 1: one hand, a mass shooting with a shooter in custody.
Speaker 1: He's already admitted it. We know this is the guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he told everybody what his motive is. And
Speaker 1: in no way do we know that he liked Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: listened to Donald Trump, had anything to do with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: We don't even know if he was politically interested or
Speaker 1: motivated at all. There are there are people that think
Speaker 1: of themselves as serious public intellectuals who are spending their
Speaker 1: time writing about how this is Donald Trump's fault. That's
Speaker 1: what we're supposed to take from this is this is
Speaker 1: a Trump problem. That's what they tell us. What is
Speaker 1: the basis for this? What is the uh the foundation
Speaker 1: of this? Well, this is now what the media marketplace demands.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're going to be awoke liberal, if
Speaker 1: you're going to be somebody on the left who really
Speaker 1: believes all this stuff, believes in all this stuff, you
Speaker 1: have to push the agenda. And that means any opportunity
Speaker 1: you have to take things that occur and fit them
Speaker 1: into the agenda that you have. You need to take
Speaker 1: things that are occurring and use them for this purpose,
Speaker 1: even if it doesn't line up. What's the most important
Speaker 1: thing that you get the facts right, or that you
Speaker 1: support the narrative. If you're a leftist, if you're a
Speaker 1: social justice warrior, the narrative is the most important thing.
Speaker 1: And that's the whole reason for this Andrew Sullivan piece.
Speaker 1: I'd also say he points out, I think rather correctly
Speaker 1: that mass shooters and mass killers, when they're in custody,
Speaker 1: they tend to want to tell people why they did
Speaker 1: these things, and we don't usually see them lying about it.
Speaker 1: They usually will tell you, I shot these people because
Speaker 1: I'm a fundamentalist, lunatic who kills people because whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. And in this instance, we're supposed to think
Speaker 1: that this guy is lying about it. Why. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that somebody who would murder eight innocent people,
Speaker 1: including two non Asian individuals, who get left out of
Speaker 1: much of the news coverage of this is somebody who's
Speaker 1: trustworthy in any respect. Obviously, this guy is a moral monster,
Speaker 1: but there's no reason to believe he would lie about
Speaker 1: about his motivation. He's already caught. I mean, he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be facing the death penalty if he doesn't spend
Speaker 1: the rest of his life in a criminal mental facility.
Speaker 1: So why all the news reporting on how this is
Speaker 1: about white supremacy and anti Asian bias? A lot of
Speaker 1: news reporting on that. I also saw over the weekend
Speaker 1: that there was a sixty eight year old Sri Lankan
Speaker 1: immigrant on a train in Manhattan who was attacked while
Speaker 1: the guy was shouting anti Asian slurs. And it was
Speaker 1: a he was a black man wearing a pink hoodie,
Speaker 1: pink hood sweatshirt with a fedora on. And there's very
Speaker 1: prominent photos that have been released by the NYPD. And
Speaker 1: now that's just one assault, that's one attack, but it's
Speaker 1: clearly an anti I mean, if you're punching someone and
Speaker 1: yelling anti Asian slurs, the guy just punched him for
Speaker 1: no no, no altercation, nothing before, and just punched him.
Speaker 1: If you're doing that, chances are it's a hate crime. Right,
Speaker 1: If you're actually just punching somebody because you see them
Speaker 1: and say I hate you because blank and you're hitting them,
Speaker 1: it's a hate crime. There have been a lot of
Speaker 1: incidents like this, and a disproportionate number of them, at
Speaker 1: least twenty seven percent by the numbers, overall of attacks
Speaker 1: on Asian Americans come from black Americans. Yet the media
Speaker 1: doesn't grapple with this and how it affects the white
Speaker 1: supremacy and Donald Trump is responsible for calling it the
Speaker 1: Wuhan virus at all. They don't deal with that at all.
Speaker 1: What do they say, Oh, well, white the legacy and
Speaker 1: a history of white supremacy is what has caused these
Speaker 1: kinds of racial tensions to exist in the first place. Therefore,
Speaker 1: even and this is real analysis you'll find online, even
Speaker 1: when a black man attacks an Asian man for no
Speaker 1: reason and screams anti Asian slurs, it is evidence to
Speaker 1: the left of white supremacy. This is real, Bill. They
Speaker 1: will say this, They will make that case. So be
Speaker 1: aware of the fact that you're being misled. And we've
Speaker 1: increasingly entered this world where what you can readily and
Speaker 1: easily observe is no longer acceptable to be set out loud.
Speaker 1: What you can see quite clearly is true or untrue
Speaker 1: is risky to say, to share. To believe there is
Speaker 1: a narrative, you are to accept it. And if the
Speaker 1: narrative is that Donald Trump has created white supremacist a
Speaker 1: wave of white supremacists tacks on Asian Americans, even if
Speaker 1: the evidence does not in any meaningful way support that,
Speaker 1: you better say that or else. This is Joe Biden's America.
Speaker 1: We're now folks. That's how it goes. In the shadow
Speaker 1: of this great American rescue package. Is so proud that
Speaker 1: we've got that done in the Senate, in Congress, and
Speaker 1: out the door. But it shouldn't have been this hard.
Speaker 1: It's been another reminder that we need to eliminate the filibuster.
Speaker 1: So many important issues to tackle, from protecting voting rights,
Speaker 1: addressing climate change, expanding healthcare access, criminal justice reform, immigration reform,
Speaker 1: and so much more. It shouldn't be this hard, But
Speaker 1: the filibuster is standing in the way, and it's time
Speaker 1: for the filibuster to go. So I think patience is
Speaker 1: where I'm finn on. The last few Democrats that are
Speaker 1: still not quite there uneliminated the filibuster. So the sooner
Speaker 1: we can do it, the sooner we can move on
Speaker 1: with advancing a progressive agenda, not just for California but
Speaker 1: for the nation. They tell you Democrats wouldn't actually and
Speaker 1: they wouldn't actually elimitate the filibuster. That's that's the storyline
Speaker 1: out there. They're not really going to do it. No,
Speaker 1: I think they will do it. Why wouldn't they do it?
Speaker 1: I have a very different feeling than a lot of
Speaker 1: other people on this. We believe, including Republicans, we believe
Speaker 1: that Democrats have an interest in playing fair. We think
Speaker 1: that the Democrat approach this is going to be well,
Speaker 1: we've set a precedent here, we need to, you know,
Speaker 1: stay with what we've said we would do in the past.
Speaker 1: Is that really the belief? No, right, No one really
Speaker 1: thinks that's the case. The Democrats are unwilling to abuse
Speaker 1: their power. No one really thinks that Democrats are unwilling
Speaker 1: to go with an absolutist approach if they can get
Speaker 1: away with it, right, So what's really going on here? Why?
Speaker 1: Why are we sitting around acting like this isn't a
Speaker 1: very realistic thing. I mean, that's Senator Alex Padilla, who's
Speaker 1: just telling everybody, yeah, that the filibuster is the problem.
Speaker 1: If you want to really progress of agenda, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to transformationally progressive agenda, this is what
Speaker 1: you gotta do. They got rid of it for judicial
Speaker 1: nominees under Obama. I mean, can anyone else see the
Speaker 1: incrementalism at work here? Can anyone else see the frog
Speaker 1: slowly boiling at the temperature of the progressive absolutism keeps
Speaker 1: getting turned up up up, filibuster standing in the way, Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: no surprise. Anything that stands in the way of complete
Speaker 1: democrat control, they will find some excuse, They will find
Speaker 1: some rationale to tell you is a problem, and anyone
Speaker 1: who points out their unprincipled actions will in turn be
Speaker 1: called unprincipled. That's actually that's how this goes. That's the
Speaker 1: way this operates. Let's see now what Tom Cotton, what
Speaker 1: Tom Cotton, Senator has to say about this. I mean
Speaker 1: that just the fact that they're calling it filibuster reform
Speaker 1: strikes me as just absurd. Right now, no one really
Speaker 1: believes this is a reform of the this is filibuster elimination.
Speaker 1: That's what they're trying to do. That's what they believe
Speaker 1: is going on here, and that's what they want. So
Speaker 1: why reform? How how are you reforming something? You know,
Speaker 1: if you if you say you don't want three pointers
Speaker 1: in basketball anymore, and you're going to get rid of
Speaker 1: the three point line because NBA games have turned into
Speaker 1: a three point shooting contest, which I think is the
Speaker 1: whole other conversation we could have. You're not doing three
Speaker 1: point shooting reform, you're eliminating three point shooting, reforming it
Speaker 1: to be something else. You're saying it's gone. That's the
Speaker 1: situation we find ourselves in here with the filibuster, because
Speaker 1: it's the only procedural, real procedural hurdle to Democrats enacting
Speaker 1: exactly the agenda they want with no one able to
Speaker 1: even a little bit stand in their way. And here
Speaker 1: is Tom Cotton on this play nine. There's something to
Speaker 1: be said for compromise and bipartisanship and respect for the
Speaker 1: rights of the minority in the Senate. These rules have
Speaker 1: been in place since the beginning of our republic, and
Speaker 1: the Democrats are engaged in pretty highly situational ethics. You know,
Speaker 1: just four years ago, twenty seven Democrats still in the
Speaker 1: Senate wrote a letter urging Mitch mcconullin Chuck Schumer to
Speaker 1: maintain these rules. Now, most of those senators have flip
Speaker 1: blops simply because they have the barest of majorities. Republicans
Speaker 1: refuse to change those rules four years ago because we
Speaker 1: respect these traditions in the Senate and we know they've
Speaker 1: helped forge durable bipartisan consensus legislation. Yep, that's how the
Speaker 1: Democrats play this. That's what they do. That's the way
Speaker 1: this is going to go. And you know this right,
Speaker 1: remember Frank Herbert. When I am weaker than you, I
Speaker 1: ask for freedom because that is according to your principles.
Speaker 1: When I am stronger than you, I take away your
Speaker 1: freedom because that is according to my principles. The Frank
Speaker 1: Herbert quote. That is if you want you know one
Speaker 1: sentence explanation of the modern Democrat party, that's it. There
Speaker 1: is no principle that can stand in the way. There
Speaker 1: is nothing that will stop them from doing what they
Speaker 1: want to do when it comes to institutions, when it
Speaker 1: comes to fairness, nothing like that. It's just do they
Speaker 1: have the ability, Do they have the raw exercise of
Speaker 1: power at their disposal. If the answer is yes, that
Speaker 1: is what they will do. And this is all about
Speaker 1: getting to that place for them. This is all about
Speaker 1: putting themselves in that circumstance, that situation where no one's
Speaker 1: really able, no one's really able to tell them that
Speaker 1: they can't or to stop them. Forget about telling them
Speaker 1: to stop them from enacting things like amnesty, things like
Speaker 1: some crazy climate change reform or a trillion dollar infrastructure
Speaker 1: bill or HR one. These would all be things that
Speaker 1: if they get through, they would have massive impact on
Speaker 1: the country, and beyond that might prevent Republicans from actually
Speaker 1: being able to win elections in the future. This is
Speaker 1: what's at stake. And you know, there's a part of
Speaker 1: me that that looks around and says, where are the
Speaker 1: Republicans on all this, who's making the counter case here,
Speaker 1: who's fighting back effectively against us. I'm not saying there's
Speaker 1: nobody who's doing it, but not a lot of feelings
Speaker 1: of optimism right now from within the GOP ranks about
Speaker 1: how to stop this stuff. And I think that that's
Speaker 1: that sense of dread about the policies that are coming
Speaker 1: is somewhat warranted. So we got to wake up America.
Speaker 1: We gotta get ready for this stuff. You know that
Speaker 1: a huge part of the way the left is going
Speaker 1: to continue to argue about the border is just about racism, right,
Speaker 1: That's that's what They're going to really turn this into
Speaker 1: a discussion about racism because the actual functions of border
Speaker 1: patrol and immigrations and customs enforcement, what's happening on our
Speaker 1: border is not allowed to be considered or not allowed
Speaker 1: to be taught about openly and honestly. So they're going
Speaker 1: to try to create a feeling of fear around the
Speaker 1: general public. If you oppose this, if you think what's
Speaker 1: going on in the border is a problem in any way,
Speaker 1: you're racist. It's intellectually dishonest, it's not true, but it's
Speaker 1: very effective. It's a very effective means of making people
Speaker 1: get back in line on this. It's it's a way
Speaker 1: of shutting down open and honest conversation about what's really
Speaker 1: happening at the southern border. And it's it's a reminder
Speaker 1: too that anything that you say about this stuff online,
Speaker 1: anything that anybody is saying, they want you to be
Speaker 1: worried about it, and I mean this for you too.
Speaker 1: You know, the cancel culture is not limited to people
Speaker 1: like me who are in the public eye and do
Speaker 1: commentary and share their opinions for a living income, after anybody,
Speaker 1: and the websites that you go to, the places that
Speaker 1: you're sharing your thoughts online, all this leaves a digital footprint,
Speaker 1: and you never know what's going to happen in the
Speaker 1: future with these big tech companies that may decide that
Speaker 1: this information. First of all, it could just end up
Speaker 1: getting released publicly. There's hacks that can happen. But do
Speaker 1: you trust Google and Facebook and Twitter to have all
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Speaker 1: without wondering who's going to get a hold of your
Speaker 1: search history or your viewing habits, and you know the
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Speaker 1: got Senator Marsha Blackburne joining us now from the great
Speaker 1: state of Tennessee. She was just down at our southern border.
Speaker 1: Senator blackburn thanks for being with us. I am absolutely
Speaker 1: delighted to join you and so pleased to kind of
Speaker 1: give you some of the details that we saw on
Speaker 1: the border, because you know, the Biden administration just isn't
Speaker 1: letting out any of the facts and figures on this well,
Speaker 1: we just want to give the floor to you to
Speaker 1: tell us some of the observation, some of the ground
Speaker 1: truth you picked up. We know there's a crisis. We
Speaker 1: know the numbers are very large of those coming across
Speaker 1: the border and being helping the facilities. Beyond that, there
Speaker 1: seems to be a lot of dispute as to more
Speaker 1: of the specifics of the processing and the fact. So
Speaker 1: tell us what you actually saw firsthand. Well, one of
Speaker 1: the things that we saw firstand is that the cartels
Speaker 1: have become very sophisticated. And I think it is important
Speaker 1: for everyone to realize these are not individuals just on
Speaker 1: their own picking up and saying we are heading to
Speaker 1: the USA. These are individuals who are contracting with a
Speaker 1: coyote who's a part of a cartel. The cartel then
Speaker 1: charges a fee. As these individuals begin to make their
Speaker 1: they are issued cartel issue clothing, you know, like we
Speaker 1: our military issues clothing or a business issues a certain
Speaker 1: clothing items. The cartel has backpacks and carpet shoes and
Speaker 1: things of that nature that they are issuing to these
Speaker 1: migrants that are trying to come in illegally. Now they
Speaker 1: also have to wear a band on their wrists, like
Speaker 1: you know when you go to a concert and they
Speaker 1: banned you to show that you have paid and you
Speaker 1: have certain access. Well, the cartels will band these migrants
Speaker 1: to show that they have paid their fee or that
Speaker 1: they are going to have to work out their fee
Speaker 1: once they get to America, and that is where you
Speaker 1: get these labor gangs and sex trafficking rings and gangs
Speaker 1: by basically this indentured servitude that they are practicing. And
Speaker 1: yesterday when we were down in Panell County with Sheriff Lamb,
Speaker 1: Mark Lamb, we had the opportunity to go out and
Speaker 1: kind of walk that track where you have a reservation
Speaker 1: that fronts the Mexican side and then on the north
Speaker 1: fronts the US territory, and that reservation straddles the border,
Speaker 1: and what you have the migrants doing. The cartels will
Speaker 1: bring these individuals through those reservations and then they walk
Speaker 1: the rest of the way up to getting to the
Speaker 1: point that they can pop on I eight or ten
Speaker 1: and then take off. The other thing that has started
Speaker 1: to happen is that you have El Chapos cartel which
Speaker 1: is basically running the Arizona border. You know, yeah, the
Speaker 1: similar cartel, and they are in charge of Arizona well
Speaker 1: fifty percent of all the street drugs that are coming
Speaker 1: in the country are run by El Chopos cartel through Arizona,
Speaker 1: and I eight and I ten have basically become the
Speaker 1: Fentnyl Freeway this year because the use of fentnyl and
Speaker 1: meth is up so drastically. They even have started. The
Speaker 1: cartels have a concoction that they have some of the
Speaker 1: migrants to drink, and it's a liquid that has meth
Speaker 1: and heroin in it. And this is kind of how
Speaker 1: they kind of, I guess, keep them motivated or awake
Speaker 1: or alert or something to make this journey. So these
Speaker 1: are some of the things that we saw first ten
Speaker 1: we also had the opportunity down in Coachy's County with
Speaker 1: Sheriff Danals to walk along the border wall, and I
Speaker 1: have to tell you it is this is where you
Speaker 1: can see how we have an environmental crisis, a humanitarian crisis,
Speaker 1: a drug crisis. Because they've already cut the roads into
Speaker 1: the mountain side, they've already trenched out to finish this
Speaker 1: border wall, and of course the Biden administration said halt
Speaker 1: everything immediately, no further work at all, period, full stop,
Speaker 1: and the equipment and Also, the border wall components are
Speaker 1: all sitting there in the yard in Coaches County waiting
Speaker 1: to be used. And now what is going to happen
Speaker 1: if they don't get the rock laid, the concrete laid,
Speaker 1: finished some of this before you get to the monsoon,
Speaker 1: you are going to have a great, big miss is
Speaker 1: going to be an environmental disaster as well. And there
Speaker 1: are just gaping holes in the wall, if you will
Speaker 1: that where there is work that is needing to be finished.
Speaker 1: We're speaking of Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. She was
Speaker 1: just down at the border and Senator Blackburn, there's already
Speaker 1: some reporting about, let's just say, a lack of transparency
Speaker 1: for the actual facilities where these migrants who are crossing
Speaker 1: in the country illegally are being held. You're a United
Speaker 1: States senator. One would think that you would you would
Speaker 1: be able to get transparency and access into these facilities.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about that? I mean, is
Speaker 1: there an effort to prevent people from being able to
Speaker 1: see what's going on? I think that there is an effort.
Speaker 1: My goodness, you know, when the local sheriffs are saying, hey,
Speaker 1: come on down here, we're going to show you exactly
Speaker 1: leave what is going on, and we're going to give
Speaker 1: you a full picture of what is happening because the
Speaker 1: federal government won't do it. What we do know is
Speaker 1: that ICE is not showing up at some of these
Speaker 1: county jails in order to pick these migrants up, and
Speaker 1: they're leaving it to the sheriffs to tend to this.
Speaker 1: We know that the sheriffs are saying and the ranchers
Speaker 1: and the property owners are saying, hey, look, you know
Speaker 1: we have them on our property. I talked to a
Speaker 1: lady who said, you know, they had walked out and
Speaker 1: there was a backpack. You know, people can identify these
Speaker 1: things because, as I said, it's cartel issued clothing. So
Speaker 1: they see a backpack from one of the migrants, it's
Speaker 1: in the backyard, and they have small children in their family.
Speaker 1: Another one said, you know, we have them try to
Speaker 1: transit through our rant. It prohibits us from doing some
Speaker 1: of the ranch work that we would like to do.
Speaker 1: People have to be careful about locking up all of
Speaker 1: their vehicles, all of their tools. These are American citizens
Speaker 1: and their property rights are being so infringed, and the
Speaker 1: federal government is not showing up to help. You have
Speaker 1: these local counties where taxpayers are footing the bill for
Speaker 1: a lot of this local taxpayers because the federal government
Speaker 1: does not show up to pick up those migrant criminal
Speaker 1: illegal aliens that should be being held. And by the way,
Speaker 1: you have all of these sheriffs that will tell you,
Speaker 1: and you have border patrol, which are you know, God
Speaker 1: love them. They're just working their fingers to the bone
Speaker 1: down there, and they will tell you. Look, you know,
Speaker 1: we have people from all over the world. The word
Speaker 1: is out, the border is open. If you're going to come, now,
Speaker 1: it's the time to come, Senator Blackburn, if we'll let
Speaker 1: you go, we're speaking Senator Blackburn of Tennessee for everybody
Speaker 1: joining us. Do you see this getting any better? It
Speaker 1: seems as though the Biden administration's focus on this is
Speaker 1: to make the process more streamline for those who cross
Speaker 1: over and to add extra capacity. But that doesn't seem
Speaker 1: likely to stop the flow. Oh, no, that is going
Speaker 1: to increase the flow. You are exactly right about that.
Speaker 1: It is if they start adding capacity, what does it
Speaker 1: do It increases the flow because what you're doing is
Speaker 1: emboldening the cartels. And by the way, cartels are big business.
Speaker 1: They make more money off of trafficking humans than they
Speaker 1: do drugs right now. And the labor thangs, the gangs,
Speaker 1: the MS thirteen gangs, the sex trafficking. These are people
Speaker 1: from all over the globe that are coming. So this
Speaker 1: is one we have to secure this border. It's fine.
Speaker 1: The Biden administration really needs to get their act together
Speaker 1: on this. This is about keeping the American people safe.
Speaker 1: When somebody's coming in this country illegally, we don't know
Speaker 1: what kind of biologics they're bringing, what kind of weapons
Speaker 1: they're bringing, what drugs they are bringing, or if they're
Speaker 1: COVID positive. We don't have answers to any of those questions.
Speaker 1: Senator Marsha Blackburne of Tennessee, always appreciate you joining a senator.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time. Good talking to you.
Speaker 1: Take care. There's this thing happening in the Republican Party
Speaker 1: right now where I feel like they're trying to outraceist
Speaker 1: one another. And then they claim when people criticize those
Speaker 1: comments that they're being canceled, you know, into crime, cancel culture,
Speaker 1: and then they fundraise off of it. It's this weird
Speaker 1: cycle of saying the racist thing, denying the thing you
Speaker 1: said is racist, and then fundraising off of that when
Speaker 1: you're criticized by everyone else. And I think everybody heard
Speaker 1: what he said, We know what he means, we know
Speaker 1: what that expression comes from. And I find it ghastly
Speaker 1: that he would invoke that at a hearing when they
Speaker 1: we're talking that day about anti Asian hatred and the
Speaker 1: fact that eight people were killed this week because of
Speaker 1: potentially white supremacy and white supremacist violence. And so that's
Speaker 1: the issue. The issue is not an expression from Texas
Speaker 1: in which you invoke lynching. Oh gosh, here we have
Speaker 1: again more, it's it's white supremacist violence in Atlanta. Even
Speaker 1: though we've gone over the day day is that the
Speaker 1: information that we have is that it is not, in fact,
Speaker 1: was not motivated by white supremacist violence. White supremacy is
Speaker 1: being If you watch MSNBC, if you are an avid
Speaker 1: CNN watcher, this is you would think the biggest problem
Speaker 1: in America, worst than COVID, I mean, the worst thing
Speaker 1: in America today, the most dangerous, lethal, and frightening thing
Speaker 1: that we deal with in this country is if you
Speaker 1: watch MSNBC, CNN, read The New York Times, it is
Speaker 1: white supremacy remarkable, And you'd have to wonder as well,
Speaker 1: is the country so much more racist now than it
Speaker 1: was twenty years ago when white supremacy as a term
Speaker 1: was reserved for actual white supremacists. What's really changed the
Speaker 1: way they describe America on the left or the actual
Speaker 1: the actual situation in this country? Have we gotten much
Speaker 1: more racist? Is that really their belief? I'd be very
Speaker 1: curious to hear how that makes any sense. But you
Speaker 1: should just be prepared for a future in which the argument, increasingly,
Speaker 1: especially around the immigration, becomes an argument about race and
Speaker 1: racism from the left perspective. That's what they'll do. That's
Speaker 1: the likely place that they will take it because they
Speaker 1: feel very comfortable, They feel very powerful in that part
Speaker 1: of the discussion. You know, lecturing anybody who's on the
Speaker 1: right of American politics about race is so easy and
Speaker 1: puts people who are a Republican, doesn't matter what your
Speaker 1: racist is a Republican if you're in the part of
Speaker 1: the GOP, if you're a conservative, you're on the defensive
Speaker 1: the moment the issue of racism comes up. That's the
Speaker 1: way that this has all been set up. That's the game,
Speaker 1: and you can be prepared for a lot more of
Speaker 1: that kind of discussion. Here here is ilhan Omar talking
Speaker 1: about the border searche play eleven. It means understanding that
Speaker 1: searches happen. And you know, this, this conversation around the
Speaker 1: hysteria that is happening with the Republicans right now is
Speaker 1: centered around, you know, the eating political points. It's not
Speaker 1: about the safety of Americans. It's not about adhering to
Speaker 1: international law and allowing people to seek asylum. It's not
Speaker 1: about coming to the table and working with us UM
Speaker 1: in regards to immigration policy. Because if any of those
Speaker 1: things were true, you would hear hysteria from them in
Speaker 1: regards to the northern border. You would hear hysteria from
Speaker 1: them around you know, folks who become undocumented because they
Speaker 1: overstay their visas. And so it shows you really that
Speaker 1: this this conversation, it's about maligning and you know, I
Speaker 1: think creating a tortuous space that often becomes dangerous and
Speaker 1: violent for those that are the least fortunate in our
Speaker 1: immigration population. The northern border. I mean, that's really the
Speaker 1: argument here, that we're supposed to worry about the northern border.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we had one hundred thousand people a
Speaker 1: month crossing into the country from Canada, and they were
Speaker 1: coming from all over the world. I can assure a
Speaker 1: representative OMAR that that would also get a lot of attention.
Speaker 1: And I can assure representative of OMAR that there are
Speaker 1: people who really do believe that this is a rule
Speaker 1: of law issue, and that you know, if you're a
Speaker 1: bad person for wanting to stand up for our immigration
Speaker 1: system and for the laws around it, and I want
Speaker 1: actually stand up for it. I know there are problems
Speaker 1: with it everything else, but just having an immigration system
Speaker 1: instead of laws about who can come here and when,
Speaker 1: how they can stay, and how long they can stay
Speaker 1: and everything else, if you're a bad person for being
Speaker 1: upset when those laws are broken or thinking that that's
Speaker 1: a problem. Why do we have immigration laws? I mean,
Speaker 1: you have to really get into the underlying mentality here,
Speaker 1: and in the moment you do that, you recognize these
Speaker 1: democrats or just nuts, well, actually they're doing exactly what
Speaker 1: they think is most likely to benefit their political power
Speaker 1: and give them the most benefits. So in a sense
Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense. I get what they're doing. I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised by any this. In fact, you know I
Speaker 1: wrote a book about, you know, in advance before the pandemic,
Speaker 1: the Socialism Survival Guide, and I wrote it for Stansbury Research.
Speaker 1: And in the book, I said, you know, open borders,
Speaker 1: sovereignty is for suckers. That was the title of my
Speaker 1: immigration chapter. I wrote that in twenty nineteen. We're seeing
Speaker 1: exactly that play out right now. This is what the
Speaker 1: Democrats want. They're getting what they want. The problem for
Speaker 1: them is just that the American people are figuring it
Speaker 1: out sooner than the Democrats anticipated and seeing it for
Speaker 1: what it really is. That's what upsets them. Our buddy
Speaker 1: Ryan Gerderski back with us now. He is a writer,
Speaker 1: political analyst. He's the author of They're Not Listening How
Speaker 1: the Elites Created a Populist Revolution. Mister Kurdski, good to
Speaker 1: have you. Let's start with this. I want to get
Speaker 1: you on something that caught at least the attention of
Speaker 1: conservatives over the weekend, Christinome. Whenever I talk about how
Speaker 1: Ronda Santists has done an amazing job, rohnds sand has
Speaker 1: done a great job in Florida, I got all these
Speaker 1: people that say, what about Christinome right away? And what
Speaker 1: I want to say to them, is well, I mean
Speaker 1: she's the governor of South Dakota, which you know has
Speaker 1: the population of San Jose, California, and has a population
Speaker 1: density of like Inner Mongolia or something. Right. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a little bit of a different
Speaker 1: situation than Rhonda Santists with Miami and Tampa and Orlando,
Speaker 1: and you know, you got the list. You know it's
Speaker 1: it's a different situation. And yet now we see she
Speaker 1: won't sign. She was all excited to sign a ban
Speaker 1: on transgender males in female sports, but she's sending it
Speaker 1: back now all of a sudden. I'm seeing people say
Speaker 1: this is just because she's caving to pressure groups. What
Speaker 1: are you seeing? No, this is one hundred percent because
Speaker 1: she's caving. I mean, one of the biggest opponents of
Speaker 1: this bill is one of her biggest donors in the
Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce, Christine nom Here's theme of Christime. I
Speaker 1: get it. She's beautiful, she's articulate. We want a woman,
Speaker 1: we want to diversify the party. It's not her. It's
Speaker 1: just not her. She's not gonna be the one to
Speaker 1: sit there and do it. She was a she was
Speaker 1: a moderate House member she's a moderate governor. Yea, she
Speaker 1: handled the COVID shut down fine, but that is not
Speaker 1: enough to sit there and say, oh, you should be
Speaker 1: a future presidential Candida, especially being the governor of South Dakota,
Speaker 1: one of the states that is one of the least
Speaker 1: impactful when it comes to electoral college. No, she's this
Speaker 1: is this is totally typical of her. And listen, here's
Speaker 1: what Republicans have to reconcile with the Chamber of Commerce,
Speaker 1: big business. They are four two of the biggest things
Speaker 1: that we were against right now, critical race theory in government,
Speaker 1: in business, and there for transgender girls playing boys trenches
Speaker 1: or boys rather playing girls sports. They are one hundred
Speaker 1: percent for both of those things. So any conversation that
Speaker 1: we are going to have to sit there and roll
Speaker 1: back those or use government force to roll those things back,
Speaker 1: it has to come at the expense of the donor class.
Speaker 1: Christian Noman is not going to be that person. She's
Speaker 1: immensely weak on that issue. And she's a total total
Speaker 1: swamp preacher. I don't caram tell me, she says there
Speaker 1: and says in Maca. She's a total swamp preacher. When
Speaker 1: you think of her, you should just basically think of
Speaker 1: lish Chaney. Wow, Liz Cheney, but a little different. But
Speaker 1: Liz Chaney, okay, with blue with nicer eyes. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's basically the same exact thing. She's not. She's note
Speaker 1: there's no difference on real hardcore policy whatever. She was
Speaker 1: the first governor when Trump said I'm gonna like governors
Speaker 1: decide if they want refugees or not refugees, she was
Speaker 1: one of the first governors to say, no, let's have
Speaker 1: Somemalis come to South Dakota. She is she's not good
Speaker 1: on policy. She never has been going on policy. We
Speaker 1: shouldn't expect to be going on policy. She shouldn't be
Speaker 1: on a presidential ticket. I get it. She's a beautiful,
Speaker 1: articular woman. That is not enough to make you somebody
Speaker 1: we should be, you know, praising to Santez. I can
Speaker 1: name fifteen good issues top of my head that he's
Speaker 1: been great on. Now let's let's actually get your your
Speaker 1: take on the the me since we're bringing up to Santis.
Speaker 1: You know, over the weekend, there was this spring break
Speaker 1: thing in South Beach. I mean, a spring break is
Speaker 1: obviously for a general, but there's a there's a spring
Speaker 1: break celebration in South Beach, and they were saying in
Speaker 1: some of the outlets, I saw, oh, there's a COVID
Speaker 1: curfew going into effect. My two brothers live in South
Speaker 1: Beach right now. Okay, I've got two brothers on the
Speaker 1: ground in South Beach. They said it was absolute madness
Speaker 1: on the streets, violence, chaos, fights breaking out, you know,
Speaker 1: and everyone was very aware that this was completely out
Speaker 1: of control. Had nothing to do with COVID policy, right,
Speaker 1: And if they had Black Lives Matter sign, no one
Speaker 1: would have cared. Only difference that they were. They were
Speaker 1: missing a Black Lives Matter sign while they were doing
Speaker 1: all those things. If they had, If they did have
Speaker 1: that though, the media would not care whatsoever. Listen they
Speaker 1: are the media is absolutely doing any possibly can to
Speaker 1: make sure Ron de Sands is not the president in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Um, they know that he's an immensely
Speaker 1: popular governor of a state large enough to be its
Speaker 1: own country. That the shutdown, that Democrat politicians in safe
Speaker 1: democratic states like New York and California are facing tough
Speaker 1: reelection battles like they ever should have, and Desanders should
Speaker 1: be the one, um, you know, having to having to
Speaker 1: fight for his life. But he's not. And they know
Speaker 1: that because everything they've they've prescribed over the last year
Speaker 1: plus because of COVID has been an utter failure. De
Speaker 1: Sants has become a hero to the to the to
Speaker 1: the right wing of the party, not just over lockdowns,
Speaker 1: but over a million other issues. As I said, so
Speaker 1: they're highlighting is like a bunch of like black teenagers
Speaker 1: in twenty year olds fighting in Miami. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: if we if we look at what the violence was
Speaker 1: like in Portland or in Minneapolis or anywhere else, or
Speaker 1: the events happening in Washington, DC in Shune last June,
Speaker 1: where it was Black Lives Matter activists not wearing masks,
Speaker 1: dancing to like the Cupid Shuffle on the street, thousands
Speaker 1: of them not wearing masks and doing all those things
Speaker 1: leading up to violence. The media did not sit there
Speaker 1: and say the mayor Bowser should resign. You know, they said,
Speaker 1: this is you know, people are feeling their their their
Speaker 1: moment right now. Please give me a break. I mean
Speaker 1: that's why. Yeah, it was a bunch of teenagers or
Speaker 1: twenty year olds, probably a lot of them drunk, doing
Speaker 1: stupid things. It's nothing to do with the governor, the governor.
Speaker 1: It was not like the governor was there saying, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone chug a keg, I mean everyone needs to relax.
Speaker 1: Speaking to Ryan Grdusky, he's the author of They're Not
Speaker 1: Listening and a political analyst and writer. Ryan, Now let's
Speaker 1: talking about immigration because I'm I'm feeling like people aren't
Speaker 1: really getting the message that the Democrats are not that
Speaker 1: they're not aligned on the fundamental issue here of stopping
Speaker 1: this policy from allowing people to gain the immigration system.
Speaker 1: They just don't like the optics of overcrowded facilities and
Speaker 1: people uh doing this in a way where it's obvious
Speaker 1: what's going on. They have It seems to be the
Speaker 1: Democrats just want to make this less obvious. And to
Speaker 1: the Chamber of Commerce, which you brought up before, there
Speaker 1: are a Republican and there are there are you know,
Speaker 1: swamp interests that do want to see this continue. I
Speaker 1: think people have this assumption that like it's a crisis,
Speaker 1: Oh well, we all wanted to be dealt with the
Speaker 1: same way. There are a lot of people that would say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: do we have enough enough beds and enough facilities for
Speaker 1: everybody who's coming. Well, then the crisis is over. Sure,
Speaker 1: we're just processing people now. The most indicative thing was
Speaker 1: that there was two votes for an amnesty. Last week.
Speaker 1: You had you had thirty Republicans join join every Democrat
Speaker 1: for a farm workers amnesty, which was explicitly created to
Speaker 1: not punish businesses that hired illegal labor, to explicitly make
Speaker 1: sure that wages were depressed in the farm ministry, and
Speaker 1: that they never had to recognize this is this is outrageous.
Speaker 1: And then there was another bill on the dock, a
Speaker 1: dream amnesty, which had nine Republicans join us. So I
Speaker 1: think that and Senator Rick Scott, who is the head
Speaker 1: of the NRSC has been floating, he's been asking other
Speaker 1: senators to join a legalization bill for illegal aliens. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they do get it at all. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think they don't think they understood, you know,
Speaker 1: the most Republican elective donors in the base whatsoever. But
Speaker 1: the Democrats they're not. This is not a question of
Speaker 1: two sides trying to figure out a humanitarian way to
Speaker 1: deal with a crisis and tom and to you know,
Speaker 1: protect the border. This is one side that is literally
Speaker 1: like we shouldn't have a border anyone who gets gets
Speaker 1: into America should become should be allowed to live here,
Speaker 1: They should be allowed to vote here because they vote
Speaker 1: seventy thirty Democrat. You know, as I saw this over
Speaker 1: and over and over again in twenty sixteen, Trump won
Speaker 1: a plurality of the vote with people who vote who
Speaker 1: were born in America where he lost the boat were
Speaker 1: born born people. They know it's a countdown to how
Speaker 1: how long until it gets how many more people do
Speaker 1: they get Arizona, permanent, Blue Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida,
Speaker 1: and it's Democratic presidents the whole countributst California. They know
Speaker 1: that is a countdown. That's why people like you know,
Speaker 1: Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, you know, these were all people
Speaker 1: who were against mass amnesty and mass immigration less than
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. Hillary Clinton used to be talking about,
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders talked about it. They only change their opinion
Speaker 1: once they saw the vote totals and say, we can
Speaker 1: make sure that we have the entire Southwest and southern
Speaker 1: part of the United States Democrat forever, will have Democrat
Speaker 1: presidents from here on out. It's about power, and it's
Speaker 1: about and also, by the way, they're all corporates too.
Speaker 1: They all have corporate donors or whatsoever. It's not like
Speaker 1: corporations only don't go into Republicans. They're all basically giving
Speaker 1: to both parties. So they're feeding off their Democratic donors
Speaker 1: and they know they can get the vote and get
Speaker 1: it for long enough and they will whole power forever.
Speaker 1: One thing I think is fascinating, and we're speaking to
Speaker 1: Ryan Gurdusky, a political writer and an analyst. Ryan, is
Speaker 1: that the Mayorkas line on this, for example, what what
Speaker 1: and the White House will have Jensak and others come forward,
Speaker 1: and they keep saying the border is not open. We
Speaker 1: turn people away. And I always want to ask, okay,
Speaker 1: why do you turn people away? You know, in one
Speaker 1: breath it's these are four year olds who are swimming
Speaker 1: across the Rio grand and we have an obligation and
Speaker 1: a humanitarian But then when people see what's actually happening
Speaker 1: in the facilities, the numbers of people, the Democrats turn
Speaker 1: around and say, oh no, but don't worry, we're actually
Speaker 1: sending most people away. And it's well, first of all,
Speaker 1: what's the percentage? And second of all, based on the
Speaker 1: way the Democrat party views this, why why do they
Speaker 1: send that him? I mean, I know why. I believe
Speaker 1: in rule of law. I believe that we have an
Speaker 1: immigration system that must be respected. They don't really believe
Speaker 1: that though, So it seems to me like there's just
Speaker 1: a disingenuous when they try to when they try to
Speaker 1: calm the issue down by saying, oh, don't worry, we're
Speaker 1: still deporting people. Well, why why would Democrats do that
Speaker 1: based on the logic of their position? Do you see
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Well, you know, they are turning people
Speaker 1: away on the under President Trump's Healthcare Act, the title
Speaker 1: forty two issue. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's it's so.
Speaker 1: But he what he did change was he's on two things.
Speaker 1: One he's been saying, well, we'll take your children, so
Speaker 1: you're you know, fifteen thousand kids per month is well
Speaker 1: respecting this month. So we'll take your children. Your children
Speaker 1: have to wait and we'll reunite you eventually. And the
Speaker 1: other thing keeps saying is we'll stand by, stand by,
Speaker 1: and we'll get to you. And he said a thout
Speaker 1: the entire campaign he said it as president. Um he says,
Speaker 1: we're working on making the system more just. So it's
Speaker 1: just basically a waiting game because they know he's gonna
Speaker 1: do it. And just I mean, it was this Sunday
Speaker 1: that ABC reporter or Martha Rodd Raddits talked to one
Speaker 1: of the migrants and said, did you come here because
Speaker 1: Biden is president? He said yes, I wouldn't have come
Speaker 1: under Trump. It is an attitude thing when they perceive
Speaker 1: and trust in the coyotes and the human smugglers, tell
Speaker 1: them this president is going to be easy on you.
Speaker 1: You can get in and you know, you know. At
Speaker 1: this point, it's just two things baff on my mind. One,
Speaker 1: I don't understand why. I don't understand the optics, and
Speaker 1: I don't store they have been hit harder that Democrat
Speaker 1: that this Democratic president made American troops reserve as sleep
Speaker 1: on a concrete cold floor in a parking lot in WASHINGTONDC.
Speaker 1: But he's paying eighty six million dollars to a month
Speaker 1: just that they're in house illegal aliens and hotels. And
Speaker 1: then the other thing I understand is who keeps paying
Speaker 1: for these Biden twenty twenty t shirts that these migrants
Speaker 1: are wearing. I just I would love to know how
Speaker 1: all these migroups are wearing Biden t shirts. I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the Biden campaign shipping me is off to
Speaker 1: the Central America. So those two things sit there and
Speaker 1: question my mind. But fundamentally they don't view I mean
Speaker 1: Nancy Polosis said that, you know, illegal aliens are like
Speaker 1: the founding Fathers. They don't view these people in any
Speaker 1: context where they are breaking the wall. They don't believe
Speaker 1: this is a lot. That's what I meant to get
Speaker 1: to though, about why they're turning people away. They don't
Speaker 1: really think they should have to turn people away. They
Speaker 1: just say this. I mean, the Democrat mindset to the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party believes that immigrants there is only positive from
Speaker 1: taking an immigrants, if you speak, they're better than Americans
Speaker 1: in every way, Yeah, they're better than Americans. And if
Speaker 1: you have any problem with people crossing into the country illegally,
Speaker 1: any problem with overwhelming assimilation in this country, with taking
Speaker 1: we're already taken a million a year. I legally we're
Speaker 1: gonna take now you know, maybe a half a million
Speaker 1: through this process of the border. Who knows what the
Speaker 1: number is actually going to be. And if you have
Speaker 1: any problem that you're a bad person illegally. Yeah, now,
Speaker 1: it'll be It'll be unbelievable, the high numbers because of
Speaker 1: what Biden has done in his administration, and they just
Speaker 1: they don't have Mimericas is completely incapable of handling this situation.
Speaker 1: And you're seeing a splintering of both Democrats on the
Speaker 1: border Gonzala representatives Gonzalez Andeculiar who are this a crisis?
Speaker 1: Joe Mansion is now calling this a crisis. They realize
Speaker 1: these numbers. Immigration, the oh predictive polster. It was a
Speaker 1: pretty good poster for the state of Arizona. Immigration is
Speaker 1: now the number one issue in Arizona, not COVID, not jobs. Immigration.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be and it's gonna be very, very,
Speaker 1: very bad for Demiraia. I was gonna say, is this
Speaker 1: gonna cost them in the mid terms? Your estimation rusby
Speaker 1: Ryan gr Dusky political analysts ahead, Ryan, They're gonna lose
Speaker 1: the House one hundred percent. I don't see any which way.
Speaker 1: The only way that they can hope that the House
Speaker 1: managed to change is if the Pennsylvania Supreme Court gets
Speaker 1: involved to jerry mander Pennsylvania for the Democrats. But and
Speaker 1: and and they jerry mander in New York. But other
Speaker 1: than that they're losing the House. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: it's all but guaranteed for the Democrats at this point.
Speaker 1: Their numbers are so bad. Uh, it's you know, the
Speaker 1: first mid term of a presidential cycle, it's always bad
Speaker 1: for them. But on immigration, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: complete disaster. And what Americans don't like is they don't
Speaker 1: like when you when you're for critical on the laws
Speaker 1: you passed the fact that Americans kids still cannot go
Speaker 1: to school because the New York the New York, but
Speaker 1: the public teachers unions across the country, including New York,
Speaker 1: they still cannot go to school. But illegal alien migrant
Speaker 1: children they get to go to school. They get to
Speaker 1: go in person schooling. So they just they cannot live
Speaker 1: with a hypocrisy of this administration. I hope they pay
Speaker 1: a big price for this one. But we'll see Ryan
Speaker 1: or dusk everybody. Ryan, thanks so much for joining man.
Speaker 1: Great to have you. Thank you so to the extent
Speaker 1: that we can help solve some of the problems at home.
Speaker 1: And instead of canceling that investment, which the Trump administration canceled,
Speaker 1: the investment that we had to do just that. I
Speaker 1: wish you could see the impact of what USAID can
Speaker 1: do to help children in those countries. So that is
Speaker 1: to back up again and say that Biden administration has
Speaker 1: this under control. It will take its change, and it'll
Speaker 1: take some time, but it is values based, humanitarian and
Speaker 1: its aspects pragmatic and how with a plan to get
Speaker 1: things done and not just a diversionary tactic on the
Speaker 1: part of the Republicans because they are bankrupt of ideas
Speaker 1: on how to improve the lives of American people. They
Speaker 1: run to the border. Yeah, Nancy Pelosi here folks telling you, oh,
Speaker 1: it's all gonna be fine, just you know, give it time,
Speaker 1: and something mutter muttered, Yeah, y's you know what I
Speaker 1: really care about as the children. You know, Nancy always
Speaker 1: always finds their way to talk about the children. You know,
Speaker 1: this is I've never heard a politician that, when she
Speaker 1: doesn't have a good argument, is faster to make it
Speaker 1: about how she really just wants to help the children. Sure, yeah, Nancy,
Speaker 1: Nancy cares a whole whole heck of a lot. They've
Speaker 1: created a terrible situation in the border. We can all
Speaker 1: see it, we all know what's going on, and yet
Speaker 1: what are we actually figuring out about all of this.
Speaker 1: What are we actually learning about all of this? It's
Speaker 1: only going to get worse, it's not going to get better.
Speaker 1: How is it going to get better when their their
Speaker 1: goal is to make the process easier and more comfortable
Speaker 1: for the migrants who were crossing, and to make it
Speaker 1: so that they're more likely to be in a comfortable,
Speaker 1: more a better facility. I mean, they're spending eighty million
Speaker 1: dollars on they're spending eighty million dollars to taking it.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money to put migrants in hotels,
Speaker 1: in hotels that that's where we are now. Show up
Speaker 1: in America, break, you know, come in illegally, try to
Speaker 1: game the system. We'll put you up in a hotel
Speaker 1: and then we'll let you go and do whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do. That's the Democrat version of having this
Speaker 1: issue in hand. And you can't ignore the politics of us.
Speaker 1: You can't ignore what this is going to mean over
Speaker 1: long term. If if foreign born people voted more frequently
Speaker 1: for Republicans and Democrats, Nancy Pelos would be standing at
Speaker 1: the border waving, waving border patrol after people saying, you know,
Speaker 1: go get him, arrest him. You know, if foreign born
Speaker 1: individuals in general who come into the country illegally were
Speaker 1: not inclined, especially after an amnesty, to vote in favor
Speaker 1: of Democrats, they would have a very different view of
Speaker 1: this situation. We all know it. I mean, you think
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi really cares about what's going on in Central America.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi doesn't care about what's going on in you know,
Speaker 1: poor parts of Oakland, not far from her district, right,
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi lives in a mansion, and it's all about
Speaker 1: her and her power. And you know she's not. She's
Speaker 1: not some really kind, thoughtful person that wants to help
Speaker 1: all the impoverished masses of the world because she's so
Speaker 1: sweet and loving. It's because it consolidates her power. The
Speaker 1: show ain't over yet, folks. It's time for roll call
Speaker 1: Producer Mark. Everybody producer Mark tell us exciting tales from
Speaker 1: the world. According to producer Mark, what is going on?
Speaker 1: What is happening? My man? Well, I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: big week weekend, I guess in the world of sports.
Speaker 1: I'm curious, more curious if you haven't even a clue
Speaker 1: what event is going on? Yeah, it's the Spring Olympics, obviously.
Speaker 1: I mean kind of march madness. Maybe you've heard of it.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yes, March madness. That's a thing. That's
Speaker 1: a thing. So that was Rutgers doing. By the way,
Speaker 1: Rutgers lost less night in heartbreaking fashion. Actually, they had
Speaker 1: a chance to go to the Sweet sixteen. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the first time ever, the first time in
Speaker 1: a long time. They were up late and then ended
Speaker 1: up losing and it was a heartbreaker for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of upsets. Is fifteen seed. Oral
Speaker 1: Roberts is in the Sweet sixteen. Oral Roberts is a college. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they thought it was a tooth I thought it was
Speaker 1: a toothpaste. Yes, that's what everyone says as well. And
Speaker 1: there they'll be facing Arkansas in the next round, which
Speaker 1: is funny. Oral robertson Arkansas. M you know Bill Clinton's
Speaker 1: home mm hmm okay, I got, I got yeah, alright, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: produce some mocks. Settled down. I figured I would make
Speaker 1: a political joke. Yeah, I so I tried to get
Speaker 1: the snow the snow Princess, and I watched and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, she's I was. I was in charge of
Speaker 1: Tolula this weekend again. She toulu is actually with me
Speaker 1: now the French bulldog. For anybody who doesn't know, Debrah
Speaker 1: is the girlfriend to Lula is the French bulldog. And
Speaker 1: and we tried to watch a new show. It was
Speaker 1: called zero zero zero on Amazon. It's okay, we're kind
Speaker 1: of getting it. But but she she was it was
Speaker 1: a little intense. It's like drug cartels, a lot of violence,
Speaker 1: so she wanted to switch. I said, all right, so
Speaker 1: let's just find something we can both watch. And of course,
Speaker 1: because you know, a happy snow princess, happy life. I
Speaker 1: we find some movie on It was on Netflix, and
Speaker 1: it has one of the women from Sex in the
Speaker 1: City in it. And I can't really explain it other
Speaker 1: than it's kind of a thriller about a really pretty
Speaker 1: babysitter who's like twenty, who is kind of crazy and
Speaker 1: like has a split personality thing. Anyway, and we watched
Speaker 1: this thing, and I will tell you it got It
Speaker 1: started out like it was a gonna be that bad.
Speaker 1: Like I just wanted to lie on the couch, you know,
Speaker 1: drink my tea, be with the girlfriend and the French
Speaker 1: bulldog and be happy. I didn't really care where we're
Speaker 1: watching and this wasn't her choice, but this was We
Speaker 1: tried to find that sweet spot for what a guy
Speaker 1: and a gal could watch together. And I figured, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, well this this will have to do. And
Speaker 1: we turned this thing on and people, remember, people paid
Speaker 1: money for this. Okay, it's called Oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: can't I can't even remember what this thing is called.
Speaker 1: Um you know what I've got a while we're here,
Speaker 1: I've got to look it up. It's Kristin Davis from
Speaker 1: Sex in the City. And it's so so deadly illusions,
Speaker 1: deadly illusions. It's called Producer Mark. I'm not it is
Speaker 1: so bad. It is so so bad. I mean, just
Speaker 1: from your description, I'm wondering why you even chose it. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it looked like a thriller, and
Speaker 1: you know it wasn't gonna be. I mean, at one
Speaker 1: point they actually they do the voiceover thing kind of
Speaker 1: where they make her voice sound all distorted and scary
Speaker 1: when she's going crazy. It's but it was great because
Speaker 1: it got to that point. The reason I'm talking about
Speaker 1: it's it got to that point as a movie where
Speaker 1: it was so bad that I was actually laughing out loud.
Speaker 1: Like it. It jumped the shark to the point where
Speaker 1: it became hilarious. Toward the end, You're like, this is
Speaker 1: the worst thing I've ever seen, Like this is now
Speaker 1: it's like a bunch of bad you know, college actors
Speaker 1: or something got together to make a whole movie. Or
Speaker 1: it's just so bad so and it's on a It
Speaker 1: was on Netflix. I'm sure they probably you know, spend
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars to make this piece of trash. It
Speaker 1: was a Netflix original. Yeah, wow, mm hmm. They're they're
Speaker 1: very hit or miss with the Netflix, very hit or miss,
Speaker 1: very hit or miss. There's so much somebody likes it.
Speaker 1: There's gotta be somebody out there that enjoyed that movie. Well,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of ladies will just watch it
Speaker 1: for the Sex and the City lady Kristin Davis, because
Speaker 1: she has quite a following from from that show. Um,
Speaker 1: and she's a bit you know, she's probably in her
Speaker 1: fifties now, she's a little bit older than she was
Speaker 1: back in the Sex and the City days. Um, some
Speaker 1: of the gentlemen watching this would probably like them. She's
Speaker 1: playing college age, but she you know, like twenty I
Speaker 1: think she says or twenty one. She is in the show,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's probably like twenty seven or something.
Speaker 1: Some of the dudes out there might enjoy that aspect
Speaker 1: of the movie because she is um. You know, people
Speaker 1: might pize. Some people would think I'm not saying me obviously,
Speaker 1: I only have eyes for one, but some people may
Speaker 1: think that she's esthetically pleasing so of some of the
Speaker 1: guys out there. So I'm just saying it didn't seem
Speaker 1: like it was gonna be one of the world. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen, I
Speaker 1: will say that, but it was so bad that it
Speaker 1: was funny. It's bad in the way that leperkn five
Speaker 1: Leperkon in the Hood is bad. For those who are wondering,
Speaker 1: that's a real movie. By the way, the LEPrecon actually
Speaker 1: at one point is in a hip hop club smoking
Speaker 1: a I believe, smoking a blunt in the bathroom. That's
Speaker 1: a thing that happens. I mean, it's a really bad movie,
Speaker 1: but you know, sometimes sometimes so bad it's good, is
Speaker 1: the thing. That's all I'm trying to say. Is it
Speaker 1: like Jack and Jill bad? What is that? Oh? The
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler movie where he plays his own twin sister.
Speaker 1: M No, but Adam Adam Sandler, you know when from
Speaker 1: went from greatness in the comedy world too. There are
Speaker 1: movies that I think even he would admit that he
Speaker 1: wished that he could probably erase from existence. I think
Speaker 1: that's a real thing. Some of them are really, really,
Speaker 1: really bad. I try to just remember the one from that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just You're just the best one of all time? Is
Speaker 1: Adam Sendler movie? What is it? I don't know how
Speaker 1: I choose here. I'm always a partial, a big daddy
Speaker 1: because I love that. When I was a kid, I
Speaker 1: go Happy Gilmore. That's a solid choice. I could say
Speaker 1: the water Boils. I really love that one, Like I
Speaker 1: feel like, the most quotable, the most outrageous, the one
Speaker 1: that really sticks in your mind the most, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it had Bob Barker for having sakes. Is
Speaker 1: Happy Gilmore and that big guy who's like, and I'll
Speaker 1: see you in the parking lot. Remember that? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Happy Gilmore is a good one. All right, all right,
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Speaker 1: viewing a try. Mark is correct. However, watch the Blackhawks,
Speaker 1: not the New York teams. Keep up the good work,
Speaker 1: all right, Mark to you first the Blackhawks. What's going
Speaker 1: on here? I mean, Chicago was a dynasty for a while,
Speaker 1: but they're in a bit of a rebuild. They're not
Speaker 1: so good anymore. So okay, not the team, how big
Speaker 1: it like like a Bulls, Lakers, Patriots kind of dynasty.
Speaker 1: Are not quite there. I mean, hockey is so different
Speaker 1: in terms of like you're never gonna get that dominant
Speaker 1: team like you would in basketball that will win five
Speaker 1: in a row, but you'll win three championships in seven years.
Speaker 1: That's a hockey dynasty, fair enough? All right? Well that's
Speaker 1: Richards by the way, I looked at did you see
Speaker 1: what Yankees tickets are going for, like way way deep
Speaker 1: in you know, upper upper deck territory or whatever, because
Speaker 1: of all the distancing and everything else. The tickets on
Speaker 1: like four hundred dollars for like a bad for a
Speaker 1: bad seat. Well, I'm guessing you're looking at like the
Speaker 1: secondary market, not directly from the Yankees. Yeah, yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: because it's only twenty percent capacity, right, So I'm just
Speaker 1: saying it's yeah, yeah, no, I know, but I'm just
Speaker 1: saying it. People they think they can get for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can sit, you know up where like
Speaker 1: buzzards are going to be ten feet above your head,
Speaker 1: like that part of the upper deck, and you're paying
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars or something like that a ticket for
Speaker 1: the Yankee stadium right now, which to me is just nuts.
Speaker 1: I will wait until it's more affordable and bigger capacity
Speaker 1: to go to a Mets game. I wouldn't I'm not
Speaker 1: definitely not going to a Yankee game in the middle
Speaker 1: of a pandemic. I definitely don't think you're gonna pay
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars to go see a Yankee game in
Speaker 1: the middle of pandemic. It's not worth it for me.
Speaker 1: It'll reduce capacities to the yank What would what would
Speaker 1: your New York Baseball Mets think about that? You know
Speaker 1: they would be very sad. Exactly. Well, if I'm going
Speaker 1: to spend money and take the time and you know,
Speaker 1: go through all the process that is going to a
Speaker 1: sporting event right now, I'm going to do it for
Speaker 1: the Mets. Fair enough, and Richard, as for the Mountain
Speaker 1: of North Carolina, sounds great, although interesting that you say
Speaker 1: that Asheville is a Marxist enclave. I thought I thought
Speaker 1: Asheville wouldn't be that left wing. But you know, what
Speaker 1: do I know? Learning about this stuff all the time?
Speaker 1: Mark not to be confused with producer Mark. First listening
Speaker 1: out in Panama City after Hurricane Michael in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: you seem to make a lot of sense talking about
Speaker 1: the Iranian drone shootdown. Later, hearing you talking about your
Speaker 1: time in Iraq, I knew we'd had some of the
Speaker 1: same experiences. Anyway, you're doing the Lord's work fighting back
Speaker 1: against COVID silliness. Silliness. You keep talking up Florida. How
Speaker 1: about visiting Georgia sometime where I live now. It's going
Speaker 1: to need a lot of work to keep it from
Speaker 1: going blue. Our governor is quietly keeping the economy open
Speaker 1: and running things fairly well. It's not going to go
Speaker 1: well if it goes south. But no one's talking about this.
Speaker 1: Love producer, Mark, and try listening to some Dua Lippa.
Speaker 1: She's not bad. What does Dua Lippa Dua Lipa? Oh,
Speaker 1: he's a current pop artists. Really, Yes, I had never
Speaker 1: heard of that before. All right, so it's a female singer. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I get that. I mean I figured that was probably
Speaker 1: the case. But do you do you celebrate du Alipa's
Speaker 1: whole catalog? Oh? I mean I know a couple of
Speaker 1: her songs, but you know, I'm not really a fan
Speaker 1: of anyone that's new and current. Yeah, that makes that
Speaker 1: makes sense. Um. And then as for Georgia, I always
Speaker 1: tell you guys, I love Savannah. I think Savannah as
Speaker 1: a gem of a of a town. That's really the
Speaker 1: only place in Georgia I've been in recent years. I
Speaker 1: haven't been to Georgia much. I was in Atlanta for
Speaker 1: one night maybe four years ago, and barely got any
Speaker 1: real Atlanta time in and then uh yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I've had I've been to Savannah. I think I've been
Speaker 1: to Savannah two or three times the last four years.
Speaker 1: So I really, I really do enjoy Savanna a lot though.
Speaker 1: Great food, great people, such a pretty town. And I
Speaker 1: like all the ghost story Laura and all that as well.
Speaker 1: That's kind of fun. You know, Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans,
Speaker 1: those are three of my favorite places in that part
Speaker 1: of the Jed. I know that's covering a lot of territory,
Speaker 1: but in that part of the country. So have you
Speaker 1: ever been their producer, Mark? Those those places to Savannah, Georgia. No,
Speaker 1: I have been to near Augusta, yeah, Georgia, but I
Speaker 1: haven't been anywhere to Savannah. No. Yeah, here we already
Speaker 1: a Gustia big hitter. The Llama flowing robes remember that. No, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, I'm just saying, all right, Jim Bucker, producer, Mark,
Speaker 1: I catch you on iHeartRadio on KFBX nine seventy and Fairbanks, Alaska.
Speaker 1: Whoo up in Alaska, baby, that's how we like it.
Speaker 1: You and Tucker Carlson are the two voices I go
Speaker 1: to these days. I miss I missed the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time, rogh. But you you carry the baton admirably
Speaker 1: public speaking courses almost without fail. This scourage distracting filler
Speaker 1: words like uh and um while speaking. It's becoming increasingly
Speaker 1: difficult to listen to Saki's press conference when practically every
Speaker 1: other word is uh and um. My impression is that
Speaker 1: she's either lying or just making it up as she
Speaker 1: goes rhetorically. How do people this an app get to
Speaker 1: these positions? Shields high, Jim, I, and I don't say
Speaker 1: this to be to be mean. I honestly don't understand
Speaker 1: how Jen Saki is the White House Press secretary. U.
Speaker 1: See I just didn't numb, but I but see that
Speaker 1: was a I need to pause to think, Um, that
Speaker 1: wasn't a filler word um quite the same way. I
Speaker 1: really did have to um for a minute there. I
Speaker 1: don't have an answer as to how she has that job.
Speaker 1: It strikes me as strange that she's in that role.
Speaker 1: She was the State Department spokeswoman before, so yeah, now
Speaker 1: she's the White House White House Press secretary. So you know,
Speaker 1: there was a really interesting article I saw of the
Speaker 1: weekend about all the people that were in the Biden
Speaker 1: I mean in the Obama administration, who now have become
Speaker 1: really rich as a result of what they got. See,
Speaker 1: I just did another Now I'm very aware of it,
Speaker 1: as a result of what they got in terms of
Speaker 1: corporate connections and board seats and speaker feeds and all
Speaker 1: these things after being in the after being in the
Speaker 1: Obama White House or tied to the Obama administration. So
Speaker 1: it's a big it's big business, big money for folks.
Speaker 1: That's Jensaki also went from almost no, according to this
Speaker 1: the financial disclosures, almost no net assets, net worth. What's
Speaker 1: it was something like fifty you know, thirty to fifty
Speaker 1: thirty to one hundred grand in total assets, I think
Speaker 1: is what she listed when she went to work at
Speaker 1: the State Department. So and look, I've been there before.
Speaker 1: I was. I remember being thirty years old. I think
Speaker 1: I had like two grand in my name. But now
Speaker 1: she's worth a few million dollars, I think. So I said, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that''s a good night, nice career move, go work at
Speaker 1: the work at the White House. Chrissy writes, question, who's
Speaker 1: really running the White House? What a mess? In sixty
Speaker 1: days our country has become. This is brutal, especially when
Speaker 1: Harris removes Biden Chrissy. I say it on bucksxton dot
Speaker 1: com today, Go check it out. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the I Told you so part of the Biden presidency.
Speaker 1: This is where we said, yeah, this is what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. And it's happening as we said it would.
Speaker 1: And the Democrats just don't care. They have their guy.
Speaker 1: They think they're getting their way to them. That is
Speaker 1: ultimately what matters. Everything else. Everything else really just feels
Speaker 1: like noise to them. So I think we should all
Speaker 1: be very clear eyed about that. And this is about power, folks,
Speaker 1: this is about control. We're gonna have another great show
Speaker 1: for you to barn every day this week until then
Speaker 1: Shield Tie