1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. I'm here with Kyle 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: Olsen today and we are going to talk government corruption. 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: And the reason I want to talk about government corruption 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: is Kyle does a lot here in the state of Michigan. 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: He has been following this story that I think everybody 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: will find fascinating. It's about Gretchen Wimer. She is obviously 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: one of the top contenders for president in twenty twenty eight, 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: but she is being targeted by another Democrat in the state, 9 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: and I guess I don't know if targeting is the 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: right word. I'm just surprised that the attorney general in 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: the state of Michigan, who is a hardcore dem is 12 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: investigating what she did. But it's pretty serious what she's 13 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: found out, which I think is fascinating. 14 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. So the big question is should government be using 15 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 2: taxpayer dollars, whether it's Michigan or anywhere else, using taxpayer 16 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 2: dollars to give to companies to quote unquote create jobs. 17 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 2: And a number of states have and doing this for actually, 18 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 2: you know, a pretty long time. And so what we 19 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 2: have been doing at the Midwesterner is really looking at, well, 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 2: what is Gretchen Whitmer. The Governor of Michigan actually doing 21 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 2: what companies is she giving these dollars to, what sort 22 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: of jobs are actually being created and all of that 23 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 2: sort of thing. And this really I think it's it's 24 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 2: exemplified in this story that's come out. Well really it 25 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 2: came out a few months ago, but it's really sort 26 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 2: of coming to a head now where the MEDC, which 27 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: is the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, which is the entity 28 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 2: that you know, gets the taxpayer dollars and then decides 29 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 2: and then they're going to. 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: Give you money to people who are either bringing a 31 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: company here or I mean, you guys have heard us 32 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: talk about goshen On here before. All of these companies 33 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: that get lured into the state of Michigan, I will say, 34 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: I want to stop you because you said, a lot 35 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: of states do it, states do it effectively. Michigan has 36 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: not had any of these contracts become effective. I mean 37 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: we had over the last six years of these agreements. 38 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: I think they were supposed to create sixty thousand jobs. 39 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: That was what was promised, and it ended up being 40 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand jobs. That I think they're like really pushing 41 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: it at coming up with sixteen thousand or fifteen thousand. 42 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: But the interesting thing about this one is this woman 43 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 1: is creating a company that's going to be an incubator 44 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: company that's going to create multiple different companies. But the news, 45 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: it was really the Detroit News that first reported on it. 46 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, So the story is a woman named Fae Bee 47 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 2: Done who is a Democrat donor, major donor, and is 48 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 2: on the MEDC executive board. She got a twenty million 49 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,239 Speaker 2: dollar grant in twenty twenty three. 50 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: So she's deciding who gets the grant, right, and she got. 51 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 2: The grand This is the this is the corruption of 52 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 2: the whole situation. So she gets a twenty million dollar 53 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 2: grant to a business. You know, she's supposed to be 54 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 2: out helping businesses start and all of that. But the 55 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 2: thing is, she got the twenty million dollar grant committed 56 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: you know, in the state budget, and then she opened 57 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 2: the company. So the company was not even the thing 58 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,959 Speaker 2: until she got the money. So she gets the money. 59 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 2: It's twenty million dollars total. She receives ten million dollars 60 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 2: of it. She spent about forty five hundred dollars on 61 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 2: a coffee machine, which a lot of people are you know, 62 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 2: have been really sort of freaking out about she spent 63 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 2: you know, tens of thousands of dollars on plane tickets, 64 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 2: a lot of things that you just would sort of say, 65 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 2: why do you need that office equipment and office furniture? 66 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 2: Why do you need that in order for other companies 67 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 2: to create jobs. So then what happens is there's questions 68 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: are being asked about where did the rest of the 69 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 2: money go. There was a there was a bill that 70 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 2: was introduced at the end of twenty twenty four to 71 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 2: try and claw back some of the ten million dollars, 72 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 2: but of course, you know, the legislature's not going to 73 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 2: pass that, so that didn't actually pass. The governor doesn't 74 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 2: really want to do anything, doesn't want to try and 75 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 2: get those dollars back because then I think she then 76 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 2: has to admit that, you know, this whole thing is 77 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 2: a failure. Dana Nessel, the Democrat Attorney General who was 78 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 2: elected in twenty eighteen the same time Gretchen Whitmer was 79 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 2: attempts she launches an investigation into fee Bee Dune in 80 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 2: this company and this where did the money go? 81 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: Which I just want to say, I feel like in 82 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: the past, this would not have happened with Dana Nessel, 83 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: because there was this weird they called it like the trifecta. 84 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: They were all protecting each other. It was Gretchen Whitmer, 85 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: Jocelyn Benson, Dana and nessl the three Attorney General, Secretary 86 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: of State, Governor. They were all protecting each other. Now, 87 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: in February, there was a State of the State address 88 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: from Gretchen Whitmer, and I was able to attend, and 89 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: I was right up front, so I got to see 90 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: this strange dynamic happening. And remember at that point, Gretchen 91 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: Whitmer is kind of flirting with the idea of speaking 92 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. She hasn't, she hasn't at this point 93 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: in February been in the Oval office yet with the 94 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: famous folder in front of her face moment. But she 95 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: has said that she would talk to him, she would 96 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: negotiate with him. There were some messages coming out from 97 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: the Attorney General's ex page saying like, we don't negotiate 98 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: with people like this, and really it was it was veiled, 99 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 1: but it was a tax against Gretchen Witmer. But that 100 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 1: night that I'm in the State of the State address, 101 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: I'm noticing the Democrats are clapping for Gretchen Witmer, and 102 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: they're all standing when she says something that they like. 103 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: But Dana Nessil never claps. Dana Nessil never stands. She 104 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: sits there with her lips pursed like she is unhappy. 105 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: And in that moment, people, even in the room, people 106 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: started kind of like muttering, hmm, is there a little 107 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: bit of a fight here? But this is now, I mean, 108 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 1: this could be a legal problem for Gretchen Wimer. 109 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 2: Right. So the history of Gretchen Whitmer is that she 110 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 2: her goal, she has said publicly her goal was to 111 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 2: work for the Michigan state football team. That's what she 112 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 2: wanted to do. I don't know what tough When she 113 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 2: was young, yes, and her father said, her father, who 114 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 2: was involved in Michigan politics, said no, you should go 115 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 2: into government. So she was elected state representative, then state senator. 116 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 2: Then she was appointed the Ingham County which is where 117 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 2: Lansing is, Ingham County prosecutor, and then she resigned and 118 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 2: then ran for governor. And it was sort of this 119 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 2: My point here is that it was sort of a progression, 120 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 2: a natural sort of political progression, and so the next 121 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 2: logical thing for her to do was to run for governor. 122 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 2: And she's not. I mean, she's partisan, but she's not. 123 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,559 Speaker 2: She's not an ideologue. I don't think. 124 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: I think she's whatever. Whichever way the wind blows, whichever 125 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: way the money blows, that's where Gretchen Wimer goes. Did 126 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: Dana Nessel she is a true part I mean, she 127 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: is an activist. She's always wanted to be an activist. 128 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: I think she the closest she's come to being interested 129 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: in football was the day she got drunk and got 130 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: wheeled out of football, right. 131 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 2: She didn't even watch it, right, And so yes, you're right, 132 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 2: Dana Nessel is a very different kind of person. She 133 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 2: is an ideologue, she's an activist. She has weaponized the 134 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 2: Attorney General's office against Trump electors and Republican fundraisers and 135 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 2: all of that. 136 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: But kind of the beauty of this is she also 137 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: indicted Rick Snyder. Really, Gretchen Whitmer's kind of you know, 138 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: Gretchen Whimer wanted that to happen. So now this could 139 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: really backfire because she taught the attorney general, you can 140 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: indict the governor, right, yes. 141 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 2: And she indicted Rick Snyder, the former governor, right after. 142 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 2: If you go back and you look at the chronology 143 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 2: of all of this. When Joe Biden was declared the 144 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 2: winner of the twenty twenty election, Rick Snyder and who 145 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 2: was one of the Republicans for Biden, don't forget, Don't forget, 146 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 2: and Gretchen Whitmer put out a joint statement basically calling 147 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 2: for this is a time for healing and basically, you know, 148 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 2: we're getting rid of Trump. And so what does Gretchen 149 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,839 Speaker 2: Whitmer and Dana Nessel do. They turn around and they 150 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 2: indict Rick Snyder. So but but so Jocelyn, Dana Nessel 151 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 2: is just she's a very different person. You know. Uh, 152 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 2: Gretchen Whitmer is she's a partier and that you know, 153 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 2: she went to Michigan State and that that was sort 154 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: of her thing. Where Danton Nessel's a she's out. I 155 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 2: think Dana Nestl's out for blood, Republican blood. And and 156 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 2: so then Trump gets real ect. Whitmer is addicted to 157 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 2: federal money. She wants to cozy up to Trump to 158 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 2: try and get federal money for the projects that she wants. 159 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 2: But then you've got Dana Nessel who is out for 160 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 2: blood and. 161 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: She cannot even stand a conversation with him. But having 162 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: that moment, I think that she probably threw open her 163 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,959 Speaker 1: mouth and her that hair on her chest curl. The 164 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: day that she saw Gretchen wentmer go snuggle Donald Trump 165 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: on the tarmac, I mean, I think she probably lost 166 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: and that was like a moment where she's on the 167 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: war path now because I think that's maybe I'm wrong, 168 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: but it appears that that's how she operates because she 169 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: is a true believer in crazy. 170 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 2: Yes, she's she's filed or has has joined multiple lawsuits 171 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 2: against the Trump administration. She's you know, used a lot 172 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 2: of the you know, fascist rhetoric and get a. 173 00:09:55,080 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: Certainly one where she joined one just like today about 174 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: making sure illegal immigrants have healthcare. 175 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I have Medicaid. Yes, they still have access to Medicaid. 176 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 2: So and and the Midwesterner has a story about that. 177 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 2: You can find it at the Midwesterner dot news. But 178 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 2: so they are very different people. And so the reason 179 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 2: all of this matters is because their Dana Nessel has 180 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 2: launched an investigation into you know, this misused potential misuse 181 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: of public money. So she launches the investigation. She tries 182 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 2: to get the med CDC to work with her provide documents, 183 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 2: you know, all of that sort of thing. Apparently they 184 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 2: weren't doing that. So it got so crazy that when 185 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 2: Gretchen Whitmer, the other thing that she's been doing is 186 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 2: she's not going to Michigan. She's not going to Ohio 187 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 2: or Illinois or Indiana or Wisconsin or Pennsylvania. She's not 188 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 2: going to neighboring states to try and recruit businesses. She's 189 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 2: going to the Middle East. She's going to Europe. And 190 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 2: so she was on a trip to Australia with the 191 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 2: president of the m d C, so they're literally on 192 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 2: the other side of the world, and Dana Nessel raids 193 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 2: the me DC, raids it and with a with you know, 194 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 2: a warrant for documents, and apparently, according to reporting, she 195 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 2: specifically wanted the cell phone of Quentin Messer, who is 196 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 2: the president of the me DC, who was in Australia 197 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 2: with the governor. And then additional reporting showed that the 198 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 2: governor's staff now is being represented by criminal attorneys and 199 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 2: they apparently we're doing some sort of coordination or discussion 200 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,199 Speaker 2: with fee Bee Don while this investigation was going on. 201 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: And so it's the governor's office, the Governor's coordinating with 202 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: the woman who is being investigated for getting state taxpayer 203 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: money and then potentially misusing that money. 204 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 2: And people in the in the Whitmer inner circle. I 205 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,599 Speaker 2: mean there's these are not you know, low level staffers 206 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 2: that are sort of you know, going rogue. These are 207 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 2: people in the inner in the inner circle of the governor. 208 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 2: So this is now all unfolding. The MEDC is trying 209 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 2: to block the you know, the use of the of 210 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 2: the materials that were obtained after the raid. And but 211 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 2: the big picture, you know, is is this how government 212 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 2: should be operating? Should government be giving twenty million dollars 213 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,079 Speaker 2: of our hard earned money to a company that didn't 214 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 2: exist when they gave the money? Is this meant? Mike, 215 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 2: we don't follow where it goes. 216 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on 217 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: a Tutor Dixon podcast. Remember when Stacy Abrams got the 218 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 1: money from Joe Biden, what was it two billion dollars? Sarah, 219 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,839 Speaker 1: I think it was two billion dollars that she got. 220 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: And this was before she ever had an organization too. 221 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 1: They had ever only ever brought in like one hundred 222 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: and fifty dollars, and this was to a nonprofit that 223 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: she gets two billion dollars and they say she has 224 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: to spend it in thirty days. This and this happens. 225 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: We don't even find this out until Trump is in office. 226 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: But this is the normal procedure for Democrats, folks. They 227 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: are taking your money. You when you saw all of 228 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: the doze stuff with USAID and you heard about the NGOs. 229 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: This is how this stuff works. And I'm glad that 230 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: this is being exposed with Gretchen Whitmer because I do 231 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: think she would move on and she would take that. 232 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: So you've got Gretchen Whitmer on one hand, who is 233 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: this big contender for twenty eight who is taking this money? 234 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 1: And I just also want to note she's gone to Spain, 235 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: she's gone to Japan, she's gone to Australia. Where else 236 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: did she go? 237 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 2: The UK and Ireland? 238 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: The UK and Ireland, and she has not brought back 239 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: a Licka business. That's the guys that she goes under. 240 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: She pretends she's going for that reason. She's actually going 241 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: because I believe that she'll use this in her presidential run. 242 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: These are my I have foreign policy experience. I've dealt 243 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: with all these people, I've met with all these leaders 244 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: over there, and suddenly we will see videos of her 245 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: with leaders and her over with these business leaders as well, 246 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: but she's never done any good over there. For the 247 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: state of Michigan, you've got that going on. On one hand, 248 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: you still have this situation in New York. So I 249 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: would say that Dana Nessel in Michigan aligns more with 250 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: the socialist arm of the Democrat Party. So you're going 251 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: to have that clash. And where does Gretchen Whitmer stand 252 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: on my Donnie over in New York City and what 253 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: he's doing, which is at this point he's going even 254 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: more extreme. He's just going to take all the tax 255 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: payer money, he's going to shut down the businesses. He's 256 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: going he has really the way he has spoken has 257 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: been full communism. But I would say, I mean, how 258 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: much different is this situation because you're taking taxpayer money, 259 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: you're giving in to a person who doesn't have a business, 260 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: and then she's going to organize what businesses can be 261 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: in business in the state of Michigan. It's not too 262 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: far off from that. 263 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: Well, it's yes, and there is zero accountability right not 264 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 2: to give Dana Nessel, you know, credit, but at least 265 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 2: she is at least the appearance, there's the appearance that 266 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 2: she's trying to bring some accountability to the situation, because 267 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 2: what happens is, I mean, you and I have talked 268 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 2: about Goshen, and there's other companies that have received tens 269 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 2: and hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, and then when 270 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 2: it doesn't actually come to be or they get the money. 271 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 2: You know, the Midwesterner had a story about LG which 272 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 2: is a battery maker, got one hundred and eighty nine 273 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 2: million dollars for Michigan taxpayers to create EV to build 274 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 2: EV batteries. Now should we should Michigan taxpayers be paying 275 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 2: for that? I think no. But setting that aside that 276 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 2: when that was the deal was they were going to 277 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 2: build EV batteries, well then they decide, no, we're not 278 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 2: going to build EV batteries because nobody's buying evs, so 279 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 2: we're going to create different kinds of batteries. Okay, so 280 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 2: you're not living up to the terms of the agreement. 281 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 2: But does that mean Gretchen Whitmer is going to ask 282 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 2: for the one hundred and eighty nine million dollars back. No, 283 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 2: of course not. 284 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: And the question is how many jobs would that have 285 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: produced because we're not getting any new jobs, so we 286 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: don't ever get the money back. One hundred and eighty 287 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: how much? 288 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 2: One hundred and eighty nine million, one hundred. 289 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: And eighty nine million. I mean, we're talking about massive 290 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: amounts of money. That reminds me of this situation in 291 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: New York where they're so used to taking this money 292 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,199 Speaker 1: and giving it and they believe that it's all just 293 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: being handed out. Now she is Whitmer is actually handing 294 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: out money. This clown in New York thought that he 295 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,199 Speaker 1: could take a tax break grocery stores are getting and 296 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: use that money that doesn't actually exist and create government 297 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: owned grocery stores. He has no idea how economics works. 298 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: He has a degree in African studies, that's what he 299 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: does a degree in. And this guy also created he 300 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: co founded the what is it? Students for Palestine, Yes 301 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: for Justice in Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine. He 302 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: graduated from college in twenty fourteen. I think most of 303 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: us who've been watching this movement of late have felt 304 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: like this is new. This has to come in in 305 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: the last few years and then really took off off 306 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: after October seventh. These organizations have been grooming these people 307 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,160 Speaker 1: four years. I'm using your term because you're right, they 308 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 1: have been grooming these people for years. And I believe 309 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: that people like Dana Nessel are a part of these 310 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:22,439 Speaker 1: activist groups. They go to these Free Palestine protests and 311 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: they're out there on the streets with these people, and 312 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: they get funded, well funded to get into office and 313 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: change the entire economic system of this country. And I 314 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 1: do think that you're seeing it happen in New York 315 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 1: right now, because people believe if you can change the 316 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: economic system that the City of New York runs on, 317 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: which is the most powerful city in the world, I 318 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: mean outside of I guess you could say Washington, d C. 319 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: Has more power the financial power that New York City has. 320 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: If you can change that economic system, you can take 321 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: the whole You can take down the globe in a 322 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: really messed up way. 323 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 2: Right. And So to me, the fundamental question of that 324 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 2: New York City mayor's race is can a personality who 325 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 2: speaks well, who you know, I guess looks good on camera. 326 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll leave that for others to decide. 327 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's charming. 328 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 2: He is, but he's engaging, and can that, and you know, 329 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,360 Speaker 2: he's he's got a lot of rhetoric that I think 330 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 2: a lot of people who are struggling find appealing, and 331 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 2: so can that sort of personality who is I think 332 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 2: totally bankrupt on on policy And he's got policy that's 333 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,160 Speaker 2: never been tried anywhere, certainly in America but not anywhere else. 334 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: But he's also good. 335 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 2: Is that going to Is that going to win? 336 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: He's got really dangerous policy. I know we just talked 337 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 1: about this guy, but I feel like there's more that 338 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 1: we're uncovering every day about who Zorn Mondami is and 339 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: what he really wants to do. We've now we're learning 340 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: that he wants to to decriminalize sex work. And I 341 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: want to talk about this because all the women out 342 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: there who voted for this guy, what do you think 343 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:12,399 Speaker 1: that means? What do you think decriminalizing sex work work means? 344 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: It's not like there's some glorified lifestyle there. These are 345 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: women who we were on Clay and Buck yesterday we 346 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: had Yaco Boyan's on. He's on the program a lot. 347 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 1: You've heard him talk about sex trafficking. He made such 348 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 1: a great point when he was like, this is this 349 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: is legalized slavery, you would put women in the situation. 350 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: And you've made the point that he voted against a 351 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: ban on revenge porn. Explain that because there was a 352 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: band there, they were expanding it. But he was one 353 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: of only three people to vote against that. 354 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 2: Right, so New York State banned revenge porn in twenty nineteen. 355 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 2: Man Downey was not there, so obviously he wouldn't have 356 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 2: voted on that. But then in twenty twenty three there 357 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 2: was a bill to expand it and sort of, you know, 358 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 2: clean up the language because techologies changing and all of that, 359 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 2: and three members of the State Assembly voted against it, 360 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 2: and he was one of them, and it I think 361 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,640 Speaker 2: it's somebody needs to ask him, why would you vote 362 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 2: against that? 363 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: Why do you want to decriminalize sex work? And why 364 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: do you want revenge porn to be available? Because I 365 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: asked that question because those two things, in my mind 366 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: as a woman, go together, because we know these men 367 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: who pimp women out, they use this to keep them 368 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: into control. They use this revenge porn to keep them 369 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 1: in control and say, you know, I'm gonna send this 370 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: to someone so and I'm going to do this. Especially 371 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: young girls, they get them They lure them in with 372 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: promises of gifts, and we're going to keep the secret. 373 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: We won't tell your family, and then they control them. 374 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: Especially in certain cultures, you can't have your parents find 375 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: something like this out, So you control women this way. 376 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: This guy, in my opinion, is the most dangerous person 377 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: out there for women. Yet you've got young women out there. 378 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: You got that Cynthia Nixon. My gosh, here's a woman 379 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: who is a lesbian woman who obviously I think she 380 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: even has a daughter, maybe she has a trans child. 381 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:16,640 Speaker 1: I can't remember. But you are you are out there 382 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: marching in the streets with someone who is an anti woman. 383 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 1: There's nothing pro woman about those two stances, no. 384 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 2: And so it's really it's it's going to be a 385 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 2: time of choosing for New York City. And do you 386 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 2: want to do you want to hire someone who has 387 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 2: never run an organization before, who has very little life experience, 388 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 2: has not lived the lifestyle of a lot of the 389 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 2: people he claims to represent, and and his his I mean, 390 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 2: he's trading on theories and let's you know, let's for 391 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 2: some reason he wants to create. You mentioned it. These 392 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 2: government owned grocery stores, one per borough which I think 393 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 2: most people was a one for borough. What difference is 394 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 2: that going to make? 395 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: But it's just getting the foot in the door. That's 396 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: how you start. It's that's the that's how they trick 397 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: people in. It's just one per borough. This is a 398 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: great experiment, and everything he's doing is an experiment. It's 399 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: not an experiment in the from the standpoint that we've 400 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: never seen it. We've seen it in other countries. I mean, 401 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,919 Speaker 1: socialism has killed hundreds of thousands of people. And we 402 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: see on CNN and they're like, he's not a communist, 403 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: he's a socialist. Now you have Democrats that are defending Oh, 404 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: this isn't communism, this is socialism. Well, who cares? Why 405 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: are you defending it at all? I mean, right now 406 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: the Democrat Party is in total chaos. You've got that, 407 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: you have the situation with Whitmer. We see today there's 408 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: this news out that Governor Walls has a guy who 409 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: is a convicted sex offender and he's been appointed to 410 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: a state auditing job. He is a He's not only 411 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: a sex offen, he raped a woman. He also is 412 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: a guy who overstate his visa. He was getting kicked out. 413 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: He's not technically supposed to be here, but Walls gives 414 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: him a job. I mean, we talked about we also 415 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: yesterday we talked about the fact that we're like celebrating 416 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: that men can't be in women's sports. I look at 417 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 1: the fact that we are trying to give government jobs 418 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: in education, auditing education to sex offenders. You've got Whitmer 419 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: taking taxpayer money and giving it to her friends who 420 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: are then misusing it potentially. You've got this guy in 421 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: New York who wants to have women be sex slaves. 422 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't think of anything worse than that. 423 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: And this is the Democrat Party today. These are their 424 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: options and they're defending it. And then we have Secretary 425 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: McMahon who comes out and she's like, we're going to 426 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: protect women in men's sports. And I almost feel silly 427 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 1: that we are all cheering about this, because ten years ago, 428 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 1: if anybody had told us any of these things that 429 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: we just talked about, we would go that is bonkers, no. 430 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,719 Speaker 2: Way, right, Yeah, you're right. The idea that we're saying 431 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,919 Speaker 2: that the government has to, you know, decide that that 432 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 2: men should not be in women's sports. The fact that 433 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 2: that is even a thing in shows how far we've gone. 434 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on 435 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: a Tutor Dixon podcast. Here you have universities that now 436 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:33,479 Speaker 1: have to define men and women using biology. It's like, 437 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,919 Speaker 1: I just can't. We're like, thank goodness, we have to 438 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: use biology. Now. Wait a minute. Remember for the last 439 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,199 Speaker 1: five years has been science, not science. This is science. 440 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 1: I'm science, faucia science. What is science? They can't even 441 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: tell us what's now We're like, you must actually use science. 442 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: And the rest of the world, the common sense lovers 443 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 1: of the world, are like, yay, thank you for using science. 444 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 2: But this shows too, I think how how the left 445 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 2: is winning the culture war because and they say, oh, 446 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 2: the you know, Republicans and Conservatives are in a culture war. Well, 447 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 2: when you've got men and women's sports, I mean, is 448 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 2: that not a culture war front? And the fact that 449 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 2: now the Trump administration has to be issuing these or 450 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 2: entering these agreements about how universities are going to change 451 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:28,719 Speaker 2: shows how successful the left has been in these culture 452 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 2: war battles. 453 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: And that's why we have to stay That's why we 454 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,640 Speaker 1: keep talking, That's why we keep doing this, That's why 455 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: we keep fighting back against this and I will say 456 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: that we are headed into an amazing holiday tomorrow. You 457 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 1: talked about it yesterday on claim Buck that if we 458 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 1: didn't have Independence Day, what would the world look like? 459 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: And this is the last bastion of hope. I believe 460 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 1: the United States, we are the place that has to 461 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 1: keep fighting for freedom. We have to keep fighting for 462 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: actual democracy, what we what our founding fathers fought for. 463 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: We are still here with that same attitude to keep 464 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: doing this. And we also celebrate something else on that day. 465 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: We celebrate Kyle's birthday. He is a true patriot being 466 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: born on Independence Day. So happy Birthday. 467 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 2: Thank you. 468 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Do you have anything you want to add about 469 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:19,160 Speaker 1: Independence Day. 470 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 2: I'm just I'm glad it's today. 471 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,360 Speaker 1: Wow. All right, that was a lot that was deep. 472 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 1: You were a lot deeper on Clay and Buck, I 473 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: thought you would. 474 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 2: Well, I just I think, well, I'll repeat what I said. 475 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 2: I think July fourth, seventeen seventy six was one of 476 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 2: the most consequential days in the history of the world 477 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 2: because if that day didn't happen, think about how different 478 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 2: that We can't even envision how the world would be 479 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 2: a different place. 480 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: And that is why when you say when you said that, 481 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 1: it struck me so hard because I think that we 482 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: take what we have for granted, and we sometimes joke 483 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,360 Speaker 1: when we see this socialist attitude and some of these 484 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: radical ideas come to the end States. And in the past, 485 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: I think we've had the luxury of joking about it 486 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: because we've always held it at bay. What we're seeing 487 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 1: in New York now has changed that. And this is 488 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: our own moment to defend our democracy and defend what 489 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: America is. And so tomorrow we go out and celebrate, 490 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 1: and we have fireworks, and we have our picnics, and 491 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,439 Speaker 1: we spend time with family. But then Monday, we'll be 492 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: right back here making sure that we continue to defend 493 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: our democracy. So thank you, thank you for joining me today, 494 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: and thank you all for joining us on the Tutor 495 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: Dixon Podcast. For this episode and others, go to Tutor 496 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: dixonpodcast dot com, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 497 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: you get your podcasting. You can watch us on Rumble 498 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: and YouTube at Tutor Dixon and make sure you tune 499 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 1: in next time to the Tutor Dixon Podcast and have 500 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: a blessed day and a very happy Independence Day.