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Were you aware 47 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: that we're all a bunch of fascists before the White 48 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: House told us so? You know, for a long time, 49 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: communists have been calling their enemies fascists. That has been 50 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: a talking point from the radical left. That being said, 51 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: you know, I think we're seeing a new development that 52 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: is really troubling. Which it is one thing for people 53 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: in politics to demonize their political opponents, it is an 54 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: entirely new threshold to start demonizing the voters. We would 55 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: should not be surprised to see Biden's White House Press 56 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: secretary saying nasty things about Donald Trump. We understand she 57 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: didn't like Donald Trump, doesn't like Donald Trump. We shouldn't 58 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: be surprised to see her saying nasty things about me 59 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: or other elected Republicans. This is a very different thing, though. 60 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: She is blasting half the country. I mean, this is 61 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: reminiscent of Hillary Clinton's deplorable's line, like if you dare 62 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: to vote against our regime. You're a fascist, you're a 63 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: deplorable And you know, part of the problem with that 64 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: is it sets the predicate then for people to be silenced, 65 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: for people to be canceled. It sets the predicate, you know, 66 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: to use the idiotic language of the left. In some ways, 67 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: it's it's an invitation to attack, it even an invitation 68 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: to violence. It is again to use the left language. 69 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: It is other ring and I think it is it 70 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: is harmful to our country. And the problem is Joe 71 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,359 Speaker 1: Biden is doing it deliberately. The White House Press secretary 72 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: is doing it deliberately. These politicians and their henchmen have 73 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: decided to try to demonize half the country and it's 74 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: really really dangerous, it's dishonest, and it's wrong. Well, the 75 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: half the country part, I think is the important one, 76 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 1: because the statement is simply incoherent. If you say that 77 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: half the country is a threat to government of the people, 78 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: by the people and for the people, that the only 79 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: way that we can have government of the people, by 80 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: the people and for the people is by getting rid 81 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: of half the people. That, of course said doesn't make 82 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: a whole lot of sense. Do you think that the 83 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: White House will pay for this comment in the way 84 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: that Hillary Clinton did, because it seems like it's even 85 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: much further than Hillary went to call someone deplorable. That's 86 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,119 Speaker 1: one thing. To say, hey, you're basically a black shirt 87 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: or a Nazi, That's that's quite another thing. I mean, 88 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: that's that's much more intense even than what Hillary Clinton did. 89 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 1: Will it matter in November? Well, look, I think for 90 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: the people speeling this, they're speeling it from ignorance. Um, 91 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: they don't actually know what fascists are. Um. But but 92 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,679 Speaker 1: for them, you know, it's ironic that that she says 93 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 1: the very definition of fascists. What she means by fascist 94 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: is something I don't like, you bad person that fascist. Mm. 95 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: But like she has no sense of it whatsoever. And 96 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: and it is deeply disturbing to see the White House 97 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: used as a vehicle for active disinformation. Um. You know, 98 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 1: we also saw in the past week her stand up 99 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: and answer a question about immigration and people walking across 100 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: the border, and she says, well, that's not what's happening. 101 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: That's just what's happening, and holy crap, like there are lies. 102 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: And I actually wonder if the reporters in the briefing 103 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: room move back a few feet afraid lightning was going 104 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: to strike her at the podium. There are two and 105 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: only two possibilities, Michael, either that she is deliberately ignorant, 106 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: she has no idea what's happening at the border, or 107 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 1: she's deliberately lying. There's not a third possibility. It is 108 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: one or the other. So I'm going to make an 109 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 1: invitation right now to Karine John Pierre. If you believe 110 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,679 Speaker 1: it's not happening that people are walking across the border, Kareean, 111 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: I invite you come to Texas, come to the Rio 112 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: Grand Valley, spend one hour on the border, and I 113 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: promise you you and I will see dozens, if not 114 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: hundreds of people walking across the border. You know what, 115 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: you can pick any damn hour the day you want. 116 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: You can come at two in the morning, you can 117 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: come at noon. You will see them coming, because they 118 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: are coming every single hour. And then let me say 119 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: also to the corrupt corporate media, every single person that 120 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: holds themselves out as a fact checker, PolitiFact, the Washington Post, 121 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: all of these bogused yellow journalists, if all of them 122 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: have not immediately called this an eleven alarm pants on fire, 123 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: then they are every bit as complicit in the mendacity, 124 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: as is the White House that pays her to misinform 125 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:30,119 Speaker 1: the American people. This, I suppose, was what was most shocking. Yes, 126 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: when the White House attacks Donald Trump, Okay, you expect that. 127 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: When the White House attacks Republican voters, that's you don't 128 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: necessarily expect that. But okay, this is politics. It's within 129 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: the realm of plausibility. But then when Karne Jampierre comes 130 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: out and says, no, people aren't crossing the border, when 131 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: we're looking at two million or really more than two 132 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: million illegal border crossings to happen this year, that's so strange. 133 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: When Karree Jean Pierre apparently doesn't know what the administration, 134 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: her own administration has done about Title forty two and 135 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: as that pertains to illegal border crossings, that to me, 136 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: I just don't understand it. And if it were willful ignorance, 137 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: I don't understand why this woman would want to hang 138 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: herself out to dry like this and make her look 139 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: so extremely uninformed, if not unintelligent when talking to reporters, well, 140 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: the corporate media is in part to blame because she 141 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: recognizes she's not going to be held to account she 142 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: knows the Washington Post will happily carry her water. She 143 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: knows PolitiFact won't check it. She knows everyone will ignore it. 144 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: It's the reason why, you know that we've had lots 145 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: of discussion about why does Joe Biden not go down 146 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: to the border. It's not that he doesn't want to 147 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: see it. It's that if he comes, the cameras will follow, 148 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: and their only strategy is ignore the chaos. You know, 149 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,079 Speaker 1: the last time I took seven senators down to the 150 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: border a couple of months ago, we went out on 151 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: midnight patrol, and within minutes we encountered the first group 152 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: that had just crossed the order. A few minutes later 153 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: we encountered the second group. But it was one after 154 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: the other after the other. You don't have to hunt 155 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: for them. You don't have to look for them. It 156 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: is a constant stream of humanity. And I got to say, 157 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: by the way, kudos to the Texas governor Greg Abbott, 158 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: my friend. He's added now he was sending illegal immigrants 159 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: to Washington, DC. In New York, those hypocritical Democratic mayors 160 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: are throwing hissy fits, and he just announced guess what 161 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: Chicago is next. I think that is fabulous. Laurie Lightfoot 162 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: said we would love lots of illegal immigrants in Chicago. 163 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: Literally she did. She said we would welcome them. I'm 164 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: very curious. In start the stopwatch, I'm predicting six days, 165 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: thirteen hours, and twelve minutes before she freaks out and 166 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: calls Greg Abbott Saar on the embodiment of evil destroying 167 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: humanity because she gets, you know, four or five thousand 168 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. Texas has had three and a half million, 169 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: right so far, It's been a lot of nimbiism, you know, 170 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: not an my backyard from the Blue state Democrats and 171 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: the Blue City Democrats. Though, I have to wonder when 172 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: we're talking about sending these people to Chicago. A lot 173 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: of people leave their Latin American countries because the conditions 174 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:15,599 Speaker 1: are not great. There aren't there's not a lot of 175 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: economic prosperity, and it's actually just downright dangerous there. If 176 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: you're going to Chicago, Frankly, I suspect it's going to 177 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: be more dangerous there than it is in a lot 178 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: of the places that these people are fleeing from. And 179 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: Senator I've got to bring this up because, as usual, 180 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: the last week's episode of Verdict drops, and then I 181 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: just wait. I wait to see what the left wing 182 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: media are going to attack us for. This time, they 183 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: did not disappoint. They're very upset with you because you 184 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: pointed out that some people who take out a ton 185 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: of student loans, who study useless things like gender studies 186 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: or some other kind of nonsense, then end up working 187 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: all sorts of jobs they don't want to be working, 188 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:01,199 Speaker 1: including as barista's senator. You ended up in a Bernie 189 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: Sanders campaign video. Yeah, it really was quite amazing. Bernie 190 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: put out an official video responding to Verdict. I love 191 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: when when this podcast drives the political news. Um. I 192 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: will say also that that that, and and all of 193 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 1: the Bernie brows, their heads exploded. I gotta say, by 194 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: the way, you knew that was going to happen, because 195 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: when we were doing the last episode and I talked 196 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: about the slackers who had wasted six years with getting 197 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,719 Speaker 1: a useless degree working as baristas might come out and 198 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: vote if they can get off their bong long enough 199 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 1: to do so. I saw in the register your eyes 200 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: grow wide as you're like, oh crap. But I also 201 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: all right, I want to I want to tap into 202 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: your Yale education, because there is a logical fallacy that 203 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: these lefties are engaged in. When I said that some 204 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:58,239 Speaker 1: slackers are baristas, they translated that into all baristas are slackers, 205 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: which is just now, you know, maybe you could help 206 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: me out with with deductive logic, but I'm pretty sure 207 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: that second statement doesn't flow from the first. Are there 208 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: people who wasted years studying utterly useless things who couldn't 209 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: get a job afterwards and who are now working as 210 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: a barista and are slackers? Yes, that those people do exist. 211 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: Is every barista slacker of course. Stuff. They're wonderful, great 212 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 1: people who are barestas who by the way, many of 213 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: whom don't have student loans that are getting screwed by 214 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: the Democrats because they're saying the guy that's studied queer 215 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: pet literature and has one hundred thousand dollars in debt 216 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: because oddly enough, you know, to reference another podcast, you know, 217 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 1: Mickey and Pluto going at it. Other than getting a 218 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: job at Disney, there's not a lot of job market 219 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: for queer pet literature. Yeah, it did occur to me. 220 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: It did occur to me that being a barista that's 221 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: an honest job. Yeah, there's no you wouldn't attack you 222 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: wouldn't attack a beristappers. I love my Bearista, right, but 223 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 1: there are plenty of very very useless jobs and useless 224 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: workers in America. And then what a coincidence on this story. 225 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: One of the most absolutely useless, counterproductive people in the 226 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: United States would be Randy Weingarten, the head of the 227 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: Teacher Union. And Randy Weingarten also jumped on the campaign 228 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: after Bernie dings you for it, and Randy Weingarten led 229 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: a sort of Barista themed video to attack you as 230 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: being you know, I don't know, anti worker or something 231 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, so two points on this one. There's 232 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: a reason why the lefty Twitter mafia left on this 233 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: so aggressively, which is today's Democratic Party hate working class people. 234 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: They're hammering working class to keep people they work for 235 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: the billionaires on the coast. They do things that are 236 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: massive wealth transfers from working class people to privileged elites. 237 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: This student loan forgiveness is an example of that. But 238 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:12,199 Speaker 1: their policies killing American energy, driving inflation, I mean, everything 239 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: they're doing right now is responding to California environmentalist billionaires 240 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: rather than blue collar steel workers. So they leapt on 241 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: the barista comment dishonestly because they wanted to claim to 242 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: be a champion of the working man. But it is 243 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: it only works if they're doing what Karine John Pierre did, 244 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: which is being deliberately dishonest. Because you know, my dad 245 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: wash dishes the baristas who are full of ambition and 246 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: want to work hard and climb the ladder to the 247 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: American dream. That's a fantastic thing. But under Joe Biden 248 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: the Democrats, it's harder and harder for them to do that. 249 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: And you know, you talk about Randy Weingarten, I guess 250 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: it is difficult to think of a per in the 251 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: last three years who has done more damage to the 252 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: United States of America than Randy Weingarten. She has that 253 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: there's no person more responsible for the school lockdowns. We 254 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: had schools all across America shut down in many Blue states, 255 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: shut down for weeks and then months and then over 256 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: a year. And you know, just this week the test 257 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: story scores came out, and I want to read what 258 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: they were because it really is stunning. So the average 259 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: scores for nine year old students in twenty twenty two 260 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: declined five points in reading and seven points in mathematics 261 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: compared to twenty twenty five points and seven points. And 262 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: then it's even worse. The learning loss was experienced by 263 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 1: kids across race and income levels, but it was particularly 264 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: severe among low performing and minority students. Black students lost 265 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: thirteen points in math, and the white black score gap 266 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: went from twenty five points in twenty twenty all the 267 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: way up to thirty three points in twenty twenty two. So, 268 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: congratulations Democrats, Congratulations Randy wide Garten. You screwed millions of 269 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: kids in America. They're doing worse in reading, they're doing 270 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: worse in math. That will stay with them in all 271 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: likelihood the rest of their lives. And in particular, you 272 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: screwed African American and Hispanic kids. And the gap is 273 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: wider than it's been in a long long time because 274 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: of Randy Wiedearten and Joe Biden and every Senate Democrat 275 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: who happily voted along with them in favor of the 276 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: school lockdowns. Yeah, a truly a more odious figure in 277 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: American public life than randywine Garten and the public school unions. 278 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: It would be hard to point to. I mean, the 279 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: effects of that are just so awful, as you say, 280 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: it's not as though you can just that overnight wave 281 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: a magic wand and okay, the scores are better. Now, 282 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: this is going to track a very long time. And 283 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: so it's really really rich to hear lectures on labor 284 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: from from that woman speaking of being really tough on 285 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: the kids and putting kids in horrible situations. There is 286 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: a story that well one cries out to God for vengeance, 287 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: but also cries out to Washington, DC and state legislatures 288 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: for justice, which is that in California now there is 289 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 1: a doctor who is just caught on video admitting that 290 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: he performs transgender surgeries on miners, and not just miners, 291 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: on thirteen year old girls, and not just on thirteen 292 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: year old girls. He says, I would perform it on 293 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: twelve year olds. They just haven't approached me yet. He says, 294 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: there is no lower limit to the age of children 295 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 1: on whom I would perform these surgeries. It's obviously ghastly 296 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,199 Speaker 1: the idea of a hysterecto me in a twelve or 297 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: thirteen year old. Question is, what can we do about 298 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: this heinous child abuse. Look, it's it's not just the 299 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 1: doctor that's carrying out these these horrific acts of child abuse. 300 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: It's the entire dishonest political system and media system. It 301 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: is our democratic politicians who refuse to acknowledge this is happening. 302 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: It is the corrupt corporate media who refuses to acknowledge 303 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: that it's happening. It's big Tech that silence anyone who 304 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: points out it's happening. Because we sit here today, Libs 305 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: of TikTok, a fabulous account run by an orthodox Jewish woman, 306 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,439 Speaker 1: is still banned from TikTok why for reporting the truth, 307 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: which is the Children's hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, was performing mutilations, 308 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: life altering surgeries on miners, and and and actually, Libs 309 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: of TikTok, a sometimes humorous but incredibly valuable Twitter account, 310 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: not just documented it on the website of the hospital, 311 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: which advertised that they did it for miners, but she 312 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:11,360 Speaker 1: recorded two different employees at the hospital on tape saying, oh, yes, 313 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: sixteen year old, no problem, we can do that. And 314 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: I gotta say not the corporate media, so big Tech 315 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: bander because she dared speak the truth. And then the 316 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: corporate media, the Washington Post wrote this absurd story where 317 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: they said, well, yes, It's true the website said they 318 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: were performing these surgeries on miners, and it's true that 319 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: two different employees that the hospital said on tape they 320 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 1: were performing these surgeries on miners. But it is nonetheless false. 321 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 1: We assert with no evidence whatsoever, because these aren't the 322 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: droid you're looking for. You're not allowed to be aware 323 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: of this. It is this is insane. And look, number one, 324 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: these surgeries. If you're a guy chopping it off and 325 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 1: then trying to build email genital you know, or if 326 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 1: you're a girl ripping chunks of flesh off the arm 327 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 1: and leg and trying to construct something that they think 328 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 1: resembles male genitalia, good god. Number one, I mean, this 329 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: is this is stuff out of a house of horrors. 330 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 1: But number two, if you read the medical studies of 331 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: the consequences of those surgeries, an enormous percentage of those 332 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: surgeries require a second or third, fourth, fifth surgery to 333 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: correct it because you have all sorts of complications, you 334 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: have infections, you have perforations. Look, it's it's it's hard 335 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: to discuss without getting really graphic, but but you read 336 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: stories of people who have this surgery have to use 337 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:53,479 Speaker 1: a Kolomosky bag and crap in a bag for the 338 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 1: rest of their lives. For any person to have this surgery, 339 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: I think there are a great many of them who 340 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: regret it almost instantly because it is the rest of 341 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: their lives are devastated. And then to amplify it, and 342 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: to say a child, a child who is not yet mature, 343 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: not yet able to rationally reason through the consequences that 344 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 1: if a twelve year old believes at that moment that 345 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,439 Speaker 1: he or she is not a hear or she, that 346 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: you should permanently chop it off or permanently sterilize and 347 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: remove the uterus of that that young child. That's utterly indefensible. 348 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: It's one thing if an adult wants to make that decision, 349 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: you've got a right to do that if you're an adult. 350 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: But the idea that twelve and thirteen year old should 351 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: be doing it, or minors at all, I think is 352 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: completely indefensible. We have age of consent laws which state 353 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: that a sixteen or a seven teen year old can't 354 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: have a one night stand with I don't know, a 355 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: nineteen or a twenty or twenty one year old because 356 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: their brains have just not formed enough they're not in 357 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: control of their rational faculties yet, and so they can't 358 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: consent to make those decisions. So on the one hand, 359 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: you have that enshrined in law. On the other hand, 360 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: forget a sixteen year old. A six year old can 361 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 1: consent not to a one time kind of sexual escapade, 362 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: but a life long sexual decision that will have that 363 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: will have consequences even well beyond even the question of 364 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 1: sex and gender. But could can give you osteoporosis, can 365 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: give you bone damage, can give you infections, can put 366 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:46,719 Speaker 1: you on a lifelong regiment of expensive, very powerful drugs. 367 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: I just to me, this is so absurd. I don't 368 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: see why why lawmakers can't just ban this sort of 369 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,440 Speaker 1: thing outright. And since you're a lawmaker, can at least 370 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: at the state level. Can can we get rid of this? 371 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: Can we ban this? We look Tech Texas is moved 372 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: to do that, but in places like California they want 373 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: to celebrate it, and it is and the media won't 374 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 1: report on on the downsides of this that they want 375 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,679 Speaker 1: to silence it. And by the way, Big Tech is 376 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: happy to silence it. Um Libs of TikTok was banned 377 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 1: for telling the truth because truth. Let's go back to 378 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: Kareine Jumpierre. Look, fascists silence their critics. That's what this 379 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,640 Speaker 1: White House does. And by the way, we we have 380 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberger told Joe Rogan. Yeah, the FBI called and 381 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: and asked us not to not to allow people to 382 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: talk about Hunter Biden's laptop. I mean, you literally have 383 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: the government engaging in silencing discussion that is contrary to 384 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:04,879 Speaker 1: their political narrative and their political partisan interests. Speaking of 385 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 1: the wokeness in our various branches of government, I simply 386 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: could not believe this story that I just read, which 387 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: is that a division of the US Specific Air Forces, 388 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: which is the branch tasked with confronting China, has ordered 389 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 1: its senior leaders, as according to Washington Free Beacon and commanders, 390 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: to stop using gender pronouns in written formats, saying the 391 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: shift to more neutral language will help improve the fighting 392 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 1: forces lethality. They say, in accordance with the diverse PACAF priority, 393 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 1: we must embrace promote an unleash the unleash the potential 394 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: of diversity and inclusion. So you've you've got to stop 395 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: using the correct pronouns and call people z and zim 396 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: and zur and there, and that's going to make our 397 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: fighting forces more lethal? Am I reading the Babylon b Senator? 398 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: Is this our United States military? Look, Joe Biden and 399 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 1: the Democrats are doing everything they can to damage and 400 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: destroy the military. They've done it through things like vaccine mandates, 401 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: trying to chase out and then they fired vast numbers 402 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: of soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines. And this 403 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 1: is truly nutty when it comes to lethality. This is 404 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: lethality right here. This is killing our military. And listen, 405 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: the Chinese are training to defeat us and these weak, 406 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 1: appeasing numbskulls are trying to demonstrate how woke they are. 407 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: And by the way, the definition awokeness keeps changing. So 408 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: last I checked, like twelve minutes ago, the most woke 409 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 1: people had their genders in their Twitter profile. I'm he, him, she, her, 410 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: zzz or whatever. Now then even more woke is no, no, 411 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: no, no no, no, don't have pronouns. Even if you say 412 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: you're he him, we will not say it. We will 413 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: just refer to you as podcaster. That is all you are. 414 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: You may not be he podcaster or she podcaster like 415 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: it is You're right, it could be Babylon be I 416 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 1: don't even know how you sat saturdayize this crap anymore 417 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: because it is so ridiculous. And I got to tell you, 418 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,199 Speaker 1: I hear from active duty military all the time who 419 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: are beyond frustrated by this garbage. And the problem is 420 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 1: it now extends up the chain of command because the 421 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,440 Speaker 1: way you get promoted in Joe Biden's Department of Defense 422 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:39,119 Speaker 1: is you embrace this idiocy and apparently no longer, even 423 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: though what a pronoun is so is the only way 424 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: that we solve this just winning In twenty twenty four, 425 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: I remember when I saw that woke Army ad whenever. 426 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 1: It was about a year ago where it was an 427 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,959 Speaker 1: army recruitment ad and the ad it looked like it 428 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: could have been I don't know, a Procter and Gamble 429 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: commercial from Pride month. It was a cartoon about this 430 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: girl and how her lesbian mother is at Pride raids 431 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 1: really taught her how to fight America's enemies or something 432 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 1: like that. I mean, again, sort of beyond satire. And 433 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: I thought, by golly, it's the this is the army, 434 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: and you know, this was one of the few institutions 435 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: that conservative people hadn't totally lost to the left. So okay, 436 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,880 Speaker 1: it's lost right now. The only way to fix it 437 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: is just we've got to get a Republican president in 438 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: there to fire the top brass and bring some normal 439 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: people back into military leadership. Yes. Look, the left has 440 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: always hated the military, people like Bernie Sanders who always 441 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: want to slash the budget for the military and render 442 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: us vulnerable. You have the Biden White House that believes 443 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: every enemy on Earth the way to deal with them 444 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,239 Speaker 1: is surrendered to them, show weakness, show appeasement. You know, 445 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,120 Speaker 1: Biden is right in the middle of trying to sign 446 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 1: a ridiculous deal with a rand to give them billions 447 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: of dollars that they will use to kill Americans and 448 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: to develop nuclear weapons which it could be used to 449 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: kill millions of Americans. One of the ways they express 450 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,200 Speaker 1: their hatred for the military is by undermining it from within, 451 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 1: by making it a political entity, and that is profoundly 452 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: harmful to the military. Listen, I don't want the military 453 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: to be a Republican entity. I want the job of 454 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: the military to defend this nation and be prepared to 455 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 1: kill the enemy. That's their job. It's not to be 456 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: on the vanguard of some political agenda on either side. 457 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: Before we go, we do have to get to some 458 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: mail bag because of our wonderful Verdict plus subscribers. Here's 459 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: a question. It pertains to November, and it's a little 460 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: nitty gritty on the politics. Baltimore Bill Rights. The National 461 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: Republican Senatorial Committee n RSC canceled millions worth of ads 462 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: across numerous battleground states Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada. There 463 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: are winnable races here which would tilt the balance of 464 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: power back to the Republicans. Would Mitch McConnell really prefer 465 00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: Fetterman and Kelly the Democrats in the Senate? So I 466 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: certainly hope not. I think we have an excellent chance 467 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: to take the House, and I still think we have 468 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 1: a very good chance to take the Senate. I put 469 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: it at sixty percent or better to take the Senate. 470 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 1: In terms of where we are, I do think the 471 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: political environment is a little bit worse today than it 472 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: was six weeks ago. Now the narrative everywhere in the 473 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: media is, oh, the tides have turned, and now the 474 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: Democrats are not going to get obliterated, and the corporate 475 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: media is desperately trying to push that narrative. I think 476 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: that is vastly overstated. I think we're headed to a 477 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: very good election still, and I think we will see 478 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: going into September and October additional momentum Between now an 479 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: election day. I am going to be on the road 480 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: NonStop campaigning for Senate candidates across the country and for 481 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: House candidates across the country, because I think it's going 482 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: to be a big victory in November. I certainly hope 483 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: it is. It's also worth pointing out as we're being 484 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: told that the you know, the tides are turning and 485 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: the Democrats are going to do just fine. Yes, the 486 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: Republicans had at what a ten point lead on the 487 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: generic ballot in July that narrowed to a five point lead. 488 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: We're still pretty much exactly where the Democrats were in 489 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and it narrowed for the Democrats between August 490 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: and November of twenty eighteen, and they still did great 491 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: in those elections, in those midterm elections. So I just listen, 492 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: you know it on the ground a lot, a lot 493 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: better than I did. But I read the reports in 494 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: the media, and then I look at the actual numbers 495 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 1: and I think these things don't match up. Yeah, well, 496 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: the media wants Republicans, Conservatives, people who are not insane, 497 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: because in many ways this is not even a left 498 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: right battle. This is asane insane battle. They want those 499 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: who believe in common sense and reason and individual liberty 500 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: to be demoralized, to say we can't win, to stay home. 501 00:30:54,920 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: That's how the Marxists prevail is they discourage ridge people 502 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: of good sense. From that, they engage in voter suppression. 503 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: And every story you read about how the Democrats are 504 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: doing well is a deliberate, calculated effort at voter suppression 505 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: from the corporate media. Yeah. One last question before we 506 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: get out of here, and that's not true. Two last questions, 507 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: but they're both from the same guy. So it's a 508 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 1: two parter. One what does America First mean to you? 509 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 1: And two hard to choose, but what is the number 510 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: one issue Ted Cruz is focusing on leading up to November. 511 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: Both questions from Verdict plus subscriber Steel Dino. So those 512 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: are great questions. America First means a lot of things, 513 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: but I think it means standing with the working men 514 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: and women, and defending the interest of the United States, 515 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: protecting America, and foreign policy. I gave a long speech 516 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: it's about forty five minutes long at the America First 517 00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: Policy Institute, entirely devoted to what does America First mean? 518 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: And foreign policy? I don't think it means what some 519 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: people are trying to claim that it means, which is 520 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 1: isolationism and withdrawing from the world. I think that is 521 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: twisting what America First is about. It's certainly not what 522 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: we did when Donald Trump was president. I think it means, 523 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: in the foreign policy context, putting the national security interests 524 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: to the United States first and foremost, being willing to 525 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 1: defeat our enemies, but not sending our sons and daughters 526 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 1: into harm's way for amorphous global norms or to protect 527 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: democracy or such other gobbledegook. But the job of the 528 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: military is to protect Americans and keep us safe. On 529 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: economic and domestic policy, I think it means standing with 530 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 1: blue collar workers, standing with working men and women. That 531 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: means things like securing the border and stopping unlimited illegal immigration. 532 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 1: That means defending small businesses so there are lots of 533 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: jobs that are plentiful. That to me is America first 534 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: as well, which is which is the steel workers and 535 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 1: truck drivers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses 536 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 1: and baristas who we stand for and the Democrats crap 537 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: in the coffee cup of baristas. That is America first 538 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: to me on that vivid note. So there was a 539 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 1: second question, Oh, thank thank goodness, because I don't really 540 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 1: want to end on that image that, albeit accurate, is 541 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: quite is quite disgusting. What do you think the top 542 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: issue has to be the Republicans focus on going into 543 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: the midterms, so unpolling, the top three issues in the 544 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 1: country are inflation, with gas prices being the most most 545 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: salient piece of that. Then crime and then the chaos 546 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 1: on our southern border. Those are consistently the top three issues. 547 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: I think we should focus on them front and center. 548 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 1: In terms of my passions, I would say two things. 549 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: Number one, sanity versus insanity, like the Marxist left is 550 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 1: destroying America, destroying our values, tearing down our founders, tearing 551 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 1: down our constitution, tearing down our Bill of Rights, and 552 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:23,880 Speaker 1: so defending who we are as America I think is foundational. 553 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 1: And in terms of a policy issue, I think there's 554 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,040 Speaker 1: no domestic policy issue that matters more than school choice, 555 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,880 Speaker 1: and so I am deeply engaged in campaigning for candidates 556 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 1: who supports school choice, raising money for candidates who supports 557 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 1: school choice, campaigning to defeat candidates who oppose school choice, 558 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 1: doing everything we can to stop the Randy Weingartens of 559 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 1: the world who are responsible for inflicting enormous harm on children. 560 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,280 Speaker 1: And she cackles away with Joe Biden and the Democrats 561 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,800 Speaker 1: at the White House while the kids get left behind. 562 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: Sounds just like a fashion. Given people more choices over 563 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,839 Speaker 1: their future and the future of their family's. We got 564 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: a regular Mussolini over here, at least as it goes 565 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: into Joe Biden's sort of warped brain. There's obviously much 566 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,960 Speaker 1: more to talk about. You will be talking about much 567 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 1: more on the Cloakroom with our friend Liz Wheeler. Liz, 568 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: what will you be talking about? Hi, Michael, Yes, and 569 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: Senator great answer and verdict, plus thank you for your 570 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 1: great questions. I don't know if you guys realize, but 571 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,240 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here thinking, how on earth do I segue 572 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: from poo poo in a cup into what we're talking 573 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 1: about on Cloak Room. This is what you give me 574 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,840 Speaker 1: every week, except for Verdict Plus fans who give questions 575 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,440 Speaker 1: that give me a little easier time. So this is 576 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,839 Speaker 1: what's called a hard segue. Over on the cloak Room today, 577 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about what happened in Alaska. Republicans 578 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 1: lost a seat in the House of Representatives because of 579 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,320 Speaker 1: ranked choice voting in the Alaska's special election, which means 580 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,399 Speaker 1: the Democrat actually only won forty percent of the vote. 581 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,320 Speaker 1: The Republicans won six percent of the vote, yet somehow 582 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,480 Speaker 1: the Democrat is the one that's going to Washington, DC 583 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 1: to represent the people of Alaska. We're going to talk 584 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 1: about how that happened and just the structure of the 585 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,239 Speaker 1: whole ranked choice voting and why it's a bad thing. 586 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,759 Speaker 1: You can join us on the Cloakroom. It's Verdict with 587 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,760 Speaker 1: Ted Cruise dot Com slash Plus. 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