Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is Verdictris Sentator Ted Cruz ben Ferguson with you.
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Speaker 2: know your sacrifice and it has not gone unnoticed. Here, Senator,
Speaker 2: We've got a lot to talk about, including a Jewish
Speaker 2: USC professor who was barred from campus, targeted by anti
Speaker 2: Israel activists with a doctored video.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to that in a moment.
Speaker 2: Also going look at a whole other level leaked NSA
Speaker 2: document revealing a massive glossary. We're going to deal with that,
Speaker 2: plus other problems at Disney they're now facing consequences. And
Speaker 2: on top of that, you have a Customs and Border
Speaker 2: Patrol memo that ordered agents not to miss gender members
Speaker 2: of the public. That's what the Biden administration's focused on
Speaker 2: right now. Plus some not so great news for Joe
Speaker 2: Biden with the economy. All that coming up in just
Speaker 2: a moment. Before we get to that, I want to
Speaker 2: go back to that big shocking story of this USC
Speaker 2: professor who is Jewish. He has now been barred from campus.
Speaker 2: He's been targeted by anti Israel activists with a doctored video.
Speaker 2: And this is a story that if you are a listener, verdict,
Speaker 2: we need your help to make sure that this goes viral.
Speaker 2: Put this on social media, because it's time that we
Speaker 2: stand with these professors that are being targeted and center.
Speaker 2: I'll let you take it and fill people in from there.
Speaker 3: Well, over the last two months, since October seventh, we
Speaker 3: have seen anti Semitism spiking across the country, particularly on
Speaker 3: college campuses, and it's a manifestation of the warped and
Speaker 3: twisted leftist ideology that unfortunately has has grown and festered
Speaker 3: on college campuses now for decades. We have seen students
Speaker 3: being harassed across the count We have seen tragically at MIT,
Speaker 3: Jewish students being prevented from going to class and the
Speaker 3: administration doing nothing about it, refusing to punish the anti
Speaker 3: Semitic protesters who are rassing the Jewish students. And the
Speaker 3: reason MIT gave as well, those students are on student visas,
Speaker 3: they're foreigners, and so if we expelled them they would
Speaker 3: have their student visa revoke. So it really is an
Speaker 3: astonishing willingness to bend over to woke ideology. But I
Speaker 3: got to say, USC really takes the cake with this,
Speaker 3: because we had seen students unable to go to campus.
Speaker 3: Now at USC, we're seeing a professor unable to go
Speaker 3: to campus. Professor John Strauss is an economics professor, and
Speaker 3: he was walking by a protest, a pro Palestinian protest
Speaker 3: organized by the USC Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation, USC
Speaker 3: Graduates for Palestine and the Trojans for Palestine, and Professor
Speaker 3: Strauss is he walked past, commented, he said, ignorant, really ignorant,
Speaker 3: and then one of the students engaged him, and the
Speaker 3: professor added, quote, Hamas are murderers, that's all they are.
Speaker 3: Everyone should be killed. I hope they all are. Now
Speaker 3: what happened after that is people edited his quote and
Speaker 3: they took out the reference to Hamas. They just took
Speaker 3: the snippet everyone should be killed, I hope they all are.
Speaker 3: And that snippet went viral. It got millions of views
Speaker 3: on Twitter and it was characterized as the professor saying
Speaker 3: that all Palestinians should be killed, which is of course
Speaker 3: not what he said. He said Hamas are murderers, that's
Speaker 3: who he said should be killed. Well, the consequence of that, unsurprisingly,
Speaker 3: he's been subjected to threats of violence because of the
Speaker 3: deliberate mischaracterization of what he said. But the university responded
Speaker 3: not by saying we're going to protect you, Professor Strauss,
Speaker 3: but instead by sending a letter to him directing him
Speaker 3: that he must conduct all of his classes for the
Speaker 3: remainder of.
Speaker 1: The year.
Speaker 3: Via zoom via distance learning, that he's not allowed to
Speaker 3: physically be on campus. And the reason USC said was
Speaker 3: quote to minimize disruption to the educational environment, to ensure
Speaker 3: a safe environment for both you and students. It truly
Speaker 3: is stunning that the administration at USC is so embraced
Speaker 3: in the woke ideology, the ideology of colonialism, the ideology
Speaker 3: that says Jews are the oppressors and Palestinians are the victims.
Speaker 3: This is the Marxist lens that I talk about at
Speaker 3: great length in my new book Unwoke. USC is so
Speaker 3: embraced by that ideology that they're now telling their professor
Speaker 3: not allowed on campus because you said, what is indisputably true,
Speaker 3: is that Hamas are murderers and the Hamas terrorists should
Speaker 3: be killed.
Speaker 2: And to be clear, this is punishing this professor not
Speaker 2: being able to go on to campus. That is also
Speaker 2: not just a slap on the wrist to him and
Speaker 2: clearly attacking him and what he is as a human
Speaker 2: being being Jewish. But this is also sending a message
Speaker 2: I would think to any other student that is Jewish
Speaker 2: or that supports Israel, you better be careful what you
Speaker 2: say on campus, because this is what we'll do with
Speaker 2: a professor. Imagine what we would do to a student.
Speaker 3: Well, and I'm hearing reports literally on a daily basis
Speaker 3: from friends of mine who have kids in college who
Speaker 3: are Jewish, and they're reporting that they fear for their safety.
Speaker 3: They don't feel safe. And this is at Premier University's
Speaker 3: Ivy League university, supposedly elite universities that virtually all of
Speaker 3: them have embraced this leftist ideology and under their worldview,
Speaker 3: they view Jews as evil Zionists. And so the universities,
Speaker 3: too many of them, are unwilling to protect their students.
Speaker 3: It is disgraceful, it is wrong, and I'll tell you
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Speaker 2: and this professor is a perfect example of that.
Speaker 1: And I said it earlier. I'll say it again.
Speaker 2: Make sure this story goes viral because people need to
Speaker 2: understand that what's happened as professor is wrong. But if
Speaker 2: you are a Jewish student at a lot of the
Speaker 2: elite universities around the country, this is the treatment that
Speaker 2: a lot of them are receiving, and they are not
Speaker 2: being protected by these universities. How concerned are you? Because
Speaker 2: this is not just a pattern or a trend. This
Speaker 2: is almost an indoctrination by these public universities and private
Speaker 2: universities at the highest level that we are not going
Speaker 2: to allow you to be pro Israel on our campus.
Speaker 1: Period.
Speaker 2: Senator, I want to move on to the other topic
Speaker 2: that we mentioned earlier, and that is wokeness has really
Speaker 2: infiltrated our politics, especially when it comes to the Biden administration.
Speaker 2: The national security has now gone woke. Disney is now
Speaker 2: facing some consequences. Plus you've got this customs at Border
Speaker 2: Patrol memo that orders agents not to miss gender members
Speaker 2: of the public.
Speaker 1: Let's start with that.
Speaker 3: Well, this really is a triumvirate of wokeness, and it's
Speaker 3: striking to see CBP and NSA and Disney all getting
Speaker 3: hit with the consequences of their ideology. And you mentioned
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Speaker 3: Because every one of these topics we're discussing is discussed
Speaker 3: at length in the book Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural
Speaker 3: Marxism in America. Let's start with. CBP had an internal
Speaker 3: memo that was obtained by the Heritage Foundation that prohibits
Speaker 3: agents from using he, him, she, or her pronouns when
Speaker 3: initially interacting with members of the public. The memo goes
Speaker 3: on to encourage agents to use quote a universal greeting
Speaker 3: such as good morning or good evening in the initial greeting. Now,
Speaker 3: Ben Pete's sake, our country is being invaded. Eight point
Speaker 3: six million illegal immigrants have crossed into this country under
Speaker 3: Joe Biden. There are dead bodies every single day. There
Speaker 3: are children being sexually assaulted, women being sexually assaulted. That
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand Americans died of drug overdoses last year.
Speaker 3: Fentanyl is flooding into the country. And here's what the
Speaker 3: Biden administration is telling CBP to be concerned about.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 3: If an incorrect pronoun is used and corrected by the individual,
Speaker 3: acknowledge the oversight and use the correct pronoun. The memo
Speaker 3: also lists quote key terms with deafisions next to each. Bisexual, gay,
Speaker 3: gender expression, gender identity, gender non conforming, intersex, lesbian, non binary, queer, questioning,
Speaker 3: sex assigned birth, sexual orientation, transgender, transgender woman, transgender man,
Speaker 3: and transitioning are all listed. What in the hell are
Speaker 3: these people doing? Ben, This is the border patrol is
Speaker 3: supposed to be securing the border. Explained to me why
Speaker 3: exactly they should be having a conversation with a human
Speaker 3: traffick or a drug trafficker or an illegal alien. Excuse me, sir,
Speaker 3: are you non binary? Like, what the hell does that
Speaker 3: have to do with actually securing the border and doing
Speaker 3: their job? And the answer is nothing, because they put
Speaker 3: politics ahead of they don't want to secure the border.
Speaker 1: So here's my question.
Speaker 2: Is this at the feed of Maorchis is this the
Speaker 2: feed of literally the Oval office in the President's desk
Speaker 2: or is this some initiative coming from the Vice President's
Speaker 2: office and she's supposed to be that the borders are
Speaker 2: person I mean, how high does this go up for
Speaker 2: them to go this woke on this type of a memo?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, Look this started off with an executive
Speaker 3: order from the White House directing every agency to elevate diversity, equity,
Speaker 3: and inclusion above everything else, to ignore the law, to
Speaker 3: ignore their job. It doesn't formally say that, It just
Speaker 3: says this is the guiding priority of our agency. And
Speaker 3: with respect to CBP, the political leadership may Orcus, We've
Speaker 3: talked about this at length. Mayorcus does not intend to
Speaker 3: does not want to enforce the law. He is not
Speaker 3: trying to secure the border. He is trying to increase
Speaker 3: the number of illegal aliens coming into this country. He's
Speaker 3: trying to speed up the process. So I guess he
Speaker 3: wants them to say, you know, good morning and then
Speaker 3: have a conversation about their gender identity while shipping them
Speaker 3: to every city in America. It truly is. It's a stunning,
Speaker 3: screwed up priority that that is right at the heart
Speaker 3: of where this administration is.
Speaker 2: It also, though, I think, sends the message to Customs
Speaker 2: and Border Patrol agents, we're not on your side, and
Speaker 2: if you don't do what we tell you to do
Speaker 2: and you actually do your job the right way, there
Speaker 2: may be consequences for you doing your job. And if
Speaker 2: you don't push our agenda items the way we're telling
Speaker 2: you to do it will come after you, because that's
Speaker 2: what I would get out of this. This is a shout
Speaker 2: across the bow of every man and woman that's putting
Speaker 2: their life on the line at the southern border to
Speaker 2: basically say, you don't do your job the way you
Speaker 2: think you do it, you do it the way we
Speaker 2: tell you to.
Speaker 3: Well, this Biden administration is an administration that is fundamentally unserious.
Speaker 3: They're not serious about the goal of securing the border
Speaker 3: because they don't want to secure the border. They want
Speaker 3: it to be maximizing the number of illegal aliens. Unserious
Speaker 3: about national security, and as a result, Biden inherited peace
Speaker 3: and prosperity, and we've now got two wars waging across
Speaker 3: the world right now as a result of their weakness.
Speaker 3: And when you have federal agencies with serious, grave responsibilities
Speaker 3: and you put political apparatics in charge who are not serious,
Speaker 3: who are not up to the task, you end up
Speaker 3: with number one not doing the job. They're therefore but
Speaker 3: number two getting distracted by political priorities that have nothing
Speaker 3: to do with the core mission. Another example you mentioned
Speaker 3: the NSA, the National Security Administration. They prepared a thirty
Speaker 3: four page colossary that they issued that that directs employees
Speaker 3: to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. And it includes
Speaker 3: terms ranging from anti racists to z and zurr and
Speaker 3: and it prove divides. It was published May sixth, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, and it identifies itself as quote, a glossary
Speaker 3: of terms and language commonly used in dialogue reversing regarding diversity,
Speaker 3: equity and inclusion and social justice. And it cites critical
Speaker 3: race theory advocates such as Robin DiAngelo and Ibram x kend.
Speaker 3: It cites DiAngelo, and it defines white fragility. All right,
Speaker 3: this is the NSA mind you defining white fragility as quote,
Speaker 3: the state in which even a minimum amount of racial
Speaker 3: stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves in
Speaker 3: white people. It adds these behaviors function to reinstate white
Speaker 3: racial equilibrium. There's also a definition of whiteness. Now you
Speaker 3: might think whiteness means someone being white. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: that would be too simplistic. According to the NSA, whiteness
Speaker 3: is quote a broad social construction that embraces the white culture, history, ideology,
Speaker 3: race expressions, experiences, epistemology, emotions, and behavior, all in order
Speaker 3: to reap quote material, political, economic, and structural benefits for
Speaker 3: those socially deemed white. This stuff is nonsense. It is garbage,
Speaker 3: It is poison. And you know what it isn't national security,
Speaker 3: which is what the NSA is supposed to be focusing on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're not focusing on that. And that is
Speaker 2: something that has obviously come up with many people that
Speaker 2: are concerned about national security and our southern border. You
Speaker 2: and I have talked about this countless times, but there
Speaker 2: are more concerns now than we've had probably since nine
Speaker 2: to eleven. And yet when you hear that this isn't
Speaker 2: just like a one page memo, this is a full
Speaker 2: blown document, page.
Speaker 3: Thirty four page page, thirty four pages.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, do we have a thirty four page
Speaker 2: memo on the on the on the number of people
Speaker 2: that have come across the border to your knowledge center
Speaker 2: that are on the terrorist watch list? Is there a
Speaker 2: thirty four page memo on that?
Speaker 3: Not that I know of? And let me ask, you know,
Speaker 3: the jackasses that wrote this, the jackasses that are in
Speaker 3: charge of enforcing these policies, how come nobody at the
Speaker 3: NSA got signals intelligence on Hamas planning the biggest mass
Speaker 3: murder of Jews since the Holocaust on October seventh, Maybe
Speaker 3: because instead they were focused not only on critical race theory,
Speaker 3: but also queer theory. And it defines queer theory if
Speaker 3: you think this is Ben and me just making things up.
Speaker 3: According to the NSA, queer theory is an approach quote
Speaker 3: that critically deconstructs and challenges binaries such as male and
Speaker 3: female or heterosexual and homosexual, and the DEI glossary then
Speaker 3: goes on to list a whole bunch of words associated
Speaker 3: with queer theory, like transmisogyny. What the hell is trans misogyny? Well,
Speaker 3: hold on, hold a second, I've got I've got a
Speaker 3: glossary here. So trans misogyny is the intersection of transphobia
Speaker 3: and misogyny, ze and zero. Meanwhile, we're told they are
Speaker 3: gender neutral pronouns that can be used instead of he,
Speaker 3: she and his her, while two spirit is defined as quote,
Speaker 3: a Native American term for an individual who identifies as
Speaker 3: both male and female. Other terms defined in the glossary
Speaker 3: include gender queer, afab amab, which means assigned female at birth,
Speaker 3: assigned male at birth LATINX, which there is not a
Speaker 3: single Latino or a Latino on the face of the
Speaker 3: earth that uses that ridiculous term. Those are all woke,
Speaker 3: rich white kids who want to show how woke they
Speaker 3: are by insulting the Latino community. There's also quote same
Speaker 3: gender loving, which is a term that serves quote as
Speaker 3: a description for homosexuals who think that terms such as
Speaker 3: gay and lesbian carry negative connotations. There's also demigender. All right,
Speaker 3: let me stop you ben quiz what does demigender mean?
Speaker 3: I'm a glossary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: That's the part that I'm sitting here as you're going
Speaker 2: through is I'm laughing because I'm like, how many sane
Speaker 2: people would know any of these?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want you to stop if you're listening to
Speaker 3: the podcast and literally ask yourself, if you were in
Speaker 3: taking a test, could you define the word demi gender?
Speaker 3: I couldn't. I don't know dem moore, she's like a
Speaker 3: really hot woman. Is that demi gender? No? No, no, no,
Speaker 3: demi gender? And it has variations. It has demi boy
Speaker 3: and demi girl, although who knows what's a boy and
Speaker 3: who knows what's a girl? And what it says is
Speaker 3: it's defined as quote having a partial connection to one
Speaker 3: or more genders. Ah, the joys of making this up.
Speaker 3: But by the way, not only does this do ridiculous
Speaker 3: critical race theory and queer theory by its own terms,
Speaker 3: it also blasts the founding of the United States of America.
Speaker 3: And it has a definition of quote settler colonialism. We
Speaker 3: were talking in the first story about usc going after
Speaker 3: and punish their own Jewish professor because they view Jews
Speaker 3: and they view Americans as settler colonialists. Well, here's the
Speaker 3: NSA's definition. Quote settler colonialism typically includes oppressive governance and
Speaker 3: enforcement of codes of superiority. And then it says examples
Speaker 3: include white European occupation of land in what is now
Speaker 3: the United States. So I want you to understand this
Speaker 3: is the friggin National Security Administration. By the way, has
Speaker 3: anyone there wondered what the word national refers to, like,
Speaker 3: what nation are they working for? Because apparently they think
Speaker 3: the founding of land that is now the United States
Speaker 3: is an example of oppressive governance and settler colonialism. And
Speaker 3: by the way, the solution, according to the NSA, it
Speaker 3: says white Europeans are guilty of colonialism, and it defines
Speaker 3: decolonize as a process quote that requires a recognition of
Speaker 3: systems of oppression in order to unlearn values, beliefs, and
Speaker 3: conceptions that have caused physical, emotional, or mental harm to
Speaker 3: people through colonialization. At the same time, it defines white
Speaker 3: privilege as quote an unquestioned and unlearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits,
Speaker 3: and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.
Speaker 3: This is garbage and it's not our national security. As
Speaker 3: you noted, the CVP is not allowed to secure the
Speaker 3: border because they're having to figure out the sexual orientation
Speaker 3: of human traffickers and drug traffickers instead of stopping them
Speaker 3: and arresting them. And now the NSA is not looking
Speaker 3: for terrorists because they're busy worrying about settler colonialism and
Speaker 3: queer theory. This is an administration that is fundamentally unseerious
Speaker 3: and consumed with woke leftist politics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you want to you know, it's bad
Speaker 2: enough we see it in the private sector, but when
Speaker 2: you see our government doing it and then not doing
Speaker 2: their job, especially when it comes to national security issues,
Speaker 2: it's truly terrifying because the consequences are death and destruction
Speaker 2: when you get it wrong.
Speaker 3: Look, that is exactly right. And I want to give credit.
Speaker 3: I want to give credit to the Daily Wire because
Speaker 3: the Daily Wire broke this story. It's an article by
Speaker 3: Spencer Linquest that published published this glossary. It would not
Speaker 3: be public if it were not for the Daily Wire.
Speaker 3: And this You literally read it, and I would say
Speaker 3: it reads like a Saturday Night Live satire. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: Saturday Night Live would never make fun of this because
Speaker 3: they're too afraid, they're too woke. By the way, one
Speaker 3: of the other things it defines is quote eurocentric, which
Speaker 3: states quote most use this term with a clear awareness
Speaker 3: of the historic oppressiveness of Eurocentric tendencies in US and
Speaker 3: European societies. The phrase critical race theory references quote the
Speaker 3: intersectional intersectionality of race and racism, and its supposed aim
Speaker 3: is to quote pose a challenge to dominant ideology. There
Speaker 3: is nothing about this that is national security. And by
Speaker 3: the way, if you want to know what the NSA
Speaker 3: is supposed to do, from the NSA's own website, let
Speaker 3: me read you their mission. The National Security Agency slash
Speaker 3: Central Security Service leads the US government in cryptology that
Speaker 3: encompasses both signals, intelligence insights, and cybersecurity products and services,
Speaker 3: and enables a computer network operations to gain a decisive
Speaker 3: advantage for the nation and our allies. That is its mission.
Speaker 3: In other words, it is spying electronically on our enemies,
Speaker 3: on terrorists, on people seeking to murder Americans. And what
Speaker 3: are they doing instead? They are being driven by the
Speaker 3: Biden Whitehouse's obsession with leftist, woke politics.
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Speaker 2: happened at Disney.
Speaker 3: Well, that's right, and this is the third of our
Speaker 3: woke triumvirate in terms of facing the consequences for their ideology,
Speaker 3: which is that Disney recently filed its its annual SEC report,
Speaker 3: a report that every public company is required to file,
Speaker 3: and here's what they were forced to publicly disclose.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 3: We face risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer
Speaker 3: tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel, and consumer products. And
Speaker 3: it goes on to note, quote the success of our
Speaker 3: businesses depends on our ability to consistently create compelling content.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 3: Generally, our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when our
Speaker 3: entertainment offerings and products, as well as our methods to
Speaker 3: make our offerings and products available consumers, do not achieve
Speaker 3: sufficient consumer acceptance. Further, consumers' perceptions of our positions on
Speaker 3: matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain
Speaker 3: of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and
Speaker 3: present risks to our reputation and brands. Now, that is
Speaker 3: one of the most stunning corporate disclosures I've ever read,
Speaker 3: because what that means is number one, Disney has lost
Speaker 3: billions of dollars the phrase go broke. Disney has sadly
Speaker 3: embodied that phrase. I am sure Walt Disney is spinning
Speaker 3: in his grave and horrors at what has happened to
Speaker 3: his namesake. But the fact that they put this in
Speaker 3: their sec disclosures means number one, the money they're losing
Speaker 3: is so significant. Number two, their projections for future money
Speaker 3: that they're going to lose are so significant that they're
Speaker 3: lawyers said, damn it, you have to acknowledge this in
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Speaker 3: In other words, we must write these words so that
Speaker 3: when investors sue us and say, your executives are putting
Speaker 3: your woke politics ahead of profitability, ahead of producing entertainment
Speaker 3: that consumers want, ahead of actually producing family friendly entertainment
Speaker 3: that kids are interested in, and parents want their kids
Speaker 3: to see that your politics matters more to you than
Speaker 3: making the business successful. They want to be able to
Speaker 3: point to this disclosure and say no, no, sorry, you invested,
Speaker 3: and we told you upfront, we don't care about making
Speaker 3: a buck. Our politics is all we care about. And
Speaker 3: even if it if it flushes the corporate profits down,
Speaker 3: debt down the commode.
Speaker 2: You know, we've had this debate at my house three boys,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about Disney, and I said to my wife,
Speaker 2: we had a a grand debate over it. I'm not
Speaker 2: giving my money to Disney. I'm not going to Disney.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to take them to Disney because I
Speaker 2: believe them when they tell me what their agenda is,
Speaker 2: and now it's in their financial disclosures.
Speaker 1: This is their agenda.
Speaker 2: And I say this over and over again when having
Speaker 2: this debate over things like Disney and Wokee companies. Believe
Speaker 2: them when they put it in writing, Believe them they
Speaker 2: when they publish it, Believe them when they produce it,
Speaker 2: Believe them when they promote it. This is Disney saying
Speaker 2: all along, Yes, this is exactly what we're trying to
Speaker 2: do with your kids' minds. Yes, we are trying to
Speaker 2: use what used to be just innocent entertainment that you
Speaker 2: could trust your kid in front of Disney Channel or
Speaker 2: Disney Movies. You no longer should have that trust with them,
Speaker 2: and they put it in writing.
Speaker 3: Well, that's right. But look, there's reason to draw optimism
Speaker 3: from this third example, which is is that that for
Speaker 3: many woke corporations, I think they they are feeling the
Speaker 3: heat and they're trying to change direction. You look at CEO,
Speaker 3: the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger. They brought him back
Speaker 3: because Disney was in such a world of hurt. They
Speaker 3: had screwed it up so badly that Bob Ayer came
Speaker 3: back and he is seeking in his own words to
Speaker 3: quote quiet things down after putting politics front and center. Now,
Speaker 3: Iigre presumably signed off on this corporate disclosure, and that
Speaker 3: may be a consequence of trying to pivot Disney back. Now.
Speaker 3: They're not doing a great job of it because the
Speaker 3: problem is that they have built a culture where their
Speaker 3: executives are invested in in this woke ideology. And this
Speaker 3: is something I discussed at great length in the book
Speaker 3: on Woke. I talk about Disney at great length. I
Speaker 3: talk about bud Light, I talk about Target, but I
Speaker 3: talk about how all three of them, Disney, bud Light,
Speaker 3: and Target lost billions and billions of dollars and number one.
Speaker 3: It's had an impact on all three but number two,
Speaker 3: and this is where you should be encouraged. It is,
Speaker 3: I hope and believe, a powerful deterrent for other CEO
Speaker 3: and other corporations that are sitting there saying I don't
Speaker 3: want to be bud Light, I don't want to be Target,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be Disney. And now Disney, according
Speaker 3: to its own corporate disclosure, Disney is saying I don't
Speaker 3: want to be Disney. That may be promising and optimistic
Speaker 3: for the future.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope that people continue to vote with their dollars.
Speaker 2: We're talking about cyber Monday, and there's so many people
Speaker 2: that right now are looking at where they're spending their money,
Speaker 2: probably more than we've had in quite some time, and
Speaker 2: that's a good thing. People are looking for companies they
Speaker 2: want to work with that are unwoke, that aren't going
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Speaker 2: I think, are the Bidenomics economy that we're in right now.
Speaker 2: There is a sixteen dollar fast food meal. Now that
Speaker 2: may not shock some people because you think, all right,
Speaker 2: at the higher end, maybe that's something that is palatable,
Speaker 2: But it's a sixteen dollars McDonald's meal that may explain
Speaker 2: voter anger more than any other poll at Joe Biden, Like,
Speaker 2: if this isn't just a full circle of where we
Speaker 2: are now that McDonald's has a sixty a meal that
Speaker 2: costs sixteen dollars and ten cents to be precise, that
Speaker 2: it's gone viral as a man posts the receipt on
Speaker 2: social media and I and I laughed when I saw
Speaker 2: this because it's like, yeah, welcome to Bidenomics.
Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting. The language you used was word for
Speaker 3: word the headline from, of all places, the Washington Post.
Speaker 3: So the Washington Post headline was, quote the viral sixteen
Speaker 3: dollars McDonald's meal that may explain voter anger at Biden.
Speaker 3: So this is the Washington Post saying, you want to
Speaker 3: know why voters are pissed at Joe Biden, Here's why.
Speaker 3: And it goes on to describe that on December twentieth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, a fellow by the name of Toefer
Speaker 3: Olive went to McDonald's in the town of Post Falls, Idaho,
Speaker 3: and he ordered a limited edition smoky double quarter pounder
Speaker 3: BLT with fries and a sprite, and the cost of
Speaker 3: the meal was sixteen dollars and ten cents. And he
Speaker 3: posted that the receipt on TikTok, and the receipt ended
Speaker 3: up getting millions of views, initially a couple of hundred thousand,
Speaker 3: but then when it was reposted, it ended up getting
Speaker 3: over two million views. And it it goes right to
Speaker 3: the heart. I mean, look, I've been going to McDonald's
Speaker 3: for as long as I can remember, and you used
Speaker 3: to be able to get a burger and fries and
Speaker 3: a coke for five six bucks. You know when prices
Speaker 3: got more expensive, maybe it was seven or eight dollars,
Speaker 3: but sixteen dollars. There's a reason voters are pissed. And
Speaker 3: this goes right to the heart of it than when
Speaker 3: you have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer
Speaker 3: and Nancy Pelosi spending trillions and trillions of dollars that
Speaker 3: we don't have, barring trillions trillions of dollars and running
Speaker 3: the printing presses days and night. We see inflation taking
Speaker 3: off and the result is it's sixteen bucks to go
Speaker 3: to McDonald's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sixteen dollars. Welcome to Bidenomics. It's going to be
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