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Dems Ratcheting Up the Rhetoric, an Opportunity to clean out Bureaucrats & Liberals Demonize their Opponents Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Ted Kruz Ben Ferguson with
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Speaker 1: you on the Weekend Review. We've got three big stories
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Speaker 1: for you that you may have missed this week. First
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Speaker 1: up rhetoric from the Democrats. Well, they're not cooling it
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Speaker 1: off at all. In fact, they're ratcheting it up, increasing
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Speaker 1: the violence. We'll explain exactly what they're doing and what
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Speaker 1: they're saying in just a moment. Also, how many woke
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Speaker 1: bureaucrats can we get rid of that are entrenched in
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Speaker 1: our government because of the government shut down. The numbers
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Speaker 1: they look good if you're ready to get rid of waste,
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Speaker 1: fraud and abuse. We'll explain that. And Finally, Democrats are
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Speaker 1: funneling money into the protest you're witnessing, and now we're
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Speaker 1: getting to see exactly who they are. It's the Weekend
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Speaker 1: Review and it starts right now. You know, you talk
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Speaker 1: about the extremism of the Democratic Party, you're witnessing it
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Speaker 1: now on this issue on Capitol Hill. But we're also
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Speaker 1: witnessing it with their rhetoric that has not been toned
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Speaker 1: down even since the assassination of Charlie Kirk and Democrat
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Speaker 1: attack like they're being moderates that they're not being radic
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Speaker 1: or extreme. Well, we've got the tapes now to prove
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Speaker 1: that's just absurd.
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Speaker 2: Now, that's exactly right. It is no matter how much
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Speaker 2: violence we see, the Democrats keep leaning in on their
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Speaker 2: extreme rhetoric. Just this weekend, Gavin Newsom tweeted out in
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Speaker 2: all caps, Stephen Miller is a fascist. That's the entirety
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Speaker 2: of the tweet. It's in all caps. Steven Miller is
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Speaker 2: the Deputy White House Chief of Staff. And it is,
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Speaker 2: by the way, as of the time that we are
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Speaker 2: recording this, it has twenty seven million views. So people
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Speaker 2: are seeing Gavin Newsom saying Steven Miller's a fascist. And
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Speaker 2: just to remind you, the bullet casings from the rounds
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Speaker 2: that were fired and murdered Charlie Kirk, among the things
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Speaker 2: etched on the bullet casings were, hey, fascist, catch Gavin
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Speaker 2: Newsom knows that his staff knows that, and labeling Republicans
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Speaker 2: they disagree with his fascist is tragically. It is inviting
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Speaker 2: more and more violence. And I wish I could tell
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Speaker 2: you that Gavin Newsom was an outliner. He's not. Democrats
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Speaker 2: across the board are doing this. I want you to
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Speaker 2: listen to Hakim Jeffries on CNN and listen to just
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Speaker 2: how he's ratcheting the rhetoric up and up and up.
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Speaker 3: Give a listen when he was greeted formerly by former
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Speaker 3: President Joe Biden, and then of course at the Capitol
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Speaker 3: during the inauguration was, by the way, it was like
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Speaker 3: a super villain convention that the American people had the
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Speaker 3: witness and it's been a national nightmare ever since.
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Speaker 1: One question, right, super villain convention. So Charlie Kirk's assassinated
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Speaker 1: Democrats say they need to down, you turn down the rhetoric.
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Speaker 1: And then we're what fourteen days later, and he's saying
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Speaker 1: that this was a super villain convention.
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Speaker 2: That's not. That was Friday night, by the way, where
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Speaker 2: he says that the inauguration is supervillaant villain convention. Tim Waltz,
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Speaker 2: governor of Minnesota, obviously was Kamala Harris's vice presidential nominee,
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Speaker 2: has described Ice as quote the modern day Gestapo. JB.
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Speaker 2: Britt Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, claimed the country is
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Speaker 2: becoming quote Nazi Germany because Ice is quote grabbing people
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Speaker 2: off the street and disappearing them. Jasmine Crockett, who manages
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Speaker 2: to never find, never find a level two idiotic, two inflammatory,
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Speaker 2: two over the top that she's willing to go. She
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Speaker 2: compared Ice to quote slave patrols, and look, this is
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Speaker 2: so extreme. You know, there was something remarkable that happened
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Speaker 2: in the last couple of days. I don't know if
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Speaker 2: you saw this Ice Cube the rapper.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, his bus was attacked.
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Speaker 2: His bus was in Portland, Oregon, and it was firebombed
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Speaker 2: because these idiots saw the word Ice and thought that
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Speaker 2: Ice Cube was ICE, the Immigration Enforcement Agency. But like
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Speaker 2: these antifa leftist knuckleheads, you know, by the way, like
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Speaker 2: like Ice Tea and Ice ice baby. Better, like you know,
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Speaker 2: you cover up their name tags because the folks that
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Speaker 2: are angry are not terribly bright. But it is a
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Speaker 2: consequence of this demonizing of treating them. Look, it's fine
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Speaker 2: for one side or the other to say I disagree
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Speaker 2: with my opponents. They're wrong, their policy positions are harmful
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Speaker 2: either they're a mistake. That that's the normal give and
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Speaker 2: take a political discourse. And there's something fundamentally different when
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Speaker 2: you scream fascist, nazi, gestapo and you direct it not
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Speaker 2: only your political opponents who keep being the victims of violence,
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Speaker 2: but you direct it to law enforcement into ice. You know,
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Speaker 2: I was just in Dallas at the ice facility where
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Speaker 2: another deranged shooter unloaded on an ice facility. And and and
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Speaker 2: it seems no matter how bad it gets, the Democrats
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Speaker 2: keep it up. We put together a montage. I want
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Speaker 2: you to listen. I'm gonna apologize to this, apologize for this.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna subject you to several minutes of of Democrats
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Speaker 2: gone wild, just to show just how elevated their rhetoric is,
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Speaker 2: and and and and how harmful it is. So so
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Speaker 2: give a listen to this montage.
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Speaker 4: Donald Trump's modern dagas Scapo. Escapo is scooping folks up
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Speaker 4: off the streets. They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being
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Speaker 4: shipped off to foreign torture dungeons. No chance to mount
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Speaker 4: a defense, not even a chance to kiss the love
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Speaker 4: one and goodbye, just grabbed up by mass agents, shoved
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Speaker 4: into those vans and disappeared.
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Speaker 5: Will you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing
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Speaker 5: grabbing people off the streets of Poland, and you compare
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Speaker 5: them to those nondescript thugs who grabbed that that student,
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Speaker 5: that graduate student.
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Speaker 6: It does look like.
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Speaker 5: A Gestapo operation.
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Speaker 7: You know, my.
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Speaker 5: Dad served in Second World War. He fought the Nazis,
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Speaker 5: and I think he's looking down right now when he's
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Speaker 5: happy that I'm fighting today's Nazis.
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Speaker 8: Because if we just roll this clock on the wall
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Speaker 8: back seventy five years, we'd be looking at a time
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Speaker 8: and Nazi Germany where people ran around with signs like
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Speaker 8: this new ICE sign that says report all foreign invaders
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Speaker 8: to ICE, with Uncle Sam there holding up the sign.
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Speaker 8: This could have been a Gestapo member seventy five years ago,
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Speaker 8: report all Jews.
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Speaker 9: As somebody who understands history.
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Speaker 10: When I see ICE, I see slave patrols.
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Speaker 4: The dangers that we saw in in you know, Nazi
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Speaker 4: Germany are the dangers that we need to react to now.
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Speaker 4: And another thirty billion dollars to hire and train ICE
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Speaker 4: agents who have functionally become a secret federal police force
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Speaker 4: with expanding domain.
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Speaker 7: An authoritarian government in Washington, DC is dispatching massed agents
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Speaker 7: to abduct immigrants from our streets.
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Speaker 11: To be coming out of our country. I mean, I
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Speaker 11: grew up in a dictatorship and I don't even remember
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Speaker 11: ever witnessing anything like that. To have a democracy, a
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Speaker 11: peakan of hope for the world to now be turned
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Speaker 11: into one of the you know, one of the worst countries,
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Speaker 11: where the military are in our streets without any regard
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Speaker 11: for people's constitutional rights, while our president is spending millions
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Speaker 11: of dollars prompting himself up like a failed dictator.
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Speaker 12: Every single ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach
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Speaker 12: and are trying to hide their identities from the American
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Speaker 12: people will be unsuccessful in doing that. This is America.
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Speaker 12: It's not the Soviet Union, but not behind the Iron curtain.
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Speaker 12: This is not the nineteen thirties, and every single one
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Speaker 12: of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how
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Speaker 12: long it takes, will of course be identified.
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Speaker 13: This is not Germany, that's the ass and.
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Speaker 10: They got Stoppoh, this is the United States of America.
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Speaker 11: Unmasked yourself just been overwhelming.
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Speaker 9: I mean just watching everything online now the ICE, you know,
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Speaker 9: thugs and people do not want to continue to watch
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Speaker 9: people fund this kind of extraction. Violence. Yeah, it's violence.
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Speaker 6: The other things and all the other cuts pays for
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Speaker 6: a massive increase in the masked secret police that are
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Speaker 6: terrorizing our communities. ICE.
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Speaker 14: This is despicable. It's un American I called ICE the
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Speaker 14: modern day Gestapo a few months ago, and some people
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Speaker 14: thought that was going too far. I thought that was
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Speaker 14: too extreme. Got angry at me for saying that. Well,
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Speaker 14: come on, like, that's literally what's going on.
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Speaker 7: You have called to abolish Ice.
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Speaker 9: How do we achieve a future that's post Ice?
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Speaker 15: How do we achieve a future free of terrorism by
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Speaker 15: abolishing Ice?
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Speaker 2: Ice is a terrorist organization.
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Speaker 16: It needs to be defunded, it needs to be abolished.
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Speaker 17: We're seeing aggressive Gestapo type tactics in people being approached
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Speaker 17: on the street, in their home, at the clinic, at church,
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Speaker 17: at all kinds of locations. That's why this morning on
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Speaker 17: the House of the Floor, I warned the American people
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Speaker 17: that this is looking like the American Gestapo in the making.
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Speaker 7: I think we need to be really active at like
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Speaker 7: challenging what ICE is doing on every front we can,
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Speaker 7: and obviously being ready in the case of Trump trying
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Speaker 7: to call in the National Guard or whatever futilized national Guard.
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Speaker 18: I can't see how anybody can say they're a Christian
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Speaker 18: and treat someone from another land in their own land
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Speaker 18: this way. It's mean, is what it is. It's mean spirited.
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Speaker 18: A lot of these folks are being picked up by
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Speaker 18: you know, hooded thugs in the street in the most
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Speaker 18: Unamerican ways.
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Speaker 19: ICE agents without visible ideas, without any official markings on them,
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Speaker 19: with masks as they're acting more like vigilantes than of
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Speaker 19: agents of our governments.
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Speaker 16: Because we don't live in a country, an authoritarian country
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Speaker 16: where we have secret police who are masked, who are intimidating,
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Speaker 16: who are scaring people. That's the stuff of authoritarian states.
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Speaker 16: That is not the stuff of the That's not how
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Speaker 16: the United States operate.
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Speaker 10: He sent out out ICE and border patrol to intimidate
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Speaker 10: folks from walking in to our event, end up arresting
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Speaker 10: this poor soul that was just trying to sell strawberries
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Speaker 10: as collateral damage to intimidate us. That is a previous
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Speaker 10: stephen of things to come in voting bruce and polling
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Speaker 10: places across this country. And the ICE issue is alarming
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Speaker 10: beyond words. It is the private, largest private domestic army
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Speaker 10: of its type police force anywhere in the world. He'll
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Speaker 10: have thirty thousand people that increasingly appear to be swearing
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Speaker 10: an oath of babus to him, not the constitution of
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Speaker 10: the United States. Again, wake up to what's going on
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Speaker 10: in this country. That's happening in the United States of America.
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Speaker 10: Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no
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Speaker 10: due process, no oversight, zero accountability happening in the United
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Speaker 10: States of America Today, People ask, well, is authoritarianism? You're
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Speaker 10: being hyperbolic. We're being hyperbolic if you're a black and
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Speaker 10: brown community. It's here in this.
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Speaker 13: I have heard enough in the last couple of weeks
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Speaker 13: about ICE agents and wearing masks that I think when
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Speaker 13: we win the majority in the House, you're going to
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Speaker 13: see enough Democrats make it a priority for ICE enforcement
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Speaker 13: that they are no longer faceless. It looks too much
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Speaker 13: like some eighteen hundred's bank robber or you know, some
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Speaker 13: KGB officer in Russia, you know, pulling protesters off the streets.
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Speaker 1: Senator, you listening to that, And it's very clear that
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Speaker 1: Democrats get talking points and they stick with them. And
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Speaker 1: when they do this, they're doing it on purpose to
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Speaker 1: undermine the rule of law. They're to undermine law enforcement.
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Speaker 1: We've seen them do is so the Supreme Court as well.
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Speaker 1: There's quite a few, quite a few examples recently of
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Speaker 1: them really just using their words to turn people to
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Speaker 1: hate someone, to hate law enforcement, to hate police, to
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Speaker 1: hate the Supreme Court, to hate law and order. And
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Speaker 1: yet they say they want to ratchet down, but they're not.
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Speaker 1: They're doing the complete opposite of that.
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Speaker 2: So and ben, let me ask is so one of
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Speaker 2: the key Democrat talking points that they keep repeating is
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Speaker 2: they say that ICE are fascist or Nazis or griestappo
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Speaker 2: because they're wearing masks. Let me ask you, why is
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Speaker 2: ICE wearing masks? So they're not docks.
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Speaker 1: That's what it boils down to, so that they're not
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Speaker 1: outed by the same people that have maps of where
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Speaker 1: ICE agents are, so that you can go after them
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Speaker 1: if you want to.
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Speaker 2: I mean, so Democrats, including Hakeem Jeffries, have called for
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Speaker 2: unmasking ICE, identifying them and going after them. And look,
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Speaker 2: that's putting ICE law enforcement officers at risk. That's putting
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Speaker 2: their their spouses at risk, that's putting their children at risk.
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Speaker 2: This lunatic in Dallas used an app, the ICE Finder,
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Speaker 2: to go find the facility, to get up on the
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Speaker 2: roof with a bolt action rifle and fire multiple rounds,
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Speaker 2: murdering two people. And and look, I understand, I think
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Speaker 2: it's perfectly reasonable if you're an ice agent not to
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Speaker 2: want a bunch of angry radicals who want to harm
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Speaker 2: you and your family to be to be able to
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Speaker 2: docs you. This is a direct result, and it's not
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Speaker 2: fringe people. Hakeem Jeffrey stood at the podium and said,
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Speaker 2: unmask these guys and go after them, and that tragically
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Speaker 2: lunatics are listening to them.
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Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. So
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Speaker 1: how quickly can these firings take place? How massive could
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Speaker 1: they be? And how much research has been done behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes to get rid of a lot of these
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Speaker 1: woke bureaucrats that we that we've been wanting to get
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Speaker 1: rid of, that the presidents wanted to get rid of,
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Speaker 1: the cabinet secretaries of wanting to get rid of Like
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Speaker 1: how I mean, I'm assuming they're burning the midnight oil
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Speaker 1: kind of like Goajes did. Let's find the people we
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Speaker 1: want to get rid of, and this is our chance
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Speaker 1: to do it. And and and by the way it's done,
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Speaker 1: like it's not like he's gone from their jobs back
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Speaker 1: like it's done.
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Speaker 2: So I think that starts happening today. I think October one,
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Speaker 2: you start seeing pink slips. I think we will see
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Speaker 2: left wing bureaucrats fired today. I think we'll see them
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Speaker 2: fired tomorrow.
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Speaker 18: You know.
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Speaker 2: This evening, I had dinner with the Deputy Secretary of
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Speaker 2: HHS who's a longtime friend of mine. He was actually
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Speaker 2: a groomsm in my wedding. Great guy, I asked him.
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Speaker 2: I said, Okay, the White House asked every cabinet agency
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Speaker 2: preparing list of people for the riff and he said, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we're doing that. He said, every agency, when the White
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Speaker 2: House directs us to do that, we do that. We're
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Speaker 2: going to see I think hundreds, if not thousands, of
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Speaker 2: left wing bureaucrats fired in the next several days. I
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Speaker 2: think that's going to put the Democrat Party in crisis.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, we're not going to fire people
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Speaker 2: that are critical for the priorities you and you and
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Speaker 2: I care about. So we're not going to see border
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Speaker 2: agents who are securing the border fired. We're not going
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Speaker 2: to see ICE agents who are deporting gang bangers fired.
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Speaker 2: We're not going to see FBI agents who are catching pedophiles.
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Speaker 2: We're not going to see them fired. We're not going
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Speaker 2: to see soldiers and sailors, at airmen and marines who
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Speaker 2: are keeping this nation safe, We're not going to see
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Speaker 2: them fired. We're going to see bureaucrats who are shutting
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Speaker 2: down factories, who are destroying jobs, who are pursuing radical
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Speaker 2: left wing agendas. They're going to be the ones fired,
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Speaker 2: and ultimately the Democrats are going to cave. The only
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Speaker 2: question is how long Schumer wants to go through this
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Speaker 2: charade before he gives.
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Speaker 1: In, which brings me my final question, that is the
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Speaker 1: media does seem to be covering this a little bit
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Speaker 1: more with honesty than I've ever seen them before. Today
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Speaker 1: there was a viral clip that is, the tables have
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Speaker 1: been turned. Democrats are now literally under fire for a
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Speaker 1: clip that shows them slamming government down tactics, the same
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Speaker 1: ones they're accused of using right now. And here's what
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Speaker 1: it sounded like back in twenty eighteen. In December of
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Donald Trump's President Chuck Schumer n An's posy
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Speaker 1: in the Oval office.
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Speaker 20: Listen, we do not want to shut down the government
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Speaker 20: because you can me say something, mister President North Dakota.
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Speaker 15: The most unfortunate that we came in here in good
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Speaker 15: faith and we're entering into this kind of a discussion
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Speaker 15: in the public.
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Speaker 2: Transparency.
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Speaker 15: I know, it's high transparency when we're not stipulating to
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Speaker 15: a set of facts.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you listen to that one, they're like, we're
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Speaker 1: not in favor of it. And then the speaker also
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Speaker 1: put out a very interesting yes video montage reminding people
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Speaker 1: the same thing, like, Hey, you guys think that it's
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Speaker 1: the Democrats. Mike Johnson putting this out and here he
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Speaker 1: is and what he said to remind the people about
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Speaker 1: Democrats in their own words, it is not.
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Speaker 19: Normal to shut down the government when we don't get
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Speaker 19: what we want.
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Speaker 20: If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans
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Speaker 20: who suffer most. A government shutdown means seniors who rely
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Speaker 20: on Social Security could be thrown into chaos.
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Speaker 8: Families will be hurt, Farmers will be hurt.
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Speaker 4: It's the service members who will work without a paycheck.
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Speaker 12: It's the firefighters who will be furlough.
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Speaker 9: Is shut down.
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Speaker 2: You know who's gonna feel the pain.
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Speaker 9: You know who it hurts you?
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Speaker 8: Everyday people and the most vulnerable seniors, veterans working families,
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Speaker 8: hungary kids. Yall, Democrats are signaling they're ready for fight
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Speaker 8: this time.
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Speaker 9: Schumer tells the Associated Press, Well, things have changed.
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Speaker 18: It is not normal to shut down the government when
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Speaker 18: we don't get what we want.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I love them using AOC's words. I feel
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Speaker 1: like the media has changed a little bit. Here your
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Speaker 1: thoughts on that.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm impressed that you recognize AOC's voice.
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Speaker 18: I didn't know.
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Speaker 2: I knew that was a shrill Democrat. I didn't know
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Speaker 2: who that was, So I appreciate that clarity. Listen, every
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Speaker 2: single Democrat, I think, without exception, has gone on record
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Speaker 2: being against shutdowns. The fact that they shut it all
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Speaker 2: down today demonstrates what utter hypocrites they are. And I
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Speaker 2: got to say as I was walking off the Senate floor,
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Speaker 2: so I voted to fund the government this afternoon. The
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Speaker 2: Democrats voted against it and caused a shut down. All
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Speaker 2: the reporters were circling, and their talking point that they
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Speaker 2: really wanted to press is they said, Okay, Cruise in
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Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, in the fight over Obamacare, you Ted Cruz
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Speaker 2: forced to shut down. Isn't that what the Democrats are
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Speaker 2: doing now? And I just started laughing at them, and
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Speaker 2: I said, look, number one. In twenty thirteen, when I
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Speaker 2: did a twenty one hour filibuster on the floor, I
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Speaker 2: was fighting for Americans. I was fighting for American citizens
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Speaker 2: whose healthcare premiums had skyrocketed, and they had skyrocketed because
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Speaker 2: Obamacare was a train wreck. It was a disaster. It
20:10
Speaker 2: caused a massive increase in health insurance premiums. It made
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Speaker 2: the health insurance companies rich, and it made millions of
20:19
Speaker 2: ordinary Americans unable to afford health insurance. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: I was also fighting for it at a time when
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Speaker 2: the House of Representatives that was Republican had voted to
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Speaker 2: fund the federal government, fund the entirety of the federal government,
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Speaker 2: but not fund Obamacare, so not fund the law that
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Speaker 2: was causing damage to American citizens. And I said, here,
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Speaker 2: what's happening is Chuck Schumer is shutting down the federal
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Speaker 2: government not to help American citizens who were getting hurt,
20:48
Speaker 2: but he's shutting down the federal government in order to
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Speaker 2: help millions of illegal aliens and give them free healthcare.
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Speaker 2: And he's willing to shut down your federal government to
20:59
Speaker 2: give of free health care to illegals. And that fundamentally,
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Speaker 2: there's a hypocrisy to it. And I also said, you know,
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Speaker 2: the reporters were like, isn't it the same, And I said, listen,
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Speaker 2: let me be clear. In twenty thirteen, it was Chuck
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Speaker 2: Schumer who shut the government down. Then I was trying
21:19
Speaker 2: to fund the entirety of the federal government except for Obamacare,
21:22
Speaker 2: and Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid decided, no, we'll shut
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Speaker 2: it all down because we care so much about socialized medicine.
21:29
Speaker 2: And I told the reporters. We had like fifty reporters
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Speaker 2: standing outside the Senate Florida. I said, look, none of
21:34
Speaker 2: you guys reported that. You all blamed the shutdown on
21:37
Speaker 2: me because you're all left wing hacks. Yeah, today all
21:42
Speaker 2: of you are still left wing hacks. You agree with
21:45
Speaker 2: the Democrats, But the facts are so overwhelming. It is
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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer and the Democrats who are shutting the government
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Speaker 2: down that even you dishonest liars are reporting. This is
21:56
Speaker 2: the Schumer shutdown. Because the House has fun to the
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Speaker 2: government exactly the status quo. The funding yesterday has continued
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Speaker 2: to tomorrow. It is the Democrats who have said, let's
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Speaker 2: shut it down. And I think at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, they're going to lose that battle. But this
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Speaker 2: is what you got to ask yourself, is how long
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Speaker 2: do the Democrats have to perform for their crazy left
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Speaker 2: wing activists before they allow the government to reopen as before.
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Speaker 1: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
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Speaker 1: on this topic, you can go back and dow the
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Speaker 1: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
22:35
Speaker 1: I want to get back to the big story number
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Speaker 1: three of the week. You may have missed the left
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Speaker 1: wing crime stistics center are brutal bom protests. For example,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, there are over ten thousand demonstrations and cause
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Speaker 1: one to two billion in insured property damage. According to Axios,
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Speaker 1: this is the most expensive civil disorder in US history.
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Speaker 1: There were also nineteen Americans into the conservative numbers who
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Speaker 1: died directly caused by the demonstrations, and that's another data
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Speaker 1: point that they left in the media does not want
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Speaker 1: to talk about. But if you look at this and
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Speaker 1: you see what the Democrats have done to our cities
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Speaker 1: and the fact that this has all been i think
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Speaker 1: bought and paid for, funneled money going into these groups
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Speaker 1: that are advocating for this type of organized violence. That's
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Speaker 1: the other thing that scares the hell out of me.
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Speaker 2: Well, and I want to draw a linkage between each
23:35
Speaker 2: of the stories we're talking about today, which is that
23:39
Speaker 2: we see left wing policies that undermine law enforcement, that
23:45
Speaker 2: seek to abolish or defund the police, that put Soros
23:47
Speaker 2: prosecutors in office, that release violent criminals, and you see
23:51
Speaker 2: the result being more and more violent crime. You then
23:55
Speaker 2: see democrats engaging in rhetoric to obfuscate, to hide that
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Speaker 2: to two ten, that's not happening. But you also see
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Speaker 2: the left engaging in increasingly angry rhetoric, demonizing their opponents.
24:08
Speaker 2: And if you look at ideologically motivated crime, the vast
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Speaker 2: majority of it violence that is ideologically motivated, the overwhelming
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Speaker 2: majority is on the left. As you mentioned, the BLM
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Speaker 2: riots all across the country, American cities burned all across
24:25
Speaker 2: the country, not just that. You look at the anti Semitic,
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Speaker 2: anti Israel campus protests. Those were leftists, those were anarchists,
24:31
Speaker 2: those were Jehatis, those were communists. All across the country.
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Speaker 2: Over two thousand, three hundred anti Semitic incidents reported on campuses,
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Speaker 2: which is by the way, the highest ever recorded. That
24:42
Speaker 2: was in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five the
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Speaker 2: La riots. This year twenty twenty five, seventeen people injured
24:49
Speaker 2: a state of emergency in La County. The city reports
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Speaker 2: nineteen point seven million cost as of mid June.
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Speaker 15: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Of course, President Trump the target of two assassination attempts tragedy.
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Speaker 2: Our friend Charlie Kirk successfully murdered in a horrific assassination.
25:06
Speaker 2: This pattern that the murderer who flew from California to
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Speaker 2: Maryland and to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Thankfully, he was
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Speaker 2: arrested by the police before he could carry out that
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Speaker 2: heinous act. And by the way, you go back to
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Speaker 2: twenty seventeen when a gunman came to Washington, d C.
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Speaker 2: Looking for elected Republicans to murder, went to the congressional
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Speaker 2: baseball practice and opened fire, hitting multiple elected Republicans, nearly
25:32
Speaker 2: killing Steve Scalise. Had the bullet been an inch one
25:36
Speaker 2: side or the other, Steve, a good friend, would have
25:39
Speaker 2: been killed that day. Instead, he was injured badly. Thankfully
25:42
Speaker 2: he survived. This pattern is happening over and over and
25:46
Speaker 2: over again, and there's a direct connection between the demonization.
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Speaker 2: Look when Charlie Kirk was murdered. Far too many on
25:54
Speaker 2: the left celebrated, cheered it on. When Luigi the nutcase
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Speaker 2: or the CEO of health insurance company, supposedly respected members
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Speaker 2: of the media celebrated leftists or getting his face tattooed
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Speaker 2: on them. They celebrate violence, and this week we saw
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Speaker 2: two more instances happen. We saw number one Immigration and
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Speaker 2: Customs enforcement agents targeted in two separate car attacks during
26:23
Speaker 2: enforcement actions in Chicago this past week, two different car attacks.
26:27
Speaker 2: It turns out that when Democrats demonize Ice, when they
26:31
Speaker 2: call them Nazis, as the Democrats have done over and
26:34
Speaker 2: over and over again. Our last podcast, we played a
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Speaker 2: whole clip of Democrats calling Ice and law enforcement Nazis
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Speaker 2: and gestapos. That turnout, when you use that kind of language,
26:46
Speaker 2: there are lunatics who listen to it and move to violence.
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Speaker 2: As you know, I was on the ground in Dallas
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Speaker 2: and was on site within minutes of the sniper attack
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Speaker 2: at the ICE facility in Dallas by a deranged leftist
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Speaker 2: who wrote who wrote wrote his left wing agenda on
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Speaker 2: the shellcasings, emulating what Charlie Kirk's murder had done. This
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Speaker 2: pattern is happening over and over and over again, and
27:13
Speaker 2: I got to say, it's Bet Bennett's disturbing. I don't
27:16
Speaker 2: see I don't see many Democrats modulating their rhetoric. Gavin
27:24
Speaker 2: Nitersoon just this week called Steve Miller, the deputy White
27:28
Speaker 2: House Chief of Staff, a fascist, using the same language
27:32
Speaker 2: that that motivated, among others, the murderers of Charlie Kirk.
27:35
Speaker 2: And they keep doubling down and doubling down and doubling down.
27:38
Speaker 2: And they know more ICE agents are going to be targeted,
27:41
Speaker 2: they know more police are going to be targeted. And
27:43
Speaker 2: and I want to be clear about something because some
27:46
Speaker 2: will say, well, gosh, there are crazies on the right
27:49
Speaker 2: who commit violence, and that's true, But if you look
27:53
Speaker 2: at ideologically motivated violence, the crazies on the right who
27:57
Speaker 2: commit violence are usually just mentally deranged. So, or to
28:02
Speaker 2: put it a little different, liberals can be the victims
28:07
Speaker 2: of violence as well. So Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked
28:10
Speaker 2: by a deranged, mentally ill person with a hammer. Now
28:14
Speaker 2: that was tragic, but I would not describe that as
28:18
Speaker 2: ideologically motivated violence. He was simply a victim of a
28:24
Speaker 2: mentally ill person engaging in an active violence and that's horrific.
28:27
Speaker 2: And there's a difference. You and I didn't celebrate that. Nobody.
28:31
Speaker 2: Violence is never, never, never, right. And the difference is
28:34
Speaker 2: the left celebrates it far too often, encourages it on
28:36
Speaker 2: the front end, celebrates it on the back end where
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Speaker 2: it whereas any principled conservative I know it will condemn
28:42
Speaker 2: violence across the board say do not engage in violence.
28:45
Speaker 2: And compare the difference of the reaction when George Floyd
28:49
Speaker 2: died and you had violent riots and fires across the
28:52
Speaker 2: country compared to when Charlie Kirk was murdered and you
28:54
Speaker 2: had candlelight vigils and prayer vigils, and the violence was
28:58
Speaker 2: from the leftist attacking people praying and holding up candles.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, and not only that, you even had Democrats this
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Speaker 1: week attacking Jeffries talking about those that went to the
29:08
Speaker 1: Republican convention as being like extremists. I mean, they're not dialing.
29:12
Speaker 2: This supervillain super villains is what he called the inauguration.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excuse me, the inauguration. Yeah, he talked about
29:18
Speaker 1: the inauguration. He said that there was a super villain convention. Uh,
29:22
Speaker 1: And that is them not downplaying this, that is him
29:25
Speaker 1: ratching it up knowing that we just left Charlie Kirk's
29:29
Speaker 1: funeral from being at.
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Speaker 2: And the hate on the left. It is directed to conservatives,
29:35
Speaker 2: it is directed at capitalism, it is directed at Americans,
29:38
Speaker 2: but it's also viciously anti Semitic and on young m
29:41
Speaker 2: Gapour in Manchester a a Syrian uh Assyrian ironically uh
29:51
Speaker 2: with the name wait wait for it, what was the name?
29:54
Speaker 2: What was the name of this murder? His name is
29:56
Speaker 2: Jahad al Shami and he targeted worshippers at a synagogue
30:06
Speaker 2: on jan Kapor. This pattern is happening over and over
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Speaker 2: and over again, and it's wrong and we need to
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Speaker 2: stand against it.
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