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Crapping In America's Coffee · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I was very clear when laying out and defining what
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Speaker 1: you know Maga Republicans have done. And you look at
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Speaker 1: the definition of fascism and you think about what they're
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Speaker 1: doing and attacking our democracy, what they're doing and taking
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Speaker 1: away our freedoms, taking away wanting to take away our rights,
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Speaker 1: our voting rights. I mean, that is what that is.
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Speaker 1: It is very clear the MAGA Republicans are the most
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Speaker 1: an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. Such a pleasure
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Speaker 1: to be joined by all of you semi fascists, you
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Speaker 1: extreme threats to democracy. Thank you so much, all of
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Speaker 1: you for subscribing to Verdict on YouTube and Spotify and
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Speaker 1: plus community. Please do that before you destroy the democracy. Senator,
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Speaker 1: were you aware? I was not aware. Were you aware
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Speaker 1: that we're all a bunch of fascists before the White
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Speaker 1: House told us so? You know, for a long time,
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Speaker 1: communists have been calling their enemies fascists. That has been
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Speaker 1: a talking point from the radical left. That being said,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think we're seeing a new development that
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Speaker 1: is really troubling. Which it is one thing for people
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Speaker 1: in politics to demonize their political opponents, it is an
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Speaker 1: entirely new threshold to start demonizing the voters. We would
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Speaker 1: should not be surprised to see Biden's White House Press
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Speaker 1: secretary saying nasty things about Donald Trump. We understand she
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Speaker 1: didn't like Donald Trump, doesn't like Donald Trump. We shouldn't
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Speaker 1: be surprised to see her saying nasty things about me
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Speaker 1: or other elected Republicans. This is a very different thing, though.
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Speaker 1: She is blasting half the country. I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: reminiscent of Hillary Clinton's deplorable's line, like if you dare
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Speaker 1: to vote against our regime. You're a fascist, you're a
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Speaker 1: deplorable And you know, part of the problem with that
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Speaker 1: is it sets the predicate then for people to be silenced,
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Speaker 1: for people to be canceled. It sets the predicate, you know,
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Speaker 1: to use the idiotic language of the left. In some ways,
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Speaker 1: it's it's an invitation to attack, it even an invitation
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Speaker 1: to violence. It is again to use the left language.
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Speaker 1: It is other ring and I think it is it
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Speaker 1: is harmful to our country. And the problem is Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden is doing it deliberately. The White House Press secretary
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Speaker 1: is doing it deliberately. These politicians and their henchmen have
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Speaker 1: decided to try to demonize half the country and it's
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Speaker 1: really really dangerous, it's dishonest, and it's wrong. Well, the
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Speaker 1: half the country part, I think is the important one,
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Speaker 1: because the statement is simply incoherent. If you say that
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Speaker 1: half the country is a threat to government of the people,
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Speaker 1: by the people and for the people, that the only
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Speaker 1: way that we can have government of the people, by
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Speaker 1: the people and for the people is by getting rid
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Speaker 1: of half the people. That, of course said doesn't make
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of sense. Do you think that the
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Speaker 1: White House will pay for this comment in the way
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Speaker 1: that Hillary Clinton did, because it seems like it's even
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Speaker 1: much further than Hillary went to call someone deplorable. That's
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Speaker 1: one thing. To say, hey, you're basically a black shirt
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Speaker 1: or a Nazi, That's that's quite another thing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's that's much more intense even than what Hillary Clinton did.
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Speaker 1: Will it matter in November? Well, look, I think for
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Speaker 1: the people speeling this, they're speeling it from ignorance. Um,
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Speaker 1: they don't actually know what fascists are. Um. But but
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Speaker 1: for them, you know, it's ironic that that she says
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Speaker 1: the very definition of fascists. What she means by fascist
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Speaker 1: is something I don't like, you bad person that fascist. Mm.
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Speaker 1: But like she has no sense of it whatsoever. And
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Speaker 1: and it is deeply disturbing to see the White House
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Speaker 1: used as a vehicle for active disinformation. Um. You know,
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Speaker 1: we also saw in the past week her stand up
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Speaker 1: and answer a question about immigration and people walking across
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Speaker 1: the border, and she says, well, that's not what's happening.
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Speaker 1: That's just what's happening, and holy crap, like there are lies.
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Speaker 1: And I actually wonder if the reporters in the briefing
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Speaker 1: room move back a few feet afraid lightning was going
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Speaker 1: to strike her at the podium. There are two and
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Speaker 1: only two possibilities, Michael, either that she is deliberately ignorant,
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Speaker 1: she has no idea what's happening at the border, or
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Speaker 1: she's deliberately lying. There's not a third possibility. It is
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Speaker 1: one or the other. So I'm going to make an
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Speaker 1: invitation right now to Karine John Pierre. If you believe
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Speaker 1: it's not happening that people are walking across the border, Kareean,
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Speaker 1: I invite you come to Texas, come to the Rio
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Speaker 1: Grand Valley, spend one hour on the border, and I
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Speaker 1: promise you you and I will see dozens, if not
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Speaker 1: hundreds of people walking across the border. You know what,
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Speaker 1: you can pick any damn hour the day you want.
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Speaker 1: You can come at two in the morning, you can
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Speaker 1: come at noon. You will see them coming, because they
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Speaker 1: are coming every single hour. And then let me say
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Speaker 1: also to the corrupt corporate media, every single person that
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Speaker 1: holds themselves out as a fact checker, PolitiFact, the Washington Post,
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Speaker 1: all of these bogused yellow journalists, if all of them
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Speaker 1: have not immediately called this an eleven alarm pants on fire,
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Speaker 1: then they are every bit as complicit in the mendacity,
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Speaker 1: as is the White House that pays her to misinform
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Speaker 1: the American people. This, I suppose, was what was most shocking. Yes,
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Speaker 1: when the White House attacks Donald Trump, Okay, you expect that.
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Speaker 1: When the White House attacks Republican voters, that's you don't
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Speaker 1: necessarily expect that. But okay, this is politics. It's within
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Speaker 1: the realm of plausibility. But then when Karne Jampierre comes
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Speaker 1: out and says, no, people aren't crossing the border, when
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Speaker 1: we're looking at two million or really more than two
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Speaker 1: million illegal border crossings to happen this year, that's so strange.
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Speaker 1: When Karree Jean Pierre apparently doesn't know what the administration,
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Speaker 1: her own administration has done about Title forty two and
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Speaker 1: as that pertains to illegal border crossings, that to me,
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Speaker 1: I just don't understand it. And if it were willful ignorance,
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Speaker 1: I don't understand why this woman would want to hang
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Speaker 1: herself out to dry like this and make her look
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Speaker 1: so extremely uninformed, if not unintelligent when talking to reporters, well,
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Speaker 1: the corporate media is in part to blame because she
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Speaker 1: recognizes she's not going to be held to account she
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Speaker 1: knows the Washington Post will happily carry her water. She
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Speaker 1: knows PolitiFact won't check it. She knows everyone will ignore it.
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Speaker 1: It's the reason why, you know that we've had lots
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Speaker 1: of discussion about why does Joe Biden not go down
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Speaker 1: to the border. It's not that he doesn't want to
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Speaker 1: see it. It's that if he comes, the cameras will follow,
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Speaker 1: and their only strategy is ignore the chaos. You know,
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Speaker 1: the last time I took seven senators down to the
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Speaker 1: border a couple of months ago, we went out on
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Speaker 1: midnight patrol, and within minutes we encountered the first group
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Speaker 1: that had just crossed the order. A few minutes later
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Speaker 1: we encountered the second group. But it was one after
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Speaker 1: the other after the other. You don't have to hunt
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Speaker 1: for them. You don't have to look for them. It
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Speaker 1: is a constant stream of humanity. And I got to say,
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Speaker 1: by the way, kudos to the Texas governor Greg Abbott,
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Speaker 1: my friend. He's added now he was sending illegal immigrants
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Speaker 1: to Washington, DC. In New York, those hypocritical Democratic mayors
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Speaker 1: are throwing hissy fits, and he just announced guess what
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Speaker 1: Chicago is next. I think that is fabulous. Laurie Lightfoot
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Speaker 1: said we would love lots of illegal immigrants in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Literally she did. She said we would welcome them. I'm
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Speaker 1: very curious. In start the stopwatch, I'm predicting six days,
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Speaker 1: thirteen hours, and twelve minutes before she freaks out and
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Speaker 1: calls Greg Abbott Saar on the embodiment of evil destroying
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Speaker 1: humanity because she gets, you know, four or five thousand
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. Texas has had three and a half million,
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Speaker 1: right so far, It's been a lot of nimbiism, you know,
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Speaker 1: not an my backyard from the Blue state Democrats and
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Speaker 1: the Blue City Democrats. Though, I have to wonder when
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Speaker 1: we're talking about sending these people to Chicago. A lot
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Speaker 1: of people leave their Latin American countries because the conditions
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Speaker 1: are not great. There aren't there's not a lot of
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Speaker 1: economic prosperity, and it's actually just downright dangerous there. If
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Speaker 1: you're going to Chicago, Frankly, I suspect it's going to
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Speaker 1: be more dangerous there than it is in a lot
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Speaker 1: of the places that these people are fleeing from. And
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Speaker 1: Senator I've got to bring this up because, as usual,
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Speaker 1: the last week's episode of Verdict drops, and then I
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Speaker 1: just wait. I wait to see what the left wing
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Speaker 1: media are going to attack us for. This time, they
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Speaker 1: did not disappoint. They're very upset with you because you
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Speaker 1: pointed out that some people who take out a ton
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Speaker 1: of student loans, who study useless things like gender studies
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Speaker 1: or some other kind of nonsense, then end up working
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Speaker 1: all sorts of jobs they don't want to be working,
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Speaker 1: including as barista's senator. You ended up in a Bernie
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Speaker 1: Sanders campaign video. Yeah, it really was quite amazing. Bernie
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Speaker 1: put out an official video responding to Verdict. I love
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Speaker 1: when when this podcast drives the political news. Um. I
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Speaker 1: will say also that that that, and and all of
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Speaker 1: the Bernie brows, their heads exploded. I gotta say, by
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Speaker 1: the way, you knew that was going to happen, because
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Speaker 1: when we were doing the last episode and I talked
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Speaker 1: about the slackers who had wasted six years with getting
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Speaker 1: a useless degree working as baristas might come out and
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Speaker 1: vote if they can get off their bong long enough
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Speaker 1: to do so. I saw in the register your eyes
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Speaker 1: grow wide as you're like, oh crap. But I also
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Speaker 1: all right, I want to I want to tap into
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Speaker 1: your Yale education, because there is a logical fallacy that
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Speaker 1: these lefties are engaged in. When I said that some
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Speaker 1: slackers are baristas, they translated that into all baristas are slackers,
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Speaker 1: which is just now, you know, maybe you could help
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Speaker 1: me out with with deductive logic, but I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: that second statement doesn't flow from the first. Are there
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Speaker 1: people who wasted years studying utterly useless things who couldn't
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Speaker 1: get a job afterwards and who are now working as
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Speaker 1: a barista and are slackers? Yes, that those people do exist.
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Speaker 1: Is every barista slacker of course. Stuff. They're wonderful, great
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Speaker 1: people who are barestas who by the way, many of
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Speaker 1: whom don't have student loans that are getting screwed by
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Speaker 1: the Democrats because they're saying the guy that's studied queer
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Speaker 1: pet literature and has one hundred thousand dollars in debt
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Speaker 1: because oddly enough, you know, to reference another podcast, you know,
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Speaker 1: Mickey and Pluto going at it. Other than getting a
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Speaker 1: job at Disney, there's not a lot of job market
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Speaker 1: for queer pet literature. Yeah, it did occur to me.
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Speaker 1: It did occur to me that being a barista that's
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Speaker 1: an honest job. Yeah, there's no you wouldn't attack you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't attack a beristappers. I love my Bearista, right, but
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Speaker 1: there are plenty of very very useless jobs and useless
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Speaker 1: workers in America. And then what a coincidence on this story.
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Speaker 1: One of the most absolutely useless, counterproductive people in the
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Speaker 1: United States would be Randy Weingarten, the head of the
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Speaker 1: Teacher Union. And Randy Weingarten also jumped on the campaign
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Speaker 1: after Bernie dings you for it, and Randy Weingarten led
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Speaker 1: a sort of Barista themed video to attack you as
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Speaker 1: being you know, I don't know, anti worker or something
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Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, so two points on this one. There's
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Speaker 1: a reason why the lefty Twitter mafia left on this
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Speaker 1: so aggressively, which is today's Democratic Party hate working class people.
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Speaker 1: They're hammering working class to keep people they work for
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Speaker 1: the billionaires on the coast. They do things that are
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Speaker 1: massive wealth transfers from working class people to privileged elites.
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Speaker 1: This student loan forgiveness is an example of that. But
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Speaker 1: their policies killing American energy, driving inflation, I mean, everything
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Speaker 1: they're doing right now is responding to California environmentalist billionaires
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Speaker 1: rather than blue collar steel workers. So they leapt on
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Speaker 1: the barista comment dishonestly because they wanted to claim to
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Speaker 1: be a champion of the working man. But it is
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Speaker 1: it only works if they're doing what Karine John Pierre did,
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Speaker 1: which is being deliberately dishonest. Because you know, my dad
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Speaker 1: wash dishes the baristas who are full of ambition and
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Speaker 1: want to work hard and climb the ladder to the
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Speaker 1: American dream. That's a fantastic thing. But under Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: the Democrats, it's harder and harder for them to do that.
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Speaker 1: And you know, you talk about Randy Weingarten, I guess
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Speaker 1: it is difficult to think of a per in the
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Speaker 1: last three years who has done more damage to the
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Speaker 1: United States of America than Randy Weingarten. She has that
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Speaker 1: there's no person more responsible for the school lockdowns. We
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Speaker 1: had schools all across America shut down in many Blue states,
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Speaker 1: shut down for weeks and then months and then over
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Speaker 1: a year. And you know, just this week the test
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Speaker 1: story scores came out, and I want to read what
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Speaker 1: they were because it really is stunning. So the average
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Speaker 1: scores for nine year old students in twenty twenty two
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Speaker 1: declined five points in reading and seven points in mathematics
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Speaker 1: compared to twenty twenty five points and seven points. And
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Speaker 1: then it's even worse. The learning loss was experienced by
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Speaker 1: kids across race and income levels, but it was particularly
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Speaker 1: severe among low performing and minority students. Black students lost
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Speaker 1: thirteen points in math, and the white black score gap
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Speaker 1: went from twenty five points in twenty twenty all the
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Speaker 1: way up to thirty three points in twenty twenty two. So,
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Speaker 1: congratulations Democrats, Congratulations Randy wide Garten. You screwed millions of
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Speaker 1: kids in America. They're doing worse in reading, they're doing
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Speaker 1: worse in math. That will stay with them in all
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Speaker 1: likelihood the rest of their lives. And in particular, you
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Speaker 1: screwed African American and Hispanic kids. And the gap is
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Speaker 1: wider than it's been in a long long time because
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Speaker 1: of Randy Wiedearten and Joe Biden and every Senate Democrat
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Speaker 1: who happily voted along with them in favor of the
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Speaker 1: school lockdowns. Yeah, a truly a more odious figure in
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Speaker 1: American public life than randywine Garten and the public school unions.
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Speaker 1: It would be hard to point to. I mean, the
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Speaker 1: effects of that are just so awful, as you say,
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Speaker 1: it's not as though you can just that overnight wave
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Speaker 1: a magic wand and okay, the scores are better. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is going to track a very long time. And
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Speaker 1: so it's really really rich to hear lectures on labor
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Speaker 1: from from that woman speaking of being really tough on
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Speaker 1: the kids and putting kids in horrible situations. There is
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Speaker 1: a story that well one cries out to God for vengeance,
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Speaker 1: but also cries out to Washington, DC and state legislatures
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Speaker 1: for justice, which is that in California now there is
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Speaker 1: a doctor who is just caught on video admitting that
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Speaker 1: he performs transgender surgeries on miners, and not just miners,
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Speaker 1: on thirteen year old girls, and not just on thirteen
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Speaker 1: year old girls. He says, I would perform it on
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Speaker 1: twelve year olds. They just haven't approached me yet. He says,
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Speaker 1: there is no lower limit to the age of children
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Speaker 1: on whom I would perform these surgeries. It's obviously ghastly
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Speaker 1: the idea of a hysterecto me in a twelve or
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Speaker 1: thirteen year old. Question is, what can we do about
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Speaker 1: this heinous child abuse. Look, it's it's not just the
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Speaker 1: doctor that's carrying out these these horrific acts of child abuse.
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Speaker 1: It's the entire dishonest political system and media system. It
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Speaker 1: is our democratic politicians who refuse to acknowledge this is happening.
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Speaker 1: It is the corrupt corporate media who refuses to acknowledge
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Speaker 1: that it's happening. It's big Tech that silence anyone who
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Speaker 1: points out it's happening. Because we sit here today, Libs
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Speaker 1: of TikTok, a fabulous account run by an orthodox Jewish woman,
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Speaker 1: is still banned from TikTok why for reporting the truth,
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Speaker 1: which is the Children's hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, was performing mutilations,
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Speaker 1: life altering surgeries on miners, and and and actually, Libs
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Speaker 1: of TikTok, a sometimes humorous but incredibly valuable Twitter account,
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Speaker 1: not just documented it on the website of the hospital,
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Speaker 1: which advertised that they did it for miners, but she
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Speaker 1: recorded two different employees at the hospital on tape saying, oh, yes,
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Speaker 1: sixteen year old, no problem, we can do that. And
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Speaker 1: I gotta say not the corporate media, so big Tech
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Speaker 1: bander because she dared speak the truth. And then the
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Speaker 1: corporate media, the Washington Post wrote this absurd story where
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Speaker 1: they said, well, yes, It's true the website said they
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Speaker 1: were performing these surgeries on miners, and it's true that
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Speaker 1: two different employees that the hospital said on tape they
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Speaker 1: were performing these surgeries on miners. But it is nonetheless false.
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Speaker 1: We assert with no evidence whatsoever, because these aren't the
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Speaker 1: droid you're looking for. You're not allowed to be aware
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Speaker 1: of this. It is this is insane. And look, number one,
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Speaker 1: these surgeries. If you're a guy chopping it off and
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Speaker 1: then trying to build email genital you know, or if
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Speaker 1: you're a girl ripping chunks of flesh off the arm
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Speaker 1: and leg and trying to construct something that they think
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Speaker 1: resembles male genitalia, good god. Number one, I mean, this
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Speaker 1: is this is stuff out of a house of horrors.
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Speaker 1: But number two, if you read the medical studies of
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Speaker 1: the consequences of those surgeries, an enormous percentage of those
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Speaker 1: surgeries require a second or third, fourth, fifth surgery to
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Speaker 1: correct it because you have all sorts of complications, you
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Speaker 1: have infections, you have perforations. Look, it's it's it's hard
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Speaker 1: to discuss without getting really graphic, but but you read
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Speaker 1: stories of people who have this surgery have to use
20:48
Speaker 1: a Kolomosky bag and crap in a bag for the
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Speaker 1: rest of their lives. For any person to have this surgery,
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Speaker 1: I think there are a great many of them who
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Speaker 1: regret it almost instantly because it is the rest of
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Speaker 1: their lives are devastated. And then to amplify it, and
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Speaker 1: to say a child, a child who is not yet mature,
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Speaker 1: not yet able to rationally reason through the consequences that
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Speaker 1: if a twelve year old believes at that moment that
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Speaker 1: he or she is not a hear or she, that
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Speaker 1: you should permanently chop it off or permanently sterilize and
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Speaker 1: remove the uterus of that that young child. That's utterly indefensible.
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Speaker 1: It's one thing if an adult wants to make that decision,
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Speaker 1: you've got a right to do that if you're an adult.
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Speaker 1: But the idea that twelve and thirteen year old should
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Speaker 1: be doing it, or minors at all, I think is
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Speaker 1: completely indefensible. We have age of consent laws which state
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Speaker 1: that a sixteen or a seven teen year old can't
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Speaker 1: have a one night stand with I don't know, a
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Speaker 1: nineteen or a twenty or twenty one year old because
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Speaker 1: their brains have just not formed enough they're not in
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Speaker 1: control of their rational faculties yet, and so they can't
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Speaker 1: consent to make those decisions. So on the one hand,
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Speaker 1: you have that enshrined in law. On the other hand,
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Speaker 1: forget a sixteen year old. A six year old can
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Speaker 1: consent not to a one time kind of sexual escapade,
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Speaker 1: but a life long sexual decision that will have that
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Speaker 1: will have consequences even well beyond even the question of
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Speaker 1: sex and gender. But could can give you osteoporosis, can
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Speaker 1: give you bone damage, can give you infections, can put
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Speaker 1: you on a lifelong regiment of expensive, very powerful drugs.
22:46
Speaker 1: I just to me, this is so absurd. I don't
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Speaker 1: see why why lawmakers can't just ban this sort of
22:54
Speaker 1: thing outright. And since you're a lawmaker, can at least
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Speaker 1: at the state level. Can can we get rid of this?
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Speaker 1: Can we ban this? We look Tech Texas is moved
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Speaker 1: to do that, but in places like California they want
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Speaker 1: to celebrate it, and it is and the media won't
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Speaker 1: report on on the downsides of this that they want
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Speaker 1: to silence it. And by the way, Big Tech is
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Speaker 1: happy to silence it. Um Libs of TikTok was banned
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Speaker 1: for telling the truth because truth. Let's go back to
23:32
Speaker 1: Kareine Jumpierre. Look, fascists silence their critics. That's what this
23:39
Speaker 1: White House does. And by the way, we we have
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Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberger told Joe Rogan. Yeah, the FBI called and
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Speaker 1: and asked us not to not to allow people to
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Speaker 1: talk about Hunter Biden's laptop. I mean, you literally have
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Speaker 1: the government engaging in silencing discussion that is contrary to
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Speaker 1: their political narrative and their political partisan interests. Speaking of
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Speaker 1: the wokeness in our various branches of government, I simply
24:10
Speaker 1: could not believe this story that I just read, which
24:14
Speaker 1: is that a division of the US Specific Air Forces,
24:18
Speaker 1: which is the branch tasked with confronting China, has ordered
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Speaker 1: its senior leaders, as according to Washington Free Beacon and commanders,
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Speaker 1: to stop using gender pronouns in written formats, saying the
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Speaker 1: shift to more neutral language will help improve the fighting
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Speaker 1: forces lethality. They say, in accordance with the diverse PACAF priority,
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Speaker 1: we must embrace promote an unleash the unleash the potential
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Speaker 1: of diversity and inclusion. So you've you've got to stop
24:48
Speaker 1: using the correct pronouns and call people z and zim
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Speaker 1: and zur and there, and that's going to make our
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Speaker 1: fighting forces more lethal? Am I reading the Babylon b Senator?
24:58
Speaker 1: Is this our United States military? Look, Joe Biden and
25:01
Speaker 1: the Democrats are doing everything they can to damage and
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Speaker 1: destroy the military. They've done it through things like vaccine mandates,
25:08
Speaker 1: trying to chase out and then they fired vast numbers
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Speaker 1: of soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines. And this
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Speaker 1: is truly nutty when it comes to lethality. This is
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Speaker 1: lethality right here. This is killing our military. And listen,
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Speaker 1: the Chinese are training to defeat us and these weak,
25:28
Speaker 1: appeasing numbskulls are trying to demonstrate how woke they are.
25:33
Speaker 1: And by the way, the definition awokeness keeps changing. So
25:37
Speaker 1: last I checked, like twelve minutes ago, the most woke
25:41
Speaker 1: people had their genders in their Twitter profile. I'm he, him, she, her,
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Speaker 1: zzz or whatever. Now then even more woke is no, no,
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Speaker 1: no, no no, no, don't have pronouns. Even if you say
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Speaker 1: you're he him, we will not say it. We will
25:57
Speaker 1: just refer to you as podcaster. That is all you are.
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Speaker 1: You may not be he podcaster or she podcaster like
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Speaker 1: it is You're right, it could be Babylon be I
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Speaker 1: don't even know how you sat saturdayize this crap anymore
26:14
Speaker 1: because it is so ridiculous. And I got to tell you,
26:18
Speaker 1: I hear from active duty military all the time who
26:22
Speaker 1: are beyond frustrated by this garbage. And the problem is
26:26
Speaker 1: it now extends up the chain of command because the
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Speaker 1: way you get promoted in Joe Biden's Department of Defense
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Speaker 1: is you embrace this idiocy and apparently no longer, even
26:39
Speaker 1: though what a pronoun is so is the only way
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Speaker 1: that we solve this just winning In twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: I remember when I saw that woke Army ad whenever.
26:47
Speaker 1: It was about a year ago where it was an
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Speaker 1: army recruitment ad and the ad it looked like it
26:51
Speaker 1: could have been I don't know, a Procter and Gamble
26:54
Speaker 1: commercial from Pride month. It was a cartoon about this
26:57
Speaker 1: girl and how her lesbian mother is at Pride raids
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Speaker 1: really taught her how to fight America's enemies or something
27:03
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, again, sort of beyond satire. And
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Speaker 1: I thought, by golly, it's the this is the army,
27:10
Speaker 1: and you know, this was one of the few institutions
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Speaker 1: that conservative people hadn't totally lost to the left. So okay,
27:16
Speaker 1: it's lost right now. The only way to fix it
27:18
Speaker 1: is just we've got to get a Republican president in
27:21
Speaker 1: there to fire the top brass and bring some normal
27:23
Speaker 1: people back into military leadership. Yes. Look, the left has
27:28
Speaker 1: always hated the military, people like Bernie Sanders who always
27:31
Speaker 1: want to slash the budget for the military and render
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Speaker 1: us vulnerable. You have the Biden White House that believes
27:37
Speaker 1: every enemy on Earth the way to deal with them
27:40
Speaker 1: is surrendered to them, show weakness, show appeasement. You know,
27:43
Speaker 1: Biden is right in the middle of trying to sign
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Speaker 1: a ridiculous deal with a rand to give them billions
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Speaker 1: of dollars that they will use to kill Americans and
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Speaker 1: to develop nuclear weapons which it could be used to
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Speaker 1: kill millions of Americans. One of the ways they express
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Speaker 1: their hatred for the military is by undermining it from within,
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Speaker 1: by making it a political entity, and that is profoundly
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Speaker 1: harmful to the military. Listen, I don't want the military
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Speaker 1: to be a Republican entity. I want the job of
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Speaker 1: the military to defend this nation and be prepared to
28:16
Speaker 1: kill the enemy. That's their job. It's not to be
28:19
Speaker 1: on the vanguard of some political agenda on either side.
28:23
Speaker 1: Before we go, we do have to get to some
28:25
Speaker 1: mail bag because of our wonderful Verdict plus subscribers. Here's
28:30
Speaker 1: a question. It pertains to November, and it's a little
28:33
Speaker 1: nitty gritty on the politics. Baltimore Bill Rights. The National
28:38
Speaker 1: Republican Senatorial Committee n RSC canceled millions worth of ads
28:43
Speaker 1: across numerous battleground states Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada. There
28:48
Speaker 1: are winnable races here which would tilt the balance of
28:51
Speaker 1: power back to the Republicans. Would Mitch McConnell really prefer
28:55
Speaker 1: Fetterman and Kelly the Democrats in the Senate? So I
29:01
Speaker 1: certainly hope not. I think we have an excellent chance
29:05
Speaker 1: to take the House, and I still think we have
29:07
Speaker 1: a very good chance to take the Senate. I put
29:09
Speaker 1: it at sixty percent or better to take the Senate.
29:13
Speaker 1: In terms of where we are, I do think the
29:16
Speaker 1: political environment is a little bit worse today than it
29:19
Speaker 1: was six weeks ago. Now the narrative everywhere in the
29:23
Speaker 1: media is, oh, the tides have turned, and now the
29:25
Speaker 1: Democrats are not going to get obliterated, and the corporate
29:29
Speaker 1: media is desperately trying to push that narrative. I think
29:32
Speaker 1: that is vastly overstated. I think we're headed to a
29:35
Speaker 1: very good election still, and I think we will see
29:39
Speaker 1: going into September and October additional momentum Between now an
29:44
Speaker 1: election day. I am going to be on the road
29:47
Speaker 1: NonStop campaigning for Senate candidates across the country and for
29:53
Speaker 1: House candidates across the country, because I think it's going
29:55
Speaker 1: to be a big victory in November. I certainly hope
29:57
Speaker 1: it is. It's also worth pointing out as we're being
30:00
Speaker 1: told that the you know, the tides are turning and
30:03
Speaker 1: the Democrats are going to do just fine. Yes, the
30:06
Speaker 1: Republicans had at what a ten point lead on the
30:08
Speaker 1: generic ballot in July that narrowed to a five point lead.
30:11
Speaker 1: We're still pretty much exactly where the Democrats were in
30:14
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and it narrowed for the Democrats between August
30:18
Speaker 1: and November of twenty eighteen, and they still did great
30:21
Speaker 1: in those elections, in those midterm elections. So I just listen,
30:25
Speaker 1: you know it on the ground a lot, a lot
30:27
Speaker 1: better than I did. But I read the reports in
30:29
Speaker 1: the media, and then I look at the actual numbers
30:31
Speaker 1: and I think these things don't match up. Yeah, well,
30:34
Speaker 1: the media wants Republicans, Conservatives, people who are not insane,
30:39
Speaker 1: because in many ways this is not even a left
30:41
Speaker 1: right battle. This is asane insane battle. They want those
30:47
Speaker 1: who believe in common sense and reason and individual liberty
30:51
Speaker 1: to be demoralized, to say we can't win, to stay home.
30:54
Speaker 1: That's how the Marxists prevail is they discourage ridge people
31:01
Speaker 1: of good sense. From that, they engage in voter suppression.
31:05
Speaker 1: And every story you read about how the Democrats are
31:08
Speaker 1: doing well is a deliberate, calculated effort at voter suppression
31:13
Speaker 1: from the corporate media. Yeah. One last question before we
31:16
Speaker 1: get out of here, and that's not true. Two last questions,
31:19
Speaker 1: but they're both from the same guy. So it's a
31:20
Speaker 1: two parter. One what does America First mean to you?
31:26
Speaker 1: And two hard to choose, but what is the number
31:29
Speaker 1: one issue Ted Cruz is focusing on leading up to November.
31:33
Speaker 1: Both questions from Verdict plus subscriber Steel Dino. So those
31:38
Speaker 1: are great questions. America First means a lot of things,
31:41
Speaker 1: but I think it means standing with the working men
31:44
Speaker 1: and women, and defending the interest of the United States,
31:48
Speaker 1: protecting America, and foreign policy. I gave a long speech
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Speaker 1: it's about forty five minutes long at the America First
31:55
Speaker 1: Policy Institute, entirely devoted to what does America First mean?
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Speaker 1: And foreign policy? I don't think it means what some
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Speaker 1: people are trying to claim that it means, which is
32:07
Speaker 1: isolationism and withdrawing from the world. I think that is
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Speaker 1: twisting what America First is about. It's certainly not what
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Speaker 1: we did when Donald Trump was president. I think it means,
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Speaker 1: in the foreign policy context, putting the national security interests
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Speaker 1: to the United States first and foremost, being willing to
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Speaker 1: defeat our enemies, but not sending our sons and daughters
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Speaker 1: into harm's way for amorphous global norms or to protect
32:33
Speaker 1: democracy or such other gobbledegook. But the job of the
32:37
Speaker 1: military is to protect Americans and keep us safe. On
32:44
Speaker 1: economic and domestic policy, I think it means standing with
32:47
Speaker 1: blue collar workers, standing with working men and women. That
32:50
Speaker 1: means things like securing the border and stopping unlimited illegal immigration.
32:55
Speaker 1: That means defending small businesses so there are lots of
32:59
Speaker 1: jobs that are plentiful. That to me is America first
33:02
Speaker 1: as well, which is which is the steel workers and
33:05
Speaker 1: truck drivers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses
33:09
Speaker 1: and baristas who we stand for and the Democrats crap
33:14
Speaker 1: in the coffee cup of baristas. That is America first
33:19
Speaker 1: to me on that vivid note. So there was a
33:24
Speaker 1: second question, Oh, thank thank goodness, because I don't really
33:29
Speaker 1: want to end on that image that, albeit accurate, is
33:32
Speaker 1: quite is quite disgusting. What do you think the top
33:37
Speaker 1: issue has to be the Republicans focus on going into
33:40
Speaker 1: the midterms, so unpolling, the top three issues in the
33:44
Speaker 1: country are inflation, with gas prices being the most most
33:47
Speaker 1: salient piece of that. Then crime and then the chaos
33:53
Speaker 1: on our southern border. Those are consistently the top three issues.
33:56
Speaker 1: I think we should focus on them front and center.
34:01
Speaker 1: In terms of my passions, I would say two things.
34:04
Speaker 1: Number one, sanity versus insanity, like the Marxist left is
34:10
Speaker 1: destroying America, destroying our values, tearing down our founders, tearing
34:15
Speaker 1: down our constitution, tearing down our Bill of Rights, and
34:18
Speaker 1: so defending who we are as America I think is foundational.
34:23
Speaker 1: And in terms of a policy issue, I think there's
34:27
Speaker 1: no domestic policy issue that matters more than school choice,
34:30
Speaker 1: and so I am deeply engaged in campaigning for candidates
34:34
Speaker 1: who supports school choice, raising money for candidates who supports
34:38
Speaker 1: school choice, campaigning to defeat candidates who oppose school choice,
34:43
Speaker 1: doing everything we can to stop the Randy Weingartens of
34:46
Speaker 1: the world who are responsible for inflicting enormous harm on children.
34:52
Speaker 1: And she cackles away with Joe Biden and the Democrats
34:55
Speaker 1: at the White House while the kids get left behind.
34:58
Speaker 1: Sounds just like a fashion. Given people more choices over
35:02
Speaker 1: their future and the future of their family's. We got
35:05
Speaker 1: a regular Mussolini over here, at least as it goes
35:09
Speaker 1: into Joe Biden's sort of warped brain. There's obviously much
35:15
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35:18
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35:21
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35:24
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35:29
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about what happened in Alaska. Republicans
35:48
Speaker 1: lost a seat in the House of Representatives because of
35:51
Speaker 1: ranked choice voting in the Alaska's special election, which means
35:55
Speaker 1: the Democrat actually only won forty percent of the vote.
35:58
Speaker 1: The Republicans won six percent of the vote, yet somehow
36:01
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36:36
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