Ted Cruz joins the show to talk about the Freedom Convoy in Canada, and whether or not the U.S. should continue to participate in the Communist Chinese Olympic Games. Gerald and Joe are also joined by special guest Joe Rogan.
00:01:51.000They get the light, the flame, and they're good.
00:01:52.000We figure since we're working now, since we're technically a part of the media, that we should also propagandize you.
00:02:00.000So we have Senator Ted Cruz on the show today.
00:02:03.000Ted Cruz on the show is going to be talking about what's been going on with GoFundMe and the Freedom Convoy in Canada and what these states are going to be doing to hopefully help us avoid a communist hellscape.
00:02:21.000And also, we'll be talking about China.
00:02:23.000Look, Gerald and I disagreed about this where I don't think the United States should even be participating in the Communist Chinese Olympics.
00:02:30.000I understand the idea of engaging, but...
00:02:33.000This is a little bit different, for example, in World War II, because right now we have a complicit United States media and corporations who are actively doing the bidding of the Communist Chinese Party.
00:02:42.000And so I think that's a different problem than sending a Jesse Owens.
00:02:45.000That's a different problem than having Joe Louis beat a Max Schmeling.
00:02:48.000I think we're at a different point in history and we need to look.
00:02:51.000We could crush China right now, and I mean the Communist Chinese Party, in order to help liberate the Chinese people.
00:02:55.000And instead, you know, The Rock, John Cena, Coca-Cola, the United States government were being complicit.
00:03:12.000Before we get to anything else, comment below.
00:03:14.000Should we even be taking part in these Olympics?
00:03:16.000And we'll get to some of the propaganda that's been taking place, and NBC has been carrying the water, along with Joe Biden, not knowing anything about weapons of war, he calls them.
00:04:23.000I don't know why we have clowns with children.
00:04:24.000And when people act like it's an irrational fear.
00:04:26.000It is a giant, scary, disproportional beast with colors that in nature signifies aggression.
00:04:33.000When have you ever seen an animal with bright red, bright yellow, that's usually when they lift their claws or their belly to say, this is poisonous, and we send that into a children's party.
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00:06:47.000Before we move on here to the Second Amendment issue that Joe Biden just Okay.
00:06:55.000You guys can go and, well, you can't search, but if you go to lateralthecrider.com, search Stephen Crider's Second Amendment, you will see this argument that Joe Biden brings up is one of the most rudimentary arguments that you've heard.
00:07:05.000You probably heard it in, you know, Philosophy Class 101.
00:07:09.000And he's still using it, kind of like the 77 cents on the dollar for, you know, for women when they talk about women's rights, women in the workplace.
00:09:03.000But keep in mind, they went after Sarah Palin for having a map that had targets saying these are the districts to target.
00:09:08.000They went after Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:09:09.000They've gone after yours truly, claiming that these are death threats when we have joked, you know, for example, about, I don't know, maybe it might have been like throwing Kamala Harris out a plate glass window, which of course I would never do.
00:09:29.000I just wanted to make sure the seditious thing that they're putting on there saying that he is a traitor and that he has basically tried to overthrow the United States government instead of challenge the legitimacy of an election that was fully fair in history that we've ever seen.
00:09:44.000It was the safest and most fair election in history despite the fact that people were You know, there were so many cocks in the ballot boxes.
00:09:52.000Well, Mr. Giuliani, your face is running down.
00:11:50.000That's how men interact with each other.
00:11:52.000If you hang around men, you will see that they interact very differently than women.
00:11:55.000And if you go to an open mic, more men are obviously applying to an open mic locally.
00:12:00.000So let's say there's 10 slots in an open mic.
00:12:02.000What they now say is, look, there are 10 slots and 8 of them are men and 2 of them are women.
00:12:06.000Yeah, but there maybe were 40 people who applied and 35 of them were men.
00:12:11.000And when you say they have to be five and five, guess what?
00:12:13.000You're drawing from a shallower talent pool just like affirmative action, just like quotas when you're talking about university, and women who shouldn't make it to the top get to the top.
00:12:21.000It's not their fault when you watch all these female comedians that they're unfunny.
00:12:24.000It's like a kid who's never been spanked.
00:13:52.000If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
00:13:56.000I don't want to get going because I keep you here too long because you know all I'm about to, what I've said, and you know what I've done, and you know what we're doing, and you know what I know what you're doing.
00:15:39.000All right, so speaking of nerf guns, last week Joe Biden traveled to New York City to speak about, well, you would think he'd be speaking about, you know, the rapidly rising crime rates, of course.
00:15:51.000Well, police members, sorry, I don't want to say policemen, police Z's leaving the force in record numbers, leaving their citizens exposed, which, by the way, you're not supposed to have a gun because you're supposed to call the police, but they're racist.
00:16:01.000The point is, if you're trying to make sense of it, it doesn't make sense.
00:16:03.000He was supposed to talk about violence, and instead he talked about, specifically, gun violence and the Second Amendment, and he said something so asinine, we'll see if you can catch it.
00:16:14.000For any of the press, any of the press listening, this doesn't violate anybody's Second Amendment right.
00:18:47.000Revolver the belt and flintlock these were all around the founding fathers knew about them.
00:18:52.000They certainly knew about cannons That was the most powerful weapon that you could really have back then and they said of course you can have cannons which actually if you're talking about Expanding that right if you're talking about changing the scope.
00:19:04.000What would be the equivalent today of cannons at least tanks so my point is for you to think that it only applies to To an old lever action or pump action shotgun, which, by the way, is also something that should be banned, according to former Vice President Joe Biden.
00:19:17.000He just doesn't realize that he said it.
00:20:08.000This just shows you how little these people know.
00:20:10.000Now, you should have been able to understand that Joe Biden knows nothing about firearms when he told his wife to just take a double-barreled shotgun and fire it into the air.
00:22:52.000Yes, you absolutely can't have cannons.
00:22:53.000There's a historical context for that.
00:22:54.000Then he says, weapons of war, Glock, that's your gun.
00:22:57.000That's almost every single pistol in the country.
00:22:59.000Walther, Glock, HK, the most popular guns in the country, he's now considered weapons of war.
00:23:03.000So when you next hear about the assault weapons ban, according to Joe Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden, a Glock is a weapon of war.
00:23:12.000If that's a weapon of war, then everything is a weapon of war, and you're not entitled to a weapon of war.
00:23:15.000The only people entitled to a weapon of war is the military, the FBI, of course, who we are beyond trustworthy, and the local police force, who are systemically racist.
00:23:25.000Well, any weapon can be a weapon of war.
00:24:01.000Yes, because I was the first Caucasian to open up a dojo in Japan.
00:24:07.000No, you married someone whose father had a dojo and retired, and then you married Kelly LeBrock while you were married to her, you piece of crap.
00:24:16.000bigamist. So I've swollen purple feet. Yes. And nipples.
00:24:21.000Now, he used the exact same language former Vice President Joe
00:24:24.000Biden last year, when he called for banning again, weapons of war,
00:24:28.000but he was called for calling for banning assault rifles.
00:24:31.000Now, I know this has been a hobby horse of mine for a long time.
00:25:28.000The way that you convince people in your life, okay, because we try to be solution-oriented, I did a Change My Mind where we took people to the range, they fired Walthers, they fired shotguns.
00:26:23.000It's the dumbest argument that I've ever heard.
00:26:25.000And I think Joe Biden is playing to his base a little bit here and he's trying, he's losing in so many areas.
00:26:29.000He's like, well, I guess I'll go back to this.
00:26:31.000Is Beto available to go out and be my czar?
00:26:34.000Well, that's why he uses words and he doesn't show people because he wants You know, I don't think anyone's going to see someone out there harpoon fishing and think, you in the Navy?
00:26:41.000No, they're not going to, because they know, okay, it's just a harpoon gun.
00:26:44.000So he wants to tell you, they have these harpoon guns, they should only be with the village people.
00:30:26.000If nothing else, you've got to give credit to President Donald Trump.
00:30:29.000Everyone was saying China's going to be the next great superpower of the world, and Donald Trump said, uh, not on my watch, and it's a Rolex, by the way.
00:31:31.000We talked with you about the very fetching, and now Victoria's Secret model for their new Chinese foot binders with Juicy written across them, Victoria's Secret.
00:31:39.000Formerly American, should never be allowed back in the country.
00:31:42.000Aileen Gu, who defected, became a communist Chinese citizen, just won her first gold yesterday, giving China, of course, a huge propaganda win.
00:33:22.000By the way, I know everybody's just saying, oh, see, they're clapping, they're happy, it's wonderful.
00:33:26.000That former tennis star, I don't know if you saw this too, but Peng Xue, she was even planted in the stands to actually cheer on Gu as she won.
00:33:33.000That's how I decorated my living room, Peng Xue.
00:34:01.000I'm gonna show you sexual assault now!
00:34:02.000Right, it's like when your dad catches you smoking, he makes you smoke a whole pack of cigarettes.
00:34:05.000Right, yeah, but it's like Dear Leader in North Korea and everybody's like clapping and falling down in awe of their God walking down the street and then if you pan to the left it's guys with guns on them, you know what I mean?
00:34:30.000Because at least back when you're talking about Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, you know, when you're talking about, I just forgot the name of the runner, Jesse Owens, America was cheering for them and the media was very straightforward about, okay, teams, good, bad, we're hoping for a win for the good guys, right?
00:34:44.000And I know that there's a little bit more to it than that.
00:34:46.000But now you have the media doing the bidding of China.
00:34:49.000You have corporations who, by the way, will boycott Georgia.
00:34:53.000Because they don't believe that you should have an abortion after the baby has a heartbeat and its own DNA.
00:34:58.000They'll boycott Georgia, but they will.
00:35:36.000Who have been completely Today is cynical, some might even say sickening move by the Chinese government during its highly choreographed opening ceremony.
00:35:47.000and watch the media cover what a victory this is.
00:35:49.000Today, a cynical, some might even say sickening move by the Chinese government during its highly choreographed opening
00:35:54.000ceremony, Beijing gave the honor of being one of the two athletes to
00:35:59.000light the Olympic torch to a member of the oppressed.
00:36:30.000You mean they've been committing genocide for years against the Uyghurs and they gave them the ability to light the opening flame to the...
00:36:52.000Don't worry, they'll throw her in the nuclear power plant cooling tower after this, and I think we'll be good to just move on.
00:36:58.000And they used, by the way, the nuclear power plant, the cooling tower, doubles as a slope for the slalom hill, so really multipurpose-oriented here, the Orientals.
00:37:07.000Well, at least they stopped the beatings in the jail cells so that the Uyghurs could look and see that one of their own was making it.
00:37:13.000They didn't stop, they more so put her on pause.
00:37:54.000Yila Mengu Jiang grew up in Altay, a prefecture bordering Mongolia in far northwest Xinjiang.
00:38:00.000Chinese officials consider the region the cradle of alpine sport, after cave paintings were discovered there of hunters on skis, dated at 10,000 years old.
00:38:10.000Actually, the world's oldest skiing artifacts originate from, no surprise, Russia.
00:40:17.000So I guess for Gerald, the only appropriate scenario where we would not compete is if the Olympics were taking place in the actual Hotel Rwanda.
00:41:46.000If we had Trump in office, I would agree, because he would take a hard line and he would be like, listen, IOC.
00:41:52.000So I don't know if you know this, but NBC actually parodied, and this is what I'm talking about, unlike Jesse Owens.
00:41:57.000And if you guys don't know about this, let me just give you some context.
00:42:00.000Joe Lewis beating Max Schmeling, his second fight against Schmeling, is probably one of the most consequential athletic events of all time.
00:42:09.000Maybe you guys can actually find a video, we can bring it up later on Mug Club.
00:42:12.000Let me give you the context for this, and this is why Muhammad Ali called Joe Louis a house negro.
00:42:17.000He would use a term like Uncle Tom, because Joe Louis was beloved by the country.
00:42:55.000And right before that, you're talking about during World War II, the President called and said, we really need you to win this for the good guys.
00:44:20.000Well, yeah, I guess if you consider saddling developing countries with absolutely unpayable debt to hopefully eventually turn them into indentured servants, which, by the way, indentured servants still exist in China.
00:44:29.000Yeah, they're a champion of the developing world.
00:44:31.000How can NBC say that with a straight face?
00:45:07.000The problem is, it's unfair, they're cheating, and of course because there's a complicit media who's afraid to speak out against China, they don't call them on it.
00:45:15.000So China won multiple golds in speed skating after some unbelievable penalty calls.
00:45:20.000So in the 1km semifinal, South Korean skater, you knew that guy wasn't going to win, he South Korean and China?
00:45:28.000Jamaican bobsled team can win, so can he.
00:45:31.000If there was a South Korean competing and he set the world record by several body lengths, they would have just said no because it was a ghost.
00:45:41.000So a South Korean skater, world record holder, I want to make sure I get his name right, Hwang Daehyun, and people will say I'm a racist for not getting it right, was disqualified.
00:45:49.000Here's the thing, I think we have a clip.
00:48:38.000And the American skater Man Bainey, I think you have that right, said, apparently one of our teammates crossed the blue line and that made the Chinese team miss their exchange or something like that.
00:48:46.000It was an interesting call for sure, but it is what it is.
00:48:49.000Well, he's gonna get killed if he says that.
00:48:52.000And I do love the, you know what the most amusing, and we'll get to the propaganda from the media there too, by the way, that's just absolutely terrifying, but it shouldn't be all that surprising.
00:48:59.000The funniest response from the biased refereeing was from a Korean reporter, Lim Byung-sun.
00:49:04.000Do you know what he, I don't know if you wrote this, if you read this, he wrote an entire article with the same sentence repeated 10 times.
00:49:11.000It just says, let's just give China all the medals.
00:49:15.000Let's just give China all of the medals.
00:49:50.000So there's a Dutch reporter on air, and what's funny to me is he seems surprised by this, where he's dragged away by a communist Chinese goon mid-reporting.
00:51:01.000And the propaganda arm is just absolutely everywhere when you look at the Communist Chinese Party.
00:51:05.000So let me give you some examples here.
00:51:06.000Twitter had to remove thousands of state-backed Chinese accounts.
00:51:09.000Now that would seem like, oh, progress.
00:51:11.000However, they still have allowed Chinese state officials to be on their platform, like Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hsiang-Hsiu Ching-Chiang, I can't get it right, posts gems like this.
00:51:19.000The Uyghur ethnic group enjoys equal rights and freedoms as the other 55 ethnic groups in China.
00:51:39.000They actually do have CCP spies, Chinese Communist Party spies here in the United States.
00:51:44.000Every 10 hours, the FBI opens a new China-related investigation, and it's a non-stop flow of propaganda.
00:51:54.000These people don't have the American interests at heart.
00:51:56.000They actually want to see everything that you know and love be destroyed.
00:52:00.000And the only person who was in office who spoke tough and actually acted tough and got them to act in line at all was President Donald Trump.
00:52:08.000Why do you think now there's no concern?
00:52:11.000It's for the same reason that North Korea is firing off rockets like the 4th of July!
00:52:16.000Because they see former Vice President shitpants and they go, okay, we're fine!
00:52:45.000So this is one of the unintended consequences of the left right now parroting this lie, this Black Lives Matter lie, that black Americans are more likely to be shot by cops than white Americans.
00:52:56.000And we've debunked that over and over again.
00:52:58.000Do you see what our enemies are quoting to us right now?
00:53:05.000You're giving comfort and aid to a potential enemy, at least economically an enemy right now, somebody who definitely does not have our best interest at heart.
00:53:13.000Because you wanted to get the votes of a group.
00:53:39.000When people talk about crime, when people talk, even in Japan, where they talk about, hey, there's less gun crime, they can ban guns there.
00:53:44.000Look, it's a very, very different culture.
00:53:46.000And the kind of stuff, the kind of things that are happening in China would not fly here in the United States.
00:54:22.000It can hurt some athletes, but there are other ways for them to compete.
00:54:25.000I don't think the IOC is something that should be honored, recognized, or respected by the United States anymore.
00:54:29.000I think it's become a joke, and I think that China is a serious threat, and I think it's one that we could absolutely crush economically if we had the fortitude to do so.
00:54:39.000And by the way, if you're sitting out there talking about social justice and systemic racism, there should be no one more enthusiastic in this country Based on their rhetoric, there should be no one in this country more enthusiastic about crushing China financially than the liberals, than the Democratic Party.
00:55:06.000Why was it Donald Trump, who believes in strong national borders, who doesn't believe that we have a systemically racist country, why was it him who said we need to be tough on China because they actually commit gross human rights abuses?
00:55:17.000Why are you complaining about non-rights violations here and do nothing?
00:55:22.000No, I'm not saying you go in and you police China, you police the World Team America.
00:55:26.000I get that you can't do that, but there are some easy things to do, like not sharing technology.
00:55:31.000Like maybe not patronizing China, like maybe putting the tariffs on them, squeezing the financial vice on them a little bit, like making sure that their spy apps aren't allowed, like getting, like, you know what, Swalwell, start with not banging Chinese spies.
00:55:43.000That would be a good jumping off point.
00:55:49.000Well, I love how the left just went absolutely nuts when we said, hey, look, we're seeing a lot of Muslim attackers on American culture right now.
00:55:56.000We're seeing bombers and we're seeing all this stuff around the world.
00:55:58.000No, we saw that and we said, hey, maybe we should look at the Islamic religion.
00:56:01.000And oh, I can't believe that you would say this about them.
00:56:04.000They're being killed right now in China.
00:56:07.000They're being interned at the very least and rights taken away and beatings.
00:57:07.000There is no way to establish a Christian government.
00:57:09.000No, because someone reads a Bible verse when they go and speak in the Senate floor is not the same thing.
00:57:13.000So, I think we do need to recognize the warning signs that they see, and also understand that, of course, they're an absolutely awful, horrible country with whom we should have nothing to do with at this point.
00:57:22.000And I want you to comment below what your thoughts here are on China, what your thoughts are on the Olympics, if you do think we should compete, if you don't.
00:57:28.000I don't think we should have anything to do with it because we're at a different point in history, specifically because of the IOC, specifically also because of the way the media is covering this.
00:57:35.000We have no allies on the side of freedom with these international events.
00:57:40.000On the flip side, though, even though this has been a huge propaganda campaign, the Chinese, you know, the topography is something really special.
00:58:15.000This is the issue is they're just not used to any form of accountability that they didn't even realize, you know what, we're going to see those.
00:58:22.000I don't know if you know this but we can see that they're highlighting no no no no no no no no like
00:58:27.000bazing saddles just fake town behind it is beautiful mountain. Then why don't you just
00:58:33.000show us a beautiful mountain to uh toll you off scent. The internment camp is right behind that
00:58:39.000so we had to make sure you couldn't. The Olympics are a perfect microcosm of when people talk about
00:58:44.000China becoming the next great superpower. Yeah if you let them cheat if they just ban people if they
00:58:50.000just they just disqualify people who beat their team yeah and make up some rule it's the same
00:58:55.000thing when we're dealing with international diplomacy when we're dealing with with
00:58:58.000geopolitical issues specifically fiscally economically if you're
00:59:01.000If you just allow them to cheat, if you just allow them to devalue, if you just allow them to put tariffs on what comes in and not what goes out, if you just allow them to take advantage of the American economic system and steal intellectual property, well sure they can become a great superpower.
00:59:14.000The good thing is we can do a lot about that now to stop it.
00:59:18.000You can look at the concrete policies from Donald Trump, and you can look at how they play differently under Donald Trump.
00:59:23.000They're right back to their old tricks.
00:59:26.000Under the people who are supposed to get everyone accountable on the Paris Accord, right?
00:59:29.000Under the new party who's supposed to get everyone to play ball with international climate change agreements, and they're worse than ever.
00:59:38.000All right, look, we actually have coming up here in a little bit, but I want to play this clip because...
00:59:43.000You know, our next guest, Senator Ted Cruz, has not only talked about the issues with big tech quite a bit in the past, and he's spearheading some bills there, which I hope will actually, you know, be fruitful, but more importantly, we want to talk about the GoFundMe situation, because this has been a big deal with Canada, and it could be mirrored in the United States.
01:00:00.000It has been mirrored in the United States.
01:00:02.000I want to show this before we bring him on.
01:00:04.000It revealed that the mayor of Ottawa, the mayor of Ottawa, was responsible For the GoFundMe of the Freedom Convoy truckers in Canada, $10 million being pulled down.
01:00:15.000We have, through the efforts of Deputy Bell, Christiane Hinault, the Mayor and his staff, we've been able to shut down the GoFundMe program.
01:00:23.000That's a temporary reprieve because the funds are already moving in different directions.
01:00:28.000We are now going after supply and fuel coming into the area through investigations and intelligence operations and interdictions.
01:00:36.000All of which were underway yesterday, fully underway today.
01:00:39.000Well, it's not a violation of First Amendment if a company does whatever it wants.
01:00:43.000Why don't you go build your own GoFundMe?
01:00:45.000So here to talk about that and more is Senator Ted Cruz.
01:00:53.000All right, he is the host of Verdict Podcast.
01:00:56.000You can find him on the Twitter at SenTedCruz.
01:01:50.000Although it's great if you don't have Ambien on hand, the original Blade Runner.
01:01:54.000Have you seen the video with the mayor of Ottawa who just admitted and actually took pride in the fact that he was responsible for this GoFundMe being taken down?
01:02:02.000For people who don't know, $10 million raised for these Freedom Convoy truckers.
01:03:49.000It's a reflection of collective outrage at the arrogance and abuse of the petty tyrants in government who believe they can make these health care decisions for you.
01:04:01.000Now, take it and put it on steroids, not only due to these Government tyrants believe they can force you to make the healthcare choices they want you to make.
01:04:12.000Now, $10 million given through GoFundMe to fund and help support these truckers.
01:06:14.000And listen, I start from a principle that any Big collection of power is wrong and is dangerous.
01:06:24.000Whether it is an enormous collection of power in government or enormous collection of power in Silicon Valley, that the accumulation of power is a threat to our individual liberty.
01:06:34.000And what we're seeing here, it's a pattern.
01:06:37.000We're seeing Wait a second, you haven't been probed?
01:06:39.000By the way, COVID has unmasked these guys.
01:06:42.000That they want to control every aspect of your life.