In this week's episode, we discuss the growing problem of "Woke Policing" in America, and why it's not just a problem in policing, but also in the NFL and politics. Plus, a Washington Supreme Court ruling that race should be considered when determining the legality of a police stop, and the latest in a growing list of wokeness-fueled NFL head coaches. Guest: Alex Blumberg, host of the podcast "The O.J. Simpson Show" and host of CNN's "Oprah Winfrey's Good Morning America" joins Betsy and Amanda to discuss all things woke football and politics, including the NFL's new rule allowing teams to fine their own players for "woke" post-game comments made in the wake of protests, and whether or not that's a good or bad thing, and what it means for the future of the sport and the country. Music: Fair Weather Fans by The Baseball Project, Recorded live at WMMU in Duluth, Georgia, Georgia. Additional audio mixing and mastering by Haley Shaw. Credits: The Oasis Project, produced and edited by Riley Braydon Hill. Our theme song is by Skynyrd, courtesy of Lotuspool Records, produced by Micah Vellian, and our ad music is by Build Buildings Records, recorded live at Woodstock Records, located in Atlanta, Georgia and recorded in Los Angeles, CA. We are a proud member of the Woke Football Union, a proud affiliate of the National Woke Nation, Inc., a national organization dedicated to all things Woke and dedicated to Woke! , and a proud supporter of Woke. Thank you to all of you, thank you for your support and support, and your continued support and your support. Thanks to everyone who supported us. and all of our efforts to make this podcasting and support us through this podcast and all the support we can be heard everywhere we get it. Thank you for all of your support, thanks to you, everyone who sent in their support, support, love, support and thanks for all the love and support. We are Woke, support us, and we appreciate you. , thank you, bye bye bye. - Mentioned, bye, bye! -Maggie, Sarah, Sarah and thanks, bye. -Alyssa, Sarah. Sarah, Caitlyn, and Joe, Amy, and Sarah,
00:00:30.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:37.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:00:40.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:43.000So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:47.000Stand for the flag and kneel in prayer.
00:00:50.000If you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots.
00:01:17.000The problem for President Biden, and, you know, I listened to that speech to the AFL-CIO, and I heard him saying, you know, things are better now than they were at the height of the pandemic.
00:01:34.000But I think the problem for this White House is people don't want things to be better than they were in 2020. They want them to be as good as they were before the pandemic.
00:01:43.000They don't want to go, like, and that's the problem.
00:01:49.000Gotta say, when CNN nails it, they nail it.
00:01:51.000That was a left-wing commentator giving Joe Biden the business that people just don't want to be back to pandemic-level misery.
00:01:59.000They want to live their lives with success and prosperity like they did before the pandemic.
00:02:24.000Right now, the United States House of Representatives is preparing to vote.
00:02:30.000We're going to talk about woke football in this episode, but first, woke policing.
00:02:36.000From Washington State, in alarming yet predictable news, the far-left Supreme Court has ruled that race should be considered when determining the legality of a police stop.
00:02:47.000Justice Mary Yu, who definitely wants you to be sure, To know that she is the first Asian, the first Latina, and the first lesbian judge to serve on the Washington Supreme Court said in her opinion, quote, Therefore,
00:03:11.000courts must consider the race and ethnicity of the alleged seized person as part of the totality of the circumstances when deciding whether there was a seizure.
00:03:23.000Now, in this particular case that presented for review, the suspect, Paula Sum, gave police a false name and date of birth, drove off as law enforcement checked for warrants, and then summarily crashed his car into a nearby yard.
00:03:35.000We're told that Mr. Sum would not have known that after the police determined his car was not stolen, he would be free to leave.
00:03:40.000So it's time for a refresher on the Fourth Amendment.
00:03:44.000The right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated.
00:03:53.000Notice the amendment says people, not black people, white people, Asian people.
00:04:01.000Rather than codify a separate, parallel legal process predicated on one's race, America's legal system should treat everyone equally.
00:04:12.000Last I checked, the Equal Protection Clause already applies to everyone.
00:04:17.000Now, some attorneys asked the court to adopt a new standard for illegal seizures that included whether or not a, quote, reasonable person observing an arrest is familiar with patterns of policing in America.
00:04:30.000And the risks a person of color takes in walking away from or disregarding police interaction.
00:04:38.000That was the Washington Supreme Court's principle holding.
00:04:54.000I think it's safe to say that any notion of like an activist leftist judge is entirely proven by this decision because it certainly wasn't fact-based.
00:05:06.000I will, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, always stand up for race-neutral laws and the application of our law totally disregarding the color of your skin or where you come from.
00:05:18.000In America, people deserve to be treated equally.
00:05:21.000And it's crazy that the Supreme Court of Washington State thinks otherwise.
00:05:25.000But woveness is not just in policing, it is also in football.
00:05:29.000As I promised, Yahoo Sports has reported that Ron Rivera, coach of the Washington Redskins, or whatever they're choosing to call themselves these days, he just fined their defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio a $100,000 fine for comments Del Rio made comparing the January 6th protest to the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020. Here's what he had to say.
00:07:13.000There was complete anarchy compared to what happened at the Capitol.
00:07:17.000What Coach Jack Del Rio said wasn't a distraction.
00:07:20.000The media and the Washington head coach made it one.
00:07:24.000Maybe Ron Rivera should be more worried about winning games than what his defensive coordinator is talking about relative to politics.
00:07:30.000When's the last time the Washington team was even successful in the playoffs in the NFC? I can't even think of like the last time.
00:07:37.000I guess Cousins was a decently good quarterback, but it ain't exactly like they've been crushing it in the capital city in football.
00:07:44.000Coach Del Rio's comments were perfectly respectful, and he was within his rights as an American to speak his mind.
00:07:51.000You don't surrender the Constitution because you go work for the NFL, especially when they're choosing wokeness.
00:07:56.000What he said was hardly offensive to anyone, but because he committed wrong think, he's $100,000 lighter in his bank account and at risk of losing his job.
00:08:06.000The president of the NAACP literally called for Jack Del Rio to be fired over this.
00:08:13.000Where is the NAACP and the NFL when their athletes are beating women?
00:08:18.000We haven't forgotten about these incidents.
00:08:23.000This is now Aaron Hernandez's new reality, the medium security facility here behind me, where he woke up in a jail cell this morning, charged with murder.
00:08:31.000Your Honor, the defendant is charged with the murder of Odin Lloyd.
00:08:35.000The 23-year-old former New England Patriot tight end stood handcuffed in a T-shirt as prosecutors laid out the case against him.
00:08:43.000Six charges in all, including the murder of his associate and semi-pro football player, Odin Lloyd.
00:08:49.000Police in Oakland, Florida now issuing a warrant for Zachary Stacey's arrest.
00:08:53.000Again, we have to warn you, the video is extremely disturbing.
00:08:57.000Stacey is seen punching his ex-girlfriend Kristen Evans twice in the head before picking her up and throwing her into the TV, causing that to fall over.
00:09:06.00030-year-old Stacey played in the NFL with the New York Jets and the St. Louis Rams.
00:09:10.000Evans filed for a restraining order against him, claiming he's been abusing her since she became pregnant with his baby last year.
00:09:31.000She moves towards him and he hits her hard.
00:09:34.000Knocking her into the side of the elevator, she cracks her head on the handrail, goes out cold, she's on the floor.
00:09:40.000NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell did suspend Rice for two games.
00:09:45.000The punishment was preposterously low, which the NFL has come out and admitted that it was way too low.
00:09:52.000So maybe an organization that continues to produce alums of that organization that are serial killers and wife beaters and people who would harm pregnant women should be focused on things other than the political free expression of a defensive coordinator on the Washington team.
00:10:09.000The left and their cronies are just sending the message that if you speak up, if you question the narrative, that they will ruin you.
00:10:18.000But we know most Americans feel the exact same way as Jack Del Rio.
00:10:21.000Matter of fact, some on our live stream are saying he should sue the NFL. That's David on Facebook.
00:10:49.000And I am joined for this discussion with the acting legislative director of our office, Mike Robertson.
00:10:53.000Mike, there's a vote just about to happen right now on the floor of the Congress regarding woke finance.
00:11:00.000We go from woke NFL, woke policing, woke finance.
00:11:03.000You are very much an expert on how the American economy works.
00:11:07.000So share with our viewers and listeners what the Democrats think will solve inflation in Congress today.
00:11:13.000Well, first of all, Matt, we need to think about where are the Democrats' priorities and where are the Federal Reserve's priorities?
00:11:19.000Right now, the American people are experiencing 8.6% year-over-year inflation.
00:11:24.000And as we have this massive inflation of the largest in 40 years, Congress is set to experience consideration of $1.6 trillion in appropriation spending in FY23. And so while we have some serious questions to have answered on what's this quantitative easing,
00:11:41.000artificial low interest rates from the Federal Reserve, having a balance sheet of $2.7 trillion in mortgage-backed securities and just printing money, punishing people who are trying to hold on to their cash and rewarding commercial banks who want to lend money to each other, we would hope that our leaders in Congress on the Financial Services Committee would demand questions and reporting from the Federal Reserve.
00:12:03.000But instead, we have a social justice Woke equity bill that claims that they want to change, they want to amend the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and have a monetary policy aimed at using money mechanics to manipulate and construe an outcome based on race, based on equity, which is not good.
00:12:22.000So how would Democrats use this bill to make race a factor in the U.S. economy?
00:12:28.000Well, aside from manipulating our largest institution and dealing with money and what our money is worth, they also include some poison pills.
00:12:36.000They want a government map of displaying only minority banks for people to access.
00:12:40.000They want to force mortgage institutions to make every document they have in eight languages, a minimum of eight languages, because Spanish and English aren't fair enough for everybody.
00:12:51.000They want to have diversity and inclusion rankings for banks.
00:13:07.000I have shared with viewers for quite some time that I believe that the next iteration of cancel culture comes through the U.S. financial system, where everything you buy, the cost of everything, is going to be based on whether or not you're woke enough.
00:13:22.000And that starts at your banks, at community banks, at big banks.
00:13:25.000And what you're saying to us, Mike Robertson, is that this legislation would actually gaslight a regulatory system that made the U.S. economy a race-first institution.
00:13:40.000And they just are staying ignorant, not caring, not acknowledging that inflation is a regressive tax.
00:13:46.000This hurts middle America the most, those that are the least well-off.
00:13:50.000And if you want to talk about equity and what's good for this country, it's looking out for everybody on an equal standard and equal basis and not ignoring the problem we have at hand.
00:13:58.000And so that's what we're talking about.
00:13:59.000And it's a dual penalty, really, this legislation, because in one hand, like you say, they're ignoring this very serious problem that you outlined about inflation and how it hurts people.
00:14:09.000And that we need to stop doing things that harm American families that are out there working.
00:14:16.000And then what they're doing instead is incredibly damaging to a free functioning economy where people's ideas and commerce define their success rather than their race and whether or not they get the right diversity and inclusion score.
00:14:41.000It's as if they've caused the problem at the beginning of the Biden presidency and are failing to acknowledge that elections are coming up and they just want some red meat or maybe some blue meat for their base.
00:14:57.000So as we go forward, if Republicans take control of the Congress, I think it's going to be very important for us to actually win some battles to stop this crushing inflation.
00:15:07.000I think the answer to that is standing up against the spending.
00:15:13.000Deficit spending, that is always the hallmark of the bipartisanship that the Uniparty always wants to pitch to the American people.
00:15:21.000But I think that we can't surrender the integrity of the U.S. dollar to get some conservative policy we want.
00:15:28.000And this office will be a bulwark against this deficit spending that is crushing our economy.
00:15:38.000I've never heard of any co-workers, any staff in the halls of Congress tell me they've gotten a lobbyist reaching out to them wanting to cut deficit spending or wanting to stop spending in America.
00:15:47.000And it's time that our leaders in Congress, it's time that Congressman Matt Gaetz stands up for the American people and people join him in this office and actually trying to have a functioning priority list of how we're going to get the U.S. dollar and its strength and essentially everybody's wealth, everybody's purchasing power back to where it should be and not focusing on sideshows in Congress.
00:16:03.000Well, Mike has highlighted something very important.
00:16:05.000There is not a strong lobby in Washington, D.C. to reduce spending.
00:16:09.000All these lobbyists here that make gazillions of dollars, that run around in their $1,000 suits and their $500 pair of shoes, they're here to spend more of your money.
00:16:18.000And the problem is, there are real victims of that.
00:16:20.000The American families who see the price of gas going up, The price of food going up and we will continue to fight for you.
00:16:26.000We got to get down to the floor to cast this vote against this terrible bill.
00:16:30.000Probably the worst bill that has been brought to the floor in 2022. And Mike, who's the sponsor of this terrible legislation?