THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate？ Best Executive Orders？ Panda Express？
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Summary
Jack and Jack are back in Washington, D.C. They recap the Inaugural weekend, including the chaos surrounding the outdoor service and the seating controversy surrounding the swearing-in ceremony. Then, Jack and Jack take a trip down memory lane to the Capitol Rotunda.
Transcript
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DNSA specifically targets the communications of everyone.
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It is Thought Crime Thursday, live from the Imperial Capitol.
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Is that not the greatest looking thing you've ever seen?
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Blake, I specifically said, let's all do thought crime in D.C.
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I really want to spend time to kind of go through inauguration weekend before we even get into some of the substance of all the executive orders and everything that we've gone through.
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What is the best way to start this conversation, Jack?
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I know that there is some prompting here, but I think the other one is Charlie Kirk.
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I know a place of honor in the inauguration, in the inaugural hall or whatever we're calling the Capitol Rotunda from the day of, because this became the big sort of talk of the whisper talk of D.C.
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Everybody knows the way Washington, D.C., and it is a very historic kind of, you know, kind of discussion as to, you know, so who is seated closest to the king?
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But there was a lot of chatter that certain House Republicans were very, very upset that Charlie Kirk, who isn't even an elected member of Congress, got to sit in a better seat.
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So, obviously, we know that the outdoor service ceremony was canceled.
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I think it was absolutely 100%, 1,000% the right decision.
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But, Charlie, you're bringing up another sort of controversy.
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Was it because of the weather or were there other concerns?
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And so I just want to flag that in case we want to go back to it, because I would like to.
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Well, no, I'm just saying that if you even walked outside in the cold, the wind, it was, people would have died.
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Like, people do not appreciate how bone-chillingly cold it is in D.C. right now.
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Now, for me, as Chicagoan, I was like, okay, just wear more clothing.
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There's people from all across the country that are coming in that will drive in from Georgia and South Carolina that are not used to this.
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Donald Trump saved lives before he was even in office.
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It was actually my first time ever in the Rotunda, believe it or not.
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I was in the area where the State of the Union is administered, the House chamber.
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I've been in the Senate chamber, but never the Rotunda.
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But that's like, you walk in and you're in the Rotunda.
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Well, you've just never done the tourist thing, seen the paintings?
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So I have to give a little inside baseball here.
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I got to do a tour in which Speaker Johnson, I know, we like him, okay, ish.
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Listen, I got an opportunity to do a private tour and then Speaker Johnson addressed the tour, okay?
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And they actually took us inside the area where they were setting up the luncheon
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and where they were going to do the actual swearing in, and I got to see the Rotunda and all that stuff.
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So I wasn't like Charlie exclusive by any means, but it was very, very cool.
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And I will tell you, Charlie, you had this experience, I'm sure, as well.
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That whole space is way smaller in person than it appears on TV.
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And so there was kind of the war over ticketing.
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So let's kind of show the picture of the Rotunda from the interior.
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So as things got announced, there was a nonstop fight from donors, influencers, elected officials
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Now, this is very complicated because the Presidential Inaugural Committee, otherwise known as JASIC,
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It is a joint committee between the Senate, the House, and the incoming administration.
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So as soon as you decide to go in the Rotunda, you are 100% in Article I land within the House
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So therefore, if you look at the picture, before you even get to some of Trump's friends
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outside of the dais, and I'll get to the dais in a second, it's all senators.
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So the senators hogged all of the tickets up front.
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So to just put this in perspective, there were about 680 seats in the Rotunda.
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So there was only 230 tickets allocated for Trump and his team, family, and even some
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So a huge war over actually who gets ticketing.
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There was an overflow room where people like Theo Vaughn were and Logan Paul and Megyn Kelly
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All the governors were in the overflow room, right?
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And thank you to everyone who worked so hard on this for approving, not just myself, but
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And actually, it was a huge honor for all of us that work on all of our...
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The fact that we had a literal seat at the table via you was huge.
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It was a testament to how hard we've all worked and how hard the team has worked.
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I mean, it really was a huge, huge honor for the grassroots.
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I was so touched to be able to just be included.
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In fact, there was no difference between how you entered.
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I entered alongside of Ketanji Brown-Jackson, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas.
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The whole Supreme Court walked in as I walked in.
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Literally, like we were just kind of walking in together.
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I mean, it was just all kind of one line as you enter into the...
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It's an exclusive story I haven't told, which actually plays into this morning.
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I guess we don't have any national security confirmed cabinet membership, but...
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So I'll get into the CCP story later in the program,
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And so I started to get text messages while I'm sitting in there that this woman tweeted
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saying that some anonymous Republican lawmaker was mad that I had better tickets than them.
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Now, mind you, Eric Swalwell was literally right behind me.
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Now, I think I deserve great praise, because I went through high road virality.
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I said, here we are at a presidential inauguration.
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And I wanted so badly, when it was over, to take out my phone and say,
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hey, Congressman Swalwell, are you accepting the pardon?
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See, I had the same situation, although it was with other Republicans when we were at the ball.
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And I was like, you know, this would really go viral with a certain, I don't know,
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maybe Congresswoman from South Carolina or certain other conservative talkers.
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That was when Donald Trump said in God Save My Life and all the Democrats were sitting.
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It turned into a mini State of the Union vibe where like half the room would stand and applaud
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But it was because of the rotunda, the noise echoes and actually had a really good energy to it.
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On TV, it played like a massive applause line where he said,
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I've, you know, became convinced that God saved my life to make America great again.
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And so when you sent that picture, I mean, I was getting like live feedback.
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I was like, oh, like, you know, you're like, we're getting this up.
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You know, like, and it was, it was a, I think, I think it did like almost 2 million engagements.
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By the way, after it, about five minutes after Swalwell would stand up for almost every applause line.
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I think some staffer texted him like Charlie Kirk is roasting you.
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And it was, it was, it was, it was hilarious to kind of see as it was happening.
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I loved watching and looking at Obama and Hillary.
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Okay, no, but, but that dynamic of the speech, I mean, Jack, I think you would agree,
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was what made this not only a historic moment, because we can all feel that the country is on the verge
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and in the midst of something truly transformational in a positive sense, but the context, doing all of that,
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the salt in the wound as Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
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And mind you, we knew that Joe Biden just pardoned his family, but Trump did not.
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But it was this incredible juxtaposition of seeing the, essentially, the hegemonic force
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and power structure of the previous regimes right there having to swallow these very harsh words.
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And it was, it was, it was incredibly powerful.
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And a different politician would have used that moment and softened his language, pulled his punches.
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He likes to say that Melania took out a couple of the, like, you know, paragraphs that were a little bit stronger.
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And to see Joe Biden have to sit there and listen to it, Barack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton,
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and the whole, George Bush, it was a really incredible, I think, one of the truly historic pictures,
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just from an optics standpoint, that we will ever live to witness.
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And to see it in such a tight frame, too, again, on TV, it does, you do not understand how tight of a space that is.
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I mean, these guys are breathing down each other's necks inside that, that space.
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Charlie, what, had you ever been that close to Obama and Hillary before?
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It was, it was something, I mean, it's hard to, it's hard to kind of put in words.
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They just look different but similar in person, I guess, the way you could say.
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And, I mean, Hillary just is such a disgusting person.
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And then seeing, I've met George W. Bush before, but you kind of, just, you have to look at it,
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that ensemble of people will never happen again.
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Like, that particular ensemble of people will never be recreated.
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And no, Michelle, I don't know, I don't know what's going on there.
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All right, so, not to go into too much detail, my wife came with me on this trip and her friend
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And so, on the, I guess it was the Saturday night before inauguration, I was at a restaurant
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And all of a sudden, like, I would say half, because this whole town has been pretty magnified
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Yeah, I mean, it's like, it's got to be 60, 40 conservatives.
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Anyways, the point is, all of a sudden, half the audience, it was muted.
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Starts clapping, and you hear one woman cheer, and it was Barack Obama eating at the same
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restaurant as me, like, whizzes by, I feel the air behind my head, and I'm, like, trying
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And then my wife's friend goes, Barack Obama just, like, exited.
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I just felt the air past me, heard the cheers, and apparently he whizzed right past me.
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And so, all that to say, I got attacked for having good seats, but it wasn't just me.
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It was also Erica, and they were really sweet to include her, because all the other congressional
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spouses, this is what made them really mad, all the congressional spouses were in the overflow
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So the congressional spouses were in the overflow room, and Erica got in.
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And she deserves it, because we were all part of this kind of historic and triumphant
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And it was just larger than life, breathtaking, and, yeah, that seat gate, where a lot of,
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and then Jim Banks, Senator Jim Banks, walk through that as well.
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Well, actually, I just saw Senator Jim Banks, like, five minutes before the program.
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Jim Banks is part of this new guard that you've been talking about.
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And Julia Grace is a senior Washington reporter, sort of known, she's with the Daily Beast.
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She's actually used to work at the Washington Examiner, believe it or not.
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So, she says, Charlie Kirk has better seats than every member of Congress.
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Tells you how little Trump team thinks of Congress, one GOP lawmaker tells me.
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Then, let's go to 167, Jim Banks chimes in and says, Charlie Kirk has done more than most
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members of Congress combined to get us to this point today.
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Which was, I thought, a really nice thing for Jim Banks to sort of say.
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Yeah, and you retweeted it, because I thought it was a great point, and you thought it was
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And I would say, Jim Banks is a really good barometer of when we get into confirmation talks,
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when we get into how do we get the President's agenda across the finish line, Jim Banks is
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a perfect embodiment of this new guard, Bernie Moreno.
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They're not this vestige of the past of a bygone Republican Party that nobody's just
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taking the time to raise $50 million to primary, right?
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But these guys are with it, and Jim's totally on the team, and I love that he did that for
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But let's show a picture of your seating location, Charlie.
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Now, if you think they were mad, just to be clear, if the original dais would have
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stood, the tickets would have been even better, meaning that because of all the capital mix-up
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Had it been outside, I would have been two or three rows back from the people that were
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I don't know if I understand what you're saying.
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So, like, for example, where Elon was and where the cabinet was...
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But because it went inside, it was like, hey, I really want Erica there.
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No, I was super honored, and it was just treated so well.
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And, again, it was just kind of blown away, because last inauguration, I was, like, looking
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Well, I mean, it's a whole new day in Washington.
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I will tell you, a little vibe check on the ground, Jack.
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I just feel like this city, even in Trump 1.0, in the first term, I don't feel at all conspicuous
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I don't hold back opinions at the, like, restaurant or, like, a coffee.
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I'm just, I'm out and proud, and I don't even, you know, before...
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There's, yeah, it's just, like, everybody kind of...
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See, but I worry that that's, I worry if that's a, if that's a false sense of security,
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A lot of them know that they are probably, you know, got to...
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Listen, the president has every right to get...
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This town's been around a lot longer than any of the three of us.
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But they legitimately do feel threatened for their future, and they're not going to pop
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That's the best take, because they don't know where to fight.
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They're sort of in, you know, kind of in, like, receive mode.
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How do I, you know, let's leak some stuff on Hegseth.
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Let's, you know, see if we can get that going there.
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Is G.D. going to have to come back to town to be the tiebreaker?
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Point being is, it's a muted response, far muted.
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Obviously, you're not seeing the Antifa riots like we saw in 2017, the limos burning,
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the attack on the deplorable, et cetera, et cetera.
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That said, I'm just saying, guys, we haven't quite hit, you know, stay frosty.
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Yeah, and I think that's a good word, but I will tell you, just the fact that we're
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even this far is just such a dramatic, dramatic shift.
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And you look at President Trump's approval ratings.
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Which is why they're scared of really coming out.
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And really also why, and, you know, I know we're kind of changing the conversation a
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little bit, but it's why, and Charlie, I'd love to get your thoughts on this.
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The flood the zone strategy has been brilliant.
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I think that it's been so successful that the longer you wait to do things, the more
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time it's going to give this town, the media, the left, whatever you want to call it, the
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But if you're firing on all pistons, if you are doing the full court press, they don't
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have time to respond because there's too many things coming down the pipe at once.
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The minute you slow up, that's what gives them time to get their ducks in a row and get
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No, look, I think you have to continue to flood the zone.
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And by the way, this is happening in multiple volleys.
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There's a reason why it's day one, day two, day three.
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So where do they even focus their media attention?
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Understand, the media is largely the life force and the signal for where a lot of these people
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Now, they're going to try the stops and the stuff in the courts, but pardon power is absolute.
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The affirmative action EO is just rescinding another EO.
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So the DEI stuff is completely within the power and the authority of the current president.
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But also understand that so much of this, the next wave is Pete Hexeth.
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The next wave after that is going to be Pam Bondi.
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Wait until, I mean, for example, wait until Kash Patel and Pam Bondi can go, we want a review
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We want to know what's pending, current investigations, people are looking into, you know, subpoenas,
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and they have to go look into all the active case files.
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They're going to see who's got active FISA warrants out on them.
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Tulsi is going to be instrumental in that and making sure that gets across.
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And this is something that I'm even still waiting to hear.
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Was there a Carter Page of 2024 or a George Papadopoulos, someone that they used to go
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after them to say, well, unsuccessfully in terms of infiltration, but successfully in
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But I'm just saying, I'm looking at the past track record.
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And we're saying, look, I don't trust these guys.
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And not to mention just the very basic stuff about what does the FBI actually know about
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Thomas Matthew Crooks or Ryan Wesley Ralph, the people who tried to kill President Trump,
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were they really just lone wolves running around on their own and whoopsie daisy were able
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You know, you bring up drones, like all of these huge stories.
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And it's just, it's a reminder, like with this blitzkrieg that we're all living through,
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So here's what I'll say, though, is that there is a possibility that we forget to review
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That we forget to like, by the way, another thing I want to find out about, Jack, Las
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So these things that have been hidden from public view, and we don't really have an insight
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And it's, but there's just so much news that it's even hard to keep your eye on.
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Blake, I want you to walk through some of these executive orders.
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By the way, there are some delightful EOs that did not get any attention.
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Did you know that there was an EO signed on the first day, putting people over fish?
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Stopping radical environmentalism to provide water to Southern California.
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The title of the EO is putting people over fish.
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Charlie, I'll never forget, the first time you introduced me to President Trump, he goes,
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And he, President Trump goes into a whole, like, diatribe.
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This is like probably 2018, 2019, something like that, Charlie.
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It goes into a whole diatribe about the Delta smelt.
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Soon as he hears the word California, the guy goes, Delta smelt, water.
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I mean, this is deep within President Trump's subconscious.
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So, Blake, walk through some of your favorite EOs and the profundity of the affirmative action one.
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And all you guys, all you listening, we have several thousand people here on Rumble Live.
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Send us chats if you want us to highlight an underrated favorite of yours, because we'd love to hear what you all think.
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And as we discussed, as you discussed on the show the other day, it was in your book.
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There was a chapter in your book that was this, like, kind of fantasia when we have the next Republican president.
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And it's saying, like, day one, just imagine a Republican president who drops this order and that order and that order.
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And they just have dozens of them by the end of the day.
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And Washington is bowled over because you're not supposed to do things that fast.
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It was genuinely extremely exciting to watch, not even being inside the room like you were.
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So, obviously, the big headline item was pardoning all the J6ers right away.
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And what was so brilliant about that was he gets it out there right away.
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It's quite a bit of what they're talking about at the newspapers.
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And while he's doing that, he's dropping, okay, we're getting rid of the pride flags at all the embassies and federal buildings.
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You don't need that second national flag they invented.
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The craziest one to me, this was my personal favorite, was this was two nights ago, Tuesday night, like 9 p.m., they announced via Chris Ruffo that President Trump has signed this, that he's repealing the executive order from LBJ's administration.
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It's the executive order that basically created the modern racial racket, like the affirmative action racket, where it was supposed to say, don't discriminate.
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And as Washington loves to do, the courts went and they interpreted this to, it is mandatory that you discriminate against people.
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And this order repeals that and also says, by the way, we now actually interpret the Civil Rights Act to do what it says it does, which is that discrimination's illegal.
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So if you get a contract with the federal government, can't do it.
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If you're getting a federal grant, like if you're a university, can't do it.
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This is one of the most important orders any Republican president has done in our lifetimes, on anything.
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And what's amazing about it, Charlie, is it was not the lead story on CNN when it dropped.
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It was not the lead story in the New York Times when it dropped, because they were too busy covering J6, covering the furloughing the DEI people, covering confirmation hearings.
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And that's what's really been so amazing with the first few days of the Trump administration.
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Barack Obama had, I think, 19 executive orders in his first hundred days.
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Whatever it was, he had some number of executive orders in his first hundred days, and President Trump beat it in about 12 hours.
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The great Will Scharf, by the way, taking care of the executive orders, running that on the desk.
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It was awesome to see him at the Capital One Arena and then in the Oval.
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So everyone knows, here's a trivia question, Blake might know, who in American history has had Will Scharf's job before?
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The White House staff secretary, on the surface, seems as if it's like a perfunctory job.
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It says, controls the paper flow to the president.
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That is the central nervous system of the entire federal government.
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Well, so you think, okay, what is it, like newspapers?
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Anything, anything the president needs to review or sign from a national security briefing to an executive order to a memo from a foreign leader comes through the White House staff secretary office.
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And if there is a comma wrong, if there is an apostrophe wrong, if there is a number where it's like, well, is it executive order 1138 or is it executive order 1139?
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It could be the difference between, you know, pardoning somebody for something that you meant or didn't mean.
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So the White House staff secretary, Will Scharf, is doing amazing.
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First of all, I want to read some of the executive orders.
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We're going to do this on the show because I think we have to go through some of these because they haven't gotten the attention that they deserve.
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This one, restoring names that honor American greatness.
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So obviously, you know, there's the, you know, Gulf of America, all that, which I love.
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But you go deeper, it's the, he's just taking over the entire naming commission to review every single name of like national parks and rivers to make sure that they reflect American greatness.
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We should, you've got to bring back, you should lobby and bring back the old base names.
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He's going to allow Pete Hegseth to get a victory lap on that one.
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Yeah, but while we're at it, while we're at it, we should change Beijing back to Peking.
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You know, you're talking about the imperial capital feeling muted, Jack.
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On day one, there was an order to review all potential, oh wait, hold on, never mind.
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It was basically reclassifying members of the federal civil servants so they are easier to fire and replace, especially if they hinder or sabotage the administration's agenda.
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So, like, they see all these executive orders coming through.
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What do you think all the diversity czars are doing right now?
00:29:56.260
The order for all of the, uh, federal workers to go back to work.
00:30:02.680
It's now amazing because I'm finding the federal workers who are whining on the internet.
00:30:08.340
Uh, you can go on that, you know, giant volcano of soy that is Reddit.
00:30:12.540
And, of course, they have a federal workers subreddit.
00:30:17.040
They were saying, we, they're, it's all they'll talk about.
00:30:21.420
And, like, the top thread when I looked at it, uh, I think we posted this on Twitter.
00:30:25.860
They were freaking out where they're saying, we have to fight back by, we have to boycott
00:30:38.240
It's such a perfect symbol that they're so angry about having to go to the office that
00:30:42.800
they want to take it out on small businesses staffed by employees who actually have to
00:30:48.380
go to work for their jobs, who actually do real work every day.
00:30:51.980
And they want to lash out at them to show how angry they are that they have to go into
00:30:55.680
the office like a normal person because there's such disgraceful and like resentful and pathetic
00:31:02.720
And then they're also whining, uh, they were whining below your, your tweet, Charlie, where
00:31:07.020
they were saying, we could make, someone literally said we could make infinite money in the private
00:31:13.360
sector, but instead they're just self-sacrificially working for the federal government.
00:31:17.940
Uh, I think when they quit, when they start quitting, which is one of the reasons we're making
00:31:22.280
them all go back to the office, some of the losers will quit.
00:31:24.820
I think they will be quite surprised how in demand their skills are or how not in demand.
00:31:31.160
Some of them are, they couldn't make endless money for the record.
00:31:36.580
Most of these people now, the ones that could, maybe they will, and this will be the best
00:31:41.400
But the vast majority of them, you know, and Blake, I think you pointed this out.
00:31:45.440
A lot of these people have like side jobs and secondary jobs and they basically have
00:31:52.120
There was a girl, I, there was a, I'm just going to say this.
00:31:55.780
When I was in the Intel community, I was at Navy intelligence and there was a girl who ran
00:31:59.480
like a baking company out of her cubicle at Navy intelligence.
00:32:03.720
And she would be on the phone, like conducted, like she sold like cookies and macaroons and
00:32:08.540
And she would just be on the phone doing orders while she was on the clock on the government
00:32:14.540
A friend of mine told me today, he has a person he knows, I believe at FAA who is a realtor on
00:32:22.100
the side and his official government phone number connects you directly to the voicemail
00:32:33.280
It's the whole government is full of scams like this.
00:32:40.120
Let's just talk about this, Blake, even for some of the skeptics, I'm sure Blake that you
00:32:48.400
He could be contrarian, Blake is black pill, Blake returning, like, no, he's, he was dormant
00:32:55.120
through the election, but now like there's some good stuff here.
00:32:58.680
No, I just, I was just raving about it for like five minutes straight, Charlie.
00:33:07.720
I would urge everyone to remember, as we were saying, before we even got into the list,
00:33:11.480
an executive order doesn't make reality by itself.
00:33:15.260
One of the things we did day one was the EO on a birthright citizenship.
00:33:19.360
They're saying you don't get birthright citizenship.
00:33:21.840
If you're in a legal, if you're a tourist or even they're going pretty aggressive.
00:33:26.620
They're saying, even if you're certain types of temporary legal resident, like a guest workers,
00:33:39.900
We might go all the way to the Supreme court on that and lose.
00:33:42.800
I'll be frank, we don't change reality with just an executive order, but the level of
00:33:51.600
We're going to get wins on at least some, many of these things.
00:33:55.260
And because they're coming out so quickly, you maximize their value over the course of
00:34:01.660
Like the order on the DEI stuff, it's going to be really hard to disassemble that apparatus,
00:34:07.840
but you're going to get rid of way more of it when you're doing it for 1400 days than
00:34:13.500
if this came out in year two, in year three, at that point to get anything out of it, you
00:34:19.780
Even if we haven't forfend lose the next election, we'll be able to have a ton of impact because
00:34:25.140
we got going on all the important stuff right away.
00:34:28.180
And it's also just some of the little stuff, I mean, that might not make a, you know, make
00:34:35.560
You know, I was walking through the white house in the Eisenhower executive office building
00:34:39.020
and just taking down, I saw people taking down all the signs that say like gender neutral
00:34:50.460
Now there was one that I do have to make sure that the new secret service director addresses.
00:34:54.880
There was a secret service guy that was processing me today at the white house and he had not
00:35:03.680
He had like the trans inverted flag on his vest, Jack, on his secret service vest.
00:35:14.960
This might sound a little bit prideful, but I think you guys will cut me slack for not prideful,
00:35:18.800
but typically when I am around police officers, muscular class, national guard, I get recognized
00:35:25.520
and there's like some, like at least some favor, I'd say one, at least half, right?
00:35:33.020
So I go into the white house secret service and I get like stone cold response.
00:35:42.140
When I do a secret service event, like they're always coming up to me in the right.
00:35:44.600
They're always like, what I'm going at, what I'm going is that Biden and Kamala, they staffed
00:35:50.100
the white house with like loyal, loyalist, like regime.
00:35:54.620
Now there were some people that came up to the cafeteria.
00:35:56.860
Well, you know, as I was visiting, but it was really interesting.
00:36:00.400
It was a big, you were getting the, the, the hairy eye, the hairy eye ball.
00:36:06.220
Cause I was expecting like, oh, you know, welcome back.
00:36:23.200
But then again, some of the secret service guys that might've slipped through the cracks
00:36:25.960
were like, we love you, fist bump, you know, interestingly, the Hispanic and the
00:36:35.500
Charlie, I've been with you at more events than probably most.
00:36:40.760
I would just say that, uh, you get fist bumps from black and brown, like dudes.
00:36:46.760
More than just about anything, which is a hilarious thing.
00:36:51.520
I don't want to take, this is an important point you're making.
00:36:53.520
Because we do have to sort of restock the shelves, restaff the, the, the, these key loyalist
00:37:01.100
I mean, it's just, it's, it's absolutely the mandatory thing at this point.
00:37:05.240
And so look, and Trump's going to clean all this up and his team's cleaning it all up.
00:37:08.140
It's just illuminating to see what the prior regime has done up until this moment.
00:37:14.620
Um, but it's sort of like, uh, when, when, when they, uh, what was Obama?
00:37:20.920
Who took the W's out of the, uh, was that Clinton took the W's out of the, the key words?
00:37:27.140
Or, no, it was Clinton because the W was coming after him and they took all the W's out of
00:37:32.500
It's like little things like that, but this is a little more important when it's, uh, people
00:37:37.300
I mean, it's important, but you know, it's like a little pan, like, okay, it's not like world
00:37:40.200
changing stuff, but it is emblematic of likely, you know, a larger issue that needs to be
00:37:46.200
So I'm just looking through the executive action and orders here.
00:37:50.960
And I mean, I just, I laugh because he does this every day, right?
00:37:54.380
Well, it's going to be an SNL routine at some point in a good way.
00:37:57.360
It's going to be as, you know, Will Sharp comes up, sir, we have an executive order to colonize
00:38:08.160
People have been waiting years, decades for this.
00:38:14.880
Sir, we have an executive order to claim Greenland as part of America.
00:38:19.920
But to, to the, to Blake's earlier point, how many of these things are so dramatic, so sweeping
00:38:25.700
that they would have, they would have dominated previous news cycles.
00:38:29.100
I want to go back to this, uh, birthright citizenship.
00:38:33.440
There is zero arguments that I have ever heard that make me convinced that the 14th amendment
00:38:39.540
was for anybody but slaves and maybe arguably American Indians.
00:38:47.180
It, it, I, I could talk more, but it's specifically not about Native Americans.
00:38:52.600
They actually had to, okay, so this is part of my point.
00:38:55.120
So, so there's a guy named Senator Jacob Howard.
00:38:58.060
He was a senator at the time when they were passing the 14th amendment.
00:39:04.500
And so, so he's contended that it should be construed to mean, so this is back to that,
00:39:09.300
that clause that everybody likes to talk about, subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
00:39:13.860
Now, Senate, the, you know, Senator Jacob Howard said it should be a full, it should be construed
00:39:20.600
to mean a full and complete jurisdiction, like the same jurisdiction in extent and quality
00:39:26.080
as applies to every citizen of the United States now.
00:39:29.560
And so why this is important is because that construct meant that American Indians would
00:39:37.280
not be granted citizenship because they were loyal to a, another sovereign, namely their,
00:39:49.100
So they actually had to, Senator James Doolittle of Wisconsin added a provision, an amendment
00:40:01.920
So this is how obvious it would have been to the writers of the 14th amendment
00:40:06.820
that of course this was not meant to be gamed by foreigners that just, you know, come over
00:40:12.780
nine months pregnant and have a baby on this side of the border and they get rewarded for
00:40:18.880
No, they literally had to carve out Native Americans because they were born in the continental
00:40:23.680
United States to make sure that they were also included in this provision, in the, in
00:40:29.120
So this whole thing, I remember you posted it the day it happened, it was news, this ending
00:40:34.680
of birthright citizenship for illegals and, you know, sure enough, everybody's like, well,
00:40:39.960
You can't just like change it with an executive order.
00:40:44.580
And Blake, you would probably know more than I would on the, how many different ways the
00:40:48.460
14th amendment has led to terrible readings of the constitution.
00:40:53.440
It's one of the touch points of, of constitutional law that just seems to always come back around
00:41:02.480
But, but absolutely the 14th amendment was not meant to reward people who break into
00:41:10.000
Like what it is, is the Supreme court decision that does is very old.
00:41:13.800
It was a United States versus Wong Kim Ark was the name of it.
00:41:21.060
His parents were Chinese immigrants who came to the United States.
00:41:24.700
And the ruling in that case was, okay, his parents were permanent residents of the United
00:41:31.300
And he, so even though they, they themselves had been citizens and subjects of China, since
00:41:34.920
they were legally living in America, he was a U S citizen at best.
00:41:38.980
You can just say that, that codifies the interpretation that legal residents of the United States, their
00:41:44.720
kids have birthright citizenship, but it's like, just take it.
00:41:49.260
Basically the bureaucracy in Washington just made the grab and said, yeah, actually illegal
00:41:55.580
And also people who come here on tourist visas who are like here on very temporary residency
00:42:05.340
And then you have all these constitutional experts going around and saying, this is super
00:42:21.180
But I think they're going to, I think they're going to be victorious because to me, there's
00:42:26.540
You want to know the dirty truth about the 14th amendment?
00:42:28.780
Birthright citizenship was a scheme that was enacted in order to displace native peoples
00:42:43.500
The Spanish would come in and they would create birthright citizenship in order to displace
00:42:49.180
Well, as Americans, we're all the native peoples of this land now.
00:42:53.900
And it's being brought back around and being used against Americans.
00:42:57.860
So it's a whole, the whole topic I'm very passionate about, as you might tell, but it's what's
00:43:02.640
crazy again, to make the point, this would be front page everywhere.
00:43:07.240
If, if, if it wasn't for the deluge of so much other stuff.
00:43:11.100
Well, and Andrew, as well to the, as I wrote on it coming up on this and, you know, I want
00:43:15.520
to be legal point too much, but it's, he was talking about, Oh, this is, you know, this
00:43:20.200
is going to affect the visa holders who are currently here because that would mean their
00:43:23.640
kids don't get to become a, it would, it would affect legal immigrant visa holders.
00:43:29.580
And I'm like, wait a minute, a visa holder is not an immigrant by definition.
00:43:39.860
When I want to go visit certain countries, you need a visa.
00:43:43.840
So you get a visa, you go, you conduct business, whatever it is, you're a visitor, you're a
00:43:48.120
If I, like, for example, I lived in China for two years, I was there on a visa, right?
00:43:52.480
If I had, I wasn't married to Tanya at the time, but if I was and we had kids, they wouldn't
00:44:02.860
And by the way, even if we were there under other circumstances, it's a really hard process.
00:44:07.500
So the idea that someone who's here on a temporary basis, either as a worker or a student or what,
00:44:13.280
or just tourism, like this birth tourism crap that goes on, it's ridiculous.
00:44:19.540
There's never been a country that's been more silly about its immigration status than the
00:44:24.920
And look, I get a lot of this goes back to the idea of birthright citizenship in, it goes
00:44:29.820
back to the new world because early on, and Blake, I'm sure you can attest to this, that
00:44:33.840
it was that North and South America were colonies.
00:44:36.860
And so they needed to attract, you know, attract colonists.
00:44:41.740
But the idea was they wanted more people to come over.
00:44:45.140
So as a way of attraction, as a potential boon or benefit to you is to say, hey, by the
00:44:49.820
way, when you come here, your kids will automatically be citizens.
00:44:54.380
That makes sense if we're still a brand new country, not full of people.
00:44:59.280
So it's perfectly obvious to anyone that if you want to update that framework for a new
00:45:07.740
And oh, by the way, the U.S. Congress and the U.S. government certainly is well within
00:45:15.380
France, New Zealand, and Australia have all abandoned birthright citizenship in the past
00:45:23.800
Ireland was the last country in the European Union to follow it.
00:45:28.460
But they even abolished birthright citizenship in 2005.
00:45:36.380
To your point, maybe it had some value as they were looking to colonize the Western Hemisphere.
00:45:42.120
At this point, it is completely and utterly idiotic.
00:45:47.640
And you're just incentivizing all the wrong things.
00:45:50.000
But again, I haven't seen too many stories about it, to be honest.
00:45:54.100
I mean, I'm looking at it now and people are certainly writing about it.
00:45:57.400
But if you look at nightly news, if you look at all the thought pieces, it's not really the
00:46:01.260
center of attention, which is truly remarkable.
00:46:03.800
So I guess, Blake, do you think you mentioned LBJ, the reversal of LBJ's affirmative action
00:46:25.520
Will be so monumental if they really follow up on it.
00:46:35.300
It's going to be very hard for the left to try to reverse this.
00:46:38.760
And then they follow it up with, by the way, actually, we're going to start going after
00:46:43.200
you if you have all these programs that treat people differently based on race.
00:46:49.760
And it's been such a big revolution on the right to, you know, come out and publicly
00:46:59.280
His book about six years ago, The Age of Entitlement, was, as far as I can remember, the first book
00:47:08.400
And after that one, my personal favorite, honestly, just like genuinely, the level of aggression
00:47:17.160
on immigration, both in the interior and at the border, where they say, okay, it's an
00:47:25.980
We're going to say, you can send them back without a hearing if you get caught coming into
00:47:37.620
They're very serious about building the infrastructure to fix the immigration crisis.
00:47:44.160
Because you have all these, like, hacks and lunatics in the press who will say, oh, just
00:47:51.700
Like, the military says, oh, we're willing to have military planes assist in deportation
00:47:56.980
And when you see them, they surprise fired the people at the top of, like, the immigration,
00:48:08.920
Because if you really dig into the details, America's immigration enforcement system was
00:48:15.840
The Biden administration had created this giant legal sham whose purpose is to disguise
00:48:21.380
waving everyone into the United States who wanted to come here.
00:48:26.960
We're like, okay, well, they come across the border.
00:48:30.200
And, oh, but we need to give them an asylum hearing.
00:48:39.840
So we have to give them a court date in the asylum courts.
00:48:56.800
Oh, well, we've ordered ICE to only focus on finding dangerous criminals.
00:49:02.340
So we're not going to prioritize finding those people who blow off their asylum hearings.
00:49:10.240
So Trump comes in and he says, all right, sham's over.
00:49:14.340
You don't get your asylum hearing if we catch you crossing here illegally.
00:49:20.240
And we're going to replace the guy at the top of the immigration courts.
00:49:23.740
We're going to hire new people at the immigration courts.
00:49:28.080
And we're going to say that ICE can go find people, arrest people.
00:49:35.780
But it's the sheer aggression of saying all those things you supposedly can't do.
00:49:42.860
And I look forward to one of these things we're going to hear.
00:49:45.480
The left is all going to say, well, we can't let, you know,
00:49:49.500
these countries aren't going to take their illegal immigrants back.
00:49:52.200
Well, I think we can get pretty creative on that front.
00:49:54.260
I have some friends who I think are going, who are going to be going in that field.
00:50:03.180
So we can go and we can drop them in a little dinghy with a rowboat
00:50:17.760
That all collectively is my second favorite thing.
00:50:20.160
I just want to give Stephen Miller, like, a slow clap.
00:50:26.660
It's like, this man was born for just such a time as this.
00:50:31.940
And, you know, by the way, being, so this is a point that Charlie actually made on Twitter.
00:50:41.120
It was, you know, this idea that everybody has given a lot of attention to Trump being stronger, tougher,
00:50:47.500
you know, more focused than he was in the first term, right?
00:50:55.340
Well, the meme is the, it's the punished Trump.
00:51:04.280
He knows who he can trust, who he doesn't, who he can't trust.
00:51:11.900
And, but what we're not appreciating enough is the fact that guys like, you know, James
00:51:19.580
Blair, Sergio Gore, J.D. Vance, these young guns, Stephen Miller, also was steeped in the
00:51:28.440
same experiences, lived through it alongside him, saw what they did, saw how corrupt and
00:51:33.100
depraved and aggressive they were with President Trump.
00:51:37.500
All of these guys, this new generation, this new crop is ready to get to work.
00:51:46.940
Rules, customs, norms, legacy, regime, media, be damned.
00:51:52.560
Now, the Constitution still matters, obviously.
00:51:54.500
We all love the Constitution, so you have to work within the framework.
00:51:57.660
But some of these things are just simply a lack of creativity and a lack of courage,
00:52:02.220
and that's not going to be getting in the way any longer.
00:52:08.220
I'm going to be digging into this bigger, but possible breaking news word that ICE is
00:52:18.140
Kensington is that area where you see the fentanyl zombies going around back and forth.
00:52:23.620
And so your biggest fentanyl dealers in the city, of course, many of whom have cartel ties,
00:52:30.860
And so that's exactly where they go because they know where all the fentanyl zombies are.
00:52:35.800
And, yeah, I just got word from someone that's down in Philly that, and, again, it's, you know,
00:52:43.140
But, yeah, something that ICE is up down there.
00:52:47.800
Yeah, I mean, I think they have a definite strategy of going to blue cities where the local municipalities
00:52:54.640
have made the decision that they're going to be sanctuaries.
00:52:56.620
They're not going to aid or help, which can we just take a step back and ask ourselves how insane that is.
00:53:04.140
If you know the whereabouts of a criminal, you know the misdeeds that this criminal has done,
00:53:10.480
and yet you refuse to remove said criminal from your streets simply because he or she is an illegal immigrant,
00:53:18.000
the amount of insanity, I think, you know, Charles said it earlier on the show this morning,
00:53:24.540
but it was like they hate Trump so much that they've fallen in love with MS-13.
00:53:28.960
They hate Trump so much that they've fallen in love with the criminal.
00:53:31.980
They hate Trump so much that they have fallen in love with murderers and rapists
00:53:36.000
more so than their love for their common man and their fellow citizen.
00:53:38.840
That is an extraordinary psychological picture to take in and fully absorb.
00:53:46.100
And when you get to these ice raids in these cities and the fact that these cities are harboring fugitives of the law
00:53:53.940
and they are protecting them from accountability when they rape little girls,
00:53:58.480
when they kill people, when they stab people, when they get them addicted to fentanyl
00:54:03.100
and other drugs that are going to kill them, the extraordinarily dereliction of duty is almost unfathomable.
00:54:09.820
It's difficult to comprehend what that would mean.
00:54:12.480
Charlie, we just got a—it's rumor status, but this is thought crime, so why not?
00:54:16.880
We got a rumor that ICE is up in Kensington, Philadelphia tonight.
00:54:25.080
I mean, just going after all the dealers down there.
00:54:28.040
Let's do one of our reads, and then if there's nothing else, we'll end with a CCP.
00:54:35.360
I want to play that meme with Tom Homan, but yeah.
00:54:38.020
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With the ICE raids that were going on in Boston.
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Please thank Obama for everything he did for me.
00:55:59.080
So much to the point that Blake didn't believe it was real.
00:56:20.560
It really was, I still can't believe that it literally was
00:56:47.000
And it's like, you couldn't have made the ad better.
00:56:54.640
It's, yeah, it's a walking billboard for the new.
00:57:05.400
by the way, we haven't even talked about 600 billion
00:57:12.340
Well, we'll see what strings are attached to that.
00:57:14.780
But, I mean, Trump's today, he's talking to the WF
00:57:19.860
You know, and you've got the SoftBank investment.
00:57:27.880
I mean, you know, Maria Bartiromo was reporting
00:57:36.080
And Trump is acting as the salesman, the agent of his country.
00:57:45.660
I mean, we've never seen a chief executive of the country
00:57:53.640
And then, like, what's great about a J.D. Vance
00:57:58.900
do the day-to-day stuff, go around the department.
00:58:01.460
I would love to see J.D. Vance, like, showing up.
00:58:15.400
where the XO is the executive officer of the ship
00:58:23.660
And then the CO, his job is, where's the ship going?
00:58:56.500
In fact, in order to get in the rotunda as a guest,
00:59:06.240
actually ended up getting tickets into the rotunda.
01:00:33.220
And if you've ever been to St. John's Episcopal Church,