Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joins us on the show to talk about why he thinks President Trump is a Muslim. We also hear from a man who lost his dog in a car accident, and a woman who lost her dog in the middle of the night.
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00:10:13.000Yeah, in Billings, ground crews rolled a stairway to the airplane so passengers could, quote, disembark to find relief of built-up pressures.
00:10:21.000When asked, actually, if landing the plane for a pit stop was common practice, the pilot responded, only if we don't fly over Detroit.
00:10:28.000so that's out of everything we've ever done that is possibly the most offensive visual Think about this.
00:10:39.000If you send a stranger into Detroit and say, document just the first five things you notice, that wouldn't even make the list.
00:10:47.000Oh, and number ten, there's these planes!
00:11:16.000An auction house is now selling a close-up picture of his member snapped in 1990.
00:11:22.000An unnamed female companion of Tupac said that the then up-and-coming rapper was fond of dropping his trousers at parties and taking pictures and has begun the bidding at $7,500.
00:11:31.000So, the all-beloved Tupac took dick pics.
00:11:36.000It really shouldn't be that surprising to those of us who've heard his B-sides.
00:14:42.000We'll do the historical and the religious perspective.
00:14:45.000The religious significance, it's not even close.
00:14:49.000Okay, let me tell you, nowhere in the Quran is Jerusalem ever mentioned By name.
00:14:55.000The Quran merely records that Muhammad, it says that Muhammad, I guess, was taken up probably in a dream, mind you, were on an acid trip to the farthest mosque.
00:15:37.000Remember Barack Obama, he'd always be sitting there, and he'd be talking, depending on if he wanted to fake the black sound, and then, Pakistan!
00:15:43.000I'll do that when I get to Baghdad later on, right?
00:15:46.000In contrast, when they just try and throw it all in the same boat, in contrast, Jerusalem is mentioned specifically over 800 times in the Jewish Old Testament.
00:15:55.000655 times by name is Jerusalem, 161 times under the synonym Zion.
00:16:03.000By the way, we should also mention that the Palestinians have a long history of being pricks, desecrating Jewish and Christian holy sites just to do it.
00:16:23.000And then they were bulldozing churches and tearing up all kinds of religious sites all throughout the Middle East during the wars that we had over there and still going on to this day.
00:16:31.000Apparently they have a problem with shrines.
00:16:54.000Second, and more importantly, is the history.
00:16:57.000Let's get beyond the religious significance.
00:16:59.000The New York Times, they suggest that it's a question of locating the capital of a nation.
00:17:06.000Jerusalem, here's something historically people don't realize, okay, has existed under the rule of many, many Islamic caliphates and empires throughout history, and not once, none of them declared the capital of Of any Muslim state to be Jerusalem.
00:18:28.000Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem and Judah and build the temple of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem.
00:18:51.000But what really matters, when you think about this for a second, I always find this funny when Muslims, I'm just going to say, hashtag yes all Muslims.
00:18:58.000When you say, when you say, well we respect the Bible, all you do except going back to the blessing of Abraham and you think the Jews lied about everything, you respect it?
00:19:05.000Well, Why do you desecrate these things?
00:19:07.000It's like, well, I guess like Baltimore, you're burning down your own crap.
00:20:05.000For decades, U.S. administrations have said the city's status must be decided by peace talks and that moving the embassy to Jerusalem would be taking Israel's side.
00:20:18.000In 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, specifically relocating the Embassy of the United States to Jerusalem and recognizing it as Israel's capital no later than May 31st, 1999.
00:22:48.000And even if you absolutely cannot stand Trump, you've got to give him some respect.
00:22:54.000You've got to give him some respect for doing the thing that all of the other people, including the people who hate Trump, so your Obama, your Bill Clinton, said they were going to do.
00:23:01.000Of all of his flaws, being the only president to actually deliver on his words and his promise regarding Jerusalem, that's not amongst them.
00:23:11.000Therefore, I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
00:25:07.000Last week was a big, big week, and it's nice to see Republican majorities in Congress actually doing something, and doing something meaningful that's going to make a big difference in the country.
00:25:16.000Now, was this something that you really think you guys needed?
00:25:18.000Because obviously under the Trump administration, a lot of people were saying, hey, there was a lot of bluster.
00:25:22.000Not a whole lot had been done this year, and now finally something tangible.
00:25:33.000Let's deliver, I think, the four big priorities are tax reform, regulatory reform, repealing Obamacare, and nominating and confirming strong constitutionalist judges.
00:25:44.000And I think if we do those four, it's historic.
00:25:47.000And if we fail to get any of them done, it will be one of the greatest missed opportunities of our lifetime.
00:25:51.000So last week was big because we made a major step towards delivering on a big, big element of getting this economy moving, bringing back jobs, raising wages, all of which obviously matters enormously.
00:26:03.000Well, explain that for people because, like I said, we have a lot of young people who watch on YouTube and they say, man, this is just a tax break for the wealthy.
00:26:09.000And if you look at it, it's a tax break for pretty much everybody who pays taxes.
00:26:13.000And they think trickle-down is this six degrees of Kevin Bacon kind of separation.
00:27:25.000It's all about, if you want more jobs, History has shown, you know, in the 1920s, Calvin Coolidge came in, passed a major tax cut, the economy boomed, jobs were created in massive numbers.
00:27:38.000In the 1960s, John F. Kennedy came in, campaigned on big tax cuts, passed a big tax cut, and the economy boomed.
00:27:46.000In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, I've got Ronald Reagan on the Wall behind me came in, campaigned on a big tax cut, passed a big tax cut, millions of jobs.
00:27:55.000So for young people, if you want to see a bunch of people giving you new job offers, if you want to see people competing and raising your wages, you want to see tax cuts on job providers that gets the economy booming.
00:28:07.000Well, for young people, though, it's kind of a hard sell, certainly for a lot of the younger, more liberal, you know, those of the liberal persuasion, because they say, well, hold on a second, Republicans don't want to do student loan forgiveness.
00:28:17.000There's a, all right, No more debt, even if I studied, you know, for four years in gender studies or underwater basket weaving, whereas it takes a step of faith to believe that this tax cut going to someone who's wealthy, they're actually going to use that money to employ more people.
00:28:29.000How do you sell it to those kids when they're looking at, boom, forgiving your debt?
00:28:34.000You know, the beauty of it is I don't think it does take a step of faith.
00:28:38.000You know, we did last week, I did a debate on CNN with Bernie Sanders, and we had Tim Scott on my side and Maria Cantwell on Bernie's side.
00:28:46.000And Bernie and the Democrats are very honest.
00:28:56.000The difference between Bernie and the Socialists and the Democrats, and by the way, I've asked Bernie now repeatedly, what's the difference between a Socialist and Democrat on taxes?
00:29:05.000His answer is, I can't give you an answer, and the reality is you can't.
00:29:09.000They want to raise your taxes a lot, and Republicans, what I want to do is cut everybody's taxes.
00:29:17.000And I will say most of the Media and Democratic hysteria over this tax cut is nuts.
00:29:25.000Nancy Pelosi went on national television and called it Armageddon that your taxes are being cut.
00:29:30.000Let me say something to everyone who's watching this.
00:29:32.000You're hearing Democrats claiming this is not a tax cut.
00:29:37.000Come January, Take a look at your first pay stub you get after the first two weeks in January and just ask the question, are you paying more taxes or less taxes?
00:29:48.000Virtually every single person in America will be paying less taxes, and in many instances, significantly less taxes.
00:29:56.000That makes a difference in terms of the money you've got to pay off your student loans, the money you've got to save, the money you've got if you've got kids to provide for your kids.
00:30:16.000How about you just keep your money and you can pay for stuff on your own.
00:30:19.000Don't launder it through the politicians in Washington that are like the money launderers in Scarface running the cash, keeping a big chunk of it.
00:30:28.000You know, let's put Tony Montana out of business in Washington and just leave money with the people instead.
00:30:33.000Although that was probably the worst Cuban accent, I think, in the history of mankind, Scarface.
00:30:37.000Whenever I watch it, I'm like, oh gosh, Al Pacino was so good, and then this?
00:30:41.000You know, it's funny, this is a true story.
00:30:43.000The day after your last tax debate with Bernie, Senator Sanders.
00:31:21.000But if you look at the recent Vox video, they do this creative math where they say, hold on a second, if you look at this charitable deduction, if a wealthy person gives 10% to charity, then they go, look at how much more it benefits them in tax cuts.
00:32:55.000And want opportunity, want to have a great career, want to have great jobs, want to be able to change jobs, change professions, pursue your dreams, are not particularly interested in letting politicians decide what to do with their money.
00:33:12.000And one of the things that was interesting, the presidential race, if you went to college campuses, if you talked to young people, College campuses were heavily divided between Bernie's campaign and my campaign.
00:33:24.000We had a ton of support among young people.
00:33:30.000And when I ran into Bernie supporters out, particularly college kids, what I would say to them over and over again, I'd say, you know what?
00:33:59.000And I'd say, look, the only place Bernie and I disagree is the solution.
00:34:03.000If Washington is corrupt, Why on earth would you want to give a whole lot more money and more power to Washington?
00:34:10.000If you don't like what they're doing with it now, keep the money, keep the power with you, the people, and keep it out of Washington, D.C. Well, I think you disagree on the solution as it relates to Washington and also the concept of hoarding.
00:34:22.000I expect to find Senator Sanders in an episode of that.
00:35:01.000That I find interesting and nobody else is discussing.
00:35:04.000People always like to vilify corporations, like we just talked about, the wealthy, okay, Verizon, Comcast, and of course all the mom-and-pop ISPs.
00:35:11.000But the support from Google and YouTube and Facebook for net neutrality, are we supposed to believe they're all of a sudden virtuous?
00:35:18.000I have my suspicions, but I would love to hear from someone like you, why do these giant, well-known leftist corporations with a history of censorship and curation so adamantly support net neutrality?
00:35:36.000And so the big corporations, the power players, want as much power in Washington as possible because who do you think the government regulators listen to?
00:40:17.000They regulate content aggressively on the internet.
00:40:21.000And the big tech companies, Apple, Apple just complied with China pulling down the apps that let people get uncensored content.
00:40:29.000You know, the big tech companies are perfectly happy to get in bed with these totalitarian thugs.
00:40:34.000My view here, if you like freedom on the Internet, the worst thing for Internet freedom is giving Washington bureaucrats the power to regulate your Internet.
00:41:09.000The government can micromanage or they can provide strict oversight.
00:41:13.000You can't play for a team and be a referee.
00:41:15.000So in this instance, we're erring on the side of being a referee.
00:41:18.000Here's something that I find interesting.
00:41:20.000A lot of people, including some people on Fox News, I think Tucker Carlson, talked about regulating YouTube, Google, Facebook as under Title II because they thought it was a monopoly, that people were requiring these to communicate.
00:41:33.000I don't want to tell YouTube what they have to allow on their site.
00:41:37.000I do think if you were to say, okay, we're going to apply the same kind of regulation as we do to ISPs, demanding transparency, YouTube, meaning you have to let people know if you're throttling conservative content, meaning Facebook, you have to let people know if you're banning news you don't like, a lot of people would be on board.
00:41:53.000Does it stand to reason that maybe that's why they're a little bit cautious about the transparency laws that we're talking about here?
00:42:00.000Yeah, I don't even think they're that cautious.
00:42:02.000You know, we had a Judiciary Committee hearing where Democrats were hyperventilating, were bellowing that we've got to regulate all the tech companies because there were Russian ads.
00:42:14.000And it was all about, we've got to prevent Russian ads.
00:42:18.000The last thing I want is government regulators deciding what ads can run on Google or Facebook or anyone else.
00:42:23.000Now, the problem you mentioned I'm very worried about.
00:42:26.000I think these big tech companies have a terrible record Of censorship, a terrible record of trying to push their own political agendas.
00:42:35.000Now, I don't think government should regulate them, but I do think right now under current law, the big tech companies enjoy immunity from liability under what's called the Communications Decency Act, and it's based on the premise that they're public forums, that they're just letting people speak.
00:42:52.000If they're not just letting people speak, if they're actively engaging and pushing their own political agenda, that's fine.
00:42:58.000They have a First Amendment right to do it, but there's no reason they should be given immunity from liability if they defame someone, if they commit conduct that Yeah.
00:43:16.000so many people make their living off of YouTube.
00:43:17.000You know, for us, we saw our advertising cut down to a quarter, and they said, "Oh, it's an algorithm." And we said, "Well, hold on, can we look at this algorithm?
00:43:24.000Because you ran ads for us to put our videos on YouTube.
00:43:29.000Okay, listen, we could talk about that all day.
00:43:31.000You specifically have been spearheading this amendment, I think 529 amendment when we're talking, going back to taxes now.
00:43:38.000Tell people what that's about and where they can go to follow it.
00:43:41.000Well, late Friday night when we were voting on tax reform, there was one amendment adding a provision to the bill that passed.
00:43:47.000The only amendment that passed was an amendment I introduced.
00:43:50.000And it concerns 529 college savings accounts, which many of the folks listening may have had 529s, maybe saving them.
00:43:57.000It's a tax advantage vehicle that you can save for the college education of your kids or your grandkids.
00:44:03.000And it works like a Roth IRA. So you put money in after tax.
00:44:08.000And then all the growth of the money is tax free.
00:44:10.000And so it's a really powerful tool to save for college.
00:44:14.000The amendment I introduced that passed was an amendment that says 529s that are incredibly powerful.
00:44:20.000You can spend them not just on college.
00:44:23.000You can also spend them on K-12 education.
00:44:26.000You can spend them on public school, on private school, on religious school, on homeschooling.
00:44:30.000It puts parents and grandparents and kids in a position of controlling your own savings.
00:44:37.000It goes back to the theme we've been emphasizing over and over again, putting you in charge of your money instead of politicians in Washington.
00:44:43.000It came to a vote after midnight on Friday night on the Senate floor.
00:46:17.000He turned the motorcade around yet again.
00:46:19.000We waited 15 minutes for him to drive from the Naval Observatory to the Capitol, and he came to the floor and he said, the ayes being 50, the nays being 50, the President of the Senate votes in the affirmative, and that amendment was passed.
00:46:32.000And the beauty of it is, There are 50 million school kids in America at any given time.
00:46:39.000That is a tax cut for every school child, for every parent, for every grandparent.
00:46:48.000Next year, I'm going to start using those 529s, not just to save for college, but also to help pay for their education now in first and fourth grade.
00:47:17.000Again, this is something I hope people who are watching who may disagree with Senator Cruz, people who are left or right, can go, oh, okay, hold on a second.
00:47:23.000Here's a solution that costs us as opposed to trillions or billions.
00:47:31.000If we want to talk about finding common ground, I don't know how allowing people to save for themselves, giving them tax incentives to be responsible, and giving them more choice how anyone could be against it.
00:48:00.000We need to go across the finish line and get the job done.
00:48:02.000But I think we're going to get that done.
00:48:04.000A major tax cut for every American by the end of the year.
00:48:08.000And then we need to go back to Obamacare repeal and regulation reform and unleash small businesses so that we have more and more jobs, higher wages.
00:48:16.000And we ought to trust the people and take power out of Washington.
00:50:26.000Well, I would like to note, to quote Ted Cruz, that it took seven accusers in the party of feminism before Franken decided, ah, maybe I'll resign eventually.
00:50:40.000Do you think that's a good thing that he resigned or not?
00:50:43.000I think he's resigning so that the Republicans, or I'm sorry, so that the Democrats can say, ha ha, we're clearing house now, you need to get rid of Roy Moore.
00:50:50.000Yeah, I know, but do you think he should resign?
00:55:46.000My question still comes down to the macro point of the idea, would you rather have a scumbag that represents your side and gets the things done you want in office, or would you rather have, you know, be clear of that conscious, have your conscious clear of those kind of things, but have the other side in which is doing all kinds of crap you don't.
00:56:03.000That's kind of what a lot of people came down to with the Hillary-Trump thing anyways.
00:56:06.000Kind of thinking like the scumbag you...
00:56:20.000Well, I think that it comes down to, right, the other perspective is, well, if Roy Moore is there, you may never get another Republican in there again, kind of like President Donald Trump.
00:56:29.000You know, he really hadn't been doing a whole lot outside of Jerusalem, Mexico City policy.
00:56:32.000He hasn't been accomplishing a whole lot as president, and he's been pissing a lot of people off.
00:56:36.000You might never have another Republican again unless he really has a super strong showing the next couple of years, right?
01:02:01.000We talked about this with Dennis Prager.
01:02:02.000If you believe that humans are all inherently great and wonderful the way they are, or if you believe that human beings are inherently flawed or evil.
01:02:09.000And you know, it's important because if you think of it that way, it doesn't mean that you need to be depressed.
01:02:15.000It doesn't mean that you don't be grateful.
01:02:16.000You should live a life, if you live a life of gratitude, being grateful, and recognizing that, you know what?
01:04:51.000Even if I did that thinking that I was doing the right thing, ultimately, I'm doing it because it's the way that I'm most comfortable showing affection.
01:04:58.000Ultimately, I did it because it's the way that I'm most comfortable communicating with people.
01:05:02.000But that's not really giving somebody else what they want, particularly in a relationship.
01:05:05.000The same applies when it comes to critical thinking.
01:05:07.000You're going to go out and say, well, you have to use the pronouns that I want.
01:05:45.000I'm kind of obviously being vulnerable here to some degree.
01:05:49.000When I am sitting there and someone is saying, use these pronouns, when someone is saying, well, actually, all of these societies have had X amount of genders, I can't even remember what they said, something about ancient Egypt, I don't know.
01:06:00.000The whole thing is non-gender, it's a gender-neutral blur.
01:06:37.000If you constantly assume that your logic is bad, or possibly bad, and needs to be corrected, or at the very least needs to be questioned, you are in a pool of very little risk.
01:06:49.000Of being incorrect at that point, if you're just asking the question to try and correct your logic.
01:06:57.000I'm just talking about odds and percentages here.
01:06:59.000Assuming human nature is not good, assuming that you're wrong, assuming that you're bad, puts you in a position where if you're having that conversation, you are in the least amount of risk and they are at the greatest amount of risk.
01:07:23.000If I'm standing here, right, I'm trying to do this with a camera, boom, we both have a 50-50 shot.
01:07:28.000Now, if I go outside to your weak side and you're still there, guess what?
01:07:33.000Most people reach, oh, I can hit you, you can't hit me.
01:07:37.000Doesn't mean that I'm guaranteed to have a knockout shot.
01:07:40.000What it does mean is I've premeditatedly taken an approach, I've set in my mind that I am going to try and fight this battle that puts me in the least amount of risk possible and you at the greatest risk of damage possible.
01:07:54.000The way to do that with your life, and I've noticed this, is to, funny enough, assume you're wrong.
01:08:00.000Assume that if you don't do that, you're going to lose.
01:08:03.000It would be the same thing if right now you got into a bar fight.
01:08:52.000Who do you think is going to be happier?
01:08:53.000Who would you rather be when it comes to a debate?
01:08:56.000Who would you rather be when it comes to the logical process, the critical thinking process?
01:09:00.000Do you think that you're better off being the person saying, nah, I got this figured out, gender-neutral pronouns, you're gonna use Z, there are countless genders, it's not even a question?
01:09:09.000Or do you think you'd rather be the person saying, I think there are two genders, but maybe I'm wrong.
01:09:15.000Let me find the right angle to see what they're about.
01:09:19.000And see if I can correct what I'm doing.
01:09:21.000In relationships, in logic, with finances, assuming that you are wrong, assuming that your very nature as a human being is corruptible and it's already been corrupted and it is your job to rectify it, is a better approach to life.
01:09:37.000When combined with gratitude, you'd be a lot happier.
01:09:40.000As some self-help guru, Maybe you're going to be a miserable bastard and it can't help you.
01:09:45.000But I will tell you, that's done a whole lot for me.
01:09:48.000And someone in this room needs to do it.