In this episode, we discuss the government shutdown, the Supreme Court's decision to strike down same-sex marriage in the U.S. schools, and Anne Coulter's argument that you have to be born in the United States to be an American.
00:00:36.000And Thomas Massey is putting that on the back burner to stand on principle over the fact that maybe, maybe the deficit will be increased by so like $3 trillion over 10 years.
00:01:53.000But that's a completely different story than Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:01:56.000Right, but Anne Coulter's point was that I wouldn't vote for you as president of the United States.
00:02:00.000And her point was you are not steeped in what we are as a country as much as a multi-generational family is.
00:02:07.000And that's understandable because you're still getting mom and dad teaching the sons and daughters what it is to be an American without having actually spent a lot of time here to understand what it is to be American.
00:02:19.000You can argue that, but that was the case that was being made.
00:02:42.000Well, I think it's a reasonable argument, only because you will eventually erode what it is to be an American if you let a lot of people who don't understand what it is to be American control politics.
00:03:04.000Like, okay, well, that makes logical sense, but we don't want to do something that is prohibitive.
00:03:08.000We don't want to do something that's unfair.
00:03:10.000We want to do something that does preserve what it is to be an American and what this country really is all about.
00:03:15.000But at the same time, we have to understand that maybe that means that people, I think people who, at the very least, I think we could probably all agree, if you're not born in this country, you can come here.
00:03:28.000It's just, it's just a line for me that I'm like, hey, I'm not discriminating against you because I think you're a bad person.
00:03:33.000I'm just saying like you haven't been here.
00:03:35.000You haven't had like this being steeped in this.
00:03:38.000Like it costs something to have freedom the way that we have it.
00:03:42.000And it's very easy to go off and elect somebody in New York that's a socialist guy who's unabashedly socialist and his policies could destroy the city.
00:03:50.000Is that worth having that person in office?
00:03:53.000Like what if, what if we could just say, yeah, you got to be here a little bit?
00:03:56.000I mean, you can't be a foreign-born citizen and be president of the United States, right?
00:04:00.000So that we do have rules in place already that are kind of like this for a reason.
00:04:05.000So I think it's practical to say, hey, maybe that's something we should talk about.
00:04:09.000And I'm not being racist or I'm really not.
00:04:11.000Like I, there's probably, I think Vivaldi probably do a pretty good job.
00:04:22.000You couldn't put, you couldn't look to someone, a Chinese family that was here building the railroads, you know, hundreds of years ago and say they're not every bit as American as anybody else.
00:05:27.000But realistically, why should someone that practices Islam be able to hold political office in America when the founding tenets of Islam are so antithetical to the founding documents of our country?
00:05:41.000There is no overlap in those two belief systems at all.
00:05:45.000So it's a very scary thing to know that you're left to kind of the, what do you want to call it?
00:06:56.000I'm sorry, I feel really passionate about this because there's going to be a lot of people that take this as some sort of ethno-nationalist argument that America is for white people.
00:07:06.000Now, where you see kind of the overlap is that a lot of these people coming from other cultures that happen to look different and happen to have different nationalities just don't prescribe to our culture and they're not going to.
00:07:14.000I don't want a Frenchman or an Englishman or a German or even a Polan.
00:07:19.000I don't want anybody to be able to come over here who hasn't been steeped in our culture to then do this.
00:07:23.000But there is the likelihood that someone coming from Europe is more easily able to understand our culture because we have a lot of cultural ties with them.
00:07:30.000That's not to say a Korean or someone from Mozambique or someone from Brazil can't also be phenomenal.
00:07:37.000But if you, unless you understand the reality of importing all these people, just ad nauseum from countries that don't share any sort of cultural connection with us, you're going to run into a problem.
00:07:49.000And pretty soon you're going to run into a country that you no longer recognize as the one people wanted to come to in the first place.
00:08:03.000Are we ever going to focus on maintaining the house in the midterms, or have we just tacitly accepted that the Dems are going to steal it again?
00:08:14.000Look, Donald Trump is doing his level best right now to give us a lot of wins to run on.
00:08:19.000And I think he's doing a really good job with it.
00:08:21.000Right now, we're talking about three Supreme Court cases that essentially went the administration's way in just about every aspect, except, you know, maybe in the birthright citizenship thing, it did not settle the question.
00:08:32.000It basically kicked it out back to the courts and said, look, you can't broadly apply this just because you had one person file a case.
00:08:39.000So that good, that reins in the power of the lower courts a little bit.
00:08:42.000And they need to be smacked down quite hard.
00:08:43.000These judges that are stepping out of line, and I don't mean just like, oh, it's a ruling I don't like.
00:08:47.000I'm like, no, these guys are actually flouting, like saying that the Supreme Court doesn't have the, I can't remember what the case was, but there was a judge that basically is going against what the Supreme Court told him to do.
00:09:00.000He's lucky he doesn't end up in jail, but he is absolutely gone.
00:09:03.000And I do think we will start focusing on that.
00:09:05.000I think you've seen a huge shift in what people are thinking about right now because a lot of people are race fatigued from 2024.
00:09:16.000That was an intense period of time from late 2023 all the way through the election in 24 and now into the transition and light speed stuff started coming out.
00:09:25.000And people will pay attention, but I think they're just a little fatigued with constant races and politics on that sort.