Ep 751 ｜ Biden’s Absurd State of the Union Address
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Biden delivers his State of the Union. Some funny things happened, some bizarre things happened and some sad and frustrating things were said. We will get into all of it, as well as what I thought was an incredible GOP response.
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President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union last night. Some funny things happened,
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some bizarre things happened, and some sad and really frustrating things were said as well.
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We will get into all of it, as well as what I thought was an incredible GOP response today.
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All right, guys. Happy Wednesday. Halfway there. And today, we get to talk about the State of the
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Union that our beloved Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden delivered last night. You know, I have to say,
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I was watching it. I watched maybe like the last 30 minutes. It was that long that it had already
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been going on for about 30 minutes by this time I decided to tune in. And it was very boring. It was
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very difficult to watch, but it kind of got spicy in there. I don't know if you guys saw any clips
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circulating on Twitter or on Instagram, but Republicans were standing up and speaking out
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and screaming and yelling in some cases. So it kind of made it exciting. Honestly, I know some people
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might have criticism of that. I kind of like, I kind of like that spirit. I kind of like the,
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the raucousness and the excitement that comes with kind of the back and forth because there
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are some points when Biden even like responded to that. And we'll get into that today. So the
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State of the Union, obviously, is not very good. Like you're feeling it, right? You're feeling it in
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your pocketbook, which affects everything. Inflation is affecting you. The supply chain is affecting you.
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Even just post COVID, things still don't seem normal. Things seem slower. They seem smaller.
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They seem lower quality in a lot of ways. Travel seems more stressful. Incompetence in places where
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we don't want incompetence seems to be thriving, whether it's the kind of service that you get,
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or even all these stories that we keep seeing about airplanes almost crashing into each other on
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the runways. It just, you wonder, all right, are we ever going to get back to this place of
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excellence and competence that America used to be? Because we valued those things. So things just
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don't really feel good. Even if things are going well in your personal life, things are harder,
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I think, for a lot of people than they were before. But it's the job of the president of the State of
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the Union, despite all of these things, to make you feel like things are going well,
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and that he, his administration, and his party are putting things on the right track.
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That's not just the Democrats that do that. That's also Republicans. It's not really
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delivering a State of the Union. It's really saying, here are all of the things that my
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administration has done and done well, and not even necessarily an accurate depiction of those
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things, but here's how we want to present them to you so you think that things are going well,
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and here are all of the things that we're going to deliver you. So it's really about kind of
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bolstering hope and enthusiasm for this president and his particular party. It's not actually to give
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an accurate rendering of the State of the Union. Even when they present, okay, here are the problems
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that we're looking at as a country, they kind of do that just to say, oh, I understand that this is
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a problem and we're going to address it. But as we'll talk about today, Republicans kind of called
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him out in real time on some of those things. So we're going to play some clips and I'll respond
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to them. I'll fact check some of the things that he said, and I will play some things that I kind
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of thought were funny as well. And a lot of people were talking about on social media. We're not going
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to go in chronological order. We are going to go in order of what I want, of the things that I want
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to talk about, the things that I have the most enthusiasm about. Okay, before we get into it,
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someone tweeted this, we fact checked it. And so it's correct. Tom Elliott, he tweets these kinds
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of facts and different news clips a lot. He said actual State of the Union. So this just gives us
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context that we're setting up here. Inflation, 14.5%. Now I've heard Joe Biden say in the past that
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inflation was here when Trump was president. Inflation was at like 1.4% or something like that
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when Trump was president. So not exactly true. Inflation, 14.5% deficit, $1.6 trillion debt.
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$31.5 trillion. I will say Republicans and Democrats have contributed to that.
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States debt, $1.2 trillion debt to GDP, 120%. Debt per taxpayer, $246,000 unfunded liabilities,
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$181 trillion annual fentanyl deaths, $108,000. That's insanely tragic and incredible. And he'll
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actually note that as we'll talk about in a minute. 2022 migrant border crossings, $2.76 million.
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Hmm, that seems to go hand in hand with the fentanyl part. Average federal salary, $91,000.
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Oh, interesting. And yet standing ovation count throughout this speech was 86. So I mean,
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that's just a small picture of the State of the Union. That's not even looking at like the moral
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and cultural decay that we talk about on a daily basis on this show. That's just part of it. That's
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just what you're feeling in your pocketbook. And then he also brags in the speech about how he's
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going to raise taxes. It will end up being on everyone. He claims it's only for people making
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$400,000. But we'll talk about that more later. All right. Let's start with this first clip.
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Um, and this has nothing to do with the speech. This doesn't even have to do with Joe Biden.
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This has to do with the good doctor, Jill Biden, and her greeting towards the second gentleman. Is
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that what you call him? Second man. So first lady, second gentleman. So this is Kamala Harris's
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husband, who has his own last name, Douglas Emhoff. They greeted each other. And a lot of people were
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talking about how weird this was. So let me play you. And by the way, if you're listening to this,
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you need to watch this on YouTube. You're not going to get the full effect if you're not watching this
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on YouTube. All right. Let me, let me show you this interaction before the speech started. Here we go.
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Okay. So I wish that we could like, I wish that we could stop and just freeze frame that and zoom in.
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Actually, I'm going to ask if we have some pictures, if you're watching on YouTube, some pictures that
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people were circulating on Twitter to put those up. I mean, it was like a full on lip lock. All right.
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I mean, they greeted each other and there we go there. I mean, that looks so weird. So I understand
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that some people kiss when they greet each other, like they kiss on the cheek or maybe even a light
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pack on the lips. Maybe if you're family, I am not a part of that culture. Please. Unless you are my
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husband or one of my children, do not ever try to kiss me on the cheek or anything. When you're
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greeting me, I just find that very uncomfortable personally. But this was like a lip lock. I am
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talking like one lip on top of the other, like dovetailing each other. That was weird. So I'm not
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saying that anything is going on here behind the scenes. That's not what I'm implying. I'm just saying
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that this was weird and don't do this. So a lot of people were talking about that. So I wanted to
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just, I just wanted to set that up. That's how this whole evening started with this makeout sesh
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between the second lady and the second gentleman. Interesting dynamic we've got going on there.
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All right. And then Biden, Joe Biden, he starts out the speech with a gaffe because it wouldn't be a
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speech by the president of the United States if he did it. I'm sorry, but it's just true. It's true.
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Okay. We can all just own that at this point, no matter what side of the aisle that you're on.
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He's old and old people do things like this. And so I guess it just comes naturally. So here he is
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Okay. So he is the majority leader. He is the majority leader, not the minority leader.
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Congratulations on being the minority leader. Would you be excited about that if Democrats were
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in the minority and Senate and just don't say anything that goes off the teleprompter? You
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know, sometimes Trump would get in trouble too, and he would go off the teleprompter, not gaffed like
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that. But, you know, he would say things extemporaneously that would be like, whoa,
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got to rein it in for the state of the union. But Biden just in general doesn't really know
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what's going on. So it would be best of him to just stick to the script. So he doesn't say
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silly things like this. All right. And we've got another example. This is one of a few examples,
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sadly, of Joe Biden last night of saying something that we're just everyone is left saying,
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huh? If you try anything to raise the cost of receiving jobs, I will veto it.
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Oh, no, Republicans, don't do that. Don't raise the cost.
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Don't do it. I know that you've been threatening all day, every day to put forth your bill for
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raising the price of. But he is telling you, clearly, do not do that. Someone should actually,
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someone in Congress should present a bill to raise the price of and see what Joe Biden does.
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All right. So this was about mid towards maybe the last third or so of the speech,
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where he announces his support, reiterates his support and Democrats support for Roe v. Wade,
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which, of course, as we know, was the constitutional decision back in 1973 that said the poisoning and
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the dismembering of living babies inside the womb is a constitutional right that cannot be completely
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banned by the states. It can't even be fully, fully restricted by the states. And there is a limit on
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the restrictions that states can put on abortion because the Supreme Court decided it's a constitutional
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right. Obviously, the Dobbs decision last year overturned that. As the Supreme Court rightly said,
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no, it's not a constitutional right. States can decide what they want to do, whether they want to ban it,
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whether they want to restrict it, whether they want to allow it all the way. But it is not a constitutional
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right that should be guaranteed. Obviously, Democrats disagree with that. They believe that it should
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be a right, I guess, a right given by our creator to be able to kill children simply because they exist
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inside the womb. So here is Biden and the Democratic Party celebrating that gruesome reality.
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Congress must restore the right that was taken away in Roe v. Wade and protect Roe v. Wade.
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Give every woman a constitutional right. The Vice President and I are doing everything
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to protect access to reproductive health care and safeguard patient safety.
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But already, more than a dozen states are enforcing extreme abortion bans.
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Make no mistake about it. If Congress passes a national ban, I will veto it.
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Standing ovation. Standing ovation. Cheers. Applause. Celebration. From the Democratic Party,
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from the Vice President that you saw there over the brutal killing of living children.
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All right. I mean, obviously, you can only kill something that's alive. Democrats seem to forget
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that as they say abortion somehow mysteriously is not killing. We're talking about human beings.
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We're talking about human beings made in the image of God. At the end of the speech,
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Joe Biden says, you know, we're all created in God's image. We should be able to live in dignity.
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Oh, except for the babies that you think should be poisoned legally, subsidized by the taxpayer
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without restriction. And he is calling on Congress to pass a law that would allow abortion through all
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nine months without restriction. We're talking about people here. We're talking about vulnerable,
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defenseless human beings that can recognize their mother's voice, that can recognize light,
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that are squirming, kicking. They have their own unique DNA. This is not a parasite. This is not an
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organ. This is not some kind of subhuman species. We are talking about living human beings in the womb
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that the entire Democrat Party doesn't just think should be legal to murder, but they also think that
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that murder is worth celebrating. Abortion, whether it's in the first, second, or third trimester,
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is always brutal. It is always murder. It is always killing. It is always torture. It is always
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violence of literally the most vulnerable, the most marginalized class of human beings in existence.
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Unborn children. I'm sorry, but like I will repeat, I do not know how a Christian in good
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conscience could vote for this party. There is no moral equivalent on the Republican side.
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You could say, oh, I don't like how Republicans cut welfare, or you don't like how they deal with
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immigration, or you don't think they're compassionate enough on X, Y, Z. There's no moral equivalent.
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I understand you're not liking those things. I'm not saying that the Republican Party is perfect. I
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certainly don't think that by any means. I actually think that they're not conservative enough on a lot of
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issues. I'm not saying that all Republicans are Christians, but I am saying it is really,
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really difficult to square being a Christian with voting Democrat. In fact, I don't think that you
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can logically, biblically do it. I mean, Christians can be wrong. I'm not saying that you are not saved
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if you vote Democrat. I don't think a precursor to being saved is voting Republican by any means.
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But you have a really, really difficult time aligning biblical values with Democrat values.
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Democrat values cheer on the mutilation of children through gender confusion. They cheer
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on the mutilation of children through abortion. And it's just not possible to, in good conscience,
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follow the creator of life who knits babies together in their mother's womb and vote for that.
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And I think while Christians can be wrong, we're wrong on a lot of things, and that doesn't mean
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that we're not saved, that God will have to eventually sanctify you out of that. Maybe that
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doesn't mean that you ever vote Republican. I'm not saying that, but I don't think that you can vote
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Democrat and continue to be a faithful Christian the entirety of your life. Like, I think that God will
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eventually, if you're a true believer, sanctify you out of that wrong belief, certainly in your
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support of abortion. You cannot be pro-choice and a Christian forever. Like, God will, like,
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something's got to give. God will eventually, if you are a true believer, sanctify you out of that.
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The erroneous belief that children do not deserve, for some reason, the legal protection against
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murder? I mean, it's logically inconsistent, it's morally repugnant, and it's just biblically
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impossible. So eventually, like, he will sway you out of that evil belief. And it's going to be
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really hard, I think, to vote for the party that openly cheers for that. It's just really sick
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and dark stuff. And they're not, by the way, they're not at all ashamed of this. They actually
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posted a few Democrat Congress people, Congresswoman Madeline Dean. She tweeted a photo of herself
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wearing a pen saying, um, abortion. It's just a big abortion pen. I say the word, I wear the word.
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She said, abortion is healthcare. Abortion saves lives. Actually, abortion kills a person. Every
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time. Abortion kills a person. And then we've got Senator Ed, um, uh, Ed Markey. He also, uh, wore the
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pen and is provided by Planned Parenthood. So they're not hiding it. Like, this is what Planned Parenthood
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is about. People say, oh, this is only 3% of what Planned Parenthood does. All right. Well,
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you know, raping, torturing, and murdering people was probably only 3% of Ted Bundy's life.
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All right. Okay. You're still a murder mill. And they're not even hiding that this is what they're
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really about. Essentially, they're not about the mammograms, which I'm not even sure that they
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really provide. They're not about all of the other so-called healthcare that they say that they
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provide. They are about dismembering kids. That's what it's about. That's what Planned Parenthood
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is. And they're funded, by the way, by the government. And Democrats are not hiding that
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they are celebrating this. And let me just reiterate. This is why I say you should not
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care what people like this call you. You should not care that people like this question your
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compassion, question your virtue, question your morality. People who literally cheer on murder,
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you want them to like you? No, it is an honor for them to hate you. Do not waste your time
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justifying yourself to people who are applauding the dismemberment of children. Of course they hate
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you. That is a privilege. Wear that as your badge of honor. And for anyone who says, well, Republicans
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were wearing, you know, AR-15 pens or something the other day. It's not the same as abortion. An AR-15
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can be used in a lot of ways. It can be used for fun. It can be used to defend yourself. It's
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also a constitutional right, by the way, to be able to own a gun. An AR-15 can be used
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for good. It can also be used for evil. Abortion can only be used for evil. So it's not the same
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thing at all. Okay, now we're going to get into some more gruesome stuff that Joe Biden
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said. Right after this, he talks about, quote unquote, transgender young people and also
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It's also passed the Bipartisan Equality Act to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender
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young people, can live with safety and dignity. Our strength is not just the example of our
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power, but the power of our example. Let's remember the world's watching.
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Okay. Yeah. The world is watching as we mutilate the bodies of children. There's no such thing
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as a transgender young people or young person. There might be such thing as a confused young
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person, a distressed young person, a person who either feels confused about their body or
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who has been convinced that their identity is the opposite of what it is biologically.
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But to affirm this idea that it's actually possible for a child to be born in the wrong
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body and they may need to go on something as damaging as puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones
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or even in some cases get their body parts chopped up. I mean, that is wicked. That is disgusting.
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I mean, Joe Biden was affirming this during his campaign too, when he was affirming the idea
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of like a transgender eight and 10 year old and he still had a bunch of evangelicals
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voting for him. Yes, I absolutely think it's right for states to ban these kinds of draconian
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procedures for young people. Okay. When you're young, you go through a lot of confusion and a lot
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of insecurity. And this is a social contagion that's happening that young kids are caught up in and they
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do not have the mental capacity, the emotional capacity to understand what it means to pause your
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puberty. That has lifelong effects to render yourself sterile, to go on cross-sex hormones,
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to change and mutilate your bodies in ways that you will never, ever, ever be able to fully
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recover from. Of course, the state should protect kids against that. But Joe Biden,
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the Democrat Party is for it. You saw the standing no. The Heritage Foundation has done a lot of work
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in looking at this puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and youth suicide. They published this last
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year in June. And they say in the past several years, the suicide rate among those ages 12 to 23
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has become significantly higher in states that have a provision that allows minors to receive
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routine health care without parental consent than in states with such a provision. That's because
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parents are put in place to protect their kids. The state doesn't do a good job of that.
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School counselors don't do a good job of that very often when it comes to this kind of thing.
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That's the parent's job. And when parents are involved in their kid's life because they know
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what is best for their child, they know their child well, they unconditionally love their child
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in a way that a state doesn't, that an activist organization doesn't, that a school counselor,
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that a liberal teacher doesn't, of course, that child is going to fare better. It is actually when
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these children are removed from their homes, when they are cut off from their parents, and when they
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are put down this path of changing their bodies and trying to change their identity, that they actually
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fare much worse. And we've talked about that horrible story of Yaley Martinez,
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immigrant family out of California. She was removed from her mother's home at the request of the school
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because she said she wanted to be a boy. Her mom wouldn't go along with it. So she went from group
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home to group home until she, and she went through with the procedures and with the cross-sex hormones
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and all that until she ended up committing suicide. Of course, that's what happens. You're doing something to
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your body that is not only irreversible, but it can't actually give you what you think that you
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want, and you're removed from the people that actually love you. And that's evil. And that's
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what the Democratic Party says that they are for. So again, I am absolutely for states taking measures
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to protect children against the predation of these organizations and the predation of these
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doctors, the irreversible damage. It's just too much to bear. And of course, you don't have a right to do
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it. And I think the state has every right to ban it. All right. We're going to debunk a few other
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things that Joe Biden said. All right. Biden said a few other things that we're going to debunk. He
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talked about violence and the problem of violent crime, which is a big issue. He said COVID left other
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scars like a spike in violent crime in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. We also need more
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first responders and other professionals to address growing mental health and substance abuse
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challenges, more resources to reduce violent crime and gun crime, more community intervention
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programs. I'm not sure that any of those programs actually work. He also says we need to ban assault
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weapons once and for all. Assault weapons are not the issue. If you're looking at the murder rate,
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the crime rate, the violent crime rate in inner cities, it is because of Democrat policies that allow that
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kind of recidivism. It's because of the criminal justice, social justice, so-called racial justice
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programs that basically say, look, we've got to meet certain quotas when it comes to race and we're
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not going to put these people in jail. Like if you look at all of these terrible violent crime stories
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that we see in the major cities in this country, they're almost always perpetrated by people that
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should have been in prison a long time ago because they committed crime after crime after crime,
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many times violent crimes, and they were let out because of a liberal judge, because of a
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liberal DA, because they didn't do their jobs, because of course that's what you got to do to
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meet the standards of social justice. You keep giving people chance after chance after chance,
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not thinking about the victims and the potential victims. And so he got a lot of pushback for that
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in the audience. But at least, I mean, he did kind of admit, I don't think he really admitted this,
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but he did say, okay, COVID lockdowns probably led to some of this spike in violent crime.
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And I think that's true. A paper published in the Criminal Justice Policy Review titled,
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Do Crisis Intervention Teams Reduce Arrest and Improve Officer Safety? And they found that
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crisis response teams training additional resources have no effect on the number of arrests,
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people with mental illnesses or reductions in officer arrestee or bystander injuries. And we really
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don't have any data proving whatsoever that any of those proposals that he just put forth would be
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effective and lowering violent crime. You have to punish violent crime. You have to punish violent
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crime. I'm not saying there should be no prevention strategies. I'm not saying there should be
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no programs. I would love programs that reduce recidivism. I don't just want the only option to be
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to put people in prison forever for petty crimes and just wait around until they commit the big violent
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crime that murders five people. I do want there to be other systems put in place, but it shouldn't be
00:25:33.740
one or the other. It has to be both and. This whole restorative justice movement that basically says
00:25:39.800
that justice should never be punitive, that it should never involve long-term incarceration. I think
00:25:45.660
that's damaged and actually killed a lot of people. As I say, social justice does kill because it
00:25:50.660
actually puts the needs and the comforts of criminals over the well-being of the community and victims.
00:25:55.700
Um, and so again, I think that he, he's addressing a problem and he's trying to make it seem like he
00:26:03.360
understands that there's a problem. They're going to do something about it, but the solutions the
00:26:06.800
Democrats put forth to try to help reduce these things, they're never actually effective. Um, now
00:26:13.000
here's what he, um, here's what he talks about that got a big reaction from Republicans. He talks about
00:26:20.620
fentanyl. He talks about the fentanyl overdoses, as I said at the beginning of this, 108,000
00:26:25.700
per year. And this is going up and up many times, accidental overdoses. So people doing cocaine or
00:26:32.820
doing other drugs, they don't realize things are laced with fentanyl. Um, there was this horrible
00:26:37.980
story out of San Francisco of a baby having to go to the hospital because there was literally like
00:26:42.620
fentanyl on the ground where this baby was playing at the park. So obviously this is a huge problem.
00:26:48.300
Fentanyl is coming, uh, it's being made in China. It's coming over through the Southern border.
00:26:53.480
And because we have such a porous Southern border and we have not equipped border patrol to do
00:26:58.360
what they need to do, this problem is only getting worse than Americans are literally dying.
00:27:02.980
So here's Biden talking about the problem with absolutely no solution.
00:27:07.840
Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year.
00:27:11.320
So he doesn't actually address what they're saying. They're saying, it's your fault. It's
00:27:32.660
your fault. This is the border again. And then you've got Kevin McCarthy, you know, in the background,
00:27:36.960
Speaker of the house saying, you know, shh, be quiet. And that's kind of what he does. That's what
00:27:41.260
Nancy Pelosi did beforehand. That's kind of their role to say, you know, keep in order. I don't really
00:27:46.360
mind them calling this out though, because it's true, because we understand that the border patrol
00:27:50.620
is unequipped to do their job because they're not well funded and they're not well staffed. He tried
00:27:55.300
to talk about that. He's supporting border patrol, but obviously that's not true. Monthly encounters
00:28:00.140
with migrants at the U S Mexico border remain near record highs because these migrants understand
00:28:04.880
that Joe Biden, the Democrat party is going to try to get them what they want. I mean,
00:28:08.960
he even talks about in this speech, a pathway to citizenship for dreamers, for these, you know,
00:28:15.540
17 year olds that are coming over illegally, that they were going to get amnesty. Of course,
00:28:20.620
that's going to incentivize these people to come over and to make this dangerous track. We're talking
00:28:26.040
about exacerbating and enabling sex trafficking, drug trafficking, gun trafficking. I mean,
00:28:32.980
all of the most horrific crimes that you can think of the most destructive stuff that you can think
00:28:37.580
of is enabled and exacerbated by not having strong immigration and border policy. And the Biden
00:28:44.840
administration has exemplified that weak border policy really well. The DEA seized over 379 million
00:28:52.880
deadly doses of fentanyl in 2022. That is incredible, incredible. So you see when people are like,
00:29:02.240
oh, border walls are so slacking compassion or deporting people lacks compassion. We should
00:29:09.040
be a sanctuary city. We should protect people from ice. We should just allow people to come in.
00:29:16.680
Louis CK, who was on Joe Rogan the other day, gave some crazy pie in the sky, just honestly disgusting
00:29:24.340
picture of what he thinks open borders should look like because it's not fair that Americans live well
00:29:30.360
and people in South America and Mexico don't. So they should come in. So we all live like them.
00:29:35.320
Of course, that's what equity is. You bring everyone to the lowest common denominator and make everyone,
00:29:39.940
except for super rich people like him, equally miserable rather than trying to pull people up and
00:29:44.300
making their lives better, which is what could happen if their own leadership wasn't so corrupt and
00:29:50.780
they stayed where they were. No one is helped. Actually, no one is helped by coming into America and
00:29:58.720
drain in America of its resources through illegal immigration. And so it is a wicked, it's a wicked
00:30:04.900
leader that prioritizes the needs and well-beings of citizens of other countries before the needs and
00:30:09.880
safety and security and well-being and the rights of their own constituents.
00:30:14.960
Okay, Social Security. Biden says that GOP, that they want to take away people's Social Security. He
00:30:36.760
said, some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage unless I agree to their economic
00:30:41.080
plans. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social
00:30:45.740
Security to sunset. So here's how that whole thing went. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair
00:30:51.560
share, some Republicans, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset. I'm not saying
00:30:57.480
it's the majority. Let me give you, anybody who doubts it, contact my office. I'll give you a copy. I'll give you a copy of the proposal.
00:31:12.520
That means Congress doesn't vote. Well, I'm glad to see you. No, I tell you, I enjoy conversion.
00:31:19.820
You know, it means if Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, they'd go away. Other
00:31:26.180
Republicans say, I'm not saying it's the majority of you. I don't even think it's even a significant
00:31:30.560
but it's being proposed by individuals. I'm not politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by some of
00:31:39.140
you. Look, folks. All right. So he is talking about Republican Rick Scott's 11 point rescue
00:31:50.840
America proposal. He says in number and point number six in the plan, the government reform and
00:31:58.740
debt that all federal legislation sunsets in five years. But if a law is worth keeping, then Congress
00:32:03.640
can pass it again. And so Democrats pointed out that this would affect Medicare and Social Security,
00:32:08.840
even though he doesn't specifically point to that. But that was his particular plan. This is not
00:32:14.380
something that has been taken up with the rest of the GOP. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of
00:32:20.900
Kentucky opposes key parts of the plan, says that that's not part of his agenda. Kevin McCarthy
00:32:26.500
said that Republicans will protect Social Security. It's just not a popular position. It's not a popular
00:32:32.640
position. I don't really blame Democrats for capitalizing on one particular legislator's plan and
00:32:37.940
saying this is what all Republicans want to do. I think Republicans would probably do the same thing
00:32:42.280
as well. But it's simply not true that that is part of the Republican agenda. That would lose that
00:32:49.300
would lose elections, whether or not you think it is a good plan. And there is a lot about Social
00:32:54.540
Security that I think is unfair for the American people, but it's just not a winning issue. And so
00:33:00.740
Republicans are saying, no, that is not what we have ever said that we want to do. And just for
00:33:06.880
anyone who is saying, well, you know, this was so it was so unpolite, it was so wrong of these
00:33:14.720
Republican members to be yelling at Joe Biden. I love how like defensive Joe Biden gets here there and
00:33:19.400
he actually like responds to them. I think that's good. Like he they kind of put him in a position of
00:33:24.600
weakness there. And I kind of like the back and forth. But this happened to Trump, too. This is
00:33:30.200
according to NBC in 2018. Democrats scoffed, booed, groaned at Trump's State of the Union.
00:33:38.520
And the article talks about how the there are there were Democrats who boycotted all together
00:33:44.620
and the Democrats who stood up and who yelled at him and booed during his State of the Union. So
00:33:49.880
please don't say, oh, this is just Republicans. They look so bad. And Democrats are so respectful.
00:33:54.520
The same kind of thing happened under Trump. And NBC even said, even on things that Trump
00:33:59.840
said that would have from any other president gotten bipartisan applause like Democrats booed at
00:34:06.280
it. That's NBC saying that. So that was back in 2018. As far as I know, there were no Republicans
00:34:10.920
who boycotted last night. So let's stop with the your party is disrespectful. Both parties have their
00:34:18.400
raucous members who are going to stand up and say something, whatever. It's just the way that it is.
00:34:23.500
All right. Let's go to Biden talking about taxes. So he said that I think a lot of you at home agree
00:34:33.120
with me that our present tax system is simply unfair. The idea that in 2020, 55 of the biggest
00:34:38.360
companies in America made $40 billion in profits and paid zero in federal income taxes. That's simply
00:34:43.560
not fair. Corporations, it is true that in some years, certain corporations, often those that
00:34:52.100
appear profitable pay zero federal income taxes. That's not due to any like loopholes or anything.
00:34:58.340
There are several legitimate reasons why a profitable corporation may not pay income taxes.
00:35:04.000
And this is from taxfoundation.org. The misconception comes down to a misunderstanding of how corporate
00:35:09.800
income is defined. And then a misunderstanding of how corporate income is taxed. Now, I am not someone
00:35:14.740
though, who prioritizes like corporate tax cuts, or who thinks that there should be loopholes for
00:35:20.680
corporations. I'm not someone who is like going to go to bat for corporations, because I do think that
00:35:26.260
they are very often corrupt entities that work against the interests of the American people. And I
00:35:31.400
actually think Democrats are very often in bed with those major corporations, and also with big tech.
00:35:38.160
But he uses this as the point that the rich people are not paying their fair share.
00:35:43.500
And he categorizes rich not as just these billion dollar companies, but also as anyone making over
00:35:49.580
$400,000 a year. Depending on where you live, that's not necessarily rich. Now, I'm not saying
00:35:55.100
that's not good money. I'm not saying that. But it also, it depends on where you live. $400,000 in LA or
00:36:00.740
New York City is not going to get you very far. And he says in this speech that people who earn
00:36:06.240
$400,000 a year or more are going to pay more in their taxes. But I don't believe it's just those
00:36:12.120
people. I absolutely believe it's going to be people who make under $400,000 too. And by the way,
00:36:19.020
the rich do pay their fair share. The top 1%, so making $540,000 or more, pays 40% of all income taxes.
00:36:30.680
So they make 21% of all income earned, but they pay 40% of all income taxes. The top 2% to 5%,
00:36:42.180
so people making $218,000 a year to $540,000 a year. They make 16% of all income earned,
00:36:52.720
and yet they pay 20% of all income taxes. The vast majority of income taxes are paid
00:37:01.620
by the top 10% of earners in this country. It's actually the bottom 50% that barely pays
00:37:08.700
anything at all in taxes. And it's actually disproportionate to what these high income
00:37:14.760
earners are making, depending on how you define high, just top 10%. But top 10%, I mean,
00:37:20.960
that can include people making $150,000 a year. And again, in somewhere like New York City,
00:37:26.240
that's not necessarily a lot of money. And yet you're paying a lot of money in taxes. So
00:37:30.020
it's simply wrong to say that the rich aren't paying their fair share. They're paying a whole
00:37:34.980
lot of money. Now, okay, to finish out what Joe Biden, how Joe Biden talked about some things and
00:37:43.860
the response that he got, here he is talking about oil. And here's what Republicans have to say
00:37:50.800
about it. And when I talked to a couple of them, they say, well, we're afraid you're going to shut
00:37:54.180
down all the oil wells and all the oil refineries anyway. So why should we invest in them? I said,
00:37:59.780
we're going to need oil for at least another decade. And that's going to exceed and beyond that.
00:38:10.360
So Republicans are laughing at that because, I mean, he makes the, he makes a good point that,
00:38:14.940
yeah, these investors don't want to invest in oil because they're afraid that Democrats are going to
00:38:19.040
shut down these oil refineries. And he's right, because that's what Joe Biden and his administration
00:38:24.160
has done. He's made it very difficult to drill and to drill in new places. I mean, we have all
00:38:28.480
the oil that we need here in the United States, and he is willing to rely on other countries rather
00:38:33.240
than the oil that we have here for the sake of silly climate purposes. And he says, oh, don't worry,
00:38:39.700
we'll need it for the next 10 years. So you should still invest. And all Republicans die laughing at
00:38:44.540
that because we're going to need oil forever, far longer than 10 years. The fact that he thinks
00:38:50.420
that in 10 years, we're going to be able to replace oil with wind and solar and whatever. I mean,
00:38:56.740
that is insane. If they are able to accomplish that, you are looking at the deaths of billions
00:39:02.280
and billions of people who aren't able to eat, who aren't able to heat their homes. I mean,
00:39:07.420
everything would be affected by trying to transfer out of reliance on oil. So that's why Republicans
00:39:13.800
are laughing there, as they should. So a lot of other things that he talked about,
00:39:19.200
he was basically just kind of complaining about things that he doesn't like, resort fees,
00:39:23.860
things like that, that he says that he's going to ban. And okay, that's fine.
00:39:39.380
Okay, I wanted to play a couple clips from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but we don't have time for that.
00:39:43.320
I just want to play this one that I thought was really strong. And before I even play it,
00:39:47.280
let me just say, so I don't know if, um, if governor Sanders, if she is, um, if she listens
00:39:57.600
to relatable, but I do know that there are a lot of friends that she has very close to her
00:40:02.860
who listened to relatable. I've met them. I've met the governor. She's amazing. I hope that she's a
00:40:09.020
relatable fan. Cause that would be amazing. But even if she is not, I do know that the people
00:40:13.240
close to her listen to this show very faithfully, which is pretty cool. Um, so here she is with this
00:40:21.000
amazing and very compelling message for the GOP.
00:40:24.160
President Biden, and I don't have a lot in common. I'm for freedom. He's for government control at 40.
00:40:32.700
I'm the youngest governor in the country. And at 80, he's the oldest president in American history.
00:40:39.540
I'm the first woman to lead my state. And he's the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob
00:40:48.860
that can't even tell you what a woman is. In the radical left's America, Washington taxes you and
00:40:56.380
lights your hard-earned money on fire. But you get crushed with high gas prices, empty grocery shelves,
00:41:03.640
and our children are taught to hate one another on account of their race, but not to love one
00:41:09.640
another or our great country. Whether Joe Biden believes this madness or is simply too weak to
00:41:17.580
resist it, his administration has been completely hijacked by the radical left. The dividing line
00:41:24.800
in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy.
00:41:32.540
Go listen to her full speech online. We don't have time, obviously, to play all of it. So good.
00:41:38.760
So strong. Love it. She's going to do a great job for the people of Arkansas. So I'm excited to see
00:41:44.140
that. The GOP also gave a Spanish response. And there was a, you know, there was a mixed response
00:41:50.480
about that from the conservative side. I think that the person that gave it, Representative, one,
00:41:55.480
uh, uh, uh, Kiskamani, uh, Siskamani, uh, Siskamani, my document says, Siskamani. He gave a Spanish
00:42:02.800
language GOP response. Some people are like, look, English might not be our official language,
00:42:07.500
but it should be our language. This is not something that the GOP should do. It's un-American. Some
00:42:11.540
people are saying that. Others are saying, look, we've got millions and millions of Spanish speakers
00:42:15.240
in the United States. Republicans are doing a better and better job of appealing to this
00:42:19.360
constituency. And it can't hurt. It can only help. So that is like, there are two sides to
00:42:25.440
that. Some people don't like it. They just think it is unpatriotic to represent the language that
00:42:30.660
is more prominent in other countries. Some people think, okay, it's a really good strategy. And don't
00:42:35.640
we want these people to vote for us? Because a lot of them have conservative values that do align
00:42:40.720
better with Republicans than they do Democrats. So just something to think about. You should watch
00:42:45.740
that too, if you speak Spanish and can understand it because from what I understand, it was a very
00:42:52.160
good response. All right. That's all we've got time for today. We will be back here tomorrow.