00:00:34.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:42.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:02.000Lots of news to get into, lots of great things to discuss.
00:01:06.000And it seems like this time of the political cycle, we're just getting started with the Biden administration, much to the chagrin of many of us in this country, millions of us.
00:01:18.000But it feels like what we're seeing is the laboratory of democracy.
00:01:22.000The states are either rising or falling based on the pandemic.
00:01:29.000The pandemic is still the driving force of much of the news that we have today.
00:01:33.000And we're going to get into lots today.
00:02:51.000As of right now, they need more because unlike Mail and Ballading for the general election of the president, signatures matter and they're going to try and verify those, which is the irony of all ironies.
00:03:03.000But nevertheless, Jen, I wanted to bring you in to explain it to our listeners who are not in California or maybe just starting to perk up their ears saying, ooh, a Democrat on the ropes.
00:03:14.000Give us a little bit of the backstory.
00:03:31.000I've heard it when I've done national radio.
00:03:34.000I'm on with Seb Gork, our colleague here at Salem Radio every single week.
00:03:37.000And people go, well, it's just California.
00:03:40.000The reason that this is significant is for the reason that you said.
00:03:43.000Number one, California has been under single party rule.
00:03:46.000Number two, it should be really important to the rest of the country because as goes California, California goes, so does the rest of the country.
00:04:09.000And the Biden administration has hand-picked a ton.
00:04:14.000I mean, I'm not sad to see these people go, but he's taken a lot of the top talent, a lot of our top elected officials from California, and he's put them.
00:04:37.000And that's why it is so important to note to everyone and to get this narrative out there that in California, common sense is starting to push back.
00:04:46.000It is not just Republicans, but independents and Democrats who have said enough with these really far-left progressive policies that are not serving California residents.
00:04:57.000And so this recall effort has been founded by the citizens of California.
00:05:01.000There have been other recall efforts on Gavin Newsom before.
00:05:06.000But Recall Gavin 2020 has been because it's a grassroots effort.
00:05:10.000Conservatives started it, but independents and Democrats are pushing back because Gavin Newsom, using COVID-19 as an excuse, has shut down the schools.
00:05:20.000He's taken away our ability to go to work.
00:05:22.000He has taken away our ability to save money, to make a living.
00:05:29.000And because of it, the middle class is running out of California to other states.
00:05:33.000And we're left with, as socialism proves, the very rich and the very poor.
00:05:37.000Well, and it's a really important point that you just brought up and that I think a lot of people don't know yet.
00:05:43.000And that's that this is not just Republicans signing this recall.
00:05:48.000This has now become, it's gained so much momentum that you're hearing criticisms both from the left and the right.
00:05:53.000And one thing that people don't know about California is that there's a lot of independence.
00:05:58.000This state is way overrepresented in the independent category compared to a lot of other states because a lot of people don't want to be identified as a Republican.
00:06:08.000Now, there are 5 million registered Republicans in the state, but there's a lot of independents.
00:06:12.000And those independents are the mushy middle.
00:06:16.000And what's probably even more striking is how many Democrats are now getting involved with this recall effort because, as you said, you're seeing this, as Bill Maher said, it felt like the 1970s, Italian malaise was setting in where you can't get a U-Haul van out of the state of California.
00:06:34.000And if you can grab your hands on one, it's incredibly expensive because you can't get anybody to bring it back.
00:06:40.000So, I mean, and you've got the homelessness and the high taxes, and you've got this beautiful state that so many people remember at its prime and its peak represented freedom, self-expression.
00:06:50.000And now those places have been exported to Texas, Tennessee, Florida, the free states that have remained open.
00:06:56.000And so this is a real opportunity to press the reset button in California, where you even have people on the left saying we need to lower our corporate taxes.
00:07:05.000We need to lower our state income taxes and we need to deal with homelessness.
00:07:10.000This is a massive, massive opportunity to bring pragmatism back to a blue state.
00:07:14.000Now, people don't often remember this, but Los Angeles and New York City had Republican mayors.
00:07:51.000And if I'm looking at some of the candidates, because I believe this recall will make the ballot, it's at 1.7 million signatures now.
00:07:57.000I think they'll probably get close to 2 million before it's over.
00:07:59.000I think it'll get qualified and make it to the ballot.
00:08:02.000I'm looking to someone like Rick Renell.
00:08:04.000I'm looking to it, maybe an independent.
00:08:07.000You know, typically, if you'd asked me as a conservative and as a MAGA conservative, I would probably look around to never support someone in a third-party role.
00:08:15.000But in California, a third-party candidate could be successful.
00:08:18.000And I think Rick Rennell, former director of national intelligence and ambassador to Germany, could be the guy.
00:08:23.000Well, I think you're absolutely right.
00:08:25.000I think there's a lot of independents that are going to emerge that are going to be more right of center than they may even let on.
00:08:35.000I think they're going to be more pragmatic, more pro-business, trying to revitalize this state's business economy because they know that if they come right out and say it, they're going to attach too much negative attention to their own bid, right?
00:08:49.000So you're going to have a lot of people that are actually on our side that you're not going to know about on its face.
00:08:54.000Let's talk about conservatives in California.
00:08:57.000You mentioned Rick Grinnell, who's one of them.
00:09:00.000We have some sound here, clip 85 that I want to play for you.
00:09:03.000Rick Grinnell, he was on, I believe he's on Newsmax talking about this recall.
00:09:50.000Yeah, I don't know if I can reveal my sources yet, but I have heard that Rick Rinnell, who a lot of conservatives in California are begging to run.
00:11:15.000During the fight over the election in the months following the election, there were rallies going on like every single Saturday in places like Beverly Hills and in Huntington Beach.
00:11:25.000And so if you can get all of the 5 million people that turned out and voted for President Trump in the presidential election in California, you're going to see a huge amount of power wielded by someone who shouldn't be considered popular in California.
00:11:41.000All of that power can be thrown at his chosen candidate.
00:12:54.000But I think with Kevin Faulkner, he is very soft on immigration.
00:12:57.000He is, however, really good at solving the homeless crisis.
00:13:01.000So if I were him, I think the only way that you pull together a candidacy that brings in Republicans who want you to be tough on immigration and independents and Democrats who don't is to focus on what your skill set is.
00:13:11.000And that is fixing the homeless problem, fixing those life issues, schools, crime, all of that stuff that matters to the everyday person.
00:13:18.000Focus on that and focus less on those other things.
00:13:21.000And Rick Gurnell has the benefit of not really being in a position where he has anything to do with immigration, which in a state like California could it could benefit him.
00:13:30.000The question is, does he have the in California, the MAGA stink?
00:14:58.000And in hindsight, I wouldn't have done it.
00:15:05.000Hearing Ted Cruz apologize is hard to listen to, honestly, because we've come to know Ted Cruz as this aggressive bulldog in the Senate that, you know, nobody likes him, but he's cool with it and he doesn't care because he's going to fight for the American people.
00:15:24.000He's going to fight for the state of Texas and, you know, to hell with it.
00:15:51.000The truth of the matter is, if you look back at the sequence of events here, he and Senator John Cornyn from the state of Texas, their one real functional job in a crisis, and obviously, you know, the backstory, I think we all are aware that Texas is going through some winter storms that are once-in-a-generation storms.
00:16:12.000I'm hearing some people say this is the worst it's been since 1949.
00:16:15.000I'm hearing other people say it's the worst it's been in Texas since 1918.
00:16:19.000So, just to put it in perspective, it's not only cold, it's prolonged.
00:16:26.000And now, 4 million people are out of power.
00:16:28.000I think that number's down to 300,000 today.
00:16:49.000It's not like he's even at the state level and has executive authority over the state of Texas and running the daily business of Texas.
00:16:57.000That's Governor Abbott's job, and he is working with the federal government.
00:17:01.000And I think there is some criticism that Joe Biden deserves in all of this.
00:17:04.000It's been a slow response from the federal government.
00:17:06.000We can get into that in just a second.
00:17:09.000But Senator Cruz and Senator Cornyn requested and received emergency declarations on the state of Texas, received resources because of that.
00:17:22.000Other than that, there's not a whole lot that Senator Cruz directly has to do.
00:17:26.000Now, I admit that it was an optics issue.
00:17:32.000There is certainly an optics issue here that does plays into the calculus.
00:17:40.000But by Cruz capitulating and accepting the premise, he has poured fuel on a fire and turned it into a bonfire.
00:17:51.000And it's given the left all the fodder they want to attack him and something that they've wanted to do with Cruz since 2013 when he railed on the Senate for hours and hours and hours, wouldn't let anybody go home over the amnesty bill.
00:18:05.000So let's play clip 83 here, just to make my point even clearer.
00:18:09.000This is Megan McCain, you know, from The View.
00:18:13.000The former senator from Arizona, his daughter, Megan McCain, saying exactly what we all know to be true, that nobody really likes Ted Cruz in D.C. Let's go ahead and play it.
00:18:25.000The explosion on Twitter is warranted, but I had just wished last night when I was seeing the absolute outrage and more time being dedicated towards this scandal.
00:18:33.000I wish we had had a modicom of what was dedicated to the Ted Cruz scandal, dedicated to the scandal with Governor Cuomo, where 15,000 elderly people were tragically died in nursing homes and the media has ignored it for a year.
00:18:52.000One reason is that the media establishment in this country is 95% just based on donations to political parties, 95% in the bag for the Democrat Party.
00:19:03.000So, of course, they come in with an implicit bias against a conservative.
00:19:09.000In this case, Senator Ted Cruz is the recipient of that, but it's, frankly, it's all of us.
00:19:14.000They're pitted against us from the jump.
00:19:17.000And then when you give them something like this and you capitulate and you apologize, you're only making it worse for yourself.
00:19:25.000Now, my theory on this is the second reason is that nobody in D.C. likes Ted Cruz, and that's okay.
00:19:36.000If the kingdom of Washington is pitted against you, Senator Cruz, that's okay.
00:19:42.000That probably means that you're doing something, something worthwhile.
00:19:46.000But I think what happened here is as soon as Ted Cruz got onto that plane, and it was a commercial.
00:19:52.000He was, you know, people were snapping pictures of him.
00:19:55.000He started to see that everybody was aware that he was on a plane getting out of Texas, going to Mexico during the coldest stretch in anybody's memory.
00:20:23.000And for somebody that wants to be president, and it's very well reported that Senator Cruz wants to be president, and we like Senator Cruz here.
00:20:37.000But if you want to assume the energy within the conservative movement moving into 2022 in the midterms and then again in 2024, you've got to be stronger than accepting the premise of the left and capitulating to what they tell you you need to be sorry for and what you should not be sorry for.
00:20:59.000And the left is just having a heyday with this.
00:21:03.000Honestly, I don't want to talk about it.
00:21:06.000I think we've done probably enough on it already because it's just giving into this narrative.
00:22:01.000So the next big story that I think is, you know, honestly, I'm extremely passionate about is the announcement yesterday that the Biden administration is trying to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
00:22:19.000And this is the debate within Democrat circles right now: do we do a comprehensive piece, which has failed both during Bush and Obama years, or do they do a piecemeal piece of legislation?
00:22:34.000And regardless of whatever it is, both are utter disasters.
00:22:39.000Just read at the onset, open borders, blanket amnesty.
00:22:46.000There's three pieces that they're trying to potentially divide up and pass on their own.
00:22:55.000I think we all are well aware of what the DREAM Act is.
00:22:59.000It's for childhood arrivals brought by their parents.
00:23:03.000There is probably some bipartisan consensus that could be reached on the DREAM Act.
00:23:10.000There is the Promise Act, and then there is a piece of legislation designed to help farm workers that are here as well.
00:23:20.000Now, the poison pill in all of this is these three pieces, and these three pieces of legislation all grant immediate green cards, and then they Allow for a pathway to citizenship within three years, which is faster than the five-year track that other green card holders would typically get.
00:23:44.000So, right at the onset, we have a problem.
00:23:49.000And then, what they want to say is for anybody that arrived in the country as of January 1st, you have an eight-year path to citizenship.
00:24:03.000If this doesn't frighten you, then you're not thinking about this the right way.
00:24:08.000The left wants to frame this in purely moral terms, that we are to be a nation, as a nation of immigrants, we are to be compassionate, that we are bigger than the trivialities of the Trump administration, that we need to think about those lesser than us, and that Trump was just cruel.
00:24:31.000One of the facts that we need to confront and we need to be honest about with the left is that not only is this a recipe for utter chaos, it's the opposite of compassion.
00:24:45.000By telling these people, everybody has cell phones down there.
00:24:49.000You could be in the middle of the jungle with no power and you still have a cell phone in the Northern Triangle.
00:24:54.000And there are 55 million people there.
00:24:57.000And when polled, about 90% of them would come if given the chance to America.
00:25:03.000This is why you see caravans forming over and over and over again.
00:25:10.000And what you're doing is you are sowing the seeds of absolute and utter chaos that is the opposite of compassion.
00:25:18.000I say that because you are empowering the most vile and evil forces within Mexico with the power of God at their hands.
00:25:29.000They are the ones making all the money trafficking human beings across that border.
00:25:34.000Some of the cartels, it's even been reported, have stopped dealing drugs and dealing guns and all these sorts of things because it's more profitable to force these people to pay them the money for safe passage through their territories.
00:25:52.000So when you incentivize them and you send messages to Mexico and to Central America and the Northern Triangle, you're putting lives at risk.
00:26:02.000So you want to tell me about kids in cages?
00:26:05.000You are endangering young people that are going to be coming up without their parents.
00:26:09.000You are endangering whole families of getting exploited by the cartels and really dangerous terrain, really dangerous circumstances.
00:26:19.000And we need to hit that message extremely hard moving forward.
00:26:22.000It's incredibly frustrating to me to watch politics completely hijack something that is, to my mind, and probably to many of yours, something that is completely common sense.
00:26:35.000I'm reading here from the National Review.
00:26:38.000And by the way, just before I get into this, some of you might be confused.
00:26:41.000There is a comprehensive piece of legislation and then there is piecemeal.
00:26:46.000Both are working their way through Congress and being proposed simultaneously because the worry from the Democrats is that if they issue a comprehensive immigration bill, that it will get dead on arrival, won't happen.
00:27:00.000Probably all this is dead on arrival, to be honest, which is good.
00:27:05.000But if they do the piecemeal, they might have more success of getting certain aspects of their wish list across the finish line.
00:27:12.000So I'm reading here from National Review, like the bloated comprehensive measure, the piecemeal proposals would not result in a similar broken promise because they don't even pretend to provide for future enforcement, all but guaranteeing the buildup of another large illegal population in the future.
00:27:30.000This part about enforcement is really key.
00:27:33.000I feel like we're living in an era where the left has completely abandoned the idea of law and order and enforcement.
00:27:49.000So, in the absence of enforcement, you get chaos, which is cruel to the rest of America, which is cruel to those living at the border, which is honestly cruel to the immigrants that are trying to make their way across the border because you're selling them a false bill of goods.
00:28:04.000But let's get to Senator Menendez, who is the Senate sponsor of this new immigration package.
00:28:13.000Well, what I want to achieve is robust reform.
00:28:19.000Look, you know, we want to have border security, but we think that technology, in addition to everything that's already been done, we have more border patrol than we've ever had.
00:28:29.000We spend more on border patrol than we do in all of the other federal law enforcement entities combined.
00:28:38.000So it's time to take a new look at how do we ensure the border.
00:28:44.000Like I said, they look at all the enforcement at the border, which is one of the crowning achievements of the Trump administration.
00:28:50.000And they look at that as somehow a black eye against the United States of America, that Trump has successfully reduced the chaos and the criminality at our southern border, built 450, 500 miles a wall that they've toyed with taking down.
00:29:04.000Meanwhile, those communities that are benefiting from the wall love it.
00:29:29.000Well, what I can tell you is that the situation on the border right now is very dangerous.
00:29:33.000We've got over, our CBP is facing a little over 3,000, in some cases 3,500 individuals coming across the border illegally every day.
00:29:42.000And if we go back to the previous DHS secretary under Obama, who said 1,000 a day is a very bad day for DHS and at crisis levels.
00:29:51.000So we're at three times that at the moment.
00:29:53.000So it's very concerning, a number of things that are occurring down there.
00:29:57.000And again, I think it's a direct result of some of the things that we've heard this administration do in sending a signal to those south of the border, those wanting to cross illegally, to the cartels, the smugglers, and the traffickers.
00:30:08.000Now is the time to send those individuals across the border.
00:30:31.000And I feel like I'm watching a train crashing in slow motion, and I can't stop it.
00:30:36.000And it feels like none of us can stop it, but we have to keep voicing our concern and fighting back to keep our GOP members in the Senate strong to push these bills down.
00:30:46.000We do not want to lose any of our members.
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00:32:02.000Biden, this according to NPR, the headline does say a lot on immigration.
00:32:07.000Biden goes big in opening a bid to Congress.
00:32:11.000So, what is this big opening bid from Joe Biden?
00:32:14.000You've got the DREAM Act for undocumented childhood arrivals.
00:32:20.000I do think that there is the potential that the DREAM Act is going to get passed.
00:32:36.000You know, I think if you are a conservative, that is the piece to barter with.
00:32:40.000I think, you know, it's all problematic, frankly, because it's all breaking our laws and getting away with it.
00:32:46.000And that's infuriating to so many of us.
00:32:49.000But in this particular instance, even President Trump was willing to wheel and deal with the DREAMers piece of this in order to get what enforcement.
00:33:00.000And that is the big thing missing from all of this.
00:33:03.000Senator Menendez, oh, we're going to add some great technology.
00:33:06.000Well, you're going to have drones flying overhead as drugs are getting smuggled across the border, and nothing's going to be done about it.
00:33:12.000You are going to be putting our brave men and women of Border Patrol in harm's way, and it's despicable.
00:33:20.000And you're going to be putting the lives of those children that are being trafficked across and those women being trafficked across.
00:33:26.000You're going to put their lives in danger as well by just saying, oh, we're going to have some technology.
00:33:36.000Putting sensors, cameras, drones, whatever is not going to stop hardened criminals from getting across our border and subjecting our population to massive amounts of crime coming up from a borderless, lawless area.
00:34:18.000Well, if they've looked at it with clear-eyed vision, which is asking a lot, I understand, they would see that President Trump actually had a massive amount of success in this area.
00:34:30.000So much so that many of us have forgotten about the border crisis that was so prevalent during the Obama years.
00:34:37.000So not only do you have these, the DREAM Act, which I said is it does have some bipartisan consensus behind it, potentially, you've got the Promise Act, and then you've got the Farm Workers Act, and then you've got this other catch-all, which is a poison pill that says if you were here as of January 1st of 2021, then we're going to grandfather you in and we're going to blank an amnesty you as well.
00:35:02.000And here's another frustrating part about all of this.
00:35:04.000And by the way, eight years pathway to citizenship.
00:35:07.000And the part that really frustrates me about all of this is that we are encouraging lawlessness and lawbreaking and we are rewarding it to achieve the ends of an activist minority because the vast majority of Americans know this is a recipe for disaster.
00:35:26.000And you've even got Democrats that are saying, you're going to lose in 2022 if you go on this.
00:35:32.000If you move forward with these policies, these soft-on immigration, open borders policies, you're going to lose.
00:35:39.000And it's an absolute recipe for destruction and chaos.
00:35:45.000And their justification is that you've got to prioritize.
00:35:48.000You've got to prioritize where you're dispatching the federal government's resources.
00:35:54.000You have Senator Menendez saying we spend more on Border Patrol than any other federal law enforcement agency for good reason because the crisis and the problem is that large.
00:36:50.000And they keep saying 11 million because they know that you, the listener, you, the audience, has become so numb to that number that it doesn't even mean anything.
00:37:12.000Can you give us any specifics on whether a potential pathway to citizenship will be part of the plan for that particular group?
00:37:22.000Well, there certainly is part of the proposal that the president outlined and proposed on day one is an earned path to citizenship, right, for 11 million immigrants who are undocumented immigrants who are living in the country.
00:37:35.000He's also somebody who believes in the rights of the DACA recipients to be in the country.
00:37:45.000And then they latch on and they kind of push all this other stuff through off the backs of this, an issue that genuinely should evoke compassion for these kids.
00:38:06.000Now, part of all this is not just the portion that has to do with the immigration bill presented by the Biden administration.
00:38:17.000It's also on how they are enforcing those who are already here and breaking our laws.
00:38:23.000This is the other piece of this puzzle that's massively important.
00:38:28.000After four years, I'm reading from NPR, after four years of former President Trump's immigration crackdown, the Biden administration on Thursday announced new guidelines that are expected to sharply limit arrests and deportation carried out by immigration and customs enforcement.
00:38:41.000Under the guidance, ICE agents and officers have been told to prioritize, listen to this, threats to national security and public safety when deciding whom to arrest, detain, and deport.
00:38:54.000I bet that my definition and many of yours of what national security is and is not is completely different from what the Biden administration would define it as.
00:39:06.000Is it not a matter of national security when MS-13 fills up your neighborhoods in Long Island and attacks your kids?
00:39:24.000I'm pretty sure the Stele family would feel differently.
00:39:28.000Is it not national security when the schools here in Los Angeles, many of which have predominantly Spanish-speaking students, is that not national security for those parents of English-speaking students that their kids can't get ahead?
00:39:42.000They can't accelerate in the learning process fast enough?
00:39:46.000I think it's that big of an issue that we need to just keep hammering at home.
00:39:51.000We have an administration that seems hell-bent on degrading the security and safety established by the Trump administration at the southern border under intense scrutiny and criticism.
00:40:05.000We've also got an administration that wants to tie the hands of ICE to deport violent criminals from our streets and restrict what they can do.
00:40:14.000Now, I'm fully aware looking at the broad breadth of coverage on these new guidelines for ICE that there are still, even with these relaxed standards, these very loose standards, there are still advocates on the left that are saying, you're still not going far enough.
00:40:29.000You're not upholding the dignity of the immigrant.
00:40:34.000If somebody's here in this country illegally and they're breaking our laws, they should be deported.
00:40:40.000If somebody's here illegally, they should be deported.
00:40:42.000This should not be controversial at all.
00:40:46.000But they are moving forward with a big, bold proposal that will not get passed.
00:40:52.000And if we, in the grassroots movement of the conservatives, raise our voices in a collective fashion, we will fight back and we will make sure that the Republicans hold the line on this.
00:41:03.000Now, they're going to try and work some of their proposals in through the reconciliation process, which is not what reconciliation is designed to do.
00:41:12.000Nevertheless, they're going to attempt to do it.
00:41:15.000But for the really big stuff, we should be able to stop this.
00:41:29.000There is a built-in assumption within the Democrat Party and progressives in general that if we allow citizenship for millions of Hispanic, largely Hispanic, and otherwise people of color from Africa,
00:41:45.000there's Haitians, there's a whole composite of different groups that would be part of this amnesty, that we are going to create a permanent Democrat majority in the United States.
00:42:01.000That Republicans will never be able to win a national election ever again in the United States of America if we allow millions of undocumented immigrants, illegal immigrants, to become citizens.
00:42:14.000And that's why they keep telling you 11, because in reality, they know it's 30 or at least 22.
00:42:19.000They think in one fell swoop, they're going to get millions of new voters.
00:42:24.000And in the short term, they're probably right.
00:42:27.000But there's an interesting article from the New York Times by Eric Kaufman.
00:42:31.000He's a professor who studies and writes about demographics and partisanship and ideology.
00:42:37.000He wrote a piece here, February 13th, it's dated.
00:42:40.000How stable is the Democratic Coalition?
00:42:43.000The party may control the elected branches in Washington, but it may be facing some slippage in the support from minority communities.
00:42:51.000And what this article is based around is the fact that Trump did surprisingly well with minorities in 2020.
00:42:58.000So well that it surprised many prognosticators and analysts and talking heads on the left.
00:43:05.000Now, when Obama built his coalition, he garnered the support of 75% of minorities.
00:43:13.000They identified as Democrat in 2008, 75%.
00:43:20.000As of 2020, that number is down to 51% identify as Democrat.
00:43:26.000Now, you have places in the Rio Grande Valley.
00:43:29.000You have places in South Florida where the Hispanic population almost went 50-50.
00:43:36.000You had places that had not gone Republican in Texas in 95 years flip red, largely Hispanic.
00:43:45.000There's certain counties that are 95% Hispanic that went Republican in Texas.
00:43:51.000And this author stipulates that the Hispanic population is following a very similar trajectory in American politics of other recent immigrant groups throughout our nation's history, including the Catholics that in 1960, and they voted for JFK were almost 73% of white Catholics identified as Democrats.
00:44:16.000By 2016, just 38% of white Catholics identified as Democrats and half called themselves Republicans.
00:44:24.000This is a trend that will continue if the conservatives embrace the populist energy of Donald Trump and stay rooted in conservative values, in life and liberty and opportunity and entrepreneurialism, the things that brought these people to this country in the first place.
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00:45:09.000When I'm going for walks or when I'm riding on the bike, I always pop open thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org, and I just try to learn something new every day.
00:45:18.000That's something we talk about here a lot on this Charlie Kirk show.
00:45:39.000I'm going to play a clip here from Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida honoring the great Rush Limbaugh.
00:45:46.000And I know they're still figuring out the arrangements, but what we do when there's things of this magnitude, once the date of internment for Rush is announced, we're going to be lowering the flags to have staff.
00:46:29.000I want to talk about sort of behind the headlines here a little bit, getting behind the scenes and behind the thinking of the people pulling the strings, both at a media level and a government level.
00:46:42.000You've got what is arguably, it's a once-in-a-generation storm in Texas.
00:46:47.000And what are we talking about besides the disaster and the people's lives affected?
00:46:52.000And really, what we should be talking about is the utter failure of the federal government to get out in front of this and to lend a helping hand.
00:47:02.000If there was an honest media, or at least a consistent media, whether it's fair or not, this would already have been dubbed, and I am hereby dubbing it if it hasn't been done yet, as Biden's Katrina moment.
00:47:17.000There's a tweet from yesterday from Joe Biden that said, oh, we're getting generators to Texas.
00:47:23.000Well, I'm sorry, but it's a little bit late, don't you think?
00:47:27.000As most of the House's power is coming back on, but we don't have a consistent media.
00:47:35.000They are throwing off the scent to a ridiculous scandal with Senator Ted Cruz and interestingly, a scandal involving New York's governor Andrew Cuomo.
00:47:49.000Now, Senator Cruz makes sense why they would want you to be talking about him instead of Joe Biden's failure.
00:47:57.000But Andrew Cuomo is kind of interesting.
00:47:59.000I think it's actually incredibly telling that they want us to be talking about Cuomo.
00:48:06.000And what's also interesting is that you have Democrats piling on.
00:48:11.000You see, now that Joe Biden's in the White House, the entire calculus of the Democrat Party has changed before they dispatch their attack dogs in the media and their political mouthpieces, both at the state level and the national level, to attack one singular enemy, and that was Donald Trump.
00:48:33.000But without him in the White House, the calculus has changed.
00:48:37.000They are happy today that we are talking about Andrew Cuomo.
00:48:43.000And most conservatives all across the country are eagerly gobbling it up.
00:49:21.000They want us talking about Andrew Cuomo.
00:49:23.000They want us talking about Senator Cruz because they know that as long as we're doing that, we are happily distracted from the real scandal that we should be focused on.
00:49:35.000And just imagine, folks, if the shoe was on the other foot.
00:49:37.000If Trump was in the White House right now, we would be having calls for a third impeachment.
00:49:43.000This would be Trump's Katrina, which they eagerly tried to do multiple times when Trump was in the White House.
00:49:53.000Anytime there was a crisis, a natural disaster, they were like, oh, this is Trump's Katrina.
00:49:59.000It was like as the storm was approaching, as a hurricane was approaching the mainland, they were already saying this is going to be his Katrina.
00:50:07.000Meanwhile, Texas has been without power for days in a once-in-a-generation storm.
00:50:12.000And just yesterday, we get a tweet about generators.
00:50:16.000Nobody is talking about it because they know that as long as they're number one, as long as their main guy up at the top, Joe Biden, their puppet that they can control, that's already shown time and again in his short time in office that he is more than happy to appease the far left and the radical left and the activist left and prove to them that he's their guy and he's going to advance the progressive agenda.
00:50:42.000As long as they got him in office, as long as they can control him in Kamala Harris, they are not going to let anybody touch him.
00:50:52.000And that's why it doesn't matter how bad the immigration policies are.
00:50:55.000It doesn't matter that they're saying they're going to raise corporate taxes.
00:50:58.000It doesn't matter that they're going to raise taxes on the working class.
00:51:01.000It doesn't matter that they are trying to pass a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that even Obama's chief economist is saying it's way too big and it's going to overheat the economy and that we've got inflation that is already driving up mortgage rates, impending inflation.
00:51:20.000It doesn't matter about any of that stuff.
00:51:21.000It doesn't matter how horrific the policies are.
00:51:23.000It doesn't matter that today we officially rejoined the Paris Climate Accord, which is going to hamstring U.S. businesses in favor of Chinese and Indian businesses that don't have to meet the same standards.
00:51:38.000It doesn't matter that he's allowed China to get access to our power grid again and sell component parts.
00:51:46.000It doesn't matter that he's now again going back to the table with Iran and the failed Iranian nuclear strategy that Trump set right, which led to unprecedented peace in the Middle East.
00:52:00.000It doesn't matter how terrible any of these policies are because as long as you're talking about Ted Cruz and as long as you're talking about Andrew Cuomo, they still get their way.
00:52:31.000He's the chum in the water that distracts us from the real target, which should be this horrific Biden administration policy agenda and portfolio.
00:52:57.000Now, I, again, understand he's got a far-left contingent that continues to rail at him no matter what he does, but that's what he should know.
00:53:06.000He can go a mile in their direction and they will demand five.
00:53:13.000But if he really wanted to bring unity and heal this country, he would reject the socialists.
00:53:19.000He would reject the cultural Marxists that are yanking him in a borderless, globalist direction towards the climate cult, towards widely accepted solutions, the DREAM Act.
00:53:32.000That's a place where you could probably wheel and deal on immigration in exchange for the DREAMers, get border enforcement.
00:53:41.000That's a place where we could find consensus.
00:53:44.000Instead of doing that, he doesn't even start an opening bid with any enforcement.
00:54:42.000Ron DeSantis, they called him Ron Death Santis because he insisted on keeping his beaches open, his restaurants open, and his economy open.
00:54:56.000Because at the time, Trump was in office and Cuomo was their foil.
00:54:59.000They said, look at how terrible Trump is because look at how great Cuomo is.
00:55:03.000But now that you got Biden in the office, they don't need him anymore.
00:55:08.000And their mob-style tactics, they're throwing him overboard.
00:55:13.000And now DeSantis is the darling and has presented himself as a frontrunner in 2024.
00:55:19.000Obviously, President Trump is still out there.
00:55:22.000It's just amazing how this calculus is playing out in real time and how most of us are taking the bait and not paying attention to the real target, and that is the radical policies out of Washington, D.C. There's a new call from the House to study reparations.
00:55:40.000Now, reparations, as CNN puts it, is a complex and thorny issue.
00:55:47.000Because after all, how do we determine who gets money, who deserves money, who should pay, and how much?
00:55:53.000I mean, if you're talking about somebody that is mixed race and half black and half white, do they pay themselves?
00:56:32.000Gallup asked whether or not Americans would not vote for a black person referring to Obama, would not vote for a woman referring to Hillary Clinton, would not vote for a Mormon referring to Mitt Romney, would not vote for a person as old as John McCain would be 72 years old.
00:56:47.000And what Gallup found is 5% of Americans said they would not under any circumstances vote for a black person.
00:56:53.00011% said they would not under any circumstances vote for a female.
00:56:57.00024% said they would not vote for a Mormon.
00:57:00.00042% said they would not vote for a person who would be 72 years old when he became president, which would have been the case had John McCain been elected.
00:57:09.000In other words, Obama as a black person had a smaller barrier than these three white politicians.
00:57:14.000So having this conversation right now when racism has never been a less significant problem in America to me is mind-boggling.
00:57:24.000And if you guys haven't heard all of Larry's testimony there, I definitely encourage you to Google it, check it out on Rumble.
00:57:33.000It gave me chills listening to it, and I will tell you why.
00:57:38.000Because Larry Elder was striking at one of the deepest, most profound, most destructive lies in our culture today.
00:57:47.000That you are defined by the melanin in your skin as opposed to the content of your character.
00:57:53.000The modern radical left has reversed one of the greatest achievements any society has ever made, and that was the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, who had a dream that his four little children would not grow up in a world that judged them by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
00:58:11.000And we have a whole movement in this country that says that that was not enough and that is not complete.
00:58:18.000And so what they're trying to do is they're saying, you are not enough.
00:58:29.000You can't achieve because of this evil, wicked country that you have grown up in.
00:58:35.000When that could not be further from the truth, the truth is, is that America, despite her flaws, is still the greatest country in the history of the world.
00:58:48.000And that if you were born here, you are already born privileged.
00:58:51.000It does not matter the color of your skin.
00:58:53.000It doesn't matter anything that has to do with your immutable characteristics.
00:58:58.000What matters is if you believe that you can achieve.
00:59:10.000That if you just get government off your back, if you get regulations out of your way, if you get these ideologies of victimhood tossed aside with the truth that you are already privileged, there is not white privilege and black privilege and whatever privilege.
00:59:26.000You are an American and you are privileged to be here.
00:59:29.000And we should all fight harder to protect this gift that we've been given.