What if I told you a DEI might be responsible for some of the deaths in the Texas floods? That's right, we prove it, and we have the evidence. If you have friends in Texas, you should text this to your friends. And why haven't the leaders in Texas been talking about this? Well, a fire chief in Austin didn't understand what that meant. We have the receipts.
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00:00:31.000Douglas Mackey is free for making a meme.
00:00:33.000And then we have May Mailman from the White House and also Bacha Ungar Sargon all about the middle class and how Donald Trump has rebuilt the middle part of the country and how the left is embracing the Luigi Maggioni mentality.
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00:00:56.000Okay, everybody, it is the event of the summer coming up in Tampa, Florida.
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00:03:36.000In 2014, the Obama administration sued the Austin Fire Department about 11 years ago, Fire Union, for supposed racial discrimination, resulting in a settlement.
00:03:46.000So the Obama administration was so worried that the fire department in Austin, Texas was racist, because, you know, when you're putting out fires, you got to make sure that you have a diverse fighting force.
00:03:57.000All jokes aside, well, the pressure was on the city to prove its diversity credentials.
00:04:02.000So a few years later, they picked Joel Baker as their first black fire chief.
00:04:07.000He announced right away that promoting diversity is one of his top priorities.
00:04:11.000They brought him in from Atlanta, and his priority was not putting out fires or being prepared for floods.
00:04:18.000No, his priority was to make sure that the fire department was blacker.
00:04:24.000This two-time fire chief wants to make a difference in the growing city of Austin and tells us he wants to start by bringing in more diversity.
00:04:32.000It's important that the Austin Fire Department, as much as we can, reflect the community in which we serve.
00:04:38.000But when you hire people based on race, you're not hiring based on skills.
00:04:42.000So right now, Baker is facing a vote of no confidence by his union for, this is the key, for denying the pre-deployment of resources to Kerrville, Texas.
00:04:51.000Now, Kerrville is in Texas Hill Country, which is west of Austin.
00:04:56.000Austin has a monster fire department, and so his union, they wanted to pre-deploy resources to Kerrville, Texas.
00:05:04.000But Baker apparently didn't act because of budgetary concerns.
00:05:09.000Well, the only problem, the Austin Fire Department is fully reimbursed by the state of Texas for such deployments.
00:05:15.000They tried explaining this to him, but he didn't quite comprehend the idea of reimbursement.
00:05:21.000I don't think he knew the word reimbursement.
00:05:24.000They decided, they sat down, they said, sir, this will be reimbursed.
00:05:27.000And according to reports, is he didn't understand it.
00:05:29.000The head of the Austin Fire Union, this is not me making up, said, quote, I explained the reimbursement process to Chief Baker last week, and he failed to understand this very simple concept.
00:05:40.000You see, when you hire fire chiefs based on diversity, you get morons.
00:05:47.000Austin hired a DEI fire chief who could have saved an untold number of lives, but was unable to comprehend the simple concept of reimbursement.
00:05:58.000You have to also wonder, there's another piece of tape here that we're going to play of the Democrats also saying that Camp Mystic was too white.
00:06:07.000Literally, they said, oh, Camp Mystic was too light.
00:06:09.000Other Democrat influencers are laughing and making light and fun of this online saying, well, all those Christian girls praying to Jesus, Jesus didn't save them.
00:06:18.000This is the state of the wretched status of the modern Democrat Party.
00:06:24.000But the Austin Fire Association has said that the fire chief Baker denied pre-deployment two days before floods began.
00:06:34.000So they knew this flood was coming two days before.
00:08:54.000Douglas is attorney came on the program, you might remember, because Joe Biden and his Department of Justice, one of the first things that he did, they decided to go after this poor young man, Douglas Mackey.
00:09:41.000Now, mind you, many Democrats have made this joke all the time, but they claimed that he was interfering with the election and that he was infringing on people's rights.
00:09:49.000A KKK-era law that was a conspiracy to take away people's rights.
00:09:55.000Well, legal experts say the following.
00:09:57.000He got a unanimous second circuit ruling that his conviction was unjustified.
00:10:04.000Even a Biden appointee ruled in our favor along with two George W. Bush appointees.
00:10:10.000It's not as good as a rule we could have gotten.
00:10:13.000The ideal ruling would have been, quote, there is no way you can take away someone's civil rights by posting a meme.
00:10:18.000Instead, the court just ruled that the law in question requires a conspiracy.
00:10:24.000And there's no evidence that Mackey was executing a conspiracy by posting memes.
00:10:30.000But it's still a big win against one of the most sinister efforts of the Biden regime.
00:10:38.000I know that there's a lot of people fired up about Epstein.
00:10:42.000A lot of people fired up about all sorts of things.
00:10:45.000If Kamala Harris would have won, this would have been 100x.
00:10:50.000I know people don't want to hear it, but you need to hear it right now.
00:10:53.000The Douglas Mackey being freed case is a great reminder and should be a reminder to you that we as a civilization dodged an enormous bullet.
00:11:04.000We would be doing a show from a hidden bunker.
00:11:06.000We'd probably be under indictment right now.
00:11:08.000And you guys would be crowdsourcing my bail.
00:11:46.000They would have done hundreds like this, thousands like this.
00:11:49.000The entire Department of Justice would have been turned inward against the United States of America.
00:11:54.000We know the police state that was popping up and emerging.
00:11:59.000And praise the Lord, Douglas Mackey is free, and we can kind of rest easy that even though that things at times might not be exactly to the flavor or the taste that we would like, that we are in an unspeakably better position that President Donald Trump is in the White House.
00:12:21.000I'm excited to tell you that I'll be speaking at the Culture and Christianity Conference at World Outreach Church, just south of Nashville, Tennessee, this September, and I'm inviting you to join me.
00:12:31.000My friend, Pastor Alan Jackson, organized this conference so we can address the issues we're facing in today's culture, but through the lens of God's truth.
00:12:40.000We'll talk about what's happening in the church, the media, and with our help.
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00:13:45.000Yeah, so today, this morning at 9 a.m., we dropped a major lawsuit against California that would result in California losing $45 billion.
00:13:56.000So it's funding for schools because California continues to violate Title IX.
00:14:01.000Remember, Title IX says that you can have access to federal money, but you have to agree to a few basic things.
00:14:07.000And one of those basic things is to not discriminate on the basis of sex.
00:14:12.000If California is violating the rights of women by forcing them to shower and change with men and also compete against men if they're going to play sports, if they're going to play female athletics, then that is not equal opportunities for women and that violates Title IX.
00:14:28.000So California has been warned repeatedly that this is going to happen and California is now going to get what it asks for.
00:14:36.000So that is our big lawsuit this morning.
00:14:38.000And so this is, I want to play cut 351.
00:14:40.000This is when I joined the Gavin Newsom podcast when he wanted to have me on the show while his state is falling apart and I happily obliged.
00:14:48.000This is 351 where Gavin Newsom said that, well, trans athletes are unfair.
00:14:54.000By the way, right now, Gavin Newsom is in South Carolina campaigning for the presidency.
00:14:58.000He's in South Carolina, which of course, you know, the Democrats, they've decided to get rid of Iowa, get rid of New Hampshire because they were too white.
00:16:11.000What would be considered a victory for California to protect women?
00:16:16.000Because a lot of money is on the line.
00:16:17.000What would be considered a victory here?
00:16:20.000So one, they need to change their policies.
00:16:23.000In fact, the California athletic group, the Interscholastic Foundation, asked the state for clarity because they heard this podcast.
00:16:31.000They heard him say it was deeply unfair.
00:16:33.000And they said, hey, are we still having to comply with California law, which makes us have to put men in women's sports?
00:16:39.000And California categorically said, yes, you can self-identify into whatever category you would like to.
00:16:46.000So California has specifically doubled down.
00:16:49.000So they absolutely have to change that policy.
00:16:52.000I think they thought they were going to be getting away with some sort of not at all response, which was if a man is competing, then another woman can also compete.
00:18:47.000Men and women's sports is, it's something visible.
00:18:51.000It's something we as the American public can see.
00:18:53.000But what's so dangerous about it is that this is social transition.
00:18:57.000The reason why schools want to let men into women's sports is because they are trying to quote unquote socially transition them, which then those students go on to have chemicals and then those chemical students go on to have surgeries.
00:19:10.000And so it's not just a burden on the women, which it is a burden on the women here.
00:19:17.000It is this, this is the step toward a life of sadness, frustration, and attempting to live a lie that you can never play out.
00:19:27.000And so if California wants to be compassionate, they want to show compassion to kids who are not doing well, who feel that they are in the wrong body either that or feel that they want to be cool or please their parents, and their parents want to, you know, say, I've got a trans kid because then maybe they'll get a bunch more dinner parties.
00:19:44.000But either way, this is the opposite of compassion.
00:19:48.000And so, what we are asking for is basic compliance with the law.
00:19:52.000But we want the same thing from Harvard as well.
00:19:54.000And so that's why today we announced that we launched some subpoenas into Harvard because they will not give us any information about what the Ford students are doing there.
00:20:05.000And we have a lot of information that Harvard, one, discriminates against U.S. students.
00:20:10.000You get punished if you're a U.S. student, but you don't get punished if you're a foreign student because then maybe you'll get deported.
00:20:35.000Yeah, Harvard had, just like every other university, just like Columbia, the opportunity to have a good relationship with us and say, you know what, we did not treat our Jewish students well.
00:20:44.000We made Jewish students have to hide their identity.
00:20:46.000And also, of course, we did discriminate on the basis of race.
00:20:50.000Good luck to you if you are an American, white, or Asian student trying to get into our university.
00:20:54.000They could have just said, we want to resolve our problems.
00:20:57.000And instead, they continue to double down.
00:20:59.000So Harvard, as the president has made note, they are welcome to come to a change of heart and start to comply with the law.
00:21:08.000But until then, we would like to know what's going on there.
00:21:12.000We would like to know about the racism that is happening.
00:21:15.000And we'd like to know what the foreign students are up to because the foreign students are there with a program that is run by the federal government.
00:21:22.000We'd like to know what's happening in our own program, which of course we have a right to.
00:21:27.000The focus needs to be the violation of the students for fair admission.
00:21:31.000Harvard is actively discriminating against white and Asian students every single day.
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00:23:04.000Charlie, thank you so much for having me.
00:23:06.000I have to say, I just feel daily more and more grateful to you for the service that you're providing our nation as an American, as a Jew, as an American Jew.
00:23:19.000I feel so unbelievably indebted to you for the work that you're doing holding the moral center of this country.
00:23:29.000Our great vice president, before he became vice president, gave an amazing speech, I think it was in March or May of 2024, in which he said that it's obvious that our foreign policy should be guided by the moral intuitions of regular Americans.
00:23:46.000And when I hear you talking, that's really what I hear.
00:23:49.000I hear that moral intuition of the average American, which is so good and so fundamentally misunderstood.
00:23:59.000So thank you for everything you do for this country.
00:26:03.000Basically, they have instituted economic policy that disinherited working class Americans and their children and made it impossible for them to achieve the American dream.
00:26:15.000But who could achieve the American dream was the millions and millions of illegal migrants who they were importing to undercut working class Americans' wages.
00:26:24.000And of course, the beneficiaries of it, which are the credentialed class, that top 10% that now controls over 60% of the GDP.
00:26:34.000They did it by NAFTA shipping good manufacturing jobs overseas to build up China and Mexico's middle class.
00:26:41.000They did it when President Obama defunded vocational training, another great avenue to the American dream for working class people who work with their hands for a living.
00:26:50.000And they did it by opening the border.
00:26:52.000And effectively, what the American people said was, no more.
00:27:15.000And now this is just the latest salvo of the smearing of the hardest working Americans because they want their children to have a fair shot at the American dream.
00:27:26.000And they've taken it so far, Charlie, in the face of this mass acceptance by the American people that Donald Trump actually is doing what they asked him to do, what they want him to do.
00:27:39.000They are effectively saying we need to make a spectacle that is so horrifying that the American people will abandon what they know is in their own interests.
00:27:51.000So for 40 years, leftists were telling working class people, you're voting against your own economic interests when they knew, like, of course, we're not voting against our economic interests.
00:28:02.000It's now become so clear that these migrants were against the interests of the American working class.
00:28:10.000So they have to resort now to what they are hoping will be a bloody spectacle.
00:28:16.000And they are literally sending their people out to commit violence against people, ICE agents, against officers of the state who are trying to do what the American people want them to do.
00:28:30.000I want to connect this with Zoran Mamdani, who is obviously an insurgent.
00:28:36.000But I believe that the insurgency of Mamdani can largely be explained through economics.
00:28:42.000President Trump is doing his best to fix a disordered and broken economic system.
00:28:48.000But one of the main reasons why you see radical Islamists, and it doesn't have to be Islamists, but he is an Islamist, but radicals like Zo Ron start to pop to the surface is when a generation has lots of student loan debt and they don't own anything, they start to get uneasy.
00:29:06.000Can you talk about how Republicans, who are the governing and the majority party, it's not enough just to oppose Democrats.
00:29:13.000We should seek to understand what is the driving force of the disillusionment, the baseline that connects to the Zoron Mamdanis.
00:29:24.000And at the baseline of it is economics.
00:29:29.000Effectively what happened was you had a generation of young people who were lied to.
00:29:34.000They were told, you will go to college and then you will have access to the American dream.
00:29:39.000For a long time, that actually did work.
00:29:42.000But what happened was you had, first of all, people in Silicon Valley who just wanted more and more and more H-1B visas.
00:29:49.000And those H-1B visas imported half a million people to work in STEM, which undercut the actual pay that an American worker, an American engineer could expect to get in those industries because they had been swelled with migrants, I guess legal migrants in this case.
00:30:08.000And as a result, American students didn't want to go into those industries anymore because what is the point in graduating with hundreds and thousands of dollars in debt when you're going to be expecting, you know, $50,000 as a salary?
00:30:23.000But in many ways, this lie that was sold to them was you will graduate from college, you will make it into the top 10% as previous generations did, and you will be much more well-off and much wealthier than blue collar workers.
00:30:38.000And Donald Trump was the first president in 60 years to really reverse that.
00:30:43.000So in his first administration in 2018, the bottom 25% of wage earners saw a 4% wage increase, but the top 25% only saw a 2.9% wage increase, which means that he was the first president to shrink the gap between that credentialed elite, that caste that had been created by the Democrats of their new base after they had abandoned labor, and then labor, who were now the new base of the Republican Party.
00:31:16.000He started to say, wait a minute, why are the hardest working Americans downwardly mobile?
00:31:20.000And these people working in the knowledge industry who are basically a rentier class, who don't produce anything of value, are the ones getting rich.
00:31:28.000Now, Joe Biden really put a stop to that with the open border.
00:31:34.000That was effectively the point of the open border.
00:31:36.000They were worried that if the wage increase of the working class continued apace, that this would lead to inflation.
00:31:43.000And so they brought in 10 million people to undercut working class people in their places of industry, of work.
00:31:50.000But right now, we're seeing the same thing happening.
00:31:52.000The AI revolution is leaving a lot of these over-credentialed people who have recently graduated from higher education without job prospects because those entry-level jobs are being done by AI.
00:32:05.000And meanwhile, blue-collar workers are seeing real wage increases because of all the mass deportations.
00:32:11.000And so Trump is again flipping the script and shrinking that class divide based on a college education.
00:32:19.000Now, the problem is, is that a lot of the education that these people got, education at these institutions of higher ed, we know that they teach them a lot of stuff that's built into this anti-American, anti-Western.
00:32:35.000You see the love of Hamas on all of these college campuses, and it's very built into the hatred of white people, the hatred of Jews.
00:33:31.000The problem is, is that there is a lot of anti-American sentiment baked into this new, you know, leftist proletariat, if you want to call it, which leads to the trust fund socialism of Zaran Mamdani.