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00:00:04.000Mike Pence announces for the presidency.
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00:01:29.000All right, to put a little bit of a capstone on it, essentially, we had an elite cabal that redefined marriage and said it was the most pressing issue in the world, and they just imposed it on the whole country, despite states' rights and states.
00:01:43.000California voted it down twice to give you an idea where the country was at.
00:01:47.000And remember, Obama was against it before he was for it.
00:03:00.000To unlock the best of America, we need a leader who's clearly focused on three things: economy, energy, and national security.
00:03:15.000And that is, and that is why, and that is why today I'm officially announcing I'm running for the president of the United States of America.
00:03:27.000Okay, so that's Governor Doug Bergham.
00:03:29.000Amazingly, I don't get any emails hating on me for criticizing Doug Bergham.
00:03:51.000And it's the previous vice president who's running for the presidency.
00:03:54.000And you announced the whole, that is bizarre.
00:03:57.000Chris Christie announced for the presidency yesterday in one of the strangest presidential announcements I've ever seen.
00:04:07.000So, Chris Christie goes to New Hampshire to do kind of a town hall, and he just starts walking around and he's walking and he turns his back to the camera and you're like, oh boy, I don't need to see that.
00:04:19.000You're like the width of three primary voters.
00:08:59.000Growing up, there were war correspondents that got known for their frontline reporting in Baghdad or in Mogadishu, and you're kind of the equivalent.
00:09:09.000You're kind of like the frontline guy.
00:09:11.000You know, we're like, yeah, live here right outside of Seattle.
00:09:17.000Yeah, a lot of this started because once I was covering what was known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Chaz or CHOP, I started to look at different cities all across the country.
00:09:28.000And in particular, I was seeing a clear trend in some of the Democrat-run cities, the larger cities, going through pretty much the same exact crises.
00:09:37.000And rather than accepting the claim that it's all due to COVID, that homelessness is up, crime is up, housing costs are out of control all due to COVID, which never really made sense to me.
00:09:48.000I started to look at the policies that were in place.
00:09:51.000And that's when you start to see the clear similarities, that you can point to very specific policies or strategies and initiatives that are ideologically based, that are pursued by the radical left, not necessarily Democrats, but the radical left elements within the Democratic Party.
00:10:09.000And you start to be able to say, oh, that's why that's happening.
00:10:12.000This is why homelessness is increasing.
00:10:14.000This is why it's so expensive to rent or purchase a home in an area.
00:10:18.000It's pretty much the same policies implemented in very similar ways.
00:10:24.000And for me, obviously, I want to pursue an initiative to get rid of these policies.
00:10:44.000Why does the radical left believe that these policies are what's best for communities?
00:10:50.000And once we have that information, which I outline in my book, What's Killing America, that's when I think we can start winning these battles.
00:10:57.000So, you know, being in Seattle, something that perplexes me is when is the Mercer Island crowd going to be like, you know, this place is not what it used To be.
00:11:05.000Is it that the people that have done so well in the Seattle-Tacoma area, the Microsoft, the Amazon, the Starbucks, the Boeing people, they're so geographically walled off from the dystopian hellscape of downtown Seattle that they don't care?
00:11:22.000Or is it that ideology will always triumph?
00:11:25.000Or is it this overly agreeable Scandinavian attitude, the same problem that Minneapolis has, that I'm just going to allow the worst possible ideas to basically railroad my home because I don't want to be called mean?
00:11:39.000I mean, what's happening in Seattle is really happening all across the country in these larger cities where a lot of folks, I do think, tried to wall themselves off from what was going on in sort of the downtown cores, whether we're talking about Seattle, Portland, LA, San Francisco, or Boston, Philadelphia, New York.
00:11:55.000What they were trying to do is basically move away from these areas and thinking that those bad policies wouldn't impact them.
00:12:03.000But what we're starting to see, what we've really seen over the course of the last two years, bad policies have a tendency to spread.
00:12:10.000What happens in these big cities will get into the suburbs.
00:12:13.000And the folks who try to escape, they realize that, yeah, you can't really escape unless you push back because all of this is being done for political purposes.
00:12:23.000Radical left activists, no matter where they are, will inspire other radical left activists where they live.
00:12:30.000And if you're winning these battles from that perspective in these major cities, well, guess what?
00:12:35.000The folks on Mercer Island, the folks in Albany, the folks outside of Chicago, all of a sudden those activists say, oh, we can do this too.
00:12:44.000And then on top of that, they inspire lawmakers at the state level to implement policies statewide.
00:12:50.000So there's really nothing you can do to escape it.
00:12:52.000I think for a lot of folks, they were either turning a blind eye or they were blinded to what was going on because so many people in these larger cities happen to be ideologically driven, that they've got blinders on.
00:13:05.000They maybe justify some short-term pain because they think it's going to lead to long-term utopian gain.
00:13:12.000But once they get impacted personally, once they take their kid to a park and they realize in Santa Barbara, it's covered in needles, once they go walking to a restaurant in Manhattan and they find themselves being robbed, well, all of a sudden they say, oh, okay, maybe this really is serious and I got to start paying more attention.
00:14:48.000Well, versus 10 or 15 years ago, we're way worse, right?
00:14:51.000I mean, we've seen historical increases in homicides in Seattle just as of two years ago.
00:14:57.000Last year, they were, I think, one or two murders shy of matching that rate.
00:15:02.000And this year so far, it looks like we're going to be on pace to either match or exceed that historic high.
00:15:08.000A lot of this is driven by gun violence.
00:15:10.000And of course, because a gun is involved, the left will automatically say it's because people can get guns too easily.
00:15:17.000But actually, that's not really what's going on here.
00:15:19.000Again, because I think you can tie it all back to policy or initiatives and strategies.
00:15:23.000The people who are committing the violence, and again, this is not just Seattle.
00:15:27.000This is happening across the country, are repeat offenders, people who have previously had interactions with police and the courts, but they were the beneficiaries of a system that doesn't want to punish them, that wants to give them endless chances, largely because they sometimes come from a marginalized community and thus the progressives believe that the criminal justice system is racist and it's white supremacist action, blah, blah, blah.
00:15:50.000So they try to push these people and keep them out of the criminal justice system.
00:15:53.000And, you know, for kids who are 15, 16, 17 years old, who are stealing, you know, a candy bar from a 7-Eleven, no one wants to put them in jail.
00:16:02.000But if they're using a gun to rob that 7-Eleven, well, I don't think restorative justice programs are the right move for them.
00:16:08.000And yet, that's exactly where a lot of these kids are being placed.
00:16:12.000And same thing with adults where you've got adults who have been arrested 72 times, have been convicted 72 times, and yet somehow never seem to spend meaningful time in jail because the left believes, the radical left believes that jail doesn't work, that it doesn't change someone's life.
00:17:05.000And we're seeing the strategy and the consequences of it happen all across the country.
00:17:13.000And again, what I found out was these are all driven by policies.
00:17:17.000And the good news is, because they're driven by policies and laws and lawmakers, well, we have a lot of power.
00:17:22.000If we organize, we can push back and actually change things.
00:17:25.000The problem is they've created in the radical left a culture of lawlessness that doesn't change overnight.
00:17:32.000You can change all the laws and get rid of all the policies today, but it's going to take several years to get back to where we were in accepting a society that does, in fact, play by rules and has a fully staffed police department, for example.
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00:20:55.000I just wish more people on the left would actually listen to the words instead of telling themselves a story about him.
00:21:01.000And frankly, all conservative voices where we're often just dismissed because we're conservative and people don't actually engage in our ideas or analysis.
00:21:32.000You know, where you live in Seattle, it is completely out of control.
00:21:35.000Give us a flavor of some of the fights in the schools, some of the things that we've seen emerging in curriculum just in the Seattle-Tacoma area.
00:21:43.000Yeah, and the funny part is you say it's particularly bad here.
00:21:47.000I would argue it's very similar in most parts of the country, which explains how bad this issue has become, where we are teaching kids about 13,000 different genders that you can hold all at once, sometimes not have any gender whatsoever.
00:22:01.000There was an incident in the Olympia School District that I broke last week that showed Planned Parenthood giving sex education courses to fourth and fifth graders.
00:22:11.000Here's why you should wear deodorant and why you have to.
00:22:15.000But a lot of it also was getting into the crazy wokeness.
00:22:18.000There was pubic hair art that was displayed to them in the form of drawings.
00:22:22.000You had specifically puberty blockers.
00:22:25.000One particular drug, Sufferly in LA, that was being pitched to these kids as a supply that they might need during puberty, which is odd because if you're going through puberty, you definitely don't need a puberty blocker unless you're trying to block it.
00:22:37.000And you just saw these kinds of lesson plans, pronouns, which apparently, and I'm not making this up, tree is now considered a pronoun in addition to they, them, and Z, Zer, tree.
00:22:49.000So we're putting this in front of kids.
00:22:51.000We're doing it at a vulnerable age, in large part because they want to indoctrinate these children into holding these views about gender identity so that when they grow up and they take on positions of power, they can shift the culture.
00:23:03.000Because I think it's much more difficult to convince you and I or any adult that there are 12,000 different genders, but it's very easy when you're doing it from a position of authority with some 10-year-old or an 11-year-old.
00:23:16.000On the other hand, they're also confusing children who look, I think people are born gay.
00:23:23.000But I also know that when you're 10, 11 years old, it is a very confusing time.
00:23:28.000And we've gone from, and I remember this, and it was sort of triggered by a UN, ironically, a UN women Twitter account that said, toys have no gender.
00:23:38.000And part of that was like, you know, 10 years ago, when a girl played with a truck or a boy wanted to cook, something like that, we were told, just let them do what it's natural.
00:23:48.000And now we've gone, thanks to the radical left, to the position of, well, if Susie is playing with a truck, well, that means she's a boy and we should start treating her as a boy.
00:24:01.000And there are too few voices feeling comfortable enough to push back.
00:24:05.000I'm glad what we've seen over the course of, frankly, just the last 24 hours, in particular, the Muslim community stepping up and saying, yeah, this is going too far.
00:24:15.000Because as they're doing that, we're exposing where the progressives really are.
00:24:19.000After 9-11, Muslims were deemed a marginalized community that white progressives would protect.
00:24:25.000They would completely ignore their positions on LGBT issues and just say that we're the white knight coming to the rescue of Muslims.
00:24:33.000And now all of a sudden they're calling them white supremacists.
00:24:36.000This shows you how radical these views are.
00:24:39.000Check out Jason Rance's book, What's Killing American, Jason?
00:25:28.000Let me just kind of tell you, I'm not saying these things are all connected, but here's a fact pattern.
00:25:32.000Does anybody else find it interesting that Mike Pence announces for the presidency and the DOJ drops all charges and investigations, not charges, all investigations into Mike Pence seven days before his announcement.
00:25:46.000So let me give you the most innocent explanation for that.
00:25:49.000That Mike Pence's lawyers were lobbying DOJ hard to basically get that cleared up so that Mike Pence could run for the presidency.
00:25:59.000Another explanation is that Mike Pence is actively working with the Department of Justice to testify against Donald Trump in both the January 6th case and also the document case.
00:26:14.000There is enough evidence to support that.
00:26:17.000This is one of his friends speaking at his announcement.
00:26:49.000I think you're going to get to know the Mike Pence that we know, Congressman Pence and I know, and there's a lot of Iowa bacon, maybe even a little Tabasco sauce in that toast, too.
00:26:59.000That's the Indiana House Speaker Todd Hustin.
00:27:03.000So it's a very unsavory sounding toast, by the way.
00:27:37.000This is very similar to the language pattern and the diction that Donald Trump used before he got indicted in New York, where it's just a lot of caps, a lot of angry, totally get it.
00:28:42.000Donald Trump probably got a phone call from his attorney and said, Mr. President, they're going to ask you to surrender in the next couple of days, and they're drafting the press release and just letting you know.