00:01:33.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:55.000When I got my start in politics, one of the first political moments I was really involved in was the Wisconsin pension fight with Governor Scott Walker.
00:03:22.000But back when I was a junior and senior in high school in District 214 in Chicago, there was a massive fight happening right across the border with Governor Scott Walker, who won the governor's race in the 2010 election.
00:03:35.000And he decided to reform the pension system in Wisconsin.
00:03:38.000This became the center of all political energy across the country.
00:03:43.000Hundreds of thousands, if not at least tens of thousands, of protesters descended into Madison, Wisconsin, mostly teachers, demanding that Governor Scott Walker not pass this pension bill.
00:03:55.000He ended up passing it, and he actually ended up having to survive a recall election, which he survived, which was quite something.
00:04:04.000But in the midst of all of that, the Wisconsin state legislators, they fled the Democrats.
00:04:13.000They fled Wisconsin to try to prevent this bill from passing, to break quorum.
00:04:22.000To date, that was a rather scorched earth political tactic.
00:04:27.000Now, I believe they fled to Rockford, Illinois.
00:05:20.000It would have ended, it would have been an excise tax that would have been so restrictive and penalized business, especially small business in Oregon.
00:05:30.000In fact, we supported Oregon Republicans fleeing Oregon at the time.
00:05:36.000And so I want to just say that you're not going to find moral outrage on this program just based on the idea of using dramatic measures when there is a piece of legislation that not just so that you don't like, but you might deem threatening.
00:05:54.000Now, I think the Democrats are completely and intentionally misrepresenting this bill.
00:06:00.000But to be perfectly honest, I could see that in a state very soon, I could see us supporting Republicans fleeing the state if certain Democrat state legislatures try to go too far.
00:06:11.000So I just want to be consistent with all of you.
00:06:13.000With that being said, this is outrageous that the Democrats are doing this with this issue because they're intentionally gaslighting.
00:06:19.000The Democrats are, and gaslighting we've talked about for quite some time as a psychological manipulation tactic.
00:06:25.000It comes from a British play where it is, the British play was essentially an abusive boyfriend was manipulating his girlfriend by turning down the light in their flat or their apartment ever so slightly every evening.
00:06:39.000And she said, is it getting darker in here or am I losing my mind?
00:06:43.000And he said, no, you're losing your mind.
00:06:46.000And that's exactly what Democrats are doing here, where you feel as if, is it, why are they acting as if this is Jim Crow 2.0 or am I losing my mind?
00:07:01.000And either you come to the conclusion that you're losing your mind and you've descended into total lunacy or that there might be something to their argument.
00:07:11.000So because most Americans give certain arguments a fair hearing, because we do have a remnant of reason in our country, I don't know if it's a majority.
00:07:28.000That when legislators react in such dramatic ways, sometimes people say, well, they wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't really that bad.
00:07:40.000So the Democrats are using this sort of tactic that I call forcing the issue.
00:07:47.000This is in their playbook, which is if we do something so incredibly bold and dramatic, the people are going to get behind us because they're going to think we wouldn't do something so incredibly bold and dramatic if it wasn't worth doing something incredibly bold and dramatic.
00:08:01.000When in reality, that's just not the case.
00:08:26.000This wasn't some sort of refugee crisis.
00:08:29.000You describe refugees as people who flee.
00:08:32.000They abandoned their post on Monday in an effort to deprive the legislature of a quorum.
00:08:38.000So they need the Democrats there in order to pass this piece of legislation.
00:08:41.000Thus, the ability to vote on the Republican sweeping election overhaul bill.
00:08:47.000Greg Abbott said, and I'm going to tell you what Greg Abbott said in a second.
00:08:53.000But the Associated Press asks, why are Democrats camped out in Washington?
00:08:57.000So they've boarded a private jet, maskless, of course, and then they flew to Washington, D.C. and posted a picture of it on Twitter where all the men were sitting in the back.
00:09:09.000Maybe that's their new, that's their new thing.
00:09:13.000The Associated Press writes, Texas State House Democrats, Texas State House Democrats are camping out in Washington to try and block the Republicans sweeping elections overhaul bill to make it harder to vote in the state.
00:09:40.000Now, this is all done intentionally to try to make it seem as if Republicans are focused on trying to add additional roadblocks for people to be able to vote.
00:09:53.000Look, it's back to school time and you might be feeling the burden of college bills and private tuition expenses.
00:09:58.000With home equity at an all-time high and interest rates low, refinancing your house could be a great way to get some cash and pay those bills.
00:10:05.000So look, if you want to refinance your house or do anything with a bank, let's just say timeout, right?
00:10:10.000We're going to call a timeout two-minute warning, right?
00:10:24.000Are you using a bank that is at war with your worldview?
00:10:28.000Well, if you have refinanced recently with a big bank, you have just given a check, a cashier's check, a wire transfer to Nicole Hanna-Jones, to Stacey Abrams, to Joe Biden, to Chuck Schumer, to Nancy Pelosi.
00:10:42.000You see, when you refinance with the big boys, the banks of the Woesters, you might as well give your hard-earned money to the revolutionaries that are burning down our streets.
00:10:54.000You might as well give it to Planned Parenthood.
00:10:57.000But if you want to support the good guys, two Christian men that I've got to know very well, they love the Lord.
00:12:32.000And when you have this political environment constantly indulging in outrage style communication, eventually the citizens get desensitized to it or they just don't pay attention to it any longer.
00:12:51.000I mean, how many times can you say it's Jim Crow 2.0?
00:12:55.000So what is it that the Democrats are protesting?
00:12:57.000Well, the Democrats say that both SB1 and HB3 is going to usher in an era of re-segregation.
00:13:09.000When in reality, SB1 and HB3 in Texas outlaw the sort of drive-through voting offered by Harris County last year by requiring voting to incur inside of a building.
00:13:20.000So basically, Texas Republicans are saying, you know what?
00:13:24.000You shouldn't be able to vote like you get an in-and-out burger.
00:13:30.000Harris County first tested drive-through voting in the summer of 2020, but its use of 10 drive-through polling places for the November general election came under Republican scrutiny.
00:13:43.000There are new regulations for early voting hours, which include a ban on 24-hour voting, which of course would allow for potential fraud.
00:13:53.000Both bills also regulate early voting hours to preempt the expanded early voting in Harris County, which also pioneered 24 hours of uninterrupted voting at a few polling places for one day.
00:15:31.000Democrats have abandoned the state of Texas because all of a sudden they're going to make it against the law to solicit mail-in ballots against people that don't want them.
00:15:44.000Republicans went even as far to concede to Democrats, which include language to create a new correction process for mail-in ballots.
00:15:52.000I don't even think they should add that.
00:15:56.000The bill also has a monthly citizenship check, which SB1 strays away from the House's legislation by setting up monthly reviews of the state's voter rolls to identify non-citizens.
00:16:09.000The bill would require the Texas Secretary of State to compare the massive statewide voting registration list with the data list from the Department of Public Safety to pinpoint individuals who told the department they were not citizens.
00:16:20.000And also, there are enhanced poll watching protections.
00:16:24.000Both bills include language to strengthen the autonomy of partisan poll watchers at polling places by granting them free movement within a polling place, except for being present at a voting station when a voter is filling out their ballot.
00:16:38.000Currently, poll watchers are entitled to sit or stand conveniently near election workers, and it is a criminal offense to prevent them from observing.
00:16:55.000By the way, here's just a lesson for Republicans, and we talked about this in Georgia.
00:16:59.000If they're going to flee the state and go to D.C. and charter a plane and call you a racist and call it Jim Crow 2.0, you might as well go for the jugular.
00:17:08.000You might as well go for voter ID, no more voting month.
00:17:12.000You might as well just go for the big one.
00:17:14.000You might as well go for the long-desired reforms instead of, I support all this, by the way.
00:17:20.000I actually, I'm glad they have a special session.
00:17:23.000This will make a difference to secure elections.
00:17:25.000It's nowhere near as assertive as it needs to be.
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00:20:16.000I thought these people were staging an insurrection against our country and were trying to launch a civil war and they can't even photocopy their ID?
00:20:28.000Is it, are they actually going to launch a massive insurgency against our government or they can't figure out how to go use a Kinkos play tape?
00:20:39.000Is agreeing to voter ID one of those compromises that you'd support?
00:20:43.000In some people's mind, that means, well, you're going to have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove you are who you are.
00:20:54.000Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don't.
00:21:18.000And so it's either that these people are living in the hills and they have no sophisticated technology or they are so ahead of the times and we have to worry about them because white supremacy is the greatest threat to our civilization.
00:21:33.000It's either that they don't know how to photocopy their ID or they're going to overthrow the government and all of us are going to live under their rule.
00:22:10.000But it's more important to hold our own side accountable when they decide to betray their voters and not actually fulfill the mandate of why they're in office in the first place.
00:22:19.000And so I want to just say, though, that I'm very pleased to see Republicans take the interest of voter integrity seriously and start to actually do something about it.
00:22:31.000Now, do I wish that some of these proposals were more robust and bold and assertive?
00:23:17.000As a way for the minority to grind things to a halt.
00:23:20.000Now, we are in this moment of scorched earth politics.
00:23:24.000And so, I just want to be able to open up the opportunity the next time Republicans go flee, maybe in California or New York, because they're trying to push something incredibly awful for the state.
00:23:36.000I just want to say, I don't necessarily say that's a bad thing.
00:23:39.000What I am saying is that the Democrats, for what they're protesting, it's so patently obvious that they're afraid that securing elections in the state of Texas means that it's going to put them in jeopardy from getting political power.
00:23:55.000The Associated Press says, ironically, the Texas Democrats will be agitating for Democrats in Washington to end the filibuster, at least for election bills.
00:24:05.000So, let's play some tape here of the Texas Democrats.
00:24:09.000Just listen to how outrageous this accusation is.
00:24:14.000Cut 36, whoever this person is, some Texas House Democrat, claims that this election bill, and let me just say this: all of these low-rent, third-rate, like C-level Hollywood actors that become state reps, they love this because now they get to be on national TV.
00:24:31.000They get all these interviews, they're flying private, they get treated as if they're like the, you know, what they get treated like it's like when the United States government back in the 70s and 80s would go bring in these somewhat corrupt, like weird provisional governments that we were like holding up in like Central Africa and South America.
00:24:52.000It's like, oh, yeah, here's Luigi Gutierrez, and he's staging the coup against the communist dictatorship.
00:24:58.000And you looked at him, like, yeah, that guy's not going to last till the winter.
00:25:05.000And then, like, you read it in the papers three years later, he gets assassinated or his head gets cut off.
00:25:10.000I'm not saying that's going to happen with these people.
00:25:12.000It's just like, that's what it feels like, right?
00:25:13.000Like, these people just kind of bring him into DC.
00:25:16.000And by the way, Reagan did this all the time.
00:25:18.000I just have to say, as a Republican, he'd bring in these like third-world C-level dictators that had no business in running these countries.
00:26:08.000Under the provisions of this bill, you could literally have a voter walk through a polling place, be greeted by the proud boys, and they can stand over your shoulder and watch you vote close enough to listen if you were to whisper something to yourself or close enough to see how you were casting your vote.
00:26:33.000First of all, why would you be whispering something to yourself when you're voting?
00:26:44.000It says very clearly it allows poll watchers to see what's happening on ballot custody and ballot voting and counting.
00:26:50.000As soon as voting, there's no one that's allowed to look over your shoulder.
00:26:55.000And so then these Texas Democrats, which again, it just reminds me of this kind of, where was the civil, oh, yeah, the contra was Nicaragua, right?
00:27:05.000It reminds me when we just brought all these people into DC back in the 80s and it ended, it ended poorly.
00:27:10.000The Democrats just started strangely singing, We Shall Overcome.
00:27:16.000Again, going to a 10 out of a 10, right?
00:27:18.000Whatever the highest level of outrage is, it's literally slavery in Houston.
00:28:15.000As they sing We Shall Overcome, which I believe used to be an anthem to try to abolish slavery and segregation, is that when the Texas Democrats used to own slaves, were there private jets for their slaves to go north to try to get emancipation?
00:28:39.000Oh, yeah, you mean for trying to fix ballot custody and have constitutional poll watching and to literally expand early voting hours.
00:28:48.000And as we are doing this program right now, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game has their all-star game in Denver, Colorado, a predominantly young, white, rich city.
00:29:00.000Meanwhile, the black middle-class small businesses in Fulton County were totally deprived of having the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Atlanta, all because of Georgia's voting law, which was, I'll just give the Georgia voting law like a four out of 10.
00:29:18.000It was one of the most vanilla, just kind of just not exciting voting measure bills that we've seen in recent history.
00:29:31.000I saw this story at the New York Times, and I thought it was very interesting.
00:29:35.000It says monthly benefit in the United States starts this week, $300 for each child.
00:29:40.000Tax credit is expected to slash poverty levels, but it's only temporary.
00:29:43.000Now, this is part of the American Families Plan, which is this ridiculously big, unnecessary plan, but this is actually not a bad idea, but it's poorly executed.
00:29:53.000So, this is about giving people who have had children cash and money.
00:29:58.000Now, traditionally, conservatives and Republicans have been against this.
00:30:03.000I would be for this if there was an incentive saying that we're going to pay for families to stay together, to have fathers and mothers stay in loyal relationships with each other.
00:30:16.000I'm afraid that the way this is currently designed, it will only subsidize single motherhood even further.
00:30:23.000But we shouldn't be afraid of using government policies and programs if it's to achieve conservative aims and ends.
00:30:35.000This is what makes us different than libertarians, by the way.
00:30:37.000I had a whole conversation with Dana Lash about this, a very good friend of mine.
00:30:42.000She believes that the government should play no role at all, completely indifferent, in what the outcome is.
00:30:50.000Now, by the way, if we're serious about rebuilding the American middle class and the American family, by the way, I'm reading from the New York Times, which is just obviously the most dishonest paper we have outside of the Washington.
00:31:04.000Actually, I actually think the Washington Post is worse.
00:31:09.000But the point is that if we weren't always talking about race all the time, which is an intentional distraction from how we could actually govern the country to solve issues and problems, you're always going to have the 20% of Democrats that have no interest in actually accomplishing anything.
00:31:29.000But this is not altogether an awful or terrible idea.
00:31:34.000We are on the verge of a population collapse in our country.
00:31:38.000We are on the precipice of more millennials being single than married.
00:31:43.000Why do you think all of a sudden we need to go bring in millions of people from the third world?
00:31:47.000It's because we're not having enough of our own children.
00:31:56.000What if instead of all the money we spent on the war in Afghanistan, which did almost nothing for U.S. national security, did almost nothing for the well-being of America, the money spent in Afghanistan is conservatively $500 billion.
00:32:12.000It's upwards of a trillion on certain estimates.
00:32:25.000And more specifically, have children if you stay loyally married to your spouse.
00:32:32.000That is an objectively good thing for the nation.
00:32:36.000Meanwhile, the Defense Department said it's $815 billion in Afghanistan.
00:32:41.000So it's okay that we go rebuild schools in northern Afghanistan and bridges that our citizens will never use, but it's not okay for us to try to have population growth so we don't go so we don't have to bring in 200,000 Somalians that don't share our values and don't love our country.
00:32:58.000This is not properly executed, obviously, but we should be unafraid to say that this is not altogether a terrible idea to rebuild the American family so we do not have to reshape our country through mass immigration.
00:33:10.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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