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00:02:55.000 When 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.

00:03:07.000 Now, some of you might remember this.

00:03:10.000 Some of you obviously don't because we have younger listeners as well.

00:03:14.000 You know what's so amazing is that if you are 21 years old right now, you were 11 when this was happening.

00:03:20.000 So you probably don't remember this.

00:03:22.000 But 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.

00:03:35.000 And he decided to reform the pension system in Wisconsin.

00:03:38.000 This became the center of all political energy across the country.

00:03:43.000 Hundreds 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.

00:03:55.000 He ended up passing it, and he actually ended up having to survive a recall election, which he survived, which was quite something.

00:04:04.000 But in the midst of all of that, the Wisconsin state legislators, they fled the Democrats.

00:04:13.000 They fled Wisconsin to try to prevent this bill from passing, to break quorum.

00:04:22.000 To date, that was a rather scorched earth political tactic.

00:04:27.000 Now, I believe they fled to Rockford, Illinois.

00:04:31.000 Connor can fact check that.

00:04:33.000 Why anyone would willingly go to Rockford, Illinois, I don't quite understand.

00:04:37.000 I'm kidding.

00:04:38.000 I just got to say, Rockford is not exactly Beverly Hills.

00:04:42.000 Nice people.

00:04:44.000 In Illinois, there's a running joke around Rockford, Illinois.

00:04:49.000 And I'll just leave it at that. 1.00

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00:04:54.000 Let's just kind of use that connection.

00:04:56.000 Anyway, so they fled to Rockford, Illinois, and eventually they came back to Wisconsin and the bill passed.

00:05:02.000 But this idea of fleeing when there's legislation you don't like was used by Democrats in 2010 and 2011.

00:05:13.000 In 2019, Oregon Republicans used this strategy to try to block a climate change bill.

00:05:19.000 It's more than climate change.

00:05:20.000 It would have ended, it would have been an excise tax that would have been so restrictive and penalized business, especially small business in Oregon.

00:05:30.000 In fact, we supported Oregon Republicans fleeing Oregon at the time.

00:05:36.000 And 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.

00:05:54.000 Now, I think the Democrats are completely and intentionally misrepresenting this bill.

00:06:00.000 But 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.

00:06:11.000 So I just want to be consistent with all of you.

00:06:13.000 With that being said, this is outrageous that the Democrats are doing this with this issue because they're intentionally gaslighting.

00:06:19.000 The Democrats are, and gaslighting we've talked about for quite some time as a psychological manipulation tactic.

00:06:25.000 It 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.

00:06:39.000 And she said, is it getting darker in here or am I losing my mind?

00:06:43.000 And he said, no, you're losing your mind.

00:06:46.000 And 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?

00:07:01.000 And 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.

00:07:11.000 So 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.

00:07:24.000 I don't know.

00:07:25.000 I wish, I hope it is.

00:07:26.000 I pray that it is.

00:07:28.000 That when legislators react in such dramatic ways, sometimes people say, well, they wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't really that bad.

00:07:40.000 So the Democrats are using this sort of tactic that I call forcing the issue.

00:07:47.000 This 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.

00:08:01.000 When in reality, that's just not the case.

00:08:02.000 So, yesterday, this all unfolded.

00:08:06.000 Democrats fled the state of Texas for Washington.

00:08:12.000 I'm going to read from foxnews.com.

00:08:16.000 Democrats fled, and I don't like that word fled.

00:08:20.000 They abandoned, okay?

00:08:21.000 They didn't flee anything.

00:08:22.000 This wasn't Chernobyl, okay?

00:08:24.000 This wasn't an earthquake.

00:08:26.000 This wasn't some sort of refugee crisis.

00:08:29.000 You describe refugees as people who flee.

00:08:32.000 They abandoned their post on Monday in an effort to deprive the legislature of a quorum. 0.59

00:08:38.000 So they need the Democrats there in order to pass this piece of legislation.

00:08:41.000 Thus, the ability to vote on the Republican sweeping election overhaul bill.

00:08:47.000 Greg Abbott said, and I'm going to tell you what Greg Abbott said in a second.

00:08:53.000 But the Associated Press asks, why are Democrats camped out in Washington?

00:08:57.000 So 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.

00:09:09.000 Maybe that's their new, that's their new thing.

00:09:13.000 The 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.

00:09:23.000 That is a lie.

00:09:24.000 That is an absolute lie.

00:09:25.000 Associated Press is intentionally misleading you.

00:09:30.000 It doesn't make it harder to vote.

00:09:33.000 It makes it harder to cheat.

00:09:35.000 It does not make it harder to vote.

00:09:37.000 It makes it harder to cheat.

00:09:40.000 Now, 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.

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00:12:10.000 We are going through Texas Democrats that have abandoned their post in the state of Texas and they are now in Washington, D.C.

00:12:19.000 The Democrats always just go to a 10.

00:12:22.000 It doesn't matter what issue it is.

00:12:23.000 They immediately go to a 10. 0.61

00:12:25.000 It's Jim Crow.

00:12:26.000 Might as well be the 1930s. 0.87

00:12:28.000 They are going to put us in camps.

00:12:29.000 Everything is awful.

00:12:30.000 We have to flee the state.

00:12:32.000 And 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.

00:12:51.000 I mean, how many times can you say it's Jim Crow 2.0?

00:12:55.000 So what is it that the Democrats are protesting?

00:12:57.000 Well, the Democrats say that both SB1 and HB3 is going to usher in an era of re-segregation.

00:13:09.000 When 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.

00:13:20.000 So basically, Texas Republicans are saying, you know what?

00:13:24.000 You shouldn't be able to vote like you get an in-and-out burger.

00:13:28.000 Not that controversial.

00:13:30.000 Harris 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.

00:13:40.000 Well, obviously.

00:13:43.000 There are new regulations for early voting hours, which include a ban on 24-hour voting, which of course would allow for potential fraud.

00:13:53.000 Both 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.

00:14:05.000 Now, let me just say this.

00:14:07.000 We need voting day in America, not voting month, not voting quarter, not voting season.

00:14:14.000 We need a day where you go vote.

00:14:20.000 And you need to be able to assure the citizenry and ensure that it's secure.

00:14:28.000 The bill would add an extra hour of required early voting hours for local elections.

00:14:33.000 Oh, wait, you're trying to tell me that there's more hours for early voting in this bill?

00:14:38.000 And both bills lower the population threshold for counties required to provide at least 12 hours of early voting each weekday.

00:14:46.000 So basically, they're minorly reforming the hours of which you can early vote.

00:14:53.000 There's also a ban on the distribution of mail-in ballot applications.

00:14:57.000 This is all enough to get the Democrats to go charter a private jet and then go to Washington, D.C.

00:15:04.000 It reminds me of probably the worst movie ever created in the history of cinema, Snakes on a Plane.

00:15:11.000 SB1 and HB3 prohibit local election officials from sending unsolicited applications to request a mail-in ballot.

00:15:19.000 And the House version making it a state jail felony.

00:15:24.000 Both bills also prohibit the use of public funds to facilitate the unsolicited distribution of applications.

00:15:30.000 Let me get this straight.

00:15:31.000 Democrats 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.

00:15:44.000 Republicans went even as far to concede to Democrats, which include language to create a new correction process for mail-in ballots.

00:15:52.000 I don't even think they should add that.

00:15:53.000 I think they should get rid of this.

00:15:56.000 The 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.

00:16:09.000 The 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.

00:16:20.000 And also, there are enhanced poll watching protections.

00:16:24.000 Both 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.

00:16:38.000 Currently, poll watchers are entitled to sit or stand conveniently near election workers, and it is a criminal offense to prevent them from observing.

00:16:45.000 That's it.

00:16:46.000 This is what they're protesting about.

00:16:49.000 Now, why is it, and by the way, these are super vanilla, mild changes.

00:16:53.000 I would go a lot further.

00:16:55.000 By the way, here's just a lesson for Republicans, and we talked about this in Georgia.

00:16:59.000 If 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.

00:17:08.000 You might as well go for voter ID, no more voting month.

00:17:12.000 You might as well just go for the big one.

00:17:14.000 You might as well go for the long-desired reforms instead of, I support all this, by the way.

00:17:20.000 I actually, I'm glad they have a special session.

00:17:22.000 I'm glad they're doing something.

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00:18:34.000 Vice President Harris or Kemi, Kamala.

00:18:37.000 I can never get it right.

00:18:38.000 So I've just decided, Kamala or Kamala.

00:18:42.000 I don't know which one it is.

00:18:43.000 I can't remember.

00:18:44.000 You know, there's just some things that I have a memory block for.

00:18:47.000 I finally overcame one of my memory blocks, which is remembering the first two emperors after Julius Caesar in the Roman Empire.

00:18:55.000 I think it's Augustus and Tiberius.

00:18:57.000 Is that right?

00:18:58.000 Caesar's Augustus, then Tiberius, then Caligula.

00:19:01.000 I don't, Caligula had a really interesting guy.

00:19:03.000 We could do a whole podcast on Caligula at some point.

00:19:06.000 Not exactly a moral emperor.

00:19:09.000 Let me just throw that out there.

00:19:11.000 Anyways, I have a kind of a blockage about whether it's Kamala or Kamala.

00:19:17.000 So we call her Kemi.

00:19:20.000 Kami comes out and she says, look, and this is an interesting issue when it comes to voter ID and voter integrity.

00:19:27.000 Get Cut 14 ready to play.

00:19:29.000 I'll tell you when to play it.

00:19:30.000 Where Kamala Harris, Cami, she says, look, I'm not saying that we need voter ID because of course you need to prove who you are.

00:19:40.000 Now, the voter ID issue is a very interesting one because it's incredibly popular with the people of all colors, all backgrounds.

00:19:48.000 Now, do you know that most people think we already have voter ID?

00:19:52.000 When I worked as an election judge in Cook County, Illinois, most people would come up with their ID to go vote.

00:20:00.000 You need an ID to go rent a movie, board an airplane, purchase an automobile, close on a home, but to vote, no, that's racist.

00:20:09.000 Now, Cami says it's almost impossible for rural Americans to photocopy their ID.

00:20:15.000 So hold on.

00:20:16.000 I 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?

00:20:27.000 Wait, so which one is it?

00:20:28.000 Is 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? 0.59

00:20:39.000 Is agreeing to voter ID one of those compromises that you'd support?

00:20:43.000 In 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.

00:20:54.000 Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don't. 1.00

00:20:58.000 There's no Kinkos. 1.00

00:20:59.000 There's no office max near them.

00:21:02.000 Maybe I'm just completely behind the times.

00:21:05.000 Do you know that someone should tell Cami, they have running water now in rural areas.

00:21:10.000 They even have electricity.

00:21:12.000 Certain rural areas have the internet.

00:21:15.000 The areas she's never visited.

00:21:18.000 And 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.

00:21:32.000 So which one is it?

00:21:33.000 It'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.

00:21:41.000 Pick one.

00:21:42.000 They both can't be, they can't both be true.

00:21:46.000 Now, this idea of voter integrity measures, finally, I have to say something.

00:21:51.000 We are big critics of Republicans here in this program.

00:21:54.000 In fact, I think we praise Republicans.

00:21:55.000 I mean, we criticize Republicans more than we criticize Democrats because they're just more interesting, right?

00:22:01.000 Because I mean, I could do the anti-Democrat thing, but there's plenty of cable shows that do that all day long.

00:22:05.000 We know what we're going to say about it.

00:22:07.000 We'll tell you why the ideas are wrong.

00:22:07.000 We'll make fun of it.

00:22:10.000 But 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.

00:22:19.000 And 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.

00:22:31.000 Now, do I wish that some of these proposals were more robust and bold and assertive?

00:22:38.000 Of course.

00:22:39.000 But at least they're taking steps in the right direction to begin to reform our elections.

00:22:45.000 So the Associated Press asks the question: how is this legal that the Texas Democrats are fleeing the state of Texas?

00:22:53.000 Well, it really isn't.

00:22:54.000 State lawmakers are generally required to attend their legislative sessions.

00:22:58.000 But walkouts have been used almost like the filibuster in the United States Senate.

00:23:02.000 Okay, first of all, the filibuster in the U.S. Senate is literally in the Senate Rules Code, okay?

00:23:08.000 It's a tool that could be used to try to get to 60 votes.

00:23:12.000 Fleeing the state is not in the legislative code.

00:23:15.000 It just isn't.

00:23:17.000 As a way for the minority to grind things to a halt.

00:23:20.000 Now, we are in this moment of scorched earth politics.

00:23:24.000 And 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.

00:23:36.000 I just want to say, I don't necessarily say that's a bad thing.

00:23:39.000 What 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.

00:23:55.000 The Associated Press says, ironically, the Texas Democrats will be agitating for Democrats in Washington to end the filibuster, at least for election bills.

00:24:03.000 Yeah, no kidding.

00:24:05.000 So, let's play some tape here of the Texas Democrats.

00:24:09.000 Just listen to how outrageous this accusation is.

00:24:14.000 Cut 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.

00:24:31.000 They 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.

00:24:52.000 It's like, oh, yeah, here's Luigi Gutierrez, and he's staging the coup against the communist dictatorship.

00:24:58.000 And you looked at him, like, yeah, that guy's not going to last till the winter.

00:25:00.000 Like, no way.

00:25:01.000 But here he is.

00:25:02.000 He's on the CNN, so he must be cool. 0.95

00:25:05.000 And then, like, you read it in the papers three years later, he gets assassinated or his head gets cut off.

00:25:10.000 I'm not saying that's going to happen with these people.

00:25:12.000 It's just like, that's what it feels like, right?

00:25:13.000 Like, these people just kind of bring him into DC.

00:25:16.000 And by the way, Reagan did this all the time.

00:25:18.000 I 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.

00:25:26.000 We did this in Chile, didn't we?

00:25:28.000 With what was the guy's name?

00:25:30.000 He threw him out of helicopters. 0.98

00:25:32.000 Not Perrone. 1.00

00:25:33.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:25:34.000 Pinochet.

00:25:35.000 Pinochet was the helicopter guy.

00:25:37.000 Anyway, that's what I think of this as, and he actually did some good things economically.

00:25:43.000 I can't wait for Media Matters.

00:25:44.000 Charlie Kirk praises Pinochet.

00:25:45.000 Well, again, wasn't a fan of the helicopter thing.

00:25:48.000 So, but these third-rate politicians in Texas, when they come to D.C., they just they've never ready for prime time.

00:25:56.000 Let's just put it that way.

00:25:57.000 This would be like calling up a guy that just got drafted into single-A baseball and say, oh, congratulations.

00:26:03.000 Now you got to go play in Game Six of the World Series.

00:26:05.000 Not ready for prime time.

00:26:06.000 Listen to this outrageous argument.

00:26:08.000 Under 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.

00:26:33.000 First of all, why would you be whispering something to yourself when you're voting?

00:26:36.000 That's kind of weird.

00:26:37.000 It's like, I don't know who to vote for.

00:26:40.000 That's just like really weird.

00:26:41.000 Second of all, the law doesn't allow any of that.

00:26:43.000 Okay.

00:26:44.000 It says very clearly it allows poll watchers to see what's happening on ballot custody and ballot voting and counting.

00:26:50.000 As soon as voting, there's no one that's allowed to look over your shoulder.

00:26:55.000 And 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?

00:27:05.000 It reminds me when we just brought all these people into DC back in the 80s and it ended, it ended poorly.

00:27:10.000 The Democrats just started strangely singing, We Shall Overcome.

00:27:16.000 Again, going to a 10 out of a 10, right?

00:27:18.000 Whatever the highest level of outrage is, it's literally slavery in Houston.

00:27:22.000 Don't you understand?

00:27:24.000 Cut 34.

00:27:26.000 Thank you very much for all that you and all of your colleagues are doing here today.

00:27:30.000 Thank you, Rachel.

00:27:31.000 We will overcome.

00:27:34.000 We will overcome.

00:27:37.000 We will overcome something.

00:27:46.000 I do believe we will overcome today.

00:27:55.000 I should be laughing as hard as I'm living.

00:27:57.000 But I guess Sheila Jackson Lee is going to retire soon and they're auditioning for the loud apparatchic position in Harris County.

00:28:08.000 Is this like tryouts? 0.69

00:28:10.000 This is tryouts for who's going to be the most outrageous Texas congressman.

00:28:14.000 Here's a question.

00:28:15.000 As 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?

00:28:29.000 Was that ever an option?

00:28:31.000 Probably not.

00:28:33.000 Of course, they go to the most extreme thing you could possibly imagine.

00:28:37.000 It's literally slavery.

00:28:39.000 Oh, yeah, you mean for trying to fix ballot custody and have constitutional poll watching and to literally expand early voting hours.

00:28:48.000 And 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.

00:29:00.000 Meanwhile, 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.

00:29:18.000 It was one of the most vanilla, just kind of just not exciting voting measure bills that we've seen in recent history.

00:29:31.000 I saw this story at the New York Times, and I thought it was very interesting.

00:29:35.000 It says monthly benefit in the United States starts this week, $300 for each child.

00:29:40.000 Tax credit is expected to slash poverty levels, but it's only temporary.

00:29:43.000 Now, 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.

00:29:52.000 Let me tell you why.

00:29:53.000 So, this is about giving people who have had children cash and money.

00:29:58.000 Now, traditionally, conservatives and Republicans have been against this.

00:30:03.000 I 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. 0.90

00:30:16.000 I'm afraid that the way this is currently designed, it will only subsidize single motherhood even further.

00:30:23.000 But we shouldn't be afraid of using government policies and programs if it's to achieve conservative aims and ends.

00:30:35.000 This is what makes us different than libertarians, by the way.

00:30:37.000 I had a whole conversation with Dana Lash about this, a very good friend of mine. 0.92

00:30:41.000 She's super smart. 0.73

00:30:42.000 She believes that the government should play no role at all, completely indifferent, in what the outcome is.

00:30:50.000 Now, 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.

00:31:04.000 Actually, I actually think the Washington Post is worse.

00:31:06.000 I know that says something.

00:31:08.000 I really do.

00:31:08.000 I read them both.

00:31:09.000 But 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.

00:31:29.000 But this is not altogether an awful or terrible idea.

00:31:34.000 We are on the verge of a population collapse in our country.

00:31:38.000 We are on the precipice of more millennials being single than married. 1.00

00:31:43.000 Why do you think all of a sudden we need to go bring in millions of people from the third world? 1.00

00:31:47.000 It's because we're not having enough of our own children. 1.00

00:31:51.000 And spare me the argument.

00:31:52.000 Well, that's not the proper role of government.

00:31:54.000 How about this?

00:31:56.000 What 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.

00:32:12.000 It's upwards of a trillion on certain estimates.

00:32:14.000 Let's just say it's $500 billion.

00:32:17.000 What if we took half that money, $250 billion, and we said, we're going to make it easier for you to have children in America? 0.85

00:32:23.000 That's objectively a good thing.

00:32:25.000 And more specifically, have children if you stay loyally married to your spouse.

00:32:32.000 That is an objectively good thing for the nation.

00:32:36.000 Meanwhile, the Defense Department said it's $815 billion in Afghanistan. 0.99

00:32:41.000 So 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. 0.99

00:32:58.000 This 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. 0.99

00:33:10.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody. 1.00

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The Charlie Kirk Show - July 13, 2021

Texas Democrats Star in the 'Snakes on a Plane' Sequel No One Asked For

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