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00:02:18.000Breaking over the evening, Major League Baseball, which has essentially become an enforcement arm of the Democrat Party, which is so sad to see because I grew up as a baseball fan.
00:02:33.000The O5 White Sox, I think, one of the greatest baseball teams of all time.
00:02:40.000Loved watching the Cubs win the World Series in 2016.
00:02:43.000And baseball, I always loved because it was a uniquely American sport.
00:02:48.000It didn't have as much of a focus on pure athleticism, instead, on skill, focus, your ability to perform under pressure.
00:03:00.000They called it America's pastime for a reason.
00:03:04.000Major League Baseball, run by very cowardly people that do not understand politics, elections, and quite honestly are afraid of being called the R-word.
00:03:17.000They made a decision to move the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, thanks to the insistence of Joe Biden, amongst other leaders, out of Atlanta to now they announced overnight to Denver, Colorado.
00:03:37.000The All-Star game would have represented a $100 million economic stimulus to black-owned businesses, and thousands of black Americans would have been employed working in the All-Star game or working in the activities around there.
00:03:57.000Instead, to try and protest racial injustice, Major League Baseball pulls the All-Star game to go to one of the whitest metropolitan areas in the country, Denver, which is 10% black.
00:04:12.000To fight systemic racism, you pull an economic stimulus out of black-run businesses and communities into young, white, upper-middle-class communities in the mountains.
00:04:28.000That's your idea of fighting systemic racism and injustice?
00:04:33.000Of course, that wasn't their intention, and it's important to point that out because it actually does the opposite of what they say they're going to do, but there's something deeper happening here.
00:04:42.000On this program, and I encourage you all to check out our podcast.
00:04:45.000We talk, of course, about how Major League Baseball requires an identification when you go to Will Call Tickets.
00:04:51.000Good luck going to Wrigley Field and saying, hey, I'm here.
00:04:59.000They're going to say, sir, we're going to need some identification.
00:05:02.000Well, according to the Major League Baseball catechism, according to Major League Baseball's new social teaching, according to Major League Baseball's School of Ethics, that's racist.
00:05:14.000Major League Baseball will require identification for all their employees and identification for anyone that goes to pick up tickets or even to go into one of their luxurious boxes at some of the nicest Major League Baseball stadiums across the country.
00:05:34.000If Major League Baseball actually believed that Georgia was engaging in Jim Crow on steroids, like Joe Biden said, then they would have canceled all 82 games of the upcoming Major League Baseball season in Georgia.
00:05:59.000It's so obvious, and yet very few people are talking about it.
00:06:05.000The goal by the activist groups was to inflict pain on Georgia and Brian Kemp and to send a message to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona.
00:06:22.000If you try to reform your elections, you're going to feel a wrath.
00:06:30.000Simply put, this was a move of political deterrence.
00:06:37.000It almost reminds me of the neoconservative domino theory.
00:06:43.000It's almost like stopping the spread of reformed elections throughout Southeast Asia the same way that we justified getting involved in Vietnam or in Korea.
00:06:54.000That if we don't get involved now and we do not have vast military intervention today, then other countries might become communist.
00:07:05.000That same driving paranoia is exactly why they did what they did in Georgia.
00:07:34.000Now, this all was conducted by the man who ran as a unifier, the man who, in his inaugural address, said he was there to bring the country together.
00:07:49.000And instead, he waged economic warfare like he was Douglas MacArthur trying to reclaim the Philippines on Fulton County, Georgia.
00:08:00.000See, Joe Biden got his marching orders from Ron Klain and the Democrat activists, and they said, if we do not fight this publicly and at the highest level of outrage, this is going to spread.
00:08:12.000We cannot normalize the reforming of our elections.
00:08:19.000If this happens through the states, then we might be out of power.
00:08:22.000And that is what keeps Democrats up at night.
00:08:25.000Not the decay of the country, not people losing their jobs, not all the other issues we're grappling with, but the fact that Democrats might not be in power one day, that is an unthinkable proposition.
00:08:56.000We control the universities and the media.
00:08:59.000We'll get the president to say a couple things that he'll be fact-checked on, but the media won't hold him accountable for.
00:09:06.000And we will move the Overton window that when you actually expand voting access, like the Georgia law does, which, by the way, the Georgia law allows more early voting days than Colorado.
00:09:20.000But for Major League Baseball, it's not about that.
00:09:22.000Major League Baseball is taking their orders from a group of five-star generals that are engaging in economic and political warfare domestically.
00:09:33.000Because they know that if elections start to reform, their power grab is going to weaken.
00:09:40.000It's less likely that they're always going to be calling the shots.
00:09:45.000The reason they're doing this is because Georgia did something meaningful.
00:09:49.000It's because Georgia actually reformed a core component of their voting system.
00:09:54.000When you send an absentee ballot, we have to know where you are.
00:09:57.000And if you want evidence that this last election wasn't conducted perfectly, just look at how they're reacting to how you're reforming the election.
00:10:09.000You see, if this election was conducted perfectly, why are they so upset that we're trying to prove that when you send an absentee ballot, we know who you are?
00:10:19.000The obvious reason is that with 1.2 million mail-in ballots in Georgia, the fact that all of a sudden there might be some measures to prove the identity of those people, that's a problem.
00:10:36.000So the Democrats are trying their best to send a signal to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona.
00:10:43.000This is a move of political deterrence.
00:10:56.000So the mob had a theatrical ploy they used to use.
00:11:06.000Many of you have seen the movie Godfather.
00:11:10.000And one of the scenes in Godfather, that is one of the most famous scenes in movie history, is when one of the crime families wanted to send a message, they would kill the horse of the person they're trying to send a message to, cut the head off, and leave the horse's head in the bed of the person they're trying to send a message to.
00:12:06.000They're trying to send a message to the governor of Arizona, the governor of Pennsylvania, who's a Democrat, but the legislature.
00:12:12.000If you pick this fight, this could be the last fight you ever pick.
00:12:17.000And we will mobilize every major institution of influence to make it hurt.
00:12:24.000And the Democrats know that if they don't stop this early and they don't stop the spread of election reform, then they're going to be in trouble.
00:12:35.000And so the question will really be: or really is: will Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, hold the line?
00:12:43.000It's no mystery to anyone that I've had some choice words for Brian Kemp.
00:12:48.000We actually were right up against each other on Fox News the other day, and I said some nice things about him signing the bill, and he responded and said some nice things.
00:12:58.000He may or may not be aware of some of the things I've said in the past, and I don't apologize for them, but I'm also going to compliment him for fixing a problem because it would be 10 times worse if he acted as if he had nothing to fix.
00:13:10.000He knows there's a problem and he's trying to fix it.
00:13:12.000I'll give him a point of compliment for that.
00:13:21.000By all leading indicators, he knows that if he does not fix this election system and does not hold the line, then he'll be a one-term governor and Stacey Abrams will become governor of Georgia.
00:13:39.000We know that elections are in need of reform in our country.
00:13:45.000So Georgia puts a very vanilla bill forward, and they lose the all-star game.
00:13:51.000They lose a $100 million stimulus to the black community.
00:13:58.000And Major League Baseball says this is against our values, even though they pride themselves on identification checks to get into their ballparks, if you have will-call tickets, or to get into one of their luxurious ruling class private boxes.
00:14:16.000And all of these major institutions, from the head of Major League Baseball to the head of Coca-Cola to the head of Delta, are all taking their orders from activists that have developed a playbook inspired by Saul Linsky of economic warfare.
00:14:34.000Has there ever been an example before in the great Molly Hemingway made this point?
00:14:39.000She's terrific, of a U.S. president waging economic war on a state because they don't like the way that they've reformed their elections.
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00:16:46.000Our entire political discourse, whether you realize it or not, every major public policy decision is around one pressing concern for Democrats.
00:16:58.000And that is who is going to be in charge for the next couple decades?
00:17:04.000And what's the way that we decide that?
00:17:07.000It's less about even transformational change right now.
00:17:10.000They realize that they do not have the votes nor public opinion to put forward nationalized health care, to put forward the confiscation of weapons.
00:17:20.000They're going to try on some of those things.
00:17:23.000But the one thing the radicals and the technocrats on the Democrat Party can agree on is that the possession of power is the absolute top priority.
00:17:36.000That is the main reason that all of them can agree on HR1 and the opposition to the Georgia bill, which is why they're so focused on a form of political deterrence.
00:17:49.000That as soon as Georgia begins to reform their elections, they must go scorched earth.
00:17:54.000They must make an example out of them.
00:17:57.000Joe Biden is treating Brian Kemp like he's Saddam Hussein.
00:18:08.000And of course, I'm being a little bit hyperbolic for Media Matters that's watching, obviously.
00:18:16.000The point I'm making is that the economic warfare that they're waging against Georgia and the language that they're using feels that they are playing into their neoconservative impulses of how they used to play war games with foreign countries.
00:18:31.000Listen to what Elon Omar has to say in cut four, justifying the boycotts as if Georgia is Iran.
00:18:40.000Now, before I play this tape, Elon Omar has never called for a boycott of Iran.
00:18:46.000Elon Omar has never called for a boycott of China.
00:18:50.000Elon Omar has never called for a boycott of Cuba.
00:18:53.000No, for Elon Omar, Georgia is the true existential evil on the planet.
00:20:40.000People are getting screwed in this, Martha.
00:20:42.000It's a small, hardworking business people that are up in Cobb County and in the metro Atlanta area that are going to get hurt by the all-star game being pulled from here.
00:20:52.000It's baseball fans, it's kids that now for the rest of their adult or life as they transition into adults, they're going to see the politization of baseball and sports.
00:21:03.000People should be scared to death that it's going to come to their neighborhood, to their state, to their ballgame, you know, to their college, to their business.
00:21:35.000This is mafioso-style tactics to intimidate and show up with the muscle, the enforcement arm, so that we will conform to what the Democrats want in our country.
00:21:48.000If they can't get what they want through the government, which they can't, they'll lean on the media.
00:21:56.000And then finally, they'll lean on their corporations or their massive institutions.
00:22:03.000And since the entire political discourse on the left and everything that intersects with public policy is all about voting and how we actually put people into office, this fight warrants the biggest response imaginable, the most dramatic response imaginable.
00:23:14.000That malevolence that she has in her voice, she's a pathological liar.
00:23:19.000For her to be trusted as White House press secretary to say what she's saying, and I don't know who this journalist is, but God bless him for just speaking facts.
00:24:23.000What really matters, and why I say they're irrelevant, is because the more we bring them up, the Democrats will just filibuster a Gensaki will lie.
00:24:33.000What they're trying to do is make it hurt.
00:25:18.000They want the other state legislatures now in Arizona to say, boy, I don't know if I want to deal with this.
00:25:24.000I don't know if I want to wade into this.
00:25:26.000When the reaction from us should be the opposite, which is if they are pulling out every single stop that they have, if they are pulling out every single tool at their disposal, then it should be more reason than ever to go past these bills.
00:25:43.000The fact they care so much about very vanilla and quite honestly weak voting reform shows that there's something structurally flawed with this system.
00:25:55.000And Democrats will not have to answer about how 30% of all the businesses in the all-star game area are black-owned businesses and $100 million stimulus.
00:26:24.000I think that's the first time in American history that an American president has called for economic warfare against a state that dutifully passed legislation to secure, to do anything, but in this case, to secure elections.
00:26:38.000If Republicans and other Americans are going to be called racist for trying to have free and fair elections, they actually should pass legislation that has some meat to it.
00:26:48.000This Georgia legislation, if there's any scandal to it, is that it's weak, weak, does not do enough to secure elections.
00:26:55.000In this country, if you want to have a republic, you need to have confidence in elections.
00:27:08.000They want to end the conversation right here.
00:27:11.000They want to display to the rest of the world with their cultural guillotine that if you dare cross the Rubicon, if you cross the line, we will make an example out of you.
00:27:31.000And what Georgia should do is they should pass another voting law right now.
00:27:35.000Is that Brian Kemp should introduce mandatory voter ID all across the state of Georgia?
00:27:40.000Brian Kemp should say, hey, if you're going to treat me as if we're South Africa, then we're going to pass some really aggressive voting reform bills that are not racist in nature, obviously.
00:27:52.000But if you're going to treat me at the highest threshold of economic punishment you have, then let's get started.
00:28:03.000You pulled out the CEO of the largest employer in Georgia, Delta, the CEO of one of the largest companies on the planet, Coca-Cola, and the head of one of the largest sports, the second or third largest sport in the country, Major League Baseball, to then move and re-domicile your all-star game.
00:28:24.000The way you stand up against this is directly.
00:28:30.000You say, we're not going to tolerate your economic warfare or the torture tactics, the waterboarding tactics to try to have Georgia tap out and say, we're not going to reform elections.
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00:30:26.000I want to go to Cut 24, Mitch McConnell.
00:30:30.000Republicans are starting to realize that corporations are not our friend.
00:30:35.000I wish this would have surfaced before we cut all of these corporations' tax rate instead of strengthening small businesses and middle-class workers.
00:31:18.000He's carried the Chamber of Commerce corporate agenda for decades.
00:31:22.000And now the very same people that used to be on speed dial for Mitch McConnell, that represent the biggest corporations across the country, they are now undermining Mitch McConnell's opportunity to go retake the Senate.
00:31:35.000Because these corporations have no loyalty at all.
00:31:38.000All they care about is profit maximization.
00:32:51.000Respond to Mitch McConnell and somehow bizarrely bring in HR1 play tape.
00:32:55.000After a trillion dollars of tax breaks, the large corporations, after lowering the corporate tax rate, after protecting the pharmaceutical industry from charging us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, et cetera, et cetera,
00:33:10.000Mitch McConnell and his friends are very upset that some corporations are now saying that it is an outrage that in Georgia they are trying to destroy democracy and make it harder for people of color and low-income people to vote.
00:33:27.000And our job is, among other things, to pass HR1, an important piece of legislation which says that in America, if you're 18 years of age, no matter what they do in Georgia or anyplace else, you got the right to vote.
00:33:44.000That's not what the bill says, obviously.
00:33:46.000Everyone has the right to vote if you're over 18, if you're a citizen.
00:34:25.000Because the very same people that Mitch McConnell thought were on our team, Delta, Coca-Cola, Major League Baseball, are now saying, you know what?
00:34:50.000And now you're going out and calling it Jim Crow 2.0.
00:34:52.000And Delta and Coca-Cola says, sorry, all we care about is profit maximization.
00:34:59.000We never actually cared about the country.
00:35:02.000So more than anything else, this economic strangulation that they're attempting at Georgia is a policy of election reform deterrence.
00:35:12.000They want to nationalize our elections, and they want to keep them sloppy, messy, unknown, uncertain, and untrustworthy.
00:35:21.000This Georgia law is a small step to try to restore confidence in American elections, and it's imperative that we hold the line and pass more laws like it across the country.