In this final week leading into the midterms, the left has been conspicuously absent from the blather being sent out on the campaign trail by the corporate media and leftist strategists. Is it momentum? Or is there something else going on?
00:22:45.580Yeah, it sounds like, I guess, pretty close to it. He sounds authoritarian, totalitarian, downright Marxist.
00:22:55.700And I don't know, but I would assume, based on all the violence that we saw in your state, as well as neighboring states in 2020, in the summer of riots and arson and murder,
00:23:09.660principally by BLM and Antifa, that he didn't prosecute a lot of people either and didn't insist on their prosecution.
00:23:18.900But that's just a guess. I'll leave it to you, whether you want to discuss it. But I'm, I have to say, you sound like exactly as you quoted, you sound like the man at this, at the right moment, because you're focused on education.
00:23:37.600I'm also a product of public schools, and I know how important they are. They're, they're so critically important that they should never, ever be under the control of two teachers unions anywhere in the country.
00:23:48.820And I know that Minnesota is a complicated place, doctor, but it has to be still a place of plain talk. And so I think we have to talk honestly about what these unions did across the nation.
00:24:00.680I don't know whether indeed it happened in Minnesota, but they shut down schools and we watched national test scores just dive. We can never recover those children and all the deficit that was created so unnecessarily.
00:24:17.920And so against science to suggest that these young people had to be both shut, you know, their school shut down and mass worn, both of which turned out to be complete hogwash. Your thoughts?
00:24:33.860I think you're spot on. I think that so much of the policy decision making was hogwash. It was defended oftentimes by the mantra follow the science.
00:24:46.340I can't help but think, Lou, about Dr. Walensky with the CDC and the announcement today that despite the fact that she had COVID-19 October 21st, and she'd been up to date fully vaccinated at that time, then she got COVID.
00:25:03.740She took Paxlovid. She took Paxlovid, and she evidently improved, and she tested negative. And now within the last 24 hours, symptoms have reoccurred. She's tested positive again. Once again, she's in isolation.
00:25:17.740I think that Americans really saw their trust in public health undermined and undercut. And that trust is not easily rebuilt. And it was broken because of flawed policy decisions.
00:25:37.540These were not people that surrounded themselves with private sector leaders as well as true scientists and physicians that were in the trenches taking care of COVID-19 patients.
00:25:53.780So many of these decisions were led by political bureaucrats that are more concerned about what the political spin looks like than anything else.
00:26:03.020And we saw so much devastation. And you've mentioned it over and over again. And at the end of the day, arguably, the longest impact of these poor policy decisions are going to be, what did we do to our children?
00:26:19.820What did we do by setting them back a year? I think some people have the mistaken idea that, well, if they lost a year of learning, we can just have them repeat that grade.
00:26:29.960It doesn't work that grade. It doesn't work that grade. It doesn't work that simply. You and I both know that, Lou.
00:26:33.540There is no mulligan with kids. Kids learn age-appropriate developmental information, whether you're talking reading, writing, and arithmetic.
00:26:42.780And if you throw that whole thing out of whack, you don't get to snap your fingers and see everything rectified. It's not going to happen.
00:26:51.480Public schools, as you said earlier, are in place to provide America with a strong citizenry, with everybody knowing how to do some reading, some writing, and some arithmetic.
00:27:01.980That makes us stronger. That makes us able to dream dreams, build businesses, hire employees, read contracts, do all of these things.
00:27:10.040All of that infrastructure for our democracy is now at risk.
00:27:14.760And it's absolutely essential, as you say, to be good citizens, because good citizens are informed citizens, and without education, it's all but impossible to be that, as we are experiencing over the past, I would say, at least two decades.
00:27:33.020And as you look at government itself, because there is so much corruption, and I have to admit that I am perhaps not only a born skeptic, I was taught to say what I mean and mean what I say, and everything else put a grain of salt with it, whatever the source.
00:27:55.400It's just, to me, it's just, to me, stunning that our young people are growing up in a society right now, and I don't think there is an exception to this in any state in the union, where the teachers are suspect.
00:28:09.380They are, in some cases, they are, in some cases, wanton ideologues, whose last consideration, I think, are children.
00:28:17.100I hate to say it, but that's exactly what I think many of them are, particularly associated with those two teachers' unions.
00:28:24.500Our business community is not standing up.
00:28:27.320They've become, certainly, corporate America has become a globalist cabal that is more interested in their global standing than they are as citizens of this great country that is, after all, their home country, home economy, and with great responsibilities to our employees.
00:28:47.740What is your sense of what a governor can do to assure prosperity in Minnesota?
00:28:52.620Well, I think, Lou, we really need to focus on the three big issues, and the first one is inflation.
00:29:02.740I think that our governor has put in place policies that have absolutely jacked up inflation higher than it needs to be.
00:29:10.880He hooked our wagon on car mandate emissions to the California rules.
00:29:16.260Well, that meant that our refineries had to go through extra steps, spend extra dollars.
00:29:21.700Those expenses were passed on to us at the pump, so our gas prices went up more than they needed to.
00:29:28.440Our governor wanted to increase our state gas tax by 70% for the last three and a half years, and now he's finally said, well, I'm going to hold off on that.
00:29:36.380So I think from an inflation perspective, that's one of the areas.
00:29:43.500If you have the governor of your state undermining and sort of hamstringing police from doing the work that they should be doing, you're going to pay a consequence, and we're seeing that.
00:29:54.300We need to have more cops in the street corners, but we also need to respect the work they do.
00:29:58.080We need to realize that incarceration has got to be used as a tool to deter repeat violent felons.
00:30:03.720We need to have our judges and our prosecuting attorneys understand that a mandated minimum sentence means exactly that, a mandated minimum sentence, and we need to enforce the laws.
00:30:13.820This is how we're going to deal with crime.
00:30:15.540If we don't do it that way, we're just kidding ourselves, and we're not going to be able to restore public safety, and that's a huge deal because it's disrupting so much of our lives.
00:30:25.840We've got to be very clear on one thing.
00:30:28.500We didn't create an education system as a means in and of itself.
00:30:32.400We created an education system to get kids from point A to point B, which is reading, writing, arithmetic, and some basic history and understanding of our democracy, and this should not be revisionist history that's rewritten every generation.
00:30:50.380And if we would get our basic moral compass back in order, and when I say moral compass, Lou, I'm not trying to tell people they have to listen to my moral compass.
00:31:01.500Sometimes we allow the core convictions that make up our moral compass to be bastardized by a desire to pander or to, if you will, provide theater or virtue signaling, and it makes us feel good.
00:31:22.540But we don't look at the long-term consequences.
00:31:25.360For instance, maybe we think that taking a potential 17-year sentence for someone who shoots randomly into a car that's got two kids in it, we take their 17-year two felony charge, and we plea bargain it down to four months, and then we have the judge say, oh, by the way, we'll have you serve that in house arrest situation.
00:32:19.420And the economy, as you say, it depends on all of us being as educated, being healthy, and working hard as good citizens, as good people with a moral compass,
00:32:34.060whether you choose to read the Bible and follow your faith, or whether it is simple right and wrong, because there is a philosophy in this country.
00:32:49.560The American code has always been to do the right thing and to treat one another as we would be treated.
00:32:58.160The golden rule still hasn't been suspended.
00:33:00.440It's a rule, and I've never found an exception, and I think more people would be well served to follow that if they lack any other moral compass.
00:33:11.500It's a shame that we're at this point, as you said, to think that all that we've progressed in, all that we have advanced in as a society, as an economy, and as a nation,
00:33:23.640we've come to this point where we have to talk about what is right and proper in our classroom, whether there should be gender transitioning for nine-year-olds.
00:33:36.160I mean, these issues on their face are outrageous, appalling, and are really questions that are unnecessary because the answers are staring everybody right in the face.
00:33:54.720I think you're absolutely right, Lou, and if a person said, okay, how did we get to this point?
00:34:02.320I think one of the things that we've seen in retrospect is that there's this movement out there that says there are no absolutes, that everything is relative.
00:34:27.900The Ten Commandments in the Book of Exodus, there is no way to make those relative.
00:34:34.020But when you can twist things so that nothing is for sure, and that that's how you get to a point where you tell a young child what you accomplished here by working your tail off on this report doesn't really amount to much because of the color of your skin or because of the difference that you have phenotypically.
00:35:01.140Any child psychologist worth their weight in manure will recognize that we need to lift children up.
00:35:07.760We need to give them a sense of accomplishment, a sense of achievement, because what that will do will fuel their desire to go out and achieve and accomplish more.
00:35:16.320We are absolutely performing some dastardly kind of social, psychosocial experiment on our kids, and we're going to pay a price so deep we can't even begin to understand the depth of it.
00:35:29.760I love the fact that you talk so passionately about what we can do, and I know that every state in the union wishes it had a candidate for governor who was aspirational as you
00:35:43.000and who has a career, a lifetime of achievement and living proof of you're a witness to absolutes as a physician.
00:36:00.300There are simple parameters that exist for life itself.
00:36:05.460And in politics and society, there are absolutes, and amongst them is decency, intelligence, capacity, and character.
00:36:16.740And I just have to say, doctor, I'm pleased to be talking with the person who exhibits all of those qualities, and I thank you so much for being with us here today on The Great America Show.
00:36:29.800We always give the guest, our guest, the last word, and if you will, doctor, your closing thoughts.
00:36:39.840I don't think America or Minnesota is positioned on a path that's sustainable, and I think in order for us to find our way back to who we are as a people, as a nation, is going to involve a lot of hard work.
00:36:54.140I think one of the things we all have to take responsibility for is at some level, we cannot move from disagreement to contempt.
00:37:02.500We have to keep asking, keep talking to one another.
00:37:05.380We need to maybe, let's seek to understand the other person before we demand that they understand us.
00:37:12.920Let's remember the words of C.S. Lewis when he said, you never meet an ordinary person.
00:37:18.300We all have our story, and if we allow that story to emerge, oftentimes, it gives us a chance to build a bridge, and if we can build a bridge, I'm convinced, Lou, that what we will find is that there's a little speck of common ground between us, and at that point in time, we can expand on that common ground, and I think we can solve problems.
00:37:40.080But I think it's going to hold, it's going to require candor that isn't there.
00:37:44.360It's going to require, if you will, a risk-taking kind of leadership where you ask questions that might seem a little edgy, but you ask them because it's the only way we're going to find a way to the solution.
00:37:57.940Too many times we have politicians trying to drive the conversation with their rhetorical, political solutions, which, in fact, won't get us anywhere close to being where we need to be.
00:38:17.000Our campaign is headquartered at our website, Lou, and it's drscottjensen.com, D-R-S-C-O-T-T-J-E-N-S-E-N.com.
00:38:24.940We've tried to put out 10-point plans every two weeks for the last five months trying to fight inflation, fight the slipping educational system, fight crime, fight the energy situation.
00:38:36.440And we are eight days away from the election.
00:38:39.640If people see fit to helping support us financially, that would be terrific.
00:38:43.660If they want to learn more about us, going to our website at drscottjensen.com would be helpful for them.
00:38:48.620And, Lou, I want to thank you for your voice in trying to help America find a path out of the morass that we find ourselves in.
00:38:56.300That's very kind of you, and I appreciate it, Doctor.
00:38:59.160And it's Dr. – is it D-R or is it Dr. spelled out again?
00:40:23.600That's despite about $90 million from Chuck Schumer and George Soros and company trying to prop up my opponent and trying to attack me with an awful lot of false attack ads.
00:40:38.220But nonetheless, Lou, it is a very, very tight race, and all these have it about two points.
00:40:44.800And so now is the time we're putting pedal to the metal, and we just started our two-week bus tour that we're going to do every single county in the state.
00:40:53.320And we just need to get people out, get people motivated, and certainly if people can donate and help us match all this money at AdamLaxalt.com, we'd appreciate it.
00:41:03.160Let's turn, if we can, to all that money that's being thrown into the state of Nevada to defeat Adam Laxalt.
00:41:10.440What in the world is going on with this Democrat Party?
00:41:16.380They're going after the strongest candidates of our Republican Party.
00:41:23.440You're thinking about what it's going to take to seal the deal here.
00:41:28.760Yeah, look, the bottom line is that they understood early that the Senate was going to come down to Nevada.
00:41:45.380She had no accomplishments in all her years in public office.
00:41:49.460And, of course, you know, the big one is that she's been a rubber stamp for Joe Biden and his open borders agenda, the inflation, the gas, all this stuff that's killing our state.
00:42:00.360She has stood right there with them, and people are definitely ready for change.
00:42:04.360And so, you know, we've known that, and there's people coming late to the party.
00:42:08.420They're helping, and they're helping match some of that stuff.
00:42:11.420And, of course, the polls are showing that this is, of the four flip races, we're the one that is up today on the averages.
00:42:18.720And so, as a result, they're trying to load more money in and trying to save her.
00:42:23.660Now, I don't think the money is going to save her.
00:42:25.500In the end of the day, I think people have heard enough of it, and they understand that 75 percent of Nevadans think that we're heading in the wrong direction.
00:42:34.640Joe Biden's at 37 percent, and he earned it.
00:42:38.480And I think people are going to vote for change.
00:42:41.280They're going to vote for somebody that's a former AG that's backed by 95 percent of law enforcement in this state, backed by the Border Patrol, first time in the history of our state,
00:42:51.240because they know that I'm going to try to fight for a secure border and back our law enforcement.
00:42:57.320Well, and Cortez Masto, I mean, she's got some crazy ideas all by herself.
00:43:03.920But the idea that she's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act is a great first start to fighting inflation.
00:43:14.060You would expect Joe Biden had written that line for her.
00:43:16.540You know, and what's so crazy is that before that vote, Nevada was already almost 16 percent inflation.
00:43:24.700And so if you live in my state, you've been treated for many, many months to this whole chameleon routine where she runs away from Biden's agenda and pretends she's independent and all this.
00:43:35.800Well, she had a great chance to be independent and tell her president we can't afford one penny more of spending from D.C. and just say no.
00:43:44.920And guess what? There would not have been an Inflation Reduction Act.
00:43:48.600But her vote wasn't even up for grabs.
00:43:51.140She was an automatic, reliable vote, as she always is.
00:43:54.980And as a result, things are heading even worse, even further in the wrong direction than they were just, you know, six, eight weeks ago.
00:44:03.900And people are – you cannot believe what gas is like here.
00:44:07.600Imagine over $6 in other swing state races, it's $3, and people are complaining.
00:44:14.120Or $6, that's $150 to fill a truck or an SUV, which we have plenty of in this great western state where people have to drive everywhere.
00:44:25.160And so people are upset, and people finally understand, once they get through all the fake commercials, that Senator Mastow's votes are directly responsible for our conditions here in Nevada.
00:45:21.720And I think they're going to turn out that way.
00:45:24.400If we have a tsunami-red referendum election against Joe Biden, that's the most important first step we can take to trying to take back our country.
00:45:33.380This contrast, Joe Biden by himself is running in this election.
00:45:39.620There is no question that he's on the ballot.
00:45:41.940He is falling asleep during interviews now, making all sorts of – he said that he had won the vote on the student debt, student loan debt forgiveness executive order that he had signed.
00:46:38.060Their families have known each other forever.
00:46:41.080And she does not – she acts like she's never even met the guy.
00:46:44.500But we're holding her accountable for her votes.
00:46:48.380And at the end of the day, we think we're going to be able to flip this race.
00:46:52.000As long as everybody gets out to vote, and as long as conservatives across America help donate, we are going to flip Nevada on November 8th.
00:47:01.260Looking forward to it and wishing you all the best of luck.
00:47:04.440I have to say, talking to candidates around the country right now, I sense that that red wave is real, that people have had a belly full of high inflation, volatile markets, a president who has moved our troops.
00:47:22.140Joe Biden just sent in the 101st Airborne, for crying out loud, into Eastern Europe and talking about leading a – David Petraeus.
00:47:33.200It's scary – General David Petraeus talking about leading the U.S. forces into Ukraine.
00:47:40.160It's scary times, and I hope the American public is taking note that the commander-in-chief matters.
00:47:49.380If the bad people in the world do not respect your commander-in-chief, no question the world is a less safe place.
00:47:56.980And they gave Trump relentless you-know-what for his four years.
00:48:01.840But these dictators didn't dare when he was in office.
00:48:06.220And so the voters now have a clear contrast of a different style of leader.
00:48:12.220I mean, getting beyond just the core competence issue, his approach to international politics is simply not going to keep us safe.
00:48:27.020They know we didn't need to lose any troops there if we actually had competent leadership and did that the right way.
00:48:33.900And add that to the long list of things people are upset about, which is why people are ready for change and why we think we're going to pull this thing out.
00:48:44.440Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
00:48:47.980Our guests this week include Senator Ted Cruz, Arizona's GOP Chair Kelly Ward, Michigan Attorney General Candidate Matt DiPerno, Arizona's Gubernatorial Candidate Carrie Lake.
00:48:59.700And tomorrow here on The Great America Show, our guest is Kelly Ward on one of the most exciting tight races in the nation.