Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 10, 2026


Barbarians at the Gate—the Deranged plans of the Marxists Taking over the Dems, plus What’s the “W” Stand for in WNBA？


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00:02:11.280 Welcome. It is Vertic with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you as always.
00:02:15.260 Senator, it is a fun show today because we get to deal with the DSA, the WNBA,
00:02:21.220 and some crazy stuff from Al-Sayed as well.
00:02:24.740 And that is, my friends, how you make a great Monday morning.
00:02:28.300 The barbarians are at the gate. The radical left is taking over the Democrat Party.
00:02:34.020 The DSA are communists. And don't take our word for it.
00:02:38.340 they'll tell you exactly who they are. I want you to listen to this stunning interview
00:02:43.380 from one of the national co-chairs of the DSA. You're going to see a carefully thought out
00:02:48.940 policy agenda. You're going to see a complete mastery of facts, of economics, of numbers,
00:02:53.980 of reality. You're going to see a compassion for the heart, the small business owner running a
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00:04:06.720 All right, so take a listen to the Democratic Socialists of America co-chair proudly stating what they think about this country and what they believe in.
00:04:14.180 But we do believe in taxing the hell out of millionaires.
00:04:16.720 Yeah, absolutely.
00:04:17.860 Well, what does taxing the hell out of them mean?
00:04:21.660 Yeah, you know, again, I don't have like a solid, but I think.
00:04:25.300 But shouldn't you?
00:04:25.820 um i mean if you're the co-chair if you're the co-chair of the dsa shouldn't you be more specific
00:04:33.580 than just taxing the hell out of something what exactly do you mean so again it's democracy right
00:04:40.220 and we have to look at what we need to spend and what we need we don't want to depend on the
00:04:44.840 existence of millionaires because that means people are still getting exploited so so yeah
00:04:48.680 we need to we need to look at what we need to pay for in the interim what what sort of tax base we
00:04:53.580 need for that to happen and then um and build from there all right senator where do we even start so
00:04:58.420 tax the hell i'm assuming that means by default like take everything and destroy them and then
00:05:03.680 when the questions asked by the interviewer like hey how much is that what percentage
00:05:07.440 she then reverts back to war democracy so i guess we'll just kind of figure it out as we go in our
00:05:13.660 communist democracy way that's some pretty messed up messaging so look this is the leader of this
00:05:21.160 movement that is taking over now actually mandami's the leader aoc's the leader but but this is this
00:05:27.240 is one of the leaders who literally has no idea what she's talking about when you ask what do you
00:05:32.780 mean by tax the hell out of millionaires she has no answer are you suggesting a 70 marginal tax
00:05:38.600 rate are you suggesting an 80 marginal tax rate maybe a 90 marginal tax rate are you suggesting
00:05:43.840 a 100 percent marginal tax rate or perhaps 105 are you suggesting a wealth tax like there are
00:05:50.980 no details there but her real agenda comes out when she starts to explain it because you understand
00:05:57.200 it's not about the numbers this is about and this is like all communists they hate capitalists
00:06:05.760 they hate people who build businesses they hate people who are successful they are driven by envy
00:06:11.380 And so she says, look, look, we're going to tax the hell out of them, whatever that means, because we don't know what it means.
00:06:16.980 And she says, well, we're going to look at what we need, and that's how much we're going to take from them.
00:06:20.500 So they're the golden goose.
00:06:22.400 What do we need?
00:06:23.380 Everything.
00:06:23.900 So what are we going to take from them?
00:06:25.080 Everything.
00:06:25.620 And then the tell, look, when you're playing poker, someone has what's called a tell, and it's a sign that shows they're lying, that they don't know what they're doing.
00:06:33.480 Her tell was really striking.
00:06:34.800 she goes well we don't want to be dependent on millionaires because that means they still exist
00:06:42.520 and they're still exploiting people so understand what her objective is she wants no millionaires
00:06:47.720 in america she wants to destroy every millionaire in america now what is incoherent she simultaneously
00:06:55.620 has no way to pay for all the free stuff that she's promising to give people because her answer
00:07:01.480 How do you pay for it is tax the millionaires.
00:07:03.480 But she's admitted her goal is make the millionaires go away, make the business owners go away, make anyone who is successful building a commercial enterprise, all of them are gone.
00:07:14.980 And then I guess it's just the magic money tree.
00:07:18.840 Yeah, it's the whatever we need, we take.
00:07:21.200 Isn't that really what – if you look back at history – and I want to dial into this for a second for people that don't understand the history of socialism slash, well, let's be clear, communist Marxism.
00:07:30.880 every time the government gets behind, they just seize more.
00:07:36.080 They take more.
00:07:37.580 So if they need something and they say it doesn't matter if it's a farm
00:07:41.740 and you're an apple farmer, if you're an avocado farmer,
00:07:45.240 it doesn't matter if you are whatever your industry is,
00:07:48.660 if they decide in that moment the state needs it for the good of the state,
00:07:53.400 they just come in and seize it throughout history.
00:07:56.180 And that seems to be also what she's describing here,
00:07:59.240 which is, I don't really know the number, that can change day to day, and when it does change,
00:08:03.540 we'll just take more of what we need to cover what we need. Yeah, and look, that's not hypothetical.
00:08:09.580 That's what the Soviet Union did, it's what communist China did, it's what North Korea did,
00:08:14.100 it's what Venezuela did, it's what Cuba did. With my family, with Fidel Castro, when he came in,
00:08:20.780 there were big sugar plantations. Cuba was a massive producer of sugar worldwide. The government
00:08:27.200 seized them all. There's now starvation and poverty in Cuba. They came in and seized. Cuba
00:08:33.200 was a massive cigar manufacturer. They came in and seized those as well and said, nope,
00:08:37.320 the government takes them. You go away. And you know, it's interesting, her vision of
00:08:42.060 no millionaires. Well, in a way, she's right in a communist society. There are no millionaires in
00:08:48.940 Cuba, except, do you know who the millionaires are? The leaders. The Communist Party leaders.
00:08:55.480 Under her world, Megan wants to be a millionaire.
00:08:58.440 Fidel Castro was a billionaire with a B.
00:09:02.060 Vladimir Putin is a billionaire.
00:09:04.700 When you run the oppressive machinery, when the government owns everything and you control it and are a dictator,
00:09:11.180 and that's what these little thugs want.
00:09:12.800 They want to be dictators.
00:09:14.080 We will take from you whatever we want.
00:09:17.240 You know, I'll tell you a story, Ben.
00:09:18.460 When Castro took over in Cuba, my grandmother, my abuela, was a sixth grade teacher.
00:09:26.540 And she described how soldiers would come into the classrooms of kindergartners and first graders.
00:09:32.480 And they'd come into the classroom, the little kids are sitting at their desk,
00:09:35.820 and the soldiers would tell the kids, close your eyes.
00:09:39.500 They'd say, close your eyes and pray to Jesus Christ for candy.
00:09:44.440 The kids all did so, and they'd open their eyes.
00:09:48.460 and there was no candy. Then the soldiers would tell the kids, close your eyes. Pray to Fidel
00:09:54.660 Castro for candy. Kids closed their eyes, and while their eyes were closed, the soldiers put
00:10:01.560 a piece of candy very quietly on each kid's desk. That is communism. You have no loyalties. You have
00:10:08.880 no loyalty to God. You have no loyalty to your family, no loyalty to your parents, no loyalty
00:10:13.940 to your children. All you are loyal to is the state and you must obey the state. And understand
00:10:19.320 that communists are fueled by envy and hate. What she just said there, that she doesn't want any
00:10:26.900 millionaires to exist. She has envy and hate for them and she wants to take from them. And I want
00:10:34.300 you to listen a little bit more about what exactly drives this communist movement. Listen to the
00:10:38.860 the interview continue. Daryaliza Avila-Chevalier recently won a primary election in New York City
00:10:44.460 and is almost sure to win the general election. She attended an October 8th pro-Palestinian,
00:10:50.860 pro-Hamas rally, which many people saw as a justification of the October 7th attack. And
00:10:57.320 some of her tweets have been extremely ugly on this score and on others. Do you fully support
00:11:05.080 her in all these activities and what she's had to say? I think Daria Lisa can speak for herself,
00:11:10.760 certainly, and I think she's apologized for some pieces of that and has been quite unapologetic
00:11:17.000 about other pieces of that. Do you support her yourself in that? Yeah, I do. Why? In other words,
00:11:25.540 you would have gone to that rally had you been able? That's a good question. I probably would
00:11:30.300 have yeah yeah i i don't live in new york city so i wouldn't have one day after the slaughter of
00:11:35.400 1200 people and taking of over 200 hostages you would have come and rallied behind hamas
00:11:41.160 i think that october 7th was largely inevitable if you put people in a an open air concentration
00:11:49.880 camp and you deprive them of rights of dignity of food of the ability to live in safety you
00:11:56.940 have to expect that they are going to uh not take that for that long and that is not defending uh
00:12:04.780 any harm of civilians or of non-combatants well sure that is do you think it is you're saying
00:12:10.940 you're supporting it i'm saying i'm saying that i think it was inevitable i think that that you
00:12:17.580 cannot put people in a cage and expect them not to to revolt and i think that uh that supporting
00:12:26.580 the civilians the non-combatants the children who are being killed um you know that's really the
00:12:32.480 the primary thing uh-huh senator you listen to that and and to be very clear the co-chair of the
00:12:38.780 democratic socials of america just said i would have gone to the rally celebrating the vicious
00:12:44.320 horrific attack the murdering the raping the killing uh and the kidnapping of innocent jewish
00:12:49.740 people because it was deserved and warranted. That is who she is. Well, look, that was an almost
00:12:56.600 perfect illustration of what communism is like. Communism is based on a Marxist dichotomy. They
00:13:02.640 divide the world into everyone, everyone into two groups, either oppressors or victims.
00:13:08.780 And the entire ideology of communism is supporting the violent revolutionary overthrow by the victims
00:13:15.560 of the so-called oppressors. Now the modern left has decided that all Jews are oppressors. And
00:13:22.440 notice I didn't say Israelis. They mean Jews. They mean American Jews. They mean people who
00:13:26.980 have nothing to do with the Israeli government. If you are Jewish, you are likely a white capitalist
00:13:32.720 and that is unacceptable and they hate Jews. Jew hate is integral to Marxism. And if you're
00:13:40.000 Palestinian, you're coded as a victim. So when a Marxist sees Hamas terrorists raping little girls,
00:13:48.120 they see that as something to be celebrated, which is why these communists went to rallies
00:13:54.420 on October 8th, right after 1200. You know, at one point she says, well, you know, you got to
00:13:59.040 be concerned about the killing of kids, but she's not. What happened on October 7th? Kids were
00:14:04.080 murdered, women were raped, children were raped, elderly people, civilians were targeted. October
00:14:09.780 7th was not military targets. It was going home to home, murdering every person they found simply
00:14:18.320 because they were Jewish. And these bigots, these communists, these Islamists, loved it,
00:14:26.800 celebrated it cheered it on and and that is and by the way her comment also that well
00:14:34.760 it was inevitable because she says gaza is is is a cage it is a concentration camp
00:14:41.200 gaza is a country who do you know who was running gaza caris hamas israel was not in charge of gaza
00:14:51.140 so so look the people in gaza said we don't want the israeli government to to govern us gaza used
00:14:56.740 to be part of Israel. And Israel said, you know what? It's too much trouble. These people hate us
00:15:01.020 too much. They try to kill us too much. You can have it. All of Gaza is yours. All we're going to
00:15:05.900 do is build a really big fence because we want you crazies. By the way, Gaza got the beach land. I
00:15:11.660 mean, it got the more prime real estate. Israel took the land inland from that. And so all of
00:15:16.600 Gaza, you didn't have Israeli jailers who isn't a cage. It was in some sense as a cage because Hamas,
00:15:23.720 whom the Palestinian people in Gaza voted for were in charge, and so when millions of dollars
00:15:30.140 of aid would go in, international countries would send in aid, say, water pipes to build
00:15:35.600 water and sewer systems. Do you know what Hamas would do? They'd take the pipe and make missiles
00:15:40.080 out of them. Yep, they would use it for terrorism. So yes, I agree Gaza is a hellhole, and it is
00:15:46.220 entirely self-inflicted. It was not Israel imposing those conditions on the people of Gaza. It was
00:15:53.420 Hamas whom they elected. Listen also to the same person describing the red line that animates all
00:16:00.920 of her politics. Port of Israel in any form, essentially a red card in DSA. As I understand
00:16:08.360 it, in 2024, DSA's National Political Committee withdrew its endorsement of Alexandria Ocasio
00:16:15.100 Cortez over her support for a House resolution stating that denying Israel's right to exist as
00:16:22.700 a form of anti-Semitism. Her local chapter stuck with her. And this was an argument that continued
00:16:29.840 on. Where are you on it? Yeah, so that was like a very complicated and very like inter-DSA
00:16:36.980 bureaucratic question. But convention decided that, yeah, this is a solid red line. No defense
00:16:45.260 or economic support for Israel. Does Israel have the right to defend itself, according to
00:16:52.680 DSA? What is the position that DSA is headed toward here? Is it for a two-state solution?
00:16:58.540 Is it a binational, one-state solution? What, in fact, is the position of DSA?
00:17:05.240 Yeah, so our position is a free Palestine with the capital in Jerusalem. And so I think that
00:17:11.740 could be safely read as a one-state solution. So the Camp David accords that were being negotiated
00:17:18.180 at the beginning of the century under the Clinton administration had the Palestinians accepted it,
00:17:22.680 you that would have satisfied you good question i need to i need to look at what the actual
00:17:28.340 specifics there were i don't know them off the top of my head but um so when you say does each
00:17:33.180 real have the right to defend itself people humans peoples have the right to live in safety
00:17:38.940 absolutely um but if that safety means doing genocide to somebody else then no that's that's
00:17:44.900 not defensible so let's just be clear about what she just advocated for senator she advocated for
00:17:50.900 the annihilation of Israel, making it very clear Israel doesn't exist if she gets her way and the
00:17:59.260 Democratic Association of America get their way. Not only do they want to take all American aid,
00:18:04.020 support, military help, whatever it may be for them, but they want Israel to disappear as in
00:18:09.900 the Jewish state. Unquestionably. And her answer was so extreme that David Remick, who's quite
00:18:15.660 knowledgeable about these things, couldn't even believe she was saying that. So he asked what
00:18:20.800 outcome do you want? Do you want a state for the Palestinians? Do you want a two-state solution?
00:18:25.400 And she says, I want a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. And she said,
00:18:32.260 and it would be a one-state solution. What that means is no Israel. If Palestine is the only
00:18:39.240 state, she is essentially repeating the chant of Hamas from the river to the sea, from the Jordan
00:18:45.940 river to the mediterranean sea that means all of it is palestine and the the nation of israel is
00:18:53.080 wiped off the face of the of the map and by the way if it were up to hamas every jew is murdered
00:18:58.720 they don't even want them not to have a nation they want them to be dead they don't exist yeah
00:19:02.840 they don't exist right and her answer is unequivocally the centrality of jew hate to these
00:19:11.560 communist. What has happened, this green-red alliance is really dangerous because they've
00:19:16.960 merged together the Islamists that want Sharia law to govern all of us, forcibly converting
00:19:23.300 everyone to being Muslim against your wishes, killing the infidels, the Jews and the Christians,
00:19:30.060 and forcing them to live under the very tough strictures of Sharia law. That has merged with
00:19:37.660 Communism, and whether it is Mondami or El Saeed, we're seeing this, and the DSA,
00:19:45.340 they are here for it. They are here for the hatred of Jews, the hatred of Americans,
00:19:50.380 the hatred of Christianity, the hatred of capitalism. Hate animates this movement,
00:19:57.240 and I want you to listen to the patron saint of this movement. By the way,
00:20:01.160 she pointed out that even the patron saint AOC was not pure enough because she said you should
00:20:09.660 not call for annihilating the nation of Israel and the DSA said whoa we don't like you anymore
00:20:15.600 you got to be willing to call for killing them all listen to AOC when she's being questioned
00:20:21.640 about Hassan Piker Hassan Piker is the other crazy left-wing communist America hating Islamist
00:20:27.340 who, among other things, said America deserved 9-11.
00:20:32.800 AOC's asked about it. Here's her response.
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00:21:31.120 All right, I want to get back to this AOC clip on ABC this week.
00:21:34.820 Listen carefully to the word she uses to try to dodge a question about one of the most extreme radicals in the Democratic Socialist Communist movement.
00:21:43.460 Another person who's been made an issue is Hassan Piker, who obviously endorsed Abdul Syed in Michigan.
00:21:50.680 And you've been on his live stream, you know, at least a few times.
00:21:55.560 He's somebody who said, you know, that America deserved 9-11.
00:21:59.420 Now, he backed off from that.
00:22:01.160 Yes, yes, he's apologizing.
00:22:02.420 But he said a lot of controversial things.
00:22:05.200 Is he somebody that should have a role in the progressive movement going forward?
00:22:10.400 You know, I think when we look at our elections that have happened, we have lost young people.
00:22:17.660 much hay was made about the fact that we lost young men in the last election. And many of the
00:22:24.800 same consultants that are wringing their hands today were the same ones talking about how we
00:22:33.120 need to go on Joe Rogan and we need to be not so willing to engage in cancel culture. And I think
00:22:44.080 that the flip-flopping on this is a tactical debate that they may be having. I think the
00:22:52.680 fact of the matter is, is that Democrats can go on Joe Rogan, Democrats can go on Fox News,
00:22:57.460 Democrats have a responsibility to build a winning coalition, and young people are engaging in
00:23:04.280 mediums and conversations that we have a responsibility to attend to and be responsive
00:23:11.020 to. And even right now, when we look at this insurgent wave of what is happening, oftentimes
00:23:17.460 when people are doing that Monday morning quarterbacking and what demographics voted
00:23:22.420 where, the big one that's being ignored is the generational tidal wave.
00:23:29.860 It's phenomenal.
00:23:30.480 You see it in the polling. It is significant.
00:23:33.840 And millennials are not, you know, punk kids anymore.
00:23:37.960 Yeah.
00:23:38.200 were grown adults with mortgages and kids. You listen to AOC there. You want to talk about
00:23:45.080 trying to have it both ways. That is really impressive, even for her.
00:23:49.680 Look, her argument was very simple. Number one is, is Hassan Piker part of your coalition? Her
00:23:54.900 answer was absolutely yes. And by the way, it's not just who you talk to. Look, El Saeed campaigns
00:24:02.180 right now with Hassan Piker, side by side, arm in arm, we stand for this together. That's who they
00:24:08.840 are. But her explanation as to why, she says, well, we have to include people like this because
00:24:15.240 young people, because young people are bigots, because young people are Jew haters and anti-Semites.
00:24:20.220 Mind you, much of the reason many young people have become that is because AOC and the other
00:24:25.240 communists have told them over and over and over again, you should be a bigot. All of your problems
00:24:30.160 are because of the Jews.
00:24:31.360 Everything bad in your life
00:24:32.460 is because of the Jews.
00:24:33.840 Give the power to me
00:24:34.760 and I will protect you
00:24:35.620 from the Jews.
00:24:36.380 That is their message
00:24:37.760 and it is filled
00:24:39.580 with bilious hate
00:24:41.100 and sadly,
00:24:43.140 it's right there
00:24:44.760 out in the open.
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00:27:23.520 brought to you by navy federal credit union i want to move on to another subject and this one is one
00:27:29.180 that just makes me grin from ear to ear you and i've been covering men in women's sports defending
00:27:35.980 women's sports advocating for women only in women's sports you've been called every name in the book
00:27:41.960 i've been called every name in the book uh and i we talked about this gosh senator i think it was a
00:27:48.180 couple years ago on this show where i said there was two interesting things that were happening
00:27:53.360 at the time one there was a group of uh basically former college players slash some that tried to
00:28:02.600 play early on in the mini tours in golf that were looking at trying to join the lpga tour
00:28:07.380 claiming they were women uh the lpga got wind of that and they put up blockades to make sure hey
00:28:13.460 we're just going to have women then it also happened with the wta tour professional women's
00:28:18.700 tennis uh the same thing they went after and attacked uh martina navatilova one of the uh
00:28:24.940 one of the pioneers of the hard you know the women in the left in her movement she was one
00:28:30.220 of the first openly gay athletes in all of women's sports it cost her millions in endorsements by the
00:28:35.520 way she came out and said no to men and women's tennis and then they attacked her for that fast
00:28:42.320 forward to now and you knew it was going to happen at some point somebody was going to screw up and
00:28:48.180 not protect women's sports and allow for men to say, OK, I'm in and I'm going to I'm going to prove
00:28:53.560 a point. We are now at that point with the WNBA where men are saying I'm declaring for the draft
00:29:01.600 as a woman. I'm transgender. That's how identify. How can you keep me out? It is a very interesting
00:29:08.920 and a big moment. I'm glad it's happening, by the way. Well, it started two weeks ago with our
00:29:14.760 friend clay travis and clay travis put out a public challenge he challenged for the las vegas aces
00:29:22.460 which is the weight reigning national champion wnba play a team to play a team of high school boys
00:29:30.860 of his choosing he said he said a high school state champion i will pick a high school state
00:29:35.220 champion and clay said i will give 10 million dollars of my own money to the winners he made
00:29:44.360 that challenge two weeks ago? Crickets. Crickets. And by the way, he has a 10 million. Let's be
00:29:52.380 clear. This was not a joke. He meant it when he tweeted it out. And in fact, Clay followed up,
00:29:57.180 said important. Not only have the WNBA and the Las Vegas Aces refused to respond to my $10 million
00:30:03.460 boys high school challenge. No rich left wingers have stepped up to take the $10 million challenge
00:30:10.800 either. Why? They're all liars and cowards. They know the high school boys would smoke
00:30:18.980 the WNBA champions. It is stunning that there is no response. Ten million dollars is a lot of
00:30:27.540 money. You know, these WNBA players. It's two million a player, by the way. Two million a
00:30:31.140 player if there's five players. If you divide the money equally, it's two million. And these are
00:30:36.480 players that wear shirts that say, pay us what we're worth. Yes. And by the way, if you did,
00:30:42.380 they've lost money every year as a league when they put those t-shirts on. So actually,
00:30:46.720 they would be paying the WNBA to let them play if you actually look at the real math.
00:30:51.960 And I'll tell you, I had TMZ accost me on the Capitol this past week to ask me about this.
00:30:57.280 And here's what I had to say. Give a listen. Could I ask you a question, please, Ted? How
00:31:01.580 are you, man? It's good to see you. I'm doing well. Hey, have you been following the WNBA
00:31:06.240 and this transgender debate, it's all they're talking about there.
00:31:11.140 I saw Clay Travis offered $10 million for a game.
00:31:13.740 Could I come here?
00:31:15.200 I'd watch that game.
00:31:16.860 Could I just ask, Megan Kelly said that Caitlin Clark is a coward
00:31:22.320 for not taking a side in either this or that.
00:31:26.140 What do you feel about that?
00:31:27.240 Oh, look, Caitlin Clark is a hell of a ball player and fun to watch.
00:31:31.120 Do you think she should take a side?
00:31:32.420 At the end of the day, I don't think athletes are required to express an opinion on every topic.
00:31:37.940 I think it is clearly unfair to allow boys to compete against girls and to allow men to compete against women.
00:31:48.040 Boys and girls are different, and mankind has known that literally since the dawn of time.
00:31:54.040 Is it a big issue, though, at WNBA level?
00:31:57.500 Like, I don't see many...
00:31:58.500 I'm curious. Tell me, what does the W stand for?
00:32:01.140 Women.
00:32:02.380 It seems that there's some coaches in the WNBA who can't figure that out.
00:32:07.600 But should they also be sympathetic and empathetic for young little girls
00:32:12.940 who are feeling an identity crisis?
00:32:15.940 They want to play sport.
00:32:16.920 They want to be with their friends.
00:32:18.160 If they're boys, they're not young little girls.
00:32:20.220 And the fact that your ideology,
00:32:23.300 do you think it would be fair to let LeBron James play in the WNBA?
00:32:26.260 No, but that's not what we're talking about.
00:32:27.400 We're talking about young people.
00:32:29.360 You're talking about old people too?
00:32:30.700 you're not just saying five-year-olds well i think that like the wnba doesn't have five-year-olds at
00:32:35.480 a professional level yeah i mean obviously but but at a minor level when these kids are just trying
00:32:40.520 to be happy and be kids not letting them socialize with their friends just because they're a bit
00:32:44.780 different they can be happy but to be honest though a lot of the transgenderism is coming
00:32:50.660 from leftist adults who are convincing their kids of this nonsense and it is really sad to see the
00:32:57.700 ideology of parents uh listen i think god knows what he's doing when he makes a little boy i think
00:33:03.460 god knows what he's doing when he makes a little girl and i think the phenomenon of woke leftist
00:33:09.960 adults you know i read a tweet once from cynthia nixon the actress who said her child is trans
00:33:16.480 her sister's child is trans all of her friends child children are trans you know what that is
00:33:20.460 that's adults putting their politics and their ideology on their kids and i feel maybe it's
00:33:26.600 Letting their kids be who they really are.
00:33:28.220 Maybe.
00:33:28.680 You don't know.
00:33:29.700 We don't know.
00:33:30.740 You know what?
00:33:31.480 If you don't know what a boy is and you don't know what a girl is, there's a reason you
00:33:34.360 work at TMZ.
00:33:35.760 All right then, Ted.
00:33:36.820 I appreciate it, man.
00:33:37.680 Thank you.
00:33:39.080 Senator, I got to say, I enjoy when TMZ starts asking you questions in D.C.
00:33:44.460 It's one of the best things I've ever done to expand to D.C. this way.
00:33:48.320 And your last line there was quite a zinger.
00:33:51.540 Well played.
00:33:51.980 Now, this also comes, as Donald Trump said, that if he coached in the WNBA, he'd ask LeBron if he had any desire to be a woman.
00:34:01.600 Now, this is why the WNBA is responding the way they are.
00:34:04.480 They're a woke league.
00:34:05.940 Here's the president in his own words.
00:34:09.340 And I'll tell you what, if I were ever, I'd be the greatest woman's basketball coach in history.
00:34:16.060 Because I don't like LeBron James.
00:34:17.920 I like Michael Jordan much better.
00:34:19.820 But I'd go up to LeBron James.
00:34:24.940 It doesn't matter.
00:34:25.840 I'd say, LeBron, did you ever have any desire to be a woman?
00:34:29.960 Because what I'd love you to do is star on my team that I'm building up.
00:34:33.680 I will have the greatest team in history.
00:34:35.460 They'll never lose.
00:34:36.840 Nobody will come within 70 points of this team.
00:34:40.360 Now, we have to change that, and we have to make it okay to talk about it.
00:34:44.420 You know, the young lady I was talking about is afraid to talk about it.
00:34:48.060 She's shunned and she's canceled when she talks about it.
00:34:51.220 This is crazy.
00:34:52.740 You listen to Donald Trump there.
00:34:54.420 Not only does he make a great point, but he's right.
00:34:56.660 We should be able to talk about this.
00:34:58.320 And if you are an athlete that's trying to defend yourself,
00:35:01.140 specifically if you're a woman playing in women's sports,
00:35:03.500 you shouldn't be shunned or silenced the way that so many women in women's sports have been.
00:35:07.340 Riley Gaines is a great example of that.
00:35:09.600 Well, and now it's not hypothetical because following Clay Travis's challenge this past week,
00:35:14.760 Ennis Cantor, Ennis Freedom Cantor, decided, okay, if you guys are saying that any dude who
00:35:22.120 says he's a woman can play, I'll take you up on it and give a listen to Ennis Freedom's
00:35:27.620 announcement. After careful consideration on reviewing the current eligibility guidelines,
00:35:32.280 I am officially declaring myself a WNBA prospect. If simply declaring who you are is all that's
00:35:38.420 required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA. My team and I
00:35:44.480 have carefully examined the WNBA eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding
00:35:49.680 self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially
00:35:55.200 declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in May 2027. I am definitely not here to
00:36:00.640 mock, make fun of, or to suspect any community or personal choices. I am simply asking that the
00:36:06.560 current rules be applied equally to everyone. The rules that represent the very values many
00:36:11.520 WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for. My team and I are prepared to ensure these
00:36:17.200 guidelines are applied equally, consistently, and without exception. And I look forward to the
00:36:22.360 WNBA honoring its stated principles. See you at training camp. See you at training camp. That's
00:36:30.500 the best line of all. So I got to ask, Senator, over under the WNBA flinches, now having men who
00:36:39.300 are declaring their women uh declare for the wnba draft will they go through with it or do you think
00:36:45.660 they'll probably say okay we got to fix this now and actually protect women well and let's give a
00:36:52.400 little more context uh ennis canter is six foot ten he's 250 pounds he played in the nba he went
00:37:01.540 in the first draft he was the number three pick in his career in the nba he averaged 11.2 points
00:37:07.220 per game, 7.8 rebounds per game, and 0.9 assists per game. He was the starting center for the
00:37:13.600 Boston Celtics. He was a serious NBA center, and then actually he ended up getting fired
00:37:21.620 because he spoke out against the Chinese communists oppressing the Uyghurs, having
00:37:27.620 concentration camps of over a million people, and the NBA blocked him out and shut him out
00:37:32.320 because they cared more about selling the NBA to China than they did about human rights.
00:37:38.480 And so even though Cantor was still like a top-performing center in the NBA,
00:37:44.640 he immediately became shunned.
00:37:47.200 In this instance, look, I tweeted out in response to Ennis's,
00:37:52.000 and he changed his name to Ennis Freedom Cantor, which I think is great.
00:37:56.720 And, you know, I got to know Ennis a little bit.
00:37:59.660 But I said, all right, if this happens, Ennis is going to break Wilt Chamberlain's record for 100 points in a game.
00:38:07.920 Wilt has the record for the most points in a pro basketball game.
00:38:10.900 It was 100 points.
00:38:12.120 Because literally, at 6'10", he can just stand there with his hand above his head holding the ball.
00:38:18.520 And there's literally nothing they could do.
00:38:20.560 And then he'll just drop it in the basket.
00:38:21.960 Like, it would be ridiculous.
00:38:23.140 By the way, right after that, right after he did so, Royce White, who also played in the NBA, announced that he was declaring for the WNBA draft.
00:38:36.900 The WNBA has a crisis.
00:38:38.720 Their commissioner came out and they said, well, these questions are very complicated, which means I think it is 100% they are going to block them.
00:38:50.080 I don't know how, because their ideology is incoherent.
00:38:54.280 Their ideology says anyone who says, I am a woman, as of that instant, you are a woman.
00:39:01.940 That's what their ideology says.
00:39:04.160 Now you've got two former NBA players who are like, all right, I'll call your bluff.
00:39:08.380 I'm a woman.
00:39:08.900 Let's go.
00:39:10.060 And so they're going to have to say something to make clear what everybody knows.
00:39:16.640 These guys are not women.
00:39:18.660 and neither are the other dudes who are playing against women.
00:39:23.980 Everyone knows that.
00:39:25.660 And so I'm really glad that the two of these declared.
00:39:31.660 I think it is 100%.
00:39:33.140 All right, I'm going to wager you $20, Ben.
00:39:36.760 I have to decide if I want to take this bet.
00:39:38.840 You got to decide.
00:39:39.840 I didn't say $500.
00:39:41.440 I said $20.
00:39:42.460 Okay.
00:39:42.880 20 bucks that Ennis Cantor never plays one minute in the WNBA.
00:39:49.660 Yeah, I'm going to agree with you, so I'm not going to waste my 20 bucks.
00:39:53.640 But I wonder, I do think there's a 1% chance that the NBA just sticks their feet in
00:40:01.440 and says, we're not moving, and then they get obliterated by,
00:40:04.640 and by the way, I bet you there's more guys than these two, excuse me,
00:40:07.960 these guys are now transitioning to women who identify as transgender
00:40:11.160 that are going to come forward and do this as well.
00:40:12.940 I bet you we're not done yet.
00:40:14.840 And by the way, we are seeing life imitate art.
00:40:19.800 There's a fabulous movie called Lady Ballers
00:40:22.980 that the Daily Wire put on
00:40:24.480 that has a cameo from yours truly.
00:40:28.560 And it is hysterical.
00:40:31.260 The whole premise of it is
00:40:32.620 is that five guys in their 40s
00:40:34.460 who as teenagers had been
00:40:36.820 the Kentucky State High School basketball champs
00:40:39.260 decide in their 40s,
00:40:40.780 let's declare we're women and compete in the WNBA and they dominate like crazy.
00:40:45.400 And it's, it's, it's a light comedy.
00:40:47.240 It's sort of done in the style of dodgeball, but it's got some really,
00:40:51.620 really funny lines. And, and so if you haven't watched lady ballers,
00:40:55.920 I highly recommend it. You would enjoy it. It's funny.
00:40:59.180 And we may be watching lady ballers between Clay Travis's $10 million bet.
00:41:04.500 And Ennis freedom canter lady ballers is coming to life.
00:41:08.500 You're absolutely right.
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