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00:02:20.580Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:02:23.340Such a pleasure to be joined by all of you semi-fascists, you extreme threats to democracy.
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00:02:51.020Were you aware that we're all a bunch of fascists before the White House told us so?
00:02:55.700You know, for a long time, communists have been calling their enemies fascists.
00:03:00.400That has been a talking point from the radical left.
00:03:04.180That being said, you know, I think we're seeing a new development that is really troubling, which it is one thing for people in politics to demonize their political opponents.
00:03:15.220It is an entirely new threshold to start demonizing the voters.
00:03:21.220We should not be surprised to see Biden's White House press secretary saying nasty things about Donald Trump.
00:03:27.700We understand she doesn't like Donald Trump.
00:04:37.800Well, the half the country part, I think, is the important one because the statement is simply incoherent.
00:04:43.660If you say that half the country is a threat to government of the people, by the people and for the people, that the only way that we can have government of the people, by the people and for the people is by getting rid of
00:04:54.760half the people, that, of course, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
00:04:58.400Do you think that the White House will pay for this comment in the way that Hillary Clinton did?
00:05:03.500Because it seems like it's even much further than Hillary went to call someone deplorable.
00:05:08.400That's one thing to say, hey, you're basically a black shirt or a Nazi.
00:05:19.260Well, look, I think for the people spewing this, they're spewing it from ignorance.
00:05:25.120They don't actually know what fascists are.
00:05:28.240But but for them, you know, it's ironic that that she says the very definition of fascist, what she means by fascist is something I don't like.
00:06:29.020So I'm going to make an invitation right now to Corrine Jean-Pierre.
00:06:33.020If you believe it's not happening that people are walking across the border, Corrine, I invite you come to Texas, come to the Rio Grande Valley, spend one hour on the border.
00:06:45.540And I promise you, you and I will see dozens, if not hundreds of people walking across the border.
00:06:53.500You can pick any damn hour of the day you want.
00:06:55.880You can come at two in the morning, you can come at noon, you will see them coming because they are coming every single hour.
00:07:03.120And then let me say also to the corrupt corporate media, every single person that holds themselves out as a fact checker, PolitiFact, The Washington Post, all of these bogus yellow journalists.
00:07:16.500If all of them have not immediately called this an 11 alarm pants on fire, then they are every bit as complicit in the mendacity as is the White House that pays her to misinform the American people.
00:07:31.160This, I suppose, was what was most shocking.
00:07:45.960It's within the realm of plausibility.
00:07:48.420But then when Corrine Jean-Pierre comes out and says, no, people aren't crossing the border.
00:07:52.720When we're looking at 2 million or really more than 2 million illegal border crossings to happen this year, that's so strange.
00:07:59.520When Corrine Jean-Pierre apparently doesn't know what the administration, her own administration, has done about Title 42 and as that pertains to illegal border crossings, that to me, I just don't understand it.
00:08:14.540And if it were willful ignorance, I don't understand why this woman would want to hang herself out to dry like this and make her look so extremely uninformed, if not unintelligent, when talking to reporters.
00:08:26.460Well, the corporate media is in part to blame because she recognizes she's not going to be held to account.
00:08:32.340She knows the Washington Post will happily carry her water.
00:08:39.740It's the reason why – you know, we've had lots of discussion about why does Joe Biden not go down to the border.
00:08:44.500It's not that he doesn't want to see it.
00:08:47.260It's that if he comes, the cameras will follow.
00:08:51.020And their only strategy is ignore the chaos.
00:08:54.700You know, the last time I took seven senators down to the border a couple of months ago, we went out on midnight patrol, and within minutes, we encountered the first group that had just crossed the border.
00:09:04.620A few minutes later, we encountered the second group, and it was one after the other after the other.
00:09:39.720I'm very curious in start the stopwatch.
00:09:42.420I'm predicting six days, 13 hours and 12 minutes before she freaks out and calls Greg Abbott, Sauron, the embodiment of evil, destroying humanity because she gets, you know, four or five thousand illegal immigrants.
00:09:58.440Texas has had three and a half million.
00:10:00.120Right. So, so far, it's been a lot of NIMBY-ism, you know, not in my backyard from the blue state Democrats and the blue city Democrats, though I have to wonder when we're talking about sending these people to Chicago, a lot of people leave their Latin American countries because the conditions are not great.
00:10:19.060There aren't there's not a lot of economic prosperity.
00:10:21.000And it's actually just downright dangerous there.
00:10:24.020If you're going to Chicago, frankly, I suspect it's going to be more dangerous there than it is in a lot of the places that these people are fleeing from.
00:10:31.180And, Senator, I've got to bring this up because, as usual, the last week's episode of Verdict drops.
00:10:45.860They're very upset with you because you pointed out that some people who take out a ton of student loans, who study useless things like gender studies or some other kind of nonsense, then end up working all sorts of jobs they don't want to be working, including as baristas.
00:11:03.240Senator, you ended up in a Bernie Sanders campaign video.
00:11:10.540Bernie put out an official video responding to Verdict.
00:11:13.420I love when this podcast drives the political news.
00:11:18.340I will say also that that that and all of the Bernie bros, their heads exploded.
00:11:23.580I got to say, by the way, you knew that was going to happen because when we were doing the last episode and I I talked about the slackers who had wasted six years with getting a useless degree working as baristas might come out and vote if they can get off their bong long enough to do so.
00:11:38.740I saw in the register, I saw in the register, I saw in the register, your eyes grow wide as you're like, oh, crap.
00:11:43.740But I also I want to I want to tap into your Yale education because there is a logical fallacy that these lefties are engaged in.
00:11:51.600When I said that some slackers are baristas.
00:11:56.340They translated that into all baristas are slackers are slackers, which is just not, you know, maybe you could help me out with with deductive logic.
00:12:10.360But I'm pretty sure that second statement doesn't flow from the first.
00:12:13.620Are there people who wasted years studying utterly useless things who couldn't get a job afterwards and who are now working as a barista and are slackers?
00:12:29.200They're wonderful, great people who are baristas who, by the way, many of whom don't have student loans and are getting screwed by the Democrats because they're saying the guy that studied queer pet literature.
00:12:42.080And has one hundred thousand dollars in debt because oddly enough, you know, to to reference another podcast, you know, Mickey and Pluto going at it other than getting a job at Disney.
00:12:53.260There's not a lot of job market for queer pet literature.
00:13:06.340You wouldn't attack you wouldn't attack a barista.
00:13:09.020I love my barista, right, but there are plenty of very, very useless jobs and useless workers in America.
00:13:17.040And then what a coincidence on this story.
00:13:19.820One of the most absolutely useless counterproductive people in the United States would be Randy Weingarten, the head of the teacher union.
00:13:28.880And Randy Weingarten also jumped on the campaign after Bernie dinged you for it.
00:13:33.720And Randy Weingarten led a sort of barista themed video to attack you as being, you know, I don't know, anti worker or something like that.
00:13:47.340One, there's a reason why the lefty Twitter mafia leapt on this so aggressively, which is today's Democratic Party hates working class people.
00:13:59.160They're hammering working class people.
00:14:01.480They work for the billionaires on the coast.
00:14:03.840They do things that are massive wealth transfers from working class people to privileged elites.
00:14:09.780This student loan forgiveness is an example of that.
00:14:12.680But their policies killing American energy, driving inflation.
00:14:15.820I mean, everything they're doing right now is responding to California environmentalist billionaires rather than blue collar steelworkers.
00:14:23.680So they leapt on the barista comment dishonestly because they wanted to claim to be a champion of the working man.
00:14:31.980But it is it only works if they're doing what Corrine Jean-Pierre did, which is being deliberately dishonest.
00:14:40.020Look, as you know, my dad washed dishes.
00:14:43.500The baristas who are full of ambition and want to work hard and climb the ladder to the American dream, that's a fantastic thing.
00:14:51.860But under Joe Biden, the Democrats, it's harder and harder for them to do that.
00:14:57.180And, you know, you talk about Randy Weingarten.
00:15:02.100It is difficult to think of a person in the last three years who has done more damage to the United States of America than Randy Weingarten.
00:15:11.700She has that there's no person more responsible for the school lockdowns.
00:15:16.360We had schools all across America shut down and many blue states shut down for weeks and then months and then over a year.
00:15:25.040And, you know, just this week, the test story scores came out.
00:15:29.460And I want to read what what they were because it really is stunning.
00:15:33.200So the average scores for nine-year-old students in 2022 declined five points in reading and seven points in mathematics compared to 2020.
00:16:26.240That will stay with them in all likelihood the rest of their lives.
00:16:29.260And in particular, you screwed African-American and Hispanic kids.
00:16:35.560And the gap is wider than it's been in a long, long time because of Randy Weingarten and Joe Biden and every Senate Democrat who happily voted along with them in favor of the school lockdowns.
00:16:47.380Yeah, truly a more odious figure in American public life than Randy Weingarten and the, you know, public school unions, it would be hard to point to.
00:16:59.200I mean, the effects of that are just so awful.
00:17:02.120As you say, it's not as though you can just fix that overnight, wave a magic wand, and okay, the scores are better now.
00:17:07.420This is going to track a very long time.
00:17:09.680So it's really, really rich to hear lectures on labor from that woman.
00:17:14.680Speaking of being really tough on the kids and putting kids in horrible situations, there is a story that, well, one cries out to God for vengeance,
00:17:25.260but also cries out to Washington, D.C. and state legislatures for justice, which is that in California now, there is a doctor who was just caught on video admitting that he performs transgender surgeries on minors and not just minors on 13-year-old girls and not just on 13-year-old girls.
00:17:47.580He says, I would perform it on 12-year-olds.
00:17:51.000He says, there is no lower limit to the age of children on whom I would perform these surgeries.
00:17:58.740It's obviously ghastly, the idea of a hysterectomy in a 12- or 13-year-old.
00:18:04.140My question is, what can we do about this heinous child abuse?
00:18:10.980Look, it's not just the doctor that's carrying out these horrific acts of child abuse.
00:18:16.000It's the entire dishonest political system and media system.
00:18:21.780It is our Democratic politicians who refuse to acknowledge this is happening.
00:18:26.520It is the corrupt corporate media who refuses to acknowledge that it's happening.
00:18:30.600It's big tech that silence anyone who points out it's happening.
00:18:34.180Look, as we sit here today, Libs of TikTok, a fabulous account run by an Orthodox Jewish woman, is still banned from TikTok.
00:18:42.280Why? For reporting the truth, which is the Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, was performing mutilations, life-altering surgeries on minors.
00:18:56.660And actually, Libs of TikTok, a sometimes humorous but incredibly valuable Twitter account, not just documented it on the website of the hospital, which advertised that they did it for minors.
00:19:10.040But she recorded two different employees at the hospital on tape saying, oh, yes, 16-year-old, no problem.
00:19:19.080And I got to say, the corporate media, so big tech banned her because she dared speak the truth.
00:19:24.640And then the corporate media, the Washington Post, wrote this absurd story where they said, well, yes, it's true the website said they were performing these surgeries on minors.
00:19:34.080And it's true that two different employees at the hospital said on tape they were performing these surgeries on minors.
00:19:53.800And look, number one, these surgeries, if you're a guy chopping it off and then trying to build female genitalia, or if you're a girl ripping chunks of flesh off the arm and leg and trying to construct something that they think resembles male genitalia.
00:20:16.080And good God, number one, I mean, this is stuff out of a house of horrors.
00:20:22.360But number two, if you read the medical studies of the consequences of those surgeries, an enormous percentage of those surgeries require a second, a third, fourth, fifth surgery to correct it because you have all sorts of complications.
00:20:39.520You have infections, you have infections, you have perforations.
00:20:45.040Look, it's hard to discuss without getting really graphic, but you read stories of people who have this surgery have to use a colonoscopy bag and crap in a bag for the rest of their lives.
00:20:58.880For any person to have this surgery, I think there are a great many of them who regret it almost instantly because it is the rest of their lives are devastated.
00:21:13.940And then to amplify it and to say a child, a child who is not yet mature, not yet able to ration rationally reason through the consequences, that if a 12 year old believes at that moment that he or she is not a he or she,
00:21:29.620that you should permanently chop it off or permanently sterilize and remove the uterus of that young child, that's utterly indefensible.
00:21:45.100It's one thing if an adult wants to make that decision.
00:21:47.460You've got a right to do that if you're an adult.
00:21:49.580But the idea that 12 and 13 year olds should be doing it or minors at all, I think is completely indefensible.
00:21:57.940We have age of consent laws which state that a 16 or a 17 year old can't have a one night stand with, I don't know, a 19 or a 20 or 21 year old because their brains are just not formed enough.
00:22:13.080They're not in control of their rational faculties yet.
00:22:15.960And so they can't consent to make those decisions.
00:22:18.660So on the one hand, you have that enshrined in law.
00:22:21.740On the other hand, forget a 16 year old, a six year old can consent not to a one time kind of sexual escapade, but a lifelong sexual decision that will have that will have consequences well beyond even the question of sex and gender.
00:22:39.680But could can give you osteoporosis, can give you bone damage, can give you infections, can can put you on a lifelong regimen of expensive, very powerful drugs.
00:23:45.100And by the way, we we have Mark Zuckerberg who told Joe Rogan.
00:23:50.080Yeah, the FBI called and asked us not to not not to allow people to talk about Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:23:56.120I mean, you literally have the government engaging in silencing discussion that is contrary to their political narrative and their political partisan interests.
00:24:08.320Speaking of the wokeness in our various branches of government, I simply could not believe this story that I just read, which is that a division of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces,
00:24:22.040which is the branch tasked with confronting China, has ordered its senior leaders, as according to Washington Free Beacon and commanders, to stop using gender pronouns in written formats,
00:24:33.380saying the shift to more neutral language will help improve the fighting forces' lethality.
00:24:39.640And they say in accordance with the diverse PACAF priority, we must embrace, promote and unleash the unleash the potential of diversity and inclusion.
00:24:50.420So you've got to you've got to stop using the correct pronouns and call people Z and Zim and Zer and there.
00:24:57.340And that's going to make our fighting forces more lethal.
00:25:01.080Am I reading the Babylon Bee, Senator?
00:26:15.780I don't even know how you saturday, saturday this crap anymore because it is so ridiculous.
00:26:21.720And I got to tell you, I hear from active duty military all the time who are beyond frustrated by this garbage.
00:26:29.460And the problem is it now extends up the chain of command because the way you get promoted in Joe Biden's Department of Defense is you embrace this idiocy and and apparently no longer even know what a pronoun is.
00:26:45.360So is is the only way that we solve this just winning in 2024?
00:26:48.640I remember when I saw that woke army ad whenever it was about a year ago where it was an army recruitment ad and the ad, it looked like it could have been, I don't know, a Procter and Gamble commercial from Pride Month.
00:27:00.060It was a cartoon about this girl and how her lesbian mothers at pride parades really taught her how to fight America's enemies or something like that.
00:27:07.880I mean, it was, again, sort of beyond satire.
00:27:10.840And I thought, by golly, it's the this is the army.
00:27:14.680You know, this was one of the few institutions that conservative people hadn't totally lost to the left.
00:27:22.020The only way to fix it is just we've got to get a Republican president in there to fire the top brass and bring some normal people back into military leadership.
00:27:31.820Look, the left has always hated the military.
00:27:34.100You have people like Bernie Sanders who always want to slash the budget for the military and render us vulnerable.
00:27:38.860You have the Biden White House that believes every enemy on Earth, the way to deal with them is surrender to them, show weakness, show appeasement.
00:27:47.520You know, Biden is right in the middle of trying to sign a ridiculous deal with Iran to give them billions of dollars that they will use to kill Americans and develop nuclear weapons, which could be used to kill millions of Americans.
00:27:57.700One of the ways they express their hatred for the military is by undermining it from within, by making it a political entity.
00:28:08.880And that is profoundly harmful to the military.
00:28:11.740Listen, I don't want the military to be a Republican entity.
00:28:15.080I want the job of the military to be to defend this nation and be prepared to kill the enemy.
00:28:35.780It pertains to November, and it's a little nitty gritty on the politics.
00:28:40.360Baltimore Bill writes, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, NRSC, canceled millions worth of ads across numerous battleground states, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada.
00:28:52.360There are winnable races here, which would tilt the balance of power back to the Republicans.
00:28:57.780Would Mitch McConnell really prefer Fetterman and Kelly, the Democrats, in the Senate?
00:29:38.520I think we're headed to a very good election still.
00:29:41.380And I think we will see going into September and October additional momentum.
00:29:47.980Between now and Election Day, I am going to be on the road nonstop campaigning for Senate candidates across the country and for House candidates across the country, because I think it's going to be a big victory in November.
00:30:02.560It's also worth pointing out as we're being told that the tides are turning and the Democrats are going to do just fine.
00:30:10.160Yes, the Republicans had, what, a 10-point lead on the generic ballot in July that narrowed to a five-point lead.
00:30:16.320We're still pretty much exactly where the Democrats were in 2018, and it narrowed for the Democrats between August and November of 2018, and they still did great in those elections, in those midterm elections.
00:30:27.760So I just, listen, you know it on the ground a lot better than I did, but I read the reports in the media, and then I look at the actual numbers, and I think these things don't match up.
00:30:48.900They want those who believe in common sense and reason and individual liberty to be demoralized, to say we can't win, to stay home.
00:30:59.360That's how the Marxists prevail, is they discourage people of good sense from, that they engage in voter suppression.
00:31:09.580And every story you read about how the Democrats are doing well is a deliberate, calculated effort at voter suppression from the corporate media.
00:31:19.640One last question before we get out of here.
00:31:44.040America first means a lot of things, but I think it means standing with the working men and women and defending the interest of the United States, protecting America in foreign policy.
00:31:57.180It's about 45 minutes long at the America First Policy Institute, entirely devoted to what does America first mean in foreign policy?
00:32:05.660I don't think it means what some people are trying to claim that it means, which is isolationism and withdrawing from the world.
00:32:13.680I think that is twisting what America first is about.
00:32:17.400It's certainly not what we did when Donald Trump was president.
00:32:19.840I think it means, in the foreign policy context, putting the national security interest of the United States first and foremost, being willing to defeat our enemies, but not sending our sons and daughters into harm's way for amorphous global norms or to protect democracy or such other gobbledygook.
00:32:40.740But the job of the military is to protect Americans and keep us safe.
00:32:46.440On economic and domestic policy, I think it means standing with blue collar workers, standing with working men and women.
00:32:54.560That means things like securing the border and stopping unlimited illegal immigration.
00:32:59.500That means defending small businesses so there are lots of jobs that are plentiful.
00:33:05.520That, to me, is America first as well, which is the steelworkers and truck drivers and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and baristas, who we stand for and the Democrats crap in the coffee cup of baristas.
00:33:21.060That is America first to me on that vivid note on that vivid note.
00:33:30.700Oh, thank goodness, because I don't really want to end on on that image that, albeit accurate, is quite is quite disgusting.
00:33:39.320What do you think the the top issue has to be that Republicans focus on going into the midterms?
00:33:45.440So on polling, the top three issues in the country are inflation with gas prices being the most salient piece of that, then crime and then the chaos on our southern border.
00:33:58.660Those are consistently the top three issues.
00:34:01.340I think we should focus on them front and center.
00:34:05.320In terms of my passions, I would say two things.
00:34:12.200Like the Marxist left is destroying America, destroying our values, tearing down our founders, tearing down our Constitution, tearing down our Bill of Rights.
00:34:22.200And so defending who we are as America, I think, is foundational.
00:34:28.040And in terms of a policy issue, I think there's no domestic policy issue that matters more than school choice.
00:34:34.360And so I am deeply engaged in campaigning for candidates who support school choice, raising money for candidates who support school choice.
00:34:43.100It's campaigning to defeat candidates who oppose school choice, doing everything we can to stop the Randy Weingartens of the world who are responsible for for inflicting enormous harm on children.
00:34:56.060And she cackles away with Joe Biden and the Democrats at the White House while the kids get left behind.
00:35:02.140Sounds just like a fascist, giving people more choices over their future and the future of their family.
00:35:09.880We got a regular Mussolini over here, at least as as it goes into Joe Biden's sort of warped brain.
00:35:19.100There's obviously much more to talk about.
00:35:21.000You will be talking about much more on The Cloak Room with our friend Liz Wheeler.
00:35:26.880Hi, Michael. Yes. And Senator, great answer. And Verdict Plus, thank you for your great questions.
00:35:32.960I don't know if you guys realize, but I'm sitting here thinking, how on earth do I segue from poo-poo in a cup into what we're talking about on Cloak Room?
00:35:39.980This is what you give me every week, except for Verdict Plus fans who give questions that give me a little easier time.
00:35:46.440So this is what's called a hard segue.
00:35:48.700Over on The Cloak Room today, we're going to talk about what happened in Alaska.
00:35:51.860Republicans lost a seat in the House of Representatives because of rank choice voting in the Alaska special election,
00:35:59.160which means the Democrat actually only won 40 percent of the vote.
00:36:02.820The Republicans won 60 percent of the vote.
00:36:05.180Yet somehow the Democrat is the one that's going to Washington, D.C. to represent the people of Alaska.
00:36:09.920We're going to talk about how that happened and just the structure of the whole rank choice voting and why it's a bad thing.
00:36:48.080If you want to hear some of these discussions, not just through your phone or your computer, if you want to hear them live, well, you got to go check out Verdict Live.
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