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00:01:41.060 Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review. Ben Ferguson with you.

00:01:45.500 And here are some of the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about.

00:01:48.640 First up, the Democratic candidate to replace Graham Plattner is a guy by the name of Troy Jackson.

00:01:55.700 He may actually be even worse than Plattner, and we break it down.

00:02:00.120 Also, Mondani in New York City, he's excited about his government-run grocery stores.

00:02:06.100 Well, the big question is, how are they going to work and who's going to run them?

00:02:10.960 We explain that as well.

00:02:12.900 And finally, in a shocking bombshell story, we now have learned that months before Donald

00:02:19.060 Trump was even elected to his second term in office, Democrat attorney generals were

00:02:24.680 joining together to conspire to sue Donald Trump on every single issue.

00:02:31.120 It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.

00:02:34.220 Let's talk about the elections here in the midterm

00:02:36.920 One of the biggest ones everybody was watching

00:02:38.760 We were heavily involved in this was Graham Plattner

00:02:41.000 Graham Plattner was a radical extremist

00:02:44.460 He's a guy that had the SS tattoo on him

00:02:47.720 He was a guy that had countless warning signs

00:02:50.440 Democrats defended him at all costs

00:02:52.100 Until they thought he couldn't win anymore

00:02:53.980 Then they excommunicated him

00:02:56.060 But the replacement is not much better than Graham Plattner

00:02:59.780 Which is the funny part of the entire story

00:03:02.100 It's like they just changed the name

00:03:03.580 but there's still the same set of major issues.

00:03:05.980 Well, it turned out we learned a lot about today's Democrats

00:03:08.480 based on the main Senate race. 0.87

00:03:10.420 We learned, first of all, that being a Nazi is just fine. 0.65

00:03:13.440 That doesn't disqualify you from the Democrat Party embracing you. 0.79

00:03:17.500 In fact, not just being a Nazi, but tattooing a Totenkampff,

00:03:20.740 the image of the SS in the concentration camps, on your chest

00:03:24.260 for almost every single major Democrat except John Fetterman,

00:03:28.360 and Fetterman showed courage, but everyone else, A-OK.

00:03:31.360 Being a communist. Plattner explicitly called himself a communist. A-OK with every national

00:03:37.820 Democrat. Being a misogynist. Repeatedly abusing women. Not a problem. Hey, that's the Democrat

00:03:44.280 party. They're good with that. Insulting and denigrating veterans. Great by them. Hating

00:03:49.620 Israel. Great by them. Being an anti-Semite. No problem there. Look, you pile one or the other. 1.00

00:03:57.340 discussing your bizarre sexual fantasies and porta potties which was just weird i mean i mean let's 0.98

00:04:03.640 just say that that is strange by the way yeah that's like you g rating it for real but but you 0.92

00:04:10.420 put all those together and what does elizabeth warren say about platner he's my kind of guy

00:04:15.000 what is roe connor someone who used to pretend to be a democrat moderate he comes and campaigns

00:04:20.260 with him says all right nazi communists this is who we are bernie sanders bernie sanders

00:04:26.860 all of them and then what happened the polling numbers took a turn down and they suddenly said

00:04:33.380 graham who and and they defenestrated him all right ben do you know what the word defenestrate

00:04:38.840 means i i please educate me on this one it's it's actually a great word defenestrate means to throw

00:04:45.420 someone like the word of the week i'm going to use it on the next tv hit and people are just

00:04:48.940 gonna be like what did he just say to defenestrate someone is to throw them out the window not the

00:04:55.940 door. It is specifically defenestration is throwing someone out the window and they

00:05:00.740 defenestrated Graham Plattner. And then they realized, oh, wait, we got to run somebody

00:05:06.380 because we want power more than anything. And so they went and grabbed a different communist,

00:05:12.440 a different DSA radical, a different white guy who kind of looks like Graham Plattner.

00:05:17.540 It's almost like they had a casting call. Okay, guys who can pretend to be blue collar white 0.58

00:05:21.940 guys all right you'll do and and and listen this guy is is perfectly normal nothing to see here yes

00:05:28.720 he's been a dsa communist yes he's been a hardcore leftist yes he has this really odd pattern of

00:05:34.700 screaming and yelling and berating women wait wait that's actually the same thing platner did

00:05:38.980 this seems to be a democrat uh democrat pattern oh and there's there's one more deal um yeah he

00:05:46.260 married his cousin and like they had they have two kids together with his second cousin yeah why

00:05:53.240 why don't you roll that back about 15 seconds for people that are like wait did you just say that

00:05:57.500 let's make sure we make that clear look i i i think the democrat that their plan their motto now

00:06:05.520 is we can handle rape we can handle incest we just can't handle both yeah one or the other

00:06:12.880 one or the other right and let's hold on unless we think you can win then all sins are forgiven

00:06:17.940 and and by the way i want you to listen to elizabeth warren remember elizabeth warren who

00:06:23.880 said that that graham plattner the nazi communist was her kind of guy here's what elizabeth warren

00:06:28.900 now says on on uh the incestuous troy jackson oh i'm feeling good uh i'm feeling good about

00:06:36.080 troy jackson you'll get to talk to him in just a minute you'll see why i'm feeling good he's the

00:06:41.280 guy for maine um but i'm also feeling good i'm feeling good about michigan i was just there as

00:06:47.660 you know it's just there day before yesterday uh on the ground uh campaigning with abdul al-sayed

00:06:54.500 and the energy the people who just can finish the sentences you know get money out of politics get

00:07:03.380 more money into people's pockets and get health care for everyone she i mean it is easy to get

00:07:11.460 her excited about pretty much anybody in politics is what we're learning now as long as you're a 0.96

00:07:15.700 crazy democrat and by the way abdul al said this is the radical islamist in michigan who hates jews 0.97

00:07:24.300 hates israel and hates america he is a communist he is an open communist he is an islamist um he 0.98

00:07:30.800 looks at Mondami and says, that guy's too moderate for me. And you know what she says? 0.65

00:07:35.800 Al-Sayed, he's my kind of guy. Troy Jackson, I love the fact that Elizabeth Warren connects

00:07:41.220 Troy Jackson to Al-Sayed. If you are an America-hating communist to Elizabeth Warren,

00:07:48.360 you're my kind of guy. If you are an Islamist who hates Jews, who hates Christians, 1.00

00:07:52.300 and hates the United States of America to Elizabeth Warren, you're her kind of guy. 0.98

00:07:57.840 um this is today's democrat party this is a pattern here you keep seeing the pattern forming

00:08:06.280 this is you i mean we've been worrying about this for a long time this is now literally the

00:08:11.680 democratic party in their belief system now look you might be saying gosh calling these people

00:08:17.220 communists calling them america hating marxists that's going too far and and listen we we've got

00:08:24.560 people listening to this podcast. We obviously have conservatives, we have Republicans, we have

00:08:28.020 libertarians who listen to this podcast, but we also have Democrats, we have independents,

00:08:32.260 we have people who are not terribly into politics who listen to it. So if you might be inclined to

00:08:37.980 be skeptical of what I'm saying, how about Bill Maher? Bill Maher is a lifelong liberal. He's

00:08:44.460 a Democrat. He's given millions of dollars to Democrats in the past. He's an outspoken

00:08:48.620 liberal, but an old school liberal back when liberals believed in things like free speech,

00:08:53.840 back when liberals didn't embrace terrorists who want to murder us all.

00:08:57.640 They just were more left wing than you and I.

00:09:00.380 Give a listen to Bill Maher making very much the same points I was just making.

00:09:05.180 And finally, new rule, Donald Trump has told one trillion lies.

00:09:08.720 But when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communist, that's

00:09:13.800 not one of them.

00:09:15.420 And it's not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates.

00:09:20.060 jadey vance was on the show and i told him that if the democratic party keeps going in the direction

00:09:25.800 of the dsa my vote was in play and all i heard all vacation was oh my god you're a republican now

00:09:32.640 no that's not what i said i said in play and here's why because not a week goes by where i

00:09:40.360 don't read about some newly chosen exciting new face in the democratic party and then when that 0.95

00:09:46.460 face opens its mouth the communist manifesto or some other crazy shit comes out again let's just 0.80

00:09:55.020 read the quotes the dsa platform says your work you work as much as you are able and no more than 0.98

00:10:01.800 needed if that was any closer to carl marx's dictum from each according to his abilities to

00:10:07.560 each according to his needs they'd be sued for plagiarism new york mayor mandani once tweeted

00:10:13.340 Karl Marx's words exactly. They're not trying to hide it. Their most popular influencer, Hassan

00:10:20.520 Piker, thinks communism is so groovy. He laments the fall of the two of the most murderous regimes

00:10:27.580 in history, the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China. Mandami's aide, his top aide, Sia Weaver,

00:10:34.620 said if you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over and

00:10:40.300 impoverish the white middle class. What? That's a goal? You know you're supposed to scare people

00:10:49.160 into voting for you, right? One of the new soon-to-be Democratic congresspeople, Darlesia

00:10:57.740 Chevalier, supports seizing all properties from landlords and said, seize the means of production.

00:11:04.900 mandami has said the end goal is seizing the means of production i think they want to seize

00:11:11.520 the means of production now maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether but

00:11:18.860 that's communism now the coalition within the dsa called the marxist unity group is in ascendance

00:11:24.960 and i must take them at their word when their words include our commitment is to the long-term

00:11:31.120 struggle for a fully liberated classless society in a word communism what do they have to do tweet 0.98

00:11:37.820 out elect more communists oh yeah see a weaver did that yes good i'm glad you're shot

00:11:45.700 people gotta realize this is going on senator i i gotta give full credit there to bill maher

00:11:55.060 for the way that he described how he described his vote being in play and and to say donald

00:12:00.520 Trump said this, and he's not lying to you. This is a very bold moment for Democrats like Bill

00:12:06.220 Maher, where I think they're trying to say, you guys have gone crazy, and maybe, unfortunately,

00:12:10.760 I may have helped get us there, and I'm trying to bring us back. And by the way, when Maher said

00:12:15.580 towards the end of that riff, he said, how could they make it more explicit? Maybe tweet out,

00:12:20.580 elect more communists. And then he puts up Sia Weaver, who is Mondami's right hand, 0.82

00:12:25.800 and she tweeted that out word for word, elect more communists. And you may or may not be

00:12:30.320 able to hear but a woman in the crowd literally gasps like like look and the crowd that goes to

00:12:36.620 mar is generally left of center that they and and they're just but look they're just shocked the

00:12:44.380 number of people who don't know don't know what's going on listen i tweeted out or this weekend

00:12:51.480 an excerpt from friday's pod where we were going through all of fauci's various lies and and his

00:12:57.240 repeated lies, including claiming that the COVID virus came from the wet market when he wrote in

00:13:05.660 his diary at the time that he knew that it did not, and he was lying. And I was reading through

00:13:09.720 the comments of some of the lefties, and they're just like, well, we believe the science, not crazy

00:13:14.260 right-wing things. And they just, like, facts no longer matter. Multiple U.S. government agents

00:13:20.420 have now concluded that COVID came from a Chinese government lab, including the FBI and HHS and 0.88

00:13:25.360 several government agencies, but to the ignorant left, facts don't matter. All that matters is 0.65

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00:14:43.900 iran blah blah blah america haters are winning the would-be communists the marxists are winning

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00:16:17.720 Now on to story number two.

00:16:19.860 Let's move into Mondani and what is happening right now in New York.

00:16:25.420 If they gain power and they get in positions of power,

00:16:29.640 you now have a playbook of what they're going to do with that power.

00:16:33.260 Look at what Mondani has done.

00:16:35.140 And now we have another example of this, even with his communist grocery stores. 0.78

00:16:40.220 What's even so funny about these grocery stores is 0.69

00:16:42.680 he was asked a question about these grocery store center and i'm sure you saw this it's gone viral

00:16:48.240 where they're like hey how do you gonna police people coming in from maybe outside of new york

00:16:53.460 city to go to these grocery stores to buy these groceries at a reduced rate ids yeah ids yeah we'll

00:16:59.740 just we'll just make sure they hold up their id and they show us that they actually live in new

00:17:03.780 york city so you can vote in the election without showing an id but you can't get your communist

00:17:10.200 groceries without an id got it that is democrat logic if you want to vote you don't need an id

00:17:16.860 in fact we're going to stop anyone from asking for an id if you want to buy government lettuce 0.99

00:17:22.820 show me a damn id you thief yeah yeah how is that not by the way racist because they said showing 0.98

00:17:28.660 an id was a form of racism and and yet to show an id to buy milk or eggs that's not racist i i'm 0.99

00:17:35.520 confused on their definition of racism now. And by the way, I want to read a thread from a guy

00:17:41.740 named Nick Conos, who is in the grocery business. And it was actually a very interesting thread that

00:17:48.380 I read on Twitter. He said, I downloaded and reviewed NYC's grocery store RFP as someone

00:17:53.780 who's built businesses and bought a lot of food. Wow. Forget for a moment whether the government

00:17:58.380 should own a grocery store. Let's review the doc instead. Let's here we go. And by the way,

00:18:02.880 For people that don't know, RFP is a request for a proposal.

00:18:05.240 New York has put out to the public these requests for proposals for people that would want to run these communist grocery stores for them.

00:18:11.500 So NYC strongly prefers bidders who commit to all five stores.

00:18:15.660 There are going to be five government-run grocery stores.

00:18:17.900 But three of the five sites haven't been identified.

00:18:21.580 Bidders are supposed to price unknown stores in unknown neighborhoods by assuming they're, quote, about 15,000 square feet.

00:18:31.760 So you don't know where it is.

00:18:32.640 you don't know what's going on but you want to price it bidders get preference for operating

00:18:38.580 all five stores presumably because scale lowers cost but new york city awards each store separately

00:18:45.640 so an all five bidder may win only one they want scale pricing while refusing to award scale the

00:18:54.280 scores must use a limited sku model they must also carry full grocery departments household goods

00:19:01.080 culturally specific products plus kosher halal vegan gluten-free dairy-free and diabetic options

00:19:08.520 pick makes sense the rfp says stores won't have deli counters or on-site food prep

00:19:15.180 then its core basket includes chicken salad egg saddle potato salad fruit salad and other deli

00:19:20.860 prepared foods so a deli without a deli yeah oh and you're going to ship them in every day

00:19:28.420 prepared gotcha nyc chooses and pays for the design equipment refrigeration and fit out

00:19:35.600 the operator pays utilities maintenance cleaning and security so nyc makes the capital decisions

00:19:42.340 while somebody else pays for the consequences that's how they control the goal posts

00:19:47.420 the best quote-unquote bid promises 30 discounts best in class wages and benefits

00:19:55.020 local sourcing sustainability community programs and full-time jobs then 20 of the score

00:20:01.980 goes to whoever claims they need the least subsidy low balling is the strategy and then

00:20:09.040 cost overruns are guaranteed core basket discounts must be universal quote sticker prices

00:20:15.860 not promotions then the operator must create a membership card to quote implement a discount

00:20:22.660 program. Which is it? Universal shelf price or an ID card system, by the way, also says it's

00:20:30.700 available to all people. And it doesn't even properly target their goals because the subsidy

00:20:36.780 isn't targeted. No means test. Anyone could shop there. So taxpayers will subsidize groceries for

00:20:43.480 affluent shoppers who happen to live nearby while needy families elsewhere get zero. I always

00:20:50.680 thought this was a terrible idea they could much better help people with money and hey 0.84

00:20:56.860 there are already programs that they could expand but after reading now i know it's a ridiculous

00:21:03.460 idea we have an efficient system just change the outcomes so naturally one asks why would they want

00:21:11.920 to build crappy grocery stores there's that uh 10 penny word again yep that have conflicting goals

00:21:18.940 and will be mismanaged because either that's their goal or else they have no idea how actually

00:21:26.800 to craft an rfp or run a business perhaps my favorite page that i'd not included my original

00:21:32.840 thread is just chef's kiss amazing how could you possibly estimate such a thing and such a level of

00:21:42.100 detail requested you might want additional spreadsheets and then there's a spreadsheet

00:21:46.440 that estimates the sales cost core basket items the sale cost non-core basket items the cost of

00:21:52.280 good souls the cost of personnel the cost of other operational cost programmatic like it is 1.00

00:22:00.280 these are idiots who've never run a business who don't know how to run a business who are like 1.00

00:22:07.680 let's give away a bunch of free crap let's order people to give away free crap let's not actually 1.00

00:22:14.200 think about how they get the stuff to give away and isn't this awesome we're communists yeah there 0.80

00:22:21.980 is a reason do you remember the moment the soviet union fell and here's my other question over under

00:22:29.800 on getting a legitimate company not like political propaganda bs but a legitimate company to actually

00:22:37.760 try to run these grocery stores do you think that they're going to get these requests for proposals

00:22:42.480 that aren't, you know, already the debt, you know, you're playing the game where it's a genuine

00:22:47.800 grocery. It's like, yep, I can do this and I want to do this business model. I think I can make

00:22:51.560 money. I don't think anybody would do it. I don't know how you do business on that.

00:22:56.280 These grocery stores are going to go broke. They're going to have shortages. They are requiring

00:23:02.240 IDs, which is the most laughable. The Democrat part is fully vested in saying IDs are horrible,

00:23:08.900 racist evil things and they're requiring ids to shop at the grocery stores and and and this is

00:23:15.540 going to be and by the way if they succeeded they would drive out of business the bodegas if you're

00:23:20.580 a a like small hispanic business owner the democrats want to bankrupt you yeah and look i

00:23:28.540 want you to listen listen for example to van jones who is a very left-wing commentator listen to him

00:23:35.900 talking about the communist party the democrat party give a listen okay van jose what are the

00:23:40.180 stakes here for democrats uh look uh this is this is the whole ball of wax um uh i'm from jackson

00:23:47.660 tennessee there was a guy named gil scott heron who had a great poem it was called the revolution

00:23:52.560 will not be televised uh gil scott heron is wrong the revolution is being televised

00:23:58.760 and podcasts and streamed and elected tonight.

00:24:04.080 Why is that?

00:24:05.620 It's because there is a credibility gap that's opened up

00:24:09.240 between the Democratic Party establishment and this insurgency.

00:24:13.300 People are looking at people and they're saying,

00:24:15.620 you've been telling us the same thing for a long time

00:24:17.600 and our lives are not even better.

00:24:18.760 We got Donald Trump twice.

00:24:20.300 There's also an innovation gap.

00:24:22.760 Why can you spend $60 million and get whooped like this?

00:24:27.880 because the old model was you get the donors to get the consultants to buy a bunch of ads and you

00:24:35.400 win. That's how you get attention. This movement says, I don't need donors, ads. I don't need

00:24:40.600 consultants. I'm going right to the people with TikTok and grassroots. And they've disintermediated

00:24:45.400 the entire donor class, disintermediated the entire consultant class. And this is a revolution.

00:24:51.300 And so this is going to happen again and again. The Democratic Party is now blockbuster. These

00:24:56.780 kids are netflix we are selling cds out the trunk this is a napster becoming spotify and it's

00:25:03.020 happening tonight by the way i'm trying to figure out exactly what van jones is saying there is he

00:25:08.940 terrified or is he just saying i guess i got to get on board with this center like which one is

00:25:14.680 it that was a weird way of putting it because it's like is he saying this a mistake or is he saying

00:25:19.720 well this is the reality so we better just get on board with it what is it i'm not sure yeah i i think

00:25:25.540 it's more the former i i think van is my read on that is that he's being courageous and saying this

00:25:31.140 is a dangerous thing that is happening but he's also saying what what i said at the beginning of

00:25:36.020 this podcast this is the energy this is the heart this is where the democrat party is yeah and it's

00:25:42.480 driving it forward all right here i want you to listen to francesca hong francesca hong is likely

00:25:47.780 to be the democrat nominee to be governor of wisconsin wisconsin is a purple state donald

00:25:52.700 Trump carried Wisconsin in 2024. Wisconsin is elected. It has a Republican senator. Ron Johnson

00:25:59.900 has elected numerous Republican governors. Francesca Hong is a full on communist. But I 1.00

00:26:04.960 want to listen. I want you to listen to her on CNN explaining why she hates Thanksgiving and 0.98

00:26:10.320 wants to cancel Thanksgiving. Here, give a listen. One thing that they brought up as well was a post 1.00

00:26:15.340 from you in 2021 where you said Americans should cancel Thanksgiving, should have done this in

00:26:21.720 16-21. The post has been deleted. Republicans have been highlighting it. Do you still believe

00:26:27.940 that Thanksgiving should be canceled? I'm a chef, and one of the first meals that I made

00:26:34.540 that was for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. You know, I always think

00:26:42.240 my hospitality background in owning a restaurant for seven, eight years, that bringing folks around

00:26:47.740 the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing but thanksgiving

00:26:54.380 is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities and so i think there i

00:27:00.620 wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views but views can evolve and

00:27:06.800 the position that i'm running for right now and i think my background as a chef will actually help

00:27:12.580 become a better governor that's able to bring more people to the table that that is one heck

00:27:18.540 of a sales pitch right there senator so that was caitlin collins on cnn she asked the question

00:27:24.220 and and if you're not watching this on youtube or on video you you need to watch caitlin collins

00:27:29.640 eyes because she's listening to her she asked the question hey you're running for governor

00:27:36.040 wisconsin do you still want to cancel thanksgiving and it's clear caitlin collins wants her to say

00:27:43.000 no i love thanksgiving like america's great no we don't want to cancel thanksgiving

00:27:47.700 yeah and francesca hung is like no no there's many people who are horrified by thanksgiving

00:27:53.120 and they hate america and those are my people so i'm not going to say that i'm a chef you know i

00:27:57.140 once made a thanksgiving meal like like like it's the most i gotta say that clip if saturday at live

00:28:06.960 was willing to make fun of leftists yeah that would be that's perfectly scripted it's perfectly

00:28:13.320 cast do you want to cancel and understand so these communists they hate capitalism they hate

00:28:21.460 property rights they hate the constitution they hate free speech they hate religious liberty 0.58

00:28:27.660 they hate the second amendment they hate america i i i i that gives me no joy to say that 0.93

00:28:37.060 yeah they think america is an evil repressive racist oppressive place and they want to destroy 0.93

00:28:44.640 it yep and so look that communist hates thanksgiving you know what she also hates and i 0.98

00:28:52.160 don't i don't even need to ask she hates the fourth of july she hates christmas uh she she 1.00

00:28:58.520 hates easter oh god knows she hates easter i i i think they're two holidays she likes juneteenth

00:29:05.860 and kwanzaa yeah and and even no no no okay hold on i'm sorry i made a major mistake mayday

00:29:12.620 May Day, the time to celebrate communist takeovers and oppression, that she supports. 0.87

00:29:20.740 But everything about America – by the way, if you are a Christian, she hates you. 0.98

00:29:25.240 If you're a Jew, she hates you. 0.98

00:29:27.660 If you're in business, she hates you. 1.00

00:29:30.280 If you love America, she hates you. 0.93

00:29:33.800 And the same is true with El Saeed. 0.88

00:29:36.060 The same is true with Mondami.

00:29:37.560 these communists and this is something i've said a number in a number of tv interviews 0.61

00:29:43.900 look there are republicans who are right now beating their chest and say this is great

00:29:49.900 the democrat party is going cray cray so we're going to win in november because they're so

00:29:54.400 extreme we're going to win i am not celebrating this look history shows there's a pendulum to

00:30:01.280 politics yes unfortunately the democrats will win again i wish they wouldn't i don't want them to

00:30:07.800 but there is going to be another democrat president yeah and i would like both national

00:30:16.020 parties to be normal people who are not freaking insane yes like when there's the next democrat

00:30:22.980 president i hope i would be thrilled if that doesn't happen in our lifetime but it will

00:30:27.100 I would like the next Democrat president not to be a communist who hates America, and what is happening to the Democrat Party is there, other than John Fetterman, is there one Democrat willing to say, no, we will not let our party be taken over?

00:30:45.600 And by the way, in the Republican Party, I'm standing up and saying to the anti-Semites that are trying to take over our party, no, we will not be a Jew-hating, Israel-hating, anti-capitalist, anti-American party. 0.76

00:30:58.080 Get the hell out of our party. 0.99

00:30:59.340 If that's who you are, you're not welcome. 0.98

00:31:01.340 I'm doing that in our party.

00:31:03.000 Other than John Fetterman, is there one Democrat doing that in their party?

00:31:07.500 As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic,

00:31:11.860 you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.

00:31:37.500 she said and how they all became a part of this global phenomenon stream encore on iheart radio

00:31:43.220 crave or wherever you get your podcasts why should you listen to armstrong and getty on demand

00:31:49.940 we're not boring a lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry you

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00:32:00.560 being all of those other things we think so jack armstrong and joe getty the armstrong and getty

00:32:06.040 show we try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world if you shoot

00:32:10.740 at us and we deflect it it doesn't really count and that just doesn't make any sense you gotta

00:32:15.920 make a rule don't shoot at the united states or if you prefer iran blah blah blah america haters 0.63

00:32:23.560 are winning the would-be communists the marxists are winning in america and they're doing so openly 0.73

00:32:29.960 and nobody cares i think giving the downtrodden money enables them they aren't getting the money 0.99

00:32:36.020 I'm winning. Good Lord. That was the voice of the patriarchy right there, folks.

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00:33:54.460 back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed all right senator i want to get

00:33:59.280 into one of the weirdest moments of the week. James Tallarico, a guy that's running for Senate

00:34:03.580 in Texas as a Democrat, said that God's non-binary, that the Bible loves abortion,

00:34:09.620 that there, I think it was six genders. And then he tried to act like he was a little bit more

00:34:14.640 moderate. Well, not so much anymore because he went to a pride event alongside an 11-year-old

00:34:22.980 child drag queen and then gave accolades to the drag queen that was 11 years old that is ridiculous

00:34:31.180 look i gotta say i wish what you were saying was not accurate uh james tallarico is the

00:34:37.060 democrat nominee for senate in texas this is the most woke radical nominee texas has ever seen

00:34:44.780 now the media wants you to think he's this regular guy this moderate pastor kind of guy

00:34:50.460 He is, if a woke soy latte came to life, that would be James Tallarico.

00:34:58.100 You've got to vegan it, don't forget, because he only gets vegan food and he wants to get rid of all the cows.

00:35:02.740 Meat scares him.

00:35:03.960 He thinks meat is going to destroy the world.

00:35:05.920 So he actually ran a meat-free campaign.

00:35:09.240 He said no one in the campaign can have meat because meat is scary.

00:35:12.720 Mind you, this guy is not running in Rhode Island.

00:35:17.020 He's not running in Berkeley.

00:35:18.240 he's running in the great state of texas but but even so this particular story that broke is

00:35:23.680 stunning i'm going to read you the headline in the beginning of the story from the washington

00:35:27.260 free beacon headline james tallarico headlined pride event alongside 11 year old child drag queen

00:35:38.160 yeah queen kiki who he said quote absolute cutest and youngest of our drag performers

00:35:47.180 james tallarico a presbyterian seminarian running for u.s senate from texas headlined an lgbtq

00:35:54.300 festival that featured quote the absolute cutest and youngest of our drag performers

00:35:59.620 an 11-year-old boy, drag queen, who goes by the stage name Queen Kiki.

00:36:07.080 Taylor Pride, a group in the town of Taylor, Texas, held the June 26, 2021 event

00:36:12.220 to raise money to help rural LGBTQ communities.

00:36:16.100 The Pride Month festivities included a series of pro-LGBTQ speakers, live music,

00:36:21.300 a drag story hour, and adult drag performers such as Brianna Brinks

00:36:26.780 and the provocatively named Cedonia Face.

00:36:31.860 Tallarico and Queen Kiki, a local preteen named Keegan,

00:36:36.520 were the biggest attractions for the Taylor Pride organizers.

00:36:39.900 Quote, Taylor Pride will be hosting numerous speakers

00:36:42.860 such as state representatives James Tallarico,

00:36:45.160 talented musical guests such as Venus Loves Mars,

00:36:48.160 and the absolute cutest and youngest of our drag performers,

00:36:52.580 Queen Kiki, the group wrote in promotional materials.

00:36:56.200 Unbelievable.

00:36:57.380 Not only will this amazing preteen be performing a number at Texas Beer Company,

00:37:02.140 but they will also host Kiki Storytime,

00:37:05.720 where children will find lots of pride-inspired craft activities,

00:37:12.300 Taylor Pride wrote of Queen Kiki in a post publicizing the event.

00:37:16.540 What the hell?

00:37:18.240 Like, who says, you know what 11-year-old boys need? 0.99

00:37:22.060 11-year-old boys need to see 11-year-old boy drag queens.

00:37:25.980 They need to be invited to explore their sexuality

00:37:29.860 because that's, you know, Lord knows that's what children need is more sexuality.

00:37:33.680 And these 11-year-old, we're going to convince little boys,

00:37:37.240 you're actually a girl.

00:37:38.780 And by the way, little girls, you're actually a boy. 0.94

00:37:41.300 This is sick. This is twisted. 0.99

00:37:42.960 And this is who James Tallarico is.

00:37:46.360 That's what he believes.

00:37:48.140 He's celebrating it, advocating it, supporting it.

00:37:51.420 and hoping that more parents will dress their kids in drag

00:37:55.540 to come perform in front of him in the future.

00:37:57.980 That's what his statement says.

00:38:00.200 Like, let's not overlook that.

00:38:01.780 And by the way, this is the parents.

00:38:02.900 This is the parents.

00:38:05.200 Look, there was a quote from Cynthia Nixon,

00:38:07.480 you know, the left-wing actress on Sex and the City,

00:38:10.600 where she was quoted saying,

00:38:12.980 my child's transgender, my sister's child is transgender,

00:38:16.260 all my friend's children are transgender.

00:38:18.660 You know what?

00:38:19.400 That's not about the kids.

00:38:20.760 That is about the parents who have left wing political ideologies and are dressing their kids up like puppets to play out their politics.

00:38:30.760 They are virtue signaling. This is cruel and is wrong.

00:38:35.200 And you want to know who James Tallarico is? That's who he is.

00:38:38.660 That's who he is. Finally, I want to get to this other story, and it deals with A.G.'s conspiring to go after Donald Trump's months ahead of his reelect.

00:38:48.360 Let's tell people what we found out.

00:38:50.380 Well, another story that broke, it's headlined, Democrat AGs planned to sue Trump nearly seven months before he was reelected.

00:39:00.140 There it is.

00:39:00.820 Nearly two dozen state attorneys general banded together as early as April 2024 to plot litigation against President Donald Trump, long before he was reelected, according to a confidential document attained by the Center Square.

00:39:13.680 The document was signed approximately three months before President Joe Biden exited from the race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president.

00:39:23.800 It was signed nearly seven months before Trump was reelected by two point three million more votes than Harris, almost nine months before he was inaugurated.

00:39:33.600 State attorneys general have sued the Trump administration nearly 100 times since January 2025.

00:39:41.300 The coordinated effort appears to have a nickname, quote, the Project for Federal Accountability.

00:39:46.680 Not all of the lawsuits have been joined by each attorney general, and some offices take a lead on different cases.

00:39:52.240 At the last count, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has participated in 82 lawsuits.

00:39:59.200 Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined at least 75 lawsuits.

00:40:04.280 Washington State Attorney General Brown has joined 70 lawsuits.

00:40:08.840 Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays has joined 46 lawsuits.

00:40:13.680 At a news conference on Tuesday, Monta stated the lawsuits are apolitical.

00:40:18.300 Yeah, right.

00:40:19.340 He announced the lawsuits have cost California taxpayers $19 million,

00:40:25.620 and he will continue to file them as needed.

00:40:28.440 If Trump doesn't want to get sued, all he has to do is follow the law, Bonta said.

00:40:32.700 I don't think our cases are likely to be dismissed.

00:40:35.080 Trump shows no sign of slowing down, so we will continue to sue him.

00:40:38.880 This is an example where the deep state and the Democrat machine, they like to talk about we support democracy.

00:40:46.660 They beat their chest.

00:40:47.700 We're for democracy.

00:40:49.700 Today's Democrats hate democracy.

00:40:52.940 And I don't mean to be provocative in that statement.

00:40:54.740 but if they actually respected democracy they would say you know what the voters get to choose

00:41:01.200 who the president's going to be we're going to have an election november 2024 and they're going

00:41:05.600 to choose either donald trump or initially it was joe biden but then when they realized joe biden was

00:41:11.800 deep into dimension was no longer capable of winning they threw joe biden overboard they

00:41:16.980 tossed him into a shark pit and immediately inserted kamala harris who nobody had voted for

00:41:22.120 Yep. And and when Trump won, they do not care.

00:41:26.200 They're using lawfare to destroy him and understand these Democrat AGs joined together to do so seven months before he was elected president because they don't care what the voters say.

00:41:38.740 They want power and they're willing to abuse the system to get it.

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