Go Woke, Go Broke
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Ted Cruz delivers a verdict on the Supreme Court, the box office, and the Second Amendment. He also talks about the new inflation numbers out of the Federal Reserve, and why you should be worried about inflation. Ted Cruz is a conservative firebrand who is on a mission to make America safe, secure, and strong.
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The good news is there's a big win for conservatives at the Supreme Court.
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The other good news, there's a big win for conservatives in the culture at the box office.
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But the bad news is squish Republicans are caving to Democrats up on Capitol Hill on the Second Amendment.
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Well, the co-host of this show has just come from voting on that legislation.
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Senator, you have just come from Capitol Hill, just voting on this big gun control legislation.
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There seems to be a compromise between a bunch of Republicans and the Democrats.
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Well, I just voted about an hour ago on the initial vote, the motion to proceed to take
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Now, the statutory text they rolled out just a couple of hours ago, so we're still in the
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process of studying the details of what they laid out.
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But all the Democrats voted for it, and 14 Republicans voted for it.
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They needed 60 to proceed, so they got there with 14 Republicans.
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And that's going to consume this week, the debate on that bill.
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I think it is safe to say you are not one of the 14 Republicans who voted to proceed with
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So if you want to know the 14 who are, it is Blunt, Burr, Capito, Cassidy, Collins,
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Cornyn, Ernst, Graham, McConnell, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Tillis, and Young.
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Wish I could say that I were surprised, Senator, but I'm not.
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You know, obviously, you've named a lot of the moderates and the people who often do go
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Well, it's a combination of the moderate to liberal Republicans combined with Republican
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leadership combined with the Republicans who are retiring.
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And that's sort of the ace in the hole for leadership is the folks who are retiring are
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They're likely going to go be lobbyists in town.
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And so suddenly they have all sorts of votes that the people who elected them would prefer
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But since they're not on the ballot anymore, they vote differently than they would otherwise.
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You know, it's actually a it's a similar manifestation in the Senate.
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You've got six year terms and it's a common phenomenon where two out of every six years.
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People grow a backbone or a conservative and those happen to be the two years they're on
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And then the other four years they're not on the ballot.
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They transmogrify into very, very different senators until the last two years when they're
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back on the ballot, when suddenly they become conservative again.
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And unfortunately, it's kind of a merry-go-round of who are the chunk of Republicans on the
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The retiring Republicans, it's an even worse problem because then they feel little to no
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accountability to the voters who sent them there.
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So this is still being worked out right now, just in in broad strokes.
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As I said, they just rolled out the statutory text right before we voted on it, which is
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There are some elements that are fairly unobjectionable in terms of funding for things like school
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The most problematic elements, I think, concern red flag laws, red flag laws that there's funding
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Red flag laws are proceedings whereby you can strip guns from law abiding citizens.
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And in a number of states, particularly blue Democrat states, there are very, very low thresholds
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And, you know, it poses a real problem if somebody is unhappy with you, Michael.
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If you have a, you know, someone who's mad at you, a disgruntled co-worker, a jilted ex-girlfriend,
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Red flag laws, particularly without serious due process protections, can provide an avenue
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for that person unhappy with you to go behind your back and take away your Second Amendment
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Because in that case, the red flag is not, you know, some raving lunatic who's making
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direct threats, who says, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you.
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The red flag simply could be, you are a conservative.
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You voted for someone that I don't, you've said something that I disagree with.
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And in that case, to deprive someone of a constitutional civil right would seem to be
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Well, and I will say this, look, they were negotiating back and forth between the Republicans
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And so I haven't read the statutory language yet.
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I will read it this week before we vote on the final bill.
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So I'll study the details, but there's a lot of, there's a lot of variance in the details.
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And so, for example, some of the formulations they were talking about keyed off of whether
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That's some language that actually is in federal law right now.
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We don't tend to speak much in terms of things like mental defective.
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But if the threshold is low, look, there are estimates that something like 20% of Americans
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Um, you know, I, I joked at lunch last week that it seems to me serving in the United States
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Congress should be prima facie evidence of mental illness.
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Um, you know, you think about schools, how, how many kids are, uh, diagnosed with ADHD?
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How many kids are medicated on, on Prozac or Ritalin or something else?
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And, and if the threshold is low that there's a hyperactive 15 year old who gets a diagnosis
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and gets medicated and you have a gun grabbing blue state that says, okay, well, guess what?
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You've just lost your right to keep and bear arms for the rest of your life.
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Um, I think that's obviously unconstitutional and would be strike struck down by any court
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following the law, but in the meantime, it's a real problem.
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And so my view on, on guns and crime generally is there's a right approach and a wrong approach.
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So Project Exile was something that was created during the Bill Clinton Justice Department.
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And it was created, uh, in Richmond, Virginia, in the Eastern District of Virginia.
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And it was the U.S. attorney there laid out and said, we are going to prosecute anyone who
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We're going to go after them under federal law.
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We're going to lock them up in jail with a mandatory minimum sentence.
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If you knock over a liquor store and you're a felon, if you're a felon in possession of
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a firearm that carries a mandatory minimum sentence under federal law, but typically the
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Project Exile says you commit a crime with a firearm, you're going to jail.
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They put up billboards in Richmond, Virginia, carry a gun, do hard time.
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And Richmond had one of the highest murder rates in the country.
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And the feds started anytime you brought a gun to a crime, boom, you got prosecuted.
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And you started seeing criminals that would literally go knock over a liquor store, go
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do a home invasion, and they'd leave their gun at home because they'd say, if I take a
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If you want to stop crimes, that's the sort of program that works.
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Obviously, we all agree that we should take guns away from criminals and people who have
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in some objective way been deemed to be too dangerous to have a gun.
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We shouldn't just go along with some program to exploit a shooting or a tragedy as a way
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to advance generally unrelated gun control measures that Democrats have been pushing
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Let's hope that the squishes toughen up a little bit here and back off of this and listen
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That's the bad news that the squishes are going along with the Dems here.
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There is quite a lot of good news in the culture, though.
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I really want to get to the Supreme Court case, which the left has lost their mind over.
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They've now said that this is a nearly fatal blow to the separation of church and state.
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Before that, though, I do have to do a little bit of gloating on the culture front.
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We talked last time about how people don't want to see toys and cartoon characters engaging
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in all sorts of eccentric sexual activities and kissing and pushing the woke sexual revolutionary
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And then over the weekend, Lightyear, which made a big show of having a lesbian toy kiss in
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They were expecting a global box office of one hundred thirty five million dollars.
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And then the domestic box office was way below predictions at fifty one million dollars.
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Did you, Senator, did you take the air out of the gay toys?
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I do think it's amazing how the verdict podcast seems to be driving Hollywood.
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At our campus live tour in Alabama, we talked about how Disney wanted Mickey and Pluto to
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And apparently the showrunners for Lightyear said, hey, what a great idea.
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And, you know, they got a little Barry White with his deep voice.
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And then last week on Verdict, we said this is terrible.
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You said we don't want to see eccentric sex with with with kids or toys.
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And by the way, I will say leftists really lost their minds because last week we talked
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about do we really need lesbian toys and cartoons and leftists like the phrase lesbian toys that
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I really think they're tiny little walnut size brains broke that apparently.
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They're supposed to go on these these cultural rampages and we're not supposed to notice.
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And not only that, we're all supposed to quietly shut up and take our kids.
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There were very few kids movies at the box office this past weekend.
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You want to talk about a good time to take your kids to the movies.
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And I think there were a whole bunch of Americans that said, you know what?
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I can think of something better to do than listen to Hollywood lecture my six year old
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How about just have a fun like the Toy Story films are awesome.
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But it speaks volumes that while Lightyear was getting his ass kicked, the kicker was Tom
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Cruise and Maverick and Top Gun, a straight up patriotic, conservative, we love Americans,
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Like the contrast is night and day and Hollywood is is so knuckleheaded that they seem unable
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Maybe they will, because look, there's tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars delta
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Maverick's been out for several weeks and it's still obliterated Lightyear.
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Somebody depositing the checks ought to notice that.
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This is what the left does to so many institutions is, as you say, Toy Story is a great movie.
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I don't really remember Toy Story 3 or if there was a 4, but they were good movies.
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And so people look at it and they say, well, we like these movies.
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And then the radicals go in and they say, oh, look, we've got these really popular movies
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and institutions, let's go in and in a really heavy-handed way, in a very didactic and obvious
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way, let's go in and use the things that people love to push our radical political agenda,
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which is completely superfluous and irrelevant to the story.
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And I'm really pleased to see that the American parents and moviegoers said, oh, no, thank
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We don't like you using the things that we love to push your radical agendas.
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And let me make a point also, Michael, this is also not about, so the left likes saying
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So Hollywood usually is so willing to chase the dollar that they're craven when it comes
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to China, and they're willing to censor movies because China wants them to.
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And one great example of that is Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Bohemian Rhapsody, I think, was a fantastic movie.
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China insisted that they edit Bohemian Rhapsody to cut out the scene showing Freddie Mercury
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How do you tell Freddie Mercury's life story and leave out that he's gay?
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Bohemian Rhapsody is not being marketed to six-year-olds.
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You wouldn't tell Elton John's life story and leave out that he's gay.
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What made the Lightyear antics so dismaying is it was entirely gratuitous.
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It was meant, it was targeted at kids, and it was meant to say, this is what we want to
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And I think a lot of the parents are saying, leave our kids alone and let us discuss sex
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and sexuality with our kids at a time and age that is appropriate, not what you, if we can't
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even take them to Disney movies, what can we take them to?
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It was so gratuitous, superfluous, irrelevant to the plot of Toy Story.
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And I like that the gamble from the left didn't pay off, that the moviegoers are not so infatuated
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with Toy Story that they were willing to go to the movies and just allow the left to go
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in and hollow out their stories to push their own radical agenda.
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There was also apparently a big win for conservatives at the Supreme Court.
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This is a case up in Maine on religious liberty that would seem to be, what's the case about?
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So it's a terrific, terrific victory for religious liberty.
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So the state of Maine has a tuition assistance program.
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And then there's some parts of Maine that are very rural where they don't actually have
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And so the state provides tuition assistance for you to send your kids to whatever schools
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are there, to whatever private schools are there, particularly in smaller communities
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where you don't have the resources of a big public school.
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But Maine excluded religious schools, said you can send your kids somewhere.
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But if it's a religious school or as they called it, a sectarian school, which means they actually
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believe in faith, believe in God and teach something about God, then you're not eligible.
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And so the plaintiffs in this case challenged that and said, look, you're discriminating against
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And I want to choose to send my kid to a religious school and you're discriminating against faith
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And the Supreme Court 6-3, so Chief Justice Roberts wrote the opinion and concluded that
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it violated the Constitution to discriminate against religious schools when otherwise they
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If they just stopped those pesky references to God, they would get the state money.
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But if they insist, you say, God, nope, no money.
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And the Supreme Court said, sorry, you can't, if it's an equally applicable program that everyone
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else can get, you can't discriminate against people of faith and schools of faith just because
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they're exercising their First Amendment rights and their religious liberty rights.
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I think it is a great victory for religious liberty for everyone, but it's also a great victory
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And both of those, I think, are incredibly important.
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Now, what are conservatives supposed to say when they hear the liberal justices on the
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court and a lot of people in the liberal media complaining that this is an outrageous attack
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on the American tradition of the separation between church and state?
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Well, there are a lot of things they should say.
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First of all, the words separation of church and state are found nowhere in the Constitution.
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They're not in the Declaration of Independence.
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The phrase, a wall of separation between church and state, comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson
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So it's a private correspondence is where that phrase is taken from, but it's not actually the
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And the First Amendment has two religious liberty clauses.
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It has the Establishment Clause that prevents Congress from establishing a religion.
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And it has the Free Exercise Clause that prevents Congress and prevents government from restricting
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And there are two different interpretations of what the Establishment Clause mean.
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Liberals interpret it as saying that essentially government must be hostile to religion, that
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government must treat religion as something bad.
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That's where you get the phrase, wall of separation of church and state, is church bad.
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I think that's a complete misreading of what the Establishment Clause is about.
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The Establishment Clause was about preventing government from controlling churches, preventing government
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from controlling faith, both the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause work hand in
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Well, this actually leads into one of the mailbag questions that we got.
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We've been extremely derelict on taking mailbag questions, so I do want to get through a few
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And this was on this case and on the question of religious liberty.
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This is from Zachary who says, if the satanic temple starts private schools that your tax
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dollars will pay for, will you conservatives regret the Supreme Court decision?
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And obviously, I don't think that the Christian schools should be discriminated against.
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But what happens if the satanic temple, which is a great, it's a little different than the
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And we could debate further whether one can be an ironic Satanist or if you end up kind
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But what if they start a school and they say, OK, we've got the Satan school and your tax
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dollars are going to go for that is one, would that follow from the court case?
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Well, let me answer it by making an observation.
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I don't maintain today that federal student loans, federal Pell grants should be disallowed
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So why should I say they shouldn't go to the satanic temple?
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And for that matter, my alma mater is Princeton and Harvard.
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So I don't particularly mean to single out Yale.
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It's a really good point on, I'm sorry to say, on my alma mater and yours too.
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And probably most schools at this point in the country is if you had a school that was
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teaching the tenets of Satanism and then you had any old run of the mill public or otherwise
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name brand school, what would the difference be?
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I'm not sure that if it were a blind test, I'm not sure you could identify them.
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A tenured professor at Princeton is a guy named Peter Singer.
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Peter Singer is a very left-wing ethicist who, among other things, has argued not only is
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he in favor of abortion on demand, which a lot of people on the left are, he's argued
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It's a fair bet that Professor Singer could make some of the more moderate Satanists blush.
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And there's a phrase you rarely hear, more moderate Satanists.
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So, I got a lot of questions this week with lots of salty language, but this is a family
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show, so I'm going to clean it up a little bit.
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This was one of the more eloquently written ones.
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Gets back to what we were talking about at the top of the show.
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Why are there so many worthless rhino Republicans currently?
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And it's not, obviously, this guy and other people are complaining about this, but it is
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a real tactical Republican question, which is, why are there so many rhinos?
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Why are there so many people when it seems that there is so much wind at the backs of the
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Because we don't do a good enough job in primaries on insisting on and finding strong conservatives
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Listen, I'm on the road nonstop between now and election day.
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I'll probably be on the road 30, 40 days between now and the November election, campaigning
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for candidates for the Senate, campaigning for candidates for the House.
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So, we had primary elections tonight in multiple races.
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Yesterday, I campaigned for a candidate in Northern Virginia, Yesli Vega.
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So, Yesli Vega is, I think, a fantastic candidate.
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You have Abigail Spanberger, who's the incumbent.
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Yesli is the daughter of immigrants from El Salvador.
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She knows firsthand the perils of illegal immigration.
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She's been a member of two police forces, and she's now a deputy sheriff.
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She is the mom of two teenage kids, and she is a fantastic candidate.
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Now, when she jumped in this race, no one thought she had a prayer.
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Listen, Republican leadership in both the Senate and House, they want members.
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Their number one criterion is a member who will be obedient, who will just do what leadership says.
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And the dirty little secret is if you have someone who's going to rock the boat, who's going to be a rebel,
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leadership would rather a Democrat get elected than a pain-in-the-neck conservative who will buck leadership.
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If you're a middle-of-the-road squishy mod, they'll flood you with cash because you'll be obedient.
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If you're a pain-in-the-neck conservative, they'll do everything they can to kill you.
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And so, listen, if you want stronger conservatives, then you've got to get involved in the primary process
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and get behind people who will follow through on what they say.
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Not only are you hanging around trying to gum things up on Capitol Hill while the Squishes are trying to give away our Second Amendment rights,
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not only are you going around the country raising lots of money for the good conservative candidates,
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but not only are you doing this show, coming straight and doing this,
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but, Senator, we can't let you go because you are sticking around for the Verdict Plus community
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to discuss even more on The Cloak Room with Liz Wheeler.
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We are going to get into some really nitty-gritty legal stuff.
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So we're all waiting with bated breath for the Dobbs decision, right?
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Did Chief Justice John Roberts convince somebody else to join him in not overturning Roe v. Wade?
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We're waiting for this. It seems like it's going to be at the last minute.
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But the Democrats, meanwhile, are preparing their arsenal of what they're going to do
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in response to Roe v. Wade being overturned, what tactics they're going to use.
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And so we're going to dive into some of the legalities of some of their ideas
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because a couple of their suggestions, I'm pretty sure, are against the law.
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So if you'd like to join us for this conversation, it's going to be great.
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It's really going to be a great discussion. I'm very excited about it.
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And Michael, let me jump in for a second and take people behind the curtain
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and get in a little bit of the sausage making of how we do cloakroom.
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So before we do the podcast every week, Michael, you and I get in a conversation with our producer
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and we talk about what topics we want to have and sort of roughly lay out,
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okay, tonight we're going to talk about the gun stuff and we're going to talk about light year
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and we're going to talk about the Supreme Court case.
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This just happened on Capitol Hill. We got to hit this.
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So we do a prep call and it's a loose prep call.
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We kind of just roughly have topics and then get into it.
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But it's interesting, cloakroom, the way we've done it, it's just sort of arisen organically.
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Every episode, when you turn to Liz and say, Liz, what are we going to discuss on cloakroom?
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If you cut to me and ask me, I have utterly no idea.
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So when Liz comes on, she's coming up with these topics and she sort of has a mandate of find
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And I got to say, she's phenomenal at coming up.
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But I'm sitting here every week going, I don't know, let's hear.
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And sometimes if it's really esoteric, Liz and I will have a brief, like she'll forward me some.
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If she wants to talk about a particular case that I haven't read recently,
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she'll forward it to me and I'll reread it quickly.
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But it is an interesting process because we've had some really good deep dives on cloakroom
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of ideas that Liz has that she springs on me out of nowhere and we jump into them.
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This week on Cloakroom, we'll be discussing the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.
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And so I don't have to do any preparation at all.
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