Libs Gone Wild
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Matt Walsh's new documentary, "What is a Woman?" is out now, and it does not disappoint. Join us as we take a journey with Matt Walsh as he takes us on a global tour to ask a simple question: What is a woman?
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Drag queens are dancing for little kids at gay bars in Dallas.
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Crime is through the roof in cities around the country.
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People are pushing back against the Democrats who are running all of these things.
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But what's worthy of note here is that it's not just us pushing back.
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It's not just the conservatives and the Republicans on issue after issue, city after city, all the way up to the federal level.
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You've got Democrats pushing back against the Democrat ruling class as they see them headed for disaster in the elections.
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This episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz is brought to you by Matt Walsh's new film, the new Daily Wire documentary, What is a Woman?
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I've been waiting for this film since the day Matt announced it, and it does not disappoint.
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Radical gender ideology is corrupting our nation right now.
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It's seeping into our children's classrooms as young as kindergarten and preschool.
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We see Disney and their queerness agenda that they're inserting into their children's programming.
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This has become a cultural phenomenon that is assaulting women, that is trying to erase biological women.
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He goes on a global, on a world tour, asking a very simple question.
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And fortunately, he took a film crew with him, so we all get to come on this journey with him.
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And you will be shocked to hear how many people can't answer what you would think is a very simple question.
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Or they have a very warped, twisted idea of what a woman is.
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The leftists in this film actually admit to Matt Walsh what their ulterior motive is, what their underlying agenda is.
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It's available for Daily Wire subscribers only.
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whatisawoman.com and join Matt on this cultural battle.
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There is so much to get to, Senator, that I need your thoughts on.
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But before I get to any of that, did I see you on TV playing poker with some of the best poker players in the world?
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So I will say I was like Doyle and Phil, I was giddy about.
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I told my daughters who are 14 and 11 and they're like, yeah, yeah, whatever.
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They're like, Mr. Beast, like, so both girls flew to Vegas to meet Mr. Beast.
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I mean, it was, look, being in the Senate, it's hard to do anything that seems remotely cool to a 14-year-old or an 11-year-old, especially a 14-year-old.
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But for them to meet Mr. Beast, they thought it was the coolest thing ever.
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They put out the game we played for a couple of hours.
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But there'll be two more parts, and it was pretty awesome.
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Well, I am glad that you could be a cool guy now for your daughters.
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It's always something you strive for as a parent.
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I do have this question on poker, though, which is I know you love poker.
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There have been a number of other politicians and statesmen who have famously loved poker.
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Is there something about poker that just speaks to a political kind of spirit?
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Because you're not the first guy I've known who is so into it.
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And it's interesting, you know, you look at, so you play poker.
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It's knowing what cards you have and what are the odds and how many outs you have.
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But what I like about poker is it's reading people.
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And it's trying to understand the person sitting across the table from you.
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Um, and it's, so I've got a number of really close friends who, who enjoy playing poker.
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And one of my closest friends, a guy who was a groomsman at my wedding, uh, is a semi-professional
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And he's played multiple times in the World Series.
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He's actually made a final table at the World Series, not in the main event, but in I think
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Um, and he and I have played a gazillion times and, and we both, he's beaten me a bunch of times.
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We've spent a lot of hours around the poker table.
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What's interesting is, is that he is in terms of the math, clearly a better poker player than
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I can do the math, but I don't study it to the level of know it to the precision that
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And, and so we'll have hands where I'll beat him and he'll be like, what the hell were you
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And my answer is because you didn't want me to.
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If you'd had the cards, it would have been a terrible call, but I knew you didn't want
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You wanted me to lay down my cards, which is why I called you, which is why I took your
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And, and look, sometimes you get the read wrong.
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Sometimes you don't, you know, you think, you know what, and, and obviously that's part
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of what makes poker fun is projecting weakness, projecting, um, you know, you're trying to fool
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the other players, but it's, I, I grew up, actually, I learned to play poker as a little
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kid, my grandmother, uh, my mother's mother, uh, Irish Italian grandmother, great card player.
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She played bridge every week for probably 70 years.
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Um, but she would, would babysit me, uh, when I was a little kid, when I was eight, 10 years
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old, my parents would drop me off at my grandparents to, for them to babysit me.
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And my grandmother would sit down and taught me to play poker.
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And she had a metal tin of buttons and we would play with buttons as chips.
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And, and some of the buttons were costume jewelry that was like fake diamonds.
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So I'd like take the fake diamond and say $1 million.
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And I just, you know, make up whatever it was, you know, if they looked fancy and were
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glittery and I always would win as a little kid, I would win and I would win and I would
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And when I was, I don't know, about 10 years old, I came and said, Hey, granny, let's
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And I had $5, which $5 at the time, my allowance was 50 cents a week.
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And I sat down and played with her and she took every penny from me.
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My mom came to pick me up and I was crying as a 10 year old.
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I was in tears and my grandmother's just cracking up laughing, you know, an Irish Italian
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grandmother said, go on home, Sonny, you know, well, welcome to the big leagues.
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That actually makes sense to me because I have heard people describe this to me that poker,
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It's not really, as you say, about the numbers.
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It can be about how people relate to money and risk and threat.
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So this actually leads us perfectly into what I really want to talk about today, which is
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the Democrats who are in power seem to be completely misreading the situation.
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You've got three, you've got a lot of blunders, but as I can see it, three really, really big
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prominent blunders they're making right now on the economic front.
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Not only have they made a lot of poor economic decisions that have hurt the country and certainly
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their political position, but they're not backing away from them.
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They're, they're doubling down when it comes to energy.
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They're doubling down when it comes, when it comes to so many aspects of the economy on
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the cultural, social issues, they're defending drag queens, jiggling for kids, actual little
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tiny children in, in bars, 21 plus bars in Texas of all places, they're defending it.
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And, and then they're, they're coming on crime.
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The DA is the mayors that you're seeing real significant challenges from the right in San
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You've got a recall of the district attorney in Los Angeles.
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Now you've got a big fight for the mayor and a sort of kind of Republican is posing a
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You know, Michael, it reminds me of, do you remember those videos that would come out every
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And it was to have lots of college women in bikinis or not bikinis.
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This is the crazy left that this is AOC and Elizabeth Warren.
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I mean, it's literally like someone sat down at a bar and said, how much crazy crap can
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Not even just the moderates, not even just the independents.
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But what can we do to drive away good old fashioned liberals who are not nuts?
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I do want to clarify, Senator, just on the girls gone wild point.
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You know, I was just really interested, obviously.
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But I totally see, I think the analogy is very good.
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They've gone to extremes and followed their own wildest impulses.
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So what is going to happen to them in these elections that are really coming up right before
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It's not Republicans who are who are going to be voting primarily in the L.A.
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Are they going to moderate or are they going to get wiped out?
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So I don't know what they're going to do this week, but I know what they're going to
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Bill Maher is an old school liberal who they are driving away.
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They are driving him away where he said, OK, I'm voting Republican now because these guys
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But if you want to if consenting adults want to do what consenting adults want to do, fine,
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And you had five year olds tucking dollars in their G strings, you and I would be appalled.
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Yeah, because kids have no business being sexualized.
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Look, this is the radical extreme left that they want to sexualize little kids.
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So so they're in this gay bar there that they've got transgender drag queens where they're
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tucking dollars in their G screens and these are little kids like what it's it's the whole,
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you know, the the misnamed don't say gay law in Florida.
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What is it with the radical left wanting to teach kindergartners about sex, gay sex,
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That ought to be a really simple rule that only the crazy left doesn't get.
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Well, you make a really interesting point here, too, on on strip clubs.
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If if instead of the gay bar with the drag queens wearing skimpy clothing and have kids
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putting dollars in their various scantily attire, you know, scanty attire, if instead
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of that you had kids walking into a plain old regular strip club with real women there jiggling
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around, you would have people calling child protective services in the blink of an eye.
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So I guess in a in a certain way, it it does have a tie in with the LGBT movement in as
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much as there's a complete double standard here.
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And when it's drag queens doing it, it's celebrated and the parents are taking the kids themselves.
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I think how crazy this is that this is parents taking their kids to this.
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Like, look, look, we've discussed how our culture has just become twisted, like protecting the
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innocence of kids ought to be something everyone can agree with.
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And it's it's where you're saying or, you know, I mean, let's look at the fact that the
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Chesa Boudin or Chesa, I'm not sure how you pronounce his name, I never know how to pronounce
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it, but he's the son of two radical weather underground terrorists who were convicted of
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Like, like literally the D.A. was raised by convicted terrorists.
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And he's one of the many George Soros D.A.s that got elected and decided, I've got a great
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If we let violent criminals go, we'll be so enlightened.
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And even the people of San Francisco are saying, what the hell are you doing?
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We're all for 90 percent tax rates or whatever it is that they're for.
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But could you not let murderers like wander the streets?
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So it's not you know, it's not just the Republicans.
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But but I do wonder if it's if it's not just that the liberals have gone totally crazy.
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But you saw many decades ago, you would see liberal leftist radical theorists writing about
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all these things, how in order to have true revolutionary change in America, we need to
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We need to radically redesign the prison systems.
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They would talk about how we need to sexualize children in order to get rid of all of their old
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For goodness sakes, Bernie Sanders wrote essays about this in the 1960s, even even on the economy.
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You've had not just the radical theorists, but even Barack Obama, even members of the Obama
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administration saying we need to increase prices for fossil fuels.
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We need to create actually some economic hardship because that's the only thing that's going to
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motivate people to go in and finally revolutionize the economy.
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You've seen them talking about this stuff in a way that shows their long term political
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goals, which is to quote Barack Obama, to fundamentally transform America.
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And I guess I wonder if what you're seeing right now is that those long term goals are
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just Democrats getting out a little ahead of their skis here.
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And there's so much short term pain and confusion that maybe their own constituents are going to
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So, Michael, I'm sorry, I'm still traumatized because about halfway through what you said
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I've got to walk on the Senate floor and see him with his white hair sticking straight up in
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It is truly amazing watching the corporate press try to bend over backwards to say none of
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Biden literally campaigned saying, I'm going to shut down oil and gas drilling in the United
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Biden has implemented literally dozens of policies designed to attack, to hurt, to shut
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down domestic energy production in the United States.
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He's done it over and over and over and over again.
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And the predicted effect of that is prices have doubled.
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And by the way, the socialists want prices to double because what they're saying is you,
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We're going to make your life so miserable that you have to spend 100 bucks or 150 bucks
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to fill up your car or truck that you're going to get rid of it and buy a Prius, which
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And so we're going to keep hurting you until you make the enlightened decision that we,
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By the way, this past week, I don't know if you saw the EU is putting taxes on fuel, on
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jet fuel, but they exempted private jets because of course they did.
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They are wealthy, out of touch, living in opulent riches.
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But then when they do what they promised they would do, implement policies to hurt domestic
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energy production, to drive gas prices up, suddenly they discover, wait, people don't
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like spending 150 bucks to fill up their truck.
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And then they just try to blatantly lie to you.
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I'm really hoping that, you know, now that the people are kind of people of all parties
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actually are pulling the radicals back from the brink.
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But I wonder if the the radicals and the people who have been in charge have secured those kind
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I look this past week at Joe Biden invoking the Defense Production Act because there is
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Gas has doubled since the man's been president.
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Does he invoke that provision of the law or some other provision to open up oil drilling?
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To, I don't know, create a new nuclear power system?
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It's to give the left what they've wanted for a long time that that I don't see any way
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will actually bring down energy costs, certainly not anytime soon.
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The White House hasn't explained what emergency he's responding to that requires solar panels.
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Are they are they as we've heard from from which I forget the name of the Emanuel brother.
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There's Ari and there's Zeke and there's the one that I'm talking about.
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But, you know, one of the one of the worst Democrats, you know, in modern politics, you
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know, never to let a crisis go to Rome or Rome.
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I can't believe I forgot the most famous of the Emanuel brothers names.
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I remember the Hollywood one and the doctor one, but not Rome saying never let a crisis
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Are they even even as they're losing support, even among their own guys right now, are they
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are they scoring those long term political wins?
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So I actually think there are some voices among Democrats and it wouldn't surprise me if
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Emanuel is one of them that is wondering, what in the hell are you people doing?
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There are people like James Carville who listen, James Carville is smart as all get out.
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And so I've been to Mary and James's home and he's he is an effective adversary.
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He's a Democrat, but he actually gets he's not nuts.
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And he's looking at his own party and is like, OK, you people are are you trying to lose every
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I mean, that's not a quote, but but there are definitely listen, Bill Maher is an interesting
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And we've talked about I at some point, I hope we have Bill on this show.
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He is an old school liberal, but he does believe in free speech, which the left is abandoned.
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You know, he recently had a monologue where he was talking about like sexuality and the
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explosion of people that are identifying as other genders and identifying as gay.
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And he went, you know, through like like in history, this was not the case.
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And we've suddenly had this dramatic shift, which we're not even supposed to talk about
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They're big regional differences in, say, California, the number of people who identify
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And he said, either there's a lot of peer pressure and social pressure in California,
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There's apparently a fundamental transformational shift of humanity that we're not talking about.
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And I got to say that, frankly, sounded like something Michael Knowles would say.
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Like they have become this angry, fringe, wealthy, urban, radical elite that is appealing
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And I got to say, thankfully, the country is not the Yale faculty.
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And it seems that today's Democrats don't get that.
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You know, this is actually making me feel a bit better because we tend to spend a lot
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And it is true that the boundaries of what is acceptable in society have been basically
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I mean, even five years ago, the thought of a little kid going into a drag bar and putting
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So because we've seen the limits get blown to smithereens, it's very easy to fall down
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this pit of despair and say, oh, gosh, the country is gone.
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But to your point, Senator, they may not be doing this kind of stuff out of confidence,
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out of a feeling that they've got the wind at their sails.
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Actually, you might be seeing the kind of defiance you're getting from the administration on the
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economy, the radicalism on sex and the drag shows, even the defiance on crime and criminal
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You might be seeing that more out of desperation from Democrats now who know that perhaps their
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time in office is going to be dwindling because there's a very large movement, not just of
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Republicans, but of moderates and some Democrats, too, who are who are ready to throw them out
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But I suppose we won't know until those elections take place.
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By the time this pod comes out, the world will know whether Chesa Boudin's been recalled
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It's it's but in some ways, whether he is or not, the point is the same, because the
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fact that it is real and close and significant is powerful, even if he ekes out surviving or
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I hope is recalled, you know, Los Angeles, there is a vigorous primary for mayor.
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Few months ago, it was assumed that Karen Bass, the extremely liberal Democrat
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And, you know, now there is at least a vigorously contested primary with with a billionaire
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developer who has been a Republican much of his life.
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He's running in a in a Democrat primary just to tip the hat to it.
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But I got to say, if you're in L.A., look, you fled L.A.
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I remember a couple of years ago I was visiting with a cop in California, used to be an L.A.
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And he showed me on his phone a picture of a tree in downtown L.A.
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that was just covered with hypodermic needles, thousands of needles where the junkies just
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And at some point, people say, wait, this is nuts.
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You look at the beaches where you've got homeless people just allowed to take them over, engage
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So, yeah, why did why am I telling you about the place you fled?
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Well, for all of those reasons, obviously, plus there were the economic reasons, you know,
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the onerous regulation, all of the constant, you know, tax hikes.
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And I think the California Franchise Tax Board is basically worse than the mafia at this point.
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And I will tell you, friends of mine who have fled L.A., they not all of my friends in L.A.
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I mean, if if that were the case, I'd have very few friends in L.A.
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because there just aren't that many conservatives.
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And there were a lot of liberal friends who were making the same comments about crime there.
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And so people really are getting sick of that stuff.
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You can see blue places turn on these kinds of issues.
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You might be seeing that in Los Angeles right now.
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The very fact that these keep cropping up, these these hotly contested elections with lots
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of momentum behind the center or center right candidate that that that shows you that something
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And so I'm not surprised that the Democrats are throwing everything they've got.
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And I know one way they're trying to distract is they're trying to distract with the January
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And I also know that our friend Liz Wheeler will be discussing this with you and specifically
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the arrest of former Trump aide Peter Navarro on the cloakroom.
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First of all, before we even get into that topic, I want to thank you both for that disturbing
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image of Bernie Sanders that's now burned into my mind for all eternity.
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I listen to this whole episode sitting right with you.
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And this is what I get in return is this image of Bernie Sanders.
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So we are going to talk about Peter Navarro on cloakroom.
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This is a very interesting conversation because it's not just about the January 6th committee.
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I mean, they hired an ABC News executive to produce it, to make it a primetime, a primetime
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But the arrest of Peter Navarro itself is a constitutional question because what he claimed
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was executive privilege that he couldn't testify because this was not his information to give,
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that it was actually President Trump's information to either divulge or claim executive privilege.
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And there's a very interesting constitutional question about whether it's even legal for Congress
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to have indicted him without the court intervening.
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And we are going to dive into the details of that today.
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