Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 15, 2026


Men Declare for the WNBA Draft, Democrats & DSA Pick a Fight w Football plus Liberals Win when They Deceive Week In Review

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men declaring WNBA draft as women men declaring for WNBA draft Ennis Cantor and Royce White declarations
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Ted Cruz
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Clay Travis LeBron James Sam Harris Getty Show Tropicberry Energizers Caitlin Clark Lady Ballers Dan Sullivan Joe Getty James Tallarico Abdul El Sayed Martina Navatrolova Graham Plattner Michael Jordan Francesca Hong Francesca Wong Roger Marshall Cynthia Nixon Chuck Schumer Adam Hamilton and 12 more
Communists, Islamists & Transgender Zealots—The Most Radical Slate of Democrat Candidates ever Assembled WOW—Abdul El Sayed Killed Kittens & Puppies and Is Speaking alongside Islamist Cleric Advocating Pedophilia, plus Police Report Shows Maine Troy Jackson Slapped his Girlfriend

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00:00:55 It is Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:00:56 Week in review.
00:00:57 Ben Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that you may have missed that we talked about
00:01:01 this week. First up, an amazing moment where the WNBA, the W stands for women, can't actually
00:01:08 figure out what a woman actually is. And now there's a chance that men claiming they're women
00:01:14 could take over the WNBA. What happens next? We explain it. Up next, El-Sayed. You know him as 1.00
00:01:22 the radical extremist in the Democratic Party. Well, the Democratic Socialists. He wants you
00:01:26 know he carries such great american values he even hates football and explains that it's too
00:01:33 masculine it's toxic masculinity and finally there's a real threat in this country with
00:01:39 radicals who are running for office claiming they're normal many of them also claim to be
00:01:45 men of faith they're pastors but what are they actually saying from the pulpit we explain that
00:01:50 and expose it as well it's the weekend review and it starts right now i want to move on to another
00:01:56 subject and this one is one that just makes me grin from ear to ear you and i've been covering
00:02:01 men and women's sports defending women's sports advocating for women only in women's sports
00:02:09 you've been called every name in the book i've been called every name in the book uh and i we
00:02:14 talked about this gosh senator i think it was a couple years ago on this show where i said there
00:02:20 was two interesting things that were happening at the time one there was a group of uh basically
00:02:27 former college players slash some that tried to play early on in the mini tours in golf that
00:02:33 were looking at trying to join the lpga tour claiming they were women uh the lpga got wind
00:02:40 of that and they put up blockades to make sure hey we're just going to have women then it also
00:02:44 happened with the WTA tour professional women's tennis uh the same thing they went after and
00:02:50 attacked uh Martina Navatilova one of the uh one of the pioneers of the hard you know the of women
00:02:57 in the left in her movement she was one of the first openly gay athletes in all of women's sports
00:03:02 it cost her millions in endorsements by the way she came out and said no to men and women's uh 0.54
00:03:08 tennis and then they attacked her for that fast forward to now and you knew it was going to happen 0.99
00:03:14 at some point. Somebody was going to screw up and not protect women's sports and allow for men to 1.00
00:03:19 say, okay, I'm in and I'm going to prove a point. We are now at that point with the WNBA where men 0.97
00:03:27 are saying, I'm declaring for the draft as a woman, I'm transgender. That's how I identify.
00:03:35 How can you keep me out? It is a very interesting and a big moment. I'm glad it's happening, by the
00:03:40 Well, it started two weeks ago with our friend Clay Travis, and Clay Travis put out a public
00:03:46 challenge. He challenged for the Las Vegas Aces, which is the reigning national champion WNBA
00:03:54 team, to play a team of high school boys of his choosing. He said, a high school state champion,
00:04:03 I will pick a high school state champion. And Clay said, I will give $10 million of my own money
00:04:10 to the winners he made that challenge two weeks ago crickets crickets and by the way he has a 10
00:04:20 million let's be clear this was not a joke he meant it when he tweeted it out and in fact clay
00:04:25 followed up said important not only have the wnba and the las vegas aces refused to respond to my
00:04:31 10 million dollar boys high school challenge no rich left wingers have stepped up to take the 10
00:04:38 million challenge either. Why? They're all liars and cowards. They know the high school boys would
00:04:47 smoke the WNBA champions. It is stunning that there is no response. $10 million is a lot of
00:04:56 money. You know, these WNBA players. It's $2 million a player, by the way. $2 million a player
00:05:00 if there's five players. If you divide the money equally, it's $2 million. And these are players
00:05:05 that wear shirts that say,
00:05:07 pay us what we're worth.
00:05:09 Yes.
00:05:09 And you have someone...
00:05:11 And by the way, if you did,
00:05:11 they've lost money every year as a league
00:05:13 when they put those t-shirts on. 1.00
00:05:15 So actually, they would be paying the WNBA 1.00
00:05:17 to let them play
00:05:18 if you actually look at the real math.
00:05:20 And I'll tell you,
00:05:21 I had TMZ accost me on the Capitol this past week
00:05:24 to ask me about this.
00:05:26 And here's what I had to say.
00:05:28 Give a listen.
00:05:29 Could I ask you a question, please, Ted?
00:05:30 How are you, man?
00:05:31 It's good to see you.
00:05:31 I'm doing well.
00:05:32 Hey, have you been following the WNBA
00:05:35 and this transgender debate, it's all they're talking about there.
00:05:40 I saw Clay Travis offered $10 million for a game.
00:05:42 Could I come here?
00:05:44 I'd watch that game. 1.00
00:05:45 Could I just ask, Megan Kelly said that Caitlin Clark is a coward 1.00
00:05:51 for not taking a side in either this or that.
00:05:55 What do you feel about that? 0.98
00:05:56 Oh, look, Caitlin Clark is a hell of a ball player and fun to watch. 0.78
00:06:00 Do you think she should take a side? 0.99
00:06:01 At the end of the day, I don't think athletes are required to express an opinion on every topic.
00:06:06 I think it is clearly unfair to allow boys to compete against girls and to allow men to compete against women.
00:06:17 Boys and girls are different, and mankind has known that literally since the dawn of time.
00:06:23 Is it a big issue, though, at WNBA level?
00:06:26 Like, I don't see many...
00:06:27 I'm curious. Tell me, what does the W stand for?
00:06:30 Women. 0.97
00:06:31 It seems that there's some coaches in the WNBA who can't figure that out.
00:06:36 But should they also be sympathetic and empathetic for young little girls
00:06:41 who are feeling an identity crisis?
00:06:44 They want to play sport.
00:06:45 They want to be with their friends.
00:06:47 If they're boys, they're not young little girls.
00:06:49 And the fact that your ideology,
00:06:52 do you think it would be fair to let LeBron James play in the WNBA?
00:06:55 No, but that's not what we're talking about.
00:06:56 We're talking about young people.
00:06:58 You're talking about old people too?
00:06:59 you're not just saying five-year-olds well i think at that like the wnba doesn't have five-year-olds
00:07:04 at a professional level yeah i mean obviously but but at a minor level when these kids are just
00:07:09 trying to be happy and be kids not letting them socialize with their friends just because they're 0.94
00:07:13 socialized they can be happy but to be honest though a lot of the transgenderism is coming 0.94
00:07:19 from leftist adults who are convincing their kids of this nonsense and it is really sad to see the 0.92
00:07:26 ideology of parents uh listen i think god knows what he's doing when he makes a little boy i think
00:07:32 god knows what he's doing when he makes a little girl and i think the phenomenon of woke leftist
00:07:38 adults you know i read a tweet once from cynthia nixon the actress who said her child is trans
00:07:45 her sister's child is trans all of her friends child children are trans you know what that is
00:07:49 that's adults putting their politics and their ideology on their kids and i feel maybe it's
00:07:55 Letting their kids be who they really are.
00:07:57 Maybe, like, you don't know.
00:07:58 We don't know.
00:07:59 You know what? 0.65
00:08:00 If you don't know what a boy is and you don't know what a girl is,
00:08:02 there's a reason you work at TMZ.
00:08:04 All right then, Ted.
00:08:05 I appreciate you, man.
00:08:06 Thank you.
00:08:08 Senator, I got to say,
00:08:09 I enjoy when TMZ starts asking you questions in D.C.
00:08:13 It's one of the best things I've ever done to expand to D.C. this way.
00:08:17 And your last line there was quite a zinger.
00:08:20 Well played.
00:08:22 And I'll tell you what, if I were ever,
00:08:24 I'd be the greatest
00:08:26 women's basketball coach in history
00:08:28 because I don't like LeBron James
00:08:31 I like Michael Jordan much better
00:08:33 but I'd
00:08:34 but I'd go up
00:08:37 to LeBron James, it doesn't matter
00:08:38 I'd say, LeBron, did you ever have any desire
00:08:41 to be a woman?
00:08:43 because what I'd love you to do 0.99
00:08:44 is star on my team that I'm building up
00:08:46 I will have the greatest team in history
00:08:48 they'll never lose
00:08:49 nobody will come within 70 points of this team
00:08:52 now we have to change that and we have to make it okay to talk about it you know the young lady i
00:08:58 was talking about is afraid to talk about it she's shunned and she's canceled when she talks about it
00:09:04 this is crazy you listen to donald trump there he not only does he make a great point but he's right
00:09:09 we should be able to talk about this and if you are an athlete that's trying to defend yourself
00:09:14 specifically if you're a woman playing in women's sports you shouldn't be shunned or silenced the 0.94
00:09:18 way that so many women and women's sports have been riley gaines a great example of that
00:09:22 Well, and now it's not hypothetical because following Clay Travis's challenge this past week, Ennis Cantor, Ennis Freedom Cantor, decided, OK, if you guys are saying that any dude who says he's a woman can play, I'll take you up on it and give a listen to Ennis Freedom's announcement.
00:09:42 After careful consideration on reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I am officially declaring myself a WNBA prospect.
00:09:49 If simply declaring who you are is all that's required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.
00:09:56 My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA's eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion.
00:10:05 Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in May 2027.
00:10:12 I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or to suspect any community or personal choices.
00:10:18 I am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone.
00:10:22 The rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for.
00:10:28 My team and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently, and without exception.
00:10:34 And I look forward to the WNBA honoring its stated principles.
00:10:38 See you at training camp.
00:10:41 See you at training camp.
00:10:43 That's the best line of all. 1.00
00:10:45 So I got to ask, Senator, over under the WNBA flinches,
00:10:50 now having men who are declaring their women declare for the WNBA draft,
00:10:56 will they go through with it?
00:10:57 Or do you think they'll probably say, okay, we got to fix this now
00:11:01 and actually protect women?
00:11:04 Well, and let's give a little more context.
00:11:08 Ennis Cantor is 6'10".
00:11:10 He's 250 pounds.
00:11:13 He played in the NBA.
00:11:14 He went in the first draft.
00:11:15 He was the number three pick.
00:11:17 In his career in the NBA, he averaged 11.2 points per game,
00:11:21 7.8 rebounds per game, and 0.9 assists per game.
00:11:25 He was the starting center for the Boston Celtics.
00:11:28 He was a serious NBA center.
00:11:31 and then actually he ended up getting fired because he spoke out against the Chinese
00:11:38 communists oppressing the Uyghurs having concentration camps of over a million people
00:11:43 and the NBA blocked him out and shut him out because they cared more about selling the NBA
00:11:49 to China than they did about human rights and so even though Cantor was still like a top performing
00:11:56 center in the NBA, he immediately became shunned. In this instance, look, I tweeted out in response
00:12:04 to Ennis's, and he changed his name to Ennis Freedom Cantor, which I think is great, and
00:12:10 I got to know Ennis a little bit. I said, all right, if this happens, Ennis is going to break
00:12:18 Wilt Chamberlain's record for 100 points in a game. Wilt has the record for the most points
00:12:22 in a pro basketball game.
00:12:24 It was 100 point.
00:12:25 Because literally, at 6'10",
00:12:28 he can just stand there with his hand above his head
00:12:30 holding the ball,
00:12:31 and there's literally nothing they could do,
00:12:33 and then he'll just drop it in the basket. 0.91
00:12:35 Like, it would be ridiculous.
00:12:36 By the way, right after that,
00:12:39 right after he did so,
00:12:41 Royce White, who also played in the NBA,
00:12:44 announced that he was declaring
00:12:46 for the WNBA draft. 0.81
00:12:50 The WNBA has a crisis.
00:12:51 Their commissioner came out and they said, well, these questions are very complicated, which means I think it is 100% they are going to block them.
00:13:03 I don't know how, because their ideology is incoherent.
00:13:07 Their ideology says anyone who says, I am a woman, as of that instant, you are a woman.
00:13:15 That's what their ideology says.
00:13:17 Now you've got two former NBA players who are like, all right, I'll call your bluff. 1.00
00:13:21 If I'm a woman, let's go. 1.00
00:13:23 Yeah.
00:13:23 And so they're going to have to say something to make clear what everybody knows. 1.00
00:13:30 These guys are not women. 1.00
00:13:32 Yeah.
00:13:33 And neither are the other dudes who are playing against women.
00:13:37 Everyone knows that.
00:13:38 And so I'm really glad that the two of these declared.
00:13:44 I think it is 100%.
00:13:46 All right.
00:13:47 I'm going to wager you 20 bucks, Ben.
00:13:50 I have to decide if I want to take this bet.
00:13:52 You've got to decide.
00:13:53 I didn't say $500.
00:13:54 I said $20.
00:13:55 Okay.
00:13:56 $20 that Ennis Cantor never plays one minute in the WNBA.
00:14:02 Yeah, I'm going to agree with you, so I'm not going to waste my $20.
00:14:06 But I wonder, I do think there's a 1% chance that the NBA just sticks their feet in
00:14:14 and says we're not moving, and then they get obliterated by –
00:14:18 And by the way, I bet you there's more guys than these two. 0.87
00:14:20 Excuse me, these guys are now transitioning to women
00:14:22 who identify as transgender that are going to come forward and do this as well.
00:14:26 I bet you we're not done yet.
00:14:28 And by the way, we are seeing life imitate art.
00:14:33 There's a fabulous movie called Lady Ballers that The Daily Wire put on
00:14:37 that has a cameo from yours truly.
00:14:41 And it is hysterical.
00:14:44 The whole premise of it is that five guys in their 40s
00:14:47 who had as teenagers had been the Kentucky state high school basketball
00:14:51 champs decide in their forties, 1.00
00:14:54 let's declare we're women and compete in the WNBA and they dominate like 1.00
00:14:57 crazy. And it's, it's, it's a light comedy.
00:15:00 It's sort of done in the style of dodge ball, but it's got some really,
00:15:04 really funny lines. And, and so if you haven't watched lady ballers,
00:15:09 I highly recommend it. You would enjoy it. It's funny.
00:15:12 And we may be watching lady ballers between clay Travis's $10 million bet.
00:15:17 and Ennis Freedom Cantor and Lady Ballers is coming to life.
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00:16:48 Now on to story number two.
00:16:51 I want to move on to the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:16:54 Their main man keeps saying what he actually believes about people in this country.
00:17:01 There's a true disdain for America, American culture.
00:17:05 And this time, the target was football.
00:17:08 but it's not really about football, Senator.
00:17:12 This is about hating America
00:17:15 and hating what American men represent.
00:17:19 And he decided to say that he doesn't like football,
00:17:21 not because it's just like, you know,
00:17:23 I don't enjoy it, it's not a fun sport.
00:17:25 No, he says it's because he has a problem with men,
00:17:29 American men that like watching football
00:17:32 and they're a threat. 1.00
00:17:33 So this is Abdul El Saeed. 0.95
00:17:35 we've talked about his family's ties to the muslim brotherhood about his radical islamist 0.98
00:17:40 views about his radical communist views um you know he's now decided to say motherhood sucks 1.00
00:17:46 america sucks apple pie sucks and if that was not bad enough football sucks here give a listen 0.99
00:17:52 football um is very much associated with a you know particularly masculine and oftentimes toxic 0.99
00:17:58 toxically masculine uh culture and so much of it was about you wanted to be able to get back up and
00:18:05 play for your team and you you really aren't allowed to show pain or vulnerability that's
00:18:09 part of the sport that that's that's a whole new take center i i mean when i hear that i'm like
00:18:15 all right let me get this straight if i'm a dude and i like football i like playing football or
00:18:19 watching football or going to a football game i i i have a problem i'm a masculine dude and it's
00:18:25 toxic masculinity to want to root for my old miss rebels like that's that's a new one that's a new
00:18:31 one on us all right so ben let me ask you an empirical question i cannot wait who is more
00:18:37 apologetic for their quote masculinity and who is objectively less masculine abdul al-sayad or
00:18:48 james talarika that is a tough one i i don't i mean the dude who says that that there's how many
00:18:58 genders is it? Six? Six. Six genders and God is non-binary. That would be Tallarico. God is
00:19:04 non-binary. Binary against a dude that says, I'm a problem. And by the way, Tallarico repeatedly
00:19:08 says, I weep for my masculinity. Yes. He also was hanging out with a kid drag queen star last
00:19:15 weekend. An 11-year-old drag queen, a little boy dressed as a woman that he was cheering on.
00:19:22 So the interesting thing about Al Sayed, he claims at least that in high school he was captain of
00:19:27 his football team and i'll say the guy is is pretty muscular and pretty built but but his 0.83
00:19:32 entire campaign strategy seems to be to deceive the tiktok generation so he puts out these show
00:19:38 tunes of his lip-syncing women singers and dancing in tight t-shirts and and all right it's it's
00:19:47 almost as if this is why i'm not on tiktok by the way you just described it perfectly 0.80
00:19:51 Like at some point, how exactly did they find an effeminate Muslim Islamist to run for Senate in Michigan and another one in Texas? 0.63
00:20:07 Like, what is it with Democrats when they're looking for manly? 0.99
00:20:13 They go feminine every time now.
00:20:15 It's like, no, you can't be manly and be in our party.
00:20:16 You have to be anti-man, anti-masculine, anti-toxic masculinity, which I guess means just being a dude.
00:20:25 Like, I'm really wondering, did they have a messaging meeting where they sat around and they said,
00:20:29 OK, what message do we want to run on?
00:20:31 Oh, affordability.
00:20:32 Yeah, yeah, we're for affordability.
00:20:33 OK, that's great.
00:20:34 What else were we for? 1.00
00:20:35 Football sucks. 1.00
00:20:36 I hate football. 1.00
00:20:38 Yes, because it's masculine terrible. 1.00
00:20:40 Yeah. 0.97
00:20:40 Because they hate men. 0.69
00:20:42 Because they want you to be girly men.
00:20:45 you bring up an interesting point the other day we were having this discussion it was a group of
00:20:50 guys college buddies and they're like did you ever one of the guys was talking about like this this
00:20:56 whole war on men and masculine men and how if you're masculine that somehow means you're like
00:21:00 on the edge of being like a wife beater and like an angry raging uh testosterone like meathead 0.61
00:21:06 by the way to be clear when the democrats find people like that they're graham plattner and
00:21:11 They are that because it's a caricature. 0.95
00:21:13 They're trying to find, oh, here's a manly man, a Nazi communist, like misogynist. 0.76
00:21:18 That's that's what you mean.
00:21:20 Yes.
00:21:20 Yeah, exactly.
00:21:21 But one of them said to me, did you ever think in college ever the word, man, I'm masculine?
00:21:27 No.
00:21:27 You're just like, I'm a dude.
00:21:29 Like it was it was not this like to be clear to be clear masculinity.
00:21:34 You and I did did grow up watching He-Man.
00:21:38 That's true.
00:21:39 That's true.
00:21:39 And yeah, yeah. But but it was this. And today, today, today, today, the kids grew up watching She-Man and you wonder what's wrong in the country.
00:21:49 Yeah, well, that that kind of explains it all. But at least now we know where he stands on football.
00:21:53 So there's there's that now. This is the Democratic Party. If you watch football, you're just beating your wife.
00:21:58 That's what they're basically saying now. But but it's not just that while he's doing that and he's desperately trying to run away from his radical record.
00:22:05 you know who else is running away from her radical record no the great aoc who used to be the
00:22:12 radical but now is looking at the white house and wanting you to think she's not as crazy as she 0.94
00:22:16 used to be the queen mother of the communist woke nuts listen to her on the sunday show 0.96
00:22:23 this weekend running away from everything she's ever believed and everything she's ever advocated
00:22:29 give a listen uh the abolished prisons abolished police which is also positions that have been
00:22:35 taken by a lot of the progressive candidates who have won. How do you get around that?
00:22:40 Yeah.
00:22:40 Those are not positions that are supported by most of them.
00:22:43 Right. I mean, I think that a lot of these races, even right now, they'll have a tendency to be 0.99
00:22:49 nationalized. But these races ultimately are local and all politics are local. My understanding
00:22:57 is that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her electorate.
00:23:04 Yeah, she's moved away from a lot of that.
00:23:06 Right, she's moved away from it.
00:23:07 And I have a local city councilman that has this saying,
00:23:13 woke one was crazy. 0.94
00:23:16 Woke one was crazy. 0.68
00:23:17 Okay, that's true.
00:23:18 And I think...
00:23:19 I love how now middle of the road she tries to be on this one, right?
00:23:22 aoc is the embodiment of woke one was crazy yeah she is the author of woke one the phrases she's
00:23:35 trying to run away from things like open borders things like abolish ice didn't she cry at the
00:23:41 kids in cages that obama set up in that right but then she said it was she she did i'm pretty sure
00:23:46 she was wailing at the wall in a white pantsuit she cried at the cages she wants open borders
00:23:51 abolish the police that was AOC the Green New Deal that was AOC all of this woke rhetoric that
00:23:59 is now indefensible AOC started it all now look it's not complicated AOC is running for president
00:24:05 and what communists do is they lie and she's trying to run away from her record and she's
00:24:11 trying to excuse Francesca Wong who's with or Hong who said uh said you know we should abolish
00:24:18 thanksgiving thanksgiving yeah we should abolish it and and aoc is trying to say oh woke one was
00:24:25 crazy we don't believe any of the stuff we campaigned on and built a movement on and ran
00:24:30 primaries on and and defeated democrat incumbents on and and and like built everything we say we
00:24:35 don't believe any of that don't worry everything will be fine there's a technical word for what
00:24:41 she's doing. That's called lying. And there's a through line from AOC to Al-Sayed to Dr. Fauci, 0.66
00:24:52 and they are dishonest ideological zealots, and the country's a lot worse because of them.
00:24:58 All right. I love that we do predictions on the show. I got a prediction. I want to get your take.
00:25:03 If it comes down in the primary, the Democratic primary between Kamala Harris and AOC,
00:25:07 I predict that AOC mops the floor with Harris.
00:25:11 Do you agree or disagree?
00:25:12 I fully agree.
00:25:13 Kamala will not be the nominee.
00:25:15 I think the two frontrunners right now on the Democrat side are AOC and Gavin Newsom.
00:25:21 And I think the dark horse number three is John Ossoff.
00:25:25 As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic,
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00:26:54 i want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed
00:26:58 we are exposing the radical left the democratic socialists of america and some of the extremists
00:27:04 that are winning primaries and winning elections around the country one of them senator is a guy
00:27:10 by the name of james tallarico and every time you think you've heard the craziest thing from him he's
00:27:16 running for the senate in texas uh trying to act like he's a big texan even though he doesn't you
00:27:21 know he's vegan doesn't eat meat and and and thinks that there's you know i don't even know
00:27:25 how many genders and God's non-binary, but every time you think, all right, it's all out there,
00:27:30 you get something else that pops, and it makes him even more out of step with average mainstream
00:27:36 Americans. Well, there's a theme across all of these radical Democrat candidates, which is
00:27:42 their fakes. I've said for a long time that in the United States, a conservative wins when he
00:27:50 effectively communicates what it is that he or she believes. And a liberal wins when he effectively
00:27:56 obfuscates, when he hides or covers up what he believes. That is the theme across the board. So
00:28:03 you have these Islamists and Marxists who campaign and they do lip singing to songs and dancing like 0.94
00:28:09 children's characters. You have in Alaska, one of the great examples of fakes, the Democrats, 0.89
00:28:16 the incumbent senator is my very dear friend dan sullivan a great republican senator from alaska
00:28:21 the democrats recruited a guy named dan sullivan to register and he's on the ballot as a republican
00:28:28 so there's going to be two people named dan sullivan republican one the actual senator
00:28:31 and the other a guy named dan sullivan who has contributed to the democrat in the campaign
00:28:37 whose campaign press release was written by the democrat consultant and their purpose in that
00:28:42 race is to deceive the voters and to have them confused. And if two, three, four percent of them
00:28:47 think they're voting for Dan Sullivan, the actual senator, and instead are voting for the liberal
00:28:51 fake Dan Sullivan, they might elect the liberal. But Democrats don't care about democracy. That's
00:28:56 not what this is about. This is about deceiving the voters. There's another category, which is
00:29:00 the fake independents. So in states like Nebraska, they've recruited a liberal Democrat who claims
00:29:06 he's an independent. They're doing the same thing in Montana, where they run a, quote,
00:29:10 independent who's a liberal democrat will vote for chuck schumer on everything but they want
00:29:14 to fool the democrats into thinking and the voters are thinking oh this is not a democrat
00:29:18 another species and strategy they've tried this time is is the fake pastor and so they've decided
00:29:25 gosh we have a problem with people of faith that were radical godless soulless uh faith-hating
00:29:31 religious liberty hating heathens and i'm i'm i guess speaking i was going to say i'm speaking 0.96
00:29:39 excessively, but I don't know that I am. But let's take Tallarico. So Tallarico, it's widely 0.75
00:29:48 said, is a seminarian. Now, he said, among other things, God is non-binary, there's six genders,
00:29:54 he's stood before churches and said he cries and weeps for his whiteness and his masculinity.
00:30:01 He's also said at times he hates Christianity, but I want you to listen to what he said here
00:30:06 about teaching the Bible to kids?
00:30:09 Give a listen.
00:30:11 And the last one is maybe the most insidious.
00:30:14 It was a new state curriculum 0.92
00:30:16 that would teach Christian Bible stories
00:30:20 as historical fact, as the only truth
00:30:23 to our youngest students.
00:30:24 And I mean kindergarten, first graders.
00:30:27 These are kids who aren't able to think for themselves yet.
00:30:31 They haven't formed their own world values.
00:30:33 And to push propaganda,
00:30:36 to push indoctrination on those youngest students is deeply immoral.
00:30:42 Deeply immoral.
00:30:45 And understand, number one, what he's describing about the state law is totally false.
00:30:49 There was nothing in the curriculum that was teaching the Bible in terms of indoctrinating kids.
00:30:55 But any literate person, the Bible has been the single most consequential work ever written in the history of humanity.
00:31:02 and you and I as Christians believe it was written by the hand of God with divine inspiration,
00:31:07 but the curriculum is simply teaching the Bible, because if you know nothing about the Bible, 1.00
00:31:11 you're truly an ignorant person. But I want you to listen to the word he used describing the Bible 0.99
00:31:16 as propaganda, that if kids know something about the Bible, it is propaganda, and ask yourself,
00:31:23 what actual Christian pastor would describe the Bible as propaganda? I agree that public 0.96
00:31:31 school should not be proselytizing any faith but that's not in fact what the texas curriculum does
00:31:36 uh it does ensure that you have literate literate kids that are that are aware um of of what's in
00:31:43 the bible and by the way what's what's in in history books and math books and and and and
00:31:47 all of uh the whole field of knowledge but but that is who the democrats have nominated in hopes
00:31:56 that people will think, oh, he's just like me. I want to also point out a fellow who is running
00:32:01 for Senate in Kansas. Now, you might not think Kansas is close, but I'll tell you, in this
00:32:06 election cycle, this election cycle, the numbers are bumpy. And Kansas, Roger Marshall's the
00:32:13 incumbent. He's a good friend of mine. He's a good man. I think he's going to win. But the Democrats
00:32:18 recruited a pastor from a giant church in Kansas City, a very liberal pastor, to run as a Democrat.
00:32:25 and so is a Democrat. He's supportive of all the left-wing ideology that these other lunatics 0.86
00:32:30 support, but he's trying to cover it up, and I want you to listen to a sermon that he preached
00:32:38 in his church, and I'm going to tell you in the sermon, he explains that you don't actually have
00:32:43 to be a Christian to go to heaven, and that you don't have to believe in Jesus to be saved. Give
00:32:48 a listen. And I've spent this a lot of my life studying different world religions, and you find
00:32:54 and some get you a little closer.
00:32:55 The image begins to become clear,
00:32:56 like this picture on the screen.
00:32:58 And then you study another one,
00:33:00 you find it gets even clearer.
00:33:01 You suddenly see that the image becomes even more in focus.
00:33:05 And so for me, as I've studied different world religions,
00:33:07 I sit in the chair
00:33:07 and I'm looking through these different lenses.
00:33:09 And when I finally got to that last one,
00:33:11 when I finally got to Jesus and Christianity,
00:33:14 it was like I could see clearly, the clearest that I had seen.
00:33:17 And so I think about how Paul says, he talks about Jesus.
00:33:20 He says, the sun is the image of the invisible God.
00:33:23 right? And Jesus elsewhere says, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. And so in Christianity,
00:33:27 we believe that God actually came and walked among us in the flesh. He didn't give us a book.
00:33:30 He came in person. And when we look at Jesus, we have the clearest picture we have of God. And so
00:33:35 when I began to look through the lens of Jesus, my eyesight, spiritual eyesight, I felt became
00:33:40 the most clear it could be, like you see in this image here. Now, the truth is that a Muslim would 1.00
00:33:45 say through Islam, they see the most clearly, and a Hindu through Hinduism, and a Jew through
00:33:50 judaism and so so i recognize we all are you know we all have a different lens that we're seeing
00:33:54 through and sometimes we think you know depending how we were raised and how we think one lens is
00:33:58 you know clearly a better lens for me and when it comes to other faiths i believe as a christian
00:34:03 that they are going to when they get to heaven they're going to see jesus they're going to say
00:34:06 ah it was you all the time all along that i was searching for but i don't fear that those folks
00:34:13 will spend eternity in hell. That's pretty radical. Well, it is, and what it is not is
00:34:22 biblical. You can be a philosopher, you can be a left-wing advocate, but you cannot be a Christian 0.99
00:34:27 preacher who is actually preaching Christianity and say that. That is the literal definition
00:34:37 of heresy, and why is that? Because it directly contradicts the Bible, and let me quote John 14,
00:34:44 6, quote, Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
00:34:53 except through me. That's what the Bible says, and yet this Democrat, Adam Hamilton, who's running as
00:35:00 I'm a preacher, is telling people, hey, you don't have to be a Christian to be saved. Jesus is not
00:35:05 the way the truth and the life anyway is fine we're all going to heaven it's all great kumbaya
00:35:10 do whatever you want that is the message of of the world but that is not the message of scripture
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