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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00:00:55.120 It is Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:00:56.480 Week in review.
00:00:57.480 Ben Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that you may have missed that we talked about
00:01:01.120 this week. First up, an amazing moment where the WNBA, the W stands for women, can't actually
00:01:08.000 figure out what a woman actually is. And now there's a chance that men claiming they're women
00:01:14.400 could take over the WNBA. What happens next? We explain it. Up next, El-Sayed. You know him as 1.00
00:01:22.080 the radical extremist in the Democratic Party. Well, the Democratic Socialists. He wants you
00:01:26.920 know he carries such great american values he even hates football and explains that it's too
00:01:33.700 masculine it's toxic masculinity and finally there's a real threat in this country with
00:01:39.660 radicals who are running for office claiming they're normal many of them also claim to be
00:01:45.400 men of faith they're pastors but what are they actually saying from the pulpit we explain that
00:01:50.680 and expose it as well it's the weekend review and it starts right now i want to move on to another
00:01:56.720 subject and this one is one that just makes me grin from ear to ear you and i've been covering
00:02:01.880 men and women's sports defending women's sports advocating for women only in women's sports
00:02:09.100 you've been called every name in the book i've been called every name in the book uh and i we
00:02:14.480 talked about this gosh senator i think it was a couple years ago on this show where i said there
00:02:20.820 was two interesting things that were happening at the time one there was a group of uh basically
00:02:27.140 former college players slash some that tried to play early on in the mini tours in golf that
00:02:33.580 were looking at trying to join the lpga tour claiming they were women uh the lpga got wind
00:02:40.040 of that and they put up blockades to make sure hey we're just going to have women then it also
00:02:44.820 happened with the WTA tour professional women's tennis uh the same thing they went after and
00:02:50.800 attacked uh Martina Navatilova one of the uh one of the pioneers of the hard you know the of women
00:02:57.280 in the left in her movement she was one of the first openly gay athletes in all of women's sports
00:03:02.440 it cost her millions in endorsements by the way she came out and said no to men and women's uh 0.54
00:03:08.060 tennis and then they attacked her for that fast forward to now and you knew it was going to happen 0.99
00:03:14.100 at some point. Somebody was going to screw up and not protect women's sports and allow for men to 1.00
00:03:19.640 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
00:03:27.880 are saying, I'm declaring for the draft as a woman, I'm transgender. That's how I identify.
00:03:35.200 How can you keep me out? It is a very interesting and a big moment. I'm glad it's happening, by the
00:03:40.300 Well, it started two weeks ago with our friend Clay Travis, and Clay Travis put out a public
00:03:46.640 challenge. He challenged for the Las Vegas Aces, which is the reigning national champion WNBA
00:03:54.460 team, to play a team of high school boys of his choosing. He said, a high school state champion,
00:04:03.040 I will pick a high school state champion. And Clay said, I will give $10 million of my own money
00:04:10.300 to the winners he made that challenge two weeks ago crickets crickets and by the way he has a 10
00:04:20.740 million let's be clear this was not a joke he meant it when he tweeted it out and in fact clay
00:04:25.520 followed up said important not only have the wnba and the las vegas aces refused to respond to my
00:04:31.820 10 million dollar boys high school challenge no rich left wingers have stepped up to take the 10
00:04:38.800 million challenge either. Why? They're all liars and cowards. They know the high school boys would
00:04:47.340 smoke the WNBA champions. It is stunning that there is no response. $10 million is a lot of
00:04:56.560 money. You know, these WNBA players. It's $2 million a player, by the way. $2 million a player
00:05:00.360 if there's five players. If you divide the money equally, it's $2 million. And these are players
00:05:05.920 that wear shirts that say,
00:05:07.440 pay us what we're worth.
00:05:09.580 Yes.
00:05:09.980 And you have someone...
00:05:11.000 And by the way, if you did,
00:05:11.400 they've lost money every year as a league
00:05:13.140 when they put those t-shirts on. 1.00
00:05:15.100 So actually, they would be paying the WNBA 1.00
00:05:17.460 to let them play
00:05:18.160 if you actually look at the real math.
00:05:20.980 And I'll tell you,
00:05:21.820 I had TMZ accost me on the Capitol this past week
00:05:24.900 to ask me about this.
00:05:26.300 And here's what I had to say.
00:05:28.140 Give a listen.
00:05:29.180 Could I ask you a question, please, Ted?
00:05:30.420 How are you, man?
00:05:31.020 It's good to see you.
00:05:31.780 I'm doing well.
00:05:32.820 Hey, have you been following the WNBA
00:05:35.180 and this transgender debate, it's all they're talking about there.
00:05:40.160 I saw Clay Travis offered $10 million for a game.
00:05:42.760 Could I come here?
00:05:44.160 I'd watch that game. 1.00
00:05:45.880 Could I just ask, Megan Kelly said that Caitlin Clark is a coward 1.00
00:05:51.340 for not taking a side in either this or that.
00:05:55.140 What do you feel about that? 0.98
00:05:56.120 Oh, look, Caitlin Clark is a hell of a ball player and fun to watch. 0.78
00:06:00.080 Do you think she should take a side? 0.99
00:06:01.440 At the end of the day, I don't think athletes are required to express an opinion on every topic.
00:06:06.960 I think it is clearly unfair to allow boys to compete against girls and to allow men to compete against women.
00:06:17.060 Boys and girls are different, and mankind has known that literally since the dawn of time.
00:06:23.060 Is it a big issue, though, at WNBA level?
00:06:26.520 Like, I don't see many...
00:06:27.520 I'm curious. Tell me, what does the W stand for?
00:06:30.160 Women. 0.97
00:06:31.380 It seems that there's some coaches in the WNBA who can't figure that out.
00:06:36.620 But should they also be sympathetic and empathetic for young little girls
00:06:41.960 who are feeling an identity crisis?
00:06:44.960 They want to play sport.
00:06:45.940 They want to be with their friends.
00:06:47.160 If they're boys, they're not young little girls.
00:06:49.240 And the fact that your ideology,
00:06:52.320 do you think it would be fair to let LeBron James play in the WNBA?
00:06:55.280 No, but that's not what we're talking about.
00:06:56.420 We're talking about young people.
00:06:58.380 You're talking about old people too?
00:06:59.720 you're not just saying five-year-olds well i think at that like the wnba doesn't have five-year-olds
00:07:04.300 at a professional level yeah i mean obviously but but at a minor level when these kids are just
00:07:09.340 trying to be happy and be kids not letting them socialize with their friends just because they're 0.94
00:07:13.640 socialized they can be happy but to be honest though a lot of the transgenderism is coming 0.94
00:07:19.680 from leftist adults who are convincing their kids of this nonsense and it is really sad to see the 0.92
00:07:26.720 ideology of parents uh listen i think god knows what he's doing when he makes a little boy i think
00:07:32.480 god knows what he's doing when he makes a little girl and i think the phenomenon of woke leftist
00:07:38.980 adults you know i read a tweet once from cynthia nixon the actress who said her child is trans
00:07:45.500 her sister's child is trans all of her friends child children are trans you know what that is
00:07:49.480 that's adults putting their politics and their ideology on their kids and i feel maybe it's
00:07:55.620 Letting their kids be who they really are.
00:07:57.240 Maybe, like, you don't know.
00:07:58.720 We don't know.
00:07:59.760 You know what? 0.65
00:08:00.500 If you don't know what a boy is and you don't know what a girl is,
00:08:02.660 there's a reason you work at TMZ.
00:08:04.340 All right then, Ted.
00:08:05.840 I appreciate you, man.
00:08:06.700 Thank you.
00:08:08.100 Senator, I got to say,
00:08:09.720 I enjoy when TMZ starts asking you questions in D.C.
00:08:13.460 It's one of the best things I've ever done to expand to D.C. this way.
00:08:17.360 And your last line there was quite a zinger.
00:08:20.560 Well played.
00:08:22.720 And I'll tell you what, if I were ever,
00:08:24.620 I'd be the greatest
00:08:26.020 women's basketball coach in history
00:08:28.540 because I don't like LeBron James
00:08:31.100 I like Michael Jordan much better
00:08:33.120 but I'd
00:08:34.620 but I'd go up
00:08:37.220 to LeBron James, it doesn't matter
00:08:38.940 I'd say, LeBron, did you ever have any desire
00:08:41.100 to be a woman?
00:08:43.180 because what I'd love you to do 0.99
00:08:44.860 is star on my team that I'm building up
00:08:46.920 I will have the greatest team in history
00:08:48.620 they'll never lose
00:08:49.580 nobody will come within 70 points of this team
00:08:52.880 now we have to change that and we have to make it okay to talk about it you know the young lady i
00:08:58.880 was talking about is afraid to talk about it she's shunned and she's canceled when she talks about it
00:09:04.200 this is crazy you listen to donald trump there he not only does he make a great point but he's right
00:09:09.860 we should be able to talk about this and if you are an athlete that's trying to defend yourself
00:09:14.360 specifically if you're a woman playing in women's sports you shouldn't be shunned or silenced the 0.94
00:09:18.680 way that so many women and women's sports have been riley gaines a great example of that
00:09:22.120 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.
00:09:42.140 After careful consideration on reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I am officially declaring myself a WNBA prospect.
00:09:49.000 If simply declaring who you are is all that's required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.
00:09:56.640 My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA's eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion.
00:10:05.320 Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in May 2027.
00:10:12.740 I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or to suspect any community or personal choices.
00:10:18.320 I am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone.
00:10:22.200 The rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for.
00:10:28.400 My team and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently, and without exception.
00:10:34.280 And I look forward to the WNBA honoring its stated principles.
00:10:38.340 See you at training camp.
00:10:41.520 See you at training camp.
00:10:43.520 That's the best line of all. 1.00
00:10:45.020 So I got to ask, Senator, over under the WNBA flinches,
00:10:50.340 now having men who are declaring their women declare for the WNBA draft,
00:10:56.640 will they go through with it?
00:10:57.980 Or do you think they'll probably say, okay, we got to fix this now
00:11:01.680 and actually protect women?
00:11:04.280 Well, and let's give a little more context.
00:11:08.160 Ennis Cantor is 6'10".
00:11:10.840 He's 250 pounds.
00:11:13.100 He played in the NBA.
00:11:14.520 He went in the first draft.
00:11:15.680 He was the number three pick.
00:11:17.100 In his career in the NBA, he averaged 11.2 points per game,
00:11:21.200 7.8 rebounds per game, and 0.9 assists per game.
00:11:25.240 He was the starting center for the Boston Celtics.
00:11:28.720 He was a serious NBA center.
00:11:31.720 and then actually he ended up getting fired because he spoke out against the Chinese
00:11:38.020 communists oppressing the Uyghurs having concentration camps of over a million people
00:11:43.380 and the NBA blocked him out and shut him out because they cared more about selling the NBA
00:11:49.800 to China than they did about human rights and so even though Cantor was still like a top performing
00:11:56.620 center in the NBA, he immediately became shunned. In this instance, look, I tweeted out in response
00:12:04.000 to Ennis's, and he changed his name to Ennis Freedom Cantor, which I think is great, and
00:12:10.420 I got to know Ennis a little bit. I said, all right, if this happens, Ennis is going to break
00:12:18.000 Wilt Chamberlain's record for 100 points in a game. Wilt has the record for the most points
00:12:22.820 in a pro basketball game.
00:12:24.180 It was 100 point.
00:12:25.440 Because literally, at 6'10",
00:12:28.140 he can just stand there with his hand above his head
00:12:30.960 holding the ball,
00:12:31.800 and there's literally nothing they could do,
00:12:33.840 and then he'll just drop it in the basket. 0.91
00:12:35.240 Like, it would be ridiculous.
00:12:36.860 By the way, right after that,
00:12:39.340 right after he did so,
00:12:41.820 Royce White, who also played in the NBA,
00:12:44.800 announced that he was declaring
00:12:46.340 for the WNBA draft. 0.81
00:12:50.180 The WNBA has a crisis.
00:12:51.780 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.
00:13:03.640 I don't know how, because their ideology is incoherent.
00:13:07.560 Their ideology says anyone who says, I am a woman, as of that instant, you are a woman.
00:13:15.220 That's what their ideology says.
00:13:17.380 Now you've got two former NBA players who are like, all right, I'll call your bluff. 1.00
00:13:21.620 If I'm a woman, let's go. 1.00
00:13:23.260 Yeah.
00:13:23.500 And so they're going to have to say something to make clear what everybody knows. 1.00
00:13:30.080 These guys are not women. 1.00
00:13:32.820 Yeah.
00:13:33.040 And neither are the other dudes who are playing against women.
00:13:37.280 Everyone knows that.
00:13:38.940 And so I'm really glad that the two of these declared.
00:13:44.940 I think it is 100%.
00:13:46.360 All right.
00:13:47.340 I'm going to wager you 20 bucks, Ben.
00:13:50.060 I have to decide if I want to take this bet.
00:13:52.140 You've got to decide.
00:13:53.120 I didn't say $500.
00:13:54.740 I said $20.
00:13:55.800 Okay.
00:13:56.620 $20 that Ennis Cantor never plays one minute in the WNBA.
00:14:02.940 Yeah, I'm going to agree with you, so I'm not going to waste my $20.
00:14:06.440 But I wonder, I do think there's a 1% chance that the NBA just sticks their feet in
00:14:14.720 and says we're not moving, and then they get obliterated by –
00:14:18.360 And by the way, I bet you there's more guys than these two. 0.87
00:14:20.740 Excuse me, these guys are now transitioning to women
00:14:22.900 who identify as transgender that are going to come forward and do this as well.
00:14:26.220 I bet you we're not done yet.
00:14:28.100 And by the way, we are seeing life imitate art.
00:14:33.100 There's a fabulous movie called Lady Ballers that The Daily Wire put on
00:14:37.760 that has a cameo from yours truly.
00:14:41.880 And it is hysterical.
00:14:44.440 The whole premise of it is that five guys in their 40s
00:14:47.740 who had as teenagers had been the Kentucky state high school basketball
00:14:51.660 champs decide in their forties, 1.00
00:14:54.080 let's declare we're women and compete in the WNBA and they dominate like 1.00
00:14:57.680 crazy. And it's, it's, it's a light comedy.
00:15:00.520 It's sort of done in the style of dodge ball, but it's got some really,
00:15:04.720 really funny lines. And, and so if you haven't watched lady ballers,
00:15:09.220 I highly recommend it. You would enjoy it. It's funny.
00:15:12.460 And we may be watching lady ballers between clay Travis's $10 million bet.
00:15:17.240 and Ennis Freedom Cantor and Lady Ballers is coming to life.
00:15:21.580 Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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00:16:48.960 Now on to story number two.
00:16:51.200 I want to move on to the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:16:54.340 Their main man keeps saying what he actually believes about people in this country.
00:17:01.540 There's a true disdain for America, American culture.
00:17:05.820 And this time, the target was football.
00:17:08.760 but it's not really about football, Senator.
00:17:12.320 This is about hating America
00:17:15.640 and hating what American men represent.
00:17:19.160 And he decided to say that he doesn't like football,
00:17:21.960 not because it's just like, you know,
00:17:23.580 I don't enjoy it, it's not a fun sport.
00:17:25.680 No, he says it's because he has a problem with men,
00:17:29.860 American men that like watching football
00:17:32.320 and they're a threat. 1.00
00:17:33.620 So this is Abdul El Saeed. 0.95
00:17:35.360 we've talked about his family's ties to the muslim brotherhood about his radical islamist 0.98
00:17:40.420 views about his radical communist views um you know he's now decided to say motherhood sucks 1.00
00:17:46.680 america sucks apple pie sucks and if that was not bad enough football sucks here give a listen 0.99
00:17:52.700 football um is very much associated with a you know particularly masculine and oftentimes toxic 0.99
00:17:58.580 toxically masculine uh culture and so much of it was about you wanted to be able to get back up and
00:18:05.220 play for your team and you you really aren't allowed to show pain or vulnerability that's
00:18:09.980 part of the sport that that's that's a whole new take center i i mean when i hear that i'm like
00:18:15.180 all right let me get this straight if i'm a dude and i like football i like playing football or
00:18:19.200 watching football or going to a football game i i i have a problem i'm a masculine dude and it's
00:18:25.820 toxic masculinity to want to root for my old miss rebels like that's that's a new one that's a new
00:18:31.400 one on us all right so ben let me ask you an empirical question i cannot wait who is more
00:18:37.600 apologetic for their quote masculinity and who is objectively less masculine abdul al-sayad or
00:18:48.760 james talarika that is a tough one i i don't i mean the dude who says that that there's how many
00:18:58.060 genders is it? Six? Six. Six genders and God is non-binary. That would be Tallarico. God is
00:19:04.160 non-binary. Binary against a dude that says, I'm a problem. And by the way, Tallarico repeatedly
00:19:08.560 says, I weep for my masculinity. Yes. He also was hanging out with a kid drag queen star last
00:19:15.080 weekend. An 11-year-old drag queen, a little boy dressed as a woman that he was cheering on.
00:19:22.840 So the interesting thing about Al Sayed, he claims at least that in high school he was captain of
00:19:27.300 his football team and i'll say the guy is is pretty muscular and pretty built but but his 0.83
00:19:32.800 entire campaign strategy seems to be to deceive the tiktok generation so he puts out these show
00:19:38.280 tunes of his lip-syncing women singers and dancing in tight t-shirts and and all right it's it's
00:19:47.860 almost as if this is why i'm not on tiktok by the way you just described it perfectly 0.80
00:19:51.880 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
00:20:07.700 Like, what is it with Democrats when they're looking for manly? 0.99
00:20:13.020 They go feminine every time now.
00:20:15.060 It's like, no, you can't be manly and be in our party.
00:20:16.960 You have to be anti-man, anti-masculine, anti-toxic masculinity, which I guess means just being a dude.
00:20:25.020 Like, I'm really wondering, did they have a messaging meeting where they sat around and they said,
00:20:29.220 OK, what message do we want to run on?
00:20:31.300 Oh, affordability.
00:20:32.220 Yeah, yeah, we're for affordability.
00:20:33.360 OK, that's great.
00:20:34.140 What else were we for? 1.00
00:20:35.460 Football sucks. 1.00
00:20:36.520 I hate football. 1.00
00:20:38.260 Yes, because it's masculine terrible. 1.00
00:20:40.120 Yeah. 0.97
00:20:40.780 Because they hate men. 0.69
00:20:42.960 Because they want you to be girly men.
00:20:45.520 you bring up an interesting point the other day we were having this discussion it was a group of
00:20:50.960 guys college buddies and they're like did you ever one of the guys was talking about like this this
00:20:56.000 whole war on men and masculine men and how if you're masculine that somehow means you're like
00:21:00.600 on the edge of being like a wife beater and like an angry raging uh testosterone like meathead 0.61
00:21:06.840 by the way to be clear when the democrats find people like that they're graham plattner and
00:21:11.020 They are that because it's a caricature. 0.95
00:21:13.220 They're trying to find, oh, here's a manly man, a Nazi communist, like misogynist. 0.76
00:21:18.680 That's that's what you mean.
00:21:20.080 Yes.
00:21:20.340 Yeah, exactly.
00:21:21.080 But one of them said to me, did you ever think in college ever the word, man, I'm masculine?
00:21:27.400 No.
00:21:27.960 You're just like, I'm a dude.
00:21:29.280 Like it was it was not this like to be clear to be clear masculinity.
00:21:34.460 You and I did did grow up watching He-Man.
00:21:38.560 That's true.
00:21:39.280 That's true.
00:21:39.720 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.
00:21:49.500 Yeah, well, that that kind of explains it all. But at least now we know where he stands on football.
00:21:53.400 So there's there's that now. This is the Democratic Party. If you watch football, you're just beating your wife.
00:21:58.900 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.
00:22:05.920 you know who else is running away from her radical record no the great aoc who used to be the
00:22:12.280 radical but now is looking at the white house and wanting you to think she's not as crazy as she 0.94
00:22:16.900 used to be the queen mother of the communist woke nuts listen to her on the sunday show 0.96
00:22:23.040 this weekend running away from everything she's ever believed and everything she's ever advocated
00:22:29.560 give a listen uh the abolished prisons abolished police which is also positions that have been
00:22:35.160 taken by a lot of the progressive candidates who have won. How do you get around that?
00:22:40.540 Yeah.
00:22:40.820 Those are not positions that are supported by most of them.
00:22:43.200 Right. I mean, I think that a lot of these races, even right now, they'll have a tendency to be 0.99
00:22:49.820 nationalized. But these races ultimately are local and all politics are local. My understanding
00:22:57.400 is that Francesca Hong has made clear her present stances to her electorate.
00:23:04.960 Yeah, she's moved away from a lot of that.
00:23:06.680 Right, she's moved away from it.
00:23:07.640 And I have a local city councilman that has this saying,
00:23:13.900 woke one was crazy. 0.94
00:23:16.120 Woke one was crazy. 0.68
00:23:17.620 Okay, that's true.
00:23:18.860 And I think...
00:23:19.560 I love how now middle of the road she tries to be on this one, right?
00:23:22.940 aoc is the embodiment of woke one was crazy yeah she is the author of woke one the phrases she's
00:23:35.920 trying to run away from things like open borders things like abolish ice didn't she cry at the
00:23:41.720 kids in cages that obama set up in that right but then she said it was she she did i'm pretty sure
00:23:46.120 she was wailing at the wall in a white pantsuit she cried at the cages she wants open borders
00:23:51.900 abolish the police that was AOC the Green New Deal that was AOC all of this woke rhetoric that
00:23:59.040 is now indefensible AOC started it all now look it's not complicated AOC is running for president
00:24:05.360 and what communists do is they lie and she's trying to run away from her record and she's
00:24:11.380 trying to excuse Francesca Wong who's with or Hong who said uh said you know we should abolish
00:24:18.700 thanksgiving thanksgiving yeah we should abolish it and and aoc is trying to say oh woke one was
00:24:25.820 crazy we don't believe any of the stuff we campaigned on and built a movement on and ran
00:24:30.580 primaries on and and defeated democrat incumbents on and and and like built everything we say we
00:24:35.980 don't believe any of that don't worry everything will be fine there's a technical word for what
00:24:41.660 she's doing. That's called lying. And there's a through line from AOC to Al-Sayed to Dr. Fauci, 0.66
00:24:52.460 and they are dishonest ideological zealots, and the country's a lot worse because of them.
00:24:58.860 All right. I love that we do predictions on the show. I got a prediction. I want to get your take.
00:25:03.120 If it comes down in the primary, the Democratic primary between Kamala Harris and AOC,
00:25:07.760 I predict that AOC mops the floor with Harris.
00:25:11.540 Do you agree or disagree?
00:25:12.580 I fully agree.
00:25:13.920 Kamala will not be the nominee.
00:25:15.840 I think the two frontrunners right now on the Democrat side are AOC and Gavin Newsom.
00:25:21.300 And I think the dark horse number three is John Ossoff.
00:25:25.160 As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic,
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00:25:52.540 canadian restaurants excluding quebec why should you listen to armstrong and getty on demand
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00:26:54.060 i want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed
00:26:58.540 we are exposing the radical left the democratic socialists of america and some of the extremists
00:27:04.680 that are winning primaries and winning elections around the country one of them senator is a guy
00:27:10.820 by the name of james tallarico and every time you think you've heard the craziest thing from him he's
00:27:16.460 running for the senate in texas uh trying to act like he's a big texan even though he doesn't you
00:27:21.420 know he's vegan doesn't eat meat and and and thinks that there's you know i don't even know
00:27:25.640 how many genders and God's non-binary, but every time you think, all right, it's all out there,
00:27:30.380 you get something else that pops, and it makes him even more out of step with average mainstream
00:27:36.760 Americans. Well, there's a theme across all of these radical Democrat candidates, which is
00:27:42.740 their fakes. I've said for a long time that in the United States, a conservative wins when he
00:27:50.300 effectively communicates what it is that he or she believes. And a liberal wins when he effectively
00:27:56.820 obfuscates, when he hides or covers up what he believes. That is the theme across the board. So
00:28:03.220 you have these Islamists and Marxists who campaign and they do lip singing to songs and dancing like 0.94
00:28:09.740 children's characters. You have in Alaska, one of the great examples of fakes, the Democrats, 0.89
00:28:16.640 the incumbent senator is my very dear friend dan sullivan a great republican senator from alaska
00:28:21.840 the democrats recruited a guy named dan sullivan to register and he's on the ballot as a republican
00:28:28.080 so there's going to be two people named dan sullivan republican one the actual senator
00:28:31.580 and the other a guy named dan sullivan who has contributed to the democrat in the campaign
00:28:37.000 whose campaign press release was written by the democrat consultant and their purpose in that
00:28:42.940 race is to deceive the voters and to have them confused. And if two, three, four percent of them
00:28:47.160 think they're voting for Dan Sullivan, the actual senator, and instead are voting for the liberal
00:28:51.520 fake Dan Sullivan, they might elect the liberal. But Democrats don't care about democracy. That's
00:28:56.620 not what this is about. This is about deceiving the voters. There's another category, which is
00:29:00.980 the fake independents. So in states like Nebraska, they've recruited a liberal Democrat who claims
00:29:06.200 he's an independent. They're doing the same thing in Montana, where they run a, quote,
00:29:10.120 independent who's a liberal democrat will vote for chuck schumer on everything but they want
00:29:14.080 to fool the democrats into thinking and the voters are thinking oh this is not a democrat
00:29:18.600 another species and strategy they've tried this time is is the fake pastor and so they've decided
00:29:25.300 gosh we have a problem with people of faith that were radical godless soulless uh faith-hating
00:29:31.720 religious liberty hating heathens and i'm i'm i guess speaking i was going to say i'm speaking 0.96
00:29:39.000 excessively, but I don't know that I am. But let's take Tallarico. So Tallarico, it's widely 0.75
00:29:48.740 said, is a seminarian. Now, he said, among other things, God is non-binary, there's six genders,
00:29:54.840 he's stood before churches and said he cries and weeps for his whiteness and his masculinity.
00:30:01.000 He's also said at times he hates Christianity, but I want you to listen to what he said here
00:30:06.940 about teaching the Bible to kids?
00:30:09.340 Give a listen.
00:30:11.480 And the last one is maybe the most insidious.
00:30:14.920 It was a new state curriculum 0.92
00:30:16.380 that would teach Christian Bible stories
00:30:20.160 as historical fact, as the only truth
00:30:23.040 to our youngest students.
00:30:24.740 And I mean kindergarten, first graders.
00:30:27.260 These are kids who aren't able to think for themselves yet.
00:30:31.180 They haven't formed their own world values.
00:30:33.840 And to push propaganda,
00:30:36.460 to push indoctrination on those youngest students is deeply immoral.
00:30:42.640 Deeply immoral.
00:30:45.300 And understand, number one, what he's describing about the state law is totally false.
00:30:49.760 There was nothing in the curriculum that was teaching the Bible in terms of indoctrinating kids.
00:30:55.660 But any literate person, the Bible has been the single most consequential work ever written in the history of humanity.
00:31:02.180 and you and I as Christians believe it was written by the hand of God with divine inspiration,
00:31:07.300 but the curriculum is simply teaching the Bible, because if you know nothing about the Bible, 1.00
00:31:11.800 you're truly an ignorant person. But I want you to listen to the word he used describing the Bible 0.99
00:31:16.840 as propaganda, that if kids know something about the Bible, it is propaganda, and ask yourself,
00:31:23.720 what actual Christian pastor would describe the Bible as propaganda? I agree that public 0.96
00:31:31.180 school should not be proselytizing any faith but that's not in fact what the texas curriculum does
00:31:36.420 uh it does ensure that you have literate literate kids that are that are aware um of of what's in
00:31:43.340 the bible and by the way what's what's in in history books and math books and and and and
00:31:47.320 all of uh the whole field of knowledge but but that is who the democrats have nominated in hopes
00:31:56.120 that people will think, oh, he's just like me. I want to also point out a fellow who is running
00:32:01.860 for Senate in Kansas. Now, you might not think Kansas is close, but I'll tell you, in this
00:32:06.480 election cycle, this election cycle, the numbers are bumpy. And Kansas, Roger Marshall's the
00:32:13.500 incumbent. He's a good friend of mine. He's a good man. I think he's going to win. But the Democrats
00:32:18.740 recruited a pastor from a giant church in Kansas City, a very liberal pastor, to run as a Democrat.
00:32:25.640 and so is a Democrat. He's supportive of all the left-wing ideology that these other lunatics 0.86
00:32:30.400 support, but he's trying to cover it up, and I want you to listen to a sermon that he preached
00:32:38.000 in his church, and I'm going to tell you in the sermon, he explains that you don't actually have
00:32:43.480 to be a Christian to go to heaven, and that you don't have to believe in Jesus to be saved. Give
00:32:48.220 a listen. And I've spent this a lot of my life studying different world religions, and you find
00:32:54.000 and some get you a little closer.
00:32:55.280 The image begins to become clear,
00:32:56.600 like this picture on the screen.
00:32:58.920 And then you study another one,
00:33:00.380 you find it gets even clearer.
00:33:01.560 You suddenly see that the image becomes even more in focus.
00:33:05.100 And so for me, as I've studied different world religions,
00:33:07.000 I sit in the chair
00:33:07.840 and I'm looking through these different lenses.
00:33:09.780 And when I finally got to that last one,
00:33:11.620 when I finally got to Jesus and Christianity,
00:33:14.100 it was like I could see clearly, the clearest that I had seen.
00:33:17.820 And so I think about how Paul says, he talks about Jesus.
00:33:20.260 He says, the sun is the image of the invisible God.
00:33:23.060 right? And Jesus elsewhere says, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. And so in Christianity,
00:33:27.380 we believe that God actually came and walked among us in the flesh. He didn't give us a book.
00:33:30.980 He came in person. And when we look at Jesus, we have the clearest picture we have of God. And so
00:33:35.140 when I began to look through the lens of Jesus, my eyesight, spiritual eyesight, I felt became
00:33:40.080 the most clear it could be, like you see in this image here. Now, the truth is that a Muslim would 1.00
00:33:45.980 say through Islam, they see the most clearly, and a Hindu through Hinduism, and a Jew through
00:33:50.120 judaism and so so i recognize we all are you know we all have a different lens that we're seeing
00:33:54.420 through and sometimes we think you know depending how we were raised and how we think one lens is
00:33:58.560 you know clearly a better lens for me and when it comes to other faiths i believe as a christian
00:34:03.240 that they are going to when they get to heaven they're going to see jesus they're going to say
00:34:06.560 ah it was you all the time all along that i was searching for but i don't fear that those folks
00:34:13.000 will spend eternity in hell. That's pretty radical. Well, it is, and what it is not is
00:34:22.140 biblical. You can be a philosopher, you can be a left-wing advocate, but you cannot be a Christian 0.99
00:34:27.820 preacher who is actually preaching Christianity and say that. That is the literal definition
00:34:37.220 of heresy, and why is that? Because it directly contradicts the Bible, and let me quote John 14,
00:34:44.240 6, quote, Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
00:34:53.120 except through me. That's what the Bible says, and yet this Democrat, Adam Hamilton, who's running as
00:35:00.520 I'm a preacher, is telling people, hey, you don't have to be a Christian to be saved. Jesus is not
00:35:05.340 the way the truth and the life anyway is fine we're all going to heaven it's all great kumbaya
00:35:10.100 do whatever you want that is the message of of the world but that is not the message of scripture
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