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00:01:42.300 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson.

00:01:45.280 With you, Senator, I can't believe we're saying this.

00:01:46.860 We're barely a week out from Election Day.

00:01:49.740 The midterms are finally here.

00:01:51.780 We've got a lot going on with the midterms, by the way.

00:01:54.380 election day is eight days away i'm on the road non-stop the candidates are on the road non-stop

00:02:00.760 the president is on the road non-stop this is it these are the final eight days before we get into

00:02:06.440 any of that though we do need to stop and and have a moment of silence a moment of silence

00:02:11.860 reflection because their hearts that are heavy their hearts that are sad there are little boys

00:02:18.440 who cried themselves to sleep last night yelling at the ceiling why why why why me god why yeah

00:02:27.760 and and we are joined by one of those little boys who had a sleepless night last night

00:02:33.020 it seemed some very large men from mississippi got on a plane and flew west and came to the

00:02:40.120 mighty austin texas and those mississippi fellas they felt good they were ranked the number seven

00:02:46.500 football team in the country a big big deal number seven and they were playing the measly

00:02:55.080 number 19 ranked longhorns the team that was this should have been two weeks ago yeah keep going my

00:03:01.080 math does right that's that's 12 12 spots lower in the rankings uh-huh and you know julius caesar

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00:03:18.860 so instead they did winnie witty i got my ass kicked benjamin i am so so so i can not sorry 0.53

00:03:27.560 yeah yeah i i was hoping we were just going to make it straight through that non-story to the 0.90

00:03:35.160 to the midterms but no no you had to just make sure you gloated a little bit uh i i was a little

00:03:40.960 disappointed i thought for sure i was going to hear it get a text from you at the end of the

00:03:44.620 game and i was like all right i was ready for it i was willing to take my beating and then you said

00:03:48.580 nothing and i was like he's plotting tomorrow mornings he's plotting tomorrow morning that's

00:03:52.580 what you just did that's that's yeah that's i tell you being entirely honest and sincere and

00:03:58.580 i'm trying to reflect uh the pain and to be fair texas i mean we did have the oklahoma game and

00:04:04.580 the florida game so so we have had some pain of our own yes and it's only right that we shared the

00:04:10.280 love congratulations see i can be a i can be a kind sore loser congratulations uh we won a big

00:04:18.020 game and you used to be number one in the nation two weeks ago so we'll see where you land after

00:04:22.200 this so there's you know there's always the upside here that's true we may just switch rankings which

00:04:27.140 would be okay that would be moving in the right direction yeah all right that that being said i'm

00:04:31.420 gonna let's talk politics yeah let's talk politics and in particular i i want to say we got an

00:04:37.280 interesting look in a crystal ball this week because Barack Obama came to the state of Ohio

00:04:43.960 and he came to campaign for Sherrod Brown one of the most liberal senators ever to serve

00:04:49.900 Democrat who was beaten in 2022 but he's running again he's running against John Husted and is a

00:04:55.380 very very close race he's got a real chance of winning I obviously hope Husted wins but but it's

00:05:02.300 close. And Obama gave a lengthy speech. We're going to play a number of excerpts from that

00:05:08.740 speech. The reason I say it's a crystal ball is I believe the speech Barack Obama gave in Ohio

00:05:14.580 is a preview of what the 2028 presidential election will look like. He laid out the themes,

00:05:21.460 he laid out what the Democrats are saying, and it's a real good ability to look into the future.

00:05:28.480 This is what's coming. That's what we're going to dive into this podcast.

00:05:32.300 Yeah, before we get to that audio, though, I do want to talk to you real quick about what is happening, especially since the fall of Roe v. Wade, and it was overturned.

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00:07:08.860 Senator, let's start.

00:07:10.280 Again, you mentioned this.

00:07:12.100 Barack Obama, this was, you're right, not just a campaign speech.

00:07:16.960 It was a speech of what's coming if Democrats win, what their future they want for this country.

00:07:22.460 And we're going to play a couple different, we'll break in here, but it's important that you hear exactly what he said.

00:07:27.540 Take a listen.

00:07:28.020 So when you go through all this, the tally of promises, things have not worked out the way we might have expected.

00:07:38.880 Although I must say I did expect it.

00:07:43.860 And let's be honest, does anybody really think this guy in the White House right now is spending all that time thinking about these issues?

00:07:52.800 I mean, I don't know if you've noticed, but he seems very focused on home renovations.

00:08:01.800 He should be on HGTV.

00:08:06.800 The guy's building a ballroom that's bigger than the White House.

00:08:11.800 It's paved over the Rose Garden, put a helicopter pad on the south lawn, and there's gold everywhere.

00:08:19.800 What's up with the gold?

00:08:21.800 Everything. More gold. He's got the white ass looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory. Just gold.

00:08:33.800 From meme coins to taxpayer-funded contracts for his kids' companies.

00:08:39.800 And this is someone who has become billions of dollars wealthier in office.

00:08:47.800 And by the way, this is not disputed. I'm not making this up. It's all there.

00:08:53.880 And not a single Republican in Congress has done anything to stop him.

00:09:03.660 Not John Huston, not any of the Republicans on the ballot here in Ohio.

00:09:10.480 Most of them have supported him every step of the way.

00:09:14.480 So you remember that whole thing about drain the swamp?

00:09:17.800 The only thing that got drained was the reflecting pool in the National Mall after some no-bid contract got it all messed up.

00:09:27.840 And then they tried to blame a three-time Olympian and say he vandalized it.

00:09:33.420 Senator, it really is amazing that this is the beginning of their closing argument right now to voters about a week out.

00:09:40.300 Well, yes and no.

00:09:42.300 I would not dismiss what Obama is doing there.

00:09:44.860 I think it's important to remember Obama may be the most effective Democrat politician of our

00:09:51.900 lifetime. It's either Obama or Bill Clinton, and the two of them literally stand head and shoulders

00:09:57.380 above every other Democrat we've ever seen, head and shoulders above Joe Biden, above Kamala Harris,

00:10:02.940 above John Kerry, above Al Gore. Obama's ability to communicate is really powerful. It's really

00:10:11.860 dangerous. To be honest, if we didn't have the 22nd Amendment, it wouldn't surprise me if Obama

00:10:17.420 spent the rest of his life in the White House. The guy is a political force. And he gives you

00:10:25.300 a preview of what to expect, both what to expect January of 2027, but also what to expect in the

00:10:31.940 28 campaign. If the Democrats take one or both houses of Congress, you can expect hearing after

00:10:39.960 hearing after hearing with a central focus on corruption. Corruption being the major theme

00:10:48.100 that the Democrats are going to push. They're going to push corruption targeted at the president.

00:10:53.220 They're going to push corruption targeted at the president's family. They're going to push

00:10:57.260 corruption targeted at the cabinet and the sub-cabinet, everyone working in the administration.

00:11:02.700 And part of their narrative that they're already laying out is they're going to push corruption

00:11:07.060 tied to data centers and tied to cryptocurrency and try to loop all of that into it.

00:11:13.540 By the way, if they succeed on using corruption to shut down all new data center construction,

00:11:20.160 there's about $765 billion of data center construction plans that are scheduled to go

00:11:26.560 into place. If that goes to zero, the economy will immediately go into a recession.

00:11:32.160 that is driving and keeping the economy moving and so if the Democrats succeed in crippling

00:11:38.200 data center construction the economy moves into a recession and the Democrats then blame all of

00:11:44.080 that on Trump because the Democrats are rooting for a recession they want the economy to go

00:11:49.260 really really badly the next two years because they believe if the economy is in terrible shape

00:11:54.580 that sets them up to win in 28 and understand these Democrats they don't care about your life

00:12:00.480 They don't care about whether you have enough money to pay your bills, to feed your kids, to pay your mortgage.

00:12:06.160 They don't care about if you're safe.

00:12:07.780 Remember, when they were in power, they released criminals and illegal aliens every single day.

00:12:13.400 They didn't care about who was murdered by those criminals. 0.97

00:12:15.840 They didn't care about the women who were raped.

00:12:17.580 They didn't care about the children who were assaulted.

00:12:19.800 And by the way, I say they didn't care.

00:12:21.380 That sounds a little harsh.

00:12:23.660 But we had hearing after hearing where I would bring up the names of the women raped,

00:12:27.700 of the children assaulted, of the women murdered.

00:12:30.480 And not a single Democrat would even acknowledge they exist.

00:12:33.920 They wouldn't say their names.

00:12:35.080 We had one where the parents of one woman who was murdered were there in the hearing room.

00:12:41.480 And Dick Durbin, who is the senator of Illinois where it happened, would not even acknowledge the grieving parents.

00:12:48.880 So they don't care.

00:12:50.520 It does not matter to them.

00:12:51.900 What matters to them is power.

00:12:54.940 That is going to be one of the major themes.

00:12:57.160 And look, what Obama does in this segment, the specific building projects that Trump is doing, I think are highly defensible and on the merits, very useful.

00:13:11.300 If you look at the ballroom, the ballroom, much of it is under construction.

00:13:15.460 I think every president for hundreds of years is going to thank Donald Trump for building that ballroom.

00:13:20.880 Right now, the White House does not have a meeting place for a large gathering.

00:13:26.240 The largest gathering you can have in the White House for a seated dinner, for a state dinner, is the East Room.

00:13:31.800 It's about 160 people.

00:13:34.640 You can't have a gathering larger than that.

00:13:37.640 Now, look, there are a lot of official events.

00:13:38.800 By the way, let's just help you explain when you say this.

00:13:41.200 If you've ever been to, like, a rehearsal dinner where it was packed and it felt like the room was too small,

00:13:45.760 that's how that room feels for almost every presidential event, whether it's Obama in there, Biden in there, Clinton in there, Bush in there.

00:13:52.120 It doesn't matter.

00:13:52.620 Like, it feels crammed.

00:13:54.000 You've been to several of these.

00:13:55.080 I have as well.

00:13:55.980 i mean it is tight yeah and look 160 people i think a wedding rehearsal is a good example when

00:14:02.380 when heidi and i got married we had about 300 people at our wedding we didn't have a particularly

00:14:06.940 lavish wedding but but it was you know she invited her friends and family i invited my friends and

00:14:11.960 family at about 300 people there are a lot of events uh in politics and life that are much

00:14:18.840 bigger than 160 people and and the new building uh the new ballroom that's being built will see

00:14:24.740 about about a thousand people that means you can do a large event that means a state dinner head

00:14:29.200 of state is in you can invite a lot of people who who need to be at that dinner who would be

00:14:34.460 valuable to have those interactions and and actually trump in all likelihood will never

00:14:40.100 get to use the ballroom it's going to be completed the end of 2028 he may get one dinner in there on

00:14:45.820 his way out the door but he's literally building this for his successors because the construction

00:14:51.320 is going to take the entirety of his presidency. I'll say also there is a massive security element

00:14:57.540 to the ballroom. The ballroom goes very, very deep. Much of the building was digging this hole

00:15:02.460 that goes way down. So they put a hospital down there. They put secure rooms. They put

00:15:07.480 Secret Service has all sorts of rooms with weapons in it and secure locations. In the event of a

00:15:13.360 military conflict, you've got to be able to get the president somewhere safe, somewhere he can

00:15:17.720 survive a nuclear attack somewhere if he's injured, that he can be treated without having

00:15:21.960 to leave the compound. The Secret Service was thrilled to be able to build it right,

00:15:27.680 to be able to build a real secure facility that will protect future presidents. And again,

00:15:34.320 let me underscore, almost none of that's going to benefit Trump. It'll be finished right when

00:15:39.400 he leaves the White House. So it's the next presidents that will have the much more secure

00:15:43.740 location they're building the roof of the ballroom with extensive anti-drone technology

00:15:48.280 it's not complicated that the world of warfare drones are a critical part of it and and i believe

00:15:54.280 we are in an era where we are going to see drone assassinations that that is one of the next steps

00:16:01.320 of political violence is people using drones to assassinate someone they dislike and and the

00:16:08.180 white house sees that as well which is why they're putting anti-drone technology on the ballroom to

00:16:12.680 protect the president to protect members of the cabinet members of congress and anyone

00:16:16.080 other foreign heads of state that are there meeting with the president i think it is on the merits

00:16:21.500 an entirely good renovation likewise the rose garden i was sort of joking with the president

00:16:28.900 the phrase paved over the rose garden sounds really kind of harsh and jarring like wow

00:16:33.660 why would you do that it is not actually accurate so so the roses are still there

00:16:39.040 there's still a rose garden the difference is in the middle of the rose garden there used to be

00:16:43.920 grass and the grass when it rained would turn into mud and so you'd do an event in the rose garden 1.00

00:16:49.900 and everyone's shoes would stick in the mud women who were wearing high heels would like

00:16:54.220 really stick in the mud the the the grass would get all ripped up what the president did is he

00:17:00.880 basically made it a patio which is he he put marvel pavers down there into a patio the roses

00:17:06.100 are still there surrounding it so the roses haven't changed what's changed now is it's a

00:17:12.180 really good place to hold an outdoor event where where the the the marble on it works well i've

00:17:19.280 done multiple events in the rose garden and it is objectively better likewise with the helipad now

00:17:26.280 as as you know as we talked about on the podcast i got i got for the first time to ride on marine

00:17:30.680 one i'd never done that before i was really excited about doing it you know we've all seen

00:17:35.340 the images on tv of of the president often the president the first lady walking through the south

00:17:40.560 lawn to marine one that's just walking across grass is what it's been historical and the president

00:17:46.960 said the same problem was when it rained your shoes were covered in mud if the first lady was

00:17:51.880 wearing high heels it was a real problem they'd get stuck in the mud um you know think about it 1.00

00:17:57.420 ben at our houses you know our wives don't walk in the backyard in high heels like that they just 0.90

00:18:03.480 yell at you if you wanted wanted them to do that you couldn't get you couldn't get to the helicopter 1.00

00:18:08.520 without walking through the mud and also that that there is a new marine one that is a bigger

00:18:15.820 and more powerful helicopter and the problem was when it landed on the south lawn the the down

00:18:22.040 draft from the blades was so strong that it was just tearing the grass up permanently it like the

00:18:26.820 grass was not strong enough to take that much wind and so the helipad that the president built

00:18:33.460 it's a beautiful helipad it has the seal of the president of the united states and he also built

00:18:38.600 a pathway so now you can walk on a pathway and not have to walk through the mud to get to the

00:18:44.240 helicopter that too all three of these will be used and appreciated by future presidents

00:18:50.660 that being said it's worth understanding what what obama is doing and he's doing it very

00:18:56.440 effectively the real message here is he doesn't care about us that that he's doing home renovations

00:19:03.800 he's doing doing these projects that are vanity projects that's what obama's arguing because your

00:19:10.480 life doesn't matter to him now the democrats are very good at at engaging in freudian projection

00:19:17.480 which is what they are doing they accuse you of doing in this instance we talked about how the

00:19:24.340 democrats don't care if we go in a recession they want a recession they don't care if innocent

00:19:29.040 americans are killed by illegal immigrants they release they do it anyway not caring is is and

00:19:35.560 putting power above everything is how the democrats operate but what obama's doing very

00:19:40.200 effectively and we're going to hear this for the next two years is blaming trump for not caring

00:19:47.500 about americans and putting himself first that's a really strong preview of what's to come yeah

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00:21:28.540 All right, let me play part two of this, as you were mentioning, Senator,

00:21:31.780 because this is where he gets into a lot of the really intense rhetoric.

00:21:35.820 Take a listen.

00:21:36.300 The original rationale was we're going to go in there and get them to give up their nuclear program, their nuclear weapons.

00:21:44.360 Now, the thing was, Iran didn't have nuclear weapons.

00:21:48.840 Because I had put a deal in place that everybody acknowledged, kept them from getting nukes, and I didn't have to fire a missile to do it, I just had to engage in diplomacy.

00:22:02.240 He pulled out of it, starts this war, seven months later, six months after they declared 0.71

00:22:15.100 victory, because remember, they said, well, this is the best war ever.

00:22:20.720 It's going great.

00:22:23.000 So seven months later, how's that war going?

00:22:26.780 Our allies and our bases have been attacked.

00:22:30.280 Americans have been killed hundreds of Americans have been wounded we have run 0.55

00:22:38.900 down our stock of missiles and Iran now has veto power over the Strait of Hormuz

00:22:47.960 where oil goes through to the world market this is the reason why the price

00:22:54.880 of oil is up nobody disputes that this is the reason the price of diesel is up this is the

00:23:04.640 reason why the price of just about everything is up meanwhile yeah you got the defense secretary

00:23:14.400 who's who's squarely focused wait wait don't move wait wait wait no no no he's very focused on

00:23:23.120 important matters like the jawlines and testosterone levels of our troops, and live streaming executions,

00:23:33.620 because that's how he thinks you cultivate that manly warrior spirit.

00:23:41.560 How much time do you think this Defense Secretary spends looking at himself in the mirror in

00:23:47.880 the morning?

00:23:48.880 I mean, you know he's working his hair because that's how warriors look.

00:23:57.520 These are not serious people.

00:23:59.580 Yes, we need to end this war.

00:24:00.740 If we don't return to some of those old-fashioned virtues,

00:24:04.420 if our fundamental attitude to each other is to try and hurt other people.

00:24:12.340 Senator, can we just go back in history and remind people about the pallets of cash

00:24:17.240 that were sent by these, quote, serious people in the Democratic Party 0.92

00:24:21.880 to appease the Iranian regime that chanced death to America 0.82

00:24:25.000 that was clearly trying to get a nuclear weapon 0.87

00:24:27.480 who says they want to annihilate Israel, wipe them off the map.

00:24:30.700 Because that's his definition of a serious person who takes pallets of cash

00:24:34.440 and sends it to them saying, please don't do that, here's money.

00:24:38.120 I'm sorry, Ben, you're doing something that is not permissible

00:24:40.780 with a Barack Obama speech, which is you're actually bringing facts and substance.

00:24:46.660 we can't have that this is this is political oratory this is rhetoric uh this is partisan

00:24:52.060 lies um you are of course exactly right uh and and this is a good example a of how obama has

00:24:58.520 always done it but but b where the democrats are going to go the next two years which is number

00:25:03.780 one just flat out lie so his lie is that iran did not have nuclear weapons and it wasn't going to

00:25:11.580 get nuclear weapons because the Obama-Iran nuclear deal was going to prevent them from

00:25:17.280 getting nuclear weapons. That is an absolute lie. Now, it's a lie that begins by minimizing,

00:25:24.820 by ignoring the threat that Iran poses. You notice nowhere in Obama's speech was there any 0.69

00:25:30.920 acknowledgement of the Ayatollah routinely leading mobs of thousands upon thousands of people

00:25:37.120 chanting death to America. Nowhere was any acknowledgement that the Ayatollah and the 0.65

00:25:43.340 Islamic regime in Iran was responsible for murdering nearly a thousand Americans,

00:25:48.880 mostly servicemen and women, that they have killed year after year after year. Nowhere was 0.90

00:25:53.460 there any acknowledgement that Iran is the lead state sponsor of terrorism on the globe,

00:25:58.920 the lead funder of Hamas and Hezbollah, and that they have been actively waging war with

00:26:04.480 Americans trying to kill us. Nowhere was there any acknowledgement that Iran has invested

00:26:08.280 billions of dollars into developing not just nuclear weapons, but developing ICBMs. Now an

00:26:14.660 ICBM, ICBM stands for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. You don't need an ICBM to get to Israel.

00:26:21.700 An ordinary ballistic missile will go from Iran to Israel. You need an ICBM

00:26:26.080 to take a nuclear weapon from Iran to the United States. 100% of the purpose of their ICBM program 0.98

00:26:33.320 is to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead and detonate a nuclear warhead in the United States,

00:26:40.900 most likely New York or D.C. or Los Angeles, or for that matter where you and I live, Houston.

00:26:47.720 All of those are cities Iran could target, and any one of which a nuclear weapon detonated above

00:26:53.840 those cities could kill millions of Americans in a flash of an eye. None of that is acknowledged.

00:27:00.740 The Obama-Iran nuclear deal was designed, inevitably, to allow Iran to get nuclear weapons.

00:27:10.780 Barack Obama believes it is perfectly fine for the Ayatollah to have nuclear weapons. 0.60

00:27:16.400 He believes it is unfair, it is colonialist of America, to try to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

00:27:23.680 On the terms of the deal, the terms of the deal carved out major sections of Iran that were not subject to inspections.

00:27:29.880 anything that iran designated as a quote sensitive military facility was exempted from inspections

00:27:37.760 well guess where they were doing all their nuclear weapons research in sensitive military facilities

00:27:43.160 even the non-sensitive facilities uh the deal that that obama signed contemplated iran inspecting

00:27:53.020 itself iran sending its own inspectors to go in it's a little bit like you know if you're uh if

00:27:58.760 you're in the movie Scarface uh the the police calling up Tony Montana going hey Tony you have

00:28:04.360 any drugs no man no man I got no drugs I got no drugs at all nothing at all okay Tony thank you 0.95

00:28:10.300 thank you I appreciate that all right fully inspected that was basically the Obama Iran

00:28:16.900 nuclear deal call the Ayatollah ask if he has nukes if he says no trust him and finally

00:28:23.540 with the weakest strictures possible even those strictures under the Obama deal all went away in

00:28:32.280 15 years the entire deal sunsetted in 15 years which means in 15 years Obama was saying then

00:28:39.320 you could most definitely develop a nuclear weapon completely free of sanctions you can

00:28:43.080 build it in the open and we will say nothing and do nothing to stop you it was a disastrous deal

00:28:48.740 the single most important decision President Trump made in his first term was to rip up

00:28:57.560 the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. That made America much, much safer. That was a decision 0.85

00:29:05.440 I very vigorously urged the president to do. He agreed with me and he did that.

00:29:11.040 This also illustrates how Obama and the Democrats are going to combine their lies

00:29:15.540 about Iran minimizing the threat, claiming falsely that the Obama deal had any threat

00:29:21.480 neutralized. They're going to use it, though, to connect it to every bit, 100% of the economic 0.57

00:29:29.680 pressure, the very real economic pressure people are feeling. Look, inflation is real. And inflation

00:29:35.120 is real because we had four years of Joe Biden where inflation was out of control. Now, inflation

00:29:40.920 has dropped dramatically. It is much more manageable now than it was under the Biden

00:29:45.280 administration, but that doesn't mean prices have gotten cheaper. Under Biden, they rose massively.

00:29:51.460 They're now rising more slowly, but they're rising from the higher base of four years of

00:29:56.560 Biden inflation baked in. And this is the Democrats' entire strategy. They're trying to say

00:30:01.320 everything you pay more for. Yes, gasoline at the pump. Yes, diesel. Yes, jet fuel. But also, yes,

00:30:08.340 food yes homes everything they are going to blame on president trump and the iran war this is a real

00:30:16.700 foreshadowing of a hundred thousand tv commercials that are coming of hearing and hearing and hearing

00:30:24.100 and candidate after candidate after candidate all of whom are going to echo barack obama's

00:30:28.900 messaging right here yeah listen by the way to his closing statement what he said

00:30:33.700 If our fundamental attitude to each other is to try and hurt other people so they don't

00:30:42.760 hurt us first, if we're driven by fear instead of by hope, if we think it's okay to snatch

00:30:48.940 children from parents or cut programs for the aged or the infirm so the powerful can

00:30:54.180 get whatever they want, we will continue to fester in anger and division, and I don't

00:31:01.180 know about you, but I'm tired of being angry. And I'm tired of being divided. I want to,

00:31:07.420 I want to, I want to reach out and shake my neighbor's hand. I want to get to work doing

00:31:15.760 something for somebody else. We didn't get into this moment overnight. We won't get

00:31:24.360 out of it overnight. And none of us should pretend that any single person in any single

00:31:30.740 office is somehow going to save the day for us, and that the rest of us can just go back

00:31:35.820 to acting the same way.

00:31:38.620 We're going to have to all make some changes, but Ohio, here's what I know.

00:31:45.500 This election can be a start.

00:31:48.040 This election can be an inflection point.

00:31:50.680 This election can be a course correction in America's long journey toward a more perfect

00:31:56.140 union.

00:31:57.140 because if we're willing to turn out in big numbers here in Ohio and across the

00:32:03.020 country if we're willing to vote for change and vote for Democrats up and

00:32:07.700 down the ballot then this election might just mark the moment this country began

00:32:14.300 moving in a better direction when we leave our worst impulses behind and

00:32:20.840 start aligning our politics with our highest ideals Ohio you and I have

00:32:26.280 proved before that it is hard to stop a change whose time has come in 10 days you have a chance

00:32:36.360 to do it again so i'm asking you are you fired up are you ready to go let's make amy acting governor

00:32:47.080 let's make sheriff brown senator let's get on the path to making america better thank you i love you

00:32:54.360 By the way, I love how he fires them up at the end.

00:32:58.500 He says, let's make America better instead of make America great.

00:33:01.920 That kind of made me laugh.

00:33:03.960 Well, look, that entire closing reminds you of the power of Barack Obama.

00:33:10.100 You know, part three of this speech was 100% hope and change.

00:33:14.840 Yeah.

00:33:15.220 And don't underestimate hope and change.

00:33:17.660 This guy is the best P.T. Barnum, sell one thing and deliver another that I think politics has ever produced.

00:33:28.300 He's very good at the hope he changey stuff.

00:33:31.020 Like, I'm inspired.

00:33:32.740 I'm tired of being angry.

00:33:34.200 I want to reach over and shake the hand of my neighbor.

00:33:37.220 Like, that's good stuff.

00:33:38.800 Now, mind you, it's an absolute lie.

00:33:42.140 Barack Obama doesn't want to shake anyone's hands.

00:33:43.760 yeah look when he was president i was in the senate when he was president 0.79

00:33:47.840 he is so arrogant and aloof it actually limited his effectiveness because he could not be bothered

00:33:55.620 to talk to senators or house members or really anybody that everyone was beneath him and and 0.93

00:34:01.420 democrat senators would complain about this like when obama was president he wouldn't talk to them

00:34:05.360 it wasn't a partisan thing he just thought that like he was from a higher plane and and all the

00:34:11.160 rest of us were were subjects that he was there to rule I mean he really did think he was King

00:34:16.240 Barack and in terms of you know he wants to to shake the hand of his neighbor well you know

00:34:22.700 interestingly enough he had an opportunity to do that he had an opportunity to shake the hand of

00:34:26.180 his neighbor during the Joe Biden presidency and that was when you'll recall I suggested actually

00:34:32.620 filed legislation to change the port of entry for illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard and

00:34:39.860 Nantucket and the Hamptons and all of and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which is where where

00:34:46.740 Biden vacationed. And and if they were going to allow 12 million illegal immigrants to invade 0.94

00:34:53.360 our nation, they should actually have to see those illegal immigrants that they're inviting

00:34:57.780 to our country and care for them. And you'll recall Ron DeSantis in Florida implemented the

00:35:03.300 idea that I had proposed and he put together a plane full of illegal immigrants and he flew them 0.99

00:35:09.700 to Martha's Vineyard and at the time I had filed my legislation the the county executive at Martha's

00:35:16.560 Vineyard the equivalent of the mayor had had put out a public statement and he blasted me for filing

00:35:22.720 this legislation he said Cruz doesn't understand he doesn't understand immigration and he said if 0.90

00:35:29.680 illegal immigrants came to Martha's Vineyard we would welcome them here well they did come because

00:35:37.820 as Ron DeSantis sent him. And what happened? Within 24 hours, that very same county executive

00:35:43.620 declared an emergency. And within 72 hours, they had forcibly removed every single one of the

00:35:50.980 illegal immigrants from Martha's Vineyard. Understand, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama

00:35:55.220 have a palatial mansion in Martha's Vineyard. Did Barack Obama reach out and shake the hand

00:36:05.500 of his neighbor did he say hey these illegals I've got you know 57 rooms or I don't know how

00:36:11.120 many rooms he has I've got a lot of rooms in my mansion why don't we set up some cots and put 1.00

00:36:15.800 some of these these illegals in in in my house no no no no Obama didn't say a word he didn't want 1.00

00:36:21.340 to shake their hand he just sat there while they declared an emergency and removed them because 0.97

00:36:25.900 look if you're a rich liberal you've got chardonnay to sip you've got cheese to to poke with your

00:36:33.340 little uh toothpick and and and you cannot be bothered to get around the dirty masses you know

00:36:40.660 you have instead what you do is you dupe the masses instead you do what obama does which is

00:36:47.880 you lie to them you say listen we've got to be nice we've got to be kind we've got to be loving

00:36:54.560 and that would be more effective if we didn't have eight years of obama's presidency because

00:37:00.860 during that presidency he wasn't kind he wasn't loving he was hateful he hated his opposition he

00:37:07.580 demonized his opposition he went after them viciously but he's very good at selling it as

00:37:14.000 something that it's not and so i want all of y'all just to reflect this podcast is the crystal ball

00:37:20.620 podcast it is telling you exactly what to expect in all of 2027 and all of 2028 this is where

00:37:30.840 the Democrats are going, and we need to be ready to counter it. All right, I want to take a moment

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