Verdict with Ted Cruz - Security Held the Line even as Funding Failed, Teslas win Food Stamps & The Tragic Math of Liberal Homeless Policy Week In Review

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00:00:04.420 Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:07.720 It's nice to have you with us on the Week in Review.

00:00:10.160 And here are the big stories you may have missed that we talked about this week.

00:00:13.480 First up, another assassination attempt on the President of the United States of America.

00:00:18.460 And Democrats still playing politics, not wanting to pay the Secret Service.

00:00:23.580 They showed up to do their job, but Democrats don't want them to get a paycheck.

00:00:27.800 We'll explain that.

00:00:29.060 Also, the FBI, they've had major raids this week in Minnesota, including the famous Leering Center.

00:00:37.440 You know, the sign that was supposed to say Learning Center.

00:00:40.220 So what's behind all this?

00:00:41.980 And is the president paying off on stopping waste, fraud, and abuse?

00:00:46.260 And finally, if you're homeless, well, you may get bonus points if you have a certain skin color before you get benefits.

00:00:53.640 And if you check the right box on if you're gay, lesbian, or transgender.

00:00:58.060 gender. How does that get you ahead of people that are senior citizens? It's all been set up

00:01:02.840 by the Democrats. It's a weekend review and it starts right now. Let me ask you another question

00:01:09.460 on this. And this is I know the answer, but I think the audience needs to know this.

00:01:14.320 The president was talking about how the Secret Service did an amazing job

00:01:19.460 and making sure that this threat was neutralized. Do those guys get paychecks right now that were

00:01:27.420 at the White House Correspondence Center?

00:01:28.860 Look, DHS is shut down.

00:01:30.740 It's been shut down for more than two months.

00:01:33.720 So they're not getting paid.

00:01:35.320 Well, some of them are getting paid

00:01:36.820 because the president is reallocating money

00:01:38.780 from other parts of the budget.

00:01:40.040 So some of them have gotten paychecks.

00:01:42.660 But the Democrats are saying they don't want them paid.

00:01:45.400 The Democrats have voted against funding the Secret Service,

00:01:50.860 funding the Department of Homeland Security.

00:01:52.820 They voted against it 16 times.

00:01:56.100 And by the way, there were Democrats at that event.

00:02:00.020 That event, in fact, there were more Democrats in that room than there were Republicans because it's mostly reporters and they're almost all either Democrats or further left.

00:02:08.900 And the Secret Service, look, when they stop this shooter, any one of them could be killed.

00:02:14.300 You know, I don't know if you're a Democrat, how you justify going and voting against paying for the Secret Service when they may have quite literally saved your life the couple of days before.

00:02:27.000 But I have no doubt that they would still vote against it. Right. They would. They would vote against it.

00:02:31.220 They would say, no, no, we're not going to fund them like they're unified on that.

00:02:33.820 That's I don't know what they're going to do next. I do know that they voted 16 times against it.

00:02:39.460 I'll also point out, you know, you look at the litigation against the new ballroom that President Trump is building.

00:02:46.140 And in that litigation, a federal district judge enjoined construction of the ballroom, ordered that it be halted.

00:02:53.340 And here was his reasoning. I want you to listen to it because it's absurd on its face.

00:02:59.400 The fact that the ballroom is planned to include security features such as bulletproof windows and a drone-proof roof does not bring the structure within the scope of the national security exception.

00:03:13.360 While these features may well be beneficial, defendants have not provided any national security justification for why these features must be installed immediately such that they should be excluded from the scope of the injunction.

00:03:32.000 Now, I'm going to give you the technical legal definition of that segment of the district court's ruling. 0.98

00:03:40.120 That is stupid. 1.00

00:03:41.980 It is stupid on its face. 1.00

00:03:45.160 And now, thankfully, that injunction was stayed by the court of the field, so it's not in effect. 1.00

00:03:50.340 But the federal district judge was saying, well, I see no national security justification three times.

00:03:56.320 Wow.

00:03:56.920 in about a year we have seen president trump attempted a year and a half attempted to be

00:04:05.600 assassinated and yet the judge is saying look if it were in the white house ballroom if you had

00:04:10.800 the security of the white house that would be a much safer place to minimize these kinds of

00:04:15.840 threats and sadly i i think the odds are high this is not the last attempted assassination

00:04:23.440 of president trump there are leftists out there who are hearing hakeem jeffries war all the time

00:04:30.320 everywhere they're hearing democrat after democrat after democrat using language that that is not 0.65

00:04:38.120 even a dog whistle it's not even a coded call to violence their lunatic supporters know exactly

00:04:46.460 what they're saying you know you go back the ballroom of the politics of this by the way it

00:04:50.340 made private funds came in to to pay for this as well and there was democrats are obsessed with

00:04:56.360 this ballroom they don't want it to happen because donald trump's the one doing it um and the other

00:05:01.260 thing i think it was interesting is the president said in his interview on 60 minutes that this has

00:05:04.620 been something that the that the secret service and the military have been saying for like basically

00:05:08.580 the last 100 years we need this because it's a way to have events in a safe manner you look at

00:05:14.180 the hotel where the white house correspondent was last night i've gone to countless events there i

00:05:18.240 I know you have. I mean, how many how many events do you think you've been to that thing in your in your political lifetime?

00:05:21.900 Like almost every event is there because it's one of the bigger closest.

00:05:25.320 And the nickname that that pretty much everyone in politics calls it is the Hinkley Hilton, because it is the hotel where John Hinkley shot President Reagan.

00:05:36.940 And it's just I mean, you say, oh, we've got an event. It's Hinkley Hilton. That's just that's just what they call it.

00:05:41.520 Yeah, I mean, and this goes back to the Secret Service's obsession with safety is we do the best we can.

00:05:50.900 We have all this security. It's still a hotel.

00:05:53.260 This guy was able to check in apparently on Friday.

00:05:55.580 It still operates like a hotel. We're rushing people out the back.

00:05:59.560 I had friends at Fox News that were rushed through the back of the hotel,

00:06:03.780 through the kitchen to try to keep them safe after all this went down.

00:06:09.160 And as you mentioned, the nickname of the hotel goes directly back to Ronald Reagan, which, again, if any of these Democrats are against having a ballroom, which, by the way, will benefit Democrats in the White House, there will be more Democrats in the White House, I believe, in our lifetimes.

00:06:23.460 That's the way politics works.

00:06:25.260 It will keep them safe as well because I never want to see an American president assassinated.

00:06:30.000 I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, and that's the difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party,

00:06:35.460 is Democrats call for this type of violence and assassinations and celebrate when people like Charlie Kirk get shot,

00:06:41.060 and we on the right say we don't want anyone to die because of their political beliefs, even if they're against me.

00:06:47.260 You are absolutely right. Violence is wrong, period.

00:06:50.900 I do think this attempted assassination, it is the fruits of a corrupted, elite academic system.

00:07:01.840 Where did this kid get radicalized? I think the odds are quite likely at Caltech being trained by leftists.

00:07:08.300 um and and look he wrote his manifesto and and and i'm not interested in in highlighting his

00:07:17.120 his deranged uh attacks on president trump but i actually do want to to read a little bit of it

00:07:23.400 because he he put out a series of objections and rebuttals and and and they show just how twisted

00:07:32.980 the indoctrination is so he writes objection one as a christian you should turn the other cheek

00:07:42.180 by the way this guy calls himself a christian he claims to be a christian rebuttal turning the

00:07:48.940 other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed i'm not the person raped in a detention camp i'm

00:07:56.320 not the fisherman executed without a trial i'm not a school kid blown up or a child starved or a

00:08:02.320 teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when

00:08:08.540 someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior. It is complicity in the oppressor's

00:08:14.880 crimes. By the way, listen to that language, complicity in the oppressor's crimes. That is

00:08:20.340 Marxist language of oppressors and victims, and he is repeating what leftists have indoctrinated him

00:08:30.780 in university. Here was his next. Objection two, this is not a convenient time for you to do this

00:08:39.460 rebuttal. I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple of minutes and realize that the world

00:08:44.760 isn't about them. Do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused, I should

00:08:49.860 walk on by because it would be inconvenient for people who aren't the victim? This is the best 0.99

00:08:54.680 timing and chance of success i could come up with objection number three you didn't get them all

00:09:03.480 so so he believed he was going to kill president trump multiple members of the cabinet but he

00:09:09.600 recognized someone would live the vice president his speaker was there his rebuttal gotta start

00:09:17.520 somewhere. This is the consequence of consistent radical indoctrination, an indoctrination that

00:09:28.860 says that in Marxist ideology, the oppressor oppresses the victim and violence is justified

00:09:36.880 in overthrowing the oppressor. This young man was taught that garbage. The young man who murdered 0.99

00:09:44.020 the UnitedHealthcare CEO was taught that garbage, and the people purveying this poison, 0.99

00:09:50.400 they are doing massive damage. The lunatic who tried to murder Brett Kavanaugh was taught 1.00

00:09:55.660 that garbage. And when you teach people violence is okay. And justified. And justified. Morally 1.00

00:10:05.660 justified. You must act. By the way, this lunatic was not at all worried about all the children who

00:10:13.000 were raped by human traffickers under under the democrats open borders that those crimes he was 0.95

00:10:18.520 not worried about the people murdered by illegal alien criminals and gangbangers released that 0.81

00:10:23.340 those murders don't concern him at all it's it's kind of like the leftists uh who hate israel and

00:10:29.080 and are constantly protesting uh against israel and yet when iran murders between 10 and 40

00:10:36.220 thousand protesters, not a single leftist utters a peep because they only care about the people

00:10:44.060 they deem oppressors. And I really do hope that some responsible Democrat office holders stand up

00:10:52.840 and say, you know, the rhetoric that my party is using is producing horrible results and we need

00:11:02.440 to stop but i gotta say other than john fetterman i don't see anyone doing that now if you want to

00:11:08.860 hear the rest of this conversation you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this 0.98

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00:11:44.280 now on to story number two on and center i want to move center on to another topic and that is

00:11:51.680 some good news for people that are sick and tired of seeing crimes committed in one actual action

00:11:56.480 especially when it comes to taxpayer dollars disappearing by the tens of billions

00:12:00.720 and now we have the fbi that has raided the the minneapolis fraud ridden care centers uh 20 plus

00:12:09.240 of these that were actually raided by the fbi including the famous uh children's leering center

00:12:15.840 that was supposed to say on their sign learning but it was just a leering center that one was

00:12:20.740 rated as well and and i am i am excited to just say at least it looks like now we're getting some

00:12:27.620 real action into stopping this fraud into showing that if you take away taxpayer dollars this way

00:12:33.880 and you send it to terrorist organizations like al-shabab and you bribe democrats to look the

00:12:38.780 other way uh like governor waltz but with campaign contributions somebody is at least going to come

00:12:44.600 in and actually hold you accountable yes look i'm very glad that there is finally going to be some

00:12:49.220 accountability. 22 locations in Minneapolis raided by the FBI this week. You mentioned the

00:12:55.400 Quality Leering Center. Of course, their most proud graduate, Ilhan Omar, who actually is not

00:13:01.500 technically a graduate. We had World War XI yesterday. Did you know about that? We've had

00:13:05.100 11 World Wars. That's impressive stuff. I didn't think the King of Elin knew that. 0.99

00:13:09.100 It really is stunning. So she was giving a speech, and the speech referenced World War II.

00:13:15.060 but the two is is two roman numerals and that's you know how you normally write world war ii

00:13:19.980 and she read that as world war 11 yes now it didn't like correct herself just owned it and

00:13:27.380 kept going like it was not like if you or i did that and by the way if you've ever read a speech

00:13:32.180 and you're tired or you're just kind of it's a long day you can you might read something but

00:13:37.340 you immediately correct it she had no clue no idea look look there's a level of ignorance there

00:13:44.180 If a ninth grader thought World War II was World War XI, you would flunk that ninth grader.

00:13:52.380 I mean, you think about it.

00:13:53.560 Used to.

00:13:53.940 Nowadays, we'll just socially just pass them on in our public school system.

00:13:57.540 Back in the good old days, you'd fail.

00:13:59.420 Look, look, Ilhan Omar is one of the leading Democrats.

00:14:02.020 She and AOC and, I mean, the crazy squad is driving the agenda of Democrats today.

00:14:07.760 And the level of ignorance of basic world history is really stunning.

00:14:15.760 And Omar was also integral in covering up the Somali fraud in Minnesota. 0.78

00:14:23.780 She was a beneficiary of it. 0.68

00:14:25.580 She was elected by the fraudsters. 1.00

00:14:28.660 The Somali voting base is her core base. 1.00

00:14:32.920 Their money helped elect her.

00:14:35.560 Their votes did elect her. And she and Tim Walsh and the governor and Keith Ellison, the AG, they were all absolutely involved in the cover up.

00:14:47.460 They had every incentive. It was corrupt. And we're talking over nine billion dollars of taxpayer money swindled away.

00:14:54.620 And so here's what Fox News reported about the raids.

00:14:59.000 Federal authorities raided more than 20 locations, including child care facilities in Minneapolis, on Tuesday

00:15:04.520 as part of a sweeping fraud investigation into largely Somali-owned businesses, sources confirmed to Fox News.

00:15:12.320 Quote,

00:15:12.640 Today, the FBI, with federal, state, and local law enforcement, is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity

00:15:20.140 as part of an ongoing fraud investigation, a Department of Justice spokesperson said.

00:15:25.760 Authorities executed 22 federal search warrants in Minnesota on Tuesday morning as part of the operation, which is not immigration-related, sources said.

00:15:35.380 The raid center on federal fraud investigations into largely Somali-owned businesses, including child care facilities that registered their daycare with the state, but were allegedly billing for care that was not provided.

00:15:49.860 Sources told Fox News that two of the raids were conducted at the Quality Leering Center and Baby Halimno Child Care, both in Minneapolis.

00:15:59.540 Vice President J.D. Vance addressed the raids post on X, writing,

00:16:03.380 The task force of the DOJ will be relentless in exposing these fraudsters wherever they may be hiding.

00:16:11.100 Governor Tim Waltz, this is what you want to talk about, amazing chutzpah,

00:16:15.820 Yeah. Said the raids were carried out by federal and state law enforcement after state agencies, quote, caught irregular behavior and reported it, quote, if you commit fraud in Minnesota, you're going to get caught.

00:16:29.420 And that's exactly what we saw today. We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information, join investigations, work and securing justice depends upon it.

00:16:40.220 Now, that truly is stunning because Waltz, his entire governorship, has looked the other way on massive fraud, has refused to investigate it, has profited from it, has been elected by it, has taken campaign donations from it.

00:16:54.960 The entire Democrat machinery was built on fraud.

00:16:59.260 And now he's taking credit.

00:17:01.300 That really is like the arsonist taking credit when the firefighters turn up and put out the fire.

00:17:08.160 Yeah, it really is.

00:17:08.960 and it's all because now he's not running for re-election, right?

00:17:11.620 So he can just be like, oh, we're rooting out fraud

00:17:13.540 and try to, I guess, rebuild his legacy

00:17:15.220 so maybe he can have a grand comeback one day.

00:17:17.880 I don't know if that's going to work.

00:17:19.780 There's one aspect of this, though, Senator, that excites me,

00:17:22.820 and it's the fact that it's clear this is the beginning, not the end.

00:17:26.600 Based on what was said by the DOJ,

00:17:29.520 like this is the tip of the iceberg.

00:17:32.260 We're going to the catalyst point,

00:17:34.120 and then there's been directives at all states,

00:17:37.280 including Republican-led states,

00:17:38.960 to start looking at waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:17:41.120 They're looking at California.

00:17:42.520 I think you're going to see more people that are going to be indicted

00:17:45.180 and more places that are going to be raided outside of Minnesota.

00:17:48.760 That is exactly what the American people voted for,

00:17:51.380 which was to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:17:53.700 That is exactly right.

00:17:54.960 And I will point out also that other blue states are coming.

00:17:59.680 California is coming.

00:18:01.520 I have every reason to expect, and indeed I've been told by senior officials

00:18:06.160 in the administration. California is even worse than Minneapolis has been. And I want you also

00:18:14.140 give a listen to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and what she revealed about fraud and

00:18:21.940 abuse concerning SNAP, concerning food stamps. Give a listen to Secretary Rollins. Yeah, this

00:18:26.900 one's amazing, by the way, for context. This is about luxury cars and how many people on food

00:18:32.760 stamps are driving like luxury cars it's incredible sharing previously no data was shared we had no

00:18:38.600 idea where the taxpayer dollars were spent just one red state the recent dump of data we found

00:18:44.280 snap recipients had more than 2 000 tesla owners 200 alpha romeo owners more than 144 that were

00:18:52.360 receiving food stamps were driving porsches again this is the data dumps we're getting because that

00:18:58.440 we before we had no accountability on any of these programs we now are requiring accountability

00:19:03.620 the blue states are suing us they don't want to share the data and can you imagine this was a

00:19:08.380 red state where there is actually some taxpayer accountability imagine what's happening in the

00:19:14.480 blue states if that's happening in the red states well i love that it's like a bunch of tesla owners

00:19:20.400 alfa romeo also porsches mercedes bmws and you're on food stamps like these were high-end luxury

00:19:27.540 Actually, Ben, it's even worse.

00:19:29.680 So let me give some additional breakdown.

00:19:31.980 So there were 306 Land Rovers.

00:19:34.980 Those weren't cheap, by the way.

00:19:36.740 There were 59 Maseratis.

00:19:40.520 Yeah, that's a food stamp car.

00:19:42.840 You know that.

00:19:43.940 There were 11 Lamborghinis.

00:19:48.340 There were three Ferraris.

00:19:51.520 There were three Bentleys.

00:19:53.080 These are people getting food stamps, driving a quarter million dollar or more like a Lamborghini could be a million dollar car, depending on which one they had.

00:20:03.660 Yeah, that is an absolute abuse.

00:20:07.920 And if that happened in just one red state that had it over its data, how much do you think it's happening in Minnesota?

00:20:14.680 How much do you think it's happening in New York?

00:20:16.500 How much do you think it is happening in Illinois?

00:20:18.500 How much do you think it's happening in California?

00:20:20.320 The numbers are going to be stunning.

00:20:22.380 Every time they went after and got somebody there for fraud recently, what were they doing?

00:20:26.920 You saw them putting in a six-figure car that was being seized.

00:20:32.140 And in some of the cases, there was like multiple six-figure cars that were being seized, Senator, and put on flatbeds.

00:20:38.000 Like, yeah, they finally raided the house to this fraudster and look at what they had.

00:20:41.220 Like, if you're on food stamps and you're driving a Lambo or a Ferrari or a Maserati, like, you are defrauding the U.S. government full stop.

00:20:49.960 Amen.

00:20:51.060 Hallelujah.

00:20:51.460 Hallelujah.

00:20:52.380 And listen, I'm very glad the Trump administration is having some accountability.

00:20:59.700 Let me read from what the New York Post wrote about this story about Ferrari drivers on food stamps.

00:21:04.840 So it's entitled Ferrari Drivers on Food Stamps, How States Helped Scammers Game Welfare.

00:21:11.400 New York Post.

00:21:12.820 What do a university professor, a celebrity barber, and a professional football player have in common?

00:21:17.520 All three bought new six-figure luxury sports cars and lived lavish lifestyles while collecting food stamps.

00:21:28.360 How on earth can these, quote, welfare recipients purchase high-end vehicles while remaining on the dole?

00:21:34.480 Thanks to a federal loophole known as broad-based categorical eligibility.

00:21:39.760 The Clinton administration manufactured this loophole and the Obama administration supercharged it.

00:21:45.060 Currently, 43 states and Washington, D.C. use broad based categorical eligibility to bypass federal supplemental nutrition assistant program eligibility limits on income, assets or both.

00:22:00.940 The mechanism, based on a federal law that was meant to minimize states' administrative cost, is simple.

00:22:07.680 State welfare agencies print up a brochure about welfare programs or set up an informal hotline and deem it a, quote, benefit under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

00:22:17.920 Anyone who touches that pamphlet, touches, or receives the phone number is then treated as being, quote, categorically eligible for food stamps, even millionaires.

00:22:35.040 It's fraud by design that distributes benefits intended for the truly needy to otherwise ineligible individuals under the insidious goal of maximizing enrollment and dependency.

00:22:48.000 And it works in almost every state.

00:22:51.180 Researchers from the Foundation for Government Accountability examined de-identified data on food stamp enrollment in a single representative state.

00:22:59.080 the data set matched recipients with jobs addresses car registrations and more and then

00:23:06.640 then they redacted the personal details before the researchers reviewed that's what produced

00:23:12.820 these outcomes and by the way it it also thousands used social security numbers that federal databases

00:23:22.640 could not verify that included real numbers with mismatched names and birthdays numbers issued

00:23:29.780 years before the applicant's date of birth numbers of people who died years ago and numbers that

00:23:37.420 don't even exist all are clear signs that both stolen identities and synthetic identities

00:23:44.920 are being used to defraud the system.

00:23:49.440 The BBC loophole doesn't just expand enrollments,

00:23:52.320 it creates the condition for outright criminals to flourish.

00:23:56.020 When state agencies eliminate asset checks,

00:23:59.200 they tear out the tripwires that cost fraudulent applications.

00:24:04.420 This is, so a case in point,

00:24:06.960 the wealthy professor, barber,

00:24:09.540 and professional athlete that FGA researchers spotted

00:24:12.900 could be victims of identity fraud.

00:24:14.920 Because SNAP intentionally allows anything to serve as proof of identity, even a library card.

00:24:23.520 If states were cross-checking income and assets, those cases would be flagged as potential fraud.

00:24:31.200 Thousands more, here's something else, thousands more food stamp recipients in the study enrolled using IP addresses

00:24:38.340 traced to foreign countries, including China, Mexico, and Canada.

00:24:45.400 More than 5,000 applicants in this state used foreign-based email addresses to apply,

00:24:50.800 and countless others used disposable emails, the kind designed for identity theft and phishing.

00:24:58.440 Look, the USDA puts improper food stamp payments at $10.4 billion a year, with a B.

00:25:07.440 That's more than one in every $10 spent on the program.

00:25:12.540 And so now we're going after that fraud, and I'm here to say, yes, this is what I voted for.

00:25:20.080 Holding the criminals accountable, and by the way, holding the Democrats accountable,

00:25:24.220 who have enabled this theft of taxpayer fraud.

00:25:27.800 You want to know what the Democrats stand for? 0.93

00:25:29.560 They stand for Somali fraudsters stealing your tax money and sending it to Al-Shabaab, Islamist terrorist in Somalia. 0.98

00:25:36.460 They stand for thieves driving Bentleys and Lamborghinis and Ferraris who say they need food stamps and stealing your money. 0.88

00:25:45.720 That is if the and by the way, look, sometimes Heidi will say, gosh, you know, that rhetoric sounds really harsh.

00:25:54.820 Well, Ben, if the Democrats don't stand for that, then I just want to ask you a question.

00:26:01.560 Why wouldn't Democrat governors do what the Trump administration has done?

00:26:05.680 why wouldn't they go after and cut them off and they don't do it because ideologically they are

00:26:12.900 in favor of it if they just said i mean is there one democrat in the country will say all right

00:26:17.460 we're gonna have a rule nobody on food stamps can have a ferrari like if you have a ferrari

00:26:22.500 sell your damn car yeah uh and and buy your food with that money you get for selling your car but

00:26:28.960 you don't get if you got the money for a ferrari we ain't paying for your food i gotta say that 1.00

00:26:33.940 sounds like common sense and there's not a single democrat governor in the country that's saying

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00:27:34.520 I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.

00:27:39.040 Senator, this might be one of the most entertaining stories that I've seen in a long time.

00:27:43.280 If you want to know how bigoted the Democratic Party is, look no further than how they treat homeless people.

00:27:52.020 They've got a scoring mechanism now.

00:27:55.100 you get bonus points for certain things while being homeless in America and then you get

00:28:01.740 services aka rewarded based on your race and your sexual identity. Now this is like English

00:28:10.080 is a second language gets you two points so just think of that as a jumper. If you're pregnant 1.00

00:28:15.300 that's a three-pointer. We give you more points if you're pregnant. If you're a child under five 1.00

00:28:20.960 you get three points if you're a child under 18 you only get one point so in other words and if

00:28:25.840 you're head of household and you're under 18 we give you bonus points two points for that there's

00:28:30.720 an actual quota list of points you receive depending on how you describe yourself and if

00:28:36.440 you say that you know you're gay or lesbian or transgender that's bonus points as well so look

00:28:42.040 we talked a minute ago about the the hierarchy of victim groups in the democrat party it's it's a

00:28:48.920 notion that's called intersectionality and in the democrat party being lgbt or being a racial

00:28:57.580 minority is is more privileged than simply being poor and being homeless and and and let's talk

00:29:05.220 we're going to talk about portland oregon because portland oregon is almost like a deranged faculty

00:29:10.360 lounge experiment gone awry yeah uh i i'm going to read from an article in pro publica to be clear

00:29:17.720 ProPublica is not a right-wing outlet, it is a left-wing outlet. But here's what they described,

00:29:23.180 quote, as the city of Portland, Oregon clawed its way out of the pandemic, it faced a new set of

00:29:28.420 crises. The city's homeless population was growing. Tents lined some city blocks. High-powered

00:29:35.980 business associations held press conferences demanding the city remove homeless people

00:29:40.100 and touted self-funded surveys saying that without action, businesses and residents would flee the

00:29:45.880 city. By late spring 2021, the city committed to a new strategy that then-Mayor Ted Wheeler

00:29:53.160 said would, quote, reprioritize public health and safety among homeless Portlanders,

00:30:00.520 ultimately allocating $1.3 billion by the end of 2024. Now let's see what the results were.

00:30:11.000 although the city spent roughly two hundred thousand dollars per homeless resident now

00:30:19.640 let's stop and think 200 grand per homeless resident you could house them and feed them

00:30:24.400 200 grand is a lot of money that's what they spent what do you think it did what what do you think

00:30:29.680 massively spending and saying we're prioritizing the safety of homeless people what do you think

00:30:34.880 it produced i'm gonna guess close to nothing because it's a government program and liberals

00:30:39.260 are in charge sorry call me a cynic uh you're not cynical enough nothing would be better close

00:30:45.980 to nothing would be better the death rate among homeless people in portland quadrupled

00:30:53.760 went up 400 the death rate went up from 113 in 2019 to more than 450 in 2023

00:31:07.960 So when liberals say, we are going to focus on the homeless, if you're homeless, God help you.

00:31:16.140 Because at least in Portland, what that meant was the death rate quadrupled.

00:31:22.660 Now, they also put in place, as you referenced, an elaborate point system.

00:31:28.200 I mean, and this is not a joke.

00:31:29.660 Like, it's literally, and they even tell you like, hey, you can't get double points if you get points in one category compared to another category.

00:31:36.780 So if you're pregnant and under 18, that's bonus points.

00:31:39.340 But only if you haven't already gotten points for being pregnant on another piece of paper for another point system.

00:31:45.840 It's just, it's unbelievable how well organized it is. 0.72

00:31:49.100 So look, and I'll say actually, pregnant makes some sense.

00:31:53.420 Prioritizing pregnant women, that has a reasonable basis. 0.89

00:31:57.340 You are more vulnerable. 1.00

00:31:59.220 But English as a second language, that was worth two points.

00:32:02.280 uh head of a household under 18 that was worth two points interest in lgbtq services that was

00:32:12.200 worth one point just interest so just make sure you say i i i think i've thought about being gay

00:32:19.640 or transgendered or a lesbian and then you get one bonus point so total disabilities impacting

00:32:25.900 entire household ability to secure housing i don't even know what that means but it's worth

00:32:30.580 three points yeah there you go um interest in culturally specific services that's two points

00:32:39.100 again i don't know by the way comparing that just so you understand how woke this is if you are over

00:32:45.040 the age of 55 55 plus which is a higher vulnerable category i think we can all agree on that for

00:32:50.620 homelessness you get two points for that you get the same number of points if you're interested in

00:32:56.660 culturally specific services, you can just catch up to somebody that's 55, 60, 70, 80, 85, 90 years

00:33:03.820 old. Yeah. And also worth two points is being a domestic violence survivor. Now, that actually

00:33:12.520 is rational and makes sense that you would prioritize domestic violence survivors. But

00:33:16.640 in the Portland world, interest in a culturally specific service is equally prioritized to being

00:33:24.800 a domestic violence server survivor now how about this um what do you think being poor is like like

00:33:34.320 having let's say something crazy zero income like if you're trying to help homeless people having

00:33:40.840 zero income you you would think that would be one of the top scoring things on a sheet because that

00:33:46.740 would get you obviously to be homeless so you would think like that would be worth something

00:33:51.580 right guess what it's not one point one point one point and if you're homeless for a year or more

00:33:57.180 you only get one point but if you are currently homeless this is what's weird currently homeless

00:34:02.860 gets you two points wouldn't that also mean you get one point for being homeless for like 12 months 0.98

00:34:09.480 or more or no income i i don't know like this is dei on a whole nother level of stupid look here's 0.99

00:34:18.300 what they said they've done. So, Multnomah County, Oregon, which is home of Deep Blue Portland, 0.99

00:34:25.100 where deaths of homeless people quadrupled between 2019 and 2023, the county screening tool

00:34:31.020 for housing services is designed, and this is a quote from the county, to quote, prioritize

00:34:36.720 BIPOC households

00:34:39.280 LGBTQIA2S

00:34:43.880 plus

00:34:44.340 and people with disabilities

00:34:47.260 again

00:34:48.500 this is not

00:34:51.160 they're spending

00:34:52.920 200 grand per homeless person

00:34:55.160 with 200 grand

00:34:56.920 you can buy somebody a house

00:34:58.440 you can buy someone a house

00:35:00.080 but that would make too much sense

00:35:03.000 you could pay rent for a long time

00:35:05.120 you could get someone a hotel room

00:35:06.520 you could feed them, you could get the medical care, and yet the death rate quadrupled because

00:35:11.500 they were more interested in LGBTQ, LMNOP, like the number of letters there, I can't even, 0.83

00:35:18.360 it reminds me of that crazy Canadian who got up and gave this incredibly long stream that I'm 0.93

00:35:24.100 pretty sure was her Wi-Fi password. But they're more interested in their woke policies than they 0.98

00:35:31.720 are actually in helping someone who needs help and and that's tragic mentioned 200 000 a person

00:35:37.660 just to put it in perspective with everything we know you got to ask yourself the question how

00:35:42.100 much fraud is involved here massive massive yeah it's hard to spend that much money 200 000 it's

00:35:47.900 going to be interesting to watch see where somebody's driving a ferrari somebody's driving

00:35:51.900 a lamborghini yeah there's yeah you're absolutely right about that one don't forget we do this show

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