Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 27, 2023


Shocker： USC Bans Jewish Professor from Campus, plus Woke Triumvirate of CBP, NSA & Disney


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USC Economics Professor John Strauss was targeted by anti-Israel activists with a doctored video of him saying that "Hamas are murderers." Senator Ted Cruz calls for USC to do more than slap a slap on the wrist to Professor Strauss.

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00:00:06.100 Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.700 Hope you had a great week with your family and friends over Thanksgiving.
00:00:14.680 And as we said before, we'll say it again to all those men and women serving our country,
00:00:19.520 all those first responders and doctors and people that wear badges.
00:00:24.040 Thank you for keeping us safe over the holidays.
00:00:26.080 We know your sacrifice and it has not gone unnoticed here.
00:00:30.340 Senator, we've got a lot to talk about, including a Jewish USC professor who was barred from campus,
00:00:38.180 targeted by anti-Israel activists with a doctored video.
00:00:41.800 We're going to get to that in a moment.
00:00:43.360 Also, going woke at a whole nother level.
00:00:46.760 Leaked NSA document revealing a massive woke glossary.
00:00:50.520 We're going to deal with that.
00:00:51.440 Plus, other problems at Disney.
00:00:53.500 They're now facing consequences.
00:00:56.160 And on top of that, you have a Customs and Border Patrol memo that ordered agents not to misgender members of the public.
00:01:06.240 That's what the Biden administration is focused on right now.
00:01:08.780 Plus, some not-so-great news for Joe Biden with the economy.
00:01:11.820 All that coming up in just a moment.
00:01:13.380 Before we get to that, I want to go back to that big shocking story of this USC professor who is Jewish. 1.00
00:01:19.620 He has now been barred from campus.
00:01:22.080 He's been targeted by anti-Israel activists with a doctored video.
00:01:27.340 And this is a story that if you are a listener of Verdict, we need your help to make sure that this goes viral.
00:01:34.500 Put this on social media because it's time that we stand with these professors that are being targeted.
00:01:39.900 And Senator, I'll let you take it and fill people in from there.
00:01:42.160 Well, over the last two months since October 7th, we have seen anti-Semitism spiking across the country, particularly on college campuses.
00:01:49.880 And it's a manifestation of the warped and twisted leftist ideology that unfortunately has grown and festered on college campuses now for decades.
00:02:00.560 We have seen students being harassed across the country.
00:02:04.520 We have seen, tragically at MIT, Jewish students being prevented from going to class and the administration doing nothing about it, refusing to punish the anti-Semitic protesters who are harassing the Jewish students.
00:02:19.020 And the reason MIT gave is, well, those students are on student visas.
00:02:24.000 They're foreigners. 1.00
00:02:24.500 And so if we expelled them, they would have their student visa revoked.
00:02:28.360 So it really is an astonishing willingness to bend over to woke ideology.
00:02:32.560 But I got to say, USC really takes the cake with this because we had seen students unable to go to campus.
00:02:40.920 Now at USC, we're seeing a professor unable to go to campus.
00:02:45.080 Professor John Strauss is an economics professor.
00:02:47.540 And he was walking by a protest, a pro-Palestinian protest, organized by the USC Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation, USC Graduates for Palestine, and the Trojans for Palestine. 0.99
00:03:02.640 And Professor Strauss, as he walked past, commented, he said, ignorant, really ignorant. 0.99
00:03:08.460 And then one of the students engaged him, and the professor added, quote, Hamas are murderers. 0.99
00:03:15.900 That's all they are. 1.00
00:03:18.060 Everyone should be killed. 1.00
00:03:19.780 I hope they all are. 1.00
00:03:21.860 Now what happened after that is people edited his quote, and they took out the reference to Hamas. 0.99
00:03:27.920 They just took the snippet, everyone should be killed. 0.99
00:03:31.660 I hope they all are. 1.00
00:03:32.860 And that snippet went viral. 0.97
00:03:35.420 It got millions of views on Twitter, and it was characterized as the professor saying that all Palestinians should be killed, which is, of course, not what he said. 0.98
00:03:44.940 He said Hamas are murderers. 0.99
00:03:47.080 That's who he said should be killed. 0.96
00:03:49.140 Well, the consequence of that, unsurprisingly, he's been subjected to threats of violence because of the deliberate mischaracterization of what he said.
00:04:00.300 But the university responded not by saying, we're going to protect you, Professor Strauss, but instead by sending a letter to him directing him that he must conduct all of his classes for the remainder of the year via Zoom, via distance learning, that he's not allowed to physically be on campus.
00:04:25.480 And the reason, USC said, was, quote, to minimize disruption to the educational environment, to ensure a safe environment for both you and students.
00:04:36.000 It truly is stunning that the administration at USC is so embraced in the woke ideology, the ideology of colonialism, the ideology that says Jews are the oppressors and Palestinians are the victims.
00:04:53.260 This is the Marxist lens that I talk about at great length in my new book, Unwoke. 0.99
00:04:58.540 USC is so embraced by that ideology that they're now telling their professor, you're not allowed on campus because you said what is indisputably true is that Hamas are murderers and the Hamas terrorists should be killed.
00:05:13.420 And to be clear, this is punishing this professor not being able to go on to campus. 0.94
00:05:20.240 That is also not just a slap on the wrist to him and clearly attacking him and what he is as a human being, being Jewish.
00:05:29.460 But this is also sending a message, I would think, to any other student that is Jewish or that supports Israel.
00:05:37.620 So you better be careful what you say on campus, because this is what we'll do to a professor.
00:05:42.920 Imagine what we would do to a student.
00:05:45.480 Well, and I'm hearing reports literally on a daily basis from friends of mine who have have kids in college who are Jewish.
00:05:54.160 And they're reporting that they they fear for their safety.
00:05:57.340 They don't feel safe.
00:05:58.540 And this is at at premier universities, Ivy League universities, supposedly elite universities that that virtually all of them have embraced this leftist ideology. 0.76
00:06:10.400 And under their worldview, they view Jews as evil Zionists.
00:06:16.720 And so the universities, too many of them are unwilling to protect their students. 0.95
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00:08:13.880 Senator, you mentioned a moment ago when talking about what's happening on college campuses.
00:08:19.100 And this professor is a perfect example of that.
00:08:21.400 And I said it earlier.
00:08:22.160 I'll say it again.
00:08:22.780 Make sure this story goes viral because people need to understand that what's happening to this professor is wrong.
00:08:29.040 But if you are a Jewish student at a lot of the elite universities around the country, this is the treatment that a lot of them are receiving.
00:08:37.660 And they are not being protected by these universities.
00:08:40.920 How concerned are you?
00:08:42.040 Because this is not just a pattern or a trend.
00:08:45.640 This is almost an indoctrination by these public universities and private universities at the highest level that we are not going to allow you to be pro-Israel on our campus, period.
00:08:56.100 Senator, I want to move on to the other topic that we mentioned earlier.
00:08:59.900 And that is wokeness has really infiltrated our politics, especially when it comes to the Biden administration.
00:09:07.400 The national security has now gone woke.
00:09:10.260 Disney is now facing some consequences.
00:09:12.380 Plus, you've got this Customs and Border Patrol memo that orders agents not to misgender members of the public.
00:09:20.920 Let's start with that.
00:09:22.560 Well, this really is a triumvirate of wokeness.
00:09:25.280 And it's striking to see CBP and NSA and Disney all getting hit with the consequences of their ideology.
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00:10:02.140 Let's start with CBP. CBP had an internal memo that was obtained by the Heritage Foundation that prohibits agents from using he, him, she, or her pronouns when initially interacting with members of the public.
00:10:17.120 The memo goes on to encourage agents to use, quote, a universal greeting, such as good morning or good evening, in the initial greeting.
00:10:25.680 Now, Ben, for Pete's sake, our country is being invaded.
00:10:30.080 8.6 million illegal immigrants have crossed into this country under Joe Biden.
00:10:34.900 There are dead bodies every single day. 0.84
00:10:37.600 There are children being sexually assaulted, women being sexually assaulted.
00:10:41.720 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year.
00:10:45.380 Fentanyl is flooding into the country.
00:10:46.940 And here's what the Biden administration is telling CBP to be concerned about.
00:10:51.540 Quote, if an incorrect pronoun is used and corrected by the individual, acknowledge the oversight and use the correct pronoun.
00:11:00.760 The memo also lists, quote, key terms with definitions next to each.
00:11:05.960 Bisexual, gay, gender expression, gender identity, gender nonconforming, intersex, lesbian, non-binary, queer, questioning, sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation, transgender, transgender woman, transgender man, and transitioning are all listed. 0.78
00:11:20.460 What in the hell are these people doing, Ben?
00:11:23.440 This is the Border Patrol is supposed to be securing the border.
00:11:27.820 Explain to me why exactly they should be having a conversation with a human trafficker, a drug trafficker, or an illegal alien.
00:11:35.360 Excuse me, sir, are you non-binary?
00:11:38.120 Like, what the hell does that have to do with actually securing the border and doing their job?
00:11:44.580 And the answer is nothing, because they put politics ahead of they don't want to secure the border.
00:11:50.760 So here's my question.
00:11:52.060 Is this at the feet of Mayorkas? 0.98
00:11:54.500 Is this the feet of literally the Oval Office and the President's desk?
00:11:58.980 Or is this some initiative coming from the Vice President's office and she's supposed to be the border czar person?
00:12:06.220 I mean, how high does this go up for them to go this woke on this type of a memo?
00:12:11.340 Yes, yes, yes.
00:12:13.820 Look, this started off with an executive order from the White House directing every agency to elevate diversity, equity, and inclusion above everything else.
00:12:23.760 To ignore the law, to ignore their job.
00:12:26.140 It doesn't formally say that.
00:12:27.920 It just says this is the guiding priority of our agency.
00:12:31.380 And with respect to CBP, the political leadership, Mayorkas, we've talked about this at length.
00:12:37.680 Mayorkas does not intend to, does not want to enforce the law.
00:12:43.720 He is not trying to secure the border.
00:12:46.340 He is trying to increase the number of illegal aliens coming into this country.
00:12:51.660 He's trying to speed up the process.
00:12:53.520 So I guess he wants them to say, you know, good morning and then have a conversation about their gender identity while shipping them to every city in America. 0.91
00:13:03.580 It truly is, it's a stunning, screwed up priority that is right at the heart of where this administration is.
00:13:13.660 It also, though, I think sends the message to Customs and Border Patrol agents, we're not on your side.
00:13:22.200 And if you don't do what we tell you to do and you actually do your job the right way, there may be consequences for you doing your job.
00:13:30.340 And if you don't push our agenda items the way we're telling you to do it, we'll come after you.
00:13:38.300 Because that's what I would get out of this.
00:13:39.720 This is a shot across the bow of every man and woman that's putting their life on the line at the southern border to basically say, you don't do your job the way you think you do it.
00:13:48.560 You do it the way we tell you to.
00:13:50.760 Well, this Biden administration is an administration that is fundamentally unserious.
00:13:55.020 They're not serious about the goal of securing the border because they don't want to secure the border.
00:13:59.560 They want it to be maximizing the number of illegal aliens.
00:14:04.040 They're they're unserious about national security.
00:14:06.180 And as a result, Biden inherited peace and prosperity.
00:14:09.580 We've now got two wars waging across the world right now as a result of their weakness.
00:14:14.720 And when you have federal agencies with with serious grave responsibilities and you put political apparatchiks in charge who are not serious, who are not up to the task,
00:14:27.140 you end up with, number one, not doing the job they're there for.
00:14:31.300 But number two, getting distracted by political priorities that have nothing to do with the core mission.
00:14:36.760 Another example you mentioned, the NSA, the National Security Administration, they prepared a 34 page glossary that they issued that that directs employees to to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
00:14:56.520 And it includes terms ranging from anti-racist to Z and Zer. 0.56
00:15:01.680 And and and it it provides it was published May 6, 2022.
00:15:08.060 And it identifies itself as, quote, a glossary of terms and language commonly used in dialogue reversing regarding diversity, equity and inclusion and social justice.
00:15:19.960 And it cites critical race theory advocates such as Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X.
00:15:26.640 Kendi. It cites D'Angelo and it defines white fragility. 0.91
00:15:31.500 All right. This is the NSA, mind you, defining white fragility is, quote, the state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves in white people. 0.56
00:15:42.900 It adds these behaviors function to reinstate white racial equilibrium. 0.70
00:15:48.620 There's also a definition of whiteness.
00:15:51.140 Now, you might think whiteness means someone being white.
00:15:54.000 Nope, nope, nope, no, no, that that would be too simplistic.
00:15:57.100 According to the NSA, whiteness is, quote, a broad social construction that embraces the white culture, history, ideology, racialization, expressions, experiences, epistemology, emotions and behavior.
00:16:10.180 All in order to reap, quote, material, political, economic and structural benefits for those socially deemed white. 0.63
00:16:17.640 This stuff is nonsense. It is garbage. It is poison. 1.00
00:16:21.400 And you know what it isn't? National security, which is what the NSA is supposed to be focusing on.
00:16:27.000 Yeah, and they're not they're not focusing on that.
00:16:28.780 And that is something that has obviously come up with many people that are concerned about national security and our southern border.
00:16:34.660 You and I have talked about this countless times, but there are more concerns now than we've had probably since 9-11.
00:16:40.100 And yet when you hear that this isn't just like a one page memo, this is a full blown document.
00:16:47.180 34 pages. 34 pages.
00:16:49.940 Yeah. I mean, do we have a 34 page memo on the on the on the number of people that have come across the border to your knowledge center that are on the terrorist watch list?
00:16:58.960 Is there a 34 page memo on that? Not that I know of.
00:17:03.340 And let me ask, you know, the jackasses that wrote this, the jackasses that are in charge of enforcing these policies. 1.00
00:17:09.060 How come nobody at the NSA got signals intelligence on Hamas planning the biggest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7th? 0.92
00:17:17.640 Maybe because instead they were focused not only on critical race theory, but also queer theory and and it defines queer theory.
00:17:25.640 If you think this this is Ben and me just making things up, according to the NSA, queer theory is an approach, quote, that critically deconstructs and challenges binaries such as male and female and or heterosexual and homosexual.
00:17:39.740 And the D.E.I. glossary then goes on to list a whole bunch of words associated with queer theory like trans misogyny.
00:17:50.120 What the hell is trans misogyny? Well, well, hold on. Hold a second.
00:17:54.100 I've got I've got a glossary here.
00:17:56.860 So trans misogyny is the intersection of transphobia and misogyny.
00:18:02.740 Z and Xer, meanwhile, there were told they are gender neutral pronouns that can be used instead of he, she and his, her, while two spirit is defined as, quote, a Native American term for an individual who identifies as both male and female.
00:18:18.120 Other terms defined in the glossary include genderqueer, AFAB, AMAB, which means assigned female at birth, assigned male at birth.
00:18:28.660 Latinx, which there is not a single Latino or Latina on the face of the earth that uses that ridiculous term. 0.92
00:18:34.940 Those are all woke, rich, white kids who want to show how woke they are by by insulting the Latino community. 0.98
00:18:43.300 There's also, quote, same gender loving, which is a term that serves, quote, as a description for homosexuals who think that terms such as gay and lesbian carry negative connotations. 0.95
00:18:55.380 There's also demigender. All right. Let me stop you, Ben. Quiz. 1.00
00:19:00.540 What does demigender mean? I have a glossary. 0.99
00:19:02.880 Yeah, I have no idea. And that's the part that I'm sitting here as you're going through this.
00:19:06.460 I'm laughing because I'm like, how many sane people would know any of these?
00:19:10.720 Yeah, I want you to stop if you're listening to the podcast and literally ask yourself if you were in taking a test, could you define the word demigender?
00:19:19.780 I couldn't. I don't know. Demi Moore, she's like a really hot woman. Is that demigender? 1.00
00:19:23.600 No, no, no, no. Demigender, and it has variations. 0.96
00:19:27.960 It has demiboy and demigirl, although who knows what's a boy and who knows what's a girl.
00:19:32.620 And what it says is it's defined as, quote, having a partial connection to one or more genders.
00:19:39.240 Ah, the joys of making this up. But by the way, not only does this do ridiculous critical race theory and queer theory by its own terms, it also blasts the founding of the United States of America. 0.70
00:19:55.480 And it has a definition of, quote, settler colonialism.
00:19:59.840 We were talking in the first story about USC going after and punishing their own Jewish professor because they view Jews and they view Americans as settler colonialists.
00:20:11.360 Well, here's the NSA's definition, quote, settler colonialism typically includes oppressive governance and enforcement of codes of superiority.
00:20:20.300 And then it says examples include white European occupation of land in what is now the United States. 0.82
00:20:29.760 So I want you to understand this is the friggin National Security Administration. 0.54
00:20:34.220 By the way, has anyone there wondered what the word national refers to? 0.65
00:20:37.800 Like what nation are they working for?
00:20:39.480 Because apparently they think the founding of land that is now the United States is an example of oppressive governance and settler colonialism.
00:20:50.300 And by the way, the solution, according to the NSA, it says white Europeans are guilty of colonialism.
00:20:59.100 And it defines decolonize as a process, quote, that requires a recognition of systems of oppression in order to unlearn values, beliefs and conceptions that have caused physical, emotional or mental harm to people through colonialization.
00:21:17.600 At the same time, it defines white privilege as, quote, an unquestioned and unlearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. 0.96
00:21:31.220 This is garbage and it's not our national security, as you noted, the CBP is not allowed to secure the border because they're having to figure out the sexual orientation of human traffickers and drug traffickers instead of stopping them and arresting them. 0.98
00:21:48.260 And now the NSA is not looking for terrorists because they're busy worrying about settler colonialism and queer theory. 0.99
00:21:55.760 This is an administration that is fundamentally unserious and consumed with woke leftist politics.
00:22:02.920 Yeah. And if you want to, you know, it's bad enough we see it in the private sector.
00:22:06.020 But when you see our government doing it and then not doing their job, especially when it comes to national security issues, it's truly terrifying because the consequences are death and destruction when you get it wrong.
00:22:17.200 Look, that that is exactly right.
00:22:19.740 And I want to give credit.
00:22:20.880 I want to give credit to The Daily Wire because The Daily Wire broke this story.
00:22:24.480 It's an article by Spencer Lindquist that published published this glossary.
00:22:29.760 It would not be public if it were not for The Daily Wire.
00:22:32.680 And this, you literally read it, and I would say it reads like a Saturday Night Live satire, but Saturday Night Live would never make fun of this because they're too afraid.
00:22:43.360 They're too woke.
00:22:44.320 By the way, one of the other things it defines is, quote, Eurocentric, which states, quote, quote, most use this term with a clear awareness of the historic oppressiveness of Eurocentric tendencies in U.S. and European societies.
00:22:58.340 The phrase critical race theory references, quote, the intersectionality of race and racism, and its supposed aim is to, quote, pose a challenge to dominant ideology.
00:23:14.540 There is nothing about this that is national security.
00:23:19.340 And by the way, if you want to know what the NSA is supposed to do, from the NSA's own website, let me read you their mission.
00:23:27.380 The National Security Agency slash Central Security Service leads the U.S. government in cryptology that encompasses both signals intelligence insights and cybersecurity products and services and enables a computer network operations to gain a decisive advantage for the nation and our allies.
00:23:44.180 That is its mission.
00:23:47.180 In other words, it is spying electronically on our enemies, on terrorists, on people seeking to murder Americans.
00:23:53.640 And what are they doing instead?
00:23:55.280 They are being driven by the Biden White House's obsession with leftist woke politics.
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00:26:34.440 Senator, you were talking, obviously, about what's happening with these two different organizations within our government.
00:26:40.580 But there's also something that happened at Disney.
00:26:44.000 Well, that's right.
00:26:45.080 And this is the third of our woke triumvirate in terms of facing the consequences for their ideology,
00:26:50.600 which is that Disney recently filed its annual SEC report, a report that every public company is required to file.
00:26:58.360 And here's what they were forced to publicly disclose.
00:27:01.220 Quote,
00:27:01.880 We face risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel, and consumer products.
00:27:13.140 And it goes on to note, quote,
00:27:15.860 The success of our businesses depends on our ability to consistently create compelling content.
00:27:24.100 Quote,
00:27:25.300 Generally, our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted.
00:27:29.400 When our entertainment offerings and products, as well as our methods to make our offerings and products available to consumers,
00:27:36.180 do not achieve sufficient consumer acceptance.
00:27:40.040 Further,
00:27:41.020 consumers' perceptions of our positions on matters of public interest,
00:27:45.280 including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals,
00:27:49.240 often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands.
00:27:57.020 Now, that is one of the most stunning corporate disclosures I've ever read.
00:28:03.540 Because what that means is, number one, Disney has lost billions of dollars.
00:28:09.020 The phrase, go woke, go broke.
00:28:10.760 Disney has sadly embodied that phrase.
00:28:13.080 I am sure Walt Disney is spinning in his grave at horrors at what has happened to his namesake.
00:28:19.280 But the fact that they put this in their SEC disclosures means, number one, the money they're losing is so significant.
00:28:28.200 Number two, their projections for future money that they're going to lose are so significant that their lawyers said,
00:28:36.280 Damn it, you have to acknowledge this in the disclosure or else you will be sued for misleading investors. 0.59
00:28:44.740 In other words, we must write these words so that when investors sue us and say, 0.98
00:28:51.720 Your executives are putting your woke politics ahead of profitability, ahead of producing entertainment that consumers want,
00:28:59.920 ahead of actually producing family-friendly entertainment that kids are interested in and parents want their kids to see,
00:29:06.020 that your politics matters more to you than making the business successful,
00:29:11.620 they want to be able to point to this disclosure and say,
00:29:14.880 Nope, nope, sorry, you invested and we told you up front.
00:29:18.020 We don't care about making a buck.
00:29:19.900 Our politics is all we care about.
00:29:22.220 And even if it flushes the corporate profits down the commode.
00:29:28.500 You know, we've had this debate at my house, three boys, and we've talked about Disney.
00:29:33.260 And I said to my wife, we had a grand debate over it.
00:29:38.440 I'm not giving my money to Disney.
00:29:40.560 I'm not going to Disney.
00:29:42.220 I'm not going to take them to Disney because I believe them when they tell me what their agenda is.
00:29:48.560 And now it's in their financial disclosures.
00:29:51.040 This is their agenda.
00:29:52.320 And I say this over and over again when having this debate over things like Disney and woke companies.
00:29:59.000 Believe them when they put it in writing.
00:30:01.540 Believe them when they publish it.
00:30:03.960 Believe them when they produce it.
00:30:05.840 Believe them when they promote it.
00:30:08.400 This is Disney saying all along, yes, this is exactly what we're trying to do with your kids' minds.
00:30:14.880 Yes, we are trying to use what used to be just innocent entertainment that you could trust your kid in front of Disney Channel or Disney movies.
00:30:24.880 You no longer should have that trust with them.
00:30:27.060 And they put it in writing.
00:30:28.580 Well, that's right.
00:30:29.860 But look, there's reason to draw optimism from this third example, which is that for many woke corporations, I think they are feeling the heat and they're trying to change direction.
00:30:43.740 You look at the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger.
00:30:46.780 They brought him back because Disney was in such a world of hurt.
00:30:50.920 They had screwed it up so badly that Bob Iger came back and he is seeking, in his own words, to, quote, quiet things down after putting politics front and center.
00:31:01.680 Now, Iger presumably signed off on this corporate disclosure, and that may be a consequence of trying to pivot Disney back.
00:31:09.020 Now, they're not doing a great job of it because the problem is that they have built a culture where their executives are invested in this woke ideology.
00:31:19.980 And this is something I discuss at great length in the book on woke.
00:31:22.980 I talk about Disney at great length.
00:31:24.540 I talk about Bud Light.
00:31:25.500 I talk about Target.
00:31:26.380 But I talk about how all three of them, Disney, Bud Light, and Target, lost billions and billions of dollars.
00:31:34.680 And number one, it's had an impact on all three.
00:31:37.080 But number two, and this is where you should be encouraged, it is, I hope and believe, a powerful deterrent for other CEOs and other corporations that are sitting there saying,
00:31:48.400 I don't want to be Bud Light, I don't want to be Target, I don't want to be Disney, and now Disney, according to its own corporate disclosure, Disney is saying, I don't want to be Disney.
00:31:57.800 That may be promising and optimistic for the future.
00:32:01.060 Yeah, I hope that people continue to vote with their dollars.
00:32:03.940 We're talking about Cyber Monday.
00:32:05.480 There's so many people that right now are looking at where they're spending their money, probably more than we've had in quite some time.
00:32:10.660 And that's a good thing.
00:32:12.300 People are looking for companies they want to work with that are un-woke, that aren't going to these radical extremes that we've witnessed and talked about.
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00:34:02.060 Finally, Senator, I wanted to...
00:34:03.880 There was a story this week and it kind of made me laugh.
00:34:07.280 And it sums up, I think, the Bidenomics economy that we're in right now.
00:34:13.860 There is a $16 fast food meal.
00:34:18.740 Now, that may not shock some people because you think, all right, at the higher end, maybe
00:34:24.080 that's something that is palatable.
00:34:26.840 But it's a $16 McDonald's meal that may explain voter anger more than any other poll at Joe
00:34:35.220 Biden.
00:34:35.640 Like, if this isn't just a full circle of where we are now, that McDonald's has a meal
00:34:42.640 that costs $16.10, to be precise.
00:34:46.780 It's gone viral as a man posted a receipt on social media.
00:34:51.060 And I laughed when I saw this because it's like, yeah, welcome to Bidenomics.
00:34:55.980 Well, it's interesting.
00:34:57.220 The language you used was word for word, the headline from, of all places, the Washington
00:35:02.760 Post.
00:35:03.220 So the Washington Post headline was, quote, the viral $16 McDonald's meal that may explain
00:35:10.980 voter anger at Biden.
00:35:13.060 So this is the Washington Post saying, you want to know why voters are pissed at Joe Biden?
00:35:18.140 Here's why.
00:35:18.740 And it goes on to describe that on December 20th, 2022, a fellow by the name of Topher Olive
00:35:25.900 went to McDonald's in the town of Post Falls, Idaho.
00:35:29.840 And he ordered a limited edition, smoky double quarter pounder BLT with fries and a Sprite.
00:35:37.720 And the cost of the meal was $16.10.
00:35:42.940 And he posted that, the receipt on TikTok.
00:35:46.240 And the receipt ended up getting millions of views, initially a couple of hundred thousand.
00:35:54.080 But then when it was reposted and ended up getting over 2 million views and it goes right to the heart.
00:36:04.360 I mean, look, I've been going to McDonald's for as long as I can remember.
00:36:08.300 And you used to be able to get a burger and fries and a Coke for five, six bucks.
00:36:15.300 You know, when prices got more expensive, maybe it was seven or eight dollars.
00:36:19.400 But $16, there's a reason voters are pissed.
00:36:24.820 And this goes right to the heart of it.
00:36:26.520 Then when you have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi spending trillions and trillions of dollars that we don't have,
00:36:34.400 borrowing trillions and trillions of dollars and running the printing presses days and nights,
00:36:39.100 we see inflation taking off.
00:36:41.240 And the result is it's 16 bucks to go to McDonald's.
00:36:45.380 Yeah, $16.
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