Verdict with Ted Cruz - SuperBowl, CA Taxes, Follow the DEI Money & VA Assault on Democracy

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00:00:04.440 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:06.680 Post-Super Bowl show.

00:00:08.360 Nice to have you with us, Senator.

00:00:09.960 I know you were just really excited about the halftime show.

00:00:13.180 You didn't watch any of the game, though,

00:00:14.320 but that part you were there for, I'm assuming, right?

00:00:17.440 Well, it's Super Bowl Sunday.

00:00:19.260 I will say I had the great joy of being on an airplane

00:00:21.620 during a lot of the Super Bowl,

00:00:23.200 so I caught part of the third quarter,

00:00:26.060 and that was about it.

00:00:27.860 So I didn't watch much.

00:00:31.380 I got a field goal.

00:00:32.580 That was about it.

00:00:34.160 I did not see the halftime show,

00:00:36.380 although I did pull it up on my phone

00:00:37.720 and watch part of it afterwards.

00:00:40.540 But, you know, look, I mean, the Super Bowl,

00:00:42.400 a lot of times I'll go to a Super Bowl party.

00:00:44.100 In this case, I was just flying and landing in Texas,

00:00:46.960 so got home midway through.

00:00:52.780 You know, I got to say,

00:00:53.960 a lot of the noise about the halftime show,

00:00:57.860 I just found myself not caring.

00:01:01.140 Like, I know, there were a lot of folks all worked up,

00:01:05.220 and on the right, you're supposed to be outraged

00:01:07.360 that, you know, bad bunny...

00:01:10.360 There was, like, no English spoken.

00:01:11.900 I couldn't have said the damn word the guy was saying.

00:01:13.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:01:15.380 I'm not bilingual like you are, though, Senator.

00:01:17.760 There's a difference.

00:01:18.680 See, you understood it.

00:01:19.780 I didn't.

00:01:20.200 You know, Benjamin, look, we Latinos,

00:01:22.780 a little bit of Spanish won't kill you.

00:01:24.200 Like, I just, you know, I don't like the guy's politics.

00:01:27.980 At the Grammys, I thought he made an ass of himself,

00:01:30.680 like saying, ice out.

00:01:32.420 That I don't like, and I don't really like

00:01:35.240 when celebrities try to force their politics on us.

00:01:39.840 But, you know, I watched him, like,

00:01:42.160 in the sugar cane and dancing around.

00:01:44.180 I think most of the halftime shows are kind of silly,

00:01:46.240 so, like, this didn't strike me as particularly unusual

00:01:50.140 in more or less silliness.

00:01:53.480 You know, the guy falls through a roof

00:01:55.300 and lands in someone's apartment.

00:01:56.820 That was just kind of strange, but I, you know, it was...

00:01:59.700 I found myself...

00:02:02.520 Are we at the level now where you just say

00:02:04.200 if you're, like, a singer and this is what you do,

00:02:06.200 you just don't give a crap? 0.52

00:02:08.460 Oh, look, I mean, I...

00:02:10.700 My girl's like Bad Bunny. 1.00

00:02:12.960 You're on the edge.

00:02:13.660 I have to admit, he's not on my playlist,

00:02:18.100 but I have a 15- and 17-year-old daughter,

00:02:21.260 and they listen to him some.

00:02:23.720 Most of the halftime shows don't do much for me.

00:02:27.620 I mean, it's...

00:02:28.460 They're fine.

00:02:29.280 They're typically, like, pop singers,

00:02:32.600 and, you know, I tend to listen to more country music

00:02:35.280 or classic rock anyway.

00:02:38.480 So, look, it was...

00:02:41.040 We've already talked more in the last four minutes about it

00:02:44.920 than I've probably thought about the whole thing.

00:02:47.340 I love it.

00:02:48.060 I love it.

00:02:48.760 By the way, did you see that Turning Point

00:02:50.460 had, like, 5 million live watching on YouTube?

00:02:53.760 Yeah, and, look, Kid Rock, you know, I mean,

00:02:55.660 Kid Rock testified before the Senate this past week,

00:03:00.120 and so I got to visit with Kid Rock.

00:03:01.660 He came to my office.

00:03:02.400 He was a nice guy.

00:03:04.120 I liked him.

00:03:05.860 But, to be honest, I was on a plane for Kid Rocks, too,

00:03:08.900 so I didn't watch either one of them.

00:03:12.040 You know, it...

00:03:13.800 I will say also, you know,

00:03:16.800 as we talked about last week on the pod,

00:03:19.620 on Friday I was at my Tia Sonia's funeral,

00:03:25.820 and that was up in Dallas,

00:03:27.860 and I spoke at the funeral,

00:03:31.040 and my sister spoke at the funeral,

00:03:33.800 and my cousin Bebe spoke,

00:03:35.460 and my dad spoke,

00:03:36.700 and both my niece and nephew spoke.

00:03:41.080 And, you know, it was a real celebration of my Tia Sonia,

00:03:45.160 and I actually played a lot of Spanish music

00:03:48.680 because my Tia Sonia liked it,

00:03:50.220 so, you know, I enjoyed that more than the snippet

00:03:53.400 I saw of Bad Bunny, but, you know, that's fine.

00:03:57.900 But I have to say, I was just kind of,

00:04:00.240 like, it was a beautiful funeral.

00:04:02.280 So, she was 82.

00:04:05.920 As folks know, we put out last week the interview that we did.

00:04:10.780 We had my Tia Sonia on verdict and interviewed her,

00:04:15.980 and she was a freedom fighter.

00:04:18.860 You know, she fought against Fidel Castro in Cuba.

00:04:23.180 She was thrown in prison.

00:04:24.480 She was tortured.

00:04:25.300 Actually, she was, along with my Tia Miriam

00:04:27.880 and my Tia Mela.

00:04:29.720 Neither of them are my aunts,

00:04:31.160 but just in Latin culture,

00:04:32.900 you just kind of collect Tia's.

00:04:35.300 By the way, if you're a kid,

00:04:37.420 every one of the Tia's will spank every one of the kids. 1.00

00:04:39.960 I mean, it's literally just kind of like...

00:04:41.660 That's law and order.

00:04:43.700 That's just how that's supposed to go.

00:04:45.200 If there's a kid misbehaving,

00:04:47.380 anyone will do that you whack the kid,

00:04:49.820 and I got a lot of...

00:04:51.880 You had a lot of those in your life when you were a kid.

00:04:55.180 Well, and their weapon of choice was the chancleta, 1.00

00:04:58.600 which is this...

00:05:00.140 You're going to have to Bad Bunny translate this for me. 0.74

00:05:02.260 What does that mean?

00:05:02.940 Okay, a chancleta was this heavy rubber sandal

00:05:07.020 she would wear,

00:05:08.440 and my Tia Sonia could pull off the chancleta 0.89

00:05:11.000 off of her foot, throw it, 1.00

00:05:12.520 and she'd whack you in the back of the head, 1.00

00:05:15.100 and it was like this boomerang,

00:05:16.960 and you'd be like, wow, that hurt.

00:05:20.700 She was very good at it,

00:05:23.000 but look, what I liked about the funeral

00:05:25.100 is it captured her spirit.

00:05:28.560 She was loud.

00:05:29.980 She was fiery. 0.91

00:05:31.140 She was a warrior for liberty.

00:05:33.820 Listen, when you've been thrown in prison

00:05:36.520 and tortured by communists,

00:05:39.200 freedom matters a lot to you.

00:05:42.820 You know, I told the story at the funeral

00:05:46.940 about how when I first ran for Senate back in 2012,

00:05:52.660 when I was running against the lieutenant governor

00:05:54.520 who was worth a couple hundred million dollars

00:05:57.480 and so put $35 million of his own money in the race

00:06:00.280 and just ran saturation attack ads.

00:06:03.820 And my Tia Sonia, she was furious,

00:06:06.600 and she cursed like a sailor. 1.00

00:06:09.980 And she was like,

00:06:11.680 I will blankety-blank kick his ass!

00:06:14.540 And I'm like, Tia, Tia, calmate.

00:06:15.960 Calmate.

00:06:16.860 It just means calm down.

00:06:18.920 Yeah.

00:06:19.140 It's not good politically for you to be beating up my opponents.

00:06:23.320 And by the way,

00:06:24.060 you would not want to fight my Tia Sonia.

00:06:26.320 She would...

00:06:27.200 I believe you.

00:06:28.360 She was ferocious.

00:06:31.960 I did have a rule.

00:06:33.260 My Tia Sonia was not allowed to talk to reporters. 1.00

00:06:37.380 And she'd be like, why not?

00:06:38.720 That's a great rule.

00:06:40.500 I'm like, Tia, because I know you,

00:06:42.140 and you're liable to say anything.

00:06:43.620 You're liable to curse them out.

00:06:44.920 And it's from the heart,

00:06:46.880 but let's just keep those sentiments within the family.

00:06:51.660 There's a reason I called her my Tia Loca, 1.00

00:06:53.700 my crazy aunt.

00:06:56.480 But I got to tell the story

00:06:58.320 about just a couple of weeks ago

00:07:03.400 when I went up to see her,

00:07:05.140 and she was in the hospital.

00:07:06.800 And she was fading fast.

00:07:08.320 She was kind of coming in and out of consciousness,

00:07:10.480 and she wasn't entirely able

00:07:12.340 to understand everything that was happening.

00:07:16.100 And you could tell it was...

00:07:18.140 We were in the last days.

00:07:20.360 But I had the chance to tell her,

00:07:22.300 I said, Tia,

00:07:23.500 they got Maduro.

00:07:26.300 They arrested Maduro,

00:07:27.940 and I told her,

00:07:28.900 Tia,

00:07:30.380 the Cuban communist government

00:07:31.900 is going to fall soon.

00:07:33.860 And she just beamed.

00:07:36.300 The smile on her face,

00:07:38.600 wow.

00:07:39.700 It was beautiful,

00:07:42.060 and it was a celebration of life.

00:07:44.380 Look, I'm sad.

00:07:45.740 We're all sad that she's gone.

00:07:48.100 But she led a full life

00:07:50.780 every minute she loved living.

00:07:53.740 And she brought joy.

00:07:56.440 She brought unconditional support.

00:08:00.460 She was ferociously loyal.

00:08:02.260 So, yeah,

00:08:05.860 I was thinking much more about that

00:08:07.800 than Bad Bunny. 0.99

00:08:10.080 Than some guy named Bad Bunny.

00:08:11.440 And by the way,

00:08:12.460 I was glad, at least,

00:08:13.900 you know,

00:08:14.260 the early promos said

00:08:15.340 Bad Bunny was going to wear a dress. 1.00

00:08:17.800 He didn't wear a dress,

00:08:19.220 at least not that I saw.

00:08:20.360 So I was glad of that, at least.

00:08:21.940 That, you know,

00:08:22.740 small victory for presenting.

00:08:23.900 Yeah, he leaves that in, like,

00:08:24.860 you know,

00:08:25.060 the burning of flags other places, right?

00:08:26.820 Yeah, not during the Super Bowl.

00:08:29.240 You know...

00:08:29.980 I'm just saying.

00:08:30.780 I am curious, though,

00:08:33.460 how much Bad Bunny is going to be taxed

00:08:36.440 for having gone to the Super Bowl.

00:08:38.660 So, by the way,

00:08:39.740 this is the story

00:08:41.200 that I think everyone

00:08:42.720 should be outraged over, right?

00:08:44.760 If Bad Bunny didn't get you going,

00:08:48.380 here is the story.

00:08:49.840 And we've got the tax dollars.

00:08:51.400 If you want to know

00:08:52.380 why California is fading fast

00:08:55.120 and why so many people

00:08:56.800 that when they start making money

00:08:57.860 are out of there

00:08:58.380 and so many people

00:08:59.500 in the crypto world

00:09:01.440 and the IT world

00:09:02.600 and all the other worlds

00:09:03.700 are, like,

00:09:04.080 they're getting out of there,

00:09:05.040 like, they're leaving

00:09:06.120 fast as they can.

00:09:08.380 Let's just break down.

00:09:09.540 We've got some data for people

00:09:11.060 of how much money

00:09:12.800 California made

00:09:14.100 off the Super Bowl

00:09:15.340 of those that were actually

00:09:16.960 making money at the Super Bowl.

00:09:18.360 It really is incredible data.

00:09:20.400 Well, it is.

00:09:23.440 If you look at Sam Darnold

00:09:25.300 going into the game,

00:09:26.860 here's what his incentives were.

00:09:29.500 If he wins,

00:09:31.580 he's going to receive

00:09:33.080 $178,000 as a bonus.

00:09:36.020 Yep.

00:09:36.700 And he will pay $249,000

00:09:39.140 in taxes to California

00:09:40.540 for his time here,

00:09:41.980 meaning he will lose $71,000.

00:09:45.620 Yeah.

00:09:46.560 That's what ended up happening.

00:09:48.280 If he had lost,

00:09:51.540 then he would have gotten

00:09:52.720 $103,000 in bonus,

00:09:54.720 but he would still owe

00:09:57.060 $235,000 in taxes,

00:10:00.100 meaning he would have lost

00:10:01.300 $135,000.

00:10:03.300 So I guess, Sam,

00:10:04.160 congratulations.

00:10:05.460 Yeah.

00:10:05.800 You only lost $71,000

00:10:07.980 for stepping foot

00:10:09.480 in the Commonwealth

00:10:10.740 of California

00:10:11.560 instead of losing

00:10:14.020 $135,000.

00:10:15.520 And what kind of insanity

00:10:17.300 is it

00:10:17.880 that that's how

00:10:19.460 the California tax system is?

00:10:21.380 Yeah, it is.

00:10:22.000 I mean, you fly in there

00:10:24.260 and you just do a day's work

00:10:25.560 and you're a performer.

00:10:26.800 They are going to take

00:10:28.000 as much money as they can

00:10:29.200 and they don't care.

00:10:30.500 there was an interesting article

00:10:32.600 I was reading online about this.

00:10:33.760 Look, I think Bad Bunny

00:10:35.400 changed his name.

00:10:36.280 He's now Sad Bunny

00:10:37.080 because California

00:10:38.280 took all his money.

00:10:39.820 See, you're not wrong

00:10:41.640 on that one,

00:10:42.180 but they were talking

00:10:42.660 about bands

00:10:43.500 and comedians.

00:10:44.000 And, you know,

00:10:45.180 if you let California

00:10:47.360 keep going,

00:10:48.100 he may soon be

00:10:49.060 like Fatal Attraction Bunny.

00:10:50.360 I mean, there's a whole

00:10:51.760 like slippery slope here.

00:10:53.420 There's a whole rabbit hole

00:10:54.340 you can go down on this one.

00:10:55.380 Is that what you're

00:10:55.760 telling me right now?

00:10:56.660 Oh.

00:10:56.780 Yeah, there you go.

00:10:58.180 All right, I went there

00:10:59.020 and then you went worse.

00:11:00.180 Okay.

00:11:00.540 You're welcome.

00:11:01.300 You're welcome.

00:11:01.780 I'm here all night, folks.

00:11:02.820 No, comedians, though,

00:11:03.980 are avoiding California

00:11:05.380 for the tax reasons

00:11:06.640 you just said.

00:11:08.500 I mean, it's real.

00:11:09.680 Why would you spend

00:11:10.500 the night there

00:11:11.400 if you know you're not

00:11:12.720 going to make

00:11:13.060 near as much money

00:11:13.740 and you can choose

00:11:14.440 to go somewhere else

00:11:15.380 like go to Nevada,

00:11:17.000 go to New Mexico?

00:11:17.980 I mean, there's a lot

00:11:18.920 of other places

00:11:19.400 you can go to perform

00:11:20.420 and there's a lot of people

00:11:21.880 that are now saying

00:11:22.380 they're actually avoiding it

00:11:23.620 for the reasons

00:11:24.180 you just described

00:11:25.000 with those bonuses

00:11:25.720 and the taxes.

00:11:26.680 So, California has

00:11:28.100 the highest marginal income tax

00:11:29.560 of any state.

00:11:30.560 Its top marginal rate

00:11:31.680 is 13.3% on wage income

00:11:34.100 and on capital gains

00:11:35.980 that exceed $1 million a year.

00:11:38.160 The top rate

00:11:39.540 for wage income

00:11:40.400 climbs to 14.6%

00:11:43.660 when you include

00:11:45.240 the state disability

00:11:46.280 insurance rate

00:11:47.240 which has no wage cap

00:11:49.440 and that's on top

00:11:50.340 of federal taxes.

00:11:51.340 So, federal taxes

00:11:52.340 at the top

00:11:53.320 of the tax bracket

00:11:54.140 you're paying 37%

00:11:55.820 plus 14.6%.

00:11:58.780 So, the reason

00:12:00.200 Darnold owes that money

00:12:01.940 is because he is

00:12:02.880 tallied with

00:12:04.540 eight duty days

00:12:07.120 in California.

00:12:07.880 While they were there

00:12:08.820 getting ready

00:12:09.320 for the Super Bowl

00:12:10.040 he got popped with it.

00:12:11.660 Welcome to California.

00:12:12.920 Congratulations

00:12:13.400 on the Super Bowl

00:12:14.440 and by the way

00:12:15.160 when you play

00:12:16.340 the Super Bowl

00:12:16.880 in Texas

00:12:17.380 we don't tax you

00:12:18.180 a penny

00:12:18.480 and you get

00:12:18.900 great tax backs.

00:12:20.240 Yeah, exactly.

00:12:21.220 There's a reason why

00:12:22.160 by the way

00:12:22.520 golfers hate playing

00:12:23.760 and winning

00:12:24.420 at Pebble Beach.

00:12:25.200 They get mad

00:12:25.780 because when they win there

00:12:26.860 or when there was

00:12:27.640 the LA Country Club

00:12:28.480 at the US Open

00:12:29.100 they were like

00:12:29.660 you basically think

00:12:31.100 you're getting

00:12:31.420 this big paycheck

00:12:32.180 and then you call

00:12:33.380 your agent

00:12:33.820 and they're like

00:12:34.340 what happened?

00:12:34.940 They're like

00:12:35.080 dude, you won in California

00:12:35.960 I can't help you there.

00:12:37.040 If you're going to win

00:12:38.500 your first time on tour

00:12:39.500 you don't want it to be

00:12:40.680 in California

00:12:41.260 for that reason.

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00:13:00.380 it steals hope

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00:13:42.700 let's move on

00:13:43.360 to some other

00:13:43.760 big stuff here

00:13:44.440 Senator

00:13:44.700 that I want to deal with

00:13:45.480 and there's something

00:13:46.480 you want to talk about

00:13:47.560 which I really like

00:13:48.440 this subject

00:13:48.880 and it deals with

00:13:49.520 left wing funders

00:13:51.180 that are being exposed

00:13:52.020 I actually think

00:13:53.220 this is going to be

00:13:53.620 a trend

00:13:54.200 with what we're witnessing

00:13:55.660 with all the attacks

00:13:57.220 on ICE

00:13:57.780 around the country

00:13:58.620 I think we're going to

00:13:59.820 more of this

00:14:00.660 follow the money

00:14:01.240 you've been saying

00:14:02.160 that on this show

00:14:02.760 for a while

00:14:03.300 follow the money

00:14:04.080 follow the money

00:14:04.820 follow the money

00:14:05.520 and we have a new

00:14:06.740 example of that

00:14:07.660 that we're going to

00:14:08.200 expose here

00:14:08.740 so I hope

00:14:09.200 everyone listening

00:14:10.020 or watching

00:14:10.600 will make sure

00:14:11.820 you hit that share

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00:14:12.880 share this episode

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00:14:14.300 because we're going

00:14:14.900 to be a part of that

00:14:15.860 in a very big way

00:14:17.060 and explain what

00:14:18.100 we've now found

00:14:19.040 well there was a

00:14:20.420 very interesting

00:14:20.940 column in the

00:14:21.900 Wall Street Journal

00:14:22.700 about the

00:14:24.040 Mellon Foundation

00:14:24.840 and the Mellon Foundation

00:14:26.300 is America's

00:14:27.620 biggest funder

00:14:28.400 of the humanities

00:14:29.100 and it is

00:14:30.380 a radical

00:14:31.260 leftist foundation

00:14:32.580 and let me read

00:14:34.240 from this column

00:14:34.880 the University

00:14:36.060 of Virginia

00:14:36.540 launched a

00:14:37.120 hiring spree 0.66

00:14:37.780 in 2020

00:14:38.560 as it pledged

00:14:39.760 to become a

00:14:40.500 racial equity

00:14:41.580 focused university

00:14:42.900 a special initiative

00:14:44.880 promised to recruit

00:14:45.960 30 doctoral fellows

00:14:47.740 and quote

00:14:49.040 open the gateway

00:14:49.980 for them to fill

00:14:50.760 tenure tax jobs

00:14:52.160 one current fellow

00:14:53.680 specialties include

00:14:54.900 trans feminisms 0.92

00:14:56.460 and gender

00:14:57.760 queer life writing

00:14:59.040 another researches

00:15:01.180 how Filipino nurses

00:15:02.500 resist racial

00:15:04.420 capitalism

00:15:05.200 the program owes

00:15:07.220 its existence

00:15:08.080 to the Andrew

00:15:09.320 W. Mellon Foundation

00:15:10.760 which funded it

00:15:12.400 to the tune

00:15:13.040 of 5 million

00:15:14.560 dollars

00:15:15.200 with a 7.7

00:15:17.520 billion dollar

00:15:18.440 endowment

00:15:18.920 the Mellon Foundation

00:15:20.060 is the nation's

00:15:20.940 largest supporter

00:15:21.760 of the arts

00:15:22.820 and humanities

00:15:23.400 its annual giving

00:15:25.400 has long dwarfed

00:15:26.940 that of the

00:15:27.720 National Endowment

00:15:28.580 for the Humanities

00:15:29.400 in recent years

00:15:31.120 it has been

00:15:32.140 refashioned

00:15:32.900 as a tool

00:15:33.440 for advancing

00:15:34.220 an identitarian

00:15:35.380 vision of social

00:15:37.100 justice

00:15:37.620 for Academia

00:15:39.940 the consequences

00:15:41.620 are far reaching

00:15:43.100 through public

00:15:45.180 record requests

00:15:46.120 I've acquired

00:15:47.060 dozens of proposals

00:15:48.500 and progress reports

00:15:50.260 for Mellon

00:15:51.520 funded projects

00:15:52.640 the records show

00:15:54.220 how the foundation

00:15:55.000 has lavishly

00:15:55.960 promoted

00:15:56.380 progressive

00:15:57.240 scholar activism

00:15:58.440 at the University

00:16:00.220 of Utah

00:16:00.860 the transformative

00:16:02.960 intersectional

00:16:04.580 collective

00:16:05.080 created workshops

00:16:06.800 on transgender

00:16:07.900 and queer

00:16:08.980 of color

00:16:09.700 critique

00:16:10.320 and quote

00:16:12.000 environmental

00:16:13.040 anti-racism

00:16:14.480 supported by a

00:16:15.800 half million dollar

00:16:16.700 Mellon Grant

00:16:17.680 at the University

00:16:19.200 of California

00:16:19.880 Santa Cruz

00:16:20.540 the visualizing

00:16:22.940 abolition project

00:16:24.300 promotes research

00:16:25.840 and art

00:16:26.600 that calls

00:16:28.340 for the

00:16:28.740 elimination

00:16:29.160 of prisons

00:16:30.720 with the support

00:16:32.320 of eight million

00:16:33.840 dollars

00:16:34.380 from Mellon

00:16:35.100 for much

00:16:36.380 of its existence

00:16:37.320 the Mellon Foundation

00:16:38.300 narrowly supported

00:16:39.380 the arts

00:16:39.820 and humanities

00:16:40.400 one signature

00:16:41.960 product project

00:16:42.880 was the creation

00:16:43.840 of JSTOR

00:16:44.940 the widely used

00:16:46.720 online database

00:16:47.820 of academic research

00:16:49.040 the foundation

00:16:50.340 avoided controversy

00:16:51.620 that changed

00:16:53.460 with the dawn

00:16:54.340 of the social

00:16:54.880 justice era

00:16:55.600 as early as 2014

00:16:57.620 then President

00:16:58.500 Earl Lewis

00:16:59.040 told the Chronicle

00:16:59.800 of Higher Education

00:17:00.600 that the foundation

00:17:01.980 would take a more

00:17:02.960 activist approach

00:17:04.060 especially around

00:17:05.460 issues of race

00:17:06.680 on taking over

00:17:08.620 in 2018

00:17:09.440 the current

00:17:10.840 president

00:17:11.440 nutjob

00:17:12.540 nutjob is me

00:17:13.340 editorializing

00:17:14.120 nutjob

00:17:15.720 Elizabeth Alexander

00:17:17.200 announced

00:17:18.340 that Mellon

00:17:19.780 would view

00:17:20.460 all

00:17:21.400 of its giving

00:17:22.420 through the lens

00:17:23.860 of social justice

00:17:25.080 this new

00:17:26.420 ideological mission

00:17:27.400 is notable

00:17:27.960 because of Mellon's

00:17:28.960 great influence

00:17:29.860 within the academy

00:17:31.120 especially

00:17:31.720 in hiring

00:17:33.060 and promoting

00:17:33.600 faculty

00:17:34.140 as jobs

00:17:35.680 in the humanities

00:17:36.380 have become

00:17:36.840 ever more scarce

00:17:37.760 Mellon has poured

00:17:39.360 millions of dollars

00:17:40.540 into career

00:17:41.580 building

00:17:42.540 fellowships

00:17:43.400 and faculty

00:17:44.020 hiring schemes

00:17:45.000 putting its stamp

00:17:46.720 on professors

00:17:47.860 around the country

00:17:48.960 Mellon money

00:17:50.300 appears up

00:17:51.240 and down

00:17:51.720 the academic

00:17:52.320 career ladder

00:17:53.020 the Mellon Mays

00:17:54.680 undergraduate fellowship

00:17:55.760 which has received

00:17:56.640 38.3 million

00:17:58.720 dollars

00:17:59.260 since 2020

00:18:00.040 steers college

00:18:02.100 students towards

00:18:02.940 an academic

00:18:03.460 career

00:18:03.880 the Mellon

00:18:05.180 funded

00:18:05.620 dissertation

00:18:06.420 innovation

00:18:07.300 fellowship

00:18:07.900 supported by

00:18:08.860 8.9 million

00:18:09.940 dollars

00:18:10.300 since 2022

00:18:11.120 gives a living

00:18:12.860 stipend

00:18:13.480 to 45

00:18:14.420 graduate students

00:18:15.640 annually

00:18:16.180 Mellon

00:18:17.520 has given

00:18:18.000 6 million

00:18:18.940 dollars

00:18:19.360 to Wayne

00:18:20.000 State

00:18:20.460 University

00:18:21.220 4.6 million

00:18:23.100 to Texas

00:18:24.460 A&M

00:18:24.940 University

00:18:25.600 and 15

00:18:27.100 million

00:18:27.480 dollars

00:18:27.920 to the

00:18:28.240 University

00:18:28.680 of California

00:18:29.420 system

00:18:29.920 all

00:18:30.400 to hire

00:18:31.260 faculty

00:18:31.820 with the

00:18:33.260 Mellon

00:18:33.620 emerging

00:18:34.180 faculty

00:18:34.720 leaders

00:18:35.120 and other

00:18:35.480 programs

00:18:36.080 Mellon

00:18:37.040 support

00:18:37.560 continues

00:18:38.160 well into

00:18:38.940 a professor's

00:18:39.600 career

00:18:39.960 Mellon

00:18:41.220 grantees

00:18:41.800 often signal

00:18:42.840 their

00:18:43.620 discriminatory

00:18:44.400 intent

00:18:44.920 a University

00:18:46.440 of Virginia

00:18:46.920 grant

00:18:47.240 proposal

00:18:47.660 notes

00:18:48.120 that

00:18:48.340 Mellon's

00:18:48.780 five million

00:18:49.280 dollar

00:18:49.580 gift

00:18:49.940 would go

00:18:50.520 towards

00:18:51.180 quote

00:18:51.700 advancing

00:18:52.900 our goal

00:18:53.500 of doubling

00:18:54.220 the number

00:18:54.840 of faculty

00:18:55.740 of color

00:18:56.500 at UVA

00:18:57.300 by 2030

00:18:58.580 a University

00:19:00.140 of Oregon

00:19:00.740 proposal

00:19:01.320 promises

00:19:01.900 a special

00:19:02.800 postdoctoral

00:19:03.840 fellowship

00:19:04.360 to establish

00:19:05.740 a pipeline

00:19:06.560 for quote

00:19:07.320 black

00:19:08.180 indigenous

00:19:08.940 and people

00:19:09.760 of color

00:19:10.240 BIPOC

00:19:11.060 in the

00:19:12.700 professoriate

00:19:13.660 its progress

00:19:15.080 report

00:19:15.540 notes

00:19:15.900 that

00:19:16.120 quote

00:19:16.460 all

00:19:17.560 interviewees

00:19:18.620 identified

00:19:19.100 as black

00:19:19.880 indigenous

00:19:21.460 and people

00:19:22.160 of color

00:19:22.600 in other

00:19:22.980 words

00:19:23.160 we are

00:19:23.500 only

00:19:24.040 looking

00:19:24.880 at people

00:19:25.400 if we

00:19:25.720 can

00:19:25.860 racially

00:19:26.340 discriminate

00:19:26.980 perhaps

00:19:28.220 most

00:19:28.500 significantly

00:19:29.100 Mellon

00:19:30.400 funded

00:19:30.780 personnel

00:19:31.240 building

00:19:31.700 programs

00:19:32.260 almost

00:19:32.680 uniformly

00:19:33.580 espouse

00:19:34.500 a distinctly

00:19:35.420 identitarian

00:19:36.300 brand

00:19:36.780 of

00:19:36.920 progressivism

00:19:37.840 at Emory

00:19:39.140 University

00:19:39.660 you're going

00:19:39.960 to like

00:19:40.200 this

00:19:40.580 Mellon

00:19:41.800 Mays 0.99

00:19:42.200 fellows

00:19:42.500 study

00:19:43.080 eco

00:19:44.400 womanism

00:19:45.640 whatever

00:19:46.700 the hell

00:19:47.020 that is

00:19:47.520 they study

00:19:48.640 black

00:19:49.280 trans

00:19:49.960 studies

00:19:50.480 and

00:19:51.500 racial

00:19:52.140 colonial

00:19:53.160 capitalism

00:19:54.260 students

00:19:56.120 who

00:19:56.400 specialize

00:19:57.120 in

00:19:58.140 intersectional

00:19:59.960 neologisms

00:20:01.060 will be

00:20:02.080 well prepared

00:20:03.040 for Mellon

00:20:04.400 funded

00:20:04.820 faculty

00:20:05.300 jobs

00:20:05.840 in

00:20:07.160 2023

00:20:07.840 Ohio

00:20:08.380 State

00:20:08.740 put out

00:20:09.100 a job

00:20:09.580 ad

00:20:09.800 so this

00:20:10.100 is Ohio

00:20:10.660 State

00:20:11.080 what are

00:20:12.160 they looking

00:20:12.480 for

00:20:12.900 a quote

00:20:14.180 assistant

00:20:15.120 professor

00:20:15.740 of black

00:20:16.760 sexualities

00:20:18.380 noting

00:20:19.860 a recent

00:20:21.220 two million

00:20:21.980 dollar

00:20:22.380 Mellon

00:20:22.740 Foundation

00:20:23.280 gift

00:20:23.760 that was

00:20:24.460 that funded

00:20:25.280 10 new

00:20:26.020 faculty

00:20:26.440 positions

00:20:27.180 by the way

00:20:28.140 I'm just

00:20:28.460 thinking about

00:20:28.920 that they're

00:20:29.320 like if you

00:20:29.680 get that

00:20:30.040 job and

00:20:30.680 you're like

00:20:31.060 do you

00:20:31.460 call mom

00:20:32.080 and are

00:20:32.400 you like

00:20:32.800 proud of

00:20:33.420 that or

00:20:34.040 are you

00:20:34.360 more like

00:20:34.920 yeah I

00:20:35.240 got the

00:20:35.440 new job

00:20:35.800 well

00:20:36.600 the person

00:20:37.520 who got

00:20:37.960 it

00:20:38.560 Zalika

00:20:40.160 Iba

00:20:41.360 Orimi 0.85

00:20:41.980 the professor

00:20:43.100 hired for

00:20:43.580 the job

00:20:44.060 lists

00:20:45.300 black

00:20:46.060 porn

00:20:46.720 and black

00:20:48.380 sexual

00:20:49.240 logics

00:20:50.080 among her

00:20:51.520 areas of

00:20:52.320 expertise

00:20:53.140 oh there you

00:20:54.060 go okay

00:20:54.420 there you go

00:20:55.480 Mellon has

00:20:56.160 bankrolled

00:20:56.740 many professors

00:20:57.560 notorious for

00:20:58.420 their activism

00:20:59.020 at the socialism

00:21:00.460 2025 conference

00:21:02.200 assistant professor

00:21:04.040 iman abdel

00:21:06.140 haddy

00:21:07.540 referred to

00:21:08.700 her employer

00:21:09.480 the university

00:21:10.100 of chicago

00:21:10.720 as evil

00:21:11.700 and a

00:21:12.520 colonial landlord

00:21:13.440 by the way

00:21:14.020 if you call

00:21:14.500 your employer

00:21:15.060 evil you

00:21:15.620 should be

00:21:16.040 fired

00:21:16.380 that's just

00:21:16.740 very simple

00:21:17.340 yeah not

00:21:18.500 hard

00:21:18.960 conceded

00:21:20.660 that working

00:21:21.620 there was

00:21:23.040 useful for

00:21:23.920 political

00:21:24.340 organizing

00:21:25.020 ms abdel

00:21:26.780 haddy came

00:21:27.980 up through

00:21:28.320 the university

00:21:28.820 of chicago's

00:21:29.640 provost

00:21:30.360 postdoctoral

00:21:31.720 fellowship

00:21:32.560 program

00:21:33.120 a long-standing

00:21:34.700 Mellon funded

00:21:35.620 hiring program

00:21:36.640 a few months

00:21:37.940 after the

00:21:38.380 conference she

00:21:38.940 was arrested

00:21:39.600 at wait for

00:21:41.560 it an

00:21:42.360 anti-ice

00:21:43.800 protest

00:21:44.660 and charged

00:21:46.160 and charged

00:21:47.300 with two

00:21:48.520 counts of

00:21:49.720 aggravated battery

00:21:51.140 of a police

00:21:51.980 officer

00:21:52.460 you know

00:21:53.380 that's the

00:21:53.900 money well

00:21:54.300 spent right

00:21:55.020 she has

00:21:55.940 pleaded

00:21:56.380 not guilty

00:21:57.420 Mellon's

00:21:58.660 funding

00:21:59.000 has amplified

00:22:00.240 a bleak

00:22:01.220 trajectory

00:22:01.860 for the

00:22:02.340 academy

00:22:02.760 today a

00:22:04.060 young person

00:22:04.600 drawn to

00:22:05.080 traditional

00:22:05.480 fields like

00:22:06.120 military history

00:22:06.920 or classics

00:22:07.460 should think

00:22:08.660 twice before

00:22:09.600 entering the

00:22:10.240 academy

00:22:10.640 a young

00:22:11.960 scholar who

00:22:12.720 quote

00:22:13.120 advances

00:22:14.280 an anti-capitalist

00:22:16.900 prison abolitionist

00:22:18.720 agenda as one

00:22:19.680 Ohio State

00:22:20.220 professor put it

00:22:21.080 can find

00:22:22.240 abundant

00:22:23.020 support

00:22:23.700 especially

00:22:24.780 from the

00:22:25.260 Mellon

00:22:25.500 Foundation

00:22:26.100 higher education

00:22:27.900 reform will

00:22:28.600 only succeed

00:22:29.440 when this

00:22:30.940 unfortunate

00:22:31.720 trend is

00:22:32.660 reversed

00:22:33.160 and this

00:22:33.640 was written

00:22:34.640 by Mr.

00:22:35.260 Saylor 0.98

00:22:35.540 who's the

00:22:35.880 director of

00:22:36.380 the higher

00:22:36.660 education

00:22:37.340 policy at

00:22:38.180 the Manhattan

00:22:38.560 Institute

00:22:39.020 this is the

00:22:40.460 kind of poison

00:22:41.180 if you look

00:22:41.780 at our

00:22:42.020 universities

00:22:42.520 and say

00:22:43.120 why have

00:22:44.240 they gotten

00:22:44.740 so bad

00:22:45.520 why have

00:22:45.960 they gone

00:22:46.340 so far

00:22:47.280 off track

00:22:48.400 you have

00:22:48.800 radicals

00:22:49.540 who are

00:22:49.760 controlling

00:22:50.360 as you

00:22:51.780 mentioned

00:22:52.000 over and

00:22:53.200 over again

00:22:53.580 we'll give

00:22:54.480 you faculty

00:22:55.040 we get

00:22:55.520 to pick

00:22:55.860 them out

00:22:56.240 and this

00:22:56.700 is what

00:22:57.020 you've got

00:22:57.400 to hire

00:22:57.820 but we'll

00:22:58.260 give you

00:22:58.460 the money

00:22:58.700 to hire

00:22:59.100 them

00:22:59.440 and then

00:23:00.020 you can

00:23:00.320 radicalize

00:23:00.900 the university

00:23:01.340 just by

00:23:01.960 paying

00:23:02.500 and employing

00:23:03.940 the people

00:23:04.420 and putting

00:23:05.020 them and

00:23:05.420 placing them

00:23:05.960 at the

00:23:06.140 universities

00:23:06.600 this is

00:23:07.600 pay to

00:23:07.980 play

00:23:08.200 in its

00:23:08.520 simplest

00:23:09.340 form

00:23:09.840 look

00:23:10.340 it's

00:23:10.580 follow

00:23:11.100 the money

00:23:11.580 and you

00:23:12.920 have

00:23:13.160 radicals

00:23:13.780 who are

00:23:13.960 taking over

00:23:14.400 and by

00:23:14.660 the way

00:23:14.880 Andrew Mellon

00:23:15.660 was not

00:23:16.100 a socialist

00:23:16.660 was not

00:23:17.400 a transgender

00:23:18.660 like porn

00:23:20.880 aficionado

00:23:21.880 that we know

00:23:22.440 of that we

00:23:22.940 know of to

00:23:23.400 be fair

00:23:23.760 but you

00:23:25.840 look at and

00:23:26.540 this is one

00:23:27.060 of the real

00:23:27.980 challenges

00:23:28.560 the great

00:23:29.360 capitalists

00:23:30.240 of a prior

00:23:31.260 era

00:23:31.640 they gave

00:23:33.420 much of

00:23:34.120 their money

00:23:34.580 to foundations

00:23:35.320 and they

00:23:36.060 initially appointed

00:23:37.000 people to run

00:23:37.580 the foundations

00:23:38.260 and then time

00:23:38.920 passes

00:23:39.280 and those

00:23:40.620 foundations

00:23:41.260 over and

00:23:41.900 over and

00:23:42.240 over again

00:23:42.700 have been

00:23:43.040 captured by

00:23:43.840 radical leftists

00:23:44.760 the Ford

00:23:45.200 Foundation

00:23:45.760 Henry Ford

00:23:47.220 would roll

00:23:48.920 over in his

00:23:49.540 grave if he

00:23:50.340 knew the

00:23:50.740 garbage the

00:23:51.360 Ford Foundation

00:23:52.160 funds and

00:23:53.440 it's one of the

00:23:54.420 things people on

00:23:55.200 the right need

00:23:55.660 to think much

00:23:56.340 more carefully

00:23:57.000 about if

00:23:58.220 they are

00:23:59.020 engaged in

00:24:00.340 philanthropy

00:24:00.880 making sure

00:24:02.080 that it's not

00:24:02.820 captured

00:24:03.520 because that's

00:24:05.180 been one of

00:24:05.720 the real

00:24:06.080 sources of

00:24:06.960 propaganda

00:24:07.680 and a

00:24:08.400 perversion of

00:24:09.220 these institutions

00:24:10.000 is capturing

00:24:11.440 the money

00:24:11.980 flow that

00:24:13.000 goes into

00:24:13.600 colleges and

00:24:14.260 universities

00:24:14.720 yeah it is

00:24:16.060 it's incredible

00:24:16.780 and you go

00:24:17.600 back to

00:24:18.000 find the

00:24:18.320 money

00:24:18.460 let's go

00:24:18.840 back to

00:24:19.160 ice protests

00:24:19.820 real quick

00:24:20.240 this is very

00:24:21.420 much going to

00:24:21.860 be the same

00:24:22.280 playbook

00:24:22.720 it's part of

00:24:23.300 the reason

00:24:23.500 why you say

00:24:23.840 follow the

00:24:24.280 money

00:24:24.520 and see

00:24:25.400 who's

00:24:25.700 bringing it

00:24:26.160 in because

00:24:26.620 they're paying

00:24:27.280 these activists

00:24:27.920 there was a

00:24:28.280 video that went

00:24:28.740 viral of them

00:24:30.120 practicing their

00:24:30.980 chants

00:24:31.340 anti-ice chants

00:24:33.440 before one of

00:24:34.300 their protests

00:24:34.940 it looked like

00:24:35.680 in a church

00:24:36.600 and getting

00:24:38.140 all of the

00:24:38.860 protesters there

00:24:39.740 to then teach

00:24:40.740 them their

00:24:41.100 chants and the

00:24:41.660 video went viral

00:24:42.540 over the weekend

00:24:43.260 that's all being

00:24:44.540 funded by

00:24:45.140 somebody this is

00:24:46.060 not organic

00:24:46.840 yeah look

00:24:48.400 Laura Ingram was

00:24:49.460 was talking to

00:24:50.180 some of the

00:24:50.520 protesters on the

00:24:51.340 street she said

00:24:52.080 you should be

00:24:52.500 working at a

00:24:53.060 job and the

00:24:53.880 protest said I

00:24:54.600 am I'm getting

00:24:55.440 paid but like

00:24:56.960 it's there is

00:24:58.520 real money that

00:24:59.700 is fomenting

00:25:00.460 violence and

00:25:02.280 and that is is

00:25:03.720 is quite literally

00:25:04.820 fomenting

00:25:05.520 revolution that

00:25:06.600 that's what

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00:26:20.940 now I want to move

00:26:22.260 to Virginia real quick

00:26:23.180 as well and and

00:26:24.160 this is another big

00:26:25.160 story that is

00:26:26.000 happening very

00:26:27.020 quickly post-election

00:26:29.200 day and it's an

00:26:30.420 important story

00:26:31.340 because I do think

00:26:32.300 this could be a

00:26:33.160 real moment of

00:26:34.840 clarity of hey

00:26:35.780 the midterms are

00:26:37.020 coming up pay

00:26:38.020 attention Democrats

00:26:39.140 are ready and

00:26:39.940 inspired but they

00:26:41.300 are working at

00:26:42.160 light speed to

00:26:43.140 enact their radical

00:26:44.160 agenda you could

00:26:45.800 also argue that

00:26:46.560 they've learned this

00:26:47.120 from Donald Trump

00:26:47.780 Donald Trump came

00:26:48.660 in rocking and

00:26:49.500 rolling day one

00:26:50.480 into this second

00:26:51.260 term he learned a

00:26:52.580 lot from his first

00:26:53.420 term he learned

00:26:54.080 about how fast

00:26:54.900 you can get things

00:26:55.400 done if you're

00:26:55.920 prepared and now

00:26:57.360 Democrats seem to

00:26:58.280 be doing that with

00:26:58.940 their radical agenda

00:26:59.740 and Virginia what 1.00

00:27:01.340 they're already

00:27:02.080 doing there it

00:27:02.900 is a warning for

00:27:03.920 the midterms what

00:27:04.780 can happen if

00:27:05.380 Democrats get

00:27:06.120 power well and

00:27:07.800 and look understand

00:27:08.840 that there is no

00:27:10.080 such thing as a

00:27:11.000 moderate Democrat

00:27:11.760 anymore no they're

00:27:13.280 dead Abigail

00:27:14.220 Spanberger like ran

00:27:15.880 claiming to be a

00:27:16.760 moderate and only

00:27:18.460 the most gullible

00:27:19.380 believed her all of

00:27:20.680 the Democrats they've

00:27:21.620 been radicalized

00:27:22.600 this is a party that

00:27:24.520 is driven by the

00:27:26.100 open border

00:27:27.140 abolish police

00:27:30.100 transgender zealots 1.00

00:27:31.900 so what has she done

00:27:32.780 in her first few

00:27:33.600 days well one of the

00:27:34.960 very first things she

00:27:35.800 did is she cut ties 0.94

00:27:36.920 with ICE in federal

00:27:38.460 immigration enforcement

00:27:39.440 which means if

00:27:40.980 Virginia has a

00:27:42.360 criminal illegal alien 0.61

00:27:43.760 if Virginia has an

00:27:44.660 illegal alien who's a

00:27:45.620 murderer or a rapist

00:27:47.340 or a child molester

00:27:48.920 they will let them go

00:27:50.480 and even though they're

00:27:51.120 an illegal alien

00:27:52.060 Virginia is now going 0.99

00:27:53.700 to refuse to cooperate

00:27:55.320 with ICE refused to

00:27:56.720 handle handle hand

00:27:58.160 murderers over to

00:27:59.800 ICE and instead what

00:28:01.840 Abigail Spanberger is

00:28:02.940 saying is the people

00:28:03.800 of Virginia would

00:28:04.580 rather that that the

00:28:05.740 murderers be released

00:28:06.720 into their communities

00:28:07.820 and prey on their

00:28:09.100 children she's also

00:28:12.160 quite dramatically this

00:28:14.540 week signed a

00:28:16.920 redistricting bill that

00:28:18.460 that is nothing short

00:28:20.220 of radical and

00:28:22.900 unfortunately so

00:28:26.400 let's do the math

00:28:27.340 Virginia has 11

00:28:29.180 congressional seats

00:28:30.120 right now the current

00:28:31.060 delegation is six

00:28:32.720 Democrats five

00:28:33.760 Republicans Virginia

00:28:35.660 just had a takeover of

00:28:37.220 Democrats of the state

00:28:38.220 legislature and the

00:28:39.020 governor's mansion they

00:28:40.400 redrew the map and

00:28:41.900 they went from six

00:28:42.780 Democrats and five

00:28:43.720 Republicans to a map

00:28:44.880 that is designed to

00:28:45.860 produce ten Democrats

00:28:47.640 and one Republican

00:28:49.520 now what does the math

00:28:51.360 mean so Virginia is is a

00:28:53.320 pretty it's a blue to

00:28:54.400 purple state in in

00:28:55.540 2024 47 percent of

00:28:59.620 the state voted for

00:29:00.640 Donald Trump so

00:29:02.480 Kamala won Virginia

00:29:03.640 but but 53 47 it was a

00:29:05.460 very close close

00:29:06.320 tight the 47 percent of

00:29:09.120 Virginians who voted

00:29:09.980 for Trump they are now

00:29:11.020 going to get nine

00:29:12.700 percent of the

00:29:13.540 congressional

00:29:13.980 representation in the

00:29:15.380 state wow how about

00:29:17.060 the 52 percent of

00:29:18.200 Virginia who voted for

00:29:19.200 for Harris you know how

00:29:21.260 much they get how much

00:29:22.880 91 percent there you

00:29:26.680 go 52 percent of the

00:29:28.200 state the Democrats get

00:29:29.320 91 percent of of the

00:29:31.720 congressional representation

00:29:33.380 now on Twitter you

00:29:36.520 could hear the the lefty

00:29:38.220 saying ah but Texas did 0.84

00:29:39.840 it I this is all about

00:29:40.920 Texas okay let's look at

00:29:42.220 the math Texas 56 percent

00:29:47.840 of Texans voted for

00:29:49.580 Donald Trump in the new

00:29:52.020 map that Texas drew that

00:29:54.760 56 will get 79 percent of

00:29:57.540 the seat so look it is

00:29:58.780 drawn to favor the party

00:30:00.180 in power but it is not

00:30:02.100 remotely as brazen by the

00:30:03.880 way California their new

00:30:05.220 map also is designed to

00:30:07.740 give the Democrats more

00:30:09.180 than 90 percent of the

00:30:10.820 congressional delegation

00:30:11.860 and you know what the

00:30:14.200 Northeast is even worse

00:30:15.720 you you look at at at

00:30:17.840 at states like Maine

00:30:19.320 states like New Hampshire

00:30:20.460 states like Vermont

00:30:21.580 states like Rhode Island

00:30:22.760 states like Connecticut

00:30:23.900 where where states like

00:30:25.860 Massachusetts

00:30:26.540 Massachusetts you know

00:30:28.200 how many Republican

00:30:28.900 members of Congress are

00:30:30.040 elected Massachusetts I

00:30:31.140 want to say it's one or

00:30:32.200 zero zero yeah all of New

00:30:34.540 England all of New 0.96

00:30:35.640 England they're just like 1.00

00:30:37.500 Republicans don't exist

00:30:38.740 we will erase you yeah 0.66

00:30:41.300 and and by the way what

00:30:44.140 happens with this is this

00:30:45.180 going to be a back and

00:30:45.920 forth tit for tat when you

00:30:47.080 see this type of egregious

00:30:48.360 so then other states are

00:30:49.380 going to have to counter it

00:30:50.220 is that just how we're

00:30:50.920 going to go so there was a

00:30:52.680 left-wing Democrat I I

00:30:54.060 responded to this and I

00:30:55.560 tweeted out a brazen abuse 0.99

00:30:57.200 of power and an insult to

00:30:58.620 democracy and I I went

00:31:00.200 through the numbers you

00:31:00.980 just talked about and and

00:31:02.740 this this left-wing

00:31:03.840 Democrat state senator came

00:31:05.360 back who I'd never heard

00:31:06.720 of and and actually didn't

00:31:07.920 even know about this until

00:31:08.920 someone on my staff told

00:31:10.360 me told me about it but

00:31:11.460 she responded by saying

00:31:12.820 you all started it and we

00:31:15.280 effing finished it and by

00:31:16.660 the way she did not

00:31:17.380 abbreviate effing no so

00:31:19.240 so she's a charming and

00:31:20.620 lovely person clearly yes

00:31:22.040 and you know that there's

00:31:24.560 something richly ironic

00:31:26.380 about it because every

00:31:27.620 Democrat loves to preen

00:31:29.500 about how much they love

00:31:31.580 democracy and and yet it's

00:31:35.280 quite evident that that they

00:31:36.700 don't care at all about

00:31:37.760 democracy what they care

00:31:38.960 about is keeping Democrats

00:31:40.160 in power that's that that

00:31:41.360 that is is practically the

00:31:42.860 only thing they care about

00:31:43.760 I want you to listen to

00:31:45.820 Abigail Spanberger talking

00:31:47.580 about gerrymandering what

00:31:49.680 she thinks about it give a

00:31:50.720 listen because Republicans

00:31:52.160 have to depend on

00:31:53.520 redistricting and stealing

00:31:54.900 votes and taking seats like

00:31:56.400 they did in North Carolina in

00:31:58.160 order to actually be able to

00:32:00.480 win elections so we'll we're

00:32:02.580 just going to steal them right

00:32:03.460 back by golly right there's

00:32:04.880 your liberal logic 101 but

00:32:06.660 but but it is also the the

00:32:08.640 degree it is far more brazen

00:32:10.800 as I mentioned Texas 56% of

00:32:13.780 the state voted for Donald

00:32:14.820 Trump the new map if if

00:32:17.340 Republicans win in the seats

00:32:18.580 that were that were drawn the

00:32:19.960 new map will produce 79% of the

00:32:22.300 congressional delegation to be

00:32:23.460 Republican that is a a a

00:32:26.540 difference of of 23% so that's

00:32:29.280 an additional 23% what what did

00:32:31.820 Virginia do they went from 52%

00:32:34.260 voting for Kamala Harris to to

00:32:37.060 getting 91% that is 39 points

00:32:41.860 higher that is a massive and it's

00:32:44.100 a grotesque gerrymander and by

00:32:45.440 the way I'm quite confident if

00:32:47.500 they could have drawn it 11-0 they

00:32:49.100 would have you know that there

00:32:51.840 are five districts that slice

00:32:54.620 through northern Virginia to get

00:32:56.940 all the liberals that work in the

00:32:58.220 federal government and they

00:32:59.540 basically like take a slice of

00:33:01.420 liberals from northern Virginia

00:33:02.640 and then stick it with with

00:33:04.600 rural Virginia's to rob the 0.96

00:33:06.360 votes of of the rest of the

00:33:07.780 state that that that is

00:33:09.380 redder yeah this and this is

00:33:11.860 going to be their game plan

00:33:12.720 moving forward it's state after

00:33:14.180 state after state now all because

00:33:15.900 they say they're doing it in

00:33:16.780 reaction to Texas no they've been

00:33:18.740 doing it for a very long time now

00:33:20.780 they're just telling you we're

00:33:21.740 doing it on purpose at least

00:33:23.080 they're being honest about it I

00:33:24.160 got to give them that don't

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