Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 17, 2025


WINNING： Polls Surge for Trump as Illegal Border Crossings PLUMMET & More Government Waste Exposed


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Misogynist Sentences

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00:00:05.240 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.360 Senator, I got to say there's some polling numbers that have come out that are shocking
00:00:13.060 to even me and many other conservatives of just how big of a victory the issues have become for
00:00:20.400 Donald Trump with the country.
00:00:22.320 Well, that's exactly right. But let me stop by saying, you know, Friday's podcast for the
00:00:27.680 first time ever. We had to cancel the podcast because you were sick. And so we did a rerun
00:00:33.480 of our Christmas Day podcast of my favorite movies because you were in bed, curled up,
00:00:39.740 hacking up a lung. So let me ask you a couple of days later, how are you feeling?
00:00:44.020 I survived. I have not been. I think I texted you. I have not been that sick in 25 years.
00:00:49.800 It was four days in a row of 103 fever from the flu. So this year's flu is no joke. If you get it,
00:00:56.920 God be with you because I rarely miss a show and power through and there was no way I could do
00:01:03.920 the show. So thanks, you guys, for bearing with me on Friday.
00:01:07.900 Well, I hope you enjoyed the movie recommendations. But I felt bad. I was ready to go. But Ben was
00:01:13.000 miserable and unconscious. So I'm glad to have you back. Welcome back.
00:01:18.080 It's good to be here.
00:01:18.980 And, you know, and you're still hurting a little bit. But but but but I'm glad if we have a moment
00:01:25.100 in the pause pod where things pause, it will be because he's still coughing up a lung. But
00:01:30.240 it's very accurate. And it's moments like this. I'm glad that some of these episodes we do remotely
00:01:36.800 because no offense, but I don't really want you coughing on me right now. That's also very accurate.
00:01:41.820 Very astute medical advice there. I like it.
00:01:43.840 There you go. That that would be all my years in med school. All right. So let's talk about the
00:01:48.640 substance because we had a lot to talk about. Number one, as you pointed out, we're seeing a
00:01:55.240 sea change in this country. We're one month into the Trump presidency. And I got to say, the polling
00:02:01.020 numbers, the American people are embracing a common sense conservative agenda. And the media,
00:02:08.140 the corporate media, they don't know what to do with it. And the Democrats, they don't know what to
00:02:12.200 do with it. Now, part of it is because we're seeing real results. And one of the things that
00:02:16.540 we're going to talk about today are the incredible results we're seeing on the border. Look, I said
00:02:21.580 last year over and over again, we're going to secure the border and it's not going to take a year. It's
00:02:26.680 not going to take six months. It is going to happen on January 20th. Well, I'll tell you what,
00:02:31.080 the numbers have backed that up. We have seen the illegal immigration plummet. We're going to break
00:02:35.560 that down for you and give you the facts and figures on that. And then finally, Doge, Doge every day
00:02:40.860 continues to be breathtaking, uncovering more and more government waste. And to watch the Democrats
00:02:47.440 run around like chickens with their heads cut off, defending all this nonsense is really astonishing.
00:02:54.620 Yet, you know, I got to say, the president asked a while ago, he said, we're going to win so much,
00:03:00.080 you're going to get tired of winning. I got to tell you, Ben, right now, I'm not tired of winning.
00:03:03.820 Yeah. And the majority of Americans in this new poll that we're mentioning, yeah,
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00:04:31.960 So Senator, there's certain points where the President has been pushing different agenda items
00:04:37.300 and the media takes the opportunity to really come down on him and basically do what they've
00:04:43.720 done for years, which is, well, you Americans don't want to be a part of this. And now the poll
00:04:48.800 numbers are showing that the media is having virtually no influence on the public and the public
00:04:54.760 is backing Trump now more than ever. Well, it turns out common sense is a lot more common than
00:04:59.740 the media was telling us. And I want you to listen to this clip on ABC with Jonathan Carl,
00:05:05.200 and he's interviewing Akeem Jeffries. And you need to picture this. Akeem Jeffries is the
00:05:10.720 leader of the Democrats in the House. Jonathan Carl is going to ask him about the polling
00:05:14.920 numbers, talking about how the American people are supporting the Trump agenda, the common sense
00:05:20.760 conservative agenda in big numbers. And at the end of it, Jeffries has no answer whatsoever. So
00:05:27.320 listen, this is not me. This is not you. This is ABC News talking about where the American people are
00:05:32.660 right now. Donald Trump's favorability rating is actually higher than it ever was the first time
00:05:38.800 around. Let me ask you, a recent poll by Marquette looked at several of the things that he has done
00:05:44.460 or says that he is going to do, and 63 percent favor federal government's recognition of only
00:05:50.660 two sexes. 60 percent favor deporting immigrants who entered the United States illegally. 60 percent
00:05:57.340 favor expanding oil and gas production. 59 percent favor declaring an emergency at the southern
00:06:04.880 border. Is there anything you are seeing that Trump is doing that you are in favor of that you think is
00:06:11.120 the right thing? Let me say, as it relates to all of those issues, we're just at the beginning.
00:06:17.900 We're just at the beginning. So that's my answer. And Jonathan Karl's face was actually hilarious
00:06:24.840 there because you go back. No, no, no. Hakeem Jeffries face was funnier. Yeah, that's true.
00:06:30.220 Because when when Karl asks him, Jeffries is shocked and astonished. He goes through the American
00:06:36.540 people. 60 plus percent are agreeing with Trump on X, Y, Z, all these issues. Is there anything he's
00:06:42.200 doing that's right? Now, if you're the leader of the Democrats in the House, what the hell do you say
00:06:47.180 about that? Like like like he had no response other than, well, it's just the beginning. I'm hoping
00:06:52.400 something will go bad and then we'll cheer that. Like it is. 63 percent favor the government
00:06:58.640 recognizing only two sexes. Those are not close numbers. 63 percent is a super majority any way you
00:07:04.640 look at it. 60 percent favor deporting illegals, illegal aliens. 60 percent favor expanding oil and
00:07:11.840 gas production. 59 percent favor declaring an emergency on the southern border. Those are
00:07:18.400 compelling numbers. And it's an example of look, number one. Can we talk poll numbers just for a
00:07:23.940 second so people understand in politics? Like when when I was at the Bush administration, we were on the
00:07:29.580 campaign. If you had a poll on something we wanted that was above 53 percent, that was like a home
00:07:36.400 run. If you were at 55 percent or above, it was like a mandate. I have not seen 60 percent polls like
00:07:44.300 these in decades. Have you on these types of issues? And to see ABC reporting on it. And you're right.
00:07:50.720 Jonathan Karl is very dismayed to be reporting on it. He's shaking his head. But but Akeem Jeffries looks
00:07:56.460 like he's filming a hostage video. He's just terrified. Why are you asking me this? Because
00:08:01.440 he doesn't want to say, no, I don't agree with Trump on anything, because when you're on the wrong
00:08:06.260 side of a bunch of 60 40 issues, that's a recipe to lose elections. But he doesn't want to say, yes,
00:08:11.900 I agree with Trump on anything because his base hates Trump so much they'll lose their mind and go
00:08:18.300 nuts. So all he can say is, well, it's just the beginning. I hope things will go wrong. And then
00:08:23.280 then we can celebrate the things are going wrong. It is astounding, astonishing, I should say, that
00:08:28.880 this is now where we are. But this turns into what I call a mandate, a super mandate. And it just means
00:08:36.160 keep going, Trump. Keep going, Republicans. What does this do to some of your colleagues who maybe
00:08:42.300 didn't want to go along with some of these types of things when they see these poll numbers? Is this
00:08:46.620 going to make it easier to get things done in Congress as well? I would hope so.
00:08:49.960 Well, it certainly should. And by the way, I'll tell you, historically, for the last four years,
00:08:56.280 every Democrat voted on the wrong side of these issues on the question of are there two sexes,
00:09:01.520 male and female, every single Democrat in the Senate voted no over and over and over again on
00:09:06.580 the question of deporting illegals. Every Democrat in the Senate voted no over and over and over again
00:09:11.820 on the question of more oil and gas exploration. Virtually every Democrat, actually, Joe Manchin
00:09:17.500 would vote yes. Occasionally, Joe Manchin isn't there anymore. So every Democrat that remains in
00:09:22.840 the Senate has voted no over and over and over again on the question of declaring an emergency
00:09:28.320 on the southern border. Again, every Democrat voted no. And so the Democrat Party, listen,
00:09:33.400 they're in a crisis. If you're on the wrong side of 60, 40 issues across the board,
00:09:39.380 well, that's how you get the kind of election we had in November. That's how you get
00:09:42.780 a president elected with more than 300 electoral votes. That's how you get a president who of the
00:09:48.060 seven swing states wins all seven. That's how you get a Republican Senate and a Republican House,
00:09:53.180 because the Democrats on the issues, they're not listening to the American people. They're listening
00:09:58.680 to the crazy fringe. And I don't see a whole lot of indication that they're moving. You know, it's
00:10:05.900 a fascinating question is, are there Democrats in the party who say, gosh, we've gotten so far out
00:10:12.740 of the mainstream. We're really listening to just a fringe. Let's get back to the middle.
00:10:19.520 There are one or two people saying that. But I got to say, all right, I want you to listen to James
00:10:25.760 Carville. James Carville is a Democrat through and through. Listen to what James Carville had to say
00:10:31.500 about his party just, just completely getting so extreme that they leave the American people behind.
00:10:39.300 He's really upset about it. Here are the words Carville is quoted online as saying, we don't
00:10:44.280 have the audio, but we have the words. And look, I'll give a warning. Carville's language is always
00:10:49.320 colorful and it is here, but here's how he's quoted. Quote, I dedicated the best years of my effing
00:10:55.180 life to this party only to see it taken over by a bunch of stupid MFers. Everything's gone to S.
00:11:03.500 By the way, he did not abbreviate any of those. And if you look at the tweet that is particularly
00:11:09.600 circulating online, it says Carville is especially livid following the DNC leadership election,
00:11:15.380 reportedly saying, quote, who are these people? This David Hogg guy and that other sissy,
00:11:21.340 referring to Malcolm Kenyatta, come out of the GD left field. Well, there goes the mail vote forever.
00:11:27.700 Thanks, guys. We're effed and we deserve it. That's James Carville's assessment of where the
00:11:34.240 Democrat Party is right now. Based on the poll numbers that we're seeing, he's not far off,
00:11:39.440 by the way, from reality. I mean, if he's an honest broker, I have known James for years,
00:11:44.000 you have as well. Like he's this is the assessment. I think he's spot on with where the Democratic Party
00:11:51.360 is. And they still don't seem to understand where that this is how far they are away from
00:11:56.400 the American people. That's a blessing in disguise for us. Yeah, they are not listening to reality.
00:12:03.600 But but look, let's look at the facts. Let's take the facts. All right. Here's a headline from the New
00:12:08.700 York Post just a couple of days ago. Quote, illegal border crossings hit record low after Trump's swift
00:12:15.980 crackdown and could be on track for levels not seen in 60 years. Wow. The numbers are stunning. So far
00:12:26.500 in February, about 359 illegal migrants per day have been caught across the entire southern border down
00:12:34.440 more than 90 percent, 9-0 from February 2024, according to leaked customs and border protection
00:12:42.660 data. That puts the U.S. on track to have the lowest monthly border crossings in at least 25 years.
00:12:50.060 If the trend continues, the number of illegal migrants coming into the U.S. could hit a level
00:12:55.000 not seen since 1968, nearly 60 years ago. Here's a quote from Mark Ricorian, who runs the Center for
00:13:04.360 Immigration Studies. It's the lowest the U.S. has seen, quote, in almost a lifetime. Quote, if you kind of
00:13:12.280 break down the numbers, divide them by 365, we hadn't had numbers this low since the 1960s. So we're talking
00:13:18.140 60-year lows if it's sustained, obviously. The CPP data shows that just 3,953 illegal migrants have been
00:13:26.940 caught this month through February 11th. If that trend continues through the month, that would put the
00:13:33.780 February boarding crossings at roughly 10,000, which is a number that hasn't been seen since CPP began
00:13:40.660 tracking month-to-month data in 1999. 10,000. Under Biden, we were getting 10,000 a day. We're on track
00:13:50.900 for that to be the total monthly traffic, and that's just in the very first month. It's a momentum thing
00:13:58.040 now, right? I mean, you've got to feel it, I'm sure, on Capitol Hill, which is we've just gotten
00:14:02.840 started. The American people are behind us, and we're recruiting a bigger audience that's cheering
00:14:08.480 this on each and every day. Well, look, this election, President Trump and Republicans in the
00:14:15.220 Senate and House promised the American people real results. And you look at what was promised.
00:14:19.920 Number one, we promised we are going to secure the border. And remember, repeatedly, Joe Biden said,
00:14:28.140 first of all, he said the border is secure. He said it over and over and over again. People knew
00:14:31.680 that was a lie. And then he said, well, it's impossible to fix it. Look, it's up to Congress.
00:14:40.800 I want you to listen to this clip from the National Border Patrol Council Vice President
00:14:46.400 talking about Biden lying to the American people on this topic. Give a listen.
00:14:50.940 You know, it's interesting because down on the southern border, there has also been
00:14:54.720 a dramatic reduction in the number of people who are coming across the border. I want to put a call
00:14:59.020 for number four here. This is a senior DHS official talking about that, Chris. Delivering consequences
00:15:04.320 has results. Illegal crossings are down. Godaways are down. Criminal prosecutions are on the rise.
00:15:10.760 Daily reports of large groups in Mexico, Guatemala, turning back south and surrendering to
00:15:15.560 authorities, requesting to go home. And we have only just begun policy matters. President Biden told
00:15:22.200 us repeatedly, Chris, that he had basically done all he could and that it was up to Congress to do
00:15:27.780 more. What's happened in the last two and a half weeks would seem to suggest that Biden was just
00:15:32.420 gaslighting everybody. Yeah, you know, it's unfortunate. I think, yeah, I don't know. I don't
00:15:38.340 know who he thought he was fooling. I mean, it darn sure wasn't us. We knew what was going on the
00:15:42.600 whole time. And you're right. The apprehension numbers have have slown to a crawl. Last night,
00:15:47.580 I was actually working the river and you have the Mexican military patrolling their northern
00:15:51.780 border. So that that slows down a lot of traffic coming our way. So things have changed a great
00:15:56.280 deal. And this president has proven that he's a man of his word and and can get it done. He actually
00:16:02.120 gave President Biden, then President Biden, the roadmap to do it. He just failed to fail to do it.
00:16:08.300 There it is. Failed to do it. Right. That's what it boils down to. Well, and it was deliberate. It was
00:16:13.980 a decision. And listen, Biden knew he was lying to the American people. Kamala Harris knew she was
00:16:20.580 lying to the American people. Corrine Jean-Pierre knew she was lying to the American people. Chuck
00:16:25.100 Schumer knew he was lying to the American people. Every Democrat in the Senate and the House, they knew
00:16:29.480 they were lying to the American people. And it's because they elevated politics above their basic job
00:16:35.160 of representing their constituents and protecting them. And listen,
00:16:40.220 reasonable people can disagree, say, on the right level of legal immigration. Some people might say
00:16:45.440 we should allow more legal immigration. Other people might say we should allow less. That's a
00:16:51.160 discussion reasonable and rational people can have. Let me ask you something. Seriously, Ben,
00:16:56.780 imagine for a second. You're a Democrat strategist. So imagine you're a transgender witch
00:17:03.440 and you are a complete lunatic and you have no reason. Even so, you presumably want your team to
00:17:11.240 win. I mean, one would think that would be sort of the basics if you're running a campaign.
00:17:15.500 Sure. Explain to me how a political party gets so far away from common sense in the American people
00:17:25.280 that they decide let's release multiple child rapists that raping kids. You know, apparently
00:17:34.560 our constituents want child rapists in our community. And if you think, OK, come on, Ted,
00:17:39.780 that's a little extreme. The Democrats are not doing this. I want you to listen about Bill Malugin.
00:17:44.960 Bill Malugin is the best immigration reporter in the country with Fox News. I want you to listen to
00:17:50.000 this clip because this is exactly what the Democrat Party has been doing. Give a listen.
00:17:54.320 Well, Dana, it's hard to believe there are any jurisdictions out there that wouldn't cooperate
00:17:58.000 with ICE when it comes to illegal aliens charged with forcibly raping children. But in Massachusetts,
00:18:03.840 it's just routine. Take a look at this case. ICE Boston just announcing they arrested this
00:18:08.380 Guatemalan illegal alien charged in Massachusetts with three counts of aggravated child rape and three
00:18:13.900 counts of forcible rape of a child. So the question is, why was he on the streets, right? Well,
00:18:18.920 ICE says their detainer request on him was ignored by the Essex County Superior Court due to sanctuary
00:18:24.640 policy. The locals released him into the community on bail without any notice to ICE. In a statement,
00:18:31.200 the director of ICE Boston says in part, quote, Jose Fernando Perez has been charged with some
00:18:35.880 horrific crimes against a minor in our commonwealth. He is exactly the type of alien we are targeting with
00:18:41.040 our worst first policy. He posed a significant danger to the children of Massachusetts, and we will not
00:18:46.740 tolerate such a threat to our community. ICE Boston also announcing the arrest of this Turkish illegal
00:18:52.080 alien charged in Massachusetts with assault and battery against an intellectually disabled person
00:18:57.620 and witness intimidation. But ICE says their detainer on him was also ignored by the sanctuary city of
00:19:04.540 Somerville. He had also been released into the public. Elsewhere around the U.S., ICE Seattle arrested
00:19:10.260 this Salvadoran illegal alien wanted in his home country for aggravated homicide. Here in Los Angeles,
00:19:16.760 ICE arrested this Guatemalan illegal alien charged with sexual assault and rape with a gun. And in
00:19:22.940 Colorado, the DEA announced their top 10 arrests of illegal immigrants in recent days, including several
00:19:28.940 affiliated with Trendy Aragua and others with egregious crimes like kidnapping, child sexual assault,
00:19:34.960 and fentanyl trafficking. And Dana, I was talking to a law enforcement source in Massachusetts about the
00:19:39.880 child rape case that I referenced. And I asked, like, there's got to be some sort of a catch here,
00:19:43.900 right? Forget about cooperating with ICE. How does somebody charged with so many counts of aggravated,
00:19:49.580 forcible child rape even get released on bail in the first place? The response I got was, quote,
00:19:54.460 welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I'll send it back to you.
00:19:57.960 Well, they're finally on their way out. Thanks, Bill.
00:20:01.460 Welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That's how much they hate Donald Trump. They
00:20:05.600 don't care about these rapists running around among us. It really is shocking. And understand
00:20:13.200 what is being reported there, which is that in Massachusetts, but also you're seeing it in
00:20:20.580 Seattle, also you're seeing it in Colorado and across the country. You have Democrats who have
00:20:26.720 people who are violent child rapists, who are violently, horribly raping little children.
00:20:34.040 And number one, these Democrats are releasing these child rapists. Now, these child rapists are
00:20:39.320 illegal immigrants. They could be deported. But their politics of we want as many illegal immigrants as
00:20:45.200 possible is more important than any sort of common sense of let's stop.
00:20:52.600 Let's stop horrible crimes against vulnerable kids. You know, there's a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche
00:21:02.080 in Beyond Good and Evil, which I think is really on point here. And it is, quote,
00:21:07.640 there is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender
00:21:14.140 that among other things, it sides even with those who harm it, criminals. And it does this quite
00:21:21.260 seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it. And it is certain that imagining
00:21:28.640 punishment and being supposed to punish hurts it, arouses fear in it. Is it not enough to render him
00:21:38.320 undangerous? Why still punish? Punishing itself is terrible. With this question, herd morality,
00:21:47.600 the morality of timidity draws its ultimate consequence.
00:21:53.120 You say that and you look at where we are. I still feel like we're in a position as Democrats
00:21:58.460 refuse to move that more and more Americans, regardless of that they consider themselves
00:22:03.420 an independent or a Democrat or Republican, are just looking at this issue as a national security
00:22:08.820 issue, a local community safety issue. And that that's why this the support for it is so high.
00:22:15.220 We talked about in those poll numbers. I think that's right. Look, any, you know,
00:22:20.780 a lot of people, most many normal people are not terribly political. They're they're focused on
00:22:25.860 their family and their lives. But but if you ask anyone who's not a moron or a radical,
00:22:31.940 do you want child rapist released in your community? The answer is no. If you ask most normal people,
00:22:37.160 should we secure the border? They'll say yes. If you ask most normal people, how many sexes are
00:22:42.180 there? They're going to say two. Now, we've lived in a world where people were afraid to say there
00:22:47.600 were two sexes because the left, they're so hectoring there. They're so just a few years ago,
00:22:55.260 they would silence you. They would cancel you that that people were afraid to say up was up and down
00:23:00.820 was down. And and and I do think we're seeing the pendulum swing back because people are tired of
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00:23:38.180 to your podcasts. Let's go to Doge for a second and give an update there because they're finding the
00:23:45.380 crazy each and every day. They are continuing to find wasteful spending at numbers that I couldn't
00:23:51.560 have imagined. I think a lot of people still can't believe how bad it is. A great example of that is
00:23:57.080 they discovered 1.9 billion, not million, 1.9 billion in HUD money that was, quote, misplaced by
00:24:05.700 the Biden administration this last week. Yeah, they just simply lost it. And so Elon Musk and also
00:24:13.420 Scott Turner, the new new secretary of HUD, they're going to go try to try to get that back. You look
00:24:18.400 at the EPA. The EPA says he's going to seek the return of $20 billion in clean energy grants awarded
00:24:25.500 by Biden. And I got to say, you know, we played on last week's pod reporters saying, well, gosh,
00:24:32.900 we want evidence. Show us the evidence. Well, here are a few examples of what Doge has already discovered.
00:24:39.080 $36,126 from USCIS for, quote, diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility training for
00:24:47.740 leadership and supervisors who manage teams. $2.86 million for, quote, a public relations firm
00:24:56.820 contract for the Council for Inclusive Innovation at the Patent Office, which is to make sure women
00:25:04.980 and minorities were no longer, quote, underrepresented as inventors and patentees. That's $2.86 million.
00:25:12.140 $35,338.58 for, quote, Sri Lankan climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience coordinator
00:25:24.360 services. You know who paid that? The U.S. Forest Service. What the hell is the U.S. Forest Service
00:25:31.020 doing funding climate grants in Sri Lanka? It's a question everybody's asking. And you look at Doge
00:25:38.200 and how this continues to expand. They're now saying they don't think they're going to be able to find
00:25:43.300 all the waste. It could take a year or a year and a half just to get through the waste. Is that a number
00:25:49.000 that shocks you? No. Look, I mean, there's massive waste. And I got to say, it is striking to see
00:25:55.940 Democrats in Congress. They're defending all of it. I have not seen a single Democrat senator say
00:26:02.540 of any of this stuff, OK, that's too much. I'm glad we're getting rid of it. Now, I will say it is
00:26:08.060 fairly striking. Give a listen to the guys at Pod Save America, which are, you know, the leftist bros
00:26:15.420 admitting that Doge is doing some real good and feeling some chagrin. Give a listen to this.
00:26:22.620 And also, as much as I want to throw all of Trump's campaign promises in his face,
00:26:27.700 like the price of eggs is not down, you have not ended the war in Ukraine, etc., etc. You said you'd
00:26:32.560 do it in 24 hours. I think most voters get that it was a shtick and they're going to give him some
00:26:37.240 time to actually get things done. Trump is like he is moving so fast. They are doing a lot. It's not
00:26:45.620 just the perception of it. They hit the ground running in a serious way. It's like genuinely
00:26:50.920 impressive, impressive in a dark and sinister way. But it's nonetheless impressive. And if
00:26:55.820 you're turning on the news every day and hearing about all these different things Trump is doing
00:26:58.440 and all the different criticisms coming out of it, you may not like all of it. But like in comparison
00:27:02.280 to how people felt about Joe Biden being basically absent, I imagine for a lot of people, it's a
00:27:08.060 welcome change. The energy and he's signing things and he's affecting all that. I think that is
00:27:12.000 playing extraordinarily well. I know. You don't want to seem like you're opposed to government
00:27:16.040 efficiency. But obviously now they're just rampaging through like the government Venmo
00:27:20.240 and shutting off. Yeah. I'm not saying they're wrong. I'm just lamenting our situation.
00:27:24.200 Me too. No, I love it. I felt the same way because I've seen the messaging memos and it's
00:27:27.980 like, you know, the young people, Gen Z, they like Doge and what Elon's doing because, you
00:27:33.280 know, they don't see they see government as sclerotic and inefficient and they like the
00:27:36.940 move fast and break things ethos and they want to get stuff done and they like the results.
00:27:41.320 And it's like, yeah, we, yes, of course, we all want that. We all know the government
00:27:45.680 is slow. We all know the government can be inefficient. We all know that the bureaucracy
00:27:48.860 can be bloated. We all worked in the White House. We tried to reorganize the government.
00:27:52.760 We tried to find efficiency. It's hard to do. And honestly, some of this is pretty annoying
00:27:56.260 because it's some of the stuff we should have done. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you could
00:27:59.100 do some of this. You just got to talk Gen Z to him. You're like, I could dig these Doja
00:28:02.640 cats. Oh my God. That was horrible. I mean, I can't say that they're wrong, but I think
00:28:10.620 they're, they're at the point where they're like, we got to tell the truth. All right,
00:28:13.540 Ben, the astonishing thing is pod save America makes more sense than any Democrat in the
00:28:19.060 U S Congress. I have not heard a single Democrat saying that, that gosh, this spending is, is
00:28:24.880 egregious. No, I will, we'll say you notice they sort of reflexively tossed out egg prices.
00:28:30.700 Yeah. Let me give you a couple of stats that that'll blow you away in the 25 days since Trump's
00:28:36.660 inauguration. How many times do you think CNN has mentioned egg prices? Oh, it's got to be,
00:28:41.520 I mean, dozens and dozens. 45. Wow. All right. In the 25 days before the inauguration,
00:28:49.420 how many times do you think CNN mentioned egg prices? Five or less. Zero. Wow. Zero. All right.
00:28:58.900 How about MSNBC? Surely they're more balanced. In the 25 days since Trump's inauguration,
00:29:04.040 how many times do they mentioned, mentioned egg prices? 30, 80. Wow. All right. How about the 25
00:29:11.100 days before inauguration? How many times do they mention it? I'm going to go with zero. Are we
00:29:15.500 going to go with zero? One, one. I'll give them credit. It's, it's 80 to one. And, and, and it's
00:29:20.600 just, listen, suddenly they discovered, by the way, eggs were expensive before Trump was sworn in.
00:29:26.540 And you know, we did have avian flu and they, they, they like slaughtered a whole bunch of
00:29:30.240 chickens. So that is a problem because you know, I, I'm, I am not, uh, uh, an avian biologist,
00:29:36.060 but I'm pretty sure you need chickens to get eggs. So it is fascinating to see we're securing the
00:29:43.880 border. We're cutting down massive government waste. We're getting wins, wins, wins. And the
00:29:48.480 one thing the media has discovered is to start screaming, eggs are expensive, eggs are expensive,
00:29:52.640 as if they apparently had never noticed it until Donald Trump, uh, took the oath of office.
00:29:58.660 Yeah. I think the American people are paying a lot closer attention to all of this. That's
00:30:02.980 why it's not working on them. And I also think the American people just don't trust the media
00:30:06.540 anymore. It's going to be interesting to see how long that lasts. Cause if it keeps going
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