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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The show that I'm about to do is one that
is I'm hoping, the most shared show I've ever done,
because what I'm about to do should be evergreen, it
should be vitally important what I tell you now from
now until election day, and every single time there's a
major election, I get asked the same question, what do
I need to know about the candidates? Well, I'm going
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to tell you today what you need to know about
the vice presidential candidate, the governor from Minnesota Waltz. I
want you to understand just how radical he is, and
I'm going to list for you some of the most
radical aspects of who he is as a governor, who
he has been in his life, what he believes in,
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where he has spent his time, where he's spent his money,
and what he wants for the future of this country.
I want to also start by saying this as a
just pretext and understanding of who he is, Minnesota Governor
Tim Waltz is one percent the most radical, far left
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vice presidential nominee in US history, and I'm going to
back it up by explaining to you his policies. I
want you to also understand something else, as a just
overall understanding of how dangerous Waltz actually is.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Why was he chosen?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It was because he was a radical, It's because he's
an extremist. It's because he is a rubber stamp for
Kamala Harris's agenda that includes open borders and most importantly communism.
Waltz believes in socialism, he believes in Marxism, he believes
in communism, just like Kamala Harris, just like the squad.
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That's why they love this pick and Harris time after
time has cave to the radical left and has said
I stand with you, and that is exactly why she
chose Tim Waltz. Now, I'm going to go through a
list and I again we'll say this. I hope every
one of you that hears this will share this on
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social media. I hope you will share it on X,
on Instagram, on wherever you are so that people can
hear exactly who Tim Waltz is, what he believes in.
And this episode will be one that is evergreen. This
can be shared literally up until election day. So let's
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start with I think one of the most radical things
that Governor Waltz has ever done, this has now come
out and it has been under or not reported even
in conservative media. And that is the fact that this
individual is radical when it comes to killing babies. Now,
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let's back that up, and I hope you're taking notes.
At least eight children, at least eight newborn babies, at
least eight infants that were born alive after botched abortions
in Minnesota on Governor Waltz's watch happened and none of
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them were given life saving care. A new report has
exposed the radical agenda of this governor. In the summer
of twenty twenty two, as Tim Waltz was steaming towards
reelection as Minnesota's governor, his states Health Agency published a
required abortion statistics report with a little fanfare. So what
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was in it? It was a secret that is certain
to catapult to national prominence now that Waltz has been
selected to be the Democratic running mate of Kamala Harris
and Walt's state and on his watch, five infants were
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born alive quote unquote in twenty twenty one during failed abortions,
and none of those five baby children that were born
were provided life saving care, though two got quote what
they referred to as comfort care. This is coming from
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the Minnesota Department of Health and their report on July
the one of twenty twenty two. So for all the
crazies out there that say this isn't real, you're getting
it from his own reports from the state government. Now
you may say what happened to the other children? Three
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other infants were born quote unquote alive, born alive during
abortions in twenty nineteen, that is Waltz's first first year
as governor, and they too perished without life saving care.
That according to a July first, twenty twenty report from
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the same state agency. Now, Minnesota was the rare state
to require such born alive abortions to be publicly reported,
creating a very powerful statistic and tool for pro life
and anti abortion forces to draw upon. Making it clear
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that in the radical leadership under Waltz, you could have
a child that is born alive, call it abots to abortion,
and literally have the child die. Kill that child, and
no one goes to jail. Now, these reports became damning
to the governor because even people that are in favor
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of abortion have a hard time thinking of allowing a
child to just lay there and expire with no care.
I want you to think about how sick of a
person you have to be to allow that to happen
in your state when you're a governor. Well, you want
to know what the governor did. He didn't stop these
these children that were born from dying.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, no, No.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
In twenty twenty three, Waltz then worked with his new
Democrat controlled legislature to eliminate both the reporting requirement of
live bursts from botsed abortions and the state's legal obligation
for doctors, nurses, and medical professional professionals to administer life
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saving care to infants born alive during an abortion procedure.
The governor turned vice presidential nominee signed the bill known
as SF two nine nine five. That bill closed one
of the few statistical windows on late term aboard and
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the possibility that babies born alive are in fact left
to die in the state of Minnesota. I want you
to just understand how evil you have to be to
not only allow this, but then to help cover up
the numbers and to change the rules where those in
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the medical profession which job is to do no harm,
are protected, and to go ahead and let the baby die.
That is who Kamla Harris chose to be her vice
presidential nominee. Now, Waltz isn't just a radical for allowing
kids to die on the table after they are born
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alive with a botched abortion right and covering up those
numbers so that no one knows, and protecting the doctors
and nurses and healthcare providers so they can just let
kids die after they've been born alive. He's also radical
when it comes to the issues of transgenderism. Now, forget
gay lesbian stuff for a second. Okay, this individual, the
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governor of Minnesota, the VP candidate, is an extremist in
every way I can describe when it comes to issues
that deal with children. And this is the perversion of
the radical left. How do we know this, Well, here's
another point that you need to know, and again I'm going.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
To say it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Please share everything I'm giving you with everybody you know
between now an election day. Governor Tim walt signed a
bill in April of twenty twenty three allowing the state
of Minnesota to make custody determinations if a child has
denied access from their parents to sex change procedures. Now,
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let me explain that in a more simple term. What
the Governor's saying is we can take your child away
from you if little Timmy wants to become little Susie
and you don't do what the kid tells you to do.
Maybe your kid goes to school and tells somebody at
the school that they want to transition and you're not
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willing to do it at the age of six or
eight or ten or twelve, or give the puberty blockers,
or have the surgery to cut off breasts or cut
off a penis. The governor signed a law in April
twenty twenty three allowing the state to step in and
say we're going to take your child away from you.
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It was called the trans Refuge Bill. Now, think about
how radical you have to be to want to even
do a bill entitled the trans Refuge Bill. And what
this was was a bill in basically expanding the state
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marketing the state with trans tourism. Now you may say,
what do you mean by trans tourism. It's a great,
great question. What the governor and the radical left in
Minnesota decided was, Hey, we're going to put a billboards
to the the rest of the country that hey, if
your state didn't allow for you to mutilate young children's
bodies when it comes to trying to turn a woman
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into a man or a man into a woman. We
will be your refuge as a trans state where you
can have all of your wishes come true in Minnesota,
and we'll market it that way and we'll make money
off of it. The trans Refuge Bill allows for quote
temporary emergency jurisdiction for the government if a parent denies
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their child sex change procedures. Now I'm saying this, and
I hope that people are going to say, well, hold on,
surely that's not what they really were trying to do, right,
We got to fact check that out. Okay, go read
the bill. This is in the bill's actual text. The
bill defines the interventions, which include sex changes number one,
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hormone replacement number two, and cosmetic surgeries number three, as
quote unquote medical necessities so long as it quote respects
the gender identity of the patient as experience and defined
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not by the parent but by the child, no matter
the age. Freedom quote unquote is on the march in Minnesota.
Decency is on the march in Minnesota. Compassion is on
the march in Minnesota. That is what Waltz said at
the bill's signing ceremony quote, hate and bigotry too are
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on the march, the governor said, but we make very
clear that march of bigotry and hate stops at Minnesota's borders.
So not only did the governor sign a bill into
law that says, we will take your child away from
you if you don't do what your child tells you
to do, but he also then said, let's market this
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to the rest of the United States of America. I'm
going to tell you even more about this in a
second of what a radical Waltz is. But first let
me say thank you for so many of you that
have got involved with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
The other night, I have the privilege and honor of
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having dinner with many of the leaders from IFCJ and
one of them had flown for the very first time
since the attacks on Israel at the hands of Hamas
and Hesbolah and Iran to America to tell the stories
of what is happening on the ground right now in
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Israel and the needs of the people. Since the start
of that war in Israel on October the seventh, we
have clearly seen a significant amount of death and destruction
in the Holy Land for more than forty years. That
is where the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has
come in and helped save lives. They've been on the
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ground in Israel and within hours of the war starting,
and every day since they've been feeding the hungry and
protecting the vulnerable. The attacks, unfortunately, as you've seen in
recent days, are continuing now in the north and in.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The south in Israel.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
There are survivors there who are bravely sharing their stories
in a series that the Fellowship calls Faces of Iron.
Survivors like Danny, whose beloved daughter and her husband were
burned alive on October the seventh by Hamas Terris. Danny
is a commander of the volunteer fire and rescue in
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his community. Despite fire equipment nearby, Danny could do nothing
as his daughter's house burned and his daughter and her
husband lost their lives.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That is where you come in.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Christians like you can support Israel through the International Fellowship
of Christians and Jews. It's this support that helps these
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dot org and hear the incredible stories of the people
in Israel that support IFCJ dot org. Now, let me
go back to Waltz here for a second and let
me just explain this. Tim Waltz sign a bill making
Minnesota a trans refugee state. They thought they could make
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a ton of money off this, and he said there
was no age limits for Miners who could receive gender
affirming care.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
We want to say is we're there to protect children.
We're there to have you understand that in Minnesota you're
going to be protected. And I just want to be clear,
I will never understand what goes into the thinking of
these folks to bully these children. It is not impacting
them in one bit and making it a living hell
for children, for families, for adults, for folks who are
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just trying to bring themselves in. So in Minnesota, we're
making it very clear we're not going to cooperate with
these folks. We're not going to extradite people. We're going
to say that this is a place where you can
come to make these decisions.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I am.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
The community, the trans community is as terrified as they've
ever been. We've seen attacks across the nation, even here
in Minnesota, and we're now saying we have to be
much more proactive. We have to be much more aggressive
about making sure that folks are protected. So this is
another of the that again, don't deal with climate change,
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don't deal with other things. Deal with making people's lives
miserable on something that won't impact you.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's what these.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Governors are doing, these attorney generals are doing. And I've
had it as a teacher. I will not stand bullies.
I never did, and I'm not going to stand bullies
who are masquerading. Is somehow about freedom. This is nothing
to do with personal freedoms. It has everything to do
with forcing an ideology on a vulnerable group of people
for short term political gain. It won't stand, and in
the long runs, Americans are far better than that, and
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they're going to find that out.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
So to be clear, that's the governor saying, come on
to Minnesota and we'll let you cut anything off you want,
and no matter how young you are, we'll let you
have these surgeries. We're going to traffic in this perversion
and make money off of it, turning it into tourism.
And by the way, if you're a parent and you
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try to stop your kid who wants to do any
of these things, we can take that child away from you.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
This is how radical he is. Now. There was something
else he said in there.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
He talked about I'm sick and tired of these bullies
and I'm not gonna these other governors and went on
this YadA, YadA YadA. Let me also talk about false
claims here. You may not know this, but Tim Waltz
falsely claimed he was a veteran of Afghanistan. You want
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to talk about stolen voor, you look at the definition
of stolen valor is someone who claims they did something
amazing in our military and actually didn't do it. That
is exactly what the Minnesota governor Tim Waltz has done.
He is now facing new accusations of stolen valor, allegedly
falsely claiming in previous press releases that he was a
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veteran of the Afghanistan war, which he was not. In
a two thousand and six press release issued by his campaign,
Waltz was to described as being a veteran of Operation
Enduring Freedom, The war in Afghanistan, which began on October
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the seventh, twenty two thousand and one, was called Operation
During Freedom. According to the Naval History and Heritage Command website,
the operation start came after the September eleventh terrorist attacks
on this country. Democrat Tim Waltz will spend Sunday, February
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the nineteenth and Monday, February the twentieth traveling across Minnesota's
first congressional district as he formally announces his candidacy for
the United States House of Representatives. His press relief states
at the time Waltz it goes on to say, quote
a veteran of Operation during Freedom and long time Mankato
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educator is unopposed for the DFL endorsement and is slated
a challenge another congressman. In November of two thousand and six,
in a photo posted on x, Waltz can be seen
holding a sign that says, quote unquote Enduring Freedom Veterans
for Carrie, claiming he was a veteran of Enduring Freedom,
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which he was not. Why was he holding that sign up?
It was in protest the former President George W. Bush
visiting Minnesota in two thousand and four. The Washington Free
Beacon also reported that David Thule, a veteran of the
Iraq War, addressed the issue that Walts was claiming to
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be a veteran of operation during Freedom with his aides
all the way back in two thousand and nine. One
staffer reportedly claimed she was quote unquote not aware that
Walts had served in Afghanistan, while another aid reportedly acknowledged
that constituents could get the false impression, according to the
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news outlet Well, on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris said,
I don't care who cares this guy lied about his
stolen valor. Who cares if this guy acts like he's
some sort of great veteran that he actually wasn't because
he works for me as a radical. Now, I mentioned
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obviously the reporting on Governor waltson the fact that he
clearly is stolen valor and lied about his service. But
you may say, well, hold on a second, it was
in a press release that he was in Afghanistan.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
He really wasn't.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Maybe it was a staffer right that actually wrote the
wrong thing in that press release. So maybe it wasn't
Waltz who was saying this. Okay, let's just entertain that
for a second. What does Tim Waltz say about his
time in the military. Listen carefully to the words he uses.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Ook weol cup like many of you did. Five weeks ago,
and Dad said, Dad, you're the only person I know
who's an elected office. You need to stop what's happening
with this. I'll take my kick in the butt for
the NRA. I spent twenty five years in the army,
and I hunt and I gave the money back. And
I'll tell you what I have been doing. I've been
voting for common sense legislation that protects a second Amendment.
But we can do background checks, we can do CDC research,
we can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry amongst states,
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and we can make sure that those weapons of war
that I carried in war is the only place where
those weapons were at.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Now, to be very clear, he didn't spend twenty five
years in the army and the idea that this guy
wants to take away your guns while claiming that every
gun that is used in you by the military is
a quote weapon of war. That would include handguns, right
because in the military you have a side arm. He
has come out and said that the guns that are
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used in the military, no civilian has a need for it.
That would include a pistol. The most commonly issued gun
in the military is a pistol. He knows that while
he's lying to you about his background right in the military,
claiming he's done all these amazing things that he actually
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never has done. Walt's biography on his own website lists
having a higher rank than the one that he actually
had when he retired from the US military. Waltz served
in the Minnesota Army National Guard and retired at the
rank of Master sergeant or an e DSH eight. However,
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on his official website bio he lists a higher rank
than he served at for a short period that ultimately
was rescinded as he did not complete all the requirements
to serve at that rank, But in his bio it
clearly implies they retired at the rank of command Sergeant
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major or an e DASH nine. Another example of exactly
how much of a scumbag this individual is. Now, let
me also give you a few more honorable mentions, just
so you know how radical Waltz is. Tim spent tax
dollars in Minnesota to put tampons in all men's bathrooms,
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especially at schools and universities, mandating it. He actually believes
that men with a penis can use a tampon and
mandated it as part of his radical transgendered agenda items.
Waltz also mandated men in women's sports in his state
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because he is a LGBTQIA plus plus governor. This is
the same governor that also permits children, regardless of their age,
to undergo transgender genital mutilation surgeries, saying it has nothing
to do with parental consent either. And if you don't
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agree to these surgeries, the state can step in and
take away your child. This is why Kamala Harris picked him.
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only is Walt's a radical socialist communists, but Kamwa picked
him because of his radical socialist policies that she believes in.
And by the way, on religion, let's be clear where
Governor Walt stands. He deliberately shuttered churches during COVID. He
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locked down people in their homes and deprived faithful Christians
of the right to worship for months on end is
I would argue, clearly an anti Christian ideologue. Why did
Kamala Aiers pick him for that exact reason? And when
it came to COVID lockdowns, he was one of the
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most extreme states in the country. He forced mass mandates
on everyone in his state. Yes, your child, including your toddler,
were forced to wear a face mask by the governor
of the state. Tim Waltz did that. Why did Kamala
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pick him for this exact reason. Not only is he
a dangerous radical, but he's an individual that just a
week ago said very clearly that he is a socialist
and a communist at the White Guys for I'm not
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joking Kamala event where they got together and he clearly
stated that he is a socialist. I give you this
information so you can share it because knowledge is power,
and we all have to make sure we know and
we let people know what we know about Waltz and
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why he was chosen. He lied about his military service,
He clearly lied about his rank. He lied about children
and babies being able to be killed outside the womb
after they're alive after a botched abortion. He is an
individual that says, if you, as a parent, don't let
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your kid become a trainee, regardless of the age, the
state can take the child away from you. And if
you want to know about his wife, so you don't
think it's just one crazy guy, let me play for you,
his wife, his wife who is the first lady of
the state. You want to know how excited she was
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during the burning down of Minneapolis. She was very excited
about the burning down in Minneapolis during the Black Lives
Matter rallies that turn into straight up riots.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
She said she used to love.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Smelling the burning tires with her windows down.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
I would say, those first days, you know, when there
were riots, I could smell the burning tires and.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
That that was a very real thing.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
And I kept the windows open for as long as
I could because I felt like that was such a
touchstone of what was happening.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
This is a woman that said I kept the windows
down so I could smell the city burning. And my
husband did nothing. He didn't enact the National Guard. You
want to know what communists, by the way, sound like,
I'll give you an example of what he's set up
during COVID so you could be snitched on. You know
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how communists will tell the kids, snitch on your parents.
If you're not Ale Hitler right, or you don't believe
in Stalin or Mussolini or whatever it may be, right,
turn on your own, turn on your husband, your wife,
turn on your parents. If you don't believe if you
don't like what they're doing at home, you're going to
snitch the.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Government, right, big brother.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He set up a hotline for exactly that during COVID
where you could call and snitch on your neighbor if
they weren't abiding by the radical rules of the governor.
Listen to this. This is the actual phone you would
have called and what you would have heard.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Hello, you have read the Department of Public Stay at
Home hotline. The information you leave is considered public information.
At the tone, Please leave the following information, your name,
your callback number, how the stay at home order is
being violated, and where the stay at home order was violated.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Thank you record your message at the tone. When you
were finished, hang up or press pound for more options.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
If that isn't big brother, I don't know what is.
Thank you for calling the government. Please turn in whatever
business or human being you're snitching on in the state
of Minnesota during the radical COVID lockdowns. Tell us when
and where the violation happened, and then we'll deal with
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those people. That is who Waltz is. I also want
you to hear what Senater Ted Cruz had to say
about why Waltz was chosen and even more about his
radical agendum. Many if you know, I co host a
podcast with Ted Cruz and we did a deep dive
into Waltz, and I want you to hear part of
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that conversation. Take a listen, Senator, Let's start by explaining
this pick because number one and I love when you
and I get to talk about this type of political
aspect of it in a show.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
When you are picking a VP, the number.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
One golden rule, whether you're on the Republican side, the
Democrat side, or a third party, candidates do no harm,
and you make sure that when you make a pick,
you do no harm. Your advisor should be telling you that, hey,
we don't want to pick someone that it hurts the
ticket or maybe turns people off to us. We want
someone that most people like, but we do no harm.
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And yet we see the commentators like, oh, well, Kamala
Harris was kind of forced into this pick. She was
kind of forced to push, you know, more of a
hardcore lefty kind of radical. No, she wanted this radical
to help her with her radical agenda. She was not
forced into this pick. She did this on her own,
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and we shouldn't let her off the hook for that.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Well, all right, let's rewind to the moment when Kamala
Harris it was clear she was going to be the nominee.
You and I, well, let's go back ten months ago.
You and I ten months ago predicted the Democrats would
force Joe Biden off the ticket. We were right. Initially
I thought Michelle Obama would be the choice. That proved
to be wrong. Once it became clear that the Democrats
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were circling the wagons around Kamala, I said, look, it's
either going to be Michelle Obama or Kamala. It was Kamala.
Immediately afterwards, you and I did a podcast where I said,
all right, who's the VP going to be? And I
said number one. They are going to pick the most
boring white guy imaginable. Now, let's be clear, the Democrats
are being counters. They're perfectly happy being racist, being sexist.
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In the VP choice. The Democrats were very explicit. No
African Americans need apply, No Hispanics need apply, no women
need apply. They were all excluded. They only wanted boring
white guys. That was the entire group. Gretcha and Whitmer,
there was a whole group. They were like, oh, we're
excited about her. She had no chance. She was a woman,
and the Democrats perfectly happy and saying, Nope, we ain't
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taken women, We ain't taken African Americans, we ain't taken Hispanics.
As I said on this podcast, we're going to get
the most boring white guy imaginable. It's going to be
Ned Flanders, coated in mayonnaise eating wonderbread. Well, those turned
out to be the choices. Now, Initially I laid out
who I thought the top two choices would be, and
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I said they'd be Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, and
Mark Kelly's senator from Arizona. And between the two, I
thought they'd pick Shapiro. Now, it turned out on this
podcast we predicted two of the final three. Shapiro and
Kelly were in the final three, and the third was
Tim Watz. We did not talk about Tim Walls. Now,
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I have to say, listen, I think I've got a
pretty good sense of politics and the state of the country.
I don't always have a perfect sense of where the
Democrats are. And I will say when I was laying
out the odds for who the VP choice would be.
I was assuming the Democrats were two parts crazy and
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two parts stone cold killer, so kind of equal. They
want to win, and it's why I thought Josh Shapiro
was compelling. It turns out I mixed up those ratios.
As I sit here today, I would say they're about
five parts crazy and about one part stone cold killer.
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So the stone cold killer part through Joe Biden overboard.
They dumped him like Fredo being asked to go out
in a row boat and say the rosary. I mean
it was. They were done with Joe Biden. The reason
I say they're more crazy than stone cold killer is
this was a dumb choice. So listen, why Josh Shapiro.
What was the argument for Josh Shapiro. Number one, he's
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perceived as a moderate governor. He ran as a moderate
governor's reputation as a moderate governor. Number Two, he's a
very popular governor in Pennsylvania's numbers are good in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is, without exaggeration, the most important swing state in
the country. It's neck and neck depending on the polls
you're looking at Trump maybe slightly ahead, but it's within
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low single digits, and it's got a ton of electoral votes.
The reason I believe Josh Shapiro was compelling is I
thought there was a good chance that adding Shapiro to
the ticket gives Kamala Pennsylvania. And I got to say,
if you're sitting there looking for the Democrats saying how
do we win? If you can take Pennsylvania off the map,
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that is powerful. And by the way, our friend who
we've had twice on this show, Dave McCormick running for Senate,
who I think Dave McCormick is likely to be the
next Senator from Pennsylvania. It would have been really a
problem for Dave if Josh Shapiro had been the nominee,
because if the Democrat's numbers go up two three points
in Pennsylvania, becomes much harder for McCormick to beat Casey.
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So if you're a Democrat, wow, that's compelling. You literally
had number one the electoral college math supporting Shapiro. You
had number two, a lot of the donors saying Shapiro
is a great choice. And what happened. There was a
lot of chatter about Shapiro. He was auditioning hard, he
wanted the job, and the radical left in the Democrat
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Party lost their mind. And this pains me to say.
There is and we've talked about this before, there is
a pro Hamas wing of the Democrat Party and the leftists.
They could not stand not that Shapiro was a moderate,
but that he's Jewish. And I don't want to put
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I don't want to muddy this up because it's it's
actually painful. It is a bad thing that there is
a major contingent of the Democrat Party who says we
will not nominate Jewish vice president. Look, I believe if
Josh Shapiro's name had been Josh Smith, the Democrat ticket
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would be Harris Smith. Like everything else about Shapiro was compelling.
And they sat there and looked at the electoral college math.
They number one, looked at states like Michigan with dearborn
Michigan a bunch of radical Prohamas leftists. They looked at
states like Minnesota with a bunch of Somali radical anti Israel,
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anti Semites, and they said, you know what, this causes
a problem in our base. And they came to the conclusion,
the fact that this guy is Jewish is disqualifying. And
all right, listen, most of the people who listen to
this podcast are conservative or libertarian, or somewhat right of center,
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or at least open minded who want to listen to
both sides. But maybe you're like, all right, Cruz, what
he's saying, this is a little bit tendentious. Okay, if
you don't believe me, I want you to give a
listen to Van Jones. So Van Jones is a very
left wing commentator on CNN. He's a Democrat, He's a
hard left Democrat. But listen to what Van Jones said yesterday,
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the day of the Tim Waltz pick about what it means,
give a listen.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
You think it was a little risky, though, man, that
she didn't go with Shapiro to kind of locked down Pennsylvania. Yes,
David Challing were saying earlier, just because you pick him
as your running mate doesn't mean you automatically win Pennsylvania.
But I got to think it would have helped just
a little bit.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
Hey, listen, the conservatives, the right wing, the Republicans, they
were chewing their fingernails down to the knuckle because they
were afraid of a Josh Shapiro.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
They're afraid of Omark Kelly.
Speaker 7 (39:45):
They're not as afraid of this new governor because they
think they can define him. So here's the challenge you've
got in this party, and people don't want to talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
We got to talk about it.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
On the one hand, you have a lot of young
people who are concerned about Gaza. You have a lot
of Muslims and Arabs and others. They had not felt
seen by the Biden administration. You sat, I start hearing
that genocide, Joe, that was building, that was building, and
so those folks needed to have a candidate that they
could feel comfortable with.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
This helps them in that regard.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
But you also have anti Semitism that has gotten marbled
into this party. You can be for the Palestimians without
being an anti Jewish bigot, but there are some anti
Jewish bigots out there, and there's some disquiet now, and
there has to be how much of what just happened
is caving into some of these darker parts in the party.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
So that's going to have to get worked out. It's
going to have to get talked center.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
You listen to what he's saying there, and this goes
back to something I've been saying for a while, and
I think it's official now I was right when I
said the Democratic Party is dead. They are filled now
with anti Semites, with Marxists, with socialists, with communists, and
they've just been masquerading as Democrats. And if you don't
believe me, the Democratic Socialists of America took a victory
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lap with Walt's selection, saying this was like the best
pick they could have asked for. Harris's selection of Walt
showed quote the world that the DSA and its allies
on the left are a force that cannot be ignored
quote unquote that is from the Democratic Socialists of America.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Yet look, and it's quite honest. And so the fact
that they didn't pick Shapiro. Listen listening to Van Jones,
and I don't know Van Jones personally. I've met him briefly,
but I don't know him. I agree with every single
word he said, like I agreed. At the front end
he said Republicans were gnashing at their teeth that Kamala
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would have picked Josh Shapiro. I certainly was. I thought
that was really damn dangerous. My guess is Shapiro probably
adding him to the ticket probably would have won Pennsylvania.
So why I said that was the most likely choice,
because if you're actually trying to win, if it was
David Axelrod making this pick, he'd a pick Shapiro. I
actually believe if it was James Carvell making this pick,
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I think he would have picked Shapiro. I think a smart,
tenacious Democrat who wants to win would have said, let's
do it. But as I said, I got the ratios wrong.
They have more crazy than they have stone cold killer.
And the problem is there are too many rabbit anti
Israel anti Semites in the party. And I'm not saying
everyone is. I'm not saying everyone on Kamalists campaign is,
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but they're scared of the anti Semites, and so they're like,
we can't piss them off, so let's not do that.
As an aside, I think there are a lot of
people across this country who are Jewish, who are liberal
or moderate, who are sitting here wondering listening. Not a
ton of people are saying publicly what you and I
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are saying right now, but there are a ton of
people thinking it. And I got to say, if you're
a moderate, even liberal Jew, and you're looking at the
Democrat Party going wait a second, it's now disqualifying as
a candidate to be Jewish. I just think there are
a lot of people that when they they lay their
head down on the bed at night, that quiet still
voice in their head. They're going to be like, why
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am I part of a party that is embarrassed to
have me? And I think that's gonna have real consequences
going forward. But let me say secondly, even if they
weren't willing to pick Shapiro because he's Jewish, they had
another choice, which is Mark Kelly. And listen, I served
with Mark Kelly, and I gotta say I think Mark
Kelly was an incredibly dangerous choice. So Marcus someone. He's
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a Navy veteran, he's an astronaut. His voting record has
been very, very liberal. But he seems rational, reasonable, moderate,
Marcus someone. Frankly, Ben, you'd love to get a beer with.
He just is a reasonable guy. And and and so
and and by the way, Mark doesn't have what's apparently
the disqualifying factor in the Democrat primary, which is to
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be Jewish. So like if they're scared of of the
Prohama zelots, Mark Kelly was a perfectly fine second choice
to land On and they fairly early through And by
the way, Arizona is a swing states too. It doesn't
have as many electoral votes as Pennsylvania, but Mark Kelly
is popular in Arizona. He just got re elected in
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Arizona with with strong numbers. I mean that that was
a perfectly reasonable play and the fact that they said
no to that also and they went with Tim Waltz,
And I want to go back. You open this pod
by talking about how radical Tim Waltz is.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
I don't know the guy.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
I've never met him, so I don't know him personally,
but in the last twenty four hours I have looked
at his record and holy cow, this guy is hard,
hard left. There's a reason the Democratic Socialists are celebrating him,
as you just read, there's a reason. Within minutes of
his being announced as VP, you know who tweeted out
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a tweet praising it Ilhano with a picture of her
next to him, saying what a fantastic choice this was.
And listen, yet, you know she's from Minnesota. She represents
the radicals in Minnesota. He's her governor, and they've been strong,
strong allies. He's proud to stand with the radical anti
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Semite Israel hating radical leftists like ilhan Omar, and it
says volumes. You said at the outset, It's not that
Kamala Harris picked Tim Waltz because she was bullied into
it by the left wing. It's because she picked Tim
Waltz because that's who she is. She's a radical leftist.
As you know, there was one nonpartisan source that rated
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her the single most liberal senator in the entire US Senate.
And he, likewise, he is one of, if not the
most liberal governor in the entire country. And I think
this is birds of a feather that Kamala Harris and
Tim Waltz and ilhan Omar they agree with each other.
They're radicals, and I think this picks speaks volumes. On
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one level, that makes me happy as a Republican. I
think this makes the ticket significantly easier to beat. On
another level, it scares the hell out of me because
if these guys win, they are running on their radicalism,
and God help us if they're actually in office and
implementing the policies that they are true believers in.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
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