May 18, 2026 • 36 mins
1. A “Power-Focused” Agenda
- Democratic proposals are primarily about gaining and preserving political control, not policy issues like the economy, crime, or border security.
- Examples include:
- Electoral College reform
- Supreme Court expansion
- Redistricting changes
- Statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico
2. Election System Changes
- Key proposals discussed:
- Ending or reforming the Electoral College → reducing influence of smaller states.
- Multi-member districts → benefiting dense urban (Democratic) areas.
- Expanding Supreme Court (court-packing) → a way to influence rulings.
3. Judiciary and Legal System Concerns
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- Efforts to impose ethics rules or penalties on judicial nominees are politically motivated.
- These could be used to pressure or intimidate judges, especially conservatives.
4. Statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico
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- Add additional Democratic-leaning Senate seats
- Shift the balance of power in Congress
5. Redistricting (Gerrymandering) Debate
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- Historically using gerrymandering to control representation in certain states.
- Attempting further changes (e.g., Virginia case) to increase their advantage
6. California Political Scenario
- There are concerns about:
- A potential situation where two Republicans advance in a statewide race
- They are willing to intervene if the outcome is unfavorable.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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thank you for that, thank you for listening and getting involved. Center,
we've got Kamala Harris saying out loud what the future
of the Democratic Party is all about.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
If you'll just let them have control of the house
in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Well, it's Democrats gone wild. If you remember those those
spring break ads that would feature a bunch of scantily
clad young ladies on the beach, running around getting into trouble, Well,
that sadly is the state of the current Democrat Party.
They are at Fort Lauderdale, they are chugging beers, they
(00:54):
are in a panic.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
And it really is quite striking.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So six weeks ago, the Democrats were supreme in their confidence.
They knew that they hated Donald J.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
They believe the American people were gonna rise up in
a giant repudiation, a giant roar of orange man bad.
And then suddenly a funny thing happened on the way
to the office, And the numbers are not backing up
what the Democrats hoped. In particular, they're redistricting plans to
try to steal seats and get a majority of the
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House of Representatives by dramatically gerrymandering blue states that crashed
to the ground and failed mightily.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
And now what we're seeing is really quite amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
At the same time, in California, they're looking at the
very real possibility that a Republican governor will be elected
in California. In fact, we could see a scenario where
the only two people who make the runoff are both Republicans.
That has California Democrats freaking out. We're gonna break it
all down, but we're gonna start with our favorite someone
(02:01):
who told us to use our own words. There are
a lot of people saying she was the most qualified
person ever to run for president of the United States.
You know, Kamala I will say this. She has insights
no other human being on planet Earth has because out
of eight billion people. That idea did not occur to
(02:22):
anyone else other than Yessa. But Kamala now is promising
if the Democrats win a nice, quiet, middle of the
road moderate agenda.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Here, give a listen.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
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Speaker 1 (04:41):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So here it is Kamala Harris in her own words
center here it's really amazing her plans for the country.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Say, look, this is a moment where there are no
bad ideas, no bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like
to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm,
we talk about what we need to do and think
about doing around the electoral college. We talk about the
idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court.
(05:11):
We invite a conversation about multi members districts. We talk about,
Look that if we win the Senate, which we should
and we will, then the Senate Judiciary Committee should have
rules that they put in place so when these people
come before as nominees to the Supreme Court and lie,
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that they are held to account and consequence, not just
that somebody goes on cable news and says they lie,
but that there are rules in place to actually penalize
people for lying to a Senate Judiciary committee. That we
agree that it is right to have ethics rules for
Supreme Court justices and let's put those in place. Let's
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talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and DC. These are
the things I think that we've got to do. We've
got to neutralize these red states from cheating, including blue
states expanding their maps and all of this, I think is, look,
we gotta fight fire with fire. These folks are playing
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to win. We gotta play to win.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Center.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
There's a lot of things that she laid out, and
I think we should go through them because it's important.
But one of the ones that was obviously the most
glaring to me is not only does she want to
dismantle the Supreme Court anytime that the Democratic Party gets
a ruling they don't like, they actually want to harass
Supreme Court justice so that they could in essence kick
them off the court and then pack the court if
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they still don't get what they want. That would completely
undo the United States of America and our system of
government as we know it now.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, Ben, when they tell you who they are, believe them.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
What is striking about the list that she laid out.
She did not lay out a single thing that was
a policy that affects you and your family. She didn't
say we want to arrest more criminals and keep your
family safe. She certainly didn't say we want to secure
the border. She didn't want to say we want to
reduce taxes or make it easier for small businesses to
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create jobs. Those are all policies that would make a difference.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
For you and your family.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Understand, the only thing Democrats are concerned with is getting
in power and staying in power. Every single thing she
listed was single mindedly focused on one thing, rigging elections,
so Democrats can never ever lose. You know, she began
by saying, they're no bad ideas, and you know, she
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quickly disproved herself because every word out of her mouth
was a really bad idea. I want to go through them,
and I want to go through them. Actually wrote down
what she said because it was astonishingly candid. You know, Kamala,
there are a gifted politicians. Bill Clinton is a gifted politician,
Barack Obama is a gifted politician, and then there are
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staggeringly non gifted politicians, and that would be Kamala. And
one of the reasons that she is so non gifted is,
like the rest of them, she knows what their radical
agenda is. She's just not clever enough to not say
it out loud. So y, she says the quiet part
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that the rest of them are thinking. Let's be clear,
this is what Barack Obama wants to do, but he
frames it we've got to save democracy. Kamala doesn't put
any pretty shine on it. So she started off with
ending the electoral college. The electoral college is how we
elect the president. What she wants to do is take
away the influence of small state. She wants to take
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away the influence. She wants the president elected by New
York and California and Illinois, the giant states. And if
you happen to live in a little state, she wants
you to have zero influence in who the president is.
That's where she started.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And by the way, there's a lot of little states.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So people understand that she would get rid of the
North Dakota, South Dakota, a lot of the southern states.
Like she would just say, you guys don't even matter anymore.
That I just want you to understand when we say
smaller states, we're talking about a lot of the map
or to America.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
We're talking Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, all of
those become largely irrelevant. We're talking about Indiana, Missouri, even
a Tennis.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
To Mississippi, even Tennessee could be in there.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
No, no, this is a presidential election that is decided
by New York and California and Illinois and Texas and Florida,
and you would have presidential candidates spending almost all their
time in those five states because that's where the bulk
of the population is, and ignoring eighty percent of the
states because that's not where the population is.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Why is she doing that?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Because the Democrat machines that have destroyed New York City,
that have destroyed Los Angeles, that have destroyed San franci
She feels they can crank up enough votes that it
can overwhelm even if Democrats only win five states. She
thinks they can drive enough numbers in those five states.
What's the next thing, she said, Supreme Court reform, Expand
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the court. So, Kamalin, the Democrats are big mad. They're
big mad that we have a Supreme Court that's following
the law and is not willing to roll over to
Democrat power grabs. And so their answer is to take
the last bad idea they had. You know, FDR tried
to do this when the Supreme Court struck down several
elements of the new Deal.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
He came up with packing the court. He wanted to
grow it from.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Nine justices to fifteen justices. He had a Democrat supermajority
in both the House and Senate, and the Democrats at
the time there were responsible Democrats who said, no, that
is an abuse of power, that's not consistent with the Constitution.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
We're not going to do it.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
The difference is today's Democrats there are no reasonable Democrats.
They just want power. They want the Supreme Court to
be a partisan arm of the Democrat Party. What's the
next thing, she said, multi member districts. Understand, everything she's
saying is tearing up the Constitution and in particular, the
constitutional mechanism for democracy. How we elect our leader. She
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doesn't want one House member representing one district. Why well,
because in the last election the Democrats lost, and in
this next election there's a very real chance the Democrats
are going to lose. So she wants to make Downtown
New York elect a whole bunch of different Democrat members.
She wants Los Angeles to elect a whole bunch of
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different Democrat members, she wants Chicago to elect a whole
bunch of different Democrat members. And the whole idea of
one man, one vote, the whole idea of a representative
representing a district. She is saying scrap the constitution. That
is the central theme. All right, Now, let's shift to
the Judiciary Committee. She says, we need rules, rules in
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the Judiciary Committee so that when you lie to the
Judiciary Committee there are consequences and you penalize them. Well, look,
I gotta admit I didn't have this on my Bengo card.
But Kamala Harris has just come out strongly in favor
of the Trump DOJ prosecuting James Comy, because James Comy
is being prosecuted for lying under oath to the Senate
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Judiciary Committee. To me, I asked him questions, he flat
out lied. That is the basis for the indictment that
is preceding. By the way, the Democrats, including Kamala Harris,
let their hair on fire and said it was horrible
that he was being prosecuted for lying to the Judiciary Committee.
So understand what she really means is she wants a
partisan Democrat Department of Justice to prosecute conservative justices. That
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is what the objective is. Not enough to pack the court.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And by the way, that's to intimidate rule their actual rulings. Right,
you stay in line, you stay in this lane. If
you want to stay on the Supreme Court, and if
you get outside of that lane, we'll just come after
you and destroy you.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
But by the way, never once, as Kamala suggested prosecuting
Anthony Fauci, who lied repeatedly before Congress, who denied, understand Fauci.
The evidence indicates that Fauci paid for the funding for
the research at the Wuhan Institute for Virology, that is
where they created the COVID virus at all likelihood, and
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created it through what's called gain of function research, which
is taking existing viruses in nature and modifying them to
make the more transmissible, to make them more deadly, to
make the more targeted towards humans. The evidence clearly indicates
that Fauci cut the checks and paid for it, and
then he went before Congress that he lied over and
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over and over again. And by the way, you want
proof of that, what did Joe Biden do on the
way out? He pardoned Fauci for lying to Congress. And
yet when Kamala says she wants penalties for lying to Congress,
she is very specific what she wants. She wants to
go after Supreme Court justices. She disagrees with what's next
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Supreme Court ethics rules. This is another big bugaboo of
the left. By the way she said, we need to
create Supreme Court ethics rules. Well, you know what, we
have them. We have had them for a very long time.
This is a not very veiled attack at Clarence Thomas.
And this is something we've talked about on this podcast before.
(14:31):
It's something we'll talk about again in August when when
my latest.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I was going to ask you, is this subject in
the book that you're writing about Clarence Thomas And if
you say no, you need to add it in there.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I just want to be clear about that.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Of course it is. It's a major part of the book.
The book comes out in August. It is called Going
Further the Incomparable Clarence Thomas. It tells his life story,
but one of the things that talks about is how
the left hates him so much that they've gone after him.
And there are lots of different bases, but one of
the things they say is ethics rules. Well, the Spring
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Court ethics rules for a long time, for decades said
that you do not disclose personal lodging or travel. So
if you stay at someone's home, if someone gives you
a ride, if someone feeds you a meal, you don't
disclose that.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
That's the way the rules are written.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Clarence Thomas received advice from the lawyers who advise on
these matters and was told follow the rules, so don't
disclose personal hospitality. Well, the Democrats have gone crazy because
over the years Justice Thomas and his wife Jenny have
taken a number of trips, and in particular with Harlan Crowe,
who is a real estate developer in Dallas. Someone's a
good friend of mine and has taken trips with him,
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has gone camping with him, has had meals with him.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They're friends, by the way, that's the part that they
were close from this. They're actual dear friends of of
the Thomas.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yes, and they've attacked Clarence Thomas. Now Number one, nobody
disputes that the ethics rules said, do not disclose personal hospitality,
lodging and travel like that's admitted Number two. The other
Supreme Court justices, the liberal Supreme Court justices, all did
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the same thing and have a lot more of it.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Bryer, Katanji Brown, Jackson, Sonya Sotomayor
and yet the left doesn't care at all. Stephen Ginsburg
had roughly four times as many trips, including international travel,
paid by the Pritzker family, which are Democrat billionaire politicians,
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and yet.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Not a peep.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
So understand when she says we and by the way,
they change the Supreme Court ethics rules so that now
you disclose that travel and lodging, so they all do
it now. Before it didn't cover it, then they changed it.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Now it does.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But the hypocrisy is she only cares about Clarence Thomas.
Has nothing to do with the fact that he's gone
at a camping trip with a Dolls real estate developers.
Has everything to do with the fact that she hates, hates,
hates that he is faithful to the Constitution. And it's
even worse, there is a level of vitriol and animosity
to Justice Thomas because he's African American and.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Dares to be servative.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
And so that's what she means there. What are the
last couple of things.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
She says, statehood for Puerto Rico and DC Why because
they believe that'll give them four Democrat senators. It's all
about power. And then finally she says, we need to
fight red state cheating, we need blue states expanding their map.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Now. The amazing thing on this.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Democrats have excelled at jerrymandering for a long long time.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You know. All you have to do is look at
New England.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Let's decades, by the way, when you say a long
long time.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
This is something I was talking about this this last
week with some students and they asked me about why
a Republican you know, taking so much power. They're using
my where I was born in Tennessee is a new example.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
They're just shocked.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I was like, do you know how many other state
democratic states out there have been doing this for decades?
And I went through that list, which I think you're
about to give, which we should, and they're like, we
didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm like, so, let me get this straight.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You're all spun up now about Tennessee and they're redistricting,
but you're not spun up about the decades of disenfranchisement
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Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, let's go through it. Connecticut votes forty two percent Republican.
How many Republican members of Congress are there?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Zero? Maine?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Maine votes forty six percent Republican. How many Republican members
of Congress are there?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I'm gonna go with zero again.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
New Mexico forty six percent Republican. How many congressional seats
is it zero?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
New Hampshire forty eight percent Republican, forty eight percent Republican.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
How many members of Congress?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Zero?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Rhode Island forty two percent Republican? How many members of Congress?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Let's go at the trend of zero again?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Vermont thirty two percent Republican. How many members of Congress zero?
Hawaii thirty eight percent Republican? How many members of Congress zero?
Delaware forty two percent Republican?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
How many members of Congress.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I'm gonna go with zero again.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
And how about Massachusetts thirty six percent Republican? How many
members of Congress zero? You are exactly there. It is
like in every one of those states. By the way,
when the Democrats cheat, they take every seat. They don't
leave anything there.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, they leave no doubt that they're cheating.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
They don't even say, let's give a token one just
in case so we're above reproach or we have an
argument to fight back.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
They're like, we don't even care.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Look you look at Virginia, Virginia.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Virginia right now is about forty five percent of the
voters in Virginia vote Republican. The current congressional map is
six Democrats and five Republicans, which about refines flex where
the voters are. What did Abigail Spamberger and the Democrats do?
They redrew the map to make it ten to one
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instead of six', five which was a fair and reasonable
representation of the. State they wanted. Ten if they could
have drawn eleven zero they would. Have there were just
too Many. Republicans they had to find one district and
pack them all in that. One, now their plan to
jerrymander the living daylights out Of, virginia it ran into a,
problem and the problem was The Virginia Supreme, court WHICH
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i note was appointed By, democrats folks Like Mark, warner
the Current, senator as A democrat governor put those justices
on the. Bench The Virginia Supreme court struck it, down
said you have violated The Virginia Supreme. Court you got
to go with your current, map And democrats quite literally
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lost their ever loving.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Mind.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
HERE i want you to put up on the screen
for those who are watching on YouTube from The, Governor Abigail,
spanberger because this shows the same thing As. Kamala they
want power and if they're denied, power they get angry
and they lash.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Out here's what she. Said.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Quote The Supreme court of The United states has now
joined The Supreme court Of virginia in choosing to nullify
an election in the votes of more.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Than three Million.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Virginians These virginians made their voices, heard casting their ballots
in good faith to push back against a president who
said he's entitled to more seats In congress.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Before voters go to the.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Polls as, GOVERNOR i will make sure voters know when
and how to cast their votes this, year because our
votes are how we choose.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
The representation we.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Deserve, now mind, you she's lashing out at The Supreme
court of The United states because after The Virginia Supreme
court said what you guys did violates The Virginia, Constitution
virginia appealed to THE Us Supreme. Court, now by the,
way they're left Wing Virginia Democrat Attorney GENERAL J, jones
the guy who fantasized about murdering the children of A
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republican state. Representative he, is among other, things apparently not
a very good, lawyer because his pleadings to The Supreme
court misspelled the Word, virginia, yes and misspelled the word senator.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Senator it was.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Instead it's a hard one to, spell, sir hard one to.
Spell you get that one wrong all the.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Time but you, know a buddy of mine says he's a,
senator half, man half of. Course AND i gotta, say
if You're Attorney general Of, virginia you don't necessarily need
to know how to spell super, califragilestic, sbladocious but you
probably should know how to Spell. Virginia their appeal went
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to The Supreme. Court, ben how many justices do you
think agreed With Abbiel spamberger And virginia that they they
should be able to break The virginia constitution and ram
through a ten to one.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Map i'm i gonna, say maybe one nut job on
The Supreme, court BUT i could say only one went with,
him and my right.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Wrong you are.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Wrong virginia got a total of zero, justices not A.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
NAZI i was, saying there was one crazy on there
that would have been, like all, right, Fine so it was.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Unanimous it was.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Unanimous AND i got to, say if you're sitting there
as a Crazy democrat and The Supreme court unanimously rejects
what you're, doing if Even Katanji Brown jackson there says whoa,
there whoa? There, no, no, no, no we have this
thing called, law so, no thank. You that's got to say,
Something but yet to democrats it does.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
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That's compassion dot. COM i think, that especially if people
that listen to show that are, younger they hear this
argument on, Statehood democrats are really leaning into. This it's
becoming an election year issue multiple times over, now and
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the argument that young people, hear and the one that
they then make is, well they're not being fairly. Represented
Puerto rico rushing D c, representation our our taxation with that,
representation why should we not make sure these people have
a voice In, washington D.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
C explain to people listening.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Now how to defend against that argument that's being made
by the, left because they are really pushing this on
colleges and college students and young people in this.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Country, well, look The constitution explicitly CREATED, dc and the
framers of The constitution wanted our nation's capital to be
a federal district that was not part of any. State
they didn't want any state to be favored because The
congress was, there because The president was, there and so
they carved out the lines of The district Of. Columbia
was originally carved out to be ten miles by ten,
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miles and then what ultimately happened is they gave the
southern portion of, it everything south of The Potomac, river
they gave To. Virginia so what used to be D
C arlington used to be part of D.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
C it was given To.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Virginia so it's now that ten mile by ten mile
diamond kind of chopped the bottom portion chopped off by
The Potomac, river and the idea of The framers was
quite clear that it was not. Fair if you had
a state that had our, capital that state would have
advantages that no other state. Had the only Reason democrats
want D c to be a state is because D
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c would immediately become the most liberal state in The.
Union it would Make california And illinois And New york
look look conservative by. Comparison they want two New democrat,
senators they want one New Democrat house. Member they want
to be radical and extreme because and notice it's not
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about any. Substance go back To kamala's. List is there
a single policy she listed that impacts your life that
is about your, job about your, kids it is about your. Family,
no the only only focus is. Power by the, way IF,
dc if they were likely to Vote, republican you would
See democrats saying MAKING dc a state Is Jim.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Crow.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah Puerto rico is actually a little more. Complicated Because
Puerto rico has Elected. Republicans The democrats Assume Puerto rico
will elect To democrat. Senators they might be, right but
they might be. Wrong if If Puerto rico became a,
state we would fight and vigorously. CONTESTED i don't know
if we could prevail on that or, not but their. Assumption,
look The, democrats if there's one essential feature about, them they're.
(29:38):
Racists they believe All African americans must Be. Democrats that's
why they Hate Clarence thomas because in their, view he's
a trader to his. Race they believe All hispanics must Be.
Democrats that's why they hate, me because they Think i'm
a trader to my. Race and so their view Of
Puerto ricans is you must Be democrats because, we The Democrat,
party control.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
You i'm not.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Sure that would play out. Out but, Look Puerto rico
is a. Territory it has a different. History and by the,
way the people Of Puerto rico have long been divided
on the question of whether to become a state or.
Not at various times in, elections they've had options of,
Statehood they've had options of. Independence there's some In Puerto
rico that want to be a separate and independent. Nation
then the third, option which is what they have.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Now they're a.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Commonwealth they get some of the benefits Of american, citizenship
but yet they're not fully a, state and the people
Of Puerto rico have long disagreed on. That democrats don't
care about any of. That all they want is. Power
And i'll point to another. Instance we've talked About commlin,
nationwide we've talked About virginia And Governor spanberger both gone.
(30:42):
Wild and then you look At republicans At. California so all,
right here's a story in The New York Post bay.
Sixteenth california sees massive surge In republican votes as more
than nine hundred thousand ballots already. Returned could the state
Of california actually be turning?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Red?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Early voters in The Golden state have already returned more
than nine hundred thousand ballots ahead of The june second,
primary showing a massive surge In republican votes compared to
four years ago for the governor's. RACE a post On
saturday from the research Firm Political DATA pdi showed that
out of nine hundred and five eight hundred and eighty
nine ballots that have been, returned thirty seven percent were From,
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republicans With republican returns up eleven percent compared to the
same stage of the twenty twenty two, midterms So republican
votes up eleven. Percent more shocking is the fact that
the data showed forty one percent Of democrats who over
returned their, ballots down thirteen points from the same moment
in the primary election four years. Ago So republicans up eleven,
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Percent democrats down thirteen. Percent now we all know because
they tell us. Incessantly democrats are committed to, democracy and
they beat their chest when they say, it and they
get a little tear in the corner of their. Eyes
it is democracy with a trademark on. It it is
CAPITAL d. Democracy and by, democracy what do they? Mean
(32:07):
they mean any decision making apparatus that Elects.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Democrats that's how they define.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Democracy if the voters vote for something they don't, like
to hell with the. Voters The democrats want what they.
Want So Gavin, Newsom california has this really weird system
of electing governors where you vote for their like sixty
candidates on the, bout Both republicans And. Democrats they got
rid of a, primary and the way it, works the
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top two candidate vote getters then go to a. Runoff
there are right now two Strong republicans who are in
the top Four Steve hilton And Chad. Debanco those two
could possibly end up one and. Two if that, happened
it would mean the runoff would have Only. Republicans by the,
way it Was democrats who designed this system because they
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wanted every election to feature just Two. Democrats they wanted
to ensure that there wasn't even A republican on the
general election. Ballot they assumed they could take the top
two seats and just clean close.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Every, time, yeah every time in this and then they
never have to worry about A republican winning.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Again you.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Know and it turns out when you do things like
let your city burn to the, ground not fill in the,
water let homeless people on the, streets let needles and,
robbery and abuse the economic system so, much propose a
wealth tax to confiscate people's, wealth destroy, jobs cause a
massive exodus of people Fleeing. California it turns out when
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you really really really screw up running the state or
running say the city Of Los, angeles eventually people. Notice
and so Here's gavin NEWS i want you to listen
To Gavin newsome talking about what would happen If republicans
win the top two spots in the. Election If california
voters choose to Vote, republican.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
We all have agencies we can shape the. Future there's
still a lot Of, Look i've said this, Before saul,
REPEATED i don't anticipate this need to be the, case
but there is a blake break the glass, scenario and
there's many people that have a deep understanding of what
it would look like If democrats were locked, out and
we're gonna do everything to make sure that doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Happen i'll leave that, so in other, words we're just
gonna rig. Elections is that basically the? RESPONSE i don't.
Worry this may happen, once but it'll never happen.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Again senator look what he called the break the glass.
Scenario understand what he's saying to the. Voters if you
pesky voters Vote, republican and if the top two candidates
that come into the runoff are Both, republicans he will
quote break the. Glass AND i don't know what the
heck that. Means what throw one of The republicans out
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of the, election cancel the, ELECTION i mean anything he's talking.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
About do you know what you just?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Witnessed there a promise of an insurrection that, is in
fact WHAT i.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Mean it's a fair way of saying.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It you're basically, saying even if you guys decided to
go a different, way we won't let.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You he, said we have the, agencies we have the.
Power there will break the glass scenarios If republicans. Win
he's literally declaring war on the. Voters he's, saying you
voters have no say in the, state and If god,
forbid from his, perspective you choose to vote For, republicans
you deny us. Power we will use our power to
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crush the. Voters this Is democrats gone. Wild and Look Gavin,
Newsom Abigail, Spamberger Kamala, harris they're all doing the same.
Thing they're freaking, out their panicky and they're, saying we
got to keep changing the rules so that under no
circumstances it possible that we. Lose that's, dangerous it's, cynical
it is explicitly it is kamma to put it on
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assault on the constitution and an assault on. Democracy and
this is where Today's democrats.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Are it really.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
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we've got Kamala Harris saying out loud what the future
of the Democratic Party is all about.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
If you'll just let them have control of the house
in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Well, it's Democrats gone wild. If you remember those those
spring break ads that would feature a bunch of scantily
clad young ladies on the beach, running around getting into trouble, Well,
that sadly is the state of the current Democrat Party.
They are at Fort Lauderdale, they are chugging beers, they
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are in a panic.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
And it really is quite striking.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So six weeks ago, the Democrats were supreme in their confidence.
They knew that they hated Donald J.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
They believe the American people were gonna rise up in
a giant repudiation, a giant roar of orange man bad.
And then suddenly a funny thing happened on the way
to the office, And the numbers are not backing up
what the Democrats hoped. In particular, they're redistricting plans to
try to steal seats and get a majority of the
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House of Representatives by dramatically gerrymandering blue states that crashed
to the ground and failed mightily.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
And now what we're seeing is really quite amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
At the same time, in California, they're looking at the
very real possibility that a Republican governor will be elected
in California. In fact, we could see a scenario where
the only two people who make the runoff are both Republicans.
That has California Democrats freaking out. We're gonna break it
all down, but we're gonna start with our favorite someone
(02:01):
who told us to use our own words. There are
a lot of people saying she was the most qualified
person ever to run for president of the United States.
You know, Kamala I will say this. She has insights
no other human being on planet Earth has because out
of eight billion people. That idea did not occur to
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anyone else other than Yessa. But Kamala now is promising
if the Democrats win a nice, quiet, middle of the
road moderate agenda.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Here, give a listen.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
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Speaker 1 (04:41):
All right.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So here it is Kamala Harris in her own words
center here it's really amazing her plans for the country.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Say, look, this is a moment where there are no
bad ideas, no bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like
to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm,
we talk about what we need to do and think
about doing around the electoral college. We talk about the
idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court.
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We invite a conversation about multi members districts. We talk about,
Look that if we win the Senate, which we should
and we will, then the Senate Judiciary Committee should have
rules that they put in place so when these people
come before as nominees to the Supreme Court and lie,
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that they are held to account and consequence, not just
that somebody goes on cable news and says they lie,
but that there are rules in place to actually penalize
people for lying to a Senate Judiciary committee. That we
agree that it is right to have ethics rules for
Supreme Court justices and let's put those in place. Let's
(05:57):
talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and DC. These are
the things I think that we've got to do. We've
got to neutralize these red states from cheating, including blue
states expanding their maps and all of this, I think is, look,
we gotta fight fire with fire. These folks are playing
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to win. We gotta play to win.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Center.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
There's a lot of things that she laid out, and
I think we should go through them because it's important.
But one of the ones that was obviously the most
glaring to me is not only does she want to
dismantle the Supreme Court anytime that the Democratic Party gets
a ruling they don't like, they actually want to harass
Supreme Court justice so that they could in essence kick
them off the court and then pack the court if
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they still don't get what they want. That would completely
undo the United States of America and our system of
government as we know it now.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Well, Ben, when they tell you who they are, believe them.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
What is striking about the list that she laid out.
She did not lay out a single thing that was
a policy that affects you and your family. She didn't
say we want to arrest more criminals and keep your
family safe. She certainly didn't say we want to secure
the border. She didn't want to say we want to
reduce taxes or make it easier for small businesses to
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create jobs. Those are all policies that would make a difference.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
For you and your family.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Understand, the only thing Democrats are concerned with is getting
in power and staying in power. Every single thing she
listed was single mindedly focused on one thing, rigging elections,
so Democrats can never ever lose. You know, she began
by saying, they're no bad ideas, and you know, she
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quickly disproved herself because every word out of her mouth
was a really bad idea. I want to go through them,
and I want to go through them. Actually wrote down
what she said because it was astonishingly candid. You know, Kamala,
there are a gifted politicians. Bill Clinton is a gifted politician,
Barack Obama is a gifted politician, and then there are
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staggeringly non gifted politicians, and that would be Kamala. And
one of the reasons that she is so non gifted is,
like the rest of them, she knows what their radical
agenda is. She's just not clever enough to not say
it out loud. So y, she says the quiet part
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that the rest of them are thinking. Let's be clear,
this is what Barack Obama wants to do, but he
frames it we've got to save democracy. Kamala doesn't put
any pretty shine on it. So she started off with
ending the electoral college. The electoral college is how we
elect the president. What she wants to do is take
away the influence of small state. She wants to take
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away the influence. She wants the president elected by New
York and California and Illinois, the giant states. And if
you happen to live in a little state, she wants
you to have zero influence in who the president is.
That's where she started.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And by the way, there's a lot of little states.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So people understand that she would get rid of the
North Dakota, South Dakota, a lot of the southern states.
Like she would just say, you guys don't even matter anymore.
That I just want you to understand when we say
smaller states, we're talking about a lot of the map
or to America.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
We're talking Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, all of
those become largely irrelevant. We're talking about Indiana, Missouri, even
a Tennis.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
To Mississippi, even Tennessee could be in there.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
No, no, this is a presidential election that is decided
by New York and California and Illinois and Texas and Florida,
and you would have presidential candidates spending almost all their
time in those five states because that's where the bulk
of the population is, and ignoring eighty percent of the
states because that's not where the population is.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Why is she doing that?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Because the Democrat machines that have destroyed New York City,
that have destroyed Los Angeles, that have destroyed San franci
She feels they can crank up enough votes that it
can overwhelm even if Democrats only win five states. She
thinks they can drive enough numbers in those five states.
What's the next thing, she said, Supreme Court reform, Expand
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the court. So, Kamalin, the Democrats are big mad. They're
big mad that we have a Supreme Court that's following
the law and is not willing to roll over to
Democrat power grabs. And so their answer is to take
the last bad idea they had. You know, FDR tried
to do this when the Supreme Court struck down several
elements of the new Deal.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
He came up with packing the court. He wanted to
grow it from.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Nine justices to fifteen justices. He had a Democrat supermajority
in both the House and Senate, and the Democrats at
the time there were responsible Democrats who said, no, that
is an abuse of power, that's not consistent with the Constitution.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
We're not going to do it.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
The difference is today's Democrats there are no reasonable Democrats.
They just want power. They want the Supreme Court to
be a partisan arm of the Democrat Party. What's the
next thing, she said, multi member districts. Understand, everything she's
saying is tearing up the Constitution and in particular, the
constitutional mechanism for democracy. How we elect our leader. She
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doesn't want one House member representing one district. Why well,
because in the last election the Democrats lost, and in
this next election there's a very real chance the Democrats
are going to lose. So she wants to make Downtown
New York elect a whole bunch of different Democrat members.
She wants Los Angeles to elect a whole bunch of
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different Democrat members, she wants Chicago to elect a whole
bunch of different Democrat members. And the whole idea of
one man, one vote, the whole idea of a representative
representing a district. She is saying scrap the constitution. That
is the central theme. All right, Now, let's shift to
the Judiciary Committee. She says, we need rules, rules in
(12:03):
the Judiciary Committee so that when you lie to the
Judiciary Committee there are consequences and you penalize them. Well, look,
I gotta admit I didn't have this on my Bengo card.
But Kamala Harris has just come out strongly in favor
of the Trump DOJ prosecuting James Comy, because James Comy
is being prosecuted for lying under oath to the Senate
(12:26):
Judiciary Committee. To me, I asked him questions, he flat
out lied. That is the basis for the indictment that
is preceding. By the way, the Democrats, including Kamala Harris,
let their hair on fire and said it was horrible
that he was being prosecuted for lying to the Judiciary Committee.
So understand what she really means is she wants a
partisan Democrat Department of Justice to prosecute conservative justices. That
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is what the objective is. Not enough to pack the court.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And by the way, that's to intimidate rule their actual rulings. Right,
you stay in line, you stay in this lane. If
you want to stay on the Supreme Court, and if
you get outside of that lane, we'll just come after
you and destroy you.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
But by the way, never once, as Kamala suggested prosecuting
Anthony Fauci, who lied repeatedly before Congress, who denied, understand Fauci.
The evidence indicates that Fauci paid for the funding for
the research at the Wuhan Institute for Virology, that is
where they created the COVID virus at all likelihood, and
(13:28):
created it through what's called gain of function research, which
is taking existing viruses in nature and modifying them to
make the more transmissible, to make them more deadly, to
make the more targeted towards humans. The evidence clearly indicates
that Fauci cut the checks and paid for it, and
then he went before Congress that he lied over and
(13:50):
over and over again. And by the way, you want
proof of that, what did Joe Biden do on the
way out? He pardoned Fauci for lying to Congress. And
yet when Kamala says she wants penalties for lying to Congress,
she is very specific what she wants. She wants to
go after Supreme Court justices. She disagrees with what's next
(14:11):
Supreme Court ethics rules. This is another big bugaboo of
the left. By the way she said, we need to
create Supreme Court ethics rules. Well, you know what, we
have them. We have had them for a very long time.
This is a not very veiled attack at Clarence Thomas.
And this is something we've talked about on this podcast before.
(14:31):
It's something we'll talk about again in August when when
my latest.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I was going to ask you, is this subject in
the book that you're writing about Clarence Thomas And if
you say no, you need to add it in there.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I just want to be clear about that.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Of course it is. It's a major part of the book.
The book comes out in August. It is called Going
Further the Incomparable Clarence Thomas. It tells his life story,
but one of the things that talks about is how
the left hates him so much that they've gone after him.
And there are lots of different bases, but one of
the things they say is ethics rules. Well, the Spring
(15:04):
Court ethics rules for a long time, for decades said
that you do not disclose personal lodging or travel. So
if you stay at someone's home, if someone gives you
a ride, if someone feeds you a meal, you don't
disclose that.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
That's the way the rules are written.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Clarence Thomas received advice from the lawyers who advise on
these matters and was told follow the rules, so don't
disclose personal hospitality. Well, the Democrats have gone crazy because
over the years Justice Thomas and his wife Jenny have
taken a number of trips, and in particular with Harlan Crowe,
who is a real estate developer in Dallas. Someone's a
good friend of mine and has taken trips with him,
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has gone camping with him, has had meals with him.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They're friends, by the way, that's the part that they
were close from this. They're actual dear friends of of
the Thomas.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yes, and they've attacked Clarence Thomas. Now Number one, nobody
disputes that the ethics rules said, do not disclose personal hospitality,
lodging and travel like that's admitted Number two. The other
Supreme Court justices, the liberal Supreme Court justices, all did
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the same thing and have a lot more of it.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Bryer, Katanji Brown, Jackson, Sonya Sotomayor
and yet the left doesn't care at all. Stephen Ginsburg
had roughly four times as many trips, including international travel,
paid by the Pritzker family, which are Democrat billionaire politicians,
(16:37):
and yet.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Not a peep.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
So understand when she says we and by the way,
they change the Supreme Court ethics rules so that now
you disclose that travel and lodging, so they all do
it now. Before it didn't cover it, then they changed it.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Now it does.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But the hypocrisy is she only cares about Clarence Thomas.
Has nothing to do with the fact that he's gone
at a camping trip with a Dolls real estate developers.
Has everything to do with the fact that she hates, hates,
hates that he is faithful to the Constitution. And it's
even worse, there is a level of vitriol and animosity
to Justice Thomas because he's African American and.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Dares to be servative.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
And so that's what she means there. What are the
last couple of things.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
She says, statehood for Puerto Rico and DC Why because
they believe that'll give them four Democrat senators. It's all
about power. And then finally she says, we need to
fight red state cheating, we need blue states expanding their map.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Now. The amazing thing on this.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Democrats have excelled at jerrymandering for a long long time.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You know. All you have to do is look at
New England.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Let's decades, by the way, when you say a long
long time.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
This is something I was talking about this this last
week with some students and they asked me about why
a Republican you know, taking so much power. They're using
my where I was born in Tennessee is a new example.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
They're just shocked.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I was like, do you know how many other state
democratic states out there have been doing this for decades?
And I went through that list, which I think you're
about to give, which we should, and they're like, we
didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I'm like, so, let me get this straight.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You're all spun up now about Tennessee and they're redistricting,
but you're not spun up about the decades of disenfranchisement
as you just described to me in a multitude of
states up in the Northeast. And it was just total, blank, stared,
dead silence. All right, before we move on, I want
to just take a moment and I want to talk
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Speaker 3 (20:35):
Well, let's go through it. Connecticut votes forty two percent Republican.
How many Republican members of Congress are there?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Zero? Maine?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Maine votes forty six percent Republican. How many Republican members
of Congress are there?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I'm gonna go with zero again.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
New Mexico forty six percent Republican. How many congressional seats
is it zero?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
New Hampshire forty eight percent Republican, forty eight percent Republican.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
How many members of Congress?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Zero?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Rhode Island forty two percent Republican? How many members of Congress?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Let's go at the trend of zero again?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Vermont thirty two percent Republican. How many members of Congress zero?
Hawaii thirty eight percent Republican? How many members of Congress zero?
Delaware forty two percent Republican?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
How many members of Congress.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I'm gonna go with zero again.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
And how about Massachusetts thirty six percent Republican? How many
members of Congress zero? You are exactly there. It is
like in every one of those states. By the way,
when the Democrats cheat, they take every seat. They don't
leave anything there.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, they leave no doubt that they're cheating.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
They don't even say, let's give a token one just
in case so we're above reproach or we have an
argument to fight back.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
They're like, we don't even care.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Look you look at Virginia, Virginia.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Virginia right now is about forty five percent of the
voters in Virginia vote Republican. The current congressional map is
six Democrats and five Republicans, which about refines flex where
the voters are. What did Abigail Spamberger and the Democrats do?
They redrew the map to make it ten to one
(22:10):
instead of six', five which was a fair and reasonable
representation of the. State they wanted. Ten if they could
have drawn eleven zero they would. Have there were just
too Many. Republicans they had to find one district and
pack them all in that. One, now their plan to
jerrymander the living daylights out Of, virginia it ran into a,
problem and the problem was The Virginia Supreme, court WHICH
(22:33):
i note was appointed By, democrats folks Like Mark, warner
the Current, senator as A democrat governor put those justices
on the. Bench The Virginia Supreme court struck it, down
said you have violated The Virginia Supreme. Court you got
to go with your current, map And democrats quite literally
(22:54):
lost their ever loving.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Mind.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
HERE i want you to put up on the screen
for those who are watching on YouTube from The, Governor Abigail,
spanberger because this shows the same thing As. Kamala they
want power and if they're denied, power they get angry
and they lash.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Out here's what she. Said.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Quote The Supreme court of The United states has now
joined The Supreme court Of virginia in choosing to nullify
an election in the votes of more.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Than three Million.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Virginians These virginians made their voices, heard casting their ballots
in good faith to push back against a president who
said he's entitled to more seats In congress.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Before voters go to the.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Polls as, GOVERNOR i will make sure voters know when
and how to cast their votes this, year because our
votes are how we choose.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
The representation we.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Deserve, now mind, you she's lashing out at The Supreme
court of The United states because after The Virginia Supreme
court said what you guys did violates The Virginia, Constitution
virginia appealed to THE Us Supreme. Court, now by the,
way they're left Wing Virginia Democrat Attorney GENERAL J, jones
the guy who fantasized about murdering the children of A
(24:05):
republican state. Representative he, is among other, things apparently not
a very good, lawyer because his pleadings to The Supreme
court misspelled the Word, virginia, yes and misspelled the word senator.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Senator it was.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Instead it's a hard one to, spell, sir hard one to.
Spell you get that one wrong all the.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Time but you, know a buddy of mine says he's a,
senator half, man half of. Course AND i gotta, say
if You're Attorney general Of, virginia you don't necessarily need
to know how to spell super, califragilestic, sbladocious but you
probably should know how to Spell. Virginia their appeal went
(24:47):
to The Supreme. Court, ben how many justices do you
think agreed With Abbiel spamberger And virginia that they they
should be able to break The virginia constitution and ram
through a ten to one.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Map i'm i gonna, say maybe one nut job on
The Supreme, court BUT i could say only one went with,
him and my right.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Wrong you are.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Wrong virginia got a total of zero, justices not A.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
NAZI i was, saying there was one crazy on there
that would have been, like all, right, Fine so it was.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Unanimous it was.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Unanimous AND i got to, say if you're sitting there
as a Crazy democrat and The Supreme court unanimously rejects
what you're, doing if Even Katanji Brown jackson there says whoa,
there whoa? There, no, no, no, no we have this
thing called, law so, no thank. You that's got to say,
Something but yet to democrats it does.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
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That's compassion dot. COM i think, that especially if people
that listen to show that are, younger they hear this
argument on, Statehood democrats are really leaning into. This it's
becoming an election year issue multiple times over, now and
(27:07):
the argument that young people, hear and the one that
they then make is, well they're not being fairly. Represented
Puerto rico rushing D c, representation our our taxation with that,
representation why should we not make sure these people have
a voice In, washington D.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
C explain to people listening.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Now how to defend against that argument that's being made
by the, left because they are really pushing this on
colleges and college students and young people in this.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Country, well, look The constitution explicitly CREATED, dc and the
framers of The constitution wanted our nation's capital to be
a federal district that was not part of any. State
they didn't want any state to be favored because The
congress was, there because The president was, there and so
they carved out the lines of The district Of. Columbia
was originally carved out to be ten miles by ten,
(27:56):
miles and then what ultimately happened is they gave the
southern portion of, it everything south of The Potomac, river
they gave To. Virginia so what used to be D
C arlington used to be part of D.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
C it was given To.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Virginia so it's now that ten mile by ten mile
diamond kind of chopped the bottom portion chopped off by
The Potomac, river and the idea of The framers was
quite clear that it was not. Fair if you had
a state that had our, capital that state would have
advantages that no other state. Had the only Reason democrats
want D c to be a state is because D
(28:31):
c would immediately become the most liberal state in The.
Union it would Make california And illinois And New york
look look conservative by. Comparison they want two New democrat,
senators they want one New Democrat house. Member they want
to be radical and extreme because and notice it's not
(28:52):
about any. Substance go back To kamala's. List is there
a single policy she listed that impacts your life that
is about your, job about your, kids it is about your. Family,
no the only only focus is. Power by the, way IF,
dc if they were likely to Vote, republican you would
See democrats saying MAKING dc a state Is Jim.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Crow.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah Puerto rico is actually a little more. Complicated Because
Puerto rico has Elected. Republicans The democrats Assume Puerto rico
will elect To democrat. Senators they might be, right but
they might be. Wrong if If Puerto rico became a,
state we would fight and vigorously. CONTESTED i don't know
if we could prevail on that or, not but their. Assumption,
look The, democrats if there's one essential feature about, them they're.
(29:38):
Racists they believe All African americans must Be. Democrats that's
why they Hate Clarence thomas because in their, view he's
a trader to his. Race they believe All hispanics must Be.
Democrats that's why they hate, me because they Think i'm
a trader to my. Race and so their view Of
Puerto ricans is you must Be democrats because, we The Democrat,
party control.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
You i'm not.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Sure that would play out. Out but, Look Puerto rico
is a. Territory it has a different. History and by the,
way the people Of Puerto rico have long been divided
on the question of whether to become a state or.
Not at various times in, elections they've had options of,
Statehood they've had options of. Independence there's some In Puerto
rico that want to be a separate and independent. Nation
then the third, option which is what they have.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Now they're a.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Commonwealth they get some of the benefits Of american, citizenship
but yet they're not fully a, state and the people
Of Puerto rico have long disagreed on. That democrats don't
care about any of. That all they want is. Power
And i'll point to another. Instance we've talked About commlin,
nationwide we've talked About virginia And Governor spanberger both gone.
(30:42):
Wild and then you look At republicans At. California so all,
right here's a story in The New York Post bay.
Sixteenth california sees massive surge In republican votes as more
than nine hundred thousand ballots already. Returned could the state
Of california actually be turning?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Red?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Early voters in The Golden state have already returned more
than nine hundred thousand ballots ahead of The june second,
primary showing a massive surge In republican votes compared to
four years ago for the governor's. RACE a post On
saturday from the research Firm Political DATA pdi showed that
out of nine hundred and five eight hundred and eighty
nine ballots that have been, returned thirty seven percent were From,
(31:22):
republicans With republican returns up eleven percent compared to the
same stage of the twenty twenty two, midterms So republican
votes up eleven. Percent more shocking is the fact that
the data showed forty one percent Of democrats who over
returned their, ballots down thirteen points from the same moment
in the primary election four years. Ago So republicans up eleven,
(31:45):
Percent democrats down thirteen. Percent now we all know because
they tell us. Incessantly democrats are committed to, democracy and
they beat their chest when they say, it and they
get a little tear in the corner of their. Eyes
it is democracy with a trademark on. It it is
CAPITAL d. Democracy and by, democracy what do they? Mean
(32:07):
they mean any decision making apparatus that Elects.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Democrats that's how they define.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Democracy if the voters vote for something they don't, like
to hell with the. Voters The democrats want what they.
Want So Gavin, Newsom california has this really weird system
of electing governors where you vote for their like sixty
candidates on the, bout Both republicans And. Democrats they got
rid of a, primary and the way it, works the
(32:33):
top two candidate vote getters then go to a. Runoff
there are right now two Strong republicans who are in
the top Four Steve hilton And Chad. Debanco those two
could possibly end up one and. Two if that, happened
it would mean the runoff would have Only. Republicans by the,
way it Was democrats who designed this system because they
(32:56):
wanted every election to feature just Two. Democrats they wanted
to ensure that there wasn't even A republican on the
general election. Ballot they assumed they could take the top
two seats and just clean close.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Every, time, yeah every time in this and then they
never have to worry about A republican winning.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Again you.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Know and it turns out when you do things like
let your city burn to the, ground not fill in the,
water let homeless people on the, streets let needles and,
robbery and abuse the economic system so, much propose a
wealth tax to confiscate people's, wealth destroy, jobs cause a
massive exodus of people Fleeing. California it turns out when
(33:31):
you really really really screw up running the state or
running say the city Of Los, angeles eventually people. Notice
and so Here's gavin NEWS i want you to listen
To Gavin newsome talking about what would happen If republicans
win the top two spots in the. Election If california
voters choose to Vote, republican.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
We all have agencies we can shape the. Future there's
still a lot Of, Look i've said this, Before saul,
REPEATED i don't anticipate this need to be the, case
but there is a blake break the glass, scenario and
there's many people that have a deep understanding of what
it would look like If democrats were locked, out and
we're gonna do everything to make sure that doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Happen i'll leave that, so in other, words we're just
gonna rig. Elections is that basically the? RESPONSE i don't.
Worry this may happen, once but it'll never happen.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Again senator look what he called the break the glass.
Scenario understand what he's saying to the. Voters if you
pesky voters Vote, republican and if the top two candidates
that come into the runoff are Both, republicans he will
quote break the. Glass AND i don't know what the
heck that. Means what throw one of The republicans out
(34:39):
of the, election cancel the, ELECTION i mean anything he's talking.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
About do you know what you just?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Witnessed there a promise of an insurrection that, is in
fact WHAT i.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Mean it's a fair way of saying.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It you're basically, saying even if you guys decided to
go a different, way we won't let.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You he, said we have the, agencies we have the.
Power there will break the glass scenarios If republicans. Win
he's literally declaring war on the. Voters he's, saying you
voters have no say in the, state and If god,
forbid from his, perspective you choose to vote For, republicans
you deny us. Power we will use our power to
(35:15):
crush the. Voters this Is democrats gone. Wild and Look Gavin,
Newsom Abigail, Spamberger Kamala, harris they're all doing the same.
Thing they're freaking, out their panicky and they're, saying we
got to keep changing the rules so that under no
circumstances it possible that we. Lose that's, dangerous it's, cynical
it is explicitly it is kamma to put it on
(35:37):
assault on the constitution and an assault on. Democracy and
this is where Today's democrats.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Are it really.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
IS i hope every one of you listening will hit,
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