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We begin with the ongoing government shutdown as the fault of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party.
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They claim Democrats are panicking and have no political “off-ramp,” predicting that the standoff will end with “complete capitulation” from Democrats.
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The conversation includes discussion of polling data (allegedly showing poor favorability ratings for Democrats), arguments that Democrats are “weak” and “extreme,” and mockery of Democratic leaders through AI-generated memes that portray them wearing sombreros and mustaches.
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Cruz and Ferguson frame the situation as a political win for Republicans, portraying Democrats as incoherent and divided, and suggesting that the shutdown reveals the public’s indifference to big government.
2. The Brett Kavanaugh Assassination Attempt and Sentencing
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The second segment focuses on a federal judge’s sentencing of Nicholas Roske, who had plotted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Cruz and Ferguson express outrage over what they claim was an unjustly lenient eight-year sentence, arguing that it reflects “left-wing bias” and preferential treatment because the assailant was transgender.
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They sharply criticize Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee, for what they call “ideological” leniency, with Cruz suggesting she should be impeached.
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The hosts expand the issue into a broader critique of Democratic “soft-on-crime” policies and claim a cultural double standard favoring certain identities (e.g., transgender individuals).
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The conversation also ties the Kavanaugh incident to Democratic rhetoric, suggesting it encourages “left-wing violence.”
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in as Verdic with Center, Ted Kruz Ben Ferguson
with you. And there are certain shows when we get
ready and we're getting everything in line before the show,
you just say, yeah, this is an important one. We've
got two big topics we're going to be talking about,
including the big backfire by Democrats.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
So today is day six of the Schumer shutdown, and
I got to say it is not going well for Democrats.
Democrats are panicking. The American people recognize that they have
shut the government down in an act of petulance, in
an act of Chuck Schumer trying to cover his left
wing with the crazy activists and his party and the
(00:40):
Democrats don't have it out, and it's not going well.
The American people get the joke. We're going to break
that down and tell you how this is going to end,
and it is going to end, and spoiler alert, it's
going to end with complete and total capitulation from the Democrats,
which is part of why Schumer and the Democrats are
panicking because they don't see an alternative to that. Secondly,
(01:00):
we're going to talk about a story from this past
week that, to be honest, just pisses me off, really
made me angry when it broke. Which is the deranged
killer who went from California to Maryland to murder Justice
Brett Kavanaugh. He was sentenced this WEEKDJ sought thirty years
(01:23):
for an attempted murderer of a Supreme Court justice, a
very reasonable sentence. A Biden left wing judge instead deviated
downwards twenty two years, sentenced him to just eight years.
Why because the murderer is transgender, and so it's okay
apparently from the left wing's view, if you are trying
(01:45):
to assassinate a sitting Supreme Court justice, if you happen
to be transgender, there woke politics trumps any sense of
law and order or justice. It's an outrageous story. We're
going to give you all the details.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
If you've ever listened to the show before, you know
I'm a big advocate for the second and I've shared
on numerous occasions how carrying a firearm literally saved my
life from a gang related attack. But many of you
out there may not feel comfortable carrying a firearm. Maybe
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(02:17):
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option for protection. Josh, this next one is incredibly sad,
(02:37):
and I want you to talk about the father that
was involved with a shooting.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Absolutely so. In this particular case, sixteen year old girl
was coming home late one night, about three am in
the morning, entering through the garage. Unfortunately, the father hears
the noise in the garage, grabts his gun, goes out there,
sees a dark figure walking through the garage, points that
gun fires only that point, realizing that he had just
killed his sixteen year old daughter. This is an illustration
(03:03):
of where guns in homes, if not used properly, can
have dire dire consequences. In this case, one bullet killed
two lives and the lives of many others in that family.
It was incredibly tragic and unfortunately we see this situation
dozens and dozens of times every year throughout the US.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, that's one of the questions that I think some
people ask us, like, is this just a one off occurrence?
It would never happen to me. Unfortunately, as you mentioned,
this happens a lot more often than people realize.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Absolutely. Unfortunately, people think that the best tool and the
only tool for home defense is a gun, and they
get a gun, they never train with it, they never
train the tactics that requires, They don't do the other
things like flashlights and all the other things that are
necessary to make sure that they can use that gun properly.
And then that's when you have something like this happens
with a Berna. If the same thing had happened you
put a burner in his hand, his daughter would be
(03:51):
really mad. After she was done coughing for about forty
five minutes, but still alive. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
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com again, burnam by r NA dot com. All right, so, Senator,
let's take a moment and update people on where we
are with this government shut down. I was literally at
(04:17):
church on Sunday and I had countless people walk up
and they're like, dude, how long is this going to last?
When's this going to end? Is this going to be
a really long term shutdown or is this going to
be something that's going to get resolved pretty quickly. So
let's talk about you and Washington. Last week there were
votes and movement, but it did not move enough to
make the government go back to actually working for the
(04:38):
American people. When you left EC, what was a temperature
and you said, now, Democrats, you feel like are actually
freaking out.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Look, I and every other Republican has voted repeatedly to
open up the government. The House of Representatives has passed
a clean CR a clean continuing resolution that keeps the
government open, and it's the Democrats who keep voting it down.
And we're going to this week, We're going to be
back in. We'll be in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, maybe Friday.
(05:06):
Every day we will vote to open the government.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
If the Democrats don't change, every day, the Democrats will
vote to keep the government shut down. And the challenge
is they don't have an off ramp that they're trying
to make up all sorts of things to say, we're
going to shut the government down because.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Of X, because of Y.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
They're claiming it's all about that they really, really, really
want to give health care to illeial aliens. Actually, ironically,
they're not claiming that that's in the language of the
bill they keep voting for. So every Democrat keeps voting
for a bill that would provide government provided health care
for illegals, and then they're going on TV saying what us, No, no, no,
(05:49):
we don't want health care for illegals. Who's ever heard
of such a thing? That's not possibly what we want.
So there's a level of incoherence in terms of what
they're ask is. But there's a reason for that. They
don't actually.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Have a real ask.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
What they have is a political problem for Chuck Schumer.
When he last kept the government open, he came very
close to losing his job. The radical left wing rose up,
they were furious. I got to say, Bennett is astonishing.
Every single Democrat Senate candidate in the country who has
been asked, do you support Chuck Schumer to remain the
(06:23):
Democrat leader in the Senate? Not one, not a single incumbent,
not a single challenger has said yep, he's our leader.
They're all running terrified. And so you want to know
why there's a shutdown because Schumer needs to beat his chest. Now,
at some point he'll stop beating his chest and the
government will reopen. But just this week, CBS did a
(06:45):
poll and I got to say, the Democrats' numbers are
near an all time low. The democrats favorability rating is
at thirty four percent, sixty six percent unfavorable, and it
really is striking. So CBS, now this is not a
right wing poll, this is CBS. CBS asked what words
(07:10):
describe the Democrat Party? What do you think the number
one word was.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I'm going to guess it wasn't like inspirational, like hope
and change. Back in the day when Obama is around
week there you go.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Week week was sixty four percent of Americans polled said
the Democrat Party is weak. What do you think the
number two word was, I'm going to go with not strong,
extreme forty six percent set extreme, so we can extreme
are the top two words. Now after that, you've got reasonable,
(07:46):
reasonable is it forty four percent?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Strong?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
You actually asked about strong, what percent do you think,
say the Democrat Party is strong?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I mean, if I had a guess, I'd say thirty
five percent. Twenty seven. Wow, so even lower than I thought,
because thirty five was not like a good number.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
By the way, and by the way, effective, What percent
do you think say the Democrat Party is effective?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm going to say if based on what you just
said a moment ago, twenty.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Five percent, twenty six There you go. Okay, go, So
all right, think for a minute. You are running the
Democrat Party Senate campaign, the Democrat Party House campaign. Your
message right now? Two thirds of Americans think we're weak.
Half of Americans think we're extreme. We've got a full
(08:34):
quarter of Americans who think we're strong and effective. So
we're telling you quarter of Americans we are strong and effective.
Everyone else, you know, we're full of crap. That is
the definition of a political crisis. You want to know
why my colleagues are nervous. Look, I this past week
I sent out a meme. So you may have seen,
in fact, I know you've seen. Ben President Trump sent
(08:58):
out a meme of a Keem Jeffries wearing a sombrero
with a big handlebar mustache.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
By by the way so good and hilarious and just
funny and people need to calm down. But of course
Democrats start screaming racism right away.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Look it was funniest crap. It was AI.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So it had Chuck Schumer saying, all right, nobody's voting
for Democrats because they know our bs. But I have
to admit I doubled over laughing, and look, it's obviously AI.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Nobody thinks.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
The real Yeah, it's Schumer actually said we the Democrats
are are full of crap, Like it's obvious they're lying.
But what people have gone nuts about is a Keem
Jeffries is there. They're saying, Okay, nobody votes for us.
Everyone hates us. So we've decided to go all in
on free healthcare, free illegals because maybe the illegals, they
(09:48):
don't speak English, so maybe they'll support us at least
for a while, so they discover how horrible we are,
and then they won't support us either. That's a paraphrase
of what Schumer says in the video. And you have
a Keem Jeffries at a sumber and a big mustachio
next to them, and I have to admit, my team
we took a video. There are forty four Democrats who
(10:09):
keep voting to shut the government down. So we took
pictures of all forty four of those Democrat senators and
we used a little bit of AI and we stuck
sombreros and big old mustaches on them, and we put
it out, and we put it out. Actually, I want
to play the tune, and we're not going to play
the whole thing, but I want to play the tune
that we put it out to because it's it's very
(10:31):
neutral and non political. Give a listen to the song
that we put out. And mind you, while you're listening
to this song, you have a cascade of forty four
Democrat senators with sombreros and big handlebar mustaches.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Give a listener.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
And November, Count Tho is never gonna be me, And
November's gonna make the goodry better than you can remember.
Count Moo is never gonna be me.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
In November.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
When the inside do the Magarino shake it Up Montreila campaign.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Now they all love me because.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
I'm Dante and never going American wants me. Votes for me,
don't just be on himself the ferred tum this sweep.
Votes for me, don't just be on himself. The ferre
dumbness sweep como is never gonna be me and no
gonna make the goodry better than you can remember.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I gotta say you know that Donald Trump loves this
kind of stuff. I cannot wait to see what he
says to you when you guys hang out next.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Uh oh, look, it's hysterical and you gotta envision if
if you haven't watched it online. While the song is playing,
we just got image after image of Democrats. So we
have Chris van Holland sitting down with the m S
thirteen having a dakery with a giant sombrero and a
heinelbar mustache. We just just have fun with it. By
(12:07):
the way, I will say the Macarena so as you know,
my communications director's named Makarena Martinez. She's fantastic, really really good.
But I was talking to like several of the young
staffers in my office and I said, you know, there's
only one member of our staff who has been the
title of a number one song worldwide, and like the
(12:28):
twenty two year olds in my office had no idea
what I.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Was talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Isn't then amazing? You're aging us right now.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, like it's it's for all of so this pod
has a lot of younger listeners. There was a song
what twenty years ago, twenty five, long time again, long
longer than that maybe, Yeah, that was the makarena, and
there there was a dance. I will say, if you've
never seen it, there's an image you don't want to
see of Hillary Clinton dancing the macarena and it is
(12:55):
just it will it will make you feel like the
gift of Homer Simpson wanting to pour bleach in your eyes.
You do not want to see Hillary. Trust me, do
not google Hillary Clinton dancing the macarena. You will never
be the same.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That was that at the Democratic Convention. I'm having a
flashback right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't remember trying
to be cool right and it just completely backfired.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It was horrible. Now, I will tell you. When I
sent out this this video of all the Democrats, Tim Kane,
Democrat from Virginia, who Tim and I are friends, but
he like popped me back on Twitter. He's like, hey,
did you buy those sombreros and can kun, which I was.
I immediately responded yes I did. And by the way,
Tim instead of making m dumb jokes about can kun,
(13:43):
how about we reopened the government since half of your
friggin state Virginia works for the government and you've taken
away all their paychecks and and he didn't like that.
So I will say on the Senate floor, I was
giving Tim a little bit of grief for that, and
he was kind of He's like, did you like my
cancun joke? And I'm like, yeah, but I'd like it
better if you opened the government.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
If you opened the government, So all right, look into
your crystal ball based on what DC was like in
the mood when you laugh and going back in there
on Monday, do you think that we will get the
government reopened this week or do you think that Schumer
does still dig in Now?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I think they cave this week, And I want to
play for you. So last week Schumer was on the
Senate floor, and I want to paint the picture. He's
giving a speech for one of the multiple times the
Democrats are voting to shut the government down, and they
know the polling is going terribly and so Schumer got
up and his line he said, well, okay, they're polls
(14:42):
that Republicans are talking about but those are biased Republican polls.
And he says, well, it's the New York Times, but
it's biased. And I got to say. I was standing
ten feet away from Schumer, and I and every other
Republican just cracked up laughing because he's like claiming the
New York Time is a biased right wing publication, and
it was spontaneous. We did not organize this. We just
(15:05):
like doubled over laughing, and Schumer he stammered, he stopped.
He's like, uh uh, well, I mean it was Look
who knew Schumer could be so funny. I want you
to play The video is better, but I want you
to play the audio Schumer saying this and the spontaneous
reaction appeals of laughter on the Senate floor.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Now I want to know the leader is going to
show a poll that says that Democrats will be blamed
for the shutdown. There are many more polls that show
Republicans are blamed. The question in that poll is biased,
biased in the New York Times, but it's biased. If
you turned the court, that's true. I don't always believe
(15:50):
the New York Times. You can be sure of that.
Neither do you.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Okay, it's amazing, by the way, like you're here and there.
It's kind of like he realized he stepped in it.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
And even if he really was, like I'm standing ten
feet from him and all of us wet. Like, okay,
the microphone on the Senate floor, when you're speaking, you
have a little microphone on your lapel. Nobody else's micd
That gives you a sense of how loud the laughter
was that that's all coming through Schumer's mic and we
(16:23):
were just doubled over laughing. And you watch his expression,
He's like, oh, oh, oh, wait, okay, okay, that's really dumb.
Oh crap, uh yeah, Okay. The New York Times is
a right wing biased publication. Yeah, maybe that's not like.
This is why my prediction is the shutdown will end
this week, because I think the Democrats, as much as
(16:43):
Schumer feels he's in trouble with the left wing, I
think a lot of the Democrats say, we're on fire,
we don't have a win, this is not going well.
There's a combination of two things. One, an awful lot
of Americans the government shutdown, or they don't care it
doesn't impact their lives. That is the nightmare for any
(17:04):
big government Democrat is if the government shuts down and
nobody notices, and look, during government shutdown, eighty three percent
of the government keeps functioning. So the military functions, law
enforcement functions, the FBI functions, border patrol functions, ice functions,
so security, medicare, Medicaid, all of that function, The A
benefits continue, and so it is a nightmare if your
(17:29):
entire political career is built on telling the American people
the most important thing in your life is the federal government.
If the government shuts down and everyone yawns and goes
about their life, that's a disaster. But a second disaster
is to the extent people are focused. So listen, if
you're going to DC this week and you wanted to
(17:50):
go to the Smithsonian and goes to see the Air
and Space Museum, you can't because the Democrats shut down
the Smithsonian. They shut down Yellowstone National Park and all
the national parks, and so people are going to get
pissed off gradually over time. But I think the vast
majority of people are blaming the Democrats, saying why are
they shutting this down? And so I think the pressure
(18:11):
on Schumer. Look, look, Schumer is a little bit like
a quark in a rushing river, where he's just responding
to the pressures pushing him left and right. So he's
getting the pressures from the crazy left wingers that are
saying shut it down forever because we hate Trump. But
I think a number of his members, particularly members who
(18:33):
are on the ballot in twenty twenty six, are going
to say, all right, enough of this nonsense, let's reopen
the government. My prediction is this week the Democrats give in.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I want to move to another topic that we mentioned earlier,
and that is there is a lot of quiet outrage
for people that have been paying attention to the Brett
Kavanaugh assassination scandal. You have a quote transgender man who
planned to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh only receiving eight years for
(19:06):
that crime. There are a lot of people that are
upset and angry about it. I'm one of them. I
think you are as well, and somehow, I guess being
transgender now has allows free to have less accountability for
your actions. Explain this one.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, I have to admit this story makes me incredibly angry.
When I saw it I read the news story this week,
I was literally yelling out loud as I was reading
my phone. Heidi and I and our daughter Caroline. We
were in New York this weekend. I was with a
half dozen NYPD cops and I got admit I vented
(19:43):
to the cops who were all pissed about this. So,
the man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett
Cavan on twenty twenty two, he flew from California to Maryland.
He arrived there, he had with him. He had a knife,
he had a gun, he had duct tape, he had
(20:04):
zip ties, and he had planned to murder not just
Brett Kavanaugh, but a total of three Supreme Court justices.
He was deranged, and he was caught on the street
right outside Justice Kavanaugh's home. And by the way, he
was also threatening Justice Kavanaugh's wife and their two daughters. Well,
this guy was prosecuted quite rightily, and the Department of
(20:25):
Justice asked for thirty years, which is a pretty reasonable
sentence for someone trying to kill a Supreme Court justice. Well,
this left wing judge, her name is Deborah Boardman. She's
a Joe Biden appointee to the Maryland Federal Court. She
made a twenty two year downward departure. So instead of
thirty years. She sentenced him to eight years, and her
(20:50):
reasoning was essentially, instead of thirty years, you get eight
Why because you're transgender. Here's what Judge Boardman said, quote,
under the law, I must consider the sentencing guidelines. The
guidelines in this case are three hundred and sixty months
to life. It's important to understand the Spring Court stands
on guidelines. They used to be mandatory, but in a
(21:11):
case called Booker, the Supreme Court held they were advisory.
The judge acknowledge that quote this case did involve domestic terrorism,
but she undid most of the terrorism enhancement created by
the Sentencing Commission and said, quote, I have not seen
evidence that the sentencing Commission relied on evidence that it
(21:31):
would reduce recidivism. The sentencing took more than seven hours,
and she discussed at length her justification for the light sentence.
Here's what she said, Miss Rosky, of course she calls
the man a woman because she's a leftist. Miss Roski
came out to herself, to herself like this is a
private like just to the quiet night, I've decided I'm
(21:55):
a woman. Mis Rosky came out to herself as transgender.
In twenty twenty kept it a secret. Miss Roski's sister
came out as gay two years prior, but miss Rosky
saw their parents struggle to recognize her sexuality with their
religious beliefs. By the way it is, it is not
subtle or implied. The judge thinks. Religious beliefs on this
(22:17):
are horrible and terrible, and you are bad if you
have religious beliefs concerning sexuality. The judge continues, quote, I
am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roski
family accept their daughter, by which she means Nicholas Rosky
for who she is. So you have someone attempting to
(22:41):
murder as sitting Supreme Court justice, and the federal district
judge who's sentencing the attempted murderer says, I'm heartened. The
great thing about this is the parents are now accepting
of their psychopathic, murderous son that thinks he's a daughter.
The mother of the murderer told the judge on Friday
(23:01):
that quote, I have attended p flag meetings and learned
about the LGBTQ plus community. I am committed to going
on this journey with Sophie, by which she means her
son Nicholas, she was frustrated with what was going on
(23:22):
in the world, and we weren't a safe place to
process it. And by the way, the Daily Wire in
their story, the next sentence says, as his mother wept,
Nicholas Rosky also choked up his Adam's apple, bobbing up
and down. Now here's what the judge continued saying. Quote,
(23:45):
any prison time is punishment for her. The length doesn't
need to be particularly long. Unduly harsh conditions make a
difference too.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
She will be.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Imprisoned in a male facility even though she is a
transgender prisoner, pursuant to an executive order from the President.
Before the executive order, that wasn't the case. In other words,
this judge really wanted to send this dude to a
woman's prison, where, after attempting to murder a sitting Supreme
Court justice, he could assault women who were incarcerated. This
(24:24):
is I want to be clear, this is lunacy. This
is nuts. I have to admit. I literally yelled and
cursed out loud.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Number one, Brett Kavanaugh's a friend. I've literally known Brett
Kavanaugh for thirty years. His wife Ashley, Heidi and I
were with Ashley on the two thousand George W. Bush campaign.
She's a West Texas girl. She's a wonderful woman. They
have two daughters who went through an utter nightmare going
through his confirmation hearing. Night after night after night. The
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Kavanaugh House, along with the house of every Supreme Court justice,
had angry, violent left wing protesters out front, screaming, violating
federal law. It is a crime to protest at the
home of a justice seeking to change the decision of
an opinion, and yet the Biden Justice Department refused to
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enforce that law. They would not prosecute those felonies, and
the heated rhetoric. Look, this is very much like what
we're seeing with Ice, where Democrat rhetoric gets the lunatics
and their party energized to go commit crimes of violence.
I want to be clear, violence is never, ever, ever justified.
(25:38):
So I'm not advocating violence against any Democrat. I'm not
advocating violence again any left wing judges or justices. Violence
is wrong, And by the way, when it comes to
politically motivated violence, it is almost exclusively a left wing phenomenon. Look,
when George Floyd died, we saw riots and American cities
(25:59):
on fire being burned to the ground. We saw police
cars being firebomb We saw people being murdered when Charlie
Kirk was murdered. We saw prayer vigils across the countries.
People went went out and lit candles and prayed and
sang together. And we did see violence, but not from
the people supporting Charlie Kirk. Instead from the same the
(26:20):
same left wing violent activists who were attacking the people
in prayer vigils. There is a difference. And and and
I have to say this judge, this judge is demonstrated
she is utterly unfit to be a federal judge. I
think the House of Representatives should seriously contemplate in peaching
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this judge.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And and I don't way does that happen for what
you're describing right now, because everybody listening is to me,
like a hold on a second. If this is the case,
then why don't we do it? Does it happen? How
many votes do you need to do it? How does
that work?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, it's happened a number of times. There and multiple
federal judges who've been impeached and removed from office. Typically
they are impeached after committing a crime, something like committing
accepting bribes. So Alsei Hastings, for example, was a federal
judge who was convicted of accepting bribes as a judge,
he was removed from office. And then he turned around
(27:19):
and ran for Congress as a Democrat and got elected
as a congressman. So he was a Democrat congressman who
had been impeached and removed from office for being a
federal judge taking bribes. So that I'm going to let
you draw all the inferences you want. Those facts are objective.
It is not easy to impeach a judge, although under
the Constitution, to impeach a judge it takes a majority
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vote in the House of Representatives. And I actually think
in this instance, a judge who thinks someone trying to
murder a Supreme Court justice because he disagrees with a
decision the Supreme Court justice is rendering that is a
fundamental assault on our judicial system, on the rule of law,
on the basic protection of rights all of us have.
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And if you are such a zealot, such a partisan ideologue,
that you will not follow the sentencing guidelines, you will
not acknowledge this is terrorism, and instead you say, you
know what, this person's transgender. And my ideology is such
that I love transgenders, and so instead of thirty years,
I'm going to give this person eight years. And by
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the way, I really think this man should be in
a woman's prison. But that mean mean president won't let
me do that, I believe. And I don't know this
woman at all. I don't know this judge, but just
how she conducted herself in this proceeding to me, demonstrates
she is completely unfit to be a federal judge. I
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would urge the House Representatives take up impeachment and I
would love to have a trial in the Senate. Do
we want judges who refuse to enforce the criminal law
for psychopathic murderers who are trying to Supreme court justices.
I think the obvious anstion does tell you this. No
Democrat wants to defend the other side.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, and look, it's not brand with the American people
right now. They want law and order. They want law
and order, and they want justice when the bad guys
are caught, which is there seems to be a pendulum
switch that's happening right now, Thank goodness, in this country
on that.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I think that's right. The American people are second sick
and tired of Democrats letting criminals go, letting violent murderers go,
letting rapists go, letting pedophiles go. They're sick and tired
of the Democrats siding with illegal immigrants over the American people.
It's why we saw the election result in twenty twenty four.
But that being said, listen, the corporate media is all
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in twenty four hours a day trying to paint the
Trump administration's efforts to keep our communities safe, to lock
up bad guys, to apprehend and deport murderers and gang
bangers and criminals. What they're trying to say is they're
deporting innocent moms who are harmless. And the propaganda effort
from the media and the Democrats, it is real, and
(30:05):
it is dangerous, and if you're not paying close attention,
it's easy to believe that propaganda.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, great point, don't forget. We do this show Monday,
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Welcome in as Verdic with Center, Ted Kruz Ben Ferguson
with you. And there are certain shows when we get
ready and we're getting everything in line before the show,
you just say, yeah, this is an important one. We've
got two big topics we're going to be talking about,
including the big backfire by Democrats.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
So today is day six of the Schumer shutdown, and
I got to say it is not going well for Democrats.
Democrats are panicking. The American people recognize that they have
shut the government down in an act of petulance, in
an act of Chuck Schumer trying to cover his left
wing with the crazy activists and his party and the
(00:40):
Democrats don't have it out, and it's not going well.
The American people get the joke. We're going to break
that down and tell you how this is going to end,
and it is going to end, and spoiler alert, it's
going to end with complete and total capitulation from the Democrats,
which is part of why Schumer and the Democrats are
panicking because they don't see an alternative to that. Secondly,
(01:00):
we're going to talk about a story from this past
week that, to be honest, just pisses me off, really
made me angry when it broke. Which is the deranged
killer who went from California to Maryland to murder Justice
Brett Kavanaugh. He was sentenced this WEEKDJ sought thirty years
(01:23):
for an attempted murderer of a Supreme Court justice, a
very reasonable sentence. A Biden left wing judge instead deviated
downwards twenty two years, sentenced him to just eight years.
Why because the murderer is transgender, and so it's okay
apparently from the left wing's view, if you are trying
(01:45):
to assassinate a sitting Supreme Court justice, if you happen
to be transgender, there woke politics trumps any sense of
law and order or justice. It's an outrageous story. We're
going to give you all the details.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
If you've ever listened to the show before, you know
I'm a big advocate for the second and I've shared
on numerous occasions how carrying a firearm literally saved my
life from a gang related attack. But many of you
out there may not feel comfortable carrying a firearm. Maybe
you have a loved one that's just not comfortable. They
need a way to protect themselves and That's why I
want you to know about Bernot launchers. I have them
(02:17):
and I've given them to many family members. Berne is
a handheld pistol that fires both kinetic rounds and chemical
irritants to separate you from an attacker. Josh Cherard from
Berna has been with us telling stories of how Berna
has helped save lives or could have been the best
option for protection. Josh, this next one is incredibly sad,
(02:37):
and I want you to talk about the father that
was involved with a shooting.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Absolutely so. In this particular case, sixteen year old girl
was coming home late one night, about three am in
the morning, entering through the garage. Unfortunately, the father hears
the noise in the garage, grabts his gun, goes out there,
sees a dark figure walking through the garage, points that
gun fires only that point, realizing that he had just
killed his sixteen year old daughter. This is an illustration
(03:03):
of where guns in homes, if not used properly, can
have dire dire consequences. In this case, one bullet killed
two lives and the lives of many others in that family.
It was incredibly tragic and unfortunately we see this situation
dozens and dozens of times every year throughout the US.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, that's one of the questions that I think some
people ask us, like, is this just a one off occurrence?
It would never happen to me. Unfortunately, as you mentioned,
this happens a lot more often than people realize.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Absolutely. Unfortunately, people think that the best tool and the
only tool for home defense is a gun, and they
get a gun, they never train with it, they never
train the tactics that requires, They don't do the other
things like flashlights and all the other things that are
necessary to make sure that they can use that gun properly.
And then that's when you have something like this happens
with a Berna. If the same thing had happened you
put a burner in his hand, his daughter would be
(03:51):
really mad. After she was done coughing for about forty
five minutes, but still alive. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
If you want to get more information on how Berna
can help you or a family member protect themselves, go
to burnaby RNA dot com. That's burna by RNA dot
com again, burnam by r NA dot com. All right, so, Senator,
let's take a moment and update people on where we
are with this government shut down. I was literally at
(04:17):
church on Sunday and I had countless people walk up
and they're like, dude, how long is this going to last?
When's this going to end? Is this going to be
a really long term shutdown or is this going to
be something that's going to get resolved pretty quickly. So
let's talk about you and Washington. Last week there were
votes and movement, but it did not move enough to
make the government go back to actually working for the
(04:38):
American people. When you left EC, what was a temperature
and you said, now, Democrats, you feel like are actually
freaking out.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Look, I and every other Republican has voted repeatedly to
open up the government. The House of Representatives has passed
a clean CR a clean continuing resolution that keeps the
government open, and it's the Democrats who keep voting it down.
And we're going to this week, We're going to be
back in. We'll be in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, maybe Friday.
(05:06):
Every day we will vote to open the government.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
If the Democrats don't change, every day, the Democrats will
vote to keep the government shut down. And the challenge
is they don't have an off ramp that they're trying
to make up all sorts of things to say, we're
going to shut the government down because.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Of X, because of Y.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
They're claiming it's all about that they really, really, really
want to give health care to illeial aliens. Actually, ironically,
they're not claiming that that's in the language of the
bill they keep voting for. So every Democrat keeps voting
for a bill that would provide government provided health care
for illegals, and then they're going on TV saying what us, No, no, no,
(05:49):
we don't want health care for illegals. Who's ever heard
of such a thing? That's not possibly what we want.
So there's a level of incoherence in terms of what
they're ask is. But there's a reason for that. They
don't actually.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Have a real ask.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
What they have is a political problem for Chuck Schumer.
When he last kept the government open, he came very
close to losing his job. The radical left wing rose up,
they were furious. I got to say, Bennett is astonishing.
Every single Democrat Senate candidate in the country who has
been asked, do you support Chuck Schumer to remain the
(06:23):
Democrat leader in the Senate? Not one, not a single incumbent,
not a single challenger has said yep, he's our leader.
They're all running terrified. And so you want to know
why there's a shutdown because Schumer needs to beat his chest. Now,
at some point he'll stop beating his chest and the
government will reopen. But just this week, CBS did a
(06:45):
poll and I got to say, the Democrats' numbers are
near an all time low. The democrats favorability rating is
at thirty four percent, sixty six percent unfavorable, and it
really is striking. So CBS, now this is not a
right wing poll, this is CBS. CBS asked what words
(07:10):
describe the Democrat Party? What do you think the number
one word was.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I'm going to guess it wasn't like inspirational, like hope
and change. Back in the day when Obama is around
week there you go.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Week week was sixty four percent of Americans polled said
the Democrat Party is weak. What do you think the
number two word was, I'm going to go with not strong,
extreme forty six percent set extreme, so we can extreme
are the top two words. Now after that, you've got reasonable,
(07:46):
reasonable is it forty four percent?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Strong?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
You actually asked about strong, what percent do you think,
say the Democrat Party is strong?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I mean, if I had a guess, I'd say thirty
five percent. Twenty seven. Wow, so even lower than I thought,
because thirty five was not like a good number.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
By the way, and by the way, effective, What percent
do you think say the Democrat Party is effective?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'm going to say if based on what you just
said a moment ago, twenty.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Five percent, twenty six There you go. Okay, go, So
all right, think for a minute. You are running the
Democrat Party Senate campaign, the Democrat Party House campaign. Your
message right now? Two thirds of Americans think we're weak.
Half of Americans think we're extreme. We've got a full
(08:34):
quarter of Americans who think we're strong and effective. So
we're telling you quarter of Americans we are strong and effective.
Everyone else, you know, we're full of crap. That is
the definition of a political crisis. You want to know
why my colleagues are nervous. Look, I this past week
I sent out a meme. So you may have seen,
in fact, I know you've seen. Ben President Trump sent
(08:58):
out a meme of a Keem Jeffries wearing a sombrero
with a big handlebar mustache.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
By by the way so good and hilarious and just
funny and people need to calm down. But of course
Democrats start screaming racism right away.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Look it was funniest crap. It was AI.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So it had Chuck Schumer saying, all right, nobody's voting
for Democrats because they know our bs. But I have
to admit I doubled over laughing, and look, it's obviously AI.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Nobody thinks.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
The real Yeah, it's Schumer actually said we the Democrats
are are full of crap, Like it's obvious they're lying.
But what people have gone nuts about is a Keem
Jeffries is there. They're saying, Okay, nobody votes for us.
Everyone hates us. So we've decided to go all in
on free healthcare, free illegals because maybe the illegals, they
(09:48):
don't speak English, so maybe they'll support us at least
for a while, so they discover how horrible we are,
and then they won't support us either. That's a paraphrase
of what Schumer says in the video. And you have
a Keem Jeffries at a sumber and a big mustachio
next to them, and I have to admit, my team
we took a video. There are forty four Democrats who
(10:09):
keep voting to shut the government down. So we took
pictures of all forty four of those Democrat senators and
we used a little bit of AI and we stuck
sombreros and big old mustaches on them, and we put
it out, and we put it out. Actually, I want
to play the tune, and we're not going to play
the whole thing, but I want to play the tune
that we put it out to because it's it's very
(10:31):
neutral and non political. Give a listen to the song
that we put out. And mind you, while you're listening
to this song, you have a cascade of forty four
Democrat senators with sombreros and big handlebar mustaches.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Give a listener.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
And November, Count Tho is never gonna be me, And
November's gonna make the goodry better than you can remember.
Count Moo is never gonna be me.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
In November.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
When the inside do the Magarino shake it Up Montreila campaign.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Now they all love me because.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
I'm Dante and never going American wants me. Votes for me,
don't just be on himself the ferred tum this sweep.
Votes for me, don't just be on himself. The ferre
dumbness sweep como is never gonna be me and no
gonna make the goodry better than you can remember.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I gotta say you know that Donald Trump loves this
kind of stuff. I cannot wait to see what he
says to you when you guys hang out next.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Uh oh, look, it's hysterical and you gotta envision if
if you haven't watched it online. While the song is playing,
we just got image after image of Democrats. So we
have Chris van Holland sitting down with the m S
thirteen having a dakery with a giant sombrero and a
heinelbar mustache. We just just have fun with it. By
(12:07):
the way, I will say the Macarena so as you know,
my communications director's named Makarena Martinez. She's fantastic, really really good.
But I was talking to like several of the young
staffers in my office and I said, you know, there's
only one member of our staff who has been the
title of a number one song worldwide, and like the
(12:28):
twenty two year olds in my office had no idea
what I.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Was talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Isn't then amazing? You're aging us right now.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, like it's it's for all of so this pod
has a lot of younger listeners. There was a song
what twenty years ago, twenty five, long time again, long
longer than that maybe, Yeah, that was the makarena, and
there there was a dance. I will say, if you've
never seen it, there's an image you don't want to
see of Hillary Clinton dancing the macarena and it is
(12:55):
just it will it will make you feel like the
gift of Homer Simpson wanting to pour bleach in your eyes.
You do not want to see Hillary. Trust me, do
not google Hillary Clinton dancing the macarena. You will never
be the same.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That was that at the Democratic Convention. I'm having a
flashback right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't remember trying
to be cool right and it just completely backfired.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It was horrible. Now, I will tell you. When I
sent out this this video of all the Democrats, Tim Kane,
Democrat from Virginia, who Tim and I are friends, but
he like popped me back on Twitter. He's like, hey,
did you buy those sombreros and can kun, which I was.
I immediately responded yes I did. And by the way,
Tim instead of making m dumb jokes about can kun,
(13:43):
how about we reopened the government since half of your
friggin state Virginia works for the government and you've taken
away all their paychecks and and he didn't like that.
So I will say on the Senate floor, I was
giving Tim a little bit of grief for that, and
he was kind of He's like, did you like my
cancun joke? And I'm like, yeah, but I'd like it
better if you opened the government.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
If you opened the government, So all right, look into
your crystal ball based on what DC was like in
the mood when you laugh and going back in there
on Monday, do you think that we will get the
government reopened this week or do you think that Schumer
does still dig in Now?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I think they cave this week, And I want to
play for you. So last week Schumer was on the
Senate floor, and I want to paint the picture. He's
giving a speech for one of the multiple times the
Democrats are voting to shut the government down, and they
know the polling is going terribly and so Schumer got
up and his line he said, well, okay, they're polls
(14:42):
that Republicans are talking about but those are biased Republican polls.
And he says, well, it's the New York Times, but
it's biased. And I got to say. I was standing
ten feet away from Schumer, and I and every other
Republican just cracked up laughing because he's like claiming the
New York Time is a biased right wing publication, and
it was spontaneous. We did not organize this. We just
(15:05):
like doubled over laughing, and Schumer he stammered, he stopped.
He's like, uh uh, well, I mean it was Look
who knew Schumer could be so funny. I want you
to play The video is better, but I want you
to play the audio Schumer saying this and the spontaneous
reaction appeals of laughter on the Senate floor.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Now I want to know the leader is going to
show a poll that says that Democrats will be blamed
for the shutdown. There are many more polls that show
Republicans are blamed. The question in that poll is biased,
biased in the New York Times, but it's biased. If
you turned the court, that's true. I don't always believe
(15:50):
the New York Times. You can be sure of that.
Neither do you.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Okay, it's amazing, by the way, like you're here and there.
It's kind of like he realized he stepped in it.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
And even if he really was, like I'm standing ten
feet from him and all of us wet. Like, okay,
the microphone on the Senate floor, when you're speaking, you
have a little microphone on your lapel. Nobody else's micd
That gives you a sense of how loud the laughter
was that that's all coming through Schumer's mic and we
(16:23):
were just doubled over laughing. And you watch his expression,
He's like, oh, oh, oh, wait, okay, okay, that's really dumb.
Oh crap, uh yeah, Okay. The New York Times is
a right wing biased publication. Yeah, maybe that's not like.
This is why my prediction is the shutdown will end
this week, because I think the Democrats, as much as
(16:43):
Schumer feels he's in trouble with the left wing, I
think a lot of the Democrats say, we're on fire,
we don't have a win, this is not going well.
There's a combination of two things. One, an awful lot
of Americans the government shutdown, or they don't care it
doesn't impact their lives. That is the nightmare for any
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big government Democrat is if the government shuts down and
nobody notices, and look, during government shutdown, eighty three percent
of the government keeps functioning. So the military functions, law
enforcement functions, the FBI functions, border patrol functions, ice functions,
so security, medicare, Medicaid, all of that function, The A
benefits continue, and so it is a nightmare if your
(17:29):
entire political career is built on telling the American people
the most important thing in your life is the federal government.
If the government shuts down and everyone yawns and goes
about their life, that's a disaster. But a second disaster
is to the extent people are focused. So listen, if
you're going to DC this week and you wanted to
(17:50):
go to the Smithsonian and goes to see the Air
and Space Museum, you can't because the Democrats shut down
the Smithsonian. They shut down Yellowstone National Park and all
the national parks, and so people are going to get
pissed off gradually over time. But I think the vast
majority of people are blaming the Democrats, saying why are
they shutting this down? And so I think the pressure
(18:11):
on Schumer. Look, look, Schumer is a little bit like
a quark in a rushing river, where he's just responding
to the pressures pushing him left and right. So he's
getting the pressures from the crazy left wingers that are
saying shut it down forever because we hate Trump. But
I think a number of his members, particularly members who
(18:33):
are on the ballot in twenty twenty six, are going
to say, all right, enough of this nonsense, let's reopen
the government. My prediction is this week the Democrats give in.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I want to move to another topic that we mentioned earlier,
and that is there is a lot of quiet outrage
for people that have been paying attention to the Brett
Kavanaugh assassination scandal. You have a quote transgender man who
planned to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh only receiving eight years for
(19:06):
that crime. There are a lot of people that are
upset and angry about it. I'm one of them. I
think you are as well, and somehow, I guess being
transgender now has allows free to have less accountability for
your actions. Explain this one.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, I have to admit this story makes me incredibly angry.
When I saw it I read the news story this week,
I was literally yelling out loud as I was reading
my phone. Heidi and I and our daughter Caroline. We
were in New York this weekend. I was with a
half dozen NYPD cops and I got admit I vented
(19:43):
to the cops who were all pissed about this. So,
the man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett
Cavan on twenty twenty two, he flew from California to Maryland.
He arrived there, he had with him. He had a knife,
he had a gun, he had duct tape, he had
(20:04):
zip ties, and he had planned to murder not just
Brett Kavanaugh, but a total of three Supreme Court justices.
He was deranged, and he was caught on the street
right outside Justice Kavanaugh's home. And by the way, he
was also threatening Justice Kavanaugh's wife and their two daughters. Well,
this guy was prosecuted quite rightily, and the Department of
(20:25):
Justice asked for thirty years, which is a pretty reasonable
sentence for someone trying to kill a Supreme Court justice. Well,
this left wing judge, her name is Deborah Boardman. She's
a Joe Biden appointee to the Maryland Federal Court. She
made a twenty two year downward departure. So instead of
thirty years. She sentenced him to eight years, and her
(20:50):
reasoning was essentially, instead of thirty years, you get eight
Why because you're transgender. Here's what Judge Boardman said, quote,
under the law, I must consider the sentencing guidelines. The
guidelines in this case are three hundred and sixty months
to life. It's important to understand the Spring Court stands
on guidelines. They used to be mandatory, but in a
(21:11):
case called Booker, the Supreme Court held they were advisory.
The judge acknowledge that quote this case did involve domestic terrorism,
but she undid most of the terrorism enhancement created by
the Sentencing Commission and said, quote, I have not seen
evidence that the sentencing Commission relied on evidence that it
(21:31):
would reduce recidivism. The sentencing took more than seven hours,
and she discussed at length her justification for the light sentence.
Here's what she said, Miss Rosky, of course she calls
the man a woman because she's a leftist. Miss Roski
came out to herself, to herself like this is a
private like just to the quiet night, I've decided I'm
(21:55):
a woman. Mis Rosky came out to herself as transgender.
In twenty twenty kept it a secret. Miss Roski's sister
came out as gay two years prior, but miss Rosky
saw their parents struggle to recognize her sexuality with their
religious beliefs. By the way it is, it is not
subtle or implied. The judge thinks. Religious beliefs on this
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are horrible and terrible, and you are bad if you
have religious beliefs concerning sexuality. The judge continues, quote, I
am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roski
family accept their daughter, by which she means Nicholas Rosky
for who she is. So you have someone attempting to
(22:41):
murder as sitting Supreme Court justice, and the federal district
judge who's sentencing the attempted murderer says, I'm heartened. The
great thing about this is the parents are now accepting
of their psychopathic, murderous son that thinks he's a daughter.
The mother of the murderer told the judge on Friday
(23:01):
that quote, I have attended p flag meetings and learned
about the LGBTQ plus community. I am committed to going
on this journey with Sophie, by which she means her
son Nicholas, she was frustrated with what was going on
(23:22):
in the world, and we weren't a safe place to
process it. And by the way, the Daily Wire in
their story, the next sentence says, as his mother wept,
Nicholas Rosky also choked up his Adam's apple, bobbing up
and down. Now here's what the judge continued saying. Quote,
(23:45):
any prison time is punishment for her. The length doesn't
need to be particularly long. Unduly harsh conditions make a
difference too.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
She will be.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Imprisoned in a male facility even though she is a
transgender prisoner, pursuant to an executive order from the President.
Before the executive order, that wasn't the case. In other words,
this judge really wanted to send this dude to a
woman's prison, where, after attempting to murder a sitting Supreme
Court justice, he could assault women who were incarcerated. This
(24:24):
is I want to be clear, this is lunacy. This
is nuts. I have to admit. I literally yelled and
cursed out loud.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Number one, Brett Kavanaugh's a friend. I've literally known Brett
Kavanaugh for thirty years. His wife Ashley, Heidi and I
were with Ashley on the two thousand George W. Bush campaign.
She's a West Texas girl. She's a wonderful woman. They
have two daughters who went through an utter nightmare going
through his confirmation hearing. Night after night after night. The
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Kavanaugh House, along with the house of every Supreme Court justice,
had angry, violent left wing protesters out front, screaming, violating
federal law. It is a crime to protest at the
home of a justice seeking to change the decision of
an opinion, and yet the Biden Justice Department refused to
(25:17):
enforce that law. They would not prosecute those felonies, and
the heated rhetoric. Look, this is very much like what
we're seeing with Ice, where Democrat rhetoric gets the lunatics
and their party energized to go commit crimes of violence.
I want to be clear, violence is never, ever, ever justified.
(25:38):
So I'm not advocating violence against any Democrat. I'm not
advocating violence again any left wing judges or justices. Violence
is wrong, And by the way, when it comes to
politically motivated violence, it is almost exclusively a left wing phenomenon. Look,
when George Floyd died, we saw riots and American cities
(25:59):
on fire being burned to the ground. We saw police
cars being firebomb We saw people being murdered when Charlie
Kirk was murdered. We saw prayer vigils across the countries.
People went went out and lit candles and prayed and
sang together. And we did see violence, but not from
the people supporting Charlie Kirk. Instead from the same the
(26:20):
same left wing violent activists who were attacking the people
in prayer vigils. There is a difference. And and and
I have to say this judge, this judge is demonstrated
she is utterly unfit to be a federal judge. I
think the House of Representatives should seriously contemplate in peaching
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this judge.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And and I don't way does that happen for what
you're describing right now, because everybody listening is to me,
like a hold on a second. If this is the case,
then why don't we do it? Does it happen? How
many votes do you need to do it? How does
that work?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, it's happened a number of times. There and multiple
federal judges who've been impeached and removed from office. Typically
they are impeached after committing a crime, something like committing
accepting bribes. So Alsei Hastings, for example, was a federal
judge who was convicted of accepting bribes as a judge,
he was removed from office. And then he turned around
(27:19):
and ran for Congress as a Democrat and got elected
as a congressman. So he was a Democrat congressman who
had been impeached and removed from office for being a
federal judge taking bribes. So that I'm going to let
you draw all the inferences you want. Those facts are objective.
It is not easy to impeach a judge, although under
the Constitution, to impeach a judge it takes a majority
(27:42):
vote in the House of Representatives. And I actually think
in this instance, a judge who thinks someone trying to
murder a Supreme Court justice because he disagrees with a
decision the Supreme Court justice is rendering that is a
fundamental assault on our judicial system, on the rule of law,
on the basic protection of rights all of us have.
(28:05):
And if you are such a zealot, such a partisan ideologue,
that you will not follow the sentencing guidelines, you will
not acknowledge this is terrorism, and instead you say, you
know what, this person's transgender. And my ideology is such
that I love transgenders, and so instead of thirty years,
I'm going to give this person eight years. And by
(28:27):
the way, I really think this man should be in
a woman's prison. But that mean mean president won't let
me do that, I believe. And I don't know this
woman at all. I don't know this judge, but just
how she conducted herself in this proceeding to me, demonstrates
she is completely unfit to be a federal judge. I
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would urge the House Representatives take up impeachment and I
would love to have a trial in the Senate. Do
we want judges who refuse to enforce the criminal law
for psychopathic murderers who are trying to Supreme court justices.
I think the obvious anstion does tell you this. No
Democrat wants to defend the other side.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Well, and look, it's not brand with the American people
right now. They want law and order. They want law
and order, and they want justice when the bad guys
are caught, which is there seems to be a pendulum
switch that's happening right now, Thank goodness, in this country
on that.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I think that's right. The American people are second sick
and tired of Democrats letting criminals go, letting violent murderers go,
letting rapists go, letting pedophiles go. They're sick and tired
of the Democrats siding with illegal immigrants over the American people.
It's why we saw the election result in twenty twenty four.
But that being said, listen, the corporate media is all
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in twenty four hours a day trying to paint the
Trump administration's efforts to keep our communities safe, to lock
up bad guys, to apprehend and deport murderers and gang
bangers and criminals. What they're trying to say is they're
deporting innocent moms who are harmless. And the propaganda effort
from the media and the Democrats, it is real, and
(30:05):
it is dangerous, and if you're not paying close attention,
it's easy to believe that propaganda.
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