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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's been another busy news week and we like to
review the major stories of the week here on the
bi in Today, we are joined by b News anchors
Terry McCready and Kevin Brown to discuss this week's major stories.
This is the QR code and I am Ramses job.
All right, you too, back in the suddle, right, Welcome
(00:20):
back to the show. Terry, what's the latest in your world?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh boy, Ramses, I've been watching the White House being
reduced to rubble. So yeah, we live in truly fantastical times.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Interesting times, a lot of people say. But fantastical was
the word of the day, So we're going with that one. Kevin,
talk to me, man, what's the latest and the greatest?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Every day is a good day despite what we're experiencing.
If we're we have an opportunity to react, it's a
good day.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Amen. I'll go with that, all right. Well, then let's
get to the good day news. First up, on the
heels of the recent bestseller from Kamala Harris's former White
House Press secretary, Kareeine Jean Pierre's new book is making
headlines for her behind the scenes anecdotes of the White
House's events, but also for her candid thoughts on the
state of the Democratic Party. Terry, let's get today's show
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so started with you tell us more about the Jean
Pierre book, and then Kevin, we'll get your thoughts next.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Okay, So, Koreine's book Independent is this reflection of her
shiny new political affiliation, and it comes as she apparently
is still reeling from former President Biden's loss in twenty
twenty four, which we learn in her memoir. You know,
that was a very visceral sort of an event for her,
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although I have to say, I don't know that anyone
would be particularly surprised that that's how she feels, at
least I was not. She still insists she saw no
evidence of the president's diminished capacity, and she's digging in
her heels pretty well about Biden's how do we do
this flaccid, dismal pickure adjective? Underwhelming obviously anemik bait performance,
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and so she really took it on the chin and
said it was really a gut punch from people like
George Clooney who were sort of on the front lines
when he wrote that ophed you know, in the Times,
urging President Biden to say goodnight. Ultimately, it was that
zoom call when President Biden broke the news to staff
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that it was over. And in her book, she said
that she was stung by how the president was treated
by members of his own party. But what personally I
found so fascinating was that although there were people at
that time questioning after Vice President Harris picked up the
baton and was running with it, they questioned whether or
not Karne was throwing her support truly behind the vice
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president or whether she was kind of, you know, licking
her wounds in the corner. She said that was never
the case. She harbored no ill will. She said there
was just real toxicity going on in the landscape and
she knew that Harris would never overcome it. And finally,
she laments about the Trump Biden double standard and how
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even for herself and for Harris and for Biden all
being held to one set of standards, the Trump machine
by another. And basically she just said, you know, Trump
gets a pass, and she was blaming the media. Britt Large.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Kevin, Yeah, this is an interesting take. Not surprising that
she is in Biden's corner and steadfast supporting him, considering
all of the evidence that was plainly obvious to everyone
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that Biden was slipping. What I find interesting is she
soft pedals the lack of commitment the White House had
behind Harris. It was obviously some and this is so interesting.
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Although the candidate Biden might have supported her, the White
House infrastructure was clearly reluctant to get and get behind
Harris in so many instances they made the announcement and
then let Harris just go on her way without a
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full throated endorsement outside of what Biden did. I also
think it's ironic that at this point that she is
abandoning the Democratic Party. Considering where we are now, this
is not the time to jump ship. Democrats have to
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look in the mirror because there are look the ratings
for Democrats nationally could walk under a snake. And when
you consider what has happened in this country for the Democrat,
for the alternative, the obvious alternative to what's going on,
Although we're starting to see a light at the end
of the tunnel, the numbers don't reflect the tragic circumstances
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that the country is going through under this Republican administration.
So they have a little work to do. Democrats coast
to coast. It seems like Gavin Newsom is one person
who seems to understand the gravity of the situation politically. However,
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it is frustrating to see such lukewarm responses from Democrats
across the country, especially in states for example Prop fifty
in San Francisco or in California in which they are
going to gerrymander, because that's what this is, the voting blocks,
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and there are Democratic states across the country that are
reluctant to do that. This is a new ballgame. The
other side, even when they lose, they don't concede. President
Trump isn't tearing down the White House because he's going
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to leave in three years. They don't lose elections. When
they do lose elections, the other side, they don't concede.
They don't acknowledge that they ever lose anything. That is
the new reality for the Democratic Party and for politics
in this country. So abandoning the Democratic Party is seems
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to be counterproductive to me considering the gravity of what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now. You know, I had the opportunity to meet this
lady and she seems cool. We actually texted for a
little bit when we first met just to kind of
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put something together, perhaps maybe to talk about on the show.
And you know, obviously her being the White House Press secretary,
she was kind of in that ecosystem and supporting it.
That all made sense. But I think that I don't
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I don't. I don't know that I would say that
she's protecting Biden or protecting Biden's legacy, or failing to
acknowledge the reality of the situation. I think that she's
probably calling it the way that she sees it. Joe
Biden was an old man when he got to the
White House, and he was an old man when he left.
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So I don't think that she was expecting him to
be anything other than that. He's a good natured person.
Even Republicans admitted that he You know, when people get old,
they tend to slow down. No one would argue that
Donald Trump is in the prime of his life. And
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he gave a poor performance during the debate between him
and Donald Trump. And you know, they had their excuses,
and you know, people don't really like excuses, but they
make sense. You know, first off, he's an old man.
Donald Trump is a very different type of character. He's
not a fighter or Donald Trump is more of a fighter.
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Joe Biden is not a fighter like that, certainly not
in his own age, not really overly aggressive in that way.
Is just, hey, these things make sense. These things don't
make sense. That's really it. And I think that comparatively speaking,
when you see an animated Donald Trump and a sickly
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Joe Biden, it kind of triggers something. It makes you think, Oh,
this guy doesn't have what it takes right. But that's
why we have vice presidents and that's why you know
all that sort of stuff. Now, I'm not making excuses
for Joe Biden, but I'm trying to see that situation
through the lens of his White House Press secretary, where
if she interacted with him may by day and then
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she sees him on the debate stage, she's like, Yeah,
that's Joe Biden. You know, he's not giving a strong performance.
But he's under the weather. He has a cold, and
he's been traveling. You know, he's probably winded or I
don't know. I don't know what his symptoms were. I
wouldn't profest to know something like that. But I see
a person like her allowing for a lackluster performance. I
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saw Obama lose a debate. For the folks that remember Obama,
I think he won two. There were three debates one
of his campaigns, I think probably was the second one,
and the second of the three debates that he had
during the second campaign, he just didn't have it that day.
He came back and admitted, Hey, I didn't have it
that day. So a poor debate doesn't necessarily make a
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poor leader. Joe Biden had been a successful leader for
four years, so her saying this in her estimation sort
of I could see that being valid. I don't see
her as like being like trying to sanitize his legacy
or anything like that. So everything else that I've seen
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come from her world doesn't seem to be like anti
democratic or anti you know whatever. She doesn't want to
be a Democrat anymore because I suspect Democrats turned their
back on Joe Biden. The Democrats did not have a
robust primary to where the people could decide that they
wanted Kamala Harris and then get behind Kamala Harris, which
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made her more vulnerable to attack from obviously the right,
but also from people who otherwise would have voted for Democrats,
people that were very concerned about the Warren Gaza. She
alluded to that, and so you know, the Democratic Party
not having a consistent direction, a true bona fide north
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Star probably feels like, you know, she was let down,
and so her calling her book independent to me doesn't
mean any more than Bernie Sanders calling himself an independent.
You know, her values largely still aligned with the Democratic Party.
But I guess in her estimation to call herself a
Democrat after seeing the Democrats abandon their mission midway through
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probably was a gut punch for her. And again, I'm
not making excuses for Joe Biden. I'm not making I'm
not trying to state her brief. I just figure that
that makes sense based on her path. So hope everything
works out all right. Moving on, I stated many times
on the show elections half consequences, and from the comments
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made by one candidate running for a Florida US Senate seat,
the clearly show the type of political consequences that he's
ready to invoke if elected. Kevin In this time, we're
going to start with you tell us more about the
recent comments made by Republican candidate Jake Lang, and then
Terry will get your thoughts next.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Jake Lang was January sixth participant. He reached the grounds
of the White House carrying a bat and a shield.
He was later pardoned by President Trump. That should tell
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you just about everything you need to know about Jake Lang.
In addition to as a candidate, Jake Lang is, according
to Newsweek, once a proud Boys deputized to continue this
immigration hunt. To enforce immigration, a proud boy should be deputized.
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Of course, the Proud Boys are nothing more than white
racist vigilantes, and Jake has admitted that you a vote
for him in Florida is a vote for the Donald
Trump mandate. He is prepared to rubber stamp anything that
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the President has done or is proposing to do. Jake,
like the President, is a threat to democracy, and a
vote for him is a vote for moving away and
changing dramatically the political landscape in this country. Make no
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bones about it, there are you know you can argue
with their policies. But one thing you cannot argue you
when it comes to Republicans and the Magabase is that
they are not shy about admitting what they really want
to do.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah sure, Ker, Well.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You know these former Jasix insurrectionists have certainly been busy.
So we now we have Jake, we have this other guy,
Chris moynihan, who is the suspect who allegedly threatened the
House Minority leader Jeffries in court today. But this Lang
believes in the proud boys, as these bounty hunters of
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you know, or for the undocumented, and I find that
pretty astonishing. Will he win this Senate seat? You know,
at any other time in history, we all probably could
come to a consensus and emphatically say no, way.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Not so much.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Right now, though, we learn that the ice operation is
expanding every day. It's up to I think one hundred
and seventy five thousand applications submitted, So I think the
objective is solid. Lang again has no regrets trying to
stop the certification of election results, and he was just
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one of many rabbit enforcers. Remember that day, they were shouting,
this is our house. We paid for this explative building.
So I don't see any of that changing at all.
I see this escalating, and I see nothing getting in
their way, especially when we have a vice president like
jd Vance who massages the ego and the message or
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the messaging of these people and looks at many of
them as just being you know, just youthful, indiscretionary events
taking place.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, so elections have consequences. I think was the right
way to start art this one off because one of
the things that we know to be true is that
white men are overrepresented in police, in courtrooms, be they
judges or lawyers, and in politics, and the composition, the
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ethnic composition of political stages across this country failed to
reflect the ethnic composition of the population of this country.
And I think it's well established. I remember talking about
the Proud Voice here. It's well established that different ethnicities,
you could argue, have different sensibilities and different concerns, and
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when those sensibilities and concerns are overrepresented in politics or
underrepresented in politics, you end up with a political landscape
that does not work for all the people that it's
supposed to serve. And if anything, this should be a
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call for more people to pursue elected office. There are
plenty of talented people, plenty of brilliant people, plenty of
people who are passionate and care about their communities, plenty
of people with some experience. A lot of these people
have no experience. They just have a lot of confidence.
But we've seen time and time again that a lot
of people that are elected are dumb as a rock.
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They don't even know what job they're supposed to be doing.
They just know how to get there, and some of
them don't even know how to get there. They fail upward.
We've seen that too, plenty of it. And the more
people like this do make it to office, the more
they continue to shape the world in their own image.
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And ultimately this is harmful to them too, because they
are caught up in a fear based version of reality
that only they see, and it is not a shared reality.
It is a delusion that is shared widely among their circles.
But they insulate themselves. They live more fearful lives, and
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they distance themselves from their country men and women, and
they create problems where no problems need to exist. And
we cover all of those problems too. We're just talking
about a food shortage because there's no one working on
the farms because people are scared to go to work.
People that were invited here and have long standing, years
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long relationships with farmers. They come, they work, they go back.
They make no money, they don't take any resource, none
of that sort of stuff. Right, So these people are like, oh,
these illegals, the worst of the worst, all that sort
of stuff. Sure, there's some people that are bad people
in this country that are illegal. There's a lot more
people that are legal, lot more that are legal that
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live here. But we're not going after them. We're going
after the worst of the worst of the illegals. Right.
But this overreach by this Trump administration has struck fear
in the amount in the hearts and minds of everyone
who is somewhere on their immigration or citizenship journey. We've
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seen them time and again get snatched out of courthouses
while they're doing the right thing. These are not criminals,
and you see how it makes the world worse for
them too. They shoot themselves in the foot and then
they just find a new target to blame for that bleeding.
So run for local office. All right, Hey, what's up?
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are here with us discussing this week's major stories. All right,
the state of Texas continues to lead the way when
it comes to disbanding all things DEI, and unfortunately, our
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next story involving their governor shows just how far he's
willing to go to make the lone star state DEI free. Terry,
let's go back to you give us some more details
on this story, and then Kevin will get your thoughts next.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
All right, Governor Abbott has appointed this Higher Education ombudsman
to sort of crack the whip and ensuring laws restricting
the roles of these faculty senates which are upheld and
band that DEI practices are going to remain untouched. So
that means that all of these things have to fall
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into place or else, you know, these violations will emerge.
The new office is a liaison between universities and legislators.
The office will manage investigations pertaining to these violations of
this DEI ban. Institutions will be held to very high
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account ability. Some academic freedom groups now are concerned about
now this power being wielded by the governor omspitzmen will
after all be able to recommend that lawmakers cut off
a university's state spending until they are brought into compliance.
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And so this entire idea of funding isn't an impervious
notion for universities that understand that the stakes are high
and what I would consider glorified extortion is very real.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Heaven, the Republican Party does a great job of marketing
and DEI, woke Antifa all become synonymous with just going
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after people you don't like or Republicans. And although it
has been targeted toward people of color, black people specifically,
Initially DEI was designed to address race, sex, disability, and
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also people who had military backgrounds vets. But Texas and
for that matter, throughout the South, used DEI and WOKE policies,
use discriminatory policies and label them as and he woke
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or DEI of targeting DEI. The reason that these DEI
policies were put in place initially was to address the
lack of diversity in workplaces. There was a someone posted
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a and this has happened over the years. Every once
in a while, someone will come up with a new
twist on changing the name on a resume from a
black name to a white name and sending it out
to corporations. And what typically happens is the white name,
the resume with the white name gets offers, while the
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resume that has a typically black quote unquote name doesn't
get a response. That's why DEI became law in this
country because unless the federal government is involved to ensure
that the laws and opportunities are applied equally across the board,
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it won't happen. And that's what is going on right now,
that the federal government is abandoning its commitment to equal
opportunity across the board. That is why the Supreme Court
is looking at the voting right to act right now
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because the federal government and leadership is aggressively pursuing a
policy of denying equal access. And that's what we are
dealing with specifically in Texas, but it is part of
the political fabric of this country. Now, unfortunately, the hypocrisy
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of our Republican elected officials and of Republican policies is
astounding and seemingly never ending. You know, you mentioned diversity,
equity and inclusion that was meant to address historical disparities
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and provide equitable access to opportunities for historically disenfranchised people,
including the military and ding ding handicapped people. And this governor,
Governor Greg Abbott in Texas, who's trying to dismantle DEI
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from further dismantle it, I suppose from the colleges in Texas.
I'm confident he uses a wheelchair ramp to scoot himself
up into the buildings on the Capitol grounds and other buildings. Right,
So that is a de facto DEI initiative. And to
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people that say, well, we don't believe in equity, we
just believe in equality, these are This is kind of
the moral.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Shield. I suppose that people think they're hiding behind. They
just want everything to be equal, and they think that
that's where we are as a country. No equality is
supposed to lead to equity, right, he is the goal theory,
that's what's supposed to happen. But if all things were equal,
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I could walk into the steps up the steps of
the Capitol building in Texas and he could drag himself
on his belly up those same steps, and that would
be equal because we both have access to the building.
Equity builds him a ramp so he can access that
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building with dignity. All right, for our final story, as
some leaders in urban cities welcome the presence of federal
troops with open arms, others are creating platforms to help
protect their citizens by keeping tabs on ice related activities. Kevin,
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let's get some more details on this story from you,
and then of course Terry will get your thoughts after her.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, this is interesting because I'm sure Terry has seen
it as well. Because the military it's not equipped to
handle civilian situation. Crime in civilian areas and metro areas.
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Crime hasn't decreased in a lot of places that troops
are now infiltrating, San Francisco being the latest, by the way,
that is happening as we speak. Chicago, New York, Memphis
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is also and there is a there's a common thread here.
These are states, democratically run states, So the real issue
here is not about crime. It's about revenge. It is
about the president's campaign to suppress and terrorize half of
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the nation. So this isn't about reducing crime, although there
have been Southern cities or Republican cities where murders and
crime is high, but the president has ignored those those
states and those cities. So this fight crime and immigration
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has to be seen through the prism of what the
real goal is, and the real goal is to distract,
to terrorize, and I'm surprised at more the governors don't
talk about the Epstein files. That would be the first
thing I'd say in response to a federal initiative to
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add troops, we talk about the Epstein files because the policy,
it seems, is to distract from some of the other
important issues and problems that are going on in this
country caused by this Republican administration. So we will see
what happens. Although some of the governors are using the
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only tools that they have that is assuing the federal
government to try to address the illegal, the illegal movement
of troops into their cities, there is literally nothing that
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they can do. They can try, but only if the
other side acknowledges the law, and there doesn't seem to
be a huge incentive by the federal government to adhere
to the law.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Jerry, Yeah, well, you know, the Trump administration originally honed
in on this operation in galle It was Washington, d C, Chicago, Memphis, Portland,
And as the Age described a couple of weeks ago
during a hearing that well, you know, this is just
President Trump doing what states and governors and some local
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leaders cannot. Thusly, some deployments are authorized, others are blocked
by these court orders. Authority for deployment is hotly debated,
especially if the National Guard is being federalized and called
up without a governor's consent. Much of that depends on
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whether the state looks like is blue or red, and
if the governor happens to be Democrat or Republican. For instance,
in Louisiana, the governor they are requested federal deployment to
help support law enforcement in the big easy and Baton rouge.
But in Chicago, the governor is looked, is not look
he's sort of locked in this ugly dispute with the
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Trump administration over deployment. And the same goes with Portland.
And you know, in LA and in Washington, d C
as well, although in Washington D C, we saw Mayor
Bowser mollify this situation with the administration as much as
she could, just likely to keep the temperature down on
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the issue, because we see what happens when you give
too much pushback could end badly for DC.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I just want to remind everyone. Longtime listeners of the
show will know, but I want to remind everyone that
Joe Biden had a bipartisan border deal that was set
to be passed, and Donald Trump made a phone call
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in the eleventh hour compelling Republicans not to pass that
bill because he wanted to run on Joe Biden's week border.
We covered this story, so we never got a border deal,
and then people were able to point to Biden and
Kamala Harris by extension to say, look at them, they
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have a week border. And then Donald Trump of course
campaigned on that week boarder saying I'm going to do
the same same thing I did the first time, build
that wall. This time it was you know, illegals are
coming in by the billions, and everyone's on drugs and
that sort of thing. Right, And then once he got
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elected because anti immigration sentiment had reached a fever pitch.
He had to launch this gestapo endeavor to round up people.
And then they had to put numbers quotas on the
amount of people they were rounding up, because indeed, this
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country was not full of the worst of the worst criminals,
just was it. A lot of the people that are
here have migrated here. A lot of the people that
they've been rounding up have been people that have worked
here for a long time. They pay taxes, cannot receive
the benefits from those taxes. These are facts, But because
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technically they are in violation, committing a civil infraction, because
they have not received their citizenship yet. People don't know that.
Sometimes it takes decades to get your citizenship. Every four
years there's a new administration. You have to start over
from the beginning. It's a long, tedious process. Right if
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you came here as a small child and lived your
whole life here, you know what I mean, Technically speaking,
you could be considered illegal. The fever pitch means that
a lot of Republican voters have lost their empathy. They
cannot see themselves in that predicament. What if that was me? Right?
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So we end up with situations like this, solving a
problem that really didn't exist, at least not this extreme.
This is an extreme reaction to a problem that we
could have just kind of dealt with civilly and humanely.
It wasn't nearly as big of a problem as people
had made it out to be. On the right an invasion, huh.
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You know, your material reality is the same as it's
always been, full stop. And we talk about this a
bit a lot. Last thing I'll say real quick, I'll
share this. This was directly from what is this ABC.
Over the first nine months of twenty twenty five, the
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NYPD reported citywide shooting incidents were down more than two
twenty percent year to date, their lowest level ever. Murders
were also down city wide by more than seventeen point
seven percent year to date, and burglaries dropped three point
eight percent for the year, second lowest level in recorded history.
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So some people would attribute that to Donald Trump, but
the city was already trending in that direction before Donald
Trump was elected, and certainly before all of these like
ice and immigration raids. And I say that that has
to do with local leadership and you know, policies that
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have had enough time, I guess more progressive policies that
account for the reality of the situation and aren't fear based.
More police does not equal safer communities. It never has
that have had enough time to have their day in
the sun, get the kings worked out. And we see
these trends in a lot of black led cities as well,
and so noteworthy. And we'll leave that one right there,
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all right. With that in mind, I'd like to thank
you both, as always very much for your time and
your insights. Once again, Today's guest our bi In News
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All right, you too, back in the suddle, right, Welcome
(00:20):
back to the show. Terry, what's the latest in your world?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh boy, Ramses, I've been watching the White House being
reduced to rubble. So yeah, we live in truly fantastical times.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Interesting times, a lot of people say. But fantastical was
the word of the day, So we're going with that one. Kevin,
talk to me, man, what's the latest and the greatest?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Every day is a good day despite what we're experiencing.
If we're we have an opportunity to react, it's a
good day.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Amen. I'll go with that, all right. Well, then let's
get to the good day news. First up, on the
heels of the recent bestseller from Kamala Harris's former White
House Press secretary, Kareeine Jean Pierre's new book is making
headlines for her behind the scenes anecdotes of the White
House's events, but also for her candid thoughts on the
state of the Democratic Party. Terry, let's get today's show
(01:09):
so started with you tell us more about the Jean
Pierre book, and then Kevin, we'll get your thoughts next.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Okay, So, Koreine's book Independent is this reflection of her
shiny new political affiliation, and it comes as she apparently
is still reeling from former President Biden's loss in twenty
twenty four, which we learn in her memoir. You know,
that was a very visceral sort of an event for her,
(01:36):
although I have to say, I don't know that anyone
would be particularly surprised that that's how she feels, at
least I was not. She still insists she saw no
evidence of the president's diminished capacity, and she's digging in
her heels pretty well about Biden's how do we do
this flaccid, dismal pickure adjective? Underwhelming obviously anemik bait performance,
(02:01):
and so she really took it on the chin and
said it was really a gut punch from people like
George Clooney who were sort of on the front lines
when he wrote that ophed you know, in the Times,
urging President Biden to say goodnight. Ultimately, it was that
zoom call when President Biden broke the news to staff
(02:21):
that it was over. And in her book, she said
that she was stung by how the president was treated
by members of his own party. But what personally I
found so fascinating was that although there were people at
that time questioning after Vice President Harris picked up the
baton and was running with it, they questioned whether or
not Karne was throwing her support truly behind the vice
(02:45):
president or whether she was kind of, you know, licking
her wounds in the corner. She said that was never
the case. She harbored no ill will. She said there
was just real toxicity going on in the landscape and
she knew that Harris would never overcome it. And finally,
she laments about the Trump Biden double standard and how
(03:07):
even for herself and for Harris and for Biden all
being held to one set of standards, the Trump machine
by another. And basically she just said, you know, Trump
gets a pass, and she was blaming the media. Britt Large.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Kevin, Yeah, this is an interesting take. Not surprising that
she is in Biden's corner and steadfast supporting him, considering
all of the evidence that was plainly obvious to everyone
(03:43):
that Biden was slipping. What I find interesting is she
soft pedals the lack of commitment the White House had
behind Harris. It was obviously some and this is so interesting.
(04:05):
Although the candidate Biden might have supported her, the White
House infrastructure was clearly reluctant to get and get behind
Harris in so many instances they made the announcement and
then let Harris just go on her way without a
(04:26):
full throated endorsement outside of what Biden did. I also
think it's ironic that at this point that she is
abandoning the Democratic Party. Considering where we are now, this
is not the time to jump ship. Democrats have to
(04:49):
look in the mirror because there are look the ratings
for Democrats nationally could walk under a snake. And when
you consider what has happened in this country for the Democrat,
for the alternative, the obvious alternative to what's going on,
Although we're starting to see a light at the end
of the tunnel, the numbers don't reflect the tragic circumstances
(05:14):
that the country is going through under this Republican administration.
So they have a little work to do. Democrats coast
to coast. It seems like Gavin Newsom is one person
who seems to understand the gravity of the situation politically. However,
(05:35):
it is frustrating to see such lukewarm responses from Democrats
across the country, especially in states for example Prop fifty
in San Francisco or in California in which they are
going to gerrymander, because that's what this is, the voting blocks,
(06:00):
and there are Democratic states across the country that are
reluctant to do that. This is a new ballgame. The
other side, even when they lose, they don't concede. President
Trump isn't tearing down the White House because he's going
(06:24):
to leave in three years. They don't lose elections. When
they do lose elections, the other side, they don't concede.
They don't acknowledge that they ever lose anything. That is
the new reality for the Democratic Party and for politics
in this country. So abandoning the Democratic Party is seems
(06:46):
to be counterproductive to me considering the gravity of what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now. You know, I had the opportunity to meet this
lady and she seems cool. We actually texted for a
little bit when we first met just to kind of
(07:11):
put something together, perhaps maybe to talk about on the show.
And you know, obviously her being the White House Press secretary,
she was kind of in that ecosystem and supporting it.
That all made sense. But I think that I don't
(07:33):
I don't. I don't know that I would say that
she's protecting Biden or protecting Biden's legacy, or failing to
acknowledge the reality of the situation. I think that she's
probably calling it the way that she sees it. Joe
Biden was an old man when he got to the
White House, and he was an old man when he left.
(07:54):
So I don't think that she was expecting him to
be anything other than that. He's a good natured person.
Even Republicans admitted that he You know, when people get old,
they tend to slow down. No one would argue that
Donald Trump is in the prime of his life. And
(08:18):
he gave a poor performance during the debate between him
and Donald Trump. And you know, they had their excuses,
and you know, people don't really like excuses, but they
make sense. You know, first off, he's an old man.
Donald Trump is a very different type of character. He's
not a fighter or Donald Trump is more of a fighter.
(08:39):
Joe Biden is not a fighter like that, certainly not
in his own age, not really overly aggressive in that way.
Is just, hey, these things make sense. These things don't
make sense. That's really it. And I think that comparatively speaking,
when you see an animated Donald Trump and a sickly
(09:01):
Joe Biden, it kind of triggers something. It makes you think, Oh,
this guy doesn't have what it takes right. But that's
why we have vice presidents and that's why you know
all that sort of stuff. Now, I'm not making excuses
for Joe Biden, but I'm trying to see that situation
through the lens of his White House Press secretary, where
if she interacted with him may by day and then
(09:22):
she sees him on the debate stage, she's like, Yeah,
that's Joe Biden. You know, he's not giving a strong performance.
But he's under the weather. He has a cold, and
he's been traveling. You know, he's probably winded or I
don't know. I don't know what his symptoms were. I
wouldn't profest to know something like that. But I see
a person like her allowing for a lackluster performance. I
(09:43):
saw Obama lose a debate. For the folks that remember Obama,
I think he won two. There were three debates one
of his campaigns, I think probably was the second one,
and the second of the three debates that he had
during the second campaign, he just didn't have it that day.
He came back and admitted, Hey, I didn't have it
that day. So a poor debate doesn't necessarily make a
(10:06):
poor leader. Joe Biden had been a successful leader for
four years, so her saying this in her estimation sort
of I could see that being valid. I don't see
her as like being like trying to sanitize his legacy
or anything like that. So everything else that I've seen
(10:31):
come from her world doesn't seem to be like anti
democratic or anti you know whatever. She doesn't want to
be a Democrat anymore because I suspect Democrats turned their
back on Joe Biden. The Democrats did not have a
robust primary to where the people could decide that they
wanted Kamala Harris and then get behind Kamala Harris, which
(10:54):
made her more vulnerable to attack from obviously the right,
but also from people who otherwise would have voted for Democrats,
people that were very concerned about the Warren Gaza. She
alluded to that, and so you know, the Democratic Party
not having a consistent direction, a true bona fide north
(11:18):
Star probably feels like, you know, she was let down,
and so her calling her book independent to me doesn't
mean any more than Bernie Sanders calling himself an independent.
You know, her values largely still aligned with the Democratic Party.
But I guess in her estimation to call herself a
Democrat after seeing the Democrats abandon their mission midway through
(11:42):
probably was a gut punch for her. And again, I'm
not making excuses for Joe Biden. I'm not making I'm
not trying to state her brief. I just figure that
that makes sense based on her path. So hope everything
works out all right. Moving on, I stated many times
on the show elections half consequences, and from the comments
(12:03):
made by one candidate running for a Florida US Senate seat,
the clearly show the type of political consequences that he's
ready to invoke if elected. Kevin In this time, we're
going to start with you tell us more about the
recent comments made by Republican candidate Jake Lang, and then
Terry will get your thoughts next.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Jake Lang was January sixth participant. He reached the grounds
of the White House carrying a bat and a shield.
He was later pardoned by President Trump. That should tell
(12:42):
you just about everything you need to know about Jake Lang.
In addition to as a candidate, Jake Lang is, according
to Newsweek, once a proud Boys deputized to continue this
immigration hunt. To enforce immigration, a proud boy should be deputized.
(13:08):
Of course, the Proud Boys are nothing more than white
racist vigilantes, and Jake has admitted that you a vote
for him in Florida is a vote for the Donald
Trump mandate. He is prepared to rubber stamp anything that
(13:29):
the President has done or is proposing to do. Jake,
like the President, is a threat to democracy, and a
vote for him is a vote for moving away and
changing dramatically the political landscape in this country. Make no
(13:51):
bones about it, there are you know you can argue
with their policies. But one thing you cannot argue you
when it comes to Republicans and the Magabase is that
they are not shy about admitting what they really want
to do.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah sure, Ker, Well.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You know these former Jasix insurrectionists have certainly been busy.
So we now we have Jake, we have this other guy,
Chris moynihan, who is the suspect who allegedly threatened the
House Minority leader Jeffries in court today. But this Lang
believes in the proud boys, as these bounty hunters of
(14:37):
you know, or for the undocumented, and I find that
pretty astonishing. Will he win this Senate seat? You know,
at any other time in history, we all probably could
come to a consensus and emphatically say no, way.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Not so much.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Right now, though, we learn that the ice operation is
expanding every day. It's up to I think one hundred
and seventy five thousand applications submitted, So I think the
objective is solid. Lang again has no regrets trying to
stop the certification of election results, and he was just
(15:17):
one of many rabbit enforcers. Remember that day, they were shouting,
this is our house. We paid for this explative building.
So I don't see any of that changing at all.
I see this escalating, and I see nothing getting in
their way, especially when we have a vice president like
jd Vance who massages the ego and the message or
(15:41):
the messaging of these people and looks at many of
them as just being you know, just youthful, indiscretionary events
taking place.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, so elections have consequences. I think was the right
way to start art this one off because one of
the things that we know to be true is that
white men are overrepresented in police, in courtrooms, be they
judges or lawyers, and in politics, and the composition, the
(16:25):
ethnic composition of political stages across this country failed to
reflect the ethnic composition of the population of this country.
And I think it's well established. I remember talking about
the Proud Voice here. It's well established that different ethnicities,
you could argue, have different sensibilities and different concerns, and
(16:49):
when those sensibilities and concerns are overrepresented in politics or
underrepresented in politics, you end up with a political landscape
that does not work for all the people that it's
supposed to serve. And if anything, this should be a
(17:14):
call for more people to pursue elected office. There are
plenty of talented people, plenty of brilliant people, plenty of
people who are passionate and care about their communities, plenty
of people with some experience. A lot of these people
have no experience. They just have a lot of confidence.
But we've seen time and time again that a lot
of people that are elected are dumb as a rock.
(17:36):
They don't even know what job they're supposed to be doing.
They just know how to get there, and some of
them don't even know how to get there. They fail upward.
We've seen that too, plenty of it. And the more
people like this do make it to office, the more
they continue to shape the world in their own image.
(17:58):
And ultimately this is harmful to them too, because they
are caught up in a fear based version of reality
that only they see, and it is not a shared reality.
It is a delusion that is shared widely among their circles.
But they insulate themselves. They live more fearful lives, and
(18:20):
they distance themselves from their country men and women, and
they create problems where no problems need to exist. And
we cover all of those problems too. We're just talking
about a food shortage because there's no one working on
the farms because people are scared to go to work.
People that were invited here and have long standing, years
(18:40):
long relationships with farmers. They come, they work, they go back.
They make no money, they don't take any resource, none
of that sort of stuff. Right, So these people are like, oh,
these illegals, the worst of the worst, all that sort
of stuff. Sure, there's some people that are bad people
in this country that are illegal. There's a lot more
people that are legal, lot more that are legal that
(19:04):
live here. But we're not going after them. We're going
after the worst of the worst of the illegals. Right.
But this overreach by this Trump administration has struck fear
in the amount in the hearts and minds of everyone
who is somewhere on their immigration or citizenship journey. We've
(19:26):
seen them time and again get snatched out of courthouses
while they're doing the right thing. These are not criminals,
and you see how it makes the world worse for
them too. They shoot themselves in the foot and then
they just find a new target to blame for that bleeding.
So run for local office. All right, Hey, what's up?
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are here with us discussing this week's major stories. All right,
the state of Texas continues to lead the way when
it comes to disbanding all things DEI, and unfortunately, our
(20:35):
next story involving their governor shows just how far he's
willing to go to make the lone star state DEI free. Terry,
let's go back to you give us some more details
on this story, and then Kevin will get your thoughts next.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
All right, Governor Abbott has appointed this Higher Education ombudsman
to sort of crack the whip and ensuring laws restricting
the roles of these faculty senates which are upheld and
band that DEI practices are going to remain untouched. So
that means that all of these things have to fall
(21:07):
into place or else, you know, these violations will emerge.
The new office is a liaison between universities and legislators.
The office will manage investigations pertaining to these violations of
this DEI ban. Institutions will be held to very high
(21:27):
account ability. Some academic freedom groups now are concerned about
now this power being wielded by the governor omspitzmen will
after all be able to recommend that lawmakers cut off
a university's state spending until they are brought into compliance.
(21:48):
And so this entire idea of funding isn't an impervious
notion for universities that understand that the stakes are high
and what I would consider glorified extortion is very real.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Heaven, the Republican Party does a great job of marketing
and DEI, woke Antifa all become synonymous with just going
(22:24):
after people you don't like or Republicans. And although it
has been targeted toward people of color, black people specifically,
Initially DEI was designed to address race, sex, disability, and
(22:53):
also people who had military backgrounds vets. But Texas and
for that matter, throughout the South, used DEI and WOKE policies,
use discriminatory policies and label them as and he woke
(23:18):
or DEI of targeting DEI. The reason that these DEI
policies were put in place initially was to address the
lack of diversity in workplaces. There was a someone posted
(23:39):
a and this has happened over the years. Every once
in a while, someone will come up with a new
twist on changing the name on a resume from a
black name to a white name and sending it out
to corporations. And what typically happens is the white name,
the resume with the white name gets offers, while the
(24:04):
resume that has a typically black quote unquote name doesn't
get a response. That's why DEI became law in this
country because unless the federal government is involved to ensure
that the laws and opportunities are applied equally across the board,
(24:28):
it won't happen. And that's what is going on right now,
that the federal government is abandoning its commitment to equal
opportunity across the board. That is why the Supreme Court
is looking at the voting right to act right now
(24:50):
because the federal government and leadership is aggressively pursuing a
policy of denying equal access. And that's what we are
dealing with specifically in Texas, but it is part of
the political fabric of this country. Now, unfortunately, the hypocrisy
(25:23):
of our Republican elected officials and of Republican policies is
astounding and seemingly never ending. You know, you mentioned diversity,
equity and inclusion that was meant to address historical disparities
(25:49):
and provide equitable access to opportunities for historically disenfranchised people,
including the military and ding ding handicapped people. And this governor,
Governor Greg Abbott in Texas, who's trying to dismantle DEI
(26:12):
from further dismantle it, I suppose from the colleges in Texas.
I'm confident he uses a wheelchair ramp to scoot himself
up into the buildings on the Capitol grounds and other buildings. Right,
So that is a de facto DEI initiative. And to
(26:36):
people that say, well, we don't believe in equity, we
just believe in equality, these are This is kind of
the moral.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Shield. I suppose that people think they're hiding behind. They
just want everything to be equal, and they think that
that's where we are as a country. No equality is
supposed to lead to equity, right, he is the goal theory,
that's what's supposed to happen. But if all things were equal,
(27:09):
I could walk into the steps up the steps of
the Capitol building in Texas and he could drag himself
on his belly up those same steps, and that would
be equal because we both have access to the building.
Equity builds him a ramp so he can access that
(27:30):
building with dignity. All right, for our final story, as
some leaders in urban cities welcome the presence of federal
troops with open arms, others are creating platforms to help
protect their citizens by keeping tabs on ice related activities. Kevin,
(27:50):
let's get some more details on this story from you,
and then of course Terry will get your thoughts after her.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah, this is interesting because I'm sure Terry has seen
it as well. Because the military it's not equipped to
handle civilian situation. Crime in civilian areas and metro areas.
(28:16):
Crime hasn't decreased in a lot of places that troops
are now infiltrating, San Francisco being the latest, by the way,
that is happening as we speak. Chicago, New York, Memphis
(28:37):
is also and there is a there's a common thread here.
These are states, democratically run states, So the real issue
here is not about crime. It's about revenge. It is
about the president's campaign to suppress and terrorize half of
(29:05):
the nation. So this isn't about reducing crime, although there
have been Southern cities or Republican cities where murders and
crime is high, but the president has ignored those those
states and those cities. So this fight crime and immigration
(29:32):
has to be seen through the prism of what the
real goal is, and the real goal is to distract,
to terrorize, and I'm surprised at more the governors don't
talk about the Epstein files. That would be the first
thing I'd say in response to a federal initiative to
(29:58):
add troops, we talk about the Epstein files because the policy,
it seems, is to distract from some of the other
important issues and problems that are going on in this
country caused by this Republican administration. So we will see
what happens. Although some of the governors are using the
(30:21):
only tools that they have that is assuing the federal
government to try to address the illegal, the illegal movement
of troops into their cities, there is literally nothing that
(30:42):
they can do. They can try, but only if the
other side acknowledges the law, and there doesn't seem to
be a huge incentive by the federal government to adhere
to the law.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Jerry, Yeah, well, you know, the Trump administration originally honed
in on this operation in galle It was Washington, d C, Chicago, Memphis, Portland,
And as the Age described a couple of weeks ago
during a hearing that well, you know, this is just
President Trump doing what states and governors and some local
(31:25):
leaders cannot. Thusly, some deployments are authorized, others are blocked
by these court orders. Authority for deployment is hotly debated,
especially if the National Guard is being federalized and called
up without a governor's consent. Much of that depends on
(31:45):
whether the state looks like is blue or red, and
if the governor happens to be Democrat or Republican. For instance,
in Louisiana, the governor they are requested federal deployment to
help support law enforcement in the big easy and Baton rouge.
But in Chicago, the governor is looked, is not look
he's sort of locked in this ugly dispute with the
(32:07):
Trump administration over deployment. And the same goes with Portland.
And you know, in LA and in Washington, d C
as well, although in Washington D C, we saw Mayor
Bowser mollify this situation with the administration as much as
she could, just likely to keep the temperature down on
(32:27):
the issue, because we see what happens when you give
too much pushback could end badly for DC.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I just want to remind everyone. Longtime listeners of the
show will know, but I want to remind everyone that
Joe Biden had a bipartisan border deal that was set
to be passed, and Donald Trump made a phone call
(33:00):
in the eleventh hour compelling Republicans not to pass that
bill because he wanted to run on Joe Biden's week border.
We covered this story, so we never got a border deal,
and then people were able to point to Biden and
Kamala Harris by extension to say, look at them, they
(33:22):
have a week border. And then Donald Trump of course
campaigned on that week boarder saying I'm going to do
the same same thing I did the first time, build
that wall. This time it was you know, illegals are
coming in by the billions, and everyone's on drugs and
that sort of thing. Right, And then once he got
(33:45):
elected because anti immigration sentiment had reached a fever pitch.
He had to launch this gestapo endeavor to round up people.
And then they had to put numbers quotas on the
amount of people they were rounding up, because indeed, this
(34:07):
country was not full of the worst of the worst criminals,
just was it. A lot of the people that are
here have migrated here. A lot of the people that
they've been rounding up have been people that have worked
here for a long time. They pay taxes, cannot receive
the benefits from those taxes. These are facts, But because
(34:29):
technically they are in violation, committing a civil infraction, because
they have not received their citizenship yet. People don't know that.
Sometimes it takes decades to get your citizenship. Every four
years there's a new administration. You have to start over
from the beginning. It's a long, tedious process. Right if
(34:50):
you came here as a small child and lived your
whole life here, you know what I mean, Technically speaking,
you could be considered illegal. The fever pitch means that
a lot of Republican voters have lost their empathy. They
cannot see themselves in that predicament. What if that was me? Right?
(35:12):
So we end up with situations like this, solving a
problem that really didn't exist, at least not this extreme.
This is an extreme reaction to a problem that we
could have just kind of dealt with civilly and humanely.
It wasn't nearly as big of a problem as people
had made it out to be. On the right an invasion, huh.
(35:34):
You know, your material reality is the same as it's
always been, full stop. And we talk about this a
bit a lot. Last thing I'll say real quick, I'll
share this. This was directly from what is this ABC.
Over the first nine months of twenty twenty five, the
(35:56):
NYPD reported citywide shooting incidents were down more than two
twenty percent year to date, their lowest level ever. Murders
were also down city wide by more than seventeen point
seven percent year to date, and burglaries dropped three point
eight percent for the year, second lowest level in recorded history.
(36:18):
So some people would attribute that to Donald Trump, but
the city was already trending in that direction before Donald
Trump was elected, and certainly before all of these like
ice and immigration raids. And I say that that has
to do with local leadership and you know, policies that
(36:39):
have had enough time, I guess more progressive policies that
account for the reality of the situation and aren't fear based.
More police does not equal safer communities. It never has
that have had enough time to have their day in
the sun, get the kings worked out. And we see
these trends in a lot of black led cities as well,
and so noteworthy. And we'll leave that one right there,
(37:04):
all right. With that in mind, I'd like to thank
you both, as always very much for your time and
your insights. Once again, Today's guest our bi In News
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