August 5, 2025 • 37 mins
Recorded August 5, 2025
In this episode of Reasonable Arguments, Jennifer and Danni tackle the political absurdity of the week — and oh, there’s plenty. First up: Texas Democrats flee the state (again) to block a GOP-backed redistricting vote that could hand Republicans five more U.S. House seats. Governor Abbott responds with arrest warrants and accusations of abandonment. Then, we turn to the Gaza war, where Israel continues its offensive against Hamas — with 50 hostages still held and the global media painting Israel as the villain. Meanwhile, Gen Z activists name AOC and socialist Zohran Mamdani as the future of the Democratic Party. (Yes, seriously.) We also dive into the ICE manhunt for a six-time deported child abuser tipped off by Colorado activists, and round it all out with the Sydney Sweeney/American Eagle "jeans" controversy that somehow turned into a eugenics debate. Politics is exhausting — we’re here to make it make sense (and occasionally laugh through the chaos). @FoxNews @DonaldJTrumpforPresident @Brian-Kilmeade #sydneysweeney #news #trump #conservativevoices #culturalrevolution #substack #subscribe
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00:00 Texas House Democrats Walkout 06:29 The Gaza War: Causes and Consequences 12:33 AOC and the Future of the Democratic Party 20:34 Political Allegiances and National Loyalty 21:38 Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety 26:57 Cultural Sensitivity in Advertising 34:18 The Political Landscape and Common Sense
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So we are back with reasonable arguments.
And I guess we forgot to mention that the last show that Danni actually is doing this fromher car, which pretty evident, but we'll see how she does if traffic gets bad.
Nobody is hurt in the filming of this recording.
I have my seatbelts on and I'm going speed limit.
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Exactly.
All right.
let's start off with the Texas walkout.
let's talk about why this is happening.
50 plus Texas House Democrats have left for Illinois, I think they I heard Illinois,different different states, right?
In New York.
And
that are very good with gerrymandering.
all states that are that are very blue and going to back them.
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they left to block a vote on new US maps.
they did this is because the house needs two third present for quorum.
No quorum of course equals no business.
And the GOP backed map could give Republicans five extra seats.
So of course,
unseat Jasmine Crockett.
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Yes, yes.
And so Trump, course, supports the plan.
Governor Abbott is pushing hard to pass before session ends August 19th.
why they did it is because they're saying that the map will dilute the black and Latinovoting power.
And Republicans say it reflects population growth and shifts, especially in suburban andrural areas.
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what has happening right now is Governor Abbott has
sent out arrest warrants for these people and looking in, I like to look at things thathappened in history and it's not just Democrats that have done this.
Of course, Republicans have done this before.
And in the past, they have, and I think they're trying to do this this time too, is wherethey're gonna say, if you're not back, it's basically abandonment.
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and you're not going to be eligible for reelection.
And I think in the past, when it happened, the Republicans did it in 2023.
Ten senators were not eligible for reelection and they were planning to sue.
So, I mean, what are your thoughts on this?
to me, like I think about the census.
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So the Democrats use the census to, up the numbers in their blue states and all of thatwhere here we go again.
They're trying to take seats away from us.
in my opinion, this is the reason for opening up the borders.
Because you said it in your opening it's affecting black and Latino, mostly Latino.
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And this is why they have opened up the floodgates because they had hoped to havethousands and thousands of people added to their district so then it would just
automatically be blue forever.
Right.
That's why they do it.
That's my opinion and I am glad that Governor Abbott has issued an arrest warrant.
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I don't obviously want them to be arrested, but they need to come back and they need to dothe job that they were put and voted in by their constituents to do.
Right, exactly.
to go have Kathy Hogle, the New York governor say, this is just not the way things aredone.
I'm not gonna stand for it.
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Newsome, I'm gonna fight fire with fire.
These are all people who have done the exact same thing and they have moved theseboundaries in order to make sure their districts stay blue.
Right, exactly.
So we're waiting for obviously these people to come back.
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They feel that they're out of state, so they can't be threatened with arrest threats.
And they talked about the...
You know that this is a special session and governor Abbott has the right to call aspecial session Which he did which started on July 21st?
So these people were in they were aware of it and then when this subject came up theydecided to take off and um
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the redistricting, it's also about an abortion, some sort of abortion ban or pill orthere's some there's a lot of other things on the special session other than redrawing
boundary lines and so they're basically you know not doing the job that they are supposedto be doing and not to mention how many millions of dollars did that just cost taxpayers
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for them to get out of
Texas.
Yeah, you got to wonder about that.
mean, obviously, there's like a special clubhouse somewhere where they meet and say, youknow what, let's do a walkout.
We did that when we were seniors in high school.
You know, let's walk out on this specific day.
I mean, to flee the state, it just, I don't know, I learn more and more about politicsevery day.
And it's just funny how, um you know, I don't want to say childish, but I mean, it reallykind of is.
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And I mean, and it's guilty on both sides.
mean, it's well it is on both sides, but let's face it.
I mean we can say that it's a lot on the Democrat side.
I mean, come on.
They They haven't stopped they they want Trump done.
They want him out of office They'll go to any lengths to make sure that they win what theywant to win and now They are so unprofessional Constantly using bad language getting up
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there, you know just
screaming and yelling and just so on.
Where is your decorum?
Where is your professionalism?
You are representing the people of your district.
Have a little cooth and have a little class.
Well, it's not like this is gonna go away.
I mean, they have to come back.
It has to be faced at some point.
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So all you're doing is delaying.
yeah, they'll ultimately lose and the Republicans will gain five seats.
I think that's what it is.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
uh
infuriates me that taxpayer dollars are being spent on something so childish, whether itis right or left.
If you do that, you should have to pay back every dime that you used to be insubordinateand lose your seat.
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All right.
So the reality check on this is walkouts usually delay, but they don't stop legislation,which, of course, the risk for GOP is overreach could trigger court challenges and
redraws.
And the risk for Democrats is public opinion could turn if they are seen as avoiding work.
And I don't know how much more public opinion could turn down.
Their poll numbers are just terrible anyway.
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mean, how much are you gonna continue to just tank your party?
Yeah.
All right.
So let's move on to the Gaza war.
you know, looking into this, let's let's talk about why this started.
October 7th of 2023, Hamas militants launched launched a surprise coordinated attack onsouthern Israel, killing 1200 and taking 250 hostages.
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Israel responded with massive airstrikes, then launched a ground invasion on October 27th,2023.
Obviously, the fighting has devastated Gaza's infrastructure and displaced millions.
Ceasefires have been briefed and unstable.
The war has dragged on for nearly two years.
Well, now, you know, it's saying that it was tied to the 50th anniversary of the 1973 YomKippur War.
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framed as retaliation for Israel raids in the West Bank, settler violence and tensionsover ASL mosque.
And so now ceasefire.
Gaza is hurting badly.
They reached a ceasefire in January and Israel's like, nope, we're not doing that.
now we're up to Palestinian death of 60,000 plus 50 hostages remain in Gaza.
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widespread famine, you see it all over the news.
And as of this morning, it says that Israel's security cabinet is talking about takingover Gaza and to eliminate Hamas from power.
thinking about this, okay, Hamas, you struck first, right?
(08:52):
Now you're like, okay, I hit you first, you're hitting me too hard.
Now let's stop.
And where do you go from there?
Exactly.
don't know how Israel has become the bad guy in all of this.
They're still predicting that there are 16,000 to 18,000...
(09:16):
Hamas rebels and terrorists still in Gaza.
I that's not a threat.
There's still a very viable threat there.
You kill even one more person or take them hostage, you're still a threat.
And I don't understand how this former security advisors to Israel are saying, we need tostop, we need to get out.
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think that is, no, you need to finish the job.
US to get involved, asking Trump to get involved.
Right.
And I don't, I don't, I'm not opposed to sending them weapons.
I am opposed to putting boots on the ground.
But I don't think they want us to put boots on the ground.
I think they just need weapons.
I think that it needs to be done.
It's going to continue to rise just like ISIS, just like every other.
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Do you know Hamas in Hebrew means violence?
That's, that is what their name at the core is.
And they're not fighting a...
power war.
They're not fighting a war to see who can make the most money or buy the most oil.
They're fighting a religious war that they have been fighting for 2,000 years.
This is strictly about kill the infidels and they're never going to stop and I don't blameNetanyahu for, you know, I don't want innocent Palestinians to die and so, you know, don't
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send me any hate mail saying that I am cold-hearted.
I'm not.
I don't want any, any, I don't want anybody to die in war.
But the fact is it happens and when you've got people like Hamas or ISIS or Hezbollah, allthese terrorist organizations, they are never going to stop until you stop them.
And there are still 50 hostages.
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yeah.
And I mean, it's just so what do you do?
You go and you kick somebody and be like, No, don't kick me back.
mean, they started the war.
It's like, they're gonna take it until it's theirs, right?
Well, and now aren't they, now they're taking the aid that the Red Cross and whoever, us,Israel, everything that gets dropped, they're basically taking it for themselves and
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they're basically starving the Palestinians.
How are we at fault for this?
That's why Hamas needs to go.
They're watching these people slowly die of starvation and doing nothing about it.
and they're their own people.
exactly.
are Muslim.
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It blows my mind, this protest for Palestine.
Yes, protest for the innocent people there, it's Hamas.
Most of them are Palestinian.
And as long as Iran is still backing them, they're never gonna go away.
They're never going to go away.
And so what are your thoughts if Israel ends up taking over?
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mean.
ever want a country to be.
Right, right.
And I would never, I don't really condone, just the same with, I don't love that Americagoes over and, you know, takes over places, but I don't think we try to do that.
But I really wish the initial thing happened where Trump has said, we'll rebuild Gaza, or,you know, we'll help these people get back on track.
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I think that's the best of both worlds where Israel and maybe America and other countriescould just help them rebuild.
But you have to eliminate Hamas and all the other terrorists before you can even thinkabout doing any of that.
Agreed
So what's at stake obviously for Israel is ending Hamas's military threat, recoveringhostages and avoiding security vacuum in Gaza.
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For Palestinians, its survival, ending blockade and securing humanitarian relief.
And for the region, its risk of wider war, collapse of normalization talks and long-terminstability.
Israel has weakened Hamas military but definitely has not eliminated it.
Humanitarian crisis is deepening, famine may shift, global pressure
against Israel and without post-war governance plan for Gaza, gains could be temporary.
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also want to know what happened with Trump saying those hostages need to be released orelse.
Did that, they released a few and so now we're okay with still 50?
I mean, why, we cannot be mad at Israel.
I'm sorry.
I'm not saying that Israel's perfect or any of that.
I'm just saying if somebody came into our house and they caused complete destruction,they,
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They kidnapped women and children and babies and we would just say after a year or twoyears say, okay, it's okay.
We're gonna let it go now.
We're fine with it.
No, we would never do that.
We would never do that and nor should Israel.
No, especially if they start it.
I mean, you started it.
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Israel was a state, predates Palestine by more than a thousand years.
Yeah.
So Israel was there first for a long time and they were getting along just fine until youhave the terrorists come out.
You're gonna get in trouble for reading your notes in your car.
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I'm not reading.
just had to get a reminder.
know, I'm getting old, so I had to get a little reminder.
All right, so let's move on to uh AOC.
you talked about last episode was the voters of tomorrow summit that happened with thepanda running the show or whatever happened.
So on July 25, the voters of tomorrow fighting for our future summit in Washington DC drew200 plus under 30 progressive activists.
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Maybe it was invite only, we don't know.
uh Progressive activists, influencers and politicians.
Some of the speakers included Nancy Pelosi, Representative Ro Khanna and VP Kamala Harris,she was virtual.
Attendees named AOC and Mamdani as future of the Democratic Party.
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praise, Scary, yeah.
Praise for AOC came with a caveat though, is activists want her to take a louder, clearerstance on Gaza.
So let's talk about AOC.
If you don't know who AOC is, she is a New York City Congresswoman since 2019.
She is the squad leader, champion of Green New Deal, Medicare for All, student debtcancellation, and polarizing outside deep blue areas.
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then Zo...
Exactly.
And Zoran Mamdani is Queen State Assembly member, born in Uganda, raised in New York City.
He is a self-proclaimed socialist, Democrat socialist, known for Seize the Means ofProduction, and he's running for New York City mayor in 2025.
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So, and he's leading.
But he wasn't voted, he just happened to get the most votes.
He wasn't, you know what I mean, one of those things.
what they're finding is that young progressives, Gaza is literally the defining issue AndAOC is being criticized for not being vocal enough on her office vandalized over the
issue.
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Activists see her stance as cautious and AOC says she's being misrepresented.
Momdani's base strongly pro-Palestinian appealing to the far left voters.
So.
I look at these two and I just can't even begin to fathom them being the nominees forpresident.
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It's almost as bad as the whole transgender thing.
You wake up one day and you go, this is a reality in our country that these two people arewhere they are after all of our history of people fighting and losing their lives, women
and children and moms sending their children to war to die so that these two people can bein control of our country?
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It's mind-blowing to me that we're even here talking about socialism.
But what did Ronald Reagan say?
It's only one generation away.
And it is a lot closer than we think it is.
It is scary to think that people in New York City think it's okay to have free grocerystores or government-owned grocery stores.
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I just, I don't understand how we got here.
and that there is support for it.
And it's not just in New York either.
sorry, we're have Oh, my goodness, we're having a thing going on here with the cats.
uh Sorry, my equipment's gonna be falling over soon.
But this shows how youth activists are shaping future leaders.
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And, you know, yeah.
Let's train up this year.
Let's give them a trophy for everything.
Let's not tell them they did anything wrong or that they tried really hard and it's okay.
We just handled them with kid gloves.
They're all of their growing up and now.
the adults of America and they think that everybody should give them something.
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know, most of them still live at home with their mothers and fathers and you know, intheir grandma's basement is the thing they like to say and it's the way we've raised them.
They don't work hard and they don't want to.
yeah, so why this matters nationally is far left positions may play well in activist heavydistricts, but risk alienating moderates and swing votes.
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Gaza as a litmus test could fracture the Democratic coalition before 2026 in the 2028elections.
So, you know,
middle of the road Democrats going to come out?
When are they going to say, this is in no way, or form okay?
When is one Democrat going to come out and say it's not okay to have boys and girls sportsand it's not okay for the government to pay for everything?
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When?
That's why they don't have a leader.
That's why Kamala can't be the leader because not one Democrat will come out against anyof the stuff that they're doing.
Right.
the reality check on this is social media clout is basically, working with the swing statevoters, Democrats risk repeating the 2016 mistakes, which I mean, on our side, that's
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good, right?
Do you know?
And I think I think Republicans are going to sit back.
Yeah.
And I think I wrote this in the sub stack yesterday is, you know, I think Republicans, theGOP is just going to sit back and just watch.
Let's just see what happens with this.
have these two people out there, you know, kind of
embarrassing themselves in a weird way with these younger voters where I think when thetime comes people are finally going to step up and be like, look, this isn't a reality TV
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show, no matter how many times I say politics is like reality TV, it's not.
It's not.
And you can't have these two loud mouthed influencers, let's say, running the country.
Well, and it's not just those two.
It's people like Jasmine Crockett from Texas who are so disrespectful to the governor ofher own state calling him Governor Hot Wheels.
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I mean, this man was hit by a tree when he was 12 years old and paralyzed for the rest ofhis life.
Why would you think that's funny?
mean, and she's still allowed to have a platform to keep talking and being disrespectful.
And hopefully it doesn't work.
Hopefully they kind of, you know.
fizzle out and go away.
you like you mentioned AOC and she was the leader of the squad.
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Well, most of her squad, original squad, is not even in government anymore.
Cori Bush, she lost.
Jamal Bowman lost.
So that squad is not going to stand the test of time, what I hope.
But if they do,
That's good for us anyway because I just can't believe regular, everyday, hardworkingAmericans are going to say, yes, this is what I want for my country that I love and that
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we've worked so hard to build and I just can't imagine it.
the squad kind of reminds me of the Mean Girls Club.
here's the other thing.
about Ilan Omar?
I mean, there's so much around her.
I don't know the actual truth, but I mean, this is a person that we saved.
We brought her over from her country.
She was a refugee.
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We've taken good care of her.
We've educated her.
We fed her.
And this is how she talks about America.
And she gets away with it.
At what point is there some consequence for that?
You know, she's a squad member.
Jamie and I talked about that a lot where, know, if you are more favorable towards anothercountry instead of America, you should not, have any kind of position in politics.
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You shouldn't.
when you speak out against your country that you are helping to run and making laws andrules for when you know that you have an ulterior motive.
And she doesn't even try to hide it.
No, no, it's crazy.
That to me is just insane.
mean, how are you going to sit there and, you know, represent this country and be loyal toanother one?
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It just I don't.
We're just, again, that's Muslim, I don't think all Muslim people are bad.
I think that there are plenty of peaceful Muslims, but the ones that are bad and the onesthat are trying to ruin our country, it has to stop.
It has to stop, and Ilhan Omar is one of those people.
Agreed the next thing we're going to talk about is and this just happened on August 1.
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ICE attempted to arrest Jose Mendez Chavez convicted of child abuse, domestic violence andDUI in Colorado Springs.
He is a Oh, really?
Okay.
So he is a six time deported.
six time deported sex offender.
And the Colorado Rapid Response Network is the one who alerted, that they were coming.
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So he allegedly rammed ICE vehicle before fleeing on foot.
And the manhunt is still ongoing.
Which is which is just crazy.
So
He's a slippery little devil already.
We know that, He's been deported six times and six times he came back in
and came back in, yep.
So I wanted to find out more about this Colorado Rapid Response Network.
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And so they were founded in 2017 by Immigrant Rights Group and they operate a hotline toreport ICE activity and they deploy volunteers to document and advise targets.
we know they're also having people let people know what's happening so they can get out.
should also do more research on how they're funded because a lot of those groups werefunded by NAID or NAID.
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Oh yeah, USAID.
Yeah, that's good idea.
I will do that too.
just amazes me that you're gonna let this person be out on your streets knowing what he'sdoing.
And of course, the activist networks may provide warnings, giving targets time to flee.
So why does this matter to us nationally is it highlights the enforcement breakdowns atthe border.
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It shows tension between federal law and state sanctuary policies.
It raises public safety concerns over violent repeat offenders staying in the UScommunities.
And the political flashpoint is rights defenders versus law enforcement obstructors.
And for Colorado, whether sanctuary laws protect communities or shield dangerouscriminals, maintaining operational effectiveness in hostile jurisdiction for ICE, um for
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activists balancing rights defense with public backlash, and for national policycredibility of immigration enforcement and border security reforms.
Why are we letting these people run the streets?
You know, I think the last guy we did this, ended up killing someone.
And I don't understand why anybody wants this to happen.
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Again, it's the common sense part of the Democrat Party.
you know, should we be giving everything for free?
Should we be allowing criminal migrant people in our country and protecting them?
You know, I can see why people would pull out your hardstrings that you want to protect amom and her little kids or whatever that component might be.
(25:51):
I can see that.
But to protect people like him?
and to protect people like the people that killed these young girls.
I just, don't get it.
It's the common sense of the Democrat Party that has just gone out the door.
Well, and I can't even imagine if this was an American person who had this kind of record.
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I don't think people would stand by and just let him walk the streets.
I don't think they would either, but in this culture today, we're not prosecuting people.
It doesn't matter what color you are.
We're not prosecuting anybody that's bad.
We prosecute the police and we prosecute Trump and we don't prosecute the people who areactually committing the rapes and the murders and the DUI deaths.
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It's unfathomable and this is how
they are going to take America down because we're going to just be so corrupt from theinside that we just crumble.
Yeah, that's a really good point.
mean, it's, we had a couple immigration specialists on the show one time and they said, ifsomeone in America commits a crime, their children aren't following them to jail.
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So anyway, you're breaking up families.
So they're worried about breaking up these families.
For what?
And the time to worry is before you break the law of crossing our border without beinginvited.
That's the time to worry about your family.
Right.
Well, it's just the common sense part of it, you know, and everything is so polarizing.
Everything has to be, you know, right or left.
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There could be no common sense thinking in the middle for whatever reason because theright doesn't want to give the left any wins and the left won't give the right any wins.
And frankly, there's not a lot of wins that can be given to the left right now.
No, and I mean, until something happens to one of their family or to them or whatever, youknow, what it's just going to keep being protect the wrong people.
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Even if it's not political, everything has to be political.
that leads right into our next story, which is the Sydney Sweeney ad.
And I'm going to be honest with you, I saw this come up and I really didn't pay too muchattention to it until it obviously got this big.
So what happened was American Eagle launched a campaign with Sydney Sweeney and it saysSydney Sweeney has great jeans.
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My jeans are blue, great jeans look good on everybody.
And everybody, well, not everybody.
but a lot of people heard genes as in G E N E S as in DNA.
Oh my God.
mean.
uh
it immediately becomes political.
you want to see political?
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Hold my beer.
And then her video was released about her shooting at the shooting range where she's aregistered Republican in Florida.
god.
So critics accused the ad of flirting with eugenics imagery, blonde hair, blue eyes,strong genes, seen as white supremacist coded.
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Some called it fascist coded or Nazi propaganda-esque.
Others dismissed it as overblown woke outrage.
American Eagle said, it's just jeans It's literally just jeans
jeans J-E-A-N-S.
It's meant to promote confidence and inclusivity, not genetics.
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Trump weighs in and called it the hottest ad.
As soon as you find out Sydney Sweeney was a Republican, called it the hottest ad, whichboosted AE uh stock 17%, which is fantastic.
Yeah.
think is awesome.
She hasn't said a word about it.
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They doxxed her.
They doxxed her voting.
But she hasn't tweeted.
She hasn't said anything.
American Eagle hasn't said anything.
We're not changing anything.
She's still on the, in Times Square, the big poster right as you walk in the door.
And I love that.
Don't give them what they want.
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I love it.
the New Yorker calls the campaign a banal provocation contrasting it with Beyonce's Levi'sad that reclaim Americana with black empowerment.
The American Eagle ad is described as reinforcing outdated ideals of white femininity andpandering to reactionary audiences under the guise of provocation.
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pandering.
my god, the Guardian argues the ad fetishes whiteness through its focus on blonde hair,blue eyes and quippy jean pun.
Seeing this
a Beyonce have blonde hair right now?
Beyonce is a beautiful black woman with blonde hair.
You know, most people who have common sense are like, good for you, Beyonce.
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You want to try country music?
Go for it.
You want to wear blonde hair?
Go for it.
We're happy for you.
Because that's what real empowerment is.
That's what real women do.
They support each other.
They don't get their bull nose ring and their piercings all over and their purple hair andsay, I would never buy those jeans.
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Well, no, you wouldn't because they probably wouldn't fit you.
I'm flabbergasted about this.
I'm sitting there thinking like, am I just that like, not shallow, but what is the wordthat, like, I would never, even with Beyonce doing it and being Black empowerment, like, I
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would never, that would never enter my mind of being offended.
exactly you know what live and let live buy the jeans or don't just like you know whateveryone flipped out about Bud Light which is a completely different scenario I mean Bud
Light know your audience right but ah
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don't buy Bud Light.
I mean, we live in America and when a company makes a stupid decision like Bud Light andpromotes a boy during Women's History Day or whatever it was, you chose not to buy Bud
Light, right?
And everybody freaked out and Bud Light tanked for a while.
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Bud Light came out and said, you know, that's not our marketing, you know?
And now, Sydney Sweeney, this is just an innocent...
sex sells they know sex sells and their stock is up and I just am like, let it go if itdoesn't.
Well, no, it went up before Trump too because the jeans that she's actually selling weresold out.
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I mean.
people started talking about it, the stuff started flying off the shelves.
Not to mention that she's a young, beautiful, American girl.
Who knows if they were going to maybe do a beautiful black lady in jeans next time?
It isn't supposed to be about black and white or beauty or not beauty.
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They're selling jeans.
jeans.
And again, that's where I said, like I sit there thinking to myself, am I just, like, am Imissing something where I'm not getting offended by these things that are happening and,
you know, I'm not reading into every single commercial and every single tweet and like, Ijust.
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Who has time for that?
I love the meme of Gene Hackman and Gene Wilder together where it says, now these aregreat genes.
I thought, exactly.
How fun.
How fun.
How fun.
Stop being so over the top about everything.
It's just supposed to be fun.
Yeah.
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think everybody would be more happy.
There would be less mental health issues and I don't know, pharmaceutical companies may godown just because they're not prescribing meds anymore.
Well, they can't keep us divided as a human race if they let all this stuff go.
You can't tear the country down if everyone is united.
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And so they have to keep us in our own little boxes.
you're gay, you're straight, you're white, you're black, you're fat, you're tall, you'reskinny.
You have to fit in your own little box so that you're completely divided from everybodyelse.
And that's how we will destroy your country.
And until we, as an American people, stand up and say, I'm not a box.
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I'm a person.
I'm an American.
I love Jesus.
I live in this country.
And we all get along.
And we all support each other.
And until we do that, we're going to always be a little bit on the edge of destruction.
Well, and know, Jamie used to say that on the podcast a lot where he would say, you know,they need to stop making that the first thing people fill out is check your box on what
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you are.
Yeah.
I mean.
That's what I am.
I've asked Jamie this before, what is it that is making the Democrats want to infiltratethis country the way that they are with immigrants and yeah, and like, what is the end
game?
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What is the end game?
Votes.
That's how they get votes.
votes, mean, but even with votes, you're changing everything about the country.
You're then becoming this dictatorship and the freedom goes away and everything changes.
I don't understand what the point of that is.
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Because you're ruining it for your future generations.
Yeah, I don't think they think beyond that.
They're just about the power and the money grab.
someone commented on one of our clips saying that you can't have humor in politics.
I think you have to have humor in politics.
disagree.
You have to find humor in everything.
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If you don't, then you're just going to become Hillary Clinton.
That is exactly it.
I kind of laughed at it because I'm like, That's exactly why I voted for Trump.
doesn't have to be so serious all the time.
have to be.
if you do your job and you make things better you have to make fun of yourself, right?
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And I think Trump does that well.
And I don't know, people are just so tight.
just need to take a breath.
And Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys, he says, woosa.
We just have to woosa.
woosa
Take a breath, just breathe, just breathe.
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Did you make it to work safe?
Almost.
I've got two more lights and then I'm here.
Well, I'm very proud of you.
There wasn't any traffic incidents today, so that's good.
all good, yes.
Have a wonderful day, everybody.
Bye.
I'm dressed.
That's what he always says in the morning, get dressed.
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All right, bye everybody.
a good day everybody.
So we are back with reasonable arguments.
And I guess we forgot to mention that the last show that Danni actually is doing this fromher car, which pretty evident, but we'll see how she does if traffic gets bad.
Nobody is hurt in the filming of this recording.
I have my seatbelts on and I'm going speed limit.
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Exactly.
All right.
let's start off with the Texas walkout.
let's talk about why this is happening.
50 plus Texas House Democrats have left for Illinois, I think they I heard Illinois,different different states, right?
In New York.
And
that are very good with gerrymandering.
all states that are that are very blue and going to back them.
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they left to block a vote on new US maps.
they did this is because the house needs two third present for quorum.
No quorum of course equals no business.
And the GOP backed map could give Republicans five extra seats.
So of course,
unseat Jasmine Crockett.
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Yes, yes.
And so Trump, course, supports the plan.
Governor Abbott is pushing hard to pass before session ends August 19th.
why they did it is because they're saying that the map will dilute the black and Latinovoting power.
And Republicans say it reflects population growth and shifts, especially in suburban andrural areas.
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what has happening right now is Governor Abbott has
sent out arrest warrants for these people and looking in, I like to look at things thathappened in history and it's not just Democrats that have done this.
Of course, Republicans have done this before.
And in the past, they have, and I think they're trying to do this this time too, is wherethey're gonna say, if you're not back, it's basically abandonment.
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and you're not going to be eligible for reelection.
And I think in the past, when it happened, the Republicans did it in 2023.
Ten senators were not eligible for reelection and they were planning to sue.
So, I mean, what are your thoughts on this?
to me, like I think about the census.
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So the Democrats use the census to, up the numbers in their blue states and all of thatwhere here we go again.
They're trying to take seats away from us.
in my opinion, this is the reason for opening up the borders.
Because you said it in your opening it's affecting black and Latino, mostly Latino.
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And this is why they have opened up the floodgates because they had hoped to havethousands and thousands of people added to their district so then it would just
automatically be blue forever.
Right.
That's why they do it.
That's my opinion and I am glad that Governor Abbott has issued an arrest warrant.
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I don't obviously want them to be arrested, but they need to come back and they need to dothe job that they were put and voted in by their constituents to do.
Right, exactly.
to go have Kathy Hogle, the New York governor say, this is just not the way things aredone.
I'm not gonna stand for it.
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Newsome, I'm gonna fight fire with fire.
These are all people who have done the exact same thing and they have moved theseboundaries in order to make sure their districts stay blue.
Right, exactly.
So we're waiting for obviously these people to come back.
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They feel that they're out of state, so they can't be threatened with arrest threats.
And they talked about the...
You know that this is a special session and governor Abbott has the right to call aspecial session Which he did which started on July 21st?
So these people were in they were aware of it and then when this subject came up theydecided to take off and um
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the redistricting, it's also about an abortion, some sort of abortion ban or pill orthere's some there's a lot of other things on the special session other than redrawing
boundary lines and so they're basically you know not doing the job that they are supposedto be doing and not to mention how many millions of dollars did that just cost taxpayers
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for them to get out of
Texas.
Yeah, you got to wonder about that.
mean, obviously, there's like a special clubhouse somewhere where they meet and say, youknow what, let's do a walkout.
We did that when we were seniors in high school.
You know, let's walk out on this specific day.
I mean, to flee the state, it just, I don't know, I learn more and more about politicsevery day.
And it's just funny how, um you know, I don't want to say childish, but I mean, it reallykind of is.
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And I mean, and it's guilty on both sides.
mean, it's well it is on both sides, but let's face it.
I mean we can say that it's a lot on the Democrat side.
I mean, come on.
They They haven't stopped they they want Trump done.
They want him out of office They'll go to any lengths to make sure that they win what theywant to win and now They are so unprofessional Constantly using bad language getting up
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there, you know just
screaming and yelling and just so on.
Where is your decorum?
Where is your professionalism?
You are representing the people of your district.
Have a little cooth and have a little class.
Well, it's not like this is gonna go away.
I mean, they have to come back.
It has to be faced at some point.
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So all you're doing is delaying.
yeah, they'll ultimately lose and the Republicans will gain five seats.
I think that's what it is.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
uh
infuriates me that taxpayer dollars are being spent on something so childish, whether itis right or left.
If you do that, you should have to pay back every dime that you used to be insubordinateand lose your seat.
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All right.
So the reality check on this is walkouts usually delay, but they don't stop legislation,which, of course, the risk for GOP is overreach could trigger court challenges and
redraws.
And the risk for Democrats is public opinion could turn if they are seen as avoiding work.
And I don't know how much more public opinion could turn down.
Their poll numbers are just terrible anyway.
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mean, how much are you gonna continue to just tank your party?
Yeah.
All right.
So let's move on to the Gaza war.
you know, looking into this, let's let's talk about why this started.
October 7th of 2023, Hamas militants launched launched a surprise coordinated attack onsouthern Israel, killing 1200 and taking 250 hostages.
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Israel responded with massive airstrikes, then launched a ground invasion on October 27th,2023.
Obviously, the fighting has devastated Gaza's infrastructure and displaced millions.
Ceasefires have been briefed and unstable.
The war has dragged on for nearly two years.
Well, now, you know, it's saying that it was tied to the 50th anniversary of the 1973 YomKippur War.
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framed as retaliation for Israel raids in the West Bank, settler violence and tensionsover ASL mosque.
And so now ceasefire.
Gaza is hurting badly.
They reached a ceasefire in January and Israel's like, nope, we're not doing that.
now we're up to Palestinian death of 60,000 plus 50 hostages remain in Gaza.
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widespread famine, you see it all over the news.
And as of this morning, it says that Israel's security cabinet is talking about takingover Gaza and to eliminate Hamas from power.
thinking about this, okay, Hamas, you struck first, right?
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Now you're like, okay, I hit you first, you're hitting me too hard.
Now let's stop.
And where do you go from there?
Exactly.
don't know how Israel has become the bad guy in all of this.
They're still predicting that there are 16,000 to 18,000...
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Hamas rebels and terrorists still in Gaza.
I that's not a threat.
There's still a very viable threat there.
You kill even one more person or take them hostage, you're still a threat.
And I don't understand how this former security advisors to Israel are saying, we need tostop, we need to get out.
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think that is, no, you need to finish the job.
US to get involved, asking Trump to get involved.
Right.
And I don't, I don't, I'm not opposed to sending them weapons.
I am opposed to putting boots on the ground.
But I don't think they want us to put boots on the ground.
I think they just need weapons.
I think that it needs to be done.
It's going to continue to rise just like ISIS, just like every other.
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Do you know Hamas in Hebrew means violence?
That's, that is what their name at the core is.
And they're not fighting a...
power war.
They're not fighting a war to see who can make the most money or buy the most oil.
They're fighting a religious war that they have been fighting for 2,000 years.
This is strictly about kill the infidels and they're never going to stop and I don't blameNetanyahu for, you know, I don't want innocent Palestinians to die and so, you know, don't
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send me any hate mail saying that I am cold-hearted.
I'm not.
I don't want any, any, I don't want anybody to die in war.
But the fact is it happens and when you've got people like Hamas or ISIS or Hezbollah, allthese terrorist organizations, they are never going to stop until you stop them.
And there are still 50 hostages.
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yeah.
And I mean, it's just so what do you do?
You go and you kick somebody and be like, No, don't kick me back.
mean, they started the war.
It's like, they're gonna take it until it's theirs, right?
Well, and now aren't they, now they're taking the aid that the Red Cross and whoever, us,Israel, everything that gets dropped, they're basically taking it for themselves and
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they're basically starving the Palestinians.
How are we at fault for this?
That's why Hamas needs to go.
They're watching these people slowly die of starvation and doing nothing about it.
and they're their own people.
exactly.
are Muslim.
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It blows my mind, this protest for Palestine.
Yes, protest for the innocent people there, it's Hamas.
Most of them are Palestinian.
And as long as Iran is still backing them, they're never gonna go away.
They're never going to go away.
And so what are your thoughts if Israel ends up taking over?
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mean.
ever want a country to be.
Right, right.
And I would never, I don't really condone, just the same with, I don't love that Americagoes over and, you know, takes over places, but I don't think we try to do that.
But I really wish the initial thing happened where Trump has said, we'll rebuild Gaza, or,you know, we'll help these people get back on track.
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I think that's the best of both worlds where Israel and maybe America and other countriescould just help them rebuild.
But you have to eliminate Hamas and all the other terrorists before you can even thinkabout doing any of that.
Agreed
So what's at stake obviously for Israel is ending Hamas's military threat, recoveringhostages and avoiding security vacuum in Gaza.
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For Palestinians, its survival, ending blockade and securing humanitarian relief.
And for the region, its risk of wider war, collapse of normalization talks and long-terminstability.
Israel has weakened Hamas military but definitely has not eliminated it.
Humanitarian crisis is deepening, famine may shift, global pressure
against Israel and without post-war governance plan for Gaza, gains could be temporary.
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also want to know what happened with Trump saying those hostages need to be released orelse.
Did that, they released a few and so now we're okay with still 50?
I mean, why, we cannot be mad at Israel.
I'm sorry.
I'm not saying that Israel's perfect or any of that.
I'm just saying if somebody came into our house and they caused complete destruction,they,
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They kidnapped women and children and babies and we would just say after a year or twoyears say, okay, it's okay.
We're gonna let it go now.
We're fine with it.
No, we would never do that.
We would never do that and nor should Israel.
No, especially if they start it.
I mean, you started it.
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Israel was a state, predates Palestine by more than a thousand years.
Yeah.
So Israel was there first for a long time and they were getting along just fine until youhave the terrorists come out.
You're gonna get in trouble for reading your notes in your car.
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I'm not reading.
just had to get a reminder.
know, I'm getting old, so I had to get a little reminder.
All right, so let's move on to uh AOC.
you talked about last episode was the voters of tomorrow summit that happened with thepanda running the show or whatever happened.
So on July 25, the voters of tomorrow fighting for our future summit in Washington DC drew200 plus under 30 progressive activists.
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Maybe it was invite only, we don't know.
uh Progressive activists, influencers and politicians.
Some of the speakers included Nancy Pelosi, Representative Ro Khanna and VP Kamala Harris,she was virtual.
Attendees named AOC and Mamdani as future of the Democratic Party.
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praise, Scary, yeah.
Praise for AOC came with a caveat though, is activists want her to take a louder, clearerstance on Gaza.
So let's talk about AOC.
If you don't know who AOC is, she is a New York City Congresswoman since 2019.
She is the squad leader, champion of Green New Deal, Medicare for All, student debtcancellation, and polarizing outside deep blue areas.
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then Zo...
Exactly.
And Zoran Mamdani is Queen State Assembly member, born in Uganda, raised in New York City.
He is a self-proclaimed socialist, Democrat socialist, known for Seize the Means ofProduction, and he's running for New York City mayor in 2025.
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So, and he's leading.
But he wasn't voted, he just happened to get the most votes.
He wasn't, you know what I mean, one of those things.
what they're finding is that young progressives, Gaza is literally the defining issue AndAOC is being criticized for not being vocal enough on her office vandalized over the
issue.
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Activists see her stance as cautious and AOC says she's being misrepresented.
Momdani's base strongly pro-Palestinian appealing to the far left voters.
So.
I look at these two and I just can't even begin to fathom them being the nominees forpresident.
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It's almost as bad as the whole transgender thing.
You wake up one day and you go, this is a reality in our country that these two people arewhere they are after all of our history of people fighting and losing their lives, women
and children and moms sending their children to war to die so that these two people can bein control of our country?
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It's mind-blowing to me that we're even here talking about socialism.
But what did Ronald Reagan say?
It's only one generation away.
And it is a lot closer than we think it is.
It is scary to think that people in New York City think it's okay to have free grocerystores or government-owned grocery stores.
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I just, I don't understand how we got here.
and that there is support for it.
And it's not just in New York either.
sorry, we're have Oh, my goodness, we're having a thing going on here with the cats.
uh Sorry, my equipment's gonna be falling over soon.
But this shows how youth activists are shaping future leaders.
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And, you know, yeah.
Let's train up this year.
Let's give them a trophy for everything.
Let's not tell them they did anything wrong or that they tried really hard and it's okay.
We just handled them with kid gloves.
They're all of their growing up and now.
the adults of America and they think that everybody should give them something.
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know, most of them still live at home with their mothers and fathers and you know, intheir grandma's basement is the thing they like to say and it's the way we've raised them.
They don't work hard and they don't want to.
yeah, so why this matters nationally is far left positions may play well in activist heavydistricts, but risk alienating moderates and swing votes.
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Gaza as a litmus test could fracture the Democratic coalition before 2026 in the 2028elections.
So, you know,
middle of the road Democrats going to come out?
When are they going to say, this is in no way, or form okay?
When is one Democrat going to come out and say it's not okay to have boys and girls sportsand it's not okay for the government to pay for everything?
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When?
That's why they don't have a leader.
That's why Kamala can't be the leader because not one Democrat will come out against anyof the stuff that they're doing.
Right.
the reality check on this is social media clout is basically, working with the swing statevoters, Democrats risk repeating the 2016 mistakes, which I mean, on our side, that's
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good, right?
Do you know?
And I think I think Republicans are going to sit back.
Yeah.
And I think I wrote this in the sub stack yesterday is, you know, I think Republicans, theGOP is just going to sit back and just watch.
Let's just see what happens with this.
have these two people out there, you know, kind of
embarrassing themselves in a weird way with these younger voters where I think when thetime comes people are finally going to step up and be like, look, this isn't a reality TV
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show, no matter how many times I say politics is like reality TV, it's not.
It's not.
And you can't have these two loud mouthed influencers, let's say, running the country.
Well, and it's not just those two.
It's people like Jasmine Crockett from Texas who are so disrespectful to the governor ofher own state calling him Governor Hot Wheels.
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I mean, this man was hit by a tree when he was 12 years old and paralyzed for the rest ofhis life.
Why would you think that's funny?
mean, and she's still allowed to have a platform to keep talking and being disrespectful.
And hopefully it doesn't work.
Hopefully they kind of, you know.
fizzle out and go away.
you like you mentioned AOC and she was the leader of the squad.
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Well, most of her squad, original squad, is not even in government anymore.
Cori Bush, she lost.
Jamal Bowman lost.
So that squad is not going to stand the test of time, what I hope.
But if they do,
That's good for us anyway because I just can't believe regular, everyday, hardworkingAmericans are going to say, yes, this is what I want for my country that I love and that
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we've worked so hard to build and I just can't imagine it.
the squad kind of reminds me of the Mean Girls Club.
here's the other thing.
about Ilan Omar?
I mean, there's so much around her.
I don't know the actual truth, but I mean, this is a person that we saved.
We brought her over from her country.
She was a refugee.
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We've taken good care of her.
We've educated her.
We fed her.
And this is how she talks about America.
And she gets away with it.
At what point is there some consequence for that?
You know, she's a squad member.
Jamie and I talked about that a lot where, know, if you are more favorable towards anothercountry instead of America, you should not, have any kind of position in politics.
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You shouldn't.
when you speak out against your country that you are helping to run and making laws andrules for when you know that you have an ulterior motive.
And she doesn't even try to hide it.
No, no, it's crazy.
That to me is just insane.
mean, how are you going to sit there and, you know, represent this country and be loyal toanother one?
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It just I don't.
We're just, again, that's Muslim, I don't think all Muslim people are bad.
I think that there are plenty of peaceful Muslims, but the ones that are bad and the onesthat are trying to ruin our country, it has to stop.
It has to stop, and Ilhan Omar is one of those people.
Agreed the next thing we're going to talk about is and this just happened on August 1.
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ICE attempted to arrest Jose Mendez Chavez convicted of child abuse, domestic violence andDUI in Colorado Springs.
He is a Oh, really?
Okay.
So he is a six time deported.
six time deported sex offender.
And the Colorado Rapid Response Network is the one who alerted, that they were coming.
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So he allegedly rammed ICE vehicle before fleeing on foot.
And the manhunt is still ongoing.
Which is which is just crazy.
So
He's a slippery little devil already.
We know that, He's been deported six times and six times he came back in
and came back in, yep.
So I wanted to find out more about this Colorado Rapid Response Network.
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And so they were founded in 2017 by Immigrant Rights Group and they operate a hotline toreport ICE activity and they deploy volunteers to document and advise targets.
we know they're also having people let people know what's happening so they can get out.
should also do more research on how they're funded because a lot of those groups werefunded by NAID or NAID.
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Oh yeah, USAID.
Yeah, that's good idea.
I will do that too.
just amazes me that you're gonna let this person be out on your streets knowing what he'sdoing.
And of course, the activist networks may provide warnings, giving targets time to flee.
So why does this matter to us nationally is it highlights the enforcement breakdowns atthe border.
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It shows tension between federal law and state sanctuary policies.
It raises public safety concerns over violent repeat offenders staying in the UScommunities.
And the political flashpoint is rights defenders versus law enforcement obstructors.
And for Colorado, whether sanctuary laws protect communities or shield dangerouscriminals, maintaining operational effectiveness in hostile jurisdiction for ICE, um for
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activists balancing rights defense with public backlash, and for national policycredibility of immigration enforcement and border security reforms.
Why are we letting these people run the streets?
You know, I think the last guy we did this, ended up killing someone.
And I don't understand why anybody wants this to happen.
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Again, it's the common sense part of the Democrat Party.
you know, should we be giving everything for free?
Should we be allowing criminal migrant people in our country and protecting them?
You know, I can see why people would pull out your hardstrings that you want to protect amom and her little kids or whatever that component might be.
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I can see that.
But to protect people like him?
and to protect people like the people that killed these young girls.
I just, don't get it.
It's the common sense of the Democrat Party that has just gone out the door.
Well, and I can't even imagine if this was an American person who had this kind of record.
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I don't think people would stand by and just let him walk the streets.
I don't think they would either, but in this culture today, we're not prosecuting people.
It doesn't matter what color you are.
We're not prosecuting anybody that's bad.
We prosecute the police and we prosecute Trump and we don't prosecute the people who areactually committing the rapes and the murders and the DUI deaths.
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It's unfathomable and this is how
they are going to take America down because we're going to just be so corrupt from theinside that we just crumble.
Yeah, that's a really good point.
mean, it's, we had a couple immigration specialists on the show one time and they said, ifsomeone in America commits a crime, their children aren't following them to jail.
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So anyway, you're breaking up families.
So they're worried about breaking up these families.
For what?
And the time to worry is before you break the law of crossing our border without beinginvited.
That's the time to worry about your family.
Right.
Well, it's just the common sense part of it, you know, and everything is so polarizing.
Everything has to be, you know, right or left.
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There could be no common sense thinking in the middle for whatever reason because theright doesn't want to give the left any wins and the left won't give the right any wins.
And frankly, there's not a lot of wins that can be given to the left right now.
No, and I mean, until something happens to one of their family or to them or whatever, youknow, what it's just going to keep being protect the wrong people.
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Even if it's not political, everything has to be political.
that leads right into our next story, which is the Sydney Sweeney ad.
And I'm going to be honest with you, I saw this come up and I really didn't pay too muchattention to it until it obviously got this big.
So what happened was American Eagle launched a campaign with Sydney Sweeney and it saysSydney Sweeney has great jeans.
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My jeans are blue, great jeans look good on everybody.
And everybody, well, not everybody.
but a lot of people heard genes as in G E N E S as in DNA.
Oh my God.
mean.
uh
it immediately becomes political.
you want to see political?
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Hold my beer.
And then her video was released about her shooting at the shooting range where she's aregistered Republican in Florida.
god.
So critics accused the ad of flirting with eugenics imagery, blonde hair, blue eyes,strong genes, seen as white supremacist coded.
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Some called it fascist coded or Nazi propaganda-esque.
Others dismissed it as overblown woke outrage.
American Eagle said, it's just jeans It's literally just jeans
jeans J-E-A-N-S.
It's meant to promote confidence and inclusivity, not genetics.
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Trump weighs in and called it the hottest ad.
As soon as you find out Sydney Sweeney was a Republican, called it the hottest ad, whichboosted AE uh stock 17%, which is fantastic.
Yeah.
think is awesome.
She hasn't said a word about it.
(29:32):
They doxxed her.
They doxxed her voting.
But she hasn't tweeted.
She hasn't said anything.
American Eagle hasn't said anything.
We're not changing anything.
She's still on the, in Times Square, the big poster right as you walk in the door.
And I love that.
Don't give them what they want.
(29:52):
I love it.
the New Yorker calls the campaign a banal provocation contrasting it with Beyonce's Levi'sad that reclaim Americana with black empowerment.
The American Eagle ad is described as reinforcing outdated ideals of white femininity andpandering to reactionary audiences under the guise of provocation.
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pandering.
my god, the Guardian argues the ad fetishes whiteness through its focus on blonde hair,blue eyes and quippy jean pun.
Seeing this
a Beyonce have blonde hair right now?
Beyonce is a beautiful black woman with blonde hair.
You know, most people who have common sense are like, good for you, Beyonce.
(30:37):
You want to try country music?
Go for it.
You want to wear blonde hair?
Go for it.
We're happy for you.
Because that's what real empowerment is.
That's what real women do.
They support each other.
They don't get their bull nose ring and their piercings all over and their purple hair andsay, I would never buy those jeans.
(30:57):
Well, no, you wouldn't because they probably wouldn't fit you.
I'm flabbergasted about this.
I'm sitting there thinking like, am I just that like, not shallow, but what is the wordthat, like, I would never, even with Beyonce doing it and being Black empowerment, like, I
(31:17):
would never, that would never enter my mind of being offended.
exactly you know what live and let live buy the jeans or don't just like you know whateveryone flipped out about Bud Light which is a completely different scenario I mean Bud
Light know your audience right but ah
(31:39):
don't buy Bud Light.
I mean, we live in America and when a company makes a stupid decision like Bud Light andpromotes a boy during Women's History Day or whatever it was, you chose not to buy Bud
Light, right?
And everybody freaked out and Bud Light tanked for a while.
(32:00):
Bud Light came out and said, you know, that's not our marketing, you know?
And now, Sydney Sweeney, this is just an innocent...
sex sells they know sex sells and their stock is up and I just am like, let it go if itdoesn't.
Well, no, it went up before Trump too because the jeans that she's actually selling weresold out.
(32:27):
I mean.
people started talking about it, the stuff started flying off the shelves.
Not to mention that she's a young, beautiful, American girl.
Who knows if they were going to maybe do a beautiful black lady in jeans next time?
It isn't supposed to be about black and white or beauty or not beauty.
(32:52):
They're selling jeans.
jeans.
And again, that's where I said, like I sit there thinking to myself, am I just, like, am Imissing something where I'm not getting offended by these things that are happening and,
you know, I'm not reading into every single commercial and every single tweet and like, Ijust.
(33:16):
Who has time for that?
I love the meme of Gene Hackman and Gene Wilder together where it says, now these aregreat genes.
I thought, exactly.
How fun.
How fun.
How fun.
Stop being so over the top about everything.
It's just supposed to be fun.
Yeah.
(33:38):
think everybody would be more happy.
There would be less mental health issues and I don't know, pharmaceutical companies may godown just because they're not prescribing meds anymore.
Well, they can't keep us divided as a human race if they let all this stuff go.
You can't tear the country down if everyone is united.
(33:58):
And so they have to keep us in our own little boxes.
you're gay, you're straight, you're white, you're black, you're fat, you're tall, you'reskinny.
You have to fit in your own little box so that you're completely divided from everybodyelse.
And that's how we will destroy your country.
And until we, as an American people, stand up and say, I'm not a box.
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I'm a person.
I'm an American.
I love Jesus.
I live in this country.
And we all get along.
And we all support each other.
And until we do that, we're going to always be a little bit on the edge of destruction.
Well, and know, Jamie used to say that on the podcast a lot where he would say, you know,they need to stop making that the first thing people fill out is check your box on what
(34:46):
you are.
Yeah.
I mean.
That's what I am.
I've asked Jamie this before, what is it that is making the Democrats want to infiltratethis country the way that they are with immigrants and yeah, and like, what is the end
game?
(35:06):
What is the end game?
Votes.
That's how they get votes.
votes, mean, but even with votes, you're changing everything about the country.
You're then becoming this dictatorship and the freedom goes away and everything changes.
I don't understand what the point of that is.
(35:29):
Because you're ruining it for your future generations.
Yeah, I don't think they think beyond that.
They're just about the power and the money grab.
someone commented on one of our clips saying that you can't have humor in politics.
I think you have to have humor in politics.
disagree.
You have to find humor in everything.
(35:50):
If you don't, then you're just going to become Hillary Clinton.
That is exactly it.
I kind of laughed at it because I'm like, That's exactly why I voted for Trump.
doesn't have to be so serious all the time.
have to be.
if you do your job and you make things better you have to make fun of yourself, right?
(36:11):
And I think Trump does that well.
And I don't know, people are just so tight.
just need to take a breath.
And Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys, he says, woosa.
We just have to woosa.
woosa
Take a breath, just breathe, just breathe.
(36:32):
Did you make it to work safe?
Almost.
I've got two more lights and then I'm here.
Well, I'm very proud of you.
There wasn't any traffic incidents today, so that's good.
all good, yes.
Have a wonderful day, everybody.
Bye.
I'm dressed.
That's what he always says in the morning, get dressed.
(36:53):
All right, bye everybody.
a good day everybody.
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