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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Abolish the police, abolish iyaes, abolished borders, abolished the Senate,
abolished the Constitution. It's an extreme political ideology that is
gaining traction. The Democrat leadership has lost control.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
They know it, and.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
People like Alexandria Ocassio Cartes Hong in Wisconsin. Abdua L sayed,
in Michigan, you talk about the big tent. The Democrat
Jewish Attorney General of Michigan cannot even go to her
party's nominating convention because she says I won't be safe
there because of the supporters of Abdul l sayed, it.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Is not hyperbole to suggest that we are in a
battle for the Constitution of the United States and the
way that constitution has given us such a wonderful way
of life, so much opportunity, so much safety. And nobody
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knows that better than our colleague Jason Rants, who holds
on afternoon Drive on one of the great conservative radio
stations in America Seattle read seven seventy am. Jason joins us. Now, Jason,
how are you, my friend. I'm doing well. Thanks for
having me excellent. Oh it's a pleasure. I'm so glad
you had a little bit of time you based out
of Seattle. You're a man of the Pacific Northwest, which
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is one of my favorite places on Earth.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
My daughter lives not very far from you.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Watching the progressives damage your state and city is painful,
and it's got to be painful for you, but at
the same time kind of energizing. Help people understand what
Washington State looks like in what direction that's headed these days.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh, we're certainly not going in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
The biggest fight right now is, well, there's actually quite
a few fights coming into this election. We've got three
initiatives on the ballot that have been forwarded by conservatives.
One is to reverse course for the twelfth time on
an income TAXI Democrats keep trying to impose on all
of us. They have completely rigged the system to make
it as difficult as humanly possible to get rid of
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this income tax.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
But we're obviously going to fight for that.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
The other two issues, one having to do with a
pro Bill of Rights, which no longer exists in the
state of Washington. After voters passed it, the Democrat legislature said,
now we're going to just reverse course on what the
voters wanted. And the final one would ban transgender girls
from competing against biological girls in high school sports.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
All three pull.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
On the side of conservatives because I don't think they're
viewed as political issues, at least not inherently. That these
are issues that, regardless of how one identifies politically, can say, yeah,
this is not something we want in our state. Democrats
continue to ignore it. So now it's going to the people.
Seattle specifically, we're seeing an increase in crime again, Homelessness
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is getting out of control, and we have a mayor
who's a socialist, who's never held a real job in
her life, and she's not handling this position very well,
to the point where even left wing media is calling
her out for incompetence.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, Katie Wilson, the mayor of Seattle, reminds me of
Francesca Hong, the woman child who wants to be governor
of Wisconsin. They're kind of cut.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
From the same cloth, dreamy. I mean, at least.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Francesca Hong has been a cook. I mean, she's had
a job, tend's bar now and again. But kind of
that dreamy. All they know is what they learned in
their social classes at college, supported by mom and dad.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Still it's just shocking to me that these people get elected.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Well, the good news is, at least in Wisconsin, she'll
win tonight, Hong will win the primary.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
She's not going to get elected.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
There's no one, sirius, who thinks she stands a shot
in Wisconsin for governor. It's the same thing in Michigan,
where you know privately Democrats will acknowledge, yeah, there's no
way Abdul al Saied is going to win. This too
extreme for Michigan. The threat for Republicans would have been
Hayley Stevens. Different take in Seattle and Washington, right, I mean,
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we are deeply, deeply, deeply blue. We are unapologetically blue,
and Seattle is the worst of the worst. So you
can get someone like a Katie Wilson or an elsiid
or Hong and they could in fact win there. And
that's the scary part where people don't look at these
people at the local level where I'm from and say, Okay,
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I guess I agree with them ideologically, but they don't
have any experience. And I don't want to turn over
the reins to a major city with a huge budget
to someone like that simply because I agree with them ideologically,
there's got to be someone else who I can align with,
who actually comes with some experience. We don't vote like that,
and we suffer the consequences.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
As a result.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
We've all watched San Francisco take a turn towards the sane.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Daniel Lurry's the mayor there, and he's.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
No conservative, but he's the sort of fellow that you're describing.
He can perceive reality and tell you about it. I
see in Vancouver, which is one of the great places
on Earth, that the police have been ordered to stop
citing shoplifting and public hard drug use. I mean, doubling
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down on the absolutely corrosive policies that we've seen fail
so miserably everywhere else.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well, and that's the sad part about all of this.
This is twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
This is in twenty twenty through twenty twenty three, where
a lot of the defund police and the abolition has
had a whole lot of control and decided to completely
redefine what policing and prosecution meant and meant. And we
all saw the results of that. We saw crime skyrocket.
Only recently, in the last couple of years have we
seen those numbers to start coming back down to where
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they used to be pre COVID, because you know, it's.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Kind of like going on a diet.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
It takes a very long time to lose like ten pounds,
and then you go to Vegas for the weekend and
then you gain fifteen. It's really, really, really easy to
destroy our communities and lead to this rise in crime.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It takes a long time.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
To go back to normal, and that's what we've seen,
only for Vancouver to reverse course. And again, this was
all by design, not to get two in the weeds.
But the reason why they're doing this in Vancouver is
because the Washington State Supreme Court, which is dominated by liberals,
lowered the threshold for the minimum or the excuse me,
the maximum cases that a public defender can hold, and
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every prosecutor outside of Seattle and King County said, we
don't have enough defenders for this for what you're asking,
and if you change these rules, you're going to make
it so that we can't actually prosecute. We're going to
have to just release people. We're not even gonna be
able to charge them. And this is a direct result.
They ignored all of the complaints coming from the prosecuting
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attorney's office, because they're the ones who have to fund
the public defender's offices. Just ignored all of that. They
implemented the plan, and now we're seeing the results. And again,
this is not just specifically to Vancouver. If you go
all around the state of Washington, you're going to see
similar instances in which criminals are being let go because
they just don't have public defenders to handle the cases.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
We're talking to a Jason Rantz, you know, Jason, occasionally
I'll take off my patriot and concerned citizen hat and
just put on my political science, you know, analyst hat.
And I've got to tell you, the far left were
it was ingenious that they ran their candidates for district attorney,
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county attorney, that sort of thing, county prosecutor, and got
the Marxist in and took over the school boards, while
the rest of us were assuming that, well, everybody has
the same values because we all grew up with them,
we were taught them, we love this country, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That was a stroke of evil genius.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But as you indicate, digging our way out of the
holes that that's created, and we need to win back
those offices and then spend years is undoing this stuff
we do.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
And you know, generally conservatives and independence to a degree
just by their definition of being an independent, we're not
particularly organized. And the far left is that they are
very organized. A lot of them do this professionally, you know,
sort of live in this activist space.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
They take advantage of younger.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Voters who, especially during primaries when the turnout is generally low.
As long as you're organized, you bring out x amount
of people depending on where it is you live, it's
almost a guarantee that you're going to win in the primary.
That doesn't always translate to general election wins. Sometimes it does,
but it doesn't always, and they've been able to take
advantage of that. You combine in I'm glad you brought
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up specifically like school board races. Those also are just
low turnout elections. Even in generals. You've got people who
vote who have no clue who they're voting for. They look, oh,
I like that name. I have an aunt named Susie,
I'll vote for her. How they tend to vote on
these races, especially if you don't have any kids, you're
not paying his close attention to it.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And if they vote at all, and the teachers and
the Teachers' Union vote to vote every single time one
hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
And that's where the organizational stuff comes into play. And
that's on us, right, I mean, the people who are listening.
I guarantee you there's a huge number of people who
didn't even vote. And if they did vote, they didn't
vote on every single election. And if they did vote
on every single election, I guarantee you they didn't do
the enough research on all the candidates before.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
They decided to vote. And that needs to change.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, we got to keep browbeating them in anyway, that's
what people tune in for a good solid browbeating. To
your point about organizing, You remember when Barack Obama first
came on the scene and we were told he was
a community organizer, and three quarters of America.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Said, what the hell's a community organizer?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
But they know on the left, and you know, the
irony is what we're calling for is individualists of the
world unite. I mean, it's just not in our nature,
but we'd better and quick.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Yeah, again, we seed power to folks who hold minority viewpoints,
and yet they have control over the legislatures. They have
control over the culture because we've allowed them to take over.
We know when we pull individual topics. Defund police is
a perfect example of that. Open borders. We know where
the American people, regardless of their political ideology stand. They
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are against police defunding, they are against open borders, and
yet they're not voting and if we can't inspire them
to vote. And some of that, by the way, is
on conservatives in particular, who I think send a bad
message about elections being stolen. I think systems can be
rigged to make it difficult to win. I hold that view,
But elections don't need to be stolen if people aren't voting.
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So even if you were to believe that the tallies
are being manipulated behind the scenes make it hard for them,
then go ahead and vote and make it more difficult
for them to steal anything. If that's what you truly believe.
And I don't believe that. I think that we are
losing because we don't get out the vote. And there
are too many people on our side who have decided
to give up because they think the system is so
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corrupt that they can't win elections. But you're ganding over
the election to the left. Jason, I agree with you
one hundred percent. I think it's an absolutely great point,
perhaps the most corrosive force in you know, politics are
running a country is a comfort. Being comfortable because you
stopped doing the work, and our generation I'll take the blame.
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I don't think we did a good job of convincing
our children how important liberty is and limited government and
how sacred our rights are because we assumed we got comfortable,
we assumed everybody agreed. But keep keep preaching the good word.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Jason love it big Fan, Jason Rant's host of the
Jason Rant Show on Seattle Red seven to seventy a m.
In the afternoon, where we're honored to be on in
the morning. Thanks Milling, Jason, good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Thanks for having me appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh yeah, absolutely yeah. Jason's also I didn't want to
kiss this but too much. But he's a terrific writer
and appears on Fox News semi regularly that sort of thing.
I don't know how he finds the time and energy.
This mess is all I can take, combined with you know,
family responsibilities in having something like a personal life.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
But anyways, terrific, terrific, guy in a hell of a.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Talent, so so much more to get to hope you
can stay around if you can. As always subscribed to
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