Verdict with Ted Cruz: Dem Presidential Candidates Crash & Burn on Foreign Policy, plus Obama goes on the Attack
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0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
0:09Senator, we've got one heck of a show.
0:10We're dealing with, well, some Democrats that just fell flat on their face on the
0:15international stage. We have that for you.
0:18Also, Barack Obama decided to go after law enforcement again.
0:21And we even got you a little update on the sewage problem on the Potomac.
0:25The Democrats are mishandling yet again.
0:27Yeah, look, all of that is happening.
0:29We had three likely Democrat presidential candidates in Munich at the Munich Security Conference.
0:36They tried to engage in foreign policy.
0:39And let me just say it did not go well.
0:40You had AOC, you had Gretchen Whitmer, and you had Gavin Newsom.
0:44And it was a mess.
0:46We're going to come with the details.
0:48You're going to listen to exactly what they said.
0:50You're being kind. And boy, all three of them wish they could do a take
0:55two and reset. As you noted, Barack Obama also, I guess he was feeling lonely,
1:01you know, laying back at his mansion, collecting the millions of dollars Hollywood has paid
1:05him. And so he decided to get back in the political fray by unleashing a
1:10flamethrower, attacking ICE, attacking Trump, just viciously engaging in the partisan battle.
1:18We're going to break that down for you as well.
1:20And finally, as you noted, we're going to give an update on the billion gallons
1:25of sewage that Democrats have dumped into the Potomac River.
1:28And the latest update on that, as bad as that story is, the latest update's
1:33even worse. Yeah, it really is.
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2:50Munich that they have. And can you explain to people why this event is kind
2:55of like a resume thing?
2:57If you're looking to run for office, if you're trying to raise your stature, you
3:01show up there in Munich.
3:02It's a kumbaya event is how I describe it.
3:06But give people the background and why everyone that's trying to be somebody wants to
3:10be there in the political world.
3:11Yeah, look, the Munich Security Conference is held every year, and it's in Munich, obviously.
3:16And you get quite a few leaders from the United States who go over.
3:20You get both Republicans and Democrats.
3:22I've been to it numerous times.
3:24You get foreign heads of state.
3:26You get secretaries of state.
3:28You get foreign ministers. And they're from all over.
3:31A lot of Europeans go and people more broadly go.
3:34And it can be a very productive time because when you go, there are these
3:38panel discussions and conferences, but you also do a whole series of one -on -one
3:43meetings. And so you can go to one place and meet with a half dozen
3:47different heads of state. So it can be very efficient in terms of having productive
3:51national security and foreign policy conversations.
3:54Now, two people who went, I believe, for the first time were AOC and Gretchen
4:00Whitmer. Now, it is no secret that both of them are looking quite seriously at
4:05running for president as a Democrat, only because the Communist Party is not having a
4:10contested primary. But they're thinking of running in 2028.
4:13And if you run for president, you presumably should know something about foreign policy.
4:18You should be able to, say, spin a globe and have some clue about some
4:24country that is further out than Brooklyn.
4:27Well, AOC took a hand at it.
4:30And by the way, she's, you know, a young, vocal socialist in America.
4:38She was going and expecting just to be embraced in Europe.
4:42I mean, look, young, pretty socialist, that's kind of like European crack.
4:46That's where you eat, right?
4:47Yeah. She was singing Easy Street.
4:50No prep time needed, right?
4:52Yeah, but, you know, in terms of being ready for prime time, listen to this
4:57exchange she had when asked about one of the most pressing foreign policy questions across
5:03the globe right now. Would and should the U .S.
5:07actually commit U .S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?
5:12You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this
5:22is a, um. Thank you.
5:25This is, of course, a very longstanding policy of the United States.
5:33And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure
5:36that we never get to that point.
5:39And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic
5:43research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to
5:50even arise. All right, Senator, look, I've had the privilege of working on quite a
5:55few campaigns and some presidential campaigns.
5:59This would be one of the first questions.
6:01And when you do prep, whether it's a debate prep or a major get on
6:06stage event, we call it, you know, rolling out the agenda of a candidate.
6:10How was she not prepared to answer that question?
6:13And the scary part was the whole room was like, she has no idea what
6:16she's saying right now. Yeah, yeah.
6:18Everyone knew that, you know, several things come to mind.
6:21Number one, you know, the popular gif online of Cary Elwes kind of kind of
6:25fluttering his eyelashes. That's what I immediately think of, like looking at that, like, well,
6:31that's that's something. That's something.
6:34Yeah. I also am hearing in my head Kamala Harris going, wow, that's a word
6:40salad. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean, it's not it's not even I mean, it
6:44was a it was a blunder that I would argue would probably come up in
6:48a campaign. Right. Like even if you try to fix this now, it's out there
6:52how unprepared she is for national security issues.
6:55And this would have been if you and I were doing debate prep or or
6:58this prep for her in a meeting, like, hey, what do you think you're going
7:01to ask? Immediately, I would have said Iran.
7:03I would have said Ukraine and Russia.
7:05And you would have said Taiwan and China.
7:06Like those are the top of the list without even having to make a list.
7:08Yeah. Look, it's one of the things Democrats and particularly those on the far left,
7:13they're used to being in environments where everyone agrees with them, where they're just kissing
7:18their behind. Oh, you're so wonderful.
7:20You're so cool. You're so awesome.
7:22You're so hip. Most Democrats, they don't do hostile media interviews.
7:27They won't go on Fox News.
7:28They go on MSNBC or CNN or even the networks and they just just get
7:34slap slabbering praise and never get challenged.
7:38So so that was clearly a problem.
7:41And I got to say, OK, so Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan, considered a serious
7:47presidential contender by by many observers.
7:50She had a similar problem.
7:52Listen to Gretchen Whitmer getting asked a question on Ukraine.
7:55What does victory look like?
7:59Ambassador? Oh, please. I'd love to hear your answer.
8:05Yeah, it is. I the two the two that I am on the panel with
8:10are much more steeped in foreign policy than is than a governor is.
8:14But, you know, I do think that Ukraine's independence, keeping their their landmass and having
8:21the support of of all the allies, I think, is is the goal for my
8:27vantage point. Go ahead, ambassador.
8:30Do a better job. I you and I, by the way, know who the ambassador
8:34is that she's looking at asking to bail him out or like begging for a
8:39conservative to bail her out.
8:41I laugh because his his response center was exactly what I would have done.
8:45I think what you would have been.
8:46You're like, no, no, please.
8:47I want to hear your answer.
8:48Like, by all means, ladies, first, you go ahead.
8:50Tell us what you think here.
8:52And the ambassador, Matt Whitaker, who's the U .S.
8:55ambassador to NATO, was Donald Trump's acting attorney general in the first term.
9:02So so he is close to the president.
9:04He is a conservative. And the idea that she looks to him and is like,
9:08ah, can I call a friend?
9:11Do I get a lifeline?
9:13Yeah. Yeah. Do I get a lifeline to the hardcore conservative that works for Trump
9:15across me? And then she even comes like, well, they know more about this than
9:19a governor would know. And by the way, the they she's also talking about AOC,
9:23that that after AOC is like, what is this Taiwan thing of which you speak?
9:28Yeah. Yeah. Where is Taiwan?
9:29Yeah. And then Gretchen Whitmer is asked, OK, Ukraine, Ukraine, what is I know?
9:34No, Ukraine. I'm sorry. Who Ukraine?
9:36What? What? What's that? It's a Bill Clinton joke, right?
9:38I've never met her. I don't know her.
9:40I know nothing about her.
9:41Right. Ukraine. I don't have no idea.
9:43Yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm waiting for them.
9:44You know, I did not have relations with that country like like that.
9:47Yes, exactly. You know, it's interesting that there was an article written on Fox News
9:53Digital by David Marcus, who writes for them, that I actually thought was a very
9:57interesting article. I retweeted it this week.
9:59I read it and I just thought it was interesting.
10:01It was Democrats Munich meltdown exposes less intellectual void.
10:07AOC is cringe inducing word salad on world stage should embarrass old school liberals.
10:12I want to read a little bit of it because I thought he made very
10:14good points. When I was growing up in the 1980s, there was a galaxy of
10:19left wing, even socialist intellectual stars such as Noam Chomsky, Michael Foucault and Gore Vidal,
10:26whose works were like an inkwell that politicians and commentators could draw from.
10:33Judging from the Munich Security Conference this weekend, that inkwell has run dry.
10:39Take this gem of a comment on global order from AOC, queen of the democratic
10:46socialists. Quote, What we are seeking is a return to a rules -based order that
10:51eliminates the hypocrisies around. when too often in the West we look the other way
10:55for inconvenient populations to act out these paradoxes.
10:59Huh? Allow me to translate this into English.
11:04I'm returning to Marcus's column.
11:07Quote, the West is bad and mistreats the marginalized rest of the world.
11:12The use of 25 -cent words and highfalutin sentence structure cannot hide the banality of
11:18what AOC is saying. Not even the assuring allure of assonance would help, given the
11:24asinine simplicity of her word salad.
11:28Not to be outdone, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, after apologizing for being less well -versed
11:34in foreign policy than AOC, offered this take on the war in Ukraine.
11:39Ukraine's independence, keeping their landmass, I mean the support of all allies, I think is
11:43the goal from my vantage point.
11:45There is just nothing here but empty words that paint a picture of the facile,
11:52progressive worldview, completely divorced, not only from reality on the ground, but from any sound
11:59intellectual framework whatsoever. The American right has a core of intellectuals, from Christopher Rufo, who
12:06we've had on this show on Verdict, to Victor Davis Hanson, who's a good friend,
12:10to Mark Dubovitz, who's another good friend, and on and on, who can be referred
12:14to or drawn on in policy debates, both foreign and domestic.
12:19In fact, about a decade ago, we had intellectual dark web phenomenon with figures like
12:26Jordan Peterson and Barry Weiss, who are broadly seen, if not as conservative, as right
12:32-leaning. Who are their counterparts on the far left?
12:36Who is the contemporary socialist intellectual who AOC could have referenced to support or claim
12:43that what is needed is massive global redistribution of wealth?
12:47I would posit that outside of the very narrow corridors of race and gender, such
12:53far left public intellectuals no longer exist, and for two very important reasons.
12:58The most obvious cause for the current dearth of popular far left socialist intellectuals is
13:04the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.
13:07At least for the next two decades, the game was up.
13:10The experiment had failed, and nobody wanted to be called a socialist.
13:14The second reason is that what took the place of outright socialism was the cultural
13:20Marxism specifically in the form of critical race theory, and essentially they've replaced their foreign
13:27policy with just it's all about race and gender and identity politics.
13:33And I've got to say, this is a dangerous world.
13:38By the way, neither of those questions are easy.
13:42Let's take Taiwan. Taiwan is China -Taiwan is the single most likely place for a
13:50major powers conflict on the face of the earth.
13:52The biggest surprise I have from Joe Biden's presidency is that China did not invade
13:58Taiwan in the final year of Biden's presidency, because Biden would have done nothing.
14:02Biden would have been utterly impotent.
14:05And I can only assume that Xi was concerned about the prospects of success.
14:09He didn't want to fail, and so he didn't make the move.
14:12I do not believe China will make a move on Taiwan while Trump is president,
14:17for the very simple reason that I think Xi is afraid of Trump.
14:21And Trump's been clear. He is a response president.
14:25Like, don't push me, watch.
14:26And there's multiple examples of that.
14:28That's why his foreign policy is so effective.
14:30And listen, in terms of what the U .S.
14:33military response would be to an invasion of Taiwan, it has been U .S.
14:39policy for a long time to have some degree of measured ambiguity.
14:42We will defend Taiwan, but we haven't specified precisely how.
14:48Yep. Back in 2019, I traveled to Asia, and I went first to Pearl Harbor,
14:53and then I went to Japan and Taiwan and Hong Kong and India.
14:58And that was designed to be a friends and ally tour all surrounding China and
15:03discussing with heads of state and cabinet members a question I posed.
15:10I posed at the time the Japanese prime minister, Abe, who sadly is no longer
15:16with us, but I posed to him.
15:17I said, what would Japan do if China moved militarily on Taiwan and made an
15:23amphibious landing? And I got to say, the blood drained from his face.
15:27He did not like that question.
15:29He did a lot better than AOC.
15:31It wasn't that he had nothing to say.
15:33It's just that their ability to repel that militarily, I think, is less than is
15:41ideal. The single best way to deal with it is to deter it in the
15:47first place, which AOC kind of stumbled to at the end.
15:50But look, in national security parlance, the doctrine is called making Taiwan a porcupine, making
15:58it so difficult to capture that you prevent China from engaging because – and I've
16:05been through and studied the war games where China moves on Taiwan, the U .S.
16:10responds militarily. There are lots of scenarios where that escalates into a really, really ugly
16:15shooting war. And so no one in their right mind wants to see that happen.
16:21Which is part of why the U .S.
16:22makes clear, look, if you move on Taiwan, you could very well see a serious
16:27U .S. military response. That's part of deterrence.
16:31Another part of deterrence is providing Taiwan the weapons, the missiles and landmines and everything
16:37that makes it difficult for an amphibious landing to be quick and successful.
16:44Everything I just said, I promise you, AOC has no idea about any of that.
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18:02Before we get, by the way, to Obama, and I want to move to that,
18:04but I do want to play something that AOC had to say in Germany.
18:09And I want to get your reaction to this.
18:10Now, this was in Germany.
18:12Everybody take a listen. My name is Hagar.
18:15I'm from Israel. I'm a journalist for Haaretz.
18:18And my question is for Congresswoman Ocasio -Cortez.
18:22I wanted to know if you think that the democratic presidential candidate in the 2028
18:29elections should re -evaluate military aid to Israel.
18:35I mean, to me, this isn't just about a presidential election.
18:40Personally, I think that the United States has an obligation to uphold its own laws,
18:47particularly the Leahy laws. And I think that, personally, that the idea of completely unconditional
18:56aid, no matter what one does, does not make sense.
19:00I think it enabled a genocide in Gaza.
19:02And I think that we have thousands of women and children dead that was completely
19:12avoidable. And so I believe that enforcement of our own laws through the Leahy laws,
19:21which requires conditioning aid in any circumstance, when you see gross human rights violations, is
19:28appropriate. Senator, I'll let you take it from there, because that one, honestly, when I
19:32saw it, I was like, wow.
19:33So, look, AOC is a founding member of the squad.
19:38She is a hardcore leftist, and if you really want to translate what she's saying,
19:44she's saying, listen, I'm a Marxist, and I hate Israel, because on the left, we
19:49hate Israel, because Israel, we think, is a colonialist oppressor.
19:54The Marxists divide the world into two groups, oppressors and victims.
20:00And in AOC's world, Israel is an oppressor, and the Palestinians are the victims.
20:04And once you fall into that framework, for today's leftists, you support the violent revolutionary
20:14overthrow by the so -called victims of the so -called oppressors.
20:17Now, she threw out the claim that Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza.
20:24That is a total lie.
20:25But I will say there's a particular irony for an American to go to Germany,
20:32where an actual genocide occurred, where the Nazis exterminated six million Jews in concentration camps,
20:39where they committed human experiments and torture that remains the most concentrated evil humanity has
20:47ever seen. And for her to say it blithely, with no acknowledgment of that, it
20:54is ideology over truth. That answer is grotesque, what AOC just said there.
21:01And I will point out, on the claim of genocide, you know, it's interesting.
21:05Do you know who just recently contradicted that?
21:07Who's that? Hamas. Yeah. Hamas just publicly said that they are providing aid to over
21:1750 ,000 widows of Hamas terrorists.
21:22Now, mind you, the narrative is that Israel was killing innocent women and children.
21:26The death toll varies, but it is somewhere between 60 ,000 and 70 ,000.
21:31So Hamas is admitting 80 % of the people killed were Hamas terrorists because they're
21:37giving money to the widows.
21:38Sorry, you killed our terrorists.
21:40We're going to give you money.
21:41Yeah. AOC, of course, doesn't acknowledge that at all because ideology, Israel will always be
21:47bad. America. America will always be bad.
21:50Capitalists will always be bad.
21:53Anglos will always be bad.
21:55And if you have clear queer Islamists, transgender witches, that may be the like height
22:08of virtue in the world.
22:11I, you know, that, and you know, the amazing thing is, I actually think AOC
22:17is one of two front runners for the Democrat nomination in 20, in 2028.
22:21I think it is Gavin Newsom and AOC.
22:24Newsom probably is, is marginally ahead right now, but AOC, she is the id of
22:31the Democrat party. And, and it is not short for idiot, but, but, but it
22:35is, she is the like raw anger passion.
22:41She's the Mondani nationally right now.
22:42And by the way, let's, since, since, since this, this podcast, we make lots of
22:46predictions. I have said before.
22:48This is my favorite part of the show, by the way, when you say you're
22:50about to make a prediction, because if we're keeping records, you've been pretty, you've been,
22:54you've been getting on the all -star team every season.
22:57So keep going. I'm ready.
22:58Yeah. We tend to do at the end of the year, we go through the
23:00predictions that we made on this podcast.
23:02And, and we have an incredibly high, I think we're North of 80 % of
23:06being accurate. I've said before that the inaugural member of the AOC for president committee
23:14will be Chuck Schumer because Schumer is terrified of AOC primarying him from the left
23:21that I said before. So that's not a new prediction.
23:24Here's my second prediction. Here's the prediction though.
23:27If Schumer succeeds and gets AOC to run for president, he says, Alexander, you're, you're
23:33much too important to be a measly little Senator.
23:36You need to be in the Oval Office, uh, with every old genius ooze he,
23:42he, he, he, he can tell her.
23:44Here's my prediction. If AOC runs for president, Mondami is going to run for Senate
23:49against Chuck Schumer. I think that's a brilliant prediction.
23:53And by the way, if that happens, I think the odds are greater than 50%.
23:59Schumer decides not to run.
24:00That Mondami announced Schumer may look at it for a little while and then he's
24:05like, and he is a political animal.
24:07And, and, and, but I don't think Schumer can win.
24:09I don't think Schumer can beat AOC in a primary and I don't think Schumer
24:13can beat Mondami in a primary.
24:14And Schumer, by the way, doesn't want his legacy to be Cuomo, right?
24:17Where all of a sudden you go from this big grand job you had for
24:19a long time to all of a sudden you, you, you, you just flame out
24:22at the end and people look at you as kind of like a disgrace.
24:24Oh yeah. That guy didn't know when to leave.
24:26I think Schumer has, has, is somewhat like Nancy Pelosi where they want to feel
24:31like they go out on top.
24:32Sure. You want to go out on top.
24:33By the way, speaking of flaming, it is interesting that Barack Obama decided to flame
24:39Donald Trump and ICE and everyone else.
24:42I don't know. I guess he's, he's sitting there resting on his hundreds of millions
24:46of dollars and, and just getting angry and decided he wanted to take some swings.
24:50So this is interesting. And, and this is where I've been saying this a lot
24:54over and over again, especially in TV.
24:57The democratic party as a whole is anti -law enforcement.
25:01It's not just the AOCs of the party.
25:03A perfect example of this being part of their platform center is Barack Obama doing
25:09a podcast this week. And he is, I would argue, blessing the democratic movement, right?
25:15The Marxist socialists and communists.
25:17You've got my blessing. I'm probably one of the biggest names in the democratic party,
25:21if not the biggest name of the elder statesman.
25:24Now that people listen to, I'm giving my blessing that you can attack ICE agents
25:28now. And this is a platform of the DNC.
25:31Yeah, absolutely. Here, let's give a listen to what he had to say.
25:34The rogue behavior of agents of the federal government.
25:39We, is, is deeply concerning and, and, uh, dangerous.
25:46The sort of behavior that, uh, you know, in the past we've seen in authoritarian
25:51countries and we've seen in, uh, dictatorships, but we have not seen in America.
25:57I mean, you're, you're calling ICE agents who are just enforcing the law.
26:02Rogue agents that, that is from a former eight year president and the leader of
26:05the democratic party still. Yeah, no, look, that, that, that is exactly right.
26:09By the way, that same message was conveyed by Gavin Newsom in Munich.
26:14Give a listen to Gavin Newsom.
26:15We'll talk about these two together.
26:16But I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something
26:21familiar in Germany. Those first images came out of my state.
26:26The second largest city in the United States of America.
26:29We saw 4 ,000 national guard federalized first time.
26:33We never seen anything like this.
26:34And 700 active duty Marines sent not overseas, but to the second largest city in
26:39the United States of America, militarizing the streets of my city.
26:42Masked men, masked men showing up unaccountable.
26:45Let's be very clear, Senator.
26:47That is Gavin Newsom comparing American law enforcement to Nazis.
26:51Yep. Yep. Which, which by the way, uh, is what Obama was doing too.
26:56By the way, just like AOC and Whitmer, Newsom is apparently thoroughly historically illiterate.
27:02He said, we've never seen national guards federalized in the states.
27:06I guess his history book does not discuss the civil rights movement.
27:09He's never heard of a president named Dwight D.
27:12Eisenhower. He's never heard of sending the national guard into southern states.
27:16He's never heard of a president named Dwight D.
27:16Eisenhower. When Democrats who refused to desegregate schools resisted, Eisenhower sent the National Guard in.
27:23The pattern is the same.
27:25In this instance, you have Democrats who are saying we refuse to comply with federal
27:29immigration law. Then you had in the 50s and 60s, you had Democrats saying we
27:34refuse to comply with civil rights law.
27:37In both instances, it is lawless Democrats attacking law enforcement.
27:44You know, Gavin Newsom is proudly following the tradition of Bull Connor, another Democrat politician.
27:50The demonizing of law enforcement is central to who they are, central to who the
27:55party is. And now I want you to listen to Barack Obama in this podcast
27:59because he does a judo move that is classic Barack Obama.
28:07Give a listen. The other side does the mean, angry, demagoguery, you know, exclusive, us,
28:18them, you know, divisive politics.
28:22That's their home court. Our court is coming together.
28:32Our court is, look, you know, a great example.
28:36Wasn't political. Bad Bunny's halftime show.
28:39I knew you were going to say that.
28:40Well, it was, it resonated.
28:43It was smart because it wasn't preaching.
28:49It was showing. It was demonstrating and displaying.
28:53This is what a community is.
28:55By the way, I love that he's just admitting there.
28:57Yes, this is a smart political move to have a political statement at the Super
29:01Bowl during halftime. He's admitting what we were saying, that it was a political decision.
29:06And he's like, it's a brilliant political operative move for the NFL to do this.
29:10Well, look, I mentioned that what Obama was doing there is judo and judo is
29:15flipping and using your opponent's weight against you, against them.
29:21But it is also, it is classic Orwellian.
29:25It is accusing the other side of doing what you are doing.
29:28Barack Obama, I think in any fair history, he will not go down in history
29:32as this because most historians are leftists, so they will carve him into Mount Rushmore.
29:37But if you were fairly assessing his legacy, he is one of the most bitterly
29:42partisan leaders our country has ever had.
29:45And I think much of the rage, the anger we have of the two sides
29:51screaming at each other finds its origins in the Obama presidency.
29:56And I got to say, my principal reaction to that is one of regret of
30:02the lost opportunity. Listen, Barack Obama was elected as the first African -American president ever.
30:08For a country that for a century plus had slavery, to elect a black president
30:17was a big damn deal.
30:19And Obama was given by history the opportunity to be what he claimed to be,
30:26to be coming together, to be a healing president.
30:28And he chose just the opposite.
30:30He chose to just rub salt in the racial wounds, to divide.
30:36If you remember early on the beer summit he had where he demonized law enforcement
30:40right at the beginning of his presidency, you remember he described people in small towns
30:45in America as, quote, bitter and angry and clinging to their God and their guns.
30:51You remember Michelle Obama saying that when Barack Obama was elected president, it was the
30:55first time she'd ever been proud of her country.
30:59Yeah. Like it is. And if you look at the fruit, listen, I believe that
31:05Barack Obama fundamentally is a Marxist.
31:09He was just a few years ahead of me at Harvard Law School.
31:11We did not overlap. But I think he is steeped in cultural Marxism.
31:17Now, when he was president, he was not vocal about all of that because the
31:22country at the time was not ready for it.
31:24But I think AOC is the spiritual grandchild of Barack Obama.
31:30I think Mondami is the spiritual grandchild of Barack Obama.
31:35And as you and I have talked about on the pod before, during the Biden
31:38presidency, maybe the most frequent question I got asked is who is running things?
31:44And the really terrifying answer, I don't, in fact, know.
31:50I know it wasn't Joe Biden.
31:52He did not have the capacity to make decisions.
31:54Everyone knew that. The Democrats all knew that.
31:56Everyone knew that. The press knew that.
31:58They just didn't report on it.
31:59I don't know. But my theory is the person who was running things is the
32:05guy who we just played.
32:06I think Barack Obama was the grand puppet master.
32:09He had a bunch of young apparatchiks who are little Marxists that were his former
32:14staffers in the White House.
32:16And the open borders we saw, that was Barack Obama's intention.
32:21The radical DEI, the demonization of law enforcement, all of that is the fruits of
32:29Obama. By the way, the disastrous foreign policy, the embrace of Iran.
32:34Iran sending cash on pallets, literally.
32:37And listen, Obama sent $1 .7 billion of cash on pallets in planes in the
32:42middle of the night. Joe Biden said, hold my beer, and flowed $100 billion to
32:48Iran. Now, when I say Joe Biden said it, really, the person who said, hold
32:52my beer, was Barack Obama.
32:54He said, now, I'm just really going to do it using the puppet Biden.
32:58But for him to accuse Republicans, the bitterness Obama has shown over and over and
33:07over again, as he's using rhetoric, you know, he's just demonized ICE and called them,
33:13called federal law enforcement agents, totalitarian agents.
33:17And then he says, gosh, it's the other side that's mean, not like us.
33:21And actually, the word that I love that he says in that little clip is
33:26exclusionary. The right is exclusionary.
33:29And that's such a total lie.
33:30It is the left that is vicious.
33:33You must believe in exactly their orthodoxy, or you are excommunicated.
33:41Look at J .K. Rowling.
33:43J .K. Rowling, who by any measure is politically on the left, but she has
33:48this crazy view that women exist.
33:53And that, to the intolerant leftist, is unacceptable, and she must be canceled.
33:59And you look at all of these Hollywood ninnies who were in the Harry Potter
34:04movies who won't associate with her.
34:07She literally made all of their careers.
34:09And she made them. Yeah, she literally made them.
34:11Made them millions of dollars from when they were children.
34:13And they are too – their virtue is too great to be seen in the
34:18same room. And by the way, Barack Obama, in addition to being a hardcore leftist
34:25– and I think much of his worldview is actually anti -colonialist.
34:30If you look at – it's why he hates Israel, because he views Israel as
34:35a colonial power. And it's why fundamentally he doesn't believe American power is legitimate.
34:42You know, he was asked as president, do you believe in American exceptionalism?
34:46And he says, sure, I do, just like the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism and
34:50the British believe in British exceptionalism, which is to say, no, he does not.
34:55Because American exceptionalism is recognizing there's something unique and extraordinary in the United States of
35:01America. There's never been a nation in the history of mankind that has been a
35:05greater force for good on planet Earth than the United States of America.
35:09And lightning would strike Barack Obama before he could utter that sentence.
35:13Yeah, you're absolutely right there.
35:15All right, lastly, before we wrap, Senator, I just think it's time for us to
35:19just say we told the left so we told everybody this was going to be
35:23government work, no doubt, about the sewage problem pouring into the Potomac.
35:27Don't worry, it's going to be around for, what, another nine months is what they're
35:31saying now? Yeah, we covered on the last pod how over a billion gallons of
35:36sewage, the largest spill of wastewater in American history, is happening in D .C.
35:41and Maryland into the Potomac River.
35:43Democrats are really bad at government.
35:46They want government to be the answer of everything, but they can't run a hot
35:49dog stand. Well, D .C.
35:52water says it will now take another nine months, nine months to fix the sewer
35:58pipe. Um, that's just staggering.
36:03Um, if anyone were remotely competent, you would fix it in days, not in nine
36:08months, but you've got Democrats in charge.
36:11So nine months, they will continue spewing human refuse into the water.
36:16Um, and, and the amazing thing is the Potomac is going right by the mansions
36:21in Georgetown where you have all the liberal lobbyists.
36:23Uh, and, and so they will, they will get a reminder every day of just
36:27how ineffective Democrats are at running stuff.
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