0:00

This podcast is sponsored by Ramp. Are

0:02

you the decision maker in your company?

0:04

Consider this. For the first time in

0:06

decades, there's a better option for a

0:08

corporate card and spend management platform. Meet

0:10

Ramp, the only corporate card and spend

0:12

management system designed to help you spend

0:15

less money so you can make more.

0:17

Most corporate cards offer points as incentives,

0:19

but those points amount to less than

0:21

they're worth in real cash value. Ramp's

0:23

corporate cards offer you cash back, real

0:25

money in your pocket. Plus, you control

0:27

who spends what with each vendor. And

0:30

Ramp's software collects and verifies receipts automatically,

0:32

which means you'll stop wasteful spending and

0:34

close your books in hours instead of

0:36

days. Businesses that use Ramp add up

0:38

to 5% to their bottom line the

0:40

first year. If you're a decision maker,

0:42

adding Ramp could be one of the

0:44

best decisions you've ever made. And now,

0:46

get $250 when you join Ramp. Just

0:51

go to

0:53

ramp.com/easy, ramp.com/easy,

0:55

ramp.com/easy. What

1:00

the Republican Party did is

1:04

eradicate and

1:07

completely annihilate generations

1:11

of branding as

1:14

the limited government party, the

1:17

small government party. Because

1:20

with the Arizona Supreme Court

1:22

decision, what was ratified is

1:26

that the MAGA party is

1:28

the biggest big government party

1:30

America has ever had. It

1:33

is everywhere. Donald Trump

1:35

is everywhere. Its politicians are peering

1:38

through the bedroom window. They sit

1:40

with you in the confessional. They're

1:42

in the delivery room. They're

1:45

with you at all

1:47

times, everywhere, all the

1:49

time. commander

2:00

in chief. 112 years

2:02

ago this week, the Titanic set

2:04

sail from Southampton to New York.

2:06

Its captain would plow the ship

2:09

at full speed into an iceberg

2:11

field on a moonless night on

2:13

the orders of his company's CEO.

2:15

The icebergs are ahead for the

2:17

American people with plenty of

2:19

time to see them. The great question at

2:21

hand is will we? This

2:23

week's hits and misses. The

2:35

Arizona Supreme

2:40

Court dealt with

2:42

the reversal of

2:44

Roe versus Wade

2:47

caused by Donald

3:00

Trump and

3:02

the radical Republican Congress

3:05

and the radical Supreme Court took

3:10

the state's abortion laws back

3:15

to 1864. It's

3:17

quite incredible to think about it. Just

3:19

to put it into perspective, Arizona

3:23

wasn't even a state the

3:25

48th until 1912. The

3:29

first time that anybody even talked

3:32

about a territory of Arizona,

3:35

which was a carved out piece of

3:37

land from the New Mexico territory, was

3:39

when Jefferson Davis claimed it for the

3:41

Confederacy in 1862. The Union, the North,

3:47

Abraham Lincoln, followed suit

3:49

the next year. This

3:51

matters because the abortion law affecting

3:55

women in the state of Arizona

3:58

is now based on

4:00

the laws and the codes written in the territory

4:02

a year after that.

4:05

In the year that Abraham

4:07

Lincoln defeated General McClellan,

4:11

in the year that Sherman

4:14

marched from Atlanta to the sea. And

4:17

so Republicans have succeeded

4:20

in their long-term project

4:22

of overturning Roe versus

4:24

Wade. They have

4:26

sent the issue back to

4:28

the states. And

4:31

what they have created for America's

4:33

women is

4:36

free states and

4:38

oppressive states. In

4:41

the oppressive states like Arizona,

4:44

women are second-class

4:46

citizens. They are

4:48

denied agency. They

4:51

are denied access to

4:53

health care, into necessary

4:55

medical procedures for their

4:57

life, for their safety, for

4:59

their health. In

5:02

states like Arizona, in

5:04

the states that oppress women, politicians

5:08

are in the delivery room. Alticians

5:11

accompany a woman into

5:13

every meeting with

5:15

their OB-GYN. There's

5:18

a proverbial seat there for

5:21

Lindsey Graham. With

5:23

regard to this entire situation

5:25

and taking women back to 1864, there

5:28

is a flaw in the design

5:35

as a strategic premise. An

5:38

obvious problem. But

5:41

since 1864, there have been some

5:44

advancements in American

5:47

society towards the

5:49

realization of the American

5:51

ideal. In

5:55

1863, Abraham Lincoln

5:57

reconsecrated the media.

6:00

meaning of the country's existence

6:02

with the Gettysburg Address. He

6:05

penned it directly to

6:08

a new creed found

6:10

in the words of the Declaration

6:12

of Independence that all men

6:15

are created equal. But

6:18

today, in 2024, what

6:20

that means is all of

6:22

us are men and women.

6:27

But Republicans, in

6:30

consigning women to

6:32

a second-class status, have

6:35

done so while women still

6:38

retain the right to vote.

6:42

And so what happened in Arizona

6:45

at a political level is

6:48

probably one of

6:51

the great all-time misses. Republicans

6:56

thought they caught the car. They thought

6:58

they had given a gift to

7:00

their Christian nationalist base. They

7:04

thought that they had

7:06

achieved the goal. But

7:09

the achievement of that goal may

7:12

well be their undoing because

7:14

most Americans, whether

7:17

they be women, mothers

7:20

with daughters, or

7:23

men, fathers with

7:25

daughters, husbands

7:28

with wives, brothers

7:30

with sisters, do

7:34

not want America's politicians

7:38

risking the lives of

7:40

the women they love. It's

7:43

nobody's business. These

7:46

are private decisions. And

7:49

so what the Republican

7:52

Party did is eradicate

7:56

and completely annihilate. generations

8:01

of branding as

8:04

the limited government party, the

8:06

small government party. Because

8:10

with the Arizona Supreme Court

8:12

decision, what was ratified is

8:16

that the MAGA party is

8:18

the biggest big government party

8:20

America has ever had. It

8:23

is everywhere. Donald Trump

8:25

is everywhere. It's politicians are

8:27

peering through the bedroom window.

8:29

They sit with you in

8:31

the confessional. They're in the

8:34

delivery room. They're with you

8:36

at all times, everywhere, all

8:39

the time. But

8:44

there is a remedy because

8:46

in America, we still live

8:48

in a democracy, at

8:50

least for a while longer. So

8:53

this November, America's women

8:56

can say something and

8:59

they can shout and

9:01

they can make a choice and

9:04

they can choose to put a stop to this

9:06

madness. And they can say from

9:08

the free States to the

9:10

oppressed women in

9:13

the oppression zone of America that

9:17

we see them, we hear

9:19

them, we stand with them and we

9:21

will fight with them and

9:23

we will do everything we can to

9:26

prevent the block of

9:28

politicians who want

9:30

to strip away their rights from ever

9:33

coming back to power at

9:35

the head of a fascist

9:38

cause that seeks to tear

9:40

down democracy in America. So

9:43

for the mess of the week, it

9:46

goes to the Arizona Supreme Court into

9:49

the magga dog for catching the car. What

9:54

you have unleashed is a

9:56

great tsunami, a wrath of

9:58

America's women. who come

10:00

November are coming for all of you

10:04

who seek to take women from

10:06

the third decade of the 21st

10:08

century to the sixth

10:12

in the 19th. No

10:14

way, no thanks. Please

10:17

stop. But since you

10:19

won't, you'll be voted

10:21

out. This

10:25

podcast is sponsored by RAMP. Are you

10:27

a decision maker in your company? Consider

10:29

this. For the first time in decades,

10:31

there's a better option for a corporate

10:33

card and spend management platform. Meet RAMP,

10:36

the only corporate card and spend management

10:38

system designed to help you spend less

10:40

money so you can make more. Most

10:42

corporate cards offer points as incentives, but

10:44

those points amount to less than their

10:46

worth in real cash value. RAMP's corporate

10:48

cards offer you cash back real money

10:51

in your pocket. Plus, you control who

10:53

spends what with each vendor. And

10:55

RAMP software collects and verifies receipts automatically,

10:57

which means you'll stop wasteful spending and

10:59

close your books in hours instead of

11:01

days. Businesses that use RAMP add up

11:03

to 5% to their bottom line the

11:05

first year. If you're a decision maker,

11:07

adding RAMP could be one of the

11:09

best decisions you've ever made. And now

11:11

get $250 when you join RAMP. Just

11:15

go to ramp.com/easy. ramp.com/easy. ramp.com/easy.

11:17

Currents issued by Sutton Bank

11:20

and Celtic Bank members of

11:22

the I.C. terms and conditions

11:24

supply. A few weeks back, I

11:27

wrote a post at the warning talking

11:30

about the lack of state dinners

11:33

and the fact that this country

11:35

needs more of them to

11:38

show the world that the

11:41

American people support

11:44

the alliances that

11:47

maintain our security and

11:49

our prosperity. This

11:52

is so important. All

11:55

over the world, there

11:57

are scores of hundreds of

11:59

millions. that look

12:01

to the United States of America with

12:04

awe and admiration.

12:08

And yes, sometimes jealousy

12:10

and resentments and

12:12

even appropriate grievance. We

12:16

can be heavy-handed and

12:19

clumsy-footed. But

12:22

there is a simple truth. There

12:26

has never been a country like

12:29

the United States. And

12:32

what the MAGA movement stands for

12:35

at its core is

12:39

a promise to tear down

12:42

the world as it has been. To

12:45

undo America's

12:49

central role in it.

12:53

What MAGA says is

12:55

America can be an island, a

12:57

part, a loan, a planet floating

13:00

in space, detached from

13:02

all the other peoples, all the

13:04

other nations. This

13:07

is delusional. It's dishonest.

13:11

It's a lie. You

13:13

can go to dozens of airports

13:15

across America and get on an

13:18

airplane and fly across the world,

13:21

land in Dubai or

13:24

Warsaw, Berlin, Rio,

13:28

Tokyo, Beijing,

13:31

within a day's time. Global

13:34

trade is interconnected. The

13:37

world is wired together. Above

13:39

us, tens of thousands

13:41

of satellites are in perpetual

13:43

orbit, constantly, ceaselessly

13:46

connecting all of us, eight

13:49

billion of us, together. The

13:54

system that guarantees

13:58

our safety, our freedom, and our freedom. freedom,

14:00

our liberty, is the

14:02

rule of law that comes

14:04

from democracy. This

14:08

week, though

14:10

it wasn't part of the maggot

14:12

insanity, something

14:15

of profound importance happened. President

14:20

Biden is

14:22

strengthening America's alliances.

14:25

At the exact hour, Donald

14:28

Trump and his MAGA fascist

14:31

cause is

14:33

undermining alliances by

14:36

promising Vladimir Putin

14:39

a green light to

14:41

invade Europe. Of

14:44

course, this sends

14:46

an important signal to

14:49

one of Putin's allies, the

14:51

menacing Chinese, who are

14:53

in the middle of the

14:56

largest and fastest military

14:58

expansion in

15:00

world history, but at least

15:03

since the Nazis of

15:05

the 1930s. The Chinese

15:08

are building an aggressive, expansionist

15:12

military capability to

15:15

dominate the South Pacific. But

15:18

the good news is the

15:20

United States, which has been a Pacific

15:23

power since the 19th century,

15:25

is not alone. This

15:27

week at the White House, President

15:30

Biden showed confidence, strength,

15:34

endurance, vision,

15:39

and the majesty of the

15:41

American presidency. He

15:43

did it without ever leaving

15:45

home. He did it with

15:48

a summit. If the president is

15:51

going to campaign using a Rose Garden strategy,

15:54

this is what it must look

15:56

like. It must be very, very, very important.

16:00

and daring. This

16:02

week President Biden hosted President

16:05

Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the

16:07

Philippines and

16:10

Prime Minister Kishida of

16:12

Japan. These two leaders make

16:15

up two of the most important

16:18

nations in a vital string of

16:20

alliances that stretch across

16:22

the Pacific, Australia,

16:26

New Zealand, the Philippines,

16:29

Japan, South

16:31

Korea, Singapore,

16:34

and more. These nations believe

16:38

in a

16:40

rules-based system of

16:44

prosperity. There

16:46

is liberty and freedom,

16:48

and human rights are respected. There

16:53

is an alternative vision.

16:55

It's aggressive and dark. It

16:58

is the

17:00

really growth of the philosophies that

17:02

led to the disasters of the

17:05

20th century, for

17:07

which we have no excuse not

17:09

to remember and

17:12

not to be warned about. This

17:16

is a moment of grave danger in the

17:18

world. As

17:21

I make this recording, it is said

17:23

that the Iranians will attack Israel, according

17:25

to American intelligence estimates, within the

17:28

next 48 hours. The

17:31

possibility of there being a regional

17:34

war in the Middle East stands

17:36

at its highest

17:38

probability at this

17:40

precise moment. The

17:44

war in Europe has

17:47

already killed more

17:49

than half a million people. Ancient

17:54

cities, once again,

17:56

stand in total ruin. They're

18:00

rubble. They look no

18:02

different than European cities

18:04

looked at the end of

18:06

the Second World War, or

18:09

at the end of the war in

18:11

Sarajevo. It's

18:15

unacceptable. But

18:18

this week, there was

18:20

a tribute to freedom, to

18:23

shared values, to

18:26

human possibility. The

18:33

Japanese Prime Minister and

18:36

the President of the United States, within

18:40

the span of the human

18:42

lifetimes, of

18:44

the old men who fought against

18:46

each other in the Second World

18:48

War, announced this week that

18:51

the first American to

18:53

take a step on the moon will

18:57

be a Japanese astronaut

18:59

accompanying an American

19:01

crew, returning to

19:03

the moon as we

19:05

set our sights for Mars and

19:08

beyond. This

19:10

is what democracy is about.

19:14

This is what democracy is about.

19:16

It is about the unleashing of

19:19

human potential. President

19:22

Biden looked good doing it this week.

19:25

He looked strong. He looked tough.

19:28

He looked like he was planning for

19:30

the next decade, and the one after

19:32

that, for my children and yours. President

19:37

Biden had a big hit this week. He

19:41

looked presidential. He acted presidential.

19:46

When the American people looked and

19:48

they saw President Biden

19:50

conducting his business this week, they

19:52

saw a commander in chief ready

19:54

for prime time. That

19:56

is why, in this moment,

19:59

and soon, Since the State of the Union address,

20:02

President Biden has been ahead consistently

20:06

in the polls because he

20:08

is making the race about

20:10

Donald Trump, the

20:13

insanity, the violence, the

20:15

chaos, the mayhem that

20:18

we see being unleashed and

20:21

that we see being promised. So

20:24

for the hit of the week, it goes

20:26

to Joe Biden for statesmanship

20:28

and statescraft for

20:30

a state dinner between Philippines

20:33

and the Japanese that was

20:35

an epic success, a

20:37

political win for President

20:39

Biden and the whole White House team.

20:42

Thank you for listening to my

20:44

political commentary. If you

20:47

like what you heard today, please

20:49

also consider subscribing to The

20:51

Warning, daily newsletter

20:53

on Substack.