0:06

Well, I'm very confused. If not a

0:08

Joe Biden press conference. This is not a Joe

0:10

Biden press conference. You know,

0:13

something occurs to me sitting here seeing all these people.

0:16

Well, it's not six reporters in little circles

0:18

spread out alone. No, No, it's the opposite

0:20

of that. Actually, it's hundreds of people here.

0:22

We have been told for

0:25

a year you can't go

0:27

outside, you can't talk to

0:29

anybody, you can't see anybody, you can't

0:31

have any holidays, you can't go

0:33

on social media because if you go on social

0:35

media, you're obviously going to be kicked off.

0:37

You can't start your own social

0:39

media platforms because that's a very very

0:41

bad thing. You're going to be kicked off the Internet. But

0:44

you know what, tonight, live

0:46

in Miami, we are here with everyone. We're

0:48

going to be taking your questions. This

0:50

is verdict with Ted Cruz. Thank

1:00

you very much. Thank you to

1:03

all the wonderful deefle in Miss Lam. Also

1:05

thank you to everyone who is watching live right

1:07

now on YouTube. We were going to be taking

1:09

questions obviously from the people here

1:12

at the Young America's Foundation Freedom Conference.

1:14

We're also going to be taking questions from YouTube.

1:16

If you want to ask a question, You've got

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to go to YouTube dot com slash

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submit your questions, make sure they're really

1:25

really good questions, and then we will

1:27

be answering them a little bit later. Want to

1:29

thank as always the Logan family for

1:32

sponsoring this event many other

1:34

events for YAFF, and I want to thank all of

1:36

you for being here. Senator, you must be so happy

1:39

to be in Miami right now. You have just

1:42

left a place that

1:44

there's chaos in the house. There's

1:47

chaos at the capitol. More broadly,

1:49

the whole city looks like Baghdad

1:52

at this point. It's somehow

1:54

Washington, d c. Seems even

1:56

crazier and less pleasant than it usually

1:59

does, and we get to be in Miami. The

2:02

lunatics are running the asylum.

2:07

It is absolutely crazy.

2:09

I mean, we have fences everywhere,

2:11

we have soldiers wherever you look. The

2:14

entire place is locked down, and

2:17

AOC is spending every day saying

2:19

I'm being murdered. I

2:23

don't want I don't know if we're gonna break news. Did

2:26

you do it? Or are you an attempted murder urgent?

2:30

I am innocent of that particular chart

2:32

good. I know there have been rumors for years and

2:35

years about you. Although I will decline to

2:37

give answers about northern California, and that's

2:40

for your own protection,

2:44

there is you know, I

2:47

do feel in a way like this is deja

2:49

vu all over again. One year ago. I

2:51

feel like I've heard you say that before. One

2:55

year ago. We started this podcast because

2:58

we were at the last impeachment trial. Now

3:00

it just seems to happen every single year. We've

3:02

got another impeachment trial, We've got all

3:04

of these Joe Biden nominees coming up, You've

3:07

got absolute madness going on in the

3:09

House of Representatives. What is the insider

3:11

of you right now? From Washington? Look,

3:14

it's crazy on every

3:16

front the House of Representatives.

3:19

What did they do in the House of Representatives this week?

3:21

You've got Nancy Pelosi

3:23

driving it, But it really is AOC and

3:26

it's the squad. It's their craziness

3:28

that is driving the agenda. So we spent

3:31

much of this week with the House of Representatives

3:34

talking about some tweets that Marjorie

3:36

Taylor Green had sent in years

3:38

past, because that is

3:40

the pressing objective. Next week in

3:43

the Senate, we're going to spend the entire week

3:45

impeaching a president who's already left

3:47

the White House, and as a private citizen, right, it's

3:50

Bunker's right because I'm

3:52

actually glad you brought up the Marjorie Taylor Green

3:54

of it all, because if

3:57

I didn't see clips on CNN, I

3:59

would have no idea who this person is.

4:01

But it would seem that the Democrats are trying

4:03

to contrive some kind of controversy

4:06

out of old social media posts. They're

4:08

now voting to strip her

4:10

of her committee assignments, and I

4:12

just sort of think, even beyond any question

4:14

about her, why am I supposed

4:17

to care? This is the people's business. Aren't

4:19

they supposed to be passing laws and

4:21

actually working for the good of the American people. Well,

4:23

look, I have not met her yet. I imagine

4:25

I will at some point. She's a newly elected member

4:27

of Congress. She's been in office all

4:30

of a month, right, But

4:34

as I understand it, she said some pretty crazy

4:36

things. And look, some of the things she said

4:38

I certainly don't agree with. I don't think you should run around

4:41

saying someone should shoot Nancy Pelosi in

4:43

the head. I think threatening violence is not a good

4:45

thing. But this entire circus

4:47

was put forward because the Democrats in the

4:49

media, they like to find

4:51

somebody on the Republican side of things who

4:53

said something really outlandish

4:56

and then put together this entire kangaroo

4:59

chord. And I will say what they did

5:01

this week. So yesterday the House voted and they

5:03

stripped over committee assignments. That's

5:05

actually a really chilling precedent.

5:09

It is, to the best of my knowledge, the first time

5:11

in history that any political party

5:13

has stripped a member of the opposing

5:16

party of their committee assignments.

5:18

And this will not be the last. You want

5:20

to talk about a dangerous threshold

5:23

across I'm reminded

5:25

of being on the Senate floor in twenty

5:27

thirteen when Harry Reid the Democrats

5:30

used the nuclear option to lower the

5:32

threshold for confirming judges, and

5:35

more than a few of us told the Democrats

5:37

you're going to regret this. Yeah, and you're

5:39

going to regret this sooner. I

5:42

remember telling Amy Klobuchar and the Senate

5:44

floor that night, I said, because you've done

5:46

this, we will end up with more

5:48

antonin Scalias and Clarence Thomas's

5:50

on the Supreme Court because of this step

5:52

you've taken. Right now and we saw that

5:54

play forward. Listen. Once this threshold

5:57

has been crossed, it's not hard

5:59

to imagine maybe in two years

6:02

suddenly Democrats say

6:05

some freshman Democrats who

6:07

say some crazy, outlandish things I know would

6:09

be really hard to find any I can't imagine.

6:11

No, it's

6:14

a level of escalation. And let make another

6:16

point. Have you

6:18

noticed that democrats and the

6:21

media right now they're in high

6:23

dungeon about how much they

6:25

love democracy. Yes, they

6:28

love democracy. Mind you, if

6:30

there's one thing objectively that democrats

6:33

do not love it as democracy. They

6:35

despise democracy only every front.

6:37

How do we know this because they don't actually

6:40

want to let the people decide. So

6:43

why did democrats want judicial

6:45

activist on the courts? Because on

6:48

contested public policy issues, they don't

6:50

actually want the voters to decide.

6:52

Right, you know, on a question of abortion, they

6:54

don't want voters in the state

6:56

to debate about what should the laws be on abortion?

6:58

And they don't They don't want to see all fifty states

7:01

having different standards. They don't want to see drug

7:03

laws decided by the states. They don't want to see marriage

7:05

laws decided by the states. They want to decree

7:08

one rule for everyone, and you

7:10

look at this Marjorie Taylor Green thing. One

7:14

of the things that's striking is is what they stripped

7:16

her or committee assignments for, as I understand it,

7:18

or all things she said before

7:21

she was elected, Right, So the voters

7:23

had those in front of them and they decided to elect

7:25

her. Look, if someone thinks

7:27

she's nutty, there is a remedy in our system

7:29

for that, which is the voters couldn't decide,

7:32

Okay, we want someone else. And

7:34

it is amazing. As the

7:36

Democrats are acting to stifle

7:38

democracy, they are at

7:41

the same time piously intoning

7:43

I sure do love democracy. You know, this is such

7:45

an important point. And I actually haven't heard other

7:47

people mention this about the whole

7:49

circus that's going on in the House of Representatives

7:52

right now. There is this irony that they're talking

7:54

about how much they love democracy, but then of course

7:56

they want to stifle the will of voters. But then

7:58

there's this other aspect, which

8:00

is, you know, the Democrats never go after

8:03

their own members. As you alluded

8:05

to, they might have one or two sort of kookie

8:08

members, maybe more than one or two, and

8:10

maybe a little bit more than kookie, And but they

8:12

don't go after them. And this is something

8:14

that I think a lot of us are seeing this week. Democrats

8:16

have unified government. They already had

8:18

the bureaucracy, they already had big tech, they already

8:20

have the universities, on and on and on. Democrats

8:23

in this country seem much

8:25

more talented at wielding

8:28

political power, at actually getting

8:30

things done than Republicans,

8:32

who are sort of busy in

8:34

fighting or losing

8:38

the opportunities that have been given to them. Well,

8:40

there's a reason for that, which is

8:42

today's Democratic party as a command

8:44

and control party. It is a

8:46

party of authoritarians. It is a party

8:48

of statists. Now that means

8:50

they follow orders, they are collectivists.

8:53

They are willing to subject

8:55

themselves to authority. Listen, on the

8:57

right, what unites people on the right in a room

8:59

like this. You'll have some people who are conservatives,

9:02

some people who are libertarians,

9:04

some people who are just lonely and looking to make

9:06

friends. I mean, you'll you'll have a wide

9:09

array. And by the way, those

9:11

are not mutually exclusive. You can have some of all of

9:13

that. But if

9:15

there's one thing that unifies the

9:18

center right, it is a

9:20

respect for the individual. It is

9:23

it is an understanding that you can decide

9:25

what you believe, you can decide how

9:27

you worship, you can decide what you do

9:30

with your life, you can decide what you say.

9:32

All of that individual freedom. It's

9:34

great, But then our

9:36

problem is we can never get everyone on

9:39

the same page because we're you know, hurting cats

9:42

right is unfair to the cats. Now, do

9:44

you think that the Democrats have given conservatives

9:47

an opening? Because this has always been a problem

9:49

on the right. It's one of our strengths, but it's one of our

9:51

problems. Is you know, you put a hundred

9:53

conservatives into a room together, they

9:55

will find the one issue that each of them

9:57

disagrees with the other one, and so

9:59

it's very how

10:01

dare you say they won't. But

10:03

do you think the Democrats have given us sort of an opening

10:06

here because until the

10:08

past couple of years,

10:10

something like the American flag that

10:13

was a symbol we could all agree on. Right.

10:15

You know, no person in their right mind,

10:17

even if they're on the left, is going to campaign against

10:19

the American flag until

10:21

they start to do that, until they start to kneel

10:23

in front of the flag or disrespect the flag or

10:26

not stand for it. Do

10:28

you think now conservatives

10:30

have this opportunity to say, well, one thing that unites

10:33

us is we want to conserve the place.

10:35

You know, we like this place, we like our rituals,

10:38

we like our local communities. Has

10:40

the left gone radical enough to give

10:42

us that opening? It's probably what I'm most

10:44

optimistic about is the

10:46

crazies are setting the agenda.

10:49

Their ideas don't work the

10:52

next two years. Listen, they're gonna be a tough two years

10:54

for our country because we're going

10:56

to see right now, there's

10:58

an anger. There's a la tree on

11:00

the left. I mean, I mean there is a spirit

11:03

where they're trying to destroy their enemies.

11:06

Yeah, I mean it's like Robesphere setting up

11:08

guillotines in the street. I mean, they're objective.

11:11

You look at impeachment next week. Impeachment

11:14

next week is because they hate Donald J. Trump

11:17

and they want to destroy him. They want to assault the

11:19

earth. By the way, remember we're talking

11:21

a minute ago about how democrats love democracy.

11:24

What is their stated reason for impeachment. Well,

11:26

if they don't impeach him and prohibit him from running

11:29

again, he might run again, and you know what, those

11:31

idiot voters might vote for him.

11:34

Now, you could be upset at that. I get that, yeah,

11:38

but you don't get to claim you're defending

11:40

democracy when

11:42

the evil you're trying to prevent is the

11:44

people might vote in a way you don't like. Well, And

11:46

this is something ironic, also ironic

11:49

with the Democrats. They accuse the right of

11:51

upending precedent constitutional

11:54

norms. The country is going to hell in a handbasket.

11:56

They are the ones who are who are again

12:00

and again destroying precedent, as you

12:02

mentioned, taking a Republican congressman

12:04

off of her committees, impeaching

12:06

a former president. To my knowledge, that

12:08

has never been done. I

12:11

would like if you wouldn't mind a little insider baseball

12:13

here, because you know, Senator, you're looking

12:15

pretty good. You're looking pretty sprightly. Thank

12:17

you you are. But I know somehow,

12:20

you know, I'm the one who just had a kid, and

12:22

you are getting less sleep than I am.

12:25

You, so actually, in terms of

12:27

delivering the kid, that one wasn't you. That was

12:29

not I felt everyone kept

12:32

making about my wife. I don't know. I felt like I was doing

12:34

a lot of work in that room, but

12:36

you, somehow were getting less sleep than I am. You basically

12:39

pulled an all nighter last night in DC.

12:41

You're then preparing for the impeachment

12:44

impeachment next week. What

12:47

is happening? I mean, there is a lot going on

12:49

that it seems so opaque to a lot of us.

12:52

So last night we were on the Senate floor. We

12:54

were doing what's called vota rama,

12:56

and that went until five twenty

12:58

five in the morning, So we were there all

13:00

night. Got home, I went to sleep

13:02

at six, got up at nine, so I had three hours sleep

13:05

and flew to Miami. So if

13:07

I nod off, just kind of nudged me midway

13:09

through. So what is

13:12

vote arama? Look, the

13:14

Senate for the past twenty years or

13:16

so has been pretty

13:18

rigidly controlled by whoever the majority

13:20

leader is, and as a general matter,

13:23

they stop really both sides

13:25

from offering amendments. And we

13:27

have really a rule by majority

13:29

leaders on both sides. Either Chuck Schumer and Mitch

13:32

McConnell are super senators

13:34

because they shut down amendments. The

13:37

Democrats want to do lots of bad

13:39

stuff. The principal procedural

13:41

impediment they face in the Senate is the filibuster,

13:44

the requirement of sixty votes to move

13:46

forward on legislation. The

13:49

biggest exception to the filibuster

13:52

is something called budget reconciliation. Now

13:55

that's a process. It comes from a statute

13:57

called the Budget Act of nineteen seventy five, and it sets

14:00

out a process for passing a budget.

14:02

The budget is really the side show. What

14:05

is important is by statute it only takes

14:07

fifty votes to pass and not sixty. So

14:10

it's this big glaring exception

14:12

to what otherwise is legislation

14:15

that's got a clear a fillibuster. So

14:17

the Democrats just took up their first budget

14:19

reconciliation. We could see three budget

14:21

reconciliations this year, all

14:24

as vehicles to just pass bad laws

14:26

they want to pass. Ye, this was

14:28

the first one. Under that statute.

14:31

Though, senators can

14:33

offer unlimited amendments, and

14:35

so the way the majority leader stops a

14:37

senator from offering an amendment is a procedural

14:40

mechanism called filling the tree, where

14:42

basically they offer all the available amendments

14:44

so no one else can offer one. On

14:46

reconciliation, you can't stop it. And so we

14:48

had yesterday, I don't know, we vote on a

14:50

forty or fifty amendments and we

14:52

just stood there. Now, what happened during most

14:54

of the day is the Democrats

14:56

were slow walking the votes, and

15:00

so they were dragging it out. It was theoretically

15:02

ten minute votes, but they'd take thirty, they'd

15:04

take forty five. Then towards the

15:06

end of it, we're all seated at our

15:09

desks and we're doing faster votes,

15:11

and each side gets up and gets to

15:13

speak for a minute. Okay,

15:16

And so look, if you're in the minority, which

15:18

we are, it's a fifty fifty Senate they

15:20

are. It is the most narrow

15:23

majority possible, fifty fifty

15:25

with a vice president breaking the tie. What

15:28

you try to think of when you're in the minority

15:30

is what are votes that would really

15:32

suck to vote on them here on the other side, because because

15:34

you don't really have a chance of putting

15:37

forth this kind of groundbreaking,

15:39

substantive legislation for your own side, there's

15:41

no way that's going to get through. It is

15:43

forcing the majority hates it. They don't want any of

15:45

these voes, but it is forcing them

15:47

to take votes they don't like. So a bunch

15:50

of us filed a ton of amendments that

15:52

we voted on them and voted on them, and a number

15:54

of the amendments passed. Now here's

15:56

a level of the kind of ridiculousness

15:59

of the game. So so let me tell you three amendments

16:02

that passed, and I actually wrote

16:04

down the details. So

16:06

three passed. One

16:09

supports the Keystone pipeline, said Joe

16:11

Biden made a mistake shutting down the Keystone

16:13

Pipeline, killing eight thousand jobs. That

16:15

passed on the floor of the Senate by a vote of fifty

16:17

two to forty eight. Every Republican

16:19

voted for it. Joe Mansion

16:22

voted for it. Democrat from West Virginia. John

16:24

Tester voted for it, Democrat from Montown. A

16:26

second amendment said that

16:28

any stimulus checks that go out should

16:31

not go to illegal immigrants. So

16:35

that amendment passed fifty eight to forty

16:37

two. So I

16:39

have to pause you there, Senator, forty

16:41

two elected

16:43

senators think that we should send

16:45

our tax money to illegal aliens

16:48

in the country. Look, forty of them might think we should send

16:50

them only to illegal aliens. So

16:54

this Democratic party is nuts.

16:58

But Hassan, Hickenoper, Kelly,

17:02

Mansion, Peters, Cinema, Stabeno,

17:05

and Tester all voted

17:07

for don't send them to le lands. And the third

17:09

one was a vote in support

17:11

of fracking, that we're not going to

17:14

shut down fracking. So all of these Republicans

17:16

offered, fracking is a good thing. That passed

17:19

fifty seven forty three. So Bennett

17:21

Colorado, Casey Pennsylvania,

17:25

Heinrich, New Mexico, Hick

17:27

and Looper Colorado, Luhan,

17:30

New Mexico, Mansion, West Virginia,

17:32

Tester, Montana. So you might say,

17:35

hey, that's great, those are three victories.

17:38

Yeah, I'm sensing a butt.

17:41

You know what the last thing we voted on is it's

17:44

what's called colloquially a wraparound

17:47

amendment, which is Chuck

17:49

Schumer's stands up as the very last amendment.

17:51

It offers an amendment to strip

17:54

out all of the amendments that we're adopted during the

17:56

course of the night. It

17:58

is literally a race every thing we just

18:00

did for the last fifteen hours.

18:04

Do you know what the vote was on the wrap around amendment?

18:07

What fifty

18:10

to fifty And

18:13

we saw on that amendment to

18:15

the very first vote ever cast by Vice

18:18

President Kamala Harris to break

18:20

the tie and strip out

18:22

those policies. So, by the way, and look,

18:24

this is this is one of many

18:27

reasons people despise politicians.

18:30

Why did these Democrats vote this way?

18:33

Because when when Joe Mansion and John Tester

18:35

go home. When John Tester goes home to Montana, says,

18:38

I voted for the Keystone pipeline,

18:41

a sure bub but then you voted

18:43

against it about

18:45

about five hours later or ten hours later.

18:47

It seems to me John Kerry like built a whole presidential

18:50

campaign on exactly that I voted

18:52

for it before ioted against it. But

18:55

it's the ridiculous game

18:58

where all of these votes were show

19:00

votes because on the

19:02

vote they cared about the party discipline

19:05

vote. Every single one of them lines

19:07

up and says, erase the amendments

19:10

and go back to the Bernie Bernie Sanders

19:12

spend the poloza right. Well, you know, the

19:14

fracking vote is interesting to me because you'll

19:17

recall so long ago,

19:19

a few months ago, on the campaign trail, Joe

19:22

Biden said, come on, man, I'm not gonna ban

19:24

fracking. Come on man, that

19:26

really doesn't sound like Joe, No, not at all.

19:28

No, it's not Kamala Harris, same thing. H'm

19:32

not gonna ban fracking. And then of course they're gonna

19:34

ban fracking. They're gonna ban all these sorts of things.

19:37

The amazing thing is PolitiFact would

19:39

say you were lying when you said

19:41

they were gonna ban fracking. Yeah, during

19:44

the campaign, and now they'll say you're lying when

19:46

you say they said they weren't gonna ban fracking. I

19:49

know they're gonna they're gonna say I'm lying when I just read

19:51

the PolitiFact from three months ago. They're gonna they're

19:53

gonna need to fact check me on that as

19:55

well. But do you

19:57

know my favorite PolitiFact? So

20:00

twenty eighteen, I'm running for reelection for Senate

20:03

and uh fellow ran

20:05

against me, a guy named Beto

20:10

Is he's that skateboarder. I think

20:12

I saw him somewhere on the He

20:15

jumps on tables. Um.

20:18

So, when he entered the race, we decided,

20:21

all right, we want to welcome him to the race

20:23

with a kind, loving, gentle

20:26

embrace. Um

20:29

So we put out a parody

20:31

song, and the song

20:33

was based on if you're going to play in Texas,

20:36

you gotta have a fiddle in the band. Except

20:38

the one we put out. We said, if you're gonna

20:40

run in Texas, you can't be a liberal man.

20:51

And so we hired musicians who

20:53

were really quite good and had the whole thing,

20:56

and it uh and you

20:58

know it begins why by saying, and Beto

21:00

wants those open borders and he

21:03

wants to take our guns. We

21:06

put this ad out, PolitiFact

21:10

fact checks it. Fact check your song, my

21:12

parody song. Do

21:17

you know puff the Magic Dragon actually didn't

21:19

live in a land called Honely. No, it's

21:22

an amazing thing. Wow, pants on fire,

21:25

you know. But but they fact check

21:27

it and they say it is literally

21:30

pants on fire falls that Beto

21:33

wants to take our guns. So

21:36

fast forward to Senate race. We

21:39

win, He loses minor

21:44

detail. He

21:48

goes to New Mexico and eats

21:50

dirt. I

21:52

don't ask me, I've been That's what he did. Um

21:56

And then he runs for president as a Democrat. And

22:00

the poor guy was so startled because

22:03

his basse, by which I mean the reporters.

22:06

Ye who

22:09

look when he was running

22:11

against me, they were like groupies

22:13

at a Rolling Stone concert, throwing their underwear

22:16

at it. Literally

22:18

right if

22:20

they were underwear, Yes to

22:25

Edgy, it's a podcast.

22:27

You can say whatever you want. The

22:30

instant he was running against Bernie

22:32

and Kamala, the heroes of the

22:34

left, the press turned on him

22:37

and the poor guy was, what the hell

22:39

just happened? It's utterly startled.

22:41

But you remember at one of the Democratic

22:43

debates he

22:46

said, damn right, I'm

22:48

gonna take your AR

22:51

fifteen. And

22:53

then his campaign website began

22:56

selling T shirts that's

22:58

said on the front of them, damn right,

23:01

I'm gonna take your AAR fifteen,

23:04

at which point I couldn't resist jumping on

23:06

Twitter and saying, hey, PolitiFact,

23:10

when you fact checked my statement that Beta

23:12

wants to take our guns and you said that was

23:14

false, are you going to

23:16

buy one of his teachers? Are? Yeah? Do you can? I send

23:18

you a link to his Shopify account because

23:21

you know they did this to us today, Actually, politifant,

23:23

no, I'm sorry. Was Snopes Daily Wire

23:26

and my show at the Daily Wire, we ran

23:28

this headline. It said, there's a report

23:30

out that AOC was not in

23:33

the Capitol Building during

23:35

the riot on January sixth, and

23:37

that was that was the whole headline, and we

23:40

got a fact check mostly false,

23:43

mostly Okay, So when it's mostly false, they

23:45

say what's true and they say what's

23:47

false? So I said, well, let's let's

23:49

just see what's true about this headline

23:53

was report AOC was not in the

23:55

Capitol Building or the riot. What's true,

23:59

AOC was not in the Capitol Building during

24:01

the riot. But what's false

24:03

is she was in another building that was down

24:05

the street. And you know that's in DC

24:08

and so and you guys are mean, so therefore

24:11

mostly false. You know, Michael, I

24:14

just don't know why you will not honor

24:17

her individual truth. I

24:21

recognize she was in

24:23

her office when a police

24:25

officer knocked on the door and

24:28

asked her to evacuate. But

24:30

if she lived that experience

24:33

as a band of marauders sent

24:35

by me came

24:38

with murderous intentions, that

24:42

is her truth. And by the way, you know what she

24:44

said what you and I just did. She said, anyone

24:46

that doubts her shared truth is

24:49

guilty of sexual assault. Yes she did. She

24:51

did say that she did it. She

24:53

said, it's being like an abuser to

24:55

question that you know this. This actually raises

24:58

one of the central questions were to talking about

25:00

here at YAFF which is for a long time, I

25:02

think every conservative of every generation

25:05

in this room has known about the threats from big

25:07

government. But there are other threats

25:09

to our freedom from other big

25:12

sorts of entities, big tech,

25:15

which would be polit effect, big corporations

25:18

which are signing up with all of these radical

25:20

left wing groups and advancing

25:23

them. Big big, big,

25:25

big big is big bureaucracy,

25:28

all of these sorts of things. Looking

25:30

forward, I mean, the conservative movement has come

25:32

so far. Just think about YAFF, think about the growth

25:34

of the Young America's Foundation. I mean, it's

25:36

just unbelievable about all the people in this room,

25:39

all the campuses that YAFF is on, the

25:42

growth of so many conservative organizations.

25:44

But now moving forward, it seems like the

25:46

challenges are different. We're gonna have to start

25:49

changing maybe some of our language, looking at these

25:51

other threats. Where do we go from

25:53

here? I know so many people, we're all pretty

25:55

happy to be together tonight, but we're a little bit down

25:58

after the election, after the inaugration. What

26:02

where do we go from here? We

26:06

go towards truth and light

26:09

and freedom. Look

26:11

the great thing about eternal truths, they're

26:14

always true. Our

26:17

ideas work. Freedom

26:19

works, free markets

26:21

work, the Constitution

26:24

and Bill of Rights, free speech, religious liberty,

26:26

the fundamental liberties of humanity.

26:29

It is right and true. And just the

26:31

next two years we're going to see wild

26:33

eyed socialists trying

26:36

to do enormous damage to this country.

26:39

Their policies aren't going to work. They

26:42

don't work. That is going

26:44

to become evident. You know, I'll make a

26:47

reference. This reminds

26:49

me an awful

26:51

lot of the late seventies. You

26:54

know, Scott Walker and I are both almost

26:56

exactly the same age. We

26:59

were both killed in the

27:01

late seventies. When

27:04

Ronald Reagan was elected. I was ten when

27:08

Reagan left the White House, I was eighteen. It

27:10

took Jimmy Carter to

27:13

give us Reagan. It

27:15

took the absolute catastrophe,

27:18

the disaster of the Carter years.

27:22

It took Jimmy Carter giving away

27:24

the Panama Canal. Ye, it's

27:26

funny, you know, that's an issue that people don't

27:28

even really think about anymore. But what I

27:31

mean, so much was happening during those

27:33

years To set up the Conservative took

27:35

stagflation, enormous

27:38

economic harm, misery, gas

27:40

lines. It

27:42

took the military being downgraded

27:45

to a level that our hostages in Iran get

27:47

get taken in captivity for four

27:49

hundred and forty four days, and Carter

27:52

sends out a military team to try to rescue

27:54

them, and it crashes in the desert

27:57

with no opposing fire, the abs

28:00

calamity. It took Jimmy Carter putting

28:03

on a sweater and

28:06

saying, you know, we live in a world

28:08

of scarcity. We

28:10

don't have the money to heat your homes anymore. So

28:12

just put on a sweater and

28:15

just accept malaise, malaise

28:18

the new normal, you might say. And

28:21

all of that train wreck is

28:25

what prepared people for

28:27

a sunny, optimistic governor

28:29

from California who

28:32

understood the power of freedom.

28:36

We're in a moment just like that. We're

28:40

in a moment where we will go through some

28:42

darkness. But the answer

28:44

to darkness is always light. I

28:54

have to tell you, a senator, when I

28:56

as they turn on the lights, the

28:59

light is here. When I asked you, where do we

29:01

go from here, and you said, well, Michael, it's kind of like the seventies.

29:03

I was feeling a little depressed. That did not

29:05

sound great, But you're right. You get the seventies

29:07

and then you get the eighties. I really hope Bell

29:10

Bottoms don't come back. Although,

29:14

to be honest, the eighties and depressingly

29:16

enough, Michael, you're you're young enough not

29:18

to remember. The eight was a glint in my father's eye.

29:21

I owned

29:23

parachute pants. Yeah,

29:26

no, it really was horrible. It was these

29:28

like plasticy Scott, did

29:30

you have parachute pants? Okay, these

29:32

plasticky pants with zippers all

29:35

over them. And I

29:37

do not know why. And my

29:39

father, who you know, yeah, Cuban

29:42

American pastor. I would be leaving in high

29:44

school that he'd be like, do you want to look like a bomb?

29:47

I'd be like, yeah, that's I

29:49

was a teenager, and that's what you say to your dad. And thankfully

29:52

we grow out of that, you know, center sometimes conservatives,

29:54

I think we go into nostalgia,

29:57

you know, history after a few drinks when we think

29:59

about he right, the eighties were You've reminded

30:01

me it wasn't all great. You know, there were some issues

30:03

there as well. I do also want to remind everyone

30:05

who's watching right now on YouTube, head

30:08

on over to YouTube dot com slash yaf TV.

30:10

We will answer your questions, but only if they're

30:12

good questions. If they're bad questions, we're absolutely

30:15

going to ignore them. Subscribe send them

30:17

in YouTube dot com slash yaf TV. I

30:20

also, you know, we flew down here not

30:22

just to talk amongst ourselves, as

30:24

we often do. We want to talk to everyone who

30:26

is out here at YAFF Freedom Conference.

30:29

So let's do. Let's

30:31

folk some questions. Our

30:36

first question for the Live

30:38

Verdict program tonight comes from

30:41

YAF TV YouTube subscriber Real

30:44

Truth Cactus, who asks the

30:47

fact that any private person can have

30:49

their lives destroyed because of their social

30:51

media lives is terrifying. What

30:53

can private citizens do to protect

30:55

themselves? You can't take that one all

30:57

rights as the private citizen in this duo

31:01

here, It's very tricky.

31:04

It reminds me of a question I get. Maybe we'll

31:06

get it tonight, and I'm happy to get back into it, but

31:08

I often get this sort of a question from students,

31:10

which is, hey, Michael, how

31:12

can I totally embrace my political

31:15

views and be very honest about what I

31:17

think and not cowtow to the liberal

31:19

mob and tell my professor exactly what I

31:21

think about is absolutely ridiculous anti

31:24

American lessons and still

31:26

get an a. I say, ah,

31:28

you are asking for something that was never

31:30

possible and never will be possible, my friend.

31:33

You want to have it all and everything.

31:35

Everything in life has consequences. It's

31:38

why we remember that we have to be why is

31:40

as serpents and innocent as doves.

31:43

Right. This is a very tricky

31:45

situation that we're living in, and I can't

31:47

just give you some kind of platitude and say, you

31:50

know, speak your mind and be true

31:52

to yourself and you will face no consequences

31:55

whatsoever. The one thing I can say, though,

31:57

having never learned the lesson

31:59

to my mouth shut, is you

32:01

know, I certainly have spoken

32:04

my mind, and I've gotten some lower

32:06

grades because of it, and don't get invited

32:08

to some fun parties because of it too. But

32:11

I will say, from the times I

32:13

have been honest about my beliefs.

32:16

You don't need to be flamboyant about them. You don't need to be parading

32:19

them around all the time. But when you're asked, you give an honest answer.

32:21

I sleep like a baby. It

32:24

is. It is not worth your integrity to

32:26

keep your mouth I

32:28

do. I do like like I screamed, a

32:32

very odd phrase. You're the father of a new

32:34

boy. Is sleep like

32:36

a baby? A peaceful image? Oh? It's one of

32:38

My wife feeds me multiple times in the middle of

32:40

the night. Pizza. It's great, absolutely

32:42

fabulous, And that's why

32:45

it's really why my answer is just get married and you'll

32:47

have a much better life. But it but it really,

32:49

I do think it really is important in

32:51

this way to have

32:53

the integrity you will you will take

32:55

a hit and you just have to deal with that. And

32:58

being a conservative requires that

33:00

you recognize reality and accept

33:03

the permanent things about life. But

33:06

it is worth it because in the end, all the cheap

33:08

little thrills that you'll get by lying to

33:10

yourself and to others, I just

33:12

don't think are worth it. Well,

33:14

And let me add something to that on

33:16

a different because I think you're right in school, and

33:18

it is a challenge in school you have liberal

33:21

professors. How you handle that. Both

33:24

Michael and I experienced getting your grades

33:26

clips substantially with

33:28

professors from the left that didn't like what we were saying.

33:30

And that's a hard challenge to deal

33:32

with. Let me give it a different

33:34

aspect to that question, though, which is the social

33:37

media component of it. You know,

33:39

we're a different environment where

33:43

everyone here is online, everyone

33:46

here is connected, and what you say

33:50

is recorded for all perpetuity.

33:53

Yea, once it's on the Internet, it's for it

33:56

never goes away. And I got to say,

33:59

look, our daughters ten and twelve. It

34:02

scares the living daylights out of

34:04

me that as they start to get

34:06

an engagement, I think of

34:09

the dumb ass things that I thought

34:11

and said when I was fifteen and

34:14

seventeen and nineteen, and

34:16

I am so glad that they are not preserved

34:19

for all alternative. They faded, They

34:21

were dumb, and they were forgotten. Yeah, y'all

34:23

are living in an environment where you

34:26

don't get a second chance on that.

34:28

And so I'd say be careful on that. Yeah, because

34:31

it is a smart

34:33

Alec tweet, a smart

34:36

Alec post. In

34:39

five years at a job interview, you could find

34:41

them pulling it out and reading it to you. And

34:44

I try to explain that to you. Know, you

34:46

want to make a joke, just humor, be

34:50

fun and have a sense of humor, But ask

34:54

yourself, do I want to see this five

34:56

years from now? And if you don't,

34:58

maybe don't send it out in to the world to

35:00

be there forever. Because because this is the other side

35:02

of the integrity aspect, which is you don't

35:05

want to hide your views and pretend to be somebody

35:07

who you are not. But you also don't

35:09

want to do something that you will be embarrassed about.

35:11

You don't want to be doing something that you'll be ashamed

35:13

of five or ten years later when you look

35:15

back on it, and when your prospective employers

35:18

look back on it too. Hi, my name's Trip

35:20

Grayby. I'm a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin

35:22

Madison. First of all, thank you both for being

35:25

here. My question is,

35:27

as you alluded to earlier, the Goop seems

35:29

to be more divided than it's ever been before. And

35:32

it seems as though since the election and since

35:34

the riots at the Capitol, there's been a certain

35:37

effort to purge Trump's skeptical Republicans

35:39

from the party. Ben SaaS is expecting

35:42

a censure from the Nebraska Gop. Sydney

35:45

McCann and Jeff Flake, Doug Doocey were censored

35:47

by the Arizona Goop, and

35:50

Liz Cheney was almost ousted from House

35:52

leadership recently. So my question

35:54

to you is do you think that

35:58

there's a path forward for Trump's skep conservatives.

36:01

Of course there is. I

36:03

think there's a path forward for

36:08

everyone who agrees on a shared

36:10

set of principles and values. You know Reagan.

36:13

Reagan said, what do you call someone who agrees

36:15

with you eighty percent of the time a

36:17

friend? So look,

36:20

we're at a weird divided

36:23

time. Donald

36:27

J. Trump is a unique individual and

36:31

he inspires unique sentiments

36:34

from virtually everybody. I

36:37

do think some people have

36:39

lost their minds over how much

36:41

they dislike it. He

36:44

says and does things I disagree with, but

36:47

he also has done a lot of things I agree with that

36:49

I think we're good for the country, and I try

36:51

to approach it as a reasonable

36:53

person to say, Okay, when he's

36:56

working for good policy that's good for the country,

36:58

I'll work with him. When he's saying things that

37:00

are not good, I'm not going to support

37:02

that. There are efforts of purging

37:04

on both sides, and we're seeing

37:06

it right now. And look, anytime you lose an election,

37:09

there's a period of chaos, there's

37:11

a period of reckoning that's fairly natural.

37:14

And so you're right. There are those

37:17

who are very strong Trump

37:19

supporters that are saying get rid of anyone who

37:21

isn't there are also those who

37:24

are not fans of Trump that are trying to say get rid

37:26

of everyone who was. I mean, we're seeing the

37:28

purging on both ends. You

37:31

know, I have this crazy view that

37:35

I'd like us to win elections, and

37:39

you win elections by getting fifty plus one.

37:42

So I'm not really interested in taking

37:44

any significant chunk of the party in purging

37:46

it. I am interested

37:49

in finding shared values that bring us together.

37:51

And right now, these

37:53

emotions are raw, these

37:56

emotions are people

37:58

are worked up and they're passionate. Yeah,

38:04

that'll fade as

38:06

time goes on. Those

38:09

divisions, there have always been divisions in the

38:11

party. They've always

38:14

been. You

38:18

know, it's interesting. I

38:20

wrote a book last year called One Vote Away

38:22

about the US Supreme Court, and one

38:25

of the chapters in the book traces the history of the

38:27

court, and it goes back to two nominees

38:29

that were put on the court, and it goes

38:31

back to the nineteen

38:34

fifty two GOP

38:37

convention and

38:40

the nineteen forty eight GOP convention

38:43

and the battles that

38:46

were in the party, actually in nineteen

38:49

forty eight, the battles that were in the party where

38:51

you had you had Dwight D.

38:53

Eisenhower, who

38:55

was the choice of the New England Moderates,

38:58

and you had Robert was the choice

39:01

of the Conservatives, and they were

39:03

at each other's throats, and you read it and

39:05

you just stop and laugh. I look, most

39:08

of us weren't alive then, and

39:10

the same battles that we see playing out

39:12

somewhere. Okay, I got a few mean looks

39:14

at it. But the

39:17

same battles and tensions that we're

39:19

playing out now, we're

39:21

playing out then, and they're going to be disagreements.

39:24

And you

39:26

know, some of it comes down to the difference between a parliamentary

39:28

system and a two party presidential system. Parliamentary

39:31

system, we could have a

39:33

dozen different parties and everyone could pick a party

39:35

of just people exactly like

39:38

them who are

39:40

left handed and ride unicorns unicycles,

39:42

and you can all be hopefully not unicorns but unicycles.

39:47

In a presidential system for two parties,

39:49

you've got to stitch together a coalition

39:53

that's sometimes uneasy, that's sometimes

39:55

difficult. So, yes, these tensions

39:58

are real. II

40:00

The having debates about who we are and what we stand

40:02

for should be good. But I also don't think

40:05

we win elections by purging major

40:07

parts of our party. I think we win elections

40:09

by growing our party and convincing the American

40:11

people that our ideas are right. I love

40:13

that point, Senator. It's a really, really

40:15

great point because

40:18

this is an issue that has come up in the last couple

40:20

of weeks. Should there be a third party for people

40:23

who are I don't know, one type of conservative

40:25

over the other. And of course, if there were a different

40:27

party, that would immediately give Democrats

40:30

every single office in the land. More or less. We

40:32

saw this happen with Teddy Roosevelt

40:35

gave us Woodrow Wilson and more or less

40:37

destroyed the country. So you don't want that sort of thing

40:39

to happen. When Bill Buckley, in

40:42

conjunction with this very organization,

40:45

sort of cobbled together the postwar conservative

40:47

movement. He brought together libertarians,

40:50

traditionalists, and the religious right and

40:53

warhawk democrats. And those

40:55

three groups did not have

40:58

a ton in common. They all hated the Soviet

41:00

Union, libertarians because of the collectivism,

41:03

the traditionalists because of the atheism,

41:05

and the warhawks because of the imperial ambitions.

41:07

And they worked together and had an

41:10

incredibly successful governing coalition. And

41:12

now we're going to be debating a lot of these questions.

41:14

Where do we stand on migration,

41:17

what do we think that means in our national

41:19

history? Where do we stand on corporate

41:21

America? Where we spend all these sorts of issues. I

41:24

think it's easier to debate those things when

41:26

it's not just a personality contest

41:28

and a contest of who was right five years ago,

41:30

when you're actually talking about those issues, and there's

41:32

another issue on top of that, which is do

41:35

we have the courage to do

41:37

the things that the people give us power to do? Will

41:40

we actually do it? Or are we just going to promise something

41:42

on the campaign trail and then do something else

41:44

behind closed doors. Those debates, as you say, cent,

41:46

those are all happening right now. That is perfectly

41:49

normal, and you want to make sure you keep enough

41:51

people together that you can still win elections.

41:54

Our next Live Verdict mail bag

41:56

question comes from yaf TV YouTube

41:58

subscriber Derek Maker, who

42:01

asks should Texas secede?

42:07

You know, it's interesting that question is getting asked

42:10

more and more. It is literally

42:12

being debated in the Texas legislature.

42:16

I have a friend of mine from

42:18

New England who actually flew

42:20

down to Texas right before

42:22

the twenty sixteen election. He was convinced

42:24

Hillary was going to win and the

42:27

world was going to hell in a handbasket, and he

42:30

said Texas needs to secede. It's the only

42:32

hope to save the union. And he was dead

42:34

deadly serious. And

42:36

I'll tell you what I told him then, and it's the same thing i'd

42:38

say in the answer to that. My answer is no, I

42:41

don't believe Texas should secede because

42:44

I think we have a responsibility to the country because

42:46

I love America and I'm not willing to give up

42:48

on America.

42:57

I understand the sentiments behind it,

43:01

I understand the frustrations as

43:04

you look at lunatics

43:08

running our national

43:10

parties, running our

43:12

institutions of government, it's frightening. And

43:15

I will say, look, we're at

43:17

a strange time in our country because our country

43:19

is coming apart. We're

43:21

living in two universes, the

43:24

left and right. And this is where technology,

43:26

I think has had a really significant impact because

43:29

with social media, with the Internet, the

43:32

left listens to left wing news, the

43:35

right listens to right wing news. If

43:38

someone disagrees, you unfriend them. And

43:42

we don't have shared facts, we

43:45

don't have the homogenizing institutions.

43:48

You know, it used to be that you

43:50

know, you would go you'd be

43:52

a Democrat or Republican, but you'd

43:54

go to church with your neighbors and there'd

43:56

be some of both. You'd go to the rotary

43:58

club and you would know people who

44:00

were Democrats, you'd know people who were Republicans,

44:03

and you discover that they didn't have horns

44:05

and they weren't monsters. I

44:09

worry about our country that the reality

44:12

of someone in Texas

44:17

is very different maybe than the reality

44:19

of someone in Seattle, where

44:21

everything they're hearing, all of

44:23

the reinforcements, all of the

44:26

facts are skewed to one side. I

44:29

think the answer it's incumbent on us. Listen,

44:31

the media has given up on its task. You

44:35

Walter Cronkite played a role

44:38

of bringing people together, and he leaned

44:40

left, but he wasn't

44:43

a naked partisan the way today's

44:45

journalists are, to

44:47

be honest. If we're gonna wait for CNN

44:50

or MSNBC or the New York Times

44:52

to fix itself, the

44:54

country will be lost. The

44:57

only way to fix it is to do what we're doing right

44:59

now. It's one of the reasons I love

45:01

podcast is because we could sit down and do a podcast

45:04

any damn time we want, and

45:07

put it out there and communicate directly, and by

45:09

the way, every one of you can too. You

45:12

know, it's easy when you're young to think, well, gosh,

45:14

you know, when I'm older, when I'm thirty, when I'm forty,

45:17

when I'm established, then I'll have a voice.

45:19

Then I'll be able to do something. Everyone

45:22

of you has a voice right now. And

45:25

not only that, your conservatives

45:27

on college campuses. I

45:30

mean, you are thick headed

45:33

and stubborn as hell. That's

45:35

great. You

45:42

got them to a flaud by calling them thick

45:44

headed and stubborn as hell. That's very that's

45:46

very oppressive, you know, on this

45:48

question of Texit, I will defer to

45:50

the senator from Texas if you want to ask

45:53

me about tennis, sexit or something which

45:55

sounds very very taudry. But if you want

45:57

to ask me about that, I'm happy to answer. But that's

46:00

a good point. Howdy,

46:03

gentlemen. My name is Rhydolson.

46:05

I am a senior Texas A and M University

46:08

him as

46:11

a lifelong Texan, I too, am a survivor

46:13

of the twenty eighteen hellscape known as Beatomania.

46:17

So my question to you is, seeing as this

46:19

is a current trend with you know, AOC becoming

46:22

a basically a new celebrity,

46:24

how do you fight the power of celebrity in future

46:26

elections. It's

46:29

a huge problem. It

46:32

is a problem that

46:34

stems back. I think you can go back

46:37

really to the nineteen sixties. The

46:39

left systematically took

46:43

over the organs of

46:45

the transmission of ideas. They

46:48

systematically took over education K through

46:50

twelve. Education is almost uniformly

46:53

left. They took over

46:55

colleges and universities, They

46:57

took over journalism, and

46:59

they look over entertainment. They

47:02

took over Hollywood. By

47:04

the way of all of them, if I could get

47:06

one back, I'd get entertainment back. If

47:10

you look at the influence of

47:12

movies and TVs, and by the way, sports

47:15

and video games, all

47:17

of them are dominated by the left. And

47:21

so what they do is they

47:23

make their

47:25

folks celebrities and they treat them

47:28

AOC and Paris

47:30

Hilton and Kim Kardashian

47:35

are all the same thing. And

47:40

the press and big tech. Oh

47:43

be still my heart. She

47:46

played a video game. Well hot diggity

47:48

damn. You

47:51

know. I

47:56

was in the airport in DC getting ready to fly

47:58

down to Miami today and I up to

48:00

get a I wanted to die Doctor Pepper, but

48:02

they didn't have one, so I got to die coke um. And

48:06

I'm just looking at all the magazine covers and

48:10

every magazine cover had

48:13

Joe Biden smiling ear to

48:15

ear, had him happy. Jill Biden

48:17

there, well except for the Kamala ones where

48:20

I actually think she was glowing. I think they actually

48:22

require like choir music to be played.

48:25

Yeah, there's a loom on it. It's radioactive it

48:29

you know, you know the Renaissance paintings where they put

48:31

halos around. I mean it is, it's

48:33

it's hagiography and

48:35

it is designed to be and

48:38

you know, you get questions, what's your favorite

48:40

ice cream flavor? Scott?

48:44

Did anyone ever ask you your favorite ice cream?

48:50

It is? And the entertainment world?

48:54

All right, So this week I got

48:57

in a Twitter beef with

49:01

Carrie Ellis, who

49:03

says rob Pirate, Roberts and the Princess Bride,

49:06

which is my favorite movie? And

49:08

mind you Okay, so this it was actually caused by

49:10

Verdict. So I didn't pick this one. I picked

49:13

a lot of them, but I did not pick this one. I

49:15

was innocently minding my own business.

49:18

Last Verdict we did, I talked about

49:21

I went in a digression and I said, you ever notice

49:23

how many movie villains are rabid

49:25

environmentalists? And

49:28

I talked about Thanos and Avengers

49:30

endgame who says there are too many people,

49:32

they're consuming the resources, so I'm gonna snap

49:34

my finger and half the people are

49:36

going to disappear. And

49:39

I've said that point several times

49:41

before, but for whatever reason,

49:45

some lefty saw it and lost his mind

49:48

and tweeted it out and the thing went viral

49:50

like crazy, and I actually took media matters the lefty

49:53

group and I retweeted them. I said, like, yep, that's what

49:55

I'm saying. Listen to what the guy's

49:57

saying. He's an environmentalist. He wants to kill

49:59

half every person that lives. So

50:04

Carrie Olle was got mad at that. Oh,

50:07

there is a very cute thing on Twitter. Someone pointed

50:09

out apparently I pronounce his name wrong because I say

50:11

Thanos and it's

50:14

Thanos Stanos. And they

50:16

actually did a clip of like twenty characters

50:19

from the movie going Thanos Stanos. Thanos

50:21

Thanos okay, guy with really fat

50:23

fingers who can kill half the people on the

50:25

universe. Uh So,

50:28

Carrie, I was out of nowhere, blasts

50:31

me and says, I don't

50:33

know, puts that clip and says you're a moron.

50:35

And by the way, everyone who made the Princess Bride.

50:37

We all hate you, hate you, we all hate you. Um

50:42

now, this is my favorite movie. I've seen this

50:45

a lot of times, and

50:48

is it so happens? In my state

50:50

office is a framed

50:52

picture of Karrie out was dresses

50:55

the dread Pirate Roberts,

50:57

signed by

51:00

right Alwis two Senator Cruz best

51:03

wishes, all my best wishes. And

51:05

I'm sitting there, I'm like, really, dude,

51:08

Like really, Yes, you're a lefty

51:10

actor. You're all lefty actors. Yea.

51:13

And by the way, just because you're all lefty

51:15

actors doesn't mean we don't get to enjoy movies.

51:18

You know, if we only listen to conservatives,

51:21

okay, no movies, no sports, no TV.

51:24

No, I'd like to hell with you. You don't

51:26

own your art. I love your movie, even

51:28

if you're a numbskull. But

51:30

I did take a picture of the signed signed

51:34

a picture that he had he had signed to me and

51:36

apparently forgot about. And I

51:39

just set the picture back and said, does this

51:41

mean you want your picture back? And

51:45

so he blocked me. He does pleasant

51:48

never go against Ted Cruise when tweets

51:50

are on the line, and never do it. Our

52:00

final question comes from the Live

52:03

Verdict mail bag. Blake,

52:05

who is a subscriber on YAF TV,

52:07

asks Biden said he was going

52:10

to follow the science, but what about

52:12

his refusal to follow the science

52:14

that says open the schools? Are

52:16

he and Cuomo just on a rampage to hold

52:18

onto the power they gained under COVID.

52:22

Yes, thanks

52:24

everybody. No, the

52:32

left is really good at

52:34

weaponizing language.

52:38

They do it really well, by the way.

52:40

We're not nearly as good at it. Science

52:46

is one of their favorite words. By

52:48

the way, what they mean by science

52:51

are the socialist policies they want to implement.

52:54

The actual substance of the science doesn't matter.

52:56

It's actually worth pointing out too. They

52:59

have been using science in this way for

53:01

over one hundred years. They actually radical

53:04

left wing activists, following in the Marxist

53:06

tradition, actually would refer

53:08

to the science of history the

53:10

science of politics. That is why,

53:12

Actually when Bill Buckley started National Review,

53:15

he said, we stand athwart history, yelling

53:17

stop. Because they knew that they knew the science of

53:19

history, they knew where it was going to their

53:22

terrible socialist utopia. So they've

53:24

been they've been doing this for a long time. But

53:26

they also don't care about science exactly.

53:30

Science is a club

53:33

to beat the masses into submission

53:36

and obedience. So

53:41

it it'll be clear. I

53:44

am the son of two mathematicians and scientists.

53:46

I believe in science. Science actually matters.

53:49

Now, how many of y'all remember

53:51

the scientific method where

53:53

you start with a hypothesis, you

53:56

then test it with evidence, and

53:59

you see to disprove it. So one of

54:01

the things, right, let's take a

54:03

couple of issues on science, climate

54:06

change, the holy grail now

54:08

of government control of every aspect of your life.

54:12

A little bit of history. Nineteen sixties

54:14

nineteen seventies, left

54:16

wing politicians were saying, we

54:18

are entering a massive period of

54:21

global cooling, a new ice

54:23

age. The only

54:25

solution is for the government to

54:27

control the economy, the energy sector, in every

54:29

aspect of your life. It follows

54:32

naturally. Then there was a problem. The

54:35

Earth wasn't in fact cooling like

54:37

it was an interesting theory, but it just was

54:40

wrong. So then

54:42

fast forward another ten twenty

54:44

years and you have scientists,

54:47

many of them the same scientists, who come up

54:49

with global warming.

54:52

That sounds different, sounds kind of like the opposite

54:54

of the first one they had, but interesting

54:56

and by the way you get the next wave of politicians

54:58

and global warming. The solution

55:02

is total government control of the economy,

55:04

the energy sector, in every aspect of your life. Second,

55:06

hold on here. But

55:09

then they had another problem, which

55:12

is that the Earth isn't warming.

55:14

I mean, these guys can't win for losing. They just keep

55:16

blowing it. So we have satellites

55:19

that are orbiting the Earth that are measuring the

55:21

temperature, and for eighteen

55:23

years they have measured

55:26

zero statistically significant warming.

55:30

So that a problem. They have these computer

55:32

models that show it should be warming like crazy,

55:34

and the satellites actually measuring the temperature

55:36

say, well, it's not warming like crazy. They

55:38

actually call this the pause. If

55:44

you want to enjoy a

55:47

bit of humor, you can google me

55:51

and Sierra Club. The

55:53

head of the Sierra Club was testifying in the state

55:55

and I asked him about the pause, and

55:59

I said, do you know what the cause is? He said yes. I

56:01

asked him what it was, and he refused to say. He simply

56:04

refused to say. He refused to

56:06

answer, And it's because And then did

56:08

you notice think about

56:10

it for a second, No one uses the term global warming

56:12

anymore. It magically

56:14

changed. And if you care about

56:17

science. I want you to pause and think about climate

56:19

change. It is the perfect

56:22

pseudo scientific theory. Why

56:26

let's go back to the scientific method. This

56:30

is a theory that can never ever ever

56:33

be disproven. If

56:35

you're mapping out the sets in which it is

56:37

true, it is true and one hundred percent of the circumstances.

56:40

If the climate gets hotter, the theory

56:42

is correct. If the climate gets cooler, the theory

56:45

is correct. If the climate gets wet, or the theory is

56:47

correct. If the climate gets drier, the theory is

56:49

correct. There are no data, There

56:51

is no evidence that can ever disprove

56:54

a theory that stops changing,

56:57

because well, yeah, the climate's been changing

57:00

since the dawna time. If

57:09

something is not susceptible to the

57:11

scientific method, if it's not testable

57:13

by data and evidence, its

57:16

purpose is not science. And by

57:18

the way, the solution to fix it.

57:21

Hold on, I am gonna try to guess. Give me a

57:23

second. Tell me total government

57:25

control of the economy, the energy sector, in every

57:27

aspect of your lives. Okay,

57:29

John Carrie

57:33

flies on private jets

57:36

to get environmental awards

57:39

because he believes in this nonsense.

57:41

No he doesn't. He believes

57:43

in government power, and it has

57:45

nothing to do with science. By the way, you'll

57:47

also be told the polarized caps are melting.

57:51

Here's a problem. There's more ice than the polarized

57:53

capts today than their watch was ten years ago.

57:56

Group a lefty scientist went down with

57:58

a ship to an article to measure the

58:00

ice. They were told they did icebreakers.

58:03

They said no, no no, no, it's all melting. They got stuck in the ice.

58:05

When you bring this up, the

58:08

supposed avatars

58:11

of science scream

58:16

denier. Let

58:18

me tell you right now, denier is not the language

58:20

of science. If you actually

58:22

care about science, you don't speak

58:25

that's the language of religion. Heretic

58:30

the witch. Throw

58:33

him in the water. If he floats, he's a witch. That's

58:36

for science. It's science. By

58:39

the way, for any

58:41

of your lefty classmates, if they

58:44

want to pontificate on science, here's

58:46

one question you can ask them. Just just very

58:48

innocuously, tell

58:50

me what

58:53

is a Y chromosome? How

58:56

dare you there's no hate speech on this podcast,

58:58

Senator, You can not ask

59:00

that we believe in scientists.

59:03

Tell me what what is that thing I

59:05

learned? You know, we've

59:07

we've had a year of good podcasts, and now

59:09

you're going to get us a deep platformed because you're

59:11

bringing up hate speech like our chromosomes.

59:14

You know you can even you even see it in the White

59:16

House press briefings. We heard this just over

59:18

the past few days. Actually getting back to the specifics

59:20

of that question, if

59:24

you will, if you will indulge me, I would

59:26

like to circle back. We

59:35

have been told Biden administration, in

59:37

what forty two executive orders since

59:39

he's been inaugurated, three

59:42

of them explicitly mention how important

59:44

sciences and we need to follow the science.

59:46

Biden campaign done this. So

59:48

he's going to more or less outsources

59:51

his policies to these technocrats, these

59:53

lab coat, exalted dictators who

59:56

know how to run our lives better than we all do, right,

59:59

unless it's politically inconvenient, Because

1:00:02

just just a couple days ago, the

1:00:04

CDC director said, no reason to keep

1:00:06

the schools closed. We've got a lot of great data

1:00:08

coming out shows that the virus is not spreading

1:00:11

in any particular way in schools. You don't

1:00:13

need a way for teachers to get vaccinated. Send

1:00:15

those kids back, educate them.

1:00:18

Now, did you see the correction?

1:00:21

Was there a correction? There was a correction. What was there

1:00:24

was a fact check? Well, no, it's worse

1:00:26

than that. The White House said she

1:00:28

was speaking in her personal

1:00:31

capacity in

1:00:33

her so apparently she wasn't a scientist.

1:00:36

I guess this. Now

1:00:38

she's standing at the frigging White House

1:00:42

with the podium that says the frigging

1:00:44

White House on it, and she's

1:00:46

discussing a global pandemic and

1:00:48

what the science says. But

1:00:51

here's the problem.

1:00:55

She doesn't lead a union that spends hundreds

1:00:57

of millions of dollars to elect Democrats. That

1:00:59

is very interesting, and so

1:01:03

suddenly what she said became

1:01:06

an inconvenient truth. It's

1:01:08

a good book title, by the way, just because

1:01:10

someone should make a movie out of that. Because of

1:01:12

course, these bureaucrats, these technocrats,

1:01:15

Yeah, they might be in the

1:01:17

constituency here that the Democrats want to

1:01:19

appeal to, but they want to appeal to those

1:01:21

teacher unions more. And the teacher unions say,

1:01:24

science be damned, we're not going back to work.

1:01:26

And that's going to be the line from the White House. It

1:01:30

looks science is a wonderful thing, and

1:01:32

by the way, we should embrace science

1:01:35

as a wonderful tool for human learning. But

1:01:37

part of science is looking to facts and data

1:01:39

and evidence and what works and what

1:01:41

doesn't. Their policies don't work,

1:01:43

they don't want to talk about whether their policies work.

1:01:46

They instead want to behave it

1:01:48

has become religion. Climate

1:01:52

changes their justification for a total

1:01:54

government control. But it's about socialism,

1:01:56

it's about the state having control

1:01:59

of your lives. And they are statists

1:02:02

in their core. And

1:02:05

I think we should respond as happy warriors.

1:02:09

You don't think we should just be furious and rip our hair

1:02:11

out, because that's sort of what I'm tempted to do, is that No,

1:02:14

no, we've got we've got to take a better

1:02:17

attitude than that. Hey, and

1:02:19

things can change very quickly. Um.

1:02:26

You know, one of my favorite clips is

1:02:29

a great clip of

1:02:34

Reagan at the White House and

1:02:36

he's doing a White House press

1:02:38

briefly and Sam Donaldson,

1:02:41

who was an ABC News reporter, was pretty obnoxious

1:02:44

and he was pounding Reagan

1:02:49

and he said, mister President, you

1:02:52

blamed the Speaker of the House,

1:02:54

you blamed Congress, you blamed Democrats,

1:02:56

you blamed everybody else. Mister

1:02:59

President, we

1:03:01

have a lot of problems in this country. Don't

1:03:03

you bear any of the responsibility

1:03:06

for the problems we have in this country. And

1:03:09

Reagan leans forward with a twinkle

1:03:11

in his eye and

1:03:14

he says, well, Sam,

1:03:19

yes, yes, I do.

1:03:22

I bear considerable

1:03:24

responsibility because

1:03:26

for many years I

1:03:29

was a Democrat.

1:03:39

And if you google the clip, it

1:03:42

ends with Sam down Donaldson cracking

1:03:44

up. Lad. A little humor goes along,

1:03:47

even in an empire of lies. To

1:03:49

borrow our friend Andrew Plavn's phrase, even living

1:03:51

this empire of lies, big government, big tech,

1:03:54

big business, big everything colluding against

1:03:56

us, A conservative consolation

1:03:58

is that reality will I will reassert itself

1:04:01

a little bit. In the end. We can count

1:04:03

on truth. We do need to have courage, though that's the prerequisite

1:04:05

for all of the other virtues. Seeing a lot of

1:04:07

young, courageous conservatives

1:04:10

in this room, seeing the strength of

1:04:12

Yaff so happy to see Governor

1:04:14

Scott Walker now officially a

1:04:17

president of Yaff. I think there's

1:04:19

been such a wonderful, a wonderful

1:04:22

decade upon decade upon decade here at Yeff,

1:04:24

and I think we only have so much more to

1:04:26

look forward to. Thank you also very

1:04:28

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