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CAPITOL SPIES Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep267
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Biden and the Democrats say that gerrymandering is a tool of racism and voter suppression.
That is, unless they're doing it.
Michelle Malkin will join me.
We're going to talk about how she and her husband were banned from using Airbnb.
I'm going to peek into the finances of Black Lives Matter, and I'm going to ask where all the money meant you'll be.
Well, you won't be that surprised.
Debbie will join me.
We're going to talk about how the Capitol Police is conducting secret investigations of Republicans in Congress.
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I want to talk about gerrymandering.
Now, gerrymandering has a very interesting history, which goes back to 1812.
There was a representative named Elbridge Gerry, and this was a guy who invented the practice of designing exotic-looking districts, very often districts that looked like a snake or a salamander.
And because this practice became controversial, the Boston Gazette described it using his name and using the idea of the salamander as a gerrymander.
Now, this is something that, of course, both parties do in states in which they have the majority.
They draw, since congressional elections, Districting is kind of a state process.
Within the state, they draw districts to favor themselves.
Now, recently, a court in North Carolina struck down the Republicans' redistricting or gerrymandering plan.
And here is Joe Biden quoting him.
Voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around.
So here is Biden celebrating the decision and implying that gerrymandering is somehow very undemocratic.
The Brennan Center, a liberal organization, has also said, quote, gerrymandering is deeply undemocratic.
And of course, we see time after time, people on CNN and MSNBC, gerrymandering is an attack on our democracy.
Now, When Biden made his statement, he's very careful to focus only on North Carolina.
And in fact, to continue quoting Biden, But what Biden failed to mention is that in New York...
They're doing exactly the same thing.
In New York, it's the Democrats that are doing gerrymandering.
Now, New York is losing population.
People are moving out of New York, and so New York has been losing a little bit in terms of congressional representation.
So what they're doing is, despite the loss of representation, they're trying to draw exotic districts in New York, salamander districts, if I can use that phrase.
They're trying, for example, to protect Jerry Nadler using gerrymandering.
There's a woman, a Republican, named Nicole Malliotakis.
I think that's how you say her name.
In any event, Malliotakis.
In any event, she beat Democrat Max Rose narrowly.
And so the Democrats are like, oh, we've got to help Max Rose win.
And so what they're doing is they've stretched out that district to include a very liberal area called Park Slope in Brooklyn.
This is supposed to help the Democrat retake that seat.
And so... The point here is that when it comes to Republican gerrymandering, the Democrats pull out all the stops.
Oh, this is voter suppression.
They're trying to draw districts to reduce the representation of minority voters.
And so on. But as I say, these crazy districts are drawn by Democrats.
And they're drawing it not just in New York, but also in Illinois.
Now, Republicans, by and large, are not as crafty as Democrats in the way they go about this.
And Trump has been outspoken about this.
In fact, he says, again, being kind of harsh on Mitch McConnell, he goes, while the Democrats are redistricting to their heart's content, he goes, quote, Mitch McConnell, yikes, sits back and does nothing.
So the idea here is the Republicans of the party of lassitude, they are not as energetic and creative as the Democrats in doing the redistricting.
Now, on a happier front, the U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that tried to prevent Republican gerrymandering in Alabama.
The Republicans had redrawn the Alabama districts in order to maximize Republican chances in Alabama, and a liberal court in Alabama goes, no way, we're striking down this district, went up to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that no, the Alabama redistricting is fine.
Now, interestingly, in that case, Justice Roberts votes with the liberals, so it's three liberals plus Roberts against the other five conservatives, and We're good to go.
There are no snake-like school districts.
By and large, you look where the school is.
You draw a kind of round circle or circumference around the school.
That's the school district. You could draw political districts that way, too.
And in that way, it would apply equally to Republicans and Democrats.
But the system we have now allows both parties, as they dominate particular states, to create gerrymandered districts.
And as long as they're doing it, I say we should be doing it, too.
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BLM, also known as Black Lives Matter, has been raising over the last couple of years a great deal of money.
And the question is, where does all that money go?
Now, this is not just a question that I'm asking or that conservatives are asking.
This is a question that's being asked by a lot of Black families that claim to be victims of police brutality who thought that the whole point of BLM was to raise money for them.
But now they're realizing that no, the whole point of BLM is not that at all.
The whole point of BLM is to make money for its organizers.
Recently, a local BLM guy...
Contacted the national BLM to see if they could help him out.
And it turns out they couldn't help him out because Patricia Kalors, one of the nominal leaders of BLM, was doing a corporate co-sponsorship with UGG. UGG is the, you know, UGG Boots, the California boot company.
And she's like, I'm too busy to come to your protest.
I'm actually going to be making some videos with UGG. To promote the product and demonstrate their solidarity with BLM. Patricia Colores is also busy with making book deals.
She has got a production deal with Warner Brothers.
The money here we're talking about is big.
The BLM group has raised more than $90 million since 2020.
And if you look at its...
It's finances. You discover that they've given, yeah, they've given $21 million in grants.
They've got $8 million in operating expenses.
But you know what? The other $60 million is in their coffers.
It's unaccounted for. And some of you know, BLM really started with the Ferguson, Missouri riots.
And interestingly, in Ferguson itself, you've got the...
You've got the parents of the Ferguson victims and also two women named Lisa Simpson and Samaria Rice.
Apparently their sons were also involved in some police violence.
They've realized that the money is not going to add to them, to any of them.
And so, they issued a statement, basically saying,"...stop capitalizing on the suffering of our family." Quoting them,"...we don't want or need you parading in the streets, accumulating donations, platforms, movie deals, off the debts of our loved ones, while the families and communities are left looless and broken.
Don't say our loved ones' names, period." So, this is pushback, again, significantly coming not from Breitbart or not from, you know, not coming from Tucker Carlson.
This is pushback coming from within the black community itself, from people who thought that they were going to be helped out by these efforts.
Now, interestingly, people like Calores and her colleagues, The sidekicks, a woman named Garza and Tometi, they say things like, well, you know, they say it's not us.
The media is doing it. We can't help what they do.
So their point appears to be that the media has created this phenomenon and the money is pouring in.
We didn't really ask for it, but we're getting it.
And so what are we going to do except spend it?
And you know, Patricia Colores has been acquiring some rather expensive and tony real estate, not exactly in the rundown neighborhoods that she claims to speak for.
Now, in an interesting expose in New York Magazine, New York Magazine of all places, very left-wing rag, but nevertheless, they talk about how this donation process works and the inside of it is really fascinating.
It turns out, BLM doesn't get the money directly.
They use another organization.
Well, initially, they used a group...
That was called Thousand Currents.
Thousand Currents would raise the money, and apparently Thousand Currents would keep a chunk of it for themselves, 15%.
So you raise a million dollars, $150,000 is siphoned off by Thousand Currents.
BLM realized, well, that's a rather hefty commission.
So they switched to another group, which is apparently connected to the Tides Foundation, another left-wing operation.
And Tides Foundation goes...
Well, we're a lot more economical.
We only keep 9%.
So, this is where charity money is often gobbled up by these intermediary organizations that become fat and rich off of the commissions.
The other thing that BLM has done, which I find fascinating, is that they've created a network of BLMs.
In other words, it's not just one BLM, give money to BLM. No.
They have the BLM Global Network Foundation, which is distinct from the BLM Global Network.
And that's distinct from BLM Grassroots.
And then there's BLM Political Action Committee.
And finally, there is BLM Support Fund.
So the point of all this is to be able to move money from one entity to the other to give money to camouflage the total amount of money that's coming into the BLM Network.
Why? Because each organization acts as if it's autonomous.
Each organization says, well, we only got $8 million.
We only got $4 million.
But when you add it all up, you actually get a giant number.
What you're seeing here is how social justice here pays really well.
And you see how people who essentially are complete losers, these are people who basically couldn't make a living in general, don't have a job, sometimes they've got spotty records, they've had trouble with the law, but nevertheless they decide, oh, you know what, I think I'll become a professional activist.
It's the Obama model.
I mean, Obama's a classic example.
Mediocre student, complete loser.
How he got into the Ivy League is itself a mystery.
His transcripts and his papers there have never been revealed.
So these are the kind of people who are really good at one thing.
They're good at fomenting public indignation and outrage.
They're very sly characters.
And they always keep their eye on the money.
They always make sure that even if they claim to be doing good, That out of this transaction, they're going to come off pretty well.
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Guys, I'm really happy to welcome to the podcast an old friend of mine and somebody I admire greatly, Michelle Malkin, a nationally syndicated columnist.
Michelle, thanks for coming on.
Delighted to have you.
If there's one word I would use to describe you, it is fearless.
You have proven to be someone who will take on tough issues, will not back down.
It's cost you dearly in some respects.
I know that the Young America's Foundation, for example, you and I were both regular speakers for YAF, and they sort of pulled the rug out from under you, which I think is atrocious.
But thanks for coming on, Michelle.
Let's talk for a moment, if we can, about how we first met.
Because you were a student.
You were dating a young man who invited me to come speak at Oberlin College.
And if I remember you from those days, you were actually very quiet and you were a little reserved.
And so to see your career blossom over the years and the boldness with which you speak, I mean, it's just been an amazing and a wonderful thing for me to see.
But talk a little bit about what you remember from your side about the time Dinesh first came to speak at Oberlin.
Well I'll never forget it and I think a lot of the career that I've had and certainly the boldness with which I've approached my career is your fault.
I was in Oberlin College a Berkeley of the Midwest in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and you had just come out with your terrific book, Illiberal Education, which highlighted so much of the liberal orthodoxies and excesses, particularly when it came to multiculturalism and separate dorms and all of this nonsense, the ditching of Western civilization requirements.
I don't have to tell you, you wrote the book!
And my husband, who then was my boyfriend, Jesse invited you to come and speak, and it was awesome.
Finney Chapel, all of the triggering that you did, not only of the students, but many of the faculty who stood up and hounded you, I remember it as clear as day.
And that really ignited my determination to speak for myself rather than allow All of these radical elites to appropriate my political identity and assume what I should think and believe based on my outward appearance and my gender and ethnic identity.
So, yeah. And so it's all been uphill or downhill from there.
I mean, Michelle, you've addressed the issues of reparations.
You've addressed the issue of immigration, both legal and illegal.
You've been called every name in the book, white supremacist.
I mean, for the left, I guess, these days, they don't even see the irony in calling someone like you a white supremacist and the stupidity of that.
Yeah. It's kind of, I guess, the idea that if you don't fit a template, you have to be a white supremacist.
Why else would you be saying the things that you are?
Talk a little bit about having to endure this kind of accusation, and then I want to talk to you about your latest experience with Airbnb.
Well, watching what happened early in your career and certainly the response to your first book and all of the slings and arrows that anyone who dips their toe in the public square and broaches these untouchable topics, these third-rail topics, A college campus, of course, you have to grow a very thick skin very quickly.
And with my own family history and immigrant parents, and particularly having a tiger mom, a fierce mountain lion mom, really, who did not indulge that kind of victimhood Olympics, it became sort of par for the course to deal with these types of ad hominem attacks.
And it's all they have.
It's all they have I've had for the last 30 years that I've been in public life and I think increasingly now we've moved from the idea that only a minority conservative can say things out loud to We're good to go.
Particularly when you look at all of the parents who've been emboldened to speak up against clearly, brazenly, poisonously anti-white critical race theory.
It's really just common sense and there's nothing scary or far right about the things that I have said my entire career and particularly the last couple of years.
I mean, I know that to be true.
Let's talk about this latest experience with Airbnb, because apparently they have banned not just you, but your husband.
I mean, it's bad enough that they would do it to you, but your husband has had a relatively low-key public career.
He's doing something else.
Talk a little bit about this, because I think the implications are pretty far-ranging and very disturbing.
Yes, that is what's disturbing.
Last November, I spoke to the American Renaissance Conference.
It's an annual conference that's held in Nashville, Tennessee on public property.
They actually had to engage in their own litigation in order to be able to speak there.
And this is a common theme of a lot of the places that I've chosen to speak at.
Dissident places where they've had to fight very hard to exercise their First Amendment rights.
And in fact, on that trip last fall, Dinesh, I paired a speech at American Renaissance with another speech in Baltimore in front of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
It was a protest on public property, and Church Militant, which held that protest, also had to sue the city of Baltimore, which was going to deny them a public permit that they had previously issued to them because they falsely smeared Church Militant as a violent hate group.
And you can see there's a common theme here.
Well, a week after both of these speeches, I received a notice from Airbnb's trust team.
And these are the people who really run the world, the trust and safety teams of all of these big companies.
And it informed me that not only my account was being deleted, but also my husband, specifically because, and people are kind of shocked when they see how brazen and specific they were, because, quote, I'm reading from the email.
It has come to our attention that you were a keynote speaker for the 2021 American Renaissance Conference earlier this month in Tennessee, and that this thus made me one of the people who are, quote, members of or actively associating with known hate groups promoting and participating in, quote, known white nationalist and white supremacist, unquote, activities.
These people didn't even bother to get A transcript or video of my actual speech to know what I actually said.
And that really wasn't the point, was it?
Because in banning my husband, who wasn't there, and as you mentioned, Dinesh has not been in the public eye really since college when it comes to his political activism.
He is somebody who's had a long career as an academic and an intellectual.
He was punished and of course, by extension, my entire family or anyone who is associated with me, whether or not they agree with my politics or not.
So it's basically guilt by association.
And moreover, is it groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center that go around classifying organizations?
This is a hate group.
That's a hate group. Anyone associated with this group?
And that's what sets these levers in motion?
I'm assuming Airbnb doesn't maintain its own list specifically.
Does it work in consort with left-wing organizations that demonize people like you and try to drive you out of public life?
That's exactly what is happening.
It's not a conspiracy theory.
It's a conspiracy truth.
Airbnb and the SPLC are open about how they've worked together on this.
I am not the canary in the cancel culture coal mine on this.
It's been happening for the last five years.
Airbnb unveiled its woke corporate initiative to eliminate so-called bias in its company and among its customers and clients.
And they We've specifically talked about working with left-wing organizations, not just the SPLC, which has issued its hate wash list for as long as we've been doing this, Dinesh.
When I came out with my book, Invasion in 2002, they put me on this hate list.
But they're also working with groups like Color of Change, you know them, the source-subsidized organization that does these types of hit campaigns for a living professionally, and Al Sharpton's National Action Network.
So it's these militant identity groups that are basically saying you can't participate in the public square.
You can't have access to a public accommodation and neither can your family because we don't like who you're talking to and it doesn't matter what exactly you said.
I mean, it's chilling, Michelle.
And I have to say that this kind of pressure, which is nothing more than an application of the Chinese social credit system.
You know, we think of it, we are living in a free society and there's a sharp distinction between America and some of these tyrannical countries.
But isn't it true that these tyrannical practices are being imported into America, and a normal person would be broken by them?
It takes an especially strong person to say, I'm going to persist in speaking out and doing what I'm doing, because most people just want to go through the hassle.
Yes, that's exactly right.
It's incredibly pernicious, and it's really difficult for me to put the human rights problem of Uyghurs in China or Hong Kong dissidents ahead of so many innocent, peaceful, law-abiding, America First dissidents who are experiencing the same,
if not worse, because we expect more from the beacon of freedom, the land of the free, the home of the brave America, You know, both of our families sacrificed a lot to get here, and it's essentially turned into both a third-world hellhole that is ruled by anarcho-tyranny, and that, of course, is the phrase that Sam Francis used, an attendee of the American Renaissance Conference.
Again, you and I might have differing views on this, but the point is, why should it matter?
I mean, so many of the people who have reluctantly come to my aid now and defense Dinesh were some of the very types of organizations that were throwing me under the bus just a couple of years ago.
And I do have to point this out.
It's very uncomfortable because it can't just be the left and leftist organizations that have engineered the social credit system.
It is the capitulation and the Cooperation of many elite GOP groups that want to eliminate the competition on the right as well.
And it has been unfortunately upsetting to me, Dinesh, that more elite conservatives are willing to come to the aid of Hollywood liberals like Joe Rogan than people who are to the right of them on cultural issues and on my keystone issue, immigration. Wow.
Michelle, thank you so much for coming on.
This is very disturbing, and I really appreciate the work that you're doing and your bravery.
Keep doing it, and don't let them get you down.
Thank you. They'll never let me get let me down, and we are fighting it.
I've got a fundly.com campaign at Michelle Fights Airbnb.
I wouldn't take it on if I didn't think it was worth fighting, and top-flight First Amendment lawyers tell me that this is a very strong case, not just about me, not just about Airbnb.
As you mentioned, the slippery slope is already here, and we've got to burn that slope down.
That's awesome. Go get it, Michelle.
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We want to talk a little bit about something that affects a friend of ours, someone who's been on the podcast, Congressman Troy Nels, Fort Penn County, Texas.
And he was on all over Twitter yesterday reporting something quite disturbing.
Well, he's District 22 Congressman.
It's not just Fort Bend County.
I think it encompasses other counties, not just Fort Bend.
He was the Fort Bend Sheriff of just Fort Bend, but he's a Congressman for more than just Fort Bend.
So he reports, Troy does, that the Capitol Police Intelligence Division investigated his office illegally, and one of his staffers caught him in the act.
Evidently, what happened is, this was November 20th, 2021, they entered his office without his knowledge, photographed all kinds of legislative diagrams and materials that were in the office, and Troy Nels goes, this is all protected under the Constitution,
Article 1, Section 6, and he goes, two days later, We're good to go.
Troy Nelves goes, Capitol Police has never informed me or my staff about the reasons for this investigation.
And he goes, and this is, I think, the bottom line, maybe it's because I've been a vocal critic of Speaker Pelosi, the January 6th Committee, and the Capitol Police.
Now, the Capitol Police put out a statement.
Do you want to talk about that?
Right. So, I don't know how you say his name, Chief Tom Manger or Manger.
Anyway, he basically says no case investigation was ever initiated or conducted into the representative or his staff.
So he's denying the allegations.
He acts like the office was just left open and unsecured.
So he goes, you know, it's our job to look after these offices.
And he said, our only mission was to, quote, secure the office.
But I think there are several anomalous elements here.
First of all, if you're securing the office, okay, lock the door.
Why would they be taking photos of all the legislative materials in the office?
And that's the first thing that caught my eye.
What do you think? Yeah.
Well, I mean, Troy's complaint is exactly that.
Like, what were you doing in there taking photos?
And then he also talked about some of them being dressed as construction workers, right?
Well, that's the second point there.
Yeah. And so he's like, why would they have to do that if they were doing something that was, like, legitimate?
Yeah. Well, it's almost like they're pretending like they're repairing the office, you know, so that anyone passing by wouldn't worry.
But that in and of itself looks suspicious.
I mean, you know, if you're going to go in there and you're going to do a legitimate whatever search, which they really had no right to do...
Then go dressed as Capitol Police.
Don't pretend you're somebody else.
I mean, that's... Honey, here's our friend Louie Gohmert.
This is a congressman from Tyler, Texas.
And Louie makes reference to what happened to Troy Nels.
But he also goes, he says this.
In January, my staff received a letter from a Christian missionary, which was already opened and stamped DOJ mailroom.
And he says, and also x-rayed on the stamp.
And so, obviously, what he's getting at is that the DOJ is intercepting mail intended for a congressman and evidently reading it.
And then he goes on to say, the Supreme Court has made it clear that the Department of Justice cannot use even a search warrant to search a representative's mail and office.
So what Gohmert is saying is that this is a complete violation of separation of powers.
And I think this is a broader phenomenon we're dealing with here.
Here's an article in Politico.
This article came out a little while ago, but here's the title.
Capital Police examines backgrounds, social media feeds of some who meet with lawmakers.
So this is after January 6th.
Right. So a constituent has no right now to talk to their representative without some kind of...
They start checking you out.
Even though you have no criminal record.
That's very, very troubling.
Very troubling that we're going through this.
I mean, you are now vulnerable to a background check.
Possibly, you know, there's this kind of a criminal record.
Is he on probation?
And all of this is sanctioned.
Now, what I'm happy to say is that the Inspector General for the Capitol Police is evidently investigating.
Good. And that's necessary.
Good. They should. Now, I have to say, with Troy, Troy was there.
He, in fact, has a photo.
I wish I could show that photo, but he has a photo of himself during the whole raid, or whatever you want to call it.
And the police officer that shot Ashley Babbitt was actually mishandling his weapon and Troy was like, it was pointed straight at me.
And so Troy has been very vocal about this police officer saying that he did not use the rules of engagement when it comes to, you know, shooting an intruder or someone that is violent.
And so, Troy laid down all of the steps that you're supposed to go.
I think five steps that you're supposed to take before shooting a weapon at somebody.
And so, he's been very vocal about this.
And he's worried that that is what is basically getting him, you know...
And he has a lot of credibility, right?
He was the constable. He was the sheriff.
So here's a guy who knows the rules of engagement.
And I think he's become a thorn in the side of the January 6th people and Pelosi.
And so this could be, let's check this guy out.
I remember, you know, he was going to serve on the committee and then he pulled out.
So that too is probably sending Nancy Pelosi a bit of a...
Of a red flag and saying, we got to check this guy out because he could be dangerous.
Now I saw this morning Troy put out a statement where he basically said, look, if there's some investigation going on and if these so-called construction worker undercover cops wanted to ask my staffer about this picture that they took earlier, he's like, release the picture.
Let's see the photo you took that you were asking about, and let's examine whether this is part of a valid investigation.
I think the implication is it's clearly not.
These are people snooping around trying to get information on Troy, maybe supplied to Pelosi.
Let's remember the Capitol Police are basically goons at the behest of Pelosi.
They're almost like her private militia at this point.
And again, you know, if the Republicans take the Congress, it seems to me, And by retaliation here, I just mean investigation and expose of wrongdoing and punishment of wrongdoing is an absolute imperative.
If Republicans do not do this, Democrats will conclude these guys are weak.
We can keep doing this kind of stuff.
We'll never be held accountable. And their behavior is that very fitting of a third world country.
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Feel the difference. The movement of Latinos and Hispanics toward the Republican Party is being led by women.
There's a very interesting article here in Politico, and it talks about how Hispanic women are now party chairs in the state's four southernmost border counties.
This is all territory that you know extremely well, spanning a distance from Brownsville to Laredo, places where Trump made big inroads.
A half dozen of them are running for the state's four House districts that border Mexico, including Monica de la Cruz, who I'm going to bring on to this podcast.
She's the GOP frontrunner in one of the most competitive seats in the Rio Grande Valley.
Now, here is an interesting quote, honey, I want you to sort of sound off on.
This is Claudia Alcazar, chairwoman of the Starr County Republican Party, and here's what she says.
She goes, I used to be a Democrat.
My family are all Democrats.
And she goes, after she discussed politics with a high school friend who was running for mayor, She goes, we went down a list of all my beliefs and at the end I was like, oh my god, I'm a Republican.
I just didn't know it.
And then she says, I was so used to being told and seeing myself as a Democrat, it's like being used to drinking Coca-Cola and then one day you taste Dr.
Pepper and you're like, wow, I really like this one.
I truly shocked myself.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I mean, as you know, that's what happened to me when I met Ronald Reagan.
And he said that, you know, Latinos are Republican, they just don't know it.
And, you know, I was talking to my mom this morning about my grandma and how straight-laced she was, and she was a Democrat, and she would be horrified if she knew what she was supporting.
And, you know, and I told her, I said, well, I don't know if Democrats have really changed their stripes.
They're just really good at fooling people into believing something.
And, of course, they want to remain in power, so they'll tell you just about anything you want, you want to hear.
And my grandma really thought that the Democrats were for the poor and that they cared about the poor.
But what she didn't really realize is that, yeah, sure, they were for the poor and keeping you poor and poorer.
She didn't realize that.
Not to mention the cultural depravity.
I think in your grandma's time, you told me that she used to have a picture of Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter.
Yeah, she had a little plate in the kitchen, Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn.
Yeah.
And I suspect that, you know, of course, Jimmy Carter was pretty straight-laced in his personal life.
And, in fact, he thought it was, you know, remember the Playboy interview where, you know, confessing lust in his heart was kind of a big thing for him to do.
So, I think your grandmother...
Grandma probably thought, you know, he's an evangelical Christian.
Right, that's exactly what she thought.
But if she knew the kind of cultural depravity that's being promoted by the left.
Oh, she would be horrified.
But it really is great that these, as you know, back in 2009, I actually came up with this conservative Latina page on Facebook, and I had very few likes.
I mean, I had maybe 3,000, 4,000 likes.
I thought it was great, but, you know, compared to your likes, 2 million, I mean, that doesn't compare.
But I did get a lot of traction, and people were really interested to know what a conservative Latina thought or believed.
And in fact, there's this one publication called Being Latino.
Very, very large group on Facebook.
I think they had like 2 or 3 million followers.
And they attacked my page.
And they had all these people attacking me personally and just being super vicious.
It really scared me.
And I kind of stopped posting.
And they did intimidate me quite a bit.
But my point is that they...
Don't like other Latinos to know the truth.
They really don't. These are liberals that are very content in being the elites and being socialists.
And they just don't like it when other people in their ethnic group realize...
You know why? It's because they want to claim we speak for Latinos.
They want to monopolize the Latino perspective.
And so you become a threat because you're credible...
You're 100% Latino on both sides of your family.
You speak Spanish probably better than they do.
And you're articulating a conservative message, but anchored in the traditional values in which you were raised.
Right, right, right.
And so I love the valley.
You know, I have always said, my dream is to turn the valley red.
That's always been my dream because I knew that Hispanics were conservative people.
And I knew that the party that they voted for was the party that did not align with their values.
And so I am so happy that women especially are taking the lead in the valley.
Go for it. I mean, just go for it.
I love it. Look at some of the issues they talk about.
They say, we want border security.
We're against abortion.
Our family members and neighbors and friends are border patrol agents or they're in law enforcement.
They're being demonized. The Democrats are hostile to the oil and gas industry.
The left is forgetting family values and the value of work.
So basically what you have here is that progressive values are inconsistent with what most Latinos believe.
And this message, regardless of what that Latino website was trying to do, suppress this truth, it's now out.
And I think we're going to see.
I think it's going to be unstoppable.
It's going to be unstoppable. And the Republican Party, by the way, is getting smart.
They've opened, by the way, a whole bunch of field offices in the Rio Grande Valley.
I was delighted to see this.
Look, this is Flores, a woman named Flores.
People here just never had Republicans knocking on their doors and calling them the way we did.
The majority of us are women that did it then and are doing it now because we feel it's our responsibility to keep the American dream alive.
And that's what you're trying to do.
I get really emotional because I have seen the way that people are treated down there.
And if you would just go down there and take a look for yourself, the valley looks like it did in 1980.
I graduated in Harlingen High School in 1984.
And the mall that opened up in the valley in 1984 is now closed.
It's horrible. We've got to get Republicans down there, and we've got to get Republicans to win these offices so that we can bring the valley to the future.
I'm going to close on a lighter note.
A fellow that we know has been running as a Republican for Congress down in Harlingen, he gets about...
40% of the vote.
Pretty credible, but he should be getting over 50%.
And he was like, Dinesh, can you guys, you and Debbie, come up with a slogan that could maybe help me put myself over the top?
And I go, yeah, I have an idea for you.
How about this slogan? Bring Harlingen into the 1990s.
And so this plays into Debbie's idea.
It's so far behind the times that bringing it into the 1990s would represent progress.
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I want to talk about the continuing woes of Facebook which has now changed its name to Meta.
The latest development is that Mark Zuckerberg is now threatening to close down Facebook in all of Europe.
What? Well, it's a threat.
I don't think it's a very credible threat.
I don't think he's actually going to do it.
But let's look at what this controversy is all about.
Apparently, the Europeans have started passing a raft of privacy laws.
And the privacy laws say, quite simply, that Facebook can process data that it gets from its users or from its customers.
That data has to be processed locally.
In other words, it has to be processed in Europe.
It cannot be dispatched to the United States or sent all over the world and put into some central supercomputer.
And this is basically how Facebook operates.
Facebook, in a sense, consolidates all the data.
And this is their business.
This is why they are such a valuable company.
This is how they have been able to demonstrate meteoric rates of growth.
Their stock has gone up tremendously in value.
They're essentially a data mining and data selling operation.
And the Europeans are putting a kind of wedge or spike into that by saying, look, in order to protect the privacy of Europeans, let's keep the data in Europe.
I mean, it's a very modest step, but the Europeans are very emphatic that that has to be the case.
And Meta has basically said in a recent statement that they will have to stop Facebook or providing Facebook services in Europe unless these data rules are softened.
I think it's a negotiating tactic.
Facebook makes a lot of money in Europe.
It's very profitable for them.
And, of course, Europe contributes a pretty big number to Facebook's overall number of users.
So I don't think it's realistic that Facebook is going to really pull the rug out.
And, of course, that means that their threat is not all that credible either.
Now, this latest Facebook problem comes on the top of its other woes.
A much more significant problem for Facebook is that it stopped growing.
Yep. Facebook, which had been growing at a breakneck pace.
And of course, the value of Facebook is based on these projected rates of growth.
You know, they're at 20 million.
The next year, they'll be at 40 million.
The next year, they'll be at 80 million.
And suddenly, for the first time in Facebook's 18-year history, its growth numbers are flat.
They're Basically zero.
And Facebook shares in a one-day plunge dropped 22%.
Now, of course, Zuckerberg has said, well, that's because of rivals like TikTok.
And sure, they're going to be now rivals popping in, providing competition.
Younger people are less attracted to Facebook.
They prefer these newer platforms and newer apps.
And I think this is all good news.
We don't need digital monopolies, particularly monopolies that practice vicious forms of censorship, ruthless forms of labeling that are actually a form of mislabeling.
So they have fact-checkers that are really bogus.
They're not real fact-checkers.
They're left-wing academics that are posing as fact-checkers.
And so Facebook is a thoroughly corrupt operation from top to bottom.
And by and large, any reversal for Facebook, any setback for Facebook is a gain for the rest of us.
I want to talk about the diversity racket.
The diversity racket is essentially capitalizing on your race or your gender, your sexual orientation, these kind of accidental features in order to claim advantage, in order to push yourself to the front of the line.
But interestingly, the diversity scam sometimes involves white people.
And it doesn't just involve white people masquerading as blacks.
You've had some of that. Rachel Dolezal comes to mind.
But I want to talk about how you can play the diversity game, even as a white person, and it is no less corrupt and it is no less of a racket.
There's a young woman named Mackenzie Fearson.
Who was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania.
The University of Pennsylvania, most people don't know, is an Ivy League school.
It sounds kind of like it's a state school, but it is the eighth of the Ivy League schools, UPenn.
It's a private school. And a good school.
And so here's Mackenzie Fearson, and at UPenn, she gets in, and she also applies later for a Rhodes Scholarship, and she is given, she's selected, she's given the Rhodes.
Now it turns out that in her college essay to UPenn, as well as in her Rhodes essay, she portrayed herself as somebody who was a first generation in her family to go to college.
She portrayed herself as coming from a lower income background, so she's a poor white kid, first in her family to go to college, and she said she had been subjected to enormous So she gave a rather, riveting account of being in a hospital bed with a feeding tube in her mouth.
She says her blonde hair was caked with dried blood. She said there were braces stabilizing most of her body. She could not smile. One eye was closed. And then she says, quote, the one who almost killed me, that one is my mother.
She broke me.
So this is a heart-wrenching account of domestic violence and abuse.
And of course, this was intended to wow the admissions committee and the Rhodes Scholarship Committee to say, wow, not only is this kid from a poor family, from first in her She's been subjected to all this domestic trauma.
So you can see here that even though Mackenzie Fearson is white, she is playing the victim card left and right, to the max.
And the interesting thing is that...
Very little of this appears to be true.
So I don't know how the University of Pennsylvania found this out, but someone must have reported it.
Maybe someone from her own community said, you know, look into this.
This is a little bit suspicious.
And so, UPenn conducted some detailed interviews, including with her mother.
Well, it turns out that there was apparently a skirmish between Mackenzie and her mom, but her mom says it had nothing to do.
Her mom says, I didn't do anything to Mackenzie.
Mackenzie claimed that her mom pushed her down the stairs and attacked her.
And her mom basically says that there was an accident in which Mackenzie slipped, but she was unharmed, and evidently then UPenn goes to the hospital, and they start asking questions.
They go, was this woman's hair caked with blood?
The hospital goes, there's no record of that.
Did she require a, quote, army of nurses?
Apparently not. Did she have braces to stabilize her body?
No. So, in other words, all these terrible injuries.
She apparently at one time claimed that she needed oxygen to be resuscitated because she could not breathe.
Turns out she was not given any resuscitation.
So, it appears, exaggeration upon exaggeration, lie upon lie.
And she had no broken bones.
And so even though she did check into the hospital, looking at the hospital reports, it appears that the reason she checked in was because she was suffering, she says, kind of a psychological trauma.
I was traumatized by this incident with my mom.
Now, not to minimize the incident, but I'm simply saying that the riveting factual account, the kind of emotionally eye-catching aspects of the essay appear to have been fabricated.
And that's exactly what Penn says.
They say essentially that she constructed a narrative.
A narrative.
Her mom, it turns out, is not somebody who is broke or bankrupt or on welfare.
Her mom is a radiologist.
Her mom is a radiologist.
It also turns out her grandfather went to college.
So A, she's not, at least was not consistently through her upbringing, a low-income person.
Apparently at one point she was in foster care.
So I would obviously classify that as a low-income phase of her life.
But what I'm getting at is she portrayed her whole life As being one of poverty and impoverishment.
And then second, she was not, in fact, the first person in her family to go to college.
So, what does UPenn do?
They go, well, we're obligated to tell the Rhodes Committee.
The Rhodes Committee conducts its own investigation and concludes, yeah!
Basically, the kid has been lying.
The kid has been making this up.
The kid has been laying it on thick.
Why? To enter the victimology racket.
To be able to compete, I guess, with other kind of affirmative action types who are also claiming their own types of victimization.
So, what you have here is, and this is the point I want to get at, a kind of victim's Olympics in which your accomplishments have nothing to do with what you did.
I guess here the implication is, I overcame all this hardship.
But, of course, the emphasis is on the hardship, which is made up, and not on the overcoming.
And then, sure enough, and very predictably, once the whole thing is exposed, this young woman withdraws from the Rhodes Scholarship.
I think they were going to cancel her prize anyway.
I believe she's still enrolled at Penn, although that's a little bit precarious.
And then what does she do when all of this comes out?
She plays the victim card again.
Quote, It's horrible to be disbelieved over and over again by the people with the most power.
And that word power, that's the giveaway.
This is the kind of left-wing boilerplate that people use.
Oh, I'm a victim.
The powerful are out to get me.
And look, people have hard lives.
Most people have...
Uncount or some sort of difficulty in their lives.
And this is sometimes true for people from whatever race, whatever socioeconomic background.
And this is why colleges do well to focus on achievement, to focus on merit.
Yeah, merit, keeping your circumstances into account.
But once you turn victimhood itself into a credential, you begin to get scam artists coming out of the woodwork like Mackenzie Fearson.
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