Glenn Beck's team dissects the politics behind Trump's indictment, arguing Judge Aileen Cannon remains neutral while the left hypocritically attacks her. They condemn White House Pride Month displays as protocol violations and criticize California's new child abuse laws for punishing non-affirming parents. The discussion highlights corporate capitulation to Satanism via Target and Bud Light, mocks Anthony Bass's firing over a specific anti-Satanist post, and identifies Utah Senator Mitt Romney as the top priority for a 2024 Republican primary challenge due to his moderate record. Ultimately, the episode frames these events as evidence of a coordinated left-wing agenda seeking to control language, silence dissent, and reshape American institutions through cultural and legal overreach. [Automatically generated summary]
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I think you'll be proud to be an American when we share what happened over the weekend.
Really, really?
Stuff at the White House?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think you'll be.
Well, it's Pride Month, and so it's appropriate.
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Over the weekend, there was a bunch of pride events, and the White House was celebrating and couldn't have been prouder, I guess.
In fact, on the White House was displayed the pride flag prominently, if we could show that more prominently than the American flag.
Yeah, it was in the middle.
It was in the middle.
In the middle was the pride flag.
On the outside were the American flags, which is against the code.
The code says, now it does say on a staff that the U.S. flag has to be in the middle and higher than the flags on either side, than the state flags or the locality flags or whatever organization flag you have.
And so this was a clear violation of that.
But I'm sure they'll just say, well, that's not on a staff.
Okay.
You just draped it over a railing, and I guess you called it good because you got the pride flag in the middle, which is not supposed to happen.
No.
Look, sometimes this stuff just happens.
Sometimes I think they're just intentionally gaslighting.
And that had to be what this was.
I mean, they know.
Of course, they realize that half the country is going to be angered at the idea that you put the pride flag in the middle as if it's the real focus, and then the American flag on the sides as if it's some little sideshow.
Yeah.
I mean, come on.
Yeah.
And when you complain about it, they'll call you a hater.
I know.
And a xenophobe and a hobophobe and a transphobe.
Because you see it, and of course, you're annoyed by it.
But then, in addition, like, I don't want to give them the satisfaction of the reaction that they want, which is they clearly are trying to get people to get angry about this.
It's blatantly obvious what they're doing here.
Well, it worked in my case.
It worked in my case, too.
I mean, I just hate to give them what they want.
I know.
It's just silly.
I mean, look, you can obviously do the things they say they want to do, right?
The things they say they want to do is to give equal rights to people, which every conservative agrees with.
Everyone deserves equal, not equity rights, but equal rights.
Everybody wants that.
You can do that.
You can treat people fairly.
You can treat people with respect.
You can treat people with empathy.
You can treat people with all the things they say that they actually want to treat people with without being this completely ridiculous.
You do not need to go this over the top.
You do not need to be, you do not need to displace the American flag to do it.
Although, I don't know.
The way they act, maybe you do.
You do, maybe you do have to upend every foundation of this country to attempt to accomplish what they're doing.
And that shows you what they're doing is maybe not central to what the formation of the country was designed to do.
And what was it that Michelle said years ago?
Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices.
We're going to have to change our conversation.
We're going to have to change our traditions, our history to move into a different place.
Man, if they haven't accomplished that, I don't know what has been accomplished at any time, anywhere, because that is done.
That's such a great point because we were all called, you know, fearmongers and conspiracy theorists.
And why are you playing that?
She just was making a speech.
And that's no big deal.
But that is exactly what they were trying to do and exactly what they've accomplished.
Yeah.
I think faster and more stunningly than anybody could have ever foreseen.
Yeah.
I mean, as you're watching the Ben Franklin statue come down in the town square to tell me they didn't try to actually do this.
Oh, man.
I mean, even people who were hardcore abolitionists had their statues torn down.
Abraham Lincoln.
Yeah.
Yes.
You know, the guy was kind of known for his anti-slavery stances.
You know, it's a notable part of his backs.
Somewhat notable.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Although when you talk Abraham Lincoln, the first thing they'll jump on is, I wasn't about slavery.
The Civil War was never about slash, shut up.
It eventually was.
And it didn't start out maybe that way.
He wanted to save the union, which, you know, drag him outside and beat him with clubs for that.
He wanted to save the union.
What a horrible thing.
No wonder the left hates him today.
I know.
He wanted to save the union.
I know.
No wonder.
But he had a big conversion during his presidency.
Huge.
That he was so committed to ending slavery that despite all of his cabinet, all of his advisors, everybody telling him, don't do the Emancipation Proclamation.
You can't do that right now.
Let's just win the war first and then we'll worry about it.
He wouldn't.
He wouldn't wait.
He was so committed to it that he went against everybody and went ahead and freed the slaves.
I don't want to hear, hey, we should bat slavery.
Plus, he made many speeches before, during, and around his presidency, where he was anti-slavery.
He was anti-slavery, I believe, his whole life.
Just more so at one point in his life during his presidency than any other time.
But this president.
Real quick on this one.
They will overlook.
All sorts of terrible things, legitimate genocides they will overlook to praise their own left-wing characters in history.
They'll justify Mao.
They'll justify Pol Pot.
They'll justify Stalin.
They'll justify almost anyone when they, I mean, go to Margaret Sanger.
Oh, my God.
They'll justify anything that woman did to praise her for letting women abort their children.
Yep.
Right?
Like, they don't, they never care about this nuance when it's on their side.
When it's talking about someone who, you know, fought the Civil War and saved, you know, freed the slaves, all of a sudden they're all this nuanced historic.
But I don't buy that at all.
They don't care about that.
They want to tear it all down.
They don't.
Yeah.
You know, and that's the central thing they're doing here.
And like, you know, you watch this this weekend.
They have no shame.
There's no shame in what they're doing.
They, they want this country.
They're ashamed of the nation, if there's any shame that's involved.
They're ashamed of it.
They're ashamed of what it became.
And you get that tone exactly out of the Michelle Obama stuff there.
That's what she's expressing.
We have to change this stuff because we should be ashamed of our history.
Instead of just saying, hey, this has been an overwhelmingly positive thing we've done here.
There's been some sidesteps, some missteps here and there.
We can acknowledge those, of course.
It's important to do.
So we don't repeat them.
Right.
You know, for example, like I think one of the things that we absolutely should acknowledge is we should not make decisions based on skin color.
That's never been a good outcome for any society, which is why I oppose them doing it now.
This is why I find there to be a problem with their entire philosophy, which is now make decisions based on skin color.
That's why I oppose it.
We've gone down that road.
It's a terrible idea.
It works out awfully every single time it's attempted.
Okay, well, what if we make decisions based on somebody's sexual preference?
What if we do that?
No.
No.
Equal rights.
Weird.
Give people equal rights.
Don't make decisions based on their sexual preference.
That's, I don't know, a pretty baseline thing that I really did at one point think we at least said we believed in.
I don't know that everyone hit that standard, but it's hard to hit that standard for many.
But like we'd all say we wanted it.
Like the utopia was colorblind.
Now colorblind is a bad thing to say.
You can't even bring it up.
That is a massive change in our society.
And again, that's all pretty much since Barack Obama, I would argue.
Yes, you know, critical race theory certainly precedes Barack Obama, but for that idea being mainstreamed, it does seem like that all came along since Barack and Michelle decided they wanted to change our traditions in our history.
Yeah.
And successfully did so.
And Biden, but Biden is really finishing the job, I think.
He had a nice speech over the weekend where he talked about gay marriage, cut seven.
Here's what he had to say.
As commander-in-chief, I was proud to have ended the ban on transgester Americans.
What?
Transgender Americans.
Stop.
What was that sentence?
What were any of those words?
I didn't, those were, none of those were English words.
I mean, that was just a big, he took a bunch of letters and threw them in a blender, is what that was.
I guess.
Think of how he mispronounces six of eight words there.
At least.
I played again.
Let's see how many.
Because he definitely calls transgender transgester.
Yeah, listen to transgender.
I'm ridiculous.
That's a great one.
As commander-in-chief, I was proud to have ended the ban on transgester Americans.
Transgender Americans serving in the United States military.
Those transgesters.
He ended the ban on him.
He legitimately just butchers seven or eight syllables in a row.
I mean, he really just misses all of them.
What did he even say?
I'm sorry, Pat.
I missed the whole context of this play.
I have no idea what he's trying to say there.
He ended a ban on...
What ban?
Was there a ban on transgesters?
No, there was.
You know, Pat, I don't want to, look, I hesitate to say this because I know we're on national radio right now, but I support a transgester ban.
You do?
Yes.
I don't think we should ever come up with what a transgester is.
If society tries to create something that fits that trans, I mean, what is that?
Someone who has transitioned into being a court jester?
Or are you transitioning away from being a court jester?
Either way.
I don't know.
I think if you're a court jester, you should remain a court jester.
And if you're a normal average citizen, you should not be able to become a court jester.
That's my stance.
And I know it's hateful in this day and age.
It's a good safety tip, though.
I like that.
Transgester.
What is it with this guy?
Like, well, he's got a stutter.
Remember that was the pitch for a while.
He's got a stutter.
Now it's, they came up with this other thing that my, and this is even better, I got to say, from, from the campaign.
And of course, the White House, they'll just run whatever the White House says, they'll just run it in like the New York Times as if it's true.
Their new one is, we know whenever you see him, he does this.
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We know whenever you see him, he bumbles over every word.
He's completely incoherent.
You can't understand him.
He's awful.
But what you don't understand is every time you can't see him, he's incredible.
Yeah, behind the scenes.
Behind the scenes, this guy's in.
So sharp.
So sharp.
Sharp as a tack.
They all say it.
It's become a bit of a mantra.
He's as sharp as attack.
That's a mantra.
People, Pat, are standing around the White House having conversations around the water cool.
You know what I noticed today?
Joe Biden is sharp as tack.
He's a bumbling fool in front of people when there are cameras around, a complete and utter disgrace as a president that you've probably noticed.
But when you can't see him, he's basically like Stephen Hawking in his prime.
Like every single word, he knows everything.
Everything he says is perfect.
He never has to restate something because he called them transgesters.
That doesn't happen behind the scenes.
He's perfect there.
The only place we can't provide any evidence.
Isn't that so unfortunate for us?
We can't provide evidence of his perfection because it's behind closed doors, Pat.
That is what they should do is start recording all of the closed door meetings.
That's classified.
Those are classified meetings, unfortunately.
We're so close.
We are so close.
I thought we came up with a solution there to show his genius, but I guess not.
Yeah, so that's the transgester ban.
We'll get to what he had to say about marriage coming up in one minute.
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All right, so...
He had something else to say about the pride weekend and he focused on on marriage, and here's what he said, when a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of the restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, something is still very wrong in America.
You know how how often that happens.
Well, oh yeah, the when you're married in the morning and then you go to the restaurant.
For some reason, you're going to a restaurant after your marriage and you had a morning marriage, which is weird.
And then in the afternoon uh, you've gone to uh, hard Applebee's Hardy's, whatever and you're getting and you're thrown out of that restaurant.
Right, I mean, I would say this happens to 85 of gay people.
85 of gay people who go through marriages wind up getting thrown out of a restaurant later that day.
That sanity yeah, it's too many, too many.
It is.
That is too many.
It should be around 25 or 30 percent.
It's so stupid.
The number is 0 percent, by the way.
Right, 0 percent.
This doesn't happen.
I would say.
I mean I, I just illegal.
By the way, it would be illegal, illegal to do that.
You can't throw gay people out of restaurants because they're gay.
Yeah, where is that happening?
Give me one example of it.
Right, I would say I don't know, let's say, the last decade, there have been zero examples of what he's just talked about.
Right, a morning marriage directly into getting thrown out of a restaurant because you're gay, I don't think that's ever happened.
I don't know, maybe you know it, probably.
I would say this probably never happened in our nation's history.
Right, you're probably right.
And I would say, first of all, for a long time you couldn't get married to someone of the same sex right right, since that's been allowed we're only talking about, basically a decade, a little bit longer, if you want to call it civil unions and in that time, I would just be very surprised if like, 7 a.m they're taking nuptials okay, and then two in the afternoon get out, get thrown out of this restaurant.
I mean, most people go on a honeymoon.
Maybe if they went on a honeymoon to one of the hundred countries that banned gay, gay marriage completely, maybe that's the problem, maybe they went to like, Nigeria and they were like, get out of the right.
Yeah, maybe that's what happened.
I don't know, i'm gonna say it's never happened.
I'm just gonna go out on a limb me too.
You're gonna have to, you're gonna have to prove that one to me uh, but if it has happened, it's happened very infrequently, patiently.
People don't schedule morning weddings.
Very often They don't.
No, they don't.
And then secondarily, especially one that would be followed by a lunch at a restaurant, right?
Because you'd think you'd have a reception, right?
So your reception, you're having like a breakfast buffet in this scenario, I guess.
You're getting pancakes and bagels.
So you're getting, you get married at 7 a.m., goes to 8, an 8 a.m. breakfast buffet for everyone who's in the wedding party and the guests.
Right.
Then you're starving.
Dancing again at like 10?
Yeah.
I mean, it seems really unlikely.
That's how you work up the appetite for the afternoon meal where you go to the restaurant.
And at like 12:30, you're at, you know, you're at Fud Ruckers and they're throwing you out.
This is really, whatever world he's talking about here is a terrible world.
It is.
I will say.
It is.
We don't live in that world, but apparently he does.
So, oh my gosh.
Come on.
It's agonizing, isn't it?
Stop with this.
I mean, it's really infuriating.
And they act as if, like, it's like they act as if, you know, I don't know, protesting Bud Light because you don't like their ad campaign or protesting Target is like the equivalent of the Holocaust.
It's like, look, you are basically calling Christians and the things they believe on the carpet and telling them that they're not allowed to believe them publicly anymore.
Right.
Like, and like, you might think that's the right thing to do.
I would disagree with that analysis, but like to act as if it's this, you know, cataclysmic, you know, war.
It's like ridiculous.
There has never been a better time to be LGBTQQIA2 plus ever.
Are you kidding?
All we're doing is celebrating them.
We're celebrating it and promoting it this whole month.
A month.
And then as we talked about, on Friday, there's a, you know, a hundred other days during the course of the year where you celebrate it again because it's some special LGBTQQIA2 plus day.
You're right.
There's never been a better time.
But there's still something wrong in America when you can get married in the morning, get thrown out of a restaurant in the afternoon.
Maybe the manager of that restaurant just wants you to be on your honeymoon.
He's like, guys, what are you doing?
You still wearing your wedding clothes.
Don't you have a cruise to get to or something?
Come on.
Get out of here.
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CNN's still reporting the White House is completely silent on the Trump investigation.
Oh, it's understandable, Pat.
Yeah, because they had nothing to do with this.
Nothing.
Completely, completely devoid of any involvement.
Well, but that's not even enough because you and I have nothing to do with it, right?
We're not in the Dust Justice Department.
It's more than that.
They were completely unaware that it was going on.
It came as a shock.
They found out the same way you and I did, Pat.
In the news.
These things just come out by people that they've appointed.
And there's just so locked down that, you know, Merrick Garland doesn't know anything about it.
Probably he doesn't.
He certainly didn't tell anything to Joe Biden.
Well, there's definitely no way to communicate that.
No.
So they just were like constantly taken by surprise.
These things are going on that happen to completely align with all of the things they want to happen in the world.
Right.
Which is just what a great, I mean, that's just great, you know?
Isn't it?
It's just wonderful.
They just, every time they need something to happen, the people they've hired automatically do it totally without them knowing.
You know, and that's without a word being exchanged between the agencies.
It's just great that, you know, they are that ethical.
They don't.
See, I think Joe Biden didn't even want to know about this.
That's how buttoned up all of this is because he didn't want this to be any sort of political arrangement at all, some sort of political prosecution.
So I'm sure that when he got wind that any of this was even a possibility, he said, look, I don't want to hear about it.
I don't want to hear about it.
Don't even walk down the hall and tell me it's on the way.
Don't even do that.
I'll find out on the news, just like the rest of America.
It's really great that he has that sort of discipline, you know?
Yeah.
Because people might, and this would be wrong, of course, but people might think that the ability for a president to try to destroy his lead opponent would be questionable, right?
Like maybe they would think that's controversial.
Maybe they would think some of those activities were ill-advised for the benefit of the foundation of the country.
Right.
And those people would be wrong because, of course, we know Joe Biden knew nothing about this.
Nothing.
Well, they said it.
They said it clearly.
And then Merrick Garland was like, I'm not going to get, that's why we have a special counsel.
He's not going to tell me anything.
And no one's going to know.
No one's going to know if anything is coming.
I mean, wouldn't it taking ourselves out of sarcasm mode here for a second?
Wouldn't it be almost irresponsible for a president to be unaware of something like this?
Like, what the president's role in this should be is pressuring them not to do it.
Right?
Like, it's going to make me look terrible because everyone's going to think I'm responsible for it.
Not to mention, it shakes the foundation of the country.
Half the country now does not believe in the FBI or the DOJ or any of these other three letter agencies.
You've taken the respectability of these institutions and flushed it down the toilet for your own political benefit.
And the only argument Joe Biden should be making behind the scenes is just please don't.
I know he had the stupid documents or whatever he was doing.
Stop it.
Like that, him holding on to documents is not worth, as they would say, the juice is not worth the squeeze.
That's a beautiful beautiful expression.
Thank you.
Beautiful.
That happened to the reason I was in my mind.
There was a speech at some college recently where they, you know, some conservative was trying to make some sane comment and the left came out and they were like protesting and not letting them speak.
And they said, yes, we can allow a speaker like that, but is the juice worth the squeeze?
And the answer to that in their mind was no.
No, you should not let anybody.
If they're going to protest us, then shut everybody up.
It's not worth it.
But in this case, it's a good question.
Because I don't know.
I don't know.
Is document storage worth setting the flag on fire?
I don't know.
Probably not.
Probably not in my mind.
Although they're saying these were such sensitive documents now.
They had nuclear secrets.
They had secrets about attacking another country.
Blah, blah, blah.
But to be clear, they have two instances of this being shared, too.
One of them is with a biographer, which I don't know.
I would guess every freaking newspaper that's complaining about this would be excited to report all the details from these documents in a report if they met the guy in a parking garage and were able to get a Pulitzer out of it.
You know they would.
All would put it on the front page of the New York Times if they had the chance.
Yeah, they would.
Right?
So, yeah, so to a biographer to prove a point in his defense over an accusation from General Milley about the war, and he said, look, I have a document that showed that Milley came up with a war plans.
There it is.
Now, is that a, again, is this a self-inflicted wound?
This is a totally different conversation.
Maybe we can have later.
Does Trump tend to put himself in a situation where he inflicts wounds on himself?
Yes, he does.
But like, fundamentally, that's one example where I would argue every biography written with the help of a president, at the very least, is going to get this information, whether they see the document or not, because it's in a presidential storage or if it's storage of the record, you know, with the records in Washington, whatever.
But that was all it was.
The second one was he was sent, again, making an argument to someone, I guess, to in his pack, and he starts to show him, tell him the story about the document, starts to show it to him, and then says, wait a minute, this is classified.
You should probably stay away from it.
Like, keep your distance.
Trump, in the indictment, it says it.
Like, Trump says, yeah, you should probably keep your distance from this.
Don't get too close, I think is the word he says, is a phrasing he uses.
Essentially saying like, you're probably not supposed to see this.
And he realized it's sort of midstream and decided to keep the guy away from it.
Now, those are the two examples they have in the indictment.
That's it.
That is the risk that they say has been brought to us over this incident.
Now, yeah, they can show you pictures of boxes in a bathroom that obviously wasn't being used.
I mean, it was not an active bathroom for patrons.
They can say he was careless, but they don't have any evidence that anything happened here.
And yet they're acting as if it's the worst thing that's ever occurred in our history.
And they're saying things like nuclear secrets and all this.
And I caution anyone.
Not that I probably have to caution anyone in this audience, Pat, but like this is an indictment.
This is not, we don't, they haven't had a chance to give you a defense yet.
You can't just look at this and believe everything inside.
If you did this, you'd think Donald Trump was a Russian agent that got peed on by prostitutes.
Right?
Like you, like there is, at this point in the investigation, they always say they have everything locked down.
Of course, that's what they're saying.
They may in this case, if you believe the indictment, they have really good evidence against Donald Trump on this crime.
Whether it should rise to the level that we're talking about is a totally different thing.
But he hasn't even been able to defend himself yet, which is part of the design of this, right?
Because, you know, likely he won't be able to defend himself until after the election.
Yeah, that's probably true.
This will stretch on until you got to believe.
Until after the election, which at least legally, right?
Yeah.
He can make a public plea to say, hey, this guy's coming after me.
He's been doing this the entire time.
I think a lot of America will believe that.
And I think it's true, which is a good reason to believe it.
Yep.
I think he will say, you know, he will come up with a bunch of other reasons why he had these documents and why it was okay.
And some of them will be believable and some of them will probably not.
And all of that will help him with the nomination.
Yeah.
Will it help him in the general?
Probably not.
Probably not.
And of course.
And that's what we're going to have to decide.
There are many who've pointed out this is the plan, right?
Yeah.
You try to get, you put Trump in a position where he is damaged to the general election, but helped in the primary.
So his opponents can't win in the primary.
Yeah.
And then he can't win in the general.
Now, this is a risky game, one that they've already lost before, right?
They lost this game in 2016, where they clearly tried to elevate Trump in the primary to win it, which he did, and then thought they could defeat him in the general, which they did not.
So this is not a good idea if your goal is to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.
If you really think the country is at risk, he's a unique risk to our republic.
If you actually believe that, you would not be elevating him in the primary.
You wouldn't do that, obviously.
Because fundamentally, when it comes down to a one-on-one situation, anything can happen.
Anything can happen.
Something can go crazy in the last couple weeks of the campaign, which it kind of did in 2016.
There's all sorts of news that broke in October of 2016.
You can't control it.
It's out of your control when it gets to that level.
People always talk about what an incredible, like, you know, wow, what an incredible victory it was to come out over Hillary Clinton.
And it wasn't a politically impressive feat, but I would argue that the primary was much more difficult for Donald Trump.
You had a lot of good candidates.
You had a lot of good people running against him.
You had a big field.
There's a lot to overcome there.
Just beating Hillary Clinton one-on-one is something that Donald Trump could do.
Beating 17 Republican candidates, seven of them maybe were pretty good.
Yeah.
That was tough.
Yeah.
And he did that.
So bet against him at your own risk.
It's true.
It's really true.
This time, though, there's going to be, you know, there's going to be some questions about the sitting president, too.
So while Trump may have issues if he wins the nomination in a general, Biden's got plenty as well.
I mean, he's got the scandals.
He's got the Hunter Biden stuff.
He's got the bribery scandal to deal with.
He's got his dementia issue to deal with.
I mean, if it's those two against each other, I still kind of like Trump's chances, even with all this baggage going on.
But who knows?
Who knows?
A lot can happen between now and the election, that's for sure.
And this criminal case against Trump is now being handled and overseen by a Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon.
So the left is going crazy over that.
And they're thinking that she can't be neutral in this.
She can't actually oversee justice in this particular case.
But if this were a Biden-appointed judge or an Obama-appointed judge, they wouldn't have any problem with that.
No.
Right?
They wouldn't even mention it.
The criticism.
It wouldn't be a problem.
This was something that Donald Trump pointed out when he said, hey, you know, this judge that's got with me in this case is against me.
He hates Trump.
He says stuff like that all the time, really, whenever there's a case like this.
He says that.
And without fail, the left says it's against the country's democracy.
They say it's some racist attack against the nation's foundations.
And then when Trump gets a good judge or one that is likely to be more friendly or understanding of what he's trying to do here, then it's perfectly okay to make that criticism.
They don't care at all.
I mean, it's so see-through.
I guess that's my problem with it.
It's like they're not even trying.
Yeah, the hypocrisy is outrageous.
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Looks like Bud Light sales plunged in May.
And so that toppled the beer brand from its longtime perch as the nation's best-selling brew.
How about that?
Is it the actual whole company or just Bud Light?
No, just Bud Light.
Okay.
Just Bud Light.
Anheuser-Busch sold $297 million worth of Bud Light.
That still seems like a lot in one month.
That's for the four-week period that ended May 28th.
Almost $300 million worth of sales.
But that's a 23% drop from the same time period the year before.
The one that took over was Modelo Especial.
Especially.
Ranked number one in May with $333 million in sales, 15% increase from the year before.
I wonder if that had anything to do with Cinco de Mayo.
May.
Yeah.
Although I guess it's comparing it to the year before.
So that would be May.
Yeah, that's true.
But it may have helped them.
Certainly 15% increase over May for that particular brand is going to be strong.
You would think it'd be like, I don't know, Miller Light or one of those, Coors Light.
What's the other one that nobody, I don't think anybody knows.
Is it Michelob?
It's also owned by Anheuser-Busch.
Yeah, Michelob Ultra is like a competitor to Bud Light and Coors Light, but that's also owned by Bud Light.
And that's not been affected at all.
Right.
I think it's gone up, if anything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, you know, what makes this stuff really difficult for people is that none of the, you're not, there's no other brand that you're going to be happy with if you go down this road.
Like, yes.
You know, like you go to Bud Light.
A lot of people are like, oh, I'm going to go to Michelob Ultra.
Well, of course, that's owned by Bud Light.
Okay, I'm going to go to Miller Light.
Well, Miller Light also did a trans commercial a while ago.
We didn't notice it at the time.
Right.
We didn't know that.
They did that big female thing where females have been brewing beer for longer than men or whatever.
And it was like an in-your-face to male thing.
That was the Miller Light thing.
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Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
And so everyone's like, okay, well, what about that?
But of course, that's a sister of Coors Light.
I don't remember if they've done one in particular.
How about they have?
The Coors family is known as a Republican-leaning family, but still, you know, that's, you know, still like.
And like, you know, Target's a great one.
And a lot of people I've talked to are boycotting Target, and they're going to, you know, the easy, obvious substitute of that is Walmart.
And then the other day, you know, I get the Walmart marketing emails.
It's like, Pride Month, buy something with a repo on it.
And it's like, all right, like they're all there.
There's just no way around it.
Yeah, they're all there.
That's why you have to, you know, I think drawing the line of kids makes a big difference to me.
You know, I understand.
Like, I'm not going to go crazy.
Like, 29 of 30 major league baseball teams have a pride night.
Yeah.
The Texas Rangers are the one that do not.
But like, you know, hey, I have a Pride night.
I'm not even going to get that worked up about that at this point.
It's like, do when you're doing what the Dodgers did, then that's a huge line.
So I don't know.
That's the big thing good for all of us to figure out.
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Freestyle rap.
Okay.
That won the poll.
Is that number one?
Number one, freestyle rap, which was a surprise for me.
That is a surprise.
I did not think that's where they would go.
Now, there's three categories that they asked about.
And this goes to something, man, if I have heard this once, I have heard it a million times from people in this audience who, when we were talking about politics, we run into you know out in the real world, you know, messages, tweets, all of this.
They say, what do you want to hear about from Donald Trump?
And the questions are, what happened in 2020?
Investigations against Donald Trump or plans for the country.
Those are the three things that they polled here.
And here's what the poll, this comes from you,Gov, by the way.
What happened in 2020?
32% of likely GOP primary voters want to hear more from Donald Trump about what happened in 2020.
Wow.
68% say they would not.
How about investigations against him?
39% say they would like to hear more from Donald Trump about the investigations against Donald Trump.
61% say, no, thanks.
We don't want to hear any more about that.
Plans for the country.
Plans for the country.
What a constant.
What does the future look like?
What are you going to do if you're in office again?
96% say they would like to hear more from Donald Trump about that.
4% say they would not.
Now, I don't know what's because they don't want to hear his plans for the country.
I like to be surprised.
I don't want to hear what happens at the end of the finale of succession.
I want to be surprised when it happens.
Just like this, when I elect a president, I want to be like, whoa, he did what?
Wait, he was for higher taxes the whole time?
Wait, I shouldn't have voted for him if I would have known that.
Of course, you want to hear something.
I think this is an interesting measure, though.
And it's honestly even bigger than I thought it would be.
I don't want to hear about 2020 anymore.
Is it just, it's obviously not just me.
68% of us don't want to.
Yeah.
And I'm among them.
I just think that's understandable, even though you might.
I'm done with it.
A lot of people still think, you know, look, there's real problems there.
And, you know, that's been.
But we've been talking about that for a while.
But like, yeah, let's move forward into something else.
That's the game you play now where you gather, you know, you go and you offer rides to old people and take them to the polls and you harvest ballots legally if that's possible, then do that.
Play the game that the Democrats are doing.
But I don't want to hear about 2020 anymore.
Yeah, I would say, if anything, like if there's any real thing that I care about when it comes to that, is like, how do you, what are you going to do to solve these things in the future?
Let's say there were problems, and I think there were some problems.
Yeah.
What are you going to do to solve it?
Yeah.
That's what I'd like to hear about.
You don't need to hear about what happened in 2020 all over again.
What are we going to do differently so we can win this time?
Yeah.
You know, I think one of the things that I think would be really interesting to hear from Donald Trump is the man was president of the United States for four years leading up to this election.
Why wasn't more done to prevent the things that he was worried about?
And I would point specifically to changes at the state level and law.
Like, why was this not more of a focus of his legal team to give support to people opposing those rules?
I mean, some of it seems like he didn't even think about it until after the election had already taken place.
And we know that because he didn't oppose them when they took place and then tried to oppose them after the election legally, which gives you almost no chance to win them.
Like when they happen, you have to oppose them.
You can't oppose them.
Like, why was no one on his team looking out for this?
I don't expect Donald Trump to be an expert on every election law in every state, but like he needs to have an infrastructure around him to catch these things before the first Tuesday in November.
Yeah.
Is there a plan in place to do that?
Right.
Is there a plan in place?
Because now you know about it and you don't want to go into the election doing the same thing we did last time and then complain about it again afterwards.
So what are we doing to fix that problem?
That should be uppermost in the Republican Party's mind right now.
Yeah.
How are you going to fix it?
I was actually surprised to see only 39% said investigations against him would be a topic because I do think that is central to his argument to becoming president.
Right.
I mean, I think, you know, he, we know his policies.
He was already president.
We know a lot of the policies of his competitors, which are pretty darn similar to his, frankly, policy-wise.
There's not that much.
You know, he obviously doesn't look to limit spending on a lot of these bigger entitlement programs.
That's not his speed.
That's different than some of the other Republicans, some of the other Republicans.
And Donald Trump is making that contrast in his own political ads, right?
You know, Ron DeSantis wants to cut spending.
He wants to take away benefits from some people, even though DeSantis sort of ignore denies some of this.
That's sort of the attack on DeSantis.
It has been an attack largely from the left when it comes on spending, right?
Trump's approach to DeSantis has been he wants to shrink Medicare.
He wants to shrink Medicaid.
He wants to shrink.
And really, he says he does not want to do those things.
Yeah, DeSantis says he doesn't, but still, that's where Trump has gone after him.
Right.
And of course, we've seen this stuff more recently of like, you know, maybe DeSantis, Trump's perception is he's too hardcore on abortion, for example.
I don't think he can be too hardcore on abortion.
I don't have a pro-life.
Not a criticism that connects with me, but that is something that he's mentioned.
Trump has mentioned it as almost like a problem in the general, right?
Like if you're too harsh on this, in the general, it'll come back to bite you.
Of course, I don't see how the voters, I think, if anything, and this is to Trump's eternal, and I mean eternal, eternal credit, if anyone's seen as a person associated with the overturning of Roe versus Wade, it's Donald Trump.
Yep.
You know, I mean, because he put the justices in that made that happen.
And I think it's one of the strongest arguments you can make for Trump's presidency.
So I don't think there's any line that's going to be able to be drawn where Trump is some moderate on abortion.
I don't think that the American people are going to digest that well.
I think he's much better off just saying, lo, I'm a pro-life president.
I did the most pro-life thing that anyone's seen in the last 50 years, and I should be given credit for that.
I've saved a bunch of children.
Seems like a good argument to me.
Yeah.
It does.
But instead, he seems to be a little hesitant on that one.
And it could just be, you know, unlike most candidates who run their ideas through focus groups to see what connects, Trump kind of does it publicly.
You know, he kind of just like says stuff and then sees how it floats and sees what goes on with it and then stays with it or runs away from it.
Right?
Like, you know, this happens with him sometimes.
And, you know, sometimes like he said something, he says stuff about like guns sometimes where he's not particularly, you know, it's not his expertise.
He's not a hardcore Second Amendment activist.
That's never been his way.
He was famously very much for gun control for a large part of his life.
And so when he says stuff that's out of line with what the Second Amendment movement wants, a lot of times he hears about it and then later on kind of comes around to the right opinion, because that's like he's listening to his voters.
He's listening to his supporters.
And I think he does that a lot on issues he doesn't really care about that much, right?
Like when he's not incredibly passionate about an issue, he's much more malleable.
Where like something like trade, where like a lot of people were saying, hey, don't do this.
Don't put tariffs on.
He didn't care.
That was a core Donald Trump belief.
He really believed it.
So he kept them on.
Where, you know, these other issues, I think, are secondary to him.
And he's more willing to listen to the voters and kind of go with what they want.
So we'll see if that holds up.
I don't expect Donald Trump to make an outwardly moderate abortion argument when it comes down to the real core of the campaign.
I'll be surprised to see him on stage being like, actually, I think 20 weeks is too strict.
Like, I'll be surprised to hear him say something like that.
I will.
Although his, is it six weeks?
He does claim six weeks is too strict.
Right.
On the DeSantis law in Florida.
Right.
And he's kind of been tough on that.
Yeah.
And so.
But I think that's just getting at DeSantis on something.
Right.
He's just trying to find something that will hurt DeSantis.
Yeah.
Also, I think there is an argument to be made that the six-week ban is too strict for your maximum nationwide vote total.
Right.
Like, I think you can make that argument that a good chunk of the country wants more abortion availability than a six-week ban would provide.
I also don't care about that.
What I care about is children living.
So like, I don't care how many votes it brings in, frankly.
It may be a losing issue politically.
Not that worried about it.
I'd be much more worried about embracing child death than I would be about losing a few votes.
But there is a political calculation there to be made.
Certainly.
This is what politicians do all the time.
And, you know, six weeks, you know, Florida had a 15-week ban and they lowered it to six weeks.
And I think part of the reason they did that is, you know, I don't think DeSantis wanted to walk into a Republican primary with only a 15-week ban, you know, where 98 or 99% of abortions continue.
I don't think that was a good look for a Republican candidate coming into a primary.
And so I think that's a big part of the reason they lowered that to six weeks, knowing he was about to jump in.
So I don't know.
I mean, I think it will be surprising if Donald Trump takes a really lenient stance on this issue.
I don't think it's going to please Republican primary voters, but he's got, he's still, you know, got a large lead.
So I don't know that it maybe he doesn't think it makes a difference.
He's planning for 25, 30 points, right?
If not more than that in some cases.
Depends on what poll, but I think it probably averages about 30 points Trump over DeSantis right now.
In fact, Trump, according to a poll I saw, I think we talked about it last week, he was ahead by 20 points in Florida, which is incredible.
Yeah, that's really DeSantis' home state.
He's ahead by 20 points.
Wow.
The average right now, by the way, is 56 for Trump.
56.
23 for DeSantis.
33, 33 points.
And, you know, 53 points.
Looking back at recent polls, it seems to have gone up over the past month or so.
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Now, I will say this when you want to give a disclaimer here on the primary.
Polls can be all over the place at this point.
You know, I don't know that people are following the primary that closely.
I think the debates will kick off that area.
If Ron DeSantis can't close this significantly between, you know, I don't know, before the end of the year, put it at the end of the year.
When is the first primary?
Do you know off the top of your head, Pat?
When is Iowa?
I would think next January, maybe February.
Yeah, let's see.
The first debate, though, I think is, is it in August or September this year?
Yeah, the first debates are coming late summer, early fall.
So that's going to be, I think, I do think that that is going to be true.
I guess the date isn't set yet.
Is that right still?
Is that true?
They haven't actually set the official date.
It's going to be the first one.
Or is that just the Democratic side?
I don't know.
I think Iowa is still first for Republicans.
I'm not sure if that's true for Democrats still.
Didn't they?
No, they changed that.
Yeah.
They did change it.
But anyway, the point is it's early in 2024, whenever the date is.
And so you figure like by Thanksgiving, this needs to close.
This needs to get closer.
And DeSantis will have many possibility chances to do this, assuming Trump goes to the debates.
He kind of has hinted that maybe he won't.
I'm up by so much I don't have to.
But in reality, he certainly should.
I think we all deserve.
If you're a Republican primary voter, you want to see this, right?
You want to see these guys duke it out a little bit.
I don't necessarily need a 17-person debate or a 10-person debate with Donald Trump in it.
I would rather see, I don't know, tick pick.
Let's do like a bracket A, bracket B situation.
Can we do that?
We have like, let's put the top four on a debate stage and then let everyone else debate to see if they can move up to the top four, like soccer.
Yeah.
What does that have?
Well, they kind of did that last time, didn't they?
With the adults and the kitty table?
They did do the adults and kitty cable, but they made them both very large.
Yeah.
It was both, I mean, I think it was like 10 and 7 or 8.
Yeah, you're right.
84 would be a good number.
Yeah.
And people would be pissed off if they get left out of that.
I get it.
Oh, they will.
You know, what are you going to do?
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In California, they are trying to pass a bill that would classify not affirming a child's gender as child abuse.
Man, this is incredible.
And in California, I could see this passing, frankly, and being signed into law by Gavin Newsom.
It's fascinating because I don't.
Give me the phrasing of that term again.
The law would do what?
It would add affirming the sexual transition of a child to the state standard for parental responsibility and child welfare, making any parent who doesn't affirm transgenderism for their child guilty of abuse under California state law.
So you have to be in favor of them changing their gender or you're not affirming their gender.
Yeah, because I think the way you initially phrased that or the article initially phrased it was, if you don't affirm their gender, it's a problem, which I would argue, okay, well, that makes kind of sense.
If you tell a kid that they're a woman when they're or a girl when they're actually a boy, I have a problem with that.
But of course, in the opposite.
If you're affirming their gender, that means you are affirming the fact that they want to change their gender.
Which is so good.
This is what we're up against.
Oh, gosh.
I mean, it really is the incredible spin they put on this stuff.
The complete annihilation of our language.
They really do.
That is so central.
Glenn used to say, you know, change the change the language, change the argument all the time.
Yep.
Or change the language, win the argument, or something like that.
Apparently, he really didn't say it enough.
No, no, you know what?
Let me give you a third take on that.
Control the language, control the argument.
I think that's what it was.
It's been a while since he said it, but he did say it all the time.
And it's so true.
Yeah.
You know, when you make it out about choice, of course, abortion's good, right?
Oh, it's about choice.
Pro-choice.
Of course, a woman has a right to choose.
Of course, of course.
Decide her own body.
Maybe when you're, you know, killing something.
So I think, you know, there is that real strategy from the left to do this.
They do it all the time.
In essence, a boy could report his parents to his local schools, gay, straight alliance club, or other LGBTQ organization, and then they would report the boy's parents for child abuse.
The bill provides no definition whatsoever of what would qualify as non-affirming to a child's gender.
Wow.
Susanna Luthie of the Washington Free Beacon points out the bill makes no distinctions regarding the age of a child, how long a child has identified as transgender, or affirmation of social transition versus medical sex change treatments.
So how affirming do you have to be?
Do you have to be open to a sex change operation for your child?
If they just decided five minutes ago that they want to be a girl when they're a boy, you got to go along with that.
And they can do this at any age because there's no age listed in this bill.
California's out of control.
They're just, wow.
Why do you live in California if you do?
I don't know.
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It's time to move.
It really is time to move.
And I think one of the only blessing of the Gavin Newsom stint as governor is he really has been so horrifically bad that he's convinced a lot of people to leave the state.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I think his incredible ambition, and he is really, I would say, acting as if he's currently running for president.
Like he is, he's just, all of these moves are to pander to Democratic primary voters as if he's running for president.
Because I think he thinks there's a chance Joe Biden drops out.
There's a chance that people see Biden on the left as not left enough and they want to swoop in.
He is totally planning for this.
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I can't deal with this anymore.
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Too many shows.
Doing too many shows this week.
Apparently, it doesn't matter.
And I think we've realized this in the past.
If you say something on Twitter or Instagram or anywhere on social media that the left doesn't like, no amount of groveling and apologizing is going to do you any good.
Just doesn't matter.
Really good case in point, Anthony Bass, former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher.
He just shared an Instagram post that called for the boycott of Target and Bud Light.
And in it were the words evil and demonic, but they were talking specifically about the designer and this particular gay designer or trans designer that Target was working with.
Target was working with and selling his goods online and in the store, and they were satanic messages.
Yeah, maybe we start there because first of all, I'm America's only Toronto Blue Jays fan.
So actually, my son is as well.
So we have a couple.
But it is, I'm a big Blue Jays fan.
And so I take in a lot of Blue Jays content.
Which, by the way, is inexplicable.
Nobody knows why.
Not even Stu knows why.
I was on a little league team called the Blue Jays when I was a kid when I was five.
So it's hung around ever since then.
I was on a team called the Athletics.
Never.
Not an A's fan.
No.
Well, you're not as loyal as I am, Pat.
That shows your evil heart.
My disloyalty.
Your evil and demonic heart.
So I take in a lot of content.
And of course, everybody, you think MLB coverage in America is left-wing wait till you hear the Blue Jays coverage.
Like, there's not even a thought that anyone could be a Christian.
It's impossible to be conservative.
Anyone who would vote for a conservative is basically Satan in any Canadian media with very few exceptions.
But one of the things that I think has been interesting to listen to as you watch the coverage of this is everyone, of course, races just like they do here to take the strongest stance possible about the horrible things that come from Anthony Bass and his statements.
And how can these people be, why do these people want to erase transgendered individuals?
Nobody does.
What are you talking about?
Nobody does.
No one wants to erase anything.
What are you talking about?
It's just so stupid.
The erasure of the pride community.
What are you talking about?
It's just this dumb, lazy argument that people make when they don't know anything about what they're talking about.
So I have this very strange place as in the intersection between conservative media personality and Toronto Blue Jays fan, which there's just not a lot of people living there.
There's just not a lot of them.
And so Bass, first of all, this is a terrible baseball move for the Blue Jays who have a strong.
Cut him from the team.
They've now cut him from the team.
They cut him the night before Pride night.
Now, yes, he shared that.
By the way, he shared that Instagram post, but then apologized profusely for it.
Right.
He bent over backwards.
Yeah.
So, yeah, he bent over backwards.
He apologized profusely.
Didn't matter.
Bye-bye.
Didn't matter.
He's gone anyway.
And that's a whole other wrinkle of this.
So it's a bad baseball move.
They didn't release him because he had a poor performance.
He got hit hard in a couple early outings this year, but he was one of the best relievers in Major League Baseball last year.
He had a 154 ERA for the season, I think, last year.
And they really could use him.
I mean, they have a good bullpen.
Like, you don't want to weaken a strength like this for no reason.
And they just let this guy go.
He had also had, I don't know, eight or 10 straight scoreless appearances.
He had been really good recently.
He had turned it around from a rough start.
So no defense of this on baseball terms.
They just fired this guy for what he did.
Okay.
What did he do?
Well, he had a, he put out a statement, or he basically retweeted the, the, uh, reposted on Instagram a video that said something about in the pride in the target context, this is evil, this is demonic.
And you noted that, Pat, at least that's how I took it when I read it, because we had been in the middle of the story the whole time, understanding and learning about this and not just dismissing it because we don't, we're not left wing, right?
Like in the media, when you're left, you just dismiss the entire story and don't even try to learn about it.
What I took from Bass's initial post was that he was echoing the idea that the target situation, working with an outwardly satanic, someone who was saying they were a Satanist was evil and demonic.
Not every gay person that walks by you is Satan, but not that rainbow flags equal hell, but just that, look, they were working with someone who was an outward Satanist.
Now, that you can say, well, Target didn't actually carry the stuff that said satanic things on it.
And there was a lot of different pieces of pushback from the left on that.
But generally speaking, a Christian saying that a Satanist is evil and demonic is not exactly a stretch of the faith, right?
Like that's pretty core to the faith to say a Satanist could wind up being evil and demonic or their beliefs are evil and demonic.
So what was fascinating about listening to the Blue Jays coverage, which they all talked about this, all their reporters talked about it as if they knew everything about it.
They sounded just as authoritative as they do on every other topic.
And none of them, I legitimately got the sense, Pat.
None of them were even aware of that part of the story.
None of them had heard one time that Target was actually proven 100% true was working with a person who was an out Satanist and was also selling Satanist calls on their website.
They were fine with it.
They were fine with it.
Yeah.
But I don't think any of these Blue Jays reporters knew anything about it.
They just assumed, because Bass is a Christian, that he was calling all gay people demonic and evil.
Which is not only wrong, but also incredibly lazy, right?
They didn't even bother to understand the story they were condemning another human being over.
And that is pathetic and lazy journalism at the very least.
It really is.
And it's also the other thing I would say that I think is interesting about this story is that Bass himself, the pitcher for the Blue Jays, who's a Christian and posted the initial target protest video, got a lot of heat from conservatives who basically picked up the story after his apology happened, where he gave the groveling hostage video apology.
And like, that's really understandable, frankly, right?
Like it was so, I mean, he didn't say anything.
I don't think he said anything in there he disagreed with.
He said, he said, I didn't mean it to be hurtful.
I didn't want it to, and I'm sorry that people took it that way.
And I'm not, I just, I, I have members of my family and friends that are in this community and I didn't mean to bring any, you know, any hurt to them.
Like it was groveling, but he wasn't, he wasn't lying, right?
He wasn't, he was just, he found a way to word it in a frame that says, you know, I still, I still believe what I believe, but like, I didn't want to hurt anybody's feelings and I want to keep my job, right?
That's how it came off.
And so a lot of a lot of conservative, friends of mine were very critical of him.
Understandably so.
And I'm sure he's learned a lesson after all this has happened that that's maybe not the way to do this.
But he was eventually talked to reporters again.
And it was like, they were like, well, do you still, do you still have those personal beliefs?
And he's like, yeah, I mean, I still have those personal beliefs.
We all have our personal beliefs.
But, you know, it was a distraction and I don't want to, you know, I probably should be smarter than posting that on Instagram.
And, you know, but like, of course, I still believe the same things.
He didn't, he never went against his actual belief system.
He just, you know, he groveled for his job a little bit.
Now, a lot of people go through that.
You know, a lot of people go through that.
I think it's hard.
It's easy for a conservative media personality like myself to judge somebody in that situation because we, Pat, are rewarded, incentivized to say everything we believe.
Our whole our whole, you know, compensation package is based on the fact that we do it.
If we don't do it, we get fired, right?
If we start hiding what we actually believe, no one wants us to be employed at the police.
But when we say what we do believe, even when it's really unpopular, they do want us to be.
I mean, it's part of the incentive process here.
Like they want us to be as clear as possible with what we believe.
That is not the case for every other job on earth.
And it's easy to be critical.
And I think it's also accurate to be critical of making the groveling hostage video hostage tape.
The other part about this, though, is something that probably Anthony Bass now learns, which is there is no amount of groveling.
Doesn't matter.
It doesn't allow.
It doesn't matter.
It still fire even after he did all of this.
And that happens every time.
Every time.
Every time.
Really, without exception.
You can apologize profusely.
You can cry, you can beg, you can whine, you can plead, you could change your mind completely.
Doesn't matter.
They don't care.
They don't care.
It's not enough.
There is no forgiveness from the left.
So, and there was no forgiveness from the Blue Jays organization either.
Despite the fact that he really didn't do anything wrong.
Do anything.
Do anything.
And he even played their game.
Like he even went, I mean, like, he made other statements afterward.
And he said, the video itself, I took it down.
I felt like it was too much of a distraction.
I stand by my personal beliefs and everyone is entitled to their personal beliefs, right?
I mean, I also mean no harm to any groups of people.
You're right, Pat.
That's the important part of this.
We all have our personal beliefs, right?
No.
No.
No, you don't.
Sorry, you're not entitled to them.
This is actually.
You can have them, just don't ever share them.
Yeah.
Exactly.
They have to be so personal that no one knows what they are, which, of course, is completely opposed to the faith we're talking about here, which very much accentuates that you should talk about it.
Yeah.
Right?
Like, it's actually one of the most clear mandates in the teachings is making sure that other people know about it.
He said, you know, he says, I don't want to throw this person under the bus, but someone sent it to me on Instagram sharing their views of the situation going on in the world when I watched it.
Obviously, it aligned with my personal beliefs.
I mean, he doesn't run from his personal beliefs, which I think is important here, even though he did do the groveling apology, which I'm sure now he regrets.
But like, this is as close to the Toronto Blue Jays telling their team members they are no longer allowed to be Christian.
This is really close to that.
Yeah, it is.
Right?
They're just telling.
This is not somebody.
If like, let's say he posted something, it became a controversy, and then he came out and said, you know what?
I don't care what you're talking about.
I don't, I think this, this is evil and demonic.
And maybe he went really far, went farther than Anthony Bass did and said really, you know, controversial things about this topic.
Like, at least you can argue at that point, okay, well, look, he's putting himself and his beliefs above the team.
And we don't have to honor his beliefs.
We have to honor, make the team better.
And it's a distraction.
We want him out of here.
He didn't even do that.
He did everything they asked him to do.
And they still released him the day before Pride night.
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I mean, it's disgraceful.
They're telling him that, like, what percentage of this continent is Christian?
They're basically telling you.
75%?
You can't, you know, your kind is not welcome here.
Like, you might disagree with his analysis on this, but like, he did everything the organization asked him to do.
He went into, I don't know, some sort of weird hypnosis counseling thing about what he's supposed to say.
God only knows.
He was working with the resources of the Toronto Blue Jays to understand LGBTQ issues.
What resources do they have?
Oh my, they've got Google.
What else?
Yes, the Toronto Blue Jets have resources too.
But the problem is they're actually probably developing them now.
I'll bet.
It's probably some sort of thought change camp that you could put people into to make sure they understand the way of the world.
And look, having someone who is making news outside of baseball is not something these teams want.
They don't want Kyrie Irving talking about whether he thinks vaccines are evil or the earth is flat.
They don't like it.
They don't want that there.
But man, you know, when it comes to Christianity, it's just like, well, I'm sorry.
I mean, you get thrown off a team, a valuable member of a team, thrown off for what?
Because he gave his personal views and then said he wanted to be respectful to other groups.
He didn't try.
He wasn't trying to get thrown out of town, but they threw him out.
Crazy.
And it's just, it really is a disgrace.
And it's something that like, you got to feel, you feel terrible for it.
Because I have much more empathy, maybe because I cared about him as a baseball player.
I don't know.
I have more empathy than when you watch this guy come out and make that statement.
Picture the gun to his head when he says it.
And you know what?
Yeah, he probably should have done a better job with that initial statement.
I would agree.
I'm sure he would agree, too.
You try to protect your job and your $5 million a year salary.
Right.
And so I understand it, but that's not justifiable per se.
You know, you should still stand.
But this is a better lesson to understand.
There's no reason to do that anymore.
If you get caught in these situations, you might as well just say what you believe because they're going to throw you the curb anyway.
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The Unibomber.
How's he doing?
We lost him.
Oh, well, you could have broken that to me almost more slowly.
Sorry, he doesn't feel good.
Oh, he's dead.
He's gone.
Oh, my gosh.
He's gone.
What a terrible turn of events.
Have you watched any of the Ted Kaczynski movies and like documentaries that have come out over the past few years?
I have.
Yeah.
Of course I have.
Really, I get locked into that stuff as soon as I see it.
I'm like, I got to watch it.
It's fascinating.
Yep.
Fascinating.
Every time.
He was a fascinating guy because he was so smart and yet, you know, so killed.
Evil.
Yes.
Evil and demonic.
Killed three people, maimed people, injured 23.
I mean, not a good guy, but yeah, we lost him.
81 years old.
Struck down in the pilot.
He actually committed suicide.
Oh, he did?
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, he did.
I thought he was sick with it.
Which may have played into the suicide.
I don't know.
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But also, a survey finds that 75%, three out of four Princeton students, think it's okay to shout down speakers who appear at the university.
About 43% said it's acceptable to block other students from attending talks they disagree with.
These are big-time First Amendment free speech activists.
Oh, yeah.
Sounds like even more disturbingly, perhaps 16% support the use of violence to stop a controversial speaker.
Wow.
Responding to it, isn't it?
Yeah.
I've never had that instinct.
Have you?
No.
You ever tried to silence someone from speaking?
I can't even, I don't even understand it.
Like, I mean, maybe it's because we're always looking for content and I want dumb people saying dumb things.
So maybe that's it.
I don't know.
But it goes against it's un-American.
I mean, it's just un-American.
Why?
Yeah.
Why do you have to shut them down?
You don't.
Let them speak and then counter what they said with what you believe.
Yeah.
A lot of stuff happens on the internet that I disagree with.
People say all sorts of bad things.
I don't want them to be silenced over it.
It's like, I don't know.
It seems like such a pathetic way of looking at things.
It's like you're just admitting your argument sucks.
Yeah, absolutely.
And 48% of them said a speech that uses discriminatory language or that a group finds offensive or that they find offensive should not be allowed.
Okay, that is completely contrary to the First Amendment because, as Glenn has pointed out many times, the only kind of speech you need to protect is speech that other people don't like, right?
I mean, if everybody agrees with it, nobody's going to try to shut it down.
Of course you can say it.
If you only do happy talk, well, naturally that's allowed.
But do we have the guts to allow somebody to speak who we disagree with or we find offensive?
And who's deciding what's offensive and what isn't?
And if it should be allowed.
Really amazing.
And this is at an Ivy League institution.
Tyrion Steinbach, the school's dean of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
God.
You talk about just the title is enough.
We talk about all the time presidents saying like, we've created these jobs.
It's like they have created a lot of jobs.
They just don't have any economic impact other than sucking the life out of our society.
Like all these DEI experts and speakers and, you know, anti-racist this and, you know, CRT that, all those people, these are all just fake jobs.
They're jobs that don't mean anything.
They don't create anything.
They just destroy.
40% of these students said a sports team should be able to suspend a student with views others find offensive.
What?
So they're going to love this Blue Jays thing.
Sure, they will.
Let's see.
I already told you, 16% support violence to stop a speaker.
43% say it's okay to block other students from attending something they disagree with.
And 76% said it's sometimes acceptable to stop a campus speaker by shouting over them.
I think this is where these things happen a lot because it's like sometimes acceptable.
I don't know.
Like I would say probably, I would say no to that, right?
Instinctively.
I would say almost never.
Yeah.
Is that okay?
I don't know.
If someone comes in and they're doing, if it's from the KKK, you know, Hitler's reincarnation is out there giving a speech.
Okay.
And you can make some arguments there.
But it's pretty rare, pretty rare that that would ever be the case.
And even then, like it's, it's almost better to win an argument than to yell over it.
I would say so.
Just win.
They can't.
They can't.
They haven't been taught how to deal with that.
And they haven't been expected to even deal with it.
Instead, they're given cry spaces to where if they heard something that disturbed them, they can go and cry about it rather than defend their own position.
56% said they would be very or somewhat uncomfortable expressing their views on a controversial topic in class, and they won't, 70% won't disagree with the professor in class.
So this shows you a lot about what's going on in our college and university system.
I mean, they're just, they're being hammered with this stuff, and they're not disagreeing with it.
They're afraid to disagree with it.
Survey shows more needs to be done because most students neither support or understand free speech.
Yeah, I'd say that's pretty evident from this particular survey.
Last May, a Princeton classics professor claimed he was fired for opposing clearly racist and illegal demands from fellow faculty members after George Floyd's death.
He alleged that he was fired for publicly criticizing a number of anti-racist demands, some of them clearly racist and illegal in a Wall Street op-ed.
Princeton said he'd been fired after he failed to be straightforward in a misconduct probe.
Sure.
Okay.
I mean, and we just talked about Anthony Bass, who sort of expressed himself online and apologized profusely for it, was fired anyway.
And really actually didn't express.
I mean, he legitimately just reposted something else that someone said about getting rid of Target from your lives for a while, you know, and then apologized profusely, still cut, still cut.
And it's funny because I listened to, as I said, mentioned a lot of the Blue Jays coverage, and like their complaints on Bass were that about the Blue Jays.
I mean, almost exclusively, people were complaining that the Blue Jays didn't fire him.
That was the complaint.
Wow.
Because they didn't make him.
Wow.
That statement he made initially, they didn't have any reporters there for questions.
And they were saying basically the Blue Jays were protecting him.
Like the whole perspective is totally upside down to what reality is.
Right.
And they all were exactly walking in lockstep, man, as if they got a directive from above.
Now, that could have happened at any number of American baseball teams, too.
But it's really bad in Canada right now.
Things are bad there.
Yeah, I think it's different because there's no cultural undertone of pushback in Canada.
Right.
They don't have.
I mean, like, we have friends up in Canada who work in conservative media and have been the lone voices in Canada for a long time over these issues.
But like when you step back from that, there's not, it's not a situation here where you have to worry about it, right?
You'll get you'll get these conservative organizations that will publish stories that you don't like, but there's not like 50% of the country that is pretty conservative.
There's just not.
I mean, it's whatever it is.
And it's not very, they're not loud up there often.
Of course, most Canadians aren't.
But here, look, as much as we sometimes feel like everything's against us as conservatives, we do have a voice here and we do make a difference if we change things all the time.
We're not helpless victims here.
We are able to do things and push back.
We don't win all those culture war battles, but we win a lot of them.
Another story from Canada.
Superintendents at an Ottawa school board sent an email to all staff saying that they need to start the next school year using they-them pronouns for all students.
Okay.
Even if I guess the student isn't using they, them pronouns.
But that's until told their preferred pronouns.
It's also said teachings about LGBTQ identities should be embedded in the overall learning environment and are not open to debate or selective participation.
So you can't opt out and you can't disagree and we're going to decide what you're being taught.
Wow.
The intention was to suggest some actions that can be taken during Pride Month and beyond to promote inclusivity and belongings in our school.
Okay.
Wow.
They did not respond, though, directly to the question as to whether the suggested actions extend to all age groups, including using they, them for kindergarten students.
Hmm.
A kindergarten teacher told the Epic Times that she received the email, but has not yet been instructed in any staff meetings or elsewhere to act upon it.
I mean, this is sweeping the planet, and Canada's probably just a little bit ahead of us, but we're going down that same road.
The diversity, inclusivity, equity thing has taken root here, too.
And they're going to continue.
This just isn't enough, and it's not stopping.
And so unless we stand up and say something about it, stand up and oppose it, we're just going to be trampled by it.
That seems to be what's happening right now.
And that's why, you know, yeah, Pride Month so prevalent this year.
Is it just me or is it more prevalent this year than it's ever been in the past?
It definitely does seem more prevalent.
I think part of that is to do with the sort of high-profile boycott sort of, you know, stories that came out in the time leading up to Pride Month.
Right.
I think a lot of times, like, you know, the thing that always hits me on this one is I'm watching the NFL and then one weekend every year, everyone's wearing pink.
And I'm like, oh, this is the breast month.
This is the breast week.
It's the breast cancer awareness week.
Right.
Now I'm very familiar.
I'm aware of breast cancer.
You are.
Maybe there are some that aren't.
Well, because you've seen the pink shoes.
Right.
No, no, I knew about it before that by the NFL players.
No, I knew about it before that.
And look, they raise a bunch of money for breast cancer research, which is great.
I'm happy about that.
I wish they could do it in a way that it was not pink uniforms, frankly, but it's whatever.
And every year it surprises me.
I'm like, oh, gosh, is this the week again?
They're wearing pink socks in the middle of why.
But my point there is that usually Pride Month sneaks up on me.
I don't know it's coming and all of a sudden I just, everything's rainbow.
Like, why?
What is going on?
Oh, it's Pride Month.
This year, because of the Bud Light thing largely, but also Target, maybe secondarily, that all preceded the month and we all knew this was coming.
And I mean, I don't know.
I've had every company I've ever bought something from in the last 25 years still has my email address.
And they all email me their rainbow logos and tell me how prideful they are, which thought was one of the seven deadly sins, but apparently you're bragging about that now.
And, you know, I don't really.
In fact, it was supposed to be the worst of the seven deadly sins.
There you go.
But it's not.
Of course.
But again, this comes back to Anthony Bass's tweet or post where he says evil and demonic.
Like the fact that we're promoting one of the seven deadly sins, like you can see how a Christian would get there, right?
Like, I mean, I don't know.
It's not like a massively large leap in the faith, right?
Right.
Hey, forget that, forget the, because I don't even really, frankly understand the tie between LGBTQQIA2 plus and pride, other than the fact they just sort of adopted it.
Like, I guess we're now proud to be gay.
We're no longer going to be hiding it.
Okay.
And we want you to be proud of us too.
Right.
And we want you to support and celebrate.
Yeah.
Yep.
But okay, like, all right, I guess there's some loose tie there, but pride itself, like, have you noticed lately it's like happy pride is the way they phrase this.
Yeah.
Which is, does not make any sense.
Like, what do you, what do you mean?
The happy pride month might make sense.
Happy pride?
What is that?
It doesn't even make sense in English.
And like, again, we're promoting the deadliest of the seven deadly sins as essentially a national holiday for a month.
You don't think Christians would wake up to that a little bit and say, wait a minute, this is a little, can we call it something else?
Like, I don't like, what, this doesn't make any sense.
I mean, I wouldn't put it past them to have a lust month or a sloth month.
I mean, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't put it past our government to support that sort of stuff, but it would be strange.
Happy Pride and the Seven Deadly Sins00:04:49
It would.
You wouldn't normally see that sort of thing.
So I do think that it should probably connect to people that this is going on, but it does seem much more prominent this month.
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Actor?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was on a podcast recently, kind of talking about the things we've been sort of kicking around.
He's calling out Hollywood here because they're just, he says there's two Americas.
There's an America that's appalled when babies show up to pride events, exposed to the private parts of adults.
We had some photos of that that we showed on my some portions blurred, but I mean, there's a woman holding a baby, like, I don't know, one and a half, maybe two, and there's a guy bent over naked in front of him.
Hello, first of all, why did you bring the baby to this event?
And why is this guy doing?
I thought this was non-sexual stuff that was happening here.
I thought this was family-friendly, all-ages welcome sort of stuff.
And then, you know, you see the sexual nature of it, and it doesn't really seem like it.
But here's what Tyrese Gibson had to say about what's going on in Hollywood.
As much as I'm supposed to be promoting this movie and talking about my album, I just feel like we're in competition right now because they are trying to normalize the devil.
They are trying to pop the devil on the main stage at award shows and in every video and signs and symbols.
And I say, you know what?
We need to stop treating our relationship with Jesus like the little buddy that you talk to before you go to bed at night and not be more vocal about all the things that God means to us and all of the things that God has brought us through.
Because there's been a lot of moments that you didn't post about.
But yet you know, how did God decide to get me through this?
Yeah, man.
And yeah, they going above and beyond to promote the devil.
And it's pissing me off because devil worshipers used to be real secretive.
Going down in the basement, this secret world.
Now they just lay on the device, too.
You mean something like promoting one of the seven deadly sins a month of your year?
Like when that described what he's talking about?
Perhaps.
Perhaps.
And I think he was talking about the Target stuff, too, where, I mean, it was openly Satanist stuff from this openly Satanist designer, and people are okay with it.
When did this start?
How did this happen?
How can we possibly be doing this in a nation like ours where at least, I mean, what is the percentage?
75%, 78% of us are Christian.
And now we accept the Satanism.
That's okay.
And we start promoting it.
Very bizarre.
Very, very strange.
Very, very strange.
And I think this is part of it too.
You know, again, to go back to the Blue Jays one more time, I heard these people saying, hey, like, oh, I thought we were going to be all sexualized here on Pride Night looking around and everything looks fine.
These reporters giving this sort of sarcastic message.
And it's like, well, you know what?
Probably weren't a lot of sex toys at the Blue Jays game for Pride Night.
Why?
Why?
If someone showed up with a necklace made out of sex toys like you see at these parades all the time, what would they have done at the security line?
Aggressive Pain at Middle School00:02:50
Would they have let them in?
Of course, the answer to that is no, because they know there'll be kids inside and it's not appropriate for a baseball game.
Yet you seem to be arguing it's appropriate for middle school.
You seem to be arguing it's appropriate for toddlers.
You seem to be arguing in every other context.
It's totally fine.
Now, of course, the Blue Jays can make that decision because they're a major league franchise and they can keep people out that they don't want to keep out.
But if those people showed up dressed like that, naked in thongs around children, they wouldn't be allowed in the freaking stadium.
But I don't know.
It doesn't seem too sexual here inside the stadium at Pride Night at Toronto Blue Jays, the Rogers Center in Toronto.
No surprise there because they control the crowd.
Is that where you became a Canadian sports star?
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Romney, Cruz, and the Primary Challenge00:14:37
You know, we complain at times about Republicans in office not doing the things that we want them to do, not being as conservative as they should be.
I hadn't noticed that.
Yeah, it happens every, I mean, it's few and far between among Republicans because we just don't complain.
You know what I mean?
No, never.
Never.
But you seem to think that there might be a solution to the complaint.
Well, yeah, because we can complain and complain and complain and be upset about who, you know, let's say for example, senators who are voting the wrong way on certain bills and they let us down all the time.
And we complain about this all the time.
Yeah, Lisa Murkowski, for instance.
And there's a lot of time to come.
We do it all the time when they're in office and they do it over and over again.
I would argue, though, Pat, there is time to complain and there's time to actually do something about this problem.
You can actually do something about this problem.
But if we don't pay attention like right now, we will miss this opportunity for several more years.
Okay.
So right now is the time we're supposed to care.
Not after these people have been elected and they have six-year terms, but now, because right now we have a chance to primary Republican senators who are in office who suck.
Okay.
But only if we work really hard to actually pick the right ones to primary and also find good candidates to oppose them.
Huh.
But if you don't care, and then when it comes to the election time, you're like, oh, this guy's back on the ballot.
And oh man, he's not even running against anybody.
What the heck?
That is not the time to complain.
Now is the time to think about this and get ahead of it.
Okay.
All right.
And I think that we do a very, we've done a very poor job at times as Republicans and conservatives in selecting which races to make the most impact, right?
For example, we remember Mike Lee winning in a primary process, and we really improved our standing in the Senate.
We went from a guy who was really moderate and not very good to one of the best senators, I would argue the best senator in the Senate.
Mike Lee.
And that was a massive improvement.
And we've all noticed that improvement.
Yet here we are still complaining about the same types of problems.
So we got Ted Cruz in Texas instead of what's his face, David Dewhurst.
Yes, a huge improvement.
It made a massive difference in our country.
It did.
That period was really successful, but that period was also marred by Mrs., where winnable races were tossed out the window because we tried to pick someone who was maybe more conservative, but not necessarily right for that particular state or whatever.
And I think what we've done at times is either ignore this problem because they already have an R next to their name or just try to find someone more conservative and put them in whether they're going to win or not.
So I thought this is the time to look at this more systematically, right?
So I came up with a little system here.
I want to run this by you.
There's nine main Republican senators who are running for reelection coming up.
Okay.
And I rank them on a bunch of different categories.
But the three main things that I thought were the determining factor here of how we should think about this is, first of all, who's the most conservative, right?
We want the most conservative people in there.
So if they're super conservative already, Ted Cruz is a great example of this, no real need to primary him, right?
We're already pretty happy with that seat.
Why waste resources trying to get better than Ted Cruz when you, first of all, might be worse?
And secondly, probably doesn't make any sense anyway.
So who's the most conservative?
Then if we primary them, if we decide to come up with a candidate, can we actually win the primary?
Is it one of these things that we're going to throw a bunch of resources at a candidate who can't win?
Or are we going to, do we have someone who's vulnerable and maybe can win?
And finally, if we win the primary with our new conservative candidate, are they going to win the general?
Or are we going to throw a moderate Republican out to get a liberal Democrat, which is not what we want?
If you put a, you know, you get a conservative through, you know, the example that a lot of the left would use was it was Delaware back there, what it was Christine O'Donnell and Mike Castle.
And Mike Castle looked like he was going to win the election if he won the primary.
Instead, O'Donnell won the primary and then had basically no chance to win the actual election.
And now we've been dealing with terrible Democrats in Delaware this whole time.
So we want to avoid that situation if it's possible.
So here we go.
Who's the least conservative?
Starting from the other side of the scale, the most conservative that is running right now, Ted Cruz was the most conservative.
By the way, this is not just me guessing.
This is all based on their voting records through multiple different rating agencies that do this.
Ted Cruz was the most conservative, followed by Marsha Blackburn, Rick Scott, then John Barroso, Deb Fisher, Josh Hawley.
And the three least conservative were Roger Wicker from Mississippi, Kevin Kramer from North Dakota, and Mitt Romney from Utah.
Surprise.
These are all candidates coming up in 2024 for election.
This is the time to do something about these people.
Right.
Okay.
So you're not going to, what's the point of replacing Cruz or Blackburn?
They're doing a good job.
Yeah.
You don't want to.
Romney, Kramer, Wicker on the other side.
Now, if we primary them, can we win the primary?
All right.
The way I came up with this was basically, what is the approval rating in the state?
Right.
What's their approval rating in the state among Republican voters?
Okay.
Do Republicans like these senators?
If they love the senator, even if they're moderate, it's going to be hard to knock them off, right?
If they don't like the senator, going to be easy to knock them off.
So here we go.
This is state approval rating by these nine senators that are running.
John Barroso in Wyoming, 79% approval is the highest.
Excuse me.
Marsha Blackburn, 78% in Tennessee.
Ted Cruz, 75% in Texas.
Again, it would be almost impossible to knock them out if you tried to.
So you wouldn't want to waste your resources here.
Then you have Kevin Kramer, who, as I mentioned, was one of the more liberal senators, but has a 73% approval rating in a state.
Might be hard to knock off.
Rick Scott, 72%.
Josh Hawley, 72%.
Deb Fisher, 66%.
Roger Wicker.
And Roger Wicker, you might remember, he was in the news recently because he was one of the Republicans who opposed the debt ceiling limit.
You might say, well, that's pretty good.
I want him to oppose that.
No, he opposed it because we didn't spend enough money.
He wanted to spend more money.
That was his complaint with the debt ceiling.
He's at 63%.
And I want to make sure we understand the range here.
79% to 63%.
That's the entire range of all of the first eight candidates.
The worst approval rating for Republicans in our state, Mitt Romney, 41%.
He is 22 points behind every other candidate that is running for reelection in his party.
That's it.
He is massively vulnerable to a primary challenge if somebody good steps up and runs against him.
So you're saying there's a chance.
If they don't step up and run against him, get rid of him, though.
Mitt Romney will win.
If somebody good steps up, very vulnerable.
Wicker vulnerability.
So far, nobody's vulnerable.
Has anybody stepped up in Utah to challenge Mitt Romney?
I've heard rumors.
Haven't heard any voices yet.
Haven't heard anyone actually doing it.
Haven't heard anybody step up yet and really take that stand that's prominent.
Again, you can't just throw anybody out there.
What's the rumor?
Romney's got lots of, I don't know, I don't know how public that is at this time.
But we need somebody because we can complain about Mitt Romney until the end of time.
Is it Incredibly vulnerable right now to a primary challenge.
All right.
Okay.
Then let's go on to the next category.
All right.
If we win the primary, can we win the general?
So I rank these states by how easy it would be in the general election.
Is it Jason?
That's not who it was.
That was not who it was.
It was not who it was, though he is one time right now.
He's on Fox News.
He could have absolutely beaten Oren Hatch back in the day.
That's what that was.
That's not an issue anymore.
So now we've got to get away from the money.
I don't think Hatch can win.
I don't think Hatch cannot win.
He cannot win.
I don't think so.
I don't think he can do it.
No.
Okay.
Now, if we win the primary, can we win the general?
So you'd want this to be as easy as possible, right?
The hardest state of these nine to win the general election is Rick Scott in Florida.
Florida is pretty much a red state at this point.
So it only gets easier from here.
Ted Cruz is the second most difficult on this list to win the general if you win the primary.
Then it's Hawley, Wicker, Fisher, Romney.
Utah's fourth, by the way.
Then you've got Blackburn, Kramer, and then Barroso in Wyoming would be the easiest.
The bottom line here is if you win the primary, you're basically going to win the general in these nine states.
So combine all these measures together.
What do you get?
The least likely for us, the least productive for us to primary would be Ted Cruz, then Rick Scott, then Marcia Blackburn.
I would say there's just no point.
Don't primary them.
Let them win.
That's what I would say from a conservative perspective.
Next three, Josh Hawley, John Barroso, and Deb Fisher in Nebraska.
These three I'd put in the category of: if you have a really good candidate, go for it.
If you have someone who's significantly better than those three, go for it.
Though it might not be as easy and maybe not as productive.
You might not get as many conservative gains as you might get against some of these other ones.
The top three, are you ready, Pat?
If you're in these states, find somebody good to run against these people.
Pleased by all that is holy.
You can do it.
I'm telling you, this map is absolutely there for you to get through.
There is a path here.
Number three, Roger Wicker in Mississippi.
Do we need moderate votes out of freaking Mississippi, Pat?
I don't think so.
Why?
Why are we dealing with this?
This is insanity.
We should have a Ted Cruz or a Marsha Blackburn in Mississippi.
It's a conversation.
That's this question about South Carolina, too, multiple times.
Why do we have Lindsey Graham?
He's not up for a re-election this time.
But again, why is somebody not primaring Lindsey Graham that is a legitimate top-notch candidate every single time?
Should be.
Should be.
Roger Wicker is a great example of this.
He's a Mitch McConnell guy.
You complain about McConnell?
Well, you should do something about Wicker.
They're the same person.
Go out there and do something about him if you want.
In fact, I would argue McConnell's better than Wicker is.
Number two on the list, Kevin Kramer from North Dakota.
You might say, North Dakota, I haven't put much thought into it other than the obvious campaign of Doug Bergham for president.
I haven't put that much thought into North Dakota.
Well, except for Bergamentum is sweeping the country.
Yeah, Bergamania is there, obviously.
But people, that's more of a Doug Bergum-specific type of thing.
This is the state of North Dakota.
And look, it's still one of 100.
And you may have never even heard of Kevin Kramer in North Dakota.
And that's the problem.
That's the problem.
He's relatively popular in his state, but his voting record sucks.
It really does.
It's one of the worst in this field.
And there's no reason there's somebody else in North Dakota who could step up and beat him in a primary, which would be difficult.
He'd be one of the most difficult to beat in the primary.
But if you win the primary, you're going to win the general.
There's somebody good out there.
Step up.
Make your voice heard.
And number one by a chasm that we can barely measure is Mitt Romney in Utah.
He's unpopular among Republicans in his state.
He is.
When in your own party, only 41% approve of the job you're doing.
Yep.
You're ripe for picking.
Ripe for picking.
Number two, he's in a state that Republicans basically can't lose, even if they try.
Right.
Right.
And number three, he is the least conservative out of all the candidates by a pretty large margin.
I mean, Wicker has a bad voting record.
It's nothing compared to Mitt Romney.
No, he's terrible.
He's terrible.
This is, I think, incredibly clear.
And the problem is we will spend the next six years bitching about Mitt Romney and complaining about him while he's in office instead of doing something now.
Well, he's not.
He can be thrown out.
He can be thrown out.
He can be defeated.
Yes, he's got a famous name.
Yes, he ran for president in 2012.
Yes, he did something in the Olympics 900 years ago.
So what?
He sucks as a senator.
We all realize it.
Why won't someone step up and do something about it?
I don't know.
Someone's got to do it.
Pat, you know everybody in Utah.
I know every single person.
All three million people in Utah.
I'm very familiar with each.
Which one's the best one?
Bob.
Bob would be great, but he's not going to run.
Great.
He's not going to run.
Whoever Bob is.
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Rumored GOP Primary Challengers00:02:27
We were just talking about vulnerable Republicans who are terrible in office and should be primaried.
And the biggest name on that list, Mitt Romney.
Yes, definitely.
Gotta go.
By every measure.
And, you know, there's some rumors about people who may be thinking about primarying him.
One is Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs.
Riverton's a suburb of Salt Lake City.
So there's Trent Staggs.
Is he in the race or is he rumored?
No.
He is rumored to be entering the race.
Also, Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson.
He set up an exploratory committee in April.
And they do mention Jason Chaffetz.
Chaffetz says he's thinking about it.
Okay.
That's an interesting option there.
He was very well loved when he was a congressman.
Early in the late 2000s.
2009, 2010-ish.
Yeah, he was kind of in that Tea Party era and has spent a lot of time now as a Fox News commentator since he's still high profile.
And then Attorney General, Sean Reyes.
Reyes had on the air multiple times.
Yeah, he's been great on the air.
He's been right on everything I've heard him speak about.
Really solid, understands the Constitution.
I mean, I don't know if he's going to run.
I've heard rumors of that, that he was considering it.
I hope he does jump in because he'd be a great candidate.
I don't know.
It's tough to be, do you have a state profile if you're a mayor of a city?
You might.
Some people, that certainly can work, but it might be more difficult.
You need someone with a state profile.
Chaffetz and Reyes both have that.
Was the other guy, Brad?
The Speaker of the House.
Yeah, Brad Wilson.
Wilson.
So maybe he's on that level too.
Somebody's got to step in here.
This is a winnable race.
They don't even mention Bob, though.
Your friend, Bob?
Yeah, my friend.
Well, you know, everyone in Utah says.
Well, 3.2 million or whatever.
But Bob is great.
Not even a mention in this article.
Does Bob have a last name?
Well, sure he does, but you just don't know what it is.
I don't know what it is.
You're on a first name basis.
Right, meaning for you you don't know the last time I met him.
All right.
Well, I'll be back tomorrow.
Stu will not.
I will not.
Strangely.
I'm off on vacation.
Glenn is back Monday, and we'll see you next week as well.
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