June 27, 2025 - Louder with Crowder
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| Because the way they were doing it here got around that. | |
| And he didn't like it. | |
| And do you think you want a government shutdown leading into the midterms? | |
| Probably not. | |
| Do you want to lose control of the House even more? | |
| It's already on the table that we'll lose control of the House. | |
| So let's not try to make it even worse. | |
| And Senate, you're like, okay. | |
| That's my problem with it, guys. | |
| It's not it. | |
| Reality says this is going to have to happen. | |
| What Democrat policy is it? | |
| Is it LGBTQ in the classroom again? | |
| Now, thank God the Supreme Court said we can opt out. | |
| But up until then, he didn't know that. | |
| There's a real chance over these next four years to change the culture in a meaningful way that carries on for generations. | |
| There really is. | |
| And Thomas Massey is putting that on the back burner to stand on principle over the fact that maybe, maybe the deficit will be increased by so like $3 trillion over 10 years. | |
| Maybe. | |
| And also maybe it won't because maybe the pro-growth policies will outweigh that. | |
| That it's a clown show. | |
| And so I completely understand why Trump's doing what he's doing. | |
| And before I would have had a problem with it, I don't. | |
| Screw these people. | |
| Out of compassion. | |
| All right, we're going to take a few more chats and then leave you guys to your weekend celebrations. | |
| Next chat. | |
| All right. | |
| Next chat from Blakeney 1794. | |
| Question. | |
| With examples like Vivek, do you think the U.S. needs a class of medics like they had in Athens? | |
| These were people who could participate fully economically, but not politically. | |
| So listen, this is something, again, that I think is worth having a discussion about. | |
| And I don't have a firm opinion that I'm willing to just draw a line in the sand on. | |
| And I'll circle back to something I was just thinking of regarding a certain individual. | |
| Vivek Ramaswamy is born in the U.S., right? | |
| Yeah, I believe his parents were not in the US. | |
| His parents were not born in the U.S. So where is your limit? | |
| Yeah. | |
| How many generations do you have to live here for? | |
| Before you can. | |
| That's the first question. | |
| I mean, we could talk about people who are immigrants. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But that's a completely different story than Vivek Ramaswamy. | |
| Right, but Anne Coulter's point was that I wouldn't vote for you as president of the United States. | |
| And her point was you are not steeped in what we are as a country as much as a multi-generational family is. | |
| And that's understandable because you're still getting mom and dad teaching the sons and daughters what it is to be an American without having actually spent a lot of time here to understand what it is to be American. | |
| You can argue that, but that was the case that was being made. | |
| And there is something. | |
| But there's a definition. | |
| She has her own definition of what American is. | |
| Her definition of what American is is a lot different than the generation of the three generations of people who grew up in Compton. | |
| No, she's not saying that those people can't participate at all. | |
| She's saying that you just need to be American. | |
| You need to have been here for a little while. | |
| And I think I don't know how far. | |
| I understand her argument. | |
| Well, I think it's a reasonable argument, only because you will eventually erode what it is to be an American if you let a lot of people who don't understand what it is to be American control politics. | |
| So I get the argument. | |
| And this is why I said I don't have like a firm opinion net, like a line in the sand. | |
| Like I understand and like, that does make logical sense to me. | |
| But then how do we do something with it? | |
| Much like the land thing. | |
| Like, okay, well, that makes logical sense, but we don't want to do something that is prohibitive. | |
| We don't want to do something that's unfair. | |
| We want to do something that does preserve what it is to be an American and what this country really is all about. | |
| But at the same time, we have to understand that maybe that means that people, I think people who, at the very least, I think we could probably all agree, if you're not born in this country, you can come here. | |
| You can do everything you want. | |
| You just can't be in elected office. | |
| Sorry. | |
| It's just, it's just a line for me that I'm like, hey, I'm not discriminating against you because I think you're a bad person. | |
| I'm just saying like you haven't been here. | |
| You haven't had like this being steeped in this. | |
| Like it costs something to have freedom the way that we have it. | |
| And it's very easy to go off and elect somebody in New York that's a socialist guy who's unabashedly socialist and his policies could destroy the city. | |
| Is that worth having that person in office? | |
| Like what if, what if we could just say, yeah, you got to be here a little bit? | |
| I mean, you can't be a foreign-born citizen and be president of the United States, right? | |
| So that we do have rules in place already that are kind of like this for a reason. | |
| So I think it's practical to say, hey, maybe that's something we should talk about. | |
| And I'm not being racist or I'm really not. | |
| Like I, there's probably, I think Vivaldi probably do a pretty good job. | |
| Vivaldi is racist. | |
| Or classist or citizenist. | |
| No, I don't think it's an iss at all. | |
| I understand your opinion on that. | |
| You couldn't put, you couldn't look to someone, a Chinese family that was here building the railroads, you know, hundreds of years ago and say they're not every bit as American as anybody else. | |
| You couldn't say that. | |
| You can make the argument at a certain point, oh, you've been here for one generation. | |
| Your family did not really raise you. | |
| Again, it's hard to delineate where that could be. | |
| There are different, yeah, because there are different sects. | |
| You know, you've got like, you know, maybe it's a Mexican family and you were raised by Mexican, your parents from Mexico. | |
| I have my best friend growing up, Mike, his mom's from Mexico. | |
| Dad's from America. | |
| He was raised as American as can be. | |
| His brother's a Marine. | |
| His dad's a Marine. | |
| As American as can be. | |
| Then you have, you know, maybe a Muslim family that lives in a Sharia neighborhood in Michigan. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Those are two different people. | |
| Very, very different people. | |
| And then you start looking at, well, now we have to make that rule based on what culture you are. | |
| Because I'm fine with the Mexican one, but I'm not fine with the Muslim one. | |
| And that's when people go, oh, that's a racist policy. | |
| Right. | |
| That's your Nazis. | |
| At a certain point, and I wouldn't even know how to enact this, but it's with the Mamdani thing. | |
| The voter has to make the decision. | |
| But realistically, why should someone that practices Islam be able to hold political office in America when the founding tenets of Islam are so antithetical to the founding documents of our country? | |
| There is no overlap in those two belief systems at all. | |
| So it's a very scary thing to know that you're left to kind of the, what do you want to call it? | |
| I hope we get it right. | |
| The mob of the majority in that case. | |
| Well, when the majority of that community is basically has that ideology. | |
| I don't know. | |
| It is a challenge. | |
| I don't know the answer to that either, but it's something that we're going to do. | |
| You don't want to be authoritarian to stop authoritarianism. | |
| Right. | |
| But it is a problem. | |
| It is a problem that we have to address. | |
| So, yeah, I do think that there, like, I think you should have to pass some kind of a, let me put it this way. | |
| I think it would be reasonable for you to have to pass some kind of a civics test to be able to vote in elections. | |
| I think it's reasonable and to have an argument about it. | |
| Maybe there's a reason why it's not reasonable, and that's fine. | |
| But I think on its face, it sounds kind of reasonable. | |
| I don't want to be, I don't want to make it impossible to vote. | |
| I just certainly don't want people to be so easily swayed into voting for something. | |
| They have no idea what's going on. | |
| That's not how our system was set up. | |
| And it's about time we've had some conversations on this because a lot of these cracks are appearing. | |
| And look, it's a robust system. | |
| You're absolutely right. | |
| But don't act like we haven't course corrected before because we have and it's been very helpful. | |
| And can I really touch real quick? | |
| I'm sorry, I feel really passionate about this because there's going to be a lot of people that take this as some sort of ethno-nationalist argument that America is for white people. | |
| It's not that. | |
| No, not at all. | |
| It's really not. | |
| Now, where you see kind of the overlap is that a lot of these people coming from other cultures that happen to look different and happen to have different nationalities just don't prescribe to our culture and they're not going to. | |
| I don't want a Frenchman or an Englishman or a German or even a Polan. | |
| I don't want anybody to be able to come over here who hasn't been steeped in our culture to then do this. | |
| But there is the likelihood that someone coming from Europe is more easily able to understand our culture because we have a lot of cultural ties with them. | |
| That's not to say a Korean or someone from Mozambique or someone from Brazil can't also be phenomenal. | |
| They absolutely can't. | |
| Sure. | |
| But if you, unless you understand the reality of importing all these people, just ad nauseum from countries that don't share any sort of cultural connection with us, you're going to run into a problem. | |
| And pretty soon you're going to run into a country that you no longer recognize as the one people wanted to come to in the first place. | |
| Yep. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| All right. | |
| Last chat. | |
| All right. | |
| Final chat from Claudius Vanderbaugh. | |
| What? | |
| Question for the crew. | |
| Are we ever going to focus on maintaining the house in the midterms, or have we just tacitly accepted that the Dems are going to steal it again? | |
| I wouldn't say steal it. | |
| Steal it. | |
| Maybe the wrong word. | |
| Look, Donald Trump is doing his level best right now to give us a lot of wins to run on. | |
| And I think he's doing a really good job with it. | |
| Right now, we're talking about three Supreme Court cases that essentially went the administration's way in just about every aspect, except, you know, maybe in the birthright citizenship thing, it did not settle the question. | |
| It basically kicked it out back to the courts and said, look, you can't broadly apply this just because you had one person file a case. | |
| So that good, that reins in the power of the lower courts a little bit. | |
| And they need to be smacked down quite hard. | |
| These judges that are stepping out of line, and I don't mean just like, oh, it's a ruling I don't like. | |
| I'm like, no, these guys are actually flouting, like saying that the Supreme Court doesn't have the, I can't remember what the case was, but there was a judge that basically is going against what the Supreme Court told him to do. | |
| I'm like, that guy's gone. | |
| That guy's gone. | |
| He does not have a job anymore. | |
| He's lucky he doesn't end up in jail, but he is absolutely gone. | |
| And I do think we will start focusing on that. | |
| I think you've seen a huge shift in what people are thinking about right now because a lot of people are race fatigued from 2024. | |
| That was an intense period of time from late 2023 all the way through the election in 24 and now into the transition and light speed stuff started coming out. | |
| And people will pay attention, but I think they're just a little fatigued with constant races and politics on that sort. | |
| Like the wins and stuff like that. | |
| Yeah, we can still talk about that. | |
| And I think a lot of people are interested. | |
| So don't think that we're not focused on that. | |
| We will be focused on that. | |
| You just kind of have to keep your powder dry a little bit because people's memories are so freaking short. | |
| They will not remember when it comes time to go to the ballot box or really close to it a lot of the things that they should. | |
| They were ice riots last week. | |
| Yes. | |
| It seems like forever ago. | |
| They're not even talking about them anymore. | |
| It's almost like the be able to speak this all up on the street. | |
| But they stopped talking about it when they found those 60 kids in Florida. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Isn't that crazy? | |
| That's insane. | |
| You can kill ice. | |
| Fuck ice. | |
| I know. | |
| Oh, the guy should wear masks. | |
| Yeah, this is insane. | |
| But we will focus on it. | |
| It is necessary. | |
| And just to finish my point, I don't have an obsession with Dave Smith, I promise. | |
| I just tend to comment on a lot of stuff he talks about. | |
| You're not convincing me, dude. | |
| I know. | |
| Much to Lane's chagrin, I think he's smarter and a better dude in general. | |
| I just want people to live in reality than we can have. | |
| There we go. | |
| There we go. | |
| Alexander Solar. |
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