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| Welcome to episode number five of the Rogue Recap. | |
| So much to get to today, like every day, and some really fun stuff today. | |
| So I'm going to start out with the good news, and I think you'll be as happy as I am. | |
| I mean, let's be honest. | |
| You guys are smart, so this is going to be a very good thing. | |
| So are you ready? | |
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| Here it comes. | |
| Ilhan Omar has been removed officially from the Foreign Affairs Committee in Congress. | |
| I am so happy, so ecstatic. | |
| This is some of the best news that I've heard in a long time. | |
| It couldn't happen to a nicer person, right? | |
| Ilhan Omar. | |
| She misses Somalia. | |
| She's so mad at America. | |
| Everything about it is terrible. | |
| Guess what? | |
| Get out. | |
| Go now. | |
| We just go. | |
| Like I said the other day, I will pay for you. | |
| I will pay for your daughter to go first class back to your beloved Somalia. | |
| I just want you to leave here because you're just so full of crap on everything. | |
| But on a positive note, uh Congress is wising up. | |
| They got rid of her out of the foreign affairs committee, considering the fact that she hates white men and she is very hateful of Jewish people and belongs to Justice for Palestine groups, and her daughter is part of the violent occupying, you know, universities at Columbia and Cornell and moving their movement to Yale and Harvard and all these other, you know, elite universities where they give out full scholarships to people from other countries and then our liberal parents send their kids there, and you know, it just costs so much money. | |
| And for what? | |
| So you can indoctrinate your children. | |
| It's utter nonsense. | |
| Super happy about that, and thought you might be too. | |
| Let's look at some of the madness since we're on that topic of kids in these universities. | |
| I was looking around today and I was like, ah, everybody's talking about the Pope, and there's a lot of conversation about the uh agreement that President Trump made with the Prime Minister uh Keir Starmer over in the UK for trade. | |
| A lot of people were talking about Trump's upcoming Middle East trip, which will be his first Middle Age trip here in the second term. | |
| And that's all very interesting. | |
| But when I was looking for things that I thought weren't being discussed with what is happening at these universities, and so sad, Temple University is one of the biggest purveyor of this free Palestine anti-Semitic schools. | |
| I mean, they have this rabid anti-Semitism on their campuses. | |
| And I'm just like, how is this a thing? | |
| Like, I thought it was, you know, if you showed that kind of hatred where you were acting upon it, and you know, it's not it, it crosses the line of free speech, right? | |
| It's like this is where we get in this sort of gray area of when do your rights infringe upon another rights, therefore making your rights not fair, right? | |
| Pun intended. | |
| I have two clips I want to play for you. | |
| The first one is this temple student, this she, her, I really honestly, guys, I'm just not sure. | |
| I mean, it's so sad to say. | |
| But this individual has a ponytail, a mask on, so that you can't see their face because you know it's uh it's May, so you gotta protect your face. | |
| What a crock. | |
| Another person who's so dedicated to their movement that they don't want you to know who they are. | |
| But this person uh is a leader with Temple University Students for Justice in Palestine, and they're talking about how they we have to keep moving forward so that we can destroy the United States. | |
| So this is a white person who is a man pretending to be a woman or a boy pretending to be a girl because they're in college, and they've got the earrings and the necklace and the some of the it's uh honestly, it's just a lot, but I'm doing my best to describe it to you. | |
| But they go on this tear about how they want to destroy the United States. | |
| I mean, if you don't like the United States and you want to free Palestine, I I really do urge you to go to the West Bank as your as your binary self and see how welcome you will be there. | |
| I really do think these kids would be shocked out of their minds if they saw how things were actually handled. | |
| But here is this individual, just uh take a listen. | |
| One of the things that I've been reflecting on is this idea of disclosing and divestment being a central demand of the student movement last spring. | |
| When we ask university to divest from imperialism, the only way to pull that man that man is destroying the university. | |
| And we should embrace that because that's not what we have to do if we're gonna get real about liberation. | |
| So let's just be clear. | |
| This is a man pretending to be a woman wearing a necklace and earrings and a face mask, which is why he's so muffled, talking about crushing imperialism and being liberated while going to a private institution and paying for college. | |
| The irony clearly is lost on this individual, as I'm sure many things are. | |
| Um we must accept the eventuality of bringing the USA to its knees. | |
| Also, good to note here, this person now just did something to their phone because they're obviously doing a selfie video, and they actually scrolled up, clearly reading some sort of script, no original thought here, nothing unique, nothing on his own. | |
| This is just him reading from his iPhone something that somebody said to him and said, Hey, this is what we're gonna, this is we're gonna all read. | |
| We're all gonna do this, right? | |
| Because it's a group think. | |
| To its knees, um, educate and disseminate and um loop in other people on why these are victories. | |
| Because we know it's victories. | |
| We know it's a victory when um when a red triangle goes above above an Israeli soldier's head and the pig gets ice. | |
| Like, we know that's a victory. | |
| We know it's a a red triangle goes above the soldier's head and they get iced. | |
| What in God's grace? | |
| I mean, has this kid just been playing like too much GTA or like what is happening? | |
| Honestly, dude, what are you talking about? | |
| And the funny part is if I asked him that, he wouldn't be able to tell me. | |
| He would just continue with the rhetoric, which is exactly that. | |
| There would be no, you know, again, no individual thought whatsoever. | |
| Oh, it's a victory when prisoners break out. | |
| We know it's a victory. | |
| So it's a victory when the prisoners break out. | |
| Why is it a victory when the prisoners break out? | |
| I would love to see this individual standing there with his free Palestine shirt on in Gaza on the West Bank with his ponytail and his earrings and his jewelry on his wrists, talking about free Palestine and liberating liberating Palestine, saying, yes, let the prisoners out. | |
| Okay, let's let all the prisoners out. | |
| Let's let all the people who are committing any sort of crime along the West Bank. | |
| Let's let them out and we'll send them to you because you understand their plight, you understand what is happening, and and you want to help them, right? | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| Sure. | |
| Okay. | |
| So this guy is uh Justice for Palestine, Temple University campus leader. | |
| Here's another group. | |
| And sadly, this group is also on the Temple University campus in Philly. | |
| Take a listen to these guys. | |
| So we see this existential connection between the Palestinian students movement and uh the political prisoners to the Palestinian student they the day after of Oslo, they changed their activism from the campus to the artist. | |
| If Palestine is uh liberated, this means uh this is uh an ail uh to dismantle the United States uh of America. | |
| Let me just tell you what this looks like. | |
| Two two quick things. | |
| This is some sort of Zoom call. | |
| There's a bunch of students on there, and there's this guy who they hate America, so I'm not gonna plug their group. | |
| This guy's sitting there and he's saying, if Palestine is liberated, it is a nail to dismantle the United States of America. | |
| So these people who claim the only thing they want to do uh is help the people that are trapped in Gaza and help the people under the thumb of Israel and help to free these people so that they can lead a better life. | |
| When in fact, that's not it at all. | |
| He just said the people that are in schools, the people that join these groups, they go from being students to joining the quote unquote armed struggle. | |
| So you're joining the armed struggle. | |
| That doesn't sound very peaceful to me. | |
| And we already know that this is what's going on, right? | |
| They can walk around and say they're here for peaceful protests, and they've got their messons and the cafe phases, they got their hands up in the air, you know, and and we're here for justice for whomever. | |
| But it's a load of crap because we know that it's not it's not true, and we know that they're being dishonest. | |
| And why are they being dishonest? | |
| Because they can. | |
| Because these liberal states allow them to do it. | |
| If if I was, you know, on the board of Temple University or, you know, the president of a college or the provost, I would kick all these assholes out. | |
| Goodbye. | |
| See you later. | |
| We're not teaching hate, and we're certainly not allowing it to be organized and coordinated on campus. | |
| But they do allow it to happen. | |
| And I guess that's the next question, right? | |
| What's going on at Temple? | |
| We know it's a victory when um when a red triangle goes above above an Israeli soldier's head and the page death's ice. | |
| Like we know that's a victory. | |
| We know it's a victory when prisoners break out. | |
| We know it's a victory when all these things happen. | |
| But a lot of people don't necessarily know that. | |
| And it's not their fault they don't know that. | |
| It's our fault. | |
| So that voice you just heard in the previous audio, it's the same guy, and he's saying it's not their fault when we have these victories. | |
| And the victories he's talking about is when an Israeli soldier dies or a soldier defending capitalism or imperialism, as he calls it, dies. | |
| We need we need to let the public know about these victories. | |
| So they're celebrating death, they're celebrating murder, they're celebrating war. | |
| It's a real thing. | |
| We will freedom Mia because it is our job to destroy imperialism, destroy the United States, and destroy capitalism and the system of extraction that it relies on to perpetuate itself. | |
| And we will do it by organizing in a manner that actively undermines and destabilizes the legitimacy and the you know power of the state and the power and legitimacy of capitalism. | |
| So let's think about that for a minute. | |
| These are a bunch of college students sitting around talking about how they want to destabilize and dismantle the United States of America. | |
| So they're here and attending the university and talking about how much they hate America. | |
| I am so mystified as to why they're here. | |
| Just leave, go somewhere else. | |
| If you don't like how we do things or the way that we do things or what we believe in here, that's okay. | |
| Go somewhere else. | |
| We may not be perfect. | |
| In fact, I know we're not as a nation, but we're the closest thing to it, that's for sure. | |
| There's no other place where this amount of people exist that are so different and believe so many different things and manage to function. | |
| All of these days, I don't know if you'd say we're functioning. | |
| I'd say we're just kind of going along to get along because things Are just so ass backwards. | |
| And we've got these kids that are so entitled, they're so misinformed. | |
| And it's it's actually very sad. | |
| I don't know where this hatred for a nation that you can do all these things in is coming from. | |
| And it makes me, you know, saying this to one of my sons the other day, I said, you know, you don't have to go to college. | |
| I don't care if you go to college. | |
| I just want you to do something so that you can take care of yourself, provide for yourself and your family one day, and live a good healthy life. | |
| It doesn't matter to me if you go to college. | |
| It just matters to me that you can take care of yourself and that you're going to be okay. | |
| If you want to go to a trade school, if you want to learn how to become a plumber or a welder or do something with contracting, like or go to you get your real estate license, whatever it is. | |
| I am totally okay with that. | |
| Because I actually would prefer not to argue all the time with these private universities about the utter nonsense that they're teaching. | |
| Like the indoctrination is very real. | |
| And anybody who's got kids in school, whether it's in college, high school, grade school, public school. | |
| I used to think if I sent my kids to private school, or if I sent my kids to charter school, if if I saved up enough money to Catholic school, that I would be able to avoid a lot of these things. | |
| But I gotta say, it's not true. | |
| It's really not true. | |
| The and everybody, it's it's almost like everybody's outwoking themselves. | |
| You know, the next person wants to do the next crazy thing. | |
| And I read this article today in the Wall Street Journal, and it said, you know, high school juniors have $70,000 a year job offers because there are companies with these shortages of skilled workers. | |
| So they need these skilled workers in their, you know, whether it's apprenticeship programs, their internships, there's all these different things that they could do and that they could learn about, and they don't need to go to college. | |
| And then when they leave high school, they have a job, right? | |
| There, it's not like a maybe, it's a definite. | |
| So I think there's there's definitely something to be said for that. | |
| And there is most certainly a need for it. | |
| I will tell you that much. | |
| And 70,000 a year to start. | |
| I mean, my god, I remember my first job. | |
| Gosh, when I was in my 20s, it was like 20,000 a year. | |
| I was oh my god, I was so poor. | |
| Forget about it. | |
| It was a real thing. | |
| I could see how there's this is a nation of confusion because for far too long, we were under Joe Biden. | |
| Um, and Joe Biden is just truly just an utter moron. | |
| And he just did his first interview after losing the 2024 election, thank God. | |
| Sitting there with Joy Behar, they have the entire dais completely full on the set. | |
| So they've got the the whole hosting crew there because they all want to be there, right? | |
| Because Joe Biden's there for his first interview, and it's historic. | |
| This is what Joe Biden sounds like talking today on the view. | |
| Just take a list. | |
| They're all the projects the project, the benefits. | |
| How do you lead the world without having the best infrastructure? | |
| How do you lead the world without without having the best health care in the world? | |
| How do you lead the world without having the best education? | |
| How do you lead the world when you don't have that done? | |
| Huh. | |
| I I don't know. | |
| Do you guys have any idea what that man just said? | |
| I heard him say, how do you lead the world? | |
| So I guess he memorized that that one part of the sentence and it stuck. | |
| And then I heard health care. | |
| The rest of it is just that weird mumbling thing that he did when he was president. | |
| And now, you know, him and and Dr. Joe Biden are out saying, Oh, no, no, there was no cognitive decline. | |
| He was fine the whole time. | |
| Really? | |
| Hmm. | |
| That's interesting. | |
| Because he literally was waving to people in the crowd that had passed away. | |
| He was facing in one direction when you know, world leaders were all facing another direction. | |
| Um, let's just listen to it again, just for fun and see how many words you could decipher. | |
| Because I tell you what, I'm really, I'm struggling. | |
| The project, the benefits. | |
| How do you lead the world without best infrastructure? | |
| How do you lead the world without without having the best health care in the world? | |
| How do you lead the world without having the best education? | |
| How do you lead the world when you don't have that done? | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| Well, all I can say is praise God that we do not have anyone like this man associated with this man in the White House because I thought Kamala Harris a couple of weeks ago when she was talking about the elephants. | |
| So we have Kamala Harris, who could have been president talking about elephants, and then we have the guy that was president. | |
| I mean, that's not even a sentence. | |
| I I actually feel, you know, like that that is so embarrassing for our country that he's sitting there and talking about that. | |
| I just, man, oh man, I'll tell you, that is uh, that is something. | |
| Even Joy Behar's face when she's looking at him, when she kind of puts this her hand on his arm and she's like, okay, let's take it easy, please. | |
| Let's just uh let's not talk anymore because that's not doing so good with that, right? | |
| It's just crazy. | |
| And it leads me into my next topic of today, which I have to say I could not believe when I read the story and I was like, I gotta see what everybody thinks about this. | |
| There is a British couple, Peter and Christine Scott, and they are scheduled to end their lives via assisted suicide in the sarcopod in Switzerland. | |
| And this is going to be the first time UK citizens are using advanced technology for assisted dying. | |
| Peter explained that he and Christine are both 80. | |
| They made this decision after 46 years of marriage, and the impetus for the decision uh is because she has vascular dementia. | |
| This sarcopod, I guess is the most fancy way for you to take your own life. | |
| It's like the Tesla of euthanasia, is what it says in the article. | |
| It's the quote. | |
| They use liquid nitrogen, and then you die by gas asphyxiation. | |
| There's gonna be a coroner there. | |
| They're going to videotape the final moments of their death so that uh the coroner can say that this is exactly the way that it went and this is what they want it and so on and so forth. | |
| I don't, I gotta be honest, I just don't know how I feel about this. | |
| There's a lot of thought about taking your own life when you're in your later years and you're very sick. | |
| And I'm just wondering when you are that sick, how that all, how that all shakes out. | |
| What does that mean for you and why why shouldn't you have the right to make the decision to end it? | |
| I mean, if you don't want to be dependent on your family, if you don't want to, if you don't want to be in a spot where you have to forget everyone you ever loved and everything you ever did and all of your memories, and you regress to the point where you no longer know how to brush your teeth and you no longer have know how to go to the bathroom by yourself, like all of these, just the indignity of it all, right? | |
| Or you have a you know stage four cancer and they've said that you've tried everything, right? | |
| All of the traditional and holistic medicines, and you're not gonna make it. | |
| Then I guess I could see at some point wanting to end it all. | |
| But the religious side of me, the Christian side of me is like, can't take your life. | |
| It's a sin. | |
| You really do have to just wait for the Lord to call you home. | |
| It's just wrong. | |
| But I don't know. | |
| There's a lot of people who feel really differently about this. | |
| They feel like if you're really sick, why go through the pain and why put your family through the pain, right? | |
| I'm very conflicted on this. | |
| I would love to know what you think. | |
| So please hit me um on social media at Rogue Recap or at Lyndamick and let me know because that's definitely one of those very, very touchy topics. | |
| I don't know, I'm just curious. | |
| I'm definitely a little, I'm on the fence about that one. | |
| I'm not sure how I feel about that. | |
| And here's another good one for you. | |
| So there's a there was a police shooting, uh, fatal shooting, and a police officer had to defend himself against a very intoxicated man who was riding a motorcycle, and he was in Newport Beach in California. | |
| The police officer pulled him over on this motorcycle. | |
| He's clearly intoxicated. | |
| As soon as he gets off the bike, he starts yelling to the officer that he's not intoxicated and I'm fine and don't worry, and all this, that, and the other, but he won't listen to the officer. | |
| He will not just listen to the officer. | |
| The officer tells him you're being detained. | |
| And as he's staring there talking, he starts to pee himself. | |
| So the officer's like, sir, you're clearly drinking, you know, you're peeing yourself. | |
| Let's just work this out. | |
| Please sit down. | |
| And I'm sure the officer's thinking, like, you're on a motorcycle, you're gonna kill yourself, you're gonna kill somebody else, you're gonna cause a massive accident. | |
| And this guy just won't listen. | |
| He just keeps pushing back. | |
| And we have uh we have the tape of that, and I just want to play this and just show how difficult these police officers when they pull somebody over. | |
| People don't want to listen, and then they wonder why they get shot. | |
| Okay? | |
| Yes, I haven't been drinking all this yet. | |
| I'm totally sober. | |
| I'm just trying to see safe people be releasing me all day, sir. | |
| What's that? | |
| People have been almost hitting me all day. | |
| Okay, you want to come over here and just take a seat rare? | |
| No, I don't want to see this. | |
| Okay, just I'm telling you, take a seat rare. | |
| Come here. | |
| I don't care if you tell me what you're telling me to do. | |
| He's like, I'll take a kill once. | |
| Sit down, dude. | |
| Stop. | |
| Stop. | |
| Come here, get off the bike. | |
| Sit down. | |
| No, sit down, dude. | |
| Come here. | |
| I don't want to sit down and come here. | |
| No. | |
| T6 is on cooperative. | |
| Come here, dude. | |
| Sit down. | |
| Don't get back on your bike. | |
| Now listen to this police officer. | |
| He's not being rude. | |
| It's not giving him a hard time. | |
| He's telling him to sit down. | |
| This guy will not sit down. | |
| Don't get back on your bike. | |
| Sit down. | |
| Alright, you guys are asking me. | |
| Dude, you ran a red light. | |
| Just sit down and we'll figure it out, okay? | |
| Soundgill. | |
| What's your name? | |
| What's your name? | |
| here. | |
| Don't shoot me. | |
| I'm not gonna shoot you. | |
| Don't reach for that. | |
| Sit down, dude. | |
| We'll figure it out. | |
| I don't want to sit down. | |
| Okay, well, you're gonna sit down. | |
| No, I don't want to sit down. | |
| You're being detained right now. | |
| You're not free to leave. | |
| You're not for you to get back on a bike. | |
| You're gonna sit down for me. | |
| I have a I have an ID, correct? | |
| Can I get my ID? | |
| No, just sit down over here. | |
| I don't want to sit down over there. | |
| I don't have an idea. | |
| Sit down, dude. | |
| No. | |
| You ran a red light, you're pissing yourself. | |
| No. | |
| I don't want to sit down over there. | |
| Now can someone tell me why? | |
| This officer is trying so hard to get this man to just sit down. | |
| Just sit down. | |
| And he won't. | |
| And then he decides that he is going to attack the officer. | |
| Are you insane? | |
| Obviously, he's intoxicated, but my God, I just them fighting. | |
| The officer is fighting him. | |
| The guy grabs the officer's taser while they're fighting, takes it off the off the officer, and then tries to use the taser on the officer's head. | |
| The officer has no choice. | |
| He's got to defend himself. | |
| He won't stop pointing the taser at him. | |
| Drop it! | |
| *crash* *sad music* | |
| And that's it. | |
| It's over. | |
| Why in the world does this person think the right thing to do is to take an officer's weapon off of his body and point it at the officer? | |
| I mean, it just doesn't have to be that hard. | |
| And he's not doing anything wrong. | |
| The officer is being so nice, almost too nice. | |
| And this guy just won't listen. | |
| He just won't listen. | |
| He doesn't want any part of doing the right thing and just listening. | |
| But now his life is over, and this officer has to live with the fact that he took his life. | |
| I mean, the whole thing's just so depressing. | |
| And it just comes back full circle. | |
| Like everything we're talking about on today's show. | |
| Whether it's these students being led by these radicals from all over the world, leading these Antifa free Palestine, I hate America groups, marching through the streets, taking over dorms, taking over universities, taking over libraries in the universities, being disruptive to police officers. | |
| And they were all led by this, you know, moron president Biden who literally can't put a sentence together. | |
| Not being funny. | |
| He actually cannot. | |
| It's insane. | |
| I mean, what are we supposed to do? | |
| Except throw our hands up in the air and say, enough. | |
| We have to take the country back. | |
| We have to get back to law and order. | |
| The adults are back in the room. | |
| Goodbye. | |
| You've had your chance. | |
| Um, you don't know what you're doing. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| Thanks for playing. | |
| Good effort. | |
| See ya. | |
| That's where I really feel like we're at. | |
| I hope you guys agree with me. | |
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| I'm Ben Ferguson, and I'm Ted Cruz. | |
| Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. | |
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| Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. | |
| From Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco Benghazi. | |
| What difference at this point does it make? | |
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