Linda McLaughlin critiques the political landscape, praising Senator Mike Lee's constitutional arguments while condemning the SAVE Act and Mayor Zohran Mamdani for violating church-state separation. She recounts Sarah Huckabee Sanders' restaurant ejection in Little Rock, contrasting it with incidents at The Red Hen, and attacks cashless bail policies alongside Iran's execution of a 19-year-old protester. McLaughlin further denounces Senator Lisa Murkowski's Democratic alignment, dismisses climate change as a hoax, and laments the erosion of work ethic and innocence due to technology, arguing that entitlement and lack of unity define current governance failures. [Automatically generated summary]
Hot takes, cold facts, and zero respect for the official narrative.
Sit back, roll your eyes, and let's recap.
Rogue style.
What's up, everybody?
Welcome to The Rogue Recap.
I am Linda McLaughlin.
Happy to be with you here on this Thursday, March 19th, watching and very proud of Senator Mike Lee of Utah still holding strong.
Three o'clock in the morning.
Last night he was on the Senate floor preaching the good word of, you know, constitutionality, the rights of American citizens, and that those rights belong to American citizens and American citizens only.
A novel concept, but one I'm a big fan of.
And I'm so grateful to him for really sort of being the champion and the leader through all of this.
There are many other senators that are helping.
Senator Houstead came out today with an ID amendment.
Senator Schmidt came out with some amendments.
Senator Cruz is obviously constitutionally an exceptional arbiter of information on this crisis that we have happening in our nation, which is way too many people who don't belong here voting in our elections because the people that are currently holding office for about 8,000 years are afraid that they're finally going to lose because their bought and paid for constituency will no longer be able to scam American taxpayers who foot the bill for their fraud.
So that is the SAVE Act update in a nutshell.
Today, I am going to talk to you about common sense.
I was having a conversation with a friend today, and I'm curious what you guys think about this.
And there's a person who I don't think is necessarily a very good person.
And he's one of these people where he's nice to like famous people or rich people, you know, but your everyday person, he probably doesn't really care all that much about and certainly doesn't lend them the same, I don't know, regard, if you will.
So this person just found out that they have cancer.
And I was talking to another friend about it.
And this friend said, oh, did you hear so-and-so has cancer?
And I said, yeah.
And they were like, yeah, it's horrible.
I'm like, he's still an asshole.
Like, just because you got cancer doesn't mean you're not an asshole anymore.
And everyone's like, oh my God, I can't believe you said that.
I'm like, I'm not saying I hope he dies.
I'm just saying he's not a nice person.
Like, I'm not wishing cancer on him.
He got cancer.
But I just thought it was so interesting how it was like, oh, he has cancer.
So now he's okay.
I'm like, no, he's just an asshole with cancer.
What?
I don't know.
And I sort of feel this way about a lot of things, right?
Where suddenly because something happens, you know, my husband made a great analogy and he said, yeah, it's like when a teenager that's been involved in like gangs or crime or just always on the wrong side of the law, you know, gets caught in some kind of fight, altercation, gets shot, dies, and suddenly it's like, oh, my poor baby.
And it's like, well, yeah, he got shot robbing a store.
So it's just this common sense narrative that seems to elude everyone.
Today I read the story of Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
She's the governor of Arkansas.
She's the former governor's daughter, Mike Huckabee, who now serves as the ambassador to Israel.
And she posted this story.
I'll read it to you because I'm sure you haven't heard of it because it's not getting a lot of play.
But it's a really, it's a really sad, sad state of our affairs in this nation.
So she writes on her exit count, last week, I was having lunch with two other moms at a restaurant when the owner approached a member of the state police executive protection detail and said my presence made their employees feel threatened and they told us to leave.
Now, Arkansans are known for their warm hospitality.
And while that restaurant didn't meet that standard, my administration will continue to focus on lifting Arkansas up and not tearing others down.
Now, if you remember when she was the press secretary during President Trump's first term, she was at a restaurant also in Little Rock, Arkansas.
And it was called the Red Hen.
And they did the same thing.
They asked her to leave because she worked for Trump.
That restaurant went out of business.
So what I'm trying to understand, and it's something that it troubles me, right?
Because I am a deeply passionate person when it comes to my closely held beliefs, right?
God, family, guns, America, and the right to think what I want to think when I want to think it, and not have somebody intrude on those rights.
And so what happens is the left preaches that same mantra, but they don't practice it, right?
No common sense.
It's that it's, it's actually so, it's so entitled the way that the left thinks.
They believe that they should be allowed to do whatever they want and then also tell you to do whatever they want.
While the right is a more independent thinker, sometimes too much so, which is why Republicans as a whole, as we're looking here in the SAVE Act, they can't unite.
They can't unite for a moment because they want to stand out and they want to be independent on certain issues.
And it's like, it's funny, like Rand Paul yesterday during the Mark Wayne Mullen testimony as he was sitting before the Senate for his confirmation hearings.
You know, Ram Paul was very upset because he's like, you know, Mark Wayne Mullen is a bully and he thinks you could settle things with your fists.
And I thought to myself, well, there was a time when some things were settled with our fists and we say, would you like to step outside?
And you had an option at that point to kindly step away and say, no, thank you.
Or you could say, yes, I would.
And I'm not saying that that's the way that things should be, but sometimes it is the way that they are.
Again, common sense, knowing when to step in and step out and when situations require certain behaviors.
Common sense is falling down the steps into the river and to a horrible death.
There are so few people that are able to A, problem solve and B, be able to realize when certain situations warrant either a closer look or maybe no look at all.
Maybe sometimes things just are what they are.
There are moments like this when I see a restaurant choose to ask somebody to leave their establishment and treat that person like that.
And I think, why?
Why would you come up and do that?
Why would you tell them?
And by the way, the name of the restaurant, it's called the Croissantier or Croissanterie.
And it's also in Little Rock.
I don't know what's going on in Little Rock.
And the two chefs are Jill McDonald and Wendy Shea.
So Jill and Wendy decided that they wanted to ask the governor of their state who had decided to come and sit in their restaurant to leave because people that worked in their restaurant were nervous that she was there.
Nobody was bothering anybody.
Nobody was doing anything.
And here's what's interesting, right?
What was making you nervous?
What was bothering you?
What was making you feel like you couldn't go about your business or do your job?
Typically, when people get nervous around police or they get nervous around people that hold positions of power or in government, it's because they're doing something wrong.
You must be doing something wrong if you think somebody's standing there.
Like the guy that's providing security detail has two jobs.
He has to pay attention to everything that's happening around him and everything that's happening around the governor and make sure that he is on high alert so that, God forbid, something does happen, he can respond.
And these people that work there think that they're watching them pick up plates and bust tables.
That's not what's happening.
This is not an example of a moment where you're feeling that maybe you're being ostracized or targeted, right?
It's this mantra that puts common sense to the side and then says, like what we saw in Minnesota, I'm allowed to go out, stand in the middle of the street, kick DHS officers, throw things at them, attack them, stand in front of their vehicles, obstruct ongoing investigations, follow police vehicles as they're going to arrest people.
There's no common sense.
And so they see these instances and then they relate it to a governor who at that moment wasn't the governor.
She was just a mom sitting down with two other moms talking about mom stuff.
And they made her leave.
Now, here's an interesting note.
She had been there.
She had her meal.
She paid for her meal.
And then they kicked her out.
Why?
Why would you do any of that?
Why would you make someone feel like that?
The idea behind having a restaurant is to welcome everyone.
Now, if somebody comes in and they're drunk or somebody comes in and they're causing a scene or somebody comes in and they're being, I don't know, demoralizing to one of your employees or they're harassing one of your employees, sure.
You reserve the right to kick them out.
Absolutely.
You're a private business and you can do that.
And what's interesting is in this case, because the person that they're kicking out is a conservative, nobody will cover this.
You won't see this on The View.
You won't see it in People Magazine.
You won't hear about it on your, you know, Alphabet City mainstream media.
You're not going to hear anything about it.
But God forbid that was Jasmine Crockett.
God forbid that was Joy Reed.
God forbid it was the Clintons or the Obamas.
You would hear about it for days and days.
Why?
Because they can make it into something that it's not.
If I own a restaurant and you come in and I'm a conservative and you're a Democrat and I'm like, you know what, I don't want to see your face in my restaurant.
I can do one of two things.
I can serve you a beautiful meal and you'll reluctantly have to tell me how wonderful it is, even though you're a begrudgingly angry Democrat who doesn't want to say it.
Or I can tell you to get out.
What do you think the smarter thing is to do?
You're in business, especially the restaurant business.
You are in business to feed people and make money.
I mean, this is your whole reason for cooking and opening up a place to eat.
And the idea that you would say, I don't like the governor.
I don't want to serve them.
But that's not what happened.
They did serve her.
Then they decided to treat her like shit.
So we go into this other issue of looking around and watching things that are happening and saying that feels wrong.
For example, if we look at last week, we see this asshole mayor who I will tell you right now, I do not believe he won the race for mayor.
I do believe that there were a lot of people who lied.
I believe there were a lot of people who voted who shouldn't have voted.
They have people coming out of the voting booth the day of the election saying, I voted seven times today.
You know, these are just stupid people that can get away with anything because it's New York and it's a hot mess.
And if you've been in New York lately, you have seen how dirty, how unkept the trash, the homelessness, the open air drug use.
It is disgusting.
The idea that Hochul and Momdani think for one second people are going to stay.
They have lost their mind.
And now through certain parts of New York, you are hearing the call to prayer five times a day, just like they do in Minnesota, just like they do in Michigan, and now just like they're doing in New York.
And I'm curious if you think for one second, if that was a Hasidic group that said, yes, we want to have prayer in the middle of Times Square.
We have elected a Jewish mayor and now we will have Sabbath.
So yes, the mayor's office will be closed, you know, Friday, sundown to Saturday, sundown.
I mean, it would be the talk of the town.
Be like, listen, separation of church and state exists for a reason, common sense.
But common sense goes out the window because now common sense is competing with Islamophobia.
So now if you say to somebody, oh, I would really appreciate it if we didn't sit on the floor in Gracie Mansion and eat with our hands, because that's not what we do in America.
In America, we sit at tables in chairs and we use a fork and a knife.
And that is how we proceed with our meals.
But because our mayor is Ugandan and God knows what else, they're saying, oh, no, this is okay.
We're going to celebrate this.
How about you celebrate this in your own private residence?
Gracie Mansion is a place for you to live while you're mayor, but it has nothing to do with you actually having meals on the floor of Gracie Mansion.
That is taking a place that serves the people of New York.
And the people of New York are many, many different things.
They're Christians, they're Catholics, they're Jewish, they're Orthodox Jewish, we have Orthodox Greeks, we have Roman Orthodox, we have Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, absurd that this is what we are turning Gracie Mansion into.
And the reason that it is happening with Zonramandani is because of the fact that people are afraid to say, excuse me, this is a Judeo-Christian nation.
We are founded and rooted in those principles.
If you would like to do your call to prayer, if you would like to get out your prayer rug and lay down on the ground, if you would like to eat with your hands, you can do that in a mosque or in the privacy of your home.
I would not expect, even though we are a Judeo-Christian nation, to hear church bells all throughout the city all day long.
I wouldn't because New York is a melting pot.
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But unfortunately, common sense has gone out the window.
And now, in addition to that, they've raised the taxes and they're raising taxes in almost every blue state across the country.
Well, why is that?
Well, that's because they've decided that their common sense is less valuable than what the cost is for all the programs that they want to do.
So as they begin to realize that they can't afford to do what they said they were going to do, they're like, okay, well, we're just going to keep taxing people.
We're going to tax them so much.
Guess what's going to happen?
They're going to go to another state.
So now you are seeing a mass exodus of very wealthy business people, very wealthy people who have maybe inherited things, and they're all leaving.
And they're going to red states so that they can live a life where they can honestly be able to enjoy the money that they've worked so hard for.
Common sense.
So now what happens when all that money leaves the budgets of these blue states?
And all they're left with are crackheads, illegal immigrants, and people who are living off of the system and have been living off of the system for their entire lives.
Why?
Why is that?
Why would they want to do that?
Does it make any sense?
No, it's so that they can say it out loud, so they can say that they're doing something.
We believe in DEI.
What is DEI?
I know what it is.
It's called racism.
It's hiring someone based on the way that they look.
It's not a meritocracy.
It's not saying this is the best person for the job.
And it's also not judging somebody when they've done something wrong.
This whole idea that we have cashless bail or this whole idea that we are saying to people, well, we know that you went into a Texas school with a machine gun, but we're going to let you out within 24 hours.
I'm sorry.
Why are we doing that?
So we have a female judge who lets out this person in a Texas school and says, no, I don't think we need to do that.
That doesn't make any sense.
So we're just going to let that person out.
And yeah, sorry, not sorry.
So now if your child goes to that school, how are you feeling right now?
Do you think that they're safe?
Do you think this is a good idea?
And not to mention the fact, it was only on March 1st that we had a mass shooter in Austin, Texas, who was from Senegal.
He was a West African migrant who shot everybody up screaming that he was property of Allah and screaming Allahu Akbar.
And now here we are.
We're like, it's not even a month.
It's like two and a half weeks.
And it's like, oh, okay, so now we have this guy walking into a Texas school and we have a judge releasing him in under 24 hours.
Do we not care about the children?
Do we not care about what's really happening?
Where is the common sense?
If that was your child, if that was your child's school, wouldn't you want it to be handled differently?
This is the stuff that I don't understand.
If you look at the attacks that happen, like I said a few podcasts ago, you're looking at all of these people that are committing these crimes.
They are not white people.
They are illegal immigrants.
They're naturalized citizens because they came in under Biden and they let it go.
It doesn't make any sense.
I do not understand why on earth you would let this person out.
And just as a point of note, the guy who came to Zwink Elementary in Klein, Texas with a gun, he was an Iraqi national.
The judge is a person of color.
I have no idea what she is.
She lets him go free.
So now a guy who went to an elementary school with a gun, posted $75,000 to get out, is now on the street.
Why?
Why do you want to do this?
No common sense.
The stories like this go on and on and on.
And at some point, you have to say enough.
Another common sense moment.
We look at Lisa Murkowski.
She's a senator from Alaska.
She consistently votes with Democrats.
Common sense would tell me that she is a Democrat, which is fine.
Go be a Democrat.
Stop running as a Republican.
What are we doing?
And then you have people who are coming out talking about climate change.
Have you not realized that climate change is the biggest hoax in the world?
Do you not understand that there is no science that backs this?
Don't you get the reason why they changed the phrase from global warming to climate change was because global warming no longer fit what was actually happening?
It no longer made sense.
Nothing on the agenda was fitting with global warming.
Sure as hell was fitting with climate change, though, right?
Because the weather was changing.
Common sense.
I could go on and on about these issues.
Every single day we see things happening and we have a choice.
We have a choice to make a common sense decision and say, I don't think that we should give a nine-year-old the choice of taking transgender medicine, doping their minds up with SSRIs, and then potentially having life-altering surgeries before the age of 10.
Call me crazy.
Common sense.
I have a 10-year-old.
From day to day, he's not sure how he feels about chicken nuggets.
Now you're going to tell me he has a right to make a decision that he will never be able to undo for the rest of his life?
You're an asshole.
You're a liar.
No common sense.
And when we have 100 senators and only a handful of them have the gumption to get up there and actually defend a bill that says American citizens should vote in American elections and that's it.
And this is a difficult concept that we have to debate for days and days and days on end.
And then they're worried because now, guess what tomorrow is?
It's Friday.
That's typically the travel day for our less than eager senators who like to take long weekends because, you know, they travel on a Friday, they travel on a Monday, they're back home Saturday, Sunday.
They only work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
They'll tell you that they're back in their home districts doing work, but I would be hard pressed to see any of them doing much of anything unless they're campaigning to get back into office.
Then they're everywhere.
They're kissing babies and eating exit diners and all the other bullshit they do.
But the common sense idea that you would continue to work through the current bill that you're trying to pass or that you're trying to stop, you would have to work through the weekend.
How many American people have to work the weekend?
How many times have you gotten called in on a weekend?
How many times have you had to stay late at the office or at your job, whatever it is?
Many, many times.
How many times have you worked double shifts?
These people, it's been so long since they've had to work.
They don't even know the half of it.
That's why they don't understand why we're so pissed off.
That's why they don't understand how we're really feeling.
And while we're upset and while we're, you know, freaking out about what's happening and that we have to use our license to go and vote and prove that we're an American citizen, just remember that the IRGC today executed a 19-year-old championship wrestler because he was one of the people that stood up and protested against the clerics and the regime.
You think you got it tough here?
I'll tell you what, you better use your common sense and be grateful for the nation that you have and defend it because you have no idea what it is you've lost until you've lost it.
Don't be that person.
Have common sense.
And if you do have it, remind everybody around you a little bit of what it is.
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Because I'll tell you what, my husband sent me a video last night.
It was a big wheels commercial from back in the day.
And I watched it and I thought, my God, I wish that I was in that commercial right now.
Those kids look so genuinely happy.
No computers, no phones, no tablets, no social media, no digital, you know, branding for the rest of your life because, you know, the internet does not forget these kids, everything they're doing, everybody's going to know about it forever.
I feel so grateful that I don't have that.
And I'm so sad for my kids that they're going to all have that and be like, oh, I can't believe I posted that.
Oh, I can't believe I wore that.
At least we could look at them in pictures and then close the album and put it away.
It's just a sad state of affairs because we've lost all of our common sense.
And that is the theme of today's show.
I hope you guys are doing good.
Praying for our troops, praying for everybody to return safely home, praying for this poor family that lost their son in Barcelona and they found him in the water today.
I can't even imagine this family has to be just completely torn up.
I'll have them in my prayers tonight.
I hope you do too.
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