Woke and Confused

Published Jul 14, 2022, 9:45 PM

The out-of-touch Democrats have reached a new low. Today, our favorite taco joins our favorite spicy meatball to laugh (and cringe) at the Left’s latest demented statements. Senator Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles consider the Democratic machine’s recent separation from Biden and what it means for the 2024 Democratic primary. Plus, some seriously insane interactions occur during a congressional hearing between this "person with the capacity for pregnancy" and the Senators. And if the Left wasn’t already going far enough off the rails, Macie Gray is now transphobic for, well, being proud to be a woman.

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Or you can send the word cactus via text message to six five five three two. You'll be glad you did. Welcome back to Verdict. I'm Michael Knowles, joined as ever by my favorite taco, Senator, Ted Cruz. Senator, how spicy are you feeling today? I feel like a good Charissa and egg and cheese taco And Michael, I gotta say there are times when life imitates satire. If Saturday Night Live was trying to mock an out of touch Democrat going in front of an Hispanic audience and saying, you guys are a bunch of tacos. Look like I'm sorry, Tina Fey could have delivered that line. Your tacos and the Bogadas. It isn't Bogata the Capitol Colombia like like like apparently Jill's never been to Aga. I mean, it's that is just weird, and it's it typifies the out of touch Democrat condescension to Latin xes. By the way, that conference was the Latin X explosion. And I gotta tell you right now, anyone who puts an X in the word Latino or Latina ain't actually one of them. It is only a woke white leftist are the only people that stick xes in it. And that's apparently why the Bidens think we're tacos. I can't wait for Joe Biden to pander to my community, the Italian American community, and say, you know, you, you Italian Americans, you're greasier than a bowl of sponge. You are slipperier than a nice focaccia bread. I don't think it would do a lot to win over the Italian vote. And I do know Democrats have been struggling with the Hispanic vote recycled. The Republicans say, we're about to make huge inroads with the black community or the Hispanic community. But if you look at the numbers right now, it would appear that massive chunks of the Hispanic voting block are moving right word right now. So do you think that the taco pandering is going to win them back? So look, Michael, in all seriousness, you, Michael Knowles, are a spicy meatball. Thank you, thank you. Hi. Maybe a taco, but you are a meat ball with an extra zest. I've set it for years. And look, since I'm I'm Irish at Italian too, maybe I got a little meatball in my taco and I don't know, Irish with a pint of Guennis, I don't know. I don't even know. It's it's that's not too bad. I've never had Guinnis for breakfast, but breakfast taco and there we go. We're set. It's actually amazing what is happening with Hispanic voters. By the way, there's an interesting there was polling some time ago that I saw. I haven't seen it recently, but five ten years ago the polling was is that people whose self reference as Hispanic tend to be more conservative, people whose self reference as Latino tend to be further left, and people who self reference as Chicano tend to be the furthest left. And it's just kind of an interesting language piece. I don't know if that still holds, because that polling data is a little bit out of date. I think the people who self identify as Latins they actually tend to skew white. I think they're entirely white and not yes and and and and woke and confused. It's the opposite of days and confused. It it's very well, you know, it's an amazing thing. The Democrats numbers among Hispanics are plummeting, and we saw that with Mira Flores, who was elected in Texas special election just a couple of weeks ago. The district runs from just south of San Antonio all the way down to Brownsville to the southern tip of Texas. It literally right on the border with Mexico. That is a district that hasn't had a Republican represented since eighteen seventy one. That's a long time. And I've been predicting for a long time I think all of South Texas is going to turn red. By the way, Miraflores's district is the second most Hispanic congressional district in the entire United States of America. It's it's something like eighty four percent Hispanic. I'm not remembering the exact number, but it's in the neighborhood of eighty four percent. Is that a fluke or is that a bell weather for the mid terms? I think it is very much a bell weather. There are two other congressional seats in South Texas are that are represented by Democrats right now, I think there is a very good chance that at least two out of those three will be represented by Republicans come January, and it might be all three of the those three. And interestingly enough, those Republicans, the candidates, all three are Hispanic women. I've endorsed all of them. I'm campaigning for all of them. And throughout the Rio Grand Valley at South Texas, it has voted Democrat for over one hundred years. That's how long it's been. And there's all sorts of things that are causing that. I mean, it's the you know, the the out of touch wokeness of calling people Latin X. And by the way, who sends the first lady to a conference called the Latin X conference? And that taco thing. Here's the amazing thing that what an ad lib. This wasn't a Joe Biden like screw up because they just let him like meander off and talk. She was reading from a teleprompter. Yeah, a White House staffer wrote those lines and thought, isn't this great if we call them all tacos, they'll clearly vote for us if we do that. That's a really important point because you've seen a ton of gaffs this week from Joe Biden. Biden at one point the White House tried to cover this up, but he actually read on the teleprompter, repeat the line, repeat the line now. But he didn't repeat the line. He just read, repeat the line. You've seen all sorts of gaffs suggesting that he kind of forgot that he was the president at one point, and so we've come to expect that from Biden. But what you're pointing out here is, no, this is the alleged adults in the room, the people who were supposed to be the geniuses who have their finger on the pulse of the base and the electorate. They're the ones who put the taco line into the speech. It looks the Democrats look down on the American people as a whole, look down on voters as a whole, but they especially looked down on minorities. I remember Joe Biden is the one who went I think it was at the NAACP when he was vice president and said about Republicans, They're gonna put you back in chains. The Democrats look at Hispanics and they think we are a bunch of ignorant I don't even know how to describe what they think abouts, but they think we just we have to vote Democrat and there's no sense of wanting to earn the votes. I'll tell you, if you are an Hispanic guy in South Texas and you work in the oil field, and you drive a pickup truck and you go bird hunting on the weekends, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Democrats want to destroy your livelihood, want to endanger your family by open borders and chaos. And you know what, You're voting Republican. And that is happening at amazing numbers. And I can't wait to see three Hispanic women, Republicans from the Rio Grand Valley standing up to Nancy Pelosi and AOC and all these liberals who insist, Hey, illegal immigration is just hunky dorry, It's just fine the people who are living it. No, it's not. And I think the fact that this White House wrote this into a speech A set the first Lady to this ridiculous conference, and b wrote these condescending lines into the speech, I think it's indicative of just how badly Biden and the Democrats are doing with Hispanics nationally. And I think we're going to see a real sea change in this election. Well, it seems to me the greater fear for the White House right now is not just that they're losing Hispanics. It seems that they're losing all of the Democrats. There are these poll numbers coming out that the majority of Democrats don't want Biden to be the nominee in twenty twenty four. And even worse than losing the Democrat voters, it seems to me that the White House is losing the Democrat establishment, the Democrat media, the Democrat press. You're seeing lots of negative stories coming out about Biden in the new York Times, in the Washington Post, in all of the corporate press, kind of stoking the flame of this Democrat uprising against Biden. Is this a sign that the machine, the party, and the powers that be have had it with Biden and they want a different option in twenty twenty four. Yes, And it's also listen, I think the chances that Biden runs in twenty four minuscule. He ain't running, He's not up to the job. Down he says he's running. But to be honest, any president says he's running, You say that so you're not a lame duck. So I understand why he says he's running. I don't believe for a second that he's running. He's clearly not up to the task today. I mean, this is a man who shakes hands with the empty air. This is a man who they send staffers dressed as the Easter Bunny to prevent him from wandering and getting lost. It is I think there's no chance he's running. But some of these stories. You gotta understand our ambitious Democrats trying to take him out. And we can already see the daggers between Kamala Harris and Pete Buddha jedge, both of which are are It's not even daggers, it's chainsaws, it's it's it's Patriot missiles they're firing against. They probably scuds, but um. And by the way, Gavin Newsom, now you know your former governor chiming in and trying desperately to say, look at me, look at me. This is and then you're gonna have Elizabeth Warren riding in on a rainbow unicorn. It's uh, the twenty four Democratic primary has started already, and it ain't pretty. They're going to light each other up and and and Biden is just a casualty of that. Newsom is buying airtime in Florida. That's kind of a weird thing to do if you're focused on rebuilding your state. It's not a weird thing to do if you want to position yourself for twenty twenty four. You mentioned our friend Lahwatha, there is Warren. Elizabeth Warren seems to be riding in on this issue of abortion. She's focusing so intently. I mean, you can almost see the fire in her eyes when when she lights up first about the league, then about the dabb's decision, now about the pro life laws all around the country. You had a pretty bizarre exchange today in the Senate there was a hearing on abortion. I looked at polls. I saw that for only fifteen percent of the electorate is abortion the top issue. Most people don't vote on abortion, whether we're talking pro life or pro abortion. The Democrats abortion position abortion on demand, without apology until the moment of birth. That is not where the American people are. No poles suggest that it is. Is this going to be a winner for Liz Warren? Do the Democrats really think that they should keep putting their pro abortion talking points in before the midterms? So, look, it might well be a winner for her in the Democrat primary. Their primary has been a become a race to the crazy left. It's not a winner I don't believe in the general election. And you know you mentioned we had a hearing today in the Judiciary Committee that Dick Durbin, the chairman of the committee, held it was designed to describe what an apocalyptic hell we're living in post obs that without Row, America is an unrecognizable it's mad Max at Thunderdome, It's it's it's it's truly horrific. And I got to say, I think the hearing went really, really badly for Democrats. I think by the end of the hearing even the Democrats were starting to recognize this, this is not going the way we wanted it to. Senator I think you're being modest. Actually, I think what happened is that you you personally rhetorically shived poor Dick Durbin. And you didn't do it by lobbing any bombs. You. All I saw was the one clip of you talking about Dick Durbin. You just read his own words back to him. Well, I pointed out that that the Democrat Party used to have room for diversity, used to have some voices of reasonableness on all sorts of issues. Look on foreign policy, there were Scoop Jackson Democrats there. There there there were more moderate Democrats planned parenthood versus Casey. A lot of people don't know that. The Casey there was Governor Bob Casey Senior. He was a Democrat. He was strongly pro life. Today's Democrats have said, if you're pro life, get out of the party. We don't want you. And so at the hearing, I took a chance to say to say, all right, we should reflect on just how radicalized the Democrat Party's gotten on abortion. And I said, for example, when Roe versus Wade was decided nineteen seventy three, one person who was very critical was a person named Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, who said in nineteen seventy four, quote, I don't like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far. I don't think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body. So that was Joe Biden and seventy four, and I put her. I said, well, okay, maybe seventy four is a long time ago. He he's woken up since then. Well, let's look at Joe Biden in two thousand and seven. Two thousand and seven, it's just fifteen years ago. Joe Biden is on Meet the Press, Tim Rossert says, quote you supported that ban on late term abortions, and Biden said, quote, I did, and I do. That was just fifteen years ago. That was the position of Joe Biden. Just a few weeks ago, the Democrats voted to strike down every ban in the country on late term abortions, and every single Democrat but one voted for it the view of Joe Biden fifteen years ago or nineteen seventy four is no longer allowed in today's radicalized Democrat Party. And then here's what you reference that I pointed out to show just how far it was gotten. It's not just Joe Biden. The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Dick Durban. In June of nineteen eighty three, Durban wrote a letter and here I quoted, it's the hearing. The letter says, quote, I have clearly studied the issue of abortion in depth, and I'm in favor of the Eagleton Amendment, which states clearly that the right to abortion is not guaranteed by the US Constitution. The effect of this amendment will to return us to the legal environment which existed before Row versus Wade in nineteen seventy three, and it was signed Richard J. Durbin, Member of Congress. And it wasn't just in nineteen eighty three. Fast forward in nineteen eighty nine. So six years later, Chairman Durbin wrote again, and here's a quote. I believe we should end abortion on demand and at every opportunity. I have translated this belief into votes in the Houses of representatives. I continue to believe the Supreme Court's decision in Row versus Wade should be reversed. Dick Urban now the chairman Democrat Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and he's one of the people who happily voted to strike down every single restriction of abortion on the country and to allow unlimited abortion on demand. Because the Democrats are wildly out of step on this issue. What's amazing is that you're reading their own words. You're gutting their argument with their own words from the distant past and the not so distant past. Wasn't even the craziest exchange that I saw. Frankly, it might not have even been in the top two craziest exchanges that I saw during this hearing. Today, the Democrats put forward some pro abortion radical and your colleague from Texas Senator Senator Cornyn couldn't get an answer out of her, or it took a while to get an answer out of her on the value of babies. Yeah, it was really extreme. I do want to say before we leave the Durban thing, so I give my questioning with a poster board behind me with the images of the letters from Durban with his signature and look to be honest, I mean, I'm filaying the guy who's sitting about eight feet from me. I read all of these quotes. I end my remarks with what the Supreme Court has done is returned this deeply personal, deeply important, deeply contested, contentious issue to the voters to let the American people decide. That's democracy and all of us should be happy about that. Durban then has a chance to response. Here's his response. I'm going to quote it in full. Thank you, Senator Cruz. It's a smart response. That literally is how he responds to my reading his letter two letters while I'm sitting with a picture of him behind me. Well, what's he going to say? What's he going to say? He's sitting there, you got him dead to riot, so he knows he can't win. Sorry, Okay, moving on, all right. So then we get to Corn and Corn and asked questions after me, and there was this this law professor who is as radical a Democrat witness as I've ever seen. She's African American woman. She's a law professor who's specialty is abortion. So like she is at a law school and all she does is advocate for abortion. All day long and son. Cornet starts by saying that her testimony says that that African Americans have abortions at a rate three times or four times greater than non white Americans. And he asks her is that a good thing? Is that systemic racism? And she won't answer whether it's a good thing for there to be more black abortions or not. She refuses to answer that. So then Cornon goes in and he said, asks a very simple question, do you think that a baby that is delivered alive has value? This witness is silent for I went back countered it one second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds, and finally she says, yes, I got to tell you in the room those four seconds were a long time. The question was do you think a baby that is delivered alive has value? So so Corning goes on and says, do you think that a baby that is not yet born has value? I believe that a person with a capacity for pregnancy has value. They have intelligence, they have agency. Corning comes back, no, I'm talking about the baby, Professor Bridges, and I'm talking about the person with a capacity phonomic Senator Corny, you're not answering the question I'm asking Professor Bridges with the smugness of a leftist who views all of us with condescending sneering. I'm answering a more interesting and tries again, do you think that a baby that is not yet born, let's say the day before this mother delivers, do you think that baby has value? Her answer, I think that the person with a capacity for pregnancy has value, and they should have the ability to control what happens to their life. Now, I got to say, even among advocates for abortion, it is stunning to have a witness who is unwilling to acknowledge that an infant in a mother's womb who is nine months pregnant has any value whatsoever. That is not a sentence she's willing to say. Look, there are people who are pro abortion who could say, yes, of course the child has value, but I value the mother's liberty interest more. I understand that position. That's not what she said. She's unwilling to articulate to acknowledge one iota value and the child. And it took her four seconds to acknowledge that even a baby that's been born has value. Well, she wouldn't even acknowledge the question I mean, to me, that's even almost crazier that it would be like asking, Hey, Michael, do you think that babies have value? And I'll say I think the nineteen ninety eight New York Yankees have value. You say, Okay, sure, that's fine, but that's not what I'm asking you. And did you notice a really weird tick? So this whole questioning with Cornan occurred after I had asked my questions. Did you notice a word that she didn't use in response to any of those questions? The most controversial word around today. It's the word that Justice Katangi Brown Jackson doesn't know what a woman is. And she kept using this this phrase a person with a capacity for pregnancy, which I don't think I've ever heard that phrase until this afternoon. And that led to one of the most astonishing exchanges. So after Cornin, Josh Holly from Missouri had an opportunity to question her, and he couldn't help but ask about this bizarre phrase she kept using, a person with capacity for pregnancy. You've referred to people with a capacity for pregnancy? Would that be women? Many women, SIS women have the capacity for pregnancy. Many SIS women do not have the capacity for pregnancy. There are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy, as well as non binary people who are capable of pregnancy. So this isn't really a women's rights issue. It's we can recognize that this impacts women while also recognizing that it impacts other groups. Those things are not mutually exclusive. Senator Holly Oh, So, your view is is that the core of this right then, is about what? So I want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic, and it opens up trans people to violence by not recognizing that, Wow, you're saying that I'm opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women are the folks who can have pregnancies? So I'm one. I want to note that one out of five transgender persons have attempted suicide. So I think it's because of my line of questioning because we can't talk about it because denying that trans people exist and pretending not to know that they exist. I'm denying that trans people exist by asking you, if you're talking about women, are you having pregnancies? Do you believe that men can get pregnant? No? I don't think so you're denying that trans people like this, and that leads to violence. Is this how you run your classroom? Or students allowed to question you? Or are they also treated like this or they're told that they're opening up people to violence. We have a good time in my class. You should joint. You might learn a lot. Wow, I would learn a lot. I've learned a lot. Extraordinary. That is a truly extraordinary exchange. Senator, how did your colleague, mister Holly keeps cool? It is amazing. Look, I gotta say, I've served in the Senate ten years. I've seen lots of witnesses in front of lots of committees. Number one, I have never seen a witness as moonbat bizarre out there as this witness. And I've also never seen a witness as contemptuous of a senator asking her a question in a Senate hearing as that professor was. And it's the contempt of the hard left. It's the same contempt of the White House staffer that said to Jill Biden call hispanics tacos. It's if you don't agree with what we demand, it is sneering, condescension. You're opening up for violence. After that exchange, I pulled Josh aside the Senate floor, and I was like, holy crap, what an exchange. And I actually confessed, I said, you know, my team had written a line of questioning similar to this, because she used in her written testimony also the phrase person with capacity for pregnancy. And I decided to focus on the Durban and Biden stuff as well, just to show how radical the Democrats were, rather than going after the witness in particular. But when Holly did that and she came back snaring, I actually asked him, I said, how on earth did you keep your cool? I thought Josh did a very nice job of staying calm. I'll confess I do not think I would have remained that calm to that. He was amused, and I am particularly like you know, oh, I bet I would learn a lot in your class, like this is her students. I mean, you're literally if you believe that women get pregnant, apparently that statement is inciting to violence. That's just that is a clip every voter in America should watch the day before election day. I'll tell you in exchange I had with another Democrat senator on Judiciary Committee, Oh, I don't know, maybe a year ago, where he referred to birthing people and I pulled him aside and I said, birthing people, like, is your base really that moon bat crazy that you can't say bombs? Like, like, is the word mother now forbidden? And he basically admitted, yeah it is. And you just saw she's unwilling to acknowledge that it is women who give birth. There's an irony to this too, which is that they're own. People don't love this. I mean, I'm with you. I think we should plaster this clip everywhere. I endorse this woman, Professor Bridges. I endorse her for the twenty twenty four Democratic presidential nomination. Please, Professor Bridges, now is the time we need you to accuse ninety percent of America, which understands that men and women are different. We need you to call them all killers. That's that's the way that we want you to run that election. But and by the way, we need Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Ward and Pete Buddha Judge and Gavin Newsom to get to the left of crazy like that. I don't even know what the next step is, like, like, if you're not allowed to say men and women, transhumanism might be the next thing? Is species? Is m I don't know that. I don't want to give them ideas. But there's this irony here which you mentioned that the Democratic Democratic senators, for goodness sakes, but certainly these professors are using all these phrases birthing people, persons with the capacity to become pregnant, just erasing women entirely from public life. There was a major criticism of this the other day from my absolute favorite Twitter account. Sorry, Senator, you are not my favorite. My actual favorite Twitter account is Bett Midler. She posts by far the greatest stuff on that platform. Bette Midler, radical to the left, probably not the highest information voter out there, and she posts in one of her rants on Twitter, she says, these misogynists, these sexist conservatives, they are racing women. They're taking away our rights. They won't even call us women anymore. They call us birthing people and all these sorts of euphemisms. And I read that and I said, well, I'm I'm with you, Darling, I'm with you, miss Midler. We're not the ones using the phrase birthing people. And the funny thing is that exchange. I saw that tweet the left letter on fire. Yeah, and she look, it is obviously yes, I believe women exist. That that didn't used to be a radical statement. And so the phrase is at look you actually skipped over the phrase she used. She referred to they won't call us women, they call us people with vaginas. I gotta say, that's an obnoxious but like it really is reducing women to genitalia. And that's the modern left and and it and even Bett Midler recognizes this is horrible. And so the woke left immediately says Bett Midler, you're not woke enough. I will say, by the way, as obnoxious as Bette Midler can be on Twitter, she is one heck of a singer. Have you seen the movie for the Boys? I haven't. No, Oh, oh it's it's a fabulous movie with with James con and we just lost yeah. Um. And they're a husband wife who are singing and they sing for the troops and it starts in the fifties and goes through Vietnam. It starts in the forties, actually goes through Vietnam and they age and it's a fabulous show. But but the songs. I may not be a fan of her politics generally, but but but that woman can sing well. Speaking of left wing singers who are taking issue with this. Did did you see the Macy Gray interview flip flop on the specific issue on transgenderism. I have no idea who that person is. She did that song. I try to say good bye? And how much of this song am I gonna have to get through it before you? I have no idea who that person is. Well, then I will spare you the rest of the one Macy Gray song. I know Macy Gray was this singer. She still is. She's still around. She was a popular singer in the late nineties or early two thousands. She's kind of making a comeback now, she's got some new album coming out. And so she goes on an interview on Piers Morgan's show, and she says she acknowledges. She says, look, I know this isn't politically correct right now. I know I might irritate some people, but I'm a woman. It matters to me to be a woman, and I don't I don't think that men who call themselves women, I don't think they're really women. I don't think if you get a surge that magically makes you a woman, I am woman. Hear me, roar really basic point. Everybody would have agreed with this. Five minutes ago, the left lights her up. I'm sure she got a bunch of angry calls from her agent. She goes on the Today Show. She goes on with Hoda, the host on the Today Show, and it was like a hostage tape and she's sitting there. This is just what four days after she made the comments of her very clear views that she had considered and she knew wouldn't be popular, and then she completely flips them. And the interviewer says, so, Macy, have you learned? What have you learned? Have you have you been educated? And Macy says, yeah, well I guess anyway, Yeah, okay, fine, anybody can be a woman. All right, can you buy my album now? Please? And she was browbeaten into falling into line. But I wonder how many more Macy Gray wanted to get rid of the national anthem. Okay, Macy Gray wanted to get rid of the star spangled banner because she's so far to the left and she was swept up in the anti American rhetoric of the last few years. She has not a conservative. Bette Midler is not a conservative. If if the libs. If the Democrats are losing Bet and Macy, how many more people are they losing on this issue? Well, you forgot jk Rowling, who even Harry Potter. Potter has denounced jk Rowling, who wrote the whole damn thing again for the radical heresy of saying women exist. So I sort of hope that this issue is one where the left is leaning really hard. I don't maybe because they really believe it ideologically, maybe because they need to serve a radical base. But I just think if if now Bette Midler and Macy Grayer are and jk Rowling are considered on the right, how do they expect to win an election in November? Forget about twenty twenty four. Well, and actually this connects back to the issue we started with, which was the whole Latin X thing. So look, literally, the Spanish language. You define someone Latino and Latina based on whether they're male or female, and most words in Spanish are either male or female. The entire language it is designed is structure. In fact, one of the reasons my Spanish is so loudly as I screw up the male and female and all the time in Spanish. But someone putting Latin x in is literally saying your entire language and culture matters less to me than my ideology that women do not exist. I mean, it's that's weird. Well, now this does get to a mail back question we got because if you look at the polls right now, the Democrats are underwater on every single issue, with this possible exception of COVID, that's the one issue where they might have a very slight net positives. This question in from Jake Rachel Wilensky, CDC director and Joe Biden are already sounding the alarm on a new round of COVID. In your estimation, Senator, are the Democrats planning to lock down again before the midterms. Um? I doubt they'll go so far as to lockdown, but I do think the Democrats desperately want a COVID scare. They want masks, they want I think they view that as one of the few issues that can rescue them. I'll be surprised if they go so far as to try lockdowns again, But but I do think some good old fashioned fearmongering we're definitely we saw that on Monkeypox, where where the White House was was trying to lean in on that they're really eager for some health threat to distract from from the train wreck that that that is their policy failures. This question from our cactus are very uncactus. This comes from the Verdict plus community. She says. Some conservatives handle a banning by sticking to their guns, like the Babylon Bee who you just referenced. Well, others will follow along with Twitter rules so that they can mean their platform and continue to call out Twitter's hypocrisy. If one of our friends from Verdict were in this situation, what would they do? Senator Awfully good question, I will say. The last podcast we did, we talked about Jordan Peterson being banned from Twitter. We talked about Dave Reuben being banned from from Twitter. I've spoken out against both of those. As it so happened. Last night, I had dinner with Jordan Peterson and I asked him and he's still banned, and and Jordan said, look, I will not take down the tweet no matter what UM and I did marvel over dinner, I said, at least so far, Twitter hasn't banned me. They may, they may try, but they haven't yet. And so we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but but I'm not sure how eager they are to do it. But we'll see. I think there will come a time when when when they try to me, but they haven't done it yet. I do think her prudence is also important. You know, we're called to be innocent as doves and wise as serpents, and so you do want to be able to live to fight another day. You don't want to do something that's wrong or immoral or break your principles, but you want to be able to live to fight another day. So one tangible way that you can do this, one a real practical way to do it is when you look at why Jordan was banned. He was banned because he referred to the actress Ellen Page as Ellen Page, and he called her she instead of he, and or by the male name that she has now assumed, because she's saying that she's a man. And they said that this is misgendering her, which is ironic because he was just gendering her. The only people misgendering her are the people who were suggesting that she's not a young lady who we've seen in a bunch of movies for years and years now. So how does one deal with this? You know, this is the same reason Dave was banned, is because he just posted what Jordan posted and then they took him down too. How do you get around this? I don't think that you should cave and squish and call Ellen Elliott and him and you know, go along with the Twitter rules. But does this mean that therefore you need to just go full steam ahead Kama Kaze in new cure account. I'm not sure that you have to. I mean, I think there are ways around this. One way, well, one way to do it is you write el L and put a couple of asterisks afterward, or you say you know Ellen ya age pay or you know she who must not be named or something, and you can call attention to this insane rule that effectively bans all all disagreement with transgenderism. But but you're still in the game, You're still there to fight another day. Question from Ray. This is something I actually had meant to get to and we didn't get to it yet, So I'm glad it came up. Will President Biden's Executive Order to protect abortion rights and I saw the headline. Actually haven't read very much about it. Will that executive order to protect abortion rights nationwide have any power now that revueweight is overturned. I don't know, is the short answer. Um the executive order. There wasn't a whole lot of detail in it, so we'll see what the administration tries to do. I will say one of the interesting things in the wake of the wake of the Dobb's decision is the radical left has gotten mad with the Biden White House for not being like super extreme and like I don't even know what they're supposed to do, but you know, turning every post office in America into a mobile abortion hospital. M And we saw the White House actually put out a statement blasting the far left is out of touch with America. It was really quite remarkable. I do who do hope whoever wrote that statement watched the hearing today that that Durban and the Democrats put on because they're you know that the Democrat witnesses whereas woke as you can get. Yeah, something tells me that it wouldn't play very well with nice little old grandmother's you know, going to the post office, ready ready to go vote, and it turns out they've turned the post office into an abortion mill or the national parks or anything else like that final question, very important one from Adam in our Verdict Plus community Michael and Ted, if you could eat anything right now in the whole world, what would it be? Cheese is my favorite food at Casada, like what I get home. My sort of comfort food at home if I get home and I'm hungry, is I'll take a tortilla or too and just melt cheese in it, which just made me realize, Holy crap, Jill Biden is right, I'm a taco because that's that's what I have. Is that I have a melted cheese gaza theia. No, that is obviously, and it is Tuesday, Senator, it is taco Tuesday. I will not say that what I would eat right now is a taco. I think that would be a direct threat against a US senator. That would not be acceptable at all. So I'll keep Mum and Michael, I will give you you need to answer the question from from Verdict Plus, but I will. I will give a shout out to my colleague Marco Rubio. So in response to the taco speech, Um I said I was a thereiso, egg and cheese taco, which was fine. It was a decent tweet, but it wasn't fabulous. Marco sent out a picture of a taco and said my new profile picture, and I was like, all right, that is funny that that that was props to best response I think I've seen was Marco's response. I guess I'll take inspiration from your description to meet Senator. I probably would just go eat a big, fat meatball. I'm with you. I'm not a sweet sky. I'm a salty guy, you know, a savory sort of guy. Really, probably what I would have is a delicious cigar. I ate. I ate dinner already as well. It's the end of the night. We've we've been unwinding, you have been working all day. We have to leave it there. 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