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Stacy Matthews. She is a writer over at RedState dot com,
writing under the handle's sister told you, one of the
og bloggers and a local Stacy, how are you.
Speaker 2: Hey, Pete. Good to be on and I want to
say congratulations on the big scoop you posted earlier today
on the Twitter machine.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. That was uh. I had reported that
due to a restraining order issued by a judge and
believe Duluth, that the astronauts had to be sent back
up into the international space thing.
Speaker 2: That was Yeah, you're probably not that far off from
what's gonna happen in the near future, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: It is pretty amazing. It goes into I notice you
use the term Democrats in disarray, which, by the way,
they really don't like that. Democrats do not like that.
It's sort of like the Republicans pouncing and seizing or
civil war. Republicans are always in a civil war, you know, Democrats,
they're very sensitive to this in disarray framing. But I
don't know another thing another way to describe why they
seem to be seizing, as I might say, on all
of the worst positions in these issues, like they're now
like they're they're in defense of the trend a arragua
criminal violent offenders not getting deported. Yeah, I just can't
make I can't make sense of it except that they
that they just want to destabilize. That's the whole point.
Speaker 2: It's just I mean, I don't know, trunk arrangement system
has totally cooked these people. It's like they're doubling down
everything voters told them that they rejected in November. They're
just continuing to double down on the transgender stuff too.
They're still doubling down on the transgender stuff. And it's like,
when you guys can get this is not popular, it's
not going to be popular with the American people. But
you know, I'm kind of enjoying it from my view
in the cheap seats. I'm kind of enjoying all of it,
especially what's going on with Chuck Schumer. I mean, it's
just astonishing how his fall from grace has happened in
a matter of just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Really, So let me play a clip that you referenced
in one of your pieces on Chuck Schumer. You've got
two pieces. One Schumer feels the heat as Democrat infighting
over the continuing Resolution cave intensifies, and then he he
accidentally cuts a perfect GOP midterm ad and he was
he made these comments on the view of all places
where I guess he thought he was in friendly territory,
so he let the mask slip a little bit.
Speaker 3: Here it is, and you know what their attitude is.
I made my money all by myself. How dare your
government take my money from me. I don't want to
pay taxes, or I built my company with my bare hands.
How dare your government tell me how I should treat
my customers, the land and water that I own, or
my employees. They hate government. Government's a barrier to people,
a barrier to stop them from doing things they want
to destroy it. We are not letting them do it,
and we're united.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So there you go, there's Chuck Schumer.
Is that the you think that's going to make a
good gop ad?
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be. Everybody was talking about
that yesterday. I watched about There's just absolutely no way
it is can be real. After you know, he's pretty
much turned everyone against him, his own parties against him.
Now he's he's he's going to turn you know, any
kind of middle of the road voters that might have
been okay with Democrats, he's going to turn them away
with with talk like this. I mean, his excuse is
going to be that he was talking about the rich people,
the quote unquote rich people, the small group he says
that are allegedly controlling America and making decisions. But in reality,
I mean, as you know, Democrats think anybody that that
that has any success whatsoever in business, whether they're an
employee or whether they're a business owner, they're rich. So
the rich for Democrats includes a lot of people. Yeah,
you know, so this is this is just it's just
like he's just throwing caution to the wind here. It's
almost just like he just doesn't care anymore. You know,
He's just like whatever. You know.
Speaker 1: I just is it possible that he's suffering the same
sort of cognitive decline as Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: I think he knows what he's doing. That's that's the
scary thing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: With Joe Biden at least he had an excuse, But
with Shuber, I mean, he goes back a long way
in He's been there the late nineties, so he's been
around the way. He knows the way things were, and
you know, like I said, my thought process on this
is maybe the Democrats are trying to destroy the party
to remake it. I don't know that that's the only well.
Speaker 1: That would be very hey Gaelian of them. That's I mean,
that is in line with the Hegel and Marx school
of thinking. So that does make some bit of sense.
I think he may be trying to position himself more
to the liking of his Democrat voters after like you
mentioned in your other piece about the continuing resolution, that
he's accused of caving in and folding on this, even
though this was something that the spending was like that
that was Joe Biden's package that they put together, and
so then he was like, look, this thing is going
to go through and we didn't. And if they tried
to shut the government down, that would just allow the
Doge people to keep doing what they're doing. So he
saw it as like, this is a no win for
us to shut down the government. So yeah, do the
continuing resolution. Then you said that after this quote betrayal,
he's been on somewhat of an image rehabilitation tour, which
I think the big problem there is that he is
Chuck Schumer and that's going to be difficult. I guess
he's just not very good at this. I think that's
the thing is he's not good at sort of speaking
the language of the leftist base that doesn't believe him. Also,
he's Jewish, and I think that that's a big problem
for him inside his base.
Speaker 2: Now, No, it absolutely is. I mean, I don't know
if you read the one about how he feels the
heat in that particul of one, that the heat that
he's feeling. He was supposed to be on a book
tour this week. He had three different places he was going.
Baltimore was one. Can't recall the other two off hand,
but there were two Democrats kind of strongholds that he
was supposed to go to this week to promote his
new book on anti Semitism, and he was I think
it was supposed to get underway the Monday or Tuesday,
and they postponed those days because of what they say
are security reasons. And the reality of it is is
that he doesn't want to fay.
Speaker 1: Oh, Stacy, are you there? I think we lost Stacy. Yeah,
we can't out there.
Speaker 4: You go.
Speaker 1: I just heard you.
Speaker 2: I don't know what. I don't know what happened there, Okay.
Speaker 1: Right, so right, So he's got these events coming or
that were canceled due to security concerns, and you think
he doesn't want to face his own voters.
Speaker 2: He doesn't want to face his own voters. You know
that they've already been camped out at his home. They're
protesting in front of his home, as you know, regarding
his his what they call his betrayal on the CR.
And he canceled the the appearances for this week. He's
gonna he's going to reschedule him. But the thing about
it is is that it's not just the protesters on
the CR that he's he's having to worry about here.
His book is on anti Semitism, so you can imagine
the pro Palace, the Prohamaths left is probably going to
make their way to some of these protests as well.
So not you know, it's like the chickens are coming
home to roost for him. You know, his party coddled
the pro Hamas left after the October seventh of twenty
twenty three attacks on the Israeli civilians, even he as
the as the nation's top ranking Jewish leader in government,
he kind of coddled them, you know, after the fact
that a lot of chickens are coming home to roost
protruction rate, and it's going to be interesting to see,
you know, if this holds for the next few years.
With he's not up for reelection until twenty twenty eight,
but there are talk, there is talk about maybe changing
leadership and the United States Senates for Democrats. It would
be interesting to see that happen. But it's like Democrats
are trying to basically cripple the Trump administration government, but
at the same time their infighting is crippling their ability.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it reminds me of the Moral Monday movement because
at the same the similarities are that You've got right now,
a Democrat party that is essentially leaderless right there, There
isn't somebody and they I think that's what Chuck Schumer
is trying to fill this role. But he doesn't, he
can't do it. He's lost the ear of a lot
of his base, as you said. And just like the
Moral Monday movement, they they took over at a time
when the State Democrat Party had been obliterated by scandal
and election losses and everything else, and so they needed
some some other group or leader to emerge, and that
was William Barber for a brief period of time until
the Democrats could kind of reorganize.
Speaker 2: Yeah how'd that work out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not so great, not so great, but and so yeah,
so it's an attempt to slow it all down. And
to your point about coddling the pro Hamas factions inside
their party, Uh, you know, I keep saying this, it's
a James Lindsay term.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: The issue is never the issue. The issue is always
the revolution. And that's been the true intersectionality of the
left right. It's this idea that we need to destabilize
the society in order to usher in the Marxist utopia.
The problem is is that there aren't enough of those
people to vote to win elections for Democrats, so they've
always had to kind of moderate their message writ large
and to try to attract you know, people in a
national election, but they don't have enough of them left
anymore inside their party, it seems.
Speaker 2: Well, and you know, just to your point, just just
to show you that is their mindset, look at who
they're looking to to be a possible challenger for Schumer
in twenty twenty eight. AOC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean there's people that we're seriously talking about. Well, I'm
going to start donating the AOC's let's start a campaign
to get her to run against Schumer. I mean, and
I wrote about this at the site at RedState dot com,
and a lot of people were kind of in, you know,
they were kind of two mindsets to the AOC is
not smart enough to win a statewide election. But you
know a lot of people thought AOC didn't have a
chance when she won her first congressional race. It was
kind of an underdog. She beat an entrenched Democrat leader
in the House that you know, nobody thought could be beat.
And so I would put it faster but it just
shows the mindset of democrats. They just double down. They
don't ever learn from their mistakes. They just keep trying
the same thing in a different way in hopes that
they can fool people into liking it.
Speaker 1: Well, and I think it's good, okay with that for
the left. You can never go too far. That's that's
the thing about the left. There is no too far
for the left. There's no limiting principles involved.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I think we're seeing that with
the judicial law fare, you know that's going on right now.
I mean you've got activist judges, you know, as you
talked about in your previous segment, you have activist judges
now who are actively doing the bidding of the hard
left and basically trying to hamstring every single thing, every
single decision that comes out of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Stacey Matthews, we always appreciate your time. She's a
writer at RedState dot com. Sister Toldia is the blogger
name that she has used for decades, and she still
writes it. Right, They still credit you as Sister told
you over there. Right, Yeah, Yeah, I thought so, Okay,
very good. Stacy, will talk again next month. I appreciate
your time.
Speaker 3: Pete.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Take care you too, great great stuff. I appreciate it
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To do, Pete says, or sorry, David says, Pete, keep
doing what you're doing. Let the Democrats keep being stupid,
and there will be no competition in politics. Maybe we're
at the start of a twenty year Republican run. Maybe.
So this is what I told the UNC Chapel Hill
College Republicans when I went to speak with them on Monday.
I like, the parties realign, and then you got this
societal epochs if you will, These eras the turnings twenty
to twenty five years each and we are in the
fourth turning. So this is the time of crisis, and
so we don't know what this is going to be.
But if you know that like after this and it
runs through like twenty thirty, then after we get through this,
then we'll be at another high in the cycle. So
maybe that's what this looks like. And by the way,
the highs always return to more conventional moras, if you will,
So they revert back to sort of the conservative or
conventional ideas. The excesses of the previous three cycles are discarded.
If you believe the four turnings theory. Dean, Welcome to
the program.
Speaker 5: Hello Dean, Hi Pete. Hello, I'm looking forward to those highs. Wow. Yeah,
I mean so anyway, it's a little bit of a
long time, but that's about it. I had a couple
of comments, if I could please. Number one was just
something I experienced being a teenager in the sixties, and
that that this I saw as a banner where it
said transgender is not being able to serve in the military.
And I thought, gee, back in my day, if they
had passed out of law, I knew about one hundred
of my friends that would have been transgender overnight, rather
than you know, go to Canada or go to Vietnam.
Speaker 1: Right right to avoid the draft. You claim your transgender
but you're not well, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, if they're going to pass the law now, and yeah,
I think believe me. You think that people had stricter
morals and there were a lot of people that didn't
want to serve. Of course, I didn't have one hundred
friends either, so it was probably a smaller sampling size.
So but then can I make one other comment about
the Democrats? And then I'll okay, thank you. I appreciate that.
I don't think that the Democrats, that the Democrats don't
reflect the political party. I think they more reflect the
Washington establishment right now. And because I think it's it
had always been Republicans win, Democrats win, Republicans win, Democrats win,
but the club stayed intact. And I think Trump has
now interfered with the with what's going on for basically
the last couple hundred years. And I think that the
conversations today are very interesting, but I don't think three
years from now they're going to matter at all, because
I think it's going to be whether Trump gets a
third term or everything gets realigned again. Would what you
just said a third term, Well, I don't know. I
think the odds are probably two to one in Vegas
that somehow he's gonna take control and then somehow manage
a third term. So maybe it isn't two to one.
I don't really know. I lied about that. Yeah, okay,
but there's there's conversation about, you know, not on the right,
trying to revamp the whole system.
Speaker 1: Now that's a fever, No, that's a fever dream on
the left.
Speaker 5: Oh okay. Yeah. I appreciate the time, and thank you,
and your show is always so interesting. Why do you
have a Democrat on every second Tuesday of the month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, if you know any of them, tell
them to call in.
Speaker 5: Okay, there's aren't there a lot in Washington. They don't suck,
They don't do confrontations anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they a lot of times. Democrats don't like going
on shows where they get pressed on their beliefs.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah, all right, which I understand you talking
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the transgender in the military issue. This is one of
the what most recent four temporary restraining orders that were
issued by left wing judges. So let's talk about that
one a little bit, shall we. This is from the
Washington Examiner piece by Ashley Oliver. Quote. A judge blocked
the Trump administration Tuesday from carrying out an executive order
that bans people with gender dysphoria from serving in the military,
saying that the government was unjustly discriminating against people based
on their sex and transgender status. So the lynchpin here
is that if a guy goes in and says I'm
a guy, then they're allowed to be in. But if
a girl goes in and says I'm a guy, then
they're not allowed in. And that sex discrimination. See, because
the guy saying they're a guy would be allowed, but
a girl saying she's a guy would not be allowed. See,
So that's discrimination. This is the mental twisting required to
arrive at this position. US District Judge Anna Reyes, a
Biden appointee, wrote in a scathing seventy nine page memorandum
that President Donald Trump's executive order on transgender service members
and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegzet's subsequent policy directive on
them violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
My favorite citation from the memorandum, you know the little
footnotes at the bottom of the court rulings where they
cite you know, various Supreme Court rulings or you know,
presdential cases and that sort of thing. This was my
favorite from her ruling.
Speaker 4: It says, quote, women were quote included in the sequel
when passage of the nineteenth Amendment granted them the right
to vote in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 1: See. So here's her citation for this. For that observation,
Lynn Manuel Miranda Hamilton, an American musical twenty sixteen, she
literally quoted Hamilton the musical in her ruling. It's I
don't think that's law. I don't know, like I'm not
a constitutional expert, but I'm kind of feeling like a
musical is not something that you should be citing in
your court rulings. Raya said her preliminary injunction will not
go into effect until March twenty first, in order to
give the DOJ time to appeal it. The case could
be on an eventual track to go to the US
Supreme Court. The injunction from Reys perhaps came as expected,
after the judge had reamed out two separate DOJ attorneys
in two different hearings. She said in the hearings that
the attorneys were not addressing their animus towards transgender people.
She accused them of hating transgender people. The judge did,
which is completely inappropriate, and she said they were ill
prepared to make their case. The DOJ issued a complaint
to the appellate Court after the first hearing where she
engaged in this behavior, which the DJ called egregious and
said she had a clear bias against the DOJ. She
writes in her opinion quote, defendant's position does not urge
judicial deference to military judgment. It urges judicial abdication. No,
the law does not demand that the court rubber stamp
illogical judgments based on conjecture. In fact, it requires the opposite,
because the executive does not enjoy a wholesale license to
discriminate in matters of military policy. The law does not
demand that the court rubber stamp illogical judgments, illogical judgments.
And why is this illogical? Well, according to the judge,
men can be women, and there are forty different genders.
That's what she wrote in this ruling. Again, I will
cite Charlie Kirk's observation. Had Donald Trump not won the
presidency in twenty sixteen, this kind of judge would be
on the Supreme Court, and it would be a majority
of the Supreme Court. And you can only imagine what
they would be ruling, she said. The military ban is
soaked in animus and dripping with pretext new Its language
is unabashedly demeaning, Its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit,
and its conclusions bear no relation to fact. The fight
over transgender troops dates back more than a decade, when
the Obama administration first removed the long standing ban and
allowed each service to decide its policy. So to Dean's
call earlier, the ban on transgenders in the military, like
that did exist? Your friends in Vietnam to avoid the draft.
They could have said that, but they did not. Why
did they not do that because society probably had a
certain view on you saying that. Society probably understood that
a guy going into the recruiter's office and saying I'm
actually a woman like a guy like they wouldn't think
to even do that, because it's so ridiculous. It was
so ridiculous by the way that it was a main
character in the TV show mash Right. That's how Klinger
tried to get out of serving by dressing as a
woman all the time. Trump came along and reversed the
Obama reversal, and then Biden comes in and on his
fifth day in office, he reverses Trump's reversal of the
reversal of the reversal. Transgender troops sued after Trump just
did the latest reversal, saying their qualifications and commendations prove
that they do serve capably. The judge Reyes agreed and
said the Trump administration did no studies to contradict these claims.
She said her decision rests on the twenty twenty Supreme
Court ruling that found discrimination against trans people is discrimination
on the basis of sex. That's how we got here.
But remember sex and gender are not the same unless
we need them to be to advance the leftist project.
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from Timoteo who says Democrats are operating on the belief
that while Democrat presidents are free to govern as they
see fit, President Trump may only govern under the consent
of Democrats. Yeah, I mentioned this something along the same
lines I think last week that I remember after a
president would win, then they got to expend their political capital,
and people in the legislature understood that, Okay, our guy lost,
their guy won. They're now going to do their agenda
and so we will you know, try to legislate to
get what we can get. But there was a recognition
that that was the will of the people being expressed
through the vote. That is no longer the case. That
is no longer the case. The hang on second, did
I have a no? Okay? So the judge in this
in this case about the transgenders in the military, rays
Anna Reus, you may want to sit down for this.
You ready, Okay? She is a prominent donor to Democrat
political candidates and causes. I know. Oh, who would have thought, oh, Peter,
every judge makes donations. Yeah, well, some of these they
kind of fall outside the boundaries of just like a
political candidate, you know, maybe conflict of interest y kind
of stuff. So the Justice Department filed a complaint against
this appointee for allegedly engaging in hostile and degregious misconduct
during the February hearings that I mentioned earlier. In the filing,
the dj claimed that Reyus, who is reportedly a member
of the LGBT community, contested the validity of Trump's order
by disagreeing with the fact that there are only two sexes.
According to the court transcript cited by the administration, Reyes said, quote,
this executive order is premised on an assertion that's not
biologically correct. There are anywhere near about thirty different intersex examples,
So someone who does not have just an xx or
x y chromosome is not just male or female their intersex,
and there are over thirty potential different intersex examples. The
complaint also accused Rays of questioning a Department of Justice
attorney regarding his religious beliefs and then using him as
a physical prop in her courtroom. Theatrics. A lawyer named
Laura Powell said that her opinion relies in part on
her independent research. When you read through this opinion, the
judge acknowledges that she did independent research into disorders of
sexual development, which is not part of the record in
the case. Judges are not allowed to do this, yet
this judge is doing this because she is an activist first,
a judge second. According to FEC records, she has collectively
given thousands of dollars to various Democrat candidates and causes
throughout her professional career as a private lawyer. So she
was private at the time, but she donated to Barack Obama,
Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden. She also shelled out
money for various House and Senate candidates, including John Osoff
of Georgia, She's up, where is she out of Maryland?
I Think? And AOC. She also has donated more than
seventeen hundred dollars to an organization called Defeat by Tweet,
which is a Democrat aligned super pack that allows leftist
donors to sign up to contribute as little as one
cent to political organizers in battleground states for each time
President Donald Trump posts on to Twitter that was the
whole super pack. That's what they did. The organization was
reportedly launched with assistants from Patrese Colors, a co founder
of Black Lives Matter. She gave numerous donations to Win
the Era, a political action committee founded by failed twenty
twenty candidate Pete Booty Gig and since at least twenty thirteen,
she has also given dozens of small dollar donations to
Act Blue, which has a bit of fundraising questions surrounding
in and a bunch of their leaders have quit over
the last few weeks. She spent the bulk of her
legal career at a firm called Williams and Connolly, where
during that tenure, she litigated against Trump, whose policies she's
now ruling on. As a federal judge. She was part
of the legal team representing plaintiffs in a challenge on
an asylum rule implemented by the Trump administration. The rule
was to make a legal immigrants who crossed the US
Mexico border outside of a port of entry ineligible for asylum.
That's who the judge is in this case, an activist
with a wardrobe change. All right, that'll do do it
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