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Operation cz Pounds has been activated. Everybody, Operation cz pounce
in effect. Okay, we are we are to be pouncing
and we are to be seizing. But Pete, upon which
item are we to pounds and seize? Well, there are
a lot, I know, but in this case it is
over the Democrat Representative Delia Ramirez from Illinois. Believe she's
out of Chicago. Here's the headline from newsweek dot com,
which activated the alert Mega calls for Democratic rep to
be deported over Guatemala comments. Right, So this is the
journalism in rule number two, which is when the scandal
concerns a Republican, then the story is the scandal. When
the scandal involves a Democrat, then the story is the
Republican reaction to the scandal. Hence the pouncing. Republicans are
pouncing on comments made by a Democrat. Say, it's not
the comments that are the scandal, it's the Republican reaction
to the comments. That's the framing of the story. That
is always the framing of these stories. They're not running
around sticking microphone in the face of Democrats asking them
to defend and disavow d or d defender, disavow. They
do that with Republicans. If some you know, backbencher in
Idaho says something stupid, then they run around. Media runs
around and asks every single Republican at every level, municipal, county, state, national,
all of them, what do you think about this comment
that was made by this backbencher in Idaho? Do you agree?
Do you defend his comments? Do you disavow his comments?
They don't do that with Democrats. The story is always
the reaction. So what did Democratic Congresswoman Delia Ramirez say
that activated journalism in rule number two and then by
default operation cz pounds? What happened? What did she do?
What did she say? Well, she said in another country,
she went to Mexico for a summit of a bunch
of progressive Central and South American and Caribbean leaders, and
she went. She went overseas. Basically, she went to a
foreign nation. And she told these people, as a representative
in the House, she told them, quote, I am a
proud Guatemalan before I am an American. That's problematic, though.
I don't want to go to pouncy here. I don't
want to seize two hard. But that's kind of problematic
considering that you were elected to represent Americans and as
part of that job, you actually took an oath to
do that. So this is problematic. Again not trying to
go too hard on the season and the pouncing. The
controversy surrounding Ramirez's comments cuts to the heart of ongoing
tensions in the US over immigration and questions of national identity,
which have been intensified by the Trump administration's America First agenda. So,
according to this piece by Aliyah Shoaib at Newsweek, it's
Trump's fault. See, it's all Trump's fault when running for president.
If he had just advocated that he not put American
interests first, then she never would have said this. It's
just this war and now this will be Johnson. That's
why I whipped up on you, Jennay. This is absolutely ridiculous. Okay,
this is This is not Donald Trump's fault. This is
not America First's fault. This is not Maga's fault. You
said this thing because either your Spanish is terrible, or
you said this thing because you think this is true.
Or you said this thing because you wanted them to
think you believed it and you wanted the applause. You
did it for the clicks, right. Maybe you thought this
this comment would not get picked up by any media
outlets because you are some backbencher in the House. It's possible.
Ramirez made the comment about being a proud Guatemalan while
speaking in Spanish at a summit in Mexico City over
the weekend. A clip of her speaking went viral on
social media, sparking backlash from Republicans and conservative commentators, some
of whom called for her to be deported or removed
from Congress. Here's Representative Andy Ogles, who has very good eyesight.
From what I understand, he is out a Tennessee and
he wrote on Twitter, quote natural deport and kick her
off of Homeland Security Committee. We know where her allegiances lie, right, Yeah,
you're a member of the Homeland Security Committee, so you
should probably, I don't know, place the interests of the
American homeland above the interests of the country, which, by
the way, she was not even born in. Her parents were,
but she was not. Okay, she's an American citizen. She
was born here to immigrants from Guatemala. I don't know
if they were legal or illegal. Newsweek doesn't tell us this.
So I don't think you can denaturalize and deport, but
kick her off a Homeland Security committee, Yeah, I think
I think you could do that for her comments, unless,
of course, she says, I'm sorry, you know, Spanish isn't
my first language, and I messed up on my on
my translation, on my Spanish or something. She could say that.
I mean, she didn't say that, but she could have
said that. The Department of Homeland Security weighed in on
Twitter responding to the video, quoting former President Teddy Roosevelt
about Americans needing allegiance to the United States and calling
for the condemnation of any other loyalties. Ramirez has represented
Illinois and Congress since twenty twenty three. She's the daughter
of Guatemalan immigrants, and she has responded to the criticism,
writing on Twitter, quote, honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens
my commitment to America. Honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens
my commitment to America. I don't even know what that means.
I don't like, I try to understand the arguments, you know,
from both sides, all sides and these types of dispute,
but I don't know what that means. Honoring your ancestry
strengthens your commitment to America, your ancestry from a different country.
But that's the thing. You didn't simply say, I honor
my ancestry. You said I'm proud I am a proud
Guatemalan before I'm an American, which has built into the
sentence structure. They're a prioritization. No, yes, it does. I
have our entire statement, and I actually have an analysis
from gen Garlos Sopo from National Review, which is very
helpful because he recognizes, as he says that a lot
of my no oblo pals he calls us, they know
oblo Espanol, and so he calls them by no oblo
pals because they don't speak Spanish, and so whenever something
like this happens because she was speaking in Spanish, the
people who don't speak Spanish that are as friends or
as colleagues, they go to him and they're like, what
does this say? What is she actually saying? Because this
was the first line of defense was that no, no, no,
you don't understand what she's saying. That's a mistranslation. She's
just saying this other thing. And he's like, no, she's not,
that's not accurate. All right. If you're listening to this show,
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the show. According to Rachel compost Duffy on Jesse last
night on Fox, Congresswoman Ramirez's parents were illegals, they were dreamers. Interesting.
I think that's from Todd. Lance says, if she's just
saying she's proud of being Guatemalan, that's not an issue.
I completely agree. But saying you are loyal to Guatemala
before the United States, that is an issue. That is
an fixed violation at the very least. And Scott says,
just like Agador Spartacus in the documentary The Bird Cage,
we are just afraid of her guatemalaness wata aleness. Okay,
I haven't seen the bird cage in Forever. What she
said is translated as I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm
an American. That's what's got her in hot water. And
she could have come out and just said, sorry, my
Spanish isn't so great. I was raised in America. I'm
an American, but I have Guatemalan roots. My parents are Guatemalans,
and so we spoke Spanish around the house and all
of that, and so maybe I just missed. I messed
up on the translation, and all of this would have
been done. It wouldn't even have made a news cycle.
But here's what she put out. Quote. Let's call it
what it is, today's attacks. Sorry, weak attempt to silence
my dissent and invalidate my patriotic criticism of the nativist,
white supremacist authoritarians in government. It is the definition of
hypocrisy that members of Congress, who betray their oath each
day they enabled Trump are attacking me for celebrating my
gwad Amalan American roots. No one questions when my white
colleagues identify as Irish American, Italian American, or Ukrainian American
to honor their ancestry. See, but that's not what you did.
And if what's her name, Sparts, who's the Ukrainian woman,
she's a Republican, Victoria I think is her first name,
Victoria Sparts. And if she came out and said that
I'm a proud Ukrainian before I'm an American. If she
had said that, yeah, then we would have full blown coverage.
Well maybe not because it's Ukraine and the media likes Ukraine.
But I don't know, like we may get people would
we probably would have media running around asking people, Hey,
do you defend or disavow this comment from Sparts. She
hasn't said that. She says she's an American, she's a
proud American. But again, you know, she's playing the victim
tendency for interpersonal victimhood. This is the disorder, the psychological disorder.
You vie yourself as the oppressed, as the victim intal circumstances,
and then you see everything through this prism. So of
course it's not your fault that you said something like this. No, no,
it's those racists that are saying it about you because
they're racists. Also, I'm not aware of anybody in the
Congress that identifies themselves as an Irish American, an Italian American,
a Ukrainian American. Republicans don't do the hyphenated thing, Okay,
they don't. She goes on to say, I've consistently expressed
pride in my heritage and history, a pride also often
reflected in the origin stories of my colleagues. Only those
who believe America should not include the children of immigrants
or be diverse would attack me and Americans like me
for honoring my roots. Again, that's not why people are
attacking you. It's not because you have these ancestral roots.
It's not for your heritage. It's for the comments that
you said, specifically that you said you're a proud Guatemalan
before you're an American. Honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens
my commitment to America, which I don't understand what that means.
That is the truth I carry with me always, and
it is a truth that many Americans carry with them.
We are the living and breathing realization of the idea
of America a place where a multicultural, multi racial democracy
can prosper. I am the daughter of immigrants and the
daughter of America. I am both Chippina and American. I
am from both Guatemala and Chicago, Illinois. Anyone who denies
our claim on this country simply because we dare to
honor our diverse heritage and immigrant roots only exposes how
fragile and small minded their own idea of America really is.
Signed Congressman Delia Ramirez. Note what's not in there a
denial that there's some sort of a mistranslation going on,
because it's not. There's not a mistranslation Gincarlo Sopo, he
says at the National Review. As tends to happen anytime
a Latino issue breaks the internet. My phone's been lighting
up like a Sabado jigante prize wheel with translation requests
since last night. This time the drama comes courtesy of
Illinois Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, who took the stage at a
far left conference in Mexico City last weekend and proudly
declared yosoi Guatemalteca comucho orgurio primero quesoy Americana. He says,
I get the confusion from my Noablo pals. Her Spanish
was mangled. The proper phrasing for such verbal excrement would
have been antees de sera Americana, but the meaning was
crystal clear. I'm proudly Guatemalan before being American. The problem
here is that Ramirez is not actually Guatemalan. She was
born in Chicago. That's what I mean. Like you and
you swore an oath to this country, not Guatemala. But
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left wing kind of summit that she attended down in
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outrage this from Delia Ramirez. She's a congresswoman from Chicago
who said she's proudly Guatemalan before being American at a
summit down in Mexico among Central and South American nations.
From Giancarlo Sopo at National Review, he said, some of
her defenders now claim the reverse of what she said,
that she's American first, but she's just proud of her roots.
The problem is that that's not what she said. A
sentence like that would have been structured differently. Still, if
it's what she meant, then she could just say Spanish
is my second language. I actually my first language is LATINX.
But instead she claimed no one would have cared if
she had said what she that she was a proud European, right,
which is obviously absurd. Now, Sopo goes on to say
that she should not be stripped of her American citizenship,
but she has forfeited her Guatemalan ness, not because her
Spanish is lousy. She lost it because Guatemalans are cool people,
and this congresswoman might be a lot of things, but
cool is most certainly not one of them. That's oh,
so there you go. That's Gane Carlos Sopo at National Review.
I don't know if she's a member of the squad.
I don't know. But members of the squad also attended.
I think I have a list here now, that's fine,
but I know I saw Ilan Omar was there, as
was Rashida Talib, noted members of the Central and South
American heritage. But yeah, so, I don't know if there
were any other members of the squad there, And I
don't know if this woman Ramirez is a member of
the squad, but I did see this story about another
member of the squad who is now and I think
people should not I was going to say sleep on her,
but I know how that sounds as I was about
to say it, so I don't mean it like that.
IM just like you, people need to be aware. Alexandria
gazu Quartz AOC. I think people, particularly on the right,
they look at her as like quote, just a bartender,
and they just dismiss her as silly, as not very smart,
go back to bartending and all of that. And I
think that's a mistake. I do. I think like young
attractive female socialist, you know, buddies up to Bernie Bros.
Buddies up to the Islamo fascist adjacent demographic that Democrats
are obviously hoarding. I think that that she could be
a formidable opponent to whoever she runs against, whether Democrat
like Chuck Schumer in the in the US Senate seat
in New York, or if she runs for president. And
there's more and more talk of her becoming more interested
in becoming president. So that's I mean, you know, don't
sleep on her. Oh, I know how that sounds like,
just don't ignore the possibility that she could actually be
a good candidate for president for the Democrats and could win.
I don't. I don't know if she would. I'm not
making a prediction. I'm just saying be on the lookout.
Zabolo for AOC, A b O l O for EOC, okay,
but there's something a little weird that the Washington Free
Beacon picked up on the Washington Free Beacon and a
National Treasure story written by Andrew Kerr, something has been
missing from her. If you guessed the ring, you are correct.
It's a ring. A ring has been missing. Hasn't been
pictured with her wedding engagement ring since November of twenty
twenty three, according to an extensive Washington Freebeacon review of
pictures from Getty, which is a you know, photo clearing
house kind of operation, as well as associated press images,
also her social media posts, also her public appearances. It's
been absent for seventeen months. It's gone unnoticed in the press.
I mean, well, to be fair, they could not. They
did not notice Joe Biden's cognitive decline, So can they
really be counted on to notice a missing ring from
her finger? But it raises a bunch of questions, and
it's not just like the page six gossipy kinds of
questions all right, now, So she's been engaged to her
low profile fee s, a web developer named Riley Roberts,
who proposed to her during a vacation to Puerto Rico
in April of twenty twenty two. No news of their
nuptials has emerged in the three years since, so they've
been engaged for quite a long time. A Kasio Cortes
confirmed that Roberts proposed to her with a zero emission ring,
which is good because you do not want rings to
be constantly, you know, emitting things, especially odors, because that
could be kind of awkward. She said it was made
from recycled gold. She later reported this gift because she's
a member of Congress you have to report gifts, and
so she reported it to be worth a little over
three thousand dollars and it was a constant presence on
her ring finger on her left hand during the first
year and several months of the engagement. She flaunted it
to her followers on Instagram Live. She sported it on
her overseas junket to Latin America. She wore to televised
committee hearings. The ring can be seen in almost every
photo taken of the lawmaker in public with a clear
shot of her left hand between May of twenty twenty
two through November of twenty twenty three, and then starting
around December twenty three, it just disappeared. And here's why
it's important. The legal status of her relationship with Roberts
carries significant financial end ethical ramifications for the potential twenty
twenty eight presidential candidate. By virtue of remaining unmarried to AOC,
Roberts gets to keep privacy privileges that are not afforded
to the legally married spouses of other lawmakers. He's been
exempt from publicly disclosing his assets, stock trades, places of employment.
He doesn't have to say any of this on his
annual financial disclosure forms. It's a level of secrecy that
her married colleagues do not enjoy. Think Nancy Pelosi's husband,
Kendra Arnold, the executive director of the Foundation for Accountability
and Civic Trust it's a watchdog group, said that AOC
and Riley Roberts, I guess he would go by r
R AOC and RR. What do we call it? Like
a ROB? Like don't you put the two names together?
Is not how you do this like with the two names,
so al Rob, Alex Rob a rob. Anyway, they are
benefiting from a loophole in congressional financial disclosure rules that
provide different treatment from members long term partners versus spouses.
So the fact that the ring is no longer on
her finger for this amount of time may indicate that
her relationship has turned sour, but it doesn't appear that
way from their actions. They were filmed walking out of
a Brooklyn movie theater together back in March of twenty four,
looked like a date. She wasn't wearing her ring, Though
public records also indicate the couple still live together. They're
both registered to vote out of the same apartment in Queens,
New York. Adding to the mystery is that AOC referred
to Roberts as her spouse, and she did so in
four different House Ethics Committee filings related to her overseas
travel in twenty twenty three. The committee defines a lawmaker's
spouse as quote someone to whom you're legally married. But
AOC's office insisted to the Washington Free Beacon in response
to those documents that she was quote not legally married.
So why are you claiming him as your spouse? Or
is this one of those democrats socialists of America. Things?
Remember from yesterday where we played the clips and they
were like, we have to destroy the family unit, tear
down the family unit. It's part of the caarcerl state
and all of that. Maybe that's the deal. Maybe so
like she doesn't want to get married because she does
want to be part of the carceral state, because that's
a plank in the DSA platform. Maybe I don't know,
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Russ regarding AOC's missing ring per his wife Sharon, if
you're engaged for more than two years and your man
isn't deployed, you're not getting married. You know. Well, Christy
and I were engaged for a while, mainly because neither
one of us wanted to plan the wedding, which I
was kind of surprised by. I thought she would really
want to plan the wedding, but we realized, yeah, we
really don't. We don't really want to do this. It
seems like a lot of work. We eventually came around
and we did it, but obviously don't remember how long
our engagement was, though I want to say it was
like three years. But she never took the ring off.
So I don't know if that's a hard and fast rule,
but it's probably a good rule of thumb or finger
in this case, although the thumb is not a finger,
it's a digit as I understand it. Anyway, Beyonce is
now in a new ad campaign for Leviy's, which is
kind of smart. If you're any other Genes company and
you just saw what happened, you probably would benefit from putting,
you know, an attractive woman in some denim and try
to ride this wave, you know, try to get some
residual effect off of the ed campaign. The singer appears
with really blonde, curly hair. Her hair is more blonde
than Sidney Sweeney's, which makes her a Nazi as I
understand it. She's in new photos, new new there's a
w on there. New photos released by the Jeans brand
comes amid the Sweeney Gate, an American Eagles ad campaign
criticized by leftists claiming it was racist. Now Meghan Kelly
looked at the ED and said, this is the opposite
of the Sydney Sweeney ad. Quite clearly. There is nothing
natural about Beyonce. Everything from her image, to her fame,
to her success to her look below is bought and
paid for. It screams artificial, fake, enhanced and trying too hard. Now,
she did have a lot of rhinestones on her denim,
but I don't know. I just see it as again,
it's just a marketing deal. So Megan Kelly, that's her
commentary about it. Jon Favreau, fashionista, a former Obama guy,
now one of the Pods Save America Bros. Podbros as
they're called. I'd bet most normal people think both ads
are just companies trying to sell products by featuring a famous,
beautiful women. But there are also people like Megan Kelly.
Megan Kelly says, typical leftist dishonesty, acting like conservatives started
this fight, and how petty we are to be commenting
on a woman in a Jean's ed. Now, what God
is here? Again? You know what God is here? Favro says, well,
what got us here was a few random posters claim
the sweeneyad is Nazi propaganda, and then the White House
and then the President weighed in. Name a Democratic politician
who complained about the ad by the way, Charles C. W.
Cook I actually covered this the other day where he
said there's a pattern here. The ad is released, a
handful of people on the internet complain, and then the
media swoops into action. Some people talk about it online,
the press writes about it as if it's a real story.
That means the opinion outlets are able to get involved,
which meant that the press was able to write about
it some more, which meant that other people were guaranteed
to talk about it online, and before too long we
had one of those perplexing news cycles that starts with
a single mind numbing complaint from the most ridiculous people
in the country and end with daily updates on whether
any of these figures who are passively involved in the
circus have yet responded to the allegations. And that's what
we have here. The bad guy in all of this
is the media. Oh and by the way, American Eaglestock
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