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Shutdown Day 21; “No Kings” Protests Unpacked, Dark Money Lawsuits, the Return of KJP
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It’s Day 21 of the government shutdown, the “No Kings” crowd is out in full force — funded by dark money, preaching democracy, and behaving like royal loyalists. In today’s episode, we break down the left’s latest spectacle and what it...
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Day 21 of the Federal government shutdown. We're gonna unpack the weekend's no Kings protests and the return of the great Karine Jean Pierre. All of that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill.
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Everybody get up. Get up.
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The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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Today is day 21 of the government shutdown. Here is Speaker Johnson on the latest yesterday.
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This is the first time in history that any party has had the audacity to shut down the government over a totally clean nonpartisan continuing resolution. This is a political stunt.
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Last night, Senate Democrats voted again against the bill to reopen the federal government. The other thing that Republicans have proposed is a vote this week on a bill to pay federal workers and members of the military who have gone without pay. Two key dynamics to watch in this shutdown are food stamps. There will come a period where people stop receiving food stamp benefits due to this shutdown, but also those military paychecks President Trump's been talking about finding ways to get them paid. Democrats have objected to those ways, again highlighting the fact that their goal in this shutdown is to make it as painful as possible while they make insane demands like extending pandemic premium healthcare subsidies for families making $600,000 a year. Over the weekend, large groups gathered, largely older white Americans, for the no Kings protest. This is the second of such protests. And let me tell you, there was dancing. There ain't no kings in the usa. There were children stabbing Trump pinatas, which as a pinata expert, I can tell you that is not a good way to get the candy out of them. There were calls for shooting ice. These ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out. And then of course, with any dark money coordinated protest opportunity, there was Randy Weingarten. Just like our founders called out, no thrones, no crowns, no kings. As we talked about, the irony of of Democrats holding a no Kings protest that is largely funded by foreign oligarchs like Hans Jorge Wies and George Soros is incredibly ironic. But it wasn't just the dark money groups. It was a wide range of very radical organizations involved here. Here's Speaker Johnson on that.
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They openly advertised as co sponsors of the event. In New York City, the Communist Party usa, the Democrat Socialist of America, the Freedom Socialist Party, the Young Communist League of New York.
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In addition to those radical groups, there were terror sympathizers. Meet Afeni Evans, who praised The Hamas resistance celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk after he was killed, cheered the Trump assassination attempt, and spoke at the D.C. no Kings rally alongside Bernie Sanders and Senator Chris Murphy. Now, what this tells you is when you see the number of high profile elected Democrats who are participating in rallies and events along Communist Party usa, the Democrat Socialists, pro terror groups, pro defund, the police groups, you can see the wall between the establishment Democrats and their radical outside groups has completely fallen apart. They are one now. And that is very, very important to understand as we look to the current political dynamics as Democrats continue to face their lowest approval ratings of all time. As a student of political history, political commentary, and enjoying funny political activism, I actually laugh a little bit about this no Kings message. First of all, the fact that this protest exists shows we have no kings. If we had kings, this would not be happening. You wouldn't have the freedom of speech to be out there marching, looking like a crazy person. But the second point, the federal government is currently shut down. Would that happen if we had a king? Absolutely not. Now, as you watch these, some of them may have a case about America occasionally having a problem with kings in America. For example, when Donald Trump shut down the state of California, closed churches, but opened strip clubs, banned funerals, but opened the French Laundry so he could have a private dinner with his fancy friends during lockdowns. Oh, wait, that was Gavin Newsom. As you look down this list of people, the hypocrisy is astounding. For example, here's Nancy Pelosi struggling to break apart this plastic crown. Gonna tear up the crown. As you see her celebrating no Kings. Remember, she used all of her power to support lockdowns and support mask mandates. But she forced her hair salon to open to give her a special hair treatment, and she didn't want to wear a mask in the salon. And as a member of Congress, her net worth has gone from $3 million to over $250 million. But of course, no Kings. No Kings. Nance, here's Chris Murphy, who is one of the biggest boosters of the no Kings protests.
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We are not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of an authoritarian takeover.
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That is the same Chris Murphy who believes the government should come to your door and take away your guns. You know who else believed that? King George. Let's not leave out Kamala Harris. I encourage everyone to get out there in peaceful protest of what is happening in our country. Do not forget that Kamala Harris and the Democrats threw out an election and millions of primary votes to coronate her as the Democrats candidate for President. But no kings. Let's not forget Chuck Schumer. Now Chuck Schumer is out demanding no kings. But Chuck Schumer also tried to break the rules of the Senate to shut out the minority voice by killing the filibuster when Democrats were in charge. But no kings. Lastly, Joe Biden. Lest we forget, Joe Biden pardoned his son. He went further than anyone ever has in history using the pardon powers of the United States. He also recentered the entire economy around climate change which nobody voted for but did benefit his own campaign donors with billions, literal billions. B not millions, billions of dollars. But Joe Biden. No kings. It's not that Democrats don't like kings. When you look at the history of it, they actually really really like kings. They just want kings that will push with the full force of the federal government their political agendas. And the last point I would make here is of all the sponsors of the no Kings protest, I can't believe that AARP missed their opportunity to get in on this. Last week we talked about the litany of insane climate lawsuits that left wing dark money groups are using to and crush fossil fuels in the United States to please left wing climate groups. One of the attorneys in that Boulder lawsuit said the quiet part out loud.
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You sue an oil company, an oil company is liable. The oil company then passes that liability on to the people who are buying its prod its products. In some sense it is the most efficient way. The people who buy those products are now going to be paying for the cost imposed by those products. So this is a rather somewhat convoluted way to achieve the goals of a carbon tax.
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We have said from the beginning that the purpose of these lawsuits is to crush fossil fuels. But what this lawyer just admitted is their goal with these lawsuits is to essentially pass on a tax to consumers to make it more difficult to use the fossil fuels you need to power your house, drive your car and everything else in your life. This is a major quiet part out loud moment because the lawyers are admitting here that what they're trying to do with litigation and lawsuits is an end run around Congress. Who is the only group allowed to write and pass taxes on people and consumers. We've talked extensively about how these lawsuits are not about science. There's no science in the attribution of these lawsuits of people saying Boulder, Colorado had heavy winds. Here's the scientific way that that happened from when you put gas in your car and another way that Democrats and the left wing dark many Groups behind these lawsuits are highlighting this is the fact that in many cases they're using children as the faces of these lawsuits to make an emotional, theatrical, performative argument about the role of climate change in their lives. Daily Caller reports how leftists puppet children for climate lawfare schemes. An environmental lawfare group that represents children and uses tactics some critics argue amount to brainwashing and indoctrination has drawn scrutiny for the way it integrates activist talking points into educational training materials. Now, this article is about our Children's Trust, a group that we've talked about here on 10 Minute Drill that does two things. First, they inject very politicized information about climate change into curriculum for young children so that they develop more climate anxiety about the world ending so that they will join this fight with the radical left climate alarmism movement. But they also use these children as the face of these lawsuits against fossil fuel companies saying, you know, people using gas in their cars is destroying the future for us through the climate. And they're all very absurd. Again, as we talked about, there's very little climate attribution involved here. But people are calling on this organization to stop what they're doing because one, climate anxiety is having devastating effects on children who now have anxiety because they think the world is going to end. But also, these cases have not been going very well. Just last Wednesday, a case in Montana using these sort of child soldiers of the climate movement was dismissed. So we will continue to track these as they go. President Trump has been talking about other cities around the United States that the National Guard could go into and attempt to restore order. One of these has been the great once great city of San Francisco, a city that I love, having grown up just south of there in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, said in an interview that he supported President Trump doing that. This from the New York Times. Mark Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco. We don't have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I'm all for it. I fully support the president. I think he's doing a great job. However, while Benioff's comments got a lot of praise from Republicans, we also know that it started a firestorm among his friends on the left. Marc Benioff historically has given a ton of money to left wing groups and political activity and they jumped on him very quickly. So one week later, Marc Benioff changed his position. Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest dream force in our history. I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco. Not a huge surprise to see Benioff have that about face. I think a lot of us were surprised the first time, but again, he went back to his more progressive roots. Not a surprise there. But as someone who loves the city of San Francisco, or what it once was, I was enthusiastic about President Trump using the National Guard to restore order because as we saw in Washington, D.C. it wasn't this draconian crackdown with storm troopers coming in, as a lot of Democrats warned it would be. The National Guard looked like they were having fun and helping people, and most people were very positive about their interactions with them. But the biggest thing that California needs to restore order, particularly is in the city of San Francisco, is for Prop 36 to be enforced. You'll remember Prop 36 passed with about 70% of the vote, a simple bill to make crime criminal again in the state of California. But Gavin Newsom has refused to fund it because he needs that money for his gerrymandering power play to give himself more power and get rid of the state's popular redistricting commission for you can't make it up segment today. It's one that I'm very excited about. It is the return of Karine Jean Pierre, the Baghdad Bob of the Biden administration, President Biden's press secretary. She has a new book coming out this week called Independent, about how what she saw during the Biden administration made her leave the Democrat Party and go independent. However, just like Kamala Harris a few weeks ago, her book tour is not going very well. Let's watch this. First from cbs. And you said you're a member of the inner circle and you never saw the decline. And after that, I wrote how I.
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Want everybody to know that I take this question incredibly seriously. I do. I was his White House press secretary, which means I had a role that saw him practically every day and traveled with him. And you saw nothing for more than 95%. But when we talk about the mental acuity. And again, I take this very, very seriously. I never saw anyone who wasn't there. I saw someone who was always engaged.
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Yikes. The reason this isn't going well is because Karine Jean Pierre can't decide what she wants to do with this book. On one hand, she wants you to know how close she was to Joe Biden. She was with him every day. She saw everything he did. But on the other hand, she also wants you to give her a little bit of credibility. And you can't do that if she's saying she saw Joe Biden and there was nothing to see. Even Gayle King, who's not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination, wasn't buying what she was trying to sell here. So just like with Kamala Harris, we see these books come out and it's a tell all from the White House press secretary whose entire job was to be a window into the Biden administration. The fact that she has anything to tell after her service in the Biden administration is a testament to the fact that they weren't really telling us anything clear at all. So again, it's a lot of mixed messages, a lot of confusion. Feels a little bit like we're watching another Karine Jean Pierre White House briefing. Now, we don't know what Karine's been doing since she left. We know that she was named the chair or the grand marshal of the New York Press Pride parade. Congratulations to her. But it's going to be very difficult for her to get a job in media or anywhere else that Democrats normally go to when they leave her presidential administration when she is being this insanely dishonest about what she saw with Joe Biden. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us. Please, like, subscribe, tell a friend. Thanks again.