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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Happy Birthday America: Celebrating What is Extraordinary about our Great Nation
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America 250 Announcer
This is an iHeart podcast, Guaranteed Human.
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This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
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Experience music, performances by major artists, patriotic tributes and the kickoff to giving 4th, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history.
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It's more than just fireworks.
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Join this landmark celebration and get your America's Block party Tickets now for $17.76cent@america250.org
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Newt Gingrich
LA on new Troy podcast, we're celebrating America's 250th birthday and I ask my guests how they're spending their 4th of July. Brett Baer.
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Senator Ted Cruz
I will be working.
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Newt Gingrich
I'll be in Washington because it's a big, big day. Jared Isaacman.
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Jack Armstrong
I plan to be flying in an F5 fighter jet painted in Freedom 250 colors along with four other fighter jets flying over the nation's capital.
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Newt Gingrich
Listen to n on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
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Jack Armstrong
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Joe Getty
He's Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Something about a comedic tone.
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Jack Armstrong
We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong, you on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Joe Getty
Welcome. It is Verdict with center Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. It's so nice to have you with us on the radio wherever you are around the country as we get to celebrate the 250th anniversary of this country. Center. What a fun show to get to do together.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, let me just start by saying happy birthday. Happy birthday to America. This weekend we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, I believe the greatest country in the history of the world. And you look back to July 4, 1776, when the signers of the Declaration of Independence gathered in Philadelphia and they signed that declaration. When they signed it, they were pledging their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors. And what is extraordinary is that virtually all of them gave their lives, gave their fortunes, but not a single one of them abandoned their sacred honor. 56 men put their signatures on that piece of paper and understand when they did so, they were committing treason. They were, at the time, British citizens. They were subject to the British crown. And by declaring independence, they were declaring war on the mightiest military on the face of the planet. John Hancock, of course, signed it with a signature large enough that King George could read it without his spectacles on. And if you look at that declaration, it was the beginning. It was the birth of this nation. We're going to talk today about what is unique, what is extraordinary, what makes the United States of America different, different from France, different from England, different from Germany, different from Japan, different from China, different from Russia, different from every country on the face of the earth. 250 years of our extraordinary nation. We're celebrating it right now.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, it really is incredible. And just to be excited about what's happening right now in this country and be proud of it is another part of the conversation we're going to have today. I also want to talk to you about. As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, this milestone is also a time for all of us to reflect on the enduring relationship between the US And Israel, our greatest ally. And President John F. Kennedy once said, israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish. Now those words capture the spirit of a young democracy determined to survive. Two nations thousands of miles apart, yet united by shared values of democracy, faith, freedom, and resilience. As America celebrates 250 years of independence, the international fellowship of Christians and Jews turns to God in prayer, asking that his wisdom will guide elected officials and lead America and Israel to moral clarity and national unity. So sign up to receive a free USA Israel flag pin when you go online to flagpen ifcj.org that's flag pen ifcj.org so, Senator, I, I really think that just celebrating America is something that, that everybody listening right now should be excited about. There's a lot of people that try it into this partisan fight. I think it's absurd. I love this country. You love this country. And if you look at what our founding fathers, going back to your point a moment ago, they were committing treason. They were risking it all and knew that if it didn't work out, they were all dead men.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, and let me say, I don't care about the people engaged in partisan bickering right now. I got to say, the Democrat governors, the Democrat mayors who are like, we hate Donald Trump. So, no, we're not celebrating the Fourth of July. I don't care. Stop it. It's not about Donald Trump. In 250 years. Look, our nation. I'm a huge fan of President Trump. I'm his strongest supporter in the Senate. But at the end of the day, our nation's 250th birthday is bigger than whoever happens to be in the Oval Office right now. And we're in such a partisan, angry, divided times that you see Democrats like, damn it, I'm not celebrating the Fourth of July because I don't like Trump. And that's just dumb. I don't want to engage in those partisan bickers. You know, you see, obviously, their festivities in D.C. their fireworks. There's the big festival, and you see Democrats saying they're boycotting it. I want us to pause and reflect. All right, number one, this is Fourth of July. Ben, you and I are both dads. I hope every listener here, this Fourth of July, you spend time with your kids, you spend time with your spouse. You go out, you have a burger, you have a hot dog.
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Joe Getty
You.
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Senator Ted Cruz
You don't forget the bar.
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Joe Getty
You gotta. You gotta. You gotta make that brisket or shoulder ribs like you. If it's. You're going all out 4th of July, sir, you should. You know me well enough.
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Senator Ted Cruz
And by the way, we have California listeners, so if you want your tofu and sprouts, you can do that, too. But, and listen, to be clear, I am married to a California vegetarian, so I make fun. But we are a big, beautiful, diverse country, so that's. Eat what you want. But I want to encourage you, spend time with your kids. If you don't spend this Fourth of July hugging your kids, loving on your kids, stopping working for a minute. And what I want to encourage everyone, yes, go out and, and throw a Frisbee with your kids. Go out and throw a football, throw a baseball, laugh, go to the beach, do whatever, go to the lake, swim, whatever you're doing. But I also want to encourage you. Look, 250 is not 249. It's not 251. We're only going to have one 250th birthday of this country. Everyone who listens to this podcast, you care about America. You love America. You're not a passive citizen. You're an active citizen. You care about what is unique and extraordinary in this country. So I want to charge everyone listening to this, take a minute to talk to your kids about what's different about America. What does it mean to be an American that's different from being a Frenchman or a Chinaman or a Venezuelan? Or like, look, there are countries all over the planet what is unique? Have that conversation with your kids. And by the way, if your kids are anything like my kids, they'll resist it. They won't want to have that conversation, but have it anyway. Take this moment to reflect. And I'm going to say one of the things I've learned. Having two teenage daughters talk less, listen more, ask questions, try to elicit from them. And, you know, certainly for every parent of teenagers, you may not love every answer they give, but use this moment to have the conversation about what would it mean son, daughter, if you had been born in another country, if you were not an American? What. What are the. The blessings of liberty you've inherited, and why does that give you a unique place in the world? That's a conversation you ought to have with your kids this weekend.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. And I tell you what, just having basic conversations about how grateful we should be that we live in the United States of America, how many people that want to come here, how many people wish they were born in America, that just having basic pride. And like you mentioned a moment ago, has nothing to do with politics. Like, it is okay to celebrate this country and be proud of it. I want my kids to have pride in being Americans. I think the World cup is a great example of this. If you're born in another country, let
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Senator Ted Cruz
me just stop and say, usa. Usa. Usa. I gotta say, I watched that game. I watched that game sitting there with my family. Look, when we were up one goal, that was great. And then the red card came, and that was heartbreaking. And to play with just 10 men, to play a man down and score another goal, it was awesome. I was out at a sports bar with my family. We were cheering, we were chanting. It was a great moment to come together. And by the way, that red card was utter nonsense. It was garbage. It was bs. I'm frustrated by that, but I'm inspired by the win. It's a great way to celebrate 250 Center.
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Joe Getty
I want to go back to the World cup just for a second. I. I'm not a big soccer guy, but in college, almost all of my roommates were actually foreign students that were on the, on the tennis team with me. So they're obsessed with it. My best friend from England actually came through Houston on their family vacation, and we got to watch a game together, the US Game together. They were freaking out as kids because they're obsessed with soccer, a.k.a. they caught football. But I love watching so many different people get together. So much excitement and. And people Celebrating this country and our team. It's really awesome.
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Senator Ted Cruz
It is. Now, I gotta ask. You're a Memphis boy. Did you grew up? There's some jocks here. You're a tennis guy. So that's not exactly football. But. But then again, then again, I'm a debater, so I don't actually have room to cast shade. But, but, but are you one of the guys who grew up sort of. Sort of turning your nose up to soccer and, and making aspersions?
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Joe Getty
Oh, I remember we called it tornado ball. My parents signed me up for church soccer just because, you know, everybody did it. When you're, I don't know, kids play soccer. Yeah. Kindergarten, first grade. And then that was the end of that. Then you moved on to, as I, I say, real sports after that.
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Senator Ted Cruz
See, see, in high school, I. I played basketball, soccer, and football, and I actually like soccer. You know, I was. I was a midfielder. And, and, and it, it. Look, I wasn't terribly good, but. But midfielder, you just had to be able to run, and I could run quite a bit. And so you just kind of. You were on offense, you were on defense. You got blamed for everything. I will say, our team at the time, we did a lot of slide tackles. I was actually talking with, with like, a buddy of mine going, what happened to slide tackles in soccer? Because when we were in high school, particularly on defense, you just slide tackle. There was a guy who was a fullback on our team who would slide tackle with his cleats up and just rip the living daylights out of the shins of the other guy. He ended up becoming a Marine. He was a tough guy. They don't do. I actually Googled this week, wondering what happened to slide tackles in soccer? And they said, well, the refs now give so many red cards for it, so they don't do it very much. Look, I played it, but I'm not a big soccer fan. You know, there, there are people that are obsessive about it. I'm enjoying it because World cup is like, we're hosting it, and it's a great time to be patriotic. I will say my cousin Marino, who loves soccer, I did manage to get him a ticket to one of the games in Dallas where Messi was playing. And Marino, God bless him, it was like I'd given him a chance to meet Pele and George Washington and William Shakespeare and, I don't know, Charles Lindbergh all combined. He was so ecstatic.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, if you're a soccer fan getting to see messy play in a World Cup Is literally now based on age. A once in a lifetime event.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Yeah. And I do want some props. I. I am like, over Christmas and Thanksgiving and acclaim, like, excuse me, who got you to see messy Light? Like, do I, Do I get something for that?
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Joe Getty
Yeah, you better get a really good Christmas gift. I agree, I agree with that one.
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Senator Ted Cruz
But I will say, look, soccer, there are people who adore soccer. There are people who are not into soccer. That being said, the World cup is really cool. Save a country, root for America. Like, that's an amazing thing. It's like the Olympics. And one of my favorite tweets that I saw recently online was someone said, okay, new rule. Every country that America beats in the World cup for the next four years has to call it soccer. I thought that was really funny.
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Joe Getty
That's like my favorite. Yeah, I laugh because I put one of those out there that was like, if America beats you in the World cup until you beat us, you've got to call, refer to it in your country as soccer. Like, it's so good. And the trash talking is great. Like, I, I also, I don't know, were you in Houston the night that Mexico played and won the other night? Were you and were you in Houston then or were you?
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Senator Ted Cruz
I was not.
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Joe Getty
So you could actually hear the horns honking by our house outside after the game, one of people on the street talking their horns, which was just awesome. This to. To see people that excited about a big victory.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Look, rooting for America is great. And so the World cup hosting it is awesome. But I also want to say we're at a time it used to be for decades, probably for centuries, both parties rooted for America. Both parties were happy, were proud to be Americans. You know, one of the depressing things right now is you look at the stats of the percentage of Democrats that are proud to be Americans, and it is incredibly low compared to the percentage of Republicans. And that's unfortunate. That didn't used to be the case. You know what? John F. Kennedy, I'm convinced, was proud to be an American. Fdr, I'm convinced, was proud to be an American. I mean, for most of the history of the country, both parties were proud of our nation. And there's something right now on the hard left. And listen, it is. And we're going to break this down a little bit more. We're going to talk before we break it down. We're going to talk about what's extraordinary about America, because I want to take a time. Look, often verdict is focused on current events. It's focused on news, it's focused on what's happening now. I figure once every 250 years. Way to stop and reflect. And by the way, I don't know about you, Ben, I don't intend to be doing this at the 500th anniversary of America. So you know the next verdict hosts
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Joe Getty
in 50 years, I doubt you and I are going to be hosted.
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Senator Ted Cruz
We've done something profoundly wrong. If we're here at the 300th anniversary, we've done something profoundly wrong. I intend to be an old coot yelling at the hologram. And I don't expect to be doing this podcast 50 years from now, much less 250 years from now. But one of the virtues of doing this is. Look, you know my wife Heidi. Well, Heidi listens to the podcast often. And look, she and I have been married 25 years. Anyone that's been married a long time, you and Ana have been married how many years? Look, my guess is she doesn't listen to the podcast all that often. Heidi doesn't necessarily listen to it all that often. Look, it is hard to get your wife to listen to what you're saying. And I get that, Heidi. But here's the point I want to make. Heidi listens to it because she says she learns things. Like she'll run on the treadmill and put the podcast on because she says, gosh, I get things that are useful, that when I go to work, I'm talking to co workers, I'm talking to clients, and they'll ask about something and I'll be like, hey, I know what to say on that because I heard it on the podcast. I hope that this podcast does that for our listeners. It gives something that you can't get just by turning on Fox News. It gives you understanding, knowledge that you can't get anywhere else.
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America 250 Announcer
This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
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Experience music, performances by maintenance, major artists, patriotic tributes, and the kickoff to giving 4th, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history.
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It's more than just fireworks.
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Join this landmark celebration and get your America's Block Party Tickets now for $17.76 at america250.org LA this is Newt Gingrich,
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Newt Gingrich
former Speaker of the House and a proud American citizen. I'm celebrating America's 250th birthday on my podcast, Newts World, with 15 special episodes and I've got some great guests. Walter Isaacson, Jonathan Turley, Brett Baer.
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Senator Ted Cruz
I will be working because it's a big, big day.
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Newt Gingrich
I'll be in Washington and have all kinds of coverage through the day of America 250. Rachel Campos Duffy.
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Senator Ted Cruz
There's nothing like American music. We're the home of rock and roll. We're the home of rap. We're the home of pop music.
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Newt Gingrich
Eric Metaxas, Jared Isaacman.
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Jack Armstrong
I plan to be flying in an F5 fighter jet painted in Freedom 250 colors, along with four other fighter jets flying over the nation's capital.
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Newt Gingrich
The story of the national anthem and the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Join me and let's celebrate America's 250. Listen to Newts World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
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Jack Armstrong
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depress. It makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Joe Getty
He's Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy
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Senator Ted Cruz
modern world about something about a comedic tone.
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Jack Armstrong
We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong and Yeti on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Center.
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Joe Getty
Let's talk about what makes America what it is, how incredible this experiment was. And, and if, you know, I hear a lot people say if the founding Fathers saw this now, they'd be rolling over in their grave. I also think if they saw America what it's become after 250 years, they'd be incredibly proud of what it's become as well.
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Senator Ted Cruz
I think that's absolutely right. And I think back last year I was in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing and there was a witness testifying who President Trump had nominated to be in the State Department. And he had filed written testimony as every witness does. And I walked into the hearing kind of midway through and Tim Kaine, my colleague Democrat senator from Virginia, was questioning him. And one of the things this nominee had said is he'd said that our rights in America, they come from God and they don't come from government. And Tim Kaine began unloading on this nominee. He said, I read this statement in your written statement. And he said, that is a radical concept. That is an extreme concept. That is dangerous. It is fundamentally dangerous. And he said that's what theocratic regimes like Iran believe. And he said, we're not like Iran. We don't believe our rights come from God. We believe our rights come from government. He unloaded on him. And I gotta admit, like most hearings, I come in, my staff has prepared a series of questions. Some comments I had for this hearing, a series of questions. I don't remember what they were on, but they were on a different topic. As I walked in, I saw Tim Kaine unloading on this nominee, and I got ticked and I ended up just kind of freewheeling. And I was questioning shortly thereafter, and I said, you know, just a minute ago, Senator Kaine said, the idea that our rights come from God, not government, is a dangerous idea. It is a radical idea. It's an extreme idea. And I said, you know what? He's right. It is dangerous. It is radical and it is extreme. And it is also the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created. And I went on to say, look, maybe you're listening to this. You're not inclined to believe me. That's okay. If you're not inclined to believe me, maybe you would be inclined to believe another Virginian like Senator Kaine, by the name of Thomas Jefferson, who 250 years ago penned the words in the Declaration, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator. Notice he didn't say by government. He didn't say by the dnc. He said, by God Almighty with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That idea was transformational. If you look throughout the history of mankind for millennia, the conventional wisdom was that sovereignty emanates from the top. It emanates from God, and that God designates kings or queens, emperors or rulers, and that those kings and queens rule because God hath given them authority. And if there are such a thing as rights, they're given by grace. They're given like crumbs from the table of the ruler. And by the way, anything given by grace can be taken away by wimp. That for most of the history of the world has been the way the world has been ordered. What America did is it inverted the concept of sovereignty. It said, you know what? Sovereignty does not emanate from the top. It emanates from the bottom. It emanates from the people. We the people. The Constitution begins with we the people. And the idea was the people have sovereignty and they give the authority to govern to elected officials for a temporary period. Nobody has an entitlement to this and that temporary period. The sovereignty comes from below. Supreme Court has described what the Constitution did as splitting the atom of sovereignty. Taking what used to be uniform government control, and number one, splitting it horizontally, splitting it between the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch, separation of powers between three branches, and number two, splitting it vertically between the federal government, the states, and the local government. And all of that was designed, as Jefferson also put it, the Constitution was chains to bind the mischief of government. That was radical, the idea that sovereignty rested with we the people. If you look through the history of humanity, what America did here was extraordinary and unprecedented. And likewise the point that our rights, what does come from God, is not the authority of kings to rule us. Instead, what comes from God is, as the Declaration put it, certain unalienable rights that God has created us. Look, you and I and everyone listening to this podcast, we are created in God's image. He formed us to reflect his mind, his spirit, his character. And by virtue of being a human being, whether you are brilliant or stupid, whether you are strong or weak, whether you're incredibly able or profoundly disabled, if you are a human being, those inalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, what it means to be a child of God is profound. And that concept that, that our government has created to protect those rights is unique and powerful and worthy of celebration on this birthday.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, it really. It really is. And. And I. I do think you. You look at where this country is and how great it is. And it's also, I think, a point where, as you mentioned in the first segment, we've got to do a better job of being proud of this country and defending this country to this next generation. Because if you look at the data and the polling number, there are a lot of younger people in this country that have been indoctrinated to believe that somehow America is a bad country, that America is not a country to be proud of, that America is so flawed that there has to be massive changes to move into something that looks like communism or socialism or Marxism. And so I think this is like a really important birthday historically on two fronts, Senator. One, because it is 250 years, the fact that we survived this experiment and thrived to this point is amazing, but you also have to realize how fragile it is at the same time. Yes, there are people that want to destroy this so that we don't have a 300th birthday and look like what we look like right now.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, and let me focus on, like, most of us know the most famous sense of the Declaration, we hold these truths to be self evident. I want to point out the sentence that follows that is every bit as important. Right after it says, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the Declaration says the following, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. So understand, it's not government that gives us those rights. Instead, it says that to secure these rights, so your right to life, it's not the federal government, it's not the state government, it's not any elected official that gives that to you. It's God that gives that to you. But why do we have a government? We have a government to secure these rights, to protect them. That concept is extraordinary. It is unique. It is powerful. And in most of the world, that's not the law. In most of the world, that's not the understanding. In most of the world, the government has the power to take your rights, to take them. Certainly in dictatorships, whether you're talking Russia or China or North Korea or Iran. In dictatorships, the government has the power to throw you in the Gulag, to torture you, to murder you, to do whatever they wish with you, because the government has all power. America was built on the principle that the entire purpose of the government is to protect our rights. And I want to say something else about America. Look, critics on the left criticize our nation as being arrogant, as being imperial. And listen, we are the strongest superpower on the face of the earth. We're certainly not immune from arrogance. But I want to say, you want to look at a unique moment in history. Look at 1945 at the end of World War II. America was the only country on the planet that had nuclear weapons for millennia. If any country had the ability to destroy any other nation, they would have conquered the world. You know what America did? We exercised restraint. We said, we're not interested in conquest. We're not interested in using an asymmetric power we had over everyone else. Instead, we are going to protect America and promote freedom and prosperity across the globe. There is a nobility to that which, which every American ought to be proud of.
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Joe Getty
Senator, I want to spend a moment and talk about how there are two ways that we can go as a country moving forward. We can either continue to be proud of this country, continue to grow, continue to learn, by the way, from mistakes that we've made to become even better country than we are right now, or we can take the other road. And that other road actually seems to be pretty darn Clear it is the Democratic model to be ashamed of this country and to fundamentally want to destroy it from within. We are witnessing and watching candidates across the country running and winning on this platform. That is obviously very, very concerning. I want to get your reaction to where we are now 250 years in.
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Senator Ted Cruz
Well, I want to do something that may surprise you. I want to speak directly to Democrats. Now, I recognize there are probably not a ton of Democrats that are listeners to this podcast. I hope there's some. And actually, when I talk to young people, when I talk to college kids, when I talk to high school kids, I encourage them. Wherever you are in the political spectrum, try to listen to both sides and pick a podcast or two on the left, a podcast or two on the right. Obviously, I suggest this one on the right is one to listen to, but assess. And by the way, also a ton of reporters that listen to this podcast. It's one of the interesting and really powerful things this pod does is we drive news. So there are a ton of reporters and almost all reporters are politically left. So if you're left of center, if you're a Democrat, I want to give a message to you on our nation's 250th birthday. Do not let the Democrat Party be conquered and colonized by socialists and Communists. And I say that with all sincerity. Listen, I disagree with Democrats. I disagree with Democrats on a lot of issues. I spent 14 years in the Senate battling. Now, by the way, I don't treat my Democrat colleagues with contempt. I don't treat them meanly. I don't insult them personally. Where we find common ground, we work together. Where we disagree, I try to engage on substance, but. But I treat them with respect. And I want every Democrat within the sound of my voice to listen. You are facing a hostile takeover of your party. The socialists who are winning primaries in New York, they're winning primaries in Colorado. They are not Democrats. They are. And understand socialist is the sort of nice, sweet, homogenized term for what they in fact are, which is America hating Communists. Listen, Communism, the economic system of communism is socialism. Anyone who calls themselves a Democrat, democratic socialist today is in fact a communist. And many of the DSA leaders, you can find lots of videos of them saying, look, our goal is communism. Communism. I speak from personal experience. My family was imprisoned and tortured and nearly killed by communists in Cuba. Communism has brought misery across the globe. It has brought misery. It has killed over 100 million people. Between Russia, between China, between Vietnam, between Cambodia, between Venezuela, between North Korea, between Cuba, communism has Been. It's not an accident. Every nation that has imposed communism has resulted in massive human rights violation, murder and torture and oppression. When the government has all power, your rights go away. Because communism is based on the inverse of the premise America was based on. Communism is based on the premise that government has the power, ostensibly in an egalitarian purpose, to empower the proletariat. But every single instance, not most, not a lot, all of them, communism results in massive oppression and suffering and misery and poverty and death. And so I want to say to Democrats, look, I look at my Democrat colleagues in the Senate, most of them are not, in fact, socialist or communists. They're just scared. They're looking at their party. And by the way, if you're not a socialist or communist and you're a Democrat, you're getting primaried right now and beaten. And they're like, okay, I don't want to get beaten. So I'm just going to stay quiet and I'm going to give the radical left what they want, and I'm going to make a plea fight to take your party back. I don't want you to become Republicans. Well, yes, I do, but I'd settle for just a rational Democrat party. Like, if you think the top marginal tax rate ought to be 10% higher than it is, I disagree with you on that. But we can have a conversation. If you want more government regulation, I want less. Okay, we can have a rational conversation about that. But if you look at the communists who are winning primaries right now, they are openly calling for abolishing the police. They're openly calling for abolishing borders. They're openly calling for abolishing prisons. Let me ask you something. If you shut down Mondami said this week he's gonna shut down Rikers island, what do you think happens to this country if we release all the murderers, all the rapists, all the child molesters for the Democrat Party? I think you're facing an existential challenge in your party. And if your party becomes a socialist and communist party, it will hurt America. By the way, I wanna say two other things and then I want you to comment on it. Number one, there's some Republicans who are sort of quietly celebrating, saying, okay, Democrats have gone crazy. That means Republicans are gonna win. And that may be right. It may be that we can go campaign and say, these people are really out there and don't vote for them. I don't want that outcome. As much as I'd like Republicans to win, if one of our two major parties becomes absolutely Insane. That's bad for America. I'd rather we debate within the 40 yard lines instead of going crazy one way. And so there is a real fight. And secondly there may be some Democrats listening or even some reporters listening who say look that's easy for you to say, you want us to take on these people, but if we do that we'll be thrown out of office, we'll lose a primary. And I want to point out I'm engaged in this same fight in the Republican side right now. The woke right that is trying to destroy the Republican party that is trying to turn us into a big government left wing party that is trying to turn us into an isolationist party, an Israel hating party, an America hating party. I am fighting the Tucker Carlson's and all of his acolytes in my party and at not inconsiderable personal and political risk. And so I want to call out to Democrats on this nation's 250th anniversary. Is there anyone who will stand up and say dammit, I will lose. I will be voted out of office rather than lose my party and lose my country. This may surprise you. Look for those of y' all that are regular verdict listeners, you probably did not anticipate my making a plea to Democrats, particularly on our nation's 250th anniversary. But I pray that there are some Democrats who like JFK and FDR love America and are willing to say I'm not gonna roll over and see our nation destroyed. I want us to have a 300th and a 400th and a 500th anniversary.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Amen to that. I could not agree with you more. I love celebrating this country. I love that we've got kids both of us are going to get to grow up in the grace celebrate it each and every single day. But especially on the 2250 anniversary. God bless our men and women, protect and defend this country. The center and I will see you back here next week and don't forget on the podcast all week long. God Bless America. We'll see you back here soon.
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