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I spent the day doing something very exciting that you guys will hear more about on the show tomorrow, helping the President of the United States launch the Trump accounts. But meanwhile, as I was doing that, the state of Virginia has plummeted further into all out chaos, mayhem, pandemonium as our new governor, Abigail Spanberger and the state legislature are introducing maybe the craziest bills and in any state legislature in American history. We're talking banning basically every gun and turning you into a criminal overnight, decriminalizing child pornography, essentially reducing mandatory minimum sentencing for rapists, and so much more. We're getting into all of it today on the Isabel Brown Show. Hey gang, little bit of a late and short episode for you today because I spent my entire morning at the Treasury Department with so many incredible people. Nicki Minaj, Caroline Levitt, White House press secretary Cheryl Hines, President Trump and so many others as we worked together to launch officially the Trump accounts. I know like everybody's social media feed is dominated by all of this today. We're going to be talking a whole lot about it tomorrow. We vlogged our experience there behind the scenes, getting to bring my sweet daughter in, launching this very exciting new initiative that is putting money into investment accounts for the next generation and setting them up for financial futures. So I don't want to get too ahead of myself on the Trump accounts yet. All of that will be coming tomorrow. But everyone has been asking me to weigh in on this. So for a very short, sweet couple minute episode today on all of this, I would be remiss if we didn't use our platform to drag out from the pit of hell and despair the batshit crazy ideas that are being thrown into the pot of insanity from the Virginia state legislature. You guys may know I made a TikTok about this. It's kind of popping off from a few days ago. I grew up in Colorado, so I had had a front row seat throughout my entire childhood on exactly what happens when a state that is incredibly functional and beautiful and safe for young families and great for thriving entrepreneurs, exactly the place that you want to raise the next generation. And a city like Denver, what happens when one of those states gets completely infiltrated? Looking at you, California, you have been number one on my hit list for a very long time. Completely infiltrated, taken over and all of the policies that are introduced are trying to like out woke one another and destroy the culture from the inside out. Colorado, my beloved home, the place that I love more than anywhere else in the world, is no longer the place that I know and Love it is no longer the same state that I grew up in. I would never move back there with my children. And now there are laws on the books in places like Colorado, in including this one, that the states can actually remove custody of your child away from you as parents if you disagree with them wanting to change their pronouns or start identifying as a different gender. They just belong to the state now, I guess. I mean, just genuine insanity. Well, I moved to Virginia about a year ago. Exactly. We moved to Northern Virginia to be right outside of Washington D.C. a year ago so that my husband could be committing or commuting. Sorry. To his new job in Washington D.C. but we didn't want to raise our baby in D.C. proper. D.C. has some really crazy laws and honestly, you don't really want to live in D.C. for all of the right reasons, where you're voting, your tax rate, all of that stuff. We also didn't really want to live in Maryland because of the three options in the dmv. Everyone says the best place for a young family in the D.C. area is Northern Virginia. It has its problems, don't get me wrong. There's NOVA has its issues, but that's where you want to be when you need to be inside the Beltway and commuting into Washington D.C. for work every day. We picked Virginia for all of the right reasons. We have so many friends and family here. We have long term roots with so much of a big community here and policy wise, it was the best option between D.C. and Maryland. Well now the White Witch of Narnia, the Hunger Games, President Snow's rival, what was her name? President Coin Villain, has now been elected to be the next governor of the state of Virginia. Abigail Spanberger, someone who literally no one had heard of like five minutes ago, but to my understanding was a state legislator here in Virginia. And we focused a lot this last election cycle on the Virginia elections in particular largely because of Jay Jones, though not because of Abigail Spanberger. Jay Jones, who is now our Attorney General and went pretty viral and became quite famous in the political world last November when it was leaked that he indeed sent text messages condoning the violent murder of the children of people who were running against him. People who vote differently from him and any generally conservative individual. The only way he said you can make people change their minds about policy is when you hit him where it hurts by violently murdering the their children. That man is now in charge of the law enforcement in the state of Virginia, but his new co worker, our Governor Abigail Spanberger here in Virginia is working in cahoots with the Virginia State Legislature. Now all Democrat Democrats control the House, the Senate and the Governor's Mansion here in Virginia now. And they are introducing the craziest slate of legislation I've ever seen in my entire life. Some of you who are really plugged into the political world or spend a whole lot more time on X than you should, I'm counting myself in that may be aware that this has been happening, but it seems to be getting crazier with every single day and I find it my obligation and duty to expose how absolutely upside down insane this is before it becomes enacted into law. Don't say I didn't warn you. And yes, I am actively looking into purchasing land in Wyoming five minutes from now to make that my permanent address as my exit strategy from when God has not called us to be in the Washington D.C. area. Because you can bet I could never in good conscience raise a child in an environment dominated by laws like these. A few days ago our friend Greg Price, who is awesome by the way, you should follow him, tweeted a whole laundry list of the sheer insane bills introduced by the Democrats in Virginia over the past couple of weeks and this has grown substantially. This all was in the the first 48 hours or so after the Democrats took power and Abigail Spanberger was in, in in office here as our Virginia Governor. He said this Democrats now control the legislature and Governor's office in Virginia. Here are just a few of the bills that they've introduced. A new 4.3% sales tax on Uber Eats and Amazon, et cetera deliveries. There's a new sales tax on admissions to a wide variety of businesses, creating two new higher tax brackets of 8% and 10% on people making over 600k. If you're making over a million in Virginia, it is a new 10% tax bracket. There is a now 3.8% proposed investment tax on top of state income taxes. So if you want to buy some stock in the stock market, good luck to you. That all is going to start going back into the hands of the Virginia legislature. Raise the hotel tax. There's a new proposed personal property tax on your landscaping equipment of all things. That's just the tax side of things. And that doesn't include firearms taxes, which we'll get into in a second by the way. As a result of all of these things, the Governor and the state legislature are trying to double their salary paid for by your taxes. And I thought we had an affordability crisis. I thought we were really worried about real people, not public servants but real people trying to afford a home and try to put food on the table for their kids. No, they don't care. It's not about you. It's actually about them doubling their salary through this whole host of new taxes. They also want, because it's not enough to tax you on your landscaping equipment, to ban gas powered leaf blowers. They want to guarantee illegal aliens free education. They want to make it illegal to approach someone at an abortion clinic. We're coming back to that law because I think that's really going to set the standard for what other states are going to try to do in 2026. Here's some fun ones. Extend the time absentee ballots can be received after election day to three days after election day. What could possibly go wrong? Allow people to cast their votes electronically through the Internet. What could really possibly go wrong? Expanding ranked choice voting. We all saw how that's gone for states like Alaska. Absolute crap show. Extend the deadline for ballot curing to one week after election day. Interesting that these people take political power and the very first thing, thing they do, they go out of their way to do is to normalize the possibility of hijacking elections and protect it by law. But you know, redacting the addresses of political candidates from Freedom of Information act requests. Adding Virginia to the National Popular Vote compact for presidential electors. That is a compact trying to get rid of the electoral college. If you didn't know that they want to make it. Here's a kicker. Illegal to hand count ballots if your ballot can be read by a machine. In Virginia, the governor, Abigail Spanberger and the state legislature is trying to make it illegal for anyone to count that ballot by hand. What is the purpose of this? Why? Why does that need to be a law? Just honest, genuine adult human being question there. What if you need a recount? I mean, I have so many follow up questions about this. What happens when the race is so close that you need a hand recount? Are those just done? If a machine can read it, the machines know better than the people here. We get into firearm insanity. They want to impose a $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors. They want an 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunitions. They want to ban assault weapons, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. And a large capacity magazine ban. That bill is now advancing out of committee to the state legislature in general right now and is so bad by the way, is just genuinely unconstitutional. And we'll come back to it in a second. They want to make it illegal to shoot A firearm outside on land less than five acres. Guys, this is really bad. And my personal favorites, replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. And the kicker, Ready for this? Remove mandatory minimum sentences and lower the criminal penalties for robbery. Yeah, here's what this bill says. Democrats in Virginia have introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies. As for the abortion side of things, this was really interesting to me because this law, I think if it becomes a law, this bill is going to inspire a lot of other similar legislation around the country. One particular member of the legislature introduced a bill right away during this term making it a crime to approach someone. If you are standing within 40ft of an abortion clinic, you cannot go within 8ft of another person. Specifically, and I'll read this from the bill itself, it creates a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person who knowingly approaches another person within 8ft of such person in the public way or sidewalk area within a radius of 40ft from any entrance door to a health care facility unless such other person consents to the approach for the purpose of giving, tendering or exhibiting any material to, displaying, assigned to, or engaging in oral protest, education or counseling with such other person. In other words, if a woman is being dragged into an abortion facility by her trafficker or by her abuser, which I've seen personally many times standing outside of abortion facilities, they want to put you in prison, not her trafficker or her abuser. God knows they just removed the mandatory minimum sentencing for rape anyway, so that guy's probably not going to jail. But let's say a rapist brings his victim to an abortion facility, which again, happens all the time. If you have ever spent time sidewalk counseling outside of an abortion facility, you see this stuff every single day. They want to throw you in prison. And if you tell this beautiful woman who's being victimized by an abuser, hey, if he makes you take the abortion pill inside, which they do, they watch you swallow the first of two pills. You can call this number and if you call soon enough, it is reversible. We can save your baby's life. Educating and counseling these women would now be a class three misdemeanor. Nice.