and that should be a good conversation as well so 5 gas in store for you here today
before we get to any of that.
I want to talk about this.
I saw a clip.
Just flying across social media
over the weekend. It has gone
viral. This one tweet that I’m
looking at has. Well over a
100,000 likes and retweets of a
sound bite.
At a conference in Austin
Texas. The Texas Tribune has
this ideas festival
and a lot of politicians and
political figures and
personalities were traipsing
through this conference over
the course of the weekend.
Was Pete buttigieg
who is apparently the
transportation secretary in the
Biden administration. If you’re
not familiar with Pete, here’s
the basic story. He was mayor
of a small city in Indiana.
Then decided he wanted to run
for statewide office in
Indiana. He failed he lost by a
lot. Then you decide you want
to run the Democratic National
Committee ran for the chairman
position last and then it was
time for him in his mind to be
president. So he ran for
president. That also didn’t end
well for him although
he did given his record he did
perform relatively well
overall.
Because of that presidential
run get included in
President Biden’s presidential
Cabinet as transportation
secretary it’s been an
interesting portfolio for him
based on his expertise there
have been some real problems on
this front. I’m not
really sure what sort of job
he’s doing because it appears
that he spent a lot of his time
at these types of events
pontificating and telling a
certain type of liberal exactly
what they like
to hear in a soothing smooth
sound bites he’s very good at
>> So they have now moved to Michigan. So if you’re a Democratic
senator in Michigan be careful.
I think that there’s someone
who might want your job sooner
or later that might be the
next hopscotch stop along the
way for people to judge who
knows. Here’s the
transportation secretary.
At this event in Texas and he
was asked about the
border crisis, but specifically
these Republican governors,
sending illegal immigrants to
blue sanctuary. Jurisdictions.
And he decided to focus in on governor Ron DeSantis and Florida. I think he looks at
the Santas and see someone as
perhaps a future rival of his
because obviously this is a man
who has every intention of
running for president again.
He sees DeSantis as a rising
person on the other side of the
aisle of course DeSantis has
won a statewide election and
made a consequential governing
decisions which I’m not really
sure we’ve seen very much from
secretary Pete that being said
nevertheless.
Buttigieg decided that he was
going to focus his critique on
DeSantis and boy lefties are
going crazy for it they love
it. The tweet that I’m looking
at right here.
His caption, it’s from one of
these resistance twitter
accounts when people to judge
comes for someone. He doesn’t
carry a sledgehammer. He wields
a scalpel and in this
must-see clip peach
slices Ron DeSantis into a
million little pieces well.
Well that sounds pretty
dramatic. Let’s see how this
went I’d like to react to have
a few thoughts starting with
cut 17.
>> Obviously there are issues
with the border with migration.
But these are the kinds of
stunts you see for people who
don’t have a solution.
>> The sleek governor DeSantis was in Congress where was he when they’re debating
immigration reform.
What what did any of these
people going to be part of the
solution. So you know I get if
you’re after attention. It’s
one thing to call attention to
the problem. When you have a
course of action
that has some of the folks here
speaking up about an issue
exercising their First
Amendment rights have gone
or in elected office it’s
another to just call attention
to a problem because the
problem.
Is actually more useful to you
than the solution and that
helps to call attention to
yourself.
>> Pete knows a thing or 2 about attention seeking and ambition. But that’s what he is
putting on governor DeSantis
here and saying that is what
the Florida governor has been
up to now of course there’s
also Greg Abbott
in Texas who pioneered this
whole thing Doug do see also
getting on board in Arizona.
Buttigieg went on in the same answer uncut 18 listen here. >> The problem of course is one
thing if that was just people
being of not just that human
beings are being impacted.
But you flee a Communist regime
in Venice Wally come here.
And then somebody tricks you,
somebody using Florida taxpayer
money for some reason tricks
you into going from Texas to
Massachusetts. It’s it’s it’s
not just ineffectual. It is
hurting people.
>> In order to get attention.
Okay.
>> I don’t know how it hurts
someone to fight and to
Martha’s Vineyard when they’ve
agreed to go there and signed a
waiver.
When they were found homeless
on the streets in overwhelmed
border communities in Texas.
You put them in a hotel, you
got them a shower, you gave
them 3 square meals and got
them to one of the nicest
places in the country that
calls itself a sanctuary
jurisdiction. I guess that’s
cruel and harmful to people.
That’s the Pete buttigieg
spin on this, although that’s
what they’re all saying right
this has been there talking
point here for days.
Now there’s a few things that
stand out to me as I listened
to the entirety of that answer.
And I listed a few
of them on twitter
last night because I was
interested to see what Pete was
going to have to say about
DeSantis I’ll say this
buttigieg when he ran for
president he had people
sometimes attacking him
unfairly for various reasons,
including that he’s gay.
And there were some innuendo
and ugliness about that from
both sides and as someone who’s
also roughly his age I think a
little younger, but
also gay and someone in the
spotlight. I would stick up for
him when I thought he was being
treated. Unfairly or in a wrong
way. He also seems reasonably
bright. He seems friendly
enough.
I think in some ways he is
really overrated.
And to have this answer that we
just heard pumped up is this
brilliant deception of Ron
DeSantis I’m just not seeing
that at all and I think
DeSantis would welcome that
debate in fact
by doing what DeSantis did with
Martha’s Vineyard and that
whole admittedly stunt. The
point was to raise this debate
and forced this debate that a
lot of people wouldn’t touch
wouldn’t talk about didn’t want
to even recognize or
acknowledge was happening.
Including a lot of people
inside the Biden
administration.
It’s all not like to Santa some
fool out there who says oh
yeah, let me not think this
through let’s do the thing in
force a debate and then when
the debate arrives, he doesn’t
know his stuff DeSantis knows
his stuff.
If for whatever reason he ended
up on a debate stage with Pete
buttigieg I don’t think it
would go. As well for Pete has
a lot of his acolytes and sick
offense seem to think it would.
0.1 I would make here.
Is that governors can only do
so much. On immigration policy
this is a federal issue.
When governors have tried
to get tougher at the border,
they’re often challenged by the
federal government when it’s
run by Democrats so they can’t
do that. Their hands
are tied. This is national
sovereignty. It’s the job of
the federal government the
federal government and this
administration. His
administration that he’s
serving an buttigieg under
Biden they are the ones
responsible for this.
They’re the ones who are
failing they’re the ones whose
policies are creating this huge
problem. And it’s not just a
small problem this is historic.
The failure. We’ve gone through
this over and over again.
They are blowing out records
2 million people captured the
border this year alone.
A million roughly a million got
a ways under Biden known got a
ways. It’s totally out
of control another month and
8th month with 200,000 or more
encounters of the border in
August. Those are the numbers
that’s the math,
lashing out at Ron DeSantis or
Greg Abbott or anyone else.
A deflection away.
From the people who are
actually responsible for this.
And those are the people in the Biden administration period. This is
all they’re all being tracked
to go here and it’s cruel and
it’s it’s harming people.
I quibbled with that I made my
point on that front as well.
Also I it seems like his
central argument from
buttigieg was that DeSantis and
Abbott offered no solutions on
any of this. I said this is
a stunt that you would see from
someone who wants attention.
But has no solutions.
Except if DeSantis were sitting
there on stage DeSantis could
rattle off. I would guess off
the top of his head. Half a
dozen solutions. That he and
other Republicans have been
demanding begging the
administration to consider.
I could you just look at where
the Trump administration had
this issue in about 2019 where
they got a handle on the
problem with a whole suite.
It wasn’t perfect. But it was a
of a lot better and more
functional and last messi what
we have right now. The problem
was a fraction of what it has
exploded to under this
president. The remain in Mexico
policy was working which has
been undermined ineffectively
abandoned by Biden the safe 3rd
party country agreement with
the northern triangles
donations. Right that was a
part of the policy as well
expulsions under title, 42 that
the Biden administration
have now ended because they say
the pandemic is over except
when it’s not.
Those are 3 easy ones then you
can get into some enforcement
plans that Republicans have
been asking for and proposing
for years that have been fought
tooth and nail and rejected and
blocked in Congress every step
of the way. It is
not true that Republicans don’t
have ideas. When it comes to
this border crisis. They have
many ideas on the broader issue
of immigration and in this
crisis in particular I think it
is interesting for buttigieg
demand all these answers.
All the solutions to a problem
that his team created. They
made the mess.
And now he’s saying look at
these people over here they’ve
got no solutions for the
problem that we created.
Except even that isn’t true.
They do have solutions they do
have ideas. The Democrats just
reject them. You can
say you’re enforcement
first policies are unfair
and mean-spirited and
xenophobia and racism all the
words they always use.
You can say that Trump was
awful and none of his ideas
were good so we had to reflect
simply get rid of all of it
even though some of it was
succeeding actually.
What you can do is say that
none of those ideas even exist.
Have the honesty
to say they have ideas we don’t
like them. We have our own
ideas which approach do you
prefer America, I know what the
results are telling me. But
this is I think
this less than honest approach.
And the stick that buttigieg
has specially in this answer.
Pretending like solutions and
ideas that absolutely exist
that he just doesn’t like
don’t exist at all so you just
have these sort of myopic
nihilistic Republicans doing
something they have no other
ideas in their head. This is
wrong.
That’s just where is the
sentence when he was in
Congress well he was fighting
for things and the freedom
caucus in the how soon a
Republican study committee
these concerns they put all
sorts of bills out there.
Buttigieg and his health were
against all of them.
You can say they were wrong.
You can’t say that they weren’t
there.
I pointed out before I’m kind
of a squish on immigration at
least I have been in the past
dream act I was open to that I
still am some path to
legal status. For a lot of
people who’ve been here for
quite a long time was open to
that. But as I’ve said now more
recently all of that stops.
Not a single inch should be
conceded on this until we get
actual enforcement that’s the
crux of the problem right now.
And by the way last but not least on this and I’ll probably continue in the next segment.
The
official position of the
Democratic Party and the Biden
White House is that the border
is secure they tell us that
every day over and over again.
It’s a lie.
It is a demonstrably insulting
lie.
And buttigieg seems to be
offended that Republicans have
the audacity and the Gaal.
To highlight that lie.
If buttigieg agrees with the
life. He’s going to repeated
the border secure. Then it is a
100% legitimate for DeSantis
Abbott or anyone else to shine
a bright spotlight on the lie.
Every single day using
virtually any means necessary
including this. Does Pete
endorse that line is the border
secure. Yes, turnout.
Poll test that one for 2024
before he answers. Pick
this up. Right after a short