S15 EP48: Hour 2 - Saving the SAVE Act

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while waiting for me to get back to Iran.

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Welcome to the show.

How are you?

How are you doing, Eric Erickson?

I have a question.

In 1945, I'm not sure about Germany,

but they split the Germany in half

because of what happened during World War II.

I was just wondering if that's the possibility

to happen to Iran with other countries

of Arabicae nations pretty much.

Taking control of the half of the country

or quarter of the country,

they divided for each country

to control that section.

So they wouldn't.

One, we don't have a large enough allied platform to be able to do that.

But two, the nation of Iran,

which up until I guess the 1950s was called,

or 1940s or 30s was called Persia,

is a continuously existing landmass

that goes back more than 2,000 years

as a comprehensive geographic region.

There are certainly portions of Iran

where there are tribal different tribes

and even different languages

that exist in the region.

But all of these people view themselves

as part of the formerly Persian empire in Iran.

And they're all committed to Iran.

So to divide it would probably

cause more harm than good

when these people all view themselves as Iranian.

You know, it's, so you got a

particular situation with like the Cubans.

The Cuban diaspora is spread around the world

but mostly concentrated in the United States, Spain

and elsewhere.

The Iranian diaspora,

you've got big pockets of it in Canada,

Los Angeles.

You've got something in Atlanta

where I am, New York City, Chicago.

I've got a massive pool of Iranians

around the world and in the Middle East and Europe

who are just, they would love to go home.

And if they went home,

the economics of Iran would explode.

In fact, there was a report I saw out this morning

that one of Qatar's concerns

with the United States getting rid of

the Iranian regime is that it would make

Qatar less relevant

because the Iranian diaspora

is so entrepreneurial

that they could cause

not just Iranian oil exports

but technology exports to explode.

A lot of Iranian refugees

and part of the diaspora live in Israel now,

they're highly trained and technical

and the Iranian entire system

could explode if they embraced the free market

and had some liberal reforms there.

And you've got Middle Eastern partners of hours

who are actually worried about that possibility.

But at this point, they have all concluded

it would be worth it to put up with that

just for the Iranian regime to go away.

Now, I want to switch to domestic topics.

I have not spent a lot of time on the program

talking about the SAVE Act

because the SAVE Act is dead on arrival

in the United States Senate.

And I'm really frustrated with portions of conning

the conservative movement in Washington, DC.

You know, when I was at red state

and beyond red state

have been a conservative activist

for a very long time.

I lost many a fight to Mitch McConnell

and I came to appreciate

the wily genius of Mitch McConnell

against conservatives

because one of the things

that I have concluded about the conservative movement

is we are very, very good at dying on hills.

We're actually not very strategic.

We're not very strategic at all.

We think we're strategic

and we got people within the conservative movement

who are very smart.

But we would rather die on a hill

and be a martyr to a cause

and actually get anything accomplished.

I very much like the SAVE Act.

I think the SAVE Act is a very good idea.

But I also think the SAVE Act

is in a way like a comprehensive immigration reform

that is also dead on arrival

because it's too comprehensive.

The conservatives in Washington, DC

don't understand that they're losing

the online fight with

run-of-the-mill ordinary people elsewhere

because there's a rumor online

that I have now seen circulated.

By the way, only about 13% to 15% of Americans

even know what the SAVE Act is.

But I have seen people who are not involved in politics

who don't pay attention,

who aren't normal Americans

who are not hyper online

that they rush to Facebook to update their families.

And that's about it.

And I'm seeing them on Facebook.

Say, did you all know the Republicans

are trying to pass a law

that would require all of our lives

to have to show up and reregister to vote

with their marriage licenses

and birth certificates

because their names don't match.

This is really the level of

mendacity the Democrats are selling.

And I will tell you,

I, the only time I was ever asked

my opinion about the SAVE Act,

I thought it was a bad idea

to push as aggressively

the citizen verification portions.

I believe we need a federal law

that makes it a felony

to vote in any election state or federal

if you're not an American citizen.

I also believe that the conservatives

who drafted the SAVE Act

deeply muddied the water

by adding so many provisions to the SAVE

Act, we want to make it about citizens,

we want to make it about voter ID.

If you just made it about voter ID

and push the citizenship issue later,

you would minimize the democratic abilities

to undermine it.

And in fact,

it is the citizenship requirements

as structured in the legislation,

which is why even people

like John Fetterman

who support voter ID,

they're rejecting the SAVE Act.

And what do I mean by that?

Under one of the common approaches

and you need to understand

the conservatives in DC saying,

no, no, no, this is not true.

And it's wild,

they're insisting it is not true,

but everybody else who's read the law

says, actually, no, the way it's written,

everybody in America is going to have to go show

that they're an American citizen in order to vote.

And no one's going to be able to vote

unless they can prove that they're an American citizen.

You already being registered to vote

is according to the critics

not proof enough that you're an American citizen.

It would have been real smart

for the provision to be structured

as moving forward

in order to register to vote.

Everyone who registers

going to have to show

that they're an American citizen retroactively,

you'll be presumed to be an American citizen.

And if shown otherwise,

you're going to go to jail for 10 years for voting.

Would have been an easier way to make it happen.

We need national voter ID.

The SAVE Act goes beyond national voter ID

in ways that while I think are reasonable,

I think are harder to message.

And it's dead on arrival in the United

States Senate.

It's dead on arrival in the United States Senate

because there are not enough Republican members

of the Senate to support it

with all the extra provisions beyond voter ID.

If it was just a piece of legislation

that said you have to show

photo ID to be able to vote

every Republican of the Senate would support it.

But it goes beyond that.

And while it goes beyond it in ways

that you and I might support,

you've got to have 60 members of the Senate

to break the filibuster.

And you probably wouldn't,

even if those Republicans supported it

who don't support it right now.

But what we're also seeing

with the people who support the SAVE Act

is they've moved into hill to die on rhetoric

that it is this and nothing else.

Let me ask you a question.

Would you rather get the SAVE Act passed

or stock a bunch of life-tenured conservative judges

on the courts in DC?

Which would you rather do?

Because you can't tell me it's not a binary

because one of the positions

that the conservatives

in Washington are advancing

is let's have a talking filibuster.

The last time a talking filibuster actually worked

was 1898, I believe.

Three members of the minority gave up enough

that the filibuster was abandoned.

And the measure it was on the Sherman Silver Act passed

that's the last time

members of the Senate have been able to allow

a filibuster to expire.

And that filibuster went on for almost 60 days

and in those 60 days the Senate devoted

exactly four other days

to the business of the Senate.

So let's just let's say this

you decided to a talking filibuster.

You decided to a talking filibuster

and the Democrats realized

that if they give up their toast,

if the Democrats give up their toast.

So what the Democrats decide to do

is they will bank in days

of the week

where the Senate can move to other business.

In the Senate you have executive

counter days and legislative days.

On the executive counter days you can get

judicial nominations passed,

cabinet nominees passed,

other things done on legislative days.

You focus on legislation.

So the Democrats decide they will give one day a week

to executive business and the rest of the time

they're going to filibuster.

That gives you, let's say it goes on for five weeks.

That gives you five days to try to get judges

confirmed in the United States Senate.

And by the way,

by the way,

during that time the Democrats can do a quorum call.

And when they do a quorum call,

every member of the Senate has to be on the floor of the Senate,

which means there can be no committee meetings

to confirm judges.

There can't be any committee meetings to confirm the judges.

So the Democrats keep everyone in the Senate

for let's say five weeks.

During that time you're not going to see any judges passed.

During that time you're going to have no committee meetings passed.

You're going to get to the end of the five weeks.

And Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and Tom Tillis,

they're going to reject the Save Act.

So it's going to die anyway.

You will have not had any judges confirmed.

And the Senate will recess for the summer having gotten nothing else done,

including a reconciliation package where other conservative priorities can be put in.

I like the Save Act.

But if you're so focused on the Save Act that you want to get nothing else done and you're

willing to shut down the Senate for three months because the Democrats aren't going to go to the

fight. The Democrats aren't going to abandon the filibuster. Why are the Democrats not going to

abandon the filibuster because they understand their base wants them to be seen as fighting.

You're handing the Democrats a fight on a silver platter.

One that all they have to do is show up, stand and talk.

That's it. All they got to do is talk.

And you know the way the filibuster works into the rules of the Senate for the first hour you

talk. And after that, you can start taking questions from people about anything.

You can start reading books. You just got to stand. You can't lean on the desk. You got to

stand. Put on a depends. And then somebody asks you a question. You get to rest your voice.

And that person can ask a question. That question can be three hours.

They can word the question so that they talk for three hours.

Ask you the question that gives your voice three hours to rest so that you start talking again.

You just got to stand the whole time. And then when you're done, the next Democrat can stand

and start up again. And you can go on for as long as it takes. And do you really think the

Democrats are going to fold before the Republicans do? Do you really? And now the problem is

Connie and DC, which again loves dying on hills very rarely succeeds in advancing anything.

Connie is telling people if we don't pass the Save Act, we're never going to win an election again.

Y'all, will you please stop with the we're never going to win if we don't do this one thing

that's never going to happen because you won in 2024, including the popular vote. And you

didn't have the Save Act. What has changed? Oh, Donald Trump of the Republicans are in charge.

You're really trying to tell me that now that Donald Trump and the Republicans are in charge of

everything, you're never going to win again unless the Save Act passes when the Democrats were in

charge. And you were able to win the popular vote. Is that really what you're trying to tell me?

The logic fits, of course, because in 2020 Republicans controlled everything.

And they lost the presidency and had to claim it was stolen instead of admitting defeat.

The conservative movement in DC has gotten very good at becoming professional victims

and whining and not actually doing anything. The strategic geniuses in Washington and the

conservative movement are very good at finding hills to die on and not very good at getting

anything of substance past. And I'm really wishing that we would get a little wiser.

Had you just made it about voter ID, you could tell the entire country that it was about voter ID,

88% of black Americans support voter ID. And instead, you made it more complicated. You kept

adding stuff. It's harder to message and it's not going to pass. And yet you want to blame people

like me for not being agitated enough when it's not worth my time to advocate for something that

you designed to not pass. But the fundraiser, if I'm so disappointed in this, you could have just

done a photo ID bill and you would have had the perfect message, but you complicated it. And now

you're going to blame the Senate Republicans for not killing the filibuster. And then say,

well, the Democrats are going to kill it when they get back. Prove it. Prove to me the Democrats

are going to do it because they've said that you've said that the last two times the Democrats

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lawyers office high as a kite and got confused between her office and mine. Just, just incredible

stuff. All right. All right. I got to move on to other stuff. Do any of you braid here?

Just bear with me here. This is this is relevant story. Do any of you braid hair?

My daughter, I'm really hoping she brings me coffee.

Um, it's one of those days. So my, my daughter has, she got a haircut once.

Maybe I want to say she was in second or third grade and she has trimmed her hair since but she's

never cut her. She has long hair. Shout out to Renye for our, uh, tankless water heater where we never

run out of hot water because the only reason we ever ran out of hot water before us because our

kid would take these long showers. She's got so much hair and now we don't. And I tried one time

to braid her hair because her mother was out of town and she wanted her hair braided and I,

I managed but it wasn't fantastic. I can kind of do it and you know how I know how to braid hair

basically. You will all laugh at your nerdy host because I like to make holla.

He got to braid the loaf. So I know the basics but I'm better at braiding a loaf of bread that I

am braiding my daughter's hair. Well, you can go to people particularly if you're a black person,

there are cosmologists who are experts at braiding your hair. If you're a black woman or even a

young man, in many cases around the country, it's a stylish thing to get your hair braided like that.

And boy, does it take some time to do and it's impressive. My wife has for years always wanted corn

roasts. Like not now. No, that that might even be cultural appropriation for me dear.

Well, in Louisiana, the Democrats are trying to make it very difficult for any of you to go into

the business of being professional hair braiders. Get this. There's a licensing bill before the

Louisiana legislature. The Democrats would require 600 hours of training at a licensed cosmology

school, an annual exam and a fee. You would have to pay money to take an annual exam after being

certified for getting 600 hours of training at a licensed cosmology school. Again,

I'm just, let me just make this as plain as possible for you.

In the state of Louisiana, Democrats in the legislature are proposing that if you want to go into the

business of being a professional hair braider, you must have 600 hours of training at a licensed

cosmology school, pay money every year to take an annual exam to continue your certification.

That's what the Democrats want. Do you know what the Republicans want in Louisiana? If you want to

be a professional hair braider, do you know what they want you to do in Louisiana? If you're a Republican,

they want you to take an annual 20-question health and safety exam and pay a one-time fee for your

certificate from the state. So Republicans, annual 20-question exam on health and safety, Democrats,

600 hours of training at a licensed cosmology school, an annual exam, and an annual fee.

That's Louisiana. In California, do you know what the certification is to be a landscaper in

California? It's bizarre. All sorts of fire safety certifications and the like to be a landscaper

in California. In California, you would be a landscaper these days. You want to be a small business

in California. They want to overwhelm you with regulatory exams. Do you know how long it takes to

open a restaurant in San Francisco, California right now? Two years. Takes two years to open a

restaurant on average in San Francisco and that's after they streamlined the process to open restaurants

in California. Where I am, I ran into this when I was on city council here, the Democrats and

past regulations were to get your occupancy certification, you had to have the fire marshal visit.

But before the fire marshal could visit, you had to have your occupation certificate.

Think about that. Where I live, we fixed this when I was on city council. It was a very bizarre

rule that I knew about because I had been a lawyer helping a business get a liquor license and to

get your occupancy certificate, you had to have the fire marshal pay a visit. But in order to get

the fire marshal to pay a visit, you had to have your occupancy certification. How's that working

exactly? Well, you had to call one person in county government who knew how to line it up perfectly.

It was very bizarre. Thankfully you got fixed. But a buddy of mine the other day was telling me in

my local community run by Democrats, it is extremely frustrating to try to get a business license.

He wanted to open his business between the P and Z planning and zoning regulations on signage

and the building that he bought. He said it was almost like they wanted you to not open your business.

Meanwhile, in my community, like so many communities, we had these fly-by-night businesses where they

set up roadside stands to sell carpets and fake roses and all sorts of stuff. You know and I

know that the planning and zoning commission and the occupational business certificate people and

the code enforcers are not going out to the guy on the side of the road with the pop-up 10 and the

fake Persian carpets asking them for their business license. You want to try to start a business

in a community run by Democrats? It's real hard. It's better to be a drug dealer in a community run

by Democrats these days because you're not going to get prosecuted taxed or have to get an occupation

certification in a business license. Might as well be a drug dealer in areas of the country where

the Democrats are in charge because you're going to be less likely to go to jail or pay fines to

the government. You want to do a legitimate business in a Democratic part of the country? It gets

hard. In Washington state, the Constitution and Washington state bans and income tax.

The Washington legislature has adopted an income tax. The Constitution says you can't do it.

The legislature has passed an income tax despite the Constitution provision prohibiting it

because they're calling it a wealth tax even though it taxes income not wealth and they're hoping

that the progressives on the Supreme Court of State of Washington will be okay with that and

just rewrite the plain language of the Constitution in Washington state. So I Tom, not Tom, sorry,

they had a Howard Schultz head of Starbucks is leaving. Starbucks is moving his corporate headquarters

to Nashville. Other billionaires leaving Jeff Bezos is left. Amazon is thinking of leaving. Have

we made a major commercial investment in the city of Seattle? They're thinking of leaving or at

least going to Bellevue, which is next door, which is doing gangbusters as Seattle taxes that's not

out of people. The new socialist mayor of Seattle, Washington, has made it against the law for

grocery stores to close. Grocery stores are closing in Seattle because the local government has

decided to tax them and regulate the stock out of them and they can't make money anymore.

So the grocery stores have started to close. So the mayor of Seattle has made it against the law

for grocery stores to close. How does that going to work? Exactly. I have no idea. They don't seem to know.

The Democratic Party in the United States around the country is making it really hard for small

businesses to be businesses. They keep saying they're for the little guy, but they keep

propping up the major industries. Look at this law in Louisiana. This law that the Democrats want

past is actually being pushed by cosmology schools. They don't like the fact that you can actually

learn how to braid hair by your aunt, by your mom, and they go turn it into a business. They want

you to get 600 hours of training for it. They don't want you to do that.

In Georgia, where I am, every time the Republicans try to make it easier for a local business to set

up shop, the Democrat screen screened that somebody's going to die. Someone's going to have a problem.

Someone's going to get in trouble. Someone's going to cause a problem. You shouldn't be able to do

it. You should have to regulate the snot out of it. And then maybe we should let government thrive

and government do things. So they want to tax the billionaires out there. The billionaires are

bad. The reason a billionaire is a billionaire in most cases is because they came up with an idea

of the rest of his love. Very few things in government have been as good as the things we get from

the private sector. In fact, the good things we've gotten from government that have translated

into the private sector have all come from the military and the space program, the one area of

the government the Democrats want to cut the budget for. Do you know why Jeff Bezos is a billionaire?

You say, oh, well, he started Amazon. Of course, you know what Jeff Bezos did?

Jeff Bezos found a way to get you within 24 hours the thing that you found online.

The obscure object that your heart craves, Jeff Bezos found a way to get it to you for cheap

in 24 hours or less in some cases. That's why Jeff Bezos is a billionaire because you love to go

to Amazon. Find that obscure thing no one else has and get it to your home within 24 to 48 hours

thanks to Amazon Prime. So I Jeff Bezos is a billionaire. You know why the Walmart family,

the Walton family are billionaires because they found a way to make these massive businesses

around the country that sell a lot of stuff for cheap to the poor in the middle class who go shop

there and know where else because the Walton family found that a way to get them pretty good

products at a really reasonable price and then to expand it to groceries as well and so people

who are on fixed incomes go shop at Walmart because it's a whole lot cheaper to shop there than

somewhere else and the Walton family has been rewarded by becoming billionaires and now the

Democrats think they're bad. The Democrats think Jeff Bezos is bad because he's made a lot of

money getting you the stuff you want quickly. Why is Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire? Because Mark Zuckerberg

found that a way for your old classmate from third grade now that you're in your 40s to reconnect

to you and relive old time from when you were in third grade you hadn't heard from the person since

and you're kind of intrigued that they found you on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg made a billion

dollars by being willing to connect you to people and then being willing to connect you to amazing

products on Instagram. Some of my most beloved things that I have in my house for cooking in the

like, like my rec tech smoker, I found it on Instagram. I just stumbled upon it on Instagram,

didn't know it existed until I found it on Instagram and now I've got my rec tech in the backyard

and I love it. I want to have them as an advertiser. My pizza oven in my backyard, I found

Fontana, a family in South Carolina sells these things. It's a giant pizza oven. They even sell

them at Costco now. I found it on Instagram. I've never been to a Costco. I don't even have one

in my ear. We're about to have one. I am so excited about having a Costco in my ear. You can't

believe it, but you know what? The Costco is being slowly built in my area. Why? Because of the

planning and zoning regulations, the local Democrats that put in place makes it hard to build a Costco.

The Democrats are really good at smothering something until it's dead and then subsidizing it

to shut out the competition. They're really, really bad at helping small businessmen do well.

They're really, really bad at helping entrepreneurs grow. The Democratic Party is relentless in

snuffing out the ambitions of entrepreneurs and then if they still keep at it and they become

billionaires, the Democrats want their money. This is a problem. Again, I don't think Democrats

have grappled with the fact that they are less popular than even artificial intelligence. The

only thing, according to NBC News that's less popular in this country than the Democratic Party

is the Iranian government and the Democratic Party is cheering on the Iranian government,

hoping they beat Donald Trump. That's how broken that party is.

If you want to succeed in this country, it's real hard to support Democratic policies and there

are a lot of people who for historic reasons support the Democratic Party and I get that.

But it's genuinely wild to me to see an entire political party in this country

lining to snuff out the entrepreneurial spirit in America. The bad thing is that Republicans,

some of them are headed this way. When Donald Trump supports taking over business interests and

private corporations, all that does is bring in government corruption. When the Republicans want

to regulate AI out of business that just lets China dominate, I got problems with AI myself.

In fact, there's a story of the stack of stuff today. We put out in the show notes where

open AI got notice of with chat GPT that there was some kid that looked like they might be

planning a school shooting. It was a trans shooter and they flagged it for upper management.

It upper managers just banned their account, not reported to the police. I got problems with AI.

But the fact of using AI and deployed AI is not one of them we need to and we need to dominate it

to get to to to Alice China. My daughter was telling me she's taken a business class in college

and she's getting graded on her use of AI. They want her to figure out how to use AI to help her make

her life easier in doing her business tasks because they know that's the way the world is going so

you might as well embrace it. Not to cheat but to make you more efficient might as well embrace it.

But what are the Democrats want to do? The Democrats want all 50 states to have unique regulations

to be able to smother AI out of the gate so China can dominate because if there's anything in

this country that is good, makes us better, makes us more competitive or more efficient,

the Democrats want to regulate it out of existence.

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There's a shooting active shooter situation happening at a synagogue in Michigan right now.

In the last two weeks, we've had an active shooting situation at a synagogue. We had an

Islamic radical killed three people in a mass murder in Austin, Texas. We had an Islamist attack

in New York City and there are rumors in Virginia right now that the shooting at Old Dominion

University was also an Islamic radical. We certainly do see people not necessarily sleeper

cells, but we certainly see people who hate the United States who are inflamed against the

United States who are targeting American citizens, Jews, and others. Again, right now, as I'm

speaking to you, there is an active shooter situation at a temple Israel outside of Detroit.

There are also in the last two weeks been the Islamic shooting, Islamic radical shooting in Austin

and Islamic radicals throwing bombs in New York City. We have this morning had an active shooter

situation at Old Dominion University in Virginia. The rumors, and again, they are rumors. I'm going

to be very careful with that and tell you they are rumors and the rumor is that it was possibly

someone looking for an ROTC class in which to open fire. I've got a number of people within

the Virginia government who I keep in contact with were telling me that they are trying to

substantiate that for sure, but that's the way it's looking based on what people were told on the

ground. Thankfully, the death toll was only two, still two, too many, but also the shooter is dead

there. Keeping an eye on the situation in Michigan right now as reports are coming in about this

shooting situation there at Temple Israel. So stay tuned. This does not mean the sleeper cells

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border with illegal aliens and now refuse to fund Homeland Security are going to blame Donald

Trump for all of these things. We've seen these Islamic attacks around the country for the last

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