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1:00The total number when all is said and done, and bear in mind, we just started getting this data last fall. It's going to be, you know, huge. The total number of likely cases in Kansas of non-citizens who have cast balances is in the hundreds. Hi, this is Ann Coulter. Welcome to my ricochet podcast. Linked on mysubstackanncoulter.substack.com. Five stories of the week for you. First one, of course I will start with my column, which is Bafo about voter fraud. That is all in the news right now. Read the first few paragraphs to you. Perhaps the left's greatest contribution to public discourse is to threaten anyone who disagrees with them with financial ruin, slander, embarrassment, condemnation, homelessness, and prison. And then announce the existence of a consensus. Their signature consensus by threat technique has been used to prove the truth of global warming, Russian interference with the 2016 election, COVID-19 lockdowns,

2:01and Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation, and especially important today, the non-existence of voter fraud. I will pause to note here something I may have told you before. Some lefty friends during COVID who actually could see what the real science was, i.e. the Great Barrington Declaration, that everyone basically under the age of 70 was fine. You would get the sniffles, flues were much worse, and their lives were totally destroyed. They were living in New York. It just shut down everything. They were in rage. And although they were lefties, they announced to me during that period that they now knew global warming or climate science was BS, because the exact same bullying techniques were used to push the idea of climate change. The scientists agree, it's unanimous. Everyone agrees. Anyway, back to my column.

3:02Decenters, oh, this is one of the sleasiest things. Liberals are doing these days. It just started a few years ago. I'm really appalled to say that The New York Times is among those using this utterly sleazy technique. And that is to subtly, not very subtly, compare anyone they disagree with to a Holocaust denier. Thus to my column. Decenters from the liberal position on all these issues are slightly compared to Holocaust conspiracy theorists by calling them quote, deniers. Climate deniers. COVID deniers. Masked deniers. Global warming deniers. Science deniers. And election deniers. Until very, very recently denier was a word that referred exclusively to Holocaust deniers. Although I'm sure it's fun, brow-beating people into a terrified, cowering silence isn't proof of anything. In fact, it kind of suggests beliefs of such dainty substance that raising the slightest objection

4:02could make the whole thing fall apart. I'll jump down. Various other very important points along the way. You should read the whole column. It's on my sub-stack, the top there. But basically to the extent they cite anything other than name-calling or just neurotically, including without evidence, misinformation. No evidence, without evidence, or call you a denier. To the extent they try to martial any alleged proof, the left's proof that there is no voter fraud is the very, very few convictions for voter fraud. Back to my column here, I was previously unaware of the no convictions, no crimes, mathematical proof. Now that I know about it, I've got a banger. This should at least win me a booker prize, if not a no-bale. I can prove that there were no lynchings in the old south from 1877 to 1950. Convictions for lynchings were vanishingly rare and punishment-rare.

5:06But even the clandent block prosecutions like liberals do, the estimated 1% conviction rate for lynchings is still higher than the 0.00845 percent of convictions for voter fraud that liberals tout to prove the non-existence of voter fraud. There, I've just eliminated about 30% of university's core curriculum. I go on to cite two absolutely hysterical responses to Republicans attempting to investigate voter fraud. One from, surprisingly, the Bush era, but it is spectacular. The other one involving Crisco back, who might interview it on my sub-stack, it's posted very recently. When Trump tapped him for presidential commission to investigate voter fraud, left wingers brought 13 lawsuits against the vote integrity commission, an official presidential commission. More lawsuits than had ever been brought against any presidential commission before.

6:13That's how sure they are voter fraud doesn't exist. They'll destroy your life if you try to investigate. They really, really don't want us looking for voter fraud. My second story is it's all good news from here on out. The New York Times article, Trump administration begins inquiries into three medical schools in show of power. Okay, that show of power thing. That as well as the other little flourishes. The PC absolutely absurd flourishes in this article. I find it very hard to believe were included by at least one of the reporters, Michael Bender. The other one is Alan Blinder. I suspect they have some like DEI editor at the time, who goes through any articles on Trump, total Trump derangement syndrome, and insert really, really absurd secondary clauses. Okay, subhead, the Justice Department's demands for admissions related data from Stanford,

7:13Ohio State, and University of California San Diego reveal an expansion of its higher education, pressure campaign. Okay, that's not so bad, but here is the first paragraph. The Trump administration has opened investigations into admissions policies at three major medical schools, expanding the federal government's pressure campaign beyond campus culture, and okay, this is the key part. Taking aim at the heart of scientific authority in the United States. No, no, just checking to make sure you are not still discriminating, which we know you are medical schools. I sent this article to some doctor friends of mine, and the consensus response was it's about time, back to the New York Times here. Harmony Dillon says at this time, our investigation will focus on possible race discrimination medical school admissions. Yeah, duh. And Ohio State spokesman Ben Johnson said the university was, quote, fully compliant with all state and federal regulations and legal rulings regarding admissions. Well, we'll see.

8:18Won't we ban like voter fraud? We don't believe you. Can we look? New York Times, the government's investigations into higher education during this past year have in part been aimed at on this is good. Tilting the political balance of academia, which President Trump views as hostile to his brand of conservatism. Okay, this lawsuit has nothing to do with that, true or false, nothing to do with that. It's the law. The medical schools have been openly egregiously discriminating to the point that no one should feel comfortable going to a black or Hispanic doctor because of the way you don't know show show me your M cat scores. Here's from an article by Heather McDonald, the great Heather McDonald. In 2021, the average score for white applicants on the medical college admissions test in cat was in the 71st percentile. That was the average. The average score for black applicants was in the 35th percentile, a full standard deviation below the average white test score. Oh, and get this, the M cats have

9:23already been redesigned to try to reduce the gap by doing the following. A quarter of the questions, a quarter of the questions to get into medical school are on social issues and psychology. And that still didn't work. So medical schools use wildly different standards for admitting black and white applicants from Heather McDonald's year from 2013 to 2016. And by the way, we know it got much worse in 2020. Only 8% of white college seniors with below average undergraduate GPAs and below average M cat scores were offered a seat in medical school, 8%. Medical schools, regard those below average scores as all but disqualifying, except when presented by blacks and Hispanics. Over 56% of black college seniors with below average undergraduate GPAs and below average M cats and 31% of Hispanic students with those scores were admitted. Okay, so back to the New York

10:27Times and how Trump is interfering with scientific inquiry, referring to a decade-long financial partnership between the federal government and colleges. The Times says that partnership dates back to a post-war consensus in the country that scientific progress is a fundamental public good, one too vital to be left to the vagaries of the market. But not so important, not to discriminate on the basis of race. Nothing is more important than that. New York Times. Earlier this month, a group of 17 state attorneys general, all Democrats, sued the education department over the government's growing appetite for admissions data. Boy, Democrats don't want us looking at how they're running things. No, no, you may not see our voter roles. You may not see college admission data. Over the past several decades, liberals have burrowed into government and university bureaucracies. And now the entire university system and

11:32and and government bureaucrats operate as NGOs for the left. So no, you may not see what they're doing. New York Times. Beyond legal battles, the new investigations exemplify a flex of federal power tilting the racial balance in medical education. No, the Fed is trying to untilt it. Tilting the racial balance, this is unbelievable. New York Times, but the Trump administration's interpretation of civil rights law, particularly regarding the Supreme Court's 2023 ruling ending affirmative action, is widely debated. Oh, it's debated. So liberals feel free to disregard the Supreme Court ruling. That was very, very, very clear. You can't discriminate on the basis of race. I think that was clear, you know, back in 1965, perhaps after the civil war, but liberals have refused to abide by our constitution or federal laws and insist

12:32on discriminating against white people. Incidentally, row V-weight was also widely debated. Game marriage ruling was widely debated. Perhaps those should be ignored. Well, we don't have to worry about row anymore. The administration's civil rights investigations into admissions processes have tended to focus on potential discrimination against white applicants. Yes. Yes, I wonder why that would be. In the civil rights era, federal prosecutions tended to focus on discrimination against blacks. The Supreme Court ruling, oh, this is great. Didn't halt race conscious admissions, but many university officials maintained that the justices did not forbid a less direct consideration of an applicant's race through interviews or essays included in the application process. IE, they're cheating. They're admitting just as many black and Hispanic applicants, but they're not being obvious about it, like having a separate pile for black applicants here,

13:37Hispanic applicants here. They're unbelievable. This is the south's massive resistance to the enforcement of civil rights in the 60s does not compare to what we're up against now. Hi, I'm Ben Sass, and I'm Chris Dyer-Walt, and this is not dead yet. We're all dying, but some of us have been brought face to face with that reality. However long each of us have to do it, though, we all want to live a good life. One with meaning, love, and joy, and our guests are here to help us do exactly that. Now available for download and streaming at ricochet.com. When you really need care, you need 24-7 access to a care team, not a maze of paperwork from a third party. Every day, America's hospitals and health systems show up for you, navigating healthcare can feel overwhelming, but you can count on real doctors,

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16:41things Trump has done, as you know. I mean, it was bad enough before Biden came in, but Biden just dumped money and resources on climate change. Every possible agency has 800 people working on climate change. NASA couldn't get a rocket in the air. But oh boy, they started issuing a lot of hysterical reports demanding that we stop using plastic straws. So that was fantastic. Oh yeah, among the millions of new positions for climate scientists at NASA, one was senior climate advisor. Catherine Calvin was in that role. Good news, even before today. She was laid off by Doge, along with 20 employees in her office. We will no longer, as we got during the Biden administration, which was so great when, you know, you're supposed to be building rockets and sending astronauts up. And okay, you can't match Elon, but you could give us something other than

17:45tang in the last 50 years. But NASA joined the National Climate Task Force and released a climate action plan. So that was great. This reminds me. And if you've been following the firings from the Washington Post, thank you, Jeff Bezos. That's when we learned that back in 2022, the Washington Post tripled its climate science team to more than 30 journalists, 30 journalists at the Washington Post covering climate change. 30. You know, I read the Epstein stuff in the New York Times and think, wow, journalism is so important. These reports are really good. Nobody else could do this, but New York Times reporters from, you know, various fields digging into it. And then I read about the Washington Post having 30 climate change reporters and I cheer newspapers going under. Back to Ms. Marvel, leaving NASA. There were a few interesting things here. Dr. Marvel

18:47was an associate research physicist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, where she issued stop using plastic straws. A research center, the Trump administration shut down, blah, blah, blah, blah. Staff of more than 100 was located here. This is the part I like. Located upstairs from Tom's restaurant at Broadway and West 112th Street near Columbia University. And the diner's facade appears in Seinfeld episodes way better used for that diner. Ms. Marvel noted that NASA had recently rejected her proposals to study the effects of climate warming on the nation's solar energy supply and that she and our colleagues were evicted from their NASA offices at the diner last year and that the uncertainty of federal funding for research made it difficult to work. Now these are the sorts of things she is she is famous for. With a doctorate

19:47in the theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge, a university whose qualifications I'm beginning to reconsider, Dr. Marvel 44 is well known for her ability to clearly communicate climate science to climate science to audiences around the country. She has given public lectures get this. At comedy clubs, a prison and on the TEDx stage according to her website, she is the author of a 2025 book, quote, human nature, nine ways to feel about our changing planet. Okay, anyone who would write a book telling people how to feel about anything makes me really question the value of a degree from what was it Cambridge? Yeah, not very, very suspicious. But prisoners must have loved that lecture. Wow, they are just dying for that. I'll end with what the current NASA administrator said about the climate change departments. NASA administrator,

20:54Jared Isaacman said recently that he wants to focus on exploring space rather than studying climate change. Oh, what a novel idea. For NASA to assemble scientists and put out papers on politically charged issues, whether or not this is an impending climate catastrophe is not helpful to the broader NASA mission. You have a previous administration that puts out on NASA letterhead, the world is going to end and then you have the next administration put out on NASA letterhead that this is all a hoax, said Mr. Isaacman, who holds a bachelor's degree from July or an article in university. How is that useful to anyone right now? Yes, thank you, Mr. Isaacman. My fourth story for you, great article in the Washington examiner this week. What are blue states getting for all that spending? I'll jump down to the crucial part, states controlled by Democrats spend far more than their Republican run counterparts and voters should ask, what do

21:56we get for our money? The three most populous blue states are California, New York, and Illinois. In 2024, they spent 11,482, 11,822 and 10,996 per resident respectively. The three most populous red states are Texas, Florida, and Georgia, which in 2024 spent 4,621, 5,586, and 6,833 per resident respectively. The biggest blue states spend twice as much per resident as red states do. Twice as much. What do blue state residents get in return? He goes through or they go through about four things. Number one, certainly not higher economic growth. In 2024, California's economy grew at a rate of 3.21%, slightly higher than the national average, but well behind Texas' slightly lower than Florida's. Meanwhile, Georgia outgrew both New York and Illinois.

22:58High spending Democratic states aren't delivering better schools either. I'm going to skip this one because it's kind of deceptive comparing educational outcomes. Garbage in, garbage out. It's all genetic depends on who the kids are. Thus, as we have more third world immigration, the more, quote, US test scores will decline. Also honesty, thriftiness, height, looks. Okay, that's my little footnote to this article. I will jump down to the next one. Democratic states are also failing to maintain basic infrastructure. The American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025 report card notes that while Texas, Florida and Georgia received a seemingly unimpressive C for their roads, New York and Illinois got a D plus and California only a D. There's one area where blue state spending has seemed to help. Thanks to Medicaid expansion funded in part by Obamacare, California, New York and Illinois have uninsured rates far below those

24:01in Texas, Florida and Georgia. That's the health care for all those illegals that Democrats swear doesn't happen. That's how they, quote, expanded Medicaid coverage. They're giving it to illegals as well now. They're Gavin Newsom is on tape saying, oh my gosh, you're going, we have to have our Medicaid funding or illegals, well, he doesn't say illegals, our beloved undocumented rapists won't be able to get free health care. It wouldn't make me feel really great living in in California, Illinois, New York, paying through the nose for my health insurance, getting very little in return, watching foreigners get free health care. That would make me feel fantastic. My tax money well spent. But good news as the examiner notes, health insurance doesn't translate to good health outcomes. Quote from the examiner, various studies have found no impact on health outcomes from

25:02expanded Medicaid access. Others have shown that emergency department use rises thanks to Medicaid expansion, but this is the opposite of what Obamacare proponents promised. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data, the average wait times for emergency care in California, New York, and Illinois are all significantly higher than those in Texas, Florida, and Georgia. So in addition to paying gobs and gobs of money for health insurance that gives me very little while watching illegals get free health care, they'll also be great if I ever step on a rock, cut my foot, need stitches, and go to the emergency room. Drop something on my foot, need to go to the emergency room. This is a big problem in California. It hasn't happened to me out there, but it's happened to my friends. They need something that only an emergency room can handle. They show up. Everyone in the emergency room is speaking Spanish. It's an illegal alien and they have to wait three hours when it's their taxpayer dollars who are paying the salaries

26:05of those nurses, nurses, receptionists, and doctors. So a lot of good feeling in the blue states. My fifth story, and by the way, I got a bonus sport story coming for you, but this is in debt. So you've got five stories and a bonus sport story this week. Waco female copy in Massachusetts. That is not technically a newspaper headline. That is that is my statement of the facts. This woman, Kelsey Fitzsimmons. Both a midget and mentally unbalanced, and that's totally what I want when I need a cop. Her fiancee got a restraining order against her and custody of their son. They already had a child, and we're living together, though they weren't married yet. Luckily they weren't married yet. He realizes she's nuts, gets a restraining order against her. The police come to serve the restraining order while the fiancee is retrieving their son, and one cop, Noonan, I will quote from the article now. Noonan testified that as Fitzsimmons

27:08was in her bedroom packing items to send with her son, she lunged behind her door and grabbed something before stepping back and aiming the weapons straight at him. He heard a click noise before she tapped racked twice to force around into the chamber. Footnote, that means guns ready to shoot. And when she did, Noonan fired off two rounds until she dropped the gun and hit the floor. He claimed. She lived, went to the hospital, trial on whether she was guilty of pointing a gun into police officer. She was acquitted. It turns out, oh my gosh, there is something that matter with Massachusetts judges and juries. The judge, I am doing this from memory, Judge Carp, he said, well, I can't tell who's telling the truth. It was either Fitzsimmons or Noonan the police officer. Oh gosh, I can't tell. So, okay, you're acquitted. Well, okay, but they tested the gun afterwards during closing arguments. Thursday morning prosecutor James Gubitos dramatically

28:12held up Fitzsimmons as the wacko cop empty gun pointing it toward the front of the courtroom and pressing the trigger, causing a clicking noise. He claimed she lied when she testified that she never tapped her act to the gun since an officer at the scene emptied the firearm into a black box with a round falling out of the chamber indicating she had loaded a bullet. The fiance also took the witness stand claiming he sought the order against Fitzsimmons out of fear she might harm herself or their son or it turns out her fellow cop. One little human, interesting to this story. One of her lawyers was Martha Cochley. There is a blast from the past. That was the wacko out of control prosecutor who put an innocent family, the Amaroes, in prison for years and years and years based on manipulated testimony from easily invincible. Small children who were led to say crazy things by the alleged therapists claiming, you know,

29:16sexual molestations, satanic rituals, utterly, completely unbelievable stuff. But Cochley refused, refused to let them out. Even as all that testimony became discredited, discredited, discredited, she then lost to Republican Scott Brown to stop Obamacare. You may recall that election. It was quite a victory. American people were very much against Obamacare realizing that we're not going to be able to keep our doctors, our health insurance, our hospitals, our health. That was really pretty much something Massachusetts, very liberal state and they put a Republican in. He was going to be the 51st vote against Obamacare and then Democrats just cheated. They pulled some bold illegal move, something that is not permitted under the Constitution. Remember Nancy Pelosi said, we are going to take the Senate bill and deem as past, though it hadn't passed,

30:20with the new Senate and so they could push it through. Big success, big success for destroying healthcare in America. But today, that's the kind of thing Democrats do when they lose our majority in the Senate. But it ain't boy John Thune, can't even win a government shutdown. So maybe we need to concentrate more on IQ and not on how people look and whether they're nice people or good Christians or whatever. No, we're, any one running for offices of Republican ought to be required to take an IQ test. We can't keep putting dummies up there to represent us with Chuck Schumer running circles around him. Okay, finally, your bonus story in sports news. Boston Red Sox, outfielder Roman Anthony from Parkland, Florida, by the way, became the 14th player in Major League Baseball history to reach base four times as a 20-year-old on opening day.

31:22Did that earlier this week? Of the other 13 players to reach base four times on opening day at the age of 21, I know that seems very, very specific. But there are only 13 other players who have done it and nine are Hall of Famers, like Yankee's legend Mickey Mantle. That's all for this week. Talk to you next week. Ricochet. Join the conversation. When you really need care, you need 24-7 access to a care team, not a maze of paperwork from a third party. Every day, America's hospitals and health systems show up for you. Navigating healthcare can fuel overwhelming, but you can count on real doctors, real nurses, real people, providing quality around the clock care when you need it most. They're in your corner. In communities across America, your neighbors, your lifelines, right beside you holding your hand in helping find answers. That's what putting patients first to actually means. Learn more at strengthinhealthcare.org. Brought to you by the Coalition to Strength in America's

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