The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Salena Zito & Jim Lentz | 11/3/21

Episode Date: November 3, 2021

New York Post columnist Salena Zito joins Glenn to discuss the multiple GOP wins across the country. Jim Lentz, former CEO of Toyota North America, joins Glenn to give a professional outlook on the current supply chain issues. Glenn and Stu go more into the GOP wins and how what happened will in large part determine what will happen in 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who would say a gloat fest? I wouldn't say a gloat. Today's podcast? No. Definitely. Not a gloat fest. That would be wrong. And here it is.

You're listening to the best of the Glenbeck program. I'm selinaZito.com is the one and only, Selena Zito. Welcome to the program, Selena. How are you? Good morning, Ben. You, uh, looks like you, uh, called it again. again? Well, I think

the thing is if you're trying to understand an election and you're trying to understand a sort of sentiments and how granular voting can be impersonal for people, is to literally

go to them and listen to them, listen to what they're talking about. They may not always tell you who they're voting for, but they will tell you what issues are important to them. And if you understand human behavior, you can start

to understand that when something is changing. So it was a very good night last night for anyone other than progressive socialists. Right. Even in San Francisco

and Seattle, the socialist did poorly. And then there were things like the truck driver who had just had enough in New Jersey spent less than $200 on his campaign and looks like he just beat the state Senate president a Democrat. I know. I mean, that's fantastic.

What a great story. His name is Edward Durr. Yeah, absolutely. Look, if you strike accord with voters, if you understand what they're concerned are, If you are as deeply rooted to the community as they are, you are going to capture their imagination. People that are successful in governing are people that are aspirational, people who are able to make people believe they are part of something bigger than themselves. And that if you listen to Glenn Yonkin, if you listen to Jason Mayerres, and if you listen to the House of Delegate candidates that were concerned, They all had that message in various different ways.

They understood the people and what the people wanted and what the people were longing for. And that is what I wrote about in my book, The Great Revolt. I looked at these sort of different coalition or different archetypes of voters who really didn't have a lot in common. except they're rooted in this to community and their sort of unhappiness with our cultural curators who run our businesses, our sports entities, our institutions, academia, and Hollywood. And that sense of not being respected by those institutions is what drew them together. That aspiration was incredibly important in this election. and I think that the Democrats really failed because they don't know how to run unless Trump is on the ticket.

It was never about Donald Trump. Voters, whether you loved him or liked him or hated him, they have moved on. Voters don't act in the way of looking through the rearview mirror. They're always forward looking, especially in local elections, because the, the roads, the bridges, the education, taxation, inflation, and economic development are constantly on their minds. And that's sort of what people miss. And I want to also point out to your listeners, two of the other sort of interesting races

for Democrats was the race for mayor of Buffalo. Were you familiar with that? Yes, yes. And the referendum on policing in Minneapolis. All these strident or woke platforms and positions failed miserably because people want police to protect them. They don't want a socialist to run their city because mayors are supposed to be good managers. They're not supposed to be ideologues. And so, you know, and Democrats and the media, what voters are.

or so displeased with. And they focused too much on Trump, and they focused too much on every time someone said something they didn't like, that person was a racist. I mean, people just get tired of that. So is this a rejection? I mean, I'm trying to put together all of the pieces, and I think there's lots of reasons.

And you've named, most of them. But there is a, there is this feeling that the left is elitist. They have their own language. And most of the times they're talking, you know, it's latinx.

It's latinx. Nobody says latinx. Except, I mean... How do you say that? I didn't even know how you said it. I just looked at it and was like, I don't know what that word is. It's latinx.

And which I think is so New Jersey. It doesn't that sound like Tony Soprano? Hey, I got a little tink so, you know. But, you know, they have their own language. And I think it is off-putting to a lot of people. They just feel this elitism coming at them. Is it, is it this plus the agenda that we've seen in Washington, you know, plus the economy? What is the, what does it say?

Let's start here. What does it say about Joe Biden? Anything? If you want one word to describe this election cycle, I would use the word overreach. And it is an overreach on policy. It's an overreach on elitism. It's an overreach in believing that you were sent to Washington with a mandate, and you certainly weren't because you barely won.

You don't have a majority in the Senate, and you barely have a majority in the House. Everything is about overreach. Same. And I would add on overreach on COVID. Overreach on mandates. Yes. Overreach on on. Everything.

Yeah. It's overreach. That is the best word. And voters always want to either put the breaks on that or correct it. If they're putting the brakes on it, then you will only see it in a handful of elections because Democrats will then get the message. But if they want to correct. it, that means you have new people in the conservative coalition.

I would argue that is the direction that this is going because of the influx into the conservative movement that aren't just white, they're black, they're Hispanic, they're Asian. I mean, they lost a lot of their black and Hispanic vote in Virginia. I mean, that should be very concerning to the Democrats. but you know I have been punishing myself all morning and listening and watching on social media but also on MSNBC and CNN watching the reaction and their their belief as to what went wrong and I'm just I shouldn't be stunned but I'm stunned so yeah they think well if only we would have passed it three trillion dollars I'm like no no voter wanted that Voters wanted a regular sort of good infrastructure bill that keeps the roads and bridges and creates more broadband.

That's what voters wants and also to keep their water clean. They do not want social engineering and environmental justice and criminal justice and free everything. Voters never voted for that. Okay. So you're a student of history enough to be able to, I think, answer this with some backing. Uh, in, in 1919, this is the mood. What we're feeling right now, I think is the mood that was happening in 1919. Wilson went crazy and overreach like crazy.

But what he did is when people started rejecting him, he said, I got to go out on the road. I've got to, they're just too stupid to get it. I haven't made enough speeches for them to get it. I think that's what they're going to do. Uh, this time around, which led to 10 years of the Republicans and the progressives being banished until they cloaked themselves again and shuffled things up. Are they going to go stronger?

Are they going to cloak themselves? What do you think is coming? They're too arrogant to cloak themselves. They do not believe that they are at fault for this happening. They do believe the voters are stupid. The same voters that they praised in 2020 have now become the voters of stupid. And that's sort of the big hurdle that they have shown no willingness to try to tackle. So they're just going to double down.

They're going to go out and scold voters about not knowing, not understanding, not believing that they know better. going to fix their lives. People don't want their lives fixed. They want to be able to achieve whatever they want to achieve on their own. They want that sense of earning the next step, earning the next stone that they are able to achieve. And even they also want to learn how to fail. You know, that's an innate thing in the American DNA that the Democrats have been trying to squash for the past 12 years. So here's what's frightening about. all of this. They become more and more

arrogant and they are so self-isolated that they convince each other, that they are right and that everybody else is stupid. And this is a group of people where you've got the president saying, my patience is wearing thin. This is a group of people that will begin to really punish, not just scold, but to find ways to really punish people.

Yeah, well, in that effort, they are going to lose constituencies that they never should lose, you know, on paper. People are not, you know, I called this cycle way back in January, two days after Biden was sworn in and just started eliminating people's jobs on the pipeline. I said, there is going to be a great awakening. here's what people missed in 2020. While everyone focused on the Democrats' wins, as slim as they were, they missed the red wave that had already started down ballot. People just in Pennsylvania alone rejected wholeness and Republicans won in state senate seats

in places that have been reliably Democrat for decades. And no one paid attention to those results. But I understood that this sort of great, awakening was already in flux it was it started to sort of poke up during the um during the first few days after the inauguration but i will tell you the most pivotal thing that happened um for democrats and and i don't think people understand this is how is afghanistan and we talked about this yesterday that that changed everything negligence that negligence and that is the key word, that negligence is what made people stop and say, wait, what? This is not what I bought

into. I did want us to be out of Afghanistan. However, I did not want it at the cost of people's lives. I did not want it as the cost of our reputation and people saw through the lives and are just continuing to see through the lives on this issue. All right. I've only got 30 seconds. Is the are these two bills waiting in Congress? Are they going to be jammed through, or do you see the sane Democrats say, I'm no way. No way am I getting on board with that? See, I have always thought that this second bill wasn't going to pass. And I still think that it's not going to.

I think the infrastructure, the bipartisan infrastructure bill does pass. And I think that's the end of that. Hmm. That is, that's huge. That is huge. Selena, thank you so much for talking to us. You can follow her writing. She is really good. She's great with historic perspective as well, if you're not familiar with her. Salinasito.com. Salida Zito.com. Thanks, Selena. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Before we go and introduce you to Jim Lentz, I want to get a quick update from Stu on, and again, Again, hey, they fought a good battle. Let's not...

Hey, we're all in this together, guys. We're in this together. So, okay. All right. So here's some of the results from last night. So Glenn Yonkin is the big news. He wins in Virginia in what would have been just a month ago, a shocking upset. It's important to say because we got to that point in the last week before the election

where we thought he might win that this is a devastating defeat for turn of golf. And it couldn't happen to a better guy. It really couldn't. And I will tell you, I have lots to say on this. I think just the Terry McCullough loss tells us many things that we need to know. I'll cover that coming up next hour. Basically, progressives lost almost everywhere, including in Buffalo, where a socialist Democrat lost to a right-in candidate who was just a normal crazy Democrat. The only real victory for real hardcore progressivism around the country was in Boston, the mayor in Boston, who's Elizabeth Warren clone.

She wins there. They were falling apart. Conservative. I can't say conservative. People who are more normal and more conservative, if you can use that word, in San Francisco, were winning last night. I mean, it's the Seattle. The Seattle, the school board in San Francisco flipped away from these people who were saying, we're going to rename George Washington High School. Yep.

It's big, big, big. A couple more. school board victories in Texas as well. One other interesting situation was in New York, not really covered too much, but there's three ballot initiatives, all of them sort of trying to open up elections like, you know, same day registration and things like that. All of them failed and failed badly in New York, which is remarkable. And then the other big race that everyone's watching right now is New Jersey.

It's very, very close as we speak. the governor race there, Biden won New Jersey by 16 points. Currently it's 49.66% to 49.60%. Murphy, the Democrat, is leading at this point. You know, as someone who goes through all this stuff all the time, the votes that are outstanding are largely in blue counties. And I would expect Murphy to hold on to this, though it's going to be very, very close.

Which is not a done deal yet. An earthquake. Even the fact that it was close is almost more impressive than what happened in Virginia. So the economy, school, the culture, what's happening in Washington, D.C., the wild unpopularity for Joe Biden all played a role. But one of the big things that everyone was talking about across the country as they were coming out of the polls was the economy. And the supply chain is really hard to understand. I was having dinner with a friend, Jim Lentz. he is he's been the head of you were the head of Toyota for how long?

Sales site about six years and about seven years CEO for North America. Okay. So he was the CEO for Toyota Motor Corporation of North America and the chief operating officer of the parent company in Japan. He is, he was there for all of the big things, including the move from California to Texas, Plano, Texas. And also you were there for the big earthquake in Japan, which I think would play a little bit of a role that you could learn from now on supply chain issues. Oh, very much so. Very much so. Okay.

So can you explain the supply chain to the audience like you did to me when I asked you? So what is happening with the supply chain? Sure. So the biggest thing to understand is supply chain is a system. And there are a lot of different components to it. And it really starts with forecasting and ordering what you think. So as a manufacturer, I have to forecast what my future needs of automobiles will be. I place that manufacturing order.

And let's say something that's being produced overseas. It gets produced. It gets shipped. It gets processed at the port. It then gets transported, whether it gets trucked to the ultimate place of sale or a warehouse. Or it gets moved into a rail yard and then it gets railed. and eventually it gets sold. So the challenge is when the supply chain breaks down, all of that has to operate in sync.

If you concentrate as we are today on just the port operations, you're just going to move that supply chain problem further down the road. Because let's just, and I'm sure it doesn't work this way, but let's just say you have shipment of a whole bunch of steering wheels coming in. well, what are you going to do with all the steering wheels because you're missing the chips because the chips aren't in? You need all of them to come in in an ordered way, right? Right. And can you explain how sophisticated the supply chain is for factories like Toyota? Yeah.

Well, you know, so literally the Japanese kind of invented just in time. And just in time means when I build a vehicle in my plant, literally the part that goes on that truck may only arrive hours before production. In fact, our plant here in Texas that builds the tundra, we actually have suppliers on site, the seat supplier. So they will build their seats in the same sequence that I build my vehicle. So that seat literally arrives maybe 20 minutes before it needs to to be able to go down that line. And I think the biggest thing as a result of all this, Lean manufacturing was created to take waste out of the system. So you didn't have to warehouse 30 and 60 days worth of parts.

Because when you were at Ford, this is many years ago, almost 40 years ago, when you were at Ford, you told me that there were times when you ran out of the right color seats, but that was just it. That's right. You put in whatever you had at the end of the year. So, you know, the world's gotten away from that. But the big question that COVID in this supply chain crisis has created is can lean manufacturing as we know it today just in time, literally hours before it's needed, is that the best way to go?

Are we going to need to go backwards a little bit, create more warehousing so we don't have these big glitches? It's going to be interesting to see how this gets fixed because there's an old adage in the car business. and that is when things were going wrong, you'd say the bull is in the ditch. And the big question is not how the bull got there, not whose fault it was, not how are you going to keep them out of the ditch in the future? The question is, how do you get him out of the ditch today? So today we need to be concentrating our efforts on the supply chain in these ports and how can we get these ports cleared as quickly as possible.

So I've talked to the head of the truckers. independent truckers, they say there's not a shortage of trucks. There's a shortage of place to put stuff. And they say the trucks, the reason why they have problems with truckers is sometimes these truckers will wait eight hours at a port, and they're not getting paid for that. They're not getting paid to wait. So what is the problem? If you were president, how would you be fixing this?

I would go to somewhere like Wharton and get a systems expert. on logistics to go down to the port and observe exactly what's happening. Where are the bottlenecks? Is the bottleneck trucks coming into the port? Is the bottleneck trucks going out of the port? Is the bottleneck how many cranes we have to move it? I mean, there are so many issues. And if you look at Long Beach as an example,

they've been processing roughly 18,000 containers a day. Jeez. There are 29,000 containers a day arriving. Oh, my gosh. And, you know, as I started to research this for your show today, you can go back to March, and there was a huge backlog in March. So this didn't just take place last month. This has been going on for some time.

And nobody did anything. No, and there are 540,000 containers sitting on ships waiting to be processed. Oh, my gosh. And only 18,000. processed. So if you look at those numbers, you've got to increase your throughput by 60% just to keep up with what's coming, not even to cut into the backlog of what you have there. So the only way to tackle this is to look at the entire system. How can we approve the efficiency every step along the way? Because if, for example, I find a way to work 24-7 at every terminal,

and I start putting out all these containers, where your next problem is going to be at the railhead. You're not going to have enough trains to move the merchandise. And then if you fix that problem, then where are you going to put all this stuff? You're not going to have the warehouse space. If you go into Walmart today and there's something that's not in stock and you say, well, do you have it in the back room?

There isn't a back room. Right. That's why like our supermarkets are restocked. Like, what is it? Like something created like 18 times. a day. Yeah. Because it's just in time, right?

Yeah. They predict when they're going to be out of these products. Yeah. I mean, it happens at our plants. I mean, literally, at one end of the plant, we'll have parts arrive. And literally, within hours, it is taken from there, and it's put on the assembly line. Rarely departs sit for a very long period of time. Well, that seems like an impossible problem to fix, because you have to fix it from both ends.

Yeah. And a lot of the stuff in these 540,000 containers are not going to be used right away. Right. Right. Which is going to cause a problem if they are parts used to complete whatever it might be, a television, an automobile piece of furniture. It creates that problem as well. And understand, too, in China today, their main port, they have problems with electricity. They have a problem with manpower.

and they're likely running short on cargo containers. Because nothing is coming back to them. Right, right. So at some point in time, you're going to have this glut sitting over there ready to come back. And this armada is going to keep on coming until this system gets fixed. Now, the big challenge is the port infrastructure needs to be improved. In the case of Long Beach, I don't think there's much more land to deal with. Right.

So until you can improve. the efficiency and that's that takes someone to sit down and actually observe what happens at Toyota as an example we have a department that works in our plants just on efficiency and they'll sit and they'll observe what's going on on an assembly line to figure out where we wasting time how can how can we change something to improve the safety or prove the efficiency of what we do and it may just be something that saves two or three seconds but it makes a huge difference over time that same type of thought process has to go into fixing a complex

problem so was this doomed to fail from the beginning I mean should we be looking for the short term to get us back to this kind of a system it seems to me one of the things we learned was there are some things like chips and medicine that maybe we should make here in America for just for our own strategic, you know, defense reasons. Right. But does this system go back to the way it was? Well, I think the difficulty is if you look at California,

the ports and Long Beach, I believe they were up 25 or 30 percent even last year. And this year, they're up another 20 or 30 percent. And if you're landlocked and that much throughput is increasing, it was inevitable that you were going to have challenges. unless you changed how you operated. You know, the difficulty with just moving chips to the U.S. as an example, they're roughly 50 chip manufacturers in the world. 50% of all the chips come out of Taiwan.

I need you to listen to this. 50% of all chips come out of Taiwan. Roughly 90% of all the really high-tech, sophisticated chips come out of Taiwan. Most all the chips come out of somewhere in Asia. If it's not Taiwan, it's Japan, it's Vietnam. It's China number two, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, I think if you add Taiwan and China together, they are by far the largest.

So if Taiwan falls to China, they have a gun to our head. To the globe. Yeah. Yeah. And the difficulty is it takes a long time to build one of these plants. And they're very capital intensive. You know, a new chip plant today is $15 to $20 billion to build. So you can't exactly change that overnight.

So we're going to continue our conversation here in just a second. This is what, when you think about build back better, which is just a slogan to change the financial strategy of our system. This is the kind of stuff that we should be talking about. Can we get relief to help build chip manufacturing plants here in America? Can we redesign our ports? Instead, they're going to green energy and all of this garbage that is not going to help us out in the future to remain ahead of the rest of the world, or at least even competitive with the rest of the world. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Today is a day that I didn't know that it would come this this soon. And I, while I don't want to gloat, I do. I do want to dance. Everybody dance. Okay, that was childish. That was the example of what not to do today. Not to do. You shouldn't do that at your workplace.

If somebody comes in and they're a little bit down today and they're like, gee, it looks like the progressive socialist got their ass handed to them. Yeah. The last thing you need to do is say, everybody dance. That would be wrong. You shouldn't do that. You should not do that. The last thing you should do. Thank you.

You shouldn't bring that song with you on your phone. No, in fact, let me just give you a clear cut of it. Go ahead. not that that that should be your ringtone today. Oh. You know, that would be bad. That would be terrible.

Terrible. You would be a bad person if you did something like that too many times. More than 10. More than 10. No more than 10 in an hour. Okay. So, so the signal from San Francisco is pretty strong. You're talking about the scent of the streets?

Like they're just the public defecation. The signal sent it. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Public safety, public education. Voters in San Francisco said yesterday, yeah. Why don't you just pick up the garbage? Why don't you just get people to stop crapping on the streets and stop

trying to rename all of the, you know, George Washington, in Abraham Lincoln schools, we're pretty cool with that. That is, that is astounding, astounding to happen in San Francisco. But, uh,

it looks like, I mean, could we just play Kamala Harris? This is one, two, three, four. Cut four, please. Because you see, what happens in Virginia will in large part determine. what happens in 2022, 2024, and on.

Everybody she's right, though. Sucks. See, people say we can't be bipartisan. We agree with her analysis on that point. We 100% agree. 100% agree. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Yeah. Yeah. So that's the problem. But will they learn that lesson? No. And to that I say, every, because you just,

I mean, it's one of those days. It is one of those days. The only thing setting it aside from a perfect, wonderful day is what's happening in New Jersey. Yeah. Which is incredibly good news for Republicans overall. Yeah.

And quite honestly, to even be close in New Jersey. To be close is astounding. The best poll in New Jersey. in New Jersey for Chitterelli, who's the Republican there, was a four point defeat. And it's, I don't think it's going to be that high. I think he looks like he is going to wind up losing in a very close election, just because the, the vote that is hanging around is from Democratic districts.

But I will say this. What's interesting, too, when you look at, on the other side of this in Virginia, the news of the governor situation and down the ticket is pretty good. But the House of Delegates, which is a fascinating race, much more fascinating than the title House of Delegates would indicate. Because House of Delegates, I mean, if that was a show on PBS, the House of Delegates, I would immediately. So there's a few different crazy ones there. First of all, there's this guy, his last name is Chris Hurst. Did I tell you this story?

This is a crazy one. No, go ahead. So Chris Hurst, you don't know who he is. course, but he, you know something about him. You know about the absolute worst moment of his life. Okay. Okay. So in 2015, remember this, you'll remember this story. A video comes out of a female reporter doing a live hit on the air and she's interviewing someone from the Chamber of Commerce locally. And in the middle of the interview, a gunman comes out and kills her in the middle of the interview. Do you remember this story? No.

You don't remember the story? We talked about it at the time. The video was everywhere. She was legitimately doing a local news report. Gunman comes out, kills her on the camera, on camera, kills the cameraman as well. The woman who she was interviewing got away. That woman, the reporter who was killed was the fiancé of this guy, Chris Hurst, who after this incident wound up running for the House of Delegates.

He wins a close election, wins another close election. election he's running again the night before the election he is pulled over and apparently hold on just a second hold on just a second I was promised I was promised here the you know the house of delegates or whatever that sounded welcome to the house of delegates I'm nobody nothing exciting like this happens to the house of delegates all they do is talk about quorum calls Right. That's what happens in the House of Delegates. That's right. That's right. And somebody is like a really bad maid.

Yes. Somebody else. Yeah. Okay. Anyway. So this guy gets pulled over. Pulled over the night before the election. Police talk to him.

So it's unclear exactly what happened. But either him or possibly the woman who was in his car, they catch them because they were vandalizing signs for his opponent. So the night before the. election, I guess they're just out tearing down signs for their opponent in the race. Long story on that part, short, he winds up losing in the House of Delegates. This brings it to a 50-50 split. So Republicans might have a, you know, they're going to have a split control of this

house. However, in the overnight, how many times have you heard this story? In the overnight, new votes were found. All the time. All the time. Yeah. New votes were found, new votes were counted. and the outcome changed in favor of the Republicans.

And now Republicans look like they'll have 52 seats. In two different seats, they're going to wind up getting a last minute win it looks like. And it looks like now Republicans will get control of the House of Delegates in Virginia, which nobody thought was possible coming into last night. So really, I mean, it's hard to limit how good the news was last night. Everybody! Wait a minute, but it was supposed to be boring. Okay, all right, here's how we do it.

Here's how we do it. You know, the House of Delegates, there was somebody, somebody that was not driving them, Bentley, came up on a bicycle and he was riding, and there was a sign there in the large lawn. And he looked at it and said, this shant stand and

votes were found in the basement by the butler and then that and then just like a long musical interlude out oh sorry this week's House of Delegates brought to you in part by the Ford Foundation that's where they spend most of their money most of their money is on shows like the House of Delegates

yeah that and like really creepy eugenic stuff Yeah, sure, but the House of Delegates is the main part of the organization. Not the actual House of Delegates, but the show. The show. Tuesday nights. So really the only thing holding back the ultimate party today is this New Jersey thing, which looks like it's, you know, this is like one of those situations where you're like a small college. You have no chance to win, beat the big SEC team you're playing. And somehow you've got the ball on the one yard line with eight seconds.

left in the game and you can't quite punch it across. Like they're going to wind up losing a very close race. You know, and once again, it is a sign. McCullough losing is a sign that Hillary Clinton and the Clinton's power is way over. Absolutely. Way over. Their influence is done. McCullough is essentially a Clinton.

That's how close he is to that legacy. And again, he might actually be a Clinton. Yeah, this bill might have had sex with somebody, you know. I don't know. On the next episode. On the next episode of the House of Delegates, Bill Clinton has sex with a downstairs maid. Will that be Terry McCullough? Find out in the next episode of PBS.

It's hard to promote that show because how do you, it, you know. Delegates? No, the last episode of it's just difficult to. So his, so the Clintons are absolutely over now, which is, which is another reason. Everybody.

I mean, it's another reason for that. It's another reason for that. And I think that Bill Clinton, I mean, Barack Obama also, I mean, he went out and he politicked hard. But his message, was this is all bull crap. This is all made up stuff. These white people are afraid of black people. And nobody's buying that. Nobody's buying that anymore. Yeah, you know, I think that's a real miscalculation

by the left. And I hope they continue to make it. Oh, I do too. Because it is just, it's so insulting. You know, and I think there's an interesting thing here, Glenn, between Virginia and New Jersey. We talked about Virginia a lot in the lead-up. And obviously, education was one of the most important things. But education isn't just CRT and gender, right? It's also teachers unions telling your kids they're not allowed to go to school. Correct. It's the masks. It's also a mask mandates and COVID relations.

Yeah. Now it's your 5 to 11 year old having to get vaccinated. Vaccine mandates and passports and all that stuff. So all that stuff is out there. And I think like when you look at the New Jersey situation, which looks like it will move more to the right in pure points than. even Virginia did. I mean, it's a bluer state. And you look at that and there was not,

CRT was not a big part of that election. You know, the gender stuff was not a big part of that election. The COVID stuff was a big part of that election. You know, you look at Murphy has the single highest or second highest. He even has a worse death rate in the state than Andrew Cuomo, which is saying something.

And, you know, then you add on all of the businesses that were closed down. they didn't want kids going to school. He's one of the worst with the mandates in the nation. All of this came and hit New Jersey business owners and, you know, regular citizens in the face over and over and over and over and over again. And, you know, that's might be a bigger factor. I think, too, a big part of this is just how bad Joe Biden is. Yeah.

It's not, you know, there is a national aspect here. There are some, like, I think, um, I think Winsome Sears could be a superstar. She could be a, now this is a great story. I don't know that much about her. Yeah, I don't either, but she's got a great, great story. And she's cool pictures of her. Right, with the gun?

Yeah, very cool. So she is the new lieutenant governor in Virginia. She is also the first woman of color in the office of the Commonwealth's 400-year legislative history. Okay. and she took on she took on CRT and she was very very clear look we should learn good and bad

about American history yeah yep 100% but we what did she say it something along the lines of but if you are coming in to a class and you're trying to make one kid feel guilty for history and their white black doesn't matter that's not sustainable

that's not a good plan so teach history as it actually happened leave all the rest of it out yeah and how and what was amazing I was watching a little CNN last night so you don't have to and over it was your night

it was my night over and over again they made the point that this was just you know look Yonkin he just was using racist dog whistles he just you know like when he was trying to ban these

books, they just happen to be with black authors. That absolutely. This is, this is crazy. This is crazy. And, you know, this is a guy whose lieutenant governor, who he's going all around the state was, was the, was the, was Sears, who was black, the first black woman to have statewide office. His attorney general that he was running with is Hispanic all around the country. Honestly, the only person who made sense. And I didn't, and I know he took some of as well. Van Freakin Jones. I know. I saw it. Who said, most of the only person. he got in trouble for some of the stuff he said last night but he said over and over again he said this this idea that we can win elections

meaning Democrats can win elections by just saying we're not Trump is dead tonight it's over and he said over and over again that Democrats come off as offensive to regular people they come off as annoying to regular people and he's completely right

and elitist and elitist I mean I think there's something to be said. When you are using the word latinx in your... Is it latinx or Latinx? You said, I think it could be both. Is that... I think it's Latinx. It could be Latinx.

Latins seems even worse somehow. Oh, it is. I've heard them say Latins. I've heard them say Latins. I've heard them say Latinx as well. Now, Latinx just sounds like Malcolm X. Yeah, to me. It's bad either way.

I don't... But, I mean, I prefer... My preferred pronoun here is Latinx. Latinx is better. It seems more demeaning to Democratic. And it's more absurd considering Hispanics don't want you to say it. They don't want to say Latinx, Latinx, they don't want to say any of that. And that's the point.

When you have these, I think they are dog whistles for white elitists. When you say things that the average person is not saying, that's a dog whistle. I'm better than you. And people are not going to have any more of it. I hope. I hope. All right. Now, let's see the Republicans and what they do when they actually get into office. Please do something.