Chuck Schumer is in trouble (03-19-2025--Hour3)

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[00:00:29] I want to welcome back to the program, Stacey Matthews. She is a writer over at redstate.com, writing under the handle Sister Told Ya, one of the OG bloggers and a local. Stacey, how are you? Hey Pete, good to be on. And I want to say congratulations on the big scoop you posted earlier today on the Twitter machine.

[00:00:49] Well, thank you. That was, uh... I had, uh, I had reported that, uh, due to a, uh, restraining order issued by a judge in, uh, I believe Duluth, that the, uh, astronauts had to be sent back up into the International Space Station. That was, yeah. Honestly, you're probably not that far off from what's gonna happen in the near future, that's for sure. It is pretty amazing. It goes into, I noticed you used the term Democrats in disarray, which, by the way, they really don't like that.

[00:01:19] Democrats do not like that. It's sort of like the Republicans pouncing and seizing, um, or civil war. Republicans are always in a civil war, you know. Democrats, they're very sensitive to this in disarray, uh, uh, framing. But I don't know another thing, another way to describe why they seem to be seizing, as I might say, um, on all of the worst positions in these issues.

[00:01:44] Like, they're now, like, they're, they're in defense of, uh, the Trende Aragua criminal violent offenders not getting deported. Um, yeah. I, I, I just can't make, I, I can't make sense of it except that they, that, that they just want to destabilize. That's the whole point. It, it's just, uh, I mean, I don't know. Trump arrangement system has totally cooked these people.

[00:02:10] Uh, it, it's like they're doubling down. Everything voters told them that they rejected in November, they're just continuing to double down. On the, on the transgender stuff, too, they're still doubling down on the transgender stuff. And it's like, when are you guys going to get it? This is not popular. It's not going to be popular with the American people. Um, but, you know, I'm kind of enjoying it from the, from my view in the cheap seats. I'm kind of enjoying all of it, especially what's going on with Chuck Schumer.

[00:02:37] I mean, it's just astonishing how, how his, how his fall from grace has happened in a matter of just a couple of weeks, really. So let me play a clip that you referenced in one of your pieces on Chuck Schumer. Um, you've got two pieces. One Schumer feels the heat as Democrat infighting, uh, over the continuing resolution cave, uh, intensifies. And then he accidentally cuts a perfect GOP midterm ad.

[00:03:03] Uh, and he was, he made these comments on the view of all places where I guess he thought he was in friendly territory. So he let the mask slip a little bit. Here it is. And you know what their attitude is? I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me? I don't want to pay taxes. Or I built my company with my bare hands. How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, my, um, the land and order, water that I own, uh, or my employees.

[00:03:33] They hate government. Government's a barrier to people, a barrier to stop them from doing things. They want to destroy it. We are not letting them do it. And we're united. Okay. All right. So there you go. There's, uh, Chuck Schumer. Is that the, you think that's going to make a good GOP ad? I think it's going to be. Everybody was talking about that yesterday. I, I watched, I thought there's just absolutely no way this can be real. After, you know, he's pretty much turned everyone against him. His own party is against him now.

[00:03:59] And now he's, he's, he's going to turn, you know, any kind of middle of the road voters that might've been okay with Democrats. He's, he's going to turn them away with, with talk like this. I mean, he, his excuse is going to be that he was talking about the rich people, the quote unquote rich people, the small group, he says that are allegedly controlling America and making decisions.

[00:04:20] Um, but in reality, I mean, as you know, Democrats think anybody that is, that, that has any success whatsoever in business, whether they're an employee or whether they're a business owner, they're rich. So the rich for Democrats includes a lot of people. Yeah. Um, you know, but this is, this is just, it's just to like, it's, he's just throwing, um, caution to the wind here. It's almost just like he just doesn't care anymore. You know, he's just like, whatever, you know, I just.

[00:04:46] Is it possible that he's suffering the same sort of cognitive decline as Joe Biden? I think he knows what he's doing. That's the scary thing. You know, with Joe Biden, at least he had an excuse. But with Chuck Schumer, I mean, you know, he, he, he goes back a long way in Washington, D.C. He's been there since I think the late nineties. So he's been around the way he knows the way things work.

[00:05:09] And, you know, like I said, my thought process on this is, is maybe the Democrats are trying to destroy the party to read to remake it. I don't know that that's the only. Well, that would be very Hegelian of them. That's I mean, that is in line with the Hegel and Marx school of thinking. So that does make some bit of sense.

[00:05:29] I think he may be trying to position himself more to the liking of his Democrat voters after, like you mentioned in your other piece about the continuing resolution that he's accused of caving in and folding on this, even though this was something that the spending was like that. That was Joe Biden's package that they put together. And so then he was like, look, this thing is going to go through and we didn't.

[00:05:55] And if they tried to shut the government down, that would just allow the Doge people to keep doing what they're doing. So he saw it as like, this is a no win for us to shut down the government. So, yeah, do the continuing resolution. Then you said that after this, quote, betrayal, he's been on somewhat of an image rehabilitation tour, which I think the big problem there is that he is Chuck Schumer. And that's going to be difficult. I guess he's just not very good at this.

[00:06:23] I think that's the thing is he's not good at sort of speaking the language of the leftist base that doesn't believe him. Also, he's Jewish. And I think that that's a big problem for him inside his base now. It absolutely is. I mean, I don't know if you read the one about how he feels the heat in that particular one that the heat that he's feeling. He was supposed to be on a book tour this week. He had three different places he was going. Baltimore was one. And I can't recall the other two offhand.

[00:06:51] But there were two Democrat kind of strongholds that he was supposed to go to this week to promote his new book on anti-Semitism. And he was I think it was supposed to get underway either Monday or Tuesday. And they postponed those dates because of what they say are security reasons. And the reality of it is that he doesn't want to face. Uh-oh. Stacy, are you there? I think we lost Stacy.

[00:07:21] Yeah, we can't. Oh, there you go. Wait. I just heard you. I don't know what happened there. Okay. All right. So he's got these events that were canceled due to security concerns. And you think he doesn't want to face his own voters? He doesn't want to face his own voters. You know, they've already been camped out at his home. They're protesting in front of his home, you know, regarding what they call his betrayal on the CR. And he canceled the appearances for this week.

[00:07:50] He's going to reschedule him. But the thing about it is that it's not just the protesters on the CR that he's having to worry about here. His book is on anti-Semitism. So you can imagine the pro-Hamas left is probably going to make their way to some of these protests as well. So, you know, it's like the chickens are coming home to roost for him.

[00:08:12] You know, his party coddled the pro-Hamas left after the October 7, 2023 attacks on the Israeli civilians. Even he, as the nation's top-ranking Jewish leader in government, he kind of coddled them, you know, after the fact. A lot of chickens are coming home to roost for Chuck Schumer. And it's going to be interesting to see, you know, if this holds for the next few years. Because he's not up for re-election until 2028.

[00:08:39] But there is talk about maybe changing leadership in the United States Senate for Democrats. It would be interesting to see that happen. But it's like Democrats are trying to basically cripple the Trump administration government. But at the same time, their infighting is crippling their ability. Yeah. To do anything. It reminds me of the Moral Monday movement.

[00:09:03] Because the similarities are that you've got, right now, a Democrat Party that is essentially leaderless. Right? There isn't somebody in the... I think that's what Chuck Schumer is trying to fill this role. But he doesn't... He can't do it. He's lost the ear of a lot of his base, as you said. But... And just like the Moral Monday movement, they took over at a time when the state Democrat Party had been obliterated by scandal and election losses and everything else.

[00:09:31] And so they needed some other group or leader to emerge. And that was William Barber for a brief period of time until the Democrats could kind of reorganize. Yeah. How'd that work out? Yeah. Not so great. Not so great. But... And so, yeah. So it's an attempt to slow it all down. And to your point about coddling the pro-Hamas factions inside their party... I keep saying this. It's a James Lindsay term. The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.

[00:10:00] And that's been the true intersectionality of the left, right? It's this idea that we need to destabilize the society in order to usher in the Marxist utopia. The problem is, is that there aren't enough of those people to vote to win elections for Democrats. So they've always had to kind of moderate their message writ large and to try to attract, you know, people in a national election. But they don't have enough of them left anymore inside their party, it seems.

[00:10:29] Well, and, you know, just to your point, just to show you, that is their mindset. Look at who they're looking to to be a possible challenger for Schumer in 2028. AOC. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's people that were seriously talking about, well, I'm going to start donating to AOC. Let's start a campaign to get her to run against Schumer. I mean, and I wrote about this at the site at redstate.com. And a lot of people were kind of in, you know, they were kind of a two mindset.

[00:10:59] AOC is not smart enough to win a statewide election. But, you know, a lot of people thought AOC didn't have a chance when she won her first congressional race. She was kind of an underdog. She beat an entrenched Democrat leader in the House that, you know, nobody thought could be beat. And so I would put it faster, but it just shows the mindset of Democrats. They just double down. They don't ever learn from their mistakes. They just keep trying the same thing in a different way in hopes that they can fool people into liking it.

[00:11:27] Well, I think it's because for the left, you can never go too far. That's the thing about the left. There is no too far for the left. There's no limiting principles involved. So, yeah, I think we're seeing that with the judicial lawfare, you know, that's going on right now. I mean, you've got activist judges, you know, as you talked about in your previous segment, you have activist judges now who are actively doing the bidding of the hard left and basically trying to hamstring every single thing,

[00:11:56] every single decision that comes out of the Trump administration. Yeah. Stacey Matthews, we always appreciate your time. She's a writer at RedState.com. Sister Toldja is the blogger name that she's used for decades, and she still writes it. They still credit you as Sister Toldja over there, right? Yeah. Yeah, I thought so. Okay. Very good. Stacey, we'll talk again next month. I appreciate your time. Pete, thank you so much. Take care. You too. Great stuff. I appreciate it. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events,

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[00:13:42] This is what I told the UNC Chapel Hill College Republicans when I went to speak with them on Monday. I, like, the parties realign, and then you got, you know, this societal epochs, if you will, these eras, the turnings, 20 to 25 years each, and we are in the fourth turning. So this is the time of crisis. And so we don't know what this is going to be, but if you know that, like, after this, and it runs through, like, 2030,

[00:14:12] then after we get through this, then we'll be at another high in the cycle. So maybe that's what this looks like. And by the way, the highs always return to more conventional mores, if you will. So they revert back to sort of the conservative or conventional ideas.

[00:14:38] The excesses of the previous three cycles are discarded, if you believe the four turnings theory. Dean, welcome to the program. Hello, Dean. Hi, Pete. Hello. I'm looking forward to those highs. Wow, yeah. I mean, so anyway, it's a little bit of a long time, but that's about it. I had a couple comments, if I could, please.

[00:15:03] Number one was just something I experienced being a teenager in the 60s and that, that this, I saw a banner where it said transgender is not being able to serve in the military. And I thought, gee, back in my day, if they had passed that law, I knew about 100 of my friends that would have been transgender overnight

[00:15:30] rather than, you know, go to Canada or go to Vietnam. Right, to avoid the draft, you claim you're transgender, but you're not. Well, I mean, if they're going to pass the law now, and yeah, I think, believe me, you think that people had stricter morals and there were a lot of people that didn't want to serve. Of course, I didn't have 100 friends either, so it was probably a smaller sampling size.

[00:15:53] So, but then, can I make one other comment about the Democrats? And then I'll let you go. Sure, why not? Yeah. Okay, thank you. Appreciate that. I don't think that the Democrats, the Democrats don't reflect the political party. I think they more reflect the Washington establishment right now.

[00:16:21] And because I think it had always been Republicans win, Democrats win, Republicans win, Democrats win. But the club stayed intact, and I think Trump has now interfered with what's gone on for basically the last couple hundred years. And I think that the conversations today are very interesting, but I don't think three years from now they're going to matter at all

[00:16:45] because I think it's going to be whether Trump gets a third term or everything gets realigned again. Why would Trump get a third term? Well, I don't know. I think the odds are probably two to one in Vegas that somehow he's going to take control and somehow manage a third term. So maybe it isn't two to one. I don't really know. I lied about that.

[00:17:15] Okay. But there's conversation about, you know. Not on the right. He's going to revamp the whole system. No, no. No, that's a fever dream on the left. Oh, okay. Yeah. I appreciate the time and thank you. And your show is always so interesting. Why don't you have a Democrat on every second Tuesday of the month? Yeah, you know, if you know any of them, tell them to call in. Okay. Aren't there a lot in Washington? I mean, they don't talk.

[00:17:45] They don't do confrontations anymore. Yeah, a lot of times Democrats don't like going on shows where they get pressed on their beliefs. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Which I understand. Nice talking to you. You too. Take care. And I understand. I wouldn't be able to defend a lot of their positions either. So I totally get it. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina, just a quick drive up the mountain?

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[00:19:38] Um, this is from the Washington Examiner, piece by Ashley Oliver. Quote, a judge blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from carrying out an executive order that bans people with gender dysphoria from serving in the military, saying that the government was unjustly discriminating against people based on their sex and transgender status.

[00:20:02] So, the lynchpin here is that, um, if a guy goes in and says, I'm a guy, then they're not allowed in. And that's sex discrimination. See? Because the guy saying they're a guy would be allowed. But a girl saying she's a guy would not be allowed. See? So, that's discrimination.

[00:20:30] This is the mental twisting required to arrive at this position. U.S. District Judge Anna Reyes, a Biden appointee, wrote in a scathing 79-page memorandum that President Donald Trump's executive order on transgender service members and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's subsequent policy directive on them violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.

[00:20:59] My favorite citation from the, uh, from the memorandum, uh, you know, the little footnotes at the bottom of the court rulings where they cite, you know, various Supreme Court rulings or, you know, precedential cases and that sort of thing. This was my favorite from her ruling. It says, quote, Women were, quote, included in the sequel when passage of the 19th Amendment granted them

[00:21:29] the right to vote in 1920. C. So, here's her citation for this, for that observation. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton, an American musical, 2016. She literally quoted Hamilton the musical in her ruling. That's, I don't think that's law. I don't know.

[00:21:58] Like, I'm not a constitutional expert, but I'm kind of feeling like a musical is not something that you should be citing in your court rulings. Reyes said her preliminary injunction will not go into effect until March 21st in order to give the DOJ time to appeal it. The case could be on an eventual track to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. The injunction from Reyes perhaps came as expected after the judge had reamed out two

[00:22:27] separate DOJ attorneys in two different hearings. She said in the hearings that the attorneys were not addressing their animus towards transgender people. She accused them of hating transgender people. The judge did, which is completely inappropriate. And she said they were ill prepared to make their case. The DOJ issued a complaint to the appellate court after the first hearing where she engaged

[00:22:56] in this behavior, which the DOJ called egregious and said she had a clear bias against the DOJ. She writes in her opinion, quote, Defendant's position does not urge judicial deference to military judgment. It urges judicial abdication. No, the law does not demand that the court rubber stamp illogical judgments based on conjecture.

[00:23:23] In fact, it requires the opposite because the executive does not enjoy a wholesale license to discriminate in matters of military policy. The law does not demand that the court rubber stamp illogical judgments, illogical judgments. And why is this illogical? Well, according to the judge, men can be women. And there are 40 different genders. That's what she wrote in this ruling.

[00:23:53] Again, I will cite Charlie Kirk's observation. Had Donald Trump not won the presidency in 2016, this kind of judge would be on the Supreme Court and it would be a majority of the Supreme Court. And you can only imagine what they would be ruling. She said the military ban is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext. Ew.

[00:24:22] Its language is unabashedly demeaning. Its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit and its conclusions bear no relation to fact. The fight over transgender troops dates back more than a decade when the Obama administration first removed the longstanding ban and allowed each service to decide its policy. So to Dean's call earlier,

[00:24:49] the ban on transgenders in the military, like that did exist. Your friends in Vietnam to avoid the draft, they could have said that, but they did not. Why did they not do that? Because society probably had a certain view on you saying that. Society probably understood that a guy going into the recruiter's office and saying, I'm actually a woman, like a guy that they wouldn't think to even do that because it's so ridiculous.

[00:25:21] It was so ridiculous, by the way, that it was a main character in the TV show MASH, right? That's how Klingert tried to get out of serving, by dressing as a woman all the time. Trump came along and reversed the Obama reversal, and then Biden comes in, and on his fifth day in office,

[00:25:48] he reverses Trump's reversal of the reversal of the reversal. Transgender troops sued after Trump just did the latest reversal, saying their qualifications and commendations prove that they do serve capably. The judge, Reyes, agreed and said the Trump administration did no studies to contradict these claims. She said her decision rests on the 2020 Supreme Court ruling

[00:26:16] that found discrimination against trans people is discrimination on the basis of sex. That's how we got here. But remember, sex and gender are not the same. Unless we need them to advance the leftist project. Hope that's clear. All right, so spring is here, a time of renewal and celebrations. You got graduations, weddings, anniversaries, and the special days for mom and dad. Your family's making memories that are going to last a lifetime. But let me ask you,

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[00:27:43] are free to govern as they see fit, President Trump may only govern under the consent of Democrats. Yeah. I mentioned this, something along the same lines, I think last week, that I remember after a president would win, then they got to expend their political capital and people in the legislature understood that, okay, our guy lost, their guy won, they're now going to do their agenda

[00:28:13] and so we will, you know, try to legislate to get what we can get but there was a recognition that that was the will of the people being expressed through the vote. That is no longer the case. That is no longer the case. The, hang on a second, did I have a, do, do, do, do, do, do, no, okay, so the judge in this, in this case about the transgenders in the military,

[00:28:45] Reyes, Anna Reyes, you may want to sit down for this. You ready? Okay. She is a prominent donor to Democrat political candidates and causes. I know, who would have thought, oh, Pete, every judge makes donations. Yeah, well, some of these, they kind of fall outside the boundaries of just like a political candidate, you know,

[00:29:14] maybe conflict of interest-y kind of stuff. So the Justice Department filed a complaint against this appointee for allegedly engaging in hostile and egregious misconduct during the February hearings that I mentioned earlier. In the filing, the DOJ claimed that Reyes, who is reportedly a member of the LGBT community, contested the validity of Trump's order by disagreeing with the fact that there are only two sexes.

[00:29:42] According to the court transcript cited by the administration, Reyes said, quote, This executive order is premised on an assertion that's not biologically correct. There are anywhere near about 30 different intersex examples. So someone who does not have just an XX or XY chromosome is not just male or female, they're intersex, and there are over 30 potential different intersex examples.

[00:30:11] The complaint also accused Reyes of questioning a Department of Justice attorney regarding his religious beliefs. and then using him as a physical prop in her courtroom theatrics. A lawyer named Laura Powell said that her opinion relies in part on her independent research. When you read through this opinion, the judge acknowledges that she did independent research into disorders of sexual development,

[00:30:40] which is not part of the record in the case. Judges are not allowed to do this. Yet this judge is doing this. Because she is an activist. First. A judge. Second. According to FEC records, she has collectively given thousands of dollars to various Democrat candidates and causes throughout her professional career. As a private lawyer, so she was private at the time, but she donated to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden.

[00:31:09] She also shelled out money for various House and Senate candidates, including John Ossoff of Georgia. She's up, where is she, out of Maryland, I think? And AOC. She also has donated more than $1,700 to an organization called Defeat by Tweet, which is a Democrat-aligned super PAC that allows leftist donors

[00:31:39] to sign up to contribute as little as one cent to political organizers in battleground states for each time President Donald Trump posts onto Twitter. That was the whole super PAC. That was what they did. The organization was reportedly launched with assistance from Patrice Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter. She gave numerous donations to Win the Era, a political action committee founded by

[00:32:07] failed 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg. And since at least 2013, she has also given dozens of small-dollar donations to Act Blue, which has a bit of fundraising questions surrounding it and a bunch of their leaders have quit over the last few weeks. She spent the bulk of her legal career at a firm called Williams & Connolly, where during that tenure she litigated against Trump, whose policies she's now ruling on as a federal judge.

[00:32:37] She was part of the legal team representing plaintiffs in a challenge on an asylum rule implemented by the Trump administration. The rule was to make illegal immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border outside of a port of entry ineligible for asylum. That's who the judge is in this case, an activist with a wardrobe change. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise

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