April 25, 2025 • 31 mins
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Democratic Party Turmoil:
- Internal Revolt: The Democratic Party is experiencing significant internal conflict, with prominent leaders like Senator Dick Durbin announcing they will not seek reelection. This is attributed to dissatisfaction among party members and the public regarding the party's handling of economic issues.
- Leadership Approval: Approval ratings for Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer have drastically fallen, indicating a loss of confidence among Democrats. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is noted to have higher favorability ratings than Schumer in New York.
- Shift in Ideology: The document suggests that the Democratic Party is moving towards more socialist and communist ideologies, replacing traditional Democratic leaders with more radical figures.
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Activist Judges vs. Trump:
- Judicial Opposition: The document highlights how activist judges are blocking various aspects of Trump's agenda, including immigration policies, voting regulations, and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives in education.
- Specific Cases: Examples include a judge ordering the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a deported individual to the US, blocking proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, and preventing the elimination of DEI policies in federally funded schools.
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Nike and Transathlete Research:
- Controversy: The document discusses Nike's involvement in research concerning transgender athletes, with criticism from figures like Martina Navratilova. The research aims to understand if transgender athletes can compete without significant male advantages.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There is a major revolt happening right now within the
Democratic Party, and we are now witnessing several different members
of the Democratic leadership who are saying we're out. Senator
Dick Durbin of Illinois, he is the Senate second ranking Democrat.
He announced that he will not seek reelection in twenty
(00:21):
twenty six, concluding a Congressional career spanning over four decades.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now, why is this happening right now?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, the way that CNN described it, and again this
is CNN. They said that it's total chaos within the
Democratic Party, and the American people are saying, we don't
like what you're doing. Here is CNN in their own
words about what's happening in the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, this I think is a revolt, a revolt that
is going on within the Democratic Party right now. Democrats
and their leaders, I mean, take a look nationally, hello,
Democrats on dem leaders in Congress, the belief that they
will do the right thing when it comes to the economy.
Last year, at this time, eighty percent believe that the
Democratic leaders in Congress would do the right thing when
it comes to the economy. And keep in mind this
(01:07):
as Democrats look at where we are now that number.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Has been slashed in half to just thirty nine percent.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Holy Toledo. That is the lowest.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Number by far in Gallup polling. The lowest previous was
just sixty percent, which is twenty one points higher than this.
Democrats hate, hate, hate, hate what they're congressional leaders in
Washington are doing right now on the key issue of
the day, the economy, and their confidence has fallen through
the floor.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Mister Berman, all.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Right, Chuck Schumber is the Senate Democratic leader right now?
How we're feelings about him, particularly in New York.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, let's go to the state of New York. It's
what's always on my mind. Right we're in the state
of New York right now. New York Democrats on Chuck
Schumer view him favorably.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
In December of twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Four, that was just a few months ago, it was
seventy three percent. Look at where that number has fallen
to in just a few months. It is now down
to just fifty two percent. That is the lower I
could ever find and see on a college on how
democrats in Chuck Schumer's home state knew him. And keep
in mind, if you're thinking about a primary challenge. It
would be a few years away. But Alexandiocosto Cortes's favorable
(02:10):
writing among Democrats is considerably higher in the sixties, so
he is doing quite.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Poorly in his own homestead of New York.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I never thought I'd see the day in which just
fifty two percent of New York Democrats or you Chuck
Schumer favorably.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's almost unfathomable. Yeah, but by the way, let's just
stop there.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And if you didn't enjoy that report I just played
for you, then something's wrong with you, because this is
CNN telling you that the Democratic Party is imploding. But
what is a takeaway there is this when you look
at Chuck Schumer, he's a hardcore Democrat. He's been a
hard core Democrat his entire life. I notice I didn't
say as a Marxist. I didn't say as a socialist.
(02:47):
I didn't say he's a communist. And notice what was
said at the very end that he's got a bad
favorable and AOC has a better favorable in New York
than he does. Now, what does this mean? Means a
couple of things. One, the Democratic Party is basically moving
on from Democrats to actual declared communists and socialists, and
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so Chuck Schumer and these others that have been basically
taking care of themselves and getting rich. The Nancy Pelosi
is the Chuck Schumer who've just been hoaring out their
their job in Congress to make themselves and their friends wealthy.
The Democratic Party is like angry at them, So what
are they replacing them with? Apparently they're wanting to replace
(03:31):
them with socialists and communists and Marxists, like they're done
with America. Okay, like they're straight up done with America.
And I'm going to play for you what Dick Durbin
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Dick Durbin and what I was saying there. You hear
the CNN describe what's happening. This in the Democratic Party
is a revolt from within the Democratic Party. And this
is what I've been saying for a while. The Democratic
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Party is dead. There are a bunch of socialists, Marxist
and communists that are lying and masquerading as Democrats. So
you go back to Dick Durbin number two and command
the Democratic Party. He's saying, I'm out of here. I'm
not running for reelection. And MSNBC asked him and here's
what he said.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
A Senator yesterday, after you made your announcement that you
would not be seeking reelection, there are a number of
Democrats who privately really applauded your choice, saying that it
was something the right thing to do, to step aside
and perhaps let a younger generation of politicians step to
the forefront. We know the idea of Democrat elected officials
and age has been a hot topic in recent years.
(06:45):
Do you hope do you agree with that thinking? Do
you think it is time now for younger politicians, the
next generation to come forward?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I think this it's more complex. It is not just
a question of a number what your age is. Look
at Bernie sand for God's sake, still drawing thousands and
thousands of people out for rallies, and he's a few
years older than I am. The bottom line is are
you competent? Can you still do the job? That's the
question the voter should ask. But should a new generation
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be interested in public service?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You bet?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
I've spent my time in office trying to encourage younger
people to get involved.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Senator Durban, it's Ali Vitally. I wonder if I can
pick up on something you just said, this idea of
are you competent? Are you able to do this job
in the Senate? As you see this push from the
grassroots that lamiir is talking about here, do you think
enough of your colleagues are asking themselves those fundamental questions
about if they can continue to serve.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I think so.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I think if you're honest about yourself and your reputation,
you want to leave when you can still walk out
the front door and not be carried out the back door.
And I've said, whatever your interest may be, whatever issue
you want to focus on in Congress, in the Senate,
if you stick around a couple terms, your miner is
going to be aging. You can see it, you can
observe it, and you have to make that choice. That
(08:05):
decision I've made mine.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I love it. He's like, I've made my decision. I'm
out of here.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I've made my decision, and I want to want to
leave when you can still walk out the front door
and not be carried out the back door. Now that
may be a little bit of insight from him looking
at what happened with Joe Biden right where it's like
the guy to where he was, he's disgraced, he leaves office,
he's incompetent, he was embarrassment. But I also think it's
a little bit different than that. Dick Durbin realizes there's
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a very good chance he could lose his seat after
being there for forty years in Congress, and so he
doesn't want to lose. He wants to walk out like
he's some sort of great winner, and he's celebrated when
he walks out. I think that's part of the reason
why he's doing this. Now, now you look at the
Democrats in this disaster that we're talking about, which is
the Democratic Party, and they're.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Talking about, well, their future is AOC.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
They still have to have some sort of plan, all right,
going to have some sort of agenda item or some
way to stop Donald Trump. Well we know what that is.
It is Law Fair two point zero. And I'm going
to explain that to you coming up right after this
in the Ben Ferguson Show. So what are the Democrats
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gonna do now when they are in shambles. How do
they fight Donald Trump? That's the question you should be asking.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
As the elder.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Statesmen are leaving, you got to say, all right, well,
what's next. It's actually very simple. They are now relying
on judges, activists, woke radical judges to stop the Republicans
and specifically Donald Trump, or delay them in any capacity
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with radical rulings. I'm going to give you three examples
of the last twenty four hours. All right, Donald Trump's
administration must facilitate the return of a set second man
they claim was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador.
Now I say they're saying this, who is they? It's
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a federal judge. It is now deepening a standoff between
the courts and the White House over the president's immigration policy.
District Judge Stephanie Gallagher is a woman who says that
a twenty year old Venezuelan, along with quote multiple other migrants,
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was protected by a twenty twenty four class action settlement
prohibiting the deportation migrants who arrived as unaccompany miners until
their asylum claims are fully adjudicated. Now the case comes
amid a quote, mounting political row over the wrongful deportation,
they claim of Gamar Obrega Garcia. That's that Salvadorian man
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who was returned to his native country and still in
prison there. Now, the part about this story that I
still am trying to get my head around is the
fact that Albrego Garcia, who is a guy that was
a tain of Maryland, last month expelled El Salvador, along
with two hundred and thirty eight Venezuelans and twenty two
fellow Salvadorians who were deported shortly after Trump invoked a
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wartime authority, which, by the way, the president has the
ability to do this. And so what a Democrats say,
We're gonna turn these gang members into our poster child.
We're gonna call him a Maryland dad, a Marylyn father,
a Marylynd husband, even though the guy his own wife
had a protective order against him.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
For goodness sakes.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Now, what's interesting about this play is the Vice President
Jady Vance was asked about it today. He was on
the tarmac about to get on his plane. You'll hear
that background noise. Listen to what Jadie Vance said about
Albrego Garcia in one of the best takedowns of the
narrative in the lie of the left and the Democratic
Party with the media are abregol.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Lu Garcia's wife has been very vocal about how she
doesn't think he's getting due process and she now also
fears for her state.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Did you have a message to her specifically, Well, I
don't have a message to his wife.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I mean, look, I just disagree with the idea that
he hasn't been offered due process. He had a couple
of immigration hearings, he had a valid deportation order. I
think this idea that somehow that we couldn't deport an
MS thirteen gang member, and he was an MS thirteen
gang member.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Is preposterous. And I think there's actually.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
A deeper issue going on, which is that you see
some radical judges at the district court level who are
trying to layer so much quote unquote process on top
of the immigration system that it makes it impossible to function.
We have for twenty million illegal aliens in the United
States of America. Are we not allowed to deport them?
Because if we're not allowed to deport them, then what
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these district courts are saying is fundamentally they reject the
will of the American people. As it was expressed in
November of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
We just reject that.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I believe the American people elected President Trump to do
many jobs, but perhaps the most important job was to
bring down the number of ELEC immigration in this country.
That's what he's trying to do. We're going to keep
on doing it.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You listen to the Vice president there and he's like,
we're not backing down. We know we're right, we know
we're in charge, we know we have the law on
our side, and we know that activists are going to
do everything they can to stop us. Like, we understand
all that. It doesn't mean that we're going to back
down for the American people who clearly voted for this
type of leadership in the elections that happened just several
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months ago. There's also something else here that's really interesting.
It's the Democratic Party is now relying solely on law
fare to get Donald Trump's agenda stopped. They are going
to do everything they can to find their friends in
the court system, and many of them got their jobs
through Democrats to fight and to stop what Donald Trump
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is trying to do. I mentioned there was three different rulings,
So let's start with another one. A US judge blocked
quote aspects of Trump's agenda on voting, immigration, and DEI
in education. Quote as a number of rulings have come
in this afternoon with federal judges blocking several aspects of
Trump's agenda that he tried to enact via via vehicles
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such as executive orders. Here's a round up the New
York Times rights of those developments.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
A judge block Donald Trump's efforts to add a proof
of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What a novel idea?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You actually have to show who you are before we
allow you to vote in twenty twenty five and twenty
twenty six, and moving forward like this is.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Not a radical idea.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It's also an idea that the majority of Americans say
they're now in favor of.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
They don't want their vote.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
To be canceled out by somebody now at change that
he is advocating for.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Of course, the left says, no, no, no, we need this loophole.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We need to make sure that there's people that can
illegally vote that Democrats. By the way, the same people
that in local elections want illegal immigrants to be able
to vote, and gave out hundreds of thousands of cards
to illegal immigrants, so security numbers and millions of driver's
license to illegal immigrants to normalize them and get them
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one step closer to you guessed it, voting in our elections?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
What does Donald Trump say?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
He says, only American citizens should be allowed to vote
in our elections, and your vote shouldn't be canceled out
by an illegal vote, or someone who gets your absent
vote and votes on your behalf, or someone that lies
about who they are and goes in and votes on
your behalf. And we see this happen all the time.
We see it happen in every election that is nationwide.
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Now is it enough to change an election? It doesn't matter.
I shouldn't have to worry that somebody is going to
take advantage of the system because it's so broken and
is going to vote on my behalf. If you've ever
talked to somebody where this has happened, and I've talked
to several people. In fact, I had friends the last
election that went in to vote and they're like, I'm sorry, sir,
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you already requested an absentee valot and you've already voted
and it's like, no, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I'm here right now, I have not voted absentee.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And they're like, well, we're gonna have to do a
provisional to do research and we'll try to figure it out.
And basically, you know at that point, like your vote's
not going to count. And if that's happening to you,
imagine how many other people it's actually happening to. So
the President said, hey, I want to do this in
the court. An activist judge like, no, no, no, you can't.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Do that now.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
A federal judge also said that the Trump administration's attempt
to make federal funding to schools conditional on them eliminating
any DEI, which is diversity, equity inclusion policy, erodes quote
the fundamental principles that separate the United States from quote
totalitarian regimes. That is what another activist US District judge said,
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partially blocking the Department of Education from quote enforcing a
memo issued earlier this year that directs any institution that
receives federal funding to end discrimination on the basis of
race or face funding cuts.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
This is a victory, the left says, because they're good.
Now we can do DEI all the time, and Donald
Trump's gonna have to jump through a bunch of hoops
now to try to stop us.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So this is again another quote big win for.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
The left in the court system, finding another radical judge
to stop what Donald Trump is doing. Now there's another
one here, and that is let's go back to the
judge that ordered Trump administration to quote make a good
faith request to the government of Salvador to facilitate the
return of the second man sent to a prison there
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back to the US, saying that his deportation quote violated
a court settlement. Another activist judge ordered the administration not
to deport other illegal immigrants they say claim that they claim.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Was covered by this settlement.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
The activist judge said the sentiment agreement that she approved
in November, i'm a half of thousands of migrants required
immigration authorities to process the asylum applicants by the twenty
year old Venezuelan man identified as Christian before deporting him.
The settlement, she said, applied to thousands of migrants who
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came to the US and accompanied his children and have
applied for asylum. Okay, so now I think it's very
clear and everybody should understand this that the Democratic Party
is foundering.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
They have no leaders. People are jumping ship.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
They're filled with Marxists and communists and socialists, and what
are they going to do now when they're so unpopular.
They're saying, all right, we'll just go to our friends
in the courts and we'll go rogue there to try
to stop the Trump agenda. This is the whole game plan.
This is all they have left. By the way, it's
a very powerful.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Thing they have. This is why elections matter.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
This is why judge ships matter, and this is why
everyone needs to be paying attention to all of these judges,
especially when we have elections that are coming up.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
This matters, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I want to move on to another issue, and if
you buy Nike clothes, I really want you to pay
attention to what I'm about to tell you because this
should make you very angry. We now have evidence that
Nike has played a role in transathlete research.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
This is shocking, and.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
The whistle is being blown by the tennis legend Martina Navtulova.
She's taking aim at Nike for trying to hide it's
apparent involvement in research programs concerning transgendered athletes. On Tuesday,
Nike refused to say whether it was funding transitor research
(20:04):
of any sort. Still, a story over the previous weekend
published by The New York Times seems to provide evidence
that Nike is financing at least one study of trans
athletes being conducted by Joanna Harper, a man who identifies
as a woman.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
On Tuesday, Navtulova said it was time to sound the
alarm and let people know exactly what your money is
going towards when you're buying Nike products. Senator Ted Cruz
and I talked about just how shocking this was, and
I want you to hear our conversation. All right, Senator,
I want to move to this other big issue, and
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that deals with some really shocking news from a woman,
and if you don't know her background, I think it's
important to take a moment so people understand who Martina
Navatilova is. She is the most decorated woman in women's
teams history. The number of Grand Slams that she has
won is just incredible. She was one of the very
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first athletes to ever come out as being gay. She
has been a huge advocate in her career for LGBTQ community.
But then she stood up to them on men and
women's sports and they started to attack her, and she said,
I'm not backing down. There is a difference between men
and women. It is wrong to allow men to compete
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with women. She even lost, like she was kicked off
of boards and different things that happened in the in
the community that she was in. And she I think
she was shocked by the intolerance of all of these
different radical extremist groups that went after her because she
said there is a difference. Well, now she's not backing
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down again. She is blasting a major company, Nike, over
a shocking report that they were actually doing research in
in transathlete research at Nike, and she's like, what are
you doing.
Speaker 9 (22:06):
Well, let me say, first of all, you just said
a minute ago, Martina Naverertilovra. You said she won a
lot of majors. Nobody knows how many. I will say, Ben,
there's this thing called the Google that that you know,
you have a phone, you can type it in. You
actually just have to do Martina in and it comes
right up in me the stats, and right from the
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Google it told me one of the most successful tennis
players of all time. She was ranked as the world
number one in women's singles for how many weeks? How
many weeks do you think you're the tennis player you
played tennis at all?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Miss? Oh, it's going to be hundreds. I know that,
three hundred and thirty two weeks. Bam, there you go.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
And she won one hundred and sixty seven top level
single titles, one hundred and seventy seven doubles titles and
including an Open era record of fifty nine major titles,
eighteen and singles, thirteen in women's doubles, ten and mixed doubles.
And how many Wimbledon singles titles do you think she won?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And Wimbledon singles titles? I know this. Hold on, it's
a trivia question for me. You can't use nine. It's nine. No, No,
it's nine. I'm pretty sure it's nine, am I right?
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Look at that, Sam Benjamin, Okay, I say you're you're
a tennis guy.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
It is nine.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
And I didn't know that, but that if Wikipedia is right,
then it is nine.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So so, and here's here's another tidbit for you. The
French Open's coming up, and and do you know me?
She won?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
There no idea she won two. I didn't read that
far in Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
No, no, so she won two there, but that was like
her hardest service to win on clay.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
She does not like clay, and it was cio clay.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
You should be impressed that I knew the French Open
was clay.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Exactly, and so she was the one that completed the
Grand Slam because she won the Australian Open. I want
to say three or four times, French Open twice, Wimbledon nine,
and I think she won the US Open. I want
to say it was four or five times. It was incredible.
But here's a tidbit about her, and this this should
impress everybody because when she was in the middle of
all this winning, she was stripped of her citizenship when
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she was seventeen or eighteen and asked the United States
for political asylum. And so not only was she winning,
but she was in the middle of Chessclovakia when it happened.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
She was a chess citizen and all of this was
going on.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So you talk about a woman that was incredible and
focused and was able to pull all this off. It
tells you about how big of a leader she was.
And I think that is saying we should just remind
people of when you talk about her leading on this
issue and coming out and then yet saying it's wrong
for men to play in women's sports, like she's always
(24:46):
been a leader on these types of issues.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
Well, and listen, I will say, Martina and Evertslover, she's
not a conservative, she's not a person of the right,
but she is one of the greatest women athletes to
have ever lived. And she's shown real courage saying, look,
if men compete in women's sports, men have significant physiological advantages,
and it's not fair, it's not right. I mean, she recognized,
(25:09):
even as one of the greatest women to have ever played,
that if she was playing against Pete Sampras, if she
was playing against you know, any of the top male players,
that that it would not be fair and she would
not stand a chance. And that that's the simple reality.
How much faster so you played Division one tennis, how
(25:30):
much faster does does a male college player hit a
serve as compared to a top level female college player.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
When I was playing college, if you were a women
at one of the top women in college hitting a
big serve, you were probably one hundred to one hundred
and three four five miles an hour, and that would
be like less than one percent of women in college
at that time doing that men.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
So that's on the top level, top level, the fastest
serves women are hitting.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Now, how about how about.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I mean a lot of them were probably eighty to
eighty five. Eighty six miles an hour would probably been
the average then, and men the average was probably one
hundred and five to one hundred and ten was the average.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I mean, it's significant difference. And how about the top level,
the very well top.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Top So the fast serve I ever hit in my life,
I think was one. I want to say it was
one twenty five, one twenty six.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah. That's not a tennis ball, that's a bullet. Yeah,
I mean it did. I mean there's a huge difference.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You had that extra thirty miles on top of what
like where the women were the men?
Speaker 9 (26:32):
It's night and day, okay, And I'm going to say this,
I don't mean to be disrespectful. I mean, you were
a good college tennis player, but you weren't one of
the very top men in the country.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Correct, Yeah, no, yeah, one hundred percent. I mean the
guys that were hitting the big serves. I remember one
time practicing with Andy Roddick and Andy was hitting one
thirty seven, one forties. Wow, John Isner, buddy, Mine, he's
he I think he has the fastest serve on record.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
He was.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I want to say it was one forty seven. Uh,
if I remember correctly, I mean it's there's fifty percent more.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
One seven is fifty percent more than you said, Like
the top women college athletes would be serving about one
hundred or one hundred and two, correct. I mean that's
that's why Martina Nabergchelow has been so clear saying this
is wildly Unfairwell, what she did this week is she
called out Nike, and this is a bizarre story. It
is a story published in The New York Times that
(27:24):
laid out evidence that Nike is financing a study of
trans athletes and a study of trans athletes that that
was called out online on x by Women's sportswear company
executive Jennifer Say, who went on social media and said,
I'm still stunned by this. Nike is funding a study
(27:46):
that disfigured young boys to understand if they can be
physically impaired enough to compete with girls without significant quote
retained male advantage, why is a sneaker brand and doing
medical experiments on children? And Martina and Abertarlova retweeted that
(28:08):
she said, Joanna Harper is going too far as is Nike,
needless to say, and she calls out Nike, same company
that doctor Allison Felix for being pregnant. So she left
and formed her own company Safe. So thanks for nothing, Nike.
And I got to say, look, there are a lot
of issues where the left has completely left.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The American people behind.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Sanctuary cities, embracing voter fraud, open borders, supporting illegal immigrants
and gang members, and wanting more gang members brought to
this country. All of those are extreme. But I don't
know that there is an issue that is more out
of the mainstream and yet more required by elected Democrats
(28:51):
then demanding that men compete against and in women's sports
and boys compete in girls sports.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
And it is.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
It was a major issue in twenty twenty four in
the election.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
President Trump used the issue.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
I used the issue in my reelection campaign, and I
got to say, Senate races across the country used the issue,
and the American people said enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
And what's interesting all right.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
So in my reelection, when I was running ads against
my opponent because he had voted repeatedly in favor of
men competing women's sports, the reporters thought, oh, well, Cruz
is competing to the crazy right wing kooks, and they
wrote articles like that, and I actually laughed at them
because we had done focus groups and in fact, we
(29:38):
had done focus groups of undecided moderate women in Houston
and Dallas and we tested like thirty different messages on them.
You know, the number one message with undecided moderate women
in Houston and Dallas, what was that? Boys and girls sports.
There you go, And the reporters didn't get it. They're like, oh,
(29:59):
these are crazy right wingers. I'm like, no, no, these
are soccer moms. These are soccer moms that are really
pissed off. And they don't want their daughter playing soccer
with some dude who's going to kick them and get
a concussion. They don't want their daughter playing volleyball with
some dude that's going to spike the ball on her.
They don't want you know, they watched the Olympics and
saw two guys beating the hell out of women boxers,
(30:23):
and they said enough is enough, and What is amazing
is even though the left is so far out of step,
Nike's continuing to double down and fund this extreme research.
And we had to vote a month and a half
ago in the Senate on stopping boys from competing in
girls sports. Do you know how many Democrats voted in
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favor of protecting girls and women's sports.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I'm gonna guess they voted as a party, and none
of them said, we're going to be.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Saying today absolutely correct. Zero. And this was after the
November election.
Speaker 9 (30:55):
If you live in a blue state and you happen
to have a Democrat senator who pretends to be my honor,
which a lot of them, do, know that your senator,
likewise voted for boys to compete against your daughters, for
men to compete against women. And that's fundamentally unfair. And
if you don't believe me, listen to the great Martine
and Avachlova.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
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tomorrow
There is a major revolt happening right now within the
Democratic Party, and we are now witnessing several different members
of the Democratic leadership who are saying we're out. Senator
Dick Durbin of Illinois, he is the Senate second ranking Democrat.
He announced that he will not seek reelection in twenty
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twenty six, concluding a Congressional career spanning over four decades.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now, why is this happening right now?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, the way that CNN described it, and again this
is CNN. They said that it's total chaos within the
Democratic Party, and the American people are saying, we don't
like what you're doing. Here is CNN in their own
words about what's happening in the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, this I think is a revolt, a revolt that
is going on within the Democratic Party right now. Democrats
and their leaders, I mean, take a look nationally, hello,
Democrats on dem leaders in Congress, the belief that they
will do the right thing when it comes to the economy.
Last year, at this time, eighty percent believe that the
Democratic leaders in Congress would do the right thing when
it comes to the economy. And keep in mind this
(01:07):
as Democrats look at where we are now that number.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Has been slashed in half to just thirty nine percent.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Holy Toledo. That is the lowest.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Number by far in Gallup polling. The lowest previous was
just sixty percent, which is twenty one points higher than this.
Democrats hate, hate, hate, hate what they're congressional leaders in
Washington are doing right now on the key issue of
the day, the economy, and their confidence has fallen through
the floor.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Mister Berman, all.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Right, Chuck Schumber is the Senate Democratic leader right now?
How we're feelings about him, particularly in New York.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, let's go to the state of New York. It's
what's always on my mind. Right we're in the state
of New York right now. New York Democrats on Chuck
Schumer view him favorably.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
In December of twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Four, that was just a few months ago, it was
seventy three percent. Look at where that number has fallen
to in just a few months. It is now down
to just fifty two percent. That is the lower I
could ever find and see on a college on how
democrats in Chuck Schumer's home state knew him. And keep
in mind, if you're thinking about a primary challenge. It
would be a few years away. But Alexandiocosto Cortes's favorable
(02:10):
writing among Democrats is considerably higher in the sixties, so
he is doing quite.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Poorly in his own homestead of New York.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I never thought I'd see the day in which just
fifty two percent of New York Democrats or you Chuck
Schumer favorably.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's almost unfathomable. Yeah, but by the way, let's just
stop there.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And if you didn't enjoy that report I just played
for you, then something's wrong with you, because this is
CNN telling you that the Democratic Party is imploding. But
what is a takeaway there is this when you look
at Chuck Schumer, he's a hardcore Democrat. He's been a
hard core Democrat his entire life. I notice I didn't
say as a Marxist. I didn't say as a socialist.
(02:47):
I didn't say he's a communist. And notice what was
said at the very end that he's got a bad
favorable and AOC has a better favorable in New York
than he does. Now, what does this mean? Means a
couple of things. One, the Democratic Party is basically moving
on from Democrats to actual declared communists and socialists, and
(03:11):
so Chuck Schumer and these others that have been basically
taking care of themselves and getting rich. The Nancy Pelosi
is the Chuck Schumer who've just been hoaring out their
their job in Congress to make themselves and their friends wealthy.
The Democratic Party is like angry at them, So what
are they replacing them with? Apparently they're wanting to replace
(03:31):
them with socialists and communists and Marxists, like they're done
with America. Okay, like they're straight up done with America.
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Dick Durbin and what I was saying there. You hear
the CNN describe what's happening. This in the Democratic Party
is a revolt from within the Democratic Party. And this
is what I've been saying for a while. The Democratic
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Party is dead. There are a bunch of socialists, Marxist
and communists that are lying and masquerading as Democrats. So
you go back to Dick Durbin number two and command
the Democratic Party. He's saying, I'm out of here. I'm
not running for reelection. And MSNBC asked him and here's
what he said.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
A Senator yesterday, after you made your announcement that you
would not be seeking reelection, there are a number of
Democrats who privately really applauded your choice, saying that it
was something the right thing to do, to step aside
and perhaps let a younger generation of politicians step to
the forefront. We know the idea of Democrat elected officials
and age has been a hot topic in recent years.
(06:45):
Do you hope do you agree with that thinking? Do
you think it is time now for younger politicians, the
next generation to come forward?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I think this it's more complex. It is not just
a question of a number what your age is. Look
at Bernie sand for God's sake, still drawing thousands and
thousands of people out for rallies, and he's a few
years older than I am. The bottom line is are
you competent? Can you still do the job? That's the
question the voter should ask. But should a new generation
(07:14):
be interested in public service?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You bet?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
I've spent my time in office trying to encourage younger
people to get involved.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
Senator Durban, it's Ali Vitally. I wonder if I can
pick up on something you just said, this idea of
are you competent? Are you able to do this job
in the Senate? As you see this push from the
grassroots that lamiir is talking about here, do you think
enough of your colleagues are asking themselves those fundamental questions
about if they can continue to serve.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I think so.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I think if you're honest about yourself and your reputation,
you want to leave when you can still walk out
the front door and not be carried out the back door.
And I've said, whatever your interest may be, whatever issue
you want to focus on in Congress, in the Senate,
if you stick around a couple terms, your miner is
going to be aging. You can see it, you can
observe it, and you have to make that choice. That
(08:05):
decision I've made mine.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I love it. He's like, I've made my decision. I'm
out of here.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I've made my decision, and I want to want to
leave when you can still walk out the front door
and not be carried out the back door. Now that
may be a little bit of insight from him looking
at what happened with Joe Biden right where it's like
the guy to where he was, he's disgraced, he leaves office,
he's incompetent, he was embarrassment. But I also think it's
a little bit different than that. Dick Durbin realizes there's
(08:32):
a very good chance he could lose his seat after
being there for forty years in Congress, and so he
doesn't want to lose. He wants to walk out like
he's some sort of great winner, and he's celebrated when
he walks out. I think that's part of the reason
why he's doing this. Now, now you look at the
Democrats in this disaster that we're talking about, which is
the Democratic Party, and they're.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Talking about, well, their future is AOC.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
They still have to have some sort of plan, all right,
going to have some sort of agenda item or some
way to stop Donald Trump. Well we know what that is.
It is Law Fair two point zero. And I'm going
to explain that to you coming up right after this
in the Ben Ferguson Show. So what are the Democrats
(09:19):
gonna do now when they are in shambles. How do
they fight Donald Trump? That's the question you should be asking.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
As the elder.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Statesmen are leaving, you got to say, all right, well,
what's next. It's actually very simple. They are now relying
on judges, activists, woke radical judges to stop the Republicans
and specifically Donald Trump, or delay them in any capacity
(09:47):
with radical rulings. I'm going to give you three examples
of the last twenty four hours. All right, Donald Trump's
administration must facilitate the return of a set second man
they claim was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador.
Now I say they're saying this, who is they? It's
(10:08):
a federal judge. It is now deepening a standoff between
the courts and the White House over the president's immigration policy.
District Judge Stephanie Gallagher is a woman who says that
a twenty year old Venezuelan, along with quote multiple other migrants,
(10:29):
was protected by a twenty twenty four class action settlement
prohibiting the deportation migrants who arrived as unaccompany miners until
their asylum claims are fully adjudicated. Now the case comes
amid a quote, mounting political row over the wrongful deportation,
they claim of Gamar Obrega Garcia. That's that Salvadorian man
(10:52):
who was returned to his native country and still in
prison there. Now, the part about this story that I
still am trying to get my head around is the
fact that Albrego Garcia, who is a guy that was
a tain of Maryland, last month expelled El Salvador, along
with two hundred and thirty eight Venezuelans and twenty two
fellow Salvadorians who were deported shortly after Trump invoked a
(11:15):
wartime authority, which, by the way, the president has the
ability to do this. And so what a Democrats say,
We're gonna turn these gang members into our poster child.
We're gonna call him a Maryland dad, a Marylyn father,
a Marylynd husband, even though the guy his own wife
had a protective order against him.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
For goodness sakes.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Now, what's interesting about this play is the Vice President
Jady Vance was asked about it today. He was on
the tarmac about to get on his plane. You'll hear
that background noise. Listen to what Jadie Vance said about
Albrego Garcia in one of the best takedowns of the
narrative in the lie of the left and the Democratic
Party with the media are abregol.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Lu Garcia's wife has been very vocal about how she
doesn't think he's getting due process and she now also
fears for her state.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Did you have a message to her specifically, Well, I
don't have a message to his wife.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I mean, look, I just disagree with the idea that
he hasn't been offered due process. He had a couple
of immigration hearings, he had a valid deportation order. I
think this idea that somehow that we couldn't deport an
MS thirteen gang member, and he was an MS thirteen
gang member.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Is preposterous. And I think there's actually.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
A deeper issue going on, which is that you see
some radical judges at the district court level who are
trying to layer so much quote unquote process on top
of the immigration system that it makes it impossible to function.
We have for twenty million illegal aliens in the United
States of America. Are we not allowed to deport them?
Because if we're not allowed to deport them, then what
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these district courts are saying is fundamentally they reject the
will of the American people. As it was expressed in
November of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
We just reject that.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I believe the American people elected President Trump to do
many jobs, but perhaps the most important job was to
bring down the number of ELEC immigration in this country.
That's what he's trying to do. We're going to keep
on doing it.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You listen to the Vice president there and he's like,
we're not backing down. We know we're right, we know
we're in charge, we know we have the law on
our side, and we know that activists are going to
do everything they can to stop us. Like, we understand
all that. It doesn't mean that we're going to back
down for the American people who clearly voted for this
type of leadership in the elections that happened just several
(13:30):
months ago. There's also something else here that's really interesting.
It's the Democratic Party is now relying solely on law
fare to get Donald Trump's agenda stopped. They are going
to do everything they can to find their friends in
the court system, and many of them got their jobs
through Democrats to fight and to stop what Donald Trump
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is trying to do. I mentioned there was three different rulings,
So let's start with another one. A US judge blocked
quote aspects of Trump's agenda on voting, immigration, and DEI
in education. Quote as a number of rulings have come
in this afternoon with federal judges blocking several aspects of
Trump's agenda that he tried to enact via via vehicles
(14:16):
such as executive orders. Here's a round up the New
York Times rights of those developments.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
A judge block Donald Trump's efforts to add a proof
of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What a novel idea?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You actually have to show who you are before we
allow you to vote in twenty twenty five and twenty
twenty six, and moving forward like this is.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Not a radical idea.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It's also an idea that the majority of Americans say
they're now in favor of.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
They don't want their vote.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
To be canceled out by somebody now at change that
he is advocating for.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Of course, the left says, no, no, no, we need this loophole.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
We need to make sure that there's people that can
illegally vote that Democrats. By the way, the same people
that in local elections want illegal immigrants to be able
to vote, and gave out hundreds of thousands of cards
to illegal immigrants, so security numbers and millions of driver's
license to illegal immigrants to normalize them and get them
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one step closer to you guessed it, voting in our elections?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
What does Donald Trump say?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
He says, only American citizens should be allowed to vote
in our elections, and your vote shouldn't be canceled out
by an illegal vote, or someone who gets your absent
vote and votes on your behalf, or someone that lies
about who they are and goes in and votes on
your behalf. And we see this happen all the time.
We see it happen in every election that is nationwide.
(15:48):
Now is it enough to change an election? It doesn't matter.
I shouldn't have to worry that somebody is going to
take advantage of the system because it's so broken and
is going to vote on my behalf. If you've ever
talked to somebody where this has happened, and I've talked
to several people. In fact, I had friends the last
election that went in to vote and they're like, I'm sorry, sir,
(16:09):
you already requested an absentee valot and you've already voted
and it's like, no, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I'm here right now, I have not voted absentee.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And they're like, well, we're gonna have to do a
provisional to do research and we'll try to figure it out.
And basically, you know at that point, like your vote's
not going to count. And if that's happening to you,
imagine how many other people it's actually happening to. So
the President said, hey, I want to do this in
the court. An activist judge like, no, no, no, you can't.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Do that now.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
A federal judge also said that the Trump administration's attempt
to make federal funding to schools conditional on them eliminating
any DEI, which is diversity, equity inclusion policy, erodes quote
the fundamental principles that separate the United States from quote
totalitarian regimes. That is what another activist US District judge said,
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partially blocking the Department of Education from quote enforcing a
memo issued earlier this year that directs any institution that
receives federal funding to end discrimination on the basis of
race or face funding cuts.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
This is a victory, the left says, because they're good.
Now we can do DEI all the time, and Donald
Trump's gonna have to jump through a bunch of hoops
now to try to stop us.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
So this is again another quote big win for.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
The left in the court system, finding another radical judge
to stop what Donald Trump is doing. Now there's another
one here, and that is let's go back to the
judge that ordered Trump administration to quote make a good
faith request to the government of Salvador to facilitate the
return of the second man sent to a prison there
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back to the US, saying that his deportation quote violated
a court settlement. Another activist judge ordered the administration not
to deport other illegal immigrants they say claim that they claim.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Was covered by this settlement.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
The activist judge said the sentiment agreement that she approved
in November, i'm a half of thousands of migrants required
immigration authorities to process the asylum applicants by the twenty
year old Venezuelan man identified as Christian before deporting him.
The settlement, she said, applied to thousands of migrants who
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came to the US and accompanied his children and have
applied for asylum. Okay, so now I think it's very
clear and everybody should understand this that the Democratic Party
is foundering.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
They have no leaders. People are jumping ship.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
They're filled with Marxists and communists and socialists, and what
are they going to do now when they're so unpopular.
They're saying, all right, we'll just go to our friends
in the courts and we'll go rogue there to try
to stop the Trump agenda. This is the whole game plan.
This is all they have left. By the way, it's
a very powerful.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Thing they have. This is why elections matter.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
This is why judge ships matter, and this is why
everyone needs to be paying attention to all of these judges,
especially when we have elections that are coming up.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
This matters, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I want to move on to another issue, and if
you buy Nike clothes, I really want you to pay
attention to what I'm about to tell you because this
should make you very angry. We now have evidence that
Nike has played a role in transathlete research.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
This is shocking, and.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
The whistle is being blown by the tennis legend Martina Navtulova.
She's taking aim at Nike for trying to hide it's
apparent involvement in research programs concerning transgendered athletes. On Tuesday,
Nike refused to say whether it was funding transitor research
(20:04):
of any sort. Still, a story over the previous weekend
published by The New York Times seems to provide evidence
that Nike is financing at least one study of trans
athletes being conducted by Joanna Harper, a man who identifies
as a woman.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
On Tuesday, Navtulova said it was time to sound the
alarm and let people know exactly what your money is
going towards when you're buying Nike products. Senator Ted Cruz
and I talked about just how shocking this was, and
I want you to hear our conversation. All right, Senator,
I want to move to this other big issue, and
(20:45):
that deals with some really shocking news from a woman,
and if you don't know her background, I think it's
important to take a moment so people understand who Martina
Navatilova is. She is the most decorated woman in women's
teams history. The number of Grand Slams that she has
won is just incredible. She was one of the very
(21:05):
first athletes to ever come out as being gay. She
has been a huge advocate in her career for LGBTQ community.
But then she stood up to them on men and
women's sports and they started to attack her, and she said,
I'm not backing down. There is a difference between men
and women. It is wrong to allow men to compete
(21:28):
with women. She even lost, like she was kicked off
of boards and different things that happened in the in
the community that she was in. And she I think
she was shocked by the intolerance of all of these
different radical extremist groups that went after her because she
said there is a difference. Well, now she's not backing
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down again. She is blasting a major company, Nike, over
a shocking report that they were actually doing research in
in transathlete research at Nike, and she's like, what are
you doing.
Speaker 9 (22:06):
Well, let me say, first of all, you just said
a minute ago, Martina Naverertilovra. You said she won a
lot of majors. Nobody knows how many. I will say, Ben,
there's this thing called the Google that that you know,
you have a phone, you can type it in. You
actually just have to do Martina in and it comes
right up in me the stats, and right from the
(22:28):
Google it told me one of the most successful tennis
players of all time. She was ranked as the world
number one in women's singles for how many weeks? How
many weeks do you think you're the tennis player you
played tennis at all?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Miss? Oh, it's going to be hundreds. I know that,
three hundred and thirty two weeks. Bam, there you go.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
And she won one hundred and sixty seven top level
single titles, one hundred and seventy seven doubles titles and
including an Open era record of fifty nine major titles,
eighteen and singles, thirteen in women's doubles, ten and mixed doubles.
And how many Wimbledon singles titles do you think she won?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And Wimbledon singles titles? I know this. Hold on, it's
a trivia question for me. You can't use nine. It's nine. No, No,
it's nine. I'm pretty sure it's nine, am I right?
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Look at that, Sam Benjamin, Okay, I say you're you're
a tennis guy.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
It is nine.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
And I didn't know that, but that if Wikipedia is right,
then it is nine.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So so, and here's here's another tidbit for you. The
French Open's coming up, and and do you know me?
She won?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
There no idea she won two. I didn't read that
far in Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
No, no, so she won two there, but that was like
her hardest service to win on clay.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
She does not like clay, and it was cio clay.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
You should be impressed that I knew the French Open
was clay.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Exactly, and so she was the one that completed the
Grand Slam because she won the Australian Open. I want
to say three or four times, French Open twice, Wimbledon nine,
and I think she won the US Open. I want
to say it was four or five times. It was incredible.
But here's a tidbit about her, and this this should
impress everybody because when she was in the middle of
all this winning, she was stripped of her citizenship when
(24:09):
she was seventeen or eighteen and asked the United States
for political asylum. And so not only was she winning,
but she was in the middle of Chessclovakia when it happened.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
She was a chess citizen and all of this was
going on.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So you talk about a woman that was incredible and
focused and was able to pull all this off. It
tells you about how big of a leader she was.
And I think that is saying we should just remind
people of when you talk about her leading on this
issue and coming out and then yet saying it's wrong
for men to play in women's sports, like she's always
(24:46):
been a leader on these types of issues.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
Well, and listen, I will say, Martina and Evertslover, she's
not a conservative, she's not a person of the right,
but she is one of the greatest women athletes to
have ever lived. And she's shown real courage saying, look,
if men compete in women's sports, men have significant physiological advantages,
and it's not fair, it's not right. I mean, she recognized,
(25:09):
even as one of the greatest women to have ever played,
that if she was playing against Pete Sampras, if she
was playing against you know, any of the top male players,
that that it would not be fair and she would
not stand a chance. And that that's the simple reality.
How much faster so you played Division one tennis, how
(25:30):
much faster does does a male college player hit a
serve as compared to a top level female college player.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
When I was playing college, if you were a women
at one of the top women in college hitting a
big serve, you were probably one hundred to one hundred
and three four five miles an hour, and that would
be like less than one percent of women in college
at that time doing that men.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
So that's on the top level, top level, the fastest
serves women are hitting.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Now, how about how about.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I mean a lot of them were probably eighty to
eighty five. Eighty six miles an hour would probably been
the average then, and men the average was probably one
hundred and five to one hundred and ten was the average.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I mean, it's significant difference. And how about the top level,
the very well top.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Top So the fast serve I ever hit in my life,
I think was one. I want to say it was
one twenty five, one twenty six.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah. That's not a tennis ball, that's a bullet. Yeah,
I mean it did. I mean there's a huge difference.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You had that extra thirty miles on top of what
like where the women were the men?
Speaker 9 (26:32):
It's night and day, okay, And I'm going to say this,
I don't mean to be disrespectful. I mean, you were
a good college tennis player, but you weren't one of
the very top men in the country.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Correct, Yeah, no, yeah, one hundred percent. I mean the
guys that were hitting the big serves. I remember one
time practicing with Andy Roddick and Andy was hitting one
thirty seven, one forties. Wow, John Isner, buddy, Mine, he's
he I think he has the fastest serve on record.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
He was.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I want to say it was one forty seven. Uh,
if I remember correctly, I mean it's there's fifty percent more.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
One seven is fifty percent more than you said, Like
the top women college athletes would be serving about one
hundred or one hundred and two, correct. I mean that's
that's why Martina Nabergchelow has been so clear saying this
is wildly Unfairwell, what she did this week is she
called out Nike, and this is a bizarre story. It
is a story published in The New York Times that
(27:24):
laid out evidence that Nike is financing a study of
trans athletes and a study of trans athletes that that
was called out online on x by Women's sportswear company
executive Jennifer Say, who went on social media and said,
I'm still stunned by this. Nike is funding a study
(27:46):
that disfigured young boys to understand if they can be
physically impaired enough to compete with girls without significant quote
retained male advantage, why is a sneaker brand and doing
medical experiments on children? And Martina and Abertarlova retweeted that
(28:08):
she said, Joanna Harper is going too far as is Nike,
needless to say, and she calls out Nike, same company
that doctor Allison Felix for being pregnant. So she left
and formed her own company Safe. So thanks for nothing, Nike.
And I got to say, look, there are a lot
of issues where the left has completely left.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
The American people behind.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Sanctuary cities, embracing voter fraud, open borders, supporting illegal immigrants
and gang members, and wanting more gang members brought to
this country. All of those are extreme. But I don't
know that there is an issue that is more out
of the mainstream and yet more required by elected Democrats
(28:51):
then demanding that men compete against and in women's sports
and boys compete in girls sports.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
And it is.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
It was a major issue in twenty twenty four in
the election.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
President Trump used the issue.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
I used the issue in my reelection campaign, and I
got to say, Senate races across the country used the issue,
and the American people said enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
And what's interesting all right.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
So in my reelection, when I was running ads against
my opponent because he had voted repeatedly in favor of
men competing women's sports, the reporters thought, oh, well, Cruz
is competing to the crazy right wing kooks, and they
wrote articles like that, and I actually laughed at them
because we had done focus groups and in fact, we
(29:38):
had done focus groups of undecided moderate women in Houston
and Dallas and we tested like thirty different messages on them.
You know, the number one message with undecided moderate women
in Houston and Dallas, what was that? Boys and girls sports.
There you go, And the reporters didn't get it. They're like, oh,
(29:59):
these are crazy right wingers. I'm like, no, no, these
are soccer moms. These are soccer moms that are really
pissed off. And they don't want their daughter playing soccer
with some dude who's going to kick them and get
a concussion. They don't want their daughter playing volleyball with
some dude that's going to spike the ball on her.
They don't want you know, they watched the Olympics and
saw two guys beating the hell out of women boxers,
(30:23):
and they said enough is enough, and What is amazing
is even though the left is so far out of step,
Nike's continuing to double down and fund this extreme research.
And we had to vote a month and a half
ago in the Senate on stopping boys from competing in
girls sports. Do you know how many Democrats voted in
(30:45):
favor of protecting girls and women's sports.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I'm gonna guess they voted as a party, and none
of them said, we're going to be.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Saying today absolutely correct. Zero. And this was after the
November election.
Speaker 9 (30:55):
If you live in a blue state and you happen
to have a Democrat senator who pretends to be my honor,
which a lot of them, do, know that your senator,
likewise voted for boys to compete against your daughters, for
men to compete against women. And that's fundamentally unfair. And
if you don't believe me, listen to the great Martine
and Avachlova.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
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