Biden Woke Easter-No Jesus Allowed, plus CA $20 Minimum Wage Causes 1000s to Lose Their Jobs & NBC Loses Their Minds that Republicans Exist

really sad. We're also going to talk in this episode today about California's new twenty dollars minimum wage law, which sadly has had having exactly the predicted effect of causing thousands upon thousands of workers to lose their job. Fast food restaurants all across California are laying off workers because woke politicians do not understand basic supply and demand. And third, we're going to revisit what happened with Rond McDaniel NBC

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It's a day that I love on Sunday because the world stops and that doesn't happen very often, and Christians all over the world come together to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is a day when you see people come to church at staggering numbers, uh and come together as families. But you look at the White House and you go to White House dot gov, they had a very different message for Americans. In fact, they tried to hijack I would argue Easter altogether for another woke moment.

Transgender Day of Visibility. Sunday was Easter Sunday. Yeah, look, look, listen as a Christian that there is no more important day in the calendar Listen, Christmas is a wonderful celebration of Jesus' birth, but at the end of the day, the entirety of Christianity is about Jesus' crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter. Obviously not on those exact days, but those are the days we celebrate his

dying for our sins. And I got to say, for the White House to decide, you know, Easter is not really important. The only thing that matters to us is our politics, and nothing matters more than's transgender Day of Visibility like that that that's truly stunning.

don't believe that for a moment. This is me personally saying that I think this was a deliberate moved by this White House to spit in the face of Christians and to say to younger voters that maybe don't believe in God and the extremists on the Democratic side, hey, we are your party. I think this was deliberate for November because they're trying to shure up younger voters are saying they may stay home and not vote for Joe Biden. Yeah.

that it was not a gaff. It was not an off the cuff comment, that's the sort of thing Joe Biden might say off the cuff. It was written in her remarks, which means the political office at the White House signed off on it. And they are so woke that to them being condescending to Latinos who they want to call latinx. And by the way, anyone who uses the word LATINX, I promise you is not a Latino and not a Latina. They are a rich white liberal and to them it sounds perfectly perfectly normal to say,

you cute little Latinxes are as diverse as Tacos. I think it's the same sort of thing here. They put this out and and all of them, I actually think they're home celebrating transgender Day of Visibility. They're they're not not really aware it's Easter. I guess they know that there there are a lot of bunny rabbits around for some reason, but I don't know that they could tell you why.

Transgender Day of Visibility. The Biden Heri's administration honors the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirms our nation's commitment to forming him are more perfect union where all people are treated equally. That is what she put on X on Saturday. Do you think they just doubled down because they had no choice? It was like, all right, we look like idiots. We've just offitted a ton of Christians and people of faith this country who basically just

spit in their face. So this will be our way of saying, hey, we're kind of doing two things at once. Calm down.

And listen, I'll tell you what I was actually more okay the two things on this number one, I put out a statement as it did a lot of people pointing out how ridiculous this was, and I put it out on AX, and it was interesting all the lefties who responded to me. There were a bunch of them that said, weh, no, no, it just transgender Day. Of visibility happened to occur this Sunday. It's not our fault that Easter coincided with what is clearly this day is

transgender Day. And it was kind of like, Okay, I'm not sure about this holiday you're talking about, but Easter spin around a couple thousand and years. It's like they treat Easter like, who is this interloper that dare land in the midst of our celebration. But let me say something else that actually I found even more offensive, which is every year the White House has an Easter egg roll.

And the Easter egg Roll is a fun event, and you know, you have a lot of people who take their kids there and they have Easter eggs and that they're wooden and they're painted, they're really neat, and there's a contest for kids. Well, the Biden White House has a contest for kids to paint Easter eggs. And they had a flyer describing what the kids must do. And here's what the flyer for the content said. An Easter egg design submission quote must not include any questionable content,

religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements. So understand and by the way. This is on behalf of first Lady Jill Biden. Surprised you didn't call it the LATINX Easter egg roll. They invite people there and understand they want you to paint Easter eggs that, according to their dictate, have nothing to do with Easter. They literally prohibit, they say, any religious themes, symbols, or content on a celebration of Easter.

Is I listen? This White House puts out celebrations of Rashashan on Jan kupor, as they should on the Jewish holidays. Do they have a rule no Jewish symbols on the Jewish high holidays. They celebrate Ramadan. What are the odds you think on Ramadan? They say, nope, you cannot say anything Muslim on Ramadan, like Easter is a Christian holiday. And these bastards, I mean this, it really does. They're telling children when you celebrate Easter at the White House, it cannot actually be Easter.

one that I was thinking about that kids learn. In fact, my kids in school learned Luke twenty four six and seven this week. It was their memory verse. What if a kid wanted to put that on an egg? My kid would have thought of that, right, because this is part of the holiday, and they would have been I guess disqualified or not even be allowed in the Easter egg art contest of the White House because that would be religious texts, which would be I guess extremism in the eyes of the White House.

with all that. You shouldn't be promoting that or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age. So under their definition, anything that acknowledges Christianity presumably is promoting discrimination based on religion. If you quote Jesus as saying, I'm the way the truth in the life. No man comes to the Father but by me. That according to the White House rules. Nope, you're not allowed

to acknowledge it on Easter. Easter is the celebration. Why are we having a holiday? Do we just somehow think bunny rabbits lay eggs?

radical extremists. Christians, no one's trying to take Christ out of Christmas and the slippery and then you fast forward to this Easter. The White House is saying nothing religious on the Easter eggs. We're making, you know, Eastern the same as Transgender Visibility Day. And I'm sitting there going, see, I'm not crazy. I know what you're doing, and I'm

watching it and I'm calling you out on it. And you guys don't understand that we understand when we should be offended by what you're trying to do, which is have Christmas without Christ, have Easter without the Resurrection.

my Jewish friends when they're celebrating Jewish holidays. I am happy to wish them the best celebrating holidays that are important to their faith. But but but as a Christian, I celebrate Christmas, I celebrate Easter. And for the left, look that they're antagonistic to faith across the board. But there is a particular vitriol, hatred, antagonism, resentment, all of those are there to Christianity in particular, which is why

they literally want to erase Christ from Christmas. It's apparently about a fat guy in a sleigh, and they want to erase Christ from Easter. It's apparently about bunny rabbits and eggs.

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There are tons of warnings and data points and history that back up that when you mandate ridiculous wages, it ends up hurting the people that you claim you're helping the most. Specifically on big increases in minimum wage. Now, the federal government has a minimum wage, but states have gone to another level mandating higher wages. Fast forward to California. They have the highest unemployment rate of any state in America right now, and they've just gone and pushed their

twenty dollars minimum wage. When it comes to fast food workers, they did this and guess what happened over eight hundred For example, pizza delivery drivers got noticed that they were being laid off and they deliver for Pizza Hut because it is unsustainable to pay twenty dollars an hour to deliver pizzas, and yet Democrats are still cheering on this insanity.

Ex Caliber Pizza, one of his franchises, has plans to cut seventy three drivers workers, twenty percent of its workforce. And by the way, McDonald's, Chipotle, Jack in the Box and other change say, what they're going to do is raise the menu prices to offset the costs. By the way they're doing more so, California based El Poyo Loco has told investors. It is automating some of its salsa making to mitigate minimum wage rises. Jack in the Box

is testing friar robots and automatic drink dispensers. And understand, none of this is surprising. This is to be predicted. In California. There are roughly five hundred and fifty seven thousand fast food workers and they're about thirty thousand restaurants in California. This minimum wage increase is going to drive some of those restaurants out of business. Some of them will go broke. When they go broke, all of their employees will lose their jobs, both the minimum wage employees

and the higher ones, the managers. Everyone will lose their job when the restaurants go broke. The ones that don't go broke, we are seeing literally thousands upon thousands of people being fired. And by the way, the pizza places, what they're saying they're gonna do is they're going to use door Dash and Uber Eats. They're just gonna use third party apps, and they're they're firing all their drivers. So and it's interesting that that there was a quote.

There's an article in the Daily Mayor Male that quotes quotes one guy Michael o'heeda, twenty nine, who's a pizza Hunt driver in Ontario, California, and he said he received a notice from his pizza Hunt franchisee in December warming him that his last day would be in February. And here's his quote, Pizza Hutt was my career for nearly a decade, and with little to no notice, it was taken away. Well, there are consequences when you elect radical

democrats in California has done it across the board. They have every state wide elected officials a Democrat. They have super majorities in both houses of the legislature. And understand, over and over and over again, when you jack up the minimum wage, this is what happens. And one of the things I like to do when people say, well, we want a twenty dollars minimum wage that helps people, Okay, Well, if it helps people, why would you stop at twenty?

Why not fifty dollars an hour? Why not a hundred? Why not one thousand dollars an hour? Let's pass a law that everyone must be paid at least one thousand dollars an hour. Wouldn't that magically mean that money would rain into the hands of everyone isn't that how it works been.

And yet they still keep doing it. And this on top of the fact that they already had the highest unemployment rate of any state in America right now, this is only going to make it not just a little bit worse, a lot worse.

their first job is in a restaurant. And one of the things I do all the time, Ben when I'm at a town hall, I've got, you know, three four hundred people in a room, I'll ask them how many people in this room have ever worked at a restaurant. Inevitably, about half the hands in the room go up. Now, the argument lefties say is, well, you know, if you're making ten bucks an hour flipping burgers, you can't feed

a family of four on ten bucks an hour. And you know what, they're right, It's actually very hard to feed a family of four on ten bucks an hour. Here's the problem. Most people are not feeding a family of fourping burgers. What happens and what restaurants are all about is they're often the entry level job. So you get a lot of teenagers, You get a lot of sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen year old it's their first job, and they learn skills.

They learn to show up. They learned to show up on time that they learned to interact with customers, they learned to make change, they learned to work hard, they learned to be disciplined, all of the skills that enable them to get promoted. So very few people spend their entire career flipping burgers at ten bucks an hour. That's an entry level job. And by the way, if you do it and do a good job, you almost inevitably get promoted. So let me give a personal story from

my family background. When my dad came from Cuba, it was nineteen fifty seven and he came to Texas. He was eighteen. He had nothing, he was broke, and he couldn't speak English. So the very first job he got was washing dishes at a restaurant and he made fifty cents an hour. Now why did he get that job? Because he couldn't speak English and a lot of jobs. Most jobs in Texas at the time in nineteen fifty seven you had to speak English. You didn't have to

speak English to wash a dish. So that's what he could do with the skill set he had at that time. Now, I will point out that by the time that he and my mom had me, he wasn't making fifty cents an hour anymore. But his first job let him get started. And by the way, he was a freshman at ut that money at the time he paid his way through school. But what happened is very quickly thereafter he started learning English,

and when he learned English, she got promoted. His second job was at the same restaurant, and it was as a cook, and a second job, he made eighty cents an hour. Now he thought a cook was a much better job than a dishwasher, and it was an eighty cents an hour was a lot better than fifty cents an hour. His next job after that was as a teaching assistant at University at Texas, teaching undergrad's math, and his next job after that was as a computer programmer

at IBM. But he doesn't get those subsequent jobs without that first job washing dishes, and the left doesn't get that when you do this, the people who are being laid off, by the way, are predominantly low skilled, low income, and very young. The majority of people who California just laid off, the statistics tell us, are very likely to be Hispanic or African American, to be teenagers with limited skills, and this was their first job where they were getting skills.

And Democrats are pulling up the ladder and saying, you don't get to get skills. Instead, you should be unemployed. But guess what, we got a welfare check for you, and you can just stop working right now because we'll pay you as long as you vote Democrat.

Or is there gonna be a turning point do you think center where it gets so bad with the absurdity of twenty dollars an hour, twenty five an hour, whatever it is and the sustainability of it, that there's no other way but for people's eyes to be open. I just don't have a lot of confidence.

minimum wage law. Now they might have said, I want to help those poor people making fifty cent an hour, so I'm gonna mandate you cannot pay anyone less than two dollars an hour. You know what they would have done. They would have fired my father. Yeah, and they would have bought a dishwasher. That you have a trade off

do you use labor or do you use capital. Notice when I was going through in California that they're discussing stores that are that they're looking at automated salsa makers, that are looking at robotic French fry friars, that are looking at automated soft drink dispensers. Have you ever been to a restaurant and ordered an iPad or in a kiosk?

piece of metal zero dollars an hour. Now I've got some upfront capital, but once I put the iPad of the kioska, I don't have to pay them an hourly wage. And when you jack up the cost of labor, inevitably the result is people lose their jobs. And the people who lose it understand who democrats hurt. They hurt the most vulnerable. By the way, the same thing is true when Democrats did shutdowns during COVID when they shut schools down, the people who got hurt the most were low income kids.

They were African American kids, they were Hispanic kids. The data show we have the biggest learning gap since we have been recording learning results. And by the way, the racial gap grew more during the COVID lockdowns than in any period in recorded history. So understand, this is what democrats do. And by the way, if your parents were rich, guess what the school shut downs. They were inconvenient, but you could hire a tutor, you had resources. Your kids.

Rich kids didn't fall behind all that much during the lockdowns. Low income kids if they had a single mom with three four kids, for millions of them, they essentially didn't go to school for months and months and months on end. And again, this is what Democrat policies systematically do. They hurt the most vulnerable while at the same time they're sermonizing about how they want to help the most vulnerable.

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Use promo code Vertict You'll get twenty percent off your first order and you'll be hooked, just like I am drinking Blackout Coffee every single day. Finally, Senator, I want to ask you about saying that happened this last week, and it was a story that was I was even shocked by it. The former RNC chairwoman was hired by NBC News to become a commentator slash NBC News. She was hired, it came out, and what ended up happening was virtually every name that was a host of a show,

a big talent at NBC, including me. The press said, we're not going to work with her, she's a radical Trump extremist. January sixther We're not going to work with her, and they literally ripped her on air in a way that I didn't even think they would do, but they did it. And here's a montage of just how bad it was.

got his start? How was that as a staffer in nineteen ninety two for the presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat. So Chuck Todd was a Democrat staffer on a presidential campaign. Mind, you're not just in passing. But let's go back to Chuck Todd's predecessor, Tim Russert. Tim Russer the gold standard of Meet the Press, the gold standard of NBC News. Did you know what Tim Russer did before he went NBC.

to NBC News. Let's fast forward George Stephanopolis. Where did George Stephanopolis make his name as a senior press hack for the Clinton White House? He was a political staffer his entire life. By the way, he's the premier political commentator at ABC now. And let's not forget Jen Saki happily ensconced at MSNBC. She was, of course Joe Biden's

White House Press secretary. She stood up there and spin, baby spin, baby spin, and she got hired basically straight from the White House, where she continues to do the same job. She is still, as far as I'm concerned, the White House Press secretary. She's actually a much better press secretary than Kareem John Pierre. Why because Kring John Pierre is not very good at her job. All she does is lie. To Sak's credit, she actually rarely directly lied.

She just pivoted, she circled back, she spun, but she rarely made flat out, demonstrably provable falsehoods, whereas Krane John Pierre seems to do so on an almost daily basis. But the entirety of that, understand, the position of NBC is essentially, we cannot tolerate an actual Republican who works for us. And by the way, there were a few folks who got online and they said, no, no, no, that's

not true. That's not true. That's not true. Because Nicole Wallace is on MSNBC and she was a Republican staffer, and Joe Scarborough he was a Republican congressman. Well that's true, they were in a prior life Republicans, but both Nicole Wallace and Joe Scarboro voted for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. So the position of NBC News is we cannot actually

hire anybody who voted for Donald Trump. As long as you vote for Democrats, you could have been a Republican long in your distant life, but you must have abandoned half of the country and decided they're evil deplorables. Those are the only people we are willing to hire.

was NBC News that hired Ron McDaniel. And I'm going to make the case to you there is no difference between MSNBC and NBC. They are one and the same. NBC no longer pretends to be journalists. They are advocates. They are MSNBC. They are the left wing of the Democrat Party. There's a reason, by the way, in the last presidential cycle they were thrown out of moderating because

they're so hardcore and partisan. Now, I guess somebody in their corporate leader ship decided they wanted to at least have a nod of have somebody on the staff who had voted with half of the country. But let me ask you, Ben, so you actually have been a paid conservative at a left wing network at CNN, you were paid for a number of years. What was that like then, and give us your perspectives from having been in Rana's shoes, although at a different time.

much it even changed at CNN. They used to want when they when Jeff Zecker took over a Grand Debate, they wanted conservatives to have people that they thought were well representing them so that consertaives wouldn't you know, basically immediately skip over the channel one Stunnald Trump one in

sixteen Wills came off at CNN they hated him. They hated and they yelled and screamed and tried to turn you into bigot, racist homophobes NFOI everything they could and try to ruin your career when you were on because the couldn't yell at Trump, but they could yell at

you and you were supporting Trump or defending Trump. But in the last year that I was there, they hired me just to have my name on a piece of paper as it get out a free jail card when someone said you guys have no conservatives, and they would say no, no, no, no, no, look over here, we have Ben Ferguson. In my last year, I did two appearances

on CNN. Now that's absurd from a financial standpoint. If you were a financial person, why would you hire a guy, give him a salary and only have him come to work two days out of three hundred and sixty five days in a year. One of those two appearances was after the Hollywood Reporter did a story about me being benched, and then they put me on the next day on a Saturday, for four minutes, just to say no, see he's not benched. We just used him today, and then

never used me again, and with Ronald McDowell. I have to say with her, I think that's part of what they wanted. They wanted to go into this election cycle saying noo, we've got a token concern. This lady just ran the RNC. We see we're not biased. We've got her on the air.

how the Left is weaponized the legal system. I went on, and all the hosts of the view begin screaming at me, and they're like, you know, you Republicans are all election deniers, election deniers, and and they're used to everyone who agrees with them, so they think that that's just like a kill shot. And I said, oh, you mean like when when Hillary Clinton insisted that she won and that Donald

Trump's election was illegitimate. She said she didn't say that, so I had the quote and I read it out loud, or I said, do you mean when when Al Gore said that George W. Bush was illegitimately elected and the election was stolen from him? Or do you mean like when Stacy Abrams said that she was the governor of Georgia and that there was illegitimate or do you mean like when Joe Biden said George W. Bush was illegitimate elected. I just read quote after quote after quote. They'd never

heard any of them, by the way. What we later they had Chelsea Clinton on to say, my mother never said that quote that she's on TV saying, and that I read verbatim. But then the next exchange with Whoopy was really interesting because after saying election denial, which is

their sort of first response. Then she said, and you guys are all a bunch of angry, rioting criminals, to which I laughed and said, really, you mean what about the entire year of Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots that burned American cities across this country for a year, And Whoopy looks at me, completely confused, and she says, I don't know what an antifa riot is. I have

no idea what that is. And it was they're in such an echo chamber they will only talk to people who agree to them, and sadly they're a couple of million, mostly women watching the view who are just listening to partisan propaganda. And then there were there are no Antifa riots. That doesn't exist. And by the way, for the last book Unwoke, the View said Nope, we don't want you. And that didn't go well for us at all. And Jensaki, who I've never been on her show, you would think

she might be interested. And by the way, I'm perfectly happy her to come attack me and scream and be a crazy nut if she wanted to. I mean, I was not expecting a love fest, but their view was sorry, no, we don't want you on it all. We have one view and we will never ever ever have anything to the contrary. That is MSNBC and apparently that's NBC two.