The EASIEST Questions in Politics | Nancy Mace

[00:00] Good evening. I'm Congresswoman Nancy Mace, and you're just now tuning into the Get Maced podcast. And if you're not following, please subscribe now. We are so very, very, very close to hitting 70,000 subscribers on YouTube, and I would like you to be the very next one. Tonight's episode is all about questions in politics and the people who can't answer them. And every question we're going to go over tonight has a yes or no answer. So keep count tonight. In full disclosure, I am a congresswoman. I'm currently, I have three months left as a sitting house member in the House of Representatives. So I'm a politician. I've dodged a yes or no question a time or two myself. I know something about this. And at the end, we're going to talk about how to discuss the Iran war, since it's been all over the news this week, since Iran doesn't want to talk about it. We're not going to be reading it until after the election. And well, we're going to talk about it in plain English and why we want it to end and end now.

[01:05] So two people want to be the future Democrat leader. There are two people that want to be the future of the Democrat Party. One of them held a roundtable for moms this week, and that would be Kamala Harris. Make sure you say her name the right way. She held a mom's roundtable, but couldn't say the word mom.

[01:26] And the other one is Kamala Harris. She held a roundtable for moms this week, and that would be the future of the Democrat Party. And the other one wants to put Chuck Schumer in a dunce cap. We'll start with the easy one. First, Kamala Harris.

[01:34] Kamala Harris is back on the campaign trail. Imagine that failed presidential candidate, Kamala Harris. She was in Michigan this week, then she's headed to Nebraska and Georgia thinking about 2028. They all are Pete Buttigieg is on the campaign trail. Gavin Newsom is on the campaign trail. Gavin says he's not going to run for the run if Kamala runs. Now, I don't, I don't believe one word of that. I think Gavin is running. No matter what, I do think Gavin and Kamala split the votes are both from California. But that's another conversation for another podcast. But Kamala was in Detroit this week, and she held a roundtable with black women, black moms, black mothers, on black maternal health, since they say they're all going to die.

[02:24] And she was with Al, Abdul Al Sayed, the Democrat. And she was with the Democrat nominee for the US Senate, the guy that hangs out with Hassan Parker, who is the guy that thinks that America deserved 9-11. Hassan Parker also this week said he wants a cultural revolution in the Democrat Party. That would be more like Mao out of China, China Communist Party where millions of people died. We'll talk about that tonight. Roll the clip. More black women are going to die. And we have to say that so plainly. And I believe you bring more than the talk and more than the promise. And that's what the people of Michigan are going to do. Again, need from you, from our leaders. That's what black women and black birthing people need in order to move themselves forward, their families forward, their communities forward, the state forward in this country forward. We're talking about the first female vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris. And they're talking about black birthing people. And Kamala just sits there and nods her head like all of this is normal.

[03:26] She's the first female adult human female vice president. She sits there and says nothing. This is what I don't get about the feminist movement. Women fought for hundreds of years, for generations to hold jobs, leave the house, be able to stay home and have kids, be able to go to work, have the right to vote, which we got just over 100 years ago. And we can't even define the word woman. I mean, you and I can because we're normal people. But the left, the Democrat Party can't even define woman. And here you have the first female vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris. It just sits there nodding her head to black birthing people. It's so disrespectful to black people, so disrespectful to mothers, it's disrespectful to women. And the feminists just sit there and nod their heads.

[04:12] It's wrong. But the dictionary definition, if you go look it up, pull out your Merriam's Webster dictionary, there's three words. It says adult, human, female. That's how it defines woman in the dictionary. That's what we are. If you have ovaries, you're a woman. If you have a uterus, you're a woman. If you have a uterus, you're a woman. If you have a cervix, you're a woman. If you don't have any of those things, you're not a woman. Doesn't matter how much makeup you put on. We're not birthing people. We have children. This one should be easy for the first woman, female vice president, adult, human, female. And full disclosure, I was the first female graduate of the Citadel Corps of Cadets back in 1999. I wore a skirt at graduation because I wanted to remind people that I was a real bona fide woman crossing that stage in a skirt and all. And nobody had any trouble figuring out I was a woman when I was in school. This trans thing was not a thing. Men pertaining to women, to be women, that was not a thing. Men were not trying to invade our bathrooms back then or our locker rooms or our showers. None of this nonsense was happening.

[05:15] Crossdressers existed, but those were for the dark corners of some dark street in some dark alley across town. I'm a mom and nobody in the delivery room called me birthing person. I'm a mom and nobody in the delivery room called me person. White birthing person. No one ever said that. They called me other names, other things in the delivery room. Maybe crazy because I didn't have painkillers. I had no epidural when I had my kids. I had them naturally.

[05:41] But she was the first woman vice president, a mom herself. And so she should, Kamala should be able to say mother and she just can't bring herself to do that. And the 2024 race, that's what stuck with her. The ad that took down Kamala Harris, and the 2024 presidential election was an ad that said Kamala is for they, them, and President Trump is for you. That's the ad that took down Kamala Harris. And there was a political consultant, Democrat strategist that said if she runs again in the 2028 cycle, she has to say, quote, I've rethought some things. She's got to get back to normal on women's issues if she wants to be the president. President of the United States. And Tuesday was Kamala was in a room full of moms.

[06:33] She didn't rethink anything. She couldn't rethink anything. There were no thoughts. She had an opportunity to rethink it and she chose not to. She had the chance to do it on camera. And Kamala Harris asked, and this isn't about being mean to anyone. I was called a bully this week. I'm not a bully. I'm just a woman standing up for women's rights. The men who can't protect women, are the bullies. Calling a woman standing up for women's rights makes you the bully. And I'm talking to you, the reporter at Reason Magazine, calling me a bully because I pointed out that Congressman Sarah McBride, whose real name is Tim McBride, he was born Tim McBride, he cosplays as a woman. He dresses as a woman. He has long hair, wears makeup, and thinks he's a woman. And I'm just going to blanket diagnose everyone. Every man who thinks he's a woman has a mental issue. They've got mental illness. There used to be hospitals for this. And instead, he's lauded as a feminist hero or something.

[07:34] I just simply pointed out that he was a man.

[07:38] There's nothing that makes any woman a bully by pointing out she is actually a he. It's not bullying to use he, him for a male.

[07:55] You said to use pronouns and we're using the proper pronouns, the conservatives on the right. So,

[08:02] ladies, don't allow bullies on the left to bully you into submission, to bully you into silence, simply for standing up for your rights. Push back.

[08:13] They're the bullies, not you. You're standing up for your kids, your daughters, your granddaughters, yourself. Don't allow these men, mentally ill men, to invade our spaces. They're for us. So, adults can live their lives. I've argued, and I've gotten in trouble for this with the right, that it's a First Amendment right to dress however you want. It's a first amendment right to dress however you want. It's a first amendment right to dress however you want. Tim McBride can put on a dress. He can put on makeup. He can wear high heels to work. I don't really care, but that doesn't make him a woman. That doesn't make him, give him the ability to invade our spaces, come into our bathroom or our locker room or our sports. That's not what that does. He's just a cross-dresser. He's just mistaken.

[08:52] So, I'm not being mean. Pointing out the truth, pointing out science, pointing out biology, pointing out common sense isn't being mean. It's being real. And when we lose sight of that, that's when bad things happen. So, ladies, be louder.

[09:07] I write about women's safety laws. I write legislation to protect women and girls and women's sports. And my whole thing is that you can't protect women if you don't know what they are. You can't protect women if you can't define them. How do you explain you're for women and protecting their rights if you can't explain who they are, if you can't define one? So, on Tuesday, Kamala was in Michigan campaigning. She was with Senate candidate Abdul Al-Sayed, a jihad-adjacent Democrat-nominated Senate candidate who doesn't think he's a socialist but running on socialist policies and socialist ideology. He hangs out with some interesting people. Al-Sayed did a rally with a streamer named Hassan Piker. And then he backed away from him. Piker said Hassan asked him to stump for him. And then Al-Sayed said, well, that was a mistake. Weeks out from a general election, Abdul finds the courage to say campaigning with Hassan Piker was a mistake.

[10:14] Now, in 2024, after Harris, his own deputy campaign manager, said we should have more Hassan Pikers, so let's meet Hassan Piker. He is a Democrat streamer. He has millions of fans.

[10:27] He said America deserved 9-11. He has the Twin Towers hanging up in a framed photo in his office.

[10:37] This is what he said this week. And I quote, he said, I want Chinese-style communism to happen inside the Democratic Party right now. I will throw you in prison, okay? I want to put you physically behind a prison. I want Chinese-style communism to happen inside of the Democratic Party right now, okay? I want to do cultural revolution shit when I see that, okay? We're doing a struggle session. I want to do cultural revolution shit, he said. Then he says he wants to have a struggle session with Chuck Schumer and throw tomatoes at him. Most of his fans have no idea what he's talking about. I want to do cultural revolution shit when I see that, okay? We're doing a struggle session. Chuck Schumer, get on the fucking cuck stage, okay? People can now throw their old tomatoes at Chuck Schumer.

[11:36] Get on the cuck stage now.

[11:39] Explain to us your counterculture. Revolutionary behavior right now, Chuck Schumer. They have no idea what he means by cultural revolution. So let's do a quick history. Let's do a quick history lesson. Cultural revolution that Hassan Piker is referencing sounds like it's a music festival. It's not. It's actually a period of time where tens of millions of Chinese people died. This was a time from 1966 to 1976. Mao was in charge. Mao's plan to fix the economy

[12:12] meant that he was going to starve and did tens of millions of people. His own party pushed him aside. So Mao turned the kids loose. Teenagers are called the Red Guards. First on their list were their own teachers. A crowd drags you on stage, dunce cap on your head, a sign around your neck. You bow, you confess. They scream at you a

[12:39] lot of times and then they beat you. In 1966, students said this to their vice principal at a girl's school in Beijing.

[12:49] And the vice principal died that day. Hundreds of thousands dead overall, maybe 2 million, maybe more. And that's when he's referencing that, when Hassan Piker says that, that's what he wants to do to Chuck Schumer. This is a dangerous guy because when you give these people ideas, they might actually do it. The man who runs China right now, his name is Xi Jinping. His dad got purged. Xi got sent to a farm as a teenager and lived in a cave. The dictator of China lived through the thing Hassan wants here. Xi Jinping lived through Mao in the 60s and 70s. And even China's Communist Party says Mao's tenure was an effing disaster.

[13:38] They put that in writing in 1981. They said it was terrible. Hassan Piker, Hassan Piker is to the left. Of the Chinese Communist Party. How does he still have a blue American passport? Why do we still let this guy in? Why do we let him stay here? Send him to China.

[14:01] I mean, I don't know who would take him quite honestly. I don't even think Egypt would take him. I bet Iran would. Iran would take Hassan Piker, probably with open arms.

[14:11] In America, the way that you beat Chuck Schumer isn't by beating him. Literally, beat him at the ballot box. Do it with votes. Not with fists. One won't answer the easiest question in politics. The other one wants China's worst decade. This is who Democrats are campaigning with. The guy who wants China's worst decade. So Al-Sayed was campaigning this week. Al-Sayed was on a college campus and an Iranian-American student walks up to the microphone to ask him a question.

[14:41] This Iranian-American says his family was hunted down by the IRGC. You don't know what the IRGC is. We're talking about Iran's Revolutionary Guard. We're talking about the terrorists, the actual terrorists in Iran. This is the IRGC. They have murdered tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners over the years. They stone women to death for the crime of showing their hair.

[15:13] If you speak out, you're dead. The IRGC will kill you.

[15:18] And the student comes up and says that the regime killed tens of thousands of protesters. And then

[15:26] the terror that we've experienced is insurmountable. And you can imagine our surprise as Persians, our sadness when we heard you, Abdul, a leaked audio tape of you saying that you didn't want to comment on Supreme Leader Khamenei's death and that people in Dearborn were sad when he died. And I just have a simple question, Abdul. He asked a question of Abdul Al-Sayed. Do you want to know what the question is? The question was, will you stand against the IRGC? This was a yes or no question. It was, it was that simple.

[16:05] And I will always stand, like I told you, I will always stand with movements for freedom and democracy. But again, I want to be careful because how many times were you taking down a path to war that we could not get ourselves out of? Trillions of dollars in losses. I don't know. an answer. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think I can give myself forward with aran races. Yes or no? Are you against the IRGC? Are you against a terrorist organization? Are you against a terrorist Iranian regime?

[16:30] That was the question. Simple question. Yes or no? You know what your answer would be. I know what my answer would be.

[16:38] Roll the tape. extra cpa fake So when it comes down to it, I will always stand for and with democratic movements, always. But I also don't believe that we were in the right to go to war, to topple the government of Iran. It was not our responsibility. This was offered to Donald Trump most nationalist responsibility to do. It is the responsibility of the people of Iran to decide what their leadership should look like. Al-Sayed said, I quote, I'm going to read it to you. He said, I will stand. I will always stand with movements for freedom and democracy. And then he said, quote, we should not be in the business of regime change. Then he was asked about the IRGC and he answered about America. He didn't give an answer. Will you push back? Will you decry the IRGC? The question was exactly, will you stand against the IRGC? That was the student's question. It was a yes or no question, Al-Sayed.

[17:34] Abdul Al-Sayed, instead of answering yes or no, he gave a TED talk to an Iranian American citizen who knows firsthand how bad the IRGC is. Abdul was ignorant. Abdul was too afraid of the mob, too afraid of the commies, too afraid of the jihadist adjacent democracy. So he asked the Democrats in his party to push back against a terrorist regime. So afterward, his campaign had to go clean it up. And they said, Abdul Al-Sayed condemns government's anti-speech violence.

[18:09] Murder is not anti-speech violence. We're talking about political assassinations, the assassinations of women for not wearing hijab or a burqa or a niqab or just for the crime of showing their hair. They're murdering women who speak out. They're murdering men, too. So he's against the IRGC. He's anti-free speech violence.

[18:30] That's how you describe a heckler at a comedy club, not a terrorist. The IRGC doesn't heckle. They just execute you. They just execute the political prisoners. Our own government has called the IRGC a terrorist organization since 2019. Abdul Al-Sayed couldn't bring himself to do the same. This is not rocket science, Abdul. This is actually very easy.

[18:53] But speaking of Iran and America. this war over and i want it over yesterday i i voted for the war powers resolution it came out of the house there were seven republicans seven of us that voted for the war powers resolution it goes to the senate the senate needs to vote on it before the next election and i said it this morning again over again we gotta end this war now and not after the election i oppose waiting until after the election to end the iranian war we need to end it now just be done with it and i can still say this in one breath and the irgc is still a terrorist organization you can be against the war and be against the irgc the two are not the same you you don't have to conflate the two

[19:43] and the student only asked abdul al-sayyed to say the second part so earlier this year in leaked audio abdul al-sayyed said he didn't want to comment on the death of iran's terrorist regime leader the ayatollah because there would be a lot of people in dearborn who would be upset about the death of the ayatollah why the are these people here why the are they in dearborn michigan why did we let them in and then why did we let them in and let them stay why why do we have this suicidal empathy in this country why is this okay this is going to be they chant death to america in michigan yeah they're right this is death to america allowing these people in eventually it will lead to all of our deaths so abdul al-sayyed is running to represent michigan in the u.s senate and that includes iranian americans whose families were murdered and imprisoned by the iranian regime gotta imagine there are quite a few iranian americans in michigan and this guy can't even say one bad word about a terrorist organization in iran these iranian americans many of whom their families were hunted by the irgc and abdul al-sayyed can't say one bad one one bad word about it this

[21:04] is the same guy abdul al-sayyed is the same guy that kamala harris was campaigning with on tuesday man it is just a complete dumpster fire in the in

[21:17] the democrat party right now abdul al-sayyed changed the subject on that iranian american student that iranian american student and his family is running to represent michigan in the iranian government and the iranian government is running to represent their family the irgc is running to represent their family will never get to change the subject so the question is still open abdul the irgc terrorist organization or not speaking of iran let's talk about how to end this war now

[21:41] we've been at war with iran for seven months gas is at about today right now 4.47 a gallon it's actually higher than that in south carolina for 87 unleaded the least least expensive one. Diesel's up to six and a half dollars plus these days.

[21:58] And about a fifth of the world's oil usually moves through one strip of water and it's mostly shut. The Strait of Hormuz right now is shut, mostly shut. I posted this morning I wanted the war to end now, not after the election. I don't want us to wait another day. And most, many of the comments, they were good questions in the comments. They asked, how do you win the war? A lot of people want to know, you know, can't you just take, can't you just do sanctions and leave? The problem with that theory, and in theory, it sounds good. And I agree with you. I wish we could just do sanctions and get the hell out of there. But the problem is that sanctions don't work. And now that we're in this thing, how the hell do we get out? And Tuesday at the UN, our envoys, we had Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in New York at the UN General Assembly, UNGA.

[22:47] How was that conversation, Mr. President?

[23:08] They spent three hours in talks with Iran's foreign minister. Qatar and Oman passed messages between the two groups. And the president said that it went very well. He also told Iran to make a deal or face total annihilation, full destruction. Both can be true. And that's what we call leverage in this country when you're negotiating. Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future? No hope of future greatness or generations. But I believe we'll make a deal right after the election.

[23:58] So far, 18 Americans have been killed, maybe more. 33.4 billion alone has been spent in the first four months of the war. I think it's significantly higher than that. And before the war, about 125 big ships a day went through the Strait of Hormuz.

[24:16] 125 giant tankers went through the Strait of Hormuz every single day.

[24:21] On Monday, we had a great deal of damage to the country. There were two ships that made it through the Strait of Hormuz. This is going to be cataclysmic.

[24:30] Every week that the Strait of Hormuz stays shut, you pay for it at the pump. You pay for it when you go to the grocery store.

[24:37] This is what Iran wants. Iran wants our Navy to stop blockading their ports. They want their money that's frozen back. It's about $24 billion in assets they're talking about. They want all of that money up front. And new this week, they want Yemen.

[24:56] Added to the deal. And that wasn't in the last bit in negotiation. They want Yemen. They're not getting Yemen. The Saudis are going to have to step up there in a big way.

[25:07] Negotiating with Iran is like buying a used car. You agree on a price, and then they up the price. They changed the goalposts. It's like a bad X, but worse, because they kill people. They're terrorists.

[25:21] We want the attacks on our troops and our bases to stop and our allies. Everything else is up for, you know, negotiation. The plan, I think you get several steps to a plan, an exit strategy, an off-ramp for the president in this thing. One, stop shooting. If Iran will stop shooting, then we can have a real 30-day ceasefire. And if Israel doesn't egg them on or fire back, I mean, they can fire back. If they're fired upon, they should fire back. But if Iran can stop shooting, a lot can get done in the next 30 days. Qatar and Oman are already carrying messages back and forth. Step two, take the meeting. The president should meet with Iran's president. Iran's president is in New York this week. I think meeting face-to-face would go a long way if we could do that with Iran. The president is the master negotiator. He's built a billion-dollar business, a billion-dollar empire, negotiating deals. I think he can negotiate our way out of this one.

[26:24] The next step, the money never touches Tehran. Tehran, should not get $24 billion cash up front for doing nothing. There's no incentive for them to behave if they get free cash. And so that money should sit with a third-party country. It could be Qatar. It could be Oman. I think I trust that Qatar is more than the Omanis. Oman right now is repurposing Iranian oil and saying it's theirs, trying to sell it, sell it off. There's a little bit of that going on in the Middle East. No one's talking about it. And the money should only pay for food and medicine only. And it should come out in four pieces. Give it an incentive. Iran can get the money for food and medicine only each time Iran keeps its word in the negotiation, in the deal. I think that is something that is doable at this point. There has to be an incentive.

[27:21] Inspectors on the nuclear sites before anything happens, for any money that goes out, I think that there should be inspectors on the nuclear sites, because Iran can never have a bomb. All right? We can argue whether they were weeks away, months away, years away. There's a valid argument about that. I can't say what I've been told in a skiff.

[27:39] I will tell you it's different from what other people in the administration have been told. Who's telling the truth there?

[27:47] But there's a tripwire. Iran closes the strait again. The blockade comes back and the money freezes the same day. So if Iran tries to close the strait of Hormuz, they don't get another dime. Not for food, not for medicine, for nothing. No more. And the last ceasefire fell apart in June.

[28:05] That's why you got to have tripwire. Yemen stays out of the deal.

[28:11] That should be totally off the table. In fact, if you want to get rough with them, you got to tell them that other neighboring countries can't sell their oil and market it as their own. That's what's going on. Some people in the world might be using Iranian oil and don't even know it. Might be funding them. Step seven,

[28:29] Obama's Iran deal never came to Congress. It was just done. And I think that if a deal came to Congress, and I don't know why we're not working 24-7 around the clock and helping shape a deal for the president in this with Congress not at the table, but have a vote on it and have it come to Congress as a treaty, as a real treaty. That would happen through the Senate. A deal Congress votes on is harder for the next president to abscond, to get away with or walk away from. Because the thing is, if you don't have a deal, you don't have a deal. If you don't have a deal, you don't have a deal. If you don't have a deal, you don't have a deal. And the thing that you don't want is if we have a Democrat president in 2028, and the high likelihood that it's going to happen is pretty good, based on where we are as a country right now, politically. But we don't want to give the next president, Republican or Democrat, a deal that they can easily walk away from. So if we do it in the sense that it's a treaty voted on through the Senate, I think you have a much easier time with it. I sit on armed services.

[29:24] I would vote on a deal like that. If it's a true incentive to keep, Iran financially motivated to do the right thing. But, you know, Israel can't get in the way either. And I'm a huge Israel fan. I was rescuing American citizens out of Israel, Jews out of Israel when the Iranian war broke out. I love Israel. I get this question a lot. How do we get out? Because I'm vehemently supportive of an exit strategy. So Iran was, Iran's been under sanctions for decades, and it kept building a nuclear bomb anyway. There was a deal struck in the JCPOA with Biden, excuse me, with Obama. And they kept building away anyway. And they were close to building out a nuclear bomb. They don't have it yet. And we don't want them to get it. If we leave before the ships move and the inspectors get in, we hand back the only leverage we ever had for nothing. So oil needs to start moving, inspectors need to be let in, and then we're out.

[30:24] Okay, that is the easiest next step. Let inspectors in, open up the ships. Let them leave. Let them go. Strait of Hormuz, America is out. And Iran can start getting some money for food and medical

[30:35] only. And then have different milestones that they have to hit to get the remainder of those funds for food and medical only dispersed and distributed by a third party country. Again, I'm saying Qatar would be a good one or Oman. Start the 30 day clock now. Start the ceasefire right away. Every week that we wait is another week that you pay more at the pump.

[30:58] Iran's president told the UN they'll fight until their last breath. And you better believe him when he says that. They have millions of troops, millions of soldiers who could dress up as troops and shoot a firearm. And man, they're begging for a ground war with us. And we don't need to get involved in that. So the offer gets worse every week. And now they want Yemen on the table. And so the offer from Iran gets worse every single week. Ending the war doesn't mean losing it.

[31:27] Ending the war can mean winning it. Get Iran to agree to those stipulations. It can be done. It means Iran never gets a bomb and oil starts moving again and the world is a happy place. And we need the world to be a peaceful place. Prove it first, get paid later. That's the Iran deal that should be happening. If Iran takes the deal, it's the best one you're going to see yet. I told you there would be questions that were yes or no in this episode tonight and to keep count.

[31:57] These are politicians we're talking about. And we're going to call their bluff tonight. The first question, is a woman an adult human female? The second question, was the cultural revolution bad? The third question, will you stand against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard regime, terrorist regime? And the fourth question was, should Iran open the strait before it gets its money back? Those were the four questions on the ballot tonight. And the answer is yes, yes, yes, and yes. I said that in less than four seconds. You did too. This isn't hard. And if you're running for any office and you don't know the answer to those four questions, you shouldn't be running for anything at all. It's been real. I love you. Subscribe to my podcast right now. Go click the subscribe button right on your screen.

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