The Wayne Dupree Podcast

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is getting into the holiday season by accusing Democrats of being racist and attempting to kill Christmas. "It really is astonishing that Bing Crosby is now contentious," Cruz remarked of the singer's song "White Christmas" on the newest episode of his podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. "It really is remarkable that Bing Crosby is now problematic," Cruz added regarding the song's lyrics. It's a White Christmas, so of course the dread of it is that it's white because freakin' snow is white! It has nothing to do with race! "It's when you freeze water and it condenses in the air, resulting in the formation of snowflakes," Cruz said. There is no blue, no pink, and no purple in this color. It's simply that it's a bright white color. "Who knew snow could have racist overtones?" you may wonder.

NBC News anchor Lester Holt challenged Vice President Kamala Harris on why she has not visited the U.S. southern border. Harris has been charged with leading the White House response to an increase in migration from Central America to the U.S. border with Mexico. In an interview with the vice president from Guatemala, where she said she is on the ground to address the “root causes of migration,” Holt asked why she has not visited the U.S. border itself to witness what is going on. “The question that has come up and you heard it here and you’ll hear it again I’m sure, is, ‘Why not visit the border? Why not see what Americans are seeing in this crisis?'” Holt asked.

Watch this video which will soften your heart. This is one of the scenes that for seconds touches the deepest part of your being. It will teach us to appreciate every moment we share with our pets, because we don't know if when we are not at home, they miss us as much as this cat, who loves its owner so much, as if it were the most important thing in his life. Really beautiful! Many believe that cats don't care about anything, and are only happy eating tuna and sleeping. But this beautiful cat shows us the opposite. He is a very sensitive cat, who has his own <a href="https://rumble.com/v5j0xj-a-cat-gets-excited-when-a-phone-rings.html" target="_blank">cell phone</a> to watch videos, and while he watches a sad scene where the owner goes away, he makes an expression that will break your heart into a thousand pieces. The tender kitty is so moved by the video, that he embraces his cell phone and puts on a face that makes us notice that he is really affected by the footage he saw. His face is so adorable, that surely you would also like to embrace and console him until his dead owner returns home. We can't stop watching this video, because the background music of the melodious sad piano notes perfectly set the reaction of this <a href="https://rumble.com/v3pqo3-cat-wont-leave-owners-grave.html" target="_blank">mourning cat</a>. As dramatic as it may seem, this cat will actually touch your heart. He has that ability to show his feelings, without saying a word. In this video the cat suffers disconsolately for its owner, putting on that adorable and compassionate face, could convince anyone to never separate from him. Nobody would leave a cat as beautiful as this one, it is a very affectionate mascot, and its reaction says a lot about it, and of the great heart and reasoning that it possesses. This kitten is very similar to the cat with boots, for its color, and because with its expressions they hypnotize us. It fills us with tenderness, although it could be that it is exaggerating a little bit, equally the feeling that it provokes us is real, and for that reason it deserves an Oscar, for being the most talented kitten at the time of interpreting sad scenes before the cameras. Cats often make us understand that they don't want us to bother them, and they act rude. But we well know that they are a ball of tenderness, and love us secretly, even if they have trouble accepting it. One day they're at your house scratching at you and making stubborn faces at you, and another day, when you go to the store for a moment, they're already crying for you; while they hug the phone looking at your picture, until you come back soon. Most cats have a complicated personality, they tend to have different types of humor, and they are a bit selective when it comes to showing such open affection for humans. Like a human, pets also have a hard time assimilating separation, whether it's for school, work, or just not being able to get home on time. Even if we think they won't notice, the truth is that they wait for us at home every day, and they have their own biological clock, which warns them that our love is late in coming. Maybe that saddens them, but that makes the reunion more special, because they will be twice as happy to see you again. They will jump over you with joy, that is a beautiful sensation that is worth enjoying; while we receive them. with open arms.

Gerald Rivera and Jeanine Pirro got into a heated shouting match on Thursday night, and it ended with the former leaving the latter speechless and sputtering by reciting inconvenient facts and realities about illegal immigration During a long segment on Hannity, the pair clashed over President Joe Biden’s rollback of many of his predecessor’s border policies, which have included stopping work on the border wall and ending the “remain in Mexico” asylum policy. Pirro blamed those reversals on an increase in undocumented immigrants and the admittance of asylum seekers, who, she claimed, could take jobs from Americans. “Don’t want to hear that we need workers Geraldo!” Pirro ranted. “We got 10 million, 17 million, however many million Americans are out of work. Biden invited those people in during the campaign.” When Rivera tried to break in to counter her claims, Pirro shouted him down.

FNC White House correspondent Peter Doocy quizzed Biden White House border coordinator Roberta Jackson on the recent border surge at a briefing on Wednesday. "Do you think it’s a coincidence that as soon as Trump and his immigration policy were on the way out and Biden’s stated policy was on the way in, this historic surge at the border started?" Doocy asked. "One of the things I think it's important as we've seen surges before," Jackson responded. "Surges tend to respond to hope and there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of pent-up demand. So I don't know what I would call that a coincidence but certainly I think that the idea that a more humane policy would be in place may have driven people to make that decision but perhaps, more importantly, it definitely drove smugglers to express disinformation, to spread disinformation about what was now possible." Doocy followed up and asked since the Biden strategy brought "hope" does that mean the border surge is viewed as "good" by the administration. "The change in administration and from your perspective is this surge good?" he asked. "I don't think that's what I said," Jackson said. "I think it's a reflection of how migrants deal at a particular time. I think what we are doing is making sure we respond to that hope for people who need protection area that we respond to that hope in a way that their cases can be adjudicated more quickly but I don't think anybody would say that coming to the United States in an irregular fashion is a good thing."

President Biden spoke at a Covid-19 briefing on Tuesday.

THUNBERG: "Well, you shouldn’t take that from me, I’m just a teenager, so I’m not — I don’t have the mandate to sort of give grades like that. My opinions on this doesn’t matter. You should rather look at the science and whether his policies are in line with perseverance and to stay below 1.5 or even 2 degrees Celsius, and then you can clearly see that, no, it’s not nearly enough in line with the science. That’s not me saying, that’s just black and white, looking at the facts."

On the Senate floor, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said that there were many Democrats grateful to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) for blocking Build Back Better.

At a press event on Thursday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) spoke about Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) being censured.

TERRELL: "I live in California. I know what is going on. Let me tell you right now, everyone needs to hear this, homelessness is a big business in California. The people in California have taxed themselves and real estate developers, construction, lobbyists, they have taken the billions and billions of dollars and have just priced these homeless camps into oblivion. It is a business. And I’ll tell you right now, in the state that is going to recall Gov. Newsom, I’m looking for a Republican candidate who’s going to tackle three issues: one, school choice; two, regulation; and the homeless situation is the third one. It's not just a homeless issue, it's a mental health issue, and people are being exploited at the risk of taxpayer dollars. It's horrible out here. Help, we need help."

TERRELL: “In my opinion, and to my buddy Ben, I think he threw his dad under the bus when he said, ‘My dad did this.’ But, look, the most powerful reason why he is a sexual harasser is because it took place in the workplace. That’s where you have the greatest amount of power. So it’s a very serious issue of sexual harassment at the workplace, him being the governor. The nursing home scandal, as Janice Dean has said and everyone has said, is the big story. And again, the left-wing media, the Democrats, they have a problem because both stories are major. I think, Carly, the endgame is simply this. This guy is going to ride out his term, but I think he is political poison. In the movie term, he’s box office poison. He is not going to be able to fundraise, he’s not going to be able to go anywhere without these stories following him for the rest of his political career, which will end next year.”

After clearing up Biden’s remarks, Psaki was asked “why doesn’t the president consider ratcheting up his rhetoric” in response to people in red states who refuse to follow the science of pandemic safety. “Why doesn’t he think about saying ‘folks, here’s the deal, if you don’t wear your mask, people are gonna die because of you,” Psaki was asked, and she recognized the attention-grabbing premise as “well noted.” “I will say, the president has been clear that if people wear masks for 100 days, 60,000 lives could be saved,” Psaki continued. “He also though does not believe that people of any state, or any American, should be hurt by the guidance of their leadership. So that’s why he’s spoken directly to the American people…about the impact of mask-wearing, of social distancing, and taking the vaccine when people can have access to it.”

At the top of his remarks to the NIH in Maryland today, President Biden joked that Dr. Anthony Fauci was actually the President.

LEMON: “Brianna, also, people say we haven’t heard from the other side. What’s the other side going to say? They're going to say, 'Of course we're not racist,' or whatever. But what did they do? Think about their actions. They did not stand up for their own because their own was married to a black woman, had a black child. They didn't listen to him inside the Royal Family, they let him go, they let him leave the country, they wouldn’t come to terms with what they wanted to do. So, listen, we have only heard from one side, but that one side at this point rings very true.”

This is the type of thing that no one would believe if it wasn't captured on camera. A 10-year-old dog named Titan hopped onto the family's golf cart, accidentally sat on the gas pedal and it took off into their truck. "We were away and then we came back and I said to my husband, 'Oh my god! Someone was in our yard and took our golf cart for a joy ride and smashed it into my truck'," said owner Mallory Kmet, before reviewing their security camera. Don't worry, Titan was okay and walked away injury-free from the ordeal.

PETER DOOCY, FOX NEWS: The last administration is gone. Tomorrow is 50 days of Biden, and there are migrants showing up wearing t-shirts that say, "Biden, please let us in." Candidate Biden is the one who said, "I would end this notion that for the first time in history people seeking asylum have to be in squalor on the other side of the river." Why doesn't he come out and say now is not the time? JEN PSAKI, WH: [President Biden] did an interview with Univision a week and a half ago where he conveyed a similar message, and we conveyed that at every opportunity that we have. I will say we as we noted, almost 50 days in. We are digging ourselves out of a broken and dismantled system. Roberta, Ambassador Jacobson, referenced this in her opening as well when it comes to engagement with countries, addressing the root causes. We could not start doing that until January 20 area there are programs, like the relaunching of the Central American minors program, which was ended by the prior administration in 2017, and that meant that that program, which would have allowed for people to apply from the region, we had to restart that program. We are working to fix the mass of the last couple of years and it's going to take some time, but this is clearly a priority for the president. We're looking at a range of options, which include the opening of additional facilities. It includes steps we can take to expedite the processing, it includes application and implementation of these CDC guidelines that just cannot allow for more children to be housed safely in these facilities. We're looking at every option possible to help address the challenges we are facing .

At a GOP press briefing last week, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) slammed the inclusion of a SALT tax provision in the Build Back Better bill.

At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. James Risch (R-ID) spoke about the Maduro regime.

Stacey Dash says she’s sorry for the divisive comments she made during her time as a political pundit. The 52-year-old actress issued the apology during an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV, insisting she regrets the role she played while working at Fox News. The conservative network hired Dash as an analyst/commentator in 2014, but fired her nearly three years later following a string of controversial statements. In 2015, she claimed then-president Barack Obama didn’t “give a shit” about terrorism. She also called for the elimination of Black History Month, BET, and the NAACP Image Awards; made transphobic comments during an Entertainment Tonight interview; and defended former president Donald Trump’s “very fine people” remarks in response to the deadly Charlottesville rally. “I’ve lived my life being angry, which is what I was on Fox News,” she told DailyMailTV. “I was the angry, conservative, Black woman. And at that time in my life it was who I was,’ she said. I realized in 2016 that anger is unsustainable and it will destroy you. I made a lot of mistakes because of that anger.”

PATRICK: “I’m just calling B.S. on that. They must have legalized marijuana in the White House and they’re all smoking it because these people are clueless. They have no idea.”

SCHUMER: “I was also surprised that he used the book 'Green Eggs and Ham' as he read to his daughters. Because anyone who knows that book knows that the moral of that book is: try something before you condemn it. You might actually like it! The main character in 'Green Eggs and Ham' resisted eating green eggs and ham. Maybe if he were a senator he’d speak on the floor for 21 hours. But then, when he tasted green eggs and ham, he actually liked them. Maybe, Senator Cruz, as the president’s health care bill goes into effect, you may actually find that you, and your constituents, actually like it.”

PRESSLEY: “Mr. Speaker, 16- and 17-year-olds, constituents of mine, are supporting their families. They are working not for enrichment or to build a resume, but because they have no choice. They are attending school full-time and taking care of loved ones in the midst of the COVID crisis. Young people are contributing both to the labor force and their local economies by paying taxes, and yet they are deprived of the opportunity to exercise their right to vote. Some have questioned the maturity of our youth. I don't. 16- and 17-year-olds today possess a wisdom and maturity defined by today's challenges, hardships and opportunities. They deserve and demand a government that is accountable to them, a government that values their voices and understands the depth and breadth of their lived experience. They are not a monolith, but they are nation builders, living through a global pandemic, confronting racial injustice and rebuilding our democracy. Now is the time for us to meet the moment and enfranchise 16- and 17-year-olds."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) held a press conference on Thursday to discuss abortion.

Honestly, he's so serious, I think I believe him.

The former Trump administration press secretary then argued that flight attendants are already dealing with stressful jobs, and do not need to be refereeing onboard fights and arguments. “They’re working hard, we are all stressed because of Covid,” she said. “Show a little grace to the flight attendants, to your fellow passengers, it will go a long way and have calm airways. We already can’t take the delays. We can’t take brawls in the sky on top of that.”