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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

Dunking on Newsom, Forbidden Words for Democrats & SCOTUS Victory for Trump Cancelling $783M in DEI Grants

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.94.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

1. Dunking on Gavin Newsom

  • Ted Cruz responds to a tweet by Newsom blaming Trump for rising electricity prices.
  • Cruz uses AI (Grok) to highlight that the states with the highest electricity rates are Democrat-led with strong renewable energy mandates.
  • He argues that liberal policies, not Trump, are responsible for high energy costs.
  • The discussion includes a critique of renewable energy mandates and infrastructure challenges in blue states.

2. Democrats’ “Forbidden Words”

  • The think tank Third Way released a memo listing 45 words/phrases Democrats should avoid, claiming they alienate everyday Americans.
  • Examples include: “privilege,” “birthing person,” “microaggression,” “cisgender,” “food insecurity,” and “environmental violence.”
  • Cruz and Ferguson mock the list, comparing it to George Carlin’s “seven dirty words” and argue that the problem isn’t just language but ideology.

3. SCOTUS Victory for Trump on DEI Grants

  • The Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in favor of the Trump administration, allowing it to cancel $783 million in NIH grants tied to DEI and gender ideology.
  • The ruling was based on jurisdictional grounds—plaintiffs filed in the wrong court.
  • Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the swing vote, siding with conservatives on the funding issue but not on reversing DEI guidance.
  • Cruz and Ferguson discuss the implications for future lawfare and judicial activism.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:05.4

Welcome, it is Vertical Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

0:09.1

And Senator, I got to say, every once in a while, you get a little feisty on Twitter.

0:13.4

And one of your tweets has now gone to 14 million people that have seen it, and a follow-up tweet is in the million plus range.

0:22.5

And it dealt with electricity.

0:24.4

I did not see this one coming.

0:25.7

I'm not going to lie.

0:27.3

Well, Gavin Newsom, it seems, has gotten a new Twitterer.

0:30.9

He's hired some staff that I'm sure are blue-haired transgender freaks.

0:36.8

But they've decided that way they're going to make Gavin the

0:39.7

hero of the left is to tweet in all caps and try to do everything they can to sound like Donald Trump.

0:45.5

And by the way, it is working in that left-wing cooks across the country are sending money to

0:51.4

Gavin Newsom. It's raising him a whole lot of money, and so he has gone,

0:54.8

he has gone crazy on Twitter, but he's getting dunked on badly. And we're going to talk about

1:00.9

one example where he's trying to blame high electricity prices on Donald Trump, and, well,

1:07.8

let's just say the facts are not backing him up. We're going to break that down for you.

1:11.5

We're also going to talk to you about a remarkable story, which is a major Democrat think tank,

1:16.2

has put out a list of forbidden words. A list of words they concluded that when Democrats say them,

1:22.6

they sound like out of touch freaks. Now, I got to say, I agree with this think tank, but I don't think

1:28.6

Democrats are going to follow this advice. It really is striking, though, to show just how out-of-touch

1:34.4

they are, that they have to be told what sort of words make you sound like a scolding schoolmarm

1:40.6

or a radical in a university faculty lounge. And finally, we're going to talk about a

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