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Chris Rufo
Christopher F. Rufo is a conservative activist and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor of City Journal, and a trustee of New College of Florida known for leading the fight against critical race theory and DEI.
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Sep 7, 2026
Ep. 2501 - The Looming Economic Disaster, Explained
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Chris RufoGUEST
So what we did is the federal government under the Trump administration released all Medicaid data for a certain number of years, and we used AI tools to find outliers.
Chris RufoGUEST
So businesses that had irregular patterns, had the possibility of double billing, had huge ramp-ups in, in revenues.
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So for example, in this case with the Kirkova business, uh, it's a business called HeroCare.
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They went from something like $7,000 to $17 million, uh, in a very short timeframe.
Chris RufoGUEST
And then after we had that initial hit, what we did is we hit the ground, and so we went to every named business.
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Ben ShapiroHOST
And the reality is that when the government is this big and this intrusive and this rich, 'cause they have a bunch of taxpayer dollars in the coffers, or they're just bilking future taxpayers, of course it's gonna be corrupt.
Who Has the Most Time on Their Side: The U.S. or Iran?
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Chris RufoGUEST
I- that's true, but look, M- Mike Rogers is not gonna win, uh, is not gonna win the Black vote.
Chris RufoGUEST
I mean, the Black vote is gonna go Democrat because of the long-standing voting patterns that we've seen over the years.
The Truth with Lisa Boothe: California Fraud, DEI Spending & $100B Government Waste EXPOSED
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Lisa BootheHOST
You know, they seem to care about affordability, but they don't seem to care about their money being, you know, um, their money being, you know... politicians lighting their money on fire.
Chris RufoGUEST
fire.I think there's one kind of deep reason why that is the case, and California Democrats exploit it.
Chris RufoGUEST
And the reason is this: voters are committed to all of the associated feelings, impressions, symbols, and attitudes around being a good progressive or a good liberal or a good Democrat, and they're willing to turn a blind eye to an extremely large sum of malfeasance because they really truly want to believe that they are a good liberal.
Chris RufoGUEST
And if they were to actually question, uh, the ruling party of their state, uh, they would-- it would be like, you know, leaving your religion.
Chris RufoGUEST
Well, why do people, you know, stick with their religion if something, you know, X, Y, and Z happens? Well, those bonds are actually really strong, and so they've clung to that identity.
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And so even in the case of this bridge story, Gavin Newsom's comms team was feeling some heat for it, other kind of state Democrats were feeling heat for it.
Ep. 2145 - The NSA's Secret SEX CHATS?!
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Chris RufoGUEST
And just in the last few hours, I can tell you that I've had, uh, phone calls and signal messages from not only, uh, the NSA, but the CIA and the director of national intelligence staff.
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If you were at any private corporation, if you worked at Microsoft or you worked at Boeing or ExxonMobil, if you were doing this in the work chat, you would be packed up and gone within hours.
Ben ShapiroHOST
It's easy to go, "Well, he's bad apples who have gotten involved in various chats with their kinks and their anger at various conservatives." But there really is something else going on here, and that is that throughout our federal government When, when Joe Biden said that equity was going to dictate all policy throughout these federal agencies, he was not joking, and that is reflected in this kind of insanity at the staffing level.
Ep. 2139 - SHOCKING Tapes: Department of Education Pushes SEX WORK FOR CHILDREN
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Ben ShapiroHOST
Well, the babies are racist, and because the babies are racist, presumably the babies have to be hijacked into this beautiful educational or re-educational system as soon as humanly possible, taken out of the hands of their subtly racist parents to prevent white supremacy from taking over the nation or some such.
Chris RufoGUEST
Yeah, and, and my favorite part is that, uh, the beginning it says, "According to research." Uh, but you tr- if you actually take a look at the research, you dig into the footnotes, uh, it is like the most shockingly, or maybe not shockingly, shoddy, uh, garbage imaginable.
Chris RufoGUEST
And yet this idea that, you know, b- babies, uh, kind of come out of the womb with a Klan hood, uh, is just so farcical and, and ridiculous, and yet it's captured the minds of people with PhDs.
Chris RufoGUEST
So I think that is the perfect example of someone completely suspending their common sense, suspending any experience of children.
Ben ShapiroHOST
These are just symptomatic of something much deeper happening inside our educational systems, and it needs to be ripped out root and branch.