Conservatives Are Not Happy with their Representation ｜ Fog City Midge (Maggie VandenBerghe)
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Joe Biden's first press conference in two months is a disaster, and Maggie Vandenberg is here to break it all down. She's here to talk about it, and to give her thoughts on what she thinks of it.
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Maggie Vandenberg is a reporter, host, and filmmaker.
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and you can find her on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube at FogCityMidge.
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And when I say she's heavily censored, I do not say that with any hyperbole.
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I'm great. Thank you for having me on the show.
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I've been tracking the posts you've been making about Joe Biden,
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his first press conference in, what, two months since he's been president,
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I don't know about you, but you did pull some great clips from there.
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And I really want to show a couple of them and get your reaction.
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The first one was where he only really called on a few reporters.
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Now, there's been some photos coming out where he's got these,
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he's got pictures of all the reporters, which number,
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whether that's the order where they're sitting, I don't know.
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But I want to get your reaction to some of the,
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Caitlin, and, uh, I think that, uh, I got one more question here.
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What's your overall takeaway from that riveting press conference, Maggie?
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Well, that was the best part there at the end when he walked off.
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The entire press conference was an utter disaster.
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I mean, honestly, it's, it's bizarre, but I think it's so crazy to me because this whole
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press conference was set up to kind of put people's minds at ease that Joe Biden, you
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know, can handle it, that he's not hiding from the media, that he doesn't have a, you
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know, some kind of cognitive decline, but this press conference actually did the opposite.
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It confirmed for so many people that this guy needs help.
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He's got a list of reporters with the name circled, the people he's supposed to call on
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and the people that he's not supposed to call on.
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And I also saw a report claiming that the White House actually had pre-approved the questions.
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So they knew who they were going to take questions from and they knew the questions in advance
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So, I mean, if this doesn't confirm that this guy is not up for the task, I don't know what's
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I mean, what I took away is that a lot of the reactions from the reporters, if this was
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I mean, one example is Caitlin Collins from CNN, where she just let him, shot her down
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Whereas we know for a fact, if that was Trump, she'd be like, Mr. President, Mr. President,
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Now, there was at least one decent question I saw, which is another thing you posted.
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Kamala says she doesn't know when she's going to the border, but at least Joe Biden was willing
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He didn't give any specifics either, but he was asked about it.
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Let's show that clip just so everybody knows what we're talking about also.
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Will you commit to allowing journalists to have access to the facilities that are overcrowded
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I will commit when my plan very shortly is underway.
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Just to be clear, how soon will that be, Mr. President?
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So what exactly are we hoping is going to happen here?
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We wouldn't get those border photos if it wasn't for Project Veritas.
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We could play some of those as B-roll here, Justin, just so we can react to those.
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There's no AOC going to the border midge to cry while she looks off into the distance.
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He even blamed Trump the other day for the current border policies.
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Did you see them blaming all this stuff on Trump?
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It's unbelievable because they're sitting here blaming Trump for this situation, whereas
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Trump was actually the one that cleaned up so much of this.
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And one of the first things Joe Biden did was reverse a lot of President Trump's executive
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orders surrounding how this crisis at the border is meant to be handled.
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And it's so funny because if the media had images like this, I mean, they would be utterly
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I mean, I think anyone who sees images like this is just appalled.
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You know, Joe Biden's policies are just encouraging a tremendous number of people to come across
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I think they're anticipating 2.5 million people.
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And so many of these are unaccompanied minors who now are, you know, we don't know whether
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these kids are being trafficked, where they're headed, where they're coming from.
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And it's shameful that the media is not taking this seriously and treating it, you know, with
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the same, I don't know, with the same consideration that they treated, you know, the situation
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I mean, I kind of have another point around that, but maybe we'll get to that later.
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Well, I wanted to ask you your opinion on what Biden mentioned the other day, I believe,
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was Trump ending the charity of $700 million, I think it's to El Salvador.
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And he's saying that the better way to deal with this is by doing everything in their own
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But obviously, before Trump, the payments that we're making to these Central American
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companies weren't stopping people from coming over.
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And obviously, Trump got these countries, Honduras, El Salvador, even more than that,
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obviously, Mexico, to stop allowing people to just cross through on their way to America.
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And now he's saying, let's just go back to the thing that wasn't working.
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Should there be no funding for these countries?
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Or should there be almost a billion dollars like there was before?
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Well, it seems like Trump's policy helped, right?
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If we don't pay these countries and ask them to help us out, then it seemed like it was
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What Trump had done before, I believe, is he was withholding money if they refused to
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take back people that were supposed to be deported back to that country.
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And now, Joe Biden wants to undo that and think that it's not going to affect things?
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It's just a big, hot mess down at our southern border, and it's really frightening to just
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Because we have people coming over, not just from South and Central America, but people
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coming over from Haiti, people coming over from the Middle East.
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And yeah, we don't know who these people are, and I think it's going to open up a world of
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I think we could finish the wall in a couple months, but they stopped funding for it.
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This is, and this is what open borders looks like.
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So, you know, Americans, they don't want these policies.
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They voted for President Trump, but, you know, this is what we get under Joe Biden.
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I think what we're seeing here, Midge, is that the plan was obviously, like, stop what
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Trump's doing, stop his policies, let it overflow a little bit, and then we'll show you how much
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better we are, how much more humane we are and everything.
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Their plan for people to not know the difference or not have paid attention, which to be honest
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is what it was pretty much before Trump, I would say probably like half the amount of
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people paid attention back then until everything got blown up into everything being political
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and everything being watched, which of course is good in its own sense in certain ways.
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But I think their plan of nobody's going to realize what the difference is kind of backfired.
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And you can kind of see that in their unwillingness to let people actually see the border.
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Now, in terms of Trump's policy, you had a really good video, I thought, where you were
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on War Room with Uncle Steve Bannon, as they call them, and you're talking about how people
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They're kind of upset with how Trump's speech went a couple of months ago, or maybe just less
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So I wanted to play that for everybody, because it really reflects on what I think is a global
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movement here of people sort of realizing that the honesty or the representation that
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they thought might have been in the party that was representing them before isn't actually
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So I want to play a part of this and get you to expand on it.
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Don't shoot the messenger, because I am just reporting what both, you know, I feel, but also
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But there are so many people that have lost faith in Donald Trump and who love Trumpism.
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They do love Trump, but they want to move forward and ahead in a new way.
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I thought the speech came back and had, and a thing that was grievance heavy and policy
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President Trump came in, I thought, and really took a time.
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Complaining about election integrity, but not doing anything for four years.
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This is a crowd that is very vaccine skeptical, especially of a vaccine that was rushed.
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And Trump previously had said, you know, if people want it, they can get it.
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Now he's telling everyone to go out and take it.
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You know, talking about the economy, but not talking about the millions of Americans, you
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know, middle-class Americans who lost everything last year, who lost their businesses.
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But yet he's sitting there talking about how great the economy is doing.
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Yes, because of COVID, but also because President Trump was one of the ones who started the
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They didn't like the 15 days to stop the spread?
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They look back now and they realize it was all a scam.
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First of all, shout out to Steve Bannon's hair.
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It's hard for me to pick up, pick out something that I don't agree with.
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People should go watch the full thing on Maggie's Instagram.
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Have you been getting blowback from any, let's say, establishment GOP types or maybe some
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people that don't like you saying this because you do have a very large platform?
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Certainly, I think there are so many people within the MAGA movement who they see Donald
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He's the guy that came in and really, you know, changed the Republican Party and he's
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So there's a lot of people that they don't like any kind of criticism of Trump.
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And so obviously with that, you're going to get some hate.
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But what's crazy is that video struck a chord with so many people.
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You know, that's a five minute video that I posted on my Instagram.
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Normally a five minute video is not going to get 100,000 views, but it's at almost
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100,000 views now and people, the comments are out of control and they're mostly positive.
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And I think so many people have this feeling and they had that kind of gut reaction about
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It felt, I mean, there was a lot to it that, I don't know, just didn't really sit right
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I think they wanted Trump to come out and say something new, but we're going back to kind
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of like the same old that we've been doing for the past four years.
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And people are disappointed and they feel, they feel disenfranchised because they are
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and they feel like they want strong leadership from their Republican representatives and they're
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So, you know, it's funny because I actually expected to get a lot more pushback than I
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And it was actually overwhelmingly positive or at least a lot of people in agreement or a
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lot of people that are just saying, hey, this is a conversation we need to have within
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And we're seeing a lot of the same stuff up here.
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I feel like, Maggie, people are losing faith in the conservative party.
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Even though across the board up here, a majority of Canadians want less immigration, but no party
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Is it the same feeling down there that people thought that it was going to be really a progression
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of Trumpism in the Republican Party and they're not exactly seeing that?
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Besides, of course, the same people that we would see earlier, the Gavin Newsom's and people
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Is it the same feeling down there that you're seeing?
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Well, look, I think just part of the problem is that, you know, Trump was different than other
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He kind of took common sense stuff that we've been wanting to get done in this country for
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a long time, and he made that the new platform.
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Whether it was a left or right issue, he kind of brought it to the forefront.
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And there were so many people that hated him for it.
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They hated him because he was anti-establishment and he was actually able to get things done
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that, you know, if you campaign on something four years out, hey, I'm going to fix this problem,
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Then you have something to still continue to campaign on.
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But Trump came in and he actually fixed a lot of problems.
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And, you know, there are these sort of Trump Republicans within the movement that people
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And then there's the regular Republicans and then there's the rhinos, right?
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And I think the average Republican is kind of weak, is kind of probably been there a long
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time, just wants to keep their seat, doesn't want to make waves.
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They don't want to be known as being, you know, someone that's going to rock the boat or mess
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up things for their, you know, big donors that want, you know, cheap immigration and cheap
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And so, yeah, they just continue to carry on with the status quo.
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And I think that's why so many people within the Republican Party were happy to throw Trump
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And I think that felt like a big betrayal to so many voters and so many supporters of
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President Trump in the conservative movement, because we wanted to see our leadership stand
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up for us, stand up for what we voted for and our values.
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And instead, they kicked our leader to the curb.
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So I think a lot of people feel left behind and a lot of people feel very angry and betrayed
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by the GOP because, you know, there's so many tough people out there.
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There's so many tough Americans who are out there.
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And yeah, they want to see their Republican conservative values represented.
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And they're not being represented and they're not being fought for.
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We allowed Joe Biden and the Democrats to, you know, basically take this from us, right?
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He's the best, most popular president of all time.
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And of course, you know, for YouTube out there and everyone.
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Yes, he's the unquestionable ruler of this universe.
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And this is a lot of what you're saying in that the extension, the extended version,
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we'll call it, of that post that people should go watch.
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And what I got from the speech is sort of the same thing.
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I couldn't get through the whole thing, to be completely honest, because after the first
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two minutes, after the, what's the word, the honeymoon feeling left, I was like, this
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is just sort of like a campaign speech that we've seen a hundred times before.
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He just said, oh, maybe I'll run again, essentially.
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So I think that's the reason you're speaking to is that it didn't seem like anything progressed.
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It's just like, basically, if he was running right now, it'd be like, vote for me for the
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same reasons, even though it doesn't seem like nothing's going to change.
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Now, something I wanted to ask you about that we didn't show, and I asked you if it was
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okay to talk about this so people don't hate me out there.
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You mentioned in that video that you lost a marriage over this.
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Do you want to, do you want to talk about that a little bit?
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I mean, I don't think it's that interesting, but I'll expand a little bit.
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You know, what I was getting, the point I was getting at in that video isn't to say,
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woe is me or anything, but to say like, there's a lot of people who came out of the closet,
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politically, so to speak, and who fought for Trump and who put their values on the line
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They lost friends, they lost family, they lost business, you know, myself included.
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And, you know, things, basically what happened in my own personal life is that, you know,
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I started to really question the media, question the establishment.
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And my, you know, my ex-husband was, you know, he was politically not involved.
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He had actually never voted in his entire life.
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And, you know, basically, if you have issues with someone and you don't respect their politics,
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it's going to cause your relationship to fracture.
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If you lose respect for the person that you are, you know, committed to,
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And it's really crazy to me that someone who, you know, I have had a lot of respect for
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and who is, you know, just, I thought he was politically open-minded, if not maybe conservative-leaning.
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But he read the New York Times every day, and he was convinced that Trump was a monster because the New York Times is,
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you know, according to him, the best, you know, most reputable newspaper on the planet.
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And it's unfortunate because I think that that sort of brainwashing happened to a lot of people
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where they sort of had their trusted institutions and they carried on trusting for them,
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not realizing that they had become complete propaganda outlets for the Democratic Party.
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And so, you know, if you're convinced that Donald Trump is a monster and he's an idiot and he's never going to win
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and anyone who supports him is a complete idiot, you know, where does that leave you in your personal life?
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And I think a lot of people can relate if there are, you know, partnerships or friendships
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that have been sort of fractured and damaged because of political differences,
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because it really comes down to how could you respect the person you're with
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if you truly believe that Donald Trump is Hitler?
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Like, if you truly believed that, then there's no way you can have respect for someone who votes for them.
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And I think that's sort of that all falls back to just how despicable the media in this country is
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and what they've done to people and what they've done.
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They've torn families apart and it's completely evil.
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And so when Donald Trump used to say things like, you know, the media is the enemy of the of the American people,
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I mean, because we see now the way that they handle Biden, the way that they've covered the election,
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the way that they, you know, cover Democrat scandals like Hunter Biden's laptop versus, you know,
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things that happen to conservative politicians or scandals that may arise.
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And, you know, it's sort of like, where does this leave us as a country?
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So, you know, it's really not a surprise what ended up happening with my marriage
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and when I know with a lot of friendships and other, you know, families that have been divided over politics.
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And in case you're wondering, I'll be starting my Dr. Phil like program a week from now.
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I actually think it would be a great show if somebody did something like that.
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Of course, you never see anything real on these talk shows, but that would be something amazing.
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Have a couple come in and sit down and actually hash out their political arguments.
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He could sit in and moderate and actually probably, you know, shed a lot of light on these issues for people
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because I think so many people are dealing with this.
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Now, I want to transition to, I mentioned off the top, your censorship.
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You might be the most censored out of anyone I know, anyone I follow, and it's probably
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because you don't have a huge company like Fox or something like that behind you or like
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Steven Crowder with Blaze where they can just say, expose this and say, hey, a lot of people
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are going to come after you online, your fans and such, if you don't correct this.
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Now, I want to pull up the screenshot that I made, Justin.
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This is from your Instagram reels, and you have a lot of followers there.
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There's two there that are about 150,000, like 137 and 148.
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And then the one on the furthest to the left goes down to 700, which to me is-
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But yeah, so basically on the screenshot, yeah, there were like reels, and some of them
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Like, I think one had a couple hundred thousand views, and then one had like four views.
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One's got 700 compared to the ones that are almost 150,000, which to me tells me that they
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actually literally hid it from people, not just they shadow banned it, literally did not
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Because statistically speaking, people are bound to just, oh, scroll by it, person I
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And assuming you made a story about it, I think I talked about this on another podcast,
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assuming you at least made one story about it, or one person shared it, at least a couple
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thousand people are going to see it, and they completely, completely hid it.
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You know, it's wild, and I kind of have deduced a lot of these things that Instagram does,
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and they're always changing the rules, the algorithms, sort of the censorship of the day.
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Like, you can do, you can look up a hashtag like, you know, Black Lives Matter, and you'll
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see hundreds of thousands of, you know, videos tagged, posts tagged on Instagram.
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But if you look up something like, like, All Lives Matter, you see how many you see with
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And sometimes they straight up just, like, silence them, where you type in, like, I heard, I
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think if you type in, like, White Lives Matter, you don't see anything.
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So it's like, why are certain posts being shadow banned?
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And they did this throughout the election as well.
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They would, like, censor what you could and couldn't search for, especially with coronavirus,
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you know, like, alternative treatments for it, you know, not just, like, the prescribed
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And it's crazy to just see how, you know, I remember right now there's been kind of,
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They put a giant, massive shadow ban on basically all conservative political accounts.
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And it was wild because everyone I know, for the most part, saw a large drop in their
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And I saw a drop, I think, in 96% of my engagement, which is crazy.
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So if your account's used to getting about, you know, a million views or impressions per
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week, and all of a sudden you're down to, like, you know, like, a few thousand, I mean,
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So all of a sudden you're just like, what am I supposed to do with this?
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And that's basically what I think they wanted to see happen.
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They want to ensure that conservatives are, you know, can't make a living off of their
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content, that they aren't reaching people, that no one's seeing it because they don't
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I think it's along the lines of wanting people to think, maybe in the generic public, to think
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that these views are so fringe that they barely even exist.
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So when they're criticizing them, they can see, like, oh, nobody talks about this.
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You can see they're not all, they're really not on these platforms.
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Luckily, there are a lot more platforms popping up.
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It's just a term of them getting popular over here.
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Rebel News having been demonetized now, which is a club that I know.
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We're moving towards Rumble and things seem to be hopefully picking up there as well as
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I wish Parler didn't go down for that month or so went down because I don't think they've
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gotten the traffic back that they had before that.
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Do you know anything about Trump's social media platform?
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I don't know anything, but he did say it's supposed to launch within the next few months.
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And I guarantee as soon as that happens, I just hope they're ready for a lot of traffic
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because I can, my guess is, is that they're going to have millions of people getting off
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of these other platforms and wanting to go there as soon as it's available because
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so many people are like, well, I'm going to keep my Facebook.
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It's still a good way of reaching people, but they kind of do so reluctantly.
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Like I have my, you know, I have my other accounts that haven't been suspended yet and
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I'm going to carry on posting there just because it is still the best way to reach a wide audience.
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But, you know, there's really not a great alternative that exists at this point.
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I love Parler, you know, when it had sort of its traction, but it's, it's just really hard
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to sort of build up and get the same amount of eyeballs that you have on these other
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I get to reach people on the left, in the middle, on the right, on these other platforms,
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So it's kind of like, I don't want to live in an echo chamber, but at the same time,
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I also want to feel like I can say what I really believe and not have a fear about being demonetized
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I'm sure just like me, you remember the feeling of when you were first starting out
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and having people see your stuff and your audience grow and you're like, oh, this is
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And then I don't think people understand how easy it is to see a difference when your things,
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when your content is demonetized or shadow banned, because when you're a person who that's
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sort of their life creating content, you, you notice these little differences when you're
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But I just wanted to write down here, make sure to get Midge banned on remaining social media.
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OK, OK, now that I got that, that's going to be the end of our YouTube segment on a
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So if you guys want to see the rest of the interview, go to rebelnewsplus.com or rebelnews.com
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And you can get the rest of the interview and the rest of the shows.
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We're going to talk about the state of Washington, D.C.
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It's still under some sort of crazy military lockdown.
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And we're going to ask Midge who she's going to vote for and who she likes in politics
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So rebelnewsplus.com for just $8 a month, you guys.
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And now we've moved to magical image behind the paywall, the sanctity and the safety of
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We can ask you about the fake moon, the supercomputer of Saturn and all that stuff.
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But what I want to ask you about is the state of D.C.
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And recently you posted a YouTube video from Washington showing all the fencing that's still
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Of course, it's allowed even though walls are evil.
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A concertina wired razor sharp and it's still the military presence is still there.
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Let's go ahead and play a clip from that video, Justin.
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I don't think a lot of people are showing what it still looks like in D.C.
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This is Maggie Vandenberg and today I am in Washington, D.C.
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It's about two months from the occupation here with the military presence, as well as the
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added additional security, fencing and razor wire surrounding the Capitol.
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Just so much razor wire and additional security and not just one layer of fencing.
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There's actually multiple layers of fencing which congressmen and staff members are required
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to go through various checkpoints in order to enter the Capitol and the buildings surrounding
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It does not feel American and it needs to come down.
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That guy was out there for two days and he just came up by himself.
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But so many people are afraid, you know, after the arrest following what happened on January
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I think so many people are afraid to go to their Capitol and air their grievances and
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You know, we don't live in a in a militarized police state.
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And even just the residents of Washington, D.C., most of whom are Democrats, they're very
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against the fencing in the military presence as well.
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They want to get back to, you know, living their life.
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And, you know, Nancy Pelosi received a, you know, a brief of, you know, what they were
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expecting or what the actual intel was that was sort of, you know, driving this this presence
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And my understanding is there's really nothing in that report because they they won't show
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So, you know, there's really not a reason for that to be up.
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You know, it's it's wild because the actual military, the National Guard who are there do
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not have any ammunition in their in their guns and their weaponry.
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So it just sort of begs the question, like, how are you actually defending this space?
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It's all just, you know, optics to send a particular narrative that we need to protect
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the space from these, you know, armed terrorist insurrectionists, you know, those horrible
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But in reality, they're not really doing much out there.
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Yeah, and I'd like to point out that when there is a church being set on fire, the president's
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church, there was the Secret Service tower set on fire, nightly riots, no fencing, no
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I could be wrong that there was a there were some National Guard there.
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There's obviously SWAT and everything, but it wasn't a national tragedy requiring the razor
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wire to be up for what we're almost we're more than two months past now.
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So there's maybe they're just somebody that they want to be paying.
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Maybe they just want to want to make them feel like they're doing some good.
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You mentioned in one of your videos that you're getting a lot of feedback from people who are
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saying, and I alluded to this earlier, that they won't vote for the Republican Party
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Can I ask you now, does that include you, Maggie?
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I'm certainly going to carry on voting Republican because I'm not about to vote third party or
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You know, but for all the Democrats out there, please carry on voting for the Green Party.
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But no, you know, it's funny, sort of my argument and a lot of what I've been trying to get people
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to understand is that what we have in Washington, D.C. really isn't a true second party.
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We don't really have a second party with like, you know, Republican, Democrat option.
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And you've got these people who have been in office for 30, 40 years, and they all work
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And you see people like Mitch McConnell, who's supposed to be the leader of the Republican
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And so you've got this guy who's the leader, but yet he's out there going to church with
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Joe Biden and saying like, oh, yeah, we need to get together and work on things.
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And I think at the local level, you still have wonderful people who are still true,
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But at the national level, you've just got so many swamp creatures.
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There are great people within the Republican Party.
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If anyone, I feel like she's kind of the future of the party.
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You've got great people like Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert.
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And even people that, you know, I fell for that I was like, oh, they're doing great stuff.
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You know, people like Lindsey Graham, who, you know, at the end of the day, he's swamp as
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And, you know, when Trump came out initially and said that he was going to create a new
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party, I felt like, yes, boom, this is the revolution that we need.
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He's built, you know, these incredible, you know, complexes and buildings and skyscrapers.
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And for him, I feel like he's actually could build something incredible, whereas normally
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you can't really get a third party off the ground, although I don't even like the term
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I try to think of it like a new party, an alternative to the uni party in D.C.
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And if he did something like this, I think he would get, I would think millions of people
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I think we'd pick up some, you know, populist Bernie bros.
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And certainly all the great people within the Republican Party, I think, would go over to
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But instead, I think that was also what I was kind of bummed out about with, you know,
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President Trump's speech at CPAC, is we see him instead come out and say like, hey, I
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feel like we should all just get behind the Republicans and I'm just going to campaign
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for them and we're going to primary out with a few bad people.
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It's like, it's all the people that certified a fraudulent election, in my opinion.
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So, yeah, that's kind of, that's my beef with the GOP.
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And I also have to clarify for people, I'm active in my local Republican Party.
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And I think that other people need to be as well.
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You need to become a precinct committee man or woman and you need to serve locally.
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You need to ensure that you are responsible for the nomination of really MAGA conservative
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candidates and not just establishment and not just rhinos.
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So I feel like the more great people that are in this sort of patriot populist uprising
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in America, we need to be involved at the grassroots level because that's the only way we're going
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to ensure that we are, you know, electing great candidates and not just carrying on with the
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I think the easiest times to tell when it's a uniparty, as you say, which, by the way,
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There hasn't been any talk about the lockdowns from the conservatives, nothing about civil rights,
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But the best way to see in the United States politics of who is who is when we start talking
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Unfortunately, all the time I like what he says.
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But when it comes to dropping bombs, he's certainly on on that side, the perpetual war
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Now, my last question to you, Mitch, is tell the people what's going on, what's coming
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up in the future for you, where they should find you right now.
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Well, I would say to your audience, please make sure you're following me on YouTube and
00:36:17.960
It's so hard to build up a following on Rumble.
00:36:20.820
I think it's just so new and you don't have that massive eyeballs that we have and that we
00:36:27.220
So if any of these platforms are going to take off, we're going to need people to make
00:36:30.280
sure that they're going out and they're following on these alternative platforms.
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So you can find me everywhere and also continue following me on all the regular places as well.
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But, you know, I'm just doing my best right now to try to stay afloat and continue to bring
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people to truth and try to cover these stories that no one's really covering, like what's
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happening at our border, what's happening in Washington, D.C.
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with the military occupation and what's happening within the MAGA movement itself and trying
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to make sure that, you know, that Republican leadership is actually listening to people
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and not just assuming that they're going to get our vote no matter what.
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They actually have to represent us and making sure that people stay honest about that.
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I think it's a very good way to absorb a lot of the stuff that happens and the way you
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Oh, and if they liked any of the clips that you played, those full videos are great.
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So I recommend people go look them up because, yeah, the full board, the, excuse me, the full
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video from the Capitol and also the longer interview with Steve Bannon were both excellent videos.
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They're on all my social media and my YouTube and Rumble.
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Yeah, I think some people might get a little bit of a different opinion of Steve Bannon when
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So, again, thank you and I'll talk to you soon, okay?