Episode 4995: Suing Colorado For The Freedom Of Tina Peters; Send In The National Guard To Savannah
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with the late civil rights hero, Tim Snyder, to discuss his life and the lessons he taught us about standing up to authoritarian regimes. We talk about his advice on how to deal with a tyrannical government, how to speak out, and what to do about it.
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do not anticipate what a dictator wants and accede to it in advance.
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Whenever you see those words, do not obey in advance,
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you are seeing Tim Snyder's ideas at work in the world,
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and that admonition has wormed its way into all of our consciences, right?
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One of the other things I'm going to talk about with Tim tonight
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is another one of his lessons that sometimes comes to me
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in the middle of the night, which is his lesson 18,
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and that is be calm when the unthinkable arrives.
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Tim Snyder somehow got that essential idea down to six words.
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and it lives in the world as unforgettable guidance
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for anybody who does have a tyrannical nightmare
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Do you think that our national reaction should be
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to those prosecutions and relatedly to the administration's efforts
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to characterize all these overwhelmingly nonviolent protests against them
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as if they're all riots and they're all constructed nefarious, criminal, dangerous things?
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I mean, we should all know, and I'm sure we all do know,
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that this is how authoritarian regimes react to any kind of physical opposition.
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You get characterized as terrorists and criminals and foreigners and so on.
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and we should help make sure that in sensitive issues like this,
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the media don't just repeat what the leaders say,
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because when they repeat it, they normalize it.
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A second thing is to make sure that we have the positive language on our side,
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that we recollect that not only in this country,
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but pretty much everywhere there isn't progress towards these things
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that we like to call freedom and justice and democracy without some friction.
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Like, from every moment, your preferred moment in American history,
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whatever it is, the women's suffrage movement, the civil rights movement,
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The third thing is we have to help people be heroes.
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but the people who make them heroes are the ones who donate to their legal defense,
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the ones who celebrate those little acts of courage.
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That is on us to do, because you mentioned a lot, a number of people,
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but there are more people who could be mentioned, right?
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and I'm just talking to all you lawyers out there,
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because this is Chicago, and like a lot of you are going to be lawyers,
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We can't just keep waiting for them to sue us and prosecute us.
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We have to find ways to file civil suits against them,
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which are going to be more plausible than their suits against us,
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and get them on the back foot and consume their resources
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and force the press to cover our suits against them.
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We're winning a lot of cases defensively, and that's great,
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but I think we should be going on the offense as well,
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and how it sort of took off from a small-scale idea
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At the beginning, I just wanted to inform my community
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And it's to inform the community that ICE agents are around.
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If you are undocumented, lock your doors, lock your gates,
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And then we talked to our brothers and sisters over in L.A.,
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and they said, Baltazar, when they came, they came like savages.
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And they came through our schools, through our parks, and our hospitals,
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and they turned off the cell phone towers with a stingray.
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And then I said, well, you can't turn off the whistle.
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We had a caravan of 12 people, and we went around to the temp agencies,
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and we gave the employers or the employees know your right cards.
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We said, in case there's a raid at your job site, you know,
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don't say nothing, don't sign nothing, and ask for an attorney.
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Then we went to our day laborers that stand out at Home Depot
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and also educated them on knowing their rights.
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And then we had workshops after mass at the schools,
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and we prepared people to know about their rights,
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not to open the door without a judicial warrant signed by a judge.
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And we showed them all the tricks that they used.
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And even Tom Holman said Chicago was a very difficult city.
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And, you know, I have to say, we have to educate our community
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If you're educated, they're not going to do much to you.
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But if you're not educated, they would take advantage.
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And that's why so many people have out of support themselves
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because they didn't know that they have rights.
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And right now, we're educating our community about the Constitution.
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And we have to defend the Constitution from foreign and domestic terrorism.
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Will President Trump's pardon actually free Tina Peters?
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Our system of government gives states authority
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This president doesn't respect the rule of law,
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how we operate our judicial system here in Colorado.
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I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
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And where do people like that go to share the big line?
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I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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It's Saturday, 13th, December, Year of War, 2025.
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but CBS, who broadcasted a game and does a great job,
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the midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.
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You saw Rachel Maddow's in Chicago, the Mocking Us.
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We've got Todd Woods is going to join us momentarily
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So you've got the top two across the country that
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And that means that you're going to end up with
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rates higher and the dollar not as defended as it
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In the Fed's models, they don't defend the dollar.
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And I think the president should forcefully be asking
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people, how are we going to have the massive reforms?
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He spent the time, remember, on the Federal Reserve
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buildings, talking about the $3 billion that are being
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But then there hasn't been the follow through to say that
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What, what, what, just give me your, you're someone he
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listens to, your two or three things, if you're talking
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President, I think in regards to the Fed and the
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structure, structural issues, what do you recommend in
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What, what, because the globalists are circling,
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It's a, the Guardian's got a great story about, about the
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national security strategy, about how it came about.
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And there's some, some expert from like C, you know,
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the Center for Strategic Institute studies that says they're
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showing that MAGA is truly a revolutionary movement.
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When we talk about Europe and the, and the collapse of
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civilization there and our support of these resistance
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movements from President Trump and his administration, the,
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the, the money side of this and the capital market side is
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actually much more important than that because the kind of
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For him to be aware that under the surface, people are working
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That's true in Europe, which you were talking about, you know,
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they're, they're continuing their regulations on climate.
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companies try to, to, to be, to have free markets within Europe,
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And on the Federal Reserve side that you, you've got this sweeping
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initiative by the Fed to protect the votes on the, on, of the,
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on the board so that they can set the interest rates against growth,
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He should be requesting and, and asking people, why are we doing this?
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Why don't we have supply side price rule monetary policy installed in the
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Why would you go and reappoint all of the people, uh, at the, at these, uh,
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at the regional Feds, the voting members of the, uh, board of governors?
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You're putting up stuff on, uh, particularly on Twitter all the time.
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That is not just insightful, but it comes in a little fiery.
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Uh, at David R. Malpass, or they can just Google Malpass, uh, WSJ.
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And you were talking about globalism, you know, globalism, I think is still run
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All these institutions are getting bigger and I'm not sure the president's
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Thank you for taking time on Saturday to join us.
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I was going to go Josh Pettit in the data centers, but it's Harnwell up.
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Uh, huge announcement today over in Europe, uh, as, uh, I think it's Victor Orban.
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The great Victor Orban says the EU has crossed the Rubicon.
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Uh, today, I think they formally commenced the process for the freezing of the assets.
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Uh, I think $300 billion, uh, or around the $300 billion of the Russian people's assets.
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They began, they began the process to, um, to basically, uh, freeze those.
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And, uh, that is going to start a process for them to seize them and to use that either
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for the reconstruction of Ukraine or continue the war.
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It's one of the reasons other central banks are purchasing gold.
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So I think you might, you might put it in your back pocket on that, uh, as you go to
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Birch Gold and talk to Philip Patrick and the team and get the end of the dollar empire.
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What David was talking about right there, the de-dollarization effort, part of this is going
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to be just people afraid of, you're going to keep, you're going to keep your money in
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Also, the Russians, I think Medvedev and, uh, and Putin have been pretty clear.
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However, you take that money and you use that money against us to get arms and weapons on
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the battlefield and, or to do a reconstruction with the Russian people's money, they've said,
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President Trump's moved heaven and earth to try the story out today.
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They think they may have some sort of deal in hand or close.
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President Trump's given a Christmas cutoff, but you take their money, that's basically
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a big part of their, uh, of their, uh, cash net worth.
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When Orban says you've crossed the Rubicon or you're beginning to put your foot in to cross
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This European situation, as we've warned about, spinning, spinning, spinning out of control.
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Second hour is even more packed than the first.
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