Aug 17, 2022 - The Secret Calls Between Bill Gates and Joe Manchin on the Inflation Act
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Was Bill Gates behind the Inflation Reduction Act? We re breaking down his secret communications with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). Next, a right-leaning nonprofit plans to spend millions bashing the woke left in midterms. Third, Alec Baldwin doubles down on his claim that he didn t pull the trigger in the fatal R.I.P. shooting. And finally, Philadelphia residents have filed a lawsuit against the city for illegally using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions.
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All right, we've got a packed show for you today. Was Bill Gates behind the Inflation
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Reduction Act? We're going to break down his secret communications with Senator Joe
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Manchin. But first, I want to remind you guys about Charlie Kirk's new book, The College
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard tonight's edition of Hewn Events Daily powered by Turning
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Point USA. Today is August 17, 2022. Anno Domini. Today's headlines, President Biden's Inflation
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Reduction Act, secretly brought to you by Bill Gates. We'll explain that next. A right-leaning
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nonprofit plans to spend millions bashing the woke left in midterms. Third, Alec Baldwin
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doubles down, insists that he didn't pull the trigger in the fatal rust shooting, but that's
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not actually what the FBI says. And finally, Philadelphia residents have filed a lawsuit
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against the city for illegally using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. All this ahead,
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I will say that it's one of the happier moments of my climate work. I have two things that excite me
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about my climate work. One is when policy gets done well, and this is by far the biggest moment like
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that. The other is where I sit and talk to these innovative companies, and I hear about this amazing
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new way to make steel and cement and chemicals. It's incredible. The innovation, the green spending
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had dropped to near zero in 2016, and now that's been reinvigorated. And the innovation is going way
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faster than I expected. That's why I'm optimistic that we will solve this thing.
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Well, so we just saw the Inflation Reduction Act, which is actually a massive spending bill
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passed by the Biden regime, passed by the House, passed by the Senate, signed into law. But what you
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may not know is that even though all those institutions signed off on it, you think those
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are actually the guys that are creating these things, are going through line by line, writing
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these bills? You think if you actually went up to President Biden right now, he would be able to
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tell you what's in this bill? Come on, be serious. He doesn't know. I'll tell you who's actually putting
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this together. And ZeroHedge.com has the article. It was Larry Summers and no less than Bill Gates
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himself, who had been known to hang together to put this all in. Well, in a Bloomberg article that
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reads more like a newsletter for the Gates fan club, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder recalls
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how earlier this year, as moderate Democrats like Joe Manchin and Senator Kyrsten Sinema continued to
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block the tax and spend legislation over concerns it would raise taxes for the middle class. Listen to
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this. Listen to this. Bloomberg is reporting that Gates tapped in, just tapped on in, tap in there
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to my relationship, his relationship with Joe Manchin that he'd been cultivating since at least
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2019. This is how Bloomberg writes it up. Gates was banking on more than just his trademark optimism
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when addressing climate change and seemingly intractable problems that have been his focus in
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stepping down as Microsoft CEO two decades ago. As he revealed to Bloomberg Green, he has quietly
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lobbied Manchin and other senators starting before President Joe Biden had won the White House in
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anticipation of, quote, a rare moment in which federal heavy spending could be secured for the green
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energy transition. I love how they write that, by the way, the green energy transition. It's just
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happening. It's just no one's actually voted from this. No one's actually said this is what we want
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or campaign. No, no, no. It's all these shady backroom deals or phone calls from mega billionaire
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oligarchs like Bill Gates. He is an oligarch, by the way. You can clearly point out Bill Gates is an
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oligarch in the American process. It's simple. Let's go back to the Bloomberg. Those discussions
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give him reason to believe the senator from West Virginia would come through for the climate,
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and he was willing to continue to pressing the case himself until the very end. The last month,
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people felt like, OK, we're trying. We tried. We're done. Gates said, I believe it was a unique
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opportunity. So we tapped into a relationship with Manchin that he'd been cultivating for these
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years that they're talking about. And we weren't able to gag me with a spoon right there. My dialogue
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with Joe has been going on for quite a while. That's what he stated. And it goes through. You can
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read the rest of the article. Bloomberg dot com and Zero Hedge is a write up of it as well.
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They were going back and forth. Bill Gates act as the lobbyist on this bill that I don't think
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anybody understood what's in there. When you got a guy like that inside, there's no trust with the
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American people. This is why voters are so sick of this process. This is why they're sitting there
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saying, we don't want this anymore. The American people know that this is what happens, that they
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elect their senators and then their senators stop listening to them. They go back and start listening
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to these mega billionaires, these mega donors, these oligarchs on what they decide should be in the
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bill, whether or not they should port it. Remember, Senator Manchin used to be out there saying,
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oh, it's going to raise taxes. We can't do it. Oh, it's going to raise taxes. We can't do it. It's
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going to raise taxes. But suddenly he gets calls from Bill Gates. He gets lobbied by Gates. They add
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some stuff in the bill. They slip some stuff in there, call it the Gates special. And then suddenly
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Manchin is a huge proponent. He's he saw he saw on the road to Damascus. He's now an evangelist.
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Oh, I need my tax and spend bill. I need my inflation reduction act. But wait, which is
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it? Because Gates said in 2019 that it's heavy spending by the federal government. So if he said
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that in 2019, it's federal spending by the federal government, then what is it in 2022? No, no,
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no. It's inflation reduction. You see it. You see, it pays for itself. I love when politicians say that
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it pays for it doesn't pay for itself. You pay for it. I pay for it. Our children pay for it. Your
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children pay for it. That's how inflation works. That's how all of this works. And so just understand
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these people aren't your heroes. You shouldn't be trusting them. And yes, Bill Gates apparently
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By now, you've probably seen the far-right's attempts to use claims of protecting women's sports
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to keep transgender girls from participating in high school and college sports. These attacks
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reduce current scientific research on trans athletes into misleading talking points and
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fear-mongering. But the attacks aren't just scientifically inaccurate. They're the latest
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Oh no! They're so worried. They're so worried that we're talking about what you're doing to girls' sports.
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But I want to also ask you about, have you seen these billboards that are going up around the country?
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These crazy, but they seem like they're completely nuts. They seem like they're insane.
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And so there's this group out there called the Citizens for Sanity. And they put up these
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billboards outside major cities that say things like, protect pregnant men from climate discrimination.
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Open the jails. Open the borders. Close the schools. Vote progressive this November.
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Another billboard says, violent criminals deserve our compassion and respect. This fall,
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stand for strong progressive values. Wait, what? What's going on with this? In fact,
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the Philadelphia FOP actually came out against the one that was talking about violent criminals
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deserve our compassion and respect, denouncing it. Somebody sent that to me. I said, guys,
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this is obviously a troll thing. They're trolling somebody. This is a joke. They're trying to get
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a rise out of you. What is it? Who's this group? Who's behind it? Well, Republican operative Ian Pryor
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is someone who's behind all of this and as a strategic consultant to the group. He's also the
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executive director of Fight for Schools. And they focus directly on this critical race theory
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business. They're also going to be releasing new ads regarding trans, transgender women in girls
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sports. And look, I got to tell you something. Growing up in Pennsylvania, the Penn relays,
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that's a major, major part. The University of Pennsylvania, the relays there for high school,
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they even have the juniors competitions there. That's huge for men and women. And if you suddenly
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start messing around with that, for these hundreds of kids, thousands of people who get involved in
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this every year, you're talking about those athletes. They're getting up six in the morning
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to go work out. They're at the gym at six in the morning. They're at the track at seven on a Saturday,
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on a Sunday. Hopefully they're going to church after. But just understand, the Penn relays a huge,
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huge deal in a lot of these battleground states going into the midterm election. And this
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organization, Citizens for Sanity, and they released a statement. So we have the statement here
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to understand what they mean. Citizens for Sanity is not an ideological organization.
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We stand for reason, common sense, objectivity, equality, the neutral rule of law, an open scientific
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inquiry. Everything the radical left now stands implacably against. And we're using these messaging
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campaigns to alert Americans to the urgent need to defeat and repudiate woke insanity before it
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destroys America. And that's simple. That's exactly what it is. So I love these billboards,
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by the way, right? So if there is any way for you to go up there and say that you think it's nuts,
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they say, what's the best way to defeat a bad idea? Agree with it aggressively. Don't just let some
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violent criminals out of prison. Let all violent criminals out of prison. Don't just let some
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dudes participate in women's sports. Make men and women completely integrate into the same team,
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especially for contact sports. I'm talking football. I'm talking soccer. I'm talking rugby,
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lacrosse, you name it. I want men and women on that field going up against it. Boxing, wrestling,
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come on, why not? Agree with it aggressively and you will be able to defeat them. And that's exactly
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what they're doing here. So I did think it was funny because there are some folks, and I'm from
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the Philadelphia area. So I had some guys in a chat room. We've got a group chat going of people
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that just knew each other from coming up in the system from years and years ago. And they said it
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to me, they see a billboard. My buddies are like, what is this? How dare they? How dare some people put
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this up? These crazy libs, we're going to do something about this. They were actually calling
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on trying to get the billboard canceled. And it got to the point where the FOP comes out and denounces
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the whole thing. And I finally, you know, you catch up. Like I tell you, I'm in way too many of these
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group chats. I'm sorry. Mom, dad, I try. I try very hard to keep up with the group chat, but there's
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so many of them. And some of the ones like, I'm sorry, you're just on mute. And like, you don't see me
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these guys, I'm like, guys, this is obviously a joke. No, no, no. It's real. It's real. It's
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I have one question that if you don't feel that you can clear it up now, you should at some point
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in the future. You say you never pulled the trigger, but the gun went off. That will not
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make sense to people. If a bullet comes out of a gun, they say, well, then someone fired.
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You're familiar with it. This did not come from me. This came from the DA's office themselves.
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You're familiar with what fanning a gun is. You pull the hammer back, and you don't lock
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the hammer. If you pull the hammer back pretty far, in old Western movies, you'd see someone
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fan the hammer of the gun. The hammer didn't lock. You pulled it back to an extent where
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it would fire the bullet without you pulling the trigger.
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So that's Alec Baldwin on his new buddy, Chris Cuomo's podcast. Chris Cuomo's lost a podcast,
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by the way. And producer Shah had an interesting comment about this, where the podcast is called
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The Chris Cuomo Project. So the initials of that are CCP. In fact, his promo code is promo code CCP.
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sleepwear needs. By the way, the all-season slippers just dropped. The world didn't even know that the
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all-season slippers were coming, but they are out. They're absolutely out. So shoot us a comment.
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Shoot us an email. Liberty at TPUSA.com. We're going to get to the emails up in the next segment. But
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guys, look at this thing. Completely insane. So here's the FBI's take on this. The FBI actually took
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the Pieta 45 Long Colt revolver that Alec Baldwin was using when he shot and killed that staffer.
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And they tested this thing. And the FBI reports out. ABC's got it. And they're saying, look,
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we checked this gun and this gun can only fire if you pull the trigger. And that's a problem.
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So Alec Baldwin, he goes over to the Chris Cuomo show, the CCP show, and says, well, no, no, no,
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no, no, no, no, no, no. I love how he uses his persuasion, his acting. He's using all of his
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emotional, emotive abilities to get you to come to his side. And you say, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no, no, no. That's not what happened at all. Totally misconstruing that. He does the sad eyes,
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you know, all of this. And I was fanning just as they told me to do on the show. I was fanning.
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And he said, and he even starts to get, and this is the part where he slipped a little bit. We know
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that Alec Baldwin is prone to snapping. He says, you really have to focus on the person that loaded
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the live bullet into the gun. Here's the problem with that, Alec Baldwin. Number one,
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the forensic experts are saying this gun cannot fire unless the trigger is pulled. So even if you're
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doing that fanning the gun, that's actually, and this is the part that he didn't even talk about on
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the podcast because we went in and we listened to this podcast several times to see if they brought it
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up. He said, well, no, I fanned it. And sometimes that can make the gun go off. That's true. And
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the forensics, the ballistics actually went in, check this out. Here's the difference though.
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On the Pieta Long Colt 45, yes, you can make the round go off by fanning it. That's true.
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However, you can't make it go down the barrel without pulling the trigger. What happens is if you pull the
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hammer back, but if you pull it back just enough that it doesn't notch, so it's got a two notches
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because it's double action. If you do that, you will detonate essentially the charge in the chamber
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and obviously cause a malfunction rather than firing a bullet forward. They said the only way to fire a
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bullet forward is if you did pull down on that trigger. So they did. He did pull down on that trigger.
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And if you drop the hammer on that and then pull the trigger, that's going to make it a lighter
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trigger pull. That's how that works. That's called the action. Alec Baldwin did this. It's now starting
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to look like he absolutely did this. And here's the thing. Was the person that loaded a live round in
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that criminally negligent? Yes, obviously. But the final responsibility for the death that was caused.
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That's got to be Alec Baldwin, the person who was handed an inherently dangerous instrument
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and did not check to see if it was loaded. If you get behind a car, the wheel of a car,
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and you go to floor the gas. By the way, I had brake problems this week. I guess the deep state
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cut my brake lines. And so Monday, we're having some issues with that. But if you go to floor the gas
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and then you say, oh, well, I thought there wasn't gas in the tank. That's not on the person who filled
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it up. That's on you. If you hit somebody with your car, that's exactly what happened here with Alec
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Baldwin. He's trying to blame it on the person that loaded the gas in the tank. Who was driving
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the car? You were. Okay. So you take the fact that it was a gun out of it. You say it was a car. Cars
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are used in films all the time. If you hit somebody with a car and killed them, that is on you. That's
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exactly the same thing that happened here. It must be understood that on this subject,
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we are not asking anyone to compromise their beliefs or abandon their faith.
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We are simply saying the government should not be in the position, nor should the government
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have the power to replace its beliefs for those of the woman.
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So great story out of the Postmillennial. Go check this out. Shoot us your emails, by the way,
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liberty at tpusa.com. The city of Philadelphia. Taxpayers of the city are now suing them for using
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taxpayer money to directly fund abortions. And we've got the full motion up. We're going to have that
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uploaded at Postmillennial. So make sure you guys go check this out. What it is special and
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preliminary injunctions filed against the city of Pennsylvania and Mayor Kenny, Rebecca Reinhart,
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and Jacqueline Dunn, all of whom are city officials. What for? Well, I will explain. They are suing
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specifically for two Pennsylvania statutes, each prohibit a local government agency from spending
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Commonwealth funds for abortions. As described in those acts on August 4th, 2022, the city announced
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$500,000 in funding for the Abortion Liberation Fund to Pennsylvania, the ALFPA, which provides
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financial assistance to people seeking abortions. The city's proposed expenditure of these funds
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for abortions is a direct violation of Pennsylvania law. The suit seeks an injunction against the city of
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Philadelphia from prohibiting it from transferring the funds to the AFL, Pennsylvania. And then we've got
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the whole motion, you've got everything out there. Look, this is what the left is willing to do in
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this country. And so thank God that there are people like, and it's Wally Zimulong who's leading
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this thing, but it's also the people of Pennsylvania that are coming together to say, we can't have this
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anymore. You have to actually commit yourself to action. And that action needs to be something serious,
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it needs to be something substantive. And if it's a lawsuit to prevent something that, again,
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that is a direct violation of state law, whether that has to do with ballots or in this case has
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to do with babies, we're not going to allow this funding to be used for malfeasant purposes ever
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again. And the left doesn't care, by the way. You think the city of Philadelphia doesn't know
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that it's not supposed to be doing this? Do you think they know that it's illegal to spend taxpayer
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funds on abortions? Of course they know, but they don't care. You understand? They don't care.
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So they're sending this money directly to an abortion financing fund. Far left craziness.
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By the way, so many of those organizations on the left, yes, they do have these mega donors,
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but you also need to understand that so many of these organizations get taxpayer funding,
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especially when it comes to, and I talked about this on Tim Cass last night, where I was exposed,
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by the way, as being, yes, I'm going to come clean. The Cass Castle had the video of me pulling up and
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dropping off the scripts for TimCast IRL. Yes, it's true. I was and have always been the person
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who stages and scripts every single episode of TimCast. We get them from Mar-a-Lago, we get our
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talking points, and I got these ones out just in time because that raid, whew, if you don't know
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what I'm talking about, go check out the Cass Castle. We did a little video promoting the whole
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thing. But, but, the left is willing to fund these things with state dollars. The right has nothing
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like this. With federal financing for a right-wing organization, that seems crazy to us. The left,
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they'll take money from everywhere because they don't care. If you're in a situation where one
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side says, we will fight, and the other side says, we will let people do whatever they want,
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which side do you think is going to win? All right, and so ends today's show for Human Events
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President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act was secretly brought to you by Bill Gates. Isn't that
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nice? Next, a conservative nonprofit is planning to spend millions bashing the woke left in midterms.
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Third, Alec Baldwin doubling down, insisting that he didn't pull the trigger when the ballistics
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report says he had to have pulled the trigger. And then finally, Philadelphia residents have filed
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a lawsuit against the city for illegally using taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. Absolutely
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packed week. So much is going on. Incredible, incredible moments for our entire country and for
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our history. But I want to remind you that on this very day, all the way back in 1998,
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President Bill Clinton became the first sitting president to give testimony before a grand jury
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in which he, the president, was the focus of the investigation. This was the sweeping investigation
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of the president by, keep in mind, independent counsel, Kenistar, not Congresswoman Liz Cheney,
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not Speaker Pelosi, an independent counsel came in, came in and stated that they were going to look
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at this as a special prosecutor. That's the difference between the Clinton investigation
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that looked into his malfeasance and his lies vis-a-vis Monica Lewinsky. And it also comes in
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to the fact that that was an independent investigation, not a partisan investigation.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.