Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - August 17, 2023


EPISODE 541： HAWAII MANDATED GREEN ENERGY GRID, ARE WE LIVING THROUGH THE 2ND SPANISH CIVIL WAR？


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We are in a fifth generation conflict. For every lie they tell us, we are going to get in their face and yell two truths. Name me a single objective we ve ever set out to accomplish that we ve failed on? Name me one?

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00:00:30.000 We are in a fifth generational conflict.
00:00:40.180 For every lie they tell, we're going to get in their face and yell two truths.
00:00:45.580 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Poso.
00:00:48.500 Deliver us from evil.
00:00:50.320 Name me a single objective we've ever set out to accomplish that we've failed on.
00:00:54.920 Name me one.
00:00:55.800 Georgia District Attorney Fannie Willis is ready for a speedy trial.
00:01:01.000 She's the DA prosecuting former President Donald Trump for efforts to overturn the state's 2020 election results.
00:01:07.380 She's aiming for a March 4th trial date of the former president and an early September arraignment coming right up. 0.97
00:01:14.940 I did a work sample in the system.
00:01:16.940 And when I hit save, it went to the press queue.
00:01:21.940 When you poll people, a lot of people say we're in a recession.
00:01:25.460 And that's just literally not true.
00:01:26.840 I'm already thinking about ways for the state to acquire that land so that we can put it into workforce housing, to put it back into families.
00:01:33.680 We've got some possible developments that could mean no death penalty and no trial for five people in custody for their part in the 9-11 terror attacks.
00:01:42.880 The Biden administration, in regards to Title IX, they're rewriting it to where it's no longer preventing discrimination on the basis of sex.
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00:02:22.820 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events with Jack Posobiec, live from Washington, D.C.
00:02:28.660 Today is August 17, 2023.
00:02:31.560 And Odomini, folks, we are now in the hunt.
00:02:36.920 The hunt is on because you can see the pressure coming from multiple angles all at once.
00:02:44.960 And you must increase the pressure.
00:02:49.120 There's two types of people, two types of people.
00:02:53.100 They're the types of people that when pressure is applied, they push pressure back.
00:02:58.820 There's also the type of people that when pressure is applied, they fold.
00:03:05.960 They fold under questioning.
00:03:09.640 To quote the famous scripture passage,
00:03:12.740 do not be the type of person who folds.
00:03:17.180 MAGA must be the type of person that pushes back.
00:03:22.500 We are having a squeeze put on us right now.
00:03:27.680 The squeeze is coming from government.
00:03:29.480 It's coming from the legislatures.
00:03:32.060 It's coming from the judiciary.
00:03:34.140 It's coming from these false, phony Soros prosecutors.
00:03:38.320 It's coming from Fannie Willis. 0.85
00:03:39.520 It's coming from so many areas.
00:03:40.880 And you look out there, what's going on.
00:03:43.000 Joe Biden, using a pseudonym, it's now been revealed.
00:03:47.480 We must, in the House, pull forth every single aspect of Joe Biden's fake names,
00:03:54.740 how he was able to use these across the laptop.
00:03:57.520 I've instructed the team over at Human Events is going through the laptop right now.
00:04:01.380 We're looking for those documents.
00:04:03.020 We are going to pull it all up, Human Events, Post Millennial. 0.85
00:04:05.940 Make sure you're watching there for all the breaking news.
00:04:08.320 That's number one.
00:04:08.960 Then you've got number two, this piece out of Hawaii,
00:04:12.400 where pressure is being applied in a sideways manner
00:04:16.200 because we're now living through the collapse of complex systems.
00:04:22.420 You're seeing it in air travel.
00:04:24.080 You're seeing it in our infrastructure.
00:04:26.020 Well, all the way back in 2015, the Hawaii legislature mandated
00:04:30.840 that rather than work on their electric lines
00:04:34.880 and maintain their projects on the island,
00:04:38.000 that Hawaii's electric grid be switched over to all renewable sources.
00:04:45.540 Resource allocation through ESG programs.
00:04:49.800 The first state in the entire nation, the entire electric grid was mandated
00:04:55.120 to be pushed over by the state legislature to green renewable energy.
00:05:00.120 And now we're finding that these fires may have been sparked in part
00:05:06.940 by faulty power lines in Hawaii while they were allocating all of the resources to go green.
00:05:14.200 Then down in Georgia, we're told, don't worry about that.
00:05:19.140 Don't pay attention to it.
00:05:20.480 Look over here because down in Georgia, we've got the Rico case.
00:05:24.120 Norm Eisen is up.
00:05:25.840 And you guys remember Norm Eisen.
00:05:27.200 I've told you about him.
00:05:28.280 This is the man who, I wouldn't say that he's got a brain,
00:05:33.960 but I would say that he is the voice of the hive brain of the left.
00:05:39.100 And he's crowing right now.
00:05:40.640 He's got a piece over there in the New York Times.
00:05:42.880 Norm Eisen.
00:05:43.420 Oh, I'm so excited.
00:05:44.740 So excited.
00:05:45.960 He's aroused. 0.75
00:05:47.180 He's sexually aroused, Norm Eisen, by this Rico indictment. 0.78
00:05:52.620 It's got all of them. 0.97
00:05:53.360 It's got Trump.
00:05:53.980 It's got everybody.
00:05:54.680 He's doing a victory lap, folks.
00:05:57.320 The left is going on a victory lap.
00:05:59.360 Why?
00:06:00.060 Because they're putting their political opponents in jail
00:06:02.840 and using it to distract from the entire country falling around all around them.
00:06:09.040 We're going to talk to Evita Duffy next from The Federalist,
00:06:11.980 who's been writing a ton about the distraction efforts of the left.
00:06:16.180 We're going to go through this in full detail.
00:06:18.160 We've got a ton of great guests today.
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00:06:41.060 Jack Posobiec back here live.
00:06:42.840 Washington, D.C.
00:06:44.000 Human Events continues.
00:06:45.240 And folks, there's a lot to be nervous out there.
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00:07:56.980 Now, in the last segment, I explained exactly what's been going on out here.
00:08:02.180 So, Maui has been on fire.
00:08:05.580 The electric grid seems like it completely failed.
00:08:08.460 Now, we're seeing, and we're getting more information, that the Hawaiian electric grid,
00:08:14.920 the state-related enterprise that's supposed to run this, Hawaiian Electric, has been focused
00:08:20.380 all of their money, all of their resources allocated towards renewable energy.
00:08:25.800 They're all in on this.
00:08:27.540 Why?
00:08:27.840 Because the state legislature, the Democrats control it there, have been all in saying,
00:08:33.420 we have to go green, we have to be renewable, as opposed to actually investing in their infrastructure.
00:08:40.560 This is the collapse of complex systems.
00:08:43.080 And now we're told that these faulty electric lines and the fact that they have not maintained
00:08:48.980 there, these backbrush, actually done wildfire management, wildlife management, or, you know,
00:08:57.780 foliage management, may have kicked off insane wildfire that's killed over 100 people already.
00:09:04.040 And we're told that many of them are children.
00:09:06.100 But we're not supposed to pay any attention to that.
00:09:09.180 Don't pay no attention to the government failing there.
00:09:11.520 Pay no attention to the government failing all over the country.
00:09:13.960 Because Joe Biden, Joe Biden and his buddies have indicted Donald Trump yet again.
00:09:20.220 And you've got, you've got, you've got Norm Eisen.
00:09:23.220 He's eyeing up, he's eyeing up Fannie Willis's booty of charges down there in Fulton County.
00:09:29.300 He's eyeing him up.
00:09:30.260 He's eyeing him up big.
00:09:31.620 Look, he's saying, look at this big, big booty of charges down in Fulton County.
00:09:36.000 And Norm Eisen is so excited about this.
00:09:38.580 That's all he's talking about.
00:09:39.520 So I wanted to bring in here a writer from The Federalist who actually, I would say, broke
00:09:47.480 the story in terms of this tactic the Democrats are using for distraction.
00:09:51.460 And now, you know, they're, they're over on these other channels and they've got the wall
00:09:54.840 to wall giant screens.
00:09:55.900 But folks, it's actually Evita Duffy over at The Federalist that first broke this playbook
00:10:02.080 down for us.
00:10:02.980 Evita, I feel like every time I have you on, I ask you the same question.
00:10:06.420 What are the Democrats trying to distract us from now?
00:10:10.000 Well, the biggest thing right now is actually we're, we're in the anniversary of the, uh,
00:10:14.640 the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
00:10:17.880 Probably one of the worst things to come out.
00:10:20.660 Yeah, it was one of the worst things to come out of the Biden administration.
00:10:23.160 And nobody's talking about it because we're all so preoccupied with the next Trump indictment, 0.96
00:10:28.340 which by the way, is ridiculous.
00:10:30.360 I mean, he's being indicted for members of his team tweeting or sending personal emails 0.64
00:10:35.320 to one another.
00:10:36.080 I mean, it's, it's, I mean, the charges are crazy, even crazier, I think, than the last
00:10:41.020 indictment, which is, which essentially criminalizing First Amendment protected speech.
00:10:45.600 It's, it's actually crazy.
00:10:46.860 I also think like the Maui fires are super interesting to talk about because if this was a climate related
00:10:52.320 issue, right, the, the, the left would be screaming about the Maui fires, Biden would be there right
00:10:57.880 now demanding more money for climate straight, climate change.
00:11:00.560 But now it's actually turning out to be potentially an infrastructure problem.
00:11:04.320 And nobody, nobody now cares about it on the left.
00:11:07.600 And this is really what they do all the time, right?
00:11:09.560 They distract us from real issues, um, and from problems that they've created, um, and, and,
00:11:16.000 and really try to drive the narrative.
00:11:17.740 And unfortunately the corporate media is on board a hundred percent of the time.
00:11:21.100 Nobody, except for outlets like you or the federalists, um, are actually talking about
00:11:24.980 what's going on and what the American people really care about.
00:11:27.800 Well, and Avita, I mean, look at this, this is, this isn't East Palestine, right?
00:11:31.700 This is a Democrat area.
00:11:34.180 Um, you know, it's, it's a place that, that voted for Joe Biden.
00:11:38.140 This is their constituents.
00:11:39.480 These are the guys that voted for their entire state legislature, voted for the entire electric
00:11:45.820 grid of Hawaii to go green.
00:11:48.180 They set a 30 year target date.
00:11:49.560 So that's, uh, in 20, I believe 2045 was the date they set it for, because it was back
00:11:54.180 in 2015.
00:11:55.040 And so you don't see this leading the nightly news though.
00:11:59.300 You don't see it at all.
00:12:00.420 It's these Rico charges.
00:12:01.720 And Trump said, find the votes.
00:12:03.360 And we have to go out.
00:12:04.380 They're criminalizing legal work.
00:12:05.980 They're criminalizing speech.
00:12:07.520 They don't seem like to, like they're talking about Maui at all.
00:12:11.240 And I hate to do that, you know, sort of double standard thing, but it's, it's, it's, it's
00:12:16.280 a joke, right?
00:12:17.340 We know if Trump were in office, they would be showing this over and over, and then they
00:12:21.540 would be running some narrative of saying, oh, Trump refused to pay some Hawaii allocation.
00:12:28.200 They find some way to blame it on him, right?
00:12:29.600 They'd find some way to blame it on him.
00:12:31.380 But when it comes to Biden, they're not even talking about it at all.
00:12:34.880 No, and then, and then of course it's purposeful.
00:12:39.000 And like I said, the media is totally complicit with it.
00:12:41.160 I think the left and what has become so clear over the last few years is that they're anti-human,
00:12:47.120 right?
00:12:47.360 They're anti the populace.
00:12:48.920 They claim to be for the working man, for regular Americans.
00:12:52.380 And they're just not, I mean, there are, I don't know if you've heard of C40.
00:12:56.940 It's like this group of, of big time mayors around the world.
00:13:00.140 There are 14 American mayors who have committed by 20 to 2030 to ban meat, to ban dairy, to
00:13:07.940 administer only three articles of clothing per person per year, only one return flight
00:13:13.260 under 1500 miles every three years.
00:13:16.520 Crazy, crazy climate goals that these really globalist leaders have showing that they really
00:13:23.120 don't care about our quality of life with the Maui fires, especially.
00:13:26.680 I mean, there's a complete disregard for humanity and an overemphasis on really the people that
00:13:34.660 are, have a lot of influence and power in America, right?
00:13:37.740 So if we're talking about what matters to Americans right now, inflation is a huge deal.
00:13:42.400 People can't buy their own groceries.
00:13:44.000 People can't afford to buy a home if you're a young person like I am.
00:13:48.160 And, and instead we're completely preoccupied with Trump and with protecting Joe Biden and
00:13:54.140 the ongoing Biden bribery scandal.
00:13:58.000 You know, you mentioned that actually last week, and I wanted to follow up with you on
00:14:01.540 it because, you know, you about buying a new home, are you, is that something you're trying
00:14:05.520 to do?
00:14:05.840 Are you trying to, you guys are trying to get a home right now?
00:14:07.520 And I don't, not asking specifics, but what are some of the roadblocks that you're finding
00:14:11.060 when it comes to that?
00:14:12.440 Yeah, so I mean, I got married last summer.
00:14:16.440 I'm 23, newly married, trying to save up.
00:14:19.960 Thank you.
00:14:20.660 And we, you know, we can't, we can't buy a home because the interest rates are so high.
00:14:25.700 And of course, the reason the interest rates are so high is because inflation is high and
00:14:29.460 inflation is high because of reckless Democrat spending.
00:14:31.700 And the American people, I think, especially, I think older generations know that.
00:14:36.700 I think it's a real problem with younger generations and a problem with messaging to them, right?
00:14:41.740 Because they see this issue and they think, okay, well, the answer is, you know, communism
00:14:46.980 and communal living and all these radical ideas.
00:14:50.920 And if Republicans were able to really message the young people and say, this is why this
00:14:55.180 is happening to you.
00:14:56.060 This is why your groceries are so high.
00:14:57.880 This is why inflation is so high.
00:15:00.080 They would make a lot more inroads with young voters.
00:15:02.500 And unfortunately, they're just not doing it.
00:15:03.960 I'm sure it has something to do with the consultant class.
00:15:06.440 But it's really frustrating to see.
00:15:10.120 And that's amazing.
00:15:10.980 So you're and it's true, by the way, because I'll tell you that just two decades or so
00:15:16.380 ago in the United States, it was so easy to be able to buy property, to buy land.
00:15:21.820 In fact, you could argue that it was actually too easy.
00:15:24.360 And this is one of the things that led to the financial crisis in the first place, because
00:15:27.900 so many of these loans, these home loans, these mortgages were being given out to people
00:15:33.860 that could not afford them.
00:15:35.060 That's why they were subprime mortgages in the first place.
00:15:37.560 And of course, you know, even but even the great movie, The Big Short gets this wrong
00:15:42.120 because they keep saying, oh, it was greed.
00:15:43.760 It was greed.
00:15:44.080 No, it wasn't greed.
00:15:44.620 It was government largesse.
00:15:46.060 It was this idea that every person who wanted to have their own home should be able to have
00:15:51.160 one regardless of their financial status, regardless of their risk profile.
00:15:55.080 Like if you, for example, didn't have any income at all, then you were getting all these
00:15:59.820 loans.
00:16:00.140 And they would just pass it off to, they'd pass it off to one of the banks.
00:16:04.360 The banks would pass it off to somewhere else.
00:16:06.060 Another investment bank would get involved and the cycle would just keep going.
00:16:10.080 Eventually, government would come in and backstop it. 0.98
00:16:12.080 The whole thing blew up with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
00:16:14.760 And then instead of actually dealing with the problem, what did the government do?
00:16:19.780 Well, the government, the Fed just came in and said, here's what we're going to do.
00:16:22.420 We're going to use a process called quantitative easing.
00:16:25.460 And then we're just going to print more money.
00:16:27.220 The money printer got fired up and here's the problem that's now facing people like
00:16:31.500 you that are trying to get a house today.
00:16:33.480 The money printer has never been turned off.
00:16:36.200 That's why the interest rates are where they are.
00:16:39.340 Exactly.
00:16:39.980 Yeah.
00:16:40.240 I mean, you put it so well.
00:16:41.600 And I had, I had this, we actually watched the big short a while ago with my husband and
00:16:45.260 he was just like, this is not, this is not what's actually happening.
00:16:48.140 It was such a funny story as we're dealing with it in, in, in real time.
00:16:52.200 And I think that that is really such an important thing to be messaging to people is the government
00:16:57.100 is never going to help situation.
00:16:59.040 It's that classic Ronald Reagan line or the scariest, you know, nine words in the world
00:17:03.260 are, you know, I'm the government and I'm here to help.
00:17:05.260 And, and I, I really think that these are things that matter to the American people.
00:17:09.440 These are things that really impact someone's day-to-day life and Democrats are not caring
00:17:14.420 about it.
00:17:14.840 We, we've got about a minute till the break.
00:17:17.300 And I want to get into this piece that you wrote, uh, for the federalist.
00:17:21.080 When we come back, uh, true, a story from your own family, but a story that I think will
00:17:25.240 affect a lot of people, um, because we can see things like this going on in our own world,
00:17:32.640 in our own country today, unfortunately, um, some horrific tales from the Spanish civil
00:17:39.500 war, a war, which by the way, never taught anywhere in U S history.
00:17:44.040 If it's ever brought up, it's always from the, the, the side of quote unquote, the left.
00:17:50.120 But I think what people don't understand about the Spanish civil war is no, it wasn't just
00:17:52.780 the left or the international liberals.
00:17:54.920 It was the communist.
00:17:55.960 It was literally the communist from me right back here with Evita Duffy.
00:17:59.400 She's going to give the truth, by the way, my favorite movie on the financial crisis margin
00:18:03.260 call, uh, Jeremy irons.
00:18:05.800 It's fantastic.
00:18:06.440 It actually gets into the government's role, which is something that the big short doesn't
00:18:11.720 actually talk about.
00:18:12.840 Stay tuned human events.
00:18:14.020 Come right back.
00:18:14.500 Go watch margin call.
00:18:15.400 Check it out.
00:18:25.560 So they talk about influencers.
00:18:27.340 These are influencers and, uh, they're friends of mine, Jack or so, like, where's Jack?
00:18:35.360 He's got a great job.
00:18:39.880 All right.
00:18:40.420 Jack was up here live Washington, DC.
00:18:42.180 We do have breaking news over the break.
00:18:44.000 Mike Lindell on stage at the election summit there.
00:18:47.520 Springfield, Missouri promised I would bring this up.
00:18:49.860 So I'm going to bring this up.
00:18:51.000 Here's the briefing for plan.
00:18:52.360 What Mike is doing is he's taking a series of devices, handheld devices to essentially
00:19:00.560 distribute throughout the entire country so that anyone that wants to get plugged in
00:19:05.040 with his network is able to do so as a volunteer.
00:19:07.140 And these devices, it's an electronic device that you'll be able to actually take up.
00:19:13.300 You don't have to go in, but you can go outside polling places and you will be able to detect
00:19:18.260 whether or not voting machines are in fact connected to the internet or not.
00:19:25.000 Uh, this is something I don't have all the details on the technology, but I was briefed
00:19:28.180 on this.
00:19:28.880 It's an interesting, it's an interesting strategy because this is something similar
00:19:32.680 to what the IC would do.
00:19:33.840 It's called war driving in terms of being able to look when the feds want to get into
00:19:38.140 your wifi, when the feds want to get into, uh, your communications, this exactly what they
00:19:43.460 would do because they're looking for those open signals.
00:19:46.620 Now, what this is doing, it's not hacking because all he's looking for to see, is there
00:19:51.880 information moving between those voting machines and the open internet?
00:19:56.680 And if there is, then you would know that they've been lying all along.
00:20:00.740 So there you have it.
00:20:01.420 Mike Lindell's plan 2024.
00:20:04.000 I'm sure there's a lot more to it.
00:20:05.120 We'll be able to get to that as it breaks out, but that is the basic briefing on it,
00:20:10.100 as I promised.
00:20:10.900 So when I get back to Evita Duffy here, because Evita, this piece you wrote in the Federalist,
00:20:16.460 I read it word for word, uh, the other day when you had posted it, I sent it around to
00:20:21.080 a bunch of people and I actually had no idea that this was part of your, your family
00:20:25.560 background, um, that you were directly tied.
00:20:28.880 You had, you had family members that lived through the Spanish civil war.
00:20:33.340 Walk us through this.
00:20:35.340 So, yeah, so the Spanish civil war, um, was, was fought between 1936 and 1939, but it was
00:20:41.780 really sparked, um, by the persecution of Catholics, um, in the lead up to the war.
00:20:48.120 So the, the government, the Republic, so they called it in Spain was run by, by communists,
00:20:53.420 by radical leftists, really influenced by Stalinism at the, during that time period.
00:20:57.500 And they started by, started off their persecution of Catholics by banning crucifixes in the classroom,
00:21:03.600 then banning Catholic schools, then saying that marriage, um, that was done in, with the
00:21:09.320 Catholic church was no longer valid in the eyes of the state.
00:21:11.800 Um, and then it really escalated to, to, to much greater, you know, heights.
00:21:17.200 They, they actually started to, to murder Catholic monks, uh, nuns, bishops, priests.
00:21:23.080 My family lived through the Spanish civil war and they were targets of communist aggression
00:21:26.740 because they were, um, Spanish intellectuals.
00:21:29.980 They were upper class, middle class, but also they were Catholic writers.
00:21:33.880 Um, and my great grandfather was in prison during the war.
00:21:37.540 The men he was in prison with ended up being murdered by the communists.
00:21:40.820 They, they, they, my great, great grandparents were separated, um, for years until the war
00:21:45.240 was over.
00:21:45.800 And I have had an extended family member who was actually a priest who ended up, um, being
00:21:51.120 captured by the communists.
00:21:52.380 He was going to be shot in a firing squad, but they ended up grazing his arm. 0.89
00:21:57.260 And when they grazed his arm, he begged them to actually kill him.
00:22:00.800 And instead the executioners, um, buried him alive.
00:22:04.820 And there are so many stories like this, um, and that people have in other parts of the world
00:22:09.800 too, right?
00:22:10.280 I mean, there was a similar persecution of religious people, um, in Soviet Russia.
00:22:13.920 And so it, to me, as somebody who has this family history and who was taught the communist
00:22:18.840 version in, in high school, uh, which was infuriating.
00:22:22.240 And I really bothered me that my classmates were only getting one side of the story.
00:22:25.800 Um, it really makes us content is a good way to contextualize what we're going through
00:22:30.060 right now, because we're seeing with the FBI, a very similar persecution of religious
00:22:34.320 people, but specifically Catholics.
00:22:36.120 And it always starts with Catholics. 0.98
00:22:37.900 It really does.
00:22:38.920 And that should send up smoke signals to everyone that we, we need to have, um, need to be on
00:22:44.620 alert.
00:22:44.940 We need to be rebuking any kind of persecution of Catholics or discrimination, whether that
00:22:49.700 be, you know, at the Dodgers game, um, or with, with members appoint, uh, with members of
00:22:53.920 Congress, appointing, uh, people to the Supreme court or, or other higher, higher offices.
00:22:58.340 Um, we really need to be keeping this in check, um, and being aware of it.
00:23:02.120 Um, no, I was, I was proud to have actually been there at that Dodgers game of Vito, this,
00:23:07.320 this, uh, story that your family experienced and tell us a little bit, by the way, you
00:23:12.340 know, this side of the Spanish civil war that you're talking about, the Catholic side, the
00:23:18.700 national side, it's either one, by the way, um, is never brought up in us classrooms.
00:23:25.080 It's never just, it's not something that I learned about until I started reading books,
00:23:29.680 uh, much, much later in life, uh, way beyond high school, college, et cetera.
00:23:35.800 Um, mystery Grove, uh, publishing house has some good books on it, but how, what is the
00:23:41.220 narrative that we get told or that, you know, most Americans get told in, in high school about
00:23:46.440 the Spanish civil war?
00:23:48.300 So usually in, in history, we, we, we hear the side of, of, of the victor, right?
00:23:53.520 That's usually how it goes, but not with the Spanish civil war.
00:23:56.320 Um, and I think the reason is because a lot of Americans were actually involved in the
00:24:01.100 Spanish civil war.
00:24:01.740 There was a lot of sort of communist intellectuals, artists, poets who left America to join, to
00:24:08.560 join the, the communists and fight on their side.
00:24:10.960 And some of them even died.
00:24:11.920 Um, but they brought those stories back to the United States and, and really dominated the
00:24:16.700 narrative around the Spanish civil war, um, in college and high school classrooms.
00:24:20.560 And, and, but, but this is also something that we see all the time, right?
00:24:24.260 It's not just the Spanish civil war.
00:24:25.620 It's almost every single aspect of American and global history where there is a, an, an
00:24:30.500 overemphasis on, uh, condemning right-wing governments, right?
00:24:34.740 And, and, you know, ignoring, um, or belittling the, the atrocities that were committed by communists,
00:24:41.900 um, in, in the previous century.
00:24:43.400 And this is, this is what leftists do, right?
00:24:45.400 To, to make sure that in the future we are desensitized to the, to similar communist and
00:24:51.380 socialist, uh, policies in the United States.
00:24:55.680 And it's, it really is amazing because the level of atrocities that were committed by
00:25:01.180 the communists, not only was absolutely horrific, um, I, you know, I actually spoke about this,
00:25:07.860 uh, briefly at, at the LA Dodger prayer rally, um, when I, when I gave a speech, uh, prior
00:25:14.220 to it, along with Bishop Strickland and others.
00:25:16.020 And I talked about how it was nuns. 0.85
00:25:19.320 It, nuns were raped on the altar in churches, uh, priests forced to watch. 0.95
00:25:24.960 Then all of them would be lined up and shot.
00:25:27.560 Or as you mentioned, your family member ended up being buried, even though he wasn't dead.
00:25:32.380 Um, this, the sheer level of the horrors that is spoken of, uh, is, is never, you can't
00:25:39.100 find this in any, any Hollywood movie, by the way, that the same is true for any communist
00:25:43.260 revolution.
00:25:44.120 Hollywood will not make movies of this, whether it's, uh, we've, we've focused on China a
00:25:48.420 lot here on the program, but you could talk about the Bolshevik revolution.
00:25:51.400 You could talk about, um, Spanish revolution, uh, the French revolution, which is sort of a
00:25:56.960 proto-Marxist revolution.
00:25:58.040 If you actually look at it that way, extremely, extremely anti-Catholic smashing the statues in
00:26:02.300 Notre Dame, converting all of Notre Dame into this, you know, temple to reason and
00:26:06.260 enlightenment, et cetera.
00:26:07.660 And again, priests killed, uh, nuns ravaged again and again over at Mexico many times.
00:26:12.540 But with the Spanish civil war, particularly, we, we never get told in these terms that,
00:26:19.720 um, it was actually the communists.
00:26:22.920 And at the time, the international, so the com intern, which was the international communist
00:26:28.940 syndicate headed out of Moscow, because that's of course where the communists got their first
00:26:33.200 foothold.
00:26:33.620 So now they've got the power of the state.
00:26:35.100 What people don't understand, Evita, is that when the communist revolution started in Spain,
00:26:41.100 it didn't start, uh, militarily from the ground up.
00:26:44.720 They actually took over the state first.
00:26:48.460 Walk us through how the communists were able to do that in Spain.
00:26:51.660 Right.
00:26:53.660 I mean, so, so they, they, they overthrew their monarch, um, and there was, there was sort
00:26:57.380 of a, a vacuum and they, they were able to sort of get, get, get their way in, in multiple
00:27:02.500 factions of government.
00:27:03.920 Right.
00:27:04.260 And they knew, and this is what's actually happening in the States, right?
00:27:06.700 They knew that if they wanted to create a communist state, the best way is not, you
00:27:10.680 know, collective, you know, community organizing and, and grassroots, you know, sort of action.
00:27:15.100 And it was really to take over, um, and the highest levels of government and to do it top
00:27:20.360 down, which we see reflected in, in our own country today.
00:27:23.860 And part of the problem when we talk about the way that this story and so many others
00:27:28.380 have been repurposed, um, to make the leftists look really good, um, in American education
00:27:34.360 is that we're, we're talking about now generations of, of misinformation really.
00:27:40.280 Cause I, when I, when I was in my class learning about this and pointed out, Hey, this isn't
00:27:45.080 the real story.
00:27:46.380 I don't know why we're only learning about the supposed Republicans.
00:27:50.000 They weren't, they weren't interested in the Republic.
00:27:52.000 They were full fledged communists.
00:27:53.560 This was not, and, and so many people were, were, were hurt by this, including my own family.
00:27:58.780 And when I pointed that out to the teacher, she didn't know, she didn't know the other
00:28:02.000 story because she was only taught one side.
00:28:04.220 Um, and so part, part of when we talk about how do we, how do we fix our education system?
00:28:10.640 We have to start with the teachers colleges, to be honest.
00:28:12.920 I mean, that's where a lot of the radicalization is happening.
00:28:15.220 And then it's trickling down, um, from, from the college level all the way down to now elementary
00:28:20.420 school with social emotional learning and other ways of injecting ideology, um, into, into
00:28:26.060 students who, who really, there can't be a free marketplace of ideas with, with, you know,
00:28:30.780 five-year-olds.
00:28:31.520 Right.
00:28:31.820 Um, and so it was very purposeful, um, and it's now very deep seated.
00:28:35.800 And we have to really look at the root cause of all of these things before, um, we can
00:28:40.400 say banning, you know, banning LGBTQ explicit books in high school, because it's so much 1.00
00:28:45.900 more than that.
00:28:46.460 And it's going to take so much more than that.
00:28:48.000 And I, I, I really appreciate you saying that because there's this sort of mentality on the
00:28:56.280 right, that if we unplug from the institutions and we just go run off and raise chickens,
00:29:02.140 um, that's not a Tim pool reference, um, that, uh, you know, everything will be fine and we
00:29:08.720 can go off, but you know what the left does?
00:29:10.220 Because they, they, they indoctrinate teachers, they go to teaching schools, they go to journalism
00:29:15.600 schools, they go to law school, they become the judges, they become the ones who control
00:29:21.420 the institutions.
00:29:22.240 They become the teachers, they become the academics.
00:29:25.120 So the rest of us, we're out sitting there saying, okay, you know what, we can live with
00:29:29.280 our families in peace.
00:29:30.220 Yeah.
00:29:30.780 Until they come for you.
00:29:31.880 And here's the thing folks with the internet, uh, and just like any, like any, uh, like any,
00:29:38.120 uh, any, any abusive person in a relationship, right?
00:29:42.040 They will never let the other one leave.
00:29:45.300 They will always go after them.
00:29:47.560 Evita Duffy one minute left.
00:29:49.100 Where can people go to read this incredible story and to follow you in your works?
00:29:54.060 So it's, uh, at the federalist.com.
00:29:56.700 You can find it in the latest section or just under my byline of Evita Duffy.
00:30:00.400 Um, and then my, my Twitter is Evita Duffy underscore one.
00:30:05.200 What a horrifying story.
00:30:06.560 I hope you, I would love by.
00:30:08.120 By the way, um, just, just straight up pitching you here.
00:30:11.200 I, it sounds like, you know, if you've got it in you, this, this would be easily turned
00:30:15.960 into a book documentary podcast series.
00:30:18.980 It sounds like there's a lot, lot more to just this one story.
00:30:23.040 And I think that people need to actually know the truth of the Spanish civil war, possibly
00:30:27.940 more so than others, because that may be the one that we are closest, uh, closely following
00:30:33.580 a parallel to.
00:30:34.660 Thank you so much, Evita.
00:30:36.540 Thank you.
00:30:38.120 God bless.
00:30:39.120 All right, folks.
00:30:39.720 When we come back, we're going to talk about how we can fight back and how one target that
00:30:45.680 we've been focused on target itself has actually gone down.
00:30:49.480 hear about the boring people at your office and trying to listen to the new human events
00:31:00.120 with Jack Pazovic.
00:31:01.460 All right, Jack Pazovic here back live, Washington, DC joined now by Michael Seifer, the CEO and
00:31:11.200 founder of public square, because, you know, we talk about public square all the time here
00:31:17.940 on the show.
00:31:18.460 You know, you guys have been huge supporters of human events, and we're very grateful for
00:31:21.820 that.
00:31:22.460 And we talk about the rise of the parallel economy.
00:31:24.820 We keep saying that if conservatives want to fight back, you know, don't go fight in the streets,
00:31:30.060 fight with your wallet, fight with your dollars, fight with your purchases.
00:31:34.620 You want to do warfare, do economic warfare.
00:31:37.340 And people say, oh, it'll never work.
00:31:38.540 Really?
00:31:39.060 How's Bud Light feeling about that?
00:31:40.880 Michael, tell us how Target is feeling about that right now.
00:31:44.720 I think that Target would be feeling quite a bit of introspective remorse, wondering how
00:31:53.660 could we have missed this?
00:31:54.700 It was our first quarterly earnings miss in over six years, sales down over 5% from this
00:31:59.640 same time last year.
00:32:00.780 How could this have happened?
00:32:01.940 We really need to look internally and renegotiate our contracts and relook at why we do what we
00:32:07.560 do.
00:32:07.800 But they did not do that.
00:32:08.800 Brian Cornell, in fact, actually blamed the sales drop on the response to their pride
00:32:14.700 displays, not on the pride displays themselves.
00:32:17.340 In fact, he said that unequivocally they will continue to support pride and other, quote,
00:32:21.920 heritage moments into the future, and that it was actually the backlash to pride that
00:32:26.540 caused their sales to drop.
00:32:27.920 And he actually said that it was the violent threats against their workers that caused people
00:32:32.800 to boycott the store out of fear of violence.
00:32:36.460 So he's completely missed it and is clearly not aware of this massive growing sentiment of frustration
00:32:42.440 in our country that people rightfully have against these corporate entities that have become
00:32:46.820 more like progressive political organizations rather than companies that are focused on providing
00:32:50.800 quality.
00:32:51.160 So when Target decided to indoctrinate kids about sexual topics with their products and tucking
00:32:57.620 underwear and the like, they should expect to receive a backlash that looks like an economic
00:33:03.720 boycott.
00:33:04.280 And because they're unwilling to apologize and instead they're doubling down, I would expect
00:33:08.420 that those boycotts will continue for years to come.
00:33:11.820 So when these boycotts, and I got to tell you, by the way, and I said this before, you
00:33:16.500 know, the other day on the show here, my wife, Tanya, that she, you know, she's, she's like
00:33:22.100 watches the show, but she's not, she's not a political news junkie like me.
00:33:25.280 She's not like super involved in this stuff, but I got to tell you, there was something about
00:33:29.580 this Target one and the way that they went after kids that I offhandedly said something
00:33:36.060 to her the other day, I said, oh, like, oh, did you stop at Target?
00:33:38.880 Not even thinking, right?
00:33:40.420 And, and she goes, she turned to me in the car and goes, I'm boycotting Target.
00:33:44.340 I'm not going back to Target.
00:33:45.840 I don't know if I'll ever go back to Target.
00:33:47.300 I was like, wow, I've never seen her have that kind of emotional reaction the way she
00:33:52.800 because she loved Target, loved it.
00:33:54.420 So let me ask you, are you seeing that kind of effect on a wider scale when Target goes
00:34:01.800 and does something like this, are then people also taking the next step and tying it to action
00:34:09.900 through public square?
00:34:12.880 Yeah, actually a quantitative example of that.
00:34:16.000 When Bud Light did what they did back at the end of March, we, the next day saw an 800%
00:34:20.360 increase in searches for beer on our platform.
00:34:23.000 When Target did what it did in May in preparation for their Pride Month displays, we saw the largest 1.00
00:34:29.340 growth week we've ever had.
00:34:30.840 The more that these companies continue to abuse and honestly insult the values of tens of millions
00:34:37.980 of Americans that embrace common sense, those consumers are then flocking away from that
00:34:44.560 corrupted corporate American environment and toward a platform like ours.
00:34:49.940 And other companies similar that embrace the values that made our country so special in
00:34:53.960 the first place and would never dare try to indoctrinate their children.
00:34:57.540 The reality is for a long time, a lot of people were frustrated at this, but until they came
00:35:02.440 after the kids and until they started assaulting the basic truths of biology like gender, you 0.63
00:35:07.920 saw a lot of people sort of going along to get along.
00:35:10.320 No longer.
00:35:10.980 These people, and by the way, many economists think that this cohort of Americans that are
00:35:14.440 frustrated by these acts of political progressive activism in the marketplace totals over
00:35:18.680 100 million people, that community is now saying, you crossed a line, we're done, and they're
00:35:24.160 putting their values behind their dollars, they're putting purpose behind their purchases,
00:35:30.040 and we're trying to help them in that endeavor.
00:35:32.060 I do not think it's enough just to boycott.
00:35:33.900 Boycotts can be incredibly effective because consumers deserve choice around where they should
00:35:37.280 put their dollars.
00:35:38.020 And you should not empower businesses that hate you with your dollars.
00:35:41.400 But that boycott is incomplete unless you can actually shift your dollars to something
00:35:46.600 more positive because that's the stuff that will have longevity.
00:35:49.900 When you can move your consumer purchasing power, you're actually going to shift the nation
00:35:53.700 and shift the power structures of society back toward the values of we the people.
00:35:56.820 And the last thing that I'll mention, Jack, is that between Anheuser-Busch, Disney, and
00:36:01.300 Target, between the months of March and June, those three companies saw a combined market
00:36:06.380 cap decrease of over $55 billion.
00:36:09.220 That money doesn't just evaporate.
00:36:11.000 It's got to shift somewhere.
00:36:12.580 So we're really proud to see that consumers are mobilizing their dollars.
00:36:16.180 They're voting with their wallets, and they're pushing their consumer purchasing power, their
00:36:19.360 investment dollars, to brands that will embrace the values that their household can feel confident,
00:36:25.380 cherishing, and protecting.
00:36:27.040 So it's an exciting time for the parallel economy because people are seeing the money actually
00:36:31.020 move.
00:36:31.340 Look, and I've said for a while now that this also, Sound of Freedom is a great example
00:36:37.600 of this because you've got one movie that's just sort of, it's just become a, and I don't
00:36:43.740 even think that the producers, and I've talked to the producers and the director and some of
00:36:47.340 the, you know, Caviezel and the rest, none of them were even thinking of it in that perspective.
00:36:52.280 But if that movie had come out last year, if it had come out three years ago, four years
00:36:56.380 ago, it wouldn't have had the same impact as it did coming out this year on the 4th of
00:37:03.000 July, immediately after this month, Pride Month, where, and especially this year, where
00:37:07.700 so many huge brands went all in on it, where people are saying, look, we're checked out
00:37:12.200 of the big brands, we're checked out of big Hollywood, and then along comes a movie that
00:37:15.640 says, not only are we telling a story that you believe in, but we're doing it outside of
00:37:20.540 that system.
00:37:21.200 That's why you're seeing these massive rewards.
00:37:24.080 It's beaten, at the U.S. box office now, it's beaten Indiana Jones, it's beaten Mission
00:37:29.180 Impossible, I've got the list of Transformers, Creed, it's beaten Pixar, DreamWorks, go down
00:37:35.100 the list, Warner Brothers, DC, it's beating, like, I think Barbie is the only thing beating,
00:37:40.620 they've almost, yeah, they're just about $9 million behind John Wick right now.
00:37:45.540 They're almost beating John Wick, and they go international this weekend.
00:37:49.120 So, when you're talking about a primed market, do you really think, then, that there are
00:37:54.420 100 million people that are willing to say, you know what, and what percentage of that
00:37:58.020 100 million, then, I guess I should ask, is willing to then take the next step to say,
00:38:02.120 we don't want to go back to any of those brands, we want to focus on smaller brands?
00:38:06.640 Well, I would say that there was a 5W consumer report that came out two years ago that found
00:38:14.480 that 73% of Americans actively factor in the values a company espouses before shopping there.
00:38:21.320 And people don't necessarily look for brands that align with their political ideology,
00:38:25.120 it's deeper than that.
00:38:26.160 It's about the principles that guide a company.
00:38:29.120 And unfortunately, we've seen that many of the major multinational companies in the United
00:38:32.220 States today have taken a principled approach away from the values held by over 100 million
00:38:37.540 Americans.
00:38:38.760 And in the broader American economic landscape, Breitbart had a survey last year that found
00:38:44.620 that over 60% of Americans are fed up with progressive corporate activism.
00:38:49.880 So, you start to put these numbers together, and then you actually quantify that in dollars.
00:38:54.220 If you just take the people, Jack, that voted for Trump in the 2020 election that we know of,
00:38:59.220 that they're willing to admit, if you just take those people in 2020, over 30% of American
00:39:04.540 GDP voted for Donald Trump.
00:39:05.960 That means, if you put quantities behind that, $7 trillion.
00:39:09.680 $7 trillion of GDP is the third largest economy in the world by GDP.
00:39:14.380 So, this consumer cohort of even just the politically active in the United States that lean conservative
00:39:20.100 is the third largest country in the world by GDP, larger than Japan and India, and only
00:39:25.180 behind the United States and China.
00:39:27.160 So, the excitement here is really tangible.
00:39:31.000 When you can create an economy for this group of unheard and antagonized Americans that are 0.94
00:39:36.380 fed up and ready to move their consumer purchasing power in a way that's quality, man, the sky's
00:39:42.080 the limit.
00:39:42.480 The American economy will change fundamentally for the better, especially when the businesses
00:39:46.320 that we're trying to promote, and in our marketplace we have well over 65,000 business
00:39:49.960 vendors, 98% of them are small businesses.
00:39:52.400 When those businesses can prosper in a sea of globalism, we'll know we're doing our job
00:39:57.700 well, and I'm excited for the generational impact that'll ultimately have.
00:40:02.460 Well, I think you're exactly right.
00:40:04.420 We've got about a minute left.
00:40:05.600 Tell us a little bit.
00:40:06.780 People want to get involved with Public Square.
00:40:08.560 If you've got a business or if you're just interested, how do people go and get involved?
00:40:11.360 Well, you can head to publicsq.com.
00:40:14.600 That's the best place to start, publicsq.com.
00:40:17.700 If you're a consumer, join for free.
00:40:19.480 Sign up.
00:40:19.900 Only takes about 30 seconds.
00:40:21.360 We're never going to ask you for money.
00:40:22.480 There's no premium version that you have to pay for to unlock the whole thing.
00:40:25.720 Come and enjoy the experience.
00:40:27.180 You can shop from over 65,000 different business vendors that have all agreed with our set of
00:40:31.180 core values, and they're not going to spend time on your resource antagonistically
00:40:34.540 against those core values.
00:40:35.760 And if you're a business, you can add your business for free at publicsq.com.
00:40:40.080 We'd love it if you join the experience.
00:40:41.500 No matter what your business is, if you're aligned with our values and you're excited
00:40:45.120 about the future of our country, we'd love to build that future with you.
00:40:48.780 And you can also download the apps.
00:40:50.620 So if you go to publicsq.com, you'll see the app icons to download on your smartphone
00:40:54.500 from the App Store or from Google Play, whether you're iPhone or Android.
00:40:57.640 So we're building a parallel economy.
00:40:59.080 It only happens with the help of consumers and businesses like you.
00:41:02.240 And Jack, we're proud to support your show and stand with you as we build this.
00:41:06.440 Appreciate it, man.
00:41:07.180 And public SQ, they just literally went public themselves.
00:41:11.200 Fight back.
00:41:12.200 Economic warfare.
00:41:13.620 This is how we take them down.
00:41:15.900 174 million for Sound of Freedom.
00:41:18.800 They will not be able to unhear that.
00:41:24.020 Long hours.
00:41:25.120 I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
00:41:29.780 Jack Posobiec back here.
00:41:30.960 Final segment, Human Events Live.
00:41:32.600 Look, I said it in the opening of the show.
00:41:34.760 I'm going to say it now.
00:41:37.060 You must focus because there are two types of people.
00:41:42.300 The type of people in terms of how they respond to pressure.
00:41:47.560 There's the type of people who fold under pressure.
00:41:51.180 And there's the type of people who return the pressure.
00:41:55.180 That's got to be MAGA.
00:42:00.100 That's got to be the people of this country.
00:42:03.320 Because there are people, there are people when the heat is on, when it gets turned up and they say, this is too much.
00:42:12.860 I got to run.
00:42:13.560 I got to get out of here.
00:42:14.760 We got to go do something safe.
00:42:17.020 We got to go for a candidate that the left isn't going to fight.
00:42:20.680 We got to go for a candidate that they're not going to take down.
00:42:23.540 So walk me through the logic here.
00:42:24.920 Walk me through the logic.
00:42:26.920 You want to go for a candidate who says he'll take on the deep state because the deep state isn't going after him now.
00:42:35.560 And that he's actually the biggest threat to the deep state because they're not currently going after him.
00:42:43.040 Well, isn't there a logic break there?
00:42:44.720 Because the logic break would be that wouldn't the candidate that's the biggest threat to the deep state be the one on which the deep state is most focused.
00:42:58.320 Right?
00:43:00.260 Pressure makes diamonds.
00:43:02.780 Of course, down in Fulton County, pressure bursts pipes.
00:43:07.260 But sometimes people press send instead of press and save.
00:43:13.900 Here's the thing.
00:43:16.680 They've got this guy up there, Joe Biden. 0.99
00:43:21.820 Obviously has mental issues. 0.96
00:43:24.280 Obviously not there fully.
00:43:26.040 They will keep him up there as long as possible on the ballot.
00:43:29.620 I believe this.
00:43:30.320 But what I also believe is that the goal is not getting him across the finish line.
00:43:38.720 The goal is to simply divide MAGA.
00:43:44.160 Fund whoever.
00:43:46.140 Whoever.
00:43:47.100 The candidates are against him.
00:43:49.020 And I've just got to say this, folks.
00:43:52.500 Natalie Winters had a piece up earlier today, which comes out of reporting down in Florida.
00:44:01.880 That Ken Griffin, who was a major donor to the Never Back Down Super PAC, actually was able to get the legislation changed in Florida.
00:44:17.540 Regarding the banning of Chinese real estate purchases, that he was able to get loopholes and carve outs put into that bill, that bill that was signed with great fanfare.
00:44:32.640 And so let's go through the piece.
00:44:37.560 To Ken Griffin, Florida's wealthiest man, the effort represented an ideological affront.
00:44:42.700 In its most extreme version, the proposed legislation would have essentially prohibited citizens of seven nations, including China and Venezuela, from buying property anywhere in South Florida, even though they had work permits.
00:44:54.420 Sounds great.
00:44:55.220 Love it.
00:44:55.920 Awesome.
00:44:56.260 Those limitations would have posed complications for Griffin's plan to relocate hundreds of employees to Miami, where he's planning to build a headquarters costing at least a billion dollars.
00:45:08.680 So what did the Citadel founder do?
00:45:11.680 The Citadel founder assembled a network of influence to rework the proposed law.
00:45:17.000 Rework.
00:45:17.940 I love this.
00:45:18.880 This is out of Bloomberg, by the way.
00:45:20.600 Rework.
00:45:21.700 It's just a fun word that we're going to put in for corruption.
00:45:25.200 Rework.
00:45:26.260 The scope of the restrictions was then narrowed geographically for those with work permits.
00:45:34.400 The episode demonstrates the power Griffin has amassed in Florida roughly a year after moving from Chicago, becoming a force in local politics, philanthropy, and real estate.
00:45:45.200 It also shows tensions between him and DeSantis as the governor pursues an increasingly right-wing and populist agenda as he runs for the Republican presidential nomination.
00:45:56.260 He says, Ken Griffin, here you go, 54.
00:46:01.860 We support the freedom of individuals who are lawfully working in the United States to purchase homes and we will continue to advocate for those rights.
00:46:10.660 You see?
00:46:11.860 So here's how it works.
00:46:14.720 When you've got people coming in from the Chinese Communist Party, when you've got people bringing in foreign workers from overseas to replace American workers, which is what all of these companies do.
00:46:27.400 You then get your big boss, who's flush with their cash, to go through the legislature, whatever the legislature is, possibly even including the governor's office, to make sure that whatever law gets pushed in then follows exactly what you want.
00:46:48.700 And so Citadel's lobbyists persuaded lawmakers to carve out exceptions for lawful workers and others, according to people familiar with the process.
00:47:00.460 So in the final version of law, anyone with a U.S. visa, anyone with a U.S. visa is free to purchase a single property in the Miami enclaves with restrictions only within a five-mile radius of military bases.
00:47:17.840 You see how it works now, folks?
00:47:21.060 You see how it works?
00:47:23.380 These people, whether it's Wall Street, whether it's Silicon Valley, they do not have the interests of the American people at heart because there are billions and trillions of dollars at stake when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:47:39.760 This is the intellectual property of the elites, the transnational globalist class, the cosmopolitan class.
00:47:51.120 They are more than happy to work with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:47:56.020 Why?
00:47:56.280 Because it has made them vastly wealthy.
00:47:59.720 They have demigod-tier wealth on the backs of the Chinese Communist Party, the slave labor there, the consumption in the United States. 0.95
00:48:09.720 Sure, we get big-screen TVs.
00:48:11.140 Great.
00:48:11.420 We can get iPads.
00:48:12.240 But it's built off of their slave labor. 0.99
00:48:16.440 And we've lost our entire manufacturing base.
00:48:19.420 We've gutted the infrastructure in this country.
00:48:21.580 We've gutted the Midwest.
00:48:22.900 We've gutted the South.
00:48:23.920 We're replacing foreign workers. 1.00
00:48:25.760 We're replacing American workers with foreigners, foreign workers. 1.00
00:48:28.960 And we're now changing our laws to benefit the Chinese Communist Party and the transnational globalists that are all in bed with them. 0.93
00:48:40.440 So you know what?
00:48:41.980 I'm sick of it.
00:48:43.240 And I don't care if it's a Republican that's doing it or multiple Republicans doing it because I will hold Republicans' feet to the fire more than I hold Democrats'.
00:48:52.960 Why?
00:48:54.700 Because that's my side.
00:48:56.240 And that is how you use your leverage.
00:48:59.940 We will do that.
00:49:01.100 Pressure makes diamonds.
00:49:02.880 And we will never stop applying pressures here on Human Events every single day of the week and twice on Sunday.
00:49:11.680 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.
00:49:22.960 Let's go.
00:49:23.760 Let's go.