Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - May 09, 2022


MAY 09 2022 — THE RETURN OF THE VIOLENT LEFT


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

162.01146

Word Count

4,126

Sentence Count

345

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

Pro-abortion activists are targeting the homes and families of Supreme Court Justices Alito and Roberts. Second, a Wisconsin pro-life clinic was torched in a Molotov cocktail attack. Third, Shanghai and Beijing are ratcheting up COID lockdowns. And finally, a personal story I was trending nationally after I called for something called 90s-style Pizza Hut nationalism. What does that mean? All this and more on today s Human Events Daily.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily, powered by Turning Point USA.
00:00:06.540 Today's May 9th, 2022, and no dominate.
00:00:09.260 Today's top headlines.
00:00:10.480 Pro-abortion activists are targeting the homes and families of Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh and Roberts.
00:00:18.020 This is insane. It's also completely illegal.
00:00:20.700 Second, a Wisconsin pro-life clinic was torched in a Molotov cocktail attack.
00:00:26.040 We'll give you all the details.
00:00:27.260 Third, Shanghai and Beijing are ratcheting up COVID lockdowns.
00:00:31.160 And finally, kind of a personal story, I was trending nationally after I called for something called 90s-style Pizza Hut nationalism.
00:00:41.120 What does that mean?
00:00:42.160 All this and more ahead, Human Events Daily.
00:00:53.260 We will not go back.
00:00:55.560 I see you, buddy.
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00:01:01.260 We will not go back.
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00:01:06.260 We will not go back.
00:01:07.260 Gay and legal.
00:01:08.260 Keep abortion safe and legal.
00:01:10.260 You don't care if people die.
00:01:12.260 We will not go back.
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00:01:15.260 You don't care if people die.
00:01:16.260 We'll not go back.
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00:01:22.260 So what you're hearing there are the sounds of active, I guess we're calling them activists for now.
00:01:28.560 What we should be calling them is alleged criminals that are out there protesting outside of the homes of Supreme Court justices.
00:01:36.880 So they've targeted Roberts already. They've targeted Kavanaugh.
00:01:40.900 And tonight we hear that they're planning to target Alito, although we're also hearing that Alito and his family may actually have been moved to a secure location.
00:01:51.780 This has been reported pretty widely so far here in D.C., but nobody's got the full details on that because obviously it is a security matter.
00:01:59.500 Here's the problem with all this. Targeting justices in their homes.
00:02:06.760 Before a decision has been made is obviously against the law, it's against law in all 50 states.
00:02:13.960 This is something that's against federal law. You can't do this. Right.
00:02:18.980 You cannot intimidate a judge and interfere. In the justice system by trying to get them to swing your way on something.
00:02:27.780 And Clarence Thomas came out pretty recently and said, this is not going to get the response that you want.
00:02:34.320 This leak, which I've said from the very start, was an operation. Right.
00:02:38.200 You're now seeing phase two of the operation target the justices directly in their homes.
00:02:42.420 And then phase three will be mass protests and mass violence across the country.
00:02:48.060 We already saw this a little bit with targeting of churches and then targeting of a pro-life center.
00:02:51.840 We're going to get into that in a second.
00:02:53.580 But here's what's very interesting. And Timcast.com has the article up.
00:02:57.460 They've done the research on this.
00:02:58.980 Activists at the homes of Supreme Court justices have broken a federal law that is very similar to what January 6th protesters were charged with.
00:03:08.220 The pro-abortion activists who gathered outside of the homes appear to have violated a federal statute.
00:03:13.160 Well, what is this federal statute? Pray tell.
00:03:16.520 What could it be? What could it be?
00:03:18.560 Under USC, U.S. Code 1507, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by a judge, juror, witness or court officer are prohibited when done with the intent of interfering with, obstructing or impeding the administration of justice.
00:03:41.040 The statute reads in full that even if you use a sound truck or a similar device outside one of those buildings, that individual shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year or both.
00:03:58.120 OK, it's very clear. And then so on January 6th and the article goes on to describe that many of the defendants for January 6th were charged with violating U.S. Code 40 U.S. Code 5104,
00:04:07.840 which bans parading, demonstrating or picketing in any of the Capitol buildings to obstruct obstruct the administration of official proceedings.
00:04:16.960 So you see what's going on here. This is. Very similar, very, very similar to that situation, because keep in mind, this is why the leaker did this.
00:04:26.820 This is part of the operation. What you're seeing at here, what you're looking at here.
00:04:30.720 This is the whole scale abrogation of the United States system of justice.
00:04:37.920 By far left.
00:04:40.240 Anti society.
00:04:43.480 Anti republic, anti democracy forces.
00:04:46.800 These are destabilization forces and groups like Antifa.
00:04:49.900 That's all over these.
00:04:51.680 That's exactly what they are constituted to do.
00:04:55.120 They've been doing it since the 1930s in Weimar, Germany.
00:04:59.220 You can go look at the anarcho-socialist movement in the United States all the way back to the 1800s.
00:05:03.840 You said the anniversary of the Haymarket riots and understand that these forces are used by those in power to destabilize, to disrupt and to essentially get their way.
00:05:14.000 Because keep in mind, you go back to 2020, none of the people that ran those organizations, those networks who organized and funded the riots of 2020, none of them were arrested.
00:05:27.840 None of them were dealt with in any way.
00:05:30.980 If somebody got extremely violent, you might you might get a prosecution.
00:05:34.340 But Gage Grozenkruz pulled his nine millimeter and pointed it at the head of a minor and he wasn't even charged.
00:05:44.320 That's where the system is in the United States today.
00:05:47.040 Understand what point of the movie you are in and understand that it doesn't matter what laws you pass if no one enforces the law.
00:05:58.480 DAs, prosecutors, federal prosecutors, you need to prosecute this.
00:06:03.000 And Governor Glenn Youngkin, if any of this is taking back, taking place in Virginia, we're going to be paying very close attention to your reaction, sir.
00:06:14.700 New reports are out in every major city in the United States.
00:06:18.720 Crime is up in Joe Biden's America.
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00:07:43.320 So we got some absolutely horrific images that came out this weekend from Madison, Wisconsin, and I feel so bad for the people of Wisconsin.
00:07:54.860 And what is going on from Kenosha to Waukesha to the homicides in Milwaukee?
00:08:01.760 Now, Madison, Wisconsin, a left wing militant.
00:08:05.980 We think right based on the evidence has torched a pro life organization with Molotov cocktails is from the post millennial to staff returned to the office on Sunday morning to find graffiti on the wall saying if abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either.
00:08:23.940 And they wrote it in this weird, you know, Tumblr, Tumblrina kind of cursive.
00:08:30.940 It also wrote with the anarchist symbol of an a surrounded by a circle and then one three one two, which is an anti police code.
00:08:43.320 Had people been in there or people been in this building, they could have been killed.
00:08:47.340 The Wisconsin Family Action Center, a pro life nonprofit, was firebombed this weekend in America's heartland.
00:08:59.740 And. And nobody even seems to be talking about it.
00:09:04.300 That's where we're at here in the United States today.
00:09:06.900 That's where we're at with the pro life movement.
00:09:09.160 That's where we're at, where even if you're someone who's not so entirely political, this is the normalization of political violence against enemies and opponents.
00:09:18.900 You saw it with the targeting of Supreme Court justices, their homes.
00:09:22.120 Now we're seeing a firebombing that was conducted randomly on a family again, the Wisconsin Family Action Office.
00:09:31.400 But I want to play for you this video.
00:09:33.820 And what it is, is a pro life organizer was speaking to local media about the attack this weekend.
00:09:41.580 Here's what she had to say.
00:09:42.540 We're saddened by it. We believe that the people responsible for this should be held responsible under the law.
00:09:49.980 But the pro life community will not be intimidated by this.
00:09:53.820 Will will not relent in the face of fear mongers.
00:09:56.860 We're committed to defending every human life.
00:10:00.800 So the article continues. And of course, as the story is developing, we don't have all the information on this.
00:10:05.760 What we do have is that the Madison Police Department chief, Sean Barnes, said that the department alerted federal partners because obviously this is a politically motivated attack.
00:10:15.340 And they're investigating the arson with the Madison Fire Department appears to be a specific nonprofit that supports anti-abortion measures was targeted.
00:10:22.200 Barnes said in a statement.
00:10:24.680 Due to the suspicious nature, arson investigators responded.
00:10:27.260 They're actively working the case.
00:10:29.260 Flames were seen coming from the facility shortly after 6 a.m.
00:10:34.360 And we know what this is about.
00:10:36.480 We know this is exactly about targeting pro-lifers because of their stance on abortion.
00:10:43.940 And if you remember, they found this thing on a group called Ruth Sent Us, their website.
00:10:52.700 So the website was called Ruth Sent Us.
00:10:54.780 And it's this anti, really anti-pro-lifer.
00:10:57.940 I don't even know how else to put it.
00:10:58.860 It's one thing to say they're pro-abortion, but they're not, you know, they're not standing up saying, hey, we support abortion.
00:11:04.840 You should go get an abortion.
00:11:06.060 Those are great.
00:11:06.520 That's not what they're doing.
00:11:07.560 They're trying to target offices, to target these judges, to target anyone that supports pro-life and that supports what's going on.
00:11:15.880 And by the way, keep in mind, this isn't even being decided at any legislative level.
00:11:22.880 This is a judicial decision.
00:11:24.540 The justices are just reading the Constitution to see if abortion's in there or not.
00:11:30.060 Because Roe v. Wade said, yeah, we look at the Constitution and we think it's in there.
00:11:34.240 Everybody else looks at the Constitution and says it's not.
00:11:37.220 The word simply cannot be found.
00:11:39.280 There's no medical procedure that's referred to in the Constitution at all, as a matter of fact.
00:11:43.660 Post office is referred to, believe it or not.
00:11:45.580 But medical procedures, no, not there.
00:11:47.200 State law is very clearly defined and relegated under the system of federalism in the Tenth Amendment to something that should be under state law.
00:11:57.560 But understand what these organizations are doing.
00:11:59.080 And similar to how the SPLC created a hit list of organizations called like the Family Research Council and a shooter, a mass shooter attempted to kill everyone inside the Family Research Council.
00:12:15.920 And he bought Chick-fil-A sandwiches and wanted to smear them on the dead bodies because he had been a radical and went to the SPLC's website to find where these organizations were and then targeted them based on the SPLC's hit list.
00:12:31.740 It's essentially a kill list.
00:12:33.700 That's what Ruth Sennis is doing now.
00:12:35.560 By listing these addresses, they are creating a system of stochastic terrorism.
00:12:40.560 And folks, I'm sorry, but it's going to get worse.
00:12:42.880 Have you seen this new Star Trek episode?
00:12:47.580 Apparently, they're blaming January 6th on World War III in the future or something.
00:12:53.700 Then you saw all the craziness coming out of Disney.
00:12:55.620 You know, it feels like that across the country, Americans are discovering that if we want to change this nation, you have to change the way these big businesses work.
00:13:03.660 These woke corporations are seeking to divide us.
00:13:06.220 The big banks are freezing the accounts of people who disagree with their political views.
00:13:10.340 And our supply chain is dependent upon countries that actively work against our values.
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00:13:15.480 And that change starts with us and our wallets.
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00:14:28.860 In the city of Shanghai, an open-air prison of 29 million residents.
00:14:45.040 They're six weeks into this thing.
00:14:47.880 And there's still no billboards anywhere.
00:14:50.640 Stand with the people of Shanghai.
00:14:52.860 There's no, you know, when you go to check out at the store, hey, would you like to donate 25 cents to the people starving in Shanghai?
00:14:58.860 It doesn't exist.
00:15:00.820 Not a thing.
00:15:03.420 And I don't have anything against the things that are there.
00:15:06.440 Keep in mind.
00:15:07.840 But I want you to understand that there is a massive public advocacy, promotion, advertising, marketing campaign for certain causes throughout the world.
00:15:20.900 When other ones and other issues, which are horrific, absolutely horrific, are completely ignored.
00:15:28.860 And so here, on Human Events Daily, and because, you know, every once in a while I've got to put on my China analyst hat, right?
00:15:36.640 We're going to talk about it.
00:15:37.820 And we're going to talk about Shanghai.
00:15:39.240 And we're going to talk about Beijing.
00:15:40.180 Because Beijing's getting lockdowns now, too.
00:15:42.580 They're getting the tightest restrictions they've had since the beginning of the pandemic, of COVID-19.
00:15:48.580 So remember a couple weeks ago, the people were panic buying in Beijing because they knew something was coming.
00:15:52.960 They knew something was up.
00:15:53.960 And it looks like, guess what?
00:15:55.340 They were right.
00:15:56.640 They understand the CCP.
00:15:58.860 They understand the authoritarian leaders and the authoritarian bent of their masters.
00:16:06.800 In Zhonglanhai, the Politburo.
00:16:10.780 What they're pursuing is a COVID-0 strategy.
00:16:13.920 So six weeks now in, in Shanghai, new push to end infections outside the quarantine zones, increasing the lockdowns, no official announcements.
00:16:25.520 But four districts out of Shanghai, 16 districts, are receiving notices at the weekend saying that you will not be able to leave your homes or receive delivery.
00:16:34.280 So people are panic buying there again.
00:16:36.220 People are freaking out.
00:16:38.340 It's coming to Beijing now, too.
00:16:39.720 So understand.
00:16:41.760 And people have said to me, they say, Poso.
00:16:43.680 They ask me all the time.
00:16:44.440 They say, what's going on with this Shanghai stuff?
00:16:46.040 What's going on with this China stuff?
00:16:47.380 Is this a scam?
00:16:48.980 Is this a psyop?
00:16:50.140 Are they trying to trick the West?
00:16:51.740 What's happening?
00:16:52.560 No.
00:16:53.780 You've got to look at it from the perspective of the CCP.
00:16:58.600 Their main interest is maintaining power.
00:17:03.840 Regime survival.
00:17:04.940 That's what the CCP has been obsessed with since the fall of the Soviet Union.
00:17:10.480 They paid so much attention to how the Communist Party fell in Moscow.
00:17:16.640 They paid so much attention to the events of Chernobyl.
00:17:19.800 You think the CCP is ever going to admit that they unleashed a biological Chernobyl on the entire world in 2020 or maybe even 2019 out of Wuhan?
00:17:29.760 They're never going to admit that.
00:17:30.680 Because they want to maintain control, regime control over everyone in their country is their goal.
00:17:39.040 And that's what they're trying to bring here.
00:17:40.520 That's what Davos is about.
00:17:41.900 That's the World Economic Forum.
00:17:43.460 That's the party of Davos.
00:17:44.720 They're trying to institute that same control over the entire West, that same ability of creation of a regime and the authoritarianism over everyone else.
00:17:57.620 They want to control where you eat.
00:17:58.900 They want to control where you live.
00:18:00.420 They want to control how you sleep.
00:18:02.300 Not going to make a MyPillow reference, but I could.
00:18:05.120 They want total.
00:18:06.380 And obviously, they want to control what you think and what you can say.
00:18:10.620 They want to control how you speak.
00:18:11.740 That's what's going on in China right now.
00:18:15.780 This is about control.
00:18:17.360 And they know that if the disease gets out or if there is a widespread disease, then the people will see that as the CCP dynasty, which is a false dynasty, having lost the mandate of heaven.
00:18:30.360 Because famine, pestilence, disease, invasion, these are signs of a decrepit regime in decline.
00:18:40.400 They're going to do anything they can to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:18:43.960 They did the same thing with SARS.
00:18:45.140 They did the same thing with avian flu.
00:18:46.560 They're doing it now with COVID-19.
00:18:48.040 They would rather make the people starve in their own capital or their own most populous, most affluent city of Shanghai.
00:18:59.440 Why?
00:19:00.800 It's very simple, folks.
00:19:02.020 It's very simple.
00:19:03.060 It's about total control.
00:19:05.360 And if you think that the people in Washington and the people in Davos aren't paying attention and taking notes, then you have not been paying attention.
00:19:13.820 Do you really think this is the right thing for us to be doing, Ivana?
00:19:19.860 What will people think?
00:19:21.300 Let them talk.
00:19:22.680 Don, Ivana.
00:19:23.720 Ivana, Ivana, Ivana.
00:19:25.560 It's wrong, isn't it?
00:19:27.100 But it feels so right.
00:19:29.280 Then it's a deal?
00:19:30.180 Yes, we eat our pizza the wrong way.
00:19:32.300 Crust first.
00:19:33.340 Introducing stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut.
00:19:35.460 With a ring of cheese baked into a totally new, thinner crust, you'll want to eat it the wrong way.
00:19:39.800 Crust first.
00:19:40.640 I have the last slice.
00:19:41.720 Actually, you're only entitled to half.
00:19:44.360 Large is $9.99.
00:19:46.180 So I took my kids to, or I tried to take my kids to Pizza Hut over the weekend, and somehow it became national news, right?
00:19:53.780 No, seriously, it did.
00:19:55.260 So I took them, it was Saturday night, and we had been out, went to see a kids movie, we came back.
00:20:03.340 It was getting late, but not super late.
00:20:04.840 And I said, you know what, I got some wings.
00:20:06.440 I said, you know what, there's a Pizza Hut that's on the way.
00:20:09.420 We're driving back.
00:20:10.060 I said, let's stop there, because I'm thinking, you know what, I had such great memories of Pizza Hut when I was a kid, growing up, 80s, 90s, with my brother, my mom, my dad.
00:20:21.260 You know, you'd win the baseball game, and you'd go to Pizza Hut, right?
00:20:24.760 And your dad would hand you a pack of quarters, maybe eight quarters, and he said, well, son, you know there's about 20 minutes until the pizza's ready.
00:20:34.320 And they've got, you know, Mortal Kombat 2 or Shinobi 3 or something sitting in the corner.
00:20:40.200 Why don't you go play a little bit while we're getting ready?
00:20:42.480 And then they had the buffet, and they had all of these great things.
00:20:45.860 We go to this Pizza Hut, and it was a wasteland when I brought my kids.
00:20:50.200 It was an absolute wasteland.
00:20:51.540 There's boxes everywhere, like unmade pizza boxes.
00:20:55.040 There's, you know, delivery drivers just, like, hanging out.
00:20:58.580 And these aren't internal.
00:20:59.640 These are the gig workers, so they're just hanging out, waiting for pizzas to get ready, and orders to be ready.
00:21:04.640 It was dirty.
00:21:05.780 It was messy.
00:21:07.520 I guess somebody later told me that a lot of the Pizza Huts during the pandemic actually closed down and turned into delivery-only sections.
00:21:15.060 And so that's what's going on now.
00:21:16.160 So it's delivery-only, so you probably, you know, weren't even supposed to go there.
00:21:19.520 It wasn't supposed to go to the Pizza Hut, right?
00:21:22.040 That's what happened.
00:21:22.680 And it shows a greater decline of things in the United States, a loss of those shared cultural community spaces that we used to have, whether it be Main Street, whether it be your local mall, or whether it be a family restaurant where you could go and just have a nice time.
00:21:45.100 But there's a certain aesthetic that's gone now.
00:21:47.600 And Vocal Distance, his Twitter account that I follow, actually pinged off of what I wrote and then made a great thread about it.
00:21:54.680 He wrote,
00:21:54.960 What's happening now is that kids who enjoyed that life and unironically liked those things, middle-class houses and decor, restaurants like Applebee's and Pizza Hut, accessible mass media, like old Nickelodeon shows or pre-woke Disney, not cool art house films, have grown up and are saying,
00:22:09.380 the cultural products that I grew up with, yeah, they may have been mass-produced, kitschy, simple, not cool or sophisticated, but they were fun, wholesome, and part of a life that was stable and hopeful.
00:22:20.180 And we reject the counter-culture cynicism that says that mass-produced culture that marked the middle class is empty and useless.
00:22:27.460 No, that culture allowed for shared experience and cultural touchstones from a time where prosperity was possible and the world was stable.
00:22:35.140 That culture may have been mass-produced, but it gave us an affordable cultural space to inhabit as we made families, enjoyed prosperity, and came of age.
00:22:44.640 It was home, and it was a good way to grow up.
00:22:47.200 And so what I do with my kids now, I try to find places like that.
00:22:53.320 We drive an hour out of our way on the weekends, go to a drive-in theater.
00:22:58.200 It was open in 1956 outside D.C. It's called Benji's.
00:23:04.420 And every day, every night, before the movie starts, they say, step out of your car, stand up, and put your hand over your heart for the Star Spangled Banner.
00:23:12.640 And my kids, they'll have that memory for the rest of their lives.
00:23:42.640 Three, Shanghai and Beijing ratcheting up their COVID lockdowns.
00:23:47.540 And four, this national trend, this national story, after I called for 90s-style Pizza Hut nationalism.
00:23:54.900 That's right, we called it Pizza Hut nationalism.
00:23:56.980 How do we get back to those shared cultural spaces that we had in the 1990s?
00:24:02.400 And if there's anything that the new right stands for, it should be 90s revanchism, return to the 90s, a time when America was unequivocally great, unequivocally great.
00:24:13.800 And by the way, even left-wing, liberal, centrist, etc., other types were looking at my tweets and saying,
00:24:19.000 you know what, I don't like this Posobiec guy, but he's on to something.
00:24:22.560 He's got something right here.
00:24:24.120 But before we end today, it's time for today's very special history break.
00:24:28.120 Today is May 9th.
00:24:30.560 Now, on May 9th, 1945, and May 8th, 1945, interesting, VE Day, Victory in Europe, World War II.
00:24:40.460 But it's celebrated May 9th in Eastern Europe.
00:24:43.300 And why is this?
00:24:44.400 Why is it that Western Europe celebrates it on May 8th in the U.S., and in Eastern Europe and Russia, they celebrate it on May 9th?
00:24:50.420 I'll tell you why.
00:24:50.980 Because the German surrender in the final days of the Battle of Berlin, the final surrender of Nazi Germany, happened around 11 p.m. Berlin time.
00:25:02.280 But it was already past midnight on Moscow time because they're one time zone ahead.
00:25:08.220 So they record it on Moscow time.
00:25:11.200 So for them, they do May 9th.
00:25:12.940 For us, we do May 8th.
00:25:14.900 It's the same day, and it's the same idea.
00:25:16.840 Defeat of the Third Reich.
00:25:20.120 Defeat of the enemies of freedom.
00:25:23.060 Victory in Europe.
00:25:24.920 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.