The Enemy Within - Nearly Half of Federal Employees Openly Planning to Resist Trump
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Jack Posobrand shares his thoughts on the devastating fires that have ravaged the Los Angeles area and the people who have lost their lives in the blazes. Plus, a new poll shows that nearly half of Americans are planning to vote to resist President Trump.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Poso.
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We now know at least 10 people have died in the wildfires burning across Los Angeles County,
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and almost 10,000 homes and buildings have burned to the ground.
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The Palisades and Eaton fires still at the largest fires, 20,000 and 13,000 acres, respectively.
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One California family is going viral, singing in prayer after finding the only thing left standing on their property,
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I hope Karen Bass gets up when you cover her press conference and announces her resignation today.
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The $17 million budget cut and elimination of our civilian positions like our mechanics did and has and will continue to severely impact our ability to repair apparatus.
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The man who was holding a blowtorch was walking around a neighborhood when neighbors did approach him.
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This is, of course, over in Los Angeles County, and it appeared that he was trying to light different materials on fire.
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They take him to the ground, and then they do take him into custody as police arrive there.
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They made the determination that there was not enough probable cause to arrest this person on arson or suspicion of arson,
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and therefore this person was arrested on a felony probation violation.
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If anybody's been watching the news about Pete Hankseth, they're probably familiar with a number of the subjects.
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But is there one or two you really want people to pay attention to?
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Right now, our military, 18% of those who are serving are women, and they are terrific, just like the men who are terrific and serving.
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What Pete Hankseth said as recently as November 7th is that women don't belong in combat.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily here live from Washington, D.C.
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Seven days from now, it will have been two hours, believe it or not, two hours that President Trump has already been in office.
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I want you to fix it in your mind of all the things that we've had to endure, all the challenges that we've been through, everything that they've faced, everything that they've thrown at us, everything that we've faced, and more importantly, everything that this man has faced, everything that this man went through, not for himself, not for personal gain.
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In fact, he incurred a lot of personal loss, up to and almost including the loss of his life.
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And we're going to talk about that today, because apparently there are some people still trying to claim that it was a hoax, that it was, in fact, a setup, that it was a scam.
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But there's another issue, folks, and that's going to be the subject of our discussion here together.
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I love how we have these little afternoon chats, these little afternoon chats that we have here with Poso, because as you see, new survey is out in Washington, D.C.
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that it shows that nearly half, nearly half of federal employees are planning to resist Trump.
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We knew that this was always going to be the situation.
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That's why they're out after Tulsi Gabbard and Russ Vogt and all the rest.
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That's why they're after them, RFK, because they don't want actual change from actual change agents.
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That's what President Trump was elected to perform.
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He was elected to perform a course correction on the United States of America.
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These were the people that the American people, the American voter, bandied together and said, no more.
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We don't want this money that's being sent over to Ukraine in the millions and billions,
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while younger and younger Ukrainians are sent to die on the battlefield just so defense contractors can make more money.
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And if there are people within the federal government, within the federal ranks,
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who have a problem with the mandate of the American people,
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who have a problem with putting this mandate first and pushing this agenda forward,
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We're going to teach you what happens when you refuse to put America first.
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All right, folks, we really do need to get into this more.
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However, 42%, almost 50%, half of federal government managers, according to an RMG research
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survey, say who work in Washington, D.C., say that they will work to resist President Trump
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Well, President Trump's team, it has begun arriving here in Washington, D.C.
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President Trump's advanced teams are boots on the ground here in Washington, D.C.
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And we're already seeing glimmers of that as people prepare for the various balls that
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will be held this weekend, particularly the Coronation Ball, of which I will be attending
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Determining whether or not that would be appropriate, if it's appropriate to address the assembled
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And so to understand fighting, we need to bring on one of the best warriors against the
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And his name, ladies and gentlemen, is Mike Benz.
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So so I mean, you look at this, you look at this comes as no surprise, right?
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You know, the 42% are openly saying that they are going to resist President Trump, the federal
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government managers in this RMG research survey that's come out.
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And keep in mind, that's just the people who are publicly acknowledging it.
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I'm sure that number bounces up to probably, I don't know, 80, 90 percent when really push
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Benz, let's let's, you know, talk past the sale here.
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What should the American people and what should this movement really be on the lookout for
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as we go boots on the ground into Washington, D.C. and President Trump's advance teams begin
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Well, every single person who expresses an intent to resist the edicts and authorities duly granted
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to the executive branch should be promptly and immediately fired.
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And if firing them is not possible because of bureaucratic protections, they should be transferred
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to the Siberia office of whatever organization within the federal government they are a part
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No, the Greenland office will actually be doing something.
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We, you know, I mean, at least that's a strategic far utility.
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You know, we the the great mistake of Trump 1.0 was basically, you know, not heeding the parable
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of the snake and the frog that you let these people in, you let them keep their jobs despite,
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you know, all of their attempts to sabotage the the government from within.
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I think this time around, there have been many lessons learned.
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I think part of the mission of Doge is to cut government programs that have gone rogue.
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I'm extremely heartened by the fact that we killed the budget the first time around during
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And that was done because rogue organizations like the Global Engagement Center were getting
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reauthorized when everyone knows all 250 members of the staff there are diametrically
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opposed to the Trump agenda that was voted democratically by the people of the United States.
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And so we literally shut down the budget during that fight to until a new one came out that
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refused to reauthorize that that should be done.
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That mentality needs to go into the Pentagon, needs to go into DHS, needs to go into FBI,
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needs to go into the National Science Foundation, needs to go into USAID.
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We have to have a strong hand this time around because that's the only way business gets done
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This is the point that I was making about the failure of Trump 1.0 under a kind of suicidal
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libertarian pact to be hands-off with Facebook as they were censoring the world.
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And so meanwhile, the censors who are willing to use government power, who are willing to use
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government resources and government action to pressure towards censorship, there was no
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counter-pressure, there was no government pressure on the other side of it, and we saw the power of
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that once it was applied. Once Congress did act against the Disinformation Governance Board,
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once Congress did act with the Weaponization Committee subpoenaing 10 different government
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agencies and holding hearings and hauling everyone in for transcribed interviews, pressure works,
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action works. And action has to be taken against members of the resistance within the government.
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They can resist all they like in a civil society group with a cute little fellowship or sign a cure
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outside the government. But if you're a part of this executive branch, you follow the chain of
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command, which goes straight to President Donald J. Trump.
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I've got a great idea. Listener of Wuhan Klan just shot this in in the comments. I think this is
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wonderful. How about we mandate that in every federal office, every single worker has to start
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the day with a public Pledge of Allegiance. You have to get up and you have to say the Pledge of
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Allegiance, just like elementary school. By the way, I would have been totally fine with that. I'm sure
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you would have been totally fine with that, Benz, when you were in the State Department. But I'll tell
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you one thing, 30% of people would walk out the door on day one if that were mandated. At least
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30%. And over the first year, look, you would drain the swamp all by itself.
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It's like sunlight to a vampire having to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in the federal government
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for so many of these people. I mean, they take a pledge to self-interest and then they call
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themselves global citizens, arguing that being faithful to the United States, who they're only
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in office to serve as some sort of treason to the world. And of course, this is not some humanitarian
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bona fide that they're earning by doing this. It's their own paychecks and salaries to all the
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different organizations and stakeholders on the outside of government who want to use the
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battering ram of government to achieve their own financial gain. So let them do that on the outside.
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But the people voted for reform. The people voted to take a sledgehammer to these rogue agencies
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and people on the inside who are not going to carry that carry that hammer can get hammered by it,
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Look, it's simple. And by the way, this is something that the President Trump's first
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administration, the 45 administration, actually worked on something called Schedule F. Ben,
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explain to us what Schedule F is, how that works and how actually that can be implemented pretty much day
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one. Well, Schedule F is basically a creative tool to be able to bypass many of the bureaucratic
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measures that can be taken to delay or postpone the ability to fire members of the civil service
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or foreign service, the so-called careers. The president only gets to appoint several thousand
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people for positions in the federal government. There are millions of people in the aggregate,
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if you include the Pentagon, but hundreds of thousands across all the other agencies.
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And so the president's appointments are totally swamped and outnumbered in the thicket of the
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D.C. bureaucracy. And in the same way that oftentimes a corporation will structure things as a layoff
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rather than firing one-off people in order to avoid employment lawsuits against people. If you just
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terminate one person and it's a firing, then you can get into a big employment dispute about whether
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or not it satisfied the for-cause component of a firing. It can drag out for years in litigation while
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the person continues to have their job or have some aspect of their job that they still have as it's being
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adjudicated. And so mass layoffs can alleviate that. If you simply get rid of an entire division or if you
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group a whole group of people together, you can bypass a lot of the legal ninja capacities of employment
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lawyers. And it's the same thing with Schedule F. It's basically a mass firing of the civil service
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what spots. And this is basically what Project 2025 opposition was all about. I mean, they talked about
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how it was about, you know, fascism and, you know, bringing back all these traditionalist ideals. That
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is not what the blob had a problem with. It all came down to the fact that Project 2025 was pushing
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Schedule F. It is a power struggle for who has direct control over the levers of power. And Schedule F
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takes away the blob protections. We got a quick break coming up here. It's a fantastic play. I hope
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it's signed day one with these 100 executive orders that Stephen Miller and President Trump supposedly have
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worked on. And by the way, I hope that President Trump starts signing the 100 executive orders
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right there on the balcony. Just turn around mid-speech and start rapid fire, signing them off
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Long hours. I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
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All right. So one piece of news that I saw this morning that I just thought was wonderful.
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Mine, the good news just doesn't stop coming. Washington Post is down 87% in terms of its traffic
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since 2021. So from 2021 to now, the Washington Post is down 80, nearly 90% of its traffic,
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its audience gone. And by the way, that's the libs. Okay. Those guys are just checked out. So the
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Washington Post is dying. And they have either booted or exited, we're trying to find the right
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term on this, Jen Rubin. However, it turns out that Jen Rubin is going to be going to a new spot.
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Ben, break down what the latest plan is for our resident TDS color revolution lover, Jen Rubin.
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Oh, it's too perfect. Honestly, I don't care what your religion is, whether you celebrate Christmas
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or Hanukkah or some strange esoteric thing, whatever you wish for. I can't imagine a better
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gift to start the year than Norm Eisen and Jen Rubin announcing that they are starting a media
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outlet. They're calling this The Contrarian. That will be the name of this outlet. And they say that
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Norm Eisen is going to be the publisher. Jen Rubin is going to be the editor-in-chief.
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They said they've recruited about 24 contributors who played prominent roles in debunking 2020 election
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denialism. And the purpose of this is because America needs an unshackled media. Now, mind you,
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these are the people who were coordinating the censorship industry. These people who were so-called
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debunking election denialism, they censored the ever-loving heck out of every news outlet.
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They put pressure on the social media companies. They applied government pressure. And it was all
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because there was an unshackled media. Their problem is that they need shackles on the media,
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and they need a media perch to trumpet from the heavens the consensus of the resistance. So the
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thing that I love about this so much is this will give us a bird's eye view of the resistance's plans
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every step of the way for the next four years. Norm Eisen was the legal hatchet man. Every single one
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of their ops was run through Norm Eisen, who was a guy who was the former State Department ambassador to
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the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014, which was right as China effectively took over the Czech
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Republic. Norm Eisen was the lawfare coordinator there. He bragged about how one of the proudest
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things that he did as the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic was effectively pressure the Czech
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Republic to arrest the State Department's enemies. He was so emboldened by that that when Trump won the
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2016 election, he applied that same set of skills to coordinating the lawfare against Donald Trump.
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He has been a part of every major political black ops happening in the United States for the past six
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to eight years. And now he's going to have a media outlet. And it's just, this is a great clip here
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of him and Jen Rubin announcing it. And just look at how cheesy this thing is. It's fondue.
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Now, this guy, he's the granddaddy of the color revolutions. And I guess she's the grandmama
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Do politics. We're going to do law. But we know that any successful pro-democracy movement
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also has to be very vocal about culture. We'll have a humor column. We'll even have a cooking column.
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But we're going to sprinkle in a little bit of pro-democracy flavor.
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Wow. We're going to have a humor column. We're going to ruin everything. We're going to ruin it.
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We're the contrarians. We're even though you're propaganda. No, this is what we're living through.
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Look, there was a Politico asked me over the weekend. They said, they said, why are you guys
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calling your thing the coronation ball? Why are you? And I'm not even, I'm not like, I didn't come up
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with the name, but I said, I said, look, I didn't come up with the name for that. I did come up the name
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for the deplore ball back in 1617. But, but coronation ball is appropriate. And they say,
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oh, appropriate authoritarian. You're talking about monarchy. You got Curtis Yarvin there,
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all that. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's appropriate because it's a regime change because that's the
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old regime. Just look at them. They realize that they are out of power and they have, they have no
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idea what to do. And you can, you can see the cognitive dissonance in that clip. Guys, could you,
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could you show the clip? Just leave us up, but show us the still of that clip where you could
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just see it in their faces where they're trying desperately to hold on it together. And they
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just, they're like, everything is fine. Everything is good. This is a great move. Things are going
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well for us. 90% of our readership is down, but we're holding on for dear life.
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And this idea that they're going to, you know, galvanize people against Trump through cooking.
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You know, through, through a cooking column and a humor column. I mean, this reminds me of,
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you know, in the old, there was this busted British intelligence operation called the
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Integrity Initiative in, uh, that operated from 2015 to 2019. Then it went down in flames when all
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their leaked documents came out and it turned out the whole thing was being dictated by British
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intelligence. They set up these cluster cells in every major NATO country to coordinate internet
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censorship. And in the documents, the orientation materials trained all the cluster cell members
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on the importance of, of waging this culture war through humor. And, and, and they gave them
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reading materials like the EU can't name and, uh, and how subversive humor and ridicule can undermine
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political support for authoritarians and authoritarian countries. And these people are constitutionally
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incapable of humor. They, they exist as this frumpy, damp rag to place over the human soul. They struck,
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they, they put in their instruction manuals, all these, you know, like humor guides because they are
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incapable of organically generating it themselves. So this is going to be a content Nirvana. This is like
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manna from the heavens being handed to us so that we have a 360 degree peripheral vision of everything
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they're going to do six months before they do it. Uh, while also being able to elbow through the rim dunk on
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just how cringe it is the whole time. So I don't know that I could have woken up to better news than this, this
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morning with their charisma. I really got to watch out here on human events daily. I don't know, or certainly hope
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they do. Don't do anything in the, the 2 PM to 3 PM hour. Uh, they might be putting me out of business with
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their, with their cooking and their, I mean, just look at the chemistry of the two of them there. I mean, just, I, I, I really,
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I will say this. I can't stop looking at it. I can't stop watching it. That's for sure.
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Jack, Jack, 95% of their traffic will be us. Like they actually may have a moderately successful medium sized
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website. You just, because we are going to be going there every day to see what stupid thing they publish next.
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And, and just to, it's, it's like, uh, you know, it's, it's like an intelligence org reading some
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proper, you know, the propaganda rag of the Russian Federation or China daily or something just to see
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what the state is publishing. Like, this is what we're going to be able to do with Norm Eisen and his
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whole network. Thank you for aggregating 24 different people, uh, in your network for this media
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organization to trumpet. I'm glad that they're doing it publicly before we had to, you know,
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trawl around for, you know, two hour YouTube panels to find the, you know, the diamond in the rough of
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the, of what they were, what they're planning to do next. Now it's all going to be centralized. And
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frankly, I think we're going to be the largest audience, uh, rather than their own. I don't know
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that anybody other than the exiles from the state department who formerly were reading the diplomat
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are going to be reading the contrarian, but, uh, I have my popcorn out and I can't wait for their
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first issue. I asked Grok to look up some, uh, to write some anti-Trump name puns of the stuff that
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they could potentially be, uh, getting out there. Maybe some pecan resist ice cream, maybe some
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orange man bad, huh? Uh, orange man bad. Maybe Trump, but Trump, but Tony, this is so bad. This
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is the rock rock really failed me on this one. Lobster mobster. Oh my gosh. This is, it's so cringe.
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They would actually do this. I was going to say, I feel like I'm reading the, the contrarian humor
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column. This is so bad. It's just, this is the humor column that they're going to be coming. I
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have to stop. This is terrible. This is just terrible. Oh wait. I, so wait, now it's asking
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if we want Biden ones. Okay. Cup of sleepy Joe, a cup of sleepy Joe. There you go. That's hilarious.
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Caramel corn pop, grandpa Joe's Werther's originals, Delaware, Delaware undie mud, ice cream
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towers. F Joe Biden, pepperoni pizza, dark Brandon. That's, that's for funny Joe Biden,
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by the way, uh, uh, FCC and dark Brandon's secret sauce. Well, there you go. You know,
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I mean, it's, it's Joe Biden's just funnier. It's just funnier. But this, these people are
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ridiculous. They have no sense of humor. They have no charisma. They have no ideas. The lawfare,
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by the way, has been completely defeated and laughed out. And by the way, to the Republicans
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who thought that the lawfare was going to stop Donald Trump, I just like, you guys lost,
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right? You guys just lost. You didn't see through. You lost faith. You doubted. And that's why you now
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sit at the back of the bus. And some people aren't even on the bus and you know, Hey, you were all
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played. The cards were dealt. No one told you to do that. You could have stayed loyal. You could have
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stayed loyal to the country. You could have read the room. You could have stood with the American people,
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but instead you decided to get greedy and now look where you are. You flew a little bit too close to
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the sun. Mike Benz, I got to tell you, man, uh, look at this way. Give us the last minute. Just,
00:29:15.300
just tell people how important it is that in just one week, the boots are already on the ground.
00:29:19.720
The advanced teams are here one week's time from now it's game time. It is. This is prop. This was,
00:29:26.660
I think the single most consequential election in American history. We came very close, if not for
00:29:33.480
an incredible team that came together really over the summer. I mean, it came together last minute in
00:29:39.700
2024 with people like Elon Musk, with people like you and other media leaders, with, with the wonks,
00:29:46.640
the autists, the Anons, everyone came together and created this incredible coalition that overcame
00:29:52.640
the law fair. And if, if this had gone the other way, Donald Trump could be spending the rest of his
00:29:58.120
life in prison. And we could have had a prosecutor in chief who openly touted how the thing she learned
00:30:08.680
early in her career is the power to basically kill people with a pen stroke or to ruin their lives and
00:30:14.220
bankrupt them or disgrace them in their, in their community. Simple as that. Mike Benz, Mike Benz,
00:30:20.380
we got to run. Where can people follow you brother? At Mike Benz cyber on X. All right. Talk to you,
00:30:27.100
man. See you soon. I hope here in Imperial capital.
00:30:36.860
Hey Jack, where is Jack? Where's Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you.
00:30:44.960
Great job. Thank you. What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always
00:30:52.420
talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the guys should be getting
00:30:57.380
Pulisic. All right, Jack. We are back here. Human events daily, by the way. So, all right. There's
00:31:06.140
been this huge debate that's being waged. I didn't realize I was going to start this giant debate on
00:31:11.740
online and was banning earlier today on war room. So here we go. Um, and, and I'm going to put it out
00:31:19.020
to you, the listening audience here on the program, send us an email, 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776
00:31:28.140
at humanevents.com. Do you agree or not agree with the following that listening to an audio book counts
00:31:38.140
as reading the book? What is your stance on audio books? What is your preference? Do you like audio
00:31:45.100
books? Do you do like to, and I'll explain why. So it's 1776 at humanevents.com 1776 at humanevents.com.
00:31:51.900
So the whole thing that started all this was that we just released the, uh, audio book for
00:31:58.180
bulletproof. And there were some, there were some uploads and some Amazon issues. Jeff Bezos was,
00:32:03.500
you know, trying to block it and all this. And it finally came out and it is me. Uh, I did do right
00:32:09.280
here in the same studio where I do the show. I did the entire audio book for this thing and it came out
00:32:16.140
and it's, it's up there. You can go check it out. Bulletproof. Uh, just go to Amazon. They hit the
00:32:21.160
audible link. I think it's just available on audible right now. So if you're not already a
00:32:25.520
subscriber, you just go click it. Uh, if you're not a subscriber to audible, I think you have to
00:32:29.000
get one and then you can get it or something like that. But anyway, point being is we, we got into
00:32:34.760
this question about whether or not an audio book counts as reading a book. And I would say that it
00:32:39.800
does. Uh, I certainly would say that it does. And I would say that all these people who say that it
00:32:45.120
doesn't see you guys are the elitists out there. You're being an elitist because there are some
00:32:50.360
people in this world who work for a living. There are some people who don't have enough time and the
00:32:56.160
luxury to sit down and enjoy a nice long book. Look, personally, I do. I'm about 50, 50. I'll just
00:33:03.240
cards on the table. I'm a 50, 50 kind of guy. I would say 50% of the time I'm doing an audio book.
00:33:08.140
The other 50% of the time I'm reading when I read that's because I'm up later than everybody else in
00:33:13.980
the house. So Tanya and the boys are down. I'm up and probably spent a little bit too much time
00:33:20.720
online. But then, you know, usually what I'll do is I'll throw my phone into airplane mode.
00:33:24.660
So I like block myself from going online and then I pull out my book and I've got it set up where I
00:33:30.120
can do the book and the audio book combined. So it sticks with wherever, you know, whatever portion
00:33:35.080
I'm at. But look, if I'm driving, if I'm at the gym, if I'm doing something around the house,
00:33:40.440
if I'm shopping, whatever it is, I love listening to something. So I love listening to podcasts at
00:33:44.360
2X. And then when I'm out of podcasts to listen to, especially all my human events daily, I do
00:33:48.720
actually go back and listen to these. I go to my audio book. So I think it's a great way to do it.
00:33:53.600
And no, I don't think that there's any problem with reading. And I think that it's very elitist.
00:33:58.120
I think that these people, and you know what I'm calling them? I'm going to call them word
00:34:02.760
brickers. Yeah, you're a word bricker, right? You sit there with your brick of words telling us all
00:34:09.220
you're better than us, that you're better than us, because you read your books, and you don't
00:34:13.900
listen to your books. It's like, oh, you need the words on the page? What, like a child? And let me
00:34:18.260
tell you something. You may not have thought about this. I can reframe this on you in a second here,
00:34:24.340
because did you know, have you considered the fact that oral traditions are older than books?
00:34:31.820
That the oral traditions and oral spoken word and spoken stories, including, by the way,
00:34:38.340
significant portions of what? The Holy Bible were handed down to us by oral traditions,
00:34:46.800
which is essentially what an audio book is, right? Instead of having a person, you just have a person
00:34:51.560
that you can take. You can take a recording of a person. In ancient Rome, Lectio involved reading
00:34:57.440
scrolls and codices outside. These are facts. So in fact, audio books are older. Audio books are older
00:35:05.920
than those word bricks. What do you think? In times when people didn't have literacy, when people
00:35:11.280
weren't literate, mass literacy didn't really even get started until the printing press. Until the
00:35:16.220
printing press. So for the vast majority of human history, stories have been told orally. And the idea
00:35:25.380
and passed down through oral tradition. And so the idea that you could sit down and read a book,
00:35:30.060
that's new. That's very, very new. And so I'm just, you know, just check yourself, just check
00:35:34.260
yourself a little bit. By the way, I love reading books. I love, I've, that's what I just said. I'm
00:35:38.140
both. I personally, I don't even say it when I sit down and read a book. Um, and, and then of course,
00:35:43.940
it gets into the ebook debate as well. When I sit down and read a physical book, I will say this,
00:35:48.420
a physical book and I do it all the physical book versus the audio book versus the ebook. I will say
00:35:54.460
the fastest, the fastest that I can read is with the physical book. Could you not? The fastest I
00:36:01.120
read has always been with the physical book. Thing is though, like you're running around,
00:36:04.500
you got kids, you got a job, you got work. Uh, you got, I'm, I'm driving out to, uh, I'm going to be
00:36:09.160
on Tim pool tonight, by the way. So go and check that out that, uh, you know, you got stuff to do.
00:36:14.160
You got stuff to do. You got inauguration coming up, but anyway, so this all started with the release
00:36:19.520
of bulletproof and the release of the audio book of that. And of course, bulletproof, what is it
00:36:24.960
about? So it's about the assassination attempt on president Trump, obviously the first one in
00:36:31.200
Butler, Pennsylvania, which took place on June 13th. And then the second one, September 15th
00:36:35.920
down in West Palm beach, Florida. However, and this is really interesting because there were,
00:36:42.100
I don't watch a lot of liberal podcasts, but I guess there were a couple of liberal podcasters
00:36:46.000
who were going around and talking about Trump's assassination attempt. Um, and I wanted to play
00:36:52.640
it for you right now. Prized that a rifle round making any degree of contact with an ear wouldn't
00:37:00.840
do more damage. I think, I think a shattered piece of shrapnel from a teleprompter is far more likely
00:37:08.540
to have done that to his ear than, than a rifle round. That's so silly. Uh, well, have you seen what
00:37:13.960
rifle rounds do to human bodies? I know, but like, if it just hit it by the slightest possible
00:37:20.400
degree, it just, you know, it makes much more sense. The guy behind, no, but
00:37:24.780
so that's Bill Maher, Sam Harris, this guy, Sam Harris, uh, by the way, definitely a word breaker,
00:37:35.020
elitist, you know, a Gutenberger, you know, one of these types, they want you to be hobbled.
00:37:40.140
They want you to be stationary as you are ingesting information. But look, all that aside,
00:37:47.300
this guy wants to sit there and tell us that president Trump wasn't shot, that Butler PA
00:37:53.520
didn't happen, that it was, Oh, shrapnel really? Cause yet BrickSuit was their front row and BrickSuit's
00:38:00.420
got the photo and the photo shows by the way that the teleprompters are completely attacked.
00:38:08.300
They're completely intact. So this guy wants to sit up there. This liberal wants to talk and say,
00:38:14.000
Oh, well, you know, president Trump, you know, he wasn't even really shot. And I'll explain to you
00:38:17.460
why he does this by the way, and why it's so disgusting. Um, he does so because these TDS
00:38:22.640
sufferers, they don't want to take any responsibility or accountability for the lies that they spread
00:38:28.180
about president Trump in this movement over time. They don't want to take responsibility for the hate
00:38:32.680
that they have spread. Yes. Hate. And that's not a word that we use quite frequently around here,
00:38:37.460
but the targeting of president Trump, like we wrote the entire book about, about on humans,
00:38:43.200
how they target president Trump, how they target people for their certain target groups, hate groups
00:38:48.380
like the Kulaks in Soviet Russia. Okay. And president Trump certainly is the leader of that,
00:38:56.020
that they want to take you out. This is Luigi Maggioni kind of stuff. And they don't want
00:39:01.160
to have to deal with the fact and the cognitive dissonance that sets in when they realize that
00:39:07.720
perhaps their own behaviors and their own lies led to the shooting of president Trump. And so they have
00:39:14.360
an emotional and psychological necessity to try to talk it away, to try to act. So they, they,
00:39:21.520
this is where the denialism comes in because they have a, a psychological and physiological disease.
00:39:25.840
And you can see as him, by the way, look at his, his body language in the, he performs what's
00:39:29.860
referred to as a cluster gesture where his, his shoulders, uh, Ray get raised. He sort of leans
00:39:35.880
back in the chair, his hands are coming up. This is a cluster gesture, right? That's a cluster gesture.
00:39:40.740
Watch you. And you can see it right there. And he performs this when he's making this comment,
00:39:44.740
because on a, on a certain level, uh, on a certain lower level, he knows exactly what happened that
00:39:51.200
day, but he also knows that he has to lie about it. So here's my bigger question though, to Sam Harris,
00:39:56.540
if he wants to play this shrapnel game, which is just, it's completely irrational, by the way,
00:39:59.760
you can see that the teleprompters are perfectly intact. And by the way, if a teleprompter got hit
00:40:04.520
by a high power rifle around that thing would be shattered to be, it'd be in a thousand pieces.
00:40:07.880
There wouldn't be, uh, any of it left standing. Here's my question to Sam Harris. How about you go
00:40:14.300
and place a phone call or cut a little video on your podcast, talking to the family of Corey
00:40:20.240
Comparatore? How about you talk to them about why their father and why their husband wasn't able to
00:40:26.800
go home with them that day? If you think that it was all staged, that it was all some fake thing.
00:40:31.640
President Trump just did this for ratings. What about him? What about Corey Comparatore?
00:40:37.360
Funny how you don't mention his name. Funny how you haven't reached out to his family. This guy's a
00:40:41.920
liar. He's a cheat. He's a snake. He is someone who is fundamentally a weirdo. And when you look at the
00:40:49.340
things that he has said about Hunter Biden and killing kids, all I got to say is I do not want
00:40:54.540
to see Sam Harris's search history. Jack is a great guy. He's written a fantastic book. Everybody's
00:41:09.020
talking about it. Go get it. And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole
00:41:13.520
beautiful event. And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again. Amen.
00:41:19.340
Man, Jack Prosopic back live, Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C. I had no idea that you guys were
00:41:29.340
so hot under the collar about your reading styles. I'm reading the chats. So shout out to the Rav
00:41:35.860
audience that's up there on Real America's Voice in the Rumble chats. Shout out to everybody who's on
00:41:41.960
Getter. And I'm just reading. I got Kids Today 2, Blackjack 3, T-Gill 68, Severed, Amlax,
00:41:53.320
M-Orlando. I thought I was going to say Morlando. I listen to audio now because I have to listen while
00:41:59.080
I'm doing stuff. I have audio for Unhumans. But then right after, here comes Cindy Y-J-K.
00:42:05.500
Hey, audio is not reading. Reading activates different parts of the brain. A lot of people
00:42:09.480
saying that. What started my listening many years was a local show, The Radio Reader. Get that from
00:42:15.240
Kids Today. Patriot Warrior Texas says, do the audio books have pictures? That's hilarious.
00:42:24.500
Let's see. Does the book address multiple shooters? Yes, the book does address that. And so we certainly
00:42:29.540
do get into it. Nothing wrong with audio, but it's not reading. Don't bundle the Bible in there,
00:42:36.620
Posto. I am bundling the Bible in there because the Bible was passed down through oral tradition.
00:42:41.520
Large portions of the Bible were passed down through oral traditions before they were ever
00:42:46.560
written down. Fact. Go check it out. Go look at it. It's 100% true. Two of the evangelists,
00:42:54.380
two of the writers of the gospel, Mark and Luke, I believe, never even met Jesus. So those were oral
00:43:00.700
traditions that they knew, which they then later wrote down. And so that's just a fact. That is
00:43:07.160
just a fact. So let's get to some of the emails. We got Rebecca here. Audiobook gives you the same
00:43:13.540
information as reading, but reading with your eyeballs is better for your brain. I think I tend
00:43:17.340
to agree with that. I do. Audiobook is as great as reading a book. That's from Michael.
00:43:22.600
We got one in here from Christine. Audiobooks are not the same. When you read a physical book,
00:43:27.780
you can read and contemplate the information in the book. I personally like a physical book.
00:43:32.000
I keep the good ones and pass them on. This is key, by the way. This next point is key from Christine
00:43:35.900
here. It's now very important to keep hard copies because they can't be edited or erased. Can't agree.
00:43:43.880
Can't disagree with that. That's 100% true. And Netflix has been caught of that, doing that a number
00:43:48.180
of times. Keep sending your emails in 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776 at humanevents.com. Right
00:43:55.400
here, Jerry says, Hey there, Jack. I hope you and your family are doing well and your kids. Well,
00:44:00.780
we're doing great. We're very excited for next week. We're all going to be there. I do consider
00:44:05.180
it a form of reading and check this out from Jerry. I am totally blind and I've been that way since I
00:44:11.220
was born. I only weighed one pound, 15 ounces when I was born. So I was born with detached retinas
00:44:17.660
in my eyes. And it's the only way usually that I like to read because if I can hear the author read
00:44:23.740
a book to me or read their book to me, I feel like I've got more of a connection with the book.
00:44:29.180
Best regards. And it actually says that Jerry works in radio. So there you go. Very,
00:44:35.320
very interesting. Makes, makes sense. We got one here from Eric, the trucker. Eric,
00:44:40.100
the trucker says, JP, I'm a truck driver and I like to do my homework and stay up to date on all
00:44:44.540
current events. I wish I had the time to read a book, but I just don't work in over 70 hours a
00:44:49.080
week. Audiobooks haven't been an excellent way for me to learn and stay knowledgeable. Keep fighting
00:44:54.500
the good fight, bro. Feel the same way. Feel the exact same way. Okay. Jack bought the audio book
00:44:59.640
last night. Already finished it. Have absolutely happened. Have to listen to it again and again and again.
00:45:05.420
Love your voice. Love the content. That's from Sherry who also adds Christ is King.
00:45:10.100
He certainly is. And here's one from Jean, uh, someone right here. Wow. Uh, she is 77 years
00:45:17.720
young and she says, I am not able to read books anymore, but as an avid reader, I am so grateful
00:45:24.100
for audible books. So there you go. You see lots of reasons, absolute, lots of reasons to want to read
00:45:31.660
audio books. Uh, I, I, I, uh, I, I gotta say, I've never felt this incessant need to put down people
00:45:40.480
that listen to audio books. I don't have any problem with it whatsoever. I think we need to
00:45:44.600
stop the hate. I'm saying we need to stop the hate against the audio book people. That's all I'm saying.
00:45:49.280
All right. People can read whatever book they want to read and it's perfectly fine with the way you want
00:45:54.060
to read it. And everyone's preference is their preference. Some people like I got a buddy, by the
00:45:58.020
way, uh, still boneless was telling me that, um, he's, he's a guy. So, uh, one of the issues, my
00:46:04.060
buddy still boneless is he's not very smart. Like he's not very intelligent. And so, you know, he's
00:46:08.660
got a lot of mental issues, just really, really ton of mental issues. And so, uh, he has a big, um,
00:46:14.060
concentration problem. So, you know, when he's trying to concentrate on something, he's always doing
00:46:19.140
a million different things at once. And we've, we've really had to pull him back. We've had to
00:46:23.120
work on him, uh, especially when he's, when he's out in public, but, you know, he says, look, I can
00:46:27.900
barely read, but I can only get through with my audio books. Cause it sounds like the re the author
00:46:32.900
is yelling at me. And so that's something that he really responds well to almost, you know, like a,
00:46:36.920
like an animal or a small child. And so we, we love him very much. Uh, here we go. Another,
00:46:43.080
another person says that her mother is 96 years old. This is from Daniel. And
00:46:48.740
that she's listened to audio books for over 40 years. I've listened to a few of them and like
00:46:54.660
autobiography more than novels, which I think is in need of a full cast for them. Oh yeah. So I mean,
00:47:00.180
I love, by the way, audio dramas. I mean, if I had time, I'd love to do an audio drama or you get
00:47:04.680
different actors in, boy, these email, I don't even know if I'll have time to get to all these.
00:47:08.240
It keeps sending your emails in. These are great, by the way. I love these things. And yes,
00:47:11.380
I do actually read them. Uh, here's an email from Dave. He says we're frequently,
00:47:16.300
frequently on the road, find audio books, very useful. We're on the road a lot,
00:47:20.840
sometimes from Colorado to Pennsylvania and back get to hear the book at the same time.
00:47:28.500
Okay. And I think, is it? Oh, so when you're, when you're in the, I see what you're saying.
00:47:31.940
So I'm, I'm reading this clipped off, but it's, um, what he's talking about is if you're in the car
00:47:36.220
with somebody else, it's a great way to experience a book with someone else. So maybe if you're driving
00:47:40.620
with your wife and you're on a long drive together, Hey, or, you know, just one of your buddies or
00:47:45.340
whatever it is, you throw it on, you listen to the book. Wow. That is a great book. And he's
00:47:49.760
saying that we're officers and County GOP. We have a lot going on hearing book is definitely
00:47:53.960
a different impact. Someone also just said 50, 50, uh, that's from Laura thinking. People will
00:48:00.640
become more illiterate, not being hands-on, but we live in a tech world now. Uh, here's,
00:48:06.640
here's one from Don. Wow, man. Uh, I contracted chronic Lyme disease, uh, back in 1999.
00:48:13.280
One of the symptoms is brain fog and it's harder for me to retain what I read. I used
00:48:17.860
to live to read the Bible all the time. Now audible works good for me. Well, Don, I certainly
00:48:22.880
hope that, uh, that you have an audio book Bible and I certainly hope that you're able
00:48:27.500
to get through it very well. I know there's a lot of, a lot of options out there and just
00:48:32.480
thank you. Thank you so much for, for reading, for your support. I love reading the emails.
00:48:36.220
We will do more of these soon. 1776 at humanevents.com. Ladies and gentlemen, as always,