In this episode, I sit down with independent journalist and presidential hopeful Jillian Manchin to talk about how she got her start in politics, how she became a journalist, and why she thinks the Democratic primary system is broken.
00:00:37.000I raised millions of dollars when I ran for Congress by myself, and it's just a great system.
00:00:42.000I am a conservative, I'm a Trump supporter, but I do think that it's really Watching from the outside, I think it's really outrageous how the Democrat Party, and even the Republican Party, they want to just completely undo the will of the people and say, this is the only, even in Florida, oh, we're not going to have a Democrat primary.
00:00:58.000As a Republican voter, that bothers me, right?
00:01:01.000Because people should be able to choose.
00:01:07.000Now, you know, they're probably going to reject Nick Dealey tomorrow, hopefully.
00:01:10.000And Trump's going to be the Republican nominee.
00:01:12.000But, you know, so many, most Democrats that I meet, I honestly, and I say this wholeheartedly, I have never met a Joe Biden supporter in my life.
00:01:22.000Honestly, I have never met a Democrat who supports Joe Biden.
00:01:26.000I meet Democrats who support other candidates.
00:01:28.000I have never met a Democrat who supports Biden.
00:01:32.000And so that's why I wanted to know, it really wasn't a snarky question, how many Democrat voters do you think Nikki Haley is going to take away from you tomorrow?
00:01:39.000Because it seems really bizarre when you listen to NPR and CNN and even on Fox News.
00:01:44.000They have all these high-level Democrat strategists that are telling Democrats vote for Nikki Haley.
00:02:06.000She wants everyone to have a registered internet profile with the government, which is very much like the Chinese social credit score system.
00:02:13.000She actually called the police on me for showing up for a man to ask a question, even though I had a ticket.
00:02:18.000Did you say something happened when you tried to ask a question?
00:04:01.000You know, like I said, I'm a Trump supporter, but I do find a lot of what, I think that you guys have some parallel in some of the things that you say about, you know, being anti-war.
00:04:09.000He talks also a lot about economic opportunity being taken away from young people.
00:04:13.000I'm 30, I don't even know if I'll be able to buy a house ever since.
00:04:15.000He didn't get rid of those, uh, collets on debts.
00:04:38.000No, in a country like Australia, what they do is...
00:04:43.000You go as high as your achievement level will take you.
00:04:46.000And it could be all the way through PhD, law school, medical school, whatever.
00:04:50.000And then they know on your taxes, you know how much money you're making.
00:04:54.000And when you get to a point they can gauge where starting to pay the government back would not be deleterious to your lifestyle, people start paying back.
00:05:06.000Well, one last thing I was going to highlight on, and you answered his question, is I will say I went to D.C. and I actually sat in on the Proud Boys trial, and I sat in on a lot of the J6ers trials, and most of them are getting sentences way longer than 30 days.
00:05:18.000I know you said that you think they're getting, but they're getting about two years, actually.
00:05:22.000And some of them are getting charged for 20 years or plus.
00:05:25.000And one of the Proud Boys, you mentioned about being on the premise.
00:05:29.000What was so controversial about the Proud Boys case is the main Proud Boy, Enrique Tarrio, Who is half Black and half Hispanic.
00:05:35.000They demonized him as a white supremacist in D.C. They refused to allow him to have a venue change.
00:05:40.000And then even though he wasn't even at the Capitol on J6, they gave him over 20 years in prison.
00:05:45.000And so you have, in my opinion, I don't think that that's a fair trial.
00:05:50.000Also, I don't think it's a fair trial when over 90 percent of the people in D.C. voted for Joe Biden and they're not allowing for venue changes.
00:05:56.000And so I think that, you know, We left the Dean Phillips event because it was negative energy and we were joking on the way over here.
00:06:02.000We're gonna go get some good energy and positive vibes.
00:06:06.000And so I think that Joe Biden's message is very toxic to people having peace among each other.
00:06:12.000I think that one of the reasons why there's so much vitriol in our country right now is because Biden has literally classified half of America as domestic violence extremists.
00:06:20.000And I don't think that that's healthy.
00:06:21.000You know, when did he say anything like that?
00:06:33.000But my point is, is that I think that if we're going to actually appeal as a nation, regardless of whether, you know, whoever becomes president, I think Biden needs to stop attacking, right, and calling people violent extremists.