Episode 32 - White Privilege is a Myth. Cancel Culture Continues Unconfronted. NASCAR Noose Hoax.
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Donald Trump Jr's trip to Arizona got the crowd fired up, and it got me fired up too. I don't think the concept of white privilege is a myth in America, and I reject the notion of male privilege or white privilege .
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes this is congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the hottest
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takes the hottest temperatures in america might have been in phoenix arizona yesterday about
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106 degrees our shoes didn't exactly melt on the tarmacs like the last arizona trip but it was
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exciting here's the president i'm thrilled to be in arizona with thousands of patriotic young americans
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who stand up tall for america and refuse to kneel to the radical left
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you know what's going on because you're on the front lines of a tremendous intellectual struggle
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for the future of our country but the radical left they hate our history they hate our values
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and they hate everything we prize as americans and we're right and a man who's very understated
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he just gets it done behind the scenes never likes to go on television
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never likes talking a lot but he's a great congressman
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from one of my favorite states florida matt gates
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he keeps it low-key and simple right no actually he keeps it up and not simple
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but he's great and he does a fantastic job thank you man
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donald trump jr also got the crowd fired up here's a little of what he had to say
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fight for your country this is the first time this is a election that is freedom versus
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socialism freedom versus communism you see all these people they're espousing the virtues
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of marxism socialism and i get it i get it i'm the son of a rich guy from new york city
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but my mother escaped communism my mother escaped communist czechslovakia came here legally
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hard to believe that's a complicated distinction
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but the one thing that i learned from her was that my grandfather was a blue-collar electrician
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from what was then communist czechslovakia and he brought me over there every summer starting at
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the age of five i've waited in those bread lines i was pulled out of line one time because i was
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wearing like an american kind of jean jacket it was 80 so i thought it was pretty badass i was about six
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you know stars and stripes on it they pulled me out of that line a guy in a drab communist era thing
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with an ak slung over his shoulder asking me if i was there to spread propaganda i was six i didn't
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know what propaganda was so i understand that system i had the good blessing to witness it firsthand
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and there's a reason the boats only go one way folks you notice that all those celebrities
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says oh when trump's gonna like them i'm going to canada why are they still here
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i also addressed the crowd in phoenix here's a part of my speech president coolidge also said that
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as americans we are the peers of kings and i don't think it's a bad thing if we start acting like it
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some might call that male privilege or white privilege you know what those terms are just
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racist terms to try to tell people to beat to shut up and we're done being quiet
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i reject i reject the notion of white privilege or black privilege or any other type of privilege
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we are all unified in one american privilege that we should be proud of and fight for with everything
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america is not just an idea or a constitution america is our home
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and we must protect and defend our home for if she falls there is no alternative there is no
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place to go and so let us fight with all we have for our president for our country thank you for being
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the inspiration of our movement thank you for fighting let's go get them and i do believe that
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the concept the notion of white privilege is a myth in america it's think about what people are saying
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when they evoke white privilege what they're saying is because of your race because of the color of your
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skin you have a different and diminished contribution to make to our country to our national discussion that
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you can't perceive or discuss or legislate around idea sets if you're white and i don't care if it's not
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politically correct to say this but that's bs it's a bunch of garbage you know i believe that all americans
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have a special place in our country i believe in americanism so strongly that i don't believe it should be
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diluted i don't believe it should be diminished i don't believe america's history or statues or monuments
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are in any way to blame for the grievances that people may have today and it is quite something that
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we've allowed our country to devolve into name calling over race and it seems to be okay when you say
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or direct those types of diminishing comments to white people and i just don't think that any people
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regardless of the color of their skin should be treated differently in america we should all strive
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to love one another to work together and when i see these images in these videos of people of color you
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know showing up and yelling at police who happen to be white with these racist tirades it just breaks
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my heart so let's hope that we can come together as americans we can unify around a special american
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privilege and that we don't take that privilege for granted and by the way it is a privilege to be an
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american i've traveled all around the world i've seen how people live in the united states of america
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we treat all people i think in a way that should be cherished and celebrated and of course we could
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strive to be a more perfect union but blaming people for your grievances as a consequence of
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their race does not make us more perfect it makes us more tribal and we can do better and we will be
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better and i suspect that we can get through this national moment and hopefully come out even stronger
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former acting director of national intelligence rick grinnell is an american patriot after months and months
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of republicans in congress requesting the release of transcripts and the declassification of
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information regarding the corrupt origins of the russia probe we finally got the truth and the right
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information and the evidence that this was all a hoax out before the people because rick grinnell did
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what his predecessor dan coates refused to do and he declassified the information that exposed the deep
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state and i think the most telling declassification during the grinnell era is that the steel dossier
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which made up the bulk of the evidence for the fisa court was a target of russian intelligence
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that's right they were they were literally trying to pollute our elections in this way i had some fun
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with some q a with rick grinnell in arizona here's some of our exchange rick one thing that you and i have
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in common is that we can occasionally be a little based on social media we can occasionally share our
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perspective and our views with a little bit of edge and i just love it when all the like clinton people
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and obama people and even some of the bush people would just clutch their pearls and say oh how could
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rick grinnell get on twitter and and share what he actually thinks how could he put pressure on other
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countries through social media and so the question is this as these patriotic brave young americans
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seize their rightful destiny in leadership in this country is this the new normal are we now in a space
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where we can leave no lie unresponded to no claim un uh confronted and do you believe that getting on
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social media and sharing our views is precisely the way we keep the fire burning in this great movement
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i i absolutely agree and don't don't ever forget that freedom of the press is really
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the spirit of that is about getting information to the public back in the day when we didn't have
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social media you had to go through the media you had to sit down and tell your story and they would
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go back to their newsroom and they would decide what they wanted to say they had the filter
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and just like many industries the banking industry uh a whole bunch of industries have been transformed
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through technology so has journalism the information needs to go to the people the information is not
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to be just shared with the media and filtered by the media the media need to remember that the
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information is about the people it's for the people and when you have social media and you have a
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president who gets on and speaks directly to the american people without the filter that should be celebrated
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the nascar news hoax has been all over the news
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bubba wallace nascar's only african-american driver purportedly announces the other day that
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there is a noose that is hanging in his car's garage and the fbi deploys 15 agents to go and analyze
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what turns out to be a garage pull a rope that was installed quite some time ago that had a slipknot in it
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not to make a political statement about a noose but to allow for the pulling of the garage door
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it is just something that in society like we tend to
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always gravitate to the most sensational to the most absurd to the most charged interpretation
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of almost freaking anything and i mean you you've seen how the media
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and the the kind of woke culture really tried to use this moment of a garage door pull to try to
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make our country appear far more racist than it is i don't believe america is a racist country
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i believe that obviously we can improve on issues of race just like we can improve on a variety of
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other issues but i don't think most americans are racist and you'll notice that when this story first
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hit the news i didn't talk about it on the podcast i thought it was a little premature
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i thought that there was a possibility of a false flag and so hey you know don't jump in too quick
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let the evidence unfold and now we're able to talk about it now my perspective on gathering the evidence
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was not one that was particularly shared by the media uh you had even uh jamel hill who used to work
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for espn now is a contributor with the atlantic she had this to say this reminder this very stunning
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shocking appalling disgusting reminder of who again this sport is for um i'm very curious as to
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see how nascar handles this because based off what everything i've read is that this had to be an
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inside job because this garage was only open to essential personnel so somebody associated with
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nascar likely may have been the culprit boy must feel pretty silly right now to be characterizing
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a garage pull door in precisely that way and it wasn't just members of the media you had
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bubba wallace's girlfriend out there saying stuff like oh well this is the the time where white people
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need to examine their prejudices no no this wasn't an indication of white people needing to examine
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their prejudices it was an indication of a nascar driver needing to examine a garage door pull and
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you know i think we also need to need to ask why like 15 fbi agents get sent to investigate this hoax of
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a claim while at the same time the fbi is doing nothing to stop our monuments from being destroyed
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our history from being desecrated our buildings from being spray painted and defaced with not only racist
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terms but like pretty violent terms i mean there are calls for violence that are being literally spray painted
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on our nation's references to history and the fbi doesn't do anything about that but 15 people have to go
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and determine whether or not something is a rope pull or a noose when no one has been harmed and you
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know what probably a fewer number of fbi agents could have been utilized for that christopher ray's
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response to what is going on in our country as the fbi director has been inadequate christopher ray
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needs to do more if you had right-wing extremists whatever that means out like seizing portions of cities
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blocking off access to emergency vehicles challenging confronting throwing things at
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assaulting law enforcement you would have the fbi mobilized in a way you have never seen in this
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country but because it's the woke left that is bringing terror to our streets there's just a a broader
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acceptance and a broader tolerance for that and there shouldn't be the fbi needs to get off its duff
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they need to put down riots that threaten people's safety and they need to preserve america's history
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this is a country worth fighting for worth loving we should be cherishing our history because while it
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certainly has flaws while we're better today than we were then it is america's history and the installation
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of our values that have created the greatest country that has ever existed and i'm not apologizing for her
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i want to defend her and i sure think we need an fbi willing to defend her as well
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will america get its 51st state that's the question that's posed in a vox article by ian
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millheiser entitled dc is closer to becoming a state than it ever has been there'll be a vote in congress
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this week on dc statehood i will vote against that bill but i have an interesting perspective on the
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subject i do think that the current situation in washington dc is untenable our country is founded
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on the principle that there should be no taxation without representation and dc functionally has no
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voting representation in the congress they have no senators and yet they're taxed but i don't think
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the answer is to go create a new state i think the answer is to remove federal income taxes from the
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residents of washington dc that would seem to be more consistent with what's happening with our
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other territories so if you live in the u.s virgin islands if you live in our other territories there
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is not federal income taxes that is uniquely a feature of washington dc because if we made dc a state
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would that mean we'd have to make the virgin islands a state would we make puerto rico a state i don't
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think they want to be a state in some of those places and so the best way to standardize things to
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bring things into line where folks aren't being treated unfairly or differently than in other
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territories we should abolish federal taxation for the residents of washington dc but no statehood
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that would be a bridge too far and that would also i think disrupt kind of the the organization of how
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we treat our our territories more broadly because it wouldn't be a standard that they want to apply
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to others so let's treat all our territories to the same no statehood no taxation that seems fair
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and more consistent with america's founding principles
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we're getting the band back together the impeachment band that appears to be what's going on in the house
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democratic caucus and in the judiciary committee today in the last episode i discussed the revived
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efforts to try to reorganize politics around the concept of political impeachment that impeachment
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obviously won't happen of the president they've tried that they've done that it was a disaster for
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democrats now they're attempting to do it with bill barr here's the opening statement from my friend and
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colleague jim jordan laying out the renewed hope politics was in the previous administration bill
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bar is doing the lord's work trying to clean it up so that it doesn't happen again and we have said this
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before and i'll say it in closing imid flood's statement a little over a year ago where he said
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this we would all do well to remember if they can do it to a president they can lie to a fisa court to
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get a warrant to go after a president to go after a major party's political campaign if they can do it to
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a president imagine what they can do to you or i imagine what they can do to the folks we get the privilege
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of representing back home that's why this is important that's why the work bill barr is doing is important
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you guys can continue to play your political games bill barr is going to get to the truth i yield back
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theodore roosevelt is one of my father's favorite heroes in politics i don't know if it was the
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naturalism or the populism or the toughness i think it's a little bit the ability to bring those in your
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own party in line with what the people of the country need but theodore roosevelt was
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yanked down his statue was defaced destroyed in new york state and the governor rather than standing
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up for his fellow new york governor theodore roosevelt said it was a healthy expression
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to tear down this man who had done so much for our country this is mind-boggling to me and and clearly
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mind-boggling as well to our friend tucker carlson he had exquisite commentary on this last night
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here's tucker in the state of new york the governor tells us we haven't overdone it destroying public
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property is quote a healthy expression of people saying let's get some priorities here okay so that's
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the standard set forth by a democratic party leader let's think it through for a minute andrew cuomo lives in
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the governor's mansion in albany teddy roosevelt once lived there too so did governors grover cleveland
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and franklin roosevelt by current standards both cleveland and fdr were racists cleveland extended
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the chinese exclusion act fdr of course interned japanese americans by the tens of thousands during
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world war ii therefore like the statues now lying smashed on the ground in parks across the country
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the governor's mansion in albany new york is suffused with the spirit of white supremacy
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its very existence as an object is an act of violence against marginalized people it cannot stand
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should the mob burn it down would torching the racist governor's mansion amount to a quote
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healthy expression of people saying let's get some priorities here what do you think are you crazy of
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course not cancel culture continues to advance seemingly unconfronted by many of us who need to do more
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to ensure that there is free speech online and let me just go over the last few examples of
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twitter really demeaning the contributions that people are making to our national discussion first
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they again label the tweet of the president of the united states when the president essentially says we
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are not going to have some autonomous zone in our nation's capital we will stop you know the antifa
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movement from being able to do that so the president sends that out and twitter labels it much like they
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labeled my tweet about antifa but they weren't done there many people know the great meme artist carpe
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donctum a carpe donctum is someone i don't even know his real name i've met him in the state of florida
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at an american priorities event but he's a guy who is just hyper creative at using images and videos of
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the president with some animation and music to really have kind of light-hearted funny moments
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about politics not too serious but certainly very engaging a carpe donctum drives a lot of eyeballs
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on twitter and he's an effective conservative and effective supporter of the president
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and twitter because of a toddler video that was quite literally shared by the president of the united states
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has permanently locked carpe donctum out of his account suspended this cannot stand like we cannot
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allow the lack of transparency the lack of an appeal the lack of a of a predictable review process
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to bar people from sharing their views in america and when when twitter acts like this they just make
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the case stronger that they should be treated like a common carrier and regulated like a common carrier
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but they weren't done with the president and carpe donctum many on the podcast are familiar with the
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national pulse they're doing some of the most uh explosive reporting on the chinese communist party
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and on big tech censorship rahim kasam is the editor of the national pulse and when he was reporting on
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some of the murders that were going on in london and rahim zabrit he was removed from twitter
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presumably temporarily i don't really know but he was locked out of twitter as a consequence of sharing
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videos of people's death and violence well that standard didn't seem to apply with george floyd's death
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with any other number of videos that i've seen on twitter like when did we become so fragile as a society
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when did we become so weak that people literally sharing what has happened when they are news
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reporters as rahim unequivocally is like that we can't take it anymore i don't think that silicon valley
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should set the mores of america i don't think they should decide what we should be able to see and not
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see what we could handle or not handle there is big news coming i can't share it today but there is
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big news coming about the white house's response to the labeling of the president to these extensive
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cancellations and shadow bans and just outright bans that we're seeing on social media and i suspect i
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will be very involved in this in the coming days and weeks and we need to get on the stick we need to
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right now ensure that in the coming weeks and months as people start to tune into politics more and
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elections more that we have a way to clash ideas to show our discourse to express our views that is
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not subject to this type of governing and moderning by people with with no real interest in being
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transparent about the methodology that goes into their decisions to deprive people of access to the
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platform it's fundamentally un-american the fight is coming to twitter and a number of other these
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digital platforms you just wait and see thanks for listening this has been congressman matt gates
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