Media ATTACKS Trump for Surviving Second Assassin | Guest: Jeremy Carl | 9⧸16⧸24
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Jeremy Carl joins me to discuss the latest attempt on the life of President Trump, and the media's reaction to it. Jeremy Carl is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and author of the book, "The Unprotected Class." He is also a frequent contributor to conservative publications National Review and The Weekly Standard.
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Unfortunately, it looks like presidential assassination attempts,
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or the attempt on the life of prospective presidents or previous presidents,
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is now something that's going to be a regular feature of American life.
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Donald Trump survived another assassination attempt yesterday.
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The assassin was ferreted out before he got any shots directly off at President Trump.
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But we're in a situation where the news media seems to not only have embraced the fact that this is a part of life,
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but are blaming this directly on Donald Trump himself, that his actions, his rhetoric, he's the one driving this.
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Not a media that regularly calls this man an existential threat to democracy,
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somebody who could destroy the country if he's allowed to get back into power.
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Joining me to discuss this today is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute.
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He's the author of the great book, The Unprotected Class.
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Yeah, originally we were going to be talking about Springfield and, you know,
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everything that is surrounding this type of replacement migration, given your expertise on the topic.
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So we are still waiting for a lot of information coming out.
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We're in a bit of the fog of war situation when it comes to news.
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So everyone take what we are going to be talking about with a certain grain of salt
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because obviously, unfortunately, the media is also very bad intentionally at getting this information out.
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But from what we know so far, it looks like there is a 58-year-old assassin by the name of Ryan Routh.
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He has an extensive criminal record, including it looks like a standoff with police in North Carolina in 2002
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where he was in a standoff for three hours while holding a fully automatic weapon.
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This is not a guy who is very stable or this is obviously somebody who is prone to violence.
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But he also seems to have a record of political extremism.
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He is very much a supporter of a lot of progressive causes.
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Before his Facebook and Twitter were taken down, both seemed to be taken down by those respective social media companies.
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People captured many of his posts, many of which were repeating a lot of the rhetoric that comes from many MSNBC
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and other mainstream media talking points, even Democratic candidates talking about how Donald Trump is an existential threat to the United States,
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how he has to be dealt with, this kind of thing.
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It's amazing because the last assassin, which it's a terrible thing that we can even say that phrase,
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from a couple months ago, Crooks was really in many ways an enigma for the months after.
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The media said, of course, we just don't know what the motive could be, even though he shot at the president.
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But we're getting, you know, they're trying to get the same refrain in here.
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But for, you know, this time, it seems like there is a solid trail of kind of media fingerprints
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connecting this assassination attempt, the man himself and the rhetoric involved from the media.
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I mean, I think there's, you have to kind of crazy people because I would argue in most cases,
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you know, you have sort of philosophical discussion about evil versus, you know,
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I think in general, people are treating people else.
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Unfortunately, you're, sorry, your connection just broke up on us right as we started for some reason.
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So, yeah, I think what's happening right here, it's kind of very,
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I do think there, you have to make this differentiation between folks who may just
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crazy and whatever vertical views are, are just a manifestation of some sort of inner psychosis
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whom very rational, if perhaps evil, political view and are just kind of extreme in that way
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I mean, he's been, he was interviewed by the New York Times a year ago talking about supplying
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He clearly has some connections to deep state folks.
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I don't think that this is a, frankly, because they do it, they're going to pick people who
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Do you think that it's, it's interesting that this guy was reputable person, his sort of
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And so this is kind of a, you know, this is really, this is a assassination.
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It's not just somebody looking to become famous.
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You still had a little bit of breaking up there.
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Just maybe that'll help with the lag of your, your, at least get good audio connection there.
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But I'll, yeah, I'll kind of, well, while you're working on that, I'll, I'll kind of pick
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As you say that there is a certain aspect of people who are seeking attention.
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They're looking for it for some kind of attention.
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That's why they're involved with this kind of shooting.
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They don't have themselves some, some kind of strict political understanding.
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They just, you know, their, their, their inner lives are destroyed or they're looking for
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That's something that this would bring to an otherwise disordered life.
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And then there are people who actually are believing in a political ideology and are motivated
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to violence or extreme action by that ideology.
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And in the case of Ralph, it seems very clear, as you pointed out, this is somebody who was
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interviewed by the New York times, uh, was a vocal supporter of the Ukraine war.
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Uh, he was in a video supporting, uh, the Azov battalion in Ukraine.
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Uh, a lot of people pointed to the fact that he, he and crooks were both in videos supporting,
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you know, one black rock, one supporting Ukraine has a lot of people stirring the pot there.
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Uh, you know, I, I, I'm not, I'm not even really going to call that a conspiracy at this
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point because these are just factually true things that keep happening.
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Uh, but, but the fact that that's the case makes it clear.
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This is somebody who is very invested in politics.
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And like you said, this is not some random cry for help though.
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Obviously he has a history of, of violent behavior.
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So those things are not completely connected, but this is somebody who's tuned into the
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rhetoric of the left, the, the cries that the journalists have been doing over and over
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again, somebody just rid me of this meddlesome priest and somebody who took that pretty seriously.
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And it's sort of been staggering to see a few of these news headlines.
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Uh, you know, the Sanford, uh, the, the Cincinnati, uh, newspaper kind of basically saying this is,
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The New York times even has something a little similar talking about, oh, this is all symptoms
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It's all foreign against Trump, but you know, it's funny when I look at actual politicians
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who've been targeted prominently, at least for, for violent things.
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I think of, um, the Steve Scalise, I think of twice Trump, I think of Rand Paul being assaulted
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And I have a hard time, uh, finding the equivalent on the left-hand side.
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Not that of course there are not, you know, far right wing kooks out there, but for whatever
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reason, despite the fact that we're of course much better armed than they are on average and
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know how to use our arms, uh, much better on average than those guys, we seem to have a conspicuous
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deficit in the killing opposition politicians, um, uh, you know, sort of a business on the right.
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And I, you know, I'd like to say, I hope we continue in that, in that vein to have that deficit.
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Yeah, there's this scenario where we get these headlines that keep saying,
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I abhor political violence, but, but, but there's a, there's a lot of that. There's,
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I'm really against this, but I mean, he did have a, a, a skirt that was really short.
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And I mean, really, should he have been alone in that alley? I mean, you know, is any guy who's,
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who's, who's not looking for trouble really, you know, wearing something like that at 3am alone in
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New York city, we're, we're getting a lot of those type of stories. It's all, it's all Trump.
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It's his rhetoric. You know, he just did this terrible thing in, in Springfield. A lot of them
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are pointing to, uh, Springfield and, and the, and the, the discussion around migrants in Springfield
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as, uh, as a flashpoint for violence, these kinds of things, comparing that to what is happening,
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uh, with Trump. And, and also I've noticed that the, you know, the conspiracy theories have really
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done their work to be fair. Uh, the FBI lied, uh, directly to Congress, uh, about the, uh, the
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political leanings of crooks. They, they said, oh, his social media shows that he was basically a
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radical right-winger when, you know, when, when the gab founder, uh, uh, Andrew turbo was able to
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produce the actual posts of crooks on gab, showing that he was trolling the right that he was talking
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about by now, maybe he's just unstable. Maybe he's been on both sides. Maybe he's just a schizo
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poster going both directions. That's possible. But the, the FBI did not mention any of his pro Biden
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posts. They only mentioned him as some kind of Trump supporter. And so the left has held onto
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that. That has been their vindication. Oh, is it, it was a Trump supporter. It's Trump's guys taking
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out their own. We're not violent. Even people who want to kill Trump have to be Trump supporters
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because all violence flows from Trump. And now I'm seeing the same thing with this guy, even though
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he's literally got a Biden hair sticker plastered on the back of his pickup truck. There's already
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people in every one of my, uh, my, uh, Twitter posts, uh, in the comments saying, oh no, he's a
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Trump supporter. He's a Trump guy. He's a big Trump backer. He was a huge Nikki Haley fan, as if that
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was any kind of vindication. Uh, you know, so the, the, this guy is, is a huge Trump, Trump supporter.
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They've bought into this lie. Everyone's shooting a Trump is actually a secret Nazi as well. Everyone
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just happens to be a bad right-winger. Right. Well, will we ever know the motive of this, just a
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mystery, just like, uh, it was, you know, obviously the right-wingers who caused $2 billion worth of
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damage in the BLM riots. Right. It's, it's just, I understand the temptation to take these people
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seriously because you and I, and you and I are not immune from this. We grew up in a certain media
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environment. These were the voices that, yeah, we understood, of course they were biased, but there was
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still a certain amount of respect that was attached to them, a certain amount of respectability.
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And it's hard to fully accept, no matter how many times you hear it or see it, that these guys are
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just nuts and there is no falsehood or nuts or evil. I mean, depending on the person in the situation,
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but there, there is no level of falsehood that they will not go to. And, uh, you know, they're,
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they're also, I think they're amping it up because they're scared because I think they realize
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they are actually losing. And I think they're losing in this election pretty, pretty decisively.
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I think that, uh, this is, I'm not one of these poll obsessives, but I actually think that, that
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things are actually probably a little bit better for us as they've consistently been under Trump
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than what the polls show. And I think they're, they, they know how badly they've behaved and
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they're worried dad's coming home. Right. And, uh, when dad comes home, you know, some people are
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going to get, hopefully he's bringing a belt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm out. If they're lucky, maybe,
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maybe a belt, I mean, I hope a belt that's another, another discussion, but, um, um,
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so I think as that happens, we should expect them to just get crazier and crazier
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up till election day. And then of course, depending on the results of the election,
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maybe even continuing on till past election day.
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Yeah. There's, there's obviously, um, this, this ratcheting up, we saw the first assassination
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attempt. There was at least a few weeks after the assassination attempt where the media had to
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lie low, right? Because Trump is literally bleeding and heroically dragged us straight
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stages. He's screaming, you know, fight in front of the American flag. That's even for the left,
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even for the incredible spin machine of the left, that's a hard one to fight. Uh, so there's a couple
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of weeks where we got a little bit of the, the, the, the dialed down rhetoric. Well, maybe he's not
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Hitler is, it's just a problem. You know, it's just, it's just, just a divisive political figure,
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but maybe, maybe he's not trying to genocide everybody. And it took them three, four weeks
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before they turned that all the way back up. And we got right back into Trump is gonna, you know,
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wipe out all the illegal agreements and bring back slavery. And it's the handmaid's tale, you know,
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Trump triumphant overall. And the, now we get a second, uh, attempt and they don't even bother.
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They didn't even bother with the, the week of, well, maybe we shouldn't immediately call
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Trump Hitler the day after someone attempted to kill him a second time. No,
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they're leaning entirely into it. Cranston Steens. I mean, they're terrible on Twitter, but
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like all of these, you know, a lot, a huge amount of mainstream people on the left are immediately
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going into this rhetoric of Trump deserve this. Trump was asking for us. Trump is responsible
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for all increases in violence. It doesn't matter how many people on the left shoot at Trump.
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The right is the problem. The right is the one that is taking it. And there's only one
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clear message that comes out of this, which is political violence is something that the left
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is allowed to do, right? The left is allowed to riot. The left is allowed to burn down your city.
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The left is allowed to trap you in your home. The left is allowed to, uh, you know, intimidate
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you in front of your house and you'll become a news story. If you're the one that defends yourself,
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the left is around allowed to attack you in a mob. And if you shoot back, you're the problem.
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The left is allowed to shoot a president. Like this is the message. And that is what they're
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trying to make loud and clear. J six is a danger to a democracy that one, one incident in which
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some people got out of hand, you know, and still weren't, you know, no one died. No one was killed.
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That that's the ultimate, uh, threat to our democracy, but the left can continue to commit
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direct acts, actual acts that get people killed property district doesn't matter. It's not a problem.
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Yeah, absolutely. And it's sort of like, you need to, to kind of put on the veil of glasses
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to a degree for, for those of you who've seen that movie, right. And you just realize that,
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that all of these narratives are being put out by, by very bad Borg people who are aiming to destroy us.
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And, uh, you know, I think at this point, like the real mistake is to even engage most of these
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people in good faith. I think, unfortunately they do have power. There are times in which I will engage
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some folks from the so-called mainstream media in a strategic fashion. But, you know, if you're
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expecting to have any sort of fair shake or fair discussion, it's just, you're like Charlie Brown
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and Lucy pulled the football away for the thousandth time. And it's sort of like, well,
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what do you think is going to happen in time thousand and one? So.
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Yeah. It's also hard to miss the timing and the repetition on this one. Trump wins the debate.
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Biden stays in. They fail to kill Trump. Biden drops out new candidate, new debate.
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Yeah. Trump wins a debate. Trump gets an assassination attempt. Is there a third
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candidate waiting in the wings of the democratic party? And like every time there's a bad performance,
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we just, you know, Trump has to dodge another bullet and we get a new democratic candidate.
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Right. No, no, absolutely. And I think, uh, you kind of touched on the winning the second debate
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and it's sort of fascinating because it was really a moment of, of, uh, sort of Scott Adams persuasion.
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As soon as I heard it, I knew that this was going to be the thing. I'm like,
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I didn't watch debates. I never, I'm like one of these Hollywood people who don't watch movies.
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I never watch presidential debates. Um, but as soon as I heard that he brought up the cats,
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I'm like, I don't care what else happened in the debate. It's just going to be about cats.
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And in fact, and this may segue at some point into a Springfield, uh, conversation, uh, you know,
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that's, that's just going to be a winning issue for us because it really is the, the linchpin of,
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of kind of every other crazy thing that the left has done, particularly on immigration. And the fact
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that Kamala, uh, hit all these singles, um, doesn't matter. Um, that, you know, that was kind of the,
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the post date spin room was well. She did really well. And Trump was out of, um, you know,
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maybe not on the top of his game, but at the end of the day, what people remember from that debate
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is cats. And, uh, and that's ultimately a winning issue for us to be talking about.
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Yeah. There's even like a tick tock trend of people remixing him, the dogs and the cats line.
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Like it really is this moment where, as you say, people don't watch presidential debates anymore.
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They know they're a sham there. They know that they're going to be completely controlled.
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Uh, actually I think, you know, not, not to, you know, not to be the one, uh, to, to shine on the
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blaze here at the home team, but I think it's just true. The, the best debate I've seen in probably
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my lifetime ultimately was the one that tuck where Tucker just brought everybody sat down to that
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candidate forum for 20, 25 minutes and made them answer questions. Like that's where we learned more
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about substantive issues, policies, understandings of visions for the future of the United States.
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Then we've seen it any media controlled, you know, mainstream media control debate in a very long
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time. So people don't bother to tune in for those, but what they see is the clips. They see the memes,
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they say, they see the highlights. And so it's not about, oh, like you said, I'm consistently hitting
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singles. I'm getting on base. Everyone. No, it's about who hit the home run, who got the thing that
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breaks through and becomes the viral sensation. That's the only thing that the vast majority of people
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who are even paying some attention to politics will actually see most of the time.
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Yeah, absolutely. And I can't remember who said it on X, but it was a really good take where they
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sort of said, you know, the whole spin room, which was the kind of legacy of the Bill Clinton era,
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which is where I sort of grew up and, you know, you had these and then all the campaign surrogates
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are spinning immediately after on how their candidate won the debate. This is a, this is a relic
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of a different media age. And now it's all just about like, who has those moments that get on X or
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get on tick tock. And Trump is pretty darn good at that. And, and again, I was just really,
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I was surprised. As soon as I did that, I'm like, if the left is dumb enough to engage with this,
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it's just going to be a constant win for us. And, you know, they couldn't help themselves. So,
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so, you know, great. Exactly. Yeah. I knew the same thing because,
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you know, I, I worked as a local reporter and whenever I worked in, in politics and crime,
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I repeat myself. But yeah, whenever the, the day was slow, there's always one section of town where
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you knew you could get a crime story, just go check the blotter for, for that area. And you're,
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you're going to get it. And there's consistently stories of animal entrails and left culverts because
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we had had large populations that practiced voodoo and Santeria moving into the area.
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The remnants were being left. The remains were being left. So I knew from personal experience
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that a lot of this stuff is going on just under the surface in towns where there's a high degree
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of immigration. So when I, as soon as I saw that story, even if one specific instance wasn't the
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case, I knew that as soon as they started digging, they were not just going to find more of that,
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which is sensational and headline grabbing, but more importantly, the things that the people
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should really care about, they were going to find about out about the people getting killed in car
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crashes. They're going to find out about the families who couldn't afford rent anymore.
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They're going to find out the people losing their jobs because they now have to compete
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with this large migrant population. So yeah, we're, we will just go ahead and transition
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All right. So before we transition to Springfield, I want to ask you one more thing about this because
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we could spend a lot of time speculating, but like I said, we are in this fog of war.
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Information is still coming in. I'm sure we're going to find out a lot more about what was going on with
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this guy. But obviously, a lot of people had a lot of questions when it came to the first shooter
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in Pennsylvania and the coverage from the Secret Service. Obviously, this is a very difficult job,
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but it seemed very obvious that there were major holes in the Secret Service's plan to protect Trump.
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A lot of people speculating that some of those are intentional. Hard to pretend that there are very
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serious questions surrounding that, especially with the amount of evasion we've seen from both the
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FBI and the Secret Service. The fact that the DHS seems to have been trying to persuade the
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Secret Service to not testify or come clean on all of the information involved also leads a lot of
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people to have what I think are pretty reasonable theories about what's going on there. But now we
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see a second failure, right? Now, this is a little different situation. Apparently, this guy was
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waiting with, I believe, an SKS. At first, we were told it was an AK-47. I think the SKS is still firing
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the 7.62x39. But either way, this is a military rifle. This is something that can do a lot of
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damage. You know, this guy was waiting in the bush for Trump there. Secret Service agent did spot in
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advance this time. And so, you know, Trump was not in any direct danger, did not come directly under
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fire. But Ron DeSantis has come out after Eric Prince, you know, suggested this. Ron DeSantis came out
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and said, we're doing our own investigation. We don't, you know, this happened in Florida. We have a lot
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of questions. We're worried they're not going to get answered. Now, Eric Prince had suggested that
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he basically tell everyone to turn around and he's going to handle it himself. I support that. I still
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think that's the way that DeSantis should go, but I am glad to see he's at least saying that he's going
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to set up a parallel investigation. And, you know, a lot of people are going to continue to ask this
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question. Can the president of the United States or, you know, the prospective president of the United
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States actually trust the protection of the Secret Service? Can they trust the ability of the FBI
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and the DOJ to do their jobs, the DHS to do their jobs? Or is this a scenario where somebody like Ron
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DeSantis has to step in and, you know, find the truth? Because ultimately we're dealing with a
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situation where our core federal institutions are no longer trustworthy and it takes leadership
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of GOP governors to actually get anything done. Well, I'm glad that DeSantis is stepping in. There's
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no downside of that to me. In fact, it's all upside in many ways. And I think getting somebody who is
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not attached to the federal apparatus to do whatever investigating he'll have the power to do,
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and I think that's always obviously a little bit of an open question, is great. I am probably on the
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very anti-conspiratorial side of the right. And I don't even mean that's conspiratorial as a
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pejorative. I'm not criticizing people. I just, I happen to, you know, for a variety of reasons and
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incentives, I think it's much easier to understand these sorts of things as gross incompetence that
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people have an equal incentive to cover up, right? Like if you're completely incompetent,
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you know, you don't want necessarily people knowing that about you. But I don't think,
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I don't think, I mean, I'm sure there are people within the deep state who would be happy
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to see Trump dead, but I don't think that they are going to go about that in such an obvious thing as
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intentionally choosing not to cover them. That's just my personal view. But in some ways I find this
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more disturbing because it's like they can't even do these sorts of important jobs even when they're
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life or death issues and they're going to get huge negative publicity blowback. It's just like,
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I just saw we just canceled some attack helicopter in the army that we were supposedly under development
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for, you know, 20 years. And it's just, I think the increasing inability of our bureaucracy to,
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you know, you see what's going on with NASA, similar thing. I mean, I don't think there's any grand
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conspiracy where they're trying to make sure that we don't go to the moon. But they're just,
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you know, the government has just become increasingly incompetent and you're seeing
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the effects of that. And then you combine that with bad actors who are, of course, being egged on
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by some of the rhetoric from Democratic politicians in the media. And you find out that we're in the
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situation that we're in. So a lot of people have been blaming, obviously, Trump for what's happened
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here. As we've already said, the media has sprung to this idea. Republicans are pouncing. That's
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another, yes. They seem a little angry that we keep shooting at their presidential candidate. Can't
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tell why. It's very, very strange of them to have this kind of approach. But one of the things that
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they're pointing to is the events in Springfield, obviously. And as we said, you know, that there were
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a number of reports. I mean, I remember when I was at NatCon, you know, we were both there. JD Vance
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was already talking about Springfield in that speech before he had been named a presidential
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candidate or a vice presidential candidate. You know, so this is something that he was pushing
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well before it hit the media's radar. He already knew what was going on here. But the thing that really
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lit this off, the thing that really got it to take flight was the social media posts citing,
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you know, what was happening with pets. You know, there was the video that came from one of the
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Twitter anons about, you know, with the city council and the older, elder woman saying,
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I can't protect myself. There are these strange men who don't speak English, you know, just squatting
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on my lawn. They're screaming at me. They're leaving trash in my lawn. I can't do anything about it. I
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can't report it. Nobody will do anything. You know, I feel scared. And then people started looking at
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the Facebook pages and things around reports started coming out. Now there's been mixed veracity about this.
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You know, Christopher Ruffo has found evidence of similar situations, you know, just within 10
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miles of the city. But the exact, you know, pets or geese or what has happened with animals in those
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areas has been up in the air. But that has drawn attention to all the other problems that mass
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immigration brings, particularly the replacement style immigration that is being used to displace the
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population of Springfield, Ohio and many other cities, cities in Alabama. I mean, even the
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governor of Ohio acknowledged that there were multiple other cities. You know, DeWine was listing
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off other cities that were undergoing the same thing, even though he said, well, I'm not really
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against it. It's fine. I just want money for it. Like I said, as long as you should be funding for
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it, I don't care how many of my, my residents you get run over by unlicensed drivers. They don't
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matter to me. As long as the federal money flows, that's, that's all that really matters. And we've seen
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this take over and over again from the left, but obviously with this level of attention,
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there are people do crazy things. People do stupid things. People have called in threats,
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this kind of stuff. And they were trying to pin this kind of thing on JD Vance saying,
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because you notice this problem, you cause this violence, but they of course can't, you know,
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attach any of this to their own actions when it comes to Trump. Yeah, absolutely. And I think you
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really hit on the key two key things actually. First is that what this is really all about is calling
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attention in a very memorable way through these memes to what is going on in these communities
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in a way that, you know, us complaining about a soup kitchen kind of being overrun is just not
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sadly going to do. It should, but, but that's just the reality is that it, it didn't, this particular
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thing came down. And I think JD Vance, again, who I think has a very good intuitive understanding of
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this very early on was basically saying on X, we're going to double down on the cat memes and,
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and, and he's completely right. And not only should we double down, we should triple down.
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And for any of your listeners, if you have any kind of hesitation after tripling down, quadruple down,
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because you need to get that away. And I say that not because we should ever spread things that we know
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to be false. And in fact, JD Vance made it really clear that all he was doing was repeating things
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that were being said by his constituents. But as you touched on earlier, with your own experience
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as a reporter, we all know that there are some significant number of Haitian Americans who are
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involved or in this case, not even really Americans. They're, they're here, you know,
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under this quasi legal umbrella who practice this sort of stuff. And you know,
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the Democrats saying, no, these are Congolese in Dayton, not Haitians in, in Springfield that are,
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that are barbecuing cats is not really the compelling win that they think it is, because
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then it immediately causes the question in a viewer's mind, well, what are Congolese people
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doing in Springfield? How does that make America great, right? And that's the reason that ultimately,
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this is an existential battle for both of us. And that's why I say, when you're having hesitation about
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tripling down, quadruple down, right? And again, I'm not saying that to quadruple down on something
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that nobody should be posting anything that we know to be false, but the kind of broader
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kind of issue that the Democrats correctly feel they can't lose on is they have let middle America be
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invaded by a group of people who do things that are on the net, net negative for the community,
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short term and long term. There's no advantage to the US to have them here. And the Democrats have done
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this very willfully so that they can have more vote banks, you know, in their pocket. And we need
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to call them out on that. We need to say that they're damaging America in doing that. And we need
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to not apologize even one bit, any bad thing, even if it's a bomb threat, even if some idiot who happens
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to see some of this crazy stuff goes and, and shoot somebody that is all downstream of the person who has
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caused the problem, the people who have caused the problem are the people who are allowing this invasion.
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And the fact that there might be some idiot who gets really mad about that, you know,
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we obviously condemn that, but that's not the person who created the problem. People who created
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the problem are Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and the rest of the Democratic Party.
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Yeah, I can't believe I robbed, you know, this, this area of jobs and housing and, you know,
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it is impossible for people to live here. But, you know, some people are about that. That's just so,
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so, you know, but like you said, it's, you know, you, you needed to cry anything that is,
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you know, this beyond the pale, but ultimately you need to understand that you can't be cowed
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by this rhetoric. These people will use your goodwill against you. They will destroy you
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and they will not hesitate as we can see with their treatment of Trump to continue to do the same thing.
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They're going to keep calling him orange Hitler. They're going to keep saying he's Mussolini.
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They're going to keep saying that he's going to destroy democracy. They don't care how many times he gets
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shot out. They don't care how many Trump supporters are killed. They do not care about whether or not
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this destroys your community. They don't care. They're going to keep pushing this agenda and you
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can't sit there and watch them do that and say, well, but we're going to be, you know,
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we're playing by Marcus of Queensberry rules. We're, we're the ones who are careful. We're the ones who
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never, you know, who always hesitate. We're always on the back foot. We're always on the defensive.
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You know, one of my favorite moments was, uh, yeah, they had the, the, the picture of a Haitian man
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picking up a swan by the neck and, uh, you know, the, they, it turns out it was from a different
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city, but it was still a Haitian man. And yeah, they were like, oh, it was a lie. It's a hoax.
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Like, so your point is that Haitian men are doing this all over the country, not just in Springfield.
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And that's your gotcha moment that that's where you're trying to hit us between the eyes.
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Every day that we talk about the issue of the Democrats' traitorous immigration policy
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is a day we're winning. And again, I mean, I'm, I want to stress, I'm not saying,
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say things that we know to be false. We shouldn't, but, but we should, we should push them
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every day on things that we know to be true or have reasonable belief that that could be true
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that are going on. And, and, you know, we're now as again, JD Vance did a great interview about this.
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He said, you guys are finally talking about what's been done to this community in terms of jobs,
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in terms of crime, in terms of homelessness and all these things and, and, and real estate becoming
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completely unaffordable, um, that I've been trying to get you guys to pay attention
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for, for, uh, years now. And if it took a bunch of cat memes to do that, well then great.
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Uh, and that just needs to be our approach and we need to, to put on our big boy pants
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and be ready because they are going to come after us. And as soon as anybody on our side,
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or even anybody who could putatively be on our side does anything bad, they're going to double
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down and we need to be, um, we need to be like a stone wall in response to that type of provocation
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from them. We need to say, yep, no, we're, uh, you guys are still the bad guys here. We're not
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letting you change the subject. So one thing that has been a real push, uh, point for the left is
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this idea that migrants are economically invigorating. It's not, it's not a great replacement.
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It's an economic invigoration. Uh, they're invigorating things by doing the jobs that you would do
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or living in the houses you would live in, but it's an invigoration. It's, it's not a replacement.
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So you're somebody who obviously wrote a great book about, um, you know, uh, the, uh, prominence
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of anti-white discrimination across our country and at every level from, from, you know, public,
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private corporations, government institutions, media apparatus, academia, uh, even churches just
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across the board. And one of the things that you pointed out is that a large amount of the democratic
00:37:19.920
coalition is glued together by kind of this anti-white bigotry by, by what they can glean
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from it, the, the, the identity politics, the hatred, they can create the money that they can
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glean from it. This is a lot of what's driving them. And that became very apparent when it came
00:37:36.080
to Springfield because the re over and over then the rejoinder was two things. One, these people
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aren't illegal because we said they aren't like there's, there's, there's, there's just this one
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waved over them. And so magically they're legal immigrants. So it's fine because you know,
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immigration is fine as long as it's legal. Even the Republican party has said that sadly,
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but on top of that, they're just better people than the people of Springfield, Ohio. We saw this
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over and over again. Oh, well, Springfield's got drug problems. Springfield's full of white trash.
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Like they're, they're, they're a problem, you know? And so it's okay. If your community is overwritten,
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it's okay. If your job's taken, it's okay. If you lose your homes, because ultimately we're just
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importing a better class of people and that's fine. Yeah. That, that, that is exactly the
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implicit. And at times, even when they're a little careless, the explicit message that we're getting
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from the democratic party. And of course, again, and this is why I just want to talk about Springfield
00:38:28.880
six days a week and twice on Sunday, um, is, uh, so why is Springfield? I mean, again,
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I don't want to do a huge dissertation. I'm not an expert on Springfield, Ohio, but, but if it's like
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many of these other struggling communities, well, where did the manufacturing jobs go? Where did
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everything else go? Did we ship them off, uh, to Mexico and to China, uh, under quote unquote,
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free trade? Um, and so, um, you know, now that you, you've got, and these are of course exactly
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the sorts of things that Trump talked about. So now you've got these jobs at very unattractive,
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non-livable wages that exist. You've got people who've been robbed of their dignity,
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and now you're kind of surprised these communities are struggling, right? It just, um,
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it doesn't make a sense, but beyond that, I just feel, and by the way, one interesting thing,
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and you have seen a little bit of this is it's not just, I mean, Springfield is not some
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98% white town, even before the Haitians showed up. There are also a lot of, uh, you know,
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African Americans who presumably have deep roots, uh, in the United States who, uh, have been in
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Springfield. And in fact, a couple of them I saw, uh, complaining about the Haitians on videos that
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got circulated. Um, but, but regardless, yes, there's the sense that these are white guys,
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they're middle American and we don't like them. They're bad. Uh, they cling to their guns and
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religion. Um, and, uh, we really would just like a better class of people. And I mean, I think the
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rejoinder is two things, which is, you know, a from any empirical observation that we could give
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either from looking at Haiti in the last 200 years or the overall kind of, um, tenor of Haitian
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immigration elsewhere. Is there any reason to be super optimistic that Haitians are just going to be
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a far better class of people than the Americans, uh, that we have? Of course, the answer to that is,
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no, there's a reason why Dominican Republic next door on the same island, not let Haitians in. Um,
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but even if we just farcically assume that that would be true somehow, at the end of the day,
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the people in Springfield are our people. They are part of America's heritage. I'm sure many of
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those people, uh, you know, have fought their ancestors in all of our wars going back to the
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revolution and before their people whose ancestors helped build America. And we have a loyalty to them
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that we don't have to some random Haitian, you know, I'm sorry. And I can, I even say this. I mean,
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one thing I don't like as a Christian, you know, I started, I really tried not to kind of like attack the
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Haitians per se, because I'm not actually mad at the Haitians. Like I understand why they and lots
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of other people from very depressing countries, um, want to come to the U S and I, if I lived in
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Haiti, I would want to be in America too. Absolutely. Right. So I'm not, I'm not angry
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at them. I mean, sometimes I'm, you know, I'll, I'll use some of their ridiculous customs to say
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these guys, maybe we shouldn't let them in, but the people I'm really angry at are the Democratic Party
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who has betrayed heritage Americans of all colors, um, to let in these like really, really foreign
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people for whom we're going to have to support them. And I just, loving my neighbor means as
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Tucker Carlson would kind of say, I'm loving my actual neighbor, not my theoretical neighbor
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who just might've shown up from Haiti or Afghanistan or wherever else.
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Yeah. It was one of my favorite moments, uh, you know, uh, several prominent leftist Christians,
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including, uh, Phil Fisher from, uh, from veggie tales. Yeah. Got on there and oh, well, you know,
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what I'm seeing here is so gross, blah, blah, blah. I can't believe this. And it's like,
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you're not fooling anybody. Like the P you don't care about the people who live in Springfield.
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They are the actual neighbor. They are the actual people who live next to you. They're the people who are
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supposed to be protected by the civil magistrate in your, in your country. And you do not care
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about them. You just want a more fashionable person to care about. You just want to the people
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that the New York times tell you are worthy of your actual love. Your Christianity is entirely
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dependent on what the regime tells you is the best person to care about. So don't quote scripture at me
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when you obviously don't care about the people that Jesus was directly referencing when he told
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you to care about people. And on top of this, you know, oh, it's, it's racist. It's racist.
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As you point out that I love the, oh, all this, all the, all this commenting and what happening in
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Springfield is racist. When literally the most prominent guy who gave testimony about, you know,
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geese B or, you know, birds being stolen, ducks being stolen from the park and eaten was a black man
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speaking at a city council meeting in let let's say a very urban dialect. Yeah. This is not,
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this is not some pasty dude from the middle of Ohio, you know, and he's like, no, I don't want to
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live like this. I don't want people in my neighborhood who are doing this. I don't think
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we should be subject to this, but yeah, it's, yeah, it's all about race, whatever.
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Yeah, absolutely. And it definitely reminded me of, of Megan Basham's book shepherds for sale,
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uh, that, that came around a little bit after our, our books came out, but, but a lot talking
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about these regime evangelicals. And again, you know, if your pastor is trying to guilt you on
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the Haitian question, I would suggest you find another church. And again, I'm not saying that
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we don't need to reach out to folks. We shouldn't have compassion for folks, but our primary locus
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of compassion starts with our family. It extends to our friends and extends to people in our community.
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And that extends to our fellow Americans and people who would like to come here from some
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random place, uh, in the world, um, should be, it's not that we don't think about them, but they
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should be well outside those sort of central circles. So one of the huge things that, you know,
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and I think there needs to be a lot more done on this, but it's already starting to build momentum
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is the, uh, is the number of federal programs and, uh, non-government, uh, organizations involved
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in creating these scenarios. It's not that the federal government is just, whoops, we ended up
00:44:29.520
with a bunch of Haitian people in Ohio. I actually saw a lot of people say, well, you know, they just
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happened to have a lot of people show up there. Yeah. 20,000 people from the same country all just
00:44:40.000
magically appeared in the same place over the last few years. Yeah. I'm sure that's exactly what
00:44:45.360
happened. No, what's very clear. And what many residents have, have said explicitly is that a
00:44:50.880
lot of these people are showing up with basically blank checks from the government. They're getting
00:44:56.160
cards with enough money to, you know, rent out, uh, apartments, you know, force, you know, the
00:45:01.280
landlords are turning out local Springfield residents so they can increase the, the rent and
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then rent them out to government, uh, underwritten, uh, migrants. And so it'd be like, oh, well, you know,
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the Haitians are reinvigorating the economy. No, what's happening is a large amount of federal
00:45:17.200
funding is flowing through these people. And of course, a lot of the city managers suddenly get
00:45:22.880
on board, local politicians, even let's say GOP governors, you know, they're fine with all this,
00:45:28.400
as long as the money flows. And this is what happens when you have a managerial elite, right?
00:45:34.640
Elite that is not attached to the people, not attached to the folkways, not attached to the history,
00:45:39.280
not attached to the tradition, the legacy of the United States or the communities they're supposed
00:45:43.680
to serve. They only care about making the machine work and making it more efficient and more profitable.
00:45:49.200
So whoever does that, whatever group happens to be flown in to do that, that's all that matters at
00:45:54.160
the end of the day. Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, we're, we're subsidizing, as I wrote in my book,
00:45:59.040
we're subsidizing our own dispossession. I mean, and it's just, it's done in an opaque way. So you have
00:46:04.080
to have investigative journalists who kind of really go trace where all the money is coming
00:46:09.280
from. But we've got all these, these church related groups that are often implicated in
00:46:14.160
getting huge amounts of money to resettle these folks. You know, it's just a mess. And then you've
00:46:19.280
got to, and this again, touches on a lot of themes from your book in terms of the managerial elite,
00:46:24.000
and you've got guys like Governor DeWine of Ohio, who is nominally a Republican, but he's just awful.
00:46:29.600
He's awful on these issues. And he doesn't seemingly have any particular feelings of loyalty
00:46:37.360
toward actual Americans. And as long as the money is flowing, he's happy. And it's just,
00:46:44.720
it's a betrayal. And again, you know, we need to, Trump is, has driven a lot of these money
00:46:49.360
changers out of the temple. I think it's, it's one of the best things that he's done, part of that
00:46:55.200
intentionally and part of that, just because they were particularly repelled by his message. But
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it's, it's still an ongoing process that we've, we've got just a lot of these, these America last
00:47:07.520
people who are still in positions of power in our party.
00:47:10.800
Yeah. Trump's spiky shoulders are not a, not, not a bug. They're a feature. That's, that's,
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you know, the fact that he makes it very difficult for respectable people to, you know, to get on board
00:47:21.760
is actually a positive thing because the people who are respected by the current regime are actually
00:47:26.240
despicable. And you actually want them as far away from your movement as possible. Nikki Haley will,
00:47:31.680
you know, anyway, moving on. So we have a lot of questions from the people here. We should probably
00:47:38.240
get started with those. But before we do, Jeremy, where can people find your book and your other
00:47:42.320
excellent work? Sure. So my book, The Underprotected Class, which we referred to a couple of times,
00:47:47.040
you can get it on Amazon or wherever fine books are sold in your local community. And it's been
00:47:52.800
received really, really well. So that's been great. For the rest of my work, you can follow my
00:47:57.520
X slash Twitter stream at Real Jeremy Carl. And I also have a sub stack, a relatively newer one that
00:48:03.680
I'm getting going pretty well called The Course of Empire, jeremycarl.substack.com. And if you follow
00:48:09.760
all those places, you will see 97% of my work. Excellent. Yes. Anybody who hasn't read Jeremy's book,
00:48:16.720
most certainly should be doing so. Let's see over here. I'm sorry, I'm going to say this wrong,
00:48:23.440
but my money igloo. Anyway, he says, we need to be clear. It wasn't an AK. It was an SKS with an
00:48:31.440
extended magazine, the why the Secret Service FBI can't identify firearms. I'll never know. Yeah,
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my, my, I mean, those are, they're both, I mean, the, the AK is the successor to the SKS. It's a,
00:48:42.960
they both have the same wooden furniture. I can understand why at a glance, the initial reports,
00:48:47.840
people would say AK type weapon. Uh, but yes, you are right that that is the correct designation,
00:48:52.800
uh, for the, the weapon that was used. Let's see here. Uh, we've got a creeper weirdo says,
00:48:59.200
it doesn't matter how many of your bones I break, honey. You may, you made me angry. That's, uh,
00:49:03.760
that beating was your fault. A rational response. Yes. That is very much the, uh, the attitude being
00:49:09.360
taken towards Trump and his supporters, even when a leftist kills them, uh, which is a horrible
00:49:13.760
thing. Uh, let's see here. Uh, Balthazar says Trump wishes that the Virgin, uh, or Trump wishes
00:49:19.760
the Virgin Mary happy birthday. Uh, then the second attempt, uh, happens on the September 15th,
00:49:25.440
the feast day of our Lady Mary of sorrow. Hmm. Coincidence. Uh, I don't know. Could it be the
00:49:31.760
pushback against, uh, Christianization of Donald Trump? Who knows? I'm Protestant. So I'll say it's a
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coincidence. That's right. We're, we're required to. I'm going to get a bunch of
00:49:41.520
Catholic hate mail. I love, I love my trad cat friends. I'm not trying to hate. I just.
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Reject your potpourri. Yeah. Uh, has anyone said let them eat cats? Yes. Yes. I've seen the
00:49:52.160
memes of, uh, Kamala's as, uh, Marie Antoinette doing the let them eat cats there. They are quite good.
00:49:58.560
Uh, let's see here. Uh, torn McCabe says, uh, from the left's perspective, is there a real difference
00:50:04.800
between the political violence of fighting Putin in Ukraine and fighting Trump in the United States?
00:50:10.000
Uh, yeah. Dave Raboy has that, uh, great quote, uh, where, you know, the, the left has, doesn't have,
00:50:16.880
uh, foreign enemies. They have foreign, uh, foes that remind them of their domestic enemies.
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And that's, that's exactly it. Yeah. You are an extension or more important. Putin is an extension
00:50:27.520
of you. Putin is a red state American sitting somewhere in the middle of, uh, Eastern Europe,
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causing trouble. That's how they see it. Yeah. Uh, I couldn't agree more.
00:50:38.240
Uh, let's see here. Retardary Oswald says DEIP state will try again. Very well done. Uh,
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Trump ought to hire Eric Prince or someone to run a legit counter intelligence operation,
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treat the feds as hostile and no different from Iran or Russia. I think that no matter, you know,
00:50:57.680
as Jeremy pointed out, he's, he's less on the conspiracy side. I do understand. And I
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agree that most of the time incompetence is, is probably your first stop on that train,
00:51:07.040
though. I think, uh, we're, we're, we're slowly building enough momentum to, to speculate on, uh,
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malice as opposed to incompetence alone. Uh, that said, I think the point ultimately, um,
00:51:19.120
is that the, these federal bureaucracies, these federal in, uh, in, in, um, institutions
00:51:25.840
are clearly corrupt. They are clearly politically motivated as Ron DeSantis himself pointed out the
00:51:31.520
very, the very same people who are trying to run Trump, you know, out of this election through
00:51:37.280
manufactured, you know, spurious charges are also going to be people who will investigate the
00:51:42.000
criminal attacks against him. Obviously the conflict of interest is there. And you can see
00:51:47.120
from just the basic, uh, way that these, uh, intelligence and, and other, uh, police forces
00:51:52.160
are operating that they haven't helped for Trump from the very beginning. Yeah, absolutely. And
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when I say I'm not a conspiracy theorist or inclined in that direction, I mean, clearly though, the FBI,
00:52:02.240
CIA, et cetera, these are very, very corrupt at the top of, uh, the, the kind of decision-making
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echelon clearly we need to go in there and in a million other places in government and totally clean
00:52:13.520
house. They are bad actors. Uh, they will, uh, stop at very, very few things to keep Trump out of
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power. I'm just not sure that the best way they operate is by getting like weird 20 year olds or
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58 year olds, uh, you know, who have weird Ukraine obsessions, um, to kind of be the instruments of
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their, uh, uh, you know, revenge. I think if, if any of those guys ever did, God forbid, get directly
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involved, it w it would sadly be a much more professional, uh, type of operation probably.
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I mean, there's, there's a scenario where, you know, you, you, you whip things up over and over
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again, and then you just leave the gate open. And if, and if, and if the dog that you've been
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beating for a very long time happens to run out of the yard and maul the neighbor, you don't like, well,
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what could you do? Right. The gate was an accident. The gate was left open. This was not your intention.
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Then, and I think that's probably the most likely scenario. No, no direct, you know, that you didn't,
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you didn't, you won't find anyone yelling the orders of the dog to maul you, but you will find
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an open gate in a dog that was prepared for exactly that kind of scenario. Yeah.
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Uh, let's see here. We have, uh, from Paladin YYZ without going neck deep into history or
00:53:28.320
researching the great thinkers of the past to understand the regime. Have you ever just
00:53:31.760
suggested doing nudity, simply watch Piers Morgan as a model for insight into oligarchic insanity?
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Yeah. It's one of those scenarios where I haven't watched Piers Morgan in a very long time.
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Uh, like every once in a while, he be clowns himself. I see him then. Uh, but it's not really
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someone that I, I, I watch a regular basis, but I would assume that yes, he's probably a reasonable,
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uh, uh, avatar for kind of everything that the regime is trying to push out.
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Yeah. And, and I mean, I've, through various things in my previous careers, I've actually ended up
00:54:04.960
working with a number of folks kind of at the top of the, the totem pole, uh, for lack of a better
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term in terms of, uh, our ruling regime. And, um, you know, some of them are actually sort of normal
00:54:18.480
people for whom I just have a strong disagreement with, but a lot of them are real sociopaths and
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they just are, they're not like you and me. I mean, I hate to say that cause it sounds
00:54:27.120
right. But they really are. I mean, the sorts of people who choose to be in Washington and running
00:54:33.520
the sorts of things that, and the sorts of things they need to do to stay on top are not the sort of
00:54:38.240
people who are like normal people hanging out in Florida or Montana or wherever else you are,
00:54:43.440
just kind of living their lives, even if we have interest in these issues. And it's, it's funny
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because sometimes they'll, they'll argue with you and they will accuse you of having all these
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motivations and they're sort of telling on themselves because you would never even think
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of having that type of motivation, usually kind of for self-promotion in some way, but you're like,
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oh, okay, well, I guess you could think that somebody could have that type of motivation.
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That's sort of an interesting commentary on you. So you hang out with these guys enough. And again,
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I've hung out with some pretty, pretty senior people over the years, uh, in our kind of uniparty
00:55:15.520
regime and eventually they kind of tend to tell on themselves. George, uh, Hey Duke says,
00:55:22.080
should an attack succeed or he ends on a second term? What is the plan after Trump? There needs
00:55:27.520
to be a vision for a future past this single man. Yeah, obviously, um, this is one of the
00:55:34.320
considerations I think that was really involved in the selection of Vance. Uh, I, my, I don't know
00:55:40.640
anything for sure, but my instinct would be that Vance was not the, the pick before the assassination
00:55:46.400
attempt. Um, or, or, or rather at least he got reshuffled into a higher spot after that,
00:55:52.480
the recognition that you, you know, you can't just slide up a Marco Rubio in there. Like you,
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you need somebody that a is like insurance, you know, Hey, you take Trump out. There's a guy who's
00:56:02.800
got the same ideology right behind him. This doesn't just go away. I think was, was, was a big reason that
00:56:08.800
he got selected. Obviously you also have Ron DeSantis, who would have been the heir apparent
00:56:13.760
had he and Trump not tussled in the primary. I think DeSantis is an incredibly gifted politician
00:56:21.680
and more importantly, an incredibly gifted governor and executive, probably more, far more gifted in
00:56:26.080
the actual execution of the office than the political aspect of the office. Uh, but he obviously
00:56:31.520
has a bright future. I don't know if it will be Vance directly after Trump or if it will, uh,
00:56:37.600
will go to someone like DeSantis, but the nice to have that problem, right? Nice, nice for once for
00:56:42.480
the Republicans to have, you know, it's, it's not, it's not an embarrassment of riches, but at least
00:56:46.240
a couple of options that aren't a complete embarrassment. Yeah, absolutely. And I, I certainly
00:56:50.640
agree that there needs to be a vision beyond Trump. And that was one of the reasons why I and several
00:56:56.320
others, uh, were just so excited about the Vance pick. Um, and Vance was very, very, um, you know,
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sort of, uh, he's very familiar with our world. Let's just put it that way. And by our, I don't
00:57:08.480
mean just like conservative ink, but some of the guys who are really pushing like we do at the
00:57:13.280
Claremont Institute for some new approaches. I mean, his senior staff were all Claremont alums.
00:57:18.320
Um, so, uh, I think he's very exciting. And, and in fact, even with my very high expectations going in,
00:57:25.360
I've been delighted. And I think other people have been surprised by just how good he's been on his feet
00:57:29.280
in going after the fake regime media. And I think he would be a great substitute, uh, or not
00:57:35.200
substitute a great, uh, successor for Trump. Um, and as you point out though, we also have
00:57:39.760
DeSantis out there who has a phenomenal record of his own. And so going into 2028, who knows what
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that's going to look like, but having at least a couple options that I think everybody should be,
00:57:51.120
um, at least pretty excited about, or, or could get excited about, uh, that is an embarrassment of
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riches compared to where we've been in the past. So that's great.
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Exactly. Uh, let's see here all the way, uh, or a city all the way says the problem with the
00:58:05.760
Haitian crisis is that many people seem not to understand what outliers are. I sort of
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illustrate this crisis to my family and they showed me examples of rich Haitians as a counterpoint.
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Yeah. You're always going to run into this problem. I hate to break it to you guys,
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but the vast majority of your debates, uh, with pretty much anyone in real life are going to be,
00:58:22.880
well, the average, you know, woman is like, you know, five, four, well, I'm five, eight, like,
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well, yes, but the average, but I'm, uh, you know, this is the, it's very hard for people to
00:58:33.600
understand abstract statistics. And by the way, you should understand this is not a problem.
00:58:38.160
This is just a feature of humanity. And so one of the issues that we have is that a lot of people think
00:58:43.840
that the left won through facts and logic, right? Like they, they believe that the left had the science
00:58:48.960
on their side, they had the intellectual arguments on the side, and that's why they're in their
00:58:52.800
position. They are today. No, the left got really good appealing to your emotions. They got really
00:58:57.600
good at manipulating voter blocks, using identity, using classic parts of political, of a political
00:59:04.000
machines that have been around for a very long time. They were in touch with human nature and reality.
00:59:08.640
And then the right, we're just like, but they have like professors on their side. So that's why we're losing.
00:59:12.960
And so the right came around and it's like, well, now we have statistics and we went, no,
00:59:16.720
you still lost. Why? Cause you never understand what politics is. Politics is never a discussion
00:59:22.480
about facts. You're not just trading, you know, papers and graphs and regressions until you finally
00:59:28.400
get to the heart of the issue. That's never what a political campaign is. Yeah. I couldn't agree more.
00:59:34.400
And I mean, I say that as a person who purveys facts a lot of the time for my job, but I'm doing it
00:59:39.760
for a very understanding, a very limited set of people who I think are convincible, or even if
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they're not convincible, they're people who kind of already agree with me, but I'm arming them with
00:59:50.800
the ammunition to, uh, to kind of go after the other side with, but yes, I mean, these things.
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Yeah. Although I, I will kind of no doubt, I believe the richest person in Haiti is actually
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Lebanese. Um, so, uh, yeah, I mean, but yes, of course, I mean, and this is a reason why, again,
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I don't like to attack the Haitians or any other group personally, they're always even among these
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folks, none of whom I want to be clear, I think should be here, but of course they're going to
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be good people. And of course they're going to be people who are going to be smart and work hard
01:00:18.960
and ultimately add to the U S but that is a totally different question than whether in the aggregate,
01:00:25.040
having that group here, uh, you know, in mass immigration is beneficial for America. And that's
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the only thing that I care about at the end of the day. Yeah. I mean, Pat Buchanan was pretty clear
01:00:35.360
about this. He said, look, you can take any one person and make them an American,
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but what that takes is generations of assimilation. They have to be deep into the culture. They have to
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be here for a very long time to absorb that, but that's never going to happen when you're bringing
01:00:52.160
vast amounts of people from the same culture, putting them in the same place. Like that's just
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not how any of this works. You have to be really just completely disconnected from rationality to
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believe that's something that actually happens. It's been a disaster for every country that it's
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done, has done it. And it's not going to be any different here. Paladin YYZ. Thanks for that
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donation. Uh, but I just don't understand almost any part of that super chat. Uh, so I'm, I'm,
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I appreciate it, but I just don't, I was trying to read it ahead of time and I, I'm not sure where
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that's going. I don't, you know, so thank you, but I don't really know how to answer any of that one.
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Uh, let's see here is one of these very high end philosophers who people smarter than me, uh,
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evidently, including, uh, our, your super chat guy worry a lot about, but, uh, okay. Yeah. I've,
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I've never heard of him before and I don't know. I, I just don't have the context necessary for
01:01:44.480
answer that one. Uh, Jacobs and Dell says been laughing at Christians praying for Trump. Now,
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space time appears to be bending around, uh, his person as bullets swerve by and mockery feels less,
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less, uh, less like rationality and more like cognitive dissidents. Um, you know, uh,
01:02:02.080
again, you see that picture of Trump blood streaming, uh, down his face, you know,
01:02:06.240
after he slightly turned his head, just like an inch or two to look at a graph about immigration
01:02:12.320
mandate of heaven kind of rolls off the lips there, but I'll let people make their own conclusions there,
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I suppose. Uh, and then Florida Henry says, uh, what area in Ohio, uh, was world leader in producing
01:02:25.360
small? Oh, that area in Ohio was a world leader in producing small machinery. Then Reagan was elected.
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And then, well, you know, uh, yeah, I mean, I don't know much about the history of that particular,
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uh, you know, industry, uh, industrial area. So I don't know if that was in direct response to any,
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uh, policies in the eighties, these kinds of things. I do know a lot of people, uh, you know,
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are not happy with some of Reagan's policies when it came to D possible de-industrialization,
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but it is certainly true that many parts of the Rust Belt, that's why it's called this, you know,
01:02:55.760
end up in this scenario. Uh, and so that's why so many people have pointed to these towns saying,
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oh, well, it's about the economic invigoration. It's about the economic invigoration. It's like,
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okay, well, why don't you just hand a magical card to every person who lives in Springfield,
01:03:08.480
Ohio, that's got like 20 grand for them to pay rent with. Maybe they can, they can economically
01:03:14.000
invigorate the town, but why don't we try that first? Yeah. I know we're not big on handouts,
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but if we're gonna hand the money out anyway, then why not give it to the people who actually
01:03:22.800
live there rather than trying to import a bunch of people there and subsidize them instead.
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Yeah. Couldn't agree more, you know, and people say, well, there's troubles, there's drugs,
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you know, so let's address, let's address all that, you know, but these are, at the end of the day,
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they're my fellow Americans and the Haitians aren't just end of story.
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And I hate to bring it to you guys, but this is not an economic zone. It's not about
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who can drive the most GDP. The purpose of the government is actually to be there to increase
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the human flourishing of the people that it's overseeing, not the people that it wants to import.
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And by the way, I think intuitively, and this is, you know, kind of the reason that I say we just need
01:03:58.640
to double down and triple down and quadruple down. I think the vast majority of conservatives kind of
01:04:03.520
intuitively understand what we just said. But I think the substantial majority of folks
01:04:09.040
in the middle kind of understand that too, intuitively. And that's why the left doesn't
01:04:14.080
want to have this conversation. They don't want to talk about what's going on in these communities,
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and that's why we should be talking about it. Absolutely. Yeah. Like I said,
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the minute, you know, and you said, the minute I saw the story, I knew that no matter what the
01:04:27.120
individual, you know, scenarios happen to shake out as, you know, this would be a huge thing.
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And by the way, guys, it looks like Donald Trump has announced a lot in the within while the show
01:04:37.680
has been live that he's going to be doing an X space tonight. He's going to be on Twitter doing
01:04:42.640
a space tonight. So from Mar-a-Lago, I'm sure that's going to crash as every one of these massive
01:04:49.920
spaces has been, but that should definitely be interesting. It looks like Trump is taking that
01:04:54.000
narrative into his hands, which is good. That's exactly what he needs to be doing. He needs to be
01:04:57.920
circumventing the media. He needs to be even circumventing many of these federal agencies
01:05:02.640
and getting the story directly to the people, rather than waiting for the FBI to lie to Congress
01:05:08.240
about it or the MSNBC to say it's all his fault. That's exactly the kind of thing he should be doing.
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So I'm glad he's taking the reins there. All right, guys. Well, we're going to go ahead and
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wrap this up. Always a pleasure talking to Jeremy Carl. You should, of course, be reading his book and
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