Sean Davis of The Federalist joins me to discuss the latest in the saga of the failed assassination attempt on President Donald Trump on Monday morning in Las Vegas, and why the Secret Service has come under fire for their handling of the situation.
00:01:26.400I've been a longtime admirer and fan of your work, so this is an honor.
00:01:30.700Well, thanks, and I really appreciate yours.
00:01:33.340Your Twitter has always been very, very aggressive in a manner that I really appreciate so many of the people running a lot of these big media organizations
00:01:42.460are often very skittish about calling out what's happening, and you've been very powerful and consistent.
00:01:48.400I'm not just saying that there are issues with the federal government of certain agencies,
00:01:51.700but regularly saying that there is a criminal aspect, there is a malicious aspect to this,
00:01:56.840and I think it's really important for people to hear from someone who is operating in an organization like yours.
00:02:02.520So I want to dive into everything that happened with the Secret Service coverage, what you think about it.
00:02:07.400You did a great post on Twitter yesterday laying out all of the issues,
00:02:11.140so we're going to break into all that in just a second, guys.
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00:03:30.540So, Sean, from the beginning of this, many people had questions about the Secret Service protection detail.
00:03:39.280Obviously, we try to avoid spinning into immediate conspiracy theory territory when this happened.
00:03:46.040Initially, the left is saying, oh, this is staged.
00:03:48.120Donald Trump set this up to gain a lot of sympathy, right?
00:03:51.260Like, he could get away with that, given our media environment.
00:03:53.920But the right also starts looking at what's happening with this detail.
00:03:59.020And it's very clear that, well, it had a lot of diverse personnel who had some questionable reactions during this moment.
00:04:07.040Now, I'm not under fire, so I'm not here to go ahead and assess every one of these people.
00:04:12.060But those that have been under fire have looked at this, guys like Eric Prince, and said this is a security disaster on many levels.
00:04:19.680But now we've seen more and more details about why the roof on which the shooter was placed was not secured.
00:04:28.280We've seen different questions about the staffing, why they hadn't screened this guy when he initially entered.
00:04:33.880Could you break down some of the issues that you found were particularly suspicious around the security detail?
00:04:41.100Yeah, so we were working outside, no real cell coverage to speak of, when we got somehow a text squeaked through to my much better half that Trump had been shot.
00:04:55.000And so we kind of dropped what we were doing.
00:04:56.240And we hadn't been watching TV all that day and started just looking at the footage, you know, saying a prayer of thanks that Trump wasn't severely injured, that the country hadn't just been thrown into a potential very awful civil war.
00:05:12.320And then kind of once the dust settled, I start, you know, my phone starts pinging.
00:05:16.340We get back to where we've got coverage.
00:05:20.080And I started hearing from sources familiar with Trump's security detail and protocols there that, hey, this thing that just happened is exactly why we've been begging for more resources and more staff for months and months and months.
00:05:36.620So I started getting those messages early Saturday evening.
00:05:42.480And that kind of started shaping how I viewed what happened.
00:05:47.160And it's impossible to ignore what happened on that roof, because there's been a famous picture out there where someone drew the Secret Service perimeter.
00:05:58.540And within a perimeter, it doesn't matter if you have local cops there or local police, sheriff's deputies, stateies, whatever.
00:06:08.600The Secret Service controls that entire perimeter.
00:06:12.140And they merely outsource, but they control.
00:06:14.220But you looked at this picture and it showed like a Pac-Man, instead of having a full circle, like 360 degrees, they carved out this little thing with this roof.
00:06:25.300And so my head immediately went to this was because they were understaffed and under-resourced.
00:06:30.920This was a direct result of them not being given the resources they needed.
00:06:34.380But as the hours and days went on, and we heard some of these absurd lies from the Secret Service director herself, but Biden didn't know that.
00:07:08.640The assassin was like room temperature on that roof and didn't move.
00:07:13.760Like, so if he's not rolling off of it, there's probably a good chance that if you are conscious that you can walk on it.
00:07:20.320So once she said that, I started asking myself, man, so it is indisputable and inarguable, notwithstanding lies from the Secret Service spokesman, that Trump's security detail didn't have the resources they want.
00:07:33.420In fact, there was an article in the Washington Post this morning that said that local police explicitly told Secret Service, we can't cover that building.
00:07:41.840We don't have the resources to cover that.
00:07:43.420So when you see the lies, the sloped roof and all that, you begin to ask yourself, was this garden variety DEI bureaucratic incompetence or is this what I would actually call strategic or deliberate incompetence?
00:07:59.900And the more we don't hear the truth from the current regime, the more they tell us things that are obviously untrue or that they have no evidence to support.
00:08:10.160For example, like a couple hours after Trump was shot, the FBI came out and said, hey, yeah, we can't get into the guy's phone, but don't worry, he acted alone.
00:08:19.520And I begin to wonder if there was a left hand, right hand, you know, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing going on with the regime, where they deliberately left him vulnerable.
00:08:30.280But we also know, based on what they did with the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping, the three-letter agencies also seem to enjoy finding random mentally unwell freaks and spinning them into a tizzy and equipping them to do awful things and then riding into the rescue at the last second saying, hey, look at this plot we just stopped.
00:08:50.940You know, they did this in the wake of 9-11 for decades.
00:08:53.340I'm beginning to wonder if the left hand was taking advantage with its weaponized freaks playbook, taking advantage of the right hand's deliberate strategic incompetence.
00:09:10.500And wouldn't you know, both of those things actually working together create a very nice little veneer of plausible deniability.
00:09:17.360And the longer they lie, the more I'm kind of required just by logic to assume the right hand, left hand, plausible deniability, strategic incompetence analysis.
00:09:31.000Yeah, we've come to a very similar conclusion on this because we have this scenario where apparently this guy is 20 years old.
00:10:44.900But at some point what we have is just this overwhelming amount of coincidences that all line up in the same direction.
00:10:54.160And if there's one thing we've learned from living under this regime, it's when all of the coincidences keep routinely lining up in the exact same direction.
00:11:03.180You have to ask the question, was this a result that was manufactured again?
00:11:07.580Not necessarily top down directed the entire time, but simply so many different moving parts of the regime, one of the same outcome.
00:11:16.000And they were all working towards the same end, even if they didn't completely have a level of coordination on this.
00:11:24.320I read an article the other day and I can't remember exactly where it was, but it said something like the locusts have no king, but they all know what they're supposed to devour.
00:11:32.400Or that's generally how the regime works.
00:11:36.620Everyone, we're kind of stuck in this mode of having watched movies and read novels, and we're always assuming there's one bad guy behind the scenes directing everything.
00:11:45.380That's not the reality of how the left works.
00:11:48.420They all know what they're supposed to do.
00:13:54.620I believe in government incompetence because I'm alive and I see what these idiots do.
00:14:00.080But this type of like cavalcade of terrible decision making in light of what we have seen them do and what we know they're capable of doing,
00:14:08.180it requires me to reject that this was all just a series of unfortunate accidents.
00:14:13.040You know, when I was a local reporter, we had Barack Obama come to town to do some kind of presentation on the environment.
00:14:23.880He went out to the middle of the swamp and the Everglades.
00:14:26.620And even then, the Secret Service had a detail where they were putting elevated platforms all around.
00:14:34.740There's no, you know, there's no buildings.
00:14:36.640There's no, you know, there's only so you can see everything from an elevated position.
00:14:40.300And still, the coverage was very thorough.
00:14:43.720It just seems so obvious that deliberate choices were made to put Trump in this situation.
00:14:50.820Again, like you said, it doesn't mean that, you know, there's some black ops handler who is handing out the order for this guy to go MKUltra on Trump.
00:15:00.320But, you know, as I explained in my book, The Total State,
00:15:03.140it is the decentralized network of these different institutions that really continually drives us towards the outcomes we're getting.
00:15:12.200Not one or two of them always have the total idea of what you're going to be doing laid out.
00:15:18.120But the fact that they all are seeking the same solution,
00:15:20.840hoping to end up in the same scenario,
00:15:23.420means eventually you tend to manufacture these situations,
00:15:26.500whether you explicitly design them from the top down or not.
00:15:32.120And so I put on Twitter a thread this morning where I tried to categorize what I thought were the main four explanations for what happened.
00:15:40.780The first one being just garden variety, bureaucratic incompetence.
00:16:20.060Option three is what I call the right hand, left hand.
00:16:25.060It includes option two, where you have deliberate strategic incompetence combined with portions of the government that look to weaponize people they don't like
00:16:35.320in order to either take out people they don't like or to create narratives they don't like.
00:16:40.660So the Whitmer kidnapping would be they weaponized a bunch of loners with poor impulse control so they could create a narrative that right-wingers were wanting to assassinate Democrat governors.
00:16:51.860And then option four is what I would call like the inside job rationale,
00:17:03.740I'd be interested in your thoughts on whether you think there's other explanations.
00:17:09.960I'll tell you, I started out at number one.
00:17:12.700Once I started hearing from people very familiar with trust, security detail and the lack of resources,
00:17:17.520that pushed me to number two, along with the suggestion that a sloped roof kept snipers off of their single stupidest lie I think I've ever heard in my life.
00:17:28.460And then number three, once they said just, you know, an hour or two afterwards, he acted alone, even though we know nothing about him and we can't get into his phone.
00:17:38.380I tend to think option four is unlikely or who knows.
00:17:44.120But it's been interesting to me as I've talked about this to see the rage from the left at anyone who questions the official narrative from the government.
00:17:52.720Yeah, I'm somewhere between two and three, I think it's just the thing that leans you towards three really is the fact that, again, if this were anyone else, you know, if this is a woman whose dog is misbehaving in the park and, you know, and someone wants to attack them, somehow the entire Internet will have that person doxed by dinnertime and have their life destroyed because they think she might be racist somewhere.
00:18:17.360But every time a crazed leftist, say, murders children in a school in Tennessee or tries to kill the president, all of a sudden we just can't find anything about this person.
00:18:27.500They're just a complete enigma, impenetrable mystery for all the people in charge.
00:18:33.520Yeah, and the other thing is, if it were mere garden variety and incompetence, which, again, happens every day in the government, we've all experienced it ourselves, I would have expected a firing by this point.
00:18:46.580Maybe a single resignation, because if you are running this government and you know how distrustful people are due to your years and years of brazen, life-ruining lies like what they did during COVID,
00:19:00.720you would want to do something that communicates, hey, this is totally unacceptable, but we know this can never happen again.
00:19:09.240And everyone responsible who made all these terrible decisions, they're gone and they're never going to be in a position to allow this to happen again.
00:19:16.320And yet we have had the exact opposite happen.
00:19:19.180We've had leaders say that they have 100% confidence in the Secret Service director.
00:19:26.420Would you have 100% confidence in your brakes if you're just driving down the highway and you pump them and they don't work and you nearly go careening over a cliff?
00:19:38.220These brakes had one job, and it was to stop the car, and they didn't do that.
00:19:42.900So I can't get back in that car and drive it again until I know those brakes are fixed.
00:19:46.940And yet our government is doing the exact opposite.
00:19:50.360If that's not the biggest red flag you've ever seen, I don't know what is.
00:19:53.900And, you know, at some point or at some level, I'm jealous of the left because their extreme devotion to protecting their side at all costs is something that the right could learn from.
00:20:08.580The fact that someone could fail this publicly and this miserably and nothing is going to happen to them, there's going to be no consequence, is truly something to behold.
00:20:19.260The right would sell any one of their members down the river for the slightest mistake.
00:20:25.860And the left can literally get people killed.
00:20:28.220And they don't even bother to apologize, much less go ahead and fire somebody.
00:20:33.280I mean, everything with the pandemic, everything from the withdrawal of Afghanistan and, you know, just the execution of this foreign adventurism, the miserable failures on the border and everything else.
00:20:45.460And now this assassination, like you said, if this was a competent government, even if it was like malicious, even if it was nefarious, but it was at least competent, it would offer one of these people up.
00:20:57.000I would say, oh, no, obviously, like for the greater good, we have to give this person up so we can placate people and let them think that there's some level of accountability in our government.
00:21:05.820But the fact that they just are looking the American people straight in the eye and giving them the middle finger, just saying like, no, of course, we would never fire anyone in the ruling elite, even the most inept, obviously foolish, obviously complicit person in the world.
00:21:20.980No, we will not give any of those people up.
00:21:23.500That's the degree of loyalty we have to the people who operate in our regime.
00:21:27.460When I found out my friend got a great deal on a designer dress from Winners, I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?
00:21:36.180Like that woman over there with the Italian leather handbag.
00:22:16.240He is the primary protectee of the Secret Service.
00:22:18.880If all of this were the result of mere incompetence and not deliberate incompetence, strategic incompetence meant to create a veneer of plausible deniability, if this were truly incompetence, wouldn't Joe Biden be worried about his own protection?
00:22:36.040That's the logical conclusion you would have to draw is this institution and the people running it right now are not able to protect me because they're tasked with protecting me.
00:22:46.680And yet we've seen the exact opposite.
00:22:49.680And I think that's super, super weird and pretty telling because if he thought they couldn't protect him, he'd be like, holy crap.
00:22:57.460Yeah, we've got a clean house there because I'm going to be personally at risk here.
00:23:00.420Because remember, all these evil, alpha, MAGA people, they're super violent and they're Nazis and they're existential threats.
00:23:06.640They might actually come try and get me.
00:23:08.240So I need an actual competent Praetorian Guard taking care of my security.
00:23:14.020And it's why, again, I'm kind of forced just by sheer logic to assume that this was not the result of just a series of unhappy, unfortunate accidents.
00:23:25.040Now, I have to ask you about one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to conservatives, because the immediate call was someone needs to be held accountable.
00:23:34.720We need to hold these people accountable.
00:23:36.240Someone needs to testify in front of Congress, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, as if that's going to do anything.
00:23:41.560Again, we watch congressional Republicans fail over and over again, hold any of these people to account that no one gets fired.
00:24:15.900It's not just about switching out some people at the top.
00:24:18.040We need people who understand that this is about dismantling these organizations because the poison goes all the way down to the root.
00:24:25.940Do you think that conservatives will finally have the courage that a Republican administration, hopefully under Donald Trump, would have the courage to finally take action on some of these institutions that are so rotten there's no way to redeem them?
00:24:40.420I mean, they have to, if they have any interest at all in self, literal self-preservation.
00:24:47.680And, you know, I used to work on the Hill for many years.
00:24:51.160I helped put together a lot of these hearings for Tom Coburn at the time, who the man was just an absolute force of nature.
00:24:57.800And what enabled him to kind of command in these hearings and get the reputation he did was he wasn't a guy who was bossed around by staff.
00:25:07.900He wasn't someone who just went up there and read a script.
00:25:10.380We would write for him multi-hundred page briefing books, you know, hundreds or thousands of footnotes in them.
00:25:47.160Um, it takes a special person with a devotion to knowing every last little detail to be able to handle these little worms and hearings.
00:25:55.760Because we've all seen them do the song and dance and the filibuster and the I don't recall and the answer questions that weren't asked.
00:26:02.320And they do these little slates of hand that if you don't have a perfect command of the detail, you're just not capable of being able to parry with them back and forth.
00:26:10.380Um, so I hope Congress, you know, does its best.
00:26:14.240That's not where, uh, my real hope lies.
00:26:16.580We have to have people in, in the incoming administration, assuming Trump wins, which he has to, he has to win or, or I don't know what we do.
00:26:24.800There have to be people who are very, uh, steely and clear eyed about what the threat is because we can't just go in and say, oh, it was a couple bad apples.
00:26:33.660It was just the management at the top.
00:26:36.360No, the, these institutions are corrupted from top to bottom.
00:26:40.220The FBI, for example, um, was conceived in nonsense.
00:26:44.640It was created to be the political espionage arm of a corrupt leader who wanted to use, uh, personal facts about his enemies against them to wield power.
00:27:04.700In many cases, there's no reforming these institutions.
00:27:08.060They have to be destroyed and they have to be reconstituted from the bottom up with people who actually care about the country and understand that the threat, which truly knows how to gain and wield power, uh, poses to the nation.
00:27:20.740So Sean, I know you've got a heart out here.
00:27:22.700I want to ask you one more question before you go.
00:27:25.520Speaking of Trump needing to win, obviously political ramifications of this are like third order in some ways.
00:27:32.440But you still have to think about them.
00:27:34.100Even in a moment of crisis like this, a lot of people have looked at what has happened here.
00:27:39.200You see that contrast between Joe Biden who can barely read a teleprompter without falling asleep.
00:27:43.940And then you have Donald Trump who literally can take a bullet, bounce back and has to be dragged off stage by secret service as he pumps his fist to reassure his supporters.
00:27:54.560When you have a contract, a trunk contrast like that, it feels like the election's over, right?
00:28:00.060When this is what politics should be about.
00:28:02.020You have a leader who shows himself in that moment that should pretty much seal the deal.
00:28:06.340And yet we're still hearing from places like 538 that maybe Biden's gaining some ground.
00:28:11.440What do you think about the election status at this point after the assassination?
00:29:13.120We've got three and a half months until the election.
00:29:16.000I think we've got 188 days until inauguration.
00:29:18.940That is an eternity in politics, especially when you're facing a foe like we are that is willing to lie and do anything whatsoever to gain and maintain power.
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00:31:31.940All right, guys, so the next topic I wanted to get into is there's currently a lot of debate, especially on Twitter, about whether or not we should have what people are calling conservative cancel culture after this attack on Donald Trump.
00:31:49.060In case you're not aware, there have been several high profile people, including one of the band members of Tenacious D, not Jack Black, but the other guy, Kyle something.
00:31:59.840I forget his name, but he made a comment saying that he wished that the shooter had not missed live on stage while they were performing.
00:32:08.660Tenacious D has since canceled its tour.
00:32:11.160And Jack Black has talked about even suspending the project indefinitely because he was so shocked about what was said.
00:32:18.020We also had Destiny, if you caught my clip yesterday that I put together about Destiny and his incredibly gross attack on the father that died protecting his wife and child at the Trump rally.
00:32:49.400And one of the platforms he streams on banned him because of this and the fact that he was also talking about himself, why he wished that the guy who had been successful at shooting Trump.
00:33:00.360And then a third example, one that's a little different, and I want to break into why these examples are important and different.
00:33:07.920A lot of people have focused on the fact that there was somebody who went to a Home Depot.
00:33:11.400They found a woman who had said, again, something very similar about how she wished that the shooter had not missed Trump.
00:33:19.880She had said that on her own personal page.
00:33:22.100She's an old woman who works at Home Depot.
00:33:24.660So the guy went in, asked her about this tape that that went on to social media, and she was fired for for posting that on social media.
00:33:36.880I have some thoughts about the way that people are reacting to this.
00:33:40.460There are a lot of people, especially a lot of the guys and kind of the I didn't leave the left, the left left me.
00:33:46.020I'm a moderate centrist wing of the right who are saying, we can't do this.
00:33:50.980We can't have a conservative cancel culture.
00:34:02.100So I always had a problem with the phrase cancel culture.
00:34:06.720In fact, you can go back and watch one of my earlier videos if you like talking about why I think cancel culture is itself a very stupid label.
00:34:14.040For what we have seen against people who are on the right for many, many years.
00:34:18.880What we've seen against people on the right is not cancel culture.
00:34:25.680It's people who were fired from their jobs, had their lives destroyed for holding mildly offensive opinions to the status quo.
00:34:34.900Not anything immoral, not anything that's asking for the harm of people, nothing actively malicious.
00:34:41.140Just something like donating $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse, had one guy fired.
00:34:48.360There's another guy who did a burnout on a pride flag, you know, blasphemy.
00:34:52.720He was charged with a felony, a young guy doing that.
00:34:56.840There have been guys like Douglas Mackey who are facing prison time for making a meme insulting Hillary Clinton.
00:35:03.060There's another guy, you remember the guy who got his life ruined CNN, tried to destroy this guy because he photoshopped CNN's logo on Trump's, on the face of a guy Trump was beating up in a WWF skit.
00:35:18.280Like CNN tried to hunt down and destroy this guy for a meme, for a gif that he had made.
00:35:25.860Or, of course, you can think of someone like Nick Sandman, whose life was destroyed.
00:35:30.800He had to sue the media outlets who slandered him because he was caught smiling while someone was protesting.
00:35:40.660Even though you found that eventually the context of that made it much clearer that there was no, there was nothing malicious about what he's doing.
00:35:47.180He's just a kid in a MAGA hat and they tried to destroy his life over this.
00:35:56.420There's a grandmother who was protesting at an abortion clinic and she has received a long sentence in jail, even though her health is in terrible condition.
00:36:08.760Her husband begged the judge to go ahead and reduce her sentence since she did nothing dangerous.
00:36:18.660She was just protesting at a place that the regime finds sacred.
00:36:21.620And the judge basically laughed in the face of a man who's worried about his wife dying in jail.
00:36:27.020So when the left treats you this way, you need to understand what's going on.
00:36:34.040Now, I hear a lot of people warming up to the idea that we're going to need mass deportation, that actually that the damage that the left has done demographically to this country by allowing tens of millions of people illegally into the country
00:36:48.620is going to permanently shift the voting blocs in the United States and guarantee the left an electoral victory in perpetuity.
00:36:55.900And if we don't go ahead and deport a large number of people who are here illegally, then the country is basically cooked.
00:39:06.260They will not stop until the natural consequences of their actions fall on them.
00:39:11.820You cannot have unilateral disarmament of cancel culture.
00:39:16.040OK, now, look, I am sympathetic to the idea that everyone should not have to live in fear of holding political opinions.
00:39:26.860In fact, I would like a radical depoliticalization of our public square.
00:39:31.800But the only way that happens is victory.
00:39:35.260There are an awful lot of people who want to believe that they can get around this moment that the culture war can end, that all of this conflict and all of this disagreement can end without victory.
00:39:48.760They want to just return to some mythical moment in the 1990s where we didn't we didn't disagree with each other.
00:40:01.380The left has just been in charge and you have been assuming that the default settings of the left were the objective truth.
00:40:09.160And then things got a little weird in the 2000s and you started to finally realize that actually the left is not this beneficent force that is going around and setting objective standards of good for everyone.
00:40:22.220But actually, they are malicious actors who are always willing to destroy the livelihoods of people who had different opinions.
00:40:31.380OK, and they were doing this to people who had very mild opinions.
00:40:36.360Someone who said, maybe I don't agree in trans in the kids.
00:40:39.260Maybe I don't think that gay marriage is such a great thing.
00:40:41.780These are the people that they were destroying.
00:40:43.960And you're going to tell me that now when people are literally wishing death on the president, people are crying for the next assassin to murder Trump or his supporters.
00:40:56.040You're telling me that now you're squeamish about some people getting fired.
00:41:08.400Once you have victory, then you can be gracious.
00:41:11.660Then you can say, you know what, now that we have control of these institutions, now that the left can no longer influence people's firings, people getting arrested, people getting put in jail, people getting sued.
00:41:25.580Now that the left has lost all of this power, now after all of these things, we can allow you to speak freely on these issues because the people who would punish you on this have no power anymore.
00:41:37.480But until you achieve that level of victory, unilateral disarmament is insanity.
00:41:51.000There is a level of priority, target priority that matters.
00:41:56.320And again, when I say that peacefully, to be very clear, this is only through political pressure.
00:42:01.820When you are looking at who should be focused on for these kind of remarks, I think targets like Tenacious D or Destiny are perfectly fair game.
00:42:12.920These are people who have public profiles, who make a living out in the public sphere, who are who are putting themselves out there.
00:42:59.860However, I'm also not going to whine or cry about someone like this losing their job because there would not be a tear shed for a conservative who had the same opinion.
00:43:10.640Imagine, if you will, for a moment, this very, very YouTube, very, very be clear YouTube censors, very, very hypothetical moment in which Barack Obama had dodged a bullet.
00:43:20.940And a bunch of conservatives came out and said, oh, well, I wish that that the shooter had been more accurate.
00:43:30.520Imagine conservatives making fun of a leftist who had been killed by a crazy right wing assassin at a Obama rally.
00:43:43.960To be very clear, we don't we don't have to guess, you know, the FBI has literally kicked in the doors and blown away people who have joked about or have talked about violence against Joe Biden online.
00:43:55.880You know that if something like that had happened to Barack Obama, especially, but maybe even Joe Biden, that that would be the end of every single person who responded like that on social media.
00:45:12.500And then, then you can go ahead and exercise the principles of things like free speech that you would like to see returned to public life.
00:45:22.320But that is never going to happen as long as the left is in power.
00:45:25.640And if the left never feel any consequences, especially when they do something this heinous, they're not just saying, oh, we disagree with a policy.
00:45:33.260They're not saying, oh, we just we even disagree with your morals, your religion, any of that stuff.
00:45:37.840They're saying we literally are wishing that this guy had gotten his head plastered all over the TV screen.
00:48:01.320Diversity is, I hear our strength, unless, uh, by strength, you mean, uh, allowing, uh, people to actually protect the president of the United States.
00:48:08.900Then it might, might hinder us slightly, uh, let's see here, uh, retardingly Oswald says, um, uh, can the federalists, uh, help local DAs charge secret service with neglect for what happened to Corey Camper tour?
00:48:26.180Uh, we're going to need a modern Jim Garrison, uh, to avoid fed coverup.
00:48:31.940Never forget the purpose of the system is what it does.
00:48:35.240Uh, yeah, I wish Sean was around for that, but that's a great question and something that a lot of people should be looking into.
00:48:41.400I know there are more legal, uh, activists now in places like the America first legal who are taking up the kind of cases that you're talking about.
00:48:50.380I'm not familiar with the law in this area, so I would be completely just talking off the top of my head.
00:48:55.420So I'm not going to speculate on who can be held accountable, what avenues there are for legal recourse here.
00:49:01.380But if they exist, this absolutely should happen.
00:49:36.420He says, uh, Trump jumped up and said, fight, fight, fight with a bullet wound in his ear.
00:49:40.240Right-wing commentators heard immediately surrender this opportunity to the left and get back to left-wing cancel culture.
00:49:46.640Uh, yeah, to be fair, that is what a large amount of the conservative, conservative commentariat is based on.
00:49:52.420Uh, but you know, that's why we're here to set them straight.
00:49:54.940Hopefully, um, more and more people are learning to turn that junk off and, uh, go ahead and encourage their politicians, encourage, uh, their leaders to take a more active role in what's going on here.
00:50:09.540Uh, what a minute, uh, with a minute ago, with a minute to go says, good answer to Glenn Grewald on cancel culture.
00:50:18.580I have only seen Glenn, uh, speaking briefly on this.
00:50:21.500I would be more than happy to talk to Glenn again.
00:50:23.420We've always meant to do, he's been on the show one time and we've always meant to do another show.
00:50:27.460And I would really like to talk to him, uh, on a couple separate issues.
00:50:31.400Uh, but that would be a great, a great one.
00:50:33.420I'm not sure what he said on this, but, uh, hopefully I did accurately go ahead and answer that.
00:50:38.980And then Chris says, uh, most DEI acolytes underestimate the amount of focus it takes to keep, uh, competence ties in, uh, ties into their worldview that the old regime didn't earn it.
00:50:52.800It's important for them to believe that they've progressed beyond all of these regimes.
00:50:56.880And that means all these previous hierarchies of competence, uh, must be obsolete in some way.
00:51:02.480And so they don't recognize that the diversification itself, which is its own goal, uh, also is driving them towards a system that will eventually wound itself, uh, mortally.
00:51:15.220However, they can't agree with that because that's what their entire ruling formula is based on.
00:51:20.100If they abandon that ideology, then there's not much left to sell their supporters.
00:51:24.260All right, guys, we're going to go ahead and wrap this up.
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00:51:52.920And when you do leave a rating or review and you can go ahead and help with the algorithm magic, I also want you to encourage you to go ahead and grab the total state.
00:52:01.900Of course, my new book that is out, uh, Charles Haywood, uh, was kind enough to just do a very, uh, kind review of it.
00:52:09.420I linked that on the community tab of the show.
00:52:12.380Uh, but also it describes many of the, uh, phenomenons that we discussed here.
00:52:17.420And of course it is, uh, got a nice, uh, blurb on the front cover from Molly Hemingway, who is of course, Sean's colleague over at the fed list.
00:52:26.140Thank you once again, everyone for watching.
00:52:28.120And as always, I will talk to you next time.