The Auron MacIntyre Show - February 22, 2024


Two Sides of the Same Oppressive Coin ｜ 2⧸22⧸24

Hosted by
Auron MacIntyre
Mentioned
Vladimir Putin Joe Biden Justin Trudeau Douglas Mackey Ashley Babbitt Donald Trump Ben Shapiro Mike Pence Xi Jinping Substack Rocky
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Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

149.32

Word count

1,356

Sentence count

89

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

3

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Summary

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The American right suffers from a chronic failure of knowing what time it is, and nothing revealed that fact more clearly than the recent death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who died suddenly while serving a long sentence on charges of extremism. The natural instinct in such a situation is to denounce the political oppression of Putin s regime, but the United States has lost its moral standing to criticize other nations due to the criminalization of political dissent that is occurring within our own system.

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00:00:30.000 The American right suffers from a chronic failure of knowing what time it is,
00:00:41.720 and nothing revealed that fact more clearly than the recent death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.
00:00:47.980 Navalny, the 47-year-old outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin,
00:00:52.020 died suddenly while serving a long present sentence on charges of extremism.
00:00:56.640 The natural instinct in such a situation is to denounce the political oppression of Putin's regime.
00:01:03.500 But the United States has lost its moral standing to criticize other nations due to the criminalization of political dissent that is occurring within our own system.
00:01:11.940 Still, many conservative politicians and pundits like Ben Shapiro took to Twitter and assured Republicans that while the Biden administration was indeed involved in weaponizing the justice system,
00:01:23.160 comparisons to Putin's Russia were unwarranted.
00:01:25.440 This is, quite frankly, if the right doesn't wake up to what is happening in the United States,
00:01:32.580 conservatives will find themselves the victims of a regime that has every intention of imprisoning its enemies.
00:01:37.780 Just to be clear, I'm very sure that Vladimir Putin is a very bad man who doesn't care about the interests of my family or my country.
00:01:47.640 Whether he wants to conquer the world and establish a Russian fascist global empire, as many neocons and leftists claim, is another question.
00:01:57.080 But I'm very sure that Putin is no friend of mine.
00:02:00.960 There is, however, an unbearable absurdity to Western leaders like Justin Trudeau or Joe Biden,
00:02:06.620 who have repeatedly imprisoned and suppressed their own opponents, giving lectures on the importance of democratic norms.
00:02:12.440 The failure to understand that our own domestic political oppression is far more important than condemning the actions of some distant foreign leader demonstrates a lack of ability to make a critical perspective shift inside the conservative movement.
00:02:30.080 Americans have grown accustomed to being the global hegemon, and it shows. 0.84
00:02:33.940 Our leaders assume the right to dictate the actions of foreign rulers, and our political commentariat enjoys pontificating about the superiority of our own system.
00:02:43.400 We definitely like the idea of being the leader of the free world, but that only works if you manage to maintain liberty at home.
00:02:51.100 And we have not.
00:02:53.080 Twitter poster Douglas Mackey has been sentenced to prison for making memes.
00:02:57.440 More than 1,300 Americans have been charged for protesting the presidential election on January 6, 2021.
00:03:04.460 And many of them have had their due process rights tossed into the garbage.
00:03:08.920 Donald Trump, a former president and Joe Biden's chief political opponent, has been arrested on multiple fallacious charges.
00:03:15.720 And several states have attempted to strip him from the ballot.
00:03:19.500 Many of Trump's attorneys and administration officials have had their lives ruined due to politically motivated legal prosecutions.
00:03:26.360 The list of attacks on our political freedoms is almost endless and is only growing larger.
00:03:31.380 The institutions that were originally designed to protect Americans from enemies both foreign and domestic now devote themselves to punishing opponents of the regime.
00:03:42.580 The FBI monitors Catholics at traditional Latin masses.
00:03:46.300 The Justice Department pursues absurd charges against pro-life protesters.
00:03:50.220 And the Department of Homeland Security treats Trump supporters like domestic terrorists.
00:03:54.160 Thanks to the Twitter files and recent reporting from Mike Binns of the Foundation for Freedom Online,
00:04:00.640 we know that our domestic security apparatus and intelligence services collude with social media companies
00:04:06.660 to control the American electoral process using the same tactics they use to foment color revolutions in foreign countries.
00:04:14.060 The idea that the right should spend its time criticizing the democratic process of any other country at this point is absurd.
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00:05:29.040 Now don't get me wrong, I'm not naive.
00:05:31.660 The United States doesn't exist in a geopolitical vacuum.
00:05:34.900 Countries like China, Russia, and Iran don't stop seeking advantage just because Americans are having problems domestically.
00:05:42.440 But conservatives must understand that while these countries do present some level of opposition to our national interests,
00:05:49.900 none of them are the primary threat to the freedom of the American people.
00:05:54.160 It's a terrifying thing to admit, but the most dangerous threat to the liberty of American citizens
00:06:00.660 is a ruling class that would strip them of their most foundational constitutional rights
00:06:05.920 in the name of defending our democracy.
00:06:09.960 Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping may pose a threat to the international interests of the United States,
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00:06:53.720 Vladimir Putin didn't shoot the unarmed veteran Ashley Babbitt.
00:06:57.720 Putin hasn't facilitated an invasion at America's southern border.
00:07:01.660 Putin hasn't pushed transgender propaganda onto this nation's schoolchildren.
00:07:06.060 Putin hasn't allowed rampant violent crime in American cities.
00:07:09.460 Putin hasn't stolen the money of American taxpayers through borrowing and inflation to fund foreign wars.
00:07:15.960 Again, I'm very sure that Putin is a bad man who wishes this country ill.
00:07:20.840 But he is not the one irreparably damaging our homeland.
00:07:24.980 The oldest trick in the political playbook is attempting to distract the population with a foreign threat 1.00
00:07:31.580 to obfuscate the malicious actions of the ruling class at home.
00:07:35.420 This doesn't mean that the United States doesn't have very real opponents abroad.
00:07:41.360 But our primary focus must remain on the ongoing weaponization of our justice system
00:07:48.040 and the Biden administration's attempt to criminalize domestic political opposition.
00:07:53.800 Christ instructed us to remove the log from our own eye
00:07:57.300 before we attempt to clear the speck of dust from our brother's eye.
00:08:00.920 Before criticizing another country for its lack of political freedoms,
00:08:05.320 we must make sure to secure our own.
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