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00:02:52.000The first term was met by an insurmountable surge of opposition, well-funded, curtailed activism, and the Democrat Party decided to make an epistemological and ontological decision.
00:03:15.000They decided to make their religious purpose and meaning to destroy Donald Trump.
00:03:22.000It's a very dangerous and tricky life choice to make every fiber of your being about removing and thwarting a duly elected president of the United States.
00:03:36.000Now, to be honest, it gave a lot of mentally ill people meaning in their life.
00:03:44.000A lot of these people have wanted to kill me.
00:03:46.000Literally, they've been arrested for threatening to kill me.
00:03:50.000They've been arrested for threatening to kill Donald Trump Jr. They almost killed President Trump.
00:03:56.000They had existential despair, and they tried to fill their existential despair with, we hate the orange man.
00:04:04.000And millions of people came out of the woodwork, some of whom should have been in mental asylums, and marched in the streets, paraded through campuses, smashed windows, burned Wendy's, and they said, we must...
00:04:21.000And you, of course, know how the story unfolds.
00:04:24.000It's the greatest political story ever told that started as an insurgency, was derailed by the bad guys, went into exile, and mounted a reclamation.
00:04:34.000And so now we're looking across the horizon and the terrain.
00:04:44.000But there's a very fascinating wrinkle that is occurring here.
00:04:49.000Mental health experts see a massive increase in despair and burnout.
00:04:55.000Axios, which is a mainstream media regime operation, has published an article claiming that mental health experts are seeing massive increase in patients who are Democrat voters complaining of despair and burnout in the wake of President Trump's winning the election and taking office for the second time.
00:05:16.000The piece claims that worn-out whiners are whining so much about not being able to keep up with President Trump's shock and awe and rapid-fire policies.
00:05:28.000The article notes, quote, Andrea Bonoir
00:05:58.000at Georgetown University psychology professor says, quote, Bonoir writes, She pointed to federal workers who aren't sure if they'll be let go as others are concerned about their immigration status or worried about loved ones whose refugee flights were canceled.
00:06:25.000Everybody, they made a decision to religiously focus on the removal of Donald Trump as their purpose.
00:06:34.000As Pascal famously wrote, that every human being has a God-sized shape hole.
00:06:43.000And every human being tries to fill that hole, and we believe only our Lord is able to fill that hole.
00:06:50.000Democrats don't believe in God, and they believe if there was a God, it would be Him.
00:06:52.000So they don't agree with any element of that.
00:06:56.000So therefore, they must come up with some construct, some meaning, and think about how similar left-wing activism has been to religion these last couple of years.
00:07:07.000They would have group ceremonies similar to a religious experience.
00:07:13.000They would have banners and they would have shirts and they would have incantations.
00:07:20.000The whole regime media was all focused on this one singular human being.
00:07:25.000And contrast that, by the way, with when Donald Trump was removed from office in 2021, in February, March, and April of 2021, we did not go into existential despair.
00:07:36.000And that is where you deserve credit because you're not mentally challenged.
00:07:40.000And I know that might sound like it's a little bit of a slight, but let's just be perfectly honest.
00:07:46.000The current composition of the American left includes, not only, but it includes, basically, they've redefined themselves as a mentally ill faction.
00:08:11.000The whole left-wing project is constituted around this elemental agreed-upon proposition that we all have something that we're dealing with.
00:08:22.000We must pander to one another or pander to you.
00:08:26.000And every left-wing organization is wrecked by this.
00:08:31.000One of the reasons why they're saying, oh, we need our own Turning Point USA. That's what they're saying.
00:08:35.000Mark Halperin said this on the program.
00:08:37.000The left wants to try to create their own left-wing Turning Point USA. It's going to be really hard.
00:08:42.000Because at Turning Point, we don't put up with any of this stuff.
00:08:47.000But if all of a sudden you're trying to start a left-wing Turning Point USA, well, you've got to have equal representation of, well, you've got to have a tranny.
00:09:09.000But you're seeing the left retreat from activism, and now they're on the psychologist's couch.
00:09:18.000Let's play Cut 74. For every American who doesn't want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight.
00:09:33.000Your fight, my fight, our fight, and we will win this fight!
00:13:22.000Playcut 73. But we begin tonight with a full-on crisis in our democracy, as federal workers are literally locked out of their offices while operatives working for a private citizen essentially take over our government.
00:13:37.000Their tactics include turning off our federal websites, deleting government-funded research that you, the taxpayer, paid for to impose speech codes, bullying news organizations by demanding interview transcripts, implementing an FBI purge, locking federal workers out of their computers, and even turning them away at their offices while giving themselves, without congressional or any other authorization, full access.
00:14:05.000Okay, I've got to focus on the earrings.
00:15:24.000Could you imagine in the production room at MSNBC? I guarantee you there's some person in quality control at MSNBC. Looking at this, they say, oh my gosh, what are we doing?
00:15:36.000And they want to tell her to get rid of the earrings, but they know that she'll be like, racist!
00:16:01.000So it's a threat to our democracy that the person that the people voted for is fulfilling what the people voted for?
00:16:08.000New York Times, Trump's actions have created a constitutional crisis, scholars say.
00:16:13.000Oh yeah, just like experts say that you shouldn't send your kids to school during COVID or wear a mask when you shower and take the nine different mRNA gene altering vaccines.
00:17:56.000Yes, I worked at USAID in the first Trump administration, and to understand what's going on now there, you really need to understand the first Trump administration because...
00:18:07.000It was a cesspool of corruption and bureaucratic resistance.
00:18:13.000Now, one of the problems we had was the first, basically the year of the Trump administration, basically 2017, there were very few political appointees.
00:18:22.000And so you had the bureaucracy essentially running the organization and doing all sorts of bad things.
00:18:29.000And this memory lingers for those of us who came in.
00:18:33.000I didn't get there until 2018. There were very few of us.
00:18:37.000Pete Morocco, who is now in a leading role, he didn't come until even after that.
00:18:43.000And so you had lots of terrible things happening.
00:18:47.000One was the administration was continuing to push things like DEI and transgenderism, and you also just had all sorts of avenues for corruption.
00:18:58.000And I reported some of that corruption, and then I became a target of the bureaucracy, and ultimately they pushed me out.
00:19:04.000So tell us more about what you learned and some of the more outrageous examples and incidences at USAID. So one of the things I saw and one of the things I learned quickly was that there is a strong anti-Christian sentiment within the organization.
00:19:21.000And this has a lot to do with LGBTQ and abortion activism.
00:19:27.000One of the interesting things about USAID is you do have a significant number of people who are children of missionaries.
00:19:34.000And themselves, many of them are people of faith, but they have to live in the closet because they are so afraid of retribution.
00:19:42.000And under the preceding Obama administration, they've gone to great lengths to try to purge any sort of support for faith-based organizations.
00:20:01.000And oftentimes in these countries, they have some of the best people and most dedicated people.
00:20:05.000And so I went out in 2018 and did a trip to Africa.
00:20:11.000Very few Trump appointees had been there at that point.
00:20:14.000And what I found was that the missions there were refusing to work with faith-based groups because they were still operating on Obama-era guidance from a year and a half ago that said the establishment clause doesn't let us do that.
00:20:28.000And that, of course, is complete nonsense.
00:20:31.000And ultimately, we were able to make some progress on there.
00:20:34.000Of course, when the Biden people came back in, they reversed that again because they are dominated by...
00:20:43.000So you've told a story about a privilege walk, which is just wild to hear.
00:20:47.000You had to play a role as a Scandinavian woman?
00:20:51.000Yes, and that's another indication of how much the bureaucracy was still in control in 2018. When I got there, there should have been a session for new political appointees.
00:21:04.000There was nobody telling us, here's what the mission is, here's how you do it.
00:21:08.000We were kind of left to fend for ourselves.
00:21:10.000But we did have to go through the new employee orientation for career staff.
00:21:14.000And one of those things was this so-called privilege walk, where you stand in a line, you have this role, and then they read out statements like, you know, people make bad stereotypes about me or I have trouble getting services.
00:21:28.000And at the end, you know, you step forward or back based on where you are.
00:21:31.000The white male is at the front so everyone can see that he's the one with the privilege.
00:21:37.000Everyone else is various distances behind.
00:21:39.000And this is just wrong on so many levels.
00:21:41.000I mean, for one thing, we're talking about adults here who should understand that life isn't fair and some people have more advantages than others.
00:21:50.000But it also is aimed at specifically pointing to white male privilege, which, you know, as...
00:21:57.000People who've looked at this seriously know there's a lot of white males in this country who don't have very much privilege.
00:22:03.000You also have white liberal privilege.
00:22:05.000If you're a white liberal, you can get away with a lot more and do all sorts of things you couldn't as a white conservative.
00:22:13.000But the other thing about this is it's basically intended to support left-wing politics because it's saying you are...
00:22:20.000In your spot because of your circumstances, you don't really have control.
00:22:24.000It's all because somebody else is creating a bad situation for you.
00:22:28.000And so this is an abdication of personal responsibility and, of course, a reason to say, okay, well, you know what we need since you can't take care of yourself and you're in this situation?
00:22:38.000We need the government to come in and do things.
00:22:44.000If you watch a video of a privilege walk, it's incredibly disgusting and just repulsive, where they will differentiate you based on race and then tell you, well, because you're a white male, you have all these advantages.
00:22:57.000I mean, you should be like, well, actually, let's do a walk.
00:22:59.000Who here wants to walk forward that had two parents around, that had parents that didn't commit crimes?
00:23:05.000I mean, if you want to talk about the actual reasons why people are able to advance, or how about those of you that wake up early, don't do drugs, you know, actually take your life seriously.
00:23:15.000If you were to give advice to the Trump administration to fix USAID, what would you recommend?
00:23:21.000Yeah, well, I think they're already doing a lot of great things in a lot of great directions.
00:23:29.000They purged a lot of the bad actors who were there when I was there and people who helped get me pushed out of the agency.
00:23:37.000And that includes the head of the Office of Security, the ethics official.
00:23:42.000It's unbelievable how the people there who are supposed to be in charge of enforcing rules are actually a big part of the problem.
00:23:48.000I think the biggest challenge going forward is to sort out what could still be kept and what should be eliminated.
00:23:57.000And I think everyone, including Secretary Rubio, I would say, you know, there are important things that we do with foreign aid, but there's a lot of terrible things.
00:24:08.000And we've seen all these stories about transgender operas and DEI comic books and DEI consultants who get paid these huge sums.
00:24:17.000But the more difficult task is that the Biden people have injected DEI, LGBTQ, feminism, radical feminism into all their programs.
00:24:29.000You know, even if something that seems very innocuous, you think, you know, a global health program seems okay.
00:24:35.000And, you know, they're hiding the fact that, well, they count transgender surgery as global health.
00:24:41.000So it's going to take a lot of time to dig through there and take that bad stuff out and purge it from the programs that are still worth keeping.
00:24:51.000Why do you think that this did not make bigger news during the first Trump administration?
00:24:59.000Somebody like an Elon Musk out there banging the drum.
00:25:05.000I published a book last year about what was going on at USAID, but it was hard to get people's attention because people said, well, we never heard of USAID. In fact, I had suggested to the publisher we could call Agency for International Corruption.
00:25:19.000Again, they said, well, people just don't know this.
00:25:22.000So it took Elon Musk raising the issue and also the approach they took.
00:25:27.000At the beginning, they went in and said, okay, give us your information.
00:25:31.000And the bureaucrats tried to block them and gave them an excuse to go in and seize all this information.
00:25:38.000Because that was, in the first term, we couldn't get that.
00:25:41.000The bureaucrats would stonewall, even senior appointees, they would not give information to Congress.
00:25:46.000And so finally, thanks to Doge, we are now paying attention, and it's long overdue.
00:25:53.000Well, Dr. Moyer, we love Hillsdale College.
00:25:55.000We appreciate you blowing the whistle.
00:26:05.000When we talk on this program on how terrible college campuses have become, this is an example of how this mind virus has infected every portion of our federal government.
00:26:16.000Privilege walks used to be something that were done at the most radical university campuses.
00:26:22.000That they'd be done in NYU or they'd be done at Stanford.
00:26:25.000But to do that within USAID, it shows how the college campification of the country has been executed.
00:26:33.000Turned the whole country into a major college campus.
00:26:36.000And now we are trying to unravel that.
00:26:40.000And at quite a record pace, by the way.
00:26:42.000We're seeing it already start to fall apart because it is an empire built on a very brittle foundation.
00:26:50.000It is a fragile, And holding the line is critically important.
00:26:56.000Who could possibly be against the Department of Government Efficiency?
00:27:24.000Every dollar taxpayer money should be cherished and should be valued.
00:27:27.000If you find an outrageous line item for $5 million or $20 million.
00:27:33.000And by the way, under that belief, how many of you go if you get a check at a restaurant or go through your Visa bill and start asking questions?
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00:29:41.000So I think white only and black only anything is evil and wrong.
00:29:45.000That's why I hate critical theory and critical race theory, because when it's put in practice, you start to discriminate people based on race.
00:29:55.000So we're now south of the Mason-Dixon line in North Carolina.
00:29:58.000We did a lot of work to get rid of segregation in this country.
00:32:37.000Disney responds, gets rid of DEI. Target has rolled back its DEI. John Deere has scaled back its DEI. Boeing has scaled back its DEI. Harley-Davidson, Lowe's, Walmart, McDonald's, Amazon, Meta.
00:32:53.000It's a race to who's actually still going to have this stuff.
00:32:56.000You're going to stick out like a sore thumb.
00:32:58.000By the way, that goes for every college, too.
00:33:00.000All of these colleges have DEI departments.
00:33:02.000You want to talk about a delicious little thing?
00:33:05.000That's where some of the opposition is going to come.
00:33:08.000In fact, it's going to be very interesting to see.
00:33:12.000President Trump wrote the executive order for all the federal branch of government for people that receive federal funding, grants, tuition, or subsidized student loans.