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00:02:20.000I want to start today's show on a personal note.
00:02:28.000Illinois has some of the hardest working people on the planet.
00:02:31.000Chicago values are ones of getting up early and going to bed late, doing your job, keeping your head down, hustling, having a drive, taking big risks, and doing impossible things.
00:02:42.000I've always said that Illinois should be the leader economically in our country.
00:02:48.000Illinois is geographically located in a perfect position.
00:02:53.000Chicago has better infrastructure and access to transportation than any other city in the country.
00:02:59.000It is the hub of transit, rail, air, to be able to disperse cargo all throughout the industrial Midwest.
00:03:10.000Chicago has research universities that are the envy of the world.
00:03:14.000Of course, they've gone woke in recent years, but some of them still do some fine research from Northwestern University to UIC to University of Chicago to Loyola.
00:03:28.000Company after company was founded in Chicago and headquartered in Chicago.
00:03:32.000From United Airlines, Caterpillar, which was down in Peoria, Boeing, headquartered in Chicago.
00:03:40.000Chicago used to be one of the greatest cities in the world.
00:03:45.000Now, of course, because of recent decisions made by the people of Chicago and Illinois, Illinois has taken a sudden decrease, a sudden decline, I should say, for the worse.
00:03:58.000However, Illinois is in this very perplexing situation and has been for quite some time, where Illinois had some of the greatest people, has some of the greatest people, and has always been so mistreated by the politicians.
00:04:15.000So I got my start in Illinois politics.
00:04:17.000I grew up in Wheeling, Illinois, started canvassing and campaigning for candidates running for the U.S. Senate, running for the House of Representatives seats in Illinois' 10th congressional district.
00:04:27.000And as I started to get involved in state politics, I started to ask questions such as why is it that nothing meaningful can get done in the state of Illinois?
00:04:39.000Republican won the governor's race in 2014 in the state of Illinois and shocked the country by doing that.
00:04:46.000However, there kept on being these stops.
00:04:50.000Someone was running the state that most people did not know about.
00:04:54.000This person had unchecked power, almost like a mob boss, running the entire state of Illinois.
00:05:02.000And his name, of course, was Mike Madigan.
00:05:05.000Mike Madigan served in Illinois government twice as long as I was alive at the time, 22 years old in Illinois politics.
00:05:56.000Mike Madigan, being the Speaker of the House of the Illinois House of Representatives, was the most powerful person in Illinois politics for my entire lifetime.
00:06:06.000And with it, he saw the decline of a great state.
00:06:11.000When you ask people, what do you think is the biggest problem towards America becoming a free society again?
00:06:18.000They have all sorts of different excuses, or they have all sorts of different answers.
00:06:22.000But the one that transcends all the other that 95% of Americans agree on is corruption in government.
00:06:30.000So yesterday, Mike Madigan, someone who was once untouchable and ran the entire state of Illinois with an iron fist, was indicted on racketeering and bribery charges, a 22-charge count indictment.
00:06:44.000Now, for years, Republicans running for office would accuse and would allege that Mike Madigan would be using his power as Illinois Speaker of the House to extort constituents and extort people in his local area to then go use his law firm, issue them a big property tax bill that they can't afford.
00:07:03.000Only the Madigan law firm can help get it down.
00:07:06.000Now, for years, Mike Madigan was not ever investigated because his daughter, Lisa Madigan, became the attorney general of the state of Illinois, the person who was tasked with investigating crime and corruption.
00:07:25.000You see, when you study the Democrats and you study the radical left, and this is a warning for everyone out there from Biden on down and one person in particular, when you are no longer useful to the regime, they will discard you, they will indict you, and they will cast you aside.
00:07:45.000And as soon as he stopped being so useful and people like J.B. Pritzker or Lori Lightfoot or the Obama political machine wanted to get a little bit more power in Illinois, they had to get rid of Mike Madigan.
00:08:00.000They allege a scheme stretching from Chicago to Springfield that connects politicians to lobbyists to business and utility executives.
00:08:07.000They allege that Mike Madigan led a criminal enterprise meant to enhance Madigan's political power and financial well-being while also generating income for his allies and associates for nearly a decade.
00:08:16.000Illinois loses a taxpayer every nine minutes, yet Mike Madigan got rich off of this.
00:08:22.000Mike Madigan reminds me of somebody that all of you know nationally.
00:08:28.000Mike Madigan reminds me of somebody and the lesson is exactly the same.
00:08:53.000The story of Mike Madigan should be a warning for any one of these septogenarian or octogenarian regime-loyal Democrats that think they are untouchable.
00:09:12.000They will remove you as soon as you are a barrier to their power.
00:09:21.000Harry Reid did the exact same sort of garbage, by the way, in Nevada.
00:09:25.000Harry Reid passed away, so it never really played itself out.
00:09:29.000Harry Reid did the same thing with casino licenses in Nevada.
00:09:35.000The indictment of Mike Madigan in Illinois should serve as a warning to every single one of the Democrats where you think you are untouchable, the same way that Stalin purged his generals from Tukhachevsky on down.
00:09:50.000I would be very, very worried if I was Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, or any one of these people that have been loyal to the regime and thinking you are untouchable.
00:10:00.000Because in Illinois, if Mike Madigan can be indicted on a 22-count indictment, the man who ran one of the largest, wealthiest states on the planet, anyone can be discarded.
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00:11:18.000Mike Madigan indicted in the state of Illinois, one of the most powerful political figures in the country, taken out.
00:11:25.000Now, of course, he's going to have to stand trial, and some of these charges will probably be pled down too and all this sort of different stuff.
00:11:33.000But for all of these Democrats that think that they can do whatever they want, whether it be Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, I would look at what's happening to Mike Madigan right now with some pause.
00:11:46.000They did that to Mike Madigan because he started to become a threat to their revolutionary fervor and their power aims and goals in Illinois.
00:11:54.000They very well could have let Mike Madigan go out to pasture.
00:11:57.000They could have manipulated some of the prosecution's focus on him, but this was intentional.
00:12:04.000Just breaking a couple days ago, we didn't really cover this story, but it relates.
00:12:09.000Hunter Biden's best friend, Devin Archer, was sentenced to federal prison in a fraud scheme.
00:12:16.000Former business partner of Hunter Biden was sentenced Monday to more than a year in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe, $60 million in bonds.
00:12:26.000Do you see a kind of through line here?
00:12:28.000Mike Madigan defrauding people and trying to extort them.
00:12:32.000Harry Reid doing the same, Devin Archer.
00:12:41.000When you have power and you have access to power, then you have the ability to go to people that don't have power, but might have money that you need, and then you monetize the power.
00:13:48.000I think Governor Ryan went to jail, if I'm not mistaken.
00:13:52.000And when you look at the state of affairs in Illinois, it in some ways is a microcosm of what they want to turn Washington, D.C. into right now.
00:14:07.000Make as much money as we possibly can.
00:14:09.000Nancy Pelosi, being Speaker of the House, I'm going to buy stocks that are correlated with the public policy decisions we're making.
00:14:17.000And yes, for those of you that have attended a couple of my speeches, you know this, that in Illinois, we have term limits, but it's not like you'd think.
00:14:25.000It's one term in office, one term in jail.
00:14:29.000When you ask your governor for the cell number, we're not asking for their phone number.
00:14:34.000Been using that one for about a decade.
00:14:39.000But I want to connect this to some national themes, though, because yes, it is personal in Illinois.
00:14:44.000I could talk about the Madigan story on end, but we have a national audience, which is that I believe that this is a warning shot for several of the Democrats, several of the people at the top levels.
00:14:59.000And I do want to kind of ask this open question, where is Anthony Fauci?
00:15:06.000He's been completely missing in action.
00:15:25.000Mike Madigan destroyed a beautiful and wonderful state, my home.
00:15:29.000Mike Madigan oversaw a criminal network of monetizing power and prestige for his own benefit while the pension system is completely bankrupt, taxes continue to be high, and Illinois lost its competitive edge in more ways than one in education and crime and etc.
00:16:07.000I think it's very unlikely he'll indict Hillary Clinton, but I think the scope of who actually might be able to go to jail for what was done with the Durham investigation might be expanding.
00:16:19.000As soon as Democrats and the left finds an individual that no longer be helpful to their power aims and ambitions, they will discard them.
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00:17:33.000I want to get into this one here, which is Cut 32.
00:17:36.000A report on a study from December shows that combining the flu and the COVID vaccine is a tactic, and they are begging to look at to vax more minorities.
00:17:47.000This November study from Penn State and the Commonwealth Fund surveyed 13,000 Americans.
00:17:54.000It found just 39% of black people would get a yearly COVID booster, but that number jumped to 42% if it was combined with a yearly flu shot.
00:18:04.000Among Asian Americans or Pacific Islanders, 53% booster acceptance went up to 60% if combined.
00:18:19.000The study's author wrote that bundling the shots may be a convenient option to increase uptake of vaccines among minorities.
00:18:28.000So there is still a concerted campaign to push the vaccine as vaccination rates have basically plummeted and the mandates have been lifted.
00:18:37.000And to tie that together with that sort of vaccination push campaign, especially in minority areas, and what we're seeing with the kind of disappearance of Anthony Fauci is there will be justice served at some level or some form for the people that have put on this entire,
00:19:01.000not just operation, but this entire tragedy on the American people.
00:19:08.000And so for any Democrats watching right now, any person that might be at the high level of government, jump ship now and become a whistleblower.
00:19:18.000Become a whistleblower and get out of town now because the momentum is going to start to hold people of the regime accountable for what they have done.
00:19:41.000But after you see Mike Madigan get indicted, I think to myself, anything could possibly happen.
00:19:48.000I want to get into the story from Daniel Horowitz that I find to be really interesting, which shows that there are still 10 COVID biomedical fights that are, it's not over, that we still need to win 10 more COVID biomedical fights.
00:20:01.000Now, COVID exposed a lot of different things.
00:20:04.000And one of the things that COVID exposed was, of course, our supply chain reliance on China.
00:20:10.000COVID's exposed that we have not given a proper platform to voices that are dissidents and filled with wisdom and hopefully contrarian opinions when it comes to bucking the consensus.
00:20:26.000Instead, we had trust the scientists that you like, not trust the science.
00:20:31.000But it also exposed how willing so many people in the leadership class of our country are to discard the United States Constitution and our founding principles and documents when things start to get a little bit uneasy.
00:20:48.000When you start to get afraid, all of a sudden, the Constitution becomes increasingly irrelevant in the eyes of the ruling regime.
00:21:09.000Did you know to this day, soldiers are still being kicked out of the military for a shot that is expired and causes a shocking amount of injury and death?
00:21:20.000The military vaccine mandate is still in place.
00:21:25.000The military mandate is still in place for active duty personnel.
00:21:28.000Number two, the healthcare worker mandate.
00:21:31.000Even the United Kingdom has made the decision to get rid of the healthcare mandate.
00:21:35.000Yet American healthcare workers are still being fired for not getting this dangerous shot, Daniel Horowitz writes, for a virus most of them already got, for a variant that seems to have more of an affinity to infect those with the shot.
00:21:48.000Quote, antibodies derived from natural COVID infection are more abundant and at least 10 times more potent than immunity generated by vaccination alone.
00:21:57.000Florida and Tennessee are the only states to have passed laws protecting healthcare agencies to make sure that they have to accept religious and medical exemptions.
00:22:08.000Number three, you think we're out of the COVID woods yet?
00:22:12.000Number three, children under five are the final frontier of Americans untainted by the vaccine.
00:22:19.000We already know from a New York state study that there is no possible benefit because the authors admit the shots have a negative efficacy after six weeks for five to 11 year olds.
00:22:28.000They cause a tremendous amount of injury and there is zero benefit, Daniel Horowitz writes.
00:22:34.000How can Pfizer be allowed to seek authorization for these shots?
00:22:38.000States must promise to block any distribution of these shots.
00:22:42.000Masks on planes and in doctors' offices.
00:22:45.000Even though masks have been thoroughly debunked as a tool for vital source control, the criminalization of human breathing on airplanes continues.
00:22:52.000I want you to think about how much power Anthony Fauci had.
00:22:55.000I will make the argument that Anthony Fauci had more power for a period of time, not anymore, than any other human being ever to exist in power.
00:23:09.000Had any other dictator been able to control the breathing of billions of people, control the personal medical decisions, flow of commerce, be able to control what you can and cannot say in the public forum, that man, Anthony Fauci, had more power than anyone the sovereign ever gave permission to rule over.
00:23:27.000Yet Fauci was unelected, had unchecked power, and was largely unknown before the Chinese coronavirus.
00:23:34.000Number five, Daniel Horowitz writes, The blocking of treatment.
00:23:38.000Ironically, COVID is not over and we don't know what's coming next.
00:23:41.000There are actually more recorded deaths today than there were when the mandates began.
00:23:45.000The same people who had destroyed our lives for COVID now want to walk away from it while still leaving people behind without proper treatment options.
00:23:52.000Very few states have passed bills protecting doctors prescribing off-label drugs.
00:23:58.000Number six, Daniel Horowitz writes, Remdesivir must be pulled.
00:24:02.000Remdesivir is a killer, and it is, I know a lot of people that have had terrible reactions to it, and states must immediately move to pull this toxic drug.
00:24:12.000Number seven, the patient bill of rights.
00:24:14.000Patients are being denied visitation from family members.
00:24:18.000An ICU doctor, Dr. Molly James, who treated COVID from day one, reports that she has patients who are being denied visitation by their spouses because the hospital believes they are slipping them ivermectin.
00:24:29.000And yes, they are actually upset the patient is getting better, but they're not allowed to get better that way.
00:24:34.000If you go into a hospital and start talking about vitamin D booster shots, you start talking about ivermectin azithromycin or hydroxychloroquine, you'll be kicked out.
00:24:43.000Number eight, denial of organ transplants.
00:24:46.000People in need of organ transplants might not constitute a massive share of the electorate, but their lives still matter.
00:24:52.000To this day, they are still being denied transplants on account of not getting a dangerous shot that fails to stimulate immunity, Daniel Horowitz writes.
00:25:00.000So people are still being denied life-saving organ treatments based on their vaccination status.
00:25:05.000Number nine, treatment for vaccine injury.
00:25:08.000Daniel Horowitz writes, even if we look at the most conservative estimates of vaccine injury, given the fact that most adults in the entire country were given at least one dose, that means there are a ton of people in need of help.
00:25:20.000Moreover, states must establish injury reporting centers encouraging doctors to treat patients.
00:25:26.000And finally, Daniel Horowitz writes, a complete audit of the injections.
00:25:30.000At this point, given everything we know, it's no longer okay just to oppose mandates.
00:25:35.000We need a full audit in every single state of everything that is wrong with the vaccines unless there is something we are all missing.
00:25:42.000They need to be immediately pulled from the market.
00:25:45.000Absent such a movement, they'll quietly be pushed by the government and medical establishment for months to come.
00:25:50.000Now, this is a very important point, and we could dive into this in a different episode.
00:25:53.000They need to add the COVID vaccine to the regular schedule of vaccines for children because the emergency use authorization window is ending.
00:26:02.000And if they do not get it onto the schedule for vaccines for children, they are not going to get the liability and the immunity protection against all of the injuries that might be correlated alongside of it.
00:26:16.000People must be held accountable for all of this.
00:26:21.000And one of the ways that they can be held accountable is through a medical reset, Republicans taking back the House and the Senate, and doing a church and pike committee style cross-examination of the medical totalitarianism and biomedical fascism.
00:26:38.000And that includes the people that were behind this, the Anthony Fauci's and the Francis Collins.
00:26:43.000The same way that Mike Madigan finally got held accountable or is getting held accountable for the damage he did to the beautiful state of Illinois, we need to hold the people accountable that put forward all these ridiculous and these insane and these anti-human and anti-freedom measures into place.
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00:29:12.000But to say, like, you have to go out and sing a song like that to try to say that everyone needs to walk around with the mask, intentionally dehumanizing other people.
00:29:22.000It finally makes sense how these Islamic theocratic dictatorships are able to put masks on people.
00:29:29.000Parts of the population actually want it.
00:29:33.000Similar to this, the great Ron DeSantis did something that I've been waiting for people to do for quite some time.
00:29:38.000Just so you know, I do this whenever I'm at an event.
00:29:41.000I was at an event in Texas and I did this.
00:29:43.000At certain events, when I go and I speak, I always tell people, and I'm not trying to shame them.
00:29:49.000I say, just take the masks off, guys, unless you really want them.
00:29:54.000And they're so relieved, people take them off.
00:29:56.000Well, Ron DeSantis is at the University of South Florida, which I believe is in Tampa, Florida.
00:30:02.000And he was doing an event, and these students are all wearing masks.
00:30:06.000And he goes up to him, like, stop wearing the masks because honestly, they're not doing anything, and we have to stop this COVID theater.
00:30:13.000What, just when you think Ron DeSantis can't reach another level of courageous commentary and leadership and precision, he just outdoes himself.
00:30:52.000It's a signal to the rest of the country.
00:30:54.000Oh, we're still going to be living in a subservient way.
00:30:58.000I believe the mandatory masks are the physical and visual representation of the tension versus the citizen and the subject.
00:31:09.000And by the way, Ron DeSantis made it totally and completely optional for the students.
00:31:13.000He didn't say, tear off your masks now.
00:31:15.000And by the way, I have to say that I have a lot of respect for Fox News, but the way they reported this story with the Chiron on Fox and Friends First was not right.
00:31:23.000It said, DeSantis tells students to take off their masks.
00:31:33.000CNN Plus host Jameel Hill declared in a profanity-filled rant that she would, quote, cussed him clean out of front of everybody if the governor spoke to her child that way.
00:31:42.000Quote, what a punk move to get loud with kids who aren't in a position to tell you to F off.
00:31:48.000Far left host Joy Reid said, quote, if Florida is so free, why does Ron DeSantis think he has the right to bully and give people orders?
00:32:08.000Quote, if he did this to my kid, I'd punch him in the face, actor John Cryer said.
00:32:14.000There's something much deeper at play here than masks when you have a governor telling people to stop the COVID theater, and this is the response they get.