UNHINGED Leftist ASSAULTS Journalist On Bus, Man Assaulted SPEAKS OUT ft. Frank Scales
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Summary
A woman identified as an agitator attacked an independent journalist on a public transit bus, pepper sprayed him, punched him, and tried to grab his phone. She was identified as Pauline Reyes of WHYY, a leftist news channel in Philadelphia.
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This was the insanity of this woman right here.
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pepper spraying him, punching him, trying to grab his phone.
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So Frank, total Chad, just eats that pepper spray.
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Again, this just really illustrates the situation on the streets in the United States.
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Again, leftists are able to operate effectively with total impunity.
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Do we really think the DA in Philadelphia is going to come down hard on this girl?
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This girl was identified as Pauline Reyes of WHYY.
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Why is your news intern going around pepper spraying people on SEPTA buses?
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So we're going to grab Frank and ask him what he thinks about all of this.
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Well, for the people watching at home, can you give a quick intro of who you are, what
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So I am an independent journalist with Surge Media.
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I actually started my own publication here in Philadelphia.
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We've been interviewing people on the street for the last few months.
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Our goal is to spread truth, spread information grounded in truth, faith, and accountability.
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And just yesterday, we were actually assaulted on a SEPTA bus.
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I was looking out the window, and a lady behind me started calling me a fascist and a racist
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She punched me in the back of the head, and then she pepper sprayed me twice.
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Well, I got to say, from the video you ate that pepper spray, that was like a total alpha
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But the fact that this happened is really just an indication of how ugly things are getting.
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We see, again, some of the identification circling online.
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Obviously, from your accent, I imagine people can tell this happened in Philadelphia.
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So I'm vaguely aware of Larry Krasner, obviously the DA of Philadelphia, the situation there.
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I can't imagine you're expecting really any retribution, or maybe not retribution, but any recourse
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I mean, it seems like a total leftist hellhole in a lot of ways of Philadelphia.
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If people go on our social media, they can scroll down and actually see that I confronted
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Krasner in a public park, and he actually grabbed my phone from me and like shook it and called
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Now, about a month after that, we were covering a protest at City Hall in Philadelphia when somebody
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Now, the thing about what happened yesterday is it happened on SEPTA, and it's the public
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So what can happen is the state can come in and prosecute because SEPTA crimes actually
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Well, you know, Larry Krasner could still prosecute crimes on SEPTA, but the state essentially
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came in and took some authority away because Larry Krasner was doing such a bad job with SEPTA,
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So we're hoping that the state picks it up and actually prosecutes this crime.
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And we're going to work really hard to make sure that this person faces consequences because
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we can't keep allowing people to get away with violence.
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I mean, we're seeing all across the country, obviously, the situation in Minneapolis just
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Just absolute insanity is, I don't know, from your perspective, it seems like from my perspective
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that leftists broadly across the country still think this is 2020.
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They still think that they're able to operate with complete impunity.
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Is that what you're seeing when you interact with these people?
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Do they really just feel like they're invincible in a lot of ways?
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And it comes down to, like yesterday, that was a personal load.
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And that was kind of unsettling because what we felt was the weight and the danger in what
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We know there's always risks and these people are nuts.
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But yesterday, we saw that firsthand from a person who was willing to commit violence
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But when they're in a group, they are not scared about consequences.
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And that's why the person who pepper sprayed me, her name's Paulina Reyes.
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She actually calls herself a journalist and an intern at Y, which is a media network here
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There is something interesting, something to be said about the fact that this girl, obviously
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cowardly, I mean crazy, but the fact that she is gainfully employed.
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Like, you know, when you see these types of things in the past, you would just talk it
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up to like just someone that's just a crazy person.
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And these are people that are working at news networks.
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I mean, these are people that, you know, for what it's worth, are occupying positions that
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I mean, I know she's an intern, but like the fact that this is happening at an organization
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And we're seeing this all across the country is these aren't just like random people, you
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Like these are people that have infiltrated a lot of these institutions and are hijacked
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I mean, that has to be quite alarming, I think, for everyone that someone like this, again,
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working in a news agency is radicalized like this, where they're literally just assaulting
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These are the people who are giving people news.
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These people get radicalized in college, and then they go on to work in professional jobs
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And I think that's why it's super important to take back the colleges and essentially show
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how they're indoctrinating students, because that's really where it starts.
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I mean, we saw after Charlie Kirk when all these people were celebrating.
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And these people that were celebrating, they're posting under their government name.
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In many cases, some of them are chucking it up on LinkedIn.
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And so when you would see these people posting these types of things, you would expect to
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click on it, and they would just be like a loser.
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But oftentimes, they would be, again, gamefully employed at fairly influential organizations.
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And you're just sitting back like, is this really how bad things have gotten?
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Because I think when I see something like this, seeing you get assaulted, what I see
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is I just see, wow, how much ground have we lost?
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How insane is it that there's such a large contingent of people in the United States that,
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again, will just quite literally assault you for having just conservative beliefs?
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Again, beliefs that at least half the country, if not the majority of the country, hold.
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I mean, attacking someone like you, again, you're someone that has the beliefs of probably...
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Martha listens to her favorite band all the time, in the car, gym, even sleeping.
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So when they finally went on tour, Martha bundled her flight and hotel on Expedia to see them live.
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She saved so much, she got her seat close enough to actually see and hear them.
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I mean, that's just a massive wake-up call, I would think, for everyone.
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And what's more alarming is that why the media network that she is involved with did not come
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Community College of Philadelphia, the place she was at school, and I was at school, and
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that's how I knew her name, because we were both in the same school and we kind of went
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But Community College of Philadelphia did not come out and denounce political violence.
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And we can look at establishment Democrats and we can talk about the current issues with
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They are delegitimizing ICE and putting federal agents in danger.
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And when they say that ICE is committing crimes and all of this different stuff, a Nazi-fied
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Gestapo, I actually heard Larry Krasner say something to that tune in a meeting I was at listening
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to him speak, what they are saying to their radicalized base is go out and obstruct.
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And that is, it's really a whole complex, it's a woke complex, and it includes education,
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it includes government officials, it includes people in all different professions, and then
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it includes the radical sect that oftentimes are unemployed, but they're willing to throw their
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whole lives away to, you know, commit violence against Republicans and commit violence against
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I mean, like you said with Krasner, we saw in Minnesota with Tim Waltz coming out and saying,
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they're snatching up, you know, your neighbors of color.
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Again, just sort of, you know, indiscreetly posturing ICE as this, again, like this Gestapo
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going door to door, like kicking on doors or whatever.
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And all that effectively does is, again, when you're just lying and slandering these guys
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who, again, are just conducting an operation that was voted on, like, this was a referendum
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and the American people said, yeah, illegal immigration, not cool that we would like mass
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People at the RNC holding signs up saying mass deportations.
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ICE is just carrying out, again, a very popular policy, by the way.
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The majority of Americans are in favor of deporting illegal immigrants.
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What that effectively does when Krasner and Walsh use that kind of rhetoric is they're, again,
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indiscreetly kind of putting a target on these guys' backs.
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And, like, to your point, I mean, people are quite literally willing to destroy their lives
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if it means carrying out sort of this obstruction that's being called for.
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That's very encouraging to hear that, again, the state might handle this because it seems
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like a lot of times these DAs, I mean, you see it in Portland and Minneapolis all the time,
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They'll check you in, you get a night of sleep at jail, and then you're out the next morning.
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Yeah, yeah, it's a good state for them a lot of the times.
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But, you know, what we've learned is these people need to be held accountable.
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So we're going to do everything we can to make sure that this person is held accountable
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She endangered everyone on that bus using that pepper spray for offensive purposes.
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Well, she was calling you like a racist and all these different things.
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What do you – I mean, because obviously they're just going to call anyone racist for
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the most part if you're a conservative or even broadly right-wing in any way.
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What specifically – what was her gripe with you?
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So I think that the fact that we're having success and we're actually showing people
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what's happening on the ground and we're exposing the radical left for who they are,
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the violent people who they are, and the fact that a lot of these protesters, the ones
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who aren't particularly violent, don't even know why they're protesting.
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And we have tons of interviews backing that claim up.
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I think she looked at my success and she was mad and jealous and, you know, probably mad
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that she isn't having the same amount of success and pushing her beliefs and whatnot.
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And it was really just a rage that I think overtook her, especially when she couldn't
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bait me into a screaming match, which she tried to do when she first saw me.
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I turned around and I was just looking out the window of the bus.
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I turned around and she was saying, how does it feel to be a racist, a fascist?
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And I said, word for word, I disagree with your characterization about what I do.
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And a lot of the times it comes when you won't stoop down to their level, they get very,
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So that's something we really pride ourselves on at Surge Philly.
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We pride ourselves on acting in principle and not stooping down to their level.
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And again, I mean, that's why the story is going everywhere.
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What she was trying to do is drag you down to her level, like you said.
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But I mean, that's what's so alarming is because, you know, as far as I can tell,
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your job effectively is just document what these people are doing.
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And just the fact that like, you know, they say like sunlight is the greatest in disinfectant.
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You know, it's the same thing as, again, all you're doing is documenting what they're doing.
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It's like, I'm just showing people at home who maybe aren't on the street seeing this,
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And just the sheer fact of documenting what's going on is enough for these people to completely
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That's really like, it's almost demonic in some way.
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Well, it shows, and this can go back all the way into the fact that these people don't
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But essentially, they've replaced God with a cult belief, a Marxist cult-like belief, where
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it's, you know, this is the only thing that's right.
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And not only an enemy ideologically, but also an enemy to their core.
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But when you approach them, and what I believe in is spreading truth.
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I talk to people with the intention to figure out why they're there and what they actually
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When you approach them and ask them questions, they meet you with hostility because it's a cult.
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And this goes back to, well, why can't they answer questions about what they believe?
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In their own circles, if they voice a opposing opinion, they get canceled.
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So when they go out in the real world and meet people who actually have a different opinion,
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I was just clear that I think of all the adjectives that you could correctly sort of prescribe
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I think the number one that comes to mind is low impulse control.
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Like they literally just will crash out at the drop of a hat.
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And it's really just unbelievable to watch in real time, watching it again manifest here
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But I mean, that's a great point is, I mean, these people really don't have sort of a guiding
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And that's why they just fill it with radical politics.
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They don't have anything else really going on in their lives that would make it worthwhile
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for them to, again, work in any other capacity in life.
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The only thing that really gets them up in the morning that sort of provides them with any
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purpose or meaning whatsoever is this idea that there's a revolution going on and that people
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like you, people like me, people like people watching at home are the only thing standing
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between them and like a perfect utopian society.
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That's a pretty powerful, again, it's a pretty powerful motivating force for these people.
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And I think that's why you're seeing an escalation in violence over the last few years.
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But just in the last few weeks, I mean, these people are clearly down for the cause.
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This isn't just people that get caught up or swept in it.
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These are people that are quite literally ideologues.
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They quite literally have a vision for America, a really pernicious one, but they have a vision
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And again, they just view us as like in the way.
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And I think a lot of people now at home sort of see this as well.
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And, you know, our goal is to depict what's happening.
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So we're going to keep going no matter what they can, they can pepper spray me, they can
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And the reason why I didn't react super badly was because I was actually pepper sprayed last
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You know, somebody tried to punch me and then they pepper sprayed me.
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And thankfully, the cops got me out of that protest and to safety.
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And I had to go to the hospital to get my eyes rinsed out because they said it could have
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So this week when they pepper sprayed me, when she pepper sprayed me, I was kind of like,
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Well, so the situation in Philly, has there always I mean, I imagine, you know, I remember
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from 2020, but has there always been this kind of hotbed of less leftist activity?
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And, you know, in addition to that, has it sort of kicked up in conjunction with what's
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Or is it kind of a separate scene, I guess, for lack of a better word?
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So it's always been here and it's particularly violent here in Philadelphia because there's
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a radical network and a lot of it is based around the Palestinian movement.
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So we actually went to like a free Sudan rally just to ask questions.
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And we were chased by somebody wielding a Palestinian flag.
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Somebody said they were going to headbutt me and I had to be careful walking home.
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And that's when my phone was actually smashed by somebody.
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So we've seen this at almost every protest we've been at in Philly.
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And we see all the radicals now moving to the issue of ICE because that's what the establishment
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So all these people who would be violent no matter what are now focused on ICE.
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Are these people, I imagine they have to be emboldened by Krasner.
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I mean, the fact that they probably perceive, again, that they will be able to operate with
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impunity because, again, maybe they're not part of the same organizations directly, but
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I think the Democrat Party and these leftist agitators, when you look at the rhetoric, look
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at their enemies and their common goals, it is tough to decipher, again, the ideology.
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I'm not saying necessarily that people like Krasner, people like Tim Woltz are out in the
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streets committing crimes per se, but there's no question that they're on the same page.
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It comes down to how they say certain things, calling ICE a Gestapo, saying that Republicans
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are Nazis, saying that Republicans, including me, I got called anti-American by Larry Krasner.
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Well, that's calling me an enemy, and his followers are going to go out there, and they're going
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to attack because they don't have anything to lose, unlike Krasner and the establishment
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Just after we went to a town hall with Krasner, where Krasner was saying things, and this was
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right after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, he was calling Republicans essentially evil
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You can disagree without calling us evil, without saying we're anti-American, without
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And the next town hall, they actually shielded the door.
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And this was somebody who was advising Larry Krasner on LGBTQ affairs, an ally of Larry Krasner,
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with a bullhorn saying, you need to be taught a lesson.
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You're not coming in here guarding me from entering his town hall.
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And you can find that video on surge, philly, or frank.scales on Instagram.
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Look up our website, surgemedia.us, and you'll find our social medias.
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But yeah, I mean, these radicals are empowered by Larry Krasner.
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And another thing is that they don't face any consequences.
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If people aren't being held accountable, they're going to be empowered to continue acting poorly.
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Larry Krasner does not hold criminals or people who commit political violence.
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And at least in my case, where my phone was smashed on the ground, the woman was given
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When you don't hold people accountable, they feel empowered to keep committing the acts that
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they were before and keep with the poor behavior.
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And that's what we're seeing in Philadelphia across the board.
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Like, that's what's so frustrating when you hear about these DAs and you meet guys from
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You talk to someone from there that's a total patriot.
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And they're describing the situation with their DA.
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And it's like that scene from Toy Story where Buzz, he looks on the shelf and he realizes
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It's the same thing with these DAs when they're like, hey, we're light on crime.
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We're letting leftists operate with total impunity.
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It's like, yeah, there's a million DAs all across the country that are operating the same way.
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And it just really illustrates how bad the United States has really gotten and that these
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I know it's kind of a meme at this point, but like, it really does emphasize the importance
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of guys like you exposing what's going on at the local level.
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Because again, so many people, you know, that engage with conservative media, they want to
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I mean, like this morning with my show, I talked about the Greenland situation, these sorts of
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But when you really think about what's going to impact you on a day-to-day basis, where is going
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to be like the obvious impact on your life, it's your DA, yeah, it's your city councilman
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or councilwoman, it's your assemblyman, your mayor.
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Like these are the people that, again, on a day-to-day basis are going to be massive disruptions
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or potentially benefit, you know, beneficiaries for your life.
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I think that's why the work people like you are doing is just so vital.
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As the great James O'Keefe said, my price is my life, and I feel the same way.
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People have risked their life, liberty, and sacred honor for this country.
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I think that the work we're doing as independent journalists, and there are many people out there
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doing this work is super important because, like you said, it's gotten so bad in America
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because what they've realized is that they don't actually need to change the law.
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So you see all of these leftist DAs that got propped up across the country who aren't enforcing
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So it really flies under the radar, but it's affecting people's lives in ways that are
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You look at Irina Zarutska, and she's not mentioned nearly as much as she should be,
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but that gentleman, and I don't even want to call him a gentleman.
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But the man who killed her was a prior criminal.
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They had plenty of chances to put that man away, and they didn't.
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You look at Cata Scott in Philadelphia, beautiful young woman, great life ahead of her.
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She was killed by somebody who was already caught on strangulation and kidnapping charges,
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They let him go to go kill Cata Scott, allegedly kill Cata Scott.
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If we had law and order in these cities, these horrible events could be prevented.
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I mean, yeah, you thumb through the Philadelphia City Code or Charlotte or wherever.
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But it's these, like you said, these DAs just, again, operating in opposition to law and order
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What would be your prescription, obviously, being a Philadelphia guy?
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For all the people in the audience that live in these cities, I know the rhetoric among
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conservatives is get out of the cities, but a lot of people want to see their cities do
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Again, as a country, our cities are vital to our economy, our culture, these sorts of
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What would be your prescription for someone living in a city like Philadelphia or New York
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or Chicago, these sorts of places, for how they can sort of work or operate, again, to
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Because I think a lot of people are very, rightfully so, blackpilled on our cities.
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I would say, first of all, I would say fight, fight, fight.
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The cities are where we are going to determine if we enter a golden age of America or not.
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So we need to stand up and we need to fight because the people before us, again, they
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sacrifice their life, liberty, and their sacred honor for this country.
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We can't just give radicals and violent criminals a place to be in their own land.
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Our cities are super important and they're a huge part of what makes America great and
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And secondly, I would say there are 180,000 registered Republicans in the city of Philadelphia
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So if all the Republicans get out to vote, at least in the city of Philadelphia, Republicans
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They're registered Democrat because they have to be for their jobs.
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The Democratic machine has such a stranglehold in these cities.
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A lot of them people are willing to vote Republican.
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And there's a chance to make real ground in all of these cities.
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And I know for a fact it can happen in Philadelphia.
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And I'm going to see to it that we keep reporting truth on the ground, getting what's actually
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And if anybody wants to support that mission, surgemedia.us.
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Well, before I let you go, I got to ask you again, because there's so much anti-city rhetoric,
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I think, in the conservative media space right now.
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What makes Philadelphians, Philadelphiers, whatever you guys use as a denonym, what makes you guys
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Because, you know, so much history in Philadelphia.
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I would say we have some radicals, but the community in Philadelphia and these people,
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And a lot of them are willing to vote Republican.
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One person even bought me a coffee a couple of weeks ago.
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You look at places like New York, where it's skyscraper, skyscraper.
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And it's close to Washington, D.C. and New York.
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So Philadelphia can really become a law and order city.
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We're probably going to be the best city in the United States of America.
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People can find our social medias on that website.
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Also, if you just want to go to social media, frank.scales on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok,
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I can't give you a go birds, but I'm really appreciative of you hopping on the show, man.
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It's just absolutely insane what's going on in this country.
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It's one of those things that puts in perspective is that literally it could be anyone.
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But she views Frank the same way that she views you watching at home.
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Anyone that is not down with the cause for these guys is an enemy, quite frankly.
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I don't know how we can share a country with these people anymore.
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That's why on the show yesterday we talked about this, it's why it's so vital that Trump
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really sends a message to Minneapolis because these leftists in Philly, these leftists in
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Portland, you know, wherever it may be, they're going to see that.
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And they're going to see that, look, it's a different sheriff, new sheriff in town.
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So with that, you can follow me on X and Instagram at Real Tate Brown.
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It's going to be a fantastic go hang out with DeVorey.