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Epstein's bones were found to have multiple fractures in his neck, which only adds to the mystery of what happened to him. Who can you trust? Also, a story about a deep fake that could have been planted by one of Epstein's bodyguards.
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Hey, kind of a spooky broadcast today. I mean, we start with the bones of Epstein.
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I don't know if you know Jeffrey Epstein's neck was broken in several places.
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The disturbing part is a story that we found in New York Magazine,
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We get into that. We also talked to you about a deep fake that is really disturbing
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Also, Charlie Kirk will be there. I do give some porn.
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I mean, it's just clickbait. The yield curve I tried to explain today.
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I lost my wig when it came to the Statue of Liberty yet again today.
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That's a worthwhile segment, especially if you hear the way the media is treating Cuccinelli on that one.
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Also, tonight on TV, a pretty interesting show.
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Total, like, how you would describe, like, a social justice warrior.
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Had a podcast, a comedian, and was constantly railing on conservatives and saying how awful they were and they should be fired.
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Didn't he say that he called for me to be fired several times?
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I think he said he put, the fact that you called him a name at one point, which we didn't even remember, he put it on his resume.
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So, he went through a bunch of stuff, including a couple of false Me Too type allegations,
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and has now kind of gone through this firestorm and realized, wow, what I was doing before was incredibly wrong.
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He's still left-wing, still does not agree with us on policy, but he's gone to the point where he's like,
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this culture of, this cancel culture, if you will, is completely misguided.
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Really interesting guy, Jamie Kilton, he's going to be on the show on TV tonight.
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If you're not a subscriber, please go to blazetv.com, use the promo code Glenn, save yourself 10 bucks,
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plus you'll get, I mean, how much, Elizabeth Warren is Woodrow Wilson monologue from this week was great.
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You had the telling of the Patrick Byrne thing.
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That is the story, that's the story of Epstein and the corrupt FBI.
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It ties into that, ties into the Russia scandal, the Hillary Clinton, what's really happening, who can you trust?
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Yeah, if you're missing the TV program, you're missing a lot.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Remember I told you that Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy had been done over the weekend and they were not conclusive.
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Well, now we're getting a little bit more information on this.
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An autopsy found that Jeffrey Epstein's sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones are deepening the mystery.
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The, one of the bones that was broken in his neck is near his Adam's apple.
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And it can happen that that bone breaks when you hang yourself, especially if you're an older person.
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However, it's much more common, uh, among victims of a homicide by strangulation and, you know, to really snap your neck.
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It's, it's, it's, it's why, uh, hangings were, uh, deemed cruel and unusual, uh, back in the 1800s when people were hung.
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If you didn't, if you, if you lynched somebody, they are struggling for a long time.
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You know, you pull the horse away or you kick the table.
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And so the, the, the snapping of the neck happens when you have the gallows and they have to fall a, a certain, uh, distance.
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It's why the executioner's job, you had to look at the person's weight and you had to look at the person's height and you had to get the, the, the, um, the noose, if you will, to the right level.
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So their neck would snap and it would, uh, end their life quickly.
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Now it very well could be that he had an old frail bone in his neck.
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There's multiple cracks in his neck, which seems unusual, but it doesn't mean anything.
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We also know now that, uh, the two guards were sleeping and they falsified their, uh, their records.
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They said they checked on them every 30 minutes.
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So most conspiracies can be explained away by incompetence.
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But what I want to share with you is an article that I read today from New York magazine.
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Epstein, and it's an interview done by a writer there, uh, who interviewed his, uh, Epstein's bodyguard about five years ago.
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And so now that Epstein is dead, he wanted to go back and it was an unpublished, uh, interview, but it was all on the record.
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So now he's gone back and he's re-interviewed him, but things seem to have changed.
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And I, I just want to, uh, I want to go through, uh, um, a few parts of this.
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Uh, and it's just, it's, it's not, it's just a transcription of the interview.
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So, uh, the interviewer is asking her, asking, uh, the security guard, the only guy that he had is a bodyguard.
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He's a Russian former MMA fighter and, and seems very Russian as you'll see.
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Um, he's asked, so you drove him to all three places.
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We, he had driver, whatever name was, he was like old family.
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I was just training with him in New York, traveling with him.
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I just drove him there, Palm Beach, because other places he had different drivers.
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They're just the personnel, you know, who just drive him.
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Of course, in Palm Beach, when we stay at Palm Beach, we have guest house.
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Uh, does he had, did he have bodyguard abilities like you?
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He talks about how, uh, he's made fun of, um, um, and, and not listened to and just treated
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Uh, I mean, when I work for him in Palm Beach, just business meeting, basically mostly down,
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Ever heard about his case, why he was in trouble?
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In our conversation in 2015, you described his relationship with teenage girlfriends, and
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So many times, uh, so many times I try to stop him.
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That's the reason why I'm not working for him no more.
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Plenty of times when I work for him, I never see anything improper or teenage girls around him.
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So wait, so wait, now you're saying that you only saw him with women older than 18 or 20?
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All I say is, he had been with girlfriends, and there was a couple of girls.
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She was 25, worked for him, an assistant, maybe 25, 23, whatever.
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Okay, but you definitely told me last time we talked.
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He working like work release on other stuff, and I just tell him, you know, he would order
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his girlfriends around, and I told him, calm down.
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I never see teenage girls in my life at his house.
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Misunderstanding completely, because that's what I'm saying.
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Most of the time with reporters, they give me that kind of question.
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Here's another thing you said last time about Epstein and the girls you saw at his house,
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specifically about moments when you were trying to offer him advice about his contact.
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So when you try to do something good, he would try to make a joke in front of girls.
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I never ask any of my clients what they do for a living or how they do whatever they do.
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I feel like the cops watching me whenever he's on work release.
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Don't put girlfriend in car and drive together.
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But Epstein made fun of you in front of the girls, right?
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You say you never ask your employers questions.
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Because, like people talking and just, they already have some release.
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And just read some papers about his, like whatever, teenage girls.
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They have no idea of the degree of what they were doing.
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But you can't tell nothing to them because they support him, kind of.
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For the while, this one girl would be more attached to him.
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You have a private plane and you have three girlfriends.
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Normally, he always has me check the newspapers.
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And then when I mentioned Epstein was being exposed for messing with teenage girls, you said, I'm not surprised at all.
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I'm surprised how low he can be outside in the real world.
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Someday, someday is going to call him and it will be real jail.
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Me personally, if I caught him with my daughter or something like that, I'm not going to call the police.
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That guy could try to sue me and manipulate the situation with his money.
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I know he screwed a lot of fashion girls also, screwed up a lot of fashion girls also.
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I remember one thing, like, if I be father and someone screw up my daughter, I don't care how much money he have.
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I'm really like, Igor, I'm not making this stuff up.
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I'm, listen to this quote, I'm really careful too.
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Maybe you don't remember what you told me or you're afraid.
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Then he goes on to talk about how he died and yada, yada, yada.
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I wonder what he was capable of doing since he settled a lot of lawsuits.
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I don't, I want everyone just to leave me alone.
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When someone from newspaper right and from everywhere call you me Red Army Commando,
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If it's untrue, if it's untrue, that would be over the top.
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The girls just looking at me and the girls get scared.
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Uh, so I don't, uh, know if you want me to say, uh, something and I don't want to.
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Wait, you told me he would get phone calls, uh, the night before at eight o'clock and the
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Well, you can read whatever you want right now.
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He said, you said, he always do something wrong.
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He would come home, uh, arrest and police before they come to the house, they would
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call him and tell them we were coming at eight o'clock in the morning.
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I'm telling you, you have to, uh, uh, I'm telling you to give you a chance to remember
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I don't know what you mean about put myself in trouble.
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I'm not going to, uh, offer that over the phone right now.
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You said that last time, and we didn't talk for years, you can tell the world who this
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Um, he, he could have, uh, I totally understand that you think he could have had help committing
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Uh, have you been talking to anyone in the government, the FBI?
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So I read this this morning and my first thought was my friend, uh, Patrick Byrne.
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Patrick Byrne is the CEO of overstock.com and he's a libertarian.
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He doesn't have a horse in this fight except for America.
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He, he, he dislikes both sides equally, I think.
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He was, uh, you could see that he was surprised by the question and then he just answered it,
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uh, when he was on Fox news, uh, just a couple of days ago, he was on for another reason to
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talk about cryptocurrency, but then he started talking about, uh, what he knows about the
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Russia investigation and also the, uh, investigation into the Clintons with the FBI.
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And he said, I can't tell you why, but I know what happened.
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Well, we've pieced together some, uh, at least part of it.
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We know how he was involved with the Trump Russia investigation.
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He was in the center of that kind of in this Hitchcockian sort of way where it's like this
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everyday man kind of finding himself in the middle of this giant conspiracy.
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And my first thought after reading this with, uh, Epstein's, uh, bodyguard was be very careful.
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Is this the kind of country that we are becoming and are we okay with it?
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He is the founder and president of turning point USA.
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Uh, welcome to the, uh, welcome to the program, Charlie.
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I wanted to talk about, because you've been going, um, and talking to so many people.
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You have been on the campuses, uh, for a couple of things.
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First, I want to talk to you about the El Paso narrative.
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You know, Donald Trump said last week that, um, he thought that he could sway even his base
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to go for some things that he claimed were common sense, um, uh, gun control laws, like
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And the poll numbers look like that might be a possibility that 40% of Republicans are
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How close are we, do you think, to making some fundamental changes on the second amendment?
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And thankfully, we still live in a country where if the majority wants to take our rights
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away, they shouldn't be able to, and they can't.
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That's the whole point of understanding and protecting natural rights.
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I mean, thank goodness that we don't have voting by the mob that can, that can take away
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It's beginning to get that way, but this is a really important point, Glenn, that what
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makes the Scottish enlightenment ideas so critical that we're enshrined in our constitution
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is that it's sort of irrelevant if 55 or 60% of the country want to just by, by voter
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decree, take rights that we have upon our, our birth, um, away from us.
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And it's really important that when we talk about increasing government regulation, it might
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sound good or feel good, but especially from the federal government, we have to act as if,
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or say as if, what if the government bureaucrat that we distrust most had that kind of governmental
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So for conservatives, lest us not forget Lois Lerner.
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Remember Lois Lerner who investigated the Tea Party and basically got up scot-free for,
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you know, um, blowing up a lot of grassroots energy and enthusiasm in our base.
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Imagine if she had the kind of control to register guns and to come after our second amendment,
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right? All of a sudden, I guarantee you that the supposed support amongst Republicans for
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increased gun control can diminish and, and would diminish and would decrease. So that's,
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that's the way I think we have to frame this argument is, is you're going to be giving more
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power to government bureaucrats that hate you. They hate your worldview. They want to make sure and
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make certain that people that believe in libertine ideas or the, or a conservative worldview or Judeo-Christian
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ethic will have a decreased amount of say and authority. And that should be said of the first
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amendment as well, as well as the second amendment.
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Why, why is this, why is this happening, um, with the left? Are they just playing a longer game and
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they just know that these things always work out in their favor or, I mean, I don't understand the
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disconnect. Donald Trump is a dictator. He's a Nazi. He is building concentration camps quick. Let's give
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our guns to his government, which it's, it's again, that, that is the best argument to kind of cross
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examine the left, um, lack of logic on this because wait a second, I thought they don't trust this
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government because Donald Trump is in charge. I thought he's the one that is building alleged
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concentration camps, which is just not true on the Southern border. Now the left wants that very
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same government to take guns away. That doesn't make a lot of sense, but, but look from a broader
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perspective here and a bigger picture is the left is embarking and they're in, they're well on their
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way for the deconstruction of our country. And that's the philosophy here. It's deconstructionism.
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And you've educated your audience brilliantly on this. And I wish more people did exactly what
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you've done, which you go through the historical roots of this from the Frankfurt school on,
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which is, it's a deliberate attempt to deconstruct our country from within. And, and the left
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understands that there are, there, there's the natural rights that we have that are, you know,
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protected in the, in the bill of rights, but there are three that are really, really important
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right to expression and right to dialogue, the second amendment and the fourth amendment,
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those, and the 10th amendment as well, I'd say states rights and not anything that's not listed
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should be decentralized in nature. The left has a full frontal assault on those four things
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in particular, trying to attack our religious expression, trying to take our guns away, trying
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to erode our personal, our personal privacy and property, and finally to destroy states' rights
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as we know it. And the left plays a much more patient game than we play. They are much more
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deliberate and they're okay looking at things in a 50 to a hundred year type type perspective.
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And, and, and we as conservatives tend not to do that.
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So Charlie, let me, let me bring this up to you, uh, because you know, history well enough,
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um, to be able to see this giant arc, but I just did an episode, uh, couple of days ago on
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the comparison of, of the want to be presidency of Elizabeth Warren to Woodrow Wilson and went
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through, uh, Philip drew administrator, which was written by Colonel house during the Wilson
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administration to really kind of say in novel form, what the progressives really wanted.
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And it's Elizabeth Warren. I mean, they are willing to do a long, long look. They're more
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Totally. And I'll give you another kind of really interesting parallel. Where did Woodrow Wilson come
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from Princeton university? And he was, he, he was the president of Princeton, Princeton university
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and then governor of New Jersey. Where's Elizabeth Warren come from Harvard? I mean,
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when you're born out of the Academy and you're born, you're kind of a prototype, if you will,
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of higher education, you will bring that radicalism with you. And Woodrow Wilson was probably one of the
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most damaging presidents besides FDR and LBJ in the last hundred years of our personal freedoms and
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liberties that few people talk about, but you actually educated me on this topic through your
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books and your show seven or eight years ago. Um, when I first started to become aware of the
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threat of progressivism and the year of 1917, boy, if you look at, um, one year that, you know,
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eroded our freedoms and liberties almost more than any other, whether it be the creation of the
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federal income tax or the creation of the federal reserve act. Um, I mean this, this singular
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individual pioneered more erosion of States rights and individual sovereignty than anyone else. I'm
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sorry, 1913. It was, if my memory serves me, um, was the revenue act, not 17 was world war one. I
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stand corrected 1913. Um, but that is a great parallel Glenn. And what does I, if I were to venture a
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guess, I think the party, the Democrat party is much more likely to nominate Elizabeth Warren than Joe
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Biden. Elizabeth Warren can kind of be the intersectional candidate that they're looking
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for in the sense that she is, she's angry yet. She is thoughtful enough that she'll be able to
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appease the Democrat suburban voters and the new, new kind of Democrat suburban voters. Um, she's
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academic enough to appease the New York times oligarchs. And she also has enough populism in her
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to be able to kind of channel that Bernie Sanders energy. She's drawing bigger crowds. She's raising
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a tremendous amount of money. And so, wow, is that a great comparison to you? And it's so funny.
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You mentioned the Chinese Glenn recently, I said to someone, I said, the left thinks like the Chinese
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do. They think in terms of centuries and they're okay with multi-decade plans to, in the words of our
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previous president, fundamentally transform our country. And you look at it, we as conservatives
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have such a difficult task because we look as if we're anti-progress. But guess what? That's okay
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sometimes. Some things should not change. In fact, I would make the argument, the more we've changed
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the family, the nuclear family in our country, the more negative side effects, the more broken
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communities that we've actually experienced. And that, that's, that's an argument we have to
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You have to, you have to change, but you have to, uh, uh, change the things that don't work
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while leaving the things that do work. That that's, I mean, that's the, the point of being
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a conservative is to conserve the things that work and are true. We've just come to this place to
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where we're like, nothing works. Well, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait. Some things work really
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well. And some things aren't working so well because we've made changes in the past or we failed
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to make changes in the past. So let's sort these through and conserve the good things. So Charlie,
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so is Elizabeth Warren, cause I am shocked, shocked. This latest poll, um, shows, uh, me,
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smoke them one pump, uh, one point away from, uh, Joe Biden. Uh, and I think you're right. I think
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they are more likely to go with Elizabeth Warren than, than Joe Biden in the end, because she wants
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to fundamentally transform. I think she is a, another Hillary Clinton that Donald Trump will crush.
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Do you think so? Or do you think she's the, there's something to her that should concern us?
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I want to believe that I'm going to, I'm going to come up with a piece soon. And I'm going to talk
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about this on my, my podcast, Glenn, you might find this interesting. And I, I try to be a contrarian
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by nature, but I will tell you that just as we learned that there were hidden Trump voters,
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I believe that there are hidden socialist voters out there too, that have either been voting
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green party or have not been showing up in the same numbers. Now, are there enough of them
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to make Elizabeth Warren president? I don't think so, but I, I will kind of throw a little
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skepticism at some of the conventional wisdom that Trump will win the landslide against Elizabeth
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Warren. And let me tell you why is ideal mostly on college campuses at turning point USA. And Elizabeth
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Warren is precisely what college students want in a candidate. She talks about fundamental
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transformation. She's unafraid to question the history of the United States and call our history
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a mistake. Not that we've made a mistake, but that our country is a mistake. She's, she's unabashed
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in her promising of free stuff and to have other people pay for her utopian schemes. And I think
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that younger voters will show up in numbers that we have not seen since 2008. If Elizabeth Warren
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is the candidate now, I think she would lose unbelievably voters over the age of 50, you know,
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people that have actually been around for a couple of decades and had sobriety of life, you know,
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kind of, you know, that they've lived through, but never underestimate the kind of unpredictability
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a candidate can cause when younger voters start to show up. And we saw this in 2008. And again,
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in 2012, it throws off all the voting models, Glenn, if college students voted at the same clip
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or the same rate as suburban women, Hillary Clinton would be president. And, and award is one of the
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few candidates that can do that. Now, I think she would actually have a ton of trouble with black
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voters and Latino voters. I think the president could do far better in those particular communities
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and Republicans traditionally have. But I think that your comparison that Elizabeth Warren is our
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Woodrow Wilson is spot on. And it's something that needs to be repeated, because she's now going to
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try to create the new century progressive compact to try to finish the vision of Rousseau and Marx in
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our country to create us to a very mediocre, alleged egalitarian state, which will never happen. It will
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just put us in a downward spiral that the progressives have been trying to embark us on over
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the last hundred years. And we must stop this at every single corner and turn in our activism. And
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that's what I'm trying to do on college campuses every single day. Charlie, thank you so much. I
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appreciate it from Turning Point USA, a group that might give you some hope that the millennials are
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not all crazy. And there are many millennials that are out working hard and are changing their mind when
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they do hear facts. Charlie Kirk, thank you so much from. Thank you, Glenn. I appreciate it. You bet.
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Quickly, Glenn, I've noticed you, I don't know, inspired apparently a major controversy because I
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listened to this program and heard your monologue on Monday about the Statue of Liberty and the
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Emma Lazarus poem. Yeah. I think it was actually Tuesday when the green card thing came out on
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Monday. And there was like, no, what about the tired and poor and huddled masses? Right. So you
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did this entire monologue about what the poem actually means. And you've done this before.
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Yeah. As Conservative Review points out today, you did it in your 2010 CPAC keynote speech. Yes.
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So you've done this. You've been talking about this for a long time. Information's out there,
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but you did it again this weekend and tied it specifically to the story. Well, I don't know
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if Ken Cuccinelli listens to the program. He may. But he came out and talked about this as well.
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Here he is. And this is the controversial part. So to get scared here, because you're about to hear
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some very nasty words about people that aren't European. Here's Ken Cuccinelli on the Statue of
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Liberty. What do you think America stands for? Well, of course, that poem was referring back to people
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coming from Europe where they had class based societies where people were considered wretched
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if they weren't in the right class. Hmm. That's exactly right. Hmm. No, it's not. Actually,
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Madeleine Albright sets Ken straight. I'm not sure that when he can say that it's part of American
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heritage, there have been various periods where Americans have been very generous in our immigration
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policy. And I do think that this country has benefited by the diversity that has come through
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immigration. And so I find it one of the most un-American statements I've ever heard. But what?
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And you pointed out that I have a Statue of Liberty pin on. I think the Statue of Liberty is weeping.
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It's weeping, Glenn. Really? I don't know if you know this. It's a bronze statue. It can't weep.
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So let's talk about some facts. I think the Statue of Liberty is weeping. Yeah. If it is,
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it's because it's being distorted. You can make the Statue of Liberty into whatever you want it to be,
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but that doesn't change the facts of why it was built and what the damn poem means. First of all,
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Madeleine, why was that poem even written? Do you know? Anybody know why? To show that we need
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free immigration and everyone gets on a welfare program? No. No. It was to buy the, it was to
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raise money, buy this poem, and we'll be able to build a stone platform that we can put this stupid
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French piece of crap on because they just dumped it in our park. We need to buy a bunch of stuff now
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because all parts were not included. So we need to buy stuff. And Emma's like, I'll write a poem.
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Maybe you can sell that. Okay. It's got to be a really good poem because we got to buy a lot of rocks.
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That's why the poem was written. So I'm sorry to break it to you, all you anti-capitalists,
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but that was why that poem was written. The second thing is she was putting the Statue of Liberty
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into context. What is this brazen giant? Why did France send us this? If it doesn't have anything
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to do with Europe, explain, keep your storied pomp and ancient lands, cries she with silent lips.
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Explain that. Which ancient lands? Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame.
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That's in Europe, I think. I'm pretty sure. Isn't that in Europe? I think Greece is in Europe.
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I think that's in Europe. Wow. Technically speaking, yes, I believe so.
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So it's not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, the Statue of Rhodes. It's not like that one.
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The eighth wonder, one of the eighth wonders of the world. It's then crying out, this one is crying out,
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keep your ancient lands in storied pomp. Yeah. Where were immigrants generally coming from at this time?
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And historically, where were the immigrants coming from that built this country? Two lands, Africa.
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Yes, the Statue of Liberty does address Africans that came here as slaves. That's why there's a chain
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broken on her foot and her ankle. A broken chain. The Statue of Liberty. The law that she holds
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breaks the chains of slavery when properly administered.
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That's what the chain is. So the second group of people that came in, generally speaking,
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where did they come from? Oh, Europe. That's what that poem is about. That's what the statue is
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about. And the worst distortion of it is, oh, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.
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Oh, this makes me so angry. That's what they wanted. They wanted to, you know what? We'll take care
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of the people you won't take care of. Come to us and our government will supply the things that these
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people need. First of all, the Statue of Liberty was built for what? Oh, because they wanted to give
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us a great gift. Who gives people a gift like that? Well, at least we know they don't have another
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one like it. Who gives a gift like that? And if you're going to give a gift, why ship it over and
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like, hey, and by the way, all the pots are in the box. You're going to put it together. But we made
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it super easy for you. All the instructions are in French. That's no help. Better than Ikea, but no
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help. Yes, but no help. Okay. It wasn't really for us. That statue was made and they raised money,
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just like the Emma Lazarus poem. Why is the poem? Why was the poem written? Oh, because it wanted to
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describe him. No, it was to raise money. Why was the Statue of Liberty built? Because there was this
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guy who had this idea of making a giant, a brazen giant like that of Greek fame that he could sell to
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Egypt that would stand right where the Panama Canal is. I don't remember exactly, but I think it was in
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that area. That's what he wanted to do. And Egypt's like, beat it, dirtbag. We don't need your giant
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statue. I mean, have you seen how we're living? We don't even have toilets yet. So he leaves, but he
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wants to build this giant statue. So then he meets with some people in France. Hey, I know you got the
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Eiffel Tower. What do you think about maybe, uh, what do you think? Huh? Maybe you think maybe, huh? And
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they're like, no, wait, well, wait a minute, wait a minute. And what's going on at the time?
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Marxism. Marxism in 1848 in Germany. Wow. German that's German. Oh, well, I love the ideas from
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Germany. They're all so good. Aren't they? Especially when they come up with new ways to bring government
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to make it big and powerful. Those are great ideas. In 1840, Marx and Engels, 1848, they print
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what's called the Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto was an idea to change all of Europe
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because all of the Europe, they had storied pomp and ancient lands, and they were holding people down
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because if you didn't have the right name, the right connection, if you weren't a lord or a lady,
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if you weren't a landowner, you had no rights. You had nothing. And so the communists said,
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that's not right. Now there was another group of people that said, that's not right. They were called
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the American founders. And so the people who made the Statue of Liberty and coincidentally,
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the guy who painted the crossing of the Delaware with George Washington in the boat,
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you know, the one that we're also famous, you know, the original is not in the Met. That's a copy.
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The original doesn't exist anymore. It was burned down during World War II. It burned
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because it was bombed by the Allies, by the, bombed by the Allies. I didn't know that the Met was bombed by
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the Allies. No, it was in Germany because it was painted for Germans because the painter saw Marx and
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Engels and went, that's the wrong idea. I'm going to paint a painting that explains what America does
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because yes, everybody needs to be in the boat, but America has the right idea. That's why there is
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a farmer. There is a, there is a, uh, uh, a woodsman in it. Uh, there is a black guy, a native American.
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There's a woman in that boat, a woman. What? No, America hates women. No, everyone was in the boat.
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But that's why that painting was painted. The Statue of Liberty was made for the same reason.
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They needed to raise money. They used the raising of money as a way to get into people's homes
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and their hearts and say, have you seen what the Americans have done?
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Have you seen what they've done? Because we weren't trying to dominate the world. We were just
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quiet. We just went around and just be like, Hey, we're cool with everybody. We actually didn't
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have this empire kind of attitude at the time that the progressives brought us. And so what did we do?
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They needed to get in and tell people the American story. So they said, Hey, they just freed all those
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slaves. Wasn't that cool? And they're coming up with their hundred anniversary. We want to give them
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the statue. Oh, they're going to love it. Yeah. They're going to love it. They got a statue
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people. Yeah. The huge, huge statue people. Their president's going to be a guy who's going to be
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like, it's the greatest statue ever. It's coming. It's we're way ahead of the curve.
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They were doing it to sell the American idea as opposed to Marxism. That's why it was built.
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The poem was made to be able to sell the, to, to, to sell, to make enough money to buy
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the platform stones. And, and, you know, look, there's a lot of people on Twitter who don't
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know that. Right. But the journalists who are all making it seem like, well, what Ken Cuccinelli
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meant was he only, it only applies to white people from Europe because that is the way they're
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characterizing it. They, it's egregious. They know it's a disgraceful mischaracterization
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of what he's saying. You know exactly what he was saying. And what he was saying specifically
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was, yeah, we want to take the people that your class system. And he mentions the class
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system. Yes. Your class system will not allow to achieve anything. Even if they're fantastic,
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they can be the greatest people and the people who are the highest achievers in your society.
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But because of your class system, they can never escape where they were born into here.
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There isn't that system. So when they were freeing them of that system, not every person
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who needs help from the government is going to come and get it. That's not what it's about.
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Keep your storied pomp and your ancient lands cries. She, she is talking to Europe. And then
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she says, send me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. Send these
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the tempest toss to me. So in other words, what it's saying is you keep people down. You're keeping
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people homeless. You have all of these rules and regulations and all your storied crap that we
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don't have. We don't want. You send us the people that you say can't make it because I'm standing right
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here and I'm guarding this door. You notice the statue of Liberty. Her butt is showing to us her face,
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her eyes are looking to Europe, guarding from the garbage of Europe saying you sent these people
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and said they can't do anything. Well, you know what? One of those people came over here and that's
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why I'm holding imprisoned lightning, imprisoned lightning light. It's not Edison. It's Tesla.
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One of the wretched refuse that came to our shore, built the alternator, the generators that we have
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in the dam that powers the imprisoned lightning, as it's mentioned in the poem. So please don't get
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me started on this. If somebody in the media would like to know, oh, I'd love to give them a history
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lesson on what that poem means, but it is the exact opposite of what they say it is.
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And by the way, the law at the time it was written, immigration law of the United States
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said, if when boats are coming over here, ships, immigration ships, if on such examination,
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there shall be found among such passengers, any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable
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to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge, such persons should
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not be, should not be permitted to land. Okay. They weren't even able to step foot on land.
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And you know who had to pay for their return trip? The ship that brought them here. We
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ain't paying for it. Good luck with that passenger. You shouldn't have put them on the boat in the
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