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00:02:03.760Okay. Man alive. I'm I'm I'm looking at what's happening all over the world, including Russia. We have a take on Russia that you're not going to get anywhere else in an hour from now. It is something that I have been talking about internally and occasionally here on the program. But it is time for you to really understand this.
00:02:30.180That's coming up next hour. We have we also have the the Chinese social score system that is now beginning here in America.
00:02:43.780An expert on that coming up in hour number three. And this hour, I want to talk to Amy Nelson.
00:02:50.000She is the founder, the Riveter. The FBI seized her family assets without any charges.
00:02:57.860I got this letter last night. Glenn, I heard you mention my family this morning on your show.
00:03:01.900I wanted to write and say thank you for noticing our story, which is almost unbelievable.
00:03:07.200Two years ago, Amazon accused my husband of a crime called honest services fraud.
00:03:12.400Although we now know that Amazon lawyers met with the DOJ 87 times in effect to persuade the government to charge my husband with a crime.
00:03:23.600But no charges were ever filed. Nonetheless, the government seized our money via civil forfeiture forfeiture in May 2020.
00:03:33.780We're just getting the money back last week.
00:03:37.200I'm a trained litigator turned an entrepreneur, and this experience has been stunning at every turn.
00:03:45.580We welcome to the program, Amy Nelson. Hello, Amy.
00:03:50.020Hi, Glenn. Thanks so much for having me.
00:03:51.720You bet. I'm sorry we didn't see your story earlier.
00:03:54.420We just saw it this week and it is horrifying. Horrifying.
00:03:58.880It is. It's, you know, I'll be honest.
00:04:01.140I didn't really even know that civil forfeiture existed before this happened to my family.
00:04:05.620Yeah. It is one of those things that everybody thinks it can't happen to them until it does.
00:04:11.540And it is so unconstitutional and terrifying.
00:05:07.160And in on April 2nd of 2020, we got a knock on our door around 645 a.m.
00:05:14.300We lived in Seattle at the time and it was the FBI.
00:05:18.900And that was the first time that we learned that a couple of months prior, Amazon had accused my husband of a crime called private sector honest services fraud,
00:05:28.860which is depriving your private sector employer of your honest services.
00:05:34.220And from there, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I want to make sure that's usually I mean, it's it's hard to prove in the private sector, in the public sector.
00:05:43.420It's usually bribery or you're leaving out information.
00:05:48.280You're profiting on a relationship without telling the other side.
00:07:07.620So, you know, my husband has never been charged with a crime.
00:07:10.640So he doesn't have a right to face his accuser because he's never been charged by the Department of Justice with a crime.
00:07:16.480Now, when they took the money via civil forfeiture, the way it is meant to work is if they take your money via civil forfeiture and then they do not indict you with a crime.
00:07:25.180The government has to file a civil lawsuit against your bank account and the bank account is a defendant.
00:07:30.540Now, the government did that here, but then immediately after they filed that civil lawsuit, they asked the court to stay, which means to pause the civil lawsuit, because they said, well, we can't possibly litigate this because we have a secret criminal investigation.
00:07:46.960And so we've just been in that we were in a cycle for years where we could see the allegations.
00:07:52.100We couldn't even cite the allegations because we didn't know what they were.
00:08:12.520And I will say, you know, I have learned through this experience, which has impacted my husband's career and in a measurable way, impacted my career.
00:08:19.380I'm just his wife, but it's impacted my career in an immeasurable way as well.
00:08:24.100In America, I very much feel that you are guilty when accused unless and until you can prove yourself innocent and you have to pay to do that.
00:08:34.940And I think that's something we really need to consider about our process.
00:08:37.520And I think the other thing, Glenn, that's completely horrifying about this.
00:08:41.280This is an allegation made by a private company about private contracts related to private employment terms.
00:08:49.100And can anybody walk into the DOJ and do that?
00:08:52.300If I'm Amy that owns a hardware store, can I walk into the DOJ and say, I believe my employee did X, Y or Z in the DOJ?
00:09:07.600You know, what I know to be true is that Amazon has an incredibly close relationship to the Department of Justice and to our intelligence community.
00:11:01.340So one thing that Amazon did that I haven't mentioned is after Amazon had been lobbying for criminal charges for many months, and no indictment or charges had ensued, but Amazon knew the government had seized our money.
00:11:13.720Then Amazon sued my husband in federal court in Virginia.
00:11:16.420So after they couldn't get the DOJ to bring charges, but after they knew that we had no money, they sued him, which is very cruel.
00:11:24.500And I think it's a complete manipulation of the criminal system.
00:11:32.160So that case, Amazon sued my husband, and then they didn't move their case forward for years.
00:11:36.760They let it sit there until another defendant in the lawsuit forced Amazon into discovery.
00:11:42.700So we are now in discovery, which is, you know, Glenn, as we're sharing facts about the allegations and our depositions of the Amazon executives, my husband's depositions of the Amazon executives who accused him of these crimes will begin next week, actually.
00:11:58.900And, you know, these real estate transactions at issue were approved by very senior level, the highest level at Amazon.
00:12:07.020And so there'll be some interesting depositions, I think, where my husband can finally face his accusers and understand what happened.
00:12:14.420But circling back to this lawsuit in Virginia, Amazon made my husband sign an employment contract that said that they would litigate any disputes in Washington State, where my husband lived, where my husband worked, where Amazon is headquartered.
00:12:27.900But Amazon threw it out the window and sued him in Virginia, because that was where they were seeking criminal charges.
00:12:50.340Frankly, I think that Amazon thinks they're so big, and they have so much money that no one can go up against them.
00:12:54.960I truly believe Amazon thought, you know, Glenn, 97% of people accused of a federal crime plead guilty, because it's terrifying, because they can't afford to defend themselves, because perhaps the government will use civil forfeiture against them.
00:13:09.680Perhaps they will, you know, lobby any other number of threats.
00:13:12.920And so I believe, I believe, when Amazon accused my husband of a crime, they just believed that would be that, and that they would never have to prove any facts.
00:13:21.880Because if you plead guilty, you don't have to, the accusers don't have to prove anything, right?
00:13:35.220It's a good bet, not because of the truth, but because 97% of people plead guilty when accused.
00:13:41.360And Amazon is represented by a former federal prosecutor who worked in the district in Virginia where they're seeking charges.
00:13:46.980And I can imagine that that former federal prosecutor perhaps knows current prosecutors in Virginia and could call them up and ask for some help.
00:13:54.900But so we sued, my husband sued Amazon in Washington State for breaching the employment contract, and he won.
00:14:03.040The judge in Washington State said, you know, I learned in the first year of law school that if you want to breach a contract, you can, but that doesn't mean you're not going to pay for it.
00:16:00.520He is watching something and very concerned about something that I am concerned about, and that is the influence of traditionalism as really defined by Alexander Dugan, a very, very dangerous guy who is actually calling for Armageddon.
00:16:20.600He actually believes that that's the thing that's going to solve all of our problems.
00:16:26.860And I guess in a way he's right, but I don't think the way he's trying to pull it together.
00:16:32.740Benjamin, can I call you Ben or Benjamin?
00:16:38.780I know we've talked about doing this show for a long time, and we may have to cut this into two shows and then maybe even a podcast as well.
00:16:45.980But I want you to let's start with Putin's speech and what he said that I think only a few people really can pick up on that know what who Alexander Dugan is and what his plan is.
00:17:01.960So tell me what we learned from Putin's speech.
00:17:05.720If you listen, and good morning again, Glenn, it's a pleasure to be with you.
00:17:10.100If you listen to that whole speech, you could come away from it thinking that this was all about kind of dry policy decision making on his part.
00:17:19.000He spends a lot of time talking about the economy of Ukraine, spends a lot of time talking about the history of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party, some of the policy decisions that he thinks that they made wrong and need to be corrected.
00:17:30.400But at the very beginning of that speech, he said something almost in passing that, yes, would, I think, go by unnoticed for a lot of listeners.
00:17:41.300And that he said that Ukrainians and Russians have a spiritual bond between the two of them.
00:17:48.840And that tells me, and it should tell a lot of observers, that Putin is thinking in two ways, and he's motivating himself in two ways.
00:17:57.420There is this, again, this dry, almost technical policy-based discussion and motivation he's trying to push to the Russian people to say, well, we have to do this because NATO is going to come to our borders.
00:18:10.780Ukraine perhaps has nuclear ambitions.
00:18:14.680The other piece, though, is that Russia has a sort of spiritual mandate to collect its lost children and to unite itself with the populations around the world that are its natural kin.
00:18:31.740That is what stands out to me as I hear this, and that is what also makes this particular situation that we're dealing with today actually about something far much bigger and much more intractable, I would say, as well.
00:18:45.600Okay, so let's talk about Dugan and just define traditionalism.
00:18:50.200This is something that if you read the fourth political theory, there are times that you will read it and go, yeah, I kind of agree with that.
00:19:02.200Because I think this is what Brexit is about.
00:19:05.400I think this is what some Canadians feel.
00:19:09.340All over the world, people are feeling like, hey, you know, I'm French, and, you know, I think France is pretty great, and I'd like to be French, and I'm not embarrassed about France.
00:20:01.880You can have a sort of doctrine that is appealing in a lot of senses, but a small detail can turn into something sinister.
00:20:08.500So when Putin is referring to the spiritual mandates of Russia, that connects him with a prominent Russian philosopher, kind of a mysterious mandate and a political operative named Alexander Dugan.
00:20:21.980He has associated himself with a philosophy called traditionalism or the traditional school.
00:20:28.120It asserts that time does not move in linear fashion.
00:20:32.700That is to say, we're not necessarily progressing forward in a clear direction.
00:20:38.760And most of the time, society is degrading, save for one moment when there's an apocalyptic explosion and destruction of the social world and we are reborn into a golden age.
00:20:50.560It's that last piece, Glenn, that is that is so so key here, because when you look at history in the way that that these traditionalists do, there can be justification for Armageddon, as you put it, for destruction, mass destruction.
00:21:08.880Yes, as as a sort of prelude to a golden age, a utopia that we're going to be reborn into.
00:21:16.880That's that's one of the distinguishing features.
00:21:19.080That is what is paired with this, I'd say, small T traditionalism that you were referring to earlier.
00:21:25.320People wanting to to to preserve and conserve values and identities that matter to them.
00:21:31.640This this apocalyptic aspect of the ideology is what is distinguishing this this way of thinking.
00:21:37.760I will tell you that Ben and I have talked off the air and I've wanted to do this show for a while, but I have waited until I think people are in the right.
00:21:51.780I think this is one of the most critical things that we can learn about, especially those of us on the right, because this is how you will know if there is a troublemaker in your midst.
00:22:07.140Because a lot of people will hear some of this stuff and go, yeah, that's me, too.
00:22:40.540This would be the this was this is Dugan's way of describing these eastern territories in Ukraine that are breaking off, apparently, and have been recognized as independent states, people's republics by Putin.
00:22:55.700And Dugan has been referring to them as new Russia, as a new expansion.
00:23:01.180And Putin in the past has borrowed that language from this this renegade philosopher that I've been speaking to you about.
00:23:18.880I can to catch your listeners up, Dugan, after the fall of the Soviet Union, this this philosopher, after the Soviet Union fell apart, he wanted to see not the revival of communism and the communist state, but a Russian nationalism that would expand almost to the to the exact boundaries of the former Soviet Union.
00:23:39.160But do so not carrying this secular ideology, but instead of a really fanatical Russian nationalism and federalism and all of those states that started to move out of the Russian sphere, Georgia, the Baltics, Ukraine, all of those in his mind were targets to be brought back in.
00:23:58.960And it was imperative that Russia do it forcefully, decisively to establish a boundary for American and liberal democratic ideology in the world.
00:24:09.760It was important for him to set a boundary there to show that liberalism, that democracy, lowercase l liberalism, was not the fate of the whole world.
00:24:18.100But in fact, those those territories needed to imagine a different future for themselves, a future that returned in his mind to their roots rather than looked forward to a different future.
00:24:28.560And it is the same kind of thing in a way that that that that Hitler used faith of people.
00:25:04.780It's it's also a sort of mythological center for the the origins of the Russian ethnicity and state as well.
00:25:12.400Which is even worse, because that that's exactly what Hitler was doing with all of the other religions.
00:25:17.620He was tying he was just tying all these myths together.
00:25:21.220Yes, Chris, you know, you look at the union of religion and nationalism and and that you start to find yourself in a place where your state acts as though it has a divine mandate.
00:25:37.340And what perhaps surprised your listeners, given what we're saying here, that one of Dugan's ideal states in the world today is Iran, because there you have a union of state power with religious authority.
00:25:48.060And the ability really the justification for anyone in that state to question the actions of the government is is shackled, because if you do that, you are questioning a religious authority that's not allowed to be questioned.
00:26:03.360So this is all all this goes to to a celebration of authoritarianism in a way to equip the power of the state or a demagogue with greater cultural in addition to to military and economic and political power.
00:26:21.040All right. I want to talk about the fourth political theory, if you can define what it is.
00:26:26.020I also want to do one more thing, a stop on on Putin.
00:26:31.180Does he is he the lunar Putin or the solar Putin, which will understand what is his real game here?
00:26:38.680And then I want to bring it home to America, which is extraordinarily important for all Americans, but especially those on the right.
00:26:49.180And we'll give you that information here in just a second.
00:26:52.380We are with Benjamin Teitelbaum, the author of War for Eternity.
00:26:57.980He is a guy who I have talked to several times there.
00:27:01.940They're really I think there's about three of us, Ben, that that are watching and understand what the importance of Alexander Dugan.
00:27:11.320And it's it's a little frightening. Everybody I talk to, I think there's one other guy that I know that we all look at each other, goes, why aren't people paying attention to this?
00:27:35.120But if if if the when Alexander Dugan speaks about a fourth political theory, he's speaking about an alternative to the other three made Western ideologies that that fought throughout the last century.
00:27:50.860That is to say, liberalism being one lowercase still, it's you know, when Americans hear liberalism, you think Democratic Party, but we're really just talking about free market, democracy rights of individual law and communism being a second one and fascism being a third.
00:28:09.980Dugan's belief was was that communism and liberalism in World War Two combined forces to kill the third political theory, fascism, and then liberalism, the first political theory allowed communism to die of old age, essentially with the with the Soviet Union.
00:28:28.780But Dugan wants to see an alternative to all all of these, one that you might say fuses elements of the second and the third of communism and fascism.
00:28:38.680In his mind, the danger of liberalism and the lower lowercase still liberal democratic world is is its rampant individualism and its contempt for history, its its devotion to progress and the belief that really our roots are something to be overcome and escaped.
00:28:57.460And also its will toward globalization and building larger, larger and larger communities.
00:29:02.960What he wants to see is what he wants to see is a world that is shrunken, basically, in its scope, and where the identity of your group or your tribe becomes the primary object of political activism.
00:29:18.340That is to say, not the individual, as in liberalism, not the class, as in communism, and not the race, per se, as in fascism, but a slightly, let's say, related concept, which is the ethnos or a small community or the tribe.
00:29:34.680To see a society that works on preserving those differences, that's that's what a fourth political theory should be doing.
00:29:43.000And it should be, in his mind, opposed to progress, opposed to development, and certainly opposed to any any larger state like the United States operating on the global sphere.
00:29:53.980So you can hear that and say, wow, I see pieces of that from both the right and the left, and, you know, I see a new world order being shaped like that, except he wants to destroy anything global.
00:30:14.320He also wants to destroy the United States, and I think there are some others that would like to do that, and they are using some of those tactics.
00:30:22.560He sees the United States, any pathway toward realizing this goal has to, in his mind, go through the destruction of the United States.
00:30:36.220At least if U.S. global hegemonic power, occasionally he'll say that if the United States were firmly contained within its own borders and its ideals never, never spread anyplace else throughout the world,
00:30:51.180then perhaps we could coexist. But it's about, it's about containing U.S. power.
00:30:55.780Okay, 45 seconds before the break. Tell me, is he, is Putin operating, do you think, in Ukraine more under that, or on just a, you know, quick business capitalist, I just want money and I'm going to get those ports?
00:31:12.080I tell you, I think the way that he has been speaking recently makes it seem like the business-like estimation of Ukraine is more of a facade and excuse to do what he wants to do, which is expand this Russian state.
00:31:46.820David Sachs, it is an honor and a privilege to have you on the program. Thank you, sir.
00:31:52.460Yeah, great to be here. Thanks, Glenn.
00:31:53.780So let's, let's talk a little bit about the social credit system. People, I think, see this in Canada. I don't know how people aren't all up in arms on what's going on, but they may still think that that, well, it can't happen here. Can we talk about what's happening?
00:32:14.780Right. Well, it's already, it's already happening here. You know, last year, I wrote this piece for Barry Weiss about that financial platform would be the next wave of online censorship.
00:32:26.240I mean, I was worrying about this last year because PayPal, they helped found, you know, but we sold many years ago. It's now under new management.
00:32:33.480They are working with partisan left-wing groups like the ADL and the SPLC to define lists of individuals and groups who they deem to have, you know, extremist or unacceptable views, and they're denied access to PayPal accounts.
00:32:47.940And there are other financial institutions who are following suit, the collective effect of which is to shut people out of the financial system.
00:32:55.420And if you think it's bad to deny people the right to free speech and to participate in the online marketplace of ideas, how much worse is it to deny them access to the new economy, to the way that they can buy food and medicine and other products for their families?
00:33:10.440You know, you know, it is really a very severe form of punishment and social control.
00:33:17.840And, you know, that is what we're talking about. We talk about a social credit system.
00:33:20.980We're talking about a system that, you know, sort of pretends to allow political dissent, doesn't just send you to the gulag, but it conditions your ability to access the economy and the benefits of society.
00:33:33.620It conditions that on having the correct views, on having the acceptable views.
00:33:38.680And, you know, what did Justin Trudeau do?
00:33:40.880He declared right out of the gate that these protesters had unacceptable views, and then he proceeded to freeze their bank accounts and to shut off anybody who might contribute to them.
00:33:55.060The way he said, you know, we're going to shut down their accounts, we're going to close the off-ramps for Bitcoin, it's not only them, but it's anybody who donated to them or, quote, helped them.
00:34:10.360Anybody who was, quote, directly or indirectly involved in the protest was now subject to this law in the, you know, this Emergencies Act that he invoked
00:34:27.280And, you know, anyone who, you know, quote, unquote, provided property to help facilitate the protest could now be swept up in the dragon head.
00:34:34.000And so it's not just if you're, say, you know, one of the organizers of the protest, but if you're, you know, a little old grandma somewhere and you want to contribute $25
00:34:43.880so that, you know, a trucker, really a poor, destitute trucker can buy a hot meal or some fuel to keep themselves from freezing at night.
00:34:51.840If that's your intent to make that donation, you can still be swept up in this and you can have your bank account frozen.
00:34:57.540And one of the, you know, incredible things about it is not just this unprecedented extension of aiding and abetting liability, but also that it's retroactive.
00:35:05.940That, you know, grandma who made the contribution at the time she did it was completely illegal.
00:35:10.300And yet, under this order, she can now have her account frozen as punishment.
00:35:18.100It is to signal, and there's going to be a chilling effect in the future, that even if you make a completely lawful donation to a political cause,
00:35:27.300if that, if Justin Trudeau doesn't like that cause, if he thinks there are, quote, unquote, unacceptable views,
00:35:31.920that he has the power, that he can invoke the power at some point in the future to freeze your bank account,
00:35:36.540even though what you did is legal today, that is the precedent they've created.
00:35:40.240And I think the result of that must be a chilling effect on political dissent.
00:37:58.960I mean, this is absolutely about the right of people to be able to engage in speech and political expression and to have the right to protest against their government.
00:38:09.140And these were almost entirely peaceful protests.
00:38:14.540And yet, Trudeau instantly denounced all the protesters as basically being terrorists, which allowed them to apply these anti-terrorist laws to freeze their bank accounts.
00:38:29.620The most extreme forms of, you know, the most extreme powers that the government has, which is to act on terrorist threat, were thereby invoked to really go after these ordinary, you know, working class men and women.
00:38:57.880You know, one of the things, David, that I found even as shocking is the fact that there was a hacker who went in, hacked, took all of these names, doxed everybody, and the media published them and started humiliating them and pilloring them in public.
00:39:25.760There was an owner of a gelato shop who was exposed as having made a small contribution to the protesters that they got so many threats they had to shut down their shop.
00:39:35.000There was a low-level government employee who donated $100.
00:39:38.380She was fired from her job because of that.
00:39:40.680So there's been real reprisals based on that hack.
00:39:43.440And, you know, I'm old enough to remember when social media cited as the reason they wouldn't publish that they would suppress the Hunter Biden stories for the election, that it came from hacked material.
00:39:57.340You know, this was illegally obtained material, and the press just reported it.
00:40:01.480So, David, you know, I don't know if you're up on ESG, but that's what Trudeau has done without the emergency order.
00:40:11.620If you fall out of line with ESG, you're going to be debanked, or you will start to feel the heat of the banking and financial and insurance system.
00:40:29.760How far away from this system are we to have a true credit score?
00:40:35.700Do you see this happening sooner rather than later, and what do we do to stop it?
00:40:43.500You know, at the end of the day, I'm not a Canadian, and, you know, I watch with scientists of what's happening over there, but ultimately it's going to be up to Canadians to govern themselves.
00:40:51.760What I'm mostly concerned about is the precedent that Trudeau has set that progressives here in America might look to and implement.
00:40:59.820And let's identify the elements, the ingredients of this toxic stew that already exists over here.
00:41:06.100First of all, you've got big tech companies like, you know, my alma mater, PayPal, have been freezing accounts based on, you know, working with partisan political groups to, you know, to shut people out of the financial system.
00:41:18.160That practice is already taking place.
00:41:21.000Second, you've got state of emergencies in states like California, where I live, where the governor is still operating under a state of emergency.
00:41:28.340See, he has invoked emergency powers that never seem to end, even though we just had a Super Bowl where 30,000 people were sitting, you know, elbow to elbow without any masks on it, yet we're still in a state of emergency.
00:41:39.240Third, we have recently, the Department of Homeland Security has now defined misinformation about COVID or the election to be a contributor to the terrorist threat level.
00:41:50.160So in other words, misinformation, in their view, can contribute to terrorism.
00:41:53.980So we have now all the ingredients where you have politicians invoking fake state of emergencies, you've got big tech companies shunning people out of the political system,
00:42:02.260and you've got this very scary and dangerous redefinition of terrorism to effectively apply to domestic political dissent.
00:42:10.560So you have all the ingredients there that Justin Trudeau was able to seize on.
00:42:15.440All you're really lacking is the emergency necessary to invoke those powers.
00:42:21.320So that is what I'm afraid of, is I see all the precedents coming together.
00:42:25.100But we have one thing in the United States that Canada doesn't have, which is a rich constitutional tradition.
00:42:29.440We have the protections under the Constitution.
00:42:32.980And so I'm hopeful that our Supreme Court would protect us against, you know, an authoritarian attack on our liberties this way.
00:42:42.120However, there are many in our, you know, political system who want to pack the Supreme Court as it stands today.
00:42:49.560And what would happen if the Supreme Court were packed?
00:42:51.600They would water down these rights and liberties and protections that we have.
00:42:54.840I think this is an issue that supersedes all others.
00:42:57.720You know, any political candidate who would give support to packing the Supreme Court should be instantly rejected,
00:43:04.360I think, by everybody across the political spectrum.
00:43:06.880And furthermore, I would say, you know, Biden has a SCOTUS pick coming up.
00:43:11.480The Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee should make this topic number one.
00:43:14.680What do they think about the use of these authoritarian powers, these fake state of emergencies?
00:44:58.460And, you know, what I'm trying to do, I've participated on this podcast called The All-In Pod with a few friends in tech.
00:45:04.740Well, you know, one of the main reasons why I've spoken out is to show people that you can speak out and they should have a little bit more courage in doing so.
00:45:11.660Because I don't think the majority of people across the political spectrum want to see our civil liberties eroded this way.
00:45:22.300I think it is a bipartisan issue, certainly for Republicans, independents, and I'd say even many Democrats.
00:45:29.760But there is a hard political left, sort of the progressive left, that is driving all of this.
00:45:37.000And one of the reasons why they're successful at driving this is because moderates will not, they're too afraid to speak out and oppose it.
00:45:43.520So I don't think there's a majority, but they are driving the agenda because no one will speak out against it.
00:45:49.560And it's really a very hypocritical agenda because, I mean, these people, you look at Trudeau, his self-conception is completely at odds with the reality.
00:45:58.240I mean, he claims to be saving democracy, preserving democracy, even as he is invoking authoritarian powers.
00:46:05.520He claims to be the defender of the little guy, of the working class and the disadvantaged, while, you know, crushing these, you know, poor working class truck drivers under the sort of heel of his government.
00:46:17.640You know, they claim to be on the side of diversity and tolerance while insisting that there's only one acceptable point of view and, you know, censoring all the alternatives as misinformation.
00:46:29.620So, you know, this hard progressive left is completely hypocritical.
00:46:33.640I don't think most people support it, but they're kind of running unopposed right now because people are so afraid to speak out.