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Dr. Sherry ODonnell is the grassroots candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan. She's a physician, an author, a mission leader, speaker, and is actually the state chair for the Republican Party of Michigan.
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Hey, welcome to Tuesday's podcast. A great one for you today. We start with some really good
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news about poll numbers. If you want Donald Trump to win, really good news shows that he is way
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ahead in Iowa, almost 20 points ahead. Remember, in 2016, I think he was only ahead by 12.
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So it could be a historic election, as CNN is now even reporting, and they are a little terrified
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by that. But we have to have the right people in. That's why we talked to Dr. Sherry O'Donnell.
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She's running for the Senate as the grassroots Republican for the Senate in Michigan. It's an
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important conversation with her. We also give you an exclusive inside look at what is happening
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inside of Target with their employees over what's happening with Pride Month. And the one and only
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Jack Carr, who is always fascinating. His new book, Red Sky Morning, number seven of the Terminal List
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Well, there is a another new poll out or prediction. This one from The Economist showing that
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Donald Trump has a 75% chance of winning the next election. If things continue the way they are,
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this could be a stunning, stunning election and victory for the GOP. Now, it is really important
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that we also have not just Republicans in the House and Senate, but the right Republicans in the House
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and Senate. I don't endorse people, but the people I know that live in Michigan, they have all said,
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Glenn, you have to endorse this woman. I don't endorse anybody, but I wanted to have her on because
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she's the real grassroots candidate for the Senate. And she's from Michigan. And Michigan
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could determine party control if she could pull this off. Dr. Sherry O'Donnell is the U.S. Senate
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candidate for the Republican Party. She's a physician, an author, mission leader, speaker.
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She was also the Michigan state chair, or is actually the state chair for U.S. term limits. Amen on that.
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She has taken her own time and her own money. And she led a medical mission to Ukraine funded entirely
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by her. She's won all kinds of awards. She's honored to be recognized by Michigan's prestigious
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She Leads, which is a strong Christian organization that has based its members' professional lives
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and work ethics on Christian conservative values. She is the grassroots candidate for the U.S. Senate.
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She is particularly insightful on COVID, the lockdowns and medical freedom. She was a physician
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at the time, obviously, of COVID. And she went and volunteered to go into New York City to help people
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in New York City. So she's got a few things to say about that. Also, border security. We'd like to
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welcome her to the program, Dr. Sherry O'Donnell. How are you, Sherry?
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I'm very well, Glenn. Thank you so much. I've watched her show for years, and I love it,
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and I appreciate that. And I know that Dom Peter is a personal friend. So thank you so much.
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Yes, yes. So you are quite impressive. Let's start with medical security. I don't think we've learned
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the lesson from COVID. And now with this bird flu thing going around, I'm afraid we're up for round
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two. Do you want to talk about medical freedom? I do. So as you said, Glenn, I was in New York City
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during COVID. Because of my disaster relief experience, I got a phone call on a Friday
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afternoon asking if I'd serve in New York City. I served 93 days. And I knew something went awry when I
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was asked to sign death certificates of patients that did not die of COVID. And then when I refused to,
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they grabbed them for me and said, that's okay, we'll get somebody else too. Never in my career
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of almost 25 years have I been forbidden to write medications that have been safe and effective
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in all categories of drug distribution, the pediatric patient, the elderly, the pregnant,
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and the lactating mom. And something was just terribly awry. I've recently been asked to join the
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Geneva Project to tell the World Health Organization we are disassociating with them and actually coming up
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with a creative plan. The World Economic Forum and World Health Organization were meeting in Geneva.
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We were going to follow that up. There was a group and I was asked to be one of 80 worldwide leaders
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because of my disaster relief experience and international medical because of the fact that
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I am running and because I stood up during COVID. Our nation can never, never experience what they did
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during COVID and repeat that. COVID was real, but how we responded was surreal. And yes, I do think that
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they're planning on the H5N1, the avian bird flu, to take place again and try in an attempt to lock us
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So tell me about, I mean, didn't we again, weren't we messing with the bird flu? And haven't we made it
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Glenn, we have. And that's what the gain of function is all about. And yes, there's been evidence that once
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again, we're doing gain of function, which I think needs to be banned internationally. But the gain of
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function is making certain that a virus is more virulent and making certain that it can go from
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species to species. And yes, there's been some gain of function study done on the avian flu with an
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attempt to make it more virulent and go from species to species.
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So they've made everything in science and medicine so unbelievable. I mean, I know a lot of people that
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no matter what they say this time, they won't do it. And because they didn't correct the mistakes that they
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made during COVID and even admit to the mistakes, they've lost all credibility. So what do we do if we were hit
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by an avian flu? We stand up for our constitutional rights, which do not include mandates and does not
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include shutting down. And we tell those governors and our state, Governor Whitmer here in our state,
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we're shutting our state down, all except for her and his two-tiered judicial system. We saw it
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glaringly then. We can't allow that to happen again either. But we need to understand that what
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they're doing, they're going by the playbook, Glenn, and we cannot allow that to happen. We need to
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exercise our constitutional rights, and we need to get people in office that understand the
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Constitution and will stand with we the people. Yeah. Are we a democracy or a republic?
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We're a republic. And what's the difference? Why is that important?
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Well, that is important. Our constitutional writers and our forefathers understood the difference,
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and we need to understand that is we the people, by the people, for the people. And as a republic,
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we need to stand for those rights and understand that that's what our forefathers intended.
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All right. Your 21-point border security plan. Tell me about that.
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So, Glenn, I wrote this, and after doing some research and understanding that, you know,
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we were letting in millions of people. I met Tom Holman, who's a former director of ICE,
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and it's at ACPAC. And when I met Tom, I said, Tom, I've got this. Would you do me a favor,
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if you have any time? Would you please look at it? He said, you know what, Dr. O'Donnell? I'll
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look at it. You send it to me. If I like it, I'll endorse you. If I don't talk, I will educate
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you. And Glenn, he's done both. But the 21-point plan is to understand, first off, these people
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coming in seeking asylum, they are not all truly asylum seekers. Asylum is that they've been displaced
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and that they're coming into the country to seek international protection. Not all of them are
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seeking asylum legitimately. So the asylum seekers remain in Mexico, empowering the border patrol to
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do their job, unclogging the court system that is allowing that to happen. My plan is on my website,
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DocSherry2024.com. And I am the candidate that's been down there, five points of entry,
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seeing that firsthand. And I'm here to tell you, it looks a lot like a refugee camp
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that I've seen so many times overseas. What is our biggest problem that we have
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to tackle? I mean, there are so many things that could destroy us. What's the one thing
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that keeps you up at night? The border. And primarily, Glenn, because it has such a
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rippling effect downstream. It is affecting national security. It is affecting our inflation.
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When we're giving illegal immigrants $5,000 at the border and then allowing them to go where they
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want. It is affecting, and we've seen it here in Michigan now, a couple murders by the illegal
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immigrants. And they're walking our streets free. As a physician, I'm seeing and understand
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that TB is coming back in. Sexually transmitted diseases are coming back in. And of course,
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fentanyl is coming in by the hundreds of pounds.
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So number one, the border. But then I think the thing that affects every American right now
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is the inflation. And as a business owner, I feel the chokehold of the over-regulations,
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the over-tyranny, the over-taxation that the government is doing. I have signed the no-new
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tax form and pledge, and I'll continue to fight for us when I'm in the Senate.
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So do you have any ideas on how to, because inflation is not being caused by the American
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people. They say, well, the economy is so hot. Well, people aren't spending money because they
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don't have the money. So it's not the people, it's the government. How do you rein this in with
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Well, first off, I think a lot goes with transparency. I think our salaries of the
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senators in Congress need to be well-made known. But I think we stop the frivolous spending.
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I'm not okay with sending billions of dollars to Ukraine when our border is open. I'm also not
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okay with printing of monopoly money, is what I call it, because we're spending money that we don't
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have. We also have to stop some of the entitlement programs that are continuing to spend our money.
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We need to understand the difference between our wants and our needs, and right now we are
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frivolously spending. We cannot continue to do that.
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Who would you most like to align yourself with in the Senate?
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Who would be your team? Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are my heroes in the Senate. I love that they stand up.
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They're kind of a no-nonsense people when, you know, they've gone after my Orcas. They've stood up
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during COVID. They certainly are my heroes in the Senate.
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Yeah. I will tell you, I think Rand Paul is single-handedly going to be responsible
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for any punishment that Fauci may receive. I'm afraid that they're going to throw Fauci's
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assistant, who was doing bad things himself. But I think they're going to make him the fall guy,
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and Fauci's going to walk away. Any thoughts on that?
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I hope that's not the case. Fauci has caused and committed 26 felons, Glenn, 26 felons,
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and a felon needs to be behind bars. Instead, what they're doing to Trump is ridiculous.
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And I'm sorry, as far as I'm concerned, Anthony Fauci has the blood of hundreds of thousands of
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people on his hands. When he had the audacity to say, follow the science, and then to say,
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I am the science, and his ridiculum caused hundreds of thousands of people to die.
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Real quick, are you concerned at all about this march to death, especially in Canada? But
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our doctors, you know, our universities now, if you're not in on all of this woke bullcrap,
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you're not going to make it as a doctor. And that kind of stuff is, we've seen that in the past
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happen with medical science. And it's extraordinarily dangerous.
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Glenn, it is dangerous. And, you know, during COVID, I kept wondering, where were my colleagues,
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and why are my colleagues silenced? And why were they not willing to stand up? I feel like John the
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Baptist in the wilderness saying, hello, and just hearing it echo back at me. But we've got to have
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people in office that will stand up and have the backbone to stand up. Right now, even the
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transgender surgeries that are being taught at medical schools and residencies. We've got to
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get back to the physicians being empowered, the physicians having the relationship with their
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patients without the government telling us what to do. And I'm the one that sits with my patients 20
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or 30 minutes, hear their story and understand what the medications and so on should be that's best for
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them. And together, we design that program, not allowing the government to have their
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finger and their oppressive thumb on us. But we, the physicians and the medical organizations need
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to stand up and say, no, we've had enough. We're going to protect our patients. We took a
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Hippocratic oath. And that means something to me. The primary in Michigan, even though it's in August,
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there's 45 days of early absentee voting. So the ballots drop in mid-June. I don't know if they've
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already, but they will be in a few days. And you've been listening to Dr. Sherry O'Donnell,
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U.S. Senate candidate. She is running for the Republican U.S. Senate race in Michigan.
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Michigan is so important. It could determine party control. She's the grassroots leader. And
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Sherry, it is great. If I did endorse somebody, you would be the kind of candidate I would endorse.
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Thank you so much. Glenn, thank you so much. Again, the web page is DocSherry2024.com. Glenn,
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thank you for having me on your show. Continue the great work you're doing. Thank you. You can follow
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her on Twitter at Sherry for Senate. And again, you can get involved and help her campaign. DocSherry
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Republicans. We have to have the ones that understand the Constitution and will fight
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for the Constitution. And she seems like one of those fighters. DocSherry2024.com.
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This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
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A storm is on the horizon. America's days are numbered. Chinese submarine has gone rogue and
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is navigating towards the continental United States, putting its nuclear missiles within striking
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distance of the West Coast. A rising Silicon Valley tech mogul with unknown allegiances is at the
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forefront of a revolution in quantum computing and artificial intelligence, and a politician
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controlled by a foreign government is a power and breath away from the power in the Oval Office.
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Three seemingly disconnected events are on a collision course to ignite a power grab unlike anything the
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world has ever seen. And the country's only hope is a quantum computer that has gone dark,
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retreating to the deepest levels of the internet, learning at a rate inconceivable at her inception.
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But during her time in hiding, she has done more than learn. She has now become a weapon.
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She's now positioned to act as either the country's greatest savior or its worst enemy.
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She's known as Alice, and her only connection to the outside world is to a former Navy SEAL sniper
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named James Reese, who has left the violence of his past behind. Will there be blood? Count on it.
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Book number seven of the Terminal List series, and its author, Jack Carr, is with us now. Hi, Jack.
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Hey, how's it going? Thanks so much for having me on.
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Yeah. It's great. This is a tremendous book that hits all of the things that I think are
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happening now. And I saw your list of books that you had to read to get up to speed. And it's very
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telling. What led you to this scenario? Well, two books ago, I did some research into quantum
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computing, artificial intelligence. This is before ChatGPT became part of the lexicon, before Apple
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started updating all our devices, unbeknownst to us with things that we can't opt out of.
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So I started talking to people in the intelligence community, the military that focused on quantum
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computing and AI, and found it was very interesting that all our next generation weapons platforms
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are all, if they're not being controlled that way now, which they're probably not yet, but they're
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being built to have that capability. And so I thought that was very interesting. So I talked to all
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these guys, when you talk to people in those spaces, they're all very tight lipped, of course,
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and understandably, but they'll give you a little hint of something. So if you talk to enough of
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them, like a reporter may do, you can put this hint and that hint together because they're different
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and build this mosaic. So I would be shocked if the quantum computer that I described two books ago
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isn't exact, almost exactly the way I describe her. And then the next book, I wanted to make sure that
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I didn't use her capabilities as a crutch. So I sidelined her for the last book, because I didn't
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want it to be like Michael Knight in the 80s talking into his watch and the kit car shows up.
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So I wanted to make sure that I wasn't doing that. And so this one, she's back, because once you
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introduce a character like that to this universe, you can't sideline her forever. And going deep down
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the rabbit hole on this for this particular book, I focus mostly on naval assets, but a few others as
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well. And also what China's doing. And if your enemy is doing something that is going to speed up
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their decision making process, that means that you in turn have to do something that allows you
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to get within that decision making process or do it faster. So we're on this path to really having
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these platforms autonomously controlled because for enemies doing it, there's not much of an option.
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Otherwise, there'll be missiles landing on the United States before our generals and anyone in the
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So how far are we from this actually happening?
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I think that, well, most people that I talked to said they could tell me more, but it would put
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my book in the science fiction category. So that tells me we're a lot closer than we may think.
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And if we look back over the last 20 years and look at the rate with which we have progressed
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technologically, then think about the next 10 years and how much faster things are going to move
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in the direction of AI. And especially when you add quantum computing to the mix.
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Well, even if you say what's happening with chat GPT-4 today, if you would have said that five years
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ago, well, I did. And it was science fiction. You know, everybody's like, oh, that's not going to happen.
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And now some of the biggest experts are saying that ASI could happen before 2030, which no one thought
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Yeah. So there is AI, which we have now, artificial intelligence. And it's not general. We're general
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intelligence beings. We are good at many things. And we could master one, but we're good at many things.
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That's artificial general intelligence, which we are now approaching. And that is one system that can do
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many, many things. Once that happens, and it is connected, like she is in your book, connected to
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the internet in real time. They're afraid that there will be no stopping it becoming ASI, artificial
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superintelligence, that is more powerful in its capabilities than every brain on earth combined.
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And they now think that ASI is a real possibility by 2030 or before.
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Oh, interesting. Well, unbeknownst to me, I think I described ASI in the book rather than just AI.
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But interestingly enough, this quantum computer has attached herself to my protagonist, James
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Rees, and has modeled her behavior to a certain extent after his. And if anyone has read the books
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up to this point, they'll know that if certain things happen to my main character, he is one to
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put the law aside and go make things right. And perhaps this quantum computer does that in this book
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as well, to point out one of the dangers of what may happen in the future.
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Sure. So one more question on the AI part of the book. But how concerned are you
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personally about being able to control AI or ASI?
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Oh, but I got more and more concerned, the more research that I did, the more people
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that I talked to, because seemingly that next step is one of these things, becoming essentially
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sentient for all practical purposes, and being able to make decisions without a human there to say,
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I'm going to, I'm going to break my last rule. One more, one more question. Why did you call her
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her? Because, or she or Alice? Because that's a big debate on whether they'll become conscious
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and what that even means. And once you start referring to it as a she or a him, it changes
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your relationship. Why did you decide to do that?
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It was Alice. Her name is Alice in the book. And I chose her to be her, having it be her
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decision because she needs to make a connection with James Reese, who is, he prefers the female
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All right, all right. I got it. I got it. I got it. All right. The other thing you talk about is the
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politician that is just, you know, a breath away from the oval. And I noticed in your book of
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research, your stack of book of research, there were a couple of things. One, the Google,
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I can never say it. Archipelago, yep. Archipelago, yeah. By Michael Rechtenwald,
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who is a friend. And that's a tremendous book. But also, Peter Schweitzer, who is a dear friend.
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Is it not? Or is that the one that's about all of them? Yeah, I think it's about all.
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It's about all of them. He's, he's, he's on the cover of that book.
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Um, but it is about all of them, uh, more, more generally and just how that system works and how,
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uh, whether this one is specifically focused on China, but it could be other countries as well.
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And just how they control our politicians, um, through multiple different means. And, uh, so I
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did take a, I did take a lot from there and also may have modeled one of that character you're referring
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to. Uh, someone, let's just put it this way. I think if someone is just vaguely familiar with,
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uh, politics, they will know perhaps who that may have been modeled after. Inspired by,
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how about that? Inspired by. Okay. All right. Inspired by. Yeah. But definitely fictional.
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Definitely fictional. Just an inspiration. It's all coincidental.
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Yeah, it's an inspiration. That's right. Yeah. And anyone who spent any time in California will
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like those first things. It's chapter two and three. It was so much fun to write those chapters
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where you have, uh, politicians going over to China, uh, shaking those hands, doing those photo ops,
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and just kind of weave some of that into the book as well, because, uh, I mean, some of these things
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that happened are so outrageous. How a naive do you have to be to think that, you know, they're giving
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you your politician, they're giving you special access and, and they're, you know, just all behind
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you and Hey, coincidentally, some hot babe shows up and you know, God, you gotta be just dumb as a box
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or rocks or you don't care about America. Yeah. I've heard it described this way in like, uh, a
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Thailand CD bar. Uh, Hey, these girls really like me. Wow. It's a shocking.
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I don't normally score so well. Yeah. It's remarkable. Yeah. It's remarkable. Yeah. Um, so
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the, so outline the story a little bit about how, what, what you think the real danger is that we're
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supposed to take from this book? Well, at its baseline, it is a story of loyalty really. Uh,
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but I explore that through the lens of the geopolitical, um, relationship between China,
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the United States with Taiwan really in the middle of it and a, a race for China to take Taiwan because
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through their assets in the United States, they know that we're about to essentially green light
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this autonomous control of most of our naval assets in the Pacific, which would in essentially
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prevent them from being able to take Taiwan by force. So they're on the clock. What does that
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mean to explain to the average person? What does it mean to, uh, to surrender our naval assets to AI?
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So what, what does that look like? It, it looks like our generals, our admirals are, uh, the civilians
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who control our military and the executive branch in particular, um, being removed from that process out of
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necessity because China is close to being able to do that same thing. So getting inside of that
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decision-making process on the other side essentially becomes impossible if they're doing that and we're
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not. So they take a huge leap forward. But if we have that advantage before they do, then they know that
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they have to do this. They have to take Taiwan now, or they can never take Taiwan. I also weave in a few
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things in there about their birth rate, uh, the one child policy impact that has had and what that
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means for their future. So, um, when you look at the real world and, you know, I, I hear from my
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friends who are in intelligence, they say, don't worry, we're ahead of China. And I'm like, you know,
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that doesn't take away all my worry. I'm just as worried about the United States having this capability
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as anybody else. Um, but I'm glad we would have it before they would, but I don't know how long that
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happiness party lasts. Um, in reality, are you hearing that we are way ahead or just ahead or
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where are we with China research indicates and who, you know, actually knows this is my best assessment
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from the people that I talked to and all the research that I did is that we're still, we still
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have a bit of an edge, how long that will last. I don't know, but that we still have a bit of an edge
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right now. And so for the book, I think about what would happen if they take that edge away by having
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somebody inside a tech company here that has a technology that the government, the NSA does not.
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So with all those platforms being built, if we have a private company that does something on that side,
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that is actually controlled by this foreign entity and is in turn funding this politician who's
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a breath away from the white house and hall, all those things are connected.
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Okay. Hang on just a second more with Jack car. His new book, uh, red sky morning, uh, is, uh,
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is out today. It's released today and we're thrilled to have him, uh, on the program today to talk about
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it. You can get it wherever your books are sold. You can also, uh, follow him at official Jack car,
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uh, dot com or his Twitter handle is Jack car USA. That's C A R R. In case you have forgotten a
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terminal list series. Number seven is out again today with Jack car.
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This is the best of the Glenn Beck podcast. It's a compilation of clips from various episodes.
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If you want to dig deeper into this interview, check out the full podcast episode.
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So you're the first to hear this exclusive leak that we received from a source inside target
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headquarters who thought the public needed to know how some of targets employees responded to last
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year's boycott. Um, first, let me speak directly to the people that made all this possible women.
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I know it was hard to boycott target. Uh, we were there. We, we, as husbands and men saw you,
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uh, like you weren't busy enough. We saw you drive past that bright red sign and go from
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store to store to be able to boycott. And with us, with Bud Light, I mean, it's beer. We'll just reach
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in the fridge for another kind of beer victory. Real victory is yours with target, but it's pride month
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again, which means it's been one year since target rolled out a collection of pride onesies,
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tuck friendly bathing suits, chest binders for girls and apparel made by some kind of transgender
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Satan apologist. Not today. Jesus says Satan. Um, this year pride month target has a much more toned
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down collection. Um, like for instance, let me show you their new pride month charcuterie board
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that says it's giving charcuterie has no rainbows or pride symbols on it at all. It's just a wooden
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board. I guess maybe target thinks charcuterie is gay enough on its own. I'm not really sure,
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but it's a tame collection of rainbow wine bottles and clothes and nothing like last year.
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Also, unlike last year, there is nothing for kids. So victory. Now, some target locations won't have
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any pride merchandise this year. It'll only be sold online in the stores where target says they've,
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uh, seen historically the strongest sales demand. Okay. That makes sense as a business to be clear.
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Target. I don't think is doing this because corporate had some road to Damascus moment and
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decided, you know what, we should depoliticize this company and maybe just sell things people want.
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Remember, this is the same company that in 2016, when most didn't even know, you know,
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that there were 96 genders, they said, uh, put a statement out that said, we welcome, I'm quoting
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transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their
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gender identity. Well, that makes me comfortable when my kids want to go in and try something out.
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Their 2023 sustainability and governance report. This target is one of them that does ESG on their own
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says their goal is to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. The target website
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says target is an inclusive and anti-racist organization. That's key. It's not non-racist.
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It has to be, you have to have a little racism to combat racism. You see. So the way I see it,
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there's only one reason target is pulled back on their pride collection and that is you, but now target
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is in a really, really tricky position. Um, and that's because on one hand, they can't afford another
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boycott. The New York post reported that after last year's boycott target lost $10 billion in market
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valuation in 10 days. That's a lot. On the other hand, they have created a brand around being basically
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woke. And just like Disney, the inmates are now in charge of the asylum and employees at target. Many
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are very woke and militant. Now to make matters really complicated that radical staff they have to
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deal with, uh, was not happy last year. Last year, our team was given exclusive access to internal
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messages that took place on target Slack channel for their pride plus business council. We found culture
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wars that are taking place because target, uh, is taking a stand and saying, wait, we're going to
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slow down on this. And the people were not just boycotting internally. The employees started a
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little revolt. And let me show you what we were sent and found last year, when you were deciding to
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boycott target for their choice to sell chest binders to children package underwear, uh, target hosted a
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town hall to discuss the move, to pull back on some of their more controversial merchandise. The people
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of the pride plus business council were not pleased inside of target. One said, quote, it feels like
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leadership wants to keep support for LGBTQ causes on the down low. Like they want to be able to point it
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out to people, you know, make a fuss, but they don't want to advertise it for people who might disagree.
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Senior management for Philip, uh, philanthropic operations agreed saying quote reasoning with the
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down low piece for real. See what they're saying is target. What, while, while we were saying target went
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too far, the employees were upset that they hadn't gone far enough. And now they were pulling back.
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One employee said, see, we need to cater to the bigots to get our sales up. Okay. But it wasn't
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just the town hall announcement that started the internal firestorm at target. It was the comments
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in the community chat while it happened. The leaked messages were given to us in backward order. So as we
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went through them, we saw the pride plus business council's reaction to the comments before we saw the
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comments themselves. Remember we weren't given access to the actual, you know, conversation just the
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comments. So we don't know what was said by the target leadership during the meeting, but we were
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given snapshots and screenshots of what happened in the chat. So we don't know what they said at the
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leadership of target, but it must've been pretty horrible based on just the reactions. The comments
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must've been awful from, uh, target leadership. Here are a few examples of what the chat said
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during it, uh, how the pride plus business council was reacting, uh, JPEG 22 here. I've been, uh, through
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a lot in my life. I have PTSD to show for it. And I got to say that was the most gaslighty dystopian
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thing I've ever witnessed in a while. Here's another one. JPEG 24. We need to, uh, protect ourselves.
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There are consequences for hate most hateful statements and displays. So now what did target
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say that's made their employees say, we got to protect ourselves from these hateful statements and
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displays. Uh, number 27, a few more, I'm still in shock and disgusted. I'm sure a lot of people
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are examining whether they even want to continue being a team member after all of this kind of hard
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to get back to work after that one, huh? So at this point we are assuming something truly terrible had
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happened in, in that community chat. The acronym HR was repeated over and over again in the chat and
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people were talking about, uh, filing ethics complaints. One woman put the name and email
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of an intern who she said was advocating for discrimination. Well, another intern was exposed
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for basically putting thumbs down on a comment, which prompted one of the lead buyers for targets
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pride collection to say each person should be submitted to ethics. An intern who gave a thumbs down
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on a comment should be submitted to ethics. So what horrible things were these people saying to
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elicit such as extreme reaction? Surely they had to be sexist, racist, tie raids that started this chaos.
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Well, well, here's what we found. And you may, you may want to sit down, uh, for this one because
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it's pretty darn shocking. Um, here's one of the comments that we found, um, a woman who, uh,
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was a Christian. Hang on just a second that wrote this. I'm a Christian and I don't support violence
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against guests or team members. Okay. I also don't hate people who view differently than myself.
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However, for some to say my biblical views are disgusting. That's not inclusive. Wow.
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Now it gets worse. The people in the chat need to take a look at past year's pride assortment and
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compare it to this year's assortment. The backlash this year has been specific to gender plus children
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to imply leadership is now bowing down to bigots is highly offensive.
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Then this a lead designer who had been at target for 25 years, defended the people who felt a little
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weird about target partnering with a designer who currently produces products that say Satan
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respects pronouns. This lead designer at target said, so someone who doesn't think a partnership with an
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artist who glorifies Satan in their products is a bigot would target partner with a similar
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individual who had a racist theme product, or would you have the same feeling towards those
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partnerships? Maybe quick calling names because their beliefs are different than yours.
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The most inflammatory comment that we could find was made by a woman who started working at target in
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the early 2000s. She said, quote, not all people agree that giving hormones to kids, which only
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provides long-term health issues, is a good thing. So inclusivity means ignoring 95% of the population
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to make sure 5% are able to keep grooming kids, end quote. Read about some of the stories, I'm still
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quoting now, of the young girls who have had a mastectomy at 13 and are now in their 20s and have
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horrible health issues from the hormones that they've taken. I don't care what an adult does,
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but kids should be left alone. Is that unreasonable? My favorite comment was this one, JPEG 45,
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our leadership team has a difficult decision to make. They answer to something called shareholders.
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We are also responsible for thousands of team member jobs. Please don't attack your leadership
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or your fellow team members when you don't know their heart. We are a business and this is capitalism.
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Good day now, end quote. Well, target needed to send out a company-wide letter addressing the
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comments before the end of the day. And here's what they said. Several comments made during the
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town hall violated targets policies. Those incidences are being direct addressed directly.
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Target does not tolerate discrimination or hate speech of any kind.
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Wait, the ones who just said don't attack the leadership, that's hate speech? That wasn't enough
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for some of the members of the Pride Plus Business Council. The idea was floated in their chat on the
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day of the town hall that they needed more organized response. That response came about a month later in
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the form of the form of a list of demands sent to Target leadership, which we were also given access,
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exclusive access to. In the memo, they said they wanted from Target, quote, an acknowledgement of harm,
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a sincere apology, and a clear statement of unwavering support for the LGBTQ plus community.
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They wrote, we have always regarded Target as an inclusive and progressive company. However,
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these recent events have called into question the company's commitment to these values. They said the
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removal of some of the Pride collection was disappointing and distressing. So for the company to atone,
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they needed Target to acknowledge in writing the harm done to the LGBTQ plus community,
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explicitly the trans and non-binary members of the community, forge partnerships with prominent
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LGBTQ advocacy groups, and immediately reinstate the Pride collection in full, which we know didn't happen,
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donate to LGBTQ causes and implement sensitivity training for employees and cease all contributions
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to politicians and organizations that do not support the LGBTQ community. This is so crazy because here is
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a company that supports LGBTQ, way beyond what other companies do, and they're not woke enough.
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Even after all that pressure from within the company and all the pressure outside the company from
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people like Governor Newsom accusing Target CEO of selling out the LGBTQ plus community to extremists,
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we're the extremists. Target still toned down its Pride collection this year, and they did it because
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of you. This is a testament of what you can do when we come together, which brings me to the point
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of this whole story. What is this story really all about? Because I'm not showing you all of this
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stuff, you know, saying that Target has issues. We know that already. It's why you staged a boycott.
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I want you to see a couple of things here. First of all, we do have the power to make a difference.
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We have more power than you think you do. That's why they need to shut people up using fear.
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Okay? The second thing is a little bit of hope and sadness as well. Wokeness will always destroy
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itself. It's like the plant in Little Shop of Horror. You give it a little bit of blood,
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and it will eventually eat you. And that's what's happening to companies like Target.
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They created a monster, and they planted it inside their own company, and it's eating them alive.
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It's as if all of Target's virtue signaling came to life in the form of some of their employees,
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and now it's the battle to the death. It's the same in higher education. There are those professors
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who have been teaching revolutionary theories for years, but are now being run out by the
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revolutionaries they created. Same thing in the Democratic Party. The new generation of progressives
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is threatening the Democratic establishment who used to be the radicals for not being radical enough.
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Wokeness always eats its own, and it's because the entire ideology is fueled by deconstruction and
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critical theories that rage against the hierarchy or the establishment. And you know what happens when
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you're in a movement for a while? You, the radical, become the establishment. If you climb your way to
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the top of the woke ladder, you'll find yourself on the wrong side of the movement eventually, and the
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new revolutionaries always destroy the old ones. The ending of the story for places like Target and Disney
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is inevitable. And I think most of us understand that innately, which is why we watch these stories unfold
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like it's the end of the Daytona 500. We know someone's going to crash. It's just a matter of time.
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So what do we do? Do we sit back, point, and laugh? No, that would be tempting and fun a little bit,
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but not useful. Because in the short term, whatever crash is coming is going to affect all of us.
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There are plenty of sane people, normal people that work at Target, like the ones that we saw
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trying to be reasonable in their community chat. All of us are going to be caught in the crossfire of
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these woke institutions as they implode. We just need to be ready to fill the vacuum that it's going to
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create. In the long term, we have to focus on creating an alternative. Alternative business, movies, media,
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everything. That's what we need. Alternatives, kind, gracious, decent alternatives. You build it,
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they destroy, but you build, you restore. Wokeness is a destructive force. We just have to hold on