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Trump's new army is vile. The National Guard is a bunch of old people, old people and women, and that's what's trending on social media right now. What does that say about the state of the union?
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hey it's a tuesday podcast even more exciting than the monday podcast every day is better than
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the day before meaning every day is the best day of our lives well today today tomorrow can you
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imagine with the inauguration finally we get that trump guy out of our hair oh it's gonna be great
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all the things we just want social media platforms to know everything we ever said about donald trump
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or about the left or the right we were forced at gunpoint by our evil employers um bill yeah
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marty mark bill and mario they're horrible so but we'll turn we'll turn on our friends on a dime
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so you know if you got one of those hearings we'll tell you who the uh who the non-communists are
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oh yeah we're we're we're gonna sing like a bird yeah sing like a bird sing like a bird but in the
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meantime we're gonna do the exact opposite on today's podcast
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you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
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all right trending on twitter and it's not conservatives it's the left
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so therefore it's not hate hate speech hashtag trump's new army that's what's trending trump's
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new army is vile i'm reading just some of the couple of the tweets and we know who they are
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there are teachers they are our neighbors they are our police officers they are everywhere
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expose the treason what wow remember treason is a very specific thing i don't think we've ever
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accused anyone of tree i've never i said it's approaches treason it's seditious it's sedition
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but treason is really really hard to prove because you need i think two witnesses don't you in the
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constitution and it requires the death penalty of course the left wouldn't know that don winslow
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new video hashtag trump's new army on january 20th donald trump will no longer be the commander-in-chief
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he will lose control of the u.s armed forces but take control of a new army uh it shows a bunch of
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quite honestly old people like maybe two young people in there but generally old people and women
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uh and that's his his army it's going to be a very tired army uh and we're gonna in war you know
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you always run run low of things that you're using uh fiber is going to be very hard to get a hold of
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uh and the picture is the greatest threat comes from within so we have this and i just want to
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paint a picture of what we're headed for i urge you urge you to get together with your church
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tomorrow and pray pray tonight and tomorrow like you've never prayed before for the republic
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um and you'll understand why representative steve cohen a democrat from tennessee during an interview
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monday morning he said this morning i was reading uh this on my twitter account i guess so he's got the
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news and people were reminding people of anwar sadat and indira gandhi who were killed by their own
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people hmm he referenced the political leaders that have been assassinated by those who were tasked
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with defending them you know i was thinking was he really steve were you i was thinking the national
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guard is 90 some odd percent male only about 20 percent of white males voted for biden so you have
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to figure that in the guard which is predominantly more conservative that i see on my social media and
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we know it there's probably not more than 25 percent of the people that are there protecting us who voted
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for biden the other 75 percent are in a class that would be the large class of folks that might want
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to do something and there are there were military people and police who took oaths to defend the
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constitution and protect and defend who didn't do it who were in the insurrection so it does concern me
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um first of all that is the that is the worst thing you could say about our military our military does not
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take an oath to protect the president of the united states that's donald trump that is uh joe biden
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they protect the office of the united states therefore the person who resides in the office or getting the
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office they take an oath to protect the constitution of the united states this is one of the only
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militaries in the history of the world that has taken an oath to the idea of the constitution
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and you're now tearing that apart when he was pushed on this are you saying really that uh the national
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guard do you have any do you have any evidence at all well no fact absolutely not that's a quote
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absolutely not it's crazy that you would even ask that i would have evidence absolutely not uh but you
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know you draw a circle the first circle is the people who are for trump and not for biden as far uh as
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far as uh people who would be within the zone of folks you could be suspect of the suspect group is large
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so now you're a suspect if you didn't vote for biden this is very uniting the reason one of the
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reasons why i bring this up is because uh their own people did kill those leaders their own people
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did kill those leaders and i urge you to pray that god will thwart anything today tomorrow the future
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anything any plot like that by anyone it will destroy the republic
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now new york times reporter has tweeted former intelligence official on pbs news hour tonight saying
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that the u.s should think about a 9-11 commission for domestic extremism and consider applying some of the
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lessons from the far uh from the fight against al-qaeda here at home so now we're al-qaeda members
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when we were debating the patriot act i unfortunately was too late on this bandwagon to see the truth
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about a year after i was like oh wait a minute boy that was a mistake shouldn't have done that
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uh but this is what we warned about and so many warned before me about the patriot act
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you can you can just define terrorist any way you want and that can be turned as a weapon against the
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american people it's extraordinarily dangerous but good news is not anybody of any real you know
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power uh or any real name uh is behind this oh no wait a minute oh no wait a minute can you play the
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hillary clinton uh clip please do you think we need a 9-11 type commission to investigate and report
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everything that they can pull together and explain what happened i do uh let me again uh to your point
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of who is he beholding to as i've said over and over as i said to him in that picture with my blue
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suit as i was leaving what i was saying to him as i was pointing rudely at him with you mr president
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all roads lead to putin i don't know what putin has on him politically financially personally gosh
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but what happened last week was a gift to putin because putin wants to undermine i can't take it
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anymore they're still wow still going after this now a met an ex-military officer retired air force
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colonel mo davis a failed democratic congressional candidate tweeted something he said that it's time
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to start a domestic war on american terrorists his tweet comes after uh cawthorne he is the uh
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congressman that is confined in the wheelchair he's an amazing guy participated in the rally for donald
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trump he said if i was the chief prosecutor at guantanamo for over two years and there is far
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more evidence of congressman madison cawthorne's guilt than there was of the guilt for 95 plus percent
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of the detainees it's time we started domestic war on sedition by american terrorists now this is the
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same guy who tweeted screw uh screw they go low we go high bs when north carolina gop extremists go low
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we stomp their scrawny pasty necks with our heels and once you hear the sound of a crisp snap you grind
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your heel hard and twist it slowly side to side for good measure he needs to know who whooped his ass
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that's a fantasy that's a that's a yeah that's that this guy's sick fantasy this guy is sick i
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imagine i mean i assume obviously he's been banned from twitter so imagine what he would be tweeting
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today no he's not bad no he's he's not banned from twitter no no no he's fine he still has his
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account yeah no no he's not a domestic terrorist or inciting violence at all no of course not not even
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the next snap no he's not sweet he's fine he's fine what are you talking about we're talking about
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domestic terrorism and people who are spewing hatred we're talking about republicans hello okay okay uh
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but um katie korak has a really really good idea here's katie korak what do you do about people who
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are in the government who don't believe in our way of government like it is so shocking not only do
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are they not conceding bill but there's thoughts that there might have been some collusion among
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members of congress some are refusing to go through magnometers or whatever you call them to to check
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for weapons they're not wearing masks during the siege i mean it's really bizarre isn't it when you
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think about how awol so many of these members of congress have gotten but i also think some of them
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are believing the garbage that they are being fed 24 7 on the internet by their constituents and they
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bought into this big lie and the question is how are we going to really almost deprogram these people
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who have signed up for the cult of trump okay so now we have to be deprogrammed we've heard this
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over and over and over and over again for months by the way you can be upset tomorrow but tomorrow
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uh today but tomorrow at i think it's noon we unite we all come together oh really and we're going to be
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great we're going to all be great yeah we're going to be great we're going to be great um huh there is
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another story today from the washington post that says while holding trump uh to account is necessary it
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is also insufficient there's a whole infrastructure of incitement that will remain intact even after
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trump leaves office just as we do with foreign terrorist groups so with domestic terrorists
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we need to shut down the influencers who radical radicalize people and set them on a path towards
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violent and sedition terrorist influencers yes uh some argue that trying to silence the voices of
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insurrection is a hopeless task that hate will always find a way to get through i think that's about love
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um it's true that there is danger and seditious plots that will now move to encrypted message apps such as
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telegram where they're harder to track but research firm signal labs found that online misinformation
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about election fraud fell 73 percent after trump and his key allies were suspended for from social media
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that's a good start anyone who cherishes our democracy should be grateful to the management
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of facebook twitter and other social media sites for their newfound sense of social responsibility
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we should expect at least the same level of responsibility from the broadcast media to its credit fox news
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acknowledged that joe biden won but reports from media matters quote in the two weeks after the fox news
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called uh the election for biden fox news cast doubt on the results of the election at least 774 times
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what losers fox business host lou dobbs uh said trump's opponents in the government were guilty of
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treason uh blah blah blah blah blah blah 678 times 679 times or 680 times oh can you imagine these people
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in their lives but while we should expect better behavior from media executives we shouldn't count on it
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cnn listen to this where i'm a global affairs analyst notes that the united kingdom doesn't have its own
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version of fox news because it has a government regulator that uh hands out hefty fines to broadcasters
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that violate minimal standards of impartiality and accuracy what country do we get our independence
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from again yeah the united states hasn't had that since the fcc stopped enforcing the fairness doctrine
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in the 80s thank heaven as president biden needs to rein president biden needs to reinvigorate the fcc
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or else the terrorism we saw on january 6 may only be the beginning rather than the end of the plot
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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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let's go to uh lieutenant general uh general jerry boykin he is the executive vice president of the
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family research council if you remember that is the operation that actually had a leftist shooter come in
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and try to kill all of the employees at the family research council he was uh i believe there that day
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uh we wanted to talk to him a little bit about uh congressman cohen's remarks about the national
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guard welcome to the program general i'm doing well glenn and it's good to be back with you and uh
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thanks for having me on you're welcome i am uh i'm really more concerned for my nation than i ever have
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been uh jerry and i i i worry about uh the extremist on all sides i worry about uh you know a reichstag fire
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event which won't matter who did it i mean it doesn't matter it's the action that takes place after and
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the reason why i say that is because we have so many people in the media and in congress and the senate
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that are saying quite honestly frightening things like uh 50 percent of the country is a domestic
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terrorist or you can't trust the national guard or the military because only about 20 percent of them
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probably voted for biden can you comment on these things yeah well i think you said it i think that is
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an incredibly offensive uh statement and i i don't believe that uh his views uh represent the people of
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tennessee which is where he's from i i i know too many people uh in the military and out of the
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military from tennessee and i just don't believe that uh that his views are representative of those
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people that know from the state of tennessee and i hope that they will hold him accountable for that
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because this is part of a bigger picture glenn what i just left washington yesterday just to get out
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of that city because you you can't go anywhere in the city you've got roadblocks at every turn it is a
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it's an apocalyptic scene and scenario there in washington right now but what you're seeing in
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my personal view and and this statement by cohen is part of it is what you're seeing is a psychological
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operation and what they're doing is they're trying to send a very strong message that people who voted
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for donald trump people who are conservative even people who are on the christian scale uh are the
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enemy today and this whole thing is as far as i'm concerned is just phony and bringing in so many
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national guard uh but it it goes back to what cohen said he's trying to portray those people who voted
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for donald trump and those people who are conservative as the enemies of this nation when
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the reality is he and all of his cohorts stood by and watched antifa and black lives matters burn cities
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down hurt people kill people and loot and destroy and there is so much hypocrisy in this glenn but what
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we're seeing as far as i'm concerned is a psychological operation going on right now against us so jerry
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let me play the other side here because a i don't have a problem with protecting the inauguration
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to any extent it's felt necessary um i you know the country is on edge the last thing we need is an
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incident but i also was for trump sending in the national guard if the the uh the governor's asked for it
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for the national guard to go in and have a massive presence in cities like uh oregon to send a
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message we're not screwing around you can't do these things but we're only getting one half of that
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so first it is there you you say even in today's world there's no reason to have these kinds of
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numbers of troops in the capital i'm not saying there's no reason i'm saying that in this particular
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case and the inauguration here given that what you have have already drawn into that city and for us
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to have you say 75 000 when i left there i understood it was 25 000 but okay it might be 25 i couldn't
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remember yeah yeah what does it what does it take in terms of the national guard you have federal
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marshals you have fbi you have secret service you have park police you have capital police you have
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the metro police you have all of these different entities out there that are shutting down everything
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within three blocks of the mall for from one end to the other and and then you have these people
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uh on these uh liberal news programs that are coming on the on the stations and they're talking
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about how they're concerned about inside attacks from trump supporters and and and this whole thing
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you're looking at the visible part of it which is all the truth but then you're listening to the dialogue
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you listen to the talking points about how these disgruntled dissatisfied trump supporters are a major
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threat and you know what they're not they're not a major threat yes there were trump supporters that
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went in that capital i certainly understand that there was a there were quite a number of antifa there
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and they were the rabble rousers but there were people that took it upon themselves and called
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themselves patriots to go in that capital and they need to be prosecuted even though they were trump
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supporters and called themselves patriots they need to be prosecuted but i'll tell you what i'm hearing now
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what i'm seeing now is is messaging that is directed at and against those of us who consider ourselves
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to actually be patriots those of us who served in the military those of us who supported donald trump
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and i am uh i'm disgusted with it and and uh we we i think the people who really love this country
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and want to see what's best for this country we need to get our act together and find our courage and
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start standing up and what does that mean to you general what that means is we have to speak truth
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ultimately truth will prevail and we need to keep talking about the dangers as you have done for a
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long time we need to keep talking about the dangers of marxism of socialism of what it really is we need
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to talk about what these ultra leftists are bringing into our society if they go unchecked so when
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i say we have to stand up we have to stand up and speak the truth because again ultimately truth
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will prevail but if if we start watering down the truth and we don't speak the truth into this society
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so that people have have have been given both sides uh because we're afraid somebody's going to
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criticize us then uh we're just giving in to the enemy but it's not just it's not just uh uh criticizing us
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there's a principal uh at cordova high school in tennessee in shelby county um and he was critical
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of the riots at the capitol but he objected to the actions taken by social media platforms to silence
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people um he has he has been forced to take a leave of absence he probably is going to be fired
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i mean there are people out there that are losing their jobs because they they will speak out speak
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to those people yeah you've got uh if you if you are a father or grandfather or mother or grandmother
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you got to think in terms of uh what's really important to you and what's really important to
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you glenn as you know is uh the future of your children or your grandchildren that's where your
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focus has to be you reach a point in life where you make that transition and if you don't stand who's
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going to now i understand there are consequences glenn i got fired from a college i was teaching at
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when i got out of the army because of my attitude towards letting men go in women's bathrooms and i
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took a very strong stand against it and they fired me i understand i understand that there are
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consequences particularly when you're dealing with academe uh but i also know that if you care
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about the future of your children and your grandchildren you've got to make up your mind
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now are you going to stand or are you going to stand by and cheer for somebody else to take that stand
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and speak truth and yeah you're going to get bumped off of social media but there's there are new
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platforms that are being developed right now but we have got to keep speaking truth because the truth
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has to ultimately prevail and when all else is lost people can reflect back on what they have heard
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because the truth is more powerful than the lies that are being told right now when i look um at the
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color revolutions that um our state department has been involved in it they run pretty much like this
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is um and i'm afraid with all the behavioral scientists and all the things on the left that
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that's what we're seeing at the beginning of and if people understand what a color revolution is
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it it's even more important that you stand up am i way off base and thinking that there are some that
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are are employing the tactics of a color revolution here no i think that's exactly right i think you're
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seeing a number of things and certainly the color revolution is is part of this and i will just say
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this glenn people don't want to hear this but we need to recognize that we are actually in a civil war
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already now it's not the 1860 kind of civil war but we're in a civil war already and and we're not
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divided north and south but we're certainly divided every other way that you can possibly be you've got
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you know you have you have division based on race you have division based on ethnicity you have division
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based on socioeconomic class you have race to base uh you have division based on political parties or political
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points of view and uh you've got big tech against uh every conservative and so if this is not a civil
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war what would classify as a civil war the problem is i think bubba leroy and junior uh are getting fed up
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and i think that's part of what you saw the day that they breached the capital and i will tell you just
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so where so everybody understands where i stand i sat down and wept i sat and wept i wept like a child
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as i saw the breach in that capital there uh because 36 years and i was supporting and defending the
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constitution of the united states and that just that was broke my heart as i saw them do that
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and these were so-called patriots well i understand bubba leroy and junior are really frustrated especially
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down here in the south where i am and i'm in virginia and and they're really frustrated they
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believe that this was a fraudulent election they believe that uh there'll never be another fair
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election i mean there's so much and then too many of them jump on these conspiracy theories
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that are just absolute nonsense that they're so far out in left field that it no sane person would
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believe them and then they get even more frustrated and and and you saw i think that was bubba leroy and
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junior there at the capital were the ones that were there for patriotic reasons but but ultimately
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transitioned over to being the bad guys this is the best of the glenbeck program
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get sad the host of the u2 show the sad truth blogger for psychology today professor of marketing at
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john molson school of business at concordia university he holds the concordia university
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research chair in evolutionary behavioral science uh sciences and darwinian consumption
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he's the author of the evolutionary basis of consumption plus a whole bunch of academic
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papers normally i would dismiss because i don't believe anybody in academia but this guy's one of
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the good guys gad sad hi gad hey glad so good to be with you again thanks for having me thank you
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all right i've been trying to think if i were if i were in government uh i would look to behavioral
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behavioral scientists and i know that the left does it with economic behavioral scientists with
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cass sunstein but i would look to behavioral scientists right now or if i were a behavioral
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scientist i would be ringing the bell right now because it seems everything the media and the left
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are doing is causing more and more people to feel disenfranchised attacked name called isolated it's not good gad
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as a behavioral scientist in your own in your own well in your own way can you please talk to me about this
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is there anything they've missed and if so don't tell me because they'll do it well i mean you you you set up the
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problem uh really nicely which is that you know if you look at u.s presidents they have uh advisors when it
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comes to you know public health they have advisors for the economy they have advisors for all sorts of
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purpose of and important areas but what ultimately drives all those domains is human behavior right so
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the health the the lifestyle choices that we make that might result in downstream negative health
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consequences which a public health person would care about they stem from understanding human behavior
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so it has always uh you know amazed me that there isn't as part of you know the cabinet of a president
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or the board of advisors someone who truly specializes in human psychology and behavioral
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sciences so maybe our current conversation will one day result in such a position actually taking so i'm
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i'm not sure i like that though because that used to be called propaganda uh i mean the early guys
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you know bernays that he was in his own way a behavioral scientist and watch behavior and knew how to
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evoke the right emotions to do all kinds of things some of it good some of it bad so i don't like the
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idea i know you're canadian but in america the conservative doesn't like the idea of growing the
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government even bigger in an office of what would have been called propaganda is a little frightening
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but i i do want them to blow the whistle on on warnings i mean are you paying attention to what's
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really happening here in america gad i am although the past two weeks i've taken a social
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media hiatus and let me tell you my cortisol levels have gone way down and my blood pressure
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has improved i i will tell you i i went to the uh i went to the doctor because i was having uh problems
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and uh the doctor said right now stop stop right now he's like your blood pressure is through the roof
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uh and uh you you gotta stop looking at all this stuff and i'm like yeah kind of a problem
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but i did stop over the weekend and i i felt great felt great exactly see one of the things
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that i've done which again speaks to the importance of understanding human behavior
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is i have stopped ever reading anything once i post something now this is something that we all
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intuitively know because the social media ends up being a cesspool of negativity in the past just
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because we're all humans we want to see what people think about the ideas that we've espoused
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i might post something and then a couple hours later you go check what the comments are well now it's been
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two weeks i never do that oh first of all i'm only posting positive things right so that i don't get
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mired in all the negativity and i think my blood pressure has dropped maybe 10 points so there's the power
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of understanding human behavior okay so now i i can't do that every day i have to pay attention i'm
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going to move your blood pressure up uh just a bit you have uh trending today hashtag trump's new army
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let me just read this to you uh on january 20th donald trump will no longer be the commander-in-chief
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he will lose control of the u.s armed forces and take control of a new army we know who they are
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they're vile they are our teachers our neighbors our police officers and they are everywhere expose
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their treason this this is this is being allowed to be seen uh when they're talking about you know
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uh calls for violence etc etc i i mean i don't i don't know what that is if it's not uh inciting
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violence uh this is this is from a new york times reporter former intelligence official on pbs news
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hour tonight saying the u.s should think about a 9-11 commission for domestic extremism and consider
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applying some of the lessons from the fight against al-qaeda there are several stories including those
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from members of congress now that are saying we we need in fact the biden administration said today
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during one of the uh confirmation hearings of the department of homeland security chief
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that his main focus is going to be on domestic terrorism which is now i guess us it is bewildering
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isn't it i mean i don't know if you saw the uh the uh interview with the representative i don't
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remember his name who said basically that you can't really trust all the national guards that are there
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yeah yeah yeah because ultimately many of the white males would have voted for trump and to that
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extent how could we truly so i mean imagine how emboldened he must be in the current zeitgeist
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that he actually says this openly and proudly right rather than it being something on martin luther
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king's day yesterday something that he should have as a private thought and feel ashamed by it
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instead he boldly espouses this incredibly racist position openly it's very scary as someone who
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comes from the middle east who sees what happens when uh societies are not built around freedom of
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speech and freedom of thought i am truly bewildered by what's happening at a breathtakingly rapid rate
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will you adopt me and our family in case we have to get across the border get don't answer now just
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think about it okay um uh gad so as a behavioral scientist i mean i i i would love to have i would
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love to have somebody who is talking to me about the you know the meanings of words and how to phrase
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things because i think we are at a a really dangerous dangerous point and i am trying to express what
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martin luther king did and that is violence begets violence uh hate begets hate only love can conquer
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darkness and hate uh and nobody really wants to hear that now i shouldn't say that a lot of people
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don't want to hear this because they're like we are under attack as as people as americans we're now
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under attack and uh they don't know what to do so it's yeah it's frightening i'll give you an example
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of that again as a canadian who technically speaking has you know no no dog in the fight and so on
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about a month ago i posted some uh a tweet that was very critical of nancy pelosi again i'm doing this i
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i thought i live in a free world i'm a canadian i'm allowed to espouse my positions i'm a well-known
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professor so a colleague of mine who is a personal friend of mine until that tweet wrote a very nasty
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rebuttal and reported me to all of our you know common evolutionary behavioral scientist colleagues
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because i no longer was a scientist given that i was espousing such hateful rhetoric against
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nancy pelosi so i didn't know that nancy pelosi was a prophet that could not be criticized and that
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it was blasphemous for me to do so and if i dared criticize nancy pelosi i no longer was part of the
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good standing members of the science club but he felt completely emboldened and justified to do that
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as a matter of fact when i called him on his reprehensible behavior of trying to cancel me and
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report me to our common colleagues he said that he was altruistically punishing me right so his
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cancel culture instinct was actually a form of loving altruism that's how grotesque the world has become
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wow so listening to the messages that are going on being a behavioral scientist um and seeing um
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social media shutting people down uh silencing speech uh calling people enemies of the state and
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terrorists all of these things that are happening poke poke poke poke poke and the and the media not
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being balanced i was against what happened in the cap capitol i know you were too i was really dead set
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against that uh and called for it to stop immediately but i also did that with black lives matter it's the
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hypocrisy that i think is driving people nuts and when they feel like nobody's doing anything
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what what what do you foresee coming what i mean isn't this a recipe for absolute disaster
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exactly right i've long said glenn that the reason why i get engaged in in the battle of ideas is because
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i think that we're still within a window where these debates can be adjudicated peacefully but i've
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repeatedly warned that if the peaceful attempts to have ideas pitted against one another doesn't
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manifest itself in other words if we lose the ability to resolve our differences peacefully through
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dialogue through through through through debate then in 10 20 50 100 years we will have a repeat
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of the society from which i escaped for for the viewers who don't know my family and i escaped the
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lebanese civil war and i guarantee you that the good people who are every day insulted as hicks and rednecks
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and idiots and nazis are not going to go away quietly so either we resolve it today peacefully or we will
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resolve it tomorrow violently i continue to pray that it will be the former