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00:01:35.500 okay i want to talk to you just about the loss of sovereignty because that's what's happening we

00:01:43.200 have abandoned all of our principles and now we are much of our life is ruled by unelected

00:01:49.300 unaccountable administrative agencies or courts uh facing you know just this forever powerless

00:01:58.120 uh feeling no matter how you vote or we breathlessly wait to hear from world bodies on anything from

00:02:06.800 acknowledgement of hamas's rape or genocidal atrocities to legitimizing our existence 0.52

00:02:15.880 we stress over whether the icc or the icj which who even knows what those are ruling on what

00:02:26.520 self-defense self-defense is allowed why do we care about the who i didn't elect them i didn't start

00:02:33.220 them they have nothing to do with our constitution feels at times we're trapped in a nightmare and it's

00:02:40.080 not your nightmare it's woodrow wilson's nightmare he was the tip of the progressive movement like

00:02:48.480 lenin like lenin was only bolshevik's monster's head wilson was the head of the monster of the 0.59

00:02:57.560 progressive movement they had a lot of friends but things would have been very different without

00:03:02.960 them the good news is there's some books in case you don't understand what's happening to us

00:03:08.300 may i recommend for starters ronald pastrito's america transformed and arthur herman's 1917

00:03:16.860 you can see the imprint of wilson and what is that imprint one word can describe all of this and that

00:03:26.280 is arrogance a tower of intellectual arrogance wilson and all those who follow in his footsteps they just

00:03:35.840 know better they don't have to include you and in fact if you disagree or you oppose them it's not

00:03:42.740 wrong it's evil to them it is a religion under wilsonian progressivism select responsible adults will just

00:03:54.480 decide what should be done based on the perfect enlightened scientific reason thus it's the best

00:04:01.400 and the right thing to do leading to the best possible result what what law is this judge reading

00:04:09.220 what law he just knows what's right he doesn't have to follow the law

00:04:14.680 you follow the science new science in wilson's time it enabled the powerful elites of supposedly

00:04:24.260 disinterested and impartial expert administrators they didn't exist then and they don't exist now

00:04:30.980 you think these scientists these experts don't have an axe to grind they don't have an agenda

00:04:38.740 please

00:04:40.160 progressives might even get a pass that we shouldn't give them because maybe it was all new back then

00:04:50.060 they didn't know this ideal of pure-minded rational scientists had not yet been punctured by the cruel

00:04:59.080 needle of reality or better said the scalpel of mangala

00:05:04.120 wilson started the fundamental transformation of the united states yes that one obama kicked it off

00:05:12.220 the cliff he flatters himself implying that it started with him for a purported historian wilson's

00:05:20.160 blindness to the lessons of history and human nature is staggering and willful exactly what's happening

00:05:27.040 today it was wilson that started the living document thing and this is where it all goes wrong he made

00:05:36.560 the case the founders era was so different the constitution is inadequate now progressives knew

00:05:44.120 better they had to destroy it so they could have all of their socialist utopia and all of their all of

00:05:50.800 their control they could unleash the government to solve all of the problems and wilson pretended

00:05:58.700 that to understand the declaration of independence you had to discard its preamble which in fact

00:06:05.660 contains all of our principles without all of those principles in the preamble it's just a dear john or a dear

00:06:15.240 george letter it has no moral or spiritual significance at all and this understanding is what gave us the

00:06:24.820 administrative state you vote but smarter people decide it gave us the league of nations

00:06:33.260 for which wilson was willing to sacrifice anything even the self-determination of peoples will wilson

00:06:42.780 promise to keep us out of world war one not because he was a pacifist he wasn't not because he believed

00:06:49.560 in george washington's warning against foreign entanglements or the monroe doctrine no he saw the

00:06:56.060 promised land the progressive league of nations he would keep america's hands clean of blood and gunpowder 0.77

00:07:04.460 and then just swoop in in the end and a wise impartial judge would settle the kids disputes once and for all

00:07:11.400 and wilson sent in her calling on congress in april 1917 her all unprepared not because of the

00:07:23.740 licitania that was in may but because russia's czar had fallen in march turning the conflict into one of

00:07:30.980 democracies against old-style european empires so wilson believed we had to send her and we had to send our

00:07:38.020 troops in he now believed taking america in tipping the balance of the democracies in our favor was

00:07:45.180 the quickest way to his utopia of a safe world safe for democracy all organized under the league to solve

00:07:54.020 all of the problems and forever end all wars well in the process he inadvertently enabled the birth 0.92

00:08:03.140 of communist russia russians are responsible for that starting with lenin stalin and trotsky german

00:08:10.800 germany sent in uh lenin at the worst time but none other than wilson might have stopped lenin and

00:08:19.480 didn't wilson by missing every single opportunity helped steer russia away from the cliff ensured we'd

00:08:28.000 inherit the history of communism from the ussr down to the ccp and it ain't over

00:08:33.720 he thrusted america onto the world stage

00:08:39.400 he's the guy who was really responsible in my opinion for world war ii 0.98

00:08:46.540 then we got into world war ii russia had to do most of the bloodshed they lost more people than the

00:08:56.860 rest of us combined

00:08:57.960 and it's continued over and over and over again why why

00:09:03.740 why do we keep following these people why do we keep saying oh yeah well the state department knows

00:09:11.460 better we should just keep getting involved and doing the same thing over and over again it's insanity

00:09:17.400 not saying that america shouldn't have a hand in world affairs some help for ukraine or israel

00:09:26.460 is probably good if it was done differently still the league was predictably impotent

00:09:33.500 didn't do anything didn't solve world war ii yet the vision just doesn't die

00:09:41.000 some radioactive zombie just keeps coming back now it's the u.n where china's vote counts as much as 0.56

00:09:49.920 america's libya's as much as argentina where uh the the council on human rights is run by iran

00:10:00.940 oh my gosh and they forever bash the united states they bash israel but they don't present 0.97

00:10:07.940 war how many how many wars has the u.n prevented i'll help you out on this zero massacres zero genocide

00:10:16.980 zero how many times have they they stopped nuclear uh proliferation zero it also keeps palestinians in 0.99

00:10:26.860 perpetual aid provides them with a dedicated agency the un uh rwa which provides terrorists with 0.92

00:10:37.500 salaries material and moral support and yet they just continue 1.00

00:10:44.140 wef same mold always the same idea you're ignorant you're selfish you're stupid probably evil 1.00

00:10:54.900 here's what has to happen responsible adults must take charge of their own individual freedom 1.00

00:11:05.740 and national sovereignty

00:11:08.300 we're trapped in wilson's dream you want to wake up you have to go back to the beginning

00:11:17.260 where wilson took america and the world off track put the eternal principles that he despised so much

00:11:25.200 back in their place at the apex something that all of these world globalists just do not believe

00:11:31.820 that all men are created equal that they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights

00:11:38.780 and these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and to secure these rights governments

00:11:43.940 are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

00:11:50.460 recognize these moral and eternal words they're the next best thing to scripture restore what wilson

00:11:59.860 discarded humility gratitude wisdom knowledge of true history a genuine understanding of america's

00:12:09.140 god god bless the usa i don't think he can anymore one of the things i value the highest in my life is trust

00:12:27.540 i want people to trust me and i want to be able to trust people and it's it's hard it's hard after you've been

00:12:34.840 burned several times it's really hard those things are really important when the stakes are high

00:12:39.700 like for instance an easy one when you're trying to buy or sell a home the process is so complicated

00:12:45.800 with so many moving parts that you need to trust the real estate agent and that's why i started a company

00:12:52.460 with my brother years ago called real estate agents i trust and it's not called real estate agents

00:12:58.180 you can trust it's that i trust because it begins with me if i can trust this agent if i know my

00:13:06.240 people are really doing regular rigorous and regular checks on all of the people that we might recommend

00:13:13.260 to you then i know i can trust them and if i can trust them you can then say this is a real estate agent

00:13:20.380 i trust the name says it all real estate agents i trust.com whether you're moving across the street or

00:13:27.100 across the country we can help you with the right real estate agent real estate agents i trust.com

00:13:33.340 now back to the podcast

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00:13:42.120 oh bridget i'm so glad you're here i'm glad i was i was worried

00:13:48.380 yeah you were probably sitting in the makeup room i was listening going oh my gosh i have to go in there

00:13:54.940 i was like uh-oh how can i ask you a question when you are in these places and it feels

00:14:01.620 unjust and and you're frustrated what how do you um regain some semblance of

00:14:10.480 faith or sanity or i'm i'm my faith has temples and i am going to the temple right after the show

00:14:19.140 today okay that is the only thing that will help me regain anything yeah and then i'm going to the

00:14:25.560 ranch and i may not ever come back i may not ever threatens that often today i kind of believe it yeah

00:14:31.520 i mean it would be hard if you didn't have to do this for let's say money reasons yeah i don't want to

00:14:40.360 just check out yeah i don't i don't so the only thing that is putting me in this seat is my religious

00:14:46.440 conviction but today is the very first day that i have ever seriously thought of george washington

00:14:55.160 over and over again in my mind george washington you know he he didn't want he did not want to be

00:15:02.540 the general yeah he didn't he when they when they suggested him he said look guys wait wait wait

00:15:08.920 before you vote i know there are people in this room that really don't think i should be general so

00:15:14.320 i'm gonna walk out so feel free to express all of that okay he didn't want to he was he became the

00:15:21.980 general he it was horrible uh you know he was president and when the articles of confederation

00:15:29.240 all he wanted to do is go back to his ranch his farm and farm that's all he wanted to do and they came

00:15:35.120 to his door at three o'clock in the morning in a rainstorm because the articles of confederation

00:15:40.540 were falling apart and they said general the country is falling apart you're the only one that

00:15:44.760 can you know hold everybody together and that was true in his case right and he looked at him and

00:15:50.980 said have i not yet done enough for my country and i keep i've thought of that you know have i not i

00:15:56.620 think i've i think i've done my job i think i've done my job i think i've done my job uh and uh that's

00:16:02.620 the first time that i've ever felt that way because i'm not george washington right you know i mean he

00:16:08.000 he really he was critical to the to the republic surviving right but do you do you think that people

00:16:16.940 would feel isolated and like they were going crazy if they didn't have somebody expressing

00:16:22.640 the same frustration that you feel i think there's a lot of people that are doing that though no

00:16:28.120 i mean we didn't have that right before and honestly bridget what what what bothers me so much

00:16:35.660 is is all of this is going on i have people in my own life my own friends and stuff that

00:16:41.720 are looking at me as i've and i've always been respectful and reasonable and everything else and

00:16:47.460 they're looking at me like you think it's really bad huh you oh you think this is we're on the verge of

00:16:54.080 class and i just i i'm like how could i possibly convince anyone of anything if people in my own

00:17:02.540 life don't believe it people in my own life look at me askance they know who i am they know i'm a

00:17:10.180 logical thinker but they're just so scooped into um the the little teeny slice of information that they

00:17:20.400 have but i also think most people can't comprehend it and what are they going to do you know they're

00:17:27.320 i don't i don't think people feel even if it's something they considered i don't know how they

00:17:33.440 would comprehend it on a on a like play the tape forward level like how are you going to take care

00:17:40.720 of your family what are you going to do what does this mean what does this look like what 0.93

00:17:44.620 even if they say you know people we joked about this last time i was here like america's too fat

00:17:50.620 for a civil war how do you when people are talking about this it's like play the tape forward step by

00:17:57.380 step i know someone like you can and probably often does but i don't think the average person who's

00:18:04.040 trying to like pay their bills i know raise their kids i know deal with just food prices child care

00:18:11.240 how are they gonna they don't have time to i know comprehend i know that reality so and those

00:18:17.360 people do not want to listen to things like this because it's overwhelming for them but i think that's

00:18:24.460 where it's our job in some respect to give some kind of hope right there is hope there is hope but

00:18:34.400 quite honestly this is i've been saying this all week this is a straight not spelled like a

00:18:41.220 straight line this is a straight and narrow path and um we're threading uh a needle in a hurricane

00:18:51.500 yeah and a tornado at the same time and um the only thing that will help us do that is is god

00:19:01.420 yeah yeah it's it's interesting it reminds me of the first time i ever came on your podcast which now

00:19:08.100 seems like ages ago but the first time it was just the interview that we did and i was like this

00:19:13.740 little wide-eyed you know i didn't know you're like bambi i didn't know the fire was coming when

00:19:19.580 you're in there's a hunter on the hill and a fire mommy's gone you're all alone now child in the

00:19:28.940 wilderness i and i didn't i mean i didn't know anything i knew conservative media existed but i didn't

00:19:35.780 know anything i really knew nothing and i remember just being like did you know the left has double

00:19:40.780 standards

00:19:41.420 i had no idea but hearing you today as i was getting my makeup done it was i was flashing back to that

00:19:52.340 like you know when we sit around and go why why well it's i think we know why and it is

00:20:01.520 enraging it may it makes me understand why people feel feel the way they feel that rage that exists

00:20:09.240 in terms of these are just two standards that are not applied evenly at all and i'm never really

00:20:17.180 sure what to do or what you know how to it's like i don't know how to make light of something like

00:20:23.120 that because it's not funny yeah and they want you to kind of laugh at it because but that is the answer

00:20:30.760 yeah it is to be able to laugh at it and uh bring joy and you know what i said to stew before i started

00:20:39.420 the show today i said it's friday now then i just let's be philosophical uh and and let's have some fun

00:20:46.600 it's friday and then the fanny the fanny willis thing happened yeah and i i about burst a gasket

00:20:55.020 yeah and it's always on fridays that they do this i know because they know people are going into the

00:20:59.940 weekend yeah and then they'll drink that away and they'll forget about it by monday yeah i mean i was

00:21:06.580 thinking too about when you were talking about you know i don't you don't want to do this and you

00:21:11.580 actually gave me a lot of good advice very early on and one of the things you said to do

00:21:16.520 don't do this i remember giving you that advice don't do this i i'm somewhat i didn't take that

00:21:22.400 you said you said make a file of things when people send you those nice emails that remind you

00:21:30.080 why you're doing it or that you see a comment that comes through that says

00:21:33.800 you saved me at a dark time you talk a lot about mental like health you talk in a space where i don't

00:21:40.480 feel like it gets enough attention you talk about addiction you're not just talking about culture

00:21:45.860 war stuff you do help people and you told me to keep a file of that and i hope you have a similar

00:21:53.160 file that you can so i don't take my own advice but but i did do this this weekend a uh a woman sent

00:22:00.420 this she made this for me and this is your like security blanket yeah it is it's it's a beautiful

00:22:06.840 handmade blanket it is beautiful and uh and so i've had it behind me all week uh because you know

00:22:14.540 she wrote and said you know i just appreciate what you do etc etc and i've had it on the chair all week

00:22:20.500 yeah uh to remind me yeah i mean one of the things being even though even though a lot of people think

00:22:25.740 it's an act that my like little miss captain of the fence riding team i know i'm not alone i hear from

00:22:32.540 people every day who feel frustrated with all you know a bipartisan frustration with all of it and

00:22:39.580 i don't i i don't sometimes know what i'm doing but i do know it's like that famous jack carrowatt

00:22:47.940 quote i have nothing to offer the world but my confusion i mean that's that's me really i don't

00:22:54.400 have answers i don't know that anybody does right now we're in we're in unprecedented kind of

00:23:00.540 times the only thing and they're both overlooked and dismissed uh is restore the declaration of

00:23:10.780 independence the bill of rights and the constitution live by that and and uh find meaning by finding god

00:23:20.800 yeah i had a drunk aunt when i was freaking out like you well i had she's still alive i have a drunk

00:23:27.220 she's not drunk right now anyway i have an aunt she was drunk when we were talking okay all right

00:23:34.420 and she was on your show no and she i was kind of in a place like glenn beck is in right now and i was

00:23:41.880 in the darkness of america and freaking out and she was like when i was a kid we had a president

00:23:49.480 assassinated we had his brother was assassinated martin luther king jr was assassinated there were riots in

00:23:56.240 every major city and she was like and now we're fine and so i was like yeah i mean there's something

00:24:03.560 to be said for that there is we've been through a lot yeah yeah but the culture was generally good

00:24:09.880 where the culture if you look at we're a boat on the ocean uh this ocean is now eel infested shark

00:24:17.980 infested and and waiting to kill you all where back then the the culture the sea that we were in was

00:24:27.300 generally good it had problems right but it was it was generally you know it was generally trying to be 0.99

00:24:37.380 better now it seems like we're all just like to hell with everybody else i'm gonna screw them 0.91

00:24:44.740 i don't care if it's legal or illegal if i want it i'm gonna do it yeah i i mean this was my biggest 0.94

00:24:52.300 issue with trump which i'm sure a lot of your audience is going to be stoked to hear um but my

00:24:57.980 my biggest issue with him was that he kind of gave people permission to be like the biggest

00:25:02.300 the worst version of themselves in some instances and in some in some and others he really inspired

00:25:10.220 people to be more patriotic and fight for the country and he was kind of their guy but just his

00:25:16.180 own sometimes i find hilarious but not always hilarious behavior yeah um gave it seemed like it

00:25:25.040 be and it's always been this like race to the bottom you know i i also wonder how much of it is just

00:25:30.860 mediation how much of it is the internet how how many of these other factors have led to the erosion of

00:25:38.400 our kind of shared sense of being proud of this miracle that we live in right how much of burning

00:25:45.820 our cities down and our current vice president setting up a fund to bail everybody out i mean

00:25:53.900 it's like okay that's probably not a good idea no it's it's definitely uh there is like a two americas

00:26:02.420 you know but it but it feels deeply pessimistic all around it does but that we shouldn't be

00:26:11.120 we we still have a lot yeah i know and we still have an election i mean i think the election as long

00:26:18.160 as it's fair um i think the election uh and both sides are no matter what happens both sides are gonna

00:26:25.460 say it was unfair i think this is what makes me unsettled and enraged and only what like something

00:26:31.660 that happens today is what undermines the sense that this is fair you know that it we're trying to

00:26:38.420 because if you don't believe that the election is fair you've already given up on democracy

00:26:42.220 if if you if you don't believe that your vote matters if you think this is something and this is

00:26:47.580 something i've been saying to the left and now i feel like i have to say to the right as well

00:26:51.060 if you think that this is not fair it's already over but if if when something like this today with

00:26:58.780 fanny willis happens and somebody who clearly it's impropriety and should have been it's perjury the

00:27:06.540 biggest thing is perjury you have the cell phone data and if that doesn't matter then why are you

00:27:13.360 putting people in prison for murder or whatever else because of their cell phone data yeah and it and so

00:27:19.860 undermines the sense that this is fair right and that we need a lot less of that it should be we

00:27:26.840 should be applying all these things evenly and when it's not you start to like that's when this

00:27:32.460 festers in people's minds because what kills me is um oj simpson when they when they put the oj simpson

00:27:40.580 dna stuff out nobody knew what dna they had no idea what that meant i didn't nobody you're like i don't

00:27:47.800 know is that that kind of sounds weird is that real or not this the cell phone data this is like

00:27:54.260 coming back now and saying well i don't know if you can really trust the dna data you know you're like

00:28:01.000 no no we've trusted this for years and now all of a sudden well i'm not sure if we can really tell

00:28:08.360 where they were you're listening to the best of glenn back check out the full show podcast to listen

00:28:15.880 to the rest of this interview i need some good news i think i'll get it from uh senator eric schmidt

00:28:24.920 from missouri eric how are you sir senator how are you i'm doing great how are you uh oh i'm not

00:28:32.880 having a good day i i i'm stuck on this uh fonnie willis thing uh that i there is no justice there is

00:28:40.260 absolutely no justice if the judge found that they couldn't prove there wasn't enough evidence that

00:28:48.060 she perjured herself over and over again and so did wade when they have the the cell phone triangulation

00:28:59.120 data then why shouldn't every person who has ever been convicted on that cell phone triangulation

00:29:05.940 data especially in georgia why should that stand and how can you trust that there's any kind of

00:29:14.040 justice in this country if not only an attorney but the district attorney can boldly gleefully lie

00:29:24.360 in court and get away with it yeah i know i think uh under most circumstances the fact pattern that's

00:29:33.860 been laid out in that case you'd be just potentially disbarred not exactly not just stay on the case yes

00:29:40.780 but certainly face disciplinary action yes it is just it's ridiculous okay give me some give me some

00:29:48.680 good news yeah well i will so um monday missouri versus biden is being argued in at the spring court

00:29:58.140 and um it is as we've talked about before it's the most important free speech case in the history of

00:30:03.620 the country certainly in a generation because it deals with um the uh uh the federal government in

00:30:10.500 this vast censorship enterprise coercing colluding cajoling these social media giants to censor speech and

00:30:17.740 what the judge found at the lower court uh when i filed it when i was attorney general uh in missouri

00:30:23.400 what the judge found at the lower court was that this was almost exclusively conservatives being

00:30:27.820 censored it reeked of viewpoint discrimination which is violates the first amendment and it was

00:30:34.100 orwellian i mean what was uncovered glenn were tens of thousands of pages of emails and text messages

00:30:40.200 from high-ranking government officials to social media giants saying take it down or we're going to

00:30:44.880 launch an investigation or we're going to you know um we're going to sue you under antitrust issues i

00:30:49.740 mean really really the full power of the federal government was being used to suppress dissent to

00:30:55.200 silence americans and so that's been shown in the case and so that now it's been appealed by uh by the

00:31:01.360 government they want to continue to censor people and the supreme court's going to hear oral arguments

00:31:05.640 on that on monday and how do you think it's going to go i'm hopeful i'm hopeful um i just think

00:31:13.120 you know the case is going to a lot of it will come down to what was the government actually doing

00:31:17.740 um and were they in fact coercing right were they using the power of the federal government to get

00:31:23.240 these social media giants to do the things that they can't legally do themselves what makes this case

00:31:27.980 unique is typically social media companies are sued by people who've been deplatformed or their posts

00:31:34.940 been taken down and those go to the northern district of california and they're never to be seen

00:31:38.860 again what was unique in our case is that we sued the federal government um itself in the in the

00:31:45.340 actors like jen saki and anthony fauci i had a chance to take anthony fauci's deposition took um elvis

00:31:52.960 chan's deposition who was of course the fbi agent in charge who was pre-bunking the hunter biden laptop

00:31:59.880 story calling it russian disinformation a hack and leak operation even though they had the laptop already

00:32:05.600 they were pre-bunking this uh getting ready for 2020 the covid uh uh the uh the efficacy of masks

00:32:14.060 you know they were suppressing that speech vaccine issues origins of covid um where they were shutting

00:32:20.800 anybody down who talked about this coming from the lab in wuhan and so all that's uncovered in this

00:32:25.620 in this lawsuit and if it wasn't for this lawsuit glenn and then later elon musk buying twitter with the

00:32:31.520 twitter files and then later some of the congressional hearings this stuff would still be in the dark

00:32:36.720 you know it would still be a conspiracy theory but it was happening and what we refer to it in lawsuit

00:32:41.920 is a vast censorship enterprise the number of agencies and people involved here is breathtaking

00:32:48.960 uh and the you know sometimes willing behavior of social media companies to comply and de-platform

00:32:55.180 and censor people but in some instances they actually didn't want to do it right and they changed

00:32:59.100 their their rules so that's that's why i wanted to what i wanted to ask you about how much of this do

00:33:05.520 you think was willing and how much of it was fear of the government um both so um yeah i mean these

00:33:16.920 social media platforms typically were very aligned with the left i think in many instances facebook for

00:33:23.220 example after 2016 and donald trump ones uh they made it clear publicly they were never going to

00:33:29.960 let that happen again right they were never going to let that happen again and so i think some of this

00:33:35.260 was um uh overtly political um on their part and they were willing participants but there are i mean

00:33:43.340 we there are documents that were uncovered where they were pushing back that is not you know it didn't

00:33:47.800 violate their terms of service and as one judge uh said uh in one of the the previous arguments

00:33:54.140 that's a nice social media company you have there right it'd be a shame if something happened to it

00:33:58.620 almost like a mob boss oh yeah that is coming from the government that is yeah so um so so this is

00:34:05.620 again the the the all the power that the federal government has exerting that on these social media

00:34:13.500 companies to do what they can't legally do themselves which is to censor and so this case

00:34:19.000 is a it's it's hard for me as somebody who believes deeply in the right to free speech and what that

00:34:24.840 means for a country and um and uh freedom this is in my view one of the most important cases

00:34:32.860 in general the court's heard in a very very long time um but certainly as relates to the first

00:34:38.300 amendment how is this going to important because we're dealing with the town with a virtual town

00:34:42.080 square now glenn how is this going to affect the um the new systems that they're putting in for

00:34:49.640 mis and disinformation and the governments um you know work with five eyes uh and with social media

00:34:58.940 and the rest of the media where they are just training them and uh guiding them through mis and

00:35:05.720 disinformation will this case have anything to do with that because that's a that's upon us right now

00:35:11.300 absolutely and so that is the intention of this too is to bust that up because there's agencies

00:35:16.860 like cissa that most people have never heard of right um but what but was yeah very involved glenn

00:35:23.280 explain what explain to the audience what cissa is it's basically the agency that was created not

00:35:29.920 that long ago to deal with sort of uh cyber security right okay and what it found itself doing uh in

00:35:37.320 around you know during covid in particular was under the guise of disinformation and misinformation as

00:35:44.460 you clearly articulate that's it looks that that is a that's a ploy by one of the tyrants to control

00:35:50.800 speech yes the truth of the matter is you get to say your opinion even if somebody else thinks it's

00:35:56.740 wrong the government doesn't get to shut that down the government doesn't get to tell you what you can say

00:36:01.420 and what you can hear it's up to the individual to decipher what they you know how they want to move

00:36:07.280 forward and what they um as they analyze facts and what their decisions are right it was sort of like

00:36:12.860 with the mandates like with mass mandates you know people can make their own decisions they can judge if

00:36:18.040 this is a good thing or not for their family same with the vaccine and so all of this was about

00:36:22.080 command and control from these sprawling agencies the other thing that was exposed in this too glenn is

00:36:27.960 there were universities um the university of washington and stanford were involved with

00:36:33.780 helping you know um sort of determine what the disinformation misinformation was so again

00:36:40.000 they're outsourcing this to their sort of web of allies to censor americans and this case would

00:36:47.780 prevent that this case if if the court rules the right way and i hope that they do it would essentially

00:36:53.780 there would be an injunction on all these agencies from engaging in that kind of that

00:36:57.880 that'd be a huge win now no matter what happens the case of course stands for exposing all of this

00:37:05.300 um but the remedy that hopefully will play out is preventing this um but as we've talked about

00:37:12.080 before i've got legislation uh in the senate that would empower individuals to sue individual

00:37:19.420 government actors if they've been censored if they're if they're right i would be helpful you can go

00:37:24.060 sue yeah it would because it would instead of just one ag in a state suing you'd have a you know an army

00:37:29.860 of citizens being able to stand up for their first amendment rights you know the the the treasury i

00:37:35.700 think in cooperating i'd have to look this up i think it was the world bank or i don't know as some

00:37:41.640 world uh organization uh got together and ran a uh kind of a war game with the central banks around the

00:37:50.060 world and uh one of the things that came out of that was we have got to shut down voices and this

00:37:58.060 these this is an exact quote we have to shut down voices that disagree in the case of an emergency a

00:38:05.340 financial emergency that disagree with the actions of uh the central banks even if they are correct

00:38:13.300 because they could they could uh further the collapse of the system and i've been saying on

00:38:21.780 the air for a while now i i know i'm not going to agree with the with the the global central banks on

00:38:28.960 whatever it is they're planning to do i the people who created the problem i don't want designing a new

00:38:35.020 system or anything else um and that snuffs out freedom of speech quickly quickly it does it does

00:38:45.420 and and i think what you're seeing play out in real time is the the the broad diffusion of information

00:38:53.380 which is good that's good the democratization of how people get information you're on you're sort of on

00:38:59.500 on the front lines of all this a long time ago but what they what they really fear is that individuals

00:39:06.500 will then you know take different inputs and make up their own mind as opposed to three networks that

00:39:12.500 tell you everything they want you to hear and again i just think that we ought to be unafraid

00:39:19.000 i think um as conserves to talk about this is about this is about freedom this is about liberty this is

00:39:25.240 about making up your own mind and they know how powerful that idea is they they absolutely so so

00:39:31.860 what's the game playing you saw it play out in covid which is create a crisis um have a whether it's

00:39:38.220 real or manufactured right yeah and then you consolidate power you fear monger you other you the othering of

00:39:46.340 of those who are dissenting i mean think about go back in time just a little bit they were you know in

00:39:51.420 australia which we thought was kind of like us but with cute animals they had camps you know i know

00:39:58.540 camps people were being arrested in parks for not wearing masks i mean we can't memory hole all this

00:40:05.220 stuff that is a glimpse of the kind of world that some of these folks want to live in if you disagree

00:40:11.260 with the regime and we have to fight back with everything we have to make sure that doesn't happen

00:40:16.120 and that it would and also depends on us defending somebody else's right to say something we really

00:40:21.320 disagree with that's sort of the hallmark of it but they want to bulldoze all that going to say

00:40:26.080 have a regime narrative and anybody that stands in the way is othered marginalized called all sorts of

00:40:31.680 names lose their job de-platform i mean that is a real so this whole like lecture we get from joe biden

00:40:38.060 on threats to democracy we have seen the threat we have seen the threat and it is joe biden's

00:40:45.140 administration with this censorship enterprise and trying to throw political opponents in jail so

00:40:49.260 so i think people are waking up to this and i think we just got to stand up for it good thank you eric i

00:40:54.320 appreciate it we'll be watching monday uh if maybe you'll come back monday or tuesday you could tell us

00:40:59.600 how it how it went uh and uh and dissect the arguments back and forth between the two thank you eric

00:41:07.460 appreciate it good thanks senator eric schmidt from uh missouri

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