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Woodrow W. Wilson was a man of many talents. He was a philosopher, a writer, a scientist, a philosopher of ideas, a socialist, a communist, a pacifist, and a communist. And yet, he was also a man who lived in the shadow of one of the most powerful men in the world, Woodrow Wilson.
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okay i want to talk to you just about the loss of sovereignty because that's what's happening we
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have abandoned all of our principles and now we are much of our life is ruled by unelected
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unaccountable administrative agencies or courts uh facing you know just this forever powerless
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uh feeling no matter how you vote or we breathlessly wait to hear from world bodies on anything from
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acknowledgement of hamas's rape or genocidal atrocities to legitimizing our existence
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we stress over whether the icc or the icj which who even knows what those are ruling on what
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self-defense self-defense is allowed why do we care about the who i didn't elect them i didn't start
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them they have nothing to do with our constitution feels at times we're trapped in a nightmare and it's
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not your nightmare it's woodrow wilson's nightmare he was the tip of the progressive movement like
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lenin like lenin was only bolshevik's monster's head wilson was the head of the monster of the
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progressive movement they had a lot of friends but things would have been very different without
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them the good news is there's some books in case you don't understand what's happening to us
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may i recommend for starters ronald pastrito's america transformed and arthur herman's 1917
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you can see the imprint of wilson and what is that imprint one word can describe all of this and that
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is arrogance a tower of intellectual arrogance wilson and all those who follow in his footsteps they just
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know better they don't have to include you and in fact if you disagree or you oppose them it's not
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wrong it's evil to them it is a religion under wilsonian progressivism select responsible adults will just
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decide what should be done based on the perfect enlightened scientific reason thus it's the best
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and the right thing to do leading to the best possible result what what law is this judge reading
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what law he just knows what's right he doesn't have to follow the law
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you follow the science new science in wilson's time it enabled the powerful elites of supposedly
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disinterested and impartial expert administrators they didn't exist then and they don't exist now
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you think these scientists these experts don't have an axe to grind they don't have an agenda
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progressives might even get a pass that we shouldn't give them because maybe it was all new back then
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they didn't know this ideal of pure-minded rational scientists had not yet been punctured by the cruel
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needle of reality or better said the scalpel of mangala
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wilson started the fundamental transformation of the united states yes that one obama kicked it off
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the cliff he flatters himself implying that it started with him for a purported historian wilson's
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blindness to the lessons of history and human nature is staggering and willful exactly what's happening
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today it was wilson that started the living document thing and this is where it all goes wrong he made
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the case the founders era was so different the constitution is inadequate now progressives knew
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better they had to destroy it so they could have all of their socialist utopia and all of their all of
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their control they could unleash the government to solve all of the problems and wilson pretended
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that to understand the declaration of independence you had to discard its preamble which in fact
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contains all of our principles without all of those principles in the preamble it's just a dear john or a dear
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george letter it has no moral or spiritual significance at all and this understanding is what gave us the
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administrative state you vote but smarter people decide it gave us the league of nations
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for which wilson was willing to sacrifice anything even the self-determination of peoples will wilson
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promise to keep us out of world war one not because he was a pacifist he wasn't not because he believed
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in george washington's warning against foreign entanglements or the monroe doctrine no he saw the
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promised land the progressive league of nations he would keep america's hands clean of blood and gunpowder
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and then just swoop in in the end and a wise impartial judge would settle the kids disputes once and for all
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and wilson sent in her calling on congress in april 1917 her all unprepared not because of the
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licitania that was in may but because russia's czar had fallen in march turning the conflict into one of
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democracies against old-style european empires so wilson believed we had to send her and we had to send our
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troops in he now believed taking america in tipping the balance of the democracies in our favor was
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the quickest way to his utopia of a safe world safe for democracy all organized under the league to solve
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all of the problems and forever end all wars well in the process he inadvertently enabled the birth
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of communist russia russians are responsible for that starting with lenin stalin and trotsky german
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germany sent in uh lenin at the worst time but none other than wilson might have stopped lenin and
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didn't wilson by missing every single opportunity helped steer russia away from the cliff ensured we'd
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inherit the history of communism from the ussr down to the ccp and it ain't over
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he's the guy who was really responsible in my opinion for world war ii
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then we got into world war ii russia had to do most of the bloodshed they lost more people than the
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and it's continued over and over and over again why why
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why do we keep following these people why do we keep saying oh yeah well the state department knows
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better we should just keep getting involved and doing the same thing over and over again it's insanity
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not saying that america shouldn't have a hand in world affairs some help for ukraine or israel
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is probably good if it was done differently still the league was predictably impotent
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didn't do anything didn't solve world war ii yet the vision just doesn't die
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some radioactive zombie just keeps coming back now it's the u.n where china's vote counts as much as
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america's libya's as much as argentina where uh the the council on human rights is run by iran
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oh my gosh and they forever bash the united states they bash israel but they don't present
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war how many how many wars has the u.n prevented i'll help you out on this zero massacres zero genocide
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zero how many times have they they stopped nuclear uh proliferation zero it also keeps palestinians in
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perpetual aid provides them with a dedicated agency the un uh rwa which provides terrorists with
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salaries material and moral support and yet they just continue
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wef same mold always the same idea you're ignorant you're selfish you're stupid probably evil
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here's what has to happen responsible adults must take charge of their own individual freedom
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we're trapped in wilson's dream you want to wake up you have to go back to the beginning
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where wilson took america and the world off track put the eternal principles that he despised so much
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back in their place at the apex something that all of these world globalists just do not believe
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that all men are created equal that they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights
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and these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and to secure these rights governments
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are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
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recognize these moral and eternal words they're the next best thing to scripture restore what wilson
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discarded humility gratitude wisdom knowledge of true history a genuine understanding of america's
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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
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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
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burned several times it's really hard those things are really important when the stakes are high
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like for instance an easy one when you're trying to buy or sell a home the process is so complicated
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with so many moving parts that you need to trust the real estate agent and that's why i started a company
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you can trust it's that i trust because it begins with me if i can trust this agent if i know my
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oh bridget i'm so glad you're here i'm glad i was i was worried
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yeah you were probably sitting in the makeup room i was listening going oh my gosh i have to go in there
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i was like uh-oh how can i ask you a question when you are in these places and it feels
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unjust and and you're frustrated what how do you um regain some semblance of
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faith or sanity or i'm i'm my faith has temples and i am going to the temple right after the show
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today okay that is the only thing that will help me regain anything yeah and then i'm going to the
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ranch and i may not ever come back i may not ever threatens that often today i kind of believe it yeah
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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
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just check out yeah i don't i don't so the only thing that is putting me in this seat is my religious
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conviction but today is the very first day that i have ever seriously thought of george washington
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over and over again in my mind george washington you know he he didn't want he did not want to be
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the general yeah he didn't he when they when they suggested him he said look guys wait wait wait
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before you vote i know there are people in this room that really don't think i should be general so
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i'm gonna walk out so feel free to express all of that okay he didn't want to he was he became the
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general he it was horrible uh you know he was president and when the articles of confederation
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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
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to his door at three o'clock in the morning in a rainstorm because the articles of confederation
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were falling apart and they said general the country is falling apart you're the only one that
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can you know hold everybody together and that was true in his case right and he looked at him and
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said have i not yet done enough for my country and i keep i've thought of that you know have i not i
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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
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the first time that i've ever felt that way because i'm not george washington right you know i mean he
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he really he was critical to the to the republic surviving right but do you do you think that people
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would feel isolated and like they were going crazy if they didn't have somebody expressing
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the same frustration that you feel i think there's a lot of people that are doing that though no
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i mean we didn't have that right before and honestly bridget what what what bothers me so much
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is is all of this is going on i have people in my own life my own friends and stuff that
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are looking at me as i've and i've always been respectful and reasonable and everything else and
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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
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class and i just i i'm like how could i possibly convince anyone of anything if people in my own
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life don't believe it people in my own life look at me askance they know who i am they know i'm a
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logical thinker but they're just so scooped into um the the little teeny slice of information that they
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have but i also think most people can't comprehend it and what are they going to do you know they're
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i don't i don't think people feel even if it's something they considered i don't know how they
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would comprehend it on a on a like play the tape forward level like how are you going to take care
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of your family what are you going to do what does this mean what does this look like what
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even if they say you know people we joked about this last time i was here like america's too fat
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for a civil war how do you when people are talking about this it's like play the tape forward step by
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step i know someone like you can and probably often does but i don't think the average person who's
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trying to like pay their bills i know raise their kids i know deal with just food prices child care
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how are they gonna they don't have time to i know comprehend i know that reality so and those
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people do not want to listen to things like this because it's overwhelming for them but i think that's
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where it's our job in some respect to give some kind of hope right there is hope there is hope but
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quite honestly this is i've been saying this all week this is a straight not spelled like a
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straight line this is a straight and narrow path and um we're threading uh a needle in a hurricane
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yeah and a tornado at the same time and um the only thing that will help us do that is is god
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yeah yeah it's it's interesting it reminds me of the first time i ever came on your podcast which now
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seems like ages ago but the first time it was just the interview that we did and i was like this
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little wide-eyed you know i didn't know you're like bambi i didn't know the fire was coming when
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you're in there's a hunter on the hill and a fire mommy's gone you're all alone now child in the
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wilderness i and i didn't i mean i didn't know anything i knew conservative media existed but i didn't
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know anything i really knew nothing and i remember just being like did you know the left has double
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i had no idea but hearing you today as i was getting my makeup done it was i was flashing back to that
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like you know when we sit around and go why why well it's i think we know why and it is
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enraging it may it makes me understand why people feel feel the way they feel that rage that exists
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in terms of these are just two standards that are not applied evenly at all and i'm never really
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sure what to do or what you know how to it's like i don't know how to make light of something like
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that because it's not funny yeah and they want you to kind of laugh at it because but that is the answer
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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
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the show today i said it's friday now then i just let's be philosophical uh and and let's have some fun
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it's friday and then the fanny the fanny willis thing happened yeah and i i about burst a gasket
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yeah and it's always on fridays that they do this i know because they know people are going into the
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weekend yeah and then they'll drink that away and they'll forget about it by monday yeah i mean i was
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thinking too about when you were talking about you know i don't you don't want to do this and you
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actually gave me a lot of good advice very early on and one of the things you said to do
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don't do this i remember giving you that advice don't do this i i'm somewhat i didn't take that
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you said you said make a file of things when people send you those nice emails that remind you
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why you're doing it or that you see a comment that comes through that says
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you saved me at a dark time you talk a lot about mental like health you talk in a space where i don't
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feel like it gets enough attention you talk about addiction you're not just talking about culture
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war stuff you do help people and you told me to keep a file of that and i hope you have a similar
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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
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this she made this for me and this is your like security blanket yeah it is it's it's a beautiful
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handmade blanket it is beautiful and uh and so i've had it behind me all week uh because you know
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she wrote and said you know i just appreciate what you do etc etc and i've had it on the chair all week
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yeah uh to remind me yeah i mean one of the things being even though even though a lot of people think
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it's an act that my like little miss captain of the fence riding team i know i'm not alone i hear from
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people every day who feel frustrated with all you know a bipartisan frustration with all of it and
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i don't i i don't sometimes know what i'm doing but i do know it's like that famous jack carrowatt
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quote i have nothing to offer the world but my confusion i mean that's that's me really i don't
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have answers i don't know that anybody does right now we're in we're in unprecedented kind of
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times the only thing and they're both overlooked and dismissed uh is restore the declaration of
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independence the bill of rights and the constitution live by that and and uh find meaning by finding god
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yeah i had a drunk aunt when i was freaking out like you well i had she's still alive i have a drunk
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she's not drunk right now anyway i have an aunt she was drunk when we were talking okay all right
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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
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in the darkness of america and freaking out and she was like when i was a kid we had a president
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assassinated we had his brother was assassinated martin luther king jr was assassinated there were riots in
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every major city and she was like and now we're fine and so i was like yeah i mean there's something
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to be said for that there is we've been through a lot yeah yeah but the culture was generally good
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where the culture if you look at we're a boat on the ocean uh this ocean is now eel infested shark
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infested and and waiting to kill you all where back then the the culture the sea that we were in was
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generally good it had problems right but it was it was generally you know it was generally trying to be
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better now it seems like we're all just like to hell with everybody else i'm gonna screw them
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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
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issue with trump which i'm sure a lot of your audience is going to be stoked to hear um but my
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my biggest issue with him was that he kind of gave people permission to be like the biggest
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the worst version of themselves in some instances and in some in some and others he really inspired
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people to be more patriotic and fight for the country and he was kind of their guy but just his
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own sometimes i find hilarious but not always hilarious behavior yeah um gave it seemed like it
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be and it's always been this like race to the bottom you know i i also wonder how much of it is just
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mediation how much of it is the internet how how many of these other factors have led to the erosion of
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our kind of shared sense of being proud of this miracle that we live in right how much of burning
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our cities down and our current vice president setting up a fund to bail everybody out i mean
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it's like okay that's probably not a good idea no it's it's definitely uh there is like a two americas
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you know but it but it feels deeply pessimistic all around it does but that we shouldn't be
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we we still have a lot yeah i know and we still have an election i mean i think the election as long
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as it's fair um i think the election uh and both sides are no matter what happens both sides are gonna
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say it was unfair i think this is what makes me unsettled and enraged and only what like something
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that happens today is what undermines the sense that this is fair you know that it we're trying to
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because if you don't believe that the election is fair you've already given up on democracy
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if if you if you don't believe that your vote matters if you think this is something and this is
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something i've been saying to the left and now i feel like i have to say to the right as well
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if you think that this is not fair it's already over but if if when something like this today with
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fanny willis happens and somebody who clearly it's impropriety and should have been it's perjury the
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biggest thing is perjury you have the cell phone data and if that doesn't matter then why are you
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putting people in prison for murder or whatever else because of their cell phone data yeah and it and so
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undermines the sense that this is fair right and that we need a lot less of that it should be we
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should be applying all these things evenly and when it's not you start to like that's when this
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festers in people's minds because what kills me is um oj simpson when they when they put the oj simpson
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dna stuff out nobody knew what dna they had no idea what that meant i didn't nobody you're like i don't
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know is that that kind of sounds weird is that real or not this the cell phone data this is like
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coming back now and saying well i don't know if you can really trust the dna data you know you're like
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no no we've trusted this for years and now all of a sudden well i'm not sure if we can really tell
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where they were you're listening to the best of glenn back check out the full show podcast to listen
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to the rest of this interview i need some good news i think i'll get it from uh senator eric schmidt
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from missouri eric how are you sir senator how are you i'm doing great how are you uh oh i'm not
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having a good day i i i'm stuck on this uh fonnie willis thing uh that i there is no justice there is
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absolutely no justice if the judge found that they couldn't prove there wasn't enough evidence that
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she perjured herself over and over again and so did wade when they have the the cell phone triangulation
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data then why shouldn't every person who has ever been convicted on that cell phone triangulation
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data especially in georgia why should that stand and how can you trust that there's any kind of
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justice in this country if not only an attorney but the district attorney can boldly gleefully lie
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in court and get away with it yeah i know i think uh under most circumstances the fact pattern that's
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been laid out in that case you'd be just potentially disbarred not exactly not just stay on the case yes
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but certainly face disciplinary action yes it is just it's ridiculous okay give me some give me some
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good news yeah well i will so um monday missouri versus biden is being argued in at the spring court
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and um it is as we've talked about before it's the most important free speech case in the history of
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the country certainly in a generation because it deals with um the uh uh the federal government in
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this vast censorship enterprise coercing colluding cajoling these social media giants to censor speech and
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what the judge found at the lower court uh when i filed it when i was attorney general uh in missouri
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what the judge found at the lower court was that this was almost exclusively conservatives being
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censored it reeked of viewpoint discrimination which is violates the first amendment and it was
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orwellian i mean what was uncovered glenn were tens of thousands of pages of emails and text messages
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from high-ranking government officials to social media giants saying take it down or we're going to
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launch an investigation or we're going to you know um we're going to sue you under antitrust issues i
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mean really really the full power of the federal government was being used to suppress dissent to
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silence americans and so that's been shown in the case and so that now it's been appealed by uh by the
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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
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you know the case is going to a lot of it will come down to what was the government actually doing
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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
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is a vast censorship enterprise the number of agencies and people involved here is breathtaking
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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
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you think was willing and how much of it was fear of the government um both so um yeah i mean these
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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appreciate it good thanks senator eric schmidt from uh missouri