'Equally Destroying Equal Justice'? - 7⧸13⧸18
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Summary
Peter Strzok deserves a Purple Heart, says Rep. Steve Cohen, D-TN. Glenn Beck breaks down the history of the Purple Heart and why it should be given to our heroes. He also talks about the latest on the Mueller investigation.
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.
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All right, the Purple Heart was originally the badge of merit.
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It was the first time that anybody who was an enlisted man, not an officer, could get some sort of a medal or award.
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And it lasted during George Washington's period.
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And he would write your book in his Book of Merit.
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There are three badges that we know of that remain.
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We didn't even know any of this in history until, I think, about the 1920s.
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But the badge of merit, or the Purple Heart, was originally for doing something that God would see and say,
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Because we knew we would never win a war against the biggest army and navy in the world unless, you know, we had some sort of divine providence and protection.
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If you were seen doing something of merit, you would get a badge and you would sew it onto your uniform.
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Now, it was prostituted a little bit by FDR, who saw that tradition, and instead decided to give it as a medal for getting wounded,
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which is something that you should get a medal for.
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However, it isn't the original Purple Heart, if you will.
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Well, I think we finally destroyed the Purple Heart and all of its meaning.
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It is reserved for those wounded or killed during battle, awarded by the president.
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You know, men and women who have faced death and still persevered have the Purple Heart.
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Soldiers who fought in battle and it cost them their limbs, you know, real heroes.
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You know, John F. Kennedy earned a Purple Heart for his heroism as a gunboat pilot in 1944.
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John McCain received one for his horrific story.
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Roughly one million Purple Heart medals have been awarded to veterans, all of whom were determined to have fought valiantly with courage and heart.
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So, it was a bit of a head-scratcher to hear comments from Democratic Representative Steve Cohen from Tennessee
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and self-appointed leader in the effort to hashtag impeach Trump.
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During the House Oversight Committee, hearing the questioning of Peter Strzok yesterday,
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Cohen said that he believes that Strzok deserves a Purple Heart.
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This has been an attack on you in a way to attack Mr. Mueller and the investigation that is to get at Russia collusion involved in our election,
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which is what this committee should be looking at.
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A direct strike at democracy and what this country is about and free and fair elections,
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keeping us independent of who is our foe, not our, you know, our competitor, our foe.
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I just returned from the OSCE in Berlin, and there is little question among our allies and people and diplomats throughout Europe
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that Russia is an antagonistic country that is trying to wreak havoc in the Baltics, in the Balkans as well.
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They tried to use assassination to try to influence the elections in Montenegro.
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What they've done in Ukraine with Crimea and the Donbass, what they've done in Georgia, what they've done in Moldova,
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Does anybody remember when Mitt Romney said the number one geopolitical enemy was Russia,
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and they said the 80s called to get their foreign policy back?
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We have been ringing the bell about Russia, and neither the Republicans nor the Democrats give a flying crap.
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But that's not what this is supposed to be about.
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Now, I don't really even know what this is supposed to be about at this point,
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Now, besides Cohen's fanboy praise, Strzok hasn't gotten off easily, thankfully.
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The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General wrote,
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that Strzok's decision to prioritize the Russia investigation
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over following up on the mid-year related investigative lead
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discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was free from bias.
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I believe that's one of the criteria for a different medal.
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You're going to have to get your trophy elsewhere.
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I don't even know where to begin with the hearing yesterday,
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The press is so in the bag for anyone who will say anything against Donald Trump.
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They're so in the bag that they can't even see straight.
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you're saying these things while you're investigating.
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I didn't ask you the content of those interviews.
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I didn't ask you the names of who you interviewed.
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I asked you whether or not you interviewed anyone
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And I find it interesting that the FBI will tell us
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That apparently doesn't impact an ongoing probe.
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You're investigating this alleged Russian collusion
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before you've interviewed a single solitary witness,
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right tone a couple of times and then he's had a
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May and the things that he said about Boris Johnson
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in the lead up to his meeting as a hit or a miss?
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It's hard to say because that's a tabloid newspaper
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The reason he did that interview was because of
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Murdoch owns that paper and then owns the Fox News
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May and it didn't look like she was perturbed by
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I mean, they had a fairly relaxed body language
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But, yeah, you don't want to say bad things about a
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leader of any country when you're showing up to the
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I mean, you know, I've always appreciated way the
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way, you know, Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders
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around the world come here and they say, look, those
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are your internal politics and we're not involved in
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Yeah, you don't want to poison or Netanyahu despised
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It was obvious he did, but he never overtly said that
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How did you perceive the comments where he sat down at the
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breakfast table and said, you know, you guys got to, you
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know, what are we doing with Germany taking all of the the
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natural gas from Russia while we're trying to protect them
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Well, this is Trump with righteous indignation at his best.
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Now, you got to understand something about Donald Trump, whereas most
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people, they don't care real personally about stuff like the Russian
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So he was he was indignant that he had to go over there to Brussels, a
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place where he doesn't have any interest in being and and because
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these people won't pay their fair share of defense costs for NATO, which
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And now Putin, you know, has got the pipeline in bringing natural gas and
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he can shut it off at any time, which gives Putin a hundred times more
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I would have probably done it in a more formal place, but at least he didn't
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I thought it was actually I thought he's had a couple of moments that were the
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first real presidential moments I have seen from him that where he was off the
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I found that moment strangely satisfying and in maybe on the edge of I don't know
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if you should do that that way or at that setting, but he backed it up.
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Yeah, I don't think the breakfast was presidential, but he did it to intimidate them.
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The leaders of the countries of NATO, 29 countries.
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I mean, he walks in and he's six foot two and he's 245 pounds and his tie is down to
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his knee and he sits down and he goes, hey, I don't want a grapefruit.
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And they're all like their heads are snapping back because nobody does this.
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I think it was a hit in policy and a miss in style.
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OK, let me go to another moment that I thought was presidential.
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And I've I'm long on the record that Putin is an enemy to not only the United States, but
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However, the president, I prefer that we don't call somebody our enemy.
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You know, if there's a chance to not be an enemy, we'll treat you on the facts, especially
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when he's got a conference coming up with this.
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The same left that mocked Mitt Romney when he said that was the biggest foe geopolitical
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They went crazy when he said, which I thought was very presidential.
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Well, you also have to point out that when Barack Obama was caught on the open mic saying,
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hey, you know, once I'm reelected, I'll have more latitude to deal with you guys and
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He's he's dealing with Putin behind the scenes.
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The only the only thing he ever says about Crimea is Barack Obama.
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He doesn't care that Putin is topless most of the time in the Arctic.
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Is he is it should there should he care about those things?
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He wants a nuke deal to de-intensify nuclear weapons, which is symbolic.
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And then he wants Putin to stop misbehaving in Syria and Iran and other places that's costing us money.
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Maybe because Putin is in trouble economically.
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And the only reason that Putin has got control over his country is because he runs a secret police that poisons people who speak out against him.
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And, you know, there's absolutely it's just like the old Soviet Union.
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So it's just a one one communist government was was replaced by a mafia government.
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Do we I mean, I don't know if we have any left anymore.
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But do we lose any moral authority by saying, I don't care about these things?
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I only want a deal that's, you know, because it's costing us time and money that Trump will never say that.
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And, you know, Putin is not giving Crimea back no matter what you do.
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So the greater good is let's get something out of them that's going to prevent bloodshed and, you know, economic disaster for the world.
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Let's get something out of them and, you know, work along those lines for the future.
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Bill, there was a story this week that only my show in the blaze and Wired magazine covered.
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He was he sued the federal government because they put him into a class of an arms dealer.
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He can distribute the the CAD drawings or the blueprints for guns.
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Now, it's very controversial, but it is it was a huge win for the Second Amendment.
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And in the settlement, the government admitted that the AR-15 is not a weapon of war.
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It is a modern day sporting rifle, as long as it's not fully automatic.
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That, to me, was one of the biggest stories that was not reported or underreported.
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What do you think the biggest story of the week was that we may not have talked about already?
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I think that the growing disenchantment on the part of the American people toward Washington is a very underreported story.
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We talked about the media, but that's reported.
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When you look at that hearing yesterday with their yelling at each other and their point of order and parliamentary this and it takes 10 hours to do what you could have done.
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You and I could have done that interview with Strzok in an hour and a half and then had a nice dinner in 10 hours.
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Strzok could have gone out and hit President Trump with a hammer and that would have been fine with them.
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And then some of the guys on the Republican side are purposely embarrassing Strzok with questions about his own wife, which were way out of line.
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We're not getting representation on both sides.
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And I think this is really seeping now in to what the hell?
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We got a bunch of dishonest people in the Democratic Party who couldn't care less about what happened.
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Couldn't care less about what Peter Strzok, the lead FBI investigator, did.
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And people are starting to get it now because you see it right in front of your eyes.
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Yeah, go out and follow Trump supporters around and give them a hard time.
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And hey, if somebody hits them or somebody shoots them, that's too bad.
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So people, by osmosis, little by little, this whole structure that we have is starting to collapse.
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And the Democrats, you're going to see it worse when, what's his name, Brett Kavanaugh goes up for his hearings.
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They're going to try to tear him apart personally.
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And it's really crazy because he's not a guy that the right, or at least people like me, are cheering about.
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But even so, he's led his life in a way that has been constructive.
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And, you know, when he gave his daughter the middle five over there, you know, in the little thing in the White House, I mean, that was a really nice moment.
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And they're still trying to tear his throat out.
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And people just watching this, you expect it from Planned Parenthood that makes money off abortions.
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Well, I can't wait for them to start and to hear your analysis of them.
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You have a nice, I'm going to be in Ireland next week.
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So you're not going to be on the show next week?
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No, I can't talk to you next week, but I want you to read Killing the SS.
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I haven't said I'm not very far, but I am reading it.
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And the reason you should read it is because this is a topic that you're interested in.
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Go out and buy his and buy mine at the same time.
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We'll just be fighting over who's number two and who's number three.
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Because the New York Times, they'll jump off the top of the roof before they'll give it to.
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So there's just no winning that week for the New York Times.
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We have a lot to cover here in an hour remaining of the program.
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We have more on Struck, some more audio on that, on the president's visit with Theresa May.
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We also have a story that I really, I mean, don't tell me you can't do things.
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I'm going to introduce you to a guy with no arms that stabbed somebody that was coming after him.
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When you hear the story, it is getting it done.
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And if this is where we have to get our inspiration, you know, in America, so be it.
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Also, a Starbucks solution to replace plastic straws is backfiring.
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Well, before the president left for Europe this week, he issued a pardon to 76-year-old
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Dwight Hammond, Hammond's 49-year-old son, Stephen.
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Now, if those are names that you remember but you don't remember where, you might remember
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them as the Oregon cattle ranchers who were sentenced to five years in prison for setting
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fire that spread into a portion of federal land in Oregon.
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In 2012, the jury acquitted the Hammonds on some but not all of the charges against them
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Now, after serving a short term, the Hammonds were released only to be sent back to prison
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in 2015 when the Obama administration filed an appeal and the federal court ruled that
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But it was the Hammonds being sent back to prison that sparked an even more famous standoff
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The perceived injustice to the Hammonds inspired the Bundy brothers, Ryan and Ammon, to storm
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onto the wildlife refuge in Oregon with other ranchers and militiamen.
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They were engaged in a 41-day armed standoff with federal agents.
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Now, Clive and Bundy and Ammon Bundy and the Bundy ranchers don't confuse them with the Hammonds.
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And the president didn't say anything about the Bundys, as I think he's actually right to
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The presidential pardon will take some time off of Hammond's five-year sentence, though Stephen
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White House statement about the pardons called their imprisonment unjust and the result of
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overzealous effort by the Obama administration to prosecute them.
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This pardon is the second major move the president has made since taking office to signal greater
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support of residents in Western states who desire to see more local control of federal lands.
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Last December, Trump signed the largest rollback of federal land protection in U.S. history
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when he significantly reduced the size of the Bear Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National
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If you remember, when the president was running, he said he wouldn't do those things.
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He said those lands were best in the hands of the federal government.
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It's one reason why I had a problem with his policies out in the West.
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However, he is not executing his policies the way he campaigned.
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Critics say the president's actions are only going to encourage other fringe militia groups
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in the West to try more armed standoffs with the government.
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But is any of these critics actually considered that the president's actions might actually
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have the opposite effect, making citizens in the West feel like someone in the government
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But if you're being honest about things, you have to see some of the things Donald Trump
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Also, no one can say the president doesn't know how to play to his base.
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Pat, have you watched the video American Standoff?
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I think I heard you playing it, though, the other day.
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And it shows that the Hammonds, you know, they got a call from the Bundys and the Bundys said,
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we're going to come up, and they were completely different approaches.
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The Hammonds were advised by the Bundys, don't surrender, don't give yourself up.
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And they're like, no, we're law-abiding citizens.
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If we go to jail, then we're just going to have to pray that the president will see the
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And the Bundys said, no, we've got to have an armed standoff.
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At the end, the Hammonds weren't really involved in that 41-day standoff.
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It was just the Bundys and others that they had convinced.
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And if you watch American standoff, you just Google it, American standoff, it is really
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Because you'll see some really good ranchers go down and make the wrong decisions.
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But then you'll also see some ranchers that you're like, okay, you know, I think he has
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You'll see the sheriff who has been made out to be a bad guy who turns out looks like a
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And then you're going to see a family that is just this family of, you know, a singing
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And they were supposed to go up and sing to, you know, a bunch of people at the standoff
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And they travel up and they're in Oregon and they're stopped by a cop.
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And the guy who's driving, not a family member, a guy who's driving, he says, look, you can't
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We have a right and we have an appointment with the sheriff.
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You're going to have to shoot us, you know, to stop us.
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They're from video from their phones, the kids in the car.
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And, um, and he's very provocative, but the police are driver was the driver, but the police
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So he says, look, I'm driving away and I'm going to the sheriff's office.
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You can follow me, but I have a right on this road.
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So he's driving and, uh, they, they follow him, but aren't aggressive.
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He goes off to the side of the road, um, and they're shooting at him as he's approaching
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He has his hands up and he's still being aggressive or stupid, but he's saying, you're
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going to have to shoot me because we're going, you're going to have to, and they shoot him
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And, and then you see them shooting at these kids in the car, the FBI agents shooting at
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And it is, it's hard to find a good person in this.
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Uh, because the guy who's driving the car, nobody with any kind of, uh, common sense
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I mean, it's just, it's really out of control, really out of control.
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And there's, there's been several of those instances that we know about Ruby Ridge, uh,
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I mean, did they really need to act as aggressively as they did in any of those?
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So I'm glad that the Hammonds, uh, have been pardoned by, uh, the president myself.
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That's the driver wasn't with the Hammonds though.
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This is kind of interesting because for the first time in 17 years, HBO didn't get the
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Netflix did a hundred and a hundred and twelve.
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When you think about Netflix and it's humble little beginnings, you know, as, as blockbuster
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Where you were sent, you remember you had to send the, you sent the DVD back in the mail.
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Uh, when, when Netflix, Netflix was just getting into this about two years before we launched
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We, we might have to, we need to conduct our business a little more like Netflix.
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They've come a long way in a really short time.
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When they were, when they were doing the streaming video and they said that they had to made
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it, I don't even remember what it was, $10 a month.
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And, uh, so they had to raise the prices and everybody said, Netflix is out of business.
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And when they stayed committed to doing original content, uh, I think that just put them into
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And now Netflix is spending five to six to seven or 8 billion a year in original programming.
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And so that's where, I mean, the world has changed so much and you just wonder how much
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And the scary thing is, is it, and we talked about this the other day, Pat last week, uh,
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and I'm sorry, I'm going to butcher the details on this because it was last week.
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And I just, I just kind of read the story quickly.
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Um, but Amazon came out and said that they were thinking about going into the, uh, prescription
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drug business, the, the drugstore business, and also the, uh, the overnight delivery service.
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Uh, Walgreens and CVS took a bath the next day.
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And I forget what the percentage loss was, but it was amazing.
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And then on top of it with the, with UPS, UPS and federal express, UPS took a gigantic
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I can't remember how many tens of millions of dollars they lost just because Amazon said,
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Wish they'd do the same thing with the oil industry.
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But what, what, what happens at what point does Amazon become the threat?
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At what point does Google, they're so big that they just control everything.
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They control absolutely everything to that right now.
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They're just, they're, but yes, they are putting others out of business.
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They're, they, I mean, you know, I said this to Ray Kurzweil at one point, nor, or, uh,
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no, who was the head of, uh, Google, uh, Eric Schmidt, Eric Schmidt.
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And I said, at what point does Google have the analysis running on me?
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If I'm a competitor of Google, I'm working on something that your algorithms don't snag
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me and you either gobble me up or you steer me in the wrong direction.
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We don't do that because Google doesn't do evil.
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Is that why, I mean, isn't that why Facebook just bought that, uh, one company?
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I think it's an Israeli company that, uh, could go in.
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I don't remember what it was supposed to do, but one of the things that it did do is it
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saw which applications and which, um, uh, yeah, which apps were starting to take off
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really early and Facebook came in and they just gobbled that company up because they
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They wanted to see that's, that's exactly what he asked about Google, right?
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What's going to stop you from seeing where I'm headed?
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And of course, nothing, nothing, nothing's going to stop, right?
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Except unless the owner of the up and coming company doesn't choose to sell, but can the
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owner of the up and coming company afford to best Google?
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I mean, I just don't, for the first time in my life, I've, I've always mocked the idea
01:27:53.880
of, uh, you know, you see Blade Runner and you're like, and they're like, well, the company
01:28:06.140
And at what point do the American people say who's controlling who, you know what I mean?
01:28:14.020
Is the government really providing oversight and can the government even tell Google no at
01:28:23.660
I mean, think of the information that Google would have if they would choose to use it
01:28:33.560
All they have to do is just tweak the algorithm to, to see, all they'd have to do is tweak
01:28:40.960
the algorithm to change the news feeds and their searches for the people in Washington.
01:28:49.840
And it could, it could totally change their outlook on things.
01:28:53.600
I mean, it's really, it's, it's becoming a very different world and I don't think people,
01:29:00.580
uh, have caught up with that, uh, by any stretch on the other, other end of the spectrum.
01:29:05.820
We were talking about, uh, Netflix and blockbusters as competitors, um, just to give you an idea
01:29:14.560
Yesterday it was, it was announced the last two blockbusters in Alaska are closing and that
01:29:20.600
leaves a total of one in the United States of America.
01:29:27.920
What's in the bend or in bend, Oregon is their last remaining store in the United States.
01:29:37.260
I feel bad for bend that they're still going to a video store.
01:29:54.580
Let me tell you about, uh, the cryptocurrency course that we put together for our audience.
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A ton of people have, uh, have taken it already.
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It's the number one crypto expert, Tika Tiwari.
01:30:09.020
He was in the studios a few weeks ago and we were talking about, can we just do a free
01:30:13.940
crypto show, uh, where you answer all of the questions.
01:30:18.000
I mean, yesterday I did something on Facebook and the questions were just nonstop and I'm
01:30:24.500
I mean, I can tell you some things, but I can't tell you everything that's what's going
01:30:29.760
So I told him, I said, you know, people are so hungry for it.
01:30:32.580
So we put Beck crypto core, uh, sorry, the Beck crypto show, uh, together.
01:30:44.400
We're going to be taking questions, et cetera, et cetera.
01:30:46.480
But I've asked him to come to the table with a few things.
01:30:50.380
First, why do you still believe that cryptocurrencies in particular, Bitcoin is going to be what
01:31:00.760
Cause he's, I believe he's claiming now that he thinks that it could be up to $60,000 by
01:31:10.380
He said that there's something and he'll make this announcement.
01:31:13.540
But there's something happening behind the scenes that is guaranteed to happen.
01:31:17.480
It's already being, uh, put into place that changes the dynamics of Bitcoin and makes it
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really easy and fast and cheap for people to do exchanges on it.
01:31:30.460
Um, so anyway, he, he, he is going to be doing the Beck crypto show with us next Thursday.
01:31:39.220
That's where you're going to be able to see it and register.
01:32:05.780
I want to go back to, uh, what you were talking about with Bill O'Reilly and add some to it.
01:32:10.560
But one of the good things about being on hold for you to pick up, it gives a person a chance
01:32:16.180
I agree with Bill when he was talking about America being upset with the garbage that's
01:32:21.800
going on in DC, but there's something else that's making me really angry.
01:32:25.520
And I believe a lot of other Americans are too.
01:32:31.960
I don't care if you're a president, a cabinet member, a congressman, or a homeless person
01:32:37.900
And we're watching what's going on in DC and we're saying, where's the justice?
01:32:41.960
You know, I get a speeding ticket or if, uh, I'm on the cell phone while driving, I get
01:32:49.820
I broke the law, but I just want to see it applied equally.
01:32:56.480
And that's not the word I really want to use, but we're on radio.
01:33:00.380
Really, really, really ticked off that the justice is going to play equally.
01:33:06.000
It's not like, well, we're not really sure that what they did was illegal.
01:33:09.400
I mean, a sailor gets in trouble for taking pictures in a censored place in a submarine,
01:33:14.460
but then Hillary can have stuff in a server, classified documents in her home, and that
01:33:21.700
And it's like, I don't care if you're Republican.
01:33:25.820
If you're my guy or the other side's guy, I don't care.
01:33:41.480
And I know it's got a lot of other Americans mad, too.
01:33:43.600
Starting with the Constitution and all our laws since, if you don't like the law, fix
01:33:53.120
A server that's not secure with classified documents?
01:34:01.880
Oh, and I haven't said anything, Ralph, because I agree with you.
01:34:06.320
And I think that you're absolutely right that that is the underlying tension that is happening
01:34:20.720
And it goes back to and I want to take a quick break, but I want to pick this up.
01:34:24.800
This goes back to what I said earlier in the show.
01:34:28.420
If you've missed the show, go to iTunes and download the podcast today and listen to the
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first hour because I talk about Struck and and what was happening yesterday in Washington.
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You need to understand how these things work because you know what?
01:35:03.200
And then all of a sudden, JP Morgan is buying all sorts of cryptocurrencies.
01:35:08.280
World Economic Forum in Davos, George Soros said it was a bubble.
01:35:11.240
But then his family office is getting the green light to buy cryptocurrencies.
01:35:16.240
They know something that we don't know and we need to figure it out.
01:35:19.320
One of the people we look to to try to figure this stuff out is Tika Tiwari.
01:35:22.720
He's going to be part of this, a free live online broadcast.
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01:35:40.700
So, Ralph, who is a listener of ours, just phoned in a minute ago and he said, you know,
01:35:50.540
what I'm really upset about and I think the American people are upset about is we're looking
01:36:00.300
We have just become a little unhinged right now because we don't feel there is such a
01:36:10.640
I'd like to remind you how you felt, if you were white, how you felt the day the O.J.
01:36:20.380
Simpson verdict came out and what you thought about African Americans and the way they celebrated
01:36:30.800
that, it was the first time that I noticed a real split between us where I didn't understand
01:36:40.280
the mentality of a group of people living in America because I didn't think justice was
01:36:49.000
If you look at the numbers now, African Americans now believe that O.J.
01:36:58.980
The celebration, the vindication of a black man not being hammered, beating the system.
01:37:13.280
Didn't matter if he murdered because they had felt for so long there was no such thing as
01:37:23.040
And so, even if this guy was guilty, it felt good to see a black man defeat the system because
01:37:38.580
Well, that's what the rest of America is going through, I think, right now.
01:37:44.420
They're going through a place to where we are being unreasonable and we're backing things
01:37:58.760
And a lot of the stuff that we're seeing, we're being told by the media, you just hate
01:38:09.400
I hate the fact that we all know they're dirty and corrupt.
01:38:15.220
We all know this and they can get away literally with murder.
01:38:23.780
Now, the left is experiencing this with Donald Trump and they're saying, why doesn't the right
01:38:45.620
You're just going to dole it out any way that you see it.
01:38:49.760
And we've been taking it and taking it and losing while we've been trying to play fair.
01:39:04.120
And because the media and the politicians are not really listening to America, they don't
01:39:12.780
really they don't really care to understand what's happening.
01:39:17.720
They just keep dogpiling and it gets worse and worse and worse.
01:39:29.120
I'm not talking about the postmodernists that are currently teaching in universities.
01:40:03.000
Now, the the left is using this now to separate us instead of going the way of Martin Luther
01:40:12.820
King, where Martin Luther King said, America, live up to your founding words.
01:40:27.240
They are they are driving a wedge between us and those words.
01:40:41.820
It's why they now the ACLU is no longer going after all of the the First Amendment freedom
01:40:49.400
of speech rights, because, wait a minute, now we're starting to have the tables turn on
01:40:56.120
us and I guess we have to defend religious people.
01:41:05.880
That's what our founding documents mean by all men are created equal, that we all have
01:41:12.300
the same right, quite honestly, to say things that are going to piss each other off.
01:41:17.160
We all have that right and it must be protected.
01:41:22.280
And so we have to grow a little thicker skin and go, yep, that's another nut job.
01:41:29.360
And we have to stop suing each other, stop trying to shut each other up.
01:41:34.140
And if somebody breaks the law, they go to jail.
01:41:38.520
That's why I had Steven Crowder on this morning.
01:41:41.320
Steven was Steven was targeted by a juice barista in in Austin.
01:41:51.540
He was doing a deal out on the street called Change My Mind.
01:41:57.960
It's it's actually entertaining and really good.
01:42:14.260
And it was a person that was running for the city council who is trans transgendered, sat
01:42:22.520
down and they had a fascinating conversation for about 40 minutes.
01:42:29.860
And so plots to who will go down and and slice their tires, who will slash their tires
01:42:38.720
And then somebody else volunteered to firebomb, firebomb his car.
01:42:48.940
We all know that that needs to be taken seriously, especially in today's world.
01:42:58.720
How many times did the right where they called racist, where they called anti-American, where
01:43:05.180
they called dangerous rebels that wanted to start a revolution?
01:43:11.020
Have you heard the media call that, say those things about Antifa?
01:43:18.980
In fact, when Donald Trump pointed out that they were at that Charlottesville protest, that
01:43:28.160
that they are not great people either, the left went crazy over it.
01:43:32.320
They couldn't even conceive of the fact that the Antifa people were who he was talking about.
01:43:37.360
So that's that's the to me, this is the place to where we come together.
01:43:43.680
The place where we come together is on equal justice.
01:43:47.780
The place we come together, honestly, is and I'm you know, I don't know how people perceive
01:43:54.760
me anymore, I don't care, I really don't care, but the only way I can live my life is to be
01:44:05.320
able to say Donald Trump is a nightmare and he's not going to do any of the things he's
01:44:13.200
promising you on this campaign because he has no record of believing any of that.
01:44:18.980
And then when he gets into office and he starts to do those things to say, holy cow, I'm I was
01:44:31.620
These things aren't so great and these things are bad, but these things are good.
01:44:45.000
We somehow or another have to adopt absolutely everything.
01:44:50.220
Well, when you adopt absolutely everything, that means you're going to excuse your side
01:44:57.020
of something you've accused the other side of doing, which then destroys equal justice.
01:45:15.000
If so, then you have to call them as you see them.
01:45:23.380
If you want equal justice, you have to have the balls to take it to the face and get punched
01:45:33.820
If you didn't think that it was right for J. Edgar Hoover or the FBI to be able to do an
01:45:42.440
investigation that you knew was going to come back one way, one sided because the FBI thought
01:45:49.740
they knew who Martin Luther King was, a guy who was conspiring with the Soviets and he was
01:45:56.300
a communist and he had to be stopped, if you didn't think it was right, then this has nothing to do with
01:46:10.600
If you believed that it was wrong because they had already made up their mind that he was a communist
01:46:21.320
that was being used by the Soviets and they were going to get and do anything they could to prove that
01:46:28.640
and stop him, then you have to see the warning signs of what's happening now in our FBI.
01:46:40.400
It doesn't matter what the president does or says.
01:46:44.280
I'm telling you, he could have said, let's give Elena Kagan an extra vote on the Supreme Court
01:46:50.620
and they would have found a way to drag him through the mud and say, we've got to stop this.
01:47:03.240
What we've missed is this is no longer about the president.
01:47:10.080
It's why we stopped talking about Barack Obama about two years before he left office.
01:47:40.120
The parties, both of them, losing power, losing money, losing control.
01:47:47.460
We're watching a death match of an old antiquated system of media and politics.
01:47:57.500
They think one of them is going to win in the end.
01:48:10.700
We're going to be Republicans and you'll be Democrats.
01:48:20.220
I mean, how is this made to look like this is a new idea?
01:48:26.720
Let's put all of our money into a big collective and we'll have one person or a group of people that are really smart oversee how we distribute all the wealth.
01:48:41.100
We don't even have that system and look how corrupt it is.
01:48:44.600
So let's stop fighting about all of that and let's just start fighting for facts, truth, being open-minded, listening to each other, trying to figure out what's really going on, what's behind all of this anger.
01:49:07.320
And Ralph said it best, one of the things that is really driving the anger right now is the same thing that was driving the anger that I didn't understand in the 1990s with the O.J. Simpson verdict.
01:49:23.880
People don't feel there's such a thing as equal justice.
01:49:28.200
So when somebody beats the system, it doesn't matter if they are guilty or innocent.
01:50:01.400
You know, they had cameras just like everybody else had cameras and they're just like you.
01:50:05.440
And they're like, you know, I don't want that camera open all the time.
01:50:12.600
And so they went and they put a lens cover on it.
01:50:17.900
But then it wasn't right because they were like, this is all before they even released it.
01:50:22.080
Then they were testing and they were like, I don't know when it opens.
01:50:25.660
It can open quietly and I'm, you know, I don't hear it.
01:50:28.720
So they went and they looked and spent a ton of time and a ton of money finding the right metal that made the right sound so you could hear it.
01:50:38.500
But it wasn't obnoxious and could handle the thousands of opening and closings of those camera lenses.
01:50:44.300
When they got it right, that's when they released it.
01:50:53.660
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01:51:20.660
We're just watching a live shot from Windsor Castle where the queen is waiting for Donald Trump's arrival.
01:51:29.360
And it's bizarre because the queen is actually under a tent and she's just standing there waiting for him to arrive.
01:51:45.560
But what's weird is if you go back into our day, I mean, the Americans, when we were colonies, we would, they, the king would make us wait months.
01:51:54.780
And then we would show up and he'd still make us wait.
01:52:16.240
I mean, if you, if you're going to do it, just open mouth, go right for.