Ep. 108 - 100 Years Of Democrats’ Colluding With Russia
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
182.2793
Summary
After 18 months of Democrats telling us that Donald Trump colluded with Russia, we now find out that actually it was the Democrats who colluded, sort of, with Russia. Michael Moore. Or at least he was a useful idiot exploited by the Russians. And we have photographic evidence.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed beef sold in U.S. grocery stores is imported?
00:00:05.260
That's why I buy all my meat from GoodRanchers.com instead.
00:00:08.900
Good Ranchers products are 100% born, raised, and harvested right here in the USA from local family farms.
00:00:14.600
Plus, there's no antibiotics ever, no added hormones, and no seed oils.
00:00:21.280
Best of all, Good Ranchers delivers straight to your door for added convenience.
00:00:24.760
So lock in a secure supply of American meat today.
00:00:26.980
Subscribe now at GoodRanchers.com and get free meat for life and $40 off with code DAILYWIRE.
00:00:32.420
That's $40 off and free meat for life with code DAILYWIRE.
00:00:40.180
Or at least he was a useful idiot exploited by the Russians.
00:00:45.560
None of this should surprise us, however, as the American left has been working with Moscow for over a century to undermine American institutions and culture.
00:00:53.320
We will analyze this latest episode and the long history of Democrats colluding with Russia.
00:00:59.100
Then, on this day in history, what we conservatives can learn from American colonists adopting the Indians' practice of scalping to fight against them.
00:01:07.540
I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:09.560
It's a nice way to start a Tuesday is to talk about scalping, to talk about the advantages of scalping.
00:01:22.700
And it actually was a very nice way to start a Tuesday.
00:01:25.540
Because, you know, I wake up in the morning, I have a little covfefe in my cup.
00:01:35.920
After 18 months of Democrats telling us that Donald Trump colluded with Russia, he colluded with Russia.
00:01:42.780
We now find out that actually it was the Democrats who, I guess, sort of colluded with Russia.
00:01:47.200
And really nobody technically colluded with Russia.
00:01:49.760
So I should take that back about Michael Moore.
00:01:55.020
The indictments last week, the Mueller indictments, showed us that there were a lot of Russians in the United States masquerading as Americans.
00:02:03.360
So they might have said, okay, we've got this dirt on Trump or this dirt on Hillary.
00:02:08.540
And the people talking to them would have thought that those were Americans.
00:02:14.220
They might have been on Facebook buying advertising or whatever.
00:02:17.200
But ironically, one of the big news stories that came out of the indictments last week is that apparently nobody actually colluded with Russia.
00:02:26.620
They just talked to people who they thought were Americans.
00:02:30.000
Now, this would not be the same, by the way, for someone like Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff,
00:02:34.080
who thought that he was talking to the Russians about compromising things from Donald Trump,
00:02:39.980
thought that he was talking to the Ukrainians, but he wasn't really.
00:02:45.100
So actually, that would be collusion, even though there was nothing there.
00:02:48.140
And with the Russians, even though there might have been something there, that isn't collusion.
00:02:53.640
We've known on the American right that for a long time that this story was total nonsense.
00:02:58.060
Van Jones also admitted that and called it a nothing burger.
00:03:00.740
Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein also knew that.
00:03:03.360
She admitted we don't have any evidence for Trump colluding with Russia.
00:03:06.780
None of this, though, should surprise us whatsoever that the American left has been duped by the Russians
00:03:13.500
because American lefties have allowed themselves to be used by Russia for a very, very long time.
00:03:18.620
In the case of Moore, Moore attended an anti-Trump rally organized by Russians just days after the 2016 election.
00:03:27.220
Russia has been interfering in our elections for a very long time,
00:03:30.120
since the Russian Revolution in the early 20th century.
00:03:34.420
So they appear to have run ads for candidates like Donald Trump or, say, Bernie Sanders.
00:03:40.980
And then after President Trump won, they started pushing these rallies for Hillary Clinton
00:03:44.980
and for saying that Donald Trump is not my president.
00:03:47.320
They actually held one on November 12th that was explicitly called Trump is not my president.
00:04:06.120
That said, Michael Moore tends to be a central figure wherever he goes.
00:04:12.340
The Mueller indictment makes crystal clear that this rally was organized by Russians.
00:04:16.780
Moore, you'll also recall, performed a one-man show on Broadway against Donald Trump last year.
00:04:21.980
So he, I think it was at the Belasco Theater in New York.
00:04:24.200
Not even the Russians could prop up that theatrical atrocity.
00:04:33.740
But Michael Moore has been working this angle for a long time.
00:04:36.280
And the Russians have been happy to use him for it.
00:04:38.180
So by all available evidence, it was Democrats working with Russians on this election.
00:04:43.180
President Obama knew about apparent Russian interference.
00:04:49.420
As President Trump tweeted this morning, quote,
00:04:51.460
There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America's elections.
00:04:57.780
There is no evidence that this has happened in the past or that it will happen this time.
00:05:02.140
And so I'd invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and make his case to get votes.
00:05:10.600
The President Obama quote just before the election.
00:05:13.180
That's because he thought crooked Hillary was going to win and he didn't want to rock the boat.
00:05:16.760
When I easily won the Electoral College, the whole game changed and the Russian excuse became the narrative of the Dems.
00:05:29.520
But at least Donald Trump can skip the mainstream media, get his message out to many more people than read the New York Times.
00:05:36.800
If the Obama administration knew about Russian interference, knew about this ahead of time, the only reason that he wouldn't talk about it is so that he wouldn't delegitimize President Hillary Clinton's first year in office.
00:05:48.920
The Clinton administration, he was hoping that Hillary Clinton would just be elected, they wouldn't have to deal with this at all, and they could keep this Russia stuff under wraps.
00:05:57.560
Because there's a lot of Russia nonsense to go around.
00:06:04.060
Barack Obama has actually colluded with Russia on camera, on microphone, and we caught him.
00:06:17.200
I transmit this information to Vladimir and Vladimir.
00:06:20.960
So that was Barack Obama talking in 2012 to Russian puppet leader Medvedev, who is a close ally of Vladimir Putin, a puppet of Vladimir Putin.
00:06:29.880
And he whispers to him on what he thought was a private conversation, though he had a hot mic on him.
00:06:35.800
He said, I will have more flexibility after my election.
00:06:39.320
Now, to translate that for you, that means I am going to lie to the American people about my intentions with regard to Russia, and I will do something different than what I say that I'm going to do with regards to Russia.
00:06:51.080
I have to pretend to hold one policy view toward Russia during the election, but then I will change my view after I am elected.
00:06:58.320
To which Medvedev responds, like Boris and Natasha, he says, da, I will transmit this information to Vladimir, da, da, I want to suck your blood.
00:07:12.100
President Obama didn't think he was talking to an American, but it was secretly a Russian.
00:07:16.040
President Obama didn't think this was a public forum where he was saying the same thing to the American people as to the Russian leader.
00:07:24.560
He was lying to the American people, speaking secretly to the Russian leader, and trying to get through his final election.
00:07:30.560
We know, according to an FBI informant, that during the Obama administration, Moscow sent millions of dollars to the U.S.
00:07:37.200
with the expectation that it would go into Bill Clinton's slush fund while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and oversaw the reset in Russian relations,
00:07:45.600
including the sale of American uranium reserves to Russians.
00:07:51.360
The American left has been working alongside Russia to undermine American institutions and culture for a very, very long time, for 100 years.
00:08:02.900
To begin, right after the Russian Revolution, 1919, just two years after, the left-wing American journalist Lincoln Steffens
00:08:10.420
accompanied William Bullitt, a State Department official, on a three-week trip to the Soviet Union.
00:08:15.560
Steffens admitted that the revolution appeared, quote, confusing and difficult,
00:08:19.260
but he insisted that the Soviet Russia was, quote, a revolutionary government with an evolutionary plan.
00:08:26.880
Now, those revolutionaries were the Bolsheviks.
00:08:29.960
Their plan involved taking the royal family, the Russian royal family, into their basement and shooting them dead.
00:08:41.140
Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, and their five children, age 22, 21, 19, 17, 13.
00:08:49.260
Murdering 13-year-old innocent girls and killing the leaders of your country.
00:08:56.900
Steffens made excuses for these Bolshevik horrors by explaining that the Bolsheviks required, quote,
00:09:02.460
a temporary condition of evil, which is made tolerable by hope and a plan.
00:09:19.720
So when Steffens returned to the U.S. and lobbied for taxpayer funds to help the communists,
00:09:24.520
to help the Soviets, he gushed, I have seen the future and it works.
00:09:29.120
This line, by the way, this early, just as early as it could possibly be, leftist American
00:09:34.440
collusion with Russia, was really the beginning of the modern American conservative movement.
00:09:39.080
William F. Buckley Jr., when he founded the National Review, used this line.
00:09:42.660
He said, a conservative is one who stands to thwart history yelling, stop.
00:09:51.600
That's a direct response to the Lincoln Steffens line.
00:09:59.040
I notice it involves a lot of dead people and starving people and no liberty whatsoever.
00:10:03.360
And I want to stand to thwart history yelling, stop.
00:10:06.040
Conservatives should be doing precisely the same thing today.
00:10:08.280
But it was, at that point, too, a facet, a central facet of American fusionist conservatism,
00:10:14.640
the creation of Bill Buckley, that we could unite traditionalists and libertarians because
00:10:21.880
That was the central aspect there, which is why the conservative movement after the Cold
00:10:27.040
War and in this new era is going to look different than it did during the Buckley era.
00:10:31.940
The central premise of the American political coalition for conservatives no longer exists,
00:10:40.940
Steffens was a typical American journalist who railed against business, profit, Christianity
00:10:46.820
He regularly railed against all of these things.
00:10:49.280
Is it any wonder that the American left, more broadly, found common cause with communist
00:10:54.400
Is it any wonder that that kinship persists today?
00:10:59.440
Lincoln Steffens could work for the New York Times.
00:11:02.920
You see all of the snide remarks that he made about the church and Christianity and profit
00:11:06.980
and capitalism and economic freedom, you see that on CNN and the New York Times all the
00:11:12.520
It's a hundred years later, they've learned nothing.
00:11:14.840
Moving on from Lenin to Stalin and from one morally idiotic lefty journalist to another,
00:11:20.660
we get to New York Times reporter Walter Durante.
00:11:25.680
Walter, a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for
00:11:32.720
He won it because he lived in Soviet Russia for 14 years after the Bolshevik seized power.
00:11:37.720
So unlike Steffens, who was just there for a little bit of time, a couple weeks, this
00:11:44.460
During that time, Walter Durante, New York Times Walter Durante, covered up Stalin's most
00:11:48.900
heinous crimes, including the Holodome War, the famine in Ukraine.
00:11:55.700
Now, you might say, well, it was an innocent error.
00:12:00.560
Walter Durante attacked journalists like British reporter Gareth Jones, who were actually
00:12:05.220
reporting on those famines, who were actually reporting on the crimes of Stalin.
00:12:08.740
Jones had seen firsthand the starvation in Ukraine.
00:12:17.300
Durante wrote, quote, in the middle of the diplomatic fuel, diplomatic fuel, in the middle
00:12:22.200
of the diplomatic duel between Great Britain and the Soviet Union over the accused British
00:12:26.440
engineers, there appears from a British source, that would be our guy, Gareth, a big scare
00:12:32.680
story in the American press about famine in the Soviet Union with, quote, thousands already
00:12:37.860
dead and millions menaced by death from starvation.
00:12:40.580
Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda.
00:12:47.080
The food shortage, however, which has affected the whole population in the last year, and
00:12:50.840
particularly in the grain-producing provinces, the Ukraine, North Caucasus, and the lower
00:12:55.300
Volga, has, however, caused heavy loss of life.
00:12:57.780
Yeah, okay, so some people, yeah, people have died.
00:13:02.740
This was all nonsense, as scholars from across the political spectrum now agree.
00:13:07.220
The famine was caused by the government stealing private property, by the government collectivizing
00:13:14.120
You would see this today on mainstream news reports.
00:13:17.300
We see, oh, you know, the North Korean dictatress, the North Korean dragon lady, isn't she so lovely?
00:13:27.300
We Americans think of North Korea as a backwards communist hellhole that enslaves and tortures and
00:13:33.360
murders and terrorizes all of its citizens all the time.
00:13:41.140
These are almost verbatim quotes from CNN in the coverage at the Olympics.
00:13:49.080
Even lefty journalists now will say, oh, Durante probably got it a little bit wrong, didn't
00:13:52.720
But they don't realize they are getting it wrong every single day.
00:13:55.680
The more they cover up for China, the crimes by China, the more they cover up for crimes in
00:14:00.660
god-awful lefty socialist states like Venezuela, in the Americas, throughout the Americas,
00:14:08.360
Today, they cover it up for communists and socialists in the Caribbean and in Latin America.
00:14:16.080
American celebrities, American journalists go down and hang out with Chavez.
00:14:22.720
Durante reported Stalin's propaganda directly, just as the lefties report propaganda from thugs
00:14:29.960
Durante reported Stalin's propaganda not only while he lived in Moscow.
00:14:32.780
He reported Stalin's propaganda directly after he left Moscow.
00:14:38.640
He defended Stalin's show trials of 1938, in which Stalin murdered his political enemies
00:14:49.560
Michael, Walter Durante worked for the New York Times.
00:14:55.500
I mean, he was a dummy and he did work for the New York Times.
00:14:59.460
This New York Times reporter, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, elite, total
00:15:03.660
gloss of credibility, you know, a global elite who he knows what's better.
00:15:09.800
Walter Durante confided with friends that he knew the scale of death and devastation,
00:15:15.600
Some lefties who can't come to grips with the fact that Walter Durante covered up the crimes
00:15:22.000
of the Soviet Union, that he might have just been a committed communist.
00:15:25.100
He might have just supported the Soviet enterprise.
00:15:27.340
They're now suggesting maybe they had some dirt on him.
00:15:32.980
If they were, it's still awful cowardice, but there's really no evidence of that.
00:15:37.480
I think as we see today, I don't think that the lefty thugs around the world are blackmailing
00:15:43.400
Anderson Cooper or blackmailing Brian Stelter or blackmailing all these other people at CNN
00:15:51.440
I think they have an ideological agreement with them.
00:15:53.920
I don't think they were blackmailing Walter Cronkite when Walter Cronkite single-handedly
00:15:59.040
ended the war in Vietnam as we were winning it, declared defeat as we were winning the
00:16:03.500
war, as Walter Cronkite was giving speeches for the world federalist conferences around
00:16:08.160
the world saying that we need a single government to govern the entire world.
00:16:15.360
By the way, the Pulitzer Committee still hasn't revoked Durante's prize.
00:16:19.300
Walter Durante flatly, knowingly denied a major famine, major crimes of Stalin in print and
00:16:28.600
lambasted journalists who were reporting the truth and they still won't rescind his Pulitzer
00:16:33.960
Prize because that's the way mainstream journalism works, folks.
00:16:39.160
In 1948, the Soviet Communist Party set up the euphemistically named World Peace Council to
00:16:44.520
promote Soviet interests abroad and campaign against nuclear weapons since, at the time,
00:16:50.980
So they didn't campaign against nuclear weapons once the Soviets got those weapons, by the
00:16:55.300
It was just, they would only campaign and agitate for U.S. disarmament.
00:16:59.300
So useful idiots on the American left who joined the Soviet-backed propaganda machine.
00:17:07.700
W.E.B. Du Bois, the civil rights activist, he joined the Soviet-backed propaganda shop.
00:17:14.880
The musician Paul Robeson, the novelist and screenwriter Howard Fast, many prominent Americans
00:17:21.880
Subsidiary organizations under the WPC included the Christian Peace Conference, the International
00:17:27.220
Organization of Journalists, the International Union of Students, the World Federation of Democrat
00:17:32.040
Youth, the World Federation of Scientific Workers, the World Federation of Trade Unions, and
00:17:37.380
the World Peace Esperanto movement, which should be no surprise.
00:17:43.360
This is this made-up language that was supposed to be, it was made up by utopians to be the
00:17:47.400
universal second language, and I learned a good bit of it when I was in high school because
00:17:52.500
You can learn the whole language in about 10 days.
00:17:54.680
So one time I was up for an acting job, so I thought it was an acting job.
00:17:59.780
I go in for it and they say, what language do you speak?
00:18:12.120
I said, George Soros is the only guy in the world who speaks Esperanto.
00:18:14.880
And the long and short of that is I ended up being, they hired actors to be sommelier
00:18:21.700
So I actually was in attendance at George Soros' wedding.
00:18:27.180
Sometimes I don't even believe it, but I was there.
00:18:32.800
Of course, George Soros supports the World Peace Esperanto movement.
00:18:41.640
These were ways to break down, not only national borders, but to break down the culture and the
00:18:50.980
During his wedding, people were giving speech, very prominent people were giving speeches
00:18:55.160
about George's love of Esperanto, how he's always propping up Esperanto groups, which
00:19:01.360
Again, George Soros and I are two of the only people who speak any Esperanto on the face
00:19:08.640
That's just to show you that this thing is still persisting today.
00:19:12.040
This influence is still persisting today, even after the end of the Cold War.
00:19:16.000
Soviets formed or influenced countless organizations to undermine American institutions.
00:19:21.040
That includes the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, where I think the last soldier in that died
00:19:26.720
That was this brigade, basically, of communists that were recruited from America to go fight
00:19:34.560
The American Youth Congress received ample support from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
00:19:38.540
That was another front for communists, another front for Soviet communism.
00:19:45.880
The Socialist Workers Party and the United World Federalists.
00:19:48.480
One of which organization Walter Cronkite would later speak at.
00:19:53.620
Much of the opposition to the Vietnam War and other domestic unrest throughout the U.S.
00:19:57.480
during those years was funded and initiated by the Soviets, but that isn't where it ends.
00:20:09.080
A lot of the domestic unrest that we look at had agitation, had sources in Moscow and was
00:20:14.520
just carried out by the dummies who were convinced by totalitarian thugs in the United States.
00:20:22.920
In 1980, drunk-driving, manslaughtering Senator Ted Kennedy twice attempted to collude with Russia,
00:20:27.920
with the Soviets, to gain a leg up in the presidential election.
00:20:31.420
He used Democrat Senator John Tunney to request KGB help in sabotaging Jimmy Carter.
00:20:37.620
So when we're talking about Donald Trump, we're saying that this election was totally unfair.
00:20:44.500
It was stolen because some Russians might have run Facebook ads making fun of what a terrible
00:20:51.940
Meanwhile, in 1980, a major Democrat Senator from an incredibly important American political
00:21:00.280
family is requesting help from the KGB, the Russian Secret Service, to sabotage President
00:21:06.340
Jimmy Carter because he wanted to primary him and become president, even though he'd killed
00:21:12.920
In 1983, Kennedy again solicited Soviet help in trying to undermine Ronald Reagan, offering
00:21:19.080
to set up TV interviews in the U.S. to make the Soviets come across as peaceful.
00:21:26.760
Apparently, the Soviets didn't do well enough by our pal in 1980.
00:21:33.480
He says, hey, let's call those Soviets up again.
00:21:35.340
Let's see if they can help me out on this race.
00:21:37.240
Now, I don't want you to feel too bad for Jimmy Carter here because in 1980, while Ted
00:21:42.820
Kennedy was trying to use the Soviets to defeat Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter was reaching out
00:21:52.980
When you say, wait, he was colluding with this Russian and he with this Russian, this and
00:21:55.920
that, it's not exactly cut and dry, but we do have examples of these two Democrats fighting
00:22:02.340
with each other to ultimately take down Ronald Reagan.
00:22:05.180
The only guy here who wasn't colluding with the Russians was Ronald Reagan, who defeated
00:22:09.120
them and destroyed their empire eight years later.
00:22:12.100
In 1984, Democrat Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill requested that the Russians interfere in
00:22:16.500
the American presidential election to defeat Ronald Reagan.
00:22:19.240
Ronald Reagan, he was getting the brunt of all these attacks from the Soviets.
00:22:22.580
Reagan wasn't trying to undermine Walter Mondale.
00:22:25.340
Reagan wasn't trying to undermine his opponents by using the KGB, but all of the Democrats
00:22:31.600
He told the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Dobrynin, it was in everyone's best
00:22:38.240
interests that the Soviets would help the Democrats keep that demagogue Reagan from being reelected.
00:22:45.560
So you have Tip O'Neill there working behind the scenes with our greatest geopolitical foe,
00:22:51.860
the greatest geopolitical foe the United States has ever had for the longest time it's ever
00:22:56.120
And he's working behind the scene and he's saying, we have to get rid of Reagan.
00:22:58.960
You need to help us subvert the American system to get rid of Reagan because he's a demagogue.
00:23:08.660
We can subvert the constitutional order because, you know, he's a demagogue.
00:23:18.780
Extraordinary times, extraordinary means we have to subvert our legal system to get rid of this guy
00:23:27.900
Fortunately, Donald Trump just relied not on extraordinary means but on extraordinary memes
00:23:32.680
to destroy Hillary Clinton and it worked pretty well.
00:23:35.920
In 1996, Bill Clinton privately and off the record agreed to use the U.S. government to interfere
00:23:41.060
in the Russian presidential election, backing Boris Yeltsin's re-election bid if Yeltsin cleared up
00:23:46.580
a trade dispute that disproportionately affected Clinton's home state of Arkansas.
00:23:51.260
And more importantly than his home state of Arkansas, Clinton's main political donors
00:23:56.680
So, then finally you have Bill Clinton using the government to interfere in Russian elections,
00:24:03.940
to meddle in their elections, as the buzzword seems to be, to get political favors, not even
00:24:11.740
A few concluding points on this as we wrap up, not just as we on this episode wrap up this
00:24:16.940
Russian nonsense, but as the country begins to wrap it up, it seems that Mueller's investigation
00:24:22.620
The American left has never apologized for its support of the Soviet Union.
00:24:26.680
It's almost persistent support of the Soviet Union.
00:24:30.000
It's help to the Soviet Union, witting and unwilling in direct contact and in the proxy
00:24:36.720
wars that we fought against one another during the Cold War.
00:24:51.560
And when they accuse us of doing things, we shouldn't listen to them.
00:24:54.340
We should laugh in their face and go on and continue sipping the delicious leftist
00:24:59.020
The left has had a love affair with Soviet Russia since the beginning and for a couple
00:25:14.120
And so the adversaries of their country become their friends.
00:25:20.040
They don't like America's policies around the world.
00:25:22.600
They live in the freest, most just, most prosperous, most charitable country that has ever existed.
00:25:31.940
Shivers go up their spine when they see an American flag waving or a flag pin.
00:25:36.820
You heard Democrats for decades, including Barack Obama, saying, I don't want to wear the
00:25:43.160
From all of the major leaders of American industry and all of the journalists we know
00:25:48.520
I'm not a citizen of, I don't have any pesky national ties, any of that pesky, disgusting,
00:25:53.700
uncivilized patriotism, that unsophisticated patriotism.
00:25:58.240
That's another reason why they persist in helping, wittingly and unwillingly, our adversaries
00:26:05.300
We know from the very beginning the major culture makers were communists in Hollywood.
00:26:08.700
We now make fun of McCarthyism and the House Un-American Affairs Committee, but the guys
00:26:17.240
Maybe McCarthy didn't have a briefcase full of names, but there were communists.
00:26:22.840
There were subversive figures in the State Department and obviously in Hollywood.
00:26:26.620
I don't think there are non-subversive people in Hollywood.
00:26:29.500
I think all the non-subversive people in Hollywood are in this studio, basically.
00:26:32.420
It is amazing to me when people say, oh, that's just McCarthyism.
00:26:37.100
Oh, that's just, you're hunting for communists.
00:26:41.700
Maybe in some ways Joe McCarthy harmed his own cause because he was such an imperfect
00:26:46.760
He had so many personal flaws that in many ways he hurt anti-communism.
00:26:54.840
There were communists throughout American institutions.
00:26:57.140
This is a classic example of projection from the left.
00:27:01.800
Trump's critics on the right say that he needs to come down harder on Russia.
00:27:05.060
They're saying, well, I don't think there was Russian collusion, but he needs to come
00:27:13.480
To do that is to accept their ridiculous premise that Donald Trump, the man we've known
00:27:18.460
for four decades, is a secret Manchurian candidate of Moscow.
00:27:25.860
We don't play defense for those jerks, for those Russia-loving, communist-loving jerks
00:27:31.900
We don't have to deal with their premises and respond to them as they want to be responded
00:27:42.480
Lefties and Trump critics on the right are saying that Reagan would be ashamed if he saw
00:27:47.580
these accusations about Republicans cozying up to Russia.
00:27:50.960
Ronald Reagan would only be ashamed that we're so gullible, that we're willing to buy it.
00:27:57.220
The Democrats are accusing us of doing the very thing that they have been doing for a
00:28:10.360
You do not have to play defense for even one second.
00:28:12.860
You don't owe those people one single explanation on this point.
00:28:17.820
And the next time they bring up Trump and Russia, demand a hundred years of explanations
00:28:21.900
Demand explanations from Lincoln Steffens all the way up to the Barack Obama administration.
00:28:27.800
You'll at least have a long time to think of your retort because they'll have a century
00:28:34.560
Do we have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube?
00:28:40.940
I clearly have a little more covfefe pumping through my veins.
00:28:44.940
We're going to have a defense of scalping and why scalping is important for us as we
00:28:52.800
But if you are not on dailywire.com, you're not going to be able to see it.
00:29:00.040
They're not that gory, but you know, they're fun to watch.
00:29:02.920
If you're not on dailywire.com, you can't do it.
00:29:04.760
If you are on Facebook, please go to dailywire.com.
00:29:07.800
If you're on YouTube, how did you find us on YouTube?
00:29:10.760
I've been trying to find us on YouTube for weeks now.
00:29:13.120
All I notice is they censor us and they promote CNN and the Young Turks and they fund the
00:29:18.400
Young Turks, but then they censor anything that I say because apparently a history of
00:29:23.560
Americans, Russian relations is too saucy for YouTube.
00:29:28.140
So there they can't, you can't have any of that nasty little history getting out.
00:29:32.480
That would be too dangerous if Americans learned anything about history.
00:29:38.760
It's $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership.
00:29:41.660
You get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show, you get the
00:29:45.240
conversation, which next will feature the big boss himself, Ben.
00:29:59.220
Hopefully I'll be able to come next year or something.
00:30:02.320
The timing didn't work, but it is a lot of fun.
00:30:04.460
If you can catch Ben's speech there, it is going to be phenomenal.
00:30:07.500
I assume it's been sold out for months, but it is going to be really, really good.
00:30:13.060
But you can only get all of those things, all of those wonderful things at dailywire.com.
00:30:17.460
And you're going to need this folks, the leftist tears tumbler.
00:30:20.000
You're especially going to need it after I defend scalping in this day in history.
00:30:43.600
On this day in history in 1725, Americans scalped a bunch of Indians.
00:30:51.200
Not the most pleasant event in American history, but it is a surprisingly relevant one.
00:30:57.100
Basically just a group of New Hampshire colonists came across a band of Indians and they scalped
00:31:03.460
And the colonists received a bounty of 100 pounds per scalp from colonial authorities in
00:31:09.640
For those who don't know, scalping is a native practice where you grab the, the Indians would
00:31:16.500
grab the hair of their adversary and chop away at it in a semicircle with some sharp device.
00:31:22.240
And then they would shake it loose and rip the top of the head right off of their enemies.
00:31:27.380
This wasn't the first time colonists adopted the grisly native practice, though this was
00:31:34.080
Another major early example of cultural appropriation.
00:31:37.340
People didn't have as much trouble with the cultural appropriation at the time.
00:31:40.480
I'm sure the Indians didn't enjoy it very much, but it wasn't such a cultural taboo as
00:31:46.500
Now in the Americas, Indians for millennia practiced this technique.
00:31:50.420
They used the sharp instrument, they ripped the scalp right off of their victims.
00:31:54.920
Scalping isn't fatal in itself, though usually the only people who would stick around long
00:32:00.300
enough to be scalped had already been inflicted with grave wounds or they were already dead.
00:32:06.180
So practically speaking, it was fatal or it only related to dead people.
00:32:11.500
I promise you if someone's of sound mind and body and someone grabs your head with a little
00:32:16.740
axe, you're probably going to run away pretty fast.
00:32:19.020
Americans and Europeans regularly referred to the Indian scalping knives.
00:32:24.100
You see this in a lot of literature, the Indians had specific scalping knives, but that isn't
00:32:28.140
The Indians just used regular old knives to scalp.
00:32:30.700
One day they'd go up to a colonist and scalp him and then they'd go home and eat their dinner
00:32:41.720
So you'd come back with 10, like the colonists did.
00:32:44.760
They came back with 10 scalps and this is fairly fearsome and it's a trophy of your kill.
00:32:50.140
Now, Indians didn't just scalp combatants in the Americas.
00:32:53.860
The Pawnees, the Sioux, the Cheyenne, they regularly scalped women and children.
00:32:59.500
This was considered, by the way, it wasn't considered dishonorable to scalp women and children.
00:33:03.300
It was considered especially honorable to scalp women and children because if you got the scalp
00:33:08.020
of a woman or a little child or a baby, that meant that you as a warrior had entered into
00:33:16.220
You went all the way in and chopped off these scalps of women and children.
00:33:20.440
Now, Indians practiced scalping in the Americas through the end of the 19th century.
00:33:26.180
We're talking about a little over 100 years ago.
00:33:28.540
90% of dead bodies at the Crow Creek Massacre site were scalped.
00:33:34.220
The Crow Creek Massacre site, that's where a brutal massacre took place among Indian tribes
00:33:41.920
We don't have a lot of records of this, but sometime 700 or 800 years ago, there was this
00:33:46.840
major massacre and 90%, almost all of the bodies were scalped.
00:33:51.720
Other atrocities there found at that site included tongue removal, decapitation, dismemberment based
00:33:56.860
on standard Aboriginal butchering practices that were used on large game animals.
00:34:01.140
1725 was not the first time that colonists scalped Indians.
00:34:08.100
There had been cases of colonists scalping Indians well back from the 17th century when
00:34:16.820
Scalping, by the way, was not only practiced in the Americas.
00:34:19.340
It's not just that American Indians invented it.
00:34:21.360
Herodotus described Scythian warriors scalping enemies in battle.
00:34:26.240
Even as late as 1036, in England, King Harold was apparently quite happy to scalp his enemies.
00:34:34.160
But after that barbaric practice fell out of fashion and civilized Europe, it didn't fall
00:34:40.740
Why am I talking about this vicious, grisly, awful, disgusting practice of scalping?
00:34:46.980
Because we can take some lessons from it from modern political operations.
00:34:50.560
Saul Alinsky, the godfather of the modern left, he wrote Rules for Radicals.
00:35:03.120
He was the patron saint, the patron demon of community organizing in Chicago.
00:35:08.800
He said that you need to make your enemies live up to their own book of rules.
00:35:19.980
You know, when some Republican senator who opposes the redefinition of marriage is caught
00:35:24.840
having a little tryst with a fella in an airport bathroom, they say, see, he was such a hypocrite.
00:35:29.460
This point is meaningless because he's such a hypocrite.
00:35:31.560
Because if the left didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.
00:35:39.460
So the only sin, according to the left, is hypocrisy.
00:35:43.300
If you say that there's a standard and then fail to live up to it, that's much worse in
00:35:47.980
their minds than not having any standards at all, which is what they practice.
00:35:53.600
He says that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
00:35:56.820
So I might say, you know, I want to give a lot of money to charity, and then maybe I
00:36:02.220
don't give a lot of money to charity, or I take a little bit, or I'm a little corrupt
00:36:06.040
But that doesn't mean that it's wrong to give to charity.
00:36:08.340
Hypocrisy, that's the virtue, the hypocrisy of not doing it, it only highlights all the
00:36:14.140
more the virtue of the thing that you failed to do.
00:36:17.780
This is the case in a lot of aspects of politics.
00:36:21.320
Colonists in early America quickly learned that living up to their high, polished, European,
00:36:27.760
sophisticated standards was not going to work in a barren wilderness with hostile natives.
00:36:35.000
We had Carol Swain on, the law professor and political scientist.
00:36:40.020
She said, I don't know if you caught this, because she kind of buried it in one of her
00:36:44.720
She said, we should learn from the left and put into practice against them those tactics
00:36:51.980
We should read Saul Alinsky and all the things that we don't find morally repugnant we should
00:36:56.280
We shouldn't do the things that we find morally repugnant.
00:37:00.520
If we start, if we compromise our own moral selves, if we really compromise them and start
00:37:06.040
being vicious and, I don't know, murdering babies or whatever it is they do, that isn't
00:37:10.880
But the tactics that they use that we don't find morally repugnant, we might find them
00:37:19.100
We might find them not very nice, not very luxurious, not befitting a nice salon with
00:37:26.940
But the ones that aren't morally repugnant, that are only aesthetically repugnant, we should
00:37:31.340
We're finally beginning to see this on the right.
00:37:33.600
After losing the culture for decades and decades and decades, we're seeing this.
00:37:38.360
We're fighting back with media savvy after being decimated by the media for decades.
00:37:44.440
We're not just saying we need to adjust this tax rate or adjust this entitlement program
00:37:51.060
What we're saying is we need to fight the culture because politics is downstream of
00:37:54.680
And the way it's happening, President Covfefe is a great example of this.
00:37:57.820
He's a good avatar of this because he isn't pretty.
00:38:03.700
Doing these things that Carol Swain suggests, we won't feel nice and polished.
00:38:08.040
We won't feel like we fit in at cocktail parties sipping Chardonnay.
00:38:11.860
But we don't always have the luxury of doing those things.
00:38:20.680
Especially against opponents that won't play by our more refined rules.
00:38:26.200
I think that is the most that any person in politics has defended scalping in a few hundred
00:38:37.660
We're going to be doing the mailbag on Thursday.
00:38:39.300
We've got a couple cool interviews coming up for you.
00:39:11.460
With 20 years reporting on the markets, I know that some industries are built to last,
00:39:24.280
If you want exposure to what's really shaping our world, think beyond trends.
00:39:28.640
Think defense, healthcare, telecom, real estate, gold, crypto.
00:39:34.640
And with GlobalX, one of Canada's largest ETF providers, you can invest in them intelligently
00:39:40.360
with a range of ETFs designed for long-term growth and steady income opportunities.
00:39:47.960
Brought to you by GlobalX Investments Canada, Inc.
00:39:50.120
For key risk information, please refer to the ETF's prospectus available at globalx.ca.
00:39:54.980
Brought to you by GlobalX Investments Canada, Inc.