Ep. 1112 - Fetterman Implodes On Live TV
Summary
Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dr. Oz clash in the first and only debate for one of the most important U.S. Senate races in the country, and things don t go well for the former lieutenant governor.
Transcript
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Last night, Democrat John Fetterman faced off with Republican Dr. Oz in the first and only debate
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for one of the most important Senate races in the country. And things did not go great for John
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Fetterman. As lieutenant governor, you're running for a seat that could decide the balance of power
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in Washington. What qualifies you to be a U.S. senator? You have 60 seconds.
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Hi. Good night, everybody. I'm running to serve Pennsylvania. He's running to use Pennsylvania.
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Not a great way to start. And Fetterman's performance only went downhill from there.
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I knew that John Fetterman was in bad shape. He was never the sharpest tool in the shed. He's
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always had extremely radical, terrible ideas for government for his entire political career.
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He's never held a real productive job outside of the government in his life. He has been on his
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parents' dole, basically, since he was a little kid. Even in recent years, he received an allowance
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of $50,000 plus per year to subsidize his political meanderings. And he said that if he
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had a magic wand, he would wave it. And the first thing he would do is free murderers from prison.
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So the guy was always a complete disaster. Then, right around the time of his election,
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to become the Democrat nominee during the primaries, he had a stroke. And his campaign
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has consistently downplayed how bad the stroke was and tried to pretend that he's had this amazing
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recovery. Now, I never believed any of that. I always knew John Fetterman was in pretty bad shape.
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I had no idea that he was in this bad of shape.
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So we've got, I'll give you a few of the highlights here. There's no reason to go
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through the whole debate. I actually can't even watch the whole debate. It's just, you feel,
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you actually feel bad for the guy. You really want him. The first feeling you have is,
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I really don't want this guy in the U.S. Senate. But the second feeling you have is,
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this guy needs to be in a bed somewhere, just recovering. So he's asked, first question,
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okay, Mr. Fetterman, you have previously said that you oppose fracking. Now, as the race gets
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close in the general election, you say you support fracking. Which is it? Here's his answer.
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Mr. Oz, I do want to clarify something. You're saying tonight that you support fracking,
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that you've always supported fracking. But there is that 2018 interview that you said, quote,
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I don't support fracking at all. So how do you square the two?
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I do support fracking. And I don't, I don't, I support fracking. And I stand and I do support
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fracking. That's, in his defense, that's probably the best answer he could possibly give because
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there, there is no explanation. He has been consistent in his entire career. He said,
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we actually, we have the clips of it. It's much worse even than the moderator suggested.
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John Fetterman, if he has been consistent on anything in his career, it's how much he opposes
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fracking. I've always supported fracking. I don't support fracking at all. And I never have. Yeah,
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I called for moratorium on fracking. There's no such thing as a green fracker. I'm not pro-fracking.
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2016 fracking moratorium pledge that Fetterman signed for an environmental watchdog group as well
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as a 2016 tweet he sent while running for US Senate. I don't support fracking. I think it's
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something that has to eventually go away. And I would like to see it transition out.
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So even, you can't really blame this on the stroke or anything like that. This was a very
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cynical political decision to lie by Fetterman's campaign. And what's really sad about this on the
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debate stage is even while the campaign genius strategists there are saying, okay, we're going
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to lie and we're going to completely flip your position on fracking to get you through the general
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election. Then you can go back to your old one. Then he goes on stage. And this man who just is not
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mentally present, it would take a good politician a lot of skill to be able to jujitsu that particular
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flip-flop. But for someone whose brain isn't working, it's just not possible. Then Fetterman was
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asked about certain tax problems. Here's his answer. Mr. Fetterman, I will allow a 15 second
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rebuttal. He has specifically said you have not paid your taxes and that you want to raise taxes
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on Americans. How do you respond? Absolutely. The Oz rule, of course, he's lying. It was helping two
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students 17 years ago to help them buy their own homes. They didn't pay the bills and it got her paid.
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And it has never been an issue in any of the campaign before. It was all about nonprofit.
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I don't even know how to respond to that. It's just completely incoherent gibberish.
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Again, really, really sad stuff. And then I thought actually the saddest moment of the entire night
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was not one of the moments when Fetterman was asked to give an answer, but when Dr. Oz was giving
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an answer, and then Fetterman just burst out out of nowhere with some completely unrelated comment.
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Built of states to do what they wish to do. The abortion decision should be left up to states,
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and specifically when John Fetterman- You roll with Doug Mastriano.
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John, you'll have your turn, John. One moment, Mr. Fetterman.
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So, oh man. So Dr. Oz is answering a question about abortion and where he thinks the abortion
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issue should be decided at the federal level or at the state level and kind of what his views are
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on abortion, which are actually quite confusing. So it's a good question to ask Dr. Oz. And then
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just out of nowhere, Fetterman says, you roll with Mastriano, who's the Republican nominee for
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governor of Pennsylvania. We interviewed him on this show yesterday. Just very sad stuff.
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I know a number of stroke victims. I suspect many of you know or have at least met stroke victims.
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I'm not saying Fetterman is the worst off stroke victim I've ever met,
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but he's definitely in the bottom 50% in terms of people who have made a recovery. I'm just saying
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this anecdotally of people I know who have suffered from the same thing that this guy's
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suffered from. This guy is in terrible, terrible shape. And so I think, I mean, this was the number
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one trend on Twitter this morning was stroke. This was really shocking, even to people who
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have followed this race pretty closely, like those of you listening to the show, I suspect.
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This is really, really bad stuff. So people are saying, well, he's not fit to do the job of a
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senator. And on that point, I'm actually not so sure. And I'm not even making a joke about how
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senators' brains don't function properly. That's not the joke I'm making. The point I'm making is
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that the job of a senator is not what it used to be. If John Fetterman were running for the Senate
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50 years ago, 100 years ago, 150 years ago, then I would say, absolutely, there's no way this guy's
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up to the job of a senator. Because senators used to have a lot of power. Senators used to have a lot
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of responsibility. The individual senators used to matter quite a lot. Over the last 100 years,
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a lot of that power has been taken away. A lot of that power has been usurped by the federal
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bureaucracy. Senators don't really make all that many laws anymore. The foreign policy, which
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senators used to have a fair amount of say over because they had the power to ratify treaties
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and declare war. A lot of that has been usurped again by the executive branch. So it doesn't even
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really matter so much there. And then the parties have become so deeply entrenched in their own
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camps at this point. They've become so polarized that very often the individual senators don't
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really matter. Our system is moving more toward a parliamentary type system where the individuals
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aren't as important as just an R or a D next to somebody's name to go in line with the caucus.
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So in terms of that responsibility, John Fetterman's probably perfectly qualified to be a senator.
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Not according to the letter of the Constitution. Not according to the traditional role of a senator.
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But if he's just there to be the 51st vote for Chuck Schumer, I guess he could do that. He's not
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going to know what room he's in or what bill he's voting on. But his staff can lift up his arm and
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have him sign something or push a button. They can do that very, very easily. And so I suspect a lot
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of Democrats in Pennsylvania are going to think that. I don't think the debate last night changed
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one Democrat vote in Pennsylvania. And I don't think it changed one Republican vote necessarily.
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Except for the hardcore conservatives who were so skeptical of Oz because he's fairly liberal and
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they were maybe considering, okay, should I not vote for Oz? You look at that guy, you say,
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goodness gracious, he's just so bad off. Maybe now I'm more inclined for Dr. Oz.
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The people that this will have affected are those undecided voters, are the people who are not firmly
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partisan and who don't vote simply on fracking, abortion, immigration, just a handful of issues
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where they've got really clear views. There is a huge portion of the American electorate which does
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not pay super close attention to politics like those of you listening to this show right now who
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don't have a particularly systematic view of looking at politics. And it's not even their own fault.
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They're probably, they've got more interesting things in their lives and they care more about their
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hobbies and their work and their families. And they're just not, they're just not political
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nerds paying attention to this stuff. And so they're going to look at these much more human
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characteristics and they're just going to look at these two guys and you say, okay, on the one hand,
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we've got a sick patient. On the other hand, we've got a guy who's literally a doctor.
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I think I'm going to vote for that guy. So there's no, no question, no matter how sad this debate was,
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a clear win for Dr. Oz. It may or may not affect the final outcome because they've had early voting
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in Pennsylvania since September. But as Doug Mastriano, the governor candidate pointed out
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to us yesterday, early voting, mail-in voting is way, way down this year compared to 2020.
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So overall, I think the Oz campaign has to be very, very happy with the outcome of the debate.
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collapsed on stage last night. Kathy Hochul, who is the governor of New York and running for
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re-election as governor of New York. She was debating Lee Zeldin, who's doing great. He's
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the Republican candidate and he's actually, according to certain polls, ahead of her in
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true blue New York. So there was one huge misstep that Kathy Hochul made last night.
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I think that Lee Zeldin very smartly kept pressing the crime issue. I spoke yesterday to Doug Mastriano.
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Mastriano said that in Pennsylvania, the biggest issue is crime. And I think so many people all around
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the country, forget about abortion, forget about even certain economic issues and immigration.
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The top issue for a lot of people, especially in the cities, is crime. Because crime is spiking,
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and people are fearing for their property and fearing for their lives. So the Republicans are
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hitting this issue. And Kathy Hochul gave the worst answer I could imagine on crime.
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This governor, who still, to this moment, we're halfway through the debate,
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she still hasn't talked about locking up anyone committing any crimes.
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Anyone who commits a crime under our laws, especially with the change they made to bail,
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has consequences. I don't know why that's so important to you.
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I don't know why it's so important to you, Lee. Why? Oh, Lee. Oh, goodness gracious. You're just
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such a knuckle-dragging idiot. Why is it so important to you that we put the criminals in jail?
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Just, oh, goodness gracious. I don't have any criminals storming my mansion. I don't know what's
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wrong with you, Lee. Goodness gracious. Let's talk about important things, like how we have to chop
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the genitals off of children. Goodness gracious, Lee. Let's talk about important things,
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like the need to kill more babies. But no, Lee. You've just got to go on and on about locking up
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the rapists and the murderers who are running in havoc all over New York. Oh, gosh. Get a grip,
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Lee. Can you imagine you're a regular New Yorker listening to this? You're a regular New Yorker.
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And let's say you're in the city. You're in a city that has had difficulties with crime over the
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years, and you're seeing a spike in crime right now. And your governor, who's asking for your vote,
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says, oh, forget about the crime. Enough with the crime. It's so dumb. We don't need to put the
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criminals into prison. Come on. Send a social worker or whatever. Move on. How out of touch do
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you need to be? A huge misstep. Now, she's in a tough position because the Democrats are totally
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split on this. The base wants to empty the prisons. The base spent the last year talking about how they
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need to defund the police and abolish prisons. And it wasn't just the fringe extreme activist
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lunatics. It was sitting members of Congress, some of whom are from New York, okay? It was very
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prominent Democrat politicians openly calling to defund the police and abolish federal prisons,
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okay? So you got that on the base side. But then you've got the normal people who want to do exactly
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the opposite. They want to increase funding to police. They want to increase funding to the police,
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and they want to put more criminals into prison because the criminals are wreaking havoc in their
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communities. So what does Kathy Hochul do? She's trying to split that baby. You can't split that
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baby. And if she were smart, she would say, no, listen, we're doing a great job. We're doing a
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great job of putting criminals into prison. We're going to do an even better job next year and move
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on. But she can't do that. And it's a major, major win for the Republicans. Just shows you once again
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how completely out of touch the Democrats are right now with the electorate. So what are they
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going to do? They know they're headed for disaster if it's a fair election. So what are they going to
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do? This is the greatest irony of all. After spending two years lambasting Republicans, calling us fascists
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and Nazis and an existential threat to our democracy for questioning in any way the legitimacy of the
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2020 election. The Democrats, the very top Democrats, the most prominent Democrats in the country are
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preemptively questioning and outright denying potentially the legitimacy of the 2022 and 2024
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elections. Hillary, take it away. Hello, Indivisibles. I'm here to highlight something that
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is keeping me up at night. And I know this group really understands what I'm about to say.
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I know we're all focused on the 2022 midterm elections, and they are incredibly important.
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But we also have to look ahead because you know what? Our opponents certainly are. Right-wing extremists
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already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election. And they're not making a secret of
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it. The right-wing controlled Supreme Court may be poised to rule on giving state legislatures, yes, you heard
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me that correctly, state legislatures the power to overturn presidential elections. Just think, if that happens,
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the 2024 presidential election could be decided not by the popular vote or even by the anachronistic
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So much there. Most obvious, she's saying that the Republicans are going to steal the election. If the Republicans win,
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it will be because they stole the election, which is what the Democrats believe. And the Democrats believe this because they
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believe that they're on the right side of history, and they believe that democracy is just synonymous with
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liberalism. So even though democracy means the will of the people, and sometimes the people vote for your
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party, and sometimes the people vote for the other party, they don't view democracy in that way. They use the word
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democracy to really just mean liberalism. And so when liberalism is rejected at the ballot box, that is a knock
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against democracy, even if the majority of people vote for that. And so she is already saying, as the Democrats
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have said, as Hillary Clinton herself has said for many, many years, if the Republicans win, the election by
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definition is illegitimate. Because the people are supposed to vote for the Democrats. The people, if they
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were not being suppressed, and not being misinformed, and not having their consciousness lowered, you know,
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they have to raise their consciousness and raise the awareness. If they were not operating under a false
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consciousness, if all those things were true, they would vote for the Democrats. They would, because
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that's obviously the right thing to do. So anytime they don't, it has to be illegitimate by definition.
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She's already saying that. And then she's going through all the different ways in which it could
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be illegitimate. And then the little cherry on top of the irony Sunday is that she said, and could you
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believe the election won't be decided potentially by the popular vote, or even the anachronistic electoral
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college? The electoral college, whatever you think of it, is not anachronistic. It's not out of time.
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The electoral college is the way currently, today in the year of our Lord 2022, and for the entire
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history of our country, that presidential elections have been decided. It's not anachronistic. It's the
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law. It's the constitution. It is the very heart of that particular aspect of our supposedly sacred
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democracy that the Democrats are always talking about. The popular vote has absolutely nothing
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to do with the presidential election. Therefore, it's not how the campaigns are conducted. It's not
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how, it's just not part of it at all. But because the Democrats sometimes have won the popular vote,
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but lost the electoral vote, then they just, they just go for that. So even in that language, even in
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their, their absurd elevation of the popular vote over the actual way the elections are conducted
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according to our constitution, even there, they are denying the legitimacy of our electoral system.
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After two years of saying that we are fascist threats to the country, we're the equivalent of
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murderers, we're the equivalent of terrorists. We need to be completely sidelined for questioning
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our electoral system. That's the best they've got. Now, if this is going to be a really tough one for the,
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for the Democrats, because not only are the polls looking really, really bad for the Democrats right
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now, but voter enthusiasm seems relatively high. So usually in the midterms, voter turnout is much
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lower than in a presidential election year. That's pretty much always the case. It'll probably be the
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case again, but voter turnout seems to be pretty okay right now, at least according to early metrics.
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So a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about this, said, you know,
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you guys keep talking about voter suppression, but the numbers show that voter turnout is actually
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looking pretty good right now. What say you, Karine Jean-Pierre?
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But doesn't that record turnout show that Georgia voters are finding ways to vote even amid the,
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Yeah, I'm not going to get into specifics of what Georgia voters are doing. What I am saying
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is that, you know, generally speaking, again, more broadly speaking, of course,
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high turnout and voter suppression can take place at the same time.
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Hold on a second here. I don't have a fancy degree in political science.
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I don't work in the White House or anything like that. But it seems to me that voter suppression
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means less voting, right? That's voter, it's someone who casts a vote. And suppression means
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you kind of push it down, right? And then high voter turnout is when you get more voting.
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And what Karine Jean-Pierre is actually saying with a straight face is that less voting and more voting
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can happen at the same time. That's what they, that's their final pitch when every other strategy,
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when every other excuse has run out. That's the, that's the, they can say it's illegitimate.
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This is voter suppression. It's unfair. And every, every single argument they're making
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is collapsing. But they've got their story and they're sticking to it. And they don't give
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one single damn as to any of the facts, all of the facts that contradict all of it.
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Why are the people voting for the Republicans? Why are all the polls showing the Republicans way,
00:24:56.840
way up? A whole host of reasons. But one of the big ones right now, economic discontent
00:25:06.200
is at an all time high in the United States. Not just, wow, this is much worse than it was under
00:25:12.060
Trump. Not just, wow, this is even worse than it was under Obama. All time, ever. This is according
00:25:18.400
to a new survey by NBC News. 71% of registered voters say the nation under Democrat rule is on the
00:25:26.200
wrong track. That is a record high disapproval. Only 20% say the nation is on the right track.
00:25:32.420
57% disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy. That is another record high.
00:25:40.780
57% disapprove. 38% approve. 50% say the Democrats' economy will get worse. That is another record high.
00:25:51.860
Only 20% believe the economy will improve. So you can't blame this here on it's a conservative poll
00:25:59.580
that went out. No, it's NBC News. You can't blame it on, well, it's just the wording of the question.
00:26:04.620
They worded the question three different ways. Every single time, it's a record high.
00:26:10.200
At people right now, and people do vote in large part on the economy. People do vote on kitchen table
00:26:16.980
issues. And we are now at record high economic discontent. So the Democrats, they have to answer
00:26:25.760
this. In some way, they've got to answer this in the final two weeks here before the midterm elections.
00:26:32.020
And here is the best argument I've heard, the best response from the Democrats. This would be
00:26:39.600
via Pete Buttigieg on the Stephen Colbert show.
00:26:43.020
It can be frustrating politically when you see that sort of stuff go on. But, you know, look,
00:26:50.660
this is part of a pattern that we've often seen where many congressional Republicans take stances
00:26:57.600
that seem to be more about the problem than about the solution. So, you know, you look at even the
00:27:04.580
things that they talk about the most often, immigration, inflation. I mean, name of all the
00:27:10.900
things congressional Republicans have proposed policy-wise. Can anybody name the top five things
00:27:15.720
that they've suggested to fight inflation? Can anyone name three? How about one? You know,
00:27:20.200
they voted no on the Inflation Reduction Act that was about lowering prices for Americans. And I would
00:27:26.540
have loved nothing more than to have a debate between the Democratic Inflation Reduction Act
00:27:31.140
and the Republican Inflation Reduction Act on the House of the Florence Senate and argued over which one
00:27:36.560
was better. But there was only one, and it was ours. And luckily, it passed.
00:27:40.900
Well, you couldn't have that debate, Pete, because there was no Democrat Inflation Reduction Act.
00:27:45.380
There was an act called the Inflation Reduction Act. But it did nothing to reduce inflation. And
00:27:51.580
that's not just me as a Republican or a conservative arguing that. That's what the CBO said. The
00:27:56.280
Congressional Budget Office said that the Inflation Reduction Act would not reduce inflation.
00:28:02.440
Bernie Sanders admitted that the Inflation Reduction Act would not reduce inflation.
00:28:07.080
Joe Biden and the Democrats tacitly admitted that because the second that that act passed,
00:28:11.920
they stopped referring to it as an inflation act. And they started referring to it as a climate change
00:28:17.060
act because that's what it was really about was just passing on hundreds and hundreds of billions
00:28:23.340
of dollars in handouts to green energy companies. And then he says, well, you know, the Republicans,
00:28:29.620
they haven't offered their solution. They're not they're not fixing the problem. Democrats have
00:28:35.220
unified government. It's not even like the Republicans had to work with the Democrats to
00:28:40.000
get anything done. Democrats had completely unified government. So the problem is 100 percent at your
00:28:47.560
feet and you screwed it up. And you're saying, well, how come the Republicans didn't do more to stop
00:28:51.740
us from screwing it up when they had no political power? That's the best answer you've got.
00:28:56.040
And he says, well, they have no ideas. They have no ideas. I couldn't name two or one idea,
00:29:01.720
three ideas, five ideas that the Republicans have. Okay, well, here's my first one. Speaking of that
00:29:07.260
bill that you were that law that you were just naming, here's one way that you could slow down
00:29:11.900
inflation a little bit. Don't spend $400 billion in taxpayer handouts to Democrat cronies in the green
00:29:21.700
energy industry. Don't waste all that money and frivolously spend that money, which causes
00:29:26.900
inflation to rise. Don't do that. That would be my first idea. What are some other ideas? I don't
00:29:31.200
know. Let's see, just off the top of my head here. Don't forgive, forgive, quote unquote, student loans.
00:29:37.640
Don't just pass out all of that money and cause inflation to ride. What would be some other ideas?
00:29:43.020
I don't know. Maybe stop escalating the war in Ukraine, the war in Ukraine, which is probably the
00:29:48.180
primary driver of inflation and was caused largely by Joe Biden, according to Vladimir Zelensky,
00:29:53.780
who's the president of Ukraine, because Joe Biden took the sanctions off Putin's pipeline and then
00:29:58.800
literally invited Putin to invade Eastern Ukraine and said that if there were only a minor incursion,
00:30:03.240
there would be no serious response from the United States. So that would be one idea.
00:30:06.640
On that point, okay, so I got, what is that? That's three ideas. You could restart American energy
00:30:11.580
production. How about that? Remember, we had great American energy production under Donald Trump.
00:30:16.060
We were energy independent. We were a net exporter under Donald Trump. And then Biden comes in and
00:30:21.460
he kills all the new oil and gas leases and he kills the oil pipelines. And by the way, when you
00:30:25.480
kill one major oil pipeline from the federal government, you're effectively killing all of
00:30:28.920
them for the remainder of the administration is the people who are building these pipelines are only
00:30:34.300
going to do it if they got political support. They're very, very expensive projects. So you could do
00:30:38.060
that. I mean, energy is the biggest driver of inflation right now. So that would be a really good idea.
00:30:42.760
How about, I don't know what that's for, don't revive the Iran nuclear deal. That would be another
00:30:47.640
good one. Why is Saudi Arabia not playing ball right now with the United States? Why is Saudi
00:30:52.300
Arabia not going to pump out way more oil and try to bring the prices back to something that's somewhat
00:30:57.280
reasonable? Well, in large part, it's because the United States gave Saudi Arabia the middle finger
00:31:02.420
when the United States started cozying up to Iran again, because the Democrats have this bizarre
00:31:07.760
obsession with putting Iran on the path to a nuclear bomb, which Saudi Arabia will not permit.
00:31:13.820
And so now, now we've lost the Saudis as the close ally that we've had for so many years.
00:31:19.760
That's five. There it is. There's your five ideas, Pete. I got, not that any of those are going to go
00:31:23.960
into effect because the Democrats have unified government. They caused the whole problem. And now
00:31:27.340
they're dealing with the consequences of that, which is that the people are absolutely freaking
00:31:32.160
furious. And so now what are the Democrats going to say about that? We've gone, we've gone through
00:31:38.040
every single argument that they've got and every response to it. And then they keep digging
00:31:41.960
themselves into worse and worse trouble. So now, now here is the argument. People who are extremely
00:31:46.220
concerned about record high inflation, which is impoverishing everybody. And it's going to cause
00:31:51.900
people to freeze as the winter approaches. Now the Democrats are saying that if you're worried about
00:31:58.660
inflation, you might as well vote for Hitler. I'm not calling, uh, I'm not going to say that,
00:32:06.100
you know, the GOP or Nazis at this point or whatever, but it certainly sounds very familiar
00:32:11.080
to what happened in Germany, which is a bunch of citizens. Adolf Hitler gets a third of the vote.
00:32:17.040
Nobody thought it could happen there. They kind of went along because they said he was going to solve
00:32:20.860
the economy and fix inflation. Uh, you can, that's right. You can hear those sorts of things.
00:32:25.760
And then, oh, but lo and behold, a few years later, they lost their democracy and they're all like,
00:32:29.940
how'd that happen here? That's my worry. That is my worry. If obviously the price of a hamburger,
00:32:35.820
the price of milk, the price of gas is concerning, but what is what that is a short term problem.
00:32:42.840
The loss of a democracy will decimate everyone's freedom. That's it. If you,
00:32:49.200
if you are concerned about the record high inflation and the fact that you can't fill up your gas tank or
00:32:55.160
heat your home, uh, you or, or pay for groceries or pay for anything because it's causing all the
00:33:00.640
consumer goods to increase you, you look, I'm not calling you a Nazi, but tacitly I am. Okay.
00:33:08.440
And you secretly, you would have voted for Hitler. Okay. And you're going to call, if you elect
00:33:13.840
Republicans, you're going to cause us to lose our democracy because whenever the people vote against
00:33:21.340
the ruling party, whenever the people want to change in the ruling party from the liberal
00:33:26.900
establishment, Democrat ruling class, that's a threat to democracy. By the way, you know the man
00:33:32.240
who said that? That's Matthew Dowd. He is a Democrat, but he formerly was a Republican and not just a
00:33:40.520
regular old Republican strategist. You sometimes see that title on TV, which usually just means
00:33:45.340
unemployed political person. Everyone's just a strategist, you know, but this guy actually had
00:33:50.940
a real job. This guy was the chief strategist for the Bush Cheney 2004 campaign. This guy was a big
00:33:58.280
player. He was obviously a court jester conservative. He was obviously one of the squishes whose job it is
00:34:05.680
to pretend to be right wing, to legitimize the dominant liberal regime. But he had that big R next
00:34:11.740
to his name and he had a pretty big job. And he is now making the same argument that all of the
00:34:17.020
Democrats are making, which is anytime you oppose us, you're basically Hitler. And anytime the Republicans
00:34:25.700
win, it's a threat to democracy. Anytime we let the people vote for the people they want, it's a threat
00:34:32.600
to democracy. By the way, just a side point. I would like to call for a complete moratorium
00:34:41.580
on Nazi comparisons. I am calling for a complete and total shutdown on all Nazi comparisons until
00:34:50.680
we figure out what the hell is going on there. It's so, it's so frustrating. And it's, it's not
00:34:58.880
frustrating because, you know, World War II is, is incomparable or anything like that.
00:35:04.980
It's frustrating because what, when, when I hear people make Nazi comparisons, what that says to me
00:35:12.700
is that that person has no other historical frame of reference. So very often I think people make the
00:35:20.400
Nazi comparisons because they just don't know what else to compare something to. The, the, the, the second
00:35:27.140
version of this is the fall of Rome, which is much more acceptable. But you know, there, there were other
00:35:32.160
wars. There have been other wars throughout history, folks. Okay. There have been other battles there.
00:35:37.900
How about, I don't know, the Battle of Waterloo. Comparison, how about the, make some comparisons to
00:35:43.660
the Napoleonic Wars at least. How about that? Is that okay? How about the, the French and Indian War?
00:35:48.580
That would be a good one. Let's compare things to the French and Indian War. Or I don't know,
00:35:53.820
Alexander the Great's campaigns. Or the, you know, wars against Carthage. I don't know. Or the
00:36:01.100
Peloponnesian War. Anything, anything other than just making everything about Hitler. Okay. It's not,
00:36:06.440
not every, not, not every person that you don't like is Hitler. Okay. And it, but, but because
00:36:13.840
Hitler is, forget about the Second World War itself. Hitler just is the symbol of the absolute
00:36:21.960
incarnation of evil. And so when, when, what the Democrats are doing here is they're saying,
00:36:26.480
anyone who opposes us is the absolute perfect incarnation of evil that must be opposed at all
00:36:33.820
costs, regardless of the law, regardless of justice, regardless of anything. And speaking of
00:36:39.460
these Hitler comparisons, because look, I don't mean to be too hard on people who make, who've made
00:36:43.040
Hitler comparisons. Everyone's done it at some point. But the, there was a recent example of this
00:36:51.040
that shows you just how disingenuous the whole debate is. Susan Sarandon just posted something
00:36:57.960
to social media comparing her opponents to Hitler. Susan Sarandon is a very far left-wing actress.
00:37:05.220
Susan Sarandon said, it didn't start with the gas chambers. It started with one party controlling the
00:37:08.960
media, one party controlling the message, one party deciding what is truth, one party censoring
00:37:12.540
speech and silencing opposition, one party dividing citizens into us and them and calling on their
00:37:16.580
supporters to harass them. It started when good people turned a blind eye and let that happen.
00:37:21.040
Now, it's interesting when I read that, if I saw someone post that today, I would assume they
00:37:24.660
were talking about the Democrats, who the liberals obviously control the media and the government,
00:37:31.640
all the rest of it, and they censor people. But Susan Sarandon is so far left-wing, I don't think
00:37:35.840
that's much, but who knows, right? Anyway, Susan Sarandon is a very left-wing actress.
00:37:39.480
Now, Susan Sarandon will just go about her life. Normally, nothing will happen as a result of this post.
00:37:45.280
Gina Carano, our friend Gina Carano, lost her job and nearly lost her entire career
00:37:55.240
for making pretty much the same post. Gina Carano posted, Jews were beaten in the streets,
00:38:02.520
not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors, even by children, because history is edited. Most people
00:38:06.020
today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews,
00:38:10.800
the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How's that any
00:38:14.160
different from hating someone for their political views? So it's virtually the same exact post.
00:38:20.820
And Gina Carano, very implausibly, was called an anti-Semite. It seems like completely the opposite
00:38:26.600
of the sort of sentiment she was expressing. But it was the same post as Susan Sarandon.
00:38:31.460
So why does Gina Carano, who is a little more right-wing, almost lose her career for this?
00:38:37.680
Susan Sarandon, who is very left-wing, nothing happens to her. Just a reminder that our rulers,
00:38:44.180
they don't care about anti-Semitism or racism or any of the lines that they use.
00:38:50.700
The libs have exhibited much more anti-Semitism than anybody on the right, including city members
00:38:55.940
of Congress, including Ilhan Omar, to use just one example, including Louis Farrakhan visiting the
00:39:00.480
Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama taking a smiling picture with him. Louis Farrakhan calling the
00:39:04.920
Jews, the synagogue of Satan, and many other lurid things. The list goes on and on and on and on.
00:39:11.600
Much worse than anything any mainstream person on the right has ever said. It doesn't matter.
00:39:16.980
Forget about the racism you see from the left. Obviously, so much worse than anything you've
00:39:22.400
ever seen anywhere in the mainstream right. Our rulers don't care about those things for themselves.
00:39:29.300
Our ruling class uses those concepts as an excuse to destroy people that they already don't like and
00:39:41.120
have already decided to destroy. They use it because it is convenient to silence dissenters,
00:39:47.980
which is why they're not going to silence the liberals who basically go along with their agenda.
00:39:52.580
They're always going to use it to silence the right-wingers. You know, it's been a very,
00:39:56.180
very busy month over here at The Daily Wire. We released The Greatest Lie Ever Sold,
00:40:01.320
which is a new documentary that buries BLM. We held a rally to end child mutilation at the
00:40:06.820
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00:40:32.000
Here's a great example of the libs disingenuously silencing victims.
00:40:41.040
Weeks after Alex Jones was ordered by a judge to pay about $1 billion to the family of the Sandy
00:40:52.620
Hook shooting victims, Bloomberg News is reporting that the Sandy Hook families have now demanded
00:41:01.520
$2.75 trillion. An additional $2.75 trillion. Not all that far off from the GDP of the United
00:41:14.240
States. I mean, it's a little ways to go. But, you know, if you go back just a few decades,
00:41:19.900
you're pretty much there. And they've done this by taking the maximum penalty allowed under state law,
00:41:26.420
$5,000, multiplying it by the 550 million social media views that Alex Jones got on his social media
00:41:33.340
accounts in the three years following the Sandy Hook school shooting. And now they are demanding
00:41:39.360
upwards of $3 trillion from a radio host for getting a story wrong on air and saying,
00:41:52.520
let's say they're saying mean things, terrible things, the worst things you could possibly say,
00:41:56.760
$3 trillion for saying that on the radio. Does that seem a little disproportionate when I think
00:42:02.800
of the sort of things that the Democrats have said in public? When the Democrats have called for
00:42:09.060
physical, when mainstream Democrats have called for physical violence against Republicans in public,
00:42:15.560
when Maxine Waters says, when you see Republicans in public, push back on them,
00:42:20.480
say you're not welcome here, chasing them out of restaurants. When Maxine Waters says,
00:42:27.180
go to Republicans' homes, shout outside where their children sleep, shout outside their homes.
00:42:33.400
When Chuck Schumer says, we're coming for you, Brett Kavanaugh, we're coming for you, Gorsuch,
00:42:38.080
we're going to unleash the whirlwind on you. And then what, lo and behold, what happens?
00:42:41.840
Some left-wing lunatic goes in and tries to murder Justice Kavanaugh.
00:42:46.320
And gets pretty close, actually, before the U.S. Marshals were able to stop him.
00:42:52.700
When some left-wing lunatic goes in and shoots up the congressional baseball game to kill the
00:42:56.500
Republicans, almost kills Steve Scalise. And you hear nothing. You hear nothing from the Democrats.
00:43:03.140
When Hillary Clinton says, you can't be civil with Republicans.
00:43:08.100
None of that, they're not going to pay $3 trillion. To say nothing of what the
00:43:11.960
pundits or whatever say on the air. They're not going to pay $3 trillion.
00:43:16.400
And who knows where the $2.75 trillion lawsuit is going to go. Alex Jones was already ordered to
00:43:21.740
pay a billion dollars. You think any, for what? For getting a story wrong on air. That's basically
00:43:26.940
what you could say. Well, he got it egregiously wrong. It was the worst way you could possibly get
00:43:30.480
a story wrong. Sure, whatever. But the actual category of transgression that Alex Jones committed
00:43:37.380
is he got a story wrong on air. You're telling me that the punishment for that should be $1 billion?
00:43:44.660
Or, I'm sorry, $2.75 trillion? Doesn't that seem a little disproportionate to you?
00:43:53.820
Especially when the libs would never pay one red cent for doing far more egregious things?
00:43:59.860
No, it's obviously not about the transgression. It's simply about punishing dissidents.
00:44:03.760
The libs hate Alex Jones. They want to silence him. They will use whatever excuse they can to do it.
00:44:10.140
And they will come down on him with as much crushing weight as they can possibly wield,
00:44:14.300
up to and including $3 trillion. Speaking of the courts, there's some good news that's come out of
00:44:19.760
the courts. Incredible news, actually, that came out of the courts yesterday in New York.
00:44:24.820
A New York judge has ruled that the city must reinstate the fired city workers with back pay
00:44:33.640
who lost their jobs because they refused to take the Fauci ouchie. And here's why. Here's the best
00:44:40.340
part is the reason why the court has come to this finding. The court found that, quote,
00:44:47.260
being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19.
00:44:54.660
They added that vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have the same quarantine and
00:45:00.960
isolation guidelines issued by the CDC. That's why. And there were, at the time, we were all told
00:45:09.400
by the libs and the squishes, we were told, you have to get the vaccine. Come on. Maybe we don't
00:45:13.540
support the mandates, but you should all get it. Now we find actually the vaccines don't do what they
00:45:18.420
said, what we were told that they would do. And they do a lot of things that we were told they
00:45:22.020
wouldn't do. Furthermore, the judge goes on, the vaccine mandate for city employees was not just
00:45:28.540
about safety and public health. It was about compliance. If it was about safety and public
00:45:33.640
health, unvaccinated workers would have been placed on leave the moment the order was issued.
00:45:37.100
Great point. It was not. But instead, the workers were pressured, pressured. Still come to your job,
00:45:42.060
but pressured. Get it, get it, get it. If it were about a health emergency, there's no way that would
00:45:47.900
have happened. If it were about a health emergency, they would have said, go home, wear a hazmat suit,
00:45:54.120
get out of here. How many workers lost their jobs because of this? People have written into this show
00:45:59.720
a lot and lost their jobs because of it. I'm very fortunate. I work at a company that not only did not
00:46:05.540
have a vaccine mandate, but that sued the Biden administration to stop the vaccine mandate.
00:46:11.440
Because what were we going to do? We had meetings. What were we going to do if we lost that lawsuit?
00:46:15.240
Well, one, we were all going to get audited to the hilt. We might still, but we're all going to
00:46:20.840
become major targets of the federal government. But two, even if that's still probably going to
00:46:25.220
happen, two, what were we going to do? The federal government could have come in and bankrupted the
00:46:30.220
company pretty quickly, actually. So we fought it. We didn't have to do it. Same cannot be said for a
00:46:37.080
ton of other companies and certainly city workers. Eric Adams fired 2,000, just about 2,000 city
00:46:43.660
workers, including cops, including firefighters, who refused to comply with the COVID vaccination
00:46:49.160
mandate. Now, the court is ordering him to reinstate them with back pay, which is absolutely
00:46:57.940
right and just. Will he do it? Remains to be seen. Will the city appeal? Almost certainly.
00:47:04.600
This is probably a little soft consolation to the workers who lost their jobs. They've been out of
00:47:08.360
work for a year. And it's a reminder as well, looking forward into the future, the next time
00:47:15.460
we're told by the entire establishment, this is fact. This is science. You have to do it. This is
00:47:20.060
coercion. Do it now. Do it now. You'll lose everything. Do it now. Do it now. If you can hold
00:47:24.360
firm, if you can have a little bit of courage, you may see justice. All hope is not lost. You may see
00:47:31.780
justice. We are still in this fight. The Democrats are running scared. They're not omnipotent.
00:47:37.140
They can feel their grasp on power weakening. Now, are they going to lose that grasp entirely
00:47:42.540
tomorrow or two weeks from now? Probably not. But they can feel it weakening. And the truth is on
00:47:48.380
our side. And the people are seeing that. They're seeing it more and more each day as we approach
00:47:52.500
those midterm elections. Now, unbelievably, unbelievably, it seems that I have some critics.
00:48:00.100
I reacted to some woke TikTokers nonsense about religion. He appears to have reacted to my reaction.
00:48:06.780
So, in a full sort of inception, I will be critiquing his critique of my critique of his
00:48:12.340
nonsense. Because this, of course, is Woke Wednesday. The rest of the show continues now.
00:48:17.200
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