Ep. 1334 - Russell Brand Attacked By The Matrix？
Summary
The most prominent instigator of the worst day in the history of this or any republic has finally been arrested and charged with a crime. And yet, as U.S. Marshals were sent to round up just about everyone in the proximity of the Capitol that day, Ray Epps was not charged.
Transcript
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More than two and a half years after January 6th, the worst day in the history of this or any
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republic, the most prominent instigator of the Capitol riot from that day has finally been
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arrested and charged with a crime. Years after other January 6thers were convicted and served
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prison sentences, friendly lectern enthusiasts, Midwestern grannies, the whole gamut of January
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6thers. Years after that, the giant dude who spent two days encouraging everyone to storm the Capitol
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was finally arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. No seditious conspiracy charges,
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no terrorist enhancement charge, not even so much as a trespassing on restricted grounds
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misdemeanor, and no explanation as to why Ray Epps conspicuously, uniquely perhaps, was not charged
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as U.S. Marshals were sent to round up just about everyone in the proximity of the Capitol that day.
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As soon as President Trump has finished speaking, we are going to the Capitol. It's that direction.
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When President Trump is not speaking, we are going to the Capitol. That's where our problem is.
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Okay, folks, we need your help. As soon as President Trump stops speaking, we are going to the Capitol.
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The Capitol is in that direction. Let people know. Spread the word.
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Tomorrow. We need to go into the Capitol. Into the Capitol.
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Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, was just arrested and charged. He's going to face
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decades in prison for what? He wasn't even in Washington, D.C. that day. He was in a hotel
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room in Baltimore. But prosecutors charged Enrique Tarrio had conspired to direct people
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to go into the Capitol riot. Well, nobody directed people to go in and riot in the Capitol more
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directly than Ray Epps. And yet he gets a little disorderly conduct charge, slept on the wrist a few
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years later. So those guys are saying, Fed, Fed, Fed. Sounds like a pretty compelling theory. But
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look, this is America, and the accused are entitled to due process. So even if other conservatives
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jump to conclusions, I just want to say for the record, I believe that special agent Epps should
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be presumed innocent until proven guilty. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. YouTube has demonetized Russell Brand. Speaking of being presumed guilty
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until you're proven innocent, Russell Brand has these rape allegations against him. And so he's
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being cut off from all of society and the economy until maybe he's exonerated later on. Maybe he
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isn't. We'll get to that in a second. First, though, speaking of federal employees, John Fetterman
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has some really profound, incoherent babblings about leg humping.
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The House today looks like it's falling apart. You've already got 17 no votes in that House
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Republican caucus saying we're not passing anything. What do you think's happening here?
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Yeah, you know, like I truly I was I was very proud of my colleagues, you know, because they're
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really about governance. That's what it is. And on the other, the House, the whatever they call
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themselves, Team America or whatever they call themselves. I just like I just like bring your
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vote. You know, otherwise, you know, they need to go hump a different leg.
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You were in you drove your I think it's a Ford from Braddock.
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I love Chris Hayes doing his best. You know, he's a veteran there on MSNBC. And so he's he's heard it
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all. And yet John Fetterman's leg humping comments seem to surprise even him. And he says,
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oh, um, uh, huh. Yeah. Well, anyway, moving on, we could we let's talk about anything else, please.
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It was less offensive when Caligula tried to send his horse to the Roman Senate than it is
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that the Democrats are pretending that John Fetterman is a functional senator. And the reason for that is
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Caligula trying to send his horse to the Senate was just a big middle finger to the entire Roman
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system of government, especially to the Senate. The Democrats pretending that that John Fetterman
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is a functioning senator. It's not a transparent middle finger to us. They're trying to deceive us.
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They're actually trying to pretend that this guy is capable of doing the job.
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Um, it's, it's not a brazen act. It's not a big dare. It's not an FU, you know, a big prominent
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one. It's a, it's a secret FU. It's, it's an assumption that we're so stupid and powerless
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that we're not going to notice that this guy's obviously not up to the job. He, I'm not sure he
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was up to the job before he had his health problems. He certainly isn't up to the job now
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and he should go home and recuperate and, and try to get better. And in the meantime,
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there should be a functioning senator from Pennsylvania, but now they'll just keep keeping on.
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They'll keep keeping on with the Pennsylvania Senator, with the president of the United States,
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who's also not functioning all that well. They'll just keep rolling along until,
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until the whole thing collapses. Now, oddly enough, John Fetterman is not the least coherent
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national leader in our nation's capital. That I think would have to go to a chairman of the joint
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chiefs of staff, Mark Milley, who, though he's been accused of going woke, he doesn't even know
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what that word means. Is the U.S. military too woke? No, not at all. So, you know, I'm not even
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sure what that word truly means, but I would tell you that the military I see is a military that's
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exceptionally strong. It's powerful. It's ready. In fact, our readiness rates, the way we measure
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readiness is better now. I don't, I don't even know what that word means. What are you talking
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about woke? You think we're woke? What on earth, what on earth would give you the impression that
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I, Mark Milley, am woke? First of all, on the issue of critical race theory, et cetera, I'll obviously
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have to get much smarter on whatever the theory is. But I do think it's important, actually, for
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those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read. And the United States Military Academy
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is a university. And it is important that we train and we understand. And I want to understand white rage.
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I want to understand white rage. I want to understand critical race theory. I want to,
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but I don't know what woke is. What are you talking about woke? It's just very important
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that every single one of our cadets reads Ibram X. Kendi every day to understand the evil of their
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whiteness. I believe for a fit fighting force, we must attend Robin DiAngelo seminars to become
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conscious of our unconscious racial and sexual biases so that we no longer exert phobias on this
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world. I don't know what woke means. I'll tell you what woke means because some conservatives have
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struggled to explain what woke means too. Woke is just the extreme conclusion of liberalism. That's all
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it is. And liberalism was famously once described as the liberal being the man who can't take his own
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side in an argument. That's what it is. It's the extreme conclusion of an ideology predicated on a
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radical individualism that culminates in absurdity that is contrary to human nature and to reality more
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broadly. That's what woke is. And as the U.S. military adopts policies that contradict human
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nature, in particular on one sexual matter that we're not allowed to talk about on big tech, I think
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you know the one I'm talking about. As the U.S. military decides to focus its attention on things
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like critical race theory rather than on killing our enemies, that would invert the purpose of that
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institution, make it much less ready to fight, and have it view the world in a way that is
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side in an argument. Speaking of picking sides, President Trump has just announced, as some of
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us predicted, that he will not be attending the second GOP presidential primary debate.
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A number of Republicans said, I don't think Trump's going to be at the first debate,
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but he will be at the second debate. I said that I thought it was a smart political move for Donald
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Trump not to show up to the first debate. Therefore, I thought that it would not hurt him politically
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once he didn't show up to the first debate, which is why he would not be forced to show up to the
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second debate. Some of us were right. Some of us were wrong. You know, I hate to say I told you so,
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but it's also why if anyone accuses me of, you know, shilling for the Trump campaign or promoting
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the Trump campaign or something like that, it's not my intention. And I don't think that's the
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effect of what I'm doing. I am predicting what's going on. So when I say, hey, I think it's really
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smart for Trump not to show up to the first debate. If it turned out that Trump's poll number
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is cratered after not showing up to the first debate, you might say, well, Michael, either your
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predictions are wrong, your faculties of predicting are wrong, or you're just a hack for the Trump
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campaign because you want to say that whatever he's doing is the right thing. But if my prediction
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turns out to be true, as it was a minority prediction in among conservatives, then I think
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you have to maybe conclude that Donald Trump is actually making smart political choices here.
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And to state that is not to promote his campaign. It's just to observe reality and to observe the
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reality of the state of the presidential race, which according even to real clear politics,
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average of the polls has not changed really even one iota in about 15 months now. So Trump sees,
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okay, I didn't show up to the first debate. Didn't hurt me. Actually, my poll numbers went up
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slightly and my number one opponent's poll numbers went down slightly. Okay, I'm not going to show up to
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the second one, but what's he going to do? Is he going to have another conversation with Tucker Carlson
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on Twitter? No, he's got to mix it up. This time, according to the New York Times,
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Trump is going to be counter-programming the debate by rallying with striking automotive workers
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in Detroit. This is really, really a good idea because the change that Donald Trump represents in
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the GOP is a turning away from being the party of rich uncle pennybags. It's kind of funny because
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he's a billionaire from New York, but what that has represented reflected in the polls and even the
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way that conservative elite types talk about it is that he represents a populist turn in the party.
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So the GOP is no longer going to be the party of Paris. It's going to be the party of Pittsburgh.
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It's no longer going to be the party of Wall Street. It's going to be the party of Detroit.
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And so Trump is going to express that by going and rallying with the auto workers here.
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Before I get to the auto worker strike, what does this mean for the primary candidates who are
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debating? If this second debate doesn't move the numbers for anybody, if it doesn't seriously
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hamper Donald Trump's support, and if it doesn't improve the support for any of the other candidates,
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I think these primary candidates need to cut it out. They got to drop it because it's not going to
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help them at all. They're going to keep putting on this sideshow until their campaigns fall apart.
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This is especially true of Ron DeSantis. If Ron DeSantis wants to seriously
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take a shot at Donald Trump and maybe dislodge him from the top spot, I'm not saying it's
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impossible now. No primary votes have been cast yet. What he's got to do is stop playing along with
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the same old tired strategy that's going to leave him as a very solid number two or number three
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finisher and allow Donald Trump to have the nomination. What I would recommend if I were on the
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DeSantis campaign right now, let's see, forget about the stupid debates. I mean, we'll see what
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happens after the second. But if the poll numbers don't move, I'd say forget about the stupid debates,
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forget about the stupid regular old campaigning like it's an ordinary primary, which it's obviously not.
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I would encourage DeSantis to take up the Abraham Lincoln strategy that Lincoln did before the
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Lincoln-Douglas debates. Do you know how the Lincoln-Douglas debates came along? Is that you had
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Stephen Douglas, politician in Illinois, going around making his speeches. He didn't agree to do a bunch
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of debates with Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln just started following him around and giving
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speeches after Douglas was finished. Show up to the Douglas events and be a little thorn in Douglas's
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side and give speeches afterward. Finally, Stephen Douglas agrees to have the series of debates with
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him. That's what DeSantis is going to have to do. And I know right now that DeSantis campaign is
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trying not to look desperate and is trying to just pretend that everything's going fine. And no,
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actually, secretly, they're going to win Iowa. And actually, then they're going to start winning
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all the primary states. And no big deal. Forget about the polls. Ignore reality. Ignore the
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committed caucus goers. OK, that that is a path toward loss. You have to acknowledge if you want
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to have a shot at it, you have to acknowledge that things are looking very, very bad and you need to
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start making bold choices in the primary. So bold, I think, as to just go around. If Donald Trump's
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giving a speech with the auto workers, then Ron DeSantis should show up afterward and give a speech
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about why Donald Trump's wrong about everything, if that's what DeSantis really believes.
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But this is what's also been the difficult thing for the DeSantis campaign. DeSantis needs to make a
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strong case that he is radically different from Trump. But the lane that DeSantis is running in is
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the Trump lane. But some of the support that DeSantis is attracting is the anti-Trump support. So it's put
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him in a tough position. I totally agree. This is a tightrope walk if the campaign is going to be anything
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at all. But playing along to the normal rules of the game is not very likely to help. The polls haven't
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moved and Trump is over 40 points up. Now, what about that auto worker strike? The auto worker strike is
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something that could be a wedge issue for conservatives because conservatives are generally not very pro-union.
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There have been times when conservatives have been pro-union, but really since the 80s and 90s, we've had
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this caricature of being very anti-union. So what do we think? Do we like the auto worker strike? Do we not
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like it? Conservatives will be the first ones to tell you that the auto unions destroyed the city of Detroit,
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and then a lot of automobile manufacturing went overseas, and that was that. Didn't help the workers,
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didn't help anybody. But in this case, what are the auto workers striking over? They're striking over
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the Biden administration, ramming a bunch of climate change BS down their throats to try to
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force these automakers, also ESG and also the investors and also the corporations, forcing
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these stupid electric vehicles down their throats that are upending their way of life and producing
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things that a lot of people don't even want. So how do we feel? I feel pretty good about this strike.
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I like the strike a lot. I don't like it when, I don't know, the national teacher union goes on
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strike because they want to keep the schools shut down 10 more years after COVID. I don't like that
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strike. I don't like that union particularly. But I do like this strike, and I do like this union.
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I think conservatives, especially if we really are going to become the party of Pittsburgh rather
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than the party of Paris, we've got to be a little more comfortable with worker concerns and worker
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actions. And I think we've got to be a little bit more comfortable with collective action
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in its proper place. I'm not saying workers of the world unite. We all need to start reading
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Marx and Engels. But we've got to get a little more particular about these things. Politics makes
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for strange bedfellows. Right now, the Democrat party is throwing its middle finger up to a lot of
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union workers. Not to the teacher unions. They love the teacher unions. But to auto workers in
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Detroit. Detroit is in Michigan. Michigan is a state that we need to win. And if conservatives
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want to pick up those votes, we've got to be able to appeal to different groups of people than we
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previously have in the past. One of the arguments for a candidate like Donald Trump over a candidate,
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I'm not saying over a candidate in this primary race, I'm saying over a candidate like a Mitt
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Romney, who doesn't appeal to union workers. Mitt Romney, who says the 47% of Americans are dirty,
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rotten, filthy bums. Okay. I think a candidate like a Trump appeals to voters more than a candidate like
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a John McCain, who doesn't really appeal to those same people. And so if you're going to try to
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assemble a coalition and you say, okay, I'm going to lose this group of people. I'm going to lose this
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group of people. I'm going to lose this group of people. You got to make it up somewhere else.
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And so a candidate like Trump does turn off a lot of people. He's going to turn off a lot of,
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you know, center-right, moderate kind of liberal women in blue places. I don't know, you know,
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what the suburban women they sometimes say or the fancy establishment men or what. Okay. You're going
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to lose those people. You got to pick it up somewhere else. And where do you pick it up? I think Detroit
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is a fine place to pick up support. Speaking of collective action, the blob, the Borg is turning
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against Russell Brand, who I have learned in recent hours is not only a British actor who dresses funny,
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but a podcaster and a figure who's turned against the establishment. Russell Brand is being deprived of
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money on YouTube amid his rape and sexual assault allegations. These are allegations that date back
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many years that hadn't come out until, in the words of these women, journalists called them.
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And why did the journalists start calling them? Russell Brand was very open. I said yesterday on
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the show, I don't know if he committed any crimes according to the strict letter of the law,
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but I have no doubt that he did extremely depraved, degenerate, awful things that certainly should be
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illegal. But you don't get to just rewrite the law ex post facto. And they're not going after him
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because of whatever he did in any depraved sexual kind of environment. They're going after him
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because he contradicts the prevailing liberal narrative. And the whole reason that the ruling
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class encourages all this bizarre, weird sex stuff in Hollywood, in the media, in the academy,
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everywhere else, the reason that they do that is so that they've got compromise on you. So if you ever
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stop towing the party line, they're going to say 15 years later, oh, you're actually a rapist.
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Oh, you're, at the very least, you're a creep and a weirdo. Yeah, we're going to destroy your
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reputation and cut off your money. And then what happens? The corporations and the platforms that
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control our entire public square, there's only a handful of them. They spring into action. They
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say, yeah, you're going to lose your money. You're going to severely have your ability to speak
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restricted. And then maybe you'll get a trial. Maybe you won't, but we're going to ruin your life
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long before you ever see a day in court. What does this tell us? Does this tell us that we should
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whine and complain and say, YouTube should be neutral? YouTube, you guys said you were going
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to be neutral and apolitical, but you're actually being political. Yes, they are. YouTube controls,
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Google broadly controls speech in the public square, controls 90% of the flow of information
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around the internet. Yeah, they're political. Political just means public. Obviously they're
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political. We're convinced, some of us are convinced that YouTube and Google and Facebook and Bud Light
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and Anzeiser Bush, Transheiser Bush, all of these corporations that they're not political because
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they're just in the economy. They're just, they're sort of private. They're not the government. They're
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not, that's just the wrong way of thinking about it. There is no avoiding politics. And obviously
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economic power has a political dimension to it. This is one of the real lies of liberalism is it,
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is it tells you that politics is just one little tiny segment of society. And there's politics,
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there's the economy, there's a civil society, there's the this, there's the that, there's the this,
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there's the that. But in practice, at the crucial moments, we see that isn't true.
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At the crucial moments, we see, oh, actually those economic powers, those private powers,
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the ISPs, the social media platforms, the this, that, and the other thing,
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they're going to work toward political ends. So the culmination of this whole liberal project
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is that you just have the outsourcing of political power away from the people toward
00:24:43.800
a handful of billionaires in Silicon Valley who are going to do whatever the hell they want.
00:24:47.960
And you think that you have no ability to influence the government. Often that's the
00:24:57.200
case. But I promise you, you have far less ability to influence Google or YouTube or these gazillionaire
00:25:03.360
too big to fail corporations, many of which were built with help of the state, that don't really
00:25:08.200
care. If you say, well, I'm going to stop using Google. No, you're not. No, you're not. Google is the
00:25:13.840
infrastructure of the internet. You're not going to stop it at all. Well, my business is going to
00:25:18.660
stop advertising on Google. No, you're not. They own advertising on the internet.
00:25:23.440
They're essentially a state utility. They just are even less accountable than the government is.
00:25:28.720
The only way out is going to be through, folks. This was the same kind of argument we've been
00:25:38.300
having for seven, eight years now in public. Conservatives are finally waking up. Used to be,
00:25:42.620
well, hands off. Look, it's a private corporation. You don't like it. Build your own Google.
00:25:46.440
Well, look, I don't like what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it for some
00:25:50.240
reason. And I don't care what we teach students in schools. I don't care what they think, just how
00:25:54.740
they think. You try to pretend there's neutrality. There's no neutrality in politics, guys. You stand
00:26:00.260
in the middle of the road, you're going to get hit by a truck, okay? If you try to compromise
00:26:04.720
between good and evil, what happens? What do we read about in the Bible? You will be disgusting to
00:26:10.140
everybody. You will be spit out for being lukewarm. Don't be lukewarm. Speaking of corporations in
00:26:16.260
politics and presidential candidates, Senator Tim Scott was just touring around Iowa, and he says,
00:26:23.440
he tweeted out, he said, I got a little hungry on the road in Iowa. Good thing I spotted the golden
00:26:28.240
arches. And he posted a picture of himself holding up some McDonald's French fries with a little
00:26:34.340
hamburger on the tray. And I zoomed in. I said, look, I'm something of a fast food aficionado myself.
00:26:40.880
I'm on the road a lot, even when I'm not on the road of sweet little Elise is out of town. I like
00:26:45.420
fast food. I zoomed in and I saw Senator Scott was eating a Big Mac. And I said, I don't believe
00:26:55.840
that this man is a regular user of McDonald's. I don't believe it. Because nobody who is a regular
00:27:02.580
user of McDonald's would ever choose a Big Mac today over a double quarter pounder with cheese.
00:27:09.320
Because you see, the Big Mac, back in the olden days, Big Macs used to be a kind of a nice sandwich.
00:27:14.340
Now, the patties are very thin, dry. It's all just bread and shredded lettuce and Russian dressing,
00:27:23.580
secret sauce. The double quarter pounder with cheese, nice, thick, juicy patties,
00:27:28.520
nice, fresh beef. It's so much better. And why do I say all of this? Not only because I'm very
00:27:34.080
passionate about American fast food, but because that tweet seems to me inauthentic. It seems
00:27:41.760
inauthentic and people don't like that anymore. And that's how politicians used to campaign and say,
00:27:47.840
how do you do, fellow normal people? Or yes, I am one of you. Yes. And I don't know why that changed
00:27:56.260
exactly. Maybe authenticity was always sort of nice. But no, I don't think so. Even Ronald Reagan,
00:28:06.380
one of the great presidents in American history, he didn't come off as authentic. He seemed sincere.
00:28:11.800
I don't think he was a liar or cynical. But Ronald Reagan was an actor. And well, so much of his
00:28:17.740
presidency seemed, well, I would have to say a little bit scripted, right? And it's good. I mean,
00:28:25.300
it was a good presidency. But now think about the difference between that age and the age of
00:28:32.740
Trump. Or the age of Barack Obama, for that matter. Even Barack Obama seemed a little more
00:28:38.160
casual, a little looser, a little bit more authentic. Maybe that's because media now is
00:28:44.340
so much more intimate. If you're listening to the show right now, maybe you're in your car,
00:28:49.080
maybe you've got some earbuds in, you're walking around, doing work, cleaning the dishes. I don't
00:28:52.820
know where, but you certainly could be in your home and you're on your bed, watching on the computer.
00:28:57.340
It's very, very intimate. To say nothing of the advent of reality TV, which has now just
00:29:03.160
transformed into little reels of random people on the internet taking handheld videos in their
00:29:08.560
apartments. It's very intimate. It's not big Hollywood stages with all the lighting and all
00:29:14.640
of the makeup artists and all of the scripting. It's not that anymore. And I think some of the
00:29:18.860
candidates are at a disadvantage because of it. I don't mean to beat up on Tim Scott too much.
00:29:23.980
He's a wonderful guy and he's doing better as a presidential candidate than some people thought
00:29:29.580
he would. But this seems very, very old school, this kind of thing. Seems very dated. No one
00:29:36.440
believes that Tim Scott actually sent that tweet. No one believes that most politicians send their
00:29:40.940
tweets. Donald Trump was attacked for all of his tweets, but people believed that he was sending
00:29:45.920
them and that creates a personal, intimate connection, which goes a very long way. There are
00:29:50.940
people who are working on other presidential campaigns saying, why do you still like Trump?
00:29:54.820
Why do you people still like Trump? He did this stupid thing and he did this bad thing and he said
00:29:58.620
this dumb thing. And all of that's true. All of that can be true. But that personal, intimate
00:30:04.360
connection can go a very long way. You see it when the guy is on the campaign trail.
00:30:11.280
Speaking of Republican lawmakers, Politico is reporting now that a GOP lawmaker,
00:30:17.540
a senior GOP lawmaker in the House, has said that there are not sufficient votes among Republicans
00:30:25.100
to continue funding the war in Ukraine. And there are, the Democrats want to keep funding the war,
00:30:31.220
some Republicans want to keep funding the war. But this senior House Republican person,
00:30:36.000
anonymous, reportedly told Politico, quote, we do not have the votes in the Republican conference to do
00:30:41.540
any Ukraine funding. To which I say, lol, ha ha ha. Oh, you sweet summer child. You think,
00:30:52.820
do you seriously think that you need Republican votes in the House to fund the war in Ukraine?
00:30:59.200
Do you seriously think that you need any votes in the House to fund the war in Ukraine?
00:31:04.640
You don't. What they're going to do is they're just going to make up the money. They're just going
00:31:11.360
to find it somewhere. Or what they're going to do is they're going to change the prices of the
00:31:16.360
materials that we're sending to Ukraine and say, oh, actually, we have extra money. They already did
00:31:21.440
this. They did this back in June. Remember the headline back in June? The U.S. government misplaced
00:31:29.020
$6 billion. And we just found it. And it was actually supposed to go to Ukraine. So we're
00:31:33.300
just giving them $6 billion that we had accidentally misplaced. That headline wasn't exactly true.
00:31:39.380
But it was substantially true. But the real story was that the U.S. government wanted to keep funding
00:31:44.880
the war in Ukraine. And they found it politically inconvenient to go through the whole rigmarole of
00:31:50.880
getting a new vote and getting people to commit to funding publicly. So what they did was they changed
00:31:55.960
the prices of the weapons that we're sending to Ukraine retroactively. So they say, oh, actually,
00:32:00.220
the weapons that we sent Ukraine, they're actually worth less than we previously said they were worth.
00:32:05.540
So and that means because we already approved a bazillion gazillion dollars to Ukraine,
00:32:09.300
because we're retroactively changing the price of the weapons, that means we've got more money to
00:32:13.820
send more weapons. OK, great. There you go. Here's here's the equivalent of $6 billion of more
00:32:18.980
weapons. But the number is just completely made up. Doesn't doesn't matter. They'll just do this again.
00:32:24.600
The U.S. government will not give up the war in Ukraine because of some Republican congressman.
00:32:30.340
I promise you that that is not how our government works. Our government operates largely outside of
00:32:38.100
the purview of the House, certainly of the U.S. Senate and perhaps even of the U.S. president.
00:32:44.740
It just kind of rolls along, which is how you can have Caligula's horse over there from Pennsylvania
00:32:50.080
as the U.S. senator and how you can have Joe Biden, who doctors I don't think have yet
00:32:56.020
properly concluded whether or not he's actually alive or dead and just hung up by marionette
00:33:00.940
strings. But it doesn't really matter if Joe Biden can pronounce his own name or figure out which way
00:33:05.360
to walk around a room. The government just keeps rolling along. And that is especially true when it
00:33:10.400
comes to foreign policy and the funding of a war. Now, speaking of Ukraine, speaking of our great global
00:33:15.940
challenges, Vladimir Zelensky showed up in his Fidel Castro military fatigues to the United Nations,
00:33:22.460
and he just gave a speech on the real threat we face, which ultimately apparently is not even the
00:33:28.180
Russians. Even though humanity is failing on its climate policy objectives, this means that extreme
00:33:35.860
weather will still impact the normal global life and some evil state will also weaponize its outcomes.
00:33:44.660
And when people in the streets of New York and other cities of the world went out on climate protests,
00:33:54.920
we all have seen them. And when people in Morocco and Libya and other countries die as a result of
00:34:03.420
natural disasters, and when islands and countries disappear underwater, and when tornadoes and deserts are
00:34:12.380
spreading into into into new territories, and when all of these is happening, one unnatural disaster in
00:34:20.520
Moscow decided to launch a big war and kill tens of thousands of people.
00:34:26.100
You see what he's doing here? What he's doing here is what would happen when a conquered people would
00:34:39.280
finally accept the rule of the conquering empire. The Roman empire comes in, conquers some far-flung
00:34:47.060
people. And what do the leaders of that people do to show their obeisance, to show that they've been
00:34:53.200
vanquished? They begin to worship the Roman gods. That is what he's doing. That is how Vladimir
00:35:00.040
Zelensky is proving his loyalty as a vassal state to the West, the liberal West, and trying to get that
00:35:08.080
sweet, sweet funding from the liberal West, is he's paying worship to the new gods of the liberal West.
00:35:15.880
And in this case, that would be Mother Gaia. That would be climate change. That's the animating
00:35:21.900
religion. Now, I hesitate to say that environmentalism, global warmingism, has fully replaced
00:35:31.020
Christianity as the religion of the West. I don't think that's possible because I think Christianity
00:35:34.680
is true, and so there's no replacement theology for that because that's the true thing and it's never
00:35:40.460
going away. However, there are a great many liberal elites who live their lives as though that is the
00:35:47.640
case. Their theological worldview is shaped much more by climate change. That's the cause, the moral
00:35:57.080
cause that affects everything, the economy, family life, the political order, everything.
00:36:02.800
And Vladimir Zelensky, who just wants to not be taken out by a cup of polonium tea from Vladimir Putin,
00:36:08.900
Vladimir Zelensky, who wants to keep his country from becoming part of Russia, he comes and he says,
00:36:13.720
okay, the only way to do it is to be part of the West and have the West fund this war for me.
00:36:18.900
And the way to do that is to pay homage and worship to their gods. And what a damning display that the
00:36:26.840
gods to which he has to pay worship are the pagan nature gods of climate change. My favorite comment
00:36:35.400
yesterday is from Summer D, 7668, who says, how can they be trusted to uphold, defend, and enforce the
00:36:41.400
constitution if they can't even enforce a dress code? Very good point. If you are not able mentally and
00:36:50.080
physically to make yourself presentable in the morning, if you can't understand the intricacies of
00:36:57.640
putting on a business suit and why that might matter in public life, you're probably not going to be
00:37:03.580
able to uphold the political order of a nation. Because politics is very, very complicated. A lot
00:37:09.560
of people on the left and the right really want to simplify our system of government. Say, it's all
00:37:14.360
about rights. No, it's all about freedom. No, actually, it's all about equality. And really, what the
00:37:21.420
founding fathers wanted was, and then they insert whatever their pet project is. And now, read the
00:37:26.720
federalist. Read the anti-federalist arguments. Read the debates that were going on in the 18th
00:37:34.720
century. Our system of government is extremely complicated. And as we have chipped away at it
00:37:41.860
for so long over the years, it's become a bit more fragile. And if you can't figure out how and why you
00:37:47.060
should wear a business suit, you might not be in the best position to defend it.
00:37:53.540
Speaking of Ukraine, my friend Jack Posobiec is apparently on a Ukraine hit list.
00:38:01.100
You know Jack? Conservative journalist, speaker. You've seen him. He and I have done events together
00:38:07.080
and been on each other's shows. And anyway, Ukraine apparently wants to murder Jack.
00:38:11.660
That's not good. How did I find this out? Well, because there's this website that lists enemies
00:38:22.740
of Ukraine. And it's supposedly an unofficial website, but it looks a little bit sort of
00:38:29.500
affiliated with the country. What Jack said here is, after the collapse of his counteroffensive,
00:38:37.520
Zelensky's biggest threat is not me. It's his own intelligence services. Hope you don't get put on
00:38:41.480
the CIA's early retirement plan, Vlad. Drop the receipts on the Bidens and we'll get you a nice
00:38:46.160
McMansion in Sarasota. So Jack's on this list. List includes Tulsi Gabbard, Prime Minister Viktor
00:38:54.200
Orban, Roger Waters from Pink Floyd, because he's spoken out against Ukraine. I'm pleased to see I'm
00:38:58.960
not on the list, even though I did this long thread about the Ukraine military spokesman who's an
00:39:04.360
American dude who dresses up like a chick. At least as far as I can tell, I'm not on this list.
00:39:09.720
The organization that puts out the list is called Mirotvorets, which ironically translates to
00:39:15.460
peacemaker. They say it's separate from the government, but I don't really buy it because
00:39:18.980
it was founded in 2014 by a former Ukraine government minister, George Tuca. It's reported
00:39:24.520
to be run by a former member of Ukraine state intelligence under an alias, Roman Zaitsev.
00:39:30.120
And according to the Times of London, the list has been used by government officials at checkpoints
00:39:34.160
in Ukraine in addition to official government databases. So when that psycho spokesman for
00:39:44.700
the Ukraine military, the American transvestite, when he said that he didn't really threaten any
00:39:51.640
journalists, that's a lie. First of all, it's a lie because we saw the video where he said any
00:39:57.080
Russian propagandists were hunting you down. But now we see the list. And the list includes
00:40:02.400
not only journalists, but American journalists. Not only American journalists, but Jack Posobiec.
00:40:09.660
Sure looks like that was the case. And it sure looks like it undercuts the liberals' argument that
00:40:16.620
they're the great defenders of journalism. No, they're not. And the argument that journalism,
00:40:20.740
that's the fourth estate, the people who speak truth to power. It's not that either.
00:40:23.900
Political forces have spokesmen. Political forces have people who articulate and communicate those
00:40:32.060
views. And the liberals view their opposing journalists as enemies here and abroad. And
00:40:40.800
they view their journalists as not the speakers of truth to power. They view them as propagandists,
00:40:48.180
which is often what they are. One story I got to get to, this is so, this is a creepiest story
00:40:53.060
I've seen in a long time. A teenage girl found an iPhone in an airplane bathroom. And it was an
00:40:57.700
iPhone underneath the seat or behind the seat to basically catch her naked. And this was after a
00:41:02.780
flight attendant, a male flight attendant on, I think it was American Airlines, told her, hey,
00:41:08.060
come up to the, use the bathroom in the first class cabin. And then he was in there first. Then
00:41:13.800
she goes in, uses the bathroom. Then she sees him go back in there, presumably to take this iPhone.
00:41:19.480
The family is extremely disturbed as well they should be. My thought on this is, I mean, I hope
00:41:25.660
the family sues. I hope this guy goes, the guy ended up getting arrested apparently once the plane
00:41:29.580
landed. But my main thought on this, other than just revulsion and disgust is how many things had to
00:41:39.860
go wrong in this guy's life. How many bad turns did this guy have to take to get to the point where he
00:41:46.640
was planting a camera in an airplane bathroom for a 14-year-old girl to film her in states of
00:41:54.480
undress, in kind of disgusting states of undress too, because you're in a bathroom? How perverted
00:42:00.680
do you have to be? And then it reminded me of one of the great Norm Macdonald bits about Bill Cosby
00:42:08.100
and hypocrisy. As my buddy says, the worst part about Cosby was he was a hypocrite. And I said,
00:42:14.180
I don't think that was the worst part. To me, the worst part was the raping. Way up high.
00:42:38.960
But anyways, hypocrisy would be way down the line, you know, like on the fourth page or some
00:42:45.160
shit. Yes, that is as usual. Norm is right. And the libs will say, well, the worst crime is hypocrisy.
00:42:52.960
That's the worst crime. That's why the liberals will jump with joy and applaud and be so happy
00:42:58.860
about depraved sexual acts taking place at pride parades. That's why they'll be so thrilled and
00:43:03.740
happy about Drag Queen Story Hour inviting sexual criminals to go talk to five-year-olds. They'll say
00:43:10.020
it's wonderful. It's expressive. It's great. But then Lauren Boebert gets caught on a hidden camera
00:43:14.700
in a dark theater doing things that are untoward, and they'll try to throw the book at her.
00:43:21.320
Because what they say is, no, it's not what she did. It's the hypocrisy. That's the worst part.
00:43:26.480
Which, by the way, they confuse hypocrisy with just having standards and failing to live up to them,
00:43:30.860
which is called sinning, which is called being human. But yeah, hypocrisy is bad. Failing to have
00:43:37.120
a standard is bad. Being an active hypocrite and pretending to have a standard and then
00:43:41.100
intentionally undermining that, that's worse. That's true. But what about the scheming?
00:43:50.220
To me, that's the darkest part of this story. No, the darkest part is that this 14-year-old
00:43:55.460
girl was traumatized in an airplane bathroom. That's the worst part. But the most unsettling
00:44:00.400
part of it is all the scheming. Think about how much this guy sat at home scheming and thinking
00:44:06.220
and entertaining bizarre thoughts in his head. And you know this guy is completely addicted to porn.
00:44:11.100
And I bet this guy's looking at pretty creepy porn if he's doing this to a 14-year-old girl.
00:44:15.740
And just his entire life must be just filled, like a room filled with just poison gas,
00:44:22.840
with just all of this hideous stuff. And all of which is to say, it's a reminder to get off that
00:44:30.960
path early. Because it can get really, really bad. To get off that path early. This is the wisdom,
00:44:36.700
the traditional Christian wisdom, of avoiding the near occasion of sin.
00:44:41.480
Because one moment you're entertaining weird thoughts, the next moment, you know, maybe you're
00:44:44.660
looking at bad stuff, whatever. And then the next moment you find yourself as an airplane steward
00:44:48.560
doing really creepy stuff at 30,000 feet. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss
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