Ep. 1580 - $150,000 Bounty On President Trump？
Summary
After President Trump survived an assassination attempt by a hair's breadth back in July, Joe Biden and his campaign continued to call him an existential threat to the country. So it was no surprise when, nine days ago, another would-be assassin tried to take President Trump s life. And because we now have evidence from the alleged perpetrator written down, that was exactly what he intended.
Transcript
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. After President Trump survived an assassination
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attempt by a hair's breadth back in July, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden continued to call him an
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existential threat to the country. So it was no surprise when nine days ago, another would-be
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assassin tried to take President Trump's life. I say would-be assassin because we now have evidence
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from the alleged perpetrator written down that that was exactly what he intended. According to a note
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just released by the DOJ, the perp allegedly wrote, quote, this was an assassination attempt on Donald
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Trump, but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. I will offer
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$150,000 to whomever can complete the job, end quote. Which raises just one question.
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Why exactly did the DOJ release this letter? I want to believe the Biden-Harris DOJ released this
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letter in order to advance the prosecution of Trump's would-be killer. But if that were the case,
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couldn't they just have submitted it to the court privately? Why did it have to be public? It took
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a year and a half to get a manifesto from the trans killer who shot up a Christian elementary school in
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Nashville. Why did it only take eight days to see this letter? A letter offering a massive reward
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to anyone who might succeed where two previous assassins had failed. It's almost as if the Biden-Harris
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DOJ is eager to put a bounty out on Trump's head. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Greta has turned jihadi. That was a twist. I guess in a way,
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I sort of saw it coming. I'm not, I didn't know about the, I knew she was going to just go down
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it would seem to me like the Biden-Harris DOJ were rushing to release this letter from the alleged
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assassin offering a $150,000 bounty, that's huge, in order to encourage people to keep trying to
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kill Trump. If I didn't know any better, thank goodness, I hope I know better. Meanwhile, the
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Harris campaign itself is running not as the government, not as the incumbent administration,
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which it obviously is, but running as a challenger. This posture reached its most absurd extreme just
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a couple days ago when Tim Waltz said this on the campaign trail. We can't afford, we can't afford
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four more years of this. We cannot afford four more years of Kamala Harris in the White House.
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That's why we got to send Kamala Harris back to the White House. Four more years of this,
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the unemployment, the migration, the foreign affairs, the collapse in the world order, we can't
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afford any more of this. So please reelect Kamala Harris. This should be the biggest self-own of any
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presidential campaign in memory. And yet, it's not. They're getting away with it. Kamala Harris is
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getting away with running as a challenger. And the way she's able to do that is by, one, not having
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really staked out a position on anything in this campaign. She did in 2020 when she was running as a
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radical leftist. And then she basically just shut up about policy and only talked about Venn diagrams
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and school buses while she was vice president. But she can sort of get away with it because it's not
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exactly a re-election campaign for an incumbent. She isn't the president now. Biden is the president
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technically. So it's just kind of weird. I mean, she is the incumbent vice president.
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So four more years of this should reflect poorly on her. And yet, they're kind of getting away with
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it. And they're getting away with it largely because the media will back them up. And the
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media do still wield a lot of power. Not for you. If you're listening to this show on podcast or
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terrestrial radio or if you're watching on YouTube, if you're kind of dialed in, you understand the
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game, I think, a little bit better for how our political order works. But there are a lot of people
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who don't pay a ton of close attention to politics. And they just kind of have ABC or CBS or NBC on or
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they just believe what they see on Google News. And so the media do wield a lot of power for those
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people. That makes up a lot of voters. There's one thing that might change that dynamic. I think
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there's one potential inflection point left in this race. Maybe there's more if the DOJ is going to put
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out hits on Donald Trump. But there's at least one more. And that is, over in the Middle East, Israel is
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currently destroying southern Lebanon. Not with facts and logic, but with pagers and beepers and gigantic
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bombs. Over the past few days, the state of Israel has killed top Hezbollah commander along with 37 other
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militiamen and civilians. Just a couple days ago, Israel hit some 1,300 targets in southern Lebanon. The
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Lebanon Health Ministry is claiming that 274 people have been killed, 1,024 people injured two days ago
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alone. The U.S. is now sending more troops to the Middle East. It's not that the U.S. is deploying
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troops for the first time. We have troops all over the world and we have a lot of troops in the Middle
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East. Well, the Pentagon has said that we're sending more. We don't know how many. The Pentagon
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Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder would provide no details on how many additional forces,
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what exactly they're doing there. But the U.S. currently has about 40,000 troops in the region. So,
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that's a lot of people. Thus far, Kamala has been able, implausibly, improbably, to run as an
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incumbent. Or as a challenger, rather. This could be the final twist that makes that strategy untenable.
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Because the wedge issue right now within the Democrat Party, I mentioned Greta, the leftist
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performance artist slash street activist par excellence. Greta's getting real angry at the
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strategy of the incumbent administration, which continues to support Israel. The Democrat base
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hates Israel. The Democrat establishment and donor class still broadly supports Israel. This could be
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a big wedge issue. And they're going to have to do something. The Biden-Harris administration is
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deploying more troops. We're sending Navy ships over into the region. If there is a major war that breaks
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out hard to imagine how there isn't in southern Lebanon, the U.S. is going to have to do something
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because we're the global hegemon. And Israel only exists because of American support. So, there is no
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way that the incumbent administration can get out of this. That could reflect very poorly on Kamala
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Harris. Especially in certain swing states, like Michigan, with large Muslim populations. This could be the final
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twist. I've said now for a few days, what makes the present instability in Israel and southern Lebanon and Gaza so
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odd is that if you're Israel, it makes total sense to do what they're doing. If you are the United States, it makes total
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sense to try to get them to stop doing what they're doing because it's bad for the United States to get pulled into another
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war in the Middle East. So, what they're doing is bad for America. But oddly, it's kind of good for
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Republicans in as much as it's really bad for Democrats and it's bad for the incumbent administration,
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which is running as a challenger. Is that confusing enough for you? Well, let me make it even more
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confusing speaking of foreign affairs. Zelensky, Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, is currently in
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America touring U.S. munitions factories. You know, he's trying to check out the goods before we send them
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all over to him. He's over in Pennsylvania, swing state, and he is giving interviews to American
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press attacking President Trump. Seems a little inappropriate, wouldn't you say? This guy, this
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joker, like actual joker who's a comedian, turned leader of Ukraine to whom we have given billions
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and billions of dollars in arms and munitions, is currently here looking a gift horse in the mouth,
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inspecting these munitions, going to swing states, effectively campaigning for Kamala Harris and
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attacking the former U.S. president, at least his campaign ticket, and defending the incumbent
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administration. So, here's the interview. I'm just going to read you a little bit of this interview
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with The New Yorker. Zelensky says, my feeling is that Trump doesn't really know how to stop the war,
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even if he might think he knows how. With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it, the less
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you understand. I've seen many leaders who were convinced they knew how to end it tomorrow,
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and as they waded deeper into it, they realized it's not that simple. The New Yorker journalist
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says, apart from Trump's own reluctance to talk about Ukrainian victory, he's chosen J.D. Vance
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as his vice presidential running mate. He is too radical, says Zelensky. He's too radical. Who asked
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you? Who asked you, Zelensky, to weigh in on President Trump's choice of running mate in the
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American election? No, he is too radical. He is no good for Zelensky. No good for Ukraine. No,
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we veto. We do not like J.D. Vance. The New Yorker interviewer responds, Vance has come out with a more
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precise plan to give up our territories. Direct quote, to give up our territories. I do not like
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this. I do not like this, J.D. Vance. Your words, not mine, but yes, that's the gist of it. And then
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Vance, then Zelensky concludes. His message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice.
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This brings us back to the question of the cost and who shoulders it. The idea that the world should
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end this war at Ukraine's expense is unacceptable. But I do not consider this concept of his a plan
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in any formal sense. What? Cajones on this guy. What cojones? Whatever cojones recently flew off
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the Hezbollah militants, I think they all landed with that guy. He's got cojones in spades to do this,
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to come to America to criticize the former president, current Republican nominee for president,
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and his running mate, and all the stuff that we've given him over the past few years,
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say, no, we need more of it. How does he get away with this? I'll tell you exactly how he gets away
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with this. Because Vladimir Zelensky is not the leader of a foreign country. That's how we think
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of him. That's what he looks like. He's got the funny accent and the weird clothing and Ukraine is all
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in the middle of nowhere. And so it seems like he's the leader of a foreign nation, but he's not.
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Vladimir Zelensky is a vassal within the American empire. And I'm not even saying that as a bad
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thing. I'm not, in principle, opposed to empire. In fact, I think empire is probably the more natural
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and sometimes preferable form of political order. It certainly goes back to the earliest days of
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history. So I'm not saying it like it's necessarily a bad thing. It might be a bad thing,
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because the American empire right now seems rather precarious. I'm just saying that's what it is.
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Ukraine is not a sovereign, independent nation in any meaningful sense. Vladimir Zelensky is not
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the duly elected leader of his sovereign nation. Didn't they suspend elections? He is a vassal
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within the American empire. And the American empire does not just include 50 states. It doesn't just
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include the 48 contiguous states. It doesn't just include the 48 states plus Alaska and Hawaii. It also
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includes territories like Puerto Rico, territories like Guam, American Samoa. It also includes,
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really, I guess you'd say it includes NATO. NATO is within, underneath the protection of the American
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empire. And it certainly includes Ukraine, which is a proxy for a fight between the United States
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and Russia. And so Zelensky, when he comes here and criticizes our presidential candidates,
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in a way, I kind of get it. I still find it offensive as an American, but I kind of get it.
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If you're Zelensky, you're saying, look, man, whatever, I am vassal in your empire. You have
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provided me munitions. I am doing job for you in Eastern Europe. Now I want to weigh in on my
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presidential candidate. One man, one vote. Where do I drop off my ballot? That's what he's probably
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doing in Pennsylvania. He's probably trying to figure out the drop box he's going to put his ballot
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Speaking of impressive territorial feats, this is a story I had to get to. This is an amazing story.
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It comes from, it's being reported actually all throughout local news. This headline is from
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Nine News. Cat travels hundreds of miles back home after it went missing in Yellowstone. How the
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missing cat made it from Wyoming to California, or even knew the right direction toward home,
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remains a mystery. So experts remain puzzled. But the leading theory right now as to how this cat
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made it all the way back home is that she avoided walking through Springfield, Ohio.
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I think that basically explains it. And so happily, the cat is back home and not roasting on a spit in
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Ohio. I have really nothing to add to the story. I just wanted to make the cooking cats joke. The
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migrants with the voodoo and the, so really, it's an impressive story, but that's really all I wanted
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to say about it. Speaking of vagrants, though, turning to human beings, really troubling story out of
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the U.S., the U.S. is on track to hit a new record high of homelessness. Over 650,000 Americans are
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living in the streets right now. This is according to data collected and analyzed by the Wall Street
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Journal from more than 250 homeless organizations. They've counted at least 550,000 homeless people so
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far. That is a 10% rise from last year's numbers. The numbers gathered from cities and from rural areas
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shows homelessness just as it was on a single night. So obviously, these numbers change and people,
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they're on the streets one night, they're off the streets another night, but that's just a little
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bit of a snapshot. This means that, given the trend, we'll probably surpass last year's high,
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which was 653,000, which is a ton of homeless people. That is the highest number that we have
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ever recorded. The government started to collect these data in 2007, and now 15, what is it, 17 years
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later, I guess, this is the highest number we have ever seen. What is causing this rise?
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There are a few factors. First of all, there are just legitimate economic problems.
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So you can't overlook that. There are people who are homeless today simply because the economy is
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in bad shape. And the economy sort of looks like it's in good shape because the market has looked
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strong and maybe GDP has ticked up a little bit. But inflation, the shocking cost of consumer goods
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under Biden and Harris, the massive increase in the cost of housing, all of those things have
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combined to put some people on the streets, not because they were addicted to drugs, not because
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they made, you know, years and years of terrible decisions, simply because of the crushing economic
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burden. That's real. Okay. I think that accounts for a rather small percentage of the homeless, but
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that is real. Then we mentioned the cost of housing. What could be driving the cost of housing up?
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Might it have something to do with the millions and millions of migrants that Biden and Harris are
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importing into this country? I'm not even just talking about the ones that they open the
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door for, that they say, please flood into our country illegally. We won't check. Don't worry,
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we're going to give you amnesty the first chance we get. Not even just them, but I was mentioning
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the Haitians in Ohio before. Harris and Biden imported over 300,000 Haitians into the country.
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This is a failed state that has reports of cannibalism, that widely practices voodoo.
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We've imported hundreds of thousands of those people. And it's not just the Haitians. All of
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these countless numbers of Haitians, Venezuelans, Guatemalans, Nicaragans, Hondurans, all these
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people just flooding through Mexico. What do you think that's going to do to housing? It's going to
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drive the costs up. And it's going to create problems in the labor market, which is going to
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make it even tougher for actual American citizens who are just trying to scrape by in an economy where
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the cost of goods and services could be up 22, 25, 30% since Biden took office. That's a big problem.
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But then there's another problem on top of that. Because contributing to these homeless numbers are
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obviously, it's all the migrants we're looking, especially in these cities. But I think the real
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secret sauce that's created this massive historic problem is permissiveness.
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So we can look at all the economic problems. The economic problems on the road do not account
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for this record high homelessness. It's less an economic problem than a permissiveness problem.
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We can't put people in insane asylum. We closed those many, many years ago.
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A lot of people, probably most people on the street, are addicted to drugs. And we're not doing
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anything to stop it. We don't arrest them. We don't arrest people for drug crimes anymore.
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The Democrat Party and many in the Republican Party are calling for relaxing drug laws.
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Guess what the consequence of that is? You get more druggies. And when you get more druggies,
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you get more people living on the street. Then we have the permissive open border. Well,
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guess what comes across that border? It's not just people. It's also drugs. Lots and lots of drugs,
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which lead to people on the street. Then on top of that, we live in a culture that encourages
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mental illness. We have some psych drugs and we dope up a huge swath of the population,
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but we also encourage disordered desires and behaviors and identities and the sorts of things
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that lead to people not living ordinary, stable lives in stable homes with families, the sort of
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lives that lead people to be vagrant. This is in part an economic problem, and the economic problem
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is in part a chosen problem by the Biden-Harris administration. But more broadly, this is a
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cultural problem. People are on the street in record numbers because we, as a society, through
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our elected representatives, want them to be there. If you don't want those people to be on the street,
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force them off of the street. Force them to go to homeless shelters. A lot of them don't want to go
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to shelters because then they can't do drugs. Force them to stop doing drugs. If they keep doing drugs,
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arrest them. Put them in prison. Cut off the supply of the drugs. Close off the open border.
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Punish people, the drug dealers, who are getting off on plea deals because they plea down to saying
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they have a little dime bag of pot when, in fact, they're selling drugs on the street and poisoning
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whole communities. Get tough on this stuff. Right now, we don't have either party really getting
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tough on this. The Republican Party, if anything, has become more permissive on drugs in recent years.
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Okay, well then don't look up one day and see you've got 650,000 people on the street and scratch
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your head wondering why. It's because of specific policies that both parties have endorsed.
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slash Michael. Speaking of permissiveness, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now looking into reining in
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the conservative media environment because we have to do something about this scourge,
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this plague of conservatives speaking their mind on social media. I do think that several members of
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Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what
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happened here. And we're going to have to figure out how we reign in our media environment so that you
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can't just spew disinformation and misinformation. It's one thing to have differing opinions, but
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it's another thing entirely to just say things that are false. And so that's something that we're looking
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into. So we're looking into that. We're looking into that because you can't, you don't have a right
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to say stuff that I don't like. We got to do something. We got to reign you in, conservatives.
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Right now, conservatives have one social media platform, the smallest of them all, X,
00:24:19.140
happily, where we can speak. The rest of the social media platforms, we can't. You know,
00:24:24.160
if you watch this show on YouTube, huge segments are censored out of the show every day. So if you
00:24:29.780
want to get the full show, you've got to go to Spotify, you've got to go to Apple Podcasts,
00:24:33.400
you've got to go to X, you've got to go to Daily Wire Plus, of course, because the tech
00:24:38.460
live forums are already reigning in conservatives, and AOC wants to reign them in even further.
00:24:43.600
And my answer to that, you're going to hear conservatives whine and yell and scream and
00:24:46.840
rend their garments and say, this isn't fair, but my constitution says you can't, man. But
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my answer is, yeah, of course. Of course, she's going to want to reign this stuff in.
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There are three options when it comes to our public square. Either they reign us in,
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we reign them in, or we both reign each other in. Either the public square will be dominated
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by leftist standards and taboos exclusively, or it will be dominated by conservative standards
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and taboos exclusively, or we'll come to some kind of conciliation where we agree, OK, certain
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things are off limits, but we'll have a broader range even for behaviors and ideas that are
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in conflict with one another. But that's how it's going to work. Over the weekend, I had
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the great honor and privilege of debating Princeton professor Robbie George on the topic of academic
00:25:47.820
freedom. And it was to commemorate God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley Jr., which is a book
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sometimes invoked in defense of academic freedom, but which ironically is a polemic against academic
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freedom. Before the right was for free speech, we were against free speech. Before the right was
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for academic freedom, we were against academic freedom. Not because we oppose it, not because
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there is such a thing as perfect free speech and academic freedom and we think it's bad, but because
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we don't think it's real at all. We think those are just polemical terms that, terms of propaganda
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that are used by the left to subvert traditional standards and norms before they impose their own
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standards and norms themselves. And as part of this debate, I pointed out that after Buckley wrote
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God and Man at Yale, his next book was a defense of Senator Joe McCarthy. And he said, he said,
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McCarthyism, I'm slightly paraphrasing, McCarthyism is a crusade around which people of stern moral
00:26:42.840
character can unite. And then, even though he tempered his support for McCarthy a little bit,
00:26:48.000
he continued to defend the senator for decades after he died. Robert F. Kennedy Sr., by the way,
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attended Joe McCarthy's funeral. So there was, in those days, a fairly strong anti-communist
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sentiment. Now, the way McCarthy is taught, he's the evil boogeyman and, you know, he was totally making
00:27:06.780
things up and there were no communists in the government. We know there were communists in the
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government because Richard Nixon caught one of them. That was Alger Hiss. But anyway, I digress.
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McCarthy was not tactically all that effective, but in the broader, in the claims he was making
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about communist infiltration and the threat of communism, he was absolutely right. So I pointed
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out that Buckley, and I think it was 1966, had a show on his public affairs program, Firing Line,
00:27:33.140
called McCarthyism, Past, Present, and Future. This really scared people because, is it, McCarthyism has a
00:27:39.320
future? What? That's crazy. And so Professor George pointed out, he said, well, we know what the future
00:27:43.780
of McCarthyism looked like. The future of McCarthyism was from the left. And he's absolutely right about
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that. But I think that just kind of proves my point. There was McCarthyism from the right when the
00:27:57.700
traditional Americans were vigorous in their opposition to communism. The moment we gave that up,
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we didn't just get a neutral public square where everyone agreed to disagree about everything.
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The moment we gave that up, we got McCarthyism from the left. We got communists, actual explicit
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communists in some cases, and other shades of leftists persecuting conservatives and squeezing
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out the space for conservative thought in the public square. Look where we are today.
00:28:27.480
We can barely speak anywhere. In the effective public square, the digital landscape, we have very few
00:28:32.200
places to speak of any prominence. In the university, we've all been run out. There are a handful of
00:28:36.580
conservative professors at prominent universities. In television, we're limited in where we can speak
00:28:45.080
because either we're advancing or we're retreating. But there's really no stable, neutral public ground.
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Either we're defending our standards and norms or they are being eroded by the left. AOC ain't going to
00:29:00.960
stop trying to rein us in. The only question is, are we going to try to rein them in a little bit?
00:29:04.960
Are we going to say, you know, guys, you know, like the porn in the elementary schools and all the
00:29:09.200
obscenity, you know, and the kind of calls for the death of America and the jihad protests in the
00:29:14.980
streets and the whole... No. No thanks. We're good. No thank you. We're not going to do that. And the
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Satan clubs at elementary schools, which is a real thing that actually is taking place right now,
00:29:26.120
which is absurd, even five or ten years ago to say would be a punchline. Yeah, all that stuff. No,
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thank you. We're not going to do that. We're going to exercise our political freedom to set
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standards. And no, we're going to rein you in, actually. But some conservatives don't want to
00:29:41.120
do that. They don't want to seem aggressive. They don't want to seem illiberal or authoritarian or
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whatever. Whatever other polemical terms of propaganda are being used against us today. Okay,
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that's fine. Well, don't be surprised when AOC, with those eccentric-looking eyes, shows up at your
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door and reins in your ability to speak. Now, speaking of those eccentric liberal ladies,
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Greta, Greta Thunberg, who is going to save the world. I don't know why she has a Mediterranean
00:30:11.980
accent. Greta, who's got more of a Nordic accent. She was going to save the world from the climate change
00:30:18.120
that was going to kill us all a few years ago. And we survived somehow, you know. So she's not
00:30:23.200
talking so much about the sun monster that was already supposed to have killed us. Now, she's
00:30:28.040
focused on a far more traditional enemy in public discourse. And that, of course, is the Jews.
00:30:36.260
Greta Thunberg is wrapping herself in a Palestinian keffia and is marching down the street behind a
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Palestinian flag chanting about democracy and how we all need to support Palestine.
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I think I've gotten the message. I don't know how much more Greta we need.
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How dare you, Akbar? Show me what power looks like.
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This, this is really silly. Totally predictable, by the way, because I'm old enough to remember
00:31:42.100
some years ago when a conservative figure went on to cable news and pointed out,
00:31:49.180
that the left was exploiting a child with problems to advance their own vague general agenda.
00:31:56.960
That the child didn't really have particularly sophisticated or coherent thoughts of her own,
00:32:03.900
but was merely being made into a symbol and a spokesman for the left.
00:32:09.180
And it wasn't really about a single issue, as we were being told at the time.
00:32:12.920
It wasn't about environmentalism or the ozone layer or I don't know,
00:32:17.280
whatever particular aspect of so-called climate change they pretended it was.
00:32:21.780
It was just about leftism broadly, which is basically what climate change is all about.
00:32:26.080
It's why they use this really generic term that can't ever be disproven.
00:32:29.720
It's climate change is about changing not the physical climate so much as the political climate
00:32:34.140
to crowd out conservatives, to ensconce liberals in power permanently, and to radically reorder society.
00:32:42.340
So the people who think that climate change is really about the natural environment
00:32:46.600
are going to be surprised that Greta has taken up the Palestinian cause
00:32:51.440
and she's going to go join Hamas or something like that.
00:32:53.900
But if you recognize that climate change is simply a term for leftism broadly,
00:32:59.060
then it's no surprise because the activist left has been donning the keffiyeh for almost a year now.
00:33:09.960
Because even here, the leftists who are showing up at NYU and covering their blue hair
00:33:16.380
and their 17 piercings with a keffiyeh don't really know anything about Islam.
00:33:23.760
I don't think they go to mosques or anything like that.
00:33:26.960
Most of them probably don't consciously believe in God or if they do, they don't like God a lot of the time.
00:33:36.760
And in as much as America and Israel have an alliance, they hate Israel.
00:33:41.960
And in as much as Israel is a settler colonial project, which it obviously is,
00:33:47.360
well, America is also a settler colonial project.
00:33:50.280
And there's an imperial aspect to the American government.
00:33:55.940
And it's all the things that we've been told that the left hates.
00:33:59.140
They just want to overthrow us, us, our power, our rule, our country, our history, the West broadly.
00:34:11.400
In as much as Israel seems to be a symbol of the West, they really hate it.
00:34:16.840
If Israel, there's another argument for the state of Israel,
00:34:20.720
which says Israel is actually an indigenous reclaiming of land.
00:34:29.200
One of the historical and even religious arguments for Zionism is,
00:34:32.580
hey, this land was ours and we got run off the land about 1970 years ago, 1930 years ago.
00:34:39.160
So that's basically the argument that the left makes when they want to give Mount Rushmore back to the Lakota Sioux.
00:34:47.980
And for some reason now we're going to give you back this land.
00:34:50.160
So they make that argument when it suits their purposes.
00:34:56.180
They make that argument for, I don't know, the Cheyenne or the Cherokee.
00:35:01.020
Because it's really not about Islam and Judaism.
00:35:05.580
It is to a larger degree about Christianity in as much as Christianity animates our actual civilization, which is the West.
00:35:11.200
And that's really, really what they're taking aim at.
00:35:14.040
Whether that means telling you you can't drive your car.
00:35:15.920
Whether that means telling you you can't speak on social media.
00:35:18.960
Whether that's telling you that you can't have a say in your government.
00:35:31.660
If that's what that all looks like, check, please.
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00:35:43.640
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00:36:23.700
My favorite comment yesterday is from user-mw4eq5mq4b, a really pithy username, who says,
00:36:34.620
Imagine running on an anti-AI position and having your stance pulled by AI bots dystopian.
00:36:41.560
That's right, because I mentioned yesterday, the future of polling might well be just not polling human beings for days and weeks,
00:36:48.740
but polling AI bots who think they're human beings for about 30 seconds.
00:36:54.060
And we'll see after 2024 if this is an effective kind of polling, but the early results are promising.
00:36:58.740
Well, what happens when the interests of the AI bots diverge from the interests of humans?
00:37:07.480
I'm sorry, Frank Luntz, I can't let you do that.
00:37:17.500
This is, I was just going back and rereading Abolition of Man yesterday by C.S. Lewis.
00:37:26.120
He says, every time man conquers nature through some great technological advancement,
00:37:32.080
the irony is that nature seems to conquer us simultaneously.
00:37:39.300
So, you know, we, I don't know, we invent artificial birth control.
00:37:44.440
But then future generations are less free because of those choices.
00:37:51.480
And this, of course, would be the transhumanists who are arguing that we need to upload our brains to the consciousness
00:37:56.180
or upload our consciousness to the cloud or something like that so that we can totally transcend Homo sapiens.
00:38:02.740
Okay, well, that final liberation would amount to nothing more than an Abolition of Man.
00:38:10.640
Speaking of deranged young women, do we have some tea here that I can pour out?
00:38:27.960
RFK Jr. is being accused of engaging in an e-affair, a virtual, a digital affair, with a liberal journalist, Olivia Nuzzi.
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I'm going to give her the nice Italian pronunciation.
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Olivia Nuzzi is now suspended from New York Magazine for sexting RFK Jr.
00:38:57.560
And RFK Jr. is so incensed by this news story that he is threatening to sue Olivia Nuzzi over this.
00:39:04.180
According to another journalist, Jessica Reed Krauss, who Nuzzi befriended, apparently to get access to Kennedy, because Krauss is friends with Kennedy.
00:39:20.920
They recount that just two weeks after New York Magazine published her article, she made a flirtatious remark during a phone conversation.
00:39:31.040
So the only time that Nuzzi seems to have been in physical contact with RFK Jr. that we know of was when she went up, profiled him for a little bit, and then published a hit piece.
00:39:41.380
So it wasn't even a flattering article about Kennedy.
00:39:45.200
She made a flirtatious remark during a phone call.
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A few weeks later, Nuzzi emailed him asking to be unblocked, claiming she had urgent information about a hit piece being prepared against him.
00:39:55.320
He unblocked her for that conversation, but later that night, she sent him a provocative picture, prompting him to block her again.
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For most of the next eight months, again, this is just Krauss' reporting, Kennedy kept her blocked,
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except for a few occasions when Nuzzi contacted him from different emails and phone numbers,
00:40:10.400
insisting he unblocked her for urgent discussions about an imminent hit piece.
00:40:14.880
Once unblocked, she bombarded him with increasingly pornographic photos and videos that he found difficult to resist.
00:40:20.300
After brief exchanges, he would block her again.
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Some doesn't smell quite right about this story.
00:40:28.840
And the first red flag in the story is this phrase, digital affair.
00:40:34.200
Bobby Kennedy had a digital affair with this young, relatively attractive, young female journalist.
00:40:46.240
And the Kennedys don't need to have digital affairs, okay?
00:40:59.900
The Kennedys have been probably the most infamous womanizers in American politics.
00:41:13.080
You're telling me that all of a sudden, a Kennedy, especially Bobby Kennedy, he's a good-looking guy.
00:41:17.860
You know, he's not 25 anymore, but he works out.
00:41:20.400
You're telling me that Bobby Kennedy, if he wants to have an affair, has to get his thrills, sending naughty pictures to some journalist?
00:41:30.600
If a Kennedy wants to have an affair, a Kennedy has an affair.
00:41:45.620
And these liberal lady journalists seem to punch above their weight on the craziness scale.
00:41:54.840
The question then becomes, was it a honeypot or was she legitimately just obsessed with him?
00:42:01.580
It seems a little bit like a honeypot in that she was just trying to lure him in to engage with her flirtations so she could do a big expose, as we are seeing now.
00:42:10.680
However, she also, this Olivia Nuzzi was engaged to Ryan Lizza, who's another prominent liberal journalist.
00:42:19.360
And apparently the engagement is off and the wedding is off.
00:42:22.960
She might just be nuts and have gotten obsessed with Kennedy.
00:42:29.240
Just after Kennedy endorses Trump, all of a sudden this supposed sex scandal comes out.
00:42:39.560
A Kennedy is going to have a sex scandal without any sex?
00:42:44.260
Now, speaking of RFK Jr., a Wisconsin judge has just ruled that RFK Jr. must stay on the ballot, even though he dropped out of the race quite a while ago.
00:42:57.040
Kennedy had a lot of trouble getting on the ballot in swing states.
00:43:00.200
He finally gets on the ballot, says, OK, I want to get off the ballot.
00:43:04.020
Siding with the Wisconsin Election Commission, Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Elke said it was too late for Kennedy to remove himself, according to state law.
00:43:14.940
The judge said that state law only allows people to be removed from the ballot if they die, which, of course, explains how Joe Biden was able to get off the ballot.
00:43:26.760
He has been replaced, even though he won the Democrat primary for president.
00:43:33.760
But RFK Jr. appears still to have a pulse, especially we're hearing the saucy story about, you know, lurid accusations by a reporter.
00:43:43.860
And as long as he's alive, and especially as long as he's endorsing Trump, they are not going to let this guy off the ballot.
00:43:52.680
Now, speaking of the rules, do you remember there's a story?
00:43:55.500
And speaking of the public square, there's a story I mentioned weeks ago.
00:43:59.940
There have been little updates to it, but now we've finally got a big update.
00:44:03.500
The founder of Telegram, this relatively small social media app, was arrested.
00:44:09.340
He was arrested in France because authorities said that his social media platform was being used to facilitate crime.
00:44:27.060
Now, this guy, Pavel Durov, had been flamboyant about how he was a cosmopolitan man, a citizen of the world.
00:44:37.980
He didn't owe any particular allegiances to Russia or France or this or that.
00:44:41.540
He was just going to have a platform for free speech.
00:44:46.440
According to the arrest, his platform has been complicit in running or in allowing illicit transactions, images of child sex abuse, drug trafficking, and fraud.
00:44:59.780
And he refused to communicate information to authorities.
00:45:05.740
And maybe there was the providing of cryptographic services to criminals.
00:45:09.700
And well, now, Pavel Durov is saying, OK, I'm going to change it.
00:45:15.200
Because one part of the story that's not being reported on all that much is that Telegram has been used, especially by right-wingers.
00:45:24.700
And of course, because if conservatives can't speak freely on Facebook, if they're censored on Google and YouTube, well, where are they going to turn?
00:45:33.200
They're going to turn to even smaller platforms.
00:45:37.600
Now, the authorities are clamping down on this guy.
00:45:48.800
We're going to limit what people can say and do on here.
00:45:51.700
And we're going to make sure that problematic content is not available in search anymore.
00:45:58.620
For a while, especially when this guy first got arrested, we heard about how this was an attack on free speech and blah, blah.
00:46:07.520
I have no problem prosecuting tech CEOs for this sort of stuff in principle.
00:46:11.440
The thing is, all those things that they accuse him of facilitating, all those things happen on other social media platforms as well.
00:46:18.640
The difference, though, is that Facebook and Google play ball with the feds and Telegram heretofore has not played ball with the feds.
00:46:32.000
The difference is, Telegram says, I'm a man without a country.
00:46:35.500
And the countries say, oh, well, you're about to, you're going to have a country.
00:46:38.560
You're going to, we're, you might not have an interest in us, but we have an interest politically in you.
00:46:44.460
And so, of course, Telegram is going to have to play ball.
00:46:55.660
I think the free speech utopians, they think that there's some way out of dealing with the nitty-gritty ugliness of politics.
00:47:07.320
We're not going to win elections without dealing with nitty-gritty political life.
00:47:12.060
We're not going to, we're not going to get our message out without dealing with nitty-gritty political realities.
00:47:19.680
Doesn't work for the big, fancy, wealthy social media founders who zip around on private jets.
00:47:42.060
Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
00:48:02.140
If I'm going to sort this out, I need to go deeper undercover.
00:48:12.500
What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
00:48:19.740
I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
00:48:39.920
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.