Ep. 796 - Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain
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The New York City mayoral election is in chaos after the vote tally numbers jumped all over the place. Is there any chance that one of the votes was actually stolen? And if so, who won? And why? Guest: Tucker Carlson.
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The New York City mayoral election is in chaos after the vote tally numbers jumped all over the place.
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There was a seemingly random influx of over 100,000 votes at one point.
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You know, it just kind of reminded me of something.
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Then, the Board of Elections website took down its numbers.
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Then, the Board of Elections admitted that they had accidentally left lots and lots of fraudulent test ballots.
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They weren't fraudulent in that they weren't cast fraudulently,
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but the test ballots shouldn't have been in the machine for the final tally.
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They left them in there while the actual voters went to cast their votes.
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Then, some votes were erased, and now we have no idea who exactly won.
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This was a pretty strange turn of events for the most secure voting machines in human history
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that are not in any way susceptible to fraud or malfunction or abuse.
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And you're not even allowed to suggest that there could be modest errors.
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Not just New York City that's having problems with its voting machines.
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Maricopa County has just announced a big problem as well.
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So weird. So weird with this election because if you ever raise the possibility that even one
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vote was off, that one vote was cast that shouldn't have been cast, that maybe there are
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sometimes problems with the machines, maybe political campaigns sometimes try to gain an
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advantage. You could be deplatformed. You could have the federal government investigating you
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because you're an insurrectionist. But here it is. First of all, there's fraud in every single
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election. LBJ won his Senate seat and then became vice president and then president because he stole
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an election, right? This is many, many years ago, 1948. This happens often. The question is,
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are there enough crazy, fraudulent, fake votes in there to throw the election? Well,
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here's what's going on in New York. The election that we're talking about in New York is actually
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not the general election for mayor. It's the primary election. But the thing is, New York is a
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one-party town. So if you win the Democratic primary, you just win the election.
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They had ranked choice voting. There are sometimes all these little reformers will always say,
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we need, we need to have ranked choice voting where you just, you vote for your first choice
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and your second choice. And then if there's not enough on the first and then this and then that
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and this and some, too clever by half through this entire process into absolute chaos. So the New York
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Board of Elections first sent out this note. We're aware there's a discrepancy in the unofficial
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ranked choice voting round by round elimination report. We're working with our ranked choice voting
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technical staff to identify where the discrepancy occurred. We asked the public elected officials
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and candidates to have patience. Then they posted another statement later on, which actually had a
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typo in it. So they had to take that statement down and they put another statement up. It said,
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the Board of Elections conducts rigorous and mandatory pre-qualification testing for every election.
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It has been determined that ballot images used for testing were not cleared from the election
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management system. So they just didn't click refresh. That's at least the excuse we're getting
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from the Board of Elections. They just didn't, they didn't like clear their cache. EMS produces cast
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vote records from ballot images. RCV software uses the CVR to produce unofficial results. When the cast
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vote records were extracted, it included both test and election night results, producing approximately
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135,000 additional records just mixed in with all the general votes. That there was an influx of over
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a hundred thousand votes that shouldn't have been there. Never heard of that before, right? That's
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never happened before. Board staff has removed all test ballot images from the system. We'll upload
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election night results. Cross-referencing against election night reporting. Okay. The board apologizes
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for the error and has taken immediate measures to ensure the most accurate up-to-date results are
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reported. Are we living in Saddam's Iraq? Are we living in Bashar Assad's Syria? Can we just,
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we just can't trust our elections anymore? Is that it? Because you'll just get random influxes of huge
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numbers of ballots and it's all electronic now. And so no one knows what, what's going on.
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That's too bad. That's, I liked having relatively secure elections. That's too bad that we have this
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now because nobody has any faith in the board of, board of elections. The, the two campaigns for mayor
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are obviously at their wits end here, but it's not just going on in New York. You know, there's a,
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an audit of the 2020 election going on in Maricopa County in Arizona. I haven't talked too much about
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the election audit because I don't want to talk about it until there's news. So far, they're just,
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they're just auditing the vote. They're trying to see what's going on. There were, there were obviously,
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as you know, were irregularities in the election. I mean, in some cases, the election officials were
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violating their state constitutions and they used the COVID lockdowns as an excuse. Irregularities
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in Georgia, places like that, and in Arizona. So in Arizona, there's an audit of the election going on.
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The Democrat secretary of state in Arizona, Katie Hobbs is now saying that the, the voting machines
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that were under audit in Maricopa County cannot be used again. This is about $6 million worth of
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equipment because there, this woman is afraid that the people who were doing the audit may have hacked
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the machines, may have done something nefarious to, to disrupt elections in the future. Do you see the
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problem with her argument? Do you see why her argument is so, so undercuts her previous argument?
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Because previously we were told that these machines could not be hacked. We were told nothing could go
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wrong in these machines. How dare you, you kooky, crazy conspiracy theorist suggest that something was
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a little awry with some of these machines. Oh, and also we're going to throw out $6 million of equipment
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the minute maybe a Republican touches it. Maybe we don't even know who's doing the audit, right? We're not
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saying the, it's not as though the audit is a bunch of rock ribbed Trump supporting MAGA hat wearing
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Republicans. There's a team that was brought in to do the audit, but because they touched the machines,
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now they're all going to be thrown out $6 million worth of gear. If the machines can't be hacked,
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what's the problem? Bring them back in and let's use them again. Oh, but of course they can. I'm not,
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by the way, I'm not even saying that they were, I'm just saying that the arguments that were put
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forward after the election by people who were just raising some questions about the strangest,
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most irregular election in our history, where a lot of election integrity measures were dismantled
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on the pretense of COVID. That is outrageous that they would now make these same arguments.
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You see this kind of sliminess at all levels of the government right now. It's not just the New York
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City Board of Elections. It's not just the Maricopa County or the Arizona Democrat Secretary of State
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who's now undercutting her arguments from the election. You're seeing this in the NSA.
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Tucker Carlson made an allegation two nights ago. He said that the NSA was spying on him.
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He heard about it from a whistleblower and they are planning to leak his communications and they
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want to take a show off of the air. The NSA, this is really shocking that they would do this.
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They actually did issue a statement on this. Now the NSA's statement on Tucker Carlson, first of all,
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it's pretty strange that the NSA would even comment on this. If a Fox News host or any other news host for
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that matter makes an allegation, why would the National Security Agency feel obliged to come out
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and defend itself or maybe not defend itself as you'll see from the missive? Is it because they
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feel a little guilty? Is it because they know that where there's smoke, there's fire? Is it because they
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fear what Tucker Carlson has been told? We know, for example, that the NSA has spied on
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virtually everybody in the sense that they're collecting huge amounts of data. And the pretext
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for this is they want to make sure that they monitor foreign governments and people who have
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business affairs with foreigners. So they're collecting all of this data. Tucker Carlson says,
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So here is the NSA's denial. Pay attention to the wording here. On June 28th, 2021, Tucker Carlson
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alleged that the National Security Agency has been, quote, monitoring our electronic communications and
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is planning to leak them in an attempt to take the show off the air. This allegation is untrue. Tucker
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Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the agency and the NSA has never had any plans to try
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to take his program off the air. Next paragraph. NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target
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foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States.
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With limited exceptions, for example, an emergency, NSA may not target a U.S. citizen without a court
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order that explicitly authorizes the targeting. Now, if you're not paying attention to words, you know,
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there's a great book out right now about how we need to be really precise about our language.
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And it's actually on the charts this week. It's charted. We'll get into that a little bit later.
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The book is called Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. Thank you to those who've
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ordered it. If you're not paying close attention to words, you might say, okay, they're denying it,
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right? Not so fast. In their own denial, they point out that Tucker has made three allegations.
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The NSA is monitoring his communications. The NSA is planning to leak them. The NSA is doing so in an
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attempt to take the show off the air. Now, the NSA specifically says, this allegation is untrue.
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Which allegation? There are three allegations. If you say this allegation is untrue, then you're
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lumping them all together. So you're saying, no, we're not monitoring your communications and planning
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to leak them in order to take your show off the air. So if any, any single part or even two parts of
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that broad allegation could be true, and the NSA could still not be lying by saying, this allegation
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is untrue. Let's say that they are monitoring Tucker and they're planning to leak them, but it's not
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to take his show off the air. Well, then that allegation is not true. Let's say they're monitoring
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Tucker, but they don't really plan to leak them or take his show. Okay, well, then that allegation is
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not true. Even further, what they say is Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the
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agency. They're not saying they've never spied on him. They're not saying that they're not spying
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on him right now. They're saying they're not targeting him. Maybe they're targeting someone
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that he's speaking to. And oops, whoopsie daisy, I guess Tucker's communications are coming through as
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well. To me, that's, and they look at how many times they use the word targets. Never been a target
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of the agency. They may not target a US citizen without an order that authorizes the targeting.
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Why are they using that language? The people who are doing this, the spies, the spooks,
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they're actually pretty sophisticated. I don't know if you've ever heard about that.
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And people whose job it is to deceive are actually pretty good at deceiving.
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If they were not spying on Tucker, I bet they would say that. I bet they would actually just come
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out and say it. If they were not either monitoring him or planning to, and or planning to leak that,
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and or planning to take a show, trying to take a show off the air, I think they would say that.
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I think they would say these allegations are untrue. Tucker has never been surveilled by the NSA.
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Tucker is not. To me, reading this, it is quite clear that the NSA is in fact
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conducting surveillance that involves Tucker Carlson. And they may or may not be planning to leak it. And
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I'm sure plenty of people at the NSA want to take a show off the air because he's an actual threat to
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them. Jen Psaki was asked about this. This is further evidence that the NSA is obviously looking
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into Tucker Carlson. Jen Psaki, the White House, was asked about this and she refused to deny it.
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Tucker Carlson said that the NSA is spying on him. Is the administration aware of any
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or listening efforts on U.S. citizens by the NSA? And is Tucker Carlson one of them?
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Well, the NSA, as I think you're well aware, I'm sure everyone's aware of everyone on this plane is
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aware, I should say, is an entity that focuses on foreign threats and individuals who are trying,
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attempting to do us harm on foreign soil. So that is the, their purview. But beyond that,
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I would point you to the intelligence community. What? What? Oh man. It's like,
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if you're going to deceive people, at least be like the person at the NSA. Don't be like Jen Psaki,
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who doesn't even, who doesn't even really try, or it doesn't even come close to succeeding.
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Hey, is the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson? Well, um, you know, the NSA is, uh, it's three letter,
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three, three, three, it's a three letter word. Um, uh, it stands for national security agency.
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Um, it's got employees. Um, they, some of them have pensions. Uh, and so yeah, okay. I feel like
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I've answered your question. Hmm. What? No, I didn't ask what is the NSA as it is the NSA spying
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on Tucker Carlson? Well, um, you know, the NSA can, and you know what, what they're trying to deflect
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to, as you're saying, the NSA, uh, focuses on foreign threats. So what's the implication? Tucker's,
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he's colluding with the Russians or the Ukrainians or whatever he's or anybody. He's, this is the same
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old story, same stuff, different day. The reason, the reason that the federal government had to spy on
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the Trump campaign had to spy on its political opponents is because they were colluding with
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the Russians. Okay. Well, where's the proof? What, what crime did they commit? They're all, um,
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none, none. They conducted a, what, uh, several years long, millions and millions of dollars spent
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to just try to prove anything. Like they got him right. There's gotta be some connection. Trump ate
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borscht one time a few years ago. Didn't he know they didn't even have that. They didn't even have that,
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but that's the excuse. We have to make sure he could be, he, he talked to his falafel cart
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driver down the street. That's if he's talking to a foreigner, gotta get him pretty clear. Unless
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the NSA and the white house can do better than this. I think the only conspiracy theory is that
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the NSA is not spying on Tucker Carlson. They've, they've all but admitted that just dodging the
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question. Psaki, you know, she, I'm glad she's not that good at her job because it makes the Biden
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agenda and the disparity between what the Biden administration wants and what the American
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people want. It makes it so clear that the American people, they don't care about, uh, this bloated
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government spying on them and just collecting dirt on them all the time and undermining their
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political will and throwing open their borders and shipping their manufacturing jobs overseas and
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locking them down. No, no, no, that's not what they really care about. You know what middle
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America really cares about? Electric car charging stations and making them more readily available.
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People across the country and people who care deeply about addressing our climate crisis know
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the components of what's in this package, which the president considers a down payment, not the end,
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a down payment. So 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations nationwide. That's what this would help
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support with a focus on our highways and rural and disadvantaged communities. It would help buy more than
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35,000 electric school buses. Yeah, no, that's what we want. That's what the rural and disadvantaged
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communities want is 500,000 Chevy Volt charging stations or whatever. Oh no, Tesla, I guess Tesla is
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which that's what, that's what rural disadvantaged America needs is more Tesla ports and, and more
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electric school buses. That's, that's what they care about, right? I don't think so. But they,
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they always go back to the environmentalism issue, the climate issue, because it's as grandiose an
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idea as, and you can't pin it down also, right? It's global cooling. It's global warming. I write
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about this in the book. It's climate change. It's climate crisis. It's climate catastrophe. It affects
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the whole wide world. We've got it. You've got to surrender your political power and your political
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rights to the UN or the WTO or the IMF or the Paris agreement or whatever, because the whole world is
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under threat. AOC right now is proposing that we take $70 billion, billion with a B and spend it
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on a civilian climate core. And so the question that we have is we have a student loan crisis,
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a housing crisis, a climate crisis. How on earth can we possibly overcome this? And I think one of the
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ways that we overcome it is by being one of the most unionized workforces and unionized generations in
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American history. By collecting our power as workers in the economy, we can take our futures back. And what's
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important about a civilian climate core is that it's an on-ramp. It can function as an on-ramp
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to unionization when we plug this in with union labor. But it's going to require putting us to work
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in the externalities of climate change. It's going to require, it's the crisis. Don't you feel the
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crisis? Don't you feel, aren't you full of anxiety, the crisis of the sun monster? Don't you? And that's
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why we need a $70 billion civilian climate core. What this is modeled after quite clearly is the
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CCC New Deal program. Right, there's the CCC, Civilian Climate Core. The CCC was a New Deal program
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developed by Franklin Roosevelt. There were many New Deal programs. They all had a bunch of silly
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letters. There's the CCC, there was the WPA. Actually, at the time, there was a barbershop
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music society that called itself Spebska, Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop
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Quartet Singing in America, Spebska. As a joke on all of these New Deal programs, what happened during
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the New Deal was the government created a bunch of gigantic bloated programs to just employ people
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to do nothing, to dig holes, to just not really do anything productive. But the New Deal, and we forget
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about it now because it was so long ago and the right never figured out how to overcome it. The New Deal
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fundamentally reordered the country. The New Deal fundamentally changed the relationship between
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the citizen and the state and the federal government. And the right has never, never recovered from it.
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They fought against it until about the late 1950s, early 1960s, and then they realized it was never
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going to be overcome. And since that time, the right has really been on the back foot, that the left has
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really dominated America. And so what AOC is, she's using this preposterous issue of the sun monster.
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And she's saying, because of the invisible imaginary, you can't quite see it, but it's definitely there.
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Urgent, dire threat of sunshine. We need to further reorder the relationship between the citizen and the
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state government and the federal government and bloat our federal government because money is power and
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employment is power. And she's trying to, she actually directly compares this to these various
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other programs that have gone on since Franklin Roosevelt. And it's really smart. It's a very smart
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political strategy that will really put the right on the back foot if they go along with this.
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Really hope they don't. Hope the squishes don't go along with it. You know, someone who's not a squish,
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Climate change is the perfect issue for the left because it's everything and it's nothing. Getting
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back to the comment at the top of the show, getting back to what the NFL said. The NFL is gay. The NFL is
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transgender. First of all, just that you can't be both of those at the same time, right? Those are
00:25:09.480
mutually exclusive concepts that have different understandings of human nature and different
00:25:13.820
understandings of sex. So you can't, NFL is a lesbian. The NFL is, well, you also can't be a
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lesbian if you're transgender. The NFL is powerful. The NFL is everything. It's everything. It can't be
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everything because some things are different. Some things are opposites. So if you're, if you're too up,
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you can't be two opposites simultaneously. That's just good old uncle Aristotle,
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the law of non-contradiction, goodness gracious. But climate change is everything. When, when the
00:25:44.480
weather is cold, it's climate change. When the weather is warm, it's climate change. When the
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polar ice caps are melting, it's climate change. When the polar ice caps are actually gaining ice,
00:25:52.220
it's climate change. It's all climate change. And it's a crisis, by the way, the world is going to
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end. According to Prince Charles in the UK, the world already ended about a year and a half ago.
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He did. He said this a few years ago. He said the world's going to end in 18 months. It's going to
00:26:06.660
be, it's going to be too late at that point. It's too late to do anything in 18 months. Okay. But now
00:26:11.640
they're still saying we need to do something. It's too late. Forget about it. It's over. I remember
00:26:16.020
AOC famously said two or three years ago, the world's going to end in 12 years. Oh, got about nine
00:26:20.960
years left. Don't lose track. Something tells me in about nine years, they're going to say it's
00:26:24.640
another, it's going to be another 10 or 10 years. Do you remember in the seventies, I actually write
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about this in Speechless. In the seventies, the population bomb, this was a related issue.
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It's still, it still had to do with the environment, but it was in a different way than the sun
00:26:36.400
monster. The population bomb was going to lead to mass starvation by the eighties, nineties
00:26:41.240
was inevitable. It was just going to happen. You got to deal with it. That's why we need
00:26:43.880
forced abortion and forced contraception, which actually they did follow in India and China
00:26:49.240
to horrific, horrific crimes. And then it just, it just didn't happen. Now, 50 years later,
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the world population has doubled. We're fatter than ever before. It just didn't, it doesn't
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matter. Still crisis, still urgent. And every single problem is climate change. You know,
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they did this when they were trying to pass the infrastructure bill. They said, you know,
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everything is infrastructure. Paid family leave, that's infrastructure. Raising the minimum wage,
00:27:17.160
that's infrastructure. That delicious bag of M&Ms over there, that's, that's infrastructure. We need
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to, you please pass me those M&Ms. So they're doing this with climate change. Now, the Biden energy
00:27:27.820
secretary is, is now claiming, there was that awful story of the building collapse in Florida,
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really, really terrible thing. The Biden energy secretary is now claiming, suggesting that
00:27:40.040
climate change may have caused the building collapse. Given what we know about the changing
00:27:46.520
climate, given that we've seen an increase in the so-called extraordinary tides and the impact
00:27:50.980
that that can have in areas like South Florida, do you think that climate could have played a role
00:27:58.160
in that building's collapse? Well, obviously we don't know fully, but we do know that the seas are
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rising. I mean, we know that we're losing inches and inches of beaches, not just in Florida, but
00:28:07.620
all around. You know, Lake Michigan, where I'm from, they, you know, we've seen the loss of beaches
00:28:13.940
because the, the waters are rising. So, you know, this is a phenomenon that will continue, whether
00:28:20.080
it, we'll have to wait to see what the analysis is for this building. But the issue about resiliency
00:28:26.260
and making sure we adapt to this changing climate, that's going to mean levees need to be built. That
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means seawalls need to be built. That means infrastructure needs to be built. Oh, it's infrastructure
00:28:36.720
again. Okay. We got back to infrastructure. Do you think, because there's a big ticker at the
00:28:41.520
climate crisis, this is all, this is what CNN does. I mean, this is what corporate media does
00:28:45.740
generally, but it's especially what CNN does. It's a crisis, be on edge, vote for Democrats.
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Do you think that climate might have caused this building to collapse? Do you think that climate
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might have caused every tragedy that's happened? Well, maybe, maybe, yeah, maybe. It's like,
00:29:08.960
do you think ghosts caused it? That's basically what, do you think it was aliens? It's like that
00:29:12.660
guy in the meme from the History Channel who built the pyramids. I'm not saying it was aliens,
00:29:17.400
but it was aliens. Hey, how did, how did anything happen ever? Well, it was aliens. The climate change
00:29:25.860
is the new aliens. That's, that's the answer. Well, it's really offensive to say also, because do you
00:29:31.700
know what caused the building collapse? Poor maintenance of the building. And I think people are,
00:29:35.640
there actually are people who are responsible for this and they should have to pay a price. And it's
00:29:38.940
not just, what is climate? What is climate? Climate is everything, right? It's all the,
00:29:45.120
it's every physical thing that we've got going on around us. It's like the NFL. Climate is the NFL.
00:29:51.160
Now, speaking of this awful, awful event in Florida, Joe Biden was addressing reporters the
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other day. It's a rare occurrence when Biden addresses reporters. And he forgot to address this
00:30:02.080
issue of the building collapse. He just seemed to forget what had happened in Florida. This was a
00:30:06.400
really bad thing. I haven't covered it too much on the show because it's just sad. I don't think
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there's too much of a political angle here. It's just like a really, really sad thing. And so Joe
00:30:17.620
Biden was supposed to talk about this. He forgot to. So Kamala Harris had to remind him.
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Mr. President, will you travel to Florida, sir? Can we ask you about Florida, what you've learned?
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Oh, yes. I apologize. Yes. Thank you, my president. I've spoken with, coincidentally, the mayor
00:30:38.120
of Miami-Dade was in my office yesterday. And I talked to her today. Not about that, obviously.
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And so I had a long discussion with her today. I've also spoken with, we've been in contact with
00:30:52.100
a congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who has that district.
00:30:55.620
This does remind me of a moment, the very end of Reagan's tenure. There was a moment where he
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seemed to forget what he was saying or what he was talking about. And you can see it on video,
00:31:08.840
Nancy kind of subtly turns to him and just says, we're doing the best we can. And then Reagan,
00:31:12.580
you know, great, great orator, great performer. He says, well, we're doing the best we can.
00:31:18.200
Well, I, and it was the moment where people started to say, gosh, is he, did he have a senior moment?
00:31:24.540
Now, revisionists have gone back and said, oh yeah, Reagan was just absolutely in the throes
00:31:29.860
of Alzheimer's during his whole presidency. That's preposterous. Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War
00:31:34.860
during his presidency. He was extremely sharp for virtually all of his presidency. He was at that
00:31:39.480
time the oldest guy ever elected president. And maybe he had a senior moment or two. No question.
00:31:46.140
Joe Biden doesn't just have a senior moment or two. It's not just one moment where he kind of
00:31:51.000
goes a little absent-minded. Well, we're doing the, it's, it's like every time he talks and it seems to
00:31:56.320
be getting worse. And it's a lot different. Ronald Reagan is giving some impromptu remarks versus
00:32:01.720
Joe Biden at a formal press conference. And the vice president needs to tell him what's going on.
00:32:08.080
He's been, he's, he's got a lot of quirks lately. You've seen he's, he's also fallen into another
00:32:13.300
very strange rhetorical trap where he starts to emphasize something by, by an exaggerated stage
00:32:20.540
whisper. He just did this the other day talking about taxes.
00:32:23.000
And people say, well, that's a giveaway. Hey guys, I think it's time to give ordinary people
00:32:31.460
a tax break. The wealthy are doing fine. I mean it. I mean it. Why is this not a tax break
00:32:42.680
for working folks when the stuff we give to the super wealthy are called tax breaks?
00:32:48.940
Oh, okay. So that was weird. It's weird when he does it and he leans in and he goes, hey,
00:32:55.140
he's got his weird, creepy Biden eyes popping out of his head. We, hey,
00:32:58.860
why don't I, it's called a tax break. So, but he recovered there. It was, it sort of worked well
00:33:04.260
enough. Sometimes it hasn't worked well. Just the other day, he was also speaking to reporters
00:33:09.060
and he, he, he whispered a little too hard, a little too long.
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I wrote the bill on the environment. Why would I not be for it?
00:33:21.160
Ah, hookup, hookup, hookup. It's, that, that was not, not quite as effective as when he was talking
00:33:28.240
about the taxes. Now I point all this out, the senior moment, the weird whispering stuff,
00:33:34.620
that losing his train of thought, because I, I'm not just trying to make fun of him. It's perfectly
00:33:40.180
fine to have a laugh at old Joe's expense, but it's because regardless of all that, he's very
00:33:47.440
effective. He is. And we just, we, we mock him or we dismiss him at our own peril. The guy is very
00:33:55.440
effective. He's, he's survived in politics for 50 years. He has been at the top levels of American
00:34:02.100
politics for half a century. He beat out a lot of other Democrats this go around who were much
00:34:10.160
younger and more impressive than he is. He's very effective. And his, those, these senior moments
00:34:16.960
and this apparent incompetence, I think is in some ways a helpful distraction for the liberal
00:34:23.620
establishment that acts through him because he just gives them whatever they want. He basically
00:34:27.620
walked into the white house and he said, okay, state department, here's, here's the keys to foreign
00:34:31.700
policy. Okay. Liberal establishment, here's the keys to whatever economic policy or trade.
00:34:37.360
And he just, I'm going to be watching Matlock over in the corner. And that's very, very effective.
00:34:44.260
It's why we've now, all the gains we had made in the Middle East, gone. The gains we had made
00:34:49.020
negotiating with China, gone. Joe's a huge fan of China. Joe has famously said repeatedly that it's
00:34:57.700
good for the United States for China to get bigger and stronger and richer. I don't think that's true.
00:35:02.780
I think China's our number one enemy, but the liberal establishment love, that's why they let
00:35:08.520
China into the World Trade Organization. That's why they refuse to blame China for the coronavirus.
00:35:12.940
That's why they've helped China cover up their creation of the coronavirus and their, and their
00:35:18.440
own coverup of the coronavirus. And American corporations are helping out too. As I said,
00:35:24.240
this is why I don't just say the government. I don't just talk about big government. I talk about
00:35:27.460
the liberal establishment because that includes the universities, the elected government,
00:35:33.160
the administrative government, big tech, and lower education, and woke corporations. The CEO of Nike,
00:35:41.420
John Donahue, was just asked about his company's business in China. China violates trade agreements.
00:35:49.700
China aggresses on our assets all over the world. China started the coronavirus and then covered it
00:35:58.580
up and shut down the entire world. China uses slave labor to, by the way, to manufacture products that
00:36:05.580
we all use. And so he was asked about this and they said, hey, don't you have any problem doing
00:36:09.040
business with China? And John Donahue said during a call with the Wall Street Journal that Nike,
00:36:16.140
quote, Nike is a brand that is of China and for China. All right. All right. At least, look, he's not
00:36:26.560
saying the NFL line and it's everything. Nike is for everything. Nike is, no, he's saying it's of China
00:36:32.500
and it's for China. Okay. I thought Nike was an American brand. I thought it was of America and for
00:36:41.340
America. Or at least it's of America, but it's for the whole world. But no, no. The Nike CEO is telling
00:36:48.780
us it's of China and for China. Okay. So then the next time we sanction Chinese companies, I think we
00:36:54.760
should sanction Nike. I think that the next time we stop doing business with Chinese companies, next
00:37:00.360
time we start slapping big tariffs on Chinese companies, I think we should slap big tariffs on
00:37:05.280
Nike. Stop doing business with Nike. You want to be a Chinese company, that's fine. You should be
00:37:10.360
treated like a Chinese company. I am sick and tired of Republicans carrying water for companies
00:37:18.180
that hate our country. We know that Nike hates our country. Their spokesman is famous, not because he
00:37:25.380
was particularly good at football, but because he famously hates our country and disrespected the symbol
00:37:31.320
of our country on our playing fields and got Nike to shut down a running shoe that featured the American
00:37:38.940
revolutionary flag on it, the Betsy Ross flag. They shut it down and can't do that because they hate
00:37:43.280
America. Okay. If you hate America, then I think maybe America should hate you. Okay. I think it's
00:37:49.920
got to be kind of a two-way street. I don't think we can just get run over by these zillion dollar
00:37:54.120
companies that milk us for our money and then undermine our country every chance we get. And in this case,
00:38:01.460
explicitly say our loyalty is to America's greatest enemy on the world stage. We should not just stop
00:38:11.700
wearing Nike. I don't wear Nike shoes. If Nike made sockless loafers, I would consider wearing them,
00:38:16.740
but they don't. So I know. I'm not just saying we should boycott Nike. I'm not just saying we should
00:38:21.460
stop shopping there. I'm saying we should exercise our political power to punish Nike because Nike is
00:38:28.260
siding with our enemy against our country. And we have a political, I don't care what abstract,
00:38:35.060
insane economic theory from the 1970s you are enthralled with. I think people are increasingly
00:38:43.200
not so enthralled with those theories. But even if you've made a total idol out of the free market,
00:38:49.540
or you made a total idol out of GDP or whatever, the company is siding with our enemies. And so I
00:38:54.620
don't want to do business with them. And I don't want our country to do business with them.
00:39:00.920
The American people have a right to shape our country. The country should not just be run by
00:39:08.080
liberal elites. Right now, you have a small number of liberal elites, relatively small number of liberal
00:39:14.580
elites, who make most of the decisions and we don't really have very much say about it. And if we
00:39:20.100
raise any problems with it, they'll probably be spying on us like they are on Tucker Carlson.
00:39:25.900
And the American people, of all shades, of all sexes, of all geographies, they are pushing back
00:39:33.400
against this kind of thing. They're pushing back against critical race theory, right? That is now
00:39:39.300
sort of the lightning rod because it is the expression of these insane, vile, racial ideologies.
00:39:50.620
That tell Americans, tell white Americans and anyone who agrees with any conservatives that
00:39:57.260
they are vile. So black people who agree with conservatives, Hispanic people who agree,
00:40:01.580
tell them they are vile, vicious, racist, that this country is terrible. The ideology being pushed in
00:40:07.820
these schools is the ideology of Nike. You're going to make more Nikes. America is a terrible,
00:40:11.540
rotten place and we got to overcome it. We got to hate ourselves and we got to suck up to China.
00:40:15.860
This is the kind of stuff, you know, now they're trying to deny. They're saying the people who are
00:40:19.240
pushing all of these various critical studies, you know, blackness studies, whiteness studies,
00:40:24.460
critical race theory. All of these guys, they're not really saying that whites are terrible and
00:40:31.600
whiteness is evil and all whites are racist. They are. Here's Ibram Kendi. Ibram Kendi is the most
00:40:37.300
famous one of these race hustlers probably in the country today. Here he is on CBS News calling all
00:40:43.580
whites racist. I mean, as Robin, you know, talked about it, it, it, it is critical for, for white
00:40:51.420
people, for people in general to, to stop denying their, their racist ideas, to stop denying the ways
00:41:00.860
in which policies have benefited them, to stop denying their racism and to realize that actually
00:41:06.400
the heartbeat of racism itself is denial. And the sound of that heartbeat is I'm not racist.
00:41:13.620
This is the climate change of racial politics, by which I mean climate change. It's, it's defining
00:41:22.000
quality is that it is unfalsifiable. Any phenomenon can be used and interpreted to justify climate change
00:41:33.640
or to, to be attributed to climate change. It's colder, climate change, warmer, climate change,
00:41:38.460
stays the same climate change. This is why it's not a very good scientific theory because you,
00:41:42.920
you can't disprove it. Well, it's the same thing with this insane racial stuff.
00:41:47.160
What Ibram Kendi is saying is if white people admit that they're racist, they're racist. If white
00:41:52.660
people deny that they're racist, that's even further proof that they're racist. This is called
00:41:58.620
begging the question. This is what happens when you assume your own conclusion. You begin with the
00:42:04.180
premise as Ibram Kendi does that all white people are racist. Therefore, if you admit it, okay, good.
00:42:11.940
Therefore, if you deny it, yep, there you go. Conclusion, all white people are racist. It's not,
00:42:18.320
not a very good argument. One of the many reasons that sort of thing should not be taken seriously,
00:42:24.340
but that is what is being taught. And I think ordinary Americans of all races are looking at
00:42:29.000
this and saying, no, that's stupid and it's evil and it's destroying our country. And we don't want
00:42:35.660
our kids being poisoned with these idiotic ramblings of a con artist like Ibram Kendi or Robin DiAngelo.
00:42:42.320
And by the way, I say this as a civil rights icon. Okay. I don't know if you saw it. I don't know if
00:42:49.100
you're perusing Amazon, but right now my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
00:42:53.900
is the number one book in civil rights and liberties. Right now it is beating at number
00:43:00.400
two and number three and number four is Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. But number one is Michael
00:43:05.980
Knowles. And I'm just very pleased that Amazon is finally acknowledging my role as the preeminent
00:43:12.780
civil rights leader in the country. That's good. And so I tell you, I give you permission
00:43:18.460
as people who care about civil rights. Do not listen to Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo.
00:43:25.400
They're the number two and number three recognized civil rights leaders in the country, but I am
00:43:28.940
number one. And so I'm telling you that they are idiots and they are poisoning your children and our
00:43:33.660
country. You should not. I hate to be so mean about it, but it's a real, it's a crisis. It's a real
00:43:39.680
threat. And so no one should pay attention to their nonsensical ramblings. You should instead
00:43:46.340
read Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. It's really ugly stuff going on in the race
00:43:50.140
hustling these days. I'll tell you a headline I just saw. Princeton University has just admitted
00:43:57.020
the largest percentage ever of students of color by or after. I don't want to imply causation here,
00:44:06.660
but they've admitted the largest percentage of students of color after they got rid of
00:44:11.220
standardized tests. So that's not, they've now admitted 68% of students who self-identify as a
00:44:19.780
person of color. You wonder now because grievance carries a currency and because there's legal
00:44:24.620
discrimination in this country against whites and Asians on behalf of, in favor of blacks and
00:44:30.120
Hispanics. You wonder how many of these people who are self-identifying as students of color
00:44:35.780
have like one, one zillionth North African DNA. And they say, see, I'm, I'm black. I'm African.
00:44:44.060
I'm an African-American. They're, you know, from, they're from South Africa or something there. They
00:44:47.740
look Dutch, but they say, no, I'm African-American. Elon Musk now is African-American. Who knows?
00:44:52.280
You wonder about that. You wonder how many of them are like the British guy who now says that he's a
00:44:56.440
Korean guy. But also if I were a student of color and I were admitted to this university after they
00:45:04.920
got rid of standardized testing, I would be a little offended because I would say, oh, they,
00:45:10.720
they're telling me that I can't actually compete. They're telling me I can't actually be as smart.
00:45:16.580
They're telling me I can't actually understand the same sorts of things. And so they had to,
00:45:20.520
in order to get to the conclusion that they want of having more non-white students, they've got to
00:45:26.500
get rid of all the standards. That's, and that's offensive. It was very offensive to Clarence
00:45:30.960
Thomas, actually. That's why you should go check out that movie. Clarence Thomas goes to Yale Law
00:45:34.480
School. He's one of the most brilliant jurists in the country, but he realized he had trouble getting
00:45:38.140
a job after law school because everyone thought he was an affirmative action case. In the case of
00:45:41.760
Clarence Thomas, he actually is this outstanding jurist, but that's the, that is the taint of,
00:45:47.280
of this sort of legal discriminations where this racial, ugly, ugly racial politics.
00:45:54.100
You're seeing a lot of standards eroding. Right now in Nevada, you're seeing a man win
00:45:58.900
Miss Nevada. Okay. But that's the, look, that erosion of standards is a topic for another day.
00:46:06.040
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00:47:03.120
Proponents of critical race theory are now claiming that all they want to do is teach kids about the
00:47:07.300
facts of American history. Is that really the case? We'll talk about that. Also, the NSA denies
00:47:11.400
Tucker Carlson's claim that he's being spied on. A woman whose husband is active duty military
00:47:15.740
alerts me to a mandatory diversity hike, quote unquote, in honor of Pride Month that her husband
00:47:20.700
was forced to participate in. And a new organization of Gen Z Republicans has a plan for connecting with
00:47:25.660
today's youth. And the plan is terrible, as expected. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.