The Tucker Carlson Show - April 18, 2024


Jesse Kelly on why we keep voting for weak Republican leaders


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

188.16563

Word Count

4,735

Sentence Count

399

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

18


Summary

Jesse Kelly, host of the Jesse Kelly Show, joins us to talk about the crisis unfolding on the southern border of the United States and the need for red states to join forces with Texas in order to protect their borders and enforce federal immigration law. Tucker and his co-host discuss the growing crisis on the border and how red states need to join together with Texas and the rest of the country to protect our borders and the people who are trying to enter our country illegally. They also talk about why it's time for the states to re-examine the nature of their relationship with the federal government, and what they should do in response to the growing humanitarian crisis on our southern border and the ongoing surge of illegal immigrants crossing into the country from Central America. And they talk about what they would do if they were in charge of the border patrol in Texas and how they could stop the flow of illegal immigration across the border into the US from other states and other parts of the world, like Mexico and Canada, from crossing our borders. You can't ask for much more. It's not an accident, it's not a choice. It's an order. Tucker Carlson's new book, "Out of all the crises unfolding simultaneously in the U.S. right now, only one has the certain capacity to change our way of life forever. Only one that can be undone, and that's the invasion taking place, and only one of them can't be undone. - Out of all of them, the invasion is the one that's going to change the way we live up to what we know and what we need to do in the most important thing in our way in the next five years, and the one we can do to protect ourselves and our ability to live a better, better life in the 21st century. You're not going to get any better than this, and we're going to have to do it, right here in this episode of "Out Of All of the Crisis" by Tucker Carlson on Out Of All the Crisis, Out Of The Crisis, on tonight's "Tucker Carlson's Out of the Box" on "Good Morning America" on his new podcast, "The Tucker Kelly Show on the Tonight Show." on Wednesday, January 30th, February 6th, at 7/27, at 9/8th at 8/9th at 7 PM ET/ 7/9/19 @ 7/30/19 at 7pm Eastern Time.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey, it's Tucker Carlson. Welcome to our podcast. The main way that corporate media lied to you
00:00:15.520 is by not telling you things, ignoring stories completely, particularly the important ones.
00:00:21.080 We promise never to do that. You can check out tuckercarlson.com for a complete library
00:00:26.160 of past episodes. Here's today's. Of all the crises unfolding simultaneously in the United
00:00:32.240 States right now, only one has the certain capacity to change our way of life forever.
00:00:37.500 Only one of them can't be undone, and that's the invasion taking place. An invasion is not too
00:00:43.360 strong a word. It's not hyperbole. It's real. Take a look at the video on your screen. This was shot
00:00:48.820 just outside El Paso, Texas. You can see the migrants cutting razor wire as they force their way
00:00:53.960 into our country as they invade it. Again, this is not happening on the other side of the world.
00:00:59.900 This is your country. This is Texas under siege by people of zero respect for our borders and laws,
00:01:06.180 people whose first act as an American is to break federal law. But what's so interesting and maybe
00:01:14.760 the most revealing of all is that no one is stopping this. And to the extent they're trying,
00:01:20.120 courts are stopping them from enforcing the law. Courts have gone back and forth about whether
00:01:25.940 Texas has the right to protect its own borders. What's so interesting really is that a bunch of
00:01:30.800 other states and cities around the country for decades have been violating federal law, federal
00:01:34.900 immigration law, by declaring themselves sanctuary cities. And no one's done anything about that at
00:01:41.260 all. But here, one state trying to enforce the U.S. border with the rest of the world and is prevented
00:01:48.280 from doing so by judges. It's hard to believe it. So how should Texas and the rest of the country
00:01:54.880 proceed with that in mind? The country's being invaded. No one is stopping it. Well, Jesse Kelly,
00:02:01.220 who is a talk show host and friend of ours from the state of Texas, recently tweeted an idea. Here's what
00:02:05.540 he said. Ignore them, meaning the courts. Create a 10-state coalition to stand with you, meaning with
00:02:11.320 Texas. Arrest and deport every illegal in your state. Arrest and try anyone from the federal
00:02:17.220 government who tries to stop you. It's time. So we haven't thought through what exactly that would
00:02:23.960 mean in practical terms or what the long-term effects of that would be, but it's impossible not
00:02:28.160 to deeply sympathize with the spirit that animates it. And so we thought we would talk to Jesse Kelly
00:02:33.360 directly. He's the host of the Jesse Kelly show, and we're honored to have him now. Jesse, thanks a lot
00:02:37.320 for coming on. No, I appreciate it. So rather than try to characterize, as I just did, I guess,
00:02:44.960 what you meant when you wrote that, why don't you tell us? Well, we're in a really bad spot, Tucker,
00:02:51.120 and I don't celebrate what I'm about to say, but it is time now, not 10 years from now, not next year.
00:02:57.980 It is time right now for the states, especially red states, to re-examine the nature of their
00:03:04.760 relationship with the federal government, if I'm going to put it that way. And I want to be crystal
00:03:09.440 clear about what I'm about to say. I do not want this country to break up, although I believe we
00:03:14.200 are breaking up. I don't want anything like a war or violence. I don't want that. I don't want any
00:03:20.780 individual American to do anything illegal. But red states must now, right now, begin re-examining
00:03:28.560 the nature of their relationship with the federal government because the country is being undone.
00:03:34.660 The country is being destroyed now, and there's nothing that can stop or reverse this unless red
00:03:41.560 states take this step. Let me explain. Sorry to filibuster on your show.
00:03:45.620 You're not filibustering at all. Let me explain. Right now, it's not an accident, as you well
00:03:51.880 know. You talk about this all the time. It's not an accident what's happening on the border.
00:03:55.640 The people who lead the nation from the federal level, that's Democrat politicians, half the
00:04:00.440 Republican politicians, every bureaucrat, they are encouraging flooding the border with illegals.
00:04:06.740 They're encouraging it. That's just what they want. They want America full of illegals,
00:04:10.780 no loyalty to America, criminals, rapists, murderers. That is what they want. Because when
00:04:16.080 you cause violence and chaos in a society, that's the fertile soil where communism grows. People will
00:04:22.060 always turn to the government and beg them for help when that kind of societal collapse comes.
00:04:26.840 So they know this. So they're inviting it. Well, other countries around the world are obliging,
00:04:31.340 as countries always have in this situation. Hey, there's a country I don't particularly like.
00:04:36.420 They have an open border. We do have this prison full of rapists. Hey guys, why don't you just
00:04:41.920 move on to America? We know this is happening in countries like Venezuela, where they're emptying
00:04:46.420 prisons onto the border. We don't have criminals coming here individually. We have entire criminal
00:04:52.400 networks coming here. The country is being undone now, and it cannot be reversed what's happening right
00:05:00.320 now. I want everyone to understand this. Let's say everyone gets their wish, and Donald Trump beats
00:05:05.540 Joe Biden in November. And woohoo! You cannot possibly, it's not humanly possible, to deport
00:05:12.300 this many people. If Joe Biden's going to bring in 10, 12 million people, almost all of them will be
00:05:18.780 here permanently, and all of their children will be American citizens. And there's not going to be
00:05:24.420 some mass deportation, no matter what people say on the campaign trail. The American people have no
00:05:30.320 stomach for that whatsoever. Even if they think they do right now, it would be one video of a little
00:05:36.340 boy crying as mommy gets thrown in the back of a paddy wagon to be deported. And all deportations
00:05:42.540 would stop. Republicans would grab their ankles for the media like they always do. And everything,
00:05:47.600 well, we need to do this more humanely. So that's the situation we're in. Well, where does that leave
00:05:53.960 us? Where it leaves us is, you can decide to challenge the federal government at a state level,
00:06:00.860 or you can lose your country. There is no third direction. Illegal immigration on this level will
00:06:06.600 sink America in the same way, it doesn't matter how big or powerful a boat is, if it takes on enough
00:06:11.860 water, it will go down to the bottom of the ocean. We cannot exist like this. So we are going to have
00:06:17.120 to do things outside of the constitution. I don't celebrate that either. That's where we are. If
00:06:23.140 I'm in a house, right? And in my house, let's say there's some weird ordinance in the city,
00:06:29.200 some weird law in the city where I live, where I'm not allowed to do anything to the house. If
00:06:32.800 there's any problems at all, it's a light bulb out or a fire, it is against the law for me to touch it.
00:06:38.160 And I don't, and I abide by the law. But eventually I come home and the house is on fire and my sons are
00:06:43.080 upstairs saying, dad, come help. Well, I'm sorry, law or no law, I'm going to get my sons.
00:06:49.340 We cannot stand by and watch the United States of America be destroyed. And people have to
00:06:53.980 understand how dire this situation is. This is the stated policy now of the Democrat party.
00:06:58.840 So even if Joe Biden gets bounced in 2024, we get some deportations in the next time there's any
00:07:05.180 Democrat president, it'll again be open season in the entire world. We'll know criminals, drugs,
00:07:10.200 rapists, everything flooding into the country to destroy it. The time is now to create a coalition
00:07:17.020 in a totally separate immigration force. That's what we have to do.
00:07:21.100 Yeah. And let's just be honest. I mean, obviously I'm fervently rooting for Trump over Biden for many,
00:07:25.580 many reasons, but Trump was president for four years and he didn't, he didn't even build a
00:07:30.020 defensive border wall. Didn't. And I don't care. We can lie about that, but that's just the fact.
00:07:34.380 So the idea that he's going to deport 10 million people is just don't, don't, don't lie to me.
00:07:39.240 I'm sick of it. So I agree.
00:07:40.740 Look, I mean, not, not to interrupt, but along those, along those same lines, Tucker, sorry,
00:07:45.720 but people have to do also remember, remember child separation policy, that's a basic border
00:07:50.760 policy because people grab kids who aren't theirs and act like, Hey, I'm dad Pedro. And wouldn't really,
00:07:56.440 he's not, he's some kind of cartel member. And so you always separate the kid and figure out,
00:08:01.120 is he there with mom or dad? That was, that's a basic border policy. Look again,
00:08:06.280 insult or don't insult. I don't give a crap if people are offended by it. The Trump administration
00:08:10.480 ended that policy because of media and Democrat pressure. Democrats did a bunch of photo ops
00:08:15.600 down on the border. AOC is crying at the fence. Eventually child separation was ended. That's
00:08:20.780 because of media pressure and people in this country honestly believe there's going to be some
00:08:24.940 mass deportation of 8 million people where you're rounding up entire families and shipping them back
00:08:29.860 to Zimbabwe. You're outside of your mind. It'll never happen. The people have no stomach for it.
00:08:34.240 And neither does the Republican party. So why doesn't, so you're in Texas, I think,
00:08:38.780 um, you have a governor. He's a long time governor. He's a Republican. His name is Greg Abbott.
00:08:45.380 His state is being destroyed. And it's very obvious when you go to Texas, I've been there a lot recently
00:08:50.840 that it's already being destroyed. It just looks dirtier than it did two years ago. Cause it is.
00:08:57.000 So why has he done nothing? Like what's his excuse?
00:09:00.680 He's a Republican. That's what Republicans do. Republicans do nothing. Republicans have been
00:09:06.020 in charge for, I don't know how long of managing the decline. I mean, look, it's, it's exactly a
00:09:12.680 new insult to call the Republican party controlled opposition, but let's be frank. That's exactly what
00:09:17.740 they are. Even Joseph Stalin allowed an opposition party. A lot of people don't realize this. He allowed,
00:09:23.600 encouraged and in fact funded an opposition party to give the people of the Soviet Union
00:09:28.200 an illusion of choice. Oh, no, no. These guys are against me. Wow. It's pretty scary,
00:09:32.840 but somehow they never end up accomplishing any of their anti-Stalin goals. We're constantly told
00:09:38.640 the Republican party is going to fight for us and protect the border and, and we'll cut your taxes
00:09:43.020 and we'll be pro-life and we'll protect the family. Yet none of these things ever seem to
00:09:48.200 materialize. They all talk about it during election season. I'll build the wall. And then you get there
00:09:53.420 and you get 25 feet of wall and a bunch of excuses. Greg Abbott, if look, that's his excuse. He's a
00:09:58.740 Republican. That's what they all are. That's why I'm an anti-communist. So I think that's a really
00:10:03.840 smart and true description of what we're seeing. Let's say the red states won't do this because
00:10:09.380 they're run by Republicans. At what point to people who live in the state and have children in the
00:10:15.160 state, grandchildren in the state who are born in this country and don't want to see it destroyed,
00:10:18.700 say, I'm just, I'm getting 10 of my friends. We're going to protect our stretch south of
00:10:23.000 Carrizo Springs. Like how long until that happens? I understand the inclination for that,
00:10:29.260 but what we're going to, like the revolution, the American revolution, sorry, I'm not going to get
00:10:33.680 sidetracked, too sidetracked, Tucker, but the American revolution, we like to imagine the American
00:10:38.000 revolution was just a bunch of American citizens picking up a musket, fighting against the British and
00:10:43.500 creating the United States of America. We love that image in our head. And obviously a lot of
00:10:48.320 that is true, but the American revolution is not successful without state power like France
00:10:54.440 stepping in and giving us critical aid. We cannot protect this nation as 10 dudes going down in the
00:11:02.080 border with some plates in your flak jacket that you bought on Amazon and an AR-15. That's not going to
00:11:09.220 work. It's not going to be effective because the state itself is simply going to throw you in the clink
00:11:12.980 because the state is the one facilitating the invasion. When the state is the one facilitating
00:11:18.140 the invasion, anyone who tries to stop it goes to prison. Look at that United States Marine,
00:11:23.020 Daniel Penny in New York, kills a guy on a subway protecting women. He's going to the clink.
00:11:30.520 Everyone knows he's going to get convicted. We now live in a country where the elites on the top
00:11:35.220 and the streets on the bottom are sandwiching the American people in the middle and they're
00:11:39.680 attacking them from both ways. We must have some level of state power on our side. So when it comes
00:11:46.380 to states like Texas and other states, what needs to happen instead of grabbing a rifle and going to
00:11:51.500 the border is the American people need to start running these loser Republicans out of their state
00:11:55.880 legislatures and out of their governor's mansions and out of the sheriff's office. The sheriffs are going
00:12:00.960 to be critically important going forward. And I need to be clear, this is starting to happen,
00:12:05.100 Tucker, slowly but surely. Texas state legislature just got put on notice. A bunch of these dorks at
00:12:10.360 our state legislature got run out of the party of government in primaries because normal people
00:12:16.520 are getting sick and tired of no action and they're running these people out. It's happening. It's happening
00:12:22.600 slowly, maybe too slowly, too slowly when you consider the fact that the federal government is
00:12:28.640 gleefully destroying this country. I haven't seen these people this happy since Pete Buttigieg and his
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00:14:18.520 Why is it that Republican states tend to have the least sincere Republican? Like Dan Crenshaw,
00:14:27.660 apparently still a member of Congress from the state of Texas, who has zero interest in the U.S.
00:14:32.860 border, all his interest is in the Ukrainian border, the Gaza border. How does a guy like that
00:14:37.940 get elected in a supposedly Republican state? Well, complacency and life being good makes us soft,
00:14:45.080 right? It's just the fact of life. It's one of those things humanity struggled with as soon as
00:14:49.140 you get rich or well off or comfortable. How do you keep improving? How do you keep your edge? You
00:14:52.960 rarely do. This is what's happened to red state Republicans. There's nobody more at fault for the
00:14:58.320 condition of this country than red state GOP voters. And people get mad when I say that. But let me let me
00:15:04.120 just go down the list here. Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, John Thune, Tillis. I mean, look,
00:15:08.680 you can go down the list. Every dork from Louisiana. The reddest states in this country give us the most
00:15:15.520 putrid Republicans at the federal level. Why does that happen? Because the GOP primary voter in red
00:15:22.060 states lives in a relatively normal place. He lives in comfort. He thinks he's got a red legislature.
00:15:28.260 So he either doesn't vote in primaries. That's mostly the case. He's just going to sit at home.
00:15:32.300 Or even worse, he goes to vote for Senator Dork, who he sees on Fox News every time. Well,
00:15:37.640 Lindsey Graham was on on Fox tonight. I guess he's he's on my side. You should have nothing but disdain
00:15:44.180 for virtually every single senator you see on Fox News. And yet people vote for who they see on
00:15:49.820 television. Well, I met John Thune once and he was so handsome. He's very clearly on our side.
00:15:55.820 John Thune supported gun control legislation. And John Thune on camera was asked to ask to
00:16:02.140 back up American people owning AR-15s. And the best argument he could make for your liberty for the
00:16:08.680 Second Amendment was that I kid you not, this is on camera. He told people, well, I mean, a lot of
00:16:13.000 people use them to shoot prairie dogs. These are the weapons grade losers who control the GOP. And
00:16:18.820 they're from the reddest states. It's under Susan Collins is understandable, Tucker. Sorry to get all
00:16:23.320 fired up. It's understandable. She's from Maine. It's from a blue state. Of course, we're going to get
00:16:27.120 some wishy-washy, mealy-mouthed dork from that kind of state. But the Dakotas, the Dakotas are so
00:16:33.080 red. It's crazy. They could have somebody to the right of me if they wanted to, but they don't. Well,
00:16:37.860 I saw him on Fox last night. I'll just gag me with a fork. Lisa Murkowski from Alaska. I mean,
00:16:44.660 you just go down the list. They're absolutely they're absolutely the worst. So do you have any hope that
00:16:49.960 this will happen? Yes, eventually. See, this is the problem. Everyone watching your show is going to be
00:16:56.120 that hyper-informed person. Everyone watching us right now is going to be hyper-informed. And the
00:17:01.040 burden of being hyper-informed, I'm glad everyone is hyper-informed, by the way, but the burden of
00:17:05.900 that is you're always going to be 10 years at least ahead of the people who are in elected office. So
00:17:11.920 we know it needs to be done now. This needs to be done now. It has to be done right now. We have to
00:17:15.760 save this right now. But change doesn't happen that way. Changing the party into something that's
00:17:21.160 actually anti-communist and pro-America is going to take time. It's going to take election cycle
00:17:26.680 after election cycle. It takes years to get these losers out of DC, to get them out of your state
00:17:32.000 legislature. It just takes time and effort. But we have to start taking ownership of that and getting
00:17:36.820 more involved. Democrats participate in primaries. 50% of them go vote in primaries, Tucker. 25% of
00:17:43.380 Republicans go vote in primaries. You want to know why the Democrat Party is the party of Mao
00:17:47.600 now and the Republican Party hasn't advanced at all. That's exactly why. People sit on their butts.
00:17:52.800 They don't get involved. And now look where we are. So DeSantis is now talking once again about
00:17:59.240 sending illegals to Martha's Vineyard. He did that and then he kind of wussed out and kind of apologized
00:18:05.860 for it or didn't press the point. But I noticed from traveling that rural areas, pretty rural areas,
00:18:12.720 where you might go hunting fish, for example, are now filled with white liberals living in the
00:18:17.560 whitest possible zip codes they can find. The ones who lecture you about white privilege are now
00:18:22.160 living in much whiter areas than they did five years ago. Why not make this, you know, send the
00:18:29.100 illegals to Martha's Vineyard, but also to Aspen, also to Bethesda, Maryland, to these strongholds,
00:18:36.360 these all-white strongholds of progressive lunacy? Like, why not make that the policy?
00:18:40.960 Like, why be ashamed of doing that?
00:18:42.040 It should be this. It should be, and it shouldn't be, you shouldn't be ashamed of it. It should be,
00:18:46.220 there should be caravans, busloads of these people shipped into these neighborhoods. But I'll tell you
00:18:51.440 something, Tucker, even that might not affect, I mean, it would be good. We should do it. Even that
00:18:57.460 might not change these people's minds. I had the wildest conversation, I forgot to tell you about
00:19:02.020 this, with this lady. I won't go into details. We were in this big group setting and there were
00:19:07.120 Republicans here, Democrats there. It was vacation. We ended up at this big table, like 10 people at
00:19:11.300 this table, having a couple cocktails after dinner, just talking about life. And there were these two
00:19:15.980 liberal white women from Chicago. And they loved their mayor, Brandon Johnson, loved them. They
00:19:21.320 actually referenced him as B.J. was his name, right? B.J. I'm not kidding you not, they kept
00:19:25.180 calling him B.J. I mean, like he's Kamala Harris or something like that. He's going to B.J. this and B.J.
00:19:29.760 that. But I kept my mouth shut, Tucker, believe it or not. I know no one's going to believe that. I just sat
00:19:34.300 there and listened, just watched and just listened as these people were talking. Well, there was this
00:19:38.060 oil field guy from Texas. You love this guy, just total cowboy, red America, the great, all this.
00:19:43.200 And he wasn't holding back. And he finally challenges this woman about the crime in Chicago.
00:19:47.920 And he says to her, you talk about B.J. this and Chicago's great that. Look at these murder numbers
00:19:53.240 and it's a disaster. And you got people taking over Union Square. It's crazy. How can you defend it?
00:19:58.180 And Tucker, on my life, cross my heart and hope to die. This lady looked him right in the eye and she said,
00:20:02.840 well, yeah, if you come to Chicago, you might get robbed, but you're not going to be targeted.
00:20:08.520 That was her explanation. Well, yeah, you might get robbed here, but they're not going to target
00:20:13.360 you for assassination. Why are you complaining? Chicago is wonderful. In her mind, that was a
00:20:18.660 good explanation. People do not understand how sick the mind of the liberal white woman is.
00:20:24.780 And they don't understand that that is the true beating heart of the Democrat party today. I'm not
00:20:28.840 even actually trying to be mean about this. It's why they talk to him. Do people know that married
00:20:33.420 women vote Republican? Married men vote Republican. Married men vote Republican. Single men vote
00:20:38.320 Republican. But it's something like 77% of single women vote Democrat. And the majority, over 58% of
00:20:47.820 those women have been diagnosed with mental illness. Single, miserable women who are clinically insane
00:20:54.560 are the beating heart of the Democrat party. And that's why these people do the things they do.
00:20:59.060 And that's why they do what they do when it comes to illegal immigration. Because single white women
00:21:03.000 view illegal immigration like rescuing dogs who've been abused. Oh, sure. Everybody just come into my
00:21:09.520 country. Please rape anyone you want. Of course, that's the right thing to do. No love of country.
00:21:14.820 Just sitting there popping her anti-anxiety medication as she destroys Western civilization.
00:21:19.700 That's the truth. I don't think you get the credit for being as deep and insightful as you are.
00:21:28.540 Last question, since you live in Texas. Do you notice it? Do you notice the effects of this
00:21:33.380 invasion on your state? Yeah, I'll tell you, Tucker, I don't live in Houston proper. I would
00:21:38.860 never live in it. It's too blue. I don't live in blue areas. But occasionally we have to go in there
00:21:43.160 if it's an event or if it's an airport or something like that. Especially over the last year, maybe last
00:21:49.520 two years, it is noticeably dirtier, more dangerous. It's a place my wife will not venture
00:21:56.540 now unless I am with her. It is very, very noticeable, especially in the urban areas and around
00:22:02.420 the urban areas where these illegals know they can just disappear into the ether. They are protected
00:22:07.640 in these places. They're provided for. I mean, my goodness. And the Venezuelans were shipping to New
00:22:12.740 York City, have special Venezuelan cuisine courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. So yes, anytime you're in one
00:22:18.820 of these blue areas, especially Houston, Austin's really bad now. You notice it. It's bad. You can't
00:22:25.960 drive a Ford F-150 pickup truck into the city of San Antonio right now. And if you do, you better have
00:22:31.220 all your valuables out of it because it'll be gone about 15 minutes after you walk into Starbucks. It's
00:22:35.480 bad now. Bad. But you mentioned the cost of it. I mean, it feels like, impossible to predict,
00:22:41.340 of course, but it feels like the U.S. economy is hollow and maybe on the verge of like an actual
00:22:47.720 reset where we have to face the fact that we're not as rich as we thought we were. If that happens,
00:22:53.640 are people going to start to, do you think, notice that all the services they pay for are no longer
00:22:57.440 available? Healthcare, education, the roads. Like, are they going to want to continue to pay for
00:23:03.580 criminals from Venezuela to live for free in our country? Won't that change attitudes?
00:23:08.260 Yes. Yes. They're going to want to continue to do it for a time, Tucker, because there's so much,
00:23:13.860 there's so many lies out there that are created for people now, even normal people where they can't,
00:23:19.780 they don't know how to access real, true information, especially if you're, and this is
00:23:25.460 not insulting older people, but if you're an older, more traditional American, not even some America
00:23:30.460 hating piece of trash Democrat, but just a normal American, you go to work, you have a family,
00:23:35.500 everything else. And then at home, when you, when you're having dinner, maybe you finish dinner,
00:23:39.340 you have a beer and you turn on what? NBC, ABC, CBS, you get caught up on the news of the day.
00:23:44.000 Unless you are seeking out shows like this on X, podcasts, things like that, unless you're
00:23:49.760 seeking out information, if you're just existing in the ether, you live in a world entirely of make-believe.
00:23:55.980 Even the normal American doesn't understand what's going on, and they don't understand why
00:24:00.960 they're seeing the things they're seeing. People don't, people who live in Southern California don't
00:24:05.140 understand why the hospitals are closing. They don't, they don't totally get it. People in New York
00:24:09.800 City don't understand why there's a new Spanish-speaking wing in Aiden, Jaden, and Braden's new
00:24:14.540 elementary school. They don't quite understand what's happening. If you're in Chicago, you don't
00:24:18.540 understand why now measles is making a comeback. People don't make the connection because they don't
00:24:23.580 access true information. We're so demoralized as a people, and we've been so battered down by lies
00:24:29.940 through our education system and media for years that we are a people very lost and listless right
00:24:35.440 now, and we don't, we need, we need to find our anchor for sure. People like that can be destroyed,
00:24:41.400 I think. Yeah. Well, that's why they did it. You know, you're right. Jesse Kelly, I sure appreciate
00:24:46.720 that. Interesting. And as I said, just really insightful. Thank you. Be good, my brother. Thank you,
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