00:08:06.220So give a listen to what she says about today creating wealth and whether it's possible for anyone to generate a billion dollars in production and society.
00:08:20.000There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right?
00:18:43.840Well, look, I will say that the actually third point she made, I agreed with her when she talked about the immigrant story that so many millions of Americans have.
00:18:53.240But it's interesting what she described.
00:18:54.700she said so many people whether us our parents or grandparents who came to america and made
00:18:59.860something from nothing that's actually right and she screwed up and actually told the american
00:19:05.300free enterprise story like accidentally i'm sure she didn't actually listen to the words she was
00:19:10.040saying but look when my dad came from cuba in 1957 with a hundred dollars in his underwear he came
00:19:16.340to america because as as aoc accurately put it there you could make something from nothing freedom
00:19:23.660was possible you you could live your success didn't depend on who your parents were who your
00:19:29.340grandparents are if if you had talent and hard work and a vision you could succeed it's why
00:19:34.240millions of people come to this country but you look at the first half of what she said
00:19:38.180it was like she was in a faculty lounge and just sort of signaling out all of the oppressed people
00:19:44.820because it's it's intersectionality it's there's a whole spectrum i i was really waiting for her to0.83
00:19:50.360talk about like like like a lesbian hamas terrorist in a wheelchair like like how could you find
00:19:58.660every element of oppression so she says she says well indigenous people that that they're0.93
00:20:05.540she just sort of emotes in their direction she doesn't actually say it's just check the
00:20:09.080it's check the boxes she's just like oh you know we're on stolen land um mind you she's not0.78
00:20:15.600proposing giving Manhattan back she just is like stolen land stolen land America illegitimate0.99
00:20:20.960but look the comment she makes at the beginning which which is truly it's just ludicrous she says
00:20:27.420black Americans created democracy in America now listen I think much of the journey of America has
00:20:35.280been a journey towards equality a journey towards justice and and I agree with her the civil rights
00:20:40.540movement in America was pivotal. But the idea that democracy was created in America by black0.96
00:20:46.280Americans is just wildly ahistorical. Where did democracy come from? Well, number one,
00:20:51.900we don't have a pure democracy, a pure democracy. An Athenian democracy would be, say, all the
00:20:57.140people get together and vote on the ultimate policy. So you get together and say, what should
00:21:02.340the law be? Should the top tax rate be 10 percent, 20 percent, 30 percent or 90 percent? Everyone
00:21:07.780votes and whatever wins that's what it is that's a pure democracy we don't have that we have a1.00
00:21:12.440republic we have representative democracy but her claim that black americans created democracy in
00:21:18.140america no there were actually two processes that created democracy in america number one what we
00:21:23.880are celebrating in july of this year the declaration of independence that that was the birthday of our
00:21:30.200nation and and and it was thomas jefferson who penned the immortal words we hold these truths
00:21:36.040to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator
00:21:41.300with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:21:46.420That declaration, by the way, declaring our independence not from billionaires, but from
00:21:52.080oppressive government, from King George, that was the beginning of our nation, and then
00:21:58.000some 20 years later, the United States Constitution, which created our democracy. I mean, if you want
00:22:04.820to look at the moment that our democracy was created. It was the delegates in Constitution
00:22:09.240Hall in Philadelphia who drafted the Constitution, who set up our system of government, and then the
00:22:14.520states that had to ratify it. And once it was ratified, it went into effect. That is what has
00:22:21.040created our democracy. Now, if she were speaking precisely, what she could have said is when our
00:22:28.260democracy was created, it was imperfect. And we had to travel a journey to move towards greater
00:22:35.540equality. That statement is unequivocally right. It is true. Yeah, accurate. When our nation was
00:22:40.820created, African Americans in half the country were slaves. They had no right to vote. Women0.99
00:22:47.560had no right to vote. On the question of slavery, I've said many times, slavery is the original sin1.00
00:22:54.780of America. It was a grotesque evil. I will point out, though, that how did we abolish slavery?
00:23:01.320Look, we abolished slavery. Number one, the person who did it was Abraham Lincoln,
00:23:05.040the very first Republican president. Our party was created in order to defeat slavery. That was
00:23:11.140the purpose. That's the origin of the Republican Party. The Democrat Party, by the way, virtually
00:23:17.140its entire tenure defended slavery and fought ferociously in favor of slavery. But the way
00:23:23.680the abolitionists in the Republican Party successfully abolished slavery was not by
00:23:29.940attacking our founding principles, not by attacking the Constitution, not by attacking
00:23:34.640the Declaration, but rather by appealing to those principles, by saying we are not living up when
00:23:42.960Jefferson wrote the words, all men are created equal. That statement is on its face, completely
00:23:50.140incompatible with slavery. Jefferson knew that. Yeah. He was brilliant. Yeah. And he was putting
00:23:55.280into place, I believe with, I agree with Dr. Martin Luther King, who said the arc of history
00:24:02.760is long, but it bends towards justice. But AOC, and this is true with the squad and with all of
00:24:10.580the communists on the left, they're so ignorant that everything I just said there, they don't0.99
00:24:15.420know. They're told that the American Revolution was a communist revolution against the billionaires,1.00
00:24:21.100that the answer is more government power, and they repeat things like black Americans gave
00:24:27.660us democracy, which is just simply not accurate. The civil rights movement was one of the greatest
00:24:34.140democratic movements in our nation's history. By the way, she points to the Civil Rights Act. Look,
00:24:40.020Civil Rights Act, far more Republicans, a much greater percentage of Republicans in Congress
00:24:44.200voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats. Her party opposed the Civil Rights Act,0.58
00:24:49.220the majority of them. And so, yes, we're on a journey, but the left, their ignorance,0.93
00:24:56.380it is a close battle which predominates ideology or ignorance, but they're both intertwined and
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00:28:33.360You know, look, that that is the both the classic ignorance and misinformation of the left. So so they understand AOC supports a open border. So she wants to abolish the police. She wants to abolish ICE. She opposes all law enforcement that actually secures our border against foreign invaders, against illegal immigrants, against violent murderers, rapists, child molesters and gangbangers.
00:28:58.080and her position has consistently been let all of them out of jail but at the same time she wants
00:29:04.540to tell her her very ill-informed supporters if there are detention centers that are used for
00:29:11.800illegal immigrants that are used for violent criminals those will be used by government
00:29:16.680against you and and part of what is really astonishing is is if you look throughout history0.93
00:29:24.000In almost every instance where there have been mass detention centers, it's been the left that has put them in place.
00:29:30.900You look at whether it is the Soviet gulags, where communists imprisoned millions.
00:30:46.380I think slavery is wrong, concentration camps are wrong, detention camps.
00:30:51.300By the way, in the United States, which president created detention camps and detained American citizens?
00:30:58.800I'm going to go with it was a Democrat, as I just want to be clear about this.
00:31:01.720It is a Democrat. It was FDR who set up internment camps for Japanese Americans who were American citizens
00:31:08.940and interned thousands of them, forcibly detained them during World War II.0.62
00:31:13.100That was a Democrat. By the way, she talks about Jim Crow. She probably doesn't know this, but do you know who wrote the Jim Crow laws? That would be Democrats.0.50
00:31:21.600Do you know who funded and founded the KKK? That would be Democrats.0.72
00:31:28.760And I want to read to give you something recent.
00:31:33.760In 2020, there was an Iowa-based field organizer for Bernie Sanders' campaign who was caught on tape discussing the need for, quote, re-education camps for people who did not support Bernie Sanders, particularly for Trump supporters.
00:31:51.600So, AOC, it is her side that has advocated we're going to put the people we disagree with in camps.
00:32:01.900In some level, that's not shocking because the left has always been willing, if you support government power, you are willing to use that government power to lock up everyone who disagrees with you.
00:32:13.760And there's something fundamentally different between locking up a violent criminal, locking up someone who has violated the law.
00:32:20.460that is protecting the community that's protecting our citizens that is upholding the
00:32:24.640rule of law there's something fundamentally different between that and rounding up and
00:32:30.600locking up lawful citizens and in history virtually the only people to have done so
00:32:37.360have been leftists have been communists like AOC and yet look I do think she studied Saul
00:32:44.400Olenski's Rules for Radicals. She starts and throughout accuses her opponents of doing that
00:32:51.080which she would do. And look, these interviews, truth matters. And let me say this as a final
00:32:59.760point. This is a big part of the reason we do these podcasts, is to actually engage and give
00:33:06.580you the substance. Because if someone is a young person and they're listening to AOC and they're
00:33:11.680like, oh, yeah, the American Revolution fought to overcome the billionaires. We got to stop
00:33:17.440those billionaires. This podcast is here to give you the facts and information to push back
00:33:22.940on that dishonest and ignorant indoctrination. Yeah, no doubt. Don't forget, we do this show0.98
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