Verdict with Ted Cruz - Tik Tok Flooded with Bin Laden Propaganda, Infrastructure Money Tied to Woke Initiatives, & Education Changing Country Forever the Week In Review

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00:00:05.340 Welcome, it's Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:08.160 Week in Review, Ben Ferguson with you,

00:00:10.260 and I hope you had a fabulous time

00:00:12.500 with your family over Thanksgiving.

00:00:14.800 Now, here are some of the stories

00:00:16.540 that you may have missed this week

00:00:18.060 that we talked about.

00:00:19.420 First up, China flooding TikTok

00:00:22.040 with Osama Bin Laden propaganda,

00:00:25.500 getting young people to read his letter to America

00:00:28.480 and then advocate for Osama Bin Laden's viewpoint.

00:00:33.040 How are we allowing this to happen

00:00:34.620 in this country and around the world?

00:00:36.900 We're going to dive into that

00:00:38.540 and what this means with China

00:00:40.380 trying to control the minds of young people 0.70

00:00:43.120 all over the world.

00:00:45.080 Up next, infrastructure.

00:00:47.200 If you ask voters,

00:00:48.280 it's something they're all in favor of,

00:00:50.220 better roads.

00:00:51.340 But what happens when the roads

00:00:53.020 turn into woke agenda items?

00:00:56.420 Well, billions and billions of your tax dollars

00:00:59.200 that were meant for infrastructure projects

00:01:01.940 are now tied to woke initiatives,

00:01:04.500 and we'll expose that.

00:01:06.240 And finally, education is changing in this country,

00:01:10.280 and that education that has nothing to do

00:01:13.140 with reading, writing, and arithmetic

00:01:14.480 may be changing this nation forever.

00:01:18.180 The senator will break down that warning for you as well.

00:01:21.620 It's the Week in Review,

00:01:22.940 and it starts right now.

00:01:24.680 This goes into something else

00:01:26.660 that I have to bring up,

00:01:27.600 and it's something that we've seen on TikTok.

00:01:29.360 Now, if you don't know what TikTok is,

00:01:30.560 we've talked about this before.

00:01:32.120 Quick recap, it's an app that a ton of people use.

00:01:35.920 Especially young people.

00:01:36.980 Especially young people.

00:01:37.980 And China uses it to influence 0.75

00:01:40.320 young people specifically.

00:01:43.600 We saw an unbelievable uptick on TikTok,

00:01:47.380 and there's data to back this up,

00:01:48.960 of pro-Hamas videos,

00:01:51.520 pro-Hamas propaganda,

00:01:53.500 anti-Israel propaganda,

00:01:55.480 pro-Palestinian propaganda.

00:01:57.000 A Harvard poll recently came out

00:02:00.260 that said of Americans 18 to 24,

00:02:02.760 51% believe that Hamas' atrocities

00:02:07.200 could be justified.

00:02:08.780 51%, more than half of young people.

00:02:11.500 And TikTok is affirmatively pushing

00:02:13.740 this pro-Hamas propaganda, 1.00

00:02:16.540 this garbage to young people. 1.00

00:02:18.880 And it has an enormous negative influence. 0.99

00:02:21.120 And I want to put on now

00:02:23.220 one video from TikTok

00:02:25.080 that went viral this week

00:02:26.460 that shows just how cancerous.

00:02:29.300 And it deals with Osama bin Laden,

00:02:30.840 so if you understand the context of this.

00:02:32.900 There was,

00:02:33.800 and this clearly is propaganda

00:02:35.320 meant to influence.

00:02:36.740 And there was a letter

00:02:37.760 that Osama bin Laden had put out 0.61

00:02:40.400 before, it was, I guess,

00:02:41.640 technically right before 9-11

00:02:42.900 or justifying the 9-11 attacks

00:02:44.720 and explaining his thoughts

00:02:46.560 on why he was doing 9-11.

00:02:48.660 This letter, decades later,

00:02:51.400 has gone viral only on TikTok,

00:02:54.840 go back to propaganda of China, 0.91

00:02:56.980 to influence young people

00:02:57.980 to believe that somehow

00:02:59.420 Osama bin Laden was justified 1.00

00:03:01.580 in his 9-11 attack

00:03:03.640 the same way that they're justifying

00:03:05.500 Hamas' attack on Israel.

00:03:08.300 And this is what Americans are saying

00:03:12.060 about reading this letter

00:03:13.580 for the first time on TikTok, look.

00:03:16.400 So it starts with a woman, 0.98

00:03:18.040 me when I got the news in 2011

00:03:19.600 that we got him

00:03:20.600 and she's celebrating.

00:03:21.720 Then 2023,

00:03:23.120 reading his letter to America

00:03:24.240 knowing he was right.

00:03:25.840 Osama bin Laden,

00:03:26.600 that's what they're talking about.

00:03:27.440 Actually, before you even read the letter,

00:03:29.480 I did want to mention,

00:03:30.660 in reading the letter,

00:03:31.540 I could only think of this tweet

00:03:32.940 that I saw the other day.

00:03:34.400 Under settler colonialism,

00:03:35.580 any kind of resistance

00:03:36.880 is branded as terrorist

00:03:38.220 because the only acceptable violence

00:03:39.980 is violence by the occupier.

00:03:41.940 So please keep that in mind

00:03:43.660 when reading the letter.

00:03:44.420 Another young person.

00:03:45.360 Um, we really need to stop paying taxes

00:03:47.700 because they ain't doing nothing

00:03:49.940 but messing up everybody else 0.90

00:03:51.320 and America is the bully.

00:03:54.240 And it's sad 0.99

00:03:54.920 because they have brainwashed us

00:03:57.020 to think that we was the best country

00:03:58.480 on the planet,

00:03:59.900 when in reality,

00:04:01.020 we're the worst country on the planet.

00:04:03.000 It is just insane

00:04:05.200 because this letter

00:04:06.320 is so well written

00:04:07.900 and so reasonably structured,

00:04:09.820 um,

00:04:11.020 in an argument.

00:04:12.520 Like,

00:04:13.020 you gotta present your findings,

00:04:14.600 you gotta,

00:04:15.180 you know,

00:04:16.260 you gotta state your cause,

00:04:18.660 all that.

00:04:19.540 Like,

00:04:19.860 everything he said

00:04:21.020 was valid.

00:04:22.780 Everything Osama bin Laden

00:04:24.480 said was

00:04:25.100 valid.

00:04:26.820 The guy before saying,

00:04:27.760 we need to stop paying taxes

00:04:28.960 because Osama bin Laden

00:04:30.860 was right.

00:04:31.720 And we're the worst country

00:04:33.460 in the world.

00:04:34.880 Hashtag,

00:04:35.480 uh,

00:04:35.780 Free Palestine.

00:04:36.500 It's at the bottom.

00:04:37.160 I don't know if you noticed that.

00:04:38.360 Look,

00:04:38.540 this is,

00:04:39.860 all of these

00:04:40.820 are young people.

00:04:42.240 This is on,

00:04:42.880 on TikTok.

00:04:44.220 These young people 1.00

00:04:45.220 are profoundly ignorant. 1.00

00:04:46.520 They don't know anything. 1.00

00:04:48.320 But they're also,

00:04:50.800 TikTok is deliberately curated.

00:04:54.120 The algorithm is controlled.

00:04:56.740 The recommendation algorithm

00:04:58.180 is controlled

00:04:59.120 by the Chinese Communist Party.

00:05:00.940 I mentioned the last

00:05:01.760 classified briefing

00:05:02.500 I went to this week,

00:05:03.460 Ben.

00:05:04.060 So the topic of it

00:05:05.500 was social media

00:05:07.520 and disinformation.

00:05:09.100 And so it included

00:05:09.720 a number of,

00:05:10.460 of,

00:05:10.760 uh,

00:05:12.140 folks from the government.

00:05:13.080 This was a joint

00:05:14.100 classified briefing

00:05:15.160 with the Commerce Committee

00:05:16.300 where I'm the ranking Republican

00:05:17.620 and the Intelligence Committee.

00:05:20.040 So we met together.

00:05:21.680 And I can't tell you

00:05:22.980 what they said,

00:05:23.820 but I can't tell you

00:05:24.420 the questions I asked

00:05:25.360 because the questions

00:05:25.980 I asked are not classified.

00:05:27.120 Uh,

00:05:28.320 and the question I asked,

00:05:29.520 I said,

00:05:29.800 what evidence do we have

00:05:30.700 specifically

00:05:31.340 that TikTok

00:05:32.940 is affirmatively

00:05:34.120 and deliberately

00:05:34.900 pushing

00:05:35.640 pro-Hamas propaganda?

00:05:38.120 We know that young people

00:05:39.600 are moving dramatically

00:05:40.960 in,

00:05:41.280 in,

00:05:41.620 in the

00:05:42.120 direction

00:05:43.780 of Hamas.

00:05:47.180 And to what extent

00:05:48.380 is the CCP

00:05:49.140 affirmatively doing that?

00:05:50.340 And I'll tell you something.

00:05:51.400 Again,

00:05:51.820 I can't give you their answers,

00:05:52.920 but I will tell you

00:05:53.700 a data point

00:05:54.420 which is TikTok

00:05:56.220 defends itself

00:05:57.160 by saying it keeps

00:05:58.180 U.S. customer data

00:05:59.400 here in the United States,

00:06:00.500 not in China.

00:06:02.000 Although,

00:06:02.620 under its terms of service,

00:06:03.860 the CCP has a right

00:06:04.760 to access them

00:06:05.480 at any time.

00:06:07.400 You know what it doesn't

00:06:08.460 keep here in the United States?

00:06:10.540 It's recommendation algorithm.

00:06:13.280 So,

00:06:13.700 the way TikTok operates,

00:06:15.120 you're looking at TikTok,

00:06:16.480 you watch a video,

00:06:17.580 and then it suggests to you,

00:06:19.040 hey,

00:06:19.840 Ben,

00:06:20.200 you would like this video.

00:06:21.720 Based on what you've seen

00:06:22.660 before,

00:06:23.060 so if you're looking at

00:06:23.960 golf videos

00:06:24.960 or tennis videos

00:06:25.820 or football videos,

00:06:26.920 you would assume

00:06:27.600 they would keep you

00:06:28.260 in the same type

00:06:28.920 of algorithm.

00:06:29.600 Well,

00:06:30.240 a recommendation algorithm

00:06:31.780 is one of the most

00:06:33.840 potent tools

00:06:35.060 social media has

00:06:36.380 to drive content,

00:06:37.700 to suppress content,

00:06:38.820 or to drive content.

00:06:40.140 And if you're engaged

00:06:41.200 in propaganda,

00:06:42.160 the recommendation algorithm

00:06:43.420 is your most potent tool

00:06:46.060 for it.

00:06:47.220 The recommendation algorithm

00:06:48.460 is not housed

00:06:49.560 in the United States.

00:06:50.400 It's housed in China.

00:06:51.620 And China just recently

00:06:52.640 passed a law

00:06:53.560 that defined

00:06:54.620 TikTok's recommendation

00:06:56.380 algorithm

00:06:57.460 as a,

00:06:59.300 quote,

00:06:59.480 national asset.

00:07:02.040 Makes sense.

00:07:02.980 It is an asset of China,

00:07:04.520 and they have developed

00:07:05.880 a global propaganda tool

00:07:07.960 that in particular

00:07:09.180 targets American young people.

00:07:11.580 And so they can decide

00:07:12.920 on any given day

00:07:13.820 what message do we want

00:07:15.080 to put to young people.

00:07:16.460 They can just,

00:07:17.120 on a Tuesday say,

00:07:19.140 let's just push messages

00:07:20.360 that hurt American

00:07:21.340 young people.

00:07:21.940 So let's push

00:07:24.020 to young girls

00:07:24.860 and teenage girls 0.96

00:07:25.800 body image problems

00:07:27.480 and push anorexia

00:07:28.540 and eating disorders

00:07:29.380 and let's push

00:07:30.120 self-harm,

00:07:31.240 let's push cutting, 0.88

00:07:32.140 let's push suicide,

00:07:33.520 let's push drug use,

00:07:34.740 let's push all sorts

00:07:36.220 of things that will just

00:07:37.060 hurt young people.

00:07:38.160 And they do that

00:07:39.040 tragically every day.

00:07:41.860 But they can also

00:07:42.600 decide politically,

00:07:43.780 okay,

00:07:44.280 we don't want the United States

00:07:46.040 exploring for oil and gas,

00:07:47.380 so let's push 0.98

00:07:48.160 Green New Deal garbage 0.99

00:07:49.740 to tell them, 1.00

00:07:50.700 go stop fracking,

00:07:51.700 go stop this,

00:07:52.540 go stop this,

00:07:53.540 be dependent on Iran, 0.98

00:07:55.720 be dependent on Russia, 0.89

00:07:56.820 be dependent on Venezuela,

00:07:58.240 be dependent on our enemies

00:07:59.420 for oil and gas.

00:08:00.720 They can push that message

00:08:01.980 to young people.

00:08:02.940 Or if they just want

00:08:04.660 to push pro-Hamas 0.88

00:08:07.780 propaganda,

00:08:08.760 they can.

00:08:09.760 In this instance,

00:08:10.580 you have young people.

00:08:12.240 And this went viral

00:08:13.100 to a level of millions

00:08:14.060 and millions

00:08:14.600 and millions

00:08:15.120 of impressions.

00:08:16.700 Over 14 million

00:08:17.720 last I saw.

00:08:18.440 Yeah,

00:08:18.680 and that's just people

00:08:19.540 that were posting

00:08:20.080 their own videos

00:08:20.580 after reading this letter

00:08:22.000 that came out of nowhere

00:08:23.880 from 2001

00:08:26.200 from Osama bin Laden

00:08:27.680 and the majority of it

00:08:29.140 was all positive

00:08:30.400 towards Osama bin Laden.

00:08:31.220 And you've got to

00:08:31.860 understand why.

00:08:32.860 I mean,

00:08:33.060 this is something,

00:08:34.260 as you know,

00:08:34.860 I'm at the tail end

00:08:36.400 of a two-week book tour,

00:08:37.500 so I've been,

00:08:38.500 I think I've done

00:08:39.200 77 media interviews

00:08:40.980 in the last two weeks

00:08:42.040 on the new book

00:08:43.220 on Woke.

00:08:43.620 I've been talking

00:08:44.220 about this a lot

00:08:45.140 because particularly

00:08:46.780 people of the left

00:08:48.040 are confused.

00:08:49.220 Why is there such

00:08:50.460 vicious anti-Semitism

00:08:53.400 among the left?

00:08:54.540 Yeah.

00:08:55.060 And I want to,

00:08:55.920 let's pull this up again.

00:08:57.160 I want to pull it up

00:08:57.880 and freeze it

00:08:58.400 midway through

00:08:59.020 because it really does

00:09:01.240 explain it profoundly.

00:09:03.460 Okay,

00:09:05.840 so this is the first woman

00:09:06.900 on the second person.

00:09:07.940 Just freeze it

00:09:08.580 when the second person

00:09:09.440 comes up.

00:09:10.700 Okay,

00:09:11.200 freeze it right here.

00:09:12.760 All right,

00:09:13.760 so this is a TikToker

00:09:15.520 and it's kind of

00:09:16.240 a young hipster

00:09:17.400 wearing like,

00:09:18.220 I don't know,

00:09:18.540 a shower cap

00:09:19.440 of some kind

00:09:20.280 with curls.

00:09:21.780 He's going swimming

00:09:22.620 afterwards, right?

00:09:23.320 I don't know.

00:09:24.800 But this is important.

00:09:26.860 So I've been explaining

00:09:28.100 and the book

00:09:28.840 Unwoke explains this

00:09:30.080 at depth.

00:09:31.740 So Marxism

00:09:32.620 is the doctrine

00:09:34.280 enunciated by Karl Marx

00:09:35.940 in the Communist Manifesto

00:09:37.160 that explains,

00:09:38.740 views the world

00:09:39.620 as a fundamental conflict

00:09:40.880 between oppressors

00:09:41.760 and victims.

00:09:43.200 Marx put it

00:09:43.700 in socioeconomic terms

00:09:44.840 so the oppressors

00:09:45.580 were the owners of capital,

00:09:47.000 the victims

00:09:47.680 were the proletariat,

00:09:49.060 the working men and women.

00:09:50.000 The solution

00:09:51.340 Marx advocated

00:09:52.500 was violent revolution

00:09:54.840 by the proletariat

00:09:55.960 overthrowing

00:09:56.920 the oppressors.

00:09:58.320 I describe

00:10:00.880 in the book

00:10:02.100 Unwoke

00:10:02.600 how Marxists

00:10:04.260 infiltrated

00:10:04.880 the universities

00:10:05.580 in the 1960s

00:10:06.660 and 70s

00:10:07.360 and then

00:10:07.760 that doctrine

00:10:08.920 mutated.

00:10:09.580 It mutated

00:10:10.120 to critical race theory

00:10:11.340 which has the same

00:10:12.740 basic frame,

00:10:13.780 the Marxist frame

00:10:14.620 of oppressor

00:10:15.220 and victim

00:10:15.620 but instead

00:10:16.960 of socioeconomic

00:10:18.020 it's race 0.85

00:10:18.600 so there are

00:10:19.060 oppressor races

00:10:19.720 and victim races.

00:10:21.560 I describe

00:10:22.220 how it mutated

00:10:23.280 to be gender

00:10:24.060 and gender identity

00:10:25.100 and sexual orientation.

00:10:26.380 Same idea

00:10:27.620 of oppressor

00:10:28.320 and victim

00:10:28.740 and the idea

00:10:29.380 is violence,

00:10:31.320 revolution,

00:10:32.240 anything is justified

00:10:33.520 if it is the victim

00:10:34.900 overthrowing the oppressor.

00:10:36.220 Now this TikTok video

00:10:37.840 the text

00:10:38.540 of the tweet

00:10:39.580 he has

00:10:40.080 says

00:10:40.480 under settler

00:10:42.440 colonialism

00:10:43.320 any kind

00:10:45.080 of resistance

00:10:45.760 is branded

00:10:47.300 as terrorism

00:10:48.240 because the only

00:10:50.240 acceptable violence

00:10:51.600 is violence

00:10:52.360 by the occupier.

00:10:53.880 That is straight up

00:10:55.120 Marxism.

00:10:55.680 And it is

00:10:56.980 explaining why

00:10:58.240 as I told

00:10:59.060 this left-leaning

00:10:59.960 tech executive

00:11:00.820 the reason

00:11:02.160 the left

00:11:02.740 is celebrating

00:11:03.520 Hamas 0.96

00:11:04.120 is they have

00:11:05.980 defined Jews 0.69

00:11:07.340 as oppressors. 0.96

00:11:08.820 They have

00:11:09.720 defined Hamas

00:11:11.040 as victims

00:11:11.880 and so

00:11:13.460 they're in favor

00:11:14.340 of violence

00:11:15.080 by the victims

00:11:16.000 against the impressors

00:11:17.500 and that includes

00:11:18.740 mass murder

00:11:19.440 that includes

00:11:20.400 targeting civilians

00:11:21.340 that includes 0.95

00:11:21.980 murdering elderly people 0.99

00:11:23.140 that includes 1.00

00:11:24.100 raping women 1.00

00:11:25.140 and little girls 0.60

00:11:26.140 in the public streets

00:11:27.120 that includes

00:11:27.940 slaughtering infants

00:11:29.200 that includes

00:11:29.840 as we discussed

00:11:30.700 literally

00:11:33.700 putting a baby

00:11:36.380 in an oven 1.00

00:11:37.820 and raping 1.00

00:11:40.380 that baby's 1.00

00:11:41.520 mother

00:11:41.960 while the baby

00:11:44.400 cooks to death

00:11:45.260 and the mother 1.00

00:11:47.240 is being raped 0.99

00:11:48.280 and listening 1.00

00:11:49.860 to her infant

00:11:51.200 die 0.99

00:11:52.280 in an oven 0.93

00:11:53.380 being cooked

00:11:54.520 to death. 0.75

00:11:55.080 Now that is

00:11:55.660 unmitigated evil

00:11:56.860 that is Nazi 0.76

00:11:58.460 like that is a level 0.97

00:12:00.320 of grotesque evil

00:12:01.420 that

00:12:01.700 defies words

00:12:04.800 and yet

00:12:05.500 to the cultural

00:12:07.640 Marxist

00:12:08.280 and to these

00:12:08.900 young

00:12:09.500 idealistic 1.00

00:12:10.600 imbeciles 1.00

00:12:11.540 they're cheering 1.00

00:12:13.120 for the terrorist

00:12:14.140 why?

00:12:15.060 Because it says here

00:12:15.780 well under settler

00:12:16.680 colonialism

00:12:17.340 and mind you

00:12:17.960 in their mind

00:12:18.520 it's the Jews 1.00

00:12:19.820 that are the bad 1.00

00:12:20.720 settler

00:12:21.200 colonialists

00:12:22.220 any kind

00:12:23.720 of resistance

00:12:24.660 so you know

00:12:25.800 baking a baby

00:12:26.540 in an oven

00:12:26.920 that's a kind

00:12:27.800 of resistance

00:12:28.420 is branded

00:12:30.520 as terrorist

00:12:31.660 well no

00:12:32.160 terrorism

00:12:32.680 is targeting

00:12:33.280 civilians

00:12:33.860 I've got to say 0.99

00:12:34.880 slaughtering infants

00:12:35.820 qualifies as terrorism

00:12:37.060 because the only

00:12:38.860 acceptable violence

00:12:40.140 is violence

00:12:41.760 by the occupier

00:12:43.400 the reason

00:12:44.540 these young people

00:12:45.460 are so susceptible

00:12:46.400 to this

00:12:47.320 TikTok propaganda

00:12:48.720 is because

00:12:50.420 cultural Marxism

00:12:51.900 has been taught

00:12:52.900 to them

00:12:53.460 from the womb

00:12:55.000 has been taught

00:12:55.780 to them

00:12:56.240 in kindergarten

00:12:57.200 first, second, third, 0.70

00:12:58.360 fourth, fifth grade

00:12:59.080 all the way

00:12:59.920 through school

00:13:00.460 has been taught

00:13:01.080 to them

00:13:01.480 in college

00:13:02.460 has been taught

00:13:03.180 to them

00:13:03.620 through social media

00:13:04.800 has been taught

00:13:05.400 to them

00:13:05.760 through entertainment

00:13:06.800 they're told

00:13:07.800 once we say

00:13:09.120 someone is the victim

00:13:10.160 and someone is the oppressor

00:13:11.760 we cheer

00:13:13.040 for violence

00:13:13.960 for any

00:13:15.160 horrible evil

00:13:17.060 against the oppressor

00:13:18.360 because that's

00:13:19.360 the Marxist revolution

00:13:20.320 we support

00:13:20.920 now if you want to hear

00:13:22.300 the rest of this conversation

00:13:23.820 you can go back

00:13:24.800 and listen to the full podcast

00:13:26.400 from earlier this week

00:13:27.620 Canadian women

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00:13:33.180 and the world around them

00:13:34.400 and that's why

00:13:35.040 we're thrilled

00:13:35.540 to introduce

00:13:36.200 the Honest Talk podcast

00:13:37.680 I'm Jennifer Stewart

00:13:39.220 and I'm Catherine Clark

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00:13:57.520 now on to story number two

00:14:00.920 Biden's infrastructure spending

00:14:03.580 has now gone woke

00:14:05.700 it's a great moment

00:14:07.640 to pause

00:14:08.180 and remind people

00:14:09.120 if you're Black Friday shopping

00:14:10.780 grab the senator's new book

00:14:12.200 Unwoke

00:14:12.920 you can grab it

00:14:14.300 it's a best seller

00:14:15.160 you can get it on Amazon

00:14:15.940 or wherever you get your books

00:14:17.260 unless you're at a bookstore

00:14:18.100 in California

00:14:18.720 apparently they don't like it

00:14:19.800 very much out there

00:14:20.640 in California

00:14:21.300 in the bookstores

00:14:21.940 but you can grab it

00:14:23.300 wherever you get your books

00:14:24.660 I love this part of censorship

00:14:26.400 by the way senator

00:14:27.080 there are quite a few bookstores

00:14:29.360 I've actually

00:14:30.220 talked to friends

00:14:31.520 who have gone into bookstores

00:14:32.840 your book's a best seller

00:14:34.140 and if you're in the wrong

00:14:35.580 part of the country

00:14:36.380 in a more liberal

00:14:37.060 woke part of the country

00:14:37.880 there's a very good chance

00:14:38.940 you cannot find a hard copy

00:14:40.340 of your book in a bookstore

00:14:41.340 which is maddening to me

00:14:43.360 especially since

00:14:44.120 this is a best seller

00:14:44.900 well it is one of the many examples

00:14:48.120 how corporate America

00:14:49.200 is woke

00:14:50.440 as you know

00:14:51.220 two weeks ago

00:14:52.620 I was in LA

00:14:53.320 to shoot Bill Maher

00:14:54.560 and talk about the book

00:14:55.540 and I actually

00:14:56.480 met some friends in LA

00:14:58.540 who went to try to buy the book

00:15:00.300 and they went to a Barnes & Noble

00:15:02.020 in LA

00:15:02.620 and they didn't have a single copy

00:15:04.340 of the book there

00:15:05.020 and they asked them

00:15:05.740 okay search the system

00:15:06.880 and they

00:15:07.740 it turned out

00:15:08.880 there was not

00:15:09.640 one copy of my book

00:15:11.320 this is what they were told

00:15:12.700 in any Barnes & Noble

00:15:15.340 in the entire city

00:15:16.640 of Los Angeles

00:15:17.400 and they had to actually

00:15:19.300 drive to Long Beach

00:15:20.560 which they did

00:15:21.380 to get several copies

00:15:23.260 of the books

00:15:23.720 because it was only

00:15:24.620 the Barnes & Noble

00:15:25.400 in Long Beach

00:15:26.120 that had the copies

00:15:27.060 and throughout LA

00:15:28.500 they weren't there

00:15:29.200 sadly we're hearing

00:15:30.580 we're hearing reports of that

00:15:32.360 there was also a letter

00:15:33.280 to the editor

00:15:34.360 this past week

00:15:35.300 in the Dallas Morning News

00:15:37.500 complaining that

00:15:38.280 the big box stores

00:15:39.280 which have lots and lots

00:15:40.660 of books

00:15:41.880 of other books

00:15:42.760 that you can't find

00:15:44.800 unwoke

00:15:45.820 even though

00:15:46.340 as you note

00:15:46.920 it is a best seller

00:15:48.320 it was at the top

00:15:49.040 of the best seller list

00:15:49.980 and yet

00:15:50.500 the major

00:15:51.680 bricks and mortar

00:15:52.420 retail outlets

00:15:53.520 are very reluctant

00:15:55.040 to carry it

00:15:55.580 and when they do carry it

00:15:56.540 they certainly don't

00:15:57.240 put it out on the table

00:15:58.180 in front

00:15:58.560 they put it off

00:15:59.200 in the back

00:15:59.660 the good news is

00:16:00.840 you can order it online

00:16:02.000 so I would encourage

00:16:03.460 you go online

00:16:04.300 and order it

00:16:04.960 and you mentioned

00:16:05.940 what came out

00:16:08.320 this past week

00:16:09.220 and what came out

00:16:10.060 this past week

00:16:10.900 also is

00:16:12.400 racist roads

00:16:15.440 and woke infrastructure

00:16:16.660 which may sound absurd

00:16:18.020 but it's something I discuss

00:16:19.220 at considerable length

00:16:20.780 in the book on woke

00:16:21.940 and in June

00:16:24.080 Transportation Secretary

00:16:26.840 Pete Buttigieg

00:16:27.620 announced that

00:16:29.140 the Department of Transportation

00:16:30.360 had started accepting

00:16:31.380 applications

00:16:32.080 for the National

00:16:33.600 Infrastructure Project

00:16:34.960 Assistance

00:16:35.880 Infrastructure for Rebuilding

00:16:38.400 America

00:16:39.060 and the Rural Surface

00:16:40.460 Transportation

00:16:41.180 Grant Programs

00:16:42.200 these three programs

00:16:44.260 together

00:16:44.820 received

00:16:46.400 $5.6 billion

00:16:48.820 under the so-called

00:16:50.960 Infrastructure Investment

00:16:52.320 and Jobs Act

00:16:53.280 and

00:16:54.500 the Department of Transportation

00:16:56.540 under Buttigieg

00:16:57.220 said the grants

00:16:58.900 that would be awarded

00:16:59.800 would support

00:17:00.620 quote

00:17:01.040 transformational

00:17:02.720 infrastructure projects

00:17:04.080 across the nation

00:17:05.080 but the notice

00:17:06.720 of funding opportunity

00:17:07.960 issued

00:17:09.220 states that

00:17:10.100 recipients

00:17:10.600 must

00:17:11.780 broadly address

00:17:13.740 quote

00:17:14.200 equity

00:17:14.820 and climate

00:17:16.560 concerns

00:17:17.240 and further

00:17:18.680 it says

00:17:19.180 quote

00:17:19.540 projects

00:17:21.040 that have not

00:17:21.700 sufficiently

00:17:22.180 considered

00:17:22.700 the equity

00:17:23.240 and barriers

00:17:23.840 to opportunity

00:17:24.520 in their planning

00:17:25.200 as determined

00:17:26.700 by the department

00:17:27.560 will be required

00:17:29.080 to do so

00:17:29.720 before receiving

00:17:30.460 funds for construction

00:17:31.480 quote

00:17:33.220 projects that have

00:17:34.460 not sufficiently

00:17:35.180 considered climate

00:17:36.100 change

00:17:36.640 and environmental

00:17:37.700 justice in their

00:17:38.580 planning

00:17:38.940 as determined

00:17:40.260 by the department

00:17:40.980 will be required

00:17:42.360 to do so

00:17:42.980 before receiving

00:17:43.780 funds for construction

00:17:44.860 now mind you

00:17:46.340 what they're saying

00:17:47.220 is if you're actually

00:17:48.580 building roads

00:17:49.440 if you're actually

00:17:50.120 building freeways

00:17:51.280 then that is

00:17:53.260 is not sufficient

00:17:54.400 and in fact

00:17:55.360 Pete Buttigieg

00:17:56.540 made news

00:17:58.440 in 2021

00:17:59.120 when he said

00:18:00.100 quote

00:18:00.480 there is racism

00:18:02.080 physically built

00:18:03.860 into some of our highways

00:18:05.320 now

00:18:06.120 that is 1.00

00:18:06.980 idiotic 1.00

00:18:08.280 and 1.00

00:18:09.160 and I would note

00:18:10.440 that the DOT

00:18:12.600 grants

00:18:13.500 also

00:18:14.260 additionally

00:18:15.080 target

00:18:15.720 so DOT

00:18:16.840 policies

00:18:17.600 frame

00:18:18.260 road building

00:18:19.520 here's what they call

00:18:20.200 road building

00:18:20.780 quote

00:18:21.860 increasing

00:18:23.220 automobile

00:18:24.120 dependence

00:18:25.380 and so

00:18:26.840 they condemn

00:18:27.560 highway expansion

00:18:28.440 projects

00:18:28.980 that don't involve

00:18:30.020 electric vehicle

00:18:31.280 charging stations

00:18:32.260 or bike lanes

00:18:33.160 so it is

00:18:33.900 remember there was

00:18:34.860 a lot of hoopla

00:18:35.620 over all the money

00:18:36.660 to be spent

00:18:37.240 on infrastructure

00:18:38.040 and roads

00:18:38.560 and bridges

00:18:39.060 oh yeah

00:18:39.960 well it turns out

00:18:41.200 Joe Biden

00:18:41.760 and Kamala Harris

00:18:42.460 and Pete Buttigieg

00:18:43.160 don't actually want

00:18:44.140 roads and bridges

00:18:44.960 instead they have

00:18:46.300 a woke agenda

00:18:47.080 now here's the good news

00:18:48.100 which is

00:18:49.520 that I sent

00:18:50.820 I sent

00:18:54.200 a request

00:18:54.900 for a determination

00:18:55.780 as to whether

00:18:57.780 this

00:18:58.280 this announcement

00:18:59.640 constitutes

00:19:00.380 a rule

00:19:01.400 and

00:19:04.500 receive that

00:19:06.100 determination

00:19:06.600 which means

00:19:07.940 which means

00:19:07.960 that it is

00:19:09.260 subject

00:19:09.700 to being

00:19:11.760 overturned

00:19:12.820 by Congress

00:19:13.560 by a simple

00:19:14.400 majority vote

00:19:15.300 and so

00:19:15.880 I intend

00:19:16.940 to introduce

00:19:17.680 that resolution

00:19:19.380 of disapproval

00:19:20.320 to force a vote

00:19:22.500 in the Senate

00:19:23.020 now Biden

00:19:23.580 can veto that vote

00:19:24.740 but in the Senate

00:19:26.160 we're going to see

00:19:27.060 if all the people

00:19:28.760 who trumpeted

00:19:29.320 the infrastructure

00:19:30.020 program

00:19:30.660 support

00:19:31.360 blocking them

00:19:33.100 from going

00:19:33.660 to roads

00:19:34.180 and bridges

00:19:34.700 unless they are

00:19:36.060 sufficiently woke

00:19:37.260 and fighting

00:19:38.540 racist roads 0.84

00:19:39.760 whatever the hell

00:19:40.360 that is

00:19:40.880 when people

00:19:42.600 hear this

00:19:43.380 and they hear

00:19:43.900 racist roads

00:19:44.920 as you just

00:19:45.400 described it there

00:19:46.280 and you talk

00:19:47.180 about billions

00:19:47.720 upon billions

00:19:48.420 of taxpayers

00:19:49.040 dollars

00:19:49.560 that's meant

00:19:50.540 for these

00:19:50.980 infrastructure

00:19:51.420 projects

00:19:52.240 that are now

00:19:53.320 just being

00:19:53.860 turned into

00:19:54.320 these woke

00:19:54.700 agenda items

00:19:56.080 how many

00:19:57.060 members of

00:19:57.700 Congress

00:19:58.200 are behind

00:19:59.180 this

00:19:59.780 as well

00:20:00.660 because yes

00:20:01.300 it's a Biden

00:20:02.020 administration

00:20:02.720 initiative

00:20:03.860 but you still

00:20:04.620 got to have

00:20:05.120 some Congress

00:20:05.800 people behind

00:20:06.600 you

00:20:06.960 is this

00:20:07.780 just the part

00:20:08.800 of now

00:20:09.200 where we are

00:20:09.780 in politics

00:20:10.360 where they'll

00:20:10.940 look at you

00:20:11.520 they'll say

00:20:12.020 this is for

00:20:12.540 infrastructure

00:20:13.100 straight up

00:20:14.180 lie to you

00:20:14.700 and then waste

00:20:15.300 billions of

00:20:16.000 your dollars

00:20:16.480 on woke

00:20:17.000 agenda

00:20:17.340 items like

00:20:18.020 this

00:20:18.440 well listen

00:20:19.460 a lot of

00:20:19.880 the left-wing

00:20:20.360 Democrats

00:20:20.880 in Congress

00:20:21.460 are emphatically

00:20:22.200 behind this

00:20:22.940 so that Bernie

00:20:23.660 Sanders

00:20:24.140 the Elizabeth

00:20:24.700 Warrens

00:20:25.260 the AOCs

00:20:26.220 are cheering

00:20:27.540 this on

00:20:28.160 because this

00:20:28.660 is the agenda

00:20:29.320 they want

00:20:29.920 I will say

00:20:31.320 there are a

00:20:31.780 number of

00:20:32.200 Republicans

00:20:32.660 who

00:20:33.300 you know

00:20:35.020 are a little

00:20:35.460 bit like

00:20:35.840 Charlie Brown

00:20:36.500 with Lucy

00:20:36.980 and the

00:20:37.220 football

00:20:37.520 they listen

00:20:38.620 to Democrats

00:20:39.300 who say

00:20:39.620 okay let's

00:20:40.240 work together

00:20:40.820 on something

00:20:41.300 like roads

00:20:41.800 and bridges

00:20:42.220 and the

00:20:42.460 Republicans

00:20:42.760 are like

00:20:43.060 oh yeah

00:20:43.520 roads and

00:20:44.240 bridges

00:20:44.460 those sound

00:20:44.920 really good

00:20:45.440 and they

00:20:46.360 write into

00:20:47.120 law

00:20:47.980 funding for

00:20:49.640 roads and

00:20:50.100 bridges

00:20:50.440 now the

00:20:51.460 left-wing

00:20:51.860 Democrats

00:20:52.380 they're

00:20:52.580 negotiating

00:20:53.120 with know

00:20:53.620 fully well

00:20:54.200 they're

00:20:54.480 pulling the

00:20:54.920 football away

00:20:55.720 and Charlie

00:20:56.620 Brown is 0.99

00:20:57.120 landing on 1.00

00:20:57.540 his ass 1.00

00:20:58.000 they know 1.00

00:20:58.460 that

00:20:58.840 but these

00:20:59.700 Republicans

00:21:00.280 are just 0.96

00:21:00.760 gullible

00:21:01.320 and they

00:21:01.640 fall into

00:21:02.280 it over

00:21:02.840 and over

00:21:03.320 and over

00:21:03.660 again

00:21:03.860 and if

00:21:04.380 they weren't

00:21:04.900 gullible

00:21:05.360 they would

00:21:06.420 have written

00:21:06.860 into the

00:21:07.400 statute

00:21:07.860 prohibitions

00:21:09.020 on the

00:21:09.780 Biden

00:21:10.020 administration

00:21:10.500 doing this

00:21:11.320 because you

00:21:11.680 and I

00:21:12.020 knew the

00:21:12.860 Biden

00:21:13.120 administration

00:21:13.640 was going

00:21:14.100 to do

00:21:14.380 this because

00:21:14.840 that's who

00:21:15.460 they are

00:21:16.060 they are

00:21:17.200 cultural

00:21:17.780 Marxists

00:21:18.320 it's why I

00:21:19.380 wrote the

00:21:19.760 book

00:21:20.020 unwoke to

00:21:21.200 lay out

00:21:21.920 what it

00:21:22.460 means

00:21:23.260 the radicals

00:21:24.800 who have

00:21:25.020 taken over

00:21:25.560 our government

00:21:26.160 and we have

00:21:26.660 too many

00:21:27.120 Republicans

00:21:27.680 in Congress

00:21:28.340 who are

00:21:29.180 fundamentally

00:21:29.960 naive

00:21:30.560 and they

00:21:31.560 just keep

00:21:32.120 running and

00:21:32.540 trying to

00:21:32.900 kick that 1.00

00:21:33.280 football

00:21:33.700 and the

00:21:34.800 problem

00:21:35.060 keeps getting

00:21:35.580 worse and

00:21:35.980 worse

00:21:36.260 as before

00:21:37.620 if you want

00:21:38.240 to hear the

00:21:38.580 rest of this

00:21:39.020 conversation

00:21:39.680 on this

00:21:40.420 topic

00:21:40.800 you can go

00:21:41.360 back and

00:21:41.840 download the

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00:21:43.200 early this

00:21:43.660 week to hear

00:21:44.120 the entire

00:21:44.640 thing

00:21:45.120 Canadian

00:21:46.680 women are 1.00

00:21:47.180 looking for

00:21:47.680 more

00:21:48.060 more out of

00:21:48.680 themselves

00:21:49.120 their

00:21:49.500 businesses

00:21:49.980 their elected

00:21:50.740 leaders

00:21:51.100 and the

00:21:51.680 world around

00:21:52.120 them

00:21:52.320 and that's

00:21:52.840 why we're

00:21:53.140 thrilled to

00:21:53.660 introduce the

00:21:54.480 honest talk

00:21:55.140 podcast

00:21:55.800 I'm Jennifer

00:21:56.740 Stewart

00:21:57.140 and I'm

00:21:57.720 Catherine Clark

00:21:58.380 and in this

00:21:59.100 podcast we

00:21:59.920 interview Canada's

00:22:00.760 most inspiring

00:22:01.620 women 1.00

00:22:02.040 entrepreneurs

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00:22:04.160 politicians

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00:22:07.520 journey

00:22:07.840 so if you're

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00:22:15.440 i want to get

00:22:17.680 back to the

00:22:18.360 big story number

00:22:19.480 three of the

00:22:19.960 week you may

00:22:20.460 have missed

00:22:20.920 you mentioned

00:22:22.580 education and

00:22:24.740 and how it's

00:22:25.360 easiest way to

00:22:25.980 change a country

00:22:26.800 in one generation

00:22:27.840 but there was

00:22:28.900 also one of the

00:22:30.040 things you said

00:22:30.580 on page 64

00:22:31.380 it says how to

00:22:31.900 fight back

00:22:32.380 you said a few

00:22:32.920 years ago you

00:22:33.660 walked in to

00:22:34.700 your daughter's

00:22:35.360 bedroom and

00:22:35.900 asked what

00:22:36.960 she'd been

00:22:37.380 learning about

00:22:37.920 in school

00:22:38.340 she said she

00:22:39.140 had been

00:22:39.400 learning about

00:22:40.060 Christopher

00:22:40.400 Columbus

00:22:40.880 the quote

00:22:41.920 unquote real

00:22:42.480 story i asked

00:22:43.680 what that meant

00:22:44.480 for the next

00:22:45.320 few minutes i

00:22:45.980 heard about the

00:22:46.700 crimes of

00:22:47.400 Christopher Columbus

00:22:48.220 in minute detail

00:22:50.240 every murdered native 0.98

00:22:51.440 american transmitted

00:22:52.660 disease and stolen

00:22:53.760 acre of land

00:22:54.580 seemed to be

00:22:55.100 accounted for

00:22:55.820 i heard that

00:22:56.940 columbus who

00:22:57.720 claimed the land

00:22:58.420 for himself

00:22:59.000 because he

00:22:59.740 his straight

00:23:00.960 white privilege

00:23:01.740 or something like

00:23:02.500 that had not

00:23:03.700 actually discovered

00:23:04.460 anything at all

00:23:05.500 but rather had

00:23:06.380 landed on the

00:23:07.820 shores of what

00:23:08.700 would come to be

00:23:10.000 known as america

00:23:11.160 by accident

00:23:12.200 this quote

00:23:13.320 unquote revolution

00:23:14.260 familiar to most

00:23:15.640 adults in the

00:23:16.300 united states is

00:23:16.940 something that

00:23:17.380 american children

00:23:18.160 encounter sooner or

00:23:19.100 later in a

00:23:20.080 textbook believing

00:23:21.040 that they've

00:23:22.600 accessed some

00:23:24.040 secret hidden

00:23:25.120 knowledge that the

00:23:26.060 grown-ups don't

00:23:26.920 want them to have

00:23:27.860 that moment for me

00:23:30.240 is the moment that

00:23:31.120 terrifies me for our

00:23:32.360 kids in this my

00:23:33.520 kids generation is 0.53

00:23:34.520 that we have we

00:23:35.960 have handed our

00:23:36.720 children over to

00:23:37.420 this school systems

00:23:38.260 and it's not just

00:23:39.200 public schools now

00:23:40.260 it's private schools

00:23:41.140 as well who are

00:23:42.460 indoctrinating them

00:23:43.420 in this idea that

00:23:44.480 america somehow was

00:23:45.760 started on on on

00:23:47.900 evil bad motives and

00:23:50.500 that you should not

00:23:51.220 love this country but

00:23:52.920 you should be ashamed

00:23:53.700 of this country and

00:23:54.700 you had to deal with

00:23:55.600 this with your own

00:23:56.120 daughter look that's 0.98

00:23:57.600 exactly right and the

00:23:58.560 problem is this

00:23:59.560 indoctrination is

00:24:00.640 happening in every

00:24:01.500 school in america it's

00:24:02.620 happening to every

00:24:03.360 child in america and

00:24:05.060 and and what i

00:24:05.760 described part of the

00:24:06.520 way that this book is

00:24:07.420 all about how we

00:24:08.080 fight back but you

00:24:09.020 know as she was

00:24:09.600 saying that columbus 0.89

00:24:11.280 was evil and racist 0.97

00:24:13.000 and genocidal and 0.99

00:24:14.120 terrible and she 0.99

00:24:14.740 hated christopher

00:24:15.540 columbus you know i

00:24:17.280 just just sat down in

00:24:18.320 her bedroom and i

00:24:18.920 tried to have a

00:24:19.300 conversation with her

00:24:20.000 and i said look i'm

00:24:21.480 not deeply vested in

00:24:23.280 making the argument

00:24:24.260 that christopher

00:24:24.860 columbus was some

00:24:25.900 incredible hero but

00:24:27.840 but i said you know

00:24:28.620 what we do have a

00:24:30.260 federal holiday named

00:24:32.360 after him do we

00:24:34.260 typically name federal

00:24:36.020 holidays after evil 0.76

00:24:38.320 racist genocidal 1.00

00:24:39.380 maniacs like 1.00

00:24:41.200 might there be 0.98

00:24:43.180 another side of the

00:24:44.000 story is there

00:24:44.600 anything admirable

00:24:45.820 about him and

00:24:46.600 and she was not not

00:24:47.620 really able to see

00:24:48.620 much that was

00:24:49.660 admirable i said well

00:24:50.420 what do you think

00:24:51.440 about getting in

00:24:52.160 three rickety rickety

00:24:53.800 wooden ships and and

00:24:55.440 and leaving europe and

00:24:56.740 and heading heading

00:24:58.560 west when you think

00:24:59.700 you're falling off the

00:25:00.680 edge of the world to

00:25:02.420 to explore and

00:25:03.800 discover i mean i

00:25:04.700 mean is that spirit

00:25:05.900 that intrepid spirit

00:25:07.100 is that anything to

00:25:08.440 be admired and and

00:25:09.460 and i said secondly

00:25:10.580 look it is true that

00:25:13.440 columbus and and and

00:25:15.000 the men who traveled

00:25:15.780 with him that that

00:25:16.820 that they carried

00:25:18.220 some some germs that

00:25:19.840 that were that were

00:25:21.920 new to to the to the

00:25:24.080 western hemisphere that

00:25:25.020 when they got here some

00:25:25.980 of the some of the

00:25:27.000 native americans died

00:25:28.020 from those germs now

00:25:29.660 it's also true it was

00:25:30.400 the 15th century they

00:25:31.340 didn't know what a

00:25:31.800 germ was so they 0.95

00:25:33.080 didn't know they were

00:25:33.780 carrying it and and

00:25:35.040 when you accuse him of

00:25:36.220 mass murder does

00:25:38.700 culpability matter does

00:25:40.020 the fact that they

00:25:40.780 didn't know what a

00:25:41.440 germ was they had no

00:25:42.360 idea they were doing

00:25:43.240 it is that at all

00:25:44.520 relevant if you're

00:25:45.420 going to call him this

00:25:46.400 evil terrible murder

00:25:47.420 and and when i talk

00:25:48.560 about in the book is

00:25:50.240 not long thereafter

00:25:51.320 which thanksgiving of

00:25:52.460 that year we were

00:25:53.100 talking about

00:25:53.540 thanksgiving and she

00:25:54.720 and a friend of hers

00:25:55.420 from school and this

00:25:55.980 is when they were in

00:25:56.440 grade school said

00:25:57.860 said likewise oh

00:25:58.680 thanksgiving is is

00:25:59.820 is terrible it's when

00:26:00.980 the pilgrims were

00:26:01.820 oppressing the the

00:26:02.840 native americans and

00:26:05.080 and you know again i i

00:26:06.420 made the argument i

00:26:07.320 think even more

00:26:07.820 vigorously this time and

00:26:08.920 i said i said listen

00:26:09.880 it is certainly right

00:26:12.460 that the settlers that

00:26:13.400 came to america that

00:26:14.480 they settled america and

00:26:16.560 and and and they

00:26:17.580 ultimately conquered

00:26:19.140 america and and and

00:26:20.240 they they committed some

00:26:22.220 terrible acts to native 1.00

00:26:23.400 americans but if you

00:26:25.220 look at the history of

00:26:26.180 humanity in in every

00:26:27.500 continent every

00:26:29.420 nation was acquired

00:26:31.900 by conquest and

00:26:33.100 every time there's

00:26:33.700 conquest you have one

00:26:34.820 group of people who

00:26:35.560 are conquering another

00:26:36.380 group of people by the

00:26:37.260 way in the united

00:26:39.140 states before we were

00:26:40.540 the united states the

00:26:41.620 native americans one

00:26:42.620 tribe conquered another

00:26:43.620 conquered another

00:26:44.260 conquered another and

00:26:45.140 you look at europe you

00:26:45.880 look at asia that's the 1.00

00:26:46.940 history of humanity one

00:26:47.900 group of people

00:26:48.340 conquering another and

00:26:49.600 anytime you have

00:26:50.420 conquest uh there are

00:26:53.160 are horrible things that

00:26:55.900 happen there are terrible

00:26:56.720 things that are done but

00:26:57.640 i said look in in any

00:26:58.720 war there were

00:27:00.240 atrocities on both sides

00:27:01.660 and you know i asked i

00:27:02.840 asked my daughter i said

00:27:03.760 you know from whence do

00:27:05.800 you think the verb to

00:27:07.700 scalp was derived the

00:27:10.840 native americans did

00:27:11.620 some horrible things to

00:27:13.680 the settlers who came here

00:27:14.740 also and and the

00:27:17.620 connection that that i

00:27:18.980 made for her and that i

00:27:19.920 make in the book is

00:27:21.920 those two discussions are

00:27:24.080 interlinked and

00:27:24.800 intertwined which is for

00:27:27.420 all of the teachers and

00:27:29.100 all of the professors and

00:27:30.280 all of the people

00:27:31.000 advocating that columbus

00:27:32.680 was evil and advocating

00:27:33.920 that thanksgiving is evil

00:27:35.080 because the pilgrims were

00:27:35.980 stealing from the the

00:27:37.420 native americans it comes

00:27:39.380 down to one antecedent

00:27:40.740 question was the

00:27:42.740 settlement of the new

00:27:44.140 world a good thing or a

00:27:46.760 bad thing was the

00:27:47.720 formation of the united

00:27:49.080 states of america good or

00:27:51.440 bad and and i'm not

00:27:53.420 neutral or ambivalent on

00:27:54.700 that question i think the

00:27:56.280 united states of america

00:27:57.560 has been the greatest

00:27:58.360 force for good of any

00:27:59.880 nation in the history of

00:28:01.200 the world that we have

00:28:02.680 produced more prosperity

00:28:04.000 more abundance we have

00:28:05.260 liberated more prisoners and

00:28:07.500 captives we have shed our

00:28:09.420 blood and treasure and

00:28:11.020 tears fighting tyranny more

00:28:13.580 than any nation in the

00:28:14.840 history of the world do we

00:28:16.320 have our flaws yes of

00:28:17.460 course do we have our

00:28:18.440 problems yes of course but

00:28:20.540 america i i believe like

00:28:22.540 reagan said is a shining

00:28:23.600 city on a hill and i want

00:28:24.700 to make a special request

00:28:26.700 of our verdict listeners you

00:28:27.760 guys are incredible you

00:28:29.220 guys are patriots you guys

00:28:31.580 give me hope and optimism

00:28:33.080 in america i i want to ask

00:28:34.720 every one of you please

00:28:36.000 today when you finish

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00:28:40.900 most of you are listening on

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00:29:04.960 that would drive them nuts by

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00:29:09.740 this book for the same reason

00:29:12.700 ben that you and i do this

00:29:13.880 podcast it is right now 1103

00:29:16.100 p.m on tuesday night the

00:29:17.420 podcast will come out early

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