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El Salvador's Gang Justice
00:10:26
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| Hey everybody, what can we learn from El Salvador? | |
| I never thought I'd say that. | |
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| The NEW YORK Times is our lead today. | |
| The NEW YORK Times says, El Salvador decimated its ruthless gangs, but at what cost? | |
| No no, the next sentence should be, huzza hooray, hallelujah, the streets are safe. | |
| The NEW YORK Times has to say. | |
| But we need to find a victim in this equation. | |
| Remember the left. | |
| They are victim seekers. | |
| They need to find a victim in every equation. | |
| They believe the society is usually to blame for somebody's shortcoming, somebody rapes or loots or murders. | |
| Well, it's society that that made them that way. | |
| It's from a very flawed view of human nature. | |
| We believe human beings are rather crummy and you got to put a lot of work to create good people. | |
| It's not society's fault. | |
| The great battle is you against you and how to raise good children. | |
| So if you have a problem in El Salvador and these people are repeatedly terrorizing everyday citizens, then maybe we should go after them and not act as if they are victims because they are gangbangers that are shooting up soccer fields. | |
| It's an incredible article in the NEW YORK Times. | |
| El Salvador decimates its ruthless gangs, but at what cost? | |
| The whole article is a series of stories about how much life has changed in the country over the last year, and this is not something we talk a lot about. | |
| El Salvador it's, not exactly a lead nation. | |
| We do get a fair amount of illegal border jumpers from El Salvador, which is probably where we mention it the most, but now it says in the article that children are finally playing on soccer fields that used to be exclusively gang turf. | |
| Sounds like Chicago residents are able to park their cars without paying ten dollars a month to the gangs, which Which, by the way, is a lot in El Salvador. | |
| People can let their children play in public parks without worrying that they'll be hit by stray bullets. | |
| Here's one quote from Juan Hernandez. | |
| He had not set foot on a soccer field just blocked from his house in 10 years. | |
| Quote, it was turf, meaning it was gang territory. | |
| You'd get hit by bullets left and right. | |
| Now he's using the field to teach his 12-year-old son to play. | |
| He tells me, I want to learn how. | |
| I tell him, let's go. | |
| In 2015, El Salvador had 105 murders for every 100,000 people in the country. | |
| For comparison, that's a rate three times as high as bloody Chicago at the absolute peak of the crack cocaine crime wave and for the entire country. | |
| That's more than a one in a thousand chance of being murdered every single year for every person. | |
| That's extraordinary. | |
| Last year, El Salvador's murder rate was down below eight per 100,000. | |
| That's safer than the state of Florida. | |
| So what happened? | |
| Well, the murder rate is even lower now. | |
| And according to the country's largest news outlet, gangs who once dominated the country now no longer exist. | |
| Now, how do they do it? | |
| Well, quite honestly, with a very simple and radical idea. | |
| They rounded up the criminals ruthlessly. | |
| They put them in prison and they kept them there. | |
| They said, we're done. | |
| We're done with this domination of the streets by the gangbangers, stray bullets, kids being murdered. | |
| We are going to use political power to clean up the streets. | |
| That comes with a cost. | |
| The cost is that you could maybe overreach. | |
| The government could get too powerful. | |
| But remember, when you try to design a flourishing society, you need to try to find the Aristotelian mean. | |
| You try to find the middle ground. | |
| You try to find the bowl of porridge that is just right to use Goldilocks and the three bears. | |
| You have to try to find, have I gone too far in the direction of anarchy, disorder, or bedlam? | |
| You can go too far in the direction of order. | |
| That's North Korea, obviously. | |
| But when you go so far in the direction of just outright disregard for the law, it's time to rein in the criminals a little bit. | |
| And yeah, you might have to say, you know what? | |
| Yeah, we're not going to overly indulge in every single type of pandering issue when we go arrest criminals. | |
| Too bad. | |
| Last month, the El Salvador president had an approval rating over 80%. | |
| When you are being ruled by a gang, it's very similar to being ruled by a foreign invader. | |
| So the question is, what are you willing to do? | |
| And the backlash the New York Times presents, and we'll get to it, is they say, oh, they trampled on their civil liberties. | |
| Civil liberties are important. | |
| Of course they are. | |
| But it's a balance. | |
| Do the civil liberties of outright gang members and criminals trump the welfare of the entire society? | |
| Of course not. | |
| Now, you have to use prudence and practical judgment. | |
| And people then say, I mean, this is how moronic people are because they go to college. | |
| They say, well, Charlie, how do you know when it's right to do it? | |
| I don't know when you have a murder rate where you have a chance of one in a thousand to get murdered. | |
| Probably a good idea to start cleaning up the streets. | |
| So the New York Times goes out of its way to dig up NGOs, non-governmental organizations, and professors who are moaning and complaining about what's happening in El Salvador. | |
| They yearn for the gang domination. | |
| That's what they say. | |
| This person who's an El Salvador expert, I didn't know there was such a thing, at the Washington College in Maryland, quote, I remain incredibly pessimistic about what this means for the future of democracy in the region. | |
| Quote, the risk is that this becomes a popular model for other politicians. | |
| The risk, the expert says, the risk. | |
| I wonder, Christine Wade, can we find out? | |
| When was the last time Christine Wade walked the streets of El Salvador at night? | |
| She's an expert on El Salvador. | |
| She's become a subject matter expert. | |
| Would she live in El Salvador? | |
| Or is she an expert from some sort of academic ivory tower? | |
| She can look at El Salvador, but she wouldn't actually live there. | |
| The risk, she says in the New York Times, is that this becomes a popular model for other politicians to say, quote, well, you could be providing you more security in exchange for giving you up some of your rights. | |
| Hey, Newsflash, you don't have a right to murder other people. | |
| You don't have a right to terrorize children. | |
| You don't have a right to be able to destroy an entire country. | |
| You don't have a right to occupy a sovereign country. | |
| You don't. | |
| And so, yes, you must fully acknowledge that, hey, there might be some clumsiness along the way. | |
| There might be a couple infringement on rights here and there. | |
| Not ideal, but it's necessary. | |
| At times, your society falls apart so much where you say, look, this is not exactly what we want, but we need to get our country safe again. | |
| When El Salvador is safe, then fine. | |
| You can start to restore it. | |
| By the way, what civil liberties are they talking about? | |
| The whole article is an overture to try to make you feel bad for the gang members, to try to make you as if the gang members are the victims. | |
| Defeating criminal gangs who run your country is a prerequisite to having civil liberties. | |
| In the state of nature, it's very hard to have civil liberties. | |
| You need to try. | |
| You need to create a civil society. | |
| The choice is very simple. | |
| Chaos and terror versus safety and order and kids being able to play in parks. | |
| And of course, you could go too far in the order direction. | |
| They're not even beginning to go too far in the order direction. | |
| But the New York Times is very worried. | |
| The New York Times is worried that this successful model, El Salvador, could be implemented in other gang-infested countries. | |
| The pro-cartel New York Times is very worried that a decent and civil society, what is the cost? | |
| The cost is this. | |
| Some offended gang members and children that are able to flourish. | |
| That's the cost. | |
| By the way, just so we're clear, ever since BLM took over the country post-Floyda Palooza and the religion of anti-racism set in, U.S. children killed by guns jumped 50%. | |
| 46% of all victims, black, 83%, boys. | |
| But BLM is able to buy mansions in Malibu. | |
| They're richer than ever. | |
| A Republican attorney general will never go after them. | |
| They are wealthier than ever. | |
| But the New York Times, it's a very interesting thing because in the same breath, the intelligentsia that reads the New York Times will say, it's bad that we lock up El Salvadorian gang members, but it's good that we lock up Donald Trump. | |
|
Political Will for Answers
00:14:59
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| Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. | |
| I want to tell you about a new movie that's coming out April 14th, Nefarious, from the same people who made God's Not Dead unplanned. | |
| It's a supernatural thriller and it's excellent. | |
| It's like a modern day version of C.S. Lewis, The Screw Tape Letters. | |
| Nefarious is a story of good and evil. | |
| It's about a convicted killer who hours before his execution claimed to be a demon. | |
| An atheist psychiatrist is called in to meet with the man and decide if he's insane or just pretending or something much worse. | |
| The film is marketed as a horror film, but do not let that stop you. | |
| It is rated R, which is strange since there's no sex or violence. | |
| I guess Hollywood doesn't want teenagers to see this film, but that's exactly who should see it. | |
| Nefarious opens in theaters nationwide starting April 14th. | |
| So go buy your tickets right now and make sure you bring a friend. | |
| The questions of good or evil are all over the American culture right now. | |
| Teenagers especially need to see it. | |
| Visit whoisnefarious.com to see the trailer and buy tickets. | |
| So check it out right now. | |
| Whoisnefarious.com, whoisnefarious.com. | |
| You know, I cringe at times when conservatives say, well, you know, I'm a liberal. | |
| I'm a classical liberal. | |
| And of course, there's some beautiful things that classical liberalism believes in. | |
| The fruits of the Enlightenment are worthy of appreciation and study, but there's excesses to liberalism, small L-liberalism. | |
| You can go too far in that direction. | |
| This is why I think the founding fathers just hit it so perfectly. | |
| They understood the people they were dealing with, which were church-going, religious people with a strong moral fiber. | |
| And they said, all right, republic if you can keep it. | |
| Centralized government, states created the federal government, checks and balances, consent to the governed. | |
| So what are you to do, though, if things start to fall apart? | |
| And the founding fathers were willing to use political power if things started to fall apart. | |
| Look at Shay's rebellion. | |
| All right, got to mobilize the armed forces, got to make that, which I believe was actually a whiskey rebellion, if I remember correctly. | |
| They actually have to try to restrict that activity. | |
| At times, you have to be able to use and be willing to use prudence, practical judgment, that the Greeks said is the ultimate governing virtue, besides courage. | |
| It takes a lifetime to develop prudence, studying the great works, understanding eternal knowledge. | |
| Winston Churchill had prudence. | |
| Abraham Lincoln had prudence. | |
| The people that we appreciate and that we celebrate in the West, they didn't enjoy using political power. | |
| They weren't Stalin, but they were willing at certain times to use it to be able to improve their society. | |
| And so the New York Times is very worried, and this is important because it applies directly to America. | |
| Why are we talking about El Salvador? | |
| This is directly applicable to what we're living through in America. | |
| It is word for word. | |
| Because the New York Times finds it objectionable that you might go lock up a bunch of criminals in El Salvador and the ordinary person in El Salvador can now live freely. | |
| It's the exact same parasitic mind virus, idea pathogen, that gives us Seattle and gives us San Francisco and gives us Portland. | |
| Now, I got to be honest, I delight when I read articles like this, and you shouldn't delight in people's suffering. | |
| And I do go to Whole Foods from time to time. | |
| But boy, I should stop. | |
| I'll be very honest. | |
| It's just, I went to Trader Joe's recently. | |
| It was even worse with some of the outright liberalism, like gay flags all over the place. | |
| It was just a joke. | |
| Whole Foods has to close in downtown San Francisco, citing vagrancy and homelessness. | |
| Can't operate. | |
| And Whole Foods is obviously owned by Amazon. | |
| One of our team members says, I might be the last white person to never visit Whole Foods. | |
| I remain pure. | |
| It's very impressive. | |
| I have to say, that is one of the most impressive things I've heard. | |
| Whole Foods can't remain open. | |
| So while a third world country, El Salvador, has clean streets and crime goes down, 79% of Portland businesses report being vandalized by homeless and vagrants. | |
| So isn't it an interesting test case? | |
| So yes, we are the wealthiest nation ever to exist and currently still the wealthiest nation. | |
| That might change soon. | |
| We have more valuable companies. | |
| We have amazing entrepreneurs, but we can't even do the basic stuff right. | |
| We obviously can fix these problems. | |
| The problem is the political will. | |
| The problem is that if we tried to clean up our streets right now in Los Angeles, right now in San Francisco, right now in Portland, right now in Chicago, if we executed a dragnet, which by the way, a majority of murders in Chicago go unsolved. | |
| A majority. | |
| So if we said, all right, here's a team of 10,000 people. | |
| We're declaring martial law. | |
| National Guard rolls into Chicago. | |
| Here's the tanks. | |
| Sorry, it's going to be two months of less liberty. | |
| We're going to start cleaning up the streets. | |
| Law-abiding people, you'll be treated with dignity and respect. | |
| If you're a criminal, if you're a gangbanger, you're getting arrested. | |
| You're going to jail for a long time. | |
| And you're going to find gangbanger after gangbanger that killed the four-year-old or killed the 14-year-old. | |
| And again, I just, we don't have time to properly build it out. | |
| But isn't it telling that what I just say there, you know, the media is going to lose it. | |
| Charlie Kirk wants tanks in the streets. | |
| No, I really don't, actually. | |
| I think that would be a sad sight. | |
| But the crime in Chicago certainly warrants the National Guard. | |
| I've said that for quite some time. | |
| Why has the National Guard not been called into Chicago? | |
| The lack of political will. | |
| We could solve these crimes, lack of political will. | |
| But what we do have the political will, we have the political will to have dozens of prosecutors go press charges against Donald Trump and the Manhattan DA. | |
| That we have the political will for. | |
| We have the political will to go put meme maker Douglas Mackey in prison. | |
| We have the political will to go raid James O'Keefe's home. | |
| We have the political will to raid Rudy Giuliani's home. | |
| We have the political will to go indict Dinesh D'Souza. | |
| We have the political will to go after Catholics. | |
| We have the political will to go raid Mar-a-Lago, which was probably approved by Joe Biden. | |
| We have the political will to go indict Steve Bannon, but we don't have the political will to mobilize the National Guard like they do in El Salvador to clean up our streets of the gangs. | |
| Why? | |
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| Mike Johnson, who is the vice chairman of House Republicans, does a great job. | |
| Congressman joins us, rejoins us. | |
| He was with us recently. | |
| Congressman, welcome back to the program. | |
| Tell us about this story. | |
| The FBI sought to develop sources in Catholic churches. | |
| Is it fair to say that possibly on Easter Sunday, the FBI had informants and plants at Catholic mass services across the country? | |
| It's a great question, Charlie, and we don't know. | |
| I mean, this sounds like something that's surreal, something that's made up, but we have the documents. | |
| We have whistleblowers within the FBI that have given us the information. | |
| And we know that the Richmond Field Office of the FBI, this is where it was originally begun, they sought to reach out to Catholic clergy and church leadership to recruit sources inside the churches so that they could monitor and report on their parishioners. | |
| It sounds Arwelian, but that's what the government is engaged in. | |
| The FBI generated this memo in the Richmond Field Office. | |
| It was distributed to field offices around the country. | |
| And Jim Jordan and I on the Web Position Committee and House Judiciary Committee are pursuing this vigorously because we are demanding answers to see how far and wide this went, how much damage was done. | |
| We just don't know yet. | |
| So, I mean, our audience is fired up over this and many other topics. | |
| An idea that has been floated is called fencing off the money, Congressman. | |
| Which, for example, you might say, okay, we might not be able to close the FBI, nor do I know if you know, they do some good work, obviously. | |
| But I mean, a lot of it should be shut down as a political operation. | |
| But fencing off the money would be something closer to, hey, all right, Christopher Ray, you used the private jet to go to the Adirondacks. | |
| That's going to be put on pause until we get actual answers and people are fired. | |
| Are these ideas being floated by you guys, you know, in House leadership at this time? | |
| Because at least that could put there the line items that the agency heads care about the most, and you actually might be able to get answers. | |
| Yes. | |
| I mean, the short answer is yes. | |
| We talked about it a couple weeks ago. | |
| You know, our hands are tied in some respect. | |
| We're just as frustrated as everybody else. | |
| Believe me, we've been chomping at the bit for the last couple of years to get a shot at this oversight, which is a critical constitutional responsibility that we have, as you know. | |
| But we just got a majority in January and we just got subpoena power later that month. | |
| And so we're only a couple of months, two, three months into this right now. | |
| We're ginning it up as quick as we can. | |
| Now, we can investigate, we can uncover these abuses and lay it bare for the American people to judge for themselves. | |
| And then ultimately, we have to reform these practices and abuses to make sure they never happen again. | |
| But the power of the purse is really the key function here. | |
| We don't have the ability to indict anyone to perk walk them, arrest them, put them on trial, but we can put them on trial in the court of public opinion and we can cut funding and limit funding, fence it off, as you say, for big priorities that they have if they cannot follow the basic tenets of the Constitution. | |
| I mean, this kind of stuff is just steamrolling right over the First Amendment. | |
| It's as if field agents and FBI leadership have no regard for that at all. | |
| And it's really, really scary and dangerous stuff. | |
| It's extremely scary and dangerous. | |
| And I mean, we have real crimes that are happening in our country. | |
| I mean, crime is up from 80% of Portland businesses are reporting that they've experienced vandalism through vagrancy and homelessness, widespread issues that are occurring. | |
| And yet the FBI, and this is a theme we've been building out on our program, there's a term called anarcho-tyranny. | |
| We have anarchy on the streets, but tyranny towards political dissidents, right? | |
| Tyranny towards Steve Bannon, tyranny towards Dinesh D'Souza, tyranny towards Donald Trump. | |
| And I do want to ask you about that, Congressman. | |
| What is the plan? | |
| And you might not be involved in it, but just maybe more globally. | |
| What is the plan to get some answers about this Gestapo-like behavior from Alvin Bragg going after a former president? | |
| Well, we'll be in his district on Monday. | |
| We're taking the Judiciary Committee on the road and really are you doing an official hearing? | |
| Tell us about that. | |
| Yes, we are. | |
| An official hearing right there in lower Manhattan so that we can have the victims of this crime spree that he has empowered to come forward and tell their tragic and terrible stories again so the American people can see what's happening. | |
| You know, Alvin Bragg has abused his office. | |
| I mean, he's obviously a Soros-funded political operative. | |
| He ran on his campaign platform to get Donald Trump. | |
| So they identified the defendant before there was ever even an alleged crime. | |
| And everybody knows what this is about. | |
| Even the Democrats who are honest, who will tell you quietly, they know what this is about. | |
| It's a political vendetta. | |
| They've weaponized the, you know, the DA's office there as they have other Soros-funded DA's offices around the country. | |
| And they're destroying our justice system in the process, the people's faith in the system itself. | |
| So we're going to take it right to his backyard and illustrate how his priorities are so far out of whack. | |
| Obviously, he's a political operative. | |
| Obviously, he's compromised and immoral in the way he's doing all this, but there are real world consequences. | |
| He's allowing violent crime to go unprosecuted. | |
| He's downgraded over 50%, 52% of felonies have been downgraded to misdemeanors under his tenure as DA. | |
| But for Donald Trump, of course, they take a misdemeanor business records violation alleged and upgrade it to a felony with this bootstrapped crazy theory that I know you've discussed. | |
| It holds no water. | |
| I think their motions to dismiss the Trump legal team should be successful. | |
| We'll see what happens with that. | |
| But in the meantime, we're going to let the American people know what's going on here because they have to see it for themselves. | |
| Totally. | |
| Are there plans to subpoena Alvin Bragg himself and to go through that process? | |
| And if he ignores it, why not a contempt of Congress charge? | |
| I mean, I bet that could pass the entire House. | |
| They did that to Steve Bannon, and he now faces federal charges there. | |
| And this might sound aggressive, but we're in unprecedented times now. | |
| We are in unprecedented times, and we have to take unprecedented measures in many cases. | |
| And, you know, one of the powers that we have, one of the responsibilities we have in the oversight category is to ensure that federal funds were not misused on this abuse of his power. | |
| And we think that at least some federal forfeiture funds may have been used in this Trump charade. | |
| And so we're going to get down to the bottom of that. | |
| We've already requested records. | |
| We've sent letters. | |
| It may come to subpoenas and we'll have to see how that develops. | |
| But we have to use, to your point, Charlie, we have to use every tool in our arsenal to push back against this, not for a political purpose, not for a partisan reason, but because our people, the American people, are losing their faith in the system of justice. | |
| And if we lose that, we have nothing. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And so, look, I mean, whatever it's worth, my two cents, and I think you guys are doing a great job, is you should subpoena Bragg, have him ignore it, do contempt of Congress, send it to DOJ. | |
| They indicted Bannon for the same thing. | |
| You know, you guys go after a former president. | |
| It's time to play ball. | |
| And I mean, look, it doesn't require to go to the Senate, right? | |
| It takes a whole vote of Congress. | |
| They did it to Bannon on that January 6th sham committee. | |
| You know, mess around and find out. | |
| There's other words to use that we could use, but we're not going to do that. | |
| So, more broadly, you know, just kind of walk us through the pace that you guys are operating with, which is a breakneck pace. | |
| The New York Times is writing. | |
| They say, oh, this Congress seems scattered on oversight. | |
| I disagree. | |
| You guys seem to really be paling back the layers. | |
| How can the American people assist and support you guys in this effort, right? | |
| Because people are just so fed up. | |
| They're cynical. | |
| They want answers. | |
| We want justice. | |
| And what are the next targets? | |
| A Trouche, CDC? | |
| You know, talk more broadly, kind of what are the next wins that we can expect from this Republican Congress? | |
| Well, thank you for asking the question. | |
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Target-Rich Oversight Challenges
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| Listen, our challenge is being able to focus because it's such a target-rich environment for oversight and investigation. | |
| As you know, there's so many agencies that have been abused in this way. | |
| In judiciary, we're focused a lot on the Department of Justice, but it's CDC, it's ATF, it's IRS. | |
| It's, you know, name your agency, EPA. | |
| It goes on and on. | |
| So what we've done is distribute the oversight responsibility amongst the various committees of jurisdiction. | |
| We can only handle so much in the weaponization select committee and an oversight committee itself. | |
| And so virtually every committee, Republican-led committee in Congress in the House, is engaged at some level in oversight. | |
| We had 42 hearings in one day two weeks ago. | |
| We set a record for Congress, but more than half of those, I think, were oversight hearings. | |
| And so there is a lot going on. | |
| Our challenge is to keep track of that, package it, put it in a digestible format for the American people to see. | |
| And that's a real challenge because there's so much that we're uncovering. | |
| So the request is from the people who care about liberty, care about our country and its foundations, is to, you know, hey, I'm not shameful by asking for a prayer request. | |
| You know, we need stamina and wisdom and discernment as we sift through all of this, but also get a little bit of patience. | |
| This has to be a very, by design, it has to be a very methodical, deliberative process because we have to gather the evidence like we're doing a criminal proceeding almost because we're going to need that evidence down the road. | |
| And so it takes some time to do that. | |
| When the church style committee thing was formed back in the 70s, they had 120 hearings before they came out with reforms on the intel abuses in the Intel community. | |
| You know, we've only had five or six hearings in some of these, but there's many, many more to come, and you're going to see a lot more, you know, openly displayed for the people. | |
| I think that's a really important responsibility we have right now. | |
| Just one minute remaining. | |
| Just remind our audience of the revelation in regard, because we were moving at such a pace. | |
| The Catholic story, just so everyone understands that, just remind our audience. | |
| Just real quick. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Real quick summary. | |
| We've uncovered because of whistleblowers, we have the documents. | |
| The FBI, the Richmond Field Office produced a memo and they wanted to recruit, they wanted to recruit spies, basically, inside traditional Catholic churches. | |
| They labeled traditional Catholics as potential violent extremists. | |
| No allegation of a crime, no evidence of any such thing. | |
| They're targeted because of their religious belief, their sincerely held religious belief. | |
| And you can translate that into pro-vifers, okay? | |
| That's what this is about. | |
| The FBI is involved, the DOJ is involved, and we're getting down to the bottom of it. | |
| Congressman Mike Johnson, thank you so much. | |
| You're welcome back anytime. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you, my friend. | |
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| I want to talk about this idea of liberalism because liberalism has its benefits, obviously. | |
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| I don't mean leftism, okay? | |
| But classical liberalism can be attractive. | |
| But if you are not anchored to reality or use prudence or are able to balance liberalism with order, then you quickly get into anarchy or what the founders would call licentiousness. | |
| And it's not as if our leaders are afraid to use political power. | |
| They just don't want to use political power against criminals. | |
| Isn't that interesting? | |
| The Biden regime, they said they were stunned about the raid on Mar-a-Lago. | |
| Do you remember that? | |
| We're stunned. | |
| Well, they're actually the ones that requested the raid at Mar-a-Lago. | |
| The official weaponization of the justice system against your political opponent. | |
| So they're perfectly fine using political power to go raid the opposition party's home. | |
| And I'm going to say something here that I think is important. | |
| It's a little bit of a wake-up call. | |
| Right now, they're, and I'm not defending this, this is wrong. | |
| But if you watch CNN, they're mercilessly attacking Russia for arresting a Wall Street Journal reporter. | |
| Please get his name. | |
| It's wrong. | |
| He shouldn't be arrested. | |
| He probably did nothing wrong. | |
| Okay, yeah, I'm sorry. | |
| It's right here. | |
| Evan Gersovich, front page of the Wall Street Journal. | |
| U.S. designates Wall Street Journal reporter as wrongfully held by Russia. | |
| And kind of connected to this that we're talking about here, every single major complaint that the mainstream media routinely levels against the Russian Federation's domestic politics, not necessarily invading a country, but their domestic politics, our own government is doing. | |
| We go after dissident journalists. | |
| We go after satirists. | |
| Douglas Mackey is a young man who faces a decade in prison. | |
| When Vladimir Putin puts Navalani, or Novleni, whatever his name is, in prison, they say, wow, what kind of evil person would try to put the leader of the opposition party in jail? | |
| Putin is a thug. | |
| On the same side of the token, Donald Trump gets invited by Alvin Bragg and it's perfectly defensible. | |
| Maybe the American government doesn't actually hate Russia because of his domestic politics. | |
| And maybe Putin is a thug, but then what are our leaders? | |
| For example, Steve Bannon, one of the leaders of the opposition party, is under indictment both by the Department of Justice and the state of New York. | |
| James O'Keefe, journalist. | |
| So will the U.S. designate James O'Keefe as wrongfully be investigated? | |
| What I find to be comical is our own government looks abroad and is willing to point out injustice and tyranny, but is vastly unwilling to ever say the same about our own domestic politics, even though we are acting in the same code of conduct, the same behavior that we find to be reprehensible. | |
| Russia is so terrible. | |
| Yeah, you shouldn't put journalists in prison. | |
| You shouldn't put leaders of the opposition party in prison. | |
| Maybe we've met the enemy and it's us. | |
| You're not allowed to say this out loud because you're just supposed to kind of go through the motions. | |
| Russia bad, Russia evil. | |
| Yes, you should not do those things. | |
| That's why it's wrong that we're doing it to ourselves. | |
| So Evan Gershowitz, quote, journalism is not a crime, State Department spokesman Vedit Patel said. | |
| We call for the Russian Federation to immediately release Mr. Gershevich. | |
| If journalism is not a crime, then tell me why Dinesh D'Souza, James O'Keefe, and Steve Bannon all got targeted by the Southern District of New York and or the state of New York. | |
| No, but our own government likes the virtue signal abroad while our own politics becomes actually more Soviet than the Russian Federation's politics in some sense. | |
| And so to kind of close the thought on the El Salvador story, which it all ties together, it's an unwillingness. | |
| How do we break that? | |
| It's a mystery. | |
| But El Salvador has something that we do not have. | |
| They have elites that actually care about their country. | |
| Our elites do not care about the health, the well-being, or the vitality of America. | |
| They do not care. | |
| Joe Biden certainly doesn't care. | |
| He's a traitor to the United States. | |
| He's bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party amongst other organizations. | |
| But it's just the people that are supposed to be caretakers, leaders, stewards of society, there is this mass indifference, kind of a shrugging of the shoulders. | |
| I have my gated community. | |
| I have my chauffeured cars. | |
| I have my third home in Aspen, Kenny Bunkport. | |
| Why does it affect me? | |
| I don't get it. | |
| The country will fall apart. | |
| It is falling apart because of that attitude. | |
| And that's one of major reasons. | |
| El Salvador, a third world country, shows us how you can clean up our streets. | |
| Maybe we should take their lead. | |
| Thanks so much for listening, everybody. | |
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