Ep. 528 It's Not About Trump Anymore, It's About Elections and Freedom
In this episode: The Left is no longer fighting Trump, they're fighting against free elections and democracy. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267603/democrats-dangerous-dolchstosslegende-daniel-greenfield#.WZX46TC3NfR.twitter Liberals are now attacking and harassing Trump administration bureaucrats in an effort to take down the administration. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-resistance-goes-lower-1503011851 Did the Democrat VA Governor botch the response to Charlottesville? http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/17/virginia-secretary-of-public-safety-confirms-gov-mcauliffe-made-the-decision-to-shut-things-down/ Can you be arrested for not using transgender pronouns? A California legislator thinks so. http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/08/17/california-bill-1-year-in-jail-for-using-wrong-transgender-pronoun/ SPONSOR LINKS: www.PrepareWithDan.com www.CRTV.com Promo Code "Bongino"
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Anything run by liberals will be run into the ground, burned, stepped on, gasoline poured on it and burned again.
Get ready to hear the truth about America.
They're arguing about things and debating how quickly they can deconstruct the greatest country in the history of mankind and all of the ideas and norms that have gotten us here.
On a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
All right, welcome to The Renegade Republican with Dan Bongino.
Sorry for the short delay for the Facebook Live crowd, but on the podcast we have to record it with Producer Joe.
It's always good to see Producer Joe.
How are you today?
Hey man, I'm doing okay.
Yeah, we had a little countdown going on.
Yeah.
Well, a lot to discuss today, so let me get right into it.
I don't want to waste any of your time.
As always, I have to adjust myself in the chair, which is always uncomfortable.
Time for a new chair here.
Yeah, seriously.
I'm going to get to Barcelona, I promise you.
Obviously, the attack yesterday, devastating another hostile vehicle attack.
It's becoming a very common tactic by these savage terrorists.
I'm going to get to that, some things, some takeaways, my former experience in my prior life in law enforcement, and some things I'm seeing discussed that I think are really important and you need to hammer home.
But before I get to that, I want to get to a really important story here that matters a lot to me.
I was at an event last night down in Boca in South Florida.
It was an event for the Republican Club of Palm Beach County.
Folks, I'll be honest with you, I haven't been out of my cocoon in a very long time.
The last political race has me kind of shunning formal politics, not activism and conservatism, but formal politics for a number of reasons I don't want to waste your time with on the show.
It's just for personal reasons, I'll leave it at that.
But it's time to come out of the cocoon, so I went and spoke at an event, and I introduced James O'Keefe from Project Veritas.
But I haven't been out at a political event in a while, and I'll be honest with you, I was kind of overwhelmed with the response.
I mean, I can't thank everyone enough.
My wife and I didn't even get in the door before people...
So it was cool.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
It made me feel great.
But a woman approached me in the event who I had met at a prior speech I'd given a year, about a year and a half ago.
And she thanked me.
And I remember it well.
And I was curious.
I'm like, well, what are you thanking me for?
And she said, you know, when we spoke, it was in the midst of the presidential campaign, and you were not a Trump guy.
You were a Cruz guy, which I was.
That's not a mystery to anybody who listens to the show, nor Producer Joe there.
I had endorsed Cruz.
And she said, I remember the conversation we had, and she said, you seemed very sincere in your beliefs that Cruz was a good candidate, and that's why you backed him up.
And she said, but I want to thank you for your support for Donald Trump.
And, you know, I got to thinking, and we got into a conversation, and I said, you know, I need to discuss this with my audience today, because I want you to understand that For as much as I respect and back up a lot of what the president's doing right now, folks, this fight is no longer about Trump.
I read today one of the most important pieces.
If you decide to read it, you will ever read.
I know I say that a lot because I like reading pieces and I respect a lot of the authors out there who put out conservative material.
Yeah.
But I read a piece this morning in Front Page Mag by Daniel Greenfield.
By the way, sent to me by a listener.
I got a ton of email yesterday.
Thank you to everyone.
I read all of them, I promise you.
And thanks for the compliments to Producer Joe.
Yeah, thank you.
But there is a piece in Front Page Mag by Greenfield.
I will put up in the show notes at Bongino.com.
I also tweeted it out this morning.
That is just mind-blowing.
He makes a comparison I had not considered before with the Democrats today and their reluctance to accept the outcome of the presidential election with post-World War I Germany.
Now listen, I am usually very, very reluctant to go full Godwin.
And for those of you who don't know what that means, Godwin means the first person to mention the Nazis always loses an argument.
I rarely, if ever, do that.
And I don't appreciate when people do that.
And there's a very simple reason.
There are historical blemishes on human society that have no parallel.
And the Holocaust is one of them.
There's no parallel.
And that's not what Greenfield is doing in the piece.
What he's doing is he's discussing post-World War I Germany, and what led up to the rise of fascism, and what's going on right now in the Democrat Party.
And I, again, although I'm reluctant to do it, his piece is astounding.
Now, and I've teased it enough, let me read you a paragraph from the piece.
And what he's trying to get at here, so I can sum this up, so when I'm reading you'll understand it, is how in post-World War I Germany, World War I Germany.
That every excuse in the book was made as to why the Germans lost the war.
And when excuses are made, victims are made.
And victims are looking for an enemy.
And when victims are looking for an enemy, they want to punish those they see who caused their problems.
Make sense, Joe?
Yeah, I see where you're going already, yeah.
Yeah, I know you do.
I know you do.
So here's a quote from Daniel Greenfield's piece, front page mag.
He said, the myths of the undefeated Germany and the undefeated Democrats In other words, how the Democrats still aren't convinced they lost the election like the Germans post-World War I were not convinced they lost the war.
The myths of the undefeated Germany and the undefeated Democrats were rooted in a false conviction of superiority.
A populace glutted on an endless diet of propaganda found it inconceivable that they had lost.
As a dog returns to its vomit, the Democrats began licking the propaganda out of the media sewer twice as hard.
They ate up the lies that they hadn't lost, the promises that they would soon reclaim what was rightfully theirs, and that everyone who had conspired against them would soon be punished.
Holy crikeys.
Man.
That is a powerful paragraph.
I mean, the piece, I could read you the whole piece, but you can do that yourself.
This is just one of the better paragraphs from it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm bringing this up now, this piece about victimology in the New Democrats class and victimology post-World War I in Greenfield's piece.
Because when the woman thanked me last night, and I appreciate it, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a smart-ass about it, I don't think she understands.
I'm not a trumper in any sense.
Just like I wasn't a cruiser or anything else.
I'm a constitutional liberty lover.
And I find human beings who I think can best advocate for that cause.
And I will relentlessly fight, like many of you, against people who are trying to deconstruct liberty in the Constitutional Republic.
And that relentless fight involves first, number one, involves you recognizing what the fight is.
And the reason I go on Fox News and Cable News and do my podcast and fill in for Mark and I back up Trump when he needs it is because it's not about Trump.
Just like I'm not about Trump.
I'm about the maintenance of the constitutional republic and what people don't understand right now is this isn't about Trump anymore, Joe.
It is about elections.
Amen.
This is about the viability of human choice, the maintenance of a democracy, of a constitutional republic!
Do you understand that Democrats, this piece nails it!
How they are absolutely convinced they won that election, and when you're convinced you've won an election, just like the Germans convinced people after World War I that they were stabbed in the back, and that they should have won that war.
Do you understand you will accept almost any outcome to overturn the results of that election because you feel like you've been done wrong?
Folks, I'm asking you the Never Trump crowd out there.
I get it.
I get it.
He is a flawed man.
Gosh, I'm a flawed human being too.
We all are.
And I have absolutely no problem with us taking a stand against the administration when they violate conservative principles.
We do it on the show.
But do you understand this is not about Trump's conservatism, Trump's policies, or anything else?
This is a war.
And I'm not using that term lightly or hyperbolically.
I'm using it because it's the truth, man.
This is a war against democracy, against human choice.
The Democrats felt, as Greenfield points out in the piece, and he's absolutely right, that Joe, they were on the right side of history, air quotes.
Oh, yeah.
That they had seen this Evolving identity politics agenda worked for them.
They convinced black voters and gay voters and Muslim voters and Asian voters that they were on the right side of history, that the government should be all powerful, that they were going to protect their rights.
They were on the right side of history.
And when it all collapsed, they couldn't accept it.
It wasn't just that conservatism was wrong.
It was that it was evil.
This is all based on the critical theory notion that the white patriarchy, don't doubt me, that's been taught to kids in academia, that Hollywood accepts whether they know it or not, that the white patriarchal male power structure in the United States has to be deconstructed and conservatism is emblematic of that.
It doesn't matter that, you know, we're the ones who have a more diverse party, I think, at this point, at least when it comes to electing people, than the Democrats do.
None of that matters to them.
We are at war with these people.
You have to understand what the war is.
And listen, this isn't a violent war like the left.
And you say, oh, what about the right, the guy in Charlottesville?
No, he's not on the right.
He's a savage animal.
The guy's not on the right, okay?
We don't embrace savages and racists.
But the left does embrace Black Lives Matter.
And these other anarchist groups, there's a difference.
Those are your guys, okay?
The Charlottesville savage is not our guy.
We have nothing to do with this animal.
You guys embrace BLM.
Black Lives Matter, despite their violent rhetoric.
So when I say, I want to be very clear, this is an ideological war.
Listen, I'm a Christian first, and that matters to me, so I don't want anyone to misconstrue my words.
But don't mistake what the ideological war is!
This is not about Trump!
This is what I just don't get about the Never Trump crowd.
Listen, I have a lot of respect for a lot of the people over there.
This is not a blanket attack.
I'm friends with many of them, even still.
I'm not one of these guys that because we disagree on an approach, I can never talk to you again.
That's liberal stuff.
I don't do that.
But I have to say to you, I think you are really, really off on this.
You don't understand the fight.
It is not about Trump.
They are committed to overturning the results of this election, and every single day would be a new fight.
Every day, Joe.
It'll be Trump-Russia.
It'll be the Electoral College is illegitimate.
It'll be intimidating electors.
Whatever it may be, it'll be Trump's a racist.
It'll be Trump's a misogynist.
It doesn't matter.
Every single day for the next three years plus of the Trump administration is going to be an effort to get him to resign.
Now!
Because I never say anything on my show that I'm not going to back up.
I have stories today, three stories, that show you at the both group level, meaning private organized far-left groups, at the local level of governance, and at the state level of governance, that the left is in a full-fledged ideological war to overturn the results of this election.
Story number one.
Wall Street Journal piece today by Kim Strassel, which I'll put in the show notes, which I was horrified reading it, but I'm horrified every day now, so horrified doesn't even mean anything.
You know, someone told me once, you know, if you were happy all the time, you would know what happiness was.
Well, when you're horrified all the time, horrified loses its meaning.
But I woke up this morning and it was an extra level of horrification.
Joe, have you ever heard of Samantha Dravis?
I haven't, no.
Well, nobody else has either, so it's a trick question.
Samantha Dravis, D-R-A-V-I, you're not supposed to.
I was kind of messing with you.
Samantha Dravis, Kim Strassel writes about her piece today, is an EPA lawyer.
She did not require Senate confirmation.
She's not in the upper echelons of EPA leadership.
Samantha Dravis is an EPA lawyer under full-fledged attack right now by far-left groups in conjunction with the New York Times.
You may say, who the hell is Samantha Dravis and why does that matter?
Folks, because the left cannot accept the outcome of the election, they are accepting all legitimate and illegitimate means to overturn it.
What are they doing?
This woman's a lawyer who gets to review EPA regulations for duplicity.
In other words, Joe, she's a bureaucrat.
I don't mean that as a pejorative.
She's a bureaucrat in EPA who looks at EPA rules and says, well, this rule's duplicative.
We can scrap that, scrap this.
The left now understands that they're not going to do anything to stop Trump besides create an endless stream of propaganda and obstruction lawsuits and everything else.
So they've made the process punishment to put FOIAs together, to get this woman's emails, to basically make her unhirable once she leaves the Trump administration.
So what did they do?
The National Resources Defense Council, which is a far-left group, has instituted Trump Watch, Joe.
Quote, Trump Watch.
And on Trump Watch, they're exposing all of these people, these bureaucrats that work for Trump's administration.
And they're soliciting input from people to give up secrets on them.
And they come in there and expose them for who they are, these evil bureaucrats.
The New York Times, Joe.
You think I'm making this up?
No.
Here's the headline of the story.
The New York Times, about Samantha Dravis, who Joe Armacost has never heard of, and either did Dan Bongino before this morning.
Here's the headline of a New York Times piece.
The deep industry ties of Trump's deregulation team.
It was an attack on Dravis for working with the Republican Governors Association.
Oh my god, before she got appointed by a Republican.
What?
She worked for Republican governors and got hired in a Republican administration?
Oh my.
Oh my.
What are we going to do about that?
I mean, seriously, is this going to require a waterboarding session?
Are we serious?
Keep in mind, as Strassel points out, the New York Times makes no assertions of illegality or corruption at all.
They just object to the fact that the woman happens to have worked for Republicans before and is now working for the Trump administration.
So they decided they're going to do Trump Watch.
Ironically, as Strassel accurately and terrifically points out in the piece, and believe me, she is no Trumper by any stretch, Strassel understands the war going on right now.
We can hold Trump accountable.
We can celebrate Trump when he does good things.
But if you don't understand the war like she does, you are lost.
She points out in the New York Times piece, what's interesting is the very same New York Times and media left celebrated when Barack Obama brought on a bunch of people who had worked with far-left groups like the Sierra Club and other things to work in the administration before.
So it's okay to have experience as long as it's with far-left wingnut groups.
Then you can come into government.
But God forbid you've worked for a Republican in the past and you have any familiarity with the oil and gas industry, you are to be one, forbidden from ever serving in government without going under a harsh personal attack, Joseph.
And then secondly, you're to be made unemployable when you lead the government because remember what I said yesterday.
The left has transitioned now from winning to punishing.
They are not content with winning.
They won on the gay marriage issue in the courts.
Now they have to punish.
They have to punish Christian Bakers.
They had to punish the Kentucky court clerk.
They have transitioned to punishing now.
And now that they lost the election, Joe, and they didn't win, their totalitarian streak, their tyrannical streak, their desire to punish, their desire to hurt, their desire to maim people's careers has now grown geometrically.
Their rage is uncontrollable.
They are going to ruin people now.
Anybody who touches the Trump administration will be ruined forever.
Folks, this is really, really dangerous stuff.
It is not about Trump anymore.
It's not about Trump.
It is about an ideological war.
Get that through your heads, please.
Story number two.
The Virginia Secretary of Homeland Security, a guy named Brian Moran, in a story at Breitbart, which I'll put in the show notes today.
Just stunning, by the way.
Stunning story.
He acknowledges in the piece about the Charlottesville riot that went on down there that the The group that showed up, the neo-nazis that showed up, that some of them had a permit to protest and the permit was cancelled.
Now, folks, again, as I addressed to you yesterday, it is not sanctioning the ideas and the speech of anyone to defend their ability to say it.
If you believe that, you're on the wrong podcast.
See you later.
Bye-bye.
Not interested.
You don't understand the Constitution, the First Amendment.
I'm not interested.
Joe's not interested.
We have no time for you.
Go do some civics homework, then come back to us, okay?
What were you going to say, Joe?
I was going to say, see ya!
Yeah, goodbye.
See you next week.
I mean, I'm not interested at all.
Now, these people had a permit to protest.
So this Virginia Homeland Security Secretary acknowledged in an interview with a radio host with last name Katz, and I'll put the story up at the show notes from Breitbart, that the permit was canceled almost immediately and an unlawful assembly was declared.
The crowd, however despicable some of these Nazi sympathizers and Klan folks may have been, at that, I mean were, I don't want to say may have been, you get where I'm going with that, I just don't want to spin it any way differently for the liberals because they get confused easily in their efforts to paint everybody as a racist, right?
But they had the right to protest, ladies and gentlemen, and what wound up happening and what this guy acknowledged yesterday, this public security official, was that an unlawful assembly was declared.
They were dispersed, but the Antifa crowd was not.
So the Antifa crowd got to organize their basically an attack on these other folks, these other folks who were protesting there with the permit were declared unlawful and the police stood down.
Ladies and gentlemen, there are some very credible allegations out there, and they are allegations to be fair to the Democrat governor of Virginia, but I'm going to put them out there because they're being covered widely by a lot of mainstream outlets.
There are some very credible allegations out there that the Virginia governor and the Charlottesville mayor gave some form of a de facto stand down order.
In other words, the cops almost let the... I'm not talking about the rank-and-file cops.
Please, you know I love you.
It's not your fault at all.
You have to deal with really crap political leadership.
Please, don't misunderstand my words.
The allegations are that they let this Antifa crowd, this anti-First Amendment, they call themselves anti-fascist, but this anti-First Amendment crowd, that they let these Antifa crowds attack these guys, however abhorrent their views may have been.
Are we?
Again, it's not about Trump anymore.
It is about the Democrats doing anything, including the de facto sanctioning of violence against an opposing view, however abhorrent that view is, Joe.
The sanctioning of violence against them.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is third world republic stuff.
Third world, how is it not?
How is this not third world republic stuff?
Third story, because I had a lot to cover today.
There's a bill, Joe.
This is one of those stories.
I hear you, bro.
It's not even funny, but this is one of those stories you read and you seriously have to double check.
I did see it at Breitbart.
It's not a knock on Breitbart at all.
Joe Pollock wrote it.
He always writes good stuff.
But I had to double check it to make sure it wasn't like Fightbart.
I didn't read it wrong.
I'm dead serious.
I'm not kidding.
Because I read it and I thought, this can't possibly be true.
So of course I double checked it.
I'm like, Paul, is this domain right?
It's right.
It's a real story.
California legislator, Joe.
Try to hold in your laughter on this one.
By the name of Senator Scott Weiner.
I know this one.
Go ahead.
Oh, you saw it.
Okay.
Senate Bill 219.
This is a doozy.
Wow.
Let me tell you what the fine is for the behavior, and I'll tell you what the behavior is second, because you're going to be astonished.
The fine for this behavior of repeat offenders is a $1,000 fine and a jail term for up to a year.
You're like, well, what is that?
Stealing cookies?
What is that?
Smacking around someone's dog?
What's the fine?
You're going to spend a year in jail?
No, that fine is for, and I'm quoting, Willfully and repeatedly refusing to use a transgender resident's preferred name or pronouns in a public health retirement or housing institution.
What?
So if you don't call someone, I don't, what is it?
I don't, what are they Z?
Z or, or they, or if you don't call someone Z, folks, this is real.
I'm not making this up.
Z or they, This guy wants you thrown in jail.
This is real.
Look this up.
Senate Bill 219, Scott Wiener.
I'll put the article in the show notes at Bongino.com.
I'm not making this up.
Folks, again, the left does not want to win.
They want to punish now.
Well, they want to win and punish, but they can't win.
The election's over.
Their desire now is to punish.
They are obsessed with the idea that they are a victim of a stolen election, despite no evidence that happened.
They are here now to punish.
You don't want to use a transgender pronoun when talking to a man or a woman.
You want to choose one?
He or she?
And you don't use they or zee?
I don't even know if zee's real.
I thought I read that somewhere.
This guy wants to throw you in jail.
Again, tell me again how liberals are the party of the little guy?
How liberals are the party of freedom and robust growth and they're taking care of people and they're defending rights?
Defending the rights of who?
Defending the rights of their preferred political advocates.
Everyone else goes to jail.
That sounds a little bit like jackbooted tyranny to me, folks.
Not so sure where you stand on it, but I'm pretty sure you'd agree with me.
I'll leave it with this because I've got a couple other stories to get through.
It is no longer about Trump.
It is about control of elections and democratic choice.
The left wants this election thrown out.
The left believes they are on the right side of history.
The left believes, through critical theory, that conservatives are not to be taken seriously and they are evil.
They're not wrong!
They're wrong and evil, but evil takes priority.
You are to be suppressed, you are to be shut down, you are to be shut up at all costs, and you now are to be punished.
They have made the transition from winning To punishing.
Don't forget it!
Take it to the bank, folks.
This is going to get worse.
And to respond to the lady last night, thank you for the gratitude, but that's why I defend this president.
Because folks, I say to you, with grave concern, I mean this.
If they take this guy down, For illegitimate reasons, which you're trying now.
Trump-Russia fairy tales, nonsense about stolen elections.
If they take this guy down, I don't know how we get out of this.
I don't know how we get out of it, folks.
And I want to say again, shame, shame, shame on all of the establishment Republicans.
And I'm talking about elected folks right now.
Shame on establishment Republicans who take every opportunity to kneecap this guy in the White House.
I get it.
I understand he's extremely fallible.
He's made a lot of mistakes.
I get it.
But you do not understand what's going on right now.
You are contributing to the downfall of our Republic.
Alright, that was a heavy topic.
Please, please do.
I'm begging you, read this piece by Greenfield.
It'll be up on Geno.com under show notes.
Give it a look.
You will not regret it.
It is probably one of the finer pieces you've read so far this year.
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Okay, on Barcelona yesterday.
Here's a couple of quick takeaways from this because you're going to see a lot of news coverage today and I try to avoid following the herd with coverage because you're going to hear it all day and most of the female feedback I get on my show is that, listen, thanks for bringing up stories I hadn't heard elsewhere.
But there are some important takeaways from this.
First is a quick one.
You know, we just got done talking about preparedness.
This is kind of an unintentional segue.
But folks, if you have the ability to go get a CCW, a concealed carry weapons permit, you need to do it.
Um, it's up to you.
Again, I'm not, I'm an obviously a second amendment advocate.
I don't think that's a mystery to anybody who listens to the show.
Um, you know, I know some people, uh, friends and family members who are, they say, Oh, I'm just uncomfortable carrying.
I don't feel like I'm ready.
That's fine.
Um, I, uh, that's fine.
But if you feel comfortable, uh, and, and you feel like you're ready to go through some training and learn how to operate a firearm, I think it's nuts not to get a CCW.
Now, the only reason I bring this up is.
You are going to see now the next evolution of these hostile vehicle attacks, which is a fancy way of saying people, terrorist savages mowing people down with cars like we saw in Barcelona yesterday.
Why are you going to see more of this?
You're going to see more of it because it requires no logistics planning and it leaves no investigative footprints behind.
Folks, this is critical.
I brought this up on Fox & Friends this morning.
The reason they're transitioning to these style of attacks, where, by the way, Joe, after they run people down, they get out of the car with axes.
You're not going to be able to fight a guy with an axe.
You're not.
I don't care how much Brazilian jiu-jitsu or mixed martial arts training you have.
I love training that stuff.
It's my passion.
After politics, it's number, God, family.
Politics, jiu-jitsu, maybe.
Maybe three and four switcheroo.
But it's not going to help you against a maniac with an axe.
It's not.
You're going to die or get severely hurt.
The only thing that's going to stop a maniac with an axe is a guy with a gun.
Now this is important.
The difference between the 9-11 attacks, and I You know, I've worked rather large counter-terror cases in the past, and the 9-11 attack, depending on what analysis of it you read, cost between $500,000 and a million dollars.
But what was critical is, it forced them to leave their insulated communities.
A lot of these Islamists, I'm not talking about, obviously, all Muslims.
I don't want to hear it from the left.
It's not what we're discussing.
We're talking about Islamic radicals.
They tend to live in isolated enclaves and kind of cocoons, Joe.
In order for them to execute the 9-11 attack, they had to leave that cocoon.
They had to go get flight training.
They had to go get money transfers.
They had to go rent vehicles.
They had to leave the cocoon, and every time they leave the cocoon, it would leave behind an investigative footprint or a clue.
There were people who thought there was something suspicious about the flight training.
Remember these reports, the 9-11 commission, that some flight instructors thought it was interesting that they weren't concerned with landing, just flying?
Uh, yeah, kind of strange, right?
You know what I mean?
I heard one time a guy say, you know, a pilot said to me, anybody can learn how to fly a plane.
It's the landing that matters, right?
You don't want to learn how to land.
That's a problem.
The reason these attacks are preferred now by these savages is because it doesn't require them to lead the cocoon.
Most of them already know how to operate a vehicle.
Getting a vehicle is easy.
It's not difficult.
This doesn't require them to leave behind investigative footprints by interacting with other people who would detect something wrong.
You get what I'm saying, Joe?
Yeah, yeah.
You are going to see more of this.
This is not meant in any way to induce any sense of paranoia.
It's not hyperbolic.
We live in the safest country in the world.
I mean, the United States is thankfully, even now, the chances of you being involved in a terror attack are minuscule at best.
But they're not zero.
And as I said to you before about the food prep item, which I absolutely meant, it makes no sense for you not to be prepared if you're willing to do so.
I carry, I encourage most of my cop friends carry everywhere now off duty.
Don't be the victim.
You know, Dave Grossman, has a book, it's called On Killing.
I've mentioned it before on the show.
It's not a book about serial killers or anything.
But he was a soldier, and he did an analysis of what the evolution of killing in combat over the years.
And one of the statements, which has been said by others as well, is, you know, the sheep, the sheepdog, and the wolf.
How we have sheep in society, those sheep are victimized by the wolves, the terrorist parasites, and then you have sheepdogs who protect the sheep.
I'm just asking you, don't be a sheep.
Some maniac runs down a crowd of people and starts coming at you with an axe.
You pull out that Kimber or Glock .45 and you do double tap to the head.
Two to the head, one to the chest.
Or two to the chest and one to the head.
And I promise you it's going to be a really hard day for this guy.
It is the only way.
We live in different times, folks.
They're difficult times.
I don't want to be overly dramatic, but thank God we're Americans alive right now.
But it's time to wake up to that fact.
We have to defend ourselves.
You cannot, you cannot expect the police to save you.
Thank God for our cops.
Thank God every day.
But they are not there as your personal security force.
It is up to you.
Folks, one more thing on this.
We have to start becoming arsonists, not firemen.
We can't put out the fires afterwards anymore.
We have to start developing sources in these communities, because now that they've...
Insulated themselves in these cocoons, Joe, and within those cocoons, now that they're not leaving because they don't have to learn to drive anywhere.
Now it's critical that we develop sources in those communities to break up those plots in advance because you're not going to have the flight instructor anymore calling the FBI saying, hey, something unusual is going on here.
I got these students who don't want to learn how to land.
If we don't have sources in these communities, we are never going to stop this attack, and that's where the PC stuff has to stop.
We need to develop sources in Shaking Trees.
Folks, our fight in New York City for decades with the Italian mob, with the Russian mob, both of these organized crime groups were broken up, I mean, not completely, there's obviously elements that still exist, but were broken up by sources.
Sammy the Bull, I mean, anyone heard of him?
I mean, these were sources, people who flipped and worked for law enforcement.
We have to develop.
I know law enforcement knows this.
I'm not, I'm not trying to speak in any kind of a condescending fashion.
I'm just trying to tell you that that's because people say all the time, well, what do we do?
What do we do?
What do we do?
That's what you do.
Sources.
It's the only way.
You're not going to stop a vehicle attack.
You can harden up your infrastructure.
You can put the flower pots, you can put all this other stuff, but if you do that, they're just going to drive into your local supermarket next.
You can't harden up everything, but you can harden up your development of sources inside these communities.
It's important we understand that.
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Okay, final story of the day, because it's another important one.
There's a piece up at the Journal today, again, by a... I'm going to say this wrong, I'm going to butcher this, so my apologies, but I'll put the piece up at the show notes.
Mene Ukeborua?
I'm sorry, Mene, I'm really not trying to, but it's just very difficult to pronounce.
Some people mess... I get Bongaino all the time, so... But it's a really good piece nonetheless, and I'm sure the author wouldn't mind that I promote.
It's about how American Christians are starting to move away from capitalism.
And I thought, oh, this is another one of those stories that you read and you're like, I've got to stem the tide of this right now and do everything in my power to expose the fallacy here.
Let me just read the opening paragraph quick to show you how damaging this is.
It says, American Christians may have more in common with Bernie Sanders than you think.
What?
I read that.
That caught me right away, right?
I read that.
I'm like, okay, moving on.
It says, a slim majority of self-identifying Christians hold an unfavorable view of capitalism, according to a 2013 Public Religion Research Institute survey.
Pope Francis, the world's most prominent Christian, consistently critiques free market economics.
Today, millions of well-meaning Christians worry about capitalism's compatibility with Christian values.
What's a committed Christian capitalist to do?
Great question.
Fair enough.
Here's what we do.
Folks, we explain what capitalism is.
We've not done a great job of doing that, and what capitalism is not.
Folks, capitalism.
One, I would make the case to you, as many economists would, that capitalism isn't an ism, and that it's some kind of formal belief system.
Capitalism is just a series of economic liberty initiatives we take as human beings.
It's not some kind of a religion or some kind of a science.
Here's what capitalism is, and I wrote this down.
One, it's the ability to own property.
So, when Christians say, well, capitalism, I have an unfavorable view of it, you need to question them and say, well, what part of it, there are three tenets to it.
Here's number one, own property.
Well, what part of owning property do you have a problem with?
Folks, the best way to respond to a statement is with a question, because when someone says something ridiculous, because the question forces them to think.
I said the other day, and I meant it, you can avoid an assertion, and you can avoid a statement.
People do it all the time, they ignore it.
You can't avoid a question.
It instinctively engages the mind of your intellectual adversary.
It's impossible to avoid a question.
Ask them what part of owning property bothers you.
That is what capitalism, if you want to call it even an ism, is.
The ability to own property.
What part bothers you?
In other words, if you are a Christian who owns a home, who owns a car, who owns a cell phone, why do you own that?
That is what capitalism is.
You understand that the antithesis, the opposite of capitalism, the inverse to capitalism, is socialism.
The government ownership of the means of production and the subsequent production from it.
Who else do you want to own the property?
Joe, newsflash, unsurprising to you or anyone else listening, everybody's going to own the property out there.
Capitalism just says, you can own it too, not just the government.
You understand that, right?
That property is going to be created regardless.
Food, medicine, services, housing, it is going to be created.
The only question for Christians who somehow are disavowing capitalism is, who do you want to own it?
Oh, not me, I want the government to own it.
So you're okay with ownership of property, just not you.
Just to be clear, everybody can own property, just not you.
Because believe me, under socialist regimes, and even big government democratic socialism, which is crap nonsense, but big government regimes like you see in Scandinavia, property's owned, it's just owned by the government.
It's happening in Venezuela right now as they confiscate the oil industry and the supermarkets.
Properties owned, just not by you.
So the first question for the anti-capitalist Christian crowd is, why don't you believe in owning property?
And if you don't, why do you own property yourself?
Yeah, I didn't really mean that, I guess.
I'm okay with me owning property, just not you owning property.
Oh, that makes sense.
Thank you.
That's very intellectually honest, okay?
All right, number two.
What's the second component?
So, first component of capitalism, owning private property.
Second part, trading your labor for a wage.
That is a component of capitalism.
I mean, again, if it's an ism at all.
The ability to work for a wage.
What part of that do you disagree with?
There are only two ways to allocate resources, including labor.
Labor's a resource.
You can price it.
Meaning, Joe, very simply, for the liberals out there who have a tough time with this, you can price your labor, right?
When Joe works for Conservative Review and we put together this show, Joe put a price on his labor that Conservative Review pays him to produce the audio quality of the podcast.
The other alternative is to ration the labor.
Meaning the government takes a specific number of people, regardless of their talents, and sticks them in a job and says, work.
Well, what happens if I don't?
Oh, we just shoot you in the head.
Don't worry about it.
Oh, okay.
I better get to work.
What was the old joke in the Soviet Union?
We used to pretend to work and they used to pretend to pay us.
Because it was forced labor.
It's called servitude.
What part of the capitalism component of trading your labor for a wage, what part of that do you not like is unfavorable to you?
You want to be rationed into a job?
So let me get this straight again, and I'm not, I'm a Christian.
I'm just saying I think people are horrendously misguided on this.
And what they don't understand is fighting capitalism means fighting freedom and enforcing the government use of force.
You understand you're sanctioning violence against people.
That's what socialism is.
The monopolistic use of government force to take from other people.
Their property, their labor, everything.
What kind of system of trading labor do you want?
Trading labor for what?
The threat of not being shot in the head by a socialist regime?
Oh, that sounds legit.
Those aren't Christian values.
This is insane.
Point number three, component number three of capitalism, which kind of involves component number two as well.
The pricing of resources rather than the rationing of resources.
You may say, oh, pricing.
Yeah, that's it.
We get all kinds of vultures out there.
Well, what's your alternative?
You have resources, Joe.
A hundred units of food, a hundred units of water, a hundred units of medicine, and you have 300 people.
You have two ways of doing that.
You can put them out there for pricing so that people will bid up the price, which will do what, Joe?
Incentivize producers of food, drink, and medicine to produce more because those greedy capitalists can earn money by producing more of it.
Or you can do this.
You can divvy up the stuff and say, we're going to ration it to our favorite friends, which is what socialists do.
What part of the pricing mechanism bothers you?
What part of it?
And what is your alternative?
Rationing?
Because if you can explain to me, to the Christians out there who support this, this unfavorable view of capitalism, can you please explain to me a third way to make sure resources are handed out to society?
What's the third way?
What's the third way?
You can ration them or you can price them.
I've had to bring this point up relentlessly and seeing this this morning in the Wall Street Journal, I was floored.
I would have never guessed in a million years that a slim majority of Christians have an unfavorable view of capitalism.
It says to me, and I'm sorry, but I'm not trying to offend anyone, it says to me that you are grotesquely ignorant of what capitalism is.
And you have no alternative because you don't understand what you're talking about.
You can't propose an alternative if you don't even understand what the thing you're talking about is, Joseph.
What alternative to pricing do you have?
They don't price medicine in the United Kingdom.
They have the National Health Service.
They ration it.
Oh, you doubt that?
Do you not read?
5% of doctors in the United Kingdom acknowledge knowing a patient who has died on a waiting list waiting for care.
Think about that.
This is only the ones who are actually acknowledging it, Joe.
If you get a hundred doctors in a room, five of them will tell you they know someone, statistically speaking, who has died on a waiting list for care.
Because it's not price, it's ration.
That's fair to you?
You may say, well, pricing, that only allows the rich to get stuff.
Really?
That's kind of funny you say that, because the biggest problem we have in the United States when it comes to food, Joe, is obesity!
Because food is, we are so productive from the pricing mechanism that people in the United States who are poor by United States standards are relatively wealthy by international standards.
That's a statement of fact.
Do you know the poorest state in the union has the average income of some of the wealthiest European countries?
Folks, this is the wealthiest country on earth because the price mechanism provides an incentive for people to produce more stuff.
All right, I just, I saw that story today and I got really upset about it because there's really a gross misunderstanding of what capitalism is.
We can't have these arguments about what's a better alternative is if you don't even know what you're talking about now.
It doesn't make any sense.
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His book, No Go Zones, is a forward by Nigel Farage.
