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Remember the Trump Ukraine impeachment hoax?
Remember that disaster?
Remember the list?
The list I was on, uh, the monitoring of my social media list and everybody told their, uh, everybody on the left said, oh, that's a conspiracy theory.
These people are all nuts.
Well, we've been vindicated.
We've also been vindicated that the Trump impeachment hoax was another disaster and that Trump was actually onto something when he was looking into what happened in Ukraine.
I'm going to get to that.
GoFundMe blows it again.
Get away from these platforms.
Facebook, big news on Facebook.
Facebook's in trouble too.
Give you a quick plan to turn it around if they'd listen.
Jen Psaki's logic on the debt.
And of course, we can't do a show today without discussing what happened over at CNN.
Supposedly still claiming to be ridiculously a news network.
That's kind of hilarious.
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All right, Joe, let's go.
And away we go.
Yes, sir.
Yes.
Joe has been very muted over the last few days due to my my yes, my my my nasal issues with this head thing.
But like I said, I feel pretty good.
I'm ready to rock and roll today.
A lot of stuff going on.
Just respect.
Thank you, man.
Thank you, Joe.
I love you.
Alright, I want to play this first.
So, I don't know how this story wasn't the opening story on every media outlet in the country.
Let me sum it up for you in a nutshell.
Many of you already know the details, but Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, was hired by a gas company in Ukraine.
The gas company was under investigation for corruption.
The investigation magically went away when Hunter Biden was hired by the gas company in that time frame, right?
Money was seized.
From that gas company because of corruption.
Hunter Biden got hired by this Ukrainian gas company despite no experience in Ukraine and no experience we know of in gas.
Matter of fact, no relevant experience whatsoever to the operation.
Companies accuse of corruption.
Hires the vice president's kid.
All of a sudden, corruption goes away.
And the vice president at the time, Joe Biden, is the point man in Ukraine.
Sound kind of shady?
Sounds shady to me.
Apparently doesn't sound shady if you were a Democrat.
Now, the ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, Marie Yovanovitch at the time was apparently aware of what was going on with Hunter Biden getting hired by this Ukrainian gas company.
And I exposed this scandal along with many others, John Solomon, Sarah Carter, and many others who said, hey, what exactly did Marie Yovanovitch know when she was the ambassador to Ukraine about Hunter Biden's lucrative position over there?
Well, because of that, I was put on one of Marie Yovanovitch's lists.
Lists to watch my social media posts using taxpayer dollars.
This was exposed by Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch.
Here, I want you to watch this.
Check this out.
Prior to being recalled as ambassador to Ukraine, she reportedly created a list of individuals who would be monitored via social media and other means.
So essentially what was going on is, she wanted this list monitored.
Using the key terms I'm talking about.
So, if she wanted to monitor someone like me, she would say, okay, every time Tom Fitton uses the phrase, Giuliani, Soros, Biden or Yanovich, you know, generate information, monitor, keep a track of it.
The problem is that's in violation of the law.
It's the Privacy Act that's being violated.
The United States government Cannot be creating files on you willy-nilly.
Ukrainian embassy staff Ukraine embassy staff, I guess we're not allowed to say,
well, I don't know.
Ukraine embassy staff made the request to the Washington DC headquarters office
of the department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
After several days, Yovanovitch's staff was informed the request was illegal
and the monitoring either ceased or was concealed via the state department's global engagement center,
which supposedly has looser restrictions.
I don't believe that's true.
The law still governs that.
So there was a little list.
Gee, this is pre-your time, but Joe's very familiar with this.
Remember the list, Joe?
We were all called conspiracy theorists and nuts.
So just to be clear, we were following the corruption in Ukraine, the hiring of Joe Biden's kid to make these charges disappear, right?
Hunter, the hiring of Hunter by this Ukrainian gas company.
The Ukrainian ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, once we expose this scandal, me, John Solomon and others, apparently has a list to monitor our social media posts.
Why would an ambassador paid for by your tax dollars in Ukraine be preoccupied with little old me?
I thought I was a conspiracy theorist.
I thought it was all a hoax.
I thought all my books on the topic, including Follow the Money, the book where I expose this thing, I thought it was all crazy conspiracy theory stuff that we should all just Right over the head!
So if it was all a conspiracy theory, why were you watching me?
You doubt I was on that list?
You should doubt everything.
I back it up with receipts.
Here's a report John Solomon put together in September of 2020.
Enemies list?
The State Department monitored 13 American social media in a possible legal violation.
The government can't just, as Tom Fitton said, willy-nilly put together watch lists to start watching people and monitoring people's activities using taxpayer dollars.
Marie Yovanovitch in her off-duty time wants to monitor my public posts on social media?
You go right ahead.
Using taxpayer dollars to do it?
John says in addition to the Fox hosts, this reporter talking about himself, the President's son, and the President's personal lawyer, the other figures whose social media were targeted were Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, who you just heard, radio host and former White House advisor Sebastian Gorka, One America News personality Jack Posobiec, and Fox News personality Sarah Carter, and Dan Bongino, yours truly.
So I was on their little watch list there.
What were they worried about?
I thought it was a big hoax and a conspiracy theory.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, here's what they were worried about.
An explosive new email was released that we got a hold of yesterday in John Solomon's reporting.
The email is about as troubling an email you're ever going to see.
It's not only troubling because of what it reveals.
It's troubling because it was apparently, according to multiple sources up on Capitol Hill, it was apparently hidden from the Republicans during the Trump impeachment hoax hearing.
Here's the article.
It's in my newsletter today.
Please read it.
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Classified State Department email declared Hunter Biden undercut U.S.
efforts in Ukraine.
It was withheld from the public for five years, and it conflicts with Democrats' official narrative that the president's son had no impact on U.S.
anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine.
Here's the email in question.
This is from Marie Yovanovitch, the ambassador's deputy chief of mission, George Kent.
George Kent knew what was going on here.
That they hired Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's kid, while Biden's in charge of Ukraine for the Obama administration, to make this corruption case go away for Burisma.
Quote, from the email George Kent sent to multiple people in the State Department that we just got a hold of.
Solomon did.
He says, quote, the real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage Vice President Biden quietly.
And say that his son Hunter's presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message, the vice president, and we were advancing in Ukraine, George Kent wrote to multiple high-ranking officials in the State Department in Washington.
Ladies and gentlemen, any illusions the media may have had that our Ukrainian embassy wasn't concerned about Hunter Biden being hired to make a problem go away because of his connections to his father, Vice President Biden, you can now throw those in the garbage.
Everything we've been telling you on this show, again, that is accused almost daily of misinformation.
It's really odd, don't you think, Joe?
How our misinformation metamorphosizes into facts while the leftist media information metamorphosizes into misinformation.
Kind of weird, right?
Quite strange, Dan.
Quite strange.
Quite strange, as he well knows.
We've only been talking about this and the list.
Now you see why we were monitored?
It goes on.
Was there a bribe paid and how much?
From Solomon's piece, George Kent, again, Yovanovitch, the ambassador's deputy, even relayed to higher ups that he'd confirmed with the Ukrainian prosecutor, Ukrainian prosecutors, that Burisma officials had paid a $7 million bribe to make one of the cases against the company disappear.
The bribe was allegedly paid at a time when Hunter Biden was serving on the Burisma board.
A job that landed Biden's firm more than 3 million from the Ukrainian energy company.
Only sounds like one of the biggest political scandals of our time, yet really weird how you're not hearing about it on TV anywhere, right?
Really strange.
How me, Sarah Carter, Solomon, Gorka, Jack Posobiec, Tom Fitton, how we were all monitored on a list by some of the same people who are tied up in this thing?
Strange, huh?
We're all called conspiracy theorists.
Now, this would have been a very helpful email during the Trump impeachment hoax, where it was alleged that Trump tried to cut a deal with the Ukrainian president for information on the Biden family.
Now, it seems awfully strange because it seems like some of that information on the Biden family was of interest to the United States of America, potential bribes being paid and an influence operation to the former vice president of the United States.
This would have been a really helpful email to have, don't you think?
I'm just going to throw that out there.
Here's the third part to Solomon's piece.
Republican Jim Jordan, the ranking member on the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, played a key role in defending Trump in the 2020-19-2020 Ukraine impeachment scandal.
He told Just the News Tuesday night that the lawmakers in Trump's defense team were not given the George Kent email, as best he could tell.
That would have been really helpful, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Now, if you'll remember the Trump impeachment hoax, here was George Kent.
George Kent was asked by one of the lawyers working for the GOP defense, he was asked if he could name one qualification Hunter Biden had to be on this board, the board that's alleged to have paid a $7 million bribe to make charges go away while Joe Biden was the point man on Ukraine and Burisma was in Ukraine hiring Biden's son.
George Kent has a really interesting answer as he rattles off a list of wonderful qualifications Hunter Biden had for this job.
Just kidding!
He had none.
Here, check it out.
So Hunter Biden's added to the board of Burisma.
Now, do you think that creates a problem that Burisma may be adding people to its board for protection purposes?
Sir, I work for the government.
I don't work in the corporate sector, and so I believe that companies build their boards with a variety of reasons, not only to promote their business plans.
Was Hunter Biden a corporate governance expert?
I have no idea what Hunter Biden studied at university or what his CV says.
Is he the Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Ukraine?
I have no awareness or knowledge of what his background was and what he may have done on the border.
So you don't know whether he has any business experience?
In Ukraine prior to joining Brisbane's board. I I've heard nothing about prior experience
Okay, do you know if he speaks Ukrainian? I do not you know if he
Possesses any other elements other than the fact that he is the son of at the time the sitting vice president
I do not okay ambassador Taylor Do you know whether hunter Biden offers anything other than
the fact that his dad's the former vice president?
I I don't where at the time was the vice president. I have no knowledge of hunter Biden weird, huh?
Son of the sitting vice president hired by a natural gas company alleged to have paid a bribe to make a corruption
charge go away After hunter Biden gets a seat on their board and paid a
whole lot of money Really strange.
Ambassador over there puts us on a watch list to monitor our social media or tries to using taxpayer dollars.
Really strange how we were the ones called the conspiracy theorists and yet Marie Yovanovitch and George Kent and others seem to have skated completely.
You're not wasting your time here, folks.
Let me tell you something with absolute sincerity.
It's been a rough couple of days for me here.
There's a lot going on behind the scenes.
We are in a war here for free speech.
A war.
I'll never let you down.
I'll get some things wrong.
We'll correct it because we're not journalists.
Thankfully.
But I promise you, if you've been listening to this show for the past five years, you've not been wasting your time.
I got from a very reliable source very early on that Marie Yovanovitch knew what was going on, that George Kent knew what was going on, and they ignored it.
And instead of calling this BS out, they decided to attack Donald Trump in an impeachment hearing.
Just disgraceful.
Just disgraceful.
All right, let me get to the second story here.
I've got to move on.
I've got a lot to get to today.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have preached to you the need and the necessity for a parallel economy.
And I want to be crystal clear.
The idea of building a parallel economy, I wish it weren't necessary.
It is a necessary idea.
We are being in the economy.
We have now conservatives are becoming second class citizens.
We're not allowed to speak.
We're not allowed to engage in commerce.
It has gotten ridiculous.
I've got a number of stories I want to get to here, but the need to construct a parallel economy, like I've taken a lead role in doing is now, and it's, it's an absolute necessity.
So we say it's not necessarily a good idea.
It is a necessary idea.
I really wish.
We as liberals and conservatives could just agree to engage in commerce and not worry about politics when purchasing products or services.
Those days are over.
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The Canadian Freedom Convoy's GoFundMe page is now under review after raising over $10 million.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a left-wing platform and this was only one of many stories yesterday.
Speaking of the growing power and tyranny of these existential threats to freedom and liberty, these companies.
And yes, there was a Wall Street Journal article critiquing the overuse of the term existential the other day.
In this case, I believe it is entirely appropriate.
There is no way to have a free and prosperous constitutional republic moving forward when only one side, liberal freaking lunatics, are allowed to engage in commerce and are allowed to engage in political discussion and political dialogue.
You can't have a constitutional republic that way.
That's not the way it works.
You can't have 50% of the country dismissed from the economy in political dialogue casually as if they don't matter.
You can't have it.
And it's happening right now.
You can't raise money.
So just to be clear, you can raise money for BLM and the Minnesota Freedom Fund to let Antifa thugs who attacked people and burned businesses down.
You can raise money, no problem.
Through various platforms.
But you try to raise money for a freedom convoy, and it's quote, under review?
GoFundMe is a disgrace.
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News yesterday about Michelle Malkin.
Michelle Malkin.
Conservative commentator.
Her and her husband.
Did you read this story?
According to some reports, we're banned from using Airbnb.
Fascinating.
Now it's not just conservatives, it's conservative spouses too.
What's next?
As Michelle notes, her kids, her uncle, her dog banned from the pound?
Her dog banned from an overnight hosting service?
What's next?
You think this is a joke?
I told you yesterday, you darn well better pick a side, ladies and gentlemen.
I have no sympathy for these jerks on the other side either.
You want to fire Whoopi Goldberg, Brian Stelter, Jeff Zucker?
You go right ahead.
I couldn't care any less.
Fire them, don't fire them.
Not my business.
I don't care.
You like the new rules?
You can eat them.
You can choke on those new rules yourself.
That's not it.
There's more.
Reclaim the Nets reporting about YouTube shutting down popular streams apparently for conservatives.
Reporting on the Freedom Convoy and the truckers.
Of course, totally unsurprising, YouTube banned me for telling you the scientific truth about masks.
YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, Alphabet, the parent company.
Google is, again, an existential threat to freedom and liberty.
This is a company that cannot coexist with a free constitutional republic.
They cannot.
They are repellents for each other.
And something needs to be done immediately.
And it is one of the few conditions I would ever consider running again, is to make sure that these companies stop violating the law and stop violating the Constitution.
Another story yesterday, Facebook stock takes a huge dump down roughly 20%.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's a wipeout.
Why does this story matter?
Because you would think the left that tried to manipulate Facebook for a long time for their purposes, you would think you could please the left.
But showing how Spotify, when they put out a statement saying, we're going to put a label on COVID episodes, showing how you can never appease totalitarian tyrants, Like the, I want to say something now, it's so bad.
We really need one day, we really need to do an uncensored episode of this show.
Cause I really want to say something.
Showing you how you can never appease these losers on the left.
Still going after Spotify.
Facebook is doing their best to censor my page.
There will be massive fact checks coming after this, you watch.
Fact checks on opinions, it'll be all nonsense.
Facebook's down 20%, go to social media, go to Twitter, put Facebook in.
What's trending?
Delete Facebook.
Who's sponsoring most of the posts?
Or putting, I should say, putting up most of the posts?
Lefties.
Facebook does everything in their power to censor conservatives and the left still isn't happy.
If this isn't a lesson for you morons out there in these tech companies, I don't know what is.
They will never be happy.
Ever.
All right.
Kind of hot today on a lot of these topics, as you can imagine.
You know, Jen Psaki is a consistent source of embarrassment for the United States of America.
She goes up to the podium and in the most condescending, irresponsible tones ever, Jen Psaki insults most of America with her constant lying, her litany of lies, and her gaslighting.
Jen Psaki's logic trains that she uses, too, are so preposterous that sometimes I have to play them for you to get you to understand how ridiculous this person is and how serious people are now laughing at her.
Here's Jen Psaki yesterday.
Our national debt crossed 30 trillion dollars.
30 trillion dollars yesterday.
By any measure, a catastrophic number.
It has now surpassed what our GDP is going to be.
Okay?
It surpassed it.
We owe more money than the United States produces in productivity, gross domestic productivity in a given year.
Right?
That's how much money we owe.
What is it?
$90,000 for every taxpayer or citizen?
Uh, forgive me.
I'm not even sure.
It's so bad.
We, you lose grasp of how much money we actually owe.
So because this happened under Biden's watch, and I want to be clear, Republicans contributed to this too.
Don't give them a pass.
They spend money we didn't have as well.
I want you to listen to this soundbite.
So what Saki's saying here in this soundbite, just to be clear, is when the government spends money, like in the Build Back Better plan, you pay for it via your tax dollars.
That's what means, that's what paid for means, right?
And then she goes on to say that tax cuts, where you're giving back your own money, that you pay for those too.
Huh?
So you pay for government spending, which is accurate, by taxes.
And then she goes on to blame the Trump tax cuts for that, saying they weren't paid for.
So when you're given your money back, you pay for that too?
How is that?
Either you're giving the government money, or you're not.
How is that?
Listen to this dopey logic train.
And again, moron reporters, don't call her out on this.
Here, check this out.
Yesterday, the national debt passed $30 trillion for the first time.
Does the administration see that as a problem, or do you share the view of some economists that debt doesn't matter?
Well, the president believes we need to have a sustainable and responsible fixed fiscal policy, which is why he put forward ways to pay for his major proposals.
He's committed to a sustainable and responsible policy in ensuring that our long-term investments are fully paid for, like Build Back Better.
I'd also note that this stands in significant contrast from the previous administration and Republicans in Congress, which passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut for wealthy taxpayers in 2017 and didn't pay for it.
As we look to the debt, which obviously the president wants to be lower, it's important
to note that more than 95% of the national debt was incurred before he took office.
The national debt increased by 7.8 trillion during former President Trump's presidency,
which accounts for about 30% of its total.
So we are working to address, we are working to be fiscally responsible, and that certainly
is a priority to the president.
Get the logic there?
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of head scratching going on with that one.
So when the government spends money and they tax you, you pay for it.
Okay.
But when a tax cut is enacted, meaning you keep some of the money you just gave to the government or were going to give to the government, you pay for that too.
If that makes sense to you, you're probably a liberal.
If it doesn't make sense to you and you're scratching your head, you're probably a sane person and not a crazy person.
Now, the national debt of $30 trillion is that we're not going to be able to pay this back.
So who's about to get screwed here if we don't change course immediately?
Immediately.
First, bondholders, people who lent the government money because you're just not going to get the money back or you're going to get back a certain number of dollars that buy you less than the dollars you lent to the government initially, meaning you got screwed.
Second, seniors.
Seniors are going to get screwed because you're owed a whole bunch of money for Social Security you paid into that you are never going to get Japan and China both get screwed.
took your social security money and spent it.
I'm very sorry to relay to you that inconvenient fact, but it is one.
The government doesn't have any money to pay you.
They are borrowing money to pay you, and sooner or later, they're gonna run out of people
to borrow money from.
And then what's gonna happen?
You're gonna be in a really bad place.
And I genuinely wish that weren't the case, but it is.
Japan and China both get screwed.
I don't really care much about China, but Japan's lent us a lot of money,
in the trillion-dollar range.
Yeah, they're probably not going to get that back either.
And debtors are going to get screwed too.
People who owe money.
As interest rates spike, when no one lends us money anymore, they're going to get screwed as well.
Debtors, people who owe money, because interest rates are going to be through the roof and it's going to be very hard for you to accumulate that and maintain that debt at these massive interest rates.
But don't let economics get in the way of a good Jen Psaki speech.
She'll sit there and tie you into a logical pretzel like, wait, The government spends money, I pay for it, but I spend my own money and I pay for it too.
That's kind of weird.
Doesn't make sense to me.
It's not supposed to.
You're not a crazy person like Jen Psaki.
All right.
Here's what I got coming up next.
This is, this is pretty funny.
I'm not into like the comic relief stuff and I don't like pylons, but in this case it's worth it.
So CNN, which purports to be hilariously purports to be a news network.
I mean, no one actually believes that anymore.
CNN has gone about zero days without another scandal.
Their president stepped down.
Zucker, he's supposed to be having some kind of thing with this lady there.
I don't really even care, folks, about their stupid scandals.
He didn't tell people about the thing.
So, who's the CNN coffee boy for Zucker?
Stelter.
Stelter is Zucker's buddy.
It's the only reason this entirely incompetent buffoon, who would be a coffee-fetching zero at any other network on planet Earth, has a show that nobody watches.
It's the only reason.
There is not a bigger loser in the media than Brian Stelter.
And a man, by the way, don't believe the hype, that by most CNN personalities, when you put a beer in them, will tell you is one of the most hated men in media, Brian Stelter.
I'll show you next coming up.
He jumps on someone's show and she looks just thrilled that he's there to defend Jeff Zucker.
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I want you to watch this.
So again, I told you about what happened with the CNN president, the charges that he was having some, Thing relationship with a subordinate employee that he didn't come clean with.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is likely a significant backstory here.
It is not uncommon in the media and any network anywhere for people to have relationships with people at the media company.
And you know, let's just be candid.
You can read the stories yourself.
That's not news.
So why Jeff Zucker from CNN would step aside for having a relationship with this woman at CNN?
Um, is a little weird and says to me that there's probably something else going on.
And the fact that this woman used to work for Andrew Cuomo, whose brother was Chris Cuomo at CNN, makes me wonder after Chris Cuomo was fired, does Chris Cuomo have some information about Zucker, this woman who used to work for his brother, that Chris Cuomo is using as leverage?
I don't know.
Uh, we'll see.
But for him to resign for this seems awfully strange.
Now, Again, one of the most untalented men in media, Brian Stelter, is well known to have his position because of his connection with Jeff Zucker, right?
Here he is, jumps on, what is it, Kate Baldwin's show yesterday, I'm not sure where it is, right, CNN.
I want you to watch this.
Watch how thrilled, hat tip, Drew Hernandez, where I saw this on his social feed.
Watch how thrilled she looks that Jeff Zucker's relief pitcher, Brian Stelter, comes out of the bullpen to try to defend him after the story broke.
Look at her face.
This is hilarious.
Check this out.
Joining me now is CNN chief media correspondent, host of Reliable Sources, Brian Stelter.
Brian, what more do you have?
As you said, Kate, Zucker's been a larger-than-life figure at this news organization for nearly a decade, a pioneering figure, and now his resignation is stunning this newsroom We both know Jeff Zucker has been the rock for this organization.
The last few days he has not been on the morning editorial calls.
Some people even noticed and wondered if something was amiss.
I don't think anybody saw this coming this morning, an announcement like this.
But I think if Zucker was on that call this morning, I know what he'd say.
He'd say, what's important at CNN is not the person at the top.
It's the team we all play for.
It's CNN as an organization.
This news operation is so much bigger than any single person.
And so the news goes on.
But now without the top executive.
Yeah.
Keep reporting the news.
That's what he would say.
Yeah.
She looks thrilled there.
There's a couple edits put in there, to be fair.
Be cutting around some zoom ins and stuff.
It's Andrew Hernandez's feed.
Outside of her reaction, you hear Stelter, pioneer Jeff Zucker.
He's a rock.
Rock for the network.
This guy has a show hilariously titled Reliable Sources, Brian Stelter.
You are Jeff Zucker's buddy and you have been for a long time.
It's the reason you have a job.
You have a show called Reliable Sources and your sources weren't reliable enough to tell you about one of these relationships that was happening right into your nose.
I would seriously dispute the title of that show as Reliable Sources.
And then Brian Stelter wonders, openly and out loud, why nobody trusts CNN and tunes into places like Joe Rogan and the Dan Bongino Show to get their information.
As you showed in the beginning, as we showed and demonstrated, I always bring the receipts and I'm proven right in the end.
Not always, but most of the time, especially when it comes to the big topics.
Brian Stelter is always, always on the wrong side of right.
Don't waste your time with these gatekeepers, folks.
Clowns.
That clip made me laugh when I saw it.
Hey, moving on.
Yesterday we had discussed the prevalence of damaging political narratives, how the most damaging political narratives are the ones that change your preexisting notion of who someone, a party or candidate or a group of people are, right?
We don't need to relitigate that, but just quickly, if you have a guy who you believe is a loyal, faithful, you know, Christian, and you find out later as a politician, he was, you know, attending raves, smoking weed and, Sleepin' around with a bunch of women, and yeah, it's gonna do damage to their political reputation.
If the guy was known as a playboy in advance, and you find out about that, it may not be the best story, but is it gonna do any damage?
Probably not.
One of the reasons the Democrat Party right now is looking at an electoral apocalypse in 2022 is because they keep pumping down people's gullets this idea that they're in it for the little guy, they're the support network for the little guy, we're for the working man, the Democrats, and yet the working men and women who live in these deep blue cities are finding themselves being robbed, they're finding their wages going down, Their cars are being stolen.
They're watching their neighbors complain about crime on the subways.
So you being in it for the little guy certainly doesn't look like you're in it for the little guy because the people who live up at Central Park West and down in exclusive areas in Georgetown may be seeing a spike in crime too, but not the spike they're seeing in poor areas.
So kind of weird to make the case how you're in it for the little guy when the little guy is the one getting kicked right in the cojones with this crime wave.
That is one of the reasons this narrative of crime and the explosion in crime has been so damaging to the Democrats.
Now, there are some Democrats waking up to this.
One, I saw this in Politico Playbook this morning.
They send out this email in the morning.
It's a lefty site, folks, but it's actually not bad for finding out what lefty nuts, especially Politico, are talking about.
As long as they don't ban me from their list.
This went out on Playbook this morning.
Pretty much all the DC players read this stuff.
It turns out this guy, Roy Teixeira, that he was a Democrat warning, warning the Democrats a long time ago.
I don't know if he's a Democrat or not, but some kind of pollster and consultant.
He was saying, listen, this defund the police thing is stupid.
Don't do it.
Now this guy, there's some Democrats, some, not all, some are still nuts, are starting to say, hey, maybe we should have listened to this guy.
Remember, the crime issue hits everybody in their own cojones right at their table, kicks them right in the nads, right?
Hard to make the case, you're in it for the little guy when the little guy's getting robbed.
Here's what the sheriff told them.
He said, initially dismissed as simply an artifact of the COVID shutdown that he wrote last summer, that was being vastly exaggerated by Fox and their like for nefarious purposes.
It's now apparent that this spike in violent crime is quite real, and the voters are very, very concerned about it.
According to recent data from the Democrat-oriented Navigator Research, more Americans overall, including independents and Hispanics, now believe violent crime is a major crisis.
than believe that the coronavirus pandemic or another area of concern is.
Moreover, majorities of even Democrats now believe violent crime is a major crisis and concerns are sky high amongst black voters.
70% say it's a major crisis.
Folks, can't tell you enough.
That is why this is such a damaging narrative.
It is changing the perception amongst Democrat voters that the people they voted in charge care about their everyday working life.
But here's number two.
The reason this has done significant damage to the Democrat Party, and you're seeing a huge diminution in support for them.
I said last night on Jesse Watters' show, where I'll be doing a regular Wednesday night appearance at 7 o'clock if you'd like to check it out, 7 p.m.
Eastern Time.
Folks, kitchen table issues, that old adage in politics, that all politics are local, is an old adage because it's based in fact.
Politics that are local and hit people where it hurts, in their homes, local, are the politics that really matter.
You can talk about the environment, taxes and crime all you want, until people start losing money, until they get mugged, and until environmental policies cost them double or triple their gas bill every month, nobody seems to care until it's local.
Think about this.
What is the most local issue possible?
Crime.
You get mugged outside your house, ladies and gentlemen.
Not only is it local, it's right in your freaking house.
That's why this crime narrative is so damaging to the left.
The Washington Examiner has a piece on this today via my newsletter.
Biden's doomed election plan.
Downplay crime?
Maybe they should listen to that to share a guy.
They say, quote, after all, the massive spike in crime actually affects regular people who watch cable news and everyone else for that matter.
Keep in mind as I read on.
Yes, all politics are local.
Meanwhile, although all the networks, including Fox, have rightly covered the Ukraine-Russia crisis, it's far less relevant to most people's lives than, say, gas prices or the domestic crime wave.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hold you.
Inflation, gas prices, crime, local.
Your wallet, your safety, your ability to get around in your car without going broke.
Of course those are the issues that are going to matter most.
Of course.
All politics are local.
Democrats seem to have forgotten that lesson.
Maybe you should hire this to share a guy to start talking to the White House that wants to downplay crime.
How are you going to downplay crime?
You come in with a bloody nose because you just got punched in the face when they stole your iPhone and Joe Biden's telling you that's not happening.
Really?
Tell my bloody nose that.
All right, moving on.
Hey, by the way, one quick note.
Don't forget to check out my show this weekend on Fox, unfiltered, 9 p.m., our new time, Saturday night.
We're going to be doing a segment with Raymond Arroyo, who is very excited to come on and talk about this topic about, is the Pope a socialist?
Very disturbing information.
Also, we've got a true crime segment on Michael Avenatti.
Haven't heard from him in a while.
And my opening monologue We're going to have a good guest for that.
I just launched into Democrats for their so-called campaign against misinformation, showing you exactly how they are the purveyors of this.
Don't miss it.
Unfiltered Saturday night at nine.
All right, folks, we are living right now through a generational embarrassment.
We are.
I would make the strong case here to you.
That when sane history looks back without Democrat colored glasses on on the time we're living in now, this will be very embarrassing.
This will be up there, Joe, with bell-bottoms and other things we've done where we look back and went, what the hell were we thinking?
That didn't make a lot of sense.
It'll be up there with New Coke and the Pinto as historical mistakes where you ask yourself, my dad had a Pinto.
It was a car, by the way.
Joe knows what we're talking about.
It was a terrible car.
It's where I'm getting at.
People look back now, New Coke and other stuff like that and the bell-bottom and everything.
I'm sure there's a bell-bottom fan out there still.
And they're like, what could we possibly have been thinking?
Those were really dumb ideas.
Well, that's happening a lot right now.
Um, here's one of them.
I want to play this audio.
This is audio alleged to be of an assistant principal in Loudoun County in an elementary school on a phone call, who's apparently making the case that if the kids go to school without a mask, which they are allowed to do pursuant to the new governor, Glenn Youngkin, Republican's orders that the parents will control who wears a mask and who doesn't, that if they show up to school without a mask, which is perfectly legal for them to do, That there will be prosecutions or arrests for trespassing?
keep in mind this is an elementary school that there will be prosecutions
or arrests for trespassing wait wait is that the first preemptive strike Muttley
Joe hasn't even heard it yet.
I'm cheating.
Joe's heard it a little bit.
I've never seen this before.
This is the first pre-emptive strike.
This is like pulling out the relief pitcher before the game even starts and the starter throws one pitch.
That's okay.
Joe has editorial control of the mutley.
He thinks this is so ridiculous it gets a pre-emptive mutley.
You will too.
Yeah, Gee says this one deserves, too.
Here you go.
You'll be prosecuted for trespassing in elementary school if you show up without a mask.
Check this out.
Until you arrive, your children will be held in an in-school restriction situation here at school.
It is important that I point out to you, it's stated in the letter that she'll receive, but it's important that I point out to you that they are not allowed on campus or on Loudoun County Public School property.
Starting tomorrow it will be considered trespassing so it's important that I make that statement to you but we'll look forward to hearing from you via phone so you can let us know.
So how long can they be suspended for?
The guidelines that we're receiving from the county is student suspensions will end as soon as they are fully
following mitigation policies.
Oh!
[laughter]
[laughter]
Truly.
See?
It did deserve that muttly.
Now you know why.
No, no, no.
It did.
No, your discretion was perfectly appropriate in that case.
I'm glad we allowed you the muttly discretion.
You are the master of the muttly.
Again, when we look back in 30 or 40 years, when the glasses come off and we're allowed to look at it through these more sober eyes, in reverse of history, we will look back on this time and say, How were we alive at the time?
I mean, people are going to say, Grandpa Dan, how were you alive if I'm alive 30 years from now with such idiots at the time?
Be like, yes, son.
It was disturbing.
There was a lot of oxygen thieves out there stealing oxygen from other people.
So just to be clear, you dare send your kids to school without a face diaper on with no strong, randomly controlled trial evidence that these masks do a darn thing to stop the transmission of COVID.
You're better off opening the windows and letting the school air out, right?
You throw that mask on your kid, that saliva-soaked face diaper on your kids, because of course the leaders leading from the front, they wear it all the time and they're proper examples.
Of course not.
Uh, they're not at all.
Here's a deadline story, which, uh, you, this is not a joke deadline.
So remember the LA mayor, Eric Garcetti, who was photographed with magic Johnson, former basketball star at the LA Rams game this past weekend photographed without his mask on.
Well, he's got an excuse folks.
He says, uh, don't worry.
I took the picture without my mask because I held my breath while taking the...
Even... I don't even know what to say.
The guy, so just to be clear, do you believe this?
Tell me again.
You're not going to sit back.
You're not going to have your grandson or your granddaughter next to you.
You're watching a ball game, whatever, on the couch, eating some popcorn.
Hey, granddad.
Hey, grandpa.
Hey, abuelo.
Hey, buddy.
Whatever you call it.
Hey, Pop, however it works out, were you alive with those idiots who said they held their breath without masks on when they didn't wear masks, when they wanted kids to wear masks in elementary school and threatened to arrest them for trespassing?
Were you alive?
And Grandpa's gonna go, son, Don't remind me, please.
It brings back a lot of psychological trauma, the stupidity we had to live with for three years.
This is happening.
We're alive right now with the dumbest generation in human history.
Amazing, the portfolio of information at your fingertip, or a phone and a computer, and we're alive with these idiots right now.
Alright, let me get to my next spot.
And then here's what I got coming up.
I thought the Democrats were worried about gerrymandering, the carving up of congressional districts.
Remember that was their big thing?
Eric Holder, Obama's disgraced former attorney general, has made a big, huge national deal about this.
I thought they were, let me wait till I show you one of the maps coming out of New York.
And you tell me if this looks like a contiguous neighborhood or a contiguous congressional district.
Because it's in New York, and benefits Jerry Nadler, hack Democrat, nobody seems to care about gerrymandering.
And I want to discuss one final piece, too, about this hygiene hypothesis.
Are we too clean?
Don't laugh.
It's a serious thing.
Are we too clean?
And is it hurting our immune system?
Something I've been concerned about a long time.
I had allergies growing up pretty bad.
Okay.
Remember the Democrats' big issue, gerrymandering?
The Republicans are carving up congressional districts around the country to benefit them.
This is really weird because when this stuff happens in blue states like Joe's state of Maryland, where the district I ran in was carved up to death and is now being carved again to benefit Democrats even more.
Just so you know, the state of Maryland used to have four Republicans and four Democrats.
This was a while ago, decades ago.
It's latest Democratic gerrymandered map in the state of Maryland.
that passed, looks like it's going to be 7-1.
Now, up in New York, which is turning into a state to the left of Lenin,
they have a gerrymandered map too, where they want to cut the number of
Republican congressmen down from, I believe, what is it, 8 to 4 themselves.
I think they have 26 members of the House of Representatives in New York.
I want you to take a look at this article in the Wall Street Journal, it's not spelled wrong,
"New York's Democratic Gerrymander." They changed the G to a J because it's been done, this gerrymandering
benefits gerrymandering.
I want you to look at this map and I want you to tell me, that is, now, for those of you familiar with New York City and the five boroughs.
That looks like the west side of Manhattan, carved into and across the bridge, over into specific areas of Brooklyn, down into South Brooklyn and West Brooklyn as well, all in an effort to carve up the district to benefit Jerry Nadler and try to hurt Nicole Malliotakis, who's a Republican.
I thought they were concerned about gerrymandering.
What the hell is that?
Does that look like a one contiguous neighborhood to you or a group of voters?
The answer is, of course not.
The Democrats don't give a damn about gerrymandering.
The Democrats only care about gerrymandering when gerrymandering benefits them.
Now, why are they carving up this map this way?
Because the Democrats have a very serious problem.
Democrats coalesce in big cities.
They live in apartment buildings in Central Park West with hundreds of voters in them.
It's hard to carve up the apartment building.
What are you gonna do?
Put the top 10 floors in one district and the bottom 10 in the other?
It doesn't work that way.
Because they are, Democrats have put themselves in very isolated city areas, right?
I don't mean isolated city areas.
They've isolated themselves politically in these city areas.
It's very hard to carve them up.
That's why they have to jump bridges and go into different boroughs like this.
Because what happens?
By concentrating themselves in big cities like San Francisco and New York, Democrats have this wasted vote they call phenomenon.
If you are a person in office, you do not want to win congressional elections, mathematically, by more than 51%.
Why, Dan?
That's crazy.
We want to win with 80%.
No, you don't!
Because, folks, you win with 51% or 80%.
Why waste 29% more of the vote?
If you could move the 29% more of the vote into another district where you're losing and make that competitive.
Both parties do it.
Buyer beware.
I'm not sitting here telling you the Republican Party doesn't gerrymander.
Both parties... The point... I'm sorry.
I really don't mean to talk down to anyone in the audience.
I don't mean to be condescending.
But there are some liberals listening.
You don't want 80% of the vote.
You just wasted 29%.
You only need 51.
You want districts where you can win by the minimal amount so that other voters can be put into other districts where it's competitive.
The problem I have with this is the Democrats only complain about Republican states.
Texas, North Carolina or red-leaning states where they don't like the gerrymander.
But when it comes to maps like this in Maryland and New York, Eric Holder doesn't say anything.
Meaning it's not about the gerrymander at all.
If it was, he'd complain about New York.
It's that he doesn't like that Republicans do the same thing.
Theogyno.
Yeah, good point.
Theogyno.
That's right.
Our Attorney General in name only.
Merrick Garland investigating Texas and their gerrymander.
You think he's gonna look into New York?
Good point.
Here's the short answer.
Hell to the F no he's not!
Here, let me end with this story.
It's a good one.
Because this is concerning.
I grew up with allergies.
Pretty horrendous allergies.
I had to go to an allergy doctor.
You know, you get the injections of all the stuff.
See what you're allergic to.
Real pain in the butt.
I hated it.
Because I hate injections.
I can't stand them.
I always told you about my fear of giving blood.
It drives me nuts, right?
Not giving blood, but having blood taken.
Well, this allergy thing, a long time ago, I started doing some research into this hygiene hypothesis.
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you the question as this Wall Street Journal article by Aaron Bendovid titled COVID and the Hygiene Hypothesis.
Are we too clean?
Are we like...
Washing some beneficial bacteria off our bodies too often so that our immune systems can't properly tune themselves to what are threats and what aren't, which is causing an overactive immune system and maybe this epidemic in allergies?
Interesting.
From the piece, she says, you know, allergy and autoimmune diseases are far less common in communities with less hygiene.
And autoimmune disorders increase in children who migrate from areas with less emphasis on hygiene to areas with more.
They're less common in agricultural communities where exposure to dirt and animals is common, compared with neighboring communities with shared genetics but little farming.
Children who attend daycare early in life, i.e.
spreading their germs around, have less asthma and fewer allergies.
Are we too clean?
The reason I ask you this, and I'd like you to look at this article yourself, the evidence seems to indicate we are.
But I ask you for a very important reason.
We have been getting out the bleach spray for the last two and a half years now and spraying down every single surface someone goes near because we're afraid of getting coronavirus from fomites, which has turned out to be a discredited conspiracy theory.
You think we're going to have a severe outburst in the next coming decade of asthma and other things because of us cleaning and sanitizing every single thing human beings touch?
I don't know.
I guess we'll find out the hard way, won't we?
But let me tell you something.
As someone who grew up with allergies, it's pretty awful.
You ever feel like you have a cold?
You want to feel like that every single day throughout pollen season?
That's what growing up with asthma and allergies feels like.
I had it.
Horrible.
All right.
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