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SOCIALIST ZOMBIES Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep 20
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How socialism and government control turns people into zombies.
Plus, Marjorie Taylor Greene has the last laugh.
And John Kerry thinks he's really special.
He's not. This is the Dinesh D'Souza Podcast.
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We need a brave voice of reason, understanding and truth.
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Socialism and government control have a very strange effect on people.
My wife Debbie was in the supermarket the other day and she said that for the first time she stepped back for a little bit and was just watching the people in the supermarket and they appeared to be kind of in a daze.
They appeared to be sort of walking almost aimlessly around.
There was no interaction among anyone.
People were sort of avoiding contact or even eye contact.
And people just seemed defeated, depressed, beaten down, zombified.
In other words, Debbie noticed that the people around her were sort of acting like zombies.
And then she said that kind of to her horror, she realized that she was one of them.
She was acting like a zombie.
And she began to comment about how all these controls, these coronavirus controls over the past year, have sort of changed the way that we operate and act in public space.
We are not ourselves.
And it flashed my mind back a couple of years ago when our little film team was in Prague shooting the film Death of a Nation.
And I noticed that the people in Prague are like that.
And I commented at the time that this was the after effect of communism, of 40 years of communist dictatorial control.
It had sort of beaten the life out of the people there.
Now, remember, we were in Prague long after communism collapsed.
The Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
Prague was free by the early 90s, as was most of Eastern Europe.
So this was 20 years later, and yet the after effect was clearly there.
A friend of mine who does business in China says the Chinese people, who are of course part of the greatest totalitarianism in the world, a system stretching over one billion people, the Chinese people act zombified.
My friend recounts a scene where he was driving to the airport in China and you see all these Chinese people and it's raining and the water is pouring down and they're standing there on the street with rice bowls and they're all eating rice with chopsticks and the rain is dripping down their face and going into their food and yet they sort of monotonously keep eating.
It's almost a horrifying sight.
It shows really what people can be reduced to.
But this is not just a problem of coronavirus or something happening in some distant land.
There's a very interesting book about American Indian reservations.
It's by David Truer, a member of the Ojibwe tribe, and it's called Res Life.
And he's talking about life on the American Indian...
The Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota.
And he talks about the fact that because of this government control, the American Indians are almost a captive population of the U.S. government.
Nothing operates What signs do exist?
A small hand painted on plywood, often propped up against a tree.
And he goes, all of this, this nothing, on a reservation the same size as Rhode Island.
So this is ultimately the enervating, deflating, dehumanizing effect of socialism.
There's even a very interesting scene toward the end of Orwell's 1984 where the life is beaten out of Winston at the end.
And he meets up with the girl and the two of them had been rebels.
They had sort of conspired together to fight against this evil regime symbolized by what Orwell calls Big Brother, the socialist state.
And as they meet at the end, you can almost see that their relationship has been destroyed.
She says to him, I betrayed you to the government.
He says, I betrayed you.
And then a little bit later, she says, all you care about is yourself.
And he replies, all you care about is yourself.
And then at the end, he says, we must meet again.
And she replies, yes, we must meet again.
And of course they both know they never will.
But the point is here, they are reduced to this robotic, monotonous, almost bisyllabic way of talking.
They have been zombified.
And so as we try to pull our way out of coronavirus, and we're not gonna pull out our way out of democratic leftist control right away, but we could do that in a couple of years, let's remember that we're not zombies.
We're human beings with dignity and energy and creativity and innovation and enterprise and ambition.
So recognizing that we're not zombies, let's stop acting like them.
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So Marjorie Taylor Greene beat them, after all.
And she knows it.
She tweeted out this morning that she literally woke up laughing.
And I kind of smiled when I saw that because she's right.
She won. Now, on the first glance, you might say, wait a minute, Dinesh, what do you mean she won?
The Democrats voted, and here was the vote, 230 to 199, to kick her off her two committees.
But as Marjorie Greene herself pointed out, when you're in the minority, being on a committee doesn't count for much.
The Democrats, the majority party in the House, really controls the agenda of those committees.
So this was a kind of symbolic gesture.
Now, here's the key point.
How many Republicans voted to boot Marjorie Taylor Greene?
This was really the key issue from the beginning.
Would the Republican Party sell her out?
And the answer is, no, it didn't.
Ten Republicans, no, eleven Republicans, voted against her.
And here they are.
This is the kind of dishonorable role.
Carlos Jimenez, Marc Jacobs, John Katko, Young Kim, disappointing there, Adam Kinzinger, predictable, Nicole Malliotakis, Maria Elvarez-Alazar, Mario Diaz-Balart, both from Florida, Chris Smith of New Jersey, Fred Upton and Brian Fitzpatrick.
Now, this is pretty much the same crew that voted against Trump, so it doesn't come as a surprise.
But by and large, think of it, there are some 220 or so Republicans in the House and the vast, vast majority of them hung together.
And the leadership didn't sell her out.
Now... We need to back up here because when I started talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene and brought her on this podcast, it was reported that Kevin McCarthy, the GOP leader in the House, was negotiating with the Democrats to kick her off one committee if they would agree not to bring it before the House floor.
So he was essentially arranging, according to reports, a kind of partial sellout.
And this is the Republican default position.
They always go to this...
How can we control the damage and beat up on our own side, but not too much?
And it's the accomplishment of the Democrats.
It's one thing for them to cancel us, but to get us to cancel ourselves is real triumph.
And they're really good at this, and we are really bad at it.
But I think that our podcast right here, and you, had an impact.
Why? Because at the end of the podcast, I called upon you to call Kevin McCarthy's office and tell him, don't sell this woman out.
Why? Because the fact of the matter is, and you can see it for yourself, she's not a kook.
It may be that in the past she entertained opinions.
You know, there were all kinds of speculation, for example, after the Las Vegas shooting.
How come we've heard nothing about it?
And it is strange.
This was a horrendous shooting.
We've heard nothing about it.
It's almost like the event never happened.
And so, yeah, all kinds of weird speculations began.
And maybe she traded in them and shared them.
So what?
So what? The principle at stake is really clear.
Are we, the Republicans, going to allow the other side...
To choose who sits on Republican slots on congressional committees?
This is outrageous. Reminds me of a scene in the movie Beckett.
Where Beckett is confronted by a bishop who says, you better stand up for the church.
And a priest has been accused of being a kind of malefactor.
And Beckett goes, well, is he guilty?
Is he guilty? And the bishop tells him, it doesn't matter if he's guilty.
The real issue is, shouldn't he be tried in the ecclesiastical courts?
That's the issue, preserving the right of the clergy to try their own.
If Marjorie Taylor Greene has committed some horrendous offense, Republicans can figure that out.
They can deal with her. But this idea of letting Democrats have a say-so on who serves on Republican seats on committees, absolutely horrific.
And so the argument I made was, listen, they have the power to do it to us.
But we might soon have the power to do it to them.
The midterm elections are coming up.
Let's start throwing some Democrats off their committees if we take the House.
So we're going to teach them a bitter lesson, kind of the way we've done with the Supreme Court, with the filibuster.
We've learned that when we are treated badly, we should not hesitate to treat them badly in return.
Now, coming back to my point.
About Marjorie Taylor Greene and how she came out ahead.
She held her own party.
Her own party didn't sell her out.
Number two, she's raised a whole bunch of money on this.
And I think rightly so. People have rallied to her support.
They've realized that her real crime is being an ordinary woman and a Trumpster and a patriot and being outspoken and unafraid.
And she's a fighter. That's what scares the left.
Same thing that scares them about Trump.
But finally, Marjorie Taylor Greene has emerged from this as being an extremely well-known person.
She's become a national figure.
Now, think of how hard that is to do when you're a freshman congresswoman.
By and large, most people serve 10 terms in Congress and no one knows who they are.
It reminds me kind of of that scene in Evita where Perón is talking about his generals and Evita goes, most of your generals wouldn't be recognized by their own grandmothers.
And this is true of most people in Congress.
Can you name ten members of Congress?
I can't. Can you name your own congressmen?
I can, but most of us can't.
We don't know who these people are.
But we do know who Marjorie Taylor Greene is.
And so suddenly, in a weird way, this Democratic...
Blitzkrieg, this assault against her has enlarged her reputation, has made her profile.
It allows her now, and she's liberated.
She doesn't owe anything to anybody.
She can become a powerful fighter and a powerful spokeswoman on behalf of her principles.
So congratulations, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
You beat them at their own game.
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Reflecting on everything going around us from the Marjorie Taylor Greene business to AOC's extravagant thespianism to the upcoming Senate impeachment trial, I want to reflect on the opposite tactics that are used by our side, the right, and their side, the left.
To sum up where I'm going with this, it seems clear that the left overreacts dramatically when they are on offense.
They press their advantage.
And then they underreact when they're on defense, pretending like it's no big deal.
We, the conservatives, the Republicans, do the opposite.
We underreact on offense.
In fact, sometimes we don't react at all.
We have no offense. We're the dog that didn't bark.
And we overreact on defense, as if we have something to prove.
We're always sort of up against the wall, explaining ourselves.
Now let's illustrate these two points by starting with the other side.
Here's a glimpse of AOC in full AOC mode, talking about what was essentially a non-insurrection, a non-terrorist event, in which no one on the other side was actually killed.
If people died, it's now emerged very clearly that even the police officer, the one guy who was supposed to have been killed by, oh, he was hit by a fire extinguisher.
No, evidence has shown he wasn't.
That's not how he died.
So the truth of it is, the only person who was subjected to lethal force in this entire insurrection was one of the protesters.
There were no casualties on the other side, and AOC's rhetoric, I'm now quoting her, it's not an exaggeration to say that many, many members of Congress were nearly assassinated.
Talk about overreaction.
Here's AOC. I did not go to the secure location because I feared other members of Congress that You know, that would have allowed harm to me.
It would be one thing if it was just her.
She is known to look at her life as if she's on a movie set.
Seems like she lives for social media.
You know, I was hiding.
Ted Cruz was on the other side of the door waiting to assassinate me.
I mean, this is AOC's, you know, mental turmoil, if you want to call it that.
And now, of course, she's reduced to things like, well, it may not have happened, but that's how I felt.
Don't devalue my feelings!
Now, but it's not just her, because the whole Democratic Party is on board.
Look at the rhetoric in the House manager's brief to the Senate on impeachment.
They keep talking about acting as if this was some kind of invasion of the White House by an alien force, like the British attacking the White House in the early 19th century.
Even historian Michael Beschloss, who should know better, listen to this guy.
On both September 11, 2001 and January 6, 2021, terrorist haters of democracy tried to attack our Capitol and Congress.
And then he goes on to say that January 6th was worse.
But on January 6th, they actually managed to invade the building and put our leaders and our democracy in danger.
We had a close call and must never...
Forget. Leave aside the fact that there was no real danger.
The truth of the matter is this is the kind of exaggeration, overreaction that the left specializes in.
By contrast, when they do really bad stuff and they should be on the defensive, they act as if it's no big deal.
They underreact. They massively pretend like, what, what, what?
What's nothing going on? Even if something is going on right behind them, they look at you with a straight face and go, there's nothing to see here, folks.
Remember the riots, the murders, the arson unleashed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter?
Here is a leftist journalist basically giving you the no big deal.
I want to be clear in how I characterize this.
This is mostly a protest.
It is not, generally speaking, unruly.
So that is the left.
It's very crafty.
In fact, it's essentially just denial, flat-out denial.
Nothing's happening here, folks.
Now, let's turn to the right, because what happens with the right is there are a lot of issues where the right should be on full offense.
Look at the stuff with Ilhan Omar marrying a brother.
Is that true? Where's the investigation that was demanded by the Republicans to find out if it's true?
Because if it's true, you've got a sitting congressman who evaded the immigration laws.
And let's leave aside the incestuous aspect of the whole thing.
And then there's one scandal on top of the other, and essentially the Republicans do nothing.
They underreact on the offense.
Meanwhile, they overreact on the defense, and the classic example is Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I'm looking at a thread that was really put out by a Republican congressman from Florida talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene, and this is basically what he says.
Marjorie Taylor Greene's remarks are unacceptable.
This is, by the way, Mario Diaz-Balart.
I've previously stated MTG's comments are unacceptable and today I voted to remove her from her committee assignments.
So he feels like he has to take action.
Then he has a long thread and he goes, but what about Ilhan Omar and her scandals?
And why was it excusable for Rep.
Maxine Waters to falsely accuse the U.S. government of deliberately trying to poison inner cities?
We can't forget Congressman Cynthia McKinney who engaged in Holocaust denial and blah, blah, blah.
So let's think about it.
You have a Republican who is essentially saying, I'm going to take action to land a blow on someone on my own side.
While in a futile way appealing to the Democrats to take similar action to chastise their extremists, even though if Mario Diaz-Ballard had half a brain, he would know the Democrats have no intention of doing so.
His appeal to higher principle is nothing more than a worthless Twitter thread.
Essentially what he's done is he's allowed himself to become an instrument of the other side.
They're making him hammer his own side and feel good about it while he calls upon them to do something that he knows they're not going to do.
So if you wonder why Republicans lose battles, battles that they can win and should win, it's because when it comes to the art of warfare, the other side presses its advantage, defends relentlessly against attack, Our side doesn't mount similar attacks, and when attacked, essentially begins to run helplessly and pathetically for cover.
Let's toughen up, GOP. We can win.
Let's even learn from some of the tactics on the other side.
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John Kerry is one of those pillars of the democratic establishment, and he's a wonderful example of the Peter Principle, which basically says that people rise to their true level of incompetence.
You can get a window into how bankrupt this liberal establishment is by looking at Kerry.
The good thing about Kerry is that it's not just that he's wrong on some things.
He's basically wrong on everything.
He has a record of wrongness, of calling it wrong, you might say, that is almost unmatched.
And for a recent example of that you can see Kerry pontificating about the Palestinians.
Listen. There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world.
I want to make that very clear to all of you.
I've heard several prominent politicians in Israel sometimes saying, well, the Arab world's in a different place now.
We just have to reach out to them, and we can work some things with the Arab world, and we'll deal with the Palestinians.
No, no, no, and no.
You know, if you're watching, if you're listening on audio, I have to describe the scene here because you've got Kerry, he's got his glasses sort of slid down his nose, he's reclined in a kind of avuncular stance, and he has this know-it-all look on his face like, you know, that he's been there, he's going to tell you the way it really is, except he's completely wrong.
Strolling into government with literally no foreign policy experience, whatever, negotiates a whole bunch of deals and treaties and pacts between Israel and Muslim states, Gulf states, and refutes Kerry almost backhandedly, almost like, hey, gee, there you go.
You're wrong. Wrong again.
Wrong again. Wrong again.
Now, Kerry is Biden's climate man.
And it's recently come to light that Kerry went to Iceland in 2019.
And while telling all of us that the Earth is in an existential crisis, humanity hangs in the balance, we've just got a few more years to get this right, otherwise we're going to be beyond repair, Kerry flies to Iceland in a private jet.
Now, what's really amusing is what Kerry says when he's called on this.
And some Republican senators have actually called him on it.
Bill Cassidy, for example, noting Kerry's hypocrisy.
Senator Tom Cotton basically pointing out, Gee, Kerry, while costing jobs and telling Americans to go find jobs elsewhere in solar industries and so on, here you are flying in a private jet.
Here's Kerry's response.
It's the only choice for somebody like me, that's the key word, somebody like me, who is traveling the world to win this battle.
So in other words, he's basically giving two reasons.
He's a superior person.
He's not like everybody else.
For someone like him, there's only one choice.
And second, he's allowed to make this choice because he's fighting the battle.
He's on the right side. It's almost like being on the right side gives you immunity to the rules.
I make the rules.
I'm worried about coronavirus, so I don't have to wear a mask.
I want to take down the wall around the United States, but I can have one around my own house.
Because, after all, somebody like me needs special treatment.
And then Kerry says this.
And I believe the time it takes me to get somewhere, I can't sail across the ocean.
I have to fly to meet with people and get things done.
Wait. Nobody told him to go to Iceland in a sailboat.
The real issue is why doesn't he fly commercial like everybody else?
Why doesn't he put a bunch of people on the same plane instead of Kerry taking his own plane and adding all...
Now, here's the point.
It's not just that Kerry is a hypocrite.
It really shows that deep down he knows there is no existential crisis.
Why? Because anybody who thought that there was an existential crisis wouldn't act like this.
Think about it this way. Let's say that you have a ranch and somebody tells you that there are outlaws surrounding your ranch and they've sounded the alarm and it's a real panic and they want to burn your ranch and take all your stuff and kill you and your family and you tell your wife, you know what, I think I'll go out and take a walk.
And your wife goes, wait a minute, what about the outlaws?
And you go, well, you know, I really need the exercise.
People would say, you don't believe that there are outlaws out there with knives and guns waiting to kill you.
Because if you did, you wouldn't go out and take a leisurely walk, knowing the danger that you yourself have been warning about.
So the bottom line of it is, Carey's own actions give the lie to the idea that there is an existential crisis.
For the simple reason that if someone genuinely believed it, genuinely believed that the earth is hanging by a thread, Would take actions commensurate with that.
But the fact that here's Kerry and he's got a huge home and he's using all this fuel.
And by the way, this is not just Kerry.
It's true of Al Gore. It's true of all these guys.
Obama buys oceanfront properties while warning against swelling oceans and flooded coastlines.
He doesn't believe that's going to happen to his coastline.
Same with Kerry. He's very comfortable taking a private jet.
What he really means to say is he wants us to go into existential crisis mode and alter our behavior.
While he does nothing to alter his.
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I thought to myself, why did he do that?
And I think the answer is obvious.
He was worried about being banned himself on social media.
And right here, you see the courage of Mike Lindell.
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And truth be told, I'm actually more angry about the fact that we can't talk about voter fraud than even about the fraud itself.
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Here's a remarkable article in the New York Times on how the Biden administration can help solve our reality crisis.
Now, you have to think for a moment to realize how Orwellian this is.
Evidently, we are in a reality crisis, a crisis of being able to determine what is reality.
And the New York Times, an independent newspaper, is calling on the government to solve this problem by adjudicating reality.
There are several proposals in this article, but one is for Biden to create a kind of cross-governmental network headed by a reality czar, I kid you not, To essentially proclaim this is reality.
That's not reality.
Those people who say that, they're not living in reality.
Now, It seems that Orwell's 1984, far from being a dystopian warning, has become almost, you may say, a democratic handbook.
It's almost like we're living in some crazy surreal future where a group of vicious loons have taken over the country and they've stumbled upon Orwell's book and they go, oh man, this guy really had it going on.
This is awesome. Let's do this.
This is really what we want.
For those of us who are at the receiving end of all this restriction and censorship, it's terrifying.
But of course, for the people who are on the side of the censors, they go, whoa, what censorship?
No one's censoring us!
Yeah, no one's censoring you, but censorship ultimately is about shutting people down who are critical of the government and critical of the powers that be.
Now, I said a moment ago that I was more outraged by the fact that we can't talk about voter fraud than about voter fraud itself.
The voter fraud can be disputed.
There was voter fraud, of course.
How much of it there was has never been fully established.
Was it enough to overturn the election?
That can all be debated, but that's the point.
Why isn't it being debated?
What's going on when there is a private-public alliance that recruits all these digital companies on its behalf to shut down people for stating misinformation?
But what they claim is misinformation is not established as misinformation.
Where is the proof that there was no election fraud?
That's never been proven. In a free society, you're able to debate issues.
You're even able to hold outlandish views.
You're even allowed to have misinformation and spread it.
Imagine if someone were to say 30 years ago, I think FDR knew that the Japanese were about to bomb Pearl Harbor.
They may be right, they may be wrong.
Why can't they say it? Or let's say someone says, I believe LBJ was involved in the plot to kill JFK. They might be right.
They might be wrong. I think they're wrong.
But let's say that's their view.
Why can't they say it? No one stopped them from saying it.
Or just a few years ago, people said Obama was born in Kenya.
Now, I didn't say that.
In fact, I said the opposite. I said Obama was born in Hawaii.
I went to Hawaii. I went to the Kapiolani Medical Center where Obama was born.
I said that Obama's ideas come from his father.
So in that sense, his ideas have a foreign root, but not Obama himself.
But, there was no question that the people who said that had a free speech right to say it, the idea that they should be silenced or shut up or banned or thrown off or deprived of technology to communicate with each other.
Just a few years ago, we knew that this was nuts.
This was nuts. Now, it's one thing for these platforms to say, well, this is our platform, Twitter, Facebook.
We don't want you saying things we don't like.
Not misinformation, just we don't like it, and it's our platform, so you're playing in our sandbox, and we own the sandbox.
I get that. That is an argument not based upon free speech or even justice.
It's an argument based on power.
And then they say to you, go start your own platform.
Go where you can talk.
Make your own sandbox.
But then, when we do, Parler, an alternative to Twitter, the technology moguls mobilize to shut that down.
Now, we must make...
This project of shutdown fail.
We must make sure that alternative platforms do develop where we can speak.
But right now, we are silenced, and that's a fact.
We are silenced in the sense that there's a sword of Damocles over our heads, and if they have the power to cancel us, in effect, we're not free.
We are at their mercy.
We are at their behest.
And then while they silence us, they attack us at the same time.
It's not like they silence us and move on.
No. They want to silence us.
And while we are quiet, they demonize us.
They present us as if we are some sort of Al-Qaeda type insurgents who want to overthrow the government.
We're anti-democratic.
We're enemies of freedom.
We should be treated as domestic terrorists and domestic enemies.
So all this incendiary rhetoric is directed at us Those of us who didn't even go to Washington, D.C., were not near the Capitol, certainly didn't storm the Capitol, And our crime is not going along with what the digital moguls believe and what the left believes.
They're trying to enforce a countrywide regime of a, not just a one-party state, but a one-party set of views.
What the Nazis called Gleichschaltung, coordinating the whole society to march in lockstep with the National Socialist Regime.
So this is our chilling situation.
I've never seen anything like it in my adult lifetime here in America.
It shows that this election did have consequences, consequences that go beyond the normal ambit of politics.
Essentially, the left is now demanding the right to set the parameters of discourse.
You're allowed to comment within these parameters, but outside these parameters, if you do, We will shut you down.
We will demonize you.
We will turn you into a public non-person.
And then we will set about, while you're defenseless, trying to destroy your life.
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We all know, everybody on our side knows the problems with big tech censorship, but what are we going to do about it?
What are our leaders doing about it?
For a long time, Republicans seemed to be doing precisely nothing.
When they had the chance to impose restrictions on the tech companies by taking away their Section 230 protections, they did not do it.
And then for a while, they simply would take to Twitter and say things like,''The tech companies must suspend censorship!'' Essentially worthless bloviating, calling upon the tech companies, almost pleading with them, don't censor us.
Now you're a senator, you're a congressman, have some dignity, use your power, do something about it.
Even pathetic Lindsey Graham recently, by the way, right after the Republicans lose the Senate, I'm going to get really serious now about tech censorship.
I mean, this is not only disappointing, it's offensive.
But there is one guy, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, who is finally doing something.
And here's what he's doing.
He has a bill that is going to the House.
And the good news is we're talking about a Republican House and a Republican Senate in Florida and a popular governor proposing these measures.
And it's basically a series of one, two, three, four, five, six punches against big tech.
If you try to do censorship, here's what we are going to do to you.
A right of action by private Florida citizens against tech companies that violate The conditions of free speech.
Fines of $100,000 a day levied on any tech company that suspends a candidate for elected office in Florida for any reason.
Daily fines for tech companies that use algorithms that try to rig which political party gets greater exposure.
Greater transparency requirements, disclosure requirements.
The Florida Attorney General has the power to bring cases against the tech companies under the Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act.
So the key thing here is to make this law.
Why? It then provides a kind of model for all the other Republican states to do the same.
And finally, we're beginning to see someone step forward and take legislative action against these digital thugs.
They need to be brought to heel.
But listen, it's not going to happen under the Biden administration.
They're doing the bidding of the Biden administration.
Elizabeth Warren, about a year or so ago, wrote an op-ed in which she said, and I'm quoting her now, that she vowed to make, quote, big structural changes to the tech sector to promote more competition, including breaking up Amazon, Facebook, and Google. But since then, once Biden is elected, she's gone dead silent on this.
No proposals to this effect.
And in fact, when there was a coordinated attack on Parler, That was led by Google, and then by Amazon, and then by Apple, all working together, almost a kind of coordinated effort to take down an alternative platform.
Dead silence from Warren.
So suddenly these champions of individual freedom can't be relied upon.
Why? Because their side is using these companies for political advantage.
I want to commend Governor DeSantis for going out front on this.
I think it shows true leadership, the willingness not just to sort of pontificate, bloviate, but rather to do something that's going to make a real difference.
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HomeTitleLock.com The Department of Justice has sent a bizarre and troubling letter to Elon Musk accusing him of preferring to hire American citizens over non-citizens for his SpaceX program.
Now, according to the DOJ, In March of 2020, a non-U.S. citizen who had asked about being hired in the Technology Strategy Division of SpaceX was asked, what's your citizenship status?
And DOJ attorney Lisa Sandoval says that SpaceX, quote, ultimately failed to hire him for the position because he is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.
The DOJ has filed a request with a judge to order SpaceX to comply with an administrative subpoena for documents related to how the company hires.
And apparently what the DOJ, the Justice Department, is trying to find out is if SpaceX engages in, quote, any pattern or practice of discrimination, end quote.
So it's evidently discriminatory.
to prefer US citizens for SpaceX over non-citizens.
And I want to ask, who would be so demented as to make this kind of a demand of Elon Musk or any American company?
Is it the case that American companies shouldn't give any preference, whatever, to hiring Americans?
And why is giving those preferences wrong?
The left has been developing a theory.
They do these things by and large in academia initially, and they migrate into the media, and they're picked up more generally in the culture.
Several years ago, the political philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote an important essay.
This was published in Boston Review.
It was called Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism.
And essentially, Martha Nussbaum argues, and I'm quoting her now, this emphasis on patriotic pride is morally dangerous.
Morally dangerous.
Why? Because she says it can lead to ethnocentrism, chauvinism, hatred of others.
And she says that we need to have a higher ideal.
What's this ideal? I'm quoting her now.
An ideal that is in any case more adequate to our situation in the contemporary world, namely the ideal of the cosmopolitan, the person whose primary allegiance is to the community of human beings in the entire world.
So, in other words...
Our main allegiance should be to humanity, not to Americans.
Let's start by thinking about this for a moment because it's appealing on the surface.
Obviously, think about the Declaration of Independence.
All men are created equal.
Interestingly, it doesn't say all Americans are created equal.
All men, all persons, all human beings are created equal.
And the implication is by their creator, so in God's eyes.
We're not going to dissent from that.
We agree. So what then is the argument for nationalism or patriotism in a world that does contain these equal human beings who do have these equal and natural rights?
I think it was the philosopher Edmund Burke, the author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, who said, and I'm now quoting him, to be attached to the subdivision, to love The little platoon we belong to in society is the first principle of public affections.
And here's what Burke is getting at.
Even though we are all human and we are part of a big world, it's very difficult to attach our natural affection to everybody in the world.
The philosopher, well actually the economist Adam Smith, a long time ago, talked about the natural reaction anywhere in the world when a catastrophe occurs far away.
He's talking about a group of people in any country.
It could be India. And something happens, let's say, in Nigeria.
10,000 people are killed in an earthquake.
What's the reaction? According to Adam Smith, the Indians go, Oh, did you read about that?
Hey, Sanjeev, did you hear about those 10,000 people?
Terrible, terrible, terrible!
And then the Indians go right back to eating their chicken tikka masala as if nothing had happened.
It's almost as if an itch in their little toe would give them more trouble than 10,000 people being swallowed up by an earthquake.
Now, what this is saying is that Not that we deny that we're part of a global community.
Not at all. But rather, we have a sort of primary attachment to our own family.
And then we have an attachment that grows in concentric circles.
We are attached to our local community.
For many years, Americans thought that they had a primary attachment to their state.
And then to the country.
And then to humanity.
So it widens and grows bigger, but it starts small.
It starts with life as you can experience it directly.
And this is the point.
That loving your country is not ultimately an assertion that your country is necessarily the best place in the world.
It might be in this case, but it may not be for others.
But the truth of it is, it is our country.
And we have a certain type of, just as we have a duty to provide for our family, and a duty to provide for our team, to fight on our side.
Similarly, we have an allegiance to our country.
Now, in a very interesting book called Imagine Communities, The author Benedict Anderson talks about how a country is an imagined community.
It's kind of strange because it's a community.
We haven't met everybody.
We're attached to these other 300 million Americans and most of them we know about, but we don't know them.
But still, there is a kind of fierce attachment.
Think of it. People would not become soldiers and jeopardize their lives.
They wouldn't become first responders.
And put their lives at risk to save who?
People who would seem to be strangers.
But no, they're not total strangers.
They're fellow Americans.
And all of this means that there is a lot of truth in the Trumpian assertion that even though we are members of the human community, that in some things, and I think SpaceX is definitely one such thing, it is quite right to put America first.
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So I'm back with my other half, Debbie.
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How's it going? Hi, Chico.
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Well, you also have the big body pillow.
Yeah, well, that's the body pillow so that that way I can just kind of wrap my legs around it and I sleep so soundly.
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Love it. I gotta get your reaction to something in the news.
Age-related cognitive decline reversed in mice.
Can we extend the result to humans?
So let me tell you a little bit about this.
Apparently, as we get older...
Human beings and other creatures have a certain type of brain inflammation.
It has to do with the microglia, a type of white blood cell.
So scientists have figured out a way to reduce this inflammation and reverse cognitive decline in mice.
And my question is, does this provide some hope for that rat, Biden?
What do you think? Oh, boy.
I mean, this could be...
Do you think this might rescue him from his incoherence and mumbling and bumbling?
No, no, no. I don't think that the Democrats are going to want him to know about this.
Why? Because I don't think they want him in there, really.
You think there's a plot to take him off the stage very gracefully?
I think so. I do.
Maybe... I don't know when, but...
You know, I think that that's probably in the works.
Maybe what they could do once they move him out is put him in an asylum.
Hire actors who essentially pretend like he's still the president.
He has a desk. They bring him in executive orders.
He signs them. Of course, nothing happens.
But he continues to live in a dream world in which he's still president, but actually it's President Harris.
Is that where you think the Democrats won?
I think so, yeah. Wow.
We'll see. I wanted you to come on today because this is our kind of last mailbox section.
And we have a question, but it pertains to you.
In fact, we have, I wouldn't call him a skeptic, but somebody who asks a question about your singing.
So we're gonna listen and then I'm gonna let you respond.
Danish, my question is, can Debbie really sing?
I know you're from India and in Bollywood.
All they do is lip sync in all those movies.
And I was just wondering, can she sing on your podcast just to prove that she can really sing?
Okay, so I think he's issued the challenge.
He sounds like, I don't know if he's from India or Bangladesh, but he sounds like a foreign guy who is not going to take it for granted.
He knows that they have all kinds of stunts in Bollywood and stuff.
So I think, I don't know if you're ready for this, but you need to do a little bit of proof.
That you can actually sing. Do it right here.
I know there's no background.
I know. Do you mind if I drink some of your water?
Go for it. Because I have to lubricate before I sing.
This is our parlor cup, by the way.
There you go. Okay. I know I'm a germaphobe, but, you know, okay.
Exactly. All right. All right.
You just need to belt out a few bars to convince the Bangladeshi skeptic that you've been singing.
Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain.
I think you proved your point.
Well, you know, I think he needs to know that, you know, as a singer, I prepare I lubricate.
I drink my water.
I do vocal rest, which I did none of those things for now.
So, you know, that was kind of my voice with no training, no planning, no nothing.
Now, in the movie, Death of a Nation, you did sing and you sang on stage.
Yes. And I think it would be kind of cool.
Maybe we'll close out the podcast by letting people see you.
Now, you're not singing... I'm singing Oh, America.
Which was the Celtic Woman song.
Yes. And I think, well, you did such a great job that there were people who thought that it was Celtic Woman.
But it was no.
It was Debbie D'Souza singing Oh, America to close out the movie Death of a Nation.
Oh, America, you're calling me I can hear you calling me.
You are calling me to be true to thee, true to thee.
I will be.
Oh, America, you're weeping.
Let me heal your wounded heart.
I will keep you my keeping till they'll be a new star.
And I will answer you And I will take your hand And lead you to the sun And I will stand by you Do all that I can do And weep And oh America you're calling I can hear you calling me You are calling me to be true to Thee.
True to Thee, I will be.
Oh, America, you're called.
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