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Coming up, we have, well, one more day to destroy democracy, and we're going to do it tomorrow.
I'll review how things are looking for the midterms.
Redistricting might be backfiring on the Democrats.
I'll tell you how.
Courts, well, better late than never, are cleaning up election rules.
That's a good thing.
And more good news, a lot of firings at both Twitter and Facebook, and I'll tell you why those are cause for celebration.
This is the Dinesh D'Souza Show.
The times are crazy and a time of confusion, division and lies.
We need a brave voice of reason, understanding and truth.
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It's the day before the midterm election.
And...
We're expecting big things tomorrow.
Of course, these big things are dependent upon you exercising your right to vote.
Do not put that off.
Don't avoid it.
It's by showing our strength now on Election Day that we bring about real change over the next two years and further.
It should be a very good day.
The House is almost certain to fall into Republican hands and there's a very good chance we'll take the Senate.
The question appears to be, by what margin?
It looks like the people that know what they're talking about are predicting 52, maybe 53, maybe 54 seats for the Republicans.
Those would be good numbers.
And by the way, they set the GOP up to come close to a 60-seat Senate in 2024.
number of seats opening up, more Democratic vulnerability in 2024, assuming that we set things up well and run a good campaign. The media is doing its best to protect the Democrats.
And look, I mean, the media is the real vermin in this country. They are the people.
If you didn't have a media, or put it differently, if you had a balanced media, a truthful media, Republicans would have a dominating advantage, in fact, would win pretty much every election.
It is the media fortified by academia, fortified by Hollywood.
This is a kind of massive lobbying effort for the Democrats.
Now, these horrible media bloodsuckers and vermin are not on the ballot, but you should think that they are.
In other words, these are the compliant liars and censorship lobbyists for the Democrats, so part of your rage and disgust against the media should be taken out on the Democratic Party.
Now, what I find encouraging is that the Democrats are being forced to defend even in blue states and blue districts.
Kathy Hochul appears to be running even.
Lee Zeldin may even be a little bit ahead.
Think about that. A Republican governor of New York would be amazing.
Similarly, in Oregon, there's a very close race between Between the Democrat and the Republican, the incumbent governor is a complete dud.
And as crime has been soaring, and so as a result, there is an upsurge for the Republicans.
We're talking here about Christine Drazen being neck and neck with Democrat Tina Kotek.
And they're running against, the Republican is Governor Kate Brown's horrible record.
So Carolyn Leavitt, 25-year-old Republican running, MAGA Republican, running in New Hampshire against Ike Pappas.
And she has a good chance to take that seat against an incumbent.
So this gives you an idea of the opportunities that have opened up.
And so we just want to now, you know, sort of, you may say convert and do it well.
I had a good chuckle when I saw that Malik Obama, Barack Obama's half-brother, has not only come out generically saying MAGA, which he's been doing for a little while, but he's apparently diving into particular races. So he goes, vote Tudor Dixon! He has a picture of Tudor Dixon in And then he goes, vote Herschel Walker for Senate in Georgia.
So this guy's weighing in on individual racism.
So I tweeted out saying, basically, this is Barack Obama's brother.
He was always known as the smarter member of the Obama family.
Election time is a time when we don't forget.
We've heard some talk recently about a COVID amnesty.
No, let's remember what the left did to us under COVID. The kind of control, the kind of tyranny, the kind of mercilessness, the glee with which they forced us to do things, the indifference with which they responded when tons of people lost their jobs and livelihoods.
So this is what we have to remember because we're a forgetful country.
It's easy to sort of lose sight of what's happened.
Think of the Afghanistan humiliation.
Think about the disaster at the border.
It's like an open sore with people just pouring in every single day.
And again, this is by design.
This is because the Biden administration has, in a sense, politically speaking, invited them to come.
Think about all the burning of our We're good to go.
Meanwhile, the real thugs and vandals and burglars and murderers are essentially allowed to go free.
I think people are waking up.
There's an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal where they say that the GOP, even after 2020, has continued to gain support both among Hispanics and among blacks, specifically among black men.
And here's Tony Fabrizio, who conducted this Wall Street Journal survey.
I think this could be a paradigm shift election where Republicans are not only making inroads with the Latino vote, But they're making inroads with the African-American vote.
Let's hope all of this comes to fruition tomorrow and it becomes a day of celebration.
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I'm continuing my discussion of the midterms tomorrow.
Now, there was a slight kind of detour or deflection from all this in an apparent mini skirmish between Trump and DeSantis, where Trump referred in Pennsylvania at the rally in Pennsylvania to DeSantis as DeSanctimonious.
And there was a lot of scowling about that from DeSantis supporters on social media, but apparently also some unnamed kind of insiders with DeSantis.
And...
First of all, we don't need any of this during the midterms.
Of course, the left tried to amplify all this.
Well, this is showing that, you know, bad blood is breaking out.
There's probably a little bit of rivalry between those two men.
My own view is that they are better and stronger together than they are running against each other.
Why? Because really, they're from different generations.
And DeSantis' time...
Is coming. And in a way, I think he would be wiser and his chances would be better to run sort of with Trump in 2024 and then on his own beyond that.
But of course, this is a calculation that he will have to make and we'll see how all that plays out.
Biden, for his part, doubles down on the democracy issue.
Democracy is on the ballot.
I'm like, if democracy is on the ballot, you know what?
Let's get rid of democracy.
And what I mean by that is, let's get rid of democracy in the sense that the left means.
Their definition of democracy is a one-party state.
In which one party crushes the other party, the other party is denied even legitimacy.
So that is a laughable and in fact a self-subverting definition of democracy.
In another post, Biden goes, I want to remind us how we felt, how we felt when Roe v.
Wade was overturned. Anger, worry, disbelief.
And I'm thinking back, you know what?
I think this is exactly the way the Democrats felt when slavery was ended.
Anger, worry, disbelief.
In other words, we're going to have to do our own work.
So what you have here is the ending of a great social evil.
In fact, I would argue that the Dobbs decision was as great a civil rights victory as the Brown v.
Board of Education decision, perhaps even bigger because it's not just protecting liberties, it's saving lives.
And yet, here is the party of slavery and segregation, in a certain predictable vein, bemoaning a decision that is going to allow people to actually have choices and live their lives.
Now... We're good to go.
Now, in a few cases, courts have intervened and they have sort of blocked or they have limited the redistricting, and that kind of cuts both ways.
The redistricting is something that parties are allowed to do, and yet courts exercise some oversight over that process.
But there's a very interesting report in Politico, of all places, noting that the Democrats might have redistricted in a way that hurts them.
And this is how that occurs.
By and large, what the Democrats try to do, of course, is spread out their voters in such a way that they have the best chance of getting the most districts.
And Now, there are kind of two ways to do that.
You can put all the Democrats or heavily concentrate the Democrats in certain districts, and those districts are completely safe.
But that, of course, means that there'll be more chances of Republicans to win the other districts.
And so what Democrats do is, to maximize the chances of winning the most districts, is they thin out Republicans.
The number of Democrats.
So they retain a majority of Democrats in a particular district, but not by all that much.
Why? Because this way they can put some more Democrats in the next district over and have a slight majority there in what otherwise might be a Republican district.
Let's just say a suburban district.
You push out some of your urban voters so that they are now in that suburban district and Democrats have a chance to...
To do better there. But by creating these districts that are kind of 55-45 or even 60-40 blue, there's a problem.
And the problem is that if you have a real red wave, a real red wave will run over Democrats, even in a 60-40 district.
So you might have 60-40, you think, that's a safe district.
We're definitely going to win that one.
know suddenly some of those districts in places all over the country are now competitive and are being rated as a toss-up.
And we know how the polls are.
By and large, if a district is a toss-up, there's a very good chance that district is going to fall into the Republican column.
And so while we might expect that the red wave tomorrow is coming in these kind of swing states and swing districts, which are some...
There aren't all that many of those.
What's actually happening is that the red wave could be hitting all over the place, so that yes, in swing areas, those pivot over to the Republicans, but you also have blue areas that the Democrats thought were previously safe.
That are no longer safe.
And the Democrats, in drawing their districts in this way, have in a way undercut themselves and will suffer heavier losses than they needed to in the midterm election in 2022.
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The Biden DHS, now the DHS is the Department of Homeland Security, continues to put out these warnings and bulletins, and I see them in the media to block what they claim are election threats.
Now, of course, in the past, they claimed that there was all kinds of foreign intervention in the election, and of course, primarily from Russia.
Now, quite frankly, I've never seen evidence of any foreign intervention to a degree that would seem to affect the election.
And we know, going back to 2016, that all the claims about Russian collusion with Trump, all nonsense.
When you look at the actual evidence, even in the news stories of even Russian intervention, not counting Trump, it would be like, well, the Russians have bought $35,000 worth of ads on Facebook.
And I'm thinking, really, was this even worth bringing up?
This is hardly likely to have any impact on anything.
But now the DHS claims that the threats to election security come domestically.
And they come from who?
Well, they come from us.
They come from what they call domestic extremists.
And while some of this is couched in the language of violence, A lot of it is not.
They're worried about election, quote, lies.
Well, who gets to decide if something is a lie?
I guess they do. Election misinformation.
Who gets to decide if something is misinformation?
I guess they do.
And voter intimidation.
Well, what do they mean exactly by intimidation?
You see all these news reports about, quote, increasing reports of armed men.
And I say to myself, where are these armed men?
Let's see them. I've seen a single image on social media of two guys, and I mentioned this before in the podcast, with a truck.
And these guys appear to be in fatigues, and supposedly they were armed.
Who they were, what they were doing there, how long they were there, unknown.
That is the only, the single solitary image that I've seen.
I think this particular image was supposedly from Arizona.
Where are these, quote, increasing reports?
What is the substantiation of those reports?
So what's happening here is we're getting claims of a national problem that does not seem to be a national problem.
Or to put it differently, there is not one iota of evidence that there is a national problem.
And this observation of ballot boxes business, while the Biden administration seems to take the view, you're not allowed to watch the boxes.
You're not allowed to record voters approaching the boxes.
A judge in Arizona has taken, I think, a very sensible position on this, and essentially what the judge said is, you are allowed to watch the drop boxes.
You are allowed to record what happens at the drop boxes.
It's just that, A, you've got to do it from a safe distance.
B, you should not interfere with voters in any way.
And I think this is completely reasonable.
We don't want to have any confrontations with voters.
If you see anything that seems inappropriate, untoward, shenanigans, mules, you know what?
Turn on your trusty iPhone, send in the information to the election authorities, and you know what?
Post it on social media.
Because again, these are public acts that are occurring in public space.
So there's no reasonable expectation of privacy.
By the way, look, we live in an age where there's surveillance on malls and parking lots.
So people cannot say, hey, I'm going out to vote at City Hall.
Hey, I'm going to vote at this dropbox that's sitting on public property.
And somehow I'm intimidated if someone is taking a picture or I'm intimidated if there's an installed electronic camera that's recording what I'm doing.
The purpose of the camera is to make sure you don't do anything that is illegal and that you exercise your vote in a lawful way.
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We are getting some progress in the courts on election integrity.
The progress is slow.
It's a little bit halting.
It's two steps forward and one step back.
There was an unfortunate ruling in Michigan a little while ago where the Secretary of State made some very arbitrary rules about poll objections, Republicans being able to bring in their cameras, bring in their phones, and raise objections.
And this went before the courts in Michigan and the courts basically go, no, the Secretary of State is right and They didn't really rule on the merits of what the Republicans were saying, but they said, in effect, that we can't change things right now.
It's kind of too late.
We're right at the edge of the election.
So that was a loss for the Republicans in Michigan.
However, in Wisconsin, a big win, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court basically saying no mail and drop boxes.
There's no provision for that in the Wisconsin Constitution.
There's no provision for that in the Wisconsin Constitution.
Statutes and laws.
This was done in 2020, but we're not doing it again.
Huge win. And now I see a more limited but important victory in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules undated mail-in ballots can't be counted.
Now that slightly understates what the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said, because really what we're dealing with here is An improperly filled out ballot.
Now, ballots can be improperly filled out in all kinds of ways.
You can wrongly date a ballot.
Let's just say you put the wrong month or the wrong year.
It's like, wait, when did you fill out this ballot?
Or you don't put a date at all.
There can be problems with the address, problems with the signature.
So ballots, the bigger question you're dealing with here is, what do you do with a sort of defective ballot?
A ballot that doesn't meet Think of it.
The ballots have very simple conditions that have to be met.
And the simple conditions all have an underlying rationale.
We're talking about a specific election, and so a date is really important.
The date is also important because there are certain dates in which you're allowed to cast your ballot.
And so you have to be within that legitimate time.
Number two... Identification.
You have to be you. So you have to provide a name, an address, sign the ballot.
And so when these things are not done, the question becomes, what happens to that ballot?
And so the Pennsylvania...
Well, the Republican National Committee intervening in Pennsylvania sued and basically said, listen, you can't just count these ballots no matter how they're filled out.
But that actually was going on.
And not only was it going on, the practice of kind of looking the other way when you have improperly filled out ballots had been upheld by a lower court.
Now, Pennsylvania law is pretty clear.
It says, quote, And it goes on to say, And this is, by the way, this is part of the law, that if you don't do that, if you don't comply, your ballot is, quote, invalid and cannot be counted in any election.
So, nothing could be more clear.
Apparently, Pennsylvania's official election information portal makes the same point, that ballots submitted without this declaration section filled out will, quote, not be counted.
And yet... Until this court decision, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State, a Democrat, has been instructing people and directing local officials to include these ballots, to continue to count them.
So you now have something very interesting.
The Supreme Court of the state has said you can't do it.
We'll see...
And I'm sure this will be a subject of further litigation because it's under close observation.
Will Pennsylvania try to somehow skirt and go around this court decision and basically flagrantly violate it?
And if so, will the Republican Party be there on the scene to extract from them the consequences of not following what is now a clear ruling and a clear win for the GOP?
And here we have to commend, we have to actually say that the RNC has been pretty good, perhaps better late than never is a way to put it, but they're on the ground, they're fighting over these election laws, they're trying to, well, let's just say, come back to a level playing field after the very unlevel playing field that we and they dealt with in the 2020 election.
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There have been some big layoffs at Twitter, and evidently some big layoffs coming at Facebook, also called Meta.
And quite honestly, I'm thrilled about both.
Now, whenever I say things like this on social media, inevitably someone goes, Dinesh, this is very insensitive because you are...
Taking pleasure in people being fired before the holidays.
And my reply to that is, no, I take equal pleasure when people are fired after the holidays, as long as it's the right people and they're being fired for the right reasons.
Now, why should we feel any sympathy for these nasty, vicious, thuggish censors?
for months if not years, they have been gleefully knocking people off, shutting them down, blocking them, putting their hands on the dials and magnifying this guy because he's their friend. By the way, it's also come out that there are people at Twitter who have been, who might have been taking backroom, backdoor money to verify people. Elon Musk himself said this requires investigation.
So in other words, they're saying, listen, you wouldn't normally qualify to be verified, but if you pay me, I'll make sure you're verified.
So these people are, you know, they like to pose as if they're major idealists, but they're not.
They're deeply corrupt.
They're deeply partisan.
And so putting them out on the street is the least that could happen to them.
They deserve far worse.
Now, the same with Meta.
I'm delighted that their whole Metaverse is turning out to be a dud.
They've made some horrible decisions.
And so, again, a whole bunch of bad people are going to be let go.
Now, in that case, for different motives, Zuckerberg is just basically cutting costs.
There's a very interesting...
This is by a guy from the NAACP. In our meeting, Elon Musk made a commitment that he would do his part to protect the integrity of these midterms, but just days later he fired employees at Twitter who oversee election mis- and disinformation.
And my point is, disabling the censorship police in this way is protecting the integrity of the midterms.
You know why? Because in the 2020 election, we had a lopsided situation, an unlevel playing field.
Twitter was actually making in-kind contributions to the Democratic Party by shutting down the opponents of the Democrats.
So what we want on Twitter is a level playing field.
We want free and open debate.
That's what's essential for democratic, for a genuine and functioning democracy.
So Elon Musk is actually helping democracy by dismantling this whole regime of, quote, election monitors.
These election monitors are not genuine monitors.
I've mentioned before, they're not just going around looking for so-called hate speech so people can feel safe on Twitter.
They are going around essentially policing all kinds of information on all the key topics that we're fighting over in this country, that we're arguing about.
Topics like COVID, the legitimacy of shutdowns, the question of election integrity, climate I mean, if we can't debate these topics, what can we debate?
Where is the debate supposed to occur if not over these issues that people genuinely disagree about?
And now, when Elon Musk tweeted out, kind of a somewhat enigmatic tweet, Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world.
That's our mission. And of course, Insofar, the statement itself is a noble mission.
The problem comes in with who decides what is accurate information.
The defense of free speech is based upon the idea that no one decides, that there are certain things that it's illegal to say, and that's very limited.
Otherwise, you allow accurate information to emerge out of the crucible of debate.
But here's a journalist, a guy named Kyle Grantham, He goes, he's sarcastically saying that Elon Musk wants people to pay him $8 to get a blue check verification and then they can be, quote, a legitimate source of news.
And then he adds, And he's talking, of course, about these news organizations and these so-called arbiters of truth.
And Elon Musk rightly replies and says, You represent the problem.
Journalists who think they are the only source of legitimate information.
That's the big lie.
And I couldn't agree more.
Not only because journalists are not the only source of legitimate information, but journalists are actually the biggest liars of them all.
In other words, journalists, if you look at the lies that the mainstream journalistic community has put out in the last five years, they actually are worse.
They are greater in magnitude and more destructive in effect than any lies put out by any QAnon conspiracy theorists, in large part because those lies, although they might reach some ears, The journalistic lies are reaching the most influential people in America and are working together.
So you have a kind of, you might almost call it a sort of ecosystem of lies.
That is, NPR puts out a lie, it's reinforced by the New York Times, it's reinforced by PBS, and so reinforced by CBS News.
And so the lie essentially is like a snowball that continues to gain snow.
Happy to see that Kathy Griffin, the so-called comedian, I mean, this is an unfunny comedian.
You can't really laugh at her anymore.
She used to be kind of funny in the old days, but not anymore.
In any event, she was apparently using Elon Musk's name, pretending that she was Elon Musk.
Now, if there's one thing that should be stopped, it is identity theft.
You can't pretend to be someone else anymore.
And tweet, quote, in their name.
And so sure enough, Kathy Griffin has been suspended.
Now, a lot of people on the left are like, I'm going to be leaving Twitter.
I'll never be seen on Twitter again.
But of course, Kathy Griffin pops right back, now tweeting under her mom's name.
And apparently her mom is dead, so she's like, listen, I'm going to tweet in my dead mom's name.
So Kathy Griffin is clearly addicted to Twitter, and Elon Musk rightfully just prevents her from From her masquerading, well, she's been masquerading as a comedian for a while now, but she's being prevented from masquerading as Elon Musk.
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Guys, I'm really pleased to welcome back to the podcast Pam Hemphill.
Now Pam Hemphill is a January 6th defendant.
She actually served 60 days in prison.
She's sometimes known as the MAGA granny on Twitter.
And she was convicted of the usual nonsense, you know, picketing, parading in a public building.
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And on YouTube, Pam Hemphill.
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Pamela, welcome to the podcast.
I really appreciate it.
Boy, the last time we talked, you were, I mean, honestly, a little distraught, and rightly so, because you were, for the first time in your life, facing going to prison for two months, and you were scared, and you said you were.
And I remember that vividly, and I just thought to myself, how, you know, pointless and idiotic this is.
But Tell us a little bit about that experience.
Obviously, you've come through it, but how was it?
Oh, it was terrifying. Thank you, Dinesh, for having me on.
I appreciate this. You don't know.
It was terrifying.
And like a lot of us thinking, well, we're just going to prison.
Prison's prison. No big deal.
But that's not the plan.
I have a letter from the Department of, excuse me, probation that said, I'm going to a camp.
So as I got there that day, they're walking me to this unit, and I said, it didn't look like no camp.
And I said, what's going on here?
I've been assigned to a camp.
And she says, you're not going to no camp, Ms.
Hippell. And I said, what do you mean?
She says, I don't know about any paperwork, but you're going here.
And that unit, let me back up, Dublin Prison is the worst, second on the list of the worst prisons in the United States.
The warden just got sentenced to seven years in prison for raping the women there and there's drug problems there.
It's all over the news.
Excuse me, my throat.
So I go into this unit and I sit down and I start crying.
And this beautiful black lady, Michelle West, comes up to me and starts talking to me.
But she says, what are you doing here?
I know who you are because I was all over the news by then.
And I said, I'm here for a misdemeanor because of January the 6th.
She says, she's a lifer.
Nobody comes in this unit.
For a misdemeanor.
And I've been here 28 years.
I said, well, what am I doing here?
Well, what they said was there was culvert in the camp.
It turned out that was a lie.
There was no lockdown over there.
But I found out the truth when I left.
The lady that was taking me to the airport, drug dealing going on in the car as I left, and the whole story came out that they had plans to keep me there.
What they were going to do was plant drugs in my room, and what happens?
You go to the shoe, which is called the hole, and they add on another four to six years prison time.
And when I was being released, It was the captain, I think.
He says, I don't know how you're getting out of here.
And I said, what do you mean?
I don't break rules.
He says, well. I said, what, do they have plans for me to never leave?
And he just put his eyes up.
I said, oh, okay.
So the rumor was true.
Even the FBI was there talking to me, and I didn't know it was the FBI. Ms.
West, I went up to her and I said, who were those two men?
She said, that was the FBI. I said, oh, wonderful.
But they treated me terrible there every day.
Oh my gosh. It was 95% of the women in that prison were cartel.
And they all, of course, hate the J6ers every day.
If it wasn't for Michelle West, I wouldn't be here because she was a beautiful Muslim black lady.
And she said, Pam, you focus on God.
Don't focus on these women.
I'm going to get you out.
And that's why I'm out today.
But I'm still having PTSD from all this.
So excuse me, but just remembering the...
What happened to me in there is very hard to talk about still.
I mean, this is all just deeply shocking.
Like you say, a misdemeanor conviction for committing no act of violence.
You're in the Capitol. You're out of there.
And here you are in a life-changing experience with trauma.
And it seems that you're suggesting that they have a design to sort of torture you a little bit, and perhaps if they could get you on something else.
I mean, I'll be honest with you. When I had my campaign finance case, I wasn't scared of the other criminals, but I was afraid that the authorities...
Would put drugs in my locker.
And they're, oh, here we go.
Because they have complete, you have no privacy, as you know.
You are at their mercy.
And so they can frame you.
I was more afraid, I feel weird saying this, of the U.S. government than I was of these hardened criminals.
And it seems like you had somewhat the same experience.
Absolutely. I went to the psychiatrist.
I asked him to move me out of that room because I knew the girl in there.
It's like a godfather organization in there, the cartel women.
You have the godfather, the godmother, and their children.
And I was in the room with their daughter.
They call each other this.
The mother, the father, the daughter.
And I was in the room with the daughter.
And I know they're doing drug dealing.
They asked me about it.
I said, yeah, I'll tell you who it is.
They don't care. There's one guard for 197 women, and the doors are open at night, so you know what they do.
They don't care. Those women run that facility there.
It's horrifying. I wouldn't give that food to a starving dog, and you don't want to get sick.
I didn't get my cancer medicine for a week, and even then, they didn't want to do that.
I had to push for it.
It's... That prison should be locked down.
Everybody says that. What they did is they turned the key and threw it away for those women.
All those women are being treated terrible.
That's not what I wanted to talk to you about today.
Mainly, it's just not Pam.
I don't want to focus on Pam and all the torture and everything she went through and the fact that the FBI had a plan to never let me out.
They did. They're doing this to every single January 6th or every single one of us.
I get calls. Dinesh is just breaking my heart from mothers and women are telling me the stories.
They're locked up. They're In solitary confinement for 90 days, they don't have a cup to drink water.
They're being beat up.
They're being tied up. Black eyes.
And then what's the worst part?
People are calling the marshals to report this, and they're getting retaliation for it.
So their human rights are being denied 100% just because they're January 6th or 6th.
I mean, here we are, Pam, on the eve of a big election.
Do you have any confidence or even any hope that a Republican sweep of the House and of the Senate will lead to investigations, to going after?
I mean, none of this should be happening in America, and yet it is.
And what is your level of confidence that the GOP can be relied on to act on this?
I have 100% confidence.
You know why? Because you know why Trump is so well loved and liked?
It's because Trump didn't just talk about stuff.
Trump went into action and he is a man of making changes.
And this GOP is the same thing.
I'd like to put a shout out for Jim Jordan because he's the best.
And get on the phone with him.
But yes, I have 100% confidence.
They're not going to be able to cheat this time because we're too aware.
Our eyes are open.
They are liars and there's an evil people that are in there right now.
But the GOP this time, I really believe they're not out there talking because we're sick of politicians talking.
And that's why we are voting for Trump and want Trump to come back in and these people that are out there right now because these are people of action.
They're not just saying a lot of stuff on the stage.
And it's beautiful things that they're saying.
But I have faith in these people that they're going to start doing something.
Well, that's encouraging to hear.
I do think that this will be a more MAGA-fied, if I can use that term, GOP, after these midterms.
Hey, Pam, really appreciate you coming back on the podcast, and we'll have you back again sometime.
Okay, and if people could go to StopHate.com, I'd appreciate it, because they have a lot of information on the J6ers.
StopHate.com, that's the website.
Okay, thank you very much, Pam Hemphill.
Thank you. God bless you.
I'm going to talk this week about some of the short stories of the Russian writer Mikhail Zoshenko.
This is a guy who writes under Soviet communism and he doesn't argue with it.
You'll see his stories don't try to engage in any kind of polemic.
They just depict life under Soviet socialism.
The argument is sort of baked into the narrative.
And typically you have a narrator and you have to ask the question, is the narrator actually Zoshanko?
And it kind of is.
But Zoshanko took advantage, by the way, of this narrative device because whenever he was approached by the Soviet authorities, why are you saying this?
He would say, well, that's not me.
That's my narrator. He's a crazy guy.
He says crazy stuff.
So this is the kind of ingenious way that Zoshenko was able to sidestep scrutiny by the authorities in an age of censorship.
Obviously, censorship somewhat resembles what we have today.
And you also notice as we talk about the stories that these are stories about ordinary people.
I mean, we have to remember that ordinary people were the people in whose name the Russian Revolution was made.
Yeah, we're going to be fighting for these ordinary people.
We're going to improve the lives of these ordinary people.
And Zoshenko says, well, let's see.
So this story, as it begins, you have a guy, he's walking on the street and he sees a truck and it's hauling a load of bricks.
And he goes, wow, this is really good news.
He goes, because they're probably going to be building a house somewhere.
And he says there's a massive housing shortage, obviously, in the Russian town that he lives in.
And he says, yeah, this is, he goes, it's really hard to find an apartment, even a single room not available.
So we're getting here at the, an issue that plagued Soviet socialism for 70 years, which is shortages, shortages of food.
Here we're talking about the housing shortage.
And he goes, maybe they're even going to be building apartments with a bathroom.
He goes, that's like a luxury.
Now, he says that he's experienced this crisis firsthand.
This is the narrator talking.
And he goes, I've been trying to get an apartment.
And he goes, finally, I found this guy.
And the guy goes, listen, I don't have an apartment.
But if you really need it, if you're completely destitute, I can set you up in a bathroom.
Now let's remember that in those days, the apartments in the Soviet Union don't have bathrooms.
There's like a bathroom down the hallway.
So all the apartments are occupied, but this guy gets the bathroom.
And the guy goes, it's not so bad.
You can kind of manage in the bathroom.
There's no window, true, but there is a door.
And of course, water is available right there.
And so this guy goes, I'm not a fish.
I can't live in a bathroom.
And the guy goes, well, you know, that's pretty much it.
You know, he goes, take it or leave it.
So this guy goes, okay, fine.
And he says it was really uncomfortable.
I mean, there's hardly any place to sit down.
And then after a little while, the guy gets married.
So what happens is his wife moves into the bathroom.
And after a little while, they have a kid.
And the kid lives in the bathroom.
And he goes, this is really, this was a little bit tough, but he goes, the only silver lining was that, you know, the kid, he goes, you know, we would let the guy sit basically in the bathtub.
And he learned to swim.
So our kid actually became kind of a good swimmer because...
Because of the easy access to the bathroom.
But the problem, of course, was that people had to use the bathroom.
And so they would be constantly interrupting these guys and coming in the middle of the day and even at night, I gotta use the bathroom, I gotta use the bathroom.
So basically they set strict timings for people to use the bathroom.
They're like, listen, we're not gonna let you in unless you show up between these hours.
And of course those people were unhappy, but too bad.
There were 32 people using this bathroom.
But then this guy goes, things really got out of hand when my wife's mother wanted to move in.
Because when she moved in, now we have me, we have my wife, we have my kid, we now have my mother-in-law.
And then... He goes, initially it was alright because she essentially found a small spot behind the water heater, so she wasn't too disruptive to us.
But then she goes, I want to bring my other kid, in other words, the wife's brother.
And this guy goes, that's too much.
I'm out of here. I can't stand this anymore.
And so he leaves this town and he goes elsewhere and he says, listen, I found a job and I found a place to live and now I send those people money.
So evidently as the story ends, they're all still living, at least his family minus him, in the bathroom.
Now, this is intended...
But let's notice it's not all that far off from the truth.
This actually was living conditions, not just by the way in Soviet Russia.
These are living conditions you see in a lot of socialist societies.
This is the way it is in Cuba.
This is the way it is today in Venezuela.
And so, here you have Zoshenko, and he's just describing.
He's sort of a sketch artist.
But what he's capturing is the way in which policy has a huge impact on the way ordinary people live.
And ordinary people, being as they are, they're survivalists.
They can endure a lot.
They try to do it with a sense of humor to the best degree they can.
But at some point, things become intolerable.
And here, we're seeing not revolution, but how things become intolerable on the personal level.
So that the guy's like, this is too much.
I can't take it. I gotta get out of here.
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