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IMPEACH Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep583
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Coming up, I'll discuss how the Biden DOJ is covering up the crimes of the president and his family by removing a key IRS whistleblower from the investigation.
Debbie's going to join me. We're going to talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene's impeachment bills, the motives for Venezuelans coming across the border, and as a comic side note, how Biden qualified to get an honorary degree from Howard University.
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There seems to be a full-blown cover-up going on inside the Biden administration to hide the crimes of the Biden family.
Now, I mentioned that on the podcast, this was several days ago, that an IRS whistleblower had come forward.
And this guy has told a bunch of executive branch agencies, but he's also told Congress That there is clear evidence of bribery and there's also clear evidence of malfeasance by the Bidens and that this is being blocked in the IRS and it's being blocked also by the Biden DOJ. They're not allowing this investigation to go forward in a sense they're protecting their crime boss.
So, the matter has become quite serious because it's bad enough when you have a criminal enterprise at the very highest reaches of our government, but then when the whole administration begins to cover up for the chief mafioso and his family, things get a lot worse.
Now, the latest development is that this IRS whistleblower and his investigative team that were using the tax laws to really look at the ways in which all this money has flowed into the Biden family, money on which they may not have paid their appropriate taxes, This investigation has now been, in a sense, shot down by the Biden DOJ, and they have removed the whistleblower and his team from the criminal investigation.
So in other words, it's basically, let's get the cops off the case so that the crooks can go free.
Now, fortunately, this IRS guy seems to be a very credible and determined and relentless guy.
He has two lawyers, and his lawyers have written a letter to congressional lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats, and he says that...
There is an ongoing investigation for tax fraud, lobbying crimes, money laundering, and he says that the DOJ is retaliating against him, which is a flagrant violation of the whistleblower law.
It also constitutes obstruction of a congressional inquiry.
Why? Because Congress is looking into this matter.
And so the Biden DOJ is circling the wagons, apparently trying to put, you know, you may say cooperative people We're good to go.
He says he has already provided all the relevant information to the IRS, to the U.S. Treasury Inspector General, to the Office of the Inspector General, and the Department of Justice.
So, Inspector General Michael Horowitz has it.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has it.
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration Russell George has it.
Special Counsel at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, Henry Kerner, has it.
But let's notice that people like Merrick Garland are part of the crooked operation.
I'm not saying they're crooked themselves, but they have been brought in kind of the way the mafia hires lawyers to cover up for them.
Hey, listen, I don't want any of this tax stuff getting out.
It's your job to obscure it.
Merrick Garland appears to be, in that sense, the chief point man for protecting Biden crimes from coming to public light and coming to congressional light.
Now, the IRS Commissioner, Daniel Werfel, was before Congress at the end of April.
And he said, And the whistleblower statute, we should be very clear, isn't just about somehow ruining somebody or trying to fire them.
It's also taking them off the inquiry.
In other words, it's also removing them from the area where they can collect information that is relevant to wrongdoing and crimes.
Here's the whistleblower law.
It says that the whistleblower is, quote, Including receiving a significant change in duties, responsibilities, or working conditions, which is clearly happening because of his disclosures to Congress.
I think the good news is that the Republicans are not their usual timid selves here.
I think they recognize they...
I won't say smell blood, but I think they recognize that there's a really crooked operation here.
And it is of a great magnitude.
This is not a single case where the wealthy aristocrat in Moscow sent some money to Hunter Biden for a particular transaction.
No, this is an international racketeering scheme.
That is masterminded by Joe Biden, carried out by multiple, maybe as many as 10 or more members of the Biden family, and now apparently with all these enablers, the enablers not of the crimes, but the enablers of the cover-up of the crimes, and they too need to be held accountable.
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And finally, the impeachment train is...
This is actually very important.
I've alluded to it at various times on the podcast, but here's Marjorie Taylor Greene.
She's announced impeachment articles against Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, Alejandro Mayorkas, and even going further down, Matthew Graves, who's the chief prosecutor of the January 6th dependents.
And, you know, to me, this is actually a really good development because it It follows through on the logic of what's going on.
I mean, what was disappointing to me about the Durham report, an elaborate scheme concocted by the Hillary campaign, signed off on by Obama, signed off on by Loretta Lynch, James Comey was in on it, Clapper was in on it, Brennan was in on it, all these top officials really to rig an election.
And then at the end of it, he goes, well, we really hope that the FBI improves its procedures.
So that's called not following through on what you've just shown, on what you've just confirmed.
But here, if it is true that these people are derelict in their duties, they are ruining the country on multiple fronts, they are breaking the law, they're engaging in some cases in serious crimes...
Obviously, we should do what we can to impeach them.
Well, the impeachment won't succeed.
Well, who cares? The point is, it'll tie them up.
It will tie them up in knots.
It will expose their crimes and lawlessness to public scrutiny.
There's no way the media can cover it.
So, what do you make of this?
You were saying about Biden.
Right, right. So, you know, it's great that she wants to do this with Biden, but the reason that she's putting forth is the border, right?
Which is a huge reason, but I don't think that that's the reason that they could really get him on, that impeach him on.
That's not the arrow.
That's not the arrow. The arrow is that this man is as corrupt as a third world dictator.
He is a true dictator.
You know, they talk about Trump having been a dictator.
Well, if he was, he sucked at it.
This guy's really good at it because he involves all of the agencies that can actually implement these things like Hugo Chavez did, like Maduro did.
And so, you know, did Trump have a DOJ? Did Trump have the FBI? No.
So how could he have been a dictator?
I mean, Trump, in fact, had, it seems, half the government working to subvert him.
Exactly. And Biden, on the other hand, has the entire Democratic establishment covering for him.
And that is a true dictatorship.
That is a true dictatorship.
So what would you, so you'd go after him on the IRS whistleblower, you'd go after him on all the money transfers.
You know, corruption, you know, getting money during his vice presidency.
Who knows what he's... If he used the office of the vice presidency to do these things, what makes you think he's not using the office of the presidency?
And it doesn't matter whether or not he's repeating the crimes of before.
The fact of the matter is we have a criminal...
At the highest reaches of government.
And that's not something that should be tolerated for one minute.
A lot of times, I mean, if you look at Nixon's offenses that got Nixon to resign in Watergate, it wasn't while Nixon was president.
Remember, this was during the campaign, the Watergate break-in.
And Nixon's only role was in the cover-up.
Nixon wasn't, in fact, the perpetrator.
Right. I think that this makes Watergate look like a walk in the park.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because this is what you call corruption.
Now, as these things develop next week, I'm going to go into detail in this stuff.
Because I think, for example, when Marjorie Taylor Greene lays out the case against Krista Hooray, it is very systematic and very devastating.
And it makes the case.
So we won't make that case here because she's making a separate case...
I mean, think about it. The case against Mayorkas, and I agree, but Mayorkas, I think you can go after him on the border alone.
Why? He's the chief border official.
Right. Charged with enforcing the law.
Right. Now, he is taking orders, right?
He is taking orders. So, he is taking orders, but...
But still, I mean, I just, I think that...
Well, it doesn't matter. If he's taking orders, yes, what that means, because he is the guy in charge with carrying out these duties, and he's taken an oath of office to carry out these duties, it's his duty to say, my superiors are telling me not to enforce the law.
He won't do that because he's in on it.
He's in on it. Exactly. And this guy is also, by the way, a brazen liar.
So with a straight face, he goes there and says things like, the border is secure.
Oh, yeah. There's no problem at the border.
And he takes credit for things that, like, for example, Governor Abbott, you know, making sure that the illegal migrants couldn't get up that ravine, you know, where he had the barbed wire and they were kind of shooshing people off.
Right? Mayorkas says it's him.
And actually, it was not him.
It was not the federal government doing that.
In fact, Abbott has made it really clear that the Texas National Guard is up against not the illegals, not the cartels, they're up against the feds.
They're up against the Biden people who are trying to undo and thwart what they're doing.
So, yeah, there's a level of public dishonesty that's going on here.
And they kept saying, well, Trump told, you know, 810,000 lies and so on.
By and large, they'd refer to casual remarks about Trump, even if Trump mispronounces Thailand.
Well, let's count that as a lie.
Here you're talking about lies coming from the very spokesman for the State Department, spokesman for the DOJ, the press secretary, and of course Kamala Harris and Biden himself.
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Debbie was a little distraught the last couple of days.
She just got news that her aunt in Venezuela, in fact, kind of her last living relative, this was the sister of her dad, died in Venezuela and died, in a sense, in a country that she saw had really gone down and with no easy hope, no immediate hope of restoration.
At the same time, in talking about this, we talk about the larger issue of Venezuela and, of course, about the Venezuelans.
And there's a bunch of them trying to escape now, get out of Venezuela and make their way to the southern border of the United States and get in here.
But Debbie, who knows much more about this than I do, says that those aren't...
You might think, well, wait a minute.
Aren't these Venezuelans running away from socialism?
Aren't these Venezuelans the entrepreneurial types that we want in the United States?
And the answer to that, for reasons Debbie will give, is no.
No. And, you know, one of the last things that my aunt told me before she passed, well, first of all, she absolutely adored Trump.
She was a taxpayer. Oh, my goodness.
She called him her blonde, beautiful man.
That's how she referred to Trump.
I said, well, no, they're about the same age, and Debbie goes, no, my aunt is 90, so she's actually, she's a little, quote, too old for Trump.
Yeah, she's a little too old for Trump, but she loved him.
And so anyway, one of the last things she told me was how devastating socialism was, and how she was so sad that her, you know, she knew that her days were numbered.
Obviously, she was 90 years old, and And she did have high blood pressure and everything.
But she basically said that the last years of her life, she had hoped that she would see Venezuela free again.
And that was not to be.
But she said that people just walked around like zombies.
They weren't smiling anymore.
In Venezuela, people partied all the time.
As a kid, I just remember there always being people having just massive parties.
Any excuse. Any excuse to have a massive party.
My grandmother had like, I don't know, thousands of people in her house.
Not really, but it seemed that way.
Always having people over and people were always laughing and Well, interestingly, what your aunt said is, the reason it's very credible is that when I first met Debbie and we would connect with her aunt, her aunt was actually kind of upbeat about Venezuela.
I mean, not upbeat in the sense that Debbie would say to her aunt, isn't it sad that you have to go from one grocery store where you buy potatoes to another one where you have to get, you know, cereal and then to another one?
And the aunt was like, well, that's how it is.
You know, it's a little extra effort, but it's no big deal.
The food is available.
And then as time passed, it didn't really matter how many stores you went to.
There just wasn't stuff to buy.
Yeah. And then not to mention, she basically said...
The bolivar, which is the Venezuelan currency, is worthless.
Toilet paper is worth more than the bolivar.
I mean, talk about the doctor who's a friend of your aunt and how much she makes.
Oh, my goodness. So, she's a professor.
A professor. A professor at a college, and she makes about $20 a month.
Think about that.
$20 a month.
So, you know, we would help my aunt and we wouldn't send her a lot of money, but what we did send her equated to a lot of money.
I mean, it was the equivalent.
We sent her a couple of hundred dollars every month.
That was the equivalent of about $10,000 a month.
So she was able to be comfortable.
She was able to live, really.
And even the funeral expenses, comparatively, are extremely cheap when you think about how much it costs to bury someone now.
Debbie says to me, she goes, the funeral expenses are just a couple of hundred dollars, a few hundred dollars.
And I said, well, in India, you can bury someone for like 20 bucks.
He's like, this is not true.
This is ridiculous. This is absurd.
Well, sure enough, we look it up.
Average cost of a funeral in India.
We take the exchange rate.
We divide by 75 because 75 rupees to a dollar.
And it turns out that the average burial cost in India is about 25 bucks.
Yeah, I know. But let's talk about these migrants, these Venezuelans.
So a lot of the migrants, illegal migrants that are at the border are Venezuelan.
I've been told by my friends and family in Venezuela that these people are not good people.
These are the bottom of the barrel of Venezuela.
These were the people that wanted the goods in Venezuela and They wanted socialism because they wanted to have all of the amenities and things that other people had without working for it, right?
Some of them criminals, probably some of them even colectivos.
knows these are the criminal gangs that terrorize Venezuelans, you know, sanctioned by the Venezuelan government. But these people are really very, very bad people. And they do have kids, obviously.
So some of the families that you see with the kids and all of that, very sad for the children, but some of these people are criminals. And we don't want them here.
These are people who bought into socialism.
They supported the Chavistas.
They supported the outrages perpetrated by the Chavistas against freedom-loving Venezuelans.
Now they've noticed that it doesn't work in Venezuela, but they haven't given up on socialism.
Their point is, where can we find free stuff that we can't get anymore in Venezuela?
Why do you think they're okay with being housed, being given vouchers for food, that kind of thing?
Why do you think they're okay with that?
Government pays expenses to stay in a hotel for three months.
Yeah, so these Venezuelans are not going to vote.
In short, we're importing the worst type of people in the world, and no wonder the Democrats say these people are just like us.
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You'll feel the difference. There was a story widely reported over the past few days about, this was in New York, that several hotels in Orange County, now not Orange County, California, but Orange County, New York, had evicted homeless veterans who were staying in those hotels.
And the reason was that they wanted to make room for illegals.
So, now why would the hotels do that?
Well, the answer was that the hotels were getting more money to house the illegals per night than they would get for housing the homeless vets.
But the story has been kind of called into question by something that Avi showed me today, which is a report in New York that has these Officials for the hotels vehemently denying that this is going on, vehemently denying that they have, in fact, evicted the vets.
And in the case of one hotel, they go, we didn't really have any vets staying here, so we couldn't have done that because...
The fact of the matter is that New York has seen about 60,000 illegals pouring into the state, some of them dispatched by the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Texas, Abbott, and the mayor of New York is up in arms and is sort of so We don't know what to do with these people.
We're going to have to send them upstate.
And there's a legal fight going on about whether they can send them upstate.
But I think this struck an emotional chord because in some ways it totally symbolized a veteran, a guy who's given so much for this country, has been here, has made sacrifices.
And then the illegal who comes in, the country, the point is the country doesn't owe these people anything.
No, and that's the most infuriating part of everything.
You know, set aside the veterans, which is a really bad story, but let's just say there wasn't that story.
Why are we as a taxpayer paying for people that are not even supposed to be here?
Right. And not only am I supposed to be here, there is a long line of people who want to be here.
There's a long line of people who are going through the system.
We have a complex immigration system.
Yes. It allows you to come in.
Sometimes you can come in on special permits because you have extraordinary skills.
You can come in because you have labor qualifications in areas that the country needs people.
You can come in because you've got close relatives in the country.
You can come in because you're married and married.
So there are ways to come legally.
But this whole thing about, I don't like it in my own country, it's a little violent over here, and I'm facing economic stress, these are not legitimate reasons to claim asylum.
So, first of all, the vast, vast majority of people claiming asylum, these are bogus claims, and I can say that generically.
In the past, the country was much more careful about saying, listen, if there's an upheaval in a communist country, we know that those people are fleeing tyranny, and that's what it means to be a refugee and claim asylum.
You are fleeing Or, oh, socialism doesn't work here, but maybe it works in America.
Exactly, because it'll take you guys longer to run out of money than it took, for example, the Chavistas in Venezuela.
So yes, I think that there's enough doubt on this story now that we can't be sure what really is happening.
The origins of the story were from a woman named Sharon Toni Finch, who's an Army vet herself.
She got a Purple Heart.
She has a foundation, which actually helps these vets.
And she made the point, a number of these vets have come to me.
They said that they were evicted, were trying to find temporary housing for them.
So something seems to have gone wrong here.
But it may be that the details of the story are off.
Because see here, for example, is an attorney for the Crossroads Hotel.
There are not now and never were any group of veterans at the hotel and certainly none that were kicked out to make way for migrant asylum seekers.
So, are these illegals and asylum seekers getting hotel accommodations?
Yes. Is the government paying for them, the New York taxpayers and the government of New York?
Yes. But were some specific veterans pushed out to make room for the illegals, that appears to be less clear.
So, while the story itself is called into doubt, I think your point about the larger problem, which is the country is taking on this massive influx.
And it's all at our expense.
All at our expense. Not only that, but let's just say that there are no hotels that will take them.
Where are they going to live?
They're going to camp out, you know, in front of establishments, in front of houses, wherever.
And it's just going to make us look like a third world country.
Well, I mean, even third world countries aren't stupid enough to do things like this.
I suppose one could say that rich countries do stupid stuff, that poor countries wouldn't do a poor country.
I mean, if you tried to flood India, which is already a heavily populated country, the Indians would immediately be up in arms and they'd be like, first of all, we barely have enough for ourselves.
The last thing we're going to be doing is accommodating tens of millions of people coming in from other countries that are basically looking to eat our food, sleep on our beds, use up our education system, which, again, is barely enough to go around.
So in some ways, necessity and even poverty imposes a certain realism and common sense.
That goes out the window.
And so these are terrible policies and whether or not this story is...
Yeah, and they're terrible policies and they're done on purpose.
They're done on purpose. So there are terrible policies that are being done because they benefit one political party.
And that political party is pretending that they're doing it.
See, political parties in power are supposed to act in the national interest.
They're not acting in our interest.
They're acting in their own political self-interest at our expense.
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Use discount code AMERICA. There's a very sad story out of South Carolina involving a state representative.
His name is Brandon Guffey.
And Debbie was filling me in on this.
And I was just kind of shaking my head because...
This is a case where, I mean, there's a lot of political division in the country.
There's a lot of political, you know, targeting where people harass people because they belong to a rival opinion or a rival party.
But this is a case where that extends to going after the child, the teenage son of one of these guys, of Representative Duffy, with very tragic consequences.
Now, I'm not really sure if this is a politically motivated crime, but I do know that it is a crime, that it happens a lot.
The FBI, for whatever it's worth, said that last year there were at least 7,000 reports of sextortion of minors.
And this is called sextortioning because what it is, is you pretend like you're a girl and You know, all of a sudden you see this guy maybe on Instagram or whatever.
You're like, ooh, you're cute.
You know, can we have a relationship?
Blah, blah, blah. And then you start exchanging messages, right?
This is an 18-year-old boy or a 17-year-old boy who's kind of, you know how boys are.
Slaughtered by the idea that, yeah.
So then this so-called girl on the other end sends a nude photo of her and says, hey, can you, you know, reciprocate?
Can you send me one of you?
Send me two. So the poor dumb boy or, you know, whatever, naive boy, sends a photo of himself to this sextortionist, doesn't know, obviously, that it's a sextortionist, thinks it's a girl.
Then suddenly, this other person says, hey, you know what?
I'm not really so-and-so, but I have a nude photo of you now that I'm going to show all over the internet unless you give me money.
And so this poor boy, Gavin is his name, son of this...
Representative Guffey.
Guffey, was mortified.
I mean, he was so, so...
So he fell for this. He fell for it.
And he basically gave this person $25, which was all he had.
And this person came back and said, Gavin, he used Venmo to send him $25.
And he was telling him that he would get more money.
Please don't expose me.
Please don't send these images out.
They didn't care.
They did it anyway.
And so...
Well, what's cunning here is I see from the article that they give him the impression that this is a disappearing image.
So I'm sending you an image.
It's basically going to be deleted.
You send me an image.
And it's actually his son committing suicide.
His son using, yeah, using a gun.
And I think it's possibly because the son realized, not only am I going to be embarrassed, but...
It's going to be bad for my father.
Right. Right, right. And so his dad, because of this, well, not only that, but obviously he was distraught, but because of it, he decided to do a bill...
To make this a felony conviction and five years in prison for anybody that does this to a child, right, or another human being.
And because of that, this person retaliated and sent the data message saying something, you know, like basically taunting him.
I forget where it is in the article, but Well, he basically mocks him.
He mocks him, yeah. And he sends a kind of, here we go.
He said, did I tell you your son begged for his life?
He puts a laughing face emoji.
So this is, there's a level of sort of ruthlessness.
In some ways, social media seems benign.
We have access to all this information.
Yep. It's more dangerous.
But there's a dark side of the internet.
I think we're all aware of it.
But when you come across a story like this, you're getting a window of the kind of bad people that are out there.
Oh, yeah. And then they say, if you can extort 10 teenage boys that aren't going to say anything for $100 each and do all that with one image that you got a girl, it's fairly simple.
Basically, you are making a lot of money from this.
And the dad was so infuriated, and I've got to commend him for this.
He's like, listen, I'm going to quit my job.
I'm going to get out of the statehouse.
I'm going to spend all my time going after these people.
And his wife was like, no, don't do that.
You're one of the few people that have a voice that can get out there and truly make a difference.
And so for them, that is the most important thing to do that, to leave that kind of legacy called Gavin's Law.
It's going to be signed into law soon.
Unfortunately, they haven't caught the bad guys here yet.
They're looking for him.
No arrests have been made.
And there's an ongoing investigation.
But I certainly hope that they get him.
And I certainly hope that the...
And educate your kids.
Tell them. These are scammers.
Just like, you know, they're scammers that are sex traffickers.
You know, they lure kids into thinking that they're just their friends and then they have all of this.
This happens in America.
We all need to be smart enough. Just like we don't respond these days to people who say, you've just come into a giant inheritance in Nigeria.
Just sent $3,000.
That was very popular. Exactly. Exactly. So we're all on to that, but we need to be on to the fact that even if you get text messages and so on from people you don't recognize, don't respond to them, in part because there are also ways to steal your data.
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Joe Biden recently got an honorary degree from...
An honorary degree.
Actually, they should be taking away his degrees that he does have because he's no longer capable of retaining the knowledge that those degrees once required.
He's a corrupt goofball.
He's a corrupt goofball.
Those two things don't normally go together because you think of a goofball as a kind of an innocent, you know, Forrest Gump.
And then you think of corruption as requiring a devious mind, a sinister mind.
But he does have a sinister mind.
And he has a sinister cabal.
He does. A sinister cabal around him.
He does.
By the way, a lot of times these guys who have dubious intellectual credentials just go around parading doctor.
People who really have good credentials normally, I mean, they'll call themselves professor, but if you call yourself doctor and you're not a medical doctor, this is a little bit suspect, like Dr.
Jill Biden. Well, in any event, this guy, in handing out the honor degree, he chooses to praise Biden for two things, and both are funny.
The first one is his analytical intellect.
I mean, not just his intellect, which would be suspect enough.
He has no intellect. But analytical suggests precise.
It suggests a certain carefulness, a certain ability to discriminate, an ability to lay out an argument.
When's the last time you heard Biden make an argument about anything?
About the best he can do is a kind of a staccato outburst, like, come on, man!
That's about all he does all the time.
And the other thing is he was praised for, quote, this is even funnier, his popularity on both sides of the aisle.
That is a joke.
It's a complete joke. Absolute joke.
Because Biden is nothing but divisive.
I mean, look at the speech itself that he made.
I mean, look at all the F Joe Brandon and the Let's Go Brandon chants across the country, even at sports games, wherever Biden goes.
So it's pretty clear that a substantial portion of the country regards him with contempt, with derision.
But there's a reason for it. I mean, there's a reason for it because he himself is divisive.
He says things about half of the country that is not favorable to half of the country.
Well, he's callous and he's mean-spirited.
And then, look, he gets this award for his analytical intellect and his popularity on both sides.
And then he gives a speech that is laced with invective, that demonizes really all his political opponents as white supremacists.
Here we go. He goes, white supremacy is, quote, the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland.
No, he is. He is, and his administration is, and the FBI is, but certainly not white supremacy.
I mean, look. Not to mention, honey, he's the most racist person that I know.
Besides Byrd and Stitt.
Right, exactly. He was...
He was in, he was, his mentor was Bird, who was in the Klan.
But look at all the things he said about blacks back when he was a young senator, you know, that they were predators.
He said all those things, right?
He treated young blacks basically like these are people who are subhuman and these are people that need, we cannot apply normal remedies to these people because they're like animals.
That's the clear implication of what he said.
And now suddenly this guy's metamorphosed into a fighter against white supremacy.
A guy, by the way, who palled around with segregationists who said that they were good friends of his, he could do business with them.
This is the guy we're talking about, Joe Biden.
And I think here is where, again, the role of the media in suppressing Biden's past, in covering for him, and in solemnly treating this like this is a genuine article.
All of this, I think, really wrangles.
It does. It does. And it's really funny on Twitter because, you know, of course, the article is saying that on Twitter, the conservatives were like mocking it, right?
Because so the RNC research says before he went to his Delaware beach home today, Biden was given an honorary doctorate from Howard University for his and then, quote, unquote, quote, sound analytical intellect, unquote, and popularity on both sides of the aisle laughing emoji.
Right. Well, talking about the sound analytical intellect, there was a quite illuminating...
Fetterman made some comments, and his comments were a complete word salad.
They were garbled, they made absolutely no sense.
But then an article appears, which says, this is what Federman said, and his entire statement was completely cleaned up.
It was in perfectly good English.
And so what people did on social media, very effective, they posted side by side the verbatim transcript of what Federman said, and then what the adoring reporter said he said.
And it was not the same at all.
It was completely different. Basically, the reporter was sanitizing Fetterman, making him sound not only coherent, but eloquent.
So we've got this strange phenomenon.
I mean, Dianne Feinstein, who doesn't even know where she is, doesn't even know that she's not in Washington, D.C. You've got Fetterman and you've got Biden.
So the Democrats really know how to pick them.
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I'm in the chapter called The Ghost in the Machine, Why Man is More Than Matter.
And I'm discussing the philosophical doctrine called materialism, a doctrine very popular with skeptics and atheists, particularly atheists who invoke the authority of science.
And what they say is that We live in a world that is made up of just material objects, atoms and molecules, and those are the things that science can examine, can measure, can weigh, can look at, and nothing else really exists.
All we see, all we taste, all we can measure are these objects in the world.
But I think that there's a deep problem in extending this materialistic understanding to human beings.
For starters, We experience the outside world, which is the world that is described by the laws of physics and chemistry, completely differently than we experience ourselves.
This is a point that was made, I think, most clearly by the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
And he says this.
He says,"...all other things we experience indirectly from the outside, kind of through the apparatus of our senses." But he says,"...but ourselves we experience directly." From the inside, without the involvement of our senses.
I don't need my eyes to sort of experience myself from within.
I don't need my ears.
I don't need my sense of touch or any of that.
And it's only about ourselves, says Schopenhauer, that we have this kind of inside information, which is the clearest, most fundamental knowledge we can have.
For someone else standing out there, they see Dinesh, and they notice that I'm 5'9", I've got dark hair, I'm wearing glasses.
They experience me from the outside.
But there's a whole inner Dinesh to which they have no direct access.
They can infer it. They can affirm it.
In fact, in the presumption that I have an interior world, but they have no direct access to it.
They only have access to their interior world.
So, the point is that based on this privileged and unique access, we know that the external account of reality, however accurate it is in describing raindrops or stones or even cheetahs, it can't be the full story when it comes to describing ourselves.
Now, start with something really simple.
We know for a fact that we exist.
Now, the philosopher David Hume said, well, we don't really know this because he says, I'm quoting Hume now, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hate, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself at any time without a perception and never can observe anything but the perception.
What Hume is saying is, we can acknowledge that we have, that a feeling exists, a thought exists, an observation exists, but where is the separate I that is having this thought, having this feeling?
Hume goes, I don't see the I, only there's just the feeling, there's just the thought, there's just the observation and so on.
But I think that Hume is making a mistake here.
He thinks that the self is a fiction because it cannot be empirically located.
He wants you to sort of identify the position, the location of the I that is having these feelings.
But the remarkable thing is we are conscious of our own existence.
Right? Prior to having any feelings and thoughts.
And besides our feelings and thoughts, we experience as possessions.
I'll talk about my thoughts, my feelings.
Now, when something is a possession, it is not the same as us.
Remember, the self is experienced directly.
I would never talk about myself as something that is a possession.
My self It's identical with me, but my feelings, my thoughts, my emotions are things that I have.
They're things that I seem to possess.
So Schopenhauer writes that as we are the subjects of our own inquiry, the materialist mistake, and this would be a mistake made by Hume also, is, quote, We're subjects, and all our experience comes through that, and we can't forget that that is the starting point of all experience.
So, Hume is having sensations, but he's ignoring the fact that he is the one that is doing the observing.
He is allowing his indirect knowledge of external phenomena to somehow overcome or trump his direct knowledge of the I that is having those experiences.
Now, We don't just exist.
We're also conscious.
Now, this consciousness, again, is immaterial.
It doesn't seem to have any material composition.
And the consciousness is kind of basic.
We can't get behind it.
It's not like, well, here's the consciousness.
Let's put it on a microscope and observe.
Let's step outside of it.
No, the consciousness is sort of part of our apparatus and inseparable from us.
We seem to share this consciousness with other animals, but not with plants.
Or at least seemingly not with plants and certainly not with non-living things.
And human consciousness is of a different order than animal consciousness.
Consider, for example, the way that we experience music.
From a materials point of view, what is music?
Well, it's nothing more than vibrations that collide with eardrums and provide neural reactions in the brain.
But hey, if you're listening to a song, you experience the music in a completely different way.
Even our most mundane thoughts and experiences are inexplicable when described purely in terms of physical and chemical transactions.
So a doctor, for example, can look inside my brain.
He can say, well, I'm making some observations about some activity in your cerebral cortex.
But I say, okay, if you can do that, tell me what my thoughts and feelings are.
And his answer is, I can't do that.
He might be able to tell in a general sense if I'm experiencing emotions because the emotional part of my brain is being stimulated.
But what emotions I'm having, what thoughts, what feelings, there's no way for any medical personnel to know what those things are unless I tell them.
So what am I getting at here?
I'm showing the limitations of the purely material world by showing that inside ourselves there is a whole lot going on from the existence of our identity, who we are, I, to our consciousness, and that neither of those things seem reducible or even explainable in purely material terms.
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