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Jason Whitlock is Fearless: Why Sports Media Went Woke, Plus Hunter Indicted and Apple Mocked for Bizarre Climate Sketch and Much More | TRIGGERED Ep.68

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	Guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
	I'm honored to have iconic sports journalist and host Jason Whitlock on the show today.
	Jason's a longtime sports journalist who's worked at the Kansas City Star, ESPN, Fox Sports, and now The Blaze.
	But he's also a brave voice.
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	So this one's going to be fun.
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	With that, guys, joining me now, the host of Fearless on the Blaze Podcast Network, my friend Jason Whitlock.
	So, Jason, we got a big news today.
	You know, obviously a lot going on in the world of sports.
	I want to get to some of that, you know, but some of the stuff we have to get into, pretty amazing.
	I mean, Hunter Biden today was indicted
	Finally, after they, you know, sort of blew up this sweetheart deal that he was getting on federal gun charges.
	As you know, he lied about his drug use when buying a gun.
	He disposed of them illegally.
	He wasn't supposed to possess... I mean, all sorts of things that everyone else we know would be going to jail for.
	But what are your thoughts on this indictment?
	Will the sentencing be fair?
	Will it be a slap on the wrist to pretend like the DOJ actually did something so they can go after their political enemies in a much more aggressive manner?
	What do you think?
	I think they brought this on themselves.
	The way they have weaponized the Department of Justice, the way they have weaponized the media, the FBI and everything, you know, this indictment of Hunter Biden, long overdue.
	And I have no sympathy for Hunter Biden because I believe his dad and the Department of Justice and just this corrupt system that they've embraced
	Made it inevitable that there's going to be a boomerang effect.
	And look, these are well-earned and well-deserved.
	I think the kind of activity beyond these gun charges, but the kind of activity that Hunter Biden's been involved with in terms of influence peddling and all that stuff,
	He is a legitimate criminal.
	And so he deserves this, whereas, I hate to go here right off the top, but I'm on Donald Trump Jr.
	Show, why not?
	I have a feeling I'd be treated differently, is that what you're thinking?
	Yeah, the things they're bringing against your dad are a joke.
	And so, I'm sorry, I relish, I take satisfaction in them getting a taste of their own medicine.
	Okay, but so I agree with you 100%.
	Like I said, by this time in my father's presidency, I had done about 40-something hours of testimony before various congressional committees, you know, for treason, a crime punishable by death.
	But when I look at all of the things that Hunter Biden has done, right?
	I mean, and there's, you know, they keep saying there's no evidence, you know, other than like emails, other than like
	Uh, recordings other than sworn eyewitness testimony, other than whistleblowers, all the things that were, you know, gospel that they didn't even have during Russia, Russia, Russia.
	But I can't help but notice that this charge, the gun charge, of the long list of things and crimes that he's seemingly done is the only one that doesn't tie back to Joe Biden.
	I mean, do you believe that that's a coincidence?
	Or again, is this the way that Biden's DOJ keeps sort of acting as though
	I think you're right that, obviously, of the more serious crimes that he's committed, yeah, they found the low-hanging fruit.
	The gun charge doesn't connect to his dad, and it's not really what the guy is guilty of, and it's not really what has this company in jeopardy.
	The Bidens are clearly compromised.
	The deals they cut with foreign governments, everything that they said about you and your dad and your family is actually true.
	About the Bidens.
	They're compromised and all of our future and our economy and just our safety and security are all at stake because of deals that they've cut.
	You're right, this is a tiny victory and maybe it's a victory for the Bidens that, you know, it doesn't connect to Joe.
	But to me, I look at Joe's presidency or President Biden's presidency and it just feels like they're playing four corners offense and just trying to run out the clock and
	Somehow getting to the finish line before they can figure out how to get Gavin Newsom or someone else in there.
	Or maybe they, and I hate to say it, but maybe they want Joe to just kill over.
	You know, he's not in great health, that's obvious, but it just feels like they're trying to run out the clock.
	And this, you're right, this move here may just be another delay tactic that allows Joe to survive until they can figure out what to do next.
	Yeah, so, I mean, you know, what do you think that is?
	Because, you know, again, I think, you know, I think they're worried about sort of him just keeling over because that puts Kamala Harris in there.
	And I think, you know, we understand probably why she was put in those positions and checked off a lot of boxes.
	But I think...
	Even, you know, people on my side of the aisle are surprised at just how bad she is.
	You know, you put her in front of people and the sort of the run-ons, you know, I took a bus because buses are for transportation, which is why the bus is for the bus and the bus.
	And it's like, you can't even make it up.
	I don't think
	Well, while the Democrats, I think, would be fine with her actually being president because they just let her, you know, push through whatever they're trying to do, just like they're doing with Joe, I don't think they want her on a ballot.
	You know, Joe Biden is many things.
	It's hard to hate him because he's like a sort of a big dumb animal at this point, folks, at this point.
	What do you?
	What do you think about that?
	And what do you think their plans would be?
	What do you think's the ideal candidate, you know, either now that would then have to run an election in less than 18 months versus someone who could just maybe take over later on if and when, you know, Joe Biden's just clearly not able to perform the job?
	People don't like Kamala and people are comfortable expressing their dislike for Kamala.
	And so I do think she's problematic for them.
	And that's why I tend to think they're going to run Michelle Obama.
	Mm-hmm.
	My read, and again I live here in Nashville, I live in the South, is that people are fed up.
	If this election is remotely on the up and up, I don't think Michelle Obama can win.
	Really?
	I don't think Gavin Newsom can win.
	I don't think Joe Biden can win.
	People are fed up, and again, as a black person, I'm looking at friends of mine finally open their eyes to the scam of the Democrat Party and all these symbolic gestures of Kamala pretending to be black and pretending to smoke weed and listen to Tupac Shakur.
	All this stupid superficial stuff.
	Two years before he put an album out, yeah.
	Yeah, all this stupid superficial stuff.
	And I think Michelle Obama may be surprised that
	People aren't going to go for her the way they went for Barack.
	These guys are worth hundreds of millions of dollars now.
	Yeah, how did that happen?
	They're not an underdog story.
	They're no longer, they're global elites that everybody can see that's been showered with hundreds of millions of dollars that they didn't legitimately earn, it's just been gifted to them.
	So I'm not sure if she's gonna sell as well as they think.
	So I want to expand on that a little bit, right?
	Because I think, you know, conservatives, we make this mistake every time, right?
	There's a, you know, a black man says something even remotely conservative and all of a sudden we put him out there, this is great, and then turns out he's not.
	And we're like, we're shocked that this happened.
	You know, every time, you know, I've probably been guilty of it myself.
	I look at, you know, what Trump did, whether it's Opportunity Zones or
	You know, sort of the historically black universities, you know, funding, and be like, hey, they're actually doing something for that community, and yet it didn't mean anything.
	You know, I think we make that mistake, and yet the mugshot.
	Did that change things?
	Like, you know, I noticed that week, you know, I was speaking at a big conservative thing in Vegas, and it wasn't, you know,
	The black guys that were in attendance that came to me, it was the security guard that was working the venue, right?
	Not there as a conservative, just working his job, that would pull me aside and be like, hey man, I get it now.
	You know, so at the risk of sort of making the same mistake over and over again, do you think it's different?
	Do you think the Fulton County mugshot, whether it's because of all of the history, because of just, you know, the optics, you know,
	It's not like they needed a mugshot of Donald Trump.
	I imagine he's one of the most photographed people in the history of time.
	Do you think that changed things for real this time or not?
	I do, but not because of the mugshot.
	It's because of the obvious persecution.
	In terms of, this is a former president that is being persecuted because they don't like what he said after the election.
	You're trying to put this man in jail, the President of the United States.
	We watched Hillary Clinton complain about the 2016 election for four or five straight years.
	She wasn't persecuted.
	It's the persecution more than the mugshot, in my view, that is like, particularly as it relates to black men, I think we're starting to figure out that
	The left is trying to emasculate and undermine male leadership, quite frankly.
	And when you make masculinity in short supply, when there's so much hostility towards masculinity, people are more attracted to masculinity.
	That's why your dad's popularity is
	Can't be broken because people are naturally attracted to masculinity.
	It's in man's nature.
	Women are attracted to it.
	They want that bold leadership.
	And so there's a lot of things about your dad that just quite frankly
	People are willing to overlook and he doesn't have to say all the exact right things.
	All he has to do is be bold and be a man.
	And I think it's so clearly obvious when you look at Joe Biden, you look at these people that he's appointed in positions that has nothing to do with qualifications.
	It has to do with who they're having sex with or how confused they are about their identity.
	I think people are just rejecting that
	And in hindsight, looking back, it's like, wow, some of the things Donald Trump did actually did work for us.
	Let's man up.
	And basically, Don, this is an issue you don't have to deal with.
	But as black men, it's a battle between black men and black women.
	Explain that because I see that everyone's like, well, black men don't.
	I mean, I know black women and black mothers.
	Don't they see what's happening to their sons?
	You know, whether it's, again, the effemination or just their children in general with the failure of our school systems, with the failure of our public infrastructure, with the crime rates that are just killing people indiscriminately.
	I mean, you know, I understand, you know, sort of the male perspective because, you know, watching, and I loved what you did on social earlier today, I think it was, you know, talking about that sort of
	Everyone, there's so much injustice and everyone just using that as a crutch and an excuse and the effeminization of really all men, but also certainly within the black community.
	But why is there that disparity between black men and black women?
	Because I feel like the attack is on these women's children.
	You know, they're not going after older black men.
	They're going after the young black men.
	You see that.
	It's a clear attack.
	And I don't understand how they're able to turn a blind eye to that because it seems so obvious.
	I understand why the black man would come over and say, OK, enough of this nonsense.
	You know, perhaps I believe that probably should have happened a long time ago.
	But, you know,
	70 years ago, LBJ and the Democratic Party cut a deal with black women.
	And there's
	Daniel Patrick Moynihan came out with the Moynihan Report that argued for the investment in the black man and the black family.
	LBJ rejected that and went with the Great Society Initiative and invested in women and the feminist movement.
	And single mothers and giving women a financial incentive to choose divorce, to run the man out of the house.
	Black women took that deal.
	And now the Democrat Party, if you look from Joe Biden, I'm going to pick a black woman as vice president.
	I'm going to pick a black woman as a Supreme Court justice.
	Quite frankly, black women have been bought off.
	They've been bribed off into believing in the matriarchy.
	And the corporate media has sold the black matriarchy as one of the greatest things that's ever hit the planet.
	It's a total failure.
	But the media would have you believe it's awesome.
	And so black women are kind of drunk on their power.
	They've been told by the media that their leadership is the greatest thing since sliced bread, that they take no responsibility
	For the failure of black boys and girls and the academic gaps and all the other areas where we haven't been making ground is none of their fault.
	It's all the black man.
	And so they just took the deal.
	And black women believe in the matriarchy.
	They believe in feminists.
	They believe in female leadership.
	They believe in all the messaging of the globalists, that it's time for the patriarchy to fall, and for the matriarchy to rise, and we're going to run things, and we're the greatest, and they're not looking at the actual results.
	How long can that continue though, right?
	Because if you do look at the actual results, and you know, if I point them out, even if it's literally government papers, I'm, you know, obviously I'm a racist, misogynist, somehow homophobe, but you know, whatever, all of the ists, right?
	They just throw it out there, right?
	Racism is the, sort of, let's call it the easy button of today's radical left, where it's like, you know, I don't agree with you, therefore you're racist, and that ends the argument.
	I think that's done a disservice to actual racism that goes on, because I think these days people sort of hear racist, they roll their eyes, they move on, perhaps even in the event of actual racism.
	I just don't think it's the, sort of, the cause of and solution for all of life's problems like the left.
	How long can that continue, right?
	The results are clear.
	Now, you see some of the stuff as it relates to whether it was affirmative action in the universities.
	You bolster these things, but I've borne witness to some of that myself, and you put someone in a position that they don't necessarily belong, and then they fail.
	Was their life better off, or could they have done something a little different and then built up?
	How long can that go on, given the results and given the failure there, before they say, hey, maybe it's not working.
	We got to try something different.
	Well, as long as there's someone else to blame, and that's why these allegations of racism explaining everything is so important to the media.
	And so, again, Black women and Black people in general, to some degree, or ones that certainly support Democrats, they believe any failure
	They got Ibram X. Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates and all out preaching.
	Any failure is not your fault.
	It's white supremacy's fault.
	Some white man is the reason why you haven't gotten ahead.
	And so they take no responsibility for the failure.
	That's the...
	Whole wickedness and the manipulation of just describing everything as racism, it gives people an excuse for their failure.
	Listen, we've had people, Brittany Cooper, college professor, black woman, I think at Rutgers or whatever, she's overweight, and I saw her arguing that she can't lose weight because of racism.
	Now, I struggle with a weight problem, Don.
	Racism's not the cause.
	McDonald's is.
	The double filet of fish sandwich is my problem.
	Well, but I see it getting even worse, right?
	Listen, you're just a little thick, Jason.
	It's okay.
	But when I see, you know, they put Lizzo on the cover of In Shape magazine, and this is the new healthy, and I'm saying,
	By what metric is that healthy?
	It's just not.
	So, I mean, I guess as long as you can be accused of racism, I guess you can defy the laws of biology and probably physics and everything else that matters, and yet we're being spoon-fed this shit day in and day out.
	It's working, though, because it's like a trans or it's like a brainwashing.
	It's like Jim Jones and the Guyana tragedy.
	It's like these people have been brainwashed.
	They're in a cult, the cult of identity and this racial religion that they're in.
	And you don't have to take responsibility for anything.
	It's always someone else's fault.
	It's... How long can it go on?
	It's been going on for 70 years.
	Can it go on another 70?
	Yes, I think it can.
	Well, they're gonna make sure it does, because there's a lot of money to be made in this.
	I mean, you mentioned some of the people that are sort of, you know, the proponents of this, whether it's critical race theory or otherwise, and, you know, they have turned these things into really lucrative, uh, you know, professions.
	Then you bring in the lawfare component of that and the lawsuits in corporate America.
	If, you know,
	If someone's underperforming but they check off a few boxes, they're naturally due for the promotion and it never seems to end.
	ESG, DEI.
	Don, just think about, and I'm sure you have, but just the average white guy and white woman has been silenced in corporate America
	Because they can't speak the truth.
	Because if you say the things that you and I are talking about, you're not fit for leadership positions in corporate America.
	The only thing you can say in corporate America is, hey, I got to expand the diversity, equity, and inclusion department, and I got to make sure I pander and say everything that meets some kind of sensitivity requirement.
	And so men are failing to speak up and speak the truth because they all just want to protect their jobs.
	I look, I'm going to relate it to, this is why I won't leave the sports lane because you can see all this in the sports world.
	The NFL is the most powerful force in popular culture, but Roger Goodell, much of the NFL ownership, they're all cowards and they pander and kowtow and bend the knee to the players and critical race theory and Black Lives Matter.
	They don't believe in it, but they just say what they need to say in order to avoid the controversy, in order to avoid being smeared, and they're just hoping this goes away without them having to stand up and make it go away.
	Well, and yet the NFL is probably, let's call it, the ultimate meritocracy, you know?
	I'd love to be an NFL quarterback.
	That would be awesome.
	I have no chance.
	I'm 6'1", 190.
	Okay, not exactly athletic like these guys.
	I wouldn't stand a chance.
	And yet...
	The people preaching these things that don't take into account that meritocracy, that are putting forth everything but, it's so ironic because it would never fly in the NFL.
	They're actually doing the opposite of what they're saying out loud because it would never exist in that world because they would lose their entire franchises.
	Where they can, though, in the NFL,
	They're bowing.
	They're installing female coaches.
	They're installing LGBTQ coaches to fit, you know, the diversity, equity, inclusion goals and initiatives.
	They're trying to force coaches on franchises where an owner can't hire the guy he believes is the best candidate.
	He needs to hire someone that helps them meet some diversity quota.
	And so they're trying to take the merit out of the system and apply.
	And it's crazy.
	I mean, obvious things that people all the time talk about.
	It's like, oh, we're going to impose quotas on the coaching staff, but every black or every corner
	Yeah.
	Make it mandatory that 25% of the cornerbacks be white guys?
	No one ever says that.
	So there's this one-way push.
	Or how about 70% because that would be perhaps the representative number of white people in America, or whatever the number is these days.
	I don't see a lot of Hispanic players in the NFL, but they make up probably a larger section of the populace at this point in time than African Americans.
	And yet, no one has a problem with that, right?
	Because they believe, and they're comfortable with that system being based on merit.
	These other things have to be based on some quota that people that, and again, most of the people leading this conversation, pushing this conversation, they never played football.
	It's all coming from academia.
	It's all coming from just miseducated.
	These laboratories we have,
	On college campuses, where everything's hypothetical, nothing's based in reality.
	And that's the same thing we have in social media.
	It's not a reflection of reality.
	It's all hypothetical.
	It's all rigged with algorithms.
	We've just moved into a very dishonest world, and I'll circle back again, not to kiss your butt, but it's why people, why I won't, I'm not gonna drag everybody, I'll say this, why I won't give up on your dad is because
	At least he's honest.
	You may not love it, but he's going to tell you what he's actually thinking and not just what you want to hear.
	Yes.
	I want to continue on the sports stuff because I think it's pretty fascinating.
	I mean, there's so much even to talk about.
	Obviously, Coach Deion Sanders is, you know, pretty captivating with what's going on with his success in college football at Colorado.
	And it's obviously sort of fun and an exciting team to watch.
	But I know you've been pretty critical of, let's call it, Coach Prime.
	Why is that?
	Do you have concerns with these star players being coaches?
	Is it purely optics?
	Is he getting special treatment because he's able to captivate young players that perhaps other coaches wouldn't?
	What's your concern there?
	What he's doing, I don't believe is sustainable in terms of he's leading with so much ego and so much bravado from the coaching position.
	It's just not sustainable.
	When you are the most gifted football player, perhaps of all time, he's certainly in the top 10 in terms of just athletic gifts.
	As a player, have all that bravado.
	Your talents back that up.
	As a coach, Deion is not the greatest coach to ever hit football.
	And coaches work from a mindset of humility and caution and try to instill that humility
	In their players and everybody that works with the team, I think Dion's bravado is going to bite him in the rear end.
	We've seen coaches get off to fast starts.
	The guys won two games and people want to start comparing them to Bill Belichick and Nick Saban and all these guys.
	Yeah.
	People's memories are just terrible, Don.
	Charlie Weiss left the New England Patriots, became the head coach of Notre Dame.
	Got off to a very fast start.
	And everybody thought he was the second coming of Lou Holtz or whatever.
	It flamed out and they ended up having to fire the guy.
	We've seen people get off to 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 8-0 starts.
	Tyrone Willingham's another guy had a fast start at Notre Dame.
	It flamed out.
	After two games, we're acting like Deion Sanders has reinvented coaching.
	Let's stop.
	Let's pump the brakes.
	Let's let this play out for a season or two or three before we anoint Deion Sanders.
	I don't think his approach with all the bravado and ego, it's not the right approach for a head coach, but maybe he'll prove me wrong.
	Well, I mean, do you think, though, you know, maybe in this day and age, right, in sort of that flashy world and a bling world and a world where players can now take advantage of their likeness, do you think that maybe that bravado changes some things a little bit in terms of, you know, recruitment and these things?
	Because those players see that and they're like, that's the way I'm going to get to the top, whether that's in the, you know, eventually in the NFL or just being able to take advantage of, you know, the deals they're able to make now as college athletes.
	I think that his bravado and personality is going to be attractive immediately.
	But anytime you set the tone of your team that, hey, the head coach is going to have all this bravado, the entire team is going to follow his lead.
	And you're going to have a locker room filled with 100 guys with enormous egos.
	That's not how teams operate well over the long haul.
	You have role players.
	You have one or two superstars that have that kind of bravado and energy, but you can't have a team full of that.
	And so it'll be great that he'll have talent, but in college only 85 guys can be on scholarship, and there's more than 85 great players.
	Some of these other teams are going to have just as much talent as Dion in Colorado,
	And they're going to have, perhaps, better locker room chemistry, a more traditional atmosphere within that locker room.
	And so I want to see how this all plays out when adversity hits.
	Because adversity hits every football team.
	There'll be injuries.
	There'll be critical mistakes where you fall behind.
	I want to see
	How this team handles adversity before I'm ready to say this is going to work.
	Right now, I don't see it working over the long haul.
	He may get away with it for a season.
	Don, I'm someone that I honestly think, and I may regret saying this, they're favored by 23 points this weekend against Colorado State.
	I think they're going to lose the game.
	Interesting.
	I really do.
	Colorado State, I think, is fired up.
	Their coach, Jay Norville, who's also African-American, he's basically come out and made some statements criticizing Deion.
	He's taking this thing head on.
	I may look foolish.
	Deion and these guys may blow him out by 40.
	I don't see it.
	I think this is going to be a very close game.
	And I think Colorado State could upset them.
	Colorado's offensive line's not that good.
	Defensive line is suspect.
	Quarterback's talented.
	They got a few other really, really good players.
	I think we'll be surprised on Saturday.
	We'll see.
	Or maybe I'll have egg on my face.
	Well, by the way, because the internet is forever, you know, if you do have egg, if you're right, no one's going to give you credit for it.
	If you're wrong, they'll shit all over you.
	So that's sort of the way it works, unfortunately.
	I've borne witness to that myself on more than one or two occasions.
	But if we shift now to the NFL, you saw obviously Aaron Rodgers.
	39 years old.
	Signed a deal with the New York Jets.
	Guaranteed $75 million.
	He got hurt.
	Season-ending injury on the fourth play of the season.
	So, many are now blaming artificial turf.
	Do you think that's a real thing?
	Is that the cause of this?
	Is it different there?
	Is there a clear-cut explanation to this one?
	I do think they should be playing on grass, but more than that, Don, I think these guys have to take a different approach to the preseason.
	You can't just snap a finger and go play NFL regular season.
	Exhibition games are important.
	Building the callus and getting your muscles used to playing at that level that you play at in a regular season game or postseason game.
	I think the players have made a huge mistake and they've reduced the number of practices you can have throughout the course of a season.
	Most of them don't play in the exhibition season and so I just think
	Aaron Rodgers set out the entire preseason went out there and had a little freak accident and I do think
	You know, Phil Turk is not as good as playing on grass.
	I would be for that change.
	But I think it's a culmination of a lot of different things.
	And then just being 39 years old.
	Yeah.
	Hey, as someone who's 45, the thing I miss most about youth is just not waking up sore every day for no reason.
	You know, attending, like, everything is less flexible.
	You know, I'm not an elite athlete, but I imagine everything being relative, it's still harder, right?
	That doesn't change.
	Can't stop the clock.
	You cannot.
	Don, I want to ask you something, and I don't know if you have access to the internet while we're sitting here talking, but I wish you would look up and pray.
	I think, yeah, your dad, you know Woody Johnson, the owner of the Jets.
	It was our ambassador to the UK, worked very closely with Woody.
	And so you're the perfect guy for me to ask it.
	Did you see the big diamond encrusted gold chain that Woody wore to the game?
	It had his name, Woody.
	I gotta see this.
	My team is pulling it up.
	Wow, that's pretty aggressive.
	Yeah, he looked like Rick Ross or some rapper.
	He's got a player on his team called Sauce Gardner that has a big gold chain like this.
	But this guy is 76, walking around like a rapper.
	Defend your boy Woody Johnson here.
	What's he doing?
	Listen, I don't know.
	But if he's just having fun, then I respect the haste.
	You know what I mean?
	As a shit talker myself and someone who likes to break balls, I kind of respect it.
	If he's actually serious, which I doubt, knowing Woody,
	You know, then that's a whole different story.
	But, you know, if he's doing something, having some fun with the team and bringing some unity from ownership, especially, you know, given some of the tensions there, not just obviously at the Jets, but basically throughout the NFL, I think it's actually probably, you know, a good thing.
	I think, you know, bridging that gap.
	You've seen about the controversies between them.
	So, you know, I'm going to give him a pass on this one.
	This one's going to go, they'll go get a little bit interesting because now with Rodgers injured,
	The Liberals are beginning the push.
	They want to sign Colin Kaepernick, who hasn't played in the NFL in seven years.
	Controversial would probably be an understatement.
	I imagine, you know, not good for a lot of the morale, but that's just my opinion.
	Maybe it'd be great for team morale, but I imagine it becomes all about him and whatever mission he's pushing.
	Is Colin Kaepernick ready for the NFL?
	Is the NFL ready for Colin Kaepernick?
	What happens?
	I know I have my opinion, but I'm curious to see what you say.
	Don, it speaks to how little leftists have to say that's interesting.
	That they would say something this stupid.
	The guy hasn't played in the NFL in seven years.
	And so in order to be provocative, in order to chase clicks, in order to be con... Hey, the Jets should call Colin Kaepernick.
	Well, wait, wait, wait.
	But in their defense, these people think that men can breastfeed.
	So, like, I mean, we... You know, in all fairness, you know, we're dealing... We gotta re-center our logic here to accommodate this stuff.
	That we got to keep it in perspective and say, you know what?
	Colin Kaepernick playing quarterback is far more insane than the belief.
	It's far more sane than the belief that men can get pregnant.
	Or that men should be competing in swimming against Riley Gaines and other people.
	So you're actually, this is relatively sane.
	Yeah.
	Because at least Colin Kaepernick played football at some point.
	Yeah.
	I think me playing quarterback for the New York Jets is probably more sane than the average shit that comes out of a leftist's mouth these days.
	And we are told or we must capitulate and we must believe or we're just terrible, terrible human beings and fascists and such.
	I think that I don't even think Colin Kaepernick wants to play in the NFL.
	I know for a fact he doesn't.
	But he does like his name in the headlines.
	He does like being talked about.
	When you're famous, you like people to talk about you.
	People haven't talked about Colin Kaepernick in a while.
	He's got nothing new to say.
	He's got nothing of substance to say.
	He's never had anything of substance to say.
	And so this little gimmick of
	Every six months, pretending like he wants back in the NFL.
	Gets him in the headlines.
	And, hey, I'm still famous.
	I'm still Colin Kaepernick.
	People are still talking about me on Twitter and, you know, Facebook and Instagram.
	It's just all a gimmick for cliques.
	No one actually believes Colin Kaepernick could help the New York Jets or any football team.
	I don't even know if Colin Kaepernick would be a good high school quarterback at this point.
	Alright, so let's take, we'll move from Kaepernick, and let's take the opposite of Kaepernick, right?
	Novak Djokovic.
	He was banned from the United States for two years for not taking the VACs.
	The ban in tennis was finally lifted this year, and Novak Djokovic immediately won the U.S.
	Open.
	In fact, not only did he win the U.S.
	Open, but he won
	One of the great ironies of all time, the Moderna Shot of the Day Award, because apparently, Moderna is the sponsor of, you know, the USTA.
	So, I'm gonna play this clip, and I wanna get your reaction, because this to me is like the culmination of all the great irony of what's going on in this world these days.
	Oh boy.
	Well, we'll take you to the Moderna Shot of the Day, and it was...
	Okay.
	So one of the great tennis players of all time stood on his principles.
	Of course, it's not like one of the great athletes of all time really needed a shot, right?
	That doesn't look like he had a lot of pre-existing conditions, so to speak.
	But, I mean, what's your take on this?
	Because to me, it's just, it's absolutely spectacular to see that.
	And watching Bill Gates in the stand, sitting there, just epic.
	I'm glad it happened.
	There were three guys in the sports world that really stood up during the whole COVID madness, Vax Madness deal.
	Kyrie Irvin.
	Aaron Rodgers.
	Kyrie plays in the NBA.
	Aaron Rodgers obviously in the NFL.
	And Novak Dilkovic.
	And obviously we've seen Aaron Rodgers get hurt.
	Kyrie ended up
	With the Dallas Mavericks and Flamin' Out.
	And so I'm glad at least one of them got what they deserved.
	Adding to their legend.
	I'm hoping that Kyrie Irving has a great season this year.
	I hope that Aaron Rodgers comes back and plays next season.
	Really, really rooting for Aaron Rodgers.
	I've never been a Djokovic fan, but because of his backstance and the way he stood his ground, I've become a fan of his.
	And so, I'm hoping Kyrie has a great season.
	I hope Aaron Rodgers comes back.
	Djokovic goes on to set every record in the world.
	He's already in the argument for the greatest tennis player of all time.
	I hope that it becomes clear-cut and he's the Michael Jordan of tennis.
	It's vindication and well-earned and well-deserved.
	Yeah, I mean, I think especially when you see, you know, you saw LeBron's son, you know, cardiac issues.
	I mean, you know, you see a lot of these young athletes.
	I mean, I'm sure it's happened before, but it seems, you know, grossly disproportional.
	Why is that not a story?
	Especially sort of in light of the attacks, the vicious attacks that, say, Djokovic faced.
	Again, for just saying, hey, I don't think I need it.
	I don't want it.
	Why is that different?
	And why are those sort of instances?
	And, you know, these are major, you know, incredibly athletic people in the best shape of their life, prime condition, and yet it feels like you read about some sort of college athlete in his prime, you know, dropping dead, passing out, whatever it may be, on a floor, and yet Djokovic is the one that gets crap, not the people that, you know, would force it upon him.
	Don, let me...
	Really politicize this or take it even a step further.
	The media is so rigged and has their narratives and Big Pharma tells them what to think and what they can say.
	Yeah, they sponsor the tennis!
	Just compare the number of athletes in their prime, the number of young people we've heard, died suddenly.
	Just dropped dead.
	And just compare that to the handful of Black Lives Matter unarmed black men shot by police.
	There have been far more people just dropped dead mysteriously since this COVID thing and forced vaccinations, but the media's gonna, we're just keeping, oh, Black Lives Matter and Lives Matter and they're, let's keep a running scoreboard on whoever died and blah, blah, blah.
	But they can take a handful of police-involved shootings that are questionable, a handful of them, and turn it into a national epidemic that must be stopped, and we've got to take away people's gun rights, and we've got to defund the police, and we've got to do this, we've got to do that, but they completely ignore
	Now, all of these young people, and again, LeBron James' son.
	You think LeBron James' son has some pretty good genes he's working with?
	He's got LeBron James' genes.
	I think he's doing pretty good.
	Yeah, he's having cardiac arrest at 19, but there's no story here.
	There's nothing to talk about.
	There's nothing to see.
	It just speaks to how rigged the media is and how much control Big Pharma has over the media.
	So you talked, you mentioned Roger Goodell earlier, obviously, you know, head of the NFL, you know, you got Adam Silver, you got all these other guys out there.
	How did those guys get so political?
	Because I don't feel like the fan base is
	Certainly not majority left-leaning, you know, sort of woke.
	I think probably the opposite.
	I'm sure there's some woke fans, you know, certainly in major cities or whatever it may be.
	But, you know, how did this, how did wokeism take over professional
	Sports.
	And again, you know, I even see some of the players doing it.
	But, you know, I know plenty of, you know, pro athletes.
	I'm friendly with a lot of them.
	Here is sort of, let's call it, to quote Donald Trump, you know, the locker room talk.
	And I don't think like virtually none of these people believe any of the shit that's out there right now in the woke thing.
	And yet it's taken over these leagues entirely.
	How did that happen?
	Where does it go from here?
	Which are the ones that sort of play just enough that they can kind of, you know, I get it, they're appeasing both sides and avoiding it to perhaps run an organization the way it should be, maybe apolitical.
	What happened with all of that?
	Nike.
	People don't understand that Nike is the most powerful force in all of sports.
	People don't understand that the NBA is an $8-10 billion a year league.
	Nike is $40-50 billion a year.
	Nike drives the NBA.
	The NBA is basically the marketing department for Nike.
	Nike, again, $40 to $50 billion a year.
	It's a global corporation.
	The NFL is $18 to $20 billion a year in revenue.
	Nike is the driving force in sports.
	Nike is concerned with the 1.4 billion citizens in China, more than the 330 million potential customers here in America.
	Nike panders to China.
	They have all this slave Asian labor that they're dependent upon, and they want to be able to sell their products in China and expand that market.
	And so all of this anti-American sentiment that you see from these sports leagues,
	It's driven by Nike.
	When you look at Colin Kaepernick and LeBron James, who are they selling product for?
	Who are they spokesmen for?
	Nike.
	Nike's driving all of this.
	Now, there's other
	Forces as well plant World Economic Forum and ESG and all the the top-down diversity equity and equity inclusion and all the anti-american sentiment because again all these forces are working to bring down America so they can install globalism so they can take away our freedoms and so that people The working class will be happy with nothing and and and they'll love it
	But, you know, if I had to point the finger at one primary source, it's Nike.
	They're the driving force.
	How did that shift?
	I mean, you started off, you know, as a reporter, sports reporter in Kansas City.
	Then you worked at ESPN, which, you know, I mean, I feel like if I watch ESPN, I'm getting more woke.
	Uh, more woke politics than I would if I turned on CNN.
	Uh, but then you worked at, you know, Fox Sports and The Blaze.
	You know, how have you seen that industry change?
	Uh, what drew you there in the first place?
	And then, you know, what made that change?
	And what then was the sort of the precipice for you actually starting to speak out on, you know, against some of the social shit and the wokeness that was going on in there, rather than just talking about sports and staying in that lane?
	Biggest change to sports media was Disney buying ESPN 25, 30 years ago.
	Once Disney took over ESPN, Disney, another global corporation with an agenda, with a narrative,
	That was really the end of ESPN sticking to traditional sports values.
	It took time.
	It was a slow process.
	But I saw the change in ESPN as Disney's values became more and more pervasive throughout ESPN.
	I worked there two different times, and the second time I worked there was like, wow, this is a really hostile place for someone with my values.
	And so what just ended up happening to me is things became more and more obvious, like, whoa, whoa, whoa, this isn't the America I grew up in.
	There's, I am someone that in 1984, Don, I was a senior in high school and me and my dad lived in a one bedroom, 400 square foot apartment in Indianapolis.
	We were in the hood and we were poor.
	I was a very good high school football player.
	I got a football scholarship to Ball State University.
	Going to college opened my eyes to a bunch of opportunities that America had to offer, and I just applied the values that I learned in the church growing up, the values I learned from my mom and dad, and had
	An amazing American dream story of going from poverty to living on the Wilshire Corridor in Westwood, one of the richest zip codes in America.
	I believe in that America, and I want other young people to have the opportunity and the experience that I had to be able to climb that ladder.
	We have more economic mobility in America than any place on the planet.
	And I'm looking at people that want to throw that away, and I'm looking at people reject
	All the values that made this country great.
	And I just reached a point where I just felt like I can't sit on the sidelines.
	I gotta talk about this.
	I have to try to help people understand what we're throwing away.
	What we can't
	We can't buy into a matriarchal culture.
	We can't throw away the patriarchal.
	We can't throw away male leadership.
	We can't throw away freedoms that we've taken for granted.
	We can't throw away the American dream.
	You're probably 10, 15 years younger than me.
	When I grew up, we were on this path where things weren't perfect.
	But we were getting closer and closer to the racial harmony that Dr. Martin Luther King and other people fought for.
	And I've seen all that change on a dime and go the complete other direction where we're having separate graduation ceremonies.
	Yeah, we're bringing back segregation.
	I see it.
	I mean, I read the stuff going on at universities and the housing situations.
	I'm like, I sort of feel like maybe, like we're missing something.
	One of the things you talk a lot about, and you've been very open about, I wish more people would be open about, is your faith.
	And, you know, sort of America getting away from that, going to a far more secular society, avoiding that.
	And I mean, I think it's pretty clear that without faith, so many of these things that would be natural just sort of disappear to live in the here and now.
	Talk a little bit about that, because I know, you know, that's the other thing that, whether it's the Vax or whatever, someone like Djokovic, if they talk about their faith, these athletes are killed and criticized and this, and I mean,
	I don't know that there was ever a time in human history where that would have been controversial, yet in 2023, uh, you know, that's, you know, that makes you evil.
	Don, look up Coco Gauff, who won the U.S.
	Open.
	She dropped to her knees in prayer after winning.
	It's clear as day on the video.
	And she's been open about her Christian faith.
	ESPN SportsCenter tweeted out that Coco Gauff was soaking it all in.
	And people like Ted Cruz and people like Tony Dundee were like, what are you talking about?
	This woman dropped to her knees in prayer.
	She's not soaking it all in, but that's how hostile corporate media, ESPN is to Christian values.
	People are wondering why the cancel culture and why society's gotten so harsh.
	When you reject Christian values, you're rejecting forgiveness.
	And that's why we have no forgiveness.
	Oh, someone said the wrong word when they were 18 or 15 over Twitter.
	Cancel that person forever.
	Are you kidding me?
	When I think about all the mistakes I've made in my life, really bad mistakes.
	I thank God every day.
	Yeah, I'm probably 10, 12 years younger than you, but I just thank God every day that when we were in our 20s or in college that we didn't have video cameras in our pockets.
	Right?
	Like...
	Because you do stupid shit.
	I learned much more from the dumb shit I did than from when I got it right.
	That's how we grow.
	That's how we learn.
	But if every time you make a single mistake, it's literally life-altering and prevents you from ever recovering, and that's what they'd have you do these days,
	I don't know how anyone could actually grow or ever get to a level where they actually have the real world experience of life to actually be good at something or to make a good decision for the future.
	It's...
	Look, the primary purpose of Christian faith is it's about forgiveness.
	Jesus died on the cross for all of our sins.
	His grace and mercy is why, again, we get to enjoy life.
	And he made it incredible.
	And so we've just removed all of that.
	So we don't even have an understanding when, again, when you walk away from Christian faith, you don't even understand the value of freedom.
	And that's why I look at people, it's like, we don't even value freedom anymore, and we don't understand what guarantees our freedom here in America.
	And this Obama and these people want to ridicule people for clinging to their guns and their Bibles.
	And like, no, those are the smartest people in the world.
	They know that
	The Bible and that gun are the guarantee of their freedom.
	Because if the left gets their way and they take our guns from us, trust me, they're going to come knocking at your door, shoving that vaccine in your arm and your kids' arms and everybody.
	I just, I'm so blown away at how little people
	Know and understand about what made this country great and what we should actually value.
	That they've done some kind of incredible brainwashing job where people could care less.
	That they would rather have safety over freedom.
	And that again is why I'm so against the feminization of society.
	I get why it is in woman's nature to long for safety.
	It's in man's nature to be risk-taking and, you know, kind of eschew safety.
	Again, you could never have Evel Knievel.
	I don't know if you're old enough.
	Oh yeah, I'm old enough.
	Yeah, you couldn't have Evel Knievel in this day.
	That was just a guy that, I'm gonna go out and risk death doing stupid things.
	You couldn't have an Arthur Fonzarelli, the Fonz, the Happy Days.
	We never had that anymore.
	And literally, I try to tell people, like, hey, do you know these skyscrapers and these
	These roughnecks, they'd fall to their deaths.
	And people, they'd have a little brief, oh man, it's tough that guy died, but we gotta keep building things.
	Yeah, well why aren't the feminists complaining about there's not enough female roughnecks?
	Or construction workers, it seems like, you know, they want a diversity quota for everything else, except for the really shitty jobs where you can die.
	I don't see that, in all of the virtue signaling I see out there, and I know you do have to go, but I wanna close on this note, right?
	Apple, I don't know if you watched that ridiculous new ad where they're lectured by an actress playing Mother Nature.
	I'm gonna play a one minute clip, but I gotta get your commentary on this, because I imagine it's gonna be gold.
	Check this out.
	I hope we didn't keep you waiting.
	Mother Nature.
	Mother Nature, welcome to Apple.
	How was the weather getting in?
	The weather was however I wanted it to be.
	Let's cut to the chase.
	In 2020, you promised to bring Apple's entire carbon footprint to zero by 2030.
	Henry David Thoreau over here
	Said we have a profound opportunity to build a more sustainable future for the planet we share.
	I think our ten o'clock said the same thing.
	They all do.
	Alright.
	This is my third corporate responsibility gig today, so who wants to disappoint me first?
	So what's the deal with corporations releasing these bizarro videos?
	How does Apple, they talk about carbon footprint.
	Strangely enough, I have a feeling they haven't changed their policies on lithium mining by slave child labor in East Africa.
	I have a feeling
	You know, but you know, hey, guess what?
	It doesn't count in their ESG because they sub that out to someone else.
	They just pay someone else to do the dirty work, so it doesn't really count.
	You know, what is the deal with the virtue signaling?
	Does it do anything?
	I mean, do people, I mean, if I see it, and I don't follow Apple at all really, you know, but if I see that it's BS, doesn't everyone else, do they actually get anything out of it at this point or does it not even matter?
	There's so much BS in that commercial that we could have spent the entire show just me nitpicking that, because it's a five minute commercial, and it's Tim Cook pleasuring himself.
	He's basically, I was to say, he's basically masturbating, and look how great I am.
	Because one of the, number one thing,
	Go to Apple, go to any of their meetings, and see if this potpourri of people that they have in this commercial, if that's what Apple's real meetings look like.
	Again, that thing was so color-coded, and women here, and, oh, here's a black guy in dreadlocks, or he's got braids, and all this.
	The whole thing was fake and phony, and Octavia Spencer is Mother Nature, and her condescending attitude.
	That was a liberal leftist wet dream commercial.
	When they shot that, they all just sat around and smoked a cigarette and said, oh, look how great we are.
	In our little fantasy world, this is what it looks like.
	There's a black woman who's telling everybody what to do, and Tim Cook's just sitting there nodding his head as Stacey Abrams or Lizzo tells him what to do.
	It's a joke.
	You know, I watched it.
	How much time you got?
	I need to get rid of my Apple phone is all I kept thinking.
	Thank God.
	You know what?
	This is legitimate.
	Thank God I got Patriot Mobile on my Apple phone.
	Listen, like I said, you know, sponsors of this show, I believe yours.
	And I know you have to go tell our guys where they can see you, where they can find you.
	I know you're on The Blaze with your podcast.
	Social media.
	Check us out over YouTube.
	YouTube.com slash Jason Whitlock.
	We're everywhere that podcasts are available.
	Everywhere there.
	You can find me on Twitter at Whitlock Jason.
	Thank you so much, Don, for having me on.
	Next time, I won't.
	I'm actually headed to John Rich's house for an event.
	I was with him on Saturday, so tell him I said hi.
	Great guy.
	I double booked today, and so I wish I had more time, but I gotta run over here with John.
	I think Marsha Blackburn's gonna be here.
	We're gonna have a great event, so.
	Very nice, man.
	Well, I appreciate you doing it.
	We'll definitely have you guys.
	We'll have you back on again.
	I imagine while we may have tried to solve all of the world's problems, I have a feeling the left isn't just going to go away and go back to normalcy or sanity.
	So we'll be back.
	And so guys, I'll stick around a little bit as well.
	I'll take some of your questions here, talk a little bit news of the day, and we'll have Jason back on soon.
	So thanks a lot, man.
	I really appreciate it.
	So guys, appreciate that.
	I thought that was great.
	And it's great to see someone like Jason who just says it like it is.
	A great follow, so go check him out.
	But there's still a lot going on.
	I want to take some of your questions.
	I want to see if you weren't on Twitter today.
	Probably good for you.
	Good things rarely come out of either that side or the news today.
	But today, when Hunter was indicted,
	Shockingly, folks, shockingly, rather than him trending on Twitter, the son of the President of the United States, the most famous crackhead in the world, rather than him trending, yours truly was the one that was trending on Twitter.
	The same thing happened, folks, when they found cocaine in the White House last month while Hunter Biden was literally in the White House.
	Who could it be?
	Well, it must be Don Jr.
	Magically.
	It had to be mine, not the most famous crackhead in the world, who was actually there.
	The Hunter indictment today better not be the only indictment that DOJ brings and that's why you guys have to be out there, you have to be vocal, you have to make sure that they don't get away with this.
	There's tax crimes out there, there's money laundering crimes, unregistered foreign lobbying crimes that could all be charged and should all be charged until those cases are brought.
	This is just one big cover-up.
	Notice the only thing they actually do about this thing?
	The only thing that they don't do is go after Joe because it's the one crime that Hunter's involved in that doesn't involve the big guy?
	But one notable thing about the Hunter indictment is that it came after an article by David Ignatius in the Washington Post saying that Biden shouldn't run again.
	This one's actually significant for a couple of reasons.
	One is Joe Biden is an avid reader of David Ignatius and the fake news Washington Post.
	That's the Amazon Bezos Washington Post.
	So Biden read the column saying that he should step down and not run for re-election.
	But the second aspect of this
	That many don't know or understand is that Ignatius is basically known as the CIA's go-to reporter.
	In other words, folks, the deep state is panicking that Joe Biden is losing in poll after poll
	That Americans are waking up to the corruption that's so flagrant and obvious you'd have to be an imbecile to not see it.
	They're desperate to make sure my father isn't back in office and back in power because they know that will be the end of their reign of terror.
	And now the deep state, through their spokesperson,
	is letting Joe Biden know just that.
	Now, I imagine Joe Biden probably doesn't even figure that out anymore.
	There was a time he probably read that and understood the narrative and the messaging.
	I think that time is probably long gone.
	We've seen gaffe after gaffe, right?
	You know, you see lie after lie from Joe Biden, right?
	Today he said he was a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania.
	No, no, they paid him a million bucks and he did nothing.
	Yet another lie.
	He's done so many of these things, it never seems to end.
	But my father's dominant polling lead isn't the only good news out there right now.
	Mittens, Mitt Romney, announced yesterday that he will be retiring.
	And good riddance, folks, because with Republicans like Mitt Romney, who needs Democrats?
	Mitt Romney represents the worst of the Republican Party.
	He tells himself he's better than you while supporting trade agreements that shut down the factory that you work at.
	He shouts about the rule of law,
	Well, fortunately, the Romney wing of the party lost.
	That's why he's retiring.
	He told reporters in interviews that the Republican Party today is led by Donald Trump.
	Romney lost, and we're all better for it.
	He criticizes those who are actually doing good work in the Senate, like my friend J.D.
	Vance.
	Because he understands that Vance is actually fighting for you, unlike him fighting for the unit party.
	So it's not all lost, but we've got to stay on, we've got to keep fighting, and we cannot give up.
	So I'm going to take a couple questions here for a little bit, and then I'm going to go over to locals.
	So for those of you who are over there, I'll take your guys' questions directly so I make sure I cover all of that.
	But if you guys have a couple questions over here, anything that's been going on, I'll hit them.
	Otherwise, I'll switch over to locals and we'll see you guys on a Thursday or on Monday.
	I don't even know what day it is anymore.
	That's how crazy my life is.
	So let's see.
	Bless this world.
	Dee Jr., Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson for VP.
	Mark Robinson's in the house over in North Carolina.
	A great guy.
	Very outspoken man.
	Great guy.
	Become a friend.
	Hung out with him a few times.
	Absolute legend.
	Funny guy.
	That would be interesting and that would drive a lot of people pretty crazy.
	Mittens are leaving because the water's getting hot.
	Don Jr., great guest.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	Raider208, thank you.
	Yeah, no, I thought that was actually great.
	I wish, like I said, Jason called.
	He's like, hey, I can do an hour, but I basically got to be out at 7.
	He mentioned why.
	I was with John Rich this weekend.
	I was speaking at the Tennessee Firearms Association, their big sort of annual meeting.
	John played there.
	I was a keynote speaker talking about the insanity of what's going on in the Second Amendment world.
	You saw New Mexico's governor wanting to just suspend the Second Amendment, like your right to carry it.
	We're just going to, I don't know, rights, you know, rights.
	Who really cares?
	Let's just forget about that.
	Even some of the lunatic leftists, like David Hogg and stuff like that, came out against that insanity.
	But I guess that's the problem with what's going on right now, guys.
	The left has just been emboldened to just forget about everything.
	Uh, to forget about rights, freedoms, because they've just gotten away with so much murder these days, uh, that, you know, it's why we've got to keep fighting back.
	Yeah, listen, I love that, but that's not, you know, unfortunately I'm not in charge.
	Hopefully this message gets out there and we actually do something.
	We don't get to get away or change the process, right?
	The Democrats can change a process like they did during an election.
	They waived state constitutions.
	It was an emergency!
	Minor details, right?
	Governor of New Mexico, I just mentioned that.
	It was an emergency because some people were shot.
	We just got to suspend everyone's rights.
	Though I imagine the rights of the people that were suspended were not actually those who committed the crimes.
	I imagine those were not done by people lawfully carrying concealed weapons, but by pieces of shit criminals.
	But that doesn't matter in today's left.
	We don't get the benefit of the doubt of not being able to play by the rules.
	Only the left does that.
	So, we have to, you know, for better or worse, we have to do that.
	Though, at this point, my theory is we got to play the game that they're playing.
	Because otherwise, we have no chance of actually winning.
	And we've been playing t-ball while they've been playing hardball.
	God is going to restore your father to his rightful seat before the 2024 elections.
	The Smith Fam 5.
	Unfortunately, that's not going to happen.
	I know there's people talking about those things.
	It's just never going to happen.
	We've got to win this thing in 2024.
	We're going to have to beat and defeat whatever bullshit they throw out there.
	But, you know, I know there's people holding on to that one, but it's unfortunately not going to happen.
	Certainly not in this day and age.
	Certainly not with, you know, people in office and the people that it's just not the way it works and it would be shut down across the board.
	So we are going to have to, and I don't think,
	Joe Biden got in there, you know, under real merit and pretense, but that doesn't matter.
	He's there now and we're going to have to beat him or whoever else they stick in there in 24.
	And that's why we got to be out there, you know, fighting.
	But we can't hold on to those kind of dreams, unfortunately, because that's just not going to happen.
	And I know that's going to be a major disappointment to a lot of people that would love to see that.
	We'll see.
	Is that the Italian PM?
	I don't know enough about it.
	I like what she was running.
	I don't know if she's trying to appease the left with whatever it is.
	I haven't been following it closely enough to tell you one way or the other.
	I imagine she's better than some of the radical leftists that they would have put in there, but I don't know enough about Italian politics, frankly, to talk about it.
	Just peachy.
	Exactly.
	I think that's probably in response to my, like, you know, let's not hold on to sort of, you know, certain pipe dreams.
	Like, you know, someone's going to just get put back into office.
	Again, we can't do that.
	We just got to go win.
	We got to make sure we win the House.
	We got to buy a larger margin so we can do a lot more.
	So we're not holding.
	I mean, I'm watching a couple of people.
	Well, we don't want to impeach Joe Biden because that wouldn't be nice.
	It's like, I mean, you have, like, the Democrats are out there.
	What evidence?
	Oh, you mean other than phone calls?
	Other than emails?
	Other than wire transfers?
	Other than, like, why is Hunter getting paid millions of dollars?
	Over and over.
	Why is the money flowing from China to the entire family who's never been there or even conducted business?
	Other than minor shit like that, you know, why?
	I mean, we have Republicans that are trying to hold that up in the House because they're weak.
	So figure out who they are and call them.
	Do I think Biden will pardon his son?
	I think eventually.
	He's not going to let him go to jail.
	They'll just drag it out till, you know, they'll drag out the proceedings as long as they can.
	And then, you know, they'll do it when it doesn't hurt him politically or it doesn't hurt the Democrats.
	Uh, politically.
	But I'm sure it'll happen.
	He's never gonna, nothing's gonna happen.
	And guess what?
	They'll settle for, you know, slap on the wrist.
	He'll say, oh yes, he committed a major, there will be no jail time and there'll be no this.
	You know, the same guy that was gonna give him the clown deal, you know, Weiss, is the guy that's in charge of the new investigation.
	You know, so we all know where this one's going and it's going nowhere.
	But again,
	I think it is telling that the one crime of the many that Hunter's committed is the one crime that isn't tied to Joe Biden, so they can cover for him longer than they would be able to otherwise, and avoid bringing that scrutiny or giving the Republicans more to latch onto.
	So that was clearly by design, and if you don't believe that, you haven't been watching closely enough.
	Wow.
	Let's worry about the next... We got a lot to worry about in 24.
	Let's worry about that.
	Maybe one day I got to keep fighting.
	I think I can probably do, you know, a lot more fighting, you know, here not being in office, not having to play by the rules.
	Again,
	The Democrats don't have to play by the rules, but if I was in there, I assure you that every ethics investigation, every this would be long, whether I did anything or not.
	If I said Merry Christmas, they'd say I'm being anti-Semitic.
	You know, it doesn't, you know, it's just different rules.
	So, you know, maybe one day.
	You never know.
	Right now, I'm not sure I want the day job.
	I like the fight.
	I like being in there.
	I like a lot of the stuff that the Republicans aren't really good at, like actually fighting and pushing back.
	You know, being aggressive and pushing forward.
	But I think I can do a lot of that without actually having to be in office and probably can do a lot more.
	Jules Vernon, 23, used to be brainwashed.
	I think a lot of people were brainwashed.
	Shit, I was brainwashed.
	You know, I believe that the FBI, if they said something about General Flynn or me or, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia, there had to be some truth to it.
	I mean, it's the FBI.
	You know, now I realize that those institutions are broken and corrupted and, you know, really
	We got to start way over.
	Again, we're making the distinction between a broken leadership and door kickers and the guys doing the actual work that are good patriotic Americans.
	There's many, and I see them because they come up to me and they're more pissed off than perhaps even I am about what's going on at these institutions.
	They just also understand that they're helpless to do something.
	If they say something, they'll be relegated to the island of Guam.
	They'll never get a promotion.
	They'll lose their jobs and be on the short list for firing.
	Uh, you know, they can't exactly destroy their lives, their careers, their families, their, you know, ability to pay for their mortgages.
	Uh, and, uh, you know, it's not, it's not that simple, but, you know, it,
	Many of them are still on our side.
	We just got to get rid of the corrupt bureaucrats at the top.
	And again, that's what Trump's going to do.
	And I think it's why they hate him so much.
	So they're all complicit, Franklin 7-7-9, 100 percent.
	100 percent.
	No, I think that's true.
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	How can you impeach someone who isn't present?
	Joe Biden did not win.
	Boozer 20.
	That's a solid point.
	I guess you can impeach other people in government.
	Maybe you impeach him ex post facto during his Senate times or VP times.
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