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Jan. 3, 2025 - System Update - Glenn Greenwald

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Terror Attacks Exploited To Push Unrelated Narratives; Facing Imminent Firing Squad, Liz Cheney Awarded Presidential Medal

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	On January 1st, which was yesterday, two violent attacks took place in two iconic American cities.
	In Los Angeles, a 42-year-old U.S.-born American citizen named Shamsu Din Jabbar, who reportedly became radicalized as an ICE adherent in the last year, drove a rented pickup truck on Bourbon Street at roughly 3 a.m.
	and deliberately mowed down as many people as he could, ultimately killing 15 people, the majority of them quite young.
	Shortly thereafter in Las Vegas, another U.S.-born American, identified as Matthew Allen Liversberger, who was an active member of the U.S. military stationed in Germany, drove a rented Tesla Cybertruck to the front entrance of the Trump Hotel and blew himself up, only lightly injuring several drove a rented Tesla Cybertruck to the front entrance of the Trump Hotel Thus far, the only connections between these two alleged attackers are that they both served many years in the U.S. Army.
	Indeed, they seem to have served simultaneously at the same military base for some time.
	But thus far, at least, there is no evidence that they coordinated the attacks or even that they knew each other.
	Indeed, Jabbar in New Orleans had professed allegiance months ago to ISIS in videos he posted online and was reported by the FBI to be carrying an ISIS flag in his truck.
	Whereas Liversberger in Los Angeles was, according to family members at least, a longtime supporter of Donald Trump, who appeared to want to commit suicide in front of the Trump Hotel, like the second person to try to assassinate Donald Trump last year.
	Remember that?
	Liversberger is clearly a fanatical supporter of Ukraine, though what role, if any, that may have played in motivating the attack is unknown.
	Despite these clearly established facts that are now clearly established, we were subjected to an avalanche.
	As typically happens of claims and narratives and attempts to fearmonger to exploit these attacks, even though those claims and those exploitations bore no resemblance to what actually happened here.
	First, the New Orleans attack, starting very early in the morning, We were immediately
	catapulted Yet again, as has happened so many times over the last year since at least October 7th, catapulted back to 2002, where so many people, including influential ones, insisted that Muslims and Islam are our greatest threat and we must cleanse all of them from our country and go to war to protect ourselves against them.
	And coincidentally, this means making Israel's enemies our own, as the pro-Israel and billionaire Bill Ackman announced that we must do Adding that we must support Israel as it is the first line of defense against our enemies here in the United States.
	If all of this sounds familiar, it should.
	This is the principal way that the U.S. government repeatedly succeeds in inducing its population, even ones who proclaim themselves to be anti-war and pro-civil liberties.
	It induces them to support endless wars and relinquishment, of course, of civil liberties by exploiting every act of violence of this kind to intensify fear and worry among the citizenry about some new supposedly existential threat which can only be vanquished through extreme of civil liberties by exploiting every act of violence of this kind to intensify fear That is the formula in every instance of authoritarianism in a posture of endless war.
	We'll examine what happened in both of these places to the extent that we know and evaluate There's a lot of meaning in each.
	Then, As the media informed us shortly before the 2024 election, a victory by Donald Trump would almost certainly result in the imminent execution of Liz Cheney, probably by firing squad, as they claim Trump shortly before the election threatened to do.
	Liz Cheney was effectively the running mate of Kamala Harris and thus fortified her status as liberal icon, liberal hero, even more than she did when participating in the highly produced TV show called the January 6 Committee.
	Earlier today, the White House announced that Joe Biden would bestow a presidential medal on Liz Cheney tonight at the White House despite the fact that she continues to be a vocal advocate of an array of policies implemented by her dad that liberals have long condemned not just on policy grounds but said were fascist and un-American.
	And indeed Liz Cheney received that medal tonight from Joe Biden at the White House while Biden's staff and fans in attendance swooned as if they were teenagers who had just seen Elvis Presley.
	There are few developments, if there are any, that better reflect the identity and the value system of the current Democratic Party.
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	If you ask most Americans in either party about the United States' reaction to the terrorist attacks on 9-11, a majority, and polls show this, will say that they regret much of what the United and polls show this, will say that they regret much of what the United States ended up doing in the name of fighting terrorism or protecting the United States and creating more security for If you ask most Americans in either party about the United States' reaction to the terrorist attacks on 9/11, a majority, and polls show this, will say that they regret much of what the United States ended up doing in the name of fighting terrorism or protecting the United States and creating more security will say that they regret much of what the United States ended up doing in
	All sorts of things that the United States government said they needed, from the Patriot Act, to domestic warrantless surveillance, to the invasion of Iraq, to the bombing of multiple countries, to the creation of black sites run by the CIA, kidnapping people off the streets of Europe and sending them to places to be tortured, all of that were kidnapping people off the streets of Europe and sending them to places to be tortured, all of that were things that the United States government succeeded in convincing the population to accept by telling them that they faced such scary, grave threats to their security in the form of Islamic
	grave threats to their security in the form of Islamic extremism or terrorism, that the only way people could be safe is if they acquiesced to everything
	That ended up being what the war on terror was all about and extended not just through the Bush and Cheney administration, but also through the Obama and Biden administration that in many ways augmented and extended many of the worst abuses, despite the fact that they ran on a platform promising to uproot them.
	And in many ways it even extended into the Trump administration as the Trump administration inherited the occupation of and war in Afghanistan, which Trump negotiated an end to and then it took Joe Biden to actually pull the troops out all that time.
	Many of the things that happened as a result of that we are still settled with.
	The patron act we were told was such a radical piece of legislation that even the government acknowledged that it was radical and as a result said, "Oh, you don't have to worry.
	This is just a temporary measure." And within the Patriot Act to assuage concerns that people expressed, even in the wake of 9-11, in the weeks after when they were willing to give the Bush administration anything it wanted, the Patriot Act was a bridge too far.
	People expressed concerns about it.
	And the response was, oh, don't worry, it'll be a temporary measure.
	It'll expire automatically in three years unless Congress certifies that the terrorist threat is ongoing and that they need to renew it for that reason.
	Very predictably, Congress overwhelmingly voted to renew it in 2005. It has renewed it three times since with barely any debate, barely any dissent.
	And the Patriot Act is now just a part of our political system.
	It just has faded into the woodwork.
	Nobody even debates it anymore.
	Our country was radically transformed by the ability of the government to exploit the terrorist attack of 9-11, to convince us to start wars that many in the government wanted to start well before 9-11, as well as to transform our political system.
	These terrorist attacks are very valuable.
	To people who want to use them, to squeeze value out of them and meaning out of them, and most of all, to fearmonger around them in order to advance some sort of agenda, usually regarding militarism or war or a crackdown on civil liberties in the United States.
	And that's exactly what we've seen over the last 24 hours as two attacks, one of which has been called a terrorist attack, one of which was programmatically called that the one in Las Vegas.
	That term is a bit More doubtful, but obviously within 24 hours, the facts that you're given are dubious.
	They deserve a lot of skepticism.
	There's often the case that we're told things in the first 24 hours that end up not being true.
	But the picture that emerged is one of basically an attack motivated by allegiance to ISIS in New Orleans, and then another that we were told was either the result of an immigrant or also a Muslim radical.
	It turned out not to be true, but both of those events have been fused in order to drive up fear levels on purpose so that people do what they always do when they're put in fear of some foreign threat or some internal threat, which is they start pleading with the government to use force, to use military force, which is they start pleading with the government to use force, to use military force, to crush what they're scared of, or to have the government take away rights in the name of And that's exactly what's happening.
	First of all, just the details of what happened and what we know here from the local newspaper in New Orleans at NOLA.com.
	There you see the website, live updates.
	Death Paul rises to 15 in suspected, quote, act of terrorism on Bourbon Street.
	Quote, at least 15 people were killed and dozens were injured after a man barreled his truck down Bourbon Street in New Orleans during the early morning hours of New Year's Day.
	The FBI is investigating the mass casualty attack as a potential, quote, act of terrorism.
	Mayor Latoya Cantrell and New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ann Kirkpatrick have called the incident an intentional attack.
	The FBI identified the suspect as 42-year-old Shamsa Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas and an Army veteran.
	The agency said he was carrying an ISIS flag in the Ford pickup truck and that agents were working to determine his, quote, potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations.
	Originally, the FBI said that they were investigating who it was that carried out this attack with him.
	They claimed that they had video footage of three different people planting explosive devices on Bourbon Street where the attack occurred.
	The FBI has now said that that wasn't the case, that that's not what they saw in the video, and they believe the perpetrator acted alone.
	We're going to show you a little bit of footage, nothing graphic, just to give you a sense for what actually happened here with your own eyes.
	For those of you who haven't seen it, this is Bourbon Street around 3 a.m. in the early morning hours of January 1st.
	So there you see the velocity of the truck.
	You don't drive that quickly on a street like that.
	Filled with people, but then he also plunged into as many as he could and ended up killing 15 people, most of them young people, as you would expect, who would be celebrating New Year's Eve in New Orleans on Bourbon Street at 3 a.m.
	As for the attack in Las Vegas where somebody rented a Tulsa Cybertruck, which of course is the prized product of Elon Musk's Tesla, and drove it right up to the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, the symbolism seems pretty self-evident there.
	Merging Elon Musk with Donald Trump.
	He then blew up the truck with fireworks and other explosive devices that were in the trunk.
	That, too, was assumed to be a terrorist attack given the targeting of the Trump Hotel.
	Hear from...
	CBS News, this is earlier today, Tesla cyber truck explosion outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas is investigated as a possible act of terrorism.
	Quote, law enforcement sources told CBS News that the cyber truck was rented to Matthew Allen Livelsberger, 37, an active duty U.S. Army Special Forces intelligence sergeant, who was serving in Germany but was on leave in Colorado at the time of the incident.
	The alleged perpetrator of the attack in New Orleans was an Army veteran.
	This attacker, alleged attacker, however, in Las Vegas, who ended up not killing anybody other than himself, only lightly injuring people, and he was alleged to have been a highly trained explosives expert, meaning that had he wanted to blow up his truck and himself inside of it, And kill other people.
	He presumably would have known how to do that.
	He alternatively could have planted remote control devices and not killed himself.
	It seems like, and this is what the initial reporting suggests as well, that it was actually a suicidal attempt rather than a homicidal one.
	Here is the footage, again, not very graphic, but just gives you a sense of what happened, of that car, that truck, that cyber truck exploding in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
	This is Trump Hotel security footage.
	Copy.
	So you can see the secondary explosions that are clearly just easily recognizable as fireworks from just the sort of firecrackers even that you see in January 1st, but there's a lot of explosive power in that explosion in order to create the huge plum of smoke and it frightened a lot of people,
	obviously, and As a result, people assumed that this was the sort of attack that we should draw a lot of meaning from, especially when pairing it with the one in Las Vegas.
	Now, I've written before, I've talked before about how every time there's an attack or some sort of mass violence act that kills a lot of people in the name of some political ideology or potentially just connected to or the result of a political ideology, there's always an attempt I've talked before about how every time there's an attack or some sort of mass violence act that kills a lot of people in the name of some political ideology or potentially just connected to or the result of a political ideology, there's always an attempt
	And therefore, it ratchet up emotions and fear about the people that you're trying to blame.
	I wrote about this last in May of 2022.
	That was when a white supremacist, an avowed white supremacist, went to a heavily African-American neighborhood in Buffalo, entered a grocery store in the city.
	and shot and killed as many people as he could.
	It ended up being eight African-Americans who ended up dying.
	And he left behind a manifesto that was very similar to similar attacks in New Zealand, a mosque in New Zealand, and several in Europe, including in Norway, Highly easily recognizable theories and ideologies and dogma of white supremacy and the like were cited.
	And what immediately happened is after that attack, the media and Democrats united to pronounce that the person who bore the real blame for that murder was Tucker Carlson.
	Even though there was nothing in the manifesto, it was a very lengthy, detailed manifesto left by the shooter.
	He cited all sorts of people who inspired him and influenced him.
	Tucker Carlson was not on that list, nor was anybody else at Fox News.
	He never mentioned the name Tucker Carlson before.
	Nobody even knew whether he knew who Tucker Carlson was, let alone watched his show or let alone had been inspired by him.
	There's no relationship between the ideology he expressed and anything Tucker Carlson has advocated before, but there's this tactic to immediately look to exploit these kinds of attacks before the bodies are even removed to play on the emotions that they generate among decent people In order to ratchet up the fear and hatred of whoever you're trying to blame the attack on,
	the title of the article that I wrote was The Demented and Selective Game of Instantly Blaming Political Opponents for Mass Shootings.
	And that sub-headline was All Ideologies Spawn Psychopaths Who Kill Innocents in Its Name Yet Only Some Are Blamed for Their Violent Adherence By Opportunists Cravenly Exploiting Corpses While They Still Lie on the Ground.
	And you can go through all sorts of examples Where, in this case, the idea was, oh, look, this right-wing populism, this pro-Trump MAGA ideology is inspiring white-wing white supremacists to go and murder people.
	And the government's official claim under the Biden administration, remember, the U.S. intelligence community, FBI, homeland security, was that the greatest threat to the American homeland and international security was not...
	Al-Qaeda or ISIS or Islamic radicalism or any other foreign country.
	It was right-wing extremism at home, domestic right-wing extremism, specifically white supremacist right-wing extremism.
	And so this is the perfect event to exploit, to say, oh, look, this person was motivated by the exact sort of right-wing extremists we've been warning you about, people like Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump.
	And so, instantly, the attempt was to direct anger and rage and horror over that attack to the people whom they wanted to not just vilify, but really punish.
	Remember, they were trying to put Donald Trump in prison.
	They considered him and his movement and his ideology such a great threat that they had four different Criminal proceedings to try and imprison him.
	They wanted to get Tucker Carlson off the air, which they succeeded in doing.
	He was way too much of a threat.
	He wasn't Sean Hannity just playing his role as a Republican pundit against the Democrats.
	He was really advocating a lot of views that were not just heterodox for Democratic Party politics, but also Republican Party politics.
	And these events are the perfect opportunity for opportunists To pretend that this vindicated all along what it is that they were saying.
	And we saw this yesterday as well.
	Not just by people seeking to exploit what happened, but doing so in a way that ended up being based on false claims about what took place.
	Here was Donald Trump himself on his social media platform, True Social, responding to news of the New Orleans attack.
	And this is what he said,
	quote, I agree with Trump that untrammeled immigration is a big problem, that it is something that generates people coming to the country who are dangerous, who are unvetted.
	But obviously what Trump was trying to do was to claim that this terrorist attack was an example that the criminals coming into our country, meaning Immigrants coming into our country are worse than the criminals that we have here.
	And he was obviously suggesting strongly, if not outright stating, that the perpetrator of the attack in New Orleans was an immigrant, somebody who had immigrated to this country and therefore served as proof that we have to be afraid of immigrants.
	Again, you can believe that open borders immigration is a serious problem, both legally, ethically, and in terms of our national security, our public safety.
	Obviously, there's validity to that as well.
	I've talked about that many times.
	But you can't just grab an event, a horrific event that has the nation's attention, that's generating a lot of obvious emotion, and redirect that to people who had nothing to do with the attack.
	Now, one of the reasons Trump thought that the perpetrator in New Orleans was an immigrant who had entered the country illegally was because there was a lot of material on Fox News stating this to be the case.
	They talked to Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, who's trying to become the Speaker of the House and the new House as well, and here's what he had to say.
	And let me say something else that's obvious, and I don't know if enough attention is being paid to this, but we all know that for the last four years, the Biden administration has been completely derelict in its duty.
	The congressional Republicans, we here in the House and the Senate, have repeatedly asked the DHS under the Biden administration about the correlation, the obvious concern about terrorism and the wide-open border, the idea that dangerous people were coming here in droves and setting up potentially terrorist cells around the country.
	And while he's saying this, for those of you listening to the show instead of watching, there's a gigantic picture right next to Mike Johnson of the alleged attacker in New Orleans.
	So he's obviously...
	The Fox News is showing this attacker while Mike Johnson talks about the dangers of allowing untrammeled immigration into the United States to strongly imply, and you'll see that they actually came out and explicitly reported that the attacker was in fact a An immigrant, somebody who entered the United States illegally, when in fact he was born in the United States, lived his whole life in the United States, and was an American citizen as much as anybody else was.
	Here's Mike Johnson and the rest of what he said.
	We have been ringing the alarms.
	We impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas in the House over that very issue and others related to it.
	So this is a big concern.
	They told us, Lawrence, for four years, that the number one threat was so-called racially motivated extremism.
	It was nonsense.
	This is the thing that we were all concerned about.
	This is why we raised the alarms.
	This is why we passed H.R. 2, the strongest border security act ever passed by Congress.
	And Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate would not put that through and make it into law.
	The Biden administration has a lot to account for here, and we see now, in glaring view of everybody, that this dereliction of duty has real consequences.
	It's a concern, and it will be an ongoing concern for some time.
	I mean, again, you can agree with the policy claims there, but none of what he's saying is true.
	It's incredibly irresponsible.
	Think about what he's doing.
	He's the leader of the Congress, of the House of Representatives, third in line to the presidency.
	And at an extremely volatile, emotionally packed moment, he's going on to Fox and just pontificating, blaming this horrific attack.
	And something that actually had nothing to do with it, talking about House Bill No.
	2, which beefed up the border?
	What would that possibly—what kind of an effect would that possibly have had on stopping the attack in New Orleans by an American-born Army veteran who was an American citizen and always was his entire life, never a citizen of any other country?
	It has nothing to do with immigration.
	On January 1st, Fox News' Liz Morrell said this.
	I want to talk about the particular truck that was used in this.
	We know that it was a rental.
	We know that it was brought from Texas and it was spotted in Eagle Pass, Texas back on November 19th.
	But we understand that the truck does have a history.
	This is Liz Morrell on Fox News.
	She's actually the attorney general, Republican attorney general of Louisiana.
	But she's being interviewed on Fox News, in case it wasn't clear.
	Plate readers.
	It never actually passed through from Mexico into Eagle Pass.
	However, the license plate on this truck has a history of plate readers at the border in patterns, and I'm quoting, that may be suspicious for human smuggling.
	When this story first broke, a lot of people wanted to know the identity of the suspect.
	When you hear human smuggling, you think about the border, and the border has obviously been such a dangerous, ignored Problem for this country with so many of these sleeper cells and terrorists who want to harm Americans illegally crossing our borders.
	What part of that most alarms you?
	Well, you know, I've been alarmed by terrorists and criminals crossing our border for some time.
	In fact, one of the lawsuits that I filed against the Biden administration addressed the fact that the administration was not removing violent criminals who had been convicted and served their time and were subject to removal under federal law.
	And we know that there are a number of other people who've been allowed across our border without any real checking and that we've got known terrorists among us.
	This is part of the same pattern.
	It is very concerning, and I think that we've got a lot of sorting out to do when the new administration takes over.
	You just can't do that.
	You cannot do that.
	You cannot just invent facts that you hope are true because they enable you to advance an agenda that you've long been advocating.
	It doesn't reflect on whether the agenda itself is valid or not.
	But it's just a lesson for anybody who's watching these things unfold to be extremely guarded and skeptical.
	Not just about what you're being told, because I think that's a pretty easy lesson to learn.
	Anything in the media, even things coming from politicians that you like, within the hours or even day after an attack like this, is often very unreliable.
	More important is the attempt to manipulate your emotions.
	This is something that I think if I could get people to understand more than anything, it would probably be this.
	I remember when Russia invaded Ukraine.
	And in the two or weeks or so after that, this is what I focused on more than anything, you could just see in real time people's emotions being played on through an avalanche of media coverage that just kept telling them that Russia's invasion was utterly unprovoked because it's led by a psychopathic Hitler-type figure who just wants to conquer Russia.
	All of Eastern Europe and recreate the Soviet Union.
	They show constant messages, video clips of old Ukrainian women weeping about the destruction of their apartment or the death of somebody in their family, which, of course, it is emotionally affecting for any decent person.
	But you could just see the buildup Even after Americans have been saying, no more wars, we cannot keep funding wars, we don't want to keep getting involved in wars, in an instant, really.
	People who couldn't even place Ukraine on a map the day before made it their primary priority.
	We have to go to war, we have to do everything we can to defeat the Russians and support Ukrainian democracy.
	Because their emotions were just played on so easily, so quickly by the magnitude of that event.
	And this is the same theme we were sounding following the October 7th attack in Israel.
	Yes, it is unjustifiable to target civilians with violence in an attack as opposed to IDF soldiers or armed agents of the state, many of whom were targeted, but there were also civilians targeted.
	So yes, of course, it's wrong.
	But the lesson of 9-11 was supposed to be, I thought, That when there's some kind of horrifying event, some act of violence, you can't just lose your mind and start endorsing every maximalist response presented to you because you'll end up coming to regret it.
	And the reason you'll end up coming to regret it is because it's deceitful.
	It's not the proper way to reason.
	It ends up producing actions that are at best counterproductive if not morally reprehensible.
	And so all of this is a common theme, I think, that we need to be very careful about.
	And yesterday was anything but having caution exercised about what this really was, what it meant, whether politicians who are trusted by a lot of people, media figures who are trusted by a lot of people, were unnecessarily intensifying a kind of panic and a kind of hysteria and a kind of fear-mongering Not just out of some benevolent concern, but very specifically to promote their longstanding agenda that in fact had nothing to do with the attack.
	Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said this, quote, Yesterday, terrorist attack in New Orleans is similar to the one in the German Christmas market.
	What did we expect would happen with wide open borders and millions of getaways?
	The problem is no one trusts the FBI under the current leadership, so everyone is questioning every detail they can find on their own.
	What an absolute disaster America is in.
	Absolutely true about the FBI? Absolutely.
	People don't trust the FBI and they didn't trust the FBI and that's a huge problem.
	But the reason people learned to not trust the FBI was because the FBI constantly lied to them in exactly these kinds of situations for very specific and political motives.
	And the solution to that is not to start doing that yourself.
	Because ultimately that will erode your credibility as well and it ought to.
	Now, in addition to Attempt to claim that there was immigration-related issues with the attack by a U.S.-born American citizen who never immigrated to the United States in New Orleans.
	There was an also attempt to immediately claim that this was somehow suggestive of or even proof for the proposition That Muslims continue to be a great threat to the United States, that the presence of Islam in the West or Muslims in the West is incompatible with their survival of the West or Western values and therefore we need to go again to war with the Muslim world or we need to crack down on people whose religion is Islam as opposed to Judaism or Christianity or any other.
	And it does seem to be the case, based on what we know again, that the attacker in New Orleans Had expressed support for ISIS recently.
	Before that, as we're going to show you, he was a very sort of banal figure he worked in.
	Kind of mid-level jobs as managers of residential apartment buildings.
	He served in the army.
	He worked in kind of paper-pushing jobs.
	But according to his family, it's only very recently, within the last year, that he started to become much more focused on extremist versions of Islam, and particularly the political version of Islam, and his affinity for ISIS. Now, oftentimes there are mixed motives with these attacks.
	A lot of people who carry out these attacks Might do so in the name of a certain cause, but also there's mental disturbances.
	I think it's fairly obvious if anyone just goes, takes a truck, and randomly mows down civilians.
	There has to be some mental dysfunction there, too.
	The vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority, not just the Muslims, but even people who have an extremist view of Islam, don't do that.
	So it's usually mixed.
	Oftentimes the mental health component is actually the predominant one.
	But, of course, when someone's mowing down Americans in the middle of an American city with an ISIS flag in their truck and with a documented support for ISIS, that's going to become the primary theme.
	Here was the FBI speaking yesterday, or rather earlier today, about what they knew.
	I'm platform proclaiming his support for ISIS. There were five videos posted on Jabbar's Facebook account, which are time-stamped beginning at 1.29 a.m.
	and the last at 3.02 a.m.
	In the first video, Jabbar explains he originally planned to harm his family and friends, but was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the, quote, war between the believers and the disbelievers, end quote.
	Additionally, he stated he had joined ISIS before this summer.
	He also provided a will and testament.
	FBI and ATF, we have a couple different scenes at the location.
	We have released the scene at Bourbon Street.
	That scene has been released.
	We also have a scene off of Mandeville address where we're currently serving...
	So he's not particularly articulate.
	He sounds a lot like Joe Biden there, but he nonetheless conveyed what the FBI seems to have in fact uncovered, which is a record of ISIS supporting videos over the last several months.
	You notice that he said it was basically only last summer, so barely six months ago.
	When he suddenly got infatuated with ISIS, he was certainly not that.
	Previously, there was a lot of videos of him circulating just describing himself as a residential real estate manager or a real estate broker and speaking in the very ordinary, but always no accent of any kind.
	Obviously, he was born in the United States, lived in the United States, grew up in the United States.
	Here is Stephen Miller, the top advisor to incoming President Trump on immigration questions, also suggesting that this attack should raise our fear levels about both of these issues, immigration and Islam.
	Quote, Islamist terrorism is an import.
	It is not, quote, homegrown.
	It does not exist here before migration brought it here.
	I don't really understand that claim at all.
	The argument of the US government since 9-11 has been that it's the internet that is what causes Muslims around the world to become radicalized.
	And in fact, one of the arguments about why the internet needed to be controlled was precisely because the claim was that radical preachers and imams and leaders of ISIS and al-Qaeda are giving speeches and they're uploading them onto YouTube and they're radicalizing Muslims all over the world.
	Why would you need migration to radicalize people inside the United States or inside of Europe?
	The argument is that this is an ideology that's global that gets transmitted on the internet.
	And so the suggestion is we have to close up our borders and be worried about the Muslim population inside the United States.
	When was the last time?
	We've had a lot of mass killing attacks.
	As I mentioned, we had the one in Buffalo.
	We had the one in a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
	There was another in a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh.
	There was another in Texas at, I believe, a Walmart that targeted Latinos.
	How many violent attacks of Muslim extremists are happening in the United States?
	Obviously, you look at what happened in New Orleans and it's a horrific event.
	But on the scale of the dangers facing the United States, where is this?
	Are we supposed to go to war over this?
	Are we supposed to, again, dismantle civil liberties?
	Are we supposed to empower the FBI and the U.N. intelligence community to crack down and monitor people in the United States?
	Here's one conservative, prominent conservative influencer, Tomi Loren, who...
	Decided that this was the lesson we should draw.
	Quote, you know, if you are in our streets waving Palestinian or ISIS flags and chanting an Intifada revolution, you should probably be on a watch list and or deported immediately.
	Just a thought.
	So, if you go onto the street and you protest the U.S.-funded war in Israel...
	Or defend the Palestinian cause by waving a Palestinian flag.
	And let's leave aside the fact that she deliberately conflates waving a Palestinian flag with waving an ISIS flag, as though those are identical.
	She didn't say waving a Hamas flag, she said waving a Palestinian flag.
	Apparently, according to a lot of conservatives, Who have been screaming about the virtues of free speech and the evils of censorship and the dangers and menaces of allowing our intelligence agencies to monitor people domestically.
	If you go and exercise your First Amendment right of free speech and free assembly and to protest by marching on the street against the U.S. policy of supporting the Israeli war and you wave a Palestinian flag, which is without question 1,000% squarely within your rights of free speech, You should be put on a watch list and followed by the FBI or the NSA. Dossiers should be kept on you.
	Or if you're here perfectly legally to study or to work, then you can march through the street waving an Israeli flag or a Ukrainian flag but not a Palestinian flag, then you should be immediately deported.
	Whatever that is, that has nothing to do with civil liberties, it has nothing to do with free speech, and it has nothing to do with reigning in the intelligence agencies.
	All it is is redirecting censorship and intelligence agency abuses in our politics to her allies, to her enemies.
	Here was Toni Lahren, the same exact person, just two years ago, November 2022. She went on Twitter and she said, free speech really triggers the left.
	Weird.
	Weird.
	If you're somebody who's arguing that the government should crack down on people, including Americans, or put them on a watch list who are waving the flag of a cause you dislike, you are not somebody who's in a position to lecture anybody else about being triggered by free speech.
	Sebastian Gorka is an incoming Trump administration, Trump White House, advisor on counterterrorism.
	He worked in the first Trump administration in that capacity as well.
	And he went on Newsmax yesterday, and here was the lesson he argued we should draw.
	Keep your head on a swivel.
	And if you hear people doing strange things, acting peculiarly, apparently this individual converted to Islam last year, you need to also share that information because the best protection is local law enforcement.
	Did you hear what he said?
	First of all, this idea of see something, say something, this was a very common theme of the Bush administration after 9-11.
	You see something, your neighbor doing something, or saying something that's strange, call the government on them, call the FBI on them, report on them.
	And one of the things he suggested should prompt you to believe that you've seen something sufficient to report your fellow citizen to the government is Is if somebody converts to Islam, somebody becomes a Muslim.
	At least as I understand the Constitution, we have the right, the fundamental right in this country that we've had since the founding to the free exercise of religion.
	The government is supposed to follow you because you convert to one religion or the other or you stop having a religion or you start having one.
	If you see somebody converting to Islam, you're supposed to call the FBI on them.
	Is this the defense of free speech and the reining in at the intelligence agencies that the Trump administration has promised?
	If you see somebody converting to Islam, call the government and report them.
	Randy Fine is a state senator in Florida who's running to fill the seat vacated by Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz.
	He's the overwhelming favorite to win that seat in a special election that's going to be held later this month.
	He's supported by Donald Trump and Matt Gaetz.
	He's such a fanatical supporter of Israel, such an obsessive Israel fanatic, that it's going to make everybody in the House like Lindsey Graham or in the Congress like Lindsey Graham and Dan Goldman and W. Wasserman Schultz seem like they're Hamas supporters.
	That's how extreme he is, how obsessive he is.
	He's coming to Congress almost definitely, and here's what he had to say.
	What are we supposed to do to, quote, deal with the, quote, Muslim problem in the United States?
	It's like being put in the time machine and going back to 2001, 2002, 2003, except the people who are saying all the things that the neocons were saying back then are people who now claim to hate the neocons.
	Even though they constantly sound just like them.
	Here's God Saad, who is a fanatical Israel supporter as well, a prominent and popular commentator on the right.
	He said this, quote, I want you to see there that he's not saying...
	That Muslim extremists, Muslim radicals, violent Islam is a threat.
	He's saying Islam in general.
	Obviously that's a popular Israeli view.
	That's how they see the world.
	They're surrounded by a lot of Muslims and they consider them their enemy.
	But why should we in the United States consider Muslims our enemy, let alone for it to be a way of life that is an existential threat and seditious?
	It's basically saying anybody who is a Muslim inside the United States is a traitor to the United States, including citizens.
	Now, thankfully, in Trump world, there were some people pushing him back against this.
	We don't have this, but Richard Grinnell, who was a top-level State Department official for Trump, popular in the MAGA world as well, currently has a diplomatic position in the State Department.
	He was hoping to be Secretary of State.
	People thought he would.
	Trump instead picked Marco Rubio.
	But he responded to Randy Fine basically saying, what are you talking about?
	We have religious freedom in the United States.
	Muslims in general are not our enemies.
	In fact, Muslims look at people who...
	Who do things like perpetrating that attack in New Orleans and they themselves consider that a bastardization of Islam as a violent radical.
	They fear those people too.
	But the real effort here is to convince Americans to hate Muslims in large part because There are a lot of people who understand, who want the United States to continuously finance Israel, to arm Israel,
	to believe that Israel's survival is as important as American survival, that we're basically one country with the same enemies and friends and interests, and therefore we should keep treating them like a vassal state that we, not even a vassal state, as they get the benefits of being a vassal state, we pay for their military and their wars and their society, but they tell us what to do more so than we tell them what to do.
	Here's the pro-Israel billionaire Bill Ackman predictably exploiting this opportunity to try and gin up support for Israel.
	He quoted this 22-year-old or 20-year-old, I believe he's a Harvard student, maybe he's at Penn, Penn or Harvard, Yael Jacobi.
	He was one of the people who the Republicans brought into Congress after October 7th.
	He's a pretty big guy, you know, young, healthy college student.
	And he went into Congress and he was put before the microphones and the cameras by Republicans in the House and Senate, and he said, I am not safe!
	I'm not safe!
	I need protection!
	This kind of attempt to use the left-wing victimhood narrative, but to say that this time it's not black people or trans people or...
	Women or immigrants who are endangered on college campuses.
	Now it's American Jews.
	And he went and tweeted, quote, what we witness today in New Orleans is a daily occurrence in Israel.
	When people say that Israel is the first line of defense for the West, this is what they mean.
	And Bill Ackman above that said, totally true.
	We, meaning the United States and Israel, share a common enemy.
	Do you see this game being played here?
	For 25 years, this is what the neocons and what the most radical supporters of Israel in the United States have been doing, is trying to convince Americans that Israel's enemies are not their enemies, that it's not their business to go and fight their neighbors if they feel threatened by.
	It's the United States' enemies as well.
	Israel's enemies are our enemy, said Bill Ackman.
	And therefore, if you get convinced of that, of course you're going to want to fund and finance Israeli society and their military in the wars because they're fighting our enemies.
	They're basically an extension of the United States.
	That's always been the attempt.
	The deceit to convince Americans of...
	To get them to continue to believe that we should fund Israel's wars.
	Barry Weiss's The Free Press very predictably did the same.
	Earlier today they published an article entitled Has Europe's Islamist Threat Come to America?
	Two suspected terrorist attacks on New Year's Day signal a new worry for Americans that Europe has long faced a deadly threat from our own citizens.
	Again, the one in Las Vegas doesn't even arguably have anything to do with what they're trying to link it to, which is the Islamist threat.
	And if you want to argue that something is really pervasive, this existential threat, it's not enough to point to one or two situations, one or two events, and say, oh, be scared of this, be disgusted by this, now go into war with the people who did it.
	You have to demonstrate the magnitude of the threat, which is never done because it's all based on exploiting emotions.
	People look at what happened in New Orleans, they're rightfully terrified and disgusted by it, and the attempt is to redirect those emotions to where you want it to go.
	Those emotions are very powerful, and if you can commandeer them to your cause, Even once Americans wake up and kind of start being more sober and rational about the thing that caused them to be inebriated with this emotion, by then it's too late.
	That's what happened with Ukraine, it's what happened in Vietnam, it's what happened in Iraq, it's what happened in Afghanistan, with the Patriot Act, everything.
	The Economist joined the party, predictably as well.
	Their headline was, the Bourbon Street attack was part of a new pattern.
	Why some experts fear a resurrection of Islamic State.
	"It is probably no coincidence that Mr. Jabbar chose to carry out his attack on New Year's Eve, a night known for drinking and partying, indulgences that are anathema to puritanical Muslim extremists." So we're back to the "they hate us for our freedom" narrative.
	It had nothing to do with foreign policy, what we're doing in the Middle East.
	You may have noticed the United States is heavily involved in the Middle East in various wars there.
	No, it's not about that.
	They hate us for our freedoms.
	They particularly hate New Year's Eve because people drink and party, and these are "indulgences that Muslims hate." Bourbon Street, the hub of New Orleans' tourist district, exemplifies that spirit more than most American places.
	As families search for their loved ones at local hospitals, news of a second deadly attack surfaced, this one in Las Vegas.
	There, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump Hotel, killing the person inside the vehicle.
	The authorities are investigating this, too, as an act of terror.
	Like the car used in New Orleans, the Tesla Cybertruck was rented on Truro, a card-sharing service.
	If it is involved in that one too, it's an if.
	Do you see this whole article is using now two different attacks to say, look, this is the threat we need to focus on.
	This is a lot of threat.
	But it turned out the one in Las Vegas had nothing to do with this.
	Quote, if it is involved in that one too, its ability to carry out two near simultaneous attacks in distant American cities will reinforce the impression that a movement has seemed to have been defeated is once again a threat to take seriously.
	And then they go on to actually provide data to their credit, showing the numerical trends and the attacks carried out in the name of ISIS and other revolutionary Islamic groups.
	And you might be surprised to learn, given everything that they just got done saying, that the trend is straight downward.
	Here's 2015 when there were reported 85 attacks by Muslim Americans caught plotting or carrying out attacks for revolutionary Islamic groups.
	That was sort of at the peak of the claims about ISIS when the U.S. was bombing under President Obama, Syria and Iraq and Yemen.
	In fact, seven different Muslim countries had done regime change in Libya.
	We're occupying Afghanistan and Iraq.
	And then, starting in 2016 and 2017, once that starts to simmer down, the attacks start declining heavily.
	And then in 2023, that bar is fairly visible.
	Talking about one or two attacks.
	So, be as emotional as you want about what happened in New Orleans.
	I understand that.
	It's horrific to see.
	People just mow down simply by virtue of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
	Talking about very young people doing nothing wrong, celebrating New Year's Eve.
	But keep it in perspective so that your emotions aren't manipulated for some agenda that you end up regretting.
	Some sinister authoritarian agenda, some effort to keep the war machine fueled in the name of protecting Israel or other interests that the war machine serves.
	That's really what's going on here.
	And it's been going on for so long.
	Back in November of 2023...
	There was an explosion at the New York-Canada border, and Fox News immediately claimed falsely that it was a terrorist attack.
	There you see in Newsweek, Fox News sparks fury over the New York-Canada border explosion.
	Quote, According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, Whirlpool Bridge, and Peace Bridge in western New York were also closed.
	The car was traveling at a high speed and became airborne after hitting a curb exploding when it hit a checkpoint structure and killing the two people inside, according to law enforcement officials.
	When the news broke, Fox News speculated...
	That it was, quote, an attempted terrorist attack.
	The reporter, Fox reporter correspondent Alexis McAdams initially reported, quote, when I talked to the sources on the ground, they were confident to say that they believed that this was an attempted terrorist attack and that the two men were leaving the United States and entering there into Canada.
	Turned out that was completely wrong.
	They had to retract it and apologize for it.
	It was just an accident and a kind of freak explosion that had nothing to do with terrorism.
	Something very similar happened in 2017. There was a car crash in the New York Times.
	People immediately said, oh, look, this is the kind of car attack that Muslims like to do.
	And it turned out that it had nothing to do with terrorism.
	They said, quote, it's not terrorist-related, which typically means that Muslims weren't involved.
	So, I'm not here to convince you to support open borders.
	I'm most definitely not here to convince you of that.
	I'm definitely not here to convince you to change your views and love Islam.
	If you're not a person who loves that religion, it's fine that you're right.
	You don't have to love or support anything you don't want.
	But that isn't what's happening here.
	And this isn't what's happening for a long time in this country.
	We always talk about How the United States is on a posture about this war, that our Pentagon is bloated, that our U.S. security state is out of control, that it has unlimited powers and interferes in our politics for purely politicized reasons in a way that's threatening to democracy.
	Why are all those things happening?
	The reason is because these events are so valuable.
	Because human emotion is very powerful, and people who understand how to exploit those emotions in the moment And direct your emotions to some cause that they support or want you to support is a very serious danger.
	And I would submit that has been what has been done often in blatantly false ways but even in more subtly deceitful and misleading ones.
	for the last 24 hours ever since news of these events emerged, and I predict for certain that it will continue, and I think it's everyone's duty to not just be skeptical of the claims being made by the government and the media, but just be skeptical of the attempts to exploit these events for some political end or narrative but just be skeptical of the attempts to exploit these events for
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	One of the strangest, most bizarre aspects of the 2024 campaign was that Democrats did not just herald and embrace the endorsements, most bizarre aspects of the 2024 campaign was that Democrats did not just herald and embrace the endorsements, first of Joe Biden and then of Kamala Harris by Liz They touted it.
	They made it almost like a central prong of their campaign.
	Kamala Harris traveled around The Midwest battleground states with Liz Cheney at her side as though it was her vice presidential running mate.
	Tim Walz was nowhere to be found.
	And so many Democrats believe that having Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney express support and their endorsement for Kamala Harris would be a major factor in her victory, if not the major factor.
	Kamala Harris went out of her way in her presidential debate with Donald Trump.
	To say how proud she was to have had the endorsement of Dick Cheney, somebody who Americans hate.
	His approval ratings when he left office were as low as any vice president in history.
	He's the symbol of corporatism and militarism and the Washington establishment and the status quo.
	Why would you tie yourself to the Cheneys?
	Liz Cheney was so hated by Republicans That even though she was running in a state, Wyoming, that her father dominated for decades, he was by far the most dominant political figure in that state, a one-party state, she lost by a record 36 points as an incumbent.
	Her own party's voters booted her out of office by a massive margin, a historic and record-breaking margin.
	But liberals just cannot contain their love of Liz Cheney.
	They don't just like her.
	They don't just respect one thing that she did.
	They find her to be uniquely inspiring.
	And even though their attempt and their decision to tie themselves to her was obviously a failure, didn't accomplish anything that they wanted or thought might happen, Kamala got like 4% of Republican voters lower than the normal average Democratic Party candidate who doesn't have luminaries of the other party, the Republican Party, supporting them.
	Arguably, she was a weight on that campaign for obvious reasons, and yet Joe Biden, I put that in quotes because things are done in his name that you really suspect are not his decisions.
	He barely knows where he is.
	I don't know if you saw the press conference where he read from a teleprompter.
	He's on vacation in the Caribbean.
	They made this crappy looking makeshift room and he kind of shuffled into it and stumbled all over himself when he was reading from the teleprompter about what happened in New Orleans and then kind of shuffled out, of course took no questions.
	We don't have a functional president in the United States.
	We haven't for quite a long time.
	That's its own major scandal.
	But the White House earlier today released its names, the list of the people who Joe Biden attends to bestow the Presidential Citizen Medal on.
	It's not the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
	It's right below that.
	And one of the people is Liz Cheney.
	That's who the Democrats, on their way out of the White House, want to spend their time honoring and paying homage to.
	Here from the White House, President Biden announces recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medal, quote, the Presidential Citizens Medal is awarded to citizens of the United States who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.
	President Biden believes these Americans are bonded by their common decency, decency and commitment to serving others.
	The country is better because of their dedication and sacrifice.
	One of the people, Elizabeth L. Cheney.
	That's Liz Cheney.
	And here was what the White House said to justify her selection as a recipient of this medal, quote, Quote, So, listen, it's not just saying what she did in 2020 as part of the TV show called the January 6th Committee.
	It's saying, quote, throughout two decades in public service, going all the way back to the time when she worked with and for her father, when she was one of his mainder enthusiasts and spokesperson, defending everything he was doing throughout two decades of public service at the White House, including as a congressman for Wyoming and vice chair of the Committee on the January 6th attack, Liz Cheney has raised her voice and reached across the aisle To defend our nation and the ideals we stand for.
	What are those ideals that we stand for that Liz Cheney has been promoting our whole career?
	Freedom, dignity, and decency.
	Liz Cheney's political career, says the Biden White House, has been devoted to defending freedom and dignity and decency.
	And because we care so much about you, even though this happened very shortly before we went on air...
	The ceremony was held at the White House.
	Liz Cheney, in fact, did receive her medal from Joe Biden.
	And what happened here is almost too amazing to believe.
	I had to watch it three times to make sure I was hearing it correctly, that it was an actual genuine video.
	Listen to how Liz Cheney is received by the Biden staffers, the Democrats, the establishment luminaries who are in the White House for this ceremony.
	Just listen with your own ears to how she's treated.
	Elizabeth L. Chaney for putting the American people over party.
	Elizabeth L. Chaney for the American people over party.
	Elizabeth L. Chaney for the American people over party.
	They were screeching in adoration.
	It really was like teenage girls in the 1950s reacting to the arrival of Elvis Presley.
	It was a kind of visceral, just deep-seated reaction.
	Almost carnal reaction.
	I really don't think there's another politician who can invoke that level of passion and excitement in Democratic Party adherence the way Liz Cheney does.
	I really think that if she were to suggest that she was going to run for president in 2028 and seek the Democratic Party nomination, she would be a very formidable force.
	They worship Liz Cheney.
	They love Liz Cheney.
	And of course they deny it because they know it's pathetic, they know it's embarrassing, they know it says so many things they don't want to believe about themselves, about who they are and what they actually believe, what their actual ideology is.
	You go and read any liberal magazine, any liberal newspaper, any liberal speak about Liz Cheney, and they are over the moon with excitement.
	Now they might be a little critical of the strategy of the Kamala Harris campaign to tote her around like some mascot because it obviously didn't work.
	But no one speaks ill of Liz Cheney on the merits of who she is.
	Mother Jones, just as one example, Mother Jones is called Mother Jones because there was a woman in the early 20th century who was a radical left-wing revolutionary who believed in revolutionary violence.
	In order to overthrow capitalism and its excesses, install a socialist government, that's the person after whom that magazine is named.
	Now they're just totally standard Democratic Party mouthpieces and partisans.
	But in 2023, They listed their Heroes of the Year, Heroes of the Year, and one of their Heroes of the Year was Liz Cheney.
	Imagine Mother Jones, if she knows that in her name, Liz Cheney is being declared a Hero of the Year.
	Now, I think it's so important to remember, I know a lot of you do remember, but probably many of you don't, What Democrats used to say about Dick Cheney.
	And I say what they used to say about Dick Cheney when I'm talking about Liz Cheney for two reasons.
	One is Liz Cheney only exists as a political figure because her dad was Dick Cheney.
	But number two, Liz Cheney has never expressed a single view that deviates from her dad's All the things that made Democrats hate Dick Cheney or claim they hated Dick Cheney, call him a racist and a fascist and a uniquely dangerous figure, are all the policies that Liz Cheney not only advocated but to this very day still advocates.
	As recently as 2018, 2020, she was defending the war in Iraq and torture and Guantanamo, all of it.
	Here is Joe Biden when he was running for vice president as Barack Obama's running mate in his vice presidential debate with Sarah Palin, who at the time was John McCain's vice presidential running mate.
	Here is what Biden, in that debate on PBS, had to say about Dick Cheney.
	Vice President Cheney's interpretation of the Vice President?
	Vice President Cheney's been the most dangerous Vice President we've had probably in American history.
	He has, he has, the idea, he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of Vice President of the United States.
	That's the executive.
	He works in the executive branch.
	He should understand that.
	Everyone should understand that.
	The only authority the Vice President has from a legislative standpoint is to vote.
	Only when there is a tie vote.
	He has no authority relative to the Congress.
	The idea he's part of the legislative branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive and look where it's gotten us.
	It has been very dangerous.
	So that was what Joe Biden, when he was running for president, when he was trying to scare Americans about Republicans, said about Dick Cheney.
	He's a tyrant.
	He's trying to consolidate unconstitutional power in the presidency.
	Does that sound familiar?
	He's the most dangerous vice president in American history.
	Once Joe Biden and Barack Obama won that election, Joe Biden became vice president.
	This is what happened in 2015 from The Atlantic.
	I wrote about this at the time as well.
	Quote, Dick Cheney is memorialized in marble.
	The former vice president took his place at the Capitol's Pantheon on Thursday.
	So there was an event to unveil a marble bust, a statue, a sculpture of Dick Cheney.
	And they were going to put his, the bust, the marble bust of him to honor him in the When Joe Biden was the vice president, he went to that event and did this.
	Quote, as vice president, Joe Biden helped introduce Dick Cheney on Thursday.
	He expressed his gratitude to the assembled crowd.
	Quote, as I look around this room and up on the platform, I want to say thank you for letting me crash your family reunion.
	I'm afraid I've blown his cover.
	I actually like Dick Cheney.
	Do you see how...
	Whenever these establishment politicians from the two parties bicker with one another or in public hurl insults at one, it's all theater.
	It's all theater.
	It's to create an illusion that you have a choice.
	When George Bush was the president, Nancy Pelosi was saying such vicious things about him that you would listen to it and you would think she was talking about Donald Trump.
	They were talking about impeaching George Bush, about how he was a war criminal.
	And George Bush would say the same thing about Nancy Pelosi.
	And then it turns out Nancy Pelosi's daughter does a documentary about her mom and says that one of Nancy Pelosi's best friends in Washington is and always has been George Bush and that she considers George Bush, George W. Bush, who's Nancy Pelosi's daughter talking, to be like part of the family, like an uncle or a dad.
	They love each other.
	All of that was just for public show, this kind of theatrical conflict.
	These are all part of the same establishment circles.
	That's why Joe Biden goes and says, Dick Cheney is a grave danger to the United States, the most dangerous vice president in history, somebody who is a war criminal, somebody who is an unconstitutional tyrant.
	And then just a few years later, when he doesn't need to pretend anymore, he says, you know what?
	I like Dick Cheney.
	In 2021, Liz Cheney led the way to block the withdrawal from Afghanistan that Donald Trump had negotiated and then Joe Biden was advocating.
	Here she was on C-SPAN talking about not only why we need to keep troops in Afghanistan, but the important part of this clip is that you might recall that the New York Times, on its front page in an article written by its national security reporter, Charlie Savage, printed a claim from the CIA that turned out to be an absolute printed a claim from the CIA that turned out to be
	Right as Donald Trump was trying to withdraw from Afghanistan, the CIA released a false campaign through the New York Times, which uncritically believed it and published it on the front pages they usually do, claiming that Russia had put bounties on the heads of American soldiers.
	They were paying the Taliban for every U.S. soldier they could kill.
	That it was Russia that was behind the attacks in Afghanistan.
	Eventually, even the U.S. government admitted they had no evidence for that.
	But the idea of it, the point of it, was to enable people who opposed the withdrawal of Afghanistan, like Liz Cheney, to cite it, to say, we can't leave Afghanistan because the Russians are the ones...
	It would be basically rewarding the Russians based on this false New York Times story.
	Here's what Liz Cheney said.
	Let me just say, we're not going to talk about classified briefings.
	We're not going to talk about the specifics of any of those classified briefings.
	But as Ranking Member Thornberry and I said yesterday in our statement, we remain concerned about Russian activities in Afghanistan and around the world.
	We're going to continue to work with the administration.
	We anticipate additional briefings on this issue.
	But I want to be absolutely clear that America's adversaries should know and they should have no doubt that any targeting of U.S. forces by Russians, by anyone else, will face a very swift and deadly response.
	The Russians experienced this in Syria in 2018 when U.S. forces defended themselves with overwhelming and lethal force against likely Russian mercenary forces.
	In the United States, we have a free and open society.
	We debate policy.
	We debate these issues.
	That is the strength of our system.
	And that is what our adversaries, the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the North Koreans among them, that is what they fear the most.
	Those governments cannot allow their people the kind of free and open debate we have because they know if they allow their people to choose, they would lose power.
	America's adversaries should never question the will.
	All right, so there she is yet again promoting an absolute lie to continue U.S. wars, this one in Afghanistan.
	While Trump was president, she teamed up with pro-war Democrats, people who get tons of money from Boeing and Northrop Grumman and Raytheon.
	To try and defund an attempt by Donald Trump to leave Afghanistan.
	And she cited the false story from the New York Times about bounties to do so.
	Here she is in November of 2022, just two years ago, at the University of Chicago, where she was asked about her support along with her dad for invading Iraq.
	In an effort to win your primary, you put out a campaign ad featuring your father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who, in his condemnation of former President Donald Trump, said that, quote, a real man wouldn't lie to his supporters.
	Now, as many will recall, your father stated as unequivocal truth narratives that at the time were discredited or disputed by U.S. intelligence to justify a bloody war with Iraq, a war that killed hundreds of thousands more than the undoubtedly awful storming of the Capitol.
	Whether it's claiming that 9-11 hijacker Mohammed Atta met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague, that Saddam Hussein had an established operational relationship with Al-Qaeda, or that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
	And the revelation of these, the falsity of these narratives led public trust in government to plummet.
	So how do you respond to those who believe your father's actions during his tenure as Vice President eroded this trust that he holds so highly?
	It's such a great question because she was, of course, pontificating like every one of these Bush and Cheney officials that I know do, as though she's the defender of integrity in government, against lying, claiming that Trump is the person who's eroding trust in American institutions.
	Like, what are you talking about?
	Your dad lied the country into a war.
	He was disseminating claims that even the intelligence agencies were telling him in private were untrue.
	That Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, that he, Iraqi agents, met with Mohammed Atta to try and claim that Iraq was behind the 9-11 attack.
	And that was what caused faith in institutions to collapse.
	And that's exactly what happened.
	On top of the authoritarianism that her father supported.
	Now, I don't believe in blaming Saddam.
	Offspring for the acts of their parents or their views of their parents.
	The fact that Cheney had terrible, destructive ideas and a lack of character doesn't mean Liz Cheney does necessarily, but she was a defender of her father and still is to this very day.
	She owes her political career to that defense of those policies.
	Here she is just two years ago in response to that question.
	The president eroded this trust that he holds so highly.
	They're wrong.
	That was her own answer at first.
	She said, yeah, the people who say that about my dad are wrong.
	People say that my dad lied to the country to war, that it was a disastrous war, that it caused trust in American government institutions to plummet.
	They're wrong.
	And then a bunch of neocons in the audience cheer.
	Here's what the rest of her answer is.
	You know, look, I obviously disagree with your characterization of the policies of the Bush administration and of the Iraq War, and I'm happy to have those discussions with you about that.
	And I think that there, there's also — it's important to have some facts.
	That's undergirding that discussion as well, including the fact that you had senior leaders in Al-Qaeda, including the number two in Al-Qaeda, who had been given safe haven in Iraq after 9-11 for years.
	So that's one part of what you laid out, the notion that there's no connection between Saddam Hussein and the leaders of Al-Qaeda.
	The extent to which Saddam Hussein violated multiple, I can't remember the number now, 12 or 13 United Nations National Security Council resolutions.
	The extent to which it was very clear, despite efforts since then to change the narrative, that there were in fact connections between Saddam and Al-Qaeda.
	I think it's really important to separate out policy disputes and disagreements, From a president who's attempting to undermine the Constitution.
	I started my career in journalism because Bush and Cheney were trying to undermine the Constitution.
	And it is unbelievable to watch Liz Cheney, just two years ago, still defend the lie that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9-11 attacks and was in an alliance with al-Qaeda at the time that the 9-11 attacks happened.
	Still defending that war.
	And then Joe Biden comes out and says today that she has devoted her entire political career over two decades to decency and dignity and freedom.
	And those freaks in the White House start screeching with adulation.
	In 2018, Liz Cheney again defended the Bush-Cheney administration's program of torture, which at the time was universally considered to be a war crime by liberals and Democrats.
	Quote, Here's Liz Cheney in 2014 claiming that the ability of the United States to have killed a top operational commander of al-Qaeda in Pakistan was
	the result of those torture programs.
	Thanks, CIA interrogations.
	Here's Liz Cheney in 2015. Quote, Accusing Obama of being eager to aid America's enemies because he was opposed to that gulag where people were imprisoned indefinitely with no trial in Guantanamo.
	This is the person who has devoted their life to dignity and decency and freedom.
	Here, I could just go on.
	She partnered with Bill Kristol to claim that Justice Department officials who previously, as private lawyers, had defended Guantanamo detainees in order to test the limits of American power.
	She ran ads with Bill Kristol implying that they were Al-Qaeda sympathizers.
	Here in 2020, just four years ago, she said that if Trump pardoned Snowden, it would be, quote, unconscionable.
	This is the person that Democrats love.
	And the reason they love her is not just because she hated Trump.
	She's a huge fanatical supporter of the war in Ukraine.
	She's very much aligned with the foreign policy of the Democratic Party.
	And when she and her dad endorsed Kamala Harris, and the media kept implying in interviews that she did that only because of January 6th, she kept saying, no.
	My father and I have much more in common with the foreign policy of the Democratic Party than we do of a Trump-led Republican Party.
	Because she's a maniacal warmonger, and she understood that the Democratic Party would be more devoted to that than the Trump-led Republican Party, and that's what she said.
	She is an avatar of Democratic Party politics.
	That's why Democrats love her.
	It's not irrational.
	Here's a liberal newsletter run by Aaron Rupar, notorious for publishing distorted video clips.
	He used to work for Vox.
	And this is the sort of thing Democrats do now.
	Joe Biden on his way out gives a medal to Liz Cheney.
	He might pardon her.
	There's a lot of talk about getting Biden to pardon Liz Cheney.
	And liberals are now publishing articles like this.
	The press is ignoring the real Liz Cheney scandal.
	It's not about her at all.
	And then the Headline of the article, in the middle of the article, the headline of the subsection is, Liz Cheney did nothing wrong.
	There you see it on the screen.
	Liz Cheney did nothing wrong.
	This is from a liberal newsletter.
	This is the sort of thing that they do as they spend their time now defending Liz Cheney.
	It's like one of their main causes in the Democratic Party is to defend Liz Cheney.
	Quote, the U.S. House report contends that Cheney broke numerous federal laws by secretly communicating with former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson without Hutchinson's attorney's knowledge.
	These accusations are lies that the mainstream media has collectively failed to challenge, just vigorously defending Liz Cheney.
	Now, before I end this segment, I would be remiss if I did not share with you what I think might be my favorite media hoax of 2024. It was a couple of weeks before the election, actually just a week or so, just days before the 2024 election, as a matter of fact.
	And Trump was asked about Liz Cheney and he said, the reason I can't say Liz Cheney is because she's a radical warmonger.
	She's a war hawk.
	And the reason she is, like so many people in Washington, he said, is because she just sits in Washington and she sends other people to war.
	She sends other families to war.
	And so it's like a game to her.
	He said, I think if we sent Liz Cheney to war and she were the one in the line of the firing, and she were the one facing the other rightful, I doubt she would be as enthusiastic about war.
	And for some reason, the media decided, in unison, to pretend that when Donald Trump said that about Liz Cheney, he was threatening her with execution by firing squad.
	That morning, CNN's Casey Hunt Went on her show on CNN, and although nobody watched it, it's still worth seeing how unbelievably unhinged these people are.
	Here's how she interpreted that remark.
	Four days out from Election Day, and former President Donald Trump is escalating his violent rhetoric, suggesting one of his most prominent critics, the former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, suggesting one of his most prominent critics, the former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, should be Thank you.
	Do you understand this?
	They're going to actually show what Trump said.
	Just compare it to what she just claimed.
	She said that four days before the election, Trump suggested that his political opponents should be fired upon.
	She's a radical war hawk.
	Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay?
	Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.
	You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, Will, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.
	Let's see how she feels when the guns are trained on her face.
	Let's sit with that for a moment.
	Of course, violent rhetoric.
	Let's sit with it.
	Let's sit with that.
	Let's just sit with it because it is shocking to hear a presidential candidate threaten his political opponent with firing squad.
	And Liz Cheney jumped on that and she too said, oh, this is what dictators do.
	They try and intimidate their political opponents by threatening violence against them.
	You just heard what Trump said.
	See how she feels when the guns are trained on her face.
	Let's sit with that for a moment.
	Of course, violent rhetoric.
	It's not new for Trump.
	But this stark imagery represents an escalation at a tense moment when the country is on edge heading into Tuesday, with seven in ten Americans saying they feel anxious or frustrated about the election, according to a new AP poll.
	And it comes after Trump has raised the specter of using the U.S. military on Americans he calls the enemy within.
	The other so funny thing about this is that just two months before, two and a half months before, Donald Trump was shot in the ear by somebody who was trying to murder him.
	And then weeks later, somebody was arrested on his golf course, found with a...
	I believe it was an automatic weapon, some sort of munition, some sort of arm, that...
	He intended to use to kill Donald Trump who was just a couple of holes away on his golf course.
	So Trump was the victim of not one but two assassination attempts, serious assassination attempts in a matter of weeks.
	And then Casey Hunt says violent rhetoric is not new for Trump.
	He's constantly trying to incite violence against his political adversaries.
	Here was Jonah Goldberg, a classic never-Trump neocon, who, of course, as a result, is employed by CNN to go on and say things like this.
	I don't think you even need to call it fired upon.
	He's saying quite explicitly and unambiguously that Liz Cheney should be shot, should be executed by a firing squad.
	That is appalling.
	He's not even vague.
	It's very clear he said what Trump is saying, that it's not just that Liz Cheney should be put in a line of fire, she should be shot.
	He's saying she should be killed.
	Executed.
	He's saying quite explicitly and unambiguously that Liz Payne should be shot, should be executed by firing squad.
	That is appalling.
	It is a small facet of the reasons why he's unfit for office and the Republican Party has made a disastrous mistake renominating him.
	All that said, since we're here for the punditry, I don't know what this gets him, right?
	If his problem is freaking out suburban women who don't like the chaos, don't like the violent rhetoric and all that kind of stuff, that's just not a great closing argument.
	Let's execute a political opponent who happens to be a woman because I don't like her.
	And, like, does that pull more low-propensity voters in his coalition to the polls?
	I honestly don't think so.
	I mean, that's the other funny part is they were just constantly predicting that everything Trump was doing was a disaster.
	Having that rally where they had a comedian who made a joke about Puerto Rico was going to end the election for Trump.
	Threatening Liz Cheney with a firing...
	Do you see what comes out of their mouth?
	And it's all to defend Liz Cheney.
	Do you see the role, the central role as Cheney played for Democratic Party politics going into the campaign and now even once it's over?
	But I also just want to link this back to the first segment because all of this I just showed you where they just go on air and say stuff that has no bearing to reality, no bearing relationship to what actually happened.
	They just are willing to spew anything because their agenda is getting Trump defeated and getting Kamala Harris elected and they would say anything in response to that and that's what's become so contemptible.
	It's become what has justifiably caused people to start hating the corporate media.
	That's also what happened over the last 24 hours.
	When it came to how these terrorist attacks were not just described and talked about, but aggressively exploited.
	And you shouldn't like being manipulated or exploited with reckless claims or even lies, whether it's designed to advance or undermine whatever you believe.
	And yet, that is what has been done with these terrorist attacks.
	It's the same thing that we saw throughout the election, not just this election, but the last three.
	And I think everyone's first duty ought to be to guard against that, to steel themselves against that, to protect themselves from it as much as possible.
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