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| Naomi Wolf and her team at the Daily Clout | ||
| submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Centers for Disease Control requesting all emails sent and received by Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, Sherry A. Berger, and Kevin Griffiths between the dates of February 1st and May 31st of and Kevin Griffiths between the dates of February 1st and May 31st of 2021 containing | ||
| They received hundreds of pages showing that the White House and the entire COVID response team knew that the COVID vaccines were killing people and causing blood clots, heart attacks, and myocarditis. | ||
| They also received 46 additional pages that were not requested. | ||
| Of these 46 pages, over 80% of them were fully redacted and involved the White House and the Executive Office of the President. | ||
| These redacted emails were labeled draft White House script and some tough Q&A. | ||
| They knew in the spring of 2021 that these shots were killing people. | ||
| I've said over and over, and I don't mean to belabor this, but to remind everyone, when Steve says, how could this happen? | ||
| I always say from my experience working around a White House, that it can't happen unless the boss says it has to, or that it can. | ||
| You can't kill Americans. | ||
| I've said this so many times on this show. | ||
| Knowingly, without the okay of the president. | ||
| So I knew that up the chain of command, the White House had to be involved in these decisions. | ||
| But we just didn't have the smoking gun. | ||
| Now we have the smoking gun. | ||
| You remember we have 200 volunteer lawyers. | ||
| So one of these lawyers' names is Ed Berkovich, and he FOIA'd, meaning Center of Freedom of Information Act demand, To the CDC about myocarditis and something very interesting happened. | ||
| He got 472 pages from the CDC in response to that FOIA. He was also given an additional 46 pages, which he didn't ask for. | ||
| And these additional 46 pages, over 80% of the pages were fully redacted. | ||
| The redactions were, quote, pursuant to five USC 552 exemptions, five and six. | ||
| What is redacted was solicited or shared with the president or his most senior advisors. | ||
| They know it's happening. | ||
| The other thing they're freaking out about is myocarditis. | ||
| They know it's happening. | ||
| The evidence came in, the updates came in, and the The American people are going to be asking questions or starting to ask questions. | ||
| So they convene a crisis, a set of crisis meetings, basically, in which they're basically trying to formulate a press response. | ||
| These are all press people. | ||
| They crafted a media response. | ||
| And by the way, there are people who deal with broadcast news as well in that list. | ||
| And the media response doesn't tell the truth after May of 2021. | ||
| They rolled out myocarditis and remember what they said always. | ||
| Extremely rare, mild resolves. | ||
| Extremely rare, mild resolves. | ||
| They knew that they were lying. | ||
| And they said nothing about the clotting issue, from what I recall. | ||
| So basically they created from this set of crisis communications, directed by the White House, with the White House's most senior advisors, the COVID-19 response project, which was overseen by the White House, At the behest of the White House, to create a media response that you experienced all of 2021, all of 2022, to get you to keep injecting this into your body and injecting it into the bodies of your loved ones. | ||
| And they knew that they were lying, and they knew that they were hurting people with blood clots, platelet problems, and heart damage. | ||
| And that's what they did, and that's what happened. | ||
| Reporting for InfoWars, this is Greg Reese. | ||
| Alright folks, that's the latest from Greg Reese. | ||
| Ladies, Reese's report at band.video. | ||
| White House new COVID vaccines were killing people over two years ago. | ||
| And yes, we are going to continue on that topic and so much more on today's program. | ||
| Thanks so much for being here with us. | ||
| We are coming to you live from the Infowars studio this Thursday morning, 28th of September. | ||
| We'll do your daily dispatch. On the other side, we got war, we got treason, we got mass murder, genocide, transgenderism. | ||
| It's all coming up, folks. | ||
| Folks, don't go anywhere. | ||
| This is The American Journal. | ||
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It's Thursday, September 28th, the year by Lord 2023. | |
| We'll be right back. | ||
| And... You're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Welcome to The American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Very glad to be coming to you this Thursday morning from the InfoWars headquarters here in Austin, Texas. | ||
| We have a lot of stuff to cover today. | ||
| A lot of videos to show you as well. | ||
| The ones that we're going to get through them together. | ||
| Folks, we got to watch The View. | ||
| We got to watch General Mark Milley try to justify his treasonous activities. | ||
| It's painful to have to watch this sort of stuff, but we'll do it. | ||
| We'll do it. We'll make it a little less painful. | ||
| We'll break the tedium by mocking it relentlessly. | ||
| So stay tuned for that. Taking your phone calls today as well. | ||
| I have yesterday to make up for. | ||
| Since we didn't get to any phone calls, we'll make sure to open up the phone lines nice and early today. | ||
| We might be having a guest today, or maybe tomorrow. | ||
| We'll see how it pans out. | ||
| But regardless, we'll be hearing from you at some point very, very shortly. | ||
| But before then, let's get into it as we do every day. | ||
| Here it is, your daily dispatch. | ||
| Here it is, folks, your daily dispatch for Thursday, the 28th of September 2023. | ||
| Elon Musk fires X election integrity team for undermining election integrity. | ||
| Believe it or not, Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that he has cut the electoral integrity team at X, formerly Twitter, in half, including the newly brought on board head of the group, Aaron Roderick. | ||
| When the news was reported, Musk replied, Oh, you mean the election integrity team that was undermining election integrity? | ||
| Yeah, they're gone. | ||
| A person familiar with the circumstances said that four people had been released, which constitutes the whole of the election integrity unit in Dublin. | ||
| It's kind of weird. In an August blog post, X said there were positions available on the threat disruption team and that the company was currently expanding our safety and elections team to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts, and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats. | ||
| Which, yeah, that's exactly what they should be doing, right? | ||
| Making sure that there's not... | ||
| A bot farmed false trends taking place. | ||
| Like other than that, other than the actual stuff that only the big tech company itself can handle with the back end that they have. | ||
| Other than that, they got no role determining what is and is not true and trying to bring election integrity when all they do is undermine it. | ||
| It's kind of like how the disinformation team was destroyed by disinformation teams. | ||
| So ironic whenever these tyrannical, despotic idiots try to impose their view of the world on everybody else. | ||
| It never works out, does it? | ||
| Again, say what you want about Elon Musk. | ||
| For every one creepy thing he gets into, for every one brain chip in your head, there's like 99 amazing things that he's doing. | ||
| So, so far, he's in the... | ||
| The positive column outweighs the negative column so far. | ||
| Next up is this story. | ||
| The keys to my family's only asset, House Ways and Means Committee releases explosive documents confirming Hunter sold access to Joe Biden in 23 countries. | ||
| On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to release new documents from IRS whistleblower testimony confirming that Hunter Biden sold access to his father. | ||
| Joe Biden via the family brand. | ||
| The explosive documents revealed Hunter Biden was selling the, quote, Biden family brand in 23 countries. | ||
| The Biden family foreign influence peddling operations suggests an effort to sway U.S. policy decisions, House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith said. | ||
| The committee released a June 6, 2017 WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to a business associate that he was not willing to, quote, sign over my family's brand or give the individual the keys to my family's only asset. | ||
| Corruption. Corruption is the only asset they have. | ||
| And again, I'm seeing this so much where it's like, if you have a big problem with the president earning money from China, then maybe you should talk to Donald Trump, who made a lot of money in China. | ||
| It's like, oh, what, when he was building giant skyscrapers there? | ||
| When he was operating an international business for 40 years? | ||
| And making billions of dollars and creating tens of thousands of jobs by actually creating tangible assets that made money for him the whole time? | ||
| Gee, that's so similar to Joe Biden just being in office for 70-plus years and selling his name to foreign oligarchs. | ||
| It's like this is not a comparison. | ||
| That's an absurd parallel to draw, but... | ||
| We're dealing with absurd people, so it makes sense, I guess. | ||
| Meanwhile, here's an interesting story. | ||
| Travis King, American soldier back in U.S. after being freed by North Korea. | ||
| I don't think we gave him anything. | ||
| They just didn't want him anymore. | ||
| Most of the time, North Korea is able to legitimately get their hands on an American. | ||
| It becomes a big thing. | ||
| It's like months and months, years sometimes of negotiation. | ||
| As America tries to get them back, North Korea tries to extort their position for the biggest gain possible. | ||
| In this case, they're just like, can you take him, please, actually? | ||
| Actually, we... We didn't want him. | ||
| We didn't invite him. He's yours. | ||
| You are responsible for him. | ||
| Please take him back, please. | ||
| U.S. Army Private Travis King arrived back in the United States soil Thursday after being returned to American custody. | ||
| Weeks after he crossed into North Korea, a Defense Department official said... | ||
| King flew in on a U.S. military flight landing at Kelly Field at Joint Base San Antonio Fort Sam Houston around 1.30 a.m. | ||
| Eastern Time. The official said a CNN camera captured what appears to be King being escorted off the plane by several people. | ||
| They met officials waiting on the ground and led King off to another area of the military base out of sight of the camera. | ||
| While questions still remain, such as what prompted King to enter North Korea and whether he will face any disciplinary action, his return marks a rare diplomatic success between Washington and Pyongyang at a time of fraught relations. | ||
| So remember, this guy was stationed in South Korea and was like a—I'm pretty sure he's like a communist. | ||
| I'm pretty sure he just wanted to live in North Korea and fled across the DMZ into North Korea on his own volition. | ||
| He wasn't kidnapped. He wasn't—it wasn't like Otto Warmbier where he was an American tourist that— You know, spit his gum on the sidewalk and suddenly found himself in shackles, you know, with brain-eating aneurysms injected into his head. | ||
| This guy wanted to go to North Korea, thought he was going to be, like, receive like a hero. | ||
| Because North Koreans are always looking for this propaganda coup of, like, even the Americans are desperate to flee their capitalist country. | ||
| Apparently he's just unbearable. | ||
| Apparently he's unbearable. Apparently even the... | ||
| Totally captured communist nation of North Korea doesn't want to deal with American communists. | ||
| There's like, your people's leftists are unbearable. | ||
| Take him back, please. | ||
| We'll see what develops there. | ||
| He ran away. | ||
| He ran away to North Korea. | ||
| Takeaways from the second Republican at presidential... | ||
| Oh, yeah, there was a presidential debate yesterday, apparently. | ||
| Nobody really knew about it. | ||
| Donald Trump wasn't there. | ||
| So it was just really just a loud and pointless conversation held by a bunch of second placers. | ||
| Second 2024 Republican presidential primary debate ended just as it began with former President Donald Trump, who hasn't appeared alongside his rivals on stage as the party's dominant frontrunner. | ||
| The seven GOP contenders in Wednesday's night showdown at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, provided a handful of memorable moments, including former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley unloading what often seemed like the entire field's pent-up frustration with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, saying things like, quote, Honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say, she said to him at one point. | ||
| Which, again, you people are learning the wrong lesson from Trump's campaign. | ||
| It's like when... | ||
| Ron DeSantis was like, we're going to get into the federal office and start slitting throats. | ||
| It's like, oh my God, don't do that. | ||
| What is wrong with you? | ||
| It's like they think that the thing about Trump was that he was just like a bully and was like off the cuff and mean. | ||
| I think they sort of bought the leftist propaganda about Trump and they think that if they're just mean and petulant, that somehow makes them Trumpian. | ||
| It's like, no, you have to have stuff to back it up. | ||
| You have to actually be a funny, genial person, because then when you're mean like that, it comes across as something we can all laugh with, not cringe at. | ||
| They're getting the wrong message from the success of Trump. | ||
| We'll show you clips from that. | ||
| Vivek Ramaswamy, of course, saying brilliant things that are obvious, and this confuses the establishment of GOP. Finally, we have this. | ||
| U.S. late night shows to resume next week after writers end their strike. | ||
| So it'll be a period of mourning. | ||
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Welcome back to American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| We have so many videos to get to. | ||
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I'm going to try to get to as many as possible here. | |
| We'll start with a little bit of a throwback. | ||
| As you know, if you're a regular viewer of this program or subscribe to me on Twitter, I really don't like or participate in any right-wing inter-conflict. | ||
| It's not helpful. | ||
| It doesn't help progress the message or the cause. | ||
| These purity spirals or, like, sniping one another. | ||
| Some people on the right wing I like, some I don't. | ||
| But as long as they're trying to do something that progresses humanity, I'm not about to, you know, throw a stick in their spokes. | ||
| Just not interested in it. | ||
| Sometimes that kind of comes back to bite you in the butt. | ||
| Because one of the things that... | ||
| I would otherwise ridicule ad nauseum is people like Ben Shapiro and The Daily Wire, this new tactic they have, this new thing that they do, or they do like TikTok reaction videos. | ||
| I despise this. | ||
| I really, something visceral in me rebels at this every time I see it. | ||
| Because all it is is somebody else's work. | ||
| All it is is somebody else's video And it's like Ben Shapiro reacts to, and he's just sitting there smiling dumbly while somebody else's video plays. | ||
| And then it's like 10 million views on Ben Shapiro's channel when he provides absolutely no added value to the video itself. | ||
| Again, I wouldn't bring this up because whatever, do what you want to, you know, this is how they want to make money. | ||
| That's what they can do. You know, if it helps, I guess, get the message out to more people, fine. | ||
| That's fine. So I've never brought up this style of content creation. | ||
| I think it's lazy and annoying. | ||
| I've never brought it up because I don't like to engage in just like infighting sort of stuff. | ||
| But I sort of wish I had... | ||
| So you can all understand how annoying it is to me that one of my videos has now been featured by Ben Shapiro. | ||
| Reacted to. Reacted to by Ben Shapiro. | ||
| Let's just go ahead and go to this video. | ||
| This is clip number 12. | ||
| Here's Ben Shapiro reacting to this InfoWars short featuring yours truly. | ||
| Let's watch. The FBI was withholding from congressional oversight a document showing that during the Obama administration, Biden accepted a $10 million bribe through his son Hunter to force the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor that was investigating corruption, an event that Donald Trump looked into, sparking the first impeachment, enforcing the arming of Ukraine, in turn setting the stage for the current war against Russia. | ||
| Evidence of the bribe was also in Hunter Biden's laptop, which the FBI also had, but that they swore was Russian disinformation and infiltrated social media to censor during the 2020 campaign. | ||
| All while the FBI investigates Trump for having classified documents, despite the FBI admittedly letting Hillary Clinton off for a similar charge in 2016, when they were simultaneously launching the Russiagate investigation into Donald Trump using falsified evidence provided by the Clinton campaign. | ||
| Do I have that all straight? | ||
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mostly yeah Which is troubling. Thanks, Ben. | |
| Yeah, I know. No, thanks. | ||
| I really needed that added value. | ||
| You really, uh, the commentary there. | ||
| Really groundbreaking stuff. | ||
| It's just, it's so lazy. | ||
| It's so just like nothing. | ||
| Just share somebody else's video, but just tag on you being like, uh-huh, yep. | ||
| Why did they even cut to Ben? | ||
| Just wait. We're setting it up. | ||
| Okay. The crew is working on... | ||
| They're conniving. We're not conniving. | ||
| Sorry, you were saying so? | ||
| I got distracted by the hellish scream in the middle there. | ||
| I gotta say, the books behind Ben Shapiro looked surprisingly fake. | ||
| Pretty fake. Having a fake bookshelf behind you, the temerity, the tenacity of these people. | ||
| Well, I meant like, you know, they could be very real, but he's never read them, right? | ||
| Did he read those books on set? | ||
| I don't know. I don't know. | ||
| He's sort of a nerdy guy. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised if he'd read a lot of books. | ||
| He pitches Blinkist. You can't trust the man. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. He's never read a book in his life. | ||
| He's just listened to the 15-minute synopsis. | ||
| You think that's what he's doing? | ||
| I used to listen to The Daily Wire and The Ben Shapiro Show, and Blinkist was one of his sponsors, and I'm pretty sure that's what he's going on. | ||
| It's all fraudulent. | ||
| It's all fraudulent. Now, I want to make something very clear, and I've read all of these books, but every single one of these books I've read thoroughly. | ||
| It actually might kind of be true. | ||
| Any of the ones facing forward, I have read. | ||
| More or less. Mostly. | ||
| For the most part. I gave it a good try. | ||
| Or we just caught him on Blinkist. | ||
| Well, I listen to him. | ||
| I listen to a lot of audiobooks. | ||
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I call that reading. We've got a new sponsor. | |
| We have no new sponsors. | ||
| Our only sponsor is on forwardstore.com. | ||
| But I want to make something very clear. | ||
| If you want to do this, you are more than welcome. | ||
| I would never... Criticize an info warrior like the people listening to me right now. | ||
| If you're out there listening to me, you're just a regular Joe, you work your eight hours and you run a social media platform on the side, or you're a student, or you're just like a small-scale influencer. | ||
| If you're not Ben Shapiro, I'm not going to criticize you for doing stuff like this. | ||
| I think that's what we need. | ||
| We need more people uploading videos. | ||
| Even if it is like, well, I'll put my face on, call it a reaction video. | ||
| Like, that's great. Do that. | ||
| Go ahead. You're more than welcome. | ||
| It's the fact that it's Ben Shapiro doing this that gets me a little bit annoyed. | ||
| Like, the fact that here's a guy with, like, this massive company, this massive platform, this huge podcast, and then he's got to, like, Make extra money on the side by stealing other people's content and not reacting to it. | ||
| Again, I wouldn't even care if he actually reacted in a way that added value to the thing. | ||
| At the end there, he's like, yeah, the sad part is that's mostly true. | ||
| And it's like, okay, well, what if that is not true? | ||
| Where did I get anything wrong? | ||
| And what does this entail? | ||
| And what does this mean? Add something to the clip if you're going to take the clip. | ||
| I guess it's nice. I guess it's good. | ||
| We got madmaxworld.tv, the URL up there, for just about a quarter million people. | ||
| That's the number of views it's had in the last three days. | ||
| Something like 31,000 likes. | ||
| He could have at least given you the Twitter shout-out. | ||
| Exactly. Follow this guy at... | ||
| Yeah, yeah. A good clip from Infowars. | ||
| That's Harrison Smith of the American Journal. | ||
| Yeah, that'd be nice. That would have been nice. | ||
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Ben... Don't make us call the ADL on you. | |
| Yeah. So, anyway, we got featured. | ||
| Isn't that a lovely nice sort of honor? | ||
| Aren't we honored? It was nice. | ||
| We can call that an American Journal in the wild. | ||
| Yes. Spotted in the wild. | ||
| Thank you, too. My mom's church friend for sending that to her. | ||
| The good thing is there's a lot of people that don't watch us that do watch Ben Shapiro, and maybe this is the... | ||
| The back path that we take into their minds, right? | ||
| They hear Infowars, they're like, oh, that's scary. | ||
| They're conspiracy theorists. | ||
| But I'll watch Ben Shapiro, and they watch Ben Shapiro, and he plays a clip of ours, and they're like, oh, these guys are a lot more tuned into it than Ben is. | ||
| These guys actually... | ||
| Seems like they get what's going on. | ||
| Maybe I will go watch Infowars. | ||
| Maybe I'll cancel my Daily Wire subscription and go to Infowarsstore.com. | ||
| Maybe I'll take some Real Red Pill Plus. | ||
| Maybe I'll change my entire mindset and suddenly activate my nascent potential to become a powerful human being. | ||
| Maybe I'll become a true info warrior and sign up for the monthly delivery. | ||
| Maybe I'll take vitamin mineral fusion and really combat the poisoning that's taking place from our soil to our air to our water. | ||
| Maybe I will support the info war and maybe I will rescue humanity from the depths of the globalist prison. | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
| More videos on the other side. | ||
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You're watching The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| Watch live right now at band.video. | ||
| All right, welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, this is The American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Ben Shapiro. | ||
| I'm glad you're here today. | ||
| We have a lot of stories to cover. | ||
| I really just want to play videos for probably this whole first hour because we do have so many. | ||
| Let's go to some of these clips from last night's Republican presidential debate. | ||
| Yes, it was the second second place debate. | ||
| Second 2024 Republican primary debate ended just as it began with former President Donald Trump, they say. | ||
| There were some... | ||
| Some bitchiness on display, some petulance, some backbiting. | ||
| It's just the whole thing is weird, man. | ||
| The whole thing is weird. You've got the Democratic Party, who went completely insane in 2016, completely off the rails, just throwing every... | ||
| Precedent out the window as they just went for Donald Trump regardless of the consequences. | ||
| Assured in their own fantasy world that they would get away with all of it. | ||
| They launched investigations. | ||
| They spun media campaigns. | ||
| They basically destroyed democracy as we know it. | ||
| Because the person that they didn't want to get elected got elected. | ||
| So now it's not important who the people elect. | ||
| It's the deep state outwardly taking control. | ||
| Like, they went insane. And they're still going insane. | ||
| And they're, once again, just shattering every precedent, just setting the table for outrageous tyranny down the line. | ||
| If they get away with what they're doing now to President Trump, they launch investigation after investigation, indictment after indictment, whether it's Him paying for an ex-lover to be quiet but filing it under the wrong label or calling the governor of Georgia or saying let's peacefully protest and this being warped and twisted into some sort of secretive dog whistle call to violence. | ||
| I mean, they are tearing our country apart as they attempt to shut down this revolutionary political movement. | ||
| landscape shifting event that was Donald Trump being elected. | ||
| That's one side. | ||
| On the other side, you have a bunch of Republicans getting together without Donald Trump to trash talk Donald Trump and to attack him from the other side and to basically do the Democrats bidding for them as they attempt to egotistically build up their own hopeless you have a bunch of Republicans getting together without Donald Trump to trash talk Donald Trump and to attack him from the other side and to basically Like they know they don't have a chance. | ||
| So what are they doing? | ||
| What are they doing? | ||
| They can't win. | ||
| And I get if you're still going to play the game like Vivek Ramaswamy, knowing that you'll never get the candidacy, but also knowing that you have a platform now to massively shift the conversation as a presidential candidate and to set yourself up for perhaps the but also knowing that you have a platform now to massively shift the But if you're attacking Trump, then you're definitely not going to be his vice president, right? | ||
| So you're definitely not going to win the nomination, and you're definitely not going to have a position in Trump's cabinet or his vice president position or his campaign at all. | ||
| So what are they doing? | ||
| They're just up there giving ammo to the Democrats. | ||
| They're just up there participating in the dissection of the American system, using Donald Trump as an excuse. | ||
| What are they doing? What is the point of this? | ||
| I honestly want to know what they think they're doing and how they think this benefits anybody, even themselves. | ||
| I don't even get how this would benefit themselves. | ||
| It won't. So what are they doing? | ||
| Well, they're embarrassing themselves and all of us by pretending to be like Trump, by taking the absolute wrong lesson from the Donald Trump campaign. | ||
| Again, you've got Nikki Haley saying things to Vivek Ramaswamy. | ||
| By the way, every intelligent viewer of any Republican primary activities, you have to respect Vivek Ramaswamy. | ||
| You have to recognize the dude's incredibly sharp. | ||
| He's incredibly well-spoken. | ||
| He's incredibly out there to the right of most people. | ||
| On a lot of these topics. | ||
| He's incredibly open-minded as well. | ||
| Now, what he says is always framed incorrectly, right? | ||
| He's basically like, well, we know that from some of the classified document releases that the American government or the Saudi government, there was stuff about 9-11 that we weren't told until just now. | ||
| And then that's taken out of context to be like, so you think 9-11 was an inside job? | ||
| They'll take it completely out of context and have to lie about it because what he's saying is not outrageous or ridiculous or Even far-fetched whatsoever. | ||
| Nikki Haley says to him, honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say, which is like, okay, first of all, you are kind of dumb, so maybe Vivek is helping you come to some sort of realization that would be beneficial to you. | ||
| But also, he is clearly, like, I don't know, it's just such a dumb thing to say, and it's said in such a Annoying way in a way that just inspires like revulsion because they think they're being Trumpian they think like well Trump insults people all insult people But it doesn't work that way you people have trained your whole lives to have this veneer of Respectability you should stick with that you should see you shouldn't get into the mud with the pigs Donald Trump's just in there just having the time of his life You're like trying to somehow Maintain your cleanliness. | ||
| Maintain your clean appearance while also getting in the mud. | ||
| And it just is uncomfortable and weird and annoying and bad. | ||
| It's bad. So let's look at some of these clips here. | ||
| We've got the big fat guy. | ||
| What's his name? Chris Christie. Clip number eight. | ||
| Here's Chris Christie with a mic drop moment. | ||
| Incredible. I mean, he's won the candidacy with this. | ||
| Let's watch. You're not here tonight because you're afraid of being on the stage and defending your record. | ||
| You're ducking these things. | ||
| And let me tell you what's going to happen. | ||
| You keep doing that, no one up here is going to call you Donald Trump anymore. | ||
| We're gonna call you Donald Duck. | ||
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| Oh, whoa! | ||
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Whoa! Whoa! | |
| How will you recover? | ||
| How will he recover? | ||
| Did you see that, like, little smirk on his face after he dropped that line? | ||
| Oh, he thought he did such a good job. | ||
| He looked like he just snuck a cookie. | ||
| I shouldn't even have responded, because at the very, like, you could hear the whole room groan. | ||
| They all groaned. | ||
| They're all like, oh, oh, God. | ||
| And, of course, the response is obvious. | ||
| I mean, you don't even have to be Donald Trump. | ||
| It's just, you know, okay, Porky. | ||
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Did he actually have his vaccine? | |
| Did it make it? | ||
| Did it make it in? Could it penetrate the chins? | ||
| Just don't try, guys. | ||
| Please stop. You're just embarrassing yourself and all of us, truly. | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| And Vivek Ramaswamy, on the other hand, saying awesome, based, incredible stuff like this. | ||
| Clip number nine. Here's Vivek Ramaswamy. | ||
| I have to be very clear about this. | ||
| Transgenderism, especially in kids, is a mental health disorder. | ||
| We have to acknowledge the truth of that for what it is. | ||
| I met two young women early in this campaign. | ||
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Parents have the right to know. | |
| And you know what the hypocrisy of this is? | ||
| Even New Hampshire failed to actually get past a piece of legislation here. | ||
| The very people who say that this increases the risk of suicide are also the ones saying that parents don't have the right to know about that I'm sorry, it is not compassionate to affirm a kid's confusion. | ||
| That is not compassion, that is cruelty. | ||
| I met two young women, Chloe and Katie, early in this campaign, who are in their 20s, now regret getting double mastectomies and a hysterectomy. | ||
| One of them will never have children. | ||
| And the fact that we allowed that to happen in this country is barbaric. | ||
| So I will ban genital mutilation or chemical castration under the... | ||
| Just keep trying to interrupt him. | ||
| That was great. That was incredible. | ||
| I know people have questions. | ||
| There is an aspect of Vivek Ramaswamy where he's so good at saying the right things. | ||
| You're like, have you always believed this? | ||
| Are you just saying this now? | ||
| Because he flip-flops a little bit. | ||
| You can look at some of his old books and he's not saying the things that he says now. | ||
| But are we not glad that somebody is up on stage taking that stance? | ||
| Not just saying like, well, we have to be compassionate and I want to hear from the medical providers. | ||
| And he's just like, no, this is sick and wrong. | ||
| This is a mental illness. | ||
| I will ban genital mutilation and chemical castration, which is exactly what it is. | ||
| Bravo. | ||
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All right. | |
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
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| And man, we really are having incredible success. | ||
| Really incredible success in I mean, can you imagine how easy it would be for the globalists if Infowars didn't exist, if people countering their narrative weren't out there? | ||
| Can you imagine being in a truly Soviet system where every media outlet, bar none, every single one of them is purporting the same thing? | ||
| Where they could lie about anything, anytime, and actually get away with it. | ||
| As much as they try to act like they're getting away, like that's what happens now is that they lie about everything. | ||
| And then they pretend that we don't exist. | ||
| They pretend that like Infowars doesn't exist and all these right-wing gateway pundit and post-millennial and all these people, they pretend they don't exist. | ||
| But it doesn't really work because we do exist and because we are providing the alternative narrative, a.k.a. | ||
| the truth, to people. | ||
| So they say a lie, we counter that lie, we expose that lie, and they just ignore us and keep going and pretend like we don't exist. | ||
| But for the people in the audience, there's a huge number of people out there that are realizing this. | ||
| Because again, you can imagine being in a Soviet system where we didn't exist, where the right-wing Counter-revolutionaries weren't there to set things straight. | ||
| People might know that what they're getting is not the truth, but that would be where it ended. | ||
| They would just go, I don't really, you know, the people in power, the state news, they're not giving us the truth, but it's all we got. | ||
| I mean, that's what we have to rely on. | ||
| They might get that it's not totally real, but... | ||
| The truth wouldn't be out there anywhere. | ||
| We actually provide the truth, which makes the liar's job significantly harder and makes the fact that they just continue with their lies really, really degrade their trustworthiness. | ||
| When people see that they lie, see that they refuse to acknowledge their lie, and just continue lying, slowly but surely, one by one, Americans are leaving the plantation, leaving the Mental prison of mainstream news and finding alternative sources of information. | ||
| So, thank God that we have the First Amendment in the first place. | ||
| And thank God we continue to express that. | ||
| We have a couple of illustrations of this. | ||
| We'll go first to this video by, it was actually posted by Elon Musk. | ||
| Clip number five. | ||
| Again, this is the type of thing that is only possible because we have free speech. | ||
| And you don't even have to have a Chinese or Soviet-style censorship regime to prevent this. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised if this type of video would get you on some sort of list in a place like the UK or anywhere in Europe. | ||
| These free democracies, these liberal democracies who throw more people into prison for their speech than Russia does these days. | ||
| Or than any other country does outside of like maybe the Middle East or China, but... | ||
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That's just because their speech is dangerous to democracy. | |
| Of course, of course, yes. | ||
| Voting is dangerous to democracy as well apparently. | ||
| Voting and... | ||
| We really are at the point where like the people in power are telling us to save democracy we have to accept totalitarianism. | ||
| To save freedom we have to become authoritarian. | ||
| And they're actually selling war is peace and freedom is slavery. | ||
| It is... | ||
| dystopian. | ||
| Let's go to clip number five here. | ||
| Elon Musk posted this. | ||
| He said, have you heard disinformation? | ||
| Let's watch. 100% effectiveness. | ||
| 100% effectiveness of the vaccine... | ||
| Headline after headline tells you it's 100% effective. | ||
| Well, 99. Okay, so it's 99%, 98, 97. | ||
| It's 96.7. | ||
| It's okay. It's a little over 95. | ||
| Okay, it's 95. 94, 93% effective. | ||
| The vaccine is certainly 90% effective. | ||
| We're absolutely sure that it's at least 87%, 86, 85, 84, 83, maybe 82, 81. | ||
| Look, it's dropping. Okay, the effectiveness is dropping. | ||
| It's dropping rapidly. It's dropping like a rock. | ||
| It's down to 75%. Now it's down to 74%. | ||
| 73, 72, 71, 70. | ||
| That's like a countdown. It's like some sort of rocket blast. | ||
| It's amazing. Now we're down to 60. | ||
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We're down to 58. We're about halfway effective now. | |
| Gee, it's dropped precipitously. | ||
| Remember when they were saying it was 100 like 10 seconds ago? | ||
| Wow, things change, don't they? | ||
| 42%, 40%, yeah, 39. | ||
| Okay, so 30, 20%. | ||
| 20, it's at least, now you have to get your boosters. | ||
| Now you need more. Maybe we should just stop. | ||
| Let's just stop. Let's no more. | ||
| Let's stop. That's enough. | ||
| That's enough of that. Disinformation. | ||
| And these are the people that want to police your speech. | ||
| I want to stop you from speaking out against them. | ||
| Of course, we have been exposing this for a very long time. | ||
| We'll go ahead and go to clip two here. | ||
| We won't be able to finish it, but somebody put this together, a Twitter user, just showing that we have been right about COVID since before most people even knew what it was. | ||
| Going all the way back to 2020, clip number two. | ||
| Let's watch. Alex Jones was right. | ||
| I'm not sure who posted this. | ||
| I'd give them credit, but it's a great little collection, a little montage of clips from all the way back in 2020. | ||
| Fauci did it....that created the virus, gave it to China, released it, covered it up. | ||
| It was cooked up by Homeland Security under Obama. | ||
| They have a Bill of Melinda Gates Foundation spokesperson meeting with Democrats and with EU leaders calling for the CIA and FBI To treat anti-vaxxers like Al-Qaeda and quote, disrupt us. | ||
| Now that term means kill us. | ||
| The Pentagon and the CIA need to shut us down as terrorists. | ||
| I'm going to show you the quotes. | ||
| They call us terrorists. | ||
| Biden's suppressing that it was a Chinese bioweapon with the globalists, with the UN for a worldwide power grab. | ||
| And the FBI and the DIA have had this intelligence for months, Alex. | ||
| For months, Alex. | ||
| And they are sitting on it. | ||
| Because they know, like we've reported, Fauci's involved, Obama's involved, Google's involved, Facebook is involved, so they have to cover all this up. | ||
| It wasn't just big pharma, it was the government coming in and giving taxpayer money to that local popular station in Houston so that they would again control the narrative. | ||
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They were getting money from the government to promote these vaccines. | |
| What happens if they think it comes from a lab? | ||
| And it's Avril Haines, current director of the DNI, head of the DNI, saying, well, we have ways of covering that. | ||
| Well, we have ways of stopping that type of speculation. | ||
| Don't you worry about that. | ||
| So they've been involved in corona since the beginning. | ||
| They carried out Event 201. | ||
| They worked with Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance to create the virus, and they helped cover up the origin of It's come out that Fauci, quarterback and commanded with the Rockefeller Foundation. | ||
| 2020 to 2023, we have had their number the entire time. | ||
| and it's all a scam. | ||
| We're orchestrated by the intelligence agencies to enslave the world. | ||
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You're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| In a civilization that increasingly normalizes criminal activity, whether it's Biden and son hell-bent on belittling the American taxpayer, whether it's Biden and son hell-bent on belittling the American taxpayer, the U.S. Constitution, and foreign policy in a futile effort to protect the code to their personal nepotistic ATM | ||
| or sleazy Senator Bob Menendez taking payment and gold bars to get his banker buddy off the hook and sell us all out to the Egyptians. | ||
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The indictment alleges that Hanna, Uribe, and Davies provided bribes in the form of cash, gold, home mortgage payments, a low-show or no-show job for Nadine Menendez, a Mercedes Benz, and other things of value to the senator and his wife. | |
| The corruption is far more rampant than anyone realizes, as those examples merely scrape the surface. | ||
| Whether it's the gold that disappeared on 9-11 or the blaze that engulfed the state-of-the-art fire prevention facility at the TD Ameritrade Bartlett Warehouse, where 60 hedge funds had been put under investigation the day before by the DOJ, | ||
| where the burning evidence was quickly hauled away in direct violation of OSHA safety requirements, and all questions were ignored by the gatekeepers at the SEC and the DOJ. Flames and clouds of smoke still bursting across Bartlett today as crews are now on day two of battling this warehouse fire. | ||
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The fire that started in the middle of the building quickly spread as the warehouse was filled with thousands of boxes holding paper documents. | |
| Those documents now scattered as debris on the ground right next to the warehouse. | ||
| As the days roll on and these events stack up, this terrorism we face as a nation isn't merely emanating from another continent. | ||
| The most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy. | ||
| It isn't a toothless domestic homegrown supremacist with a third grade education. | ||
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I think Biden's buried in Trump because he sends rockets to Ukraine. | |
| In support of Ukraine, you mean? | ||
| Hail Ukraine, hail Aza. | ||
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Love Ukraine. | |
| Samuels are off. | ||
| It isn't some cogent free speech warrior engulfed in truth, as the prostitutes would have you believe from their holier-than-thou teleprompters. | ||
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Schroyer did not enter the Capitol building, but he did lead rioters in chants near the top of the building's steps. | |
| He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegally entering a restricted area and faces a maximum of one year behind bars. | ||
| Sentencing is set for September. | ||
| Schroyer is one of two Infowars employees arrested at the Capitol, but so far that has not included the founder, Alex Jones. | ||
| As the Canadian Parliament rises for not one, but two standing ovations for a former Ukrainian Nazi SS officer, a former Nazi collaborator freely decimates America. | ||
| My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson. | ||
| Yes, yes. George Soros is casually directing with his billion dollar hedge fund known as the Quantum Group of Funds. | ||
| Fueling a network of non-profit infiltration zealotry, a gluttonous display of mind-boggling permissions courtesy of the sellouts on Capitol Hill to allow vested New World Order interests to tweak the levers of the republic on every level. | ||
| This is the subtle imminent threat that must come to an end or Soros will bring the United States to an end. | ||
| The truth is rising like the sun in the east, awakening an ocean of hearts and minds, simply identifying as we the people, grasping to inevitably restore the providence eroded by a century of sabotage. | ||
| John Bowne reporting. | ||
| Here we go, ladies, John Bowne, the hedge fund terrorist exclusive report at band.video. | ||
| And let's be clear, the world is not run by Nazis, but it's astonishing the number of these world manipulators who have ties to the Nazis, Klaus Schwab's dad ran a factory with Jewish slave labor. | ||
| Madeleine Albright's dad was a collaborator. | ||
| George Soros himself was a collaborator. | ||
| They all seem to have sort of malleable morals when it comes to Nazism. | ||
| It's kind of weird. I don't know. | ||
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It's weird. Putting the power of conversation into the caller's hands. | |
| You're listening to The American Journal with your host, Arison Smith. | ||
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, in full warriors all. | ||
| Welcome back to the show. | ||
| Still so many videos to show you, so much stuff to cover. | ||
| We're going to take your phone calls this hour. | ||
| I'll go ahead and open up the phone lines now. | ||
| Why not? The number to dial is 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| Give us a call here at American Journal. | ||
| Taking your call soon. | ||
| And while I'm talking about comments from the audience, I just got a Twitter message from Aaron Morse. | ||
| He says, I can't call in because I had meetings all day, but I had a story regarding Ben Shapiro. | ||
| My stepdaughter's father used to call me racist and a hillbilly for supporting Trump. | ||
| In the past year, he started watching Ben Shapiro and identifying with a lot of the ideas put forth by that network and coming around to reality. | ||
| I told my stepdaughter, Ben Shapiro is the gateway drug. | ||
| I'm gonna start sending him some real links. | ||
| He'll be bumping rails of truth bombs off the InfoWars network by fall. | ||
| That's the way that it works. | ||
| That is the way that it works. | ||
| Ben Shapiro, the true gateway drug to truth. | ||
| That's true. I can't hate on people for listening to Ben Shapiro. | ||
| I really can't. I know a lot of people in my personal life He's a smart guy. | ||
| He's a smart guy. He's well-spoken. | ||
| What are we supposed to say? | ||
| Yeah, and you know, one of the things that I did enjoy about his podcast during the Trump years, right? | ||
| Those were great years. | ||
| But a lot of people were super pro-Trump and they were super anti-Trump. | ||
| And he was willing to talk about—he actually had a segment where— Good Trump, bad Trump? | ||
| Yeah. Alright, first off, Ben, if you're listening, good lord, man. | ||
| That theme song was horrible. | ||
| But the content was okay. | ||
| And you were at least honest. | ||
| You were willing to go both ways. | ||
| Yeah, Ben Shapiro, willing to go both ways. | ||
| That's the headline we have for you here. | ||
| Alright, we got a lot of politics still to talk about. | ||
| Everything's just so goofy. | ||
| Everything's so goofy and weird. | ||
| There is some pushback to the just plummeting standards of the left, which is nice to see. | ||
| First, a mysterious story. | ||
| I got no idea what's going on here. | ||
| Just right out in front. | ||
| This is bizarre. | ||
| This is a bizarre occurrence, and I don't know what to make of it. | ||
| Story from Fox Banger. | ||
| Like Bangor, I guess Bangor, Maine? | ||
| Is this local Fox affiliate? | ||
| But they say Arizona, maybe there's a Bangor, Arizona, but Arizona governor mysteriously steps down for one day. | ||
| On Wednesday evening, the Arizona treasurer announced that she will be serving as acting governor beginning later this evening until mid-morning tomorrow amid the mysterious disappearance of Governor Katie Hobbs. | ||
| Okay. So in a press release on X, Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee announced her brief tenure as acting governor, saying that she is pleased to step in this role. | ||
| The Republican state treasurer noted that during her less than 24 hours as acting governor, she would refrain from confirming the 13 agencies that still hold vacancies and wait for the Democratic governor to fill them upon her return. | ||
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Uh, what? | |
| That's, what? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Return from where? | ||
| Where did she go? | ||
| What is happening? | ||
| What are the details here? | ||
| And there aren't any. | ||
| I can't find them. You can find a couple stories on this, but they're all the same. | ||
| Arizona governor mysteriously steps down for one day. | ||
| But why? | ||
| And what? And does this happen? | ||
| Is this a thing that happens? | ||
| I've never seen this happen. | ||
| It's not like you have to be in the state to be the governor. | ||
| Ron DeSantis goes to Israel. | ||
| He's still the governor when he's in Israel. | ||
| What is happening here? | ||
| What is this? I genuinely don't understand. | ||
| And again, there's no comment on it. | ||
| Ye refrained to comment on the governor's absence in a press release and did not immediately respond to Fox News' Digital's request for clarification. | ||
| Hobbs also did not immediately respond to Fox News' Digital's request for comment. | ||
| Well, Hobbs is gone, apparently. | ||
| We don't know where she is. | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
| I wish I had more to add to it. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| But I just don't. | ||
| But there was a lot of, like, misinterpretation of this. | ||
| There was a lot of people on Twitter posting the press release and being like, Katie Hobbs stepped down as governor. | ||
| Like, it's happening. You know, they're not... | ||
| Yeah, she's been indicted or, you know, they're undoing the election. | ||
| Which would be nice. I mean, that would be nice to see. | ||
| But she's just stepping down for a day. | ||
| Again... I don't know. | ||
| I don't know, but that's very weird. | ||
| Have y'all ever heard of this happening? | ||
| Has this ever happened before? | ||
| The governor just being like, I don't want to be governor on Thursday. | ||
| Okay, I don't know. | ||
| It's weird. Now, if I was ye, I might not give it back. | ||
| I don't know. I might just be like, you know. | ||
| Oh, you want to make me governor? Alright, yeah. | ||
| That sounds good. He's just like, okay, I'm back. | ||
| He's like, oh, really? Because I'm governor now. | ||
| You can't just come back. | ||
| You got to go win an election, lady. | ||
| I'm governor. I will be appointing positions to all these places. | ||
| I don't know. Very odd. | ||
| Very weird. Very strange. | ||
| I'm just like brainstorming. Like, what... | ||
| Why would somebody do that? | ||
| Why would you step down for a day? | ||
| Like, what is the play here? | ||
| What is going on? Is she having surgery? | ||
| Is she having some sort of medical intervention where she's going to be, like, unconscious for 12 hours while they give her an eyebrow lift? | ||
| It's very weird. | ||
| So I don't know. If any callers have any... | ||
| If they can elucidate us, I would like to know what exactly... | ||
| So Yee said in a post on X, you know, that being said, I do hope when the governor returns to Arizona, she will promptly name qualified directors of these important state agencies. | ||
| So I guess we know she's not in Arizona. | ||
| Okay. Very strange. | ||
| Very, very weird. Now, there's two stories here that give me some glimmer of hope, but also illustrate the futility of doing things the way that we have for so long. | ||
| Virginia Democrat Susanna Gibson's poll numbers plummet more than 10 percentage points after online hot wife experience sex scandal. | ||
| So, Suzanne Gibson is a Democrat candidate running for Virginia's House of Delegates who hosted sex acts with her husband online, dubbed Hot Wife Experience, while soliciting tips from their online audience. | ||
| She's what the kids call a cam whore. | ||
| She was a chatterbait cam whore, debasing herself for tokens. | ||
| Now, when you hear this, You expect it to be like a career-ending sort of thing. | ||
| You expect this type of embarrassing, degenerate, debased, immoral activity. | ||
| When it's outed, you expect the politician who presents themselves as a moral, upstanding, ethical mother of two to just... | ||
| Recede into the shadows. | ||
| Just go, whoops, you found out who I really am. | ||
| My bad. Bye. | ||
| And just leave. Instead, she went on the offensive. | ||
| Like, this is the modern world where it's like they find out that you are a digital whore instead of acknowledging and Bowing out for that, you are like, are you trying to shame me? | ||
| This is revenge porn. | ||
| This is a sex attack against me for revealing what I do, what I choose to do in public. | ||
| So it was kind of troubling being like, ah, this is where we've fallen, huh? | ||
| This is where we've fallen, where it's not just we have politicians that are secretly perverts. | ||
| Now there's going to be open politics. | ||
| Perverts. That was kind of upsetting to see just how brazen these people are now. | ||
| But apparently she's losing support. | ||
| Like apparently, maybe I underestimated the Democrats. | ||
| Maybe there is some semblance of morality still burning like an ember in their cold dead hearts. | ||
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| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We have a lot of interesting callers, a lot of names I don't recognize today, so I'm excited to go out to those. | ||
| Just sticking for a moment with the political realm. | ||
| Again, just like this woman who is an amateur porn star running for Congress, having her campaign severely damaged by the revelation. | ||
| That she, as a mother of two, gets naked in front of a webcam for digital tokens, actually seems to have damaged her prospects, which is nice. | ||
| It's nice to know that there's still some people that recognize that you can't just tolerate everything, that there's a reason we have standards and decency, because it reflects an overall Moral standpoint. | ||
| You know, it's one of those things, it's like, it reflects on everything else that you do in your life, right? | ||
| It's like, if you're the type of person that's willing to debase yourself, or that It does this sort of thing. | ||
| Like, it points to an overall defect in your spirit. | ||
| Like, that's what it stands for. | ||
| In the same way that, like, if somebody like Chris Christie is out there looking like a blimp, it's like, it's not just food that he probably has no self-control with. | ||
| You understand? Like, hints at other things. | ||
| I may be affected by this, decisions he makes, where what's best or what's healthy or what's, you know, when moderation is required, maybe his brain is not exactly wired that way. | ||
| Like, it hints at other things that are wrong and bad in their personality. | ||
| So it's nice to see that regular Democratic voters are not open yet to accepting People like her as their representatives. | ||
| And similar to that, you have the Senate unanimously voting to restore dress code in a humiliating rebuke to Chuck Schumer and Slob Fetterman. | ||
| I do love the Gateway Pundit. | ||
| They say, the Senate voted unanimously to restore the dress code for men Wednesday evening in a humiliating rebuke to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who unilaterally dropped the unwritten but traditional dress code to accommodate the arrested development obsession of Senator John Fetterman to dress like a teenage pothead. | ||
| And again, this just points to, like, Chuck Schumer's the type of guy that, like, it doesn't matter... | ||
| What it is, it doesn't matter what the standard is, what the previous moral stance is of the community. | ||
| He wants to tear it all down. | ||
| Like, whatever it is, they want to tolerate everything. | ||
| For no reason. For no reason, right? | ||
| It's not like Fetterman has some reason why he can't dress like a human being. | ||
| Like an adult person. | ||
| There's no excuse to it. | ||
| It's not like, well, you know, he just... | ||
| He doesn't know how to do buttons, so we have to let him wear sweatpants. | ||
| If he can't dress nicely, he can't be senator. | ||
| It's not that complicated. | ||
| But they don't need a reason. | ||
| They're just like, oh, another standard to diminish? | ||
| Oh, another mark of civilization to undermine? | ||
| Great, let's do it. And again, it sort of goes across the board where you just... | ||
| It doesn't matter what it is. | ||
| If it's a tradition, they're against it. | ||
| If it's a standard, they want to lower it. | ||
| What drives this impulse? | ||
| I don't know. I'm at a loss. | ||
| Like, has anybody asked them why? | ||
| I'd love to hear the argument if there is one. | ||
| Because the argument for why you have to dress nicely as a senator is pretty obvious. | ||
| It's out of respect for the institution. | ||
| It's out of respect for your fellow senators. | ||
| It's out of respect for the people that voted for you to be in that place. | ||
| Why do I wear a suit on the show every day? | ||
| Out of respect for the audience. | ||
| Out of respect for the platform that I've been given. | ||
| Also to signal to anybody who tunes in that I'm not a pathetic slob. | ||
| I've sort of got my life together. | ||
| That I actually have the time and discipline to try to look nice every day, even if I don't succeed all the time, even if my hair has other plans for us. | ||
| I at least give it a shot. | ||
| Again, out of respect for you, but also as a signal to your fellow human beings that you have your life together, that you're actually capable of maintaining civilization. | ||
| Lots of reasons why you should have a uniform. | ||
| I love that, you know, it's just like, to me it's just an encapsulation. | ||
| It's like a microcosm of just the degradation that we've been subjected to for the last century or so. | ||
| Where it's just like, we're like, yeah, we have very basic standards. | ||
| It's not extraordinary. | ||
| It's not over the... | ||
| You know, it's not outrageous. | ||
| Just like, well, you just have to, like, wear a tie. | ||
| It's not that bad. It's not like where the Puritans, where it's like, you have to be an elder of the church to have that buckle on your hat. | ||
| Like, you know, these aren't sartorial laws that we have here. | ||
| It's just very basic, minimal requirements out of respect for one another and out of respect for the institution. | ||
| And then you've got just, like, all it takes is one guy just being like, can we get rid of those? | ||
| And somebody else, like Chuck Schumer, is like, yes, we can, absolutely. | ||
| Why? I don't know. We're just doing it. | ||
| We're getting rid of the standards. | ||
| Why? There's no reason. | ||
| We just want to. We want to diminish the respect that everybody has. | ||
| We want to look stupid and slovenly. | ||
| Like, why? Why? It just takes one other person to be like, why do you want to get rid of the dress code? | ||
| What's the reason? You're just lazy? | ||
| You just don't have respect for yourself, or... | ||
| This institution? There's no reason. | ||
| So good for Joe Manchin and Mitt Romney, of all people, co-sponsoring this bill. | ||
| Again, this microcosm where it's like we have these standards that are unwritten, that are just sort of understood and out of respect for the institution, everybody just adheres to them. | ||
| And then you've got somebody for no discernible reason other than their own laziness and slovenliness wants to get rid of these rules, wants to flout these rules and stand apart in this sort of egotistical, self-aggrandizing, I'm too good for wearing suits Publicity stunt. | ||
| And so then we have to codify the rule. | ||
| Then it's like, alright, now we actually do have to have a rule. | ||
| It was just like chill before. | ||
| It was chill, it was fine, it was cool, everybody just went along with it. | ||
| But because you people can't be expected to just be decent human beings, now we have to put it into law. | ||
| Now we have to codify it. Now it has to actually be a rule. | ||
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| Now you're making the institution be more parental and rigid. | ||
| It reminds me of the idea of like, you know, the transgender books in schools where it's like we didn't have laws being like, you can't teach kids this the transgender books in schools where it's like we didn't have laws being like, you can't teach kids this crap in elementary school because it's just nobody did it because it was They don't require laws to keep them in order. | ||
| But the more you just degrade and ignore basic standards, the more laws we have to make just to force you because you won't just do it yourself because you can't be relied upon because you are not decent, honorable people. | ||
| You have to be forced into it. | ||
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| Welcome to the American Journal with Harrison Smith. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. We'll go out to your calls this segment and for the rest of the show today. | ||
| Still some more stories to cover and some more videos to show you, including... | ||
| I'm going to go to Mark Milley responding to comments by Trump suggesting Milley deserved to be executed. | ||
| That's the punishment for treason. | ||
| And General Milley committed treason, so that's confusing to the leftists. | ||
| I also want to talk a little bit about the autoworker strike. | ||
| It's becoming a big political hot potato. | ||
| Before we do, Elon Musk says AOC, quote, not that smart after she compared the migrant crisis to Ellis Island. | ||
| Elon Musk reiterated his long-running, reignited his long-running feud with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by calling her not that smart after the progressive lawmaker claimed New York City's migrant crisis paled in comparison to the number of people who came to the U.S. through Ellis Island more than a century ago. | ||
| These numbers, when it comes to people coming into New York City today, are nothing. | ||
| I'm telling you nothing compared to the daily amounts of people that we saw coming in through Ellis Island in the first half of last century. | ||
| Ocasio-Cortez said in a video posted to her Instagram account on Friday. | ||
| We had seen just huge numbers of people coming in per day that far eclipsed what we're seeing right now, said the Democrat who represents parts of Queens and the Bronx. | ||
| Her attempt to play down the current crisis was lambasted on social media, as the video was posted by MuskOwnedX. | ||
| Posted to Musk-owned X, a site formerly known as Twitter. | ||
| Ashley St. Clair said, girl math is saying immigrants come legally through Ellis Island is the same as 3 million undocumented workers pouring through our borders and costing New York City a billion dollars to house migrants for free in hotels. | ||
| Musk responded to that post by saying, she's just not that smart. | ||
| She's just not that smart. | ||
| Last year, the mogul, Musk, responded to a tweet about some billionaire with an ego problem by joking, stop hitting on me, I'm really shy, which of course is a parody of AOC saying that people talking about how dumb and incapable she is is really because they want to date her. | ||
| And how did she respond to this? | ||
| Because she responded in a funny way. | ||
| She was just like, oh yeah, I must be so dumb to get elected as a congresswoman. | ||
| As if we don't know her history. | ||
| As if everybody who cares isn't aware that she was literally recruited by a group of progressive socialists who basically ran her entire campaign and held auditions to find the puppet that they would put into place. | ||
| She didn't earn anything on her own. | ||
| She didn't have a groundswell of support. | ||
| It was literally an algorithmic takeover of a vulnerable seat because the guy that previously occupied it was white. | ||
| And they realized they could take advantage of the racial demographic makeup of the congressional district to put a young, dumb Latina in there and manipulate the people to vote on somebody who is literally completely without... | ||
| Qualifications or experience. | ||
| Who's kind of dumb. She's kind of a little bit, she's a little bit dumb. | ||
| I just think it's funny that the Democrats have this sort of... | ||
| I keep using this word, but it's apt, so... | ||
| Schizophrenic. They have like a schizophrenic relationship with history. | ||
| Where it's like, if you say that things were better in the 50s, that means you are a racist. | ||
| That means you are a KKK member that wants Jim Crow back. | ||
| If you think things used to be better before, the only thing that's changed is that we're more tolerant. | ||
| You must be a bigot if you say that. | ||
| But then they uphold and uplift. | ||
| I guess it's the only thing. | ||
| It's the only thing they actually like from 100 years ago was their fantasy of the immigration policy. | ||
| Was there misreading and misapplication and misinterpretation of history in that they think that the borders were open because Ellis Island existed? | ||
| And they love that and they want that. | ||
| And that's great. | ||
| But if you ever say anything else about the past, you're a bigot and a racist. | ||
| Very selective on what they appreciate about history. | ||
| Now the difference, a couple differences here. | ||
| One is that the UN didn't exist and wasn't actively invading our country with millions of people. | ||
| The people that actually came to America in that case did so, first of all, legally by going through Ellis Island in a controlled process. | ||
| Where there were strict limitations and limitations as to the race you could be in the countries you could come from if you wanted to become an American citizen. | ||
| Also, so these people brought themselves. | ||
| They weren't carried here. | ||
| They weren't brought in by the American government actually facilitating the influx. | ||
| They also had to cross an entire ocean to get here, meaning that if things didn't work out, they couldn't just wander on back home. | ||
| When you actually have to make some sort of investment to get here, you're actually far more likely to actually engage in the culture and make it a full commitment. | ||
| They also didn't get free hotel rooms when they got here. | ||
| There was no welfare state for them to take advantage of. | ||
| When they came to America in Ellis Island from overseas, This was a permanent life-changing event that they were embarked upon. | ||
| And they were actually ready and willing and able to become Americans and work. | ||
| And if they didn't work, then they would starve or fail or be sent back. | ||
| But what they know is that Ellis Island exists, so therefore we can't have borders anymore. | ||
| That's the level of intelligence that AOC has on display. | ||
| She's just brilliant. With that, we got to your phone calls. | ||
| Allison, Georgia, has called in about local news, talking about Social Security being reduced. | ||
| Go ahead, Allison. Alice, you're on the air from Georgia. | ||
| Hi, Harrison. I'm going to try not to take too much of your time or any of the caller's time, but I just wanted to Let's get you to weigh in on this, I guess. | ||
| So basically, when I was a toddler, I was diagnosed with a rare degenerative eye disorder that prevents me, like as an adult now, to be able to go out and work. | ||
| I don't even have the legal vision scale, I guess, to get a license. | ||
| But as I got older, I tried going out into the world and, you know, working and stuff. | ||
| It didn't work out. It was very hard, as you can imagine. | ||
| So I'm strictly relying on my husband working a full-time job. | ||
| And he doesn't make terrible money, but obviously with the Biden economy, he's just really not cutting it. | ||
| And I'm relying on what I'm receiving each month from my disability income. | ||
| While I saw an alarming report at our Atlanta local station, Basically saying that we are going to be having to pay back thousands and thousands. | ||
| There was one couple who reported on there who, I guess her husband was an officer who got shot in the forehead in the line of duty. | ||
| And so he's been relying on disability. | ||
| He received a letter in the mail that said he owes like several thousands of dollars. | ||
| And they've reduced his check from, like, 900 to, like, 100. | ||
| And they have kids and stuff they have to support, too. | ||
| And basically, what their excuse was is that they are overpaying these people money, when I have a very hard time believing that, considering the fact that we're still funding Ukraine, we're funding, like, the immigration situation. | ||
| And I just want to have you weigh in on that. | ||
| Also, this is not the first time that I've seen letters like that. | ||
| Back in the Obama administration, I did receive letters in the mail in the past saying that they overpaid. | ||
| And it was more like $40 or $10 or $20. | ||
| So they would reduce it by like, you know, $10, $20, $30. | ||
| But now it's like in the hundreds. | ||
| And I haven't received that letter yet. | ||
| Apparently in this report, they've already sent out millions and millions of letters to different people around the country. | ||
| And there's still millions of people more that they're having to send those out to. | ||
| And yeah, when Trump was in office, however, I was getting an increase in Social Security. | ||
| But I'm afraid of even checking my mailbox now because I don't want to receive that check or that letter. | ||
| Like, it's very... | ||
| All right. That's very troubling. | ||
| I hadn't heard that, but I've just been Googling while listening to you, and I'll cover what I've found on the other side. | ||
| Thank you for making us aware of this, because I had not heard that before you called in. | ||
| Thank you. We'll address it on the other side. | ||
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| We'll go out to your phone calls here in just a second. | ||
| I had not been aware of this until our caller, Alice from Georgia, called in and told us. | ||
| Apparently this is a really big deal. | ||
| From KFF Health News, Social Security overpays billions to people, many on disability, then it demands the money back. | ||
| I think we all know at this point that Social Security itself is a massive Ponzi scam. | ||
| That is responsible for so many problems that we have in this country and is an incredibly inefficient way to manage retirement funds. | ||
| The average person would be far, far better served if they're able to keep and invest their own money, then hand it over to the government and receive some percentage back. | ||
| But when it comes to, you know, I guess this is just the problem with socialism, right? | ||
| And even defining what socialism is gets murky because the socialists like to argue That if you are against socialism, they're like, oh, so you don't like having a fire station near your house? | ||
| They like to act like anything the government does for the benefit of the community, for the benefit of their actual citizens, is socialism. | ||
| So if you're against the total takeover of the corporate world and the managing of the money through the government entirely and the socialist paradigm, which is total subjection to the state, For every individual. | ||
| Like, if you're against that, you therefore think the government should just destroy its own people. | ||
| Like, it's so nonsensical and ridiculous because it eliminates the ability to have a nuanced, considerate conversation in any of this where you go, Yeah, I think it's good for us as a first-world, | ||
| powerful, incredibly rich country to have programs through the government, if that's the best way to do it, through the government, to help people that actually are disabled, like through no fault of their own, are born with a congenital disease or some disability that prevents them from being a productive member of society. | ||
| They're forced to rely on the generosity of Friends and family, like, yeah, as a society, we should pitch in to help that person out. | ||
| Somebody shouldn't be living on the streets in America because they were born with legs that don't work or whatever. | ||
| I think that's a fine thing. | ||
| But then, it's like, okay, so if you think that special needs people could get a little help from the government, I guess you agree that we should be supporting 100 million people that just choose not to work and go on welfare and just live forever as a ward of the state, generation after generation. | ||
| It's like, no, there's a middle ground here. | ||
| We can take care of the people that need to be taken care of, and everybody who doesn't need to be taken care of can take care of themselves. | ||
| That's the way that it should operate. | ||
| But then you even question whether that's a good idea because clearly the government is entirely incapable of managing the most simple beneficiary charitable plans. | ||
| And it actually always massively backfires constantly. | ||
| And this is just, I mean, the level of incompetence from the government. | ||
| It's that typical thing where like, you know, if they demand something from you and you don't give it to them in a timely manner, they're charging you late fees, they're garnishing your wages, they're throwing you in prison, they're sending agents to kick your door down and haul you away in chains, right? But then when, if they miss a payment, it's just like, well, that's just the bureaucracy. | ||
| Sorry, we'll get that out to you as soon as possible. | ||
| It'll be nine years. And there's just no recourse whatsoever. | ||
| Just they get to do whatever the hell they want, make whatever mistakes they can make, and there's no redress whatsoever is possible for the average person. | ||
| But then when it's on you, when it's incumbent on you to make a payment or to correct a mistake, they will just control your bank account and just take the money out. | ||
| That seems to be actually what's happening here. | ||
| There's this woman who had to get an artificial heart valve at age 20. | ||
| She has cerebral palsy and an intellectual disability. | ||
| A year ago, she was earning $862 a month and receiving about $1,000 in monthly Social Security disability benefits. | ||
| When a letter arrived from the federal government, the Social Security Administration had been overpaying her, the letter said, and wanted the money back. | ||
| Within 30 days, it said she should mail the government a check or money order for $60,000. | ||
| Social Security should be to help people, not to destroy them, said Addie Arnold, world's aunt and caregiver. | ||
| And again, as our caller Alice pointed out, we have hundreds of billions of dollars just at the drop of a hat for waging war in Ukraine. | ||
| We have hundreds of billions of dollars for taking care of and giving, by the way, $2,000 checks per month to every Mexican that scrambles across the border, to every Honduran that hitches a ride with the UN to El Paso. | ||
| Infinite money for them. | ||
| They get a hotel room. | ||
| They get a cell phone. They get checks. | ||
| Aren't even American. | ||
| While you have people born here, families have been here for generation upon generation, having some physical disability, and are getting like a pittance. | ||
| And then they're like, ah, it turns out we gave you too much for the last 20 years. | ||
| You have to pay us all of it back now. | ||
| I don't know. If it's me, it's like you made the mistake. | ||
| That's on you. It's entirely on you. | ||
| But, of course, it's government, so that just means it's on us. | ||
| It means we'll have to pay for the makeup of this. | ||
| The Social Security Administration is trying to reclaim billions of dollars from many of the nation's poorest and most vulnerable payments it sent them but now says should never have been received. | ||
| So they're basically punishing people for cashing the checks that they were sent. | ||
| As if people are supposed to, like, do the accounting for Social Security and be like, they're paying me too much and, like, report it and send it back, which they don't even have a process to do that. | ||
| So, like, there's nothing these people who are now being asked to repay could have done to prevent being overpaid. | ||
| They were never made aware that they were being overpaid. | ||
| And I'll read you, like, 20 years this can go on. | ||
| And then they go, oh, you owe us 20 years worth of overpayment. | ||
| You owe us $100,000. | ||
| These people who are earning, what's that, $24,000 a month, right? | ||
| This woman earns about $2,000 a month, or $24,000 a year, I mean. | ||
| Poverty-level wages. | ||
| $60,000. So, it's literally impossible for her to pay back. | ||
| She'll just never be able to pay that back, ever. | ||
| They'll keep taking money. They'll set up a plan with her to take like $100 out of every paycheck she gets for the rest of her life, even though they'll never get the money back that they sent her, which they don't deserve. | ||
| I mean, you sent it to them. That's on you. | ||
| So, just insane. | ||
| During the 2020 fiscal year, 2022 fiscal year, the agency clawed back $4.7 billion of overpayments, while another $21.6 billion remained outstanding. | ||
| Tens of billions of dollars just being wasted by our government. | ||
| Again, at a time, I mean, it's like the same thing that happened with the COVID funds, where like hundreds of billions of dollars illegitimately just flowed out of the government coffers to people that don't deserve it. | ||
| Now they're having to go back and try to claw that money back. | ||
| It'll never happen. One consequence is a costly collection effort for the government and a potentially devastating ordeal for the beneficiary. | ||
| We have an overpayment crisis on our hands, says Rebecca Vallis, senior fellow at the Century Foundation think tank. | ||
| Overpayments push already struggling beneficiaries even deeper into poverty and hardship, which is directly counterproductive to the goals of safety net programs. | ||
| Social Security Administration declined an interview request from KFF Health News and Cox Media Group, which only field questions submitted by email. | ||
| Again, you know, this is the bureaucratic future. | ||
| Like, this is our future. | ||
| It's just massive abuses, massive misappropriation and misattribution and mishandling of funds by the government. | ||
| And then just no human to talk to, even for the media. | ||
| It's just like, we'll respond by email. | ||
| And then they don't. It's just no accountability whatsoever for the people that cause all of this. | ||
| But they do have access to your paychecks and will be garnishing your money and depriving you of very little that you earn if you're somebody on disability who actually deserves and should be given supplemental money to help you live your life because by no fault of your own, you're kept out of the workforce. | ||
| The agency rejected a May 2022 Freedom of Information Act request for documents of every overpayment notice sent over several years. | ||
| Most are on disability. | ||
| Most cannot afford to repay the government. | ||
| Overpayment can result from Social Security making a mistake or from beneficiaries failing to comply with the requirements, intentionally or otherwise. | ||
| But much of the fault lies within the system. | ||
| For example, the rules are complex and hard to follow. | ||
| Limits on what beneficiaries can save or own have not been adjusted for inflation in decades. | ||
| The Social Security Administration does not have adequate staffing to keep up with its workload, much of which is done by hand. | ||
| The system has built-in lags in checking information, such as beneficiaries' income, and relies heavily on data submitted by beneficiaries themselves, which they don't actually give you an easy way to report. | ||
| We'll keep covering this on the other side because this whole article is pretty important, I think. | ||
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You're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. It's the third hour. | ||
| I promise I'll go out to more calls. | ||
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It's just this call from Allison, Georgia. | |
| You know, the whole bunch of stuff that I didn't know was going on. | ||
| I'm learning about it now and trying to, like, take my way through it. | ||
| I'm going out live here with you. | ||
| It's about Social Security Administration overpaying for decades in some cases and then demanding the money back to the tune of tens of billions of dollars yearly. | ||
| Just incredible. And again, you know, you can think about this in two different ways, I guess. | ||
| There's just the, in a vacuum way, Which it's like, well, you know, if people don't report that they're making more money now, and the Social Security Agency learns that they're making more money, and that person's been unfairly receiving checks, like it's their fault, and they need to return it, and like, if things worked in a normal way as they're supposed to. | ||
| But then there's the in-context way to view this, which is like, what happens when banks sell bad mortgages for 10 years and then suddenly collapse? | ||
| Does the government – what does the government do, right? | ||
| Just prints hundreds of billions of dollars on a dime. | ||
| The next day they enter a couple things in the computer and suddenly all the money is back and the banks are solvent and everybody rejoices. | ||
| It's just not even an issue, not a problem, not even a discussion. | ||
| So there's just this incompatibility between the... | ||
| Just unfairness, the way all this is done. | ||
| And then you have the migrants that are getting $2,000 checks a month. | ||
| And then there's the Ukraine war and the hundreds of billions of dollars we're spending there and the foreign aid that flows out by the hundreds of billions. | ||
| And the COVID funds, totally unnecessary because we never should have shut down in the first place. | ||
| But there was no issue there in issuing a trillion dollars. | ||
| And of course, that's causing a bunch of trouble. | ||
| So it's not like this is a thing where it's like, well, you did it for the banks. | ||
| Now do it for the Americans that are on disability. | ||
| But it's like if you had to choose one, wouldn't you let the banks fail and let the blind and disabled people live in a nice apartment? | ||
| The decisions that are made, the priorities of this government are so utterly warped. | ||
| And then you just, it just... | ||
| She takes me back to my libertarian roots, where she's like, oh right, the government is just incredibly incapable of doing anything right ever. | ||
| Nothing they do is good at all, ever. | ||
| Even if it's like, well, like I was just saying, we live in America. | ||
| Nobody should go hungry because they're disabled in America, obviously. | ||
| Then it's like, oh, you put the government in charge, and suddenly those people that weren't just hungry before are now hungry and being abused by their government. | ||
| Who's not helping them and is actually hurting them. | ||
| When the agency determines it's overpaid, this article continues from KFF Health News, SSA, the Social Security Administration, can ultimately reclaim the money from beneficiaries by, for instance, reducing or stopping their monthly benefit payments, garnishing wages, and intercepting federal tax refunds. | ||
| Again, they get just total access, total control of your money when they realize they've been paying you for decades' overpayment. | ||
| Tigaman noted that the SSA is developing a program to tap payroll data from outside sources. | ||
| So they just want full surveillance of all financial information. | ||
| The agency plans to use that information when appropriate to automatically adjust the amounts it pays beneficiaries, she said. | ||
| Congress authorized that project almost eight years ago. | ||
| Yet another instance where it would not fly in the private realm. | ||
| You want to do something? | ||
| You activate the program. | ||
| Eight years later, they're like, oh, we're working on it. | ||
| Most of the overpayments involve the Supplemental Security Income Program, which provides money to people with little or no income or other resources who are disabled, blind, or at least 65. | ||
| So again, not just people like... | ||
| You know, just don't want to work like most of welfare goes to. | ||
| Lori Cochran, a beneficiary disabled by multiple sclerosis, said she got tripped up by a life insurance policy she took over from her mother. | ||
| After she reviewed her finances with Social Security representatives, she recounted she received a letter saying she owed $27,000. | ||
| She said she didn't know that the insurance policy had a cash value of $4,000. | ||
| So now they're going to garner $90 from her every paycheck for the rest of her life. | ||
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Government, man. You're watching The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| I'm telling you, hundreds of billions of dollars for war, for banks, for foreigners coming into this country. | ||
| Then you read the way our government treats its own citizens, and it's just like, what are we doing here? | ||
| What is this relationship other than... | ||
| It's like we're just being abused by a hive mind... | ||
| Of, like, sadistic idiots. | ||
| Of just, like, the dumbest, most abusive, significant others you can possibly imagine. | ||
| Crazy. I gotta keep reading this, and I have some advice for Alice, and then I'll go out to your phone calls, I promise. | ||
| But, like, this is just, it's blowing my mind, this article. | ||
| By the way, even just looking into this before taking Alice's call, she said something about Social Security being lowered, so I went ahead and searched that. | ||
| This is a story from last Saturday. | ||
| Social Security, 50% cuts are coming for Boomer's cost of living adjustment next year. | ||
| While most Americans can expect Social Security cost of living adjustment increases to be much smaller in 2024 thanks to reduced inflation boomers, the generation born between 1946 and 1964, some of whom are already collecting Social Security, might be hit the hardest. | ||
| They stand to lose more than the greatest generation simply because they paid in more and also rely on it more than other retired Social Security recipients. | ||
| The Senior Citizens League predicts that next year's COLA increase will be just 3.1%, less than half of this year's 8.7%, which was the largest gain in four decades. | ||
| The COLA is calculated. | ||
| That's the cost of living adjustment, COLA. Calculated based on inflation in the third quarter, July, August, and September of the prior year. | ||
| Thanks to rate adjustments by the U.S. Federal Reserve, inflation has slowed down over the last several months. | ||
| But prior months of rapid inflation left many people in debt and struggling to dig out of financial holes. | ||
| A smaller cost of living increase could make it harder for retirees to pay down debt accrued during these inflationary times. | ||
| Cost of living increases don't necessarily keep pace with inflation. | ||
| Between January 20th and February 2023, Social Security benefits increased by just 78%, averaging 3.4% annually, while food, utilities, and other goods and services increased by 141.4%, averaging 6.2% annually. | ||
| The Senior Citizen League reported, citing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. | ||
| So while inflation has increased the cost of goods, services, rent, and everything, by 6.2% annually, the cost of living increase has gone up just 3.4%, basically half as much. | ||
| So you're just being robbed, essentially, of half of that increase as the people that manage the economy don't keep pace with the inflation they're causing, which is just... | ||
| I don't know, man. This whole system is so rotten to the very core. | ||
| It's hard to even fathom. | ||
| So this woman, again, it's like, how are you supposed to know this? | ||
| You receive Social Security benefits because you're disabled. | ||
| Then, like, your mom has a life insurance policy. | ||
| She's like, I'm signing it over to you. | ||
| You're like, okay. And then suddenly you receive a check from the agency being like, you owe us $27,000. | ||
| We'll be deducting it from your paycheck for the rest of your life. | ||
| It's like, what? You didn't know? | ||
| You didn't know your insurance policy had a cash value of $4,000, so now you owe us $27,000? | ||
| It just makes no sense. The agency told her that for every month she held the policy she wasn't entitled to any of her $914 monthly benefits, she said. | ||
| So because she has a life insurance policy she doesn't get disability? | ||
| What? The agency said it would recoup the $27,000 by deducting $91 from each of her future checks. | ||
| At that rate, she'd be paying it back way into my elderly age. | ||
| She asked the Security Administration to reconsider. | ||
| In the meantime, she cashed out the life insurance policy, only to learn that, instead, she could have signed a paper saying she had no intention of cashing it out. | ||
| So now I'm left with no life insurance, she said. | ||
| When I die, my daughter will have no money to bury me. | ||
| This is why I don't like the Social Security system. | ||
| This is why we shouldn't have the government in charge of this stuff. | ||
| A Kafkaesque minefield. | ||
| If beneficiaries believe that an overpayment wasn't their fault, that the claim is unfair, or that paying the money back would cause hardship, they can ask the SSA to waive repayment. | ||
| So that's the advice you need to know, Alice, is that you can request that they waive the repayment, and you can basically contest this. | ||
| They can also negotiate to repay what they owe gradually. | ||
| So you can try to get some minimum where you're giving them like 10 bucks a month to repay. | ||
| So that's what I would be doing. | ||
| Cheryl Bates Harris of the National Disability Rights Network recommended the people who receive overpayment notices appeal because the information in the notices may be incorrect. | ||
| But trying to resolve an overpayment involves plunging into a, quote, Kafka-esque minefield, says Darcy Milburn, director of social security and health policy at the ARC, which advocates for people with disability. | ||
| Another beneficiary named Lori described her journey through the minefield on the condition that her last name be withheld. | ||
| She provided a copy of an administrative law judge's ruling in her case. | ||
| In 2017, SSA informed her that since 2000, she had been overpaid $126,000 annually. | ||
| $126,612, according to the judge's ruling. | ||
| Since 2000, 20 years of overpayment. | ||
| They're just sending you checks. | ||
| And then 20 years later, they come up and go, oh, by the way, you owe us $126,000. | ||
| What? Which is nice. | ||
| So anyway, we'll move on. But yeah, this whole system is utterly and ridiculously corrupt. | ||
| This apparently is happening over and over again. | ||
| And yeah, this is a good way to put it. | ||
| Alex Hubbard, 30, has autism. | ||
| He works in a mailroom to keep busy. | ||
| He says, I like to be busy because I don't want to be bored at home. | ||
| So he received a notice saying that he was overpaid $11,000. | ||
| He says, I'm supposed to report my wages, but I don't know how. | ||
| I don't know how it works, said the Seattle resident. | ||
| The agency's cut off his benefits, but it would have been better if he'd stopped them before he owed all that money. | ||
| They should have let me know, like, years back if I owed that much. | ||
| Now they're trying to collect the money from his mother, who's unable to manage his benefits since having a stroke. | ||
| They're just like, the government is just so outrageously abusive to our own citizens. | ||
| They say letters from the agency don't provide clear explanation, and if people on the receiving end of overpayment notices can get through to a human, agency employees give inconsistent answers, beneficiaries said. | ||
| Which is like, just the icing on the cake, right? | ||
| They're like, oh, we paid you too much for the last 20 years. | ||
| You owe us... A hundred times your life savings. | ||
| And you're like, can I talk to somebody? | ||
| And they're just like, no, you can't actually. | ||
| There's no one you can talk to. | ||
| And if you talk to me on Monday and this other guy on Tuesday, we're going to give you two completely different answers. | ||
| Good luck with that. You can't hire a lawyer because there's no money to be made. | ||
| And we are a stonewall of incompetence and failure. | ||
| But also we have access to your paychecks and we'll be garnishing your wages for the rest of your life. | ||
| But if you're a bank that makes bad bets, the billion-dollar check will be in the mail tomorrow. | ||
| If you're a foreigner that crosses the Rio Grande in a raft given to you by the cartels, then you'll be receiving a five-star hotel for the next two months with a couple $2,000 checks while we're at it. | ||
| It's a choice we're making. It's a choice all these people are making. | ||
| Our government is making. | ||
| I posted today, you know, Hanlon's law. | ||
| It's like Occam's razor. | ||
| Hanlon's razor is do not attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. | ||
| My law is these people aren't stupid. | ||
| This is all on purpose. Harrison's razor is... | ||
| These people are evil. They're not dumb. | ||
| They're obviously not stupid. | ||
| They're competent on purpose. | ||
| It just it's it's it's how bureaucracy functions. | ||
| It's the way it functions. Every time it's like this. | ||
| Wow, these are strict. | ||
| Look, we made the overpayment. | ||
| This is how much. We just did the math. | ||
| You owe $126,000. | ||
| And it's like, okay, well, you messed up and you owe a billion dollars. | ||
| And they're like, oh, well. Better hit the print button. | ||
| Boom! Done. Rules for thee, not for me. | ||
| You are subject to these ridiculous restrictions and suddenly money's very real and we have to be very careful and not overspend when it comes to disabled Americans. | ||
| But when it's the banks or war or foreigners or COVID, blank check. | ||
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Trillions. Welcome back, folks. | |
| Let's go straight to your phone calls. | ||
| Sorry, I got sort of distracted by that Social Security story, but I feel like it really does a good job of summing up so many problems that we face with the government today. | ||
| Still have a lot to cover. Let's go out to your phone calls here. | ||
| Let's go to Seven's Trick in Washington. | ||
| Seven's Trick in Washington. | ||
| Go ahead. You're on the air. Hey, good morning. | ||
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I've been trying to get this phone call to you guys for about two weeks, which tells me that there's something to it. | |
| I live pretty close to Seattle, and I don't know if you've heard about the C40 initiative where they're going to try to outlaw beef and dairy in Seattle. | ||
| That's a direct violation of the First Amendment. | ||
| As a Christian or somebody of a Jewish background, we can look in Deuteronomy. | ||
| 26.9. You see, got it pulled up right here. | ||
| And he brought us to the place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. | ||
| It's Deuteronomy 26.9. | ||
| And there's also stuff in Leviticus. | ||
| I think it's chapter 11, verse 3. | ||
| I don't have it pulled up. But the point is, it is a God-given right to have milk and dairy, to have milk and beef. | ||
| And for them to say, well, we're going to do it to save our climate change agenda. | ||
| No, you're not. No, you're not. | ||
| And I want people to remember that. | ||
| We were promised. We were given. | ||
| He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. | ||
| You know, I'm all right with not having a steak every night. | ||
| You know, I really like my beef, but whatever, I can get over it. | ||
| But the milk, I've got a serious problem with it because I've got a daughter. | ||
| And as she gets older... | ||
| She has kids and everything else. | ||
| Osteoporosis is a big thing. | ||
| And one of the easiest ways to deal with that is to consume a lot of milk. | ||
| And for them to say, yeah, we're going to take that away from you. | ||
| No, you're not. Right. | ||
| No, you're not. I don't care if I have to call in every day for three or four weeks to get a hold of somebody where I can get this message broadcasted and I can get people to remember who they are. | ||
| Who are you that do not know your own history? | ||
| No, that's a very good point. | ||
| I mean, I hadn't really thought of it in that way, but you're right. | ||
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Nobody had. It struck me, and it's like, no, this is so obvious. | |
| We've got to get this message out there. | ||
| And then I tried and tried and tried, and I guess the enemy, the devil, however you want to put it, has kept me from it. | ||
| And it's taken a lot of diligence to come to this point where I can tell you, remember it. | ||
| We were promised a land flowing with milk and honey, and we have it, and we're not going to give it up just because, oh, well, it's a trendy thing to do. | ||
| No, it's not. No, it's not. | ||
| I'm sick of it. No, even outside of the quotes you're pointing at, I mean, what you're referencing is a larger reality, which is that, I mean, there's a lot of dietary restrictions in religions. | ||
| And so, yeah, the way we should be sort of thinking about this is, like, if you... | ||
| Are making people or in some way organizing the economy to coerce people into eating bugs should be treated like any anti-Jewish leadership forcing Jews to eat shellfish. | ||
| Forcing them to eat something that according to their religion is unclean and not kosher. | ||
| That's actually a really interesting way of putting it. | ||
| I wonder how this could be utilized. | ||
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I'm fairly certain. | |
| I'm a Christian, so I'm not especially well-versed with the Muslim tradition, but I'm pretty sure that they're an Abrahamic religion, and they too were allowed to have milk and honey. | ||
| You know, they too are restricted on what they can and cannot eat. | ||
| And I'm pretty stinking sure that crickets ain't on the menu, dammit. | ||
| No, yeah, you're exactly right. | ||
| No, no, you're right. | ||
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That's our culture. You know, I hear all this multiculturalism. | |
| We have to respect their culture. | ||
| Yeah, respect mine, dammit. | ||
| If you expect me to respect yours, then you had better respect mine since you're in my land. | ||
| You know, not to get too... | ||
| No, don't apologize. | ||
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Hold on a second, people. | |
| Remember what was given to us. | ||
| Be thankful for what was given to us and guard it against these demon-infested... | ||
| Right. No, no, you're exactly right. | ||
| It's the same argument that people make with vaccines, right? | ||
| You can't force me to take vaccines against my religion. | ||
| To try to force this on me is in violation of the First Amendment and my... | ||
| Right of expressing my religious convictions. | ||
| I think that's actually really interesting. | ||
| We can combat the modified meat, the lab-grown meat, the bug meat, the GMO meat. | ||
| You can combat this on religious grounds and say that you have violated my religious right when you deprive me of my ability to eat the food that is prescribed by my religion. | ||
| And doing so in a way that is completely arbitrary and by choice, right? | ||
| I guess you could make the argument where it's like, well, it's not our... | ||
| You know, if it was something natural, if it was some natural event where, you know, whatever, mad cow disease killed all the cows and suddenly there's no beef. | ||
| Like, you can't blame them for that. But they're doing this on purpose. | ||
| They're doing it by design. | ||
| They're forcing people to eat a diet that is poison. | ||
| I mean, it's poison and it's spiritual poison. | ||
| I think that's really interesting. So what do we... | ||
| How do we do this? How do we get this argument to the people who need to make it? | ||
| Should we be calling our senators? | ||
| What do you think Seven's trick? | ||
| How do you think we can move on this? | ||
| I think you have something there. | ||
| You can make all of the scientific or just personal arguments you want against this food Paradigm that they're bringing down the c40 system where they're gonna stop you from eating Well, the idea in my mind is is to get people to remember that Oh, yeah, by the way, | ||
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our founders covered this it's called the First Amendment We have freedom of religion and quite frankly Like I said, I come from a Christian background on this So I'm viewing this from through the lens of a Christian But it's if you pull back to the 30,000 foot view and you go hold on a second Christians aren't the only Abrahamic religion. | |
| This also applies to the Jews and And every other tribe of Israel, you know, as well as the Muslims. | ||
| Like, this applies to, and the Muslims number over a billion people on the planet, so this kind of applies to a wide swath of people. | ||
| How do you do it? | ||
| You make a bunch of noise. | ||
| And like I said, I've been trying for two and a half weeks to contact you and get this idea out there at every turn. | ||
| I've really had to be diligent about getting this out. | ||
| I'm glad you were, because I have not thought of it in this way yet. | ||
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You're exactly right. It hit me. | |
| It struck me. It's like, wait a second. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. So to answer your question, get it out there. | ||
| Remind people that we were the land of milk and honey. | ||
| You know, the first time I ever heard that phrase, I was like five years old, and it was a Winnie the Pooh cartoon. | ||
| Right. You know, like, that's how entrenched that concept is in our culture. | ||
| And we just kind of overlook it because it's everyday. | ||
| Like, it's obvious. We know that, right? | ||
| Yeah. Who are you that do not know your own history? | ||
| I challenge everybody to look at their own history. | ||
| We need to get this to Thomas Massey. | ||
| Thomas Massey's been actually having success in fighting back against a lot of this stuff. | ||
| He says this on Twitter. | ||
| The House passed my amendment to defund edible plant vaccine research. | ||
| And he also just passed... | ||
| He also just helped to pass an amendment where they were stopping here to his victory. | ||
| The House just overwhelmingly agreed to pass my amendment to ensure families can still share ownership of livestock in order to procure healthy meat locally. | ||
| The USDA has ridiculously suggested they might ban sharing among multiple families. | ||
| So he actually got that passed as well. | ||
| Maybe this is the next crusade for Thomas Massey. | ||
| The First Amendment religious exception to the C40 climate change agenda that wants to force you to eat lab-grown meat and bugs. | ||
| It's my religion. | ||
| So you can't force it. | ||
| You can't even try. | ||
| Thomas Massey, send up the bat signal. | ||
| I need your help. | ||
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You're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Alright folks, we'll go out to your phone calls here momentarily. | ||
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| Just mix it in water, cold water. | ||
| That's the way I like it. | ||
| You can put it in smoothies as well. | ||
| It's really a very easy and good way to get your vitamins and nutrients for your day. | ||
| After all, you can eat salads all day. | ||
| You're still not getting what you need because of the destruction of our food systems, as we were just discussing. | ||
| And again, we will get out to your phone calls momentarily. | ||
| I do want to give you an update, even if it's questionable, on friend of the show, Lord Miles. | ||
| Lord Miles is, of course, the British lad who made a name for himself by taking vacations in war zones, essentially, and just having a blast, just having a great time in places like Afghanistan as it collapsed. | ||
| I He disappeared several months ago and we've been eagerly awaiting updates as to where he's gone. | ||
| He was arrested by the Taliban apparently and the British government is in negotiations to get him back. | ||
| There's been an update posted to his Twitter account. | ||
| There's an issue with it, but I'll just tell you what's going on. | ||
| This is posted on Lord Miles' Twitter account. | ||
| He said, He says, We can't post videos for obvious reasons. | ||
| Or photos for obvious reasons. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, we know everyone will say he's dead because you have no idea what Lord Miles is capable of thriving in. | ||
| You must all understand there are things going on behind the scenes. | ||
| We can't share a lot of info or any photos. | ||
| Yes, we understand how that creates a doubt, but it's the best we've got, lads. | ||
| We talk to Miles regularly. | ||
| All we ask is to have a little faith, entertain these posts, and it'll be all proven right someday. | ||
| Lord Miles, since late February, has been in Taliban prison alongside two other Brits, although Miles is in a guest house and not an actual prison, so he's very comfortable. | ||
| They say he's... | ||
| He's great at making friends. | ||
| That's why he's so comfortable. As seen in previous photos, the Taliban like his book, like his Twitter, and think he's a goofy guy. | ||
| He came to Afghanistan for the fifth time to open a gold mine in Ghazi, and it looks like he's going to make it happen. | ||
| The Taliban are happy with international business in their country, so Miles has regular picnics and dinners with higher-ups discussing business plans and the gold mine. | ||
| He got arrested with $1.3,000 in his pocket. | ||
| He basically lives in luxury, ordering takeaway, can buy movies at the market. | ||
| So apparently he's doing well. | ||
| Apparently he's just hanging out playing an Xbox 360 and technically under, I guess we could call, house arrest. | ||
| We're in contact with his friends in Kabul and send Miles some funds from his Patreon peeps. | ||
| Next wave of money, he's going to buy Christmas lights and a bench press. | ||
| A friend of Miles is kind enough to put together a large portable HDD of content to send Miles to save him the trouble of teaching the Taliban how to use Pirate Bay on 50 kilobytes a second internet speed. | ||
| So according to this, it's going well, and he's simply being kept as a prisoner of the Taliban, basically as a negotiation tactic with the Brits. | ||
| But that he's being treated well. | ||
| I choose to believe this because I want to. | ||
| But I am suspicious because I understand that you can't, you don't want to undermine if the British government is actually in contact with the Taliban negotiating on behalf of Lord Miles. | ||
| I can understand how they would tell his associates, like, you don't post anything about this, don't mess up our negotiations, don't screw things up for us, just keep quiet and we'll handle things. | ||
| I can understand that. | ||
| But you could give us something. | ||
| You could give us some sort of ransom photo where he's holding today's newspaper as proof that he's not dead. | ||
| So far, there's not been proof that he's not dead. | ||
| And if you're talking to him on the phone, maybe just a quick message of Lord Miles saying, you know, I'm doing fine. | ||
| Here's the date. I don't understand how that would interrupt negotiations in any way. | ||
| And it would provide a lot of peace of mind for people that are worried about him. | ||
| So that's the update. | ||
| We don't know if it's true or not, but it, to me, trends towards believability. | ||
| And there's some other people that also say... | ||
| You know, there's other sources, other Twitter accounts saying, yes, I've talked to the authorities and Lord Miles is, you know, this is true. | ||
| Lord Miles is okay and he's alive and everything's good. | ||
| So that's the update. | ||
| Pray for Lord Miles and hopefully he just comes out of this with the best story of all time. | ||
| So we're praying for him and hopefully he will once again be a guest on this show to tell his tale. | ||
| But until then, we take what we get, which in this case is an unverifiable but positive update. | ||
| And there it is. Thank you for entertaining that. | ||
| Let's go to Tim now in California. | ||
| I want to talk about replacement migration. | ||
| I have a graph to illustrate, I think, what you're going to talk about. | ||
| Tim, go ahead. You're on about replacement migration. | ||
| I saw this actually on one of the Sunday shows. | ||
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I wish I could give the fellow credit, but I don't remember who it was. | |
| But it just basically was pointing out the obvious fact that the fixed number is our birth. | ||
| We have about 10,000 Yep. | ||
| Yep, and this is a graph posted originally by Chief Nerd, reposted by Indian Bronson on Twitter. | ||
| Without mass deportation of tens of millions, including their children, covering over a decade of illegal entry since DACA, the U.S. population and electorate is going to be defined by recent arrival illegal aliens in your lifetime. | ||
| And here it shows the number of births trending downward and the number of illegal border encounters skyrocketing upward to where they're almost crossed at this point where there are more people crossing than are being born. | ||
| And you really have to understand that, like what's being done at the border now? | ||
| It's a crisis now. | ||
| It's an emergency now. | ||
| But it's going to have decades, if not centuries, of effect on the demographic and therefore political makeup of the United States. | ||
| You're exactly right, Tim. | ||
| If it's not replacement migration, I don't know what is. | ||
| More people crossing the southern border than Americans being born at this point. | ||
| And if this rate continues, one's trending upwards, one's trending downward. | ||
| Both of these have to be reversed for us to maintain America as we know it and not some... | ||
| Just laundry machine of new arrivals as they're stripped of their cultural heritage, forced into this death cult we call American culture, and conformed to the globo-homo, globalized homogenous cycle of corporate plasticization. | ||
| It's a good point, Tim. | ||
| Well, and if you want a happy point before I leave, Chris Christie said, hey Donald, I know you're watching and you can't help yourself. | ||
| Go back and watch the video when they all first walk out. | ||
| And one at a time, and the next to the last person is Chris Christie, and he had just snuck in that last half of a tuna fish sandwich because you can see he's going as he's walking out on stage like Jabba the Hutt. | ||
| Go back and watch it. | ||
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You'll see it. You can't unsee it once I pointed it out. | |
| All right, we'll have to find that clip. | ||
| All right, thank you for that, Tim. I do want to get to one more call for the break. | ||
| Let's go to Joe in Jersey about Nazi questions for regular people. | ||
| Go ahead, Joe. You're on the air. | ||
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Yo, dude. So, in light of the recent Canadian Parliament Nazi situation, I've just been asking people just to sort of get their temperature on what they know or if they know anything at all. | |
| Like, I interact with people, strangers, people that I know on a day-to-day basis, and I've just been asking them simply, Who did Russia fight in World War II? So out of a sample size of like, I would say over 20 people, I got one guy to give me the correct answer. | ||
| Oh no. Who else did they say? | ||
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What did other people say? One guy was like, I don't know, us? | |
| They fought us? I don't know. | ||
| They fought China? They were fighting Japan. | ||
| All sorts of answers. | ||
| That's not wrong. | ||
| They were fighting Japan. | ||
| That's partial credit. Partial credit. | ||
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Partial credit. Not a complete zero. | |
| But then they give you this answer and they're like, You know, I'm not really a history buff, you know? | ||
| Are you a history buff? | ||
| Is that why you're asking me that question? | ||
| It's like, dude, I didn't ask you some, like, obscure piece of trivia about, like, Mesopotamian civilization. | ||
| I asked you who was fighting who in World War II. It's a great answer. | ||
| That's like when they ask the Supreme Court Justice whether men and women exist, and she's like, I'm not a biologist. | ||
| Is the sky blue? What am I, a meteorologist? | ||
| I'm supposed to know all this stuff? | ||
| Folks, final segment of American Journal here on InfoWars.com. | ||
| Band.video. | ||
| Get to some of the things that I wanted to get to today, unfortunately, or fortunately, because we had some good callers that sort of deflected where I wanted to go, which is good. | ||
| That's why we have callers. Bringing awareness to things that we would otherwise miss. | ||
| So not complaining, but there are some things that I'll have to save for tomorrow. | ||
| And of course you can always sign up for our sub stack where you can see all of the links that we use on a daily basis as well as all the videos, even the ones I don't get to, which there are many today. | ||
| But I do want to go out to the phone calls because I appreciate you holding for so long. | ||
| Mike in Tennessee wants to talk about Trump and the NWO. Go ahead, Mike, you're on the air. | ||
| Yes, Harrison. As you know, Trump developed that coffee table book with really pretty pictures. | ||
| Why do you think Trump isn't writing books on what the New World Order is and how it's taken over the Democratic Party and really educating the public? | ||
| I mean, he's gone – he's moved the needle a little bit when he says, you know, I really think these people hate America. | ||
| But he never connects the dots. | ||
| Why do you think that is? | ||
| And like Newsmax, they don't do it. | ||
| Are they afraid of them? | ||
| Are they ignorant? I mean, what's going on? | ||
| That's a very good question. | ||
| I honestly don't know. | ||
| I think fear is at the forefront, fear of being thought of as like a crazy conspiracy theorist. | ||
| I mean, you have to understand this programming has been put in place for 50 years at this point. | ||
| It's deeply embedded in people's minds. | ||
| It's like when we talked quite a bit a few weeks ago about Greg Gutfeld. | ||
| Actually starting to connect the dots, and the way he did it was by going, I'm going to be Alex Jones now. | ||
| I'm going to pretend to be Alex Jones, because I'm scared to just say this outright, so I'm going to pretend that I'm parroting Alex Jones when I say this thing I actually believe. | ||
| So it's like they have to couch it in this idea of, like, This is what Alex Jones would think is going on when really it's just what's actually going on but they're afraid to say it or can't say it outright without getting pushback from their networks and from the organization. | ||
| So I think it's fear. | ||
| I think it's fear of censorship, fear of... | ||
| You know, being labeled by the people who despise us as conspiracy theorists. | ||
| I mean, they know exactly what's going on. | ||
| Why they won't say it is a personal defect of theirs, I think. | ||
| In terms of Trump, I don't think we should underestimate the awakening that Trump has caused. | ||
| Even if it wasn't even his intention, even if he doesn't even know what he's caused, the way that they're reacting to him and some of the ways that he has brought... | ||
| I mean, he brought... The entire concept of nationalism versus globalism to the forefront, right? | ||
| He is why so many people like myself at the beginning of the Trump campaign, I didn't understand why immigration was that bad of a thing, right? | ||
| I knew from growing up in a conservative household I was going through some old papers and found a high school essay where I'm writing about why illegal immigration is bad and should be limited and people should be deported. | ||
| I've always sort of believed this, but then in the libertarian phase in college and sort of being like, these are just lines on the map. | ||
| Why do we care about these? | ||
| So I was sort of more of like an open borders libertarian until I heard Trump make the argument about nationalism, about How you aren't a country if you don't have a border. | ||
| And about all the bad things. So I don't think we should underestimate the awakening that Trump has caused in all of this. | ||
| But why they don't explicitly talk about the whole thing, I don't really know. | ||
| You're right. They see the stars. | ||
| They can't see the constellation. | ||
| They see the trees, but they can't see the forest. | ||
| And I don't know if that's because they really don't see it. | ||
| If they, in their own minds, reject it as being too far-fetched or too conspiratorial. | ||
| Or if it's a... | ||
| Calculated thing where they go, I can't say this outright because people will think I'm conspiratorial. | ||
| I don't know why, but I'm not really complaining about how much they've... | ||
| That's our job, after all. | ||
| What are we going to do if Newsmax and Trump and Fox News are out there telling the truth? | ||
| That's what InfoWars is for, isn't it, Mike? | ||
| That's true, but being a president, he would be able to connect the dots with Jackson, what he said about the Fed. | ||
| And he would be able to connect the dots with what Kennedy said that he was going to expose before he got shot. | ||
| And that would be the great awakening right there. | ||
| And even if the media spun it as, oh, look, he's a conspiracy theorist, that would cause a huge national public debate. | ||
| And people would be forced to cover this topic. | ||
| So I think the time is right. | ||
| I agree with you, Mike. | ||
| What would you like to see Trump say specifically? | ||
| How would you like him to lay it out? | ||
| Okay, so like you mentioned that you were kind of ignorant about some things and tell Trump. | ||
| So I was too. | ||
| Like a globalist I thought was just someone who believed in trade globally. | ||
| And oh, I guess we kind of sort of should be. | ||
| And deep state, oh, deep state bad, but what the hell is deep state? | ||
| There's so many people like I was five years ago, and Trump's not making the connections. | ||
| He's got to make the root connections. | ||
| Not just tell us that these people are incompetent and bad and hate America. | ||
| Why do they hate America? | ||
| Lay it out, man. | ||
| Yeah. Yeah, I would love to see... | ||
| It's almost like we need a... | ||
| We need Ross Perot. | ||
| Was it Ross Perot? Who would do the... | ||
| He would do like PowerPoint presentations. | ||
| He would just sit there with a bunch of slides and just go through them methodically. | ||
| That was Ross Perot, right? We need like... | ||
| We need Ross Perot, you know, on Trump's team to go, here's a PowerPoint presentation, stick to the script and lay this out. | ||
| And Trump could do it like, I mean, he could do it on X, he could do it on Twitter, something like Tucker Carlson's doing, where it's just like, all right, every night for the next five nights, I'm going to lay down another hour of information. | ||
| I mean, the platform that he has, he could be using it to a much more effective degree. | ||
| It's a good point. You know what? | ||
| You know what? I did that PowerPoint presentation, Mr. | ||
| Trump. I did it for a Berean Bible conference last year, and I connected all the dots. | ||
| So I hope he does. | ||
| I don't think Vivek is going to be able to do it because he's a Hindu, and that's what the New World Order is all about, is that the creation is God. | ||
| But we need a good Christian leader in there that will bring a biblical worldview that can really deal with this all the way. | ||
| Yeah, I totally agree. Thank you for the call, Mike. | ||
| Very good stuff. Let's go to Membrane in Ontario. | ||
| And thanks so much for everybody for holding. | ||
| Membrane in Ontario, you're on the air about Katie Hobbs. | ||
| Go ahead. Oh, yeah. | ||
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I just wanted to say my superpower is I do have a memory. | |
| I think all that's going on with Katie Hobbs is I remember when Trump put... | ||
| Mike Pence in charge for a while because he was at the hospital. | ||
| I think that's all that's going on there. | ||
| Yeah, I think you're right. | ||
| It's just weird that we don't have that information. | ||
| It's weird that it's been done in a way where they're just like, she's gone for 24 hours, and I'm in charge for that 24 hours. | ||
| Don't ask questions. Goodbye. Like, that's weird. | ||
| It would be very understandable if they're like, well, she's doing this surgery, and this is why. | ||
| It's weird that they didn't explain why, but you're right. | ||
| That's the most likely scenario, and Trump did it, and other presidents have... | ||
| Reagan did it at one point, when you have to... | ||
| You know, when you're incapacitated, you sign over your authority to somebody else temporarily. | ||
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That is the way it's done. Okay, yeah, let's get to a simple, elegant definition of a conspiracy, because that's been something we talk about a lot here. | |
| So conspiracy theory was a weaponized term if you didn't believe in the laws of physics and the official story of the JFK assassination, right? | ||
| So if you didn't believe that a bullet could stop midair and make a right angle turn, you were a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| So conspiracy in its most simple, elegant term is person A and person B, planning something without person C's knowledge. | ||
| Everybody listening to this has been a part of a surprise birthday party. | ||
| That was a conspiracy. | ||
| Now, if it's your birthday and everyone seems busy, it's a Saturday night and your wife's like, hey, let's just go to the bar and we'll have a burger and a beer and we'll watch the game. | ||
| And you're like, okay, I don't want to party anyways. | ||
| And you're walking through the parking lot and you see your neighbor's cars, your co-workers' cars, your family's cars. | ||
| Well, if you think there's a surprise birthday party, you're a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| Right up to the point where you open the bar door and everyone jumps out and says, Surprise! | ||
| You're not serious! That's a good way to put it. | ||
| You know, one way I would put it is being a conspiracy theorist is like being a defensive driver. | ||
| You know, defensive driving, the idea is that you're always just on guard. | ||
| You're always checking your mirrors, even if you don't have to, because there might be a person in front, you might slam on their brakes, you might have to jump over to the right lane, so you need to already know who's there. | ||
| It's just it's about recognizing potential threats and being aware of them and taking measures to to to confront them if they arrive. | ||
| It doesn't mean that you think that the person at the red light is going to speed through and crash you crash into you on purpose. | ||
| You just recognize like, hey, just because the light's red doesn't mean that the car is going to stop. | ||
| I have to be aware and I'm aware every time I go through a green light, I look left and right to make sure somebody's not running the red light. | ||
| Because just because the light's green doesn't mean you're not going to get T-boned by somebody breaking the law and going through. | ||
| So if you're a conspiracy theorist, you're just recognizing potential avenues of threats that are available and just recognize that and making people aware. | ||
| And people act like, oh, you think that there's a conspiracy theory because you're telling me to look right and left. | ||
| The light's green. I should just go. | ||
| And it's like you just have to be aware that people either make mistakes or do bad things on purpose, and you might be a victim of that. | ||
| And so it's sort of just like living your life in a defensive driving mindset where you're just aware of all of your vulnerabilities and all of society's vulnerabilities and aware that whether on purpose or by accident, people can take advantage of those or can – those vulnerabilities can lead to damage and you want to prevent people can take advantage of those or can – those vulnerabilities That to me is what being a conspiracy theorist is. | ||
| It's just going, where's the vulnerabilities? | ||
| What do we have to be watching out for? | ||
| And humanity's not exactly totally trustworthy. | ||
| You just have to keep your eyes open. |
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