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The fifth Intermental Freedom is awarded to George Soros. | |
| Born into a Jewish family in Hungary, George Soros escaped Nazi occupation to build a life of freedom for himself and countless others around the world. | ||
| Educated in England, he settled in America as he became an investor and philanthropist supporting key pillars of open societies, rights and justice, equity and equality, freedom now and in the future. | ||
| His inspiring generosity reminds us all of our capacity and our obligation. | ||
| to stand up to the abuse of power and to be guardians of democracy and all people yearning to be free. | ||
| George Soros is banned in his home country of Hungary, the Philippines, Turkey, Russia, Poland, and Pakistan, but his presence in the United States and more importantly, its elections couldn't be stronger. | ||
| During the 2016 presidential elections, we discovered that Lord Mark Malik Brown, chairman of the company Smartmatics, which caused voting machine chaos in countries all over the world, served on Soros' Open Society Foundation's global board. | ||
| Not satisfied with simply rigging the voting machines, Soros is renting Christian evangelicals, as the Washington Times reported, and the National Review reported all the way back in 2010 that the progressive evangelical organization Sojourners, headed by Jim Wallace, and the National Review reported all the way back in 2010 that the progressive evangelical organization Sojourners, headed by Jim Wallace, had received grants from | ||
| Is it any wonder that Christianity Today, which wrote a glowing article of Soros' immigration strategy, savagely attacked President Trump? | ||
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The question is, when does his behavior, which is described as immoral accurately, rise to the level where he's no longer fit to serve office? | |
| To me, we cross that line with the impeachment hearings. | ||
| What we are seeing across the United States is funded in large part by corporations engaging in Chinese slave labor and the notorious unchallenged usurpation strategy of George Soros. | ||
| And like the sublime perfect masters of old, Soros will take nothing less than the collapse of the United States at any cost. | ||
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President Trump is a con man. | |
| And the ultimate narcissist who wants the world to revolve around him. | ||
| Soros' network is massive, where a league of outlaws fueled by an endless stream of funding, Marxist ideology, and peer pressure answer to centralized radical left organizations that in turn receive public support from communist-leaning Democratic leaders and mockingbird media, all tied into Soros' grand strategy. | ||
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Think about what it's going to cost to conduct Occupy-type protests all across the country, and especially in Washington, D.C. Let all those who are seething with anger and rage, who are starting to organize and think about life under a fascist regime, know that they are not alone and that there actually is a plan and a way to stop this. | |
| Regardless of the fact that they were in part formed by the Revolutionary Communist Party. | ||
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Teach them the need to support the black liberation movement led by the Black Panther Party as a strong, fearless voice against American imperialism. | |
| In the studio! | ||
| We have some good Americans. | ||
| Carl Dix, co-initiator of Refuse Fascism, representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party. | ||
| How are you, sir? | ||
| I'm doing good, Rashad. | ||
| Because when I heard black voices for Trump, it reminded me of something. | ||
| This is like having... | ||
| Jews for Adolf Hitler back in Nazi Germany. | ||
| Damn! | ||
| And we have known since 2017 that they are indirectly funded by the Alliance for Global Justice, which is listed as an organizer and fiscal sponsor for Refuse Fascism, which is in turn funded by George Soros through the Tides Foundation. | ||
| The United States, if we are to take our national elections, our government, and our criminal justice system seriously, George Soros, who continues an unyielding subversion of our republic with all of his dark money streams, must find himself banned in the United States as well. | ||
| Otherwise, the Democrats, with all of their obstruction and abuses of power, in league with the Mockingbird media, will continue to deflect all of the blame on a duly elected president that did nothing wrong. | ||
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It's Monday, January 13th in the year of our Lord, 2025. | |
| 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. | ||
| Coming to you live this morning, this Monday morning, the 13th of January. | ||
| From the Austin, Texas headquarters of Infowars. | ||
| We are still here, still kicking. | ||
| And boy, do we have a lot to cover. | ||
| This is the final full week of the Biden administration. | ||
| Will they start World War III in time? | ||
| What other tricks do they have up their sleeve? | ||
| It's like they're speedrunning the end of the world. | ||
| Although that may be changing a little bit. | ||
| And we have some interesting news. | ||
| At least about the conflict in the Middle East, as well as that against Russia in Ukraine. | ||
| Seems like these might be winding down a little bit. | ||
| We'll get into that, but of course, we will continue to talk about the wildfires, the California wildfires. | ||
| This morning as I was walking in, our security guard was like, well, you know, it's a weekend without a major catastrophe. | ||
| The first in a long time, the first weekend without some major... | ||
| You know, earth-shattering, devastating event. | ||
| It's like, well, we'll see. | ||
| We'll see about that, but in a way, it's true. | ||
| I guess what's happened is that the earth-shattering, devastating, horrible catastrophe from last week has just continued into this week. | ||
| It's just, it's the same catastrophe. | ||
| Just new developments in it. | ||
| We have a lot of politics to talk about and we'll take your calls throughout the show as well. | ||
| I have so many videos to show you specifically about the wildfires and that will consume at least the first hour of today's show because yeah, it's all completely insane. | ||
| But let's just get into it. | ||
| First, here it is, your Daily Dispatch. | ||
| Here it is, folks, your daily dispatch for Monday, the 13th of January, 2025. LA fires live from the Guardian. | ||
| Firefighters braced for explosive fire growth amid red flag weather warning and new forecast of strong winds. | ||
| Firefighters are preparing for a return of dangerous winds that could again stoke the wildfires. | ||
| The National Weather Service has issued a rare warning of particularly dangerous situation beginning overnight Monday into Tuesday. | ||
| The service's Ariel Cohen warned that the risk of explosive fire growth as those winds pick back up at least... | ||
| 24 people have been killed and thousands of homes destroyed in the Los Angeles area. | ||
| At least 16 people are still missing and rescue crews are using sniffer dogs to search the debris of burned down buildings. | ||
| Authorities are expecting the death toll to rise. | ||
| Fire crews made some progress tackling the flames this weekend, meaning a limited number of people were allowed to return to previously evacuated areas. | ||
| The Palisades fire, the first and most intense of the group, is still only 13% contained and has burned more than... | ||
| 23,000 acres, according to an update from the California Fire Department of Forestry Protection and Fire. | ||
| The Eaton Fire is 27% contained and is burned through over 14,000 acres. | ||
| The Hearst Fire is 89% contained and is burned through 799 acres. | ||
| The latest with this is that the blame game is being played with Democrats at each other's throats trying desperately to Both blame the fires on Donald Trump and telling him not to politicize it. | ||
| It's a mess, folks. | ||
| It is a complete and utter mess. | ||
| And we'll get into who's really to blame for all of this and all of the contributing factors to making this such a gigantic disaster, including mobs of looters. | ||
| Now at least 29 looters have been arrested, including some dressed up as firemen in order to gain access to the evacuated houses. | ||
| Because, well, with neighbors like these, right? | ||
| With friends like these. | ||
| With fellow Americans like these who needed outside threats were being destroyed from within. | ||
| Bloomberg also has the story, Los Angeles braces for more fire evacuations with go bags packed. | ||
| As Los Angeles wildfires rage on, millions of residents are preparing for another week of uncertainty, packing go bags with vital documents and irreplaceable mementos while keeping watch for evacuation orders. | ||
| And it is a good time to remind everybody, That it doesn't take a nuclear bomb going off or some sort of earth-rending catastrophe to remind you that you should probably be prepared. | ||
| You should probably be prepared to survive on your own. | ||
| You should be prepared to get up and go at a moment's notice. | ||
| It doesn't take some massive unexpected. | ||
| You don't need to be a doomsday prepper to know that natural disasters can occur in even the most seemingly safe areas. | ||
| It's worth it to be prepared for that. | ||
| And of course, one great way to do that is by going to Infowarsstore.com and getting the storable food or any of the incredible preparedness items that we have on sale. | ||
| Meanwhile, Biden and Netanyahu discuss Gaza truce talks as momentum builds. | ||
| Biden and Netanyahu, international criminal, discuss ceasefire in Gaza as momentum builds. | ||
| They've spoken by phone. | ||
| In Biden's final week in office, momentum builds towards a Gaza ceasefire and a hostage release deal. | ||
| Israel and Hamas are understood to be making progress, but uncertainty remains over key aspects of a potential agreement. | ||
| The White House said Biden discussed fundamentally changing regional circumstances following Israel's ceasefire with Hezbollah and Lebanon. | ||
| Man, talk about procrastination. | ||
| I mean, I've waited until the last hour to do homework, but I've never waited until the last week of my presidential administration to try to fundamentally reorganize the Middle East. | ||
| But, hey, I don't know. | ||
| He's got like 128 hours, so good luck. | ||
| Good luck, Biden. | ||
| Now, we'll get into this. | ||
| This is an interesting strategic move for Biden. | ||
| Yeah, she's got seven days, two hours, and 47 minutes to fundamentally restructure the entirety of the Middle East. | ||
| We'll see how it goes. | ||
| I have a feeling that this ceasefire is not the desired outcome of the Biden administration or even the responsibility of the Biden administration. | ||
| I have a feeling that this is because of Trump's talks with Netanyahu that also took place this week. | ||
| And I think they figured out, okay, there's going to be a ceasefire. | ||
| Pretty quickly after Trump gets into office one way or the other. | ||
| So Biden wants that feather in his cap. | ||
| Biden wants to say that he stopped the war, that he got the ceasefire. | ||
| And so obviously a personal political cachet is the only motivating factor that Biden is considering right now. | ||
| So sure, it's a humanitarian catastrophe, the likes of which the world hasn't seen in 80 years. | ||
| You know, you've got to show me how it benefits me personally before I'm going to step in and actually try to put a stop to it. | ||
| And in this case, basically, I think he's thinking that Trump is going to make a ceasefire and he doesn't want him to get credit for it. | ||
| So they're going to maybe do it before Trump gets in office. | ||
| We'll get back into that. | ||
| A lot of interesting developments in the Israel-U.S. relationship recently, especially when it comes to... | ||
| Donald Trump's incoming administration. | ||
| Speaking of personal relationships of Trump's administration, quote, I made it my personal thing to take this guy down. | ||
| Bannon vows to keep Musk out of the White House. | ||
| Steve Bannon has warned he will do everything in his power to keep Elon Musk out of the White House as the fallout from the H-1B debate over Christmas continues to spread. | ||
| Quote, I will have Elon Musk run out of here by inauguration day, Bannon said in an interview with the Italian newspaper. | ||
| Corey, an Italian newspaper. | ||
| I would like to see him talk to Alex Jones about this. | ||
| That's what I'd like to see personally. | ||
| That's what I'd like to see because obviously there's two different camps here. | ||
| One is that Elon Musk coming over to our side is one of the biggest and greatest force multipliers that the Infowar has ever achieved and is a... | ||
| Very good thing overall. | ||
| Obviously, Steve Bannon is on the other side, which is Elon Musk is trying to hijack MAGA to his own ends and must be kept out for the success of the MAGA agenda. | ||
| I don't know where I stand on that. | ||
| I really don't. | ||
| Obviously, Elon Musk has done a lot of really good things. | ||
| At the same time, he's obviously a globalist in a lot of ways. | ||
| I think that's an interesting split in the MAGA world that we can take calls about a little bit later. | ||
| Finally, we have this. | ||
| Special Counsel Jack Smith resigns from the DOJ. His departure was disclosed in a court filing submitted Saturday afternoon to U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon. | ||
| Special Counsel Jack Smith has completed his work on two criminal investigations of President-elect Donald Trump and resigned Friday from the Justice Department. | ||
| Word on the street is he will soon be taking up a new profession in managing California's fire preventative measures, I imagine. | ||
| This is just the way that Democrats do things. | ||
| Come in, operate completely without legal remit, just cause a bunch of problems, achieve nothing, and then resign in disgrace. | ||
| Truly the career path of the Democrat fully and completely achieved. | ||
| Word of Smith's departure came in a footnote to a court filing Justice Department official submitted to U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon Saturday afternoon urging her not to extend a court order she issued last week temporarily blocking the release of the final report Smith submitted to the department leaders on Tuesday. | ||
| So I have a feeling that it has to do with that, that somehow they think that by like Jack Smith resigning They're like, so therefore the process is over, so now we can release the order. | ||
| Can we release the report now, please? | ||
| They're really desperate to try to release this report in the next seven days. | ||
| It's not looking like they're going to be legally able to do so. | ||
| We may see it leaked to the media regardless, but that's your daily dispatch. | ||
| And a fond good riddance to Jack Smith, who has resigned, and I'll add the caveat, in disgrace. | ||
| Resigned in disgrace from the DOJ. After yet another career high of completely failing to achieve anything and moving on to some other high-paying job where he will again fail embarrassingly. | ||
| So let's continue to talk about the Palisades fires, the California fires overall. | ||
| There are a lot of things to say about this, a lot of developments. | ||
| As we've reported in the Daily Dispatch, the fire continues to spread out of control. | ||
| At least 24 people have been killed, 16 still missing. | ||
| Palisades fire, just 13% contained. | ||
| Eaton fire, 27% contained. | ||
| And the Hearst fire, 89% contained. | ||
| And the conversation now is about whose fault this is, mostly, and why you shouldn't politicize it, which are contradictory and hypocritical, but it's okay. | ||
| It's mostly Democrats doing this. | ||
| Gavin Newsom has gone so far as to create a fact website in order to try to debunk all of the claims about what's actually behind the fire itself. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Also being discussed how this fire actually started, how any of these fires actually started. | ||
| And if you'll remember on the first day that the fires broke out and that we covered it here, I had a couple guesses about what was behind this. | ||
| And I'm pretty sure I'm exactly right, although there are some interesting wrinkles to the story. | ||
| So far, the top speculation is that it was either fireworks from New Year's Eve or arson. | ||
| There's also been several... | ||
| Fires discovered having been started in homeless camps. | ||
| But we'll show you some more about some bizarre circumstances around the beginnings of especially the Palisades fire, which apparently was caught on film by some hikers who were like right at the start of the fire, which has led some people to say they might have started the fire. | ||
| But we'll look into that. | ||
| In just a second. | ||
| I'm just wondering where to even begin with this. | ||
| Matt Baker has an extensive documentary he did on this 16 minutes now available at band.video. | ||
| Let's start with this. | ||
| Because this is an interesting one you probably won't see published anywhere else. | ||
| Sorry, I'm just trying to figure out myself how to string all of this together because there's speculation about how it started. | ||
| There is obviously a lot of blame going around about prior to this what could have been done to prevent this all from happening. | ||
| That might be one place to start. | ||
| Clip number 26 was posted by some leftist dude. | ||
| I don't know, one of these leftists. | ||
| Propagandist on X. And this is sort of the argument from the left right now. | ||
| He posted this video and it says, Can one of you MAGAs explain how TF can firefighters stop this? | ||
| Let's go ahead and roll the video. | ||
| It's short. | ||
| Just a little looping video of about four seconds. | ||
| But he's basically, you know, it's for our radio viewers, it's a couple palm trees on fire. | ||
| Looks like in a neighborhood. | ||
| And the wind is blowing incredibly hard. | ||
| And see Santa Ana wins. | ||
| Santa Anna. | ||
| Santa Anna, back at it again. | ||
| And he's asking, you know, can MAGA explain how to stop this fire? | ||
| You're all criticizing the firefighting capabilities of California. | ||
| Well, look at this. | ||
| How would you stop this? | ||
| And it's true. | ||
| There's embers flying at 100 miles an hour. | ||
| It's hard to say how one could stop this. | ||
| Here's the problem, though. | ||
| Mostly what we're talking about is preventative measures you could have taken, should have taken, and were told to take over and over again, and you refuse to do that. | ||
| So just taking this on a personal scale, this is like somebody filming a house on fire and going, how am I supposed to stop this? | ||
| The house is already on fire. | ||
| Why are you criticizing me now that the house is on fire? | ||
| And it's like, okay, but... | ||
| For several years, we've been pointing out that you have faulty electric systems. | ||
| Did your outlets spark every time you plug something in? | ||
| You've got 18 appliances going to the same outlet. | ||
| You've got an open fireplace with no grate. | ||
| You're burning wood, and you've never cleaned out your chimney. | ||
| You've got your Christmas tree from three years ago still up, and 12 of the bulbs are broken. | ||
| It's like all of these things that you could have done. | ||
| You took out all your smoke detectors. | ||
| Threw away all your fire extinguishers. | ||
| You disconnected your phone so you couldn't call the fire department. | ||
| So sure, you can show us pictures now of the house on fire and then try to act like it's ridiculous that we're saying something could have been done about this. | ||
| But something could have been done about this. | ||
| You could have done a lot of preventative things to prepare for this eventuality and you didn't and now you're suffering the consequences. | ||
| This isn't politicizing something unpolitical. | ||
| This is acknowledging the consequences Of political choices that were made. | ||
| And Gavin Newsom, I mean, maybe the most, you know, ridiculous part about this is that Gavin Newsom has launched a new website, like this is their priority at this moment, to combat the misinformation about the fires. | ||
| Misinformation like, you know, accurate news reports from years ago predicting this exact thing. | ||
| On the same day Biden is facing criticism for previously attempting to censor online misinformation, Governor Gavin Newsom has shifted focus to combating misinformation during a briefing on the devastating wildfires ravaging Los Angeles. | ||
| The session included Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass with Newsom and Bass addressing concerns over their administration's preparedness as the fires claimed at least 10 lives, the count is now 24, and destroyed countless homes. | ||
| conducted in a hybrid format the meeting saw biden and harris in the oval office while newsom bass and the fema administrator deanne criswell joined via video call newsom described the unprecedented destruction fueled by what he called hurricane force winds the likes of which we've never imagined in our lifetime he then pivoted to warn about the spread of misinformation related to the disaster | ||
| so what has actually happened here is that horrifying incompetence seemingly deliberate mismanagement of the entire fire department system in all of california the refusal to do even the most mundane and you know expected preventative uh exercises like clearing out the dead debris from forests or you know filling up reservoirs None of these things were done. | ||
| It's caused these fires to just ravage out of control, destroy everything in their path. | ||
| Then on top of that, you've got... | ||
| You know, gangs of looters going through and making everything more difficult. | ||
| You've got traffic being blocked by illegal immigrants taking over highways to protest deportations. | ||
| It's just, it is a gigantic, tangled Gordian knot web of Democrat policies that have led to this. | ||
| The Democrats' response is to blame climate change and misinformation. | ||
| Climate change. | ||
| And misinformation. | ||
| He says a lot of misinformation out there. | ||
| Just launched a new website to ensure the public has access to fact-based data about the Southern California wildfires. | ||
| The truth. | ||
| California did not cut our firefighting budget. | ||
| We have nearly doubled the size of our firefighting army and built the world's largest aerial firefighting fleet. | ||
| California has increased forage management tenfold since we took office. | ||
| California will not allow for looting. | ||
| All of these things are, of course. | ||
| Outrageous lies. | ||
| Let's watch him say some of these lies, shall we? | ||
| Let's go to clip number 12. Here's Gavin Newsom saying all of our water reservoirs are full. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| I call for him to come out, take a look for himself. | ||
| We want to do in the spirit of an open hand, not a closed fist. | ||
| He's the president-elect. | ||
| I respect the office. | ||
| We have a president of the United States that within 36 hours provided a major disaster declaration over a text. | ||
| We had support from the president of the United States, Joe Biden, with 100% reimbursement. | ||
| All the resources you could hope for, imagine, constant communication. | ||
| I'd like to extend that to the president-elect. | ||
| I don't know what he's referring to when he talks about the Delta smelt and reservoirs. | ||
| The reservoirs are completely full of the state reservoirs here in Southern California. | ||
| That missing disinformation, I don't think, advantages or aids any of us. | ||
| Responding to Donald Trump's insults, we would spend another month. | ||
| I'm very familiar with them. | ||
| Every elected official that he disagrees with, very familiar with them. | ||
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We do know, though, from reporting here locally that that one reservoir that serves the Palisades was not full. | |
| And that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the investigation, to understand what was happening with that local reservoir. | ||
| That was not a state system reservoir, which the president-elect was referring to as it relates to the delta, somehow connecting the delta smelt to this fire, which is inexcusable. | ||
| Inexcusable. | ||
| Inaccurate. | ||
| Also incomprehensible to anyone that understands water policy in the state. | ||
| Incom, it's incomprehensible. | ||
| Utter madness. | ||
| Do I need to explain what's happening here? | ||
| I will. | ||
| I'll try. | ||
| I'll give it my best shot. | ||
| He's playing word games. | ||
| Very simply, he's just playing word games. | ||
| When you say the reservoir is empty, the reservoir with the water that was needed to fight these fires, the reason these fires are out of control was because of the lack of water. | ||
| The lack of water is because there's no water in the reservoir. | ||
| That's what we're saying. | ||
| Gavin Newsom comes in and goes, all of the reservoirs are totally full. | ||
| First of all, they shouldn't be. | ||
| You should be fighting the fire with them. | ||
| You mean they were full before the fire is what you meant to say? | ||
| I'm sure. | ||
| But he makes sure to say the state reservoirs. | ||
| The state reservoirs are totally full. | ||
| It's like, well, are those reservoirs that were needed to fight the fire? | ||
| No. | ||
| And we've seen reports that the reservoirs are empty. | ||
| Do you know about the empty reservoirs? | ||
| He's like, yeah, of course. | ||
| Of course, that one's empty. | ||
| Yeah, that one is empty. | ||
| Of course, that's not the one I'm talking about. | ||
| I'm talking about the state reservoirs, which aren't even a part of this conversation, but I'm bringing it up to distract the fact that, yes, the reservoirs are empty. | ||
| Yes, the reservoirs are totally dry. | ||
| There's no water to fight the fire, which is how it got out of control. | ||
| This is the consequence of state and local policy being just completely terrible. | ||
| But why bring up the Delta smelt fish? | ||
| What does the Delta smelt have anything to do with it? | ||
| We'll get into that on the other side. | ||
| The infamous Delta smelt fish, by the way, has not been seen in nearly a decade. | ||
| California allowed its cities to burn to the ground over a fish they can't even find anymore. | ||
| We'll get into it on the other side. | ||
| We'll tell you the real reason why all these fires broke out, the sources, and what fed them. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| We're talking about the California fires, of course, that continue to rage. | ||
| And there's a pattern that we talk about quite a bit here. | ||
| And it's necessary in their psychological domination of Americans. | ||
| It's like a... | ||
| Preeminent or primary concern of theirs, maintaining legitimacy, maintaining the appearance of capability. | ||
| You see it all the time with school shootings, mass shootings. | ||
| No matter what, every time that there's a mass shooting, the first press conference. | ||
| The first thing they'll say, and they'll repeat it over and over throughout the press conference, is what a good job they did. | ||
| So every time you'll start to see it, once you notice it, it'll almost be comical. | ||
| Be like, you know, 15 children have died. | ||
| And the first thing out of the mouth is like, I just want to first say that everyone did an excellent job. | ||
| All of us, we all did exactly what we were supposed to in the perfect way. | ||
| So let's just first and foremost make perfectly clear. | ||
| The local police that I represent did everything perfect. | ||
| The FBI is amazing and perfect. | ||
| Let's just first of all understand that everything we do is perfect and there's nothing we could have done differently to prevent this or deal with it in any way. | ||
| And obviously this is necessary just from a psychological point of view just to reassure the people out there that there's no reason why you should You want to rise up against your government. | ||
| They do everything perfectly no matter what goes wrong. | ||
| The bizarre thing about this is that the Democrats are doing this while the fire is still raging and they're still being incompetent boobs. | ||
| So you need to get through it first, then talk about what a good job you did. | ||
| You are actively, as we speak, not doing a good job. | ||
| So when you come out and talk about what a good job you're doing, it doesn't really make any sense. | ||
| We just watched a video of Gavin Newsom. | ||
| Talk about how all of the water reservoirs are totally full to the top right now as we speak. | ||
| Which begs the question, then why aren't you using the water from those reservoirs to fight the fire? | ||
| And of course the answer is because I was talking about the other reservoirs throughout the rest of the state that aren't necessary and needed for fighting this fire. | ||
| You're spreading this information by quoting me. | ||
| But it's not just him, obviously. | ||
| Clip number 11 here. | ||
| This is FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell speaking out on California's handling of the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades fire. | ||
| She goes on for a little bit, but it's her first statement that is the most baffling. | ||
| Here is FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Do you have a sense at this point why the area was so unprepared? | |
| I think that they were very prepared. | ||
| This is something that they are very used to. | ||
| They fight fires all the time. | ||
| But they have never seen 100-mile-an-hour winds that are fueling the fire. | ||
| And those winds and that weather condition is what really impacts where this fire is going to go. | ||
| But more importantly, how they're able to try to contain it in those first few hours and days. | ||
| And because it was in such a populated area, it just makes it that much more. | ||
| It's more challenging to be able to get in there and secure the perimeter, but as well try to save as many homes as possible. | ||
| Yeah, they were super prepared, like maybe too prepared. | ||
| We were so prepared, and it's like, but you weren't. | ||
| You weren't, and we can tell that you weren't because your entire state's on fire. | ||
| If you were prepared, that wouldn't be the case. | ||
| So you weren't prepared. | ||
| It's very bizarre to me. | ||
| It's very strange. | ||
| Reminds me of a time before I worked at Infowars when I was on Reddit and some bridge had collapsed in Florida. | ||
| I think it hurt somebody or some pedestrian crossing bridge that collapsed. | ||
| It became a big story because the whole architecture construction firm that built it was led by women. | ||
| It was all like, women can do what men can do. | ||
| Then the bridge collapsed and it was a giant catastrophe. | ||
| A lot of people were paying attention to it and laughing at what was going on. | ||
| And in the comments, there were people saying things like, well, the bridge is rated to 13,000 pounds. | ||
| And it's like, okay, but it collapsed. | ||
| Why are you bringing up something that is obviously false? | ||
| Like, it collapsed with a weight less than 13,000 pounds. | ||
| So why are you referencing the fact that, well, the bridge was rated for 13,000 pounds. | ||
| It's like, okay, but it fell. | ||
| It did already fall. | ||
| You know that, right? | ||
| So why are you telling me? | ||
| To what it was rated to, it's just, it's, you weren't prepared. | ||
| You obviously weren't prepared. | ||
| And when they're questioned about why they weren't prepared, their answer is, actually, we were totally prepared. | ||
| We did a great job. | ||
| We did a great and amazing job. | ||
| No, obviously you didn't. | ||
| Oh, the reservoirs, the water reservoirs were totally full. | ||
| We had plenty of water. | ||
| Okay, except you obviously didn't. | ||
| So why are you saying this? | ||
| Why are you saying this? | ||
| Well, they're saying it for a couple reasons. | ||
| One, because they don't want to take the blame, obviously. | ||
| They recognize that this is a Career-ending disaster for pretty much all of them. | ||
| One positive thing out of these horrific fires is Gavin Newsom is never going to be president now. | ||
| I think that should be pretty clear. | ||
| And look, it's not just because they took a bunch of money from the firefighters, which they absolutely did. | ||
| There's absolutely no question about it. | ||
| On top of an infinite number of other realities, like the Delta smelt. | ||
| We'll cover that since we're on it. | ||
| He's like, I can't even figure out what they're trying to say. | ||
| Delta smelt? | ||
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Fish? | |
| What? | ||
| What is he talking about? | ||
| It's like, okay. | ||
| I mean, you seem to understand complete nonsense when it's presented to you from a leftist perspective. | ||
| Like, you would have no trouble understanding the insane nonsense claim that cow farts are causing the sun to be hotter, but... | ||
| When it comes to the Delta smelt, you're out of your depth. | ||
| You can't figure it out. | ||
| Well, Gateway Pundit is here to remind you of what has happened in your state just a few years ago. | ||
| The infamous Delta smelt fish has not been seen in nearly a decade. | ||
| California allowed its cities to burn to the ground over fish they can't even find. | ||
| The tiny Delta smelt fish has not been seen in the wild in over a decade. | ||
| And yet, Democrat... | ||
| Californians flushed annual water flow into the ocean to save this little fish. | ||
| Now several cities are burned to the ground. | ||
| They sacrificed entire communities for a fish that doesn't even exist. | ||
| A 2021 report by Dan Backer in the Sacramento News revealed there have been no delta smelt seen in the wild since 2012. They are, for all intents and purposes, extinct. | ||
| But the 7th September in a row, the fire department... | ||
| California Department of Fish and Wildlife has caught zero Delta smelt during its fall midwater trawl survey of the San Francisco-Yan San Joaquin River Delta. | ||
| The last time the Delta smelt, an indicator species for broader ecological health estuary, were found in CDFW's September survey was in 2015. Only five were caught by state biologists at the time. | ||
| The reason why anybody's even bringing this up is because it was the Delta smelt and its environment and habitat that was the excuse given for why they couldn't retain fresh water. | ||
| It had to be allowed to flow into the ocean at the rate of several thousand gallons a day in some cases in order to prevent the Delta smelt from going extinct. | ||
| It went extinct anyway, and now their state burned down. | ||
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I've got more details for you. | |
| On Friday's show, I strung together a report with all of the reasons why Gavin Newsom is to blame along with the mayor of Los Angeles. | ||
| But in 2014, taxpayers in Los Angeles and in California, they voted for a $7.5 billion aid package to specifically build concrete reservoirs. | ||
| Reservoirs that could have held last year's record rainfall that would have been instrumental in helping put out these fires. | ||
| So that was 2014? | ||
| That was in 2014. 2014, they spent $7.5 billion to do this. | ||
| How many have they built? | ||
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None, right? | |
| And on top of that, it's known that California needs to bury all of their power lines. | ||
| Their infrastructure is lacking in that sense. | ||
| In that video that I strung together, there are multiple clips of power lines, you know, being blown ajar from the wind and just going crazy, you know? | ||
| That's the report. | ||
| Is that report available on Bandai Video? | ||
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It is not. | |
| It was an exclusive for the American Journal. | ||
| We'll put that up today on the site. | ||
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But it just goes to show you, it was well known. | |
| And on top of that, there's a clip that I also put in there of Joe Rogan predicting how these fires would play out like six months ago. | ||
| And that's made its rounds on the internet. | ||
| It's not like it takes a genius to figure that out, but what Joe Rogan knew through an experience that he lived through where his house had burned down, he claims that he has lived through three fires and that a fireman told him, hey man, we get lucky every single time. | ||
| Every single time. | ||
| There have been previous wildfires and it is well known that they get lucky because it really just takes the fire plus some wind and it will burn all the way through Los Angeles, all the way out to the ocean. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, and so I wonder if the reservoirs being built were stopped by the environmentalists and the Delta smelt. | ||
| Protection plan. | ||
| So recent research has shown that the water releases have not provided the benefits to the small fish that they originally thought. | ||
| The population numbers are nearly non-existent in the wild. | ||
| A report released by the Conservative Pacific Institute found that every year... | ||
| 59.5 million acre-feet of stormwater goes uncaptured across the United States each year. | ||
| Approximately 490,000 acre-feet of runoff each year, or roughly 437 million gallons per day, takes place in LA, Long Beach, and Anaheim, or roughly 437 million gallons per day. | ||
| They thought that this would save the freshwater minnows like the Delta smelt. | ||
| Liberal Democrats don't have any issues. | ||
| That are caused by their lunacy. | ||
| That's why fire hydrants don't think about any of the issues caused by the lunacy. | ||
| That's why the fire hydrants don't have any water. | ||
| The delta smish is a tiny fish that the environmentalists claimed was an indicator of the health of our ecosystem. | ||
| The argument was that low populations of delta smelt menu are in trouble. | ||
| After years of allowing water to run into ocean, there was no significant bump in the population of delta smelt. | ||
| I mean, there wasn't even a point to do it anyway. | ||
| But yeah, a lot of it. | ||
| And look, whether it's delta smelt or like some random breed of turtle. | ||
| The whole idea is that you have these terrible policies made on whatever excuse that the left can provide at the time. | ||
| In this case, it was this minnow, Delta Smelt. | ||
| And that was the excuse that they wanted to use to not store water. | ||
| I mean, I can't truly believe that they were presented this option and that they're genuinely so concerned about this tiny fish. | ||
| That they're willing to take the risk. | ||
| There's got to be ulterior motives that just doesn't explain it sufficiently to me. | ||
| But let's just confront the lies of Gavin Newsom at the source because Gavin Newsom has now released a website to deal with misinformation and disinformation as if that is a threat at all. | ||
| Like, all that's happening right now is you've got this massive, out-of-control wildfire. | ||
| Like, their focus should be on that. | ||
| Well, meanwhile, everybody not immediately affected by the fire is just talking about what led to this fire because you don't want to do the same thing over if there's causes to what allowed this fire to be particularly destructive. | ||
| You want to identify those in order to take measures to not have the same thing repeat over and over every year, as happens in California. | ||
| That's a natural and necessary response and consequence of these fires. | ||
| The Democrats are literally only worried about their own political life. | ||
| They're only concerned about how this looks, not the fact that their policies did in fact contribute to all of this in a variety of different ways. | ||
| First of all, they did take money from the fire department. | ||
| They absolutely did. | ||
| This has been confirmed by the fire chief in L.A. Could she just be trying to cover her butt? | ||
| Because obviously she has failed utterly. | ||
| It's like, oh, bad news is all of LA is now burning cinders and ashes. | ||
| The good news is the lesbians are in charge. | ||
| So who knows? | ||
| I mean, incompetence abounds in all of California. | ||
| So it's hard to put your finger on which incompetent person is most to blame. | ||
| But I'm willing to, you know, split the... | ||
| Split the blame here and just say they're all at fault. | ||
| First, let's just clarify. | ||
| Clip number 24 is from the Free Press. | ||
| Reporter Austin Jeffs visited the Santa Ynez Reservoir to show that it's empty. | ||
| Let's just watch this. | ||
| Just to clarify, when Gavin Newsom comes out and says the reservoirs are totally full, that's a lie. | ||
| He's using just rhetorical sleight of hand. | ||
| To claim the state reservoirs are full, expecting people not to know that it doesn't matter if the state reservoirs are full, if it's the local reservoirs that need attention. | ||
| But of course, he's a state politician, so again, he's trying to protect his own reputation, saying, hey, I'm in charge of the state reservoirs and I kept those full. | ||
| So this is all just, he's the one, they are the ones playing politics. | ||
| We're trying to identify the problems that led to this natural disaster. | ||
| Many of the problems being political ones, they are doing everything they can to scramble and deceive and manipulate information in order to cover their own butts because they are driven entirely by political concerns. | ||
| And they're lying. | ||
| So let's go to clip number 24. This is the empty reservoirs that we're talking about. | ||
| Newsom, here they are. | ||
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This was supposed to be the water to put out the Palisades Fire. | |
| This is the Santa Ynez Reservoir. | ||
| It's the water supply basically for the Palisades. | ||
| When they first started fighting the Palisades Fire, they ran out of water extremely quickly. | ||
| Wednesday, 3 a.m., they were basically out. | ||
| And there's been a lot of talk on why this happened. | ||
| So how long has this reservoir been empty for? | ||
| Since February of last year. | ||
| There was no communication from the Department of Water and Power to LAFD. That there was a water supply issue. | ||
| The firefighters, when they started fighting the fires, no one informed them that the reservoir was empty. | ||
| This reservoir holds 117 million gallons of water. | ||
| The fire department was using a water supply from three backup tanks, each one only holding 1 million gallons of water. | ||
| They say it's closed for maintenance to repair the lid that's on top of it. | ||
| I don't know a lot about reservoir maintenance, but there's literally no... | ||
| Construction materials or vehicles anywhere in sight. | ||
| Also, with a reservoir like this, you can refill it or start to refill it. | ||
| So another question is, if they saw the Santa Ana winds were coming and we have this remarkably dry wet season, why was there no attempt to start refilling it back up? | ||
| I know I threw a lot out there, but I think we need some answers, guys. | ||
| Some real answers here. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, you would think so. | ||
| That, again, was from the free press. | ||
| So, I mean, you don't need to speculate. | ||
| There's no question here. | ||
| Gavin Newsom's playing word games, but the fact is the reservoirs were empty. | ||
| The necessary reservoirs that they needed, that they knew they needed, were not just empty. | ||
| They aren't even being worked on. | ||
| They aren't even actually doing the repairs they shut down the reservoir in order to make. | ||
| Now, if they're... | ||
| If the thing that they're fixing anyway is the cover of it, so if there's not any structural integrity that needs to be dealt with, why not have the reservoir full? | ||
| I don't even get why draining it would be necessary, but maybe it was all on purpose. | ||
| But that video you just saw, the video... | ||
| Of the actual reservoir being empty. | ||
| That's the type of misinformation that they want off the internet because it makes them look bad. | ||
| Unfortunately for them, the fire chief in charge of all of this has also reaffirmed the reality of the budget cuts to the fire department and the very tangible effects that they had on the ability to fight the fire. | ||
| So again, this is a little bit inconvenient for Gavin Newsom and others saying that they did not cut the firefighter budget. | ||
| When you've got the fire chief saying you absolutely did and it prevented us from doing what we needed to during this fire. | ||
| Again, I'm sure the fire chief is also just covering her own butt. | ||
| I'm sure she is also incompetent and to blame for this failure. | ||
| She's trying to put the failure off on the local government. | ||
| The local government's trying to fire her and then didn't. | ||
| It's all very awkward and weird. | ||
| But let's go now to... | ||
| Clip number 28. This is LA Fire Chief Liz Crowley, I think her name is. | ||
| She was actually summoned to a meeting with the mayor after this interview aired. | ||
| Let's go ahead and watch. | ||
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Those are our communities. | |
| And our people will do everything in their power to protect them. | ||
| It is my job as a chief to make sure that my firefighters are funded appropriately. | ||
| Are equipped appropriately and they're trained appropriately. | ||
| That's why I'm here. | ||
| That's why I'm in this seat. | ||
| I will not stop until I get that for them. | ||
| You've spoken with the Fire Commission. | ||
| You have made it very clear that this department is underfunded, correct? | ||
| That is absolutely correct. | ||
| This department was asked to take a $17 million budget cut. | ||
| That is correct. | ||
| How does that affect your department? | ||
| It impacts our ability to provide service, absolutely. | ||
| How did that affect the firefight in the Palisades? | ||
| So, first and foremost, what I just said before is making sure our firefighters have the ability to provide service. | ||
| So, a $17 million cut did not allow us to do what we needed to do. | ||
| And where that impacted us specifically for Palisades was our ability to move into reserve apparatus. | ||
| The $17 million cut Cut into our ability to utilize resources that should be at our disposal that we were unable to fix because the funding was not there because of cuts to our mechanics. | ||
| What type of apparatus are we talking about specifically? | ||
| Mainly fire engines and ambulances. | ||
| So there's the LA Fire Department chief saying that these cuts did have a direct impact, negative one, on the ability to fight the fire. | ||
| Yes, as of 2021, I don't think anything has changed from this since 2021. Years later, California voters still wait on water projects. | ||
| Talking about that $7.5 billion bond that was approved in 2014. Seven years later, in 2021, the drought came and gone. | ||
| It has come and gone, and nothing has been built. | ||
| Absolutely nothing. | ||
| Absolutely nothing. | ||
| $7.5 billion, and they get absolutely nothing for it. | ||
| A wider agenda at play here with water rights overall, as we know. | ||
| The powers that be determined a long time ago that owning all of the water is a convenient way to force everybody to submit to you. | ||
| And we'll get into some of that a little bit later. | ||
| But since we're on the topic of not having enough money to fight the fires, what is California spending their money on? | ||
| If they don't have a couple million dollars to... | ||
| You know, fund the firefighting services that they need to save their entire city from burning to the ground. | ||
| Surely they're not spending money on frivolous things, right? | ||
| Surely if $17 million is necessary to cut from the fire department budget because you're just that, you stretch that thin, you just need to look. | ||
| I know $17 million is not a lot in the big scheme of things, but we just can't afford it right now. | ||
| So you cut it from the fire department. | ||
| Meanwhile, they're spending more money than you can possibly imagine on things like free healthcare for illegals. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 13 now. | ||
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They complained about the cost, but they continue to add services. | |
| I want to show you California. | ||
| As of yesterday, California has added a health care benefit for migrants. | ||
| They are now going to extend free health care to migrants between the ages of 26 and 49. That's going to cover 700,000 additional people and cost the state $2.6 billion each year. | ||
| Now, that's added onto California's deficit, which is already $68 billion. | ||
| So, billions of dollars for free healthcare for illegal, something that American citizens don't even receive. | ||
| But they have to cut $100 million from the fire department. | ||
| And they cut $100 million a couple years ago, and then a couple months ago, an extra $17.5 million, while spending billions of dollars giving free healthcare, free education, free lawyers to illegal immigrants. | ||
| This is not politicizing the fire. | ||
| This is... | ||
| Pointing out the political outcome of the choices that you people have made. | ||
| The consequences of the political position of the people charged with doing things like protecting our country from burning to the ground. | ||
| We're going to get back into this on the other side. | ||
| We're going to talk about the role smart meters play in all this. | ||
| We're going to talk about private firefighting forces being deployed and being very effective. | ||
| The ignition point of this and it looks like arson is just a tool of the trade at this point. | ||
| The trade being communist subversion. | ||
| And psychological warfare against the United States trying to defeat us from within. | ||
| We'll get into all of that in the next hour. | ||
| I'll also open up the phone lines for your calls on this topic and so much more because we've still got politics and tech and everything else to get into. | ||
| Stay with us. | ||
| Make sure to go to thealexjonesstore.com to support everything that we do here. | ||
| We're going to continue to get into some of the more conspiratorial sides of the fires here. | ||
| But that's your fire overview. | ||
| Yes, it is the Democrats' fault. | ||
| All of them, all at once. | ||
| It's hard to blame a single one when their entire ideology is warped beyond recognition. | ||
| And disastrous outcomes are the inevitable consequence of their terrible decisions. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
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Looks like we're here just a little south of Malibu, and all the other roads are blocked off. | |
| We've tried to get on the high ground, see what's going on. | ||
| There's choppers dropping it off. | ||
| Everything's super eerie right now. | ||
| The smoke is incredibly thick. | ||
| As you can see, the smoke is coming right out of Malibu here, coming up from the Palisades Fire. | ||
| We're going to go down on the boardwalk and see if we can hoof it up. | ||
| Got a couple of miles to go to get up to Malibu up there. | ||
| We were going to try and get one of these little scooters, but apparently they have all been geofence locked. | ||
| So they're all just strewn about. | ||
| So if you were trying to escape, your scooter just dies off. | ||
| Obviously, these ones are people's own scooters. | ||
| But this just shows you at the New World Order, it's like, you want to get a scooter, they just turn it off. | ||
| That's, you will own nothing and be happy. | ||
| Cop cars coming down. | ||
| It's probably like 20 cop cars. | ||
| It's probably like 15, 20 engines in the area. | ||
| Smoke's getting hella thick right now. | ||
| Not exactly sure how much further we can go, but we're going to keep pushing through, apparently. | ||
| There's a glow? | ||
| Really flaming up good there. | ||
| Holy cow. | ||
| Holy fuck. | ||
| That lit up. | ||
| Big time. | ||
| A lot of people are evacuating, as you can see. | ||
| There's so many fire department trucks coming along. | ||
| It's surprising that no one wants to stop to put this out. | ||
| I mean, there's houses literally on the top of this hill right here. | ||
| Did they light that fire as a backfire over there? | ||
| No, that's part of the fire. | ||
| I wonder why they won't put it out. | ||
| Oh, is it? | ||
| Well, now they want to put it out. | ||
| You see how a little bit of water ahead of time. | ||
| Looks like they've decided to put it out here. | ||
| Hopefully they seem to be having some pretty good luck. | ||
| These trucks are just all over the place. | ||
| Yeah, this is the LA Fire Department mobile. | ||
| One of the mobile command posts right here. | ||
| Unbelievable amount of emergency and support vehicles. | ||
| You can see the fire flaming up good right down there. | ||
| Thanks guys. | ||
| This is just south of the Palisades situation. | ||
| Burning all the way to the beach. | ||
| The smoke is super thick. | ||
| The winds are blowing north to south and as you can see the fire It's a very ominous occasion. | ||
| Heart goes out to all the people that are losing things and hopefully we can decide to change the leadership in California to people that actually are serious people that are going to take the safety of the citizens over. | ||
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Some rat living in a log. | |
| You might actually want to save the humans. | ||
| And while you're at it, you can also save the lesser spotted rat tart because now they're all dying. | ||
| You see? | ||
| This is what leftism does. | ||
| They try to save something and they ruin it. | ||
| They touch anything and it dies. | ||
| Leftism sucks. | ||
| Gavin Newsom, you suck. | ||
| Whoever the lesbian fire chief is, you suck. | ||
| You didn't get the water supplies ready. | ||
| You didn't clear the brush. | ||
| You don't take it seriously. | ||
| You're too busy going to gay pride parades to actually help the people down here in Malibu and in the Palisades and all of these people in L.A. that are getting burnt out. | ||
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Shame on you. | |
| Think the fire will get here tonight? | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| Not? | ||
| No. | ||
| You think it's just going to burn out in the canyon or what? | ||
| It's not coming over here. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| He said it's not coming over here. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| We ran into this. | ||
| A gentleman here was checking on his e-bike and I was asking him what was going on. | ||
| Apparently he had to go scout out your friend's house. | ||
| She lost her house. | ||
| It's completely flat. | ||
| Most of the other homes in the neighborhood are gone. | ||
| There's only a few. | ||
| What neighborhood was that? | ||
| She's off a sunset pretty much just above the Bay Club. | ||
| And, you know, we went in there with the hope of maybe finding the dog. | ||
| All right, folks, this is a documentary by Matt Baker, Slave to Liberty. | ||
| You can find that on the Slave to Liberty channel on Banned.video, LA 2020 Wildfires documentary. | ||
| Just search LA Wildfires documentary, go to Slave to Liberty channel. | ||
| There's also an article on this on Infowars.com. | ||
| LA Wildfires documentary reveals scale of destruction, exposes Democrat failures. | ||
| On the ground reporting from Matt Baker, who is just getting better. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| We have a lot of videos to show you about the wildfires. | ||
| There's a lot of political stuff going on, too. | ||
| So I don't want to spend the whole show on these wildfires, but obviously that is the big story. | ||
| It has been for a week at this point across the entire United States. | ||
| And again, it's not just the fires themselves and the horrendous disaster that they represent, including the destruction of historic homes and some of those beautiful buildings. | ||
| Parts of our country. | ||
| But there's so many aspects of this that just tie into everything else that we talk about on a continual basis. | ||
| I believe Elon Musk even tweeted out a mantra of ours. | ||
| Something that we say over and over again that apparently has percolated up to Elon Musk one way or the other. | ||
| And it's a simple fact that incompetence at a certain point is indistinguishable from malice. | ||
| Now I say, don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. | ||
| Well, at a certain point, it doesn't matter. | ||
| It really doesn't matter. | ||
| It's like, okay, are we going to charge you for manslaughter or murder? | ||
| Either way, the person is dead, right? | ||
| So, are you incompetent or is it deliberate? | ||
| It doesn't matter, you're at fault. | ||
| One way or the other, it is your fault. | ||
| And obviously there's a lot of malice there. | ||
| But incompetence, you know, explains a lot as well. | ||
| But corruption is playing its part too. | ||
| Gateway Pundit has a story about the incompetence side of things. | ||
| Meet the man who waited over six hours to issue a local state of emergency while entire neighborhoods burned in the L.A. wildfires. | ||
| Lifesaving federal aid also denied thanks to him. | ||
| It's this, where is it? | ||
| What's the guy's name? | ||
| LA City Council President Marquise Harris Dawson took over as acting mayor when Mayor Karen Bass went to Ghana. | ||
| For some inexplicable reason. | ||
| Because Bass was away, she could not make key decisions regarding the fire, such as issuing a state of emergency. | ||
| Harris-Dawson, though, completely blew his opportunity in the most damaging way imaginable. | ||
| When the Pacific Palisades wildfire started just before noon local time, Harris-Dawson decided to wait six and a half hours for some unknown reason. | ||
| The move was made despite the fact that California is known as much for wildfires as Florida is for hurricanes. | ||
| While Harris-Dawson doddled... | ||
| Neighborhoods in L.A. started to burn down and schools started catching on fire to make matters worse. | ||
| No life-saving federal aid could be deployed during those critical hours due to the lack of state emergency. | ||
| Because of this, the Biden regime was unable to deploy water-dropping Navy helicopters until Wednesday. | ||
| So tag that on into the number of problems caused by Democratic leadership that led directly to the outcome of this. | ||
| And again, people are just like, how are you supposed to deal with 100-mile-an-hour winds? | ||
| And it's like, okay. | ||
| If you'd filled the reservoirs, if you'd responded quicker, if you put any money towards preventative measures or cleaning out the forest rather than paying for the health care of foreign invaders, you know, all of this, like, sure, you can't blame one of these things. | ||
| You know, they want to portray it as if, like, if you say that this thing happened and you think the entire fire is because the reservoirs were empty, it's like, well, it's because the reservoirs were empty, because you suck in general, it's because... | ||
| The homeless camps that you allow to fester throughout your state, it's because of the billions of dollars that you allocate to things that only make everything worse. | ||
| You know, one of the bizarre, I don't even know if it's related to the fires, but it's definitely happening at the same time. | ||
| Again, maybe it is related to the fires, but apparently they're like cracking down on immigration in California right now. | ||
| And there's all these videos of empty stores. | ||
| And it's people basically saying, yeah, the illegal immigrants are, you know, the word has gone out that they're doing roundups or they're checking fingerprints. | ||
| I had a story somewhere where they're checking fingerprints of random citizens and then trying to determine whether you're illegal or not. | ||
| So apparently all the illegals are just staying home. | ||
| They're not going out and are avoiding public areas. | ||
| And now the entire area of Bakersfield, California is just like empty because apparently everybody that lives there is an illegal immigrant. | ||
| Let's go to clip number two here. | ||
| This is Bakersfield, California getting federal immigration aid and illegals now avoiding public areas. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Man, the store's getting empty. | |
| Everybody's stacking up. | ||
| There's another video posting. | ||
| You can't really see it that well in that one. | ||
| There's another one in a Walmart, and it's just totally empty. | ||
| The comment is just like, yeah, this Walmart's usually packed. | ||
| It's usually just full of people, and now there's nobody. | ||
| Nobody walking around. | ||
| There's a couple things about this. | ||
| Is that the level of illegal immigration that we're dealing with here? | ||
| Where you've got like Walmarts that are just jam-packed 24-7 and then you put out a notice saying, hey, there's immigration patrols going around and then just nobody is shopping. | ||
| And so I saw a comment underneath that video of somebody saying, yeah, this tells you why they are allowing illegal immigration. | ||
| They're importing consumers. | ||
| They need people to buy this stuff, so they need to import people to America to fill the stores. | ||
| And you just start to think like, well... | ||
| Okay, so that means that definitely if we deport all these illegals, this Walmart's not going to be able to survive. | ||
| It's going to have to be shut down. | ||
| And then you just think about the sort of cascading effects of what would cause this, or what would be caused by just this massive population being removed from America. | ||
| And it's like, would anybody be sad? | ||
| Would anybody be upset? | ||
| I just picture a time-lapse. | ||
| Of an animation when all the humans get wiped out and you just see nature reclaiming things. | ||
| Is this all it takes? | ||
| Is this all that we need? | ||
| You deport the illegals and then all the Walmart big box shopping centers start to shut down. | ||
| And then you go into the DMV and it's empty and there's no line. | ||
| And then you go to your elementary school and... | ||
| All the kids are bright and happy and, you know, being given the personal attention from the teachers who are less frazzled and, you know, stressed out because they can't even speak the language of the kids they're trying to teach. | ||
| And, you know, you just go from the SWAT team cops kicking down doors of drug dens and hauling people out and getting in firefights to like the police officer in the blue uniform with the hat helping a... | ||
| Child, get a cat out of a tree. | ||
| And it's like, can we just revert to like 1950s America if we just get rid of all the people that are injected into our population deliberately because we operate this unsustainable and totally fake consumerist plastic world? | ||
| Like, is that really what this is all about? | ||
| Are they really just bringing in consumers to prop up this hellish plastic corporate global homogenized Fake world that we live in. | ||
| And just, you know, you know that the people in Wall Street or D.C., like they see an empty Walmart and like they start panicking, start getting heart palpitations. | ||
| They start going, oh, the stock prices, the stock price, the investors, the investors, the stock prices, the profit margins where they're going down. | ||
| We can't allow this. | ||
| And it's like, meanwhile, the people that live there are like, well, I never wanted a Walmart down the street. | ||
| I never wanted to have. | ||
| Barbed wire on my fence. | ||
| I never wanted to have steel bars on my windows to protect from the criminality. | ||
| So yeah, let the Walmart go away. | ||
| Let us revert back to a pre-monopolized, consolidated corporate world where you had small shops on the corner. | ||
| Can we just go back to that? | ||
| Please? | ||
| And if this just happens, we don't even need the government to do anything other than just get rid of the illegals and then apparently the Walmarts will go away, which would be nice. | ||
| Anyway, this could be an effect to this. | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| But, again, it's not even about the fires necessarily. | ||
| It's like all these other things. | ||
| As a consequence of the fires and leading up to the fires, 29 arrested in Los Angeles area fire zones, including burglary suspect, dressed like a fireman, Sheriff says. | ||
| Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has arrested nearly 30 people in areas affected by the Palisades and Eaton fires as concerns of looting remain. | ||
| At a news conference on Sunday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said 25 people have been arrested in the Eaton fire area and four people in the Palisades area. | ||
| In response to the increase in arrest, Luna's requested additional assistance from the National Guard. | ||
| Luna said that a suspect, a burglar, was wearing firefighter gear when he was arrested in the Malibu area. | ||
| Just incredible. | ||
| I mean, you know, and again, it's like... | ||
| All of these things, right? | ||
| Immigration and just, you know, general, like, hatred of the United States, the leftist mindset that's been indoctrinated into our population through schools and, you know, entertainment media and the news. | ||
| It's like they're creating this just, well, as Klaus Schwab puts it, a more aggressive and dangerous world. | ||
| And it's like, yeah, they're creating it. | ||
| And then their solution is greater surveillance. | ||
| And taking more of your money. | ||
| Yeah, this is the world that we live in now. | ||
| And it's unfortunate, but inevitable. | ||
| Incompetence or malice doesn't really matter at a certain point. | ||
| The outcome is the same. | ||
| Bloomberg has an article counting the historic structures destroyed by South California. | ||
| Wildfires. | ||
| Significant buildings spanning decades of Southern California design have been consumed by uncontrolled wildfires in the Los Angeles area. | ||
| The historic Getty Villa in Los Angeles has so far survived the wildfire that has ravaged the Pacific Palisades neighborhood this week. | ||
| Staff worked to protect the postmodern building, home to the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts as the blaze reached the grounds. | ||
| Photos taken on the 7th of January appear to show the 1974 structure licked by fire but not destroyed. | ||
| The Eames House, a mid-century modern home designed by Charles and Ray Eames as part of the case study program, has so far emerged unscathed. | ||
| But in just a few miles between those two buildings, more than a dozen historically and culturally significant projects have gone down. | ||
| With wildfires sweeping the region, the fates of dozens more important works are still unknown, and a lot of American culture is going up in flames here. | ||
| And the question remains. | ||
| How did this start? | ||
| Again, I just have so many videos. | ||
| Let's do this. | ||
| First, we'll go to clip number five because this is a little roundup. | ||
| I was talking about the causes of the fire. | ||
| Before you ever get to the fire actually being started, an immense amount of corruption, incompetence, double dealing, and deliberate subversion have to go on to allow the fire to consume so much of You know, premier American real estate. | ||
| Let's go to clip number five to explain at least just another one aspect of a variety that have led to this horrific outcome. | ||
| Clip number five. | ||
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Remember the 15 billion Biden gave Pacific Gas and Electric a week before the fires? | |
| Their smart meters were having problems blowing up. | ||
| Lithium ion batteries were causing fires, 6,000 degrees, incinerating homes. | ||
| But your governor hired these commissioners at the California Public Utility Commission. | ||
| And these folks said that they didn't cause the problems. | ||
| The same commission that said we got to save the longfin smelt and not your home. | ||
| Publishing a 28-page report how we had to save the fish. | ||
| Let all the water drain into the Pacific and not in the reservoirs. | ||
| Seems kind of fishy to me. | ||
| So they'd drain the reservoirs to save the fish, so there's no water to fight the fire. | ||
| Gavin Newsom's slash fire prevention budget by $100 million before the deadly wildfires. | ||
| He eliminated $101 million from seven wildfire and forest resilience programs, raging questions about the state's preparedness as devastating wildfires raged across California. | ||
| They allowed smart meters to go in that contributed to or exacerbated or may have caused the fire. | ||
| We'll get to that in just a second. | ||
| Of course, the fact that Trump in particular, but a lot of people have been talking about this forever. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 23. Here's Trump years ago trying to warn Gavin Newsom about what would come if no forest clearing projects were undertaken. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| Cleaned out and protected. | ||
| We've got to take care of the floors. | ||
| You know, the floors of the forest is very important. | ||
| You look at other countries where they... | ||
| Do it differently, and it's a whole different story. | ||
| I was with the president of Finland, and he said, we have a much different, we're a forest nation. | ||
| He called it a forest nation. | ||
| And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don't have any problem. | ||
| And when it is, it's a very small problem. | ||
| So I know everybody's looking at that to that end, and it's going to work out. | ||
| Well, it's not going to work out if you don't actually do it, so there's that. | ||
| Okay, so you've got a failure to clean out the forest. | ||
| You've got all the things that we've discussed so far. | ||
| One report from the Washington Post, repeated in Breitbart, New Year's Eve fire caused by fireworks may have caused the Palisades fire. | ||
| About 30 minutes after the Palisades fire started Tuesday, the firefighters' radio crackled. | ||
| With reports of flames coming down from a familiar sliver of a mountain ridge, the foot of the fire started real close to where the last fire was on New Year's Eve, said a Los Angeles County firefighter, according to a Washington Post review of archived radio transmissions. | ||
| The post-analysis of photo, video, satellite imagery, and radio communications, as well as interviews with witnesses, offers new evidence that the Palisades Fire started in an area where firefighters had spent hours using helicopters to knock down a blaze just six days earlier. | ||
| The post-analysis showed that the new fire started in the vicinity of the old fire, raising the possibility that the New Year's Eve fire was reignited, which can occur in windy conditions. | ||
| Investigators are only beginning to hunt for the cause of the Palisades Fire, the first and largest of what... | ||
| It became a terrifying days-long series of firestorms that would touch nearly every corner of the sprawling Los Angeles region. | ||
| But we have a couple things about this. | ||
| One is that the start of the Palisades Fire was actually caught on camera by hikers in the region. | ||
| We'll show you those videos here in just a second. | ||
| But the region that they started, and it could have been started by fireworks, could have been that fire from six days before. | ||
| They didn't put it out fully, which again would be another aspect of incompetence when you think you put out a fire but haven't actually. | ||
| You should probably know what to do in that situation if you're a fire person. | ||
| You also have a homeless man arrested for arson in Azusa Park. | ||
| This is... | ||
| Actually, you know what? | ||
| I don't know whether this is the video that we showed or not. | ||
| I believe this is a separate situation. | ||
| Azusa, California police arrested a man late Friday night for allegedly starting a brush fire at Pioneer Park. | ||
| So yeah, this was a different one. | ||
| This suspect was known as Jose Carranza Escobar, who the police described as a transient with the last known address in Azusa, found standing near the flames, according to police. | ||
| He admitted to starting the fire and was taken into custody without incident. | ||
| He was a homeless or a transient person, I guess you say, but I don't see a note in this article about whether he was illegal or not. | ||
| Now, the video that we showed last week of the person being arrested with a blowtorch and being blamed for starting the Eaton fire, and that's now being investigated as arson, that person has been discovered to be an illegal immigrant, man with blowtorch near that person has been discovered to be an illegal immigrant, man with blowtorch near L.A. wildfire identified as a | ||
| Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin claimed that Juan Manuel Sierra Leyva, the aforementioned accused arson suspect, is Mexican national in the country illegally. | ||
| Melugin shared the information in a post on X, claiming he received it from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. | ||
| We should go back and find the episode on the first day that I covered this because I'm pretty sure, unless I'm mistaken, what I'm pretty sure I remember saying is, These are either homeless people, arson, or illegal immigrants. These are either homeless people, arson, or illegal immigrants. | ||
| Or all three homeless, illegal immigrants committing arson. | ||
| And it seems like all of these things have been identified as the cause of the fires. | ||
| There's a ton of videos, kind of like this one. | ||
| I'll play you now. | ||
| Clip number four. | ||
| This is in Ventura County, right on the border. | ||
| Of Los Angeles. | ||
| People were riding horses and discovered a smoldering pile of ashes. | ||
| We can go ahead and go to that video now. | ||
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I think it's arson. | |
| Look at Ventura County. | ||
| Right on the border of L.A. Right in the hills. | ||
| In Hill Canyon, someone dumped their ash here. | ||
| There's just burning embers, burning ash, sitting in the forest. | ||
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Hill Canyon. | |
| Unbelievable. | ||
| These are the hills right behind my house. | ||
| There's a ton of videos like this, like a surprising amount. | ||
| Weird stuff, too. | ||
| There's a video of a guy in a car seeing other people, like, throw gas cans on the ground just on the side of the road. | ||
| I guess full of gas. | ||
| I guess to just accelerate the fire. | ||
| Like, they're not starting a fire, but the fire is approaching and they're throwing gas cans on the ground. | ||
| There's other videos. | ||
| I mean, we've played a few of people just starting fires, people just filming the arson take place. | ||
| Other videos of, you know, like homeless camps that didn't necessarily start a fire, but it shows how dangerous their practices are. | ||
| Other videos of people just walking around going, yeah, I keep finding, you know, essentially what amounts of Molotov cocktails, like just fire-starting incendiary devices, left around. | ||
| And this is a tactic of Antifa, by the way. | ||
| And we've been covering this for years. | ||
| This is not anything new. | ||
| The Canadian wildfires last year were caused by this. | ||
| People are trying to put gasoline in sewers. | ||
| Like, I don't, I mean, conspiracy is not sufficient to explain this. | ||
| I really don't think that this is like ISIS being like, go start wildfires in L.A. But it's like there's insane people, there's leftists, there's just a general atmosphere of literally burn it all down, right? | ||
| Burn down the system, kill the healthcare CEOs, start fires, burn down, who cares, right? | ||
| Pali fire, Palisades fire. | ||
| And yeah, it's guys wandering the street, but they're in front of everybody. | ||
| They're just throwing gasoline on the ground. | ||
| I can't think of a good reason why they would do that. | ||
| I mean, I'm open to suggestions. | ||
| But the actual start of the Palisades fire was caught on tape. | ||
| I'll go to that video at the beginning of the next segment. | ||
| And again, I was hoping to get through more of this stuff quicker because I do want to open up the phone lines and take her calls, and I want to get into some more of this stuff. | ||
| In the last video, I talked about the smart meters. | ||
| It turns out the smart meters might not just be a story about corruption in the way that these smart meters were allowed to go in despite having a ton of problems because Newsom got kickbacks or is in cahoots with PG&E, the electric company there. | ||
| But one thing when it comes to the video of the start of the Palisades fire, and a lot of these fires, you remember back when we first covered this, my reason for thinking it was arson or homeless people, that sort of thing, is because most of these fires started on public land where there are trails. | ||
| So places where people have access to, where there's not electrical infrastructure. | ||
| That's most often the cause of these types of fires. | ||
| Usually it's high winds, knock over a telephone pole, that'll start a fire, the fire will blaze out of control. | ||
| But if you're talking about a giant swath of land where there's no power lines, then it's not power lines. | ||
| And there's no storm, so it wasn't lightning strikes. | ||
| There's not too many things in nature that start fires, so it had to be human-created. | ||
| There's no power line, so it wasn't an accident. | ||
| This was arson, or it was accidental. | ||
| Accidental arson because of a campfire or fireworks or something like that. | ||
| That does seem to be the origin of all of this. | ||
| But again, the question of incompetence or malice sort of doesn't matter. | ||
| The whole city burned down. | ||
| We'll get more into that on the other side. | ||
| Again, this is one of those things that, again, conspiracy is not really needed. | ||
| We'll get into some of the conspiracy aspects of it. | ||
| Because there are a lot of conspiracies flying around there, conspiracy theories flying around. | ||
| But we're almost beyond the age of conspiracy. | ||
| It's out in the open now. | ||
| They're making these choices. | ||
| The consequences are obvious. | ||
| When the consequences that we predict come to fruition, we need to understand it's because there's something rotten at the heart of their ideology, leftists. | ||
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Welcome back, folks. | |
| We have so much more to cover. | ||
| Not about the wildfires, but the wildfires are really like, they're just this story that has everything. | ||
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Okay. | |
| I just think about, you know, like, my wife doesn't really pay attention to the news all that much, but she sees the big stories however she sees them. | ||
| I don't even know. | ||
| She's not on social media, but... | ||
| You know, this type of thing where she's like, so what's going on with these wildfires in California? | ||
| And I'm just like, oh, Lord. | ||
| All right, where do we even begin? | ||
| Where do I even begin with this? | ||
| And it's sort of how I try to do coverage here, where it's like, okay, well, let me tell you about the wildfires. | ||
| Here's how much, here's where they started. | ||
| Here's how big they've gotten. | ||
| Here's how many houses they've destroyed. | ||
| Here's how many people have died. | ||
| Here's how, what percentage contained they are at this point. | ||
| So, like, those are the facts we lay out. | ||
| And then we talk about the... | ||
| Politics surrounding it, the outrages around it, why this fire was so bad. | ||
| After all, California has wildfires every single year. | ||
| What about this one has made it so incredibly devastating? | ||
| Sometimes it's easier. | ||
| Maybe that's the appeal. | ||
| It's easier to just say, oh, the fires? | ||
| Oh, that's divine intervention. | ||
| Oh, actually, that's divine recompense. | ||
| Of God for being mocked. | ||
| So, that's all you need to explain it. | ||
| Have you ever noticed how divine retribution is sort of indistinguishable from natural disasters? | ||
| Have you ever noticed that? | ||
| But one of the things, actually, where's the... | ||
| There's that Washington Post article because they mentioned conspiracy theories because they're doing it again. | ||
| They're doing it again. | ||
| They have no answers. | ||
| They have no actual thing to tell us, but they're going to demonize us for asking questions. | ||
| The question of what caused the fire has weighed on the minds of many who have lost their homes while also fueling conspiracy theories online. | ||
| Residents and business owners are considering lawsuits seeking who might be to blame for the damages and economic losses that Wells Fargo estimates could range from $60 to $130 billion. | ||
| Investigators from local, state, and federal agencies have been combing the site of the fire, speaking with people who stayed behind. | ||
| But remember, it's fueling conspiracy theories online, the cause of this fire. | ||
| Now, they don't actually have a cause of the fire. | ||
| They don't actually know what caused it. | ||
| But your speculation is a conspiracy theory. | ||
| And should be demonized as such. | ||
| Again, I don't even think conspiracy is necessary to explain this. | ||
| It's basic incompetence. | ||
| It's the inevitable outcome of being evil incompetent scumbags. | ||
| But we do actually have a lot of information about how this began. | ||
| Especially in that hikers were on the scene when it occurred. | ||
| Benny Orin was on a trail run with friends near Skull Rock, a local landmark. | ||
| When they smelled smoke, they turned and confronted flames about 100 feet away, Oren, a 24-year-old said. | ||
| They ran in panic, changing directions when they realized the wind was blowing the fire their way. | ||
| A widening plume of smoke rose above the canyon as they got to safety. | ||
| It was a bizarre experience. | ||
| Like F. We actually have that video. | ||
| Bizarrely, the... | ||
| Account that posted this, Benny Oren1, showing the start of the Palisade Fire. | ||
| The entire account is now deleted and doesn't exist, which may be because they started the fire or could be because everybody's claiming that they started the fire. | ||
| Either way, the account is now deleted. | ||
| Let's go to these videos. | ||
| We'll go to number seven first, the Palisade Fire video from Benny Oren's now deleted account. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Dude, that's right where we were standing! | |
| So this is somebody who starts scrolling through the videos and screen recording their phone, so it's sort of jumpy. | ||
| That's not us, that's just the way this video was captured. | ||
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Dude, it's catching up. | |
| They are running from it. | ||
| These posts are actually from later. | ||
| You can hear them saying that's right where we were. | ||
| As they run away from the fire. | ||
| Again, I feel for these guys. | ||
| It must be a terrifying experience. | ||
| Let's go to clip number eight here. | ||
| This is the first video that was posted from Benny Orin. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Wait, we're in a fire right now, guys. | |
| We gotta go up. | ||
| Let's go up. | ||
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Let's go up. | |
| Go, go, go, go, go, go. | ||
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Benji, Benji, this way. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| They're just rumbling through a scrabbling through a trail. | ||
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Running from the fire. | |
| I think they realize they're going the wrong way and turn around in a second. | ||
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Let's go, let's go. | |
| That's a classic thing. | ||
| That's my fire. | ||
| That's my fire. | ||
| Wait, I hear it. | ||
| I'm scared. | ||
| Wait. | ||
| Wait. | ||
| Oh my God, look. | ||
| We might have to be on top of this rock or something. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We're just going to run. | ||
| Everyone stay chill. | ||
| We're going to the left now. | ||
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We can't go too fast until we can. | |
| Also, we should go to the left now. | ||
| We should go to the left now. | ||
| where are we going this way so you go the The harrowing footage of the outbreak of the Palisades fire caught by hikers who were there. | ||
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though. | |
| Now again, some people are suggesting that these guys started it. | ||
| That's not the feeling I get watching these videos. | ||
| Seems like they're out for a hike and turn around and run as soon as they see the fire. | ||
| As soon as they see the fire, I don't know why you would post that if you were the one who started it. | ||
| But we can still... | ||
| Glean some information from that. | ||
| For one thing, you can see they're nowhere near a city. | ||
| There are no telephone wires to knock down, nothing of the sort. | ||
| So it was almost certainly started by a human being on purpose one way or another, either campfire, fireworks, or deliberate arson. | ||
| But basically, from that video, you can disregard any claims of electrical... | ||
| I'd say it's probably even a little bit too far from any city center for it to be a valid homeless camp. | ||
| So I don't think that is as good of an explanation anymore. | ||
| So again, while we don't have anything conclusive from that video, there are certain things that we can knock off the list. | ||
| certain speculation that can be disregarded and what you're left with is this is almost certainly started by human intervention one way or the other. | ||
| This is where it gets a little bit crazy. . | ||
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| We just showed the video, again, talking about how Gavin Newsom allowed these smart meters to be installed in perhaps what was a bit of a grubby deal, somewhat of a grubby deal. | ||
| Six months ago, in a little more June of 2024, this article was published. | ||
| California Municipal Utility adds 120,000 smart meters. | ||
| A municipal utility near Sacramento, California, has deplored more than 120,000 smart meters as part of a multi-year improvement project. | ||
| Roseville's utility said the effort was completed three months ahead of schedule. | ||
| The meters will support residential and consumer engagement by the city's electric and water utilities. | ||
| Modernizing our metering system is a game changer for both the environment and our customers, said Sean Bigley, the assistant environmental utilities director. | ||
| It allows us to monitor usage pattern better, reduce waste and offer more personalized support to our residents. | ||
| Now, we got a lot of problems with smart meters here in the conspiracy world. | ||
| In the freedom-loving, privacy-enjoying world, there's no real good reason to replace a meter with a smart meter. | ||
| You know, they make these sort of vague claims. | ||
| It's a game changer for the environment and our customers. | ||
| Like how? | ||
| Is the electricity better? | ||
| No. | ||
| It's just, you plug in stuff, it works. | ||
| It was the same as your old meter. | ||
| There's no benefit to the customer at all. | ||
| Even a little bit. | ||
| To the environment? | ||
| Not really. | ||
| No. | ||
| Not exactly. | ||
| Like, it doesn't... | ||
| The benefits smart meters give are, in one case, practically non-existent. | ||
| But any benefits they would provide would not be good. | ||
| I mean, it's just surveillance, basically. | ||
| Surveillance and control and expense, cost is higher. | ||
| None of these things are good. | ||
| But that was six months ago. | ||
| Could that have something to do with the rapidity of the expansion of this fire? | ||
| Well, a lot of people are suggesting that. | ||
| And again, you can call this a conspiracy theory. | ||
| And some of the... | ||
| Things I have to say about smart meters are very, you know, simply conspiracy theories. | ||
| It's like, okay, they want to monitor, surveil, and control us, so they're coming up with, you know, fake environmental reasons to install surveillance boxes on our electric meters. | ||
| That's a conspiracy theory. | ||
| It's also accurate, true, and undeniable, but I'll grant you, it is a conspiracy theory. | ||
| Suggesting that smart meters start fires, Or would contribute to the expansion and rapidity of this fire is not a conspiracy theory. | ||
| It is a presentation of evidence. | ||
| These smart meters have lithium-ion batteries in them. | ||
| Lithium-ion batteries are extremely fire-prone, and when they start burning, are not easy to put out, almost impossible to put out in some cases. | ||
| You have to have special firefighting... | ||
| Foam that you have in the pit at Formula One races. | ||
| They're very, very dangerous. | ||
| And so people are wondering if that has added to the rapid spread of these fires. | ||
| And there's some proof to this. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 20 here. | ||
| This is a Los Angeles resident showing... | ||
| That houses that did not have smart meters remained fully unscathed while neighboring houses just yards away with smart meters were burned to the ground. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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So I talked to the owner of this house right here in Pasadena. | |
| I talked to the owner. | ||
| The owner does not have a smart meter on this house, on the front part of his house. | ||
| There's no smart meter. | ||
| No smart meter. | ||
| So the house did not burn. | ||
| The back house is the part of the house that had the smart meter and everything in the back of his house is burnt. | ||
| No smart meter, smart meter. | ||
| No smart meter, nothing. | ||
| Nothing's burned or the trees, but the house state is perfectly fine. | ||
| But the back house is completely gone. | ||
| And that's- So the front house is not- Connected to a smart meter, goes totally unscathed. | ||
| The back house on the same piece of property has a smart meter, burns to the ground. | ||
| Again, whether that means that the smart meters themselves are being hacked and made to explode in order to create the fire, that would be a conspiracy theory, but also possible. | ||
| Whether you want to incorporate direct energy weapons into this theory and maybe there's something in the smart meters that reacts to... | ||
| Space weapons of some sort, sure, that's a conspiracy theory too. | ||
| This is the non-conspiracy theory speculation on this. | ||
| They've got lithium batteries, and when lithium batteries catch on fire, they explode. | ||
| It's as simple as that. | ||
| So if you've got a lithium battery bolted to the side of your house, your house is going to blow up if you're in a wildfire. | ||
| It's really not that complicated. | ||
| It's not a conspiracy theory. | ||
| It's just a material reality. | ||
| It's a function of physics or chemistry. | ||
| And so people are pointing to this, not just, again, out of baseless speculation, but out of well-informed investigation. | ||
| Matt Landman on Facebook posted this. | ||
| Smart meters have lithium-ion batteries. | ||
| When these batteries catch fire, they have what's called a thermal runway, where they go from 140 degrees Fahrenheit to 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit in just a few seconds. | ||
| The smart meter is connected to the copper wiring of the home, which is designed to travel electricity due to its conductivity. | ||
| Along with being conductive, the copper wires are also a great heat transfer via convection. | ||
| So when these supposed forest fires hit neighborhoods that burn more homes than trees, the corporate... | ||
| In the unusual fire forensic looks to be the lithium ion batteries. | ||
| It's no wonder these homes are burned to dust while trees are standing within feet of the houses. | ||
| These homes are burning from the inside out, literally. | ||
| The copper wires in the homes are insulated and carry extreme heat to every corner of the home. | ||
| Welcome to Agenda 2030. So, that's how smart meters may very well be responsible, at least in part, for, if not the ignition of these fires, certainly the ability of the fires to wipe out entire neighborhoods. | ||
| Because all of the neighborhoods, as of six months ago, got their new smart meters. | ||
| Fire chiefs called for smart meter probe after blazes. | ||
| When was this published? | ||
| 2014? | ||
| Yeah, this isn't even a new thing. | ||
| It's been around forever, and you can find articles. | ||
| You know, this one was from six months ago. | ||
| You can find other ones from 2023 pointing this out. | ||
| But again, these concerns were overridden because it benefited. | ||
| Gavin Newsom's political career, so there's that. | ||
| Now, one of the bizarre aspects to this, or aspects of this story that I haven't seen in any other story ever, pretty much, is the fact that there are now private firefighters operating in L.A. Stories from the Sun, L.A.'s rich and famous hiring $2,000 an hour private firefighters to protect multi... | ||
| Million-dollar homes and businesses from New York Times. | ||
| We will pay any amount. | ||
| Private firefighters are in demand in L.A. And one of the people who made use of the private firefighting services is Rick Caruso. | ||
| He's the businessman who ran against Karen Bass for mayor. | ||
| He actually owns a mall called the Palisades Village Mall that is one of the few areas of the Palisades that is not. | ||
| Burned down and did not get affected by the fire. | ||
| Let's go to clip number 17 here. | ||
| This is, again, about Rick Caruso, the businessman, who ran for L.A. mayor and is one of the only people to actually protect his property from the fires. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| This is a drive-through of the unaffected mall area. | ||
| I suppose this was... | ||
| After the fire swept through, because I'll show you another video in a second. | ||
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| Of this same area. | ||
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| During the fire, and it's crazy looking. | ||
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The flag at half-mast. | |
| So this area was protected by firefighters with tanker trucks. | ||
| And Rick Caruso, the owner of this property, You know, paid for them to be there, and then you can see right across the street, burned and devastated. | ||
| So, pretty incredible. | ||
| Private firefighters in place to help Rick Caruso's home and neighborhood. | ||
| He's smart. | ||
| He wants to be ready. | ||
| We go to clip number one. | ||
| This is a walkthrough of the Palisades Village in Los Angeles during the Pacific Palisades Fire, and it is a truly apocalyptic view. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| Let me actually probably keep the audio down a little bit. | ||
| But it does add to the effect. | ||
| There's a person racing through. | ||
| They must be on a bike or a motorcycle or something. | ||
| Racing through the Village Palisades. | ||
| It is truly bizarre. | ||
| These luxury stores just consumed in smoke. | ||
| The whole sky is orange. | ||
| There's a walkthrough of the mall owned by Rick Caruso, which is weirdly the only surviving structure in the surrounding area. | ||
| Everything around the mall is a wasteland. | ||
| Rick Caruso says there's no water to fight the Pacific Palisades fire. | ||
| Absolute mismanagement. | ||
| And this is splitting a lot of people in terms of whether you think this is a good thing or not, that you can basically hire private firefighters. | ||
| I'll just say it's an inevitable outcome. | ||
| And it's not any different than the inevitable outcome that we warned about. | ||
| During, yeah, billionaire tycoon is blasted after hiring a private fire crew to protect his luxury outdoor mall as devastating wildfires continue to rip through LA. They're very mad he protected his stuff. | ||
| During Black Lives Matter and the defund the police movement, I said the same thing. | ||
| I had a mantra during that time. | ||
| And it was to defund the police is to federalize the police and to privatize the police. | ||
| It's the only outcome. | ||
| You get rid of the local cops. | ||
| All you're doing is saying that you want this law enforcement managed from the federal level. | ||
| You're not going to do it locally. | ||
| The Fed's going to come in and do it for you, and it's going to be more militarized. | ||
| And it's exactly what's happening with National Guard patrolling the New York subway and still failing to stop people from pushing strangers in front of the trains. | ||
| But it's exactly the same outcome. | ||
| What do you expect? | ||
| People are going to hire Firefighters. | ||
| Now, this is nothing new, by the way. | ||
| You can find reports from ancient Rome of... | ||
| What's his name? | ||
| His name is a byword for wealth. | ||
| Croesus. | ||
| Croesus is his name. | ||
| I think, richer than Croesus, right? | ||
| He was a really rich guy in Rome, and he had a private firefighting force. | ||
| Their scheme was they'd go to a building on fire, and they'd offer to buy it from the person. | ||
| And as the fire burned, they would lower the amount that they were willing to buy it for. | ||
| And eventually the homeowner in desperation would say, fine, fine, I'll sell you my house for $100. | ||
| They'd pay the guy $100 and then put out the fire only after they'd secured the property. | ||
| So there may be a lesson in there too. | ||
| In fact, how long is this? | ||
| Sorry, this is a short clip. | ||
| This is Gavin Newsom saying that Josh Green, the governor of Hawaii, had contacted Governor Newsom. | ||
| With some ideas around land use concerns now that all of this new real estate is going to become available. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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We're dealing with a myriad of issues. | |
| I was just talking to Josh Green, the governor down in Hawaii. | ||
| He had some ideas about some land use concerns he has around speculators coming in, buying up properties and the like. | ||
| So we're already working with our legal teams to move those things forward. | ||
| And we'll be presenting those in a matter of days, not just weeks. | ||
| So let me translate from slimeball language to actual English. | ||
| What this is was just a well-disguised... | ||
| It's very similar to when Blavoyagich or whatever his name is. | ||
| Blavoyavich sold Obama's seat for the Illinois Senate where he said, you know... | ||
| I know what it's worth. | ||
| I'm not just about to give it away for free. | ||
| I've got to get a piece here. | ||
| Gavin Newsom is not so much saying we're going to not allow land speculators to come in and take advantage of this disaster. | ||
| What he's saying is it's an opportunity for us. | ||
| Land speculators are going to be coming in and buying up this property, and we want to make sure they're the right ones. | ||
| Maybe ones that we're friends with. | ||
| Maybe companies that we started yesterday and are now going to... | ||
| Profit massively by. | ||
| They're not going to stop land speculation. | ||
| They're going to make sure that land speculation is done exclusively by BlackRock in order to progress some supposed climate change agenda or something of the like. | ||
| So there's certainly profit motive at play here. | ||
| LA's rich and famous hiring $2,000 an hour private firefighters to protect million-dollar homes and businesses. | ||
| Yeah, I say... | ||
| I would if I could. | ||
| Wouldn't you? | ||
| If you had $2,000 an hour that you could spare to protect your home or your businesses, wouldn't you do that? | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Why wouldn't you? | ||
| Now, obviously, it would be moral and good to use those private firefighters to protect everybody, but I don't know. | ||
| I'm not going to quibble over it. | ||
| And I think the real issues are a lot larger than the fact that these people can pay to protect their property, and most people can't. | ||
| It's an inevitable consequence when you have things that should theoretically be provided by the government, and you could even make that argument, but yes, I will say that firefighters and police should be the government. | ||
| If we're going to have a government, that's some of the things they should do, like Border Patrol and police and firefighters. | ||
| Yes, this is something that we all need. | ||
| We all benefit from. | ||
| It's something we can all share the cost of together. | ||
| But when you cut that, when you leave people without police protection or fire protection because you're so incompetent, you're spending billions of dollars on homeless people and illegal immigrant health care. | ||
| Then people are going to pay for it themselves. | ||
| So defunding the police is to privatize the police, and defunding the fire department is to privatize the fire department. | ||
| It's the inevitable consequence of leftist socialist policy. | ||
| The poor people are going to be left with nothing, and the rich people are going to be able to pay for what was previously a government service. | ||
| Incomitance or malice, I don't know, but that's the outcome every time. | ||
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This home seems like it's being considered a loss. | |
| There are so many homes that are in danger. | ||
| How many more horses do you have? | ||
| We have a couple we just let loose over there. | ||
| We're trying to get as many as we can out. | ||
| There's 12, yeah? | ||
| No, no, they're pretty wired up when the wind's blowing and the embers are coming. | ||
| They don't really know what to do. | ||
| Everyone else get to get to the back of it. | ||
| Oh, thank you for getting everybody here from here, all right? | ||
| I always have a bag packed. | ||
| Sunset's already backed up, and people are fighting, and the only access, ingress, and egress is Temesco Canyon and Sunset Boulevard. | ||
| We just watched the last one on that terrace burn to the ground. | ||
| This is the view from an airplane as from... | ||
| KTLA photographer Paul Sanchez, as he's giving us an aerial perspective to the devastation in the Palisades. | ||
| Sky 5 unable to fly due to a temporary flight restriction put in place because President Biden is in town. | ||
| Reports that there wasn't water for firefighters to use in certain areas because of reservoir issues. | ||
| Have you heard that? | ||
| And if so, what's the explanation for that? | ||
| I'm not able to provide any information on that right now. | ||
| Okay, so that doesn't mean that it isn't happening, it just means you're not in a position to talk about it? | ||
| Yeah, I'm not able to provide you reliable information on that. | ||
| This is a true tragedy, and it's a mistake of the governor, and you could say the administration. | ||
| They don't have any water. | ||
| They didn't have water in the fire hydrants. | ||
| They don't have water, and yet they have. | ||
| The water comes from, you know where? | ||
| Up north. | ||
| And it comes down at levels. | ||
| They get millions and millions of barrels of gallons of water that they have, and they send it out into the Pacific. | ||
| For the Pacific, it's like a drop. | ||
| It's nothing. | ||
| But for California, we take care of the whole state. | ||
| So what's happened is a tragedy, and the governor has not done a good job. | ||
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Firefighters come to a burning house. | |
| There is no water. | ||
| The hydrants are dry. | ||
| It happened over and over and over again. | ||
| You can see the frustration on their faces. | ||
| These are firefighters risking their lives. | ||
| Overnight in Pacific Palisades, the whole area ran out of water. | ||
| As Los Angeles burns to the ground, California faces three problems, which are and were preventable. | ||
| Not enough water to fight the fires. | ||
| Above-ground power lines that spark fires when trees fall down during high winds. | ||
| And not enough firefighters or fire resources. | ||
| Burying power lines and building cheap concrete water reservoirs would help. | ||
| Those reservoirs could have held last year's record rainfall. | ||
| Millions upon millions of gallons that could be used to fighting these fires, they gave away because they had nowhere to store it. | ||
| In fact, back in 2014, California voters approved a $7.5 billion program to build new reservoirs and water storage systems. | ||
| Newsom has shown little to no interest in getting them built. | ||
| So I was talking to this guy, and he was telling me, he goes, dude, one day, he goes, it's just going to be the right wind, and fire's going to start in the right place, and it's going to burn through L.A. all the way to the ocean, and there's not a thing we can do about it. | ||
| I go, really? | ||
| He goes, yeah, we just get lucky. | ||
| He goes, we get lucky with the wind. | ||
| He goes, but if the wind hits the wrong way, it's just going to burn straight through LA and there's not going to be a thing we can do about it. | ||
| Because these fires are so big, dude. | ||
| They're talking about like thousands of acres that are burning simultaneously with like 40 mile an hour winds. | ||
| And the wind's just blowing embers through the air and those embers are landing on roofs and those houses are going up and they're landing on bushes and those bushes are going up and everything's dry. | ||
| And once it happens, it happens in a way where it's so spread out. | ||
| That there's nothing they can do. | ||
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Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? | |
| Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor? | ||
| Have you nothing to say today? | ||
| Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? | ||
| Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. | ||
| Are you considering your position? | ||
| Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster? | ||
| No apology for them? | ||
| *thunder* Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home? | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, third hour of American Journal is on. | ||
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Talk about politics here. | |
| We're going to move on from the fires. | ||
| We still have a lot of other stuff to get into. | ||
| Where do you even begin? | ||
| I think we'll begin with politics in general and... | ||
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How do I put this? | |
| You've got a couple stories from over this weekend. | ||
| Basically, we need to learn to win. | ||
| I think we need to learn to win. | ||
| We need to learn what happens when you win, what you should do when you win. | ||
| Because ever since Donald Trump's election, And it literally seems like it was like an hour after the election. | ||
| The entire right wing has been in turmoil. | ||
| Divided. | ||
| Sniping at each other. | ||
| Undercutting any victories that we've had by complaining that they aren't perfect. | ||
| And there began to be made apparent a split between what's being referred to as the MAGA right and the The tech bros of the MAGA, right? | ||
| But even this delineation or discrepancy, this division is not entirely accurate. | ||
| I'm trying to kind of wrap my head around what's really going on here. | ||
| Because I think most of the people involved in this I like. | ||
| And I'm also suspicious of. | ||
| It's kind of hard to explain. | ||
| But you've got, you know, I made it my personal thing to take this guy down. | ||
| Bannon vows to keep Musk out of the White House. | ||
| Sounds like, okay, I'm more on Bannon's side here, but I also get why you don't want to drive Elon away. | ||
| And again, I don't want people to underestimate the... | ||
| Impact that Elon's transformation has allowed. | ||
| And I really just hope he's changing the culture for billionaires in this country. | ||
| Because it's sort of pathetic as it is and annoying as it is. | ||
| Because we're supposed to be a country for the people, by the people. | ||
| Because of the way our system is messed up, because of how it's controlled, because of the influence that certain media outlets have, it's almost more valuable to get one billionaire on your side and actively participating in the political struggle as an ally than, I don't know, 10,000 normal people, 100,000 normal people? | ||
| I mean, I don't know. | ||
| And again, I'm not... | ||
| You know, downplaying or undercutting normal people and one normal person, you know, properly motivated with a good plan and the ability to carry it out can themselves, you know, have more impact than a billionaire. | ||
| But just in terms of like, if you were a genie and you asked me like, okay, you know, you have the ability to red pill 10,000 normies or one multi-billionaire, I might choose the multi-billionaire. | ||
| I might. | ||
| Because they have the institutional authority to make change without having to go through the political process. | ||
| They can just make the change or they can, you know, fund think tanks that get it right to the desk of people in power to actually take action. | ||
| 10,000 people, it's hard to coordinate them. | ||
| Half the people might be awake, but they're still not going to do anything. | ||
| If they're widespread, then what's that? | ||
| Does that have the impact of swaying vote totals and actually changing the outcome of elections? | ||
| Or are you talking about 10,000 people in 10,000 different cities? | ||
| And so really nothing substantial has changed. | ||
| Having billionaires on our side that are fighting for us, even if they don't agree with us completely, even if they are fans of H-1B, still a very good thing. | ||
| Again, delineation between tech right and MAGA right. | ||
| But then you've got another twist to this where probably the head of the tech right, the shadow president of the tech right, other than Elon Musk, would be Peter Thiel. | ||
| He just wrote this article in the Financial Times called A Time for Truth and Reconciliation, where he goes pretty hard. | ||
| In the concept of we can't let this crap go. | ||
| You know, he talks about the fact that John F. Kennedy, the assassination of JFK, we've waited 61 years to actually figure out what's going on there. | ||
| It still hasn't come out. | ||
| But we cannot wait six decades to find answers about the lockdowns and COVID-19 or anything else like that. | ||
| Here you have a member of what would be considered the tech bro wing of MAGA saying that the Trump administration is not really taking this stuff seriously enough. | ||
| And you've got J.D. Vance waffling a little bit on the pardons of January 6th, people convicted over January 6th. | ||
| He sort of straddles the... | ||
| The line between MAGA and the tech ripro. | ||
| Again, I'm just sort of like puzzling this out in real time because I don't really know what to make of it. | ||
| I'll just say that whichever side is the more extreme side, that's the side I'm on. | ||
| That's actually the side that I'm on. | ||
| Whoever just wants to go harder and faster and more intense and more... | ||
| I don't want to say violently, but... | ||
| In a metaphorical sense, wants to aggressively do all of the things that we've desired. | ||
| And I am worried about some of the mitigating statements made by Trump administration incoming appointees. | ||
| J.D. Vance says Biden has left the incoming administration with a dumpster fire. | ||
| J.D. Vance says this about Biden. | ||
| He said, I wish Joe Biden all the best, but the fact is he's left us a dumpster fire. | ||
| Not just at the border, but also with the economy. | ||
| First of all, we know prices are way too high for many Americans. | ||
| We have to work every single day to stabilize prices for American families. | ||
| Everything he's bragging about ignores the fact that he's added trillions of trillions of dollars to the federal debt. | ||
| During a time of peace, he's left us with bond yields, meaning how are we going to finance that debt? | ||
| We have to sell treasury bonds, and the treasury bonds got more expensive because of Joe Biden's policies. | ||
| You go issue after issue and oil prices shooting through the roof and the final two months of the Biden administration in part because of these decisions. | ||
| Because of the decisions Joe Biden has made over the last few weeks. | ||
| He actually hasn't left the American people in a good economic condition. | ||
| That's why they made Donald Trump the president of the United States, that we've got a lot of work to do. | ||
| I remain fundamentally, and you know this, I will always be an optimist about our country, but I think the optimism has to start with a bit of realism in the truth that Joe Biden has left us a dumpster fire. | ||
| Donald Trump will have to put it out, but he's good at doing that. | ||
| And internationally, it's a dumpster fire. | ||
| Domestically, it's a dumpster fire. | ||
| Economically, politically. | ||
| It's a gigantic dumpster fire. | ||
| And they can pretend that it's not, but everybody in reality recognizes that it is. | ||
| And there's a lot of truth to that. | ||
| And it's not just that the dumpster fire is burning. | ||
| It's not just that the trash in the dumpster is burning. | ||
| It's that the leftists throughout the country are setting up sophisticated, elaborate Rube Goldberg-style machines. | ||
| To continually feed in a stream of gasoline to the dumpster fire. | ||
| They're setting up pre-establishing entire legal networks to the tunes of tens of millions of dollars for the explicit purpose of undercutting Trump's administration, just destroying his initiatives, and fighting back against him at every step of the way. | ||
| Newsom and legislative leaders strike $50 million a deal. | ||
| To Trump-proof California. | ||
| Again, we've been talking about this for months. | ||
| Trump-proofing. | ||
| This is the way it works. | ||
| Governor Gavin Newsom and state legislators have agreed to set aside $50 million to defend California as well as immigrants facing deportation. | ||
| In court against the incoming White House, according to people's knowledge of the negotiations, the deal struck through a special legislative session Newsom called to shore up the state's legal defenses, includes $25 million he sought for the State Department of Justice, litigation against the federal government. | ||
| It also contains $25 million state Senate leaders wanted for grants to nonprofit legal groups and centers that support immigrants who are at risk of deportation, detention, and wage theft. | ||
| The deal leaves out $10 million that the Senate wanted for counties and cities to defend themselves in court, as well as an additional $500,000 the Assembly sought for DOJ's initial case preparation. | ||
| So, again, I'm a little bit torn, but it's like either way, like we have to do something about this, and I don't really care which way it goes. | ||
| Either this shouldn't be allowed, because what's the only outcome of this? | ||
| The only outcome of this is that they are... | ||
| They're setting aside $50 million of taxpayer money to do nothing but create another gigantic drain on resources on this country. | ||
| So they're going to take $50 million of taxpayer monies in California. | ||
| They're going to pay lawyers to then challenge every single order that the Trump administration tries to carry out. | ||
| Meaning that God only knows how many times the Trump administration is then going to have to take millions of dollars to fund lawyers to go argue this. | ||
| And manpower that's going to go towards just trying to implement the law as designed. | ||
| Why is this allowed? | ||
| How is this allowed? | ||
| Nonprofit groups are getting $25 million. | ||
| So, like, if you want to not allow this, I'm good with that. | ||
| If you want to say, like, this is sort of treasonous activity and it can't be permitted, you cannot be looting the government coffers, like, you can't be looting the taxpayer treasury. | ||
| To fund your subversion of the national laws, like that should not be allowed. | ||
| If it is allowed, since it's being allowed, then where are the red states doing the same thing? | ||
| $25 million in grants to non-profit legal groups and centers that support immigrants at risk of deportation, detention, and wage theft. | ||
| How do you justify this? | ||
| Under your remit, under your authority and obligations as a government. | ||
| You're not obligated to defend foreigners. | ||
| It's treason to do that, actually. | ||
| So how do you even justify this? | ||
| It makes no sense. | ||
| If the Texas government, the Texas Congress decided, we're actually going to put aside $25 million to fund Non-profit news organizations. | ||
| Like, could Infowars just restructure as a non-profit? | ||
| And then could we get $25 million in grants from the Texas government? | ||
| You know, deliberately so that we can counteract the messaging from a Democrat president? | ||
| Because that would make significantly more sense than this. | ||
| At least in that case, it would just be giving $25 million to, you know, your preferred media outlet. | ||
| At least that media outlet isn't going to be hiring lawyers to make sure that illegal immigrants who broke our laws are allowed to stay here indefinitely and continue to break our laws. | ||
| Like, even if they were just taking $50 million and throwing it into the ocean like all the fresh rainwater they let fly into the Pacific, it would be better than giving this money to lawyers to destroy the legal system by counteracting Trump constantly. | ||
| So, you know, all of this is to say that either the right wing and Republicans need to get serious and start playing the game for all it's worth and with the rules as established, or we need, like, very severe consequences for the things that the left is doing. | ||
| I'm fine with either one. | ||
| Again, I'm fine if they want to go, hey, California's doing this. | ||
| Well, then Texas is going to do this, and we're going to do an equal thing, but in the opposite direction. | ||
| Then fine, we'll just go down that path. | ||
| Both sides will just steal as much money as possible and funnel it to their friends and their non-government organization, non-profit network of corruption. | ||
| And if we want to go down that route, I mean, it'll destroy the country, but we might benefit from it in the process. | ||
| Or the federal government needs to come in and just like declare martial law over California and just go, the people running California right now are a conclave of villains. | ||
| Just a hive of thieves and scumbags and they're corporate collaborators and we're just taking it over and Gavin Newsom is going to go to jail for pulling this crap. | ||
| Again, either one is fine, but Right now, Republicans are pretty solidly fixed on doing neither. | ||
| And it's very upsetting. | ||
| There's actually a video about this. | ||
| Democrats know how to wield power when they win. | ||
| Republicans need to learn to do the same. | ||
| Again, we'll connect this to the statements J.D. Vance has made, the op-ed that Peter Thiel just came out with, and the likes of Steve Bannon going to war with Elon Musk. | ||
| The right wing needs to learn to win, first of all, and then needs to learn what to do once you've won. | ||
| I think this guy actually makes a pretty good argument. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| We actually have to have that conversation about where these people on the left are. | ||
| They are deeply un-American. | ||
| They are antithetical to freedom. | ||
| They are antithetical to liberty. | ||
| If they had the political power to do whatever they wanted to us, I think they would. | ||
| I don't think I'm overstating that at all. | ||
| I'm a great admirer of the left in regards to achieving political power and how they structure themselves and their... | ||
| How they have structured themselves to achieve political power. | ||
| For all the wrong reasons. | ||
| All their policy ideas are terrible for this country. | ||
| But they have structured themselves to achieve that. | ||
| And in fact, based off all the numbers and statistics I've seen, the left is in the minority in this country. | ||
| And yet they have an undue influence in politics and the various institutions because they have structured themselves to achieve power in the institutions and politically how they've invested their time and money into doing that. | ||
| We, on the other hand, I mean, I know some people love a good white paper and like some of the things that the think tanks do. | ||
| We are not structured correctly to achieve and maintain political power. | ||
| And I think that's one of the things that I hope that I can achieve over the next four, five, six, seven, eight years, however long it takes, for people to understand if we do the right things in the field, in the various states, we can achieve and maintain political power for years to come. | ||
| But you actually have to be doing the right thing. | ||
| I want Donald Trump. | ||
| I'm not interested in trimming this government. | ||
| I'm not interested in making it more efficient. | ||
| I'm interested in shattering this administrative state into a million pieces. | ||
| I think Donald Trump has figured out who the enemy is over the last, call it nine years, in which I think he truly showed up in D.C. January of 2017 as the duly elected representative, president of the American people, shows up in D.C. and goes... | ||
| I'm the duly elected president. | ||
| I get to decide a lot of the foreign and domestic policy. | ||
| And ran into a system of government that said, yeah, we don't think so. | ||
| We think we decide. | ||
| And I think it was a startling moment for him when he realized, I thought we were a constitutional republic, representative democracy. | ||
| And then folks in D.C. were like, no, we're not really that. | ||
| We're an administrative state. | ||
| The unelected bureaucrats and their allies, we're the ones that actually decide these things. | ||
| A lot of these things were settled years ago. | ||
| Foreign policy, for example. | ||
| This is the crazy part to me. | ||
| Donald Trump's, one of his great sins, was showing up and thinking, I want an election. | ||
| People voted for change. | ||
| One of them was different approach in foreign policy. | ||
| So we're going to actually enact that. | ||
| Like, no, we already settled that years ago. | ||
| You don't get to decide that at all. | ||
| It's already been decided by the smart people at the State Department, like Victoria Nuland. | ||
| And I think that for him was a moment where he realized we have a real problem. | ||
| Then, of course, he became a target of his own government, the DOJ and the FBI and all these people trying to take out the duly elected president of the United States with fake FISA warrants and fake dossiers and all this stuff. | ||
| And he realized we have a serious problem here. | ||
| So leading up to now and then the four years of lawfare in which... | ||
| On the most spurious of charges, they literally, I don't know the exact figure, but I have to guess it was hundreds of millions they soaked out of his campaign in regards to legal fees. | ||
| And not only trying to destroy him as a person, but also just suck cash out of him. | ||
| I think he's coming back this month and being sworn in for another term and fully understanding. | ||
| We have a form of government that is running this country that has nothing to do with the Constitutional Republic. | ||
| So I hope, I sincerely hope that he understands who the enemy is, that he has to go at them. | ||
| They've already declared war on him. | ||
| This is not about him declaring war on the administrative state. | ||
| They declared war on him years ago. | ||
| And it's him responding in kind and going, we are not going to take this sitting down. | ||
| So I think he's exactly right. | ||
| And sort of everybody on our side knows this already, but it's not filtering up to the top. | ||
| And I think it has to do with the way that these things get talked about. | ||
| Honestly, it's a rhetorical issue. | ||
| And as much as, you know, this is like half of our coverage is like talking about the rhetoric used, right? | ||
| The way that Gavin Newsom, you know, tries to slime his way out of... | ||
| Being responsible for the state of California by saying, well, I was talking about the state reservoirs, not the other ones. | ||
| There's all these little rhetorical tricks they use. | ||
| And the left is very, very good at that. | ||
| That's what underpins their power because they're able to do outrageous and exemplary things really, really far out there things because of the way that they frame all of these arguments. | ||
| And we try to frame these situations accurately on Infowars. | ||
| But the right wing, I don't know why they have trouble catching on. | ||
| So you've got this controversy of J.D. Vance talking about January 6th political prisoners. | ||
| But they're not calling them political prisoners, right? | ||
| He's saying it's very simple. | ||
| If you protested peacefully on January 6th and you had Merrick Garland's Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. | ||
| If you committed violence on that day, obviously you should not be pardoned, he continued. | ||
| There's a little bit of gray area there, but we're committed to seeing the equal administration of law. | ||
| That's the type of rhetoric from the right wing. | ||
| We want to see the equal administration of law, and this was unequal. | ||
| And if you committed violence, then, hey, the law says you're not allowed to commit violence. | ||
| Equal application of the law. | ||
| The correct framing of this, like not even, like we're not the ones that rhetorically frame things to dishonestly portray them. | ||
| Honestly expressing the January 6th prosecutions, the accurate way to describe it is as political tyranny, as tyranny, as a total violation of the obligations of the Government, | ||
| a egregious attack on the very basics of our civil liberties and has to be undone completely. | ||
| It's not about the equal application of law. | ||
| It's about the leftist Democrat government weaponizing the Department of Justice to go after innocent people. | ||
| Even people that committed violence, they're innocent. | ||
| They're victims of political... | ||
| I don't want to quibble over whether one person deserves or one person doesn't. | ||
| Take a page out of the leftist notebook and talk about this with the severity it deserves. | ||
| The Biden administration unleashed war on the American people and abused thousands of innocent people because they're Trump supporters. | ||
| This is An outrageous act of tyranny. | ||
| It's really worthy of the whole government being overthrown, let alone pardoning these people. | ||
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| So again, all these things sort of tie in together. | ||
| Getting back into what J.D. Vance said. | ||
| It's... | ||
| I'm glad. | ||
| I'm glad he's getting pushback. | ||
| I'm glad he's having to respond to it. | ||
| His response is good, but not sufficient to me. | ||
| And it's pretty simple. | ||
| It's not that complicated. | ||
| It's not nuanced. | ||
| You don't need some deep understanding of right-wing philosophy to get it. | ||
| There are a very few number of things that just need to be done. | ||
| And the left is going to quibble. | ||
| The left is going to have... | ||
| Objections. | ||
| And we have to ignore them and do it anyway. | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| It's not hard. | ||
| And there's not that many things. | ||
| Pardon every January 6th. | ||
| Just do it. | ||
| There's no excuse not to. | ||
| There's no reason not to. | ||
| There's no moral reason not to. | ||
| Legal, political. | ||
| There's no reason not to do this. | ||
| Especially for Donald Trump, who's not going to run for president again. | ||
| So, pardon everybody. | ||
| Pardon. | ||
| Everybody, blanket pardon, across the board, every single person in any way related to January 6th, pardon them immediately. | ||
| Now that's the requirement. | ||
| That's a necessity that is non-negotiable, as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| Where then you'd have to maybe, you know, as an addendum to that, as an extra bonus round to that, all the people that put everybody in jail themselves need to go to jail. | ||
| Now if that doesn't happen, I'm not going to be surprised. | ||
| I'm not holding my breath for Merrick Garland to go to jail, but he should. | ||
| And that needs to be the level of rhetoric that we deal with. | ||
| It's the art of the deal. | ||
| It's a Trumpian idea. | ||
| What we have to have is January 6th pardons across the board. | ||
| What we should be going for and shooting for is not just the pardons, but they should get a cash payout. | ||
| There should be some recompense. | ||
| They should sue the government. | ||
| For persecution. | ||
| And since their rights have been violated, we don't need to investigate it. | ||
| We know for a fact that these people are being thrown in jail for terrorism charges, despite the fact they weren't even in the same city that the event took place, the likes of Enrique Tarrio and others. | ||
| So that's an egregious violation of our Department of Justice and their authority and obligation to uphold the law. | ||
| Mayor Garland should go to prison and the January 6th should be given recompense for the suffering that they've gone under. | ||
| And again, if you need precedent, we don't need precedent. | ||
| I want to stop talking about precedent since that never seems to slow down anything the left wants to do. | ||
| I don't see why we should be concerned with it. | ||
| But if you do want precedent, well, basically every major city in America... | ||
| Has granted millions of dollars to the George Floyd rioters from 2020. So they just do this stuff, right? | ||
| There was no discussion on the left about like, well, but is this, are we really upholding the law? | ||
| Is this equal application of justice? | ||
| No, they're just like, they put our people in jail for rioting. | ||
| And so we're going to get them out and then sue the government and get everybody who rioted $20,000. | ||
| And that's what they do. | ||
| Let's do that. | ||
| No, let's do what they do. | ||
| There's no reason to discuss this. | ||
| There's no reason to modify or curtail these demands. | ||
| These need to be the demands. | ||
| You know, one of the other major platforms of Trump's presidency, and again, just to reiterate, I just feel like I say these things over and over, but Trump went farther right this campaign than ever before. | ||
| So you can't sit there and go, well, but Trump promised moderation, so we gotta, you know, he's gotta fulfill that. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| He promised deportations. | ||
| He promised pardons. | ||
| That's what we voted for. | ||
| That's what we want. | ||
| There is no political reason to avoid this. | ||
| There's no like, oh, but, you know, I'll put my own office in jeopardy if I support that because that's gonna piss off my... | ||
| No, everybody wants this. | ||
| The people who don't want it, our scumbag leftists are never gonna vote for you anyway. | ||
| There's no reason not to do this. | ||
| There's no reason not to launch... | ||
| A massive, unprecedented, and hugely ambitious deportation program. | ||
| I saw a thing, Tom Homan, saying, there's 1.5 million people slated for deportation. | ||
| 1.5 million people? | ||
| Okay, let's try 1.5 million people a month for a year. | ||
| And then we'll reassess and see where we're at. | ||
| Because 1.5 million people is a fraction of the number that have just entered in the last... | ||
| Three years. | ||
| So what are we talking about? | ||
| 1.5 million. | ||
| Stop it. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| So why are they tempering their demands? | ||
| Why are they temporizing their ambitions? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why though? | ||
| And again, I really think it has to do with the rhetoric that's deployed. | ||
| And we've seen some good corrections of the rhetoric. | ||
| One example that I've been harping on forever that finally, I don't know if anybody listened to me, but it happened. | ||
| And this is the thing. | ||
| This is just what happens with the show. | ||
| So I'll just say something for years on end. | ||
| Then finally, Elon Musk tweets it out. | ||
| It's like, 100,000 likes. | ||
| This is an amazing thought. | ||
| It's like, okay. | ||
| Where'd you get that idea from? | ||
| What I've been saying for a long time is if you want to get rid of the Department of Education, what you say is we're sending education back to the states. | ||
| Because when people hear we want to get rid of the Department of Education, what they think and what they say, what they tell people is they want to leave your children with no school. | ||
| They want to end schooling in America from the government. | ||
| And if you're too poor to afford private school, then you're just going to have to be dumb forever. | ||
| Like that's what they hear when you say we want to get rid of the Department of Education. | ||
| If you just... | ||
| Alter how you present it rhetorically. | ||
| It's not dishonest. | ||
| It's not lying. | ||
| It's not, you know, portraying it one way and doing another thing. | ||
| The functional outcome of getting rid of the Department of Education is it would go back to the states. | ||
| It would be more local control of the schools. | ||
| And that's a good thing. | ||
| So present it like that. | ||
| Say, well, getting rid of the Department of Education, that sounds crazy. | ||
| We'll still keep the Department of Education. | ||
| It'll just be pared down to non-existence. | ||
| And we'll return education to the states. | ||
| We want local people to be empowered to run their own schools. | ||
| And then people will be for it. | ||
| I mean, literally, you can see this in polls that they hold or survey reactions. | ||
| If you phrase things a certain way, people will be for it. | ||
| And if you've praised it a different way, even though it's the same thing, they'll be against it. | ||
| People will be against destroying the Department of Education. | ||
| But people would be for empowering states to... | ||
| Maximize the educational potential of their students by having full control of their administration. | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| One's phrased a better way. | ||
| Now, they've actually done this. | ||
| Whoever Trump put in as the education secretary, whoever he's going to put in for that, has come out and said, we're returning education to the states. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| Wonderful. | ||
| They're learning how to talk about this stuff. | ||
| And it's the same thing with January 6th or deportations. | ||
| It's just like, what's happening here, what has happened here, is that the United States government has totally and outrageously violated the letter and spirit of the law. | ||
| And they've done it so egregiously. | ||
| Like, you can't... | ||
| You just can't let them get away with it. | ||
| And again, I just keep seeing parallels to things like asylum where it's like, yeah, sure, you know, I like asylum. | ||
| I like that we provide asylum for people that are legitimately trying to claim it. | ||
| Nobody who's claimed it in the last 40 years is legitimate. | ||
| So they all have to go back and all of the asylum has to be canceled. | ||
| And again, yeah, I don't want, you know. | ||
| If people are legitimately applying for asylum, I'd like to be able to offer it, but we just can't do that anymore because you people have taken advantage of it. | ||
| The leftists have taken advantage of it, so now it all has to go away. | ||
| So yeah, if you wanted to punish the violent people, that's who you should have gone after. | ||
| You went after everybody, though, so now everybody gets out. | ||
| This has to be the mindset of the right. | ||
| It's like, okay, if you wanted the violent January Sixers to be in prison, then why'd you go after all the nonviolent ones? | ||
| Why did you screw up this whole process? | ||
| Why did you put us in this position? | ||
| Because now we have to release all of them. | ||
| And if I'm somebody who's obsessed with the equal application of law and that's my ultimate and superior priority, then this is how we get back to it. | ||
| We get back to equal application of the law by undoing all of the unequal application of the law, even in instances where if it had started with equal application, they would have been punished. | ||
| I hope it's clear what I'm trying to express here. | ||
| You cannot talk about this in terms of like, well, they gave extra harsh punishments to people who were criminals and did somewhat deserve it, but that was a little bit too hard. | ||
| Like, just stop. | ||
| Just stop. | ||
| Everybody on January 6th is a victim of the deep state false flag. | ||
| Everybody arrested, charged. | ||
| And sentenced for January 6th or even just arrested and charged or even just arrested or even just spied on or even just surveilled or even just had their face published by the FBI as a domestic terrorist. | ||
| Everybody on January 6th on the MAGA side is a victim of government oppression, tyranny, overreach and abuse. | ||
| So every single one of them has to be let out. | ||
| Every single one of them should receive. | ||
| A big check from the government for the pain and suffering they've been put through and everybody involved in the process the entire way down the line should themselves be punished for their abuse of these people. | ||
| Because on an individual level we wouldn't stand for it. | ||
| Why do we let them get away with it when they cloak themselves in the specter of the state? | ||
| In other words, if Merrick Garland was just some dude that owned a hardware store in Wichita, Go grab somebody off the street and lock him in a basement for four years. | ||
| We wouldn't stand for that. | ||
| Now, Mayor Garland is doing that for all intents and purposes. | ||
| Innocent people locked away, having their lives destroyed, kidnapped by the state. | ||
| Just because he claims to do it under the auspices of the Department of Justice means he gets to get away with it? | ||
| No. | ||
| The functional outcome of what he's done is to take innocent people off the street and lock them in a concrete box for God only knows how many years, destroy their lives, lose their jobs, lose all of their money, have to defend themselves, get smeared as terrorists. | ||
| And none of them deserved it. | ||
| So, just as a message explicitly and specifically to J.D. Vance, this was bad. | ||
| This was a bad walking back of your stance. | ||
| You should have never made this statement. | ||
| And it's not even like, oh, he made the statement a little bit, you know, it was an ill-considered statement or whatever. | ||
| No. | ||
| What it represents is your fundamental misunderstanding of what's at stake here. | ||
| This is not about, oh, the government got a little excited about certain charges and maybe gave a bit of a longer sentence to people who didn't deserve it. | ||
| Let's just take one example. | ||
| Let's just take the... | ||
| American shaman, QAnon shaman, Jacob Jansley. | ||
| This man was put into solitary confinement for months at a time. | ||
| Absolute torture by any metric. | ||
| He was tortured. | ||
| This man was tortured. | ||
| What was he tortured for? | ||
| Well, he was tortured for following every single instruction he was given by police on that day. | ||
| And we know, now that the video has been released, that... | ||
| Everything he did, he did with a police escort after having asked permission, received permission to do everything he did. | ||
| The reason it wasn't known at the trial was because the government withheld that evidence. | ||
| So you've got the government withholding evidence to convict somebody. | ||
| You've got them torturing him, convicting him for something that he never actually did, never actually committed a crime. | ||
| And it's just one dude who happens to be famous because of the costume he wore. | ||
| There are thousands of examples just like this. | ||
| It's unacceptable. | ||
| Period. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| So again, for J.D. Vance, let me just give you the... | ||
| I've been ranting about this for like 20 minutes. | ||
| Let me actually tell you what happened here. | ||
| J.D. Vance fires back at critics after his comments regarding January 6th part in Spark controversy. | ||
| Incoming Vice President J.D. Vance has received some notable criticism for his comments on January 6th protesters earlier today, and now he's fighting back. | ||
| Vance appeared on Fox News Sunday to speak about the incoming Trump administration's plan to save America, but he inadvertently whipped up a social media uproar when the subject turned to January 6th pardons. | ||
| He says, quote, it's very simple. | ||
| If you protested peacefully on January 6th and you had Merrick Garland's Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. | ||
| If you committed violence on that day, obviously you should not be pardoned, he continued. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Honestly, why not? | ||
| Because they committed violence? | ||
| Well, so? | ||
| So what? | ||
| Well, violence is illegal. | ||
| Well, so is trespassing, apparently. | ||
| I mean, what's the distinction here? | ||
| People that committed violence. | ||
| Who started the violence? | ||
| Police started the violence. | ||
| Everything after that is fair game. | ||
| As far as I'm concerned. | ||
| No police died. | ||
| They were shot. | ||
| Protesters were shot point blank by police. | ||
| I mean, it's just ridiculous that we have to go over this again. | ||
| And again, it's troubling that it's J.D. Vance saying this. | ||
| He says there's a little bit of a gray area there, but we're committed to seeing the equal application, equal administration of the law. | ||
| And there were a lot of people in the wake of January 6th who were prosecuted unfairly, and we need to rectify that. | ||
| Everybody prosecuted for January 6th was prosecuted unfairly. | ||
| Every single person. | ||
| Without exception. | ||
| Let's just have that be the standard. | ||
| And then the opposition can try to get us to walk it back and then we cannot walk it back and we can just do it. | ||
| So this is what's incredibly frustrating about all this. | ||
| We have won the election. | ||
| There's absolutely nothing standing in between us and full unconditional pardons of the January 6th prisoners. | ||
| So why is our leadership Coming up with reasons why we shouldn't do this. | ||
| Who are they trying to appeal to? | ||
| Who are they trying to play to? | ||
| Is it their own conscience? | ||
| If it's their own conscience, they need to understand you're not violating any moral principle here. | ||
| You're upholding a moral principle. | ||
| The moral principle you should be upholding is that the United States government, first and foremost and above all else, should not be tyrannical. | ||
| Should not weaponize the systems of our government against its own citizens. | ||
| Should not pick and choose who to prosecute based on their political position. | ||
| That is the superlative morality that needs to be upheld here. | ||
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Well, I feel like a hypocrite if I say that people who attack police shouldn't go to jail. | |
| Like if the police attacked him first, no, they shouldn't go to jail. | ||
| If their entire prosecution was predicated on this deliberate targeting of right wing influencers. | ||
| you All, by the way, orchestrated to go after Trump and to convict him of treason so they can send him to jail and disqualify him for the presidency. | ||
| Every single January 6th prisoner should be pardoned. | ||
| Period. | ||
| Bar none. | ||
| Why you would interject and say, well, just the violent ones, it just makes no sense. | ||
| So people respond to this, right? | ||
| Hodge twins. | ||
| Video gets released of cops shooting innocent January 6th protesters. | ||
| And J.D. Vance goes on Fox News and tells the world only nonviolent protesters should get pardoned. | ||
| Better rethink what you just said, J.D. So this is in response to, again, another video that we've played just ad nauseum here. | ||
| It's this video. | ||
| This went viral. | ||
| Because apparently people for the first time are realizing, oh wow, the police fired into a peaceful crowd? | ||
| It's like, how many conversations could we avoid if people just watched American Journal? | ||
| I've been saying this since probably January 7th, 2021. People are just now finding out about this video that we've played probably a hundred times on this show. | ||
| So, J.D. Vance responds to this criticism, this very accurate and appropriate and good criticism. | ||
| He responds saying, first of all, I donated to the J6 Political Prisoner Fund and got roasted for it during my Senate race, Vance wrote on X. I've been defending these guys for years. | ||
| Well, good. | ||
| Well, good. | ||
| Second, there were federal informants in the crowd. | ||
| Do they get a pardon? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Well, they weren't charged, Vance, were they? | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Not only does this not even make any sense because the federal informants... | ||
| Are the ones that weren't charged. | ||
| That's how we know they're federal informants most of the time. | ||
| But the federal informants who were there should be charged. | ||
| Not for domestic terrorism and trespassing and all the stuff that the January Sixers were arrested for, but for like, you know, treason. | ||
| But for participating in this false flag attack, helping to orchestrate this justification for widespread And life-ruining oppression by the Biden government. | ||
| So what is Vance saying here? | ||
| What about the federal informant? | ||
| Should they be? | ||
| Well, they weren't charged, so no. | ||
| Now, if somebody is a federal informant and got sent to jail for being there on January 6th, yeah, they should get a pardon too. | ||
| Actually, yes. | ||
| The president's saying he'll look at each case. | ||
| And me saying the same is not some walk back. | ||
| Well, yes, it is. | ||
| It is walk back. | ||
| And he didn't say that he'll look at each case. | ||
| He said there's, you said there's some gray area and that, I'll give you the exact quote here, quote, if you committed violence on that day, obviously you should not be pardoned. | ||
| That's what we're against. | ||
| No, that's wrong. | ||
| That's a wrong framing. | ||
| It's a bad argument. | ||
| And that's not what we voted for. | ||
| He says, I assure you, we care about people unjustly locked up. | ||
| Yes, that includes people provoked, and it includes people who got a garbage trial. | ||
| So there again, he's waffling. | ||
| He's going, well, I didn't say all violent people. | ||
| If violent people were provoked, or maybe they were violent, but they still got an unfair trial, then we'll pardon them. | ||
| Why are we quibbling? | ||
| Pardon them all. | ||
| It's the last time we need to have this conversation. | ||
| Pardon every single one of them, bar none, no excuses, no quibbling, no curtailing, no waffling. | ||
| Pardon all of them. | ||
| Day one, minute one. | ||
| Anything else is unacceptable. | ||
| Any other discussion, totally unacceptable. | ||
| Totally, totally, totally unacceptable. | ||
| The only exemption I would give for that is if in the investigation it was discovered that they were left disposing as MAGA supporters or if they were undercover feds of some sort. | ||
| In which case, instead of pardoning them, they should be charged with something else entirely and be given an accurate and fair punishment for their trial. | ||
| for their crimes. | ||
| It's like there's so many things like this. | ||
| There's so many things similar to this. | ||
| The, you know, deportations is another one. | ||
| The border is another one. | ||
| I don't just want to repeat myself over and over. | ||
| We have other stuff to talk about. | ||
| But like, if there was just one thing I could impart to Republicans that are now in power, who we put in power, who we're there to Represent us. | ||
| Just stop doing the leftist work for them. | ||
| If they want to find lawyers and sue over all of this and try to put up roadblocks, I mean, they are doing that. | ||
| They're literally looting the state coffers to pay for lawyers to preemptively try to cause problems for the Trump administration implementing its policy. | ||
| They're already doing that. | ||
| You know that's going to be an issue. | ||
| You know they're going to whine about deportations. | ||
| You know they're going to whine about the January 6th protesters being pardoned. | ||
| That's their job. | ||
| Our job is to defeat them. | ||
| Our job is to do these things regardless of what they want and in opposition to everything that they try to do. | ||
| So just this one thing. | ||
| We're in power now. | ||
| Use it. | ||
| Use the power. | ||
| Benefit us. | ||
| Crush their networks. | ||
| Disassemble their tyranny. | ||
| Punish their treason. | ||
| And everything else will be fine. | ||
| Nobody's going to bother you. | ||
| Nobody's going to come back and go, oh, but you're kind of a hypocrite. | ||
| When we win, we win. | ||
| And we need to win. | ||
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