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| If they thought keeping Ed Martin out of the U.S. attorney slot in D.C. where he was tasked with going after all these folks would stop Trump, Trump could have overridden it and got a full Senate vote and taken it out of committee. | ||
| But he said, you know what? | ||
| We'll just give Ed Martin his own task force with prosecutory power in every jurisdiction of the United States to seek out what? | ||
| Government weaponization against the people. | ||
| And all the things we've seen the Democrat Party do. | ||
| DOJ weaponization group headed up by Ed Martin. | ||
| Donald Trump's failed U.S. attorney pick, he's been the acting attorney, may have just found his true calling. | ||
| MSNBC says Ed Martin may have finally found his calling. | ||
| He will lead a made-up-sounding organization investigating imagined abuses of power. | ||
| Oh yeah, there's no abuses of power. | ||
| But while Martin's new job may feel fake, the dangers posed by it are very real. | ||
| I love the sea of the criminal leave state. | ||
| After flaming out as President Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia, Martin has been resurrected in a role where he can perhaps do even more damage. | ||
| Oh yeah, to tyranny? | ||
| As head of the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group. | ||
| Attorney General Pam Bondi created the group in February, declaring her intention to restore the integrity and credibility of the OJ. | ||
| He's going to investigate January 6th. | ||
| And by the way, you're already learning what Kash Patel yesterday and Dan Bongino said on Fox. | ||
| They said, oh, we found a bunch of stuff at the DOJ and FBI. | ||
| On the fake Russiagate on January 6th, and it's all going to Congress, and it's bombshell. | ||
| Well, we already know the feds were there. | ||
| We know the FBI director lied to Congress about it. | ||
| We know it was the feds dressed up in black, breaking in, being fake arrested, then hi-fying the cops, and they took the cuffs off. | ||
| We know. | ||
| We know it was cops planted the pipe bomb. | ||
| We know. | ||
| And now there's going to be prosecutions. | ||
| With racketeering cases, it takes years, but they've accelerated them. | ||
| We've already got a whole bunch of indictments working their way up through USAID, through FEMA, through ICE, through all of it. | ||
| You got judges getting arrested for hiding illegal aliens. | ||
| It's happening. | ||
| And before I get to more of this... | ||
| DOJ charges U.S. aid staffer in wide-ranging corruption probe, sending money to themselves, Yusuf Ackle. | ||
| Worked as a senior procurement contract specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development and was sending money to himself. | ||
| It has been alleged. | ||
| So, very, very exciting. | ||
| So, you really can't under hype that Ed Martin is having his own task force to go after persecution of the American people by the deep state with massive purview in every jurisdiction with orders for all those jurisdictions to comply to whatever He tells them to give him federal | ||
| jurisdictions. | ||
| And now they're cranking up the staffing, beginning with $1 billion that he's now been given. | ||
| And now Ed Martin is assembling the team. | ||
| People want action. | ||
| Well, you got to get in. | ||
| You got to get through the system. | ||
| You got to try to get... | ||
| They didn't do that, so Trump went around them, and now they've got to organize their team. | ||
| And Ed Martin's the real deal, I don't know, 20 years, and they are scared you-know-what-less over this. | ||
| This is extremely exciting, but I mean, wow. | ||
| All right, folks, that is the latest from the Alex Jones show, the DOJ's new weaponization working group, led by Ed Martin, who will investigate and dismantle and prosecute government agencies and individuals who have been targeting Americans for total destruction. | ||
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It's a good start, folks. | |
| Doing your daily dispatch on the other side. | ||
| Lots of big guests today. | ||
| Stay tuned to see American Journal. | ||
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| It's Wednesday, May 21st, 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 from our headquarters here in Austin, Texas. | ||
| We've got a big show for you today. | ||
| We'll be joined by two guests in the 10 o 'clock hour. | ||
| Matt Baker talking about what's going down in old San Diego. | ||
| Talking about the story that we covered yesterday, the video that we showed of the hot dog vendors having their illegal carts knocked over by the business owners that are having their livelihoods stolen from them. | ||
| While the government's doing nothing about it, as well as a number of other things going on in San Diego these days, we're also going to be joined by Toad. | ||
| We're going to be joined by Toad from the Tower Gang, who was recently fired, playing a song on the ukulele. | ||
| We thought we were over cancer culture. | ||
| Cancel culture. | ||
| Cancer culture is... | ||
| That's what the Bidens are practicing now. | ||
| Sorry, a little Freudian slip there. | ||
| Lots of videos to show you today. | ||
| Lots of just gigantic news to talk about. | ||
| So let's get into it. | ||
| Here it is, your daily dispatch. | ||
| Here it is, folks. | ||
| Your Daily Dispatch for Wednesday, the 21st of May, 2025. | ||
| China to give $500 million to the WHO in the next five years, according to officials. | ||
| An official told this to the World Health Assembly on Tuesday, and the UN agency seeks extra funding to offset the expected loss of its top donor, the United States. | ||
| China's vice premier of state council, Liu Guangzhong, made the announcement in a speech in Geneva, saying, quote, The world is now facing the impacts of unilateralism and power politics, bringing major challenges to global health security. | ||
| Multilateralism is a sure pass to addressing difficulties. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Really, is this a big, big threat, big challenge to global health security? | ||
| You know what's a big challenge to global health security? | ||
| Eating bats. | ||
| While experimenting on bats, while creating viruses and releasing them on purpose from the lab in China. | ||
| I just, I wonder if this $500 million boon to the WHO has anything to do with the fact that they passed the pandemic treaty agreement yesterday. | ||
| I wonder if that has anything to do. | ||
| I wonder if China wasn't holding off on the big donation until they got that pandemic treaty in writing. | ||
| I wonder if it was a part of the pandemic treaty. | ||
| Do it this way. | ||
| Benefit China. | ||
| Skew things towards China, and China will be happy to make up the shortfall from the United States. | ||
| So, good thing we're not listening to the WHO anymore, am I right? | ||
| Meanwhile... | ||
| Supreme Court overturns Maine's censure of Representative Laurel Libby in free speech ruling over trans-athlete post. | ||
| This is from Infowars.com. | ||
| Free speech scored a procedural knockout as political etiquette took the count. | ||
| The court found that Libby's claim merited immediate relief, stating that her right to be free from censure for speech made in her official capacity was indisputably clear. | ||
| Since February, the censure has effectively stripped Libby of her ability to participate in floor debates or votes on legislation. | ||
| So this is hopefully a precedent that'll be set because the precedent as it is now is basically that if a representative of the people says something that I guess the mainstream media doesn't like, then the rest of the political body censure them and basically... | ||
| Remove representation for all of their constituents. | ||
| They can just no longer vote. | ||
| They can no longer speak up. | ||
| They can no longer debate or participate in committees until they apologize or in some cases they just get removed entirely. | ||
| Do you remember this happened to Steve King? | ||
| Representative Steve King a couple years ago when he was like, I don't get what the big deal is about white people, like white pride, like what white people are people too. | ||
| It's not that big. | ||
| I'm not scared by the idea of White people and they're just like, well, you're not a congressman anymore. | ||
| Well, if you believe that, then you're not allowed to be a congressman. | ||
| And that essentially would happen here only with trans things. | ||
| So, you know, there are these blasphemies. | ||
| See, we live in a gay Jewish theocracy and there are certain blasphemies that you can't violate, saying things like white people are anything other than evil or men are men and women are women. | ||
| You know, these basic inherent truths, uttering them is forbidden in this Glorious religious empire that we're operating in. | ||
| So she violated that law. | ||
| She's heretical in the eyes of the gay church, I guess. | ||
| And so she wasn't allowed to be a congressperson anymore. | ||
| She wasn't allowed to represent her constituents because she recognized basic biological reality. | ||
| And that's illegal. | ||
| You're not allowed to do that as a congressman. | ||
| So they stripped her of her. | ||
| Authority in her elected position, and now the Supreme Court has said actually representatives are in fact allowed to have opinions, and they're also allowed to express basic facts about nature and the world around us. | ||
| So it's a little bit of good news there. | ||
| A little bit of good news reaffirming elected representatives. | ||
| Ability to have thoughts. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Well done. | ||
| Meanwhile, DOJ opens an investigation into Andrew Cuomo over pandemic testimony to Congress. | ||
| Federal authorities have launched an early stage inquiry into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in response to allegations concerning his testimony about the handling of COVID-19. | ||
| The inquiry was initiated after congressional Republicans referred the matter, alleging that Cuomo had been dishonest about their probe during their probe, whereas a prior appeal to the Biden administration did not result in any investigation. | ||
| Cuomo, who previously ran for mayor and is a competitor of the current mayor, Eric Adams, has stated he's unaware of the federal investigation and insists he gave truthful testimony regarding incidents from four years ago. | ||
| Cuomo's spokesperson stated they were unaware of any such investigation The Justice Department declined further comment but emphasized it will continue to follow facts and restore equal justice, suggesting the investigation could affect... | ||
| Cuomo's political activities. | ||
| He sent COVID-infected patients into nursing homes and tens of thousands of people died. | ||
| So, I guess we're investigating that. | ||
| I mean, I guess we're investigating that. | ||
| Not sure what we're trying to find here. | ||
| He sent COVID-infected patients into nursing homes and tens of thousands of people died. | ||
| So, okay. | ||
| We're going to investigate that for a couple more years. | ||
| See if we can't figure out what to do about it. | ||
| Meanwhile, Trump unveils $175 billion Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield Plan. | ||
| The U.S. has earmarked an initial $25 billion to develop the Golden Dome Missile Defense System, estimated to cost $175 billion over time. | ||
| The system aims to use next-generation technologies across land, sea, and space to intercept missiles from anywhere in the world. | ||
| However, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that space-based parts of the system alone could cost up to $542 billion. | ||
| Over the next 20 years. | ||
| And folks, $520 and $42 billion. | ||
| Why fund a space-operated missile defense shield protecting the United States from the threat of nuclear catastrophe when we could, I don't know, teach Liberians to be gay, right? | ||
| I mean, we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars on important things. | ||
| Like making sure Tanzanian tribeswomen don't misgender people. | ||
| I don't know what actually we're doing with all of that money. | ||
| I don't really care anymore. | ||
| I don't really care all that much anymore. | ||
| You know, there's all this talk about the budget and they're passing this big, beautiful bill. | ||
| And, you know, I just don't... | ||
| I don't take it seriously anymore. | ||
| They're like, it's going to add trillions of dollars to the budget. | ||
| And it's like, do you understand that over the last three or four months, we've watched as Doge has uncovered trillions of dollars being just outright stolen by NGOs. | ||
| I got videos on this. | ||
| More information is coming out on daily basis. | ||
| And you know who had oversight? | ||
| Of all of these programs, right? | ||
| It was Congress. | ||
| So, sorry if I'm not really eager to jump on the bandwagon of these people who have suddenly developed extreme fiscal responsibility when for the last several decades, every single year or so, they approve a budget that allows, again, trillions of dollars to just be given to the left-wing activists in this country. | ||
| And around the world to overthrow governments, including our own. | ||
| I don't think you really care about the budget. | ||
| I don't think you really care about the deficit. | ||
| I think if you did, you wouldn't have given away the aforementioned trillions and trillions of dollars to your enemies. | ||
| So shut up already. | ||
| Meanwhile, Israel preparing to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, which is a great idea. | ||
| I think that's a great idea, Israel. | ||
| After all, I mean, you showed how easy it was for you to take on Gaza. | ||
| And hell, Gaza is just this tiny little, utterly dirt-poor, totally surrounded concentration camp, essentially, that's been cut off from direct military aid for its entire existence. | ||
| And, you know, that was like... | ||
| Swatting a bug for you, right? | ||
| It was so easy. | ||
| It's gone so well for you there in that tiny little enclave. | ||
| Totally, you know, empty of any substantial military force. | ||
| No, I'm sure taking on Iran is the next thing on your list. | ||
| I'm sure taking on the Republic of Iran will, you know, probably make Gaza look like a cakewalk, actually. | ||
| No, it's a great idea, Israel. | ||
| You're so smart. | ||
| CNN reported on Tuesday that the United States obtained new intel suggesting Israel is currently planning on striking Iran's nuclear and uranium enrichment facilities. | ||
| No final decision has been made, according to CNN. | ||
| President Trump recently demanded that Tehran stop enriching uranium. | ||
| Iran's Supreme Leader blasted the Trump administration on Tuesday and said the Islamic Republic will continue to pursue their own policies. | ||
| Khomeini said on X, for the Americans say we won't allow Iran to enrich uranium is utter nonsense. | ||
| We aren't waiting for anyone's permission. | ||
| The Islamic Republic has certain policies, and it will pursue them. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| So, yeah, I mean, I don't know. | ||
| I really don't know. | ||
| I was going to say I can't imagine Israel is serious about trying to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. | ||
| I mean, there's lots of angles to this, lots of reasons why. | ||
| This would be such a terrible idea for Israel and the world. | ||
| For one thing, the nuclear facilities themselves are probably a little bit more sophisticated than the Hamas tunnels. | ||
| If I had to guess, if I had to guess the Looney Tunes-style tunnel system of Hamas, which so far has defeated Israel for a year and a half, they've still not eradicated the Hamas presence in Gaza. | ||
| I imagine that pales in comparison to the nuclear facilities in Iran that are under mountains. | ||
| They do not have munitions. | ||
| Munitions don't exist that can take those things out from a bombing airship. | ||
| Israel also doesn't have the airships necessary to carry the bombs if they did exist. | ||
| Iran has hundreds of thousands. | ||
| of ballistic missiles that cannot be stopped by the Iron Dome and probably could, if they wanted, wipe Israel off the map without too much trouble. | ||
| If Israel strikes Iran's nuclear facilities, it is for the sole intent and purpose of drawing America into the fight. | ||
| Because if you're Iran, you have to be running with the calculation of Israel and America essentially being the same thing. | ||
| For all intents and purposes, tactically on the ground in the Middle East, pretty much the same thing. | ||
| So if Iran gets hit, it's America that's going to get the blowback. | ||
| Israel's going to get it too, but America's going to get the blowback in a big way. | ||
| And we've got bases all over there, and we've got aircraft carriers right off their coast. | ||
| And if they take out a couple thousand American soldiers in a single day, yeah, we're going to be in... | ||
| We're going to be in war with them. | ||
| It'll be World War III in a very big way. | ||
| So I was being sarcastic earlier. | ||
| I don't think Israel should bomb Iran. | ||
| I don't think they should. | ||
| I think that's a terrible idea. | ||
| And by all appearances, the Trump administration is trying to hold Israel back or is at least not cooperating with them. | ||
| The rumor was that J.D. Vance skipped. | ||
| His visit to Israel during his Middle East trip because he didn't want to appear to be approving of the Israeli now acknowledged desire to just take over all of Gaza and occupy it all militarily. | ||
| But the issue with that is that we're still delivering weapons to them on practically a daily basis. | ||
| We are still providing them International cover. | ||
| We just sanctioned a judge on the ICC because they said Israel was guilty of genocide. | ||
| So we are still very much in every possible tangible way supporting, facilitating, upholding, giving political cover or media credence to all of the moves Israel is doing when we could stop all of this and could have a year ago or more. | ||
| Israel cannot do what it's doing without America's support. | ||
| If we felt like it, we could withdraw that support and they wouldn't be able to do this anymore. | ||
| It's not complicated. | ||
| So again, it just sort of falls flat. | ||
| I don't believe it when I hear these rumors of Trump pushing back on Israel, threatens to withdraw. | ||
| I mean, maybe it's true. | ||
| I hope it's true. | ||
| In certain regards, It appears as though they're at least not giving the carte blanche political coverage that Biden was giving them. | ||
| Constantly going out and repeating the lies of the trauma-based mind control, war propaganda, babies in ovens, that sort of thing. | ||
| But it just sort of, I don't, you know. | ||
| If they wanted Israel to stop, they could make Israel stop. | ||
| We're America, they're Israel. | ||
| Who do you think should be listening to who? | ||
| The greatest in history, superpower, economic engine of the world, most powerful nation to ever exist by a country mile, America or surrounded by enemies, tiny little unproductive country in the Middle East. | ||
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| Should be telling who, what the deal is. | ||
| So it's just, I just don't buy it. | ||
| I just don't buy the signaling, the anti-Israel signaling. | ||
| I was sort of hopeful about it earlier on, but if they want to stop, if they want to counter-signal, if they want to stop Israel from carrying out a genocide, they could literally do it today. | ||
| It's not an issue. | ||
| It would be incredibly easy. | ||
| I don't know why we don't, but again, I feel like I've been repeating myself for a year and a half. | ||
| How many times have we gone over this reality of America, the gigantic dire wolf on steroids being led around by the chihuahua Israel? | ||
| I mean, it just makes no sense. | ||
| It makes no sense. | ||
| And so I don't buy it. | ||
| It's as simple as that. | ||
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| Let's go now to clip number three here because this, again, is a big topic of conversation. | ||
| We covered it a little bit yesterday, but this video has gone viral. | ||
| I think it's worth taking a look at. | ||
| It's the mysterious shift of Dan Bongino from before he was in office and now after. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| Listen, that Jeffrey Epstein story is a big deal. | ||
| Please do not let that story go. | ||
| Keep your eye on this. | ||
| Catherine Rumler, we need to keep the heat on this case, folks. | ||
| There are a lot of people who are knee-deep in the Washington swamp who are not telling you the truth about Serious allegations out there that Epstein may have had video and audio of people out there doing things they shouldn't have been doing. | ||
| And you should be asking yourself the question, how is it that all these people, the CIA director, the Obama fixer, Bill Clinton, all intersected past with Jeffrey Epstein. | ||
| Jeffrey Epstein isn't with us anymore, and nobody seems to want to talk about it. | ||
| Outside of a few entrepreneurial media outlets saying, hey, this is a big deal. | ||
| He killed himself. | ||
| Again, you want me to? | ||
| I've seen the whole file. | ||
| He killed himself. | ||
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I've seen the whole file. | |
| I've seen the whole file. | ||
| Yeah, who's been handling the file? | ||
| What file? | ||
| It's just, okay. | ||
| We don't believe it. | ||
| We're not buying it. | ||
| And honestly, it just looks like you're a hostage. | ||
| It looks like you're You're being held hostage. | ||
| I feel like, I don't know, I'm trying to figure out honestly what could be behind this. | ||
| There is no way, I mean, what could be in the file that would disprove all of the things we know about the Epstein murder? | ||
| Was there something in the file that showed that the guards didn't fall asleep? | ||
| Do you have the video of it happening? | ||
| Because I heard that that camera system was down at the time, mysteriously. | ||
| You're saying that you saw the same crime scene photos and read the same investigative documents that we've all seen. | ||
| What do you mean you've seen the file? | ||
| This is like a guy thinks his wife is cheating on him. | ||
| And he's like, I demand to see your phone. | ||
| Let me look at your messages. | ||
| And she's like, well, give me two weeks and I'm going to print them out for you. | ||
| And he's like, no, my wife is totally loyal. | ||
| I've seen the files. | ||
| No, I've seen her text messages. | ||
| She printed them out for me. | ||
| It's like, you don't think she could have kept some out of the print file there? | ||
| This is who you're trusting? | ||
| Okay, so I don't think there's anything in the file. | ||
| That would convince me that he committed suicide. | ||
| I wouldn't trust the file in the first place. | ||
| So let's just assume that that's not true, what Dan Vangino just said. | ||
| That he's got some ulterior reasoning behind saying that he thinks he killed himself. | ||
| Either this was, this is like, he's like, the way I imagine this went is the FBI, somebody in the FBI went, look. | ||
| Epstein didn't kill himself. | ||
| He was suicided, but you're dealing with forces beyond the FBI here, okay? | ||
| These are the type of people that can do this sort of thing. | ||
| And if they can get to Jeffrey Epstein in a jail cell and make it look like a suicide, what do you think they're going to do to you if you start messing with them? | ||
| It could just be out of, you know, literally just fear of death. | ||
| Or there could be some sort of deal that he's making, even in his own mind, of, hey, I thought Epstein was a big deal. | ||
| I had these other big deals I'm trying to get done. | ||
| And if I pursue the Epstein one, I'm going to lose my job. | ||
| I'm not going to be able to do all this other great stuff. | ||
| That's a deal with the devil, Bongino. | ||
| Just tell the truth. | ||
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| All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| Yeah, we got a lot of stuff to get into that has to do with the Trump administration, and they've been doing a lot of great stuff, honestly, and there's been a lot of positive surprises out of the Trump administration. | ||
| Always a little bit tempered by some not-so-great stuff. | ||
| Going on. | ||
| This is frustrating. | ||
| In any normal situation, this would be fine. | ||
| See, the situation that we're in is, like, what Trump's doing now, if it had been 10, 15 years ago, would be, like, unbelievable, incredible. | ||
| I would have no complaints. | ||
| I'd just, like... | ||
| All-star historical run of good use of power. | ||
| It would have been amazing. | ||
| We're so late in the game now. | ||
| I don't have any tolerance for any mistakes, any, you know, half measures. | ||
| We don't have that luxury. | ||
| Again, if Trump had come out with Doge and locked down the border and started the deportations, again, 10, 15 years ago, we'd be all right. | ||
| It'd be great. | ||
| It'd be amazing. | ||
| It'd be unbelievable. | ||
| I mean, what he's doing now. | ||
| So I don't want to downplay the really incredible success he's having. | ||
| I mean, he's actually altering the entire world order and setting it to rights. | ||
| It really is amazing. | ||
| This might not be enough. | ||
| I just don't think it's enough at this point. | ||
| And I think maybe the worst outcome of this would just be too little too late. | ||
| Would be that we have the opportunity, we got the people in power, and they just aren't going far enough. | ||
| Aren't going hard enough. | ||
| And it's being squandered. | ||
| Sucks to say that, because again, you know, we are, it is amazing, it is incredible, it's unprecedented what's happening. | ||
| But I don't know if it's enough. | ||
| I don't think it is, to be honest with you. | ||
| And I think I'll be able to explain what I mean. | ||
| There have been some people in Trump's administration that have been surprisingly very good, better than you would have ever expected. | ||
| One of these people is Marco Rubio. | ||
| And he was testifying in front of Congress yesterday. | ||
| And I want to go to, I believe this is part of his opening statement. | ||
| Let's go to clip number nine. | ||
| This is just some mind-blowing information from Marco Rubio. | ||
| I will say this. | ||
| Even with the reforms we've put in place and what we're suggesting is changes to our foreign aid, we still will provide more foreign aid, more humanitarian support than the next ten countries combined. | ||
| Then the entire OECD and far more than China. | ||
| China doesn't do humanitarian aid. | ||
| China does predatory lending. | ||
| That's what Belt and Road Initiative is. | ||
| That's what all of their aid is. | ||
| They have no zero record of doing humanitarian aid in the world. | ||
| And frankly, they don't know how to do it. | ||
| They have no interest in doing it. | ||
| What they're very good at is going into some country, making you alone. | ||
| And then holding that debt over your head. | ||
| And that's what they continue to do. | ||
| And by the way, you have to hire a Chinese company to do it. | ||
| So I don't agree with this assessment that there's no evidence whatsoever that China has either the capacity or the will to replace the U.S. in humanitarian assistance, in food deliveries, or in developmental assistance for that matter. | ||
| We provide development assistance. | ||
| They provide debt traps. | ||
| And that's a point over and over again around the world that we've made, and we've found receptive audiences to it. | ||
| Now look, any time you undertake reforms of this magnitude that needed to be made... | ||
| You're going to have hiccups and you're also going to have controversy. | ||
| But these reforms had to happen. | ||
| At USAID, 12 cents of every dollar was reaching the recipient. | ||
| That means that in order for us to get, you know, aid to somebody, we had to spend all this other money supporting this foreign aid industrial complex. | ||
| We're going to find more efficient ways to deliver aid to people directly, and it's going to be directed by our regional bureaus, and it's going to sponsor programs that make a difference, and it's going to be part of a holistic approach to our foreign policy. | ||
| And I look forward to engaging with this committee and the appropriators as well and ensuring that we get to the right place on that. | ||
| My last point I would make, this is something I am very proud of. | ||
| I believe, and I'm not besmirching anyone else, but I believe that the approach we have taken at the State Department. | ||
| And, frankly, at USAID, but at State Department, to move forward reforms that involved intake from all of our partners, that required input from people within the building. | ||
| Many of the reforms we've made were driven by people inside the building, many of whom have worked there for 20 or 30 years. | ||
| And now we are engaged with Congress, both in the House and Senate, in a comment period where we're taking many of your comments and are making changes to our organizational proposals that we look forward to bringing back to you with an official congressional notification. | ||
| And even after that, there'll be an opportunity to move forward. | ||
| But the State Department had to change. | ||
| I'm telling you, it was no longer at the center of American foreign policy. | ||
| It had often been replaced by the National Security Council or by some other agency of government. | ||
| When, in fact, we have these highly talented people, many of whom have served in multiple posts around the world and have a holistic view of how foreign policy needs to be conducted, that we're being edged out. | ||
| Because you know what? | ||
| When I get a decision memo early on at the State Department and they would hand me these memos, there were 40 boxes on this piece of paper. | ||
| That means 40 people had to check off, yes, okay, before it even got to me. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| That takes too long. | ||
| That's why people said, don't use State Department. | ||
| They take too long and it's too cumbersome. | ||
| And if any one of those little boxes didn't get checked, the memo didn't move up the chain. | ||
| That can't continue. | ||
| We can't move at that pace in this world. | ||
| Events happen quickly. | ||
| And we have to be able to move at the pace of relevance. | ||
| And so I hope to work with you in a productive way to make that possible. | ||
| You're not going to like all the changes, but I want you to know what the intent of the changes are. | ||
| It is not to dismantle American foreign policy, and it is not to withdraw us from the world. | ||
| Because I just hit 18 countries in 18 weeks. | ||
| That doesn't sound like much of a withdrawal. | ||
| And I see some of these foreign ministers, including individuals from Ukraine, more than I've seen my own children. | ||
| And I talk to them at least three times a week. | ||
| We are engaged in the world, but we're going to be engaged in a world that makes sense and that's smart. | ||
| And that isn't about saving money. | ||
| It is about ensuring that we are delivering to our people what they deserve, a foreign policy that makes America stronger, safer, and more prosperous. | ||
| So there you go, Marco Rubio talking about the... | ||
| The scam that was USAID and all these other programs sending money overseas from Wall Street Apes who posted that video, only 12 cents of every dollar spent from USAID went to the recipients. | ||
| The rest of it was funneled directly into NGOs who pocketed the money. | ||
| And even that is like, okay, who were the recipients? | ||
| I mean, like, you're trying to kidnap what I've stolen. | ||
| It's like, oh, the money being sent to the... | ||
| Liberal activist was being stolen by the liberal activist NGO. | ||
| It's like, okay, so 100% was stolen, but 12 cents was who it was actually supposed to go to, I guess. | ||
| Again, it's like, okay, and you're going to tell me that you're concerned about the budget now? | ||
| Now you're going to come out and say you can't pass a bill because you're worried about adding on debt when you signed off year over year on trillions of dollars just going wholesale to leftist NGOs in this country and around the world? | ||
| Yeah, I'm not buying it. | ||
| Even with the reforms we put in place, we're suggesting in changes to our foreign aid, we'll provide more foreign aid, more humanitarian support the next 10 countries combined. | ||
| China doesn't do humanitarian aid. | ||
| China does predatory lending. | ||
| They provide debt traps. | ||
| Well, who'd they learn that from? | ||
| That part of Rubio's testimony, God admit, a little bit insincere, a little bit hypocritical, I have to say. | ||
| What do you think the function of things like the IMF are? | ||
| I mean, what do you think the World Bank is? | ||
| That's what they do. | ||
| They lend out money, specifically to corrupt regimes in places like Africa, knowing that they're not going to get any of it back, and knowing that none of the money that's being sent is actually going to be invested and pay dividends. | ||
| It's all going to be stolen, but it's not going to be the people who steal it who are going to be... | ||
| You know, saddled with the bill, it's going to be the taxpayers of that country. | ||
| So it's a very simple method of literally just taking over a country. | ||
| You give a billion dollars to some corrupt leader, he spends it on villas in Florida, and then the people of that country are saddled with sort of permanent debt, and they have to pay interest on the debt. | ||
| I mean, do you remember during COVID, when they were printing all that money to deal with the economic disaster that they created? | ||
| Remember when they shut down the economy and they said, oh gosh, we have to print all of this money? | ||
| And George Soros came up with, how did he put it? | ||
| Permanent bondage? | ||
| What was the term that he used? | ||
| He was like, my new idea is indefinite bondage. | ||
| I think that's what it was. | ||
| Essentially the idea that they would loan trillions of dollars of money and then you would never pay off the debt. | ||
| The countries would just have a portion of their tax revenue. | ||
| Shaved off and sent to the banks forever. | ||
| You never pay it off. | ||
| You would just only ever pay interest on it forever. | ||
| And it's like, yeah, that's the practice. | ||
| That is the method by which these organizations have already taken over a large portion of the world and continue to do so. | ||
| So again, to act like China is unique in this, a little bit insincere. | ||
| I mean, it is true that China does not even have the pretense of caring about the countries that they're doing business with. | ||
| If you've ever watched the documentary Empire of Dust or read anything about Chinese activity in Africa, none of it benefits the people in Africa. | ||
| I mean, the Chinese bring their own people to do the jobs. | ||
| They buy things from China. | ||
| It's like how they run their fishing fleet operations. | ||
| Sure, they might be... | ||
| Fishing just off your coast. | ||
| Depleting your waters. | ||
| But they never even land or dock on shore. | ||
| They have a mother ship system where they ship everything back to China. | ||
| Everything they receive is from China. | ||
| Everything they ship goes right back to China. | ||
| And there's no meaningful interaction with the locals whatsoever. | ||
| So that is how China operates. | ||
| They just aren't, again, saddled with the leftist mind virus that... | ||
| Makes them pretend like it's all being done in charity. | ||
| Or for the benefit of the people on the ground, they're just straight up about it. | ||
| But I think it's a little dishonest for Rubio to act like China's came up with this nefarious scheme of lending money in order to gain power over countries. | ||
| That's been the practice of the Western banks forever. | ||
| Yeah, the Belt and Road Initiative. | ||
| Not a charity, not a humanitarian effort. | ||
| Regardless, it goes on. | ||
| The U.S. State Department was captured, saying the State Department had to change. | ||
| It was no longer the center of American foreign policy. | ||
| had been replaced by the National Security Council or some other agency of government when in fact we have these highly talented people that were being edged out. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Again, what do we... | ||
| What do we get for any of this? | ||
| Like, there is a difference. | ||
| There's a very meaningful and tangible difference between being charitable and being taken advantage of. | ||
| Of giving away excess because you have so much and of sacrificing your own prosperity to uplift others. | ||
| Especially If the uplifting never happens. | ||
| Right? | ||
| There's a pretty big difference between somebody choosing to help somebody. | ||
| There's a difference between somebody seeing somebody who's down on their luck, maybe lost their home, living on the streets, just needs some help, needs a place to take a shower. | ||
| There's a difference between somebody going out and saying, hey, I'm going to give you a place to live. | ||
| I'm going to give you some food. | ||
| We're going to get you back on your feet. | ||
| And then a couple months later, their life is turned around. | ||
| They're looking better, feeling better. | ||
| They're working. | ||
| They're stable. | ||
| They're able to get into an apartment. | ||
| That's how charity or humanitarian assistance is envisioned. | ||
| Go to these poor beleaguered countries. | ||
| We help them, give them a hand up. | ||
| Enough that they can make it on their own. | ||
| There's a difference between that and just the person who chooses to be a homeless, alcoholic, drug addict on the corner. | ||
| And I come along, rob you, take your money, give it to him. | ||
| He buys booze and ends up in the gutter. | ||
| And then I go steal more money from you to feed him again. | ||
| One of these is charity, and it benefits the receiver and the giver. | ||
| The other benefits nobody at all. | ||
| Who's acting morally in that second scenario? | ||
| The person who's robbing the other person? | ||
| It doesn't seem very moral to me to rob money just because I'm giving it away. | ||
| I don't have a right to take it. | ||
| Is it the person who's being robbed? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't think being robbed makes you virtuous. | ||
| Or is it the homeless person who's just taking what they can get and wallowing in self-destruction? | ||
| So we just have a totally virtuous system of humanitarianism. | ||
| And that number is insane, that we, after all these cuts, after all of the billions upon billions, hundreds of billions of dollars taken out of the so-called humanitarian NGO network, we are still more giving than the next 10 countries combined. | ||
| It's like, what is the outcome of that? | ||
| What is the outcome of that? | ||
| We're despised all over the world, regardless. | ||
| The people that we've given this stuff to are in just as bad a position as they ever were. | ||
| The American people are massively less resourced than we would be otherwise. | ||
| Why are we doing this? | ||
| What is this? | ||
| It really is. | ||
| It's like unbelievable how much Americans are taken advantage of. | ||
| It really is like truly astonishing. | ||
| Truly. | ||
| You know, sometimes you'll hear a story of, you know, somebody being scammed. | ||
| Happens a lot to elderly people because the scams are really sophisticated. | ||
| Happened to my family members where, like, somebody calls my grandma and is like, says they're my cousin, knows his name, knows what we call our grandmother, knows where he lives, like, knows everything about him, is able to, like, convince her that he's, like, in jail and needs help. | ||
| And you hear, like, oh, man, they lost, like, $2,000. | ||
| And it's like, oh, man, $2,000, that's a lot of money. | ||
| This is like... | ||
| More than half of what we create is just robbed from us. | ||
| This is the equivalent of every month your grandmother writing a $20,000 check to some Nigerian scammer. | ||
| It's just like, I thought it was bad when it was $2,000. | ||
| I thought it was bad when I just thought it was some percentage. | ||
| It's like everything we do is stolen from us. | ||
| Everything we create is given to other people. | ||
| Meanwhile, we can't fix our roads. | ||
| Our infrastructure is on the brink of collapse. | ||
| We've got like 100 bridges that need to be completely replaced in the next 10 years and we can't even do that. | ||
| But we're still giving hundreds of billions of dollars to the third world and then taking in their prisoners and excess population. | ||
| It's like, when are we going to realize Being taken advantage of is not good for anybody. | ||
| It's only not being charitable or giving to just be robbed. | ||
| But like I was explaining, it just doesn't help anybody. | ||
| It doesn't help anybody. | ||
| So I'm ready to just cut off the rest of the world. | ||
| I don't know about you. | ||
| I would like to see America benefit from our unprecedented historical Unprecedented, just unmatched, unrivaled in all of human history. | ||
| The prosperity that we create. | ||
| The economic power that we have. | ||
| And it's just, everybody's living hand to mouth. | ||
| And everybody is living paycheck to paycheck. | ||
| Doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Yeah, you think being the... | ||
| Biggest, most powerful, most prosperous country in the history of the world would have some sort of benefit for the people that live here, but never, not once, do we get anything from it. | ||
| Here's another clip from Marco Rubio. | ||
| This one went pretty viral yesterday, which again shows one of the great things about Trump and his administration is they do respond to the mood of the people and they react to shifts in the political landscape. | ||
| Here's Marco Rubio being questioned by Tim Kaine, I think. | ||
| Somebody. | ||
| He looks like a Tim. | ||
| Tim Waltz? | ||
| No, it's got to be Tim Kaine, right? | ||
| Generic, fat, balding, white Democrat number four. | ||
| He's being questioned by him about the South African refugees. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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But I'm going to ask you, so a well-justified fear of persecution? | |
| Yeah, they thought that their farms were being burned down and they would be killed. | ||
| I think that's a pretty good justification for wanting to come. | ||
| They're afraid for their lives. | ||
| And should it be applied in an even-handed way? | ||
| That's an easy question. | ||
| Our foreign policy doesn't require even-handedness. | ||
| It requires prioritizing the interests of the United States. | ||
|
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The statutory phrase says you are entitled to entrance as a refugee if you demonstrate a well-justified... | |
| Fear of persecution. | ||
| No, no, you're not entitled. | ||
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You're allowed. | |
| So can you have a different standard based upon the color of somebody's skin? | ||
| Would that be acceptable? | ||
| Well, I'm not the one arguing that. | ||
| Apparently you are, because you don't like the fact that they're white. | ||
| I'm just asking you to say that that would be unacceptable. | ||
| That would seem to be a very easy thing to say. | ||
| The United States has a right to pick and choose who they allow into the United States. | ||
| Even based on the color of somebody's skin. | ||
| You're the one that's talking about the color of their skin, not me. | ||
| These are people whose farms were being burned down and they were killed because of the color of their skin. | ||
| Well, you've demonstrated enough because you think anyone should be allowed into this country for any reason because they made a certain criteria. | ||
| Who has said that? | ||
| We are going to prioritize people that come into our country on the basis of what's in the interest of this country. | ||
| That's a small number of people that are coming. | ||
| But you said this weekend that there would be more. | ||
| But in other cases, it's harder to vet. | ||
| In other cases, it's more difficult. | ||
| And by the way, the United States admits people every year. | ||
| Again, it's just one of the biggest mask-off moments ever. | ||
| The way these people who cheered on the invasion of Tens of thousands of people. | ||
| I mean, God only knows. | ||
| I saw somebody tweet out yesterday. | ||
| You know the really scary thing about letting in 30 million people over four years from all over the country with no vetting procedure whatsoever? | ||
| We have no idea how many white South Africans could have been in that 10 million, in that 30 million. | ||
| We have no idea. | ||
| Do you have any idea how many... | ||
| White South African farmers could have gotten over our border in the last four years. | ||
| We need deportations now. | ||
| It's just the absurdity of these people being up in arms. | ||
| Over 60 farmers slated for death by their own government. | ||
| Who since they've come, their own government is like they're cowards. | ||
| They need to stay and receive their punishment. | ||
| And there's just something so revealing about the hatred and vitriol pitched at these. | ||
| And some of the only legitimate receivers of refugee status or asylum claims that we've ever received in the entire time that this scheme has been in operation. | ||
| But what you saw there was still, in some small way, a Geopolitical title shift. | ||
| You just had Marco Rubio pointing out and calling out the fact that Democrats only hate the South African refugees because they're white. | ||
| The type of thing that's been obvious forever, but has been blasphemous for a long time. | ||
| So nobody would say it. | ||
| Everybody knew it. | ||
| Nobody would say it. | ||
| Now people are saying it, and that's a good thing. | ||
| We have another example of this happening more and more. | ||
| Clip number two here, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just got called out for his anti-white statements that he's made recently. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Real Chicagoans woke up this morning relieved that the Department of Justice is finally investigating your race hustle. | |
| As someone who grew up on the south side of Chicago, I've heard a lot of race hustlers in my life, trust me. | ||
| But they were usually marching around outside of City Hall, which is what makes this so embarrassing. | ||
| Embarrassing and dangerous. | ||
| Very, very dangerous to the city of Chicago. | ||
| Okay, we need the question. | ||
| I'm more than happy to ask this question. | ||
| It's long overdue. | ||
| For over a year, real Chicagoans, white and black, have been telling me that your black power rhetoric is bringing the city backwards from a place that... | ||
| We need the question. | ||
| ...had overcome. | ||
| You want the question? | ||
| Please. | ||
| Real Chicagoans want to know. | ||
| Why are you a racist? | ||
| Well, you know, first of all, I reject the idea and the premise that somehow that that's an actual legitimate question. | ||
| All right, we're going to go to the next one. | ||
| The next question, my follow-up question is, a businessman, Robert Gomez, had his Riverfront restaurant license. | ||
| We can bring it down. | ||
| Recently, the Chicago mayor, I mean, he's out there getting... | ||
| Talk to where he's like justifying his racism, where he's going, yeah, I only hire black people. | ||
| They're better than whites. | ||
| And he's like, me? | ||
| Racist? | ||
| What? | ||
| All right, welcome back, folks. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Wait, I might throw an audible again. | ||
| I am going to go to the Kristi Noem clip here. | ||
| I'm going to go to the Kristi Noem clip here. | ||
| I got a bunch of videos I want to go to, and I'm just having trouble deciding which one to go to first. | ||
| Since we're on the topic of Trump's administration, this is why I intro'd this segment. | ||
| Saying, what he's doing is good, but there's always just like a little caveat here or there. | ||
| In this case, we've got Marco Rubio, you know, destroying Tim Kaine and saying, you just don't like these people because they're white. | ||
| In response, they don't have a response to that, if that makes any sense. | ||
| But here's Christy Noem being questioned yesterday about habeas corpus. | ||
| The Trump administration is talking about suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which would allow them to detain and probably expel those slated for deportation. | ||
| Noam incorrectly defines habeas corpus as the president's right to deport people. | ||
| Here's Kristi Noam being asked about habeas corpus in front of Congress. | ||
| So, Secretary Noam, what is habeas corpus? | ||
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Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their right to... | |
| Let me stop you, ma 'am. | ||
| Habeas corpus, excuse me, that's incorrect. | ||
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President Lincoln used it. | |
| Excuse me. | ||
| Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. | ||
| If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason. | ||
| Habeas corpus is the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea. | ||
| As a senator from the live free or die state... | ||
| This matters a lot to me and my constituents and to all Americans. | ||
| So, Secretary Noem, do you support the core protection that habeas corpus provides, that the government must provide a public reason in order to detain and imprison someone? | ||
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I support habeas corpus. | |
| I also recognize that the President of the United States has the authority under the Constitution to decide if it should be suspended or not. | ||
| It has never been done without approval of Congress. | ||
| Even Abraham Lincoln got retroactive approval from Congress. | ||
| Retroactive approval. | ||
| Oh, retroactive approval. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, you know, I was actually, I was going to play this clip and... | ||
| You know, because it's not good. | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| It's embarrassing. | ||
| Chrissy Noem is asked to define habeas corpus, and she's like, it's the president's right to remove people. | ||
| Like, that's just not it at all. | ||
| That's not it at all. | ||
| And that's a bad response. | ||
| But then, actually, like, searching habeas corpus and seeing the breakdown, I actually kind of want to give her a break. | ||
| I actually kind of think I get what she was... | ||
| Saying there, just from Google AI, just what pops up if you search habeas corpus, a writ of habeas corpus is a court order demanding that a person in custody be brought before the court to determine if their detention is lawful. | ||
| In simpler terms, it's a legal mechanism to ensure somebody isn't illegally imprisoned and give them an opportunity to challenge their detention in court. | ||
| So I can sort of see what she's saying there. | ||
| She almost just like inverts it a little bit. | ||
| But it's a court order challenging the legality of someone's imprisonment or detention. | ||
| And it's almost like she's saying, it's almost like she has the inverted definition of habeas corpus, where habeas corpus is in effect, and suspending that is what allows you to deport people, not invoking it. | ||
| Regardless, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. | ||
| Extraordinary times. | ||
| And look, I don't want the writ of habeas corpus suspended. | ||
| I don't want the government to be able to imprison people without a reason. | ||
| I think that's obviously anathema to our constitutional rights. | ||
| So let us just deport these people. | ||
| Let us deport the foreigners. | ||
| We won't have to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. | ||
| Stop having judges interfere in the lawful actions of the executive. | ||
| And then we won't have to remove judges or circumvent judges or override judges or suspend other constitutional rights. | ||
| Let us protect our country and we can protect our rights. | ||
| Stop interfering. | ||
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All right, welcome back, folks. | |
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| Second hour is on. | ||
| We'll be joined by Matt Baker in the next hour and Toad as well from the Tower Gang. | ||
| Talk about his experience with cancel culture. | ||
| you We'll be all right again And I think what we need to do now... | ||
| I think what I'm going to do is go to this video from Megyn Kelly and Jake Tapper. | ||
| I almost don't even want to talk about this stuff, but I do think it's hopefully an opportunity for people to wake up to the reality of mainstream media cooperation with... | ||
| The government, their willful ignorance to things going on. | ||
| Jake Tapper has the temerity to write a book about the cover-up of Joe Biden's mental health. | ||
| And here's the craziest, here is the absolute craziest part of all of it. | ||
| And you'll hear it in this clip. | ||
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Jake Tapper... | |
| Covers up Joe Biden's mental infirmity. | ||
| He criticizes people pointing it out. | ||
| He smears them and insults them and questions their motives. | ||
| It blows up in the Democrats' face. | ||
| Joe Biden is revealed to be just as retarded as we said. | ||
| He goes on to write a book. | ||
| Trying to portray these events as if he was being tricked, as if Jake Tapper was honest and upfront and trying his best, and those darn Biden operatives were too sophisticated for him and stopped him from knowing how sick he really was. | ||
| But in this interview with Megyn Kelly, he's still making the same excuses. | ||
| Jake Tapper is still Like acting like he was doing the right thing early on. | ||
| He writes a whole book about this, but then when he's pressed on it, he's like making up excuses for why he said the things he did back then. | ||
| I think you'll see what I mean. | ||
| You would think after writing a book about it, it would just be no caveats, no asterisks, just like full-fledged. | ||
| Apology up front. | ||
| Here's what actually happened. | ||
| But like he still is talking about Biden having a stutter. | ||
| It's like Biden never had a stutter. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| How do you write a book on this and you're still like, well, I thought he was making fun of the stutter. | ||
| We'll watch the clips here. | ||
| We'll break it down. | ||
| Let's go to clip number eight here. | ||
| Yeah, clip number eight. | ||
| You covered the Biden presidency aggressively throughout the four years, and you didn't cover mental acuity hardly at all. | ||
| I mean, time and time again, when issues came up, you seemed to be running cover for the president. | ||
| I don't think that's true. | ||
| Well, I mean, we'll start with the Laura Trump issue that you referred. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| This happened in 2020. | ||
| Joe Biden, as we all know, has worked to overcome a stutter. | ||
| How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that? | ||
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First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stutter. | |
| I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. | ||
| That's what I'm referring to. | ||
| It makes me uncomfortable to watch the money on stage search for questions. | ||
| You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting was a stuttering. | ||
| I think that you were mocking his stutter. | ||
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I have no idea, Joe Biden. | |
| I think you were mocking his stutter, and I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. | ||
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And it's very concerning to a lot of people that this could be... | |
| Do you want to apologize to Laura Trump now? | ||
| He's like, I did, I did, I did. | ||
| Jon Stewart slammed CNN for promoting disrespectful Biden tell-all book amid cancer diagnosis. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| These people, man. | ||
| These people. | ||
| You can't tell the truth about them. | ||
| He has cancer. | ||
| That he just figured out about on Friday, I'm sure. | ||
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I'm sure. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I really don't know how to cover this in an adequate way. | ||
| Other than just repeating myself over and over again. | ||
| Everybody who was paying attention knew Joe Biden was. | ||
| In mental decline, if you want to put it that way, the absurdity of blaming a stutter. | ||
| I mean, Jake Tapper might have been saying, how dare you bring up these cheap fakes? | ||
| These are fake videos. | ||
| Like, they're just lying. | ||
| We have to sit here while the liars write books about their lies, and the books themselves are filled with lies, and they go on interviews and lie about the books. | ||
| It's like, what are we doing here? | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Here's the next clip where, you know, this is the follow-up to the clip you've just heard where Jake Tapper, again, despite writing a book about this, still seems to be clinging on to the idea that he was acting in good faith back then. | ||
| Which is, what? | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| Do you want to apologize to Laura Trump now? | ||
| I've already apologized to her. | ||
| I called her months ago. | ||
| And what does she say? | ||
| I mean, I don't want to disclose the contents of a private conversation, but I thought the conversation went well. | ||
| And she said, she has said this publicly, so I feel fine sharing it. | ||
| She said that she would never mock anybody's stutter. | ||
| But I mean, you know, after we did the research for this book, and I realized how bad his acuity issues were, I mean, I called Laura Trump and I said, you were right. | ||
| She was totally right. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| Because when I watch that clip, and I'm giving voice to what a lot of people watching the show are feeling, Jake, I feel angry because she was right. | ||
| And not only did you not allow her to make her comments, but you seemed to try to humiliate her. | ||
| You had a hostility toward the position. | ||
| But she was totally right. | ||
| And then you lectured her on how she was in no position to diagnose cognitive decline, which you guys do at length. | ||
| Including on page four of your book, you describe at length his cognitive decline, which is all she tried to do with you. | ||
| But you had such a visceral reaction to her. | ||
| And my feeling is that's because you didn't want to hear it. | ||
| Now, I mean, I'm happy to talk about this. | ||
| I didn't come here thinking that you weren't going to ask me about this. | ||
| I'm happy to talk to you about it. | ||
| The first time I saw the coverage of Laura Trump's comments, which were interpreted as her mocking Joe Biden's stutter, Was in January 2020. | ||
| I read it in conservative media. | ||
| I read it in the Daily Mail. | ||
| And that's where I saw that her comments were being interpreted that way. | ||
| After those comments were publicized, it got a lot of coverage. | ||
| And Sully Sullenberger wrote an op-ed in the New York Times criticizing her about this. | ||
| So that's the context for that, that I was Following up on a story that had been out there months before. | ||
| This is also in the context of October 2020, a very intense time. | ||
| People on the Biden side are saying crazy things about Trump. | ||
| People on the Trump side are saying crazy things about Biden, including Don Jr. suggesting that Joe Biden is a pedophile. | ||
| So that is the larger context. | ||
| But as I said, her comments have aged well. | ||
| My comments have aged poorly. | ||
| I own that. | ||
| My comments have aged poorly. | ||
| Yeah, that's one way of putting it. | ||
| That's one way of putting it. | ||
| My comments have aged poorly. | ||
| He's still doing it. | ||
| He's still justifying his position back then. | ||
| As if it was the right position. | ||
| And he says, how exactly do you say it? | ||
| I wrote it down. | ||
| He read her comments that were interpreted as mocking his stutter. | ||
| So, Laura Trump says, Joe Biden is mentally incompetent. | ||
| Somebody else says, actually, that's just his stutter. | ||
| And Jake Tapper comes out of that thinking, oh, Laura Trump is making fun of Biden's stutter. | ||
| And then he asks her the question, how would that make little kids with stutters feel? | ||
| Okay, like, do you understand? | ||
| Like, it's not necessarily, it's not a game of telephone where it gets distorted. | ||
| It's just a funhouse mirror of the leftist mind. | ||
| So it goes from, hey, Biden is obviously unwell. | ||
| Biden obviously, it's like, Biden just got lost in the jungle. | ||
| He just wandered off into the jungle. | ||
| And they're like, no, that's his stutter. | ||
| It's just like, what the hell are you talking about? | ||
| Yeah, Joe Biden just walked away in the middle of a ceremony. | ||
| I can't even remember the number of things that Joe Biden, it was just like, what the hell is going on? | ||
| Joe Biden is just facing the wrong direction when he's supposed to be watching something on stage. | ||
| And they're like, that's his stutter. | ||
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What? | |
| What the hell are you talking about? | ||
| Yeah, stuttering up the stairs. | ||
| Oh, look, he's stuttering on his bike. | ||
| He's laying on the beach stuttering. | ||
| Look, this is his stutter. | ||
| If you make fun of this, how do you think kids with stutters are going to feel? | ||
| You just hate kids with stutters. | ||
| So it goes from, Joe Biden is mentally incompetent and we can all tell. | ||
| Somehow that gets transmogrified inside the minds of these psychopaths into, you're making fun of children with stutters. | ||
| Nobody ever thought it was a stutter. | ||
| Okay, let me just stop. | ||
| Stop. | ||
| We can stop now. | ||
| We can just stop. | ||
| Now, I do think there's a very good article on this by Amuse on X where he talks about, you know, Tapper's book, and he says, there are moments when Tapper's restraint lapses, allowing clarity to burst through the fog. | ||
| One passage admits, almost casually, that the administration operated not through a coherent executive, but a politburo of advisors, Donilon, Klain, Dunn, Dillon, each maneuvering within a power vacuum. | ||
| That term, evocative of... | ||
| Soviet bureaucracy is not hyperbolic. | ||
| It captures the essence of a system that emerged under Biden, diffuse power with no accountability, decisions driven by fear of optics rather than national interest. | ||
| What Tapper avoids saying directly is that this arrangement nullified the constitutional role of the presidency. | ||
| It was government by apparatchik. | ||
| And they did it on purpose, and they did it willingly. | ||
| And the media... | ||
| He facilitated this. | ||
| It was a key component in this operation. | ||
| And again, Jake Tapper is sitting up there. | ||
| He just wrote a book on this that is supposed to be this tell-all mea culpa expose about what happened. | ||
| And he can't even be honest in the interviews. | ||
| He can't even be straightforward in the interviews. | ||
| He's still defensive about the way that he covered this. | ||
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Conflate. | |
| Claims that Joe Biden is a pedophile. | ||
| Which, let's just assume that's not true. | ||
| For sake of argument, because I think he is. | ||
| Because he keeps smelling children. | ||
| That was a stutter, I guess, probably. | ||
| Probably the diaries entries by Ashley Biden. | ||
| That was just her talking about her dad's stutter. | ||
| Stuttered his way into her shower. | ||
| So look, let's just assume that Joe Biden's not a pedophile and that's an outrageous accusation. | ||
| Is that really comparable to just pointing out what we can all see with our own eyes? | ||
| Say, hey, Joe Biden can't string a sentence together. | ||
| He can't say a four-syllable word without embarrassing everyone. | ||
| And Jake Tapper's like, people are crazy to saying all sorts of crazy stuff. | ||
| As a journalist, don't you have just a bare minimum level of critical thinking, skepticism, just your own knowledge that you can tell what's true and what's false, what might be true, what might be false, and you can do research to determine what's true and false? | ||
| Or are you just a helpless... | ||
| You're just helpless. | ||
| You're just being wafted along by the winds of whatever Daily Mail article you happen to read. | ||
| That constitutes the whole of reality to you, and you can't think outside of that or determine whether it justifies with what you know has come before. | ||
| Absurd. | ||
| This is all just absurd, and it becomes even more absurd when you have things like this. | ||
| Blew millions of dollars setting up a town hall. | ||
| And they ended up scrapping the whole thing because Joe Biden could not do it. | ||
| He was too incapable. | ||
| He was too cognitively decrepit to do this town hall. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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And Alex, the fact of the fake town hall is not actually the worst part of the story that you report in the book. | |
| Yes. | ||
| Other campaigns have used fake town halls. | ||
| Now I would say... | ||
| Those town halls usually are in addition to real town halls. | ||
| Joe Biden was doing neither. | ||
| This fake town hall was in order to film it so they could make it into campaign commercials. | ||
| They filmed it in Delaware with supporters. | ||
| But Joe Biden, at this point, this is the spring of 2024, Joe Biden's town hall, which was closed to press, was so bad that campaign officials determined that it was not usable for a campaign commercial. | ||
| So they took 90 minutes, two hours out of the president's day. | ||
| They filmed an entire town hall. | ||
| And they determined that it was not useful. | ||
| Now, some people say this was because Joe Biden was incoherent. | ||
| He could not really articulate his thoughts in a pithy or even semi-normal way. | ||
| Some people just said, like, the lighting was bad. | ||
| That was sort of the two points of view. | ||
| But the point is it shows how... | ||
| Like, what the campaign status was in the spring of 2024 when they were trying to, you know, deal with a candidate that wasn't their kind. | ||
| Wait, someone told you the lighting was bad? | ||
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That's one of the excuses. | |
| You're saying that they spent millions of dollars to stage a town hall? | ||
| Well, we didn't get the lighting right. | ||
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That was one of the excuses. | |
| I mean, and this comes back to the question of how many people were aware of things like that but said nothing? | ||
| How many people heard of things like that and said nothing? | ||
| Well, let's see. | ||
| Every one of his constituents that was in the town hall, his entire campaign, this was during the height of the presidential campaign, meaning he was constantly being followed around by a Gigantic bevy of dozens of mainstream media reporters who had to know that he did a town hall all day that day and had to know that it didn't air. | ||
| Where was a single report about this? | ||
| They all engaged in the cover up. | ||
| This is what's so stupid about this. | ||
| They all engaged in the cover up. | ||
| And here they are talking about the cover up they engaged in. | ||
| And blaming it on his stutter and the lighting. | ||
| That's a new one. | ||
| I hadn't heard that one. | ||
| Maybe that's why he fell off his bike. | ||
| It was the lighting, not his stutter. | ||
| That was a mistake on my part. | ||
| I thought it was his stutter that made him get lost and have to be ordered around by the Easter Bunny. | ||
| That may have been the lighting, in fact. | ||
| I mean, guys, come on. | ||
| It's like Democrats out there. | ||
| But, of course, I don't need to remind you. | ||
| They knew this. | ||
| The Democrats knew this, too. | ||
| This is the real thing about this. | ||
| It wasn't just the media lying about this. | ||
| The voters knew this, too. | ||
| Nobody didn't know this. | ||
| I don't believe that people didn't know that Joe Biden wasn't competent. | ||
| I don't believe that. | ||
| They're so captured, they think that's fine. | ||
| They're like, it doesn't matter yet. | ||
| So, you know, can you imagine going to a town hall with Joe Biden? | ||
| As a Joe Biden supporter, like they said, this was in Delaware. | ||
| It was his constituents. | ||
| Probably at least 100 people go to this theater, do a town hall with Biden. | ||
| It's so bad. | ||
| The footage has never seen the light of day. | ||
| I mean, it must have been horrific. | ||
| I mean, it must have been crazy. | ||
| From what we saw from Joe Biden, it was already unbelievably bad. | ||
| How could they, you know, and I guarantee you, They probably all still voted for him. | ||
| It didn't matter to them. | ||
| Everyone could literally go out on stage, be hallucinating things, be answering questions that aren't asked, be pooping his pants, and then fall asleep in the middle of the stage. | ||
| And they would still vote for him. | ||
| And I'm saying that because Democrats told me that. | ||
| I'll say it again. | ||
| There's somebody who said, I wouldn't care if he was in a coma, I'd still vote for him. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| They like the Politburo. | ||
| They like the diffused power where nobody is responsible for any decisions, where everything just sort of happens in some sort of vague milieu. | ||
| Again, back to this article from Amuse talking about the way that Biden was surrounded by all these advisors who acted as a Politburo that you got access through. | ||
| And it wasn't just the media. | ||
| That they did this with. | ||
| This was everything, right? | ||
| It wasn't Biden operating the pen. | ||
| It wasn't Biden answering questions. | ||
| It wasn't Biden making decisions. | ||
| It wasn't Biden doing anything. | ||
| He was laying on the beach like a squid for over half of his administration. | ||
| While a cabal of faceless admin bureaucrats made all of the decisions and answered all of the questions. | ||
| And this is not news to the Democrats. | ||
| They love that. | ||
| They think that's great. | ||
| Says this core insight, though carefully worded, vindicates years of conservative critique. | ||
| For all the mockery heaped on right-leaning observers who questioned Biden's fitness, Original Sin, the book, confirms that these doubts were not only justified, they were understated. | ||
| Tapper notes that mid-2023, internal polling and donor panic were rampant, yet the machine rolled on, lubricated by cynical calculus. | ||
| A declining Biden was still preferable to a Kamala Harris who inspired no confidence among voters, donors, or staff. | ||
| So again, you've got this setup of the Biden administration where he was a literal acknowledged puppet. | ||
| Everybody knew it. | ||
| But they would still say that you are mocking children if you question it. | ||
| You're mocking children with stutters. | ||
| How do you think they're going to feel if you bring up the fact that the leader of the free world is an incompetent, shuffling, brain-dead zombie? | ||
| Against beyond absurd, but the true absurdity is that people knew this and still voted for him. | ||
| And that Jake Tapper knew this. | ||
| And still covered for him. | ||
| Everybody around Joe Biden knew this and still played along. | ||
| And that the Republicans in office knew this and still played along. | ||
| And the whole time, every morning, we'd start American Journal by saying, we have another one, another clip of Joe Biden. | ||
| You know, we used to speculate, what would it feel like? | ||
| Yeah, it used to, it was like annoying. | ||
| It was like we got real news to cover, but Joe Biden keeps making a fool of himself and we kind of have an obligation to show you. | ||
| And I remember at the time being like, I have to show you this because they're going to claim that they didn't know that he was incompetent. | ||
| We showed you those clips for this time. | ||
| Like all of that was knowing that this day would eventually come. | ||
| And knowing that we needed this backlog of... | ||
| Probably hundreds of episodes every single time, starting with, well, Joe Biden's making a fool out of himself again. | ||
| Can't say a single word. | ||
| Can you imagine being one of his aides? | ||
| Can you imagine multiple times a day having to send Joe Biden out onto a stage or in front of cameras or to interact with people the whole time knowing? | ||
| That you're like walking a tightrope. | ||
| It's gonna go bad one of these days. | ||
| One of these days, it's all gonna come out. | ||
| And just praying to God and holding your breath that he just gets through the next five minutes, we can put him back to sleep. | ||
| Just absurd. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| You know, part of me doesn't want to give the time of day to the likes of Jake Tapper. | ||
| To give any level of credence to the book that he wrote. | ||
| But on the other hand, what is talked about in the book, I won't say uncovered in the book or discovered in the book. | ||
| We've known this forever, but it's a very big deal what he is explaining happened here. | ||
| But he's not doing it in any remote sense of sincerity. | ||
| None of it is because he actually didn't know Biden was impaired. | ||
| And when he realized he had this come to Jesus, I mean, all of this is just a farce. | ||
| It's laughably absurd. | ||
| I don't want to give it credence that way. | ||
| On the other hand, it's worth studying almost as like an anthropological. | ||
| Investigation into how it got this way and what this really means and what really signifies about where we are as a country. | ||
| Again, from this Amuse article, he says the value of this book, Original Sin, lies not in what it dares, but what it affirms, that the 2024 election was a case study in elite self-deception. | ||
| That the media's moral pedestal has collapsed. | ||
| That the governing class, far from being stewards of democracy, became custodians of a fiction. | ||
| This is not a partisan interpretation. | ||
| It's the book's thesis. | ||
| One need only read the closing chapters where Tapper recounts the post-debate fallout, the donor exodus, the vanishing of campaign surrogates, the polling collapse, to see that the illusion could not survive contact with reality. | ||
| But is that even talking about The Biden cover-up? | ||
| Or everything else? | ||
| How many situations, how does he put it, you know, fictions have these people been custodians of? | ||
| I think like five are off the top of my head. | ||
| Don't these exact words apply to COVID-19? | ||
| Don't these exact words apply to the lockdown measures, the source of the virus, the efficacy of the vaccine? | ||
| Aren't all of these things total fictions that they still to this day act as custodians of? | ||
| The Russiagate collusion hoax? | ||
| They still push to this day, to this day. | ||
| They're acting as custodians of that, acting as if it was remotely legitimate. | ||
| And not just a barely, barely covered up act of treason against Trump. | ||
| So it's just, we need people to understand. | ||
| Desperately, we need the Americans, because they wouldn't be able to get away with this if the American people were more informed. | ||
| They would not be able to get away with this if the American people objected to being lied to, objected to being ruled in this way. | ||
| I keep saying it. | ||
| It's like, it's one thing to have this be our government. | ||
| Infuriating. | ||
| But it's only compounded and intensified by the fact that the American people don't care. | ||
| And I'll vote for them anyway. | ||
| It's just pathetic. | ||
| It really is. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Again, I can't, I can't, I really can't express How routine this is at this point. | ||
| It's all the media does. | ||
| It's not like they get things right sometimes and are wrong other times. | ||
| They're wrong every time. | ||
| Everything they cover, they're completely dishonest about. | ||
| They're so dishonest at this point. | ||
| They're such liars. | ||
| That, like, the truth always comes out. | ||
| Like, they're not good liars. | ||
| It's not like an occasional thing where it kind of fly under the radar. | ||
| Things like COVID. | ||
| Things like the Russiagate collusion. | ||
| Hell, two months ago, they were telling us that Elon Musk is really the one in charge of the White House. | ||
| They wrote article after article after article about how Elon Musk had taken over the MAGA movement. | ||
| And he was the real president. | ||
| President Musk. | ||
| I mean, I can't tell you how many... | ||
| Times I saw that. | ||
| And now they're writing articles. | ||
| It's like, yeah, it looks like Elon Musk hasn't been heard from since April. | ||
| He's nowhere near the president. | ||
| He has no influence and no control. | ||
| It's like, yeah, you were lying about that too. | ||
| They lie about literally everything all of the time. | ||
| It's like crazy. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| And then they get called out for it. | ||
| And then they just carry on. | ||
| And they lie about the next thing, and the next thing, and the next thing. | ||
| Genuinely, I don't know. | ||
| I don't know if you can point to a major societal movement in the past 20 years that these people haven't been on the, you know, diametric opposite of reality. | ||
| Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, hands up, don't shoot. | ||
| Illegal immigration. | ||
| Oh, the caravans are a hoax. | ||
| The border isn't open. | ||
| Actually, it's Trump's fault that the border's open because he said for Congress not to pass the bill, and we have to pass the bill to close the border. | ||
| But actually, it's not a crisis, but it is a crisis, and it's Trump's fault that Congress isn't solving it. | ||
| And January 6th was worse than Pearl Harbor and 9-11 combined. | ||
| And mail-in voting is perfectly secure and can't be hijacked whatsoever. | ||
| And all of the claims... | ||
| About that are Russian disinformation, just like the Hunter Biden laptop. | ||
| I mean, has there been anything that these people have been right about? | ||
| I don't want to use the word right, that these people haven't blatantly lied about. | ||
| What else? | ||
| What else has there been that they haven't been sickeningly dishonest about constantly in the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza? | ||
| The activities we've done in terms of helping Israel out. | ||
| I think I need to get to that. | ||
| So I think I'll move on now. | ||
| But I just, every once in a while, you really just stop to think about the litany of things. | ||
| The endless cascade of lies constantly pouring over us. | ||
| And it's just crazy. | ||
| Just crazy. | ||
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Just crazy. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Again, you know, it comes out that apparently the reason, and it's all, I don't really have the words to describe this function, but I would hope that people get it. | ||
| And the example I've used before is like, if a gas station attendant wants to, or a cashier wants to sell booze to an underage person, he knows they're underage, they know they're underage, he just needs you to present an ID. | ||
| It can be fake, he doesn't care. | ||
| He just needs to be able to tell the cops if they are trying to bust him, hey, I carded her. | ||
| He's got a fake ID. | ||
| It's not my fault. | ||
| I carded her. | ||
| I did the thing. | ||
| I thought she was 21. He knows she's not 21. She knows she's not 21. Everybody knows what's going on here. | ||
| They just need the cover. | ||
| They just need the bare minimum justification for why they're pretending to believe what they believe. | ||
| And that's all that's going on here. | ||
| That's all that's going on. | ||
| Jake Tapper knows full well. | ||
| That Joe Biden was cognitively in decline. | ||
| He ignores it. | ||
| He pretends not to notice it. | ||
| And then somebody writes an article where they're like, actually, Lord Trump is making fun of his stutter. | ||
| And he's like, oh, okay, I'll go with that. | ||
| Oh, yeah, great idea. | ||
| Oh, yep, you're definitely 21. Here you go. | ||
| Now I can pretend to believe this. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Do you see what I mean? | ||
| That's all that's happening here. | ||
| It's all that's happening. | ||
| It happens over and over. | ||
| And so you've got this cabal of people around Joe Biden. | ||
| That apparently is signing orders within his name while he's in a different state or in a different country in some situations. | ||
| They're managing access to the media and not allowing Biden to say anything or speak for himself. | ||
| We were just lied to. | ||
| Oh yeah, dear poor Jake Tapper couldn't figure this out. | ||
| But what this reveals is, again, as that Amuse article denotes, a much, much bigger issue about the literal function of our government. | ||
| And from Gateway Pundit, Joe Biden's cabinet meetings, apparently, were completely scripted with cameras being used to creatively cover mistakes. | ||
| One of the details in Jake Tappert's book, which came out today, is that Biden's cabinet meetings were scripted, meaning they were little more than theater. | ||
| People in these meetings were... | ||
| More like actors than government officials. | ||
| They also reportedly used cameras to cover any mistakes. | ||
| If this is accurate, it basically means that Biden's presidency was completely fake. | ||
| Tapper and Thompson also reported Biden increasingly relied on teleprompters and note cards even for private discussions like cabinet meetings. | ||
| Before these meetings, White House staff called the various departments and agencies to figure out What they were going to ask the president so that answers could be prepared, the conversations were largely scripted even after the press had left the room. | ||
| The authors reported when a group would ask Biden to record a five-minute address for keynoting an event, the White House usually responded that the video would be one to two minutes. | ||
| Tapper and Thompson report, but Biden still struggled with that. | ||
| To compensate for that, aides filmed Biden with two cameras instead of one. | ||
| If Biden messed up, the edit was left obvious with a jump cut. | ||
| They reported other politicians used jump cuts, but Biden aides noted to themselves how much more often they had to use them for the president. | ||
| We still don't know who was running the country the whole time. | ||
| It really is a historic scandal. | ||
| I don't know why people keep saying we don't know who was running the country. | ||
| It was all the people around Biden. | ||
| Obviously. | ||
| It was all the people listed in that Amuse article. | ||
| Ron Klain, Dunn, Donilon, Dillon. | ||
| It was these people. | ||
| Saki. | ||
| Blinken, Merrick Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas. | ||
| Donald Trump seems to be taking this seriously enough. | ||
| He put this out on Truth Social yesterday. | ||
| He says, Treason at the highest level. | ||
| They did it to destroy our country. | ||
| The Joe Biden that everyone knew would never allow drug dealers, gang members and the mentally insane to come into our country totally unchecked and unvetted. | ||
| All anyone has to do is look up his record. | ||
| Something very severe should happen to these treasonous thugs that wanted to destroy our country but couldn't because I came along. | ||
| Make America Great Again. | ||
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Make America Great Again. | |
| The election was stolen. | ||
| COVID was released on purpose. | ||
| They opened the borders to flood our country with tens of millions of people, knowing that when it came time to deport them, they would be able to jam it up judicially. | ||
| And it's really an obvious thing. | ||
| It's like a, what's the word I'm looking for? | ||
| It's like a valve, right? | ||
| It's like a, you can let the people in easily. | ||
| But getting them out is going to be hard. | ||
| And they have this set up. | ||
| Because if 10 million people flow in through the border, how is an individual going to sue in court to stop that? | ||
| What am I going to say to a court if I'm trying to get a nationwide injunction to halt the flow of immigrants? | ||
| What argument could I make? | ||
| There is no argument. | ||
| There is no ability to, like, maybe the mayor of a city or the governor could sue, but every time the judge could just say, you have no standing here. | ||
| You have no standing. | ||
| I could say, hey, my life is being destroyed or otherwise inconvenienced because of this policy of mass immigration. | ||
| I'm suing to stop this. | ||
| And they would say, no. | ||
| No, you have no standing for this. | ||
| Because at that point, it'd be like, well, you'd have to sue on an individual. | ||
| It's not the Biden administration's scheme that's causing this. | ||
| It's the individual. | ||
| If an illegal immigrant's bothering you, it's that illegal immigrant. | ||
| It's not this widespread scheme. | ||
| So there was nobody who was even able to have standing to sue to stop this when they're importing people. | ||
| But when they're exporting people, every single one of the people that they're exporting Can file a suit and stop it from happening. | ||
| So it's just obvious that this was always the intention. | ||
| It is treason. | ||
| And clandestine, at war clandestine, says this. | ||
| We just lived through treason. | ||
| I'm tired of pretending like we don't know what needs to happen. | ||
| I'm tired of beating around the bush. | ||
| I'm tired of pretending like U.S. Code 2381 doesn't say that the punishment of treason is death. | ||
| 2381 says, So if it's treason, it's treason. | ||
| And treat it like it's treason. | ||
| And it is, in fact, treason. | ||
| That's Alejandro Mayorkas and Merrick Garland. | ||
| And all of the people around Biden hijacking his auto pen and apparently getting big bribes to do it. | ||
| I don't know if it needs to be military tribunals or a civil court hearing. | ||
| But as a comment to Trump's post, Operation Quantum Ghost puts it simply. | ||
| He's the president with full control of the military. | ||
| If nothing happens to them, it's his fault. | ||
| No more excuses. | ||
| He's in charge. | ||
| Buck stops with him. | ||
| He has the support of the people enough to get it done. | ||
| Just get it done. | ||
| Just get it done. | ||
| Just do it. | ||
| This isn't hyperbolic. | ||
| This isn't blowing things out of proportion. | ||
| They're at war with our country. | ||
| Tens of millions of illegal immigrants flooded into this country. | ||
| They're bankrupting us. | ||
| They're causing untold amounts of problems that we shouldn't have to deal with. | ||
| This was an attack against us. | ||
| Attack back for the love of God. | ||
| Now the problem that we have, I guess, is that it's just a hell of a lot easier To destroy than to build. | ||
| It's a hell of a lot easier to tear down the fabrics of society than to rebuild them up again, or to build them up in the first place. | ||
| To reassert control and everything else. | ||
| But it doesn't have to be that hard. | ||
| It really doesn't. | ||
| There's so many. | ||
| Mechanisms that Trump could be invoking right now. | ||
| At any moment, and this has been true since 2020 or before, at any moment, Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act, call up the state militias, and I guarantee you, 90% of the people I know would be lining up to do their part. | ||
| Whether that's take down criminals, take down illegal immigrants, arrest the traitors. | ||
| We have such an important opportunity here. | ||
| A last-ditch effort to save this country from the war that's been waged against it. | ||
| And that's what it is. | ||
| That's how it needs to be treated. | ||
| I've been saying it since Trump got into office. | ||
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I've been saying it since Trump got into office. | |
| These people have no power right now. | ||
| Right now, they have no power. | ||
| Right now, we have the Congress, we have the Senate, we have the presidency. | ||
| If they don't do it now, we'll never get a chance again. | ||
| We'll never get a chance again. | ||
| He's got to do it now. | ||
| He's got to do it now. | ||
| And they're going to whine, and they're going to complain, and then they're going to go to jail, and then they're going to get executed for treason. | ||
| And then the problem is solved, and we can move on. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| I mean, really, that's it. | ||
| That's the only possible path forward at this point. | ||
| Arresting, and charging, and executing the people that have done this. | ||
| Expelling absolutely everybody that's arrived in the last 10 years. | ||
| Illegally, we can start with. | ||
| And he said, you know, they're talking about 20,000 new Border Patrol agents. | ||
| How about 20 million volunteer Border Patrol agents with the posting of a tweet? | ||
| How about you invoke the Insurrection Act? | ||
| You say the United States government. | ||
| Has been hijacked by traitorous foreigners, essentially. | ||
| And the American people seize our government back. | ||
| How about 1776 2.0? | ||
| If there's another option, let me know. | ||
| If there's another solution to this, where these criminals get off scot-free and somehow our country is still saved, I can't see it. | ||
| I can't see it. | ||
| I don't know what it is. | ||
| What these people did was not an accident. | ||
| It was not some theoretical, you know, disagreement we have. | ||
| They literally are destroying our country and robbing us blind. | ||
| And we just have to stop them because if we don't, they won't stop. | ||
| It's really pretty simple, actually. | ||
| And who knows how many problems would be solved by that simple action. | ||
| And like they claim this is happening, apparently there were rumors that Pam Bondi was getting ready to charge Alejandro Mayorkas with something like treason for doing this. | ||
| Again, I just, it's so frustrating. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| It really is very annoying knowing that they have capability. | ||
| They just don't have the will. | ||
| We have fought for so long and suffered so much and yet still achieved victory and then we just get nothing for it. | ||
| I mean, honestly, how much of the American people invested in Trump? | ||
| And his administration. | ||
| Willing to go to the mat for them. | ||
| Willing to go to jail for years in solitary confinement for like a year straight. | ||
| Because they fought for Trump to be able to save this country. | ||
| It finally happens. | ||
| It's been four months. | ||
| And nobody's been charged for anything. | ||
| All the things I listed out that the media lied about, it was all carried out by criminals. | ||
| Nobody's been arrested for COVID. | ||
| Nobody's been arrested for the gain-of-function research in the release of COVID. | ||
| Nobody's been arrested for the lockdowns surrounding COVID. | ||
| Nobody's been arrested for Russiagate. | ||
| That was 10 years ago. | ||
| Nobody's been arrested. | ||
| Nobody's been arrested for the cover-up of Russiagate. | ||
| Nobody's been arrested for the fake impeachment scam. | ||
| That was just full of leakers and all sorts of other crap. | ||
| James Comey's posting assassination memes. | ||
| We can't even arrest him. | ||
| We can't arrest people that opened our border. | ||
| We can't arrest people that put mothers in jail for 10 years because they prayed silently outside of an abortion clinic. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Like, what do we do? | ||
| What do we do here? | ||
| What do we do? | ||
| It's very simple. | ||
| We arrest them all and we set our country right. | ||
| And if Trump doesn't do it, somebody way more extreme than him will. | ||
| And I just pray it's me. | ||
| We're going to be back on the other side of this commercial break with Matt Baker talking about sort of everything that we're talking about here in the federal level, just on the local level in San Diego. | ||
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| We're reporting live here from the historic center of San Diego, the heart of San Diego, the Gaslamp Quarter. | ||
| This place I grew up coming down here was so amazing. | ||
| But with San Diego being $250 million in the hole, they've decided it costs them too much money to keep this pedestrian precinct open. | ||
| I mean, as you can see, there is literally no one here. | ||
| It's a literal... | ||
| Ghost Town. | ||
| So we're here with a local business owner at Gaslamp Burger talking about the budget deficit, talking about why they're shutting this pedestrian promenade down, only to build another pedestrian promenade, the Pride Promenade in Hillcrest, for $25 million. | ||
| And they're going to pay for it by charging people downtown twice the price. | ||
| For their parking fees. | ||
| How do you feel about that? | ||
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Not good at all. | |
| For example, we put a lot of complaints about all these food carts. | ||
| And we even went to, like, four or five different meetings. | ||
| Perhaps nothing. | ||
| Literally nothing. | ||
| You were telling me earlier about a problem you're having with, you think there's a disproportionate response from the police department from when it comes to homeless people and different situations here as it parks other parts of the city, right? | ||
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Yeah, you go anywhere else, honestly, you hardly see any homeless. | |
| All the homeless pretty much got dumped somewhere here in downtown. | ||
| And we used to see a lot of families, they come down, just enjoy their time, eat, walk around. | ||
| Now, you don't see any families anymore. | ||
| Now, why do you think Little Italy and some of these other areas may be getting protection, if you will, while you're not? | ||
| Do you think they're trying to buy this area out or something? | ||
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Honestly, I think they're more supportive than Gasland. | |
| But why do you think? | ||
| I guess that's where the money is. | ||
| But when they had the pedestrian district here, there was more money, right? | ||
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That's when it's closed. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Better then, yeah? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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They told us we were okay to build a patio and spend over $20,000 on the patio. | |
| After one week, they say, no, no, you guys need to take care of that. | ||
| When did you do that? | ||
| During COVID or recently? | ||
| Right after COVID. | ||
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Oh, and they still allowed you to do it. | |
| So they gave us a permit to build a patio to cover so people, they can sit. | ||
| And we spent all that money. | ||
| After two weeks, they came, oh, no, no. | ||
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We changed the law. | |
| Now you guys need to take it out. | ||
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Well, why did we spend all that money? | |
| I mean, this is not good at all anyway. | ||
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Yeah, I mean, if they asked you to go out and put the bollards up, would you do it? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I think anyone would. | ||
| It's so ridiculous. | ||
| I mean, how much money does it cost to shut a street down when they already have it all set up? | ||
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I mean, you can see the poles. | |
| They're right there. | ||
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You literally unlock them, pull them up, pull them the holes they have on the ground over there. | |
| That's it. | ||
| I mean, it takes five minutes to close this whole street. | ||
| So here they are. | ||
| Apparently, it costs too much money to pick these up and stick them in the hole in the middle of the street. | ||
| What do you think about them not shutting down the promenade anymore here with the district? | ||
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It sucks. | |
| That was a fun thing. | ||
| So they're not going to have it shut down? | ||
| Apparently it costs the city too much money because, you know, there's $250 million in debt, right? | ||
| I mean, I talked to several business owners around here. | ||
| They said they would come out and put the dollars in themselves. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| For free. | ||
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It's a beautiful thing because you feel cool being able to walk down the street in this beautiful weather. | |
| It's a whole vibe. | ||
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Yeah, and then they could have more seating out here, which was happening after COVID, but it turned into a thing that they kept permanent, I thought. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| The COVID shanties. | ||
| That's what I call them. | ||
| Excuse me, how do you feel about them shutting down the gas? | ||
| Oh my god, it's so horrible. | ||
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This totally sucks. | |
| I thought Glory Hall can suck a big one. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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What are your thoughts on the shutting down of the streets? | |
| I think that we should keep the streets shut down at a certain point. | ||
| They're starting to take away our patios. | ||
| That's another thing that we're worried about. | ||
| Making them smaller to make them look for the streets. | ||
| So it might be a little cut back on our business there. | ||
| So did you know? | ||
| That they're shutting down this pedestrian district. | ||
| All right, that video you can find on band.video on Slave to Liberty's channel, Gaslamp Quarter Apocalypse. | ||
| It's also on his X that you can find at slave__2__liberty. | ||
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith, joined today by Matt Baker, who resides in the heart of darkness. | ||
| I hate to say San Diego. | ||
| Making a lot of news for a lot of not good reasons recently, and we're going to talk to him as an on-the-ground reporter. | ||
| Of course, you know Matt Baker for his activism where he advocates for liberty and effective common-sense solutions to government problems. | ||
| You can keep up with Matt on his band.video channel, Slave2Liberty, or on his Instagram at MattBaker underscore unhinged, and he's on Twitter at Slave underscore to underscore Liberty. | ||
| And of course, Welcome back to the show, Matt, as always. | ||
| Harrison, how's it going, man? | ||
| How you doing? | ||
| I'm doing very well. | ||
| You were watching yesterday as I covered the video that you played earlier in the segment you did. | ||
| Of course, people can find and share that video on your ex. | ||
| And I wanted to call in and give some context to this. | ||
| I mean, it seems typical to me of the California political landscape that restaurants... | ||
| That are under the crushing burden of regulation and taxes are being out-competed by illegals with hot dog carts on their sidewalks who apparently are not stopped from operating. | ||
| It's just absurd. | ||
| It seems like everything they're doing is designed to destroy local businesses there. | ||
| What can you tell us about what's going on in San Diego? | ||
| Well, that is it, because they're basically under attack from all angles. | ||
| So the more I look into this with my buddy, Luke Slywaker, who you've had on the show, and also Amy Reichardt, who basically made that one clip viral. | ||
| I think it's got like 8 million views, the one of the food cart getting pushed over. | ||
| I was actually on the phone with her this morning. | ||
| She was saying that it has been alleged in court documents by those businesses that are under this pressure that these... | ||
| Carts are actually being operated by a cartel, if you can believe that, and that the people aren't even from San Diego, that they're either from Tijuana or from L.A., and it's all part of a system to pay back their illegal human smuggling of them into the country now. | ||
| That's what she told me. | ||
| If you want to know more about that, you're going to have to talk to her in person. | ||
| But that has been alleged in documents. | ||
| That is interesting because I wasn't sure the way it was written. | ||
| I wasn't sure if they were saying the hot dog carts were illegal or that they were being run by illegals. | ||
| I didn't know if the illegal part was talking about the immigrants are illegal or just the food production is illegal. | ||
| Well, this is what's coming out now because she's looking into the story. | ||
| Amy Reichardt, shout out to her. | ||
| Don't quote me on that, but that's what she told me. | ||
| I was just talking to her just before the show this morning, and she told me that she is looking into the actual civil complaint that the restaurants filed, and somehow or another, they have information based on this. | ||
| And so, that not only are they illegal and without permit, and not only are they in front of businesses that spend trillions of dollars to try and keep themselves open, but that there's a whole other component to it. | ||
| Now, like I say, if you want to really get deep into that, then I'll get Amy on for you. | ||
| For me, right now, I'm looking at the big picture of San Diego and also calling on everyone, now that we have won the election, to turn yourself inward and go into the individual areas like we did last time with the, you know, talking about the Department of San Diego, efficiency, dose. | ||
| Each person and each patriot needs to really turn backwards and now look at your local area now that we've won this, you know, victory on a national scale. | ||
| And the more I look into it... | ||
| Honestly, it's getting pretty depressing because you have no idea in San Diego. | ||
| The last time I was on, I think it was about the rant about the budget deficit. | ||
| So it was $250 million budget deficit in San Diego. | ||
| Now it's a $300 million budget deficit. | ||
| And I remember I was mentioning this Pride Promenade that is going on. | ||
| And so the Pride Promenade was 27.5 projected, they said. | ||
| And then I'm like, it's going to be $50 million. | ||
| It's already at $30 million, and they've just barely cleared off the street and blocked it off. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So, they're basically, everything's underfunded. | ||
| And so now they've shut down fire pits, which I've gathered almost 3,000 signatures to keep our fire pits. | ||
| If you think about California, you think about coming to the beach. | ||
| Every movie in California, you come to the beach, you have a fire, a bonfire. | ||
| Now they're going to shut those down. | ||
| They're shutting down the beach. | ||
| Um, bathrooms, which is a lot of homeless people and people come in. | ||
| So now they're just going to crap on the beach and now there's going to be no, no bonfires. | ||
| So homeless people are now going to have just be make makeshift bonfires on the beach. | ||
| And now they're shutting down the parks and they're also shutting down the library on, on, on two days a week starting. | ||
| And they're shutting down, um, lakes and parks. | ||
| They're stopping funding the, uh, humane society, which says they're going to have to shut their doors, but. | ||
| They've got $27, $30 million for a goddamn Pride Promenade! | ||
| And this guy, Todd Gloria, Todd Glory Hole, I like to call him. | ||
| That's why that song's playing in the back. | ||
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Gloria, Glory Hole, don't you think they know you? | |
| Glory Hole. | ||
| So we're coming for Todd Glory Hole, okay? | ||
| Because he, not only is he San Diego's first homosexual person of color mayor, He lived and grew up in Hillcrest, which is where he is now funneling all the money from downtown. | ||
| He's doubled the parking meters downtown. | ||
| He shut down the Pride, not the Pride Promenade, the old town, the old gas lamp promenade, which is killing these businesses. | ||
| And now they're being crushed by these food carts. | ||
| And now they're being crushed by the homeless people. | ||
| And now all these city services are being shut down. | ||
| And meanwhile, in his area where he lives, Little Italy, It's thriving. | ||
| And they have all the homeless people pushed out of there. | ||
| They're using the homeless people as a pawn to move them into districts to funnel the nightlife. | ||
| And everyone's like, I don't go downtown anymore. | ||
| There's too many homeless. | ||
| Oh, it's all about Little Italy now. | ||
| Oh, it's all about Hillcrest. | ||
| And both of these are places he's physically invested in. | ||
| And that's where he gets his base from. | ||
| So he's funneling all of the money from downtown parking meters into Hillcrest for a gay promenade, which sounds like a little bit of a conflict of interest to me, and to Little Italy, where he lives and basically is surrounded by all this beautiful, they've got nice little seats in the streets and their little promenade so they can have people in all the businesses that are flourishing, and they're crushing the downtown businesses. | ||
| I believe that they're actually going to end up shutting down that whole area and just build what they love building, which is the quote-unquote low-income housing. | ||
| And they've just started another development of low-income housing where each individual unit is now going to cost $600,000 for a studio in a high-rise building that already exists. | ||
| That's the budget. | ||
| If you run the numbers, the total cost divided by the number of units, it's $600,000 for an affordable housing unit. | ||
| It honestly just goes on and on. | ||
| The thing you're saying about shutting down the bathrooms and so homeless people are going to have to... | ||
| You know you had a Hepatitis A outbreak five years ago because they moved all of the homeless and didn't give them facilities and they were moving on the streets and there was a giant health crisis throughout all of San Diego. | ||
| And it was ahead of the MLB game. | ||
| They wanted to get all the homes people away from the stadium, so it looked good on camera, shoved them all under an overpass, and they all got hepatitis A, and it spread throughout the state. | ||
| So it's like, I don't even want to know the number of downstream negative effects this type of stuff is going to have. | ||
| And you were showing the video. | ||
| I don't know if the crew can find it. | ||
| I know you posted, and I think it was Luke's video originally, of the infrastructure crumbling. | ||
| Like the seawall has these gigantic cracks in it and is like falling apart. | ||
| So it's not like they've got everything on the bases covered and they're just doing extra stuff on top of it. | ||
| The actual stuff that they need to be taken care of as a function of continuing to exist as a city, that's going to the wayside while they create gay promenades and spend all the money on illegal immigrant policing. | ||
| I mean it just gets worse and worse tomorrow. | ||
| Well, the thing is, like I said, so this... | ||
| Budget deficit that they're blaming, like, oh, because they wanted us to have a 1% sales tax increase. | ||
| And they're like, oh, because that didn't happen, we're in budget deficit. | ||
| But they shouldn't have been planning to have that sales tax increase, but they were. | ||
| But they don't even, I mean, it's getting bad, okay? | ||
| The sun is still shining, and it is a beautiful town, and it's a beautiful place, and a lot of the people I love around here. | ||
| But honestly, I think we're in a real crisis now. | ||
| At this point... | ||
| In San Diego, I think we're at a tipping point. | ||
| If we don't get rid of Todd Gloryhole, and if we don't bring in some more conservative leadership, I think we might actually turn literally into TJ North, Tijuana North. | ||
| Because the amount of money that's coming in the coffers from these businesses, they're starting all these onerous taxes and onerous parking fees and all these things. | ||
| That now is causing people not to go downtown. | ||
| And now is literally causing businesses to close down. | ||
| That Henry's Pub is closing down there, which somebody, the guy that threw over the cart, that was based on the Henry's Pub there. | ||
| That was their last night in business. | ||
| So people had snapped. | ||
| They're like, oh my God, this has gone too far. | ||
| They're also claiming that the people are overcharging drunk people in the street, that they're running their credit cards and doing credit card fraud. | ||
| That is an alleged, I don't know. | ||
| But what I'm saying is, is that... | ||
| It's kind of like the opposite to Reaganomics. | ||
| The idea with Reaganomics was if we make it easier for businesses, then more businesses will thrive, and then they end up getting more taxes. | ||
| But this is the inverse of that, where the more money that they're losing or the more money that they're overspending, their solution is... | ||
| Double parking fees. | ||
| Now they're charging us for trash. | ||
| They're charging each person double what they were charging in other cities. | ||
| Now, when we already paid for the trash pickup in the general fund, it has been paid for, and there was a law passed for over 100 years, it was paid for. | ||
| So this $300 million deficit that he's saying was $250 million, now $300 million, doesn't even include the $800 million to $100 million for the trash fees that they now are. | ||
| Extracting from people with a bill that they actually forced people into signing by saying at no extra charge they were going to provide these services. | ||
| But it says to reclaim fees at no extra charge. | ||
| But they're going to reclaim the fees and give you all these services at no extra charge over and above the $100 million that they're raping from the people now. | ||
| So now it's really getting up to a $400 million deficit. | ||
| And so they've started all these ridiculous plans. | ||
| They've started, you can't park on corners. | ||
| My neighbor has lived in Ocean Beach for 60 years in the same house. | ||
| She's been parking on this corner her whole life. | ||
| And now she gets a ticket for parking on the corner because it's unsafe. | ||
| You can't see around a corner. | ||
| So on these corners now, people are getting tickets for parking there. | ||
| Now they're getting extra parking tickets. | ||
| The street sweeping is a racket. | ||
| And then if you go downtown, they charge for that. | ||
| And now you used to be able to go to the parks. | ||
| And now they're putting in parking meters in the parks and all along the beaches. | ||
| So there's literally nothing you can do for free. | ||
| You go to the beach and you've got to go to the bathroom. | ||
| There's no bathroom. | ||
| The next time you go, you know, I'm just not even going to the beach anymore. | ||
| And they can't do the math unless it's completely being done on purpose to collapse this city. | ||
| By shutting down all these things, it's having a negative feedback loop where they're not going to get the taxes out of these businesses downtown. | ||
| And then they're going to go, oh, revenue's down. | ||
| So let's make more ridiculous rules and laws and more ridiculous funds and fees that you have to pay. | ||
| And it's just going to cause people to flee and flee and flee to where the entire system is literally, I believe, on the verge of total collapse. | ||
| And that's not even bringing in the Tijuana sewage situation, which I also covered. | ||
| Oh, I know. | ||
| And you've been on that for a very long time. | ||
| And I love that you're continuing to do it. | ||
| You've just done more and more of just the on-the-ground reporting like we saw in the beginning of this hour, just going out with a microphone or going out and watching the sewer outflow into the river. | ||
| I mean, it's just disgusting. | ||
| But you've got to know about it. | ||
| I mean, we've got to know this stuff is going on. | ||
| So I've been so impressed with the coverage you've been providing of what's going on in San Diego. | ||
| This isn't about San Diego, right? | ||
| I mean, San Diego was a microcosm of what's happening nationwide. | ||
| And again, this whole show, I've just been like wondering, just desperately trying to figure out how these people stay in power. | ||
| I mean, who is supporting these people? | ||
| If the small businesses are shutting down and all of the people around them are watching their neighborhoods become less safe and they can't go do the things they like to do because the promenade shut down Is cut off and the bonfire is not happening. | ||
| Like, who is in favor of this? | ||
| How do these people stay in power when just everything they do makes everything worse? | ||
| I don't know how to continue with this. | ||
| I can't even, I don't want to, it's like, this doesn't even add in the fact that the Ocean Beach Pier, which is the longest concrete pier on the west coast of America, is this amazing, iconic pier. | ||
| It was in a storm. | ||
| It got damaged. | ||
| And it's been shut down for years. | ||
| And they're just like, oh, we can't afford to fix it. | ||
| It's just sitting there, shut down right in the middle of Ocean Beach, one of the nicest places in the entire universe. | ||
| And we have this giant, decrepit pier, which is just sitting there, rotting away, falling apart. | ||
| So you can't go to the pier. | ||
| They shut down the fireworks. | ||
| You can't do fireworks anymore. | ||
| We used to have these marshmallow fights. | ||
| You can't do marshmallows. | ||
| You used to be able to drink on the beach. | ||
| You can't drink on the beach. | ||
| You can't have a bonfire on the beach. | ||
| Now you can't even go to the bathroom on the beach. | ||
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I mean, guys, when are we going to wake up? | |
| I mean, seriously, we're literally under attack. | ||
| It's freaky when you actually start getting into it. | ||
| At first, I'm covering each individual event, and I'm like, okay, let's get this out there, let's get this out there. | ||
| And then you start seeing the big picture, and you're like, oh my god. | ||
| It's like this ship is about completely and utterly capsized. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, and again, the event that started all of this was these hot dog carts. | ||
| And to me, it just really highlights the absurdity and the hypocrisy. | ||
| I mean, California is known for its regulations. | ||
| It's known for its taxes. | ||
| And look, restaurants can do it. | ||
| It's just not easy. | ||
| And I'm sure opening a shoe store is burdensome in the amount of regulations and taxes and property taxes, etc., etc., that you have to pay. | ||
| But then food service on top of that, I mean, I bet the inspections and the levels that you have to keep things, I bet it is absolutely insane. | ||
| And then there's some dude serving a hot dog out of a trash can and the police won't arrest him and won't get rid of him. | ||
| It's like, so you're just punishing people for doing things the right way. | ||
| You're putting these overwhelming, burdensome regulations and then punishing people for following them and going, you should have just served the ham sandwich you made in the bathroom and nobody would have an issue with you. | ||
| I mean, what is the point of having all these regulations if some illegal from Tijuana can just set up a cart outside of your shop? | ||
| And not adhere to any of them. | ||
| It's so outrageous. | ||
| Yeah, and it's funny you say that about the inspections. | ||
| Obviously, I don't like restaurants that have rats. | ||
| That's not ideal. | ||
| But, you know, you're living down by the beach. | ||
| There's alleyways, doors. | ||
| Every once in a while, rat may get in. | ||
| But over the time I've lived here, I don't ever remember any businesses, maybe one or two, getting shut down because of code violations. | ||
| But this last... | ||
| I've seen three separate places in my town get shut down. | ||
| And I can't help but think that they're turning up the heat on that too, either just to gain more money out of the fines or as part of... | ||
| I wanted to make this little segue, okay? | ||
| Because I can't help but feel somehow or another that there's a connection between this private equity thing where they go in and they grab a situation and collapse it and what they're doing to these individual towns and cities and America as a whole even. | ||
| But now that Trump's got a hold of like the main reins, they're focusing on these little areas, these little, you know, their little fiefdoms. | ||
| It feels like it's under the same situation. | ||
| And I wanted to, I really, I was hearing you and Ian Carroll talk about this, what was it called? | ||
| The capture of private equity? | ||
| Yeah, private equity, yeah. | ||
| Private equity capture, and we keep saying, well, I'm a capitalist. | ||
| Well, I'm a capitalist. | ||
| I mean, capitalism, like a religion, like the worship of capital. | ||
| I mean, is it really capital that we worship, or is it really free market that we worship? | ||
| Free market-ism. | ||
| Because to me, communism is the capture of the free market, and so is this private equity thing. | ||
| It's all capture of free market. | ||
| So once you get these oligopolies in these giant situations that nobody's busting these trusts and they're giving them an infinite amount of power, basically what you've done is create just corporate communism. | ||
| Only they don't even give you anything. | ||
| It's not like, oh, we'll give you a basic income. | ||
| It was like, we'll just trash everything, sell everything off, and we'll take all the money. | ||
| So you get all of the problems of the communism. | ||
| But you don't even get a free sandwich. | ||
| Yeah, like some cheesy block of cheese every month from them. | ||
| You get nothing at all as they come and rape and pillage. | ||
| So I would like to set in people's minds to stop talking about capitalism and talking about free market-ism and anything that is constricting or controlling or shutting down the free market by... | ||
| Having monopolies or too much control in a particular sector. | ||
| And we need to start really thinking about that and saying we want to unleash the free market, not just unleash the worship of who has the most amount of money. | ||
| I absolutely agree. | ||
| And that is a very interesting connection you draw. | ||
| And I mean, we see it all over the place, right? | ||
| And, you know, a lot of people, a lot of speculation about things like the Palisades Fire in California, where, gee, it looks like we're already looking to redevelop that whole area into, you know, BlackRock-owned homes, which is happening all over the place. | ||
| Apparently today it was just revealed 30% of all single-family homes in the city of Atlanta are owned by private equity corporations. | ||
| So, like, they are just... | ||
| We're systematically working their way through everything we own, all of our neighborhoods. | ||
| And, you know, it wouldn't be surprised me in the slightest if some private equity company got their eyes on a building, but there was some, you know, restaurant occupying it. | ||
| And, well, you know, I can lean on my friend over at the health inspection. | ||
| You know, not everybody can pass a health inspection. | ||
| Maybe we can get something done for you. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if this was all happening hand in glove with private equity to sell us out. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And they hit people at this is like historically the low season. | ||
| It's like in between spring break and in between the summer when people are really teetering from just barely trying to stay alive from last year's summer. | ||
| You know, they're just barely hanging on to keep the business afloat. | ||
| And they know, you know, mathematically, this is the time to hit them. | ||
| If we can hit them like that, a few of them will fall. | ||
| You know, keep them shut down for a week or two, charge them a bunch of money, make them do a bunch of construction and stuff like that. | ||
| And then boom, oh, they couldn't make it. | ||
| And then boom, in comes BlackRock or whoever and just buys that up. | ||
| Like here in Ocean Beach, the entire, I think this is pre-BlackRock, but this has been going on. | ||
| The entire Main Street is basically owned and they never sell a single thing. | ||
| There's businesses that have been there for 50, 60 years and have done all kinds of improvements, second stories, levels. | ||
| And they're still renting these spots. | ||
| So you're basically just always renting from these people. | ||
| To get back to what's going on, which is a national story, national story, with what's going on with the sewage pumping into San Diego. | ||
| So I went down, and that little video you saw is nothing. | ||
| I'm going to put together a full report, but I got so much footage. | ||
| I was actually going to put it out before this one, but then the food cart thing popped off, so I felt I'd need to put this one out. | ||
| That's an entire floodplain down there where there's like horses and there's this estuary and everything. | ||
| They're basically pumping all of the raw sewage into this big floodplain. | ||
| And this guy here, the gentleman right there, I forget his name right now. | ||
| He was the one telling me all about it. | ||
| That basically there's a hundred year flood that happens in this valley, you know, historically. | ||
| And when it happens, I'll say, oh, it's global warming. | ||
| But it's known that this valley, about every 100 years, give or take, will flood completely. | ||
| And at that point, because of the way they've set up the water and everything to capture and funnel all of this fecal matter coming out of Mexico, that it is basically set up to flood the entire area and basically will become a floodplain zone where they can come in and take it over like they did in other areas because of these disasters. | ||
| And this property is worth a real... | ||
| Right by the beach, right by Mexico, perfect for trade, perfect for beachfront, perfect for valleys, perfect for everything. | ||
| Untouched land in San Diego is unfathomably expensive. | ||
| And trust me, when they get it, all of a sudden they'll figure out how to funnel this poop water. | ||
| And so, man, we're really in a pickle here. | ||
| And look at this. | ||
| Even the pipe itself is collapsing. | ||
| So the pipe itself is broken. | ||
| And the pipe in Mexico. | ||
| So I was like, we got to get this out to Trump. | ||
| He will do something about it. | ||
| And then eventually they brought down Homeboy. | ||
| But it turned out when I was down there talking to him, he said that Trump had actually fixed this in his first term. | ||
| But they built this new viaduct, which is basically an overpass in Mexico to go over the old road. | ||
| And in the building, they're like, what happens if we accidentally pierce the pipe that funnels it down south out the beaches in Mexico? | ||
| They're like, oh, what are we going to do? | ||
| And now, believe it or not, Surfrider, I don't know if you know about this, but in California, Surfrider is like this amazing, it's like, you know, the Sierra Club. | ||
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| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
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| This hour by Toad from the Tower Gang podcast. | ||
| He was fired from his job after he played an innocent tune on a ukulele. | ||
| It just so happened to be Ye's cover of Hail Hitler on his stream. | ||
| It went totally viral, got millions of views, and then he lost his job. | ||
| And we have pretty much a standing rule on American Journal. | ||
| If you get censored unfairly or fired from your job of some sort, we offer you a platform. | ||
| To make your case, and we're very happy to welcome Toad. | ||
| You can follow him on X at TowerGangToad. | ||
| He has a Linktree, Linktree slash TowerGangToad, and a GiveSendGo to help him get through this troubling time. | ||
| Toad, welcome to the show, sir. | ||
| Harrison, thanks for having me. | ||
| It's my pleasure, and you've started a movement online. | ||
| I've seen so many people posting in support of you. | ||
| Tell us the story of how you ended up here. | ||
| I mean, do you want an abridged version of it? | ||
| I mean, it's kind of a long story. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| What was the job you were fired from? | ||
| How long have you been there? | ||
| And, you know, how did it get to this point? | ||
| Yeah, software engineer. | ||
| I mean, I've been doing that for almost two decades at this point. | ||
| I've been at this company for almost a decade. | ||
| And on, you know, in my spare time, I've been, you know, an internet shit poster doing the Tower Gang podcast, the comedy podcast, just basically pushing the line of Offensive comedy. | ||
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I'm pushing a lot of free speech basically for the whole time. | |
| And I've been doing that for about four years at this point, I would say. | ||
| And just it came to a head because I also do ukulele covers on the side as well and decided to do this one and kind of mash the two. | ||
| Just comedy, ridiculousness, ukulele all at once. | ||
| Didn't expect it to blow up anywhere near as much as it did. | ||
| And it did. | ||
| And when that happens, the woke mob is going to come out. | ||
| They don't like it at all. | ||
| And they actually Doxed me and figured out who my employer was, went to them and my employer, this is all in Boston, all in like the progressive sphere basically. | ||
| So of course my employer completely caved and just fired me at the end of the week and that was it. | ||
| I can't believe you got away with it for 10 years. | ||
| For 10 years, they had no idea they were harboring a racist, anti-Semite, terrorist, domestic, hate-filled incel. | ||
| They had no idea. | ||
| No idea who they had employed this whole time. | ||
| I mean, was there any... | ||
| What was the attitude? | ||
| Was it like, sorry, we have to do this? | ||
| They're making us? | ||
| Was it like, now we know who you really are? | ||
| I mean... | ||
| You know, because you're out there. | ||
| The Tower Gang podcast is very popular. | ||
| Clint's on it, right? | ||
| Liberty Lockdown? | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Liberty Lockdown, yeah. | ||
| You know, we're a giant fan of him. | ||
| I mean, it's a libertarian institution at this point. | ||
| So, I mean, do they not know what you were about? | ||
| How was this misconstrued to them that you were singing a ukulele cover of Ye's Hail Hitler in total sincerity because you believe it? | ||
| I mean, clearly, you're a comedian. | ||
| Ye's song, very funny. | ||
| Even the idea of a ukulele cover of that song is just funny as a concept. | ||
| So, I mean, how did this happen exactly? | ||
| Well, I mean, yeah, it's almost like I'm not actually a bad person in real life. | ||
| Yeah, and, you know, I can do my job. | ||
| I mean, that's why I hold on to these jobs. | ||
| That's been the case, you know, for my whole life. | ||
| I mean, I'm a fun guy. | ||
| I mean, I bring the comedy, like, into kind of the workplace as well. | ||
| They didn't know about the offensive comedy that I was doing. | ||
| I think I was able to really separate those two things for a while and stay anonymous enough that this didn't happen until I had a super viral moment. | ||
| But I think certainly they don't understand the things I say on Twitter, Harrison. | ||
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I think that is absolutely right. | |
| It's so meta, getting fired over this song. | ||
| This song is actually about... | ||
| Exactly what wound up happening to me for singing that exact song. | ||
| It's just, it's completely misunderstood. | ||
| And really the song is about, hey, you're going to cancel me for saying all these super offensive things that you're not allowed to say. | ||
| So guess what? | ||
| I'm just going to say the worst thing that I could possibly think of. | ||
| Here you go. | ||
| What are you going to do to me about it? | ||
| And that's, that is basically, I mean, that's what the song is about. | ||
| And that's kind of how I live my life at this point as well. | ||
| And that this is where it's landed me. | ||
| Well, you know. | ||
| I hate to say it, but you're no Shiloh Hendricks. | ||
| You're no Shiloh. | ||
| Unfortunately, you're not going to be made a millionaire out of this. | ||
| But, you know, something is changing, right? | ||
| Something is changing in our culture. | ||
| I think, you know, Shiloh Hendricks, which was the woman who, you know, said the N-word on the playground and got filmed and just didn't back down and was just like, no, F you. | ||
| You're going to challenge me to say it? | ||
| Okay, I'll say it. | ||
| What are you going to do about it? | ||
| And people are just... | ||
| We're sick of being beaten down. | ||
| We're sick of being told what we can and can't say, of living in fear of our lives literally being destroyed. | ||
| I mean, you lost your job, but other people have suffered even worse, like had to move and had to change their identity because they called the cops on a black guy who was threatening them, and they were called a racist, so the mob went after them. | ||
| I mean, we're just done with it. | ||
| We're done with this tyranny of the mob pretending to take offense at words that they say every single day. | ||
| And so I think spitting it back in their face and just going, all right, you think this is bad? | ||
| I'm going to double down and do it. | ||
| I think it's the appropriate response. | ||
| But clearly, we're not out of the woods quite yet, right? | ||
| But what do you think is happening culturally right now? | ||
| And where do you think it goes from here? | ||
| I think culture generally, I think, is moving in the right direction. | ||
| I think you see more and more people, like you said, are kind of sick of this woke, progressive attitude where it's just like we're going to get offended over everything, offended over words, offended over jokes. | ||
| And I'm happy to... | ||
| Be part of the pushback if I can be. | ||
| I mean, I know I'm not as hot as Shiloh Hendricks, but not even close, but at least, you know, I can be a small part of it where basically I think we just want to send a message, man, for one thing, like, you can't do this to us. | ||
| You're going to try to cancel us, but we're going to come together and we're going to support each other and help each other out, you know, when we have hard times like this because the woke mob comes after us and, you know, we're not alone in this, really. | ||
| Culture is definitely changing. | ||
| You know, there's something... | ||
| Like, deeply ironic about all of this happening. | ||
| I have a video. | ||
| We can play it as B-roll. | ||
| I thought I had the story, but I don't have the full thing. | ||
| But I guess this woman was arrested for doing a Hitler, you know, a Roman salute, a Nazi salute. | ||
| Clip 14. Popular Islamic influencer Yasmin Zura Raubow, Robo, something like that, was detained, apparently, after shouting Hail Hitler and throwing up the Roman salute. | ||
| And we can... | ||
| Play that clip number 14 here just as B-roll. | ||
| I haven't actually listened to the audio of this. | ||
| I don't know if there's cursing or anything. | ||
| But it's like, okay, yeah, sure. | ||
| The salute is offensive. | ||
| It's offensive to people. | ||
| They don't like seeing it. | ||
| I'm more offended by the idea that somebody in America is going to be arrested for a hand movement. | ||
| Somebody's going to be arrested by the police for saying the words, Hail Hitler. | ||
| It's like, isn't the whole... | ||
| Isn't the whole reason why we went to war with them is because they were despotic and threw people in prison for their beliefs and had censorship regimes and had thugs going out and beating people up for saying the wrong thing? | ||
| I mean, isn't that why we don't like the Nazis or is it the symbols that we're really against? | ||
| I mean, so again, I'm more offended by the Hitler or the Nazi style censorship than I am the... | ||
| Yeah, I mean, of course, that's... | ||
| I mean, the bad things here are actually the censorship, ruining people's lives. | ||
| Maybe, you know, the mass murder might be a reason why we didn't like the Nazis. | ||
| I mean, people like me, I mean, we're not on that side at all. | ||
| We're against all of that. | ||
| Like, we're just saying words here. | ||
| Yeah, no, absolutely. | ||
| And again, it's... | ||
| There's something... | ||
| You know, very, very ironic about the fact that censorship is coming to America, and it's hitting the Nazis. | ||
| And it's like, look, the reason that Jews can practice their religion, the reason that you can say what you want, like, people are going to be offended, that sucks, but it's a very small price to pay for having free speech, for being able to actually discuss, you know, real things. | ||
| I mean, free speech is so incredibly valuable. | ||
| It is the... | ||
| Principle that allows, you know, religious plurality and all of these things that are wonderful and celebrated about America. | ||
| We're losing that in the name of fighting against Nazis who are the ones that loved implementing that type of stuff. | ||
| Again, it's just there's something nonsensical going on right now. | ||
| Yeah, it's actually, yeah, it's hypocrisy coming from that side. | ||
| And I think they either don't even see it or they just don't care, really. | ||
| Or a combination of both. | ||
| Yeah, it might be both. | ||
| Now, when you made the cover of the song, what did you think the response was going to be? | ||
| Obviously, the lyrics are a little bit on the nose. | ||
| No pun intended. | ||
| But they're a little bit offensive, I can imagine, to some people. | ||
| What did you think the response was going to be? | ||
| Were you totally blindsided by this? | ||
| You had to expect some backlash, right? | ||
| I mean, it's me looking as bad as I can just in pajamas, basically, which I am right now, too. | ||
| But that's just kind of how I'm rolling now. | ||
| But I didn't expect it to get whatever it is. | ||
| I think I said 18 million views. | ||
| I think it's actually 8 million, 9 million on Twitter. | ||
| There's no way I expected that. | ||
| I thought, yeah, maybe this will be one of my popular ukulele videos because I post a ton of these on Twitter. | ||
| I do every song that I can think of pretty much across the map. | ||
| I've dropped the N-word in different songs before. | ||
| If it's in the lyrics, I don't censor the lyrics. | ||
| I'll just... | ||
| Sing whatever. | ||
| And this was the moment. | ||
| It's like, alright, it'll be funny if I do the new gay song. | ||
| It's a big song right now. | ||
| I thought it might be one of my bigger covers, but my covers usually don't get that much traction. | ||
| So I was like, whatever. | ||
| What is it going to get? | ||
| 500 likes? | ||
| I didn't think it was going to escalate to this extent. | ||
| No way. | ||
| Well, there has been a big backlash to the backlash, though. | ||
| Like I said, one of the reasons I wanted to have you on is just because I see everybody I follow on Twitter. | ||
| Support this guy. | ||
| This guy needs to tell his story. | ||
| So clearly, there's a big push of just, we can't let these people get away with this anymore. | ||
| And it's good. | ||
| We're getting in that direction, but it's almost like we need to have so much support for the people this happens to. | ||
| And look, it doesn't matter if you agree with it or not. | ||
| It's a principle of free speech. | ||
| It's a principle of standing up for your right as an American. | ||
| To say something that some people find offensive without having your life ruined, your address doxed, your livelihood destroyed. | ||
| We just, on a principle, we have to stand up against that and stop this process from going on. | ||
| So people are standing up and supporting you and contributing to you and helping you get through this. | ||
| And hopefully it will be like a Shiloh Hendricks type situation where it's like, oh, you want to destroy us? | ||
| You're only going to actually benefit the person you're trying to destroy because we're going to make sure that they come out on the other side better off than they were when you attacked them. | ||
| So I think this is a powerful signal to the cancel culture mob out there that if you try to target somebody, they're going to only benefit from it. | ||
| Yeah, that's what I'm hoping. | ||
| I mean, that's the goal. | ||
| And just like her in a way, I might actually have to move just because the situation here is like, well, I'm in a... | ||
| Progressive hellhole of a city, basically. | ||
| The entire industry that I'm in is kind of... | ||
| I don't know if the entire software industry is this way. | ||
| Maybe it is, just because you can have so many different software jobs. | ||
| Everybody needs software now, so hopefully I'll be able to find something there if that's what I want to do, or maybe just go in a completely different direction. | ||
| But I might just need to move anyway, just because the political climate where I am right now just doesn't match my beliefs. | ||
| Yeah, that's one way to put it. | ||
| I've been to Boston, my friend. | ||
| It's a different world over there. | ||
| What causes that? | ||
| I have a family that was in Harvard, MIT, like that area. | ||
| And it's like, it's crazy, man. | ||
| It's like transgender central down there. | ||
| And it has been for a very long time. | ||
| Last time I was there was like 10 years ago. | ||
| And it was culturally, you know, not widespread. | ||
| But there, I mean, that was like the heart of darkness. | ||
| What is it about that area? | ||
| Well, Harvard, MIT, that's, yeah, Cambridge. | ||
| I mean, that's really, it's because it's where academia is and that's like kind of the state of academia now. | ||
| It's government institutions kind of and they're all way down the like woke progressive path now. | ||
| So I think that's part of it because certainly if you go to other parts of Boston, like the poor parts of Boston, whatever, you're not going to run into that type of sentiment there. | ||
| Like you'll run into people that probably like... | ||
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| Ironically enough, if you go to probably the areas of Boston that are the blacker areas or whatever, they actually probably don't give a shit that I did this song. | ||
| They probably would be more apt to kind of think that it's funny. | ||
| It's actually kind of the more, I guess, elite leftists, kind of the Hollywood liberal types, basically. | ||
| The coastal liberal types, I think, are really the problem here, if that makes sense. | ||
| Yeah, no, that absolutely makes perfect sense. | ||
| It doesn't make sense, but I get it. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| It's absurd that that's the way it is, but that is definitely the way it is. | ||
| So, you know, what is your political philosophy? | ||
| For people who don't listen to the podcast, Tower Gang podcast, I mean, what do you guys cover? | ||
| What's the angle that you approach things at? | ||
| Just tell us about the podcast and what you guys do over there, because, again, I love all the guys involved in this, and we've had Clint Russell on several times, a little bit of lockdown, one of my favorite followers on Twitter of all time. | ||
| He's basically right about everything as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| But tell us about the Tower Gang podcast and sort of how you guys approach political topics. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, shout out to all of them, man. | ||
| Clint and Top Lobster, who is like the merch and art genius. | ||
| I'm sorry, Top Lobster, for forgetting you. | ||
| Yeah, we got Jose, who's still, he's more in that, he's kind of more in a political sphere as well with Jose. | ||
| I was just on with him earlier on one of his shows. | ||
| And then we have Cole as well, who's... | ||
| I guess more in my fame, which is kind of just like we're kind of the retarded shitposters of the group there. | ||
| But basically, we did start out more political than we are now. | ||
| We all met because we're all in sort of the libertarian sphere, but we kind of were like, well, politics is kind of lame, really, and we kind of wanted to get away from that. | ||
| And really, at the heart of it, we kind of just want to bring back the sentiment of the 90s. | ||
| That kind of appeals more to me and Clint because we're older. | ||
| Like, we want to just go back to that kind of thing where it's just like you're going to hang out with your bros. | ||
| You can say whatever you want. | ||
| Just crack jokes. | ||
| And that is what the show really is now. | ||
| It's just a way to hang out with your boys and say whatever comes to your mind, basically, and nobody's going to get offended by it. | ||
| And maybe we'll laugh. | ||
| Well, and of course, you know, laughter really is the medicine or the sugar that helps the truth go down, I guess you could say. | ||
| It's a lot easier to tell the truth when you're a little bit silly doing it. | ||
| Gets people's guard down. | ||
| So, you know, I don't see comedy. | ||
| It's like, it's funny. | ||
| I don't see comedy as like a silly little add-on. | ||
| It's like a core weapon in the war that we're fighting, is using comedy to break down people's walls, to get ideas across that people would otherwise have firewalls against. | ||
| They'll be open to ideas if you can make them laugh while you're telling them. | ||
| I think comedy is just incredible. | ||
| You wouldn't be in trouble if this was the complexion of the Tower Gang. | ||
| You'd be featured on Kanye's album. | ||
| Yeah, I just like that I look like Patrice O 'Neill there or something like that, except probably even fatter. | ||
| But yeah, that's the black version of All of Us. | ||
| That was actually Raven's idea. | ||
| It was Top Lobster's co-host on Nephilim Death Squad, the ultimate conspiracy podcast. | ||
| And I think there's... | ||
| Kind of a lane where conspiracy and comedy kind of overlap. | ||
| But yeah, like you said, with comedy, I think that it is really the lane that can kind of actually, I mean, it can kind of diffuse certain situations, like you said, like kind of knock people's guard down a little bit. | ||
| So I think it is kind of the lane that makes the most sense to kind of try to change culture and kind of attack like what's wrong in the political realm. | ||
| I think it makes more sense to do it that way. | ||
| And the people that are going to like hear you out, like if you're joking around like that and be. | ||
| Yeah, the people that you're going to kind of appeal to with a message like that, I think, are the people that are less likely to be offended. | ||
| So I think that's what you want as well, because those are the people that are going to actually, I think, be more open to hearing those ideas as well. | ||
| So that's kind of the idea. | ||
| And it was kind of the idea. | ||
| I actually ran for the Libertarian Party presidential ticket this past cycle as well. | ||
| And I was kind of trying to do the same thing with that campaign, where it's basically just like, I'm going to not be filtered at all. | ||
| I'm going to tell it like it is. | ||
| And we're going to approach it that way. | ||
| And we're actually trying to move. | ||
| Culture, because that also has an effect on the politics. | ||
| So do it from the cultural realm instead. | ||
| Yeah, and look, if you can't talk about this stuff, if you can't express yourself openly, you just drive people into the shadows. | ||
| You have people, I mean, if you actually want to stop radicalization, if you really are concerned that there's a rise in Nazism, you know, which is, I mean, it's just absurd to like... | ||
| Here's this guy playing a ukulele in his living room as if this is the return of the Third Reich. | ||
| I mean, it's all absurd. | ||
| But if you actually want to fight that stuff, the way to do it is air it out, not make it such a big deal, not make it such a forbidden topic of conversation that you can never address it, because all it's going to do is curious, thoughtful people are going to be seeking out this information. | ||
| They're going to be curious about things that are hidden, and they're going to go find it, and the only people that they're going to find are lurking in the swamps of the... | ||
| You know, fetid, dark parts of the internet who are going to lead them down a bad path. | ||
| So, like, you need decent, good, normal people to be able to talk about this stuff without being scared, without being frightened, without being beaten down if you actually want to fight the extremism that they identify everywhere. | ||
| So, I mean, you know, what are your thoughts on that? | ||
| I mean, does any of this, do you approach any of this, like, philosophically like this? | ||
| Or is this just like, this is how I am? | ||
| I'm just going to say what I want to say because I feel like saying it. | ||
| Or are you doing this strategically, using humor, using maybe a little bit of offensive language to make your case? | ||
| How do you approach this whole topic of these discussions about politics and free speech and all that? | ||
| Like when I'm talking with other people in real life? | ||
| Sure, or your public persona. | ||
| I mean, I think... | ||
| Probably kind of like the latter comes from the former, really. | ||
| Like this is kind of just how I am. | ||
| I mean, I've always been into edgy comedy and just pushing the lines. | ||
| And I always laughed at like the most offensive stuff. | ||
| So I think just going down that lane, I think that just kind of leads to like the end result. | ||
| So it's not really like intentional strategy, but I just think that that is kind of the end result. | ||
| So I guess in a way it's intentional because it's like, well, we're going to keep doing this, but this is just how I am as well. | ||
| And I think that through that you can. | ||
| Affect culture and push it more in that direction because people are going to... | ||
| The goal is really that we want people to kind of look at us in Tower Game and be like, hey, these are just normal dudes. | ||
| They're actually funny. | ||
| They're not actually evil people. | ||
| Oh, actually, we're allowed to just say these things and not be offended by it and just laugh and actually enjoy life and have fun because really, I don't see how people that are offended by us, I don't see how they can even live life to the fullest degree because how can you go around just looking for things to be offended by the whole time? | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| And that's kind of... | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| It's kind of how I approach the day-to-day aspect of it, too. | ||
| If I'm just talking to somebody in real life, one-on-one, I just try to kind of do the same thing. | ||
| I'm just going to try to just meet them where they are, kind of, and just kind of, I don't know, just talk like normal people, basically, and figure out maybe where you agree on certain things and try to insert certain topics and whatever. | ||
| So like, you know, that was like the bar version of me back before I went sober. | ||
| I would actually do that and just hang out at random bars and just talk to random people. | ||
| And if they seem to like agree with me on certain things, which even in Boston, more people actually agree with this side of things than you would actually think if you just talk to them one-on-one. | ||
| They're just kind of afraid to admit it. | ||
| So you can kind of get their guard down. | ||
| You can kind of like actually have discussions with them that are kind of interesting, maybe get them to think like a little bit differently and whatever. | ||
| I think you're exactly right. | ||
| I think you hit the nail on the head when you say they're afraid. | ||
| I think it all comes down to, like, cowardice. | ||
| And that always seemed, like, dishonest to me. | ||
| You know, like what you said about, you know, if you were to go and play this song with the ukulele in the middle of, you know, a black neighborhood in Boston, you'd probably get a high five. | ||
| They'd probably think it was funny because, like, you're just, you're open and you're like, look. | ||
| I'm just going to say this. | ||
| I think it's funny. | ||
| Obviously, I don't have any ill will. | ||
| Where it's the people that are very careful. | ||
| Sorry, did I say black? | ||
| I meant African-American. | ||
| I'm so sorry. | ||
| I really don't mean to be offensive. | ||
| And it's like, okay, you're covering it up. | ||
| You're covering up because you're thinking bad thoughts, but you're scared of saying them. | ||
| So it's like, if you're a decent person and you genuinely don't mean anybody harm, you can just say what you think and not hold back and not change your language because you're afraid of offending somebody. | ||
| Real people respect that and resonate with that, and I think recognize when people are hiding what they truly believe because they're scared of the backlash. | ||
| That comes through, and it makes honest conversation impossible. | ||
| Right, and I think one aspect of what you said, if you go to some of these black neighborhoods and whatever, those tend to be the poorer neighborhoods as well. | ||
| So those people, they just don't even care about being offended by anything because they have other things to actually worry about. | ||
| They're worrying about actual life, like how am I going to get by? | ||
| How can I spend time being offended by words? | ||
| It's actually the people who are way more well-off that are looking for things to be offended by, and now they have to go out and virtue signal or whatever. | ||
| It's a strange dichotomy, but I think it kind of makes sense. | ||
| Well, if by virtue signal, you mean destroy the life of an online comedian because he dared to sing a song you don't like. | ||
| Their virtue signaling takes a variety of manifestations. | ||
| Again, I hope you get a new job or are able to land on your feet. | ||
| People can follow Toad on X at TowerGangToad, linktree slash TowerGangToad, and the Gibson Go is TowerGangToad to get you sort of back on your feet and make up for this cancellation. | ||
| I thought we were over it, Toad. | ||
| I thought we ended cancellation, but here it's still clinging on. | ||
| Final thoughts, sir, in the last couple seconds. | ||
| We're trying to move in that direction, and also we're going to be doing a live Tower Gang podcast in Leesburg, Florida, June 20th and 21st. | ||
| We're all going to be there. | ||
| It's going to be comedy and conspiracy. | ||
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It's going to be the live event of the year, so people can get tickets to that. | |
| You can find it on my link as well. | ||
| Find it on the link tree, and you can follow them on X at Tower Gang Toad. | ||
| Good luck, sir, and I can't wait for the next song you come up with. | ||
| We'll be waiting. | ||
| Stay tuned, folks. | ||
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